The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-15 00:00:00

Vttrt Iltition SUN OFFICE, Sere% o'Clock. ITALY. E 6entrale of Modena has a letter from a staff-officer of the Veneto-Pontificial army, of which we s ubjoin the postscript, dated ten o'clock in the evening of the 80th of April. " Another alteration of arrangements. We no longer retreat, and the positions taken up on the banks of the Piave are maintained. To-morrow night the entire division i kf Durando will be in a position to act when ever it Mdeemed possible to take the initiative. The Austrian forces between the Tagliamento and the Piave do not amount to 9,000 men." DEFEAT OF CHARLES ALBERT BEFORE VERONA. A battle was fought, on the 6th, between the Piedmontese and the Austrians, under the walls of Verona. Complete success attended all the opera tions of CHARLES ALBERT, up to three P.M., but in consequence of the village of Santa Lucia, about two miles from the city, where the weight of the • combat fell, being imprudently abandoned, and immediately, for the second time, occupied by the enemy, the whole force was withdrawn about four or five o'clock, and the Piedmontese army retired to its position on the hills overlooking the plain of Verona, from Bussolengo on the Upper Adige, to Vallegio on the Mincio. The loss on the part of the Austrians was unknown, but the Sardinians suffered severely, and it was said that they lost no less than 1,200 men, in killed, wounded, and missing. It was supposed that the attack was made in the expectation that it would be assisted by a move ment within the city, but nothing of the kind took place, and the general feeling among the troops is that the movement had been unnecessary and profitless. No attempt was made to cross the Adige, as was at one moment expected. Peschiera was not attacked as late as the 7th. Letters of the Bth state that no further operations bad taken place, but it was expected the siege at Pes chiera would be at once commenced, as the heavy ar tillery had been placed in the batteries. Intelligence from Udine, dated the 6th stant, states, that a courier had arrived from RADETSET, at Conegliano, the he ad- q uarters o Count NUGENT, desiring him to advance with out delay to Treviso. Four thousand fresh troops, principally Grin zers had arrived on the sth, and Count NUGENT, whose advanced troops had already proceeded as far as the last post station from Treviso, was on the point of breaking up his quarters and leading the attack against the place last named. It was doubted, however, though it was said to b e occupied by from 3,000 to 4,000 insurgents, whether it would offer any resistance. According to the Giornale del Lloyd Austriaco, of the 6st inst., Count NUGENT had his quarters with the main body of the army at Conegliano, while the advanced guard was at Sussignano, with outposts extending along the Piave from th e heights of Callalto as far as the Pont di Piave. The enemy occupied the opposite bank with artillery and troops. Two battalions had been detached towards Capo di Ponte and Belluno, in order, by advancing from different sides, to open the communication through the mountains as well as that by the Strada d'Allemagna. The last accounts from Verona state that Count WELDEN has occupied Volargno on the Adige, aid is in close communication with RIDETSIT. The first division of the Sardinian squadron left Genoa on the 26th, commanded by Vice-Admirill the Chevalier Anarm. It consists of the royal frigate San Michele, the Des Geneys, the brigantine Daino, and the royal goletta Staffetta. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We have received a letter from our correspondent at Hamburgh, dated the 12th inst. The suspension of the blockade by the Danish Government was officially notified in that city on the morning of the 12th in the following terms : " NOTIFICATION. "According to a note dated the Bth of May, commu nicated by the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Ambassadors of Foreign Powers at Copenhagen, it is resolved. " I. That for the present neither the mouths of the Elbe, those of the Weser, nor those of any other har bour on the North Sea, shall be blockaded by Danish s hip s of war. " 2. That the blockade of the following harbours — viz., Pillau, Dantzic, Stralsund, Rostock, and Wismar, shall be raised from and after the 16th of May; that only Kiel, with the entrance of the Schleswig Canal at Holtenau, and Sweinemunde, shall remain in a state of blockade; but that on the above-named day the block ale shall be extended to the three mouths of the Oder—i.e., to Wolgatt, Swinemunde, and Cammin. " To prevent the misunderstandings which, to the re gret of the Danish Government, have occurred on the part of some of the commanders of the ships of war, who giving too great an extension to the blockade, have sent back neutral vessels bound to ports to which the state of blockade did not apply—a steamer will be dis patched this evening to convey to them the present order. - " Ilamburgb, May 12." The official correspondence between General YON WRANGIIL and Captain BILLE, the Danish naval officer on the station of the Little Belt, relative to the bombardment of Aliddlefarht, consists of a letter from Captain Bssi,m, complaining of the act, and a long taply from the General vindicating the conduct of the Allied Powers, and recriminating on the Danish authorities. General WRANGEL concludes his dis patch with the following significant menace:— " I call the district which is now the seat of war, I call the wounded and prisoners of the Danish army, to bear witness that till now I have used every exertion to sonduct the war in a manner becoming civilized nations. If, however, the Danish fleet, by its proceedings, compel me to resort to another mode of hostilities, Germany and all Europe shall at least know that it was not by me nor my brave troops that this mode of carrying on hostilities (contrary to the feelings of the age we live in) . was commenced. This letter. as well as the communi cation to which it is the answer, I shall publish; and in the hope that the fleet of Denmark will not render it neces sar y t o carr y m y ex pressed determination mit) effect." ELE TION COMMITTEE. (THIS DAY.) LANCASTER. The General Committee of Elections met this after noon, and appointed the following Members to try the merits of petitions presented against Mr. Stanley's return for the borough of Lancaster :—Mr. Pinney, Lord Adair, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Octavius Duncan, an d L ord Courteny (chairman). They will be sworn to-morrow, And enter upon their labours on Wednesday morning. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GROUP IL Th. Committee on this group met at the usual hour, Mr. Blackstone in the chair. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN SHIRE. The object of this Bill is to enable the above com pany to improve their Humber fer r y crossin g s at New Holl}nd. The case for the promoters was partly gone into, and then adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP IV. This group, which embraces the disputed Bill pela!ive to the sale of the Birmingham and Oxford Junction line, adjeurned for a week, to enable the Committee to have before them the report of the Railway Commissioners upon the merits of the mixed gauge. GROUP V. The Committee on this group met at the usual hour. Sir Robert Peel in the chair. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The Committee passed the Bill, empowering th 9 above cs:Th R"7 to become the proprietors of steam-bo a ts ; and Vl* k.hurtnan was directi-d to report the Bill to the House. GROUP VI. The Committee on this group met at the usual hour, Mr. Walpole in the chair. NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN. Mr. Sergeant WRANGEUX opened the case for the pro moters of this Bill, to authorise the construction of a short line from Brenttord to Harrow, to form a junction between the South-Western and the London and North- Western tern Railveays y. . The Bill i s opposed by the Great WCompan GROUP XII. The Committee on this group met at the usual hour, Mr. Fitzroy in tha chair. EDINBURGH AND NORTHER N. The object of this Bill is to authorise the construction Of branchgs to Boscobie, Keltyhead, and Glencraig. The case was opened and adjourned. GROUP XIV. The Committee on this group met at the usual hour, Mr. Eliot Yorke in the chair. BRISTOL AND EXETER (CASTLE CAB,y BRANCH). The opposition to the subscription contracts was re amed. and occupied the attention of the Committee the entire tints& THE SUN, LONDON, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING•) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. Lord EDDISBUZY (late Mr. E. J. Stanley) took the oaths and his seat. Lord CAMPBELL presented several petitions in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. Petitions with a similar prayer were presented by Lord PORTMAN. POOR REMOVAL BILL The Poor Removal Bill was read a second time. Lord PORTMAN complained that sufficient notice was nut given of the second readings of Bills sent up from the other House. PETITIONS. The Earl of EGLINTON presented several petitions from various Presbyterians in Scotland against the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. .Petitions with a similar prayer were presented by the Bishop of WINCHESTER and the Earl of GALLOWAY. The Bishop of NORWICH presented upwards of 100 petitions agninst the sale of intoxicating .liquors on the Sabbath day. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND). for returns The Duke of WELLINGTON moved of the correspondence which had taken place between the Treasury and the Board of Public Works in Ireland, in relation to the clear expenditure of the advances made under the provisions of the Land Improvement Act, and in particular to that portion which refers to the not o pay th ment of wages in the current coin of the realm, and er wise ; and a return of all advances, showing the total amount applied for and the total amount advanced un der the provisions of the Act. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE did not object to prant the returns. After a few words from the Earl of ELLENBOROOOH and Earl FITZWILLIAM, the m otion was agreed to. MAIL CONTRACTS. On the motion of the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, certain returns relating to the mail contracts were or dered to be made. THE LATE LORD ASHBURTON. Lord STANLEY, in moving that Lord Redesdale be appoiwed a member of the Select Committee on Bankin g, instead of the late Lord Ashburton, took the oppo g r! tunity of passin.grofoafLhtAihg.NehslaeptueoloLwgoiNruamEAoshhfabdtuhreftoorpnor.olirttiycal yearsand perinjTvoahyteeedlic.hatharrgeac.ult?riendship of Lord Ashburton, an d that friendship ha d never been interrupted by d iffer ence of political also bore testimony to the great m erits Ashburton, and th e motion was agreed to. Lord of opinion. Lord BROUGHAM PARLIAMENTARY PRO CEEDINGS BILL. Lord STANLEY moved the second reading of this Bill. After the kindness with which their Lordships had listened to him, when he brought in the Bill, he would not detain them by any further observations. Lord CAMPBELL rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT took the oaths and his seal for South Wilts. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. TUFFNELL, fa new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of a knight of the shire of the Northern Division of Cheshire, in the room of Mr. E. J. Stanley, raised to the peerage. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Liverpool Docks (erection of warehouses and construc tion of new works) Bill. Patent Galvanized Iron Company, trading under the style or firm of " Malins and Rawlinsons' Bill. The reports on the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Barrow Harbour Bill. Brentford Gas Light Acts Amendment Bill. Great Yarmouth Coal Duties Bill. Liverpool Gas Light Company, and Liverpool New Gas and Coke Company Amalgamation Bill. Sir J. EAST presented a petition praying for a re laxation of the penal law now existing against Odd Fellows. Mr. F. FRENCH presented a petition from Roscom mon, complaining of the operation of the Irish Poor laws, and praying that they might be amended. The lion. Member gave notice that to-morrow he should move that it be printed with the votes. Mr. W. MILES presented a petition from Peter borough against the orders of the Privy Council in re lation to education. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK presented petitions from bodies of Wesleyans, praying that the sale of spirituous liquors on Sundays should be prohibited. Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions in favour of the Sites for Churches Bill. Mr. RICARDO presented several petitions in favour of the repeal of the navigation laws. Mr. C. DENISON presented petitions from several religious bodies against the sale of spirituous liquors on Sundays. SPAIN. Mr. BANKES, on a former occasion, gave notice of his intention to move a resolution on the first occasion of going into Committee of Supply, and he begged leave now to give the terms of the resolution. He should move that the House bad heard with deg regret, from a correspondence on the table of the House, that her Majesty's Foreign Secretary of State had endeavoured to interfere with the internal affairs of Spain, which had placed her Majesty and the British representative at the Court of Madrid in a position that was humiliating in its character, and was calculated to affect the friendly relations hitherto existing between the Court of Spain and this country. IRISH POOR-LAW. Mr. F. FRENCH gave notice that on an early day he should move for a Committee of Inquiry into the truth of the allegations contained in the petition he had al ready presented from Roscommon. SAVINGS BANKS IN IRELAND. Mr. REYNOLDS gave notice of his intention, on an early day, to bring the state of the Irish savings banks under the consideration of the House. SHANNON NAVIGATION. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that on the 23d instant he would call the attention of the House to a return he had moved for connected with the Shannon navigation, and showing that net only had no similar return bee❑ made during the last ten years, but that there was 130,0001. of the public money unaccounted for. NAVIGATION LAWS. Lord G. BENTINCK presented two petitions from Glasgow, one of them emanating from the Chamber of Commerce of that place, praying the House not to agree to any relaxation in the navigation-laws. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from 16,000 burgesses of Dublin in favour of the Dublin Improve ment Bill. _ _ REGIUM DONUM. Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of the order to the Government agent in Ireland, Dr. Cooke, to withhold the Regium Donum from the congregation of Clonmel in connexion with the General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church, and of any correspondence be tween the Ist day of August and the 31st day of December last ; of any correspondence between the said congregation of Clonmel and the Irish Government since the Ist day of December last, or be tween the Presbytery of Cork and the Irish Govern ment since same date. And of the annual certificate from said Clonmel congregation, received and passed by the Irish Government in April, 1847, and included in the Parliamentary estimates for the past year.— Agreed to. ORDNANCE SURVEY (IRELAND). . . Mr. E. DENISON said as he intended - to move for a return of the expenditure in connexion with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, he wished to ask his Gallant Friend if it was true that the expense would be 120,0001., and not 30,0001. as originally estimated by Colonel Goldwin ; and, if so, whether any second reference had been made to the Treasury ? Colonel ANSON was understood to say that no addi tional reference had been made to the Treasury, but that it had b een f oun d t h at t h e survey cou ld not b e ma d e for uumlnitt motion present on ed theMr.Committee theHouse. ch a ur p ch et e i s ti ß on ill. from Montrose in Mr. COWAN presented several petitions from Edin burgh to the sameAveffeie NA VIGATION LAWS. Mr. LABOUCHEREthen moved an to refer the laws with respect to the navigation and seamen to a Committ ee o f the d awal r io e l g e u H la o ti n o s n e. of ships Mr. Alderman THOMPSON w no ground what ever for the House going into a Comm i ttee, subject,There had there been no report of any Committ ee on the had been no petitioning in favour of the adopti o nt navigation lawso f such a course, or requiring any change of h as they at present existed; and it must be recollected that the subject was under the consideration of a Com mittee of the House of Lords. He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman, considering the present state of Europe, should have detailed to the House what coarse it was intended by the Government to pursue upon this important subject ; whether they intended to throw open the ports of this country to the whole of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; whether they intended to make any alteration with respect to the merchant seamen , the pro visioning of ships, the quarantine laws, and so on; as these were all matters which, in his judgment, the House should be informed upon before it acceded to such a motion as that proposed for its adoption. Mr. LABOUCHERE believed that the course he proposed to pursue was consonant with the regular and established practice of the House. The objection of the Hon. Member seemed to him to be only as to whether the plan of the Government on the subject of the navigation-laws ought, to be stated in the: House itself, or in a Committee of the whole House. He believed the best course to pur sue would be for the House to go into Committee, and then that the Government should bring for ward its plan. He thought it would be highly objectionable to debate the subject upon the ques tion that the Speaker do leave the chair, instead of in Committee of the whole House. He had framed his resolutions so as to embrace the whole scheme pro posed by the Government on the subject, and when the House went into Committee he should state them to the Rouse. Mr. ROBINSON believed that it was a most unusual thing, in a subject of such vast importance, to ask the Hor teebefore the scheme of the G o v uesto r n e g m e n on t wiataolCmaiodbmefiote it. He regretted that the Government had thought it pro per, in the present state of public opinion, and at that advanced period of the session, to introduce the subject at all ; and he trusted that they would see the necessity of acquainting the House, before going into Committee, forward some w ard h the e t h m e e r a e s a u s r o o n io reasons which had imi. induced them to bring Mr. HERRIES did not pretend to say that the Right Honourable Gentleman was not correct in the statement which he bad made, because he was well aware that the House often went into Committee in order to receive the statement to be made by the Minister of the Crown, and either to adopt or reject the Bill; but on the other hand he was also aware that it was more frequently the case for the Minister, in the first instance, to state his reasons for inviting the House to go into Committee at all on the Bill.—(Hear.) The measure was to effect an important change in a most important fundamental law of this country, and they had not been told from any quarter whatever what the reasons of the Government were for inviting the House to go into Committee. He thought the Right Hon. Gentleman ought to state in what respect those laws required revision, and when they went into Committee, he could state his reasons and opinions more in detail. He, therefore, did think that hoawfinhs explaining calledxchhpei Hon. he thierneu Fr i snatei attention ( considered nhtethi aortn Adm , the io l ewfwa e tGs r s hboe an before G o Thompson) veromgoingeo into to ha the cd Committee properly ,ompirtiteet ey y v e t r a n r m t h e n e tmwoos would I r d e gular adopt i t. L Captain HARRIS was of opinion that more evidence ought to have been laid before the House before any , alteration was proposed in the law, and he considered that [ the information which had already been obtained was , for the most part erroneous. The Honourable Gen- tleman gave notice that he should take the earliest opportunity in Committee of moving that the Chairman do report progress for a month, in order that the evidence taken before the Lords' Committee might be laid upon the table of the House. Mr. HUDSON said it was unfair to call upon the House to go into Committee without some previous reasons being assigned for their doing so ; and if the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had any statement to make, he could just as easily do it then as wait till they got into Committee. Mr. THORNELY said it was usual to make such alterations as those in a Committee of the whole House, and for any one who had any objection to urge to make his statement on the motion for going into Committee. He was acquainted with shipowners who opposed any alteration of these laws, but he knew of more who were opposed to the alteration of the prin ciple which prevented ships from importing into the continent of Europe the produce of Asia, Africa, or America. He thought they ought at once to go into Committee, and then discuss the proposed alterations. The House then went into Committee; Mr. BERNAL in the Chair. The passage in the Queen's Speech with reference to the navigation-laws having been read by the Chairman, Mr. LABOUCHERE said, in rising to redeem the pledge given in her Majesty's Speech at the com mencement of the session, that the Ministers would lay before the House some proposed altera tions, he assured the House that he approached the subject with a full sense of the great re sponsibility which devolved upon him in rising to state the nature of them to the House. He was aware that the navigation-laws had been defended by some of the greatest statesmen and some of the greatest philosophers; but, on the other hand, he might venture to remind the House, that they had been the object of changes and alterations.—(Hear.) Jt was remarked long ago by Burke, that if the Navigation Act was suffered to run the full length of its principles, and was not changed and modified according to the altered spirit of the times, and the fluctuating cir cumstances of commerce, that it must do mischief and defeat its purpose. And if the changes which the Government were about to propose were more extensive than those proposed, ho begged to tell the House that everything else had been changing about them.—(Hear.) What changes, even in their time, had they not witnessed in the circumstances which governed the industry, intelligence, and commerce of this country.—(Hear, hear.) They had witnessed a revolution ,in the government of the South American colonies—the introduction of steam navigation, and that awakened a spirit of rivalry which, since the peace, had placed this nation in commercial enterprise far beyond the other nations of the world; above all, there were the great changes that had taken place in the laws and system of protection—the system under which trade was conducted —all these things rendered a change in the navigation laws necessary, but only such changes as would main tain the commercial greatness of the country, and keep the navy in an efficient condition. The first law on the statute book with respect to navigation was that of Richard 11., which was to the effect that no subject of the Crown should send goods except in the King's ships or private ships, which being found oppressive was modified the next year, but even then the character of the law was exclusive, and productive of monopoly and extinction ; it rested so, however, until the time of Elizabeth, when the law was reversed, as it adopted the principle of differential duties instead of ab solute exclusion, as it allowed foreign ships to come to that colony as well as English ships, on paying a certain differential duty. The Right Hon. Gentleman, after reading the preamble of that Act, observed that the principle adopted by Queen Elizabeth was the principle that prevailed in these times, and at the present day the infliction of duties upon goods in foreign vessels for the protection of their own. One country in Europe only acted upon a different principle—Holland, who gave the most unrestricted commerce, and that the result of that policy on the part of that country was most remarkable—Holland built herself up a fabric of such commercial greatness that the world had no parallel for. But while Elizabeth made this change in the navigation laws, she made for the first time the coasting trade of England a monopoly; for till that time it was open to foreign vessels. The state of things lasted till the time of the Commonwealt and then began the system which had lasted till tl present moment. This system was developed in the statutes of Cromwell, and confirmed by t statute of Charles the Second. Those statutes, he believed, were not founded upon commercial motives, but in order to punish certain colonies which bad espoused the royal cause, and also for the purpose of clipping the wings of the Dutch. This system had existed, certainly with some considerable changes up to the present day ; the first circumstance that broke down that system were the events that led to the independence of the United States. That declaration produced many remarkable events, in the ffrst place it destroyed a great existing trade, and it required the considerations of the first statesmen of the day to avert the consequences it might engender. It was some time before Parliament could make up its mind to adopt the course which it was ultimately obliged to take. Mr. Pitt, on the first declaration of indepen dence, with true wisdom and great courage, came for ward to propose the continuance of the intercourse which had formerly existed with the United States of American, but be failed in convincing the country of the necessity of adopting the course which he proposed. It was not till the greatest practical evils had arisen, that Parliament gave its consent to a measure to remedy the objections to the law as it then existed. The island of Jamaica having been visited with a hurri cane for two successive years no less than 15,000 slaves perished between 1780 and 1787 for tho want of the accustomed supplies of provisions from America, occa sioned by the interruption of the system of inter course which had existed between those two colonies. At last, however, a step towards a more free intercourse was conceded, and proved successful ; but it was only in our own time that the insercourse had been made so com pletely free between the United States and our West Indian colonies. These changes, he asserted, made the first breach in our navigation laws.—(Hear.) He had seen many changes subsequently, but he would no weary the House by going into them, as they were fa miliar to all who had paid the slightest attention to the subject. No person could look at the results of these alterations in the law, without seeing the advantages %hich had arisen to this country, and that a considerable breach had been made in our navigation system which it is difficut to repair, and still more difficult to resist extending. The right honourable gentleman then pro ceeded to call the attention of the House to the state of the law as it stood at the present moment, and which was comprised in three statutes. He came now to the anomolies which the present law exhibited with reference to the ownership of vessels, such as, for instance, that a foreigner naturalised in England might be the owner of a British ship, whilst a foreigner naturalised in the colonies could not. The next point he wished to touch upon related to manning British ships. A Bri tish ship engaged in the coasting trade must have all of its crew composed of British seamen; every British ship engaged in foreign trade must have three fourths of its crew composed of British seamen, There was also an enactment relating to these latter ships, which provided that every ship should have a certain number of apprentices, the number being as large, he believed, as to amount of to one sixth of the whole crew. He had now endeavoured its concisely as possible to bring the present state of the law before the House, and he would, with the permission of the 'House, proceed to state the reasons why he thought many of the regulations be had alluded to required alteration. The House would perceive from %hat he had already stated, that the law rested upon three main principles ; first, to secure the Colonial trade ; se con dl y , to secure to British sh i ps a portion of the foreign t ra d e ; an d , th i rdly, to secure the car rying trad e . H e would, in stating his reasons for ob jecting t o th e law, commence withthitehe demand Colonial trade. theColonies made upon that H ouse for relief, it was He believedhad if m therede raelitivd just t e demand from the evils of th ese l aws. The le House had already, for the benefit of the mother country, adopted the principle that no differential duties ought to be tolerated on produce coming into the English market, and as the had suffered enough from the navigation-laws, now that they will afford no protection from deferential duties, they ought to be relieved from the bur dens which these laws imposed upon them.—(Hear.) He then read a communication from the Governor- General of Canada strongly recommending a total and immediate repeal of the Navigation-laws. He might mul tiply similar recommendations to the same effect; but he felt it unnecessary to do so. They sought, by cheapening freights, to give every facility to thei r colonies to carry on a largely increased amount of trade. He also read memorials to the same effect from Jamaica, and other of our West Indian colo nies. That from Jamaica stated that the repeal of the Navigation Laws would be hailed with exultation. (rJrr sniALLWO.I TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six o'CwcK. SODIF.RSETSHIRE STAKES. 2 to 1 agst Silver Eel Saddle, Duplicity, and Bellenden are scratched. DERBY. 3 to 1 agst Surplice 6 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum 8 to 1 agst Springy Jack 9 to 1 agst Glendower' 12 to 1 agst Loadstone 12 to 1 agst Swiss Boy 20 to 1 agst The Fiddler 20 to 1 agst Sponge 20 to 1 agst Shylock 25 to 1 agst The Stinger 25 to 1 agst Eagle's Plume 30 to 1 agst Great Western OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Do-it-again —taken 10 to 1 agst Queen of the May—taken 10 to 1 agst Sister to Satirist—taken 10 to 1 agst Cymba NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH. The Earl of Auckland,. G.C.8., Fir s t L or d of the Ad miralty, has resumed his levees ; and Ad m i ra l Dundas, C. 8., M.P., will commence his periodical reception of officers to-morrow, at the Admiralty. THE IRISH SQUADRON.—On the detachment of Sir Charles Napier's squadron from the Irish coast to Ports mouth, Rear-Ad Mackay,Rear-Admiral l the commander-in-chief (,f the station, will detain under hi s or d ers th e A m phi on and Dragon steam-frigates, hoisting his flag occasionally in the latter to proceed to Dublin to c on f er w ith hi s Ex cellency the Lord-Lieutenant. The ships under the orders of Sir Charles Napier are ex p ecte d t o sa il f or Spithead on the 17th inst. COAL DEPOT FOR PORTSMOUTH. .Captain James, R.E., director of works at Portsmouth, has been ordered to prepare estimates of the expense of a jetty for coaling steam vessels from the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard. United Service Gazette. THE SAVING or THE COllllB 16-GUN SLOOP IN THE E LVER PLATA.—The natives at Colonia were much surprised to find that the exertions of the Firebrand, and the British seamen, fished the Comus, sloop-of-war, up from the bottom of the Rio Plate, and sent her to sea again, after four months hard work. The French sa luted the Firebrand on her sailing from Colonia, as a compliment to their success. A court-martial was held on Commander D'Eyncourt, and his officers and crew, for the disaster of that vessel the Comus, which termi nated in the acquittal of all except the master, who was reduced to the rank of second master.—Hampshire Tele graph. John Sowden and John H. Combes, shipwright ap prentices, of Devonport Dockyard, have been selected, through the recommendation of the Rev. Professor Mos ley, to complete their studies at the Central Mathemati cal School, at Portsmouth dockyard, in accordance with the new regulations, and are to present themselves at Portsmouth to Rear-Admiral Prescott, C. 8., superinten dent, this day. The America, 50, and Racer, 16 guns, were examined Devon port, on Saturday,dmiralSupe Superintendent Sir John Louis, at acco mpanied by the master-ship wright and mechanical staff, in order . to determine an d report upon their fitness for immediate recommission. COURT MARTIAL ON LIEUTENANT MILLS, R.N.— This trial was nut concluded on Saturday, we a r e , therefore, unable to give th e particulars. The prosecu tion closed at three o'clock. The defence commences this morning at nine o'clock, on board the Victory, at Portsmouth. A marble tablet has recently been put up in Alver stoke church, as a gratifying memorial from the friends of departed worth:—" Sacred to the memory of William Henry Langtry, master, R.N . ~ aged 37, who was wounded by pirates whilst serving on board her Majesty's sloop Ringdove, in Maloodo Bay, coast of Borneo, on the sth August, 1846, and died at Manilla, from the effects thereof, on the 13th following, in which bay his mortal remains were interred. This tablet is erected by the Captain (Sir William Hoste, Bart.) and officers of the Ringdove, as an humble tribute to the memory of their late much esteemed and deeply lamented ship mate." MONDAY EVENING, MAY 15, lB4B. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant-commander James H. Hunter (1825) to the Merlin packet at Portsmouth, to be re-commissioned for general service. Lieutenant W. J. Pullen (1846) to the Plover disco very ship in the Pacific. Engineer—Charles Moxley, Ist class assistant to the Llewellyn steam-packet, at Holyhead. Coast Guard—Lieutenant Frederick Coppin, from Tankerton to Herne Bay station, in exchange with Lieutenant W. H. Hewlet ; Mr. C. S. Van Zulicombe, late of the Hon. East India Company's civil service, to command a station; Mr. C. J. Pegus (late of the Royal Marites) from Swanage to Flag Head station, vice Aldrich, superseded; Mr. W. T. Kitching, from Fleet to Swanage station, vice Pegus; Lieutenant Sicklemore, R.N., to Newtown station, Isle of Wright. WooLincst, MAY 13.—The Plumper, steam-vessel, recently launched at Portsmouth, arrived at Woolwich on Thursday evening, and will be taken up to Deptford to be fitted with Leer engines and a screw propeller. The Trident steam-vessel, Lieutenant Risk, is taking in her stores from Deptford Victualling-yard, and will be ready for sea in a few days. The Monkey steam-vessel, Master Commander Bryant, arrived at Woolwich on Thursday evening, having ac companied the Enterprise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, and the Investigator, Captain Bird, beyond the Swin. The Fearless and African proceeded with the vessels of the Arctic expedition, to assist them for several days in their progress northward, should their services be required. Mr. Wigram, shipbuilder, and several scientific par ties, visited the saw-mills in Woolwich dockyard to-day, to witness Mr. Cochran's inventions for cutting ship timbers in a bevelled form, and cr oo k e d l ogs o f woo d i n a line with the grain; and the inventions from their simplicity, and the perfect work they produced, gave great setisfaction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAR YLEBOIVE. EXTENSIVE RAILWAY PLUNDER.-011 Saturday, Charles Abbott and Axis Williams, the former of whom, it appears, was for some time butler to Colonel Hope, of Norfolk-street, Park-lane, and from whom he derived a comfortable annuity, were placed at the bar charged with having committed numerous rob beries at various railway stations. This being the third time the parties were before the Bench, and the case being one of considerable public interest, the court was densely crowded, and a grea t n umber of pawnbrokers and their clerks, the rec ipients of the stolen property, thronged every pas- sage. On a previous examination it had been proved that the prisoner Abbott had stolen a portmanteau belonging to the Rev. Mr. Marsh, of Cambridge, from the station - h ouse of the Paddington terminus, which portmanteau had been traced to the house of a woman, Cattell, residing at 23, Carlisle-place, Lisson grove, a place whic, it appears, Abbott had made a depot for the illh-gotten treasure. On Collard examining the premises, boxes, trunks, portmanteaus, writing-desks, &c., were there arranged, and be, there fore, selected as a sample what filled three cabs, which he had brought to the police-court for the purpose of identification by the owners. It , moreover,appeared that a nu m b er o f pawnbrokers' ticke ts had been also found, all pledged in the name of the female pri soner, Ann Williams. On the case being called on, Mr. Justins, from the office of Maples, Stevens, and Co., Old Jewry, attended for the prosecution, on the part of the Great Western Railway Company. The first witness called was Thomas Batson, Esq., residinghaet wasKy Kynaston House, near R oss, in Here fordshire, who deposed that on the 23d of last De cembera passenger on the Great Western line from Gloucester to London. He had with him seven parcels, or packages. On his arrival at the Paddington terminus he missed one package, con taining a vast deal of property—he should say to the value of between 401. and 501. A great number of articles of wearing apparel, &c., were here produced, all of which were identified by Mr. Batson as his property. The articles in question were found at the house, No. 23, Carlisle-place, Lison-grove, kept by a woman named Anne Cattell, who, upon being examined, said that the articles were left at her house from time to time by the male :prisoner, whom she had known for some seven or eight years. Several assistants to Messrs. Boyce, Trail, Richard son, Fish, &c., pawnbrokers, gave evidence as to their having received the articles in question from the pri soner Williams, for the purpose of obtaining the loan of money thereon. 25th of last March Mr. George Gilbert Scott, an architect, living at No. 12, Avenue-road, Regent's-park, said that on the articles of wearing he was a passenger on the Great Western Railway, and had lost a portmanteau, the one he now saw in cou rt. It had contained many . apparel, the m a j orit y of which he identified as belonging Mr. Thomas Valey, a solicitor from Chelmsford, stated that on the 2 4 th o f last December he came to to him. London from Chelmsford by the Eastern Counties Railroad. He had a portmanteau, containing a great quantity of wearing apparel, to the value of at least 101., which he found was missing o n his arrival at the terminus. The articles now produced were part of the property he had lost upon that occasion. The three foregoing cases being of such a strong nature against the prisoners, in addition to the three produced against them on the last day's examination, the magistrate fully committed them to take their trial upon the six several and distinct charges. A FREAK Or FORTUNS.—A tailor of the name of Sanderson, living at Staint on, in Cleveland, a few miles from Stockton, has lately cone into possession of 100,0001., left him by an old uncle in India, upwards of e ighteen years since, but of whose death he was not cognizant till lately. He was lately informed of it by his uncle's late steward, who has recently returned home from that distant part of our empire. Sanderson is a widower with a small family, and up to the period of re , ceiving the news of his immense fortune was only in in different circumstances. He is now, however, nearly bewildered with the friendly calls of the opulent and wealthy, and with the proffers of friendship he is daily receiving, —L ee d s Paper. From 12,000/. to 13,0001. in gold are now trans mitted weekly to Holland, in payment for cattle, butter, and other provisions. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. Aspdin, Northfleet, Kent, cement manufacturer, June 2, at one—H. llarvey, Stock Exchange, City, and St. Paul's-terrace, Islington, stock and share dealer, June 5, at half-past one—J. Taylor, Blackfriars-road, vic tualler, June 2, at twelve—W. Bainbridge, Currie-place, Old Kent-road, and Lombard-street, Chelsea, grocer, June 2, at twelve—J. Hayward and D. Adam, Pater noster-row, booksellers, June 2, at half-past twelve. In the Country. S. Bagnall, jun., Leek, Staffordshire, grocer and corn dealer, June 20, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham— J. Waddell, Liverpool, wine and spirit merchant, June 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Banks, Liver pool, tallow chandler, June 6, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—S. Healey, Liverpool, merchant, Jane 6, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool--H. W. Lake, Liverpool, commission merchant, June 6, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—B. Wood, Leeds, jun., wine and spirit mer chant, June 6, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—W. Ash ton, Pickering, Yorkshire, spirit merchant, June 12, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—J. Senior, Lascelles Holl, . . near Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manufacturer, June 6, at the Court, Leeds—J. Holdsworth, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted spinner, June 5, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—W. Watts, Doncaster, Yorkshire, mill wright, Juna 5, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—W. M`Kay, Manningham, Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff manu facturers, June 12, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. H. C. Shenton, St. James's-terrace, Camden town, historical engraver, 25., on Monday, May 15, and two fol lowing Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin- lane, City. T. G. James, River-street, Myddleton- square, Clerken well, builder, 3d., on Monday, May 15, and two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City. T. M'Tear, Liverpool, merchant, 2s. 7d., on Wednes day, May 17, or any subsequent Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. J. Chorley, Liverpool, merchant, id,, on any Monday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. G. Sandeman, York-street, Southwark, ironmonger, 3a. 4d., on any Wednesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall street. T. Jackson, Halifax, Yorkshire, worsted spinner, a first and second dividend of ss. and Is. Id., on Tuesday, May 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. W. Jerrerns, jun., Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, grocer, Is. 2d., Tuesday, May 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. J. H. Denner, Nottingham, pawnbroker, 61., on Satur day, May 13, or any subsequent Saturday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittle ston, Nottingham. J. Guest, Manchester, cotton spinner, ls. 6d., on Tues day, May 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of teu and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man chester. W. Kay, Bury, Lancashire, brass and iron founder, 10s. 6d., on Tuesday, May 16, or any subsequent Tues day, between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. R. Blake, jun., Norwich, soap manufacturers, 35., on Saturday, May 13, and two subsequent Saturdays, be tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. W. Yardley, Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington, attor ney, 35., on Saturday, May 13, and two subsequent Saturdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of r. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. W. Nicholson, Leeds, Yorkshire, innkeeper, ss. 2d., on Tuesday, May 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. G. Taylor, Bradford, Yorkshire, grocer, is. Id., on Tuesday, May 16, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stans feld, Leeds. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. G. Pratt, Addison-road North and Queen's-road, Not ting. hill, builder, June 5, at half-past two—E. 011ive, \Vest-street, Finsbury-circus, merchant, June 5, at two —G. Marsh, Broadway, Hammersmith, and Carnaby street, Golden-square, and E. K. Marsh, Carnaby-street, Golden-square, drapers, June 2, at eleven—J. Williams, Hampstead-road, builder, June 2, at eleven—G. Hol ditch, J. F. Holditch, and E. D. Holditch, Bankside, Southwark, oyder merchants, June 2, at one—J. Brockle hurst, High Holborn, lamp and gals fitting manufacturer, June 3, at two—R. Thompson, Little James -street, Gra)'a Inn-lane, and Henry-street, Pentonville, printer, June 2, at eleven—T. C. Stanbrough, Berners-street, Oxford-street, wine merchant, June 2, at two. In the Country. J. IL Davies, Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire. grocer, June 2, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—T. Chandler, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, innkeeper and baker, June 2, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—R. Pope, New port, Monmouthshire, ship broker, June 6, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—W. H. Roberts, Liverpool, iron monger and ship smith, June 2, at eleven, at the Court. Liverpool—J. Rand, Preston, provision dealer, June 2, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—R. Webster, Pres ton, linendraper, June 2, at twelve, at the Court, Man chester—S. Fisher and W. C. Brown, Newark• upon- Trent, builders and contractors, June 16, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham—J. Hobson, Leicester, builder, June 16, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham—J. Burch, Nottingham, grocer, June 23, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham—L. Lench, Worcester, tobacconist, June 13, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—R. Ireland, Wem, Shropshire, wine and spirit merchant, June 10, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, June 2. . . H. Mockett, New Shoreham, Surrey, merchant, inn keeper, and coach proprietor—H. Layfield, Burnley, Lancashire, boiler maker—J. G. Moore and H. Bayliss, Norwich, warehousemen—W. Hannah, Liverpool, apothe cary—J. P. Oldfield, Liverpool, commission merchant— W. Batson, Handsworth and Dudley Port and Tividale, Staffordshire, and J. Batson, Great Bridge, and Dudley Port and Tividale, iron and coal raasters—T. Wood, Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street, attorney—G. Shard low and J. Bradshaw, Stone, Staffordshire, shoe manu facturers—J. Coe, Sise-lane, Buckler sbury, money scrivener, C. H. WartwrightWarrington, Lancashire, grocer—J. E. Smith and R. T. Smith, Cheapside, ware housemen—J. Dailey, Leng-lane, Bermondsey, leather manufacturer—H. J. Elmes, Queen-street, Cheapside, and Staffordshire-place, Kent-road, bricklayer—G. Trigg, Inverness-road, Paddington, builder—W. Burr, Hilling don, Middlesex, miller and commission agent—C. Savage, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, builder—W. Lawton,: Liver pool, hotel keeper—S. Langdale, sen., Stockton-upon- Tees, and Yarm, Yorkshire, corn dealer and flour mer • chant—J. P. Lawrance, Liverpool, shoemaker—W. Fellows, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, coal fitter and ship broker—M. Biddle, Brighton, grocer—C. Andrews, Brigton, fruiterer and florist—R. C. Kingsford and H. L. Barnwell, Ickham, Kent, and Catherine-court, Tower hill, millers and coal merchants—H. F. Hoole, High street, Southwark, grocer and tea dealer—J. M. Lee, Cornhill, underwriter. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Engel and L. Lowanthal, Hamburg, Leeds and Huddersfield, woolstaplers—J. J. Stone and F. R. Gun ter, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, merchants—W. Parsons and S. Parsons, jun., Nottingham, attorneys at law—J. Johnson and E. Gough, Bradley, Staffordshire, boiler makers—J. W. Hayles and N. Pattenden, Oxford, grocer and draper—W. Wallis and IL Brown, High-street, Whitechapel, woollen drapers—H. Livermore and W. Tranah, Tottenham-court-road, Edgeware-road, and Bell-street, Paddington, pawnbrokers—G. A. Marshall, Eliza Marshall, Amelia Marshall, and Catherine Mar shall, Knightsbridge, glovers and brace makers (so far as regards the said G. A. Marshall)—l. Booth and B. Cotton, Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, mercers and dra pits—S. Booth, E. M. Richards, and H. Sloane, Bir mingham, factors (so far as regards the said E. M. Richards)—J. Pidduck and J. K. Farnell, Shrewsbury Mercers and drape rs—H. Jones and W. C. Morris, Neath, Glamorganshire, lime burners and vendors—R. Jones and W. Smith, Liverpool, brewers —Emma Pew ters, Caroline Burnell Pewters, Harriette Martha Pew ters, and Elizabeth Pewters, Bristol, stationers—J. Rooks and Mud J. Booker, adß. Jowet t Birosotale,r,Broom-edge,Yorkshire, card Sheffield, makers— J. Chadwick quarrymen. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Edward Evison, Pentreshannel, Shropshire, farmer. Edmin Morton, Bromesberrow, Gloucestershire. Henry Woolhouse, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, tailor. George Francis, Tavistock, Devonshire, mining captain. Wellington Waterloo Teanby, Epworth, Lincolnshire. Mary Blomfield, Walsall, Staffordshire, upholatress. Moses Palmer, Ellengshall New Village, near Button, Staffordshire, grocer. Joseph Dexter, Bilston, Staffordshire, draper. John Allen, Rugely, Staffordshire, hairdresser. John Allison, Keel Cotes, Lincolnshire, labourer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. R. Low, Muirs of Kinross, saddler, to meet within the Salutation Inn, Kinross, May 20 and June 10, at twelve. 11. Wood, Edinburgh and Leith, patent wood carving company, to meet within Rampling'a Waterloo Hotel, Edinburgh, May 16 and June 8, at twelve. bi w l eel hsxw,ocefeallanticipateclreonnifrteo from th thee cares sure of .—To Tll ja l‘ r l e o tr o e ß a s t ,ontheatfotrhegrcooumse t oah i tsy s srhe e eaoi a pustm s hpgo e which eeehraitorrtwuhedei ut"hah prevailed ,re tlwent rhwsono neighbouringhdlaeaostv detected have been m vbt eeei o cdeat io n nrseu g sti at traversingt htns h i ceee e rees al b ; dh i s r nea d at birds, is there any reasonable probability that the first hatch will be les- aned or destroyed by frost or storms, as happens when good weather is premature—the rigorous winter, passing through spring to the verge of summer, preventing incubation, until the time arrived when all s fear of future injury had vanished. Heather burning opthBitbhnorhaat i g erov s swte omigneteme.aleaosnalkseofitgst altogether sgnxtai e h rttt odtTpe e hwenrche:etheri, mhnoddt ise i n telligence to b e w R u n has this season been confined to narrow limits, for from the first of April till the tenth, when legal burning ended, there were but few days that would prepare even the driest knolls to be fit for firing. The demand for shoot ings is equal to that of previous seasons.—lnverness Courier. The President of the Board of Control has ap pointed his nephew, Mr. Arthur Fane Hobhouse, to be his private secretary. The Hon. W. Napier is appointed clerks of the works and civil engineer at Hong-Kung. Lieutenant Woolridge, emigration agent at Sligo , is to be Lieutenant of the port of Gibraltar. Mr. W . Elliott is to be appointed clerk in the Audit-office, Ceylon.— Oissrver. THE LATE RAILWAY A CCIDENT. ; NEW CUSTOMS REGULATIONS' S WI NDON, SATURDAY. — The case of Mr. Arthur INDIA. Augustus Lea has unfortunately terminated fatally. be In our last publication we alluded to an Act which had The injuries Mr. Lea sustained were very serious, 'The passed for regulation of the Customs Laws in India. 'The India Board has mince politely favoured us with a one of his thighs being fractured, and the other leg , copy “ of the document, which we subjoin: — broken below the knee. His dissolution, however, An Act for equalising the duties on goods imported did not arise from either of these fractures, but from and exported on Foreign and British Bottoms, and an attack of apoplexy, with which he was stricken a for abolishing the duties on goods carried from port few hours previous to death. Several of the unfortu- to port in the territories subject to the Government nate gentleman's friends were present at his demise,of the East India Company. and, among them, his cousin, who is a student in the ol.lt is hereby enacted, that from and after the e e tli . same college. The deceased was a yo un g man of day of March, 1848, all goods imported on For tr great promise ; he took a double degree at the last Bottoms by sea into any port of the Presidencies b of boll classical examination, and, it is saisl, was only deprived Wi c l h li a a r m, e i d n o ß al en w g7 t l it F te rtSt. George, or Bombay, 7 of the highest honours by a long and serious illness, be same rates . duty f m suc a h ' good_ r : would now g bylaw be charged with, such goods were which interrupted his studies for some months. imported into any of the said ports on British Bottoms, This afternoon, at three o'clock, Mr. W. B. Whit anything ix any Act of the Council of India contained marsh empannelled a jury for the purpose of investi to the contrary notwithstanding. gating the circumstances attending the death of the 2. And it is hereby enacted, that from and after the deceased. said day all goods exported on Foreign Bottoms by sae The identity of the deceased having been proved, from any port of the said Presidencies, shall be c harged the several witnesses examined at the inquest only with the same rates of duty as such goods would held at Shrivenham on Thursday, were called. now by law be charged with, if such goods were expr. n e a _ Their testimony differed in no material point from from any of the said ports on British Bottoms, any king that which they had before given. in any Act of the Council of India contained so the Mr. Michael Lane, resident engineer of the rail- contrary notwithstanding. he " 3. And it is hereby enacted, that from and after the way deposed to having accompanied Captain Symonds said day no duty shall be charged on any goods lawful); to Shrivenham for the purpose of making an experi- carried from an y port in the territories, subject to ment as to how much time would be occupied in to a ny oche. Government ot the East India Company, placing the horse-box and trucks in the position they port in the said territories, anything in any Act of tie . occupied on the railway when the accident oc curred. Council of India contained to the c ontrar y notwith From the experiment made it had been found that to standing. move the horse-box and cattle - truck to t he p osition " 4. Provided alwa y s that nothin g in this Act COII. in which they were placed, and to bring the loaded tained shall apply to the articles of salt or opium. truck on to the turntable occupied five men nearly (Signed) " G. A. BUSIIBof T,lndis. seven minutes. On the occasion of the acci dent four " Secretary to the Government men only were employed, so that a grea ter time —Liverpool European Times. might be reasonably supposed to have been occupied. The policeman on duty, Pargetter, was stationed about four hundred feet from the siding where the horse-box and cattle-truck entered upon the line, and he could not, as witness believed, have helped seeing the obstruction had he looked in the proper direction. At this stage of the proceedings the inquest was adjourned until Wednesday next. SHRIVENIIAM, SATURDAY.—This morning, at half past ten o'clock, Mr. Wasborough, Coroner for Berks, and the jury empannelled on Thursday last, re-assembled at the Victoria Tavern, near the railway station, for the purpose of further prosecuting their investigation, on view of the bodies of Edwin Wilt shire and Michael Mahony, whose remains were not identified when the jury previously met. Mr. John Leahy, of Shamskiel House, in the county of Cork, said he was travelling in the express. train from Bristol to London, on Wednesday last. He rode in a first class carriage, with his child, add her female attendant. His man-servant, Michael Mahoney, rode in a second class carriage. After the collision, witness saw his servant lying on the plat-. form quite dead. Richard Wiltshire, of Bath-place, Islington, said he had seen the bodies now lying dead at the Victoria Tavern, and recognised one of them as that of his brother, Edwin Wiltshire, who was travelling with his master, General Sir Alexander Mackenzie, on Wednesday last, from Bath to London, when the accident occurred. The testimony of the different witnesses examined on the last occasion having been repeated, The CORONER, after referring to a copy of the instructions issued to the servants of the company, said he could find no rule forbidding the servants of the company to place any obstruction on the main line, while the signal showed the line to be clear. From the evidence of Mr. Hudson, the station clerk, he had been led to believe there was such a rule. Mr. Clarke, the superintendent, said although not referred to in the rules, this was a thoroughly under stood matter by all persons in the employ of the com pany. It was in fact the fundamental principle on which all the instructions were based. The foreman of the jury said he did not think that men who were half their time stupified with drink and tobacco, as all those who knew Willoughby knew him to be, were proper persons to have the lives of the public placed at their mercy. Mr. Clarke expressed his surprise at the statement of the foreman, and reminded the jury that Wil loughby had received a very good character from the station clerk. The Foreman said, from his personal knowledge of the man he considered him most unfit to fill the duties of the responsible situation in which he had been placed. He had been surprised to find, on walking down to the inn where they were then assembled, after the inquest had been held, about ten o'clock on Thursday night the porter Copley, who was repre sented to have been ill so long, with his pipe and his glass before him, carousing with a number of pot companions. Considering that the house was full of invalids who were suffering from the effects of the re cent accident, he thought if Copley had been able to come there at all, he should have been one of the first to assist in closing the house, and endeavouring to se cure quiet for its inmates. Mr. Clarke—l quite agree with you, sir, and beg to assure you that the sobriety and general good con duct of all our servants is invariably watched with great jealousy. One of the jury thought the duty imposed upon the policeman of attending to both signal posts, as well as the gates at the level crossing over the railway, was too much for any one man, and recommended that a second policeman should be appointed. Mr. Clarke—On behalf of the directors of the company I promise that the matter shall be fully considered, with a view to put on another policeman, if necessary, or even if thought desirable. The CORONER said he thought it very desirable that an instruction not to place any truck on the main line before having turned on the danger signal should be inserted in the printed rules. Mr. Clarke said, a new set of rules were in prepa ration, in which it had been embodied. The jury immediately agreed to a verdict of man slaughter against the two porters, Weybury and Willoughby, as in the other cases. The policeman Pargetter has been suspended. Weybury and Wil loughby are both under confinement in Reading gaol. Captain Blair, to the great surprise of his medical attendants, has rallied considerably, and a slight degree of sensibility has returned to his extremities. His wife, as well as his father and brother, have arrived at Shrivenhatn, and remain with their un fortunate relative. The gallant sufferer retains per fect consciousness; indeed his faculties do not appear to be in the least degree impaired. An instance of heartless villainy occurred shortly after the accident, which, but that it is given on the very highest authority, would appear altogether in credible. An employee of the company was about removing the body of one of the deceased clergymen, when a person, to all appearance a passenger in the train, volunteered his assistance. His aid having been accepted, the individual placed his hand on the deceased's waistcoat pocket, and took therefrom a gold watch and appendages. This circumstance awakened some suspicions of his honesty, and on being questioned, his reply to the effect that he was a servant of the deceased was not considered at all satisfactory. A demand was made that he should immediately return the watch. The scoundrel, how ever, obstinately refused to do so, and it was not until some violence was used that he was compelled to relinquish possession. It need hardly be added that the story of his being a servant of the deceased proved a pure fabrication. It is a very remarkable circumstance in connexion with this accident, that although the engine by which the express train was propelled has been greatly shattered, and rendered wholly unfit for use, the driver and stoker are not conscious of having felt any shock when the concussion took place ; and Roscoe, whose intelligence and resp ec t a bilit y afford a very fa vourable specimen of the servants of the company, informed our reporter that of the quantity of coke he was carrying in his tender at the time, not a pound weight was thrown on to the engine-plate where he was standing, by :the collision. Roscoe also states, that from the first moment when the obstruction on the main line broke upon him, he felt perfectly conscious that the speed at which he was going would overcome any opposing force. There is very little doubt his impression would have proved perfectly correct, and comparatively small damage arisen had it not been for the unfortunate position of the cattle truck on the siding. The rails where the collision took place are altogether uninjured except a slight abra sion on the iron, about three-quarters of an inch long, where the first blow seems to have struck. The axle of the cattle truck, which is nearly four inches in diameter, and composed of wrought iron welded by the Patent Shaft Company, was bent completely double, without exhibiting the slightest sign of frac ture, a proof of the extraordinary quality of the metal of which it was formed. It is supposed that the effect of the experiment made by Captain Symonds and Mr. Lane to-day will be to criminate in a greater degree than has at pre sent been done, the policeman Pargetter. BANK OF FRANCE. The following was the situation of the Bank on Vow day evening, May 11: ASSETS. f. c. • 57,594,353 95 ▪ 34,437,97 0° 55 Cash and ingots Cash at branch banks Overdue bills 18,403,6 Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 30, n 639,699f. 99c. are from the branch KS 1 4 baks 7 43 0,- - ••• 15e• , 2l Bills in the branch banks , 82,96 8 , 94 0 0 0 Advances on coin and ingots 6,091,250 Ditto on public securities of France . . 10,344,98" Due from the branch banks on their notes in circulation ... Rentes of the reserve fund - 14,470,000 00 - 000 °C7 10,00 0, •q 7 SO Rentes of disposable funds ... 11,660,197 " 00 Hotel and furniture of the bank 4,000,000 Interest in branch bank at Algiers 1,0 000 v OO Interest in National Discount Bank •••• 20002 i s Bills protested ... 25,74 7,65 ' 3 1 Expenses of administration . •• 50 5 " is *** 31 91 " Sundries .. " Advance to the State on Bons du Trisor 00 of the Republic 486,416,20 6 59 00 0 Capital ... 67 950, 00 Reserve fund ... . . Reserve immobiliiire 14°,000°°°;01„„°° 00 o° Notes to bearer, circulation ... 297,426,t; Ditto of the branch bank . 14,47 0 , 0 ;'," t 50 Ditto to order (Post. bills) 1,423, 1 `,7, 0 Account current with Treasury ... 13,29 0 :,'s 03 Various accounts current ... 69,926,0-'m 00 Bills payable at sight. 1,65 ,5 , 2 31 Re discounts of the last . half-year 72 3, '„0 1 3 Dividends unpaid ... 209, 3 ,1 5 57 Discounts, interest, and expenses 3,451,21' Branch Bank of Algiers, sum not y et 6955 61 employed in Treasury Bonds 1,10 a 6 ••• Branch Bank drafts to be paid . 1,57 1,7 83 29 3 Sundries . . ••• ..• 6 55 487,4 16,2- 0 RAILWAY SHARE MARS -11S. LIVERPOOL, MAT 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is lower to - d i n b b ut t s do not find any great amount of stock offerin is the last day for the current account. Bolton, Blackburn, &c., Preference, 2 dis.---E at shire, 18%—Ditto, 251. Shares, 6% dis.--Edinburg Glasgow, 46—Edinburgh and Northern, Prefererlaioo Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths (late West RidinCto, 31. 16s. 3d. p.—London ad North-Western, 13 4—) ' . Quarters, 2/. 131. 9d. c. p.—Midland Stock, 105 1 / 4 A c * -- ctiet'i, New Quarters, 4% dis.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, 4 % l Tr n ;c,,' Tphseltshirogpoo,r 7 1 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 24 1 A—P it 'brir Thirds, 2% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick N. and B.), 30—Ditte, G. N. E. Purchase, PA P. MANCHESTER, MA/ 13. V tic" STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are--Birkenbe ad, shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dia.—East La i rsicD P : r , New Quarters, 4%—Lancashire and Yorkshire (Wes' (11! Union), 3 13-16 dis.—London and North-Westca2, 01 1 ° and Bir.), Quarters, A and B, p.—North stao 2 3 / 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 dis. HULL, MAT 13. 0 1 :1 INlroji STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate , iull , ham, and Boston, %—Great Northern, 31. B s . 6d.—"'" Selby, Halves, 494—North British, Thirds, 235. ,s• CO' NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MAY pl,„/ STOCK EXCHANGI.—The sales are—Nawcastie d g ); o lisle, 110—Ditto, Scrip, 94 p.—Ditto, ditto ( North British, Thirds, 355. dis.—North Statlordsior a u,, 0 Miss n 1 entitled Lii e, by -- ` F ` R r ß E e r d o m r t i E h k ß e a r ' ss Bremer, andrern NBA ers, i siNt author o ur :La. Taleo f l' h , e , 1 .f ll l3 e ep i oew o i gi - ibt.na , bours," " The Home," &c. Translated by M 61.1 bli siie ti from the original manuscript, in 3 vole. , Wee 1 : 1 be b bi ° 1 on Saturday last, by Mr. Colburn, and rosY rl f f ;gelet lat all the libraries. Also just published- 2 . 'r e ' 3 , 4 ' the author of " Emilia Wyndham," &C., 3 i m e ';' s / 3 ': e i Father's Curse; a Daughter's Sacrifice, by ''' c ',WO, 3 vols. 4. Leonora, a Love Story, 3 vols. -' tr , „ e l the Second, an Historical Romance, edited bqielSi o , Ainsworth, Esq.. 3 vols. 6. Adventures of 3 O b i Student, by the late R. Douglas, surgeon, It* I ';'oolt e is 7. Town and Country; or the Days of the iteg reel o f Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols. 8. Mrs. Armytagel ° „ r ' o lat i e 3, Domination, by Mrs. Gore, forming the ne, w , t ,' ort r [ll " Colburn's Standard Novels, " ss. bound, wit bre d r ed [ADVERTISEMENT.] 11V0 Bad Leg N o ,S ef f l: Holloway's Ointment and Pills, after more t' a J e e 'r Years' suffering.—Mrs. Elizabeth Huraphreia fore e,, street, Hull, had been most painfully affi ret h e e th 1 ,6 1 wards of seven years with ulcerated sores Sh e 1,01 ' O O l her sufferings at times were dreadful. S he of eli ffec‘ almost every remedy, and received the adfil'a to e , f 1; of the first surgeons in Yorkshire, yet all f , 11 1 %,` e oin ti :aii, a cure until she used Holloway's invalusurh sou" ; of and pills, the astonishing powers of w h en l ot i tie te eli o o:: healed every wound. She is now in the the best of health, and enabled to walk a boat o etir l with ease and comfort. Sold by all drugg ie s od. of Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, 5 1/0 0 1 .jop EXTRAORDINARY ADVANCE IN Tl ll4 B il ' i 'OW MARYLEBONE.—At the Marylebone vestrY u e l'be ' t oe the rates were figured for the ear ensuing' a the Got , mated average poor's-rates wer e 117,9 8 ° 4 ' . 113 it t 4/ ; - te lp for repairing and cleansing were estireate ri gh illiue f ele i to meet which and the church-rate a fou r " o the r O e was agreed upon; in addition'to which tw e eh ov ree in were figured to meet the Regent's-park e l l ) viol" V" Glazier, who highly approved of a large rat e f tli e h ,leo g said that it pained him to the soul to heg 4r a, f : l' e e ~' th e having been taken front the mother 0 ' std wi r e, children, for rates which should have been P,, t tyro!' wealthy. Mr. Standford attributed the gre7 tile to of the parish ra t es to t h e crue l conduc t e i g rste to ti; landlords, who compelled their tenants to O r o ; ho t ola this country, and quarter themselves 11P°13,0 scot t heir The parish is indebted 20,000/. to Sir C'" der] of 0 1 Co. Mr. Nicolay moved a resolution laaci li n d 11. , e ref t/ , two representatives, Lord Dudley Stuart , " t oe ie' 0 0 jamin Hall, Bart., for their watchfulness or le stri:j e cl iii of the borough, and also expressive of the who sl o pe titude to the other Members of Parliaraetbe rel i ° lessening the taxation of the country- ' - orte w Co o6 was seconded and most enthusiastically suPpect d, t o mittee oa the New Houses of Parliament r ee t ( jut el their first report printed on Saturday , ° B ode 1 ,,, , 0PJ Whitsuntide recess some alterations he .. h irli o e o s kitchen and dining-room, the expense h er "recourocei be about 1601. The Committee furt,, dee 01 0 " That the patronage of the housekeePerht.at'`"4; should vest, as it now does, in the Serg e a 0 9 but a Sessional Committee should be ner ue o rstli e mencement of each session, to control the ij itii r " It ' ' of the kitchen and eating departments- v 5...-- ti LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR C. NAr l ZGetieloir,,e expected that the gallant Lieutenanb 0 a tP .., Charles Napier, G.C.8., would shorti).„Pr'oo,e„sue'd Portsmouth, a meeting was called by °i d die l' o o o o 7 mayor, on a requisition, signed by we l l „ n ose e lareff e e, tial inhabitants of Portsmouth, for the P. 1 1 , 101 Au 0 00 h i into consideration the presenting him ITl‘l' ile ly 0' 0 01" congratulation. The meeting was DUll 3 e r° . " 000 1 and a committee nominated to prepar e it, ee , presented when the opportunity IlltY c ' cctin if' I O f '4 BIRTHS. w ife Ed On the Bth inst., at New Bond-street , the or Phillips of a daughter. wife et' On the Oth inst., at Ashby-de-la-Zouc , b the A ) 0' o Mammatt, &q., of a son. e pos On the 10th inst., at Cottage-grove, Mile' o oe' e l of 1 00 W. B. Bathurst, of a daughter. S he' irt On the 12th inst., at Bankside, Mrs. D. , opto ~f , l, ; On the 11th inst., at Windsor, the lady 0 . ~ , 4 ,11. - Mackinnon, Coldstream Guards, of a cf On the 11th inst., at Gower-street, the rife v r ife of a daughter. daughtellf pr. Y i , t. tb e if On the 11th inst., in Upper Purley - of f At , H. Dickinson, Esq., of a daughter. t h e oil' ° ill° On the 11th inst., at Lower Tooting, d-ncl asrei Gudesdon Esq., of a daughter. dn e for wi o fe n et tli G e:l J 2 . t j h . l A n i s e t. i , r, a E t e C q tar e l f u e tt d e- e s u t a re h e t t e , r. se re ' ver eels i ti , l mARATZD. eh , ilau e the ari On the 11th inst., at St. Georg e's Chur ._ ef - to , the Hon John Arbuthnot Scene, CaliPttiseile'ttlie_t! Brigade, to Mary Jane, youngest.daufars Bar Csr sister of the present, Sir Hugh Palliser idg e 'd 8 5 ' DIED. • htshr $ 0 0 tail?' On the Bth inst., in Prince's -but i lcfngs , gcl• npatuhleABnththoinnsyt.s, taatniTpar7voofrt-hteer6r.oatche, lignelcgloiarpeep,,s pool _ote- OP f flew' tot ,, Jones, Esq. Ir E - s s ci t 4eot ' 151ip . g : e s, / ; P4l, On the 1 t o ll hi ins. s t., C , i h n a L r 1 e o s w E e r b I r e 1 , r e SOO Eden, aged 46. D i u BDO .0 71t0 1 EliOznabtehteh,lNNo-tihfe oinfsb"r. London: Printed and Published 124_ 8 „,,, Olio at hLoamnadspectrat-iitoevirraa;, , R., ,,,T._______ 4 , o - - 4 , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at j_g_°_ cy , in Strand, in the Precinct of the ICAV Bliddloats, Mond y, UV 15 8 1848. EXECUTION Or MICHAEL STOLE/.—YORK, SATUR DAY AFTEANOON.—The wretched culprit, Michael Stokes, a private in the 47th Regiment of Foot, who has been awaiting death in the castle of this city since the assizes in March, underwent his awful sentence on the at noon. It will b e recollected that public drop this day on the evening of the 20th of last January, Stokes fired a loaded musket at Mary Garrad, the wife of one of his comrades, in Leeds barracks. The unfortunate woman died immediately, and Stokes was tried before Mr. Baron Rolfe, at the York March assizes, and sentenced to die. A point of law, however, was reserved for the considera tion of the fifteen judges, and the execution was ac cordingly stayed. The question came before the judges on the Ist instant, and they decided that the conviction was good. Mr. Pattison paired off with Mr. W. Miles in favour of Mr. Wood's motion for a Committee of in quiry respecting the borough of Stamford. LIABILITTEX.