The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-16 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.-TUESDAY. The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey com menced yesterday, at the Court House Kingston. There was a very full attendance of magistrates. E. Pennryn, Esq., presided as chairman, and there were also present Earl Lov-e -lace, H. Kemble, Esq., M.P. ; J. Trotter, Esq., M.P. ; Sir R. Fredwick, J. J. Briscoe, Esq.; Colonel Challoner, T. Puckle, Ecq. ; J. W. Freshfie ld, Esq.; G. T. Nicholson, Esq.; J. Jeffrey, Esq.; R. C. Austen, Esq.; C. Barclay, Esq.; A. K. Barclay, Esq.; J. E. Johnson, Esq., &c. The surgeons of the different gaols made their reports, from which it appeared that their respective establishments are generally healthy, and the surgeon of Brixton Gaol gave some rather curious information relative to the effect of the prison discipline and diet on the prisoners. It appeared that in many cases the prisoners gained considerably in weight ; in two instances where the prisoners were confined for six months, the increase being in one case 151b5., and in the other 251bs. The County Treasurer (Mr. Smallpiece) then reported the ,tate of the county finances. He said there was a balance in hand at the last meeting of the Court, of 8,1081. 3s. 3d., which sum had been increased by a county rate of 2d. in the pound, and other items, to 26,911/. Is. Bd. ; he had had on behalf of the county 12,8001., which included a awn of 6,189/. on account of the money borrowed for the erection of the County Lunatic Asylum, and there were other bills now due, which would reduce the amount of the balance in his hands to 7,9321, which would be sufficient to carry him on to the next session without another rate. A lengthenep discussion then took place on the motion of Mr. Barclay for the erection of a lock-up house at Dorking, and another of a similar nature by Mr. Nicholson for Farn ham, under the new Parish Constables' Act. Mr. BARCLAY, after remaking on the want:experienced at Dorking; of some place of security for prisoners before exa mination, observed that, as the question was a novel one, and arose under a new Act of Parliament, he and the gen tlemen who had brought the matter forward did not feel themselves sufficiently acquainted with the details to make any motion to the Court on the present occasion, and he should, therefore, move that the matter be referred back to the magistrates acting in these divisions of the county; that they should consider the matter fully, and be prepared, by the next session, to give the Court ample information on the subject. In answer to questions put by one of the magistrates, it was stated to be the intention to appoint an officer to take charge of the lock-ups, who would superintend the con stables of the district. The Earl of LOVELACE said, he was not at present suffici ently acquainted with the subject to givs any opinion re specting it; but he trusted this was not an endeavour, by a side wind, to introduce the constabulary into the country. Mr. NICHOLSON said, there was no ground for such a sup position. The person appointed as superintendent would be a parish officer to all intents and purposes, and would be paid by the parish. After some further conversation, it was arranged that the matter should be referred, as proposed by Mr. Barclay, with a view to the Court being placed in possession of all the details, before they came to any decision upon the subject. GUILDFORD QUARTER SESSIONS. (Before the lion. G. C. NORTOI% Recorder.) NERVOUS EXCITEMENT AND ROBBERY. Martin Williams, solicitor's clerk, was placed at the bar, charged with having, on the evening of the 6th of September last, stolen three gold chains, the property of Mr. Triggs, eweller and watchmaker, High-street, Guildford. No counsel had been engaged fur the prosecution ; Mr. Parry appeared for the defence. From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that the prisoner, about nine o'clock on the evening in question, dashed his hand through the shop window of Mr. Triggs, and having seized three gold chains which lay there, ran slowly down the street. As above a dozen persons were near the spot at the time, and witnessed the transaction, lie was instantly pursued and taken into custody. When Mr. Triggs, who was conversing with a friend in the shop when the window was smashed, had reached the spot where the prisoner had been seized, the latter pulled the chains out of his pocket, and presenting them to the former, said, " Here are your chains; do not be alarmed." He was taken to the station-house and searched; and found to have in his possession only one farthing in money, a bit of deal, and a pair of gloves. His appearance betokened great bodily exhaustion, his clothes were soiled, and his hands and face unwashed. He appeared to set much store by the shapeless bit of deal, and requested the constable to leave it in his pos session, and when this was refused, he charged the officer to take care of it. On his examination before the magistrates, previous to his committal, he reiterated his request to be allowed the wood, and it, was again refused, and he appeared rather annoyed in consequence. This conduct on the part of the prisoner excited Suspicion that his mind was disordered. Mr. Panay, for the defence, admitted that the prisoner lied stolen the chains in the manner deposed by the wit nes.cs, and stated that he also considered him of sound mind when the act was committed, and consequently responsible for his actions; but still he (Mr. P.) felt convinced that he should be able to convince the jury that the prisoner could no: be blind guilty of the charge laid in the indictment of having feloniously stolen the property. The prisoner had taken the chains, rot for the purpose of depriving the pro secutor of the property, but to get himself transported. The very act itself was proof enough of that desire. The prisoner selected a time when the street was full of people, and parties were in the shop, to seize the chains, and then he had slowly ran away iu order to maintain the impression that he was a regular thief. The Learned Gentleman, having assured the jury that what Ire was going to state was nothing but the purest truth, proceeded to narrate the following circum stances :—The prisoner had been in the employ of a noted first is London as a confidential clerk for twenty years, but having been, by the death of one of the partners, deprived of the situation, he made application for another under another solicitor, and although there were above two hundred other - applicants, his excellent character obtained him the pre ference. But here unfortunately his writing was not considered sufficiently good, and his employer intimated to him as much. The prisoner being of a remarkably ner yous and excitable temperament, took this to heart, and began to fear that he would be discharge], and ex posed to want and misery, along with his wife and child, to whom he was most affectionately attached. Op pressed with this idea, lie absented himself from his em•• ployment on Monday, the Ist of September, and started into the country with only Is. 3d. in his pocket, and without having formed the least plan to act upon. He wandered about half distracted the whole week, and , on Saturday arrived at Guildford in a very deplorable condition, as he had not slept in a bed nor taken food from the Webiesday ; and having conceived the idea that he should be far less miserable if were transported from the country, he broke the window and stole the chains to secure that—in his excited imagination—desirable position. This would explain the circumstance which had caused so much curiosity—the prisoner's attachment to the bit of deal. That insignificant bit of wood he had seen his child cutting on the day previous to his flight from his home, and he wished to treasure it as a memorial of the son whom he felt convinced he should never see again. The Learned Gentleman called the following witnesses to character:— Mr. Frederick E. Thompson, of the firm of Springhall, 'Thompson, and Powell, Raymond's-buildings, London, de posed that he had known the prisoner 20 years as confidential clerk to Mr. Springliall. Witness would have trusted him with thousands of pounds without the least hesitation, such mill& nee had he in his integrity. He had come expressly down to bear that testimony. Mr. A. Groome, managing clerk to the above firm, had known the prisoner fourteen years, and had often entrusted. him with sums of money to various amounts; once, in fact, with 4,0001. He believed him to be a person of the highest character for honesty and sincerity. Mr. Linklater, of Leadenhall•street, City, deposed to having engaged the prisoner as clerk a few weeks ago, and that lie and his brother had made remarks upon the pri soner's deficiencies as a penman. He bad chosen him from above two hundred applicants because of his character. The prisoner absented himself from the office on the lst of Sep tember, as had been stated. *The jury, after a short consultation, found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him 'to mercy, on account of his distressing circumstances ; and the prosecutor added his re quest to that of the jury. Sentence, three months' hard labour in Guildford House of Correction, the first and last fortnight to be solitary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. ROBRERY AT BUCKINOILUI PAL ACE. — Tuesday, a young svoinan, named Caroline Evans, employed as a housemaid at Buckingham-palace, was placed at the bar for final examin ation, charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, belonging to the clerk of the kitchen in the establishment. It appeared at the last examination that a great coat being missed by Edmund Heale, clerk of the kitchen, from his bed-room, he inquired of the prisoner if she had observed any person in the apartment, and being answered in the nega tive, he communicated the circumstance to Inspector Steed, who is constantly on duty at the palace, and who, being directed to make search for the property, found in the pri soner's trunk a bag containing forty-two duplicates relating to a quantity of wearing apparel, among which was one re lating to the article in question and other property belong ing to the prosecutor. The prisoner was shortly after ques ti.ned at Windsor Castle about the matter, but she gave no other account th an th a t th e ent i re o f the duplicates did not belong to her, and being taken into custody the whole of the articles were found at different pawnbrokers in Pimlico and Westminster, where they were pledged in the name of Anne Brown a few days previous. Mr. Wontner said, that it was useless for him to attempt combating against the evidence, as he was certain the pri soner would be committed for trial on the charge ; but there were two other cases against the prisoner, entirely uncon nected with the palace, upon which the prosecutors seemed thsinclined to proceed; and, as they were very doubtful, he submitted that the Court ought not to entertain them. Mr. TWYFORD said that he was given to understand by the clerk that the other cases were of a much more serious nature, if possible, for it could be proved that on a late occasion the prisoner paid a visit to her sister, living in the service of a tue:Hcalgentleman residing at Pentonville, and, during her temporary absence from the apartment, she contrived to steal two silver table-spoons, for which the unoffending party had been discha rge d from her situation, without a character; and, not content with committing such a heartless robbery, she paid another visit to a stcond sister, living as servant in the family of a gentleman residing in the neighbourhood of Regent's Park, where she also contrived to steal two other silver table-spoons, and as the property, which could be traced to the prisoner, could be identified, he considered- that she ought to be remanded for the purpose. A gentleman came forward to say, that he had no doubt of two of the spoons being his property; but as his servant, who was the only person competent to give evidence as to the manner in which the robbery was committed, was una voidably absent, he could ensure her attendance on a future dry, if the prisoner were remanded. The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was ac cordingly ordered to be remanded for a week. YLEBONE. After the dispo sa l of the night charges, a solicitor, whose name did no t t ransp i re, attended at the Court, and made k len to M r . R awl i nson the following particulars, with re gard to what he l oo k e d uport as a swindling transaction : -tt stated, that two or three months ago an advertise ment appeared in the Globe,. *which ran thus—" Noblemen amid gentlemen, clergymen officers on full- pay with good expeaations, heirs toer entailed ' estates, &c., can be accom modated on otrhemirorp ts_onal security . with loans of not less owlth a y n , 1 O tt % 1. Messrs. 5,000/. Address, p.p. in writing Young, 69 m ore 9_ square. Na personal a c, tiller-street, uavendish tended to." pilication whatever will be at- Applicant set forth that the advertisementin in question ter:, applied attracted the notice of a clergyman name he should not wish to mention, and t7: c at s a l for a loan of one hundred pounds. At length letters which bad passed to and fro as to his respectability, and and the certainty of re-payment, he accepted a bill at three months' date for 1504 and he returned the same, addressed to _Messrs. Young and Co. The applicant said that the money had not been forthcoming, and that his client was of opinion hat his acceptance had been negotiated, as he had not re ceived a single sixpence from the party to whom he sent it. Froni the inquiries which he (applicant) had made, he had nyason to suppose that the advertisers were a set of swindlers, • • • THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1845 and that there were many other cases of a similar description which could be brought against them. Mr. RAWLINSON said that he could do nothing in the ab sence of the clergyman ; in the event of his attending he would, perhaps, be able to interfere. Q UEEN-SQ UA RE. FRAUDS ON TRADESMEN BY A SERVANT.—Tuesday Re becca Larkman, a servant girl, was finally examined before Mr. Bond, charged with defrauding a great number of trades men. _ _ Prisoner lived fora short time in the service of Mn'. Coward, of Sloane-street, but, in consequence of repeated acts of dis honesty, was discharged about the end of June last, since which period she bas been to the shops of the various trades men who were in the habit of supplying the family, and ob tained goods to a considerable amount in the name of her former mistress. Benjamin Adams, shopman to Mr. Gregory. an iron monger, in Sloane -street, proved that the prisoner obtained goods on two occasions by representing that she had been sent by Mrs. Coward, her mistress. On the first of these, she asked for a set of fire-irons and other trifling articles, value 1/. 95., which were supplied to, her in haste, as she said that they were waiting for them with the gig, in order to take them to the country house. In a few days after wards she was supplied with a valuable tea-urn and a bed room candlestick, which the shopman offered to send home, but she insisted upon taking them herself, observing " that if she did not, her mistress would consider her lazy." Mr. J. H. Keats, of 142, Sloane-street, said the prisoner came on the 30th of September to his shop, and said that as it was the birth-day of one of Mrs. Coward's daughters, that lady (her mistress) was desirous of presenting her with a handsome Bible and Prayer-book in a case. The books were supplied, and on prisoner's return in a quarter of an hour fur similar books in different coloured binding, these were also given to her. Mrs. Coward having asserted that she had never given the prisoner any authority to obtain the above, or any other articles, the prisoner was fully committed for trial on both charges. north of the line, which was not only of individual import ance to his client, but of greet benefit to the public, as it would afford a means of access to upwards of eighty acres of land in the occupation of many individuals who otherwise would have been shut out from it, in consequence of the old approaches being cut off by the intended line of railway. He (the solicitor) had now only to say that he abandoned the charge against the Company on the part of his client, and he thought it necessary to come forward and state this publicly, as they had been suing for a penalty as well as damage. Mr. CLIVE said he was glad the matter was satisfactorily arranged, and remarked that the case was illustrative of the utility of the clause under which proceedings had been taken. ANOTHER CHARGE OF TRESPASS AGAINST THE RICHMOND RAILWAY COMPANY.—Soon after the last case had been dis posed of, Mr. Wright, an attorney, with his client, Mr. Beckett, made application to Mr. Clive for a summons against the promoters of the Richmond Railway Company, under circum stances similar to those in the preceding case. Mr. Wright stated that his client, Mr. Beckett, who is a saddler, living in the High-street, Wandsworth, was the owner of half an acre of land, adjoining that in the occupa tion of Mr. Atkins, and on Monday, the 6th inst., the Com pany entered upon and took possession of it, without having come to any terms, or obtained the consent of the owner. The piece of land they had taken was about 108 yards in length, and 40 in breadth, and a portion of it formed part of a rope-walk. Since the company had had possession forty willow trees had been felled. Mr. CLIVE asked if the owner or his solicitor had applied to the Company for a settlement? Mr. Wright answered in the affirmative. They had asked 205/., and the Company had offered 501. as compensation, which his client of course refused to take. ➢lr. CLIVE—Have you applied to them since the com plainant in the last case took his summons out ? Mr. Wright—No, I have not, Sir. Mr. CLIVE—I should think it very probable that if you were to see them now they would come to terms, as in the previous case. Perhaps you had better see the secretary be fore the summons is issued. Mr. Wright said the terms offered by the company were so low, that he despaired of coming to any amicable arrange ment, and would, therefore, with the magistrate's permission, take a summons out. Mr. CLIVE—Very well, then you may take out a sum. mons. The solicitor then assessed his damages at 201., and a sum mons was ordered to be issued against the promoters of the Richmond Railway. SOUTHIVARK. Richard Hodnott and &Anions Lyons, two members of the swell mob, commonly called " noblers," were brought before Mr. Traill, charged with assaulting Robert Elsworthy and Richard Dolby, in the Bridge-house public-house, Bo rough-road, and stealing from the latter a gold union-pin and a silver watch. Dolby said that he was a City policeman, and on the pre vious evening went to the Surrey theatre with his friend. About a quarter past one o'clock this morning, as they were leaving the theatre, they went into the above public-house, and called for a pia of halt-and-half. While there, Hodnott asked his friend Elsworthy, whether he knew any person in the "City Detective Force," at the same time Lyons sud denly struck him a severe blow in the mouth, and snatched the ends of his stock from his neck, on which was fixed a gold union pin. At the same time he lost his watch, but he could not swear who was the party that took it, as he had not recovered from the blow. Lyons made his escape, and Hadnott ran out of the house, but was captured within a few yards of the Borough-roAd School. After he was conveyed to the station. house, they went in search of Lyons, and found him in his lodgings. The ends of the stock and part of the union-pin w: also found there. E!sworthy said he was a clerk, and after they left the theatre he accompanied Dolby into the above public• house. While he was in conversation with Hodnott, Lyons struck Dolby and snatched his stock, and as he was in the act of assisting him, Hodnott struck him two blows on the face. They had nothing more to drink than a pint of half-and half. Brown, the landlord of the house, said that he saw the com plainants enter his house and call for a pint of half-and-half, and two glasses of spirits for some females they had with them. The prisoners knowing the girls, were rather jealous, and some words ensued, which turned to blows. He did not see any robbery committed. In answer to Mr. Trail, witness said that the prisoners frequented his house, but he did not know what employment they followed. The complainants denied being in company with any fe males, or calling for any liquor. All they had was a pint of half-and-half. A constable of the M division said that the house was fre quented by very bad characters, and that the prisoners were well known as " noblers." Mr.TuAILL said that it was case which ought to go before a jury. He should, therefore, commit them for trial. -- - THE EX PERINIENTAL SQUA DRON The following have been forwarded to us as copies of Mr. Corry's letter to the Surveyor of the Navy, and Sir S. Pym's report of the performances of the several ships of the expeii mental squadron in the last trial cruise : " Admiralty, Oct. 13, 1845. " To THE SURVEYOR OF THE NAVY,— . . „. " Sir,—Herewith you will receive a copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, dated the 10th inst., report ing the return of the experimental squadron of line-ot-battle ships to Plymouth, and the result of their trial.—By com mand of their Lordships, " H. CORRY," " St: Vincent, in Plymouth-sound, Oct. 10, 1845. " ' Sir,—l have the honour to forward to you, for the in formation of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the diagrams of the trials of sailing of her Majesty's squadron under my command, and other documents mentioned in the enclosed schedule. In addition to which, a good trial was commenced on the Ist inst. by the Queen, Canopus, Albion, and Vanguard, in chase of the Daring, under all plain sail, and part topmast and topgallant studding-sails; but the fog, which came on three hours after, prevented angles being taken to ascertain the exact result. The Queen, however, gained on her. "' You will be pleased to acquaint their Lordships that we have had some splendid trials with as heavy a press of sail as could well be carried. One beginning with close-reefed top sails and reefed courses, topgallant masts struck; the next under treble-reefed topsails, and another under double-reefed topsails; and all these against a heavy head sea. "'ln the latter, on the ith inst., the day after the heaviest gale, the Rodney beat the whole fleet. " 'Nothing could be more easy in all the trials than the Queen and Albion, who never appeared to strain anything; indeed, all the squadron proved themselves such fine ships as to be incapable of being eistressed by press of sail, except the St. Vincent. " Rein , * perfectly satisfied with the result of the t r i a l s , that the Being is the best ship, the Albion and Rodney next, Canopus and Vanguard much alike, Trafalgar weatherly, but slow; St. Vincent leewardly and crank ; and as the weather appeared to set in fine, and not deeming that any further trial would benefit the service, I therefore bore up on the 9th inst. for this anchorage, which I reached with the squadron under my command this day, at 7 15 P.M. 6" I beg to remark, for their Lordship's information, that all the captains deserve the greatest credit for the seaman like manner in which they made sail, blowing in the way it did, on the above mentioned occasion.--I have, &c., " S. PYM, Rear-Admiral. " To the Right Hon. Henry T. L. Corry, M.P." THE STA N M EW P S T A F PE T R IC PR E ES A S. ND THE A system of mean, petty, and vexatious extortion has just been commenced by the Stamp-office authorities against the newspaper press in Scotland. We had heard rumours of this privately from some of our contemporaries, but we were certainly not tirare of the extent to which it was about to be carried. The conductors of the financial department of the Citizen have just informed us that we have been charged for the month of August no fewer than twenty " duties" more than the actual number of advertisements which have appeared in our columns during the time specified. On calling at the Stamp-office here for an explanation, our manager was informed that the exactions of which he complained originated with certain functionaries in Edinburgh, and that a system of in creased rigour had been commenced in the perusal of adver tisements and paragraphs with a view to the detection of what are called "separate interests." In this way, adver tisements which formerly only paid a single duty. are mulcted in two or three duties. For example, a teacher announces at the foot of his advertisement that he has ac commodation for two or three boarders, this is charged an additional duty ; —a steam-boat announcement contains, perhaps, an allusion to an " excellent hotel," or to " an om nibus for conveying passengers," and in both the hotel and the omnibus the lynx -eyed officials profess to descry "se parate interests," and lay claim to an additional eighteen pence far each ! But more than this, they have the impu dence to interfere with our duty as public chroniclers, and to levy an unwarranted tax on paragraphs of ordinary news, provided only it contain any intimation whereby they allege private interests may be benefited. Critiques on pictures exhibited at a publisher's gallery, announcements of early fruit at any particular shop. and many other matters which, in common with our contemporaries, we have been accustomed to insert, merely as pieces of news, and as likely to interest the reader, have been suddenly discovered to be advertisements, end charged by the Stamp-office officials accordingly ! Now ; where is this interference to stop? Notices of new books, of new music, of rapid loco motion by some particular conveyance, of surgical skill or acts of humallity in cases of accident, of interesting and useful inventions, of high and honourable' conduct on the part of indi v id ua l s — a ll may b e set d own on the same principle as advertisements. Are we to write with the fear of the Stamp office continually before our eyes ? In many cases contracts have been fo rme d t o i nsert a d vert i sements for a lengthened period at a fixed charge, and in which it is gross injustice to mulct them suddenly and without warning in several duties. We trust that the ne wspaper proprietors throughout the willcountry unite together in remonstrating strongly and firmly against the grievance in question, and in endeavouring to check, at the outset, a system which, if persisted in, must prove a source of cont i nual annoyance, as well as of frequent injustice, to the newspaper press.—Citizen. [We can add our testimony to the account given by our contemporary of the meanne ss o f t h e Edinburgh Stam p-office —a meanness which we believe to be illegal. We know for certain that the London Stamp- office makes no such de mands upon the metropolitan journals; and the first time that we are again exposed to the annoyance and grievance complained of, we shall lay a case for the decision of the Government.] —En. Glasgow Argus. ---------__-, . SUPPOSED CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Fleece Ta v ern, on the step, a lanyindgupon opening it street, Cheapside, on the body of a new-born tn4aleQueen, which was found under very singular eircumstanceshild. Sunday evening last, about seven o'clock, the servant of Mr. thes c o v house,e r e d , Alford, of No. 10, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, was opening parcel,the str street-door, i d c o h o r s , h found it contained the dead body of a male infant. The cir cumstance caused a great excitement among the family, who l e vh to e o n k sh in e to di called in the police, and the body was taken to the station house. A reward of 101. has been offered for the apprehen sion of the unnatural parents. Mr. May, of Bow-lane, surgeon, said that he bad made a post mortenz examination of the body, and he was of opinion that the deceased had been born alive. There were marks of external vio:ence, arid the - deceased had evidently died from excessive hemorrhage. The Coroner ob served that the case was enveloped in mystery, and probably if the inquiry was adjourned, some additional evidence might be obtained. The inquiry was adjourned accordingly. PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris is 111 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. !Oil per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold is 0.43 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 8i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 9, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The Lord Chancellor is expected to remain at Turville-park until the 2d of the ensuing month, when the Noble and Learned Lord will come to town to open the Court Chancery on the following d ay. Th e • • juniorbranches 9f leis LardAhip's faillily are still at Brighton,. - ' " ' RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN TI PRINCIPAL CITIES ANP TOWNS IN ENGLA N D SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES or RAI VAYS: a — t b r i — d . g • e • : •. lA A r tie : r ro d i ac e t e al : nawne . d ; Forfar .... J)itlo Half Shares .... aagh, Colr., & Portrush Bandon and Bantry Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down ItirkidaLLan.&Ches•Jnc. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New (iss . at 7% dig.) Ditto Half Shares ilirminghm & Oxfrd.Junc. Blckburn, and Preston.. Illekburn, Darwn,& Bolin Bolton, W igail, & Liverpl. Boston, Stainfrd and Birm Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. Bristol and Exeter...... Ditto New. • • • • Bristol and Gloucester .. Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. Caledon. and Ayrsh. June Caletlon. & Dumbar.Junc Calednitiati .• • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Extension Oambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares .... Ditto Ilalf Shares • Chester and Holyhead Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. I ihurnet Valley . • • • • •... ('litheroe Junction Clydesdale Junction ..... Cork, lilackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon Cork and Killarney Cork and Waterford .... Cork and Youghal Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Coinwall . • • • • • • • • •• • • • • herby and Crewe . • • • • .. Direct Lon. and Manchstr Dias, lleccles, & Yarmoth I )IrectMan.(lterningtou's) Direct Northern • • • • • • • • Direct Norwich .•- • • • • • • Dublin and Belfast June. Dublin, Belfast, & Colme Dublin and Drogheda.... Dublin and Galway . • • •• Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . Dundee and Perth Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) Eastern Counties . • • .. • • Do. New Do. Perp. spr Ct., No 1 Do. do. N 0.2 East Dercham & Norwich East Union Ditto Extension • . • • Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum. Edinburgh and Glasgow.. Do. Quarter Shit , es • • • Do. New Quarter Shares Ellin b. Leith, and Granton Do. Pref. 5 per Cent• • Edinburgh and Nerthern Edinburgh and Peebles • • Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and 51ig0.... Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Ellwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow • • Glasgow and Ayr. • • • •• Do. Quarter Shares.... ilasgow and Greenock.. Ditto New. •• Ditto Preference • •• • • (I iasgw, Dmfries, and Car. lisgw, Kilmarnck, &Ard. Glasgow and Belfast tin. Goole and Doncaster •••• Grand Junction .• Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters • • Ditto Eighths ••• • • grand Union - Great Eastern & Western Gt I iri nsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield I it tithni & Wstrn (Irlud) Ditto Extension Great Munster.. • • .• • • • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England 1)0. New 401. Shares •• Do. New 30/. Shares I treat Western • • .. •• .• Ditto Half Shares ...; Ditto Fifths tuilfrd, Farchm, & Ports. Harwich •• • • • • • • nil rsffil & Man. It. &Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough • • I lull and Selby • • • • 1/It to Quarter Shares Ditto Half Shares • • • • Inverness and Elgin • • • • Isle of Jersey • . Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray • • • • Killarney Junctions • • Lancaster and Carlisle • • Lancaster and Preston Leeds and Bradford • • • • Ditto Extension heels and Dewsbury.. • • Leeds and Thirsk • • • • • • Leed & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford Limerick and Waterford Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jnc. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds •••• • • • • ])itto Quarters • • • • . London and Illaekwall lautn. Oxfd. & Chltnham. London and Brighton. Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon • Ditto New . • ••••• • • • Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich . Do. Pref. or Privilege • . London and South Westrn Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501 Shares 1)0. New, 401. Shares London and York . • • • • • • Ditto ( ilawtry) . • • • • • • London and Windsor.. ll:cootni,tilont.iSicarlrysb,u&ry, & Coleraine Lomtoislert y & Enniskilln Lynn and Ely • • • • • • • • " Lynn an 1 Dereham .• • • • Manchester and Leeds • • Ditto i half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto Sixteenths . • • • • • Mattel's r and Birkenhead Jfaneliester &Birminghm r Ditto aw ht Coc I t. ri n e. w a s vQ e i rtuenalS:rlieajrir Bury 5 nudist], Matti, & Matlk Mail. Sl:cf. and Mid. June. llaneltestr & Southamptn Midland ...• • • • • • • • • " • • DlMFifths • • • • • • • • • • Di o New .••••• • • • • • Do. Con. Rim. & Derby Midln.i Gt 'Westrn (Irish) o ligo Nweatie., Durham, & Lan. NN I eceul,n)Lee New it :: r eew t e a D a l ia dd i r:l Ci i i ne g adr t t s S cg u l Newi.ort & AbergavennY Newry al id Enniskillen • - Newr•-tt and Sheffield . • North 1 - :'fish • • • • • • " Ditto New Shares • • Northc:.• and Eastern • Do. , c ip (iss..at_s dig Do. t,loarter Shares North Devon . ...... • • North Kent • • • •• • • ' • North Staffordshire • • North Eastern....... North Union (A)• • • • • • Ditto (B)• • North Wales Mineral• • Ditto New Shares • • Not th Western ••• • • • North Wales •••• • • • • Norwich and Brandon Ditto New•- • • • • • • • • • • Not., Belvoir, & trauthm Nottingham and Boston.. Na wsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester .. Oxford and Cambridge .. 'crtla and Inverness •• • Portsmouth Direct • • • • • Preston and Wyrc .... • Ditto Half Shares •• • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & dlr. Preston & Wyre Eaten.. Richmond E - , W. End June Rughy and Huntingdon... Scottish Central • • .. • • • • Scottish Midland • • • • • . • • Shefli 'ld and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto ditto (No. 2) Ditto ditto 3) • • Sheffield and Lincoln.... Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry & Grand June. Shrewsb.. Wor., & Crewe Shrws ,Wolv., & Bir Shrwsbry & Trot Val. Uu. Shrws, I lerefd,& N. Wales Siam Annan . • • • • • • • • • • • • South Devon . • • • • • • • • • . South Midland ...... South Eastern and Dover Do. New (iss. 320 No. I Do. (i55.331.65.8d.)., 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „ 3 Staines and Richmond ... St a (fords ire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales • • • • • • • • • • • • Tears and Dove Valley • • Trent Valley .... • • • • • • • • Do. and Holyhead June. Vale of Neath • • •• • • • • . West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Conn. Wexford and Carlow • • • • Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfil,Wxfd,Wiek& Dub Wakefield and Bradford • . Wakfid, Pentzirct, &Goo - 1 Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London. . . West Lancashire Worcester and Tring.... WhlteNren and Furness Do. New half Shares.. West Cornwall ... : West Yorkshire Wilsontwn, M.& Coltness WILL, Somrst, & Wcymth Wilts, SI nrat, & Southam Yarinoutli and Norwich ... Ditto New . .......... York and Carlisle ....... York and North ➢lidland Ditto Ils It Shares .... Ditto S.•atbro' Branch Ditto sclby . , )!tto ~ i l~ pJ 101 151,4 23% P - P - P - 2 r ' 2iB P~ my * -6-- 81,il 18i pl 4141 6%p 41% Yorks!' t e tic Glsgow (r z,-; 2: a .4 1 - 01s6 7x 237 118% 121134 J 63 6d 88s6d1 81s6d 754 1 ,5683 d 15333 d \6156d 41A 7% 4% 6% 5% 16%, 1014 6359 d HUG 45s p 15s p, 62% 55N 19% 12% 156 s p I 1 17s6p 67q6p' , 13936 T%p, l 4 - ;01 19 - 2 - 6 d 187 - 56 d 2 - 8 9i I - 485. p • EXETER, Ocr. 14. Sr* ctc E KCHANGE.—The sales Ye° ll : Porchestero p.—North Dino, der , To I, and giam, and Exmouth (Daw's line), % p.—Ditto (Head's), 1 p. Central Cornwall and Devon. 1 ,4 p.—Taw Vale Extensi( % p.—Dartmouth, Torbay, and Exeter Junction, IA p. South Devon, 30—Eaqtern Counties, 25. SHEFFIELD, Oar. 14. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Extension, 5 3 / 4 —Derby and Gainsboroup,h, 2%—Goole and Doncaster, 74 —Grimsby and Sheffield, 26 1 4—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 6/. Bs.—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 121. Its. Gd. —Grand Union ( Nottingham to Lynn), 3 3 /—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 7 3 /,' 4 -Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 0 2 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 63/ 4 — Wakefield and Harrogate, 5 1 A—Wilts, Somerset, and South ampton, 3. HUDDERSFIELD, Ocr. 14. Sroci EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grand Union, 3/. 13s. —Huddersfield and Manchester, 23—Waterford, Wexfoid, and Valeutia, 3. STATUES IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. [Pra.entel to firth Houses of Parliament lw command of hei:Maksty, and now printed.] FOURTH REPORT OF THE CONIMISSIONERS ON THE FINE ARTS. TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY We, the Commissioners appointed by your Majesty for the purpose of inquiring whether advantage might not be taken of the mbuildinit of your Majesty's Palace at Westminster, wherein your Majesty's Parliament is wont to assemble, for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the fine arts in your Majesty's United Kingd!pm, and in what manner an object of so much importance might be most effectually pro moted, humbly report to your Majesty that we have at various times taken into our consideration a letter, dated the 17th of August, 1843, addressed to us by the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., respecting public monuments in sculpture and pailting to men distinguished for eminent literary, scientific, and civil services, and we now beg to report our opinion on the points which appeared first to require our attention. Referring to the letter in question, we have humbly to state to your Majesty, that, having consulted the architect, and inspected the edifice in progress intended for the accommo dation of the Houses of Parliament, we are of opinion that there are various portions of that edifice which could with propriety and advantage be allotted to the reception of mo nument-•, such as those to which our attention has been directed. We have found in the course of our inquiry that many situations for statues consist of niches only, which, in accord ance with the style of Gothic architecture adopted, are uni formly narrow, not exceeding two feet in width ; that there are also situations were insulated statues might be fitly placed; and we conceive that. with a view both to-conve nient inspection, and the expediency of affording opportuni ties for displaying the abilities of the artists, the last-named situations are the most important.. We have also found that some situations, though not fit for the display of statues, would be well adapted for the reception of busts; and we are of opinion that busts might be consi dered among the means, before referred to, of doing honour to eminent men. With relrect to monuments in painting of the description indicated, whether such monuments be unders!ood to refer to portraits, or to other representations, we beg leave to post pone our report till the building shall be more advanced. With regard to the particular classes of eminent men re ferred to in the said letter, we are not at present prepared to express an opinion on the question, whether it would be ad visable that any distinct portions of the building should be set apart for such classes. We are now prepared to point out some portions of the building which we conceive might, with propriety, be adorned with insulated statues; but looking to the fact that, since this Commission was appointed, certain changes have taken place in the architect's design, involving alterations in the extent available for decorations in sculpture as well as painting, we do not think it expedient on this occasion to enumerate all the localities which may possibly be adapted for such statues. Having thus explained with what views, and to what ex tent, we are at present prepared to report to your Majesty on the subjects recommended to our consideration in the letter before referred to, we have now to express our opinion that six insulated marble statues might be conveniently placed in St. Stephen's porch, and that sixteen such statues might be conveniently placed in St. Stephen's Hall. We are of opinion that it is not desirable that a corresponding number of eminent names be now pointed out with a view to the entire occupation of those places ; but we are at once prepared to recommend that statues of Marlborough and Nelson be placed in St. Stephen's porch ; and that statues of Sehi ' en Hampden, Lord Falkland, Lord Clarendon, Lord Somers, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Chatham, Lord Mans field, Burke, Fox, Pitt, and Grattan, be placed in St. Ste phen's Hall. We have further to prop , se that t';e following three artists, viz., William Calder Marshall, John Bell, and John Henry Foley, whose works in the last exhibition in West minster Hall were considered by us to be entitled to special commendation, be at once commissioned to prepare models for three of the aforesaid statues, viz., the statues of Hampden, Lord Falkland, and Lord Clarendon ; and that the execution of such statues be allotted to the said artists respectively, as we may hereafter decide. We have further to propose that 2,000/. of public money be granted on account towards the payment of such works ; and we humbly request the sanction of your Majesty to our pre sent report. (Signed) ALBERT LYNDHURST COLBORNE SUTHERLAND C. S. LEFEVRE LANSDOWNE ROBERT PEEL LINCOLN J. R G. GRAHAM ABERDEEN T. B. MacatmAir J. RUSSELL ROBERT HARRY INGLIS PALMERST';N B. HAWES, JUN. MELBOURNE HENRY HALLAM MAHON SAMUEL RocERS ASHBURTON THOMAS WYSE. Whitehall, April 25, 1845. APPENDIX. No. 1. REPORT OF COMMITTEE, WITH LIST OF DISTLNDUISHED PER SONS TO WHOSE MEMORY STATUES MIGHT BE ERECTED. Your Committee appointed to " prepare a general list of distinguished persons of the United Kingdom, to whose memory statues might with propriety be erected in or ad joining the new Houses of Parliament, such list oeing unre stricted as to the number of such distinguished persons, and as to the time in which they lived," have the honour to submit two lists; the first (A), of names to which they agreed unanimously; the second (B), of names on which your Committee were not unanimous, but decided by greater or smaller majorities. The aggregate of these two lists consists of 121 names, which may probably afford scope, not for indiscriminate adop tion, but rather for choice and selection on the part of the Commission at large. At the same' ime your Committee desire to express their unanimous opinion, that the attempt to execute any great number of these statues simultaneously would not be con ducive to the interests of art. (Signed) MAHoN. T. B. MACAULAY. ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, HENRY HALLAM. SAMUEL ROGERS. THOMAS `NYSE. B. HAwEs, JUN. London, March 11, 1845. (A.) Sir William Wallace Bacon Sir Philip Sidney , Napier Duke of Marlbo- Newton Ru bert Bruce rough Lord Clive Locke Lord Burleigh Lord Heathfield Robert Boyle John Hampden Lord Howard of Caxton Earl of Clarendon Effingham Lord Somers Sir Francis Drake Watt Earl of Chatham Admiral Blake Herschel Edmund Burke Lord Rodney Cavendish C. J. Fox Lord Howe William Pitt Lord Duncan Inigo Jones Lord St. Vincent Sir Christoph. Wren Sir Thomas More Lord Nelson Hogarth Sir Edward Coke Sir Joshua Reynolds John Selden Sir Walter Raleigh Flaxman Sir Matthew Hale Captain Cook Earl of Mansfield Lord Erskine Alfred Elizabeth - John Howard Sir Th. Gresham William Wilberforce Venerable Bede Chaucer Richard Hooker Spencer Earl of Surrey Shakspere Milton Addison Richardson Dr. Johnson Cowper Sir Walter Scott March 6, 1845. Revised ' March 14, 1845. (B ) Richard I. Coeur John Wickliffe Ben Jonson Harvey Jenner de Lion Edward I. John Knox ' John Bunyan Edward 111. ' Cramer Dryden The Black Prince Archbishop Usher Pope Henry V. Abp. Leighton Swift William 111. Jeremy Taylor Goldsmith George 111. Chi'lingworth Burns Barrow Sir Wm. Jones - Bishop Butler John Wesley Roberts,n Cardinal Langton Hume William of Wick- -- ham Cardinal Wolsey Sir John Talbot Earl of Strafford Sir John Chandos Fielding Lord Falkland Marquis of Montrose Sir Wm. Temple Cromwell Lord RUF sell Monk Sir Robt. Walpole General Wolfe Roger Bacon Earl of Hardwicke Sir Eyre Coote Smeaton Earl Camden Sir Ralph Aber• Brindley Grattan cromby John Hanter Warren Hastings Sir John Moore Adam Smith Purcell Speaker Onslow Hawke Garrick March 6. 1845.—Revised March 14, 1845. No. 2. REPORT OF COMMITTEE RESPECTING SELECTION OF PERSONS WHOSE EFFIGIES MIGHT BE PLACED IN THE NICHES IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS The selection of the statues for the eighteen niches in the House of Lords, which has now been referred to your Com mittee, does not appear to them altogether so free and with so wide a scope as the selection of the ninety-six figures on painted glass, upon which they lately reported. In this case the very narrow size of the niches, and their gothic form, seem to limit the choice of the Commission to charac ters drawn from the feudal age, and, as usual, with effigies of that period, presenting little or no variety of attitude. On a careful consideration of the characters which might be chosen, subject to this condition. your Committee have become convinced that no scheme is preferable to that which was first suggested to the Commission by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, namely, to fill the niches with the effigies of the principal Barons who signed Magna Charta. Your Committee subjoin a list of the names which they would recommend for this purpose. They conceive that the difference of character, as laymen or as prelates would afford a picturesque variety of attire, and that the historical analogy would be most suitably attained by placing side by side in the same House of the Legislature, in windows or in niches, the successive holders of sovereign power, and the first founders of constitutional freedom. Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury. • William, Bishop of London. Almeric, Master of Knights Templars. William, Earl of Salisbury. William, Earl of Pembroke. Waryn, Earl of Warren. William, Earl of Arundel. Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. Richard, Earl of Clare. William, Earl of Aumerle. Geoffrey, Earl of Gloucester. Sailer, Earl of Winchester. Henry, Earl of Hereford. Roger, Earl of Norfolk. Robert Earl of Oxford. Robert Fitzwalter. Eustace de Vesci. William de Mowbray. (Sigurd) MAtioN. T. B. MACAULAY. R4 , 111`. HARRY INGLIS. B. HAWES, JUN. HENRY HALLAm. SAMUEL ROGERS. THOMAS WYSE. Whitehall, May 15,1845. No. 3. LETrER FROM MR. HALL Ali. 24, Wilton-crescent, May 17, 1845. My Oar cOmpliauce with the request of his loyal HULL, Orr. 14. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 257/ s —Ditto, New, 9—Aberdeen, G%—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 11 1 / 4 —North British, 24%—Ditto, - Half Shares, 51i—Ditto, Carlisle, 4%—Armagh, Coleraine. and Portrush, 2 1 ,4—Axliolnte, 72s.—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 6/. Is. 3d.—Cambridge and Lincoln, Cl. 3s. 9d.—Coventry, Nunea ton, &c., 3%—Derby and Gainsborough, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 48s. p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and. West. Riding, 4N—Great North and South Wales and Wor cester, 12s. p.—Great North of Scotland, 494—Hu1l and Barnsley Junction, 474—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 9%—Liverpool and Leeds, 514—London and Birmingham Extension, 2/. 18s. 9d.—London and York, 6 1 4 ,—London and Norwich Direct, 4s. p.— Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby, 74—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 7%—Notting ham and Boston, 4%—South Midland, 71. 7s.—South and Midlands Junction, 2/. 17s. YORK, Oar. 14. STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The 'sales are-Newcastle and Dar lington Junction, New (Brandling), 544-North British, 25 -Ditto (Carlisles), 4 5 / s -York and North Midland Exten sion, 28 5 4-Cambridge and Lincoln, 6%-Coventry, Nunea ton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 354-Lei , :ester and Bedford, Si. 18s. 9d.-Manchester, Buxton, &c., 9 1 ,4-Newcastle and Berwick, 18%-Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 6 3 4 -North Kent and Direct Dover, 4 1 / 2 -North Staftbrdshire, 7%-Welsh Midlands, 41.35. 6d. EDINBURGH, Oar. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 71. 155.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 3/.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 51. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 151 -Armagh and Portrush, 31. Is.-Banffshire, 2/. 175.-Bri tish and Irish Union, 5/. 55.-Belfast and County Down, 3/. 55.-Caledonian, 15/. 10a -Caledonian Extension, 5/. 10s. -Caledonian and Dumbarton, 5/. 2s. 6d -Cambridge and Lincoln, M. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 201.-Cornwall and Devon, 17s. 6d. p.-Direct Northern, 3/. 55.-Dundee and Arbroath, 37L-Ditto, New. 181.-Dundes and Perth, 111. 108.-East of Fife, 3/. 55.-East Lothian Central, 4/. 19s. -Edinburgh and Bathgate, 4/. 145.-Edinburgh and Glas gow, 761.-Ditto, Half Shares, 13 1 4 prem.-Ditto, Quarters, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New, 14/. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1L 145.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 191.-Edinburgh and Northern, Si. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport. 2/. 95.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 2/. lls. 6d. -Edinburgh and Perth, 41. 17s. 6d -Edinburgh and Pee bles, 3/. 165.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 4/. 10s.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 73/.-Ditto, New Stock, 21/ 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 4L-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 451.-Glas gow and Greenock, 22/.105.-Ditto, New Stock, 10/. 158.- Ditto, Preference, 2/. 55.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Les mahagow, 6/. 10s.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4/..- Great North of Scotland, 4/. lls.-Great North and South Wales, 1/. 145.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/.145.-Kilmarnock and Ardrossan, 81.-London and Hounslow, 2/. IN.-Lon don and Windsor, 11. 95.-London and York, 71.-Monk land and Kirkintilloch, 331.-Morayshire, 7s. 6d. p.-Newry and Londonderry, 2/. 165.-North British, ex new, 26/. -Ditto, Halves, ex new, 71. 55.-Ditto, Fifths, 7/. 65.-Ditto, Carlisles, 4/. 175.-North Wales Mineral, New, 5/. 7s. 6d. -Perth and Crieff, 31. 95.-Perth and Inverness, 31 55.-- Scottish Central, 14/. 155.-Scottish Midland, Si. 108.- Scottish North Western, Si. ss. 6d.-Scottish Western, 2/.165. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 71. 55.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 2/. 7s. 6d.-South Midland, 9/.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 4/. 75.-Tean and Dove Valley, Si. 12s. 6d.- Wishaw and Coltness, 581. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE. A meeting of the Proprietors of the Charing cross bridge, who disapprove of the late proceedings at the general meeting of the Proprietors of the undertaking, some time since, took place last night at the London Coffee-house, for the purpose of considering and determining what measures they would take to forward the views of the Committee of the London Central Railway Terminus Company. Mr. Chadwick took the chair, and the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to : "That the meeting cannot too forcibly express their disap probation of the conduct of the Directors of the Hungerford market Company, who, for an apparently trifling gain, have sacrificed the welfare of the Charing-cross-bridge proprietary, have embarrassed the arrangements entered into by their Directors, and prevents d the sale of their property to a Com pany which, as it represented the interests of all existing southern railways, must eventually meet with success. The meeting was also of opinion that no other course was left for the Central Terminus Company than that which they bad adopted. " - That as the London Central Terminus Company had in timated their readiness to give the same preference in till allotment of shares to the Charing-cross - bridge proprietors who had supported the agreement made with the Company as they would have had if the same had not been repudiated, such shareholders are therefore strongly recommended still to endeavour to obtain an interest in that Company." Merchants and others should be strongly urged to keep their bankers' cheque-books under their own lock and key. A case has just occurred in a railway office, in which one of the clerks, having obtained the secretary's cheque-book, forged _several cheques upon his banker. It appears the clerk had been introduced by one of the Directors, and was but little known to the other parties in the office. He had been dis missed upon another charge before the forgeries were dis covered. Had the cheque-book not come in his way, the opportunity for forgery vi ould not have occurred.— Times. A WOMAN WOUNDED BY A HORSE-SHOE.—Last evening, between five and six o'clock, the following very singular accident occurred to a young woman, named Jane Whitehead, residing in New-street, Gough-square. She was going along Fetter-lane, and while passing the shop of Mr. Wade, the baker, something struck her across the arm, and passed through the window, which was discovered to be the shoe of an omnibus horse, which was going at a rapid rate towards Holborn. The female was very seriously injured on the left arm, and was taken to the nearest sur geon, who dressed the wound, which was several inches in length. The omnibus was stopped, and the number taken by the police. FIRE IN WHITECHAPEL. —Tuesday morning, shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive saw-mills belonging to Mr. William Adamson, in John-street, Whitechapel. The discovery was made by some of the neighbours, who perceived smoke issuing from the upper floor of the premises. With all promptitude the engines ar rived, and there being a good supply of water, the firemen, by dint of great perseverance, succeeded in confining the flames to the upper floors and workshop, but they were not entirely subdued until considerable damage had been done to the building and the stock in trade. The origin of the fire is not precisely known, but it is supposed to have originated from the overheat of the furnace flue. EXTENSIVE THEFT.—A young man, salesman in a respectable wholesale and retail warehouse in town, is at pre sent in custody, charged with the theft, within the last ten or eleven months, of an enormous quantity of soft goods, the property of his employers It appears that, in consequence of a parcel of goods having left the premises without being accounted for, and from other circumstanceQ, suspicion was created against the individual referred to, and after some questioning he was led to admit, to a certain extent, his guilt. The police afterwards searched his house, which is situated on the south side of the river, where they discovered a large and costly collectian of goods, embracing more or less of al most every article usually found in a draper's or haberdasher's stock, consisting of Voadcloths, gown pieces of every variety, from satinette downwards, waistcoat pieces, linens, cot tons, napery, ribbons, blankets, stockings, &c. &c. From letters found in the house, it was, at the same time, ascertained that he has been in the habit of sending con siderable quantities of goods to the country, partiemlarly to Peterhead, for which, it appears, a large package was de spatched only a d ay or so before. He has also been lavish of presents among his friends; and, altogether, there must have bean passing through his hands goods to an extraordinary ex tent, though the amount of his employer's loss cannot as yet be ascertained. It is apprehended that at least a portion of the goods sent to Peterhead may yet be recovered; and for this purpose a police-officer has been dispatched to that town. Thursday, the prisoner was examined for the first time, and re-committed.—Glasgow Argus. FORTIFYING TIRE COAST.—We are informed that a detachment of sappers and miners arrived at Hayle last week, and proceeded to the parish of Zennor, where they have been engaged in repairing a battery, and report states that guns ,of heavy calibre are shortly to be mounted there. We have been informed that other places along the coast are to be vi sited by this party of slivers and miners, and that Castle Dennis is to be a signal station.—Penzance Gazette. ST. AUSTELL.—On Wednesday last, Ist instant, c,nsiderable excitement prevailed here in consequence of the " strike" of the men employed in the neighbouring clay werks, about 300 of whom came to town for the purpose of petitioning the proprietors for higher wages. They con ducted themselves with much decorum, and having been pro mised that their petition should be considered, returned peaceably to their work. These men get only nine shillings per week.—Penzance Gazette. SANITARY CONDITION OF MANCHESTER.—The fol lowing is a summary of the properties inspected, under the directions of the Sanitary Regulations Committee of the Town Council :-6,258 houses, and 857 cellars; together, 7,115 dwellings, with only 588 privies. Estimating five inhabi tants to one house on an average, that would give 37,575 as the total inhabitants in the dwellings visited. This gives an average of 12 1-9 houses and 601 inhabitants to one privy, before alterations; after the alterations the proportion would be 3 1-3 houses and 16 inhabitants to one privy. Of the above inhabitants 11,850 are well supplied with water, 11,859 are partially supplied, and 11,858 are entirely without water, except what they beg or obtain from other parties.-- Manchester Guardian. On Saturday, at noon, there was not a single pri soner within the walls of the Gorbals Police-office; but this state of matters did not long continue. Before the evening there was no lack of tenants. The same circumstance has only occurred once in the Glasgow Police-office since its esta blishment. This happened about a year ago, when the cells were all empty for a period of exactly five minutes.— Glasgow Argus. Divoaca.—ln the Bristol Consistory Court, on Friday, before Dr. Phillimore, judgment was given in the case of "Davis v. Davis," which was a suit brought by Jane Davis against her husband, 'William Davis, for the re storation of conjugal rights. Mr. Harmer, proctor for the wife, said, that after reading the evidence, he could not deny that adultery had taken place, and had, therefore, only to submit t o th e j u d gment o f the Court. Mr. Bridges, proctor for the husband, prayed a judgment of divorce. Dr Phillimore, on summing up the case, said that the marriage of the parties took place in Bedminster, in 1832; the maiden name of the - wife was Durbin. In opposition to the suit of the wife, the husband had entered what was called a cross suit, and pleaded that his wife had been guilty of adultery. The evidence, apart from the admission of the proctor tia the wife clearly proved the truth of the allegation. The Learned Doctor recapitulated the evidence, proving that the wife had, during the temporary imprisonment, in 1835, of the husband, committed adultery with one Abraham Fuller; had subsequently lived with Edward Helder as his mistress, going by the name of Mrs. Whitford ; and, as late as 1844, had lived with James Daily, as his wife. Under these eir• cumstances, he had no hesitation in pronouncing for the divorce. A sale of the paintings, the property of the late Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, recently took place in the United States. The gross amount of the sale was 20,000 dolls. The Prince of Moskilwa and suite have• arrived at the Clarendon Hctel from the Continent. WORSHIP-STREET, George Reynolds, who a few years back failed as a beer shop-keeper in Spitalfields, and has since been ostensibly a weaver, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, on a charge of coining. Mr. Field, inspector of coins to the Royal Mint, and Mr. Powell, Mint solicitor, prosecuted on the part of the Crown. Sergeants Teakle and Price produced plaster of Paris moulds for shillings and half-crowns, together with melting pot, shears, files, and other implements used in coining; also a number of counterfeit coins of both denominations, all of which they found in the prisoner's possession when they ap prehendedhim. The moulds were then warm, and the coins apparently just made. There was another mould not quite finished, and the prisoner, seeing the officers lay hands on it, said in a desponding tone. " Oh ! you'll find a good half crown in that, and that I borrowed." They accordingly found, and now produced, the mould with a genuine half crown embedded in it to form the moujd for the counterfeits. The prisoner, who had alleged that distress had urged him to it, was now committed for trial. John Burton, who had been a fortnight on bail, re-appeared before Mr. Broughton on a charge of driving a cart over a lady named Ramsay and her child. Mrs. Ramsay had been unable to attend until yesterday, and was still unable to walk without assistance. It appeared that at the time mentioned she alighted from an omnibus, near Hackney Church, with a child, and was taking the footway leading to Homerton when she was struck and knocked down by a cart in which were the defendant and several other men, who, it was said, bad been drinking freely, and were driving improperly. The child was thrown under the wheel, but was saved from destruction. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a serious case, and he desired to have the fullest evidence that could be obtained as to the condition and conduct of the parties in the cart. He there fore remanded it again for the police to bring forward other witnesses. John Lathan:, a lad, was charged with riding over a re spectable married female, named Green. A police-constable of the G division proved that about eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, while Mrs. Green was crossing the City-road with a child, the prisoner, who - was riding a horse at a furious rate, rods over her, and she was conveyed, seriously injured, to the residence of Dr. Dasis, in Worship-square. Her husband, who was now present, said he had left her quite insensible, and in a dangerous state,but happily the child was not hurt. The prisoner alleged that the horse had run away with him. Mr. BROUGHTON remanded him. . THAMES. Peter IPPPherson, a middle aged man, who was till lately a hawker of goods in the district of this Court, was chanted be fore Mr. Ballantine with illegally practising the trade of an auctioneer, without being duly licensed, in St. George's street, formerly called Ratcliti Highway, by which he had rendered himself liable to a month's imprisonment. This was the first case under the new Act of Parliament, the Bth Vic., cap. 25, which is called " An Act to repeal the duties of Excise on sales, and to impose a new duty on the license to be taken out by all auctioneers in the United King dom." The Act imposed a penalty of 1004 on every auctioneer not taking out a license, the price of which an nually is 10/. The 7th section enacts, that before any auc tioneer shall commence any sale, he shall suspend or affix a ticket or board, containing his full christian and surname, and place of residence, and exhibit it in a conspicuous part of the sale-room, from the commencement till the termina tion of the sale. The eighth section, which has been more particularly framed to reach the mock auction fellows, pro vides that the license shall be produced by every auctioneer on demand being made by any officer of Excise, Customs, Stamps, or Taxes, or in the event of the auctioneer not being able to produce his license, he must deposit 101. with the officer, to be returned to him if the license is produced within seven days, but otherwise to be forfeited. If the auc tioneer can neither produce a license nor deposit 10/. with the officer making the demand, he may be forthwith arrested and taken before a justice of the peace, who is empowered to send the party to the house of correction for any period not exceeding one month. The defendant, who has been con ducting a mock auction for the sale of cutlery, crockery ware, tea• trays, and other articles, was exercising his call ing with great vigour on Monday evening, and knocking down the lots in rapid succession, to imaginary purchasers, and occasionally to a real buyer, when two Excise officers, named Baxter and Campbell, were induced, by the invita tion of a " barker" outside, to walk in. While the defen dant was describing in glowing language the value of his lots, the "barker" continued to call nut vociferously ? " Walk in, gentlemen, the sale's now on." Their proceedings were sud denly terminated, rnd they were taken all aback, by the officers asking M'Pherson for his license. He said he had not taken out one, and he was then asked to deposit 101. with Baxter, who told him who he was. M'Pherson ex pressed his inability to do so, and was forthwith given into custody. He had not complied with any of the provisions of the Act of Parliament, and the name of another man was affixed to the walls of the shop or sale-room, who had like wise neglected to provide himself with a license. Ellis, the Chief Usher, said he had known M'Pherson for many years, as a hawker and pedlar in the neighbourhood, but he was not aware that he kept a mock auction. The officers having proved the sale, Mr. Ballantine sen tenced the defendant to seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction, and told him, if he repeated the offence, ho should be committed for one month. Amelia Bray, a girl nineteen years of age, who was very meanly clad, and appeared in a state of great affliction, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with pawning four pairs of trousers, the materials of which had been sup plied to her by Emanuel Gideon, a slop-seller, to make up. The prosecutor, who lives on Tower-hill, proved having supplied the materials for the trousers, and two pawnbrokers produced the trousers; they had been pledged fur 16s. Three pairs were pawned at one time for 125., and another pair sub sequently for 4s. The prisoner said she was in great distress when she pawned the things, and did it to raise money to supply the cravings of hunger, and to provide nourishment for a sick father, who was past work and was in a dying state. She had made away with everything on which she could obtain money before she pawned the trousers. She intended to have redeemed the property as soon as she was able to do so. The policeman who apprehended the prisoner said her distress was past description, and her home was a very wretched one. It was true she had a sick father to main tain. Mr. BALLANTME inquired if the prisoner was known, and :he officers said she had not been in custody before. —.— The poor girl said she worked early and late to support herself and father, but slop-work was so badly paid for, that shewasunable to do so. Mr. BALIANTINE said he felt for the situation of the prisoner, but as the case was brought before him he must do his duty, painful as it was to his feelings. He sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 235., and sixteen ditto the value of the goods pawned; and in• default committed her to the Howse of Correction for fourteen days. The goods must be restored to the owner. Gideon then paid the girl for making the trousers, and she was then committed. A woman, named Ann Seaford, was brought before Mr. Ballantine, on rema n d, c h arge d w i th stealing a quantity of female wearing apparel, value 141., from the dwelling-house of Mr. John Wordsworth Robson, an artist, residing at No. 30 Wapping-wall, Lower Shadwell. The prisoner had been in the service of Mr. engaged Robis,vonhfor the last seventeen weeks, and was origin a ll y to attend his sick wife, who died on the 24th ul Prioretmor Mrs. Robson's death the prisoner commenced pawning her things, and upon a discovery taking place, the prisoner en deavoured to terrify Mrs. Robson with informing her hus band that the property was pawned with her consent. The sick lady refused to do so, and for some reason the prosecu tor overlooked his servant's depredations. After Mrs. Rob son's death, the prosecutor discovered his late wife's stock of alinndeno,n Friday wearing a las pp t a h re e l, shawls, the &c., prisoner diminishing with ro b e b v i e n rY g him. She stoutly denied having done so. Mr. Robson made in quiries at the various pawnbrokers, and found his p ro p ert y . taxed The prisoner was given into custody, and on being searched, a lace cap, belonging to the late Mrs. Robson , was f ound upon her. This cap was in a cupboard in one of the apart ments only an hour before she was detained. Mr. Robson sent her into the apartment during the hour for his comb and brush, and the prisoner took that opportunity to steal the cap. Three pawnbrokers produced thirty different pledges on whi.th money had been obtained before and after Mrs. R o b son ' s death. Two other pawnbrokers, who had advanced loans on Mr. Robson's property, did not attend. On being conveyed to the station-house, she tore up a num ber of duplicates, and the pieces were picked up and put together by Malin, 99 K, who by that means was enabled to trace the property. The prisoner was committed for trial. WANDS WORTH. THE CHARGE OF TRESPASS AGAINST THE RICHMOND RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Thursday last Mr. Evan Morris, solicitor, and vestry-clerk of Putney, obtained a summons against the promoters of the Richmond Railway for entering and committing damages upon certain land in the occupa tion of Mr. Thomas Atkins, without affording that person compensation, or obtaining his consent to the same. The in formation was laid under the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 18, or Lands Clauses Act, the 89th section of which enacts that if promoters of railways enter upon lands without the consent of the owner or occupier, or before payment or de posit of purchase-money, they shall forfeit the sum of 101. above all damage committed on such lands, and that such penalty and damage shall be recoverable before any two, jus tices. The damage in this case was laid at 1001. As it was generally expected that the case would come on for hearing to-day, a great deal of interest was excited ; the question as to whether a railway company or its contractors could enter on land, and commence operations, without first satisfying the owner ot occupier, being considered one of paramount importance, especially to occupiers of land in the neighbourhood of London, from whence so many railways are likely to ra di a t e . Th ose i ntereste d i n these matters Chive, were, how ever , d oomed to disappointment, for soon after Mr. the presiding magistrate had taken his seat, Morris, the solicitor, came into Court, and addressing himself to the Bench, whose behalf a summon he s on Thursday last, and in been granted against the pro- Atkins, for whom said that, in the case of Mr. Thomas pro moters of the Richmond Railway, he was sy haadPvilitTitageous to be alike honou r _ enabled to state that they had come y ' et ohftaotanwearemidatite settle at terms s t o with t both parties. Company, lndependently terms e a r ld ruicu tl Molt the company had undertaken to make a road to the Highness and the other members of the Commission P,,'o meeting yesterday, I will state the ground s cn which t!,!,10 mittee appointed t ) sleet per : ons whose effig ies rne o placed in the eighteen niches of the new House having first determined that men prominent in obtai4), great Charter of John shall be thus n, have come to a i:7,4 tion of recommending the particular names which haN ' submitted to the Conunission. 1 )0 In the text of Magna Cl,arta, i nser ted in Matti:o. i l .. the King recites hints , if to have granted it by the ax le StephenLangton, Archbishop of Canter bur y , the Arcl•Nof of Dublin, seven English Bishops, the Master of t e Templars in England, with sixteen Barons, five a yin!, t it the rank of Earls, though only four are mentionec,l author, who has also committed one or two tl,cr ht , curacies. l;n:,er de Wendover, whose chronicle, Istulrire lished by the English Ili,torical Society, is almost wile!`pi cupied by Matthew Paris, omits altogether this reilo names in his text of the Charter. But in this instat?,ce:i certainly wrong, as appears by the incont estible everaviit the char er itself, of which, as is well know', selp exist. There can,. therefore, be no doubt t hat the pet:l.ll_7o above-mentioned were corcerned, in a p rominent tn. the enactment of that great and celelm,ted law. „ill But, while it would have been easy to recommen IL'4 eighteen niches in the House of Lords the etligits Archbishop, and some other ecclesiastics, w ith these Fh9 Barons whom we find recited in the choler, we e re ) by te consideratEnt that these, as ppears bv j passage of Matthew Paris, were all on the - 10 1 g s , (. I gd the previous contest, and that it would be a very in 3 ",..1,1 commemoration of that event to omit those nobles otsreo land who had in reality the chief share in bringing I!, 0 0 It is indeed true, that those who had adhered triot to King John united with the rest at last to press t i the necessity of compliance with the demand of a i 'l liberties; so that it may be said to have been t h r i a : a ll , l . the unanmious requisition of the baronage. Bu i pens V only a reason for selecting names indiscrimiwtety.te l'" parties, considering them as in fact combined for the of obtaining a legal guarantee for their liberties. tri ltel! It became, consequently, the duty of the to m o ~I look over tl.e history of the time, in order t eighteen persons who, out of a more considerable . I ,i . e . c s• appeared most worthy of being commemorated on this appeared dependently Th of his high rank, eArchbishop of Canterbury, Stephen Lennt Sint was, as is well knowstre the most distinguished statesmen of that age, a nd . a , t heft; supporter of the charter, though without qulti°,7._, banner. Tire next in station among the P.r e , l a ffri -1 4 Archbishop of Dublin ; but, as be did not bow os bc see, it seemed more desirable to select Willion! London, whose see is next in dignity antong.tho'e, oar present, and whose names may be found in historY'the rti l 4 Master of the Knights Templars in Engla nd ' And h i s el, sentative of a renowned and powerful or der; Ear l' ore o ; would furnish some variety of costume. Five cited on the King's side; Those of Pembroke, a,' t i c ,lls man, of Salisbury, of Wa a r r r d e s n, joufsAticrivanrydeolf, attindgi:ristf.tsOciiiei de Burch of Keni;afterw side of the Barons we find seven E r a t ris t :; 01 1 ::::; ,ero r i Aumelle, Gloucester, Winchester, Hereford, outubt!„, Oxford. Three names remained to complete 1 1 ';,b e rt f t ; l e v i a g i h te te r e , n u . ,ho N m o t c h l i o e u i l 3 )t ar c o o n u i ld ha b d e pfellatcedas to that e, id . i$ ducting this enterprise. Enstace de % r oc' able part on the same side, and has some no n but 01; l y v e r h m i s d t o e r One only remained ; and among many table , le d ke ~vgar3sro. n a s ne t e lo s i t i ( e m aopfptehaert V re sorfo lt, oldest Peer, and that in the three ranks d t jelP l ii Baron, in the existing ouse of Lords. Willien;ruiliesiv is also ancestor, not only of the various liab le t' keleY' bear the surname of Howard, but of that of 136 o t Such, I apprehended, are the reasons which ltood the Committee, as they have myself, t° r to l' he c ltlr eighteen names, of which you possess a list, to morated as having borne a share in obtaining - ter of John. trg, 1,0 ; I am, my dear Sir, very truly "c° l ,ol. . C. L. Eastlake, E sq. HI t, ' , /11 0- No. 4. f s I- MEMORANDUM RESPECTING PLACES FOg s't•81: , t , te d . ti PALACE AT WESTMINSTEIL osP e. firfi The Commissioners, having at various tintes;cole 00;1 new Houses of Parliament, with a view t° B ; f l, 11 ',:61 '1 situations would be adapted for the r ecePtiriec ° P e ' t air statues, and having examined the prinviP e ere ' the 25th of April last, for the same. objec t ' 7 ii3 o o * opinion— . That, as the entrance to House o f 1 ) 0 5 ",1110 ovi,, Stephen's porch will contain the sof disting;"colk; men, warriors, and other eminent subjects, t h or n. o itiv the grand staircase, the landing-place, gu0 . ,. (1- 51 6° , t a gallery, and lobby to the House of Peers, sl' - st° statues of Sovereigns. That statues of Egbert, Edgar, Canute , a n t l ikl . . Confessor might be fitly placed on the first 11 0 '0 % O P, That the principal landing-place should &riot, tues of the Sovereigns, from ;William the C O lO l ward IV. That the statues of Edward V. lie u ` ati—. might be placed in the guard-room. IA be 4t 0e ),11 That in the Victoria hall the series shenodeePi t ,' beginning with Henry VII. and ending ; wj t , h „11 c g 'ic ii . 4' That the lobby to the House of 1.0rd5507,1r(00,..0"; statues of the - Sovereigns of the House of ) 10 4' ginning with George I. and ending with bet P e4ef - cl' e 11A Majesty. In this proposed arrangement it appeared th at pt ilt r!, Os tal in the lobby to the House of Lords vv,°“cordcalt3l° unoccupied. A resolution was referred 0 1,,Y r i tlin d , t p;io t minutes on the 21st of April, 1843), to the cu e- ,pri - cl u of his Royal Highness Prince Albert would belo`bbvillitar placed in the Victoria gallery (of which thlwatio'os Oil tion originally formed a part). Thus the ' 5l : bes , te o ftri ° tues in the state apartments, and the apl o-c g ,,,, tl ni t ili. would, in the event of the above resolutt e 'on b it' b e i be entirely occupied tt , we According to the above proposed distributi°lld4°lll'lo!l' of statues on the landing-places and in the PatoVilliej, be twenty-two; in the Victoria gallery twel,` o .e bby, i - it and Mary being both represented); in t he j l '' 7°l r ,bing"o,l l : l the statue con her Majesty, seven. :he • ' l ir a ll It was idered that the statues in t by ' o . l' might, l according to a resolution proposed oo ist k i K tight with reference to another locality, c 6 11 0 ' gorical figures. , t ; g-P i lipit t"e f It was further proposed that the lower wn —e o ; te es,, e „ contain eight statues of celebrated scientific l it :4 0 0a iii i ,v, upper corresponding hall should contain ',tor 1 : wvP c.lebrated poets, and that the panels in th e 0 P °e" be adorned with paintings. The lower hall 10 31 c old 0 tit ees i li t il i i able for paintings. It was further remarked that, if required' s 'ent i r o lle placed in the open air in many of ;he court s ' 4 e . an ti of the larger corridors or passages on the 1; 1 ' 0 " , (1, 1 4Ur t . the 1 lO • ¢ admit of such decorations. 0 i le , . dl. The consideration of the place for the WO s ttlt b t al of the precise number and situations of othe r f tbe central hall, was postponed till that part ° should be more advanced. 10 Whitehall, April 25,1845. Y ° f SO No. 6. ,cgo of' leo LETTER FROM THE RIGHT HON. THE S l '; CL '..r 9, Wi tO FOR THE HOME DEPART3I 0 ~ ,i i iy,,, wh i t ep ' fo to v o rre tv Sir—l have received her Majesty's eorli g rosei l t °lste d t he you that her Majesty has been graciously P Aitit ec ted l ir the report of the Commissioners on the f in ti c os 'l i t ' . l'a r , 25th of April, 1845. And her Mtlje 42/ „ - ble it ;tl l° ,, n o f Lords Commissioners of the Treasury t ° 4 ; i ti r il i sca t ment an estimate for the sum of two thet:se - ' count, towards the payment of the 0cr,,, - d ° o o. Hampden, Lord Falkland, and Lord Clar, e " I have the honour to be, Sir', o nt, (3 .o t* Yo ur obedient VP , 0. •-• J. • ~,ti0.5,, No. 7. A OCS' o il•rve I P ROYAL COMMISSION OF Fr° 0 ° o t e P' eo otli" Notice is hereby given, that a cinnpetitie t o t , b et or which, by announcement betbre issued, icg.,,tileiv`soilt June, 1846, is postponed till June, 1 847 '0d I° ' tions expressed in the announcement retell-- altered. tl'' • By command of the Conuni°o;if;;,lcret3' C. L. EA° sll '` 1 945. 5 A ttl' 3 '.t 7, elm 110 of Her sele selecting ROYAL COMMISSION OF FINE A ail , a 4 1: es. fo t):s em C p o l :m m i e s n : t on a B. their attention would, in due time, be dire , it too' lic with a view to the decoration of portion' of :totio,i'',,oll Westminster, hereby give notice: three J?il be 'II I ° erlrtVgislitsibteaslaliaiinlilig•e;toeiotintilotoec:oor:li!: 1. That three premiums of 5001. each' 0 ,10, 41 01 0 5 Of 300/. each, and three premiums of 2.00h,,,e,,°,,.5,101,1"0ti011tbe to the artists who shall furnish oil-psi P r ' i rit ° deemed worthy of one or other of the r * •ve e t tit' ah tile judges to be appointed to decide on the 0 1 of '',l works. onl le 10 1 '0 e d ex ee 2 c m l week in June, 1847, for exhibition, to We s ' Jos t 011 1 'bel , to such a 3. The Commissioners reserve to thenes%,bieb,,ti,t ue'cild'ihnbegyloftarlilonelt:gs are to be sent in the ip e lios ter be t ig ii 10 doh . ' 0 1 in ri g • tie r 4. The paintings, not exceeding tw° costolih•e ge artist, are required to be d for the prepare ° o ar t' ief olg 6. The subjects are required to com e " .., co r ti , ', t1 1$ „ classes of religion, history, or poetry. a the g l O l'" 6. The dimensions are left to the choice,, not forhe„otele3 the following conditions :—The figures ar: :(ro m re o be n l ot o f two in number; the size of the nearest list, is to peg ec ef at least one of the specimens by each 8.3'„.,',1•es bateise-lg priyilegnerioutbtolicpoesxsebslsbsittdli"cielnvotrnterit to egPbi p._,,11 than that of life; but the size of the 1;61,t5, ~ ot left to the choice of painters of marine oll.lie" . ~,0 1 e,ll' to and landscape. re isto"rteiet A t !. .e . _, . 0 7. Tile judges appointed to decide on ii• i, . e ao.o_ lit e, ll . o o l the works may, if they shall think fit, Ng!' _, e x.o_Ajit be the whom a premium shall have been awardca, il` . ' •A tt .. P' o se 4 0 such conditions as they may think neceiss.ariY; 30.110101 r painting as a §pecimen of his ability, end be paid C O 3 ' premium awarded to such artist will 11° • o dges• to be second painting shall he approved by the J t ii t ed ~ , , o 8. The names of the artists are not reel " I t cealed. s ob' t# artists. p rop ria till ribie toe 9. The paintings will remain the proper*" e t. tber .. 0 10. Paintings which may combine AP. Aot o c b ile of with a high degree of merit, shall be eoone. l " e d 10 e ti f purchased by the nation, in order to be P lgc w hic h tir apartments of the palace at Westininste?•_objectso_ferel $•• 11. Religious, poetical, or allegoricat s have re_ s 0 1 judicious adaptation or treatment, 1ueY.,.., t oy , g bs sed• ele the history or constitution of the kingdo49Bo p i i& of?, strictly historical subjects_, be eligible to te d to d ec o re 12. The judges to be hereafter appol"to the 3" Pr' Itetioll relative merit of the works , with a view a r e s ide d miums, will consist partly of artists. _ t one ~,1 13. The-competition hereby invited is 0 , bo e re , years or upwa ß rr y ls subjects, including foreigners who traY . iot n il l ec it i t ol gh n o u t , ,,,i lo, n r er . t. ec te loll' C. L. k;' As.l ti° commandcommand No. 9. t ., A irrs on At th/ ROYAL COMMISSION "" Yll'ecCiVed e ft. eet i4 sfl er Variins applications haying been l' _,,,..„ r sp 1 , e r . ,,. 0 0 candidates for employment as fresco-peig;;;: t raY,, , 0 1E 1 ' mode in which specimens of fr. be ° t °l nleY do " reference to public exhibition: s echi le f 01 11 ' 0 Notice is hereby given ch R o _ a d, r r tb be submitted to the Commissionersac°o-0P the f ill° art o ft ° . Westminster Hall for the purpose at ., re: , io iceo:or'r March to the Ist of May next, Inclusit-e. _ t b e ei iib iteo eo3 o The subjects and dimensions are lef t t° before e: ".,-teei tg artists, but those artists who have ro i to se nd •r toons in Westminster Hall are r " cli"iriitliog,. • siog ers' d . drawing together with their fresco -pal. com mis_ ef ts EAsT l . O ' 4 By comnyodf,o.f tile .c Se C. L. Eastlake, Esq. c:le,:ltihepenaazeyeils of various a 0 0 ' 41 :i altore'l fwv3rifle'lo l i a ltl ii n w ii - ne i d since the date of th!s incinoranu theuivictria,,coe partinents have blp he ',lie t e it io called gale thtehloortnobtarthrcelotis-e o f yords ' e Victoria ball. r L.......... . c iiii i4 nledt"lt e, FATAL MINE ACCIDENT --A. wine -1/3 S kirl .' 1 1 ,r 8 cl i C i l iz , t r o m n u n • elt mines, e sw,asonksilaltettlirdisnytlineornAcigow:t 1100° s.hiairl•-g 114 T he the kr t.i patent wire one) having accidentallY b r A i,,' wi`eitlYtei down the shaft, and droi.ped on his hea' 9 " I " t ' i, jost l ,t tb every bone in his bod was broken, and de' tO 131° eurred. He has left ayefe and three children loss,— West Briton. ( ....,ot, -.410 :q V P, t. t r , a i oi c nua t • eroli t 1 Capital,