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LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY, COMPANY'S OFFICES, 7, LOTHBURY, LONDON. NOTICE TO THE SHAREHOLDERS. The London and York Directors deemed it better to delay for a few days any communication to their shareholders, in order that they might be able to state the results of the several important negotia tions bearing upon their Interests, In which they have been and are still engaged. They regret they cannot yet announce the final issue of these ne gotiations, but they think It right to explain that the negotiations with the Eastern Counties Railway have been much embarrassed by the proceedings of Mr. La .Bert and his Size-lane " Private Com mittee," which the Directors have reason to believe was got up for the purpose of serving the Eastern Counties interests, and whose agitation encourages that Company to offer terms altogether disad vantageous to the London and York shareholders. The Directors rely upon the support of the Shareholders to enable them to maintain an independent position in their negotiations, and would warn them against intrusting Mr. La Mert with authorities which are now used to their disadvantage in the treaty, and may hereafter be used to assist the Eastern Counties Company in the Par liamentary Committee. The Directors point to the specious lan guage used by Mr. La Mert, and his agent, Mr. Henry Phillips, as though he was acting bona fide with the cognisance of the Directors. This impression has prevailed extensively, and has misled many of the Shareholders. The Directors are not insensible to the effects of the fear of calls, in the present depressed state of the money-market. But whilst they deem the Parliamentary position of the London and York Bill to be such as to give every confidence that it will be passed without any very protracted contest, they are also able to add, that without any amalgamation the Directors will have in hand at the end of the session ample funds to enable them to proceed hi the execution of the Act, without any call before the spring of next year. The Directors have, however, good grounds for anticipating the their early conclusion of arrangements, which will greatly increasend they resources, whilst it will diminish individual resp onsibility ; a also add their conviction, that when the Eastern Counties company find it impossible to compel the acceptance of such disadvantageo be induced to re proposals as have hitherto been made, they may . cognise the formation of the Lond on and York line, and effect arrange ments mutually advantageous to both Companies. Armed with the powers o f an Act .o f P ar liament, the Directors woul be able, wiout sacrificing, the line, or any advantages to the publi d c, at once to thconclude mor advantageous arrangements than at present, and havi n g hitherto b e een honoured with the fullest confi dence of the Shareholders, the Directors trust they do not too much presume upon it when they venture to assure them that no oppor tunity will be lost in advancing and securing their interests. The answer of the Directors to the present offer of the Eastern Counties Company is subjoined. (Signekl) WILLIAM ASTELL, Chairman of the Board of Directors. J. R. MOWAT r, Secretary. Offices, 7, Lothbnry, London, April 29, 1846. London and York Railway, Offices, 7, Lothbury, London, 29th April, 1846. TO C. P. HONEY, ESQ., SECRETARY OF TILE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Sir,—The Directors of the London and York Railway have had before them the offer of the Eastern Counties Company, dated the 23d, transmitted in your letter of the same date, received on the 24th instant, containing in substance the following terms : Ist. The formation of a combined Board, consisting of twelve Eastern Counties' Directors, and six Lowden and York Directors, who shall determine which of the lines shall be promoted, and which abandoned. 2d. That the London and York Stock of 50/. shall, share for share, be converted into 151. shares in the Eastern Counties Extensions, on which 10s. shall be credited-4s. being credited on the existing Eastern Counties Shares, thus reducing the preference to 6a., instead of 108. In reply to which, I am desired to inform you that the Directors observe —that the Stock offered by the second proposition is p recisel y the same as the Eastern Counties Extension Stock, now selling in the market at about the same price as London and York Shares ; there is, therefore, no t,mptation in a pecuniary point of view con tained in this offer. If the Eastern Counties Company had proposed to give an interest in their existing stock, upon which they are re ceiving dividends, the London and York Directors could understand its pecuniary advantages. But what do they propose to give ? Shares wholly dependant upon the passing of a Bill which Parliament is not likely to sanction in 1846, having rejected it in 1845. What security is there in this pi °position to the London and York Shareholders ? Not half so much as they now possess in their own Shares ; for if Parlia ment does not sanction the Cambridge Extension Lines, the Stock offered becomes mere waste paper. The first proposition necessarily involves the abandonment of the London and York Line. The Eastern Counties Board having so constantly denounced that line, and having steadily contended for the sufficiency of the Cambridge lines, would, without doubt, by the ma jority of twelve to six thus given them, determine to abandon the first, and prosecute only the latter, _ _ With every desire to meet the Eastern Counties Company, and concert equitable terms of amalgamation, the London and York Di rectors, cannot regard the proposals now made, as containing even any pecuniary inducements to commit the suicidal act of accepting them. The offer is, indeed, only a reiteration of that made by Mr. Hudson, on the 3d December last. It was then accompanied by a threat of appeal to the Shareholders, against the Directors, should they yen lure to refuse it. The Directors did unanimously refuse it —as an nounced to Mr. Hudson, by the letter of Mr. Astell, the Chairman, on the 16th December—and the Shareholders as unanimously ratified that refusal, by subsequently signing the Parliamentary deeds au thorizing the present renewed application to Parliament. The threatened appeal to the Shareholders was not then made; but it seems that the present state of the money market, and the failure of every other means of opposition, hays induced the Eastern Counties Company now to make the attempt. _ _ The London and York Directors allude to the published correspon dence between Mr. Joseph La 'Alert, as Chairman of a Committee advertised to meet In Size-lane, and the Eastern Counties Company: besides the fact, that Mr. La Mert is not a subscriber to the London and York deed, but was lately, if not at present, a great holder of Eastern Counties stock, the Directors would refer to that correspon dence, and ask whether it is probable that any parties honestly de siring to serve the London and York Shareholders would, instead of stating their opinions and feelings confidently to their own Directors, advertise for an organised disunion in the Company itself, before proposing to make terms with its antagonist. - • The Directors of the London and York Company would suggest to the Eastern Counties Board, to consider whether such a course of proceeding is what ought to be adopted by Directors towards each other, or is likely to conduce to the good understanding which the Eastern Comities Company profess to desire. For the present, they consider the offer made, accompanied by such an agency, to be an unworthy mode of attempting to dissolve the London and York Company, and to deprive the Shareholders of those advantages which their present position secures to them; and the Directors have, therefore, no hesitation in rejecting it. In conclusion, the Directors instruct me to state, that under a sincere anxiety to promote an amicable understanding between the two Companies, and to save the expense of a costly contest in Par liament, they are quite ready, by a deputation, to discuss the terms upon which a general amalgamation can hereafter be safely accom plished, under the condition that the London and York scheme, in all its integrity, be carried into effect. I am, Sir, your obedient, bumble servant, J. It. MOWATT, Secretary. _ 'LONDON, NEWBURY, AND BATH DI RECT RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the Seripholders and holders of Bankers' Receipts for Scrip in this under taking, will be held at the White Hart Inn, in the city of Bath, on SATURDAY, the 9th day of May next, at half-past twelve o'clock, at which meeting a copy of the Bill now before Parliament for the formation of a Railway between Bath and Newbury under the above title, will be submitted, in order that the sanction of the meeting may be obtained to the further prosecution of such Bill. The Committee of Management desire to notify, for the guidance of Scripholders, that it is necessary that they should either attend in person and bring their scrip, or send it to the meeting by some other person, who, on producing such scrip, will be entitled to vote in re• spect thereof; and as the resolutions of the two Houses of Parlia ment require the votes given at the meeting to be recorded with great na , nuteness, for the purpose of showing the interest held by each person present, whether in his own right, or as another's re presentative, every scripholder attending will be required to furnish the Secretary before the commencement of the meeting with his scrip (in exchange for which a receipt will be given), and with his name and address, which scrip will be returned to the proprietor im mediately after the meeting. By order, T. B. and W. MERRIMAN, 1 BLIRCHELL KILGOIJR, and PARSON, Solicitors for the Bill Dated April, 1846, 41, Charing-cross. The chair will be taken precisely at one o'clock. AM BER GATE, NOTTINGHAM and BOSTON and EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY. :Notice is hereby given, that a Special Meeting of the Scripholders of this Company will be held at the Exchange Hall, in the town of Nottingham, on FRIDAY, the Bth day of May next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, when a copy of the Bill now depending in Parliament, intituled "A Bill for making a Railway from or near the Amber gate Station of the Midland Railway, through Nottingham, to Spald ing and Boston, with branches therefrom, and for enabling the Com pany to purehase the Nottingham and Grantham Canals," will be submitted to the consideration of such meeting. Dated April 29, 18.16. THOMAS BISHOP, Vice Chairman, JOHN GOUGH, Secretary. Nottingham, April 29, 1846. D UBLIN AND KINGSTOWN EXTEN SION RAILWAY. Notice is hereby given, that a Meeting is proposed to be held at the Office of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, at West land-row, in the City of Dublin, on S ATURDAY, the 9th day of May, 1846, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, of the holders of Scrip Cer tificates,. proposed (in the event of the Bill hereinafter-mentioned being passed into a law) to be converted into shares or stock of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company, and which have been issued in respect of the above-mentioned undertaking, at which meeting a Bill now pending before Parliament for extending the line of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to the Bridge of Bray. in the county of Dublin, will be submitted to the consideration and ap proval of such Scripholders. By order of the Court of Directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, T. F. BERUIM, Clerk of the Cempany. Dublin, 28th April, 1946. NoTE.—All Persons producing Scrip at the above Meeting, will be entitled to vote in respect thereof, if issued prior to 31st March 'set, but Lo vote can be accepted in respect of any Scrip not actually )roduced, except in cases where the Deposit on Shares allotted has men paid prior to 31st March last, but the Scrip for such Shares has not been issued, in which case the production of the Bankers' receipts, for the deposit will be accepted in lien of the Scrip. BURFORD'S PANORAMA, LEICESTER - SQUARE. Amongst the distinguished individuals who have recently visited the Panorama Royal, were noticed, the Duchess of Sutherland and Mar chioness of Lorn, the Turkish Ambassador and suite, Lady Londonderry and the lion. Ladies Vane, Lady St. Germain, Lady Heathcote, Mar quis and Marchioness of Chohnondeley, Lord Morpeth, Lord and Lady Sidney, Lady Adelaide Paget, Count Pohreno, Hon. MikS Murray, Miss Pardoe, Earl of Harrington, Dr. Collier and lady, Lady Dun cannon, Lady Villars, Lady Ogilvie, Lady Anson, Lori Sudeley and the lion. Misses Tracey, Lady Otway, Lord and Lady Calthorpe and family, General Taylor and lady, Mrs. Smith Wyndham, air James and Lady Clarke, Dr. Chambers, the Baroness de Royal, Lady May, !Lc. ST„ MARYLEBONE DISTRICT SOCIETIES. --At a meet ing of the five district societies of St. Marylebone, held at the Court hous D.De on the Wednesday, the 29th of April (present th e Rev. J. 11. Spry, ~ in chair), the reports from the several disti lets were read, from which it appeared that, during the past year, 3,333 persons had been relieved by their visitations, and that the sums distributed moll 61 , nted to 1,254/. d. 19S. /2 . A RATTING HATCH.—A grand match is expected to come off in the House of Commons, on the division on the third reading of the Anti-Corn-law Bill.—Punch. PROTECTION OF LIFE IN IRELAND.—PARISH OF LAM. BETH.— A meeting was called on Wednesday morning in the boys' school room, Lambeth-green, for the purpose of taking into consi deration the propriety of petitioning the House of Commons to reject the Irish Coercion Bill; but after Mr. Churchwarden Boult had taken the chair, as there was scarcely fifty persons present, the meeting was dispersed. DEATH of A RAILWAY SECRETARY.—Last night Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the White Bear Tavern, King William street, London-bridge, on the body of Frederick Edgeil, aged 51, secretary to the Paris and Strasburg Railway Company and the Thames Haven Dock and Railway Company. Thomas Grayson, a conductor to one of the Camberwell omnibuses, deposed that about twelve o'clock on the previous night the deceased got into the vehicle, which had proceeded as far as King William-street, when he heard a strange noise within side, and at the same time several of the passengers called to him that the deeeased was in toxicated. He got into the vehicle, and saw the deceased sitting in one corner, struggling and staring wildly.' A City police-constable was called, and the deceased was conveyed into Mr. Fuller's surgery, and this gentleman pronounced life to be quite extinct. Nothing of a deleterious nature was found on bis person when he was searched. Mr. Fuller, surgeon, King William street, said that the deceased was lifeless when brought into his house; he attempted to Wed him, but no blood flowed. He was unable to state the cause of death without opening the body. Mr. Richard Mason, of Farnival's Inn, secretary.to the Bode Light Corn- My, stated that he was with the deceased up to eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, at his office, drawing up some documents which he had to attend the House of Commons with on the following morning. in He was at. a very sanguine and very excitable temperament, but was mood health and spirits when he parted with him to go home to Wandsworth. jury, titer a abort e deceased was in prosperous circumstances. The natural causes." consultation, returned a verdict of " Died from MR. SMITH O'BRLEN.— that this gentleman, s o A correspondent informs us to rftera cumb, went yesterdaymanifesting any intention to suc- view the place intended ment if he continues refractory An . ended for his confine . smith O'Brien is not, we are tohl, to be honoured with a residenctte in the Tower but is to be as signed a small apartment called and occupied by the the north side of the porters of the House of Commons. 8 9 and on the ground House, between the entrances to the two I " floor. There are two rooms of the same iii?ze, with by the offi cer a bed i n each, and it Is presumed that the outer room will be y. pied in che. These rooms have n tempt arg since Howard or Stockdale occupied ot been . by any one in con. GREAT MORTALITY IN THE WEST INDIES. p o retort's recently received, it appears that the 71st Regi ment of Il m i— h landers, at Dominique and Antigua, has suffered severely from fever, those diseases peculiar to the climate, having lost a lieute nant ' , I've sergeants, two corporals, two drummers, ninety-eight privates, and twenty-five women and children, all taken off within a week Or two. THE ARMIN—Major-Generals Sir Edward Bowater and Alexamder Cameron have been nominated to the colonelcies of the regiments vacant by the deaths of Generals Sir H. Bailey and Sir Moore Disney—the precise arrangement being that General Sir Gordon Drummond goes from the 49th Foot to the higher corps, the afh ; and General Sir Phineas Riall from the 74th to the 15th. Sir Edward Bowater takes the 49th, and Sir A. Cameron the 74th. LORD BROUGHAM'S NEW WORK. 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By the Author of " The Clockmaker." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. nESSRS. LAMOND, SIVIALE, AND LA-110ND, 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 FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the [tall of Commeree, Threadneedle -street, London, to which place all r4 vours, containing instructions, are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and tdvices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, Ind the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hail of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. In all other kinds of meat exceedingly little business was transacted. Beeffrom 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Muttou, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, bs 4d to 6s 8d ; veal, 48 4d to 5s 4d. ; and Pork, 3s 6d to 5s per Sibs by the carcase. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. DUELIN AND ErmasnaLLEra, xßisz NORTH MIDLAND, Dun Law AND YE ~ FAST 3UNCTION, AND WAVAN 1314. AN CH. The Committee on these Bills met this morning at eleven o'clock In Abingdon-street. Present, the Marquis of Salisbury (chairman), the Earl of Jersey, Lord Charleville, and the Bishop of Oxford. Mr. 011.xumc occupied the whole of the morning, in addressing thp Committee in favour of the Dublin and Enniskillen Railway, and in opposition to the other two projects. lie expatiated at great length on the advantages which would accrue to those portions of Ireland which the line was proposed to traverse on account of its dirpot character, and as being the course which was admitted by all the witnesses to embody a greater stream of traffic than that possessed by any other part of the county. After commenting with great severity on the evidence of Sir John M'Neile, the engineer of the Irish North Midland, he proceeded to say that the fact that share. holders in the line which he , represented having been able to pay pp IN. per cent., whilst their opponents had only paid 151., showed that they could command the necessary capital for its construction l heiddes, inhere was any doubt in the minds of theCommittce as to the wishes of the shareholders with respect to it, the promoters would, if allowed time, call a meeting, and adduce evidence before the Committee that the shareholders as a body were anxious not to withdraw the Bill from Parliament, but to proceed with it. He concluded by calling OP the Committee to pass the preamble of the Bill. A petition, purporting to be from sevsral shareholders of the line, praying that the Bill might be abandoned, and the Company dissolved, was placed hefoke the Committee, but was rejected on account of the signatures not having been appended by the persons whose names appeared, but by a Mr. Barnett, a clerk in the empl,,y of Mr. Layard, who had sent a circular to the various parties on the subject, from some of whom he bad received authority to append their names to the petition, which was accordingly 49n0, The Committee held that this was sllogeNT ifiadMissible, and re jected the petition. The Cn4imtati then csrderod the room to be cleared, in order that the Committee might give their decision on the Bills. On the admission of the parties, The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee had Come to the fol. lowing resolution:— " The Committee are of °pluton that the line from Newtonbutler to Cavan with a hrangla to Beiturbet, should be given to th e D u bli n and Enniskillen Company. - That' the . line from Kelis to Navan should be also given to them, On Q9lldition of their making a junction with the Navan and Drogheda, and that it be recommended to the Belfast Junction to take advantage of their present Bill to form this junction. The Committee will not adopt any line south of Navan, The Irish North Midland have not proved their Bill." The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow, when the clauses of the successful pills will he proceeded with. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP IV, The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group, re-assembled at the usual hour this morning ; Mr. B. Hopp in the elixir. THE GREAT NORTH or SCOTLAND. The CHAIRMAN said he wished, before resuming the evidence, to call the attention of the parties to the fact, that a meeting of the Perth and Inverness shareholders had been held at Inverness, at which it was decided by a majority of 46 to 2 not to go on with the Bill Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS said that decision could not be taken as the opinion of the great body of the shareholders, for they were spread all over the line, but a small portion of the whole body. But there was the remarkable case of the London and York. The CHAIRMAN—What is that? Mr. Sergeant BELLAsts—Why in that case a large number of share holders were for stopping the line while the scheme was in a most healthy and flourishing condition. 34r. AUSTIN said it might be as well for him to state that a similar meeting to that alluded to by the Hon. Chairman, had been held at Perth. It was pretty certain that the London and York scheme was on its death-bed. 21r. Sergeant BELLasts presumed the wish was father to the thought. The Duke of Richmond was .the first witness examined this morn ing. His Grace said that he preferred the Great North of Scotland line, because it cave more accommodation to his tenants, and to the public, and gave a decided opinion that there was not traffic enough to justify the construction of an inland and a coast line. There could hardly be a doubt, his Grace thought, that the Great North, of Scot land was the most preferable of the two coast lines, inasmuch as it followed the natural channel of the traffic, while it passed through vast tracts of land capable of improvement. His Grace, on cross-examination, admitted that the Banffshire line might benefit Fort Gordon, but that was a small fishing village of little importance. He did not admit ofits being an inconvenience to go round a distance of 61 miles to get from Perth to Inverness, be cause if they avoided that detour they neglected the local ac commodation which the important counties of Aberdeen, Banff, Maury, and Perth gave. Certainly it would not be a benefit to the public to have both lines, because it was quite impossible that both could pay, and railways only benefited the public, in his opinion, when they paid. The Aberdeen and Elgin line passed through the most expensive part of the country, and he was fully convinced the line could not subsist upon its local traffic. He did not anticipate that drovers would avail themselves of the railway, because, as there were few tolls in Scotland, it was cheaper to drive cattle over the bills than send them by railway. By the COMMITTEE—The Aberdeen and Elgin line crossed the river Spray in an objectiomble manner. On the whole his evidence amounted to this—he should prefer the two lines, if they could be made to pay, but as he thought the traffic would only admit of one line being effectively worked, there could only he one line; and of the two he thought the Great North of Scotland line was the best. Another discussion here arose as to the mode of proceeding in cross-examinations. The Committee seemed to think that the Nairn and Perth line was not a competing line with the Great North of Scotland; and, therefore, the Learned Csunsel, who appeared for the former, had no right to cross examine the witnesses called by the latter. Mr. t.:ergeant BELLASIS said the Perth and Nairn line would not pay without they had the management of the tra e between Nairn and Inverness; and they were, therefore, a competing scheme with the Great North of Scotland, as between those two places. The Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin line depended for support upon local, and not through traffic, and for local traffic, and as a local line, it was a competition with the Great North of Scotland. IX. This Committee met in the room No. 1 (House of Commons) at 12 o'clock, having adjourned till to-day before Easter. Lord Worsley took the chair. CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW TER.IVIINX AND BRANCHES). This Bill was called on, but the parties were not prepared with their case, And it as therefore adjourned till Friday. The Committee hen rose, and adjourned till that day. GROUP XI. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, Mr. Henley in the chair. Members present, in addition to the chairman—Hon. W. 0. Stanley, and Viscount Alford. Mr. W. Smith O'Brien was absent. A ter some conversation, it was arranged to take the unopposed Bills first. SLAMANNAN AND DORROVISTOUNESS. This was the first Bill taken, for which Mr. Graham appeared. Mr. M`George was shortly examined on the points required by Mr. Duncombe's resolutions. He stated that the number of shares issued was 4,200, at 251. each. Powers were sought in the Bill to raise 105,0001. The list of provisional directors was next put in, the number of shares taken up by each being 100. The Parliamentary deposit, the witness stated, had been paid out of the money raised from the depositors. The various points required by the resolutions having been gone into, Mr. GRAHAM explained the objects of the Bill. It was to construct a branch railway from the _existingaminanan Railway, which ran from the town ofAirdrie to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, near to Linlithgow. The branch commenced at the latter point and was proposed to be constructed to the portof Borrowstouness, on the river Forth, the end sought being to connect the mineral fields east of Glasgow with the port in question. It would be a single line of rail way and was mainly intended for mineral traffic. Mr. Eadie, civil engineer, gave evidence as to the engineering features of the line. The gradients for a mineral line were very good. They descended towards Borrowstouness. There was at the one end an inclined plane of lin 58. The severest after this was 1 in 100. The estimate of the expense was 1 05,0001. Parties along the route of this line were generally in its favour, and especially the inhabitants of Itorrowstouness ; two roads were crossed at a level. Mr. Geddies, mining engineer, deposed as to the increased traffic that would be accommodated by the proposed branch. It would be of the greatest service in giving the iron and coal of Lanarkshire an outlet by the port of Borrowstouness. There was also a great amount of mineral veins along the line that could be brought into profitable working if such a line was constructed. At the Kinneil Iron Works, which this railway would serve, the coal used per annum was 60,000 tons, and of iron-stone 50,000 tons. There were four furnaces in blast here. At Airdrie, one of the termini of the main line, there were sixty furnaces, which consumed about 15,000 tons each yearly, or a total of 930,000 tons. From 300,000 to 400,000 tons of pig-iron was made per annum by these furnaces. A considerable portion of this would go by Borrowstouness. Mr. Hardy ofßorrowstonness, generallly deposed as to the benefits the line would confer on the district through which it passed. Mr. Sanderson of Glasgow, who had been engaged to take the traffic on the line, put in the tables he had prepared. According to those tables the traffic, after paying working expenses, would pay 7 per cent. This closed the case on behalf of the Bill. The Committee immediately declared the preamble proved. XIX. This Committee met at twel GROUP ve o'clock, in Room 14 ; Lord Harry Vane, in the chair. There were also present the Earl of March, Mr. Scott, and two other lion, Members. MIAMI) CANAL. The evidence as to this line was now completed, but the Com mittee reserved their decision until they should obtain the opinion of the Attorney-General upon several points. They next took the case of the BRISTOL AND EXETER (CREWICERNE BRANCHES). The general evidence as to the necessity for such a line as that proposed, the advantages it would confer upon the people of the districts through which it passed, and the probable amount of traffic, occupied the Committee the greater part of the day. A portion of the engineering evidence was given, but in the absence of Mr: Stephenson- it could not be completed. It appeared, however, that the steepest gradient was 1 in 40, which only occurred in one place, near one of the stations. The prevailing gradient was 1 in 100. At two o'clock, the parties being unable to proceed with the case until Mr. Stephenson's evidence could be given, the case stood over, and The Committee rose and adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. Sub-Committee No. 1 This Committee met at twelve o'clock, when the following Hon. Members were present :—Mr. Strntt (chairman), Sir J. Y. Buller, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. Beckett. WEST RIDING 317NCTION. The case for the opposition to this Bill was resumed on the meet ing of the Committee, and the allegations 01 the petition before the Committee were proceeded with. On the case for the petitioner being concluded, it was stated that there was another petition against the Bill, but as its allegations wet e identical with those of the former petition, it was not considered necessary to go into them. The Committee decided that the standing orders were complied with. SHERIFFS' C O URT.—(THIS DA Y.) (Before Mr. GARP V. PENT ON . Under-Sheriff BURCIIELL.) This was an action brought to recover the sum of 10/. on a bill of exchange. AThe witnessd e defendant da n was t called pleaded who non-acceptance. t h e defendant sign the bill. He knew defendant by the name of George Penton. It was signed, "George Penton!' The officer of the Court read it " George A. Penton," which was said to be the right initial, but in the declaration as "George N. Penton." The witness knew defendant lived at the place where the writ was served. The UNDER-SHERIFF held this to be sufficient, but took a note of the objection taken. He said that persons ought to write their names very distinctly in such a case. ELLIS V. ROSIER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who was the proprietor of the West India Club House, and the defendant was one of the members of the Club, to recover the sum of 10/. 10s. for two that he was not in yedebted.ars' subscription& The defendant pl ea d ed The facts of the case were these : the club was formed in 1816, under a Committee of Management, of which the Marquis of Chandos, the present Duke of Buckingham, was a member; but, in 1834, a different arrangement was conic to, and the plaintiff undertook the sole management of the house, and to bear the expenses, receiving the subscriptions. The defendant was admitted a member in 1838, and con tinued so up to January, 1843, when he discontinued attend ing but did not give notice, and the present action was brought to recover the subscription for 1843 and 1844. Mr. WILDE, for the defendant, said that the defence was principally on the construction of the rules as to whether notice was necessary —in the second place, that the plaintiff sued as " Master" of the club —a description not proved and, lastly, that the minute of the transfer of the property to plaintiff ought to have been stamped ; but he was willing to consent to a verdict for the plaintiff if he had leave to move the Court above. (Before a Special Jury.) GIBSON V. BANBURY. The plaintiff in this case is a shoemaker in London-wall; the defendant is a solicitor. The action was brought to recover the sum of 851. 10s., the value,of three scrip in the Warwick and Worcester Railway. Mr. V. LEE appeared for the plaintiff, and called William Peake, who gave evidence that in December last Defendant told him, he had bought three shares of the plaintiff, hoping they would rise in the market, but they had gone down to a mere nothing. Cross-examined --Was only clerk for fourteen days. Had previously been clerk to two or three other railways. Before that had been a steward on board ship. Knew what a rail way stag was, but plaintiff was not one. He had laid out a great deal of money in railway shares. Mr. BALLANTINE (for the defendant) said he had no doubt he should be able to convince them that of all the impudent attempts which had ever been made, this was the worst. Unfortunately, judgment had gone by default, through a mistake, as the plea had been signed by a barrister, but as the action had been brought in the Common Pleas, it ought to have been signed by a sergeant. He should, however, put in a cheque for the amount, drawn by the Commercial Bank of London, " Pay four shares," and signed by defendant and his partner, and paid bearing the indorsement of the plaintiff. Mr. Wall, clerk to the Bank, proved payment of a cheque on the 25th October, but could not say to whores it was paid. Mr. Wright, partner to the defendant, cheque. It had b een g i ven to Jones (witness's cle p rk) roved who the brough: the scrip examined. On his solemn oath he did not receive any part of the produce of the cheque. Jones, however, paid money to him that day on amour.% of another person. A Judge had consented that tha plea might be put on, it defendant lodged 100/. to abide the event of the trial, and paid the costs of the judgment, but they deelined, as plain tiff was not worth a shilling. Mr. LEE addressed the jury, contending that Jones ought to have been called to show he had paid the money. The UNDER-SHERIFF said Jones could have cleared up the matter. The question was, bad the money been paid to Gibson, whose name was Indorsed, or was it an attempt to get paid twice over? If it was so, it was most monstrous and wicked; but they did hear sometimes of these extraor dinary cases.—Verdict for 851. 10s. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Madlle. LUCILE GRAHN respectfully informs the Nobility, Sub scribers, and the Public, that her BENEFIT will take place THIS EVENING When will be performed (for the first time this season), Donizetti' Opera, entitled DON PASQUALE. . . . Norina, Madame Grisi ; Dr. Mala:e - sta, Signor Fornasall ; Ernesto, Signor Mario ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. Between the acts of the Opera, a Selection from the admired Ballet, CATARINA ; ou, LA FILLE DU BANDIT. Including the admired Pas de Masque, by Madlle. L. Graha, supported by Madiles. Moncelet, Demelisse, and Cassan. In the course of the Evening will be revived the Ballet Diver tissernet.t, by M. Perrot, entitled, LE DELIIIE DUN PEINTRE. Stephano, M. Perrot ; Blanche d'Ovledo, Madlle. L. Grahn. In troducing a New Pas de Trois, by Madlies. L. Taglioni, Demellsse, and Moncelet (composed by L. Gosselin) ; La Castilliana Bolero, by Madlle. L. Grahn and M. Perrot. To be followed by the last Act of Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled, NI NO, Mutts, Signor Fornasari ; Idaspe, Signor Core 111; Orotasphe, Signor Botelli ; Fenena, 31111 e. Corbari ; Abigail, 3ldlle. Sanchioll. To conclude with Selections, including the Dryade Scene from the admired Ballet of EOLINE ; on, LA DRYADE. Eoline, Mdllc. Lucile Grahn. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to com mence at half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the popular Opera, called MARITANA Charles the Second, Mr. Borrani ; Don Cmsar de Bazan, Mr. W . Harrison ; Don Jose de Santarem, Mr. Stretton ; Maritana, Miss Romer ; Lazarillo, Miss Poole. To conclude with the grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. In which Mdlle. Louise, Mr. A. Webster, les Sours St. Louin, will perform. After which, will be produced the Ballet d'Action, entitled PEROUSE ; or, The Desolate Islana. Principal characters by Macllle. Louise, Madame Giubilei, Mr. W. 11. Payne, Mr. Howell, Mr. T. Matthews, Mr. Wieland, and Master F. Payne. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. EVENING Will be performed the THIS Comedy of A CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE. Old Rapid, Mr. W. Farren ; Young Rapid, Mr. Hudson ; Frank Oatland, Mr. Webster ; Jessy Oatland, Miss Julia Bennett. To be followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grandfather Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Dray ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Seymour; Susan, Mrs. Stanley. The Band will perform the Overture, " Edourdo e Christine," the Fantasie, " Fra Diavolo ;" the " Post Horn Galop," " Antoinette," Cellarius Waltz ; the "Chatsworth Quadrilles ;" and the " Brunow Polka." After which, an experiment will be tried upon THE BIRDS OF ARISTOPHANES ou which occasion they will be presented to tie public with new Names, new Feathers, new Songs, and new Tales. Principal characters by Messrs. James Bland, Hudson, Tilbury, Brindal, Caulfield, T. F. 31 atbews, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with THE IRISH ATTORNEY. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson; Miss Charlcotte, Miss Lee; Sally, Mrs. Caulfield. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Night but Two of General TOM THUMB'S Engagement THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of HONOURS AND TRICKS. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Wigan, Diddear, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. A. Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Extravaganza, entitled THE MARBLE MAIDEN. Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Laidlaw. To be followed (for the last Six Nights) by the Burlesque, en titled HOP 0' MY THUMB ; or, The Ogre and his Seven-League Hoots. Hop 'o My Thumb, General Tom Thumb. To conclude with a New and Original Farce, entitled, A FRIEND INDEED ! THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVENING Will be presented a New Drama, in Three Acts, called, IN DUSTRY AND INDOLENCE ; or, The Orphan's Legacy. St. Amour, Mr. Paul Bedf or d ; Rollin, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sansenet, Mr. Wright ; %fons. Delamare, Mr. Perkins ; Batifole, Miss Woolgar ; "fin], Miss Webster; Cecile, Mrs. E. Tarnold. After which the Burlesque, entitled PETER WILKINS ; or, The Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians. Principal characters by Misses Woolgar, Emma Harding, Chaplin, Brooks, Taylor; Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Munyard, &c. To conclude with 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, Hrs. Honeybun, Miss Emma Harding. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Play of PIZARRO, with the orig'nal Music. Rolla, Mr. Wallack ; Alonzo, Mr. Murray; Orozembo, Mr. Cooper ; Pizarro, Mr. Ryder ; High Priest, Mr. Leffier ; Elvira, Mrs. Ternan ; Cora. Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT. In which Messrs. Gilbert, Marshall, and Flexmore ; Miss Benin and Miss Marshall will appear. To conclude with THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick O'Plenipo, Mr. Collins ; Isabella, Miss Emma Stanley. ASTLEY'* ROYAL AmPHITHEA.TUE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Patronised by her most gracious Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal. Unparalleled attraction. Mr. Leman Rede's New Equestrian Spectacle of The Arab and bis Steed." THIS EVENING Will be performed the Grand Asiatic Drama of THE ARAB AND lIIS DESERT STEED ; or, the Pearl of the Euphrates. Li which the whole resources of the Establishment will be brought into requisition. New and popular Scenes in the Circle. Double stud, &c. To conclude with the favourite Drama of the POST BOY OF ST. AUSTLE ; or, The Fatal Snowdrift. Clowns to the Circle, Barry, Wallet, and Rochez. Box-oflice open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at seven o'clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATRE. Immense Novelty! Roars of laughter at "On the Tiles." Second Week of the Virginian Harmonists. with entirely new Songs. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE LAS V KISS ; or, the Soldier's Grave. Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Lewis, lleslop, Wil liamson, Mesdms. Vining and Martin will support the principal cnaracters. fo be followed by WHERE DID THE MONEY COME FROM ? Fanchette, Miss Lydia Pearce. After which, a New Farce by Mr. E. Stirling, entitled, ON THE TILES ; or, A Night at Greenwich. To conclude with THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE. ROYAL VICTORIA - THEATRE. Great Success of the New Drama of " Laid up in Port," and " The Bride's Journey." Immense attraction and Novelty! THIS EVENING Will be performed an entirely new Drama, entitled LAID UP IN PORT ; ,r, Sharks along Shore. Principal characters by Messrs. F vdericks, Saville, Raymond, Tindell, Higgie, Searle, Burton ; Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terry, &c, After which, THE BRIDE'.; JOURNEY ; or, the Escapes of A telaide of I , resden. In which Miss Vincent will perform. To conclude with the Melodramatic Spectacle, entitled A TALE OF MYSI ERY. Supported by the whole of the Company. NEW STRAND THEATRE. ENTIRE CHANGE.—NOVELTIES AND MAGIC EFFECTS. "La gaiete est la sante de l'ame, La tristesse en est le poison." THIS EVENING M. PHILLIPPE begs leave to announce that, in consequence of tt , e Triumphant Success that has attended his EASTER ENTER TAI • MEN TS, they will be repeated every Wednesday and Sa turday' Morning, and every Evening until fluffier notice. M. PHILLIPPE will commence the Entertainment by Lighting Two Hundred and Fifty Wax Candles by a single Pistol Shot ! This unique and brilliant Experiment was originally performed by Mons. Phillippe for upwards of 700 consecutive nights in Paris. _ M. Philippe w ill a l so have the honour of introducing lint GRAND MOTHER'S CAP, with all its laughable and rapid Trans rcernitnl:taiNnste.l rtvalinmmieinxts, will ara be varied by the Dancing of the r. err mance twn.illcimiympie Gambols of the AME RICAN BoROinTgIITERS.. The M Boxes, 25.; Pit, Is. • Gd 11. Is., and Evening at a quarter to Eight. Stalls, Ss.; m lo mence at Two o'clock ; the gallery, --• ; Peyote Boxes, THE VTEATHER.—Sit; OrncE, THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39; Highest, 55; Noon, 57. BAROMETER, 30 38. WIND N.IsT.W.; fine. limn WATER AT LONDON -BRIDGE THIS DAY. Warning • • 39 minutes after 4.1 Evening .. 59 minutes after 4. care only for the punctual receipt of the interest money ; in others the property is entailed on an elder son. Every spare shilling is necessarily appropriated as a provision for a numerous family of younger children, who are but scantily portioned, and the owner of the life estate will not think of increasing the wealth of his elder son at the expense of his other children, particu larly as he cannot make any claim on the reversion for the value of the improvements effected. These and other causes have prevented the great body of the land lords from attempting such improvements, and it is hopeless to think that, if left in their hands, it u ill ever take place to such an extent as to relieve Ireland from the difficulties in which she is placed. A private undertaking, " the Waste Lands Society," has been formed under the auspices of Lord DEVON, and has effected much public good, and we believe that the speculation has been found a profitable one to the share holders. Let the Government then interpose, let it make universal the system which has worked so well wherever it has been adopted. At present it is not necessary to enter into the details by which it is to be effected. Mr. I'. ScRoPE has introduced a measure into the House of Commons for this purpose, and we are sure that its discussion will be of the greatest benefit, and lead to the ultimate adoption of some valuable legis lative enactment on the subject. Accounts have been received from Hayti of the 19th ult. It is not true that General PIERROT has abdicated. On the 19th he occupied his former position, and expressed his con fidence of ultimately defeating his adversaries. A letter, dated Vienna April 18, appears in the Augsburg Gazette, announcing that a courier from Berlin had arrived with dispatches intimating that the representatives of the three Powers had declared that the treaty of 1815, with re spect to the Republic of Cracow, should be observed, but that the urban militia should be disbanded, and that tke three Powers should reserve to themselves the right of al ternately placing a garrison in the citadel every two years. The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort, of the 24th, pub lishes a letter from Vienna, confirming the report of the EMPEROR'S having abolished feudal service in Austrian Galicia. It appears that a fund is to be raised by confisca tion of the property of absentee rebels, out of which the nobles are to be indemnified for the abolition of their feudal rights. Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. The Gazette pub lishes a decree issued by General VILLALONGA, Captain- General of Galicia, dated Corunna, April 15, declaring the entire coast of that province, from the mouth of the Rivadeo to that of the Guardia, in a state of blockade. The blockade was to be most strictly applied to the port of Vigo, tke en trance of which was to be rigorously prohibited to vessels of every description, national as well as foreign. English steamers are only allowed to touch at the port of Corunna for the purposes and objects determined by their Government. The Gazette also contains a dispatch, dated the 14th, announcing that the insurgents, who had attacked SIGNEIRO had been defeated by General Puick SAMPER. In a dispatch, dated April 18, General CONCHA states that he was preparing to march to the relief of Orense, which had been attacked by the insurgents. On the morning of the 22d, it was rumoured in Madrid that be had marched to Orense, and had been defeated and wounded by the insur gents. It is evident that the insurrection in Galicia has as sumed a very serious character, and that the Government do not place implicit reliance on the fidelity of the army ; for General PEZCELA, the Captain-General of Galicia, has thought it necessary to issue a proclamation to the garrison of Madrid, urging them in the strongest terms to continue faithful, and threatening those who shall suffer themselves to be seduced from their allegiance with the severest penalties. The following are the principal members of Juntas nominated by the insur gents of Galicia : —The President of the Junta of Pontevedra is Don JOSE SANTES, ex-Deputy of the Cortes. At Vigo, Don RAMON Bucu is at the head of the movement. At Tay the chief of the Junta is Don ESTEBAN Amur., ex- Deputy. An extraordinary courier arrived in Madrid from Burgos on the 22d, and it was said that the Captains-General of Burgos and Vittoria had been ordered to station troops at intervals along the road from their respective head-quarters to the capital. Madrid was perfectly tranquil. MADRID Bor-sa.—The stocks were not quoted on the Bolsa, but out of doors prices continued unchanged. Bank shares rose considerably, those of San Fernando selling at 300, those of Isabel at 185, and of La Probidad at 230, &e. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The subject of free trade seems to occupy much of the attention of French political writers at the present moment. The Journal des Debats and the Constitutionnel both contain ar ticles on this important subject. The Journal des Debats seems to approve of the free-trade measures proposed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, while the! Constitutionnel, without directly avowing monopolist pritaiiples, exhibits an evident tendency towards the doctrinesAX the protectionists, and attempts to sneer down the Bon ~-tx League as propound ing wild and extravagant sch, l :! l° . of commercial reform. Six years since si m il a r lan guage was held by the English protectionists with regard to the Anti-Corn-law League, and if the Bordeaux League follow its excellent example six years will nat elapse before the principles of free trade will be as popular in France as they are in England As free-traders, we are rejoiced to see the subject is thus taken up in earnest in France, because we feel convinced that the more it is dis cussed the greater will be the number of converts to the doc trines of free trade. The Chamber of Deputies adopted on Monday the 58 arti cles of the Cahier des Charges of the Bordeaux and Cette Railroad Bill. It next resumed the discussion on the clauses of the Bill itself, voted a subvention of 15,000,000 f. to the company which should execute the line, and having sup pressed the subvention originally demanded for the branch to Castres, decided, as an inducement to the company to ex ecute it, to increase by six years and a half the duration of the concession, which thus stood fixed at 66} years. On Tuesday the Chamber was discussing the Western Rail way Bill at the hour the post left. The Committee of the Chamber on the reduction of the Five per Cents. had reported against the measure by a majority of six to three. The Moniteu, publishes the account of the operations of the Sinking Fund Administration during the first quarter of 1846, from which it appears, that the Three per Cent. Government Stock redeemed in that period amounted to 279,812 f, and the capital allocated to that purpose to 7,826,731 f. A report from Marshal BUGEAUD, dated Algiers, April 20, has been received by the Minister of War, who states that he had heard from several sources, that ABD-EL-KADER was at Stitten, but that he had reason to think the in formation was erroneous, and that the Emir was still in the south of the country of the Oaled-Nayls. He had been successively abandoned, says the Marshal, by the tribes of the desert. According to other information, however, which had reached the Governor-General, ABD-EL-KADER had not abandoned the hope of finding a point d'appui in the Jurjura. The report of a success by Colonel DUMON TEL, near Setif, is confirmed by Marshal BUGEAUD The combat was with a host of Kabyles, under the Chdrif, Sr MOHAMED BEN ABDALLAIL, who is said to have made considerable progress in the mountains to the north of Setif. The enemy, when about to assume the offensive, was attacked on the night of the 12th, and after a conflict of three hours, was routed with the loss of the tents, baggage, and flocks, and 200 killed. The French had five killed and 64 wounded, amongst whom were six officer. No other fact of importance is given in this report. Marshal BUGEAUD Meioses a report from the Duke D ' AUMALE, dated from the bivouac of Ain-el-Hacljer, the 13th. His Royal Highness gives accounts of several affairs with the hostile Arabs, in all of which the French were completely successful, but none of them were of sufficient importance for it to be necessary to give the details. According to the Algerie Marshal BUGEAUD will return to France at the end of May, for the benefit of his health. Co lonel FELISSIER has been promoted to the rank of Major- General. _ _ account of the grand reception The Journal given de o s n De s tes da g y ive a s t s to lERAHIM Pacha. The following is the description given of his per sonal appearance i—IBRAIIIIII Pacha is a little under the or dinary stature; his countenance is calm, but very expres atlhoengTuilerie dress of InnAm m expres sive, and his eye animated and penetrating. His beard is long and grey, his step firm, and his carriage dignified. The was superb. His highness's costume was extremely ri c h and splendid, cons i st i n g of a close-bodied vest ment wrought w ith go ld, on which was a diamond star. He wore a golden girdle, with blue trousers, and the red ceedii a of the Turks. SoLIMAN Pacha, and the rest Of the persons with him, were attired nearly in the same style. It is expected he will remain in Paris three weeks. The Duke DE AIONTPENSIER is to give him a grand military fete at Vincie nnes—the Chantilly races are to be honoured with his presence, and C o l one l TIIIERP.Y is to attend him on his visits to all the principal public monuments of Paris. It was expected th at t h e G ran d D u k e C ONSTANTINE of Russia would leave Algiers on the 22d, for Lisbon. The examinations of LitcovrE are continued, but nothing new has been elicited. The Paris Bourse of Tuesday was exceedingly heavy. The Three p er Cents closed at 83f. 60c. ; the Five per Ce nts. 119 f. 75c.; th e Orleans Railroad shares, 1,237 f. 50 c. ; Rouen , 1,035 f.; Havre, 7551 ; Great Northern, 768 f. 75c. ; Avignon , 920 f. ; Vier zoo, 672 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 620 f. ; Boulogne, 495 f. ; Troye! a,,d Montereau, 4171. 50c • Basle 227 f. 50c. ; .Dieppe, 465 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 520 E; fours '' and Nantes,. 545 f.; Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c. ; Spanish Domestic D e b t, 30 : h. The followi ng are the quotat i ons i n th e new lines :.. Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 537 f. 50c.; Bordeaux and Cette Definitives, 537 E 50c. ; Charleroi, 495 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29. Boulogne and Amie ns 12IA —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espleta), 24 — Demerara, ' 2% —Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, Great Northern of France Constituted, 1 5 4 - -Great We stern Canada, 4—Louvain and Jemappe, —Luxembourg, 234 - Namur M Lie g e, I %—Orleans and Yierson, 10 , ,i —Orleans and Bordeaux , .I—Puns and Lyons Constituted, B—Paris and Orleans, 48:4 Paris and Strasbourg Constituted, —Rouen and Ilavre, 29% Sambre and Me use, 5%. Mr. Justine Patteson is su fficiently recovered from his recent indi sposition as to be able to resume his judicial duties. CHARTER-11013SE SCHOOL.—At the annual examina tion at the Charter-house, which took place on Saturday last, the gold medal was awarded to Dir. H. W. Sotheby, Count Wachmuster embarked at Blackwall yesterday morning, oR board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Caluuabine, far Rotterdam. THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRI - L so, 1846. I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales were 7,000 bales, including 1,000 American for expert and 500 on speculation. Pernambuco and Maranham have been bd. to 6 3 / 4 d ; 150 Egyptian, 6 1 ,4c1 ; 1,000 Surat, 2 3 / 4 d. to 2%d. per lb., and nearly 5,000 American.-Shares were improving. It is stated, in advices from the Black Sea, that the Rus sians had not gained much ground in the eastern part of Circassia, but were certainly in a better position in the west. The inhabitants of the plains and mountains had certainly not entirely submitted to the rule of the invaders, but ap pear to have been partly inveigled into a tranquil bearing. Commerce, all subduing commerce, is said to be the medium employed for the subjugation of the brave Circassians, who are accused, however, of the Oriental failing of cupidity. The Russian Governor, aware, it seems, of their national failing, had established marts and fairs for the exchange of mer chandise, and the motive of curiosity, which at first at tracted a mere fraction of the mountaineers, had been suc ceeded by the more powerful inducements of gain ; the wily Russian Governor having taken care to give instruc tions for insuring these rude and unsuspecting visitors a cordial reception, and to make it worth their while to come again, even though the Russian cloths and other fabrics were exchanged with them at a loss for the products of their soil. The poverty of the Circassians was by this means relieved, and the Russian Government, like many other civilized countries, buys with broad cloth what it cannot conquer with the bayonet. In a pamphlet, by Mr. Thomas Turner a Beckett, published this week, the cause of the provisional committeemen is warmly taken up against the allottees, we must say in reference to schemes which have been honestly managed-and oh, how few are these-with some show of reason. Allottees, where all has been fairly managed, shoald pay a moderate contri bution towards expenses, for in reality they encouraged the mania, but on.e or two shillings per share ought to accom plish all this, and we hear of scores who, when satisfied that a concern had been brought out, and beAre the panic occurred (for this is an important point), would willingly pay that amount. There has been a very marked improvement to-day in the value of the Public Securities and the business doing is to a fair extent. Consols are 9574 to 96% for present transfer, and 96 1 / 4 to 96% for Account. The premium on Exchequer bills has been 235. to 275., and upon East India Bonds under 1,000/. 325. to 335. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have touched 97 1 4, and the Three per Cents. 95 1 / 4 . Bank Stock is 204 1 / 2 to 205 1 / 2 . The Foreign market is quiet, but the quotations have been very well supported. Spanish Three per Cents. have rea lised 36 3 4 to 37 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 57 ; and Bra zilian Five per Cents., 82, Chilian Bonds are 951 h; Gre nada, 22; and Peruvian, 37. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been marked 59 to 59 1 / 4 . Railway Shares again exhibit considerable buoyancy. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. .• 2013 205% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities• • 95 1 A, 95 95 34 Three pir Cent. Consols Annuities . • .. 96 95 •k, 96%% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 96% 974 Long Annuities, Expire Jan, 5, 1860 .• 10 3-16 % Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 10 India Stock .. .. 261 India Bonds, 1,000/. • • Ditto, under 1,000/. South Sea Stock .. Ditto, Old Annuities 93 31 Ditto, New Annuities • • .. 943 Consols for Account .• .• •• 96 4 % Exchequer Bills. I%d. • I%d. 1,0001. .. - , 26 23 27 - pm. 5001. .. - 26 27 - - pm. Ditto. Small •• .... 26 24 27 - pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • 81 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 95 31 Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent • • 87 4 Granada, 1 per Cent. • • • . .. 22 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • 37 Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. - Ditto, for the Account Ditto, 4 per Cent .. Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Ditto, Passive Bonds .. . Ditto, Deferred • Ditto, Three per Cent ......- Ditto, for the Account .. 36% 37 Dividends on the above payable In London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91)4 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen .. . • • • • •. 10 331 .... to 431 Birmingham and Gloucester • • • .100 .. 125 • • to - Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 24 %.. to - Bristol and Exeter .. •• • • .. 75 B4 .... to 85 Buckinghamshire .. .. • • .. • • 425. par .... to - Caledonian • . .. 10 731 .... to - Ditto Half Shares .. .. • • .. 2% to - Ditto Extension .. - • • .. 236 to - Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% 1%.... to - Direct Manchester (Remington's) .. 2 3 ! %.... to 1 Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .• 54 334 .... to - Dublin and Galway .. .. • . .. 4 .. • 23i.•.. to- Eastern Counties • • • • 14/. 163. 24% 3i % to - Ditto, New .. • • • • 8/. 165.04 8'4%% pto - Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d % p.. to - Ditto, York Extension • • • . 10s. East Lincolnshire .• • • 14 - Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. .. • • %%% p to - Great Eastern and Western .. • . 2 34 - Great Western .. • • • • .. 85 .. • • 153 .. • • to 155 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • 5 - Hull and Selby .. • • • . •-. 50 - • ... to - Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • 7 • • 253( .. •.to - Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • 40 •• • • - .. • • to - Ditto, New .. .. • • • • • • 5 10 31 .. ••to - Leicester and Bedf.rd .. • . 228. % dis. to - Leiest., Tam.,Bir., &Trent Val..Tunc. 425. .. • • 1 dis... to % dis London and Birmingham .. • • ..100 228 .. to - Ditto. Thirds .. .. 24 .. 63 .... to - Ditto. Quarter Shares .. • • • • 2 - Ditto, Fifths .. .. • • • • .. 2 .. • - London and Blackwell • • 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 8%% .. to - London and Brighton .. .. • . • • 50 .. • • 664 .. to 65% Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • •• 20 - London and Croydon • • .. 131. 15s. 94. - London and South -Western 411. 63. 10d. -. 81 .... to 8038 Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths• • 34 54 .. • • to - London and yrß Y ,oloie o ,rgs r de k ecato:ti . li . ite... .. l . 2% 2%4 .. to - Lynn and Dereliam .. 10 • . . • • to - Manchester and and d and Leeds • • • • .. 82 .• • .132 .. • • to - Ditto, Quarters • . 2 Ditto, Fifths .. •• • • 3 .. • • 13% .. to 13 Ditto, Extension .• 425. .• 3% % pto Manchester and Birmingham .. •• 40 .. Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. .. 4 - Ditto, Quar.er Shares (19 .. .• 4 - Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 .. • • 94% .• to - Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 428. .... 1% p.. to % p Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 .. • . 21% to 2% Midland •• •• •• •• .• -100 .•..157 .... to 155 Di:to, New ..........18 .... 34 35 .. to 33% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby -100 .. • .130 .. ••to - Newcastle and Darlington Junction 25 .... 47 .• to 46% Ditto, New • • .. .. • • .. 1 .... 1034 .. to 11 Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 .... 46414 • • to - Newcastle and Berwick .• •. 10 ..213(% 22 to 20% North British .• • • • . .. 20 - Ditto, Half Shares • . •.. 6 .... 10 .... to - Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 2 3 ,4 . • to 3% Ditto, Dalkeith • • • • .. • • .. 25 - •• • • to - Ditto, ditto • . .. • • • • - .. 5 - North Staffordshire • .. • • • . 425. - Norwich and Brandon •• 18 o 9 d 0 10ON, x errarll t ee, nt o laa r iuni d arss , s,, Worcester, nve rn e s s & . Wolverhampton . .. . 1 2 2 44 8 1 (2% to - Portsmouth Portsmouth 1/Irect • • • • • • • • 3 3 4 •• • • 34 •• • • to - Scottish Central .. • • .. 10 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% •• • • 3% • • to 34 South Midland • • • .. .• 425. South Eastern and Dover • • .. • • 33% •• • • 39% •• • • to - Ditto, New, No. 1 .• • • • • •16 . 204 •••• to - Ditto, New, No. 2 ........10 •• • 13% •• .. to - Ditto, New, No. 4 • • •• . •• 2% •• • • 2% .. to - South Wales .. • • • • • • • • • • 5 .. • • 2 .... to - Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction 2% •• • • 1 3 4 ••.. to - Vale of Neath ..........2 .. • • 1%% • • to - West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 428.• • p.. to - York and North Midland • • .. •• 50 • • - ••.. to - Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .. • . 49% • • to - Ditto. Extension .. 15 .1 36 • • • to 35% Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .. 10% 114 to 11 Ditto, Selby Boulogne and .Amiens •• •• .. 12 - Dutch t G is N t .l t .R ut A e . . • : . l .l : 3 o s lY . .... S 1 1 7 5 ,7 5 t 0 0 0 _- to 6 East Indian „ • ss. - Great o R ao h ir e lid n h is ve n h i rozfo Louvain and Jemeppe " 2 8 1 %: . t . . 1 ; . ... Luxembourg .. Rouen and Ilavre • • .. .... 11%4 to - Paris Over Y ssel • • • • • • • • 4/. 3s. 4d... 2V dis to 3 dis to - . 20 .... 297 8 .... to - Sambre and Meuse .. West Flanders .. • • • • 8 .... 5%.• •• to - JOINT-STOCK BANKS. France . .. .. 32 33 Australasia Provincial of Ireland Ditte, New .. .. • • SGI/._• • • • • 57 5% • •• • • 15% •• .. 40 .... 25y 2 ... to .. .. 25 .... 49.6 .... to •• •• 10 .... 19N to Real del Monte, Unregistered MINES • to To-morrow being a h o li day at the Bank, • Stock Exchange will be shut, by order of the committee. LLOYDS SHIPPING (THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 30 . — Wind N.W., light airs and hazy, but fine weather. DEAL, APRIL 29.—Wind N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Alberdina, Mate. ling, Matanzas, and sailed for Hamburgh ; Augusta, Daunberg, New Orleans, and sailed for Gothenburgh. Arrd. from the River and sailed, George, Todd, Brazil ; Margaret, Clark, New York. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Wind E.—Sld. Victoria, Morgan, New York ; Duke of Portland, Cu'oitt, Bombay. COWES, APRIL 29.—Wind E.—Arrd. Arrogante Emilis, Gasoliba, Havannah and Corunna. OFF ULIMOUTII, APRIL 29.—Jane, Reach, Mauritius. BRIGHTON, APRIL 29.—The Harriett, from St. Croix, to Copen hagen, which was abandoned on the 26th instant off Beachy Head, after being in contact with the Seringapatam, was fallen in with yes terday on her beam ends, and towed to the shore between Hove and this place. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 29.—The Malvina was wrecked on Hie coast of Patagonia, during the hurricane of Jan. 7 ; crew saved. SHIELDS, APRIL 29.—The Mexico, Rummy', of this port, bound to Cronstadt, in going out yesterday afternoon struck heavily on the Bar, and has put back leaky, and must discharge. WHITBY, APRIL 29.—The Anus, Clark, of this port, in proceeding to sea this morning, struck heavily on the Bar, in consequence of the breaking of the tow rope, but returned into port without apparent damage. SLIZO, APRIL 28.—The wreck of a schooner, apparently about 50 tons burthen, hull painted black and mast heads white, with all her sails and rigging attached, was passed on the 24th instant, off the Mull of Kintyre, by the Fawcett, Flynn, arrived at this pelt. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 25,1846, made up from the Rotuma of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. TITE. I BEANS. I YEAS. PRICE •• 553 Gd 30s Id 23s 4d 335 7d 34s 10d 33s 10d DUTY. •• 175 Od 8s Od 6s Od 93 Gd 8s 6d 9s Gd MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) lELJAV in.a.3126.18 1 T8. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 41 8s ; Clover ditto, 41 8s to 1 5 0 1 ac l d 5 u. s ; m8A. 0 . : ,.. 1 ,, t 0 2 :1, : e. r r a .a w, —t e3 1 1 1 ,,e l ap 2 dp s ol y t w o a I l n / Ida l ya 4 , B s 13 ; 7 W Bgsi l B te tho a t d4e S i n t oa a ns w d; . I c / l 0 14 , 5 e r t o m i t / t 0 1 , 68 41 p s e s r to Si 14s ; Oat Straw, 1/ Its to 1/ 168; Wheat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 189 per load. Trade tolerably stead, at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 3s to Al 8s ; Clover ditto, 41 88 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply good, and and trade dull, owing, in a great measure, to the abundance of grain fodder. TS EAT ItIATUILETS. HAILSIIAM, APRIL 28. —The supplies of each kind of fat stock on sale to-day were but moderate, while the general demand ruled steady, at our quotations. Beef, from 3s to 4s 28 ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d; Lamb, Os 4d to 68 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, is to 4s Gd per 81bs. ARUNDEL, APRIL 28.—Beef, from 3s 28 to 4s 2d; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d ; Lamb, Os 8d to 68 8d ; Veal, 4s to 4e 108 ; and Pork, 45 to fair deu99rLt.s. pe a e—taitox v inrwnr e tre r :sieoen a i3ilrr s g spssi e m,im6. ssedesol supported. 6 , st p Ndstov p t 010 1 5kt6 y esosi dsLmso d fe u ,:fbe g sad,f g vis;srft i eso s roao l trid t 6lmkde,, trade. sidntt CHICHESTER, APRIL 29.—We had a steady general demand here k this morning, and prices were well supported. Beef, ofearjsanoCiddiusni,le:hla2nB;acdtl,voo:l,flaa:isltl:ito 45 2d; Mutton, 3s 108 to Os 2d ; Lamb, 5s 6d to Gs 8d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18,4s2ststi0418e8d29tstoisolp;54psQsiyu22dador;• ter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 188; and 31ilch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 191 each. SO t23aw w 4 osil s le h ßi tio c k d otod p u h mos, ds p ; F; N e r H q, v otk r u a Q9 : 4, 1 t : u0 A b assar s tAdt A i . oot:t F eni4 An is. sIO-; moderately i t fli2 2 prices, otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 108 per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s with their small Calf, 161 to 181 lOs each. NEXT/GATM AND LEADENNA.LL. Prime Deeffilici Mutton collllllundal a steady Sale at run 'Pra • — 1 feAi „e(-1:1;;774` , -,' , Nr „ 3 ' a v 7. 7 -s E SECOND EDITION. oning LONDON, THURSDAY, - APRIL 30, 1846. Until some decisive measures are adopted for the alleviation of distress in Ireland, our sympathies must, if possible, become more intense, and our commentaries more frequent and more urgent in its behalf. As long as privations continue to extend both in area and in poignancy, it is impossible—it is utterly impossible—to maintain a callous and continuous silence. Our most solemn duty as journalists would forbid it. E v ery emotion of our heart, every dictate of our reason, every principle of our morality, would tend to confirm us in a sense of that duty, and even urge us on to its fulfilment. This is no theme to be exhausted ; it is not a subject to be dis carded as tedious or impertinent ; it can never be in sisted upon too frequently. No, not until those dread scourges o:rges of f a mine and di se ase have been either dissipated or abated. Such, unhappily, is ourposition with regard to that fertile but ill-omened country.We cannot consci entiously remai n voiceless spectators of its wrotchedness; such would be repugnant sm to our very nature. A great no E tt L t. n J o . t a o cc b e:t e s nyi of ed pa w s h si o o s n e a p te atrei moralist, we mean SAMUEL HNSON, once exclaimed, in m enthusiasm, "That agtainananforuies upon e the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." And, in a similar .• spirit, we might reprobate those who could regard Ire land in its present hour of tribulation without feelings of the liveliest commi4seration. An island so endowed by nature to humanise the minds of its people with the holy splendour of its scenery, and to nourish them with the most prodigal profusion ; an island whose inhabitants have evidenced by their historical character a singular proportion of generosity, bravery, and devotion ; an island so many years abandoned to misgovernment, and SO many years remarkable for its patient obedience to the constitution—he must, indeed, be devoid of all capabi lity to appreciate misfortune who can listen unmoved to her story, or remain indifferent under a knowledge of her present sufferings. It has been said, and said well, that the most sublime spectacle in nature is that of a good man bearing up against affliction ; how much more sublime must that subject become when it refers to the aggregate multitude, not to an isolated instance — to a nation, not to a man ! And such is the spectacle exhibited by our Hibernian countrymen at this moment. For it would be alike illogical and preposterous to im- pugn a whole population of criminality because some in famous members of it are addicted to the perpetration of the darkest deeds of moral, political, and social sin. Assassins and marauders there are undoubtedly, but they are still distinct from the mass of the populace ; granted that these wretches are numerous, nevertheless they are still but an infinitessimal portion of the commu nity. Ireland, therefore, in an abstract sense, has an infinite claim upon our sympathies, and this claim becomes only more apparent and more determinate as we descend to practical, and economical, and (if they can so be termed) selfish principles. With an eye to its own stability, Government would, if on that account only, be impelled to a consideration of Irish wants ; the Ministry would be driven to an in terference, if simply upou an economical account, or with the purpose of relieving itself and the whole em pire of a most grievous encumbrance. Everything con spires to direct the attention of the people of Greatßritain to the lamentable exigencies of Ireland, and to require of the Legislature some active movement for their removal. This is a proposition admitting of no denial. Common sense attests its accuracy. Nevertheless, those exigen cies are still allowed to exist ; nay, more, they are per mitted to widen over the land and to settle with a horn. ble intensity into the very core of society. Nothing de terminate is done, though much is spoken of, and though much also, we believe, is sincerely intended. The great national wound is left open, no healing balsams are in fused, and the virus is spreading over the limb with horrid rapidity. We speak facts : we do not attempt to deepen the tone of a picture already sombre enough in its hue, GOD knows ! And we do this, and shall con tinue to do this, at the risk of repetition. Scarcity is extending too visibly over Ireland to admit of any taci turnity on our part at least. The distress of the people is still attended by all its fearful concomitants. Sir JAMES GRAHAM announced the other evening from the Ministerial benches that the riots in various parts of Ireland were, he thought, permanently suppressed. Yet, notwithstanding this declaration from a Home Secretary so remarkable for his cautiousness, fears in many quar ters are still entertained of their renewal. A party of dragoons has been summoned into the town of Ennis, to prevent by their presence the realisation of certain appre hensions as to disturbances. The Clare Journal mentions the general fear of a tumultuary incursion of the neigh bouring peasantry into the town, and similar sentiments of alarm are prevalent in other districts. But the most heartrending evidence of the calamities now rife in that unfortunate land is that of a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant and Relief Commissioners from the "poor resident cottiers on the ploughland of Clennagar nane and Clohannes." To this memorial, given in ano ther column, we refer all who are interested in the condition of Ireland—and who is not ? It unfolds a sample of the wretchedness of our fellow-countrymen harrowing to hear of, mentioning the extreme destitu tion, in that small corner of the land alone, of somewhere about one thousand souls, and setting forth, in the simple language of agony, that they are " the most miserable beings on the face of the earth." A more frightful pos ture of affairs for the island can scarcely be conceived. And shall they continue thus without an effort on the part of the Legislature for their amelioration? He is the greatest benefactor of mankind who shall cause two blades of grass to grow where one alone could before have been raised. This is a truth which has stood the test of centuries, and still commands universal assent. Were it not for the improvements in agriculture, by which an additional produce can now fairly be counted upon from the same quantity of land, and also trom bringing new territories, which hitherto have re mained unoccupied,into cultivation,it would soon beimpos sible to procure a sufficiency of food for the vastly increased and increasing population of the world; and these new lands have been sought for with avidity in all climes and countries. The hardy and enterprising yeoman, who finds it impossible to procure a farm in his native land under terms sufficiently favourable to enable him to live with comfort, takes with him his skill, his industry, and his capital, and seeks in another hemisphere fur that in dependence which his exertions cannot obtain for him in this. Let it not be supposed that the emigrant has no love for the soil where he was born, and on which he sprung up to manhood, that he is in sensible to the domestic ties of family and friends, which bind him to his home. No, far from it; his heart is wrung with many a bitter pang when bidding a long farewell to all that had been dear and cherished, but he feels that if he remains at home he must sink in the social scale, or become a burden to friends, and with that energy and indomitable spirit, which has ever animated the British heart, he sacrifices all considerations but those of earning his own live lihood by his own exertions, and feeling the proud consciousness of independence ; and thus has Britain lost many of her most useful children. This would not be the case were there in our own land a locality to the improvement of which they could devote their energies. In our sister kingdom, Ireland, this is particularly the case, and a still greater necessity exists for the adoption of any means by which employment can be afforded to, and a house procured for, the myriads of unemployed, and destitute labourers in that country. There is no amount of national expenditure we would not joyfully sanction to attain so desirable an object, even without the slightest hope of return. The British nation some time since sacrificed 20,000,000 sterling to remove the stain of slavery from her dominions, and, large as was the expenditure, few voices were raised against its application, because it was felt to be a great act of moral justice, and surely our countrymen would not object to a sum less than one-tenth thereof being applied to raise the more destitute of our Irish brethren from poverty and retchedness to comparative independence and comfort. It is hardly credible that at this moment there are in Ireland over 60,000,000 acres of waste lands wholly un productive, of which from 4,000,000 to 4,500,000 might be reclaimed with profit, affording on the one hand ex tensive employment to the labouring population, and on the other a fair rate of interest and return for the capital employed in its improvement. Hitherto it has been left to private enterprise, to the landlords to whom this large amount of soil belonged, to take the initiative for its reclamation—and few indeed have been the in stances in which active steps have been taken. When ever it has been done, we believe we may safely assert that the person through whose instrumentality it was effected, not only realised a considerable profit for himself, but, no matter what might be his creed or his politics, he was respected and beloved in the country. The Irish peasant possesses high and generous impulses, though easily led away, and, alas! too frequently plung ing into crime. Convince him that a real and earnest solicitude for his welfare exists, and a more grateful and tractable being breathes not. Some Irish land lords have indeed exerted themselves. The Premier, a few nights since, mentioned in the most laudatory terms the conduct of Lord G. HILL, who in less than ten years has brought into cultivation no less than from 16,000 to 17,000 acres ; the late Mr. CAREW, father of the present Lord CAREW, by continued zeal and atten tion, by a residence amongst his tenantry, and a foster ing care for their welfare, made what, when he came into possesion, was little better than a furze brake, a magnificent and profitable estate, now yielding a greater number of thousands per annum to his son than it did hundreds to himself when he came into possession of it, and his proudest boast towards the end of his long and useful life was to point to his demesnes—to a happy and contented tenantry, all possessing interests in their lands, on which they could live with comfort, and from which they were sure of obtaining for their awn use a fair return for their labour, and say, see what I have myself effected Mr. HuGo, of the county Wicklow, might be mentioned as another honourable instance of similar care and at tention, attended with equally beneficial and happy re sults both to his tenantry and to himself. Several others instances might be adduced, but, unfortunately, they form e m la i n n l r o i r ty ds ; manfromyctahuesmes selves coming forward. In m prevent the e t p h t e i o g n r , eat the mu; e o r r y i ty s ortlfaantlhly instances heavy encum sbersasnocreiss managed no aiffnecrteathlietypiroopethrtey,eosjooytmheant enjoyment of nominal sm po ai sl annuity from his estates, whic h are reall y by receivers and mortgagees, who have in terest in the improvement of the property, and MARLI3RO'.STREET-(THIS DAY John 2lPPherson, a young man of respectable appearance, evidently in a very delicate state of health, who was described on the charge sheet as residing at No. 14, New Millman street, Brunswick-square, Louse-painter and decorator, was placed at the bar, having been taken into custody under the following circumstances : Between eleven and twelve o'clock last night the prisoner was partaking of some refreshment in the parlour of the Carpenters' Arms public-house, in John-street, Tottenham court-road, when he suddenly drew from his pocket a small steel-barrelled percussion pistol, and clenching it in his hand and placing himself in the attitude of discharging it, said, I'm resolved to do it this night, although I lose my lifeby it." lie them called for more liquor, which Mr. Read, the landlord, who had heard what had passed, refused to let him have. Presently afertwards he left the house, evidently in a very ex cited state, and was followed by two tradesmen who knew something of and had been drinking with him. Mr. Read directly gave information of what had transpired to police-constable John Bruce, No. 84 of the E division, who went after the prisoner, and came up with hint at the end of John -street. He then had the pistol in his hand, and repeated the threat several times, that he would do it that night if he lost his life through it. The pistol was wrested from him, and the police took him in charge. The pistol was not loaded. At the station-house he repeated the threat several times, and on the inspector on duty asking him whom he meant to shoot, he replied, " My brother;" and added, " If I'm imprisoned, when I'm liberated I'll do it before I sleep." No powder or ball was found in his pos session, at which he himself manifested some surprise. The constable has since succeeded in tracing out that he pur chased the pistol yesterday afternoon at a sale-shop in Tot tenham-court-road, and that yesterday morning only he was discharged from one of the metropolitan hospitals. Mr. HARDWICK asked the prisoner what account he wished to give of himself? Prisoner (whose manner was very cool and collected)-.The statements the witnesses have made aro very correct. Mr. HARDWICK—But what do you mean by having this pistol about you? Prisoner (with great composure)—l meant to shoot my brother. Mr. HARDWICK-Why did you mean to shoot him? Pri soner—There was some difference between us. Wilks, the gaoler, asked the prisoner if he still intended to shoot his brother? Prisoner (after some hesitation)-oh, don't know. Mr. HARDWICK, having elicited from him that his brother was residing at Mary-street, Hampstead-road, ordered a constable to procure his attendance as soon as possible. The prisoner is detained for the present. IRELAND. DISTRESS OF THE PEOPLE. DUBLIN, APRIL 28.—There is no part of Ireland where distress is more severely felt than in the county of Clare. In the assize town, Ennis, disturbances are apprehended,- The Clare Journal says—" We understand that a party of Dragoons have been applied for by the High Sheriff to preserve the peace of the town, a large concourse of people from the surrounding neighbourhood being expected to march into the town during the day." The same journal contains the following :—" Kilmurry, Ibrickane, April 24.—Memorials from about two hundred poor housekeepers, averaging about one thousand souls, have been forwarded, one to the relief cummisioners, and another to the Lord-Lieutenant, praying for relief. Memorialists, who are cottiers, on the Ploughlands of Clennagarnane, and Clo hannes, in the parish of Kilard, and barony of Ibrickane, state, ' That in consequence of the mysterious affliction of an All wise Providence of the potato crop, memorialists (from the swampy nature of the soil of these localities) have, by the potato rot, been deprived of all means of subsistence for themselves and families, and are at present the most miser able beings on the face of the earth.' Corroboration hal been given to the statements of the memorialists by the foilowing gentlemen :—Burton Macnamara, J.P. ; Francis G. Morony, J.P.; Thomas H. Morony, J.P. ; Thomas Morony, sen., J.P." The Marquis of Conyngham and Mr. Westby have sub sctibed very liberally towards the relief of the destitute people iriKilkee and other parts of Clare. The reports from the other distressed districts, received this day, are of the usual heartrending descriptions. Some cenn ties have comparatively escaped the potato disease, for in stance Wexford and Kerry, and in both the distress is not et all so severe as in other districts. The Commissioners of Public Works, acting under the Drainage Act of the present session, have issued a notifica tion that they are ready to receive loans for the execution of drainage and other works. The amount required for the pre sent year will probably be 200,000/. The sum at present re quired for the works in Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Cavan, Tipperary, and other counties, is 92,0001. The maximum rate of interest is 5 per cent. The security is a first charge on the lands to be drained or improved. The Evening Post says, " We have great gratification in announcing that Lord Cloncurry has received a letter from Mr. Peel, dated Calcutta, March 7, intimating that an addi tional sum of 2,0004 has been transmitted to the Bank of Ireland, for the relief of the distressed Irish, from the Bengal Presidency, with an intimation that more money may be ex pected from the same benevolent source." COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. LIBEL CASE—THE QUEEN Ir. CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY. The Attorney-General was heard in demurrer against plea of justification put in by the defendant against an in dictment charging him with the publication of a seditious libel in the Nation newspaper, in the month of November last. Mr. Barry and Mr. Holmes replied to the Attorney -Gene ral, alleging that the defendant had published the article complained of in reply to some articles which were published in the Herald and Standard newspapers, in London, in which it was urged that the agitating of the repeal of the union ought to be deemed high treason, and showing the great facility which railways afforded for the transmission of troops to Ireland. The Court were unanimous in allowing the demurrer for the Crown. The Ireton steamer, that left Ostend at three yester day morning, passed Blackwell at one in the afternoon, hayloft several passengers of distinction en board. THE " STAGS" IN DERBY.—DERBY, APRIL Within the last few days (says our correspondent) shoals of writs have been served on parties in this town who had shares allotted to them in some of the new railway schemes; and, remarkable as the fact may appear, all are paying forthwith. The tradesmen in this town have been dreadfully bitten. PIGEON FLYING.—On Wednesday, in a match for SL, between two pigeons, the winning bird, belonging to Keely, of the Kent-road, flew from Dover to London in one hour and twenty-four minutes. SUPPLIES OF FOREIGN MEAT.—The State of the home market in the supply of the staple article of food for our navf and mercantile marine has lately been such as to cause not only much enterprise amongst speculators, but anxiety amongst the Lords of the Admiralty. One of the most Important facts connected with the former is the deficiency in quantity as well as quality of the Irish meats, owing to the rapid means of transit afforded by means of steam communication making it more to the interest of Irish farmers to transmit their cattle alive to this country than to let their capital lie dormant in curing the meat. So great has been the fate deficiency in qua.ity that the Lords of the Admiralty were com pelled a few weeks ago to issue orders to the Admiralty of the diffe rent stations to purchase supplies of fresh meat to compensate for the deficiency which this has caused in the rations. At tile same tinle the Lords of the Admiralty have not been inattentive to the means of obtaining an adequate supply from foreign sources, and for this purpose have given a fair and extended trial to the process of curing by pneumatic pressure, by transmitting samples to the four quartets ineo f 7 p ss rese ii rving of the globe, which being returned, were opened a few days since It! the Victualling-office at Deptford; but the results were not found now under course of sufficiently satisfactory to sanction the general adoption of tb° a t ted purpose state for foreign countries, which is equally applicable to fruit an d fish, and, if successful, must meat in afresh t p i r -t i . n d c , ip w le hich A is n ' e f w or ly the p produce some very important results to this country. In all experiments, however, connected with the al" tfration of food for the naval and mercantile marine, the greates t care is required, from the fact of ally innovation upon their esta blished mode of life and habits proving very injurious to the health of the seamen. At the same time, the introduction of meat from foreign sources is m ost important in a commercial point of view ; and at a recent meeting of many Members of Parliament and friends e' free trade, held in Monument-yard, where specimens of ail the de scriptions of foreign food which are now admitted duty free by the new tariff were exhibited, Dr. Bowring very pertinently asite l l " Why should there be so many millions who do not taste anilm,l food, or t as t e i t as a luxury, when it can be obtained within 15 daY', sail of Great Britain ? The millions who 'rejoice in potatoes would be stimulated in their' rejoicings' if they could obtain anint food to eat with them. " The recent importation of preserved nt"t from Australia is only one instance of the enterprise ready for ha s me diate operation as soon as t h e Legislature has decided upon subject of commercial restrictions, the unsettled state of widen 0 : present causes so much commet cial embarrassment and s t agn a tie.% Every cargo of s a lt meat from America and other plac es , it m aY added, is readily bought up on its arrival here, for the use- of sit; ping, as it i s a matter of notoriety that many vessels would not be a to leave the ports if dependent alone upon the home supply. IC RAILWAY ROBBERIES. A nove l proceeding W - place last week b e f ore M r. R ay, Master of the Court of comtm i , "! Pleas, with re f erence to a Charles Gregory Maynard, who was tr, victed with Garrett _ res p ec ti ng t h e railway robbery last Novenle— BY a recent Act o f Lord Demnan, the evidence o f conv i cts is t lo 0, allowed in courts of law, and actionsihavlng been brought ag" - sa s, Messrs. Prance, Colard, an d N as h , i n connexion with those cages; the defendant Nash obtained leave from the Secretary of State examine the eonvicts pri or t o th e i r leaving England. This examine' tion of Maynard o ccu pi e d t wo days, an 1 was attended by co m i'„ t al. Mr. Hogging for the defendants, a n d M r. H awkins for the Pim",pa Mr. evoke, short-hand writer, took notes for the Government. result will not be disclosed until the trial, but we underst and portant disclosures were made. Garratt had been examined in manner before being sent to the colonies. - - WAY TIIE RIVA LS .—O n M on d ay wee k there was ano at St. Stephen's. There have been so m an y h o li days la t e ly, tbst her w e really think Sir Robert Peel a n d M r. B arry, the architect, „ pending as Os who will persevere longest in making no How' Punch. „ wag ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The anniversary mee tin g held yesterday in the theatre of the Royal Institution, Ai t h: ~„co street, the Earl of Derby, president, in the chair. The t"rj r ef was very numerous, and amongst the company were the tajor; Auckland, Lord Braybrooke, and Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., t",., t be General Briggs, Colonel Sykes, Dr. Henderson, and several eading members. a nd DAMASCUS.—The Mecca caravan , 80 num ero u s that CRY brilliant on its departur e f rom Damascus, has returned to disco' cis in a wretched state ; decimated by cold, hunger, and s ~,e d supply of provisions forwarded to y it in December, was o l„,. f entirely pillaged by the Arabs, who also took ssession t__A.,"„ aa ll terns of water placed on the route. Of this fine caravan rem ain ' consisting of twelve thousand pilgrims, but three thousa_o no so b os that is, a thousand Persians and two thousand Turks. T ° and 1,500 camels have also perished of fatigue and hi route Damascus greatest disorder reigns in this part of Syria. The entire to Mecca is infested by Arabs, who rob roldPT,,' their way. On the day aft er th e return of the caravan, to. pean Consuls met to address a note to their several Anwaß,. Now ready, in 2 vols., with POrtraitS, 21s. boun LETTERS OF THE Kl d, NGS OF ENGLAND. Now FIRST COLLIiiCTED, 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. H e nry Colburn, Publisher , 13, Great Marlborough-street.