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IMPERI lAMEN T. ROUSE OF LORDS, June 7. Their Lordship] met at Five o'clock. DEFECTS IN LEASES BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the Defects in Leases Bill. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the Bill was read a second time. BANKRUPTCY LAWS CONSOLIDATION BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the third reading of this Bill, and in doing so expressed his objection to any proposal that might be made fur the diminution of the salary of the Chief Commissioner. He thought that nothing could tend more to create a zeal in the execu tion of their duty on the part of officers than the pros pect of promotion, and he should be sorry to see this stimulus taken away from the junior Commissioners in Bankruptcy. He was aware that his own recorded opinions as to the propriety of the 2 romotion of puisne judges might seem to militate against this view of the question, but the cases were entirely different. The puisne judges would owe their promotion to the Government, and it might appear to be holding out a temptation to them, seeing that they bad to decide in cases in which the Government was a party; besides, they performed a high executive duty, and the case was entirely different from that of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy. After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL, the Bill was read a third time.. On the motion that the Bill do pass, Lard BROUGHAM congratulated their Lordships on the Bill having arrived at this its last stage in their Lordships' House. He would take that opportunity of alluding to a petition which had been forwarded to him, sinned by eighty-seven attorneys of Manchester, against the Bill, for the purpose of stating that nine••tenths of the objections made to that Bill in that petition had been met by the amendments which had been introduced into the measure; for example, the objection that the Bill proposed to inflict the punishment of imprisonment with out giving the accused the benefit of trial by jury was entirely obviated. Again, the petition asked that Lome classification of bankrupts should be made; that was done by the Bill. Bankrupts were divided into three classes—the meritorious, the careless, and the fraudulent, and their certificates were awarded accord ing to this classification, and the allowance was also granted in accordance with it. The Bill would go dawn to the other House as a digest and code of the laws relating to bankrupts, which was the most difficult portion of the general law of debtor and cre ditor, and he hoped that that system of digest and code would soon be extended so as to embrace the whole of the civil law. Before he sat down he could not but ex press a hope that as their Lordships had given their support to this Bill, so they would also give their support to another Bill which he had introduced, which was a similar digest and code of the whole of the criminal law. He hoped the Learned Judges would give their attention to the subject for the purpose of assisting their Lordships ; but if those learned persona should not think proper to do so, he hdped they would not complain if their Lordships should proceed without waiting for their assistance—that assistance would be thankfully received. Ample time had been afforded them to state any objec tions they might entertain, and it was no fault of their Lordships if only two of them had availed themselves of the opportunity. After a few words from Lord CAMPBELL in defence of the Judges, the Bill was read a third time. Earl NELSON . presented several petitions in favour of the Bill for the Protection of Women. Petitions with a similar prayer were presented by the Marquis of WESTMINSTER and the Bi s hop of LONDON. Lord SON DES presented a petition praying for agricultural protection, PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL. The Bishops of LONDON and OXFORD presented peti tions in favour of this Bill. On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD this Bill passed through Committee. On the bringing up of the report, the Bishop of OXFORD moved the omission of the 2d clause, which was agreed to. The report was then received, the Bill ordered to be reprinted, and the third reading fired for this day week. Thomas Tapp, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers. John G. Glassfurd, Bengal Engineers. William Pitt R.ibbins, 15th Bengal Native In fantry. Robert Rains Kinleside, Bengal Artillery. Barre William Goldie, Bengal Artillery. Alfred Iluish, Bengal Artillery. John Clarke, 25th Bengal Native Infantry. George Biddulph, 45th Bengal Native Infantry. Henry Marion Durand, Bengal Engineers. William Abercrombie, Bengal Engineers. James Duncan Macpherson, 22d Bengal N.I. William Maunsell Gabbett, Madras Artillery. Edward Griffiths Austin, Bengal Artillery. Murray Mackenzie, Bengal Artillery. James Roger Western, Bengal Engineers. James Alexander Duncan Fergusson, 6th Bengal Light Cavalry. William Kerby Warner, Bengal Artillery. George Palmer Whish, 60th Bengal Native In fantry. Michael Dawes, Bengal Artillery. Charles Hogge, Bengal Artillery. Henry Siddons, Bengal Engineers. Cairns Threshire, 10th Bombay Native In fan,ry. Markham Ecles Sherwill, 2d Bengal European Regiment. Thomas William Hick, Bombay Artillery. John Frederick INembhard, 56th Bengal Native Infantry. John Abercrombie, Bengal Artillery. Sydney Turnbull, Bombay Artillery. John Ramsay, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers. Rubert William Disney Leith, Ist Bombay Euro pean Fusiliers. Alexander Cunningham, Bengal Engineers. Edward Wiggins, 52d Bengal Native Infantry. John Nicholson, 27th Bengal Native Infantry. TO HAVE THE LOCAL RANK OF MAJOR IN THE PIINJAUB. Lieutenants—Edward John Lake, Bengal Engineers. Reynell George Taylor, 11th Bengal Light Cavalry. Charles Herbert, 18th Bengal Native Infantry. SUPPRESSION OF THE INQUISITION. Memorial regarding the tribunal of the holy office at the time of its supression in February, 1849. In consequence of a decree of the Roman Consti tuent Assembly by which the suppression of the tribunal of the holy office was resolved, the Govern ment ordered that the Fathers of the Dominican order then inhabiting that vast locality should re move to the convent called " Della Minerva," the chief seat of their order. They were in number eight, exercising the functions of commissary, chancellor, &c. The doors were then carefully sealed by the Roman notary Caggietti, to prevent the abstraction of any object, and a keeper was appointed to the premises. These precautions taken, the inventory was commenced. The first place visited was the ground floor of the edifice where were the prisons, and the stables, coach-houses, kitchen, cellars, and other conveniences for the use o f th e assessor an d the father inquisitors. This part of the building was to be immediately prepared for the reception of the civic artillery with the train belonging to it. Some new doors were opened in the walls and part of a pavement raised ; in this operation human bones were found and a trapdoor discovered, which induced a resolution to make excavations in certain spots pointed out by persons well acquainted with the locality. Digging very deep in one place a great num ber of human skeletons were found, some of them placed so close together and so amalgamated with lime, that no bone could be moved without being broken. In the roof of another subterranean chamber a large ring was found fixed, It is supposed to have been used in administering the torture. It still remains there. Along the whole length of this same room stone steps, rather broad, were attached to the wall—these probably served for the prisoners to sit or recline on. In a third underground room was found a quantity of very black rich earth, inter mingled with human hair, of such a length that it seemed women's rather than men's hair; here also human bones were found. In this dun geon a trap-door was formed in the thickness of the wall which opened into a passage in the flat above, leading to the room where examinations were con ! ducted. Among the inscriptions made with charcoal on the wall it was observed that many appeared of very recent date, expressing in most affecting terms the sufferings of every kind endured in these chambers. The person of mcst note found in the prisons of the inquisition was a bishop named Kasner who had been in confinement for above twenty years. He related that he arrived in Rome from the Holy Land, having in his possession papers which had belonged to an ecclesiastic there. Passing himself for that person, be succeeded in surprising the court of Rome into ordaining and consecrating him a bishop. The fraud was afterwards discovered, and Kasner being then on his way to Palestine was arrested and brought to the prison of the holy office, where he expected to have ended his days, less, as he expressed himself, to expiate his own fraud, than the gross blunder of the court of Rome which had no other means of concealing his character of bishop, its own absolute laws preventing his being deprived of it. The inventory of the contents of the ground flat being finished in a few days, it was then thrown open to the impatient curiosity of the public. The crowd that resorted to the scene was very great, and the public indignation rose so high that there was a loud and genera! cry for the destruction of an edifice of such detestable memory. This feeling was so strong that on a Sunday afternoon in March faggots were thrown into the cellars and other underground rooms, with the intention of setting fire to the build ing, and this would have been accompliehed had not a battalion of civic guards rushed to the spot from the Piazza di S. Pietro. To the truth of all that is here related thousands, both Italians and foreigners, who visited the place can testify; and there exists also a detailed account of everything, written and solemnly attested with legal forms. Passing to the upper flat, the attention of the Go vernment was especially directed to the chancery and the archives; the first containing all the current affairs of the inquisition, the second, jealously guard ing its acts from its institution until now. Before commencing the catalogue of the contents of the chancery, it was resolved to remove such papers as might disturb or compromise the tranquillity of those persons who had had relations with the holy office. Attention was especially directed to the book called of " Solecitazione" (it contains reports) and to the correspondence. This was done by order of the Go vernment, which thereby gave another proof of that moderation which its enemies deny to it. There re sults from a careful examination of these documents, which remain for the inspection of such as desire proofs, that the past Government made use of this tri bunal, strictly ecclesiastical in its institution, also for temporal and political objects, and that the most cul pable abuse was made of sacramental confession, espe cially that of women, rendering it subservient both to political purposes and to the most abomin able licentiousness. It can be shown, from documents, that the cardinals secretaries of state wrote to the commissiary to the assessor of the holy office to pro cure information as to the conduct of suspected indi viduals, both at home and abroad, and to obtain knowledge of state secrets by means of confession, especially those of foreign courts and cabinets. In fact, there exist long correspondences, and voluminous processes, and severe sentences, pronounced upon La Giorine Italia, La Jeune Suisse, the masonic societies of England and Scotland, and the anti-religious sects of America, &c. There is an innumerable quantity of information and processes on scandalous and obscene subjects, in which the members of regular religious societies are usually implicated. Passing from the chancery to the archives, which is in the second floor, it appeared on first entering as if everything was in its usual place, but on further in spection it was found, with much astonishment, that though the labels and cases were in their places they were emptied of the packets of papers and dOcuments indicated by the inscriptions without. Some conjec ture that the missing packets have been carried to the convent " Della Minerva," or were hidd en i n t h e houses of p r i va t e persons, while others suppose that they were burnt by the Dominican fathers. This last hypothesis receives weight from the circumstance, the de that in Nov em b er , 1848, shortly after ture of the Pope f rom Rome, the Civic Geupaarrd came in much haste to the holy office, from having observed great clouds of smoke issuing from one of its chimnies, accompanied by a strong smell of burnt paper. But whatever were the means, the fact is certain, that, in the archives of the Inquisition, the most important trials were not to be found; such, for instance, as those of Galileo Galilei and of Giordano Bruno, nor was there the correspondence regard ing the Reformation in England, in the 16thcentury, nor many other precious records. There remains, however, nearly complete, a collection of decrees, be ginning with the year 1549 down to our own days. They are divided year by year, each volume contain ing the decrees of one year. Of these, of all that was contained in the chancery and archives of the holy office, a catalogue has been taken, with every legal formality of certification. It ought to be added, that after the above-mentioned threat of setting fire to the holy office, it was unanimously decreed by the Assembly, that instead of destroying that vast edifice it should be portioned into dwellings for poor families of Rome. In consequence of this decision the Government was obliged to remove all the papers in the chancery and archives, along with three libraries existing in the holy office to the Palazzo dell' Apoli• nare, which was the residence assigned to the Minister of Finance. Of these three libraries, one was private property, the other two belonged to the Inquisition. Of these last, one is most important, containing copies of the original editions of the works of the Reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries, now become extremely rare. The other is of less consequence. In it are many recent publications; and it appears that the revi sore (" revi sori") at the Custo- house of Rome were in the habit of extracting books consigned to the booksellers there, without making any compensation. CLON MEL SCHOOL. On the motion of the Lord Bishop of DUBLIN, the special report of the Education Commissioners relative to the endowed school of Clonmel was ordered to be laid on the table after Lord MONTEAGLE had expllined that the Education Commissioners and the Commission for Na tional Education were two distinct bodies. The report was an answer to some charge which had been brought against the Commissioners. BEER-HOUSES. The Earl of HARIWWBY presented a large num. ber of petitions praying for the limitation of beer. houses. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 7. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock, when, there not being 40 Members present, the House was ad journed till to-morrow Chia day). SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 7. BREVET. T) BE LIEUTENANT COLONELS. Majors—Matthew Smith, 29. h Foot. James Hope Grant, C. 8., 9th Light Dragoons. :aurae, Dt.onis, 60th Foot. Edward LugaTd r 29th Foot. Henry B.ttee, 90th Foot. John Yerhury, 3d Light Dragoons. John Eardley Wilmot Inglis, 32d Foot. Augustus George Blachford, 24th Foot. TO BE MAJoES. Captains—Charles J. Otter, 61.:.t Foot. Arthur Lowry Balfour, 32d Foot. Jo!in Clark Kennedy, 18th Foot. Walter Unett, 3d Light Dragoons. John Cameron Campbell, 9th Light Dragoons. Henry Errirgton Longdan, 10th Foot. Edmund flaythorne, 98th Foot. Edward James Pratt, 9th Light Dragoons. Frederick Paul Haines, 21st Foot. Robert Abercrombie Yule, 9th Light Dragoons. Hon. Francis William Henry Fane, 25th Foot. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint the under mentioned Officers, of the East India Company's Forces, to take rank by Brevet in her Majesty's Army, in the East Indies, as follows:—Commissions to be dated 7th June, 1849: TO BE AIDES DE-CAMP TO THE QUEEN, WITH THE RANK of COLONEL IN THE EAST INDIES. Lit ut.-Colonels—Foster Stalker, C.B. 19th Bombay Na. tire Infantry. Christopher Godby, C.B. 2nd Bengal European Regiment. Nicholas Penny, C.B. 69th Bengal Native Infantry. TO BE LIEUTENANT COLONELS IN THE EAST INDIES. Majws—Jaccei Colley Tudor, 46th Bengal Native In fantry. Skeffington Poole, Ist Bombay Native Infantry. George Connolly Punsoi.by, 11th Bengal Light Cavalry. Frederiuk Brookes Cot field, 20th Bengal Native Infantry. Edward Green, C. 8.,215t Thinbay Native Infantry. George Farquharson, Bth Bengal Native Infantry. Clements Blood, Bombay Artillery. David Williams, 45th Bengal Native Infantry. John D. Hallett, 3d Bombay Native Infantry. John Finnis, 51st Bengal Native Infantry. William Robert Corfield, 31st Bengal Native Infantry. John Saakville Leeson, Bombay Artillery. Robert St. John, lit Bombay European Regiment. Thomas Forsyth Tait, 0.13., 2d Bengal European Regiment. Hubert Garbert, Bengal Artillery. Richard Horaford, Bengal Artillery. Edward Fitzgerald Day, Bengal Artillery. John Christie, 3d B?ngal Cavalry. Robert Napier, Bengal Engineers. Arthur Mitford Becher, 61st Bengal Native In fantry. John Fordyce, Bengal Artillery. Thomas Fergusson Flemyng, 36th Bengal Native Infantry. Henry Tod Tucker, Bth Bengal Native Infantry. Frederick Mackeson, C.B. 14th Bengal Native Infantry. George Thompson, 40th Bengal Native Infantry. Francis Wheler, 11th Bengal L ght Cavalry. Walter. Scott, Bombay Engineers. John- Studholm - Hodgson, 12th Bengal Native Infantry. John Kennedy McCausland, 70th Bengal Native Infantry. John Lealand Mowatt, Bengal Artillery. Frederick Coventry, 6th Bengal Light Cavalry. Charles Chester, 23d Bengal Native Infantry. James Mackt nzie, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry. George St. Patrick .Lawrence, 11th Bengal Ligh Cavalry. Charles Griffin, 51st Bengal Native Infantry. Robert William Honner, 4th Bombay Native In fantry, Stephen Williams, Bth Bengal Native Infantry. John Hobson, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers. Edward Henry Ludlow, Bengal Artillery. Robert Mignan, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers. George Joseph Mant, 19th Bombay Native In fantry. Edward Salusbury Lloyd, 19th Bengal Native Infantry. George Borlase, Tremenheere, Bengal Engineers. Sir Richmond Campbell Shakespear, Bengal Ar tillery. TO BE MAJORS IN THE EAST INDIES. Captains —David Cabel Keiller, 6th Bengal Native In fantry. Henry Stiles, Ist Bombay European Fusiliers. Hugh Hughes Lloyd, 72d Bengal Native Infantry. • James Abbott, Bengal Artillery. Arthur Wheatley, sth Bengal Light Cavalry. John Dowdeswe.t Shakespe ar , B e . iga l Artillery. Francis Kyan Duncan, Bengal Artillery. John Lang, 36th Bengal Native In c antry. John James Hamilton, 36th Bengal Native Infantry. James William Hen Jamieson, 521P engal Na tive Infantry. Thomas Moore, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry. Charles Campbell, 42d Bengal Native Infantry. Edward Hume Hart, 19th Bombay Native Infantry. Philip Kearney Skinner, 9th Bombay Native In fantry. Edward Elham Master, Bengal Artillery. Itob,rt Augustus Master, 7th Bengal Light Ca , valry. J' anfa Ramsay, 35th Bengal Native Infantry. Frederick Lloyd, 19th Bengal Native IL fan try. George ()outlay, Bth Bengal Light Cavalry. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 8, 1849. respect to the lines, or were there to be others ? He suggested that the capital account as to the main line khould be closed, and a separate one for the docks and branches now in course of construction. Mr. SIMPSON said the 37,0001. included every estimated cost, and all additions which the committee thought likely to arise. As to the capital account, he did not see how it could be closed when construction was going on. . _ In answer to a shareholder who objected that an amount lost in arrears was very large. Mr. HEALEY explained that that was upon three calls at least. The report was then put and carried unanimously. The statement of accounts, the passing of which was postponed at the last annual meeting, was then brought forward, as amended by the comtnittee, and passed. On the motion of the Noble CHAIRMAN, a vote of thanks was given to the Committee. The CHAIRMAN drew attention to the expense cast upon railway companies by Parliament in asking for returns. These had to be prepared by the companies' servants, at the companies' cost, and shareholders would do well to take steps to have the costs defrayed from some other fund than that from which their dividends were drawn. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was acknowledged in suitable terms by his Lordship, the meeting broke up. The railway is to be opened on the 16th of July. MOLD RAILWAY. The meeting of the Mold Railway Company, ad journed for the election of directors, was convened for Wednesday ; but there not being a sufficient num ber of shareholders present to constitute a,quorum, the proceedings were further adjourned to the 10th of July. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the offices in New Broad-street; but no business of importance was transacted. The line, it will be remembered, has merged in that of the South• Eastern Company. DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this undertaking was held yesterday at their offices in Basinghall-street ; Mr. J. M. Matthews in the chair. The report of the directori was read by Mr. Mac kenzie, from which we make the following extract : " Since the last meeting in December the board have been using their best exertions to obtain payment of the call of 11. per share, and have applied the moneys when received in liquidation of the debts created by the former board previously and subsequently to the passing of the Act of Incorporation. "The board have been most reluctantly compelled to commence several actions for the recovery of the eall, and in some instances the parties have gone to trial, and resorted to every delay and expense which the forms of law allowed to defeat the claims ; but in each case these attempts have been defeated, and the judges at Nisi Prins and in Banco have declared that the call was pro perly and legally made and must be enforced; however, in some instances the defendants have subsequently and almost instantly after the final decision become bankrupt, or insolvent, and one of them, Francis Deflinne, of Man chester, is now incurring the penalty of his vexatious opposition by the refusal of his certificate for twelve months; and another, Henry Tomlinson, of Ashburne, is suffering imprisonment for his vexatious defence to the action against him. "The half-yearly account which has been sent to the shareholders will show a considerable diminution in the debts and claims on the company, and the board think it right to observe that though the sum of 340/. appears to have been expended in law costs, they confidently expect that the greater part thereof will be reimbursed to the company. " Since the last meeting the action brought by Mr. Jeremiah Smith, solicitor, of ltugeley, against one of the late directors, for his claim of 2,8001., has been tried, and a verdict given in favour of the defendant; and the other action commenced by Mr. Smith against the corn pany, for the same amount, has been abandoned, with costs. "'The board has been anxious to diminish the neces sary expenses of management, and with this view the offices have been removed from Cornhill to this place, and the services of the clerk have been dispensed with, by which a considerable annual saving has been effected, the sole expenses of the company now being —rent, cleaning, &c., 47/. 55.; secretary, 200/ ; boy, 13/ ; making a reduction of expenditure to the amount of 148/. 17s. per annum. " The board assure the shareholders of their unre mitting exertions to carry out fully what has been so satisfactorily begun, and they confidently hope that at a th b e led ne to xt an h n a o l u f- n j e a meeting debts created will b pre een viously to their e nt e ring upon office, and to lay bef ore e e the rly extinctiongeneral or the shareholders a proposal for their consideration and decision, to render the Act of Incorporation advantageous to the locality where the railway i, to be made, of great convenience to the agricultural and commercial interests. and profitable to those who may continue to hold their interest in this small but important undertaking." The CHAIRMAN said there was not a sufficient num• ber of shareholders present to constitute a meeting, therefore the adoption of the report must be adjourned till the next meeting. The meeting accordingly adjourned. LAW IN TELLIGENCE. ROUSE OF LORDS, June 7. THE TRACEY PEERAGE. The Committee for Privileges sat this morning. The Lords present were the Earl of Shaftesbury (Chairman), Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Sudeley, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Say and Sale, Lord Stranglord, Sze. Sir F. KELLY appeared on behalf of Mr. Bour dillun, the solicitor to the late Mr. Tracey, merely to say that that gentleman waa in attendance, ready to answer any questions which their Lordships might see fit to put him. Mr. Bourdillon then went under a long examina batlehetrn was cn now o tow examina tion, from which it appeared , t a h n a d t h u is na f lf bad the ma nagement o f E i n n v g e l a ry n d i , l l a h n e d a l t t h h a t at h e O h s i t m e n ae d the proceedings in this case in their Lordships' I louse during the whole of the last y ear. His father had gone to Ostend prior to the order of the House that he should attend at the bar on the present occa sion. He was now far too ill to come back, indepen dent of which, pecuniary affairs were also opposed to such a proceeding. Lord BROUGHAM would now remind Mr. Bour dillon that, upon one occasion, a Prayer -book had been put in evidence, an entry in which their Lordshpa had pronounced to be a forgery. Then, on the next occasion, a tombstone had been brought forward, and that in the following year had been proved to be a total fabrication, upon which, on the application of counsel, their Lordships had postponed the further hearing in order that the claimant might bring over a witness from America. had that witness been brought over ? Mr. Bourdillon said he had not yet arrived, but that he had been sent for in March. Lord BROUGHAM was astonished at such a delay. Why had he not been sent for long before ? Mr. Bourdillon said want of pecuniary means had been the cause. The witness then, in reply to questions, went on to say that many persons had subscribed towards a fund to enable the late claimant to defray the expenses consequent upon the petition to that House; but he said he was not aware that they had been induced to do so upon the expectation that as his success would put Mr. Tracey in the possession of large estates, those who subscribed—to a sort of "Tracey Joint-stock Speculation Company," as Lord Brougham called it—were to derive a profit in pro portion to the amount they might respectively contri bute. The sum collected in this way was about 3,0001. He did not know that any of the City spe culators had subscribed to this fund, for be fancied nearly all were the friends or connexions of the de ceased. He had no doubt but that some of these par ties might have looked for some remuneration for their advances, in the event of the success, of the claimant in his suit. The persons who had so sub scribed were in a respectable class of life. He was not aware that there had been a general subscription got up in Cheltenham and other places for this affair. Mr. J. Wylde then proved having been present in Dublin with the late Mr. Tracey at the moment of his death, on the 23d of April last. A post mortem examination was made, when it was found that an effusion of blood into the stomach bad caused death. A friend of his of the name of Forrester had, ad vanced 1001. to enable the claimant to pay the fees of the House and of counsel, and a friend of Forrester's, Mr. Van Butchell, had also subscribed to a consider able amount, but in his case 10 per cent. per annum was paid. Mr. Van Butchell was her called up, when Lord BROUGHAM said, he had been very kind to Mr. Tracey. lie was a good •hurnoured and jolly looking person, and if he should be sick—but he hoped he should not be —he should be glad to be at tended by h;na. Mr. Van Butchell said he had had the honour of attending a member of his Lordship's house. Lord BROUGHAM —And I hope you cured him.— (Laughter.) Mr. Van Butchell had been so fortunate, and his Lordship had thereupon presented him with 200 gui neas.—(Renewed laughter.) The witness said that he had become acquainted with the late Mr. Tracey through Mr. Forrester, and that it was in conse quence of his hearing from that gentleman, that Mr. Tracey was in pecuniary difficulties in respect of the prosecution of his claim, that it had been proposed that a number of persons should contribute a fund to enable him to proceed. He was one, and had sub scribed more than 3001. Lord BROUGHAM —That was, the witness had em barked in the " Tracey Stak es ."—(Loud laughter.) In the first instance he had given a cheque for 901. for a note at twelve months' date for 1001.; that was a deduction of 10 per cent. BAIL C.OUR I', June 7. (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice IVlGarmiN. EX PARTS DR. MOORE. Mr. WIIITEHURST (with whom was Mr. Phip3on) moved tor leave to file a criminal information against the editor, publisher, and proprietor of the Lincoln shire, Boston and Spalding Free Press and Eastern Counties Advertiser. He moved on behalf of the Rev. Dr. Moore for a most atrocious and scanda lous libel against him in his capacity of a magistrate while engaged in the petty sessions. He had had reason to complain for a long time of the conduct of the paper as against himself personally, but the pre sent libel was against him in his judicial capacity, and therefore he felt himself bound to come before this Court for redress. It appeared by the affidavits that a person of the name of Savage had been brought before the magistrates at petty sessions at Spalding, of which Dr. Moore had been chairman for twenty years, upon articles of the peace exhibited against him by a Mr. Moore, who was a distant con nexion of Dr. Moore, and thereupon Savage was bound over to keep the peace. On the 15th May last, Savage was again br oug ht b e f ore the same bench to answer for an assault committed on his servant, of the name of Rest, to which he pleaded guilty ; and there was also an application for articles of the peace against him for the eatening to shoot another of his servants, named Turnbull. An attorney attended on the part of Savage, and wished to call witnesses in answer to the charge. The bench, after some dis cussion, although stating that it was irregular, per mitted him to call witnesses as an indulgence; and after going into the facts, Dr. Moore, or one of the magistrates, asked one of the witnesses whether he thought Turnbull need be afraid of Savage, and the answer was" N o t w h en h e was sober ;" upon which Dr. Moore observed, that was the very point, and therefore Turnbull must be protected against him, and the magistrates, therefore, bound Savage over to keep the peace. On the 23d of May a long article by way of comment upon the case appeared in the paper in question : it asserted that the case was a dis grace to any court of justice; that the account of the witnesses was twisted by Dr. Moore into a meaning it was never intended to convey ; that it was the se cond time they had had occasion to notice this petti fogging spirit on the part of the chairman; they had no hesitation in saying that a man who could so com mit himself was unfit to sit on any bench of' magis trates, and that were they lord-lieutenant of the county he would be immediately removed from the commission of the peace; if Dr. Moore were allowed to twist evidence as he pleased justice was at an end; that Dr. Moore's conduct on another occasion was disgraceful in the extreme ; that such things might conic to light as would render the Lord Chancellor's interference in the reconstruction of the bench an a'osolute necessity. Dr. Moore had made affidavits denying that he had the slightest feeling towards the man. The Learned Counsel could not conceive a more violent libel, or one that more called for the summary interference of this Court. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—fake a rule to show cause. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-S 7 BEET. Dennis Healey, described as a labouring man, but having the appearance of an ostler, was charged with being accessory to the commission of a murderous as sault upon Wiliam M'Carthy, a recruit in the East India Company's service. It appeared that a man named George Hickey and M'Carthy had been drinking with a number of Irish labourers at a public house in St. Giles's, and, at about six o'clock in the evening (Wednesday), turned out to fight at the corner of Tottenham-court•road. During the affray Hickey, the smaller man of the two, was observed to take a knife from his waistcoat pocket, and it was afterwards found that he had plunged it into the abdomen of his assailant, who was consequently removed to King's College Hospital. Owing to the indifference of the mob, and the appa rent negligence of the police, Hickey was suffered to escape to a public-house in the neighbourhood, where he changed clothes with the prisoner Healey, and thereby avoided detection. The police, guided by the description of Hickey's clothes, apprehended Healey, but found, on taking him to M'Carthy at the hospital, that he was not the principal. He was therefore de tained as an accessory after the fact, having assisted Hickey in effecting his escape. The police stated that several of the mob present during the fight were acquainted with all the parti culars, hut had refused to attend and give evidence. One of them had been brought to the court, but on being sworn declared that he knew nothing at all about it. Mr. JARDINE expressed his surprise that Hickey had been suffered to escape. It was a discreditable thing to happen in broad daylight in one of the m os t populous p ar t s o f L on d on . H e i n lu i re d if the wound received by M'Carthy was dangerous ?. -A T ce h r e tikc is a p te ec fr to o e te s d cr t i. h b a e t d it it w as as a . severe punctured wound in the left side of the abdomen. rmofthtleiehEous division surge surgeon The prisoner said nothing to the charge. He was remanded for further examination. Charles Worrell, a letter-carrier in the Charing cross Post-office, was charged with stealing a letter containing money. The prisoner was detected by a rather singular accident. Edward Lawrence, another of the letter carriers, had been in the habit of privately indulging himself in the forbidden luxury of smoking, in a vault under the building, and while secreting his pipe be. hind the wooden roof of a cistern his knuckles came in contact with a letter, which appeared to contain coin. He struck a light, looked at the direction, and then, carefully replacing the letter, went up and informed Mr. Heath, the inspector, who accomp anie d him back again to the vault, examined the letter also, and then put the porter on watch near the spot. In a few hours afterwards the prisoner entered the vault, and, seeing no cne at hand, took the letter from the cistern, and put it into his pocket. Benning, the porter, now presented himself, and stated what he had seen. Th e prisoner assured him he was mistaken, and expressed his willingness to go before the inspector; and, at this moment he took the letter from his pocket and threw it into the cistern. Benning saw it, and fished it out. It was addressed to a soldier in the Vauxhall Hospital, and contained 2s. The prisoner was taken before the officials in 6t. Martin's-le-Grand, and displayed much contrition on his way thither, especi • ally when passing N ewga t e. H e told Mr. Sculthorpe, president of the London district, " that he did not secrete the letter in the first instance, but, seeing it there, accidentally in the afternoon, conceived the notion of stealing it." A remand was requested by Mr. Peacock, to en able the soldier to attend and prove the very obvious fact that he did not receive the letter in due course ; upon which the prisoner will be committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. Mary Ann Hob den, a tall, thin, spare-looking woman, the wife of one of the porters of Guy's Hos pital, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with the murder of her infant child on the preceding afternoon. Mary Buckle stated that she lives in King-street, Snow's•fields, and that on the preceding afternoon the prisoner's husband called on her in a hurry, and informed her that his wife had destroyed their child, and that it was then lying dead at home; and he begged of her to go there with him. Skie accord ' ingly accompanied him to his house, No. 14, Guy street, in the same neighbourhood, and on entering the dwelling she found the prisoner sitting on a sofa in the parlour, and by her side the child was lying dead, with a cloth thrown over it. She appeared to be in a very desponding state of mind, but said nothing until witness pulled the covering off the child, and, observing that it was quite dead, asked IMr. Bou r dill on , on b e i ng recalled, stated that several parties who had been about to subscribe had I called to mak e i nqu i r i es o f him as to the chance of the claimant, when he had given them that which was his real opinion upon the subject, namely, that the prospect was most favourable. Lord BROUGHAM, the evidence having cloyed, said that he could not help expressing his regret that this matter had been postponed last year. The object of that postponement had been to enable the claimant to bring a witness from America. But it now turned out that not only had the parties delayed sending for six months, but that even now th ey were not in a position to hold out any hope that the man would be forthcoming. A great offence had been committed, and a crime of no ordinary kind had been perpetrated —first, there had been a palpable forgery in a prayer book, then there had been a fabricated tombstone pro duced, and then the authenticity of both had been at tempted to be supported by perjury. These were grave offences, and the more so because one of the parties to. them had been a person who had been seeking to obtain honour and dignity at the hands of their Lordships. But there was another point. One object of the pro , ceeding had been, by the making out the claim to the peerage, to upset an existing title to certain estates. Well, to effect this end there had been a sort of joint stock. speculating body formed, by whom subscrip tions had been made to enable the claimant to prose cute his claim. A gross fraud ha.i, therefore, been committed on the privileges of their Lordships' House, and they were called upon to vindicate them. There was, however, much difficulty in the way of proceeding in consequence of the death of the prin• cipal party. He would, therefore, move that the evidence be printed and taken into consideration on a future day, with a view to see what course should he adopted to punish the parties, and to prevent a re currence of such proceedings, and thereby not only vindicate the insulted honour and dignity of their Lordships' House, but hold out a warning to conspi rators and their dupes, and so arrest such individuals in their dishonest courses. Lord CAMPBELL fully concurred. The motion was then put and agreed to. A female relative of the prisoner said that she visited her when she was confined with the infant which she had destroyed in the manner described; that she never observed that she exhibited any symp toms of aberration of mind, but uniformly seemed to be much attached to her offspring. • The witness, however, thought it necessary to mention that the prisoner's mother was in a lunatic asylum. The prisoner, who listened to the evidence with attention, was now asked by Mr. COTTINGHAM whe ther she had heard all that had been alleged against her, and whether it was true she had destroyed her child in the manner represented by the witnesses ? Prisoner (in a low tone of voice)—Yes, it is true. Mr. COTTINGHAM—What could have induced you to drown the infant by putting it into the copper of water ? Prisoner--I was not aware of what I did at the time. Mr. COTTINGHAM—When your husband returned from Guy's Hospital, you had the dead child in your arms ? Prisoner--Yes, I know I had. I washed and dressed it before I put it into the copper. No one told me to do it. I attend chapel regularly, and I loved my child dearly. Mr. COTTINGHAM—Then why did you destroy its life ? Prisoner—l am sorry for doing it now. The prisoner during this short interrogation did not, so far as her manner and appearance would in dicate, undergo any mental suffering; and when in formed that she must be sent to take her trial for the offence, she merely nodded assent, and although she observed her husband in court in a state of great affliction of mind, it seemed to make little or no im pression upon her. Mr. COTTINGHA M said that he had put the above questions to the prisoner with a view to ascertain her condition of mind when she committed such a dread ful act as that of depriving her offspring of its life by immersing it in the copper of water; that according to the witnesses examined, and her husband's account to the police sergeant, it did not appear that she had ever betrayed symptoms of insanity, although it seemed one of her parents was affllcted with that ma lady, The prisoner, also, by her answers before him, showed that she was in possession of her facul ties, and admitted that she committed the crime, and described the manner in which she effected it; she had also told one of the witnesses that she did not know why she had destroyed her child. Whether she was unconscious at the time that she destroyed her infant was not a question for him to decide; and as he had previously mentioned, he saw nothing in her conduct or demeanour before him to lead to the inference that she was insane. He therefore felt it his duty to send her for trial for the murder of her child. The prisoner, who merely nodded her head, was then removed from the bar. DREADFUL COLLIERY EX PLOSION. THIRTY-THREE LIVES LOST. A dreadful explosion of fire-damp occurred on Tuesday morning last, at the Hebburn Pit, the pro perty of Thomas Easton and Company, on the river Tyne, Newcastle. The explosion took place about half-past six o'clock in the morning, when upwards of 100 workmen were in the mine ; but it was con fined to the north-west district, where the sufferers were employed. The entire workings extend over about fifty acres, and are ventilated by means of two shafts, an upcast and a downcast one—the furnace system of ventilation being employed. As usual in such cases, nothing is known as to the immediate cause of explosion, for no one lives that can tell the tale. The air had to travel about 1,232 feet before reaching the place where the explosion occurred, and about 840 yards to its escapement by the upcast shaft, but the coal seam being undulating, the causeway was in some places not more than five feet in height, in others fourteen or fifteen feet, the lower level being taken for the formation of the rolling-line On Monday night there was a heavy thunder storm. On Tuesday morning it is supposed the foul air had accumulated in the arched roof of the course, and on the horses being set to work to draw waggons, which nearly closed the air -course in some places, it is supposed the foul air that had gathered in the dome was driven out of its receptacle into the part where the men were working with candles, and ignition was the consequence. This, however, is all mere con jecture, formed from a knowledge of the workings of the mine ; for all in the part where the explosion took place are dead, and the survivors in the other part of the mine can only speak to the facts which indicated to them that an explosion took place. One man, working near the district where the explosion took place, was got out alive. His name is 'William Bell. He, however, merely states that he felt a stunning noise in his ears, and became insensible ; in which state he was found, and afterwards recovered. The explosion must have been of a terrific nature, for all the stoppings and passages in the districts were destroyed, and the bodies of the men were blown to atoms. One poor fellow who was at work, finding an explosion had occurred, rushed to save his father; after several hours ineffectual search he found his parent without a head. Another man, employed as a plate layer, was found with a rail stuck six feat through his body. More mutilated corpses were perhaps never occasioned by such a catastrophe. Of the 33 who are killed, 8 or 9 are married, the remainder are young men and strong youths. A more melancholy sight was per haps never witnessed. An inquest was opened on Wednesday before Mr. Faye'', the coroner for the district, and adjourned to a future day, and in the meantime scientific men have been engaged to examine the mine. It is worthy of remark that Mr. Gurney's system of ven tilation would have been no safeguard whatever against this casualty; at least, such is the opinion en tertained, for however rapid the transit of air from the downcast to the upcast, it could not have cleared the "goaf." ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--At the Southwark Police Court yesterday, Catherine Larrey was charged be fore Mr. Cottingham with attempting to commit suicide. From the evidt-nce of a boy named Murray, it appeared that the prisoner was in company of some boys in a wherry, and when near Blackfriars-bridge she threw herself into the water, from which she was rescued by one of the Thames Police. In answer to the magistrate she said the boys were rowing the wrong way, that the boat jerked, and she was thrown into the water. This the inspector denied, and stated that the boys were rowing the right way. The magistrate remanded her till a future day, in order that further inquiries might bu made. HOP INTELLIGENCE.—CANTERBURY. —..The hops have made great progress in gr,wth daring the late wa rm weather; but being overloaded with fly and lice, it is next to impossible that they can recover, and the only chance is of fresh shoots pushing out. It was to be hoped that the slight thunder storms of Tuesday would clear a 'ay some of the vermin, but this effect is hardly perceptible. The rains were so partial as to have been cf little service in the hop gardens. The duty is laid at 80,0001., with every chance, according to the visi tation's few years ago ; of descending to half that amount. Oluerver. how it happened, and she then told witness that she had drowned it in the copper boiler in the back kitchen. Witness the❑ asked her the reason for committing such a dreadful act, and as to whether she and her husband had had any previous quarrel ; but she replied that they had not, adding, that he was a good husband to her, and she went on to describe that she first washed and dressed the child, and then took it and placed it in the boiler of cold water until it was dead. Although the prisoner appeared to be in a melancholy state of mind, yet she did not betray any excitement or express any horror at the deed she had committed. The witness added that she had known the prisoner for the last 15 or 16 years, and was pre sent at her marriage, seven years ago, at St. Helen's, Bishopsgate-street; and although she was always reserved in her manners, still witness never supposed she was labouring under derangement of mind. Be fore witness left the house she again interrogated the prisoner as to her motive for destroying her child, and she then replied that she was fond of it, and she thought she could not do her duty by it if it lived. Sergeant Litchfield, M division, stated that. when he was informed of the circumstance he repaired to the house, and found the prisoner and her husband sitting in the room, and thechild lying dead on the sofa. The husband appeared to be in great trouble of mind, and he informed him that when he went out the same morning, before nine o'clock, to attend to his duties at Guy's Hospital, he left his wife and child quite well, and that she mentioned to him that she was then going to wash and dress it ; that he returned home about two o'clock in the afternoon, and that when she opened the door for him she had the child in her arms, and when he observed its countenance and saw that it was changed, he asked her if the child had had a fit in his absence. The reply was, that the infant was dead, adding, that she drowned it at eleven o'clock in the copper. Her husband then asked her what could have induced her to murder their child; and her answer was that she did not know. The husband further said, that the prisoner seemed to be exceedingly attached to the child since its birth, and although she had exhibited a good deal of melancholy for the last four years occasionally, yet that he never heard her express any intention of laying violent hands upon herself or offspring. The sergeant added that he then questioned the prisoner as to her motive for committing such an offence, and she unhesitatingly told him the manner in which she had destroyed the infant, and pointed out to him the copper in which she had accomplished the act, and which at the time contained a quantity of water. She further said that she was fond of the infant, and that her fear was that she could not do her duty by it, and had therefore availed herself of the means of putting an end to its miseries. The sergeant added that he then took the prisoner into custody, and that she ac companied him without betraying any alarm, and that since her imprisonment she had not said anything on the subject of the murder of her child or alluded to the subject. It must not be omitted to notice that the holy office had its independent revenue, arising from gifts of state property, chiefly bestowed by Sixtus V. and Pius IV., amounting clear to about 8,000 scudi. This sum was chiefly spent in paying the monks attached to the Inquisition, some of whom received considerable salaries. In the above income is not included the money exacted from prisoners as board ; the ac count of what was paid, for example, by the famous Abbess of Monte Castrilli was found to be 3,000 scudi. The authorised paid agents of the holy office, called " patentali," were well remunerated ; indeed, this was a system by which many persons were demo ralised and corrupted, whose birth and education should have removed them far from such a base and guilty traffic, but who were tempted, perhaps, by necessity. To conclude. In a few categories we may sum up the results of this inquiry :- 1. That the Court of Rome availed itself of the tribunal of the holy office for temporal and political ends. 2. That to succeea in its purposes the holy office had especially recourse to confession, of which it made the most enormous and abominable abuse, not only violating its secresy, but tampering with its integrity. 3. By meana of confession, the most odious licen tiousness was insinuated in the confessionals. With this branch the holy office occupied itself with extra ordinary diligence, but without finding a remedy fur the causes of such scandal. 4. That the holy office corrupted all classes, buy information and secrets. 5, and lastly. That the ecclesiastical nuncios at foreign Courts are in constant correspondence with the holy office, and, from possessing means of pro curing intelligence quite peculiar to themselves, keep the Court of Rome informed of the most hidden poli tical secrets. DUTCH MAIL. These articles, which included the payment of Members' expenses, had already received Royal sanction. One of the principal subjects to be submitted to the Chambers will be that article of the fundamental law which relates to Ministerial responsibility. During the last discussion of this project, so great a variety of opinions were expressed that the Minister of Jus tice withdrew it after it had been subject to a radical revision, and will be now submitted in an amended form. The Minister of Marine has sent two naval engineers to Russia on a Government mission. It appears, that for a long time, we have received from Riga only masts or spars of second quality, all those of the first quality being bought up on the spot by the English. Messrs. Schurt and Tromp have accordingly been sent to make some arrangement on this subject. AMSTERDAM, JUNE s. —Business was, on the whole, extremely insignificant to day; there was no material fluctuation in any of the Funds, which were all quoted at yesterday's prices at the close of the Bourse. Peruvian Stock, however, must be excepted, having been in demand at higher exchanges. Dis count, 21 per cent.—Dutch Papers, June G. lIAMBURUII FUNDS, JUNE 2. Bills. Money. 104 Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. •• • • Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. • • ...... •• • • Bank Prussian 5 per Cent. •• .... •••• • . • I'l% 1014 Russian Certificate •• • •••• ••••—• • • • • • 91 Anglo-Russian Loan - • • • •• • • • • 101 100 X Hamburgh Certificate, 5 per Cent .... Russian 4 per Cent... •••••• •• ...... 3d and 4th Series, Hope and Co. ...... Ditto Stieglitz .. •••... •• •• ••••• • • • • 80 Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent ——— Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • . 64% 644 Ditto, 5 per cent. .......... •• • • .... 90% 90 Anglo-Swedish Loan .. ...... ........ 97% Ditto, Transport Loan ——••..•• •• •• Norwegian loan, 1848 ......... .... 98% 93% Spanish New 5 per Cent •.••••—• • • • •• 10 Ditto, 3 per Cents. ... ••••• • .. 224 22 East India Loan, 4 per Cent .. ........ Ditto, 1846.. .... ——.••••• .. • • .: • . Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent•• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. • • • Ditto 3 per Cent. ............ •• National Bank Shares ........ •• •• • • American, 6 per Cent. —• • ........ • • 107 4 107% RAILWAYS. Hamb. Bergd. •• •• •• •• • Ditto, Priority Shares ... •• • • 101 Berlin and Hamburg •....... •• ••• • -• 59 Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• •• •• 911 4 Cologne and Minden .. • • • ••••• •• Ditto, l'riority Shares .. •••••• • • • • 11ecklenburg— ...........• ••..•• .. •• 31 Altona and Kiel ......... • • .... •... 92 913( Gluckstadt -. •• •• •• .. •••••• •• •• Hanseatic Steam Company •• •• AUSTItIAN 11T.NDS.—VIENNA, MAY 31. 5 per Cents. .............• ••••.•. • • • .. 8914 4 per Cent............. 3 per Cent............ 23i per Cent. ...• I per Cent............. Loan, 1834............ Ditto, 1839 Bank Shares .... • Estcrhazv's Loan . 101 55% • •••••••••• 1,125 RAILWAYS. The Northern. Gloggnita Milan ••••.... 961 AIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE. The special meeting of the proprietors was held on Wednesday at Manchester to receive the report of the investigation committee, and to adopt resolutions thereon. The Earl of Yarborough presided. The attendance of shareholders was numerous, and the chairman and directors were loudly cheered. The report had been in the hands of the proprietors some days, and the Chairman called upon Mr. Simp son, the chairman of the committee, to give any explanations that the committee might have thought it necessary to print on the report. Th e b oar d had never had any other object than the good of the company, and he was glad to believe from the ap plause that had been bestowed that the shareholders felt that the board had nothing to disguise, nothing to screen from the sight of the shareholders, because they felt they need not be ashamed of any act they had performed. Mr. SIMPSON moved that the report be re ceived, and that the directors be requested to give early attention to the recommendations. He then stated that in the notice contained in the report re specting the arrears, the committee did not wish to cast any charge of neglect upon the solicitors who had care of that part of the company's affairs. The committee had not thought it desirable to allude to the extraor dinary absence of accidents on the line, but he thought it was only due to the officers to notice it. He then alluded to the very large stake which the Noble Chairman, the deputy chairman (Mr. Chapman), and two other of the directors had in the undertaking, and had held unaltered from the beginning ; and to the liberal arrangements which the journey of the com• mittee through Lincolnshire had shown Lord Yar borough to have made in the negotiations for land. The CHAIRMAN read a letter from Mr. Jack, one of the committee, explaining that he was not present when the latter part of the report was agreed to, and he did not wish to be pledged to the view there appa rently put forth, that competency for the office of director was to be measured alone by a man's stake in the company. Mr. GREIG, another of the committee, replied to the charge of tameness, and the want of something striking in it respecting the past, and something grand as to the future. The committee had invited information from all quarters, but they had not found anything whereby they could possibly reflect upon the conduct of the directors. As to the future, he held that everything depended upon the Gritnsby Docks ; instead of being likely to sink the railway, they would be its making—its salvation. Mr. KNIGHT, of Lancaster, said he calculated it would require 10,500/. a week to pay 5 per cent. upon their outlay, and he wished for the opinion of the Chairman, knowing how deep an interest he had taken in the docks, as to whether the revenue would rise to that when the docks were completed. The CHAIRMAN said any opinion he could give would be only valuable as an individual opinion, and of course it might b e an erroneous one. Give the railway time, and it would be one they would not be sorry to have embarked i n . Hi s own stake in it was large, and it was unaltered from the time he entered it. Mr. WILDS stated that at a general meeting in 1847 the Chairman, in speaking of the cost of the line, It:d said it would be 17,0001. per mile for the 220 miles, and now the committee said it would be 37,0001. The shareholders had a right to ask how this was. The CHAIRMAN said the observation he then made had reference to the line east of Sheffield, and not to the Sheffield and Manchester. Mr. GREEN, of Sheffield, pruduced a report of the meeting alluded to, issued from the company's offices, and read sentences in which the Chairman, and Mr. Holland, of Liverpool, a director, stated that the cost of the whole works, spread over 220 miles, would be 17,000/. Such statements compromised and damaged the company, and those who gave the Chairman s uc h information should be dismissed from the company's serviote , The CHAIRMAN and MR. HOLLAND both alleged that their observations on that occasion had reference to the lines east of Sheffield, and not to that west. Mr. FOWLER, the engineer of the company, by whom the information was originally given, corrobo rated the statement. Mr. MAXWELL inquired whether the 37,0001. a mile would include all the expenses to be incurred in THE HAGUE, JUNE s.—ln the sitting of the Se cond Chamber, this day, a Royal Message was laid before the House, accepting the resignation of M. Curtius as Minister of Justice, and expressing the thanks of his Majesty for the able manner in which he had discharged the duties of his high office. A second Royal Message contained the appoint ment of M. H. L. Wickers, to the office of Minister of Justice. Several messages were also presented from the First Chamber containing the aduption of six articles of the fundamental law, as passed by the Second Chamber. THE COUNTRY MARKETS mANcirEsTER, JUNE 7.—The active movement which has taken place in the Liverpool Cotton Market, together with f•vourable accounts from India by the overland. mail. have produced a decidedly firm feeling in our market; an d previous rates are not only well maintained, but in some cases an ad vance has bean obtained. A considerable number of contracts have been entered into for future delivery. Any aceurnulas tions which had previously taken place have been entirely cleared off. Our yarn market also exhibits great firmness , and in some cases an advance has been paid on the rates ruling prior to the arrival of the overland mail. There is, however, an indisposition shown to give these advanced rates; and as the Continental demand is still languid it is probable that save shall have a retrograde movement to about the rates previously ruling. BIRMINGHAM, JUNE 7.—During the present week, we have had little passing in the trade. A few parcels of wheat have changed hand; at about previous rates, chiefly Polish Odessa, at 5s 4d to 5s 5d per 621bs, delivered at Birmingham. I n barley, beans, and peas, nothing doing worth notice. Limited parcels of oats have been disposed of at a reduction of 6d to la per quarter. At this day's market there was only a limited supply of English wheat, yet the trade ruled dull at Is per quarter under the currency of this day se'nnight on all de scriptions. Barley met a very slow sale, at rather less money. Oats were taken slowly at the above decline. On beans the turn was in favour of the buyer. BRISTOL, JUNE 7.—The supply of English wheat at to day's market was short, and the trade both for it and foreign was inactive, at rather under the rates of last week, viz,' English, new , 40 s to 48s per imperial quarter ; foreign, white, to 52s p er 480Ib s ; di tto, red, fine qualities, 40s to 43s ; ditto ditto, ordinary qualities, 37s to 39s • ditto, hard, 365 to 395. For flour the price was quite retail, and at a figure the turn lower, viz.: English, seconds, 31s to 33s per sack ; Arne; rican and sw ee t, 2 3s to 24s per barrel. Barley remained unaltered, viz.: English, malting, 27s to 30s per imperial quarter; English snd foreign, grinding, 21s to 24s Per 4001bs. Oat s were 6d to Is per quarter lower; Devon art" Welsh sold for 16s 6d to 17s 6cl per imperial quarter ; Irish, white, 20s to 21s per 3201bs ; Irish, black, 17$ to 181 per imp qr; foreign, none. Egyptian beans were also 6d to 1 6 lower, viz., 26s to 30s per 480 lbs ; English, 30s to 36s per imp qr. The arrivals have been—ln the Florida, 144 hags of wheat; in the Sabrina, from Cork, 7 tons of oatmeal; in the Noemi, from Nantes, 526 qrs of barley ; in the Marietta, from Bocea di Cattaro, 2,900 qrs of wheat ; in the Highlander , from Rotterdam, 664 qrs red wheat, 125 qrs small fine beans; in the Shamrock, from Dublin, 20 qrs malt ; in the Casimir° , from Ragusa, 1,750 qrs wheat ; in the Florence, from Rouen , 3 sacks flour ; in the Rose, from Cork, 3 tons oatmeal, 10 bar' rels oats ; in the Troubadour, from Liverpool, 16 sacks peas; in the Jim Crow, from Yarmouth, 821 qrs barley ; in the Clementina, from L on d on , 335 qrs wheat ; in the Harriet, from Gloster, 130 sacks flour. BOSTON, JUNE 6.—Wheat, red 40s to 44s 6d, white 485; oats 13s to 20s; beans, 30s to 33s per quarter. • SLEAFORD, JUNE 4.—Wheat, white 45s to 475; r e d 445 to 45s ; barley nominal; oats 16s Od to 21s; beans, 00$ to 33s per quarter. GRIMSBY.—Return of Sales to June 4—Wheat 193 quarters, 4101 15s (average_ 43s 2itl); barley 5 quarters. 51 lOs Od (average 22; Od); oats 40 quarters, 321 Os (average 16s 0d). LOUTH, JUNE 6.—Wheat 40s to 465; barley 24s to 2 85 ; oats 13s to 16s; beans 30s to 353 per quarter; seconds flour Os Od per stone. LYNN, JUNE s.—Wheat 36s to 40s, fine 42s to 46s • barley 24s to 26 5 , fi ne 28 s to 30s per quarter. dAKHAM, JUNE 4.—Wheat 40s to 48a; barley 26s to 295; oats 16s to 20s ; beans, 294 to 33s per quarter: MELTON MOWBRAY, JUNE s. —Wheat, 45s to 48s ; barley 27s to 31s ; oats 18s to 22s ; beans 33, to 36s per qr. UPPINGHAM, JUNE G.—Wheat 40s to 48s; barley 2 65 t° 30s ; oats 15s to 22s ; beans 28s to 35s per quarter. Butter 7d to 7,3-d per lb ; eggs 24 for ls. GAINSBORO', JUNE s. —Wheat 45s to 51s-249 quarter* 588/ 14s 6d (average 47s 31d); rye 0 quarters, 0/ (average 0 9 -) NEWARK, JUNE G.—Wheat, white 47sto 495, extra 00s,re u 43s to 475, extra 00s ; barley, malting COs to 00s, extra 0 0 ° , grinding 22s to 25, ; oats, new 16s to 235, old 00s to 20; beans, new 30s t o 35 5 , o ld 38s to 40s; peas3os to 32s ; tares 40s to 00s ; malt 54s to ,56s per qr. ROTHERHAM, JUNE 4.—Beef 5s 6d to 6s 6d per stone, mutton, 4id to 5d per lb. DERBY, JUNE 5. The supply of fat beasts this morning was large, and the quality of the animals was geed. Th e supply from the N or th o f E ng l and was undeniably good, an d we may say that so me of themwere the large s t an d best that has been shown this year. The number of fat sheep was also good, but the demand was flat. Fat and store calves were_ s plentiful. B ee f, 5d to G d ; mutton, 5d to 6d ; veal, 4d to °a per lb. Rough f a t, 3 s 6d per stone of 141bs. Hides, 114 d per lb. Calf skins, 2d to 3 1 4 . d. EDINBURGH, JUNE 6.—The quantity of wheat brought forward to-day was 416 qrs, being 54 qrs more than last week. Top price the same, and the average 2s 5d up—CO qrs unsold' The quantity of barley brought forward was 125 qrs, being 122 qrs less than last week. Price on the top 6d down, and the average the same-18 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 536 gr e brought forward,' or 144 qrs :less than last week. Top Pri ce Is 4d, and the average Is up—l qr unsold. The quan tity of beans to-day was 105 qrs, or 71 qrs more than last wee k * Price on the top the same, and the average 5d up-4 qrs unsold. Top of Wheat ... •• 651 b 52s Od ... Barley ... ••• ••• 5711 b 305 Od ... OHs "' ••• 4441 b 23s 4d ... Beans ... 651 b 32s Od EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, • JUNE 6.—The supply of ;cattle this morning was 525, being • 101 less than last week. At the beginning of the market a few sales wer e effected, at a reduction of 3d per stone from last week's prices, but towards the close a reduction of fully 6d was submitted to: Top price of the best beef 7s 3d; current 6s 6d ; middling and inferior 5s 6d t o 6 s per Dutch stone. At the close of the market a clearance was not effected. The supply of sheep and lambs this morning was .2,267, being 680 more than last week.. Demand dull, an d pr i ces much the same as last week. Good sheep in the wool brought 6d per lb, and down to 5d ; clipped sheep 5d per lb. Lambs (top) 20s ; current Ris to 18s, and down to 13s a head. A number of sheep unsold. GLASGOW, JUNE s.—Th ere i s a moderate business d o i n g in wheat t o he trade at the rates of last week. Flour is rather cheaper, and the sale heavy. Barley meets with little atten tion, except for the best descriptions for malting, which main tain former prices. Oats and oatmeal in limited request, but the prices are, not lower. Beans and white pease are fully as dear. Indian corn is fully Gd per 2:SOlbs higher, with a good demand. DUNBAR, JUNE s. —Wheat, weighing 63ilbs, brought 45, Od, ar.d prices to 445. Barley, weighing 53ilbs, brought 2,9, and prices to 23s Od. Oats, weighing 42ilbs, brought 19s 6d, and prices to 19s Od. Beans and peas, weighing 001bs, brought Oos, and prices to 00s Cd. DUNDEE, JUNE 2. Wheat, 41s Od to 44s Od. Foreign, ditto 45s Od to 48s Od. Barley, 22s Od to 23s Od. Oats,ls l to 153 6d. Peas and beans, 2!s Od to 24s Od. CORK, JUNE 6.—Flour— Firsts 14s to 143 fid ; extra 1530 d ; seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households 103 to 12s; thirds 8s to 10 0 per cwt. Oatmeal I3s Od to COs; Indian seal 94 to 9s 3d ; meal, 10s 6d to Ils per cwt. Indian corn B,' lOs to 8/155 per ton. Bran 4103 to 415 s per ton. Hay—Farmers 15s to 335; averagd 28s ; dealers 40s to 50s; average 44s Od per ton. Straw—Farmer. 2 , s Od to 37s Od ; average O0s; dealers Ogs:Od to 00s Od; average 00 5 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 60; household loaf 5d to bid per 41b. Fresh butter, s i t to 9J per lb. Eggs 3s 5d to 3s 7d p er hundred. Coals"— Newport 15 s; L y d ney 16s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neat h Culm 14s p er ton. Tallow 40s 6d to 00s p e r cwt. Whisky, 25 0. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. 31 " t —Beef 4d to 7d ; mutton 5d to 6id ; veal bid to 7d ; pork 4d to sid ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 315 s P er tog. Bark—Barbary 81 to 8/ 10s ; Valonia 14/ to 01; French 7110 s; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 108 to 12s per ston e ' Hemp 34/ to 361 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to 18s ; red ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 121 Pe r ton. Timb er —N ew M eme l 4/ 105 ; old scarce; red pine 3 1 15s ; yello w pi ne 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 20/ ; secon d quality 17/ p er 120. Hides.—Market 105 to 14s; salted lls to 145 per cwt ; calf skins lid to 2nd; market lid to 2d per lb' Potatoes, white 14d to 15d; Minions 19d to 20d ; Guano--' Peruvian, 11/ to 11/ 10s ; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archange l t 19s per barrel. SOUTE AMPTON, TiillllllDAL—The Montrone, coin' trended b) Uap.ana Bowen, with the Peninsular mail s ' 'eft here this afternoon, having a full cargo of bale goods, two boxes of specie, and 26 passengers. The S, C ; Lawrence, Americ a n f r i gate, C aptain Paulding, will leave to-morrow or Saturday. The Pacba, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship from the Peninsula, is expi cted to make her appearance on the 15th instant. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY. — Traffic for the week ending June 2, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 1,4831. 6s. 4d.; parcels, 351. 9s. Id.; goods and cattle, 1771. ls. 7d.; steam-boats, 2131. 13s. Od.—'rotcalt; els,t9elroCl.ooms.: exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and pany, and payment for conveyance of mails. 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On the 3d inst., at Chilmark Rectory, near Salisbury, BIRTHS. " Mrs Charles Tower, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Devonport, the w if a o f C omman der Hector T ause, R.N., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., Mrs. William Baker, of Chipping Ongar , of a daughter. On the .sth inst ,at Dingle-bank, Liverpool, the Hon. Mrs. Edward Cropper, of a son. On the 5 h inst., at Hastings, the wife of J. Fordham Harriss, Esq., of a daughte r . On the sth inst., at Charlton Barrow, near Blandford, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel J. D. Browne, of a son. On the 3d inst„ at Chester-place, Hyde -park, the wife of W. T. Pritchard, Esq., of a son. MA RRIED. On the 7th inst., by the Rev. E. F. E. Hankinson, at the parish church, Lynn, Francis Reed Wilson, Esq., of King's Lynn, fourth surviving son of the late Richard Wilson, Esq., of Ackworth Grange in the county o f Y ork. to Eliza, second daught er o f William Seppings, Esq., of King's Lynn and Setche House, in the county of Norfolk. On the bth inst., at Hardingstone, N or th amptons hi r e William, only son of William Billinghurst, Esq., of Green wich, to Caroline Sarah, fourth daughter of the late Charles Whitworth, Esq., of Northampton; and, at the same time, the Rev. Richard Atwood Henry Stroud, M.A., of Saltford, Somersetabire, to Clara Ge , rgiana, youngest daughter of the above-named Charles Whitworth, Esq. On the 6th inst., at St. Mary's, Peckham, James, only son of the late Captain W Hamilton, H.E.1.C.5., to Janette, eldest daughter of David Fergusson, Esq., of Champion-parkt Camberwell. lED. On the lst i ns t., the Rev. D William P. Woodward, rector of West Grinstead, Sussex, and prebendary of Sidleshatn, in the cathedral church of Chichester, aged 77. On the Ist inst., at Blackheath, Eli za b et h , rel i ct of the l a te Rev. Dr. Morgan Cove, Chancellor of Hereford, aged 89. At Br Orton, on the 3.1 inst., aged 79, Captain George Raincock, late of the Hon. East India Company's Service. At Ely, on the 4th inst., Thomas Sebborne, Captain and Adjutant of the Cambridgeshire Regiment of Militia, aged 60. At Tonbridge-wells' on the sth inst., M rs . A nne L os ack t widow of the l a t e R. Losack, Esq., formerly of the Abbey, West Melling, Kent. On the sth inst., at Penton-row, Walworth, Elizabetht relict of the Rev. T. Russell. M.A., aged 77. On the 6th inst., at 58, Skinner-street, Jane Caroline, younger daughter of the late H. Beckwith, Esq., of Essex. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , a t Th e S un Offi ce , No. 1.1 z; Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in _the Aliddloms, Friday, June $, 1849. .74'3 I.