The Sun. — London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

- SEAT OF WAR IN INDIA.— SECOND EDITION. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Illustrations, 21s. bound. .LAIDVENTURES IN THE PUNJAB. By Major H. M. L. LAWRENCE, Bmgal Artillery. Political Agent in charge of British Relations with Lahore. " A work which exhibits more real practical knowledge of the Sikh States and their turbulent inhabitants than any book with which we are acquainted."—Calcutta Review. Henry Colburn, publisher, 13, Great Marlborough•street. NEW WORK, BY J. FENIMORE COOPER, ESQ. Just ready, in 3 Tole. post Bvo., A V E N S NE S T. It By J. FENIMORE COOPF.II, Esq. Anther of " The Pilot," " The Last of t he Mohicans," " The - Chain-bearer," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. -EXHIBITION OF TABLEAUX, OIL ./ PAINTED aml In RELIEF.-209, REGENT-STREET. The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully infonned that the above Exhibition will be opened on THURSDAY next, the 26th inst., and will comprise Models of FRUIT, BIRDS, FISII, °cc. These Tableaux have already attracted much attention on the Con tinent, as well from the intrinsic beauty of the colours and grouping, RS from their overcoming the most difficult question of art, viz., the combining distant perspective on a fiat surface, with a foreground modelled in relief, preserving at the same time unity of composition. Admission, One Shilling, which will also admit to the Anatouileal Gallery.—Open from Ten to Six. MUSEUM of PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, containing upwards of One Thousand MODELS, cast tram and coloured after Nature ; comprising every part of the Human Frame in every state of Disease. A4mission, One Shilling, which will also admit to the Gallery of Tableaux Open from Ten till Six.-209, Itegent-street, RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. SSR S. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND, Railway Share Auctioneers, beg to thank their Friends and the Public lbr their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, Bc., take place every 'TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock„ at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place all favours, containing instructions, are respectfully requested tbe addrescd. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited ered for exa mination at least one day previously to their being ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, n.nd the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadneedic-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. Mr. BENEDICT respectfully- announces that his BENEFIT will take pace on THURSDAY, .A.pan. 2, when will be performed his New Opera of THE CRUSADERS. After which will be given a Musical Entertainment, h Mr. W. Wallace will perform a Grand Duet for two Pianofortes with Mr. Benedict, and Signer Camillo Sivort one of his celebrated Solos on the Violin. For the first and only time at this Theatre, the Ethiopian Sereniders will sing the favourite Songs of Lucy veal, Dan Tucker, and the Railroad Overture : and other Performances, in which several distinguished artists will] assist, particulars of which will be duly announced. Private Bores, &c., to be had of Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Opera, entitled TIIE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Burdini, llorncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Itainforth. After which, a new Fairy Ballet, called TIIE ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplaces, :Miles. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdiae. Giubilei, &c., will appear. THEATRK ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New and Original Comedy, called, A BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK. C 3 mon Foxall, Mr. Webster; More craft, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir John Coverdale, Mr. 'Tilbury; Ernest Coverdale, Mr. 11. Boll; Horace Waldgrave, Mr. Hudson ; Selmei dennann, Mr. J. Bland ; Thomas, Mr. Brindal ; Lady Coverdale, Mrs. Glover; Selina Coverdale, Miss Julia Bennett; Emmeline, Mrs. Seymour. The Band will perform the Overtures, " La Symphonic," and " La Nclge ;" a Fantasia, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," and "Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz. After which a New Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Tilbury, Mrs. Humby, &c. To conclude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SIIIL• LINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buek,tone ; Capt. Fitobbs, Mr. Tilbury Capt. Spruce, Mr. Brhatal ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. H.,rton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KF.ELEY. First Night of a New Drama GENERAL TOM THUMP; having, on each Evening of his ap pearance, been welcomed with most enthusiastic shouts of ap plause, and excited the astonishment and approbation of an elegant and delighted auditory, by his almost Incredible Dimi nutive Person and his equally Incredible Mind, the Management has much pleasure in announcing hit Performance for every Evening till further THI notice. S EVENING The performances will commence with PETER JENKINS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBT.E MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss L'iidlaw. To be followed by an entirely New and Original Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Boots. In which General Tom Thumb, who is engaged expressly for this occasion, will have the honour of making his appearance. To conclude with NEXT DOOlt. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham ; Misses Ardee, Villars, and Howard. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. MEAT RE ROYAL, ADELPUI. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Petite Drama, in Two Acts, called, THE CABIN BOY, Mons. Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largecetti, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Julien, Madame Celeste; Mdlle. Laroche, Miss Woolgar. After which, a New Farce, entitled, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Chesterfield Honeybun, Mr. Wright ; Isaac Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Mrs. Iloneybun, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. 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-STItEF , T Last Week but One of the celebrated Artistes, Madame VESTRIS and Mr. CHARLES MATHEWS. FOR TILE BENEFIT OF MR. RANSFORD. ---- THIS EVENING Will he performed a New Vaudeville Comedy, entitled, THE FOLLIES OF A NIGHT. Duke de Chartres, Mr. J. Vining ; Count de Brissac, Mr. Harris ; Dr. Druggendraft, Mr. Compton ; Pierre Falliot, Mr. C. Mathews ; llidlle. Duval, Miss E. Homier ; Duchess de Chartres, Madame Vestris. After which, Shakspeare's Comedy of KATHERINE AND PE TR [XIII°. Petruchio, Mr. Wallach - ; Katherine, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a Grand CONCERT. Principal Vocal Per formers, Messrs. Ransford, 11. Russell, John Parry ; Miss Hobbs, Misses A. and M. Williams, Miss Lucoaibe, Miss Missent, &c. Flute, Mr. Richardson ; Concertina, Signor Regondi. To conclude with a DIVE R,TISSEMENT. In which Messrs. Githert, Marshall, Adrien, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and .Mdlle. Melanie Duval will appear. NEW STRAND THEATRE. LAST WEEK BUT ONE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MATINEES MYSTERIEUSES. Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who flock to attend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will give his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Morning, at Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per formances of the Chiarini Family, and the astounding Feats of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seen, to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; Private Boxes, li. Is., and 11. Its. 6d. To be followed by THE MASQUERADE BALL. Sambo cm-hard, Mr. li. W. Pelham. Po conclatiEt with TUE VAMPIRE, and THE BLIND BOY. Op ) 4 ,-- •.12... ; : . 1. ,...., ,• . „,,,,... ;ci p!..„ ~_, i \ ...,‘,. q , et. .._/.., ,t_...,_,,,4„...4,.....,---- •,„,,,,,.,:•„0• .-,,,... '4 SECOND EDITION. • ASTLEY'S , ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week but One before the llolidays, and of the present at tractive Entertainments, which have proved far more successful than any Novelty yet presented. The Performing Elephants with the grand Elephantine Asc , nt up the Giant Staircase. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Spectacle, entitled THE RAJA OF NAGPORE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the whole res•Airees of the Vstahlislunent will be introduced. • Magnificent Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats Of the British and Foreign Artistes. The whole to conclude with the Novel Military Ballet, entitled TILE SOLDIER'S DREAM. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THE ATRE. Entire change. Two New Pieces. Four Dramas every Evening. Re-entmgernent of Mr. H. W. Pelham, the celebrated Ethiopian Serenader THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled JULIE LEDTZU or, the City Goldsmith. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Maynard, Cowell, Lewis, Iles Morrison, Williamson; Mesdins. Daly, &e. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, 'TEA WITH MY AUNT. THE WEATIIER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 25. LIER3IOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest, 57; Noon, 56 BAROMETER, 29.48.—W1ND S.S.W., cloudy. „awn WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 0 minutes after 12. I Evening •. 29 minutes after 12, ellit I 1:. lIIS Ant LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1846. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock, and almost imme diately afterwards adjaurned, having transacted no business of immediate public importance. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly before Four o'clock. :Several motions were made with respect to railway groups, and, The SPEAKER was summoned to the House of Lords to hear the Royal assent given to the Metropolitan Building Improvement Bill, and the Fever (Ireland) Bill. Mr. LAWSON then moved, according to the notice he had g i ven , "That the East and West Yorkshire Junction (York and Knaresborough), the Great North of England (Bedel Branch), and the Great North of En g l an d (Borrou 11- bridge Branch) shculd be taken out of Group No. 43, and g r eferred to Mr. GREENE, and the Members introducing sue h Bills on the 31st, sinless petitions against any of those Bills be presented before Monday next. A short discussion took place upon the motion, which was lost upon a division by a majority of 16, there being for the, motion 23 and against it 39. Several railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. WYSE gave notice of his intention, on the 7th of April, to bring forward a motion relative to the state of edu cation in Ireland. Mr. BANteRS gave notice of his intention, on Thursday next, to move that the Bill for the poor removals should be referred to a Select Committee. Mr. O'CONNELL postponed his motion, for leav e to brin g in a Bill to enable the county of Cork to send two additional Members to the House of Commons, to replace those formerly returned for Sudbury, till after Easter. Viscount INGESTRE then moved the consideration of the petition of THOMAS Wool), the proprietor of the WoVer hampton Chi °nick, relative to Lichfield school. Alter a short discussion, the debate on the question was adjourned to Wednesday week. Mr. WYSE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to legalise Art- Un'oi Mr. 1." . . a:l o o n !' E o f lfi obtained ert Ire l l e a a o 7 to meansbring ionf betterß ill relief e f the -04; tititi il jt.*tk poor. 3'. G4IIAM gave notice that it was his intention to cFiadr,lo postpone the Friendly Societies Bill till after atter,' 'had also been informed, by the Hon. Member 4:r71,;„,;„%,—,,,f0r.501dh,am, that it was his intention to postpone till after the V ielitlitia the Factories Bill. .g• •Sir T. PEEL, in answer to a question from Col. RAWDON tawhether„iii the measures contemplated by the Govern , :,"ti-I.l.l3.._with . respect to the registration of voters in Ireland, any vrovillinn was to be made for shortening the duration of borodgh elections, said that it was intended to limit them to ne day, The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Corn mportation Bill was then resumed by Lord POLLINGTON, who opposed the second reading of this checked, at any rate, until the result of Lord JOHN'S motion in the House of Commons becomes known. Sup posing that Lord JOHN should have it in his power to originate an auspicious line of policy towards Ireland, we cannot disguise from ourselves, that before he can do so the session will be too far advanced to admit of its being effectuated by adequate laws; and in this view the protectionists will have added to the responsibility which they are now incurring, and should recollect that the effect of their blustering on in a friendless and hopeless strug gle, which has already brought down upon them the merited reproaches of our principal seats of commerce, may be to deprive Ireland of the wholesome and timely fruits of improved legislation. It is idle for the Duke of WELLINGTON to furbish up the old doctrine of finality. It is wholly unsuited to the progressive enlightenment of our age. It has been long since expended. The Duke cannot forget his celebrated dictum on Reform in 1830, which led to the fall of the Cabinet of that day, and no Ministry can at this period turn upon the doctrine of finality without meeting a similar fate. Lord FITZ WILLIAM aptly informed his Grace that "this genera tion had no right to disinherit their posterity of their full legislative functions, and ventured to doubt whether a past generation had a right to disinherit this." It is a mockery, too, for the Duke to generalist upon the improvement effected in Ireland since the Union. So king as Ireland confirm!: in her present prostrate condition, so long will it be clear to the most superficial observer, that our legisla tion for her has been deplorably ineffective; neither can you deprive the repealers of the colourable argument, that with a domestic Parliament Ireland would not have been in the degraded position she now is, alternately requiring British loans and British coercion. M. ODILON BARROT, and a further explanation from the Minister, M. LACROSSE said, as his object had been chiefly to obtain an explanation from the Govern ment, and that had been accomplished, he would with draw his motion. This did not suit the views of the more violent party, and M. LASTEYRIE, considering a vote necessary, took up the amendment. Previous to a division, MM. BARROT, BERRYER, and a large number of Opposition Members, left, and only 52 remained to vote with M. LASTEYRIE, thus giving the majority of 230 for Ministers. The other domestic news possesses no interest, though much anxiety prevailed in all quarters respecting the mysterious movements in Spain. Bill. Mr. PLUMPTPF also opposed the Government measure. Sir J. Trollope, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. Shaw, and the Earl of March opposed the second reading of the Bill; and Sir J. llanmer, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. F. Baring, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer supported it. On the motion of Mr. Fixes, the debate was adjourned till Thursday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Ilouse adjourned, We thought that the fate of the PoLIGNAC Ministry, and a change of dynasty, would have furnished a useful lesson to the statesmen of other constitutional Govern ments, and deterred them from risking their own lives and the throne of their Sovereign, by destroying at one blow the most valuable rights and privileges of their countrymen. But the statesmen of Spain are too proud and too desperate to take warning from the past, and NARVAEZ and his reckless and dan gerous accomplices having once already tried a coup d'etat, without exciting rebellion, think that the Spanish nation will now submit patiently to any outrage , and that any experiments may be made with a people so lost to all sense of consistency and constitutional order. Yet he may carry his experiments too far, and though he calculates upon the devotion of the army, may find that he reckons without his host, and that a brave people, when a Sovereign, or the Consort of a Sovereign is forced upon them, will set every consideration of safety at deli ante, and rise up as one man against what they consider a national disgrace. In the mysterious crisis which now exists at Madrid, it is difficult to find any appa rent facts which can guide inquiry or lead to a solution of the plot evidently formed by NARVAEZ and Queen CHRISTINA. Every measure in that Court is concocted in the dark: the Camarilla which environs the QUEEN, with the Captain-General at its head, works secretly, and by a strange perversity generally adopts measures which suit their own views and selfish inte rests without the slightest regard to the good of the We subjoin some extracts from other Continental papers: -- - - The Invalide Russe, of St. Petersburgh, contains the fol lowing report addressed to the Emperor by the Commander in-Chief of the army, Count Paskevitch d'Erivan, dated March 4 :-" A report of Lieut.-General Panutine, just re ceived, announces that yesterday the insurgents, on learning the arrival of our tre Ts at Michalowice, evacuated the town of Cracow, which was occupied by us at three in the after noon. One hundred Cossacks entered first, amidst cries of Long live the Emperor from the inhabitants. They were followed by a battalion of infantry, with four pieces of artillery, the mountaineers, and other troops. The baud of armed insurgents, which had quitted the city during the night, and which amounted, it is said, to 500 horsemen and 1,000 foot soldiers, proceeded, according to some, on our territory of Szial, and according to others towards the Prus sian frontier by Krzeszowice. Colonel Prince Bariatinsky, aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke, heir to the Crown, v.-as sent with 300 Cossacks to pursue them. Another body of 150 Cossacks is to join him at Olkusz. There are now at Cracow three of our battalions, with 12 pieces of artillery, and 500 irregular cavalry. The other troops who were on their way towards that city have received orders to stop short at the points where they had arrived. The inhabi tants have brought their arms, and delivered them up.' A letter from Cracow of the 16th, in the German Universal Gazette says :-" From yesterday all the prisoners have been kept in close confinement, without being allowed to re ceive any one. The banker, Wolf, who was Minister of Finance under the revolutionary Government, is kept guarded in his own house, not only on account of his having assumed that post, but as answerable for the large sums raised by the insurgents from the Austrians at Wieliezka. Many women have also been arrested. The Prussian General Count de Brandenburg has informed the representatives of Austria and Russia, that he has been ordered by his Government to give up to them the Polish insurgents in his power who are na tives of the territories subject to Austria and Russia." The constituent: assembly of the canton of Berne held a second sitting on the 18th of March, which was almost en tirely devoted to the discussion of a new series of rules, con taining thirty-five articles. Before entering on the discus sion, the assembly took into consideration, and adopted, the proposition that their deliberations should be made public in the form of a bulletin, drawn out by as many stenographers as might be deemed necessary to report faithfully the differ ent speeches; further, that many thousand copies should be struck off, and one given to each deputy. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at 84f. 30c. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 55e. ; the Orleans Railroad shares, 1,317 f. 50 ; Rouen, 1,0601. ; llavre, 7651'. ; Great Northern, 7861. 25c. ; Avignon, 975 f.; Vierzon, 7221. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 687 1. 50c.; Boulogne, 5251. ; Troyes and Alontereau, 4371. 50c. ; Basle, 2451. ; Dieppe, 462 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 5421. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, $731. 75e.; Paris and Lyons, Definitive, 680 f. 75c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 3N ; Spanish Passives, 514. The following are the quotations for other lines :- Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 512 f. ; ditto (Le eointe), 505 f. 50c. ; ditto (Compact lie 31eridionale), 503 f. 50c. ; Bor deaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 503 f. 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta), 511 f. ; Charleroi, 498 f. 50c. MARSEILLES, 3IARCH 19.-Marseilles and Avignon, 2971. 50c. LYONS, 31Ancu 21.-Marseilles and Avignon, 9701. ; Paris and Orleans, 1,297 f. 50c. ; Ronan, 1,050 f. ; Vierzon, 726 t. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY & AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 24. Boulogne and Amiens, 121-Louvain and Jemappc,l%-Luxern• bong, 1.?,4 -Madrid and Yalentia, 3 ,4, -Namur and Liege, 21,i - Rouen and Havre, 30. Occasionally this great sluggish discussion about the Customs is enlivened by intense gleams of the ludi- crous. Disgusted, probably, with tha dry details of a matter which has been drawn out to the most miserable community. We believe this is the case at the present moment. The QUEEN-MOTHER is bent upon marrying her daughter to a Prince against whom the nation generally, and even the Cortes and the press, have evinced the greatest repugnance. Hence the suspension of the representative body, preparatory to its dissolution and perhaps ultimate extinction, and the POLIGNAC ordonnanco for annihilating the liberty of the press. While they were allowed to perform their usual and legitimate parts in the Government of the country, the public would be informed of everything, the timid might be roused to action, and the firm supporters of the constitution be only the more encouraged to per severe in their duty. 'lt was necessary, therefore, to get rid of such troublesome agents when a settlement, almost universally opposed, was resolved upon in the secret recesses of the Court. With a view to the accomplishment of this dark plot, the Cabinet of MARTINEZ DE LA HosA was purposely broken up, NArorAEz was appointed Captain-General, his mo deration and ostensible wish for retirement into private life were extolled in the Ministerial journals, and a new set of puppets, called Cabinet Ministers, were set up, to be knocked down when the moment for action ar rived. Then the NArtvAez Ministry was installed, consisting of men generally without ability or character and ready to obey the Captain-General with as much alacrity as an ensign or a corporal looking for promo tion. The new Minister of Finance, ORLANDO, the second successor to a Minister who had done so much to raise public credit, is totally unknown as a states man, and, we believe, never had any pretensions to fill the most difficult department in Spain. The Minister of Marine is a Carlist, and was one of that daring band of conspirators who made the attack on the QUEEN'S palace. The new Minister of the Interior had some years since been denounced by General ALAVA as a man convicted of frauds on the public in the negotiation of foreign loans, and we believe was expelled on those grounds from the Chamber of Peers. The rest of the members are scarcely known for anything, and had evidently been selected as blind tools for carrying out the obnoxious scheme. How the affair will end it is impossible to an ticipate. The Spaniards are like no other people. We cannot reason, therefore, from experience, except only in respect to one quality, their obstinacy ; and when their patience is exhausted, and they are fairly put to the trial, NARVAEZ and CHRISTINA may find that even the army, on which they entirely rely, may be only a " broken reed." MPERLIL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed, iz. : Furness and Windermere Railway. London and Birmingham Railway (Leamington Extension and Coventry and Rugby Stations Enlargement). Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Forth and Clyde Navi gation Junction. Edinburgh and Glasgow, and trishaw and Coltness Railways Junction. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Monkland and Kirkintilloch, Bal lochney, and Slamannan Railways Junction. Midland Railway (Birmingham Extension). London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Railways Amalgamation. Midland Railway (Darfield to Elsecar, and other Branches). London and Birmingham Railway (Aylesbury Railway Purchase). Leicester and Birmingham Railway. Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction Railway. Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Worshorough Branch). Leeds and Thirsk Railway (St. Helen's Branch Deviation East Coast Railway. THE TEN HOURS' BILL. Sir G. STRICKLAND presented a petition from Preston in favour of the above-named Bill. The meeting at which the petition was agreed to was most numerously attended, and presided over by the Rev. Mr. Parr, the vicar of Preston. EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, AND SCOTTISH CENTRAL In the additional intelligence from the army on th e Sutlej, published in another part of The Sun, will be found a general order by the Commander-in-Chief, which will afford universal satisfaction. It relates to the 62d Regiment, so unjustly stigmatised by Sir JOHN LITTLER, in ore of his dispatches describing the battle of Moodkee. This officer evidently had not been aware of the circumstances under which this brave regiment retired, but that is no justification for the remarks which he had thought proper to make on its conduct. The fol lowing extract from the general order places the affair in its proper light, and shows that the troops, even amidst the awful fire to which they were exposed, did not retire until ordered by the Brigadier, commanding that part JUNCTION RAILWAY BILL. On the motion that this Bill be read a second time, Mr. FOX MAULE moved as an amendment, that the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months. Lord DUNCAN observed, that notwithstanding his Hon. Friend had moved that the second reading of the Bill be postponed for six months, he trusted the House would allow it to go into Committee, where its merits might be fully dis cussed. He had heard that there were other Amalgamation Bills which were opposed to this, and which the Hon. Member as a member of the Amalgamation Committee had allowed to pass without opposition. He (Lord Duncan) did not think it was quite fair of his Hon. Friend to come down now, is endeavour to influence Hon. Gentlemen to oppose the further progress of the Bill, especially as he (Lord Duncan) was quite ready to meet him in discussion on its merits. _ _ of the division: " The Commander-in-Chief finds that seventeen officers and 185 men fell on this occasion, and that the regiment did not desist from its noble efforts to carry the position until ordered , by the Brigadier commanding to fall back, as stated in the following extract from the Brigadier's report, only now received : ... Mr. FOX MAL LE observed that his Noble Friend was entirely wrong in the charge which he had brought against him. He trusted that hie Noble Friend would withdraw the charge against him of having canvassed any Hon. Member to come down with him, and oppose the further progres of the Bill. In opposing this Bill, were he guided by the interests of his own constituents, he should be the last man to throw any obstacle in the way of its being car ried. In fact, he opposed this Bill in opposition to the opinion of his own constituents in the city of Perth. His opposition to the Bill was founded on public grounds alone. in order to prevent the through communication between the north and south from falling into the hands of a great monopolising body. When he gave notice of his intention to move that this Bill be read a second time this day six months, the-subject had not come under the notice of the Classification Committee. It was not now his intention to press that motion, but he should be satisfied with the simple motion, that the Bill be read a second time on this day six weeks, in order to let it come under the motion for the postponement of the consideration of all railway amalgamation Bills. There were several distinct lines of railway communication proposed between the north and the south. They had a line which went by Newcastle, along the coast, into the city of Edin burgh, and continued its progress to the north by the Queen's Ferry. Another line was by the London and Birmingham Railway, on to Lancaster, and thence to Carlisle and the north. Then there was the Caledonian Railway. Another means of communication was proposed by the Scottish Cen tral Railway; and, finally, a trunk line, by the west coast, was proposed to be constructed. What, he would ask, did the promoters of the Bill now under discussion propose to do? Instead of amalgamating in a continuous line in the east coast district, they proposed to come into the centre trunk railway communication of Scot ian, and amalgamate themselves with a short line of forty miles in length, thereby rendering it utterly impossible that a direct communication in a northern direc tion should be obtained. The Caledonian and the Scottish Central Railway had .been permitted to be constructed, on the express condition that a direct communication between the north and the south, giving the best facilities to the public convenience, should be carefully preserved. He was anxious that the question of railways should be clearly settled by that House, and he apprehended that that could be done within a period of six weeks; and he would, therefore, instead of moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months, content himself with moving that it be read a second time that day six weeks. Mr. COLQUIIO UN said, that as he had been appealed to on this question, and as he had no private interest whatever in the matter, he could give an impartial opinion. He had taken a warm interest in the passing of the Scottish Central Railway Bill during last session, and he did so, not on pri vate, but on public grounds. The Board of Trade, in their report, had stated that it was desirable that that Company should receive the support of the Legislature, because, of all other lines, it would give the most important outlet to the district of Scotland through which it was proposed to pass. He would now turn to the case mentioned by the Noble Lord. The ground taken by the Noble Lord was this,that the Scot tish Central Railway should be connected with a railway that travelled, not from north to south, but from east to west. Now he conceived that nothing could be more inconvenient than that, because if they were to travel from the south of England to Scotland, the railway that .lay from east to west would force travellers as much as possible to go round by Glasgow on the one tide, or by Edinburgh on the other, and so swell their traffic as much as lay in their power. On that ground, then, it was desirable for the public interests that the Scottish Central Railway should be prevented from an exclusive monopoly of the districts lying between the east and west of Scotland. He would say that it was not for the public advantage that the proposed amalgamation should be made between the railways lying from east to west and north to south of Scotland. He believed that the House had good reasons for entertaining their suspicion on the question of amalgamation.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He thought it was but right that a Committee should be ap pointed to consider that question, and state in their reports how far amalgamation of railways would suit the interests of the public. He did not mean to say that amalgamation should not be permitted in some casee. He should, on the grounds stated, give his support to his Hon. Friend. Mr. W. PATTEN could not see how the decision of the Committee, which he had moved for a few nights ago, could have anything to do with the case of the railway in ques tion.—(Hear, hear.) That Committee, as the House must recollect, had been appointed for the purpose of considering the Bills of amalgamation now under the consideration of Parliament. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the temporary suspension of all amalgamation Bills. Lord DUNCAN said that he was very much delighted to hear the speech of the Hon. Member for North Lancashire (Mr. Patten), and he must say that he believed the Hon. Member who had moved the amendment had had some com munication with the directors of the Caledonian Railway. Why did he shrink from that amendment, and why did his " six months" dwindle into six weeks? The Scottish Cen tral was a most unfortunate company, and he hoped that the House would not add to their misfortunes by adopt ing the amendment, which he conceived to be unjust. The directors cf this railway thought it would be better for them to amalgamate, and their rates and fares would then be discussed in a Committee in a much better manner than by any discussion in the House. The amalgamation, at which the Hon. Member was so much alarmed, did not ex ceed eighty-one miles in length. He trusted the House would fully consider the question as a great benefit to Scot land. Edinburgh and Glasgow were the principal centres into which all tlio Lilac lutist converge. Zie hoped the " Under these circumstances, seeing her Majesty's 62d was exposed to a most destructive fire without any object, as they could not move forward, I conceived it my duty to direct them to retire, which they did in almost as good order, making allowance for the heavy loss they had sustained, as that in which they had advanced.' " Lord J. RUSSELL confessedly resigned the task of forming an administration when he learned that he would not have the advantage of the Ministerial ser vices of Earl GREY. He felt that, deprived of so power ful a colleague--cne who, with respect both to free dom of trade and the political evils of Ireland, had evinced a prophetic sagacity commensurate with the boldness and soundness of his views—he could not successfully care with the difficulties which would have environed his position as First Minister of the Crown. Lord JOHN took occasion to state in Parliament, during the debate upon moving an ad dress and answer to the Royal Speech, that his chief regret in not having succeeded in forming a Govern ment arose from his belief that he could have brought forward measures productive of great benefit to Ireland. It is the recollection of these circumstances that impart I peculiar interest to Lord GRVY'S speech on Monday night on the state of Ireland. The mutual political esteem known to exist between Lord J OHN and Earl GREY leads us to feel deeply interested in any observations of the latter touching the momentous subject he introduced to the Lords. Every one is aware that the Upper House is not the most genial sphere for favourably discussing the grievances, or eliciting a sympathy for the millions of our humblest fellow-countrymen, who are smarting under wrongs without a parallel in any other state, their poverty, wretchedness, and political degradation being unequalled throughout the civilised world. Earl GREY considered that sot a moment should be lost in conveying to the Irish nation, pari passe with the Co ercion Bill, that a different spirit would animate the Le gislature in dealing with the interests of that country. Lord JOHN is unquestionably identical in his opinions, but, out of consideration to the Ministry, anxious to re lieve the immediate wants of Ireland, and embarrassed by the dilatory and selfish manoeuvres of the monopo • Using protectionists, has felt himself constrained to put off his motion until after the Easter recess. Notwith standing his consciousness that the matter would have been much more felicitiously broached in the Commons under the auspices of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, even though it should be simultaneously deliberate.] on in the Lords', Earl GREY unflinchingly Presented himself in the chilling atmosphere of the hereditary branch of the Legislature, and in a well tempered, luminous, and skilful speech, invited them to present an address to the Throne calculated to con sole Ireland under the new and stringent provisions about to be imposed on them by the measure for insuring increased protection to life in Ireland. Upon the simple fiat of the Duke Of WELLINGTON, and solely be cause Earl GREY pressed upon their attention (amongst other matters) the necessity of effecting a salutary change, by a better distribution of the revenues of the Esta- Wished Chur c h i n I re l an d (a topic, which be it recol !cctecl, was not even : vrhgiceh majority,r assent to the patriotic st e p refused their specified in the terms of the address), the Peers, by a l t arl GREY so fervently neighbours, urged them to adopt. What may the etr e with e t success, oafrethiins con duct upon our sensitive and oppressed will, we fear, too speedily be exhibited. There t h a t country those w ho will not fail, and to depict in the strongest and most stimulating language, that, because Ear l GREY recommended a betteruage , provi sion for the religious wants of the Roman Catholics, an d that the vast majority of the people should lte placed on a footing of perfect equality with their more favoured brethren, his compeers declined to approach the Throne and express their willingness to improve the laws affect ing their country and the mode in which they are ad ministered. We feel convinced that these and similar statements, tending to kindle and inflame the strongest feelings of the human mind, will be sedulously propagated, and that their conaequeacee will remain tw- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2b, 1846. House would not, therefore, consent to the motion of the Hon. Member, to read the Bill a second time at the end of six weeks. Mr. F. BARING considered that as the House had ap pointed a Committee to inquire into the principles of amal gamation, the House should keep the amalgamation Bills before the House in their own hands until they had received the report of the Amalgamation Committee, and the rules which they considered necessary to be laid down in the case of new railways. Sir G. CLERK thought the House ought to agree to the suspension of amalgumated Bills until the House was in possession of the report of the Committee. He thought the House should, however, act upon a general rule, and suspend all the Bills, and not allow an advantage to any one Bill over another. He would recommend the motion of the suspension of the present Bill for six weeks to be withdrawn as the report of the Committee might be laid upon the table of the House before the expiration of that period. And be did not see why this or any other Bill should be delayed beyond that period. Mr. FOX MAULE consented to withdraw his motion. Mr. LOCH hoped that the House would not agree to the proposition of his Hon. Friend, but let the Bill take the usual course of all other Bills. The traffic between London and York was as nothing to the traffic which existed between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Lord EBRINGTOI'; entreated the House not to be led astray by quarrels between Hon. Gentlemen, let them take a general principle and act upon it, and the question would be whether they were to adopt some rule on which they were to act in future, or permit the different Committees to come to the most conflicting opinions.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted that the Committee was appointed, for he considered that the Government should have brought a Bill upon their own re sponsibility before the House to regulate these Bills. He considered the Government had abdicated their functions in not standing more by the reports of the Board of Trade last year. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY considered that the motion of the Hon. Member would not lead to any benefit, but, if it were car eed, might injure the Company ; for if the Bill were now read a second time, it would by no means advance them, as they would not proceed further until they had received the report of the Committee on Amalgamation Bills. Mr. H. JOHNSTONE considered that the Bill ought to receive a second reading, providing that further proceedings should be postponed until they received the report upon which they were to form a judgment upon the merits of the case. Mr. P.M. STEWART was of opinion that, the House having appointed a Committee on Amalgamation Bills, should abide by the reports of that Committee.—(Hear, hear.) He had come to the House to propose the second reading of the Lon ' don and Birmingham line, 'which stood for that day; but if the House opened the door to a second reading of the Edin burgh and Glasgow Bill, he (Mr. Stewart) would immediately follow and claim a like right for the London and Birming ham Bill.—(Hear, hear.) if the House should concede to the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, they would, in his opi nion, be only stultifying all their former proceedings. Mr. FORBES felt no personal interest whatever in the line, except the interest which he was assured every Honourable Gentleman present felt, namely, a desire to do justice to all parties concerned. —(Hear, hear.) Now, if the Bill were read a second time, it would be merely a reading pro forma, as no further steps would be taken in the matter. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it ap peared to Zino that the House having adopted a certain course, they could not depart from it, though be was not prepared at that moment to offer opposition to the second reading. Mr. FOX MAULE begged to withdraw his original mo tion, and to substitute for it—" That the Bill be suspended until the Amalgamation Committee have reported on it, as well as on all other amalgamation Bills."—(Hear.) There being cries for a division, strangers were ordered to withdraw, when the House divided— For the second reading Against it 34 Majority in favour of the second reading —6 On our return to the gallery, we found Sir GEORGE GREY addressing the House. He hoped, if the Committee of Classificntion should report against the policy of amalgamations, that the House would allow of a motion hereafter to rescind the order for referring this Bill to the Committee, so that the Committee might not have the trouble of sitting on a Bill the principle of which had been condemned by the House. Mr. WILSON PATTEN hoped that they would deal with all these Bills in the same way. Mr. F. MAULE said if this was to be a pro forma pro ceeding only, and he was at a future day to be at liberty to move that the order for the committal of the Bill be dis charged, of course his object would be gained. Lord DUNCAN said the promoters of the Bill would not take any further step until the report of the Committee was before the House. They merely wished to place this Bill in the same situation as the Caledonian Bill. The Bill was then read a second time. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW (FORTH AND CLYDE) RAILWAY BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW (WISHAW AND COLT NESS) RAILWAY. This Bill was read a second time, after a few observations from Lord EBRINGTON. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW, MONKLAND AND KIRKINTILLOCH, BALLOCHNEY AND SL AMAN NAN RAILWAYS JUNCTION BILL. After a few observations from Mr. FOX MAULE, this Bill was also read a second time. The following Bills were also read a second time, viz. Furness and Windermere Railway. Midland Railway. Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester and Sheffield Railway. Leeds and Thirsk Railway. East Coast Railway. And reports on the following Bills were brought up by Mr. GREENE : Glasgow, Paisley, and: Kilmarnock Railway Amendments and Branches (No. 1.) Bury Gas. Woodstock Roads. Brighton and Chichester Railway (Steyning Branch.) The following Bills were read a second time : Blackburn and Darwen Railway. Blackburn and Clitheroe Railway. Belfast Gas Bill. London and Birmingham Grand Junction. Grand Junction and Manchester and Birmingham Railway Amalgimation. London and Birmingham (Aylesbury Purchase. The second reading of the Election Notices (Ireland) Bill, and the County Elections (Ireland) Bill, which stood for to day, were postponed, in consequence of the absence of Sir James Graham. The order of the day was then read for the second reading of THE TURNPIKE ROADS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. FOX MAULE hoped that the House would pass this Bill. His only object in rising to support the Bill was the public interest ; he had no personal motives whatever to serve in this case. Hadit not been for the crying evils which were proved to have been perpetrated by drunken and dissolute carters purchasing intoxicating spirits, at the differ ent toll houses, in `Scotland, on the Sabbath, he should not have interfered with this matter. He thought that, upon the ground of morality, the House would allow the Bill to be proceeded with. Sir JOHN M'TAGGART should oppose the Bill, unless some clause was introduced to limit the sale of liquors at toll-houses. • Mr. FORBES thought it a most uncalled for Bill. Mr. P. STEWART said the law, as it then stood, placed the justices of the peace in Scotland in a very difficult position. There were shameful establishments existing in Scotland —he alluded to those toll houses which were situated in a thickly populated districts, and the turnpikes were inaccessible to travellers who, like himself and other Hon. Members, were of a sober character, in consequence of the great accumulation of car riers' carts around the toll-house, the drivers of which were inside drinking the worst kinds of spirituous liquors. Let the House restore the law of Scotland to its original purity— let the turnpikes be what they were originally intended to be, stations for the toll-collectors, and not drinking houses during the day and at night the rendezvous of poachers. Mr. B. DENISON would support the principle of the Bill, he would also suggest the introduction of a clause to prohibit the sale of liquors within half a mile of any turnpike. Mr. HODGSON would support tha Bill, if a clause was introduced limiting the license to certain cases. Mr. FOX MAULE said he was quite willing to introduce a clause preventing the sale of spirituous liquors, except in cases where refreshment could not be obtained unless at a distance of five miles. Mr. F. MACKENZIE said he was quite willing to move for a Committee to take into consideration the whole state of the question of licensing in Scotland, and he wished the Hon. Member not to press his motion. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said he was not there to say there were no abuses under the system, very far from it, and he was most anxious to see a thorough reform effected in the system ; and, therefore, on these grounds he most decidedly should support the measure.—(Hear, bear.) The House then divided, when there appeared— For going into Committee Against it Majority for going into Committee —l2 The House then went into Committee. (Isarr SITTING.) RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. WATERFORD, wmxrorm, WXCELOVT, AND nunLxN. Their Lordships Committee on this Bill met to-day at twelve o'clock in the - Lord Chancellor's Court—present, Lord Auckland (Chairman), Lord Kinnaird, Lord Sydney, Lord Colville, and Lord Rossie. • The object of the line is to connect by railway the principal ports and towns on the east coast of Ireland. The length of the contem plated line is 163 miles—the estimated cost (including the branches to Carlow and Wexford) is 2,000,0001. The engineers are Mr. Brunel, Mr. Farren, and Mr. Gibbon. After the usual formal evidence had been put in, Air. J. GEORGE, counsel for the Bill, called Mr. Farren, who was examined at great length as to the engineering advantages and diffi culties. The evidence of this gentleman was corroboratei by Mr. Gibbon. Mr. HATCHELL, on the part of the Carlow Railway Company, op posed the Bill, and cress-examined the witnesses at great length, as did also M. PERCEVAL BANKES, who appeared as counsel for opposing landholders. Mr. BAKER appeared also for other parties. The details were not of an interesting character. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP IX. TM Committee met to-day, at half-past twelve o'clock, Lord Woraley in the chair, when the further consideration of THE GLASGOW GI AN) JUNCTION Hall- noun TERMINUS. was resumed. Mr. Cawl said, that since last night an arrangement had been come to with the Clyde River Trust, by which their opposition was withdrawn. A clause had been agreed to, which would give the trust the regulation of the rails to be laid down on the quay. Mr. Gale, civil-engineer, was recalled, and briefly re-examined, with the effect of showing that the nearest gradients and curves were on the portions of the line that would be used the least, being on the branch that joined with the Barrhead and Neilston line. The great ti afflc would come from the Pollee and Govan, which would be a straight line. The forks at the harbour would be worked by horse power, and at the rate of four or five miles an hour, so that there would not be any inconvenience. Mr. Miller, civil engineer, examined. He agreed with Mr. Gale's estimate. They were quite =pie enough. He had not surveyed the line, but he had looked over the plans and sections of all the schemes, and he considered the Grand Junction one of the best. He did not think the gradients and curves ought to give any preference to the other two schemes. On a nominal line they were perfectly workable. It was quite practicable to reduce the line at the crossing of the Paisley road, so as to work locomotives if it was required. This could be done without a great increase of the gradient there. Generally, he preferred the Grand Junction to the other two. The witness was cross-examined, with the object of showing the difficulty of working the gradients and curves and the using of loco motives ; but the answers were only a re-iteration of the examination in chief. Mr. Robertson, a coal and mineral proprietor, was briefly examined, and deposed as to the superiority of the Grand Junction scheme over the other two, for all minerals coming og WY Clydesdale Jueettea owl the Pollee 0414 QOM Settware. tenuity, Honourable Members come forward as though for the express purpose of making themselves ridiculous : in this attempt they succeed to the heart's content of everybody. These gentlemen in their particular walk are heroes ; their conduct should excite the grati tude of the House, as no doubt it does. The witticisms of Colonel SIBTHORP have been diluted through a hundred repetitions to an absurdity of the stalest description : even the arch-comedian of the Commons, Mr. FERRAND, has become a trifle more sparing in the display of his great genius as a burlesque actor. hence, any one who will undertake to immolate himself in the cause of the vis comica, and, at the sa crifice of his personal sobriety, will take upon himsel! the office of Parliamentary droll, surely merits the con sideration of his brother representatives. Never did SIEENUS call forth such hilarity from the jovial gods of Olympus as that elicited yesterday evening in the Lower House, by a certain inimitable Mr. RASHLEIGH. After hearing the loud and protracted mirth with which our Legislators greeted each point of that Hon. Member's address, we could not but entertain a shrewd suspicion that the Roman RadiculizEdicula, or Chapel of Laugh- ter, which occupied, in ancient times, such a consp cuous position by the Gate Capena, was in reality no thing more than a kind of Latin Parliament, with some such an officiating priest as the Hon. Member for East Cornwall. He planted himself boldly on the floor of the House, and produced with that triumphant coolness which a man generally exhibits on broaching some novel and unanswerable species of logic, the identical scarecrow of opposition, which has been worn so terribly threadbare by the protectionists. He taunted the Prime Minister, in short, with his " tergiversation," and gratified the Commons by reading long passages from a speech delivered by that Right Hon. Baronet on a pre vious occasion. He recalled, in the most pensive terms, those days when the motions of the Member for Wolverhampton were treated with " silent contempt," and negatived by "large majorities." He conjured the prelates, with all the solemnity of the last of the Tribunes, to vindi cate the interests " of their order, of the throne, and of the cottage," beholding them, as he imagined, crumbling away beneath the oppression of cheap beef and accessible biscuits. But it was the indignation of Mr. RASIILEIGII, when he re proved the llonourable Gentlemen around him for smiling, which we regard as the greatest triumph of his performance. In a paroxysm of scorn he accused Sir JAMES GRAIIA3I of smiling; his feelings were outraged ; the Right Hon. Baronet " had no right to smile." As might be conceived, the risibility of the Home Secretary became remarkably infectious—a cir cumstance which only served, however, to heighten the amazement and indignation of Mr. RASHLEIGIL He in veighed in the bitterest terms upon the smiles of Mr. Con- DEN, the smiles of Mr. VILLIERS, the smiles of Mr. M. GIB SON, and the smiles of "all the crew behind them." And after a very artistic amplification of his drollery, con cluded with the choice peroration, that" he could not allow himself to be drawn through the muck and mire of expedi ency to adopt the new notions of the Right Hon. Gentleman." After this, the Member for Knaresborough may retire from the boards; his powers are eclipsed; as the theatrical critics would say, "the success of the new comedian is most grati fying and triumphant." But, regarding the matter in a common sense light, with an eye to public business, and the good of the community, what possible benefit to themselves or any one else do the agriculturists imagine for one moment can result from such silly specimens of irasciblity as that of the Hon. Member for East Cornwall? Ought not the feel ing of very shame at their own incapacity to prompt them to submit calmly and silently to the decrees of the popular will? The reproof of such folly, uttered by Mr. F. BARING, was pointed and well-timed. "However able,' said he, "or in dependent might be those who formed a Government for the purpose of carrying out the principles of protection, I have no doubt whatever as to the result,—they would soon find themselves compelled to follow the principles of their prede cessors. Agitation was not the tree cause of the defeat of those who advocated the principle of protection ; it was reason, justice, truth, by which they were betrayed. They were silently undermined by the stream of time, because their castle was built upon the sand." If the protectionists would only accede to the broad facts that stare them ever in the face, we might be spared the in fliction of much nonsense in the shape of their own advocacy, though at the same time we should be mulcted of no little laughter. When the entire commercial system of Great Britain is thrown into a state of indecision or stagnation it is not the time, however, for such supernumeraries as Mr. RASIILEIGII to be tampering with the time of the House. We have received Madrid papers of the 17th inst, the day after the remarkable scene which occurred in the Chamber of Deputies, and which evidently foreboded some desperate plot on the part of NARVAEZ and the QUEEN-MOTHER. The coup d'ctat which was carried into effect on the 18th, was not then precisely foreseen, but from what occurred at the Palace on the evening of the 16th, the schemes of NARVAEZ were placed beyond a doubt. According to the Espanol, the QUEEN, after the meeting of the Camber of Deputies, sent for MIRA FLORES and his colleagues, and desired them to dissolve the Cortes. The Ministers represented to her MAJESTY that, not having experienced any opposition from the Cortes in the exercise of their official power, and the Cortes having given them marks of their sympathy and confidence, it was impossible for them to put in force a measure which they could not conscientiously recom mend to her MAJESTY. They added, however, that they would respectfully lay at her MAJESTY'S feet their resignation, that her MAJESTY might, at her pleasure, nominate Ministers who might believe that they ought to carry this desire into execution. The QUEEN accepted their resignation, and the Ministers withdrew. This was exactly what NARVAEZ wanted. He then appointed the members of his Cabinet, all tools fit for his purpose, and by suspending the Cortes and the liberty of the press assumed dictatorial power. In order that the army may be more at his command, he has dismissed General CONCHA, and several superior officers opposed to his violent measures, and supplied their places with men suited to his desperate purposes. It is a curious fact, that the funds during this crisis have rather im proved. The following are the quotations on the Ma drid Bourse for the 17th :—Three per Cents., 29 15-16 at 30 days; Five per Cents. not quoted; Bank of St. Ferdinand, 255; Bank of Isabella, 168; Canal of Castile, 142; Company of Iris, 130; Exchanges on London, 37k; Paris, 16 6. In the French Chamber of Deputies the motion rela tive to the dissolution of the National Guard of certain large towns came on for discussion. M. DUCIIATEL, the Minister of the Interior, was the first speaker, and said "he addressed the Chamber at the very commeneement of the discussion in order that the real state of the question might be understood. Ministers, he said, had dissolved the National Guard of two largo towns, Toulouse and Carcassonne, in consequence of disturbances having broken forth in the body itself. At Toulouse the disso lution was pronounced at the period of the census, in consequence of the disturbances that took place in that city. It might be said that calm was now re established. Yes, but the Government was responsible for the main tenance of order, and from what it know of the state of the public feeling there, it deemed it prudent to let the National Guard remain as it was, dis solved. At Carcassonne, a most violent spirit of disorder had reigned in the National Guard. Notwithstanding all the representations made to the contrary, the members of that body had persisted in naming as their colonel, BARI3ES, who had been condemned by the Chamber of Peers, and who was undergoing his punishment at Mont St. Michel. Such were the facts, and he conceived that the Government was fully justified in acting as it had done. He therefore called upon the Chamber to vote &gaol the moan." Aftor MO marks from GROUP XII, GLASGOW AND - WEST OP SCOTLAND DISTRICT. Members present—Mr. V. Smith (chairman), Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. Langston, and the lion. W. Fitzmaurice. GLASGOW, PA.XSXMIT, ItI.V. 6 .ITARNOCIL, AND Awn (nr. z, NCIiES TO Lartri.PXTS AND LES DIABIAGOW), AND OPPOSITXON scHEran. Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS, this miming, opened the case on behalf of the promoters of a line set up in opposition to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr scheme. They proposed to extend the railway, for which they had last year got the sanction of Parliament, from Glasgow to Barrheael and Neilston, still further, namely, to the towns of Dunlop, Stewarton, Kilmaurs, and Kilmarnock, thus shortening the distance from the latter town to Glasgow by 10 miles. They proposed also to make a branch to the port of Ardrossan and to Irvine. They had the good will of every town in the district on their side. The engi neering difficulties were not great, and the advantages to a rich mi neral and manufacturing district were so self-evident, that he thought the public interests imperatively called for such a line. Richard Cumming, a magistrate of Kilmarnock, spoke to the im portance of that town as a seat of manufactures. The population was 20,000, and the number of persons employed in the mills some where about 5,000. They considered it of the first importance to have a direct communication with Glasgow. The witness was cross-examined at great length by Sir T. Pun, LIPS. The Learned Counsel did not succeed in shaking Mr. Cum ming's evidence. George young, also a magistrate, was examined in corroboration of the trade of that town. GROUP XIV. THE NORTH RENT. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock. The CHAIRMAN said that, before entering on the business of the day, he felt it necc ssary to state that there was great uncertainty as to the course the Royal Commission on Railways would adopt, and under these circumstance of uncertainty, the Committee had better proceed to hear evidence referring to that part of the line near the Union-street station. Mr. Tite said that he wished to correct an erroneous statement matte by him, with regard to a wall being built across the drawing room of a mansion, owned by Mr. Roupell and Sir T. Wilson. lie had been misinformed by the person from whom he had made .in quirks. Such a wall had existed, but there was no intention of re newing it, nor was there at present any dispute or disagreement between Sir T. Wilson and Mr. RoupelL Mr. G. IL Graham was then examined by Mr. RICKARD, who ap peared in support of a petition against the line by Sir Thomas Wil son. He stated that he had made tracings of the plans and sections of the line, as intended to be made in 1844. Had also made tracings of their plans and sections . for the present year. The line comes nearer by 200 yards to Sir Thomas Wilson's property than it did last year. A piece of land, which Sir T. Wilson proposed to add to his park, has been intersected by the line. There were some buildings which had been newly erected, at a place called the "Bull Pits," belonging to Sir Thomas Wilson, which buildings would be interfered with by the proposed line. Sir T. Wilson's park is a deer park, and he has been enlarging it from time to time during the last fourteen years. lie has been at considerable expense for that purpose. A wall has been commenced to inclose some land at the southern side of the park ; 300 or 400 feet of the wall have already been built. Thane as proposed throws down a part of that wall. The line also passes near the Rectory-house, the property of Sir T. Wilson, and let by him to his brother-in-law, Mr. Drummond, and the passage of trains every seven and a half minutes would be a great nuisance to the inmates of the building. Mr. Vignoles has stated that the line would pass 300 yards from the church-yard wall, but the limit of devia tion for the line skirts the church-yard wall. There is also a house formerly occupied by Sir Thomas Hislop, and afterwards by Queen Caroline. The rent would be 2301. per annum. The line crosses the lawn in fre.:t of that house. That house N% as formerly occupied by a woman in order to take care of it, but she having heard some noise in the ground, became afraid to re main. Sir T. Wilson then put several of his tenants to occupy the rooms until the house was let. These persons are not pauper'', but receive weekly wages from Sir T. Wilson. There is no party-wall built across the drawing-room. • Cress-examined by Sergeant WHANGII AM —Does not think that the North Keit Railway can have a station at Old Charlton. One of his objections to the North Kent line is that it is to be a single line. Did • not hear Mr. \looks give his estimates for a double line. Thinks Mr. Austin was cross-examining at the time. Mr. Sergeant WitiNba.tat—Then you may comfort yourself, for it is to be a double line. GROUP XVI. EPSOM nizAwcar. The Committee assembled at twelve o'clock ; Sir Charles Douglas in the chair, when Mr. lIorE, on behalf of the South-Western Company, opened the proceedings by stating that there was already a line to Epsom from Croydon, the proprietors of which line appeared as petitioners against this Bill. He thought that they had no locus standi in this case, fur it had been decided by Mr. O'Connell, who was Chairman of the Brighton Greup, that the principle of objection must arise from com peting parties, and not from established companies. The same prin ciple had. been observed in the London and York Committee last year, and that, therefore, was evidently the recognised usage of the House. The Croydon and Epsom line had been purchased by the London and Croydon Company, and at the present moment this Company was under agreement to amalgamate with the London and Brighton Company. Now there was an actual understanding with the Brighton Company and the South-Western Company, that the latter should make a line to Epsom. Mr. AUSTIN said that his Learned Friend had stated his case with singular brevity, but, as sometimes happened, illud obscurus fro, he had been rather too strong. The' fact was that the London and Croydon and the Croydon and Epsom Companies had 'acted uniier the Bill by which the latter parties obtained their powers, so that the truth was the line to Epsom was not made, and the petitioners were not an established company. What would the Committee think of any parties opposed to a new line between Loudon and Birmingham requiring that the present proprietors of the communication between these two places should not be heard. In the case of the Brighton line, to which his Learned Friend had alluded, the facts were that in 1644 the Brighton Company obtained their Bill to make a line to Hastings, and in 1845 the South-Eastern Company had brought in a Bill for making a branch to the same place, and the Brighton Com pany had been allowed to be heard as competing parties. At this point the room was cleared ; and, on the parties being ad mitted, the Chairman decided that the opposition might be offered. Mr. HOPE then opened the case for the promoters, by stating that the branch would be five or six miles in length, beginning about the fifth milestone on the main line, enabling the public to traverse the whole distance to London, at the Waterloo-bridge station, in thirty five minutes. The population of Epsom was about 4,000, and to show how much communication was needed, he might state that at the present time there were as many as thirteen trains to and from Guildford. Beside, however, ' the usual traffic, there was a great addition at the time of the races, when every one knew the influx of passengers' into London was greatly increased, for which a west-end ;terminus was required. He might observe also, that in this district there were as many as 20,000 tons of coal annually carried, which would have a great convenience in their delivery at the Nine Elms-wharf. He might further observe, that the London and Birmingham Company and the Great Western Com pany had become proprietors of the Thames Junction Railway, by which the hardware goods of the iron districts would be conveyed at once to the bulls of the Thames, and being ferried across, could be at once conveyedliC9thward. On the other hand, the lime about.Dorking and Maldon (where a Was intended to have an agricultural station) would have facilities of tra2snort to the counties on the right bank of the river. Ale and pottery, 1030, of which there was a large pro duction at Ewell, would obtain:that Z-commodation which was needed for their transport to the central and weLlern part, of the metropolis. lie would, through the witnesses, show tiles's:, and the other advan tages which the line would give to the public. 1844, a project had been devised by this Compony, on which, however, would be an improvement. The Learned Gentlemen then cited the rZ oor t of the Committee on the Portsmouth Group of last year, Oho" the opinion of Mr. R. Stephenson as to the inadvisability Or the atmospheric principle of traction as a commercial speculation. Certainly the feelings of the people of Epsom were directly in favour of the South-Western Company. And, acting on the declaration of those feelings, had induced the Company to bring in ,a Bill last ces sion, and which had only failed on the standing orders. This Com pany proposed to bring the public to the centre of London, a dis tance of 12 or 14 miles ; whereas the opposing parties could only bring the passengers to London-bridge. The CHAIRMAN suggested that the Atmospheric Company could carry to the. Bricklayers' Arms station. Mr. bora had put the London-bridge station as being the best, from abutting on the river. The distance to that station was 19 miles ; but in the event of the South-Western Company getting their Bill for an extension to London-bridge, the distance to that spot would be only 15% miles, 133 to Waterloo-bridge, and 1230 to Nine Elms ; so that in distance, in convenience of access to the wharfs upon the river, and in facility of communication with the north, this line was in every way superior to the competing project. Further, such was the feeling of the inhabitants, that the South- Western Company would, if they fined this year, be compelled to come again, until their Act was obtained. The Learned Gentle man then entered upon a comparison between the relative value of the Epsom Branch to the London and Epsom Company, and stated, that in consequence of the reduction of the fares the number of passengers on the South-Western Company had increased by 35 per cent., although the returns had improved only by 8 per cent. lie would not, however, argue the question of competition, because it was in fact here a very small matter, but the fact was, that, although the people were inclosed fn a smaller space, yet, London was in population, necessity for accommodation, habit, and pursuits, equal to the county of Warwick, and the consideration of carriage as to distance became therefore a very dif ferent matter to what the same distance was in the country. On these grounds, therefore, he believed the Committee would pass the preamble of this Bill. Mr. H. Goss, the first witness, a magistrate at Epsom, who had given evidence in favour of the South-Western Company in 1844, and was still of the same opinion, believed that the means of access to the west-end of London offered by this Company was in every way advantageous to Epsom, and the neighbourhood on the south and west of that town. The rejection of the South-Western Bill was badly received in 1844, and the feelings of the inhabitants now were much stronger in favour of the branch now proposed. Petitions had been presented in favour of it from Epsom and Ewell—that from the former place having originated in the largest and most respect able meeting that had ever been held In that town for the promotion of the local interests of the place, the Baron Detests, chairman of the bench of magistrates, in the chair. GROUP XIX. The Committee assembled this day at twelve o'clock ; present. Lord :Harry Vane (Chairman), Earl of March, Hon. P. Scott, Mr. D. Morris, and Mr. Phillip Bennett. The consideration of the Exeter,Topsham, and Exmonth Railway was proceeded with. A preliminary application was made by Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, on behalf of the promoters to be permitted to examine the engineering witnesses called for the other side, as witnesses for one Bill, and he grounded his application on the fact of the impossibility of anticipat ing the engineering advantages of the opposite line. Mr. COCKBURN objected to the application, contending that the documents and forms which were exhibited and analysed were quite sufficient to show the whole case of the proposed Bill. ...The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission, The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were unanimously of opinion that alter a witness had undergone his examination and cross-examination, he could not be re-called by either party in order to be re-examined. GROUP XXI. C-RMAT WESTERN DISTRICT. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock. The members are : —Mr. Finch (Rutland), chairmain ; Lord Alfred Harvey (Brighton) ; Mr. Wodehouse (East Norfolk) ; Captain Layard (Carlow) ; Mr. Lawson (Kuaresborough). The following Bills are comprised in this Group :- 1. Great Western (Amendments and Purchase Bill). 2. Great Western and Uxbridge (from Great Western, West Drayton station, to Uxbridge). Capital, 50,000/. ; length, 214 miles. 3. Great Western and Wycomb (fi om Cr! eat Western, Maiden head station, to Wycomb). Capital, 150,000/. ; length, 10 miles. These three Bills read second time. Engineers to all—T. K. Brunel and J. Gibbs ; Parliamentary agents—Baxter, Rose, and Norton. 4. London and Oxford (from London and Birmingham Railway at Harrow, by Uxbridge, to Oxford). Capital, 1,000,000/. ; length, 54 miles. Bill read second time. Engineer—John Addison. Parlia mentary agents—Parkes and Co. Mr. Hildyard, Q.C., Mr. Calvert, and Mr. Warren appeared on be half of the promoters of the London and Oxford. Mr. Talbot, Q.C., Mr. Wells, Mr. J. C. Symons, and Mr. A. Griffin appeared for the Great Western Railway, who promote the three first Bills, Mr. HILDYARD then proceeded to state the case on behalf of the promoters of the Bill. GROUP XXV. The Select Committee on this group re .assembled at the usual hour this morning, in the Westminster Sessions-house ; the Hon. Mr. Laseelles in the chair. DIALDON, WXTNEY, AND BRAINTREE. The first business taken this morning was the landholders' opposi tion to this line. The line was opposed by only one landholder, and this opposition was dii ected to be made by the Court of Chancery, the pro perty alleged to be injured by the railway being the subject of a Chan cery suit. It was contended that as all the traffic went from the interior of the county of Essex to a place called Collier's Reach, where the river Blackwater was navigable at all times, andnot to Malden, it was quite impossible that the proposed railway could prove a profitable underta king. The water at Malden was so precarious and shallow that vessels of only a moderate towage even could not get up there, and supposing therefore Parliament sanctioned the proposed railway, it would have to be extended to Collier's Reach, while if a line going direct from Braintree to Collier's Reach were adopted, it would prove more eco nomical, and do less injury to residential and other valuable property. It transpired in the course of the inquiry that tiiere was a company organised for making such a line, from Braintree to Collier's Reach, but the scheme had been aban doned for the present session. It originatbd, it appeared, with the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigiition Company. The CHAIRMAN objected to the opposition taking this course. It ought to be cenfined to the injury which was likely to be done to the petitioner's property in the parish of Langford. Mr. GLASSE contended that he had a right to show that there was no public necessity for the line , a nd therefore kis client's property ought not to be injured in any way. Mr. JAMES, on the contrary, submitted that his Learned Fri rstood his end had no tight to take any such c ourse. He perfectly unde Learned Friend's endeavouring to convince the Committee that the line did so much injury to his client's property', that they ought to pause before sanctioning the scheme, but it was s L qu ea l r e ne b d es pla i . d yri e ,ena t dn h ,d e s c t h a s e e r e t f o o r e e d j el t u o c u e g e h v i t d n e o n t c t e o t t o o u s c h h o N t v h t e h p a r t p t h e r e t o n cf e o wwwdo not d n b o e t heard 0 n client. The Committee decided that the petitioner the general merits of the line, tut mustcociuttlinoeffintihnesehlfonitoesthteeadh,ijubr: it did to his estate. The property alleged to be injured was known as Langford Hall. It was proved that the datum line would the alternative line would not do 80. It would go round the homestead. ffix builttO that 1111 P 11. 5. iTas g att©r for cQuiptacation. The Committee agreed with the Learned Counsel, and the opinc' tion was stopped. A The preamble of the Bill was then declare d to be proved, and clause in the Bill was agreed to. • Sub-Committee No. 2. • This Committee met to-day a few minutes after twelve Present, Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Mr. Yorke, Mr. Kemble , Mr. Bramston. ••• AND IRXSTIE The consideration of the petition against this Bill, cornirOce`. ....... -....._. . yesterday, was resumed. • _, „. The Committee, having heard the evidence of Mr. Jamey :Ll'''. 4 „ tte crieff, a Scotch advocate , who was examined with reference, ~,- „„! Scotch law on the subject under d i s cussion, which we raeul•P' yesterday, decided that the allegation was sutained. . e tet t Mr. COATES, who appeared in support of s the petition, suggs„ci that it would be better if all the minor ob j ections should be arras between the parties, without troubling the Committee. This proposition was ultimately acceded to, and the further Ce'r sideration of the Bill was postponed till Friday. VALLZ Or ICVATH. The object of this Bill was to construct a railway, for the pun ,1 affording means of communication between Neath and Dier n :i Tydvil, and to join the South Wales Railway N ea th. The leZ;,. of the line was 25 miles, and the amount of capli:ll 500,000/. gineer, Mr. I. K. Brunel; Parliamentary agents, Messrs, Burte•one There were some petitions against this Bill, for which 11 0 appeared, The formal proofs having been taken, the Committee found tt s standing or4ers hag be€n complied with. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thii Committee mtt at the usual hour, Mr. Strutt in the chair. MORAYSHIRE LINE. • 1 The usual formal evidence having keen adduced, several tutu.' racies were discovered by the Committee in the plans and sectio:/' Snb-Committee No. 2. This Committee re-assembled this morning, at twelve o'clock. J. Y. I3uller (chairman), Mr. Kemble, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Yorke in tendance. BRITISH AND IRISH UNION. tro' t An ejection was raised to the validity of the subscription con of this line, on the ground that one of the subscribers bad apPo.", t ei the signaturC of his firm (Taylor, Bruce, and Co.) to the subscriVa contract insteazi of his own name, and that as it was impossible;y him to bind the' , ;:teirs, executors, and assignees" of the other r ners, the standing oraSrs were not complied with. The Committee, after L'earing Mr. Moncrieff, of the Scotch and other witnesses, decidC:l that the standing orders wer e not 0. plied with on this point. Sub-Comml(ttee No. 3. The Committee - re-assembled at the usual hour, Mr. Edward.. 9. chairman ; Mr. Aldam, Mr. Broadle.7 . Mr. Thornely, and ittr• Stansfield present. ' EXETER GREAT WESTERN- RAILWAY. Shortly after heroceedgs were opned, Mr. THOMAS, t the agent in for the petitioners egainst the BAlleit O g nounced that he had brought his case to a close , the' remaining tions having been abandoned, WILTS, SOMERSET AND WEYMOUTH BAI7:IVAI', The object of the promoters of this line is to procure Po^Tioli make certain alterations, deviations and extensions, of the 'r t , Somerset and Weymouth-Railway. Estimated cost, 240,0001. 1. li a mentary agents, Messrs. Burke and Venable s. Engineer, Brunei, Esq The formal proofs having been given, seven petitions were into, complaining of non-compliance with the standing order& Sub-Committee No. 6. The Committee sat at twelve o'clock, Captain Jones, Chair o4 Mr. I'akington, and Mr. Childers present. LANARKSHIRE AND LOTHIANS. In this case a petition was presented from Sir W. Bailey, • Pitt, complainin ,, that certain fields, &c., were not prop l 7 in the book of reference , ' were not numbered in the plane as' tions, and that the references did not correspond. O lt The whole of the morning was occupied with the aonsidera these allegations, which possesses no feature of t he slightest irtt°'" VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DA-I'l (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) GREGORY V. WADE.—INJUNCTION. Mr. JENKINS applied this morning in this case for $ cial injunction to restrain the defendant from neg otiatiOg • 00 1 bills of exchange for the sum of 4001 . The facts on vlof he made the application and which are verified= al e pl davit in support of the bill and the application,e 04 lows :—A lady of the name of Englefield , who had Mr' seminary for young ladies at Clewer, in Windsor, being 0 to marry the defendant' in the course of last autuoullijo, anxious to part with her establishment at Clewer. Ille„Pell tiff made application to her upon the subjec t of purchatle,l establishment ; an interview took place between thePari c eF the course of which it was stated that the ettablishras l3 a 50 sisted of twenty boarders at thirty guineas a year, s°, day scholars at eight guineas a year. Upon this reP, O 6 , tation the plaintiff agreed to purchase the estahlt t at a sum of 800/., 4001. cf which was r . ,,0; paid down, and the remaining 4001 . was to be paid _.,10! promissory notes. The 4001. was accordingly paid, 1 `"/ ttr five promissory notes given. After the termination of Christmas recess, the plaintiff discovered that the rer;it: tation of the number of boarders and day scholars, I f pi correct ; that not half the number attende d, and u nder o p' c i rcu mstances the plaintiff filed the bill, to set aside theitji tract, and for an injunction to restrain the negotiation ''' promissory notes in the meantime. etYi The VICE-CHANCELLOR thought, considering the titsAgii had elapsed since all the facts had come to the kneirl7o, PP the plaintiff, that notice ought to be given to the del ' cf the application for the injunction SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY') (Before Mr. Secondary Parr Ex.) APCLEN V. SIMPSON. •Nr di The plaintiff in this action is a house-decorator in ... c ll l street, and the defendant secretary to the Prolessiouciol Commercial Detector Association and Commercial and 4 i• Agency Office. The claim was for 7 1 . 14 5. , for o°' labour done. The defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. 001 The only question in the case was, whether t he W 0j 10 " , been done for the defendant or Messrs. Haynes, the 1: 0 of the house ; the latter bad, on defendant taking t t ` o 's 1 raises, given orders for tome work, and the defend to/ ordered writing and painting to be done; b ut he COII it was to be done at the cost of Messrs. Haynes. a , The jury gave a verdict for the full amount chap°. p NATHAN V. BARNETT AND ANOTHER. l oe j This was an action on a bill of exchange for 0 1 The defendant Barnett pleaded that the ac ceptance d r his; his partner, Lowe, the other defendant, suffer ment to go,by default. bell;' $ )" Th ree witnesses swore that to the best of their tr, * i gna t ur e, 44 Barnett and Lowe" was in Barnetto.eri writing ; but he askrted it was Lowe's, and that' his plea, which was a separate one, could be maintaioi7f The SECONDARY said it was a matter of fac t jury. The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff. • BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DA B) i (Before Mr. Commissioner EvAss.) s; LN RE HENRY aourtcsoN. of " I f This ban:;rupt, who was brought le in custodY,. ,tio: f i the officers of i.he S heri ff s of London, made an aPPacejrc., be:discliarged out. of custody, under the followilfr.C'm stances :—He said :11.1,1t the fiat was opened by 141 missioner Shepherd, who had appointed the 1 9i t e lif,l for passing his last examimstion. By some mistas,h6..d London Gazette office, the da . 7 was advertized for ti, l ,,e t'A instant; consequently, from the 19th to the Vt. .. e ; 0 ,41' without protection, and this morning had been A P A y the suit of the judgment cred it o r. tli e ''. The officer said that he had been sen t to arrest 6i rupt, and he had been held responsible. pf.' f, f ta s " el' The COMMESSIONFR, after looking at a varlet,' ° boo' he did not see how he could interfere. He would , 1 ;1 consult with his colleagues. Bidet The officer said he hoped the Court would e o°- 0 ; position in which he was placed. A ce °liii The bankrupt said he could not make up _his .(11 0 11'4 kept in custody. • t rf ere '''°' The COM ID t. " 3IISSIO NER said he should not ei.eoe4 compelled by the law. This was ne cessar y for 04 it ) d of all parties. i'' The Learned COMMISSIONER havi n g conferre a popo,f other Commissioner said, they agreed th at they lia,old.,'" to relievet the bankrupt, nor did they think be. cus s lieved by any other Court under the present or c , v iir 1 The Courts were sitting at Westminster, and he ' co ; to them. The officer said, be could not let the bankrupt g° his jurisdiction, and must lock him up. The bankrupt was then taken away in custOdi* 0 :. t ioil i;i? 1 ,,,if ,wil I, EXPRESS TRAINS TO LONDON.—We ~ - -,.„0-4, directors of the London and Birmingham and Grand ~" 0.. i sr/ way Companies are, with the consent of the Post-alcee'rpop..,9 rangemeuts for delaying the four A.M. mail train in Livadlif, A.M., but so expediting its speed that it will arrive i n , 011, P.m., as at present; but that the alterat ion will 11 0 ',..0 ~ the let of May. The directors decline runn in g an ear' e, from London. —Liverpool Standard. 4 1° 0 4 , , tO a ~„ DEATH.—It is our painful duty, this COI ' it Ile, 1 . ,,11` the death of Sir Charles Anderson, Bart., of Logan 0 1 :,r, borough. He died on Tuesday, after an illness ),,glit.r,it.e, The deceased was a noble specimen of " the fine old As s i re e p. , men," and was universally respected by all parties. c o e 1 141..:, he was a staunch and consistent Whig. At the las l .f,~ he was opposed to his son, the latter voting and gi ll Lora, or to the man of " Ipswich notoriety," and he voting f:, ar i yiev'/ , The poor in this neighbourhood have lost a kill' o f , V tenantry a good landlord. Tho deceased was 79 yos — OA( a Correspondent. , ef e „ 11r . Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE.—On Tuesdaf r o,o . Dif ,: Inquest was held before Mr. J. Payne in the tiOa rd _ ,ged `:•0. 44. P!, tholomew's Hospital, on the body of Ann Willian 7, 41 3 d ci,lil oit tile 0 ) ,„ 0 whose parents reside at No. 7, Crescent-place, cs, •la•• V 4 Saturday morning last, at about half-past seven o'cl ° h er k.,.,0 5 1 lt, was lighting the kitchen fire, and while so ongage d ,."Def_7 -1# t r . rifted. Her screams brought several neighbours t'ogoey'r who with considerable difficulty extinguished tb e , D er1 4 6, 4 . 1 1. until she was most severely burnt over the whole 0. 0 60 of ., was conveyed to the above hospital, where she di ed he o f ing last. Verdict, "Accidental death." no of me t i ° Z THE LATE FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.-- ye - vr d tors In the late fatal prize fight, on Blyth LinEe ," ..ol , ' 1t .:1 1 . 14 hended, and lodged in the Northumberland countY g;rebe:,,P4, on warrants issued by the coroner. The part le: l i lnlie i ) . e,f, James Renwick. of Winlaton, and Israel Lazan t " tti nt , is e fr Bank, Newcastle. Cleghorn, the surviving comp" . 0 oa mcnt, but understood to be recovering, which i‘s' l' sidered doubtful. , e . ly BIRTHS. , ~, 00 °1) 10 ,'‘' On the lith of January, at Rondebosch, ,aji,l3 , "" . lady of Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Richmond , '''''. os i ' a daughter. of J l e wife On the 15th ult., at St. Jags, de Cuba, the —. 4 . tily M.D., her Britannic Majesty's Consul, of a daugbi;upire, On the 16th inst., at Green Meadow, Glamor , /0 10 ,f . Henry Lewis, Esq., of at a daughter. A of ' , il' On the 17th inst., Pan, lias Pyrenees, the l ' us. e " less, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst., in Hyde-park-street, th e ,_ lfta t i i; el :6l, l' i l Gostling, Esq., of a son, which survived but a s_noirre* ,f, 0; , On the 20th inst., at Cambridge-terrace, Ca . '" _de de . town, Mrs. Edward Doyle, of a daughter- ~ dc, 00 . 00'9' On the 20th inst., on Harbour-hill, Cove 0. ( " o f A (11 ';‘' _., nant-Colonel Burton, Royal Marine IlattabOn,,,,,, of J IT On the 21st inst., in Bloomsbury square, the w..-••• ter"l,' . ° jef / Esq., of a daughter. r d of a di' l3a r ill On the 21st inst., at Hampton, Mrs. Ciliffa - -_',. N o k ia o e t On the 21st inst., at Canterbury, the lady 0; , ric o, 17th Lancers, of a daughter. G r O a. i n 3 1 t d h e e n On the 22d inst., in London, the wife of Mcovo;- ~ y 4 a . ,2 Huntingdonshire, ninstintg.,dtolnieshlairdey, of ff a.thdeaußgehvieFr.rederi_elt.:;:orri.,:je% ~ the Inner Temple, of a daughter. O rb 4' 4 , O h a lady of Captain J. I'7%A .° On the 23d inst., the Lambeth, 2 0 3 f d a d in a s u t g . h , teMrr.s. John Leman Browns it„- daughter. t, ------- L Ef 4 ,6 4 / 1 MARRIED. imie — lo , On the 11th inst., at Stoke Newington, Peter .-.,,, 0 Al t o Isabel Jess:c Nloore, second daughter of the late fl ew ' .d t"ii .7 , Esq., of Liverpool. s. St' l let 6 ' if p, on the 19th inst., at St. Ann's, Limchoufe, i1 .. i e ,0 4 4. ile Deptford, to Charlotte, second daughter of Li eu 10 :,;i' / Esq., R.N. Ut A Olt C °P of J. / On the 19th inst., at Brading, Isle of W-;- , „A l ter d• Christie, 80th Regiment, to Frauces Esther , a a ''''' 4 1 , 4 f, Esq., of 11111 House, Brading. i'' A f 64 1 1' DIED. 1,,, 14 f. , c0 dC1 ,1 „.,01 , et On the 19th inst , at Kennington, Thgrio:resvitaoren,i..:l3.,rfie ,0000 4 ,, . , co n On the 20th inst , Margaret Frances, the w-- ' Esq., of Eirehtield,. Isle of Wight. ~ corgi , r A Gi O lb n ert th: in 2 c O u t: binesntt.,oaftsTt.r:etatoryn:ctory, the I te Lf tlie 0 71' On the 20th inst., Mrs. Gilbert, the mother ea l it o ~fr On the 21st inst., at Cireneesteri,lG". On the 22d inst., William blokes, Esq' , sen. ' ,sfg ' ' It Upminster, Essex, aged 90. 00° 14 ' 1 • On the 22d inst., Maria, the wife of Mr. Ar ,1 1..., 910 ' street, st. James's-square. .....!**.- --'-'' ran g London: Printed and Published by ,N. 0.:,„, strn; Strand, Printer, at The S un Oilice,: i . l o ; to . V of the Savoy, In the Co unt y of Xww 26, 1846. - rsogo'",P a THE GE, CO3IrANT 7,l,are appoint, stir'" lll iliGll, c. u4! te rday Mort I . Ic 4 LTIMDA.II, o.'YerY kt ti.k Y l `E—Front -Gut, Morning. ORT Irr< „ENII—Ex or ALAI b—Ever Y ery N.O Fre '41 1) , r' , 2111.;,G11 7%ling. v,„_t-rona Cohn: ZWCASiTLE— ""oII ni 1,4 Tn ca welve Nom tep: i .j e eLte Bert k tei fares, & ; fat,- RELGIAN The !Attu Committee .tib,„ ° .° to pronlot ,Albers from al E:,,oi:ttion and mZ e l an Eastern t fi l i ttee I r t a ., rY expos lurneud tte en the numN u p ,t me tank, E.l ts ! will be 11 (,2 om mittec-roam l NEW CLI ANt, tccu„,_,' 4 % . 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