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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, August 12. GAUGE OF RAILWAYS BILL. (Illontinned from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. HAYTER said the Right Ho n. Gentleman 'the Vice • President of the Board of Trade laboured under a mistake when he said, in opposition to this clause,. first, t i would sanction a complete violation of the principles byw hich the Commissioners came to t heir resolution ; and, seco ndly,w that, in point of form, this resolution ought to have been pro posed when they were in Committee on the Bill ? ( Hear, hear.) The resolutions of the House did not militate against the clause proposed-4n fact, they made an exception with respect to that part of the country to which the resolution of the Hon. Member for Birmingham referred.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill proposed to interfere with two parts of the kingdom — the Birmingham district and a Welsh county—on which the Gauge Commissioners had not reported. The clause now pro posed was only similar to that which was inserted in the Ox ford and Birmingham Railway Bill, and he thought that the House ought to allow it to be inserted in this Bill.—(Hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS supported the clause. The advantages to the public of having a conti nuit y of gauge from Birmingham to Rugby were incalculable, and those advantages would be obtained by the insertion of the proposed clause in the Bill. The public would save an immense amount of money by the proposed continuity of gauge, and he thought that the Right Honourable Gentleman the Vice- President of the Board of Trade, had utterly failed in showing that the clause ought not to be agreed to. The public were fairly entitled to the clause, which would tend in a great measure to put an end to the monopoly which at pre sent existed on the railways in the district in question.— ( Hear, hear.) The manufacturers of the northern districts suffered much from the inability of those railways to accom modate them in the carrying of their merchandise. Mr. MARK PHILIPS briefly opposed the clause. He thought that this proposition had come upon the House by surprise. At so late a period of the session, it had been supposed that the Bill would not have been at tempted to be altered. He certainly could not agree to the introduction of the clause, which would not, in his opinion, confer the advantages anticipated by Hon. Members. Mr. BERNAL thought that the public were entitled to the insertion of this clause. Sir GEORGE GREY said that the question was fully discussed when tha resolutions were before the House, and the President of the Board of Trade of the late Government brought in a Bill founded on these resolutions, which Bill was the one now under discussion. During the debate on these resolutions no mention was made of the present pro posal ; and he thought it extremely inconvenient to re-open the question now de novo. Without entering into the merits of the question, he thought that the safe course would be to adhere to the Bill, and to remit the clause, as being contrary to precedent and the ordinary usages of the House with regard to Bills at that stage. Mr. HENLEY supported the clause, inasmuch as it was within the spirit of the exceptions allowed by the resolutions. Captain MANGLES opposed the clause. The merits of the question had been already fully discussed, and the pro moters of the broad gauge had the sole opportunity of being beard before the Board of Trade, without making the present proposal. Under these circumstances, he did not think the House of Commons was a fit tribunal to reverse the decision of the authorities, who supported the course determined upon by the Board of Trade and sanctioned by themselves, in passing the resolutions on which the present Bill was founded. Mr. MUNTZ replied, and said it would be a great injustice if they rejected the clause on the technical ground of its nut being printed. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the clause Against it 46 Majority against the clause —3l The Bill was then read a third time and passed. EJECTMENTS (IRELAND) BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill, and the se veral clauses were read and agreed to. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-mormw. RATEABLE PROPERTY (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD moved, " That it is the opinion of this House, that any new law for the valuation of rateable property in Ireland, should be made in conformity with the recommendations contained in, the report of the Select Committee on theTownlandValuation of Ireland (July 18,1844), viz., that there ought to be only one valuation for all purposes of local taxation, framed on the net annual value to let, determined on the principles laid down in the Poor Relief Act." He said that it was now required to put taxation on real value, and not proportionate value; and if they adopted that course they would have no necessity to resort to this cumbrous ma chinery. Was it not preposterous that after the real value bad been decided by the assistant, the petitioner might find his property by some plan or other cause taxed according to the proportionate value? He thought the valuation for poor rate should be made at the expense of the public. An endless number of valuations would result without any benefit, but, on the contrary, causing a greater confusion in what was already too •confused. He thought it was unreasonable, when so many of the Irish Members were absent, to pass a measure of such importance as the present. He admitted that the rating of property in Ireland was most important, and he trusted that it would form one of the beneficial measures it was proposed to introduce ; but he thought, from the considerations he had stated, it would be better to postpone it for the present. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he could assure the Hon. Gen tleman who had just sat down that there was no individual to whose suggestions on the social condition of Ireland ha would be more ready to attend, but in the present case he could net advise the Government to postpone this measure. He agreed with the Hon. Gentleman as te the importance of this measure; but its postponement would lead to the postponement of other desirable measures for Ireland. At the same time, concur rently with this measure, there would be a valuation on the principle suggested by the Hon. Gentleman. The motion was then withdrawn, and the House went into Committee on the Bill. The House immediately afterwards resumed. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Messengers from the House of Lords brought up several Bills and rep)rts. The House again resolved itself into Committee on the Rateable Property ( Ireland) Bill. Having disposed of forty clauses (there being eighty-seven in the Bill), the House resumed, the Chairman reported pro gress, and obtained leave to sit again on Friday. MARRIAGES (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of Mr. PIGOTT (who stated that he would propose some amendments in Committee), this Bill was read a second HOUSE and ordered to be committed on Friday. OF COMMONS OFFICES BILL. This Bill was reported; and ordered to be recommitted to 111011'0w. NAVAL AND MILITARY DEPARTMENTS BILL. This Bill was postponed till to-morrow. PUBLIC WORKS AND FISHERIES. This Bill then went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow. COMMONS INCLOSURE *(No. 3) BILL. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL. Mr. MILNER GIBSON having moved the third reading of this Bill, Captain PECHELL hoped that it would not be allowed to p as s. If it passed, the Admiralty Court, in which there was an amount of robbery yearly committed, which it was not convenient at this period of the session to detail, would be still further enriched by the spoils which this Bill would produce for those who practised in that Court. He knew of a case, lately decided in the Admiralty Court, in which the amount awarded was but 50!., and the law expenses 3001. It would be ruinous to the shipowners of this country. The law of wreck and salvage certainly did require the most extensive improvement, but he did not expect that such a monstrous remedy as this Bill would have been proposed. He hoped that his Right Hon. Friend, the President of the Board of Trade, would relinquish this measure of the defunct Ministry. He (Captain Pechell) had, for the fast ten years, done his utmost endeavours to purify the Admi ralty Court ; and if this Bill were passed, he should never rest Satisfied until it was repealed. Mr. GEORGE PALMER also opposed the Bill, which, in his opinion, involved the greatest difficulties. Mr. MILNER GIBSON hoped the Hon. Member would allow the Bill to be read a third time, and the amendments might be considered on a future occasion. The Bill was then read a third ;ime, and further proceedings on the Bill were postponed till to-morrow. BRITISH POSSESSIONS BILL. This Bill was read a second time. Captain PECHELL ,moved for copies of all the correspon dence which has taken place between the Committee of Council of Education and the York and Ripon Central Diocesan So ciety for the Education of the Poor.—Agreed to. Captain PECHELL moved for a return from the several Vice-Admiralty Courts (according to the schedule annexed to the Act 5 and 6 Vic. c. 91) of all cases. which had been ad judged in the said Courts respectively from the 10th August, 1842, to the latest period at which the, same cis be made. — Agreed to. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. Mr. HUME moved for certain orders respecting the cor poral punishment of Europeans and natives in British India, and also a return of the number of prisoners who suffered corporal punishment in .the different military prisons in England, Ireland; aMI Scotland.—Agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at six o'clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY) HOUSE 0.1 1 LORDS. Room A. GLASGOW AND BEZZELST Mr. Wylie, of Girvan, was the first witness called this morning, and was examined by Mr. HOPE—His avocations made him acquainted with the districts through which this line passed. Considerable quantities of agricultural produce from these parts were sent to Liverpool and the manufactur ing districts; 14,000 bolls of potatoes were shipped annually from this port, a considerable portion of which found their way to Ireland. The vale of Girvan also abounded with coal and other minerals; nine thousand tons were annually con sumed in the town of Girvan, and upwards of ten thousand tons were shipped during the same period for Ireland. Con siderable quantities of pine-wood were sent to Glasgow and. Ayr, all of which would, he believed, be carried by this rail way if constructed. He did not think that the proposed line would injuriously affect the property of Sir C. Fergusson. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant-Inn/wily—The proposed line would pass at about the distance of a mile from the re sidence of Sir CAFergusson. There were no steamers at present plying between Girvan and Belfast. He had known one steamer come up to the port of Girvan; he believed at about two-thirds tide, but did not know the size of it. Mr. J. Elder, Custom-house officer, of Girvan, gave ev id en ce of the favourable position of the port of that place, and its capabilities of being made a very safe and commodious harbour, on account cf the head lands by which it was protected. He thought that they might get a depth of ten feet at low water at very small outlay, and there would be no difficulty i n keepio g the harbour, when constructed, clear of sand, because the bottom was almost entirely formed of clay. It would, when completed, form one of the best harbours on the coast of Ayr. There were great quantities of fish about Girvan, and he believed this railway would not only afford the means a car rying this fish to Glasgow, but that it would be of great utility to the people of Girvan. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant MURPHY—The weavers of Girvan were very fond of taking trips by sea, but he could not say whether they were of such a locomotive disposition as to take trips by land upon this railway if it were con structed. No such thing could enter the harbour of Girvan as one of the large steamers plying between Glasgow and Liverpool, or Ireland. Mr, .I%reitson examined by Mr. Hon—Was a butcher, and member of the town-council of Glasgow, and stated that great quantities of cattle and sheep were fed and fattened in the neighbourhood of Maypole, which would be carried to Glasgow by this railway, if constructed. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant MURPHY—The whole of i the cattle consumed n Glasgow came from Forfarshire, the Nast Lothians, and from Ayrshire. Mr. J. Whitfield, tenant of the Batgenny coal-fields, and 1 farmer of Girvan, gave evidence of the extent of the coal fields in that district ; they were six miles in length, and the present yield was 37,000 tons annually, but they were not worked to anything like their full extent, because at present they had no means of getting a market for their supply. If he had such a market opened up he could increase his supply of coal by 110,000 tons, the greater portion of which would be shipped for Ireland at the port of Girvan. The proposed line, if constructed, would effect a saving to him of 6,0001. a year in the carriage of his coals to Girvan, which was a distance of five miles from the pit's mouth. Cross-examined by Sergeant Munpnt—The vessels which would carry the coal to Ireland would bring back meal and other provisions. The meal that was sent from Ireland was of an inferior quality to that produced in the neighbourhood of Girvan, which was always sent to Glasgow and other towns in the north. The inferior article would be consumed by the people of Girvan themselves. Mr. J. Geddes and Mr. Frisbee corroborated the evidence of the last witness with respect to the quantity of coal and other minerals in the district through which the line would pass. Mr. Marshall, traffic-taker, gave general statistical evi dence of the amount of traffic to be expected upon this line. Mr. Knight corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Mr. Blyth, C.E., the engineer to the line was then called and examined—The total length of the line was 21 miles 5 furlongs. The branch to Maypole was nearly a mile in length. There were no tunnels upon the line, and the works presented no engineering difficulties. The total estimate for the works was 330,0001. The line would pass at least at the distance of a mile from the house of Sir C. Fergusson, and would not be seen from the house, as it would be completely obscured by the intervening hills. Mr. Miller, C.E., engineer in chief to the line, was exa mined, and corroborated the evidence of Mr. Blyth, the acting engineer. Several witnesses were called, who, as land valuers, gave evidence of the land which would be required for the pur poses of the railway, and the value of the same. This closed the case on behalf of the promoters of the Bill. Mr. Sergeant Munrnv then called the attention of their Lordships to the case of Sir C. Ferg,usson, and contended that the circumstance of the traffic between Ayr and Girvan, and the district traversed by this railway, were not of such a nature as to warrant the outlay of so large a sum as would be required for this railway in the present depressed state of the money market, neither were they sufficient to justify the unwarrantable invasion of the private property of a person of so great respectability and high character as that of Sir C. Fergusson. The Learned Counsel also commented upon the absence of all evidence on the part of the promoters, with reference to the amount of traffic to be expected from Ireland, communication with which place had been so boastingly put forward by them. The port of Girvan would not afford any facilities for such a traffic even if it were to exist. With respect to the coal which one of the witnesses had stated would be sent to Ireland, the Noble Lord the Chairman of the Committee would bear him out in the assertion that it was not furnace coal, such as was produced in this district, that would be required for consumption in Ireland, but, on the contrary, house coal, which was produced, as stated by the same witness, from coal-fields to the north of Ayr, conveyance for which was al ready provided by the ports of Ardrossan and other ports on the coast, and which clearly would not be brought down to the inconvenient port of Girvan for shipment to Ireland. Then, with reference to the residential damage, he contended that the sinuosities of the surface of the country would not hide this eye-sore from the honourable proprietor whom he had the honour to represent. The proposed line went for four miles through his property, and there was not the slightest necessity for inflicting this grievous damage upon him, either on the grounds of local or through traffic, or as affording the means of communication with England, the latter of which was amply provided for by lines already sanctioned. Upon these grounds, therefore, he called upon their Lordships to refuse their sanction to the proposed line. A table of the assents, dissents, and neuters, was then handed in. No witnesses were called on behalf of Sir C. Fergusson. The room was ordered to be cleared. Upon our admission, The CitAtamAN stated that the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the Bill was proved. The Committee had introduced several verbal amendments in the clauses, among which was one limiting term for the construction of the line to five years instead of seven. In consequence of these amendments the Bill will have to be sent back to the House of Commons. THE SUN I.4TDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 184,6. NORTH KENT RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders in this un dertaking was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving a report from the directors preparatory to a dissolution of the Company; Sir Isaac Lionel Goldsmid in the chair. The report presented a detailed history of the North Kent battle in a Committee of the House of Commons, which must be familiar to most readers of The Sun (a lengthened report of the struggle having during its continuance appeared m The Sun from day to day), and it therefore be comes unnecessary to give a detailed notice of this part of the report. The report then went on to state that the committee, when the South-Eastern Bill, for making the line from Greenwich to Charlton, reached the second reading in the Lords, determined, under the then existing circumstances, to abandon their opposition, in con sideration of a sum of money (35,000/.) which the South- Eastern Company agreed to pay them. Of this sum, after deducting the purchase money of some land, included in the agreement, the property of the chairman, there remained a balance of 27,5001. for liquidating the debts and liabilities of the Company, and, after all claims had been satisfied, the remainder of the money, if there was any, should be di vided amongst the shareholders. A return of about 30s. per share would be made immediately on the receipt of the money from the South-Eastern Company. A PROPRIETOR having moved the adoption of the report, The CHAIRMAN stated that 58,300 shares had been issued, every shilling of the deposits on which had all been paid up. —(Hear, hear.) The directors had put the Company to no expense, except for a cup of coffee and a rusk.—(A laugh.) A SHARXIIOLDER asked what were the ascertained liabili ties of the Company? The CHAIRMAN said 75,0001. was demsnded of them, but they expected, upon a minute examination, to reduce that amount. A SHAREHOLDER—How much? The CHAIRMAN said, of course that would be a matter of opinion, but he was then only dealing with facts.—( Hear.) A PROPRIETOR from Dover said the shareholders in his part of the country were averse to giving up the scheme. The majority of the meeting, however, thought there had been a fair stand-up fight between themselves and the South- Eastern Company, and the directors had under such circum stances acted perfectly right in abandoning the opposition. The report was unanimously agreed to. In answer to a question, The CtimumAx said the 75,0001. included the money al - paid from the commencement of the Company. Subsequently it was stated that the expenses would not exceed 15s. per share. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and directors, and the meeting separated. THE GENERAL SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY. The annual general meeting of this Society took place yesterday at the Hall of Commerce, in order to receive the report of the Committee for the last year, and for the pur pose of electing five members to fill the vacancies in the Committee. The chair was taken at one o'clock by George Frederick Young, Esq. The SECRETARY (Mr. N. Wm. Symonds), read the report, from which we extract the following : " Your committee regret that another year has passed without any measure being introduced for the long-expected amendment of the pilotage laws. They have again remon strated with the Government on the delay, and disappointed as they feel that the evils so long complained of, proved, and admitted, still remain unredressed, they will not relax their efforts to obtain a remedy. "No step has yet been taken on the subject of lighthouses, to which attention was drawn by your committee in their last report. The state of public business during the present Parliamentary session may probably account for the com prehensive report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons thereon, which was presented before the close of the last session, having hitherto passed unnoticed. "As a member of the great community of the empire, the ship-owner advances no claim to special or peculiar privi leges: he has nu right to demand, on abstract grounds, ex emption from any burden to which other interests are sub jected, or any immunity from which they are excluded: if they be protected, his ;right to protection is co-equal with theirs : if they sustain the pressure of foreign competition, he must make up his mind to meet it also. All this, however, is true, only so long as he is permitted freely to pur sue like others his own interests in his own way, unfettered by any restrictions from which other interests are exempt. But if for objects of supposed national benefit, conferring on him no separate or special advantage, the State imposes on him burdens and restrictions of a heavily disqualifying nature, common justice would prescribe that up to the point to which the proved disqualification extends, he should be protected from the competition of 4 those who are free from his burdens; and common sense will determine that unless so protected, he must sink in the struggle of such competition. Now this exactly is the case of the British shipowner. By the registry laws he is restricted to the use of ships probably the most costly in the world. By the navigation laws he is compelled to employ ex clusively the highest paid and most expensively fed seamen—those of native birth. By a variety of laws and regulations deemed by the Legislature essential to some common interest, or some general duty, he is impeded, taxed, and prevented from conducting his pursuits in the manner most conducive to his own interests. The effect of all this on his expenses must be self-evident. It has been estab lished arg umentatively—statistically—before Committees of Inquiry—by Parliamentary returns—by proof upon proof, de fying refutation. It has been demonstrated by the most con clusive ofall evidence, that of experience. Your committee have no desire to revive bygone controversies, but the annual records of their proceedings bear continual testimony to the practical effects that have followed in every instance, in which the experiment has been tried of placing British shipping in a position of unprotected competition with the ships of foreign nations. It is c onsolatory to have observed that in reply to a question from the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, in a recent discussion on the sugar duties, declared that he did not propose in any respect to alter the existing navigation laws.' Still, in the signs of the times your committee per ceive abundant reason for shipowners being prepared. It would be unworthy of your committee to affect to con ceal that which their successive records abundantly testify, that their own opinions have always been favourable to mo derate and just protection to all interests. In the support of this principle they have been actuated by no selfish desire to promote class interests at the expense of those of the com munity at large, bat have been prompted solely by the conviction, that in its maintenance the interests of all would be most effectually advanced. If the general policy of the country is to be changed, they ask not now that for their own sakes they shall constitute an exception. But what they demand, is, even-handed justice. That justice which by Sir. Robert Peel was promised to the agriculturists on the repeal of the corn-laws, and by Lord John Russell to the colonists on the alteration of the sugar duties;—namely, that freedom of production shall at least go hand in hand with freedom of competition." Mr. Cirarmasr, M.P., move,l the adoption of the report and expressed his opinion in favour of protection, and his gratitude that the Noble Lord (Lord G. Bentinck) had taken up tile question in such a statesmanlike manner in the House of Hedidnetbelieve that the day was distant when Commons.hos principles woulde prevail if they would rally round each other. Lord GEORGE BENTMCK said that he came there as the representative of King's Lynn, a great com mercial district, and not with the intention of taking an active part in the proceedings of the day. H e had always believed that the shipping interest of England was of the greatest moment to the country. He did not wish to enter into any debateable questions, but he felt that it was hard to speak of British shipping and not speak of free trade—(Hear, hear)—which, wherever it had been tried, had never failed to injure that interest; and he could tell them that unless the day arrived (which God forbid that he should live to see) when they • conld make the British sailor live as cheaply as the Norwegians and Danes, they never could contend on equal terms with the shipowners of other countries and of that country. They were told that they ought to be quite satisfied with the progress that they had made, but what signified that progress if others exceeJed that progress, what signified it if they run a race, if others run faster?—(Hear, hear.) And he considered that the navigation laws should be maintained in their entirety, and they should avow free trade with those countries that had a competing maritime force. Where was their strength ? Was it not in those colo nial possessions where they had a monopoly ? In China, where there was no naval force but their own—in India, where such was also the case? They ought to have different commercial treaties with different countries—a particular treaty with China; another with Norway; another with Russia, Prussia, and Sweden. That was the doctrine which he maintained. The course of the shipowners was again to unite—in union was their sole strength. It was said that Parliament had decided the question of free trade, but he did not know that the country had done so, and he, for one, would not give up the question as lost.—(Hear, hear.) As long as he was in Parliament he would fight the battle of protection.—(Hear.) He would conclude by seconding the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously. Lord G. BENTINCK then moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman. It was only in his absence from the House of Commons that he (Lord George Bentinck) advocated so zealously their interests, for if Mr. Young had been there it would not have been necessary for him to have said one word. The resolution having been seconded, was passed unani mously. The Chairman briefly thanked the meeting. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, AUG. 11.—There is no change in the market to-day. Good printing cloths continue in fair demand ; but other descriptions of cloth, and most kinds of yarn, are in limited request—•in some cases at rather lower rates. _ . ROCHDALE, MONDAY, AUGUST Io.—The flannel market still continues inactive, and demand limited. Wool has un dergone little variation, either in price or quantity sold. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11.—There have been a good many buyers in the market, and a fair business doing, although perhaps not quite so much as during the two last weeks. Wools are steady in price, and the demand for woollen yarn is very brisk. LEEDS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11.—The improved state of our market continues, and almost all descriptions of woollens are in very fair demand.—Manchester Guardian. POOR REMOVAL. A BILL, as AMENDED by the COMMITTEE, to CONSOLIDATE and AMEND the LAWS RELAT- ING to the REMOVAL of the POOR. New tide for third reading :—" An Act to amend the laws relating to the removal of the poor." Sect. 1. Persons exempted from the liability to be removed after five years' residence.—Whereas it is ex pedient that the laws relating to the removal of the poor should be amended ; be it enacted that from and after the passing of this Act, no person shall be re moved from any parish in which he shall have resided for five years next before the application for a warrant for his removal from such parish : provided always that the time during which such persons shall be a prisoner in a prison, or shall he serving her Majesty as a soldier, marine, or sailor, or shall be confined in a lunatic asylum, or house duly licensed, or hospital regis tered for the reception of lunatics, or as a patient in a hospital, or during which any such person shall receive relief from any parish, or shall be wholly or in part maintained by any rate of subscription raised in a parish in which he does not reside, not being a bond fide chari table gift, shall for all purposes be excluded in the com putation of time hereinbefore mentioned. 2. Widows.—No woman residing in any parish with her husband at the time of his death shall, during her widowhood, be removable from such parish for twelve calendar months next after his death. 3. Children.—No child under the age of sixteen years, whether legitimate or illegitimate, residing in any parish with his or her father or mother, stepfather or stepmother, or reputed father, shall be removed from such parish in any case where such father, mother, stepfather, stepmother, or reputed father, may not law fully be removed. 4. Sick Persons.—No warrant shall be granted for the removal of auy person becoming chargeable in re spect of relief made necessary by sickness or accident, unless the justices granting the warrant shall state in such warrant that they are satisfied that the sickness or accident will produce permanent disability. 5. Settlement not to be gained by exemption from removal herein provided.—Provided always, and be it enacted, that no person hereby exempted from liability to be removed, shall, by such exemption, acquire any settlement in any parish. 6. Penalty for procuring removals of poor persons without warrants of Justices.—lf any officer of any parish or union do, contrary to law, with intent to cause any poor person to become chargeable to any parish to which such person was not then chargeable, con vey any poor person out of the parish for which such offioer acts, or cause or procure any poor person to be so conveyed, or give directly or indirectly any money, relief, or assistance, or afford or procure to be afforded any facility for such conyeyance, or make any offer or promise, or use any threat to induce any poor person to depart from such parish, and if, in con sequence of such conveyance or departure, any poor per son become chargeable to any parish to which he was not then chargeable, such officer, on conviction thereof before any two justices, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds, nor less than forty shillings. 7. Delivery of Paupers under orders of Removal.— The delivery of any pauper under any warrant of removal directed to the overseers of any parish, at the workhouse of such parish, or of any union to which such parish belongs, to any officer of such workhouse, shall be deemed the delivery of such pauper to the over seers of such parish. 8. The Poor-law Amendment Act and this Act to be construed as one Act.—The said Act of the fifth year of the reign of King William the Fourth, " for the amend ment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales," and all Acts to amend and extend the same, and the present Act, except so far as the provisions of any former Act are altered, amended, or repealed by any subsequent Act, shall be construed as one Act ; and all penal ties and forfeitures imposed under this Act shall be re coverable as penalties and forfeitures under the said Act for the amendment of the laws relating to the poor. 9. Act limited to England.—This Act shall extend only to England. 10. Act may be amended this session.— This Act may be amended or repealed by any act to be passed in this session of Parliament. MILBANK PRISON. A supplementary report has just been issued by the House of Commons, emanating from the Inspectors of Milbank Prison, with evidence appended, relative to the complaint oeEdward Baker. The following are ex tracts from this document. Tho inspectors iu their sup plementary report say We beg to state that we have instituted a full and searching inquiry into Mr. Duncombe's allegations, and we herewith transmit our report on the statements to which Sir G. Grey has directed our attention. In reference to that part of our report which relates to the corporal punishment of two prisoners with cats, different from those approved by the inspectors, we en close two lashes taken from one of those approved by the inspectors, and also two from one of the cats with which those prisoners were punished. A comparison of these lashes will show that there is no material difference be tween them. The evidence of the Deputy. Governor proves that no order was given by the Governor for any change to be made from the usual pattern of the cat, for although the Deputy-Governor states that he was di rected to procure new cats (which the Governor himself does not recollect), he expressly adds that he was not ordered to vary them in any manner from the original model, but, on the contrary, that the Governor desired that preparation should be made for the punishment in the usual manner, in the case of Bunyan, whereas, in that of the other prisoner, the Governor was absent on leave. There has, however, been manifest irregularity in the course adopted, from time to time, in renewing the cats when worn out, and due care has not been taken to pro vide that the cats, whenever renewed, should be sub mitted to the inspectors for approval. In this, as in all other cases, we look to the Governor, in the first instance, to take care that the rules of the prisort are strictly observed. It appears, however, by the evidence, that the Governor did not interfere, the rule in question not requiring him to submit each cat, when renewed, for the approval of the inspectors, but only that he should take care that the new cats were in accordance with the pattern sealed by th e i ns p ec t ors . In the case of Frederick Bunyan, the governor is proved to have given the usual directions to the Deputy- Governor for carrying the sentence into effect, and he had a right to expect that the officer specially ap pointed to see his orders correctly executed, would in this instance have performed that duty ; but we regret that the Governor did not, by his own inspection from time to time, consistently with his interpretation of the rule, ascertain that the cats in use were in strict ac cordance with the sealed pattern. , We are of opinion that the Deputy-Governor is highly blameable for having omitted to preserve proper pre cautions in providing cats for Bunyan's punishmet, the responsibility of which is not diminished by the acci dental fact, proved in evidence, that no injury resulted, to the prisoner from the omission. Finding the re newal of the cat necessary, he should, as on former occasions, have applied to the steward of the establish ment for new cord ; or, if it was necessary to send out an officer to purchase the cord. he should have provided him with a pattern, and should not have allowed him to depend upon his memory to guide him in the selec tion. When the new cats were made, also, he should have examined them, for the purpose of ascertaining that they were in accordance with the pattern, by which examination he would have discovered that they were lapped with thread waxed with cobbler's wax, instead of bees' wax, as heretofore. It is but justice to the Deputy-Governor to state, that he appears not to have considered this to be a part of his duty ; but we do not admit the validity of this defence. As, however, we have reason to believe that the De puty-Governor is a good and efficient officer, that he had no intention to do an act of injustice to the prisoner, or to increase the severity of the instrument with which he was to be punished, and that, in point of fact, there is no material difference between the cat with which the convict was punished and that approved by the inspectors, we submit whether the justice of the case will not be met by the Deputy-Governor receiving a severe reprimand. The following is an extract with regard to one of the allegations or order against the authorities of the prison, and the result of investigation made thereinto:— THIRD ALLEGATION. That the treatment pursued towards prisoners has led to suicides in the prison to a considerable extent ; the names of three individuals were given who committed suicide in consequence of the cruel treatment which they had received ; indeed he might say that there were four who had destroyed themselves in their cells since the present governor had gone there. But that was not all, he was prepared to prove that twelve others had made the attempt to commit suicide, and were only saved by the vigilance of the officer. The inspectors have examined the records of the pri son relating both to the suicides and the attempts at sui cide, and have ascertained that of the four prisoners who have committed suicide, only one had been sub jected to punishment of any kind, namely, William Pearson, who had been confined in a dark cell for three days on bread and water, for violent and muti nous conduct, and for disobedience of orders in refu sing, with an oath, to repiek oakum, and for using insolent and offensive language towards Supervisor Lawrence. There had been no case of corporal punish ment during the time he was in the prison, and up to that period there had not been a single case of corporal punishment during the time that Captain Groves was governor. With reference to this prisoner, the court before w hi c h he was tried, in passing sentence , observed that they would not be responsible for the consequences if they allowed such a hardened offender, nursed in crime, ever to return to this country. Charles Shipwerth, twenty-two years of age, sentenced for life for arson, was received into this prison on the 10th of June, 1845, and destroyed himself by hanging four days afterwards. This man, during the four days that he was in prison, between his reception and the act which terminated his life, was under great depression of spirits, and strongly protested his innocence of the crime with which he was charged, having said that he was going to suffer for a crime that he had never committed. The prisoner never was subjected to punishment of any kind. Thomas Bentley, thirty-two years of age, was re ceived into the prison on the 12th of August, 1844, under sentence of L even years' transportation for stealing rabbits, and destroyed himself on the following day; on the night of the 13th, or the morning of the 14th August ; he never was subject to punishment of any kind, or cognisant of it in the case of others. Thomas Perry, twenty-five years of age, convicted of burglary, and sentenced for fifteen years, was received on the 25th of August, 1845 ; he destroyed him Self on the 29th of October in the same year. Ho was never subjected to punishment of any kind himself, or wit nessed corporal punishment in others. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, August 12. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the Lord Chief Justice of England, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas ter the Vice-Chancellor of England, and the Judge of the Aimiralty Court. The Attorney and Solicitor-General also sat with their Lordships as assessors. IN THE MATTER OF TUE PETITION OF THE PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed this morning. The case came before their Lordships upon a pe tition presented to her Majesty, by the Provost and Fellows of the College Royal of Eton, against a scheme proposed to her Majesty with respect to the College by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England. The following are the more im portant facts of the case " The College Royal of the Blessed Mary of Eten, otherwise called 'The Kyng's College cf our Ladye of Eton besyde Wyndsore,' was founded by Henry VL, in 1440, and by him incorporated and endowed, and invested with many privileges, by letters patent and charter incorporated into and confirmed by Act of Parliament, the 20th of Henry VI. The perpetual advowson of the parish church of Eton was purchased by the King, and granted to the college in frankalmoin, and the church was changed into a collegiate church, and appropriated, united, and annexed to and in corporated with the college, with the consent of the then Bishop of the diocese (Lincoln), in 1443. At the request of the King, the college was expressly exempted from the jurisdiction of the archdeaconry of Bucks, and the archi diaconal jurisdiction within the parish and collegiate church of Eton was conferred upon the provost and his successors by the Bishop of Lincoln, with the consent of the Arch deacon, to whom an indemnity was assigned of 225. 6d. per annum, charged upon an estate belonging to the college, which has ever since been regularly paid. In 1445 or 1446 a body of statutes was granted by the King to the college, and all collegiate persons are sworn to obey these statutes. One of these statutes (49th), "Of the Metropolitan Visita tion of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the ordinary Visi tation of the Bishop of Lincoln," contains the following passage :—" Also, we have it much at heart that all and sin gular the ordinances and statutes of our said Royal College by us made and to be made may for ever be fully and efficiently observed, and all the property of the same faith fully preserved and discreetly controlled, and we firmly hope that the most Reverend Father in Christ the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Metropolitan of the said college, the Rev. Father in Christ the Bishop of Lincoln, the Diocesan of the same, who, for the time being, as they ought to be the visitors and ordinaries of our said college ( sicut dicti nostri Colleyii Visatores et Ordinarii esse debebunt ) so they will be favourable conservators and chief protectors of the same college, and of all and singular persons and possessions spiritual and temporal, and of the rights, liberties, and privileges of the same; and especially of our statutes and ordinances aforesaid; on account of which our singular confidence in them, we have not cared to make our said college exempt from the same (non curavimus exemp turn fiseere ab eisdem) by the authority of the Apostolic See ; ' and it wills that the Archbishop, as often as he shall visit the diocese of Lincoln as metropolitical, by himself, or his (suns), and the Bishop of Lincoln, when they shall have been required by the Provost, Vice Provost, Bursars, or Fellows, also without requisition, every three years, when he should ordinarily visit his cathedral church and diocese, shall once freely come to the college by themselves or their commissaries (except the Provost of Eaton), and others named in the statute, and shall call together the Fellows and other persons of the college; " which same most reve rend and reverend fathers and such their commissaries afore said, by force of this, our present ordinance and statute, we will more fully to have power of inquiry most rigidly concern ing all and singular the articles contained in our ordinances and statutes by the Provost, &c. ; also, if it befit under the oath of the same to be administered to them to speak the full and simple truth (to wit), if our ordinances and statutes aforesaid had been duly executed and also observed by all of them," &c. ; " and concerning any excesses, negligences, crimes, and faults whatsoever of our said royal college, ac cording to the full force, form and effect of the ordinances and statutes for the correction and punishment thereof," &c. In short, this statute confers the most ample visitatorial powers upon the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Lincoln, extending to deprivation; but expressly takes away from them, " any other power in our said college, as over the persons of the same, or to other matters than those contained in our present statute, and our other statutes and ordinances, or that they may be able, or that any of them can, by reason of the jurisdiction which he or they have in the same, or over any of the persons thereof, cite, or cause to be cited, summon, or cause to be summoned, out of the said college, the Provost, or any fellow, or any other collegiate person, whatsoever in the same; but we, as much as is in us, entirely deprive them, and each of them, of such power by force of this our present statute (sed potestatem hujusmodi eis et eorum culiibet prcesentis statuti nosti i vigore in quantum in nobis est adimimus omni mod)). The Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1446,by deed under seal, accepted, ratified, and approved all these statutes, especially the 49th, as did also the Bishop of Lincoln By virtue of the premises, the Provost and college had claimed and exercised exclusive and peculiar ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the parish of Eton. The Bishop of Lin coln (within which diocese Eton was localy situate) never exercised, or attempted to exercise, any diocesan jurisdic tion in the parish or collegiate ;church of Eton. Marriage licenses are granted by the Provost, and no churchwardens have ever been elected or appointed by the parish, which has been wholly exempted from church -rates, repairs and other expenses, ordinarily the subject of a church-rate, having been defrayed by the college. The visitatorial power has been constantly exercised by the Bishops of Lin coln, and occasionally by the Archbishops of Canterbury. The Act 6 and 7 William IV., c. 77, which created the body politic and corporate, called " the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners for England," enacted (sec. 10) that the Commis sioners shall from time to time prepare and lay before his Majesty in Council such schemes as shall appear to them best adapted to carry into effect the recommendations therein mentioned, and shall prepare such measures as may appear necessary for that purpose, and they are empowered to propose in any such scheme, " that all parishes, churches, or chapelries, which are locally situate in any diocese, but subject to any peculiar jurisAic•ion other than the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which the same are locally situate, shall be only subject to the jurisdic tion of the bishop of the diocese within which such parishes, churches, or chapelries are locally situated." In July, 1837, the Commissioners proposed to her Majesty, with the con sent of the Bishop of Lincoln, that upon the first avoidance of the see of Oxford, the county of Bucks (forming the arch deaconry of Bucks), then part of the diocese of Lincoln, should be detached therefrom, and annexed to the see of Oxford. This scheme was ratified by her Majesty, and in November, 1845, the see of Oxford becoming void by the translation of the then Bishop of Bath and Wells, the county of Bucks became parcel of the see of Oxford. Meanwhile .t to the e the Ecclesiatical Commissioners, in August, 1845, ly e c situate t pro posed to her Majesty, inter alia, that, after the Ist of January, 1846, all parishes and places local within the diocese of Lincoln, and all churches and chapels, and locally situate whole withinc ergy andte limits others ofo of such herela parishes be i i Majesty'ssubjects and places, should, notwithstanding ary peculiar jurisd i ction or exemp tion from jurisdiction they might claim, jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese within which they were locally situate, and to no other eclesiastical jurisdiction whatever. This scheme was likewise ratified by her Majesty. The county of Bucks having , b y i t s tr ansfer to the see of Oxford, in November, 1845, ceased to form p ar t of the diocese of Lincoln, whet the aforegoing scheme took effect (Ist of January, 1846), it had no operation upon the peculiar or exempt jurisdictions in tha t count y . On th e 29th of April last the Commissioners lai d before her Ma jesty another scheme, proposing that all parishes aril places locally situate within the diocese of Oxford, and all churches and chapels and the whole clergy and others, her Majesty's subjects, locally situate within such parishes and places shall, notwithstanding any peculiar or other e cclesiastical jurisdic tion or exemption claimed by them, be subject only to the jurisdiction and authority of the Bishop of Oxford; " pro vided that nothing herein contained shall deprive the colle giatei church and p ar i s h o f Et on of their pre sent exem p tion, if any, from the j ur i s di c ti on o f th e Archdeac on of Bucking ham." The Provost and fellows of Eton objected to this scheme on several grounds :-1. Because, Eton being a royal foun dation, and having hitherto enjoyed an exemption from ecclesiastical jurisdiction, no evil consequences have arisen 2. Because pariah and college is in all respects satisfactory.no een sug_ no particular or peculiar benefit or advantagel b or diocese, therefrom ; on the contrary, the ecclesiastical state of the gested as likely to accrue to the college, parish, the immediate and necessary consequence w o "fellows, and from the abolition of this peculiar jurisdiction..3e; Because the the Bishop of Lincoln, as visitor, the Provost, f e llows, collegiate persons amenable in the sam o capacity, and all in collision ; and to render the Provost , acit to two Because the collegiate clerks, and the Bishop of Ox ford, as ordinar.) different and possibly conflicting tribunals. 4 . charter, privileges, and stat u tes of the colleg e having been • e lawfully granted, confirmed and recogn is ed, a nd found impolitic in highly beneficial, it is unjust i n principle , an d practice, to interfere in the manne r proposed withoutsay that the a ainst urgent the cause, or proposed advantage, or charge made g college. The Commissioners, on the other hand, time f does not appear to them t o h ave at any exemption from episcopal jurisdiction, claimed hyp in e coact llegeex, isted ; that the parish of Eton, and the site of the Royal College, were, at the date of the foundation of the college, and continued to be till November last, within the diocese of Lincoln, the Bishops of which see having been, under the statutes of ? the college, ordinaryivisitors, filled tho twofold character of diocesan and visitor, which had given rise to the supposition of an exemption from episcopal jurisdiction; whereas the episcopal authority could not merge in the visitatorial authority; and there is no evidence of any act or a Bishop of Lincoln, by which the collegiate church of Eton was exempted from the diocesan authority, whilst confirma tion and other rites performed there by Bishops of Lincoln could only have been performed by them as ordinaries of the diocese. But should the petitioners be able to establish the exemption they claimed, then the Commissioners submit that that exemption ought not to be continued, one of the objects of the Act of 6th and 7th William IV., c. 77, being to put an end to such anomalies. If, therefore, the collegiate church and parish of Eton are not exempt from episcopal jurisdic tion, they are not affected by the scheme; and if they are exempt, that church and parish will under the proposed scheme be placed under the episcopal jurisdiction of the bishop in whose diocese they are locally situate, according to the spirit and intent of the Act. ➢lr. BETHELL resunled his arguments in behalf of the pe titiontrs, and the case appears likely to occupy several days. SECONDARIES, COURT, August 12. (Before Mr. Secondary POTT-ER.) ASSAULT.-NEYLAND V. PEARSON. This was an action to recover damages for an assault. Mr. Ryland appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Jones for the defendant, who suffered judgment to go by default. The facts of the case, as elicited from the plaintiff's wit nesses, were these : —The plaintiff is a dealer in Bass's Indian ales, and the defendant a licensed victualler, keeping the Mitre. in Chancery-lane. On the 6th of July last the plaintiff took six dozen of ale, and charged it at six shillings a dozen, which the defendant objected to, and said that it was agreed when the dozen was sent as a sample that it should be only ss. 6d. per dozen, and he would not pay any more, and plaintiff might take it away again, on which plaintiff called him a d—d humbug, &c., &c., and said he would not do so. Defendant told him not to repeat the offensive words, which, however, he did, and defendant then went round the corner and struck him in the face. It was net pretended that the injury was severe, but plaintiff went to an attorney a short distance away, who immediately sent a letter requiring com pensation for the injury and an apology, also payment for the beer and the next day writs were issued. Defendant paid for the beer, but determined to take the opinion of the jury as to the assault. Mr. Sergeant JONES contended, that although the de fendant could not justify the assault, yet that, if the jury sanctioned such conduct by their verdict, they would be encouraging actions of this kind, and no tradesman would be safe from insults and imposition. The jury retired for two hours, and at three o'clock gave 51. damages. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Numerous complaints have been lately made against persons to whom bills have been entrusted by individuals desirous of obtaining cash for them. One case, which came before Alderman Gibbs three times, and which shows the tenacity with which a certain class of bill discounters grasp what they have not the least claim to, will serve as a sample, and, probably, operate as a warning. On Thursday last John Singer Sydserff was brought up in the custody of a policeman, charged with having stolen the acceptance of Mr. Lewis, one of the Society of Friends, for 1271. It appeared that Mr. Lewis gave the bill to a Mr. Dixon to get discounted. Mr. Dixon applied to the prisoner, who said he could get it cashed after having seen a copy of it, and obtained the original upon the un derstanding that he would produce the amount or the bill itself within a certain time. The prisoner laughed at the repeated demands made by Mr. Dixon, who, of course, informed the acceptor of the difficulties in which he was placed. Mr. Lewis, apprehensive that a danger ous use might be made of the instrument, gave the pri soner into custody. The prisoner voluntarily entered into his recognizances to appear next day, to answer the accusation, Alderman Gibbs advising him, at the same time, to settle the business by delivering up the bill to the person from he had received it, there not being the shadow of excuse for its detention. On the following day Sydserff appeared before the Alderman, accompanied by Mr. Woolfe, of the offices of Mr. Flower, to make his defence. Mr. Lewis having represented the particulars, Alderman GIBBS asked whether the prisoner had re ceived instructions in writing to get the bill discounted? Mr. Lewis replied in the negative, but areceipt, signed by the prisoner, for the bill was produced; and it was argued that the receipt was quite argument enough of the obligation of the prisoner to return it. Alderman GIBBS said that on no point could a felony be proved against the prisoner ; but if the aceeptor had taken care to deliver written instructions with the bill when he gave it to be discounted, it would be in the power of the magistrate to commit the party detaining it for misdemeanour. Mr. Woolfe said that his client hal beet , apprehended as a common thief in the street and was very ignomi. niousls treated. Alderman Gmets—Why does he not give the man his bill ? Mr. Woolfe—My client does not know Mr. Lewis, the acceptor, at all. The only person who had any deal ing with him is Mr. Dixon, and how would be be justi fied in handing ever the bill to .a stranger ? It is most monstrous that a person should be seized upon in the street as a robber by a man whom he never saw before, and in a case in which there is not the slightest testi mony that an offence has been committed. Alderman GIBBS asked whether Mr. Dixon, who had handed the bill to the prisoner to get it dis.tounted, was present, and was informed that he was not in the jus tice room. Alderman Geniis read the section of the Act which directs that written instructions are necessary in cases where persons are employed to get bills discounted, and said he regretted that he could render no assistance to the prosecutor, who must bring an action as the only means of procuring restitution. He again advised the prisoner to restore the bill to the owner The prisoner was then, very much to his satisfaction, discharged, but made no promise. On Monday last, however, Mr. Dixon, who bad been accidentally abFent on Saturday, and who considered that he was called upon to make every effort in his power to get back the bill, caused Sydserff to be appre hended in the county of Middlesex, on the supposition that the magistrates at Wosship-street Police Court would find out some Act of Parliament better adapted to his taste. He was, however, mistaken. The Worship street magistrates sent the prisoner back to the Man sion-house, where Mr. Dixon, in: teed of Mr. Lewis, ap peared as prosecutor. Alderman GIBBS again heard the evidence, which presented no new feature, and again recommended that the bill should be given up to the owner. Mr. Woolfe, for the prisoner, said that his client had committed no offence, and called upon the Alderman to discharge him. Alderman GIBBS (to the prosecutor)—You have no remedy except by action. The omission of the written instructions to the person intrusted with the bill has put you out of Court. I discharge the prisoner for want of evidence. The prisoner was then, evidently to the regret of the respectable persons present, discharged. TRAVELLING THROUGH THE CITY.—The Lord Mayor has for a considerable length of time dedicated the in terval between nine and twelve o'clock on every Satur day to the hearing of cases of complaint against omni bus drivers and conductors, and his Lordship's activity in causing the removal of obstructions has obtained for him the warm thanks of the inhabitants of the leading streets in his extensive district. His Lordship some times hears from fifty to seventy complaints on the ap pointed day. The plan adopted by his Lordship has been exceed ingly efficacious. Instead of fining the violators of the law the largest amount of penalty, he inflicts no higher fine than 10s., with the alternative of 14 days' imprison ment for each offence. That sentence subjects a delin • quent to very low diet, so that if he refuse to pay in pocket, he must pay dearly in person, and he cannot upon leaving prison boast of a triumph over the Beak. The offt•nder, on the contrary, upon whom a large penalty is inflicted, with the alternative of a longer period of confinement, is not subjected to the pinching diet which is measured out to the former, so that he willingly ac cepts the imprisonnient, at the end of which he resumes his occupation, after having escaped the pecuniary inflic tion, and been supported at the expense of the City. In most of the former instances the masters pay the ten shillings for the misbehaviour of the servants, and com pel them to pay back the amount by instalments, so that the efficacy of the law is by such experiments most completely tested. ROYAL VISIT TO THE CITY BARGE.—On Monday, a , the floating monster of the Thames, the City barge, so much famed for fun and festivity, was lying under the broad shadows of the trees at Kew, about three o'clock, having just received on board the Committee of the London Bridge Ap proaches and their wives and daughters, and several other members of the Corporation and their ladies, the party was honoured in a manner they little expected. Sir Peter Laurie, casting his searching eye around to fled some new matter of entertainment, espied his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge calmly surveying the civic preparations for dinner. Overjoyed at the discovery, the Knight, with true corporatic hospitality, proposed to ISIr. Jones, the Chairman, to invite his Royal Highness to partake of the good things provided in the barge. The Duke accepted the invitation in the spirit of a gentleman, and accompanied Mr. Jones and Sir Peter Laurie in the shallop to the barge, where his Royal Highness was received with the most respectful greetings of the com - pany assembled on the deck, to do him honour. His Royal Highness remained for some time on board, and expressed ment, his Royal H d • ness was obliged to take leave of the w m a u s c h a g , , r r a i e t i h fl c t a r t e i o a n t , , a t t a t h h e i m e n t e l r n t a c i n o m n s e e n ci t u , a n w c h e 1 o c f h h a n e d e e n c g l a a g r e ed. igh civic brethren long before he wished to make his departure. The company, it is needless to say, were delighted with such an accession to their enjoyments. "The citizens and their ladies"—to use the poetical language of one of the party— "were highly charmed with the scene," and after the depar ture of his Royal Highness, wer e beautifully brought together l b i y gh t t h f e a m nt u as si t e i , c COMMISSION OF ESCHEAT , LONDON. —SEIZITIIE OF THE w to h e i s c . l ' ; ESTATE or AN ALIEN. —Yesterday afte rnoon a Commission of played to the elegant display o f " their Essheat was opened by . Messrs. Waddington, Pollock, and Maule, at the Secondaries' Office, Basinghall-street, to ascer tain whether Mrs. Amelia Susan Maria Mayes was or was not an alien, and if she was, of what property she was t o lier 1 . 1 for a pos sessed in the City of London. The facts were these :—The lady i 3 the natural daughter of Mr. Jens Wolff, who was form er ly the Danish Consul in London, and was born at Pari s o f a M rs. Tovey, whom Mr. Wolff afterwards married. M r . W o lff British subject. T he having Crown,made a will, bequeathing property in London, Midll esex, an d Surrey, to his son, and after his death to his d aug ht er , M rs. Mayes, who resided abroad, and was married to an o ffi cer i n athberoaßdewlgasiannota su army. The property her life, the Learned Commissioner s a id it b ecame escheatedr to the Crown, as Mrs. Mayes bei ng ill eg iti mate and born a right to take to it; and wou ld no doubt, as fallen it therefore, al ways did, act with liberality an d j us ti ce t o the parties interested, p ies these proceedings bei ng c hi e fly f or th e protecti)n of the pro perty. The jury found that the property was of the value of 401. per annum, within the jurisdi • ction of the Sheriffs of London. BRIGHTON, Auo. 12.—The Countess de Bruce, Earl of Templetown, and Captain Maccan arrived here yesterday by the Magnet steamer from Dieppe. THE POTATO DISEASE IN WALEs.—We have hitherto abstained from noticing the spread of this disease in our own immediate neighbourhood, hoping the accounts that reached us were premature and unfounded, but we are now reluc tantly compelled to admit their accuracy, and also that there is every reason to expect that the calamity will be worse than that of lad year.— Cambrian, Aug. 7. MARYLEBONE ASSOCIATION. PAROCHIAL COMMITTEE. The fifteenth anniversary of this association, which was formed for obtaining equ a l p aroc hi a l rights for the inhabitants of this extensive parish, was celebrated yes terday by a dinner, in the Marylebono Theatre, at which John Williams, Esq., Oxford-street, presided ; G. Daniel, Eiq., being vice chairman. Henry Charles Wilson acting as honOrary secretary on the occasion. The business of the day was conducted by a number of gentlemen, who fulfilled their stewa r d s hi p a d m i ra bl y. Through the liberality of Mr. Loveridge, the proprietor of the theatre, a gentleman who, by the exercise cf ability and honourable conduct, has been enabled to build this theatre, and assume his present position in society, the use of the structure, and the gas-light was given gratis. Another gentleman gratuitously boarded the pit over, so as to render the place eligible for the pur pose. Many other instances of a similar spirit might be noticed. The best use was made of the space, and this agreeable little theatre presented a scene of friendly con viviality unusually pleasing, even on such occasions. Indeed, the arrangements were excellent. The dinner, provided by Mr. Sarson, of the Windsor Castle, was liberal, and put on the table in his usual style. The vocal corps comprised Mr. Ransford, Mr. Collyer, and Mr. Sporle, who, with the assistance of a brass band, greatly enlivened the proceedings of the day. The at• tendance was very numerous and highly respectable; and the meeting was graced by ladies, who filled the boxes. Among the company present were Sir C. Napier, M P., J. Williams, Esq., M.P., and , with the bulk of the most respectable inhabitants of the district. . . . . The cloth having been withdrawn, Non Nobis was sung admirably by the vocalists. After this, The CHAIRMAN said that he had a toast to propose, which he was quite sure would be acceptable to the men of Marylebone. That toast was " The Qneen."—(Ap plause.) It was a curious and singular coincidence that this country had always flourished when a Queen was the Sovereign, and it was the peculiar merit of our pre sent Queen, that she was the first who had governed simply with a view to the benefit of the people, and not with a view to class interests. This was the case now, and he trusted the men orMarylebone would do their ac customed justice to themselves. Glee—" God save the Queen." The next toast which the CHAIRMAN had to. propose, and it was one which he was quite sure would meet with a ready response, was "The health of the Prince of Wales, the Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family resident in England." He trusted every gentleman would charge their glasses with bumpers, as he felt assured every heart would respond to the toest,--for he felt equally sure that the Queen would pay as much attention to the education of the Prince of Wales, as the Queen had done to her own. Glee--" God save the Prince and the Queen." The next toast was "The Parochial Committee of Marylebone." For fifteen years, through good report and evil report, the Parochial Committee had been zealously engaged in obtaining the prin ciple of self government. During the whole of that time, since the Poor-law Commissioners had been appointed, the members of this Parochial Committee had been opposed to the principle of cen tralisation. He had always been opposed to this prin ciple, and had been annoyed by the way in which the magistrates of England had suffered themselves to be insulted by the three Commissioners of Somerset House. Every parish in London succumbed to this despotic Government but the men of Marylebone ; but the wealth, the energy, and the nearness of the parish to the seat of the Government, had enabled the Parochial Committee to oppose with success the endeavours of those despotic monarchs, and had thus brought back the good old Saxon rule of parochial self government. The parish had hurled back into the teeth of those potentates the assumption of power which they had, without any sufficient authority, taken up. This parish—and not only this parish, but the whole country—were indebted to his Hon. Friend Sir Charles Napier for havingbrought this subject forward, and for having forced upon the House of Commons the consideration of this subject ; and he trusted that ere long he should have the advantage and the enjoyment of celebrating the utter downfall of those potentates. His friend, Mr. George Daniel, who did him the honour this day to face him, would respond to the toast, and while calling upon the_assembly to listen with attention to what fell from his friend, he would assert that a more energetic, able, and persevering man he had never met with in the parish of Marylebone. Mr. DANIEL felt that in the respondence to this toast a great task had been committed to him, but still he felt that it was a task which ought to be agreeable to any man ; and in doing so he would only glance at what had occurred of late years in the business of the parish, and he would only allude to the principles which had been carried out by their com mittee, and the first. of these w a s, th a t of self-govern ment. This had been exemplified in the present contest in a remarkable manner. Mr. Daniel proceeded through the several points of the discussion, and con- eluded an able and eloquent speech, by stating that the objects of this association was the hightest of all— Glory to God, and good principle towards men. Song—" The Vestrymen of Marylebone." Mr. JOSEPH proposed the next toast, and after stating that after having had fourteen or fifteen years' experience, he would say, no man who was a member of the vestry was otherwise than a poor man's friend. (Mr. Joseph here read a letter of apology from Sir B. Hall, which apologised for his absence on the plea of a pleasure excursion to Scotland, which would prevent his attendance.) He did not think this apology satisfactory—(Applause)—and when the asser tion was made he would exempt the Member who was present (Sir C. Napier), who, whenever he was re moved from his present or his future position—whether that position vacated his seat or not—would carry with him the good-will of the electors of Marylebone. Mr. Joseph concluded an able speech by proposing the "Health of the Members for the borough." Sir CHARLES NAPIER returned thanks, in the course of which proceeding he stated his satisfaction at having attended every meeting within the last two years whereat the feelings of the constituency were expressed. After speaking of Sir Robert Peel as going by a cir cuitous course in forwarding the objects of the people, he said that the present Ministry had had a severe lesson some time ago, and it must be allowed that all the secondaries had been largely incorporated, and he was perfectly satisfied, that if the same course was pursued, it would lead to large and beneficial measures. He must say that the constituency of Marylebone was the most easy with which he had ever had to deal, for his door was open from nine in the morning till three or four o'clock in the evening, and it was only three or four times a week that he was applied to, either on public or private objects. With respect to the lunatic asylum, he must say, after a patient inquiry, that the pauper had every relief which was necessary, and that if the parishioners would wait till next session, they would obtain every enfranchisement which they desired from the thraldom of the Poor-law Commissioners. Glee—" Should mirth our moments crown." Mr. SAVAGE proposed the health of Mr. Protheroe, M.P. for Halifax, a friend who had come forward in the hour of need, and a friend in need is a friend indeed. Mr. PROTHEROE said that in returning thanks, which he most cordially did, he must disclaim the honour of having come forward in the first instance without solicitation. In the first instance he had been returned for Bristol on the principle that Dissenters were - not to pay any part of the expenses of the members of the Established Church, and it was on that principle that he had accepted this invitation. An Hon. Friend of his had alluded to the House of Commons, and in doing so he might say that it was his rule to begin at the beginning of the session, and go on to the end of it. Mr. POTTER proposed the next toast, for the pre vention of centralisation, and stated that in the pro position of this toast he saw individuals from every parish of the metroplis. He was inclined to repudiate the Bill that was called the Metropolitans' Bill, but he was decided to put the saddle on the right horse, and call it Protheroe's Bill, and it was to that man above all in the House of Commons that the debt of gratitude was owing. He rejoiced, at any rate, at the presence of one of the members of the borough, but there was one man whose,progress through Parliament he had watched, and he was bound to say that there was one who had always been the advocate of the many, and not of the few, and that man was Mr. Williams, the member for Coventry. The toast was drunk with great applause. Mr. Wieueets returned thanks, and in doing so said that nothing could be more gratifying to the feelings of a public man than the approbation of his ne i g hbonrs. He had felt nothing more than the honour o f bein g elected to a membership'of the select vestry,andhe re grettedfor that he had not had so manys d he had _esired, but opportunities attending on this vestry so often a he had other and imp ortant duties in anotherplace. hic l h t h a d been his lot to be m i x ed up with the parishes which had a corrupt system to rely aspen. The parish of MarylebOne was conducted at one-third of the expense which was outlayed in the City of London. A great public writer with whom he was acquainted, had said that the great salvator of the country was to be tound in the principle of self-government, and if any great calamity should arise, such as that of a national convulsion, that the great safeguard of the country must be found in this principle ; and whenever his services could avail he should be happy to place them at the dis posal of this constituency. Glee—" When shall we three meet again." Mr. WILSON, Honorary Secretary, proposed with great effect the health of Mr. Loveridge, the proprietor of the theat re , an d i n doing so would particularly remark the att en d ance o f t h e younger men of the com munity, commonly called " Young England," and who were to be trustees of the great principles in which they were themselves engaged. He would take this oppor tunity of acknowledging the presence of the visitors, who were inhabitants of the neighbouring parishes, and he would associate with them those who had been inhabitants, but who were now members of other parishes, and he never recollected an instance in which they required assistance from the adjacent parishes in which he had ever been ready to render it. He would, therefore, couple the name of Mr. Hovendon with the toast which he had to propose. Mr. HOVENDON returned thanks with much feeling. Several local toasts were afterwards proposed, and the meeting separated to prepare for the ball. THE MITRDER AT AINTREE RACES.—Robert Farmes has been fully committed for trial at the approaching assizes, on the charge of having caused the death of Elizabeth Bateson, by strangulation, on the last night of Aintree races. The additional evidence taken yesterday threw very little light on this mysterious and melancholy affair.—Liver pool Times. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Yesterday afternoon, about two o'clock, Mrs. La Fontneg, of Wimpole street, Caven dish-square, had a reticule cut from her arm, between Temple-bar and St. Clement's-churchyard, containing 3071., that she had just received in Fleet-street, for the rents of houses, RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS MANCHESTER, AUGUST 12. STOCK EXCUANGE.-The tales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, Sec.,. 13-16 dis.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 5% p.-Blackburn and Preston, 8 p.-Direct Northern, 1 dis.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, p. -East Lincolnshire, % dis - Grand Union, % dis. -Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, I% p.--- Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, % dis. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Man chester, ex int., 4 p.-Liverpool and Bury, 8 p.-Ditto, Now Shares, I p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.-Londou and Windsor, 1 dis.-London and York, 7-16 dis.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1-16 p.-Manchester and Leeds, Extension, 2% p. -Manchester and Southampton, % dis.-North Eastern, 325. dis.- North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Western, 3-16 p.- Oldham, Bir kenhead, &c., % dis.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 3-16 dis. -Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 1, p.- Ditto, No. 3, p.-Shropshire Union, 15s. dis.- South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 13-16 p.-South Midland, i p.-West Riding Union, 3M p. LEEDS, AUGUST 12. Saves EXCHANGE.-The sales are-East Lancashire, 8% p.- Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2 dis.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 6s. dis.- Huddersfield and Manchester, 245. p.- Huddersfield and Sheffield, 6% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 42 p.-Leeds and Dewsbury, 3 p.- Leeds and Thirsk, 4% dis.-Manchester and Leeds, •Fl th Shares, 8 p.-Ditto, Extensions, 21. 16s. p.-Newcastle and Berwick, 12% r.-Newcastle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 10% p.-North British, 38-Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 465. p.-York and North Mid land, East and West Riding, 121. 3s. 6d. p.- Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 175. 6d. dis.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 14s. dis.-Direct Northern, 12s. 6d. dis.-Leeds, York, and Midland, 335. 6d. dis.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 1% dis.- Lei cester and Birmingham, 18s. 6d. dis.--Leicester and Bedibrd, I Is. dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.-London and York, 9s. dis.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15s. dis.-Malton and Driffield Junc tion, 9s. lid. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 20s. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-North Western, IA p.-Sheffield and Lincoln, 3s. dis.-Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 15s. dis.-South Midland, 155. p.-South and Midland Junction, 17s. 6d. dis.-West Riding Union, 5 lA-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 395. dig. SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 12. STOCK Excrwrox.-The sales are-Grimsby and Sheffield, 214 dis. -Ditto, Extension, 17s. dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Jametion, 2/. IN.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, Ss. 6d. dis. HULL, AUGUST 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-North British, Carlisle, 675. 6d.-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7% - H u dd ers fi e ld and Shef field Junction, 20M -Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 355.- Buckin3hamshire, dis.-East Lincolnshire, I4s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 31a:=-Grand Union, 155.-Leicester and Bed ford, 9s. 9d.-Leicester and Tamworth, 325. 6d. -Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 3% p.-London and York, 2%-London and Manchester (Rem.), 10s.-Malton and Driffield Junction. 13s. 3d. p. -Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 1 p.-North Western, 245.- North Staffordshire, 3/. Bs. 6d. p.-South Midland, 15s. p.-West Riding Union, 4/. 19s. 6d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, AUGUST 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian Extension, 18s. 6d. dis.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, I % p.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.-London and York, 6s. dis.-Manchester, Bux ton, and Matlock, 215. p. -North Staffordshire, 3% p.-South-Eastern and Dover, New (issued at 151.), No. 4, 193. p. YORK, AUGUST 12. STOCK EXCnANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 21. 45.-Ipswich and Bury, 9-London and York, 21. 3s. Gd.- Malton and Driffield Junction, 21. 125.-Manchester, Buxton, Mat lock, and Midland, 31. 25.-Newcastle and Berwick, 28-Newcastle and Darlington, New, 11%-North British, 38-Ditto, Half Shares, 13%-Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 3/. Bs. 6d.-North Western, 11. 48. 6d.-West Riding Union, 5/. Is.-York and North Midland. East and West Riding Extension, 13%. EDINBURGH, AUGUST 11. STOCK EXcHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 10/..-Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 11.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/. 155.-Arbroath and Forfar, 281.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151. 105.-Armagh and Port rush, 145.-Ayr and Galloway, 11. 95.-Banffshire, 165.-Belfast and County Down, 12s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 21. 2s. 6d.- Caledonian, 161.-Ditto, New, 11. Bs. 6d.-Caledonian Extension. 11. 12s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, N. 25.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 2L-Clydesdale Junction, 23/.- Cornwall and De von Central, IL lls.-Deeside Railway, 21. 10s.-Direct Northern, 1/. 18s. 6d.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 31.-Dundee and Arbroath, 371.-Ditto, New, 211. 58.-Dundee and Perth, 251.-East Indian . Railway, 17s. 6d.-East of Fife, 11. 65.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 2/. its.-Edinburgh arid Glasgow, 74/. IN.-Ditto, Half Shares, 18/. 2s. 6d.- Ditto, Quarters, 181. 12s. 6d.- Ditto, ditto, New, 181. 108.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Gra.a ton, 17/. 158.-Ditto, Pre ference, 211. 10s.-Edinburgh an I Northern, 91. 105.-Ditto, .ew port, 16s. &1.-Edinburgh and Perth, 31. 2s. 6d,- Forth and Clyde Inaction, 11. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 751.-Ditto, New Stock, 321. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 18/. 10s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 21. 45.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6d.-Glas gow and Dundee Junction, 11. 125.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 40/. 10s. -Glasgow General Terminus, Si. 10s-Glasgow and Greenock, 161. 103.-Ditto, New Stock, 81. 155.-Ditto, Preference,. I/. IN.-Glas gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, I/. 145.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 21. 17a.-Granton Junction ' 10s.-Great County Down, 1/. 158.-Great North of Scotland, 155.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. N.-Lanark and Lothians, 21. 4s. 6d.-Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 95.-London, Bristol, and South Wales, IL 3s. 61.- London and York, 21. 55.-Ditto, Half Shares,' I/. 155.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 155.-Newcastle and Berwick, 291.-North British, 37i. IN.-Ditto, Halves, 141.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisle, 31. Ils. 6d.-Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 71. 10s.- North Stafford shire, 61. 28. 6d.-North Wales Mineral, 161. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, New, 9/. 17s. 6d.-Perth and Inverness, IL 11s. 6d.-Scottish Central, 181. 155.-Ditto, New, 8/. 105.-Scottish Central aad Caledonian Junction, 1/. 10s,-Scottish Grand Junction, 12s.- Scottish Midland , 71.-Scottish Southern, U. 175.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 85.- - Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 51. IN.-South Midland, 21. 168.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 11. Bs.-Stirling and Midland, 2/. 169. -Strathern Junction, 21.-Wishaw and Coltness, 471. 10s. NARROW ESCAPR.—On Saturday the Scotia steamer made a trip to Ailsa, from Ayr, with a bumper cargo of pleasure-seekers, chiefly brought by a special train from Kilmarnock. About a third of the number of passengel went on shore, the rest preferring a sail round the rock. A u was gaiety and delight, some clambering up the precipic e ' and others enj rying themselves quietly at their picnics be le ; when km unlucky wight, of the name of Cuninghame, f r° ,l Kilmarnock, lost his balance nearly 300 feet above the lea of the sea, and, bounding from cliff to cliff, halted not till %. lay apparently dead at the base. He had, it appears , l a ,. himself down, whether from fatigue or deep potations maY__ri imagined, in a recess on his perilous way upwards r e i n ' again rising, fell backwards nearly 30 feet, till he e haenince he contact with a jutting portion of the rock, from b y e desce nt rolled downwards with appalling rapidity. his head and face were severely cut, and ever Yin Zanier, and he was dead. He was brought to Ayr with the dressed, and taken to the infirmary, where his wounds were fair way of re every attention paid to him, and he is non , in a covery.—Ayr Observer. n Monday DISCOVERY OF A NEW SEAM OF COAL.--n t e thought last, rejoicings on an extensive scale took place at Talk-o.- th'-Hill, to celebrate the discovery of a new and valuable seam of coal upon the estate of It. E. Heatheote, Esq., situate in that parish. The coal is called the Bamford coal, and workmen had been employed in search of the vein for the last two years and a-half. It was finally discovered about 300 yards from the surface, underneath a bed of stone, about 25 feet in thickness. This source of additional wealth to the proprietor, and additional employment for the working classes, is a matter of sincere congratulation ; and the " find " was accordingly publicly notified by the roasting of a whole sheep, and the hind quarter of a fine ox ; these substantials, with a barrel of " October," were distributed to the workmen and the tenantry ; feux de joie were discharged* and the greatest enthusiasm and goodwill prevailed through out the day.— Staffordshire Mercury EXTRAORDINARY PREFEDMENT.—The Rev. Joseph_ Lambert, curate of Marrick, Yorkshire, has been presen te d by the Marquis of Londonderry to the valuable vicarage.er Seaham, near Sunderland. The venerable gentleman, wn? is eighty-four years of age, read himself in on Sunday lag, and performed the whole duty without apparent fatigue: He has reached a patriarchal age on a humble curacy in a remote dale, anad, like Goldsmith's pastor, " passing rich_on_ forty pounds year," has unexpectedly obtained a benefice worth eight hundred pounds a year, with a vicarage 13= delightfully situated and fit for an episcopal palace. I " ts noble patron had no previous acquaintance with the fortune A gentleman whom he has selected for this desirable an valuable living in a parish with a small rural population." From a Correspondent. CORONER'S INQUEST.--MELANCHOLY REMARKABLE FATALITY IN ONE FAMILY.—YeSterdaY noon Mr. William Carter held an inquest at the Bell ;nil East Mousley, Surrey, on the body of George Burrell. 27 years, a labourer. It appeared from the evidence that.',„" , deceased had been in a weak state of health for s ome t !,7 0 . past, which rendered him unfit to follow his d a ily occupatl;„. His mind was 'also much disturbed, through his being CIA gelled to apply for parochial relief. On Friday last b_ r e home, and proceeded to a meadow near Moulsey 01 r where he was seen wandering about in a very melanc li foot , and low state by one of the jurymen, meditating at till ht of a high tree where his brother was struck dead by l'g d.e , ning about three . years since. On Saturday morning f $ ceased's hat and jacket were found lying at the bottom ° ro .. clay-pit adjoining the Mole river. The drags were I: :A s t cured, and, after considerable trouble, the body was h,'" ll ,, e ' it to the surface of the water, and conveyed ashore,_ vf 01 ; 0 1 was seen by a surgeon, but life had been extinct for sav e hours. It is a remarkable fact, that a brother of the dece_"„ oe was killed a short time since by poison, which bad by means gotson a slice of bread and butter; and, last Va n t " - o 'f he lost a niece and nephew by drowning, while in the 3c walking across some ice on the surface of a pond. T h ' ) t he• quests on the four bodies • were likewise held befer e or y' same coroner. The jury returned a verdict of " TernP ° Insanity ." AD V E RTISEMENT.] —DEAFNESS AND 1 • c r VISION RELIEVED, No. 39, ALIMIIMARLE-STREET, Fic" . ",, e nted —Sent into the country free, by post.—NewlY low acoustic tubes, for relief of extrem e d eafness, and Jar- - inserted n the ear cannot be percei ve d b y the nearest 0" - ; he ar^ they are entirely different from all others, and are the snr"..:ae s ; ; I „ jlu ing instruments constructed— measur i ng only a quarter o f a„Liiiiip their widest part; they m a y b e securely adjust,a in the Fe." served, and removed the re f rom w i th as great ease and facilitYir i poSt‘ sons are enabled to join in general conversation, and CO l , jc gre ati ‘ distinctly in a place of worship, &c., an d w h a t should i Ise,, rose'„ considered, a natural expansion of the cavity o the ee r ," ; I n —a thickening or contraction of which hi many inoont tinily the cause of deafness—and by their use the stapl lo. l ye cation of singing noises in the ears is entirely obi4mediate'. 7 ,,i, s4 proved hearing trumpets of every description. imperfect 'no newly-invented spectacle lenses are placed before s w hich OP either by day or candlelight, that mist and dulmes dee . before the eyes is at once removed, every object beceniee.__;,,ht distinct, so that the most aged defective sight heeonleS u" . ta tf i brilliant, and Is brought to its youthful, natural, and original. o fe nd B. Solomons tician 6 ir microscopes. Caution—Messrs. S. a son of the Sarni. name tem - Also the most powerful achromatic telescopes. opera g IaSS" " .0 „,t not in any way connected with a per • ant to be had • Aro' at 39, 10.0ery mistakes, be cautious, and observe— y immediate neighbourhood, nor in any part of the country. To mre:VC , street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. [ A D VERTISEMENT.] —A DANGEROUS CASE OE ' 611:1 ; sirEt.es, ATTENDED WITH SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION* tea BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMEN T.— Extract of a lette r, East Real, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, Oct. 8, 1845 :—" I beg to enr 3,1110 ° to you a most wonderful cure wrought upon myself by old iu foot and ancle, with swelling and inflammation and ointment. I had a very severe attack of er ys ipelas I consulted an eminent physician to no extent; I was unable to move without the assistance iu than two weeks, by the use of purposer : i t e we Terw .uaas c t u c rhtes::: our ointment and O i l % GOO N, tl the surprise of all who knew y me." (Si ed) Est' blishment, 244, St rand, London. a farmer.—Sold by all c h em i sts, and at Professor g 110,.° On the 6th inst., at War ß M Tß in 2 ; H te B r . in Wiltshire, the lady of Aul_ay Macaulay, Esq., of a daughter. Jan es On the 7th inst., at Richmond, the wife of John Clark, of a dauhter. • On the 9th in g st., in Sun Tavern-fields, St. George's' the lady of Cap Underwood, of a son. On the 9th tain inst , at Edward Reading the wife of the Rev, Thomas Gronow, of a daughter. leaf , On the 9th inst., in Park• street,Grosvenor-squalv) of Dr Manson, of a daughter. O y n o t f h i l a O c t d h on i nasldt.,Baotußreuhsitiedr,enEHsciall,LN. ortthenamauptt 1.T:ill: ad ~ lea daughter. square, tins On the 11th inst. in Park-street. Grosvenor lady of Andrew Wight, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. ' • ll' On the 11th inst., at Sunderland Church, by the 1 16 V Skipsev, A.B. the Rev. Augustus Frederick. Pettigrel M.A., cu rate Of Sunderland, to Mary Frances Anne, eldest daughter of Joseph John Wright, Esq of Sunderland. hv the On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's . Church, Islington, -; , Rev. Daniel Wilson, M.A., Vicar, George, second son °frit- Bryant, Esq., of Compton-terraci, ..Tslington, to Eliza be ' younger daughter of Charles Woodward, Esq., terrace. of ColnPWri ___.--------- of George _ On the 4th inst., at Minster Abbey,'steptensDon.TED. Esq., On the 3d inst., at Stephenson, House, Derbyshire, Eli2abet~► the wife Swinford, Esq., aged 80. of F. On the Bth • inst., at Wandsworth, Ernest, second son C. Finch, Esq., M.D. e viislleenugfinrielf;..efte jdo6b,.. On the lOth inst., Reginald Blackwood Grant' sec' ild t s : r ll .- of Dr. Nathaniel Grant, of Thayer-street, blanches square, aged 18. o S f tra th n e d, s P a ri v n o t y 7, te at The o Sun c= o4l 1 c o e 112. London: Printed and Published by KURD() YOUNG, of No. . 13, 1846. f. ICmout.alll.42,oxSt:azind.arsdin t_vlia,pleaguiainci.