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Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MON DAY, MAY 11. VIEW of NAPLES, ERUPTION of VESUVIUS, DESTRUC TION of HERCULANEUM and POMPEII, in the year 79. This magnificent spectaele 19 revived in an unprecedented scale of grandeur, this picture being more than twice the size of the former, and will represent as accurately as can possibly he done, the Great Eruption of Vesuvius in the year 79, when the Destruction of Her culaneum and Pompeii took place-; produced under the direction I,f Mr. Ranson. A richly ornamented GOTHIC BRIDGE of STATUES has been constructed, which will be brilliantly illuminated at Night. The PROMENADE CONCERTS are again confided to Mr. God frey. The Band is most complete in all its departments, and includes many eminent native and foreign musicians. The PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS, by Mr. Seuthby, are on the most complete and effective scale. Preceding the Volcanic Display a novel exhibition will be intro duced, representing the Descent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun. Mona. Farinelli will descend from a Chinese Pagoda, seventy feet in height, on to the lake, where a Naiads Car will rise to receive him and bear him to his chrystal home. An Illuminated Marine Cave, and the Glass Conservatory, splen didly ornamented with festoons of lamps, enabling the visitors to view the matchless collection of Carnivore by gas-light. reeding of the Carnivore at rive; the Pelicans, gtc., at half-past sow n% at viz ; aid the Eruption at dusk. Ad=aBlo", TILE WEATIIER.—SuN OFYICE, MAY 10. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 30; Highest. 70; Noon, 70. BAROMETER, 29.90.—W1ND, W.N.W. MAY 11. NERMOMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 70; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.13.—W1ND S.W.; fine. WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. forcing .. 43 minutes after 1. Eventrir .. 3 minutes after 2. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY. At a most numerous and influential Meeting of Scripholders and Holders of Bankers' Iteccip's in the Manchester and Southampton Railway Company, held at the Offices of the Company, 19, (;:eat George-street, Westminster, on Saturday, the 9th day of May, 1846, and constituted conformably to the sessional orders of the Houses of Lards and Commons, upwards of 44,000 shares having been regis tered and represented thereat, Sir JOHN BARBER MILL, Bart., of Mottisfont Abbey, Hants Chairman of the Company, in the Chair, a draft of the Bill new befine Parliament for incorporating the said Company having been read, it was resolved, with one dissentient vote representing twenty shares: O tt the motion of the Right Hon. the Earl of Witrote ; seconded by JOSEPR Loss, EST, Mayor of Southampton : 'that this meeting of holders of scrip and of hankers' receipts, re presenting scrip in the proposed Manchester and Southampton Rail way Company, convened and constituted conformably to the sessional orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, having had submitted to them a copy of the Bill now before Parliament for incorporating the said company, do approve thereof, and do authorise and request the directors to prosecute the same in the present session, and to in troduce, or submit to the introduction therein of such alteration, mo difications, and additional provisions as they shall deem expedient or conducive to the success of the undertaking and the interests of the shareholders. 011 the motion of the Right Hon. Viscount DrNCANNON, M.P. ; seconded by DAVID WADDINGTON, Esq (Deputy Chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway Company) : that the chairman of this meeting and the solicitors of the Com pany be authorised and requested to affix their respeetive signatures to the said Bill, and to any certificate of the due holding of this meeting which the forms of Parliament may require. On the motion of J. P. Wairrimari, Esq., (Chairman of the Man ebester and Biriningbani Railway Company) ; seconded by W. MiscDowatt Than', Esq., (Cheltenham) : That the thanks of the shareholders are eminently due to the Chairman and Committee of Management of this undertaking, for the zeal, ability, and perseverance, with which they have prosecuted it, and which promise to realise its early and complete success. On the motion of WILLIAM discascs, Esq. (Chairman of the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Company); seconded by J. GEottoro Esq , Romney : That the marked and particular thanks of the parties promoting this undertaking be tendered to James Walkinshaw, Esq., the deputy chairman of the managing committee, for the unceasing activity with which he has devoted himself to its prosecution. (Signed) J. B. MILL, Bart. It was also unanimously resolved, on the motion of the Hon. Col. ANSON, M.P., seconded by JOSEPLI PAXTON, Esq. (Chatsworth): That the cordial thanks of the meeting be given to the chairman his services to -day. (Signed) JAMES WALKINSHAW. JOHN WHEELER, Sec. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 21s. bound, LETTERSOF ENG OF LAND. THE KINGS Now FIRST COLLECTED, from the Originals in Royal Archives, and from other authentic sources, private as well as public. Edited, with an Historical Introduction and Notes, By J. 0. HALLIWELL, Esq., F R.S., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &C., take place every TUESDAY and lamas, at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all f4vours, cent lining instructions, are respectfully requested is be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and Idvlces of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of a ccordin g to Instruct ions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. HET. MAJESTY'S THEATRE,. Madame GRISI has the honour to acquaint the Nobility, Sub seribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, MAY 14, When will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, I LOMBARDI : ALLA PRAIA CROCI.4.I`.A. With new scenery, dresses, &C. ; the scenery by Mr. Marshall. Gr.selda, Madame Grist; Sofia, Madame BeilLni ; Vielinda, 3ldlle. Corbari; Oronte, Signor Mario ; Arvino, Signor Corelli ; Pirro, Sig. Botelli; Acciano, Sig. Giubilei ; Pagano, Sig. Fornasari. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which will appear Mdlles. Cerito, L. Tagliont Lucile Grahn, Moncelet, Cassan, Dc melisse ; MM. St. Leon and M. Perrot. After which (for this occasion only), Gnecco's Opera Buffa, LA PROVA D'UN OPERA SERIA. Carnpanone, Signor Lablache ; Fedrico, Signor Corelli ; Griletto, Signor F. Lablache ; Violante, Madame Bellini ; Corilla, Madame Grist. To conclude with the admired Ballet of ONDINE. Ondine, Cerito ; Mattco, M. Perrot ; Giannina, Mdlle. Louise Taglloni. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera te com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, TUESDAY, 31AT 12, Will be produced (for the first thne in this country), Verdi's cele brated Opera, entitled, I LOIIRARDI: ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA. Griselda, Madame Grisi ; Arvino, Signor C Pagano, lgnor fornasari ; Vielinda, Mdlle. Corbari ; Firm, Signor Boteni; Oronte, Signor Mario. To conclude with the grand Ballet, by M. Deahayes, re-arranged in Three TaLleaux, by M. Perrot, theMuslcby 31. Costa, entitled ALMA; ou, LA FILLE DU FEU. Perephite, M. Perrot ; Balfegor, M. Gosselin; Emiaor, M. St. Leon; Alma, Mdlle. Cerito. in which will be introduced the admired Pas do Fascination (composed by M. Perrot), by Mesdiles. Cerito, De melisse, 3foneelet, Cassan, and 31. Perrot ; the celebrated Pas de Trois, by Madile. Canto, 31. St. Leon, assisted by Mdlle. Demolisse ; also, a Pas de Trois, by Madlle. L. Tagliont, supported by Wiles. Domelisse and Moncelet (composed by M. Gosselin). A New Grand Ballet is in active preparation, and will shortly be produced. TFIEATRE ROYAL, DRIIRY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS RAINFORTII, THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Amhara, Mr. Berrani ; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. Stretten ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. At the end of the second Act of the Opera, the celebrated Pas de Trois, from the Ballet of IMELDA, by Madile. Sall, Madame Glubilei, and M. Mathis. After the Opera, a Grand Vocal and Instrumental Concert, ha which the following eminent Artistes will appear :—Madame Thilion, Mrs. A. Newton, Miss Missent, Madame Knispel, Herr rischek, Herr Gustav Hoizel, &c. Madame Duicken and Mr. Benedict will perform a grand Duet on two Pianofortes ; a Fantasia and Quintette, executed ou the Sax-Horns, by the Messieurs Distin ; M. Lavigne will perform a Fantasia on the Oboe ; Flute Obligato and Variations on " Rule Britannia," by Mr. Richardson; Solo, Bassoon, Mr. C. Keating. To conclude with the second Act of the original Opera, entitled DON QUIXOTE. Don Quixote, Mr. Weiss ; Sancho Panza, Mr. Stretton ; Camacho, Mr. King ; Rovedos, Mr. S. Jones ; Mr. Allen; Quiteria, Miss Rainforth. THEATRR ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Mr. Buckstone's original Comedy of MARRIED LIFE. Mr. Coddle, Mr. W. Farren ; Mr. Dove; Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Coddle, Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Lynx, Miss J. Bennett ; Mrs. Younghusband, Mrs. Hamby. The Band will perform the Overture, "Edourdo e Christine," the Fentasle, " Fru Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Cellarins Waltz; the "Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Brunow Polka." To be succeeded by an Original Farce, called THE IRISH TIGER. Sir Lharles Lavender, Mr. Howe ; Paddy Ryan, Mr. Hudson Alderman Marrowtat, Mr. Tilbury ; Tilbury, Mr. T. F. Mathews ; Julia, Miss Telbin ; Nancy, Mrs. Caulfield. After which, a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE MILL MN Gs. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckztone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ; C.ipt. Spruce, Mr. Ilrindal ; Mrs. Major I'hobbs, Miss P. Horton. To conclude with A CABINET QUESTION. In which Messrs. Brindal, Tilbury, Buckstone, and Miss Julia Bennett will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Another brilliant Triumph " Robin Hood and Richard Cceur de Lion" every Evening; and (ny express desire) " The Cricket ou the Hearth." THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ERICi.ET ON THE HEARTH. In which Mrs. Keeley, Miss Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. Vining, and Mr. Keeley will perform. To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec tacle, founded upon certain St , rtling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD C(EUR DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, 3Siss Howard, Miss Bromley Miss Laldlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Turnef, and Mr. J. W. Collier. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELIIII, THIS EVENING Will he performed a popular Comely, entitled EXC FUNGI: NO ROBBERY ; or, Who's to Father Me? Sam Swipes, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Swipes, Mrs. F. Matthews; Miss Melrose, Miss Chaplin , Lady tranberry, Miss Harding. After which a new and Original Farce, called, WHO DID I ? or; WHAT'S IN THE WIND ? Vandyke Brown, Mr. 8 right ; Ramona Peewit, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by the Burie,que, entitled PETER WILKINS; ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal chara,ters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Man) an!, Mr. Mitchenson, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, Miss Harding, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will he performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Mecready; Earl of Kent, .Ifr. Cooper; Edgar, Mr. Wallack ; Regan. Mrs. Tertian ; Cornelia, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled ERNESTINE. The princ;pal characters supported by Wessrs. Cooper, Wallack, Leigh Murray ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss E. Stanley, Miss May, &c. • ASTLEY'A ROYAL AMPHITHEATZE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Pttronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, and tkcir Royal Highnesses Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Prixcess Alice. Uninterrupted career of success of Mr. I.:-mati Retie's popular Asiatic :,..tpectacle of " The Arab and lis Meer'," which is nightly hailed with the most enthusiastic applause. TB IS EVENING Will be• performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE .11:AB AND HIS DESERT STEED; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Introducing the double stud, &c. New and popular Scenes of the Illppodrome—additional fast appearances—trained steeds. First Week of a Novel Grotesque RALLET. In which the Box-office open from eleven till live o'clocit.--Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIENTRE B r lMaid success of the new Play of " Bianca." First ar;oearan Brentuall, from the Theatre Roy a l, B ath, ce of THIS EYENIN6 Will be performed a New Play, entitled, BIANCA ; or, The Three Trials. Characters b y 3lessrs. Hughes, Maynard, John son, Lewis, Cowell, HesloP, Edgar ; 3lesclms.ll. Vining , Martin, Dal -, &c. Alter which, GYMNASTIC EXERCISES by Herr lEiLlIn and Herr Nicolo, as Les D eus Chi nil. To be followed by a New Ballet, called LA STATUE BLANCHE. Le Tonneau Riennt ; or, Running Tub, by Herr Nicole.. To conclude with CLARE, TUE MAID OF MILAN. Clari, Silas Brentnall. NEW S TRANI) THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS. " La galete eat la sante de rams, La tristesse en est le poison." THIS EVENING M. PIIILLIPPE begs leave to announce that, iu consequence 01 the Triumphant Success that has attended his EASTER ENTER TAINMENTS, they will bc repeated every Wednesday and Sa turday Morning, and every Evening until further notice. M. PHILLIPPE will commence the Entertainment hy,Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons. Philippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. M. Philllppe will also have the honour of introducing HIS GRANDMOTHER'S CAP, with all Its laughable and rapid Trans formstlons. The Entertainments will be varied by the Dancing of the CHIARINE FAMILY, and the Olympic Gambols of the AME RICAN BROTHERS. The Morning Performance will commence at Two o'c:o.:k ; the Evening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, Is.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery. 6d. ; Private Boxes, 11. Is., and 10s. 6d. T H - E SUN% LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1846.11 LADY BLESSINGTON'S NEW NOVEL, MEMOIRS OF A FEMME DE CHAMBIiE, IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES, In 3 vols. poet Svo. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-stye( t. NEW WORK BY DR. CROL 17. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vac, M A R or, T 0 N THE SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. By the Rev. G. CROLY, LL.D. Author of " Salathlel," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. , Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound, VISCOUNT FIELDING, and CAPTAIN KENNEDY'S TRAVELS in ALGERIA and TUNIS, in 1845. " Captain Kennedy and Lord Fielding, appear to have visited every place of note in Northern Africa ; and the gallant author gives a most graphic and picturesque account of their adventures, including those among the wild Arabs and Bedouins of the Desert. We feel special pleasure in recommending this interesting and entertaining work as one which throws much light onthe customs and condition of a brave but unfortunatepeople, and affords much valuable information as to all that is remarkable in thecountry they inhabit."—Hood's Magazine. Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just publisheU. price is. 641., HOW TO SPEAK AND WRITE FRENCH CORRECTLY. By D. N. AIRD, author of " The Student's Self-Instructing French Grammar," the Fourth Edition of which has just appeared, price Is. 6d. "We have never seen elementary works better worth their names."—Atias. French teachers whe have the interest of their pupils at heart would do well to consult this admirable little guide."—Mirror of Literature. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co NEW CLUB.—The number of original Members of the BRITISH and FOREIGN CLUB being new nearly completed, it is requested that all wha desire to be included in that number, and avail themselves of the privilege of being admitted at the rate of subscription fixed for them, will make their applications on or before the 15th of MAY, previous to the opening. Lists of the Committee and Members, and lull particulars, may be obtained at the British and Foreign Institute, 13, George-street, Hanover-square. LOND ON AND YORK RAILWAY. A 3 IALGAMATION WITH THE DIRECT NORTHERN. In accordance with the Circular already issued to the Shareholders who have signed the Deeds, the Directors take this means of giving notice to those parties who have become Shareholders since the date of the Deeds, that on the transmission of their Scrip to the offices of the Company, in a letter in the form subjoined, such Scrip will 1* endorsed and become negotiable on the basis'of the AMAL GAMATION with the DIRECT NORTHERN. By order, J. R. MOWATT, Secretary. Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, May 8, 1846. FORM OF LETTER TO BE ADDRESSED TO J. R. MOWATT, ESQ., SECRETARY OF THE LONDON AND YORK RAIL WAY COMPANY, 7, LOTIIBURY, LONDON. May, 1846. Slits — l hold and I now inclose. ... London and York Shares of 501., Extension Shares of 251. ; the Scrip for which I APPROVE of the AMALGAMATION of the LONDON and YORK and the DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANIES, as publicly announced under the signature of the Chairman of the Board of each Company, under data of sth of May, Instant. Name and Address of the Shareholder. NOTE.—Copies of this form may be bad at the offices, 7, Lothbury. • Insert the Number. L ONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. The Directors of the London and York Railway beg leave to an nounce that the London and York Bill will go into Committee in the House of Lords on Wednesday, the 13th instant. Terms of amalga mation having been arranged with the Direct Northern Company, the Parliamentary contest will be reduced to a comparison between a new independent line on the one band, and an Eastern Counties and Midland line (twenty-three miles longer than the London and York) on the other, and under such circumstances little doubt can be entertained that the contest will be short, and their Lordships' de cision speedily given in favour of an independent London and York line. The arrangements with the Direct Northern will be satisfactory to the London and York shareholders, as augmenting the resources of the Company without any further calls, whilst the reduction of the nominal amount of the original bondon and York shares from 501. to 25/. will not diminish their market value, the deposit already paid being upon such 251. shares equal to 101. per cent. The Directors consider it their duty to warm the Shareholders against the practices of the Sise-lane Committee, resorted to for the purpose of misleading them and serving the Eastern Counties' interests. The Directors believe the Sise-lane Committee to be nothing more than a mere instrument in tke hands of the Eastern Counties' Com pany. Mr. La'Mert, the Chairman, is known to have been a large holder of Eastern Counties' shares. At a meeting of the Eastern Counties Company, reported in the " Railway Times" of the 30th August, 1645, Mr. La'Mert stated that " he held 1,000 shares in the Eastern Counties Railway as well as Mr. Scott," who proposed that Mr. Hudson, M.P., should be chair man of the Eastern Counties Company. At another meeting of that Company, reported in the " Railway Record" and other papers of the Bth February, 1845, Mr. La'Mert is stated to have spoken of the London and York as their " common enemy," and added, " he thought they should be in a better position to do that (viz.. give remuneration to the:Eastern Counties' Directors) when they had sent the London and York Line to the Devil." Whether Mr. La'Mert has become the chairman of the Sise-lane Committee in order to accomplish this benevolent mission, or from a real anxiety for the interests of the London and York Shareholders, must be matter of inference. But the Directors would observe that the very fact he alleges of his becoming the holder of 2,000 London and York shares in November last, when coupled with the further fact that he never executed the London and York deed (which was signed in December), leads to the suspicion that his object was rather to use the shares to embarrass than to help the Loudon and York project. It is also remarkable that In November and December last a series of abusive letters appeared, addressed to the London and York Share holders, signed " One of Yourselves," which letters were evidently intended to create dissatisfaction with the London and York Board, and to sow disunion among the Shareholders, in order to prevent par ties from sighting the London and York deed. Within the last week another letter of the same character has appeared in the papers with the same signature and manifestly from the same parties. It is possible, under the specious language adopted by the Com mittee, that many Shareholders may have answered their circulars from the mistaken idea that the Committee was honestly seeking the good of the London and York Shareholders. But, instead of attend ing to their interests, the Influence of the Committee has not only been used to press upon your Directors the acceptance of unreason. able proposals from the Eastern Counties, but also in an unsuccessful attempt to induce the Direct Northern Board to abstain from amal gamation by representing the London and York Company as upon the eve of dissolution though these efforts have been unsuccessful, they fully disclose the wishes of the parties. The letters from the London and York shareholders, received by the Sise-lane Committee, were made use of in order to convince the Direct Northern Board that the London and York Railway was en tirely in the power of that Committee, and would certainly be broken up by them. A letter was received on the 6th instant by the Directors from Mr. La'Mert, requesting them to call a meeting of the London and York shareholders, with a view to the dissolution of the Company. The Directors now observe, by advertisement in the public papers, dated the 7th May, only the day following, that the Sise-lane ,Com mittee have taken upon themselves to " arrange terms of amalga mation with the Eastern Counties Company" by which any London and York Shareholder sending to Sise-lane his scrip is promised, that if " the Extension Line to York of the Eastern Counties Company be sanctioned by Parliament in the present or next session," he shall r,- ceire one Eastern Counties York Extension share of 151. for a London and York 501. share, or for two London and York 251. Extension shares, and is further promised that each such 151. share shall, when so issued, be credited with 10s. deposit. If proof were wanting of the combination between the Eastern Counties Company and the Sise-lane Committee, this advertisement amply supplies it. The Directors can only express their surprise at the effrontery of the Sise-lane Committee In attempting to impose upon the Share holders a stock now selling below the price cf the London and York shares, and which would therefore be much more profitably obtained on the Stock Exchange than through the medium of the Size-lane Committee. The Directors must also express their extreme regret that the Eastern Counties Board should lend itself to so unworthy a mole of attack, instead of meeting the case before the proper tribunal, and proving, if they can, the superiority of their scheme. The Directors, however, feel that it is the very want of substantive merits on the part of the Eastern Counties schemes which induces them to resort to so unusual a mode of warfare ; and the London and York Shareholders will not fall to infer the superior value of their own scheme from the incessant and unscrupulous attempts of the Eastern Counties Company to destroy it. The pretence, however, is too apparent to deceive, and the Direc tors rely upon the support of their Shareholders in the arrangements with the Direct Northern, confident in the hope that within a few weeks an independent trunk line ftom London to York will be sanc tioned under an Act of the Legislature. Early notice will be given for a general meeting of the London and York Shareholders, pursuant to the resolutions of Parliament, when their opinion will be taken. by vote, and the Bill will be submitted for their approval ; and in the meanwhile the Directors request that the scrip may be forwarded to the offices of the Company in the manner explained in a separate advertisement, accompanied by an expression of their wishes, By order, J. It. MOWATT, Secretary Company's Oftlns, 7, Lothbury, London, Bth May, 184 G. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO ThREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool on Saturday was quiet, but a fair business was done. The sales were 5,000 to 6,000 bales, including 1,000 bales for exportation. Shares were dull. In mercantile and trading circ)es a considerable degree of interest is felt and expressed as to the result of the motion to be brought forward this evening for the third reading of the Corn Bill. Most earnestly is it hoped and expected that the majority in its favour will be so numerically influential that the Upper House Will see that a real and determined opposition must be futile. The commercial interests are to a man anxious to have so important a matter settled promptly. Ample means are there for the employment or capital in fresh enterprises were the main points of the policy of the Premier conceded, i.e., the passing of the Corn Bill. A stimulus would by a such a most wished and de sired advent be given to trade generally, and in some re spects lost time in the spring trade recovered. There are not any late r accounts from the British Colonies of importance. We regret to state that more than one firm has been an nounced to have been placed in difficulties this morning. It is nct prudent to refer more particularly to the subject at the present moment, as in all probability some arrangement for the benefit of all parties may be accomplished. It is a fact worth noticing, that within one week, wheat at Mark lane has fallen 6s. per quarter. Consols for the Account have been very firm at 96% Ti to day, but for Money the price has ruled from 96% to 961%, a few sales having just been made. Exchequer-bills have been quoted at 23a. and at 275. premium, Bank Stock at 205%, and India Bonds at 325. premium. Russian Stock has gone back this morning from 110% to 109%. Spanish Consols are at 24%, the Three per Cents. at 37, the Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 96, Mexican at 32%, Grenada One per Cents. at 22% and Mexican at 32N 1 . . . . _ _ Railway Shares are rather looking up this morning. The transactions are to a moderate extent, and chiefly for money. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. • • 205% 206 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 9539 % 95% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% % 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 97%% 97% India Stock .. .. . .. .. .. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. .. . Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1,0001... 6001. . Ditto. Small .. 32 p .. 96%74 I%d. I%cl. .... 24 27 23 26 pm. 24 27 23 26 pm. 24 27 23 26 pin. ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Grenada, 1 per Cent ' 22% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account 32% 32 Ditto, Deferred .. 15% Russian Bonds .. 110% 109% 109% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 24% 24% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. % Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 37 37 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 96 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% Ditto, for the Account .. 593 i Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. 5% CLOSING PRICES. 22M PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Aberdeen .. .. .. .. .. .. AnThor., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction ; . 2% .... 1 .......... 2 Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 ....126 Ditto New (lased at 7% dis.) 17% ... 31% .......... 31% Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% 3 .. 3 Bristol and Exeter .. 75 86 . B6 Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... %%% p.... - ia'edordan .. 10 .... 12% .......... Ditto, Extension .. 2% .... 2 ..... Chester and llolyhead 22►4 4 .... 22% Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% .... % ........ Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .... 3 .. •••• • • • • Direct Northern .. 2%.... 2% 1% •• .. Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 2%.......... Eastern Counties .. 141. 165... 24 23% 24% .. Ditto New .. 165..... 7% 3g • • Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. —Z . :. • • ...... Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. ••••• • • • • • Ditto, York Extension 105..... 1% 2........ Edirburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 77 Ditto Shares .. .. 12 .... 183! •• • ..... Goole, D'Uncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425: Great Eastern and Western .. Gt. Grimsby, Louth, Horn. ,&c... 425. _ Great North of England . .. 100 ....217 ..... 217 Great Western .. 85 ....151 .......... 151 %P• - - Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 88 4 ..... 88% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 17% 1834 .... 17% Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 35 .......... 35 Harwich & Eastern Count. Junct. 2 .... 2 ...... 2 Hull and Selby .. .. 40 ....102% .. 102% Ditto, Halt . hares .. • • • 7 .... 2731 .......... 27 Y., Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 .... 57% 5731 Leicester and 8edf0rd.......... 225..... 34 dis. par.. sr s di. Leicester, Tamworth, &c. 425. ........., IMs Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 231 .... 231 London an Birmingham ...iOO .... .. 227 Ditto Thirds .. 24 .......... 63 Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 26 ...... London and BlackwaU .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% Ditto, New .. .. • • 2%.... 3% • London told Brighton .. 50 .... 66 65% ••• • • • London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 22% London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .... % .. London and South•Westem.. 411. 6s. 10d. 80 78 •• • • • Ditto, New . .• • • .. 17% .. •••• • • • • - - London and York .. 2%.... %•••• • • • • sA London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 2% .. • • .... ••• • • • 1% Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ....127 ...• ••• • • • 127 Ditto Extension .. 425..... 3% p• • Manchester and hirmhigharn .. 40 .. 81% 81 bl Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) _ 1 .... 8% 9.... •• • • 9 Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1% %% P" • ' 1% p Manchester and Southampton 2 .... 2% 2 2 Midland _lOO ....154 Ditto, New 18 .... 35% 34 33% 33% Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 45 ••• • • • Ditto, New . 10% Newcastle and Berwick .. 15 •• .. 26 •• .. Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 1% 2.. North British .. 22%.... 29% 30 2934 .• Ditto, Half Shares .. • • Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% - • 2%% North Devon .. • • • • 2 • " 1 ••••• • • • • North Kent and Direct Dover • 2% .... 1 34 34 North Staffordshire 425. • • 4 % % p•• Oxlil.,Worcester,& Wolverlimptn. 12% ........ • . Perth and Inverness .. 2% Preston and Wyre .. 25 Scoff ash Central .. . Shrewsbury and Birmingham Shropshire Union 1% 4% p • 31% 3►,4% ••• %%di5...... dis. Shrewsbury and Hereford .. Shrewsbnry, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junction .. 3% South Midland .. 425. .... 1% 21%2% p 21 /s p South and Midlands Junction .. 425..... I % dis South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33;6 .. • • 407, 14 Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) NO. 1. 16 Do.. New (do. 331. 63.5 d.) No. 2.. 10 .... 14 % Do., New (do. 301.) .. N 0.3, 15 .... 18 .. • ... .• • 18 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 3% .. •• • 3 1 4 Swans. & L oughor & Cameron's • . 2 •.. 21A % Waterfd., Wexfd., Wick., & Dub. 1%.... % % ...... Wexford, Waterford, & Valentia 1% l4 West Riding Union • . • • .. 425. .... 3% D.... 3% It West Cornwall .. . 2 -- Wir.beach and SE. Ives .. .. • • 2 .... 1% IX Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 4 4 Worcestr., llerefd., Ross, & Glou. 425. York and Carlisle .. • • .. .... York and North Midland 1)o. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 •• • • 1 11414 . .... • • 11 2%.... 1 3‘. ••• • . FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 12 .... 12 Dutch R ys East Indian . ss. .... . . 4 .. 1~.......... Louvain and Jemeppe Luxembourg Namur and Liege 5 •••• 3 4 •••• • • • • .. 20 .... ..... Paris and Lyons Constituted . Paris and Routat Sambre and Meuse MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 314 ...... ... LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, MAY 11.—Wind this day at noon, light breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MAY 9.—Wind E.S.E. ; 10th, S.W., fresh.—Arrd. 10th, John Brewer, Brown, Bombay ; Benjamin Green, Dyet, St. Kitt's ; City of Rochester, Cuba; Bohemia, Aew York; Franklyn, Cum ming, Batavia and Cape of Good Hope; Standard, M`Mullan, New Orleans; Giovanna, Maria, Pernambuco, and sld. for Hamburgh. Sld. Orwell, Quebec. Arrd. Ystroom, Detering, Batavia, and sld. for Amsterdam. Arrd. from the River, Enterprise, Webb, Ascension ; Arabian, Robertson, Halifax ; Rapid, Scotland, Bey rout ; Horatio, Cork and Quebec. Arrd. from the River, and sld. 9111, Halifax packet, Smith, Launceston ; Carshalton Park Carter, Honduras ; St. Ann's, Richard, New York ; 10th, Post Boy, Madeira. LIVERPOOL, MAY 10.—Wind W., moderate.—Arrd. 9th, Munro, Munro, Sydney, New South,Wales, sailed Nov. 12 ; St. Vincent, Shep herd, St. Vincent; Math etvi Pearce, White, LaGuayra ; Olinda, Thomp son, Galveston ; Cincinnatti, Peacock, Baltimore ; New York, Cropper, New York, sailed 18th ult. 10th. Alveston, Clark, Singa pore ; Duchess of Argyle, Phillips, Calcutta and Trinidad ; Ellerslie. Pagan, Lima ; Rosa, Rio de la Bache; Tamerlane, M'Leary, New Orleans ; Symmetry, - M‘Connell, Mobile. Sid. 9th, Hindoo, Drake. Calcutta; Douglas, Smerdon, Cape of Good Hope ; Merchant, Luke, Rio Janeiro ; Lancashire Witch, Sutherland.. Jamaica ; William Murray, Grebow, Vera Cruz; Zante, Kearney, Tampico; Levant, Foulk, Philadelphia. PoßTsmount, MAY 9.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W.—Sld. Wellington, Chadwick, New York ; Rebert Small, Scott, Madras aid Calcutta. Arrd. 10, Rosalind, Gate, Cuba. Off, 9, Sans Parelle, Adelaide. COWES, MAY 10.-Wind Herman, Scheel, Sandwich rslands ; Boreas, Block, Jaquemel ; Cora, Young, New Bedford. OFF PORTLAND, MAY B.—Chimera, Hag! all, Surinam. BRISTOL, MAY 10.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Growler, Newfound land. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) kinds'; and 'from Scotland 250 Scots. The numbers of Sheep were by no means extensive ; while the Mutton trade was firm, and pre vious rates were well supported. From the Isle of Wight 300 Lambs came to hand ; while the Lamb trade was steady, at our quotations. In Calves and Pigs, the supplies of which were rather limited, ex ceedingly little business was transacted. Per Sibs. to shlk the offal. s. d. 0. d Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto. 2 10 3 4 Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 8 Prime small ditto Suckling Calves —lB 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 6 4 2 s. d to s. d Second quality ditto 4 4 4 6 Coarse-woolledditto 4 6 4 8 Southdown Wethers 410 5 0 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs .... 3 6 4 6 Small Porkers .... 4 S 5 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 Lambs ••.• .. . ... 5 4 6 4 SUPPLY AT MARKET, Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 2,538 I 22.010 93 290 NEWGA.TEI AND LE.axiammax.x., The arrivals of slaughtered meat for our mark is during the past week have been moderate, the time of year considered, and of full average quality. Although the supplies shughtered in the metro polis have been tolerably extensive, the general demand this morn ing was steady, and previous rates were well supported. About 100 carcases of foreign Beasts, and 200 foreign Sheol), have been dis posed of, at fair quotations. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. Beef, Inferior ...... 242 61 Mutton, Inferior 34 3 8 - middling .... 2 6 2 8 middling.. 310 4 0 prime large .. 210 3 2 prime .... 4 2 4 4 - prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large.• • • .... 3 4 4 4 Vea1........ • 4 0 5 0 - 4 6 5 0 Lamb, be 4d to 6s 4d. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEED. Scotland ............... Yorkshire ..... ....... Liacolnehire .......... . Norfolk .......... .... • Suffolk .......... ~.. . Cambridgeshire ...... . Essex • • • • . • • • • • ...... . Devonshire ......... Wiltshire ••• • • • Other parts ......... Beasts Sheep Calves Ms. 32 400 350 40 510 400 60 100 100 30 60 120 20 80 160 30 100 30 40 60 70 80 80 90 60 120 20 80 40 50 50 100 80 100 Total ...... . ..... .. 402 1,580 250 1,540 Previous week's arrival...... 410 2,100 300 1,750 Difference since our last •• .. 8 520 50 210 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. On the whole the receints of Potatoes at the water-side during the past week have been but moderate. The finest parcels have moved off steadily at rather more money, but all other kinds have hung heavily on hand. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The finest parcel* of new Hops are in somewhat improved request, at rather more money. In all other kinds, however, next to nothing is passing. WOOL. The past week's imports of foreign and colonial Wools have amounted to about 1,800 bales. In the private contract market the demand for an descriptions of Weil, owing chiefly to the approach ing public sales, Is heavy at barely late rates. vetting -111 LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1846. Mexico of cob: veryought by th e l ast packet fro T in he ih a e cc u ou n n it t e s a fr s o tm ll ates r character, an b since longer and leave scarcely any hope thapeace alarming e maintained between th e t wo republics. Ever accession of PARE DES t o th e P res id ency no secretn emehtahte. ever has been made by the Mexican Government of its hostility to the Americans, of its indignation at the deceitful and unprincipl e d occupat i on of Texas, and of its wish to recover a territory of such m • portance and so long united to Mexico. For these reasonsi the President refused to receive Mr. SLIDDELL, the American Extraordinary, sent to complete the settlement Ministerof the Texan question, as well as to enter upon negotiations respecting California , or some o t h er province that had attracted the cupidity of these friends of p eace, liberty, and justice. PAREDES had enough of pub. lie spirit to reject such a negotiator. SLID DELL, of course, was obliged to return to W as h, ington without having been allowed even to open his dispatches or show his credentials, and this is regarded as a grievous insult to the majesty of the great republic. . The American President roust, as a matter of course, view this contemptuous treatment of his Ambassador as a serious offence, to be expiated only by some new concession, some strip of territory that lies convenient for annexation to Texas, or some portion of California, or perhaps the port of Vera Cruz, as a security that the Mexicans will know better for the future bow to conduct themselves to- - wards Mr. SLIDDELL or General GREEN, now plotting at Mexico, or any other great General that may be appointed as representative of POLK. Preparations have evidently been made for some display of the kind. The American army sent to protect Texas had been ordered to advance to the Rio del Norte; the Mexicans were, of course, compelled to take the same course, and the consequence is that these two hostile forces are arranged against each other on the opposite banks of the river, and the slightest accident sufficient to muse is collision. Possibly the Mexicans might have the advantage should a battle ensue, but they have not the means, we fear, to maintain their ground. They unfortunately, too, are divided among themselves. There are Ame rican agents at the capital for the very purpose of sow ing divisions and creating anarchy in the Government. They have no fleet, they are sadly deficient in the ma nagement of state affairs, and altogether Mexico at pre sent appears totally incapable of defending herself against a fifth-rate power. On the other hand, the Arne aicans are of one mind—at all events they will act as a people of one mind ; the army on the Rio del Norte will be speedily increased, plenty of emigrants from other states will be found to offer themselves as volunteers, on the security that they are to be remune rated by large grants of land in Texas, and not a few, too, may join their ranks under the conviction that in a few years the Americans may encamp under the very walls of Mexico itself. The American fleet is powerful and active, and could, if left at full liberty to carry on its operations, bombard or occupy every seaport of Mexico, for even the ports in the Pacific are open to the attacks of the ships cruising at present in that quarter, and in a very few weeks every vessel belonging to Mexico, whether armed or engaged in trade, would be cap tured, or shut up in some creek. Mexico—for the fact cannot be disputed—is totally unable to cope with her powerful and encroaching antagonist. When the last accounts left Washington, it was understood that the President would forthwith send a message to Congress complaining of the insult offered to Mr. SLIDDELL, the hostile spirit displayed by PAREDES in his last proclamation, his abuse of the Americans, and especially of those who consummated the annexa tion of Texas, and the general tone of hostility displayed by the Mexican Government ever since the new Presi dent was elected almost by acclamation. The Congress, no doubt, would willingly recommend the most active and warlike measures, provided POLK could have induced England and France to concur with him in his beautiful theory of non-interference, but against that these two powers have expressed themselves in the most decided language, and they will not suffer Mexico, though weak and helpless, and divided against itself, to be devoured by her unprincipled and avaricious neigh bour. We must wait for more precise intelligence from those parts in order to form any conclusive opinion, but as far as can be judged from a concurrence of circum stances, war between the two countries is certain, and Mexico can be saved only by the interference of European powers. We insert elsewhere a letter from Mr. Witalam H . LE MARCHANT in reference to the article contained in The Sun of Saturday, respecting the Channel Islands. Mr. LE MARCHANT impeaches the accuracy of our statement on two grounds. He says, "it is there as serted that the most valuable prerogative of the Crown, that of mercy, is practically abolished ;" and his answer is,;that the sentence of a man named NIcoLLE had, within the last six weeks, been commuted from death to trans•. portation for life. Such may have been the case, and our statement be true and correct in every particular. That statement in substance was —" That no appeal lay from the decision of the Court in criminal cases, that the majority decided as to the guilt and its punish ment; no matter how erroneous it might be in point of law, there was no power of revision ; that no power existed in the island to stay the execution; none to mitigate the punishement ; and we drew the natural consequence of such a state of facts by adding—thus the most valuable prerogative of the Crown, that of mercy, is practically abolished." If he read further, he would see that we said " True it is, the QUEEN in Council may pardon or lessen the punishment." Does our correspondent venture a denial of any one of the statements? Does he show to what tribunal the appeal lies, or in what manner the sentence, if erroneous, can be revised? or does he refer to the authority existing in the island by which the execution can be stayed or the punishment mitigated? No, he well knows that he cannot do so with truth, and he therefore attempts to infer that we have stated what was not the fact by showing that a sentence has re cently been commuted from death to banishment. Does he not know that the exception proves the rule, that a total silence is better than a bad defence? Our argument was against the extraordinary accumulation of powers vested in the Court. Does he attempt to show that the sentence might not have been carried into execution, without time having been afforded to the criminal to apply fur an extension of mercy? Far from it. On the contrary, by his silence he prac tically admits the truth of those statements, which he has not ventured to contradict. The second ground on which Mr. LE MARCHANT im pugns our statement is, that we say, " that no record of any of the proceedings of the Court is kept; or, if kept, it is nct open to public in spection." We added, " All they condescend to announce in any case, civil or criminal, is the con clusion they have arrived at, the sentence they have pronounced." In answer to this, Mr. LE MARCHANT t says—" That a full record is kept of every proceeding, and that these records are open to public inspection, at least as much as those of any court in England." We shall merely say that our informant is a gentle man of the highest character and respectability, and that we place the most implicit confidence in the truth of his assertion, and it will require something more than the uncorroborated statement of Mr. LE MARCHANT to shake our faith in his cre dibility ; the result of the Commission just appointed will satisfy the public as to which is the most trust worthy. We again re -assert on that authority the truth and accuracy of the statements we have made. Having thus disposed of the points on which a contradiction has been attempted, let us see what remains untouched. Has anything been said of the mode of election of the jurats, the corrupt influences brought to bear during such election, of the limited number of the electors, and the total want of any qualification on the part of the newly-elected jurat, of his prejudice in favour of his friends and in opposition to his enemies; that there is no legal education of any kind—no knowledge of the law necessary for this expounder and administrator of the law? What answer is given to the extraordinary accumulation of powers, executive, legislative, and judi cial? What to the magisterial capacity, the acting as a pelice•court, and the secret investigation, we shouhl rather say inquisition, which takes place previous to the public criminal trial? What to the assumed right of making ordinances, by which laws may be enacted and taxation imposed without reference to any other body whatever? No, the champion is silent on each and every one of these points. " Save me from my friends," is an old and true adage, and the Royal Court of Guernsey may justly deprecate the continued advocacy on their behalf of Mr. WILLIAM H. LE MARCHANT. Seldom, if ever, has an announcement been made in The Sun of such incalculable importance, or one which augurs such beneficent consequences both to the present and to all after generations, as the one which we have at length the happiness of making.—This evening the Ministerial Bill fur the total abolition of the Corn-laws will be submitted to the House of Commons for a third reading.—ln the estimation of too many sceptics, a pre diction to this effect uttered only three years previous to its actual fulfilment would have been scouted as the very insanity of hopefulness. Nevertheless, as expe rience has -repeatedly shown, principles originally re garded as chimerical, and ruinous, and revolutionary, are ultimately sanctioned by the unanimous voice of the Legislature. Never was this extraordinary fact more , glaringly attested than upon the present occasion ; never did its demonstration give promises more glorious of in creased happiness, and security, and tranquillity to the entire human family. Wh a t so many popu l ar advocates have striven for, earnestly, manfully, and perseveringly, during so many years of disparagement, and contumely, and discomfiture, is now rapidly drawing to its realisation. The convic tions which the eloquent associates of the League have been so long fructifying in the popular mind, amidst a torrent of mingled ridicule and vituperation, have re ceived the acquiescence of the representatives in a British Parliament. The spontaneous labours of CoBDEN, and VILLIERS, and BRIGHT have been eminently havevic torious,hbo od importation been b erov eof theeminentlyforetiegrnmfpiurntoai provisions, s , oino f n o os r, ,f th n heit a sh l l evre h rg u )r. while the counter-labours of their antagonists i a w n n e o e r k lik e e th a l t i e wxii l o l u h s a e: e ac r t e m ce e i n v t e s d w t h h i e e i h r havefinal c h o i n th d e e r m to na r t e i s o t n ric fr t o ed m the an g b e y of o s o c v e e t tn i . s e m n: overwhelmingtle majority of the Commons. Of this occur ts nroawdenpool7csyti Andtis e as ae c c e e r i t ) a ta i n trieonnc occur rence f there free-trade e i as it was once considered impossible.yet, i with that invariable quiescence which is the accompaniment of a knowledge of assured conquest, the public contents itself with a noiseless though an earnest tense of satis faction; it entertains one general sentiment of gladness at the boon, but that boon is already so certainly its own that any violent jubilation at its possession becomes su perfluous. Natural, however , as this feeling is, we cannot but look upon our own tranquillity in making the above announcement without some real astonishment. The most sanguine worshipper of free trade could net possibly have anticipated a triumph so wonderfully facile, nor one so marvellously rapid, as that which is just reaching its conclusion in the Lower House. Although the frivolous and intolerable postpone ments, which have solely originated in t he obstinacy of the Protectionists, have retarded this great measure inn man ner absolutely unconscionable, those whoremember—and whose memory is so unretentive as to be incapable of the reminiscence ?—the incessant and almost contemp tuous rejection of the motion of the Honourable CHARLES PELHAM VILLIERS session after session, cannot but feel a considerable amount of amazement when they couple that recollection with the progress which principles tallying in every particular with those inculcated in that motion of the Hon. Member for Wolverhampton have at this moment made in Parliament. As we have already observed, the acceptation of those principles is now so perfectly secure that any ovation or any conspi• cuous complacency on that very account becomes an unnecessary exhibition of enthusiasm. We are reduced to the happy necessity of quietly subsiding into a con templation of the consequences likely to result from so thorough an alteration in the commercial system. Bearing in recollection, however, the influence which the majority on the Corn and Customs' Bill will un doubtedly have upon the House of Peers, on its being for warded thither for their sanction, it becomes not altogether uninteresting to notice the proportion which that ma jority will hear in its relation to the aggregate number of representatives. It would be almost frivolous to anti cipate a division this evening, because of the habitual propriety observable under similar circumstances among our legislators. Something indicative of deliberation in the settlement of a question of so much importance is but naturally to be expected in every national assembly, if only in deference to the extent of their responsibility, the comprehensiveness of the proposed change, and the abstract welfare of the empire. Som e such evidence of caution is indeed for these reasons almost requisite. Hence we may naturally look for one adjournment of the debate, though we earnestly pray that such an adjournment may meet with no repetition. we conceive, is necessary to prove actualthatno Nt necessity 'thign exists, as far as argument is con cerned, for further procrastination. The whole debate has so manifestly dwindled away in energy and bulk, and illustration. Protectionists and Free-traders, Conser vatives and Liberals, Mmisterialists and Opposition, have severally elecidated or obscured the matter under dis cussion, and have absolutely exhausted the vocabulary of their different opinions—a more indubitable sign of which could not possibly have presented itself than the so-called debate of Friday evening, which, under the appearance of being devoted to the • corn ques tion, was composed principally of the most irre levant personalities. A small, an insignificantly small, amplification of the kedium viler, in listening to thrice-repeated platitudes from the gentleman seated behind the front row of the Ministerial benches, is now all that is expected from the supporters of this gigantic measure, so as to terminate for ever those " impolitic and unjust" restrictions which have ground down the multitude for the emolument of a paltry faction of mo nopolists. This additional annoyance—but one which however irksome in itself is as nothing in comparison with the abrogation which it will ensure—this additional annoyance, we repeat it, is all that is now expected by the people from those legislators who have already battled for the general interest on so many previous occasions. It is a sacred duty, incum bent upon those lion. Members individually: nothing except of ',the most extraordinary importance should be regarded by them as having superior claims upon their attendance. By enrolling their names in the majority catalogue, they will moreover be inscribing them in letters of light upon one amongst the brightest pages in our national records— they will be associating themselves with an epoch and an achievement the remembrance of which can never fade. Personal ambition, but above all, the good, of their country, of mankind, and of posterity, call upon each of those Members to deliver in his vote upon the final reading of this glorious Bill. The division list will be the third and the most momentous blow ever struck at an infamous and pernicious monopoly; let the increase of the majority infuse into that blow an additional and irresistible energy! The state of affairs in the Austrian dominions appear to be anything but satisfactory to the Government. From a Bo hemian correspondent of the Swabian Mercury, whose letter is dated April 26; we learn that the disturbances in Austrian Galicia had produced a great agitation among the popula tion of Bohemia, who were beginning to suffer from want of food. "A slight cause," says this writer, " would be suffl•• cient to induce the peasants to rise against the nobles." Letters from Constantinople of the 22d ult. announce the arrival in that city of Vice-Admiral Sir W. PARKER. He had gone as far as Gallipoli in the Hibernia, of 120 guns, from whence he proceeded to Constantinople in the Virago steamer. The greatest attention has been paid to him by the SULTAN and his Ministers. In consequence of the mediation of the Russian Minister the differences be tween the Greek Patriarch and the Porte had been arranged. In Austrian Galicia the people are suffering from the want of food, and a letter from Lemberg, of the 30th ult., published in the Augsburgh Gazette, states that many of the peasants refuse to perform the duties they are bound to perform to their landlords, and declare that the land ought to be equally divided among all the inhabitants. The Go vernment both in Galicia and Bohemia were endeavouring, to the utmost of their power, by providing food, to alleviate the sufferings of the people. Madrid papers to the 3d have been received. In the Gazette of the 2d we find the Oicial:nnouncement a the execution of Sous and elev en ( not fif teen, as at fi rst stated) of his companions, followed by a d ecree , or dering that the lives of the other prisoners should be spared. The: Gazette of the 3d contains a royal ordon nance, abrogating the ordonnance of the 18th March, relative to the offences of the public press. MM. BERROGIN, VELO, ESCULANTE, and SAGASTI, who had been arrested in Madrid at the commencement of the Galician insurrection, were liberated on the Ist of May. It was supposed that the Government would suppress the provincial battalions. A letter from Valladolid, of the 20th, says : " The sergeants of a company of the regiment of infantry of Zamora were brought before a court-martial in this city on a charge of having taken part in the rebellion of Galicia, under General Iriarte. The accused, in their defence, said, that they had passively obeyed the orders of their chief, and that not knowing General Iriarte personally, they imagined with the other insurgents that he was legally invested with the functions of Captain-General. The court martial, considering that the facts did not involve capital punishment, and disregarding the requisitory of the judge advocate, who called for 10 years' transportation to the Pre sidios, merely condemned the sergeants to four years' trans. portation. The Captain-General, to whom this sentence was submitted, refused to ratify it, on the ground that it was in violation of the law, and ordered that not only the president aml the judges, but also the judge-advocate—for not having demanded capital punishment—should be suspended from their functions, and imprisoned until the decision of the Queen should be known on the subject. Another court-martial was summoned,, and this also declared that the offence was not punishable with death, and had given a sentence of ten years' transportation to the Presodias ; the members of the court and the assessor have been suspended from their functions and shut up in a fortress." We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. On Friday the first article of the Central Railway Bill, au thorising the construction of the section between Chaleauroux and Limoges, Was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 232 to G. The Gray and St. Dizier Railway Bill, as amended by the Committee, was adopted, and it was ordered that, if within six months no company should oiler to undertake the construction of the road the Government should commence the works forthwith. Among the addresses of congratulation received by the KING on Friday was one from the Lord Provost, magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh. The Epoque says that Duke PasuiEn, the Chancellor, is perfectly astonished at the cool ness and intelligence exhibited by LE:COMTE in answering his interrogatories, the Chancellor has been heard to say of him, "He has an intelligent head, with a heart of iron." The compliment has not been thrown away on LEco3rric, who declares that if Duke PesqufEr. should be removed by tleatli, he can never be replaced. Happy Duke PASQUIER, thus to possess at the some time the confidence of the KING and the regicide, and to be able to reciprocate compliments with both. On Friday, the colours taken from the Buenos Ayrean troops in the engagement of the Obliged° were presented to the KING by the Minister of Marine. On Thursday, according to the Courrier Francais, an ex press was sent off by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French Ambassador in London, with copies of dispatches from Admiral LAINE and other documents relating to the affairs of La Plata, which were to be communicated by Count Du: ST. AULAME to the British Cabinet. The success of the attompt to bring the Indian overland mail to England, rid Trieste, has had the effect of putting the Prench authorities on the qui vire, and the Journal des Deba.ts has an article showing the necessity of reforming the whole of the Levant service, so as to facilitate the communication between Alexandria and Mar seilles, and also of abolishing, or, at all events, :materially ameliorating the present vexatious system of quarantine. For years past scientific and commer cial men have been urging the necessity of these reforms As long as France thought she possessed a monopoly these suggestions remained unattended to. Now the vexations will probably be removed, and for their removal we shall . have to thank the much-abused principle of competition, which brings Governments as well as individuals to reason. The 'Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 83f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents, 1201. 20c.; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,250 f. ,• Rouen, .1,040 f. ; Havre, 757 f. 50e. ' • Great Northern, 7,„60,f.; Avignon, 920 f. ; Vierzon, 670 f. ; Bordeaux, 625 f. • Boulogne, "". 25 e. ; Troyes and Montcreau, 403 f. 75c. ; Base, 217 f. 50c. ; Dieppe, 450 ; Pa r i s atid Strasburg, 515 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 536 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyo ns , 5 67 f. 50c.; Belg i an Two-and-a-Hair per Cents., 56% ; SpanLsh D omestic Debt, 31 3 : . - The followi ng are the quotations in railway shares . Lyons and Avign on D ellnitives, Definitives, 511 f. 25c. Maasxmx.s.s, MAY 5.-Marseilles and Avignon, 927 f. 50c.: Northern, 767f.50e. • l'aris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c. LYONS, 31Ay 7 .-2.farseilles and Avignon* 936 f. 25c. ; Paris and 527 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cate Orleans, 1,262 f. 50e. ; Vierzon, 686 f. 25c.; Northern, 773 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN - RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE , MAY 9. Central of Spai n, 1 Dutch Rhenish, 644-East Indian, %- Great Western Ca , apa, 4-Jamaica South Midland Junction, 2- Luxembourg, 10%- Paris mid Lyona %-- ,yuoUtuted, 7-L' aris. sag Strasbourg Con stituted, D%, 1 %-Nam ur and Liege, 4 t i-Orleaus and Bor-deaux, I TALLOW. There is no alteration in this TaTiiietsince our last. Telloweandle of fine quality, on the spot, is firm, at 42s 6d; and fGr the autumn, in bond, 41s 3d to 41s 6d ; Town Tallow 41s, net cash. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) GROUP IV. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the schemes comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning, Mr. B. W. Hope in the chair. PERTH AND INVERNESS. Mr. HILL appeared this morning to open a case for a landholder, who was opposed to the line, and who charged the promoters with fraud and willfully deluding the public and the Committee, but his opening address was interrupted by The CHAIRMAN, who thOught It was better to postpone these charges until the case for the promoters of the scheme had bean brought to a close. _ After some discussion, this course was adopted, and the land. holder's case postponed accordingly. The engineering evidence of the Perth and Inverness was then re. sumed. Mr. Alfred Jee, the engineer in chief of the Sheffield and Manches ter line, was the first witness called this morning. The summit of the Sheffield and Manchester line was 967 feet above the surface of the sea The gradients were consequently as severe, if not more severe, than those on the line under consideration. The cost of locomotive power on the Sheffield and Manchester line was hd. per mile, and for cost of iintenance of way, locomotives, carriages, &c., 2s. 6d. per mile more. Mr. Mitchell's estimate for working this line, namely, 3,0001. a year, was, in his opinion, more than sufficient for the traffic likely to come upon it. On cross-examinatien, the witness admitted that he had never been over the line, and formed his judgment from papers which had been put into his hands between eleven and twelve o'clock that morning. Ile assumed that the locomotive power in the case of this line would be Is. per mile. He estimated the cost of a locomotive line on his own line at about 1,0001. a year. This dos. d the engineering evidence. The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a short con sultation, determined that they would consider the case as between the Great North of Scotlami and the Perth and Inverness roads in the first instance upon the engineering merits. GROUP VII. This Committee re-assembled today at twelve o'clock; present Mr. Palmer (chairman), and the other Members. EDINBURGH AND NORTHEAN (STRATH. ERN DEVIATIOiii BRANCH). The committee having heard some further evidence, decided tha the preamble of this Bill was proved. GROUP VIII THE Ennanntou, LEITH AND GRANTON EXTENSION. The Committee on this group resumed their sittings at twelve o'clock to-day, in Room 34, Mr. Hawes, chairman. Mr. Grainger was cross•examined as to the line crossing several streets at Leith, to the great injury of the public, inasmuch as it would have the effect of closing those streets aliogether. The s public opposed this interference with the thoroughfare. The Committee said that they considered it unnecessary to bear more evidence, and without clearing the room they declared the preamble not proved. - Mr. WHAM - LEY was then heard as to the branches. lle opposed the atmospheric line, on the grounds that the promoters had not got the sanction of the Admiralty to cross the harbour of Leith. Mr. Horz would admit that consent had not been obtained, but ha could inform his Learned Friend that the line could be constructed without crossing the pier, that part being a very subordinate one of their scheme. Mr. WHATELEY resumed. Fe opposed the atmospheric line as un called for, because unnecessary to the convenience of the public. GROUP XXXV The Committee met to-day, at t;;Weo'clock, in DAM No. 25; present, Mr. (1. Bankes, chairman ; Sir A. L. Hay, Sir B. R. W. Bulkeley, Sir T. Winnington, and Mr. W. Bruges. The case of the East Coast Union was to have been brought on at :he aitting of the Committee, but it was deferred in consequence of the absence of some of the witnesses. 1 he Committee then took the AMBERGATE, NOTTINGHAM, AND EOSTON. The preamble of the Bill was proved on Thursday last. The clauses were then gone through seriatim, and after various amendments in detail, several were ordered to stand part of the Bill, the further consideration of a few having been postponed, by consent of the promoters and the other parties to a proposed amalgamation with another Company. With these exceptions and a few amend ments, the clauses were all agreed to. GROUP XLIII. The Committee to whom the Bills in this group are referrel met this morning at twelve o'clock ; Mr. li. Denison, chairman. SOIYZERSETSUIRE IVIEDIdLND. The cross-examination of Mr. Gregory, engineer, on the part of the opposition, was resumed this morning with reference to the diffi culty of working the line with such gradients as proposed. GROUP XLIV. The Committee on this group commenced their week's labour at twelve o'clock this day, in Room 25 (New Houses of Parliament), when Lord Palmerston took the Chair, the same Members being pre sent as on Friday. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW-. CASTLE -UPON-TYNE JUNCTION. LANCASHIRE AND NORTH Iroints - ainE. YOR,ESHIRE AND GLASGOI.V UNION. YOR/C AND CARLISLE. Mr. TALBOT applied to the Committee to postpone the above four Bills, or rather the above two Bills, for by the amalgamation of the first with the second, and of the third with the fourth, they are reduced to that number. The parties had to arrange some matters between themselves, and they could not go through the clauses with out having them settled . The fact was that for some distance be tween Leyburn and Hawes, the . Yorkshire and Glasgow, an d th e Liverpool and Newcastle lines coincided, and it was necessary that some arrangement as to that part of the line should be made. He appeared for both parties. The Committee agreed to allow the cases to stand over. Sir JOHN BAILIE, who appeared as counsel for two petitioners against the Bill—Miss M. A. Pierce and Mr. Henry Paul Beresiord, applied to have the Yorkshire and Glasgow, and York and Carlisle lines postponed for a week. The COMMITTEE said, that having arljourned tho Bills, they could hardly be said to be before them. The application must be made on Friday. another application was made by Mr. Wyvell, a petitioner against the line, but this was also postponed. Mr. Cockburn not being present, the case of Mr. Puling also stood over. The Committee then called on the case of the PLEETWO on, pnEs TON, AND WEST PRIVY COUNCIL.- (THIS DAV.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, for the first time stnc., the alter, dons. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, the Vice- Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir Edward Ryan, Sir E. H. East, and Sir Alexander Johnstone. • Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the arguments in an appeal from Madras, HoUsE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAV.) The House sat to•da3 to hear Scotch appeals. The Peers in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. TIM EARL OF MANSFIELD V. SIR W. D. STEWART.---SIEWART SLX:Ond G ZUNCTION Mr. Henry Smith, the agent of the North Lancashire Steam Navi gation Company, and a merchant at Fleetwood, gave general evi. deuce as to the advantages to the commerce of Fleetweod which would be derived from the proposed line. He gave, as the result of his experience, both as agent to the above-named company and as a merchant, that Fleetwood was the best port for communication with Ireland, being by far more preferable to Liverpool for many reasons. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Hamar, who appeared for Mr. Shaw and several other petitioners against time Bill. The object of the Learned Counsel's cross-examination was to show that the East Lancashire Railway, the Bill for •which had been passed during last session, and which was now in course of construction, was a superior line to that before the Committee. - CORN-EXCHANGE—MONDAY. During last week the arrivals of Wheat of home produce for onr market were on a full average scale, and of somewhat Improved quality. Of English Oats the receipts were tolerably extensive ; but those of all other articles of grain, coastwise, were limited. From Scotland very few Oats came to hand ; but from Ireland, upwards of 16,000 quarters came to hand. The imports of Foreign Wheat and Flour were moderately extensive. Fresh up the arrivals of Wheat from our own coasts were not to say large; yet the number ef sam ples on offer was good, owing to which, the continuance of fine wea ther for the growing wheats, and the comparatively thin attendance of buyers, the demand for that article was unusually heavy, at a tied': e in the quotations obtained on Monday last of from five to six shillings per quarter, and a large quantity re mained unsold at the close of business. The advices which have reached us to-day from various parts of the country are tolerably Colourable as respects the appearance of the wheats. The show of tree foreign Wheat was by no means large, yet the sale for it was very depressed, and, to effect sales, the holders were compelled to give way in their demands fully 4s per quarter. In Corn under lock so lit'le was doing that the currencies were almost nominal. The quantity of Barley on offer was small, yet the inquiry for it was heavy, at barely - , but nothing quotable beneath, last week's prices. The transactions in Malt were wholly confined to retail parcels, at previous currencies. With Oats we were better supplied than for some time past ; hence the Oat trade was dull, at an abatement in . value of Is per quarter. Both Beans and Peas, the supplies of which were small, moved off slowly, at late rates. The sale for Flour was dull, at a decline of from Is to 3s per 2801bs. In Seeds no transac tions were reported. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE .....—___—_ Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier 64s to 658 Red, New •• • • 45s to—The Os Oats—Yorkshire and RAMSCIATE, MAT 9.—(From a Corresplndent . ) of rho French has just been placed Ditto,Winte, Old.. 48s 643 Lincolnsh., Feed. 24s 27s beautiful South -Eastern and Continental Company, to run between &c., with Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe • • 265 281 here by the Sou anfamily, Major Askew, d Ostend. This day she made her passage to this port coin, Red.— .• 458 57s YougharandCork, Itarnsgate an bringing 26 steam-vessel the Queen se passengers, among Ditto, White...... 506 60s _ Black ....... 23s 24a i n to ur hours and three - quarters, d Irish, Red.. ——• • —8 —s Cork, White . .... 24s 269 Ditto, White .. .. •• —a —s Scotch, Feed. • ... 27s 283 two carriages. A Jew days sine this vessel made the qui kest Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • • 345 38s Beans—Tick......... 34s 38s .. transit ever knows , 1 having performed the voyage from hence to New. •••• • • .. and nine minutes • •• " 355, "" s Ostend in tour hours only. Since the branchof s 368 Railway has been o erred• the Barley—Grinding... • • 288 31s Pease—Grey. ••••••• • •• • ..-s .. S o uth-Eastern p to ha:tante, the commit- Malting ....... .. 348 358 Maple. ••.. . - passengers may r that country in little more than seven hours ' L each Chevalier ........ 368 s 40s 44s atter leaving ondon ; added to which embarkation and landing can take Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• • • • • de 468 538 here at all times without theplacethe • at pier necessity ot 585 63s Flour—Town-ma • 40s 42shaving boats. Suffolk ••••• • • . • • Yesterday morning a sermon, Brown ... .. Stocktn 8c Norfolk 40s 41s on behalf of the HOS- Kingston and Ware 59s 60s pital for Consumption And Diseasesof Ii IN BOND. the Chest, was pro:lobed FOIIEIGN GRAIN AND FLOC . 425t0441 at the parish Church of 608 Beans - Wheat—Dantzic.. •• .. 52s to , 48s 50s I ease• 'ern Ad% e t t ex selected Hamburgh 20s 26s Flour—American . an .... ass 30s Reverend Advocate was from proverbs by the Barley Oats—New Feed ••• • . • ...... 19s 20s of them all," To the I , or is maker awls r siVilll74), course of a very eloquent add it was stated, among other address past week the imports of live stock into London h Lve ,,. statistical facts th During the 4OO head of Beasts , ideaths 110111 consumpt i o n , at the annual large, they having amounted to nearly been Sheep,chiefly from Holland. To-day we had on sale I amounted to 36,000, and 350 ditto s of mortaility for London Beasts, and 200 Sheep front Germany and Holland, together with ! showed a frightful 300 increase of pulmonary consumption. 40 from Prussia, which latter, the quality of which was good, were j The Rev. Gentleman having concluded a very eloquent to the feelin s o f .appeal was tolerably steady ; yet, though offered at last Monday's g the benevolent, the collection was made, which quotations, the whole dh' not find purchasers. Fr om ou r amounted to the handsome sum of 801. 95., exclusive grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh tip were tho„ Or the accession of several valuable b *b su son ers, derately extensive •; yet, as the attendance of buyers was somewhat REPREBE numerous, the Beef trade was steady, at My, but at nothing coot- ported l N NTAT OOF OXFORD.—It is currently re• able beyond. Friday's pricee. The droves from Norfolk; Suffolk. Es. ( Po or this that a there is every probability that the Conservative Member sex, and Cambridgeshire, comprised 1,500 Scots, Homebreds, iry' Donald Maclean, Esq., will, its the course of a few days, Shorthorns; from the Western and Midland districts, 400 Re f and accept the Chiltern Hundreds. We have not heard any reason as ii,utol pmuo, gr,v. i from other I*lls of Znikuri, 400 cif Tarim, Herefords, ords, signed for the Hon. Member's resignation, nor do we vouch for the . agGitliter Qt . Illa reprt.•—• Offend iisiiiticf. Mr. SMITH, who appeared (with Mr. sergeant Bellasis and Mr. Talbot) on the part of the Fleetwood and Preston line, objected to the setting up of such a case. There was no doubt that a petitioner could set up a case that there existed, or was proposed, a line whxli would afford better communication than that before the Committee, if he did so on his own account, but another company could not make a tool of a petitioner and set up a case through him. lie wished, therefore, to call a witness to prove that this was not a Lona fide opposition on the part of the petitioner, but on the part of the East Lancashire Railway Compane. He then called Mr. Ctutdy, the solicitbr to the East Lancashire Company, vi ho said that ho hail been instructed by Mr. Shaw to oppose this Bill An agreement had been made between Mr. Shaw and the company that he (Mr. Shaw) should pay all the expenses incurred In opposing the line, on the particular question as to the injury to his property, but that all expenses incurred in opposing the Bill on the general ques tion of its superiority. or inferiority to the East Lancashire line, should be paid by the company. Mr. SMITH (the counsel) submitted that a rival company having passed its Bill, could not oppose any Bill, unless the line interfered with their property, and that they could not do that indirectly, which they could not do directly. The Committee held that they had nothing to do with the manner in which the money wills which a petitioner paid his expenses was raised. It was the same thing to th em whether he paid himself or borrowed it from a friend, or received it from a railway company. The opposition on the ground of the sufficiency of the East Lanca shire line must be admitted. 32 p 96% -15234 5 9► ,4 92% 34 P 12A 22% 3% 1% 2% _ 24 ••• 7 % P % P 2 N ' i) 26 lii 3s 65S 22 34 71 lo' 2 29% 11% 2% V. THE SAME. These cases came before their on Tuesday last, upon appeal from the decision of the Court of Session. The short facts connected with the case may be thus stated : 7 - The appellant, the Earl of Mansfield, bought, in the year 1842, from Sir W. D. Stewart, the es . are of Logrealmoud, for the sum of 203,000/., but some (Inuits afterwards occurring whether, according to the terms of an' anti. ot family entail, the powers of Sir W. D. Stewart over the estate extended to the right to sell it, a suit was instituted in the Court of Session for the purpose of obtaining their decision on the point. The appellant in the second appeal w.is one of the line of entail. The Court of Session gave judgment in favour of the power of sale, and from that decision the present ap peal was brought. The argumnts were resumed this morning, and appear likely to occupy the whole day. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) NOVEL QUESTION UNDER THE lANERUPT LAW. An affidaVit was tendered to the Learnec! Commissioner. on which to found a fiat of bankruptcy against J. PLine, architect and survey or. The fiat was sought to be issued at the instance of Mr. Payne, who gained the golden medal for th • best design for the New Royal Exchange, and was also connected with several railroads. He had previously ap plied as an insolvent, but his petition was discharged. The Learned Conimissiorme asked on what grounds the act of bankruptcy was founded? The SOLICITOR said the party had bought copper; em ployed engravers, had the plates engra ve d, an d attemards published them for his own profit;. This he deemed to be a trading. The COMMISSIONER—What were the works published? The SOLICIToR—There was a design of the New Royal Exchange, and also a map of the parish, &c., &c. The COMMISsIONER—SureIy he had a right to publish a design which was the work of his own imagination, and which he could not have displayed without drawing or en graving, and yet not be liable as a bankrupt. The Soncrron—But ke bought the raper, and sold it at a profit. ' The Cosimissxneett—Yes; in displaying a work of imagi nation, you might as well say that an author would be liable for selling the work of his own imagination. The SOLICITOR said, that in publishing the maps, the per• son was evidently selling for profit. The COMMISSIONER said that he did not think that it watt a working up of paper-or copper as materials. The SOLICITOR said that the selling for profit could be maintained by the having sent out agents to solicit orders, and then selling the maps. The COMMISSIONER—StiII he was only selling the design. The Soucnon—That design was on a survey of the parish which he bad been enaged to make. The COMMISSIONER—That makes no difference. The SOLICITOR—But he became a printer by employing printers to print the work. ' The COMMIsSIONER—AII that was necessary; he could not sell his design without paper and printers, and that is the very reason he is not subject to the bankruptcy laws. The Soucrroa—But this is his own petition. The COMMISSIONER—That makes no difference. Mr Commissioner EVANS, who was called in to advise, expressed his opinion that no trading was proved in this case, but the acts of the petitioner were as free as an author, all being works of imagination_(meaning the designs—query surveys). CRIMINAL COURT'. -(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT: These sessions, the seventh of the present Mayoralty, were commenced to-day, before the Lord Mayor, the Re corder, and Aldermen Sir Chap man Marshall, Mr.: Hughes Hughes, the Sheriffs, &c. From the calendar it appears that thereare no less than 251 prisoners for trial, and the following maybe taken as a summary statement of the offences with which the prisoners stand charged :—Murder, 3; unnatural crimes, 2 ; manslaughter, 2 ; rape, 1; sheep-stealing, 1; demanding money with menaces, 1 ; burglary, 8; forgery and uttering forged instruments, 1; em bezzelment by ciei ks and servants, 15 ; cartilage breakieg and larcency, 1 ; cutting and wounding with intent, 12 , unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 11; unlawful possession and uttering, ; house breaking and larceny, 4; highway robbery with violence. 1; receiving stolen goods, 9 ; robbery, 7 ; larceny in a dwelling hours, 7; larceny from the person, 24; larceny by servants, 39 • rob beries on !he river Thames, 4 ; robbery in ports of entry and discharge, 2; assaults with intent to violate, 2; unlawful assault, 1; misdemeanours of divers descriptions, 13; lar cenies, grand and petite, 80. The committals are:—Lon don, 41; Middlesex, 151; Essex, 4 , Kent, 12 ; Surrey, 42: - Total, 251. The grand jury having been sworn, The BEWILDER proceeded to deliver his charge to then). It was not his intention to address them at any length, be cause, upon a careful perusal of the depositions he found that they contained matters of fact, which it was purely the pro vince of the grand jury to deal with them according to law- He lamented to observe the number of prisoners for trial which the calendar presented, - upwards of 250. That num ber could not but be considered large when it was remem bered that the Central Criminal Court had been relieved of a vast number of minor cases at Hick's Hall. He regretted to see that offences against the person of an aggravated charac ter were on the increase ; there was in the calendar no less than twmurdero e r nt d y . cases o g f rie c , u_ o tt u i s ng uod a i n ly d % h v o a ti r i n h N e V t e h i we n r t e e n t h t re t cases of murder, one for rape, seven cases of robbery with violence, and two cases of manslaughter. With regard to the charges of murder, one alone was likely to be submitted to the consideration of the grand jury, because the other two persons charged with that offence whose names appeared in the calendar had been in dicted in a former session, and true bills found against than by previous grand juries. The other case of murder was one in which the mother was charged with the death of her children by drowning ; he adverted to the case not from any doubt that by the act of the mother the children met their death, but because some doubt might arise from the act of the mother as to whether or not her mind was impaired. The question of the sanity or insanity of the party was one the grand jury could not dispose of: if they were clearly of opinion that death had been caused by the act of the mother, it was their duty to p u t th e c ase in a course of tri a l, by finding a true bill against her. He was sorry to sea that the offence of larceny from the person was on the increase, there were no less than twenty-four cases of that description in the present calendar. judicious severity of punishment had apparently been us able to restrain effectually this species of offence. which was generally committed by thieves by pro fession. There were several charges in the calendar of un lawfully uttering counterfeit coin, and also uttering it felo niously; and fir the latter offence the parties were liable to transportation or long imprisonment, according to the dig cre ion of the Court. There was also a case in the calendar of a horrible description, on which the charge rested upon the evidence of two servants in the establishment of a gen tleman. That charge related to an offence of which they were stated to be eye-witnesses. With respect to that he would only say, that if, upon consideration of the evidence, they were convinced that the case would succeed, or was likely to succeed before a jury, it was their duty to put it in a course for trial ; but if they were convinced that the: e was not enough in the evidence to convict the party, then they would spare the Court the disgusting details. Among the cases of cutting and wounding, he was sorry to say there were some of a most shocking character, and dis tressing to contemplate. For the smallest provo cation resort • was now had to such weapons as spades, knives, and other weapons, instead of the more manly method that was formerly adopted. He was sorry to see this change in the state of society. Whether the lenity of the Legislature had caused this it was not for them to inquirer but it was distressing to see petty injuries resented in so murderous a spirit, and by such murderous weapons. The Learned Judge, after remarking upon the increase of larceny committed by servants, remitted the grand jury to the per formarce of their duty. The Court then proceeded to swear in the petit jury. _ _ _ SHREWSBUR It and BIRMINGHAii RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors of this Com papy was held, at one o'clock this day, in the London Tavern, for the purpose of giving their sanction or otherrise to the Bill now before Parliament to construct a railway from Bir mingham to Shrewsbury, with branches. Ther was a very numerous attendance of scripholders. W. 0. Gore, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Company, pre sided. The CHAIRMAN explained that the meeting had been called in _accordance with the sessional orders of Pa rliament, in order to ascertain their opinions as to the propriety of dissolving the Company or g oi ng on w i t h t h e sy her f e ih w e t h ic o h us h e la already b en stamped with t h e approbation.of Commons and of the Board of doubt of the ultimate success of the projec. - if per severed in ; for, from the dense p-pulation on m ineral traffic which existed, the line the large aaescernemideoddlay and for which there e, he repeated,Che!r in g that he tion, the directors had been compelled to estimate for qua druple rails---( had no hesitation i n w as)at characterisin g present The one of the best in England._ directors had entered into arrangements with . the London and BirminglL Railway • h the Birmingham Canal Company to am . and with panY to the extent of one-third of the proposed capital between Birmingham and Wolverhatnpton, which would obviate the necessity Di making calls upon the subscribers for passing of the Bill. He ws a considerable time aft' r the less than 33,113 registered holdersd to mention that not going before Parliament. of scrip were in favour of objects of the meetin Having thus briefly stated the, whether they should g, he would leave it to them to deck , * The question h •rroceed, or disso:Ti the Company. solved that the S having been put, it was unanimonsly r e. ' hrewsb ceed to Parliament. ury and Birmingham Railway pro Thanks having been voted to the Chairman and directors , . The CirAtustA again rose, and after returning thanks ea, the part of his colleagues . and himself for the confidence r.e - ' posed in them , aura —an, ~ repeated that if this measurepassed the Legs be en tertain,d no doubt that it would—be had_ Ai ne' hesitation in saying p ' would be one of the first in Englaaw' The meeting (one of the most unanimous we have ever at tended) then broke up. T - Tr-a-nede e- this . scheme There railway Could be nG 'HE ASSASSINATION IN DRURY LANe,D EA TO or BLEwm.—This morning, soon after one o'chLek, the unfortun a l e : Iran Illewitt expired, in the King% Vollek o ';`iuspdal, Cif the injuries caused by the shot fL w 'at him in Drury-11,11e. *-01t evening of Saturday liirtiultn% by the lad Graham, who Wa s '- Saturday remanded At 1 .... w-street until next Wednemiay. ‘ O lOl , Ol Lilly Alice Pee , ri crived Broughan i i ; from the et c ; Sir Rte* and Lady Peel, and a distinguished party at dinner,_%, Saturday, at the Gallant Colonel's house, in I'ark-place, St. Jarn e % . THE LATE ATTEMPT ON THE KING OF THE FREN_C„ II. --The preliminary examinations relative to the late attempt at " tainbleau are nearly terminat e d, an d s h ou l d no new inciden t inter' t vene, it is p ro b a bl e t h at the matter will be brought about 3lay x""' before the Commi ss i on o f th e Court of Peers, which is to iiilfil the functions of Chambre d'Accusation. It is said that the first sident, M. Frank Carr& has been designated by the Chane/P'JT • to draw up the report in the name of the examining coluill lo9 '.ol- - Galignani. A CANDIDATE FOR THE MINISTRY. — I:;ateIy a clod-' pole in one of our northern counties apidied to a magistrate for 0 , license to preach. The worthy magistrate. observing nothing in tile outer man that entitled him to the officfr , you read or write ?" Clodpole— "_,other, plaze your honour." IkLt. gisttate- " Well, but my good f'-flow, how will you preach ?" Ci a sd pole (scratching his head), ." _Mother reacts, and me 'spoil.% the 'aplains." The magistrate refused to gratify tile ambition - addressing him, aspirant, who went away sadly disappointed. ees COLONIAL 131 SlioPHICS.—T e new ep , seope• said, "Can are forthwith to be erected in our colonies ; one in cur Chinese sessions at 110 A1g , KaaiG the bishop to be celled the Bishop of Vlct 9l4 ti AuaktrOa. ~., Klie'' , t V t tis,' ) :, ; -,:,, „ , ..' t..4, 4f ,) n , 4, . nIT t 4 ,- -