The Sun. — London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

TUN DONCASTER, WAKEFIELD, AND LEEDS The Committee on this Bill met again this day at eleven o'clock ; Lord Somers in the chair. The case for the promoters having closed, Mr. Alexander, Q. C ., opened for Mr. Fountain Wilson and other landowners opposing the line. The Learned Counsel contended that the line was unnecesQary to the population of the districts which it proposed to accom mo d ate ; and that the injnry It would do to property would be much more than the good which would result. After Mr. ALEXANDER concluded his address, evidence was called to prove the injury which the landowners would sustain by the con atructton of the line. Mr. Sergeant WasNcriew then replied, after which the room was cleared. After some deliberation the parties were called In, and informed by the CHAIRMAN that the Committee would defer their decision till they had heard the case for the Swinton and Lincoln line. Mr. AUSTIN then addressed the Committee on behalf of the pro moters of the Swinton and Lincoln line, after which the Committee adjourned till eleven o'clock t o-marrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. CROUP 11. WEST CORNWALL 3fr. Hanc oc k an r were ex.anined this morning in this case. In consequence of the absence of Mr. Brunel, the remainder of the case was allowed to stand over till to-morrow. The remaining clauses of the Bill were passed through the Com mittee. The Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow, GROUP XIII. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock ; Sir William Clay in the chair. Other member, present, Karl .Jerrnyn, Mr. Curtels, and P. Ainsworth. The clauses c f the Glasgow, Dumfries. and Carlisle Railway Bill were postponett till to-morrow. CALEDONIAN EXTENSION. This line was then proceeded with. The formal proofs were then put in, in conformity with Mr. Bun combe's resolutions. The line is opposed by the Duke of Portland and several petition ing landowners, for whoin Mr. Austin, Mr. Sergeant Behests, Mr. Deedes, and Mr. Denison appeared. The Ayr and Glasgow Railway also petitioned, and was represented by Mr. Andrews. Counsel in favour of the Bill are Mr. Talbot, Mr. Sergeant Wrang. ham, Mr. Hope, Sir Win. RI Well, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Boyle. Mr. COCKBURN opened the proceedings on behalf of the Bill. The line for which he appeared, he said, was proposed to run from Ayr to a point on the Caledonian line, about two miles from Lanark, called Ita.yenstruther, with two branches north and south, the former the Lesmahagow branch, and the other went on to Abingdon on the Caledonian line. The great object of the main line was to .connect .tyr with E d i nburgh, so that the Waffle from the former might be carried forward on the Edinburgh, Tork, and the Caledonian line. ft passed through the important mineral fields of F.nterkin, Mitirkirk, Glenbuck, and Douglas. The object of the south, or Abingdon branch, was to open those extoisive Coal fields fa Annandale and Dumfries -shire ; and the north branch was intended to open up the valuable coal field of Lestnahegow, which at present was locked altogether. The Lesmaliagow was a most extensive and valuable coal field, containing an abundant sup- Ply 01 . gas coal, which would command through the railway a ready Market in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The line, with the branches also, Would be of the greatest service in accommodating the agricultural traffic of the three counties that would be connected v nth the line. With regard to the accommodation of passengers passing from Ayr to Edinburgh, he believed that at present by the coast route the dis tance was fifteen or sixteen miles more than it would be by the pre lent line, independent of the break of two tidies at Glasgow, which Would occasion a material delay. Even were the Barrhead and Kil marnock line formed, the distance would still be ten miles in favour of the Caledonia!' Extension. This advantage was indepen dent of the great Mineral fields that would be opened up. The whole scheme was 76 miles in length ; the main line being 44 mites, the Lesmatlagovr branch 17 miles, cud the Abingdon branch 12 miles. The main line was estimated to cost 7a2,2361., the Lama hagow brar;ch 302,862 i., and the Abingdon branch 193,2611. ;making the totat oapital 1,330,000/. Ile would support the scheme by wit- Dent: Of the highest respectability, and though the scheme was op posed by several proprietors, he did not think they could make out case that would justify the rejection of such an important line. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call his witnesses. • Mr. Bell Teller, shipper, of Ayr, examined--He said he was in the baloit of shipping the iron of the Muirkirk Company. He had three ships of his own, and exported about '2,000 tons of that iron yearly. The Iron was brought twenty miles by carts, at a charge of about 10s. a ton. That was a low charge. Ile also exported a consider elle portion of wool that came from the Muirkirk district. The line passed through an important agricultural and mineral district. The principal return cargoes were salt, guano, and oil cakes, which were sent up into the interior. There were large cotton works at Cartine, with which there was considerable traffic from Ayr. There were considerable beds of freestone along the line that Would dnd an outlet to Liverpool by this line. There were 100,000 tone of coal exported from Ayr at present, which Caine from ports between Ayr and Mem:Mine on the route of the line; the supplies were mainly on the Anchinernive estate. A considerable amount of . grain and flour was shipp e d i nto A yi f rom Ireland, a great portion of which went into the interior. At present the largest ships that entered were 250 tons register, but the harbour might be much im proved, and the line would tend to that object. The harboar trustees were in favour of the tine and he hellved such was the general feeling of the inhabitants. The Town Connell had petitioned in its favour. Ayr contained upwards of 17,000 inhabitants, and !hose would be much benefited by the shortening of the distance to adinburgh. - - The evidence in favour of the line having teen concluded, the do elsion on the preamble was postponed. LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN, The Committee then adjourned to Saturday, with the underatand ing, that If Mr. Cockburn, Q.C. (for the Kew branch), cannot attend on that day, there will be a further adjournment till Monday. GROUP XXXI. BIRMINGHAM AND BRISTOL (ASH CHURCH, TEWKESBURY, and MALVERN). The Committee to which the above railway is referred met to-day at twelve o'clock. The day was occupied principally in hearing the evidence adduced on the part of the promoters of the Bill, in order to show the amount of passenger and goods traffic upon the route of the proposed line between Malvern, Worcester, Tewkesbury, Chel tenham, and Gloucester. It was proved that the amount of traffic between those points would be amply sufficient to support a railway, such as the one proposed. The feeling along the line was much in favour of its formation, as it would afford an infinitely bet ter means of communication than the Severn, which was an uncer tain river, as it was subject to great floods and low ebbs, which some times stopped the passage of the river for weeks together. Goods conveyed by water had also the disadvantage of being much subject to pilfering, by which considerable loss was sustained. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP XXXIII. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. '24, (Grand Corridor); present, Sir Robert Ferguson (Chairman), the Marquis of Worcester, Viscount Newry, Mr. Smollett, and Mr. Fellows. They proceeded with the LONDON AND WARWICKSHIRE (THRZE BRANCHES The traffic evidence in favour of these branches, Al against the Great Western projects, occupied the whole morning. The trafilc evidence having been concluded, it was arranged that the engineering evidence should be taken to-morrow, and the Com mittee adjourned at four o'clock. Mr. Bell Telfer, cross-examined for landowners—The principal portion of the Sanquhar coal-field was within a mile of the harbour of Ayr. The Blackhouse field was still nearer to Ayr. About seven eighths of the coal shipped at Ayr was supplied by Mr. Gordon, who worked all the fields In the immediate neighbourhood. Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS, for the Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway—The Caledonian Company had promised the harbour trustees the loan of 10,0001. for the Improvement of the harbour, pro vided they gave their support to the Bill before the Committee. lie was not aware that there was a much greater quantity of gnano and salt brought down to Ayr from Glasgow than imported direct into Ayr from Liverpool. Mr. James Patton, builder and timber-merchant, resident iu Ayr, examined by Mr. Banta—Between 7,000 and 8,009 tone of American timber were annually imported into Ayr. A great proportion of that quantity was sent into this country In the direction of the proposed railway for building purposes. There had been a considerable demand lately for wood in the neighbourhood of Mulrkirk on account of the erection of iron works in that locality. A great quantity of triez stone was annually exported from Ayr, which was brought from a quarry about a mile from the town. The supply was not, however, equal to the demand, on account of the want of railway communication to the eastward. Guano in great quaetities was imported into Ayr every year, most of which was sent Into the interior of the country: The present line of railway along the coast to Glasgow (lid not accommodate the; interior of the county of Ayr. He considered the Construction of the present scheme would be of the greatest benefit to that district of country. The witness was cross-examined at great length by Sir Thomas PHILIPS, to show that the quantity of timber sent fl'om .tyr along the line of the proposed railway was very ineouliderable, but nothing of importance was elicited. Mr. Thomas Gemmel, editor of the A✓r Advertiser, was next ex *reined —The revenue of the Ayr harbour had been increasing gra dually for the last three years. Last year it had amounted to 1,7001. The number of vessels which came into this harbour (luring 134.3 was 1,145. The entire amount of Custom.lioase duties was lOW. per annum. The general feeling among the inhabitants of Ayr was decidedly in"favour of the proposed railway. Cross-exami ne d —He believed there was y . one meeting of the Town Council In favour of the Caledonian Extension, and the general feeling was in favour of the line. The dyes he had given of the *arbour of Ayr for the three years were the gross receipts. The illthOlities and the public of Ayr were decidedly ht favour of the present line. Cross-examined by Sir T. PHILLIPS, for the Glasgow and Ayr Coin pany—The slew In which the Town Council had considered the pre cent line was the advantage of it for the through traffic from Ayr and Glasgow, GROUP XXXVIII. LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER The Committee met at the usual hour, Mr. Acland in the chair. A number of witnesses were examined this morning with reference to the general merits or the proposed line. One of the witnesses stated, in the district through which the line would pass there were coal mines capable of producing one thousand millions of tons. It was bat fair to suppose that a large quantity of this would pass along the proposed line. GROUP XXXIX. OLDHAM DISTRICT. The Committee met at the usual hour, Mr. Divett in the chair. The case of one of the petitioners against the Bill was gone into, and completed this day. Mr. Coaaarr then opened the case for several landowners and the commissioners of several townships of Oldham against the Bill. Mr. Adam Hunter, merchant, of Ayr, deposed that he carried on a large business as a general merchant. He had purchased a consi storable amount of wool along the route of the present line, and if it Were formesi it would be a great accommodation for that kind of goods. Wool from Muirkirk cost about His. a ton carriage. Corn was often brought to Ayr from Edinburgh and Leith, the latter b eing the principal S co t c h port f or B a l t i c gra i n. Were the line formed there would be great advantage to the traffic, as, since the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company ha 4 bought up the canal, freights by that route had risen a great deal. Corn was now, he believed, 16s. a ton carriage. He imported grain Rom 'reload, a cons i derable portion of which went up to Catrine and ' the neighbourhood. There was no doubt that a great number of pas gengets went from Ayr to Edinburgh. 'roe witness was cross•examined with the object of showing that he Was but superficially Informed as to the details of the traffic he TefeTred to, when The Committee adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. GROUP XIV. Zitilital'OOL, ORNISILI3L3C, AND PADSTON. .Trtee, Committee uset at twelve o'clock. vftto btr e r.,tz a ttie Part or the promoters was Opened by Mr. Tatsor, considerable that this line was one which must evidently have deration of the advantage Com over the others which were under the consi- Others would test 1 1 6 % -t o ,%as it would onl cost 7 , 50,0001., while the SCCommodation as the C ,- --?:, and would b y Y no means afford the same main line ~,,a . , 23,4 n‘ , 3 : 1 4: , 1 , 4 Thiel. he appeared. The length of the mileS; the Southp,,rt branch wiT'ir.reA and Bury branch was three entire line Wi miles, showing ; ''',,,,, i ttl , making the length of the Of the line over the Canal Company. ' Ildet lible differen c e I n r avo „, line The Lea tared Counsel then called lir. P.thecete", would be of conAiderable benefit to ceunt° Proved t hat the rY. bY th e exten sive accommodation it would afford. Dr. Williams stated that along ths intended course of the line the 'eras a great want of accommodation tor the passage of g ,,,,,, u, .), r7 l that evil would be removed by the foruiation of the line. Mr. Samuel Cherey proved that the terminus . of the line was s I I %iterated as to adord the greatest pose' ) a accommodation to th e district. Mr. Smith, examined be Mr. BRANDY (who appeared on the part Of the promoters), stated that there was great , want of accommoda tion for goods at the station of the North Inion line ever since the line were still high, natation had been enlarg ed. ' though they ha i l lately undergone rat nea eg en the reduction. There was every Necessity for the form a ti on of t hi s li ne. and a director of Mr. Cornelius Nicholson, Mayor of Kendall, the Lancaster an d Carlisle itailvvay—This line wag 011! 'which would give such material accommodation to the country, especially by Its branch to Blackburn, that its Importance could not he sufficiently estimated. Had often travelled over the North Union line, and I was of opinion that the laCeommNiatiou afforded by it was by no means sufficient for the rapidly increasing traffic, even at Preston. There was not sufficient roam on the rails f'or all the trains whieh arrived, so that an engine, !Which had just arrived, had to run into the adjacent tunnel, and remain there a, quarter of at, hour, and sometimes twenty minutes, until another train had passed. He had heard that last year there were not less than 60,000 passengers from Liverpool to Scotland. He 15elieved that that number of passangers would, when the lines were Opened would take advantage of the railway. The inhabitants were Very much in favour of Its formation, Other evidence of a similar nature was then adduced. The Committee adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP X V 11. The Committee resumed its sittings this morning at twelve o'cleck the lion. E. Torte In the chair. MA.NCHESTER. AND SOUTHAMPTON. Mr. Bidder was cross-examlued at great length by the opposing Connsel, with respect to the stations, level crossings, landowners, &c. In the course of his examination it was elicited, that the posi tions of the ordinary stations had not been decided upon, but that Arst class stations had been erected at Romsey, Andover, Marlborough, Cirencester, and S windon, the cost of which tirotild vary from 2,000/. to 12,000/. Ile confidently anticipated that the expense of constructing the stations would be defrayed in the Course of time by the rent which would be derived from farmers Deteg the granaries which would be constructed in connexion with them. He could not say whether arrangements had been entered Into to the amonnt of zoomet. to neut ra li ze the opposition of land- Iwners ; it was mot within his province to answer such a question ; tint, speaking for himself, he might say that landowners would re 'Vivo fair compensatir n for any property which might be required 'or the purposes of the line. The expense of erecting another station tt Southampton was perfectly justified by the wants of the inha ;situates Mil cQuildero4 that Vas 1630 nuict Dof solToatigs RAIL WA Y COMMITTEES. near tine e v w ill ill paansds at t l s r Ou lf tham . p o t t o t n , ; l bu d t o if th er e ' s: (YESTERDAY.) were injured they would be amply compensated by the Company. The junction with the South-Western at Ramsey, in order to obtain r — access to Portsmouth, would be effected (as the existing line is 17 H OUSE OF LORDS. feet higher than the Manchester and Southampton at that point) by two sidings rising about 1 in 50— one a h a lf an d t h e o th er a quar t er DZILIICT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH. of a malls in length, and the cost probably 3,0001. To have avoided aumnpoßD, CHICNESTER, PORT:33IO'O'IW, the land of Mr. Genler and Mr. Everett would have entailed upon AND PARaNAM. the promoters the necessity of leaving Andover out of their route, and Their Lordships met this mornin g i n R oom A (New Houses of the selection of a line more expe ns i ve , l ess conven i en t by b e i ng l onger , and inaddition, with objectionable gradi en t s . the Members were present. Parliament) at the usual hour. L or d B eaumont In the chair. All Re-examlued by Mr. JANCEI—Mr. Mataerley, a solicitor, at &oath- The case on the part of t h e promoters of the Guildford and Chi anipton, who opposed the li ne b ecause it wou ld pass hi s h ouse on a n theater was proceeded w ith . embankment. Formerly supported a line whi c h wa s intended to pa- , s The Duke of Richmond was called by Mr. Sergeant WAANOTIAM to in a similar manner. The tramways along the pier, at Southampton, would not inconvenience persons using the pier, either for the par give evidence in favour of this line, which his Grace declared to he poses of business or pleasure, besides a satisfactory arraugernent had far superior to the Direct London and Portsmouth, net only on account of its being shorter men made with the trustees. The wishes of the landowners would (by two miles), but also as it gave at'- sommodation to more important places. Chichester was ley far a be met as much as possible within the limits of deviation. mere important place than Peterstield, and he thou g ht it wou ld b e I n reply to questions from the Committee, works were commenced at once that he would undertake to complete could be much better to have Ch'eltes • , i tel on the main line and Petersfield on it in two years and a half—from Southampton to Andover a branch, as they would be on this line, than to have Peers-Feld completes in a year. the witness said if the -exami , on the main line and Chichester on a branch, as proposed The CaAlaifaN suggested that for the future thec r ess should h.)! the Direct London and Portsmouth. It would be nation of the witnesses should be so arranged that one Counsel a a great advantage to the rich agricultural Cistricts through which respect to the engineering, an this line would pass, to have the direct communication it would cross-examine the witnesses with afford to Lond on an d other important places. Th the other with respect to the landowners. and Direct London The opposing Counsel intimated that the suggestion, although sur and Portsmouth would eertainly Co considerable damage tells pro- rounde2w p ith difficulties, would meet with their earnest attention. perty, but he was not the person to oppose a railway Bill on such Some discussion then ensued with respect to theCommiitee visiting a ground as that. He denied that he had entered into an agreement Southamptn, hi order to inspect the pier, and the relative positions with the London and Portsmouth, by which he became an interested of the two stations. party ; " and WETS" observed his Grace, " I never vet was • con- ire intimated that the South - Western would be happy t o netted in any W a y w i tli any railway,Mr. H and I never i n t e nd t o b e. " put a special train at the service of the Committee. • His Grace wa s no t cross-examined by counsel on the other side. The Cuatrimas salt it was not the intention of the whole of the Other witnessed were then called, and gave similar evidence. Coommi 'ttee to visit Southampton. Ile was going to Southampton by The Bishop of Oxford was called and examined by Mr. MERE- the nine o'clock train on Saturday morning, and should be happy to werna on the part of the promoters of the Guildford and Chichester. meet the parties at Southampton in order to inspect the pier. He The Rev. Prelate gave evidence similar in effect to that of the Duke ioma la a l so be glad, lf possible, to see the property of Mr. Everett, of Richmond, in favour of this line, shit against the Direct London at Appleshaw. and Portsmouth. Mr. Hawkshaw, C.E., examined by Mr. GCRNEY—Iiad surveyed On the conclusion of his Lordship's evidence, it being past the line, and he considered It was judiciously laid out, and would four o'clock, the Committee rose and adjourned till to-morrow at meet the concurrence of the districts it would traverse. He was eleven o'clock, also satisfied with the sufficiency of the estimates, and of the de sirability of the station at Southampton. The tramways en the pier LONDON AND YOILIE. would not he objectionable. The course of the Andover canal was AND , advantageous, inasmuch as it would not interfere with pri vate property, and was the most direct course that could be adopted. The line to Andover could be com pleted its twelve months. The line could be carried underneath the Great Westent at Swiadon without interfering with the free working of the line. The heaviest works on the lice were at the Coteswold hills, which were to be tunnelled ; but they presented no engineering difficulty, and the gradients were extremely good, con sidering the nature of the country. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Hill, Mr. Keating, and Mr. Hatherton. In reply to questions from the last-named counsel, he stated that the line, if prevented from making its proposed ter minus, and obliged to use the terminus of the South-Western, would yet be an advisable scheme ; but If the proposed station were not made, the line would suffer from not having communication with the pier. The Committee then adjourned until one o'clock tomorrow. GROUP XX. The Committee on this (the Windsor) Group met to day, at twelve, In Room No. 31, present Mr. Sotheron (chairman), Mr. Pigott, Sir William Bentinck, Mr. Tattered, and Mr. Ross. They proceeded to hear the arguments of counsel on the point in part reserved from yesterday, in the ease of the LONDON AND WINDSOR. It will be remembered that the continued evidence in favour of this line was interrupted by• the Chairman stating that It wss, in the opinion of the Committee, fatal to this Bill that the consent of the Commissioners of Metropolitan Roads had not been obtained by the promoters, to cross those roads on a level. According t• the ar rangements then agreed to, MEREwETHER, for the promoters, now addressed the Com mittee. He said that the present plans were such as the Metropolitan Roads Commissioners would assent to. Mr. Cocgetati, on the other hand, contended that the consent of . . the Commissioners would be now of no avail, as the alteration of the plans was such as to bring the Bill under the fifteenth standing order. The promoters would require to build a bridge, whereby their limits of deviation would extend into ►ands not laid down in the plans de- posited, and of which the owners were not named in the book of reference. After some discussion upon this point, from which it appeare 1 that in some cases the standing order in question had been dispensed with, . _ The CHAIRMAN said the Committee had heard nothing to induce them to proceed further with this case. Whatever might be the cir cumstances under which the standing order had been elsewhere dis pensed with, they must hold it to be fatal to the Bill. The Bill was accordidgly thrown out, and the Committee took the RICHMOND (HEW BRANCH). Mr. CHAMBERS stated the case of the promoters. The proposed line was intended to be connected with the Richmond line about to be very shortly opened. [t would extend from Mortlake to Kew, the length being little more than a mile and a half, and the coat was estimated at between twenty-five and twenty-seven thoeisand pounds. There would ultimately be a continuous line from the York-road to Kew, an accommodation of great advantage not only to the pleasure traffic, but to the Scientific traffic of the metropolis. The Learned Gentlemen then went into a detailed statistical enume ration of the numbers and various classes of visitors for pleasure or science to the Botanical Gardens at Kew, and the other points of attraction in that neighbourhood. He quoted largely from the re ports of Sir W. J. Iloooker, in the years 1845 and 1846, on the Royal Botanic Gardens and the proposed new Palm-houses, at Kew, to show the importance of this railway hi a popular as well as scientific view. In respect to the petition against the returns relating to this Bill, the decision on the preamble of which stands deferred, the Commit tee, after a ion: argu.nent, decided that the petition could not be GROUP XT.I. MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURT (CANAL NAVIGATION AND raarx.wa.y). The Committee to which this line is referred met to-day at twelve o'clock, in room No. 16. The day was occupied in examining witnesses, who proved the material advantages which the carrying out of this scheme would afford to the surrounding country. The property it had to cut through was said to be of a most inferior description. Every step hail been taken to accommodate the publ c by all the means in the power of the Company, and at the wharf near Blackfi tare At Manchester, the railway had been carried on on pillars, in order that the loading and unloading of vessels might not be inter fered with. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock, until twelve o'clock 0-morrow. GROUP XLVI. This Committee re- assembled to-day at twelve o'clock ; prevent, Mr. Bramston (chairman) and the other members. NEWCASTLE{ AND CARLISLE (EXTENSION AND BRANCHES). The evidence in relation to this Bill was resumed. Mr. Hudson was examined to show that the apprehensions enter tained respecting level crossings were not well fouueed, as the !nen iary precautions could be taken to prevent accidents. After some dirther evidence the Committee adjourned. GROUP XLVII. SWANSEA VALE, The Committee on this group met at twelve o'clock to-day, Mr. Evans in the chair, when Mr. Morgan, a coal-owner, was called to show the nature of the country, and the way in which the conveyance of the coal affected the value of the article, and the expense of its transit respectively by canal and by rail. The principal point put in was the statement that the conveyance of coal from the lead of the canal to the port it had to pay tolls to the amount of 2s. 9d. a ton, while on the railway it would pay only Is. 1041. a ton. In his opinion a railway was absolutely necessary. Mr. Lima was about to cross examine the witness, on the part of the landowners, when it was objected to by 3fr. WHATELET, who conceived that he had no right to pursue that course. On this a long argument arose, and the room was ultimately cleared After some time, and on the re-admission of parties, The CHAIRMAN declared that the Committee had decided that air. James could only cross-examine on the principal object of the preamble. Mr. Arthur was next called, and stated that he had been a coal owner for twenty-two years, and finally confirmed the evidence of the previous witness. Mr. Starling Benson far the last twelve years had been interested in copper works and collieries. The Tredgoller works are six miles from Swansea, under the Drummer mountain, where there is a very large supply of steam-packet coal, for which it is adapted by giving great heat, burning quickly, and with little smoke. It is generally included by Government in their contracts for their own packets, but it has been in a great measure shut out from the market by the want of means for Its transit. In conse quence of tide want, the copper works, where there are upwards of 20,i30e tons consumed yearly, are an additional expense not aOO . OOO / ;, _a-_year. It is usual to ship this coal for general sale in ~.v , o t t, 22 tone, but the breakage was such, from the continual is t ar ge , ~,,r,:uo.l,a,,:ftela:, only 17 tone could be delivered. The difference RIO. by ra ,, „ ul lerndent or breakage, would be considerable, being pens ea roefaht ie.:t. ehnati:ratt;?sasalt:dtehy.z.bf placek c p ai ii ti n . a. ws l toe f 2 t oo h k e la. r ta a ywe year. Swansea . •er e T m h a:l e e x i t . to 111,,:li:n d gl . hti The whole consumption of This m in ig t h h t e , na o N i e i d at 300,000 ton.s. The witness tchospi:letre-set•ionrskas as s n formation of This rZ e win which a desire had been ca d stated that there had oa4.theapell callarieftircurnstanees in pressed for the been an arrangemenautspbetthotewniere; erka:t edgoller works, alid a" coal-owners to ca xi rry uc a h which the property in that part of the country Is p l e i' V e id i e n ne l e B3 w B ' to shOw that there was not so much a dealt* retcl. the ebieet town or public as for merely personal and private advantage. On cross-examination by Mr. GROVES, the witness stated that there was an agreement for amalgamation with the Welsh Midland. There are 1,000 or 1,200 feet of wharfage front on the rive r , of I fitly feet will be sufficient for th which two hundred an , . • no provision for coal wharfage', geneial trade, but there is trade in the arrangement of placing facilities for the although there are the line of railway twelve feet a bove the wharf, so as to enable the by transferred to the wharf,emptying the wag- goods to be at once gone, or by running them down a steep inclined plane to the waters' edge. With regard to the railway, about three miles of rail are laid , are done, and down, most of the earthwork and much of the masonry the fences, where the re is nothing to grow, are termed. Mr. Jones, the engineer, was employed with Mr. VignoleS In the 18 9 3, with Sir survey- of the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, •in - John Renni e , on S out h war k an d L on d on -b r idges, and other great works. lie had surveyed the Neath Valley line for Mr. Brunel. Ills attention had been called first to this project in 1830, and had surveyed a line in Swansea Vale at the request of several traders, and had taken the line which was nearly Identical with the present route, and which he conceived was the best In the valley. The line was at that time abandoned, be cause the Canal Company reduced their tolls. In 1640 the country was again surveyed by Mr. Bush, which was nearly the same as this, but it was impeded by the progress of the new cut of the canal and the erection of warehouses. In 1844 the canal works were finished, and the Tredgoller line was immediately begun, and is new In process of formation. The steepest gradient on the first ten miles is one is 173. On the upper part the steepest gradient would be one in 58, but this was not so objectionable, as the heavy traffic will be almost entirely down the line. The rails and materials for a single line are Provided for the first seven miles and partly laid. In the opinion of the witness this is decidedly the best line which the valley could afford. The cost of the part already formed will be under 5 ,0001. a mile, and that also Rol be We price of the upper part 61 tAo estensl94. 149 Gatimata THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 18 4 1846. for the whole is 100,0001. The line is to be on the narrow gauge which is better suited than the broad gauge for traffic between col. lleries and iron-works. _ _ On cross-examination by Mr. Jamie, the witness stated, that when he was engaged to supply the line on the east side, Mr. Bynol was also engaged to survey on the west side for some considerable distance. The estimate does not include the cost of any stage, jetty, or other shipping place. To Mr. Jaiggs, the witness replied, that as the steepest gradients would be in the upper part of the line, where the trade will be the least, so on the canal the locks are most numerous in that district, an d consequently offer little impediment to the navigation of the lower portion of Its course. There was considerable cross - examination respecting the way in which the line would affect the land of a gentleman of the name of Benson, at Swansea, part of which is to be enclosed for wharfage for the country. To one of the Committee, Mr. Jones stated that the line, with its branches, will be nineteen miles, the whole of which he had per sonally surveyed. The curve would be on a radius of half a mile. Mr. Glascody, secretary to the Mineral Railway Company, con tlrmed the evidence of the previous witness as to the cost of con•- strueting the line, and the Committee then adjourned till twelve to morrow. GU LIIL The Committee met to-day at P twelve o'clock, In Room No. 94 (Grand Corridor); Mr. Lascelles In the chair. They resumed the consideration of the SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM. Mr. Robert Stephenson was examined by Mr. Herz, in detail, as to the engineering merits. Mr. - TALBOT cross-examined Mr. Stephenson on behalf of the South Staffordshire lino, after which the Committee adjourned, at four, to twelve o'clock to•morrow. GROUP LVI. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning. Mr. Evart in the chair. had left the House under the impression that the debate on the question had been adjourned until to-morrow. NAVAL CIVIL DEPARTMENT BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill being read, Sir C. NAPIER addressed the House at some length as to the impropriety of appointing men to the care and manage ment of the dockyards who understood nothing about them, and who were utterly ignorant of ship-building, &c. He also entered into a lengthy statement as to the sailing qualities of the various vessels in the squadron. After several hun dred pounds had been expended in the construction of ships, when they were sent out it was f oun d t h at t h ey were not f i t for :sea. He instanced in support of his argument :the St. Vincent, the Albion, the Vanguard, &c. He then gave a detailed statement of the sums which had been expended in the repair of these ill-constructed vessels. He quoted from the returns made by the officers of the dock yards, but ho was afraid that, great as the expense appeared to be by these returns, it was in fact much greater, if the truth was known.--(Hear, hear.) He thought that the House of Commons had a right to insist that, when they ordered returns to be made, those returns should be accurate in every respect. It had been said by the Secretary of the Admiralty that it would be improper to make proper returns on this subject, because, if they did, foreign na'ions would know the exact condition of our fleet, which might be in jurious to this country. But the truth was, that the French knew much . more about our navy than we did ourselves. The returns which the Admiralty had furnished were very incorrect, in as far as the condition of the steam ships were concerned. He would instance the Vulture steamer, the returns respecting which were most inaccurate, and if the returns respecting the others were of the same character, he must say they were most objectionable. He be lieved there was not one of the steam-boats belong ing to the Government that was fit to be called a ship of war. A great portion of them carried their paddle-boxes five or six feet above the level of the deck, and if they were to go into war the first shots would, he was persuaded, carry them away. If a war took place to morrow, a steam fleet might be sent out with 10,000 or 15,000 men. If that were the case, then, from these high paddle-boxes and engines, the first shot would de stroy all the men in any one of these steamers— the only safety with such vessels was to place the boilers below the water. The Admiralty ought to confess their error, and if these vessels were inefficient, take measures to put them in a proper state for the service of the country. There were many other vessels named in the catalogue which were liable to similar objections. A great number of the steam gun-boats, he believed, would prove to be of no use whatever. They were ',called gun-boats, but he felt certain they would be found totally useless in case of being employed in war-service. He found, on looking over the returns, that a great number of three and two deckers were cut down. He did not object to the first two that were cut down, but they had been so numerous that he must now refer to them. Thirteen two-deckers had been cut down to make bad frigates. It would have been better to have worn them out as they were originally. If a war were to arise, involving: a war in the Baltic or the Mediterranean, they would have no ships to employ but those bad frigates. But so great was the mania for cutting down in the Admiralty that a large number of the large frigates built at the end of the last war in order to compete with the large frigates of the Americans, were now in process of being cut down to corvettes. Forty five large frigates had been built, and this was the process now employed towards them. The Hon. and Gal lant Member then referred to the magazine ships the condi tion of whi c h h e represente d to b e equally objectionable. With the enormous number of ships they had built, and what they were building, he thought the navy ought to be more efficient. One great objection he had to those ships was, that many of them were too large in size. He believed that before many years large ships would be given up altogether, and small ships be employed in their stead. He believed a great deal of the neglect of the Admiralty was from leaving the management of building the ships in the hands of one officer. He, felt certain that no one man could attend to these matters: as they ought to be. He knew from his experience that such must be the case. The ship-builders of Glasgow, Liverpool, or on the river, could produce far better steamers than any the Admiralty had built.— (Hear.) The steamers to America and the West Indies went regularly all the year round, as did also the Liverpool and Glasgow packets; yet when the Admiralty ships went out in stormy weather they got wrecked.—(Hear, hear.) The fault he considered was in the construction of the Ad miralty, and the leaving of the matter all to the manage ment of one man.—( Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Gallant Member then analysed at some length the method of conduct ing business by the Admiralty, which he considered to be most improper and inefficient. The business ought to be properly classified, and each department superintended by a proper officer, instead of the whole being under the control of the men who could not attend to it. Especially there ought to be a Comptroller of the Dockyard, and of the Victualling Department, instead of Captain Rous only running down to Portsmouth once a year and taking a mere glance at what was going on. The man who should be placed at the head of these departments should be responsible for the efficiency of everything under his charge. Were this the case, instead of having as bad a steam frigate as they could well have, they would have as good a one as could be desired. The Bill he proposed would meet all these evils, and provide for one efficient management of the departments to which he had referred. He thanked the House for having listened to his statement, and he would sit down by moving the second reading of the Bill. Lord INGESTRE considered the government of the navy of the country to be a subject of the most paramount import ance. In seconding the motion for the second reading of the Bill, he wished it to be clearly understood, that it was from no party feeling or sordid motive towards those gentle men who were placed at the head of affairs in the Admiralty. In 1832 a Bill was introduced which had for its object the abolition of the Navy Board, and in abolishing the Board the House went rather too far, as it threw an unfair distribution of labour upon the First Lord of the Admiralty, whose office was better placed in the bands of a civil than a naval officer. The Admiralty Board had no time to devote to scientific operations, as they were so much occupied in correspondence and other matters connected with the business of the office. He com plained that the returns he had moved for and obtained were very garbled and incorrect, and had no signature attached to them, so that their correctness was not vouched for. Ile hoped that the Gallant Officer, the Member for Ripon, would give some explanation of the report. There were no dia grams given in the returns, and he should like to have the opinion of the Admiralty upon them. It was important that they should be assured of going in the right direction. It was a question whether the construction of steamers of large dimensions was advantageous or not to the service. He thought that steamers built on a smaller scale would be found more efficacious and useful. These, however, were considerations which should be referred to the Naval Board, for them to decide on. He had al luded to the expenses, the trickery, the jobbing, that was going on in the naval department, and the falsified returns, by which the House and the public were prevented from arriving at any correct knowledge of facts. It was time that a stop should be put to the reckless manner in which money had been expended in building ships.—(Hear, hear.) Although he did not agree with all the details of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman's Bill, yet he should be happy to vote for its going into Committee, as it would, in his opinion, tend to prevent many of the abuses of whisk' he had complained. Mr. CORRY thought that the opinions of the Hon. and Gallant Officer, the Member for Marvlebone, on the construction of the Admiralty Board were quite inconsistent with his previously expressed opinions. A more objectionable measure than that proposed by the Gallant Commodore could not have been conceived. The Navy Board at the time of its dissolution consisted of six officers, who acted individually, each as a check on the other. He objected to special power being lodged in the,hands of one individual, who was to be in a measure irresponsible for stly of his acts, and who should not be liable to be removed on a change of Administration. He thought the whole of the measure extremely offensive. It would entail great delay in the execution of the public duties, and would not be counter-balanced in any way by any corresponding advantage. The Hon. Gentleman reviewed the opinion which had been expressed by the Gallant Commodore on the sailing qualities of the experimental squadron. The Right Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. The SPEAKER having put the questi on , Lord INGESTRE explained. Captain PECHELL said that the Right Honourable Gentleman, in making his motion, must have for gotten that it had been sanctioned by the very high authority of Captain Ron; whilst filling the office of a Lord of the Admiralty. It had also the support of the Noble Lord the Member for Staffordshire. He considered it the duty of the House to pass such a Bill with a view to the correction of the evils which had been so fully exposed and proved to exist in the naval department by the Honourable and Gallant Member (Sir C. Napier). The instant a member of the Admiralty presumed to hold an independent opinion he must prepare to leave that depart ment. That was one amongst other reasons why the House should pass this Bill. It was most desirable that the First Lord of the Admiralty should have it in his power, without risk of loss of office, to act in accordance with what he con ceived to be the interest of the navy. He thought that the Surveyor of the Navy . was deserving of the highest respect; and the Admiralty, in endeavouring to get rid of him were, in his opinion, acting a very unwise and unjust part. —(hear.) The Gallant Admiral (Sir E. Cockburn) would hereafter be called upon by him to produce a certain docu ment, by which it had been agreed by the members of the Admiralty to make the Surveyor of the Navy a perfect cipher. He was very glad that the Bill proposed to maintain the services of the Secretary of the Admiralty. He hoped that a Board might be appointed to in-. quire whether the Admirals were fit to command; he believed that there could not be found at the present mo ment in England an admiral able to command the squadron of evolution. There was such a spirit of insubordination in the Admiralty that he certainly was of opinion that this Bill would effect a change which would be highly bene ficial. His constituents were always calling upon him to vote for reduction of the expenses in the naval department. This Bill had certainly been brought forward without much consideration ; but he was at all times ready to vote for a motion that would have the effect of improving the present management of the navy, and he should, there fore, vote for the second reading of this Bill. Sir G. COCKBURN defended the members of the Admi ralty against the charges of mismanagement which had been brought against them. Captain PLUMRIDGE said he knew two gentlemen that were most unfairly treated by the Board of Admiralty; men who held inferior offices, and of inferior quality, were ap pointed to situations before them. Mr. C. WOOD supported the Bill, the object of which he said was to restore the intermediate authorities in the Ad miralty which had been recently removed.—(Hear, hear.) Captain BERKELEY, on the part of Captain Rous, denied that he had sanctioned the introduction ofsuch a Bill as that before the House. Sir C. NAPIER replied. He commenced by reiterating the statement that the Bill had the approval of Captain Rous, and then proceeded to reply to the speeches of the two night Hon. Gentlemen the members of the Admi ralty (Mr. Corry and Sir George Cockburn ). If the Admiralty consumed less paper in writing nonsensical letters to the admirals of the different ports and squadrons, he was convinced that they would more efficiently discharge their duties.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Their conduct was very like that of children. If they pursued their present course of tactics they would most assuredly destroy the navy.—(Hear) He had not much fault to hod with the Surveyor of the Admiralty, but he really did think that, itt every point, that gentleman had not properly discharged his dUZiea. He again repeated his convictions of the absolute necessity of reconstructing the Board of Admiralty. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading of the Bill ll Against ••••- O• 107 Majority aga i nst the second reading OOOO .. —...-96 G OF TENEM on ES On the motion RATIN for the secd reading of this BILL. Bill, Mr. R. PALMER objected to the Bill as it at present. stood. lie would not, however, oppose its second reading, as it might be amended in Committee. P, aculez 149ught they plight to moo ore th ey • . , assented to the second reading of this Bill. It would ope rate, he felt persuaded, against the building of tenements for the poorer classes, as the Bill provided for the rates being paid by the owners of such property, and not by the tenants who occupied them. He thought the law as it at present stood was objectionable, but he did not think the Bill before the House would meet the case. By the Bill, if the owners paid the rate, then it would be charged on the occupier in the shape of increased rate, while the real ratepayers would have no control whatever in the application and direction of the rates so raised. He would conclude by moving an amendment that the Bill be read that day six months. Mr. HAWES moved that the debate be now adjourned. Mr. SPOONER seconded the motion. Mr. MILES thought, as it was impossible to argue the question that sitting and take the division before six o'clock, it would be better to adjourn the debate. The debate was then adjourned till this day week. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. The further consideration of this Bill, after a short conver sation, was adjourned till Wednesday, the Bth of July. PLACES OF WORSHIP, &c. SITES (SCOTLAND). The adjourned debate on this Bill was put off till to morrow. CORONERS' (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord LINCOLN, the House went into Committee on this Bill. Sir W. SOMERVILLE objected to going on at that late hour with such an Important Bill, containing fifteen clauses, when it was near six o'clock, and there were other orders of the day to be disposed of. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. The House then resumed. The Administration of Criminal Justice Bill was read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT said, "He never knew him for anything else." On Carter's return to the pubiic•house, he said to Wood, "he wanted Oddy." Before Oddy went to the door, a man of the namo of Spenser, held up a pot of beer, and said to Carter, " Come, Jae, come and drink, and be a man." Cross-examined by Mr. CLARESON—Witness believed Oddy was in liquor, what he called " fresh," Witness, who appeared in Court with his arm in a sling, said he had got it broken in a row at the same public-house on the Sunday fortnight after the murder. Thomas Spenser stated that Carter, as he was leasing the public house, at first was accompanied to the pavetn'nt by the witness, Oddy, and another ; and, ns they laughed, Carter said, " D— your eyes, I'll fetch something that'll do fot you," and left them. Carter came back with something in his hand, under the tail of his coat. Spens r, on seeing this, took up a pot of beer, and said, " Come, shop mate, drink and be sociable." "No, I shan't," said Carter. Carter then beckoned with his head to Oddy, who walked towards him. Witness said to Oddy, " Don't go near him—l think he has got a knife in his hand." Immediately after the prisoner made a thrust at Oddy with his right hand. Witness tripped up the prisoner on his back, and saw a knife fall from his hand. James Shaw corroborated the other witnesses in their evidence He believed the house of Carter to be about 150 yards from the public-house, and his absence might have continued for a quarter of au hour. Thomas Rigby stated that he and the prisoner slept in the same room. On the night in question Carter came into the room after witness had gone to bed. Witness asked him if he wasn't coming to bed. Carter said " No," and walked as if he were drunk across the room to his seat and picked up a knife. Witness asked him what he was going to do with that, but Carter said that was none of his business and went out. Witness believed him to have been drunk. _ .... City police-constaWe 159 met the prisoner on his way home from the public-house, and heard him muttering to himself like a drunken person, " your eyes, I'll do for you ;" but he thought it was nothing more than ordinary excitement in liquor. Thomas Loyd, surgeon, in Basinghall-street—Saw the body of the deceased. There were two wounds on the left side of the belly, the one of which he had no doubt was the cause of the death. Mr. Clarksen, with whom was Mr. ilallantyne, defended the prisoner. Chief Justice TINDAL then summed up the evidence. The jury, after consulting a short time, returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the prisoner. The C6uax then sentenced the prisoner to transportation beyond ;he seas for the term of his natural life. NE TV COURT. SENTENCE ON THE SELF-CONFESSED ROBBER AND MURDERER.— SINGuLArt Cam—William Henry Sorman, aged 26, described in the calendar as a labourer, was indicted for stealing gold and silver moneys to the value of 501., the property of Wm. Hoof, his master. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution. The prisoner on being arraigned pleaded guilty, and handed in a paper to the bench, which was read by the Common Sergeant to the Court. It ran as follows:—" That your humble petitioner, in plead ing guilty to the offence with which he stands indicted, wishes the Court to take into consideration, that he was not a responsible agent at the time of committing the act, and that in committing that and other crimes, he dace but follow the path of destiny marked out for him. As, however, such crimes should not go un punished, he begged to make three propositions to the bench. The first was, that he (the prisoner) should play the Learned Judge a game at billiards, a hundred up the board. Secondly, that he should play him a game of draughts, best two out of three. Thirdly, he should play him either at chess or cricket; that if prisoner was the winner he was to be set free, and if on the con trary, he was content to be hanged by the neck on the following Morning till he was dead." Whilst this extraordinary petition was being read, the prisoner kept grinning and staring about the court in an apparently demented state. The Common Sergeant inquired of several of the officers, and also of Mr. Cope ,the governor of Newgate, under whose surveillance the prisoner has been, whether there was any ground for thinking him insane? They all said decidedly not. Mr. Clarkson then went on to state to the Court the facts connected with the case, which, as they have been so fully and recently before the public, we give in as brief a form as possible. The prosecutor was a builder at Kensington, and the prisoner a clerk in his employ. In the early part of the present year he was sent with the sum named in the indictment to make a payment on behalf of his master, with which he absconded. Ito then addressed him a letter, stating that he was an illegitimate outcast in society, going into a detail of robberies he bad committed, and that he had taken part in several murders ; and that on one occasion he had robbed the Custom-house in Calcutta, where he had a situation as clerk. Seve. ral of the robberies he confessed to as having been committed in Eng land were found to be true. Some time subsequent to the robbery on Mr. Hoof, he was met in Liverpool by a gentleman who knew him in the Custom-house in Calcutta, and he gave him in custody for the robbery committed there, and he was taken before the police authorities at Liverpool, who, having heard of the robbery committed on Mr. Hoof, at once sent him up to London, and the charge of rob bing the Custom-house at Calcutta was abandoned, in consequence of the difficulties of gaining a conviction. The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced him to seven years' transporta tion, observing that if there was any ground for supposing him in sane, there would be ample time to discover it before he left New gate; and then the sentence Gould be reversed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A lad, apparently about 16 or 17 years of age, who stated his name to be Richard Barton, presented a letter to Alderman Gibbs, requesting that the magistrates would be so good as to send bim, without charge, to Melton, in Yorkshire, as he was without money. There was something peculiar in the mode of applica tion, as well as in the appearance and address of the lad, and Alderman Gibbs asked him a few questions, the answers to which corresponded with the impression made by the applicant upon his introduction. Barton said that ho had been brought up in the stable; of Mr. John Scott, who was so well known on th d e ; ., u ee r n , and to whom he was bound apprentice, but he ha manner, deprived of both parents in a most melancholy and he most particularly felt the loss at the th present mo e head inn at mo ment. His father some y Club, and was years ago kept Mahon, was a subscriber to th u e going on most prosperously,.unt he ijno was a s t r drunkenan sp o e r z t c o e d s f he e r killed his wife, for which crime a es h i l d e e h d oy wit t h o life. For a considerable apptimethe his grandfather. He subsequently. hec l i a c m an e t ta r t Mr. John Scott, but hay th in e unfortunately consented to litth of July last, at Liver pool,.him, and_ broke his thigh. He ride a private match on . the horse fell with and as soon lay for a considerable time in the hospital , as he was able to move about, ho managed to go to Goodwood, where he saw Lord George Bentinck, who kindly paid his expenses to London, in the expectation that be should meet Mr. John Scott in the metropolis, but upon inquiry at the White Horse, in Piccadilly, ho heard that Mr. Scott had returned home to Yorkshire. AldeCulfill GUM *'lllo PIiKV lit which boy und er OLD COURT. (Before Chief Justice TINDAL and Mr. Justice PATTECON.) Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to have the case of Dr. Ellis, who is indicted for manslaughter in a case of hydropathic treatment, post poned till Saturday, which the Court allowed. Louisa Baptiste, a decently-dressed young woman, 23 years of age, was indicted for feloniously coining a halt-crown. William Binney, inspector of the G division of pol'ce, said, he went to a house in New-court, Duck-lane, Westminster, on May 23, between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. Oe going up stairs to the front room second floor, he found the door fastened outside and in. The door • was fastened inside by an upright plank, and a bar barricading that from the floor, mid similar obstructions were use i on the outside, giving the house the appearance of he ing unoccupied. When the police went in they saw the prisoner stand Mg by a large clear fire, having a plaster of Paris mould in her right hand, and a large iron spoon, containing white metal in a fluid elate, in her left. When she saw them she laid down the spoon on the hearth, took half-a-crown from a "get" on the chimney-piece, and threw it into the spoon, and then dashed the mould in her right hand into pieces. stamping on it with her feet. When they had secured her they found three Britannia metal spoons on the chimney piece, one of which had been partly melted, and a file, the teeth of which were filled with white metal. On being secured, she said, " You b—, you thought to have me to rights, but you have not ; if you had come half an hour before, you might have had me. You ought to have been searched before coming into the room dropping things as you enter." Constable 20 G produced in Court some pieces of copper wire, which he found wet with some fluid, and a piece of silver leaf attached, lying on the table, in the neighbourhood of two galvanic batteries,which had fluid in them at the time. He found also powder of plaster of Paris in the cupboad. The mould which she had in her hand was hot. The batteries were produced in Court, together with a pot of silver sand, two plate brushes which had been used on piaster of Paris, and several other articles. Mr. Field, inspector of the Mint, examined the pieces of metal pro duced, and the half-crown, and said they were Britannia metal. The batteries used were Ssnee's batteries ; the liquid contained in one bottle was a solution of salt of silver, and another bottle produced was full of a weak dilution of sulphuric acid taken from the batteries. He said the silver sand was used to give a polish to the coin after being taken from the mould, and the " get " spoken of by the officers was the superfluous metal, which must be detached from the edge of it. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ellis conducted the prosecution, and Mr. T. Payne defended the prisoner. Chief Justice TINDAL summed the evidence, and the jury after consultation returned a verdict against the prisoner of aiding and abetting, and being personally present. The Court sentenced her to seven years' transportation. Mr. CLARKSON applied to have the Post-office cases fixed to come en on Friday, as that day would best suit the convenience of the Attorney-General. The Court agreed to the application. Joseph Carter was placed at the bar, indicted for the wilful murder of John Oddy, by stabbing him in the belly, on the 19th of May, in the parish of St. Giles'e, Cripplegate. Mr. lIL7DDLESTONE introduced the case to the jury, and called Henry Mathews, a copper-plate printer, who stated that he was at the Crown public-house at the corner of 15nm-street, about nine o'clock on the evening of the 19th of May. There were several others present; and Carter, after the witness had been there some time, came in. Oddy was there when witness entered. Carter , on **ming in. wished to drink of a pot of beer standing on the counter which belonged to Oddy and his companion. Oticly said to him, he was a spungy beggar, and he should have no beer from him, and Carter thereupon appealed to a shoemaker with a wooden leg standing by, as to whether he was a spungy beggar. This man replied that he did not know, he never saw him spend any money. This produced a laugh. Four or five of them after that stood chaff ing and wrangling together, but Carter in a few minutes attempted to get up the pot again, and Oddy removed the pot with his one hand, keeping Carter off with the other, without, however, striking any blow. Carter stood for about a minute, muttered something to himself, gave a stamp with his foot, and went out. He returned in about a quarter of an hour, pushed the door open and looked in, upon which the wooden-leg man went towards the door and said, "Do you want me, Joe ?" Carter said something which witness did not hear, and nodded hie head to Oddy. Oddy rose to go towards the door, and as he was making thither, another said to him, " he has got a stick or a poker behind him." Oddy said, in reply to this, as he passed, " I'll stick him." The people, and witness among them, followed Oddy out to the door, and saw Carter back away from the door till he got within a foot or two from the corner of the street, which might be five or six yards from the door. Oddy put his left hand on Carter's shoulder, and lowered his right hand towards his skirt, as if with a view of disarming Carter of whatever hd had in his hand, and said, " Give it us, Joe, like a man," or something to ihat effect. Oddy was calm. Carter on this punched Oddy, as witness thought, two or three times, and Oddy bent double, saying he had gotten a severe blow, and was stabbed. Carter was tripped up by some other person, and the knife fell out of his hands through the grating. Henry Mathews cross-examined —lie believed that Oddy held up the pot, and said, " Now then shopmaie, drink with us. but when Carter went up, the pot was withdrawn, and Carter ap peared very much excited. Oddy, on his way to the door, said, "Let us see what the rascal has got." Samuel Bound, a boot-closer, was also at the Crow public-house. He said, Carter, on being called " a spungy beggar," appealed to the man with the wooden-leg, as to whether that was so, and the man your circumstances, should apply is, one would think, at Tattersall's. Barton said he was not known at Tattersall's. He had never been a jockey, although he had ridden horses upon trial. On the occasion on which he had broken his thigh, the gentleman for whom he rode the horse called Champagne, had promised to give him 5/., but all he ever received was 355., the owner having thought proper to deny that any such bargain had been made, Upon getting better of the injury, he applied to Lord George Bentinck, to whom he had the honour to be known, and who most humanely undertook to bring for ward his case in October next ; and, as he had said be fore, paid his expenses to London. All he wanted at present was a little money to defray his expenses to Mahon, where he had friends who would receive him, and supply him with the means of repayieg the amount most readily. Alderman GIBBS—HOW long have you been in London ? Barlow—l came on Monday into town, and have spent all I had got from the generosity of Lord George Bentinck, and I did not like to intrude upon his Lordship's kindness again, especially as he undertook to get justice done to me in October. I thought, there fore, of applying to Lord Mayor Johnson, for we hear a great deal in the country of his kindness to those who suddenly fall into micf.rtune. Alderman GIBBS directed that the lad should be kept in the infirmary in the Compter, under the care of the surgeon, until an opportunity of sending him home should occur. The account given by Barlow was by no means made for the sake of effect, but necessarily arose from the course of examination pursued by the Alderman, with the view of ascertaining whether the applicant was an object worthy of attention. The pre r fellow spoke of Lord George Bentinck as likely to obtain for him 5001., to which he believed he was entitled, by an arrargement made by his unfortu• nate father, previously to conviction on the dreadful crime of the premature and violent death of his mother. The Lord Mayor, almost immediately after this an plicstleo to Alderman Gibbs, reec ived a bank note for 5/., in a note enbscribed "T. W," requesting that his Lordship would appropriate the donat'on to the objects ha might in his judgment consider most deserving of assistance. A chimney-sweeper w'ts summoned for having emptied a quantity of soot, which had been deposited in his cellar, into some hoesheads which were ranged in a court before his door, v ry much to the annoyance and disgust of the immediate neighbourhood. The beadle of the ward, it appeared, bad, as he passed along the street, observed the court in a " desperate mess," and, upon approaching the spot where the hogs heads were ranged, sow, as well as he could see through a very thick mist, a man shooting soot from a sack into one of them. It appeared to the officer, that when he approached the person so employed, the soot seemed to descend with aggravated force, so that, if he had not at once retired, he would have closely resembled one of the fraternity. He could not, at the same time, positively say that the soot shooting had been increased in order to annoy him, or anybody else. Alderman GIBBS—Was the defendant the person who , raised the disagreeable dust ? Witness—l cannot say that he was. Tt e defendant said that he always employed a man of very clean habits to decart his soot, and the only way of doing the thing respectfully towards the neighbourhood was to drop it quietly into a hogshead, His wife always superintended the work. He had ten hogsheads nicely paced to take it all, and it might as well be said that a baker, in removing the principal article of his trade, committed a nuisance in the neighbourhood.—(A laugh.) The beadle declared that the nuisance was really dreadful. Whether by accident or intention, just as he went up to expostulate, the man who was depositing the , 00t shook a sack which he had just emptied, and the effect was quite smothering. Alderman GIBBS— Should you know that person again? The beadle said there were generally difficulties thrspvn in the way of recognising chimney-sweepers, when their presence was required under peculiar cir cumstances He feared that identification would be rather doubtful. The chimney-sweeper here stated that the only man he employed was in Court. A man in a white smock frock and with a remark ably clean face here appeared, amidst the laughter of the spectators. Alderman GIBBs (to the beadle)—ls that the man? —(Great laughter.) The beadle—lt is quite impossible to tell. We can never know them through the soap and water disguise. The journeyman sweep —Please your Lordship I'm never of a worse complexion nor lam now. We never goes up chimnies now. It was then as used to black people.—(Laughter.) Alderman Gnus—Well, I do not suppose that you committed this. with the intention to annoy the neigh bourhood, and I shall not inflict any penalty, especially as I have heard a very gond character of the defendant. If, however, you offend in this way again, it is in my power to inflict a penalty of 5L for every violation of the Act. The defendant then paid the expenses, and declared that he should take care to have the soot removed into the hogsheads under the roof of his own house in future. WORSHIP-STREET. Tue ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.---JaMed Young, a young man of stylish appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged on suspicion of having picked the pocket of a lady at the Cambridge station of the Eastern Counties Railway. Samuel Davey, one of the railway officers, stated that while on duty af the above station, shortly afler the arrival of the•two o'clock train from London on the preceding afternoon, he received in ferntation that one of the lady passengers, who bad Just gone on with the train to Norwich, had been robbed of her purse In the reft eshment-room. and the prisoner, whe had come up in the same carriage, was pointed out as the person suspected Witness accordingly kept a strict watch upon his movements, and observed that he never once left the premises uctil the return train to town was about to start, when, upon being asked if he intended to travel by it, the prisoner renlied in the affirmative, and produced a second-class ticket. Pirectly afterwards, however, he got into a first-class carriage, and on being cautioned by the witness that he had entered the wrong vehicle, the prisoner denied that such was the case, and exhibited another ticket for the first-class. The train then started, and the witness, who had previously observed the prisoner leave one of the private recesses, proceeded to search it, LATEST PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COO" PANIES' STOCE, From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TI7ENDAY AND FRLPAT • LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 16. JOINT-STOCK BILNICS. Name of Company. Australasia • • Britsh North American Commercial of London Colonial .. Londn and Westminstr London Joint-Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New... National of Ireland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. Ditto, New.... of Australia.... Union of L0nd0n..... Dividend er Annum. 6/. per cent. M. per cent. 5/. per cent. 51. per cent. 6/. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. 81. per cent. M. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. Amount of Share. $ i. d. 90 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 Paid. 5 . d. 40 0 50 0 20 0 0 n 25 0 v 20 0 7 A° 10 0 t o 0 25 ° 0 0 10 0 20 0 ; 35 0 v 10 0 0 25 0 10 0 ° INSURANCE COMPANIES. ------ ..-- Dividend Name of Company, per of Amount paid. Ye° Annum. Share. -- .-•••---. ...------• B , s u , d. x ,O ' Albion ••••••.. . • • • • • 3/. 10s 500 0 0 5 0 0 ifl! . i, Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 1 1 0 0 6 7, Ditto Marine... -• • 6/. per cant, 100 0 0 5 ,„ 0 1 6 Atlas . 135.6d.pra1i. 50 0 0 5 n u 0 7: British Commercial .. 7s.per share 50 0 0 2 5 - 0 " Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 lO 0 County ...... „ ...... 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 --- oh 10s. 50 0 0 5 , 0 v g Eagle • 6s. 50 0 0 ' 0 0 Eng. & Scot. Law .. • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 ~2 A - Id. 9° European Life ••.• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 .t 4 . 4 ` `O 5 0 „e Freemasons' ..... •• • • W. per cent. 20 0 0 3 ''" 1,, 41 i Globe Guardian .......• •. • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 4 . Imperial Fire • ....• • • 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 ) 0 Ibir , imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 1 29 Indemnity Marine •• • 1/. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 52 0 . 0 li Law Life. Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2. 0 l4l London Fire - 10s. 25 001210 0 04 London Ship •.•• - •• 10s. Marine .. ........... St. per cent. 1 2 00 5 0 0 0 0 1 15 2' 1 0 ° ° 1 4 0 0 IS Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 4% 1. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 210 0 91 National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 National Life..... • ... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 2/ °s. . 0 0 _,.,4* Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 ••• ' ll ," . --- PhomiX • 3/. - t 0 0 U. ! ' Protector Life. .. • Provident Life• • Rock Life.... Royal Exchange Si. per cent. Stock. - 210 Sun Fire . - -- 49 Ditto Life . 1/. 6s. - -- . ir; Universal Life LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPAN IES ' p Dividend Amount ' 111'4 Name of Company. per of raid. Annum. Share. __....- .... ....." -_-. ---- -- -- X 5. d. Z '' d 16 6 Bank of Scotland ...• • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 151 Royal Bank of Scotland Si. per cent. - 100.0 223 British Linen Company 81. par cent. - ,. ,0 0 16. Commercial Bank ...• 6/. per cent. - 100 '' l'' 10 0 () 90 National Bank.-- .• • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 02 Union Bank of Scotland 7% /. pr cent. - 50 0 0 li Western Bank ...... • • 6/. per cent. - 50 0 13 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 10 0 2 ii Clydesdale Bank.. .. .• 6/. per cent. - 10 v 4 Eastern Bank .....• • • 5/. per cent. - lO 0 0 14, Caledonian Bank - 5 0 13/4 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. - 10 0 0 .0. Oity of Glasgow per cent. - 0 0 i 414 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 in t 0 - 0 . 2 Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 ~ , a id, . 0 [num Co. of Scetlnd• • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 . 5 -" ,' 0 4 in 0 1 North British Insur..• 5% /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 Op Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 0 0 '- IQ 10 75 Edin!surgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 :; - 0 0 is Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 0 0 -„ , - sid. 15.4 Ditto, 4 Shares 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 ---- - 0 34 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0. 7 64 Glaskrw & Ayrshlr Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All P a . i d, 14 Glasgw& Green& Rail. 20. per cent. 25 0 0 ALL 1) .7d. 'i Glsgw& Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All 1)- ,,,d ,i Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 fu1.,. 1 ? -- 0 . i _".., Standard LifeAssamce.l 51. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 lu_i__.----- CANALS. 1 .; Names of II?, Dividend Names • Dividen d pfle tb Companies. Ics ' p er , Price. ' "1 I Per Companies. A Annuin• ......./ m ' Annum.' m ------ X , X 160 Ashtn& Olin 97 ! 51.55. pc t 70 Ifonmonthsh 100 81. 0 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 0 BB B ras a k n inn is kg l a e s 3 tA , o . kb . er . g 1 1 50 6 00 0 1 111. 180 Macclesfield. 100 41 Cromford 1 10„ Derby - Dudley 141.61. 18505 NE,N.eoeataktingth;ohrism-t.: 1 7 5 00 8 0 13.277/1... "'isio 6/. 73 Rochdale ..•. 85 41. ..„, 1 1 00 00 41. - Regent's .... 33 1L ss. ii Ellsmre&Chsl33, 4/. 55 Shropshire .. 125 V. 120 Erewash • • •11001 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71, 10s• i t Forth & Clyd 100 ! 4/. - GrandJunctn,loo! 71. Grand Union 100 1/. 108 . - 9534 Shrewsbury..StDirrdLkkfVd°ct 1 12 41 2 2 619 1 . 45 8P 1 i : c. 99 3 930 1: Glamorgnsh ~ 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. -. Glstr&Brkly: 00! - - Strtfrdou Av 19 11. 10S• 3P ~ Grantham • . ;150 121. 100 Severn and/ 2 6 IL 85. Huddersfield. 57, --- Wye Rail. Kent & Ant 39 7s. 6d. 10 Trnt &31r-i 50 301. --.. Lancaster - sey, U sh.j ..., Leeds&Livrp 1001 341. 520 Thams &Med 19 - Leicester !140 10/. 105 iWorcstr &/ 78 2 1 . 44 Leicetr&Nthi 831 4/. 60 1 Birming. II Goughboroghtl42l 701. 850 iWllts& Brks 67 IL WATER-WORKS. ~......./. Dividend Amount prio.° Name of Company. : per of Paid. - Annum. Share. ......,"' Nast L0nd0n.......... daueti.... .... K. -...,---- t . 1 1 4 0400 0 0 0 1 I s o o o3 , 5 4 0 0 . E va e u n . t. h . a .• •••••••••••• :::: .• : 210 51 3 . 21 p i. e r il° c : e s- n • 90 70 ',Vest Middlesex . - 51 Si.sl. ss. pr cnt. 63 12 9 - 130, DOCIES. ../ Dividend Amount Name of Compaay. per of Paid. i r ile'. Annum. Share. '........,. -- .----i• 1 X 1. d. ,Z is• d. ig commercial Vast and West India , Si. pr cant. ' Stock. 21 I East Country ••.• • • I,,mdon .• .... • ..• ••• 5/. pr cent. ; Stock. , 104_ , t. Katharine •••• • • •• 5 per cent. ' Stock. I — , -;outhampton • • I 4/. per cent. 150 0 0 5112...:...., mENT Or; [ADVFRTISIMENT.] —SPLENDID LOOKING-GLASS, producing the effect of a long arcade,n bewilil Ting as to cause a doubt whether you are in L in old Rome. ' " Arch follows arch, and pile neteeds to pile'' „ t he This unique apartment is devoted to cutting and arrang.lllB_, hair in, and with another having a beautiful view of NsPlae,ith, on the ground-floor. In calling attention to their eset4heir ment, Rocs and Sons beg to notice the advantag es m ien row London and Of system—viz.. they never take apprentices nor young out the country, nor object to custom , rs asking for the ne rn o r to wait upon them , every person has clean brushes, they o ot being used twice, without b e i ng w a s h e d ; an d parties a r ' sp a pressed to buy things they do not want. Address, R° s6 lee Sons, 119 and 120, Ilishopsgate-street, who likewise " lessons in hair-dressing. ,o 0 [ADVERTISEMENT.] —DEAFNESS AND DEFECT , VISION RELIEVED, 39. AtseantAate-STREET, Y Invented acoustic tubes, for relief of extreme deafness, and Inserted in the ear cannot be p e r ce i ve d by th e neares t obserwe':;. they are entirely different from all others, and are the smallest ne t , ing instruments constructed— measur i ng on l y a quarter o f an in' oh their widest part ; they ma y b e secure l y a dj uste d i n t h e eats ul i m r , served, and removed therefrom with as great ease and facility. wo of sons are enabled to join in general conversation, and to m a : re/ al , ' distinctly in a place o f w ors hip, & c ., an d w h at s h ou ld bee s . ,,, r vi"' Considered, a natural expansi o n o f th e cav ity o I t h e ear is PI; par' —a thickening or contraction of which in many instanc e :„ n t fief tially the cause of deafness— an d by th e i r use the unplea°l - 150 sation of singing noises in the cars i s en ti re ly obviated. tb' pr. , ved hearin g t rum p e t s o f ever y d escr i p ti on . ItrinaedL 3 . t- c isil; newly-invented spectacle lenses are placed before imperfe ct fi ppii either by day or candl e li g ht, th a t m i s t an d d a linese an d before the eyes is at once removed, every object becomes c, e h t distinct, so that the most aged defective sight beeomes brig e agy brilliant, and is brought to it s y ou thf u l, natural, and orig inal Also the most powerful achromatic telescopes, opera glasses' s, oeir O a ' microscopes. Caution—Messrs S. and B. Solomons, opticians' not in any way connected with a person of the same name Carle' immediate neighbourhood nor i n any ,„ part of the country. ° mistakes, he cautious, and observe—only to be had at 39, street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. QO.O - --A WONDERFUL PRE' Iltr4D TION OF LIFE B Y H OLLOWAY ' S OINTMENT AN D FILLS . ro od , M'Donald, lot 55, in Ring's County, Prince Edward's t . the made a public declaration before Joseph Ceffin, ju stic t e ti s C S peace at Bay Fortune. September 3, 1845, to the e ffect to'cl greater part of his nose and roof of his mouth were eaten tiwa_:; t oes , sides ulcerous sores in his fa ce an d l egs , w hi c h, from their % must shortly have deprived him of life, a n d that he ha d stored from the pitiable and miserable state he was in t,y Holloway's Pills and Ointment, an d thi s a f te r all othe r 0 0 1- treatment had failed.—Sold by all druggists, and at Pr ofessor loway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. t orn: BURIED ALIVE.—About ten o'clock yeStertisi a; ing some workmen were engaged pulling down some old l'°.'2,'," t iee the east end of the Tower, when the roof fell in, and buri . 7.%fter men under the ruins. They were got out in about half an st• the accident ,and taken in a boat from the Tower Stairs t° e° P Thomas's Hospital, where, o n exam i na ti on by the house sorb they were found to have received some very severe injuries. boo t STEAMBOATS.—In 1814 there was but one steam'" Der belonging to the British empire. During thirty years the P 11 27.; has increased to about 1,000 British steam-boats, which are ." vi gating to and from all parts of the world. BIRTHS. On the 14th of April, at Table Bay,74th B.N I . on hoard the Prince of W' ii l t l r st e m et 7; i g rs h . , ri th . e .m w . if c e l o ar f k 7 of e the lady of Captain Henry William Leacock, ~ of a soVs . „ R. O F n o t r l r i e eg h t, th of in a s s t o ., n a . t Gurlitt-e c tr e as or s g e . ,_ On the 12th inst., ill Great da Onu;nter. the 13th inst., at Herne -hill, Mrs. J. D. Welch of a daughter•of G roooinsnbtttaiiii,:enee ..91s1i3:3:ttehib:itsi,iti .i.i., inst., the :o t oun h ni.. e p nt N og v n i t f o, e i El , o s t : he ex C , wife t a it i ee l r le Rich Tyerman, Eoq" fadras Civil service, of twins. of Charles telly, Von-hill, the wife of J of the 3 OO olsadftyhe Rey. N. A. G l: Gi?iiaiiitillielolo4tlyb, inst., s s q t .., oaftaSiedoznie.y Cottage, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Tunbricil aege. f , g i ige-well3, the wife of Mr. S' :C . _ Oxford-street, of a son. A On tho 12th inst., at ow - grove, Mlle-end, th e lady - o f Tb olol Colyer, Esq , of Parrock-hall, Milton, of a daughter. Wi f e or On the 13th inst., at ClArecue-terrace, Regent's-par k , t he G. Reid, Esq., of a daughter. _..../ Da A p t hu V e, a t l to abr aotoi:esL,LieutenantMug-B4:atreßrrileoffpßc., Army. .o N I Ze o l f lVo her od , 3 0 1 f ai t elgiatl(: : 1 !": On the 11th inst , at At. Mary Abbott's, Kensington, Charles '';:{(,11 0 Esq., to Sophia Lio ne l, youngest daughter of the late Colonel ' HookOn the 10th inst., at Bradford, Yorkshire, George John OuF vot uclo , Req., surgeon, Newi ng t on -pl ace , K enn i ngton , t o Louisa" d f o rd• eldest daughter of W. H. Holloway, Esq., of Eldon-place, Bra „ EA. , On the 13th inst., at St. Pa n cr a s Ch urc h, J. H a llett BroschZ late M.D., of Euston-square, to Frances Elizabeth, daughter of '.' W. Fisher, Esq., of Muswell-hill. WO Ma rk On the 13th inst., at St. James's Church, William OOO Esq., Coldstream Guards, to Amelia Jane, youngest doug h ''' . late Sir Robert Williams, Bart, of Penryn. ~,,i s, C At St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh, Sir Robert Afei- dart gh - Menzies. Bart., to Anne P,ulcr..rras Alston Stewart, young est r are, ter of the late Major James Alston Stewart, of Urrard, Per L............. DIED. cwitze" On the 7th inst., at Florrissant Renens, near Lausanne, in .. landOn the I I , Commander John Soager, R.N. reeely th inst . Emma, wife of F. F. Whitehead, Esq. , of hill; Saddleworth, Yorkshire. ork On the 11th inst., at North Town, Maidenhead, William C3O Esq., aged 83. daughter °f the On the 13th inst., Frances Cramer Roberts, only daug— late T. C. Roberts, Esq., of Braniold, Kent, aged 21. Xtr e'' On the 15th inst., Lillies. the wife of Mr. John Chen' , of " buildithengs, Great Twer-stre. On 15th inst., at Broom et field, near Chelmsford, Thoniaa C lifilil. Esq., aged 70. ____--.....••••••___----- lif, London: Printed and Published by MATED° YOUNG, of - ' ° ;cinst Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Pr 1,00 of the Sayoy, la On County of Kiddleias• ..T 111414°/ ' 044. and having discovered there an empty purse, ho in,tantly cnmm' . . cated the fact, and a description of the prisoner's person at the office of the electric tele rriph, with directions for their transmission to London, that the prisoner might he secured on his arrival. William Henry French, a clerk at the Shoreditch terminus, de posed to having received the telegraph announcement in little more than half a minute after it had been made at Cambridge, so that or, the train reaching London about three hours subsequently, he gave orders for the prisoner's apprehension. Pollee-constable Lee, G 177, stated that he received charTe of the prisoner, who exhibited the utmost confusion on hearing the nature of the charge, and upon searching him at the station-house, a lady's gold watch, together with two sovereigns, some silver. and a Penknife were found in his possession. He was subs, quently co? , fronted with Hereington, an officer of the detective force, who instantly recognised him as an accomplished member of the " swell mob," and stated that he was well known on the other side of the water. Mr. Games, who attendeded for the prisoner, submitted that there was no evidence whatever to establish the accusation, but Mr. BINGHAM eonsiCeirred the whole of the prisoner's conduct was so rife with suspicion that he felt it his duty to remand him for the production of further evidence, but he had no objection to accept bail fer his appearance, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 50/.each. HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the Maidstone Journal of Tuesday.) Marusroxn.—With the exception of the college ground and part of one adjoining, our hop-gardens are in a most filthy condition, tha lower leaves turned black, emitting a disgusting odour and covered with vermin of various sorts. The " college ground" is still very clear of vermin in the centra, which part seems rather over poled and the bine weakly. It is, however, by no means out of danger, as there are fresh fly every day. In our report last week a mierrint occurred ; the year 1825, when the growth was 24,317/. Os. 114(1., being called 1826. There were then about as many acres in plant as now—say 46,718.) FARLEIGH.—We have a decided decrease of fly, and the bine has a better countenance. Notwithstanding, there is a large quantity of lice, particularly at the outside, when, at the same time, the middle grounds are almost clean. OTHAM.—The hops in this and neighbouring parishes continue growing vigorously, and branching out well, not withstanding the fly and lice remaining very numerous, the hot weather appearing not to diminish them. The "nigger" has within these few days come to their rescue. Mid summer is near at hand, when the sap will be checked for a few days, thereby giving some hopes of getting rid of the vermin before the midsummer shoots or branches make their appearance, in which case a good crop may yet be got. If, on the other hand, the fly should continue and attack the midsummer branches, it will prove fatal to a crop. MEREITORTH.—Improving, blue growing fast, and vermin dying away, the fly gelding and nigger making havoc with the lice. PLAXTOL, WR.OTHANI, SHIPBOURNE.—The hop plant in this neighbourhood still continues to thrive luxuriantly, not with,tanding the increase of vermin. The fly golding and nigger have increased greatly, and their increase has much allayed the alarm caused by the increase of the fly; upon the whole there is certainly not so much vermin as there was at the beginning of the week. LINHAM.—In consequence of the favourable weather during the last week, the hops have grown rapidly—the vermin have considerably decreased, but there is still much room for improvement on this account. TUNBRIDGE.—The hops about here are looking, if pos sible, worse than last week. There is less fly, but the lice have multiplied by thousands. The bine still continsea to grow, though in many places completely covered with honey dew, and the vermin reach the top immediately. Some persons think there is still hope, if a change should take place within a week; bat many are of opinion that the im mense quantit7 of vermin will so reduce the strength of the bine that it will not be able to recover. SEVENOAKS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.—Our " Holrnesdale correspondents " say the hops below the hill are much worse_ than they were. There has been an immense amount of honey dew and fly produced during the last few days, 01 . bine is absolutely covered with these destructive little animals; still it is perfectly astonishing to n . candidly ass these attacks, the healthy tone the bine m ain . tai n a r t s i . ce iTp " Ridge" it is the same, and we must r these “grv.v that we cannot account for the continuance 0 and the very hot ances." Despite our augury last week,‘ ur°en3t-ohue think nothing but a sunshiny days we have had, we your talented cor thunder storm can do respondents tell the people e - of the hot weother during have n grown considerably, but what the past week the hops n co - n l ad honey dew they have somewhat s e eg the I c y with the increase of fly . • o On Sunday there were partial falls of rain in declined in quality, o m p n h g i et with s i a l i hi o nY l n i a° t s i t t l y t e d h oo e t fe h s e u s d n t estimated toe ddThe u duty o be set lower. the county. accompanied is laid as something below 100,0001. General accounts state that the fly and lice have increased. Some grounds have much honey dew, and appear to be going off with a blight ; cr i i s still th is g d ro is w t i ri n c g t all of which lead some growers t o d espair altogether of realising a crop. eo The n t binss from FANHAM. u f a as re t. R pretty much there the same as elsewhe re . Si ncb 1822 never was so much vermin as this year. Nothing,s, total black blight. tt is thought, can p re vent a The Marquis of Norrnanby and suite embarked at Blackwall Pier, on board the G.neral Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship, for Ostend. Sir E. Banks, yesterday morning, FIRE AT DEVONPORT.—At half-past three A.M. on Sunday, a fire broke broke out in the malt-house of Mr. Thomas Husband's brewery, at Morice Town. Engines from the dockyard, Caledonia, and belonging to the town and fire-ofiir•ea, were soon in attendance, and the suction hose of the dockyard engine having been placed in a large tank on the premises, the delivery was so powerful that the slate:: were driven off the roof by the concentrated body of water, and the flames were speedily extinguished, the damage, Which 1111 8Itt iIATP beta west eatttaSiVe, beill3 only Datvroeu 3001. WOW. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCKS AND XIIILDIMCIII/1111 JUNCTION. The time of the Committee was taken up this morning in settling the question relating to the crossing of the Blackwell Railway on a level. It was eventually agreed between the parties that this part of the scheme should not be carried out if the Board of Trade be of opinion that it was incompatible with the convenient and proper working of the traffic of the Blackwall line. The Committee then pronounced the preamble of the 8111 to be proved. The remainder of the day was occupied In discussing and settling the clauses of the Bill. The Committee adjourned at the usual hour. GROUP LVII. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning, Mr. F. Baring in the chair. LONDON AND EIRMINGHA.M RAILWAY CANAL ARRANGEMENTS, AND DUDLEY AND BIRMINGHAM CANAL AMALGA• MATZOH'. The Committee were occupied the whole of the day in settling and arranging the clauses and details of this Bill. The Committee adjourned at an early hour. GROUP LVIII. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, and went through the clauses of the Hall and Selby Railway Purchase Bill. The Committee adjourned early. GROLTI' LII. SCOTTISH CONSOLIDATIONS. The Committee assembled at twelve o'clock ; Sir J. Duckworth in the chair. It will be remembered that the business of this Committee was begun by hearing the case of the Monklands and Kirkintilloch Company, who by their Bill hold a power to pur chase the Garnkirk, Monkland, and Kirkintilloch line on the deposit of 30,0001. The power was now resisted on the ground of an alteration of circumstances, and the Caledonian Company, who ap peared by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, resist the transfer, on the plea that it will divert . the traffic from their line, and do so injuriously to the country, as it would instead of passing directly from the north and south have to go round by the Glasgow and Edinburgh line, and thus give to that company a monopoly of the district between those two places. There were also several other purchases which have to be made, and the real question is as into whose hands the management shall fall. Alter hearing counsel In continuation this morning, the Committee adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow, when it is undaritood their decision will be given. GROUP LXIV. _ .. This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, and re sumed the oonsideration of the MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN (RETTLIAN. GAR AND ATRLONE). __ _ Mr. Sergeant MCRPHT, on the part of the competing ling suggested that in the list of the company there had been an omission of several names. This was admitted by the counsel for the Bill The room was cleared, and on our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had come to the determi- nation of suggesting to the counsel for the projectors of the Irish Great Western Company to specify the corporation purchasing the line. Mr. Sergeant McsPrtY said that he bad uo objeotion to adopting the proposed amendment in the preamble. After a technical discussion of some length, the Committee adjourned. GROUP LXV. This Committee met this morning at the usual hour, Dr. Bowring in the chair. GREAT LEINSTER AND MUNSTER (No. 11. EIZZZINNY TO CI.ONMEZ). The CII.IIII3IAN asked what had been done to carry into effect the arrangement which had been come Ito yesterday respecting the agreement for compensation ? Mr. nextailic, on the part of Sir E. Kearney, one of the op posing landowners, stated that an agreement had been drawn up and handed to the promoters for their signature. Mr. CLEMENTs—Yes, but the document has been only handed to us two minutes ago, and it required some time to consider a solemn instrument like that. It was then agreed that the Committee should then adjourn till two o'clock, to allow time for that purpose, On the re-assembling of the Committee, Mr. PicKERING said that he had received the agreement with cer tain amendments and alterations. After a short consultation the agreement, with a few alterations, was agreed upon by both parties. The CnatastaN then announced that the preamble of the Great Leinster and Munster (No. 2—Kilkenny to Clonmel) Bill was proved. The clauses of the Bill were then passed, and the Bill ordered to be reported. The Committee then broke up. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Leriships met this morning at one o'clock, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair. Present the Marquis of Winchester and Lord Hawarden. There were eight Bills on the list, all railway Bills. MIDLAND (LEICESTER AND SWANNINGTON ALTERA TION AND BRANCHES). MIDLAND (NOTTINGHAM AND MANSFIELD BRANCH). In both these cases the standing orders had been complied with. KILMARNOCK AND TROON. This ease stood over till to-morrow. Their Lordships then resolved themselves Into a Select Committee on Merits. The list included but three Bills, two of which were branches of the Great North of England Railway. The case of the AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM AND BOSTON, AND EASTERN COUNTIES JUNCTION, was opened, and some witnesses called, but the farther hearing was adjourned till Friday. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND (BOROUGHBRIDGE BRANCH). GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND (BEDALE BRANCH). These cases were again called on and finally disposed of, being passed, with an amendment in accordance with the determination expressed by the Committee on Saturday, that at all level crossings on public roads lodges should be erected as well as gates. Their Lordships then resumed the form of a Standing Orders Com mittee, and proceeded with the five Bills remaining on the list. SCOTTISH CENTRAL (ALLOA BRANCH). SCOTTISH CENTRAL (PERTH TERMINI AND STATIONS). The promoters of these Bills had complied with the standing orders in both cases. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN (FARNHAM AND ALTON BRANCH). A similar decision was made in respect of this Bill. GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND 310NKLA.NDS JUNCTION. This Bill was also passed, the standing orders being proved to leave been complied with. DUNBLANE, DOUNE, AND CALLANDAR. This was the last Bill on to-day's list. The case stands over, and will be proceeded with to-morrow. The Committee rose shortly before four o'clock, and adjourned till to-morrow at two. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Jung 17. The SPEAKER took the Chair at twelve o'clock. PE PORTS. The following reports were brought up, and the Bills ordered to be engrossed :—Allhallows Tithes; East Lanca shire Railway (Deviation and Branches); London and Bir mingham Railway (Weeden and Northampton) ; North Wales Railway ; Sheffield General Cemetery ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, and North Wales Mineral Railway Amalgamation ; South-Eastern Railway (Chislet to Margate). TD READIN. The following Bill H s were read a third time and passed : Glasgow Municipal, Police and Statute Labour; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge Branch) ; Kennington-lane, &c., Light ing, &c. ; Newmarket and Chesterford Railway:; Newport and Pillgwenlly Waterworks ; St. Helen's Canal and Rail way; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Rail way (Whaley-bridge and Hayfield Branches) ; Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Dakinfield, Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station Enlargement) ; Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Newton to Crewe, with Branches); Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway (Methley, Askern, and Oakenshaw Branches). WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT AND GOOLE RAIL WAY BILL. Sir J. Y. BILLER moved the further proceeding on the third reading of this Bill, which was read a third time and passed. ___ NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY BILL. The Lords' amendments on this Bill were read, and agreed to. SITES IN SCOTLAND. Mr. BOYD presented petitions from the ministers and con gregations of various places in Scotland, praying the House to facilitate the obtaining of sites for building places of worship. SMALL TENEMENTS BILL. Various petitions from places in England were presented in favour of and against this Bill. UNIVERSITY TESTS (SCOTLAND). Mr. LOCKHART presented several petitions against any Bill that might have for its object the alteration of the ex isting testa in the Universities of Scotland. Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions in favour of the Bill for obtaining sites for churches in Scotland. Mr. P. M. STEWART presented several petitions to a similar effect. RAILWAY GAUGE. Sir G. CLERK announced that he was not disposed to make any objection to the amendments which had been made to some of the resolutions he had proposed in the debate last night. Mr. DENISON was about to address the House, when he Mr. FOX MAULE, who rose to order. He wished to sue m b r o . rd n e r A s w ha L d s pr w ec is e k t i know whether that order of the day had precedence over the w ot a h: ErsA.KER said that in matters of public business could not be pressed forwcardktnoo ehirneotserdrrpeupted by e. to ra w , 0 rr ow whether,at the e e t i r m es e o o l resolutions t i p o r n i Is va A te business A conversa then ensued, in w h4 e h t( e r r . B Fox MAktn.w, Sir Jamrs GRAHAM, and other Hon. which of th e or d ers should have the p na recedexi o c i e ne llu , : Is ti t l o e discussion was put an end to by Sir GEORGE CLERK con senting to postpone the further debate on his resolutions until to-morrow. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY BILL. Mr. MILNER GIBSON moved, " That it b e an instruc the Dir tion to the rs Commi the BristoGl ee onGroup 18, to h ear t h e petition from ecto d and E their Yeovil and Taunton Branch. aster Rail way , relative to takenW A Y before BILL. the After a few words from Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, .he motion was withdrawn. Lik en/e l ' Mr. S i - on Grou 58 Committee P , now sitting. be referred to the Co agreed to. BRISTOL TAN TAONNP movedGLO GLOUCESTER theTEeßv i d Committee last year on . the Bristol and Gloucester Railway The motion was , A short discusslon then ensued as to the gauges, which was put a stop to'bY d tI ° the Bid ctraefle, Eight 1100. friend, the Vice-rrezt ea .„ . Sir JANIS GRAHAM interposing,. _and saying th at his