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TE IL .'lr. HUME called attention to B the LS. number of private Bills before the with the view of having model Bills for the several classes. As an instance of this ne would adduce the class of Bills for water-works. of which there were more this year than ever there were before. With respect to tl•ern, lie would require that no Bill for water-works should be brought before the House till a public inspector had investigated the case, and reported that it was one of pulilic cessity. This would be a much preferable mode of proceeding to that usually practised, of examining evidence by a Committee of that House, which was generally given by parties interested in the case. The public interests were not considered at all. This was the case with a great many private Bills, and the charge which he was desirous to effect was one by which the public interests would be always kept in view. There was no reason why one Bill should not be passed, by which any community could carry out their intentions in these respects without being obliged to come before Parliament.— ( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Northampton had brought in a Bill in the year I 533, founded on the same princi ples. It was one to enable large communities, who should agree that their town ought to be lighted, to do so without coming before Parliament. If such a measure was brought in. it would be of vast importance and would do credit to the G ivernment. Those were the objects he had in view, and he might have en larged upon them, had it not been for the length of time al ready taken up. He should be glad to hear the opinion of one of her Majesty's Ministers, and to know whether they were prepared to consider the question. He would conclude by moving that a Select Committee be appointed to consider the subject. Sir J. GRA lIAINIsaid that he agreed with the I-lon. Mem ber for Montrose that a great public interest was involved in this question. Last year the Legislature adopted a principle with reference to enclosure Bills, which was found to be very advantageou s . It p as sed a general nil: giving great facilities to local enclovires, and reserving to the Government the right of deciding on the more important ones. S o far from differing from the motion which the Hon. Member was disposed to make after Easter, he entirely concurred in it. The Hon. Member for Devon had called his attention to a measure for promoting the health of large towns, supply i ng them with water, and cleansing their drains. The effect of that measure w a s to sti mulate speculation, and to cause great numbers of Bills to be brought forward in this session to include numbers of large springs under a general Act, anti it would be necessary to take steps to these Bills. He was induced, on the part of the Go vernment, to propose that the power of companies over such springs should be contingent on some general measure, for he certainly thought that the attention of Parliament should be directed to the subject, and he should, therefore, be happy to give the Hon. Member his hearty support in the course which he proposed to take. Lord EBRINGTON said that he was very much rejoiced to find that this subject was brought under the notice of Par liament, and he did hope that the course taken by Government would be a decisive one. The Legislature had, all along laboured under an erroneous principle with respect to the application of free trade to matters of commerce, and not to these monopolies, The public, in his opinion, could not be protected against these monopolies without some stringent re gulations were applied to each company, both with regard to the price and the supply of the gas or water, or whatever it might be. Mr. GREENE suggested that the same system that the House adoped last year in respect to railways should be ap plied to all description of police improvement and water works Bills. Last year they passed a lands' clauses consolida tion and a railway clauses consolidation Bill, and they could apply similar measures to other descriptions of private Bills. The motion was then agreed to, but the nomination of the Committee was deferred till after Easter. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that he would move for the production of certain correspondence that had paged be tween Lord Stanley, when he was Colocial Secretary, and the Government of New South Wales. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL gave notice that he would move for the production of minutes of proceedings that had taken place before the poor-law gardians of the Mullingar Union. Mr. CHRISTIE gave notice that he would move for cer tain returns relative to cemeteries. Dr. BOWRIWG gave notice that he would call the atten tion of the House to certain passages in the report made by the Tidal Harbours' Commission relative to the Isle of Man. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that he would call the attention of the Houso on that day fortnight to the administra tion of affairs at the Post-office. Mr. M. MILN ES mov e d f or a co py of the abstracts of the diocesan returns made to her Majesty in Council, for the year 164 , 1, by the Archbishops and Bishops of England and Wales; showing the number of resident and non-resident incumbents; the net value of the benefices on which the incumbents are non resident ; the number and stipend of citrates to non-resident in cumbents ; the number and stipend of curates assisting resident incumbents.—Agreed to. Sir DE LACY EVANS moved for a return of the number of persons in the united parishes of St. John and St. Margaret, in the city of Westminster, who have claimed to be rated to the relief of the poor, and whose claims have not been complied with ; such return to include the last three years separately, and to show whether the omission of any such claimants was made from the rate for the time being, or the subsequent rate or rates; and also to show the number of such claimants who have been excluded from the lists of voters for Members of Par liament since such claims were made.—Agreed to. Mr. EVELYN DENISON wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it was the intention of the Governmeht to take any steps, in order to restrain the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland from expending the capital sums, derived from the sale of church lands, in defray ing the annual current charges of the Commission. It might be in the recollection of many gentlemen, that he had brought this question under the notice of the House last session. Lands had been sold by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the value of 452,0001.; these, therefore, had been lost to the church, and lost to the state, the guardians, and trustees of that fund. --(Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said he would refer to the correspondence which he had the honour of laying on the table of the House last session, and from it would appear what the opinions of the Government were on the subject. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in reply to the Hon. Gentleman, said that in the course of the present year the expenses had been strictly confined to the interest of the revenue, and not a portion of the capital would have been exp , nded. The sur plus on the present year amounted to 10,0001. Sir CHARLES NAPIER wished to know whether the list which was promulgated some time since for the retirement of 300 officers had yet been filled up ? Mr. CORRY said that the Government had not yet been able to fill up the list. Mr. COCHR ANE said that the affairs of Greece were in a state of bankruptcy. This was corroborated by the Minister of Finance for Greece. Ile (Mr. Cochrane) wished to know whether the interest of the loan was likely to be paid, and when? Sir ROBERT PEEL said he could not entertain very great hopes that the interest of the debt that had been incurred by the Greek Government would yet be paid. He was prepared to lay before the House the statement with respect to the financial affairs of the Greek Government. A demand for the interest of the loan had been made by the Government, which had been refused on the ground of inability to meet the demand. Lord WO itSLEY wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the public general Bill for the inclosure of those waste lands, which the Inclosure Commis sioners for England and Wales have certified, in their annual report, to be expedient, but ohich may not be further pars. ceeded with without the authority of Parliament, will be pre sented to the House? Whether the said Commissioners will be instructed to report specially, at a later period of this session, upon such applications for inclosure as had been received by them since the date of their annual report ; and if so, whether a second public general Bill would then be presented to the House, with a view to avoid delay ? What restrictions, if any, are contemplated to the introduction of private inclosure Bills, with a view to an efficient and inexpensive protection of the interests of those commoners who, by petitions to this House, allege that there are not any circumstances so special in them selves as to render the provisions of the general Inclosure Act inapplicable in whole or in port to ni.suc h in closures 7 H Sir J.if GRAHAM said h e c. h m adinten i de e d to present to th e new eßill, t whi he report inc of the de t Commissioners was inadequate. a chwould lu a satisfactory reply to the question of the Noble Lord. Under the Act of last session, that Commission had been enabled to m ak t e o a t.o see n a d rate report e hi s s p i p i l: c Y ation for i u i pen their and if necessary he should fe o e f l t i b t report of the present year, nc osures to the Bill, a second Bill. With respect to the last question of the Noble Lord, it certainly w l as nttrit_thte intention of the Go vernment to give any genera con ol? the_patronage of any private Bill that might be introduced . Aluc.h facility had been given to each promoter of such a Bill, while at the same time opponents had an opportunity of protecting them hopportunity had been pas se d e selves or their privileges. for a standing order regulating the Inclosure Bills during the present session ; he was, however, decidedly of opinion, during the next session of Parliament, it would be decidedly desir able to introduce a standing order, under the consideration of the House, for the regulation of private Bills. Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from the county of Clare, praying the House to consider the state of that country, and to devise some mode for the apprehension and bringing to justice the persons concerned in the late murders in that county. The petitioners stated that in consequence of the assassnitions th at had taken place in that county, and the neighbouring counties, they were of opinion that it would be very desirable that the Bill for the protection of life should be allowed to pass into a law. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that it would perhaps f befo re Government for the convenience of many Hon. Members present, he we now to state the course which the had propsed to adopt with respect to the adjournment. He did not consider it would be his duty, in the present aspect of public affairs____ and the important business which pressed upon the House, to propose any longer adjournment than was absolutely necessary. It had been usually the practice on House occasions similar to the present for the to adjourn till the Monday week following the day of adjournment. That was the shortest period which it was customary for the House to Alopt. When, however, he considered the amount and importance of public business which remained to be transacted, the loss even of a day was of consi derable importance. He should, therefore, consider it his du' y to propose that the House should adjourn from the Thursday next ensuing until the next Friday ; and in that case he should propose that the House should resume the consideration of the debate on the Irish question. If, however, it should be the wish of the House that the adjournment of the House should take effect to-morrow instead of Thursday, he should make no objections to such proceeding. Several Hon. Members had motions on the rapers for that day, and ifethey made no objec tion to waive their motions, he should recommend that the House do adjourn. He should, therefore, propose that the adjournment should be carried to Friday of the following week, when the consideration of the Irish question would be re sumed. On the following Monday he should be in a position to proceed with the Corn Bill, and the regulation of the tariff. After a few words from Mr. O'Brien, Lord G. Somerville, and Lord G. Bentinck, Mr. DUNCOM BE moved that the second reading of the Lace Factories Bill be postponed from Monday, April 20, to Wednesday, the 22d. LEGAL EDUCATION (I. Mr. WYSE, in bringing f,irward h ß is motion for the ap pointment of a Select Committ ee to inquire into the present state of Legal Education in , I re l an d , and the means for its further improvement and extension, wished to impress the importance of the subject on the consideration of the House. In a former Committee, the question as to the importance and necessity for a law school was considered and admitted ; and subsequently, in the year 1840, the subject was again mooted, and a suggestion was made to the effect that a school for leg al education should be established in Ir e l an d. I n the session of 1543 he laid a petition upon that table, praying for a charter of incorporation for this purpose, and at the same time he made a Motion for a Committee to inquire into the state of legal education in Ireland. Of the importance of this branch of education he would not speak, for who was there who would not admit the great influence of the lawyer upon society, not only at present, but the influence which he might be the means l a t f se p if er o p o et l u d ati ug to future ages. The testimony of history be brought forward to illustrate the great mis fortune of u the defective . state of the system of legal legislation ilreland n former times, It might be true that in England and in t • oo, ' there were men at the bar of the very th tr s 7 4 E alliterary attainments ; but how was it that was 0 the only learned profession in which it test this compulsory to pass through a certain ordeal to 4 41111 of the candidate for that profession. In calling the attention of the House to what was desirable in this re spect in Ireland, he would ask that House to lock at what had been done in the rest of Europe. In all the universities of Spain, Italy, Austria, and other European States, there was attached to each a department for the studies of candidates for the leeal pt - ,fersion, which were secured to non: of the other departments. In France, also, the most extensive provisions had been made, in order to secure to the legal student a most perfect system, by which to enable him to acquire a knowledge of the law. The Right Hon. Gentleman then read long ex tracts from a work he held in his hand, to show the extent to which the Governments of America and other countries have gone, in order to secure to the law. agent a most com prehensive education ; and instanced the number of colleges and institutions in those countries to which - a faculty for law study was attached. He also read extracts from the opinions of Judge Storey, and other learned lawyers, to the effect that it was must desirable and important that every public college should have a law faculty attached to it. He next instanced the opinion of Car dinal Wolsev upon this subject, who complained of the gross ignorance of the lawyers of his day, and in consequence attemi ted the establishment of a Law College, which could still be pointed at as illustrative of the great conceptions of his mind. He then referred to mare recent dates, and called ihe attention of the House to the report of the CoMmittee of the Middle Temple upon the defective state of legal education, some extracts from which he read. He did not mention these circumstances with reference to the motion he was about to submit to the House, as that motion related to Ireland alone, but as a preliminary observation on the motion he was about to submit. He would now turn to the case of Ireland. In the year 1839, an institution was established in Ireland, called the Law Institution, and founded by a gentleman of great public spirit, and well known at the bar of Ireland. The person to whom he referred was Mr. Kennedy, the principal of the insti tution. In 1840, the lords justices of Ireland wished that it should receive an endowment, and the benchers of King's Inn, granted it an income 0f.4001. per annum. That grant was in the year following withdrawn. Very large revenues had been received by the benchers of King's Inn, and he (11r. Wyse) thought that those funds s ho u ld b e a ppli e d to the endowment of law institutes. Such institution would be eminently misfitl in forwarding a systen.atic course of legal education, and would be of very considerable service to the bar and to the country. He felt he had trespassed too much on the time of the House in reference to this matter, but he felt so much that he was sure he should be pardoned for saying a few words more. As schools of theology and medicine had been established in Dublin, why should not a school of law? That would make lawyers con versant with the theory and practice of their profession, and would render them as able jurists as those of other countries. Let them by such a system put men upon the bench who would show by their administration of justice that there was not one law for the rich and another for the poor. Such a system, and such unprejudiced judges, would be of permanent advantage to the country.—( Hear, hear.) On the motion of an Hort, NIEMBEIL, the House was counted, and there not being forty Members present, the House ad journed until Twelve o'clock to-morrow (this da3, ). THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT WHEN TIIE HOUSE WAS COUNTED OUT LAST NIGHT, ON TIIE MO TION OF THE HON. W. E. LAW: — Graham, Sir James Scrope, G. P. Duke, Sir James Peel, Sir Robert Moffatt, George Trelawny, J. S. The Lord Advocate O'Brien, Smith Warburton, Henry Goulburn, Henry O'Brien, Johx Sibtliorp, Colonel Sandon, Viscount Kelly, James Powell, Caleb Hume, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mr. Borthwick, P. Douglas, Sir C. Somerville, Sir W. M` Donnell, J. M. Bentinck, Lord G. Cobden, It. O'Brien, T. Rawdon, Colonel Maher, Mr. Clayton, R. R. Thornely, Thomas ROYAL ARTILLERY. Deputy Adjutant-General's•oflice, Woolwich, April 4, 1846. GENERAL ORDER. Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., and G.C.H., having resigned the command at Woolwich, the Master- General has appointed Major-General Sir Thomas Downman, C.B. and K.C.H., to succeed his Lordship; the appointment commencing April 1, 1846. (Signed) H. D. ROSS, Deputy Adjutant-General. GARRISON ORDER BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LORD BLOOM FIELD, G.C.B. AND G.C.H. WOOLWICH. APRIL 4, IB46.—The Master-General of the Ordnance has been pleased to accept his Lordship's resigna tion of the command of the garrison, and the Lieutenant- General cannot close his active duties with the corps in which he has had the honour and happiness of serving for sixty-five years, without expressing his grateful thanks to his comrades of all ranks, and to the garrison staff in parti cular, for the unwearied zeal and good feeling with which they have supported him and enabled him to carry on the duties of this important garrison during the eight years lie has had the command of the head-quarters of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Lieutenant-General is also much indebted to the officer commanding the Royal Engineers and the Royal Ma rines, and to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of these corps fir their steady assistance and soldier-like conduct, and he begs to assure them he will ever feel the high opinion of these services that it has so often been his duty to report. ON DRAINING. (From the Glasgow National) The objeA of all arts is the imitation of nature. To ex ceed, or even reach in every case the perfection of the pattern, is impossible, but the more closely it is kept in view, and the more nearly it is attained, the more per. feet the performance will be, and the more exactly will our own ends be aeswered. Any departure from the principles suggested in the examples set before us by nature, through a hasty desire to arrive at the object by a nearer road, defeats the intended purpose. Shallow drainage offers many evidences of this. The gravitating tendency of water is per. pendicular, and the mere it is made to deviate from this course, the weaker the effort of escape becomes, and the slower the motion of the fluid ; consequently a deep drain will fill quicker than a shallow one, provided the supvrstratuns of soil be sufficiently porous to yield a passage to the moisture. But this it will do more and more readily every year, after the drain is once laid, let the clay have been over so obstinate at first. The diffi culty of making drainers believe this occasions such a perpetual conflict between them and their employer, such a perpetual tendency on their part to lay their drains shallower, that unless their employer be very strongly convinced of the truth of the principles he wishes to carry out, the wearing and " experienced" opposition of his " practical" man, backed by the tempting cheapness of a shallower cutting, will prevail. h is important to be oit our guard against this. Every substance capable of ab sorbing water is capable of transmitting it. If, on dig ging up clay, we find it damp, we may be quite sure that if undermined, and pressed upon by moisture from above, the capillary sustension being overborne, it will begin to weep from below, and every drop that fall, wears a wider passage for the next, so that time only would be wanting to increase the porosity, even were it not more rapidly hastened by the cracking produced towards the close of summer, when even capillary at. traction has lost its last supply, and the contraction of bulk occasions separation into parts. However long we may have to wait for the completion of these processes, of this we may be sure, that we have nature on out side from the moment the drain has been effectively laid. The effect may be slow, but the cause is in cer tain and perpetual operation. But. we merely allude here to this physical law, as giving effect to the other hydrostatic principle of perpendicular descent, which would, of course, be inoperative without it. The ten dency of a fluid to descend is of course equally strong in a basin as in a filter, though the one holds it and the other transmits it. Our object is to explain that a clay subsoil, which before acted like the first, is, when under mined by deep drains, likened to the second. The whole principle of deep drainage, in its mere mechanical relation to the soil, depends upon the downward pres sure of water, a power so strong, that it has been put into use, in th e hyd rau li c press f or i nstance, as one , of th e most i rres i st i ble of natural forces ; a small tubs. of m o d erate he i ght, charged with fluid, will, it, virtue of of this pow er , b urst t h e stoutest cas k , if in sertedinto a well-secured aperture ; and se equable and searching i s the pressure of fluid weight, that it has already been applied to the arts, wherever great force, itahpearticulai continuous action, and perfect equability its applica testine rels, • y desired, where the tion, e(el cast-iron against and proving other of gtui purposes,bar security character hay of its weakest parts. generalthestoutness of meterial affords no as carefully and personally ex Now, etnined the anybody w h o fail to have of the very stiffest observed that, like clays, will not their weak ourselves, they have points : here there " sand pot ;" here again a bit • there a vein of iinbeelded gravel, or cleavage filled with • some description ; that, in lighter soil of its g.:neral character, Perfct fact, however obdurate never to be met with, so lo continuity of texture so to call thew, have no vent ungndaesrnteaetT erp y ernents. comparativelyinactive; but once undermine there m a field t by deep drains, and their valuable office begins to show itself. The subsoil , which before held up. the service water like a basin, now begins to transmit it like a filter ; every succeeding summer increases the number of cracks. as the drying clay gives way to the contracting tendency, and surrenders that continuity of texture which depended upon the imprisonment of its moistawe. Where one drop of water descends and escapes , another must follow it, tilt the last be gone, drawing the air after it. Fromto use tht moment the system of regenerati on commences—to protexi the formidable words of the chem ist—the slightly be gins to be converted into the peroxid e ; that is, s oxygenated earth, which repels vegetation, changes gra dually by contact with atmospheric air into the highly • oxygenated earth, which favouie vegetation ; and the roots of plants, which formerly turned up like fish-hooks on coming in contact with the subsoil, now plunge boldly into it, and add, by their eventual decay, to its vegetable character. The student in hydrostatic science is astonished at the surprise with which a writer in the " Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society" tells u. that his four-feet drains drew off water in half the time that his three-feet drains used to do. It woul,l be a marvel to him, contradictory to every known principle in the laws of fluids, if it were other wise. The deeper the drain, the more irresistible the pressure of water towards it, and the more rapid the escape. A simple experiment will illustrate this. Let a gun-barrel be filled Is ith water and held vertically, allowing the fluid to escape at the nipple. The column of water will drive the fluid out with a f tree increasing rapidly with the distance from the point of escape to the mouth of the barrel ; as the force decreases in depth, the force and rapidity of the stream will diminish also ; till at last the fluid, instead of being projected several yards, merely escapes in drops. It is upon the same principle that a deep drain acts with more energy than a shallow one, exemplifying one of the soundest maxims of agricultural science—that if you drain the subsoil, the soil will drain itself. [ADVERTISEME NT ] —A NOBLE DUKE AND HOL LOWAY'S Pitts.—Professor Holloway I:as lately been honoured by the personal thanks of one of the most renowned dukes of the realm, who (lik e the Earl of Ildborough) has been cured of a liver great weakness a n d debt'itY, by th e mean s of Holloway's celebrated awl stomach complaint of some years' standing, attended w i th Pills, and this after plirician's skill was tried in vain. Dropsy, paralysis, as, hina, and di seases of the lung,:, have nearly all their origin in disordered livers and stomachs, wllich a few timely doses of Holloway's !Us will cure. - Sold by all dealers In medicines, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 214, Strand, London. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Co lonial-officer for the GroTeruere of Ceylen and Hong-Kong. MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON, ANI) OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY. A Special General Meeting of this Company was hell esterday at the King's Arms Hotel, Bridge - street , West minster, at four o'clock, G. F. Munta, Esq., M.P., in tilt , chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of dissolving the Company, and returning one half of the deposits to the subscribers. After the advertisement convening the meeting had been read, Mr. Heald, the solicitor, on the requisition of the Chairman, read a report to the meeting, which was very lengthy, but the substance of which appears in the course of the explanations which ensued in the course of the meeting. _ _ _ Before going into the report, it was suggested by Mr. Cradock that the state of the several actions, both at law and is equity, should be laid before the meeting. Several gentlemen complained of not having received the reports. Colonel JOHNSON said that he was little of an ac countant, and knew little further than to understand his half-pay list. He thought it would be unfair to load the Chairman and the members of the Committee with the expenses arising out of the dirty actions brought against them on the part of the Committee. After some altercation, it was decided that the ques tion respecting the several actions should be answered. In this reply it appeared that only six of the Committee had been made parties to Mr. Parsons' suit in equity. These six had put in their answers; but it was the duty (.f the plaintiff to serve all the Committee, and until these services had been made. and the answers put in, the suit could not proceed. 1,0001. had been proffered to the Court of Chancery, to meet Mr. Parsons' claim. With respect to Mr. Doyle's suit, both the oharge and the replies were very lengthy, and the Master had allowed a certain time for the purpose, which would expire about the 21st of the present month. Some further conversation ensued, in which several gentlemen appeared desirous that Mr. Parsons' claim should be settled as a preliminary measure, when The CHAIRMAN explained that the Committee bad refused to settle this claim because in their corporate capacity they would not do that which they would hesitate to do individually. They were quite ready to meet this claim in a fair way, and submit to reference before the Court of Chancery. This, it appeared from that gentleman's conduct, was not what he desired. Mr. Parsons had brought an action against him individually; that he was prepared to defend, out of his own resources, and as the company were not to be responsible, they of course could not interfere. Cer tainly he felt assured that he would rather have given a cheque for 5001. than have had anything to do with the concern. The object of the action commenced by Mr. Parsons, was to recover the loss which Mr. Parsons had sustained upon the 2,000 shares allotted to him, al though the letter of allotment itself had been destroyed by consent. Mr. CRADOCK complained that the Committee had taken such a small interest in the concern: Among others, the Chairman had agreed to take a hundred shares, but had only signed for and paid upon 25. Some of the Committee had proposed for 400, and others of them for 100 each, but these gentlemen had taken a much smaller number. The CHAIRMAN explained that he had paid upon 25 shares and was quite ready to take and pay on the 100 shares, but the fact was that Mr. Parsons had filed a bill in the Court of Chancery to compel him to take up 300 shares. To this he should demur, but he was quite ready to pay on his 100 shares as soon as Mr. Parsons paid upon his. Mr. CRADOCR - Well, then, pass by the Chair man's case and go to that of the other directors, and read a letter requiring the production of the letters of allot ment to the directors. After some conversation the Chairman, who had fre quently expressed his readiness to give the minutes, produced the minute-book, and read a statement of the allotments to the directors, and the payments made by the parties, by which it appeared that the reserves and payments had been made on behalf of six of the directors. By the rest of the provisional committee no application had been made. On the 17th of December it was decided that twenty shares should be the qualifi cation for a directorship, and that a reserve of 300 shares was made for each of the directorships. Much confusion and angry altercation ensued, in which it was alleged that the directors ought to have taken up their 300 shares, but this was met by a declaration on their part that they would take up their shares so soon as the Bill in Chancery was removed. A SHAREHOLDER alleged that he had lost 3s. Id. per share on 200 shares in consequence of the directors not having taken up their shares. Mr. TURNER explained that out of 27,400 shares as many as 23,443 had been allotted to the public, and that the capital had been reduced from 900,0001. to 600,0001., and that the failure of the company was owing to the change of public opinion and net to the deficiency of the provisional committee. Dir. CRADocK wished to know why the amalgamation had not been made ? The CHAIRMAN explained, to the effect that it was Mr. Parsons' own objection which had prevented the allotment of shares in the first instance, and it was only owing to his own determination that any allotment had been made whatever. After the arrangement had been made with Mr. Bethell, it was discovered that his en gineering was so deficient that there was a fall of thir teen feet in one place, and a rise of two feet in another; so that there was no moral possibility of getting through the House. He had himself taken the plans to Mr. Bethell, and had desired him to explain. Then the arrangement with the Andover line was made ; but here there was a deficiency again; and he believed that if the three companies had been amalgamated, this would have been one of the best lines in the kingdom, and that it would yet be so. But it would have been clearly madness to have gone into Parliament under the circumstances, for the probability was, if they had done so, instead of 30,000 to return to the shareholders, they would have had nothing. Mr. CHANCE and Mr. PAYNE, both of them directors, declared that as soon as Mr. Parsons removed the Chancery snit, they would pay on the remaining 75 shares. Mr. POCOCK, in answer to a question, stated that on receiving the letter of allotment, he immediately re turned the letter to the secretary, and distinctly stated that he would take no more than 25 shares. A SUAREELOLDER—Then you are justified ? Mr. PococK—l think so. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether the pay ments by the Committee had been made at the same time Kith those of the other allottees ? Before however this was decided upon, the secretary was requested to read the several letters of the directors, excepting the allotments, by which it appeared that Mr. Chance had agreed to take 400 shares, Mr. Oliviera 400, Colonel Ellington 400, Mr. Payne 400, Mr. Williams 425, and Lord Rossmore 425 shares; but of those only 25 shares had been paid upon. Mr. HEALD explained, that by the reduction of the capital to 600,0001., the shares had been reduced to 28,570 in number. Of these, it appeared that 23,560 had been allotted, and 23,443 had been paid upon, leaving only 5,010, and 10 shares reserved, and dividing these by 17, the number of directors, it left 178 shares for each of the directors, and thus set aside practically the ,riginal allotment of 400 shares. On further inquiries, it appeared that four of the pro visional committee. Mr. Coape, Mr. Fitzgerald, the Hon. R. Gore, and Mr. Spicer, had each accepted 100 shares, but had paid nothing. It was afterwards shown that the time of payment by the allottees had been the 9th of October, and the suit commenced by Mr. Parsons began on the 17th of De cember; but it 'was explained that the money paid by the directors was advanced, not as a payment, but for the purpose of meeting the daily expenses. Mr. CHANCE here stated that he wished he had paid upon the 100 shares, and that he was now ready to do so. Another Director stated the same thing. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether Mr. Tur ner had paid upon his 100 shares, to which that gentle man replied that he had never agreed to take more than twenty-five shares. It was then suggested by Mr. H. BLAKE that, with a view to winding up the concern, a committee of the shareholders should be appointed to investigate the af fair, with power to call for all the documents in the pos session of the officials of the Company. This was the more necessary, as it appeared that the chief difficulty arose from the ill-feeling existing between the late soli tor of the Company and the present officials, and he thought that the business would be better settled in that way, for he believed that if Mr. Parsons bad been paid the whole of his claim lie would have suffered infinitely success.placed more T h ei CHAIRMAN a sb false a l charactersc presentgh stt statedhn before te n . ro b e would gain by any present l a n n g d h s leiethh thought tu that s e that re t b h i e s only c r t e s o s f o reason h fo a r n, r c e e r fu y s -; s t h h a e re p h r e o l b d a e b ra ili e t e y g o h f t hnaevtintem leave been the Coloneldir directors j o s inN JOHNSON h o wt x a ha p e p s r o e s s i s t e i meeting T T les was,expressed the same opinion. Mr. BLAKE still persisted in his suggestion, b and con ceived that he was taking the very whicht course b to relieve motion t the and C b o e m w m on it i t d e , e tb fr e o r m ero t r h e e , onus frametoatcoythwaetreeffleicatb.le, explained that the motion before the that the report be received and adopted. c b being AIRMANn gseconded, Mr. HEALD said that this motion could not be enter tained, for no subject could be mooted which had not been advertised. After some conversation, Mr. HEALD stated that only the original shareholders could be allowed to vote, and a paper was prepared which the assentors and dissentients might sign ; but this the meeting refused, and the adoption was ultimately car ried unanimously. A resolution was then passed to the effect that a guinea per share should be returned to the shareholders on the production of scrip, but considerable difference ensued as to whether a release should on this payment be granted to the directors for all their past acts, and it was ultimately decided that as the fund to be distributed was 30,0001., and the amount to be distributed was only 20.000/., that such a release would be improper, and Mr. Chance thought that on this point, the solicitor would yield. Mr. R. SPOONER, M.P., was quite ready to meet the shareholders, and act as candidly by them as the direc tors had acted. If there was any charge to make against the directors after the money was paid, he trusted that it would be brought forward now.—(Hear.) The business mode of doing the thing was to give a receipt on the payment of the money. Further conversation then ensued respecting stamping the scrip, as had been done in the case of the Rugby, Derby, and Manchester Company, and at last it was settled that a receipt should be given on the payment of the dividend, and that the payment should commence within fourteen days from the present day. Mr. BLAKE desired to press his motion that a Com mittee of shareholders should be formed, but it was decided that the business of the meeting was concluded, and thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meet* THE SUN, LOND9N, WEDN'ESDAT EVENING. APRIL 8, 1846. ing separated ; the several members of it appearinc , re• solved to carry Mr. Blake's intention into effect. ° Cer_ tainly this was th e most stonily affair of the kind it has ever been our lot t o w it ness, and was only brought to a cool conclusion by the tact, coo l nese , and uninterrupted good humour of th e Chairman. TOO MODEST BY nsix. - - - The great fault of Young Ireland is that he is too modest. He wants self-reliance. His dependencies for his dearest vindictive objects are never on his own powers. He does not play the braggart on his own account, he brags of foreigners. He is like a woman who threatens you with what this man or that man will do to you. One time Prince Joinville was to make minced meat of us. Thirty thousand Frenchmen thrown on the Irish coast were to expel the Irish invaders. Now bow ex cessively modest it is in art oppressed nation of eight brave millions to hold thirty thousand foreigners essen tial, indispensable to her liberation ! Next Brother Jonathan was looked to as the avenger, andireland's battle was to be fought in Oregon. Again this is molest to the nial us p u d or, for if any other third of the kingdom really felt that it had a just cause and a battle to light, it would full surely fight its battle nearer home, and fight it with its own hands, and trusting only to its own hands, and trusting only to its own right and might. Hampden and Cromwell did not look to foreigners to champion their cause. The Seikhs have been the last hope of too modest Young Ireland. The Notion sees them sweeping us out of India with 200,000 blazing scyrnitars; but, unfortu• Irately for this cheering and encouraging view, it was hardly published before the arrival of the news of the complete overthrow of the enemy, whose blazing scymi tars are pawned for the expenses of the war— " From the whole facts we arrive at the conclusion that the hopes of the invading army are now very low, and are wearing lower every day—that Sir 11. Hardinge and Sir C. Napier will probably never meet—and that if the people of Lahore and the' protected' states on the Hindoo side of the river make good use of their time, and have ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis, the game is in their Lauds—that the whole Moslem population of Northern India, who are only waiting for the first reverse that befals the British arms to raise the cry of Deen ! Deen !—the Faith ! the Faith l'—and fall upon their oppressors with all the fury of vengeance hoarded well for thirty years, will clear the way to Bengal with 200,000 blazing scymitars ; that ere twelve months shall have gone round, not the Sutlej only, but the Jumna, and possibly the very Ganges shall be no longer overshadowed by the robber standard of the tyrants of Southern Asia; and that the blood-stained Company—the plagues of the East—the plun derers of Hyderabad—the scourge of the Carnatic—and the poisoners of China, may begin to set their house in order at Calcutta. Allah Bismallah I God is great—Amen and Amen." How really poor in spirit is all this vicarious ven geance. It was a song of a certain Jacobin worthy, that He fled full soon On the Ist of June But he bade the rest keep fighting. Young Ireland bids the rest keep fighting, not having fled, indeed, for he has not taken the field. He is mar vellously- strong, nothing can resist him, and yet he un accounntably submits to what he represents as the most intolerable tyranny, and contents himself with calling on foreigners to go to war for him, or on Indians to revolt, "if they have the ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis." Young Ireland is quite right in not playing the rebel, but Young Ireland should not talk the rebel which it does not play. The dialogue without the action has the most abasing effect. It is too obtrusively " making the dare not' wait upon would,' like the poor cat in the adage." Ireland has many grievances, but none worth blood shed ; she has many claims, but none to be advanced by bloodshed, or the diabolical desire for it without daring to share in the peril. The redress of Old Ireland's wrongs will come in due course if the males pudor of Young Ireland do not unfortunately excite feelings calculated to retard it. Young Ireland only wants a little manly pride. He must not be always exaggerating and enlarging on his sores. He must not make out his case worse than it is, so as to make its recreancy to bear it while he is bragging of his potency. He must not count, too, upon the alms of foreign valour for his deliverance. There is no case, no occasion whatever for valour, foreign or indigenous. Nothing is wanted and wanting but a little good sense and right spirit. You have nothing to do with blazing scymitara— no, nor with blazing shilelaghs either, things much apter for combustion and broil. Let there be an end of the foreign look-out for mischief to England, and let your hopes live on your own means, int on the loup-de-mer Joinville one day, and a lion of Lahore another who turns cut to be pared of his claws by the pct advices. As the homely old proverb says, " Let every herring hang by its own head, every tub stands on its own botton," and let Young Ireland pluck up a little of the honest pride of independence—independence of foreign aid and self-reliance on righteous means righteously di ected.—Examiner. IRISH PRODUCE. It will be seen from the subjoined list of provisions which have arrived from Ireland at the ports of London, Liverpool, and Bristol during the past week, and since our last notice on the subject, that the im portations from that quarter continue of an extensive and important character. On the 25th the arrivals in the river Thames from the Irish ports consisted of 364 quarters of oats, 808 hampers of bacon, 231 packages of butter, 604 of lard, 40 of hams, 646 of pork, a quantity of tongues, and various other articles. On the following day the importations comprised 32 packages of hams, 344 pack siges of bacon, 220 of malt, 124 of butter, 87 of eggs, 129 of lard, 27 of provisions of different kinds, 20 of pork, 37 of middles, 62 of rumps, 55 packages of porter, 40 of whisky, and various other produce, including linen, rags, paper, and other merchandise. On the same day 5,724 quarters of oats -were imported into Runcorn front the port of Ballina. On the next. day, 1,550 barrel s an d 1,340 quarters of oats arrived an the river Thames; and the imports into the port of Bris tol from the sister country at the same period consisted of 40 barrels of pork, 187 fli - kins and 10 kegs of butter, several packages of hams, 282 of lard, 41 sacks of pollard, 180 of bacon, 674 barrels of oats, 55 o f genera l provisions, 34 pack ages of whisky, several packages of flour, hams, and various other articles of minor importance ' the produce of that country. On the 28th ult. 2,202 quarters and 867 barrels of oats were imported into the port of London. The following is the list of articles of consumption imported into the port of Liver pool from the Irish ports during the last week, being from the 20th to the 26th ult. inclusive:-2,853 firkins, 144 half firkins, 502 baskets, and 131 b oxes o f butter ; 93 bags, 70 toes weight, and 2,323 b us h els of w h ea t ; 5,485 sacks and 75 tons weight of flour; 48 tons weight, 130 bags, and 233 barrels of oats ; 20 bags, 150 ot h e r packages, and 75 tons weight of oatmeal ; 532 s ac k s an d 100 q uarters of malt; 15 barrs Is of beef ; 18 bar re l s an d 14 k egs o f general provisions; 64 kegs and 157 barrels of pork ; 49 hhds., 9 tierces, 8 bales, and 4 barrels of hams ; 20 packages of tongues ; 403 barrels of bacon ; 715 boxes and tierces, 59 bales, and 15 other packages of linens and cottons ; 98 puncheons, 13 hhde., and 2 other packages of whisky ; 38 casks, 70 firkins, and 358 kegs of l ar d ; 60 s acks of farina, and other articles of minor importance. Several vessels arrived in the River Thames on Monday, having on board col lectively, 2,003 packages of bacon, 531 of lard, 318 of paper, 622 of butter, 187 of farina flour, 849 packages of eggs, 63 of smelt, 657 sacks of oats, 41 packages of hams, 68 of general provisions, 62 of tongues, 695 of pork, 26 of mid dles, 20 of shoulders, 81 packages of merchandise, 72 of linen, in addition to numerous packages of porter, whisky, skins, leather, hides, feathers, yarn, and indeed every other description of food and merchandise of Irish production, of too numerous a nature to be further particularised. Finally, the arrivals at this port from Ireland on Tuesday, the 31st ult., comprised 149 barrels and 20 tierces of pork, 34 pack ages of lard, 465 packages of bacon, 446 firkins and 14 kegs of butter, 28 packages of general provisions, 479 packages of eggs, 40 hhds said 118 kilderkins of porter, 135 pigs loose, and 9 crates of the same description of animals, besides numerous packages of linens, whisky, .and other articles. It will be seen that there is evidently no falling off in the variety or extent of the different description of provisions furnished to us by the sister island, notwithstanding the distress and want of such articles which exist .5n many parts of the country where importations with are produced. We do not mention these with any view of a political nature at the present time, when the Legislature have the country to which they refer under their especial deliberation, and when the attention of the people of this country is so particularly and forcibly drawn to the distress existing among the numerous poor of that fruitful island, but simply to give a correct and authentic list of them, as affording a subject of peculiar interest and im portance at this period, fll order to show that there is no lack of capacity in the soil of the place to produce food, as the extensive exports from all parts of Ireland to this coun try most abundantly prove, leaving the further consideration of to whom the subject is of tparamounthematt i e u r ta f r o a r at oatuhder.ini)spa parties, e._ _ —....--n----__ - s m ___The Revenue authorities having had under their consi committee of licensed Lightermen, at the port n n c a ii m m e l s offi of ce th r retary to the stating the difficulties experienced by them in 'cleration a representation from the sec- LIGIITEIIISI . EN, of London, 3 ni:with that portion of the orders issued by those complying with dared June, 1841, and November last, which authorised to act for them, and also the re quire them to endorse on their licenses the names of the ser vantsee servants in the , with respect to the same, suggesting that under the circumstances referred recommendationresp e th p e ri Pero n f t' the certificate, should record licenses of lightermen may be in future dispensed with, and that certain specified forms be used, the folmser showing the manner in which the searchers, or officers on the part of the to, veirespectively of t h o e f i r or second approved form, by the lightermen's servants, at the n Crown, th e appointed p p ii g b i to l o superintend d 0 t n h t e n s t h i i i time of the delivery of the goods into their custody; ' it has been resolved that the proposition of the officers alluded to is approved, and orders have been issued to the several de partments for the officers to govern themselves i accordingly. The following is the form of certlif the matter thority to be produced by the lightermaif.s i 'elite or au to : I hereby authorise and appoint (merttiosneFrant alluded of the party) to receive bounty drawb ack, a in g d the name goods, duly cleared for exportation, as shies' warehouse sign the usual receipts for such goods, whe n received or into , lighter, on shipping bills for me , m as lighteran, licensed the b the Commissioners of her M a j est y' s Customs. signed on be half of the Committee of Licensed Li ghtennen, &c. Th e s ignature of the secretary to the Committee is to be affixed to this certificate, with the date of the same. This new re• gulation is of considerable importance to the. numerous parties trading as licensed lightermen, and connected with the ship ping trade of the port of Liaised. and will effect the remoia of the inconveniences comp of.—Naiitical Standard. We paid a visit to the Adelaide Gall Pry on Monde evening, to witness the performance of th e B ell Harnionistyq, and we really ba d no idea that such be autiful harmony co u ld be produced on han d bells. _ Most of our readers will re member a set of ringe rs w h o played at the Ad e l ph i Theatre, so me three years bac k, while under an engagement with Mr. Anderson , the Wizard of the North -, but th ose part i es on ly performed with one bell in each h. - and, whereas the party at the Gallery above mentioned have four b e ll s eac h , or two in each han d, and by following the diff erent notes in delightful succession produce the most hart nony. It is very evident they have had a vast deal of pra c ti ce. We under stand they are only engaged for a fortnight, as they have to appear in a few days on the continent. - where we have no doubt they will be well received by our musical neighbours. ECLIPSE.—There will be an anntelar eclipse of the sun on Saturdny, the 25th instant, partially visl ble at (Greenwich. It will commence at 511. 22m. afternOoll; ralehlja N . 611. 14m. afternoon; and sad 6h. 4 P I , attOnloco. LAW INTELLIGEN CE. FRIVY COUNCIL, April 7. The Judicial Committee .;at to-day in the Council Cham ber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord Presi d.,nt, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham, the Master of the Rolls. the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chau cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF THE INHABITANTS OF CAPE BRETON. Mr. Buss resumed and concluded his reply on behalf of the petitioners in this case. Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the arguments, stated that they should report to her Majesty their opiniom en the case. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. 'WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 6. Caleb Emery, who was convicted on Saturday of mali ciously wounding John Townsend West, was this morning sentenced to 15 years' transportation. Thomas hull was indicted for ravishing Sarah Corner, on the 31st ofJanuary ; and James Bull and James Emery were charged with aiding and abating Thomas Bull. Mr. Fitzherhert was counsel for the prosecution ; and Hr. Cole, who held Mr. Stone's brief, defended the prisoner. Sarah Corner stated, that on the evening of the 31st of January she was at a public-house with John Wells, who had been keeping company with her. The prisoners were also in the public-house. They left about 10 o'clock, and, as it rained, they stood for shelter under a doorway. The prisoners and four other men were standing near ; it was in a village. After it had ceased raining she took John Well's arm, and proceeded on their way home. When they had got about a quarter of a mils beyond the h ouses , the seven men who had been following them came up, and Thomas Bull then laid hold of her ; and the other men assisted in drag. ging her away ; and then all seven of them effected their pur pose, one of them holding a knife to her. She then went home ; but her family having gone to bed, she went into an outhouse, and there remained till the following night, till she s e h o e l d p, . ,as S a h s e ha d m id ee n . o t come out ‘Ne l c; s f tt w rh a iee s do nearly uttoilioieulspe s htbacerrf::,erbdeubw:eticthaheutshee, parties w John ere too many for him, and he stood by and saw the whole transaction. i Thelurlfound the prisoners Guilty. Mr. Baron ItoLrE, in passing sentence, observed that this was such a case that almost made one doubt the policy of the law in abolishing capital punishment for such an offence. They would all be transported for their lives. Sarah Hughes was indicted for administering poison to her infant child, with intent to murder it. • Mr. Phinn was counsel for the prosecution. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, a young woman only 18 years of age, was an inmate of the Shepton \fallett Union Workhouse, and was delivered of an illegiti mate child. Another woman was also in the union, and she had a bottle containing blue vitriol, which she kept in a cup board in the ward. She had shown it to the prisoner, and told her it was poison. On the 3d of November, the child being then a month old, the prisoner had an interview with the board of guardians, but what took place did not appear. On her return from the board-room she was seen to give something to the child from a bottle. The child then be came very ill, which led to an inquiry, and the bottle con taining the poison was found under the pillow in her bed. In a conversation that took place between the prisoner and another woman, the prisoner said if the baby had died, her friends could not blame her for it, because they had frowned on her. When before the magistrates, the prisoner said she was very sorry for what she had done; and if the child lived, she would take care of it, and never do it again. _ _ The prisoner was found Guilty, but the jury recommended her to mercy. The guardians also joined in that recommendation, as the prisoner had always borne a good character. Mr. Baron RoLFE said, he had no discretion, but he would forward the recommendations to the proper quarter. Judgment of death recorded. Benjamin Leslie was indicted for setting fire to a barn, the property of the Rev. John Stuart Ilippisley Horner, but in the occupation of Richard Singer. Mr. Hodges and ➢lr. Fitzheibert were counsel for the pro secution, and Mr. Prideaux for the prisoner. The facts of this case were these Rev. Mr. Horner is the proprietor of considerable property at 'Wells, in this county. On the 2d of March, 1845, a barn and other out buildings were destroyed by fire, and some ricks were burnt about three weeks before this. Although it was considered that these fires were the act of an incendiary, still no one was suspected, but it appeared that on the night of the 25th of February, before the second fire, the prisoner and a cousin of his, of the name of James Smith, were walking into Wells together, when the prisoner said he was going to sleep at a lime-kiln, as he had done for three or four nights, because he had been turned out of his house. He blamed Mr. Horner and a policeman of the name of Biggs for it, and he said he would be -if he would not have his re venge before he was many days older ; there would be a - good flare-up in the village before he was many days older, a - sight bigger than that at Twaddle-alley (the place where the first fire had happened). A sum of money had been deposited with Biggs, the policeman, to divide be. tween those parties who had assisted in putting out the first lire, and about three weeks before the second fire the pri soner called upon Bigga and asked for some of the money. He was told his name was not in the list, upon vlid' he said there would be another good flare-up in the parish before long, and he would not help to put it out. Biggs was at the second fire, and he saw the prisoner and another man together in a field, about thirty bards from the barn, laughing, and, as he considered, ‘i glorying" in the fire. The parties to whom these observations were made did not, however, say anything on the subject until after the prisoner was taken into custody •, but on the 14th of June the prisoner and a man named Tudgay were together at a public-house, when the prisoner said to him that he had been to Frome with Adam Ruddcck on the day of the fire ; that they had made a lot of tinder and matches ; that they well daubed the matches with brim stone, and rolled the tinder round the matches, and then rolled them all up in rags 4 that they came from norm to Mr. Singer's barn, and then set fire to the tinder, and threw it into one of the lights of the barn in amongst some straw ; that he had afterwards gone home to his lodgings to bed. The prisoner was taken into custody on the Ist of September, and he then said it was true he had told Tudgay the tale which he had told before the magistrates; but Tudgay had told him tales that were quite as bad, and that they used to get together and see which could tell the biggest lies. On the part of the prisoner, Adam Ruddock was called, and he swore that he had not had anything to do with the fire, and that what the prisoner had said was false. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, transporta tion for life. Henry Yerbury was indicted for shooting at James Biggs with intent to murder him on the 12th of December ; and John Watts, Charles Halton, Thomas Oiling, George Young, James ~41iddleton, Job Whit and John Rabbits, were indicted with being present aiding and abetting Henry Yerbury. Mr. Hodges and Mr. Fitzherbert were com/sel for the pro secution, and Mr. Phinn defended all the prisoners, but Yer bury, Middleton, and Rabbits. It would seem that although large property at Wells be longs to the Rev. Mr. Horner, yet that he does not preserve the game; that, however, is done by his uncle, Sir John Hippisley, who in the season visits his nephew and sports over his property. On the night of the 12th of December, about twelve o'clock, the keepers were out near a wood called Melcombe-wood, when they heard fifteen reports of guns. They obtained further assistance, and on going into a field they saw fourteen men. Four of them had guns, and the rest were armed with stinks. The keepers followed them across three or four fields, and then came up with them. They then said to them that it was a shame to shoot pheasants in that manner. One of the poachers said, " Stand," and they all fell into rank and pointed their guns at the keepers, and said if they came nearer they would shoot them. They said they had had somebirds, and theywould have more. The poachers then went on, followed by the keepers, and constantly saying that if they did not keep back they would blow their brains out. At length one of them turned round, levelled his gun at Biggs, who was one of the keepers, and fired. Biggs instantly fell. Several shots had entered his head, and the cap he wore was nearly blown to atoms. Biggs was picked up and taken to Frame, and attended by a surgeon, and he recovered. The prisoners were all persons living in From. It was a fine moonlight night. Several of the keepers swore to the fact of the prisoners being the parties who were out that night, and they were most of them ap prehended before daylight that morning. Two of the keepers' party swore that Yerbury was the man who fired the gun. On behalf of Yerbury his mother was called, who swore that en that night her son went to bed about eight o'clock, when she dressed his foot, which had been injured. Ile did not go out that night. A man of the name of French lodged with her; he did not sleep with her that night (her husband had been transported twenty years ago). French was then called, and he stated that Yerbury was at home all that night ; but he contradicted Mrs. Yerbury, by stating that he bad slept with her on that occasion. The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.—Sentence de ferred. TUESDAY lionmiNG.—All the prisoners convicted of shoot ing at Biggs last night were this morning put to the bar, and were arraigned on an indictment charging them with being out at night, armed in pursuit of game. All the prisoners, with the exception of Yerbury, pleaded "Guilty" to this indictmeut, and, with the exception of Mid dleton, were sentenced to be transported fur seven years. Middleton, on account of his youth, was sentenced to one Year's imprisonment. Yerbury pleaded " Not guilty ;" no - evidence was offered against him, and judgment, on the charge of which he had been convicted, was respited on the I; w c i , e u t n h d, er w o e i e u t n w d o e r s n t l a e n n d h o o f t h e ewroer swore e i t ng ol g , e r r e b a u t r r y e a a s r o e n n t: d t m o n i b s . t taken as to the identity. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 6. Mr. Justice Patteson took his seat at nine o'clock, and re sumed the hearing of civil causes. One or two unimportant cases having been decided, the Court was occupied with the following case of BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE—MARR LAND V. SINGLETON. The plaintiff in this case was Miss Sarah Markland, and the defendant George Singleton. The declaration stated that the defendant promised plaintiff to marry, and afterwards broke that promise. The defendant pleaded that he did not make any promise. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, and Mr. Seger conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton appeared for the defendant. Mr. WILKINS opened the case, He stated he was there to ask the jury to give compensation in form of damages for what was generally considered one of the most serious injuries that could be inflicted by one person on another—it was an action for breach of promise of marriage. Under ordinary dream stances he thought they would be of opinion that it was no slight grievance inflicted on the suffering party; but when they had heard all the facts he should lay before them, the fullest amount of damages would hardly compensate the young person for the injury she had sustained. The father of the plaintiff, till within eight or nine years ago, carried on the business at Burnley. At that period he, having saved a little money, came over to Fishwick,near Preston, where he took the Hunt Arms. Shortly afterwards the defendant in the action became acquainted with the plaintiff, and paid her considerable attention. The family were anxious to know his intentions, and after seine time the mother ques tioned him, and he stated that he intended to marry the plaintiff, and he also went to look after a public-house, in which he said they would begin business after being united. The defendant, however, did not make good his promise ; and the mother becoming distressed about her child, and desirous of breaking off the intimacy which had sprung up between the defendant and the plaintiff, sent her from home to an aunt's, at a place called Standish. In about twelve months she returned, the mother feeling satisfied the inti macy was at an end. The defendant, however, on finding that she had returned, repeated his visits. Shortly afterwards the plaintiff was sent away to an aunt who resided in the neighbourhood, at a place called Salmesbury, to assist in the public-house during the busy time ; and on the de fendant learning where she had gone, he drove over in a gig to see her, and they returned together. On their way home the gig was upset, and at that time, no doubt, the defendant contrived to effect the destruction of the young woman; for, in a short time afterwards, she became pregnant, leaving no doubt of the vile conduct he had been guilty of. The mother remonstrated with him, and reminded him of the promise of marriage he had made, but the defendant did not appear desirous of coming to any arrangement, and the plaintiff was then sent to ve Li rpool where she had remained ever Pince. What he had stated as regarded the promise of marriage would be fully made out, leaving no doubt as to the damage inflicted by the defendant on the plaintiff. The defendant afterwards went to reside with a person at Wal-- toa-le-Dale, and at his death married the widow, a person about GO years of age; this he had done from the most sel fish of motives, as the female alluded to had becomo pos sessed of some property on the death Of her husband, which had no doubt operated as an inducement to the marriage. He concluded by observing that, under all the,circumstances he considered his client would be entitled to aihple damages at the hands of the jury. The following witnesses were then called:— Jane Markland, the mother of the plaintiff, stated that she had kept the Hunt Arms, Walton-le-Dale. The plain tiff; her - daughter, was generally employed to a tt en d in the bar. Defendant often came and sat at the house, and paid attention to her daughter, and in consequence of that she spoke to him frequently on the subject, and he stated it to be his intention to marry her, and would not deceive them. The marriage was on one occasion fixed for the following Christmas, but defendant put it off. It was again fixed fir the following March, and defendant bought some china and other articles preparatory to its taking place. He again, however, broke his promises. In consequence of his conduct witness sent litr daughter away to a re • lation at Standish, where she remained about twelve months. Defendant. did not, during her absence, come to the house so often. On her return home defendant re peated hie acquaintance, and plaintiff was then sent to an aunt at Salmesbury, to assist her in a public-house. Shortly after that he took a gig, and went over to see her. They were both returning home in the gig. when it was upset on the road. Soon after that her daughter became pregnant, and on defendant being spoken to on the subject, he re peated his promise to marry her, adding -that he was glad it had happened. Plaintiff continued at home long after the child was born, perhaps about two years, and defendant still continued to make promises and was received in the family as her intended husband. On one occasion preparations were made for taking a public-house, calltd the • Hoop and Crown, at Preston, as he said he had some money, but did not say how much. As the defendant did not seem likely to perform his promise witness sent her daughter to Liverpool; that was about three years ago, and she had remained there ever since. Plaintiff was at home last Easter, and defendant said then he would be married, as there was a situation he could obtain; but he, as he had previously done, did not perform his promise, and shortly afterwards he got married to a widow, named Jefferson, at whose house he had lodged. The widow's husband died about nine months ago, and was a man pretty well off in the world. The marriage took place about six weeks after Mr. Jefferson's death ; Mrs. Jefferson was an old lady, nearly sixty years of Age, and defendant was thirty-two. . • __ _ Cross-examined by Mr. ATHERTON—My daughter is 26. When we carried on business at Fishwick, and defendant used to come and take his beer with other young fellows. ➢iy daughter is at present acting as bar maid with Mrs. Fowles, in Marybone ; she keeps a spirit vault. The defendant is a journeyman miller, working fur Mr. Kent, at Walton, and he used to say be got 225. per week. He lately got the situation formerly held by the widow's husband at the same mill, and would get 2os. per week. Catherine Markland, the plaintiff's sister, deposed that she had frequently heard the defendant make promises of mar riage to her—that was about eight years ago. Crossexamined by Mr. ATHERTON—The defendant had stayed at her house as late as twelve o'clock at night on various occasions, and frequently insisted to take plaintiff away, but she refused. Elizabeth Lees said she knew the plaintiff and defendant very well. Recollected the plaintiff being confined, and Singleton coming after the child was born, and saying he would marry her as soon as she got up. He used to bring things for the baby, and talk as if he was engaged to plaintiff. By Mr. ATHERTON-It was not a very fine baby. Mr. . ATIIF RTON addressed the jury for the defendant, ob serving that his only object was to bring down the damages, and he would not give them a long speech. The promise had been proved, and the usual evidence produoed to the effect that the unhappy defendant seemed to have been going about the country saying nothing but that he would marry the plaintiff. They had heard the promise to marry, and had only to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to. She was a barmaid, and defendant was a journeyman miller, able, with sunshine and varying gales, to earn 235. per week, and even able to earn 10s. or 15s. under circumstances not so promising, and it was for them to say how much the young woman should receive on account of losing the de fendant, who bad suffered by falling into the arms of the antique widow. If they gave large damages the defendant would be ruined, and it would be of no advantage to the young woman. He could not conceive it possible that the defendant had obtained any great advantage by his con nexion with the widow, as she was an exception to that class if she had not had her property tightly secured for her own benefit. He concluded by observing that all the jury would have to do would be to afford the plaintiff reasonable com pensation. His LORDSHIP said the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, and it was merely for the jury to say the amount of damages. The jury, after a few moments consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 751. The Court rose at'six o'clock - CIVIL SIDE. _ His Lordship took his seat on the bench at a few minutes after nine o'clock. LIVERPOOL AND BOLTON RAILWAY-ACTION AGAINST A PRO VISIONAL DIRECTOR-MINSIIULL U. SOUTHERN. This was an action brought by a tradesman of Liverpool against a provisional director, for goods sold and delivered; and work done for the railway, to which defendant pleaded he was not liable. Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Cowling fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Baines for the defendant. Mr. WitAuxs stated the case. This was an action brought by Mr. Samuel Minshull, an engraver and printer in Liver pool, against Mr. Southern, for a large quantity of engraving, scrip books, plans, sections, and maps, furnished to the directors of the Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway; anethe sum sought was 4011. lls. 11d.. The defendant is a gentleman of considerable wealth and the proprietor of extensive coal mines, and a member of the provisional committee and executive committee of the railway. It would turn out that this gentleman embarked in this speculation with great zeal, as the line was to pass by his coal works, and he anticipated that it would put a great deal of money into his pocket, and was then one of the most active promoters of the railroad; but when the day of adversity came lie sought to avoid the consequences, and disputed claims as undeniable as any case laid before a Jury. The first prospectus of the company was issued on the 13th of September, last year • it was to have 500,0001. capital in 25,000 shares of 201. each : and the deposit was 2/. per share, and the prospectus set forth the shares of the provisional directors. The first meeting was on the 23d of September, sod almost immediately after the defendant became an applicant for 100 shares, which were allotted to him; and he was asked to allow his name to appear as one of the provisional committee. Defendant wrote a letter in reply, stating it would give him great pleasure in promoting the success of the line, and consenting to be on the provisional committee; and when 160 shares each were allotted to the board of directors, defendant received his quota with the rest. He showed an active disposition for pro moting the interests of the line, and waited on the agent of Sir William Massey Stanley, W. Jackson, Esq., and John Laird, Esq., of Birkenhead, directors of the Leeds and Liver pool Railway, to induce them to take up the Liverpool and Bolton, and make it an auxiliary line to theirs. He also went to Mr. Poole, the superintendent of the goods depart ment at the Grand Junction, to induce him to use every means in his power to obtain for the Liverpool and Bolton the support of that company. In December the share mar ket began to decline, and as the winter approached the de fendant's ardour began to freeze in reference to the line. The company eventually bad to wind up their affairs, and the defendant was a defaulter, having never paid anything on his shares. This was not a case like most of those generally tried, one shareholder trying to cut another, but a claim for work and labour done. • _ Mr. W. A. Barrow, solicitor for the company, was exa mined at considerable length, when Mr. BAINES said that he would not trouble the Court any longer, a verdict for the plaintiff having been agreed to be taken on certain conditions. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 4011. I Is. KEENE V. THOMPSON. This was an undefended action, arising out of share trans actions between the parties. Mr. Cowling, for the plaintiff; stated that Mr. Keene was a sharebroker in Liverpool, and that he was largely employed during the past year by the defendant, who was agent for the Coleraine Steam-packet Company. The ordinary way of their doing business was that Mr. Thompson was in the habit of giving orders to buy and sell shares in different railways to Mr. Keene. The plaintiff, not being a member of the Stock Exchange, made his purchases through Messrs. Sudlow, Brothers, and the advice notes were afterwards copied into Mr. Keene's name, and sent to Mr. Thompson. The usual commission was divided between the plaintiff and his broker. On these transactions there remained a balance against the defendant of 1,0921. 10s. Various orders and documents were put in, and the debt proved. Verdict for the plaintiff for that sum. CUSS EXTI:ACWINARY. A poor old woman, who has long been an attendant of the assize courts, and who is a monomaniac as to a certain law.• suit on which her early happiness was wrecked, addressed his Lordship at some length, requesting him to see justice done to her. His Lordship listened with the greatest patience, and with a soothing monosyllable or two the poor woman went away quite-satisfied that the case would come on again in due time. The Court rose at half-past five o'clock. Nine causes only now remain, and it is anticipated that all will be disposed of this day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. George Gibbs, City policeman, No. 438, was charged before Alderman Gibb 4, by Mr. Lewis Cheesewright, of No. 8, York-place, Commercial New-road. Mr. Cheesewright stated, that he was in the counting house of his father, a West India m erc h an t, in Lower Thames street ; that, on the 28th of March, he went to Princes-street, to get upon a Hampstead omnibus, and spoke to the conductor, who was then standing on the kerb stone beside the horses ; that the defendant came up, told the conductor and driver to move off the pavement, and then said to witness, " Move on ;" that witness said ho was going to ride by the omnibus, upon which the defendant shoved him against the horses ; that witness said he should report the defendant, who forthwith seized him by the collar, pushed him right across the street to Charlotte-row, and said how he had served other people ; that witness expressed his readi ness to go to the station-hous, and that before going thither, the charge was dismissed by the inspector. The witness declared, that although treated with such gross indignity, and in the presence of a vast number of per sons, he had behaved with the greatest forbearance, and had not used a word of provoking language, although he could not but confess that he felt much difficulty in refraining from punishing a person who had acted so grossly upon the spot. The appearance of the complainant strongly indicated that he could have retaliated in a very effective manner. John Thornton, the driver of the omnibus, stated that about twenty minutes to six o'clock lie was preparintgvato, start for Hampstead, and was standing on the foot:1,21 with the conductor, when the defendant order:sds t o i ff n g ; that the his s h g e l o gentlemanride h n o t h m e a o d m e n t i l b y hi,ainvrhgeen th e p ( t l i e t . - 1 1 against the fendant o-dered him to move on, push the ex street. horse, and when he attempted to p and dragged him violently across.expostulate collared foregoing TwoT wo other whose evidence was precisely Mr. Cheesewright said the si r .m e il w ar er t e o o w th h e a r t w h iatdn been s i already stated. The defendant, upon being called upon to account for his conduct, said that it was his duty to keep the corner of Princes-street clear, in consequence of its vicinity to the 13ank and banking-houses, and that persons con neeted with nmulbusos vitv inwtt 3H6tBgroti 0 44 taltkA l i ties of such a situation. He assured the Alderman that the violence attributed to him was very much exagge rated by all the parties, and he was perfectly justified, in consequence of the refusal of the complainant when or dered to move on, to proceed exactly in the course he had adopted. APortnan Ginns—Have you any witnesses? The ilef.mdant—No. Alderman Glens—l em at all times anxious to pro tect the police in the perf ,rmance of their duties, but I also owe a duty to the public. It is evident that hz.this affit'r you used a great deal of needless violence. You ought not to have collared and dragged the gentleman in the way described. I shall deal with you under the Police Act, and fine you 20s. and coats, or fourteen days' imprisonment. J'he defendant very soon produced the money, and paid the fine. James RoLea..;, porter at Turns' coffeehouse, was chargtd with having ststaulted his master. From the ac:;..unt given by Al 7. Curtis, the proieeutor, it appelred that the dp:lntilant, having got leave t.) go out lin the preceding d iv, returned hume at eleven oVock at night drunk, _ran down to the kitchen where Isis roaster and tait:trvss Were, ,tripped to fight, and stray?: his master, who returned the blow ip sneN a manner al to disfigure his assailant. That blow, hoA - - ever, only male the defendant more desperate, and a policeman wai obliged to be se n t f or to ta k e him into special protection. The defendant was fined 10s. IMPORTANT PA WNBROKING CASE. CAUTION TO PARTIES ILLEGALLY PLEDGING Two young woman,,named Mary Ann Richards and Ann Attersly, were charged at the Warwickshire Assizes with haying beau found in possession cf certain articles, Knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Miller, instructed by Mr. T. Harding, appeared on behalf of the prosecution. The pri soners were undefended. • _ Mr. Miller, in stating the case, said that the proseciet;An had been instituted by the Pawnbrokers' Society of Birming ham, fOr the protection of the trade from parties pledging articles feloniously obtained. The reason why the pres=et prosecution had been commenced wa i l because, according to law, if stolen property is pledged wMt a pawnbroker, and that property was afterwards discovered to have been stolen and found in the pawnbroker's possession, he was bound to deliver it up to the right owner without receiving the amount of money he had advanced upon it. It could easily be seen that, by artful representations, the most respectable men in the above -named trade could be plundered to a great ex tent. Indeed, the practice of pl e d g i ng s t o l en ar ti c les had been carried to such a height in Birmingham, that the trade were now determined by all th e means i n th e i r power to put a stop to IL With respect t o th e case aga i ns t the prisoners at the bar, should the jury return a verdict of guilty, it was not the intention of the prosecutors to press for any severe punishment, the present being the first case of the kind that had been brought before the Court, and that principally for the showing parties acting, as lie should show the prisoners had acted, the p mishit - tent to which they were liable for the offence. After some other observations, Mira. Atkins of Worcester, tep ,sed, that her house had been broken open on the night of the sth of January last, and a variety of articles stolen therefrom, among which were two shawli and two scarfs, which were found to have been pledged by the prisoners at the shops of Mr. T. Hadley and Mr. Haywood \rerun. Mr. Hadley and Mr. Vernon, jun., were then examined, and proved that on the evening of the 6th instant the two pri soners brought the articles in question to the respective shops of the witnesses, and pledged them ; in one instance for 10s., and in the other 12s. ; at each place representing the property as their own, and mentioning the amount they had given for the goods. Police -constable Edmunds and a woman named Langford, proved that the prisoners were in company with the two men who had committed the burglary on the evening that the articles were pledged, and that the prisoners had since given evidence on the trial of the men who were convicted at the last Worcester assizes, and stated that they had pledged the articles at the request of the two men. The Learned Judge having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoners for being in possession of the property, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Justice Coltman, in passing sentence upon the pri soners, said,—The prosecutors . in this case, through the Learned Gentleman who conducted it, have interceded somewhat in your favour, in consequence of this being the first prosecution of the kind. I must say that the prosecu tion is a very proper one; and it was perfectly right on the part of the pawnbrokers to carry out these cases, which are occurring every day. I only wonder that they have not before carried out these cases ; but this being the first case of the kind that has been brought before the Court, I shall not sentence you to so severe a p un i s h ment as ot h e r wise I should have felt it my duty to have passed upon you. I wish you to understand, that for the offence of which you have been found guilty, you are liable to be transported for fourteen years, but, for the reasons I have named in this case, I shall only sentence you to be imprisoned for two calendar months, with hard labour.—Birminghain Pilot. CAPTAIN GROVER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. DEAR Sin,—You have been kind enough to insert my letter to the friends of Captain Conolly ; 1 am sure that you will also not object to insert the following appeal : TO ALL TME OFFICERS OF HER :MAJESTY'S ARMY, Most gallant of warriors, and at the same time the most generous of warriors the world ever has seen !—You very frequently extricated me from difficulty and distress, and only lately I was enabled thiough the gallant, generous, and noble-minded conduct of one of your comrades—the ardent lover of the British army, Captain Grover—and with his assistance to undertake the journey to Bokhara. You have already read in the newspaper that I disclaim all right to a compensation from Government, for, as Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly had been killed twelve months at least previous to my arrival at Bokhara, I was not suc cessful in my enterprise; but I consider it very hard indeed that the noble-minded Captain Grover should have suffered in his purse, and not only in his purse, but that lie actually should have lost his promotion in the army, on account of his zeal in his attempt to liberate the prisoners. 1, therefore, take the liberty to attempt to excite your interest and sym pathy in behalf of your noble-minded fellow officer, Captain Grover, who at different periods has displayed the highest enthusiasm in the service of our Queen and country. When there was a likelihood that war would break out with America, he offered to outfit a whole regiment at his own expense. Ile spent 500!. on my account, and offered 350/. for every English soldier I should be able to ransom. Gallant and noble-minded officers, in case that it should not be inconsistent with your military duty, I beseech you to petition on behalf of my noble-minded friend, Captain Grover, who actually has suffered, even in his health, on account of the death of Captain Conolly, Colonel Stoddart, and Captain Wyburd, in order that he may obtain his promotion in the army, and that the five hundred pounds may be repaid to him ; and in case that you should be inclined to repay him the said five hundred pounds which he spent on my account, I solemnly promise that I shall reimburse you the sum as soon as the third edition of the narrative of my expedition to Bokhara, which shall be published in a few days, will be sold off ; for I am determined not to allow that My beloved and zeaous friend, Captain Grover, should suffer on my ac count. I beseech you, therefore, do not disregard my appeal to yon. When I was robbed of everything . in Mesopotamia, Major Keppel, at Bagdad, assisted me. %% hen I was ill at Bus sorah, Colonel and Captain Taylor assisted me. When I was plundered by pirates near Salonica, Captain Adolph Slade assisted me. After my liberation from slavery in Khoras saun, Captain Shee and five English sergeants assisted me. When robbed of everything in Aflghanistan, Sir Alexander Burns assisted me. At Busheer I was assisted by Colonel Stannes; upon the Mount Caucasus by General Russell; at Telieraun by Sir Henry Willock and Sir John Campbell. Having thus always received benefits by British officers, I do not deserve any compensation for my late expedition. BLA,.noble Captain Grover is deserving at least not to be a loser by his attempt, which he hitherto has been. Noble and generous officers, grant my request on behalf of Captain Grover _ Your most affectionate servant, JOSEPII WOLFF, Vicar of Isle Brewers, near Langport, in Somersetsbire. Bolton-le-Moore, April 7, 1846. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk yesterday, in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual walks and rides yesterday in the royal pleasure. grounds. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Bucclench, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Liverpool, and Captain the Hon. James C. P. Murray. The Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Viscountess Jocelyn as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Viscount Sydney has succeeded Lord Rivers as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond has suc ceeded Mr. R. Ormsby Gore as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of K en t v i s it e d h er Ma jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Prince CaAelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, transacted business at the Foreign `office yesterday. His Excellency attended the debate in the House of Commons last evening. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Lady Peel and family left town yesterday for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. THE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCHPOLE.—BY THE REV. R. COBBOLD.—THIRD Eprrsox.—Not only is truth often more wonderful than fiction, but it is always more interesting. • The conviction that the facts of a strange eventful history have really happened, and are not the mere creation of the narrator's fancy, adds a tenfold zest to the story; and this very great advantage the history of Mar garet Catchpole has, for its truthful character wins the faith of the - reader. The chief incidents are of so extraordinary a nature as abundantly to gratify the most craving appetite for the wonderful and exciting; the literary execution is such as to satisfy the most critical taste; and the moral of the story ought to content the sternest asserters o f e poe t ic justice. Much valuable instruction may be deriv ed d f ront the the perusal, which the lively style of the , p narr a tiv e ious editions eminently pleasant and interesting. have already established the work as re w ad e er d s o any tha gat w e ' have the oppor tunitywhich the history of Margaret Catc.hp%lo,elieletiarse estimation; and it rarely pp 3 higigioanoedtaheroeuergahl work of this kind with o f e ur so female.—Leeds Inte ll igencer. story of this extraordinary , 'l' OF ANCIENT , REMAINS.—At the Temple DISCOVI.R of recommending toh happ ens e e c il h s notic e ce nit / bride formerly possessed by the Knights Tem- Rochester- , . farm on the banks of the Medway, a short distance above and on Wednesday week the workmen, at pier, who in t h e reign of Henry 21. had a noble mansion there, Mr. Everist has recently commenced extensive works !l i b ' g o ' u t seven feet, came toga human skeleton, back, with the hands folded on the chest; a as lying on the lower part of the chest, and a about appeared to have been a dagger, on the left weapon, v,plhl,oei the brick -m aking, r i o-e c oi np Speer -hea d n ,et _ ai i 1 which i ot a hslf i hand side of the skeleton. The spear. head is 0, inches in length, and has a socket, in which to insert the handle, but no trace of this, or of the handle of the dagger, was found ; the dagger is 8 1 4 inches long, and composed of two separate pieces, viz., a blade an d a r.arrow flat piece of iron for a hilt, which appear to have been imperfectly welded, or hound together with some perishable material. Portions of Roman flue and common tiles had been used to fill up the grave, from which it may be inferred that the interment took place during the latter period of the occupation of this island by the Romans. On Saturday another skeleton was discovered, which appeared to have been carelessly thrown into its grave, as it was lying on its side, with one arm on its back, and the knees bent almost at right angles. With the latter no other remains were found.—Dover Chronia,