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IMPORTANT DECISION TO RAIL- WAY PASSENGERS IN SCOTLAND. In the Small Debt Court, on Thursday last, a case was tried before Mr. Sheriff Campbell, at the instance of Elizabeth Caldwell, Kilbarchan, against the Ayrshire Railway Company, in which points of considerable im portance to passengers by railway, and also to railway directors, were elicited. The pursuer, and several others, bad taken third-class tickets from Paisley to Cochran Mill station, where they intended to land. On reselling that station, the passengers endeavoured in vain to open the carriage door. They then cried for some one to come and open it, but nobody came until the train was started, when a man came forward (it was not proved whether it was the guard or a person uncon nected with the company), and opened the door, and took out the passengers, including a woman and child, while tho train was running. In the hurry, one of the passengers leaped upon the skirt of the pursuer's gown and tore it, and it was for the value of the gown so torn that the action was brought, on the ground that sufficient time had not been allowed for the passengers to land before starting the trait. Three witnesses were examined for the pursuer, who concurred in stating the case as we have narrated it. Two witnesses, the guard, and the manager at the station, were offered for the de fence, but not examined, an objection having been taken to the competency of the guard, that he would have to pay the damages to the Company, in the event of the pursuer obtaining decree. The Sheriff, after shortly runuing over the evidence, pronounced decree, with full expc nses, against the Company. After pronouncing de cree, the Sheriff remarked that he was sorry the pre sent was not the only complaint that bad been made to him of the short time allowed for passengers to land at tho different railway stations, nor of the difficulties ex perienced by passengers at landing. It required the strength of a man to open the carriage- doors, and in the case of women either travelling by themselves or with children it was often impossible fur them to get out in the time allowed at the stations, and nobody would say that they were not proper parties to travel by railway. Passengers should be allowed to collect their senses, and be made aware of the stations, and not hurried out. But, added the Sheriff, I would be even inclined to go a step further, and say that it is not the duty of railway passengers to open the carriage doors at all, but that this should be done by the Company or their servants, and he strongly impressed upon the railway directors to attend to this in future, and not expose the lives and property of the public in the way hitherto done. The Learned Sheriff's remarks were most attentively listened to by a crowded Court, and we have no doubt they will produce the requisite effect in the proper quar ter, an object which the pursuer considered of far more importance than the value of the gown.—Glasgow Sa turday Pose. THE BONE-CRUSHING SYS7E3I. REPORT of the SECRETARY of the POOR-LAW CONIMISSIONERS on BONE-CRUSHING. There appear to be two sorts of bones used in agri culture : Ist, the bones of commerce, from which all the gelatine fat and animal juices are boiled out—a pro cess necessary, it is stated, to prevent decomposition, and accidents and annoyance during their transport. In this state the bones consist chiefly of phosphate of lime, carbonate of lime or common chalk, phosphate of magnesia, soda, and cartilage ; and in this state are eold by the manure companies and preparers of ma neres, and are stated to be inoffensive, and compara tively uninjurious. 2dly, " green bones "—those in which the gelatinous and other animal matter is re tained in the same state in which the bones are collected by the bone-gatherers and others, from amidst dunghills and heaps of ashes and refuse. Inasmuch as the smell is referred to in the paper be fore me, it is inferred that the objection is taken to the process of crushing the green bones, i. e. those bones which give off putrid emanations; and it is the eligibility of the proeeas of crushing such green bones, as fitting work for the inmates of workhouses, that is hereafter considered. There does not appear to be any recorded or precise observations as to the specific effect of putrid emanations from bones or from bone dust ; but there are no general facts now more clearly ascertained than that all putrid emanations from decaying animal matter are noxious, that " the effects of such miasma are manifested imme diately on all surrounding human life (and there is evi dence to believe they are manifest in their degree on animal life generally), in proportion to the relative strength of the destructive agent, and the relative strenkh or weakness of the beings exposed to them. The effects are seen first on infants, then on children, in the order of their age and strength, then on females, or on the sickly, the aged, and feeble ; last of all, on the robust workmen, and on them it appears on those parts of the body that have been previously weakened by excess or by illness."—( Vide Supplement to the Sanatory Re port for the general character of the evidence to support this conclusion, paragraphs 5 to 11.) In general, the work of bone-crushing appears to have been undertaken by stout able-bodied men, on whom the influence of noxious effluvia is not commonly immediately manifested, nor likely to be observed ; but particular instances are known where it was observed that nausea, inability to take food, was the result on healthy independent labou Tors, when employed in crushing bones from which the putrid emanations were strong. The same labourers sustained no nausea or inconvenience whatever during prolonged employment in loading, unloading, and spread ing dung. The conclusion would be, from all such information as appears to be applicable to the subject, that the process is one which if it were carried on by independent la bourers, as a matter of private speculation, that would come, ji)rtieri, under consideration with other processes in manufactories where deleterious processes are carried on, and on which it has been submitted to the Legisla ture for decision, whether they ought not to be placed under authoritative regulations, with a view not only to the protection of the public from the emanation as common nuisances, but for the protection of workmen engaged in conducting them (vide Sanatcry Report, page 256 to page 261, on the employers' influence on the health of workpeo pie, by regulation of their pieces of work), and whether this process of crushing green bones is not one which, from its peculiar offensiveness to the smell (and the smell is in respect to emanations from decaying animal as well as vegetable substances, the faithful monitor of causes injurious to the health), ought to be required to be conducted under chimneys, or with appropriate appliances to carry away effluvia, and to pro tect the workmen from inhaling the dust, which will be more injurious than the effluvia ? If protective legisla tive provisions on this principle were adopted for the protection of independent workmen, there could be little doubt that the process in question will be comprehended within them as being at least as injurious and offensive es several processes which the Building Bill before Par .. eament proposes to exclude for the future from the me se c nolis. It would seem to follow, that the remedy which it were desirable to apply by legislation for the abate ment of the nuisance arising from the process when car ried on as a private trade, should be applied to the pro cess now that it is brought within the cognisance of a public authority. The question then arises, whether it es practicable to conduct the process with proper care, and with the re9uisite protective appliances, when that process is carried on as an incident to the ordinary workhouse management ? It is assumed that it is not practicable to do so, exaept at an expense of labour that will outweigh its advankres. )11r. Tufnell states, " that' the boxes used for crush ing the bones should always be perfectly dry, and brokers under en open shed, when the smell or effluvia is next to nothing." If these conditions be obtained, and if the effluvia be reduced to " next to nothing," then undoubtedly the "injurious effects will be reduced to next to nothing, and there would be nothing to object to in requiring this labour to be performed by young able-bodied men. This statement cannot, however, be taken to the letter, as it is obvious that bone' enclosed only in a box, with an open top, in a shed, without any contrivance of a chimney, or funnel, to create a draught and carry away the effluvia which the box will freely give off, could not be inoffensive. The air contained in them being, how ever, more diluted, will, to some extent, be less noxious than if the process were carried on in a closed chamber; but the process would still, pro tonic), be an injurious one, even to 3oung labourers, if kept to such labour for any great length of time. But it is to be borne in mind, that " able-bodied paupers" will not, in general, be of the most robust class. Those whom the guardians may often be the most disposed to set to work will be those whom they consider to be the worthless class, the idle and the dis sipated. Now the dissipated will be pre-disposed to all inch deleterious influence by their dissipation ; they may be deserving of punishment, but punishment cannot legally he mixed up with relief, nor would exposure to nausea and a fit of illness, be a mode of punishment re cognised. Mr. Tufnell considers bone-crushing to be a sort of employment " peculiarly suitable to the semi able-bodied, a class very difficult to deal with, and who may be very easily set to work in this way." Now, on the principle above cited, as conclusions from medical evidence as to the increased effect of putrid emanations in proportion to the weakness of the persons exposed to them, the semi-able-bodied is a chess on whom, as being doubly susceptible, such exposure must at least be doubly injurious. It is, moreover, to be considered that the workhouse, besides being a place of work, according to the ability of the parties received, is also to be viewed and dealt with as a hospital, and a place of reception for the sick and convalescent, and very young children, and of weakly and susceptible persons ; it is therefore a place front which all deleterious effluvia should be excluded, a place for which such a process and traffic as that in question is peculiarly unfitted; for though decaying bones may be placed in the outhouses, yet it may be presumed that it will be an object of difficult attainment so to con fine the fumes as to prevent them being carried into the house, and amidst the susceptible classes of inmates. It may be that with the very little attention that has hitherto been paid to the effect of such influences on health, the deleterious effect of the putrid emanations from decaying bones will not be greater than those to which the inmates of most workhouse a are still exposed (the effluvia from cesspools, and bogholes, and draing, for example) ; but on that very account additions should nog be made to the existing depressing agencies. But now that the operation, and causes of disease, of such agencies is better understood, the whole should be re moved. ply an extent of skilful arrangement and care which there is no security or reasonable expectation %NM bo be applied to the work when conducted under ordinary workhouse management : That although, when the emanations are not highly offensive, or where the bones are not in an active state of decomposition, they may be housed or worked with impunity, by healthy labourers, yet, on account of the greater susceptibility of the sick and the weakly inmates, no materials giving off such emanations ought to be brought within the precincts of workhouses: It is considered that the process of bone-crushing ought not to be indiscriminately sanctioned as an eli gible mode of setting paupers to work. But beyond the nature of the employment itself, the terms on which it is recommended for adoption by Mr. Tufnell, and by some of the guardians, if any dependence is to be placed on the newspaper reports transmitted with the documents, appear to imply mistakes as to the prin ciple'of the law, and deviations in the practice, which re quire some observations. The employment is recommended by Mr. Tufnell be cause "it is very hard work, and from their not being accustomed to it, very disagreeable to paupers." One of the guardians of the Honiton Board is reported to have said that he thought bone-crushing might be advan tageously continued as " a test." Now it may be questioned whether any part of the law justifies the application of any process, simply and solely as " a test." Any poor person being in danger of perishing from destitution, having no means to maintain him," that is, having no work whatever, is, in the terms of the 43d Elirtbeth, to be relieved by being " set on work" out of the funds provided under the authority of that statute ; the sort of work specified in the statute appears to be ordinary and usual occupations on "necessary wares and stuffs." In return for such work he receives relief, and the condition on which such relief ought to be given is thus stated in the report of the Commissioners of Poor.law Inquiry:— "The first and most essential of all conditions, a prin ciple which we find universally admitted, even by those whose practice is at variance with it, is that his situation on the whole shall not be made really or apparently so eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of the lowest class. Throughout the evidence it is shown that in proportion as the condition of any pauper class is elevated above the condition of the independent labourers, the condition of the independent class is de pressed, their industry is impaired, their employment becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is diminished. Such persons are, therefore, under the strong est inducements to quit the less eligible class of labourers and enter the more eligible class o paupers. The con verse is the effect when the pauper class is placed in its proper position, below the condition of the independent labourer. Every penny bestowed that tends to render the pauper's condition more eligible than that of the in dependent labourer is a bounty on indolence and vice." All this is true, and yet if the applicant have " no means" to maintain him, if he be in the position con templated by the statute of Elizabeth, however simple the fare, and hard the task of ordinary and useful work, being saved from the consequence of having "no means" to maintain him, it is still relief which he receives, and the provision is still a beneficent one. In another part of the report of the inquiry, p. 264, it is stated as an incident to the carrying out of this prin ciple, "that the offer of relief on the principle suggested by us, would be a self-acting test' of the claim of the applicant." _ "It is shown throughout the evidence that it is de moralising and ruinous to offer to the able-bodied of the best characters more than a simple subsistence. The person of bad character, if ho be allowed anything could not be allowed less. By the means which we pro pose, the line between those who do, and those who do, not need relief, is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on which relief is given to the destitute, he gets nothing, and if he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim— namely, his destitution." The test is still the incident to the principle on which the relief is administered, the pauper is still relieved by being " set to work." All the examples of dispauperised parishes cited by the Commissiont rs of Inquiry were by setting the applicants on work, on ordinary and usual work of the character of the work specified by the statute of Elizabeth, but it appears to he going not only beyond the terms of the comment of the Commissioners of In quiry, but beyond any terms of the law itself, to erect the mere incident into the principal and sole objects of the law. When used in such a manner as above recited, and with such a process, the man is popularly under stood to be (and it is to be feared is often intended to be) " tested," as a coin is tested by the application of nitric acid, or aquafortis, and then put aside without any further care if he star.ds the test. The law directs work to be given as the inseparable condition of the benefit, and as a relief, and not as " a test." But when it is stated that that which is of little or no use as labour, is valu able, and to be retained as a "test," a course is taken to bring the law into odium, to excite opposition against it, and by the injudicious use of the word " test," justify the declamation against its administration, that its real intent is to " torment" the paupers. To an idle and vicious man, any work such as an in dependent labourer executes with cheerfulness, may be disagreeable, but it is only on the condition of his being set on work, however disagreeable, that the statute of the 43d Eliz tbeth allows him to receive relief. In prin ciple, and according to the fair interpretation of that statute, the usual and ordinary work should be such as may offer no temptations to an idle man, but present no ground of fear to an industrious one, that if he take the employment he will be subject to a fit of illness, or to any severity that is to operate not as proper labour, but simply and solely as a test. If the word were taken from their report, which dues not appear, the Commis sioners of Inquiry mat fairly complain that no precau tion can protect any term from perversion, when a word used as characterising an incident is coined into a phrase, and used as above described in the face of such illustrations as the following : " A further advantage of extended districts, the unions, say the Commissioners, arises from the com• parative facility of providing for the paupers' useful employment Opportunities for such employment are wanting in many parishes; in others exist in forms too large to be undertaken, and is still more numerous in stances exist uselessly, in consequence of the jealousies which always act most powerfully in small neighbour• hoods. It appears that one of the first preliminary measures must be the preparing for the able-bodied more of this employment than we believe that they will accept." "Emplovment of some kind can indeed be always provided, but it appears to us that it ought to be useful employment. Parish officers, whilst they have had suf ficient labour of this description before their doors, in their unwillingness or their inability to take upon them selves the trouble of superintendence, or to make any immediate pecuniary sacrifice for the purpose of enforc ing the performance of that labour, have resorted to the expedient of sending paupers on fictitious errands, with hvikets full of stones, or blank paper, directed as letters, and other devices of the same nature, obviously intended to torment them. Such contrivances are pernicious in the revengeful feelings which they generate in the minds of the paupers themselves, and they are also pernicious in exciting sympathy in behalf of the indo lent and vicious, and in the obstacles which they create to the use of legitimate labour and salutary discipline ; we believe that they ought to be carefully prevented. The association of the utility of labour to both parties, the employer as well as the employed, is one which we consider it most important to preserve and strengthen, and we deem everythinr, mischievous which unneces saril y gives to it a repulsive aspect. At the same time we believe that in extended districts the requisite sources of employment will be easily found. The supply of the articles consumed in workhouses and prisons will afford a large outlet for the manufactures carried on in the house ; and with respect to out-door employment, it is probable there are few districts to which such evi dence as that contained in the following extracts would not be applicable." The work exemplified is town drainage, and road making and road repair. It may be asserted that, in general, public work may be found within the district of the union, possessing the dualities recommended, if the officers Entrusted with the local administration of the law exercise due diligence. The recommendation of such a process as that in question, because it is easy of application, because it is efficient, that is to say, severe as a test, may amount only to this, that it saves the union officers the trouble of providing and superintend ing useful and less objectionable stock, or materials on which to set the applicant on work, or, in other words, pauperises the officer at the expense of the pauper. The doctrine propounded, that no work should be undertaken which interferes with private labour, is open to much observation. Its application to the process in question is mistaken in fact, as it will be seen from the price current of measures, and their prices in London in October last, given in Mews. Johnson and Shaw's Agri cultural Almanac for this , tear, that bone-dust is a re eular article of manufacture and private commerce. DUEL,--A letter from Munster states a duel took place close to that town, under the sanction of one of the tribunals of honour now established throughout the Russian army. It appears that Baron de Denkhaus, a lieutenant of the 11th regiment of Hussars, having, when playing billiards, used some insulting expression to Lieut. de Bounhart, of the 13th Infantry, the latter brought the matter before the Tri bunal of Honour of the place. The Court endeavoured to induce the offending party to retract the expression used, but finding this to be impossible, it authorised a duel with sabres between the parties. The meeting took place near the town, w A ho t t d ak was the e i r r ec seats, at threesano in the afternoon, in presence of an immense crowd. tedat one end of the lists for the judges, Isdra"nseedw ina attempt uniform. ptw a was made OOn the o effecta ra:- rival of Ow reconciliation, eambatan hut, a o 4 n on it sa s provin g unsuccessful, the opponents were directed to andres inwith their their e s i h t. rety sleeve,es bli n d to folded, and then, with head, .rec l e h iv e rng two slalalsietvcaunitswooonntdhoenarm, fo4ght. with great determine hare, tcioornotatemn,cdeathiloe oaothtaacrkt but soon after g;ring M. de Denkhaus thigh which prevented his standing. The fight was declared at au end. After the first medical aid was given, the Judges recommended the di- putants to be reconciled, which thez consented to, and shook hands amidst the cheers of the multi tude. All the partioS Con cerned then withdrew. This is t first duel authorised by any tribunal of honour, reconci tion haying been effected In all tip 9Y her cases brought be fore than. ATTE3IPTEI, AROASSINATION.—On Thursilay an gt tempt was made to assasainate Mr. Charles Farrell, of Dalyse town, justice of the peace, nett.' Loughrea, in the county of Galway. Thia gentleman observed 'a grange man at his parlour window, looking in very intently. He asked h i s business ? "C harity," replied the fellow. He was told there was nothing for him, whereupon ha presented a paper to Mr. Farrell, whkeh he refused to look at. Thia movement was evidently inte4dB.4 to arrest the attention of that gentleman, for the fellow drew A OW from his breast, and was in the act of cocking it, when Mr, Farrell milled towards him, call lag to his servants. The intended aasasaia wag apprehended after u run MC three miles across the country, and 'O4 his per son were I 'o4o two ball cartridges, together with the loaded pistol. lie was icten4ed lit the gaol of Loughrea. His name is Burke, and had just i1e.94 litlr.o4o after SiXo2ollthS implisonment for robbery. Tho process of bone -crushing is recommended as being advantageous phosphates, sulphates, Preparations of chemical substances, sulphates, and carbo matribated with the varlu ates cids, are valuable as fer tlttseNand are well prepared by the manufacturers, but wcitireon account of i mportance their to agricul for manipulations twee tainnfitted and dangero u s in the w duse. On these several gro u nds, then, That th4yprocess of crushing bones is one which, when when in a state in w hi c h tbey,grve off putrid effluvia, in ua rded; is deleterious : h a t tlin protective precautions requisite, even when T he epployment if give* to robust, able-bodied men, in . THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1846. lIOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XVII. MANCHESTER. AND SOUTHAMPTON. The Committee met at twelve o'clock to-day, for the put , pose of proceeding with the clauses postponed from wester , day, which occupied the whole of the dad•. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE. HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met tbis morning at the tkual hour, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair , and present Lords Redesdale, Ha warden, and Winchester. There were but four Bills—all railway Bills—of which one was on second reference. This was the MANCHESTER AND LINCOLN UNION RAILWAY, AND CHESTERFIELD AND GAINSBOROUGII CANAL, in which the standing orders were complied with. SHROPSIIIRE UNION R AILWAY AND CANAL (.NEWTOWN TO CREWE). The standing orders were complied with in this case also. The Committee then resolved itself into a Select Committee on Merits. On assuming this I,rin their Lordships disposed of the two following Bills, which were the only railway Bills on the list : GREAT WESTERN AND WYCOMBE. The promoters of this Bill succeeded in proving their preamble. GRAND JUNCTION (lIUYTON AND ASTON, AND OTHER BRANCHES). The preamble of this Bill also was declared proved. Their Lordships were occupied the remainder of the sitting with unopposed Bills for various local purposes. fourtt Vibitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS The Loup CHAXCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at the usual hour. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up certain Bills. THE RICHMOND RAILWAY. The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said he had been entrusted with two petitions from the parishes of Kew and Mortlake, to present to their Lordships against that part of the Richmond Railway which went to Kew. All the landed proprietors were against the Bill, and the petitioners prayed for the in terference of the House. Lord BROLTGHAM presented several petitions (amongst others one from a gentleman residing in Cornwall) against the Cornish Railway ; and one from the Remonstrant Presby terian Synod of Tyrone (Ireland), praying for the entire abolition of capital punishment. A Gallant Friend of his, at present with his regiment in Ireland, had entrusted him to present a petition against the Cuckermouth Railway, which ran within 500 yards of his family seat, Cockermouth Castle, wherein his ancestors had dwelt upwards of 800 years ago. The petition stated that there was no necessity for the line running so close to the House, and he (Lord Brougham) could bear witness to the truth of that assertion. It would save money to the con tractors, but that was all. INVASION OF IRELAND. Lord BROUGHAM said that, seeing his Noble Friend the Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster in his place, he would ask him was there any truth in the report that an invasion of Ireland was anticipated.—(Hear, hear.) There was a report abroad that such was the case which he believed was founded upon the fact of two cavalry regiments being sent over to the country yesterday. He wished to know was there any truth in the report? Lord CAMPBELL—As the report has nothing whatever to do with the county palatinate of the Duchy of Lan caster, I am not awate of such having been the fact. Lord BROUGHAM—I apprehend that the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has something to do with it, as the embarkation is reported:to have taken place at Liver pool, which is within the palatinate—(Laughter)—but as the Noble Lord does not know anything about it, there must be no truth in the report. Several other petitions were then presented, and their Lordships adjourned at half-past Five o'clock till to-morrow. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Room A. IMPORTANT DECISION. ZEONIELHA.GONIT, DAMSERP, AND COAT , BRIDGE IVEINER.A.X. JUNCTION. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) On the completion of the promoters' case, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, on the part of the petitioning land• owner, Mr. Holmesworth, addressed the Committee at con siderable length, and, on the conclusion of his speech, the Committee, without calling upon him to give any evidence, ordered the room to be cleared, and after a consultation of about a quarter of an hour allowed the parties to be re admitted. The CHAIRMAN then said, I have to announce to the counsel that the Committee have determined to report to the House that it is not expedient to carry the proceedings in this case any further. Having given this decision, the Committee rose at abou ten minutes to four o'clock. Room B. CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW TERMINI AND BRANCHES). (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The evidence on the part of the petitioners occupied the Committee the whole of the remaining part of the day, and H as not concluded at four o'clock, when the Committee rose, adjourning the further consideration of the case till to morrow. GROUP C. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) POR,TBITRY RAILWAY AND PIER. Mr. TALBOT opened the case for the promoters, and stated that this was a short line of eight miles in length, from the Bristol and Exeter line to Portbury, and was projected to obviate the inconvenience of the navigation of the river Avon, which forms the water communication between Bristol and the Bristol Channel. From being a tidal river, the navi gation of it is often interrupted, and when it is recollected that as many as 2,500 steam-vessels visited the port of Bristol every year, the saving of the inconvenience, to which he had alluded, would appear of not little importance. In addition to the railway it was proposed to construct a pier at Portbury, with a sort of breakwater, consisting of three iron-vessels of 300 feet length each, which would be so placed as to render their surface longer or shorter as the case may re quire. These vessels also, it was proposed, to form so as to give stewage for water and other necessaries, for sea-going ships. The vessels frequenting Portbury would be subject to the port dues of Bristol, and one object to be served was the reduction of those dues. To this he believed there was no objection on the part of the proprietary, but the trustees of the port consisted of twenty-seven members each, a third of whom were elected by different bodies, and there was consequently a difficulty in coming to a decision. There was no opposition to the preamble, but there was to the clause. _ _ _ _ _ A gentleman from Bristol, one of the petitioners against the reduction clause, here requested that the case might be postponed tHI to-morrow, when counsel would appear to speak upon this clause for reduction of the dues, but it was agreed that the preamble should be gone into, and that the clause should be left till to-morrow. Mr. Brunel was then called, and he proved the facts stated bs- Mr. Talbot, adding further, that the Great Britain , and the other transatlantic steamers had been removed to Liver pool, in consequence of the difficulty of the navigation of the Avon. 'rule capital to be raised is 200,0001., with power to borrow 66,0001. _ _ _ To the Earl of LIVERPOOL, Mr. Brunel replied that every one in Bristol would have been too happy to improve the navigation of the Avon, but at low water the river was dry, and the influx of the tide came with a sixty feet rise, and if the obviation of this difficulty was not quite impracticable, it was the next thing to it. Mr. Moms then put in the formal proofs, and their Lord ships adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP D. FOREST Or DEAN AND GLOUCESTER LINE, AND SOUTH WALES LINE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) On re-examination, Mr. Hall stated that he hid under stood the quantity of land of this estate was about 540 acres, and that the money demanded was 40,5001., although he had been given to understand that when the property was offered by -dr. George Robins for sale, in 1843, a very much less sum was bid for it. Mr. BAKER, Chairman of the Company, deposed generally as to the merits of the line, and stated that the line as now proposed was what it originally was, with the exception of the Bilston branch. which is now aban doned. The reason why this branch was adopted was because the directors were not aware that they could get any other access to the Forest of Dean from Gloucester. That branch had always been objectionable from the severity of its gradient and the extent and expense of the tunnelling. But when it was ascertained that they had other means of access, on the recommendation! of Mr. Brunel they had adopted the longer but the cheaper route, because had they not done so, they would have had to impose a greater rate f toll upon the whole of the route. Mr. Atkinson, clerk of the Crown for the F ores t o f D ean , stated that the forest comprised 48 square miles, and that it was rich in minerals, especially coals, and that the best seams lie in the upper series. The annual produce was rated at 300,000 tons. If this line were made it would take the heads of the two valleys which drained the forest, and thus provide an outlet for every part. The Woods and Forests were favourable to the project. Mr. Sturge, a merchant at Gloucester, stated that much commerce was kept away from the city by the deficiency of means of communication. Mr. Cleagram, clerk of the Gloucester and Swansea Canal, testified that the commercial business of the place is very considerable, therhaving been as many as 1,700 seafaring vessels in the port during the last year. The exports at present were only one-third of the imports, but the ex ports would be very largely increased, if there were greater facility of access. This concluded the case for the promoters. Mr. COOKE then addressed their Lordships on behalf of Mr. Hoskins, the object of his address being to show, not only that this line was unnecessary, but it was longer than the other also. Mr. Brunel was then recalled by the Chairman, and stated that the line from Newport by Monmouth, by Ross, to Gloucester was about .equal to the coast line, and that the gradients on the inner line would be most decidedly worse than on the other. The inland line, although by Hereford and Gloucester it might have some merits, yet it was absurd to suppose that all the minerals in that district could be car ried by it. Mr. Brunel produced a comparative drawing of the gradients on both lines. This closed the case, when the room was cleared for the decision, and on the re-admission of the parties the Chairman declared that the Committee had decided that the Bills were proved. Mr. Brunel then put in a statement of the several roads crossed on a level by the South Wales line. The capital to be raised for the several deviations is 700,000 L, with 200,000/. for excess. For the Forest of Dean line the money to be raised is 200,000/., with power to borrow 660,000/. The formal proofs of the Forest of Dean line were then put in. The line is to be fifteen miles four furlongs in length, and the branches are to be two miles, two furlongs, and two chains, no tunnels, and no highways passed on a level. The reports were then ordered to be brought up. Room 6. A Select Committee appointed to cons:der the merits of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway, and of the Heywood Waterworks, met at eleven o'clock this morning in Room 6 (in Abingdon-street), the Marquis of Westminster in the chair, and pre. , ient the Earls of Radnor, Chichester, &c. Earl Nelson was one of the members, and attended in the course of the day, but in consequence of evere indisposition his Lordship was unable to remain and join in the labours of his Noble Colleagues. Their Lordships first took the case of the HEYWOOD WATERWORICS which occupied them for a considerable time. The preamble was declared proved. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIE LD, AND MID- LAND JUNCTION. Mr. Talbot and Mr. Nerrewether appeared for the pro moters of this Bill; Mr. Hope, Mr. Paget, Mr. Ellison, and other counsel, for various petitioners against it. TALnoT having opened the case for the promoters, in in a short speech. celled Mr. Isaac Schofield, table•knife manufacturer at t Sheffield, who gave evidence as to the advantages to that place which the improved communication with the districts traversed by the line would effect. He gave statistical details as to the amount of coal con sumed in Sheffield, which are too lengthy for insertion bare, Ile said that great benefit would accrue to the owners of factories from the reduction of the price of coal that might be expected by the communication with the coal districts. -- bia gentleman's evidence occupied the Committee up to four o'clog,k, lit= they rose and adjourned till to-morrow nt eleven. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY. THE ATTOIINEY - GENERAL V. MORESIS. This case was mentioned to-day by order. HODGKIIISON v. WYATT. This was an exception taken to the report of the Master by the defendant, to a Bill to the effect that the defendant was bond fide mortgagee to the plaintiff for a sum of 6001. The Master's report found that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff in a sum of 5304 while the defendant alleged that he owed the plaintiff but 330/. The debt was proved by the evidence of a porter in the employ of the plaintiff, which, it was also alleged, was an insufficient proof of debt. Mr. Roupell opened the case, and was followed on the same side by Mr. Collins and Mr. Kindersley ; and Mr. Turner appeared for the plaintiff. The cause occupied the whole of the day, and had not con cluded at the rising of the Court. THE GAUGE QUESTION. The following are some extracts from Mr. W. Cubitt's evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords:— Would there not be some difficulty in case of having two gauges. Should there not be one uniform gauge in that case ?—I think there should be one uniform gauge in any case. Can you make any sort of estimate of what the ex pense of the alteration would be ?—Not a decided esti- %hat it would cost to alter the gauges; but I could state a minimum and a maximum. I would say it would cost from 5001. to 1,0001. per mile to alter the gauges. That is not a large sum. The alteration, at all events, of the permanent way, could be made without stopping the traffic ?—Certainly. I am now going to relay a line entirely ; a new set of rails and fixtures altogether, and I shall not stop the traffic ; yet there are 80 trains a-day on that line, or 40 each way. Where is that ?—From London to Croydon. You have no doubt that it would be of considerable advantage to the country, in many points of view, that there should be one uniform gauge ?—There can be no doubt about that. Both for traffic and for the military defences of the country ?—Yes, in every respect ; I will not make one exception, because I do not think one can be made. But I should be sorry to see other narrow gauge lines granted if there is likely to be an alteration, because there will be many miles of new railway ; many more than are made ; I think twice as many. You think this is a good opportunity for making the alteration?—l think if the thing is ever to be done there should not be a season lost, certainly. I think the thing may be easily done, and economically done, and done without loss to the public, and without loss to the companies, and in a very short time, and at a very moderate expense. CARDIFF.-011 Sunday this town was visited with a most terrific thunder-storm. About nine o'clock it com menced, and continued with unabated fury, until about half past ten o'clock. The lightning was of a peculiar forked character. A small cottage wys struck at Canton, a hamlet about a mile distant, and the chimney destroyed; a man and woman, who were sitting near the fireplace at the time, were prostrated to the earth, and remained insensible for a length of time. They are, however, happily recovering. Mr. Napier of Glasgow, is at present building a steamer, of 800 tons and 420 horse-power, to ply between this port and Dundalk. She is to be called "The Pride of Erin." Her power is greater than that of any other steamer engaged in the Channel trade.—Liverpool Courier. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 8. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) LORD HUNTINGTOWER'S INSOLVENCY. Mr. LEWIS applied to his Honour in this case this morning to name a day for the final order. Twelve mouths had ex pired since the insolvent appeared before the Court, and after his Honour had read over his notes, he would, perhaps, be pleased to fix a day for the order prayed. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE (who was busily em ployed with other business at the moment), said—Take an other opportunity to speak to me; to-day or to-morrow, or when you are here, will do just as well. Mr. LEWIS thanked his Honour, and left the Court. _ SMITH, HOLT, AND NEALE'S BANKRUPTCY. The silting in this case was for the proof of debts, and ad journed choice of assignees. The bankrupts were the pro prietors, printers, and publishers of the Iron Times, and carried on their business in Fleet-street. We have reported the former part of the proceedings under this fiat. The first proof opposed and rejected for the present was a claim made on behalf of Mr. John Smith, of Birmingham, for money lent to carry on the paper. The bankrupt Holt was the only person who could give evidence of the advance, but as the stun appeared nowhere in the books of the estate, it was ordered to stand over till a better case could be made out. Another proof was tendered on an affidavit for Mr. C. W. Burman, of Salop, whose claim, 90/., was also for money lent. --- The bankrupt Holt said this advande was entered in the books, and the cashier, George Neale, could speak to the re ceipt of the money in Wolverhampton notes. Mr. Lee said this proof was one like many others about to be brought forward, concocted for the purpose of influencing the choice of assignees. The Mr. Burman, who it was said had advanced this money, was the secretary of a company called " The Circulating Omnibus Company."—(Laughter.) Instead of being a creditor under the estate, he (Mr. Lee) should say he was a debtor for a great num b er of advertise ments having been inserted respecting that company. He also very much doubted, from what he knew of Mr. Burman, whether he really was in a condition to lend money. Mr. Cross (solicitor to several creditors)—And we under stand that he is not resident in Shropshire, but in Arundel street, in the Strand. Mr. Lee confirmed this statement. He had called on Mr. Burman, in Aruudel-street, and there was a brass plate on the door of the house iu which he resided. The bankrupt Holt denied that there was a brass plate on the door. It was true 11Ir. Burman occasionally lodged there ; his proper and continued residence, however, was in Shropshire. The fact was he (Holt) projected the Circulat ing Omnibus Company himself, and prepared an advertise ment of a column, which was to be inserted and left as stand ing matter to save composition. That, he said, Mr. Lee knew very well. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said, as it appeared Mr. Burman was frequently in the habit of coming to town, it would be more satisfactory to the Court to see him than ac cept his affidavit. The proof must stand over for personal attendance. The proof of George Carter Neale, one of the clerks and cashiers of the Iron 'tunes office, was also ordered to be ad journed, some allegations respecting erasures and mutilations in the books requiring explanation in connexion with his claim. A person of the name of Edwards sought to prove for 1001., as salary for services in the office of secretary to the Iron Times Company. It appeared that he was engaged by Holt and other persons not included in the present partner ship, and the objection raised of its not being a joint debt, as far as concerned Holt, Neale, and Smith, was therefore fatal to the claim. A bill for the hire of a barouche was also resisted, the debt being incurred individually by Holt, although it was admitted that the vehicle was used is the business of the paper and other railway concerns. The creditor, however, having sued Holt for the amount, and obtained a judgment against him, believing him to be the sole responsible party, the Court de• cided that he could not prove against the joint estate. This concluded the inquiry into debts. Upon the question of choice, it was said by the bankrupts' solicitor, that they offered no one for the appointment. Mr. CROSS, for the creditors, said they proposed for the office of assignees, Mr. D. Baufer, of Creed-lane, gas-fitter, arid Mr. J. Elkin, reporter. They had signatures t o th e amoun t of 1,0001. in favour of these parties. The bankrupt Holt—That is very satisfactory. We only want parties who will be of benefit to the estate. These people are well calculated for the duty; one is a tradesman, the other understands the business of a paper, and its accounts. The choice of assignees was made accordingly, and the case was then adjourned. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT OLD COURT. Before Baron ALDSILSON, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, and the proved that h e h ad been vanla ' expect that th e pr i soner , t b e e r 7 fe t it ß s u h r i k il e i , n a g g s, ed a L n l O d 6 R , D it w il a i w s A a Y s c O o ß n ) v . il convicted ). of uttering t wo before convi c t e d of a similar offence , and that he had als o been charged a numb er o f times at the police offices w i t h uttering b ase co i n . he ll e l o r n . s J id u e s r t e ic d e WILLIAMS t washopsaeildestshattoafter what bad b een stated, could come to any good in this country, and the sentence therefore necmarilv was, that he be tra ns p orte d for ten years. Henry Balky, 34, - chairmaker, was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding Lucy Harley, with intent to murder her. It appeared that the parties were man and wife, but th ey had separated, and on the day mentioned in the indictment, the prisoner went to the house where the prosecutrix wa s staying, and, apparently without any provocation he seized a carving knife and stabbed her in the lower part of her person, inflicting a dreadful wound three inches deep. For the defence slme witnesses were called to make out a case of insanity. The evidence, however, merely w ent to show that the prisoner. in one of ? his versions, had made use of some absurd and incoherent expressions. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS having left the case to the jury, they deliberated a short time, and then returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE inquired of the jury whether they were of opinion that at the time the prisoner committed the act imputed to him; he was perfectly aware of its quality and the consequences likely to re.sult from it. The jury replied that they believed be was quite sane when he committed the offence. The Learned JUDGE then ordered the sentence of Death to be recorded. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SNRGEANT.) Ellen Lore, 18, and Sarah Beedle, 18, two well-dressed young women, were indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Robert Cox, and stealing 21 _silver spoons, value 351., his property. Mr. Robinson prosecuted, and Messrs. Payne and Huddle stone defended the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence, that on the 13th of June the servant of the prosecutor, who resides in Albany-road, Camberwell, was walking in the garden, when she observed the prisoner Love come out of the house with the plate basket on her arm. She asked her what she had got, and she re plied," Nothing," and at the same moment the other pri soner came up and said it was all right. The servant said she thought it was all wrong, and they had got the plate basket, and the prisoners then forced themselves away; but, upon her giving an alarm, they were pursusd and taken into custody. The jury found the prisoners guilty of stealing the pro perty, and negatived the charge of breaking into the house. The moment the verdict was announced a terrible outcry arose in the gallery, and an elderly well-dressed woman began, in almost the same breath, and with the utmost 3,-o:u -bility, to utter imprecations upon the witnesses and beg for mercy from the Court, and it was with great difficulty that she was removed. Evidence was then given to show that the prisoner Love had been before convicted for felony. Both the prisoners impeded the business of the Court for a considerable time by their frantic cries, and when silence was at length obtained, the Court sentenced Love to be trans ported for seven years; ansi the other prisoner, who appeared to have been drawn into the offence by her companion, was sentenced to hard labour for nine months. Williatn Graham, the commander of the ship Grainge, was indicted for assaulting Thomas Singleton and James Barn, upon the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admi ralty of England. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Evans defended the prisoner. The circumstances under which this charge arose have been detailed within the last few days in the police reports, and it will, therefore, be unnecessary to repeat them at length on the present occasion. The complainants both deposed to various acts of violence being committed upon them by the defendant while the vessel was off the Cape and other portions of the homeward voyage, and their evidence was confirmed by some others of the crew. Mr. BALLA:STINE, on behalf of the defendant, said he did not deny that some punishment had been inflicted upon the complainants, but he said that they had brought it upon themselves by their own insubordinate conduct and their in solence to the captain. Some of the seamen engaged on board the vessel were called on behalf of the defendant, and they deposed that on various occasions the complainants had disobeyed the orders of the captain, and had behaved in an insolent manner to him. The jury. after deliberating for half an hour, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The defendant was then arraigned upon another indict ment, charging him with assaulting the black cook on board the vessel. In this case the jury returned a verdict, finding the de fendant Guilty of a common assault. The COM3ION SERGEANT said the Court was aware of the great responsibility that was thrown upon the commander of a vessel, and it was always anxious to extend the fullest protection to a person placed in that situation. At the same time it was equally necessary that the persons under their control should be protected from any undue exercise of authority or violence ; and in this case it appeared to him perfectly clear that excessive chastisement had been inflicted upon the poor men ; and, however painful it was to the Court to pass a sentence of imprisonment upon a person in the defendant's position, he felt that he had no alternative but to take such a step as a warning to other persons in the defendant's position, not to abuse the trust reposed in them, and treat with cruelty those who were placed under their control. Ile then sentenced the defendant to be confined for six months in the Milbank Prison. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.) William Woo?fe was indicted upon three counts :—First, with intending to assault a constable when in the discharge of his duty ; second, with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm ; third, with, by unlawful interference, effecting the escape of a prisoner from lawful custody. Mr. Clark was counsel for the prosecution, and stated the case to the jury at considerable length, glancing at the lead ing facts. It appeared by the evidence, that on Tuesday, the 2d of June, Wm. Ching, the prosecutor, who is sergeant in the D division, went with Inspector hornton, 109, to a mews in Marylebone, in order to quell a disturbance. A man of the name of Pickley, who had been fighting with the pri soner, was taken into custody, whom the prisoner tried to rescue, and urged others to aid him. The prisoner succeeded in getting Pickley away, but he was soon recaptured. The prisoner then renewed his threats, and told Ching he would either rescue him again or have his (Ching's) life ; and he attempted to fulfil his threat by hurling a brick-bat at his head, the force of the blow rendered him senseless, and Pickley again escaped. Mr. Randall Vickers, the surgeon of the D division of me tropolition police, deposed that he examined the head of the prosecutor ; there was a lacerated wound on the top of the cranium, two and a half inches long, and the bone was laid bare ; there were also other wounds on the head and face which were likely to be of serious consequence, but for timely and proper treatment, The Learned JUDGE said that the evidence was not suffi ciently strong to warrant a conviction on the first count ; with respect to the second count the evidence was very strong, for it was proved that grievous bodily harm was done by the prisoner ; and that he was guilty on the third count there could be no doubt, for the man Pickley had got away from his captors through the intervention of the prisoner at the bar. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty on the second and third counts, acquitting him on the first. Mr. CLARK informed his Lordship that Woolfe had been three' or four times convicted of assaults, and in 1844 he was found guilty of a sanguinary assault on a constable of the name of Kay, who died shortly afterwards. His LORDSHIP said the case was one of a very serious de scription. Such outrages were getting very common, but the Court would try to stop the evil by making an example of the prisoner. After some very impressive remarks his Lord ship directed that the prisoner be transported and be sent beyond the seas for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Ann Sarah Grundy, a young woman about twenty years of age, rather smartly attired, was charged with intending to drown herself at Blackfriars-bridge. The officer said she went down the steps about two o'clock the preceding day, and suspecting her object, he followed and questioned her. Being satisfied of her intention, he took her to the station, where in the course of the night she made an attempt to strangle herself. Some duplicates and a tally-shop account showed that she was strugg:ing with pecuniary difficulties, and it was stated that she had made an attempt to poison herself a few days ago. Mr. Alderman HUNTER said it was not necessary to in quire into her private affairs. She might send for:any friends who would be likely to take charge of her, but he could not trust her with her libertyat resent. She must be detained for a day or two, that she might reflect upon the guilt of the crime she had contemplated, and that the chaplain of the prison might reason with her on the subject.—She was re manded till Friday. BO IV-STREET. An idler in Hungerford-market, named Forder, was charged with exposing indecent prints for sale in that locality. It was proved by an officer in the employ of the Society for the Suppression of Vice that the prisoner was oflerine* his filthy productions to persons of both sexes in the market, and sold one of them to witness for id., upon which he gave him into custody. It having been proved that the prisoner was in the habit of dealing in such commodities, Mr. JA RDINE committed him to hard labour for six weeks. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Massingham, of John-street, Golden-square, was sum moned by Mr. Pratt, trunk-maker, Bond-street, for detaining a portmanteau, value, 8/. 10s. Mr. Pratt said a portmanteau was ordered by a Baron d'Ebro last week to be sent to his lodgings, in John-street. The portmanteau was left on Friday at the defendant's house for the Baron, and on the following Saturday, when application was made for the money, it was ascertained that the Baron had been excluded from his lodgings, and that it would not be advisable to trust him with the portmanteau. Complainant having ascertained that the portmanteau, which of course had never been paid for, was in Mr. Massingham's house, applied to have it restored to him, but met with a refusal, and consequently he was obliged to take out the present summons. Mr. Massingham justified his refusal to return the port manteau on the ground that the Baron was in his debt for lodging. He had taken the advice of his solicitor on the sub ject of detaining the portmanteau, and he had been advised that he could keep possession of the property until his claim against Baron d'Ebro was discharged. Mr. MALTBY said it appeared to him the defendant was not justified hi keeping the portmanteau, and he should there fore order it to be delivered up to Mr. Pratt. Mr. Massingham said he should not part with possession 'of the property. Mr. MALTI3Y said, he should make an order on him for the delivery of the portmanteau, and if that order was not obeyed, a distress warrant for the amount would be issued. Mr. Massingham said the goods were the property of Baron d'Ebro, and he had a legal right to detain all Baron d'Ebro's propery until the arrear of rent due to him was dis charged. Mr. Pratt said Mr. Massingham had deprived him se lf of all remedy against Ba ron d'Ebro by turning him out of his lodgings. He did not know where to find Baron d'Ebro now. Mr.lllaurnY directed that evidence of this allegation should be taken down in writing, which having been done, the order on the defendant was made out forthwith. WORSHIP-STREET. • - - - - - Mary and Jeremiah Roscoe, mother and son, who already stand committed for trial upon the charge of stealing mis cellaneous property of the value of nearly 1,5001. from the premises of their late employer, Mr. R. Rowlandson, a carpet warehouseman, in Whitechapel, were again placed at the bar, charged with stealing articles of a similar description, of the value of nearly 20(11., from the premises of Mr. Joseph Jack son, an upholsterer, in Shoreditch. The prosecutor stated, that both prisoners had been in the habit of calling at his warehouse to purchase goods,to manu facture at the house of the female prisoner's husband, who was a mattress maker, and that on entering the warehouse early one morning in March kat, he found the younger pri soner in the act of packing up a large bale of cotton"; but seeing his foreman with him, and being assured he was mak iug a purchase, his suspicions were then lulled, and he went away. Having subsequently received information, however, that, the shopman in question was deeply implicated with the prisoners in an extensive system of robbery from his premises lie examined his stock, and discovered that amongst other property which had been stolen, were four feather-beds and a writing-desk, which had been since found at the house of the prisoners, and were now in the care of the police. He had since discharged the shopman who had been in collu sion with the prisoners, but he was afterwards seized with a severe illness, which precluded his proceeding against him also. A cabman named Norman proved that he had been em ployed by the male prisoner to remove the property in ques tion from the prosecutor's premises at an early hour in the morning, before they were opened, to the house of the woman Roscoe, who received them ; and Smith and Day, two policemen, deposed to finding it there, with a large quantity of other good s s i nce identified ; ie latter officer adding that he had seen the male prisoner in conversation with Norman after the last examination, when he begged him, " for God's sake, to know nothing of the beds." The prisoners, by the advice of their solicitor, Mr. Pelham ; reserved their defence, and were then fully committed f or trial upon both charges. SOUTHWARK. Several respectable looking young men attended before Mr. Cottingliam to solicit his advice and assistance under th o following circumstances: — One of the applicants, a Mr. Bailey, stated that he lives at No. 20, King-street, Tower-hill, and that about ten days ago he saw an advertisement in the Times stating that several assistant surveyors were required for the York Awl Q4rlis4 Railway, and that inquiries respecting the same were to be made at his (applicant's) residence as abovementioned. Applicant not having given any person permission to refer fin• information on the subject at his dwelling, was much sur prised ; but in the course of the day he was waited upon by a person giving his name and address Mr. England, No. 11, Queen's-row, Spa- road, Bermondsey, who said that he was the author of the advertisement alluded to, and that he availed himself of the liberty of requesting the persons who wished to answer it either to call at, or write to, the address in King street, it being more centrally situated than his own residence in the Queen's-row, Spa•road. He farther stated that he was principal surveyor of the York and Carlisle Railway, having had his appointment from a Mr. William son, of Cannon-row, Westminster; and as there was consi derable work to be done in his department of the company's service, he was authorised to engage a number of assistants, and that his terms would be at the rate of three and five guineas a week each for their services. Applicant, from the re spectability of the man's appearance, and the apparent truth of his statement, saw no reason for preventing inquirers calling there; and having a son of his own that he was anxious to provide with a situation, the advertiser, on being spoken to on the subject, readily undertook to employ the young man, and claimed a guinea for placing him in the si tuation. Applicant readily consented to the agreement, and accordingly handed over the money, and the " surveyor" promised to call on Monday last to take the young man down to the scene of operations in the north, together with several others, whom he had engaged wider similar circum stances. • b• On inquiries being made it wai found that England had been employed by Mr. Williamson, but was afterwards dis charged, and that the company knew nothing of him or his transactions. _ . _ Two other persons, named Roughton and Young, stated that they had paid England a guinea under the same repre sentations. Mr. CorrisGrrAm stated that he regretted he could not grant the applicants any redress, as the false pretence could not be sustained in either of the cases. The man complained against, it appeared by what Williamson said, was engaged on the line, and for some reason had since been discharged from his situation. There was no doubt that the applicants had been deprived of their money, but they had parted with it of their own accord, and without making such inquiries as they were bound, for their own sakes, to do beforehand. He (the magistrate)added, that the applicants could recover the money they had given the person complained of by pro ceeding against him in the Court of Requests. He again regretted that he could not assist the applicants in the re covery of their money. The applicants then withdrew. WORKING STOCK OF RAILWAYS. Returns were, on Saturday, issued by order of the House of Lords, relative fo the working stock of ex istimg railways. The following are extracts therefrom, describing the stock of some of the railways; but the return is not yet completed:— LETTER FROM D, O'BRIEN, ESQ., TO B. . ... CURRY, ESQ. Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, June 27, 1846. Sir,—With reference to the order of the House of Lords, dated the 6th of May, for a return of the " Working stock (engines, carriages, and waggons) be longing to railway companies at present in operation," I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you the accompanying returns, which have been received by their Lordships from various railway companies in compliance with a request contained in a circular letter from this depart ment. Should the remaining companies make returns they will be transmitted to you without delay. I have, &c. D. O'BRIEN. B. Curry, Eq. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. Return of Working Stock-128 locomotive engines, 1,854 waggons, 3 post-offices, 5 post-office vans, 16 mail carriages, 123 first class carriages, 92 second-class car riages, 105 third-class carriages, 7 composite carriages, 14 luggage vans, 2 parcel vans, 49 carriage trucks, 51 horse boxes. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. RETURN or LOCOMOTIVE AND CARRYING STOCK. Engines : No. Passenger engines Goods engines Total Carriages, Waggons, &c. : First-class carriages Mixed ditto .... Second-class ditto Third-class ditto Luggage vans Horse boxes Carriage trucks ... 87 ... 34 36 47 Coke waggons 49 Coal ditto l7O Goods ditto Cattle ditto Sheep ditto Brake ditto Timber ditto Total 1,346 !GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A return of the working stock (engines, carriages, and waggons) belonging; to this company, at present in operation —127 engines and tenders, 107 first-class car riages, 103 second-class carriages, 18 third-class car riages, 161 carriage trucks, 96 horse boxes, 4 mail carriages, 25 luggage vans, 637 waggons. CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. London Terminus, Paddington, June, 1846. LONDON AND BLAoKWAEL The working stock of this company is as follows, viz. :—Two pairs stationary engines (220 horse-power each pair) at the Minories station, 2 pairs stationary en gines (120 horse power each pair)at Blackwall, 9 first class carriages, 28 composite carriages, or first and second class combined, 10 second-class carriages, 9 goods trucks. JOHN F. KENNELL, Secretary. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. Working stock engines, carriages, and waggons be lorwing to the above company-44 locomotive engines amftenders, 45 first-class carriages, 12 first-class cou pees, 47 second-class carriages, 14 composite, first and second, 5 third-class carriages, enclosed, 40 ditto, open, 35 horse boxes, 31 carriage trucks, 21 luggage boxes, 161 coal waggons, 15 coke waggons, 93 goods waggons, 14 timber trucks, 20 cattle trucks, 2 sheep trucks, 6:stone trucks, 8 covered vans, 4 brake waggons, 13 ballast waggons. T. J. BUCKTON,_ Secretary. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY. Statement of the working stock of engines, carriages, and waggons belonging to the above company-8 loco motive engines, 6 piston carriages, 5 heater carriages, atmospheric, 12 first-class carriages, 12 second-class carriages, 19 third-class carriages, 2 composite carriages, first and second class, 2 parcels vans, 70 coal waggons, 6 goods waggons, 5 timber trucks, 6 coke waggons. LONDON AND SOUTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. Locomotive Department-40 V p;;;engerengine;T7 goods engines. Carriage Department-80 first-class carriages, 100 second-class carriages, 32 third- class car riages, 40 carriage trucks, 26 rse boxes, 13 luggage vans, 420 waggons, 9 sheep trucks. P. VAURENT± CAMPBELL, Secretary. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. Return of Working Stock, May 22, 1846—Engines 27, tenders 25, carriages, first-class 30, ditto, second class 32, ditto, third-class 34, ditto, first and second class composite 4, carriage trucks 12, milk trucks 3, horse boxes 14, parcel vans 7, parcel carts 4, goods waggons 492, cattle waggons 20, goods boxes 35, ballast waggons 32, coal and iron waggons 337, platelayers trucks 4, portable crane 1. JOHN LATHAM, Secretary. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, JULY 7.—Since the middle of last week, some of the homo trade houses have been buying goods rather more freely than before; but the com parative absence of shipping demand keeps the market quiet. Prices are, on the whole, well sustained. In the yarn market there has b een littl e d eman d, and prices are not quite so firm. ROCHDALE, JULY 6.—There has been an extremely dull market today; few buyers have attended, and those few have purchased sparingly. The wool market has been much the same as that on the preceding Monday. HUDDERSFIELD, JULY 7.—There is considerable im provement in our market to-day. We have had a good attendance of buyers, and many sales might have bfen effected, had the manufacturers been inclined to make concessions; but as the stocks are low, there is no in ducement to sell until remunerative prices can be ob. tained. LEEDS, JULY 7.—Although no actual improvement has taken place as yet in our markets, a decidedly better feeling, indicative of confidence, is daily gathering strength; and, from the total absence of every political excitement, as well as from the cheering prospects of a good harvest, we may safely infer that a good business is close at hand. The reduced tariff on broad cloths by Russia cannot fail to prove beneficial to our manufac turers, and it is looked upon as a precursor of further measures condemnatory of restrictions in trade. M an che4ter Guardian. CORONER'S INQUESTS. On Tuesday, Mr. W. Baker, the Deputy-Coroner, held an inquest at the London Hospital, on the body of Mary Ann Dee, aged sixteen, the young woman who lost her life by jumping out of window, at the fire which occurred on Saturday morning last, at the premises of Mr. Powell, King's-place, Commercial-road East. One of the house surgeons said, that deceased was admitted at an early hour on Saturday morning last, with a fracture of the skull, which was so severe that the brain was forced through the ear. She survived till Monday morning. Mrs. Rosina Powell said that the deceased was her ser vant. She slept in the top room of witness's premises. On the morning of Saturday last, about a quarter-past two O'clock, witness was alarmed by hearing the deceased screaming violently. On opening her bedroota, witness found that the house was on fire, berreased was at that time on the upper land;F.g. She called to the deceased to come down, but she replied, " Oh, I 014/1" not." At that time there was very little smoke In wit ness's room, but she supposed that deceased's room was filled with smoke, from herltavingslept with thedoor open. Witness, her husband, and child, got out of the first floor front, and by walking along the ledge over the shop front, escaped. A ladder w 42. c: lied for, but before it could be adjusted, the deceased threw herself out of the window. Ori liweieg the premises, witness found that the pl ane was all on fire at the baj;, She did not know how the fire occurred. There wits a great quan tity of straw in the haclt pelluvs used for p ac ki ng earther.ware articioll Nenrly the Whole of the property was dog , rilycl, it was insured, but not to the full value. H. Powell said that a neighbour trought a ladder to the premises, which was top, to reach the top floor, in which deceased was. Whilst he was fixing it on the ledge mi.- the shop, deceased th rew herself out and cell on the foot pavement. He could not tell how the fire occurred.—ln answer to a gyro; it was stated that the nearest &ro Mar was 4t4tioued a 6 Aldgato, too great a distance off to have been of any assistance/ Verdict, " Accidental death." The same Coroner afterwards held an inquest at tb : same place, on the body of David Bates, aged se . v i e , years. Emma Roberts, of 14, Crown-court, NV III . O chapel, said that the deceased was in the care o f grandmother, who lived next door to witness. On t t :ij morning of Saturday last, about two o'clock, the et' o o attracted the attention of witness, by screaming Il l y violently. On going out to ascertain the causet,o found the deceased' s c l o th es i n a genera l bl aze, the cP s y at the time was rolli ng it se lf on a b e d i n w hi c h a felil lodger was sleeping. Witness procured a eoupie l o, pails of water, w hi c h s h e t h rew over t h e b e d an d ch t ., and by that mean s succee d e d i n gett i ng t h e fire 61tl0io guished. The deceased was taken by witness to t o above hospital. The grandmother at the time Opt the court, in a state of i n t o xi cat i on. H a d i t not been witness's arrival at the house of deceased, she beli ef ,. that the lodger would also have perished, for the was filled with smoke, and the woman appeared nero suffocated. Verdict, " Accidental th.ath," and the Je 'd requested the Coroner to censure the gross condo _ 6 1 ,1 the grandmother, for l eav i ng th e d ecease d unproteci at that early hour of the morning. EXECUTION OF THk. -ea CAIRES. We learn from Perpignan that the four T r abues: l :o l who were c on d emne d to d eat h on t h e 28th Marc h last the Court of Assizes for the Pyrenees of Orientales , of whose tri a l we gave a report, were execute d on ; to 27th ult. Th e y seeme d to h ave fully anticipated d i failure of their appeal to the Court of Caseation, sn t it their petition to the King for pardon, and receive", announcement of their fate without any apparent !7 11 ,1 nion ; ail th e b rava d o they di splayed at the In°,'"-d when they receiv e d th e i r sentence hav i ng subside(' ; t complete resignation, and th ey rece i ve d the l ast offic e o religion with all due humility and respect. They * s y pardon of all the world ; and P u j a d e , t h e accoin plice. l o turned informer, ar_d was admitted as a witness ags! t y them, being brought to them, they said, You sire t) cause of our death, but as you said no thi ng b u t the Op we pardon you, as we hope you will f org i ve us?' four in the morning Icazes and Matheu, who were 11 : executed at Perpignan, were brought out of their f to be conducted to the scaffold. A long process° t ti Black Penitents from Spain was waiting in the scree receive them, beari ng a cruc ifi x covere d w ith cloth, and carrying lighted torches of red wax, with the doleful sound of the tolling death-bell, 7, the scene unusu a lly so l emn . T he two men wa lked through a dense crowd. On reaching the foot of ladder, Icazes mounted without any hesitation, but a face so pale that his emotions were evidently se ll painful. When his fate was sealed, Matheu's turn came; nature assumed her empire over him, and he shrunk from the fatal ladder, and aaked for something to this, however, was refused hi m ; an d then, Yikelire to the instances of the ex ecu ti oner an d the elo tions of the confessor, he went slowly up the s' ' When on the platform, he first begged that a Si priest who had been in attendance upon the fris°' might be allowed to come to him once more. rb i ',4 assented to, and they embr ace d eac h ot h er. The Pr„ having retired, Math eu en t rea t e d t h at t h e blood of 1 which still stained the axe, might be washed off; this being done, the executioner and his man se ized fastened him to the pl an k, an d performed t h e lass upon him. The two bodies were put into coffin, carried to the ch urc h, s till atten d e d b y the B l an k tents, who recited the funeral service ever theni% all persons con d emne d to death who have availe d i " selves of the services of the Penitents become Men, of the fraternity, the names of hazes and Matb7,o inscribed as such in the register of the cougregr d i Half-an-hour after this scene was over, Simon and 70 the other two victi ms o f a j ust j u d gment, were ta"Ad a cellular van to Ceret, where they were to 11 n 4 ' . capital punishment at four in the afternoon. RAILWAY SHARE MA.RKEIIS. MANCHESTER, Ju Ly 8. STOCK ExeffANGE.—The sales are—Airb erga t e, Nottini„, m a , Eastern Junction, 1 7-16 dis.—Bid e f or d and Tavistock, 3*/ Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, % Chorley, and Liverpool, 1 5-16 die. —Blackburn, Clitheroe, l 7 Western, 1 dis.—Clitheroe, Ju nc ti on, 1 dis.—Derby and p, 4% p.—Dir ec t N or th ern, 1% dis.—Eastern Counties, Yol .t, , " 70, sloe, 1 9-16 p.—E as t L ancashire, 4% p.—Fleetwood Prelik" 6 1 1 1,4 dis.—Grand Unio n , 16 s. c. dis.—Great Grimsby and it sion, 3 51.6 dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 1% 74 . d 1 tester and Bedford, % di a. — Leicester and BirminghaM' 401 Liverpool and Bury, Ne w Sh ares, 1 13-16 p.—Liverpool. ter, and Newcastle Junction, 1 dis. — Liverpool, Omsk,' Preston, 1 7.16 p.—Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and 11? 15-16 dis.—London and South-Western, 78—Manchester , Matlock, and Midland, p.—Manchester and Birmingluttn , ,A Yr. (A), 10 p.—Ditto, ditto (C), 9% p.—Newcastle and BertV o p.—North Staffordshire, 3% c. p.—Oldham, Birkenhead, ° ' — dis.—Sheffleld, Leek, and Crewe, % dis.—Sheffield and 3 1 ",:r 3-16 p.—South Eastern and Dover, Halves, No, 4, 5. 16 P' Riding Union, 2% G p. 'l l LEEDS, JULY 8. Ye° STOCK EXCHANGE.-TllO sales are-Eastern Coun- .l eS. , D i A i tension, 31s. 6d. p.-East Limeashire, 4% p.-Great Grim Sheffield, 5 dis.-Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5% 1 ) . - .. L r e a el* Bradford, 38% p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 21. Bs. 9d. P. - '''. -n 'iilli and Leeds Extensions, 2% p.-Manchester and Biriningk..*Ar ter Shares (B), 9% p.-Midland, 14% p.-Newcastle and t y 6t; 11 p.-Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 9 1 :,, 1 7.0 A l -North British, Carlisle Branch, 10s. 6d. p.-York and I,° o , rj land, East and West Riding, 114 p.-Ambergate, Nottlnilt PE, Boston, 31s. dis.-Clitheroe Junction, 20s. dis.-Lancashire e',: f ili., Yorkshire, 225. dis.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 1 10 * 7,1 7, Leicester and Bedford, 4s. 6d. db.-Liverpool, Ormskirk. 4 JOSS ton, 1% p.-London and Y or k, 22 5 . 6d . d i s. -31a na l i estert BP Matlock, and Midland, 17s. 6d. p.-Northumberland and l''..esp Junction, I4s.:dis.-North Staffordshire, 41. la. % p.-Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham, 16a. 04.1. w est dis. Union. 41. Bs.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, Us, dis. - . r HULL. JULY 8. ~ -to - ltAk STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Countleo , -2. 2 " v41 tension, 2 1 4 -Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 19- 4 G -raffl e, llalf Shares, 11 -Ditto, Carlisle, 365.-Arn,h. c eie. - n 9,, -,,,,„,,C0n, " Portrush 16s n i A h i r • ••• ( •• -- ...x,,0,ine, 31a. 3c1.-cutheroe ...4.-- -1 03 ,._.- Derby and Gainsborough, 15s. 3d.-Direct NCO:aril' - BS. 64. Lincolnshire, 13s.- Fleetwood, Preston, 'and NArst Iliding,_ Le i , Hull and Barnsley Junction, I!.i -Hull and Lincoln, 21s• 3 t prillifi p, - North , ter and Tamworth,24s.-London and York, I%_malton a n ......:-.1 0 !.i Junction, 495.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 21 18soir t Western, 255. 3d.-North Staffiardshire, 61. 3s. 6d.-Sout h isid i ., ~ We. ow 13s. Gd. dis.- Shrewsbury and iiirthingliam, 21. 14s. 6, .. - ond land, 225.--West Riding Union, 41. 10s . 6d.-Yorkshire ~- gow Union, 15s. 6d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY' 8. ,rt 0, 1 STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sal es are -E as t ern CountieS, 1,1„, tension, 1% p.-Lancashire an d N ort h Yorkshire, 210. dit-itiPl,,e pool, Manchester, and N ewcas tl e Junction, 14 di e .-North 1 ., Halves. Carlisle, 9s. p.-Y or k and Carlisle, 318. dls.-York an d East anti West Riding,l _l%. ~ - SHEFFIELD, JULY 8. 4 s 36 45 STOCK Excuatiox.—The sales are - 31idland, 401. Share s, 1.10}',4 York and North Midland Extension, 33% —Grimsby and S o o, 5 1 ,4 dis.—Ditto, Extension, 265. dis.—Ditto, Railway and D ‘ ,1411 0 :; dis.—East Lincolnshire, 168. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and 'O. , 16s. 6d. dis.-31anehester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 2l'' ,it — North Western, 38. Gd. p.—Sheilleld and Lincolnshire, Ditto, Extension, 295. dis.—South Yorkshire Coil Rajiv's" Gd. dis. YORK, JULY 8. . 1 1 1 DP f STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales am —Eastern Counties, Ao ri / tension, 21. 25.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 1--Leer . Os York, it. 9s.—Ma nc h ester. Buxton, Matlock, and MidlitiT ev , 5 Newcastle and Berwick, 26—N ewcastle and Darlington, . 1 ; 44 0 :'; I is. 3d.—N or th B r i tish, Carlisle Extension, 1/. Its. be',... ~ fr Staffordshire, 614—North Western, 1U —York and Carlisle , :,_ fil• and North Midland, East and West Riding Extension, 121. I" . .. GLASGOW, JULY 7. ' 4 , Vlail,ll o4 STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—British and Ir i s h ...., . 4 , , 6d.—Caledonian Extension, 328 . — Caledonian and Dilinb al " ir.a dale r Extension, 218.—Caledonian Direct Northern, 38s.— Clycles _, jo AI tion, 171.—Dundee and Perth, 21 %—East of Fife, 218.—Ea' KO b 9 Railway, 10s. 31 . — Edinbnrgh and Glasg ow , New, 1731 --- o' and Peebles, 323.—Glasg ow G eneral Terminus, g %—Glaeg, pir Belfast Union, 435.—Glas gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 74Iiiiil a.f b New, 321, —Glasgow. Dumfries, and Carlisle, 36s.—Glas80 1 4-330',4 nock, and Ardros san , 36 5. —G lasgow and Dundee Junction, I ?,,, — Glasgow Harbour Grand J unct i on, 18s.—Kilmarnock '111,,Z,1 Direct, 33s.—Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 51.—LesmahaGoirl —Midland, New, 391.—P er th an d Inverness, 32s.—Scottish .if 191.—Ditto, New, 7 34 — Scottish Southern, 38s.—S co tti s h Centr , " Caledonian Junction, 30s. The Right Hon. H. Goulburn returned to toWi l terday from Cambridge. e THE SUFFERERS BY THE FIRE AT FouNDLAND.—We are glad to learn that subscrip o t i ;b: the relief of the unfortunate sufferers have alreadiviec commenced both in Liverpool and Manchester. In jr pool, where the commercial connexion with the considerable, a very spirited effort has been made, I V,: believe the subscription already amounts to nearly 11 sand pounds. A deputation from Liverpool waited oa o p' of our principal merchants and manufacturers 0 0 . 1(1 day last, but the wea th er was so wet, that little coil i• done hereon that day, We have, however, been g ivl btO understand, that a subscription has been opened soh which is headed by Messrs. Henry Bannerman and,,. who have contributed 100 t, and have agreed to tak e duties of treasurers of the fund. A committee is also gress of formation, and we are assur e d th a t no time goell' lost in appeali ng to the public on behalf o f th e unf0.,40000 , sufferers. No fewe r th an f rom eight to ten thousand 170 are houseless and destitute, and compelled to Hy e tb ej woods until the military can erect tents and sheds Woo shelter. We have hea r d o f one i ndividual, whose Wog lj ' taped the ravages of th e flames, giving shelter in it t.(l';tion forty poor houseless sufferers. Their distressed eon 400" described as heart-rending, and we nee d on l y di rec t at, AO to the statement in order to induce our fellow-townstil . , come 3fanc f h o e r s w te a r r a d u o a n rd th ia is n. occasion with their usual fiber:ll l .4 v [ADVERTISEMENT]. EXTRAORDINARY CELZn . ii OP HOLLOWAY'S PILLS IN INDIA. —The reputation of these Pi l e neir universal. They may be had in every part of India, where - ips' virtues are printed in the native tongues. Their demand 14 „,c1 0 menus. They cure diseases of the liver, the lungs, and the Parse e and other dangerous complaints so prevalent there. he 4cv e nin In a truly astonishing manner in oases where persons have b,,,t0 , a long time in a weak and declining state, AS they quickly 1. :01$ 1 ; health with strength and energy, where every means have,!A No one should consider his case as hopeless until he has tr i e d P t powers of this admirable medicine. Sold by all druggist'', Professor Holloway's E , tablishment, 244, Strand, London. _AO MARRIED. odig On the I;th inst., at Penn, Bucks, the Rev. Wllltatil re" Harvey, _M. A., Rector of Truro, to Miss Frances FOX. Cottage, near Beaconsfield. DIED. , 90. On the 30th tilt., at Clifton, Mr s . Hamilton Lambart, Ittf' — vgrp On the 30th ult., a t T he Knoll, near Torquay, T. S erg etint,„l ll ; On time 6th inst., a t F o lk estone, the Right Hon. Sir Nicole ham Tindal, Kni g ht, Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty' , ' CTroffer' ommon Pleas, aged 69. On the 11th of May, at Momi na b a d , C ap t a i n Charles F. i , the 330 Regiment of Bengal Native I n f an t ry . A A mp, 11 On the 20th of M a y, a t B om b ay, Captain P. C. N. '''..- Onnadier Regiment Native I n f an t ry. ril l'e' On the 30th ult., at P au , L ucy A nne, wife of the Rev. tp John - Rector of Stourton, Wilts, aged 55. On the Gth inst., at St. Leonard's, Walpole George EYre , I S 4 1 ;10 4116 On the 7th inst., in Glo uces t er -road, Victoria-gate, Faull Yr the infant child of J. J. Kinloch, Esq. 1 17 ' Landon: Printed and Published by 11417RD0 YOUNG, pre J ll Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the of the Savoy, is the County of Middlesex, 9, 1846. To Sour Fle theirrpholde Ora tes `lePoszt Fill , of 111 tl l ue paid 17, C S itt e , the i.„t;S for IA est at t T e Zif - Yeal tka r t s :I t o ' '4°o; htleTilltispoutAseert ifboer, fYl e a ny, an, and title yn e kit 'unction It at ; 4 lt er testellest P er, s ca a or b t pnested 41 4 r ' n :e the 2 : .. 81d, nce, , Tireetli „ t he Seer e ont ,,, eta oetn n v+etio n ~ncatefora at wiiit arly not teatsl A Affii i Th e 44 (1 LIN It 4, eonlinitt (ft, Thl s a t th 6 p the c c 4 ' ll ly °u gh sor aur a ad illSted, 11 ' ?,f . Part 6 .14 8 e Sir ''N t tni t their r „ unl• T 4 P. bir p Re ec.ors loeY e will 'tlifYl4 `O r tli e : i lr f auly 3 'etei t o th e or the of say 41.7, 4 h„i th er of t SMiate °r d w ar' itt4 _4yrs tssol or; cot 11, 11 ;!ct,i: rat6, l d ~ a er i t n h a Y 1 t n 3r t, t sa cow4na] (41 111 1 , 1 tO„Al o bi„ . 4 8 ); he • reel t WILTS f th Nit thlrills4,, Directors)llll47lol 8' op .le?ls°i 5,,, h mtr .4. befor e the s a i d 4%44 liesand srsl7 ► tc .llg Nt h htt,to n rilge, Melis ito Into .6 1 ‘liallet, for taz.essrs. I,, e hNste r It h fplouti,'": „ . e ;arl e heai sq s- 31 ` c 6. ..---- , dole . fl ubO t4 On the ISth ult., at Xerox Frentera, the lady of J . B. •e - d o Esq., of a daughter. ' id. , On the 21st nit., at St. Thomas's-street, Portsmouth, the' Lieutenant C. 11, Lapidge, R.N., of a daughter. 0 0 On the aOth ult., at Cromarty, the lady of Captain A p G. ovai of a daughter. P ., di `" On the Ist inst., a t O lendaruel House, Mrs. Campbell, a darnel, of a son, sP" -- On the 4th lust., at Leicester, the widow of the Rev. John or° late Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, of a son. 9 1.. On the sth inst., at Camberwell, the lady of R. R. Robinson, , surgeon, of a son. fir , On the sth in s t., a t Br i ghton, the wife of the Rev . Joseph i lc o f Jerrard, D.C.L„ of a son. ... ( 00 1 On tho sthlnst., the wife of D r . C. B rodie Sewell, of Wail , twills, one still-born. son' On the s th inst., the lady of T. B. Hildyard, Esq., M.P., of ° i On the 6th, Inst., at Highgate, M rs. A. W. Block, of a son. ...f ilif ell On tit:: *Ali inst., at the Recto r y, Dean-street, Soho, Ws. ' ~,, Wr„..te, of a son. PI On the 7th inst., at Bri g ht on, the wife of John Mugger' age , of it SOll.