The Sun. — London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S TFIF.A.TRE. OXFORD-STREET. TUIS EVENING Will be performed Ehakspeare's Tragedy of KING LEAR. Kinr; Lear, Mr. Macready; Earl of Kent, Mr. Cooper; Edgar, Mr. allack ; Regan, Mrs. Ternan ; Cor4elia, Mrs. Stirling. Ts conch/tic with a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The prine:pal characters supported by Messrs. Cooper, Waliack, Leigh Murray; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &c. ASTLETS ROYAL AMPRITTLEATEE. Proprietor, Mr. IV. Batty. Patronised by her most gracirus Majesty the Queen, and their Royal H glinesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Alice. Uninterrupted career of success of Mr. Leman Rede's popular Asiatic Spectacle of " The Arab and Ids Steed," which is nightly hailed with the most enthusiastic applause. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND FITS DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Introducing the double stud, Sze. New and popular Scenes of the Hippodrome—additional tale"t— first appearances—trained steeds. First Week of a Novel Grotesque BALLET. In which the prin cipal Pantomimists of the Establishment will app ear. Dem-office open from eleven till fora o'clock. Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY - I Brilliant success of the new Play of " Bian ca ." Fi r it7 3liss Brentnall, from the Theatre Royal,llaaDenr Bath. --ance of THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Play, entitled, BrA.NCA ; or, The Three Trials. Characters by Messrs. Dughes, Maynard, Johnson, Lewis Cowell, Heslop, Edgar ; Mesdms. H. Vining, Martin, Daly, lirc, ' Atter which, GYMNASTIC EXERCISES by Herr Dentin anti Herr Nicolo, as Les Deus Chi 1018. To be followed by a New Ballet, called LA STATUE BLANCHE. Le Tonneau Roulant ; or, Running Tub, by llerr Nieolo. To conclude with CLAM, THE MAID OF MILAN. Clarl, Miss Brentnall. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS. "La galete - est la sante de I'ame, La tristesse en est le poison." THIS EVENING M. PMLLIPPE bogs leave to announce that, In consequence of the Triumphant Success that has a'Acnded his EASTER ENTER TAiIiMi.:I•ITS, they will be repeated every Wednesday and Sa turday Morning. and every Evening until further notice. M. PHILLIVPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by idons: Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. M. Pliillippe will also have the honour of introducing MS GI:AND3IOTHER'S CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans firmstions. _ The En terta!ntne7ts will be varied by tho Dametng of the CII IA RINI FA MI1.1", and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN ;IrOTIIEIN. The .1-lorning Performance will commence at Two o'clock ; the Even!ng at a iltrzrter to Stalls, Ss.; lioxe, 21, Ya, I!. IS., 13. ; rallery. 6d.; Private Boxes, 'and 103. 6d. Under the Patron= of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGiCAL GARDENS, ONDAY, MAY 11. VIEW of NAPLES ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION' of lIERCULAAMUM and POMPEII, in tha year 79. This magnificent spectacle is revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, this picture being more than twice the size of the former, and will represent as accurately as can possibly be done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place ; produced under the direction of Mr. Denson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in an its departments, and includes many eminent naive and foreign musicians. m ost The complete and PYROT.II;CEINIC efective scale. DISPLAYS, by Mr. Sonthby, are on the Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, represmting the Descent of Phcebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mons. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, en to the lake, whe , e a Naiad's Car will rise to receive him and bear him to his chrystal home. An illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen didly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. Feeding of the Carnivore at five; the Pelicans, &c., at halt-past AT , Man It AIX • And the Emptt9n AS dult Adsnimioa, Ta. NEW M ORK BY DR. CROLY. Now ready at all the Libraries, 3 vols., A It 0 N; 31 or TIIE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. By the Rev. G. CROLY, LLD. Author of " Salathiel," Henry Colbern, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, VISCOUNT FIELDING, and CAP rAIN KENNEDY'S TRAVELS in ALGERIA and TUNIS, in 1845. " Captain Kennedy and Lord Fielding, appear to have visited every place of note in Northern Africa ; and the gallant author gives a most Inuphic and picturesque account of their adventures, including those among the wild Arabs rnd Bedot ins of the Desert. We feel special pleasure in recommending this interesting and entertaining work as one which throws much light onthe customs and condition of a brave tut unfortunatepeople, and affords much valuable information as to all that is remarkable in thecountry they inhabit."—Hood's Magazine. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlbbrough• street. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY. At a most numerous and influentlal Meeting of Scripholders and Holders of Bankers' Receip a in the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company, held at the Offices of the Company, 19, G•cat George-street, Westminster, on Saturday, the 9th day of May, 1846, and constituted conformably to the sessional orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, upwards of 44,000 shares having been regis tered and represented thereat, Sir JOHN BARBER MILL, Bart., of Mottisfmt Abbey, Hants, Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, a (raft of the Bill now before Parliament for incorporating the said Company having been read, it was resolved, with one dissentient vote representing twenty shares: On the motion of the Right ilen. the Earl of WitzoN ; seconded by JOSEPH Loa; Esq., Mayor of Southampton : That this meeting of holders of scrip and of bankers' receipts, re presenting scrip in the proposed Manchester and Southampton Rail way Company, convened and constituted conformably to the sessional orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, having had submitted to them a copy of the Bill now before Parliament for incorporating the said company, do approve thereof, and do authorise and request the directors to prosecute the same in the present session, and to In troduce, or submit to the introduction therein of such alteration, mo difications, and additional provisions as they shall deem expedient or conducive to the success of the undertaking and the interests of the shareholders. On the motion of the Right Hon. Viscount DUNCANNON, M.P. ; seconded by DAVID WADDINGTON, Esq (Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway Company) : That the chairman of this meeting and the solicitors of the Corn pany be authorised and requested to affix their respective signatures to the said Bill, and to any certificate of the due holding of this meeting which the forms of Parliament may requi.e. On the motion of J. P. WESTHEAD, Esq., (Chairmen of the Man chester and Birmingham Railway Cemormy) ; seconded by W. MacDowera. TARTT, Esq., (Cheltenhran) : That the thanks of the shareholders arc eminently due to the Chairman and Committee of Management of this undertaking, for the zeal, ability, and perseverance, with which they have prosecuted it, and which promise to realise its early and complete success. On the motion of WILLIAM JACKSON, Esq. (Chairman of tile Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company); seconded by J. GEORGF, Esq , Romney : That the marked and particular !hanks of the parties promoting this undertaking be tendered to James Walkinshaw, Esq., the deputy chairman of the managing committee, for the unceasing activity with which he has devoted himself to its prosecution. (Signed) J. B. MILL, Bart. It was also unanimously resolved, on the motion of the Hon. Col. AssoN, M.P., seconded by JosErn Parrosr, Esq. (Chatsworth) That the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to the chairman his services to-day. (Signed) JAMES WALKINSHAW. • JOHN WHEELER, Sec. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 21s. bound, LETTERS OF THE KINGS OF ENGLAND. Now FIRST COLLECTED, from the Originals in Royal Archives, and from other authentic sources, private as well as public. Edited, with an Historical Introduction and Notes, By J. 0. lIALLIWELL, Esq., F R.S., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE . 31ESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, anti to anncanca that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, tic.. take place every TrESDAT and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at tht Hall of Commerce, nreadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, contlining instructions, are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certlecates must be deposited for exa mination et least one day previously to their being offered ; and Idvices or resu:ts will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the preccedA ivrimediately disposed of according, to instructions. Off;ccs, Hull of Conin:erce. Threadneedle-street, London. nr.r. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madame GRIM has the honour to acquaint the Nobility, Sub scribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, MAY 14, When will be per:culled Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, I LOMB AUDI : ALLA PRI WA CROCIA With ne.\Vscenery, dresses, &e.; the scenery by Cr selda, Madame Grisi; Soda, Madame Belint ; VicAnda, Mdlle. Corbari; Oronte, Signor Atari° ; Arvind, Slgnor Colvin ; Pirro, ro;c111; Acciano, Sig. Ginbilei ; Pagano, Sig Fornasart. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT. In whch will appear Cerito, L. Taglionl, Gratin, Moneelet, Cassan, De melisse ; MM. St. Leon and M. Perrot. After which (for this occasion. only), Guecco's Opera Buffo, LA rRovA D'C•N OPERA SERIA. Campanone, Signor Lablache Fedrico, Signor Corelli ; Griletto, Signor F. Lablache ; 'iolante, Madame Bellini ; Corilla, Madame Grist. To conclude with the admired Ballet of ONDINE. Cndlne, Cerito ; Mat o, M. Perrot ; Giant - grist, Mdlle. Louise Tagdoni. Arplicatiens for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Co!onlade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVEtirNG, TUESDAY, MAY 12, Will be produced (fur the first time in this country), Verdi's cele• ',rated Opera, entitled, I LOMBARDI: ALLA PRIMA CLOCIATA. lselda, Madame Grist ; Arvino, Signor Corelli ; ignoi Fornasari ; Viclhla, MdL'e. Corbari ; Firm, Signor Botelli; °route, Signor Mario. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Desha3 - es, re •arran;ed iv Three Tableaux, by M. Perrot, the Music hy M. Costa, entitles! ALMA; ou, LA FILLS DU FELL Perepblte, M. Perrot ; Balfegor, M. Gosselin ; Enu.zor, 31. St. Leon ; Alma, Mdile. Cerito. In which will be introduced the admired Pas de Fascination (composed by M. Perrot), by Mesdiles. Cerito, De mclisse, Moncelet, Cassan, and 31. Perrot ; the celebrated Pas de Trois, by Madlle. Canto, M. St. Leon, assisted by Mdlle. Demelisse ; also, a Pas de Trois, by Madlle. L. Taglioni, supported by Mdiles. Demelisse and Moncelet (et - I:posed by M. Gosselin). A New Grand Ballet is in trztive preparation, and will shortly be prcduced. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS RAINFORTH. THIS EVENING 911 be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Berrani; Florestein, Mr. Harley; Thaditen, Mr. W. Harrison; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretton ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. At the end of the second Act of the Opera, the celebrated Pas de Trols, from the Ballet of IMELDA, by Madlle. Sall, Madame Glubilel, and M. Math's. After the Opera, a Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, in which the following eminent Artistes will appear :—Madams Mrs. A. Newton, Miss Missent, Madame Knispel, Herr Pischek, Herr Gustav llolzel, &c. Madame Dulcken and Mr. Benedict will perform a grand Duet on two Pianofortes ; a Fantasia and Quintette, executed on the Sax-Horns, by the Messieurs Distin ; M. Lavigne will perform a Fantasia on the Oboe ; Flute Obligato and Variations on " Rule Britannia," by Mr. Richardson; Eolo, Bassoon, Mr. C. Keating. To conclude with the second Act of the original Opera, entitled DON QUIXOTE. Don Quixote, Mr. Weiss ; Sancho Pnnza, Mr. Stretton ; Camacho, Mr. King ; Rovedos, Mr. S. Jones; Basillus, Mr. Alien; Quiteria, Miss Rainforth. THEATRP: ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Mr. Buckstone's original Comedy of MARRIED LIFE. Mr. Coddle, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Dove, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Coddle, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. Lynx, Miss J. Bennett; Mrs. Younghusband, Mrs. Bumby. The Band will perform the Overture, "Edourdo e Christine," the Fantasie, " Fra Diavo!.o;" the " Post Horn Calop," " Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz ; tha "Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " En:now Polka." To be succeeded 1.3 , an Original Farce, called TILE IRISH TIGER Sir Charles Lavender, Mr. Howe ; Paddy Ryal, Air. Hudson; Allerrnan Marrowfat, Mr. Tilbury ; Itilbury, Mr. T. F. Mathews ; Julia, Miss Telbin ;Nancy, Mrs. Caulfield. After which, a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SIIIL TINOS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Bu ic.;tone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury Capt. Spruce, Mr. Briudal ; Mrs. Major Phobba, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, bury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM rNDER. THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY Another brilliant Triumph ! _ " Robin Hood and Richard Cur de Lion" every Evening; and (oy express desire) " The Cricket on the Hearth." THIS EVENING Will b performed THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. In wh'ch Mrs. Keeley, Miss Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Vining, and Mr. Keeley will perform. To conclude with a New grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St riling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CCEUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Pillars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Kee'ey, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPLLT. THIS EVENING Will he performed a popular Comedy, entitled EXCFIANCE NO ROBBERY ; or, Who's to Father Me ? Sam Swipes, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Swipes, Mrs. F. Matthews; Miss Melrose, Miss Chaplin , Lady Crani,erry, Miss Harding. After which a new and Original Farce, called, WHO DID I r ? or, WHAT'S IN THE WIND ? Vandyke Brown, Mr. 4' right ; Ramona Peewit, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by the I:nate:one, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Many and, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. To conclude with a Nere Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAgT. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford. Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. THE WEATHER.-Svu OFFICE, MAY 9, NERMOMETER, Lowest, 50; Highest, 68; Noon, 68, BAROMETER, 30.05.—W1ND S.; fine. MAY 10. TuEnmomr.Tnn, Lowest, LO; Highest. 70; Noon, % BAROMETER, W.N.W. rtlOrl WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE TILES DAY. A e rnln r , .. 45 aaintites after 1.1 Ever.lnr . .. 3 mint:tea after 2. i. 4_14 's.-.'• 4 ? .. •/ i ,fr a- z • . N , 0 , :tt As t; ;4: iltorrniag 4ftll-118 LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1846. We rejoice to find, from a statement made by Sir JAMES GRAHAM on Thursday evening, in reply to a question by Mr. ROEBUCK, that a Commission has been issued for the purpose of making inquiries into the state of the law and its administration in the Channel Islands, and that he should have no objection to lay the Com missioners' report on the table when obtained. It is really astonishing that during the many and valuable reforms which have taken place of late years, and the vast improvements which have been effected in the constitutional liberty of the subject, islands, which lie in our immediate neighbourhood, which have for cen turies formed part of the appanage of the British throne, which, from the freedom from taxation they have ever enjoyed, and the beauty of the country and the salubrity of the climate, have been selected by thousands of our fellow-countrymen as their place of residence, should have hitherto escaped the observation of the Legis- iature, she uld be subjected to misgovernment of the •vorst description, in the power of an oligarchy who suffer no considerations of justice or equity to restrain them in the full indulgence of their worst passions and prejudices, and who, like the Triumvirate of old, are ready to proscribe and punish any person falling under the displeasure of their body. Such is the state of society, that it is openly said that justice is not to be obtained by an Englishman, and yet our SOVEREIGN in her Privy Council is paramount, can vary or alter the laws, or their mode of administration ; in fact, has greater power than in her own country, but tf:at the power is not exercised, or at least is suffered to remain in their hands, by whom it has hith(rto been so grievously misused. The two prir,cipal of these islands are Jersey and Guernsey. The former contains about 50,000 inhabi tants, of whom nearly one-half are natives of Great Britain or Ireland. Guernsey contains nearly 30,000, about 8,000 or 9,000 our own country men, a large proportion of whom are persons in independent circumstances, living on their own means. Many have acquired property in the islands, or would gladly do so, but that they are deterred by the unjust and oppressive nature of the laws, and the partial man ner in which they are carried into execution. Can this state of things be permitted to continue ? Most assuredly not. All that is wanting is, that an inquiry should be conducted under the auspices of just and im partial men, who will fearlessly expose the system, and lay bare the root and origin of this misgovernment, and who will suggest alterations and amendments by which improvements may be effected. Let the real state of things be once known to the country, let the force of public opinion be brought to bear upon the question, and the evils will speedily be grappled with, liberty be restored, and all classes of the inhabitants of the islands will be conciliated, and pleased, except inc grasping, uml munupullalug rew, RllO have hitht-rto played with tue social rights and sported with the liberties of their brethren. In each of the islands the law is nearly similar, and similar abuses have crept into the mode of its adminis tration, consequently our observations will apply to each, although we shall select and speak of Guernsey only. Most of the mischief is occasioned by the extraordi nary powers assumed by the Royal Court (as it is called), which consists of a bailiff and twelve jurats. Those jurats are elected for life, by a small body, not exceeding one hundred and sixty electors. The most corrupt influences are brought to bear during an election ; compacts are made, and all the worst fea tures of an election, in one of the rotten boroughs, that so long remained a stain upon the British constitution, are presented to the view. It is easily to be conceived, that much prejudice will be felt by the newly elected jurat in favour of the friends by whom he was sup ported, and in hostility to those by whom he was op posed, and, unfortunately, he finds too many op portunities for exhibiting this prejudice in the course of his subsequent career ; there is no legal education of any kind, no knowledge of law necessary for the jurat. On his election he at once becomes the ex pounder, the administrator of the law, of which pre viously be might have been in total ignorance. No record of any of the proceedings of this Court is kept, or, if kept, it is not open to public inspec tion. All they condescend to announce, in any case, civil or criminal, is the conclusion they have arrived at —the sentence they have pronounced. This sentence is frequently of the most arbitrary kind. No appeal lies from their decision in criminal cases. The majority decides as to the guilt and its punishment—fines, imprisonment, flogging, mu tilation, banishment, nay, death itself, may be decreed without the hope to the accused of the sentence being revised. No matter how erroneous it may be in point of law, the fiat which has once gone forth is most as suredly carried into execution without delay. No power exists in the island to stay the execution, none to miti gate the punishment ; thus, the most valuable preroga tive of the Crown, that of mercy, is practically abolished. True it is, the QUEEN in Council may pardon, or lessen the punishment ; but it is invariably executed be fore the application can be entertained and inquired into. In civil cases, an appeal only lies when the amount at stake exceeds 2001. sterling, and thus justice is refused to the vast majority, and, in consequence, great discon tent is felt by all except the favoured few. But this monstrous judicial power is not all that is exercised by the Court. It assumes to itself the magisterial capacity, acts as a police-court, inquires into every matter ex mero mote, holds a preliminary examination pre vious to the criminal trial. There it examines wit of whet her that t t r t i hi a e l n sh e a ss ll es t a k a e a p a o c a e th or s u e : r t, ei a ly nd t a h e e e r i d e e s al sa t verdict, the senten ce may b e, and we fear too fr r e la t ln is, settled at thi s secret i nqu i sition, before the accused has an opportunity of being heard in his own defence. In addition to these extraordinay functions, it arro gates to itself a third, still greater than either of the others,. the right o f promulgating ordinances, which shall have all the force of law, and by which the most op pressive laws may be enacted, and taxes imposed with out reference to any other body whatsoever. It is little to be wondered at if, with this extraordinary assimulation of power, executive, legislative, and judicial, the Court and its members should have got the entire island under their control, should become arrogant and little solici tous of the manner in which they discharge their duties. Who will care to impeach the conduct or offend any one possessing such authority, such power for good or evil? True liberty has ever been found to consist in the scpa. ration of these functions and their entire independence of each other ;sit is to that separation and independence we owe the freedom, and the consequent happiness of the land in which we live ; from their junction no other consequences can be expected than those which are found to exist in the Channel Islands. And we fear lessly call upon those in whom the authority is vested to abrograte all privileges which shall be found injurious and detrimental to the liberties of the people. We feel deeply the importance of this subject, and we shall shortly show the public something of the working of this most extraordinary Court in the exercise of its despotic and unconstitutional powers. There is evidently a scheme formed by certain parties throughout the country to make a new inroad upon the enjoyments of the lower classes on Sunday. The par ties who present petitions on the subject have not yet ventured to name the precise enactment which they have in view —even they seem afraid to propose such a tyran *4 Bill, but they try to faint in the strongest colours THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING. MAY li , 1846. ' the evils of drunkenness, the depraved condition of the lower classes, their insatiable thirst for spirits and malt liquors, especially on the first clay of the week, then call on the Legislature to pass a law to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors ; in other words, to shut up every public-house throughout Eng land and Scotland on Sunday. The Bishops take a most active part in this business, and fur that reason, indepen dent of others, we view the attempt a ith well-grounded suspicion. We never knew the clergy, as a body, attempt any reform in the condition of the lower classes, except by brute force, by the strong arm of the law, by enactments which a layman would hardly venture to recommend, their sacred calling and their own unspotted life, being, is their vain conceits, a suffi cient guarantee that they would propose nothing unjust and nothing except what was absolutely necessary for the regeneration of the people under their care. The amusements of the people, and even their harmless re creation; who they on Sunday or Saturday, they view with a sort of horror. The Bishop of LONDON de nounces skittles and playing a certain number of games fur a quart of beer, even on a week day, as a most dangerous en, rmity. Another would put an end to cricket and every healthful exercise, because hard• working peo ple should devote their little spare time to more solemn duties, and especially the duties pointed out by Mother Church. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S gees a step fur ther, and not only calls for a Bill against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday, but blames the Government for doing nothing—not even giving any notification of their intentions with respect to this grand scheme for regenerating drunkards. The Bishop has a bad memory, or he wilfully forgets a most important speech made by Sir JAMES GRAHAM a few years ago. A scheme was then in agi tation to extend the public-house law which applied to London to the entire kingdom, but this was vigorously opposed by the Home Secretary, who said, with great truth, that when a labouring man had either to walk a considerable way to church or was engaged on a jour ney, whether to see his friends or for any other lawful purpose, he could see no harm to religion by allowing him to refresh himself with a crust of bread and cheese and a glass of ale at a public-house. No rational man could see any harm, but merciless bigots and sel fish churchmen cannot see as men of practical know ledge see, and would reduce every one to theix standard by the severest penalties. It is but right that the lower classes should have something to say in this matter, and they might well ask the Bishops—" What have you ever done for raising our character by encouraging education, or in what way have y(.O tried to allure us to the Church ? In every instance you have opposed education for the people; no:, openly, it is true, but in a more effectual way—by ex citing among Churchmen a horror of Dissenters, and weekly sermons against every species of education which did not accord with the Thirty-nine Articles and the Athanasian Creed. And what example have you shown to us uneducated men ? Have not the crimes committed by the clergy for some time been the universal theme of reprobation ? Have not deeds been brought to light, and left com paratively unpunished too, which bring disgrace upon the nation ? Have not one-half of you treacher ously broken the solemn vows taken at the altar ; an I, while professing to be Protestants, and receiving the esnolurnents of the Protestant Church, have openly ad mitted the tenets of Popery, and exerted yourselves to the utmost to undermine the Reformed religion, and rob us of all the Wessings conferred by the Reformation? Have you made any attempts to reform yourselves ? No. You reserve all your reform for us, and because ore man in a hundr, d conducts himselr improperly, you will runish the whole class." Never was th( re such a barefaced attempt to pass a tyrannical Act under hypocritical pretences. The law is already sufficiently strong to punish evil doers, as the poor peasantry know to their cost. Have not the justices unlimited power over the publicans —cannot they ruin them, by taking away their licenses—and is not that alone sufficient to make a publican preserve order, and call in the police when any attempt is made to dese. crate the Sabbath ? But that will not satisfy these un charitable men. They will have a law which shall apply to all the middle and the lower classes—they will hind them down like wild beasts, make no distinction between the good and the bad, and thus the thousands upon thousands of steady, hard-working artisans, who enjoy themselves, with their families, on a Sunday afternoon, the only day they have for beholding the face of nature, will be debarred, they and their children, from all re freshment, even in the most sultry weather, because the Bishop of ST. DAVID'S had observed some disgracefu scenes among the mountains of Wales and the bigots of E2L.-1:.11 would bring inc faith and practice of every man to their pet feet models. Although, as might readily have been anticipated, nothing definite or conclusive was arrived at - on Friday evening in respect to the final reading of the Corn and Customs Bill, some not unsatisfactory deductions may be drawn from the very discursive discussions which thereupon transpired in the House of Commons. From the general characteristics of that debate it is percepti ble that, granting them an allowable proportion of dis appointment at the recognition of their own discomfiture, the Protectionists are less inclined than heretofore to pro crastinate matters by their obstinacy, that they perceive at length the abstract futility of their opposition, and are, to a considerable extent, prepared to testify their re signation at the overthrow of their very obsolete princi ples. Such at least are the most rational inferences to be deduced from their behaviour overnight; and, unless SCID4 fresh paroxysm of pertinacity goad them on to ad ditional demonstrations against the measure, we may in dulge our hopes of a speedy settlement of the free-trade Bill, that is to say, as far as the Lower House of Parliament is ceneerned. We are in clined to regard the matter in this sanguine light from the consideration that the speeches delivered on Friday, ostensibly fur the championship of agriculture, contained in reality the last bubbles of fer mentation upon the subject from the lips of the anti- Ministerialist faction ; and this we conceive was espe cially recognisable in the sickly acid of personalities with which those harangues were severally flavoured. It was the last feeble ebullition of expiring spleen and subsiding acerbity. These personalties, however, whe ther uttered by the Noble Member for Lynn or any other adventuring representative, we possess neither the inclination to elucidate nor the appetite to con. Nevertheless a quotation from EDMUND BURKE, as uttered last night by Lord G. BENTINCK, forms in itself such a ridiculously appropriate parody upon his Lord ship's present behaviour and manifest ambition as to be deserving of particular mention. " The people of E 'g land," said the Noble Lord, " hal that aversion to poli tical vacillation and political inconsistency, and political tergiversation, that, as BURKE, he th eight it was said, they thought that a man to be fit to be the represents. tive of a great constituency should be a man of At ible mind I" Never was adjective more susceptible cf a sar castic and malapropos signification ; it is an unintended tra vestie and an unfortunateidentification of the speaker him self. In an anterior portion of the discussion, however, the attention of the House was occupied with explanations of infinitely greater importance, explanations indeed which, to a certain extent, may be numbered among the most interesting of the present session. Our allusion is obviously directed to the language uttered by the Right Honourable the new Member for the Falkirk burghs, the Secretary for Ireland. Lord LINCOLN appears to have been dragged into these explanations without any previous warning on the part of his inter rogator, Mr. G. BANKER. He is abruptly called upon by that Hon. Gentleman to give some explicit corroboration of the Government statements about the scarcity cf pro visions in Ireland, or, in case of his incapacity to do so, to acknowledge the exoneration contained In tht.se statements. Notwithstanding, however, this unusual method of catechising a Minister, and interrogating him "by the baok," the Noble Earl by a few simple facts altogether refuted the notion that Government had been tampering with the credulity of Parliament by an ex travagant representation of Irish poverty. In this re tesipoiecellineteghfrueoemtsreiaarlitleasdi min t h ial e anr i n m esr p u u s pt t h a i c t e i i o o n n ss, mostu pon hims e lf an d h is and dkelyto tpolaecexotnheeria.nte. tegrity of the Cabinet and the destitution of Ireland in a true and incontrovertible light. Far from the picture pofartipentilavra,tioze over-colouredbienisnigsted,np on e laruitshhori t p y o , pul t a h t a i t on the w ere preponderatingvisitcmost in a in u d y ub s i i ta ng bl l e e d nwdithillaass oof the remark auguredume-anintsstantcheadt extenti, of their own greater extension. He c although "the able accumulation of Want,: h o t t he be m u o n s i t i e v m rs p a h l a t t h ic . r e o te u e r gl l n s : tLhiemdeirsi distress sasn was most Clare t a as l e a o r u m n in ti g ea i n an 'w d • island, Ile h se e a m rc a it i L a m in ig e h d t inn that it was both "general and decisive." Within the last twenty-four hours, be himself had been the recipient of a o fe u s t se th d e th is a la t very imperative communication from the county Kerry, informing him that the people in that neighbourhood, contrary to their own expectations, had exhausted their stock of potatoes, both by necessary consumption and unforeseen disease, insomuch that they were now left wholly unprovidcd with nourishment. With reference to the inuendo uttered by the Hon. Member for Dor chester, that the Government hal tended con siderably to increase the difficulties of the Irish population by an undue inter'eratee with the potato crop, he pointed out the beneficial influence upon the market prices of Ireland which had resulted from the extensive importation of Indian nasal and Indian cern ; while, as a conclusive repudiation of the charge, he assured the House, in the most categorical way, " that the distress in Ireland, though not universal, is general, and that so far as the statements of it go which have been made by her MAJESTY'S Government, they wi'l be found to be fully borne out by the facts as they exist." The corroboration of these assertions, which were subsequently pronounced by Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, are simple and brief, but assuredly they are emphatic enough. We transcribe, almost at random, one of his characteristic evidences of the miserably disorganized and impoverished condition of his country men :—" With respect," said he, " to the district of Clare, in which I reside; when I got there I found on' one side a schooner attacked on the river by bodies of armed men ; I found, on the °the r, cattle guar.led by solliers ; I found on the hills near me a starving, and, to some extent, a lawless population." Aft. r these unanswerable proofs of the wretchedness which has already enlisted the sympathies of Government, and proofs which no caviller, without the most consummate amount of scepticism, can gainsay, the Hon. Member objected, we conceive somewhat unfairly, to the manner in which the Premier mingled the question of Irish distress with the corn-laws, immediately upon the intro duction of his measure. It must be remembered, how ever, that the fact of destitution in Ireland was then ad doted simply as an argument for the immediate modifica tion of the enactments pressing upon the importation of provisions, while the facts of experience, of logic, of philosophy, and of common honesty were adduced as arguments for the ulterior and permanent settlement of the protective system. That was the only manner in which Sir ROBERT placed those two important matters in juxta-position, and, as a conscientious statesman , he could not well h ave acte d otherwise. The immediate preservation of Ireland, and the future pros • perity of tlre British Isles generally, require an instant modification of the duties imposed upon articles of food. Justice and Charity league together for the impulsion of a free-trade agitation to its triumph, and since the world has existed an ultimate acquiescence has ever been ac corded to the demands of Justice and Charity when I pronounced by the voice of an united people. The Jesuit party has been defeated in the Swiss elections. The Zurich Gazette of the 4th says:—' The Liberal party has gained a complete victory at the electit which took place yesterday. Out of the 171 elections fur the Grand Council the Conservatives were not able to gain more than 29." It ar.pears as if the Austrian Government was ap prehensive of some outbreak in the north of Italy. The fortifications of Verona, which have been only recently completed, and which were not to be armcd s in anticipation (.f a war, are, according to a letter from Verona, dated the 20th ult., which appears in the Con stitutionnel, armed forthwith, and the park of the Adige is to be provided with a considerable reserve. General RIJDETSKY was expected at Verona in the course of the wcek. The companions of the unfortunate BANDIERA having been pardoned by the King of NAPLES, on Good Friday, have arrived at Marseilles. It is said that his MAJESTY has also shown mercy to many other political prisoners. The state of affairs in Finland is anything but tran gull. A ktter from fielsingford of April 20 s9ys— " Two nights back, between ten and eleven o'clock, this town was thrown into confusion by the appearance of 500 or 600 young men, chiefly students of the University, who pro menaded the streets singing national songs. They stopped before the houses occupied by the Russian functionaries, and broke the windows with stones, crying out, Poland for ever!' Down with the Muscovite tyrants!' Oscar I. for ever!' This last cry had reference to the fact of the Grand Duchy of Finland having formerly formed part of Sweden, before it was ceded to Russia in 1815. A great number of these disturbers of the public peace were arrested, and the Governor- General of Finland has given orders to have them tried by court-martial." Madrid papers of the Ist instant have been received. The Gazette contains the official dispatches of the ge nerals employed in the recent affairs in Galicia, and an nounces authoritatively the complete pacification of the province. It also contains a royal decree, dissolving the regiments of Gijon, Segovia, Oviedo, and Zamora, which had taken part in the late insurrectionary move ment. The colours of the dissolved regiments are to be deposited in the church of the Virgin of Atocha, and covered with black crape. All the privates who took part in the insurrection are to suffLr ten years' additional service beyond the usual time wherever the Government may direct, and the officers are to be brought to a court martial. The Government have dispatched orders to Vth- LALONGA to suspend any further executions of those con demn( dby courts-martial. The Archbishop of SANTIAGO, whose life had been saved by Solis during the insur rection, exerted himself to procure the pardon of the in surgent chief, but without effect. Sous 3nd fourteen of his companions were shot through the back at Carral. The other insurgent officers, it is said, will be re duced to the ranks, and sent to the I'hillippine Islands, to serve for tea years. CONCHA, as a roe and for his services, has been promoted to the rank of Lieute nant General. General PIJIG SAMPER, to whose dilatory conduct at Santiago the partial success of the insurrec- tion there has been attributed, is to be brought to a court-martial forthwith. VILLALONGA, to whose vigour and prudence it was entirely owing that Corunna did not kin the movement, was one of ESPARTE3O . B generals, and remained faithful to him to the last, refusing to acknowledge the new order of things until ESPARTERO had quitted the king. dom. A steamer had left Vigo in pursuit of the Nervion, on board which the members of the insurgent junta had made their escape, taking with them all the treasure in the Bank of San Fernando ; and the salt rent, amounting to 6,000,000 rials, which they had seized as soon as they received information of the defeat at Santiago. The yellow fever has appeared at Barcelona, brought, was supposed, from the Cape de Verd Island. Accerd►ng to the Esperanzci , CARDX, the firmer Pre hi dent of the Barcelona Junta and the leader of the pronunciamiento at Alicant, has been arrested at Medina. MADRID BOLSA, MAY I.—Three per Cent., 311 for cash. Exchange on London, 37i. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. On Wednesday the Dijon and Mulhausen Railway Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies without opposition. The New Postage was in the course of the same sitting withdrawn by the Minister of Finance, and in its stead the Minister proposed a measure abolishing the usual decime, and reducing the duty on money orders from fire to two per cent. The St. Ijigiec and Gray Railway was then brought forward, but the discussion was not finished. The non publication of the Address of the Archbishop of PARIS in the Monitcur, is the subject of comment in most of these papers. The Constitulionnel says :—" We do not yet find in the Moaiteur, the Address of the Archbishop of Paris. The fol. lowing is said to be the purport of the phrase whieb gate offence, and caused the address to be suppressed :—‘ The Church does not want the protection of any one—it on l y asks for liberty.' " The Qttotidienttd gives the following as the phrase n a i s -i p n i e r e e d s o tb ni e: , which was deemed objectionable 1— t r o el i t ig h tT i e o a n:, b P e in r human deeplyle y , o t r u tohuyes. of the conscience, which it governal and of the, supreme Master liberty orderl6 worthy to I render hd he e celestial tnh t the il). origin, olcph which etnithlkltl tit It An qiiipira eldriettk." The Mokifetir A/geeie:t of theBOth, has the following .—= "The last npti 10M Ostiftal ttlstiti ealserinently of thb rittiVettbilti ot the ex-Linir, go bug about teb days. At that period everything announced a series of operations in the Djebel-Amour, wh Abd-el-Kader, finding, however, still slighter resowes thtre thap with the Quled-N . ayl, L4 ' ll iictittiptil fled the ntimiall, one hundred idaghte south of Algiers, and thence by A parallel march, and invered to that of Genera! Yutlih reiteW Maria, d point four days' j„"'rner trot! 11, 4 01 f, townrA the south. Mt. lie liad '''"ected together all the disposable horsemen of the Oul.M-Nayh to the number of four or five hundred and tite4e Ootritid4e Lis toe of the itien whom he brought f r o m the Wed, only a few still remain it ' was on the lath that tleneral Yiinf le:zined this complete change or pAition, Mid be iMitietlialt4 prOeOdeti towards Gharza, followed by the column of iolonel Ladinirauiti who was bringing hint A eoirdy; Since then, ribthing Whatever 13 known of what hai passed , Th!f,' stance, which is n o t rare, and which may be explained by the negligen ce o f an Arab courier, or any other such incident, appears to hare been seiApd on by ill.disposed per sons to spread sinister repots, of Willeh the rl:lMlitistra■ tion would certainly punish the authors if it sucteeded ill discove,lng them. The nets from the provinces is sattsfan. tory. That of the west scarcely shows any insurrection, except in the Lower Dahre, where the column of Mostagit nem is speedily to act, if it has not already commence d : Th e principal affairs of the spring would appear to be these t the subjection of the Ouarcnsenis, for which the Marshal Was to According received t o from the A set nut on May 4th or sth ; and the ope ra ti ons i n t h e south of the provin c e of Titte r i , w hi c h are to be entrusted, it is said, to the D u k e d'A uma l e. " ~:d the tsvr the aot intelligenceh, preceding . had be k (general barof y He was on • his way with hia column to Medeah, where he would wait for a reinforcement of cavalry, and on its arrival would resum e his • operatlons in the Djebel- Amour, The Three per Cents el 831 . 95c. ; the Five per Cent s, on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 1,2521. 50e. Rouen 1 037 , 120 f. 20c. ;the Orleans Railroad shares, 76 71. 50 c.; Avignon; 925 f ; Ilavrc, 7571. 50c.; Great Northern, Boulogne, slof. ; Troyes I;ndVsile t:, 675.ft.1;(1.1ardeaux, 625 f. 75e. ; poux, 440 ; Dieppe, 450 ; Pa: is °n d graau;burg,;ittars e, 220 f. ; Fant- Nantes, 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and an 575 f ; Spanis h.2sc. ; Tours and ditto Three per Cents. 27 1 z -• ; Lyons , ditto omes.tic Ac tives, 32N. ; The fo • Debt, 31 % • following are the quotations in railway shares . .4 9 n4 1 444 ATIMD : (Isom eyes , 5454 • ._B 91" sis{M ft4cl COW (Mackenzie), 504 f.; ditto (Espelcta), 510 f.; ditto definitive, 535 f. Charleroi, 4901. IMSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYs AT THE LONDON STOCK EMI:II ANGE, May 8. Boulogne and Amiens,l2M —Central of Spa'i, 1 M —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, —Great Indian Peninsular, )4—ltalian and Austrian, 1 M —Jamaica South Midland Junction, 13,i--Naniar and Liege, 4 1 ,4 —Paris and Lyons Constituted, 7%. Mn. 'WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN.—The following is the resolution which the Limerick 'reformed" Corpora ion unanimously adopted at, their meeting on Tuesday :—" That this Corporation, ever tilled with the highest admiration for the public career of Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P. for this coutyy ; his undeviating sustainment of those pr i nciples to the accomplishment of which this county looks with un abated determinati:•n ; and, considering the course now adopted by a portion of the Legislature towards him, whereby 1:e has been deprived of his liberty, and been corn mttted to prison for his strictly persevering in that cause best calculated to test the soundness of those opinions to which he had long previously pledged himself; and that, under the circumstances, we feel it to be our duty to address Mr. O'Brien in entire approval of his conduct, and our fixed resolution to sustain him in the opinion he advocates; and that it be referred to a committee of this Couucil to prepare the address." DRURY-LANE TIIEATRE.—TO-morrow night Malame Anna Thillon and Les Danseuses Vienno:ses appear together for the last time; and our delightful ringer, unable to get her leave of absence extended, takes her departure from us after Saturday next, the eveni ng appointed for her benefit and final appearance this season. Mr. Bunn has left London for Paris, to make arrangements for the del& of Carlotta G I i. SACRED ILt R3IONIC SOCIETY. Thydn's Oratorio, The Creation, is to be repeated on Friday next. Mrs. Sunderland, Hobbs, and Phillips will, as on the former occa sion, sustain the principal vocal pa r t s . EASTERN UNION RAILWAT.—We understand that Mr. Martin, who was for some time Depaty-Superintendent of the Bristol Station of the Great Western Railway, has been ap pointed superintendent of the Eastern Union Railway, now on the eve of opening. We believe few appointments of the kind have been more judicious—Railway Record. Yesterday morning a sermon, on behalf of the Ml pitel for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, was preached at the parish Church of St. Luke's, Chelsea, by the Rev. Robert Montgomery, A.M. The text selected by the Reverend Advocate was f rom P rover b s xx i i., v. 2, " The rich and the poor meet together, but the Lord is the maker sf them all." In the course of a very eloquent address, it was stated, among other statistical facts, that the annual deaths from consumption in the United Kingdom alone amounted to 36,000. The last hills of mortaility for London showed a frightful increase of pulmonary consumption. The Rev. Gentleman having concluded a very eloquent appeal to the feelings of the benevolent, the collection was made, which amounted to the handsome sum of 80'. 95., exclusive of the accession of several valuable sukc ibers. NEW METHOD ( F TREATING CONSUMPTION.—A Cor respondent informs us that several of the most eminent members of the profession have adopted, with complete suc cess in their practice, " Anaspasie," the new mode of treating Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, &c. introduced already so successfully at the Stranl Dispensary, for the cure of diseases of the Heart and Lungs, by Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place, Leicester-square.—" We are gratified in being able to an nounce this important and extraordinary innovation in the treatment of this plague spot of our variable clime,' having been out selves one of the first to call the attention of the public, and of the medical profession, to Dr. Cronin's new mode of practice, having felt convinced that 'Anaspasia' would he found a most valuable auxiliary to the more speedy cure of pulmonary affections."—Globe. RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The forty-seventh an niversary meeting of the members of this Society took place on Friday at Exeter-hall ; Sir E. N. Buxton, Barn, in de chair. The Secretary reed a report of the Society's operations during the past year. It stated that a great and encouraging event had recently transpiied in China, viz., the promulga tion of a royal decree authorising the freedom of religious worgiip. It wes impossible to foresee the happy results which would fellow this circumstance. The shops, streets, junks, and temples, were now accessible to time Christian mis sionaries. The committee had caused to be distributed at Hong Kong, 22,000 tracts, and had made grants to the amount of 3931. In India there were twenty auxiliary societies engaged in distributing religious works. During the year nearly 1,200,000 t rac t s had been printed by those societies, to which the London Society had made grants to the amount of 1,587/. In the Society Isles, 215,000 tracts had been distributed ; is Seuth Africa, 451,000 ; in the West Indiee, 105,380 ; in Quebec, 10,000 ; in addition to many thou' ands in Montreal, Nova Scotia, and Now Brunswick, making; a total in British North America of 183,000, in addi • bon to libraries formed in some of the large towns. The cir culation of religious tracts was pre:clueing important results in France. A Protestant tract society has been formed at Paris, the receipts of which during the year amounted to 229,000 francs, and which had issued 650,000 tracts. Whole " communes" were now forsaking the Roman Catholic Church and embracing Protestantism. In Switzerland 8,000 tracts had been sent fo r the use of the Italian papulati , n, and a grant made to th e G eneva E vange li cal S ociety. The Bel gian Evangelical Society had distributed during the year 42,000 tracts, and had received from the London Society a grant of 2004 Amongst the other Continental cities where the greatest number had been circulated were Amsterdam, 60,000 ; Stockholm, 50,000; St. Petereburgh, 167,000. The Society's tracts had also been issued in Persia and other parts of the East. The numberdistributed in the British Isles .as altogether 2,260,000, at a cost of 2,761/. ; and the total grants to foreign and colonial societies amounted to 450, at a cost of 2,003/. The issues during the year amounted to 17,571,413, making, with these distributed by the societies abroad, a total of 42,000,000, in ninety-eight languages and dialects. The receipts of the Society amounted to 56,1101. The report having been adopted, and several resolutions passed, the meeting broke up. GREAT Nolan OF SCOTLAND RAILWAY.—Th7s measure is now in committee—witnesses, counsel, estimates, and traffic tables being in great demand. We subjoin from The Sun (in which paper particular attention is given to railway prosecdiuga) a report of the evidence hitherto ad duced. The Perth and Inverness agents are preparing for a similar struggle, and the witnesses have again been sum moned to London.—lnrerness Courier. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, MAY B.—We have to report, a large supply of wheat, and fair of' other grain. To day there was a very thin attendance of millers, and the de mand for wheat was limited to their immediate wants. Prices of all .deseriptions of wheat muet be noted ls. to 2s. per quarter lower. Considering the advanced state of the az ason, fine barley met with a good inquiry at previous rates. Beans sold easily on fully as good terms. Oats and shelling each in slow request at barely former rates. Malt firm. The exportation of donkeys has commenced. As in former years they are intended for a D u t c h se ttl emen t i n the West Indies. The Emerald Isle, for Rotterdam, on Wed nesday, took out five specimens of the English breed. CoLossAL STATUE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— Preparations have commenced at Hyde Park Corner (oppo site Apsley house), tor the erection of Mr. Wyatt's eques trian statue of the Duke of Wellington. The metal weighs 50 tons. The Duke is ill appear in a field marshal's uniform, and a small military cloak. Prince Albert has fixed this day for laying the first stone of the Seamen's Church in Dock-street, and on the occasion the Lords Commissioner= of the Admiralty. the Lord Mayer, Aldermen, and ether public authorities, will be in attendance to receive the Prince. The service will be per formed by the Bishop of London, and a very considerable number of the subscribers and friends to this important un dertaking will be present. A large marquee has been erected to cover the area, which is calculated to contain 800 parsons. A CONFIRMED DESERTER.— Matthew Byrne, dressed in the unfoim of the Royal Artillery, was taken on Thursday, at Chatham, under an escort of the 65th, and placed le fore the county magistrates at Rochester as deserter from the 44 - h Regiment. The prisoner deserted from the 44th Regi ment at Dublin on the 20th of September, 1845, and enlisted into the 65th, and on the march with a batch of recruits, to join the head-quarters at Chatham, the prisone r deserted and enlisted again, in March last, in the 7th battalion of the Royal Artillery, at Woolwich, from which corps he deserted again on the 6th of April, and went to Chatham about El roe weeks ago, and delivered himsrlfup, as being a deserter, to Sergeant 'Monies Hawkins, of the 65th. The prisoner has been t fined ever since; and the reason for his not being brought before the magistrates ere this was on account of a corres pondence entered into by the 65th to the Horse Guards and the Board of Ordnance respecting him. The prisoner wr. committed to Maidstone Gaol to await an order from the Horse Guards for his removal to his regiment (the 44th), which is stationed at Newry. A SCENE IN COURT. --On Saturday last, a poor woman applied to the borough Magistrates under the follow ing circumstances. She stated that her name was Elizabeth Stainsby, and she resided in Pottery Field. It appeared that for some time past she had been receiving relief from the parish to the amount of 6s. per week ; en going to rest ive her money, however, on the last pay day, she found that some one had drawn it in her name. Mr. Wriggles worth, the relNVltig officer, said the mistake was owing to the woman not being In titne to answer to her name when it was called over. It was prov'ed, however, that Wriggle:- worth was himself in fault, as he ought not to have paid the money, unless tl.e party applying for it had produced a ticket, which each pauper is expected to exhibit on rnaleng application for their allowance. The Mayor, therefore, inti mated to him that he ought, in justice, to ply the pct woman's demand cut of his own pocket. Wrigglesworth hesitated for a moment, and then said he weald melee eve ry effort to ascertain who had got the money. The Mayo.— Yes; bat that won't do; you ought to make up the poor Woman's loss, though you lived for a week woe bread and water yourself. Do you intend to pay it ? Wriggleworth— No, sir. The MayonaeThen, sir, I will pay it myself, for the poor woman shall not suffer from your negligence. Wrie glesworth then left the Court amidst a storm at hisses, which, however, were quickly suppressed, and the Mayne ordered him to be called in again. When he re -appeared, his W t orsh'p observed—Your conduct in the case of ties poor woman, A.r WrleAkswcrth Is most disgraceful ; an d , as the Mayer of this borough,l think it my duty to l a y a statement of it before the Poor-law CommissiOnera. I consider you totally unfit for the situation you hold, and I will do all in my l off.2.r to get ion turned out of it. Wrigglesworth, without reply, egin Aft the Cotirt.—Leeds Mercury. TIIE BATTERSEA-BRIDGE TRAGEDY._On Thursday Maiming the miming body of one of the children drowned by their mother at Battersea- bridge, was found imbedded in sand at the bottom of a sluice in Battersea-fielde. A PANIC.— On Frid ty afternoon, whilst the gallery of the Committee-rooms of the new Houses of Parliament was etoolltd. by perscms waiting to obtalnentrance - into the Kent !ways Committee-room, to hear the decision, the work ttuM on tiii; tower above let a large block of stone fall, which made sue!: n crash that it sounded as if the temporary floor- ingwere giving Way, and the whole mass were coming Mete was an instant clearance of the spot by the counsel and itgetito and "the public" there congregated. who rushed away in all dir,letione In the greatest alarm. When Cie danger was passed, there it*!ui a general laugh at the dp - hit' and its eau: - e. S-tinEN Dr:aTit of A THEATRICA.J. BOX-KEEPEn.— On Friday forenoon, Mr. William Carter heici inquest, at the Spread Eagle T4vern, Kennington-lane, Lame,. ``-h, on the body of Mr, oeorg.- Peter Bate, aged forty-nine years, lately residing at So. 19, White Hart street, Kennington. toad. Deceased had been for many years box-keeper at Covent garden Theatre, and usually enjoyed good health. Oa Tuesday morning last the deceased was dressing himeelf, when he suddenly fell to the ground in a fit. Ho was sub sequently found in a state of insensibility, and before medical aid could bo procured he expired, from long-standing disease of the lungs. The jury returiled a verdict of" Natural death, from tionsumption." On Tuesday, a police officer, who had been stationed at the Blisworth Junction, on the London and Birmingham Railway, was sentenced to be imprisoned for two mouths and kept to hard labour, by the magistrates of Towcester, for having, on the previous day, neglected turning a tram on the down line, by which a goods train was thrown off the railway, the engine and tender of which ran down a bank and turned over. The engine-driver and stoker escaped by jumping off, Fool RACE.—On Friday the running match between Mills and Poverty was run at Turnham-green, and won by the latter, Tho di2tatice yPAO liYO hundred yards, the itavi MONEY and COL IVIERCIAL NEWS (From The Sun of Saturday Evening ) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000 bales including 2,00-0 for export and on speculation; with a firm market. Shares were rather heavy. At Messrs. Latnond's public s a l e o f railway shares, held yesterday afternoon, as usual, there was a decline in prices generally, and less disposition to bid. Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 1 4 8.-Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, Bs. 6d.-Direct London and Portsmouth Atmospheric, al 4s. -Eastern Counties, York Extension, 1/. 175.-Taw Vale Extension and Dock, 13s. Gd.-Great Luxembourg, 2/. 45.- London and BirminghanrExtension, 1/.-Calcutta and St. George's Point. Gs. 6d.- Shrewsbury and .Herefordshire, 7s. -Shropshire Union and Canal, 11.75. 6d.-Midland Eastern Counties, 155.-Ceylon, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, 19s. 6d.-Northern and E a ste rn , 621. -W e l sh Mid land, 11. CS. 6d.-Isle of Axliohn:, Gainsborough, and Goole, 11. 9s -Vale of Neat!), 1/. 155.-Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, 1/. 25.-Lostion and Blackwall, New, 3/. 193.6 d. - Rugby and Huntingdon, U. 35.-Over Yssel, 1/. 45.-- Essex and Suffolk, 14e. - Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 18s.-Churnet and Blythe, 18e. - Man chester and Southampton, 2/. 25.-Ceylun, 9s. 6d. There are no arrivals to-day with late accounts from any quar:er possessing the least general interest. In the return of the assets and liabilities of the Bank of England the more prominent alterations for the week to the 2d May are these Notes issued £27,072.295 Increase Public Deposits ... 2,578,451 Decrease O:her Deposits Decrease Seven day and o:her Bills, increase O:her securities, increase 16,616 Bullion Increase .;. 27,886 The English Securities have been very quiet again this morning, and are at about- the previous value, or perhaps rather better. Consols realise 96% % for transfer, and 96% 3 4 for time. Exchequer-bills have been marked 24A. to 275.; and East India Bomb, 345. premium. Bank Stock has been firm at 205 to 205%, and India Stock at an advance to 265. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have risen to 97% 1 / 2 . This has been quite a dies non in the Foreign Market. Spanish Three per Cents. are 37. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 59!,... • Shares generally are firm to-day, but there is not enough doing to test the strenL.,th of the market. BRIT'S!' FUNDS, ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. .. .• .• .. • . 205% 205 205 Th.ce per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95%% 95 5 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 9G % % 96 :IA New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amis. 97%% 573 1 i Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, led() .. 10% 3-16 10 3-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10% 10% India Stuck .. .. . .. .. .. .. 265 265 India Bonds. 1,000/. .. .. .. .. .. 31 34 onscls for Account Exchequ.r Bills. 5001. . Ditto. Small •• • 96 3 ,4% I%d. .... 27 pm. 27 24 pm. 21 27 pm. ONE CLOSINI O'CLOCK. PRICES FORELCIN FUNDS Peruvian Boncbc, 6 per Cent. Ditto, for the Account . Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto, Passive Bonds .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 37 Dividends on the above payalale in tendon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 9F,14 Du• ell Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. t Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. .. - .. 39 Aberdeen .. .• .. 10 .... 5% Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%.... .. • . Birmingham and Gloucester ..160 • Ditto New (issod at 7% dis.) 17% .......... Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... ........ .. Bristol and Exeter .. 75 _B5 ..... . Buckinghamshire 425. % 1 % p laledonian .. • • • • 10 .• • • • • ••• • • • Ditto, Extension 'ornwall and Central Devon .. 2%.... •• • • )ireet Manchester (Rustrick's) . • 314 . Direct Northern 1% 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... • Dublin and Galway .. 4 .... Eastern Counties 14/. its.. 23% %.. ..... Ditto New .. 8/. 7% % Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/ 13s. 4d. •• ... Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13 s. 4d . % p Ditto, York Extension 105..... 1% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 75 77 ..... Ditto 34 Shares .. .. 10 .... 18 Ely and lliiiitingdon 7%.... ........ Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% .... 1% ..... Goole, lloneast., and • heffield, &e.. 425. .... p Great Southern & West. (Ireland) '4O .... 25 b Great North of England . 100 ....215 217. • Ditto, New .. . • . •• • • 14 Great Western 85 .. Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 18% Hull and Selby .• Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12,4 .. Ditto, Hair hares .. • • • • 7 ~,, • . . Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .... 1% Leicester and Bedford.. Liverp., blanch., & Nom. Junet. 2%.... 2%3... London an Birmingham .•.100 ....228 .......... Ditto Quarters . • 2 .... 29% London and Blackwell 16/. 13s. 4d. .. London mid Brighton. 50 .......... Ditto ditto Flubs .. 20 .... 31% ........ London and Croydon .. 131. 159 9d. 22% ...... London and South-Weeeni.. 411. 6s. 10d. 78 79 •• .. Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 .... 53 ........ Ditto, New . 12% .... 23% ...... London and York .. 2% .... 2 Ditto, Half Shares • • .. .. 2 ........ London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 1 1 4 Londonderry and Coleraine .. 10 .... Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .... ........ , Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .... 10 .- . Ditto, ' , hills .. 3 .... 13 ........ Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . ....... Ditto, Quat ter Shares (A) • • 4 .. •• 12% .......... Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4 .... 12% .......... Ditto, Quarter shares (C) I .. • . ....... Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 428..... 1 p...... Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2% ..100 .. • .155 .... Di tto. N ew .. 18 .. • • 32% % 33% • Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 109 .......... Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 44% Ditto, New . 1 .... 10 ..... Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 • • 20% • • ........ Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1% . • ..... . Norfolk • • .. 23 • 27% ........ Nortn British .. • • • • 221 ;.2 •• • • •••.• • • .• • • Ditto, Halt Shares 8% • Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2%.... is % North Staffordshire .. • • 425..... p North Wales • • • • .. • • • • 3% •.• • ... •.. 0x7i1., Gosport, Portsmouth., and Southampton 425..... 1 din Sf. - ottish Central . .. 10 .... 15% Shrewsbury and Birnfnghttip .. 2%...• ... S:fropshire Union .. 42*. % dis Smith midland 428..... 1% Ti 4 p South Eastern and Dover 33%..41% 40% 41 40% Ditto. New (iss. at 32/.) No. 1. 16 ... 21 Do., New (d 0.33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 14% Do., New (do. 30!.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 17 .. ••.... • • 1 , 0., New (do 150 .. No. 4. '2% • ... ',;3• •••• • • - Warwickshire and London . 425. • Wexfo. d, Waterford, & Valentin 1% 13 •• • ..... • • Welsh Midland .. . . West Biding Union 425..... 23 3 p.. •• .. 3% p Worc , •str., Hared., Ross, & Giou. 425. .•••• • • • • . 14 dis York and Carlisle .. .... 1 % York and Lancaster .. 2% • • ........ 1 York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... • • Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 ••••• • • . • • 5( Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... 344 • ... Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of Spain .. .. 2 13 Dutch lthenish .. 5 East Indian .. • 55. ',/i ........ Great Western Canada .. 3 ....... Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 .... ........ Luxembourg Namtu and Liege 6 ....... Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 ..... Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 744 ..... Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... I CH F. • 153 ••• •• 3 ,4 dis. 1% p 40% 21 14 3% ••........ dis. MINES. cal del Monte, Unregistered .. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, MAY 5 —The vessel which is to perform ' the voyage from Amsterdam to Vienna, on the Rhine, the Maine, the Ludwigs Canal, and the Danube, was built at Amsterdam expressly for the essay. This vessel, which is called the Marien Zell, is wholly of iron, and is 200 tons burden, and, even with a full cargo, it draws only fifty inches Austrian measure. It this trial succeeds, as there is every reason to hope, an immense advantage will accrue to the commerce of the countries on the banks of the D +Dube, and those of Northern Germany, which will enable them to send their goods to each other by this route, which will be much more rapid, and much more economical than all those hitherto used. The second Chamber of the States Government, in its sitting, after a long debate, agreed to the first of the project of law for modifying the first book of the penal code by a majority of 32 to 24. On the project of law relative to the fisheries, on the motion of the President, the Chamber formed itself, for a short time, into a secret Committee. The sitting being made public, the discussion was opened with the above project of law, which was unanimously agreed to. The discuseon of the project on the Dedeme vaart was then opened, and it was almost unanimously agreed to. The next subject on the order of the day was the debate on the project of law for the construction of a causeway between .Maestricht and the frontier of the province of Gelderland. His Excellency the Minister of the Interior replied to the observations which occur in the report of the Central Section, respecting the expense of some portion of this causeway, and defended the iro .ect of law, which was agreed to by a majority of 40• to 7 JThe project of law modifying C ha p ter i t o f the Pena, Code was agreed to by a majority of 30 to 20. In consequence of this vow the minister of justice de clared, the rem&ning chapt , r of Book 1, being at sely connected with that w hich had been agreed to, the de bate could not be continued, and the project of law must be considered as withdrawn; on which the sitting closed. TIWRN, APRIL 27.—The state of siege in which this town was placed, in consequence of the disturbances in Foland, was put an end to yesterday. POSRN, APRIL 29.—The latest accounts from Galicia report murders committed by the peasants on the nobles, among whom are found the names of Zabouski, Brodtki, Dreleban, Monski, Zarunba, Hoppert, and Zentuad. TmrrtoPEn USE or FITIE-ARNS.—On Thtirsday af ternoon the family of Mr. Field, a gentleman residing at N o . 3, Ladbroke place, Notting-hill, were thrown into a state of indescribable alarm and confusion by the following occur rence. It apfears that shortly after five o'clock, just as Mr. and Mrs. Field, who have a family of children, had risen from to t: dinner table in the front parlour, they were alarmed by the stiati.7l report of fire-arms, and the instant crash of glass proceeding from the parlour wi.7dow, the blind of which was down. Mr. Field inuneliately moiled into the street to as certain the cause, when he found that Mr. henry Adridge Rice , a gentleman residing at No. 2, Ladbroke-place East, which Is nearly opposite Mr. Field's residence, had fired a gun loaded with shot at a cat which was on the wall of his garden, the charge from which had „entered the window of Mr. Field's house. THE CAB NUISANCE AGAlN.—Friday evening as two gentlemen were driving along Stamford-hill towatds town, they were annoyed by a cab man , No. 1,577, by his driving first on one side of the load and then on the other, evidently to knoc'k up against, the gentlemen's light vehicle and cause an up-set. Upon bring spoken to the cabman used the most low and disgusting lftrguage. On arriving at Kings land-gate the gentlemen alighted to take the number of the cab (the turnpike-man at King'slaad-gate, without his name over the door, having refused), when the cabman struck the gentlemen, but fortunately for the tiegtlanen, the cabman got the Trout of the eheettuter. 5% 37 MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMP TON RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders in this important railway Ras held on Saturday, at two o'clock, at the Company's Offices, 19, Great George-street, West-. minster, in compliance with the sessional orders of the Houses of Parliament with respect to new projects, and to consider whether they should proceed with or aban don the undertaking. Sir John Barker Mil, Bart., occupied the chair. A considerable number of shareho ders were present, among whom we noticed Lord Duncannon, the Earl of Wilton ; R. Etwall, &q., M.P. ; Thomas Gisborne, Esq., M.P. ; Sir J. Tancred ; George Stephenson, Esq. ; Jackson, Esq. (chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead) ; J. I'. Westhead, Esq. (chairman of the Manchester and Bit mirghtou) ; David Waddington, Esq. (depiity chairman of the Eastern Counties) ; and A. Pryton, Esq. (director of the Midlands). JOHN WIIEF.LER, EE(I., the secretary, read the adver tirenn nt convening the meeting. A report, of which the following is an ah , tract, was circulated amongst the pro prietors present : " The directors had availed themselves of the earliest day permitted by the arrangements required under the new ses sional orders to meet their shareholder; and to invite their opinion upon the propriety of prosecuting this undertaking. Tl.ey admitted the general necessity which had arisen for the adoption of measures to test the feeling of the parties in terested in the multifarious projects to which the last year gave birth; and though the task of ascertaining those feel ings was in many instances a most arduous one, it had resulted, in the case of the Manchester and Southampton Railway, in the gratifying and almost unparalleled tact teat, up to the date of this report, not one expression of dissent to the progress of the measure had been conveyed to the cont• pany The directors recognise in this fact a pleasing evi dence of tl.e estimation in which this line is held, and of the confidence reposed in them by their subscribers. Its permanent abandonment was, of course, impossible. the necessity for such a line had been demonstrated, and an abandonment of it, therefore, by its present promoters, would merely result in its immediate adoption by other parties, who wou l d thus step in to reap all the advantages which this Company has secured by the expenditure of much money and anxious toil. Its postponement to a future ses sion might result in a revival of soms or one of the com peting schemes to which the successful prosecution of this undertaking had given the death-blow, and in a conse quent costly contest for ground, of which this Com pany might be said now to have exclusive possession. It is well known that for a considerable proportion of the entire length the works ars exceedingly light, and that arrangements made by the directors with the proprietors of the Andover Canal must materiAlly facilitate the construc tion of the railway. These and other circumstances would enable the directors to refrain from calling more than 2/. per share prior to the year 1848 ; and the directors propose, if so permitted by Parliament, further to restrict the future board of direction from calling more than 4/.yearly, except with the sanction of their sh are h o ld ers; and they ;Ise contemplate the taking of power to allow interest upon the calls, if the body of shareholders shall deem it advisable. At the same time, although it is deemed prudent to ask these provisions from Parliament, such is the confidence of the directors in the soundness and remunerative character of their under : taking, that they do not anticipate the occur reece of any necessity for their practical appli cation. The shareholders were aware, that powers were sought in the Company's Bill for the Midlands Company to subscribe 400,000/. to this undertaking. The Bill was approved at a special meeting of Midland proprietors, on Saturday last. The directors had only to add, that the committee appointed to investigate the merits of the group of lines, of which this was the principal, would meet in the week commencing with the 25th, and that it would be a source of added strength to them in passing that ordeal, if the meeting should be pleased to express unequivocally its continued confidence in, and its determination (unanimous, as the directors hoped) to prosecute the undertaking." The CHAIRMAN said, as the advertisement so fully spreified the object for which the meeting had been called, he should not then offer any remarks, but should call on his friend Mr. Walkinshaw.to enter into detail with respect to the railway. JAMES WALKINGSHAW, Esq., of Old Park, Isle of Wight, deputy chairman of the Core' • pany, then proceeded to address the meet in,s. Ile said, after referring to the object for which the meeting had been called, that it gavehim great gratificath n to state, as he was sure it would to every one present, that the question had been actually settled, because the immense number cf 44,000 shares had been registered in favour of proceeding n ith the line e end that there were only twenty shares dissen tient.—(Cheers.) This was the more gratifying, be cause by their Bill they were only required to produce 26,000 shares, the assent of 15,000 of which would have been sufficient to have empowered their proceeding with the Bill. But, as he had stated, they bad on their books 44,000 assents, independent of others, who were in favour of procseding with the line, but who had not yet handed in their re turns. Such a result was almost unparalleled le the meetings which had taken place, and were daily taking place, in consequenee of the or ders of Parliament.—(Cheers.) Besides, out of the thirteen or fourteen projects started in opposition to their line, not one had survived to be brought against them in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He was happy to stat e that the last of these projects, the Oxford, Southampton , and Gosport, or Mr, Bethel's line, received its quiettll last night, by being thrown out of the Standing Orders., Committee, ninety-five s er i ous an d a bl y-susta i n ed allegations having been proved. He then re ferred to the mode in which they had allotted their shares, through the hands of parties re" siding in the districts through which the line wa s pro posed to traverse, and which he was happy to state had met with the greatest success; ns, on examining the re turns, they found that the applications made for shares were considerably in excess of the number which could be a l lotted.—(Hear.) Young railwa,s were, perhaps. too sanguine with respect to their traffic, but they would pardon him if he merely stated the fact, that the local traffic of the line, as exhibited in the - returns, showed its capability o f returning 5 per cent, on the whole outlay, and independent of that traffic from the north, which the line bias principally projected to accommodate. (Cheers.) He then read extracts from official returns , which set forth that Southampton was ono of the most important ports in the world, and that it was yearly in creasing in prosperity - , as in 1815 the exports amounted to 2,750,000, being one-sixteenth of the whole ex ports of the United Kingdom— (Cheers)—and if the railway were made it couln not fail to be the point from which three- fourths of those leaving England would embark. In addition to the traffic formerly mentioned, they would carry sand from the Isle of Wight to E'irminghams where it would be manufactured into glass, but it had now to go by a very circuitous route by the South' Western and the London and Birmingham before it reaclird its destination. After referring to the no; lelomen wh o were i n favour of the line, some o f whose property it would intersect for several miles, Earl Bathurst, Earl Bruce, Lord Palmerston, the Chair man, and others, and having read letters from Earl Bruce. Lord Ernest Bruce, and Edward Tootal, Esq., expressing their inability to attend, but expressit g themselves highly of the undertaking and of its certainty of succ• ss, he proceeded to enumerate the towns u hich it would accommodate, the inhabitants of which had sent representatives to the meeting, to give in their as sent to the line ; then they had two of the most eminent engineers, George Stephenson and Mr. Bidder, ssh° asserted that the line could be constructed at less than 18,000/. a mile. Ile concluded by saying that it could cot fail to obtain the sanction of Parliament, as it would accommodate districts new without direct com munication to the manufacturing districts, and was not The adop linete d w! was t h not t he view d o o f opposing dt( ) formaany t n e o s t i t o a n b I sh it e h d lines Swin don on the Great Western, but with a town of the same name in Gloucestershire, on the Bristol and Gloucester Red way. There could not be a doubt that the line would receive the sanction of the Legislature, as many lion. :Members and Noble Lord.) were in favour of it and, besides, the Government entertained a favourable opinion with resin ct to it. The Earl of WILTON thCn proposed a resolution e' powering the directors to proceed with the (Cheers.) Arner the able and lucid statement of nir. Walkinshaw, it would not be right for him to detain them with any observations of his own. He assured them that he should feel most happy to co-operate with the directors in promoting the success of the project, which he considered would confer great benefits on the' country which it would traverse.—(Cheers.) The MANOR of SOUTHAMPTON seconded the motion, and in doing so, stated that he represented there p i e t redf couldro from o f e a u i l ! l i a r hold d mousers russ in to f t a t u n r u m o e t r h e o p f r t, i oo e c o t or t t 0 0 6 t O w o n o s , c h n o a w n e d r e se U r r 3 (h e l l e r ar by ) a I c f i r S e o u l i t t t o h a a s m c p o t n oa a h a a i d e a t p i o r o n s . be enhanced by a direct communication with th e manu facturing parties of the north of England. Lord )UNCANNON then proposed that the chairman, deputy-chairman, and officers of th e ra i lway be era the Bill, and i n d o i ng s o powered to fix their seal to highly eulogised the project. WADDINGTON, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Counties, second e d t h e motion. R. ETWALL, Esq., M.P., said he uttered the sen timents of the inhabitants of Andover, whom he had the honour to represent, and who were unanimously in favour of the railway, as they considered that it would confer great advantages upon them. He concluded by stating' that in the whole course of his experience he had never met with a body of men more competent to be entrusted with the management of a great company than the Chairman and directors, and, in short, the whole of the officers of the Company.—(Cheers.) The resolutions were tnen put to the meeting, to carried unanimously. Great applause foll.rwed the an" nonecemeet of the fact. J. WESTHEAD, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, also highly eulogised the business-like management of the Chairman and direr_ tors, and conc l u d e d b y propos i ng t h at the thanks o f Ow meeting he given to them for their services. W. M. TWITT, E sq ., o f Ch e l ten h am, secon d e d tbe motion, which was carried unanimously. • F. GISBORNE, E sq ., &LP., returned thanks in * htl " morons speech. Mr. JACKS ON , of Bi r k e nh ea d, p r op ose d t h a t the I e- cial thank s o f th e mee ti ng s h ou ld b e g i ven to Mr. .VVe t. _ l _ as inshaw, the deputy ch a i rman o f th e C ompany , w hieh w seconded by Mr. GEORGE, and carried. Mr. WALKINSHAW b r i e fly ex p resse d hi s acknowledg ments. A vote of thanks was then passel to the Chairraavo who returned thanks, and the meeting, the moet nunie" rous one we ever attended, broke up. xrels MALDON. MAY 2.-11'ItECKED GCODS.—Three ba' and a kilderkin. of porter, with an empty barrel and ki!der kin, and a windlass and anchor, which were clandestinely landed and concealed at the basin, by some Colchester fisher men, have this day (Saturday) been recovered and secured by the Comptroller of Customs. It is presumed they earn° from a vessel belonging to Southwold, lately wrecked on the Bueksea, a portion of whose cargo, consisting of a hogshead of brandy and some casks of porter, h:,s been taken into Burnham, and delivered to the officer of customs. Five of the casks landed here are branded Freeman, and the other Reid and Co. ; London.--Chelmsford Chronicle. %P IN 23yi 7 % p Sir % 2% 223 81 1 , 134 p 2 , 4 15G 33N 12, 4Mg 20A PA 611 4 14 2 4 ki 10% LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL, yr EMOLUS OF A FEMME DE CHAMBRE, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols. post Bvo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.