The Sun. — London, England, 1845-06-23 00:00:00

AIAR E, 'HIS DAY.) • CORN EXCHANGE. -MONDAY. During the past week the ar r i va l s o f a ll d escr i ptions of Grain of home produce were on a very limited scale; but the ir npoits of F ore i gn W heat, Barley, and Oats were eomewhat en the increase. Of Irish Oats the receipts were tolerably Pod, but by no means extensive. Fresh up, we received a lair average quantity of Wheat from Kent; but from Cam bridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and Essex, very little came f res h to Ila n& Although th e s t an d s were by no means heavily sup . P l ied with sa m pl es o f t h e article, the demand for atg'all kinds of Wheat of h ome pro d uce was in a very Blaggish state, yet the fi nes t parce l s found buyers St mostly fall prices, while oter ualities suffred a decline of Is per arter, and a clearance q of such was not effected. From From all parts u our accounts respecting the appearance of the Crep e are extremely flattering. The show of fine - Wheat was not to say large, yet the inouiee - I TU heavy, at pices barely equal ' that article I Wheat under lock a fee ..o those paid last week. e 'Pnrt ; but othe- _en. sales were effected, chiefly for a n ll' H ar i„, ~rain in b on d was a mere drug. Grind r . i was in fair request a t l ast wee k' s currencies ; but. orterkinde were extremely heavy, though they cannot "a Considered cheaper. In Malt, the show of which was by 110 means large, only a moderate business was doing, at late motes, The Oat trade was steady, and previous rates were `uPeorted in every instance. Beans, Peas, and Flour, were quite as dear. Wheat -Essex & CURREN Kent,CY PER 131 - Red • • • • 405 to 46s hltto, • •• 45s 57s Nonblk and Lin coln, Red..... Ditto, White • • • • Irish, Red bitto, White • --s v.-4 ) w • • • . • ,Os _ 348 h 35s ads t rlf , :r -Grinding ..... 235 2kis Vatting• 32s 34s it Chevalier •• • • 363 41 t--Stifibik and \or h 1i%113 - 3tozi and Wave GOi --s Stocltta & Norfolk 32s heat-D araz FEIGN GRAIN 36s ANDBe a FLO IN BOND. OR !c to ns I2I: qri, y • ilabur g rn h••• • • - • 3os -s Pcasc• ........ Oat • 204 24s l'lcur-Amcrle:Ji T3s Baltic . • • • • • • • • - eel! •••••• • • • • • 194 "2, flqw, P46l' week's importatione of live s t oc k f or our mar k et P•guin been extensive, they having consisted of 16'9 mid cows, six Isnbe. anti six calves, all from Botter '744 At the eutports upwards of 200 beasts have been re- Zlred from Hohand, in good condition. We had on rdfer Ott batch oxen and cows'', the quality of which, though not „ 8 113' . first rate, was ,:food; hence the sale for them way v e " , 'e, and the whole found buyers at improved quotations. ;‘etwitlistanding there was an increase in the arrivals of 17ats from t: our own rizlug, districts, and the quality o f F or lat d escription of stud,. was superior to th a t ex hibi te d 11 , some time past, we have to report a decided improve in the Beef trade, at an advance in the quotations 4,o,ained on Monday last of from 2d to 4d per Slbe, and jwhich a fair clearance was effected. From Norfolk, j„ liff elk, Lsmex, and Cambrideshire, we received 1,200 Scots, air 1? reds and short horns ; from the northern, western, fr .41(lland counties, 300 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; fr om other parts of England, 400 of various kinds; and •°l4 Scotland, 500 Scots. Alt hough the epidemic is still rnPlained of in the grazing counties, we observed' 11 , 4 3 few serious oases amongst either the Beasts or Sheep. na ,r the time of year we had a very limited number of Sheep l a . er ing, owing to which the Mutton trade was steady, and I:Weele's currencies were supported in every instauce- Ptimest old Downs readily producing 5s per Sibs. k„'"bs, the numbers of which were comparatively small, , r ed off freely, and previous rates were well supported. The trade was again firm, at the late improvement in value. 0 Moved off slowly, yet their prices were supported. Per Sibs. to sink-the offal. d. s. d 44r10r Beasts ••• • 3 2 3 8 Second quality ditto 3 10 to o 4 l'h m ,; l, ltiality ditto. 310 4 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 S large Oxen.. 4 2 4 4 Southdown Wailers 410 5 0 Scot s ... •• 4 6 4 8 Ditto out of the wool - - 14 1 ° coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs ...• •• 3 0 8 8 5,40.5_ta1l ditto .. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers •••• 3 10 4 2 Ve... - "8 Calves, ..18 0 30 0 Q uarter old Pigs •• 16 0 20 0 Sheep ... 3 4 3 8 Lambs •••••• • • • • 6 0 6 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. 2 494 lteasts. I Sheep. I Calves. • I Pigs. 22,170 211 290 I o W/ 33 Wfab.11.2•33 ANL 7.MAX17£N11.11.R.7G. t eeee_ en Paequence of the prevaili ng warm weather and the 448:`v, tosses lately experie nce d b y t h e sh i ppers in the north, kt k i n g from the bad condition in which their supplies have O h entne to hand, the receipts of Scotch a n d coun t ry teSid tt ered meat for these markets since Monday l a st h ave intill e tably fallen off, n evert h e l ess they have proved sea-- tete', extensive. With Lo n d on kill e d meat we have tairly supplied, while th e genera l demand has ruled rete, a at, in most instanc es , f u ll rates of currency. Several Zt i ttice foreign beasts have bee n aga i n di sposed of at fa i r -eone of 'ERIAL MEASURE Malt--Chevalier...... 64s to 65s Oats Yorkshire and Lincohish., Feed. 228 23s l'otatoe ••• • • • 243 25s Yougha.i and Cork, Black . .• • • 20s 22t —3 Cork, White ... • . 2ls 23s 40s 47 42 M 630 .i.;s 60s Scotch, Feed, Beans—Tiek 22s 231 3;s 39: . _ Pigeons Pease—Grey. Maple. .. •• • • 35s 3S's White . •. 3r 4s Mlers .. 4Cs rlour—Town-made..• • 42s s . surrullc •• • ..• •• • • 333 3:5, 24s to 29 , 263 3'2. 13 At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to S. 5. d. s. (Ito \or... prime .• • • 4 Tezil.Vllne small •• 3 8-3 10 Pork, large.. • ••• • 2 6 410 3 6 '•••• • • • • 310 410 I . ..... .. 3 8 4' 2 Lamb. 4s 10,1 to 6s —a. ARRIVALS DURING TILE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. L 'ork a „ 4l .• .. • • • • • • • • • 90 800 300 ,m4t t - hs '''re • . ••• • • • 30 6“) 320 LortZr ir s illre .. .. ••••..• • • • • • 40 100 90 'ulk •••••••.•..• • • • • • • • • • • • 10 80 •‘- 40 'n hi • ..... •••••••• • • • • • • • • 15 DO 20 .. •• • o:Ny •••••••••••• . • • • • • • • • • • l5 200 GO 50 1 41j °1 1alli ••••• • " • • - 40 40 t erp„: •••• • • • • - * 4 ••• • • • •••••• • • • • • • 30 200 200 60 f i h l o 2 . 3 ,6 4 1 6 0 0 4493?) 1 2,020 revlous week a 1 3' . • • • CaO Itorutrr a 121 SPX7-11.7.17ZEL73. . t itil t est qualities of potatoes have been in fair request :utftlerices ; but all other kinds —the supply of Which is ,t. and a msre drug—at miserably low figures. It is to difficult to give accurate quotations of the ort e, but they may be considered as ruling from . f.39s rer ton. t Alth ti morela nor wr..e4zalsvr. t La the plantation accounts speak of fly, an d so 1% , 0 11 , general demand here is he a sluggish s' - "'lng - f e "'y quotations are s u pp orte d i n every i n. l'one. the firmness on the pmt of the holders. " N w 44 m ierttl ),, rts of Wool d ur i ng th e past week have been c on. if tt 6 bout 1,200 bale.::, chiefly from our co l on i es. B y ri'tuieoutract, the amount of business passing in all kinds vet the quotations rule about statiouary. ‘t,' 111 53 1 . 1 , TA:GT. OW'. 4, l tk, market generally is in much the same Statfi ands k r t 1 1 4. 4 . 1 the quotations about the same, but tLe dem is tie u :k. In New Y, C. there is little doing; the price t t 401:t three 6d net c months is 418 to 4l!i 'dd. Town Tallow is ti! ash. state. vet, 'l4t t%' bo, j sriS 7 :1 I PPIN .—(THIS DAY.; 41, 014,, ' NJ E , ~ fresh breeze, and line. i 4; .N.E., light brccze.-22. Arrd. George 4 1 1 1 11 .1 ..4 0 ; u ? 4 •l;apore ibr Bremen ; George Glenn, Nathan, Ttini ,l„4t (2 ,,T , xitt, St. 'Vincent ; Emily, Greaves, Sydney ; Joint li ; Endora, Iti`3L iken, Mauritius ; Charles Broeke, 4sv ; John Craig. Meade, Boston; Charlotte, St. Stir Hull; Pauline, India, for Middleburgh, , " t, c3, Antigua; St. George, Quebec ; A ugus t us, P ort quo,„all, Bath, Bombay; Bathurst, Honduras; Fair J J (, ohn 111Illett, Maunllus. rr , , NE 22.—Wind E.N.E. to N.N.E.—SId. St. J ames ' s, 4 ,1 ' ll4ll borough, Madras and Calcutta. vli22.—Neirb id N., fresh breeze,--Arrd. Eleanor Russell, 7 i sef 2 2.—Wind N.N.E., fresh gales. —Off, Fortune, NlN:frp o j r . ' for Ilamburgh ; G reat Britain (steamer), London, Amer's, Buenos Ayres (April 4), and sailed for t S pan 22 .—Arrd. Orion, Havannah for London • barque ob l . 4 '`. l ,,Alain for Stettin. 81d. Castlies, St. Lucia. 41. k, 441,iticLAND.—Foam, Batavia for Stettin. .::itb a „ . TH. JUNE 21.—Jonge Hannah, St. Croix ; Ida, qt,;7, 1. 1 :' ,3 t, John Willis, Willis, and Em more, Ellis, Calcutta ; ; I', s inl, San Bias; Ann, llavannah for Bremen. A i ,"4en , 21 .—S1d. Lyle Brodie, Cailsted, Singapore ; Lord a t ;,!... l9 ,,• — krra. Lord Anson, Sierr a Leone. (I: 4, t t " t • VI; • —Arrd. Dolphin Bryant, Newfoundland. Ski. "UNE; Margaret, St. 21.—Arrd. Enterprise, Ichaboe. ill4,, , at, v Vir, JOSE 17.—Norton, Charleston for Havre; Nova rt for Rotterdam ; Tancreed, Smith, St. Lucia ; Eliza- VLiQ York for Hamburgh. JOSE 20.—Alexo, llttvannah, for Rotterdam. kttr,'„; trxx 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Otterspool, Kirkmani~t, ktil.flieb"r_Pil, Stratford, Saldanha, Bay; Glenroy, 'trees River 10 % 44 , 4 ; omit, and :Matchless, Rio Grande • 'Theresa, Wright, rt‘l i l i 'tt,',., ll Eta r i 4 ,,gues Sophia, Board, Porto Rico ' ; Isabella Heron, 4 4 "t1t, "als• Sld. Frances, Ceylon ; Resolution, Maranharn ; kz,,i1.41n Fit S v ar ou a rl " l e " ," York , Mary Ann, Henry, WilliHaifax.; J t op i x, ktllthibt, j 'zab eih, and Henry St. NQuebec;ew BrunsC a rnt l i c c Montreal. an I, CN t 19 Patterson, Demerara ; Roselle, ti~Ei t 44,l -4 rb , . -4r rd• Pink, .ie ikik aL c i e„ B . Ski. Oreinocto, St, John's, New Brunswick ; r, .Aewtbundland. 141Iy 20 .—Arrd. John, St. John's, New Brunswick. 4 ' J uE 22 trO 3 ,„N .—The Aeams, loading for Liverpool, was , .41 e t by fire at Maranham, 6th May ; part of cargo 1 t '14; 4 1. 4 ,,..' 2 0. —Arrl. Amazon, Pitcaun, Ichaboe. Jl:xx 23.—Ski. Aucurs, Ca - ,:oe of Good Hope, 2 1.—Sld. Duncan, New York. 21 .—Arrd. o').cron, Addy, Richebncto. 1c)/3. 1 1) I N :ft of LORDS.—(T HIS DAY.) dh e sat to-d ay to hear Wr i ts o f E rror. Th e Peers pie. i t i t , N.,: Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, N'tleo; a nd the Bishop cf Ely. The folowing judges werelea p r : c e :—The Lord Chief Justice ef t the Common Ps, ske yoke, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Williams, N, e . ri dge. Mn. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Creswell, I ghlroan, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron 1411.0411), V,S COUNT DUNGANNON V. SMITH. 41 '4 11, 1 %1, 1 , r ar guments in the part.heard Writ of Error occupied tl 'e whole morning. Our readers will recollect ttr a> i n we re commenced before the last term, and postponed 4 Vie h e° ,_"eq't , nce of the Judges being unable to attend. ave alreaily liven an out'ine of the case. I, • th, ---------- 0:'01 1 asi e ; URl'.—( TIT S DAY.) 41':t.bot.t in i the Rolls, this bei ng th e B ra t sea l a f ter T r i n i ty V t takons and Cruet at the Rolls' House, Chancery-lane, end Petitions, none of which posses s ed any features of tb n 11, IN A 1 1 . (jj CERY.—(T HIS DAY.) b ei ef4 e th • ki t a t th _ v VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) keoin. t . ?st seal d a y a f ter T r i n ity T erm, h i s Honour rIti A 4 N ce:n's Inn, at ten o'clock. dt„_ l nt Ua ' ° n taking his seat, intimated to the Bar that it 41,1 ' c 1„47, t o•morrosv, to give judgement in the cas e o f Connken," which vas argued before him some tim e i Pi. u s I at ._ s et. lo 4 4 rn disposing of severa l a pplicati ons c f course, Ated hi t he further argument s in a part-heard moti on. ( Eler, r 5 Honour the remainder of the day. Nie r e the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Banta.) aNi at i n h . ta,„ the Part is Court in Lincedn's Inn today , arid took q - 114 1 . (t ie Z t-heard cause of Williams a. Edwards. 4 4 1, r e n __ e n the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAII.) 4 .1 4 ;11 , 4 , t 74 etail interest occupied the Court . the whole ( 1 W t's first seal after Trinity term, and his Honour 41\1. .....---_,..l.oll•••••••lmeimaremmpmermemen. A 4 1,,. /I (q_ L COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (ftefore Mr • Baron P etii i Vetz and • PLATT. p l a dy using w.. J oke Scully, who were chargcd with fel°. h a ,„2"latn Upchurch, with intent to do him some PL,, r . r - " l .. ..Pleaded Guilty to a common assault. A .e ssponed passing sentence. t 4 ' et ou r s 0 5 Ituxburglie Ciub gave tLeir Ntirtlch, tur dar evening at the Claesiclon Hotel. The , t e Earl of E . ou, 5 , and Mr, Bottled ALP ~ bets prate*: RAIL 'air A y (TAW W.V.) HOUSE OF LORDS. IMEDS AND wrsir 38.TDING naiLvrtiv. The Committee on this Bill met again 14410 at eleven o'clock, the Duke of Cleveland In the chair, Mr. Sergeant Bizt.r.ssie called Mr..Hankesha*, • , promoters, Who deposed to the ge4ierai melts of the I.ne. The Witness was orosskkatnine4 by Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, on behalf of the landOWnell Opposing the preamble of the Bill. WIC rhyr AND ITUNTZNGDOW 211.1LWAY. The Committeon this Bill re-assembled to-day at eleven o'clock, the marquis of Normanby in the chair. Mr. Shipp, a shipowner of Lynn, was called by Mr. Sergeant WRANGBAM, on behalf of the promoters, to prove the great want of a line of railway to the districts proposed to be accommodated, and the great benefit which the traders would derive from the mode of transit afforded b; the present Bill. Mr. TALBOT, on behalf of the Eastern Counties Railway, sub. mltted that his clients shoffid be heard as landowners against the Bill, they being the owners of the land through which the line is to run. The room was cleared to consider the application, and, after an hour's consultation, the parties were called in, and informed by the Chairman that the opponents could be heard as landowners only and not as a competing line. Mr. Sergeant WIZANGIIAM said the promoters had drawn up a clause which would put an end to the opposition at once. They would bind themselves not to touch the opponents' land at all, and that, he hoped, would be satisfactory to them. The clause having been submitted to the opponents they de clared themselves perfectly satitfied, and the opposition was at once withdrawn. The preamble was then declared to be proved, and the clauses haring been gone through, the Bill was ordered to be re. ported. SCIVTIVIraZIPTC,Iir DOR.C:I-1733TEZ1 NIATVA. 2 7.IIIC. The Committee met again , at eleven o'clock, Lord Auckland in the chair. The Cominittee proceeded with the case for the preamble. Mr. Easton, land surveyor, and Captain Moorsom, engineer, were called and examined by Mr. HOLDSWORTII and Mr. PONSONBY, CS to the engineering merits of the line. Ihe witnesses were severally cross.examined by Mr. Rows for Lord Ncrmanton and other landowners on the line, but nothing of the slightest interest was elicited. (LEFT strrixa.) [There are several unopposed Bills set down to come b2fore Lord Shaftesbury this eveniug, the issue of which shall appear in our Third Edition.] MD rIVII ITZZ WE dii.ISZ ITICIVICE, :mar LV7SI:7,, The Committee on this Fill met to day at elven o'clock. Lords present—Viscount Sidn.y, Chairman; the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Catthorpe, Lord Foley, and Lord Southampton. Mr. TstisoT appeared for the promoters of the line, and having briefly gone through the. leading particulars respecting the con. struction of the railway, the engineering peculiarities, estimates, &c., proceeded to,call wPnet - ses in support of the Bill. Mr. Wilton, manufacturer, of Flawick, deposed as to the trade cf that town, which he represented to be very considerable, and still increasing. The proposed railway, he considered, would be of the greatest service to the town and district. Mr. Wright and Mr. Maxton gave evidence respecting the coal and lime that passed along the district through whicb the line was proposed to be taken. Mr. Boyd, a surveyor, was examined respecting the estimates, the value of the 1 nd, &c., which he represented as very moderate. The estimate of the value of laud and the advantage the line would confer on the agriculture of the country were corroborated by Mr. Henderson. Mr. Roberts, a manufacturer of Galashiels, was next ex. amined. He said he was principally engaged in Manufacturing tweeds and hosiery. The population of the town was 5,000. The produce of the place was new nearly a quarter of a million sterling. All the available water power was already used up, and unless they could be supplied with coal at a cheap rate, it would be difficult to extend the business of the place. At present they could not nearly meet the demand for goods. About 500 tons of foreign wool came into the place every year, of the value of about 100,0001. It was brought from Leith, 35 miles distant, at the rate of 20s. per ton. In addition, there was a large importation of dye stuffs and other materials. With the railway about Sc. would be saved in thecarriage of coals, and I @s. on the carriage of other gdOds. The carriage of coals at present was 9s. 2d. per ton. He would himself save in the carriage 200/. a.year. He had also a mill at Selkirk, which would be even better accommodated than those he had in Galashiels. These witnesses were cross.examined at some length by Sir WALTER RIDDEL and Mr. CLARKE on behalf of Mr. Bruce, a landed proprietor, and Mr. Meikieham a leaseholder, but no point of material importance was elicited. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP A. The Committee having met as usual this morning, Mr. TALBOT opened the case for the LiTiVZON AND CROYDON (-FITIVIOSPRZRIC; LINZ. ---- Mr. TALBOT observed, that before entering into the examination of witnesses on the part of the London and Croydon Company, he wished to point out to the Committee the fact that there were 110 W two distinct matters before them, viz., the line from London to Croydon, Chatham, Chilham, and various parts cf the north of Kent, and a project for an extension from the principal line to Orpington. There were also two distinct Bilis for the principal line, one for that part of the line between London and Chatham, and another for that part between Chatham and Chilham. He thought this observation necessary to prevent confusion, as he in t,:nded to examine witnesses with regard to all parts of the line at once. Mr. Talbot then called Sir John Lovet, who stated that he was a landowner at Hie Elms, in the parish of Down, North Kent. He had carefully ex. amined the.t part of the proposed line which passed through tha parish, and had a very favourable opinion of it. (LEFT SITTING.) GROUT GG. secoTc3l Tam GLASGOW, rzErrgsvow, AIND 4-Inat E - lEal'o - - --- The Committee, c insisting of Mr. Evans (Chairman), Mr. New. degate, Mr. Mont; and Mr. 'Miles, sat at twelve o'clock, in the Guildhall, Westminster. Mr. ilmovsan opened the case for the promoters of the above Bill, and proceeded to refer to the importance of Barrhead and Neilston as a manufacturing district, and to the facilities which the proposed railway would give to the manufacturers there, in their transit to Glasgow. The total length of the railway was somewhat above eight miles, and the estimate fcr its construction was 14';.',00:)/. The promoters, conscious that an established main line c.ild more efficiently work out a short line, like the present, had entered into an agreement with the Greenock Company to lease it at a yearly sum of 7,5001., which would give on the sunk capital, a dividend of eight per cent. The gradients were very favourable, the steepest on the distance of six miles being only 1 in 100, which in the remaining distance there was another of 1 in 74, but that was unimportant if they considered the nature of the traffic. The curves were also favourable, and the landlords on the line, were to a man, anxious to promote it. The Learned Counsel then went at great length into the nature of the agreement between the Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, and the Glasgow and Paisley Railway Company, in which the former undertook not to carry passengers, thereby sacrificing a trade of 400,0001. a year, they, in return being allowed to carry all the goods traffic between Glasgow and the Paisley district ; and be contended, that this was all agreement which threw into the shade the public interest, and that, therefore, another Com pany who came forward on public grounds, had a fair right to be supported by Parliament in their patriotic endeavours. He should bring proof in support of his allegations, and having done so, he trusted that the Honourable Committee would feel it their duty to support this Bill, as the best which could be adopted for giving public facilities to this important district. (LEFT SITTING.) GROUP K. ITOZT,WXCH This Committee resumed to-day at the usual hour, the Mem.. berg present being Viscount Sandon (Chairman), and Messrs. Martin, Cobden, and Ricardo. Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., has been prevented from attending since he met the late severe ac cident. Dlr. ALEXANDER, Q.C., applied to the Committee to withhold its formal negative of the But y and Thetford branch of the Nor wich and Brandon line, which course was intimated on Friday last, until they had heard the case of the Bury and Cambridge line, to be proceeded with on Wednesday next. The Learned Counsel contended that the evidence then adduced would mate rially affect the decis on of the Committee, and he merely suggested the postponement fur the better furtherance of justice. The CHAIRMAN, after some slight hesitation, acceded to the ap plication. Mr. COPPOCK, the solicitor attending on. behalf of the in. habitants of Norwich, previous to the Committee discussing the clauses of the Norwich and D, ieham Mil, applied for a week's postponement, to enable the curporation to meet and consider their course. The Committee, considering the delay useless, proceeded to the discussion of the clauses, several of which were passed without opposition, (LEFT SITTING.) GROUP L. ORIPSIVEOUT .4..17..8 - 10SP Z. 137313. The Committee resumed their inquiry on this line this morning, Mr. E. B. Denison in the chair, with Lord Clive, Mr. Oswald, Mr. Vyrian, and Mr. Monckten 21ilnes present. 11l the course of his examination by Mr. GURNEY, Q C., Mr. Bidder, surveyor, stated that he objecte4 to the means for pro viding for the crossings at the level, inasmuch as they were to be efThcted by a mechanical contrivance which everybody knew was likely to get cut of order, instead of by the agency of persons living OH the spot. The difficulty would, of course, be increased by the great traffic to Epsom on particular occasions, The ruling gradient was that at New-cross, which was 1 in 100, where about 600 people en hoer were all that could be carried, unless they doubled the line. At the present, they could only take about 400 per train, with three trains per hour—that was, 1,200 an hour, when they ought to run trains at least every ten minutes, each carrying 1,000 passengers. He was decidedly of opinion that the Directors would have to double their line between Landon and Epsom. With regard to the expenses, he calculated the permanent way at 4,8401. per mile ; engines, 2,0304 ; tanks, 2001. ; patent right, 5001. ; pointy, crossings, and valves, :150/.; wells, 500; contingent expenses, 6001., making a total for the permanent way of 9,3201. The working expenses would be 6001., exclusive of interest, while on the locomotive line the cost would be no more than 547/., inclu sive of interest. To Mr. itavverersoe Mr. Bidde.r replied that he had arrived at his conclusions respecting the 6001. a year from the,Blackwall Railway, while Mr. Stephenson got to his conclusions by the work. log of the Camden Town engine. The Blackwell Railway Com pany paid 3001. a year for water, and had been at an expense of 6,000/. or 7,000/. for forming tanks. No one could fail being gratified with the first sight of the atmospheric principle, but it was exceedingly ed caplandum, and for a long line he thought it secs unsuited. He had indeed been anxious to apply Mr. Samudir's principle to a line of his of miles in length, leading to the Thames, but Mr. Samuda had rot acceded to his prepositioh, though the Blackwell engines might have been u5,..11 in the project. The largest engines could carry on a locomotive line about 600 or 700 people by one train, and he thought that the trains might be started as fast as they could be tilled. in the Greenwich line they had carried snore than 39,0 e:.; persons in one day. But he did not believe that the atm , ..pheric line could start a train every :en minutes, so that which the publ , required. e accommodation could not be yielded by it To the ;c -examination of Mr. GURNEY, lift. Didder stated that he Nor started with out any prejudice against the atmospheric prin ciple —on the contrary he greatly admired it ; but he fused that its application could net be so general as he desired. Mr. Hawkesley, engineer to the Nottingham gas and water. works, stated that he had keen under the necessity of paying great artention to the passage of fluids through tubes. His experiments had been applied to gas, water, and air, and they had been ap plied pariteutarly at Birmingham. His formula had been applied by M.e. Low, who had written to him to ask what qtrantitY wr-ala be delivered from Peter -street at Charing-cross, through a tube of 18 inches in diameter, and he had stated that the quantity would be 60,000 feet in an hour. The result perfectly coincided with the supposition. He had tried the same principle a (Versailles, and several places In England, mops pVeys at Not tingham, through a tube two miles in length, Attain plahea in dia. eater; and at r f dintryrsh, through a title off me mac in 1004 ••• • fifteen inchei in diameter. There was, in fact, no such thing as Suction. That had been known ever since the Tollichlian expe. riment, which took place 200 years ago. In fact, what was called 1 2t i sZar was neither more not less than the impulse put upon an intermediate body, having a proportionably rarified atmosphere before it, from the impulse put upon It by the denser substance behind. There was certainly friction in the passing of air through a tube, partly arising from impact, which was ai the sqiiare of the velocity,and partly froni the rumbling of the piirtieles among thkrti- Fetvbk which was sitiple. Thus, stippositig the pressure to be hi. breased tenfold, the friction would be increased one hundred-fold, and the rumbling tenfold. The train could consequently move no faster than the air, and the greatest weight proposed by the pro moters Could not be carried up a plane of 1 in 100 faster than thirty miles an hour; or up a plane of I in 'BO faster than twenty.. three miles an hour. its formula had been put in by Mr. bidder. In the cross-examination of Mr. AUSTIN, Mr. Hawkesley re. plied that his formulas were almost absolutely correct with respect to large tubes, although he had omitted the rolling friction, be. cause .ts effects were so minute that it had no presentable effect on the result. He had made more than two hundred experiments through tubes of an inch, of an inch, and of an inch. There was no difference detween blowing air through a tube and drawing it away by an air-pump. The rates which he had drawn the gases through were immaterial, and he thought the instance he had given in the case of the pipe of eighteen inches safficient for a rule for all the cases which could be supposed. He had frit(' the experiments from the very slowest to the very quickest vilo • cities, and through tubes of from one inch long to 100,000 inches. He had tried it with a pressure of 4i inches of water, which was equal to one inch of mercury. The speed of fifteen miles an hour would be equal to five inches from the barander through a three mile tube, and everything remains the same through a tube half the length; the pressure remaining the same the speed would be 44 miles an hour. The leat.age would account ter the diffe rence, and the train would stop at the point where the leakage would balance the pressure of the atmosphere, but at that distance he could not exactly say, but could calculate if the plane, tube, and pressure were given to him. His results had been formed by equation, and were confirmed by ascertaining that the constants given by theory had been confirmed by more than a thousand experiments, and among others, upon many of Mr. Samuda's own premises. He had no doubt whatever that increasing the tube from one and a half mile to three miles in length would greatly reduce the mean velocity. In fact, the friction would be increased, and that which was called suction was neither more nor less than the abstraction of a quantity of air near the engine, the space being occupied by a more rarified atmosphere, that which was nearest the engine being driven forward by the denser medium behind. In fact, it was nothing more than blowing. To Mr. OSWALD—The witness replied that, in the event of the disabling of one pair of engines, those at six miles' distance, the next engines, would be useless, for he found by experiment that at the end of seven miles the initial force would be only two and a half miles, so that at a little further distance, the engines would only be able to pump out the leakage, and they might go on for evet lasting, just neutralising the force of the air one way or the other, without moving the train a single inch. Mr. Harrison, engineer, WAS examined by Mr. SMITH, and ex pressed his opinion that the atmospheric principle could not be efficiently worked. He had himself been delayed twenty minutes the other day at the Euston-square station in consequence of soma derangement of the stationary engine. Some third-class trains might take 500 passengers at once, and he did not think that that number in third-class carriages would exceed fifty tons. In all his assumptions of the third-class passengers, he thought that the tube might be 18 inches. He had been engineer to the Newcastle and Darlington, and two other railways, and was decidedly of opi nion that the gradients could not be surmounted as represented, and if there were a delay the early hours of the day it would affect every other train during the day. This concluded the evidence against the atmospheric principle, (LEFT SITTING.) GRU LIP LL. THE 7,aOB,TDOZZ AND SOUIVII..V.IESTninV EXTMINSION. The Committee met at twelve o'clock, Lord John Manners in the chair. The other members of the Committee were Sir T. Es. monde, Sir John Trollope, and Mr. E. Heneage. The clauses of the above Bill were gone through seriatim and agreed upon. The Bill was recommitted and ordered to be re. ported. THE LONDON AND RIGUTON Mk:MUTAT (W.3.NDSNITORTIE 13RANC11). Mr. HILL, Q. C., with Messrs. Gurney and Mellor, ap peared in support of this Bill. He appeared on behalf of the Lon don and Brighton Railway Company, whose object was to form a branch from their railway near Croydon, extending to Wandsworth, where they would make one of their termini. The length of this branch would be six miles and a half and 8 chains. TN, LONDON, MONDAI EVENING, JUNE 23, 1845. LATEST PRICES 04' SHARES IS RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANT) OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVEBY TUESDAt AND ERLDAY EVENING, LONDON, fir - DAY, ititE 26. RAZZI.VAYS. Dividend Ver Annum, Amount S!iaf~. Paid. I Price, X s. d. 210 0 I 4 1 7 6 i 21g 10 17 0 135 0 0 10 0 32% 30 6 4 20 0 0 26% 70 0 0 96 2 0 0 10% 30 0 0 58 5 0 0 11% I 10 0 4;. 1 10 0 0 16% 10 0 0 2 71! 2 0 0 I 8 51' 1 5 0 1% 1 5 0 1% 3 0 0 4% 2 10 0 3% 1. 0 0 Isi 1 10 0 2 1 4 2 10 0 10 2 10 0 34 2 10 0 5h 14 16 0 21 4 13 4 Iy a p 013 4 %pn 10 0 0 21 110 0 2 50 0 0 71 12 10 0 17 2 10 0 7 15 0 2 100 0 0 22 50 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 2 0 0 80 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 z ?50 66 T 3 I 210 0 I 5 10 0 1 1 7 6 1. 50 0 0 106? 12 10 0 22 2 0 0 25 1 1 10 0 2 1 7 6 20 0 0 451, 5 0 0 21 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. 1240 2 0 0 46A 2 0 0 35 50 0 01 74 25 0 0 42 6 0 0 1 7 RAIL WAY COMMIT TEES. (SATURDAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS: GROUP X. CramintaGE AND aranvccam RAILWAY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday.) Mr. Parkes was asked a few questions in mosa.cxamination, but his testimony in no way differed from the examination in chief, and When it had concluded the Committee adjourned to Monday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Po RI'S MOUT H FRIDAY.-The earysfort, 26, Captain the Right Hon. Lord George Paulet, was towed into harbour this morning by the Echo tug, to be dismantled and paid off, hating been in commission nearly four years. She appears very clean and in excellent order. The Falmouth, naval lighter, arrived yesterday from the river depots with victualling stores. The Viper, 3, Lieutenant-Commander Carter, was in lat. miles N. of the Equator, low. 27 17 W., on the 7th of April. An extract from her log at the above date say, . We heard a sudden rumbling noise, as of distant thunder, which was immediately followed by a shock, causing a tre mulous motion throughout the ship, similar to that felt by letting go the anchor in deep water; tried soundings —no bottom." The Netley, tender, sailed yesterday for Devonport, taking supernumerary seamen for the vessels fitting there. All the victualling lighters at the port are daily employed in conveying provisions and stores to the experimental squadron. In Harbour.—Tbe Victory, Hibernia, the Royal Yacht. Excellent, Resistance, Carysfort, Siren, Nautilus, Diligence, transport ; Comet, Fearless, and Echo, step.m. vessels. In the Basin. —The Athol. In Dock.—The Prince Regent, Trincomalee, Amphitrite, and Centaur steam-frigate (building). At Spithead.—The St. Vincent, 'Trafalgar, Queen, Rodney, Albion, Canopus, Vanguard, Superb, and Vernon. DEVONPORT. —The Caliope, 26, was undocked on Monday, and masted on Tuesday. She is expected to hoist the pendant daily. The Nirnrol, 20, was docked on Monday, to be examined prior to recommission. The Hecate steam sloop, Commander West, was docked on Tuesday to have her bottom cleaned, and to be coppered, ac cording to the regulation for ships proceeding to the African station ; having completed which, she was undocked on Wed nesday, and went into the Sound. The Bloodhound, new steam-vessel, was docked on Thurs day, to complete fittings for service. The Vulture, first-class steam-frigate, Captain 11I'Dougali, was towed into harbour from the Sound on Tuesday, to repair some defects, which she completed on Wednesday ; when, after having been mustered and inspected, she was paid the usual advance of wages, and was to have left 3 esterday for the China station, to join the squad ron un d er R ear- Ad m i ra l Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commapder.in-Chief. Captain Hope Johnstone takes passage in her to join the Agincourt flag-ship. The Herald, 26. Captain Kellett, and the Pandora, 6 Lieu tenant-Commander Wood, were expected to sail yesterday from Barepool fir their destination. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Ann Poulton, aged 30, was indicted for the wilful mur der of her fcniale child, of which the had recently been delivered. Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. Mr. Crouch, a surgeon, was first called, and stated that on the 2d of May he was called in to 19, Hanway-street, to attend the prisoner. She had a child in her trees, which was recently born ; it wa, alive. He saw no marks 4;n the child. He saw the child again in about an hour, and again in two hours. It had been washed. He saw marks on the right temple and eye. His opinion was that they arose from violence, and not is the course of the birth. He saw the child again in an hour, when it was in a dying state. He made no post mortem examina tion. The child lost a great deal of blood from the nose and mouth, which he considered to be the cause of death. The bleeding no doubt arose from the same vio lence which produced the marks on the temple and eye. Cross-examined—The marks might have been pro duced by a fall. Mr. Hinde, also a surgeon, proved that he made a pas-t inc./ tent examination of the child on the 10th of May. It was a full-grown child. There were two marks on 12 0 2 10 0I 3! 0 I L the side of the neck, corresponding in size with marks which could be produced by fingers. There was a similar mark by the right eye. There was dry blood on the face, which had come from the nose and mouth. On raising the scalp he found a good deal of extravasated blood, and also that the parietal bone of the skull had been broken, and several parts were detached. There was also a fracture of the frontal bone. These injuries were the cause of death. A fall might have occasioned those in juries on the skull. Diana Hugo, a widow, _proved that on the 2d o f M a y she went to wor k at 19, Hanway-street, at half past six ,in the morning. She found the kitchen stained all over with blood. The prisoner was servant there. Witness called her several times. She came at length and said she was very ill. Witness went up stairs when she had cleaned the kitchen, and begged her mistress to come down. Witness had previously accused the prisoner of teeing in the family way, which she denied. Witness tif.erivards found a child in the coal -hole. She was first induced to go there by hearing it cry. She took it and placed it before the fire. Afterwards she put the prisoner to bed and placed the child with her. It died the same day, and was conveyed to the Marylebone workhouse. By a Juryman—Saw no marks, except a - swelling of the eye, when she first took up the child. Mrs. Ireland, of 19, Hanway-street, stated that the prisoner had been in her service three months. She ob served that she was in the family way, but did not speak to her about it. On Mrs. Hugo ceiling on her on the 2:1 of May, she accused th e prisoner of having been deli vered of a child, which she denied. Henry Fowler, a policeman, proved that he removed the body of the child to the workhouse, and that he ac cused the prisoner of inflicting the injuries which Caused the death. She told him she had fallen down s L.,irs a few days before, and that was the came of them. Cross-exainiued—He asked her the questions about ie violence of his own accord. It was soon after she as delivered. Mr. Justice PATTESON told the constable that he had ' ' t to ask a woman questions when she was in such ❑o rigt a state, The prisoner's defence before the magistrates was, that she was not aware she was going to be confined so soon, or she would have left ber place before and bad proper assistance. She had let the child fall in the coal cellar while in her agony. Mr. Justice PATTESON here stopped the case, and said there was no evidence to support the charge of murder, for the surgeons had stated that it was very probable the injuries bad arisen from a fall. The jury immediately returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoner was discharged a f ter rece i v i ng a caution from his Lordship to be more careful in future. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) William Leonard and John O'Brien were brought be fore the Lord Mayor, charged upon suspicion of having caused an explosion of gas in the house of Mrs. Ellen Reenig, who keeps the Black Vorse in Petticoat-lane. Mrs. Reenig stated that the prisoners came into the bar of her house, and having called for beer, requested that the gas might be lighted in the bar parlour. This she refused, because they had a woman with them. While they were drinking the beer, her children came into the tap-room, and began to play there, when they were abused by the prisoners, who said to her it would not be long before she and they were annoyed a good deal more. After the house was shut up, she smelt a strong escape of gas, and took a candle into the tap-room to see what was the matter with the gas-pipe. Upon her entering the room a loud explosion took place, and she was very seriously injured by it ; part of her dress was set on fire, and she bad ever since bean in an hospital under medical treatment. No one, she- was certain, had entered the house but the prisoners, and the female with them, after the time when she saw that the gas was in its proper place. The pipe had been remeyed when the explosion took place. Witness had no quarrel with the prisoners, but O'Brien was an intimate ac quaintance of a man who had lately been held to bail for,, repeated threats towards her. The MAGISTRATE t aid he regretted it was not in his power to punish the prisoners as they deserved, be would therefore commit them to take their trial. MA RYLEB 0111 E. Mr. Joshua Rose Anderson, the brother. in law of Madame Vestris, attended to prefer the following charge against a young man, named Samuel Richardson, living with his sister, a fishmonger, in Lisson•grove complainant said that as he left his house that morning he was accosted by the defendant, who asked him his name, and then said, "You are no better than a thief and a swindler." This was on account of his owing the defendant a bill he had sent in, but which complainant said required alteration. Defendant then renewed his abuse, and threaVned to throw a large stone at him. Complainant then gave defendant into custody. The defendant, in answer, said he had callul fifty or sixty times upon complainant for payment of a bill, which amountaa to 21. 175., due to his sister. He had always been told Mr. Anderson was out He had waited for him, and, having been refused his money, be told him his conduct was nothing short of swindling, upon which complainant abused him, and threatened to break his neck. It was then that defendant took up a stone in self-defence. People were continually after him for money, but he would pay no one.—;leiendant was fined 205., which he paid. A young woman, living as nursery maid in the service of Mr. Anderson, applied for and obtained a warrant against her master, who, she alleged, had, on the pre vious night, violently assaulted her, and attempted to throw her over the bannisters. - LAMBETH. Mr. William Hewett, the private secretary to Mr. Fergus O'Connor, was charged before Mr. Henry by Mr. Bellamy, the relieving officer of Lambeth, with refusing to support his wife. It appeared that the defendant was living separate from his wife, that he allowed her two shillings per week to support herself, that she had lately been in a bad state of health, and the pittance allowed by her husband was inadequate to her support. She had, therefore, applied to the parish, and had been relieved to the extent of 175., that the defendant was in the re ceipt of 11. per week, and was living with another female in a lodging, for which he paid 63. 6d. a week. Mr. HENRY said that the defendant must repay the parish what had been expended for the support of his wife, and must make her an. increased allowance for her support—the case to stand over for this purpose. FATAL PUBLIC-HOUSE FIGHT.— On Saturday night last information was given at the Tower.strect, or L division Police. station, to Mr. Inspector Ferguson, that a man named Boxhall had died that evening from bruises received in a fight. It appears that the deceased and another man had met one morning last week at the Rose and Crown public.house, Westmin,ter.road, when, not. withstanding the earnest remonstrances of the landlady and land lord, they had a desperate fight. The deceased became insensible, and was removed to his lodging, where medical aid was in attend ance on him, but he died on Saturday last. Inspector Ferguson sent a letter.to the Coroper, Mr. W. Carter, for an inquest on the may. (LEFT SITTING.) (LiPT SITTING.) GROUP Z. The Committee to wham this group has been refereed met to-day at twelve o'clock, the Hon. Mr. Clive iu the chair. THE GREAT WESZMUN mwmi.nv AND CJIL' VIAM"). The rebutting case of the promoters of the !hie was then entered The first witness called was Mr. it. Stephenson, civil engineer, who was examined by Mr. TAYLOR— He stated that he had examined the sections and plans of the proposed line, which had been deposited, and be had no hesita. lion in saying that if they were correct the line was very easy of construction. Had heard that the levels taken by Messrs. Han. nington and Boyle differed from those taken by Captain Moorsom and his assistants. (LEFT SITTINO. TO THI; ED1TOI? OF TUE SUN. Stri,--Permit me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to F ugg est to the friends of railways, whose object is reciprocal in terest—.a profitable investment with public acwinmodation—that the most practicable line (now that the broad gauge is so wisely oreferred), would be to amalgamate the Direct London and York line with Leeds, instead of York, and then go on through Har rogate, Ripon, Bedale, Richmond, Bishop Auckland, west of Dur ham, to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tins would be a superior, quicker, and richer line. In the first place, this would avoid that slaughter station, Brockley Whine, and that most dangerous bridge, the Victoria Bridge, which never was built to bear such a burden as goes over it ; and, in the next place, would take its all the mines in the north of Yorkshire and west of the county of Durham, join ing the important towns of Barnard Castle and Richmond, and re. ceiving an immense supply of cattle from Scotland and Cumber.. land--the liLe now suggested from Newcastle to Lancashire being a complete feeder to the West Riding of Yorkshire; also one from Carlisle will be equally valuable.-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, June 21, 1845. GULIELMUS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE RACES. NEWCASTLE, YESTERDAY.—ArrivaIs: Poussin, Mentor, Best of Three, Mid Lothian, Lightning, Trueboy, Northum berland, Sir Harry, Perriwinkle, Malcolm, Badinage, Sir C. Monck's filly, and seven of Hesseltine's lot. LATEST BETTING. 7to 1 agst Pagan-7 to 1 agst Lightning-8 to . 1 agst Inheritress-10 to l agst Queen of Tyne-12 to 1 agst Little John-16 to 1 agst Best of Three-20 to I agst Brevity. On Saturday afterroon, about 30 feet in length of a wall, bounding the premises of Mr. Davies, an emery manufac turer, in Richardson-street, Bermondsey, was thrown down, in consequence of 100 tons of emery stones being piled against it. The wall was 10 feet in height, and nine inches in thickness. Several children was playing near the spot, and one, named George Beauchamp, was crushed to death, while three others received se vere injury. A new system of electrical telegraph, by which the dispatch is written with a pen by the mere action of the fluid, was tried at Brussels, in presence of the Minister of Public Works, on Monday lat. The experiment is stated to have been entirely successful. Lady Maenaghten, widow of the unfortunate Sir Wm. Macnaghten, has repaired to Brighton, from Itlivart's Hotel, for the advantage of the sea air. Her Ladyship's health has greatly improved since her return from India. THE TRI AL SQUADRON.—The Admiralty have or dered the complements of the ships of the trial squadron to be in. creased as follows:—The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, on board of which ship is the flag of Rear-Admiral Parker, has her corn. piement increased 105 men, so that now, with her extra marines, she musters 980 men. The Trafalgar, 120, Captain T. F. Alattin, has thesame number, 980. The Queen, 110, Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, hes 900 men. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., has an increase of 60 men, snaking her complement 826. The Albion, 90, Captain N. Lockyer, C.B , has the same complement; and the Canopus, 84, Captain Fairfax 141orest , y, C.B. ; the Vanguard, 80, Captain Willis; anslthe Superb, 80, Captain C orry , h ave 60 men added to their numbs;, making a complement of 760 for each.— Hampshire Tclegrarh. The will u 1 t - he Very Rev. Edmund Goodenough, Doctor in Divinity, Dean of Wells, formerly of Dean's.yard, Westminster, but late of the city of Wells, was proved or. the 19th inst. The executors and trustees are Mrs. Frances Goodenough, his relict, and Samuel Pepys Cockerel', Es q., Lincoln's Inn, Per. sonal estate under 50,0001. BRUSSELS, Juet 21.—M. V othorub, who has been Minister of the Interior since 1841, retires. The resignation of the five other Ministers is In the king's hands; but they are to continue to exercise the functions of their respective departments. FUNERAL OF THE LATE Mn, BARhAm.---The re mains of the late Minor Canon of St. Paul's, the Rev. 11. H. Bar ham, were interred on Saturday in the rector's Gault of the Church of St: Mary Magdalen, Old Fish.street.hill, and St. Gregory by St. Paul's, by the side of his four children. His disease was a tumour in tke larynx, which Sir Benjamin Brodie rronounced fatal as soon as the case was submitted to him. FIRE AT ULAPHAAb—Yesterday morning (Sun day), shortly after daybreak, a destructive fire took place on the ptemises of Mr. White, a baker, Larkhall-lane, Clapham. Though so great a distance from town, the Southwark-bridge -road and Waterloo-road brigade engines, as well as that belonging to the West of England, had soon reached the spot, but, notwithstanding this powerful aid, end also the quick arrival of the Clapham peilsh engine, all Mr. White's building, furniture, and stock were re duced to ashes. All the family were, at the outbreak of the fire, at Gravesend, The property destroyed is believed to be insured in the Sun-effice. AnuNnEt, JUNE ql.-`the ttuke of Norfolk, the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, and Mr. Blake, have arrived at the Castle. On Thursday the head-quarters of the Arundel and Bramber corps of teomanry Cavalry left this town for their annual eight days' duty at Worthing. The troops muster at Broadwater, and the town of Worthing is greatly enlivened during their stay. THE WEATIIER.—Since our last we have had de lightful weather—a marked increase of temperature, with many genial showers. Vegetation is making extraordinary progress, and a most abundant harvest is expected. Many fields of hay have been cut, and some carried. The crop is extremely fine. We learn from the Limerick papers, that a field of wheat is in full ear near that city. In South Lancashire this is not the case, though a few ears have been gathered on the Cheshire side of the river at New Brighton. All the spring craps. whether of roots, grain, or pulse, are growing luxuriantly, and pro mise a plentiful yield. While we rejoice at the favourable pros pects of our own country, we cannot but regret to find that the price of corn has risen to a great height at Brussels and through. out Belgium, in consequence of the prospect of a deficient harvest I.rprpooe Coutter. , . GROUP X. czavlnnlDGE AND LINCOLN MINE. TRAFFIC EVIDENCE RESUMED. Mr. J. Parke was Placed in the chair at the sitting of the Com mittee this day, and his examination in chief resumed, it having been adjourned from Saturday. THE DXll7oe.t.' NOMITIIERN LINE. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM wished to know if the sections of the Direct Northern .had yet been put in ? He believed, that ac cording to strict rule, they should have been deposited months ago; but he could not understand why they should not be ready now, and deposited this morning. Mr. COWAN, Counsel for the Direct Northern, said he under stood that the sections were ready, and the only delay to the pro duction of then was that some tracing copies of them were now being made, and that they would be ready tomorrow. The CHAIRMAN said he believed he spoke the unanimous opinion of the Committee in stating, that in justice to the opposite party the sections should have been put in before now, and that they must be deposited with the Committee this day. Here the subject dropped, and the examination of Mr. Parke was then .proceeded with. Nanie of dijitii)diik. Aberdeen Armagh; Coleraine, & rortrash .4 44 4. 4. Birmingham Sc Gloster Ditto, New, iss. 71 din. Do. Half Shares . Brighton, Lews,& Bast. Bristol and Exeter .. Do. New Ditto and Gloucester Caledonian . '.Jambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Chichester & Brighton Churnet Valley ....... Coventry, Bedworth, & Nuneaton .. ........ Coventry and Leicester Cornwall .. • Direct Northern ...... Direct 14 orwich piss, Beceles, & Yrmtli Dublin & Belfast June. Ditto and Galway .. Do. and Mullingar Eastern Counties ... Do., Perpetual, No. 1 Ditto, ditto, No. 2... Eastern Union .• ..... 41 as. per I •U. 1. 1/. 121. 1 6s.per sh. Bs. por sh 2/. 5s p. six. I Is 3tl pr. six Do. Extension .... Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. New Quarters • . Ely and Bedford ..... jrand Junction ...... Ditto, Half Shares • . Ditto, Quarter Shares :,.t. Southern &Western Do. Extension Do. Additional...... Great Northol England Ditto, New Do. New treat Western .. ... Ditto, Half Shares.. Ditto, Fifths. ....... Guiidfurd, Farebam, & Portsmouth ........ Harwich ... • • .... l lull and Gainsborocgh Hull and Selby Ditto, Quarter Shares, Do. Half Shares • . • • Kendal & Windermero Kentish Coast ••• . • • Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Bradford... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto. Half Shares.. Ditto, Quarter Shares London & Birmingham Ditto, New Thirds• • Ditto, New 14 Shares London and Blackwall London and Brighton.. 1)0. Consolidated Silts :.ondon and Croydon • Ditto, Guarntd. p. c. London and Greenwich Ditto, nd on and s Prcf.. Western Do., Lo Do., New Cons. Bths Ditto, New ••• • • • • Do. New •• • • • • •• London and York .• • .• Lndonderry & Coleraine Do. & Enniskillen Lynn and Ely ••• • .• • Do, & Dereham • • • Manchester and Leeds Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Sixteenths .• • Manchestr & Binning. Ditto, Quarter Shares Midland ... • • • • Ditto, Fifths ••••• • • , Do. New • • • • Ditto, Birm.k Derby Newcastle & Berwick 1 Newcastle & Carlisle • • 41. Os. per sh. Newcstle & Dar!. June. per share. Do. New Brandling 1/.148.10d.p.al Newry &Enniskillen Newark and Sheffield North British • • • • • • • • Do. New .• •• • Northern and Eastern Ditto, Scrip, iss.sl. d Ditto, Quarter Shares North Kent • . North Wales • • Nor wich and Brandon . Ditto, New Oxford & Worcester • • Preston and Wyre •• • • Itichmnd & W. E. June. flugby Scottish Central 101. per et. 10/. per ct. 101. per et. Gl. Os. p. sh, 11. p. sh. 81. per et. 81. per ct. 8/. pc: et. 31.105. pr. CI 17s. C I. pr sl] 91. per cent. 91. per cent. 91. per cent, 10/. per ct, 101. per ct. 101. per ct. 31. Os. per sh 16s. per sh. 41. per share 10s. pr. sh. 51.125. per sh, 21. 2s. per sh.l 121. per share. Do. 11fidlami• • • • • • • • Sheffield and Lincoln..] Sheffield & Manchestr; 61. per cent. 4/.l2s.ad.p.c. 21. 5 8. 159. Ditto, Quarter Shares! w5.,W01v.,Dud.,131r.; South Devon South-Eastern & Dovr., 11. 105.6d.p.s Ditto, New iss. 32/.dis., 2s. 10d. p. sl; Do. New, No. 2 .... Do. New, No. 3 .. • South Wales, Staines and Richmond! Trent Valley ......... Trent Valley and Holy " - ad Junction ...... d & Kilkenny aiwall• • • :11 & ?convict. Wateribr West •COT YA.rnlotit: 11. Mao, New • • 4s. 6(1. York & North Midland 10/. per et nitto, Ilalf Shares ; 10/. per et. X s. d 25 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Do., Scarbro' Branch; Ditto, Selby Scrip : 101. per ct, Ditto, Extension ; lordeaux and Toulouse! Do. and Cette loulog.ne and -Amiens )ieppe and Paiis Junc it. Northern of France ,yons and Avignon licans and Vierzon rlcaas & Bourdeaux 'aria & Lyons (Laftitte), • 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 2000 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 0 13 4 6 13 4 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 ro 0 0 50 0 0 i 0 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 f , O 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 1:0 0 0 12 10 0 2; 0 0 '25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 2 5 0 0 1 32 0 0 25 . 0 0 16 13 4 . 50 0 0 50 0 0 13 15 9 9 0 0 12 15 4 L i 7 2 41 6 10 40 0 0 50 0 0 4 0 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 6 5 0 I 4 0 0 0 1 10 0 0 1 40 0 25 0 100 0 25 0 25 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 ZO 0 50 0 12 10 5 0 0 25 0 20 0 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 LO 0 0 33 2 4 50 0 0 50 0 0 t 0 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 24 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 2 10 2 10 2 10 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 0 12 3: 0 5 0 210 0 I 6 1 7 6 I 2 73 0 0 168 32 0 0 73, 2 0 0 26 3 5 0 9' 40 0 0 61 4 0 0 9? Stock. 186 20 0 4 2 0 0 28; Stock. 148 110 0 183 100 0 0 25 o*o 533 10 0 0 35 2 10 0 43 1 10 0 23 12 10 0 25 1 0 0 67 45 0 0 70 30 0 0 54 12 10 0 183, 215 0 4.7 1 5 0 33 12 0 0 2031 1 0 0 4N 2 10 0 50 0 0 32 10 0 4 1 0 0 2? 2 10 0 6 1 10 0 2 1 5 0 1' 95 0 0 8 0 0 13 2 10 0 4] 13 0 0 26 8 0 7 0 2 10 2 10 1 0 2 0 0 1 18 DQ. ((1 anti eron's) Do. (Calon's) ....... Paris and Strasbourg .. Paris & St. Quentin .. Paris and Orleans..... Paris and Ronen ...... Royal North of Spain.. _ . 0• I 9 0 f 6 0 I 19 1 , 7 6 - 1 2 1 ,4 10 0 j 15 0 3 20 0 0 29 11 0 0 204, 50 0 0 112 25 0 0 5434 25 0 0 ; 54 .- 20 0 0 ; 7434 I 5 0 ; 2034 2 0 0 R ,uen and Havre .... Sambre and Meuse.... Strasbourg and Bale .. Tours & Nantes (Mac kcnzie's) .......... Do. (Levevres) 20 0 2 40 0 9 I 2 0 0 l, 4 4 0 0 1 5% 20 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 17 2 0 0 ' 10% 2 0 0 I 3 2 0 .0 ; 2% 2 0 0 1% 2 0 20 0 2 20 0 0 47 20 0 0 42% 2 0 0 2U 16 0 0 30% 4 0 0 9% 14 0 0 11% 2 0 0 1 2% 2 0 0 ' 4% JOINT-STOCIC Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. Australasia •••••• • • • • 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 36 Brltsh North American q. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 49 Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22 Colonial. Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27 London Joint-Stock ••• 61. per cent. 50 0 10 0 0 14 1 A Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 51% Ditto, New.• •••• • • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 National of Ireland .• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 20% Nat. Provnclal of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 9 38 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia •• •• 25 0 0 25 0 0 26% Union of L0nd0n..... 51 . per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12X mrsunANcz COnPAINIES. Dividend Amount 00 : 10; 110000 0000 14:: Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. share. £ s. d. £ e• d. Albion ••—•••• • • • • • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 72% Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 Ditto Marine ... Atlas .••.•—— • • . • • • British Commercial Glericl,3led.&Gen.Life Si. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County —— ....., grown ........... r 9s. and ' . f 61.55. lis. Eagle ....... •••• • • . ...... •• Gs. 50 0 0 5 0 0 ; , ,ti Economic Life ... -5 per ct.,} 40 006 0 0 10 1000 0 0 250 0 0 & 30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3 European Life • ...• •—5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' ... •••• • • • St. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 ' !;lobe • ....... ••• • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. 143 Guardian imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 200 Imperial Life.. .. . 12s. WO 0010 0 0 le% Indemnity Marine. ••. IL 51i. & /,e. 1,00 0 0 513 1 % Law Life ............ 1/. 58. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life 50 0 0 20 0 6.,' London Fire ......... 10s• 8 25 0 0 12 10 0 13,% . London Ship Marine Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 50 0 0 20 0 3 National Loan Fund • • 57. per cent. 20 0 - 0 210 0 2% N pa a i t i l a ti l l iu L L if i e r,, ......... 8l• per cent. 10 5 0 0 0 0 0 195 Protector Life.... —5/. par cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 28. rh.nix ........ .. 3 5 1. 1. p p c er t. c sc on b t s .. 5 2 0 5 _ Provident Life. •••• • • • 11. 55 . 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life. Royal Exchange • 57. per cent. Stock. 183 Sun Fire • ..... Ditto Life .. • • Universal Life ....... 10%1. pr cut. 100 0 6 15 - 0 14 Dopn I Dividendlona I game of Company. per I of Paid. lAnnum. Share. 1 Price. s. d ommercial .••.• • . • • 3/. per cent. Stock. Ast and West India ... pr cent. Stock. .•.;ast Country .........11. per sh. 100 0 0 London 43“• pr cent. Stock. _ _ St Katharine ! 6per cent. t stock. Southampton • ' 41. per cent. 60 0 0 ;X s. 140 21 - 120 - 109 50 0 0 2 . 4xsr or sc Dinasn COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount I Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. ---- ----- --*.-- ..Z 3 d. X . d , Bank of Scotland ••• • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 177 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 in 0 171 British Linen Company 81' per cent. 100 0 228% Commercial Bank •• •• 6/. per cent. —. 100 0 170 National Bank CI. per cent. ....„, 10 0 16 Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 98% Western Bank... • • North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.. • • Eastern Bank U. per cent. _. 15 0 11% Caledonian Bank . • Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 5 0 7i City of Glasgow Bank. 51. per cent. 8 1 0 15 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 1U H ercules Insurance C o. 71. per cent. 1100 0 0 10 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd. • N. per cent. 10 0 0 All aid. 10 North British Insur. • • 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 28 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 10 0 19 Edln. & Glas,„• , . Railway 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 69 Ditto, 54 Mares.. • . 51. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 19 Edin., 'Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 133 i Glancy 84 Ayrshir Rail. 51. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66% Glassvr &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19 Glsgw & Gamkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37% Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. $6 Standard Life Assurnce.l 51. per cent. 150 0 0 210 0 I 8 EXPLOSION at the GUNMAKERS' COMPANY'S "'ROOF HOUSE. Considerable alarm was created in the neightourhood of \Vhitechapel Church, on Saturday morning, between "ix and seven o'clock, by an explosion of a fearful cha rade taring place at the Proof-house of the Gun makers' Company, situate on the south side of Church lane, in the above vicinity, which, in addition to de stroy;ng much property, narrowly involved a melan choly loss of life. From inquiries instituted on the spot, shortly after the occurrence, it appears that several of the workmen were engaged in the workshop in a line with the street, and immediately under the magazine, charging musket, barrels with powder, for the purpose of proving them. A lad named Oldsham was so employed at a bench against the front brick wall, when it is supposed that in loading a barrel something brittle was amongst the pow der, and which causing ignition instantly fired. On the several benches were small vessels containing powder, and which at the same moment exploded, causing a shock of a, very alarming description. The whole range of windows were literally blown ont, frames and all, into a spacious yard in the centre of the pernises, and the whole of the glass in the immediate neighbourhood broken. The interior of the workshops also suffered, and the only miracle is that it did not ex ploit: the magazine ; if such had happened, as there was stored a great quantity of powder therein, the greatest injury must have been effected. The escape of those employed in that part of the works where the explcsior occurred had been most providential. They managed t ! make their way int o th e y ar d, Old s h aw being the only one injured, he having one of his fingers completely blown off, and otherwise hurt. Ho was promptly removed to the - London Hospital, where he now lies in a very unfavourable state. The_ police, on hearing the report, instantly forwarded intelligence of the fact to the brigade at Weilclose-square, and in a bri-f time a party of firemen arrived. The premi-es, ever, had net taken fire, therefore their services not rec i ttirec,l, beyond extinguishing a few spar here and there laid. The dwellin,g-heuse of waod, the manager of the prett-house, which adjo has suffered much from the shock, and the whole pe.rty is said not to be insured. The works, standi they do in a principal thoroughfare, and alino& heart of the Inetrepoill, ought to be xi...moved to tli4t:..nt par:. :s BATTLE OF THE GAUGE The" battle of the gauges," which was fought in the. House o Commons on Friday night, has ended in the temporary triumph the broad, and the disecentiture of the narrow; but the real com parative merits of the two seem to be still as undecided as the lawyers and the engineers, who reap all the profit of the coolest, could possibly desire. It is certainly very desirable that one ere. form gauge should be established upon all the lines of railway throughout the kingdom, for, however skilfully the operation may be performed, there must be both delay and risk in shifting pas sengers and goods, by " lifting the carriage off the waggon, or lifting the carriage, waggon and all, on to a truck suited to another gauge,"—a feat which, we are told by Sir Thomas Wilde, there can easily be art apparatus for accomplishing. It nevertheless does appear very necessary that before the " battle of the gauges" can be finally decided by the complete victory of either, some under. standing should be come to as to which is really to be preferred ; but this appears to be a point that will not be very easily settled. As far as can be ascertained from the evidence of the engineers— no two of whom agreed in their opinion when examined on the subject before the Parliamentary Committee—the question of the gauges is not yet ripe for solution ; and we are told by Mr. Shaw, the chairman, that though he examined every engineer on that particular point, not one would commit himself to a posi tive opinion as to what would now be the best width of gauge." It is evident, therefore, that it would be highly premature to begin tearing up existing rails for the sake of uniformity, when the plan adopted might turn out ultimately to be uniformly wrong; for though the paving people do occasionally amuse themselves by alternating between wood and stone in the great metropolitan thoroughfares —now indulging their fancy for one and now giving a turn to the other, so that the city is kept constantly in a state of semi.blockade--it would be much too expensive and inconvenient a game to be carried on with reference to railroads. The great diM. culty appears to be, how we are to get at the superiority of one gauge over the other, for the engineers will give no opinion at all; and when we rush to General Presley for relief from our perplexity we are left in greater bewilderment than before, for he recommends "splitting the difference " between the broad and narrow gauges; a suggestion which, if it is to have any weight at all, must be unfavourable to both of them. He proposes to let the gauges meet each other half way the broad gauge drawing itself le a little, and the narrow gauge making a slight advance towards its competitor ; so that, by the broad giving a few inches arid the narrow taking something less than an ell, they might both come to the same point without sacrificing the principle of either. How this important question of the gauges is to be treated we hardly know, but we are told that experience is the only test by which it can be settled. Experience, we are afraid, when used with refe rence to the safety of any principle applied to railroad travelling, is only another word for the returns cf killed and wounded. We had rather that the engineers could have made up their minds about the respective merits of the broad and narrow gauges without waiting for a table of the victims of each, and then striking a balance in favour of the one that has been attended with the smaller number of accidents. We must, however, do both the gauges the justice to say, that we think the matter would be des. tined to remain very long undecided if the sort of tables to which we have alluded were waited for, inasmuch as either may be secure with care and proper management; to the absence of which, in some degree, nearly every railway casualty that occurs may now be attributed. There is either a screw loose in some of the rails, to a waggon with four wheels has been placed among others with six, or the luggage van has been too light, or something has occurred quite irrespective of the width of the gauges, the uniformity of which Is perhaps not so indispensable to safety as it is desirable for the sake of convenience. We have little remark to make on the debate of Friday night, which was hardly conducted with that calm. ness which bespeaks the perfect disinterestedness of these who me about to cote; and by the confusion which interrupted every one who rose to speak, it was evident that most of the Hon. Members pr sent had come prepared to divide, rather than to hear or de rate. The interests involved were those of the Great Western and London Bitmingham lines; and it was clear that both of these powerful, Companies had been active in exerting their influence. It is somewhat awkward that the Select Committee and the Coin. Inittee of the BoArd of Trade should be directly at issue as to the merits of the two competing schemes, even after Air. Shaw had very ingeniously suggested a loophole to the Bard of Trade, by suggesting• that if it had Ind before it the whole of the facts it would have decided in the same way as the Select Committee had done, after sitting twanty.five days and examining more than a hundred witnesses. Sir George Clerk would not compromise the opinion of the Board of Trade, and insisted that it bad heard all that was worth bearing; which it possibly might have done with- out listening to the hundred witness power of testimony that the Committee had patiently endured, in addition to "counsel at great length "—a horror which the phrase, suggestive as it is of suffering, gives one but a faint conception of. All this, too, tor the purpose of deciding a question which, according to Mr. Shaw, the Chairman of the Committee, a glance at the map is bliffiCiClit to settle. But " counsel at great length" would soon succeed it destroying, ty their own longitude and latitude, any plain and de. finite notions derived from eglance at the map, and we are not sur-. prised at the difficulty experienced by the Committee in getting their heads clear again. We cannot quit this subject without say ing a few words about the very characteristic speech of the Pre. mien, He, indced, almost surpassed himself In tact, for he ccrn. trivet! At the ssme time to present apetition one way, vote another, and make a apeecb quite independent of either. The professor who playa the &Um, the Pandean pipes, and the triangle all at . . . _ once, is an indifferent performer compared with Sir Robert Peel who can manage three different tunes at once without any very apparent discord.— Times. ATTACK UPON AND Ai'TEMPT TO DROWN THE POLICE AT THE MOULSEY ftsice-CovaSs, 'We regret to state that some time after the conclusion of the races on Moulsey Hurst, on Thursday last, an attack of a most fearful nature was made upon the police remaining on the course, and a most determined attemp , was made to drown three of them in the river. It appears that after the withdrawal of the A division, the course Was placed in the charge of a party of constables of the V division. There was still a large number of gipsies and ether loose character; hanging about, and, towards nine o'clock, a fight was got up amongst them. The police interfered, arid took one of the corn. batants into custody, and led him to the ferry, for the purpose of conveying him to the Hampton station, there being no station at. Moulsey. At the ferry they were surrounded by a mob of be. tween three and four hundred gipsies, aial other low and despe rate characters, most of them armed with sticks, by whom the pri soner a•as rescued, and the police were dreadfully beaten. Police. constable John awls and two others were deliberately thrown , --.... into the river. Fortunately at that juncture 'assistance carne — up, and, there being several boats at hand, all three men were resued from a watery grave. Davis, when taken out, was, however, quite insensible, and was conveyed to the station at Hampton, where he was promptly attended by a surgeon. In the early part of Satur day morning the symptoms were less severe, and hopes are en tertained that his life will be preserved. The other twopolicemen, who were also thrown into the river, were severely Noised and injured by the blows they received. Since the occurrence the police authorities have captured seven of the ringleaders in the affray, who were on Saturday examined before the magistrates at Kingston. They were all remanded. PitiGHTFUL A ccIDENT.—On Saturday a frightful occurrence took place in the ship.building yard of Messrs. Wigram, Blackwell, by which a fine young man, named George King, aged eighteen years, has received such serious injuries that his life is despaired of. It appears that he was employed in oiling some portion of the machinery which has recently been erected for the manufacture of iron to be used in the construction of a steam frigate for her Majesty's Government, when by some means he became entangled in the straps attached to the drum of the engine, and he was %vilified round and round with fearful velocity for three or four minutes. His screams were heard a ll over t h e yard. The engine was stopped as speedily as possible, and the poor fellow was extricated in a dreadful condition. Mr. Baths, surgeon, was seat for, when it was ascertained that his left thigh was completely smashed, his left shoulder dislocated, and his right arm broken, besides having received several cuts and con tusions about the head, face, and chest. After receiving all the attention from Mr. Baines that his case demanded, ha was con veyed to the London Hospital. TIIE LATE INHUMAN OUTRAGE.—Mr. Fletcher, the surgeon, has pronounced the poor women Harris, whose hus band inflicted upon her such brutal and beastly injuries, a short time ago, out of danger. She was, however, not-sufficiently reco vered to attend at the petty sessions on Wednesday, where her hus band was brought up, but two magistrates, Mr. Ricketts and the Rev. W. Vernon, went to her residence at Stoke. The injured woman prayed the magistrates to bind her husband over to keep the peace. Her request was complied with, and he was ordered to find security in 50/. ; failing to do so he was committed to prison, and taken back to Worcester. The reason Mrs. Harris was anxious her husband should not be proceeded against for the capital offence was her dread that she should be obliged to go into the union workhouse, in case he were quite taken away from her.— Worcester Chronicle. Tut; IRON SrECuLATION.—The bubble has burst at o last. be bought Pig-iron, re at t, which was selling at 61. two mo n th s ago, can now 555. a ton; and is, under pre sen t c i rcumstances, , 'i a dangerous speculation even at that figure. Fine calculations appear in the papers, going to prove that iron really ought to bring 71. a ton, or more; and yet people are so blind to their own inte rests that they will persist in giving only 555., when they ought to be giving at least double. It will not do to tell us about new rail. roads going on. The iron works can provide for them as fast as the Legislature will pass their Acts. We should like the ques tion solved—What is to be done with the enormous quantity of iron now storing for behalf of speculators? How is this addi tional quantity to be got rid of ? How is our foreign trade to be recovered ? how is our home trade to be revived ? Certainly in no way but by a season of continued low prices. We wish makers would see it their interest to face the matter at once, and reduce prices to a figure that will encourage consumption at home and cause exportation to foreign countries. Instead of pursuing this course, however, they hold their meetings, and say the price is 41 Ins., when it can be bought at 555. Now this state of things cannot last. Their order books may be full now, and they may think themselves independent of prices for six months to come; but these months will pass over, and they will then End that most of the orders now executing, and most of the iron new being produced, will enter into competition with their future make, and, in all probability,. force down prices lower than ever, —Glasgow National. THAMES GRAND REGATTA. THIRD DAY (THURSDAY). The Gentlemen Amateur SettHers' Match—final heat. The Champion Prize, 100 soya., open to all the World; Four oared Boats.—Three heats; the first boat in the first heat and the two first in the second heat to row in the grand heat. The Lord Rhvensworth, of Nevi castle—A. Clasper, W. Clasper, R. Clasper, E. 1-Lawkes, and Richard Clasper, coxswain. Sons of the Thames London Crew—Robert Newel, W. Robins, J. Doubledee, W. Pocock, and E. Maynard, coxswain. Land London Crew— Thomas Coombes, Thos. Goodrum, John Phelps, Robert Coombes, and David Coombes, coxswain. The Merry Monarch, London— NV. Campbell, J. Maynard, J. Leach, F. Lett, and W. Moulton, coxswain. The Endeavour, of Hammersmith—Jas. White, Geo. Wright, Wm. Wright, W. H. Beffen, and 0. Goodrick. Silver Challenge Cup for Four.oared Boats, Gentlemen Ama teurs.--Three heats ; the first two boats in each heat to contend in the grand heat :—St. George's Boat Club, the Leander Club, Col lege of Civil Engineers, the Thetis Club, Oxford University, the Neptune Club, the Royal Academy Club, the Nautilus Club, and the Waverly Club. The 'Torts will conclude with an eight-oared " scratch" race for silver medals, In one grand heat. The races will commence at three o'clock on the first day, half an hour later on the second, and at four on the last day, and will follow tech other in rapid succession. It has been arranged, in order that the public may have an opportunity of distinguishing the boats, that each rower or crew shall come to the committee's boat, which will be stationary, a short distance above Putney-bridge, on the Middlesex side, and receive such sized colours to place in the bow of their boat as may easily be discerned. The whole of the races will be started from Putney-bridge; the sculls and pair oars finishing at Hammersmith-bridge, but the fours and eights runn ing to Chiswick Eyot. No boats will be allowed to accompany the races ; and a strong party of the police will be on the shore and on the river to preserve order. THE LATE DUEL AT GOSPORT. The following note has been addressed to us by Mrs. Hawkey; and we willingly print it, because it appears to us very essential that all the particulars of the late unfortunate affair should be be fore the public • Mrs. Hawkey presents her compliments to the editor of the Morning Post, and in reference to a recent promise of hers to him of returning to this subject at a fitting opportunity, she now, in performance thereof, begs, in the first place, to refer hint to her statement, which, by the advice and direction of her counsel in the law, she made on Tuesday last before the Coroner's inquest, wherein the great original causes of the melancholy occurrence Are put forth upon oath, with the most strict impartiality. In the second place, and with respect to the circumstances the attended the duel (of which the evidence before the inquest gives only a very partial and imperfect account, derived entirely from the adverse party), Mrs. Hawkey begs further to inform the editor on the most competent authority:— I. That the challenge emanated from Mr. Seton (and not from Mr. Hawkey), in consequence of the latter having, while the former was quitting the ball.room on the Monday night preceding, admi nistered a kick (or something very like one) to him, for having him (Mr. Hawkey) "That a light cavalry man could never 'faclion, or mix himself up with an infantry one;' or to that efilct. 2. That the challenge was hi - aught to Mr. Hawkey at half-past seven the following morning by Lieut. Bowles, Royal Navy, who on the following evening addressed a letter on the subject to Lieu:. Ward, Royal Matinee, which was speedily got hold of end sent to the press by a certain attending medical man of Mr. Salon's party, and has been already be(cre the public. This production Mrs. Hawkey leaves to the opinion and judgment of every candid and impartial reader. 3. That Col the ground Mr. Seton's antagonist received, bet did not return that gentleman's first fire. Notwithstanding which, a second pistol was put into the hands of both principals, and tile. charged, without any effort being made to arrest the affair ; the effect of the second fre was the wound to Mr. Seten, which, after the lapse of a fortnight, end a display of chirurgical skill ma the part of the attending medical men (which by some professionals of the faculty is pronounced as good, and by many bad), followed oy an operation, " the mast formidable in surgery," by one of the most eminent operators in London, terminated fatally on the 2d ye istant. Mrs. Hawkey leaves it to those gentlemen who are conversant in such affairs to determine how far the second of Mr. Se:on was, by the understood laws of duelling, justified in permitting his friend to deliver a second shot after his first shot had been received and not returned by his antagonist, who thereby received two shots, tut de— livered only one. According to the opinions of many officers with whom she has conversed on the point, it seems certain that Mr. Seton's second, instead of allowing the second shot, ought to have immediately withdrawn his friend from the ground; and that by his failing to do so, he was guilty of a dereliction of his duty as n second, which has brought upon him the awful responsibility of having been himself, in truth, the cause of the fatal termination of the duel. The -Coroner's inquest having returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Lieutenants Hawkey and Pym (by which verdict Mr. Rowles is left for the moment untouched), the case will of course go to trial before a higher tribui.al. Mrs. Hawkey will, therefore, abstain from commenting on the malignant manner in which these two unfortunate gentlemen have been pursued in their absence by certain persons of this place, and on the various means (due and undue) which have been resorted to for the object of procuring witnesses for their prosecution—matters which will be hereafter commented on by abler and more competent pens than hers, and at a pieper time and in the proper place be exposed to public animadversion by able counsel. She will merely say, that in a case of an "al'air of honour,'' she believes such proceedings are withuut the authority of example or precedent of any descrip tion. 3, King's-terrace, Southsea, June 19, 1845.—Post. The Toxophulite Society, under the patronage of his Royal Highness Prince Albert had their annual meeting, in their beautiful grounds, in the Regent spark, on Friday last, to shoot for the gold and silver medals presented by their president, the Earl o f Ayjcsfoid. The band of the Filet Life Guards attended, and there was a large assemblage of ladies , to witness the shooting, Wednesday, tile 9th of July, is fixed upon for a ball at the lodge. SMALL DENrb.7-I.urd Brougham's for the better securing the payment of small debts, provides that a creditor obtaining judgment or order iry respect of a debt not exceeding 20/. may s ummon his debtor before A Commissioner of Bankrupts or Court of Requests, &c., who may order payment cf the debt cut of the debtors' salary, pay, or pension, &C. Where several Courts exist in the sa:ne town, &c., the business is not to Le transferred from one to the other, but the superior Court alone to have juris. diction over debts of greater amount under this Act. The powers of 7th and Bth of Victoria, c. 96, are proposed to be extended to all cases of balances nut exceeding 201. Applications to commis sioners, &c., need not be made by counsel or attorney, and atii. davits in bankruptcy and insolvency may be sworn before keepers of prisons, inti rim orders to persons in custody are to be granted upon petition, without delay, and taxing effizers need not be prac— tising attorneys. • _ cleat ly ascertained that the accidents to the express trains on Tues dayRAILWAY. and Friday last were caused by the luggage vans in each case strttatcd character of those vehicles, the Directors have since come getting off the, line of rails, in consequence of the lightly.con_ to a resolution to prevent, for the future, a repetition of such accidents arising from a similar cause, by ordering that no four he for the conveyance of the luggage of the passen gers b u yt e t l e cd vans, for shall be attached to any of the cat riages. This resolution was first carried into effect cn Saturday reaming, the day alter the second accident occurred, upon which ocereion one of the heavy second class passenger six wheeled carriages Cweigh ing seven tons) was attached to the train, for the transmission of luggage, instead cf one of the Eur.wh cried vans, weighing curly three Los and a half. This plan will jet strictly adhered to in ay case of the express trains. The expenses incurred by Sir Richard Vyvyatt, M.P., Dr. Strong and family, and the other parties who have been detained at the Royal Hotel, at Slough, In consequence of the ihjuries they received by the Upsetting of the train on Tues day last, will be defrayed by the Railway Company—instructions. to that effect having been conveyed to M. Dulesio, the proprietor. DF.STRUCTION 61' BE.V iinTEEN 114ASES EY FIRE.— On Thursday evening last, about six o'clock, the inhabitants of Southmolton, Devonshire, w ere alarmed by the cry of " Fire which proceeded fr om t h e Owali eg-house of Mr. Thomas Tout, builder, or a house contiguous to it, situate in East-street, and burnt with great fury for several hours. Notwithstanding three engines were quickly on the spot, no fewer thaw 17 dwelling houses were entirely destroyed, and others partially se, and Many others unroofed. THE MARTLEIIONE VESTRY.--On Saturday, at at meeting of the Marylebone vestry, a communication was brought up from the committee connected with the Marylebone and Pad dington Hospital, in re f erence to laying the foundation stone o f that institution, on Saturday next, by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Otte resolution of the committee ras, that a draaing oC the intended hospital should be sent to each member of the Mary lebone vestry—that three or five persons should be *pointed from the vestry to cooperate with the select committee from the hos pital, and from the Paddington vestry, in making suitable arrange ments for the reception of his Royal Highiims Prince Albeit, and that transferable tickets should be presented to each member of the vestry for viewing the ceremony. The vestry expressed themselves highly satisfied with the proposals. THE MESSRS. SMITH'S CASE.—The Messrs. S m ith, subsequent to the return of the verdict, memorialised the Lords of the Treasury; from whom no answer was for some time received. Very recently, however, there came the proposal of discharging the verdict, on payment of costs and the destroying of the rectify_ ing.house. To this course, as might have been expected, consent was refused by the Messrs. Smith, who have again retitimed . th e TrefiAllYi and now await their aanfer.....didorgicr, The great meeting at Putney, which is looked forward to wish; an extraordinary degree of interest in the aquatic circles, will cone Thence to-morrow. The Committee have judiciously arranged the sport in the following order:— FIRST DAY. The Apprentices' Match, for a Coat and Badge. Three heats ; the first two boats in each heat to row in the &nal heat. First heat —Prince, Campbell, Doyle, and Stanley. Second heat—.sl`Cla.. rence, M`Kenney, George Driscol, and G. Pocock. The Tradesmen's Challenge Plate, for four-oared boats. Two heats ; the first three boats in the first heat to contend in the se. coed, or grand heat.—The Confidence Club, Richmond ; the Lam. beth Aquatic Club, the Avon Club, and the Sceptre Club. A Pair of Silver Cups, for pair -oared boats (gentlemen amateurs). Three heats ; the first two boats in each beat to row in the final heat. —Messrs. S. Wallace, Leander Club, and Peacock, Scut. lers' Clan; Messrs. Breedon and Buckle, Oxford University; Messrs. Cloves and Hill, Cambridge University ; Messrs. Strange and Cox, Oxford University Rooms; Messrs. Julius and Bumstead, Leander Club; Messrs. H. Chapman, —; and Walmsley, Nep tune Club ; Messrs. Arnold and Mann, Cambridge University; Messrs,. Dodd and Pezchey, Ariel Club. A prize of 50 soya, for watermen (scullers). Three heats. The first two boats in each heat to contend in the final one. First heat—T. Goodrum, Millbank ;D. Coombes, Milbank ;J. Leach, Vauxhall ; Bartiet, Vauxhall ; May, Westminster-bridge; Po. cock, Lambeth. Second heat—Cook, Hungerford; Kitley, Hun gerford ; Robins, Horsleydown ; Forest, Greenwich ; T. Phelps, Fulham ; T. Coombes, Milbank. SECOND DAY (WEDNESDAY.) Silver Challenge Cup for sculls (gentlemen amateurs).—Three heats. The first two boats in each to row in the third, or grand heat. The first and second heat only to be rowed cn this day. itle.ssrs. T. Scene, 'rheas Club; Russell, Cambridge Rooms; Conant, Oxford University ; S. Wallace, Leander Club; Peacock, Scullers' Club; A. M'Leod, —; Kennedy, Smilers' Club; W. M. Wes trop, —; Chapman, —; J. B. Bumstead, Leander Club; Colquhoun, Leander Club. A new wherry, given by the lessee of Vauxhall Gardens, with 601. added from the regatta funds, fur pair -oared watermen. The first two boats in each heat to row in the grand heat. Three heats. First heat—J. Phelps, Fulham, and J. Maynard, Lam beth ; C. Hill, Hungerford, and Parry, Lambeth ; R. Coombes, Milbank, and Wilson, aVaeping; Liddy, Wandsworth. and Mes. sam, Richmond ; J. Godfrey, Strand-lane, and Meakiff, Horse ferry; H. Green, Lambeth, and T. Braithewait, Hungertbrd. Second heat—R. Newil, Elcrseyelown, and Barrow, Backside; J. Doubledee, Lambeth, and C. Everard, Old Barge House; H. Shelton, Lambeth, and G. Campbell, Westminster-bridge; Max well, Custom-house, and 11. Campbell, Lerabeth; J. Dodd, Ilun gerford, and J. Everard, Mackfriars ; F. Lett, Lambeth, and Kipping, Hungerford. The Gold Challenge Cup for Gentlemen Amateurs, Eight-oared Boats. Three heats. The first boat in each heat to row In the grand heat.—St. George's Beat Clule, the Oxford University, the Neptune Club, Cara'atidge University Subseripticn-rooms. A Purse for Landsmen in Four-oared Boats. :20/. to the first, 101. to the second, and 51. to the third. Three beats. The first two in each heat to row in the grand heat.—Walker. Cotes, Mar tin, &wen, and Smith ; Greenaway, King, Sewe!, Newham, and Reeves; Sheppard, Chide, liamack, Prince, and another; Waite, G. Wright, W. Wright, Beall), Gradrick ; Cex, Pocock, Peters, Peters, and ancther ; Standerwick, Saunders, Cashey, Re. foy, and Lavender. _J "on 3 of 10w CIO s ty a te u 6 )0'