The Sun. — London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

3g a bin' : we of [0 0164 r trans' Itealiog as be 4 V.) gg A g f i 1(11 ed by 1 aistA l9l. ad n , p loy . ' Lona': be _, 0 ."/ - odgiuo* r .) sum rar-ok )een toeason.h3 ce of purpO ho shoP hen the some, a golarietY Of hat robbe i 3 f a tie! isted t 110;: t2iti io a. wan.' Tearc of a d -- 119 begot d id 0 , t e v he : 1 for ll' . Ttree r. Late D f Ilan ° a' 0 1° c oe , ire' elf . 1 11 t e r 11 0 wICY A c re 0 4 ° e t be hall • tes'-- 0 1 ise 0 i° ,ioea ii 16 013 00 , c 3ec. t , a 4 8 orale t° ENDOWMENT OF MAYNOOTH. (THIS .) PUB LIC MEETING AT THE DAY LONDON TAVERN. A requisition, signed by about 200 of the principal merchants bankers, and traders, having been addressed to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, praying him to call a, Public m eet i ng of those who were opposed to any en ciewment to the Roman Catholic clergy from the na tional treasury, and disposed to take part in such oppo sition, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature against the measure, his Lordship, in consequeu •e, con vened a meeting, which was held this day, at twelve for °lle o'clock, at the London Tavern. The large room, which is able to contain about 1,000 persons, was crowded long before the latter hour. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor took the chair at a quarter past one. . A mong thos e upon the platform we observed—Am brose Moore, Esq., I). W. Wire, Esq., D. W. Harvey, a John L a b ouchere, Esq., Rev. Michael Gibbs, and great majority of those gen tl emen w h o s i gne d the re quisition. it Befor e the chair was howeve r taken by his Lordship, may be mentioned that a person in the body of the roo m, who gave his name Mr. Murray, addressed the meetin g in the most incoherent manner, against the pro • posed grant. He concluded, amid the laughter of those _ ab out him, b y prophesying that a great religious crisis was at hand, wh en sectarian differences would b e for gotten, and when the Ishmaelites and others, "at pre set undderage the cur se ," would b e rescued f rom t h e h ouse bon . ?sti cheerin g consequent on the entry of the Lor d ayor le subsided and th e gentlemen who accompanied him, hav i ng , se rue LORD ALivou rose, and said—Gentlemen, in con an ci d u r en ° of havi ng rece i ved a requ i s i t i on, numerous l y tilee iespectably signed, requesting that I would call a eityt of °f the merchants, bankers, and traders of the of °' London, being opposed to any endowment out it _ r e national treasury for the Roman Catholic College sueTa•aYnooth, and to consider the best means of opposing wi th ,a measure, I felt it my duty to comply opiu 46,2 reuest• and in order to give them an pic`p o t : c l a ni tY of expre ss i ng tbeir ventiments against the ior th at -leasu.6, I hje called this meeting to-day will 6 Purpose. The object being unique I trust there Zheilttelsw-oellve°Pposition displayed by any present, for t every credit to the advocates of the . gran , tr a-lt, th e elai credit for the purity of an opposition. I will b e •"re, that whatever is said or proposed to-day politi ca l in a Christian spirit, without allusion to party or A fr. 3 objects, and without ' any personality. resoi uti • W. AVIRE---I beg to_announce that the first On • Mr. L - will be propos,ci by John Labouchere, Esq. if Mr. 413 " 011 ERE—My Lord, ladies, and gentlemen, had Pr° Nsed measure which we are met here to oppose t. Parlirec°i"d the sanction of the popular opinion and . o eti mst arn ent, I should, however much I regretted the =- I mipt ice, have submitted to it without murmuring. he 77 , indeed, have deemed it my duty to lift up my RbiTt - ` ll Prayer to nod, that he would avert from this , ery Y nation the 'd ments which they so justly de i t : eti; ibbuet law w hen j a measure g of this kind, which is con - ary of God as revealed in his Holy Word, th e u nder the deliberation of the Parliament of myself ll P tr Y , I think it is my duty to avail again st my privilege, as an Englishman, to protest . Ma -- the measure, and to join in any petition which a n I be draw n up to oppose it. It has been stated by ie e Tin en t opponent of the measure in the House of England°-'", that a great majority of the inhabitants of and of Scotland are opposed to it. lam well inl?ftinted with that individual, and he agrees with me sentiment that the opposition is founded, not . uyon ha Idea l but on religious motives. Numerous petitions b een present e d b y every M em b er of the Legisl a t ure twin against th at measure, and surely we may enter al de the ho pe that the Legislature will not turn to . ear to the representations contained elv e tu°B6 petitions, an d that o ur grac i ous a Bi ll will not b e called on to aff i x her signature to swore Which Practi ca ll y di sa vo ws th e p r i nc ipl es I e ehr er' e ; to mainiai L on com i ng to t h e Th rone. —(L oa d t ir n o I have another hoe, that mea -81,;_ e will not be carried through p , because the we have vtierous instances recordered in the annals of our e °tltitr d r „ 3' of measures generally unpopular being with or altogether abandoned. One of these instances -- --eure e d in - the time of Sir Robert W a lpole, Where the m easure was o f a secu l ar na t ure . If t h e 13°13111ar voice was so powerful in the case of a secular t a l . ; how much more strongly does the analogy I t i al to this case of a religious nature. I do, ente e i sin the hope that the distinguished individual at th e head 'of the Government cannot be wholly indiffe hnt tea sentiment so largely expressed throughout every me asure. of Eland and Scotland, and that he will drop the "uPlisure Among the various arguments in support of this ~t 4e asure, the one to which the greatest weight is to be a ttributed is this, that we are under a contract to afford I ;,lief, either by grant or by endo wment , to t h e R oman Catholic College of Maynooth. If we wer e under such eontraci, I, addressing myself to commercial men, would 4 oturge the Legislature for one moment to break t hrough that contract. If the bargain were made they I, W ere boned to adhere to it, whether for better or worse. 'saut it is not so. feel convinced, after ex amining every authority upon the subject, after i . t. e '' ,,Gh ing every argument advanced to prove t `' I still feel convinced that there is no con tact at all in the matter. — (Hear, hear.) I am 6, trilling to allow that the College of Maynooth, when f —t established in 1795, received from the Irish Par :hi:nein a grant of money. lam willing to allow En g t i v , a a t the period of the union between for ,-„" and Ireland a certain sum of money was voted number number of years, to the support of a certain C o lf; er (4. charities and institutions. Among these the n m e ,_ Maynooth was comprehended; but this, be it years Y- Each grant might be increased servpimidliahed, or suspended altogether.—(Cheers.) Nay, th,c riii lT z e ig r ions and chartable institutions included in ill , after a few years, received no assistance at of ea r.) One of these was purely Protestant. Now, were justifi e d i n withdrawing the grant it : I n °l ie of these charities—(Hear, hear)— dr a ~equally c l ear that they were j ust ifi e d i n _witb. thi s „Tg I t from all. Again, it has been argued that of y . ; gt warlee was for, an d h as b een g i v en for a number Ct• rs eot , b But is th at a reason w h y i t s h ou ld a l w ays e rh e eieeting was proceeding when our report left.) R AILWAY COMMITTEES. (TIIIS DAY.) Thi. ~ Sub -Committee (No. I ') .N 7 Com thitte. C 0 Sub-Committee assembled this morning, tile r lion. Members. 4114 o-9.°°tn• Present--Mr. Strutt, Chairman in ; Mr. o. Beckett, „Th DIRECT NORTHERN RAILWAY. s'' t h 7 s e ir n ' nlitt ee Proceeded with the caseofthe promoters The „111, which is viewed with great . interest.. allbjeet 'calraittee took an allegation this morning on the ?PPon e : f the notices in the Gazette. It was alleged by the and the Midland i l itip ao t !' t he London and York Company, oee n 4 4, that the notices were irregular, a t nd in e . vidence had The d le ed,.and the notices themselves . pu 1414 , en ( "matte decided that the notices were net been torn -nBoluently that the standing orders ,pued ith. ' ti4Zetentare a vast number of other and the important allega tttlie notic it is believed that this one of the defective nature f or the Present es having been sustained, will prove fatal to session. LO .NOONSub-Cee (No. 2). AN D CROYDON ommitt RAILWAY (MAIDSTONE, „N r ,/ ,_ ASHFORD, AND TUNBRIDGE.) Members °f tlii, e°4ll Yarde Buller (Chairman) and the other Metpbers . N4l, °nun, Buller (Chairman) this day Committee of th po.rt.y after twelve o'clock, and resumed the hearing 1511 P e id altis tfte, Ashford, and Tunbridge line, whi 41 1-11,.. their time for the last three days. In about half- Ilayeociaftr the Committee had assembled . c ' i tion ~,lAIR-ITAN announced that the Committee were of ttli lied 'at the standing orders in this case had not been 4? wi th h° ~,,Nbov • k 4 Sis A ., — „A, AND CROYDON ENLARGEMENT LINE. e '''Te th:,-- the nextline called on, and the usual forms rn ili:.(ll:Arfth-11.0 to prove that the standing ordershad been co 0 _ Theaini‘itteAllegations were then gone into on the part _ 1 /14 Co; petitioner, and having been investigated by o kl „ oo' -„itAllimAN declared that there were four instances of „t 141innir;ortt laiente character in which the standing orders had Th en complied with. called on was .„, AI L ONDON AND . CROYDON, ORPINGTON lai t " e' is li ne ~,,,, opposed BRANCH. a s posed by Mr. Goodhart, and the Com 4(le,:after a very short inquiry, declared that the standing „N"ad lint been complied with. r., , Sub-Committee (No. 3.) at ci.`-lroraittee Resembled in Committee-room No. 8 ; pre 'Vl". ' V ol. Heath te chairman ; Mr. Childers, Mr. C. a rid Mr. Shirley": ' The c._ CHURNET VALLEY RAILWAY. thelll. 7romittee proceeded with this case. 'l'l ‘ o 7 rlt t. al proceeded had been gone into before Easter, and • qty ,„ Rut tee this morning proceeded with the opposition. )wee The allegations respecting errors in the book of re.. on the material allegations were, that buildings and tr e b ile e. " ll e Plans were not referred to in the book of re teuP to e n sust t ain he etdim e of our going to press only one of these had Thi. , Sub - Committee No. 4.) bl C '-'°rornittee assembled thism ( orning i at twelve o'clock, t_eroom No. 13 ; present Ar. Aglionby,. Mr. t' 1 shi e:11::::11:1 it I :el n 3 ):: L l a t l Ili 1 1.1.„,_ , Air. T. Egerton, Mr. Stansfield, and Captain Jones. rot itAteeN-Dh av G e A b lN eeroc °, t ß upl U ed G f il or tßwAoldLalyVsAiYn.inves i,4llodel the allegations contained in a petition of Mr. H. Ot to qirist the Bill. The objections have been of the farious character,. and the majority of them have ~,,, ,i r oied. ' t ' i iin of thehster appeared this morning as the agent in sup tllll.lige Pro of the Bill, and Mr. Parkes in support illtleispeters 04 co„,__ ion. 4ist retpe•ztinini,rttee was engaged this morning upon an allege to, or. /, . the levels marked on the plans of the pro `lied ' was alleged that these levels were inaccurately tltil ed with alleged to high water mark at a place T 1 Xew Rolla d "e T he ro onl ___ o , opposite thisull. . t li ‘oe c o 7aB cleared uponis allegation. Led_ tolnittee decided that the allegations had been sus 'l' ---___ Ge,,_ift x 1. - nort ~-111 V MASTER OF THE HOUSEHOLD._ C u s o e l : "old" uowles, the Master of her Majesty's Ho tt ze ' tt bie ,, e the Hon. newharles Augustus Murray, who was eed 114 ~ e , to that appointment on Friday last, n°lningfnthe tilrt,atis on Tuesday, the Ist instant, on the return of F-olon.ifortz the Isle of Wight to Buckingham V purchase, ~o 1 4(1, so w lea entered the army, as ensign, b. Lord vlithj*, and served in the North of Germany, under the kei t 4t t, in 1805 and 1 806' and was also present at t o7e 41.1c1 capture of Copenhagen, in 1807 ; was actively' Dant (.' t t ted in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1814. The Ga. the , b ettl l 4 l L.`oaa present at the passage of the Douro , ‘ , t, iq d -010,14, Talavera, Salamanca, and Vittoria; the sieges of 41.1esuq a- ..odrigo, Badajoz Bon i rgos, .Zl]ture of Madrid the passages of Bidassa, Nwelle,Nialso Ilreatirui ; and the 'investment of Bayonne. lie was .... and San . Sebas . !y . i ve , 'ills a ,',at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and a c :', 11,:ter:,4,,te of Paris by the allied armies. The -.Aaj,:tv;. th e household, which was fixed shortly afteliar ' 3 aeeet4oll, ie 1 ,158/. per annum. SU MARY OF NE*,-S AND Vubitr taptuton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Duke de Montpensier left Paris on Thursday for Algiers. The Marquis Ferriere Levayer left Paris for Macao on Fri day. He was the bearer of the ratification of the treaty con cluded by M. de Lagrenee with the Chinese Plenipotentiary. M. Levayer is to embark at Marseilles for Egypt, and to proceed to Asia via Suez. The Revue de Paris states that the Duke de Broglie was ex pected to return to Paris in the course of a week, tbr the pur pose of consulting M. Guizot on certain points connected with the object of his mission to London. Ile is to be absent during ten or fifteen days. In the Chamber of Deputies a Bill has been passed to pre vent the piracy of literary works published in Sardinia, in pursuance of one of the provisions of the treaty of commerce concluded in 1843 between Sardinia and France, and which has recently been the topic of much cavil in the Chamber. The And de la Constitution states that there are in Lucerne 1,602 prisoners in all, and that the number of wounded volunteers there is 150. The dead have been buried-30 at Malters, 40 at Litton], and 9at Lucerne. Several persons, it is said, perished in the Emme. Amongst the priseners are 180 Bernese, and 694 Argovians. No person whatever is admitted to see the prisoners. A Zurich journal estimates at 40,000 Swiss livres (59,000 francs) a day the expense of the army embodied by the Federal Directory; a charge, it adds, which will fall heavily upon the cantons, which have already been impoverished by extraordinary expenditures of ever kind. The troops of Schwyz and Zug, commanded by Colonel Abyberg, had advanced to the frontiers of Argau, where they remained in observation of the movements of the volunteers. The Queen of Prussia arrived at Dresden on the evening of the 4th, on a visit to her sister, the wife of Prince John. It was expected that the King of Prussia would soon join her Majesty. An autograph letter of the Emperor of Austria to his Minister forbids the name of German Catholic Church being given either in the journals, or any printed writings, to the body of Separatists which has been recently formed in Germany. The Journal des Debats inserts a letter from Berne of the Bth inst., which states that the arrival of the federal troops in the canton of Argovia, appears to have anticipated that of a corps of Schwartzbuben, mountaineers of Soleure, who intended, it is said, to excite the inhabitants to a revolt, and afterwards to unite themselves to the army of Lucerne and of the small cantons. The Argovian militia disorganised, in consequence of the recruiting made by the free corps and of the loss of their chiefs, killed or made prisoners at the attack of Lucerne, were gradually repairing their losses, and might in a few days be fit to occupy the country. ItAViir ALMS) P02.1. - CA. The case of Connell and Gandy, which was tried at Liver pool, is one of considerable importance to the commercial world. It was an action brought by a depositor in the Isle of Man Bank against the defendant, who was represented to have been a shareholder in the bank at the time it stopped payment. The bank was not formed under the provisions of any Act of Parliament. The defence was that the common law of partnership did not apply to joint-stock companies, and that Mr. Gandy having ceased to be a share holder in 1840, although the fact of his retirement was not publicly gazetted, had ceased to be liable. The jury, however, under the direction of the Judge, found for the plaintiff. His Lordship, in the course of his summing up, said that there was no legal difference between a firm of six and one of 600 persons, and that the person who held himself forth to the public a partner in such a firm was bound to make the fact of his retirement public also, in order to re lease himself from his liability. There were several actions of a similar nature in which a similar verdict was taken, and these concluded the assizes. COURT—FILSITIONABLE. The Duke de Broglie, accompanied by his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, had allengthened interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday afternoon, at the Right Hon. Baronet's residence, in Whitehall-gardens. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne entertained the Duke de Broglie, Prince Albert de Broglie, the Earl of Clarendon, Countess Flahault ( Baroness Keith and Nairns), the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, Count and Countess Jarnac Lord John Russell, and a distinguished circle, on Sa turday last, at Lansdowne House. The Duke of Beaufort does not go to Newmarket, as was anticipated. His Grace, with the Duchess of Beaufbrt and the Ladies Somerset, will leave Badminton for Beaufort House during the present week. The Earl of Harrowby has improved in health during the last few days. The Earl of Ellenborough entertained the Earl of Clare, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord and Lady Colville, Sir Wil loughby Cotton, Colonel Monteith, Colonel Oldfield, and Mr., Mrs., and Miss Wilberforce Bird at dinner on Saturday last, at his Lordship's mansion in Charles-street. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have left Bretby Park for Newmarket. The Noble Earl and Countess do not return to Chesterfield House until after the second Newmar ket meeting. The Earl and Countess of Albemarle left their residence in Berkeley-square on Saturday last ftr Newmarket. The Lail of Bradford has arrived in Belgrave-square from Castle Bromwich, Staffordshire. Viscount and Viscountess Newport have left the Noble Earl's residence and removed to their new mansion in Wilton crescent. The Noble Viscount and Viscountess left town on Saturday for Newmarket. Count Flahault may now shortly be expected in this country, to join Countess Flahault and the Hon. Misses El- Vhinstone Flahault, as, according to letters received from ienna, the Noble Count intended to have left that city on the 3d instant for Paris, on his way to England. It is as serted that the Noble Count is not likely to return to Vienna as French Ambassador at the Court of Austria, an important appointment being destined for his Excellency Count Flahault in the French capital. It is said he is to be appointed tutor to the Count of Paris. MXSCELLANEOUS. The mortal remains of the late Earl of Egremont were re moved on Wednesday last from Silverton-park to Orchard Wyndham, preparatory to their interment in the family vault. Tho faneral took place the next day ; a large body of the deceased Earl's tenantry assisting on the mournful oc casion. Yesterday, a sermon in aid of the funds of the City Dispen sary, which was established in the year 1789, fur the relief of the sick and diseased poor of the Metropolis, was preached in the church of the united parishes of St. Mary-at-Hill and St. Andrew Hubbard, Little Tower-street, by the Rev. James Rowsall, M.A., domestic chaplain to the Duke of Suther land. After the sermon a collection was made which realised 201. ss. Yesterday two sermons were preached in the chapel of the Scottish Hospital, Fleur-de-Lis -court, Fetter-lane, before a numerous congregation, the principal portion of whom were both deaf and dumb. It may appear somewhat paradoxical that persons so afflicted should be enabled to attend divine worship in congregation with their more favoured brethren who enjoy the faculties of hearing and speech. The ser vice, however, is rendered intelligible to the deaf and dumb portion of the congregation by a gentleman who is well conversant with the signs by which those so afflicted corn- municate together ; and as the clergymen proceeds with his discourse, he, standing in a prominent situation facing the afflicted, interprets it by those signs. These services are established under the auspices of the Society for the re lief of the adult destitute portion of the deaf and dumb com munity. Yesterday morning, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman's carriage was proceeding at a rapid pace in the direction of the Haymarket, when near the corner of Windmill-street the near fore wheel came off. From the quickness of the pace and the sharp shock occasioned by the axle falling on the ground, the coachman lost his seat, and was thrown with great violence. The horses were at once seized by some passers by, and the owner of the carriage and his lady alighted, perfectly uninjured, but greatly alarmed. The coachman was taken into Mr. Hutchinson's, a surgeon, who paid him every attention, and after a short time he was so far recovered that he returned home. On Saturday morning the body of a middle-aged man was found in the river Thames, off Plumstead, in Kent, and re moved to the workhouse to await an inquest. The same afternoon another body, of a young man, was found in the river off Battersea, and removed to the Red House to await an inquest. Both bodies were much decomposed, and ap peared to have been in the water for some time. The Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr Railway, at a special meet ing on Wednesday, the 2d inst., determined upon extending the Company's railway from Ayr to Loch Ryan, and of form ing certain other lines for the accomodation of the interior of Ayrshire. The Eastern Counties Company raise 710,4001. by shares to pay off that amount in bonds and debentures which are out in the market and shortly fall due. The alteration is calcu lated to save in interest about 7,000/. a-year ; and four per cent. is to be paid upon the calls as they are made. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. Several horses have reached Newmarket for the ensuing meeting, and appearances, if they do not promise a brilliant week, are so far favourable, that most of the standing en gagements are likely to be run. The last arrivals include— Lord Chesterfield's Knight of the Whistle, Poor Soldier, Lady Wildair, Javelin, Triunion, and Newsmonger--Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo—Colonel Anson's Kedger and Je zail—Mr. Bowes's Heather Bell and As-you-like it—Mr. Jaques's Anti-Repealer and Semiseria—Lord Stradbroke'a Ides, Evenus, and Boarding-school Miss —Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—Mr. Wreford's Win chelSca—Mr. Gardnor's Captain Flathooker—Mr. S. Herbeet'a Antler and Ajax—Mr. Greville's Alarm— Mr. Paynses Sir Francis, Johnny, and Queen Mab—Mr. Ford's Fuzbos, The Attorney, Mademoiselle, and Qui Tam— Mr. Stebbing's Celd.ste—Mr. Batson's Homoeopathist, Accacia filly, and Harriet filly---Mr. Drinkald's Vol-a-Vent—Sir W. W. Wynn's Poor Boy, The Soldier, and Rowland—Mr. Ramabottom's Pine Apple—Mr. nelly's Lydia Languish— Lord G. Bentinck's Ratafia, Discord, All-round-my-Hat, Croton Oil, and My Mary. The principal races of the week will be the two Riddlesworth's (mere shadows, and not likely to produce more than a couple of starters), the sta kes in which Kedger and Idas are engaged (apparent " cer tainties"), the Column Stakes, and Newmarket Handicap, for both of which there will be a good field, the Claret, Port, and the match between the Ugly Buck and Minotaur. The Newmarket Handicup, a new race sug gested by the inhabitants, does not boast so large an acceptance as had been anticipated ; but " Rome was not built in a day," and its promoters need not be dis couraged from fresh exertions—let them be liberal in their contributions to the fund, and not be above canvassing for Subscribers to the Stake ; and there can be no reason why it should not become a prominent "feature" in a meeting that has of late years somewhat fallen from its " high estate."— In the course of the week, it is expected that a conference will take place between the Jockey club and a committee of the inhabitants with regard to the proposed continuation of the Eastern Counties line from Cambridge to Bury. Several members, believing that a rail road close to the town would interfere with the respectability of the meetings, have expressed a favourable opinion of the contemplated Direct Loudon and Norwich, which will not come within eight or ten miles of Newmarket; the towns people, however, are almost unanimously for the line to Bury, and intend to use every effort to obtain the sanction and sup port of the Club. A question as to the correctness of Zanoni's nomination for the Chester Cup, arising out of an objection preferred by Colonel Peel, is also expected to come on in the course of the meeting. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT, ELEVEN O'CLOCK. The arrivals as yet are few, nor, from all that we can learn, is it probable that this meeting will be very fully attended. The list, in fact, is not very imposing, and the weather is anything but inviting. Of betting we have little to say ; the afternoon, owing no doubt to the rain having prevented the customary assemblage in the street, passed almost with out a bet, and this evening, although the Subscription Room was opened and the list read as usual, business has been ex eeedingly slack. The only beta up to post time were 12 to 1 agst Idas, 22 to 1 agst Weatherbit, and 1,000 to 20 agst Fuzbos for the Derby, and offers to take 15 to 1 about Cobweb colt. Semiseria is first favourite for the Chester Cup, bull , no bet laid. ENTRIES FOR TO-MORROW. Handicap. D. M. All -round-my-Hat, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—c by Ratcatcher, out of Turquoise, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mocha, 4 yrs, 7st—filly by Slane, out of Seakale, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—filly by Velocipede ' out of Amaryllis, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—and filly by Jerry, out of Pastille, 3 yrs, sst 101 b. Three others declared forfeit. _ Handicap. T.Y.C. Khorassan, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—The Brewer, .5 yrs, Bst 31b— Hartshorn, 5 yrs, 7st 81b—Dr. Hill, 4 yrs, 7st lib. The Brewer scratched. The Craven Stakes did not fill. Wildboy and the Miuikin colt are scratched for their en gagements to-morrow. mew Match for to-morrow—Discord agst Oakley, Bst 101 b each, 300, h ft, from A.F. to end of Ab.lll. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I am truly thankful you exposed that con temptible production in Trafalgar-square—the " toylike fountains." I am so thoroughly ashamed of thorn, that I blush whenever I see a foreigrer (more particu larly a Frenchman) near the spot. One would have hoped for something more in unison with the age in which we live—something less likely to belie the character, feelings, and wealth .of the first city in the world. But there they now stand—a national disgrace, and a byeword to our neighbours, who might justly ridicule this attempt of the " sublime and beau tiful." I should suppose the Commissioners of Woods and Forests considered them a necessary appendage to our National Gallery—a tout ensemble to that other laughing-stock. Sure enough, when an Englishman visits Paris, and takes his walks in the Champ Elysees, he will feel his eheek flush with shame at the bare recollection of Tra falgar-square ; and yet the former presents no local advantages out of the roach of the latter. _ Sincerely do I hope, that what has been so badly done, may speedily he undone, and that, instead of this childish display of dirty water, we may be refreshed by the sight of a clear and copious flow from morning to night. I am, Sir, AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. April 9th, 1844. &toeKrNo DISCOVERY.—Friday morning, in con sequence of a very unpleasant effluvium being perceived to arise from a hamper among some goods in the warehouse at Fresh .wharf, London-bridge, it was opened, when the con tents were found to consist of a male infant, which was wrapped up in a piece of linen. It was in a state of decom position. On Saturday Mr. William Payne held an inquest at the vestry-hall of St. Magnus's Church, Thames-street, on the body. From the evidence it appeared that on Good Friday a small wicker basket, containing the deceased, was sent from Yarmouth by the Ramona steam-packet, and re ceived at the London-bridge-wharf. Round the package was a piece of paper, upon which was written the following : " Mr. Worsten, No. 2, Qeane-squeare—Steme paket. To be left till coiled for." The constable of the wharf had been to No. 2, Queen-square, Finsbury, and there found a gentleman named Watson, who was in attendance. The surgeon who had examined the body was of opinion that the mother had not received professional attendance at the birth, and that the child had died from loss of blood. Mr. Watson said he did not know who had sent the child : he was quite certain it was not intended for him. The Corener—Then you did not expect such an Easter gift? Witness—Certainly not. A juror —Can you tell the handwriting en the paper? Witness, after looking very attentively, replied that he could not. The Coroner, at the suggestion of the jury, adjourned the in quiry, to afford the police time to find out the mother. ASSAULT ON A CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICER.-011 Friday a case was brought before the Borough magistrates at Rochester, in which Mr. George Batten, of her Majesty's Customs at Sheerness charged George Clayton, captain of the Joseph Collins, of Goole, with assaulting him in the exe cution of his duty. It appeared that Mr. Batten went off in a boat to defendant's vessel, then lying off the dockyard at Sheerness, and on coming alongside applied for anchorage dues, and requested to see defendant's coast and clearance papers, when he placed himself in a position to prevent Mr. Batten boarding the vessel, and threatened to knock him overboard. One of the boatmen coming to Mr. Batten's as sistance, the latter succeeded on getting on board, when the defendant not only refused to produce his papers, but also threatened to knock him down if he attempted to enter the cabin. Mr. Batten then said he should apply to the Coast guard for assistance, and ultimately got sight of the papers, and also found on board foreign goods not enumerated there in. The captain, in his defence, said lie did not think Mr. Batten was an officer of Customs, as he came off in an old whale boat and wore no distinctive button. The law in this case awards a punishment by imprisonment for a term not exceeding nine nor less than six months, and the defendant being found guilty of the offence, he was adjudged to be im prisoned for six months. DR. Wo',pr.—This noble-minded gentleman ar rived here yesterday morning in the Duke of Cornwall steamer, from Constantinople, on his return from Bokhara. He was most enthusiastically cheered on his landing, and was met on the quay by his wife and son and Capt. Grover. The Doctor looked very well, considering the fatigue and privations, as well as anxiety o f m i n d, he has endured since leaving this place. He hasbrought with him several valuable presents, consisting of a Persian dress and shawls given to him by the King of Bokhara, which, we are informed, were di rected by the Lords of the Treasury to be passed by the Customs' authorities here without duty. lie had also, we understand, some of the effects of the imprisoned officers whose release he went to Bokhara to endeavour to obtain, but whom lie found on his arrival there had been killed.— Hampshire Independent. CONTEMPLATED ROYAL BAL COSTUME.-- COIF. sidering the depressed state of the west end trade it is with great pleasure that we hear of the increasing rumour in the higher circles of another grand Bal Costume at Court. It is there generally asserted that the Queen, taking into con sideration the losses experienced during ie two successive seasons by trade in London, through the happy domestic events in her Majesty's home circle, has determined to give numerous fetes, and amongst others, one similar to that which produced so much sensation, and did so much good to me tropolitan industry, four years ago.—Post. INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH.—We are happy to hear that the Rev. A. W. Taylor, rector of St. Mary's, Stoke Newington, has consented, in consequence of a friendly communication from the Bishop of Llandaff, the ordinary of the parish, to remove the objectionable innovations lately made in the church service. THE NEWSPAPER PRESS OF LONDON. (From the London Journal, April 12.) NO. V. - BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON. This journal is almost entirely devoted to matters con nected with the Sporting World. Its principal features of attraction are therefore constituted by intelligence re specting the Turf, accounts of Regattas, the proceedings of Yacht Clubs, and narratives of Prize Fights, Pedes trian Exploit s , an d a ll ki nds o f i n f orma tion relative to manly pursuits, Games of Skill or Chance, &c., &c. Its " Notices to Correspondents " settle all disputed points in reference to the rules or customs of the above departments. From the regulations of a brutal prize.fight to the etiquette of a genteel game of ecarte, is this journal an undoubted autho rity. The result is, that Bell's Life has not a class circulation like many of its weekly Contemporaries—it is seen on the table of the Peer and in the parlour of the public. house—it is read alike in the club and the tap room. In political principles it is very liberal, and ad vocates the popular cause. But then the Tory sports man who reads it carol nothing fur its politics—all he regards is the peculiar information of its special depart ment. Some years ago Bell's Life was famous for its wood -cuts, caricaturing the prominent vices or foibles of the age. The poetical accompaniments to these graphic designs were of the richest and raciest kind of humour —indeed, they were remarkably clever, and, we should conceive, might b e resumed with advantage to the journal. " Poet's Corner" was also a famous feature in Bell's Life. The metrical epistles of Scroggins and other sup posed characters, were in their class inimitable. They were humorous and witty, but never ill-natured,—sa tirical, but never personal. The poetry, that now ap pears at times in Belts Life, is written by a clergyman residing in the Isle of Wight. This is not, however, the only instance of clerical talent being employed in the composition of humorous poetry ; for, en passant, be it observed, that those amazingly clever legends which have appeared in Bentley's Miscellany, and Colburn's New Monthly Magazine, with the signature of " Thomas Ingoldsby" attached to them, emanated from the pen of a reverend gentleman of the name of Barham. Mr. Grady is the aquatic reporter for Bells Life; and with the aid of one of his sons, he collates and arranges the minor sporting intelligence. Mr. Dowling is the principal editor. This gentleman manages the more im portant business connected with the Sporting World. He is said to be the most graphic and spirited delineator of a prize-fight that the sporting world can boast of. His income arising from his situation is upwards of 8001. per annum. Indeed every one connected with the edi torial department of Bell's Life is most liberally paid. The proprietor of Bell's Life in London is Mr. Clement, the late owner of the Morning Chronicle. This gentle man spares no expense in obtaining intelligence, or in maintaining the reputation of his journal as the principal organ of the Sporting World. Ile was lately offered the sum of 75,000/. for Bell's Life, but did not feel disposed to part with so valuable a property. The circulation of this journal is 25,000 weekly. The profits arising from the advertisements alone are 801. weekly. NO. VI.-THE OBSERVER. The Observer is the property of Mr. Clement, the owner of Bell's Life in London. The Observer is a journal which publishes no country edition on the Sa turday, but appears on the Sunday morning, and is chiefly circulated amongst the upper cl asses . G reat ex pense is incurred in obtaining the very latest intelligence up to the hour of going to press : thus if any event of importance occur in London or its vicinity, even so late as twelve o'clock on Saturday night, or very early on the Sunday morning, the Observer will b e sure to recor d it. And this is not done i n a few words : the most mi nute details relative to the occurrence—be it an acci dent, an offence, or any event of moment—will be given with the mention of the fact. The reader of the daily journals on the Monday morning will invariably per ceive numerous quotations from the Observer. The circulation of this journal is not ex t ens i ve. I t i s now under 5,000. Its advertisements are however nu merous and well paid ; and it is an especial organ for the insertion of " Births," " Deaths," and " Marriages." The principal editor is Mr. Doxat, a gentleman of extensive information, great experience and considerable learning. Mr. James Grant, celebrated author of " Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons," " Impressions of Ireland," &c., is one of the chief writers engaged upon THE OBSERVER. The notices of n ew works and theatrical reviews in this journal are written with great talent and impartiality, and are quoted as good authority. [ADVERTISEMENT.] GALVANIC RINGS (GALVANISM.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. THE RATTLE& AND ALECTO.—These experimental steam sloops, the former of 888 tons, and propelled by Mr. F. P. Smith's screw, Commander Smith (b), and the latter of 800 tons burden, propelled by paddle-wheels, and commanded by Lieutenant Hoseason, both of 200- horse power, arrived off Granton Pier, Frith of Forth, on Friday, April 4, at eight, A. m., from the North Seas, where the very interesting trials, most of which we have already recorded, took place, and re sulted in favour of the Rattler. On starting from Leith Roads, on the 7th of April, at 21 min. past five P. as., with very little power on the screw, and after up to full speed, the Rattler performed a circle, during a fresh breeze from the N.E., in five minutes ten seconds time, taken by Captain J. D. Bas wall, R.N. Six,-Llnali;ge;and in all times something or other very wonderful has been put forth by doctors in order to create mystery and confusion in the public mind as regards the cure of disease. Under their patronage we have of late years had Homoeopathy and Animal Mag netism. Is it therefore to be wondered at that persons should take advantage of the gross ignorance which they know pervades society as regards the healing art, and that to make money they should bring forth such things as galvanic rings for the cure of diseases ? But, we ask, who are the responsible parties for such delusions ? Why, doctors, because they not only themselves set the example directly, but foster them by their false teaching in the medical schools ! Let us ask one more question. Could any Hygeist be imposed upon by such quackeries as Animal Magnetism, Homoeopathy, or galvanic rings? Most assuredly not, and for this reason, that the Hygeian system teaches him the nature and functions of his body, and he knows that in order to eradicate disease of any kind, he must cleanse his body and purify his blood by proper purgatives, and since Animal Magne tism, Homoeop a thy, ga l van ic r ing s, or the other charms cannot do this, he is satisfied that they must be delu sions. D oc t ors a l so t a k e a d van t age of such impositions as galvanic rings in this way. When a patient com plains of having derived no benefit from them, oh they say, " Why don't you place yourself under a regular medical man, and don't meddle with quackery?" when, in truth and in fact, they themselves arc the supporters of it.—We are, Sir, your obedient servant, MORRISON AND MOAT, For and on behalf of the body of Hygeists. British College of Health, New-road, London, April 12, 1845. STATE BALL.—On Saturday last cards were issued from the Lord Chamberlain's office for a grand ball, at Buck ingham Palace, on the 25th instant. It is said that her Ma jesty intends to enliven the Court by three State balls this season. MARRIAGE OF THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.—The nup tials of the Marquis of Bute with the Lady Sophia Frede•• rica Christina Hastings, eldest surviving daughter of Francis first Marquis of Hastings, were celebrated on Thursday last at Loudoun Castle, Ayrshire. The ceremony took place in the library of the Castle, at half-past one o'clock, in the presence of a select circle of the friends of both noble families, among whom were—Lord and Lady James Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Villiers Stuart, Mr. Hamilton Fitzgerald, Sir John and Lady Cunningham Fairlie, the Lord Justice-General, &c. After the ceremony a sumptuous dejeuner was served in the dining-hall of the castle to a numerous circle. At four o'clock the happy . pair left Loudoun for Dumfries House, in a splendid new carriage, drawn by four bay horses, and escorted by a troop of the Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry, who turned out in honour of the event. SUICIDE IN KENSINGTON-GARDENS.—On Saturday afternoon the following determined act of suicide was com mitted in Kensington-gardens :—About four o'clock, as a lad was walking round the ravel walk at the south-west corner of the gardens, which is at that part only separated from the high (Kensington) road by a wall extending to the palace entrance, he observed a person standing amongst the cluster of trees on the north of the path, and going towards him he discovered that he was hanging by a piece of cord to a short projecting bough of the tree. He immediately called to one of the labourers in the gardens, who hastened to the spot and cut the cord with his shovel. Symptoms of life being still apparent, the gardenman ran off instantly to the residence of Mr. Merriman, surgeon, of Kensington-square, one of whose assistants accompanied him back to the spot, and having poured some ammonia into the unfortunate man's mouth, opened a vein in the right arm, from which some blood flowed, but life was then quite extinct. When first dis covered the deceased's feet touched the ground, and so determinedly had he pressed his neck on the cord that in front it had nearly cut the flesh. The deceased appears to be between sixty and seventy years of age, about five feet eight or nine inches high, rather large fea• tures, fair, white hair, rather bald at the top of the head, and was dressed in a dark brown great-coat, a black frock-coat, black cloth waistcoat, dark ribbed cloth trousers, Wellington boots, nearly new, and altogether of gentlemanly and mili tary appearance. His shirt collar (a detached one) was marked " T. W. C.," and round his neck was a black silk stock with long ends. His shirt was marked "H. J. 3," and over it was a clean flannel waistcoat. In his pockets were found four small keys on a brass ring, a latch key, a drab silk purse empty, a pair of old tortoiseshell spectacles, a yellow silk pocket handkerchief, and threepence halfpenny in copper, and in his; left hand, trousers pocket was found a dark handled razor. One of the gardenman states that he had noticed the deceased walking about the gardens all the afternoon ; but that cannot be the fact, as the afternoon was very wet, while deceased's boots are scarcely soiled. Informa tion of the circumstance was immediately sent to the police station at Kensington, when two constables were sent with a stretcher, on which the body was removed to the work house in Gloucester-road, Kensington, where it awaits a coroner's inquest. The election of a successor to Mr. Wallace, for the representation of Greenock, is fixed to take place on Tues day. Although every effort has been made for the purpose, by a few of the ultras, no opposition candidate has ventured to come forward, we are glad to state, in opposition to Mr. Baine. Mr. Bruce, of Kennett, Sir Henry Pottinger, and the Marquis of Lorne, were all spoken of, and, we believe, in some shape or other applied to and urged to present them selves, but, to the credit of the people of Greenock, when the state of public opinion was sounded, not one of those gentlemen could find such an opening as gave them the slightest likelihood of success had they presented themselves. With every confidence, therefore, that Mr. Baine will act a part which will give satisfaction both to his constituents and his countrymen, we are happy to announce that he is thus likely to be returned without oppo sition.— Gasgow Saturday Post. The Prussian Universal Gazette states that the bridge of Thorn has been carried away by the drifting ice. The mail steamer between Gramdenz and Gruppe was sunk by the ice on the Ist instant. Five lives and the letter-bag were lost. PRAGUE, MAnctt 13.—A terrible inundation com menced here yesterday. The Danube, after rising consider ably, broke through its prison of ice, and penetrated into the city. The Jewish quarter and other parts where the poor population reside were immediately inundated. Some lives have been lost. In many places persons escaped from the first floors into boats, but the majority of the streets were blocked up by the large masses of ice which had floated in. —Augsburgh Gazette. Sin HENRY POTTINGER.—The freedom of the city will be presented to this distinguished man on Tuesday next nt Olive o'clock in the Council Chamber; and on the day following he will b entertained at-a sumptuous dinner by all the leading parties ottlie tity.—tkot c h Aformers „,_ _ _ t ‘xlemrf'.. Gazette. HISTORY OF A L ONDON W ORKSHO P. —A man be gins by employing a few hands in a house often but ill adapted for an ordinary dwelling-house, and, as his business increases, he contrives to add one low apart ment to another, by knocking down partition walls, and making such alterations as suit his immediate purpose. He contrives by this means to accommodate an increas ing number of men, an d t h e on ly practicable limit to that number is th e want o f more standing or sitting room, as the case may be. He warms these rooms by a s t ove, b y steam , or by hot air , and lights them with g as • the cons e q uence is, that the workmen are expo sed a t the same time to a high temperature, a n d a foul and stagnant a tmos p here. This combinatio n i s carr i e d to its highest degree in tailors' workshops, an d I h ave been told more than once by the journey men ta il ors themselves, that they have been obliged to strip to the very skin, that they might be able to bear the intense heat to which they are exposed. In buildings intended for workshops more space is given to the men, but they are usually constructed on very bad principles ; the whole building often forming o ne s p ace, divided by floors, perf ora t e d by a common staircase ; if a steam-engine is employed, it is generally to be found in a lower apartment of this building, so that the heat rises from this into the upper rooms, and, mingling with the foul air of the intermediate floors, ascends to the Opera-gla s ses , S t heirl ). araan and immediateg l a B s s , s SI - highest flat, where the hot and foul air collects in great abundance. Medical Times. DEAFNESS—ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS.--39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly.—lnvisible Voice Conductors, when fixed in the cavity of the cars, are not more uncom fortable nor perceptible than having a small piece of standing of ex wool in its place. They enable individuals at an ad vanced age, and of forty or fifty years' treme deafness, instantly to join in general conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant, low speaker , at church, theatre, &c. They pour the conversation into the ears to such an extent, that in most severe cases deafness cannot be observed. Also original Ear Cor nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears, and improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many of those instruments have received the approbation of it s youthful, natural, and original state. the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Bri tain. The Newly Invented Spectacles, immediately Micro they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, it olomons, is brought to opposite the York Hotel. Micro scopes, Achromatic ac._c jpticians and Aurists, are not in any way connected with ahopuerhrsooond,oeforthien saannayepanrat_moef in n he country. To prevent autio T n e : lesc m o e p s e s s r. , s. nistakes, be cautious, an d observe—Only to be bad at 1845.—The following is the House List of Gover nors and Directors of the Bank of England for the • 3•ear en, suing, viz. 39. Albemarle -street, Picca dilly, G ard ov e ern N o o r r . man, Es ron GOVERNORS. Heath, G e 0 r ge Esq„ w FOR DIRECTORS. William R.Robinson, Esq., Deputy-Governor. Edward Henry Chapinan,James Malcomson, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Esq. William Cotton, Esq. q. James P • C. Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. Sir attison, Esq. Abel Lewes Gower, Esq. Cifri John Henry P - ellY, Bart. John Benjamin John Oliver Hanson, Esq. _ to_pher Pearse, Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson , David Powell, Esq. Sir Johu Rae Reid, Bart. Esq. Fsq. Thomas H. Lancelot Holland, •__ Willi am Charles Smith, Esq. J. Gelibrand Hubbard, Ess • _ Thompson, Esq., and Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Alderman. Thomas • Charles Frdk. Huth, ESq• __ ~., Matthias Weguelin, Alfred Latham, Escl• i,; sq. Francis, T . William Little, Esq. Governor .N\ ilson, Esq. The election for Vd an d DePutY•Governor will be held at the Bank oil 11tes t ay, the 15th, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 16th ins t., from ten o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. PENINSULAR SKETCHES. — V o r _ e are requested to state that , Mr. Colburn,o o f . Great Marlborough. s t ree t, has this day pu blished • P iimular Sketches," by Actors on the Scene, edited by , W. 11. Ma xwe ll , E sq., author of '° Stories of Waterloo, ,‘ The Life of the Duke of Wel lington," &c., in 2 yobs., price 21s. bound, which can now be had of all Booksellers,. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works :-2. M. Thiers' History of the Consulate and Empire, vols. I. and 11., Bvo., price only 5s each. 3. Recoll ec ti ons o f S pa i n i n 1845, by an English Resident, 2 vols., 21s. bound. 4. The Duke of Wellington's Maxims and Opinions, Bvo , 14s. bona 5. The. Nelson L e tt ers an d Dispatches, . Volume the Second, Bvo., 15s. bound. 6 Three Years in Constantinople ; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks. by Charles White, Esq., 3 vols., with Thirty-four Illus trations, 31s. 6d. bound ; and 7. Letters of a German Countess, written during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Ltlndi 4c!, in Isl- 3- it 3 volq„ poit 4 yo, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1845. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE MID LAND RAILWAY COMPANY. LEASE OF THE BIRMINGHAM AND GLOU CESTER AND BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTER LINES. DERBY, SATURDAY.—This afternoon a special gene ral meeting of the shareholders in this railway was held at the railway station here, for the purpose of con sidering the conditional agreement lately entered into by the Directors, for the lease by the Midland Railway Company of the recently amalgamated Birmingham and Gloucester and Bristol and Gloucester Railways. The meeting was numerously attended. Mr. GEORGE HUDSON, Chairman of the Board of Di rectors, then stated the heads of the agreement entered into with the above companies, which was that the amalgamated lines of the Birmingham and Glouces ter and Bristol and Gloucester should be leased in perpetuity to the Midland Company, at an annual rent of 61. per cent. on the share capital of 1,800,000/. ; the Midland Company to take upon themselves the liabilities due by the other party to the extent of 450,0001. ; the stock of the other companies to become the property of the Midlands ; these arrangements to commence on the Ist of July next, and any difference which might arise to be referred to the arbitration of the Board of Trade. The Midland Company were also to have power to purchaie these lines at any time within three years. Mr. HUDSON then stated that there was a great dis inclination on the part of the Directors to enter into any engagement by which the Company should incur fresh responsibilities, but at the same time they thought this better than that any other Company should have the lines in question. The Worthy CHAIRMAN then went into a lengthened statement of the benefits anticipated from the proposed arrangement, and said that possibly the Act for this lease might not be obtained this session, but he under stood that no legal difficulty stood in the way of enter ing upon the agreement at once. He then added that the Board of Trade had seen the justice of the pro ject put forward by their company, and he hoped that these would ultimately be the source of an increased in come to the shareholders. The first of these projects favourably reported on was the line from Lincoln to Nottingham, 34 miles in length. The Board had re reported also in favour of the line from Swinton to Don caster, though a part was left void between Gainsbo rough and Doncaster. He hoped, however, that Par liament would enable them to extend it to Lincoln, which would make other 36 miles. Then there was the line from Syston to Peterborough, 48 miles, so that altogether the Board of Trade had reported favourably on 118 miles of railway. The number of shares issue i for making these was 50,500 to the Midland proprietors, and 1,500 to the Sheffield and Rotherham, making toge ther 52,000. The number authorised to be issued was 60,500. He was thus particular in stating the facts, be cause he had seen letters in the newspapers asking where the shares were. The last time he had the pleasure of meeting the Proprietors he alluded particularly to the working of the Midland line. The Directors had since fully redeemed the promise then made of working the line efficiently. The Proprietors would find that the trains were now running with the utmost regularity.— (Hear, hear.) The Directors had entered into an agreement with the London and Birmingham Company to expedite certain trains fully an hour. By this means persons would be able to perform the journey from London to Newcastle, a distance of 303 miles, in the short space of ten and a half hours. He would just remind the meeting of one other thing, to guard against any mistaken views of parties buying shares. This was in reference to the 31. shares in the Birmingham and Gloucester. These' shares were now exactly in the same position as before the contemplated amal gamation. As doubts had been thrown out in re ference to this matter, he deemed it right that this should now go forth to the public. When the proposed agree ment was sanctioned, the Bills now before Parliament promoted by these companies will probably be with drawn. He would just add, further, that it was possible that the Act for this lease might not be obtained this session; but he understood from Mr. Carter, the solicitor to the Company, that no legal difficulty stood in the way of entering on it at once. This was proposed to be done on the Ist of July next.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Chairman concluded by moving a resolution, to the effect that the heads of agreement read should be confirmed, and the Directors authorised to take the necessary steps to carry it into execution.—(Cheers.) Mr. JOHN Eems, the Deputy Chairman, after a few observations eulogistic of the proposed arrangement, seconded the motion. This, after some remarks from Dr. O'Brien, Mr. Mather, Mr. Ellis, and other Proprietors, was carried amidst loud cheers. A vote of thanks was passed to the Chairman, with the enthusiasm usually displayed by this company, and the meeting separated. COURT CIRCULAR. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty an d Prince Albert walked in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace, on Saturday morning. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday forenoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal left town in a carriage and four, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning, for Claremont. Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken an airing in the Royal Gardens on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace in an open carriage and four, at a quarter-past twelve o'clock on Saturday, for Claremont. The Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting ; Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting ; Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, and Col. Bouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert, followed in another carriage and four. Her Majesty and His Royal highness were conducted to their carriage by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamilton, Lord George Lennox, Sir Frederic Stovin and Captain Francis Seymour. The royal party were escorted from the Palace by a party of Light Dragoons. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Royal suite, and the domestic Household, attended Divine service at Claremont. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited Prince Alfred and the rincess Alice yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Royal infants were taken for pony and walking exercise in the forenoon. THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—Her Royal Highness passed an indifferent night on Saturday night. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Royal Duchess yester day at Gloucester House, and the other members of the Royal Family sent during the day to make inquiry after the health of their illustrious relative. _ _ _ Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Hall ; the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. H. Dakius. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Dibdin, from St. John, chap. ii, verse 25. The Anthem, " I was glad" (Purcell), was sung by Messrs. Hobbs, Haw kins, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the Organ. Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of Wellesley, the lion. Miss Mitchell, and the Hon. William Ashley. The Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson. The Duke of Cleveland, the Countess of Wilton, Lady Wharncliffe, Lords Devon, Cawdor, Colville, Cantilupe, Ha therton, Polwarth, Norreys, Ingestre, Templemore, and Ebrington, were among the nobility present. The Duke of Wellington and Sir Fred. Trench attended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, y6ster day. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and preached the sermon. The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz attended Divine ser vice yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. Baron Knese beck and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek lenburgh Streliz, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Earl of Sefton with his company at dinner on Saturday, at his residence in Belgrave-square. The Duchess of Kent honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir George Couper. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, also honoured the Italian Opera with their presence His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl inspected Captain Siborne's new Waterloo Model on Saturday. Mr. Everett, the American Minister, had an interview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa turday. Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Somes, and a Deputation had an in terview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet ing on Saturday, at their office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Ban gor, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Besborough, Lord Ashley, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir R. Peel had a Parliamentary dinner party on Saturday at his residence in Whitehall-gardens. THE LIGHT FOR ALL NATIONS. DEAR have the satisfaction to inform you that I and ray workmen have taken possession of our resi dence in the round house on the summit of the column for my new light on the Goodwin, and it is my intention to reside here until I have succeeded in ascertaining the strata beneath the sand, should the weather continue favourable. That being done, I shall proceed to com plete the lighthouse by fixing the lantern. I think I may fairly state that another inhabited island is now added to her Majesty's dominions, in the bowels of which arc embedded great treasures, and which will form a nucleus for batteries and fortifications, as well as for a harbour of refuge in Trinity Bay in the Downs, and when completed, be the key of the British Channel, and thus form a second Gibraltar. _ _ As so many unfounded reports have been in circula tion respecting this undertaking - , I will thank you to send this information to the London journals.—l am, dear Sir, yours truly, WILLIAM BUSH. Richard Clay, Esq., at Lloyd's. P.S. I have commenced boring to ascertain the sub strata of the Goodwin, and, at fifty feet beneath the plat form, have found nothing but hard sand, nearly as solid as rock itself. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is well known, in all musical circles, that l)onizetti composed the opera of Lucia di Lammermoor, for the express purpose of afford ing Duprez an opportunity of creating the character of Edgar of Ravenswood. It is in that part; rendered by him so celebrated, that he makes his appearance h ere t o - n ight—in addition to which, Madame Eugenie Garcia will make her debut at this theatre, in Lucia. This great attraction, with Polin and Gasperini in the new ballet, will undoubtedly fill the theatre. SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—Great progrem is makin on this railway between Teiemouth and Newton ; th g e wall against the river is rai se d to i ts height, in 3QI" places, and in the course of three month it is fully ex pected to be cumplgteti to the liewt . on station.-- We4ern TimA AMERICAN SLAVERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Living in a remote corner of the empire, it was only this mornin g th a t I p eruse d t h e d e b ates i n Parliament on the Oregon question, which will be hailed with delight by every Briton who has the honour of his country at heart. The present crisis between this country and America is certainly one of fearful importance, and it is to be hoped that the new President of the United States will maturely consider the consequences that may result from his decision before he involves his own country in a war with the British :empire, a war which may shake the boasted institutions of his Government to their founda tion, and plunge a great portion of the citizens of the United States in utter rtain and desolation. Mr. Polk, the new President rf the United States, seems giddy with his recent exaltation, and anxious to signalise the limited period of his brief authority by making the British Government to crouch to any terms he may please to impose on it, without dreaming of the possibility of Britain being able to make any impression upon the American Union ; and, under this impression, he sets Britain and all other Governments at defiance, calling upon their subjects to revolutionise their own countries, and fraternise with the must virtuous and en lightened Government on the face of the earth, carefully keeping in the back ground that their own Government is bankrupt, both in credit and reputation, and the damning fact of the horrid and inhuman system of slavery which is upheld in their southern states, where human beings are made to breed like cattle, and their unhappy progeny are sold like cattle, and sent to the new countries in the far west, where their lives are not worth more than from two to three years' purchase. The virtuous citizens of the United States may sneerat the idea that the wrath of God will overtake them for this inhuman traffic, but such they may rely upon it will certainly be the case, and I will now unfold to them how easily it may be accomplished, and how Britain may be made the instrument of inflicting this vengeance upon them and their country—the British Empire possessing more means of aggression against America than all the rest of the world put together, and America being more vulnerable to attack from Britain than from any other nation. Britain could at once land on the shores of the southern or slave states of America from thirty to forty thousand disciplined sepoys, led on by British officers, in a high state of discipline, and accustomed to victory, not one of whom would desei t, and send along with them a complete train of artillery, with veteran gunners. With this force she could send from the West Indies a few thousand disciplined Africans, commanded by British officers, to make acquaintance with their slaves ; and with this combined force she could land from twenty to thirty thousand British bayonets, accompanied with arms, clothing, and accoutrements for 300,000 emanci pated negroes. Against this overwhelming force, I ask the people of America what resistance they could make? On the first proclamation from British head-quarters granting liberty to the slave, the unhappy African race would immediately desert their masters, and be formed into corps for their destruction, and the whole force would advance into the interior, like'the simoom of the desert, destroying all that opposed them. The sepoys only require that the promises made to them should be faithfully kept, and from their attach ment to their officers, they will readily follow them. The writer of this has been with them on foreiga ser vice oftener than once, and he thinks he sees them now march three paces to the front, with their military shout, when volunteering to follow their officers. I tell the citizens of the slave states that their present fancied security depends altogether upon the forbearance of the British Government, and that so long as they con tinue to possess a slave population, they will be con tinually exposed to destruction from their efforts to free themselves from their cruel yoke—that the superstruc ture of their constitution is built up with the tears and blood of their hapless slaves, and that when the day of retribution arrives, great and dreadful will be the ven geance they will take upon their inhuman masters. With the powerful force I have mentioned, Great Bri tain could at once settle the question of slavery in America, and oblige the repudiators of their own bonds, who are lost to all sense of honesty, to pay up their bonds with interest to the last farthing, at the same time that they would bring our dispute about the Oregon ter ritory to a speedy termination. A "SIPAIII SIRDAR." RAILWAYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUZY. SIR,—AII secrets are better out respecting railways. to prevent the knowing ones fleecing the ignorant, and thinking many will be obliged for the following informa tion, you, perhaps, will allude to or allow this a corner in your paper :—The Leeds and Manchester are nego tiating for the lease of the Huddersfield and Manchester, thus throwing overboard the Leeds and Dewsbury, and securing the success of the West Riding Junction. Yours, &c. W. THOMPSON. York, April 10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In reading the debate on the auction licence, I was much surprised to find no Member advocating the general interest of the revenue, and which appeared to me so very clear—which is that the duty or license for cities or boroughs should be fifteen pounds, and all others places seven pounds ten shillings. It would insure the greatest revenue, as I feel confident that not one less would be taken out in the cities and boroughs, but a great falling off in the country places would be the conse quence of one uniform charge; but reducing it half would insure a continuance of the same number in the country, which is a great convenience to the rural districts. It may be observed that the agriculturists would par ticularly feel the benefit of the continuance of the ap praser's separate license, as nine times out of ten farmers arc called in for the valuation between farmers when there is an exchange of tenants, they understanding the nature of it much better than an auctioneer. Ripon, April 12. A FARMER. GLASS MANUFACTURE. Concurrently with the abolition of the duties on glass, recent improvements are likely to give an extraordinary impulse to the manufacture of it, and to cause the ma terial to be employed for the fabrication of a variety of articles it has hitherto never been applied to, and even of many which require strength and solidity—the specific gravity of glass being very great (about half that of cast iron)—consequently when used in thick masses it is not liable to accidental injury. To afford one instance of its applicability to novel purposes, we may mention the employment of glass of deep and brilliant golden hue for frames to small or moderate sized pictures ; also for ornaments in friezes or cornices, capitals of columns and pilasters, and a variety of decorations now executed in gilding—one very obvious advantage over the last-men tioned mode being durability, owing to the impossibility of fading or tarnishing. We do not say that the effect would be so precisely the same that the eye could.not distinguish between ornaments cast in gold•coloured glass, and those coated by a surface of actual guilding, yet the beauty of the one mode might be fully equal to that of the other, although with a difference. So far, then, new resources seem to be " opened up," as the Scotch say, to decorators. . . Looking to a more immediate and obvious purpose of architectural embellishment by means of the material, we have been struck by the decidedly great improvement that has lately been introduced into the manufacture of or namental patterns in coloured glasi for windows by the Messrs. Powell, of Temple-street, Fleet -street, one which for its superior economy no less than its intrinsic excellence is incontestably preferable to that produced according to the usual process. Instead of being traced on the glass and burnt-in of a darker or nearly opaque colour, the pat terns on diapered glass may now, in consequence of Messrs. Powell's invention, be cast in the glass itself by a single operation —an improvement analogous to that of printing compared with manuscript. The pattern is thus produced in relief, or actually embossed on tale side of the glass, whereby is not only gre a t er accurac y and uniformity of outline obtained, but also a peculiar and singularly beautiful effect; for, owinc , to the refrac tion of the light, a sort of gem-like, flickering brilliancy takes place, productive of richness, without any sort of gaudiness. Of course such glass is monochrome; but although each quarel or pane is only of a single colour, the different panes may be of different hues, and also of different shapes and sizes, so that any combination of patterns and colours can be introduced into the general design of windows so executed. Besides its obvious value for " painted windows," where the entire aperture is to be so tilled in, this embossed coloured glass is so admirably adapted for window blinds (inasmuch as, while highly ornamental within, they could most effec tually serve as a screen from without), that it would not be a matte: of surprise were blinds of the kind shortly to come into vogue. Embossed glass is further susceptible of variety of colour, for we observed one specimen at Messrs. Powell's show-room, in which smaller pieces of different hues were inlaid into certain parts of the pat tern, so that it had the appearance of being studded with gems; whereas large masses of the more intense colours are apt to have a rather overpowering, too glaring . , and somewhat crude effect—one less pleasing the wisdows themselves than for the coloured light shed from them upon other objects. This invention is about to be employed in the decora tion of the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The bo ar d have just determined on a further reduction of the f ares . The following are the prices to which the fares are reduced on the whole distance from London to Birmingham. The fares to the intermediate stations are reduced in proportion. By express train and daily mail, 275. ; mixed and Ist class and trains,—the Ist' class 235., the 2d c l ass 175.; mixed stopping trains,—lst class 205., the 3d 14z. On th e I st of May they commence their fast trains, running to and from Birmingham in three houss. These fare -reducing measures evince an unequivocal desire, on the part of the Birmingham board to serve the publ ic i nterests as liberally and well as they do their shareholders; that they do not wish to grasp too much for the one, at the expense of the other. Having secured a large tr!tfic, which proCuces equally large profit s , they seem deter mined to pursue a moderate and just cours e , by giving the public the advantage of any increased traffic by a nearly proportionate reduction of the tariff. We cannot applaud this spirit too hi g hl y, feeling convinced that while it is generous to war d s t h e public, it is the best means of securing to a large establishment, like the Birmingham, a firm and lasting foundation.—Railway Journal A gallant instance of intrepidity and courage was displayed on Wednesday se'nnight, by George Soper, of Exe-lane. Walking up the banks of the river, on the Exwiek side, he saw two children, who had just rolled into the water from a steep bank, and at once plunged in to their rescue. Although it was ten feet deep at the spot, he succeeded in getting them both out. The chil dren, who belonged to a navigator, working not far off, had wandered away t o ga th er primroses , an d rolled into the havedeep nodoubt water. that The the fa Humane itlerexp Society resse willdhis gratitude. We i more substantial acknowledgment.— Wotan 7 inns. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR LIAMENT. COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. TUESDAY, APRIL 15. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverhampton Line). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Deviation)_ Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Branch amt Cheltenham Extension). Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Extension, Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction). WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16. Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways. Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway. Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment. Staines and Richmond Railway. London and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch). THURSDAY, APRIL 17. Diss and Colchester Junction Railway. Direct Northe rn R a il way (N o. 1) . Bristol and Gloucester Railway. FRIDAY, APRIL lE. Great Western Railway ( Ireland) (Dublin to Mullirigar and Athlone). Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and Bristol and Glou ces t er R a il ways Purchase). NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE: FRID.tY, Amu, 11: Diss and Colchester Junction Railwav,—Committee oil petition, adjourned from Monday 14th till Thursday,Aprill7. Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Committee on petition, adjourned till Wednesday, April 16. Bristol and Gloucester Railway,—Committee on petition, adjourned till Thursday, April 17. Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingat and Athlone),—Committee on petition, adjourned till Friday, April 18. Direct Northern Railway (No. I),—Committee on peti+ tion, postponed from Monday 14th till Thursday, April 17. Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon+ day, April 21, at twelve. Blackburn, Burnley, Atcrington and Colne Extension Railway,—Committee on Bill, T ues day, April 22, at twelve. Bristol and Gl ouces t er Railway (No. 2),—Committee on petition, Tuesday, April 22. Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com+ mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com+ mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough),—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway,—Committee oA Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Colne), —Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Barnsley Junction Railwav,—Committee on Bill, Monday s April 21, at twelve. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway,—Committee at; Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch),—. Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Leads and Dewsbury Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon. day, April 21, at twelve. „ • __ Harrogate and 1;i; :on Junction Railway,—Committee out Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. West Yorkshire Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Leeds and Thirsk Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. huddCrslield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,— , Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th tilt Wednesday, April 16. Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,-4 Second reading, Tuesday, April 15. Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway,—Committee ors Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Belfast and Ballymena Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve. Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and Heywood Branches Extension) Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Lynn and Ely,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve. Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. Committee on petition, postponed sine dic. Staines and Richmond Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16. Birmingham and Gloucester (Wolverhampton Line) Rail way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Branch and Chel tenham Extension) Railway,—Committee on petition, post poned from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. Birmingham and Gloucester (Gloucester Extension, Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction) Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15. London and South•W'estern (Epsom Branch) Railway,— Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th tilt Wednesday, April 16. Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester,,and Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purcliase),—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Friday, April 18. MURDER OF A CHILD AT HAMPSTEAD. On Saturday afternoon a jury was empannelled before Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern, Hampstead, in the same room in which the inquest was held on the late Mr. Delarue, to inquire into the death of a male child. The jury comprised several of the gentlemen who were on the inquest above referred to. Police -constable Alexander Mackay, 197 S, stated that about half-past five o'clock in the morning of the 7th inst., he was on duty in Hampstead-road, near Sinton's nursery, between Haverstock-terrace and the Load of Hay, and in a ditch passing along the edge of the nursery and the main road, he discovered the bedy of the deceased. It was perfectly dressed in the clothed; produced to the jury. They consisted of the usual children's clothing, of the finest texture. The flannel was quite new, and edged with silk. The under clothing was of fine cambric, and the cap had a rich lace border. The body was wrapped in two diaper towels, and sown up in an old dark green child's cloak. He conveyed the body to the station-house, where it was seen by the surgeon. Mr. Daniel Gower, surgeon, of Hampstead, deposed that when he first saw the deceased its nose was much flattened, and there was a mucous issuing from the mouth and nostrils. He had since made a post molten.; examination. The umbilical cord had been properly tied, and its appearance, together with other circum stances, indicated that it had lived several days. The lungs floated, and there was every other symptom to prove this. There was no mark of violence on the per son, or any poison in the stomach. The brain presented a very vascular appearance, and there was a good deal of fluid blood on its surface. Re was decidedly of opi nion that the deceased had died from some kind of suffo cation, and, from the mucous issuing from the mouth and nostrils, it was his his opinion that the suffocation was by drowning. The CORONER said, after this evidence, he thought there could not be a doubt upon the mind of any one that the case was one of wilful murder, although they had no proof whatever of who the parties were that committed it. The jury acquiesced, and at once returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un known." Mr. WAKLET then remarked he was in the Court of the Old Bailey on Friday night, and heard Rocker's statement and the sentence passed upoa him, and he could assure the jury that Rocker exhibited all the cool ness he displayed when in that room at the inquest; in deed he was as unmoved as the table before him. The judge was ten thousand times more moved than locker was. He seemed completely bound up in vanity, but he hoped the sense of his awful situation would soon have the effect of removing the film from his eyes, and enable him to see his position more clearly than he at present appeared to do. He acknowledged the writing of the letter signed " Caroline, " and from the very outset of the case he believed he had done so. A juror remarked that Hocker's statement with re spect to his covering himself with blood in a slattghter house at Hampstead was absurd. There was no slaughter-house that was not kept under lock and key. FIRST QUARTER'S REVENUE OF THE RAILWAYS.—• We have now before us the official railway returns made up for the last three months, being that quarter of the year in which the traffic is smallest and also least subject to fluctua tion. It appears that the aggregate receipts from traffic, since the Ist of January, on the principal public railways, amounts, in round numbers, to 1,210,0001., while last year it only reached 1,054,000/., at the same period, being an in crease of 156,000!. on the quarter. Of this increase, we find that 26,0001. belong to the Great Western, 12,000/. to the London and Birmingham, 11,0001. to the Grand Junction, 5,000/. to the North of England, 6,0001. to the London and Brighton, 10,000/. to the Manchester and Leeds, 21,0001. to the Midlands, 22,000/. to the South-Eastern, and 5,0001. to the Eastern Counties and North-Eastern. Among the smaller lines we have an increase of 1,200/. to the Chester and Birkenhead, 3,000/. to the Edinburgh and Glasgow, 3,400/. to the Glasgow and Ayr, 3 000/. to the London and Blackwell, 9,0001. to the London and Croydon, 3,5001. to the Manchester and Birmingham, 3,7001. to the Newcastle and Carlisle. Of the lines not opened last year, we have on the Yarmouth and Norwich at present an increase of 26/. per week, and on the Newcastle and Darlington an increase at the rate of 2001. per week. Some of those amounts are effected by extensions of the line, &c., but the greater part arise solely from the steadily increasing trade of the coun try.--Raeheay Chronicle. DEATH OF TUE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY.—The Earl of Abergavenny died at his seat, Eridge Castle, near Tunbridge Wells, on Friday night, in the 56th year of his age. The family of Nevill is of high antiquity, having de scended from Gilbert de Nevill, a Norman chieftain, who is said to have been Admiral to William the Conqueror. Its members have been distinguished for their prowess in the field, their talents in the senate, and their eloquence in de bate. They have occupied the highest stations in England, six having tnen Lords Chancellor, two Archbishops of York, and one Archbishop of Durham, and their names are associ ated with the brighte s t p er i o d s of our history. The late Earl was never married, and his only surviving brother, the lion. and Rev. Wm. Nevill, vicar of Frant and Billing, Kent, suc ceeds to the title and estates. Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at the family residence in AV i tehal l- gardens, when the following Members of the House of Commons dined. with the Right Hon. Baronet :—The Marquis of Douro, Viscount Chelsea, 'Viscount Barrington, the Right Hon. Charles F. Law, Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart., Sir Jamea Flower, Bart., Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. Allies, Mr. Broad ley, Mr. Brewnrigg, Mr. Copeland, Mr. Beckett Denison . , Mr. Dugdale, Mr. 'Patton Egerton, Mr. Escott, Mr. Forman, Mr. Iteneage, Mr. Ambr6c Hussey, Mr. Thomas Hussey, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, &c. General Arbuthnot and Mr. Co quhoun were unavoidably prevented from dining with the Right Hon. Baronet. The Hungerford Suspension-bridge it is now stated, is to be open to the public on the 18th inst. t wicl'hecSatuhbesdcrraiiptdioonesfonroßt getisho Medley's o p n s o as e s Ne w ß pected, and appeals in var ious s ha p es are being wasr B runs -' made xs te n on the pockets of the Puseyites ; with what SUCNSS wu are unable to say.— Watern Times. ,ace ited ices re is ,ales Y•) a ged ter a ,arlea wet` her's men' im aged car rano' ed 24 ,pertY n the v olt as di' I that owing [ s on' 0 Tar' raving e that I I last► ,lice" tat 118 id ha d I fort' top a