The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-24 00:00:00

JEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY. LtICESTER, BEDFORD, AND LONDON RAILWAY. e Provisional Committee have the pleasure to announce that these Companies have united their interests, and that all parties have consented to co-operate to carry into effect the important undertak ing of forming a Railway from Leicester to Bedford * under the title of tke " Leicester and Bedford Railway." JAMES LEY DOUGLASS, Market Harborough, GEORGE PELL, jun., Northampton, SMARM 4N AND TTJRNLEY, Bedford, Joint Solicitors. ,MAL 22, 1345. UICTER and BEDFORD RAILWAY, Provisionally Registered. dapibal 1,000,0001., in 50,000 Shares of 201. each. Deposit 11. is. per Share. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. his lon. Richard Watson, Rockingham Castle, Northamptonshire The Hon. and Rev. James Douglas, Broughton, Kettering Sir John Henry Palmer, Bart., Carlton-park, Northamptonshire Sir George S. Robinson, Bart., Cranford Major-General Sir Love P. J. Parry, K.C.8., Madiyn Park, Caernar yonshire Sir Wm. Wynn, Suffolk-place, London William Astell, Esq., Old Broad-street, and Everton House, M.P. for Bedfordshire, and Chairman of the London and York Railway T. P. Maunsell, Esq., Thorpe Malsor, M.P. for Northamptonshire Henry Stuart, Esq., empston, Bedfordshire, M.P. for Bedford William Bulkeley Hughes, Esq., M.P. Joseph Robert William Atkinson, Esq., Elmwood House, Leeds C. R. Bewicke, Esq., Hallaton, Leicestershire B. E. Bennett, Esq., Marston House, Market Harborough John Booth, Esq., Glendon Hall, Northamptonshire Thomas B. Beale, Esq., Fitzroy-square, London, and Thorpe Lnben ham-hall, Market Harborough John Brightman, Esq., Regency-square, Brighton The Rev. Henry Conic, Rector of Kettering Henry Freeman Coleman, Esq., Evington Ha, near Leicester George Cooper, Esq., Great Glenn, Leicestershire Richard Carpenter, Esq., 24, Loasdale-square, Islington Peter Colston, jun., Esq., Husbands Bosworth, near Market Har borough John Foster, Esq., Beaumont-close, Biggleswade John Nathaniel Foster, Esq., St. Andrew's, Biggleswade Blyth Foster, Esq., Biggleswade Captain Mark Gambier, Upper S4mour-street, Portman-square John Cooper Getch, Esq., Banker, Kettering H. H. H. Hungerford, Esq., Dingley-park, Market Harborough The Rev. George Edward Hamner, Rector of Loddington, North amptonshire Henry Hensman, Esq., Pytchley, Northamptonshire Richard Railhead, Esq., banker, Bedford William Hogg, Esq., banker, Biggleswade Swymlnjervis, Esq., Whitehall-place, Chairman of the Diss, Boccie", and Yarmouth Railway Robert Lindsell, Esq., banker, Biggleswade W. T. Maunsell, Esq., of the Middle Temple, London Geoffery Palmer, Esq., East Carlton, Northamptonshire Francis Pym, Esq., the Hasells, Bedfordshire William Summerset Rose, Esq., Cransley Hall, Northamptonshire The Rev. George Stopford, Rector of Warkton, Kettering Benjamin Trapp, Esq., banker, Bedford Thomas Vowe, Esq., the Manor-house, Hallaton John Wheelton, Esq., Meopham Bank, Tunbridge, Kent William Henry Whitbread, Esq., Southill House, Bedfordshire. John Woolston, Esq., Wellingborough. James York, Esq., M.D., Wharncliffe House, St. John's-wood, London With power to add to their'number. ENGINEER-IN-CRIES. William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S. ENGINEERS. Joseph Cubitt, ESq. Joseph, Gibbs, Esq. BANKERS. London—The London and County Banking Company, Lombard-streel Leicester—Messrs. Pagets and Kirby Market Harborough—The Leicestershire Banking Company Kettering—Messrs. Gotch and Sons Wellingborough and Northampton—The Northamptonshire Banking Company Bedford—Messrs. Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Biggleswade—Messrs. Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell JOINT SOLICITORS. James Ley Douglass, Esq., Market Harborough George Pell, jun., Esq., Northampton and Welford Messrs. Sharman and Turnley, Bedford LONDON SOLICITORS. Messrs. Barker, Rose, and Norton, 50, Mark-lane, and 36, Greal George-street, Westminster George Weller, lesq., 8, King's-road, Bedford-row, London Angustus Walter Arnold, Esq., 31, Golden-square SECRETARY. Mr. B. F. Scott This line, which will commence at Leicester, and proceed from thence by or near to Market Harborough, Rothvrell, Kettering, Wel lingbbrough, to Bedffird, is intended to supply the wants of a very rich and thickly populated district of country lying between Leicester and Bedford, and to afford a much shorter and more direct commu nication between the first-mentioned place and London. The existing and projected lines of railway form the most direct route from Manchester, Leeds, Derby, Sheffield, Nottingham, and the North of England to London, by way of Leicester, and the present line will be the nearest one from that place to the metropolis which exists or can be projected. The line will pass through the richest grazing land In the kingdom, and will derive a considerable traffic in the conveyance of cattle from thence to the London markets. The coal-fields of Leicestershire and Derbyshire will supply, by means of this railway, the wants of the counties of Bedford, Hunt ingdon, Hertford, Essex, and Cambridge, in this most necessary article of consumption, which will be reduced in price at least N per cent. Se coon as the surveys are completed, a detailed Prospectus with the names of the gentlemen forming the highly influential local Committees, will be published. In the meantime, the promoters are justified in stating that the railway will be made at an average ex pense, and that the traffic will insure an ample return upon •the capital required. The Subscribers will not be liable to any further call until the Act is obtained, and power will be applied for to allow interest at 4 per cent. upon the amount paid up until the opening of the line. The Directors reserve liberty to themselves to alter the proposed route, or to extend the railway as they may think expedient. Applications for Shares, in the form annexed, may be made to the Provisional Committee, under cover, to the several solicitors, or to Messrs. Peppercorne and Co., sharebrokers, 2, Old Broad-street, Loudon. FORM OF APPLICATION, To the Provisional Conimittee of the Leicester and Bedford Railway. Gentlemen,—l requ'est you to allot to me Shares of 201. each in the proposed Leicester and Bedford Railway; and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or such smaller number, as may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit, and sign the Parliamentary contract and Subscribers' agreement when required. Dated this d iy of May, 1845. Name... . . . Residence .. Profession . Name and address of Referee.. L ONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. A requisition having been received, requiring the Directors of the London and Brighton Railway Company to call a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the said Company, " for the purpose of authorising the issue of Shares in the said Company to such holders of Loan Notes of the said Company as did not, previously to the 15th day of Irehraary last, give notice of their intention to convert the same into Shares, arid for the purpose of coming to such resolutions, in regard thereto, as may be deemed advisable," Notice is hereby given, that the Special General Meeting of the said Proprietors, to be holden at the Terminus, London-bridge, on Thurday, the sth day of June next, is further made special, for the purpose of taking into consideration and coming to some resolution on the subject aoove-mentioned. ROWLAND HILL, Chairman. C. R. MACKENZIE, Secretary. London Terminus, May 22, 1845. DINNER Ti.. MR. IMLAH. A dinner was given on Wednesday to this gentleman, well known here and in the north of Scotland, at the British Hotel, Cockspur_ street, on his leaving London for America. The chair was occu pied by Mr. Stewart, of Alberrarle-street, and among the company were—Mr. Thom, jthe poet of Inverury ; Mr. Allison, of Alfred piace ; Mr. Menzies, Mr. Mouatt, Mr. Christie, Mr. Thomson, of Bond street, and Mr. Adam, of the Aberdeen Herald. About forty gentlemen, friends of Mr. Imlah, sat down to dinner. After the usua► loyal toasts, Mr. STEWART, in proposing the health of their guest, said he had enjoyed the acquaintance of Mr. Imlah for more than twenty years, and he had uniformly found him upright In his conduct, warm-hearted, and a sincere lover of his native country, Scotland. He wished him prosperity and a hearty welcome en the other side of the Atlantic. He was sure, if he ever did return to this country, he would be met with the same kind feeling and welcome that he now departed with. He could say many things that would re dound to Mr. Imlah's credit, but as the majority of the company knew him, if not as long, perhaps as well as he did, therefore, he would conclude by proposing " his health, long life, and happiness to him wherever he went." Mr. Imi.su begged the company to indulge him for the imperfect manner that he should thank them for their kind reception of his name, proposed by his very worthy and esteemed friend Mr. Stewart; their kindness and their friendship, in meeting him, with such a demonstration, in a great measure made up for the re gret he would feel at parting with friends for whom, one and all, he entertained the highest esteem. He was at a loss what to attribute this mark of respect to—it could not arise from his station in society, or from any influence he possessed; he was sure he had no " property qualification," but he thought it must be that he was blessed with a heart that was sensitively alive to the ties of friendship, good fellowship, and a love for all man kind. He concluded by again thanking the company for their kindness and good opinion of his conduct while known to them, and hoped that he would yet have the pleasure of meeting many of them, and that that evening's proceedings would never be et faeed from his memory. Mr. ADAMS proposed the health of Mr. Thom, the poet, who re turned thanks in a speech full of point and good' humour, remark ing that this was the age of " little poets ;" there was no " great ones." Mr. Autsox proposed the health of the Chairman, and referred to that gentleman's benevolence, and to his services in the cause of charity, but more especially to that excellent one, the Scottish Hospital, where his name will be found for many years back a sub scriber to that noble institution. Mr. STEWART thanked his friend for the kind and flattering manner in which he announced his name to the company ; he regretted that they had not a person more able to preside over them that evening than him self, but his anxiety to promote anything to mark his sense of Mr. Imlah's excellent qualities, made him not hesitate in accepting the honi.ur of being their Chairman. After a few other toasts of healths, the company left about twelve o'clock, much pleased with the hilarity that prevailed the whole company. Several songs were sung in an excellent manner MURDER. ON THE HIGH SEAS.—Yesterday, a rsiverpool vessel, called the Mountaineer, Captain Bogart, arrived in our river from New Orleans, and one of the crew was imme diately given into the custody of Inspector M'Cully, on a charge of murder. Michael Moore is the name of the party charged, and John Campbell was the name of the unfortunate man who lost his life. Campbell sailed from Liverpool in the vessel as boatswain, but the prisoner was shipped at New Orleans, and having cleared the Gulf of Florida, the prisoner came on deck, and putting his arm round the neck of the boatswain, who was assisting the mate, Mr. Barrow stabbed him in the abdomen so severely with the knife he had in his possession, that he died in a few hours afterwards. There was no quarrel at the time, and the dreadful act is accounted for only on the ground that the prisoner was insane at the time, he having before that evinced symptoms of aberration of mind. He was, of course, instantly secured, and prevented from doing further injury. The prisoner is a low-set, stoutly-built Irishman, of wild, unprepotessing appearance. He was brought before Mr. Rushton yesterday, and r emanded.—Liverpool Mercury of yesterday.—On Friday he was again examined and committed to take his trial at the assizes. He is also accused of having attempted to drown one of the seamen. ALARMING FIRE IN GOLDEN -LANE, ST. LUKE'S.— Yesterday morning, shortly after four o'clock, as the police- con stable on the beat was passing along Golden-lane, his attention was aroused by the outbreak of a fire from the midst of the workshops In the occupation of Messrs. Cocken and Sadd, congreve match manufacturers, in Hartshorn -court, Golden.lane. The fire, which originated in the drying-room, rapidly spread to the dipping-rooms, where thereyas a considerable quantity of inflammable materials and a stork of upwards of 50,000 boxes of congreves and " loco foco" matches, whence it extended in a short time to the upper floors and splitting-rooms. In a short time the engines were on the spot. It required considerable effort. however, before the fire could be got under, nor was this accomplished before a considerable destruction of property took place, including a large quantity of lights which had been completed the night before. The fire ex tended so rapidly that it was with some difficulty several donkeys in stalls adjoining the drying-house were saved. - The fire is sup posed to have been caused by a cat sc ratchi ng among the lucifers, as the back window was open through which she could obtain in.. press. Mr. Braidwood reports of this fire as follows:_" Front and back workshops burned out, roof of drying-room and contents destroyed.'' The . R7al SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENIN6.— . Mall Company's steam-ship Avon arrived here th f is lio e w ve i n ng in g da w te i s th : • , •strst India Mail. She brings mailsofthe ch o ag Iva ds'Altirp4Viicaragua, up to M arc h 30; res, April 3; d April 20 ; Trinidad, 1-';''-'l4titheffewsr-A, ' 8 ; Santa Martha, April 9 ; San lago e Cuba , sZ: - ApAli 10; iamaic April 23; Demarara, pg \ 4 N,:-" , ez 4 *1 • grbatro freight on , April 24; Grenada, Apr il '25; Antigua, 41' ' 3. ` c- :.1 1 strril.*7 ' St. Tit , April 30; and Fayal, May 16; -x --, - 3 - ." - 7 , 30•00crdottps an rchants' account; and 69 passengers. She ,ce - ,__l-' • ...St '' ' units 110 WI; et Mune either from Mexico or the West ( ''':- , .. 1 : .4 ' ,- - I, 4 7 , 4, --4....--' N J 1 s ~ NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Friday) evening, contained— The latest Prices of Shares, from the official List. The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the different Railway Committees of the House of Commons. The List of Appointments, Bankrupts, &c., from the London Gazette. The Official Return of the average Price of Sugar. The latest Market Intelligence. The Weekly Return of the Circulation of the Bank of England. The Parliamentary Proceedings, being a full report of the Debates in the Houses of Lords and Corn .mons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. The whole extending to more than Six Columns of small type. RAILWAY NE WS. SOseribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAIIAVAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDITION of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY. Sun-uffice, 112, Strand. Just ready, in 3 vols , post Bvo., THE WHITE SLAVE; OR, _ THE RUSSIAN PEASANT GIRL. BY THE AUTHOR OF " REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. 13, Great Marlborough-street. T HE HISTORY OF MARGARET CATCBPOLE A SUFFOLK GIRL. A NEW and CHEAPER EDITION of this interesting work, editedby the Rev. R. COBBOLD, of Wortham, Suffolk, IS NOW READY, in 2 vols., with, Illustrations, price only 12s. bound, Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed for the first time these two years, Donizetti's opera entitled LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. Linda, Mddle. Castelan (her first appearance in that character) ; Maddalena, Mddle. Bellini ; Pierotto, Mddle. Brambilla ; Antonio, Sig. Fornasari ; 11 Pretetto del Villaggio, Sig. Lablache ; II Marchese di Boisfienry, Sig. F. La blache ; L'lntendente del Fendo, Sig. Dia Fiori ; and Carlo Visconte di Serval, Sig. Moriani Between the acts of the Opera the Danseuses Viennoises, under the direction of Madame Weiss, will appear in the " Pas des Amours," and the " Tyrolienne," and in the Ballet " L'Allemande." To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Fleur de Lys, Madame Pctit Stephan ; Phoebus de Chateupers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven; to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed, that there will be an Extra Night (not included in the Subscription), ___ ___ .__ __._ __ ON THIIRSDAY, MAY 29, When will be performed Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grist ; Dr. Malatesta, Sig. Fornasari ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dal Flori ; and Don Pasquale, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuses will appear in some of their favourite Pas, and in two New Pas, " Pas Orientale," and " Le Polka" (being their Last Appearance but Three). To be followed by the Last Act Act of LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. In which Madame Castellan, Mdlle. Brambilla, and Sig. Morlani will appear. To 13 succeeded by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, in which Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Cerito, will appear. - To conclude with an entirely New Grand Ballet, in Five Tableaux, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, entitled ROSIDA ; 017, LES MINES DE SYRACUSE. The Eallet and Mis en scene, by M. St. Leon. The New Scenery by Mr. Marshall. The Music by Signor Pagni. Rosida, Mdlle. Cerito ; Alman, M. St. Leon ; The Queen of the Mines, Mdlle. Moncelet ; Torbern, M. Di Mattia. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances :---T First Tableau.—" La Sicillenne" (New Pas de Caractere), by Cerito and M. St. Leon, accompanied by the Corps de Ballet. Second and Third Tableaux.—Pas du Mineur, by -Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon, assisted by Mesdlles. Ferdinand, Demelisse, and Cassan. " Pas des Quatre Nations" (New Pas de Caractere), by the Corps de Ballet. To be followed by "La Wolinienne," by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-cflice, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. TIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 26, Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe; the Libretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Mr. Balfe will, on this occasion, preside in the Orchestra. , Don Sylvio; Mr. W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. Horncastle; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the Second Act of the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur SilvaLu ; Giselle, Mdlle. Weiss. Dress Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s ; Gallery, 2s ; Upper Gallery Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par• sons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Bnckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which, USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. Charles Mathews; Wurzel, Mr. J. Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. o conclude with MY LITTLE ADOPTED. John Dibbs, Mr. Buckstone ; Rose Mayburn, Miss Julia Bennett. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be performed PAUL PRY. Paul t'ry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs. Yates ; Phcebe, Miss Woolgar. After which the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, To conclude with THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster, in which he will give his celebrated personation of the Empero Napoleon; Margot (her original character) Madame Celeste. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger Mr. Wallack; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. To be followed by the favourite Interlude of THE WEDDINGDAY. Lady Contest, by a Young Lady, has First appearance on any Stage. After which, a New Divertissement, entitled LE PRINTEMI'S. Supported by Messrs. Gilbert and Marshall, Miss Baffin and Miss Marshall. To be followed by 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; Stags Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. ITNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Week of another New Burlesque. Brilliant Success of " Our New Governess" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Original Comedy, entitled OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. Previous to whieh a New Farce, called A GOOD LAME. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs: Keeley, Miss Viliar s Miss Fairbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, Sec The Box-office is open daily, under the :direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled LONDON BY NIGHT. Mr. Bob Smith, Mr. John Webster ; Ned Bloomfield, Mr. H. Lee ; Jack Buffer, Mr. H. Hall ; Caroline Cripps, Miss Harriet Walcott ; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. 11. Lee ; Ellen Bloomfield, Misa Hamilton. After which, a Ballet de Dance, entitled LE MEDICIN DU PAYS; or, THE DOCTOR DOSED. Guillieme, Mr. Harvey; Dr. Souflet, Mr. T. Ridgway; Dame Seuflet, Mr. Thompson. To be followed by a new Burlesque Extravaganza, called ROBIN SON CRUSOE ; or, the ADVENTURES of a FRIDAY. Robinson Crusoe, Mrs. C. Horn, Jun. ; Martyn Crusoe, Mr. Thompson ; Fri day, Mr. 11. Hall ; Whitm nda, Miss Hamilton. To conclude with an original Farce, entitled CLAIRVOYANCE. Mr. Phthisics, Mr. Romer ; Rose the Romp, Katty O'Carroll, and Rose Belmour, by Miss H. Walcott Boxes, 3s. ; half-price, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. Gd. ; half-price, Is. Gallery, Gd ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITITEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCES. To-day and during the week, the GODOLPHIN ARABIAN ; or the Race Horse of the Desert. In compliance with the wish of several influential and fashionable parties, and in order to accommodate those who, residing at a dis tance, are - prevented from visiting the nightly representations at the Amphitheatre, as well as with a view to the gratification of the "uvenile members of families, Mr. BATTY has concluded an arrange ment with Mons. Tournaire for FOUR DAY PERFORMANCES, Introducing the entire troop of French Equestrians. These per formances will take place on every THURSDAY, commencing on the 22d and 29th May, June 5 and 12. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Entirely New Entertainments, and re-engagement of the World's Wonder, who, having recovered from his late accident, will perform some New and Astonishing Feats. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Local Drama, entitled THE OLD FLEETE PRISON ; or, The Widow and her Suitors. Splendidly appointed and supported by the Entire Company. To be followed by a New Melodrama, entitled TIIE SECRET FOE ; To conclude with THE GYPSEY FARMER ; or Jack and Jack's Brother. Supported by Messrs. hicks, Horner, Cowell, Mrs. 11. Vining, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, &c. Or, The Mason of Abbeville. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TUB EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Nautical Drama. entitled THE YELLOW ADMIRAL ; or, The Perils of the Battle and the Breeze. Supported by the whole Company. After which a musical romance entitled the DAUGHTER of the REGIMENT ; or the Child of Glory. To conclude with an entirely New and Original Drama, entitled THE OLD TOLL HOUSE ; or, The Carrier and his Dog. In which Messrs. Cony, Blanchard, and the Dog Hector will perform. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON!—GRAND FETES. Exhibition of the Colossal Pictorial Representation suggested by 11. R. H. 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. f l I e s d e 0 t l e l tu r e e s n e , n a t a n t d i o n t h e o I f in E m D ca l t N a l o r t G t, I s A th h e i Pride A amnoddoe o t n h u e m N e t r Loch,R om as ti Romantic it T f o o N nn v n formerly n existedt roduci g t h t e he Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craggs, the Castle, Sir Walter Scott's _Monu ment, Caltonlold a H n i ll d , N N e e l w s o T n s w 1 the Royal Institution, llolyrood Palace, and all the most inter esting features of " Auld Reekie." The Proprietor had the honour of submitting the Model to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and he is delighted 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. Danson'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 close of last summer, in com posing and arranging a varied and pleasing succession of superior Novelties, which will be produced in rotation,i ncluding some Ori ginal Pieces by Foreign Composers, not yet performed in this country. At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of FIREWORKS ever attempted. The entire of the Gigantic Model will be Illuminated. The different d ev i ces in front of th houses, th fires on the 'Salton Hill, Arthur's Seat, a n d the surrounding AlOti e tains, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings icing which took place on her Majesty's Vi s i t will be accurately pours tray2d. And, as a Finale, a grand A quatic Royal and Patriotic. Tableau, Fifty Feet in Height, will be exhibited in the centre of the Lake The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by emblems and other devices win be la ictluced. The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Danson. Mr. Southby has been occupied for months in giving effect to this matchless and superb design which combined with the Faux D'Arti rice, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur rounding heights, will form the most brillian t Pyrotechnic Display es er witnessed. L t Nino, Feeding of the Carnivora, at half - past Four ; Pelicans , 8.; , ;., at Fi ; C oncert at Six ; and Pyrotec hni c Disply A Admission, One Shgling• THE WEATHER.—Star OFFICE, MAT 24. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 44 ;. Highest, 59; Noon, 5 BAROMETER, 29.94.—W1ND, N.W. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations a-e made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 7 minutes after 3 I Evening 50 minutes after 3. „,„,,,_. y- - - 0-- • , - ~ ,C 4,,, .. •:” • , "Ri ... ;' - Z Io Fi . ' . olnu - i•AFA L : _,' . * A ,7, , -0/E Ty , It 111 ,,,.. ;. ", 4.',.)0w. , z.,,,,,, , utk,,, z ..,, ' - -›-ri.,44.,;? • M ".114'.., SECOND EDITION: iTtning LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1845. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack sv Five o'clock. Before that hour, however, the Church Acts Amend ment Bill had been read a second time, and, on entering the House, The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed his astonishment that such an impoi tant Bill should have been forwarded a stage before he had entered the House, and before the usual hour for commencing public business. On the motion of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Maynooth Bill, which had been brought up from the Commons, was read a first time, and the second reading was fixed for Monday, June 2. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for securing the payment of small debts, which was read a first time. The Marquis of BREADALBANE :presented a petition from the conference of delegates against the Maynooth Bill. The Earls of CHARLEVILLE and of WINCHILSEA. both wished that a later day should be fixed for the second reading of the Bill; but the Duke of WELLINGTON was inexorable, and said that the Bill should be read a second time on the 2d of June. Earl FITZWILLIAM moved for a Committee to con sider how far it was practicable to introduce a better mode of valuation of lands taken for railway purposes. Lord STANLEY, on the part of the Government, would not oppose the motion; which, after a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of WICKLOW, Lord HATHERTON, and the Marquis Of LONDONDERRY, was agreed to. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. The second reading of the Lady's Island and Tacum shin Embankment Bill was opposed by Mr. REDING TON. On a divison, however, it was carried by a ma jority of 9S, the numbers being—for the second read ing, 113 ; against it, 17. Mr. S. WORTLEY moved—That the following clause be inserted in all Railway Bills passing through the House :—" And be it further enacted, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed to exempt the railway by this or the said recited Acts authorised to be made from the provisions of any general Act relating to such Bills, or of any general Act relating to railways, which may hereafter pass during the present or any fu ture session of Parliament. And that the said resolution be a standing order of this House." After a short discussion, the debate was adjourned Monday. Mr. Hu 1E withdrew his notice of motion for a call a the House. The second reading of the Academical Education (Ireland) Bill was postponed till Friday next, as was also the second reading of the Poor-law Amendment (Scotland) Bill. On the motion that the order of the day be read for the House resolving itself into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, Sir C. NAPIER complained of the manner in which the money voted for building ships had been squandered, and entered at length into the merits of the various ex perimental ships which had been recently sent to sea. Sir G. COCKBURN briefly replied ; after which the House went into Committee, and several sums were voted for the service of the navy, without material discussion. The Chairman then reported progress, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock. There was a good deal of sound constitutional doc trine in Lord Jour,' RUSSELL'S speech of Wednesday night last, on the subject of party. For such a dis course the third reading of the Maynooth Grant Bill undoubtedly furnished a very apt text, and we hope that Lord INGESTRE will not lightly forget the somewhat severe illustration into which Lord JOHN was so kind as to manufacture him, of that embodiment of party " which has all its defects, and none of its redeeming good properties." There is a small class of very small politicians, whom it is expedient to instruct in the salutary lesson, that party, however good it may be in relation to its results and influences on the service and welfare of the public, cannot be tolerated for palpable objects of private advantage. But the remarkable division of Wednesday shows such a singular fusion of parties, such an array of con fused and conflicting opinions on the side of a measure of justice and liberal feeling towards our Roman Catholic brethren of Ireland, that we would fain draw from it an augury of permanent benefit to the highest interests of the public, through the toning down of extreme opinions, the abandonment of personal prejudices and distrusts, and the combina tion of political antagonists in a brave and generous alliance to uphold the institutions of their common country, by giving to all classes of the community a genuine and equal interest in them. Could we but evoke from the marshalled benches within the House, where men on both sides, for the most part, follow as accurately and obediently the tactics of their political leader, as a line of newly-drilled soldiers watch the motions of their fugleman—could we but evoke many such divisions into the lobbies without, we might reasonably hope that the reign of common sense and truthfulness was at hand. Men would soon be brought into a habit of voting as they thought, not as they were whipped, as it is called in Parliamentary parlance. The principles of free trade would find new exponents, who would awaken, as from a dream, to a sense of wonder at the perverse tenacity with which they had adhered, during many years, to the errors of political connexions, the bond-slaves of monopoly —instead of acting upon the more enlarged views which in these mixed divisions they could not but have learned to appreciate. We should have Colonel SIBTHORP coining forward as an active Committee-man in conducting Railway Bills ; Sir ROBERT INGLis bringing in appropriation clauses for the better em ployment of the surplus revenues of Deans and Chapters ; Mr. PLUMPTRE seconding Lord MANNERS' motion for the repeal of the Statutes of Mortmain ; Mr. W. MILES mooting the abolition of all restrictive duties on the trade in Foreign Corn; and Sir ROBERT PEEL himself agitating for the repeal of his Currency Bill of 1819, and its com plement of 1844. Party must be, per se, quite as good a thing as Lord JOHN RUSSELL insisted that it is, if it can accomplish mutations like these. Were some of the diversities pro duced by the divisions on, and after, the third reading of the Maynooth Grant Bill less extravagant? Assuredly not. Now the moral we would have Hon. Members to collect from these is simply this—having made a be ginning and broken the ice, as it were, in their accidental encounters with former political opponents, on certain common grounds of political sentiment, influenced in the main, perhaps, rather by a sense of equity, than on calculations of statesmanship, let them proceed to discover and to occupy the nume rous other grounds on which they may meet the just advocates of the more matured opinions on great economic and social questions. It would be, doubtless, romantic to expect at any early period the advent of this sort of political perfectability; but we may gravely hope that a few such electrifying shocks as the divisions on the Maynooth question may bring the more intelligent representatives of the people— Whigs, Conservatives, and Radicals—to discover that there are neither so many nor so insurmountable organic discrepancies of political theories between them, as should necessarily prevent their coming to a better understanding on most of them. And since we give them credit for being equally animated by a sincere de sire to advance and consolidate the welfare of this great empire, let us hope that, in proportion as the im pression is more emphatically produced on them by occasional accidents of this kind, that it is very possible for them to travel in the same path for the same great and common end, they will acquire the determination to betake themselves to those paths without delay or mis trust. For if the counsels of all the great parties—the popular, the lowest, and the middle classes— the repre sentatives of the trading, manufacturing, and landed in terests of the empire be really excited, what human power can withstand her physical force, her naval great ness, or her political supremacy ? Wh, len we very lately animadverted on the strange anomalies and deficiencies of our criminal law, and in stanced the absurd inequality with which punishment was apportioned to offences coming under the cognisance of its jurisdiction (an inequality by reason of which the severest penalties are sometimes meted out for the most ' venial transgressions of a statute, having regard to cer tain acts in themselves indifferent—and the lightest are inflicted for crimes the most revolting to humanity, be cause of some technical informalities in the indictment, or some error in the pleadings), we little imagined that we should so soon encounter an evidence of the physical existence of one of those unconvicted ruffians who now and then escape in the last crisis, as it were, of fate, the ignominious doom they have justly merited. It is undoubtedly a sound principle of humanity, and of justice as well as of law, to assume any man inno cent, in the face of whatever evidence may have been brought forward to substantiate his guilt, until a verdict of Guilty shall have been recorded against him. At the same time there are facts and circumstances on which, though the cumulative and legal proof necessary to establish a conviction may be wanting, the impression of the public mind is clear and distinct that they are conclusive of the guilt of the accused. We mentioned the case of one " SHEENE," tried many years ago at the bar of the Old Bailey, for the murder of his infant child by cutting its head off. This ruffian escaped conviction at the time, solely by virtue of some worthless quibble as to the technical description in the indictment of himself or his victim—(for we really forget which). Whichever it was, he had been styled in the pleas of the Crown " THOMAS " fur " JOHN," or " JOHN " for " THOMAS." SO ciety, it might have been supposed, was in terested only to know—first, whether a murder had been committed upon the child; secondly, by whom; and upon neither of these points was the slightest doubt expressed, either by the jury or the judge. The flaw in the indictment, however, being pleaded by his counsel, was held to be fatal, and he escaped that doom which it would be an affectation of delicacy to suppose that any individual in the country, who had perused the evidence tendered at his trial, ever doubted that he had most richly merited. In these distressing cases, where the meshes of the law may be said to break through after hav ing netted their prey, natural instinct usually deters the monster which has broken out of them from ever ven turing again into their vicinity. So, in those rare cases where a technical informality has overridden the whole force of direct proof, positive depositions, and circum stantial evidence, the lucky delinquent has gene rally been too happy to withdraw himself from the yell of public indignation and the pointed finger of scorn and infamy, in the safe retreat of obscurity and silence. In the police re ports for Wednesday last, under the head of Wor ship-street, we read of a WILLIAM SHEEN, brought up for having assaulted and threatened the life of a re spectable publican. The case was proved to the satis faction of the magistrate, and SHEEN was bound over to keep the peace, himself in his own recognizance for 1001., with two sureties of 501. each. These were very readily procured, for this SHEEN, it appears, is a pros perous personage, possessing household property in the vicinity of the office to the amount of more than 701. per annum. It is further stated that he is the same man, we were going to say, who, having cut off the head of his infant child, was allowed, through the carelessness of the Clerk of the Arraigns, to slip his own out of the halter. We had no expectation of ever encountering this " wolf-head" again. We had thought that even the most obscene and darksome purlieus of Shoreditch and Spitalfields could have vindicated themselves from the imputation of har bouring such inhabitants. But this is an age of surprises- It must be imagined that the public like to renew old acquaintances of however questionable a reputation under any circumstances however startling. For our own parts, we are beyond the reach of such emotions. Nil admirari i.; the motto we take up with. We should scarcely utter an interjection were we told to-morrow that the injured and scientific experimentalist, Mr. BELANEY, was endeavouring to get enrolled as licentiate in medicine and surgery under a new Charter for " par ticular " instead of " general " practitioners. Yet we do marvel at our law of bail, or the discretion of our magistrates in administering it. To-day a gentleman of great respectability is brought before one magistrate, for soundly horsewhipping the seducer of his own daughter in the person of his brother-in-law, her uncle. Application is made to bail the gentleman who has, under such irrepressible feelings of resentment, com mitted such an act of violence. The Magistrate, Mr. TWYFORD, refuses under circumstances thus special to accept bail, and asks, with a simplicity quite touching— ,' Why should he ?" To-morrow you shall have a no torious murderer, with no other recommendations but those of his luck in defrauding the public executioner, brought up on a charge of wanton and brutal assault, without any such provocation of intolerable injury, before another magistrate. The charge is proved to his satis faction, and this Magistrate, on bail being tendered for the notorious offender before him, accepts it with a facility that seems to ask—" why should he not?" Madrid journals of the 16th instant have been re ceived, but they bring no news. A rumour prevailed that General CONCHA, Governor of Catalonia, was about to be removed from the command of that province. According to another rumour, a Carlist rising was ex pected at Arragon. The Three per Cents. closed at 34 3.16 for cash, and 34i- at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 25h- at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at si for the 27th. The discussion in the French Chamber of Deputies on the northern line of railway has been brought to a close, and the Bill adopted by a majority of 253 to 10. The following aro the more important clauses adopted rela tive to shares :—The adjudication shall not be valid until confirmed by royal ordinance ; the company de clared successful cannot issue any negotiable shares or Promises of shares before being constituted as a soeiete anonyme, duly authorised according to Art. 37 of the Commercial Code ; the projectors of the company shall have a right only to the reimbursement of their advances, and after they have established their claim to the same before a general meeting of the shareholders ; no one can vote by proxy in the board of directors of the Com pany. In case two members, differing from the rest on any point, shall demand to have the question postponed until the opinion of one or several absent directors might be made known, a copy or extract of the minutes shall be sent to all the members absent, with a request to them to come and vote at the next meeting on a certain appointed day or to address, in writing, their opinion to the chairman. lie shall read the opinion so sent to the board, after which, the point shall be decided by the majority of the members present all publication o f th e quotat i ons o f shares, before the constitution of the societe anonyme shall be punishable by a fine of from 500 f. to 3,000 f. The following clause was proposed by MM. DuFAurtE and VIVIEN, and also adopted,:—" There shall be sent to the office of the Minister of Public Works the register from which the scrip receipts delivered to the subscribers shall have been cut, or a list, stating the reciprocal engagement of the projectors and the subscribers, and the definitive division among them of the capital of the company ; from the date of the delivery of the registers or lists above mentioned, all stipulations by which the projectors shall have reserved to them selves the power of reducing the number of shares subscribed for, shall be null and void." Ti e clause prohibiting the negotiation of the receipts or pro mises of shares, and declaring the subscribers answer able for four-tenths of the amount of the shares, was among the last agreed to, and the Bill passed. Com mittees of the Chamber were engaged in examining the Paris and Strasburg lines, and the branch line from Metz to Saarbruck. Theline from Orleans to Tours, it was expected, would be opened in September. The Constitutionnel says:—" Independently of the ships of the line and those of a smaller force appointed to cruise in the Mediterranean for practice, there is to be a division formed of stearn•frigates. Admiral PARCEVAL DESCRENES will continue to command the first, and the Prince DE JOINVILLE the second, who will probably have the chief command, if the two squadrons act to gether." The accounts from Lucerne are to the 19th, and state hat the Grand Council had been induced, by fear rather than any other motive, to commute the sentence on Dr. STEIGER, on condition that he be transported for life. The Cantons of Berne, Zurich, and Argau, it appears, thrt atened, in case of any attempt to carry the capital sentence into effect, to call out the federal troops and rescue the prisoner. M. MULLER, the President of the Diet, who had been struck with apoplexy, was re covering. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thurs day at 86f. 20c. ; the New Loan, at 861. 55c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 60c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2.101. ; Rouen, 1,132 f. 50 c . ; Vierzon, 822 E • llavre, 921 f. ; Avignon, 1,055 f. ; Basle, 2731. 75c.; Spanish Actives, 40 1 %; Spanish Three per Cents., 42; Spanish Passives, Tho following are the quotations for the new lines:- Orleans and Bordeaux, 240 f. premium ; Boulogne, 130 f. ditto; Troyes and Montere au , 70f. 50c; Paris and Lyons (Laflitte), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (C a l on ), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. 50c; Northern line (L a ff i tt e ), 351. ;ditto (Rosamel), 101. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouil lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 121.50 c; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot), 351. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), I If. 25c. ; Bordeaux arid Toulouse (Mackenzie), 121. ; ditto and Cette (Espe leta), 17f. 75c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 121.50 c. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 61.25 c. LYONS, MAY 19.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0671., end of May; Paris and Orleans, 1;2351., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,122 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 82711, ditto ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 712 f., ditto. go ill t o Epsom Mel,- VERY SIMPLE.—A gentleman last week became a h m e em cou be l r a of ha t v h e e one the HtuhmeiarnearSzsiettoy, under the impression that Punch, RAILWAY COM 311TTEES (THIS DAY.) Group W. WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE RAILWAY. The Committee to whom this group of railways was referred, met to day at twelve o'clock in room No 6, to hear the further exami. nation of witnesses on behalf of the promoters of the above line ; Mr. Pakington in the Chair. Previous to the examination of Mr. Harris, engineer, being re sumed, further evidence was, at the suggestion of Mr. Talbot, heard, to show the daily inconvenience which arose at the Nor manton station, from the great amount of traffic that passed that station. Mr. P. Clarke was then examined—He stated that he had had the general superintendence, for the three years up to April last, of the York and North Midland Railway. Had the arrangement of the trains at the Normanton station —the power to make alterations rested with him. He exerted himself to the utmost to remedy the inconvenience and delay which arose at the Normanton station, in consequence of the immense amount of traffic which passed that station. The increase of workmen and assistants could not remedy this. If more buildings were erected so as to afford larger accommodation for the re-arrangement of the trains, a little relief might be afforded. He thought, however, that the traffic at present was beyond what could be accommodated con veniently, and that any increase of it would materially interfere with the interests of the public. By Mr. KNowLes—Passenger trains from York by the York and North Midland line, are not detained at the Normanton sta stion by the necessity of an engine to take them on. _ Mr. John Harris, engineer, whose evidence was partly heard yesterday, stated that the. terminus of the proposed line at Goole would be at one of the shipping docks. It was a convenient station for passengers, and was admirably adapted for goods traffic also. There were large warehouses situated near it. There was a branch in connexion with the railway at Goole, about a mile in length, and which proceeded along the streets of the town, and terminated on the banks of the Ouse. The gra. dients on the whole line were favourable. The worst gradient from Wakefield to Goole was lin 250. There was a gradient of 1 in 253 in the Midland branch. The Sheffield and Bight branch had a gradient of 1 in 150 for about one-half of the line, and the rest was nearly level. The narrowest curve on the pro posed line was eighteen chains in radius. The remaining curves were favourable and very few. The witness then proceeded to detail the items of the estimated cost of the line. The cost of land was 52,9441.; of fencing, drains, &c., 13,7071.; earthworks, 97,8131.; bridges and culverts, 60,808/.; crossings and road.gates, 5,2571. ; rails, 54,390/. ; (which were calculated at 10/. per ton.) The suppJrts on which the end of the rail rests was 12,705. (LEVI' SITTINII.) Group X. LONDON AND YORK LINE. This Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock, in room No. 8, Lord Courtenay in the chair. Soon after the Hon. Members had taken their seats, Mr. HILDYARD said he would feel obliged if the Committee would state whether they intended to sit during the holidays, of which there were two in the ensuing week, one to be devoted to her Ma jesty's drawing-room, and another to the Derby. He would like to know if the Committee contemplated sitting on either of those days. The Derby day was long considered a dies non. Mr. DARBY—Do you wish to go to the Derby, Mr. Hlldyard ? ._ _ . (Laughter.) Mr. HILDYARD-It is almost a question which I cannot answer, Sir—l should certainly like to be there.—(Laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—As far as the Committee are concerned they are ready to sit every day next week. The inquiry is rather im portant as it affects the public time, and any saving of that time by our sitting will be a great benefit. Mr. BARING WALL—If one is to have a holiday at all, it may as well be had on the Wednesday as on any other day. The CHAIRMAN—As the majority of the Counsel are agreed to have Wednesday, we shall sit on every day during the week save that day. Mr. Muschamp was then called and examined by Mr. PAGET--IS a coal-owner, residing at Lancaster lodge, county Durham. The witness was examined very shortly to the same effect as Mr. Pease yesterday, namely, as to the present facilities for and expense of, the transit of coals from the pits in Durham to London, and expressed his opinion that the proposed London and York line would very materially increase the coal traffic between South Durham and London, and diminish the cost of conveyance. In his cross-examination by Mr. HILDY &RD (who was counsel on behalf of the Midland Counties, the Lincoln and Cambridge, and the Eastern Counties schemes) he deposed that the coal owners had at present tram.roads from the pits' mouths to the different ports of shipment. Group V. SHEFFIELD AND NEWARK LINE. The opponents of the Parliamentary line continued this morn. ing to call evidence. Mr. Hayne, C.E., call that the tunnel on the amended line would cost at least from 401. to 501. per yard. He was acquainted with the stratum through which it would pass, and he did not think it the same through which the Parliamentary line should be made. Joseph Meashom, coal agent, was called to show which line would best open up the coal-fields. His opinion was, that the ori. ginal line would be decidedly the best. John Boots gave similar evidence. This was the case for the opponents, and Mr. WHATELEY, Q.C., Bose to address the Committee—He con tended that his Learned Friend Mr. Baines had not proved a ne cessity for the scheme before the Committee, and that as the valu able purposes of such a line were exceedingly doubtful, the Corn mittee should decide against it. The preamble of the Bill had not been proved, but even if doubtful the Hon. Committee were bound to reject it. The Learned Counsel then entered at considerable length into detail to show that the valuable minerals of the country could not be more easily conveyed by this railway. Group EE. DUNDEE AND PERTH (NORTH) RAILWAYS. The Committee on these lines resumed this morning at the usual hour; the Right Hon. F. Bating in the chair. Mr. M`Veagh examined by Mr. FORSYTH—Is a civil engineer of great experience. Has had the estimates given in by Mr. Miller and Mr. Storie submitted to him. Does not believe that the railway projected from Dundee to Perth can be constructed at anything like the sum named by the former, who has considera. bly underrated the cost in almost every particular. Mr. Miller's estimate for the Dundee and Perth line is fully 50 per cent. lower, than any other constructed by him. On his own computation there would be 30 feet of base, and an average slope of 1 to 1 ; the earthwork will comprise 639,000 cubic yards of clay, and 278,000 cubic yards of rock work. On the permanent way. he anticipates an increase of 30,0001. above the price stated by Mr. Cross-examined by Mr. ANDREWS—The other lines constructed by Mr. Miller, with which he had compared his estimate of the Perth and Dundee, were the Glasgow and Greenock, and the Glasgow and Edinburgh. The former is an unusually expensive line, the earthwork having cost no less than 15s. a yard in some places, and the tunnel ling was extensive and difficult. Has had no experience, nor has examined the line himself; but be is competent, by assuming the correctness of Mr. Storie's evidence, to state positively that his, and not Mr. bli ler's estimate, was true. Mr. Enington, examined by Mr. FORBYTH—Is a civil engineer and having been astonished at the great difference between Mr. Miller's and Mr. Storie's estimates, caused five different surveys to be made of the line, and as many computations were sent in of the quantity of work and cost required, all of which confirmed the statement of Mr. Storie, and contravened that of Mr. Miller. Group R. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. Gibson Craig in the chair. Sir John M`Niell's cross-examination continued by Mr. Alex. ander at some length, respecting several lines he had formerly surveyed, one or two of them at the instance of the Government Railway Commission, and which he stated had much more favour able gradients than the line now under the consideration of the Committee. One or two of the lines surveyed were inland. The reason why the gradients were then made so slight was the belief, by engineercthat no railway could be constructed with gradients less than one in two or three hundred. To Mr. BOYLE—He surveyed hi 1835 a line between Drogheda and Portadown, at the instance of a Company, called the Great Trunk; he also surveyed, at the instance of the Railway Commis sion, lines between Dublin and Armagh and Dublin and Enniskillen. He received no Instructions as to including Bel fast, Newry, and Portadown. This he was quite certain of, as his instructions were to survey the best lines between certain points that were set forth. He also surveyed four lines for private Companies in the north of Ireland. Among others, he surveyed a coast line, which at that time was thought to be a mere specula tion. Events since had shown the value of that opinion. The traffic since that time had much improved. The present line would give the greatest amount of accommodation to Newry, Armagh, Portadown, Belfast, and Dundalk. There were rising gradients for 23 miles towards Portadown, averaging 1 in 210. (LEVI' WITTING.) Group FF. The Committee re-assembled this day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. 7, Lord Ashley In the chair, and proceeded with the ad journed case of THE EDINBURGH AND HAWICK RAILWAY. Mr. CLARKE appeared on behalf of Mr. Walker, a landowner, an opposing petitioner to that part of the line in the parish of Shwa. The Learned Counsel had to press upon the Committee the adoption of a deviation in the course of the line. This would save the inte rests of his client and prevent the danger which would, according to the plans, be incurred by the position of a school-house, in pro reeding from which children would be constantly crossing and re. crossing the line many times in the day. Mr. Pringle, M.P., having been called to prove the position of the school_house, and the great danger attached to it, stated that a bridge over or archway under the railway, would altogether obviate the difficulty. The number of pupils attending being very small, and the country being very thinly peopled, a simple archway under the line would be quite sufficient. Mr. CLARK objected to the estimates. They were insufficient. (LEFT SITTING.) CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) THE HANOVER JEWELS. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the 'tolls, and the other Learned Judges who have attended the hearing of the case with re spect to the Crown jewels of Hanover, sat to-day again, in his Lordship's private room at Westminster. The public, as hereto. fore, were not admitted, the matter being kept strictly private. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Master of the Rolls did not sit to-day, in consequence of having to attend the Lord Chancellor to hear the further argu ments in the case of the claim of his Majesty the King of Hanover to the Hanover Crown jewels, VICE - CHANCERY -(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His lioNowt took motions today of no interest to the public generally. The Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE took motions and causes; and the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM, after disposing of the case of Buckle v. Faweet, proceeded to hear unopposed and opposed cause petitior; I. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied during the early part of the day in hearing a motion for a new trial, but the case prey rated no featurei ofpublic interest, the arguments being pure'y technical, BANKRUPTCY -(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULIWRN,) IN RE GARRET, AN INSOLVENT. This insolvent, who was a farmer at Milton, Northamptonshire, came up for his final order, and was opposed on the ground of having made a vexatious defence to an action on two bills of exchange. The insolvent said that he had acted under the advice of his at torney, who told him there were a good defence to the action. The COMMISSIONER —What, a good defence, when you chose to sign accommodation bills without having any possible means of meeting them. The insolvent said that he had been taken in, whilst drinking a bottle of wine ; but he could assure the Court that he did not know of the proceedings till after they had commenced, and then begged nothing further should be done, as he could not pay. The COMMISSIONER—Where is your attorney ?—A boy about fourteen or fifteen, said his father could not attend to-day, but he was watching the case. The COMNIISSIONER—Watching the case, indeed! This is too often the case. Some attorneys lead their clients into difficulties, and there leave them. He said that nothing justified the insol vent's conduct in giving the bills, but at the same time the aggrava tion, if put in on sham plea, was caused by bad advice. Under the circumstances, he should act upon the 28th section of the Act, and withhold the protection of the Court for three months, and adjourn the making the final order sine die. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CIIY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales 7,000 bales at last week's quotations. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 23.—The sales are —Barnsley Junction, 434 ' • Ditto, Half Shares, 2%; Birken head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction,9 l / 4 9; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8 1 / 4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 ; Caledonian, 11 10% ; Churnet Valley, 6 1 % 6 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2 1 A prem.; Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. 235.; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester, 20s. 6d. 275. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junctien, 3% ex new; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6% ; Leeds and Thirsk, V s ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 1 / 4 3 / 4 ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1% prem. ; London and Birmingham, 237 ; London and Windsor, 7s. 6d. 7s. prem. ; London and York, 4 1 A 7-16; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction, 4% 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Birming ham, 57 3 / 4 58 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21%; Midland Railway Consols, 168 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 20 ; North Wales, 3 1 /, ; North Western, 4 ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% ; Southport and Euston, 2% ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2 1 /, ; Wakefield, Pon tefract and Goole, 16 ; Welsh Midland, PA V s prem. ; West Yorkshire, 2 1 / 2 ; Great North of France, English, 5% ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%. Manchester and Euston, 5. The steamer from the West Indies brings favourable ac counts of the crops, &c., and the exports of sugar bad been large from most of the islands up to the respective dates. The Trinidad folks com plained, nevertheless, that they bad not made quite so much sugar as they expected. The colonists generally ap peared in good spirits, except at Barbadoes, where the want of rain was seriously felt. The accession of labour by the arrival of the hill-coolies was likely to give heart to the planters generally, In Hayti hostilities were expected to recommence, He rard, the ex-President, having again lauded on the island. During the week to Saturday last the Bank of England issued notes to the amount of 29,340,425/., an increase of 117,4901. The " rest" increased by 4,757. The public deposits were larger by 965,9091., the other deposits by 210,546/., and the notes by 593,995/. The bullion was 15,999,3701., an increase of 137,684/. Not the slightest alteration is to be noted in the Consol Market to-day, and there is but little doing at the current rates, 99 LA %. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been well supported at 58s. to 60s. Bank Stock has been 210 1 A to 1 / 4 ; .New Three- and a-Half per Cents. have realised 101 1 % %; and the Three per Cents., 98 3 / 4 1 / 2 . We have not a single bargain officially marked in Spanish Bonds, and the other Foreign Securities maintain about pre vious rates. Portuguese Converted have been 67 to 67%, Mexican 37 1 A, and Chilian Deferred 52. Dutch Two-aad-a- Half per Cents. have been 63%, and the Fcur per Cents. 97 3 / 4 . The Share Market has been a little weak again for the scrip of the new lines, but very firm for the old railways. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 20%4 9841,1/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98V 2 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99 % 14 New 3 ,i. per Cent. Annuties 10 1 14% Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 ll 5-164 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll 1-16 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 114 d. I ', d. 1,0001. 5001. Ditto Small — Ditto Advertised ..... ... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto Deferred Mexican Bonds, 1887, 5 per Cent 3 7 l+ Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account. 67y Dutch 2 1 / per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... 97 3 A PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2% to Birmingham and Gloucester 100 135 Ditto, New... .. . 17 1 / 2 .... 33 1 / 2 to Birmin g h a m and Oxford Junction Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20 C.iledonian 5 ... 10 1 4 to Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1 1 / 7y 4 to ; 7 Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley Coventry and Leicester ...... 1 1 4 l l4 to Cornwall Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% l O l /2 to Dublin and Galway 2% 3 % 34— to Dublin and Mullingar 2 l/ 4 % 1,4 .. to Eastern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s 4%%... to Eastern Union Ditto Extension Great North of England...... 100 221% 222 to 221 Ditto New Ditto New 2 2 B l /2 to 29 1 /. Great Western Ditto % Shares 5O lO 6 Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 2% 5% to Hull and Selby, 5O 107% ...... to 107 London and Birmingham ...100 Ditto q Shares London and 8right0n.......... 50 London and Croydon... 13/. 153. 9d 18%%... to Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 6 London and South Western.. 41%...... 79% to 79 Ditto New 2IA London and York... ..... ...... 2 11 / 2 4l %... to London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% % 3 1 % to Londonderry and Coleraine... 2 1 2 3 2 Londonderry and Enniskillen 2 1 /` 2 4 3%4% to Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds 73 .....154 Midland 100 Ditto New 2 20%%... to Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 132 131... to 132% Newcastle &Darlingtonjunc. 25 50%...... to Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newry and Enniskillen North British Ditto New 1... -4% to Norwich and Brandon lO ... 18 3 / to ' Ditto New 1 Rugby,Worcester,:and Tring 1 Scottish Central Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2 1 / 2 5 4%... to South Eastern and Dover ... 33% Ditto New, No. 3 2 l /2 7 l /8 to South Wales Trent Valley 2 ..... 18 1 / 4 1 / 2 ... to Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction l% 2%4... to West Yorkshire Wexford and Carlow Yarmouth and Norwi c h - York and North Midland ... 50 _ . Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens liordeaux,Toulouse,andeette 2 Dijon and Mulhouse 2 .. 2% to Great Northern of France (Laffitte's) Do. De. (Rosamel's) 2 .... 2% to Great Paris and Lyons Louvain and Jemeppe . 2 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons (Latlitte) ... 2 Paris and Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2, 3 / 4 %, to Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasburg.. Do. (llainguerlot's) Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse JOINT STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY). LONDON, MAY 24. Wind westerly, fresh breeze, and cloudy. DEAL, MAY 23.—S1d. Unicorn, Cape and Swan River ; Malvina, West Coast of Africa. liAnwicir, MAY 22.—Arrd. Providence, Littlehampton for Newcastle, with damage, having been in contact, in Ifosely Bay, last night with the brig May. PouTsmouTn, MAY 23.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. Jane, Mira.. michi. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 23.—Arrd. Avon steamer, Strutt, West Indies. PooLE, MAY 23.—SId. Lloyd's, Miramichi. PLYMOUTH, MAY 23.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Attwood steamer, Santander. OFF DOVER, MAT 20.—Amphion, Trapp, New York for Stockholm. BRISTOL, MAY 23. —..Arrd. William Canynge, Africa. CLYDE, MAY 22.—Arrd. Circassian, Marshall, New Orleans. Sld. Antigua, Trinidad; Abercrombie, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, MAY 22.—S1d. Elizabeth and Mary, Quebec. WATERFORD, MAY . 2I.—SId. Margaret, Quebec. CORK, MAY 21.—S1d. Flora, New York ; Sarah, St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Wind E.N.E. to N., light.—Arrd. Universe, Dunn, Ichaboe ; Henrietta Mary, New Orleans. OFF BARDSEY, MAY 22.—Symmetry, Mobile; Speed, St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Sid. Governor, Sydney, New South Wales; Andas, Pernambuco ; Rainbow, Trinidad ; Velocity, Jamaica; Victoria, Vera Cruz ; Independence, New York ; Mary Caroline, and Sherbrooke, Quebec. Off, Joseph Yeo ward, Arica; Lady East (supposed), Singapore; Hurricane, Valparaiso; Southerner, New York; Magellan (supposed), Swansea. LATER ARRIVAL. FROM NEW YORK.—The Southerner' Captain Palmer, arrived at Liverpool on Friday night' with papers from New York of the Ist inst., one day later than those received by the last steamer. They do not contain any item of news of the least importance. DETENTION OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Erebus, Captain Sir John Franklin, and the Terror, Captain Crozer, which left the river in the early part of the week, on an ex pedition to explore the Arctic regions, accompanied by the Monkey and Rattler steam-ships, in order to tow them off the Orkney Islands, have been obliged to bring up off Aldborough, owing to the fearful north-easterly gales which have of late been blowing, and, up to the last accounts were still lying in the roadstead. The gale of Wednesday night was very severe; a number of vessels parted from their anchors. One vessel, named the Daniel, belonging to Mal.. don, was driven by the fury of the gale on to Pakefield Flat, near LowestofFe. The crew, finding that she had become a wreck, took to the boat, when unfortunately, on nearing the beach, it cap sized ; three poor fellows clung to the bottom and were saved, but the remainder, four in number, including the captain and mate, perished. RARE COPIES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.—III the last day's sale of a portion of a nobleman's library, on 'Thursday, an edition of the Holy Scriptures, of exceeding rarity, was sold. It was thus described in thecatalogue :—" Holy Bible, in which is con tayned the Olde and Newe Testament, truly and purely translated into English by Thomas Mattl.ew, black letter, morocco extra, gilt edges, by Clarke, 1537. The real name of the translator was John Rogers, who was the first martyr in Queen Mary's reign. The present copy is perfect, with the exception of the following defects—a letter or two cut off at the bottom of the first title, the title to the Prophets is repaired at the bottom, two leaves in the table and the imprint are in fac.simile by Harris, the corner of Geo 2 torn off, and a few leaves repaired." It was pur chased for 105 guineas! Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, whose arrival in Paris we have announced, appeared on Wednesday in one of the re served seats of the Chamber of Deputies. His features resemble those of the late Emperor, and his appearance in the Chamber excited much interest, ,) MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA COVENT-GARDEN. Nothwithstanding the supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables was on the increase, the demand ruled active on the followrniPs, ing terms :—Old Potatoes, from 3s to 43 pe r cwt ; T e lu oils, Is 9d to 2s 6d; Young Onions, is 9d to 2 s 6d; Cow or Greens, 1s 6d to 3s ; and Leeks , 8 d to ls pe r dozen bunches ; Spinach, 9d to Is 3d ; Apples , 2s to 3s, and Old Onions, 2s per half sieve ; Cherries, 153 to 21s ; Forced 0 tatoes, 4d to 8d; Pine-apples, 8s to 10 s; an d Filberts, Is 6d per lb ; Parsnips, 6d to Is ; and Cabbages, 2s to to 3s 8 s ; per dozen ; Rhubarb, 4d to is 4d ; Asparagus, 2s 6d Horse-radish, 3s to 5s ; Brocoli, is to 2s 3d ; and Celery, 13 t,l 2s per bundle ; Oranges, 7s to 13s • Lemons, 8s to 12s; and Forced French Beans, 2s per hundred; Cucumbers, ls to 5 5 each; Turnip Greens, ls lid; and Brocoli Sprouts, .3s per bushel ; Radishes, 4d per dozen hands ; Small Salad, 3 ,1 ; and Mushrooms, is to is 6d per punnet; Strawberries, Ur per small basket. RPRD• For Meat we had HUNG rather E an active demand at improved quotations. In Fruit and Vegetables more business Was passing. NEWOATE AND X.EADDNRAZZo• • Beef and Veal were in request, at improved quotation!. while the value of other kinds of Meat was stea dil y supporte(sll Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; the to 5s 10d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork. 35 to 4s per Slbs, bY carcase. We had a large supply of Foreign Poultry, ';'" g that of English was by no means large. Generally sPe 2 n ic l in t the trade ruled dull. Fowls, 4s to is 6d; Chickens , 2 ' '" 5 , 13 45 6d ; Pigeons, 6d to 9d ; Duckling , , 33 3d to 53; Gosling 4s to 6s 6d ; and Guinea Fowls, 3s to 4s each. NE ea; ad There was a steady tre W aPORT.t enhanced currencies. V, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; Lamb, 5s 2bl to Veal, 3s. 10d to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 4€l to 46 2d per Sibs. BILLLNGSGATE. mo ve Most kinds of Fish, the supply of which was good, ra ° off slowly, at barely late rates. Turbots, from S s to 151 " on, Cod Fish, 3s to 7s each ; Eels, 4d to 10d; and ackere l, 10d to Is 4d per lb ; Soles, 4d to 2s 6d per pair; 22s to 3ls per 120. full Rather an extensive business was passing, atWHITECHAPEZ. prices.—Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 38 Sd to 43 i ckl , to verf ; Lamb, 5s 4d to Cs ; Veal, 3s 10d to ss; and Pork, 33 3 " 4s per 81bs. ELIDE M.A.RICET 1 ileifets, Raw Hides, at per stone of 14Ibs :—But Steers o , l or to 5s 6(1 to 5s 8d ; Middling ditto, 4s 10d to 55 4d ; In feP s kia:- - 4s 2d to 4s Bd. Sheep and Calf-skins, a t perto 5s Ed; ; Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8s Long-woolled SLooP, 4s ,d. and Short -ditto, 3s to 4s 6d; Lamb Skins 10d to is °' Shearlings, 6d to Bd. e frooi . . 5 The prices of Wheaten ßß Bre EAD ad in the iqetrop r oli , lea' 7d to lid ; of Household ditto, 5d to 61(1 per 4110 - BC AT raluumrs. 4 /12.1; 1138' Hay, ss• CIOVer SMITTIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow ful do., 4/ 14s to 514 s ; fine Upland do., 5153 to heats traw, Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1118 s to 2/ ; \ V ; s alugg i ' /1 2/ Is to 213 s per load. A moderate supply , g l " demand. too e 14" 3 1 12 3 t 5 / 12 3 ; CUMBERLAND. Coarse Meadow Hay, useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5165 t0 21 " 1 Myer Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 185 ste ady" $ Wheat Straw, 2/ 2s to 2/ 4s Id ' Trad. per oa • 41 1031 late rates. 103 to 5/ 43 0 WRITECHABBL. — Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 useful ditto, 4l 12s to 51 3s ; fine Upland dit t lisi to 11 518 s ; Clover Hay, 41 8s to 6/ 3s ; Oat Straw , but t nia dersi e ' Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 213 s per load. Supp l y bu and trade rather dull. 3/ 103 to 51 , HAYTI. o goi Aro' We extract from the Feuille de Commerce of the " 01 t b .. ; the following particulars of the death a the Piesident,' ioriew appointment of his successor : " After a le" in- he S , tbe career . surrounded by difficulties without eu tn- ruerri,.i h , the brave, and benevolent President rhi li ,f e e SidWr, as paid the debt of nature. He died A t" so ... p esti v " - coes °i l ei in Palace of St. Marc, on Tuesday, the 15th April, s i r 11 . like the afternoon, in the midst of his numerous far:nl4,ll,llo sho_li during the whole republic, for such:a great loss, 11 , e ., of s r :,, .. a long and painful illness, the resignatle" re el d , ": 1 fcaortitnica critical in a Christian. He was called to the th e ° .11 tiimne whichthe most the difficult and, and li , es Pe e r s h i a r te .'. et il od e ce er o j oa t t 0 u h ri a d tr a e t i r o e n s t , dreamed only o incessant schemes fret p a l ti n t d to concealed ns, end .I. t p h l o o s t e s d i o s f o r t oreadn,clinitsureehqueiresdhotatllpehriiods ,persevering s oot I ti o train. He died without ever having shed a drop of bl u 7 h eCo e- t o one death-warrant. ,, On the announcement of his death!,oo,ob e ll , of State assembled, and after mature deliberation, O w svo ie l' f l y Art. 10 of the Decree of Nov 1844, proceed t ° the sl ° dceeeeorrstqawainibliiirit_.ool 0000,0:40;i6111: new President, when General: Louisp Pierrot W ° . 11 .1, e , se d , t iXl - 14 elected, and invited to proceed to the capital orthisiroodist; issuedthe oath of fidelity to the nation Decrees Were -ogle' to announcing these facts and regulating. .°‘4l l's' / observed at the funeral of the late President. me .10' tha t The following is an extract of a letter front _ -t , c oper s , dated April 20, 1845 ;—" I send you the local ae""` o f 0"f; you may see the death of our President and the elect/040 elio e ";„ off de Riviere has shown himself in the Col° n* , 4 2 no !les several of the ports of the Republic, but ° I- ese' scaled the , h e is with encouragement; and as he has thus far „ow , ' yea sent by the present Government after him it is P . „ — to JOT, il the eery.-- eou vffin e d er e e r tro s t t v i 3 0 0 di visit iht the ore authoritieshi molest 1 p e s r t e v t h i o i u si n s i l island." Jamaical a p n l d e d . either gone on to the Spanish main or r etura." ubtfu i3O 0 Whether he will venture on the latter course Is _c i f hon our e l h o tb i al Pi Mica toi new President. He was a Prince under We are all anxious for the arrival here of Genet' triet disciplinAl,Aot, the brother of her Majesty, and is a most s the late PrOlhe• in es old as is clever and energetic, but aged, bet ari d of the 1 0°- about eighty years of age He see s in conun ay ie. ,gedthahtish ew distiict of the Republic, * d quarters, Cape H g di and bis hea - __............. horadd nsonrnt...-"tioe 'fr Xing Christopher , THE LATE DUE L A T G9 l Srv [FROM A CORRESPOISDENT.Jeicitedr:IP The cause of this lamentable affair, which ha s H „ - Ici °— sensation was, Mrs. Hockie's going to dance Y rag' Seton, contrary to her husband's desires. ritto b yt It is true that Mr. Hockie, and his s econd, te nt °ul d ' tised at Sherwood's shooting galle r y b e f o re they d not, e they did so solely with a view of t r yi ng the pistols , a .; in I: PS been so industrious:y asserted, t o * i m prove their 'd e of the weapon. The report of the Times' CO ' reir pi I " :M t " of exaggerations, and evidently procee d e d froze l Ua6 d ub to Mr. Hockie. By virtue of the recent regulation 010",4001* army and navy, the commissions of Lieut. Hec kle, that pietter, A ° are all forfeited. It must be a subject of deep reg ret t•- - Dung 0 11'; did not select a clv!lian as a second, instead of a 1 7, - airl o ifer . s he must have been aware that his accepting e" b he g, have involved the loss of his commission. As !P" to Mr. Seton by Mr. Hockie was so public, it se e° awe - fl a ' reflects little credit on the proper authoriti es, th at id pot U' i'e not prevented meeting, especially as the duel •' until five o'clo..:k the following afternoon. AT 11 ,‘ ! 01 " THE PARIS JOVIL' -,, conte'L' IV A great change is about to take place in the st id ' e ' s Deba t ;,o management of three of these papers, the Journ a lof 'II V vote 0 i o '' o t Cunstitutionnel, and the Presse. The Constilutt its y ise 4 oo instant, announces, that ou the Ist of Ju ne ..,„rdy, '',, 0 011 ( doubled, its columns increased from twelve to ' On' r ts o. spa p:r vi re po e 0 0 as large as a single sheet of the Tinzes new mor ..t t en iger c , ' fil e objects in making this change is, to furnish Parliamentary debates, law proceedings, literati a i n " d trati: eo ga o t , ', simple details respecting agriculture, commerce,for overt i or iel 0 main object, however, is to furnish more spa ce the the rigbil,;( M. Duveyrier proposed some time since t° w ith t ' q - 00, th , - ri T( o l f h2 : Bo h po e r s o e ,oll.3 t o h sß r i e tri e iot ;a ,h pers to farm the advertisements; rate of ' 56 00 , ' increase them indefinitely for fifteen years, at tb ßo 000 f . ),, to 9 ia ) t. be e : rt a i l e i l n e u s m i n e t a h c c h — 1 ) a i p ncrsl 1019;"' slllid'- eonn tr ra i nounce, has been accepted. • a .6 ce „„ ar in ,y, ,t , e rA Enormous as the sum stipulated may 31 ". e ;,, infan' i dall • 0 which advertising may be said to be only i n " oat - 00 , e on in fo . 0 0 , to be deemed by the public far below to uot ion o to realised by the speculation. The article in 1 0 00' 41 ;0 ,1 '4r that M. Duveyrier has converted the propertY ',°, 0-00 L) (.10,04tn,et, stock company with a capital of 2,000,000 f. (8%0 bafe.lotelOrcri, 8,000 shares, of 101. each. Of these a smalll)°r,t,ls,ysallopienica way into the momey-market, "and have alreadY; 0 1 . , , h a : o il Ono " reached a premium of 100 f. (V.) ea ch ' alt o ( ' t u be jo ti ti r a bo' c oci tary article of the treaty with the proprietors _ . , er r 4 , 0 e sh the stipulates that they shall receive respectivelY r fits. , t00 1er!,,,, annual sum of 3,000 f. a clear moiety of thencooaf,,ipoon'to, were brought to market on the Bourse 0 r ate tie' be D ebg ar, authority of a Company called the Societe G lug s o f t t o f Po This company has taken the advertising e ° '1 the 15 t o al Coln .43. ,-4. ' Prem., and Constitutionnel for fifteen Yel" from o nie^ e to ' with a view to introduce an advertising sP t , e , f. e ach ~ plan practised in England. The shares of `2 3 V ~optemp rem. in the course of the day, and left off at * I _........./ nam T e l d le R p . e s s r e s i 0 1, ns w i t c h lm ob r t g a e i n d i n on the s e b e y °: : c i t e i s t i s o l u °sll : rt r i "i r e; A IV' flii' f ft 14 Messrs. Leaf and Co., have been committed for LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS. triAl" .1 i rd. 0 11 " 01 za te g oer ~ i f fnor r man v i N I : li o r , : e d op . i carriage fi l y e l d f r s. i t n n t t o h t c h e:i having been foot and passengers. The ga te 3 t prOg re l ii t)( 0 Gre 3 4 o f th e , s ys' n l O. •ei made in the formation of the new plantation%ithe sr , ' ,_,, pastry, t r t yh, the ß oau E n Ilv Ol i g laid out. planted, the turf laid down, Ati 0 19f 0 ,6 , ~e r . he gg ~f re S ac T They had been sent out by their parents, alitru:rfritedhis_ii:o:o:o3ee,?i,, I had Marlborough-street . E : G eo: G eg , i t hv g :d s t r . t 7 : T pl shillingsei : c n e n c . 'e o l hl ri f n e . i .e l : _t :jr e l r o ete n i I l'frWr_ , :: :1" : 111 , ' :1 tieet°_trfflo eti:jtoeellr.:t'ie'lel; d rEsil: the remainder would have ye° -- !, sow" pion" t it mother, who, to use the words of the 13 0 9'' „ds 1 1 4 fall' e wittles, but oftener, if she aint drunk afore,sPc". Thei gin." The children were sent to the workhouse i Th e a glass-blower. ..."' 4 V5 • miri ld A Vienna journal of the 15th lust A • , 5 0 - t • l ' l3. ss: i a t i ora t o_ df s exhibition of the progress of the useful a rts i r the e O/o . , '_. ~Ire, e , this day. Our Society of Industry has inv . f a lie co ur . T,l l o % grand supper in the Hall of the Rtdoubt. 1 istioos et L'i, iit;s: visited the exhibition. The report of the ope lo wly t' o cie e. , Bank during 1844 is extremely satisfactory.yt. or ders' a f an increasing system of economy among the le v ' e _ t htlft e 1 The Semaphore of Marseilles st , lt isaa tt.1,3:;00::, days ago, a son of Queen Maria Christina al: vet t 0 0 1 : c titir d . ti Rianzares, between 10 and 1:1 years of aegoc,,:c3to for _ .o 3ter and embarked for Rome, where he is to b ',, bargees THE QUEEN OF THE FRENCII.---,''. o p 80 "' w oo' has t ., i ..jir the Seine, who, by his humanity and courage!. ..., , w en ; ro ra._., ferent occasions saved the lives of more rOl'h"onaarinoiptiilivo' and received four medals, besides othc steel' t 0 3 gav e S' was induced to sell his barges and of the aTriouot, ttic u e rej company, who, for the major part of th„,onoured,,c her. bills of exchange. These bills being a; to , co: oe r barge-master became distressed, and 1 ° , !,,, to co coo 1 to to meet the claims upon hint from ..ewerary 9.,,0ent ht negotiated them, by becoming a suPern`l 1,0, su.'-iiitJev.,, His earnings, however, were little Inoer.:.',.,reo, an fie or, support himself, his wife, and seven.nefroraij, orlde CfchoY, so undeserveilly thrown upon him, tern a t a the V 3 ,00 011 01 e rested, and confined in the debtor's prilw,,, afte r c i e _ , ,i.1 ,,i , His case was made known to the Queen, ws":"...,ed to,: ,and be 0 7 , certaining the truth of all the circumstanas_n_L;cera,,,,re;uor, ic. debts for which the unfortunate man blessing sto p he deft ‘,411 to restored to his family. Nor did the fittle dotl'e'tdi•,chargct ith returning to his home, he found every._ absen ce I ...uu t A n , had been incurred previous and elurin?.lll' he, and n , ci n .auion, v; the last sou, by a secret hand ; but vin . i e c "_..,, h i n t fro e ' „ , ,e4 justice, believed to be that which had relieoLL",evolene , . i ~ which is known to act with inexhaustib ~ To the best judgment.''—raris paper. , Ace,- vENT:-.10-0-1 alai THE LATE FATAL .E.AILWAti --- the aatna'it traia j : , Scotsman adds the following particulars t: The ' P c o c t i v a e t '' r • o il ! - pGelaasrgedowlnaoluitrtleybesetfeurrdeasy:xs e i m e iporeeks s . i o 11 ( ; —; the used dy too. ~.1114ori,e, oiwifsritoohnnegt withocarriages3 kp t the ew e negrei aboutn t e h o r ao r : n ,ii l ii a l e c o il la i , i tn - z i e di °rya,: 31:asril.fil fic::::::),..er:r;igi. di vie , : riii3rr.:,ol ,, i , rtniis i :et 11.(0,,oaire:e lights, and the reason why the other wacsho'i its 05 t e 0 0, 1 : I ( 0 ,1) 00, was, that it was expected to have re3unate ga . ti , or liss t c i t ile they would be necessary. The unfurl in ~..,. t rou en : ,,e i o o ., name is Cooley, not Cowley) was seatc ,t I. ' ~."",, oi , I,3Sowii. jr; partrnent of the carriage, that is, farthe cattle gi _ Ail special train. He was a spirit-dealer a nd _ ,:i`fe at` t o - gow, about forty years of age, and has left A to lament his untimely fate." TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 24 1845.