The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-15 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-TUESDAY. The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey com menced yesterday, at the Court House Kingston. There was a very full attendance of magistrates. E. Pennryn, Esq., presided as chairman, and there ware also present Earl Love lace, H. Kemble, Esq., M.P.; J. Trotter, Esq., M.P. ; Sir R. Fredwick, J. J. Briscoe, Esq.; Colonel Challoner, T. Puckle, Esq. ; J. W. Freslifield. Esq- ; G. T. Nicholson, Esq.; J. Jefti-ey, Esq. ; R. C. Austen, Esq.; C. Barclay, Esq.; A. K. Barclay, Esq. ; J. E. Johnson, Esq., &c. The surgeons of the different gaols made their reports, from which it appeared that their respective establishments are generally healthy, and the surgeon of Brixton Gaol gave some rather curious information relative to the effect of the prison discipline and diet on the prisoners. It appeared that in many cases the prisoners gained considerably in weight; in two instances where the prisoners were confined for six months, the increase being in one case 151b5., and in the other 2.51b5. The County Treasurer (Mr. Smallpieee) then reported the state of the county finances. He said there was a balance is hand at the last meeting of the Court, of 8,1081. 3s. 3d., which sum had been increased by a county rate of 2d. in the pound, and other items, to 20,911/. is. Bd. ; he had had on behalf of the county 12,800/, which included a sum of 6,189/. o's account of the money borrowed for the erection of the Cenntv Lunatic Asylum, and there were other bills now due, which would reduce the amount of the balance in his hands to 7,93=4, which would be sufficient to carry lain on to the next session without another rate. A lengthenep discussion then took place on the motion of Mr. Barclay fur the erection of a lock-up house at Dorking, and another of a similar nature by Mr. Nicholson for Farn ham, under the new Parish Constables' Act. Mr. BARCLAY, after remaking on the want:experienced at Dorking of some place of security for prisoners before exa mination, observed that, as the question was a novel one, and arose under a new Act of Parliament, he and the• gen tlemen who had brought the matter forward did not feel themselves sufficiently acquainted with the details to make any motion to the Court on the present occasion, and he should, therefore, move that the matter be referred back to the magistrates acting in these divisions of the county; that they should consider the matter fully, and be prepared, by the next session, to give the Court ample information on the subject. In answer to questions put by one of the magistrates, it was stated to be the intention to appoint an officer to take charge of the lock-ups, who would superintend the con stables of the district. The Earl of LOVELACE said, he was not at present suffici ently acquainted with the subject to give any opinion re specting it; but he trusted this was not an endeavour, by a side wind, to introduce the constabulary into the country. Mr. Nicitor.sox said, there was no ground for such a sup position. The person appointed as superintendent would be a parish officer to all intents and purposes, and would be paid by the parish. After some further conversation, it was arranged that the matter should be referred, as proposed by Mr. Barclay, with a view to the Court being placed in possession of all the details, before they came to any decision upon the subject. G UILD F 0 itD QUARTER SESSIONS. (Before the lion. G. C. NORTON, Recorder.) NERVOUS EXCITEMENT AND ROBBERY. Martin Williams, solicitor's clerk, was placed at the bar, charged with having, on the evening of the Gth of September last, etolen three gold chains, the property of Mr. Triggs, eweller and watchmaker, High-street, Guildford. • No counsel had been engaged fer the prosecution; Mr. Parry appeared fur the defence. From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner, about nine o'clock on the evening in question, dashed his hand through the shop window of Mr. Triggs, and having seized three gold chains which lay there, ran slowly down the street. As above a dozen persons were near the spot at the time, and witnessed the transaction, he was instantly pursued and taken into custody. When Mr. Triggs, who it'as conversing with a friend in the shop when tire window was smashed, had reached the spot where the prisoner had been seized, the - latter pulled the chains out of his pocket, and presenting them to the former, said, " Here are, your chains ; do not be alarmed." He was taken to the station-house and searched ; and found to have in his possession only one farthing in money, a bit of deal, and a pair of gloves. ills appearance betokened great bodily exhaustion, his clothes were soiled, and his hands and face unwashed. lie appeared to set much store by the shapeless bit of deal, and requested the constable to leave it in his pos session, and when this was refused, he charged the officer to take care of it. On his examination before the magistrates, previous to his committal, he reiterated his request to be allowed the wood, and it was again refused, and he appeared rather annoyed in consequence. This conduct on the part of the prisoner excited suspicion that his mind was disordered. Mr. PARRY, for the defence, admitted that the prisoner had stolen the chains in the manner deposed by the wit nesses, and stated that be also considered him of sound mind when the act was committed, and consequently responsible for his actions ; but still he (Mr. P.) felt convinced that he should be able to convince the jury that the prisoner could not be found guilty of the charge laid in the indictment of having feloniously stolen the property. The prisoner had taken the chains, rot for the purpose of depriving the pro secutor of the property, but to get himself transported. The very act itself was proof enough of that desire. The prisoner selected a time when the street was full of people, and parties were in the shop, to seize the chains, and then he had slowly ran away in order to maintain the impression that he was a regular thief, The Learned Gentleman, having assured the jury that what he was going to state was nothing but the purest truth, proceeded to narrate the following circum stances :—The prisoner had been in the employ of a noted firm is London as a confidential clerk for twenty years, but having been, by the death of one of the partners, deprived of the situation, he made application for another under another solicitor, and although there were above two hundred other applicants, his excellent character obtained him the pre ference. Bat here unfortunately his writing was not considered sufficiently good, and his employer intimated to him as much. The prisoner being of a remarkably ner vous and excitable temperament, took this to heart, and began to fear that he would be discharged, and ex pesed to want and misery, along with his wife and child, to whom he was most affectionately attached. Op pressed with this idea, he absented himself feom his em ployment on Monday, the Ist of September, and started into the country with only Is. ad. in his pocket, and without having - formed the least plan to act upon. He wandered about half distracted the whole week, and on Saturday arrived at Guildford in a very deplorable condition, as he had not slept in a bed nor taken food from the Weelnesday ; and havirs , conceived the idea that he should be far lees miserable if were transported from the country, he broke the window and stole the chains to secure that—in his excited imaginath.n—desirable position. This would explain the circumstance which - had caused so much curiosity—the prisoner's attachment to the bit of deal. That insignificant bit of wood he had seen his child cutting on the day previous to his flight from his home, and he wished to treasure it as a memorial of the son whom lie felt convinced he should never see again. Time Learned Gentleman called the fullowing witnesses to character : Mr. Frederick E. Thompson, of the firm of Springliall Thompson, and Powell, Raymond's-buildings, London, de posed that he had known the prisoner 20 years as confidential clerk to Mr. Springhail. Witness would have trusted him with thousands of pounds without the least hesitation, such confid,nce had he in his integrity. He had come expressly down to bear that testimony. Mr. A. Groome, managing clerk to the above firm, had known the prisoner fourteen years, and bad often entrusted him with sums of money to various amounts; once, in fact, with 4,0001. He believed him to be a person of the highest character for honesty and sincerity. Mr. Lmklater, of Leadenhali•street, City, deposed to having engaged the prisoner as clerk a few weeks ago, and that he and his brother had made remarks upon the pri soner's deficiencies as a penman. He had chosen him from above two hundred applicants because of his character. The prisoner absented himself from the office on the Ist of Sep tember, as had been stated. he jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner guilty, but mem - lin - tended him to mercy, on account of his distressing circumstances - ; ant the prosecutor added his re quest to that of the jury. Sentence, three months' hard labour in Guildford House of Correction, the first and last fortnight to be solitary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOIV-STREET. ROHKERY AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—Yestei-day, a young woman, named Caroline Evans, employed as a housemaid at Buckingham -palace, was placed at the bar for final ettamin ation, charged with stealing a qucntity of wearing apparel, belonging to the clerk of the kitchen in the establis4ment. It appeared at the last examination that a great coat being missed by Edmund "kale, cleric of the kitchen, from his bed-room, he inquired of the prisoner if she had observed any person in the apartment, and being answered in the nega tive, he communicated the circumstance to Inspector Steed, who is constantly on duty at the palace, and who, being directed to make search for the property, found in the pri soner's trunk a bag containing forty-two duplicates relating to a quantity of wearing apparel, among which was one re lating to the article in question and other property belong ing to the prosecutor. The prisoner was shortly after ques tioned at Windsor Castle about the matter, but she gave. d no other account than that. the entire of the duplicates not belong to her, and being taken into custody the whole of the articles were found at different pawnbrokers in Pimlico aid Westminster, where they were pledged in the name of Anne Brown a few days previous. Mr. Wontner said, that it was useless for him to attempt combating against the evidence, ns he was certain the pri soner would be committed for trial on the charge ; but there were two other cases against the prisoner, entirely uncon nected with the palace, upon which the prosecutors seemed disinclined to proceed; and, as they were vary doubtful, he submitted that the Court ought not to entertain them. Mr. TsvvForin said that he was given to understand by the eel k that the other cases were of a much more serious nature, if possible, for it could be proved that on a late occasion the prisoner paid a visit to her sister, living in the service of a medical gentleman residing at Pentonville, and, during her temporary absence from the apartment, she contrived to steal two silver table-s p oons, for which the u n o ff en di ng party had been discharged from her situation, without a character; and, not content with committing such a heartless robbery, she paid another visit to a second sister, living as servant in the family of a gentleman residing in tha neighbourhood of Regent's Park, where she also contrived to steal two other silver table-spoons, and as the property, which could be traced to the prisoner, could be identified, ho considered that she ought to be remanded for the purpose. A gentleman came forward to say, that he had no doubt of two of 'the spoons being his property; but as his servant, who was the only person competent to give evidence as to the manner in which the robbery was committed, was una voidably absent, he could ensure her attendance on a future day, if the prisoner were remanded. The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was ac cordingly ordered to be remanded fer a week. MABYL EB 01VA'. After the disposal of the night charges, a solicitor, whose name did not transpire, attended at the Court, and made known to Mr. Rawlinson the following particulars, with re gard to what he looked upon as a swindling transaction : He stated, that two or three months ago an advertise ment appeared in the Globe, which ran thus—" Noblemen and gentlemen, clergymen, ;officers on full• pay with good expectations, heirs to entailed estates, &c., can be accom modated on their personal security :with loans of not less than 100/., or more than 5,0001. Address, p.p., in Writing only, to Messrs. Young, 69, Mortimer -street, Cavendish square. No Personal application whatever will be at tended to." Applicant set forth that the advertisement in question attracted the notice of a clergyman in Yorkshire, whose name he should not wish to mention, and that he applied for a loan of one hundred pounds. At length, after various letters which had passed to and fro as to his respectability, and the certainty of re -payment, he accepted a bill at three months' date for 1501., and he returned the same, addressed to Messrs. Young and Co. The applicant said that the money 460 not been forthcoming, and that his client was of opinion that his a cceptance had been ne„o - otiatecl, as he had not re ceived a single sixpence from the party to whom he sent it. From the ingniries which he (applicant) had made, he had reason to Auppeee that the adyertner4 were ant of swindlers, and that there were many other cases of a similar description which could be brought against them. Mr. RAWLINSON said that he could do nothing in the ab sence of the clergyman; in the event of his atending he would, perhaps, be able to interfere. QUEEN-SQ UA RE. _ _ FRAUDS ON TE;DESMEN BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday Re • becca Larkman, a servant girl, was finally examined before Mr. Bond, charged with defrauding a groat number of trades men. Prisoner lived fora short time in the service of Mt?. Coward, of Sloane-street, but, in consequence of repeated acts of dis honesty, was discharged about the end of J u n e l as t, s i nce which - period she has been to the shops of the various trades men who were in the habit of supplying the family, and ob tained goods to a considerable amount in the name of her former mistress. Benjamin Adams, shopman to Mr. Gregory, an iron monger, in Sloane-street, proved that the prisoner obtaincd goods on two occasions by representing that she had been sent by Mrs. Cow ar d, h er mistress. On the first of these, she asked for a set of fire-irons and other trifling articles, value 11. 95., which were supplied to her in haste, as she said that they were waiting for them with the gig, in order to take them to the country house. In a few lays after wards she was supplied with a valuable tea-urn and a bed room candlestick, which the shoprnan offered to send home, but she insisted upon taking them herself, observing "that if she did not, her mistress would consider her lazy." Mr. J. 11. Keats, of 142, Sloane-street, said the prisoner came on the 30th of September to his shop, and said that as it was the birth-day of one of Mrs. Coward's daughters, that lady (her mistress) was desirous of presenting her with a handsome Bible and Prayer-book in a case. The books were supplied, and on pri;oner's return in a quarter of an hour for sifoilar books in different coloured binding, these were also given to her. _ _ Mrs. Coward having asserted that she had never given the prisoner any authoiley to obtain the above, or any other articles, the prisoner was fully- committed for trial on both charges. WORSHIP-STREET, George Reynolds, who a few years back failed as a beer shop-keeper in Spitalfields, and has since been ostensibly a weaver, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, on a charge of coining. Mr. Field, inspector of coins to the Royal Mint, and Mr. Powell, Mint solicitor, prosecuted on the part of the Crown. Sergeants Teakle and Price produced plaster of Paris moulds for shillings and half-crowns, together with melting pot, shears, files, and other implements used in coining; also a number of counterfeit coins of both denominations, all of which they found in the prisoner's possession when they ap prehended'him. The moulds were then warm, and the coins apparently just made. There was another mould not quite finished, and the prisoner, seeing the officers lay hands on it, said in a desponding tone, " Oh! you'll find a good half crown in that, and that I borrowed." They accordingly found, and now produced, the mould with a genuine half crown embedded in it to form the mould for the counterfeits. The prisoner, who had alleged that distress had urged him to it, was now committed for trial. John Burton, who bad been a fortnight on bail, re-appeared before Mr. Broughton on a charize of driving a cart over a lady named Ramsay and her child. Mrs. Ramsay had been unable to attend until yesterday, and was still unable to walk without assistance. It appeared that at the time mentioned she alighted from an omnibus, near Hackney Church, with a child, and was taking the footway leading to Homerton, when she was struck and knocked down by a cart in which were the defendant and several other men, who, it was said, had been drinking freely, and were driving improlyrly. The child was thrown under the wheel, but was saved from destruction. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a serious case, and he desired to have the fullest evidence that could be obtained as to the condition and conduct of the parties in the cart. He there fore remanded it again for the police to bring forward other witnesses. John Latham, a lad, was charged with riding over a re spectable married female, named Green. A police-constable of the G division proved that about eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, while Mrs. Green was crossing the City-road with a child, the prisoner, who was riding a horse at a furious rate, rode over her, and she was conveyed, seriously injured, to the residence of Dr. Davis, in Worship-square. Her husband, who was now present, said he had left her quite insensible, and in a dangerous state,but happily the child was not hurt. The prisoner alleged that the horse had run away with Mr. BnouGuToN remanded him. THAMES. Peter Ill'Pherson, a middle aged man, who was till lately a maker of goods in the district of this Court, was charged be fore Mr. Ballantine with illegally practising the trade of an auctioneer, without being duly licensed, in St. George's street, formerly called Rateliff Highway, by which he had rendered himself liable to a month's imprisonment. This was the first ease under the new Act of Parliament, the Bth Vie., cap. 25, which is called "An Act to repeal the duties of Excise on sales, and to impose a new duty on the license to be taken out by all auctioneers in the 'United King dom." The Act imposed a penalty of 10W. on every auctioneer not taking out a license, the price of which an nually is 10'. The 7th section enacts, that before any auc tioneer shall commence any sale, he shall suspend or affix a ticket or board, containing his full christian and surname, and place of residence, and exhibit it in a conspicuous part of the sale-room, froin the commencement till the termini tion of the sale. The eighth section, which has been more particularly framed to reach the mock auction fellows, pro vides that the license shall be produced by every auctioneer on demand being made by any officer of Excise, Customs, Stamps, or Taxes, or in the eeent of the auctioneer not being able to produce his license, he must deposit 101. with the officer, to he returned to him if the license is produced within seven days, but otherwise to be forfeited. If the auc tioneer can neither produce a license nor deposit 101. with tl e officer making the demand, he may be forthwith arrested and taken before a justice of the peace, who is empowered to send the party to the house of correction for any period Not exceeding one month. The defendant, who has been con ducting a mock auction for the sale of cutlery, crockery ware, tern trays, and other articles, was exercising his call ing with great vigour on Monday evening, and knocking down the lots in rapid succession, to imaginary purchasers, and occasionally to a real buyer, when two Excise officers, named Baxter and Campbell, were induced, by the invita tion of a " barker" outside, to walk in. While the defen- • dant was describing in glowing language the value of his lots, the "barker" continued to call out vociferously, "Walk in, gentlemen, the sale's now on." Their proceedings were 81111 denlv terminated, end they were taken all aback, by the officers asking M'Pherson for his license. He said he had not taken out one, and he was then asked to deposit IC/. with Baxter, who told him who he was. M'Pherson ex pressed his inability to do so, and was forthwith given into custody. He had not complied with any of the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and the name of another man was affixed to the walls of the shop or sale-room, who had like wige neglected to provide himself with a license. Ellis, the Chief Usher, said he had known M'Pherson for many years, as a hawker and pedlar in the neighbourhood, but he was not aware that he kept a mock auction. The officers having proved the sale, Mr. Ballantine sen tenced the defendant to seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and told him, if he repeated the offence, he should be committed for one month. Amelia Bray, a girl nineteen years of age, who was very meanly clad, and appeared in a state of great affliction, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with pawning four pairs of trousers, the materials of which had been sup plied to her by Emanuel Gideon, a slop-seller, to make up. The prosecutor, who lives on Tower-hill, proved having supplied the materials for the trousers, and two pawnbrokers produced the trousers; they had been pledged for 16s. Three pairs were pawned at one time for 125., and another pair sub sequently for 4s. The prisoner said she was in great distress when she pawned the things, and did it to raise money to supply the cravings of hunger, and to provide nourishment for a sick father, who was past work and was in a dying state. She had made away with everything on which she could obtain money before she pawned the trousers. She intended to have redeemed the property as soon as she was able to do so. The policeman who 'apprehended the prisoner said her distress was past description, and her home was a very wretched one. It was true she had a sick fathe r to main tain. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if the prisoner was known, and le officers said she had not been in custody before. The poor girl said she worked early and late to support herself and father, but slop-work was so badly paid for, th a t she was unable to do so. Mr. BALLANTINE said he felt for the situation of the prisoner, but as the case was brought before him he must do his duty, painful as it was to his feelings. He sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 235., and sixteen ditto the value of the goods pawned; and in default committed her to the House of Correction for fourteen days. The goods must he restored to the owner. Gideon then paid the girl for making the trousers, and she was then committed. A woman, named Ann Seaford, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, on remand, charged with stealing a quantity of female wearing apparel, value 141., from the dwelling_house of Mr. John Wordsworth Robson, an artist, residing at No. 30, Wapping. wall, Lower Shadwell. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. Robson for the last seventeen weeks, and was originally engaged by him to attend his sick wife, who died on the 24th ult. Prior to Mrs. Robson's death the prisoner commenced pawning her things, and upon a discovery taking place, the prisoner en deavoured to terrify Mrs. Robson with informing her hus band that the property was pawned with her consent. Th e sick lady refused to do so, and for soma reason the prosecu tor overlooked his servant's depredations. After Mrs. Rob son's death, the prosecutor discovered his late wife's s t oc k of lirlden On wearing . apparel,lastha taredsh s t , h cp.risoner with robb ing hi m , , diminishing e vrry day ai She stoutly denied having done so. Mr. Robson made in iicji.l4. qttiries at the various pawnbrokers, and found his property. The prisoner was given into custody, and on being searched, a lace cap, belonging to the late Mrs. Robson, was found upon her. This cap was in a cupboard in one of the apart ments only an hour before she was detained. Mr. Robson sent her into the apartment daring the hour for his tomb and brush, and th e prisoner took that opportunity to steal different the cap. Th ree pawnlerokers produced thirty pledges on w hi ! h money h a d b een obtained before and after Mrs. Rob son ' s d eat h. T wo o th er p aw nbrokers, who had attend. On lo ans on M r. R o b son ' s proper t y, did n ot On being conveyed to the station-house, she tore up a num ber of duplicates, and the pieces were picked up and put together by Malin, 99 K, who by that means was enabled to trace the property. The prisoner was committed for trial. WANDSWORTH. THE CHARGE OF TRESPASS AGAINST THE RICHMOND RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Thursday last Mr. Evan Morris, solicitor, and vestry-clerk of Putney, obtained a summons against the promoters of the Richmond Railway for entering and committing damages upon ce r t a i n l ar d in the occupa tion of Mr. Thomas AtkinS, without affording that person compensation, or obtaining his consent to the same. The in fermation was laid under the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 18, or Lands Clauses Act, the S9th section of which enacts that if promoters of railways enter upon lands 'without the consent of the owner or occupier, or before payment or de posit of purchase-money, they shall forfeit the sum of 101. above all damage committed on such lands, and that such penalty and damage shall be recoverable before any two jus tices. The damage in this case was laid at 100/. As it was generally expected that the case would come on for hearing to-day, a great deal of interest was excited ; the question as to whether a railway company or Its contractors could enter on land, and commence operations, without first satisfying the owner or occupier, being considered one of paramount importance, especially to occupiers of land in the neighbourhood of London, from whence so many railways are likely to radiate. Those interested in these matters were, however, doomed to disappointment, for soon after Mr. Clive, the presiding magistrate had taken his seat, Mr. Morris, the solicitor, came into Court, and addressing himself to the Bench, said that, in the case of Mr. Thomas Atkins, for whom he appeared on Thursday last, and in whose behalf a summons had been granted against the pro ne-.leees of the Ri c h mon d R a i lway, he was ha nto e bl e dto state that th e y h a d come to very advantageous terms with the Company, d able to both partie s.lndependently of an ami ca bl e settle ad anaeataken to make a road to the north of the line, which was not only of individual import ance to his client, but cf great benefit to the public, as it would afford a means of access to upwards of eighty acres of land in the occupation of many individuals w h o o th erw i se would have been shut out from it, in consequence of the old approaches being cut off by the intended line of railway. He (the solicitoi) had now only to say that he abandoned the charge - against the Company on the part of his client, and he thought it necessary to come forward and state this publicly, as they had been suing for a penalty as well as damage. • Mr. CLIVE said he was glad the matter was satisfactorily arranged, and remarked that the case was illustrative of the utility of the clause under which proceedings had been taken. ANOTHER CHARGE OF TRESPASS AGAINST THE RICHMOND RAILWAY COMPANY.—Soon after the last case had been dis posed of, Mr. Wright, an attorney, with his client, Mr. Beckett, made application to Mr. Clive for a summons against the promoters of the Richmond Railway Company, under circum stances similar to those in the preceding case. Mr. Wright stated that his client, Mr. Beckett, who is a saddler, living in the High-street, Wandsworth, was the owner of half an acre of land, adjoining that in the occupa tion of Mr. Atkins, and on Monday, the 6th inst., the Com pany entered upon and took possession of it., without having come to any terms, or obtained the consent of the owner. The piece of land they had taken was about 108 yards in length, and 40 in breadth, and a portion of it formed part of a ropy-walk. Since the company had had possession forty willow trees had been felled. Mr. COVE asked if the owner or his solicitor had applied to the Company fora settlement? Mr. Wright answered in the affirmative. They had asked 2051., and the Company had offered W. as compensation, which his client of course refused to take. Mr. CLWE—Have, you applied to them since the cum , plainant in the last case took his summons out ? Mr, Wright-No, I have not, Sir. CI.IVE—I should think it very probable that if you were to see them now they would come to terms, as in the previous case. Perhaps you had better see the secretary be fore the summons is issued. Mr. Wright said the terms offeral by the company were so low, that he despaired of coming to any amicable arrange ment, and would, therefore, with the magistrate's permission, take a summons out. Mr. CLIVE—Very well, then you may take out a sum. mons. The solicitor then assessed his damages at 201., and a sum mons was ordered to be issued against the promoters of the Richmond Railway. THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON The following have been forwarded to us as copies of Mr. Corry's letter to the Surveyor of the Navy, and Sir S. Pym's report of the performances of the several ships of the expeli mental squadron in the last trial cruise : " Admiralty, Oct. 13, 1845. " To THE SURVEYOR OF THE NAVY,— " Sir,—Herewith you will receive a copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, dated the 10th inst., report ing the return of the experimental squadron of line-of-battle ships to Plymouth, and the result of their trial.—By com mand of their Lordships, " H. CORRY," " St. Vincent, in Plymouth-sound, Oct. 10, 1845. " Sir,—l have the honour to forward to you, for the in formation of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the diagrams of the trials of sailing of her Majesty's squadron under -my command, and ether documents mentioned in the enclosed schedule. In addition to which, a good trial was commenced on the Ist inst. by the Queen, Canopus, Albion, and Vanguard, in chase of the Daring, under a!1 plain sail, and part topmast and topgallant studding-sails; but the fig, which came on three hours after, prevented angles being taken to ascertain the exact result. The Queen, however, gained on her. "' You will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships that we have had some splendid trials with as heavy a press of sail as could well be carried. One beginning with close-reefed top sails and reefed courses, topgallant masts struck; the next under treble-reefed topsails, and another under double-reefed topsails; and all these against a heavy head sea. "In the latter, on the 7th inst., the day after the heaviest gale, the Rodney beat the whole fleet. "'Nothing could be more easy in all the trials than the Queen and Albion, who never appeared to strain anything; indeed, all the squadron proved themselves such fine ships as to b. incapable of being tistressed by press of sail, except the St. Vincent. " perfectly satisfied with the result of the trials, that the Queen is the best ship, the Albion and Rodney next, Canopus and Vanguard much alike, Trafalgar weatherly, but slow; St. Vincent leewardly and crank ; and •as the weather appeared to set in fine, and not deeming that any further trial would htnefit the service, I therefore bore up on the 9th inst. for this anchorage, which I reached with the squadron under my command this day, at 7 15 1 , 3 r. " ' I beg to remark, for their Lordship's information, that all the captains deserve the greatest credit for the seaman like manner in which they made sad, blowing in the way it did, on the above mentioned occasion ..—I have, &c., PYlki, Rear-Admiral. " To the Right H on . H enry T. L. Corry, M.P" THE STAIIIP-OF - FICF: AND THE NEWSPAPER PRESS. J `'A sy - stent of mean, petty, and vexatious extortion has just been commenced by the Stamp -office authorities against the newspaper press in Scotland. We had heard rumours of this privately from some of our contemporaries, but we were certainly not aware of the extent to which it was about to be carried. The conductors of the financial department of the Citizen have just informed us that we have been charged for the month of August no fewer than twenty " duties" more than the actual number of advertisements which bare appeared in our columns during the time specified. On calling at the Stamp-office here for an explanation, our manager was infor m ed th a t the exactions of whi c h he complained originated with certain functionaries in Edinburgh, and that a system of in creased rigour had been commenced in the perusal of adver tisements and paragraphs with a view to the detection of what are called " separate interests." In this way, adver tisements which formerly only paid a single duty. are mulcted in two or three duties. For example, a teacher announces at the foot of his advertisement that he has ac commodation for two or three boarders, this is charged an additional duty ;—a steam-boat announcement contains, perhaps, an allusion to an " excellent hotel," or to " an om nibus for conveying passengers," and in both the hotel and the omnibus the lynx-eyed officials profess to descry "se parate interests," and lay claim to an additional eighteen pence for each But more than this, they have the impu dence to interfere with our duty as public chroniclers, and to levy an unwarranted tax on paragraphs of ordinary news, provided only it contain any intimation whereby they allege private interests may be benefited. Critiques on pictures exhibited at a publisher's gallery, announcements of early fruit at any particular shop. and many other matters which, in common with cur contemporaries, we have been accustomed to insert, merely as pieces of news, and as likely to interest the reader, have been - suddenly discovered to be advertisements, and charged by the Stamp-office officials accordingly I Now, where is this interference to stop? Notices of new books, of new music, of rapid loco motion by some particular conveyance, of surgical skill or acts of humanity ha cases of accident, of interesting and useful inventions, of high and honourable conduct on the part of individuals—all may be set down on the same principle as advertisements. Are we to write with the fear of the Stamp office continually before our eves ? In many case s con t racts have been formed to insert advertisements for a lengthened period at a fixed charge, and in which it is gross injustice to mulct them sudde n ly an d without warning in several duties. We trust that the newspaper proprietors throughout the country will unite together in remonstrating strongly and firmly against the grievance in question, and in endeavouring to check, at the outset, a system which, if persisted in, must prove a source of continual annoyance, as well as of frequent injustice, to the newspaper press.—Citizen. [We can add our testimony to the account given by our contemporary of the meanness of the Edinburgh Stamp -office —a meanness which we believe to be illegal. We know for certain that the London Stamp- office makes no such de mands upon the metropolitan journals; and the first time that we are again exposed to the annoyance and grievance complained of, we shall lay a case for the decision of the Government.]—En. Glasgow Argus. Tun MASTER PASSION. —The Rant ation of Mr. Colley Grattan, the popular antler of • Highways and By ways," and "The Heiress of Bruges," as a writer of hi ;lily entertaining narratives, cannot, but be greatly extended by the publication of the last and best collection of his tales, under the title of " THE MASTER PASSION," a three-volumed work, which has just issued front the press. To those who desire what is seasonable, we should recommend the author's "Recollections of the West Summer." Without wishing- to be thought satirical, we may add, that such as feel any interest in the proceedings of rampant Orangemen, or furious Repealers, may, perhaps, fi n d amusement in his " Sketches of Irish Tools." For the sentimental, there is " The Love Draught;" for the admirer of the picturesque, " The Pilgrim of Mont Blanc," and " The Caves of Groenendel ; " for the studious, " The Philosopher of the Odenwald; " for the military enthusiast, "Th e Hero of Waterloo ; " and for the lover of the supernatuatural, "The Curate Confessor." Be sides these admirable stories, the work contains severa l others, which will amply repay the reader's perusal. Indeed, that large class who read for amusement cannot find more agreeable materials than are furnished for them by the lively pen of Mr. Grattan in " TILE MASTER PASSION.' [ADVERTISEMENT.]-13100d to the Head.—lmpurit3 of Blood. —Derangement of Health.—An extraordinary Cure by Holloway's Pills.-111r. Willis, a retired publican, living in Pen ton-street, Pent onville, suffered continually from a dangerous de terminaaion of blood to the head, with benumbed feelings in his limbs, health much impaired, the blood in a very bad state, oftet heavy and drowsy, With swimmings in the head—the stomach generally out of order, with little appetite. Every means had faaled to restore him to health, but at last be, like thousands of other s , has been completely invigorated and restored to the highest state of health by Holloway's Pilb. Sold (also Hol loway's Ointment.) at Professor Holloway's establishment (where advice may be had gratis), and by all medicine vendors. Merchants and others should be strongly urged to keep their bankers' cheque-books under their own lock and key. A case has just Occurred in a railway office, in which one of the clerks, having obtained the secretary's cheque-book, forged several cheques upon his banker. It appears the clerk had been introduced by one of the Directors, and was but little known to the other parties in the office. He bad been dis missed upon another charge before the forgeries were dis covered. Had the cheque-book not come in his way, the Yesterday morning opportunity for forgery ould not have occurreci.—Times. f a new-born male child, SmanoaED CHILD Muntm t ....... Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Fleece Tavern, Queens on the body which was found under very singular circumstances. On Sunday evening last, about seven o'clock, the servant of Mr. Alford, of No. 10, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, was opening street, Cheapside, the street-door, when she discove re d, l ying on the step, a parcel, which she took into the hous e , and upon opening it found it containedbody of the dead a male i n f ant. The cir cumstance caused a great excitement among the family, who called in the police, and the body was t a k en to the station house. A reward f 101. has been offered for the apprehen sion of the unnatural parents. Mr. May, of Bow-l ane, surgeon said that he , had made a post anortem examination of th e b ody, and he was of opinion that the deceased had bee n b orn alive. There were marks o f external violence, arid the de ceased had evidently died from excessive hemorrhage. Toe Cor oner oh served that the case was enveloped in mystery, and p ro b a b ly _ evidence might if the inquiry was adjourned, some additional be obtained. The inq u iry was adjourned accordingly. PRICE or GOLD.—The premium on gold at P ar i s is 111 per milk, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17 s 100. per ounce f or s t an d ar d gold, gives an exchange of short being e 25 44 ; and th e exc h ange at P ar i s on L on d on at 5 London in 55, it follo ws th a t go ld i s 0 . 43 per cen t . d earer than in Pari s . B y a d v i ces f ront H am b urg h, the price of gold is 432 p er mar k , w hi c h , at the Engl i s h Mint-priceof 3?. 17s. l 0 d. p er ounce f or standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 Si ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short bring 13 9, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in andon than in Hamburgh. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester day, at his official real : •:..e in Downing -street. Lord Jocelyn transac t ed busines s at the Foreign-office on Monday. 4,l A i NAMES OF RAI VATS. 4 v., ,7 4 ••3 Oct. 0(1. 1 Oct. Oct 14. 14. 14. 14, 6% 7%1 Aberdeen • • • ... Airdrie and Coatbridge Arbroath and Forfar - DR to Half Shares .... - A nmagh,Colr.,&Portrush 2% - Bandon and Bantry .• • - 2%1 - Belfast and Ballymena - 10 - P.elfast and County Down - - 111ricallid,Lan.&Ches.Jne. - 12% 121 Birmingham and Gio'ster 127 - - Do. New (iss.at 7% dis.) - - Ditto Half Shares .... _ Ilirminglun & Oxfrd.June. 5% ._ - Illekburn, and Preston.. - - 111ckburn, Darwn,& Bolin - - 11olton, W hhas, & Liverpl. - _ Boston, Starnfrd and Birm 1% p 2% 5653 d Brighton, Lewes, & Haat. - - Bristol and Exeter ••• • • • 101 - Ditto New .. ••••• • • • • • 15% - Brian)! and Gloucester .. - Bristol and S. Wales June. - 11ritish and Irish - t :al talon . and Ayrs h. June - Caletlon. & Dumbar.Junc - - (listed -Mau .• •••••• • • • • • - Ditto Extension ••• • • • 5% 5% 6 Jambridge and Lincoln.. 5% 6%' 61 Cheater and Birkenhead.. - 60 - Ditto New Shares • • - 55% - Ditto Half Shares ... - Chester and Holyhead .- Cheltenham and Oxford. Chichester and Brighton.. trhurnet Valley ..... theme Junction •.• • • . • Cl 3 desdale Junction •• • • - Cork, lnaekrck & Passage - Cork and Bandon . •• • • - Cork and Killarney .•• .. - Cork and Waterford • • • • 2 Coak and Yougha • • • • • . Canterbury and Dover.. Coventry and Leicester.. Col nw all . • .. - Derby and Crewe ..... - Direct Lon. and Manelistr Meeks, & Yarmoth - reet Man.(ltemington's) 41 4 3 A I )Irect .Northent •.• • • • 3 334 - Direct Norwich. - Dublin and Belfast June. - - Dublin, trelfast, & Cohn e - Dublin and Drogheda.... - - Dublin and Galway • • 5 Dundalk and Enniskillen - Dundee and Arbroath .• • - Dundee and Perth ••• • • • - - Durlunn and Sunderland - - East Lancashire (No. 1) - - Ditto (No. 2) - - - Eastern Counties 23% 23% 24 1 A Do. New 914 p 14% 13 si Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No 1 - - p, T - do. No. 2 /I - East Denham & Norwich - I - East Union •••• • • • • - lri tto Extension .. Glas., and Dam. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Sines •• • - Do. New Quarter Shares - Minh. Leith, and Granter' -- Do. Pref. 5 per Cent.. - Ealinhurgh and Nerthern - Edinburgh and Peebles • • - Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon - Enniskillen and 51ig0.... Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Eltwonti, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr....... Do. Quarter Shares.. rllasgow and Greenock . • Ditto New Ditto Preference • • llnsgw,Dnerles, and Car. Illsgw, Kilmarnek, &Ard. Glaegow and Belfast ITn. (look, and Doncaster Grand Junction.. Ditto Half Share-v.. • • - lritto Quarter Shares • • - Ditto New Quarters .• - Ditto Eighths • - Grand Union . • .... - Great Eastern & Western - tit tirimsby &Dk Ex tens. - Gt Grimsby and Sheffield - tit Silica & Wstrn (Wad) - Ditto Extension ••.• •• - Great Munster.. • • ...... - Grt Northern of Scotland 4% :- Get Northern of England - - 1)o. New 41)1. Shares .. - Do. New 301. Shares .. - Great IVestern ....• •• • • IGO Ditto half Shares • 91 Ditto I , iftha tluil frd, Farehm, & Ports. Harwich - Hutt [slid hr Man. R. &Canl - Iludderstleld and Sheffield - Hull and Gainsborough • • - 11u11 and Selby . . 104 111 to Quarter Shares.. - Ditto Half Shares - 111VMICILS and Elgin •• • • - Isle of Jersey ........ • • - - Kendal and Windermere - - Kingelinwn and Bray .. - - Killarney Junctions - - - Lancaster and Carlisle - lath:taster and Preston - - Leeds and Bradford - Ditto Extension - I.ccds arid Dewsbury • -- Leeds and Thirsk.... • • - Lee4l I & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford Limerick and Waterford - Linirck, Ennis, & KIL Jnc. - Lincoln, York, and Leeds - -• Liv. . Man. &GtN. of Eng. - - laver-pool and Manchester - 211% - Ditto Ilalf Shares - - Ditto Quarter Shares - - • Liaerrl, Ormskrk,& Pratn - 8 London and Birmingham 218}4 - Ditto Thirds. ...... -i 42 Ditto Quarters . •••••• London and Binekwall Latin. Oxfd. & Chitnham. I - London and BI ioton 6334 - Ditto Conselid. Eighths - - London and Croydon • • • 23% - Ditto New . ••• • • •• • • Do. C 5 per Cnt. - - London and Greenwich - - Do. Pref. or Privilege - London and South Westrn 77 - - Do. New Cons. Eighths - 1)4). New, 50/ Shares • • 15% Do. New, 401. Shares• • Louden - nd York .••• • • • 6% 6% 6 1 % - Ditto ( Bawtry) .••.• • • - London and - - Lotniu, Salsbury, & Yeovl 3% - Londonaerry & Coleraine - I•ollhardert y & EnulskilLn - Lynn al' Ely ••••• • • • • • - - - Lynn an I Deroham .• •• • - - Marreina , ter and Leeds • • - 152 - Ditto - .lair Shares • • • - „ Ditto Quarter Shares.• - 22 - Ditto Sixteenths •• • • 23 - Mancha r and Birkenhead Harrel meter &Birminghm - Ditto Quarter Shares • • - - - Ditto New Quarters .• • 14% - 14 1)o. Con. & Welsh June. 3 3% 3%! Manehestr, Boltn, & Bury - - - Nlnelistr, linxtn, & Matlk 8% p - - Man. Shef. and Mid. JUne. - - - Nanchestr & Southamptn - lin an o „ 172 175 DlitoFifths•••••••••• - o New .••••• • • • • • 31 33 Do. t len. Ilirm.& Derby 132 - 311,11 it! (It Westrn (Irish) - - Do. Extension to Sligo - - Ne weal! & DarlngtnJune. 66 - De. New (Brandling)• • 55% - New 7:18t le and Berwick•• • 18j - Newcaatle and Carlisle • • - - Nwnstha Durham, & Lan. - - Newt ort & Abergavenny• 2% - Newry and Enniskillen • . Newark and Sheffield . • • North r ish ••••• • • • • Dirt, New Shares • • • Norther.. and Eastern • Do. ae ip (isn. at 5 dis. Do. a),rarter Shares • • North Devon.• • • • • • • • • • North Kent •• • North Staffordshire •• • • North Eastern • • •• • • •• • North Union (A)• •.•• • • • ' Ditko (B) •••• • • • • - North Wales Mineral •• • • - Ditto New Shares •• • • - Nor lb Western •••• • • • • - North Wales .. - Norwich and Brandon • • 20% - Ditto New ..... 5 Not., llel"oir, & Clranthm - Nottingham and Bostian. • - Nutt., Er wsh. Val. &Man. - Nottingham & Mansfield - Oxford and Birming. Juno - - - Oxford and Worcester • • 16% 17%1 _ Oxford and Cambridge - - - Perth and Inverness • • Portsmouth Direct • • • • • a re.ston and Wyre Ditto Half Shares •• • • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 wet. & die. - Preston & Wyre Extena. - Richmond & IV. End June - Rugby and Huntingdon- 3 Scottish Central - Scottish Midland • . . SllOll.-1(1 and Manchester Ditto Quarter Sharer Ditto ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto (No. 3)• • Sheffield and Lincoln.... 1 Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsb-y& Grand June. 8% - Shrewsla, Wor., & Crewe - 3 Sirrn•s ,Wolv., Dudl, & Bir - 8 774 & Trnt Val. Ma. 1%1 -2% Slirws, Ilereld,&2•T. Wales I 03/ 12%1 Init ...._ - 101 14 I 14 - - 6381 S TB - 2034! - - ;53:4,11 - - 3%1 - _... -8 %1 5 % 5 1 ,4 - 1 - 1 - - bu I -- .1; I 7 - 5 )4 1 -- -50 - 4341 5 - 3 fi I -- 101361 431 1 3 ! 7 1 - 1937 - - II18!4 - 5 - IAI -- 31i 3% - 3% 3% - 26% } - 3% , 1 - - 19%!2P4 2 pl 3 :6136c1 i 2X pI 4%1 414 - J%l --- 6%! :_-_ 4%L :.: 5% 6 %1 GUI - 2 4 % 26 %1 - - 4% 4 i blip 8 1i 1 8% I 4% - I 7141 4 % 4%! _ 6%1 5%1 274 4% I _341 - 4i . 5 %! 149 I - 11% 11 1 ,4 1413'4 74 Slanitainan •••• • • .• —I" Selith Devon South lii id1and........ • • 614 p 8a South Eastern and Dover 41% Do. New (iss. 321.) No. I 1)o. (155.33/.65.8d.)„ 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „3 Statues and Richmond ... Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales. . Tears and Dove Valley .. Trent Valley .... • ••••••• Do. and ilolybeadJunc. Vale of Neath. • • West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford- and Carlow .. Warwick and Cheltenham Waterfonl and Kilkenny K'alai Dub Wakencla and Bradford • • fid, l'ent,nret, & Cool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London. West I:ancashire... Worcester and Tring Whit eln:Ven and Furness Do. New Half Shares • • Welsh Midland • • ••• • • West Cornwall.... ..... . West Yorkshire Wilsontwn, 31. & Coltness Somrst, & Wcyrnth wills, Soitirst,& Southam 2%1 Yarmouth and Norwich —8856 - -9156 d 6% 7% 17 23: 0 3 1,6 i 3141 - y d- 341 441 4%1 -_ —• • I)itt3 New........ — ••. . I York arnl Carlisle ..... •• 41i 5% York atid North Midland flit t J lio II Shares .. .. Ditto geictiro' Branch Dia° Selby ....... ... _.— i • Ditto Extetuien .... •• 2S i 1 Yerksh:! , hGls,gow tiara, , 1 RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN TITIL PRINCIPAL C [TIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. Act. Oct. Oct. 13. 13 . • . i - NI 8 - - 3 4p, 1 - +%p! -- 4%1- - 13%1 -- "!i! -; %I :: 4fix.p* EXETER, Ocr. 14. Sreca EXCHANOM—The sales - are—Exeter , Yeovil, and Dorchester, Ip. —No D em 2 p.....Zzater t Tom, and Exmouth (Daw's line), IA p.—Ditto (Head's), 1 p.— Central Cornwall and Devon, 1 ,4 p.—Taw Vale Extension, % p.—Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Junction, -th p.— South Devon, 30-14 stern Counties, 25. SHEFFIELD, OCT. 14. STocK EXCITA xcr.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 5 3 A—Derby and Gainsborough, 2%—Goole and Doncaster, 74 a —Grimsby and Sheffield, 2GLA —Ditto, Quarter Shares, Cl. Bs.—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 121. 12s. Gd. —Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 3%—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, M—Manchester, Midland awl Great Grimsby, 6 1 i: 2 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 6 3 4- - Wakefield and Harrogate, 514—Wilts, Somerset, and s',u'll ampton, 3. HUDDERSFIELD, OcT. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Gry,,,-1 Union , . 3 /. 13 s• —Huddersfield and Manchester, 23.._Waterford , Wexfiud, and Valentia, 3. HULL, Oct. 14. STOCK Exerrnsou.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 25%—Ditto New, 9—Aberdeen, —Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, ' ll4—North British, 24 1 / 4 —Ditto, Half Shares, s%—Ditto. Carlisle, 44 —Armagh, Coleraine. and Portrush, 2 1 ,4—Axliohne, 72s.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 61. ls. 3tl.—Cambridge and Lincoln, Cl. :3s. 9d.—Coventry, Nunea ton, &c., 3?4—Derhy and Gainshorough, BX—Dudley, Madeley, and Tree Bridge, '4Bs. p.—Flcetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 43. E—Great North and South Wales and Wor cester, 123. p.—Great North of Scotland, .I% Hull and Barnsley Junction, 43:g—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 9 1 ,4—Liverpo..1 and Leeds, 514—London and Birmingham Extension, 2/. 18s. 9d.—London and York, 6 1 ,.)—Loliclon and Norwich Direct, 4s. p. Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, 74—. Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 7;g—Notting ham and Boston, 4g-South Midland, 71. 7s.—South and Midlands Junction, 21. 17s. YORK, OCT. .14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington Junction, New (Brandling), 644—North British, 23 —Ditto (Carlisles), 4% —York and North Midland Exten sion, 28%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 ',l—Coventry, Nunea ton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 3%—Leicester and Bedford, IBs. 9d.—Manchester, Buxton, &c., 9%—Newcastle and Berwick, 1844—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 6 3 / 4 —North Kent and Direct Dover, 4 1 / I —North Staffordshire, 7 5 ,4—Welsh Midlands, 41. 3s. 6d. EDINBURGH, Ocr. 11. STOCK ExcHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 71. 155.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin. 31.-Airdrie and Bathgatc, 51. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 2.51.-Ditto. Half Shares, ISt -Armagh and Portrush, 31. Is.-Barashire, 2L 175.-Bri tish and Irish Union, 5/. 55.-Belfast and County Down, 31. 55.-Caledonian, 15/. lOs -Caledonian Extension, 5/. 10s. -Caledonian and Dumbarton, 51. 2s. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 51. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 204-Cornwali and Devon, 17s. 6d. p.-Direct Northern, 31. 58.-1)m - idea and Arbroath, 374-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundee and Perth, 114 10s.-East of Fife, 3/. 55.-East Lothian Central, 41. 19s. -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 41. 145.-Edinburgh and Glas gow, 761.-Ditto, Halt Shares, 13% prem.-Ditto, Quarters, 191. 108.-Ditto, New, 141. 17s. 60.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, IL 145.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, `21.9x.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 2/. lls. Gd. -Edinburgh and Perth, 4/. 17s. 6d -Edinburgh and Pee , bles, 3/. 165.-Yorth and Clyde Junction. 4/. IN.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 734-Ditto, New Stock, 21/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 41.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 454-Glas gow and Greenock, 224 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 155.- Ditto, Preference, 2/. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Les maltagow, 61. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 44-- Great North of Scotland, 41. lls.-Great North and South Wales, 14 145.-Inverness and Elgin, 11. 145.-Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 8/.-London and Hounslow, 2/. 10s.-Lon- don and Windsor, 1/. 95.-London and York, 71.-Monk land and Kirkintilloch, 33/.-Morayshire, 7s. 6d. p.-Newry and Londonderry, 21. 165.-North British, ex new, 261. -Ditto, Halves, ex new, 71. 55.-Ditto, Fifths, 71. 65.-Ditto, Carlisles, 41. 175.-North Wales Mineral, New, 5/. 7s. Gd. -Perth and Crieff. 95.-Perth and Inverness, 31. 55.- Scottish Central. 141. 155.-Scottish Midland, 51. lOs.- Scottish North Western, 21. 55. &1.-Scottish Western, 21.165. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 71. 55.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 21. 7s. 6d.-South Midland, 94-Stirling and Dunfermline, 44 75.-Tean and Dove valldy, 31. 12s. 61- Wish= and Coltnees, 581. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE. I 9256 d, Sir Robert Peel arrived at his residence in Whitehall-gar dens yesterday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Lord Jocelyn had an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Sir R. Peel left town in the afternoon for his seat. Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. A WOMAN WOUNDED BY A Hoßss-suou.—Last evening, between five and six o'clock, the following very singular accident occurred to a young woman, named Jane Whitehead, residing in New-street, Gough-square. She was going along Fetter-lane, and while passing the shop of Mr. - Wade, the baker, something struck her across the arm, and passed through the window, which was discovered to be 4 tfl the shoe of an omnibus horse, whi c h was go i ng at a rapid _%2 • rate towards Holborn. The female wa s very ser i ously injured on the left arm, and was taken to the nearest sur geon, who dressed the wound, which was several inches in length. The omnibus was stopped, and the number taken by the police. _ FIRE IN Wurrrcturnr.—Yesterday morning, shortly before one o'clock, a tire broke out in the extensive saw-mills belonging to Mr. William Adamson, in John-street, Whitechapel. The discovery was made by some of the neighbours, who perceived smoke issuing from the upper floor of the premises. With all promptitude the engines ar _ _ rived, and there being a good supply of water, the firemen, - by dint of great perseverance, succeeded in confining the - flames to the upper floors and workshop, but they were not entirely subdued until considerable damage had been done to the building and the stock in trade. The origin of the fire is. _ not precisely known, but it is supposed to have originated . from the overheat of the furnace flue. ErreicsivE THEFT.—A young man, salesman in a respectable wholesale and retail warehouse in town, is at pre sent in custody, charged with the theft, within the last ten or eleven months, of an enormous quantity of soft goods, the property of his employers It appears that, in consequence of a parcel of goods having left the premises without being accounted for, and from other circumstances, suspicion was created against the individual referred to, and after some questioning he was led to admit, to a certain extent, his guilt. The police afterwards searched his house, which is situated on the south side of the river, where they discovered a large and costly collectian of imods, embracing more or less of al most every ankle usually found in a draper's or h aberdasheris stock, consist'ive ' of ix eadeleths, gown pi eces o f every var i ety, from satieette downwards, waistcoat pieces, linens. cot tons, napery, ribbon, blankets, stockings, &c. &c. From letters fund in the house, it was, at the same time, ascertained that lie has been in the habit of sending con siderable quantities of goods to the country, particularly to Peterhead, for which, it appears, a large package was de spatched only a day or so b e f ore. He has alai been lavish of presents among his friends; and, altogether, there must have been passing through his hands goods to an extraordinary ex tent, though the amount of his employer's loss cannot as yet be ascertained. It is apprehended that at least a portion of the goods sent to Peterhead may yet be recovered; and for. this purpose a police-officer has been dispatched to that town. Thursday, the prisoner was examined for the first time, an re-committed.—Glasgow Argus. FORTiFyING THE COAST--We are informed that a detachment of sappers and miners arrived at Ifayle last week, and proceeded to the parish of Zennor, where they have been engaged in repairing a battery, and report states that glans of heavy calibre are shortly to be mounted there. We have been informed that other places along the coast are to be vi sited by this party of sappers and miners, and that Castle Dennis is to be a signal station.—Penzance Gazette. - 4,4 : 32,3 4 1 - - - ST. AUSTELL.—On Wednesday last,. Ist instant, considerable excitement prevailed here i n consequence of the " strike" of the men employed in the neighbouring clay works, about 300 of whom came to town for. the purpose of petitioning the proprietors for higher we ea. They con - ducted themselves with much decorum, and having been pro• mised that their petition should be considered, returned 2ii peaceably to their work. Th csa men get only nine shillings ' per week.—Penzance Gazette. SANITARY CONDITION OF MANCIIESTEIL—The fol lowing is a summary of the properties inspected, under the directions of the Sanitary Regulations Committee of the Town - Council:-6,258 houses, and 857 cellars; together, 7,115 - dwellings, with only 538 privies. Estimating five inhabi t tants to one house on an average, that would give 37,575 as the total inhabitants in the dwellings visited. This gives an average of 12 1-9 houses and Goi inhabitants to one privy, before alterations ; after the alterations the proportion would be 3 1-3 houses and 16 inhabitants to one privy. Of the above inhabitants 11,850 are well supplied with water, 11,859. are partiAly supplied, and 11,858 are entirely without water, except what they beg or obtain from other parties.— Manchester Guardian. On Saturi c y, at noon, there was not a single pri soner within the Ivalls of the Gorbals Police-office; but this state of matters did not long continue. Before the evening there was no lock of tenants. The Sarre circumstance has ooiy occurred once in the Glasgow Police.office since its esta blishment. ,This happened about a year ago, when the cells were all empty for a period of exactly five minutes.— Glasgow drgus, A meeting of the Proprietors of the Charing cross bridge. who disapprove of the late proceedings at the general meeting of the Proprietors of the undertaking, some time since, took place last night at the London Coffee-house, fur the purpose of considering and determining what measures they would take to forward the views of the Committee of the London Central Railway Terminus Company. Mr. Chadwick took the chair, and the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : "That the meeting cannot too forcibly express their disap probation of the conduct of the Directors of the Hungerford market Company, who, for an apparently trifling grin, have sacrificed the welfare of the Charing-cross-bridge proprietary, have embarrassed the arrangements entered into by their Directors, and prevented the sale of their property to a Com pany which, as it represented the interests of all existing southern railways, must eventually meet with success. The meeting was also of opinion that no other course was left fur the Central Terminus Company .than that which they had adopted. "That as the London Cential Terminus Company had in timated their readiness to give the same preference in the allotm9nt of sharsl to the Charing-cross-bridge proprietors who had supported the agreementmadoi with the Company as they would have had if the same had not been repudiated, such shareholders are therefore strongly recommended still to endeavour to obtain an interest in that Company." COURT CIRC:IF,AR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.— His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen arrived at the Castle, last evening, on a visit to her -- Majesty. The Judge-Advocate-General had an andic.nce of the Queen yesterday. The Queen walked out fir some time this morning, and 6N joined the Royal Family in their early airingA. In the after -514 noon her Majesty rode out in a pony carriage and four, attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe. The Maids of Honour followed in another pony landau. Prince Albert and Prince George were on horseback, attended by the Hon. Col. Grey and Colonel Bouverie. Prince Albert left the Castle, accompanied by-Prince George, the Earl of Morton, and Colonel Bouverie, on a shooting excursion this morning. Their Royal Highnness returned about two o'clock. The Princess Czernechiff, and the Princess, her daughter, - the Earl of Liverpool (Lord Steward), and the Right lion. Sir Robert Peel, took their departure from the Castle this morning. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, - and the Princess Alice, were taken their accustomed pony exercise this morning. In the afternoon all the Royal Family - were taken a carriage airing. The royal dinner party will include her Royal Highness - the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson. the Baro ness de Speth, Colonel Sir George Cooper, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and the Hon. and Rev. C. - Leslie Courtenay. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guardswas in attend " ance during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the remainder of the evening. Colonel Bowles is expected to return this evening to the - Castle. - Idi 11836 - 24%1 - 45s pl 15s p 25N - 24 24 - 33 62%1 - 55A - 1914 - I}4 - 156s1pi - - - -NI = 17s6p I 13 ' 4 1 -- 3. 4 - 6% - - I 6756 p 16%1 - -143 i, 3936 6;i ____ - 10%1 -- 1 ;875641! 15, 1845 STATUES .IN THE HOUSES OF fARLIAMENT. [Presented to , s\fri ., Houses of Parliament by command of FOURTH P 6 bilT 1.1.9.j.5tv and now printed. 1 ; a THE COMMISS'IONERS ON THE FINE ARTS. ;: d THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. w„ , fhe Comniissioners appointed by your Majesty for the pr pose of inquiring whether advantage might not be taken, of the rebuilding of your Majesty's Palace at Wtsttninster, wherein your Majesty's Parliament is wont to assemble, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the fine arts in your Majesty's Lini;ed Kingdom, and in whit manner an object asoihuch importance might be most effectually pro moted, humbly report to your Majesty that we have at various times taken into our consideration a leiter, dated the 17th of August, 1843, addressed to us by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., respecting public monuments in sculpture and paiating to men distinguished for eminent literary, scientific, and civil services, and we now beg to report our opinion on the points which appeared first to require our attention. Referring to the letter in question, tee have humbly to state to your Majesty, that, having consulted the architect, and inspected the edifice in p7o , rrei4s intended for the accommo dation of the Houses of Pailiam ,, nt, we are of opinion that there are'various portions of that edifice which could with propriety and advent ige be allotted to the reception of mo nument,, such as those to w:iich our attention has been directed. tVe have found in the course of our inquiry that many situations for statue, consist of niches only, which, in accord ance with the style of Gothic architecture adopted, are uni formly narrow, not exceeding two feet in width ; that there are also situations were insulated statues might be fitly placed; and we conceive that, with a view both to conve nient inspection, and the expediency of affording opportuni ties for displaying the abilities of the artists, the last-named situations are the most important. We have also found that some situations, though not fit for the display of statues, would be well adapted for the reception of bests; and we are of opinion that busts might be eUnsi dared among the means, before referred to, of doing honour to eminent men. With re , pect to monuments in painting of the description indicated, whether such monuments be understood to refer to portraits, or to other representations, we beg leave to post pone our report till the building shall be more advanced. With regard to the particular classes of eminent men re ferred to in the said letter, we are not at present prepared to express an opinion on the question, whether it would be ad visable that any distinct portions of the building should be set apart for such classes. We arc now prepared to point out acme portions of the building which we conceive might, with propriety, be adorned with insulated statue; hut looking to the fact that, since this Commission was appointed, certain changes have taken place in the architect's design, involving alterations iu the extent available for deconitions in sculpture as well as painting, we do not think it expedient on this occasion to enumerate all the localities which may possibly be adapted for such statues. Having thus explained with what views, and to what ex tent, we arc at pre , ent prepared to report to your Majesty on the subjects recommended to our consideration in the letter before referred to, we have now to express our opinion that six insulated marble statues might be _conveniently placed in St. Stephen's porch, and that sixteen such statues might be conveniently placed in St. Stephen's Hall. We are of opinion that it is not desirable that • a corresponding number of eminent names be now pointed out with a view to the entire. occupation of those places ; but we are at once prepared to recommend that statues of Marlborough and Nelson be placed in St. Stephen's porch ; and that statues of Sehlen, Hampden, Lord Falkland, Lord Clarendon, Lord Somers, Sir Robert Walpole. Lord Chatham, Lord Mans field, Burke, Fox, Pitt, and Grattan, be placed in St. Ste phen's Hal We have further to propese that Vie following three artists, viz., William Calder Marshall, John Bell, and John Henry Foley, whose works in the last exhibition in West minster Hall were considered by us to be entitled to special commendation, be at once commissioned to prepare mudels for three of the aforesaid statues, viz., the statues cf Hampden, Lord Fall:land, and Lord Clarendon ; and that the execution of such statues be allotted to the said artists respectively, as we may hereafter decide. We have further to propose that 2,0001. of public money be granted on account towards the payment of such works; and we humbly request the sanction of your Majesty to our pre sent report. (Signed) _ ALBERT LYNDHURST F,UTHERLAND LANSDOWNE LINCOLN C.LBORNE C. S. LEFEVRE HOBERT PEEL J. R G. GRAHAM T. B. MACAULAY ROBERT HARRY INGLis B. HAWES, JUN. HENRY HALLAM SAMUEL ROGERS TH,MAS WYSE. ABER OEEN 3. 11US3EL i. PA LM ERST ;N MELBOURNE MAHON ASHBURTON Whitehall,'April 25, 1845. APPENDIX- No. 1. REPORT OF COMMITTEE, WITH LIST OF DISTINGUISHED PER SONS TO WHOSE MEMORY STATUES MIGHT BE Lunar En. Your Committee appointed to " prepare a general list of distinguished persons of the United Kingdom, to whose memory statues might with propriety be erected in or ad joining the new Houses of Parliament, such list ueing unre stricted as to the number of such distinguished persons, and as to the time in which they lived,"• have the honour to submit two lists; the first (A), of names to which they agreed unanimously; 'the second (B), of names on which i-our Committee were not unanimous, but decided by greater or smaller majorities. The aggregate of these two lists consists of 121 names, which may probably afford scope, not for indiscriminate adop tion, but rather for choica and selection on the part of the Commission at large. At the same time your Committee desire to express their unanimous opinion, that the attempt to execute any great number of these statues simultaneously would not be con ducive to the interests of art. (Signed) MAHON. T. B. MACAULAY. ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, HENRY HALLAM. SAMUEL ROGERS. THOMAS WYSE. B. HAWES, JUN. London, March 11, 1845. (A.) Sir William Wallace Bacon Sir Philip Sidney Napier Duke of Marlbo- Newton rough Lord Clive Locke Lord Heathfield Robert Boyle Alfred Elizabeth :o bert Bruce Lord Burleigh John Hampden • Earl of Clarendon Lord Howard of Effingham Caxton Lord Somers Sir Frauds Drake Watt • Earl of Chatham Admiral Blake Herschel Edmund Burke Lord Rodney Cavendish C. J. Fox Lord Howe illiam Pitt Lord Duncan Lord St. Vincent Lord Nelson 'nip Jon es Sir Christoph. Wren Sir Thomas More _ Hogarth Sir Edward Coke - Sir Joshua Reynolds John Selden Sir Walter Raleigh Flaxman Sir Matthew Hale Captain Cook Earl of Mansfield Lord Erskine - John Howard Sir Th. Gresham William Wilberforce Chaucer Spencer Earl of Surrey Shakspere Milton Addison Richardson Dr. Johnson Cowper Sir Walter Scott March 6, 1845. Revised March 14, 1845. (B.) Richard I. Coeur John Wie de Lion Edward 1. John Knox John Bunyan Edward 111. Cranmer Dryden The Black Prince Archti,licp Usher Pope Henry V. Abp. Leighton Swift William 111. Jeremy Taylor Goldsmith George HI. Chi!lingworth Burns Barrow Sir Wm. Jones Bishop Butler John Wesley _ _ _ Venerable Bede Richard hooker Harvey Jenner Ben Jjnson Robertsun Hume Cardinal Langton William of Wick ham Cardinal Wolsey Earl of Strafford Lord Falkland Sir John Talbot Sir John Chandos . Fielding Marquis of Montrose Cromwell Monk Sir Wm. Temple Lord Rip sell Sir Roht. Walpole General Wolfe Roger 'Bacon Earl of Hardwieke Sir Evre Coote Sm3aton Earl Camden Sir 'Ralph Aber• Brim-Vey Grattan cromby John Hunter Warren Hastings Sir John Moore Adam Smith Purcell Speaker Onslow Hawke Garrick March 6, 1845,—Revises; March 14, 1845. No. 2. REPORT OF COMPIITTEE RESPECTING SELECTION OF PERSONS WrIOSE EFFIGIES MIGHT BE PLACED IN THE NICHES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The selection of the statues for the eighteen niches in the House of Lords, which has now been referred to your Com mittee, does not appear to them altogether so free and with so wide a scope as the selection of the ninety-six figures on painted glass, upon which they lately reported. In this case the very narrow size of the niches, and their gothic form, seem to limit the choice of the Commission to charac ters drawn from the feudal age, and, as usual, with effigies of that period, presenting little or no variety of attitnd , . On a careful consideration of the characters which might be chosen, subject to this condition. your Committee have become convinced that no scheme is preferable to that which was first suggested to the Commission by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, namely, to fill the niches with the effigies of the principal Barons who signed Magna Charta. Your Committee subjoin a list of the names which they would recommend for this purpose. They conceive that the difference of character, as laymen or as prelates, would afford a picturesque variety of attire, and that the historical analogy would be most suitably attained by placing side by side in the same House of the Legislature, in windows or in niches, the successive holders of sovereign power, and the first founders of constitutional freedom. Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury. Wiiliatn, Bishop of London. Alrneric, Master of Knights Templar& William, Earl of Salisbury. William, Earl of Pembroke. Waryn, Earl of Warren. William, Earl of Arundel. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. Richard, Earl of Clare. William, Earl of Aumerle. Geoffrey, Earl of Gloucester. Saher, Earl of Winchester. Henry, Earl of Hereford. Roger,a. Earl of Norfolk. Robert Earl of Oxfhrd. Robert Fitzwalter. Eustece de Vesci. William de Mowbray. (Signed) Mituox. T. B. MACAULAY. Roza. BARRY INGLIS. B. HAWES, JUN. HENRY HALLAM. SAMUEL Iit.GERS. THOMAS WYSE., 7,7, , zy 1:7 , , 1345. No. 3. LETTFR F&OM MR. HALLAM. 24, Wilton-crescent, May 17, 1845. My dear Su,■-111 compliance with the request of his Royal P g Highness and the other members of the Cony-1i 854)1140r meeting yestertlay,l will state the groun ds on wh ty.,ht mit tee appointed to stlect persons whese cu -e ;leals placed in the eighteen niches of the nessr li having first determined that men prominent'e hait in At aroi re le great Charter of John shall be chosen, have •tonie beta Lion of recommending the particular names vhich submitted to the Commission. h r if f In the text of iagna Charta, inserted in 'te e dr •ee - the King recites himself to have granted it le T t arci:isho StepheeLangton,Archbishop of Canterbury, ihe wbil of Dublin; seven English Bishops, the Master f e bor lqi! Templars in England, with sixteen Bemis, fiver, or ' i ye" the rank of Earls, though only four are men t b t iee author, who has also committed one or two ott 0 sit iv p ar curacies. lloger de Wendover, whose chronic' la ter' p'' Halted by the English Historical Society, is alai t. • tefel' cupied by Matthew Paris, omits altogether ti names in his text of the Charter. But in this ,6etTsepee certainly wrong, as appears by the incontestibla 0 2 1 01) 0 ver the char er itself, of which, as is well kno wn, se read exist. There can, therefore, be no doubt that fir 3 Peopeeil above-mentioned were concerned, in a promiren the enactment of that g 03 reat and celebrated law. „ t fore But, while it would have been easy to re co of IP . . eighteen niches in the House of Lords the 6 cilt e " Archbishop, and some other ecclesiastics, witht hese chec k Barons whom we find recited in the ch:rter, w e Iverglec 6 4 by the consideration that these, as appears b 3 J 5 ' ja passage of Matthew Pa: is, were all on the i"%ldequits the previous contest, and that it wouldebe v o tiles o f 0 ' commemoration of that event to omit those a( it obel i ' land who had in reality the chief share in be si n s It is indeed true, that those who had adhere o ° n pOri to King John united with the rest at last to ?IT , : c lh f irtet A the necessity of compliance with the demand 0 ' ', T oted' liberties; so that it may be said to have 1 le el, ff i isall t l the unanmious requisition of the beronage. ;i t -frail .1 only a reason for selecting names indiscrimin st - puree' parties, considering them as in fact combined fo r . of obtaining a legal guarantee for their libe rti iee ••_rove: It bicame, consequently, the duty of the vr look over tbe history of the time, in order ble nue eighteen persons who, out of a more considers ire appeared most worthy of being commemo rated e 'lll,gton°oi m . on. The. Archbishop • of Canterbury, Stephen 1 „, dependently of his high rank, was, as is well kra fr str eni o ;l the most distinguished statesmen of that age, an dl 3 rite P i) he supporter of the charter, though without q uitfol g ee , banner. The next in station among the INT I gi , E 3 g d Archbishop of Dublin but as he did not hot(' .- 135 14 . re see, it seemed more desirable to select William" oholie.c London, whose see is next in dignity arneug.t he a g ; aleie r ! t : present, and whose names may be found in WW I ' t he r: , 1: 0 Master of the Knights Tempters in England, V" sentative of a renowned and powerful order; g v i ate t ot would furnish some variety of costume. Fiv g 41 re c''' g h - ets cited on the King's side; those of Pembroke, al 1 1 0 •4 man, of Salisbury, of Wari - er, of Arundel. and 1 2 at de Buret of Kent, afterwards J us ticiary of Ent-,l l ' of C ; 11 1 Asidtterneo3fie,thGeloßuacrer.s.tnes;wievitnirciehlessteerie.,ll Earls • toe T ant` liG' i!; j Oxford. Three names remained to L i a c ra r p cf li i'til)' ;. eighteen. No doubt could be felt as to that of waiter, om the B had placed a their Iv 4 c orei"`. ducting wh this enterprise rs . Eustace de Vesei he° iShi'i!eif. able part on the same side, and has some Illm e . ica r ' a One only remained; and e Li g many noble, hl.' h e tl t very t lua•cirical , persons none appeared more g e. l ;.Pik , `William de Mowhray, ancestor of the Duke of "'' 631' 4 ;0 tibßosileiacteasarerlots:c Committee, h: P aei nnesceutertir, surname te a oa r er i m : x l nei soot that tifnoHgn i n iyiwo t ao h urf e sd:t t I h bi, fou r e Ltv e coa : rr a di ot i s l it. l 3 : as s ltnv o oo f i ji.;°l3 do s tlje ,mlniaipttper:heansdetdh,eyare havethe rzssoceisf:.vtohicreari-n- ,b‘nti.l4;nl;re eighteen names, of which you possess a list , eia" morated as having borne a ;hare in obtaining the b ter of John. I am, my dear Sir, Eery Vatic • ' 11 ,, C. L. Eastlake, Esq. HESh I . ftel No. 4. Es MEMORANDUM RESPECTDZO PLACES rat s ilal ,01 11 1 rALACE AT WESTMINSTER. . 05 r. - ‘, 0 , 109 ne T w he n C o o u m se m s is o s f ion p er ar s, lia h n a j a e - n it t ig at various ti nics j situations would be adapted ' flo'r-ititillae vriec'c'ccatilisilicoc-oer',ls:ee6:,°ol statues, and having examined the prinail" ,re the 25th of April last, for the same object, 1 Y" 4 , opinion— That, as the entrance to the House of Pa rl ",• s ll- 4 Stephen's porch will contain statues of distiage-eatietora men, warriors, and other eminent subjects, Ole o. 15 , t ao the grand staircase, the landing place, gu 3 r d-r° ,l,l °. ts') gallery, and lobby to the House --- a Peers, sh °4- 2 ali lj. statues of Sovereigns. 2 fa' .0, That statues of Egbert, Edgar, Canute, en,' „tr Confessnr might be fitly placed on the first lai lw , a4; lll That the principal landing-p'ace should c°'.„-ertr,„l“l - of the Savereinta, fromWi:liam the ward IV. That ttie . s . tatuos of Edward I r • 33 " flai l ' , ntiAt, be placed in the guard--o-m Th;t in the Victoria hall ate ' . r* - should ' 4 , '„tbs beginning with Henry VII. and estenirn,g dth ttr o i ct i i br That the lobby to the House of Lords ': alle u n '' a al„a o g st i a n t n u i e n s g G e eo S r o g v a er l e . ig t • t a n s d ofthe Ho v.se i. e e f r lo5r• eje. ending with with g it Majesty. 4,¢t on- e all• In On; imposed arrangement it p eared L i b . aill t r io tel in the lobby to the House ofntgrds wr;. - c,rac 3- 'tat unoccupied. A resolution was referred te,kr',.-taat s• ie7 minutes on the 21st of April, 1843), to the oe' c 'opro.Poutf of his Royal Highness Prince Albert would be, 3bv placed in the Victoria gallery (of which the ' ° t i o 'as tion originally formed a part). Thus the eit u h a o to o pe' tues in the state apartments, and the apPrl, e ng c ° .4 1 would, in the event of the above resolution ' , e l- t oPj be entirely occupied the ° O ki/ According to the above proposed distribution,trooao IIL of statues on the landing-places and in the geajWillitijaidl be twenty-two; in the Victoria gallery tw ei l l e b'o'la and Mary being both represented); in the 1 .0 1 ! the statue of her Majesty, seven. It was considered that the statues in u.r• might, according to a resolution proposca, Knight with reference to another locality, con' 01 3 all goric.al figures. It was further proposed that the lower we lti „ l 'f e a; ,„ I? ' contain eight statues of celebrated scientific sts`ja upper corresponding hall should contain eial' t r do o da celebrated poets, and that the panels in the letteoelo adorned with paintings. The lower hall has n 6% 14 / able furaintis. o so It wasfurther remarked that, if required, s'l'L placed in the open air in many of the c0urter .. „7.410 4 2 ' of the larger corridors or passages on the gre" - d se' admit. of such decorations. f fifre. o The consideration of the place for the statue of of the precise number and situations of other ' - he b central hall, was postponed till that part of the be more advanced. Whitehall, April 26, 1845. 5r' 47 No. 6. 0 0 LETTER FROM TIIE RIGHT LION. THN SECRETt Q, o ' o FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT' ( .0. , :9 At :10 vot_;00 Sir—l have received her Majesty's cominan to 10 thyou that her Majesty has been graciously Pl e tr -e aa a t 6 e report of the Commissioners on the Fine -c" aiocct,, - ar lr 25th of April, 1845. And her Majesty P s a 1 0 a 0; Lords Commissioners of the Treasury subta l to ts e es ment an estimate for the sum of two thousand r°of Ststu count, towards the payment of the expel ° Hampden, Lord Falkland, and Lord Clareadon• I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant; 601.0- J. E. 6' C. L. Eastlake, Esq. •,tid °- ROYAL CO3I3ILSSION OF FIDE 0 . o t*l-1 1 3 0 Notice is hereby given, that a competitionop Pcook which, by announcement before issued, was to il i ( )OK IA to June, 1846, is postponed till June, 18 47 .r a ' a tions expressed in the announcement referred to altered. • ' O f f By command of the COIRMISSI zere ' C. L. EA.01,-ki's''ore" ?,:t:sleealreeN3t,i.lineogiteer n ott o 3o: l: s AL e CoOrnSminlisNE:toioo:NeBr.sOF:al:i: : J ; t 3 o t 7 : .e d ite hi • o: t T 1545 60 Whitehall, A*,,,011 005 lhVeeisrtianti:etiro,nhwer-oeubl3d.,giinveditlioetitciem:e-, be directeu . 011.1 , 1 ,_ .ce a . tehmeplzmoreanttionartoifstpos portions s d o if tbe ra . a r ocoo g iveo 1. That three premiums of 5004 each, I• ll r_ ee i al b e h il b e , 300!... each, and three premiums of 9001 eaeii);bieb,'"'„iesb; to the artlsts who shall furnish oil-pathigs:/nrio!?"dtb° deemed worthy of one or other of the 23P r.. g ero judges to'be appointed to decide on the relative' Or'se works. - o f tb e 2. The paintings are to be sent in the e ( V . : e r 1 11 :„ . 1 ,:t.t 4 el'ectckudiiiinjgunfere m lB4,7, for exhibition, to West.l9,ll: the ri-d 1)6 3. The Commissioners reserve to theinseL y tch all,heal deemed by them npoutbtlioepoessx'ellsist:istuilncie7trinkscrirtu°leotitic '''. ea ch to such a privilege. our, V _, 4. The paintings, not exceeding two in c ii '.: , „ ll , , f etas artist, are required to be prepared for the and the g' ' d. The subjects are required to come O de and et class,s of reli, history, or poetry.era° ill' il 6. The dimensions are 1,1 . : to the choice of the i.e 10 3 ia the following conditions :—The figures are riot to; flg a, t - i d two in number ; the size of the iiarest fignr e , „ 0 be wo e Or at least one of the" specimens by each artist, i' ' i3 1t 0g?,,,,, than that of life; but the size of the Agur es b ,ttle - P # left to the choice of painters of marine subjecte, #3 of and landscape. . Wei' te 13tis e 'st, be e:Peddecid ° :: : 7. Tnejuclges appointed to decide on 0. 10 re and Aro of the works inny, if they shall think fit, require _ . .„ L ite , ! . 1 , 4 01 whom a premium shall have been awarded, to _N; a jditiu th e such conditions as they maY think ne,c,cessar:f, tsuittlec..brocliseis,thiSs; painting as a specimen of his abiiity, and in aid ends l premium awarded to such artist will not be p . co' second painting shall be approved by the ju4, o e 'd to be 8. The names of the ar:ists are not regal!' el° eeal ed. Ma tta 9. The paintings will remala the property' s ha. artistq, -late . / e to "- 10. Paintings which may combine apyr"P., c limb ' t be with a high degree of merit, shall be consideruin vile' oi purchased by the nation, in erder to he plac e( ' h •cli bf apartments of the palace at Westminster. ,_.,, ct , ca to 11. Religious, poetical, .or allegorical tat% r efereL i c il 0 sthtjudiciousreichtiystoiiza,tdooarrpi cetaaoltnissoutnibt subjects, constitution treatment,tosn, be a" • 'sb relative merit of the works, with a view to t DO 12. The judges to be heroefafttheer kapinegodi:tined it"o't._l.,reahrs:o.iirtile minn3s, will consist partly be eligible to 13. The competition hereby invited is cluaye resided subjects, including foreigners who m a t years or upwarOs in the United Kingdom. . 011 _, a , . _., By command of the Commissi ___:,bwretar: C. L. tsrLAND No. 9. ROYAL C03.131L9.910:i OF Fl- - iced fro.. •,g 0. Various applications having been recd , ro pect i :ille f candidates for employment as fresco-paint!o toy ileitbout mode in which specimens of In - sco-Paintn!g Arte, 1 ' c to be submitted to the Commissioners on the f ine he Slt, of reference to public exhibition: s inaY -- isi , - Notice is hereby given that such speciniVi from tbe Westminster Hall for the purpose Mbrch to the Ist of May next, inclusive. ~__ c boiee; c f, The subjects and dimensions are left to Ir,„..bibiti_.,a et artists, but those artists Who have not befo.env;lein ci, tons in Westminster Hall are required to s a i Hers, drawing together with their fresceaintlngs. __ .;is i o ne . _.,. of the 0.1 11, "` , , a , tsr." By command . ~., bt, C. 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