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_%(:'f It 1✓ The I LIRD EDITION of /111_ day evening contained— The report of the Poll at Cambridge as received at the Post•office, in the Afternoon of yesterday. The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Railway Committees of both Houses of Parliament. The Parliamentary Intelligence of the Evening, being a full Report of the proceedings in the House of Commons, up to the hour of adjournment. VeSter- RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the EDIT JON of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY; it also con tains the DEBATES in BOTH HOUSES of PARLIAMENT up to the HOUR of POST EVERY EVENING, PRICES of RAILWAY SHAREs. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE by EX PR S .5, and all tniui - NEWS ARRIVING in LONDON DURING the DAY. _ _ ORDER. the THIRD EDITION, which contains NEWS TWELVE 110172.8 in ADVANCE. Sun-utfee, 112, Strand. USEFUL PRESET. Now ready, in small Bvo., price Bs. 6d. ' mind, T HE ENGLISd GENTLEWOMAN, OR, HINTS TO YOUNG LADIES ON THi 1R ENTRANCE INTO SOCIETY. Trenry Colhnrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now Ready, in 3 vols., with Portraits, 31s. 6d., bound, MEMOIRS OF LADY HESTER STANHOPE, AS RELATED BY HERSELF. Among the numerous remarkable personages of whom interest ing particulars and anecdotes are given in these volumes, will be found the following :—George 111 , George IV., Queen aroilne, Pitt, Fox. Canninix, Sheridan, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lords Chatham, Bute, Liverpool, Hawkesbury, Hood, St. Asaph, Bricip , rt, Brougham, Palmerston, Carrington, Ebrington, Suffillk, Byron, and Camelford, Sir Edward Sugden, Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Atercrombie, Walter Scott, Thomas 3loore, Beau Brum.nell, Lady Charlotte Bury, Lady J., Mrs. Fitzherhert, &c., &c. y Ct;hatrri. 1' ti'ui 13, Great Marlixtrotiqh-4treet. NEW WOitK BY I'HE Al' LHOR OF " THE; ILIiPROVISAWRE.' Just Ready, in Three Vols., post Bro., 0 • T. LIFE IN DENMARK. AND ONLY A FIDDLER, From the Danish. By MARY HOWITT. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street —7,----....,--, FIER M.I.JESTI"S THEATRE :Mdlle. C. GRISI respectfully informs the Sub , cribers to tho Opera, her Friends, ant the Public that HER BENEFIT (and Last Appear ance but Oa,) will take place THIS EVENING On which occasion (BY SPECIAL DEAIRE) Will he revived ozart's c,leb-ated Opera, COSI FAN TIITTE. Floridiligi, Madame Anaide Castellan ; Dorabella, Madame'llita Borio ; Desmila, Macrame Rossi Caccia ; Fernando, Sig. Mario; N' Latimohe ; and lion Alphonso, Sig. Lablache. Alter the Opera the new PAS DE QUATRE, composed ex pressly, by M. Perrot for 3 , 1 , 111e5. Taglioni, Cerit Grahn, and Carlotta Gris (her last appearance but one). After which, elections front the Last Act of Donizetti's Opera AN • A BO The Principal Characters by Mdlle. Grisi, Mdlle. Brambilla, and Sig. Mortara. To conclude wite the Second Act of LA GISELLE. Giselle, Mdlle. C. Oriel. Loors open at Seven, to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock THEATRE ROYAL, HAYItARK.ET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Mr. Hollylodge, Mr. W. Farren ; Pansy, ,I r. Buckstone ; Nonpareil, Mr. Webster ; Mrs. Hollylodge, Mrs. Glover ; Ellen Forrester, Miss Julia Bennett. After which, the Musical Farce of THE LITTLE DEVIL. Nicolo Angell, Madame Vestris ; Vincentio d'Estella, Mr. Charles 3lathewi. To conclude with an entirely New Farce, called THE KING AND I. Period, 1691. Sir William Melrose, Mr. 11. Holl ; Burchell, Mr. James Bland; Perkin Pyeflnch, Mr. Buckstone ; Je'sie Donald, Miss Jul! Bennett. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. rickets and 'laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, to , n Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELYHI UNDER THE DIRECTIr I O EVENN OF ING_ MADAME CELESIT TH_ _ _ Will be repeated MARIE DUCANGE. Edward Lascelles, Esq., Mr. Hudson ; John Itawdoit, Esq., Mr. 0. Smith ; Charles Claude Prong, Mr. Arright ; Marie Ducange, Madame Celeste. After which, an Original Terpsicipirean 13t.rletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbs's Eve. Mr. Montgomerio Tibbs, Mr. Lambert; captain Kidglove, ; Jacob oerkin, Mr. Wright; Mrs. Motitvoinetie Tibbs, Mrs. Frank Matthews; Sally linobbs. 3liss Woolgar. _ _ _ To be folio ved by THE IRISH ATTORNEY ; or, Galway Prac tice in 1770. Pierce O'Hara, Mr. Hudson ; Jacob Wylie, Mr. Cullenford. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNT)ER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. REELEY. First Week of a New Farce—Roars of laughter at Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Farce, eniiifeciLllCK'S ALL. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, Diddear, Keeley, Meadows, Kin loch, and Turner : Miss Hicks. and Mrs. A. Wigan. To be followed by a New Farce, to he called AN OBJECT OF INTEREST. in which Mrs. Keeley will perform. Atter which, an entirely New. Original, and Novel Grand Fairy BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les Danseuses Anglaises will appear. To ..hich will he added an apropos Bagatelle, in One Act, entitled MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Mea dow,, Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Keeley. 'l,, conclude with iti '•!.t 'rely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Bur:e,iue, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keel ,- y, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woollii%te. Miss Grove. Miss Howard, &c EATRK, OXFoRD-sTitir..ET, LE , sEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVYNING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of KATHERINE AND PETRIX MO. Petruchio, Mr. Wallack ; Katherine, Mrs. Stirling ; Bianca. Miss E. Bonner. After which, the Comedietta, entitled THE BRIGADIER. i'rin cipal Characters by Messrs. Wallack, Granby, and Compton ; Miss B. Hornier, and Miss E. Stanley. To which will be added A COURT BALL IN 1740. In which will hp introduced the Dances as performed at her Majesty's Bal Cos tar: e, with the Original Music. To be followed by a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled MRS. CA.ITDLE ; or, Curtain Lecturr. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Caudle, Mr. Oxberry. To conclude with the Farce o THE THREE.' CLERKS- Fudge, 3lr: Walter Lacy ; Trudge, Mr. Oxberry ; Drudge, Mr. Granby ; ilia; , .lia Snooks, Mrs. Brougham ; Mrs. Trudge, Miss Somers. S Iv Manager, Mr. 11. 1. Wallack l Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; ni. .31r Bradwell. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE. J iMES'S THEATRE. And positively the Last Week out One of Monsieur Phillippe's App.•atance in London. By Desire, and at the r• - •quest of numerous Families of Distinction (who were disappointed in securing places for M. Phillippe's last Juvenile Entertainment), he will give another GRAND MATINEE N' STE RIEUSI., on' MONDAY MORNING NEXT, commencing at Halt•-past One o'clock precisely. And in conennence of the nightly overflows, and continued demand for places to witness Monsieur PIiiLLIPPE'S WONDERS, LES SOIREES MYsTERII.USEs will be repeated THIS EVENING, (Thursday), and on Saturday next. commencing each Evening at gar-past Eight o'cloce, being positively the last week but oue. Stalls, 7s. , B..xes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tici,ets may b , secured 5t Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHIT ATRE. BRCRPRIF:TOR. MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Grand Ballet of Action, consisting of Mi itary Manceuvres, Dances, Combats, and highly powerful effects, incl , i(Une the saga ions performance of the Dog Hector, and sur prising Leap of th, Horse Be•ia over the Broken and Flaming Bridge, called IL DIA VOLO ABRUZZI ; or, The Brigand Chief and the Dog of the Chateau. New awl Elegant Scenes in the Circle, by the whole of the French Equestrians. To conciude with THE BATTLE OP WATERLOO. Introducing the Double Company of French and English Artistes. The Em peror Napoleon by Mr. Gomersal, who is engagad expressly for this occasion Box-office open from Fleven till Five. HAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TII EAT RE. Brilliant Success of the New Opera Company—Second Week of Madame Euzen'a Garcia's Engagement, THIS EVENING, WIP be performed the Opera of LA gONNAMBULA. Count Rodoipho, Mr. Weiss ; Elvino, Mr. D. W. King, Amina, Madame Eugenia Garcia ; Lisa, Miss Collett. After which MRS. CA UDLE WILL DELIVER HER LECTURES. To conclude with a New Drama, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., called FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY. In which Messrs. Hughes, Hicks. Bonne*, Cowell. Johnson, Heslop, Miss Martin, Mrs. B. Homier, set., will perform. Places and Private foxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box donee, from Eleven to Pour. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOCIdcAI, GARDENS. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON. COMBINATION OF ATTRACTIONS. ROMANTIC GARDENS AND PROMENADE. EXTENSIVE AND UNRIVALLED MENAGERIE. COLOSSAL 31015E1,1.ED REPRESENTATION OF EDINBURGH, The Acme of Scenic Illusion. The ROCK lIARMONICON from Three till Eirt. Aknet on MONDAYS, TUESDAY: 4 . WEDNESDAYS, and THURS DAYS, GRAND CONCERTS D'ETE and MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY of FIREWORKS. Acimiseion, One Shilling. _ Feeding the Carzivora at flalt-n let Five , Pelicans and Polar Bears at Six Concert at half-past Six ; and Fireworks at i lalf-oast Nine. On Wednesday, Jo .y 23, a Grind Union Flower Show by the Royal South London lioricultnral -ociety, on which occasion a combina tion of Attractive Novelties will be presented, exclusive •f tie Floral Fete. WEATHER.-Sux OF[ ICE. .JULY 16 Low.- t. 46 ; ,Fiiihr.st, 64 ; Noun. 62. I .;Attomf.Tiga., W.N. W. NOTE.—The figureA which iollow the words " Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state n the Ilermometer during the preceding twenty-four hour. All the 4.t.ier observations are made at 110011. 11 WI IY.ITEIC AT LON DON-PSRI DUE. Tilt., DAY 3... 50 rruititr after U Evening • • 0 minutes after 0. , 4,:i,, '-dr.:l, f...:..;;15i is,.,k _ t., : (... ~ , , V 4. ...tg--7:7-74 ......,k' Y - ' 1 ,-,';;"!•, -.cotY •••: .70\041.4-1, -...., - 4t --v ' 1. -,,,,,, , ,- ~..7,4‘,„ , t 41 Z fi • " r • ~,,,: s - A' l , zi A' .orr ' . • . ~, -7, ~' y , ~ _ ~~~,~~ LONIA)N, THURSDAY. JULY 17, t The Lords did not sit yesterday. The common s met at Twelve. The Turnpike Acts 8.11, the Loan Societies Bill, the Hi g h way R4tes Bill, the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, t he u n l a wful Oaths (Ireland) Bill, and the Land Revenue Act Amendment Bill were respectively r•ported. The Ecclesiastical Patronage (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee. - The House then went into Committee on the Lunatic Asyluills Bill. The .fifth clause, granting retiring pensions to the ' officers' was opposed by Mi. T. DUNCOMBE, Mr. W AR _ BIIRTuN, sir. WAKLEY, ...z . nd several other Hon. Members, anti supootten by Lord ACS.LEY and Sir J. GRAHAM. On a divi.ion the numbers wee, for the clause, 43; against it, 3 ; majority in favoutd.the clause, 40. The remaining clauses were agreed tO ; WI t he re p ort was ordered to be brought up .••• Friday. The .Ijfainage (Irelaud, ti i , assed through C'-'W" Mernir -;' THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1845. mittee; and on the motion of the committal of the Vrtioation of (Ir..lanri) 13111, the House was counted out. The objects of Lord ASHLEY'S Bill for the regulation of the care and treatment of lunatics in England," which has occupied two morning sittings of the House of Commons, are undoubtedly excellent ; but it is equally undoubted that there are grave objections to the machi nery by which these excellent objects are to be effected ; and the little effect which has attended the attempts of Mr. DUNCOMBE, Mr. WAKLEY, and other Liberal Members, to amend the machinery of the Bill, greatly diminishes our satisfaction at the prospect of success for this last important effort of Lord ASHLEY'S unwearying benevolence. One thing, however, Messrs. DIINCOMBE and WAHLEY have succeeded in; and for this they deserve the thanks of the public. It was proposed in the Bill to allow past years of servico on temporary Commissions, during which the gentle men now for the first time appointed permanent Com missioners have been remunerated on a high scale calcu lated with reference to their haN ing no retiring pension to look to—have been paid, in fact, by the job, and at the rate of a guinea an hour for the time they were employed—to count for retiring pensions; and it was stated, without contradiction, that some of the proposed Commissioners had already served on the previous tem. porary Commissions the number of years (fifteen) which is to entitle a Commissioner, when permanently disabled, to a retiring pension. This monstrous pro posal has been abandoned. That it should ever have been sanctioned by Lord ASHLEY is only to be ac- counted for by attributing to his Lordship such a de gree of simplicity as is too often conjoined with pre. eminent virtue. Never, we suppose, was such a working commission thought of, as is proposed by this Bill, certainly not since the days of JEREMY BENTHAM'S publications on administrative government. It were almost enough to startle the Utilitarian sage from his grave, that so heavy a responsibility as is involved in the superin tendence of all the lunatic asylums of the king dom should be entrusted to a commission, com posed of no less than eleven members. If there is one political axiom more undisputed than another, it is that to have responsibility as efficient as possible it must be as much concentrated as possible ; and that nothing is more adverse to efficient responsibility than a numerous board. " What is everybody's business is nobody's business ;" and the blame, which has to be divided between eleven, will tall with the weight of a feather on any one individual. Eleven Commissioners are appointed by this Bill. Six of them are not to be paid, and one of the unpaid is to be the chairman. Mr, CHRISTIE pointed out how the fact of Commissioners giving their services gratuitously would interfere with their responsibility, but to no purpose. And then the six paid Commissioners, three of them being physicians or surgeons, and three barristers of five years' standing, are each to receive 1,5001 a year, over and above their travelling and other expenses ; with a retiring allowance after fifteen years' service, if permanently disabled. We do not hesitate to designate this a most disgraceful waste of public money. Six Com missioners at 1,5001. a year each, over and above tra velling and other expenses, and what on earth may not be covered by "other expenses?" But 9,000/, a year in salaries to the Commissioners, and 8001. a year more to a Secretary, who is also to have a retiring pension to look to 1 If it had been a commission consisting of only two or three members, who would be taken from among the most eminent in the medical and legal professions, then, indeed, 1,500/. a year would not be one whit too high a salary. But for the ordinary barrister of five years' standing, or for a medical man of moderate prac tice (and it is only such a man that will take even 1,5001. a year), then we do say that these salaries are an unjusti- fiable squandering of the public money. But much may be done at a morning sitting which will not bear the light of a full House ; and it can only be a fear of the grave responsibility attendant on delaying for another year a Bill that will relieve so much misery and stay so much cruelty, that can have led Mr. DIINCOMBE, and his small but patriotic minority, to consent, under any circumstances, to the grant of these extravagant salaries. The Prison Inspec tors are paid 7004 a year—the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners are pail 1.0001. a year—the Police Ma gistrates are paid 1,0001 a year—and is it pretended that the men who are looked to to fill the Lunatic Commis sionerships will be, or need he, superior to those who fill the above-named offices ? So far as the Commissioners and their salaries are concern« d, thi. Bill is a flagrant job. But all the rest of the Bill is good. Not the least vain able among its provisions are those for the inspection of houses containing single patients, which, because deranged members i if aristocratic families are generally confined in such houses, the House of Lords has always hitherto perseveringly exempted from legislation on this subject. But, according to Lord ASHLEY, whose testimony on this subject is in e.try way moat valuable, there is no class of houses more requiring inspection, or in which mere frightful cruelties take place. Some deference is paid to aristocratic prejudices by a different arrange ment, attended with greater precautions for secrecy, for the inspection of these single patient houses. There is to be a " Private Committee " of the Commissioners for these houses ; hut if the cocient of the House of Lord to an enactment embracing the single patient houses can be Obtained on no other terms, on any terms let inspection of them be secured. We trust that Lord ASHLEY Las made sure of the consent of the Upper House. A privilege question again engages the attention of Parliament, and comes before the House of Lords under circumstances well calculated to exemplify the vast im portance of the considerations which are sure to be in. volved in them. It seems to be the fate of this class of cases, in nine instances out of ten, to be raised upon circumstances which are of themselves trivial in the in verse ratio of the issues which immediately depend upon, or may be immediately determined by. them. The mo mentous character of these results, whether contingent or direct, every one seems capable of estimating. It ap pears to be allowed, with scarcely a dissentient voice, that Parliament, which originates, digests and declares, promulgates and repeals, the laws, should have certain powers intrinsic, as it were, and inherent in its own con stitution, to modify the application of those laws, wher ever their literal enforcement, under exigencies either unforeseen, or not sufficientlycoesidered, where such en forcement might compromise the independent action of its legislative functions. It is easy to see at a glance to how vast an extent any crippling or interruption of these functions may endanger the public wel fare. But it will be difficult beforehand to particularise in detail the points which would be thus periled. These, in the nature of things, must be inde terminate until the specific exigencies arise which deve 1, ip and illustrate them. .Ori the other hand, the rights or property which the exercise of the inherent privileges of which we speak, by Parliament, may affect or disturb, are generally of the simplest and most universal charac ter. These are such as there is little or no difficulty, irrespective of the considerations of privilege, in establish. ing. Lord Beoucaaitt made a ma terly speech in some respects, but still it seems singular that a man so astute, and a lawyer withal, should be so forward to abandon and sacrifice the first, as if so to dispose of them were the only means of maintaining the latter. The Learned Lord argued on Monday night, in the discussion on the case of HARLOW v. BAKER, as if the sole and inevitable result of the House of Lords, inhibiting HARLOW from further proceedings in au action brought by him against BAKER fur certain passages L 3 BAKER'S evidence before a Select Committee of their Lordships' House, reflecting upon the character of BAKER, must be to put BAKER as much out of the pale of civil and legal rights and protection as if he were a Brahmin of high caste about to be degraded into a Pariah. N. what was the case ? Examined by the LORD CHANCELLOR, HARLOW admitted that he had brought an action against THOMAS BAKER for false arid malicious language used by RAKER in speaking of him, the said HARLOW, in giving evidence before the Select Committee in the House of Lords on the laws rt spect.ng gaming. HARLOW stated that he had surf red much since that evidence was printed from being pointed out as a gambler ; but that when he brought his action against BAKER he did not know that he was thereby committing a breach of the privilege. of Parliament. But it should seem that Mr. PETER HARDWIN, his pro fessional adviser and attorney, did. BAKER, of course, appealed to the House by petition for its protection, and we are at a loss to conceive how the House of Lords couid do .less than accord the protection prayed. To this end, it adopted the inteliigible and efficacious course or committing both HARLOW, the plaintiff, and HARD WIN, his attorney, to the custody of the Black Rod. The expediency of this power was, we think, as plainly established on broad and general principles of what we shall call constitutional necessity, by the LORD CHAN CELLOR, as were the facts of the case. And, let us remark how cogent are the reasons on which this expediency rests. It is not even disputed that the House of Lords, whether as the supreme legislative or judicial tribunal, should retain its powers of examining j witnesses upon oath. It is admittt d on ad hands, that a man giving evidence b, fore it in its judicial capacity, and in the course of his testimony either uttering libel lous reflections upon third parties, or' committing per jury, would subject himself, on the evidence of two com petent witnesses, to civil action or criminal indictment. Therefore, it is asked, if you giv e no F.otec494 yo tilt, witness in this case, why extend it to him when exa before the Lords in their legislative capacity? The distinction seems to us a. clear one. In a court of justice the rules of evidence are stringent and definite. The law protects the witness from the reach and scope of examination beyond certain limits, and its courts dis courage every attempt to push the interrogation of such witnesses beyond those limits. Select Committees of either Rouse partake of the character of Parliament as the grand inquest of the nation ; and their modes of conducting inquiries into the questions referred to them are neither limited, like courts of law, to single specific issues, nor to such certain and determinate forms of exa, mining evidence upon them. Ina court of law the process of such investigations is more exact, if it be more limited* but then the powers of enforcing answers are much more stringent. In the witness-box of a court the at tempt on one hand is to extract all the evidence you can legally compel—the object on the other is to furnish no more than court or counsel can insist upon his giving. The process is as it were under bond—one party exacts as much as he can get, the other surrenders no more than you can compel him to yield. In the Committee rooms of Parliament the witnesses are rather invited than forced. It is more difficult there than in a law court to elicit what they may desire to conceal, because there are many moral influences wanting in the one case which are very cogent in the other. But much fuller evidence on all other points is to be obtained from the spontaneous communications of witnesses, who, under the assurance of protection, feel no disposition to withhold whatever information they can give. Now how could the inquiries of Parliament be conducted without the guarantee of this protection ? The three law Lords who spoke on Monday night delivered their respective opi nions characteristically enough. The LORD CHAN CELLOR stated the facts with his usual perspicuity. Lord BROUGHAM'S speech was one of research, marred by its technicality and its over laboured effort to adapt ge neral principles of law .and equity to cases of this peculiar character. Lord CAMPBELL'S was a plain straightforward, and, we think, successful effort to show by HARLOW'S case fairly came within that class, as to which the House of Lords were perfectly justified in vindicating their privileges, and also wherein the neces sity for those privileges consisted. In defining the vari ous objects of those privileges, Lord BROUGHAM stated these among others—namely, of declaring from time to time what those privileges were ; of declaring as occa sion arose what constituted a breach of them ; of punish ing parties pronounced by vote of the Legislature to have been guilty of a breach of them ; to inquire into any given matter ; to call all persons before them necessary for the purpos. s of such inquiry, and to pro tect them in respect of evidence given by them on such occasions. Now, in the case of HARLOW and BAKER, were the Lords to leave BAKER to be proceeded against, because, in evidence given before them at their desire, his disclosures happened to impugn a third party as in clined to pursue those practices into which, and the laws affecting them, the Committee of the Lords desired especially to inquire ? What sort of inducement to wit nesses to come forward with unreserved evidence before Parliamentary Committees on far more vital questions than one which might incidentally im ply the existence of sporting propensities in a respectable tobacconist, for example, who indignantly repudiates the impeachment—what inducement would the Lords hold out for candid testimony if they did not protect those who gave it against the sharp practice of over-zealous attorneys ? limier what obligation would reluctant witnesses feel to speak the truth which they might desire to conceal, if they felt that the forum in which they stood was powerless or unwilling to punish their contumacy by its own independent action ? What respect would the public feel for the decisions of such a forum, which could neither compel evidence from those who had it to give, but withheld it, nor protect those who, having given it before therm, should be proceeded against penally in other tribunals ? Upon the whole view of this case, as of other recent ones of the same kind, we arrive at these conclusions—that in these times the privilege of Parliament can scarcely be exercised otherwise than for the interests of the public at large ; that the possible injustice or hardship resulting to individuals from its being put in motion, especially in cases of vexatious prosecutions of witnesses examined before Parliamentary Committees and officers of either House, is likely to be far less than the absolute mischief which would ensue to the country from the virtual abandonment of that privilege, or the submitting it to the adjudication of the common law tribunals, which Lord BROUGHAM himself argues san know nothing about it ; for that privilege, being nowhere de fined, forms no part of the written law which the Judges administer and are the authorised expounders of. And finally, with Lord CAMPBELL, we call upon the House of Lords to persist in asserting this privilege upon the pre sent occasion in the manner they have already adopted (nut by pleading), "and thus for ever to put an end to these contumacious proceedings" against the just, leg ffitte), 18f. 75c. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron), st. Northern Line (Lailiate). 32f. 50c. ; ditto (It , samell. 81. 50e. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 7E 50c. • ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 31. 50c. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 12f. 50c ; ditto (Talabot), 27f. 50c; ditto (Compagnie Aleridionale), 51. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), par. ; ditto, and Cette (Espeleta), 4f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 6f. 50c. ; Dijon and Mul house, par; Dieppe, 27f. 50c. MArsamuazo, JULY 10.-Marseilles and Avignon, 962 E 50c. ; Boulogne, 6201. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 670; Vierzon, 7401. ; Avignon and Lyons (Talabot), 531 f. 25c. ; ditto (Sebas tiani). 507 f. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 500 f.; Bordeaux and Cette (Espeleta), 502 f. 50c. ; Toulon, 4951. LYONS, JULY 11.-Avignon and Marseilles, 9571., end of July ; Paris and Orleans, 1,1451., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,022 E, ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 732 E, ditto ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 6651., ditto ; Boulogne, 600 f. ; Monterau, 522 f. ditto. MONEY and COMMT RCI AT, N".F. _ ( From The San ) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 Oates, 2,000 being on speculation, and 1,000 for export. The quo tations of Friday were fully supported.--Shares were steady, but there was, not a great deal doing in them :- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 5% 5; Belfast a n d Ballymena, 614 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 18 3 / 4 19%; Caledonian, 10% 16s. 3d, ; Ditto, Extenson, 2%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 5 ; Derby and Crewe, 2%; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 7%; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Eastern Coun ties, 21%; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 14 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 181,4 3 4 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. 6d. 19s. ; Glasgow, Paistev, and Greenock, 204 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 10% ; Grand Junction, 236 ; Ditto, Halt Shares, 118 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 22%; Great County Down, 3 % 1 4; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8% ; Hud dersfield and Sheffield, 6% • Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 1 4 ; Leicester aiad Birmingham, 335. ; Limerick and Water ford, 6 1 / 2 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 42 ; Li verpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% ; London and York, 3% 1 / 2 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 19% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9 1 / s ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 9% ; Midland Railway, 194 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 30 3 / 4 31 ; Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 150; Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry, % Newry and Enniskillen, 71s. 6d.; North British, 25; Ditto, Half Shares, 6% ; North Stafford shire, 79s 6d; North Western, 4% % ; Oxford and Birming ham Junction, 4% 34 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hamptoa, 7 1 ,E ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 17 ; Ditto, No. 2, 54 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 68s. 6d.; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 3% ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 17% ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 3 4 % ; South Midland, 365. 375. ; Trent Valley, 121%; Trent Valley Continuation, 345.; Welsh Midland, 68s. 6d. 3%; West Yorkshire, 6 1 4 i ; Worcester and Tring, 265. 6d. ; Dutch Rhenish, 44 6 ; Jamaica and South Midland, 4%; Northern of France (Rosamel's) English, 48s. 9d. 51s. 6d.; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 595.; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2%; Sambre and Meuse, 7%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 15.-The sales are -Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 11 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 9% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Belton, ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 20 4 ; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 5 3-16 ; Churnet Valley, 4% ; Derby and Crewe, 2 1 / 2 % ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 8 1 ,4 ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 7-16 prem. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 19s. ; Grand Union, 1%; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 1 4 5-16 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 19 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 11-16; Leicester and Bedford, 7s. 6d. 7s. prem. ; Leicester and Birmingham, 345. 335. 9d. ; Liverpool arid Manchester, Half Shares, 105 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 575. 6d.- 58s. 9d. ; London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 1 1 4 ; London and York, 3 1 , % ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 5% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 60 1 /s 3 4 • Ditto, New Quarter Sha res , 7 1 4 ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 1%; Man chester, Sheffield and Midland Junction, 3 , j4 ; Midland Rail way Consols, 40/. Shares, 30 1 ,4 ; Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 9-16 1 / 2 prem. ; North British, 25% ; Ditto, New Shares, 6% ; North Staffordshire, 3% % ; North Union (A), 176 ; Ditto (B), 107 109 ; North Western, 91s. 6d. 91s. 3d. ; Nottingham, Erewash, Amber-gate, and Manchester, 465.6 d. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 7 1 / 8 ; Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 3%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc tion, 1 9-16 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 2, 4 3 4 prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 2 ; South Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 8 9-16 ; South Midland, 365. 3d. 375. 6d. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 16 ; Welsh Midland, SA 7-16 ; West Lancashire and Coast Li ne , 1 1 4 prem. ; West Yorkshire, 6% %; Whitehaven and Fur. ness, 2 3 / 4 ; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 1% ; York and Carlisle, 3%; York and - North Midland Extension, 22; Great Northern of France (English), 5 1 4. The Funds are much the same, or perhaps we may say, a little firmer. Consols 98% % for present transfer, and 98 3 4 % for Account. Exchequer-bills have been again 535. to 555. premium. Bank Stock is 210% to 211 1 4. The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. realize 102 1 / 8 to 4. Spanish Bonds -are a little firmer. The Actives have touched 25 1 4 to 3 4, and the Three per Cents. 35 3 / 4 to 36 1 / 4 . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 62 to 1 4, and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 994. Brazil stock is at 91 1 4. The Share Market is considered to be firmer to alay, and there is a moderate business doing in the principal railways, both old and new. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. bank Stock i per Cent. Reduced .... 99 t A y 9915 3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9 8 5; g 34 98 3 / New 3 1 4 per Cents —102 1 4 1 4 1021.4 Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 11 1 ,4% 11% Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 1 / g 11 1 'ndia Stock ___ ndia Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001.. . Consols for Opening 98%3/4 98 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 / 2 d 53 55 pm. 56 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small — pm. ' 57 CLOSING PRICES. 90 3 / 4 904 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Ditto. Deferred Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela IS Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, Converted 64 3/4 Ditto, Account — Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. Russian Bonds ` ... - .... 118 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .. Ditto, Account 35% 36 1 / 36 1 / 2 Belgian 4 1 / 2 per Cent. Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99 % 1 /2 99 1 ji PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. It AMWAY SHARES PRICES, Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 2 1%... Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 135 134 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction Bristol and Exeter 7O Do. New .... - ........ 2 Caledonian Ditto Extension ...... 2 1 / 2 Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 .-- 4 3 % 5 Chester and Holyhead... 10 Churnet Valley Coventry and Leicester 1 1 % Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 2 1 / 2 8 Dublin and Galway..... 2 1 / 2 3% Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 21 1 / 2 IA ** Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2 . 133. 4d... Eastern Union l5 .. ... 22 Ditto Extension ... 1 1 / 2 21% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 — Ditto New 11 l Shares... 2 1 / 2 B l /4 :treat South. and West. 03TE O'CLOCK. 91q. 9114 36% 8 20 3 A 64 3 4 64j 8 64 1 / i 1171 A, (Ireland) Ditto Extension 31 - eat North of England..100 Ditto New ;mat Western BO ......2131/ 213% Ditto % Shares ' 50 ll6 117 1 / ...... ... 118 4uildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2 1 / 2 ... 32% 2% 3arwich Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...244 Do. 1 4 Shares - 35% London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9% % 9% London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d 22% % 22% Lond. & S.Western 41/ 6s 10d Do. New London and York 2 l /2 ...... 33454 3% Londonderry& Coleraine 2%.. 3 l / 2... - Londonderry and Ennis killen 3 4 vrin-and Ely Lynn and Dereham I% 2l/214 ............ 2v, vianchester and Birmin. 40 Midland... 100 194 ............... 193 Do. New Nlidland, Birm., Derby 100 Midland Great Western (Irish) %ewcastle and Darling ton Junction .. 25 ...... 54 1 ,4 ' 541 N.-weas& and lierwick 1% 1 9 14 1 9 14 Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 ,4 Newark and SLeffield .. 1% 2% .. • 2% North British Do. New North Staffordshire 22s. ...... 2% 2% North Wales Norwich alio Brandon... 10 Oxford and Worcester... 2 1 4 74 6% 6 /8 r erth and Inverness 2 1 / 2 ? 2 Preston and Wyre Richmond and West End .function .. 1 Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%.. 31 4 0 4 . . South Devon ls south Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 27 3 / 4 . ....... Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 south Wales 2%...... 4%14 Trent Valley and Holy head Junction Waterford sad Kilkenny I ...... . . Welch Midland Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 'ork and North Midland 50 Do. Extension FOREIGN RAILWAY :s. Boulogne and A miens... 6 Great North. of France (Laffitte's) Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Jamaica Junction l l/ 5 Do. South Midind. Junc. 1 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 5 Namur and Liege Orkans and Vierzon ... 6 ...... 15 Orleans and Borde.iax... 4 ...... 10%% 1 4 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, 2 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen . . Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ..... 4 Verona and Anc0n.i...... 1 West Flanders 31 / 4 25 48 1 4 164 8 3 4 4;j4 13( 4 2 3 / 4 3 1 / s 29% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial London Joint Stock lO London & WestminstQr 20 Union of Australia 15 1 % 15 26 3 4 26 The Constitutionnel states that the presence of the Duke de Montpensier at Tunis was the means of reconciling the French Consul, M. Lagau, and the British Consul, Mr. Read, who was present with his lady at a soirée given by M. Legau, to tho Prince. UNIVERSITY OF LoNnoN.—ln consequence of the great increase in the number of candidates for matriculation in the University of London this year, the chambers of the University at Somerset.house not being sufficiently spacious to accommodate the whole ofthem, the Principal of King's College, on being applied to, placed one of the lecture-rooms of that institution at the disposal Of the Senate during the , exarainetion. mate, and indispensable authority of Parliament. Madrid journals of the Bth have been received. Sixty of the Royal Halberdiers had left the capital for Vittoria. The Frince FRANCESCO DE PAULA was about to proceed to St. Sebastian, and it was understood that four of the Ministers would join the Court at Saragossa, and then accompany her MAJESTY to the Basque provinces. According to accounts from Barcelona, General CONCHA left that place on the Bth with 2,000 men and 18 pieces of artillery, for Sobadell, which he attacked, killing 25 of the insurgents, and taking a great many prisoners. The next morning he entered Tarrosa. Owing to the vigorous measures adopted by the General, it was believed the resistance to the conseription would soon be put clown. The Tiempo, a Madrid journal, publishes a protest against the abdication of Don CARLON signed by 58 Spanish Royalists. The document is dated Paris, the 3d June. The Eco del Commercio had been seized by the police. MADRID BOURSE, JULY B.—The Funds continue to de cline, and the Three per Cents. are quoted at 27 3 for cash, aid 28 1 % at 60 days, but the prices were somewhat higher at the close of the market. Five per Cents. at 20% cash. Coupons 26 at 60 days. Exchange on England, 373/4. The Paris papers bring no news of importance. A meeting of the professors of the College of France was held on Monday, to take into consideration a communication from the Minister of Public Instruction, relative to the lectures of Mes'>sis. MICHELET and QUINET. The assembly consisted of twenty four members, and, after some discussion, a resolution was proposed by M. DE BEAUMONT, declaring that the assembly accepted the declaration of Messrs. QUINET and MICHELE; that it had not been their intention to go beyond the limits of their programme, and that none of the professors wished to act otherwise, which was carried by a majority of 17 to 7- Messrs. QUI:CET and MICHELET voted in the minority. We have accounts of the proceedings of the Swiss Diet now sitting at Zurich, up to the 11th instant. On that day a warm discussion took place. A Deputy of one of what are called the Ultramontane cantons having proposed that the federal camp ordered for 1846 should not take place, and his motion being warmly supported by the cantons of the same principles, especially Uri and Lucerne, it was resisted by the Deputies of the Liberal cantons with great energy, and was defeated by a majority of 12 states and 2 half-states against 7 states and a half-state. No ad ditional particulars relative to the Massacre at Dahara had been received from Algiers. The France contains the.follow ing just observations on the dreadful catastrophe "For the last two days the public mind has been is a state of excitement. Fresh accounts from Africa are looked for with painful anxiety, in order to form a correct opinion on the frightful burning of human bodies announced by the Akbar, and unfortu. nately attributed to a colonel of the French army, How is it that no dispatch, no official communication has yet been received to quiet the alarmed minds of the public P It will be with difficulty admitted, that in spite of the accusatory reserve of Marshal Soult in the Chamber of Peers, the Minister has received no information on the subject. The silence of the Cabinet is thus construed in a more unfavourable light than if it had frankly avowed the truth. The butchery thus attributed to our soldiers and to our officers must be something very enormous to induce such an obsti nate silence on the subject. Such would naturally be the opinion of the country, justly tenacious of its honour, and such, in fact, it is. For our own part, in the absence of more ample information, we must confess that the act of barbarity attributed to Colonel Pellissier appears to us in correctly represented. Before trifling with the honour and dignity of those who represent our name and power in a foreign land, we wish for certain information and irrefragable proofs. It is not on a simple report, more or less plausible, that a superior officer should be accused of massacre and barbarity, unexampled perhaps in the military acts of modern Europe. If the recital should turn out to be incorrect, how bitterly should we have to reproach ourselves ? If, on the contrary, the fact be proved, we loudly declare that there are no expressions severe enough to stigmatise its authors. France is responsible in the eyes of neighbouring nations, and before them she will have to answer for the acts and conduct of her army. However this affair may turn out, it ought to afford the Govern. ment an energetic motive for seriously occupying itself on the sub. ject of the army in Africa. It is, unfortunately, well known that the habits acquired in an obstinate warfare in a country far removed from home have given our soldiers instincts dangerous to our dignity as a civilised power. They are ne longer enemies which our sedentary regiments have now before them, they are wild beasts which they amuse them selves by hunting. Eye-witnesses have gone so far as to relate that to some officers of our army in Africa a raszia is ne longer any more than a pitiless sport, where the French, always vic torious, treat the conquered as neither more nor less than a prey. The Government, the Chambers, and the public should, for the interest of humanity and of our national honour, seriously exa mine rate these assertions. Such a spirit should not be tolerated in an army which represents the most noble and the most oivilisod nation in the world. This system of cold•blooded barbarism will not only be disastrous for France, as far as her policy and her object of colonisation is concerned, but it will also tend to throw an odious stigma on the French name. The Government cannot re. main indifferent to the deplorable tendencies we have named. It will be odious to think that after having made an appeal to reli gious faith in this newly acquired land, after having established there that Christian Church, the basis of which is love towards men, the work of civilisation should be destroyed by acts worthy only of the armed bands of the middle ages." o 2 01. at ; 12 v 1 r 42 5 0 c n . 7371. On Monday the Three per C ents. c l ose d at 83f. 20c. ; I t ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 50c. ; Havre, 837 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 960 f. ; Basle, 251 f. 25 c . Spanish Actives, t: l B 4s F il i ;Rouen,v l, 36 3 % ; Ditto Three per Cents., 37. The following are the quotations for the new li nes : aper Cents . Orleans and Bordeaux, 1661. premium ; Boulogne, 115 f. ditto; Troyes And Montersau, NE 25e, ; Paris and Lyons cLa. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. The polling commenced on Tuesday at the usual hour, at the Town-hall, and the utmost anxiety was exhibited on the part of the friends of both the Ministerial and Oppo sition candidates--Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, the newly appointed Solicitor-General, and Mr. Alexander Shaft() Adair—t o place their respective candidates at the head of the poll. Every exertion was made by the committees of both gentlemen to attain that end by bringing up voters from all parts as early as possible. The num bers were— _ AT ELEVEN O'CLOCK. For ITr. Fitzroy Kelly For Mr. Alexander Shafto TWO O'CLOCK. Kelly Adair THREE O'CLOCK. Kelly Adair A QUARTER TO FOUR O'CLOCK. Kelly Adair ...................................... 702 But the exact numbers at the close have not been received. The official accounts of the clerks make the numbers for— Kelly .. 750 Adair Majority —22 Mr. Beales, the chairman of the other committee, makes the numbers equal, and states that exactly 740 votes were polled for each candidate. Should this be the fact, the Mayor, who is a Tory, will give his vote for Mr. Kelly. The following is the report of the election, received at the General Post-office yesterday afternoon Kelly ... 737 Adair 724 -13 Majority COURT t:ti,:tULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, Lady Portman, Baroness O'Hooghiorst, Colonel Bowles, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, and Major de Moerkerke, arrived at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in five pony carriages, at six o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Her Majesty and the Queen of the Belgians afterwards walked in the grounds, and Prince Albert, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, went to inspect the farms. There was no addition to the royal dinner party in the evening. Yesterday forenoon the august party walked in the pleasure grounds adjacent to the mansion. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort, and their Belgian Majesties, afterwards drove out in two pony carriage•, with liattriders, to King's Key, returning through the Barton estate to Osborne House at half-paqt eleven o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing from Buckingham Palace, in an open carriage and four, yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing yesterday, in th• gardens of the Palace. Mr. Mosquera, Charge d'Affaires of New Grenada, trans acted business at the Foreign-office yesterday. The Right Hon. Henry Lytton Bulwer had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. Mr. C. K. Murray, Mr. Higham, Secretary and Compt rollers-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, Mr. Carr, and Mr. Freshfield, had interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Downing -street yesterday. Mr. Gibson, M.P., and the Town Clerk of Manchester, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the hoard of Trade. Dispatches mere sent off last evening from the Colonial dace for the Governor of the West India Colonies. Mr. Alderman Hu mphery paired off with Mr. Aaron Chapman in favour of Lord Palmerston's motion. BRIGHTON, JULY 14.—The departures for Paris, • from here, are daily becoming more numerous. The Baron Rothschild, Baron de Lawes, Count Gazetti, and Colonel Schuster, left this day in the steamer Magnet, for lli , ppe. Miss Davenport, the celebrated actress, accompa nied by her father and muther, and a theatrical corps, left London for Ilainburgh yesterday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's Mail Packet, John Bull, on a starring tour. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—A renewal of the disturb ances between the Orangemen and Ribandmen in this town took place last night between eight and nine o'clock. The cause of this second violation of the pease arose from a considerable body of Orange. men, who had been holding a meeting at Newton, returning in procession with flags and bands playing party tunes. Beyond these they do not appear to have given any offence. The police had an anonymous intimation that an attack was meditated upon the whole body, and in order to avoid such an affair, all the disposable force was so placed as to prevent any collision. A general riot being thus rendered impossible, individual assaults in considerable cumber took place, for it was impos.ihle to prevent them, in which the Orangemen were severely handled. The aggressors in several cases were apprehended, and to.day, on being brought up at the police-court, they were all fined 51. One was sent for trial to the sessions. The magistrates expressed their regret that such a state ef things should exist in this town, but declared their determina tion to maintain the law. The head constable, whilst disposing the police in effective order last night, fell from his horse and in. lured one of his legs. The King and Queen of the French, Madame Adelaide, the Duchess d'Orleans, the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, and the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, arrived at Dreux on Friday evening at eight o'clock. Immediately after alighting her Royal Highness the Duchess d'Orleans visited the tomb of her lamented husband. At halt-past nine, a dinner to nearly two hundred guests took place, at which the King and the Princes were present. On the following day, the religious service in commemoration of the death of the Duke of Orleans was per. formed in the Royal Chapel by M. de Corby, Bi shop of Palermo, the Abbe Guillon, Bishop of Morocco, and a numerous clergy. ceremony. The ing WILL OF THE FATE MRS. ROUND. —Special and Royal Family were all pre sent at the melancholy let ters of administration with the will annexed of Mrs. Susan Con stantla Round,of Danbury park, Chelmsford, wife of John Round, Esq., M.P., have been granted to her husband, and her three sons, John Round, Frederic Peel Round, and Edmund Round, Esqs., the executors named in the will, which was made in August, 1843, and is of some length, containing many recitals. Amongst others, It recites that her mother, the late Mrs. Caswell, by power of ap pointment vested in her over a moiety ef 104,0001. stock, left to her (Mrs. Round) 22,0001., and that she was also entitled to one.fourth of the residue under her late father's will, making together upwards of 50,0001., which sums were invested in the names of trustees under her marriage settlement; also recites that by a deed executed by herself and husband in 1840, the survivor is to receive the interest for life; and the principal en the death of the survivor is to be divided amongst their four children, as ap. portioned by them in the deed, the eldest son taking the residue of the trust moneys as wed as some freehold estates. The dispositions are confirmed by her will. The husband is entitled to the personal estate, over which she had no disposing p ower. ARUNDEL YACHT CLuß.—The first sailing match of the season among the yachts of this highly respectable club, for a silver cup and cover, came off on Monday, the distance being from Greenwich to Greenhithe and back. At a little before twelve the following started :—The Foam, 7 tons, Mr. E. W. Roberts— the Dauntless, 7, Mr. T. Edwards—and the Don, 7, Mr. J. Gard ner. The Dauntless took the lead, f o ll owed b y the Foam, but b in ut little W iwwicohrireachthe latter running; and the Foam first rounded at h a l f-past two, the Daunt less about three minutes later, and the D on a m i nute more or se down,the wind ran being by her antagonist. There w a s ng exceedingly favourable for astern of her. In beating up the Don passed the Dauntless at Erith, and in Woolwich.reach went by the Foam to windward, thus winning the prise by half a minute only. BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES.s.—TII the Bill which has passed the House of Lords (now before the House of Commons), it is provided that persons keeping billiard or bagatelle. tables shall be licensed. They have a trick of constructing steam-boats of such an amazing light draft of water in the enterprising State of Arkansas, as we learn from the Little Rock Intelligencer, that the Lucy Long, a boat recently built at that place, wilt run anywhere that the ground is a little damp. We believe she generally comes to anchor it there is anything like a heavy dew. Our gallint townsrndo, Captain l'hurtell, Inst week forwarded to the Queen six of his incomparable geraniums, which her Majesty was most graciously pleased to accept; and Captain Thurtell had the honour of receiving an appropriate acknowledg nsent of the same.—Devonport Telegraph. FALL OUT OF A CART —oii Tuesday afternoon little boy, fire years of age, was riding In a chaise cart along High street, Bloomsbury, accompanied by his parents, when he suddenly fell over the side of the chaise Into the road, and fractured his skull. He was carried to a surgeon, who dressed the wound, and was afterwards removed to the hospital. CONVICTION FOR GAMBLING.—At immersm;th Police-court yesterday a man lamed Sha v was committed to prison for ten days for having a gambling-table on Turnham-green on Saturday, during the horticultural fete, with which gentlemen's oervants waiting with carriages were playing. The Reine Arnelie royal y ao,t left Brest on the 10th for Treport, where she will be stationed, in anticipation of the arrival of the King and Royal Family at Eu. PEDESTRIAN FEAT.—MATCH FOR 1001.—On Mon day evening a walking match for 100/. took place at Acton Bolton between Mr. Hall, a surgeon, and Haynes, a celebrated walker. The distance was six miles, Mr. Hall giving his opponent three minutes' start. The walking of each party was exceedingly rapid and fair, and kept the horses of the umpires, &c. on the trot, When within a couple of hundred yards from home Mr. Hall came up with his adversary, passed him, and won easily. Mr. Hall walked the six miles in fifty-two minutes, Haynes in fifty-seven. Mr. Hall is esteemed the fastest walker of the day. GREAT FOOT Ii; ACE —TueseF y the fo , t-ra-e be tween Charles Jenkinsen (the London Stag), and Patterson (the Flying Tailor), came off near the Old Hat Inn, at Ealing. The men were matched for 501. aside, to run over 120 yards of road. In bet ting Patterson was the favourite. After several attempts the start was effected, when the Stag bounded off in fine style, and took the lead, his opponent waiting upon him very closely, and, at eighty yards Patterson succeeded in passing him. The •itag then made for the winning mark, but the Flying Tailor had got victory certain, and, after a desperate effort from the Stag, the Flying Tailor ran in the winner amid►t the cheers of his numerous friends and backers. PINE APPLES.—Another ve s sel, called the Ka tinka, arrived on Monday afternoon at Nicholson's Wharf, Lower Thames-street, from Eleutheria, with 1,573 dozen of West India pines on board of very fine quality. PRICES OF SALmoN.—Tuesday morning salmon was sold in Billingsgate market as follows:—Grilse, id. ; full grown salmon, 201 b. and upwards, 6d. per lb. The market was well supplied, and the demand was great. STATE OF TRADE.— ahe demand for yarn conti nues as good as for some weeks past ; and, the quantity on the market being exceedingly small, prices, especially of the counts under No. 40, have still an upward tendency. In the goods' market there is a fair business doing, and. purchasers have bhown more inclination to enter into contracts for future deli very of good shirtinge and printing cloths, but lighter fabrics are not quite so good to sell as the better qualities.-11fanches. ter Guardian, DEP A:LITT:HIE CF T TIE E-7..P11.:R1- The imposing spectacle of the fleet, under the command in chief of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., weighing anchor at Spithead, and proceeding to sea on its experimental cruise, took place on Tues day in the presence of her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert, his Majesty the King of the Belgians and his Queen, her Majesty Adelaide the Queen Dowager, his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Earl of Haddington and the Lords of the Admi. ralty, and a larger number of distinguished noblemen and gentle men, admirals, generals, and other officers of the army and navy, than has ever perhaps assembled at Spithead on any previous occa sion. The interest which the sailing of this fleet has excited must have been universal, for railway trains on Monday and Tuesday brought thousands of ladies and gentlemen to Portsmouth and its neighbourhood —a very large proportion of them from distant parts of the kingdom. ~~~'' In the list of company at the principal hotel were the following, most of whom were afloat on Tuesday on the departure of the feet ; —The Earl of Yarborough, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Captain William A. Bailie and Lady Harriet Hamilton, Lord and Lady Colville, Sir James Dennis and officers of the Buffs, the Hon. Capt. Edward Plunkett, Sir Harry Verney, Adjutant-General Sir J. Macdonald, Mr. Edmund Yates Peel, C ipt. Martin, Capt. Black burne, Capt. Sotheby, Capt. Cuppage, Capt. Dykes, Capt. Sandon, Capt. Shea, Capt. Randell, Capt. Gasket', lie. A finer morning could not have succeeded to a more beautiful evening, in the haze of which, just as the glorious sun had sunk in the west, the huge hulls and lofty masts of the men.of-war loomed above the sea like distant mountains rising from the deep. The morning breeze was just strong enough to allow the yachts to move to and fro beneath the brilliancy of the sun, whose bright ness, however, was occasionally overshadowed by a passing cloud. The Victory, 104, Captain Mowbray, with the flag of the Port Admiral, lying off the dockyard, and a few merchantmen and yachts In harbour, were dressed with their gay ensigns ; and the Hiber. nia, 104, Captain Peter Richards, C.B , the flag-ship of Sir W. Parker, ior the Mediterranean, lying to the westward of the expe rimental fleet at Spithead, was also dressed out over the topmasts from stem to stern. The Admiralty flag was hoisted at the dockyard, and the Black Eagle, their Lordships' steam.yacht, Master-Commander Cook, was dispatched at half-past nine to Ryde, for the Duke and Du. chess of Buccleuch ; the Lightning, steam-tender, Master Coin. mender Pettey, was also dispatched thither for some noble person ages. The Princess Alice, Master Commander Luke Smithett, at the same time left Portsmouth harbour for Ryde, to embark her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge arrived at Gospoit by special train at ten o'clock. The Duke of Cambridge was prevented by slight indisposition from accompanying him. At a quarter-past eleven the Lords of the Admiralty, the Earl of Haddington, Sir. W. H. Gage, Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, the Second Secretary, and the Hon. Captain Dundas, the Private Se cretary, with Lord Wharnclitle, left the dockyard in the Admi ralty barge, attended by Lieutenant Triscott, of the St. Vincent, who was appointed Flag Lieutenant to wait on the Admiralty, and proceeded across the Royal Clarence Yard, to be in readiness to receive her Majesty. At twenty-five minutes to twelve o'clock the royal special train, conveying her Majesty and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, arrived at Gosport terminus, where the royal party was received by Major. General Pakenham (who went through the now somewhat tedious form of presenting the keys of the garrison to her Majesty), Mr. Martin, general su perintendent, Mr. Stovin, general manager of traffic, and Mr. Gooch, superintendent of the locomotive department. The royal standard was immediately hoisted, the guard presented arms, and then her Majesty and suite, accompanied by the Lieu tenant-Governor and staff, drove to the Clarence Victualling-yard, where the Lords of the Admiralty, Captain Carter (Superintendent), Mr. Town (Master-Attendant), Mr. T. T. Grant, F.R.S. (Store keeper), Captain Moubray, Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, Sic., were in attendance to receive them. Her Majesty, leaning on the arm of the King of the Belgians, and followed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who gave his arm to the Queen of the Belgians, embarked in the new state barge, accompanied by their suites, and were steered by Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence to the Victoria and Albert, which lay out a short dis. tance in the harbour. As soon as the royal standard was trans. ferred from the bow of the barge to the main of the yacht, a salute thundered out from the old Victory, which was taken up by the Excellent and some of the yachts, until the smoke wreaths had nearly obliterated the whole of the brilliant pageantry from view. Then came the hurrahs of the multitudes assembled on the beach, and the more effective and spirit-stirring cheers of the seamen who manned the yards of the men-of-war. Soon after the royal standard had displayed its well-known blazonry at the main of the royal yacht, the Belgian tricolour royal was hoisted. The yacht in a few minutes afterwards lett her moorings and steamed slowly down the harbour towards Spithead, threading her way with care and difficulty amid the innumerable craft which crowded it. As she passed along the dense masses of people who darkened every eminence on the beach, and swarmed on the platform and ramparts, cheered again and again, until the sound echoing from point to point along the narrow Cherwell, rose like distant thunder. The Princess Alice, having on board her Majesty the Queen Dowager and suite, left Ryde at half-past ten, and tell into the wake of the Victoria and Albert. Conspicuous among all the various beautiful specimens of naval architecture was the graceful little Fairy, her Majesty's tender, which played around the royal yacht, and turned about through the yachts and steamers with all the celerity and ease attributed to her aerial namesake. The slender tapering masts, raked symme trically aft, and almost unsupported by the cobweb cordage of the shrouds and stays—her low and perfect mould melting away into the bows and run—her great speed—and, above everything, the absence of the swell caused by padule-wheels—all combined to render her so attractive to the eye that she won on the affections of the men of the old school, and overcame the prejudices of the Pipes and Trunnions. The amateur seamen mustered strongly, and representatives of nearly every Yacht Club were present in every form, from the clipper schooner of 200 tons down to the Thames cutler of 10; clothed in their snow.white canvass, big jibs and gaff-topsails set, and flitting over the water in every direction, they formed the most beautiful coup d'ceil that could be conceived, stretching away for miles, tacking to and fro, running out of every creek along the isle, and firing their tiny armament with wonderful zeal and tolerable regu larity. Among them were " the great reputations "of the racing world—the Crusader, the Camilla, the Alarm, the Gleam, Lord Yarborough's schooner yacht, &c. The dusky forms of numerous steamers struggling under the enormous loads of living creatures who swarmed from stem to stern, on paddle-box, deck, rigging, yards, contrasted with the livelier hues of the sailing vessels, and relieved their monotony. It is to be regretted, however, that in some cases the captains were more anxious to give their passengers an opportunity of demonstrating their loyalty than of consulting the convenience of those whom they intended to compliment —oc casionally running their vessels so near as to interfere somewhat with the motions of the royal yacht, or when to windward favour ing those on board with a full taste of their quality in the produc tion of smoke. After the vessels of the royal cortege, came the Black Eagle, the Comet, the Rocket, the Bee, the Turk, the Tagus, the Rattler, and the Water-lily, an extraordinary, but pretty looking steamer, built by Mr. Maudslay. Thus they proceeded towards Spithead, accompanied by so many vessels that competition was fairly baffled, until they rounded the Spit-buoy, when the St. Vincent led off with a royal salute, which was taken up and continued by the other ships of the squadron. The smoke hung so heavily upon the enormous hulls of the men of-war, that it soon enveloped them in a dense cloud, through which the flashes ofthe guns spirted fiercely out, and alone marked their position. At last the firing, which was very regular, pro ceeding from the ships in the order of their position, was at an end, and the smoke slowly drifted to leeward, rising like a veil and un covering all the splendour of the scene. The men-of-war were drawn up in the usual order, grim and silent—ports open, guns run out--searcely a living soul to be seen on board. The royal yacht was slowly proceeding between the starboard and larboard divisions. There little flags are run up to the Admiral's main, and in an instant the rigging appears instinct with life—the yards and cordage swarm with men, until at last they take their stand in tapering rows of duck frocks and trousers, and out come three thundering cheers for the Queen. For some reason or another, probably because the signal could not be made out as the flags were scarcely extended, owing to the light breeze—the Trafalgar did not follow the example of her fellows, and her men remained in the tops or in the yards in silence. Another signal from the Admiral, and as if by magic the gaskets were cast off, and down came the sweeping folds of the canvass, and the bare outlines of masts and rope were in an instant concealed by a mass of sail. At twenty minutes to one signal was made from the flag-ship, St. Vincent, to weigh, and at one the whole squadron, comprising the St. Viment, 120, Captain Rowley, flag of Rear. Admiral Hyde Parker, Commander-in-Chief of the Squadron ; the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Martin; the Queen, 110, Captain Sir B. Walker; the Rodney, 92, Captain Collier; the Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer ; the Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby; the Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes; the Superb, 80, Captain Corry; and the Rattler, screw steam sloop, Commander Smith, were under sail. The Trafalgar was the first to complete the setting of her sails, which were the same as those of the other vessels—fore, main, and mizen, topsails, topgallantsails, and royals, foresails, andjibs ; but the Rodney was first under weigh, the Superb being second. The usual effect of the tiring was viodble in the lull of the little breeze that existed before, and the squadron lad soon to run out their studdingsails to get any headway upon them. Presently, however, the breeze came creep ing up, and after a few flourishes and "cat's-paws," settled down to a weak puffy sort of breeze in S.W. until two o'clock, when it freshened and blew steadily. Great speculation existed as to which would be the first round the Nab, but it was soon evident that the Queen in the light breeze was drawing fast ahead, the Rodney being second, the Albion dead to leeward of the three; then the Trafalgar, the Canopus, the Vanguard (some contended it was the Albion), and lastly the St. Vincent, which made very poor work of it in the calm weather. Her Majesty's yacht, with the royal standard lying, surrounded by thousands in the hired steam. era, &c., stood boldly out to sea in the van, the Queen standing by the larboard paddle-box and appearing to watch the result of the giant race with the greatest interest. Her Majesty acknowledged . . . . repeatedly, and with impressiveness, the greetings which rose on every side around her, increased in warmth and intensity by the feeling which the sight of a Queen of England leading such a feet as no other empire could show was naturally calculated to inspire. At a quarter past two the squadron had rounded the Nab, and hauled up to the southward. At half past two signal was male to . _ form the order of sailing in two columns, and the ships, which from their more rapid sailing were in advance, had to shorten sail to take their proper stations. At three o'clock they all made sail on the starboard tack, and in a quarter of an hour afterwards were invisible from Spithead. At a quarter past four the royal yacht hove in sight, on her re turn to Spithead, followed by the Princess Ahce and Fairy tender, which came up to Spithead about five, when the Hibernia manned yards, saluted, and her crew cheered. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE SAILING. A more magnificent sight cannot be pictured to the imagination than that which presented itself when the squadron had reached St. Helen's. As far as the eye could behold the waters were co vered with countless vessels, all under sail, and each vieinz with the other to keep pace with those mighty fabrics which constitute the bulwarks of this sea-girt isle, and are the pride and glory of its people. Yachts of every description, belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron, and all the other clubs from the Thames to the Land's end, were following, crowded with sail. Shortly before the ves sels reached the Nab light the breeze freshened, and the con test now between the Rodney, Superb, Queen, and Albion was most interesting. The Rodney was the first ship under weigh, and had passed the Superb and Albion, and had obtained the lead the Rodney being the first ship, Superb next, and the Albion fol- lowing on the port quarter of the Rodney. It very soon became apparent that the Queen would take the lead of them all, for while the Rodney and Albion were under allsail with etuddingsails alow and aloft, the Queen was sparing them lower and maintopmatt studdingsails, and passing them hand over hand. The Queen was the first to round the Nab light, followed by the Rodney, Albion, Superb, and Vanguard, which had passed the Canopus and Tra- During the time the vessels were making the Nab light, her Majesty was on the platform which connected the paddle.boxes, and appeared to take great interest in the scene before her, and in the trial of sailing between the line-of.battle ships. After passing the Nab light, her Majesty took the lead of the fleet. When off Dunmose, the signal was made for the fleet to form in two lines, the Admiral leading. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with their royal guests, then returned from sea, and proceeded to Osborne House, where they purpose remaining for a day or two. THE BRUSSELS COMPANY. —This excellent operatic company, after a series of operas, few indeed in number, but all giving the greatest satisfaction to the public from the complete wanner in which they were performed, are about to leave London immediately. 1% 135 3 : 3 Z i 211% 0 1 ,.; 22 2 1 / 8 75 18 1 / 2 89 221/ E3 11% falgar. RAILWA Y DEiARTMENT OF THE B(lAR0 OF TRAI)E. arc% " There was on Tes,day i ssue d, by ol de r of the House t.:: at e copy of a Minute of th e L or d s o f t h e C omm ittee of Privy n o, for Trade, dated the 10th d ay o f J u l y, 1845, re lative to the t be tution and mode of pro cee di ngs o f t h e R a il wa y Department of Board of Trade. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 10th July, 1 845 ! Fr i l l By the Right Hon oura bl e t h e L or d s o f t h e Committee o f to Council appointed f or t h e cons id erat i on o f a ll ma tters rela ting trade and foreign plantations. he W I. My Lords read and c o n s id ere d th e f o ll ow i ng minute of t of t:,e Committee of Privy Council for Trade, dated 6th Aug 1844, relative to the constituti on an d mo d e o f proceedings c tbt Railway Department. RAILWAY EPRTM ET. c f°l Minute of the Lords of the D Commit A tee of P r ivy Counc il Trade relative to the constitution a n d mo d e o f proceeding' °t. Railway )epartment. At the Council Chamber, Whit e h a ll , th e 6th August, 1844' • By the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of ;, 0 4 appointed for the consideration of a ll ma tt ers re l a ting to tr a° foreign plantations. s pd ~, My Lords read and considered th e f o ll ow i ng paragraP" - , th t resolutions, taken from th e thi r d sec ti on o f t h e fifth report o 41);,.. Select Committee of tl:e House of C ommons on R a ilway' ii B4 to In recommending, therefore, th at ra il way Bills be subln it '. oo f the Board of Trade previously to their coming under the Iw n ett e i Parliament, the Com m itt ee conce i ves t h at t h a t Board (0r,..,a, other public department as ma y b e i ntruste d w ith the care °iri s way matters) might adv an t ageous l y exam i ne t h ese Bills, euIIUr the schemes themselve s b e f ore th ey h a d assume d the torn' ° t. with regard mainly to the following subjects :- 1. All questions of public safety, e° w o le 2. •A it departures from th e ordinary usage of Re ;t - - tion, on points where such usage has been sufficiently establa hbeP 3. All provisions of magnitude which may be noveilinellid, principle, or may involve extended cons id erat i ons o f pub.-„ • v rate For example ; Amalgam a tio ns an d agreements b e tween seP: OO , companies; extension o f c a pit a l ; powers ena bli ng railway h i c h ponies to pursue purpo s e s diff erent i n ki n d f rom those for tr" they were incorporated ; modifications of the general law. 0 1 4. Branch and extension lin es , i n cases w h ere, upon the mils aspect of the plan, a presumption is raised that the object scheme is to throw difficulties in the way of new and probably timate enterprises. 5. New schemes, where the line taken presents a strong o t pearance of being such as to raise the presumption that it do el so f afford the best means of communication between the termini, of accommodating the local traffic. DO ° 6. Cases where a Bill of inferi or mer it s may b e b r ought eon , Parliament, and where a preferable scheme is in balsa . 0 ,,, i 51f temptation, although not sufficiently f orwar d to come s imultanr' di d under the judgment of P ar li ament, according to its sun orders. O ' 7. Any proposed arrangement s w ith su b s i st i ng coMP - W may The appear as objectors to new lines. won° adequate and sat isfactory discharge of their duties l ia r entail upon the Board of Trad e a grea t a d d i t i onal amoun t of t if and responsibility ; and it i s the opinion of the Committee t",a the recommendations of thi s an d o f i ts ot h er repor t s sh°°o,iat adopted it would be necess ar y t o en l arge the railway delo r. d oe of that Board, and t o i mprove i ts organisation. W 0 .... te grounds, and with these i n t en ti ons, th e Committee h a ve CO the following ,„, s hoo Resolution,—That it is expedient that all railway B."' " b o to henceforward be submitted to the Board of Trade pre vi43l A - ,;01. their introduction into Parliament; and that the various '. o t, merits and other requisite information connected with each er°4o and, if necessary, copies and sections of the line, shall be lodg e d the office of the Board of Trade, at such periods as shall 8 sufficient opportunity for their examination. f t ee My Lords read and c ons id ere d th e h ea d s o f severa l c l a uses ° the Railways Bill (now awaiting the royal assent) which relate t° functions of this department. melts My Lords read the lette r o f M r. L e f evre to Si r George Mould dated the 2d instant, in which it is proposed that provision 511,, be made for the app o i n t men t o f t wo secretaries to the railwafof partment of this Board, and o f an ass i s t ant i nspector, an d the re of the sth instant, in which it is stated the approval of these rangements by the Lords of the Treasury. bo gt My Lords are of opinion that they are not competent, - t t ee the aid of time and experience, to lay down definite rules f °t e f future practice of the r a il wa y d e p ar t ment o f this Boar d ; ,hobut f have decided upon the following general instructions (subie ° 7o course, to reconsideration hereafter, if on any particular' should be found inapplicable or inconvenient) with respect to l o 1. The constitution of a Board for the purpose of transact railway business. 2. The preparation of minutes and reports. of 3. The provisions to be made for obtaining adequate en" information. ted My Lords are of opi n i on th a t f or the adequate and otitis.° v e discharge of the duties whi c h , as i s now proposed, will ele ge t upon this Committee, it i s d es i ra bl e t h at a distinct Boar d she oi ~i s . be constituted in the dep ar t men t f or t h e dispatch of railwaytp ness, and that such business shall be settled by written min ute. ' the same manner as the ordinary business of this Committee. 0 The President or the Vice. President of the Committee will Ijl as the head of this Board, and the remaining members of i t ro t, act as his advisers in all its tran sac ti ons , an d su bj ect to his CO it ling authority. The ordinary members of the Bo ar d w ill b e, besides the insPe rr' general, and, in his absence, the assistant inspector, the AV tendent, and the joint secretaries. 2. Every minut e o f th e B oar d upon a railway scheme, and eve 01 report upon a railway Bill, to have the signature of—first l y - president or vi ce- p res id ent of this Committee; and secondll, 'tog members of the bo ar d, one of whom, at least, to be an eng in° officer of the department. fore As respects minute s upon ra i lway schemes to be ma d e be . the Bills for giving eff ec t t o t h em are framed, my Lords d i r ect d] whenever the department has formed an intention to prepare tice minute, whether upon the applicati on o f part ie s or otherw ise, Th. o p shall be given of that intention i n th e G azette, f or the infortne'" of those whom it may concern. My Lords direct that in suc h no ti ce - s h a ll b e state d , as nearly a may be, the points into which inquiry is to be made in conne' .4 . with the proposed line of ra il wa y. N o suc h m i nute, u nless preliminary or provisional nature, shall be signed until six after such minute shall be l a id on th e ta bl e of both blouses of f"' !lament fourteen days after the opening of the session. Reports to Parliament on railway Bills shall be made wrst the fourteen days, if there shall have been a previous report 0" sii schemes embodied in them respectively, and at all events with in weeks at the furthest from the receipt of any such Bill. sea 3. As regards the measures to be taken for obtaining ea ". o ; - e Cte regular information respecting r a il way Bill s and r a ilway ' before they have assumed the form of Bills. of Adverting to the r eso l u ti ons a l ready adopted by the gThep Commons on the 19th o f J u l y, an d to those which it is the ju'pfiof tion of the Vice-P res id ent to propose for adoption in the 11°u:,Alc Lords, and also to th e p rov i s i ons contained ill th e Joint-' ,-- 13 0 Companies Registration and Regulatio n Bill, w hi c h, if that . 10 shall became law, will insure th e d e p os it i n a pu bli c o ffi c e, under l tio superintendence of this departm e nt, o f a ll d ocuments made pub De by the promoters of any suc h j o i n t -s t oc k underta ki ng a s Tne; formed subsequently to the p ass i ng o f t h e Act, my L or ds art t y opinion that there will be adequate security for their being dU re apprised, from time to time, o f th e or i g i n an d progress of N W ' railway projects up to the periods of the presentation of the Belts. To make similar provision for thei r su b sequent stages, before passing of the Acts of incorporation, my Lords will cause t ° to addressed to all the Parliament a ry agen t s th e c i rcu lar bel l annexed (A). übli g As regards railway proj ec t s a l rea d y announce d t o the P - , n s during the present year, an d now i n ex i stence, b ut no t ha Y e t r ;J assumed the forms of l aw , m y L or d s di rect a l i st to b e Prep of these, and the circular letter (B) hereto annexed to be dressed to the solicitors or other leading promoters of Ve rn ',,,ve Having adverted to the var i ous i mportant changes which "- been effected by the House of Commons, during the present e e o sion, in the constiitution an d p rocee di ngs of the Select com mit' , eppointed to consider the provisions of Railway Bills, and C OII- it dering that this altered state of circumstances appears to ren der is unnecessary that the Rail way d epartment should continue, - pursuance if the recom men d at i on of the Select Committee °- ~ Railways of 1844, to submit to Parliamentary reports on the °°° s parative merit s o f ra il way schemes, my Lords are of opinion tho it is desirable to make certain alterations in the form of the railway department, and in the rules for conducting railway business. te i I. My Lords are o f op i n i on that the distinct board cons titU- 4 by the minute of pith August, 1844, should b e di scon tinued; a i o that all railw a y b us i ness should hereafter be transacted by t,,, Lords of the Com m itt ee o f P r i vy Council for Trade in the manner as the ordinary business of this Committee. .0 11. All such ra il way b us i ness, however, shall be transact proceedings distinct from the ordinary business of this Conarn itte t - 8 The dispatch of rail wa y: b us i ness s h a ll b e conducted by IlePtr i written minutes, and the directi ons an d d ec i s i ons of the Lord s :( the Committee shall be carri e d i n t o e ff ect b y the several office ° - the railway department. 111. Reports will not hereafter be prepared for Parliament, ° I . veying the opinion of th e L or d s o f t hi s C ommittee on the Iner° of any railway project, or on the comparative merits of comPe tint schemes. IV:But in order that my Lords, with -a view- to guarding the 1111 ,,r,„ lie interest, may have a t a ll ti mes an accurate knowledge o f the --r• jects of the various railway schemes, and of the extent of the Pe lwe which the promoters d es i re t o o bt a i n, my L ords direct that the Pr ,,, per steps should be taken fur submitting to the two Houses of rn' t ; liament the necessity of a d o pti ng reso l ut i ons requiring the profit° t e of of the various schemes to deposit, as heretofore, at the Boa rd Trade, a copy of th e pl ans , sect i ons, & c. It would also be eIP,-,,; client that they sho u ld b e requ i re d to deposit, concurrently 0"; their plans and section s , a s k etc h o f t h e proposed lines, on 11 . ; Ordnance map of England, o r on a sca l e equal to such Ordnani"- mrp, and else' a written statement containing a description of tte railway, its course, its a d van t ages, i ts proposed fares and char.g; and the principal provi s i o ns o f th e Di ll which they inte nt! '- introduce. It would further be desirable that the omoters should dep as as heretofore, with the B oar d o f T ra d e, ac opy of the Bill, as W e l l as of such amendments as may be made during its progress. V. if upon examination of any railway Bill it should seen . ' era'dient to the Lords of this C o m m itt ee t o d ra ., t h e attent i on o f Par !lament to its provisions, or to circumstances nnected with It, Wii n Lords, after the commenceme n t o f th e sess i on, and from time to time as they may see fit, will direct a report to be prepared tweet:. ingly. Such report sh a ll h ave re f erence to the following subjects • 1. All questions of public safety. 2. Ali departures from the ordinary usage of railway legisla ti°° ' where such usage has been sufficiently established. 3. All provisions of magnitude which may be novel In theft principle, or may involve extended consideration of public P° li For example : Amalgam a ti ons an d agreements between separate companies ; extensions of capital ; powers enabling railway e °1 1; patties to pursue purpo ses diff erent i n ki nd from those for which e they were incorporat e d ; mo difi ca ti ons o f the general law; 113. fares and charges ; and genera ll y a ll po i nts connected with t,„ Bills to which my L o rd s may t hi n k i t r i ght on puolic groun ds '— draw the attention of Parliament. Such report shall be signed h ./ the President or Vice-President of this Committee; but it shall t 0 no case pronounce an opi n i on on th e actua l or comparative Mat of any railway scheme. 6. My Lord: direct that the annual report of the officers of the, , railway department to the Lord s o f th e C ommittee of Privy C o uncl: for Trade should he laid, as he re t o f ore, on the tables of both !DOM of Parliament. The rules which my Lords have now laid down for t i ' , . transaction of railway b us i ness will be subject to ra.c°P,. sideration hereafter, if, fro m f urt h er change of circumstance s ; °r otherwise, they should be found inapplicable or inconvenient. -- - MIDDLESEX SESSION. —The July Quarter Sessions for the county of Middlesex commenced on Tuesday at the Session s ' house, Clerkenwell.green. N umer i cally the calendar is some wha t heavier than usual, b u t the offences are not of a serious nature. 127 names appear on the calendar for trial, of whom 100 are i n. ' dieted for felony, an d 27 stand charged with assaults and other f fences. This being the Quarter Session of the county, Mr. H eil; officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex, called up on the followilP persons to answer to their respective names, or be se ver , B , ll outlawed : Alexander Dalgleish, late of Bloomsbury - P' l 7, John R. Brinkman. otherwise John R. Broadhead, late of Berkeley' square; ; Robert Fulke Greville, commonly called the Hon. Ro ber t i Fulke Greville, late of Burlington Hotel; Sir Charles Ed wi n ' , Garey, Knight, late of Portland.place; Joseph Ferdinand Count Taaffe, late of Percy-street; Henry Whittaker, late of Linc ° l Inn, New.square; Mortimer Percy Drummond at three suits; s" Anthony Randall, late of Chesham.place, Belgrave.square. A paragraph, copied from one of the minor Pil l ; nals, is now running the round s o f th e F renc h press, stating °I., the French Government h as sett l e d t h e claim of Mr. Pritc h a rd by paying him 25,000 f., which sum has been drawn for, it is said' 1° three bills from the Cape of Good Hope, and paid in Paris. ARISTOC It ATIC RITES G. The bad writing Of , many of the nobility and gen t ry i s prover b ial. An illustra tion 0 ` this occurred at the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions last week, W hen ; the Coventry Herald s t a t es , a pr i soner who, on commitmen t, 11 i 0 made a confession to Lord Lilford (which was taken down bY 4i : l ; Lordship), was acquitted in consequence of no person is C Wins able Co deetpirer his Lerdabip's writing. 3 to 1 a 6 to 1 _ 6 to 1 _ 7 to 1 _ 2 to 1 aist go t O l , but Si to r % fr e he k /er Oa. viti llitnll' Ad • k tld 4 1 i 141'414 ....„ St Lv El