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pheric system, the impelling power is at the centre of gravity, and must, from its action, keep the train on the rails. A collision of trains, from which such disastrous results have arisen, cannot possibly take place on the at mospheric principle. Then, not to enter into any meta physical discussion of the question, how much the very consciousness of safety promotes our comfort—it may suffice to say, that the atmospheric system offers a full enjoyment of the pure atmosphere of heaven as you quietly glide on by an invisible power, and entire free dom from the clanking of cumbrous machinery, flying sparks, hot cinders, and strong sulphuretted hydrogen. Another advantage is, increased speed—the average rate of travelling by the atmospheric power being fifty miles an hour, while the highest velocity of travelling on the fastest line, by steam, is thirty miles an hour ; and, in a country where time is appreciated as property of great value, this must be considered of paramount importance did it exist alone ; but when speed can be secured at less expense, and with increased safety and comfort, no doubt can exist to which system the most decided prefer ence is to be given." In the " Game of Chess by the Electric Telegraph," there are some amusing speculations as to the singular effects that may be produced by the electric current; for example, when her Majesty visits the House of Lords, the salutes might be repeated at every sta tion in England ; instead of blowing up a ship at the distance of six miles, by one of Captain Warner's projectiles, we should be enabled to do so at the dis tance of a thousand. Humanity should compel every butcher to kill animals by electric galvanism, which would spare them all pain and suffering. There is an explanation of the signs of the Zodiac, showing how the figures are appropriated to the seasons they repre sent ; a chapter of Agricultural Chemistry ; Antista tic Printing, and various other subjects of interest or instruction. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE. This magazine is full of practical information on all subjects connected with agriculture. The present number contains reports of the meetings of the Royal Society, the Farmer's Club, and the exhibition of im plements, the continuation of " Chemistry for Far mers," and directions for draining, manures, fatten ing stock, &c. There is an engraving of " Emma," a short-horned heifer, who gained the first prize at the York cattle-show in 1842 ; but the principal fea ture for this month is the portrait of Dr. Liebig, and the sketch of his life by Dr. Smith, formerly one of his pupils. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The principal engraving for this month represents that anxious and exciting moment, the " Starting for the Derby." The impatient spectators are grouped around, while the jockeys are endeavouring to form their horses in a line—no easy task, as may be seen by the eager, restless movements of the excited ani mals. They understand, as well as their riders, the object of the race, but they cannot see the necessity of " starting fair," and thus, like many of their betters, they retard, by their over-impatience, the moment they desire. It is a hard matter to win a race, but it is a yet harder task " To curb the fiery steed In emulation's eager speed." The literary department ia, as usual, confined to sport ing pursuits. "Le Chasseur au Chien d'Arret," is both instructive and amusing; it consists of some prac tical advice given to the young sportsman on the field of action, delivered in a quaint and humorous style. " One Cheer more for the - Game-laws," is, of cou?se, an attempt to excuse, or at least extenuate, the sever} r?gulltions for preserving game. There are some useful remarks " On the Effects of Weight on flore:." by Harry Ilitover ; anecdotes of foreign lar i ds, and the usual routine of " Sporting Intelli x' PflCB 171 E ..ETV SPORTING MAGAZINE. The engravings t - ir this mouth consist of a spirited shetcli of " Salmon Fishing in the Ilighla,nds " and " Dead Beat," an illustr.ltion of one of the most no ;u: lqy accidents that can hefal the hunter. The noble having strained every nerve to the uttermost, stiil and lifeless on the ground, while his unfor tunafq master stands helpless by his side. To judge froul expression of his face, the sutreringi of his horse do not excite much sympatii:4,-; instead of ex claiming with Fitz-James— " Wo worth the chase, wo7werth the day, Th a t:e G st, thy life, my gallant grey," ho seem' disappointed at l:ing left behind, and uzzied how to act. The literary department is full of variety. 1' ere is an interesting account of otters and otkr- hounds, some amtning anecdotes of elephant hunts, and numerous articles on fishing, yachtin:7, poaching—in short, on every subject likely to in terest or instruct the sportsman. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. his Royal highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back, attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Iligliness.es the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken air ings yesterday in an open carriage and four, accompanied the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in re-building the Palace of Westminster, met. in one of the Committee ftnis of the House of Commons at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, his Royal High ness Prince Albert presiding. The Prince and the CommiAsioners, attended by Mr. Barry the architect, and Mr. Eastlake, the Secretary of the Commission, went over the building of the new H,,uses of Parliament. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel liTylde, left at five o'clock, when the Commissioners broke nil, The Commissi mers present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Lord Mahon, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, -ud Mr. Hallam. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Sir Ri chard Westmacott with a visit yesterday afternoon, at his residence in South Audley-street. The Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Vis countess Jocelyn as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. And Captain the Hon. Arthur Duncombe has succeeded Sir Frederick Stovin as the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Prince of Leiningen visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Serene Highness also paid visits to their Royal High nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Prince George, and the Grand Duchess Ste phanie of Baden, at their respective residences. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite in cluded the Marchioness of Douro, Lady Caroline Cocks, Viscount Sydney, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (at tended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson) also honoured the Opera with her presence. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dow ager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The christening of the infant Earl of Angus and A rran, son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, took place at one o'clock yesterday afternoon, in the presence of a select circle, in St. James's Chapel, Pad dington. Among the company present were her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Douglas, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Earl and' Countess of Lincoln, Viscount and Viseountess Canning, Mr. and Lady Louisa Os wald, Baroness de Strumfeder, and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein. After the ceremony all the company present returned with the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas to their residence in Connaught-place, where a dejeune was served to the distinguished party. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar was present at the christening. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Glou cester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Pridce Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl visited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday, at Cambridge House. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz visited the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden yesterday, at the Duke of Hamilton's residence, in Portman-square. The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden honoured the French Ambassador and the Countess St. Aulair with her comp a ny nat dinner yesterday, at the residence of the Embassy, in Manchester-square. Her Royal Highness Was attended by Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron de Schreckenstein. Mr. King, from the National Bank of Ireland, and a deputatio nl h a d an interview with the Chancellor of ti e Exchequer Yesterday, at his official residence in Down g:street.. Earl Cathcart had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial -office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, held a mee ting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitqaall plane. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, St. David's, Ely, Gloucester and Bristol, Lichfield, Lincoln, Rochester, and Worcester, the Lord President of the C ounc il, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of INsborough, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Right Il7lu. John Nichol!. Mr. Stafford O'Brien, Mr. Pusey, and Mr. GiThert John Heathcote, had an interview yesterday with Ole Chancellor of the Exchequer. The French Ambassador transacted business yester day at the Foreign office. The Earl of Chichester had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley. Lady Peel left town yesterday `'or Drayton Manor, Stafford:hire. The Postmaster-General and the Chairman of the xeise had interviews with the Chancellor of the Ex- ehectuer yesterday. Dispatches from the Governors of the West India Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial office. Dispatches were received in the afternoon from the Go y* rnor of Hong-Kong. Dispatches were sent off yester day from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Talkland Islands, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar. The additions which her Majesty has made to the Osborne estate, Isle of Wight, by purchase of contiguous property, :o.nprises the Woodhouse estate, which includes the Idea Wight acecourse, and the whole of the land from Osborne and Barton to King's Quay creek, The Woodhouse estate was the property of the Hon. W. H. A'Court Holmes, M.P. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON !-GRAND OPENING FETES. First Exhibition of the Colossal Pictorial Representation suggested by H. It. 11. PRINCE ALBERT. Under the Patronage of her most Gracious MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, &c. &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. NOTICE.—The extreme unfavourable state of the weather ren dering it impossible to complete the unprecedented Pyrotechnic dis play, the OPENING IS UNAVOIDABLY POSTPONED TILL WHIT-MONDAY, the 12th Inst. A magnificent modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, the Pride of Scotland and of Scotchnien, and the immortal Scott's "Ain Romantic Town," introducing the 041 and New Town, the Nor' Loch, as it formerly existed, the Calton 11111, Nelson's Monument, Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craggs, the Castle, Sir Walter Scott's .Monu ment, the Royal Institution, Holyrord Palace, and all the most inter esting features of" Auld Heckle." The Proprietor had the honour of submitting the Model to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and he is :I.:lighted to Say it met with his most decide and perfect approval, and from the more than usual care which has been observed in its execution, he points it out as the happiest production of Mr. Dausfm's pencil. The drawings were made by Mr. Danson on the spot, and present a bird's-eye view of the principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, so decidedly popular at this Establishment, will this season be on an unusually effective scale. Mr. GODFREY has been occupied since the cIOSSOf lag summer, in com posing and arranging a varied and pleasing Succession of superior Novelties, which will be produced in rotation, including souse Ori ginal Pieces by Foreign Compe.Fers, not ye: ;:ertbrmed in this co*tutiv ....` - • . . . . . At Dusk will takeplace the must catraoldlua:y Lxinbitton of FIREWORKS ever attempted. TL't entire of in... , Gigantic 2lodel wilt he Illuminated. The ditlerent eft:vices in front of the houses, the tires t„, the Calton Ilill, Arthar's Seat, and the serrounding Monti :tans, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoieini.,'s wh;ich took place on her Majcsty's Visit wits he accurately pow teayLd. And, as a Finide, a grand Aquatic lict , al and Patriotic Tableau, Fitly Feet hi height, ti,ii bu exhibited hi the 'centre 01 the Lake r . The Portraits or lier Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame , ,and surrounded by: emblems imd ..ther Ocvici,i trill be in traluced. The Tableau designed tuol executed l , y Mr. Dansou. 11 " bee" to giVing efft.,Ct to t 1;!.. Mr. Southlty matchless and sti;.erli design, which cues..; th, D'A :ice, the salute arul Discharge or Itoelads Crum it-;•1 ;-,r iomuling lodging, will form the most br.lliant Y totectinii, Displa dyer witnessed. Feeding of the Catittvora, at hai....past Four ; uis, s„, Five: Concert, at Six; and Pyratecluh.i tr,litay at \ kdiris.,i(4l. SlLlltlit: DARING ROBBERY.—On Saturday afternoon, be tween four and five o'clock, Mr. E. Turner, of the Rising Sun, Brooksby.street, Barnsbury.road, Islington, was robbed of a small cash-box, containing notes and gold to upwards of 110/. The robbery was effected by three men, who were hanging about the house for some time, and of whom he had received a quantity of silver, for which he returned gold, and having occasion to go to the cellar a short time afterwards the robbery was (Alerted. He unfor. tunately exhibited his cashbox at the time of giving change, which the thieves took note of, and having left it in the bar prim', in his absence, they secured it and got safe Mt THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1845. TAGE.-WESTMACOTTS CRITICAL A. CATALOGUE of ALL the PAINTINGS in the ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. coniplunlent, surely the Admiralty is demoralising the spirit of the general service. Now, let us see what is the evidence to this vital matter of the " manning" from other quarters ; and DOUBLE ITS USUAL SIZE ON SATURDAY NEXT, May 10. THE NEW AGE is full of Original Articles—Political, Literary, and Dramatic. Office, corner of York-street, Catherine-street, Strand, where Advertisements are requested to be sent before Nine o'clock on Friday night. (always bearing in mind what are the grave pos sibilities, we should be sorry to write " probabilities," of a naval collision in the Western Hemisphere) what are the very important bearings which the question assumes in the event of such a war, and on the honour and prosperity of this country ? From an officer of the Superb, Sir C. NAPIER had learned that there were on board that large man-of war not more than forty able seamen. " Well behaved" men there were, in plenty ; but they knew nothing of naval affairs; and so it was with most of our ships of the line. The men were anxious to do their duty, but the crews were of inferior quality. Yet we could obtain as good men as any navy ever boasted by setting about the object after a right manner. We find it impossible to deny the grievous discouragement which seamen—who are naturally enough animated by the hope of re alising their hard-earned prize money—must ex perience under such scurvy treatment and cruel disappointments as they had lately to encounter in respect of their successful operations on the coasts of Syria and of China. But we cannot reconcile, with the conduct of any great State department, con ducted by people of common sense, or having but an ordinary acquaintance with the universal impulses of human nature, the perseverance of our Admiralty in any system of admitted annoyance and injustice to the men at a period of such pregnant eventfulness as the present. The Government was broadly ac cused by Sir CHARLES NAPIER of being afraid to issue a proclamation for able seamen to come forward, under the probability of a war, because they would have to pay 101. bounty to each. For, since there should be 40,000 men in the navy, the whole bounty would amount to 400,0001., which the CHANCELLOR of the ExcnEgunn would not like to pay. Whilst scores and hundreds of thousands are laid out by a willing CHESTER CUP. EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS. IF OUR ARRANGEMENTS " COME OFF ALL RIGHT," THE WINNER OF THE CHESTER CUP THIS AFTERNOON (WEDNESDAY) WILL APPEAR IN OUR PAPER THIS EVENING, BETWEEN EIGHT AND TEN O'CLOCK. Sun•ojfice, 112, Strand, May 7, 1845. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 50; Noon, 49. BAROMETER, 29.77.—Wnzn, N. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the ::hermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 23 minutes after 2 I Evening 41 minutes after 2. country on the palaces and establishments of royalty, how ever, there must be no question as to finding 400,000/.'for bounty to able seamen, wherever else the money is to be economized, whenever the emergency arises. And since impressment, in the present state of public opinion, and (let us be candid to ourselves, and look our own exi gencies in the face) of our political relations, would be absolutely impracticable on any great scale, it is well that we should accustom ourselves to contemplate the scale, at least, of the alternative we may have to adopt. That alternative will have all the advantages of being a con stitutional, a most popular, and most efficient one; and we may depend upon it, it will determine the event of any naval struggle, were it against the whole maritime powers of the world, at once in our favour. There would be no danger of complaint of a deficient supply of able seamen; we might rather fear to have to encounter a redundant mass of applicants. It seems that a paper was recently laid before the American Congress which showed that, out of 115,000 men in the whole naval mer cantile service of the United states, 100,000 were fo reigners. Of these probably 90,000 are Englishmen, who, said the same Gallant Of►cer from whom we have just quoted, "in case of war, would leave that service and come into the English, provided a proper remunera tion was held out, and the slavish mode of impressment was not resorted to." . Mr. CHARLES WOOD, the late Whig Secretary to the Admiralty, assured the House that never since 1835 was the fleet of this country in so weak and defenceless a state, as during the last year. When we read such statements, pronounced by such men, we can scarcely suppose that we are not dreaming; so impossible does it seem to us to believe that men in one of the most re sponsible posts of public service, and with a full know ledge of all the threatening aspects of the political ho rizon around them, can thus have been tampering with the duties of their station and their trusts. Lord IN GESTRE, in fact, confirmed Mr. WOOD'S assertion—for he complained that last year, only, the Cornwallis, and another ship, was sent out without their full complement of either men, guns, or arms. If Mr. SIDNEY HER BERT imagines that his very jejune assurances to the Home that these things were so, because the Govern ment did not think there was any necessity for adding to the strength of our home service, and that on foreign stations our ships were all fully manned, will countervail the impression produced by the speeches produced by Sir CIZARLES NAPIER, Captain PECHELL, Lord INOESTRE, and Captain BERKELEY, he is very egregiously deceived. We do implore every Member of the House of Com mons, of whatever party, considering the feverish state of many of our relations, both in the Old World and the New, not to relax one effort or any ore eligible oppoi to o it y, to keep up the Admiralty to the practical redemption of the fell pledge which we conceive Sir GEORGE COCK BURN to have given to the full manning of all our ships of war, and the perfect equipment of all our sea-going ships. Whatever the defects and errors of the past, we are willing to hope everything of the future from the undertakings of an officer of so distinguished a profes sional reputation. and personal character as Sir GEORGE COCKBURN. Admiral DIFSDAS has addressed a letter to one of his constituents, in which he gives certain reasons for changing his opinion, or, more properly speaking, his vote, on the Maynooth grant. Among other reasoa, he states that he " voted for the intoduction of the Bill, and for Mr. WARD'S motion, in the hope that the funds to pay the proposed grant would be defrayed from the super abundant revenues of the Protestant Church of Ireland: , _Now, if the Gall ant Admiral voted for the introduction of the Bill on any such grounds, he could not have heard the speech .of Sir ROBERT PEEL ; and no man in the kingdem but himself r entertained even the slightest hope that Mr. W . ARD s Emotion would be carried. Were other Liberal Mei nbers, who have stood to their principles with such unflinc'hing firmness, to imitate this example, the measure wo old be defeated, and all hopes of con ciliating Ireland Lie utterly destroyed. We care not for words. It is easy to talk about a j ust appropr i at i on of Church property , . a fair and liberal registration, and an addition to the number of Irish Members in the United Patiiarnent ;. but can these objects . 3 f justice is granted ? From several be obtained now , and is nothing to be done--is we are led to believe that some not even an instalment .. to be accepted, till . 2 t o er, good . of Ireland has led to this courage is a . much nobler quality than change. i e a u nn s g v allusions sls whole A n ftoh t the le amountlet physical courage. For the faithful discharge of Parlia mentary duties it is indispensable, an d p er h aps i t i s equally indispensablein an officer appointed 74 to any important commantl in her MAJESTY'S service. Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have been received. They are chiefly fi Lled with accounts of the magnificent fete given by Queen CHRISTINA at Vista Alegre on the anniversary of her birth-day. The following persons have been appoint( sd Gentlemen of the QUEEN'S Bed chamber:—Colonel. Pedro Quiros, brother to the Mar quis do Santiago, 5. Jose de Salamanca, M. Jose Maria Huet, Brigadier Norzagaray, M. Jese Maria Monreal, and M. Chacon, Political Chief of Madrid. The Spanish Government have forbid the entrance into Spain from France of all descriptions of beasts of burden, as it fears that the malignant disorder now raging amongst cattle in certain parts of l Germany, and which is said to have made its appearances in the south of France, may extend into Spain. - The Three per Cents. closed at 35 for cash, and 35 9-16 at GO days ; the , Five per Cents. at 25 15-16 at GO days ; the Coupons, at 28f at 60 days ; and the Debt without interest at 8j for cash, and 9 at 60 days. The French Cha tuber of Deputies commenced on Monday the discussi , m of the Bill for arming the forti fications of Paris. Several Members spoke against the measure, but the del /ate excited no interest, and indeed so little regard was paid to the spe&ches that at one period of the sitting; the noise of conversation drowned the voice of the speaker, and he appealed to the Pre sident for protection. General LEYPET opposed the Bill, because he cm isidered the measure unnecessary. At Vincennes there were guns and mortars enough to mount the walls, but. independent of that he thought it exceedingly ill-timed to make these warlike prepara tions in a time of pr nfound peace, and when there was every appearance that peace would be preserved with all the nations of Eur ape. M. CoRNE also opposed the Bill on two grounds. The expense he thought enormous, and one-'half of the sum of 17,000,000 f. would be quite sufficient. Besides, Paris was not like other strong places, and the contest should be made, not at the walls of the capital, but on the frontiers. M. Daltu spoke on the other side, and said the fortifications, without guns and stores, would be entirely useless—rnewely masses of stone and mortar. M. LAS rEYRIE was mot suprised that Frenchmen viewed this scheme with su , picion while so littl e was done on the frontiers to repel an invading army , and Alsace was left open to foreign attacks. It was generally believed, however, that the sura would be voted, but with certain restrictions. The National can see no real danger to the inhabitants of Paris from these fortifications. They will only have a moral effect, and tend to repress any aspirations after liberty unwelcome to the existing Government. " On the k as; reflection," says that journal, " it will be admitted that the cannon placeti :u the fora c,r on the conlini.ou6 wall could never be employed but to put down - a revolu- tion ; but, although powerless as effective means they may become very perilous as means of prevention. Per suade an entire population that at the first disturbance Paris will be bombarded; render this fear general, espe cially among those who have houses and shops—among the bourgeoisie who possess property—and you will see the whole of that bourgeoisie turn with violence against those who should have been excited to revolt by an attempt against the national sovereignty. This is what has been calculated upon. It was, above all, the moral effect that was aimed at—it is by preventive intimida tion that it is hoped to prevent revolution, and to secure the strongest chances by placing beforehand the timid on the side of the Government." The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers A letter from Lucerne of the Ist, informs us that the elections for the Grand Council of that State had commenced, and were proceeding in favour of the Liberals. Ia the town of Lucerne, out of seven members returned, six are of the Liberal party. The same letter gives an account of a curious sentence, at Nidwald, upon a Lieut. Nermaun, who had joined the free corps in the attack upon Lucerne. He is condemned to stand in the public market-place forfour hours with a rod in his hand, then to be slogged with it, and afterwards to be imprisoned for six months, during which he is to receive " religious instruction." I Serious disturbances have taken place at Villalon, six leagues from Valencia. The inhabitants of this little town have always been addicted to smuggling, and their houses have had the reputa tion of being filled with smuggled goods. Lately, the civil guard having attempted to seize some articles, four of them were killed. As soon as General Manso, the Captain-General of Valladolid, heard of this, he proceeded to the town at the head of five battalions of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and a company of engineers, and occupied the place on the 22d. He immediately published severe orders, calling upon the inhabitants to deliver up their arms and the smuggled goods which they possessed. The leaders took to flight, and the rest gave in. Upwards of 300 muskets were taken, and visits were being made to seize the goods when the last ac counts left. Two of the men sentenced to death at Ravenna were guillo tined on the 19th, and the punishment of the third, who was under age, has been commuted into the galleys for life. They were con victed of having resisted the officers of the law, and killed a briga. dier of carabineers and a soldier of a Swiss regiment quartered at Ravenna. Eighteen of their accomplices have been condemned to the galleys for different limited periods. The French Three per Cents. closed on the Lth at 85f. 70c.; the Five per Cents. at 120 f. 40c. ; Orleans shares, 1,210 f. ; Rouen, 1,082 f. 50c. ; Havre, 8651 ; Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Basle, 270 f. ; Spanish Actives, 40-4. ; Spanish Three per Ceut., 42 ; Spanish Passives, 7i. The following are the quotations of shares for the new lines : Orleans and Bordeaux, 225 f. premium; Boulogne, 170 f. pre. mium; Troyes and Montereau, '7sf. ; Paris and Lyons (Lafhtte) 7f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons (Caton), 2f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron), 10f. ; Northern Line (Laffitte), 30f. ; Ditto (Ro samel), Bf. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 15f ; Diva (Drouillard), par; Ditto (O'Neill), 15f ; Ditto (Jacques Lefevie ), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 30f. 50c.; Ditto (Talabot), 32f. 50c.; Ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 15f.; Ditto and Cette (Espeleta), 16f. 25c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, 2f. 50c. LYONS, Malt 2.—Avignon and Marseilles, 9851., end of May; Paris and Orleans, 1,195 f. cash; Paris and Rouen, 1,002 f., end of May; Orleans and Vierzon, 795 E, ditto; Orleans and Bor deaux, 671 f., ditto; Boulogne, 621 f., ditto; Nismes and Mont pelier, 595 f., ditto. Lady Charles Wellesley's accouchement took place on Mondly at Apsley Huse, when her Ladyship was 2afely delivered of a soil. HER AIAJEsTI'S VISIT TO TIIE ISLE OF WIGHT.— Her Majesty aed Prince Albert intend proceeding to Osborne House, her Majesty's late purchase at the Lie of Wight, on Monday next, going down to Gosport by special train on the South-Western Railway, aid en) - barking from the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard on board the Lightning steam tender, which vtssil is or dered round from Woolwich specially for the purpose of conveying the royal party to the island. Her Majesty's stay at Osborne, we believe, will be short, the only object being to inspect the arrangements being made, and to determine on such now alterations and improvements in the house and estates necessary and befitting the marine residence of the Sovereign.: THIS DAY'S NEWS CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) DAILLIE V. INNES-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, which was argued some time since, and the question in which related to certain extensive West India property. The case came before his Lord ship upon appeal from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England overruling exceptions to the Masters' report, and a decree pronounced upon further directions. His Lordship, after goiug at some length into the facts of the case, stated his opinion to be that the judgment of the Court below was correct, and must be affirmed with costs. The Court then proceeded to hear appeals. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The COURT took eauses to.olay, none of which were of any public interest. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND). His HONOUR took short causes to-day, but in consequence of the absence of Mr. Stuart and Mr. Bethell the Court disposed of but few of the cases on the paper, and rose shortly before 11 o'clock. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIOHT BRUCE.) His HONOUR took baakrupt petitions to-slay, but no case of inte rest came before the Court. (Before the Vice-Chancellor Wm ßem.) His HONOUR took causes to-day. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) Ditto New Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 /.. ...... 73 8 1 / c 4 7 3 / 1 Chester and Holyhead... 5 (hurnet Valley Cork and Waterford ... 1 1 / 2 2 1% Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 2 1 / 2 ll Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway..... 2 1 / 2 4i/ 3%i/ 8 Dublin and Mullingar. . °I/ 2 4% % Eastern Counties 25 .. 20 Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2 Eastern Union l5 ... 2 3 11: 11 3 3 4% 19 Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of Seotland 2% 2 34 Great North of England..loo 196 Ditto New 5 43 Harwich Hull and Selby 5O lO7 109 Do. Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (Stock) — Do. 14 Shares Do. New Thirds London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d. 9 % % 9 London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d 1 8 14% :... lB% London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d — London and S. Western 4 1 / 6 s 10d 78 1 A Do. New London and York 2% ...... 4106% 1 4 3 4 4 3 ji Londonderry & Coleraine 2% 3 7 / 8 Lynn and gly 6% Manchester and Birmin. 40 Midland 100 Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby 100 ll7 115 ll5 Newcastle and Darling ton 3 unction..,„ ..... 25 ...... Do: New Brandling... 10 Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 Newry and Enniskillen. 2% ....,• 4 3 / 4 5 North British Northern and Eastern... 45 North Kent Newark and SLeffield ... 1%...... •• Perth and Inverness ... 2% — Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Scottish Midland 1 %...... 376 4 Shrews., Wolverhtunp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 4%%... South Eastern &Dover 3312 s 4d... 40 39% Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Staines and Richmond... 1 South Wales .. ... 2 1 ,1 5 3 /4 South Devon l5 ...... Trent Valley 2 ...... West End and Southern Counties . 1 1 ..... West Cornwall 1 .i r „.. .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth Yarmonth and Norwich. 20 York and North Midland 50 Do. Extension PA 16% FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 4 ..... 10 1 ,1 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Great North. of France.. 4 Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 214_, Jamaica Junction l% Lyons and Avignon Louvain and Jenoeppe ... 2 ... • 4% 3 4 Namur and Liege Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 .. . 1511 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 1076 %... ...... . Over Yssel 413 s 4d ',//4 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 4 Paris and Lyons, Gan .. Paris &L ' yons, (Calon's) 2 Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 _21,4 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse ..... 4 ... 10 974 , JOINT STOCK BAN liFoti British North American 50 .. Colonial 25 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 .... Union of London, 181} 2% 196 1 1 4 109 24 28 1 / 2 14% 17 3 / 4 C 6 43/ 39% 13% GIA _ 1% 3 4 1 4%... 412, 29 16 3 4 MIA 2% TO. ••• ••• 4 ';% 234 10 1 4 2'1,4 28 3 A 1036 45 1 % 15 , 47 124 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS. ItAIL u k ) CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 20,000 bales, without any change in prices. Speculators took about two- (T ' taILS. thirds. Cotton was freely offered. Shares were generally quiet. Barnsley Junction, 3% 3 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 1% 1 3 4 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester Junction, 9 1 % ; Bir mingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Belfast and i&alymena, 8 ; Caledonian, 10%! ; Ditto Extension, 3% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7 7% ; Chester and Birkenhead, 50 50 1 / 2 ; Ditto, New Shares, 42% 45 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 24 25 1 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 17% ; Churnet Valley, 6 3 / 4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3%; Cork and Bandon, 6% ; Dublin and Galway, 5 3s. 9d. ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlcne, 3 1 /, ; Eastern Counties, 19%, with new; Edin burgh and Perth, 15s. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 295. ; Glas gow and Ayr, Quarter Shares, 8 3 / 4 ; Grand Junction, 232 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 58 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 3 % 20% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 6 1 / 2 ; Great North of Scotland, 3 3 1 /$ ; Great Southern and Western Extension, 1314 ; Limerick and Waterford, 8% 8 ; Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 565. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 32% ; Lononderry and Coleraine, 3% ; London and York, 4% 919. ' • Direct Northern, 665. 3d. 3%; Leeds and Dewsbury, 10% ; Leeds and Thirsk, ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 1 / 6 1 /, ; Manchester and Bir mingham, New Quarter Shares, 5% - 5%; Manchester and Buxton, 5%; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, , 5 3 / 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 144% 145 ; Midland Railway, 156 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 18 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 5 with new ; Newcastle and Ber wick, 15% ; Newry and Enniskillen, 4%; North Kent, 6 ; North Western, 4% 4%; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 91s. 6d. 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 2%; Runcorn Gap, Preference Shares, 35% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 121 119 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5 1 /, ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% ; South-Eastern and Dover, 33% 40 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 6 3 / 4 % ; Scottish Cen tral, 7% 7%; Trent Valley, 18 1 % ; Ditto Continuation, 2 1% ; Welsh Midland, 2% ; West Yorkshire, 8% 8; Worcester and Tring, 4% ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2% ; York and Carlisle, 3 3 4 1 / 2 ; Great Paris and Lyons, 395. ; Northern of France, English and French, 5% 5% ; Ditto (Rosamel's), English, 2% ; Paris and Lyons, English (Laffitte's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Ganueron's), 51s. 6d. 51s. ; Paris and uen, 4214 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 38s. 6d ; Verona and Ancona, 48s. 6d. 508. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 6.—The sales are :—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 3 1 % s ; Barnsley Junction, 4 3% ; Belfast Ballymena, and Carrickfergus, 8% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% ; Black burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 1 1 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11 , Bristol and Exeter, New Shares, ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ; Churnet Valley, 614 ; Clitheroe Junction, 3 3 / 4 1 . 2 prem. ; Dublin and Galway , 4% • Glasgow and Dumfries, 275. Ed. ; Great Grinn,by and Sheffield Junction, 5 1 , 1, %ex new; Hud dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 7%; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 11%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 1 4 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 37 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 11-16 3 4 ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 33 32 1 / 2 ; London and Wor cester, Oxford and Rugby, 4 5-16 ; Manchester and Bir mingham' New Quarter Shares, 7%; Manchester and Bux tot 5% ; Newark and Sheffield. 5; North Wales, 3 1 ,4 ; North Western, 5% 5; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% 7-16 ; Scottish Central, 7 1 / s ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 395. 1 15-16 ; South Eastern, No. 1, 15 ; Ditto, No. 2, 14% ; Trent Valley, 18; Ditto, Continuation and Holyhead Junc tion, 3 1 ' ; West Yorkshire, 8 1 4 1 / 2 ; Whitehaven and Fur ness, 2 ; Paris and Lyons (English), 2%. There are accounts of the middle of January from Sydney, which furnish the revenue returns for the year ending 31st December last. These exhibit a very decided falling off, the total income being 249,0571., or 45,165/. less than in 1843. The only increase was on tobacco, distillery licenses, and assessments of stock. Trade was steadily improving, and better prices were realised for most imports. A copy of the official notice by the Government of Buenos Ayres, enforcing a still stricter blockadc, of Monte Video. is posted at the hell of Commerce, and excites a good deal of attention on the part of those connected with the trade to that part of the - world, and a good deal of anxiety is felt to ascertain whether our Government really will use proper ex ertions to forward a termination of the war. The English Stock Market continues rather flat, and there is still rather a disposition to sell. Consols have been 98% % for Money, and 98% 3 4 for Account, being the turn lower than yesterday. Exchequer-bills have realised 565. to 545. premium. The New Three- and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 100 1 ,4 to %. The Foreign Securities have been very dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 30%, and the Three per Cents. 41%. Portuguese Converted have been marked 67% ; Mexican Stock has been at 36% to 37%. An average business is doing in Railway Shares, but they are not buoyant. Churnet Valley have been as low as 5% ; Caledonian are firm; North Kent have been at 5; London and York have improved to 4% ; Direct Northern are without alteration ; West-End and Southern Counties Junc tion are 1% to % premium ; South-Eastern are much the same. French Shares are firmer. Group F. LONDON, WORCESTER, AND SOUTH STAFFORD SHIR RAILWAY. This Committee met to.day at twelve o'clock, the Righ t gen ' F. Shw in e cair. The a room th was h immediately cleared ow the reassembling of t he Committee. On our return, The CHAxeasaN intimated that with the report of the Beard of ' Trade, the statement of counsel, and the maps before thelnr the Committee considered they had sufficient before them, specting trails, without going further into that question. Mr. AUSTIN replied that there was no dispute between the Great Companies respecting the sufficiency of the traffic to Stir port a line of railway in the district, yet there were peculiarities in the kind of traffic which would require witnesses be examined about it, in order to do justice to his case. After an understanding being expressed tha t the e h eh doing on traffic should be abridged as much as possible, consistenly wit W.- 8 .. justice to the subject of inquiry, the examinatio n of witnesses resumed. Mr. R. Smith, mining agent to Lord Ward, was first eXarained' There were 22 blast furnaces on his Lordship's eette. Lord Ward's mining property was situated Prin ci P eni tre the parish of Kingswinford. The get of iron stone this coaltity ofan and iron limset,o to oe thehe raemwo district was 1,400,000 tons yearly. In the blasting of a u s n amount required i 4 r quantity of material annually in motion would be about 5, 62° ',d tons. The daily material in motion was 16,21 tons, the hourly 1,333. The export trade of the district an 224,000, principally to the north, and on the n arrow gs , e 2 d l2 o , t o h o e o r tmonterials, principt. dot , He considered the narrow gauge best suited torche e fini as it would prevent the change of carriages n c 8„: coal. The coal of the district was very friable, and e ", g atlf• it from one waggon to another would depreciate it e d it Hitherto they had depended on the canal, but he con sidB o r dhid insufficient. He was a shareholder in the Canal CornPa n Y' 8 s aute also become a shareholder in the Railway CompanYs froM the er, feeling that had induced him to be a shareholder a the 1 0111 1 t he the desire of affording the fullest possible accommodation to De. district. He considered from his experience, that eninP etitio nres t Altogether ;on; tween canals was injurious, and s thought it better that Govern e. should regulate the rates of traffic for the protection of the Pu o 00 Mr. WIIATELEY was proceeding to cross-exami ne this AM° • IIIP ee" )behalf of certain shareholders of the Itirminghan3 CO" - (1° when our report left. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ..... ........ New 34 per Cents 100 1 /.3 1 4% 1004 Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 , / 4 5-16 11 5-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 , ll% 11 1 / 2 India Bonds, 1,0001 ... .. 68 Ditto under 1,0001.. ... South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Bank Stock for Account... ...... Consols for Account.... 210 985 Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 / 2 d. 56 54 pm. 56 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICE& 89 1 A 43 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. 1 ißrazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 42 Chi Han Bonds 6 per Cent.— . Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela — Mexican, 5 per Cent. IS7 Ditto, Account 371i_36% 371 36 5 - 3 Ditto. Deferred Ditto, Debentures . • Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted — Ditto, Account 6 7 .4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840, Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. - • ... Ditto, Account .- 41% 4. Belgian Bonds, 4 1 /, per Cent — 98 3 / 4 Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certudc 97% 9734' PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAY SHARES PRICEs. Aberdeen /2 4 Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 23, 7 , 1 Birming. and Gloucesterloo 136% 136 137... 137 Ditto 1,4 Shares Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10 Bristol and Exeter 7O Group 00. 'n o°ll3 This Committee reassembled at twelve o'clock this dal , , Dir• 17. Present, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Chairp3ane Divett, Mr. Hussey, Lord Ingestre, and Mr. G. W. AIL THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND (BRIDLINGTON BRANCH.) the 1"92 Immediately after the Committee took their s— ats was ordered to be cleared. i and 10' After a brief deliberation, the parties were e311.5-formed formed by _A die AO' The CHAIRMAN, that the Committee having consider.' the pled " • ments for and against the compensation clause clat f op inion Bridlington Pier and Harbour Commissioners, they wer e ° As ia' O f that there were no grounds for inserting in the Bill a I o * - compensation. The clauses were then gone through and ea P epe The CHAIRMAN said he would report ' that the b through. Group N. WEST CORNWALL. Mr Rowe said he had only been informed Yeste ri ' Y -ad. On the assembling of the Committee efte t r a t r; , that it was the intention of the promoters of the Bill to o. re pte' terminus close to the mansion of Lord Vivian, whoM he destroy; stled. His lawn and pleasure-grounds wou:d thus be ;000 and as the line would come immediately under his drsslo to windows, and destroy the foundations of the house, b e .. ortt apply to the Committee to take steps to prevent themee— e 0 04 Ir oner , ing this intention into effect. The termini of railway and delineated on the maps of the House of Commons, an . ° 0 1 ° quently he might be labouring under an erroneous iinP re f 1110 a` the intentions el the promoters of the Bill. He did not ify c'' P he ter. his Learned Friends, for they were not bound to ,Pea 1 ~ minus in question on the map. id tbe' Mr. B i acne m, on the part of the promoters of the B ill, 58 OO P' never ,he t e was in i n o u n s y i n intention eghnii,p o tw. f intruding e be er e on his e n Lords P ui l b :r o t ' ,l n t l, p th a e rTk i t. : g r e u act r eo o sin C enif reek, within the limits of the town, an d bel° i h tt is ee L y pointed out, and the wa should take his own course. gg Cor a ' Mr. Whitley, a surveyor of some years' experience Would ve was then examined respecting the property wilich..rmintifil affect intended that to be built, the greater part of which is little be tter th a t a mud-bank, and which he thought would be the best giW r co os Or . p te urp c o a s r e r ,..an w d h w ar o f, ul a d nd he th ea e sy m o e f d- a b c d c i els : pTarhte high wa ter t he 1 0. of w hich i s a , r . perry of Lord Vivian, is at most times covered with ' r :„1/ the The witness was then examined by Mr. HazitgY Wl ° . m e llie . • running of the line over the property of Mr. Thoinasr 1 3 ; T o olci impossible ho t u e se. g e ye, who had petitioned against the Bill- sc irhO b crossing the railway, and would cut off carriage voro.ar get Mr. to Tho t m h as e , oing t° W ith' Penzance out crossing turnpike-roads, but there would be more On" n itta ble a. , must cross the line twice. A line could be 51 ..i a11 g I V property on the north side of the turn • on that 6 that on the south ' side; and if the line was made saving of one or two chains would be obtained. ~ ..d if tb elin : In answer to questions from Mr. BlactiaN, h e - 2 it c ould !, be carried further than 44 yards from the pe titi lia road is not se va ide; were carried more northward than the intended leT:i'properitl•that Mr. BIRCIIANI said it was, perhaps, not un d e stoo.• „A the terminus at Truro was not for pas i isi sennotegoe,n °IV/I'er goods Ma'''. itnurngpike-road cotropt. Mr. Edward Sharp, Customs' Agent from the river. G atild id offer r that it Weo' engaged is 14 Wharf the best place for the terminus, advantages to the commerce of ther.ver, and to those er 4 a:td Truro, thottg oni (LEFT SIITLISTCL) AN Group DD. THE CALEDONIAN, GLASGOW, - CARLISLE, AND THE CLYDESDALE " - RAILWAYS. The Committee assembled at the usual hour this O W- che w shortly after proceeded to the con s i aerat i on o f the irriP2rt°' mentioned above. Abe. T Mr. followingh c e oekb,rn. c :ir. Talbot,unselap Mr. Sergeant pearletinsutipo N‘ g rto,rfatnliehCallea; 17. Pei; Mr. Sandford, and Mr. Cowan. he ssov • Mr. COCKBURN opened th e p rocee di ng s by observing for phi e° i lay before the Committe e a b r i e f ou tli ne of the sch ein ' „ a to coon,[ he appeared. the object of the line now submitted 0— land , : all the principal central and intermediate points of 5°,0 its northern and southern parts, and thence by a branch, Lipeof to form an uninterrupted line of communication betweoorivelt„, Manchester, and other large towns in the south and L ie Jen n e o f England, and eventually with London. The effect 0 1 " of these various lines would be to constitute a continTu°oooeP'd railway from one end of Great Britain to the other. v offi e . th • ceeds direct north. from Carlisle, with a branch t° a l t o thirteen miles in length ;it then pursues asi h t e.ir g radar 'l ir ' ore' slight inclinatien to the west, skirting the SolwaY P ift P A° proximity of the sea will admit. Its course is then throtig.hdirldcd et until it has reached the vicinity of Lanark, where it I s tid t he two branches, one of which proceeds to Edinburgh:, 3 „ fil uX g h ee to Glasgow. The length of the line from Carlisle t i r: atoh o f miles. The branches to the north-east and all the important districts in the neigb cannot t he Glasgow and Edinburgh. From the , t tott the main line with Glasgow, it would app e T ten , 0 0 11 a plan that there were two small branches proceeding 10 0008 for about four miles by the Wishart Railway. A t , ru ns in te otli line branches ofF to the south of the Clyde, 0 ° n oted le of Clydesdale Junction, by means of which it is c rit i c w hy or, the line at Glasgow. The southern branch canna's' w ain o f the southern parts of Scotland with th e so d 01° w itt , thence to the coast of Ayrshire, and then to Greerloc i ` ni ,de a a crd from whence it forms an unbroken line of eou illi : l tbe / W o w to Liverpool, Manchester, and other important toWns' u her well Di south-west of England. The other branch at M ut " ra ileSi; o jeg the north-west, crossiog the existing lines of 010 th e north' boeuPthoosons o f the s o. o oto means of which the communication will be carried to the north of Gl as g ° :: $ te l f e ntr Cl 3 de, which is the most eligible point for hav,,l-'heinit,,/ here the distance from the point of division at Larin e bee or' eight miles ; anti of the two proposed branches t rio aaf h telli Clydesdale Junction was shorter by two miles th at ' by c fr e the pro regards the use of the railways already extstingnipo 0.00 is pposed to connect the trunk line with the differ e tr otiO l heir t kingdom, proper arrangements have already been reed tha b olt' the different Companies, all of whom have ag ered local traffic, under proper restrictions, shall be r eed tau t trtin . nate and subservient to the purposes of the i rn P er .l tb The length of the Castlecary lin Railway is 10southern e sry lta for 02 co ;0 19 njunction with other es, connects the h t parts of Scotland toge t her. It would be unnacegsote P e that dwell upon the immense advantage Whi ch was Ir-ft tif e ' line will be generally to the country. It comorsiody, on first starting from Lanark the line embraces s° a w ind a gto• unimportant track of country, and not requiring reidlsndtirehir or so urgently, th e c ons t ruc ti on o f a r a ilway as ' he tirelc r iC ol " But, it should be recollected, that this ca mpe r to th bi~ e r. portant district was devoted p lily ture, and a railway wou ld tend cans 'dere „ e ater f act, consumption of its produce, by affording P in t he for its conveyance to th e ne i g hb our i ng markets' fi eure s lin e e p d parts, which were the great centre of all the man° cop' on in Scotland, it would be unquestionable that the t r o i o t /loco must be of inestimable advantage. On the wh s ipsai ° f elusive to the Committee that a line of r co unt i oicla would connect together no less than twei ve b i t auts , 0 01 0 Scotland, containing upwards of 1,75'2,871 irla ss/0 01 would conjoin Scotland with England, and which tot C of unbroken line of communication between the g iv ost A London, Liverpool, Edinburgh, and GlaseW!,..hoetcP; the the most essential importance to the ol o ore in habits w as t ler interests and convenience of the lie es , , most thickly-populated parts of the kiagdoin. d Se dtli A in sa l e that a continued line existed between Lon" ° Lo ndon' bed by which it was proposed to connect Scotland with in enti a ,orip commercial districts west of England, but it had bee n oirsthle teed a recent report of the Board of Trade that this of the Treu e per might be obtained with greater facility by Wail s v ote t th a Churn et Valley Railways, which were at pres en _ t hl e deg" ' Committee, and which would reduce, in a considers 6631 30 -1/1 83 71, ~. distance between London and Liverpool. THE SOUTHAMP TON InG:T nn h up is o li , ne in w N as ci. ta l k 6 e , n th i i n s t m o BA IL 141‘. H. T R h . e Y H or o k n e . . --------------- Greu A p N ia and G 2. "EsTo ttee of , Mr. Entwisle, Sir Edward Bgar'nes, Mr. Ch r e ' thi CO Cila iP Mr. TALBOT consideration by Li te r ,sos #' that hn n ac d tey.inittnoth He atsh co e u i r n e wt e eir: o dh f edei hia il : e Pi: much ccisntvateinoinenasce quay, to carry the line ~,drCefOr°it-ble' was anxious to put this point before ,11 '... p reP"*. e . because h quay not 11'? there was e believed that on the general merits of We nch to t he 0 faZdtehraeersesidashftoaartbedittlientpthsraoroli.ot eZ tesup o f t i t a i towe r tio; In the event of the southern D:,,,arej _ being make a que a st p i p o r n o . ved, the Company were qui te I t r. ° gi ve ! ' Lanham, ctlnostehetotowthnessbtahre circumstancesossible,rolistAher:::ept. indeed, carrying the line down to the pier and quaY* short of „thoritle° the inhabitantsquite ready to make the station wherever tile; 0r,,,ii0 Mr. might desire. Mr. Talbot then ca l c tar stated . the same neighbourhood. Bridgew that it was a general impression ensivbu butcher South th 3, `vest of F Dorchester would materiall 'as i e the traffic f r om , t hAnir mere _ ht to So _ O O -ngland. The number of cattle annually broug uict , b, 0 , ton and I ate r, Taunton, brought ee from Poole and Weymouth, came s aughter l e a d t , ei r y an a g n ed ex fr t om .6000 thoer5,20t0S°01:::11:: and Yeovil, and ut h erfealvet me neighbourhood. There were also a large nualbeeroor o!, T h e , 1. , from Devonshire, which were shipped chiedY a t `,, was h a l opinion the freight being about Is. 6d. a b e ad; an' a n wear" cam ion that, if this railway were formed, Sou bar al l Oa a great cntrepot between the west and London, a e evils of over driving .. tha t thc lic e was intended to be a single line with the cattle would be saved. Ca • ptam Moorsom, the engineer of the line, state', j e - and also a g u n wotay ail the stations but with a provision for 8 d i , ° t b enSt b °I. the line ' The capital proposed P was 500,0001" t , ' - bta g tII O line 60 miles, the steepest gradient I in 10° 7. t he p re ' general gradient was 1 in 200. The guage was that 0 , „ea t ote in sent line to Southimpton, and it was an arrangement ente r lit when of suggestions from the Board of Trade that ";,. lf made should be leased to the South-Western Co' ,o l °" OS Y , the south branch , which would bring the railway to V.I. 0 3 a doUbleu le Jo , ,itt.,- ak• .• ,lkyi.'''3, ) ~,,,,r;, .— A, ' N 41 s V ti.0.111.m •• •••• A . ;.' ~ A i. t,,r , r,.,9• 414 ::- .... - If,. , •.: • 0 , -, •,,,iiik, . _ - :.: 01g1 ,.- ...,.,,, .14=•-...., si-- 40 p 4 , - -R.- . • .11, . PON i• ,^_ ..„ -0,q,5., , ;„ r , , ,„.1 . ..„., •=,,:0 ' • 1,1!‘..: i E 11, , ‘,‘, ,'",.. Jr r• M Cr 4 '‘,/ its, ,AreaMoirlfr,"' ~ , ,',..1."1/ ~, . , _ „)i) , Itti.'''..- NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Tuesday) Evening contained : The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings before the Railway Committees and the Standing Orders Committee of the House of Commons. The course of Exchange. 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"The story is full of interest—will be read by everybody, end must become a universal favourite."—Naval and Military Gazette. " Self' is full of purpose, character, and moral ; and lest we should induce the mere seeker for amusement to turn away, let us add that it is also full of interest, pathos, and wit."—Weekly Chron. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 31ariburough-street. Arespectable Family in the Highlands can accommodate TWO or THREE BOARDERS. They live In a beautiful and romantic part of the country, where k ishing and Shooting can be obtained. A Gentleman, his wife, and son or daughter would be preferred. For references and further particulars, apply by letter, addressed J. C., 115, York-road, Lambeth. 11ER MAJESTY'S THEATI:E. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully nforrued, that there will be an Extra Night (not included in the Subscription), TO •MOIIROW EVENING When will be performed Mozart's Opera, DON GIOVANNI. Donna Anna, Madame Grist ; Donna Elvira, Madame. ltita Zerlina, Madame .A.naide Castellan ; lien Cio,Anni, Fo.nasari ; Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario ; II Comniaadatore, itotelli; Masetto, Sig. F. Lablache; Leporello, Sig. LaLladre. The Danswses Viennoises (m.der Cie direction of Madame Jo sephine Weiss) will dance some of their favourite Pas, including " Pas de Miroirs," and the " Pas des FL.,us." In the course of the Evenin::, the celebrated Spanish Dancer, Dona Manuella Perea, kumve as IA Nena, will appear in the National Spanish Dance El ole.” The New Divertissement, entitled LA BACCILANTE. Characters by . ..Wile. Lucile Grahn; aldac. "Monceler, Ca.isan, M. Perrot. In the course of the Evening a Fantasia by Sig. Cavallini (First Clarinette at the Theatre Imperial La Seala). To conclude with the prib•eipal Tableaux of ONDINE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made. at the Ilux office, Opera Colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL, Ditutty LANE. FOR THE, BENEFIT .)F THN EvENix(; Will he Ilerr,nried ROAM IICS )pent of THE LADY OF TIIF. LAKE Jain.f6 the 1). W. king ; Mr. W. 2,1a1:,1111 ?:hiss Pc,le; Ellin) Rainf,,rll). After wltlc.ll, A CONCERT. A New Pulxa, by N lice. l'citil aur! 31. (lasperin!, To conclude WWI I . V.Vourite Fnre , ?. ,f DEAF .‘ .A PO T. Cap tail' Templeton, Mr. Cooper ; Tri;trant s.iplor, Jfr. 1::eley. Dres , i 7A; ; ; liner Gallery p. 7. Box. Stall, and "Picket., :nay be obtained of Mr. Jolut Par sons, at the Pox-oftlee of the 'lhen ire. THEATRE YttAtz:(ET. LES.-;EE, IV::ESTEIZ. TUTS EVENING Will he repeated a Ncw and Orl.;inal Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME Gol.itimmh, Mr. \V. Farrell; Felix tioldthum!), Matiicv.s ; 'qtr. Backstone ; 31i:43 lie'sy Tulip, Madanle Veitr'.s; Fl.n•entine, Miss Fottescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glove: ; ratty, Mrs. Ilunthy. After which, a New Grand (-1,1ti,;(2,11 Extravaganza, entitled TIIE GOLDEN FLEECE. Pri:wipal Characters by Meisrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Mi,s I'. I lortun. To co,cluda w:th A KISS IN TILE DARK. THEATeE ROYAL, ADELPIII UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELES:TI Positively the Last Ni.zlit but Two of the Green Bashes, aids EirENING Will be repeated a :New and Original Drain:l, entitled THE ciIiEEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor Oliennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul' ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; 311aini, lailarne Celeste. After wlindt will be repeated, TILE pizErrY GIRLS OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster, in which he will give his celebrated personation of the Emperor Napuleon ; Margot (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND TilE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, oXFoRD-STREET. LEzi,SEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENUNG Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragely of MACBETH. Mac beth, Mr. Wallack ; Maccia, Mr. Licury Wailack ; Banque), Mr. Archer; Lady Macbeth, Nisi Cmilunati. After which, a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE FETE DES PECHEURS. Principal Characters hy Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Mar shall, Miss Bailin, and -iii-3 Marshall. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Miss Emma Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack; Stage Dhector, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a NejvTatec;, -- Calied A GOOD NAME. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and :(Iss Dawson. TO be followed by a New and Original Comedy, entitled OUR/ NEW Gov yaNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; 3lrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. - To conclude with WIIITTINGT )27 AND lIIS CAT. The Box-office Open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.-FRENCII PLAYS. POSITIVELY THE LAST APP.EARANCE OF 31. RAVEL DIN EVENING Will be performed LA TANTE MAL-GARDEE. Monsieur Ravel. After which, an entirely N'Cl7 Vantleville, entitled RAVEL EN VOYAGE. Ravel, C. medien, M. Kavel ; Ravine!, M. Ravel. To be followed by the First and Second Acts of L'ETOURNEAU. Felix, Monsieur Ravel. • To concludewith LA RUE DE LA IX NE. Chevilla:d, M. Ravel. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Half-past. _ _ Anatole, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPILITII.ATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Positively the Last Week of the present splendil Routine of Attractive Novelties. Mr. IiATTY, ever anxious to retain the patronage that has been so bountifully bestowed on this Establishment, feels a degree of plea sure in announcing the greatest combination of Foreign Equestrian Talent that ever appeared in the Metropolis, he having engaged the whole of M. Tournaire's Company of French, German, and Italian Artistes, and the entire Stud of highly-tutored Horses. The Com pany embrace the following distinguished Protitssors t—M. Benoit Tournaire, M. Ferdinand, M. Francois, M. Ernest ; Signors Angii,sl an d Rinaldo; M. F. Blatt; Mesdames Louise Klatt, Haw, and Popowitz ; M. Popowitz, the Erenc't Clown ; Herr Ilubor, the Dutch Grotesque. This talented Corps will make their First Appearance on Whit Morulay. A new Dramatic Spectacle, written expressly tar this Establishment, by Mr. MoncriciT, the plot of which is taken front the works of Eugene Site, will also be produced on the sante occasion. The Amphitheatre will he closed on SATURDXY NEXT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL 'I.IItHEY THEATRE, Grandest Week of the Season—LastiNights of the American Samson, the Wonder of the World, and the real Water Spectacle. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CrIiPSEV FARMEIf ; or Jack and Jack's Brother. Supported by Messrs. Limner, Cowell, Mrs. 11. Vining, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, &c. After which, THE SMOKED MISER. Daring, Mr. Fredericks; Old Screw, Mr. Heslop ; Goliah Spiderlimb, Mr. Vale ; Sally Ceres, Miss Martin. To be followed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American Sampson. To conclude with a Dramatic Spectacle, entitled THO CEDAR CHEST ; or, The Lord Mayor's Daughter. Supported by the :thole Company. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Your. :,,.:.'::trienlins 1:'11111t LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY - 7, 1845. The4louse of Lords met at five o'clock. The church Building Amendment Act was committed. LordSTANLEY took the opportunity of the presen tation of a petition by the Earl of Devon, on the subject of the Land Commissioners (Ireland) Report, to assure the House that the recommendations of the commissioners were under the attentive consideration of the Govern ; and that a Bill on the subject of giving compensa tion to the tenant fur any improvement he might have La-ide on the land, was in a state of forwardness, and would be laid on the table shortly after the recess. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he should move that a certain Railway Bill which had passed the House of Commons, notwithstanding 300 breaches of the Standing Orders, should be referred to the Standing Orders Committee when it came before their Lordships. A short conversation ensued, which led to no result ; after which the Noble Lord presented a petition from the inhabitants of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, complaining of the conduct of Mr. Michael Gibbs, and praying for a re vision of the law regulating vestries. The Auction Duties Bill, the Sugar Excise Duties 13d , , and the Colonial rtv.sengers Bill were respectively read a third time. The Privy Council Appellate Jurisdiction Bill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned. _ _ The House of Commons did not sit. There was a great deal of good sense in the ob servations elicited from various Members of the 1 - louse of Commons on Monday night last, by Lord PALMERSTON'S very able speech on the subject o f ilavery, and the scandalous malpractices of the lat e Sp:inish Governor of Cuba, GQneral O'DONNELL. In deed we had marked several passages in the several peeches of Mr. liumE, Sir C. NAPIER, Mr. WAR BURTON, and Lord Pi.LMERSTON, for commentary; ►nit they led, though incidentally, to topics of still nearer and more momentous interest, to which we cannot, at a moment like this, refrain from adverting, in preference to almost any other subject of political interest. The present state of the British Navy, at all times a :natter of paramount interest in our eyes, assumes of late, from certain aspects in our external relations, a character of the most profound and incalculable im portance. We had hoped, after the general concur rence with which, just before the resignation of the last Government and the coming in of the pre sent, the opinions of the most experienced naval offi cers, both in and out of Parliament, were received, on the dangerous practice of sending out our ships of war miserably undermanned, that we should not soon hear again of a return, on the part of the Admiralty, to the most impolitic and perilous scheme of retrench ment which was ever resorted to in the councils of a power essentially the most maritime of any in the world. From the fair and manly manner in which Sir G. COCKBURN has, from time to time, responded to the applications and entertained the complaints of some among the naval authorities in the House—espe ei..lly Sir C. NAPIER, Captain Rots, Lord INGES- Tnr, Captain PECHELL, and the Hon. Captain BERKE LEY—we had entertained a confident ex pectation that the gross abuses and defi ciencies in various departments of the service, which they had indicated, would not be permitted to continue or to recur. We are compelled to own that we are equally surprised and grieved that the question of Captain PECHELL, on Monday, should have received no answer at all, or just the most un satisfactory one in the world, from the Second Lord of the Admiralty. " What had become," asked the Gallant Captain, "of the fine men who had passed through that excellent establishment, the gunnery ship at Portsmouth ?" Now, it would have really been desirable to learn specifically how and where the gunners and seamen instructed in the Excellent had been distributed. The more diffused the better, we should say, for the service. But all that we can collect from Sir GEORGE COCKBURN'S answer is— that the navy never possessed finer men than at pre sent ; a vague generality that does not at all meet the question. Have they been paid off, or drisfted into some of the Admiralty's experimental services, to be disgusted with a cruise in some of the Surveyor of the Navy's bad ships, where the best of seamanship is requisite to work the Lt lost unmanageable craft? Captain BERKE LEY stated :that he could assign the reason why the navy was nsa.t, could not, and would not, be manned. It was that the entries of men were made for parti cular ships•--not for the service generally. Why had there been so much discontent among " the men en gaged under Captain LOCKYER in the Albion ?" (This is the large ninety-gun two-decker on which we have sos often had occasion to animadvert in re spect of her vicious construction, that will not allow her, in bad weather, to open her lower tier of ports at all, and whose rolling and pitching, in heavy seas, renders her `one of the dampest and most uncomfort able vessels:sin her MAJESTY'S service, although one of tL'e crack productions of Sir W. SYMOND'S school.) CeTtain BI:RKELEY further asked why a large ship's coin oany were sent to sea with an insufficient supply; especially as an experimental squadron ? . said;, too, the men were disgusted with sersirg had work to do which precluded th em in an ea iseri,rnental squadron, for this reason —th ey like rest. Why what a device was f !. r a l th 2 a n t y t t, l3 b e i y u this for ace !ornplishing the objects of a squadron of evolution atai experiment, where, in the first place, a fall complement of men is indispensable to the mamnuvres t o be executed; and, in the second, the most perfect: , .good understanding between officers and men is an aibsolute element of the service. If the :hip; w...re 'undermanned, as a matter of course the cress s were , ( werworked ; and at a period of all others the rne'.:t ex igl •nt of alacrity and cheerfulness in those e:ews , th e y -sr 'ere goaded, as it were, to the extreme ci disecntent,. Are we to suppose Captain BERKELEY i n earnes t— it d how can we refuse to believe that he is ), that any misgivings a s to the conduct of our men, in the, !vent ofa war with America, are founded on the notoritet T of the fact that, if such a war were now to break o ut, our ships must proceed to sea so mio.a•ahly taue ermanned, that they would have no t 1• - I for iso nable expectation of success in a , Min( competition to be waged under circumstathes of I,ilWar incanial ity and disadvantage to those of our Last naval warf ire with the Americans. That such a (lc fecti ve sy:l at a should even have been contemplated, is alauning e z jugh; but that alarm is at least alle viated by the c 'istinct pledge it called forth from Sir G notice COCKI :URN, " that there was no intention to shoal, restrict th e covr .pl emen t of sea-going ships, and that, while h e renal fi ne d i n office, no ship of our navy r ever g xptoersiemaeNnVtitahlosUgtubaedirnogn,prtohpeerolyb object was As o th er e rather t o h. y the ship s th an th e men ." G ran t e d ; but by allot Ling to the most severe duty an inferior EVANS V. LAMB. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 141. 165., the ba lance of an account for money lent. The plaintiff is a young lady, residing at present with her relatives in Rood.laae, City. The de fendant is a solicitor in Bucklersbury. It appeared from the evi dence, that the plaintiff; who had the misfortune to be an orphan, had been acquainted with a gentleman at the west end of the town (whose name was not allowed to transpire), but the acquaintance being abruptly broken of, she applied to the present de fendant to bring an action for breach of promise, but which was settled by the " gay deceiver" paying over to her 100 guineas. On that sutn being paid to her, defendant begged the loan of 601. or 701., and plaintiff lent him 651. on his written acknowledgment and promise to repay it when called upon. He repaid some part, but left, as the plaintiff alleged, a balance of 141. I 6s. The defendant contended that the real balance was only 11. 55., and that that sum he was authorised to pay over to a third party on her account. The accounts were somewhat intricate, and the most serious part of the .dispute arose out of a sum of 10/., which the defendant alleged he had paid on behalf of the plaintiff for some fixtures in a shop. He admitted that he never paid that sum in fact, although, to deceive the plain tiff's uncle, he had written a letter saying that he had done so, but had withdrawn it again, thinking it would be better for the plaintiff not to have anything to do with the speculation—that the money was in fact given to her. This, and some trifling payments alleged to have been made, reduced the balance to the 1/. ss. The de fendant's clerk was called, and deposed that the plaintiff admitted that IL ss. only was owing—it had not, however, been paid, as plaintiff had had a book and a ring of defendant's, which she never returned. In fact, defendant charged her with stealing them. They had previously been on friendly terms. Mr Secondary Parma expressed his regret that the matter had not been arranged by friends. The question for the jury was, whe ther the plaintiff had been misled, or had misunderstood the ac counts. The defendant's letter as to the 101. was subsequent to the alleged settlement ; thus the jury had to say whether it con. firmed the balance claimed, or was sent, as defendant suggested, without any real foundation. The jury consulted nearly half an hour, and then gave a verdict for N. ss. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.): A person of very fashionable appearance, dressed en militaire, who gave the name of Walter Murray, and was stated to be an officer in the army, was charged with committing a violent assault upon a labouring man, named James Murphy. The corn. plainant stated that between five and six o'clock yesterday even ing, as he was proceeding to St. George's Hospital to see his wife, who ,is an in.patieut there, in crossing the end of the Ride in Hyde-park, opposite the residence of the Duke of Wel. lington,lwith a child about : two years old in his arms, the defendant, who was on horseback, rode againstlhim, and to prevent himself from falling, he placed his left hand on the hind part of the de fendant's horse.; the defendant rode on for a short distance, and then returning struck him a severe blow on the top of his head with the but Lend of his riding-whip, which instantly felled him to the ground. A female passing by snatched up his child, which had fallen out of his arms into the road, and the police having witnessed the violent nature of the assault, took the defendant into custody. The female in question corroborated the complainant's statements. The defendant acknowledged having struck the complainant, but alleged that he did so because the complainant had kicked his horse.—The complainant denied haring done so. Mr. MALTBY (to the defendant)—You will pay a fine of 5/., or undergo two months' Imprisonment. The defendant immediately paid the fine, and was discharged. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS. MAY 4.—The King presided to.day in a Council of Ministers. The Chamber of Representatives did not terminate yesterday the debate on the convention. The project of law, as it now stands, retains the statu quo for rye, barley, and oats. It increases the number of the regulating markets to 22E, which is at present 12f. Wheat, when it rises to the price of 20f. per hectolitre may, according to the existing law, be imported into Belgium fiee of duty ; in future it will pay 12f. 50c. per 1,000 kilogrammes, when the average is between 20f. and 22f., and 3f. when the average is between 22f. and 24f. Such are the changes at present contemplated in our corn-law. Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, arrived at Brussels yesterday. The Gazette qf Mons says--" The fears which the falling in of the Tunnel of Cumpitch excited in the country made it the duty of the Government to take every precaution for the public safety. We are glad to announce that a Commission of civil and military engineers, appointed by the Government, has visited the Tunnel of Braine, inspected the works, and found the tunnel in the best con dition possible.—Bruner Papers, May 5. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VUNNA, APRIL 29. 5 per Cent. Metalliques 4 per Cent. ditto .•••••••••• • • • • • • • .. 102 3 per Cent. ditto 7 8 14 Ditto, 1839 •.• • • • • • • • • • • • • ....... 132 Bank Shares • • • • •• • • •• • • • • • •-• • • • • • • • 1650 Estcrhazy's Loan •••• • • • • • •••••• • • • • • 58 RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • • ••• • • • •• • • 189% Venice—Milan ••• • • • • • • • ••••• • • • • • • • 12814 Gloggnitz .• • • • • • • • • • • • • .• 149% Leghorn 123 Pestle Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2. VISITORS TO THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.—Mr. Wordsworth, and Mr. Rogers, the celebrated poets, visited the Royal Exchange yesterday, and went over the extensive establishment of Lloyd's. Although the author of the "Pleasures of Memory " is well-known in the City from his connexion with the bank of Rogers, Olding, and Co., still the visit of " Sam Rogers," as he is familiarly, but with respectful deference, called in business, with his contemporary Wordsworth, could not foil to attract attention, whilst to those who have perused the works of both an introduction to, or the mere oppor tunity of being a silent observer of such well-known and esteemed authors, must have been highly gratifying. ka d'*