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Chester ; can get coals from a distance of 15 miles cheaper than from the mouth of the pit which he lives so near to; the reason of that was, because the owner of the latter had Witness in the end of a sack, and would not let him out. Mr. Joseph Norton, agent and manager to Mr. Leech, cot ton-spinner, of Staleybridge.—He employs 1,200 hands, and the mills are within 100 y ar d s o f a c oal-pit; but we are obliged to get coals by boats from Pointon, the pit near us not being abl e to afford a sufficient supply ; even from Poin ton the supply is so deficient that the mill is obliged to stop sometimes. SYSTON AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY — On the CHAIRMAN taking his ) seat to-day, the con sideration of this line of railway was resumed, by the re-examination of Mr. Miller, one of the witnesses examined yesterday by Mr. Atkinson, an opponent f i ef the Bill. The object of this examination was to show that the proposed crossing of the line at Peter borough. bridge would be attended with much danger, from its peculiar construction, and that it would interfere with the holding o f a f a i r which was kept at regular periods in an adjoining meadow. The tables required by the standing orders were then put in, in which it was estimated that the annual working ex penses of the line would be 14,000/., leaving, when deducted from the gross receipts of the branch line, the surplus of 33,862/. lBs. 6d. for the shareholders, or a dividend of 41 per cent. on the invested capital. This calculation was inde pendent of what is expected to arise from traffic derived from the main line with which it is to be connected at Syston. The various items set forth in the estimates regarding the cost of constructing the line were proved by evidence, and unopposed. Mr. Charles Liddel, the engineer of the line, was then ex amined respecting the engineering difficulties. These were stated to be of a very trifling character; the gradients were yory favourable ; there was only one tunnel 776 yards long In the whole extent of forty-eight miles, and the curves pre sented no objectionable feature. Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, was next examined. He o riginally surveyed th e line, and in his plans drew out the est practical line between the two termini. It was not only the best line as far as engineering difficulties were con cerned, but the best as far as the consideration of traffic awas involved, forming, as it would, the most direct line r,fno Yarmouth to Manchester. He believed the inhabitants 1 the country through which the line passed were generally in.. its favour. H e h a d seen a li ne propose d b y M r . G i l e s, an d . I.a2ught it very objectionable, on account of its engineering n l n ic ulties. He thought the end of Stamford-bridge the most eligible site for the station, more especially if the bridge was 10rfidened. Th e tra i ns i n pass i ng over t h e roa d a t th e en d not tue bridge into, and from, the station would of : e ,enny above half-an-hour altogether in the course arsi v .' a Y, and then the trains being either starting or flange l ag, would necessaril be slow and not likely to be etv_ons. There was a portion of a line which he had exe of ' 4 in Liverpool that crossed a street, and he never heard !..nY accident _ air. Alr. Stephenson was cross-examined at some length by at stCLARKE in reference to Mr, Giles's line, and the station reiteration of what ' he had previously stated on those points. WIIATELEY, on behalf of Lord Harborough, examined the wi tness in rega r d t o th e li ne go ing through his Lordship's 7:lnds. Mr. Stephenson generally replied that any diver n of the line would occasion heavy cuttings and tunnels, d add prodigiously to the expense. SIT B- COMMITTEES ON STANDING ORDERS. Villit No. present Mr. Strutt, Cbairman Mr. ers Stuart, Mr. Pakington, and Mr. Compton. The Committee proceeded with the adjourned inquiry on the TOTTENHAM AND FARRINGDON EXTENSON Co ILWAY. • , - , ppock appeared for the opposing petitioner. Mr. Nhis submitted three allegations, complaining of certain fields and gardens within the limits of deviation. The Co mm i ttee were of opinion that the allegations could not be sustained. Standing orders not complied with in some Instances. Bill referred to Select Committee on Standing Orders. DISS AND COLCHESTER RAILWAY. Mr. DISS appeared for the promoters of this ad- Jour ned case, and read o ver th e s e vera l a ll ega ti ons w hi ch the agents for and against had settled out of doors. (LEFT SITTLNG.) Sub-Committee (N o . 2.) This C Johnommittee re-assY. Buller e acting as Chairman.l mbled this morning at the usual hour, Sir DISS, BECCLES, AND YARMOUTH RAILWAY. The consideration of the allegations in this case was re sumed, but only two of them were established. They were of minor importance. Several allegations were admitted and withdrawn on both sides ; they consisted chiefly of mis descriptions and slight errors in the rates of inclination. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 20.—The King gave an audience to-day t° Coopminns, Charge d'Affaires of Denmark. His Ma jesty attended divine service in the chapel of the Palace, and afterwards presided in a Council of Ministers. We an nandounced a mo n th ago the arrival of the Rev. Father Walle h:s companions in the State of Guatemala. This news, which we had from respectable authority, appears to have been premature. A letter has been shown us, written from the Havannah, Feb. 13 , b y am inhabitant of Flanders, who Was i to thisn that letter city with th e Belgian Missiunaries, According the H ,al, annahFather Walle and hi s compan i ons arr i ve d at on.the 9th in perfect health, having expe rienced on the coast of Portugal one of those storms which ay es e so common in those seas. The vesqel, with the missiona n. board, was to sail on the 19th ofFebruary, after stop ping ten days. The Weser Gazette says that the number of German emigrants to America, in the year 1844, these, 18,863 sailed from Bremen , 1,774 from llam o b o ug m h was 45,661. Of , 1,143 from Rotterdam, 3,000 from Antwerp, and 1 11avre. ThUS, we see, that Bremen is highes s t_ i in i 6 ; g 6 the list, which the journal attributes to the superior . B}l i Ps employed. The latter recommends the good . qual o i f ty x • t e l o le _f the provisions, and lastly the regularity of the times d for the departure of the ships. ti T he central section which is to examine the question rcla• Aill to able orn-law has already met ; it is expected that it be to present its report to the Chamber in the be wiltling of the week.—Brussels Papers, April 21. ' -I: Ra WEST INDIA MAIL.—The Trent, Royal ail Company's steam-ship, Capt. Fuller Boxer, hasarrived Southant non . from the West Indies, with the usual mails 8 " a largelnumber of passengers. She has had a very fa vo.arable passage on the whole ; since leaving Fay al how ;s,lNer, she has experienced easterly winds, which ac o c i o ' i in r t e s . for 1 ' being two days over due. The Trent brings ~._ freight 0 i e. '40,206 dollars, gold, gold dust, Brittai . c pp .n i pcoeieor,i,s.4244, ounces ofsilver 551 b. 2oz. of platina, 26thand 2,210 f. 1 _ Porto eßTirceon2t9lefht Jamaica on , the 24th of .I\larch„lacalet April. Her m t , St. Thomas departure of the Trent ; th P'que s st 3, a l r ajesty's ship Pickle was at Jamaica on the s st, a a t nd F le a n yal 14 , th of G - ada • and the Rose at Barbadoes. - Th e e Ro j )al Mail Company's steam- Thames atYhpr,oceeded from St. Thomas's to Grenada ; the e "ult ; the Avon to Demerara , the City of G lasg to Trinidad ; and the Liffey en route to Carthagena. The Powu favourable, m fro Jamaica and most of the other islands are ti--- I) ,: n Al u or LADY ISABELLA L. KlNG.—We n ha to ii 7 c a rtli ce the death of the above lady, who died . o grealjla bur,/ '?g , at Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Her Ladyship 1 , and vas Sunday o e nv hi aneutintdoafa 13_11eSrata' e It iglit tgihiee ; re o s f en k t d; : v o a r r l d . , first Earl of Kingston, a HOB. George and Mrs. Dawson have son,B word a heavy affliction by the demise of Mr. George d , awson, late of the Rifle brigade, their set l ai of ).,.."ao died on Monday morning. He was in the p e ri d m e e life, not having attained his twenty-third year. . ' b soro ' gentletnan had been gradually declining in r health 5 month s Decort s ..„„„ • ,`..INSTER IMPROVEMENTS.—By a Bill now 4,0 e varliament, itls p . roposed to carry out the project for a direct c t he re ,40 o mmunication between the neighbeurhood of f ala i , 4 , s ee of Lords and Commons and that of Buckingham laroatie,c,oY means of a new street, 80 feet wide, front the to Shaf f .panctuary, at the western front of the Abbey, ts "`soury-terraee, in the parish of St. Peter. The advan "ge to b thor ou o obtained will not be limited to . a convenient *ill co between points of increasing importance, but arid(evialp.rise also a beneficial opening through arid h'oltatdated district, long notorious as a haunt of of crime • Little Des of disease. The localities to be traversed are, a - il- e ~b-street, the Great Almonry, the Little AlmoTrye, r o l3i i rl ais r lie e s ; b t li o ild ings, Cooper's-street, and Duck-lane. local comb empower the formation of a body tarry out''' rB, the der guarantee of qualification . and of ecurity to Thethe design ; and authorises the raisin . g of s a sum ' not ithe c ni g 100,000/., on the credit of the rates in the district. Jett b,°altnissioners of Woods and Forests are to aid the pro tontiti' a s uPPly of 39,0001., with a further sum of 11,0001., b leb i g , n ell approval of the manner in which the improve -I„it_ re complated. taPeat; S UGAR QUESTION.—A great number within the •it tg l ij to the Customs' Board have been made ti a '-'Y ti le - r r , u aYs for return of the duty of Bs. per cent. allowed o Lile duty .tre aSttry order of the 24th ult. on sugar, on . st which Ivbio othe old tariff and 5 per cent. has been paid, a l n 4414:ar still remains in bond uncleared. No difficu ty ,ef a tit LiY instance been experienced in obtaining the return in. Y - °Il the conditions agreed to by . the Commissioners frollitClnPlied with—viz., on a certificate being produced font was Company or owner of the warehouse that rs tlie . cant r n ,7 1 0 bond on the 14th of March last, that the appli_ that be a d eclaration that the duty was . paid by him, , and_ -s . 3 e • altry i zi 1 ntitled to the allowance sanctioned by the I rea arki Ptirsuan of the wishes of the House of Commons, no Q ., ce r, at Pra-- ' l er person whatever. the numerous applications eft h '''6 4 t being made may be accounted for by the last part .o h llde ne -QlTinlis si9 " ' order, that all the duty-paid sugar i -Y a 4—H.4 W hicbt a t ' l l i s e allowance is required, must be delivered .. r ,_tsr e p e- L ai n day early in the ensuing month. ' 4 4 in -- 'l l ° l 4 . OF GAS—FOUR HOUSES DAMA H GE I D bo .— rn lilar %.oi,rTring, about 7 o'clock, the inhabitants of . 0 ex: DAMAGED.— lo -e urnstile, Were greatly alarmed by a terrific ;Thitro,ii," gas at the Robin Hood Tavern, two doors from i e b „e• It appears that the pipe burst near the flooring, ' i shed,2 B , B ripped up, and the entire front of the shop demo- LaLl sittl-t,etehfeorce being so great as to carry away the shutter r r ti, bre a ki n fragments of which were carried across Hol. g•Atel ) , ll q. aeveral panes of glass in the hou . ses of Mrs. oer of c'etnaker, and Mr. Coates, hatter, opposite—the first gi the Robin Hood also sustained damage, every pane Pt4raks being shattered, as well as those of Messrs. Baker and iol tire s 4. B e in the house adjoining. Fortunately no person was ti tl e lekler Aluskau has sold his estate, and with it his 1, n ,,y no doll blesse, to Co un t Ed mund Hasfeldt Weisweiler, for `4io 50 rs. klt, ..,Paragraph appeared in the Chronicle of the 29th oh i ii - . 8 flouncing that Sir Thomas Hare had ordered the game 44, 0 !rat. to be destroyed. We are enabled, on competent iltep, 11' teeny that if such an order has been given, no I The n ha ve t intended xecute it, but that at this season, t1e 4 4 1 1 it were to do it at all, they ought to be fs rtise r a way, as many hares are left for breeding as in . any sie m /ear. From ten to sixteen hares may be seen in a 11. .i4nitreldirs, and as many in the neighbouring estates of Mr. 14 th e ' ' ll r .! Mr. Villebois, Mr. Pratt, &c. It is whispered act he 40ighbourhood, that the order in question was never keti Vglven, but the report circulated to pacify the tenants ; hs helloski a meeting of the game preservers of the district J.,„,t Mr. Villehois', of Marham, to discuss the sub eteerst .11e result of their deliberations has not transpired, hy the Ila the practical shape of the tenants being devoured tl tY of gtne. The tenants complain that in a great majo tseet,„ e ases they have expended their capital in improve tak's' under the impression that they should not suffer from improve lac new, when they cannot leave their farms without atki 8,,,ag their investment, they are burdened with game, eaiori7erma grievance for which they can obtain no compen- I f le ighb o i ' e are assured that many tenant-farmers of that j aro l , 011 1 hood have been deterred from throwing up their "be evi l ~31,_bY thB consideration we have mentioned, but that -441 10 88 uecetning so serious,that on a calculation of profit their nierel s o - m eof hem sent eallitel ratherwill be compe lled t . erit ef their , than be eaten up for the profit or amuse s 4 tiz landlords.-2Vorwich Mercury. o sacrifice Let ie h 'il ei ' L IY designed and well-executed pedestal, 14 "JR; b u gut, stintiounted by a striking resembles of Sir Walter 4411 '4 been greeted at Perth. THE SUN, LONIYON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1845. IGENCE. tion by means of projects now before the Legislature, and which will bring them into connexion: Cambridge with Louden, Norwich, the north of England, and Scotland ; and Bury St. Edmund's with London, Norwich, and Ipswich. There are, no doubt, at certain times, a considerable number of persons repairing to Newmarket; but the Opening of lines that would convey them to Cambridge would sufficiently answer their purpose. Newmarket has little or no trade, or other means of supporting a railway, even of the cheapest construction. Under these circumstances, we can see no public reasons to lead us to recommend this extension line to the favourable consideration of Parliament. DARTFORD AND RUMFORD RAILWAY AND ' pleting of the coast of railway, there being otherwise a gap in that coast line between Deal and Dover, which no other company has proposed to fill up. It will be seen, from the foregoing description, that the Kentish coast line must, if executed, prove directly competing with a portion of the lines of the South- Eastern Railway Company already sanctioned by Par. liament, and with other projects of the same Company, as set forth in the report of this Board " on the Kentish and South-Eastern Railway scheme," already presented to Parliament. The works would necessarily be expensive. Included in them are two tunnels, one of 720, the other of 1,760 yards. The last two and a half miles into Dover, in which the longer tunnel occurs, would be very heavy in construction, the approaches to the tunnel being in cut tings of 88 and 90 feet. Professing to complete this coast line of railway, this project is defective in this very particular. Its terminus at Dover would be on the west side of Dover Castle, at a spot about 80 feet higher than the terminus of the South-Eastern Railway, and having the town and the backwater basin of the harbour of Dover between them, thus still leaving a gap in the coast communication which could not be supplied except at an enormous outlay. The plan and sections lodged in this department under the standing orders of the House of Commons were im pe feet in almost every eesential particular. More correct and better executed descriptions have very recently (March 26) been lodged in this depart ment, and complaint having been made of the insertion in the London Genetic of a notice of our intention to report unfavourably to Parliament upon the merits of the project, it may be proper for us to give a short explana tion of the circumstance. It has been the practice of this Board since its first formation, having given notice in the Gazate of the intention to consider certain railway projects, then to receive from the projectors any statements which they might think it advisable to offer in support of their schemes, and to receive, upon application being made to them to that effect, deputations of the promoters, when they might desire to give personal explanations affecting the merits of their undertakings. It never formed any part of the plans of this Board to seek such interviews; but in no case have they ever been refused to parties showing reasonable cause for asking the same. In the case of the Kentish Coast Railway, the promoters ap plied on the 6th of January last, requesting that an inter view might be granted to the members of the Provisional Committee, and in compliance with that request the 22d of that month was mentioned as the day when it would be convenient to receive those gentlemen. On the 21st, however, the solicitor called at the office of the Board of Trade, and stated that it would not be convenient for them to attend on the day appointed. No other day was at that time or subsequently fixed for the purpose, and the promoters having been informed that on their making application an interview would be granted, and no application for such interview having been made, nor any statement presented, this Board having withheld any report on the Kentish Coast line until the last moment open to them, proceeded on the 25th of March to con sider the same with reference to the plans, &c., furnished to them in complian ce with the standing orders of the House of Commons, and published their opinion In the London Gazette. It has since appeared that the promoters of the line received an erroneous impression that they would be invited to attend with their statement before the Board prior to the decision of the case. We beg distinctly to state that the impression under which the promoters of this project rested, that they would receive an invitation to attend at this Board, arose from a mis conception on their own part ; but although such was the fact, this Board, considering that their report had not yet been submitted to Parliament, and that the case was entirely an exceptional one, has thought itself justified in receiving the statement which the misappre hension of the parties had delayed, and in considering it previously to the final submission of their report. The result, however, has been fully to confirm the opinion at which they had originally arrived, that the scheme, as a whole, presents no advantages which can entitle it to be preferred to projects already in part sanctioned by Parliament in a former session, and the remainder of which have subsequently been favourably reported on by this Beard. I:AUNCESTON AND SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY This line, as proposed, is twelve miles andseventy two chains ie length; it is intended to form a junction with the proposed Tavistock branch of the South Devon Railway, and to take a north westerly course to the town of Launceston. The favour with which the scheme has been received on the spot, where the whole capital required has been raised, sufficiently attests the desirableness of tLe under taking; and if the nature of tho country were such as to warrant the belief that it Gould be constructed so as to be worked by any means hitherto successfully adopted, it might have been our duty to report that we see no public reasons why the sanction to it of the Legislature should be withheld; but so seriously objectionable are the curves and gradients, as laid down in the plans sub mitted to us, that we are unable, with the present amount of experience on the subject, to regard the project as unobjectionable. Of the 35 curves which occur on this short line, there are:— 1 of 12 chains radius 4 of 15 ••• 1 Of 18 ••• 15 of 20 0111 1 of 24 ••• The gradients are very severe, being in various places at a rise of 1 in 26k, 1 in 27i, 1 in 34, 1 in 43k; nearly 5i miles are steeper than 1 in 50, and, although their severity is for the most part mitigated by their being in planes of short length, there is one of nearly 2i miles at lin 34. There occur two tunnels with an aggregate length of 940 yards, and two viaducts of, together, 176 yards ; there are cuttings of from 34 to 62 feet in extreme depth, and embankments of from 42 to 62 feet in extreme height ; numerous bridges will be required for crossing roads, &c. ; and thus, notwithstanding the severity of the gradients, the works altogether will be expensive. It is proposed to work this line on the atmospheric system of propulsion, which forms the justification of the projectors for the adoption of such gradients and curves as are here described. It cannot be necessary to repeat here what wo have already stated upon the sub ject of projects thus formed in anticipation of the suc cess of the atmospheric system ; but we may remark, that the difficulties to be encountered upon this railway are much more serious than occur upon the line between Kingstown and Dalkey, where the steepest gradient is 1 in 57, occurring at the aid of the line, while the re maining inclinations arc not below 1 in 100. We have had reasons offered to us why a line better than that now proposed may be found for the construc- tion of a railway to connect Lancaster and Tavistock; end it appears to us that, under the circumstances of the case, the delay of a session will not prove a practical dis advantage, since the full benefit of this work would not be experienced until the South Devon Railway should be open for traffic. On the grounds, therefore, of the unfavourable nature of the undertaking ; considering that it must be altoge ther objectionable, except as an atmospheric line, and by no means free from probable difficulty if even that system shall be made available ; and with the hope that some other line may be traced which will be less open to the objections here mentioned, we would express an opinion that there are public grounds why the sanction of Par liament should, for the present, be withheld from this project. 1 of 25 chains radius 7 of 30 ~. 3 of 45 ... land 2 of 60 ... (To be continued.) RAILWAY BILLS. RESOLUTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE, That Committees on Railway Bills have leave to sit in the present session, notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, if the Committees shall so think fit. That such of the standing orders as relate to the compoFi tion of the Committees on Private Bills, and the orders con sequent thereon, be suspended so far as regards Railway Bills pending in the course of the present session. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, her Majesty the. Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, the great officers of State, and most of the leading families of the nobility, attend the State visit at this theatre to-morrow evening. DEAFNESS AC OUSTIC INSTRUMENTS.-39, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly.—lnvisible Voice Conductors, when fixed in the cavity of the ears, are not more uncom fortable nor perceptible than having a small piece of wool in its place. They enable individuals at an ad vanced age, and of forty or fifty years' standing of ex treme deafness, instantly to join in general conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant, low speaker, at church, theatre, &c. They pour the conversation into the ears to such an extent, that in most severe cases deafness cannot be observed. Also original Ear Cor nets, French, German, and Spanish Artificial Ears, and improved Hearing Trumpets of every description. Many of those instruments have received the approbation of the Royal Society and Royal Institution of Great Bri tain. The Newly Invented Spectacles, immediately they are placed before extremely imperfect vision, it is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Also Achromatic Telescopes, Opera-glasses, Micro scopes, &c.--Caution : Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, )pticians and Aurists, are not in any way connected with a person of the same name in their immediate neigh bourhood, nor in any part of the country. To prevent nistakes, be cautious, and observe—Only to be had at N. Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE HOSTE, C.B.—This dis tinguished officer, who filled the important office of Colonel- Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers at Woolwich, expired at his residence, Mill-hill, Woolwich-common, on Monday evening, at ten minutes before six o'clock, of the combined attacks of asthma and gout, under which he has suffered for • about four months so severely as to render it necessary for him to remain in bed in an erect position to prevent suffocation. His age was, w e believe, 76 years. E Sir G. Hoste entered the corps of Royal ,:criueers in the year 1802, having been gazetted as Secondlh:uteuanton the 20th December, and on the following da y, t I,,femh er 21st, was promoted to First Lieutenant. I e was n,:ide Captain on the 18th November, 1807 ; Brevet Major, 17th March, 1814 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th July, 1825; Brevet Colonel, 28th June, 1838 ; Regimental Colonel, 23d November, 1841. The services of the deceased officer were of a very important character. He served at the battle of Maida-hill, and at the siege of Scylla Castle, in 1806; at the attacks on Alexandria and Rosetta in Egypt, in 1807 ; at the taking of the islands of Ischia and Procida, and at the siege of Ischia Castle in 1809. He was in the action on board the ship Spartan, in the Bay of Naples, gay 3, 1810. He joined the army in Holland in November, 1813, and was present at the attack on Antwerp, and led the Guards at the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom. He served also in the campaign of 1815, and was attached to the Prince of Orange, as senior officer of engineers, with the first attack and at the battle of Waterloo. He was also at th e and surrender of Peronne, and at the c a pit u l at i on of Paris; and was one of the commissioners appointed to give over the fortress of Thunville and other strong holds from the F renc h to the Prussians. Wer e is but - one op ini on as to his charac ter as an o ffi cer and in private life, wh ich! d istinguished e by charity and humanity. Si r G eorge Host e has three asl.ft b so e n h s in . d him his widow. Lady Hoste, t wo daughters, RAIL WA REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON SCHEMES FOR EXTENDING RAILWAY COMMUNICA TION IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS. Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, April 16, 1845. The Board constituted by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade for the transaction of Rail way Business, having had under consideration the fol lowing schemes for extending railway communication; viz.:— The Aberdare Railway; Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings (Keymer Branch); Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton; Dunstable, London, and Birmingham; Eastern Counties—Cambridge and Huntingdon; Eastern Counties—Brandon and Peterborough Ex tension; Eastern Counties—Finsbury Extension; Et stern Counties—Cambridge and Bury St. Ed mund's Extension; Eastern Counties—Dartford and Rumford Railway and Steam Ferry; Erew ash Valley Railway; Epping Railway; Eastern Counties— Thames Junction and North Woolwich; Lynn and Ely Railway, with a branch to Wisbeach; London and Gravesend via North Woolwich Railway; Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction—Extension and Branches; Kentish Coast Railway; Launceston and South Devon; South Devon Amendment and -Tavistock Branch Railway; _ _ _ - - rDarfield to Worsbrough; Ditto to Eisecar; tMidland Railway Chevet to Horbury; Oakenshaw to Wakefield; Ambergate to Crich; Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields Railway— Tynemouth Extension and New Quay Branch; North Union Railway—Branch to River Ribble; Sheffield and Rotherham—Branch to Sheffield and Manchester Railway; West London Railway—Thames Extension ; West London Railway—Knightsbridge Extension; York and Scarborough Deviation; have determined to submit the following report thereon, for the consideration of Parliament. The railway projects above enumerated are not so connected with any particular district as to make it necessary to class them with any of the groups or fami lies of schemes which have come under examina'ion. They consist generally of lines either small in them selves, or of a local character, or they are minor exten sions and alterations of railways already executed. THE ABERDARE RAILWAY, About eight miles in length, is principally intended for the conveyance of coal, iron, and other minerals, from the Valley of Aberdare, in the county of Glamorgan, to the port of Cardiff, for shipment. It branches from the Taff Valley Railway, which connects Merthyr Tydvil with that port. The present means of communication with Cardiff is by canal, which, however, is alleged to be quite inadequate to convey the traffic. We are of opinion that there are no public reasons against this pro ject receiving the sanction of Parliament. THE BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND HASTINGS— KEYMER BRANCH. This is a branch from the Brighton, Lewes, and Hast ings Railway, at Lewes, t o th e L on d on and Brighton Railway near Keymer, in length 9 miles and 12 chains. Its object is to cut off the angle at Brighton and shorten the railway distance between Lewes and London, and consequently between Hastings and London, by eight or nine miles. There are, in our opinion, no public rea sons against this project receiving the sanction of Par- liament. THE COVENTRY, BEDWORTH, AND NUN- EATON RAILWAY. This proposed line commences near the Coventry sta tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, and ter minates by forming a junction with the proposed Trent Valley scheme near Nuneaton, in the parish of Bedworth, its length being six miles fifty-three chains. It has for its object to open direct communication between the im portant districts of Coventry, Leamington, and Warwick, and the extensive collieries in Warwickshire and Lieces tershire. The statement of traffic furnished by the promoters of the scheme appears to justify the probable cost of its construction. We are of opinion that there are no public reasons against this project receiving the sanction of Parliament. THE DUNSTABLE, LONDON, AND BIRMING- SIAM RAILWAY. This railway is intended to commence at the Leighton Buzzard station of the London and Birmingham Rail way, and to terminate at the entrance to the town of Dunstable ; the length of the line being seven miles. The line, when completed, is proposed to be leased and worked by the London and Birmingham Railway Com pany. The traffic tables laid before this Board by the projectors appear to justify the outlay of the capital ne cessary for the construction of the line. We are of opinion that no public reasons exist against this pro• ject receiving the sanction of Parliament. - EASTERN - COUNTIES-CAMBRIDGE AND HUN TINGDON. This line is intended to commence at Huntingdon and to pass through St. Ives, to join the Eastern Counties Extension a little to the north of Chesterton, near Cam bridge. Its length is 17 miles 35 chains, and it has a branch of 1 miles 50 chains, for the accommodation of Godmanchester. The object of this scheme is to con nect the town of Huntingdon and Godmanchester with the Eastern Counties Railway, in case any of the great trunk schemes between York and London passing in that direction should not receive the sanction of the Legislature. We have, however, already reported to Parliament on the main question, and believe this scheme to be incompatible with the establishment of a direct main line, such as we have recommended in the report alluded to. Between Cambridge and St. Ives it would, in fact, be a competing line with the proposed Cam bridge and Lincoln Railway. Under these circum stances we think there are sufficient public reasons why it should not receive the sanction of Parliament. EASTERN COUNTIES—BRANDON AND PETERBOROUGH EXTENSION. In explanation of this scheme, it is necessary to remark that the Eastern Counties Railway Company obtained last year an Act for making a line from Ely to pass midway between Chatteris and Doddington, by Whittlesea to Peterborough. The object of the present scheme is to make a deviation which, avoiding Chatteris, may accommodate the town of March. 'lke length of the line would bo thus increased by about three miles, but the promoters allege that the outlay would not be augmented thereby, and that the contractors who had agreed to make the original line now undertake to construct the deviated and longer line at the same cost as the shorter. The first eight miles from Ely of the proposed devia tion are coincident with the same portion of the Ely and Lincoln proposed Railway ; and if th© latter scheme were carried into effect, a proportionate reduc tion in the expense would result. We must add, how ever, that we have reported our reasons why the Ely and Lincoln proposed railway ought not to receive the sanction of Parliament. The project is objected to by the inhabitants of Chat teris, who will suffer inconvenience if the line, as it has already been sanctioned by Parliament, should be re moved from them. If the line could be considered as a main trunk line, a deviation involving an increase of three miles in distance might be considered to affect unreasonably the general convenience of the public ; but the project in question must be viewed more with regard to local accommoda tion than to through traffic. March is a place of greater population than Chatte ris ; the former containing by the last census 5,706 per sons, and the latter 4,813. March also contains 1,163 inhabited houses, while Chatteris has but 956. Consi dering, therefore, that the new line may be made as cheaply, that it will afford rather more local accommoda tion than the original line, and that the through traffic is not likely to be very great, there are no public rea sons which, in our opinion, ought to be decisive against it. At the same time, we deem it our duty to suggest whether, as the direct line has reeeived the sanction of Parliament, the company should not be required so to regulate their fares as to charge no more on the extra distance, on the through traffic, than they were em powered to charge on the direct distance. EASTERN COUNTIES-FINSBURY EX TENSION. This is a prolongation of the Northern and Eastern Railway, through the terminus near Shoreditch, across that street and several others, to the City-road, near the north side of Finsbury-square, in length 600 yards. This scheme partakes something of the character of the Tottenham and Farringdon extension project, which has already been reported upon by this Board in con nexion with the London aad York schemes; that is to say, the object of each is to obtain a more central me tropolitan terminus. The distance is only 800 yards be tween the present and the proposed terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway; yet the cost of making the extension will be considerable, and it may not, there fore, be to the interest of the Company to incur such an expense, if the Tottenham and Farringdon-street projeot should be carried out. It is further very important that so essential a part of the communication between London and York as is afforded by the Tottenham and Farringdon-street branch, should not be interfered with by any minor pro ject of this description. On the other hand, it appears desirable, with regard to the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, which are supplied by the Eastern Counties Railway, that it should have a more central terminus than that at present in use at Shoreditch. _ Therefore, although we think that the Finsbury Ex tension is inferior to the Farringdon-street terminus as regards the northern traffic, and that it should not by any means be sanctioned in lieu thereof, we are of opi nion that, having respect to the eastern traffic, no public reasons exist why it should not receive the sanction of the Legislature. EASTERN COUNTIES.—CAMBRIDGE AND BURY ST. EDMUND'S EXTENSION. This line would run in a direct course between the towns of Cambridge and Bury, a distance of t wenty-five miles and chains, g a e n n dfi li f l t e 3 e , ringd ifficu throughlts of n ie ale e voelscien country, present ing no ; but# on the other hand, offeri n g ver y small inducement f or the outlay of capital on even the most econ om i cal scale. terminal .towns both of the populati on o f all the parishes onw theroute . Th ere is at present , lying between Cambri d g e an d Bury, and w hi ch it wou ld traverse, being under 12 ,000, and N ewmarket t T h h in e ly distirnihcatbtibterodufh which it would b e carried is but townn eteen the which will b e am ply supplied with railway acconamoda being little or the no o t n r l a y ffi t c olv b SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tlublic Optittott. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Saturday evening Leuis Philippe received the Nea politan Ambassador, the Minister of Denmark, the Ministers of Commerce and Public Instruction, Dukes Pasquier and Decazes, the Marquis de Rumigny, Count Anatole de Montesquoiu, Baron de Humboldt, Generals 011oudetot, Pelletier, and Aupick, and M. Dupin, sen. The following bulletin of the health of the consort of Don Carlos has been received in Paris, dated Bourges, April 17 : "Certain medicines administered, after a consultation of phy sicians, produced some repose during the night, but without lessening the gravity of the - ilifess. The arrival of Dra. Recamier and Cruveil het from Paris is impatiently expected." The above-named physicians have been to Bourges, and Dr. Cruveilhet is returned. It is said that he found the august patient in a very alarming state. M. Guizot has nearly recovered from his late illness, and no danger is apprehended. M. Aubert, Peer of France, died on Saturday, at Paris, after a long and painful illness. He was a member of the Corps Legislatif under the Empire, of the Chamber of Repre sentatives during the hundred days, and has been several times returned to the Chamber of Deputies since 1830. The marriage between the daughter of Duke Decazes and Baron Lefebvre, of Tournay, took place at the chapel of the Chamber of Peers on Friday. A person under the assumed name of Baron de Bulow, who has made himself notorious for his ability in discovering real or pretended conspiracies, has been arrested by order of the Government for unjust and excessive exercise of his office, and is to be put upon his trial as the inventor of the alleged conspiracies. The electric telegraph between Paris and Rouen is com pleted, and will be brought into use in a few days. We read in the Droit :—" An Englishman, named Thomas Graham, who had lived for 25 years at the house of the Jardin Turc, quite alone, occupying his time in making dif ferent articles of clockwork, was on Saturday morning found dead. " The morality of the Polka," says the Brussels Gazette, " has been officially acknowledged at Antwerp. This fa vourite air of the calumniated dance has been set to the ca rillons of the cathedral of Ant werp. This gallantry on the part of the municipality of the city merits honourable men tion." The Silesian Gazette informs us that the States of Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and of the Rhine have pronounced, either unanimously or by a great majority, in favour of the petitions for the liberty of the press. Prince Puckler Muskau has sold his estate, and with it his title of noblesse, to Count Edmund Hasfeldt Weisweiller, for 1,708,150 dollars. 21.A117 .626,3 POLICE. In the Arches Court, Sir H. J. Fust gave judgment in the case of the Bishop of Exeter v. the Rev. Mr. Shore. The Bishop had cited Mr. Shore for preaching in an unconse crated chapel. Mr. Shore replied that the Court had no jurisdiction, inasmuch as he (Mr. Shore) had seceded from the Church and become a Dissenting preacher. The Court decided against Mr. Shore's protest, and ordered him to ap pear absolutely on the next Court day. The proof of debts under the bankruptcy of C. J. Mathews is finally concluded, and a dividend will soon be declared. The April Adjourned Quarter Session for Middlesex com menced yesterday,at the County Court-house, Clerkenwell green. The cases disposed of were not of the least interest. At Guildhall, John Nicholson, a stationer, carrying on business at No. 8, Great St. Thomas Apostle, and Alfred Dutton, a stationer, in Union-court, Old Broad-street, were charged with receiving some paper, of various descriptions, which had been stolen from the premises of Messrs. Magnay Brothers, wholesale stationers, in Maiden-lane, Queen-street ; and John Hall was charged with being concerned with three other persons, in the employ of Messrs. Magnay, in the stealing of a large quantity of paper. They were re manded until Friday. John Dobson, the man who has undergone two previous examinations on the charge of having stolen some cash, to gether _with brass candlesticks, and other property from Marylebone Church, was fully committed for trial from Marylebone. At Worship-street Thomas Bagshaw, alias Jones, aged 19, the son of a respectable tradesman in St. Luke's, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with having uttered several counterfeit crown pieces to tradesmen in the neigh bourhood of the Mile-end-road. He was committed for trial, and preparatory to his journey to Newgate the policeman removed him into the yard, but having occasion to turn round for a moment to collect his witnesses, the prisoner suddenly darted like a deer through a private passage leading into the street, and was instantly out of sight. An active pursuit immediately took place, but up to the close of the Court no trace of him had been obtained. Mr. James Francis Donovan, an artist, of Well-sLreet, Wellclose-square, charged with obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, was sentenced to seven days' impri sonment at the Thames Police-court. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Viscount Melbourne is so far recovered from his recent accident as to be able to take carriage airings. Viscountess Palmerston intends to give a grand ball on Monday next, at the family residence, on Carlton House terrace. Her Ladyship's file will be on a very splendid scale. The Duke of Hamilton has recovered from hr in- disposition, - disposition, which prevented his Grace from joining the din ner at his mansion on Sunday, to the Grand Duchess Dowa ger Stephanie of Baden. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne will entertain the Duke de Broglie and a distinguished circle at Lansdowne House on Monday next. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland received a select family party, including the Earl of Burlington, the Hon. W. Lascelles, Miss Georgiana Harcourt, &c., at dinner last even ing, at Stafford House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn have arrived at Stafford House, from Trentham. The Earl of Cardigan is expected to return to Portman square at the close of the ensuing week, from Dundalk, after inspecting his regiment. The Earl of Malmesbury has arrived in Whitehall-gardens from Paris. The Earl of Derby completed his seventieth year on Mon. day last. The Earl and Countess of Zetland are daily expected in Arlington-street from Ask Hall. Lady Charlotte Dundas, sister to the Noble Earl, has arrived at her residence in Lower Grosvenor-street. It is said that her Ladyship has resigned her situation as one of the three Ladies of the 13. - -chamber to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Lady Caroline Duncombe has arrived at the Dowager Lady Faversham's residence, Arlington-street, from Waresley Park, Huntingdonshire. Lord Poltiniore has left Grosvenor-square to join Lady Poltimore at Florence. MISCELLANEOUS. An annuity of 7001. a year lapses to Trinity College, Dub lin, by the death of Dr. 'Whitley Stokes. A copy of the Commission for inquiring into the expedi ency of altering the Circuits of the Judges in England and Wales has been printed. The Commission is dated on the 14th of February last, appointing as Commissioners Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Alderson, Mr. Justice Coleridge, J. S. Wortley, F. Kelly, W. Whateley, and John Greenwood, Esquires ; and Sir W. Heath cote, E. Denison, J. T. Grimston, and B. Estcourt, Esqrs. The object of the Commission, which may be pursued by any live of the Commissioners , is " for inquiring and con sidering whether it would be expedient with a view to the more convenient and better administration of justice, that any and what alterations should be made in the division of England and Wales into circuits for judicial business and in the periods for holding such circuits, and whether it would be necessary or proper that any change should be made in the law terms for the purpose of such alterations, and also for considering in what manner such alterations may be best effected." Her Majesty's steam-frigate Stromboli, commanded by the Hon. Captain Plunkett, arrived at Culmore on Thursday. This fine vessel has been sent by the Government, on the ap plication of Major Snow, R.M., and she is to be stationed in Lough Foyle during the fishing season, for the purpose of preserving the peace, and preventing those unhappy and disgraceful outrages which have been of frequent occurrence for some years past, and which, in one instance, terminated fatally last year. On Tuesday morning, shortly after six o'clock, as Mr. Ri chard Cartwright, a respectable carpenter, was crossing the Hawley-field, situated on the right hand side of the Hamp stead-road, and near the Hawley Lock of the Regent's Canal, lie discovered the body of a man, lying on his back, with a pistol grasped tight in his right hand, and his head shattered in a frightful manner. He instantly gave an alarm to police constable 248 5, whom he found on duty • and assistance having been procured, the body was conveyed to St. Pancras workhouse. '1 hr.:, hat of the deceased was found a short dis tance from the body. It is a beaver one, somewhat worn, maker's name, J. Howard, James-street, Old-street, St. Luke's. 13UDE LIGHTS IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—Work men have been employed for some time in making prepara tions for lighting the square by means of this powerful light. That unseemly erection at Northumberland House has been removed, and large bronze pedestals have been cast for the purpose by Stevens and Son, which will be placed in a few days on the large circular granite blocks on each side of the Nelson monument, and at the termination of the parapet. THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DUKE OF SUSSEX. — Yesterday the sale of the fifth portion of the extensive library of the late Duke of Sussex was commenced, at Messrs. Evans' rooms, Pall-mall. The present portion consists of the Latin classics, the drama, poetry, the belles lettres, biography, &c. The number of lots disposed of yesterday was 249, consisting of some rare first editions of the Latin classics, which fetched extraordinary high prices. The sale of this portion of the late Duke's library will last twelve days. THE LATE THOMAS PHILLIPS, EsQ, , R.A.—This distinguished artist, whose death took place early on Sunday morning, was a native of Dudley, in Warwickshire, where he was born in 1770. Having a very strong predilection for the arts, he was placed with the late Mr. Edgington, of Birming ham, the restorer of the ancient art of glass-staining in Eng land. After a few years young Phillips came to London with an introduction to the late Benjamin West, P.R.A., and commenced portrait painting with tolerable success, and after some years, having acquired considerable proficiency, he was elected an associate, and in 1809 a full member of the Royal Academy of Painting, at the same time with Henry Howard (secretary), and the late Nathaniel Merchant. Mr. Phillips succeeded by election in 1824 to the professorship of painting in the Academy, and delivered from the chair a course of six lectures replete with the best advice to artists and the soundest principles of art. Mr. Phillips resigned the professor's chair in 1830 from the delicate state of his health ; but he continued to fulfil the other duties of council, visitor, &c., at the Academy. In the summer of 1844 Mr. Phillips retired from the active duties of, his profession, in which he had been for the last few years assisted by his youngest son Henry, who succeeds to the practice. Soon after he established himself in London, Mr. Phillips married a lady from Scotland, who 4923 about to embark for India. This union was ens of the happiest upon record. Four children, two boys and two girls (all living), were the offspring of this marriage. The eldest son, Scott Phillips, has been for some years a distinguished officer in the Bengal Artillery. Mr. Phillips was greatly esteemed by all who knew him ; the late Earl of Egremont was his steady friend for thirty-eight years. He was a member of the club at the ° Thatched House," formed by Johnson, Reynolds, &c., also of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, the Royal Institution, and was one of earliest members of the Athenaeum Club. Besides his lectures, Mr. Phillips wrote:much on the arts ; all those on this subject in Ree's Cyclopedia are from his jen. , I.HE AUCTION DUTlES.—Considerable doubts having prevailed as to the period at which the auction duties are to cease, we are authorized to state, that the Lords of the Treasury have addressed a letter to the Commissioners of Excise, authorizing them to forbear to charge the duties on auctions after the Bth of April, on the usual condition of the parties consenting to abide the ultimate decision of Parliament. IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. DUBLIN, APRIL 21.—The weekly meeting of the Associa tion was held this day in Conciliation Hall. The excite ment caused by the protracted discussion on the Maynooth Bill, and the anxiety to hear the sentiments of Mr. O'Con nell on the subj ec t, d rew toget h er one of the largest assem blies that had appeared for some time in the Conciliation Hall. At one o'clock, Mr. O'Connell entered, and moved that Mr. E. B. Roche, Esq., M.P., should take the chair. The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting, and said he could not commence his discourse better than by calling on the meeting to give cheers for the British Minister and the majority by which the second reading of the Maynooth Bill was carried.—(lmmense "applause followed, in which Mr. O'Connell heartily joined.) He considered the late de bate as most important. It proved that the same spirit which actuated the people of England during the Gordon riots was still rampant, and that an innaie hatred of the Irish and their religion existed in that country. The amende which had been made by Sir James Graham was certainly gratifying, and he felt bound to receive it in the same spirit of frankness in which it was offered.—( Cheers.) Mr. O'CosisiEra, handed in a number of remittances, and read a communication from the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, Bishop of Elphin, which contained the following passage : I think you will never be disappointed in the convictions you have formed of the Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland. They will receive every good measure with grati tude, but the wealth of Crcesus cannot purchase them, or tempt them to abandon the interests of their beloved flocks in the cause of nationality." Mr. Smith O'Brien and several gentlemen having handed in various sums of money, Mr. O'CONNELL again rose and said—This was a grea t day for Ireland.—(Cheers.) Circumstances which had lately occurred ought to prove to the people the value of per severence—by perseverence they could achieve the glorious object for which they were contending.—(Hear, hear.) The time was fast approaching when Ireland would be treated as an integral portion of the British empire. It was now his duty to bring up the second report from the Par liamentary Committee upon the Report of the Land Commission. The Honourable Gentleman having read the following report :—" That it is essentially necessary for the alleviation of the misery of the people of Ireland that the Legislature should impose a heavy absentee tax—that such tax should not be less than 10 per cent. on all incomes ex ceeding 2001. per annum—that every person should be consi dered as an absentee who shall not reside in Ireland during at least six months in each year, and that the proceeds of s uc h tax should be applied in augmentation of the funds raised by local taxation for useful objects connected with the dis tricts from which the income of such absentee is derived"— proceeded to comment on the many evils which absenteeism. had inflicted on Ireland, and pointed out the means by which it might be counteracted. He then continued to observe that he had read with the greatest satisfaction, and in a spirit of the greatest kindliness, the speeches which had been delivered by the Ministry during the late debate.—(Cheers.) As for the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Goulburn) he did not much regard him, and if the granting of the boon rested with him alone, he was sure' the people of Ireland would not receive it. He never before in his life had occasion to praise Sir James Graham, but he should say that the manly spirit and straightforwardness with which he delivered his speech was worthy of the highest commen dation.—(Cheers.) He would hold out both his hands to him to assist in extricating him from the dilemma into which he had fallen, and he would place him on a pedestal the basis of which should be justice to Ireland !—(Cheers.) Sir James Graham had said that concession had reached its limits—the meaning of which was, that justice should not be extended to Ireland. The Secretary for the Home De partment had expressed his sorrow for that exprdssion, and had declared that the Maynooth Bill was to be the precursor of more beneficial measures. Sir James Graham had told the Recorder of Dublin that Protestant ascendancy had departed for ever. An ascendancy of any kind must be prejudicial to the interests of the country where it exists; and for his part he would not hesitate to declare that he would rather ascend the scaffold than tolerate for one moment a Catholic ascen dancy.—(Hear, hear.) They would have no ascendancy, and three cheers for Sir James Graham.—(lmmense applause.) Shaw was angry, he understood—he cared little. The best friend to the repeal of the union was the Member for the University, for it was in consequence of his opposition that the Corporate Reform Bill and other measures were rendered unacceptable. He was glad Sir James Graham had told him that Protestant ascendancy was numbered amongst the things that were. The speech of the Right Hon. Baronet was a manly, candid, and repentant speech, and gave abund ant promise of amendment.—(Hear, hear.) He considered they ought to send him absolution from the Conciliation Hall.—(Loud laughter.) He then alluded to the speech of Sir R. Peel, and thus continued—Sir Robert said the agita tion was not to be put down by force. He was right. How could force be used when there was no violence, or nothing that force could be brought against? I tell Peel that, so far from using force to carry our objects, he may take away every soldier out of Ireland, and if he wants a volunteer corps we will give it to him. After this declaration, surely the sol diers ought not to be pent up as they are in their barracks. There is no army in the world so brave as the national army of our beloved Queen; but why shut them up behind barrack walls? Peel says we are not to be put down by force. I don't look for a higher authority, and therefore I make my bow to him. —(Laughter and cheers.) But he says we are to be put down by kindness, generosity and justice. lam much obliged to him for making the trial; and if he only goes on he will succeed. Now Peel has been cruelly treated by the bigotry and fanaticism of the English.—(Hear.) How often have I said the English people hated us? They hate us because of the crimes they have perpetrated in Ireland; and it is natural for those to hate who inflict injustice. Not a single English Member spoke in favour of the Bill who had not to make the confession that he was acting in opposition to the will of his constituents; and I here give them credit and honour for their conduct ; while we should the more vehemently denounce the turpitude of the English people. Before emancipation passed I should be alarmed at the feeling which is exhibited in England, but now I do not care a two penny ticket for it.—Hear, hear.) The English Presby terians and Dissenters have led the van against the people of Ireland, and Sheil very properly taunted them with the gross ingratitude of their conduct. Duncombe checked him, and said the Presbyterians objected to the Bill on "principle." What a paltry excuse was that I Every year since I went to Parlia ment, 30,0001., as regium donum, was granted to them. That sum involves the very same principle ; but when did any of the Dissenters come forward to object on principle ? They ex ercise the principle against Irish Catholics alone; while even the Irish Dissenters are allowed to escape. I tell Mr. Dun combe, that instead of applauding the conduct of the Dis senters, lie is only putting their conduct in a darker light, and I tell them they are guilty of base ingratitude to us. They were emancipated in 1828. but not by their own ex ertions—they were torpid, and it was we who led the van and relieved them.—(Cheers.) This is the arm that drew the petition which led to their emancipation.—(Cheers.) drew up the petition which was adopted by the Catholic Association—in a short time it received 28,000 signatures, and in a fortnight after it was presented to the House of Commons the Bill for their emancipation was passed. Oh, their conduct is base—they are guilty of the blackest ingrati tude—they have exhibited the grossest bigo!ry and intolerance. I repeat my charge against the people of England, and Scot land too. In the discussions between the kirk and the Free Church in Scotland, the Catholics in the House of Commons always supported the friends of the Free Church ; yet they now attack us. Shame upon them—shame upon the men who can exhibit such bigotry and injustice; but I have done with them, I want nothing but their abuse.—(Hear, hear.) Let it be recollected I ord John Russell took the part of the Protestant Dissenters—he said they are the friends of civil and religious liberty. Where did he get that fact? I look back to history, and I cannot find any such thing; and their conduct reminds me of the Established Church ; and I am truly grateful to that Church, for they have , offered us no opposition.—(Cheers.) When I awoke this morning I found myself laughing, and I still continue in the same pleasing state of mind.—(Hear, hear.) The labours of my life may now draw to a close. I do not think the repeal cause or its humble advocate ever stood upon so high a pinnacle as at the present moment.—(Great cheering.) By the admission of our enemies we are irresistible.—(Continued cheering.) Oh, indeed, the man who commits a crime gives strength to the enemy. The man is a miscreant who does not obey us now; and from this spot, in the name of the sacred cause of repeal, I implore, I command the people of Ireland to desist from crime.—(Protracted cheers.) Let there be no more agrarian disturbances : the time is not far distant when there will be a good system between landlord and tenant, and disturbances will only have the effect of postponing it. Let you all hunt out ribbon lodges; and ex pose them to the magistrates and the police, and I call upon the people of Ireland to be peaceable, but vigilant, and they must succeed.—(Cheers.) The Maynooth grant was gra ciously and well,done—l accept it, and I am thankful for it ; but I do not give more thanks than it deserves. I will be grateful for every such measure, but I will not rest content till the last penny in the pound is paid in our own Parlia ment in College-green.—(Cheers.) I repeat again I am grateful to the Ministry—considering their position—seeing there is a manliness and boldness about them that no other Ministry had—tbey deserve our warmest approbation for the course they are pursuing.—(Cheers.) After some further ob servations the Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amid applause. Mr. Dillon Browne, MP, and some other gentlemen ad dressed the chair. The rent was announced to De 3561.95. 10d., and the meet ing separated. THE PRESS AND SIR R. PEEL. (From the Morning Chronicle.) Our Contemporary, the Examiner, argues more, we fear, in the character of a theoretic than of a practical politician, when it denounces the Premier as an unclean thing; with which no communication should be held, to whom no tole rance should be extended, and from whose hands not ping short of the bold and straightforward policy of the IN rhigs should be accepted. We should be well pleased to be o f the Examiner's opinion, and lo live in a world where such tren chant policy was appreciated, or was likely to be attended with good result. IS , e should be delighted to develop to , their completion the straightforward views of the Liberals, and at.zour Contemporary expresses it, " to take the bull by the horn, 9," and with the strength of a giant lay it prostrate on t. he sand. But the world is not so formed, nor are 14 Us so manageable, as to be dealt with in this fashion. Bull-fighters have their science as well as statesmen, a) id have their flags to deceive, and their ropes to trip up, as well as their weapons to pierce, their long and formidable prey. We do not say that the profession of matador is that which we 1, cost admire, nor the use which he makes of his flag the kin 3. of warfare that we most approve. But, if we are interesea' in having the fierce animal disposed of, we really cannot qua'ry -el with the art employed, nor scout the matador who skilfwl,ly and courageously performs his part. There are certain :is political tasks which may be performed at any time, a aCI w hich may be performed openly and straightf orwar dl y ; and the noblest instruments should be employed to of them. There are others so difficult, atteenatitleedmobjNe‘d-eiottnl.fe' bet them. much delicacy and hazard, ah t d h , at is t t o he get with a mutinoeufgrs crew, and benda s a e n a y may find himself in the alternative a ca n l y )tai w n ay m , lie demands or giving up hi s s hi p to the e conceding t heir nem compromise between th e str i ct letter of his y. He make a great aim ;he ralli es hi s men and fights. duty and its better by losin g hi s s hi p and keeping Should he h Ave should we, who gain by it, be the men his principle ; ; or to punish him -f or making h:e compromise ? We believe admitted than the Irish are it to be uni vers i lly more aggrieved in their hot our than in their intti:ests. Even if they were equally aggrie ed our in one as in th e o th e r ; we can always put finger upon the wounds of honour— w e know where they lie, and hoN‘ r to apply a remedy. But inteipsts aggrieved form a more c am plicated disorder. How can we hope to raise the I rish peasant a cubit, when we cau.not elevate the Eng Esh• peasant an inch? Religkus inequality is the rank ling wound in the side of Ireland. Is it not wise and desir able to apply a remedy ? Different doctors have cliff( rent nostrums. Ours is the best, certainly, for a radical ( 313 re, but we cannot apply it. The patient may go mad or ex pare, before our hand can reach him. Shall we not, then. a I] ow another practitioner to interfere? He tells us, indee , 1, on coming in, that he will keep his prescription secret.. has done so, ancrwe regret that he has felt it necessary to k iep it secret so long. Let him apply it, hewever, and let ui , help him. By quarrelling, the political doctors may lose heir STEAM FERRY. This line wauldVeiinin the High-street of Dartford, and it would proceed in nearly a direct course to the bark of the Thames, opposite to Purtleet. The convey ance of the traffic across the river would be by means of a steam ferry, and from the Essex bank of the river the line would proceed in a direct course to the Eastern Counties Railway at Rumford. The entire length of railway to be constructed would be nine miles and ten chains. The construction would not be difficult nor expensive but th ere i s no existing traffic between Dart - ford and Rumford, and no good reason has been adduced for sup posing that any such is likely to arise whereby a railway could be supported, and we are of opinion that there are no public grounds upon which Parliament can be called on to sanction this project. EREWASH VALLEY RAILWAY. This line of railway is intended to issue from the Long Eaton station of the Midland Railway Branch between Derby and Nottingham, and to pass with nearly a direct course up the valley of the Erewash, to j , oin the Mansfield and Pinxton R a il way, i n t h e par i s h o f belstone. It is de signed principally for the accommodation of the numerous iron works and collieries situated in the district through which it passes, and to which as many as thirteen short branches are thrown out to the right and left in its course. The produce of these works has hitherto been conveyed tomarket by means of canals, which being sub ject to the various disadvantages of being circuitous and tedious when in operation, and liable to frequent inter ruptions through floods or frosts in winter, and from de ficiency of water in summer, a more rapid and certain and at the same time a less expensive means of transport is sought through the construction of this railway. This scheme was brought forward in 1836 as a branch of the Midland Counties Railway, and was favourably reported on by a Committee of the House of Commons at that time, notwithstanding the opposition of the canal companies, who now again come forward against it. The statement of the promoters is, " that it was with drawn in consequence of expectations which have not been realised." The main line is 15i miles in length, and the total extent of railway to be constructed, including the 13 branches, is 25 miles 67 chains. The works will be light, and the curves and gradients favourable on the main line, the steepest inclination being lin 200. On the branches the gradients are severe, being 1 in 32k, 1 in 35, 1 in 50, 1 in 56 , 1 in 76, and 1 in 97 ; but as they all ascend from the main line to the works with which they are connected, and will be used for the con veyance downwards of coal and iron, there is but little objection to them. Many bridges will be required fur crossing the river Erowash and the different canals. The statements of traffic brought forward lead us to believe that the railway will be adequately supported. Under these circumstances we feel called upon to state that we are not aware of any public reasons which should induce the Legislature to withhold its sanction from the scheme. THE EPPING RAILWAY. This line is projected in connexion with the London and Blackwall Railway. Its commencement is at the Stepney station of the railway, and its terminus at the town of Epping, the length of the line being 15 miles 29 chains. The object of the promoters is to turn to more pro fitable account their London terminus in Fonchurch. street, by making it available for the convenience of the inhabitants of various populous villages lying east of the City of London, Lay tonstone, Wanstead , Woodford, Chigwel', and Loughton, and who appear from the traffic table furnished to have constsnt intercourse with Lon don. The population of those places, added to that of Epping, amounts to 13,475 persons. The line would necessarily be very costly. At its departure from the Blackwell Railway, it is proposed to carry it upen an arched viaduct 2,480 yards in length —nearly mile—at a height varying from 18 to 33 feet, and this viaduct is to be followed by au embank ment miles long, averaging 18 feet in height, which embankment would, however, be saved by connecting the line with the Eastern Counties Railway, at the termination of the arched viaduct, provision for which is made in the plans lodged by the promoters. Sh(.uld this connexion not be made, the line would run for a mile parallel with and close to the Eastern Counties Railway, which it then would cross obliquely, and on a level just beyond the spot where the Cambridge branch separates from the Eastern Counties line. With the exception of some heavy cuttings and embankments, which occur in the last 21 miles, the works are not otherwise expensive or objectionable. The experience of existing lines of railway connected with the same locality will not justify the hope of any adequate return for capital invested in so very costly an undertaking as this must necessarily be, if carried through on the plans now offered. The proposal to cross the Eastern Counties Railway diagonally, an a level close to a spot where the traffic will be the greatest, appears to be highly objectionable on the score of safety to the public, when no peculiar necessity can be shown for the adoption of such a course. The connexion of this railway with the Blackwell line, the latter being worked by means of stationary engines, ropes, and pulleys, while the line to Epping is to be worked by locomotive engines, appears to involve con siderable difficulty, and some delay, if it be not also attended with danger. The consideration of these various points has led us to the conclusion that no adequate public advantage could result from the sanction of the scheme as now proposed, and we would suggest, therefore, its postponement to some future time, when, if further examination should confirm the expectations of profit put forth in the traffic tables of the promoters, some less costly and otherwise less objectionable plan may be offered for giving railway accommodation to the district in question. THE EASTERN COUNTIES THAMES JUNC TION AND NORTH-WOOLWICH RAILWAY. The Eastern Counties Company has already obtained powers to make a branch of their railway from Strat ford to the east side of Bow Creek, on the river Thames, where it is proposed to construct a wharf and depot for goods. The project now brought forward is for an ex tension of that branch along the bank of the Thames to a point called the Horse Ferry, opposite to the Wool wich Arsenal. The length of the line would be two miles 65 < hains. Its course would be through marshes or perfectly level ground, and it would consequently be easy cf construction. On the other hand, there is at pre• sent no traffic whatever either of goods or passengers, and not a singl e h ouse or b u ildi ng of any kind along the proposed line. Th e id ea o f t h u s giving railway com munication to the Roy a l A rsena l a t Woolwich with the centre and the nor th o f E ng l a nd, appears altogether chimerical, a n d th ere d o not present themselves any public grounds to justify the o utlay of capital, in order to provide means of transit for traffic which is to be LYNN AND ELY RAILWAY, called into exi s t ence at some f u ture time by the facility to be thus provid e d. TII. WITH A BRANCH O WISBEAC This line, commencing at the port of Lynn, termi nates at Ely, where it forms a junction with the railway between Cambrid ge an d Ely, thus affording a con t i nued line of communisatio n f ro m Lynn to London. The length of the main line is 25 miles 70 chains. From a point about six miles south of Lynn a branch to Wis beach is thrown off, in length ten miles eight chains, which runs nearly in a straight dire ction to that town. Including a short branch to Lynn Harb o u r, and a short extension at Ely, the whole extent of railway to be con structed is thirty-seven miles fifty-six chains, and as the district is quite flat the cost will be comparatively small. The estimate of traffic, which we have examined, appears to us to justify the promoters in prosecuting the scheme ; which ought to be decisive against it. and on the whole, we are aware of no public reasons RAILWAY. THE LONDON AND GRAVESEND , V IA NORTH WOOLWICHThis project is designed to connect the Eastern Coun ties Railway with the bank of the Thames near to Til bury Fort, opposite to Gravesend. It would, therefore, have no connexion with either Woolwich or Gravesend, except by ferries across the river. There are not any towus or populous places in its course to be served by it; and although from the level nature of the country through which it would pass, the work would be inex pensive, it is not possible to be l ieve that the traffic can be such as to afford any return for the capital embarked. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND, CLARENCE, AND HARTLEPOOL JU N CTION —BRANCHES OR EXTENSIONS. The branches or extensions p ro posed are four in number; one of them , ho wever, is an alternative branch, reducing the numbe r actuall y intende d for construction to thre . e, having an aggreg ate le ngth of seventy-one chains They may be thus des c ribed:—. No. I.—A branch to j oin the Newcas tle and Darling ton Junction Railw a y on a level, by bending to th e northward, with a curve of about seventeen chains radius, and at a descen din g g radient of one in fifty-five. No. 2.—A bran ch also to join the Newcastleand Darlington Junctio n Railwa y on a leve l , by bending to No. 3.—An alternative branch in place of No. 2, shorter, but having a s h o rter curve of 8 chains radius, the at asouthward, descending gradient a cu r o v f e 1 of in 2 6 3 4. chains radius, and i and at a steeper descending gradient of 1 in 60. No. 4.—A branch to join the Sherburne branch of the Clarence Railway on a level , by a curve of 6 chains radius, and at a descending gradient of 1 in 180. We are of opinion that having regard to the safety of the public, the first three of these branches, intended to form a junction with a g reater p assen ger railway, are 1:e Clarence Rail . and that the objectionable on account of the sharpness o f th e curves f a o n u d r t h t h, eforsemvaekriitnyg o t f he t j h u e n ir eti g on ra wi die t n h ts t way, is, notwithstanding the more favourable gradient, objectionable by reason of its curve of only six chains radius. KENTISH COAST RAILWAY. ir his to h line ine te eastward commences of at Tee, r r n n e Herne Bay, passes a short distance let, and Stour mouth, and at 1041 miles throws out a branch to the eastward to Ramsgate ; it then passes on the west side of Sandwich, and at Sholden, 15 miles 50 chains, throws out a brach to Deal. It then proceeds by Weimer, Ring wold, East Langdon, and Guston to Dover. The length of the main line and branches together is 29 miles 74 chains. Its object is to nonnect the towns of Dover, Deal, Sandwich, and Ramsgate with each other and with Herne Bay, as affording the means of a ready inter course by steam-vessels with London. Another advan tage, as a lleged by tho promotes', consists in the com- - patient altogether, and with it tte . .ir aim and cal ng:- the Examine? says, this is no ure at .all ; that Peel is quack, a concoctor of stone broth, an impose ; We - o take the Examiner's view of' the aynooth rill. ) Qr indeed, it is little, but taken wit ,the doclaokiol4,o4 Tory chiefs, it is immense. It a.- 1 441, *VW% I v 4 it is applied to the vital wound of fait kukeptibility— the sense of religious inequality. n satisfies not the demagogues of Ireland, the men who would trade in anarchy, and seek individual eminence at the ex pense of the greatness of both countries. But it satisfies the Catholic prelacy and priesthood. It teaches them to look to the Imperial Government as just., as freed from prejuo ice, as promising to be paternal. It gives them hopes of boa rur and endowments, and binds the Irishmen, in whose ha ids are the hearts of the poor, to keep those hearts not in slavish submission, but in wise patience. If such fairness be held out to th e I r i s h ecc l es i ast i c, h ow muc h more t o the Irish layman, in e ver y p ro f ess i on , i n every class? We i Lust repeat, that we do not care who the man is that carries :uch a Bill ; he deserves well of his country. We must own, t hat when we think of this Bill and of its consequences; we have but one anxiety—viz., that it should pass. Its rejectio tis something not to be contemplated, except by those who could tranquilly see England without a Government; and Ire land far worse than having none. No considerations of party, no attachment to abstract principles, ark: no - strait.ing after an impracticable better, could tempt us tA) Se.: this well aside. We are sincerely attached to the principles dev.loped in Mr. Ward's motion ; principles which, if acquiesced ti: at the right time by the Tories, would have spared us the d'lli culty and humiliation of the present crisis ; for humilia4 :on it is to have confessed their fears with regard to war and to foreign powers, as the Tory Ministers have done. :tut the present is not a time for creating difficulties, or tbr retorting either with acrimony of speech or obstruction in act. The conscientious assertion of a princiole, or a strong sense of its future practicability, will r:Ily the whole Liberal party iii support of Mr. Ward's mo tion. We cannot, indeed, but admit with the Exam: ter, that the temptation to retort upon the Tories their own last conduct is strong, nor do we in the least feel disposed to quarrel with our Liberal Contemporary for its view of the cse, which is perhaps more natural though we think not more wise than our own. But we frankly avow our repug nance to obstruct the Bill on grounds personal to the Prem ter. Whatever may have been the past motives of Sirßobert Peel, we feel that his present ones must be most cogent and most serious. He has confessed a good deal, but he cannot have confessed all the reasons which have made him fling up a line of policy so long and so rigorously followed out, r•ad. substitute for it one marked out and sanctioned by his foes. No motive of private ease or public honour, of emolument or party, or even of keeping out his rivals, could, we feel con vinced, have dictated such a change: Thifi must have been suggested by a sense of risk to the empire —of peril, not to his party, but to all parties ; which, as it weighed on Lim, should also weigh upon us, and induce our adjourning to another time and a fairer field that legitimate struggle for principle and for power, and for oonsistency, which is cot abandoned or weakened by temporary and conscientious sus pension. • . HER MAJES Y'S VISIT .TO THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM,SIIIP. Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to signify her intention of visiting tne Great Britain steam-ship, moored off Blackwell, the Dwarf steam-vessel, Lieutenant Comma. _der H. B. Proctor, was painted and fitted up at Woolwich, and held in readiness to convey her Majesty from Greenwich to Blackwell. At one o'clock P.M. yesterday, Captain Superintendent Sir Francis A. Collier, Lint., C. 8., and K.C.H., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, Captain Sir John Franklin, hut., K.C.H., of her Majesty's ship Erebus, Captain Washing ton of the Blazer steam-vessel, Commander Smith of her Ida jesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, Lieutenant Commander Mac donald of the Lizard, and Lieutenant Commander Hoseason of the .Alecto steamer, proceeded in the Dwarf, steam-vessel to Greenwich, to attend upon her Majesty and her Royal Consort. A guard of honour of the Royal Marines, with the band and colours of the regiment, marched from Woolwich to Greenwich at the same hour, under the command of Capt. Mitford, with Lieutenants Joliffe, Forbes, and Knight; Col. Mercer, Lieutenant-Colonel Coryton, and Lieutenant and Adjutant Varlo of the Royal Marines proceeded at the same time to be present at her Majesty's embarkation. - At Greenwich, the whole of the pensioners were drawn up in the quadrangle and leading to the entrance, and the boys of the upper and lower schools, with their excellent miniature band; and they played alternatively with the band of the Royal Marines until the return of her Majesty from the Great Britain steam-ship and departure for Buckingham Palace. The arrangements were admirably made by the Governer of Greenwich Hospital, Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G.C.8., and G.C., M.G., and efficiently carried into -effect wider the immediate superintendence of the Lieuterant•Goveraor, Rear-Admiral Sir James Alexander Gordon, K.G.8., and other officers connected with the establishment. At a quarter before three o'clock the Royal Marines were drawn up under arms as a guard of honour, and the Right Honourable the Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the Ad miralty, and Captain the Hon. William Gordon, were pre sent to receive her Majesty. At ten minutes past three o'clock two outriders in scarlet liveries rode up the qua drangle, and announced by their presence the near 'approach of her Majesty. In about one minute after, her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived in an open carriage, escorted by a detachment of the 4th-Light Dragoons, under the command of Captain Fem. The Queen and her Royal Consort were most enthusiastically cheered throughout the whole line, hundreds of ladies seated in the windows of the west wing of the College waving their handkerchiefs. Her Majesty and Prince Albert bowed repeatedly, evidently pleased with the scene. Her Majesty was handed out of the royal carriage by the Earl of Haddington, and the Queen conversed with his Lordship and leaned on his arm when descending the steps, covered with crimson cloth, leading to the Admiralty barge. Several of the boys were stationed on the steps with t heir flags, and the embarkation was effected in the most perfect manner. Her Majesty wore a tartan silk dress and Paisley shawl, with a light blue bonnet, and appeared in the eujoy ment of excellent health. His Royal Highness Prince k bed was dressed in plain clothes. Amongst the members ce her Majesty's suite were Lord George Lennox and Colonel Arbuthnot and Colonel Bouverie, Equerries in Waiiing. Captain Sir Francis A. Collier steered the Admiralty barge, with her Majesty on beard, and the royal standard raised, to the Dwarf steam-vessel moored in the river. Her Ma jesty was received on board by the Earl of Haddington and Captain the Hon. William Gordon, who had gone - on beard in the barge of the William and Mary yacht, steered by Commander Smith. -Her Majesty remained on deck under an awning, in conversation- with the Earl of Haddington, and appeared gratified with the arrangements made for her reception. The Dwarf steamer proceeded for Blackwell at 'precisely half-past three o'clock, followed by the Lord Mayor's barge, with his Lordship and several of the Aldermen and other' City authorities on board, towed by one of the Waterm s:camers. Father Thames, the Ariel, and several m her steam-boats, proceeded at the same time crowded with pas sengers. 1., After remaining on board the Great Britain about tl ,-ee quarters of an. hour, the signal was given at Greenwich hat the royal party were about to return, and preparations were immediately made for her Majesty's landing; the who's of the old sailors, many of whom were decorated with the Nelson and other medals, were drawn up on the east sic e of the quadrangle, and the Royal Marines on the lawn. ('h e royal carriages and escort were also in readiness, ana, a t twenty minutes before five o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the members of her Majesty's suite, landed in the Admiralty barge, and were conducted by the Earl of Haddington, Admiral Stopford, and the officers in attend:. ace, to the royal carriage. Her Majesty, at a quarter to five o'clock, proceeded on [her return to Buckingham Palace, and the carriage drove at a very slow pace round the eastern side of the quadrangle, the band of the • Royal Marines playing the national anthem, and the band 01 the boys of Greenwich schools struck up " God save the Queen" as her Majesty passed them, the brave old tars joining, and enthusiastically cheering: her Majesty. The Queen and Prince Albert again repeatedly bowed on each side to the assembled thousands; and all her subjects pre sent on the occasion appeared highly gratified, as every thing was conducted with such regularity and perfect case. without the least hurry or confusion, that every one had an opportunity of witnessing her Majesty, whose public visits of this nature confer not only pleasure but prat to many. PORTABLE LIFE-BOATS . - -- - ---- - On Saturday last experiments to test the serviceable ness and efficacy of the new life-boat, recently invented by M. Monaani, were made in the basin of Wool‘:ich Dockyard, in presence of a great many, nautical and scientific persons, amongst whom were Sir Francis Col lier, Sir Edward Parry, Mr. Willock, Chairman of the East India Company ; Mr. Wightman, Sir J. Franklin, Captain Crosier, R.N., Mr. Laing, Capt. Shea of the India Service ; Lieutenant Fitton, R.N., Mr. Cow, the boat-builder of the royal dockyard, and others. The boat employed on this occasion had been sent •to the dockyard in the early part of the week, by command of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who has tak n a great interest in the invention, and who had intended to have been present at the experiments which were to have been tried during the week, had not the weather pre vented him. The boat weighs only 2161 b. with all her tackle and apparatus, and would hold about 24 pers ins. She is constructed of waterproof cloth, something like sailcloth, stretched on a frame of wood ; when not wanted she may be stowed or placed on the deck or other convenient part of any vessel where she will be fiat, not taking up more than three inches in depth, the breadth of the frame or hoop which forms her gunwale. The experiments made on Saturday by command of the Admiralty were very satisfactory, and it was the gen val opinion expressed by those most competent to ja lge, that she was an admirable boa a t p f o o n r t a o l o l n t , h a e nd pu m rp any ses for w hich she was intended—the savin g o f life at sea, o the landing troops, the acting as pur poses in which more cumbro us an d b ulky boats are aow employed. Her powers were severely tested ; she was thrown from the Alecto steamer, at a height of 25 feet from the water, int o th e b as i n; she took the water saely ' not shipping a b ove a quart of the element ; eight men then descended by r o p es an d b oarded her in a minute; they pulled her across the basin and performed a variety of evolution s , t o th e sat i s f act i on of the spectators. She is understood to have all th e a d van t ages o f w h a t i s ca ll e d the Mussoolah boat, w ith ou t t h e o bj ect i ons to i t ; b e i ng flat •bottomed sh e d raws lit t l e water, an d w ill r id e over a heavy surf where a common s hi p ' s b oat cou ld scarce ly live. i She is portable and light, yet sufficiently strong. and requires no tackle to be hoisted over the side of a ship. For steamers, and for all vessels where space is a nwtter of importance, and where the number of h Inds or passengers is considerable, these boats should be t dim to sea. It is notorious that at present vessels at eso badly furnished with boats, that where accidents oct ur it is almost miraculous if those on board do not perish. By means of this very simple, yet very perfect, invention half the perils of the ocean can be avoided, and Leaman life preserved. A disagreement, we regret to learn, is said to oxist between the directors and the principal students of the Government School of Design, at Somerset House. All the students taking part in the affair are, we believe, suspended during its consideration by the Council, to whom the matter in dispute has been referred, and by whom there-is no doubt justice will be done—to the students, if they .cnnsplein with reason, and to the directors if the eincote should, on the other hand, prove to be only a cabal of discontented Young men. The fact that the proposal for the annual grant of money for the purposes of this school now lies on the table. of t the House of Commons lends a more serious aspect to these. —Herald. We understand that a deputation, consisting of tho L or d Provost of Edinbu r g h, Sir David Brewster, the Rev. James Taylor, James Crawford, Esq., Advocate, and James Crawford, Esq., M.P., has arrived in town for the purpose of waiting on her Majesty's Ministers to endeavour to obtain, the repeal of the Scottish University testa, d i/ it to 15b. `, 0