The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-23 00:00:00

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TO-MORROW EVENING, Will he performed for the first time these two years, Donizetti's opera entitled LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. i.iuda, Mddle. Castelan (her first appearance in that character); Maddalena, Mddle. Benin' ; Pierotto, Mddle. Brambilla ; Antonio, Sig. Fornasari; II l'retetto del Villaggio, 51g. Lablache ; Il Marchese (II Boistleury, Sig. F. La- Machu ; L'lntendente del Fendo, Sig. Dia Fiori ; and Carlo Visconte di Serval, Sig. Moriani Between the Acts the Danseuses Viemnoises will appear in some of their favourite " Pas." To conclude with LA ESMERALDA. La Esmeralda, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Fleur de Lys, Madame Petit Stephan ; Phoehas de vhstenpers, M. St. Leon ; Pierre Gringoire, M. Perrot. Applications for Boxes, !ktalls, and Tickets to be made at the limit ortive, Opera Colonnade. Door , open at Seven ; to continence at Half-past Seven o,Cloek. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscriber?, and the Public are respectlblly lofornied, that there will be an Extra Night (not included In the Subscription), ON THURSDAY, MAY 29, When will be performed Donizetti's Opera, DON -PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grist ; Dr. Malatesta, Sig. Foniasarl ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dai Fiori ; and Don Pasquale,Sig:frablache. The Danseuses will appear in some of their favourite Pas, and in two New Pas, " Pas Orientale," and " Le Polka" (being their Last Appearance but Three). To he followed by the Last Act Act of LINDA DI CHAMOUNI. In which Madame Castellan, Mdlle. Brambilla, and Sig. Moriani will appear. To be succeeded by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart ment, in which Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, and Mdlle. Cerito, will appear. To conclude with an entirely New Grand Ballet, in Five Tableaux, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, entitled ROSIDA ; OLT, LES MINES DE SYRACUSE. ;Mlle. Cerito ; Alman, M. St. Leon ; The Queen of the Mines, 3ldlle. Moncelet ; Torbern, M. Di Mattia. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. TFrEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe; the Libretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Mr. Balfe will, on this occasion, preside in the Orchestra. Don Sylvio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nugnez, Mr. H. liorncastle; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the Second Act of the celebrated Ballet of LA GISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Weiss. Dress Circle, is ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 38 ; Gallery, 2s ; Upper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Pox-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Betsy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. Ailer which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Selim Pettibone, Mr. Buckstone. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-oftice, from Ten till Five o'clock. TIIIIATRE ROYAL, ADE LPHI. UNDER TAE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. T lIIS EVENING Will be performed PAUL PRY. Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, lir. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs. Yates ; Plicebe, Miss Woolgar. After which the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. To conclude with THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster, in which he will give his celebrated personation of the Emperor Napoleon ; Margot (her original character) Madame Celeste. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, KR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE HONEYMOON. Duke Aranza, Mr. Wal• lack ; Rolando, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Juliana, Miss Cushman ; Volante, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with a New Drama, entitled THE CHEVALIER ST. GEORGE. The Chevalier St. George, Mr. Wallack ; The Countess, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stags Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist , Mr. Edmund Bradwell. TIIEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. First Week of another New Burlesque, Brilliant Success of " Our New Governess" every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Original Comedy, entitled OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. Previous to which a New Farce, called A GOOD NAME. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Mrs, Keeley, Miss Villar s Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c The Box-office is open daily, under the :direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THEATP.E.-FItENCIT PLAYS. Positively the Last Night but Two of Aidlle. Plessy's and Monsieur Regnier's Performances. THIS EVENING Will be performed LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO ; ou, la Folle Journee. Figaro, Monsieur Regnier ; Le Comte Almaviva, Mons. Oudinot ; Susanne, Mdlle. Plessy ; La Comtesse Almaviva, Mdlle. E. Forgeot. Boxes, Cs. ; Pit, 35. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at llalf-past. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled LONDON BY NIGHT. Mr. Bob Smith, Mr. John Webster ;'Ned Bloomfield, Mr. H. Lee ; Jack Buffer, Mr. H. Hall ; Caroline Cripps, Miss Harriet Walcott; Mrs. Brown, Mrs. 11. Lee ; Ellen Bloomfield, Mis; Hamilton. After which, a Ballet de Dance, entitled LE MEDICIN DU PAYS; or, TIIE DOCTOR DOSED. Guillieme, Mr. Harvey ; Dr. Soutlet, Mr. T. itidg,w4y; Dame Setrflet, Mr. Thompson. To be followed by a new Burlesque Extravaganza, called ROBIN SON CRUSOE; or, the ADVENTURES of a FRIDAY. Robinson Crusoe, Mrs. C. Horn, Jun. ; Marlyn Crusoe, Mr. Thompson ; Fri day, Mr. 11. Hall; Wham nda, Miss Hamilton. To conclude with an original Farce, entitled CLAIRVOYANCE. Mr. Phthisics, Mr. Romer ; Rose the Romp, Natty O'carroll, and Rose Belmour, by Miss H. Walcott Boxes, 3s. ; hall-price, Is. Gd. Pit, Is. Gd. ; half-price, Is. Gallery, Gd. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCES. To-day and during the week, the GODOLPIIIN ARABIAN ; or the Race Horse of the Desert. In compliance with the wish of several influential and fashionable parties, and in order to accommodate those who, residing at a dis tance, are prevented from visiting the nightly representations at the Amphitheatre, as well as with a view to the gratification of the 'uvenile members of families, Mr. BATTY has concluded an arrange ment with Mons. Tournaire for FOUR DAY PERFORMANCES, introducing the entire troop of French Equestrians. These per formances will take place on every THURSDAY, commencing on the 22d and 20th May, June 5 and 12. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Entirely New Entertainments, and re-engagement of the World's Wonder, who, having recovered from his late accident, will perform tome New and Astonishing Feats. _ llil3 EVENING Will be performed a New Local Drama, entitled THE OLD PLEETE PRISON ; or, The Widow and her Suitors. Splendidly appointed and supported by the Entire Company. To be followed by a New Melodrama, entitled THE SECRET FOE ; To conclude with THE YPSEY FARMER ;or Jack and Jack's Brother. Supported by Messrs. Hicks, Honner, Cowell, Mrs. H. "Vining, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, &c. or, The Mason of Abbeville. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box ofileo, from Eleven to Pour. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. EN Will be repeated a New l a S VE nd Original lNG Nautical Drama, entitled THE YELLOW ADMIRAL ; or, The Perils of the Battle and the Breeze. Supported by the whole Company. After which a musical romance entitled the DAUGHTER of the REGIMENT ; or the Child of Glory. To conclude with an entirely New and Original Drama, entitled THE OLD TOLL IiOUSE ; or, The Carrier and his Dog. In which Messrs. Cony, Blanchard, and the Dog Hector will per E A . h D i h f i l t ;t e ' n E DIFFERENT Tt the SUBJECT Colossal EACH SEASON! —GRAND FETES. Representation suggested AVERT. Under most Gracious MAJESTY ,H.R. IL PRINCE Pictorial .. 11. PRINCE ALBERT, 11. P the Pat i ZOOLOGICAL GARDE rtn.H, the Patronage of her A mamlifleent modelled ROYAL SURREY ' —e. Ike. Representation of EDINI S. ,P r ,Maiesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, n, and the immortal cott s " Ain Pride of Scotland and of Scot l theroo d O v ld aia a e nd e, Town, the Nor' Romantic Town," introdu e eln: New the Calton Hill, Nelson's Loch, as it formerly exist d g e Castle, Sir W and alter Scott's Monu: Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Craggs, th Ment, the Royal Institution, Holy Monument &in^ features of " Auld Reekle." all the most Inter- The Proprietor had the honour of submitting Royal Highness Prince Albert, and he is delighted the Model to his Lis most decide and perfect approval, and fremu to say It met with care which has been observed In its execution, he le more than usual happiest production of Mr. Danson's pencil.' T r e ints it out as the Made by Mr. Danson on the spot, and present a birddr'aswlng3 were the principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth o-feVo view of The PROMENADE CONCERTS, so decidedly popular Forth, &e. b Eotablishment, will this season be on an unusually effective scale. t 3i i r s . GODFREY has been occupied since the close of last summer, in com posing and arranging a varied and pleasing succession of superior Novelties, which will be produced in rotation ,1 ncluding some o i l_ gii:al Pleat b ill Foreign Composers, not yet performed in this country. At Dusk W take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of FIREWORKS ever attempted. The entire of the Gigantic Model will i./e Illuminated. The different devices in front of the houses, the tires on the 'Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Moun tains, the illtimination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings which took place on her Majesty's Visit will be accurately pour !rayed. And, as a Finale, a grand Aquatic Royal and Patriotic attbieaw Fifty Feet in Height, will be exhibited in the centre of UV !Ake . ' The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted .brtam , d surrounded by emblems and other devices will Dan beson. in ,:rcklatedi The Tableau designed and e xecuted by Mr. - Afr.l3 y has been occupied for months in giving eff ect to this etcan superb design which combined with the Faux D'Arti ..thels44l and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur ..J. 1 0 1 . 1 _ Cne tS, will form the most brilliant Pyrotechnic , ..arerwim Display .. 5 - 4 the Carnivore, at half past "r.,0 ~,.. &t Six; and Pyrotechnic Di Four ; Pelicans, &L., at Adr n i.t o ., One till t i l: g la.Y . at Nine, Arespectable Family in the Highlands can accommodate TWO or THREE BOARDERS. They live In a beautiful and romantic part of the country, where Fishing and Shooting can be obtained. A Gentleman, his wife, and eon or daughter would be preferred. For references and further particulars, apply by letter, addressed J. C., 115, York-road, Lambeth. THE WEATHER.-Su OFFICE, lay 23. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 58; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 29.92.—Wnm, N. Nonc.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the fhermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 39 minutes after 2 1 Evening .. 3 minutes after 3. NEWS I - - - - -1-1,[46 1 N 11 ` -W - 416 ,114 4k,a ,tlZz' jith 4 0 041 „A1ie.47 , • "- •^ - " • m OK " • tletivs. "08 tentlTS as LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1845. The House of Commons did not make a House. The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. The Public Nuisances Bill was read a second time. Several petitions were presented on the subject of the Maynooth Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE explained that he had made inquiries into the conduct of the Sheriffs in admit ting the public to the condemned sermon in the case of 'locker, and had found that they had only followed the example of their predecessors ; at the same time, he thought the practice had better be discontinued. After a complaint (founded on a petition) made by Lord BROUGHAM of the inconvenience to which the in habitants of Newfoundland were subjected by having their letters from England transmitted via Halifax, and an explanation on the subject from Lord STANLEY, Lord BEAUMONT moved for certain papers relating to recent transactions in Greece, and made a lengthened statement of the history of recent transactions in that country. The Earl of ABERDEEN shortly replied, after which the Noble Lord (BEAumoNT) withdrew his motion. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved the second read ing of the Charitable Trusts Bill, and in so doing ex plained at some length the bearings of the meamire. After a short discussion, in which Lord CorrENTtim, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord A saistwros, and Lord ABIN. CER took part, the motion was agreed to, and the House adjourned. " It is all very well," to use a familiar phrase, for the Established Church of this country to transpire through every pore, IA ith a holy horror at the progress of hostile innovations in the shape of increased grants for the pur poses of Roman Catholic education at Maynooth and the building and endowment of new universities in Ireland for the benefit and instruction of the seven-eighths' Roman Catholic proportion of her whole people. It may be that the more orthodox Protestants in both Houses have reason for their alarms about the stability, not only of the Established Church, bat of its established faith, when they find that Unitarianism and Deism are emu lating, but with unequal energy or success, the ambitious strides of Popery. " A voice of wailing," raised by Sir ROBERT INGLU in the House of Commons, not unnaturally awakens the responsive echoes of Exeter hall to the denunciations of STOWELL, or the valedictory apostrophes of Mr. PLUMPTRE. We have no doubt of the sincerity of such apprehensions, however we may dispute the assumptions on which they are founded. We entertain every respect for the conscientious expression of hostility to these measures of relief and protection and educational provision to be granted at the instance of her MAJESTY'S Ministers to her MAJESTY'S Roman Catholic subjects of the sister kingdom ; although not even the extensive sympathy which this feeling of dis approbation and reluctance has awakened throughout the length and breadth of the land, can shake our opinion either as to the expediency of the enlarged grant to Maynooth, or of the imperfect understand ing of the subject on which so much animosity has proceeded. But giving the fullest measure of credit for the honesty of these scruples, let us be allowed to wonder at their inconsistency with the latitudinarian indulgence extended to the lax deportment in some, and the dereliction of duty in other, members of that Church establishment, as well by the general body of the laity as by its hierarchy and the inferior orders of its clergy. Before the cry of "anathema" is raised against the cor ruptions and the pollution of the Church of Rome, as the certain consequences that must follow in the train of intended aid to Maynooth, and large foundations and endowments of still more important establishments for the teaching and diffusion of the doctrines of Romanism ; why did not the " watchmen " of the Protestant Church righteously and manfully denounce the corruptions and deficiencies of their own host ? Within the last few years have there occurred no parallel examples of moral pravity to make good company for that which has been so lately the subject of examination before an ecclesiastically approved commNsion of investigation? Do people ima gine that the Rev. Mr. MONCETON'S case is one suigeneris —singular and unmated ? It shall not be our invi dious task to open up recorded cases ; but we could well evoke from the records of the Spiritual Courts in Doctors' Commons, certain suits, in which clergymen of the Establishment were the defendants, that would somewhat still the cry, we suspect, about what the morals of that other clergy must be who recognise such class-books as " DEN'S Theology," or such text authorities as SANCHEZ'S " Lex mutrintonii." But let these pass. We profoundly and sin cerely respect the Established Protestant Church, for it has, in its day, done good service to the cause of civil liberty and the rights of private judgment, in those evil times when their integrity was most endangered in this country. But whilst we would thus do full justice to the constancy of the seven bishops who bravely and piously withstood the tyrannous bigotry of the last of the STUARTS, we can afford to do justice to their ancient predecessors of the older faith, who as vigorously and valiantly, like Archbishop LANFRANC, braved the me naces, and defeated the aggressions of sterner and more determined despots of the blood of PLANTAGENET. And when we are thus unwittingly reminded of those haughty ages of English chivalry, of "fierce wars and faithful loves," in which the English peasantry, with all the oc casional suffering, spoliation, and even slaughter to which the contests of feudal ambition and kingly rapa city from time to time exposed them, were yet that stalwart race, whose good fare and varied sports and pastimes procured the appellation of the " merry Eng land" for their native land—we are also reminded of the English poor of the same ages. When we consider the wealth of our nobles, then, the State which the Crown maintained, and the large revenues of the Church, we may well marvel at the extreme paucity and comparative insignificance of the hostile risings on the part of our poor. Shall we be told of our ultra-Churchmen, our most inveterate anti-Romanists, our Maynooth-grant-exuera tors, that that older Church was more exacting than the present Reformed Establishment in the amount of con tributions demanded from the laity ? Let us admit the fact. But how, then, did she disburse the larger funds thus surrendered to her ? Long before any general statute was passed for the compulsory relief and maintenance of the poor, she provided munificently, if not universally, for their support. Her tithes she appropriated to this charity, to the poor, to the education of youth, and to the repairs of the chancels of churches. Well, the poor are now maintained by a tax levied on the whole people ; and to some considerable_extent popular education is provided for in a similar manner. Pro tanto the income of the hie. rarchy and clergy of the Established Church are relieved from two heavy charges ; and the third Is legally one to which the parochial community may be readily made liable, according to the modern reading of our Ecclesiastical lawyers, where you find a well-beneficed dean disin clined to discharge this sacred trust towards a sacred edifice, in the manner of his Romish predecessors in the same dignity. What is the case brought before the House of Lords by the Marquis of NORMANDY? A disgraceful one, we must say, to a high functionary of the Established Church. In a petition which he presents ' from the parishioners of Wokingham, in Berkshire, they complain that wh ereas t h e population of their arish b y (extending over 8,000 acres) is 4,000, are prevented from attending divin e service in the parishreason of its dilapidated con di t i on, especially as to the chancel ; and yet that they are singularly church prevented from levying a rate upon themselves, for the purpose of repairing the church, by a functionary who is in his own person the Rector, Patron, and Ordinary of the church, and likewise Dean of Salisbury. The tithes of his in cumbency had been commuted for the modest sum of 1,600/. a year only ; and at the last renewal, he received a sum of 2,000/, although the annual rental in the King's Books appeared as 261. only. Ills curate's salary is 1501. only. Out of this , 401. is contributed out of Queen Anne's Bounty. Owi n g to the circumstance of the Dean being the Ordinary also (that is, the incumbent being his own visitor), years had rolled on without any ♦isitation being made, and the church had become so I dangerously out of repair that the parishioners were afraid to assemble in it. (One would hare thought the " Ordinary" must have been the very Venerable the Dean GIBBS of Walbrook !) A vestry, by unanimous vote, addressed the Dean, Ordinary, Patron, Rector of Wokingham Church, to cause the necessary reparations to be made. Mr. Ordinary referred them to his own lessee ; the lessee sent the case to his own architect, who, of course, reported the reparations to be not necessary, or at least not indispensable. Learned civilians were then applied to ; and they subscribed an opinion that the parishioners might repair the nave, the Rector dean the chancel, and that there might be a rate levied for these purposes with the consent of the parishioners, but pot without it. The Dean was again applied to for his consent to this arrangement, but then it was found the lessee could only preserve the fabric "in its present state." On the strength of this quibble, the parishioners, disgusted with the Dean, were anxious to repair the nave ; but this object could not be accomplished, it was found, without tumbling down the remainder of the edifice. And so the 4,000 parishioners of Wokingham are without a church to assemble in, because they are blessed with this multiform parson, whose many offices and large income cannot expand his sense of duty to a level with that which was doubtless entertained by the now most despised of those amohg his predecessors, who were of the faith and the church which this very Dea❑ and his pharisaical friends would, if they could, commit Maynooth "ad injeros," for nurturing and up holding ! The intelligence from Madrid is to the 15th inst. On that day the Senate was engaged in discussing the budget, and the other Chamber did not meet. The Bourse was closed on account of the feast of St. Isidore. The following paragraph appears in the Gibraltar paper of the ith inst.:--- "We are happy to announce, that the treaty between Spain and Morocco was signed on the 6th inst., at Lambe, by Sidi-Ben-Salem Ali, by M. Boramendi, Consul of Spain, and Mr. John Drummond Hay, the Consul-General of Eng land, in his capacity of mediator. The ratification of the treaty by the Emperor had been previously received." In the French Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday the discussion on the Great Northern Line was resumed, when the 13th clause was unanimously adopted. It is as follows: —" The Minister of Public Works is autho rised to open a credit of 13,000,000 f. for 1845, and of 6,000,0001. for 1846, to cover the advance which the State may yet have to make for the completion of the road and the settlement of acceunts." Three divisions took plaee on the question as to the time during which the coneesgion of this line to a company was to be limited. Hoe Nieluber proposed twenty live years, anolli‘r thirty-three, but both Chamber finally adopted were negatived. The forty-one years as the greatest length of time for which the concession of the Northern Railroad can be adjudi cated to a company ; it also fixed seventy-five years for the Creil and St. Quentin Railroad, and for the branch line from Fampoux to Hazebrouck, adopted the preceding day. In the Chamber of Peers the President read five royal ordonnances raising to the dignity of Peers of France MM. DE RULHIERE, LE SERGENT DE MONNE COVE, LECLERE, VINCENS ST. LAURENT, and the Mar quis LE RASCONO. According to the Constitudionnel, the Duke DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON have agreed on the terms of the new treaty for checking the slave trade. That journal says :—" It is stated that the Go. vernment have just received by Capt. BOUET the news of the conclusion of the negotiations between the Duke DE BROGLIE and Dr. LUSHINGTON. The principal sti pulations of the convention that have been agreed to have for object, as we have already said, to substitute for the right of search, in its present form, the crea tion of two squadrons on the coast of Africa, to exercise an active and combined surveillance over the vessels of their respective nations and the slave markets held b 3 the negro kings on different points of the coast. M. GulzoT is to present a Bill on this subject to the Cham ber in a few days. After the session M. GUIZOT will again take a two months' leave of absence. It is said that on that occasion he will not have any one to take charge of his portfolio." The Commerce announces that a serious difference exists between the Prince DE JOINVILLE and Admiral MAckAu, relative to the management of the navy. The Presse confirms the statement in these words; and adds that the Prince proposes to publish another essay on the navy, but chiefly on the steam war-ships. The New Gazette of Zurich states that the case of Dr. STEIGER was heard by the Superior Tribunal at Lucerne on the 17th. Dr. STEIGER made an eloquent defence, but the tribunal confirmed the sentence of death that had been pronounced upon him. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday at 86f. 25c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 60c. ; the Fi ve per Cents. at 121 f. 70c.; Orleans Shares, 1,247 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,132 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 822 f. 50c.; Havre, 921 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 1,072 f. 50c.; Basle, 273 f. 75c.; Spanish Three per Cents., 41&. The following are the quotations for the new lines:— Orleans and Bordeaux, 235 f. premium ; Boulogne, 130 f. ditto; 'l'royes and Montereau, 72f. 50c; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (Caton), If. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 32f. 50c. ; ditto (Rosamel), 13f. 75c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouil lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 12f. 50c; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 3f. 75c; ditto and Cette ( Espe leta), 18f. 75c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, If. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 15f. 25c. ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 4f. 25c. Tux MAYNOOTH BILL.—The Morning Advertise• is sadly chop fallen at the unexpected result of the final division on this Bill, and well it may, after having spent so much labour in the cause. All its splendid leading articles have been thrown away. The blind, bigoted House of Commons would not listen to its charming, but perversely adhered to their first convictions. - We do not wonder, therefore, that our respected Contemporary is driven to madness ; but, really, it is not fair to attack The Sun, which has been successful and con sistent in writing on this measure, which cannot be said of certain journals. At all events, something like fair play should be observed, and we should not be charged with assertions which we never made. That journal says :—" Justice," according to The Sun," has been done to Ireland," while it gives a quotation from The Sun, immediately before this un founded accusation, in these words We gladly re ceive this measure for its own sake, but above all we hail it as the harbinger of better things." Our respected Contemporary evidently does not know what hal Ginger means, forwlkoughout the whole of the article, lye have neither stated, nor imputed' in the most remote degree, that justice has been done to Ireland. It is a hopeless task to argue with a writer who does not understand English. LONDON THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1645. bags Manilla went at 238 to 23s 6d per ewt, without certi ficate. - COFFEE.—There has been a better demand for British Plantation. Jamaica mid coloury has b een so ld a t 86 s t o 87s 6d per cwt, and low Trinidad 435 per cwt. Mocha Coffee has been sold at 62s to 63s for good mid bold greenish clean garbled, and pea-berry 72s to 75s 6d per cwt. Ceylon has advanced, and 2,061 bags went at 458 to 60s. Some Planta tion went at 87s 6d to 88s. Padang realised 21s 6d to 22s per cwt. La Guayra brought 59s to 73s 6d per cwt, and Dutch Company's Java 45s to 47s per cwt. RICEL—A good deal has been done in Bengal at lOs to 12s for ord to good mid white. SALTPETRE.-1,774 bagsCalcatta realised 24s to 25s for 8i to .5,1 per cent. refraction. SPICES.—A large business has been done in Pimento at tc, 3d per lb. Malabar Pepper, 5,300 bags, partly sold at 3d to 31c1 per lb. TEA.—There has been a public sale of 16,444 packages, only 12,000 of which were sold. Gunpowder and Imperial were 2d to 3d per lb lower on fine. Congou was rather cheaper. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. has been 38s 9d to 39s per cwt on the spot. RUM.—This article has been dull. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS Cli Y. QUARTER TO THREE. There were 700 bales of Cotton sold at Liverpool yesterday, including 5,000 on speculation, without any change in prices. There was no business done in the Stock Exchange, which was closed. Mast iIEsTER SToCK -I::XCIIANGE, MAY 22.—The sales are —Barnsley Junction, 4?./ t 11-16; Ditto, Half Shares, 2%; Belfast, Ballymena. and Carrick, 8 3 A ; Birkenhead, Man cheater, and Cheshire Junction, 9 1 / 1 / 8 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 124 : Caledonian, 114 ; Churnet Valley, 6 ; Clitheroe Junction, 24 5-16 prem. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 6% 1 / 4 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 295. ; Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ; Leeds and Think, 7 714 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9% ; Leicester and Birmingham, 1% prem. ; London and Windsor, 7s. Prem.; London and York, 4 1 / 2 ; Manchester and Birming ham, Quarter Shares, 9%; Ditto, New Quarters, 7 1 A ; Man chester and Buxton, ; Atanchester, Buxton, atlock, and Midland Junction, , qj ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 704 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 214 ; Midland Rail way Consols, 40/. Shares, .20 19% ; Newark and Sheffield, 5 ex new ; North Wales, 3%; North Western, 4 1 4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2% ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% %; Sheffield and Manchester, 14%; South Eastern, 40% ; Ditto, No. 1, 15; Ditto, No. 3,6% ; Trent Valley, 18 7-16 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2.1, %; Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole, 15%; Welsh Midland, 2 2 1 / 2 prem. ; West Yorkshire, 24 ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 2," , t ; Great North of France, English, syy ; Paris and Lyons, English, 34 3-16; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2 15.16. There are not any colonial arrivals in the City to-day. There is much interest taken in the City upon the subject of the formation of railways in India. We are enabled to state that the Company has met with flattering and ex tensive support from the most influential mercantile firms in the City, who are connected with the East India and China trades. The Court of Directors of the East India Company are most alive to the subject, and there are good reasons to believe that the difficulties they have most fairly stated as being in the way of the succelsful construction of railways in the East Indies, will be most easily overcome. We. are sort to ,ee that speculation in the Cotton Market at Liverpool is carried on to an extent not warranted in the opinion of most men by existing eircutostance, , ,. We have the following from the Cape of Good Hope :---- "Her Majesty's ship Sappho arrived in Simon's Bay, 21st inst., from the Mozambique Channel, Lieut. Alexander, of her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, a passenger, which latter vessel drove on shore on 13th Dec., 1844, off Mariengona River, a brig, which was found to have on board about 420 slaves (half of her intended cargo), but in consequence of the severity of the weather, and the heavy breakers, it was, after repeated attempts, found impossible to take the negroes out, and ap prehending the vessel would, during the night, go to pieces, the slaves were relieved from their confined situation, and al lowed to swim on shore to save their lives, which it is be lieved a greater portion of them accomplished, as only eight bodies were seen drowned; seven boys still found on board of her the following morning, were removed on board the Cleo patra, the weather having moderated, and brought to Simon's Bay." The contents of the news by the Overland Mail are, upon the whole, satisfactory. The Funds have been very firm to-day. Consols for the Account have been done at 994 % ; the same for Money. The premium upon Exchequer-bills is 53 ; Bank Stock is at 211, and India Stock at 280. Not a single bargain has been quoted in the Spanish Se • curities to-day. The Portuguese Converted are worth 67{ i ; Mexicans, 374. The Russian Metalliques have fallen from 1184 to 117%. The Dutch Four per Cents. are at 98%; and the Belgian Four -and-a- Half per Cents., at a fall from 99 1 / to 987. There has been a very firm market for the Railway Shares to-day. All the established lines are in good request. The French lines are very firm. - -- ONE CLOSING PLAICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ~.... New 34 per Cents .IO I IA % 101% Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 1-16 I/4 . 11 M India Stock South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities ... 9 7 14 Consols for Account..... ...... 99% 1% 97 1 4 991 A Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 ,4,61 58 - 1 - pm. 60 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small Ditto Advertised 57 59 pm. 59 ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela — 15 1 4 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto Account - 3 7 14 37 1 /s Ditto. Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted 67 1 4 % 67 7, Ditto, Account 6 7 14 Russian Bonds • .... 1 18 1 4 117 1 / 2 117% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto. Account 3 O IA Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent. — Ditto, Account 42% Belgian 4% per Cent. 99 99 Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent 5 9 1, 59% Dutch, 2 1 / 2 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific gs% 981% PRICES OF PAID. A ONE O ' CLOCK. CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PRICES. Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush .................. 1%...... 2:y 4 2% Birming. and Gloucesterloo ..... _ Do. New ... ............ 17 1 / ...... 33 Birmingham and Ox ford Junction ......... 2 ...... 31/..i., Bri ßriton, atnl a Lewes, Do. New .... . ......... 2 ..... 84z 81 % Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 58 l 4 Caledonian ........ .. ..... 5 ...... 10 3 A 11 10% 5 BlO Ditto Extension •••••• 21 A— .... 2d/ 4 e B6 ter il .. a . s . t • • rilCambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 7,4 4 4.. Chester and Holyhead... 15 ...... 16 1 4 15A Chichester and Brighton 10 ...... 12 3 4 % Churnet Valley ...... ... Coventry and Leicester 1 1 4 ...... Cornwall Direct Northern ......... 2% ...... Dublin and Galway... .• 2 % .... 3% 7200 ............ L 2.4 3 3 / 4 Dublin and Mullingar... 2 1 / 2 - ..... 4 3 4 Eastern Counties ......... 25 ...... 181/8 t 4 l4 Ditto New ............... ...... 4% 4% Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1—.5/. 13s. 4d ....... 11 Eastern Union ............ 15 „ ... -- Ditto Extension ...... 1% 2 43 2 14 Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset ss. ...... Great South. and West. (Ireland) ............... 10 ...... 22 1 4 2 2 1 / 4: Ditto Extension ...... 21A — ..• 1 2 3 /4 Great North of England.. loo 217 215 215 Ditto New ...... 5 Ditto New ............... 2 Great Western ......... ... 80 Ditto, Fifths ............ 20 Guildford, h'are'm, Ports. 2% ... .. 5%% 1 4 , 5 1% liarwich [lull and Selby 5O 108 Lancaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...237 236 239 Do. New Thirds ...... 2 Do. 1 4 Shares ......... 2 ...... 33% London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 9 q 9 14 London and Brighton... 50 Do. New consolidated Bths 25 .. 36% London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 18i/ 2 lB% London and Greenwich 12/ 1554 d... 10% l O l /2 Do. Preference —.lB/ 17s 2d ...... 24% 24% London and S. Western 411 6s 10d 80 79 London and York 2% 4 l /4 %% ...... ... 4 1 4 London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Londonderry and Ennis killen — 2% ...... 4% Lynn and Ely ...... 2% ...... 6% 5% Lynn and Dereha m ...... 1% ..... 2 % 2% Manchester and Leed s. .. 7 3 ....... 1 53 153 Do. % Shares -. ...... - Midlan 32 d 100 ..... 169 171 . 131% Midland,Birni., Derby...loo ...... Do. New ............... 2 ...... 20% % Newcastle and Darling- 50 51 50 ton Junction........ ... 25 •••••• 31 20 ... Do. New Bran g.. 10 ...... 32 Neweaskle and Berwick 1 11 /. ..... 17 Newark and SLeffield .. 117 2 ...... 4% to ••••• " " • " 4 % 17 North British ........... 10 ....... 17 1 4% 4% Do. New 4IA ............... 1 ...... . 67 Northern and Eastern... 45 ...... 67% 67 16% 15% 16% :7co D ortt o thi . s Quarter e:lti a ;.a : S: . a . .!-. e .. s .. . . .. 1 21 2 : 1 / ... ... ..... .: .. 4 - 3503% a / lB4 5 sßoutigtbhyt,7,NaVstoerrnstrsc, & D ' o f v ri e n r g 33l l 2s 4d ..... .. .. 4 %78 436 3 41 7 Do., No. 3 ............ 2% ...... 7 1 / South Wales ........... ... 2% ...... 5 7,.. Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Bi rm ...... 2%. •••• -- 1 4 8 k Trent Valley ............... 2 ...... Trent Valley and Holy- 2% head Junction ......... II ...... West Cornwall .......... 1 1 ,4 ... .. Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- 6 mouth ...... . ...... 2% ...... 6 Yarmouth -end Norwich. 20 ...... 1 8% :5 - Ditto, New ..... . ......... 11 ...... fork and North Midl and 50 ...... 10 6 48 1 ,4 Ditto Scarboro' B ranc h . 25 ...... 49 Do. Selby ............... 20 ...... 691/z 6 9 3 ......... l?? 34 Do. Extension ........ 1 1 A ...... 17 1 / 2 1 4 FRENCH RAILWAYS. 914 Boulogne and Amiens... 4 ..... OA% 2 % Bordeaux and Toul ouse 2 ...... 2 1 A% Bordeaux, Toulouse, and !,. Cet te Great North. of France 42 ........ ... . 37 8 2 1' 7 7 147 4 ' 23A 4 Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... • Lyons and Avignon...... 2 ...... 2A , 5 1,4 Namur and Liege 15 14 1 4 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 .••••• Orleans /it ... Over ys a se n i d Bordeaux... 2 ...... 11% 1 4 /2 713 413 s 4d...... A. p 2 Paris & Lyons, Laftitte's 2 ...... 3% 8 ..... v Paris and Lyons, Gan- 5 4 neron's, 2 % 3A ........... . 2 ...•••2 48 P pa ar ri i s s a & n L d y o o r n l s e , a ( n C s alon's) 2 ...... 2 48 ........... ... 43% 42' s 431 4 43 4 Paris and Rouen 2O 20 MARKET NEW S-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE.-(FRIDAY.) Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat for our market have been on a very limited scale, hence the show of samples here was very small. For all descriptions the de mand was steady, at full prices. In fine Foreign Wheat more business was doing at Is per quarter more money; while bonded parcels were held for more money. Barley was in steady inquiry, and prices were well supported. Superfine Malt was quite as dear; but all other kinds were heavy. The Oats trade was firm, and the rates were the turn higher. No Beans or Peas at market. ARRIVALS. English • • • Irish ...... Foreign Wheat. 1,260 qrs, Barley. I Oats. Flour. 110 qrs. 1.090 2,920 4,200 - 4,080 - 2,180 3,870 alt. 4.710 qrs. SIVLITINFEELD. Although the supply of Beasts was somewhat extensive for the time of year, the Beef trade was again active, at, in some instances, further improved rates. There were in the market 500 Scots from Scotland, and fifty Oxen and Cows from Rotterdam, the latter being most excellent animals. The numbers of Sheep were moderate, while the Mutton trade was steady, at Monday's prices. There was more business doing in Lambs, though at no more money. The Veal trade was active, and the quotations improved 2d per Blbs. In Pigs very little business was doing. Mitch Cows sold at from 161 to 191 lOs each Per Blbs. to s 1 s. d. s. d Inferior Beasts •• •• 3 0 3 6 Second quality ditto. 3 8 310 Prime large Oxen.. 4 0 4 2 Prime Scots ink the offal. t. d. to s. d. Second quality ditto 4 2 4 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 G 4 ti Southdown Wethers 410 5 0 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 Prime small ditto •.4 10 5 Suckling Calves, .. 18 0 30 Inferior Sheep ••• • 3 6 4 SUPPLY Sheep. 8,020 8 Large Hogs .• ••.. 3 0 3 6 2 Small Porkers .. •• 3 8 4 0 0 Quarter old Tlgs • •16 0 20 0 0 Lambs —..•• .• .. 4 10 6 0 AT MARKET. „, I Calves. I Pigs. 31fil 331 Beasts. 955 NEWOATE AND LEADENEALL. We had a very steady trade, and the quotations were on the advance. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. 210 3 0 Mutton, haferlor .. 3 8 310 3 2 3 4 middling.. 4 0 4 4 3 6 3 8 prime •• 4 6 4 10 310 4 0 Pork, large ••••• • • • 3 U 3 6 4 0 5 0 f - small .•••• • • • 3 11 4 0 Lamb, 5s Od to Gs Od. Beef, inferior.. - middling •• • • - prime large • • - prime small . • BO23OITGLI 1.10)? rel..`lltLv.ET. The accounts from the plantations being of a more satis f_xtory character than those received for some time past, the demand here is in a very depressed state, at, barely last week's quotations.—Sussex Pockets, 71 to 813 s ; Wealds, 718 s to 8/ 10s; West Kents, 71 7s to 81 15s ; East Kents, 9l 9s to 11/; Choice do., 111 Ils to 131; West Kent bags, 71 15s to 8/ 15s; East Kent do., 10/ 10s to 121. CO.LONIaM. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation has been very brisk this week, and the sales to last night amounted to about 2,870 hhd s and tres. Pr i ces have improved a little as might be expected. Barbadoes has been sold at 52s to 53s Gd for fine yellow, mid and good yellow Antigua, 46s to 55s per cwt. adEvaAnscTe, l xrda..-13,695 bags Mauritius sold at is to Is 6d low mid yellow 41s Gd to 47s 6d, good 48s to 545, low to good brown 32s to 395, fine 40s to 41s, and washed yel low 40s to 503 per cwt. 12,097 bags Bengal have been sold at 53s to 58s for fine white, at 44s to 51s 6d for low to good white, and at 41s to 488 for mid and good yellow. In Madras 5,752- bags went at 42s Gd for fine damp yellow, and 35s 6d to 37s 6d for brown. FOREIGN.— 259 bags Pernambuco sold at 23s Gd to 30s Gd for low to good white ; and privately 10,000 c h ests yellow Havannah have reall3ed 26s to 27s for good and fine; 3,500 Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Do. do. (Hainguerlot') 2 Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse .... 4 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial London andWestininster 20 ...... 27 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY). LONDON, MAY 23.—Wind N.W., fresh breeze and fine. DEAL, MAY 22.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., strong and squally.--Arrd. Colombia, Duncan, Sandwich Islands. Sld. Cyrus, South Seas; African, Gambia. Hum., MAY 21. Sld. Hebe, Greenland. HARWICH, MAY 22.—Several vessels have put in here, with loss of bulwarks and other damage, from collision. LOWESTOFFE, MAY 22.—The Damsel, Nugent, was driven ashore on Pakefield Flat yesterday evening during a gale. The weather having moderated, the vessel has been got off; master and mate drowned. SOUTHWOLD, MAY 22.—The Orb, off and for Whitby, got ashore ,near here yesterday evening during a gale at E. ; crew saved. She has since been got off without much damage. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) STIR EWSBURY RACES.—Tit uttsnAr. The Wynnstay Stakes of 10 Sovs. each, with 20 added, for three yrs old, 7st ; and four yrs, Bst 91b. Nearly a mile. (Four Subs.) Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat, 3 yrs walked over. The Queen's Plate of 100 ge. ; for three yrs old, 7st 21h ; four yrs, 9st 21b ; live yrs, lOst ; six yrs, and aged, 10A 51b. Three miles. Mr. Critchley's Cceur de Lion, 3 yrs (Francis) 1 Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 4 yrs Mr. Davis's Princess Royal,3 yrs Mr. Herbert's Little Tatty, 4 yrs Won easily by a length. RAILWAY COMMITTEES ('PHIS DAY.) Group E. NORTHUMBERLAND ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. After a discussion with respect to the propriety of hearing any further evidence in favour of the atmospheric principle, Mr. Harrison's examination was resumed by Mr. Ilstniastn— He had got a diagram prepared of a similar character to that which was missing yesterday, and which would clearly show how the traffic of the Northumberland line could or could not be worked by the atmospheric principle. He then explained the nature of the diagram to the Committee. The time allowed, ac cording to the diagram, for the exhaustion of the tube was five minutes, assuming that the trains arrived at the exact moment required. But the least delay of one train would affect the rest, and it required an equal degree of mathematical accuracy in its working as was required in the drawing out of the diagram, throughout the whole line. That was the main objection. In three miles of tube there would be an exhaustion of 22 inches in five minutes at the rate of 30 miles an hour, which had not been yet exceeded by any experiment. Any derangement in the order of a train not only deranged the train itfelf, lan t every train which it would meet, That mutt be eon tinually the result, and it could not be avoided. Mr. Harrison then explained how one train would have the effect of derang. ing the others in rotation, which were marked in alphabetical order on the diagram. Assuming the velocity could not be main tained, the number of trains laid down by the projectors of the at mospheric line should be reduced, together with the speed: and in that case the traffic of Northumberland could not be worked on that principle. It would be necessary that one train should remain at each station till the arrival of another, a circumstance which would render collision very probable. Mr. Harrison was then cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRAN(I - stated that the first train started at seven o'clock in the morning, and the last train arrived at Berwick at a quarter before twelve o'clock. There were, according to the diagram, seven hours during which no passenger trains would be on its way north wards, and only a single goods train. Seven hours would be avail able for the transport of goods, of whatever description, from Ber wick to Newcastle, without the interruption of crossing trains, but they ought to consider whether they could snake arrangements whereby that traffic could come at that time. He gave an interval of 3-4ths of an hour between the sending of each train. He had never been at Dalkey, but he drew up the diagram according to Mr. Mallet's report. He conceived that an electric telegraph would not be of much use in giving notice to other trains to stop at crossing places in case one passenger train should be retarded, Group X. LONDON AND YORK LINE. The Committee assembled at 12 o'clock, when the examination of Mr. Denison, M.P., was resumed . by Mr. Sergeant KIN‘LAICE. He commenced by calling the attention of the Hon. Member to what was called the loop line. The witness said that that line afforded more facilities to all the towns in the east of Lincolnshire, except Sleaford, than any other proposed line—the Cambridge and Lincoln line did not come within four or five miles of that town— the London and York Company gave directions to have the country surveyed with a view to taking in that town by a branch; the Manchester and Sheffield line, when completed, would afford the best communication between Lin colnshire and Manchester with the London and York line. The Cambridge line went through no town, but the loop line went through all the towns. Would decidedly prefer the towns line to the Cambridge line, so far as regarded communication with the sea. The whole country was open to the parties to adopt any line they pleased, so that if the Cambridge line appeared to be the best they could have adopted it. Had seen no railway proposition that proposed so low a rate as three farthings per ton per mile for the transit of coals. which was the rate proposed to be charged by the London and York Company ; and they further proposed to have coal depots at their termini for the accommodation of the public, and to convey manure by the back coal carts at id. per ton per mile. Clauses to this effect had been inserted in the London and York Bill. Mr. Lang said to witness that as this was a new line the qmpany would be entitled to charge 3d. per ton per mile for first. class passengers, and that was the maximum charge inserted in the clause. Is of opinion that the, London and York line ought to have the preference to the Direct Northern, or in tact any other line, for the transit of coals, because it proposed more general public accommodation to the different towns. Has no doubt that if the London and York line should be made, the towns of Bawtry, Newark, Grantham, Stamford, Spalding, and Boston, would all apply for means of connecting themselves by the shortest and most direct lines with the London and York line. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. WEBSTER on behalf of the Direct Northern, and the Cambridge and Lincoln Schemes—He had no doubt that it was the intention of the London and York Company to make the same reduction of the tolls on the Wickham navigation that was proposed on the Fordyke. In answer to Mr. Jones, who appeared on behalf of the Eastern Counties line, the witness said be considered Walker's proposed Cambridge line an absurd one. The capital of the London and York, not including the Sheffield line, was five millions; that has not been since added to; the original capital in the prospectus was four and a half millions; the Bawtry and Sheffield branch would require an additional sum. Cubitt's estimate was six and a half millions, which included the branches to Sheffield, Wakefield, Boston, Doncaster, and, in fact, the whole of the line to York. But the capital was only five millions ; but the Company had the power by the Act to borrow as much more as would cover the estimate. Was not aware that the Com pany had advertised an announcement that the ca. pital had been increased ; but the Sheffield and Bawtry scrip was in the market, and would become London s and York stock, if that line should pass, and the sum required for the Sheffield and Bawtry branch would be required by the engineer to make up the 61 millions. Had considered the assumed advantage of the proposed line between Huntingdon and London, as proposed by the London and York Company, and that proposed by the Cambridge Company, and found that the Lon. don and York scheme would afford more general public accommodation ; the latter also proposed to make a line between the Cambridge and Huntingdon if the Eastern Counties should not. A branch to Bedford was part of the present scheme. If the Cambridge and North and Eastern lines and the Cambridge and Lincoln lines were made, a continuous line could be made, but not so good as the London and York, because it would be more circuitous ; and would not afford the same facilities to the public in the different towns; there was also a branch from Hockham.mill to Sleatord proposed to be made by the London and York; was not aware that the branch was to be continued from Sleaford to Boston. To Mr. Pistu.satonE—Could not say if the Sheffield and Bawtry Branch Company were now shareholders in the London and York, or that was a legal question ; but should think they were not yet, (LIFT PITTING.) Group W. WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE RAILWAY. The Committee to whom this group was referred re.assembled this day at twelve o'clock. Mr. Pakington in the chair. The evidence was then continued to prove the necessity for the formation of the above line, and the first witness called was Mr. Henry Smith, who was examined by Mr. WILKINS, and stated that he was a farmer, living at Drax Abbey ; was also a land.. owner. He confirmed the evidence given yesterday by Mr. Wedall in favour of the proposed line. He considered that of the different lines proposed the one under consideration was the most eligible to open up the resources of the country. The facilities which it would afford would contribute very much to cheapen the carriage, and accelerate the conveyance of agricultural produce and farm stock to the manufacturing districts. Mr. KNQWLES, on behalf of the York and Midland line, cross, examined this witness at considerable length. Reexamined by Mr. Waxxiwa—The petitions against the Drayton and Goole line was signed by all the inhabitants of Drax, With very few exceptions. Mr. Clarke, farmer, was next examined—Lived at Waterton, near the Ouse and Trent. Wakefield was the principal market in that district. Lived forty miles from Wakefield, twenty-five from Doncaster, and thirty from Pontefract. Sent his beasts to Wake field, at a cost of fis. to 7s. a head. They looked 1/. a head worse when they arrived there than before they set out. This would not occur if there was a railroad to Wakefield. They occupied four to seven days at present in the journey. Would accomplish it by rail in a few hours. Sent his corn partly to Doncaster and partly to Wakefield. The cost of carriage was Is. 4d. per quarter to Doncaster, and very frequently a double freight was incurred to Wakefield after it was sent to Doncaster. The proposed rail would be much more advantageous than the Drayton and Goole line. The petition which he presented in favour of the line under consideration was signed by the principal farmers and landowners of Marshland. By Lord Sansone —The corn was sent by the River Trent and canal up to Thorne. Cross-examined by Mr. KNoistes—His own individual advantage would be greatly promoted by this line. Doncaster was not a more convenient place to send his beasts to than Wakefield. Sent half of his corn to Doncaster, but thought Wakefield a better market than Doncaster. The corn which be takes to Doncaster is very often sold to corn factors from Wakefield. Mr. Johnston, farmer and grazier of Fockerby, heard the evl. dente of the two last witnesses, and quite concurred in all they stated. Mr. I. P. Leatherbow, clerk at the Normanton station of the Manchester and Leeds Railway, was next examined. (LICYT •ITTINU.) Group R. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee met to.day at the usual hour, ) Vtr. Gibson Cralg in the chair, and proceeded to the examinatio❑ of the witnesses. Sir John Di g Neille's examination continued from yesterday—He considered the town of Newry would be greatly benefited by the proposed line, as it had been a main object with him in surveying the line to give accommodation to such an important and respect able town. The expense of constructing the line was estimated at 917,2034 Os. lid , including the branch to Kells. The expense of the main line, 625,5671, and the one to Kells, 208,1531. 1 Is. Bd. To these items would have to be added 10 per cent, for contin gencies, making in all the total already given. There were no peculiar engineering difficulties, except a viaduct over the Boyne, and a crossing of the valley at Newry. No tunnel would be required. The gradients, curves, cut tings, and embankments were generally favourable. The severest gradient on the main line would be 1 in 100 fur two miles between Dundalk and Newry, and on the branch lines 1 in 125, in the two furlongs near to the town of Kells. The deepest cut ting on the main line was 58 feet, and the highest embankment 68 feet. On the branch the deepest cutting was 39 feet, and the highest embankment 42 feet. There were several crossings of roads at the level, but they were at places where no inconvenience would arise, and could not be avoided without great expense,, Group EE. DUNDEE AND PERTH (NORTH) RAILWAY. The Committee on these lines resumed business this morning by the continuance of the examination of Mr. Daniel Stephenson, C.E., who, in reply to Mr. Forsyth, deposed to having drawn up a report for the provost and magistrates of the town of Perth, as conserva tors of the river Tay, in which he stated several objections to the height of the bridges, and the headway proposed on the line, which latter, in his opinion, should be not less than 14 feet. These ob jections had been submitted to the Admiralty, and he had had in terviews with Captcin Beaufort, in which he had pointed out the inconvenience which would be entailed by the present arrange ments for the line. Cross.examinEd by Mr. ANDREWS— Was not aware that the report which he bad presented to the provost and magistrates of Perth had been laid before Captain Beaufort.—(The Learned Counsel here read a leiter from the Admiralty, requiring a width of fifty feet in the bridge, for the passage of boats.) George Rennie, examined by Mr. FORSRTR—Is a civil engineer of considerable experience. Has surveyed the localities through which the Dundee and Perth line is to pass, and particularly that part where the line is to cross the Tay by means of a bridge near Perth. Considers that the depression of the road, and the ele vation of the rails two feet, to construct the bridge of a sufficient height, would be highly objectionable, in con sequence of the danger that would thus r ccrue to the vi cinity from the goods to which the river is liable. There is a considerable traffic on the road over which the bridges were to be thrown, and a headway of at least 16 feet ought to be allowed. John Kennedy—Ts master of the Trinity-house of Dundee, and is of opinion that the laying the rails along Dock-street in that town would be highly objectionable. The width of that street is 54 feet clear of the strand—carts and horses occupy 16 feet of that, looking one way and the other, so that they take up a total of, about 321 feet, leaving 9.14 feet for passengers and traffic. This is already considered as insufficient. (LEFT SITTING.) Group V. NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD. Members—The O'Conor Don (chairman), Mr. Davies, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Sir Denham Norreys, and Sir John Rae Reid. The Committee sat at twelve, and proceeded with the evidence of Mr. It. Stephenson, on the part of the opponents of the Par liamentary line. The witness was examined by Mr. TALBOT, Q.C.—lie had seen the plans and sections of the orig.inal and of the amended line, and lie was decidedly of opinion that the amended line would combine advantages which could not possibly be given by the proposed line. Judging from the charac. ter of the country, he should say—he was confident—that the railway could not be constructed at the estimate laid down, namely, 15,0004 per mile, neither could the railway, if constructed accenting to the original plan, give such advantages to the coal district as the amended one would, for the simple reason that the summit levels in the latter case were much lower. His estimate for a single line through this tract of country would be 700,0001., or for' a double line 850,0004 The quantity of earthwork on the railway would be greater than on any other line in the kingdom. Mr. Swanick corroborated the evidence given by Mr. Robert Stept.enson. Mr. Gibbs, the engineer to the projected line, was recalled, and he said that, having carefully examined the alternative line, he was of opinion that his own plan was preferable. (LEFT SITTIING Group F. This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, the Riaht Hon. F, Shaw it. the chair, and proceeded with the aejourned inquiry- into THE. LONDON, NVOECESTEit, AND SOUTH sTAFFORD SHIRE RAILWAY Mr. J. Barker called, and re-examined by Mr. Cocritaurw— There are fifty-two furnaces near the proposed exten. sion of the Great Western line, which manufacture 5,000 tons of pig iron per week. Close by the proposed London and firming_ ham extension there were eleven furnaces, manufacturing but 1,000 tons, There are thirty thousand tons of pig iron made weekly in Great Britain. South Wales produces ten thousand tons, Staffordshire nine thousand tons, and Scotland seven thou sand tons; the remainder came from various parts of the country, The cost of bringing iron from South Staffordshire by canal was 19s. and 20s. per ton ; and by railway the cost was 2/. per ton. This was on the London and Birmingham line. That railway now takes it at 1/. 3s. per ton, and that is enormously high. By the construction of the Great Western line into the South Staffordshire districts, a saving of several shillings per ton will be the result. Witnessed the carriages invented by Mr. Brunel for the change of gauge. Saw them at work thatmorn ing at Paddington. Never before witnessed so well managed an affair. The transhipment vi as done with the greatest ease. Thirty-two tonstif coals were transhipped from the broad to the narrow and back again in less than seven minutes. It was done without the least inconvenience, and was, in fact, the most inge nious contrivance ever witnessed for the purpose. The general feelinz of the iron trade in South Staffordshire was in favour of a line for the iron districts. As far as the feeling for both lines went, thinks it is equally balanced ; his own feeling was in favour of a competing line, for with out a competing line sufficient carriages would not be found for the mineral traffic. Was of opinion that the mineral traffic did not pay so well as a line where general traffic would be taken up, and therefore, where one line existed they would charge exorbitantly, or supply so few carriages that the trade would not be benefited by the line. Has no interest in the Great Western more than any ether. group FF. The Committee met at twelve o'clock, Lord Ashley in the Chair. EDINBURGH AND HAWICK RAILWAY. Sir W. RIDDELL said he appeared for two - proprietors against the proposed line, and also against the preamble of the Bill. The objections which he took were as to the expense of the line, which would be nearer 600,0001. than 400,000/., as estimated. There would not be the traffic on it which was estimated ; and there were gradients and reverse curves, which rendered it a more un. safe line. The following evidence was then called against the Bill : Mr. J. F. Dundas, C E., examined by Sir WALTER RIDDELL— lam in the habit of making plans and sections of railways. made sections of the line now before the Committee. I commenced my examination at the works north of the Tweed, at the crossing of the Tweed. I examined for the purpose of testing the plans. The plans deposited varied from the estimatee of the line considerably. I ran two courses of level, and I found very considerable differences of level from what was represented. In one place I found a differ. ence of 15 feet near the parish road, at the crossing of the Tweed. Near Galla the form of ground is very different from what appears in the section. The variation in the first cutting showed a dif ference of 96,713 cubic yards between the sections made and those which I made; the second a difference of 112,553 cubic yards ; the third, a difference of 56,436; the fourth, 99,667; the sixth, 58,877. More to the north towards Edinburgh, at the south-end of the tunnel, there was a difference of 144,055 ; at the north-end of the tunnel 5,350 ; at the great embankment there was a diffe rence of 41,004 ; at the village of Growbridge a difference of 20,834 ; and there was in another place a difference of 13,336 cubic yards ; making on the whole a difference of 648,825 cubic yards in the cuttings. The difference of expense is 40,0001. The whole cost of the line was estimated at 400,000/. I think that is 200,000/. too small. The witness then stated in detail his calculation of the expenses. I have seen the gradients on the line. There are reversed turn. ings on an incline oft in 75. That would not be safe. The ne cessity of an assistant engine would increase the danger. If there was a double line the estimate would be of course considerably in creased. I think it would be unsafe to go at the rate of twenty five miles an hour on this curved part of the line. The witness was cross-examined at great length by Mr. M‘Netra. Group DD. TIIE CALEDONIAN, AND THE GLASGOW, DUMFRIES AND CARLISLE RAILWAYS. The adjourned Committee met this morning at half-past eleven, and soon after proceeded to business. The examination of witnesses to prove the traffic tables was re sumed by Sir THOMAS PHILLIPS calling Mr. Hunter, farmer, near Dumfries—He said; he was well acquainted with the cattle trade of Scotland, and par. titularly ;with lean cattle.; The: whole of his cattle were ob_ tained from the north, and were usually sent to the Falkirk market to be disposed of. He could corroborate the opinion of Mr. M'Adam that it was not likely, except under extraordinary circum. stances, that the lean cattle and sheep would be transmitted by railway. If the beasts were to be sent by railway, the line through Dum fries would certainly be the most convenient one; but he would still adhere to his former opinion, that it was not at all probable that the cattle would travel by that means of conveyance. Of those that were driven southward, he was certain none would go by railway. The number of cattle and sheep that were annually exposed for sale at the October tryst at Falkirk was about seventy thousand; of these, probably, a few might be conveyed on the rails, but only when the weather was very bad, or that they were not in a proper condition for travelling on foot. He had inspected the trail:lc-tables that had been put in by the promoters of the Caledonian scheme, and con. sidered that the items of cattle and sheep had been grossly ex. aggerated. Mr. Laurie, farmer, Kircudbrightshire,said he had been a farmer 28 years, and had considerable experience in agricultural matters. He could confirm the evidence of Mr. M'Adam as to the estimates of fat cattle going into England. He had inspected the traffic tables of the Dumfries line, and it was only reasonable to expect that at least 18,000 head of cattle would be sent away; in fact, the estimate in his opinion was rather below than above the mark. All the fat cattle would be conveyed by railway. He had directed his attention to the localities where potatoes were produced, through which the Caledonian line was intended to pass. The quantity of potatoes that would be produced in these districts was 2,458 tons, and this was the largest quantity that it was likely would be sent out of the country. At the conclusion of the examination of the last witness, The CHAIRMAN said that he had just received a communication addressed to him in his capacity of Chairman of the Committee on the Caledonian scheme. The letter evidently contained an ex party statement, and he considered such communications highly repre hensible. He would wish to have the occurrence made publicly known, but would refrain from mentioning the name of the party from whom the letter came. The Hon. Gentleman then tore it in pieces, and said he considered that was the only way In which similar communications addressed to the Chairmen of Railway Committees ought to be treated. Mr. Payne, flesher, at Dumfries, was then examined—lie stated there were very few cattle to be had in Dumfries, and he was obliged to go round to the different farms in the neigh. bourhood to buy then up. The number of cattle and sheep that were annually fattened in the valley of the Nith amounted in sheep, including lambs, to 57,480, and in cattle to 1,570 ; of sheep 50,000, and of cattle 1,000, were gene. rally sent south The witness concurred in the opinion that the Dumfries line would be a great convenience for the conveyance of fat cattle. Mr. Cleddis, mining engineer, was next called.—He deposed that he had been employed by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Duke of Portland, and other extensive mineral proprietors, and from the information he had derived from that and other sources he was fully capable to give an opinion on the mineral districts of almost the entire of Scotland. (LEFT SITTING.) Group L. GUILDFORD, CHICHESTER, AND PORTSMOUTH It AILWAY. The Committee resumed this morning the consideration of the South_ Western Railway project. Mr. Pardoe, the second in authority in Portsmouth Dockyard, stated his conviction that the approach to Portsmouth by this line %tuuld be more advantageous than the other hue for the purposes of the dockyar4l. The Rev. John Burrell, rector of Portsea, stated that the ter minus, though at the extremity of Portsmouth, was centrically situated with respect to the several portions of Which the whole town consisted.—To the cross-examination of Mr. Rawlinson, Mr. Burrell said that the greater part of the traffic had heretofore gone by way of Petersfield and Codalining to London. Part of it went coastwise by Little Hampton, Shoreham, and Brighton. He could not say exactly what was the relative proportion of his property which would be taken by either railway, both railways pass ing through his property; but the South. Western Com pany certainly took j imore tha❑ the atmospheric com pany. To the question as to whether he was anxious that the Company should purchase the property which they proposed to take, he replied that it was not a fair inquiry and refused to answer it. To another inquiry, Mr. Burrell replied, that he was not cognizant of the fact, that Southampton had In jured Portsmouth since the formation of the railway to the latter place. To the re-examination of Mr. GURNEY, the witness replied that he had heard that the South-Western Company had offered a branch to Portsmouth, which had been refused. He had travelled fre quently through the country of the proposed atmospheric line, and knew the whole of it, though unable to state precisely what was ad , the population ofthe several parishes t hrou g h which it pass-. The line of the South- Westtrn Compa.iy would injure one of his faro' snore than any other. Mr. B. Bramble, a surveyor, and a member of the Tosvn Coun cil, stated that he was aware that the South-Western Cores?! had, some years ago, offered a terminus to Portrm:uth, before the line to Southampton was completed. At this point f the proceedings d tbst Mr. OSW o ALD, M.P., one of t h e Committee, observ ed g there was a difference on the maps on the table. tld which he had before him, a nd which he had rece,Ll,,, from the House of Commons, apparently carried on the strnesP:,7. line to Fareham, whereas that supplied by the agent of the 0 ,1 1 ; ford, Chichester, and Portsmouth line did not do so. Mr. Os r; therefore, wished to know which was correct, because theePle was important. On inquiry it was ascertained a l ,gc mark on the map, which was coloured blue like the tinet;;B line, was a mistake of the colourer's. Mr. Montague Br rat ' t hat of the counsel for the promoters, informed the CoasMittee.._. 0 a similar mistake had been observed In the map SuPPiwtog the London and York Committee, and it was know n t bst many of the maps of the Board of Trade were incOrrect, th e' re• the map with which they were supplied, and on which w„ mark arose, was the correct one. The atmospheric line, agreed by both sides, did not pass to Fareham. tated fist To the cross-examination of Mr. FL oou, the witness 6 or, A t a large meeting had been held in IS3S, called by the Ng which the branch line to Portsmouth was rejected. bie 044 To the cross-examination of Mr. AUSTIN, wawa first ° . 3 , t bere he did not know Woollier Wood, though he was wood about Mitcham and Petworth, but that the P „,,,, a ss refused to cut it, as it was mostly ornamental tiinber. t;ouih aware that there Was a strong feeling in the p eople of r o t ' w e to for the direct communication with London. He Wa s A l„ e a reasta l, say whether the steam trade to the Isle , of Wight ha" - 13 ,0 to though lie did think that, if the French ackets could be ° Portsmouth, it would be an advantage. (LEFT SITTING.) ------------ SO Group N. Dlr. AUSTIN On the sitting of the Committee this morning, opened the case on the part of the promoters of ttfe ware th rep t rir t i l CORN WA LL RA ILWAY. _,. Th e et. The Learned GENTLEMAN said it was the intention tohte'Threat meters of the Bill to form a connexion with the bread Western Railway, which was laid down various project; gauge, and which was in full and effective force. ..,, res pect!, had beers under the consideration of Parliament wil' . ' tu Rand the construction of a line from the Great IV e line II Exeter to Plymouth, along the way through the county of Devon. A ..„, nc loet , c°ss in t' etroi r ''', : e lL re ns it i * ; which was a continuation of that line from the intended to work that line by atmospheric row er % o i t ;g•that W I o ca f i t i l e i d at line in the T to h ; y n oif),Poil,yomsedoirtitrowacsaaaitna, eru°rhbeut Cif W as erice line at the opposite part of tha own , eter hoe to p. proposed to continue the South Devon or r' „ o h the s t3"° ,,, n' t:l point so as to join the Cornwall line. Thong l a ces, 1" - i d e s peared in the plans to be laid clown at different P out t, ha would constitute the termini to the whole line. I T:to a ll c fp: population of upwards of 100,000, and was, i n rays ho t. 0 mercial purposes, the metropolis of the west ° I _' 5 .. " ! , wostki tin .r -ig - general course of the line, after passing the 051n 7 er taine t" s ad to Torpoint, St. Germains, Liskeard, Bodi nin "; tenlit , ro ugh Penryn and Falmouth ; would be 60 mil es 1 , - , pssl t , r , - ,,ralf would, to use the words of his brief, d sit sieu" - o e a rich and most densely populated rainlng,eapprieva tOvi, and commercial district." The population of th ot h the lie obi t which it would pas., e,cluding th..e common to h ..ot the Ce ol j 46,000 The population of the One throng!, wi" „ Ile hos * t he I ;' , e would pas , : would bo abcot :aid' that anonnuraberdiag P i i „, through districts having 3 population, .., i Won l The income-tax assessment, of 211,000. The t' c ' ett w ork. 00 0, abundant to support the line, and keep it l i t ' _,.,1 a t 10 5 ' .„ore capital was a million. The general traffic was w ou l desee:s g iee ..4 / forty per cent. for the working of the line, whic the ral l l 7 o , than six per cent. on the capital. In the eve n ,.. t ca p roha b otr i sy being carried out, the mail packet-station wOuld,'". a the ts . ,,je be restored to Falmouth, and of course the receiP t : o e vinc!oll would be considerably enhanced. The GovernMent i',. s o thy .s e sire to favour coast railways in the west of F,nglsno....,ireggal '.,e4 the new line there would be a coast railway coloni,7o,sepro,P7?„ mencing at Dover, and extending as far as Yarinouth;re pr o i t ; r e to work the line by locomotion, and the grad ient' theseh e°6 l, l i ll by that power. With respect to the opposition to .... ,,,,oes o l e ere n ot were several petitions from highly influential r od to ve ry favour, whilst there were others opposing it' b t;le the° from persons, or of such a number, as to en- i serious consideration. ("" rrTQ.) eed o to Group FF. A ,„ a nd Pr °C This Committee resumed its sittings yesterday , /( r.WA' hear additional witnesses in support of ----N THE EDINBURGH AND HA-WIC .., .;10 ~ four 0 . Cow g The examination of witnesses was continued the but no point deserving of esp ecial notice cam u sideration of the Committee. e nCl O3 the Clar andis'ohie, of f io The Earl of Seatield has arrived at A Gi fft)rd' Hotel. to L °l.- t Ae° the ll la j te o p h e n er, holy orders, having been ordaiped by the Bis yeti ( ' Sunday last, at 6CI sot i This g re ford Gifford, brother poll, ha' ,op HENLEY GRAND REGATTA.-- otie , o f 0% to ol' event, at which the gentlemen of the V nivermted for o ft Cambridge will again contend this season,,, T u esday nights o"? who was Master of shop p e a wrote and 7th of June. The entrances closed catop;ii to ay•of miss excellent sport. For eight-oarecl composed of members of the the otficere o.Peir London, the schools of Eton and Westaiestablished a least orrcylo Majesty's army or navy, or to arty = lub nzford nl _.__.e , previous to the time of entering : - New Chain"; out" and Cambridge University Bost Club. A ot her an' teu. e" For eight.oared boats, open to the college and _.,,00111., except university clubs, subscription.rootnS, or clubS 5;01,1,101,,,4 stituted : Oxford, St. John's Club; Cat-111)64e, th e m i n' 4; If (Ist n Trinity) ; Cambridge, the Lady hlargaret (S!'euge CoPtlertge London, St. George's Club. The Stewards' C hSi a l 6 ,, C , 0 11$ ' 4 ,f l , Cambia d i e' ~e, Universities ionfstOexr,ford, f c o ,a ur_oared boats, the same qualification as for th e ~- , r ) 4 ; 1 1 "'", br i l ow' p : Oxford University Boat Club (the holde' - ' n • 13 0 t " C PREPARATION FOR WAR.—A foot-ra—a 04 0, .. j o g University Boat Club ; Windsor, Windsor and P°- ,sd. C. , : a and London, St. George's Club. ~,, istelf ;p er o re ff ne at Hounslow, between the Blues and 2d Life„ u tor w- ,.. g is °*- a eto which a newspaper paragraph states that , distii7,,,, 3 et ' great spirit of rivalry has existed between th°,,seeetestlndieti regiments, as to which of them could produce tire d m o ntis ll ,% ° Se i To i un, hitherto, has not been the ambition of t h , rt - s e Ot°"" f and we hope this kind of emulation between the .- A, i , O. she Blues, has not arisen in anticipation of war.--110Che'401' Lord Foley entertained the Dowager .do 'O 4 Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Earl a n ` i C IP - V i lati C l burne, the Earl and Countess of Desert, Visea tnit l i t Pa i f i JO; Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Ar , isc sf oul 04 ; )11 ,rsl Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Baron Talleyrane, -- ",,% 5 y, lA A - o r is- Stanley, Hon. Frederick Leveson, Hon. Captain 'Jo", Irw i n' Berkeley, Hon. W. R. Colborne, ese., a t dinrgr' i 1 ra i l evening, at his mansion in Grosvenor-square. Th is s- ° or, FIRE IN LINCOLN'S INN-FIELDS. the too - o , l ' d ories shortly before two o'clock, a fire broke out 1 0 ,„g t hen e , O OO O the eastern corner of Lincoln's Inn-square, fa'''Z ni es el''' od• o f hall. The firemen were unable to get the Pro the del until the building and its contents were burne d f s tevi— Lord Eastnor has accepted the office of i., is the approaching Worcester musical festival. , sti o , , t u 'llee l The remains of Mr . Charles Janstr" ,Alshel', 10 . d e ath $ lot 0 010 British Vice-Consul at Caen, whose sudden F r iday . 0 oof have already announced, were interred on ~`e pop o be ep / thiou, near Caen. Nearly the whole of "'eudeared wt, village, to whom Mr- Armstrong he d st o fel ° sod d 0 0 ' by his kindness and benevolence, 01 . b an , e , number of persons from Caen, g 's of t 7.410% las including several o f the au thorities,ut ver y s s . - ; 00 ,0 10 followed the body to the cemetery. bashortislorie, whoceteedeelto tion was pronounced over the grave her Aron° °U t tnrong h bite acting British Vice-Consul at Caen. gr. An ii vise _ov Aube celebrated Beau Brummel as Vice-Consul, an_ oe ha d in,, u r exertions that Mr. Brummel, whose imp utt of P r "" 0 in great pecuniary difficulty, derived the ill l' • o uoi• 0 1:10 1 o f fra 14 1,03 c o comforts which surrounded his last days.-- ~. TOR ' , u ppo li t or t, BATHS AND WASIIHOCSES F°'" _,,, ana - ,ipr'' 0 4 CLASSES.— A numerous meeting of the fri.en,"loooo, r oot , _ OO this Institution took place yesterday at Willisetsried the . .. o htilel St. James's. The Duke of Cambridge oc c ;00,01 th e i ris;"! amongst the gentlemen on the platform W ri o f Vll ere , of of Lansdowne, Earl Fortescue, the a ,,,,,,, 10 ~." o pen , 10f ' Sandon, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord '•". n. 11. ' pinif„,,oe , Radstock, Sir T. D. Ackland, hie. ' 1 , f ,., 0.._ job - oef Matheson, M.P., Mr. P. Borthsvick, I" i ' derro a" jO l l ge h ot ir for Middlesex ; Dr. Southwood Smith, A ~ c. seve i t ' uo in- Mr. Cotton, Mr. Ridley Colborne, MY., the f 0 110te ,.. .' The 1Y" Mr. 'l*. were made in favour of the scheme, a nd o ding : os, ; s o osi tions were announced at the close of the Pr o , JO& ' 10/. 00 of Cambridge, 50/. ; the Bishop of Do r " on , ha', flan Pi r ' D. Acland, M. P 101 I Os. ; AI r. gathes ~s co uo ,os, ; •, ' - hi 55; "101. ' I N Mr. Percival, 51. 45.; Mr, G regorY , - „„" „don, 0.i. , (second donation), 51. 55.; Viscount •'•'' 0 .0 . I,loi Partridge, 3 letf!,,, eta A young man, committed at Bow_street, yesterday, for st . oner hail rot, a half-sovereign acrd a sixpence. Thep °s hoo. deg, Ay? for some time as a letter carrier at Twicke n ,trouss..e ow lhe five telegraphs of 13oulogne;10,eref,en!,,,pyla Toulon, and Bayonne, have 534 stations:lll;o7,2 irs' oritr ice n, upon them 29 directors, 37 inspectors, a" thy jj°flgbl t 'fisr At Guildhall, yeAerday, Tim e t , iti st . os trit e r , eV; Simpson, and Michael Leary, all residen CCs, and. . 1 ,1, r 0f• , pre was OP` e t ' O charged with obtaining goods by fals e P _„., 3 char ova named IlenryeropSgteer, r, coailoid nett, of the same place, a clothes-dealer, w'' .. behalf 0 . ( 0.0 0 OP ing the property. Mr. Robinson attended .°1 1 ... Wolle. taa tio n ' Wontner for Simpson and Long, and I_ e inft6. ett' f Flower's office) for Leary. After a very o ' l ° „oil , • THE IRISH ACADEMIES -BILL . dv, for the tato sfh e Alderman Wood remanded the prisones. The noi4„l , Biotic bishops met in Dublin, on Weci9"l"edircatiejoerool et taking the Ministerial scheme of acadenrea „sits ou heoc_,eitt deration. The attendance was not by sol: .. "' it ,, o f the time r fl:,,r • general impression seems to be that a 'WV:. r i' io ratne,;ooo Or in favour of the principle of the Bill; but to the P rof 00 slit to some of the details, and more especiallY r° e Shoe . ,,P e s:e i f. ing religious instruction and patronag e i ', t hat 0' of l'' osr . The Rectory of Bothall, wtn the ' lest" of I • ift o f the t Veo re O de, Wm. Parry. The benefices are in th re ctal ° o r, 0 1 07 and are worth 1,500/. per annum lie _, E%e ucto .. Northumberland, have become vacant I IY Doh * 0 • the diocese v. ir, and the vicarage of Harpford, in , A . rw ood - tile itlif , become vacant by the death of the Rev. ~,... 1 Yee of e r nu e a os are in the gift of Lord Rolle. ailing 3 n e w DO" ate e HIGn TlDES .—lresterday m the v i ol e watersriert,ol tides rose to an extraordinary height, sides of tb r o f several wi'' , deA io end below London -bridge . . a ° d .` areal premises were partially inundated, . street, 3" flowed many of its embankments on bo . t_li rf s o i etui ot:isreert.llol, to tamed damage. Stoney-lane, Tooley .00d. Wapping and Thames-street, were fi L 'ti ....., _ . ) ri n the , 17th inst., ------------- - lag °I BIRTH & .- bt the I,ter, On the 15th, inst., at Ventnor Isle of Wig ! j og Major H a d fieid, of the 37th Madras Grenadiers, oilaly a 0 1 • , 13 ' , ny!Lsq., of . twill sons. of On , R L e s ‘ q .. . , j o a f in e , daught er. a Ls,ol. a s 0 II . . ryanston-square, th v of j oe o the lea „.kn/et the , 1, th inst., at Heathileld, Hant s, u oi :Atoll, tbe On the 20th inst., in Brunswick.square, M ., t , Ac t On the 20th inst., at Chelsea, the wife of May, Esq,, barrister -at-law, of a daughtei. lest DI: _D.e; O5 of tllO On the 17th inst., Richard Charles, second 5 00 0 ' John Young, Es.q., of Maid -hill Wot. T es P r On the 17th hist, in Badford-square, dun t, O P Esq., aged 65. O a - On the 18th inst., at Reading. Joanna Kelt oflla eldest daughter of the late J. Whatley, Etq . ' 1 ‘ • ' dot ter-street, Brunswick -square, aged IS. Ale o On the IBth inst. Frances, daughter of Mr. c/ ,, Wilson, of Islington ' Willialn goo On the 1911' ' * inst. at Doncaster, •the Nev. . ,i, On the 19111 inst., Vicar of Owston ' 0 Slir. On the 19th ii;st , Mr 9. S. Deususan, of is ,on-ireVtioi, 0005 w- On the 19th inst At S. 011thainptOn-plACep C'3° Lupton Rolfe. " ' ~.,,et:2,o ---''-----------......------r. ----....-- __---!r".'----------- , t Nit; t' ,:; ---2--------- -- ~,() y 0,.,. , 1 j ; „ 1 L9rAort: Printad and Publishad hY AlUiti" ilico. '' ). tf No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun. 0 t he • C OO Strand, in the Precinct of the SOO', 13 Mr. W. ___Willianis, of Oltf__olll>::..../ Middlesex, Friday, Way 23, 110 5 . A ~, I N "