The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-28 00:00:00

E~ ins an at, sh Na s ?' "3 to ig Id, on w e lowed the for so me no &O e ' Jvy Est'' dF, in. we forbear. ion INlenv , atten" 'i n the h e Sun , deSig n qUartre: aegoOn ovemo :e see° ble, s passe j jpeedic ot the MORNING EDITION IMPERIAL. PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 27. The LOhll CHANCELLOR t .O c his scat on the Woolsack It4ve o'clock. A r ne''...ge from the Commons brought up several Privl:ie STATE OF IRELAND. gay Marquis of WE STME ATH said, that he had this y read, in the usual (thane's of public information, what i'ss stated to be a l etter from t h e N o bl e M arq uis at the 471 of tht Home Department. But he could not belii.ve t i l e be genuine until h e h e ard the Noble Marquis himself M ay S o. In that letter (if genuine) the Noble Marquis had styled a Roman Catholic priest the Catholic Rector" of a Parish within the dominions of the Protestant Sovereign of these realms, contrary to the constitution and the re cent laws of the land. The Marquis of NORNIA NB? said that he had !co the publication to which the Noble Marquis illoosite referred. He had written a letter, to the bcaret reported, to the Earl of Ross, but in that letter he ed interldisd to speak of a Roman Catholic priest, and if N1 .. 4 , eel the words " Catholic rector," objected to by the ( ,`'cle Marquis, he did so only through a mistake.— % Hear, hear," and a laugh.) He was not aware th at he had done so. Indeed, he believed he had not. But he could only say that if he did, it Was through a mistake, for which he was very e lo rry--( Hear.) He would take that opportunity of 'aaing an explanation as to what had fallen on a former eight from the Noble Earl opposite, who was connected trith the king's County. He (the Marquis of Normanby) a ad Stated th a t M r . Bidd u lph had approved of the panel `bosen for the Jury to try the persons accused of an attemp t t o murder him. Now he (the Noble Mar quis) would read the statements of the gentle r,l,l,art from whom he had derived his information. n lhe Noble Marquis then read a letter from the Solic!tor kseneral of Ireland, affirming that the statement relating to Mr. Biddulph was ent'rely correct, not only to his own r ecollection, but to that of all the Counsel engaged in the cause. The Learned Gentleman enclosed letters con armatory of his statement from those Counsel and others, to the number of five, named Messrs. Berrick, Black, Oak, and Corharis. They stated that Mr. Biddulph did actually approve of the Jury sworn at Tullamore, and in s uchexpress terms as t o say t h ere were on ly t wo men upon . Jury whom he would wish not to be on it ; yet he was s atisfied if a case was made out before them they would find liast verdict--his only objection t o teem was that they were 10 Ittit politicians. After he had read these letters, he di d not think it was necessary for him to say one word "ore in defence of the Law Officers of the Crown. He *ould only remind their Lordships that all these ineon l'eniences and waste of time arose out of a motion relative lopreceejings in a Court of Justice yet pending. Earl CHARLE VILLE complained of the want of courtesy on the Fart of the Noble Marquis (Normanby) in not having given him notice of his intention to brieg forward the case, however , unpre pared as he was , h e trusted their Lordships would allow him to defend himself as best he could. All they wanted R" to have the same privileges as the next of kin had in this country, viz., to prosecute the murderers of their rela. ti 'm• He bad not brought forward the matter oe the single case of Mr. Biddulph, but upon general principles, and he illustrated his siew by that case, but he had taken care not to 'tPress any opinion of the conduct of the Jury in that case. The Noble Marvis had not been able to contradict bis I tatement on a former evening, that three Ribbonmen, e ach of them holding a high office in that illegal body, Isere upon that panel. Mr. Biddulph was ignorant of the abaracter of those men; so perhaps was every Magistrate Of the county, himself( Lord Charleville), from whom the Gover nm e n t m i g ht h a v e had the information if they b ad received what was offered to them. These men were m embers of the Committee of Ribbonmen, and : l ,`lcY might h-vc been the persons who issued the order to murder Mr. Biddulph. The Noble Lord then read a letter from that gentleman to himself, ucpugeing the general accuracy of Lord Normanby's St atements„, in this House in reply to the Noble Earl. The Noble Earl said that he had yesterday received letter from the County of Limerick, which would 'bow their Lordships the peaceful state of that county. T he letter stated that a murder bad just been corn ranted, and that there had been within a few days two "acks upon the police, whose lives were endangered by the violence of the mob who assailed them. He thought i t was no more than what was due to the Lord Lieutenant °f Ir e l an d to state , t h at h e h a d rece i ve d a l e tt er f rom hi s ~, v eseellenev, assuring him that in the whole of the corre 'Ponclence which had passed between them he would find i ce lett er mar k e d " pr i vate " or " con fid en ti a l," an d th a t if ' i t , (the L o rd Lieut e n a nt) had receivel such a letter no- I cing could have induced him to make public reference to it. The Earl of WICKLOW wished to bring the House back to th e quest i on , w hi c h was th e excu lp a ti on o f th e l aw-officers of the Crown. After the levers which had been read, he felt bound to say the Noble Marquis (Normanby) t 'as fully justified in the statements with respect to the e ase of Mr. Biddulph, with which he had favoured the House. Th e Ma r quis of NORMANBY defended himself from the charge of a want of courtesy, for he had that morning written to the Noble Earl giving him notice of his intention to make the statement.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He would not follow the Noble Lord 'brout.th the various topics introduced by him in his speech, hut be appeared to be %sell prepared With every document necessary for this long !Peech. He would only say that he could not acquiesce 14 the Etitcmerit, that there were three Ribbon ,..tll on the Jury in Mr. Biddulp'a's case. He 'Co mplained t of the publication of the letter to Lord Rosse, but it was moved for and ordered to be pro duced on a motion made at the request of the Noble Earl himself. Earl CHARLEVILLE said what Lord Rosso er , m pl ai fled of was that the Government had not communicated with him when his letter war ordered to he returned to that Howe. With respect to the note of The Noble NlarquiF, it gave him no information—" Read, read," from the Marquis of Normanby)—it was very short. —" The Marquis of Normanby presents his compb clents to Earl Charleville, and begs to inform him that he intends to make a statement at the sitting of the luse, which Lord Charleville would probably like to present at." Now had it been " that he would like ro hear," he would have thought it was some announcement '4 consequence of what had taken place in another place. ( Loud lauglirer.) The Marquis of WESTMEATH thought the letters r ead by the Noble Marquis fully bore out the statement of Mr. Biddulph. WEST INDIA PACKET STATIONS. The Earl of FA le NI OUT H presented several peti time r f rom places in Cornwall, complaining of the remove 13 f the West India packet from Falmouth to Dartmouth, Th e Noble Earl spoke at some length in fa 'four of Falmouth as a packet station. There was dot in reality the saving of time that had been 'opposed in the alteration of the lines; for it had not been taken into account in the repert of the Commissioners of e Admiralty that there were sixteen miles between Uartreouth asd Exeter, which usually occupied an hour and a half in traversing. The Commissioners alleged they had other reasons for the change, but they refrained fro m stating them. He wished these reasons should be Made public. He was persuaded that they would not be found sufficient to justify a removal of the packet station from a pert at which it had been established for upwards °f two hundred years, to a port which had never before been thought of. He had no personal intetest in the mat ter, as h; had no property within eight or tea mile, of Falmouth, but he wished to consult the public benefit ; he . Yished for a fair inquiry into the merits of the whole sub- Ject. The case was of the utmost importance to the corn- Mereial interest at lerge. The Noble Eerl then pre letted a petition from Truro, praying for an inquiry into tilt reasons for removing the mail-packet from Falmouth. Viscount MELBOURNE said that on the mere pre. l entation of a petition he believed it would bo unneces ';'ry for him to enter into any lengthened observations on the subject introduced by the Noble Earl opposite. No 4 tubt considerabl.2 interest was felt on the matter in Dc- Zen; but after the inquiries of a competent Commissioner, be thought it was the duty of the Government to abide °Y their decision. Three gentlemen had been appointed to make a report on the subject, and the Admiralty had merely acted on their recommendation. It should also be remembered that the packets of the Company were es tablished at Southampton ; and all that the Government did was to order th a t t h e ma i ls should be taken i n at D artmout h. The Noble Earl had found fault with the Commissioners because they had not r e p orte d on the several ports w hi c h they had examine] ; but he (Lord Melbourne) was of ()pinion they had fully discharged th e d uty i mpose d on t hem by reporting the statics they had thought proper to r ecommend. But, even though Dartmouth were not the beat port, he thought their Lordships would not be pre- Pared to sanctior any alteration in an arrangeme nt whi c h dad been come to offer due inquiry. The Earl of MINTO observed that the arrangement would not effect the packets stationed at Falmouth, which would be continued there ; it merely effected an . alteration 1,1 the place at whi c h t h e moils should be taken in. Lord ASHBURTON expressed an opinion that Southampton was, on the whole, the most advantageous •stat ion. Viscount MELVILLE was surprised that Dartmouth had been selected ; he thought it would have been easy to find some more advantageous station. The Earl of FALMOUTH, after a few words in ex- Dlanation, moved for a copy of t h e R e port of the Com missioners appointed toinquire i nto the port to be selected for the departure and arrival of the West India mails, and at copy of the papers referred to in the Report.—Agreed to. On the motion of the Marquis of NORMA NB Y the fur ther consideration of the Borough I mprovements Bill, and the Drainage Bill. was postponed till Friday. The Eastern Counties Railway Bill was read a third tim e . Their Lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Apnrz 27. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual beur., Tlie Slough and Colnbrook Road Bill, the Accrington 'Gas Bill, and the Birkenhead Gas Bills, were read a third time and passed. Mr. TANCRED presented numerous petitions from Congregations of Dissenters, praying for the abolition of Church Rates. _ . Mr. R. HILL presented several petitions, praying for Church Extension. Colonel CONOLLY presented a petition from the Grand Jury of Donegal against the Government Regis tration Bill, and in favour of that introduced by Lord Statiley. Also six petitions from Presbyterian Congre gations in the north of Ireland, praying for the abolition of l ay patronage in the Church of z.icotland. The O'CONNOR DON presented a petition from Rog ' cotillion against Lord Stanley's Bill, and in favour of the G overnment Registration Bill. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from Bandon against the repeal of the Corn-'aws ; also two petitions zgainst lay patronage in the Claurcli of Scot land and one praying that the power of the Poor-law - onarnissiovers might be abolished ; and one in favour of Ford Stanle):s Bill, TURNPIKE ACTS. Mr. JARVIS brought in a Bill to amend the Gmerai Turnpike Acts, which was read a first time. CORN-LAWS. Mr. COMPTON presented several petitions in favour of the existing system of Corn-law=, but the designations of the petitioners were not heard in the gallery. Mr. V. A ST 1-1 OPE presented petitions against Church rates from numerous congregations of Dissenters in Essex, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Sussex, and other parts of England. Lord ELIOT presented petitions from places in Corn wall, against the removal of the packet station from Fal- mouth to Dartmouth. Mr. G. PALMER presented a petition from Lambeth, against any change of the existing Corn-laws. Several petitions against Church-rates and Corn-laws, were then presented. Sir R. BA TESON presented petitions from places in the North of Ireland, against lay patrotaig? in the Church of Scotland. Mr PROTHE ROE presented a petition from Halifax agairat Church-rates; also a petition from the same place against a repeul of the legislative Union of Great Britain and lieland ; and a petition from Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. I'. PARKER presented a petition from Preston, praying for a repeal of the duties upon sugar, tea, and coffee, and of the Core_laws. Mr. M LINTZ presented pwitions from Birmiagham against Church-rates, Ecclesiastical Courts, and Corn- la a•s. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from an individual, chose name we did not hear, complaining of abuses in the Court of Chancery. Mr. BUCK presented a petition from a place in Devon in favour cf Church Extension. Mr. T. D UNCOMBE presented a petition from a Polish refugee, praying for a better distribution of the prop( rty allowed for the support of the Polish emigrants ; also a petition from Mr. Vincent, who bad been for twenty months a political prisoner, stating that the country took no interest in the proceedings of Parliament, against the Bills of Lord Stanley and Lord Morpt th, and praying for Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, a division of the country into electoral districts, and Vote by Ballot, as the proper remedies for the grievances of the people. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition against Sun day traffic on railways; also 32 petitions in favour of Church Extension from places in Devon, Stiffurd, Rut land, Gloucester, Southampton, Bucks, Lancaster, War- Essex, Lincoln. and 'other counties. KING'S COUNTY ELECTION. The following Members were sworn at the table, to try the mtrits of the petition against the return of Mr. Arm strong for the King's County.—The Hon. E. Yorke, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. Bethell, Poise, Mr. W. Pattcn, and Mr. E. Palmer. Mr. BA RNEBY presented several petitions from Wor cestershire in favour of Church Extension. Mr. HAMILTON presented a petition from Buck inghamshire to the tame effect. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from certain eminent members of the Society of Friends against Church-rates ; also a petition from the County of Devon for the release of Mr. Baines, and against the ap plication of any public money to the purpose of Church extension. Air. C. WOOD presented a petition, signed by 6,300 inhabitants of the borough of Halifax, in favour of a re- vision of the import duties. Mr. EASTHOPE gave notice that he would on the 11th of May move for leave to bring in a Bill for the Abe- lition of Church-rates. Mr. MACLEAN wished to ask the Under Secretary for the Home Department, whether any Report had been as yet received from the Select Committee on the Anatomy Act. Mr. FOX MAULE said that be had not yet received the Report, abhough he had applied for it. Mr. MA CL EA N gave not:ce that he would on this day week move for cerialt returns rtloting to the operation of the Act, if no further information should be previously laid before the House. THE WEST INDIA PACKET STATION. Mr. FRESHFIELD moved for the appointment cf a Select Committee on the port of departure and arrival of the West India mails, to which shall be referred the Re- Forts of the Committee appointed by the Lords of the Ad miralty to inquire as to the comparatise advantages afforded by the different ports in the Channel for the West India mail service. He thought he might expect the vote of the Judge Advocate, and he was prepared to hear from him an eloquent speech in support of his motion. It was also quite impossible that he should not have the vote of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His motion was one for inquiry, and he would be content to leave the selection of the Committee to the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies, whose connection with Devonshire must render him interested in the subject. Sir C. LEMON seconded the motion. There ap peared to be a determination in the Board of Admiralty to abide by the decision of the Commissioners whatever that decision might be. It struck him that the only ground to come before the House was that there was either something defective in the evidence, or that certain matters lay with out the field of the inquiry of the Commissioners, and that the Governm ,- + the matter into their own hands Mr. H. BERKELEY tho hig_t that it as jusl that the pot rileu str , ,ule be used for the mail station, should be decided by fair competition. He did not say that Brittel ought, par excellence, to be selected as the port of departure for the \Vest Indian mails ; if he said so, he would subject himself to a charge similar to that contained in the old fable of the town be sieged, where every man recommended his own materials as the best. He did not, therefore, recommend Bristol as the test port for the purpose under consideration, but he thought it possessed sufficient advantages to entitle it to be admitted to a fair competition with Dartmouth or Falmouth. One-sixth of the whole of the West Indian commerce was represented by Bristol. That port, also, was more central than the others mentioned, and it had a supply of coals of the very first quality, and to any extent. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would state the course which he intended to pursue. Mr. O'CONNELL thought he had a right to be heard first. The question was as to which harbour should be selected, Now, he thought the Shannon had some claim. —(Order, order, and a laugh.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there was scarcely anything more disagreeable to the Go vernment than personal applications of this kind. Fal -1 mouth had been objected to by a large body of persons connected with the West Indies, and Devonport was greatly preferred. He had not the power of fixing the ports from which the owners of the packets might desire to sail their vessels. They might sail from the port of London, if they pleased.—( Hear, hear.) All he had to do was to select the port at which he would allow the mails to be embarked. The Government had not to take into account the local interests of particular parts of the coun try, but to regard only the general Interests of the public. Two gentlemen, Sir James Gordon and a gentleman connected with the Post-office, had been appointed to ex amine and make inquiries. Their Report had given great dissatisfaction it. some quarters. But, after the fullest in quiry, the Government had come to the opinion th.t Dart mouth was the most eligible place within the Channel. They could not, consistent with their contract, have made choice of Bristol a 3 the packet station. He opposed the moti{in. Mr. MILES supported the motion, and concurred in the observations of his Hon. Colleague (Mr. H. Berkeley). Sir H. VIVIAN thought that the Commissioners had reported in error. Instead of the distance being in favour of Dartmouth. there was actually a difference of one hour in favour of Falmouth. It was on account of the mis takes made by the Commissioners he was desirous of the appointment cf a Committee of inquiry, and should support the motion. Lard INGESTRIE thought that the claims of the city of Bristol were deserving of consideration, and that the port of departure ought not to be finally determined on without a Committee of Inquiry. The south of Ire land also had strong claims to be considered in respect to this question—( Hear, hear)—and it was important for the maintenance of the Union, which he hoped would never be dissolved, that the interests of that country should not be overlooked amidst the conflicting claims of different parts of England. Mr. J. IRVING was understood to say that there was no ground of complaint against the choice made of Dartmouth, and he hoped that if the Committee was gone into, the result of its inquiries would be to confirm that choice. Mr. O'CONNEL L said that there were no parts so eligible as those on the South-West coast of Ireland, for instance, Cork, Valentia, and Beerhaven. The advan tages of these ports would be greatly increased by the corn pletion contemplated railways. The passage from Hali fax, Nova Scotia, to Valentia, in the county of Cork, had been made in seven days, but it could be done regularly in nine days at the furthest. Lord ELIOT thought that there were good grounds for a Committee, and he supported the motion. Mr. HUME said that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had appeared to him to have taken the best means of avoiding partiality in the selection of a port, and he considered that a Committee was unnecessary. He thought a Commission of five would be the best way of settling the question. Lord DUNCAN thought it a most inconvenient ar rangement that the packets should sail from Southampton and the mails be put on board at Dartmouth, He also thought a Commission of five would be better than a Com mission of three. Col. SE A.L E defended the appointment of Dartmou as a mail station. was not afraid of the competition of the port of bartmoutla with any port in the Channel. There wars no obstruction or bar in the harbour. It was true that it was narrow, but that constituted the safety of the vessels.—( Loud cries of " Question, question.") Mr. FRESHFIELD replied. After which strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided— For the motion Against it 50 Majoitv —4 COURTS OF LAW. Tha SOLICITOR . GENFRALthenmo ve d fur the. ap. pointntent of a Committee, to consider the expediency of electing a building in the neighbourhoodof the lonsof Court for the sittings of the Courts of Law• and Equity, in lieu of the present Courts adjoining to Weaminster Hall, with a view to the more speedy, c:navenient, and effectual ad• nainistratration of justice.—( Hear, hear.) H e d i d net know of any set of gentlemen in the kingdom who were less accustomed to associate than the solicitors. They had submitted to this inconvenient situation of the Courts of Law tor many years, and he believed that nothing but its overwhelming inconvenience had induced them to asso ciate to remov e it. It might be said they sought the charge for their own convenience. It might be so, but the convenienc e of the solicitor was for the advantage of the client. He was at first opposed to the proposition, but on further consideration he believed that the arguments against it only required to be stated at length to expose their fallibility. Wben the site of the Houses of Parlia ment was under consideration, it was stated that it might bo advantageously separated from that of the Courts of Law, and he believed it would he found this would be the TilE SI'N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1841 case. So great was the inconvenience felt at present, that Counsel were oViged to postpone the most important matters relative to pleading until after Term, when the Courts adjourned to Lincoln's Inn. Moreover, the present Courts were inconvenient for want of room. When Sir John Soane was desired to design a plan for the Courts of Law, he proposed two plans, with neither of which he was satisfied : but the cheapest of which was adopted, much to the annoyance of the architect, who, feel ing his reputation tr be at stake, petitioned the House of Commons against it, but without sueccs , . It was, therefore, not only desirable that the Courts of Law should be removed to a more convenient spot ; but that more convenient Courts should be erected. With respect to the convenience of the situation of the present Courts to those gentlemen who practised before the Houses of' Parliament, that practice was cmfined to very few, and those few were generally almost exclusively engaged in it. It was said it was very convenient to those gentlemen of the law who had the honour of seats in that House, but such a consideration could scarcely form an item in the list of objections, and it was the general practise of these Gen tlemen to return home after the business of the Court:. No.hing thee. remained lut those old histo rical associations, which, however laudable, must not he suffered to weigh against the more substantial grounds of public convenience. Many spots had been named and submitted to Mr. Barry, the architect, but it was found that the best was in Lincoln's Inn-fields. Tnat, however, was a matter for further consideration, and had better be left to a Committee. He submitted this was a question of great importance, and one that from the respec tability of the petitioners was well dese, ving of the conside ration !of the House.—( Hear, hear.) Sir E. WILMOT seconded the motion.—Agreed to. Mr. R. GORDON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to make further provision for facilitating and completing the distribution and rayment of compensation for claims upon the abolition of slavery.—Granted. METROPOLITAN BRIDGES. Sir MATTHEW WOOD presented a petition from the nobility, gentry, bankers, merchants, and other in habitants of the metropolis and its environs, praying the House to adopt some means for opening Waterloo, Southwark, and Vauxhall Budges, free of toils. The Hon. Member then moved for a Select Committee, to tsko into consideration the several plans for the improve ment of the metropolis, concerning which Reports were made to this House in the years 1836, 1833, 1839, and 1840, together with any other plans for the same object, which they may deem worthy of consideration ; and also the petitions presented to this House for the purchase of the interests of the proprietors, of Waterloo, Soutawark, and Vauxhall-bridges, in order to their being immediately opened to the use of the public free from toll; and to re poet their opinion as to the expeeiency of adopting any of the said improvements, and, also, as to the best means of carrying the same into effect.—Granted. CROWN COMMISSIONS. . Mr. HUME moved for a return of the several Corn missions issued by virtue of any letters patent of the Crown, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Seat of the Duchy of Lancaster, since the accession of her present Majesty, distinguishing each class and the amount paid for each Commission; stating the several fees and charges constituting such amount; and also st:►ting to whom the said fees are respectively paid, and what amount to each. Also, an abstract of the number of Commissions of each kind issued in each year, and the aggregate amount of fees and charges received for the same. SEWERS BILL. On the motion of Mr. BETHEL the Sewers Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. The Report on the Administration of Justice Bill ( Re .ircd Annuity to Vicc-Chancellor) was brought up and agreed to. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Nine o'Clock. Acland, Sir T. D. k'Court, Capt Adore, Lord Ainsworth, Peter Alexander, N. tltord, Viscount Antrobus, Edward Arbuthnot, Hon. H Archaall, General Ashley, Lord Ashley, Hon. H. Attwood, W. Attwood, M. Bagot, Hon. W. Bailey, Joseph Bailey, Joseph, jun. Raiilie, Colonel H. Baillie, H. J. Baker, Edward Baldwin, C. B. Baring, F. Bating, H. B. Baring, W. B. Barneby, J. Barrington, Viscount Passer, John . Bateson, Sir It. Bell, Matthew Bentinek, Lord G. R. Blaekburne, I. Blackstone, V. S. Blakeinore, It. Blew terhassett, A. ' 13o:drro, H. G. Bolling, W. iiettiela, Beriah Bradshaw, James It raoiston, T. W. Broadley, H. broadwood, Henry Bro ke, it A B. Brownrigg, J. S. Bruce, Lord B Bruen, Colonel Buck, L. W. Buller, Sir J. Y. Burrell, Sir C. M. Burrouglies, H. Calcratt, J. H. Campbell, Sir H. P. Canning, Sir S. Cantilupe, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Chapman, A. Cholmondeley, H. Christopher, It. A. Chute, W. L. W. Clements, 11, J. Clerk, Sir George Clive, Robert %'oclirane, Sir T. Codrington, C. W. Cole, Hon. A. Compton ' H. C. Conolly, E. % wiper, E. J. Coote, Sir C . opeland, W. Courtenay, Philip Cresswell, Cresswell Crewe, Sir G. Cripps, J. .I)alryinple, Sir A. Darner, Hon. G. )arby, George Darlington, Earl of Dc Horsey, S. H. IBA, Q. Benjamin Dottin, Abel Rous Douglas, Sir C. Douro, Marquis of Doivde,w.,ll. W. outfield, 'l'. D. `_/tigdale, W. S. Dunbar, George I)uncombe, W. Dinicombe, A. i)u t ie, George East, J. Buller Eastnor, Viscount Eaton, R. J. Egerton, W.T. Egerton, Sir P. Egerton, Lord F. Eliot, L otd Ellis, J. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, Amu. 26. PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS (IRELAND) BILL - - (In the Committee ) First Clause (Poor Law Commissioners to certify to the Lord Lieutenant when a Poor-rate shall be established in any county or borough, and upon the Poor-law Commissioners so certifying, the Lord Lieutenant. to declare, that, upon the expiration of one month, this Act shall come into operation, in reference to the Poor Rate regulating the qualification of Voters, and upon the expiration of such calendar month this Act to come into operation, and thenceforward no person to be entitled as a freeholder or leaseholder to be registered as a vo ter for such county, in respect of any freehold or leasehold property in his actual occupation, save as herein provided : ) Amendment proposed, to leave out the words " shall be en titled as a freeholder or leaseholder to be registered as a voter for such county, in respect of any freehold or leasehold pro perty in his actual occupation, save as her ein provided, in order to add the following words, " claiming, under any Act or Acts now in force, to be entitled to be registered and to vote as a Parliamentary Elector for any county, in respect of any freehold or leasehold property in his actual o cupation, shad be deemed to have a beneficial interest therein of the clear yearly value required by such Act or Acts, except as herein after provided :''—Question put, " That the words proposedto be left out stand part of the Clause ."—The Committee di vided. MINORITY—AYES, • Abercromby, G It. r itzroy, Lord Charles ' Acheson, Viscount titzwilliam, G. W. Adam, Sir Charles Fleetwood, H. Aglionhy, H. A. Fort, John Alston, Rowland Fortescue, T. Andover, Viscount French, F. Anson, Hon. Colonel Gillon, W D. Archbold, Robert Gisborne, T. Armstrong, Andrew Gordon, Robert Baines, E. Grattan, .1, Bannerman, A. Greenaway, Charles Baring, F. T. Greg, It. H, Barnard, E. G. Greig, D. Barry, G. S. Grey, Sir C. Beanoish, F. B. Grey, Sir G. Bellew, It. M. Grosvenor, Lord R. Berkeley, F. H. Grote, G. Berkeley, Grantley Guest, J. Hewes, F. Hall, Sir B. Blackett, C. Hathd.ley, H. Blake, M. J. Hastie, A. Blake, W. J. Hawes, B. Blake, Mark Hawkins, J. H. 131ewitt, Reginald Hayter, W. G. I. xtkiii, John J a mes Heathcoat, J. Bowes, J. Hetnor, C. J. Brabazon, Lord Heneage, E. Bridgman, Hewitt Heron, Sir It. Briscoe, J. I. • Hill, Lord A. M. C. Brodie, W. 1) Hindley, Ci arles Brotherton, J. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Browne, it. 1). Hobhouse, T. B. Brian, George Hodges, T. L. Boner, C. Holland, Rcbert Buller, E. Horsman, Edward Bulwer, Sir E. L. Howard, B. G. Busfeild, Willi am Howard, F. J. Butler, Colonel Howard, P. H. Callaghan, D. Howard, Sir It. Campbell, Sir J. Howard, C. W. G. Campbell, W. F. Humphery, J. arew, Hon. It. S. Hurst, It. H. Cavendish, Hon. C. Hutchins, E. J. Cavendish, G. H. Flutt, W. Chalmers, P. Hutton, It. Chetwynd, Major James, William Chichester, J. P. B. Jervis, J. Childers, J. W. Labouchare, H. Clay, W. Lambton, H. Clayton, Sir W. Langdale, Hon. C. Clements, Lord Leader, J. I'. s live, E. B. Lennox, Lord G. Collier, John Lister, E. C. Collins, NVi'ham Listowel, Earl of Cohohouti, Sir James Loch, James t owper, Hon. W. F. Lushington, C. Craig, W G. Lushington, Hon. S. Crawford, W. Lynch, A. H. Currie, Raikes Macauley, 'l'. B. nalmeny, Lord Macnarnara, W. Dashwood, G. H. M`Taggart, J. Dennistoun, J. Marshall, W. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Marsland, H. Divstt, E.; Martin, J. Duff; James 'Route, Hon. FoX Duke, Sir James Milcimay, P. St. John Duncan, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Duncombe, T. S. Morris, David nuncios, W. D. Morrison, James Dundas, Frederick Muntz, D. F. nuncios, David Murray, A. Easthope, John Muskett, George A. Edwards, Sir .1. Nagle, :sir R. Elliot, Hon. J. E. Noel, C. G. Ellice, A. Norrcys, Sir D. J. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. O'Brien, Cornelius Ellice, E. O'Brien, \V. Smith Ellis, Wynn O'Callaghan, D. Erle, William O'Connell, D. .Ltwall, It. O'Connell, J. Evans, Sir De Lacy O'Connell, M. J. Evans, H. O'Connell, M. .:. , ..vans, W. O'Connor Don Ewart, W. O'Ferrall, It. M. Fazakerley, J. N. Ord, W. Fenton, John Oswald, James Ferguson, Sir Robert Paget, Lord A. Ferguson, Colonel Paget, F. Fielden, J. Palmer, C. F. Pitzalan, ..,ord Palmerston, Viset. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Parker, John I• • "Parnell, Sir H. Pattison, J. Pease, Joseph Pechell, Captain Pendarves, E. W. Phillipps, Sir It. P. Philips, M. Phillips, G. Phillpotts, J. Pigot, D. It. Pinney, W. Ponsonby, C. Ponsonby, Hon. J. Power, James Price, Sir It Prot heroe, Edward Pryme, G. Itamsbottoin, J. Rawdon, J. D. Redington, T. Y. Rice, E. B. Rich, Henry Roche, E. It Roche, W. Itumbold, C. E. Rundle, J. Russell, Lord John Russell, Lord Charles Rutherfurd, A. Salwey, Colonel Sanford, E. A. Scholetield, J. Serape, G. P. Seymour, Lord Sharpe, General Sheil, It. L. Slaney, It. A. Smith, John Abel Smith, Smith, G. R. Smith, R. Vernon Somers, J. P. Standish, C. Stansfield, W. R. C. Staunton, Sir G. T. Stewart, James Stock, Dr. Strickland, Sir G. Strutt, Edward Stuart, Lord James Stuart, Villiers Style, Sir Charles Surrey, Earl of Talbot, C. It. M. Talbot, J. H. Tanered, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Troubridge, Sir T. Turner, Edmund Verney, Sir H. Villiers, Charles P. Vivian, Major C. Vivian, John H. Vivian, Sir R. Wakley, Thomas Walker, R. Wallace, K Warburton, H. Ward, H. G. Wemyss, J. C. Westenra, Hon. H. Westenra, Hon. J. White, Colonel H. White, Luke White, Samuel Wilbraham, G. Willie, Sir Thomas Williams, W. Wilshrre, W. Wilmington, Sir T. Winnington, H. J. Wood, Sir Matthew Wood, G. W. Wood, B. Worsley, Lord Wrightson, W. B. Wyse, Thomas Yates, J. A. - TELLERS. Stanley, I. J. ufnell, 11. JORITY—NOES, Estcourt, T. G. B. Farnham, E. B. Farraud, Robert Fector, J. H. Feilden, W. Fellowes, Edward Filmer, Sir Edward Fitzroy, Hon. H. Fleming, J. Foley, E. T. Follett, Sir William Fox, S Fremantle, Sir T. Freshfleld, J. W. Gaskell, James Millies Gladstone, J. N. Gladstone, W. E. Glynne, Sir S. R. Godson, It. Gordon, Hon. W. Gore, O. J. It. (lore, 0. W. Goring, H. 1). Goilburn, Henry Gr.tham, Sir James Grant, Sir A. C. Greene, T. Grimston, Lord Hale, It. Blagdon Halford, H. Hamilton, C. J. B. Hamilton, Lord C. Harcourt, G. G. Harcourt, G. S. Hardinge, Sir H. Hawkes, T. Hayes, Sir E. Hcathcote, Sir W. Heneagc, G W. Henniker, Lord Hepburn, Sir T. B. Herbert, Hon. S. berries, John C. Hill, Sir Rowland Hillsborough, Earl Hinof, J. H. Hodgson, Frederick Hodgson, Richard Hogg, J. W. Holmes, W. A'Co urt Holmes, W. Hope, Hon. C. Hope, H. T. Hope, G. W. Hallam, Lord Houldsworth, T. Houston, George Hughes, NV. B. Hurt, Francis lngestrie, Lord Ingham, Hobert i n ;lis, Sir R. H. Irton, S . Irving, JAI Jackson, Se.; eant James, Sir W. t,. Jenkins, Sir It. Jermyn, Lord Johnstone, Hope Jones, Theobald Relburne, Lord Kemble, Henry Kerrison, Sir E. hnatchbull, Sir E. Knight, H. G. Knightley, Sir C. Laseelles, W. S. Law, Hon. C. E. Lemon, Sir C. Lennox, Lord A. Lincoln, Earl of Litton, Ecward Lockhart, A. INI. Long, W. Lowther, 'nlonel Lowther, Viscount Lucas, E. Lygon, Hon. Gen. Mackinnon, NV. A. Maclean, Di mahon, Lord Mars and, T. Marton, George Master, Colonel Mathew, G. B. Maunsell, T. .P. Meynell, H. Miles, P. S. 291. Miller, W. h. ',tithes, Richard Monypenny T. G. Mortiaunt, 1 . Morgan, Octavius Neeld, Joseph Neeld, John Nichol', J. Norreys, Lord Northland, Lord Ossulston, Lord Owen, Sir Johr Packe, C. W. Pakington, J. S. Palir.er, Robert Palmer, George Parker, Montague Parker, It. T. Parker, T. A. W. Patten, Wilson Peel, Hon. Sir it Peel, Colonel J. Pemberton, Thomas Perceval, Colonel rigor, [C Planta, J. Plum ptre. J. P. Polhill, Frederick Pollen, Sir J. W. Pollock, Sir F. Powell, Colonel Powerscourt, Lord Praed, W. T. Price, Richard Pringle, A. Pusev, P. Reid, Sir John R. Richards, It. Bickford, W. Rolleston, I. Rose, Sir George Round, C. G. Round, John liushorook, Colonel Rushout, George St. Paul, Horace Sanderson, It. dander', Lord Scarldt, J Y. Sheppard, T. Shirley, E. J. Sibthorp, Colonel Sinclair, Sir George Smith, Abel Smyth, Sir H. Smythe, Hoa. G. Somerset, Lord G. Sotheron, T. E. Stanley, E. Stanley, Lord Stewart, John Sturt, H. C. Sugden, Sir Edward Teignmouth, Lord 'l'ennent, J. E. Thedger, F. Thomas., Colonel Aid. Thorn.2lll, Georza F. ,. Tollemacti, ' 'fornline, GetZg o Trench, Sir F. Trevor, Hon. R. Trotter, J. 'Fyrell, Sir J. T. Vere, Sir C B. Verner, Colonel Villiers, Lord Vivian, J. E. Waddington, H. S. Walsh, Sir John Welby, G. E. Whitmore, T. Wilbraham, Hon. B. Williams, Robert Williams, 'l'. Y. Wilmot, Sir E. Wodehouse, Hon. E. Wood, Colonel Wood, Colonel T. Wyndham, . Wynn, C. %V, Yorke, lion. E. I'. Young, John Young, Sir L. W. TELLERS. Howmk. Lord Wood, C. RS. LIBERALS. Anson, Sir George Barron, H. W. Brocklehurst, J. Ilyng, George Byng, Hon. G. S. Cave, Otway Chapman, Sir M. L. Crawley, S. Crompton, Sir S. Davies, Colonel Dundas, Sir ft. Harland, W. C. Milton, Lord Molesworth, Sit W. Roche, Sir 1). Seale, Sir J. H. Shelburne, Earl of :pencer, Hon. F. Stanley, M. Stanley, Hon. W. Steuart, B. Talfourd, T. Noon T o wnley, Walker, C. A. ABSENT L Bainbridge, E. 'l. Bcnett, John Berkeley, Hin. C. Bernal, H. Cayley, E. S. Corbally, 8.. Denison, W. J. Dotikin Sir Ilufane E us ton, Earl of Fitzgibbon, Hon IL Grattan, Henry Hallyburtou, Lord D. Heatheote, Sir U. Heathcote,_ U. J. Hoskins, K. Hume, J. - ABSENT Bruce, C. H. Druel ritem°"f l'°r, Ir, e o n. G. Ambrose , Kirk, Pe.er,... Lefroy, I) . c (iciddarc- LIBERALS WHO VOTE: Ainsworth, Peter Basset, Joh❑ thitidas, llou. J. ANALYSIS Of DIVISI NI O AllE Voted for Lord Hortick's Amei Pair 3 Voted against :: ~,,,, Pairs Absent Liberals .. Absent Tories ........ Speaker .......................... . Nottingham vacant TORIES. Manners, Lerd C. Lowther, J. H. Griinsditch, Thomas Davenport, J. Colquheun, J. C. Burdett, Sir F. Bruges, W. H. L. Blair, James Jones, John kcland, I. D. Cartwright, W. L. Dungannon, Lord Granby, Marquis of Burr, Iliglord orry, Right lion. H Spry, Sir S. T Jones, Wilson Vernon, Granville Maidstone, Lord Liddell, H. I'. MacKenzie, W. F. Kelly, Fitzroy Bagge, W. Kerr, D. BERALS. Jervis, Swynfen Johnson, General Langton, Col. G. Maher, John Martin, Thomas B. It! elgu , d, Lord Moreton, A. H. O'Connell, M. J. Pryse, P. Rippon, C. Strangways, J. G. Somerville, Sir W. Tavistock, Marquis Turner, William Wall, C. B. White, A. TORIES. Mackenzie, T. Miles, W. Morgan, C. M. Ric, S r William Shaw, Frederick WITH LORD HOWICK. klowick, Lord Lemon, Sir C. Wood, C. ON LORD HOWICK'S /NIENT. dment '293 0 4 -- 317 272 24 296 32 ~ 1 633 THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. 'This magnificent line of railroad is fast approaching completion. The most strenuous exertions are being made for the ac complishment of that desirable object, and the opening of the line in June or July, so conducive; it is to be hoped, to the prosperity of Bath cad Btistol Alercizry. HORSE RAILWAYS. Once on a time there was a certain ancient vender of fish who was in the habit of tramping from place to place, carrying his merchandise on an ass with a couple of panniers, into one of which the old codger used to pack his fish, while in the other, by way of counterpoise he would stow an equal weight of stones. One day, a neighbour, who had some brains in his head, remon strated with our itinerant hawker of marine merchandise on the absurdity of his conduct, and endeavoured to prove to him that it would be much better to put fish into both panniers and dispense with the stones alto gether, as his ass would then be able to carry twice the quantity of fish, or the same quantity with twice the ease. The fishmonger, who was a great stickler for good old customs, and had a profound veneration for the wisdom of our ancestors, either could not or would not comprehend the logic of his reforming neighbour, and told him that his plan might do for any thing he knew, but that his father and grandfather used to carry fish in one `tinnier and stones in the other, and he was determined to do the same as long as he as he hated all new-fangled notions as he hated the devil. We have often been reminded of this story, on wit nessing the dogged obstinacy and infatuation with which people are apt to cling to old "and absurd usages, and to resist the adoption of simpler and more effectua methois of accomplishing their purpose. The effect of iron rails, or of stone ways, in reducing the friction of carriage wheels, has been known for half a century, probably much longer ; and yet even on long lines of road, where there is a dead level, carriages continue t 3 " drag their slow length along," at the rate of five or six miles an hour. when, by the simple application of rails, they might with equal ease double the speed with four times the load. Since the vast advantage of rails has been so triumphantly proved on that admirable line of road between Liverpool and Manchester, one would have thought that rails would long since have been laid down on common roads wherever the line was adapted for the purpose, and yet we are not aware that there is a single turnpike, or other road, on which the experiment has been made. Can it be possible that at this time of day men who have an interest in turnpike roads arc ignorant of the wonderful advantage in power and speed which a horse derives from travelling over a road where iron or stone tracks are laid down ? In the Library of Useful Knowledge there is a sepa rate treatise on the subject of the horse, in which it is stated that, on a railway, the animal will draw a load ten times heavier than what he can move on a common road ; and in the Sporting Anecdotes an instance of the power of draught on the rail is recorded which is so re markable that we shall here transcribe it entire. " An unparalleled instance of the power of a horse, when assisted by art, was shown near Croydon. The Surrey iron railway being completed, and opened for the carriage of goods all the way from Wandsworth to Mertsham, a bet was made between two gentlemen, that a common horse could draw thirty-six tons for six miles along the road, and that he should draw his weight from a dead pull, as well as turn it round the occasional windings of the road. A number of gen tlemen assembled near Mertsham to see this extra ordinary triumph of art. Twelve waggons loaded with stones, each waggon weighing above three tons, were chained together, and a horse taken promis cuously from the timber-cart of Mr. Harwood, was yoked into the team. Ho started from near the Fox public-house, and drew the immense chain of waggons with apparent ease to near the turnpike at Croydon, a distance of six miles, in one hour and forty-one minutes, which is nearly at the rate of four miles an hour. In the course of this time he stopped four times, to show that it was not by the impetus of the descent that the power was acquired ; and after each stoppage, he drew off the chain of waggons from a dead stop. Having gained his wager, Mr. Banks, the gentleman who laid the bet, directed four more loaded waggons to be added to the cavalcade, with which the same horse again set off with undiminished power ; and still further to show the effect of the railway in facilitating motion, he directed the at tending workmen, to the number of about fifty, to mount on the waggons, and the horse proceeded, with out the least distress, and, in truth, there appeared to be scarcely any limitation to the power of his draught. After the trial, the waggons were taken to the weighing machines, and it appeared that the whole weight stood as follows : TORF. Cwt. Qr. 12 waggons first linked together 3B 4 2 4 waggons afterwards attached l3 2 0 60 labourers, suppose 4 0 0 55 6 2" As connected with this subject we invite the atten tion of our readers to a letter which may be found in another column of ogr journal, signed Observer, the same writer who, in our publication of the 2d instant, recommended a railway for horse carriages on the road between Liverpool and Waterloo. It is not our inten tion to offer any opinion as to the accuracy of our corre spondent's calculations, respecting which our readers may form their own conclusions. He seems very con fident in the correctness of his data, and in the practica bility of his scheme, but no doubt many persons, less sanguine than the projector, will be of opinion that he has not a little overrated its advantage and probable profits, whilst he has underrated the expenses with r hich its wear and tear would be accompanied. They will, moreover, be opt to think that he has exaggerated the inconveniences of steam loco motive travelling, whilst he has kept out of sight its im• mense advantages in power and speed, which will neces sarily secure for that mode of conveyance a decided pre ference over horse-power. There is, However, ample scope in the cout.try for steam-carriages and for such conveyance as that suggested by our correspondent ; and, so far from regarding them as rivals, our opinion is, that both may work together for the public con venience, and afford ample remuneration to the respec tive proprietors. Some of our readers may think it strange that, in treating of the subject of railways on turnpikes and common roads, we should have made no allusion to any of the numerous projects for the introduction of steam carriages on such roads. Our reason for the omission is our thorough and long-entertained conviction that loco motive steam-carriages, without guiding rails, will never succeed, as they will necessarily be attended with the most imminent peril to passengers and to the public. We have often avowed this opinion, and we have seen no reason to change it. Such carriages would require the most unremitting c : re and attention on the part of the director, as the most znomentary neglect on his part might prove fatal, as the carr:. l ge , .if moving at a considerable rate, would be off the roan in the twinkling of an eye. Locomotive are admirable contrivances, but carriages on railwaylq n our opinion, be attended without rails they woL:ldp i with the most disastrous L od fatal consequences ; and truly sorry are we that we can arr ive at no other con clusion, as we should be delighted with the substitution of steam and iron for the muscles and sinews of that noble and much abused animal, the hors:.—Liverpool Mercury. THE WEATHER.—NOON, APRIL 27. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer ' Thermometer. .71 I Highest 7t t Lowest ... 56.5 Wind S.W. by W. —Freezing Point 32 Deg. ANOTHER FEMALE 2N DISGUISE. On the morning of Sunday last, about four o'clock, as po• lice-constable -Fiower, T,42, was on duty in the New - road , Hammersmith, he heard a noise in one of a row of unfinished houses on the side of the road, as if some person was asleep therein. On entering the building he discovered in the base ment, concealed up in a corner, what .he took to be a boy, ap parently about twelve years of age, dressed in a cloth jaCket and corduroy trousers. By his side was a bundle, tied up in a large towel, which he said was his own property. His an swers to the questions put to him by the constable being eva sive and unsatisfactory, he was conveyed to the station-house at Brook-green, where his bundle was examined by Sergeant Kelly, the acting inspector who found therein a quartern loaf , ' a basin nearly filled with butter, a knife, two pair of stockings , two towels, a bottle filled with water, and, on searching his clothes, one penny only was found in his possession. Sergeant Kelly then asked him his name, when he said it was Joseph Taylor, that he was thirteen years of age, And resided with his mother at No. 8, Thomas-street, Grosvenor-square. In the course of Sergeant Kelly's inquiries he noticed that the boy's hair had been recently cut, that his features were handsome, and that in figure he much more resembled a girl than a boy, and, on telling him his suspicion, he acknowledged that he was right as respected his sex, and that his Christian name, instead of being Joseph Taylor, was Phials Taylor. She also stated that she had four brothers and sisters, and that her object in adopting the disguise was to walk to the residence of her uncle in Sussex. She left he r home between three and four o'clock in the afternoon ; but the rain commencing when she had reached Hammersmith she went into the new build ing for shelter. Sergeant Kelly immediately communi cated the circumstance to Inspector Morgan, who sent her home to her mother by police constable Earthy, T 103. On reaching Thomas-street, he found she resided as she had stated, and her mother, who had been distracted at her absence in. formed the policeman that the clothes she had on belonged to her brother. The girl in question was her eldest child, and on Saturday, having to go out to work, she left her at home to take care of the other children, and it appeared that, having got her brothers and sisters out of the way, she went to the baker's and got the loaf found on her in her mother's name, a nd then went t o a hairdresser 's shop clos e by, to whom she offered to give her hair, w h i ch was remark abl y tine, if he would cut it s hort. Tne man accepted her offer, and it having been cut she returned home, disguised herself in her brother's clothe', and started off on her journey. On the policeman ask ing the mother the reason of herdoing so she replied that, being a remarkably intellig ent child, a neighbo ur fre q uentl y lent her n ovels to read, and aso she had read the case of " Romance in Real Life" which appeared in the papers a few days since, which seemed greatly to interest her, and she supposed had induced her to undertake a similar adventure. Hops..--The appearance of the bine where hops were grown last 'ear is that of health and vigour, and there are at present very few fleas to weaken them. In the garden% however, where the blight prevailed last sea son the bine looks sickly and much weaker. In the wet lands, as far as can be judged at present, the state of the Wiles is unpromising. The blues in Town Mailing look Imilt l2 9 an d s ong. In Mereworth the Woes are generally , locking well, and there are very few fleas, the moist weather being against the increase of that insect. General repoit speaks very favourably of the appearance of the bines..—Maiti. stone Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. (Additional particulars of Monday's races.) Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each.—Benedetta had a good start, and made all the running to the cords, where Langolee went up, left her without difficulty, and won by a length. Blanche was a respectable third. The winner was claimed. Handicap.—Scroggins took the lead, Bettina lying next, and the others a couple of lengths behind; Remnant went up at the cords, and won very easy by two lengths; Muley Ishmael was beaten off. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs: each.—Oakley made the running, and won easy by a length, the pace very bad to the T. Y. C. post. Revel ran unkindly. Plate.—Like the last race, this was a wretchedly slow affair until they reached the Ab. M. bottom, when Epirus went away to a good pace, and kept the lead until within one hun dred yards of the chair, where Flambeau collared him and beat him easily by two lengths. Epirus was purchased a few days :since for 8001. The match was won cleverly by Amurath, who made the running ; but there was no pace till they got to the bushes. The betting after the race was rather languid, and was un marked by any other changes than the advance of Metternich fur the 2,000 6uineas Stakes, the appearance of Lord Exeter's lot for it (meaning, of course, Cesarewitch), a further im provement in Marshal Soult, and a decline of The Knight of the Whistle, to the extent of five points on the morning's quotation. The last prices were as follows : TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES (THIS DAY). 5 to 1 agst Eringo 3 to 1 agst Ralph 3 to 1 agst Metternich 10 to 1 agst Mustapha 100 to 6 agst Joachim 12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot—taken DERBY. A to 1 agst Scott's lot 9 to 1 agst Coronation—taken 9 to 1 agst Van Amburgh—taken 11 to 1 agst Marshal Soult—taken 14 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc 14 to 1 agst Rosalie colt 18 to 1 agst Eringo—taken 20 to 1 agst Ralph 25 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle—taken 27 to 1 agst Aletternich 1000 to 15 agst Mustapha—taken OAKS. 7 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's two —taken 7 to 1 agst Lampoon 8 to 1 agst Ghuznee 10 to 1 agst Potentia 11 to 1 agst Florence—taken Entry for the Queen's Plate (for mares).—Barbakin. Cur. rency, Maid of Ipcwich, Mountain Sylph, and Silistria. Arrivals.—Duke and Duchess of Beautort, Duke of Port land, Duke of Rutland, Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Mar quis of Exeter; Lords Jersey, Godulphin, J. Fitzroy, Oxford, Stradhroke ; Sir S. Graham ; Hon. General Grosvenor, G. S. 13yng, H. Rous, C. Wortley, G. Fitzroy ; Messrs. Wilson, and Lady, Payne, Portman, S. Stanley, Batson, White, Irby, Gardnor, Hawker, Neville, Cockerell, Crommelin, Thorn hill, jun., Waddington, Newton, Fulwar Craven, Hungerford, Angerstein, Broadhead,Walker, &c. The death of Lady Albert Conyngham, and the debate on the Irish Registration Bill, will account for the absence of several of our regular visitors. The weather is as favourable as could be wished. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) . .. _ _. _ LONDON, APRIL 27.—Wind this day at noon, light airs from S.W.; fine clear weather. DEAL, APRIL 26.—Wind S.W., moderate. Arrivei— Montefiores, Paul, from Calcutta ; Burnhopeside, Pratt, Mau ritius ; Franklin, Virginia; Ontario, New York ; lbis, Oporto ; Henry Bell, westward. Arrived from the River— Maria, for Calcutta; Charleston, for Singapore ; Loyal Briton for Miramichi •, Robert, for Quebec; Thos. Young, for Mon treal; Saucy Lass, westward; her Majesty's ship Cockatrice, for South America. ARRIVED OFF DOVER, APRIL 25.—Guslof, for St. Übes. PORTSMOUTH, Aram 26.—Wind W.S.W. to S.—Arrived —Justina, London for Calcutta; Union, Atkins, from Cork, with loss of bowsprit ; Septina, Cherbourg for Miramichi. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 26.—Arrived, Tagus, M'Leod, from Gibraltar, left April 15th, Cadiz 16th, Lisbon 17th, Oporto 20th; and Vigo 21st. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 26.—Wind S.W.—Put back, Mary, Pill, leaky. FALMOUTH, APRIL 25.—Wind S.S.W. and S.W., fresh gales.—Arrived, Braganza, for Vigo; Daphne, from Guern sey for Montreal. STANGATE CREEK, APRIL 26.—Arrived, Redesdale, Bailey, Mogadore. MARGATE, APRIL 26.—The Venus, Thomas, from Sun derland, got on shore on Foreness Rock this morning, at.d remains. LivEaroot, APRIL 26.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the Bounty, Hall, from Maranham, sailed 17th ult. ; Alec to, Ashford, Jamaica, sailed 11th ult. ; Richard Anderson, char leston ; Elizabeth, Sinclair, New Orleans ; Virginia, Eaton, do. ; Robert Burns, Apalichicola ; Margaret, do. • Lotus, Yea ton, Savannah ; anges, Charleston. Sailed the Albatross, Bowey, for Calcutta; Margaret, Jamaica, not Demerara as before reported. Te Earl Percy loading at Maranham for this port took fire on the 14th ult., burnt to the water's edge, and sank ; she had on board upwards of 1,600 bales of cotton, 400 baskets annatto, some India rubber, oil, &c., nearly the whole of which was destroyed. The destruction of this vessel has caused the promulgation of a report of the burning of the President, and to which allusion may be made in some private letter from this. A few bags of flour and some spars, appa rently belonging to a small vessel, were passed 6th instant, lat. 39. The Maranheuse steamer was totally lost on the Island of St. John's (between Maranham and Pava), previous to sth ult., crew saved. The Napoleon, Sherman, which cleared out for Mobile, 23d ult. for this port, was reported to be on shore on the south end of Sand Island, 25th ult. The Barbadoes was to sail from Nassau for Cork 29th ult. after being repaired. Coal:, APRIL 4.—Arrived the Sir Walter Scott, from Sierra Leone, sailed about Feb. 13 ; Ann and Mary, from Sunderland, for Quebec, with loss of spara, sails, and bul warks. Sailed the John Wesley, for St. John's, New Bruns wick. It blew a hard gale thismorning at N.E., which shi.ted to the north after daylight, and continues. IlEssawavEs, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Orwen, Steele, from Sunderland, for Quebec, having bore up from lou. 20, with loss of bulwarks and cargo shifted. Vessel much strained in her upper works. LLANELLI", APRIL 25.—The Caledonia, Ainsworth, bound to America, is wrecked on the North Ridge. SUNDERLAND, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Protector, from Rottei dam ; Arthur, from do. ; Aspasia, from Hamburg ; Or well, Dordt Arno, ditto; Louisa, Treport. . . HULL, Aram 26.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived the For tuna, from Neuttadt ; Resource, from Memel; Louise, Gotten burg ; Dagger, Hamburgh ; Abus, do. ; Thirsk, do. ?IEATH, APRIL 24.—A piece of American timber, marked in the four squares of the but end, " J. 8.," and in the middle, " N. 5.," has been picked up, off Penzance, and brought in here. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.-The Corsar, bound to Rio Janeiro, 6th ult., lat. 6 N., lon. 24 ; Napoleon, of Baltimore, 26th, lat. 22, lon. 35 ; Queen Victoria, Hull to Miramichi, 20th inst., lat. 48, lon. 10 ; Horseley Hill, supposed for South Australia, lat. 48, lon. 9, by the Montefiores, arrived in the Downs. American ship Thalia, 23d inst., lat. 51, lon. 11, by the Bounty, Hall, arrived at Liverpool. Mountaineer, Sa vannah to Liverpool, 14th, lat. 41, lon. 47 ; Adelaide, Phila delphia to London, 17th, lat. 45, lon. 33, by the Richard An derson, arrived at ditto. Isabella Wood, Newcastle to Con stantinople, 4th inst., off Cape de Galt, Puella, from Liver pool 9th, off Malaga, by the Lord Oakley, arrived at Cadiz. Nymph, Liverpool to Calcutta, 9th ult., lat. 2 N., lon. 21; Java, Bristol to Quebec, 14th, lat. 45, lon. 17 ; Meyellan, of Liverpool, for Lima, 18th, lat. 48, lon. 8, by the Marquis of Lansdowne, arrived in the River. Adolphus, bound to Cal cutta, 30th ult., lat. 38, lon. 13; Legahan, Liverpool to Sin gapore, 31st, lat. 38, lon. 13; Carl Johan, bound to Stock holm, 10th, lat. 43, lon. 12; Kingston, bound to Quebec, 15th, lat. 46, lon. 13 ; Hercules, London to Quebec, 15th, lat. 46, lon. 12 ; Amazon, Waterford to ditto, 16th, lat. 47, lon. 10, by the Ann Pearse, arrived at Guernsey. Derby, of Newcastle, for St. Helena, 7th, lat. 40, lon. 15, by the Swift, arrived in the Downs. Warrior, Ceylon to London, 7th Feb., lat. 35, lon. 21 ; Statesman, from Manilla, 4th ult., lat. 36, lon. 3 ; Barque Hebe, 22d, lat. 4, lon. 21 ; Manilla, from :Manilla, 11th inst.; Doggersbank, Smith, bound to Ba tavia, 27th Dec., lat. 12, lon. 9. UNIVERSALITY OF VEGETABLE LIFE.— Wherever circumstances are compatible with vegetable ex istence, there we find plants arise. It is not only on the luxuriant soil, on which many generations have flourished and decayed, that we find the display of their beauties. The coral island, but recently elevated above the level of the sea, speedily becomes clothed with verdure. From the materials of the most sterile rock, and even from the yet recent cinders and lava of the volcano, nature pre pares the way for vegetable existence. The slightest cre vice or inequality is sufficient to arrest the invisible germs that are always floating in the air; and the humble plants which spring from these soon overspread the surface, de riving their chief nutriment from the atmosphere. Having completed their allotted period of existence they die and decay; but their death is only a preparation for the appearance of higher forms of vegetable structure. They are followed by successive tribes of plants of gradually increasing size and strength; until, in the course of years, the sterile rock is converted into a natural and luxuriant garden, of which the product i o ns, risin g from grasses to shrubs and trees, presen t all the vari eties of the fertile meadow, o th e e x t t a r n e g m l e e s d o th f ic h k e e s t t , o a r n e d ol t d he s w ee id m el t y o r est. ntc vegetation. hee oef y ae fwf t Even hardy d y tra v e llerp lants , l i a n n t t h s put an neistiore ,ei sv stceehrot fi p n l plains refreshedi n of s u s ffi e e t b h n y e t m aterials for their growth in th ese arid • chec k the t orr i a d p p zu e op a no r en ; regions. And wherever a spring of water moistens the soil and atmos phere around, a spot of luxuriant verdure is found.—Pe pular Cyclopmdia of Natural Science. The loss of the President, if that noble vessel be lost, ought not to create any want of confidence in steam navigation, for many of our finest ships of war, of the largest size, and commanded by the most skilful, and, in every respect, the most able of our naval officers, have been lost by foundering at sea, For instance, in 1807, the Blenheim, o f so guns, and the Java • frigate, of 36 guns, both foundered ~off the Isle of Madagascar. and every soul on board perished. The Blenheim bad 700 men on board, and was commanded b the brave, Sir Thomas Trowbridge, one of Nelson's y favourite e ' and who was not only an excellent seaman, of great talent and experience, but an officer of science and inexhaustible resources in only kind of difficulty and danger. On board the Blenheim perished Lord Rose hill and Capt. Elphinstone, the son of the Chairman of the East India Company. Not a particle of either the Blenheim or the Java was ever found or heard of, and the latter had about three hundred men on board, so that in the two vessels a thousand lives were lost. In 1811 the St. George, of 98 guns, and the Defence, of 74 gun!, perished in coming only the short distance of the Baltic to England. The two ships had about fifteen hundred men on board, and of this immense number only eighteen were saved. The St. George bore the flag of Rear-Admiral. Reynolds, an officer of the highest merit, and who, with respect to seamanship, nautical science, experience, and undaunted courageland fortitude, had not his superior in the British navy. The details of the loss of the St. George are truly heart-rending to peruse, even at this distance of time. Scarcely a plank of either of these immense ves sels was ever found or heard of. So numerous were our losses by foundering and wreaks that it was calculated _distill o ne year, 1811, five thousand of our Seamen had perished. —Snnday paper. The public should be on their guard against a large circulation of half guilder pieces of Denserara in London, the size of which is nearly that of the fourpermY piece, whilst ' the value scarcely exceeds three pence. A. large quantity of three-penny . pieces are also in circulation, which, like the former, an labia to be mistaken for.the.four-Penny Pieces. N MORNING EDITIO ~i---.0:. T it : i.m..; : .::.,•," ) POLYTECHNIC INSTITUT 0+ ), c -4. I:\'S, ''' 1,/q-j This magnificent exhibition has been the dini-01 `' - :(„ i -_-,'.•- immense attraction during the holidays. Indepe deift.-=-:.....t. of the extensive museum of rare specimens oli. ibel VdS,W4N: productions of nature and works of art, and the nu merous practical models in operation, there are It number of things to be viewed, each of which might rationally be considered entitled to rank individually as an exhibition worth all the charge for admission, and the different lectures, illustrated with first-rate apparatu , , among which is Mr. Gr een , t h e ce l e b rate d aerona ut's newly-constructed balloon. Thecosmorama comprises a great variety of views, several of which are paintedon glass, and they are very much admired for their brilliancy of effect in their colouring, as are also those which arc produced by the new process called Daguerreotype. There is one view, which at the present moment is likely to command more than ordinary attention, namely, a panoramic view of the city of Canton, painted by a Chinese artist. Then there is the beautiful model of the Isle of Wight. The diving-bell, and the sub marine explosion-experiment, always . proves attractive. One of the most recent introductions to the Institution, and certainly not the least astonishing to the ordinary observer, is that of PHOTOGRAPHY. We remember, not a very great many years ago, an advertisement appearing in several of the morning pa pers announcing that a new discovery bad been made in the mode of taking likene;ses, by which the individual sitting would only be required to sit for a minute, and survey himself in a mirror, and, by a wonderful process the likeness, a veritable copy of the living subject, shculd be arrested, and baked upon the surface, and made a permanent picture for ever. A particular day was named when the wonderful artist was to open to the public at a house in the Strand. The day arrived, and at the hour specified, the vicinity of the residence described Was beset by a vast concourse of people in carriages, and pedestrians of all rank?, all eager to behold what ap peared to be a miraculous achievement of science—and not a few artists went to behold, with sorrow, what they conceived to be the death•knell to their profes sion as portrait painters. The visitors, however, soon discovered that they had been made the victims of a practical joke—the entire matter was a hoax : the wag who had perpetrated the trick got great credit for his address and ingenuity In managing the affair. and. the whole world laughed at and wondered that there could have been any credulous fool found so soft as to have been bitten by an announcement of anything so palpably preposterous. Photography, however, has changed the matter altogether—had it been introduced in the language of mystery, or had it been known in . en age when superstition reigned more povterfully than in our own time, it would have admitted of a most mi raculous interpretation. The description of the Strand hoax would almost in every particular apply to the process of photography. The sitter does not re quire even to look into a mirror ; he is seated at his ease and required to remain only about one minute in the same position, apart from ail apparatus of being touched by anything, and an accu rate miniature likeness in light and shade is produced and furnished in a frame at a small charge. We will not attempt to describe the process at present, further than to state that it is effected by a combination of che mical action and the influence of an optical apparatus upon a finely polished silver surface, which is overlaid a sheet of copper. We saw several likenesses take❑ and can vouch for their accuracy. The existence of such an art, carried out to such perfection, we repeat, could scarcely be accredited. It would require to be seen to be believed. PORTUGAL. By the Tagus steamer, which arrived at Falmouth yesterday with the Peninsula mails, we have received Lisbon papers to the 19th inst. " LissoN, APRIL 19. 4 p. m.—The law and regulations for issuing 600 coutos de reis, 138,0001. sterling, of Exchequer Bills, were published during the past week. They arc as Jul low : "FINANCE DEPARTMENT. " Exercising the power conceded to Government by the 2tl article of this decree of the 20th of March of the present year, I am pleased, having heard my Ministers in Council, to decree the following : " Art. 1. The public Treasury is authorised to make and issue, to the amount of 600 contos de reis, livehequer-bills admissible fer their nominal value as current money, in all the pay arid receiving-offices, in payment of the part not con tracted for of the deeima of the economic year of 1839 to 1840, and other recites due and which may become due up to the 30th of June next ensuing, except those of the Custom house, and those that make part of the foundation of the Board of Public Credit. " 2. The issuing to be made by a series of 200 contos de reis, divided in a certain and determined number of bills of 1,000, 1,500, 5,000 and2o,ooo reis each, which are to be signed by the Finance Minister, and delivered to the Board of Public Credit, to be by it negotiated, as it may think convenient, af,er being completely sealed and registered by the same. " 3. To secure to the holders of these checks their effective amortization, by the revenues assigned for the same, and which are received in the various finance pay and receiving offices, the Board of Public Credit is authorized to effect, by means of purchases in the market, with the product in money of these revenues, the amortizations and destruction of the cheeks, which may not have been entered in the finance pay and receiving offices referred to, and the sums which may be received in the above offices to remain at the disposal of the board, to be applied to the purposes for which they were destined. 6" 4. The Board of Public Credit will make known through the Diario do Governo the amount of the checks which it may receive from the Treasury, agreeably to the second article of the present decree, as also the product of the operations realized both as regards their issuing and their respective destruction and amortization. " "The Minister and Secretary of State for Finance has thu understood, and will cause the same to be executed. . " ' The QUEEN. " Barao do TOJAL. " ' Palace of Necessidades, April 7, 1841.' " The frequent conferences Ministers have had, more espe cially those for the Foreign and Finance Departments, lately at the hotel of the British Envoy, Lord Howard de Walden, have been looked upon by well-thinking persons as too subservient on the part of the individuals in power to foreign influence ; and it is surmised that the renewal of a commercial treaty with England, which is intended to be laid before the Cortes soon after they shall meet on the 25th of next month, as well as the devising of some plan to pay the interest and dividends due to the holders of Portuguese bonds, were the primary objects. "'f he Governor of Portuguese India, M. Lopes Lima, owing to his having published a decree making Goa a free port, and subjecting the importation of opium in bond to a duty of 1 per cent. only, has been recalled ; his successor has not yet been appointed. " The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house and Excise office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of March last, paid in debentures, ex-paper money, and coin, amounts conjointly to 343,179,816 reis, equal to 78,6451. 7s. Id. sterl ing, showing an increase on the preceding month of February of 26,048/. 2s. sterling. " The French Minister at this Court, the Baron de Va rennes, left this for Havre de Grace on leave of absence, in the Tago merchant steamer, on Wednesday last, and the Chrge d'Affaires of the United States ' Sir. Kavanagh, will depart also on leave of absence, by this day's steam-packet, the Tagus, for Boston via England,' 'I he Oporto esiaffette was stopped on the 16th inst., near Carvalhos, and robbed of 320,000 reis (941. sterling. ) Exchange upon London, at thirty days' sight, 534 d. per milree. UNITED STATES. The Richard Anderson,Capt. Barnett, arrived at Liverpool yes terday evening fromCharleston,with papers from that city to the 3d instant. We regret to state that the papers do not contain any news of the President, nor can the captain give any intel i gence whatever of the missing steamer. It is therefore pretty evident that she could not have reached Bermuda, s$ the Richard Anderson has made the very short passage of twenty three days from port to port. The papers brought by the Richard Anderson di* not contain any news of importance. We are hourly looking for the arrival of the Independence and the British Queen, both now due. The following letter was posted in the Underwriters' rooms to-day : "Extract of a Letter received yesterday by Messrs. Craig and Paton from Captain Marr, of the Minerva, at anchor in Loch Sw illy (Ireland), which sailed from this port, for Newfoundland, on the iith inst.:— ' I have had very heavy gales ever since I left Li%erpool, and have made but little progress to the westward, but am glad to say that the Minerva sails remarkably well. " • On Sunday, the lbth inst., lat. O's. 9., long. 10. 17., saw a brig to windward, kith loss of maintop, mast, and sai's, with a signal of distress flying. She bore down upon us at three o'clock, and turned out to be the Mariner's Hope, of Sunderland, Hater, master, arid bound from Sunderland • to Retigouche. The master hailed us, " for God's sake to stay by him," as the vessel was in a sinking state, and try to take them on board, the water by this time being over the hal -1 ist. We were under close-reefed topsails at the time, and a heavy sea running. We accordingly lay by them; and at seven r.m. they launched their long boat, put the crew's clothes into her, and five men came on board ; but the boat was stove, and was not able to proceed to her again. We lay by her all night, and at four o'clock A.M. next day, bore (town Upon her again, but were not able to launch a boat, and as I considered I had not sufficient water for her crew (14 men) and our oWtt, if we had a long passage, I spoke the master, and aAced him what he intended doing. He said he wanted to leave the ship, and come on board, but the sea was running so high that a boat could not live in it. I desired him to keep away, as I would take him into a safe port. He did so, and I brought him safe here. Having lodged my declaration for salvage with ;Messrs. Alexander, of Londonderry, and the wind being fair, I shall proceed to sea immediately. (Signed) " JOHN AIARR.' " THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP, LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING, QUARTER PAST TEN.. We are still without any tidings of this steamer. DIMENSIONS OF THE PRESIDENT AND BRITISH QUEEN. The British Queen and the President were both built at Limehouse. The President is larger than the British Queen. The former is 2,366 tons and the latter ;2,016 tons burden. 'I he other particulars are as follow : British Queen. President. feet, in. feet. ill. Length extreme, from figure-head to taifrail Ditto on tipper deck 245 243 -- Ditto on main deck — _ 224 Ditto of keel Breadth within paddle-boxes Ditto over bends Ditto over all Depth Ditto from spar deck Ditto f: om main deck — 23 6 Power of engines . 5OO horses 600 horses Diameter of cylinders .. Length of stroke ...... 7 ft. 7 ft. 6 in. Diameter of paddle-wheels CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY.—In a recent t Assizes, trial at Carnarvonshire for loss of services, &c. , th e ‘ Aiustotn of the country" in favour of courting in bed, was achrritt.ed to rebut the father's apparent want of caution. "It was not proved," said Justice Williams, " that the father had not shoWn that care and caution in the custody of his child which Welshing xi of his condition should take." THE DISSOLVING VIEWS. If any proof were ts anting that science is the creator of many a refined and delightful amusement, the exhi bition of the Dissolving Views, at the Royal Polytech nic Institution, might be instaaced as a clinching case in point. By the aid of the magnifying powers and light of the oxy-hydrogen microscope, a display of sequent pictures, 18 in number, upon the large disc in the theatre of the establishment, is converted into one of the most attractive and alluring exhibitions possible. The inventors of this new method of magnified illustra tion are Messrs. Cary, the well-known opticians ; and the novelty consists in imperceptibly creating a picture on the canvass, while another picture,. the predecessor of the new corner, as imperceptibly dis appears from the view of the spectator ; and this, be it remembered, on the same surface and without the slightest assistance from transparencies. Most of our readers must have witnessed the annual displays at the theatres of moving dioramas, introduced principally into pantomimes, where a aucces%ion of scenes or events is represented by the canvas being gradually unrolled before the audience. Effect of a similar nature, but totally different in their method of production, are the result of this new invention, the canvas being perfectly still, and the pictures thereon appearing and fading of themselves, and without any apparent cause. The only title, sufficiently compre hensive, that we can apply to this most interesting ex hibition, is that of " natural magic ;" for so extraerdi- I nary are its numerous metamorphoses, that our fore fathers are entitled to a full measure of forgiveness for belief in monkish miracles, if such unaccountable things as these were ever revealed to them by the magicians of old. RIPE STRAWBERRIES.—There is now to be seen in the gardens of the Earl of Lonsdale, at Whitehaven Castle, quantities of fine ripe strawberries, growing in full perfection ; and as they are pulled they are rapidly succeeded by others, many of them weighing neatly an ounce each. It is upwards of a fortnight since they first became ripe, and as they exist in all the intermediate stages between the ripe fruit and the blossom, a regular supply may now be depended on during the season.—Newcastle Journal. THE GENTLEMANLY TORIES.—Sir Thomas Gooch said at Beceles—' 4 If he had his wish, Mr. O'Con nell would have been hanged long ago. It might be thought an uncharitable wish, but it came from the bottom of his heart. What a happy thing it would be to see O'Connell, and many more like him, dancing upon no.. thing s " Was political strife ever disgraced by a greater display of coarse malignity ? And this proceeded from no ignorant ill-educated working man. It was uttered by no needy person, whose temper the world's cold scorn had soured. The deliberate desire to persecute to the death a political opponent was avowed, aye, and the avowal gloried in, by one of England's wealthy 'Squires, one of those who claim for themselves exclusively, the virtue, integrity, and intelligence of the nation I Electors of East Suffolk, let no such men be trusted. The same speaker also, let out the mode by which his party hope to succeed, when he said, aeT:hmoenanemdi evening, " It was very proper that gentlemen of property, if they chose to spend their money to obtain any political object, they should have their due weight ; he did not see how that sort Cf influence was detrimental to the country." —lpswich Express. We regret to state that the Lord Provost was yesterday forenoon taken suddenly ill when attending Di vine Service in the High Church . His Lordship was conducted by some gentlemen to the vestry ; where he i n g fainted, co fotlhelib COINS FOUND NumismaticF s o oo u n ND a after INr Society,recovered, T i iE T,H held A s o :: EhT w tsihhs. a :tu s orrßs c ldi \ o vao n etyfr y eyed in his carriage to his house in the Royal Circus.—Edin burgh Paper. Mr. Charles Roach Smith, F. S.A., read a highly in t eresting paper artie u ln a r iy Roman as of fn the e e bedear early y f In the excavations for the approaches to new L y ondon Bridge as well as i n th e remova l o a f n d th t e he pi e l o e ff s e a r nd da l in vo s rk i s n o t f h e the riv o e i r d , bridge, and the subsequent operations of ballast heaving for deepening the channel of the river, g o l but u s etmvee littlerd medallions, several l l i t ro h en o es u : s r thousands of s o o f 1 if e ß ew o n m c a h n , c v o e coins were Theseos it u • e n r e were .. ch discovered, ietiy_ of the large, second, and small bras kept. ' hfew silver, and three r whichee hi s, with a f of the piles of the old bridge. Of Vespatian, D d om u it n i d a e n r and Titus there were many hundreds, while those of Adrian, yDio cletian, Sev erus , C onstantinus, Claudius, an d N e ro, were very numerous. The in Bcoriintais,n duringfact,innearly three centuries and a presented a history o f t h e Roman dynast half, embracing the reign of nearly every Emperor. They were generally in a fine state of preservation, and as if but recently turned out of the Mint, displaying also a very high order of art. A question of considerable interest to anti quarians was as to how so large a mass came into the river, extending, as the coins did, in a parallel line from the City to the Southwark side. By some it had been consi dered that they had been accidentally lost at the ferry existing at this spot , w h ilst others had ima g ine d formerly them to have been part of the stock of a curiosity shop which had been destroyed when the bridge was burnt. The writer, however, gave it as his opinion that there formerly existed over the river at this spot a bridge built by the Romans. It was stated as singular that none of these coins were worn further than what would be occasioned by the trituration of the gravel, and amongst therri were found no British, Greek, or Saxon coins, except deposited by obvious accident. Near the foun dation of bridge manybr iy beautiful was tifttlb also renre s,which found colossal a it m.a h s ea of evident n defaced and destroyed by the early Christians in their h A n el d r i h a e n e , zeal for the destruction of every symbol of idolatry, and it was not improbable but in their hands coins might share the same f ate . The paper elicited an interesting discu , sion confiima tory of the opinion of the existence of a bridge over the Thames at this spot in the time of the Romans. WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDU CATION.—A public meeting, to promote the o bjects of this 1 institution, was held on Thursday at St. John's House. On the platform were Lord Bolton, Lord Calthorpc, the Bishops of Winchester and Salisbury, the High Sheriff of the County, Sir William Heathcot e , B art. AL' P , H. C. Compton, Esq., M.P., the Dean of Wi nc h ester, t h e Rev. Chancellor of the Diocese, P. Williams, E the Warden of Winchester Col lege, Rev. Dr. Moberly, Rev. P. Jacob, Rev. E. M'All, J. M. Elwea, E. W. Bl unt, & c. I n the body of the room there were about 450 ladies and gen tlemen' including many of the clergy resid ent i n t h e neighbourhood of Winchester, South ampton, &c. The objects c ontemplated by the Board are the improvement of masters and mistresses through the faci. I p i r t i i e m s ar atf y o e r afford t e a d b l b i training s i nnent o s of schools chools ;; a r e n nd di e n rng s i p ee assistance tin g them ( i o w itthhe out int er f e rence with the ordinary authorities)for the purpose of conferring revrards on masters, mistresses, and deserving scho ham Heathcote, the Bishop of Winchester was unanimously lars. On the motion of Lord Bolton, seconded by Sir Wil -1 re e u ste d to take the chair , which being acceded to , several L spieeehes in furtherance of the objects of the institution wer I ma de, after which the meeting broke up.—Hants Advertiser.. . L O NDON 1N 1759.—The middle of a paved F street was generally occupied with the kennel, and the sides of the carriage-way were full .of absolute holes, where the ricketty coach was often stuck as ill a quagmire. Some of the leading streets, even to the time of George IL, were almost as impassable as the avenues of a new in A e rae nt r b ic e a ro n r t e ow i n. 759, T w h a e o it n h l r y ou r g oa n d K to in th g. e st H re o e u t se a s of r nd ti Pa ni l o i n a: street, which were in so miserable a state, that faggoti t were thrown into the ruts on the days on which the King went to Parliament, to render the passag e of the state. emb more.c.asy. . 110 red re te": I