The Sun. — London, England, 1845-04-30 00:00:00

~, --..----,,,.............-...................... tion, 5 3 4 corn new; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 1 / 2 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 5 1 % %; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 64 ; Liverpool, Orrnskirk, and Pres ton, 3% %; London and York, 4 1 %; Manchester and Bux t9,ll, 5 1 / 2 6 •, Manchester, Sheffield and Midland Junction, 3 ',4_; North Western, 4 9-11: Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton, 2; Preston aniiityre Extension, 1 3 / 4 % preni. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction 1 3 / 4 ; Shrewsbury, Os westry, and Ch es t er Junction, 5 1 / 4; ' Soutport and Euxton, Trent Valley, 18 1 4 ; Ditto, Continuation and Holy head Junction, 2% 9-16 prem.; West Yorkshire, 7 1 / 2 ; Great IST erthern of Fra nce (English), 5 1 / 2 ; Paris and Lyons (Eng ' 1.311 ), 2 15-16; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2 9-16. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAI.) Arasterdam CF. 12 81 Gibra1tar.......... Ditto, at sight l2 61 Leghorn ... ........... 31 R otterdam. 2U 12 9 Genoa -Antwerp pllamburgh ...... M.B. 14 0 Venice ......._... ~•.. one .................. Naples .............. ~. 39 D 1•113, dmonths ays' sight... 25 9o,rm I.er 0z...... 119 tto, 3 Marseille s 26 10 Oporto. . Bourdeaux 26 15 Rio Janeiro . . l' ratilkfort on Maine,. 123 Bahia ...... — Pe n A te jsbargb., 3 Us... Buenos Ay; -.ls — ,„: —run .. Newt n k •...!- d ssight .............. t .- Y ' • . r ,' l ,e l ina, effec. f 1.3 M. 10 2 Philathipb,A Q 4 '“eate, ditto adrid adiz ............ Bilbao ...... ' ta r on New Poubbons..... 0 0 0 eti New 1);.,' 'ars 0 4 9* 8 "illa .. 4 . _ ..... .... ......... Silver 'ti Bars . 0 4 10i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT, 11 o'CLocK. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES. tis 11 to Bon Id as ( t ) ; 7 to 4 agst John Day ' s lot (t) ; 10 to 1 t oulton's. u All , are scratched except Wood Pigeon, Idas, c out of ' l3 /L 8 darn, and Mr. Wreford's two. CUP. ) tO I a gst Fitz-Allen (t) CHESTER ,20 to 1 agst The Era Semiser 22 to 1 Portra 9 t , agst to . agst Cataract ia ( ( t) t) g 25 to 1 agst Ratan it :,_° 1 agst Obscurity 30 to 1 agst Winesour (t) 1 agat O u ld I reland to 1 agst Pug (t) 1,000 to 10 agst Faugh-a-Ballagh (t). 4 t,,, 1 DERBY. 11 -: . agat J. Day's lot [2O to 1 agst Kedger (t) 1„ to 2 agst Ides (taken) 123 to 1 agst Old England (t) 4 to 1 1 2 4_ agst Alarm 50 to 1 agst Sutlej (t) Is :,°, I agst Weatherbit (t) 50i to 1 agst Wood Pigeon (t) " 11 agst Pam (taken) 11,000 to 15 agst Christina c (t) E nt 15 to 1 agst Winchilsea and Worthless (t). Si b r ,„aties for the Queen's Plate (To-morrow)—Ma Mie, i , -"°;), `Pee Pet, Sorella, Eclogue, and Anonyme.—Wee is 114 Z.tched 13 1 6 e ,,vf Match for Friday—Duke of Bedford's Espoir, 200:`flb, agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Secutor, 7st 31b, T.Y.C., h ft N y il l the course of the evening a mat c h f or 500 eac h, h ft, 41. 7 *lade between Alarm, Bst 71b, and Old England, Bst 21b, , to be run in the Second October Meeting. The TUESDAY'S RACES. th e . e xtraordinary bustle in the town this morning proved heeulterest excited in the public mind on the all-important iul ~.,.° fi t he week, " the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes." At all -- '3' hour the rattle of vehicles of every description, from t e 4arts of the country, all verging towards one common and, re ' gave earnest of what might be expected, 4 at a later hour, the coaches from London, as well 4 fr inn " posters," ' having discharged their doeight. grel„„„:.-N the mass assembled in front of the Subscrip ;,7,nts defied calculation. All ranks were here con tl,sr''", and the busy hum of the spectators, they pro . • pro v e their wishes, or sought or received information, fll.the intensity with which they regarded the approach - til ?‘ event. Idas maintained his supremacy, 6to 4, and in 'af ts °r tw o instance s 7t o 4 h av i ng b een l a id on hi m ; but it eon, °bv ions from th e eagerness with which many of the new i tea p „, er Ltook th e odds that'' the fielders " were by no means an Wr ° " tuc ant body, and that Winchelsea, with whom Mr. fir:ford declared to win, was by no means lost sight of. The h efor tace e t was appointed for half-past one o'clock ;.. but lo . ng 'ke hii.liat hour the display on the heath equalled anything pa ges " ever witnessed on any similar occasion. The equih beaut of the aristocracy were numerous, and filled wit less 3 ' and fashion, while the throng of vehicles of a fine, pretending character was unprecedented ; in e.teiti,„ a more crowded assemblage, or a more viite e ,A scene it has never been our lot . to visitors for this region. Reserving our list of the fashionable teed 'or a more convenient opportunity, we must now pro u2 describ e the events of the day in the order of their The7ence Bat ;11:ee-room Stakes, of 50 sous each, for 3 yrs old colts, Duke Lord °; and fillies Bst 41b, A. F. 3 subs. I)l7Exeter's Lyons (Mann) 1 .! " Bedford's Prologue . 74teoof Richmond's Refraction 3 %It 1, 4 on Refraction ; 7 to 4 agst Prologue ; and 10 to 1 pavblade Y°ll s• A very tine race up the cords; Lyons, who inga tile running, winning by a head. Prologue never e quite goto up •' Refraction was beaten a length. The xi was d the'bushes. IN ch ur. ti ; 10 0, h ft. First half of the Ab.M.—Lord Exeter's rod,, 3 " , 4 rs, Bst 41b (Mann), beat Sir J. Hawley's Coin " lif at Yrs,, Bst 71b. 6t04 on Dr. Hill. Won by a head. st, e u. ; 200, 11 f; T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, Seepeived forfeit f . M T Wesley's The counsellor. tahes of sous. r e . ach . , 100 ft, for 4 yrs old. B.C. D ike Bst. (Three subs.) T ile eof Bedford's Panther, Bst 7lb Walked over. I:11: Thousand Guineas Stakes, by subs of 100 sous. t a •-„.. for three year old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 41b. 441 4 ' ( 1 8 Subi.) kr. ~..Stradbroke's Idas, by Liverpool (Nat) 1 2 kr, wwreford's Worthless, by Camel 3 Lord Dreford's Winchelsea, by Camel buk.'oreter's Wood Pigeon, by Velocipede lii,, 'lf Rutland's Paultons, by Royal Oak betti ng ire already mentioned that up to the close of the t he 4 41 the town 6to 4 was laid on Idas. On the heath ,even b„ - , e , r ,s became more confident, and at one moment it was oreAk.'"mg; a slight re-action then took place, and at the , .. i nn , _ _ the ring oett ed ti up of the ring 6 to , 5 was laid on him ; 7 to 4 was se against John Day a lot, 7to 2 agst Winchel- N 7 and 12 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon. The race was 1 1 2 at a great pace, Winchelsea leading a couple of r i gths, followed by Wood Pigeon, Paultons, and Idas Pas up with the latter and Worthless two or three lengths elund. Theybbserved this order to the new ground, where ralaltons was beaten ; at the T. Y. C. post, Wood Pigeon Qat • his • received quietus, and Idas took his place. In de eeendi h 11 . 1 1,_„ 0 ag t e i l he went up to Winchelsea, made him safe :Ti v re he reached the bottom, went on by himself, and won 1 7 8 4 ,,J . 1Y two lengths. Worthless, who took the second place *setters, defeat, never having got nearer than his * 4 e m- Winchelsea was a bad third. After the race Ides AI ba cked for the Derby at 3 to I. a st ,?,teh, 100 h ft, D. M.—Mr. Ramsbottom's Pine Apple, 4 . Ll,e, beat Duke of Bedford's Minotaur, Bst 101 b, by a head. 1,, 41,1 R 5 to 1 on Minotaur. '"e %leen' Bst 91 , s Plate of 100 Buis. for mares ; four yrs old, Mr. o . ; five yrs, 9st 81b ; six yrs and aged, 10st. R.C. sir J.Valdeston's Sorella, 4 yrs (F. Butler) 1 4 1r, N"'"leY's Vibration, 6 yrs e wton's Ma Mie 6 )4r 3 Ee ot „,," J. brake's Ano ' nyme, 5 yrs, and Lord W. Powlett's r lkthir,;` ° ,.. 4 Yrs, also ran. 5t02 on Sorella, who took the self, and 'rona w on by Anonyrne at the B.M. post, had it all to her twenty lengths. Th, ,„‘„ • PO UR - OARED-CUTTER RACE. and w---aUtilus " Scratch" match came off onMonday evening, ~beut, sip t he Arst four -oared cutter race of the season. At usit..o!,( o'clock the following took their stations at Vaux ,Qrell'ge, to row with the tide to Putney .selt, li e Re stroke ; 3. M'Kenzie ; 2. Ford ; I. Murray Re( s i oi erer. Ceope Ilaglehole, stroke • 3. Thomas ; 2. Johnson ; 1. Illac i' l,' Bishop, steerer. ' how . Black stroke • 3. Watson ; 2. Hudson ; 1. Chapel i; Conderhe'yde,stee' rer. ti ght, gentlemen were started from the Royal Academy ley, thWhieh, with the St. Georfe's, the Sphynx, the NI, :IN er Were :,,,ICePtune, the Thames'th9 Ariel, and other clubs e , i gtialc,, The three crews went away scull together on the e nded •"elng given, and some sharp work followed - which Ited slid /ii'll Green taking the lead shortly after the start. beink secondackade a very pretty race all the way up,. 11 d 4fiiti- • Green gradually improved their position by it k , g further in ad - gradually and won by four lengths. Red sec°ll el, and abo ‘ u a t u t c h'ree lengths ahead of Black. ROY AL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SO- The CIET Y. , I ,,Elee on Sat festival . of this excellent charity took 'the ' - 'auirday at the 1 reematons' Tavern. The object the lil34)ciet3,- is the promotion and extension of education in ile arlY 'igill ads and islands of Scatland. It has existed .i tr tih arci s rent urY and a half ; supports 300 schools, and 1 The 1 °f 20,000 children educated under its care. t a t i larquis of Lorne took the chair. Nearly . 100 gyn , t r l i e t.. - el l: o 4l B t t d .. e•wn to dinner, many of them wearing the tit, Th, Lne. b iititgileries were crowded with ladies, and the Inch,ees_s 3 , • 'aen G o r w la nd, the Marchioness of Lcrne, Lady C . Aroin 1 ` l '4 , x. e l', and Lady A. Lennox, accompanied by the e‘'et4 olarquis of Stafford, were present during a part of the -ikf' re.,oll,,edri‘eTeteu,sual loyal toasts had been duly proposed and . Pr Qsr , r ar quis of LORNE gave the toast of the evening— ‘.l-tii.v.eritY to the Royal Ilighland School So . ciety" and i,'"eol•r at .considerafile length on the great utility :ofthus-Awaretl s/ am ucation of Scotland. He concluded it; Aron the of th e i m t th e pr . . por ance (and no one is more ready to admit r, inciples which have led to that division, and ap 4eeding' as I individually do, of many of the positions of the Ita ° of g P . a rt3', 1 can understand no obstacles of reasonin ,a t i h , e_ Poi f wi b lli ng co-operation in the establishment and sup - '1 6 441 se r . ` °l3l s. And, gentlemen, when I look over the '`Ety 4 (),‘ those who are contributors to this S , st tZwnen I look Over the list which I lia , \ t aan y ls moment in my hand—when I see there e l . til t 41,--„entbers of the Church of England, many membvasters ' , iff „ ',lurch of Stl d—and when I remember the . Dleti%„fle.es which must exist among them as to the princi d - Imenliich each conceives such membership to imply- 1 , 1 , 1: w ' - ati I, il see t hem all uniting in support of thi . s Society-- 1 4.(4tini-,',lleation that men can act together in supporting ,,h ... p'essio, ",education, who hold in their hands e same o i ? u ill i°, faith," and even the same books of discipline ? . o Ile , ttaZtgi,,v,enle, gentlemen, for saying so much on this bim -011ort„• ' 4l , u Jeet as it is the first time I have had any pu which aav ;b r e ed so large a h s o o d s y in fr c om the Established Church. I 11(iell•Z,tead3' detained you than 1 had at first intended, ' pr(Z.'-e.only now to ask you to join with me in drinking , t 'rlty to the Royal highland School Society. x ? kr, s oa t was drunk with acclamation. • "'MI TwAR T Q•C then proposed "The Health of the Ar t , e , Chair?, '• - - • the `Roof-tree of ^3'11, , ~ —.an, and prosperity to Th e ti_ lrquis ef LORNE returned thanks. ark' i'lillY other to asts --national and convivial—were given, A rti e thingeven was spent with the utmost cordiality. '''riti•-'3r'g subscripn announced were—the annual 1, 1) /. fn ut i°u of her Majesty 50/. ; the Queen Dowager, t , s ''ticl t .,n ; the Duke of Bu ' ccleuch, 50/. ; the Duchess of 4 ti h n,l- s g e. arn , , 10/. ; the Marquis , of Lorne, 20/. ; Lord Sal- P ''.., joi ''' B. Cahbell, Esq., 10/. 10s. ; J. Matheson, Esq., , 4 (4. ~ • los, • Mr. Stewart, Q.C., 10/. 10s. ; C. Cc:Thrai : ie, s , t 1 . 7ij S. J. ' Hans ' ard, Esq., Si. ss. ; the Caledonian So fi a l 2- " ;J. Wilson, Esq. (aual), 21. 25., &c. Sec. ~ ; 11 c1 NI. tuusical arrangements were admirabe. Mr. IN dson tea th ts a Steele had kindly proffered their valuable services,. ,•""at -teifortner sung several gems of Scottish melody in d',, l ,eb 1... t .„ .i e which has won him such great and merited 'ißlitit-J• Messrs. Broadhurst, Young, and Hatton also Illky red the company with alternate glee and song. We , /t . trq-(1 that the band of the Scotch Fusilier Guards ii.Per,,rent, and last not least, two veritable Highland sn si:tek.l3,4l, ,?cebe!h, the Duke of Sutherland's . retainer,ue ofl s o ' a ti s ...:;- ,ll ,`_h e pper to his late Royal Highness the !) I revweet ~,,. tcd thrcu-h the room discoursing music if not 1.• ,at least so stir'ring, as fairly to rouse the national e. 'Zs of - seCilti o - bottle of the more excitable of the party to the -4 " 4 Highland reel. AMERICAN NEWS. TEXAS. The following intelligence from that quarter, received at New Orleans, is dated Galveston. March 29 : " Just bet' .re the New York left Galveston, a British sloop-of •war, - the Electric, entered that port, bearing dis patches to Captain Elliott, British Envoy, from his Go vernment. It was said that this vessel had a vast amount of money on board, and that the dispatches contained instructioes to Captain Elliott to offer to guarantee the national indepemlence of Texas, provided the annexation resolutions are rejected. It was further reported, that the French Government had also offered the same guarantee on the same conditions. Private advices as sure us, that when these propositions were made known in Galveston, the people snapped their fingers, saying, 'The foreigners were too late.' Captain Elliott set out for the capital immediately after receiving his dispatches. M. Saligny, the French Charge, was already there. A letter from Galveston says, that rumours were afloat as to the purport of the dispatches, to the effect that Great Britain offers to guarantee the independence of Texas, and to make a loan ta the Republic of five millions ster ling, at a low rate of interest, for no other consideration than some commercial advantages. Immediately on the receipt of the passage of the Annexation Bill by Con gress, a meeting of the citizens of Galveston was held, General Meinuan Hunt presiding, at which the most en thusiastic resolutions in favour of the measure were adopted. The various public men of the United States who have urgidd it are highly eulogized by name, and the President of Texas is urged to calla special session of Congress, to ascertain the will of the people con cerning the proposal. The resolutions were passed unanimously." . . CANADA. The Provincial Parliament was prorogued on the 29th of March, by Lord Metcalf in person. The fulloNing is his Lordship's speech on the occasion : " Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly, _ _ "I thank you for your indefatigable attention to the laborious duties which you have had to perform during this unusually long session. I trust that the acts which have been p...ssvd will prove beneficial to the province, and I consider myself justified in especially congratulat ing you on those for improving the administration of justice in Upper Canada, and those relating to education and municipal institutions in Lower Canada, all of which are of the highest value, and promise to render essential service to the community. I regret, at the same time, to notice that severs' important measures have been unavoidably postponed. On this account I am reluctant to part with you, for I am loth to lose your assistance while anything remains to be done which the good of the country requires. Nevertheless I am sensible that your presence is much required at your homes, and that it would be unreasonable to expect your longer at tendance at the present period. Whatever has been left incomplete will I hope be accomplished at our next meeting. " I have had the satisfaction of assenting in her Majesty's name to nearly all the enactments which you have passed, and the few reserved for the decision of her Majesty's Government have been so dealt with under circumstances which, from positive instructions or other wise, have rendered it imperative on me to pursue that course. The Act to amend the Ordnance Act of the last session of the late Parliament comes necessarily under that description, as it affects the property of the Crown. • 4 I have received authentic information of the passing of an Act by the Legislature of the United States which may seriously affect the commercial interests of this province. I will rot fail to submit the subject for the attention of her Majesty's Government, and I am sure that it will receive the most earnest consideration. " Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly, " I return you my hearty thanks for the liberality with which you have provided the requisite means for the due administration of our affairs. I shall anxiously cooperate with you in every measure of economy con sistent with the efficiency of the public service. It is satisfactory to observe that the prosperous condition of our revenue enables us, after providing for a reduction of the public debt by commencing the establishment of a sinking fund for the redemption of the guaranteed loan, to apply a considerable sum to additional public works calculated to produce great advantages. "Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and __ Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly, " You are about to return — to your homes to resume those occupations which in most cases are indispen sable for the support of your families, and which are un avoidably interrupted with some degree of injury to yourselves by your attendance on Parliamentary duties. I earnestly hope that you may be successful in your un dertakings, and I beg you to convey to your several constituencies the assurances that her Majesty's Go vernment ardently desires the welfare of this province, and is anxious that the whole of the inhabitants, with out distinction and with perfect equality, may enjoy all the rights and privileges of a free people, and expe rience the prosperity, contentment, and happiness which are naturally derived from unfettered industry, prudent enterprise, good fellowship, and brotherly love. And now, gentlemen, with the heartfelt wish that you may be partakers in these blessings, I will say farewell until we meet again. I cannot, however, conclude with out expressing my warmest thanks for the aid and sup port which you have afforded to her Majesty's Govern ment by your loyal, zealous, and patriotic labours." THE PRESS AND THE RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (From the Times.) The House of Commons in theory regards it as a breach of privilege for strangers to be present ; in practice it not only per mits, but affords the most ample facility for their presence, and this is managed by allowing the whole public to have entrance by proxy, the proxies of the public being the newspaper reporters, whose presence the House not only tolerates, but of whose inatten tion or inaccuracy it is apt most grievously to complain. By this arrangement thousands, nay millions, are enabled without fatigue and inconvenience to themselves and others, without crowding into a somewhat narrow house, to learn all that takes place. Even here the advantage in having reporters does not end ; the public, and each individual of the public, is enabled in some manner to realise Sir Boyle Roche's supposed impossibility of " being, like a bird, in two places at once;'' indeed, we might say, in twenty; for when the House is subdivided into committees, a citizen of London may attend one, or a gentleman in Cumberland, or Cornwall, may stay at home, and not take the trouble of attend ing any ; and yet virtually, and by his proxy of the press, be present at any, or at all, if he likes. It is, therefore, the citizen's or the countryman's privilege that is in question, and not simply the reporter's, when a Committee takes upon itself to deviate from the usual—and usual because useful—course; and to exclude the gentlemen of the press. It is impossible in the present day to overrate the national importance of railways. Of all these stupendous undertakings, perhaps Group X contains the most vast. If the Committee, in the constitution of its Chairman and members, is not quite so pre-eminent for talent and habits of business , as the Immense amount of property and of public and private interests involved would render de sirable, It is of all the more consequence that its pro. ceedings should be open to the fullest observation. If any where, here, where above one thousand miles of rail.. way are to come under discussion, the public, and particularly that large proportion of the public whose property will be dissected and affected, are entitled to be present and hear all that takes place. Such a thing is, of course, not to be literally attained, but, as we have remarked, it may be substantially through the press. The press, as will be seen by our report elsewhere, are from this Committee most absurdly excluded. The group which this ex. elusive Committee is to consider contains the London and York line, the Cambridge and Lincoln, the Direct Northern, and several other most important lines; and that our readers, if they are pre vented from knowing the merits of these different railways, as brought out by evidence and discussion, may at all events have the advantage of knowing what must be of no little interest to such of them as have shares in or property near to these lines, namely, what sort of conjurors are to tell their fortunes, we here repeat the list of the Committee :—lt consists of Lord Courtenay, Mr. Darby, Mr. I'. Scrope, Mr. M'Geachy, and Mr. B. Wall ! ADMIRAL SIR DAVID AIILNE.—The termination of Sir David Milne's period of service as Commander-in-Chief at this port imposes the very agreeable duty of referring to the three years during which the town of Devonport has been honoured with his presence, aad at the same time induces sincere regret, that his command should with this day cease From the first arrival of the gallant veteran in oar borough, his acts have been one unvaried rould of charity, benevolence, and hospitality. The interests of the town have ever received consideration at his hands, while the comfort and convenience and the safety of the public have no less occupied his marked attention, The active part taken by him in the affairs of several of our most valuable charities, affirmed the goodness of his heart, and the fair and honourable discharge of such duties, when presiding over a public meeting, not only recorded his businass-like habits, but manifested the uprightness of his cha racter. Sir David, while he was 'aver foremost in support of charity, did not shrink from ideqtifying himself with the prosperity of every intellectual and rightly conducted amusement that from time to time visited the town and neighbourhood. He proved himself the warm friend of merit, wherever it could be found, and the cordial assistance rendered by him to the institu tions of the borough impose feelings of the deepest gratitude upon the recipients of his liberality. For ourselves, we can speak strongly of his urbanity and general courteous behaviour, whether in public or private life. In the discharge of our public duty, we have attended various courts of inquiry at which the gallant Admiral presided, and on every occasion his impartiality was pre eminently distinguishable. We regret to say Sir David has latterly been afflicted with illness, but it is our hope that in his retirement from the fatigues necessarily connected with an im portant command, and in the comfort of domestic life, he will speedily regain his wonted health, and live yet many years an ornament to the society in which he moves--Dcvonpori Inde pendent, RUNNING MATCH IN k iIYDE-PARK.—On Monday a good muster of the pedestrian fancy assembled in Hyde.park to witness the foot-race of one hundred yards, between H. Webb (a well.known runner) and a footman. The parties met according to agreement at Mr. Parr's, the Green Man, Green-street, Grosvenor. square, where the stakes of 101. were duly posted. The parties then repaired to the ground, and after the necessary preliminaries a start was effected, the men getting away well together. The footman soon showed in front, and ran at great speed; Webb seemed on the alert, and closely pursued his opponent ; the con test had the appearance of a waiting race, when Webb shot out, his adversary imitating him. They both exerted their pedestrian powers, when the former went in the winner by one yard. A good deal of money was speculated in the betting market, Webb being backed at sto 4. _ _ V-V BROOK• GREEN rAiß.—After an interval of twenty three years, during which time Brook-green Fair, Hammersmith, has lain under the magisterial interdict, it is to be revived on a very extensive scale on Thursday next, the lst of May, the old anniversary, and to be continued for three days. The place selected for the fair is Mr. Day's park, containing thirty acres of land, a short distance from the Clock•house, and near the New road Hammersmith. \\rHITE FISIIING.—We learn that the cod-fishing on the west coast has been prosecuted with considerable success this season, and the takes are still good. By our latest accounts, the price of good fish was 171. 10s. per ton. An instance of rather novel sport occurred, in connexion with this fishing., a few days ago. As a party were sailing in a passage boat round one of the Applecross headlands, they discovered a shoal of cod on the sand in two fathoms of water. The boat con tained, amongst other things, a gaff hook and a fresh herring. The latter was attached to the end of the painter; and after havingbeen lowered amongst the cod, it was gently raised to the surface. On each occasion the bait was followed by one of the voracious fish, which was instantly gaffed and taken into the boat.—lnverness Courier. ERRATUM. — In the notice of the third volume of M. Thiene work, which appeared in The Sun, for—under such circumstances ` bribery was easy "—read 1 1 . victory 19&11 cary.'! COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took an early walk yester day morning in Claremont Park. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Arbuthnot and Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince George arrived at Claremont soon after three o'clock yesterday afternoon from town, to pay a visit to her Majesty and Prince Albert. His Royal Highness took his departure in the afternoon, returning to town via South-Western Railway. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Claremont yesterday afternoon from town, on a visit to the Queen. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an air ing in the pleasure-grounds of Claremont yesterday fore noon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Miss Eden and the Hon. Miss Mitchell, took an airing in the Parks yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice yes terday, at Buckingham Palace. The Royal Duchess left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, in a carriage and four, at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, for Claremont, on a visit to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz went yesterday morning to Kew, returning to Cambridge House in the afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, and attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, paid a visit yesterday to the British Museum. Mr. William Hamilton accompanied the illus trious party through the different departments of the Museum. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening. The Ecclessiastical Commissioners for England had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Durham, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, St. David's, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, and Rochester; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the Earl of Besborough, and Lord Ashley. Archdeacon Marryat had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A meeting of the Commissioners for the government of Pentonville Prison was held at the Colonial-office yesterday afternoon. The Commissioners present were the Lord Pre sident, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Chichester, Major Jebb, Mr. Craufurd, and Mr. Russell. Mr. Emerson Tennent had an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley. The Lord President of the Council and Lady Wharncliffe .eft town yesterday afternoon for Brighton. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. " MONSIt. PHILLIPPE. "It is respectfully announced that the celebrated Monsr. Phillippe, of the Theatre Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, whose extraordinary experiments have created universal astonishment, is engaged to present a short series of his ' Soirees Mysterieuses,' at the St. James's Theatre, which will be commenced to-morrow evening, Tuesday, April 29, and be continued, for a short period only, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday." Such was the announcement which drew us to the St. James's Theatre last evening. We knew not what to expect. Who is Monsr. Phillippe, and what is a " Soirée Mysterieuse ?" Such were the questions we asked ourselves. Sages tell us that the future is to be learned from the study of the past, and, accord ingly, we interrogated the past to enlighten us. There was a Monsieur Phillippe (Due D'Orleans), who flourished in the year 1789, and who, "if they have writ their annals true," held sundry " Soirees Mysterieuses" in his palace, au Palais Royal, which produced the first French revolution. Was Phillippe Due d'Orleans the prototype of this M. Phillippe ? Was M. Phillippe, of the St. James's, about to create a revolution—was he to introduce a reign of terror ? Again, in 1830, there were sundry " Soirees Mysterieuses" at Neuilly, and shortly afterwards, Louis Phillippe, who had assisted at these soirees, became King of the French by the election of the people. Was M. Phillippe about to become a king by the choice of the people ? Then " Les Soirees Mysterieuses," perchance he might, like Sir Robert Peeel, be a financier who was about to create a large surplus revenue. The evening on which Sir R. Peel brought forward his property-tax was a " Soirée Mysteriense." The evening on which he brought forward the tariff was a " Soiree Mysterieuse." The evening on which he proposed the Maynooth Bill was a " Soiree Myste rieuse," and even last Friday, when he brought for ward his project for the regulation of the Scotch and Irish banks, was a " Soirée Mysterieuse," seeing that he refused to give the least information on the sub ject before the arrival of the great, the important day. Now, M. Phillippe is all these. A great revolutionist is he certainly, for he has produced a complete revolution in the art of la blanche majie, which he professes. A king is he, too— the King of Magicians, elected to the throne by the unanimous voice of the people, and certes he is a great financier, for if he do not create a surplus for the treasury of the St. James's by his engagement, there is no love of good acting, and laughter, and fun extant. M. Phillippe is the very Prince of Ma gicians. To him even the renowned Herr Dobler must yield the palm. Last night was the Jena of the Prussians—M. Phillippe is the monarch of his craft, and as one of the Ministers of the St. James's, he must produce a surplus revenue. To attempt to describe the tricks of this the most wonderful of wizards would be as impossible as to attempt to com prehend them. Who can describe the incomprehen sible ? For ourselves, we were contented to sit still and to wonder. We saw basin after basin filled with water, in which were swimming gold fish innume rable, produced from a carpet, which had been pre viously thrown up into the air and spread out before the audience. We saw rings placed in papers and eggs, and flour and water poured into a hat; and from that hat we saw produced—not a pudding, but seven bouquets, to each of which was attached one of the rings, which had been previously placed in paper. From another hat we saw produced bon-bons suf ficient to have stocked a confectioner's shop, and from one stick there were drawn forth more union-jacks than T. P. Cooke has ever waved during the whole course of his career. A hat borrowed from a gentle man who sat next to us, after producing feathers enough to stuff a large bed, brought forth cocks, hens, pigeons, ducks, geese, turkeys — all alive • it was, in fact, a portable Leaden hall-market. Add to this that M. Phillippe is also an excellent actor and a polished gentleman, and the reader may form some faint idea of the treat which is in store for him at the St. James's. It was a just complaint against Dobler that he could not speak a word of English. Now M. Phillippe speaks English excellently well, but with the slightest pos sible foreign accent, which adds immensely to the pi quancy of his entertainment. The house was well and fashionably attended. M. Phillippe will, if we mistake not, become the most popular magician that has appeared of late years. THE COFFEE HOUSE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.-ANNIVERSARY DINNER. The eighth anniversary of the above Association was held last evening, at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate hill. The chair was taken by Mr. Alderman Sydney, one of the sheriffs of the City, supported by General Sir De Lacy Evans, D. W. Wire, Esq., J. Curtain, EEq., Treasurer of the Institution, and several other gentlemen. Dinner was served at six o'clock, and put on the table in a style reflecting the highest credit on Mr. Lovegrove. The viands and wines were of the most excellent quality. The cloth having been removed, and Non .Nobis Domine sung, The CHAIRMAN gave the health of her Majesty, which was drank with great enthusiasm. The remaining loyal toasts were then given and re sponded to with the utmost warmth. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the toast of the " Army and Navy," coupling with it the name of General Sir De Lacy Evans. In doing this he alluded to the exploits of the Gallant General in Spain, and congratulated the members of the Association upon their having amongst them so honourable and distinguiahed a guest.—(Hear.) The toast was drank with all the honours, and amidst loud cheers. Sir DE LACY EVANS returned thanks, and said that he had been absent at the last anniversary meeting of the Association, but it had given him the greatest pleasure upon having the invitation renewed this year, and of accepting it. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the evening. This Institution was one of benevolence simply. The recipients of the bounty of the members of this Institution were those who had been prostrated by misfortune. This was a society which he felt more than ordinary interest in promoting.—(Cheers.) It was a society, it was true, which had been established by humble individuals, but those individuals by this act of charity had ennobled their characters, and rendered them selves worthy of the . admiration of m an ki n d.—(Ch eers. ) The society had been in existence for seven years. It had commenced in a small stream, and had slowly pro ceeded unostentatiously on until it had become an orna ment to the City in which they were assembled. It had been the means of relieving the sorrows and afflictions of deserving, but heart-broken and unfortunate men.— (Cheers.) He had been requested by the Committee to state, that by the next half-year their funds would enable them to advertise for ten pensioners upon their bounty. The amount at present allowed was 131. annually, but the Committee had authorised him to state that they, in many instances, considered this too small a sum, but they were willing to extend the amount if they should be empowered with the means of doing so. They would raise the amount as soon as they felt in a positi on t o d o so.—(Cheers.) He concluded with proposing, " I'ros perity and perpetuity to the London Coffee-h ouse an d E a ting-house-keepers' Association." The toast was drunk with three times three, and loud applause. Mr. HUMPHREYS then announced the following dona tions to the Society, which were received with loud cheers, namely — The proprietor of " The Sun ,, " The proprietor of the "Era , 2 2 0 The proprietors of " Punch ' The Chairman lO 10 0 The Lord Mayor 5 5 0 D. SalOmons, Esq. • General Sir 1)e Lacy Evans D. Wire, Esq. 2 2 0 J. Certain, Esq. THE, SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1845. Sir DE LACY EvANs proposed the health of the Chairman, which was received N‘ith great enthusiasm. The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compli ment, and said that he should be always most happy to do anything calculated to forward the interests of this institution. Mr. WIRE then, in an eloquent speech, proposed the Press, and may it ever be guided by wisdom and virtue, and may all its efforts be to promote the happiness and welfare of mankind. The toast w•as drunk amidst loud acclamation. Mr. BLACKBURN, on the part of the Press, returned thanks. Several other toasts wero then given, and heartily responded to, and the company separated at a late hour, after an evening of most delightful and unalloyed en joyment. During the evening several excellent songs, duets, &c., were given by Mr. G. F. Taylor, Mr. G. Rennie, and R. F. Smith and Moody. LITERATURE. ANNE HATHAWAY; or, SHAKSPEARE 1N LOVE. By Emma Severn. No man has been more celebrated, yet less known than the bard of Avon ' • scarcely any details of his private life ha ve reached our days, while the bright inspirations of his genius will be known and admired through all time. One of the few events which history has recorded is his marriage, at the early age of eighteen, with Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a yeoman of Stratford, then in her twenty-sixth year. This lays the foundation of the tale before us—the rest is the work of fancy. Though bearing a name so celebrated, professing to chronicle the adventures of persons so renowned, it is in reality a work of fiction, not a history of the poet. The "gentle Willie" is its hero, not the immortal Shaks peare. We may congratulate the authoress on this discrimination ; people have ceased to fancy a poet a different being from other mortals ; yet we have all some indistinct, undefined idea of Shakspeare—he is like a mighty wizard, " perceiving all, yet watching unperceived;" he knows our thoughts and feelings, unveils the secret recesses of our hearts, we are awed by his power, and spell-bound by his genius. He is our ideal hero, joined in our minds with all that is grand or sublime—then, should some daring hand seek to disturb the mysteries of the past, and to show us the great poet, only as a man, we should regard the deed as profanation. Anticipating such objections, the authoress has left the poet untouched, and only showed us the ardentand high-spirited youth, such as Shakspeare must have been. Being a tale of do mestic life, it has little variety of. incident or adven ture, but as a compensation we find a series of highly-finished portraits, rendered more forcible by their combination. The calculating, avari cious character of the old lawyer, supposed to have been his master, contrasts admirably with the generous independence of the young poet, and the picture of Anne Hathaway tends to remove our objections to Shakspeare's ill-assorted marriage ; she is described as a thoughtful, enthusiastic girl, yet ren dered wise by longer experience, and consequently better suited to associate with him who was so much above all others. We have one scene from the life of Elizabeth, where she appears in a new and unusual light. —her character drawn with softer touches than historian ever used. We here behold her, not as an imperious sovereign, but as a woman. The " Great Queen" has had many admirers, and many enemies, to give her praise, flattery, or reproach ; but who would offer her sympathy Yet it i s i n th e t ouc hi ng character of one claiming sympathy w ith h er sorrows that the authoress seeks to excuse the faults of this not faultless woman. " If, indeed, as has been eloquently said, she ' lived but for conquest and display ;' if she, indeed, thought in finitely less of bringing a sister queen to the block, than of failing to make an impression on a gentleman usher,' not unto her name wholly be the sin or the shame ; with the crown of her inheritance she won a fearful gift of error and weakness. The heartless levity of her mother's spirit, the obstinate recklessness of her father's will, were the needful and perilous adjuncts to her hope less isolation on a throne. Shut out from the blessings of human sympathy, the dangers of her early life had cast her lot with Ishmael, to exist essentially alone. To live with an enemy is perhaps the bitterest c u r s e ma lignancy need wish to a hated foe ; even to abide over long on the defensive, perverts the un d ers t an di ng , tramples on high thoughts and crushes the whole soul into the mire of mean selfishness. Perhaps there is no woe like unto this woe ; but Elizabeth was selfish—even as a thief-taught child, driven by strong circumstances, becomes a felon ; and at that hour it was her own re grets, her own misfortunes she mourned." _ _ The third volume contains "Martin Luther," and some 'other tales; but the chief attraction of the work is the name of him who has himself said— " What's in a name ? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." The following passage is an example of the fidelity with which the human passions are described : " Memory,' observed Sir Ludovick, evasively, is a true usurer, that multiplies past errors, wrongs, and miseries, ad infinitum, long after they have vanished away. A cursed tyrant is memory, gnawing the heart, and racking the brain with an odious maddening repe tition of circumstance, place, and time, till the mind grows giddy, and the soul sickens at the endless tale.' " You forgot,' replied Sir Fulke, that no remem brance of past woes, no succession of present calamities, can blind and obliterate the vivid picture of past happi ness, or efface the consolation which thought affords, when looking back with thankfulness on the feeblest deed of self-denial, mercy, generosity, or unselfish pur pose carried into effect.' " MUSIC. THE SHOCKING YOUNG MAN, WITH THE GALVANIC RING. ' This is another production from the pen of Mr. Bueler, to whom comedians and comic singers owe a debt of gratitude, and the sooner they pay it the better—a service of plate, for instance, for the service he has done them for so many years, would, doubtless, be very acceptable. A word to the wise—it is better to remember a man alive than dead ! The song is announced as " Beuler's Galvanic Ring," and as such rings are all the fashion, people may as well have his as any ; because, though it won't cure the rheumatism and tic-doloreux, it will tickle their fancy and dispel the blue-devils,' the vapours, and doldrums, and so may prove a good two shillings-worth to humanity. The song is of a racketty gentleman, called young Wit, who wears a galvanic riug to cure him of his tricks, and who, either at the Polytechnic Institution, or the Adelaide Gallery, Mr. B. don't mention which, gets, out of bravado, so overcharged with electricity that he ever afterwards goes through the world shocking people, till, as one verse says:— " At length his appearance was shocking to see! His friends he had shock'd, and, of course. he was shied; And with shocking bad hat' on his head at last he, With shocking intentions, went to the sea-side. And one dull day at Bright on, to finish the spell That was set upon him, he took his last dip; And some say 'twas he that exploded the shell That fired Captain W arner ' s experiment ship! Oh, oh, 0,0, 0, oh! What a shock! ! and I sing Of the shocking young man with the galvanic ring. And then, becoming food for fishes, he is supposed to be the origin of electrical eels, more especially as— " The last one exhibited, dying, did bring To light the true cause that its shocks were so free, For in it was found the great galvanic ring Of the shocking young man who had jump 'd in the sea." It is rather an ingenious story, bearing a good moral, and, like Mr. Beuler's " Shiver and Shakery," may be made much of by the experienced singer. A highly influential deputation of the salt trade of Cheshire and Worcestershire, consisting of Mr. Worth ington, Chairman, Mr. Cheshire, Mr. Ashton, Mr. John son (Runcorn), Mr. Falk, Mr. Fardon, Mr. Lea, and Mr. Granshields, attended by the Right Hon. E. J. Stanley, Mr. George Wilbraham, Mr. 'Patton Egerton, M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., Mr. Tollemache, M.P., Mr. Ireland Blackburne, DLP., Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., M.P., &c. &c., had a lengthened interview with the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, at the India House, yesterday, on the subject of the extension and introduction of British manufac tured salt into India. PEEBLES-SHIRE ELECTION.—It appears that Mr. Forbes Mackensic, the new Lord of the Treas ur y , w ill not be per. mitted to walk over the course quietly. Mr. Carmichael, the son et Sir Thomas Carmichael, has been put forward to oppose h i m by the Liberals of Peebles.shire, and with every prospect of success. ADELPHI THEATRE. — Madame Celeste, under whose excellent management during the present season this favourite theatre has recovered more than its pristine celebrity, takes her benefit to.night , on which oc c asion Buckstone's suc cessful new drama of Green Bushes, with 1 1 11adanie Celeste as Miami, will be repeated for the 75th tune. This will be f o l. lowed by the Pretty Girls of Stilberg, in which Madame Celeste will sustain her original character of Margot, while M r . W e b ster will appear as Ernest, and give his celebrated personation of Napoleon. There arc various other attractions ; and, considering the debt of gratitude which the patrons of this establishment owe to Madame Celeste for the very efficient manner in which she has conducted it, we cannot doubt hut that the house.will be a bumper. DREADFUL FIRE AT WITHERSFIELD, NEAR HAVER 'int..— On Saturday evening last, a most destructive fire took place at Withersfield, when everything on the farm was consumed, in. eluding six score of sheep,. The name of the sufferer is not at present , known ; nor is it ascertained whether or not it is the work of an incendiary. We understand the property is insured in the Norwich Union.--Ipsioich E.Tress. THE VICTORIA PARK.—Since the c ommencement of the present favourable weath er, a co n side rable number of men levelledhasbeenmetropolis. Thecompletely fields adjoining between it and Bethnal green have been thrown open. A cross the latter, two lines of road, each 50 f eet in width, have beenformed in diagonal directions, one leading from Bethnal. green to enter the Park over Bonner's-hall-bridge, and the other to form a continuation of a new road from Cambridge -heath-gate. It is also intended to erect terraces on three of the angular divisions of these fields, leaving that portion of them on the Eastern side in front of the new church of St. James the Less open for an orna mental promenade. The road from Bethnal-green to Wick, where the River Loa forms the Eastern boundary of the Park, is fast progressing towards completion, and we understand that it is intended to purchase Sir George Duckett's Canal, immediately running on the south, with a view to lay out a portion of the Park informing ornamental pieces of water, which can amply be sup. pleid at all times of the year from the canal. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 29. Their Lordships met shortly before Five o'clock. The Bishop of LONDON presented twenty-two petitions, praying the House to discourage the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath. The Duke of RICHMOND brought in a Bill to repeal so much of the Turnpike Act of Scotland, as permitted toll keepers_ to sell spi r it s an d b eer . Th*Bill was read a first time. MAYNOOTH. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the High Sheriff of Bedford in favour of the increased grant to Mayriooth. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM gave notice that oil Tuesday next he would put a question to the Government relating to the power of the chaplain of p risons to keep and conceal fiom the visiting justices the confession of condemned criminals. CHURCH BUILDINGS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The Bishop of LONDON moved the second reading of the Bill for amending the Acts relating to the building of churches. Lord CAMPBELL wished to know if the Bill contained any provisions relating to the law of inortmain. The Bishop of LONDON was understood to reply in the negative. The Bill was then read a second time. Lord STANLEY, in the absence of a Noble Friend, brought up the amendments on the Customs (Import Duties) Bill. He trusted that the discussion, if any, would be taken on the mo tion for going into Committee. The Duke of RICHMOND did not wish to embarrass the Government, but he at the same time would enter his protest against the principle of this Bill, and most assuredly oppose the further progress of the measure at a future stage. On the motion of Lord STANLEY the Auction Duties Bill was read a second time. The Earl of CHICHESTER presented several petitions from places in England and Ireland against the grant to May nooth. He did not concur in their prayer. The Marquis of BREADAL BANE presented numerous petitions to the same effect. RAILWAY ENCROACHMENTS. Lord BROUGHAM wished to call the attention of the House to a petition which he was about to present from Perth, setting forth that there was in the neighbourhood of that town a wide space of ground on the banks of the Tay, which conduced much to the enjoyment, and re creation, and health of the numerous inhabitants. In consequence of the lowness of the grounds, fogs prevailed, and the people attributed the healthfulness of their city to the exercise and fresh air afforded by this beautiful plain. It was called South Inch, and was mentioned with admiration by the Roman historians, and we were told that when the Roman veterans came within sight of Perth they were struck with its resemblance to their own eternal city— which, by the by, was in their time an eternal pest.—(A laugh.) He would not say what it was now—the Roman soldiers exclaimed " ecce Tiber, ecce Campus Martins !" That plain, which the Romans likened to their own Campus Martins was the one to which the petition referred. A change was about to come on it—a land change.—( A laugh.) There was a railway company that had taken a liking to one-half of the ground.—( Hear.) It might be supposed that the magistrates would protect the petitioners. But, no, the magistrates were railway speculators, and all the rich people of the town had shares in the railway, so that the poor inhabitants of Perth looked only to their Lordships for protection. The railway people were sure to succeed fcr they had the Board of Trade in their favour. However one favourite of the Board was thrown overboard that morning.—(A laugh.) He hoped their Lordships would prevent this encroachment. He hoped the petitioners would have the protection of the Noble Duke opposite, who, when there was an attempt made to enclose a part of Hyde Park, came down to oppose the project, and it was given up. When Sir Robert Walpole was asked what it would cost to enclose the Parks, he replied " Three Crowns." He hoped the House would extend the principle to the park of the petitioners, which was as valuable to them as Hyde Park to the metropolis. The NoBLE and LEARNED LORD then presented a petition from Devonport, against the grant to Maynooth, and from the tailors, shoemakers, butchers, bakers, and others from Bermond sey, against the Debtors and Creditors Bill. ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. The Bishop of BANGOR presented a number of petitions in favour of Earl Powis' Bill against the union of those Sees. Lord MONTEAGLE took that opportunity of giving notice that he would, on a future day, move that the second recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should be adopted instead of the third. The second recommendation was that the emoluments of the suppressed see should be applied to increase the incomes of the poor clergy of the diocese. The third recommendation was that they should be applied to augment the episcopal fund ; but he con sidered such an application of them unnecessary now, as the episcopal fund had increased since the report of the Commis sioners. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked would his Noble Friend bring forward the motion upon the second reading of the Noble Earl's (Powis) Bill on Friday ? Lord MONTEAGLE said that he would take whatever course the House might deem most convenient. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to suggest that the motion might be brought forward as an amendment, and to ask the Noble Duke opposite what course he would think most convenient. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the first question would be, that the Bill be read a second time ; and if that was affirmed, that the Bill be committed. Lord MONTEAGLE asked, whether he might not move the insertion of his amendment as a clause in the Committee ? Lord STANLEY said if the Bill were affirmed there would be two bishoprics, and the proposition of his: Noble Friend (Lord Monteagle) would fall to the ground, as there would be no funds to carry it into effect. Lord CAMPBELL hoped the proposition of his Noble Friend would be affirmed, in consequence of the extreme poverty of the Welsh curates. Lord ELLENBOROUGH considered Wales and England all one country, and that we should not deal with the question otherwise than as affecting the whole National Church. Lord POWIS said that it was for the purpose of placing the Welsh Church on the footing of the National Church that he, as a Welshman, had thought it his duty to introduce his Bill. Lord BELHAVEN presented several petitions against the grant to Maynooth. OATHS DISPENSATION BILL. Lord DENMAN moved the second reading of this Bill. He said the Bill was founded on a petition which he had presented to the House on a former occasion, from an individual who had refused to take an oath before the Commissioners of Bankruptcy from conscientious scruples, in consequence of which he was imprisoned, and had now been in prison for three years, and might be kept there all his life. The case, therefore, was one which stood on singular and pecu liar grounds. His Noble and Learned Friend on the Wool sack thought it a case deserving of attention, and as he (Lord Denman) had more time to spare after circuit than his Noble and Learned Friend, he undertook to bring in the sill. The person to whom he alluded was ready to state all he knew, and the Commissioners and the creditors thought he was acting with perfect good faith, and was ready to make every disclo sure for the satisfaction of the judge and the creditors, but the Commissioners had no power to receive his statement till he came and made them on oath. From this short statement he did not think that their Lordships would have any hesitation in applying a remedy. He intended to give the Commissioners a power of receiving statements without the accompaniment of an oath, when they were satisfied that the refusal to take the oath arose from religious scruples, and not from pretended scruples, for the purpose of concealing the truth. He intended that the same penalty should apply to the person who made a false statement as to the person who was guilty of perjury. The Earl of DEVON suggested that it would be better to make provision for the examination of bankrupts by declaration instead of leaving it to the discretion of the Commissioners to say whether the objection to the taking of an oath of any person were conscientious or not. Lord DENMAN entirely agreed in the suggestion of the Noble Lord. He thought it was highly desirable that the de claration should be substituted for the oath in all bankruptcy and insolvent courts. Lord CAMPBELL expressed his concurrence in the object of the Noble Lord, and he trusted the House would give its sanction to the Bill. If the individual who had been alluded to had declared himself to be a Jew, a Separatist, or one of any other sect who objected to oaths, his word must have been taken, and he would have avoided all he had suffered. The Earl of WICKLOW said that he couli not but express his objection to the principle of this measure. He thought that this Bill, which was but a portion of the larger measure, and it was, if possible, more objectionable than the larger mea sure. The principle was the same, and the more suspicious, as it was put forward to claim what it might not be unwise in itself to grant; but when that was granted, it would be impossible to resist the larger encroachment. He had no objection to abolish oaths altogether, and they ought not to extend this provision to the Courts of Bankruptcy, and not to other Courts. Why, if the liberty were granted to declare and not to take oaths before the Commissioners in Bankruptcy, on what ground was the same privilege to be re fused in any other Court? He (the Earl of Wicklow) was ready to abolish the custom of taking oaths in all cases where it possibly could be abolished, and not to confine the applica tion of the principle to any particular party or sect, and con ceiving that the principle as it was then advanced was likely to be mischievous, he should resist it. It was only the same principle that the Noble and Learned Lord had brought for ward and supported by the same arguments, session after ses sion, and without taking the sease of the House upon it; and as he (the Earl of Wicklow) had opposed the principle of the ge neral measure, so he should resist it as it now stood before the House. Lord lIROUG HAM •ould assure his Learned Friend that even the Judges were not prepared to say that even in such a grave matter as the sanctity of an oath there was not that pro tection that was necessary, even with the terror of a prosecu tion for perjury in prospect. But they were not now discuss ing the case of a witness, but one of a rather ano malous character, namely, the position of a bank rupt in the Bankruptcy Court, under the present bankruptcy laws, which was the case of a man called upon to give evidence against himself for having committed a certain offence (for bankruptcy was looked upon by the laws as an offence), and he was called upon to account for his property, how much it was, and what had become of it ; therefore it was an anomaly to subject the bankrupt to the form of an oath, although he would still be liable to the consequences of perjury. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he wished to sug gest that a general declaration should be substituted instead of the oath, and was desirous that the second reading should be postponed for that purpose. According to the suggestion of the Noble Duke, the order of the day was discharged. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, APRIL 28. MAYNOOTH COLLEGE (GRANT FROM CONSOLIDATED FUND). Resolution reported : " That a sum not exceeding 30,0001. be issued out 0 the Conso lidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to defray the expense of purchasing such land, and of purchasing and erecting such buildings as may be required for the College of May noon ; and of repairing, fitting up, and furnishing the said College and buildings; and that provision be also made out of the said Con solidated Fund, for the payment of such annual salaries, stipends, and other expenses at the said College, as may be authorised by any Act to be passed in the present session of Parliament." Resolution read the first time :—Motion made, and Question pra posed, " That the said Resolution be uow read a second time":— Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words " That the" to the end of the Question, In order to add the words, " Report be taken into further consideration upon this day six months," instead thereof: —Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 232. Acland, Sir T. D. Estcourt, T. G. Owen, Sir John Acland, T. D. Etwall, Ralph Parker, John A'Court, Captain Ferguson, Sir R. A. Patten, J.. W. Adderley, C. B. Fitzmaurice, W. Peel, Sir Robert Aglionby, 11. A. Fitzroy, Henry Peel,'Jonathan Aldam, William Flower, Sir J. Pennant, Colonel Archbold, Robert Forster, Matthew Philips, G. R. Armstrong, Sir A. Fox, C. R. Pigot, Sir R. Arundel, Earl of Fremantle, Sir T. Praed, W. T. Haillie, Colonel Gardner, J. D. Posey, Philip Baine, Walter Gaskell, J. M. Bowdon, Colonel Baird, William Gladstone, W. E. Redington, T. N. Barclay, David Gladstone, Captain Reid, Sir John Baring, F. T. Godson, Richard Repton, G. W. J. Baring, Thomas Gordon, Captain Rice, E. R. Baring, W. B. Gore, Montague Roche, E. B. Bernard, Viscount Goulburn, Henry Roebuck, J. A. Barron, Sir H. Graham, Sir J. Round, John Bell, Matthew Granby, Marquis Rumbold, C. E. Bell, John Granger, T. C. Russell, Lord J. Bellew, R. M. Greene, Thomas Russell, J. D. W. Blackburne, J. I. Halford, Sir H. Rutherford, A. Blake, 111. J. Hamilton, W. J. Seymour, Lord Bodkin, W. H. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymour, Sir H. Bolden), H. G. Harcourt, G. G. Shell, R. L. Borthwick, Peter Ilatton, Captain Shelburne, Earl Botfield, Beriah Ilawes, Benjamin Sheridan, R. B. Bowes, John Heneage, Edward Smith, Benjamin Bowles, Admiral Herbert, Sidney Smith, J. A. BowringZDr. Hervey, Lord A. Smith, Vernon Broadwood, H. Ilincle, J. 11. Smith, T. B. C. Browne, W. Hobhouse, Sir J. Somerville, Sir W. Brownrigg, J. S. Hogg, J W Bruce, Lord E. Holland, Robert ' Sotheron, T. H. Buller, Charles Holmes, W. A'Court Stanfield, W. R. C. Campbell, Sir H. !lope, Charles - Stanton, W. H. Cardwell, Edward Hope, G. W. Staunton, Sir 0. Carew, W. H. P. Horsman, Edward Stewart, John Castlereagh, Viscount Howard, P. H. Stuart, Lord J. Cavendish, C. C. Howard, Sir R. Stuart, W. V. Cavendish, G. H. Hume, Joseph Strutt, Edward Chapman, B. Hutt, William Sturt, H. C. Charteris, Francis James, William Sutton, li. M. Chelsea, Viscount James, Sir W. C. Tancred, H. W. Childers, J. W. Jermyn, Earl Tennent, J. E. Clay, Sir W. Jocelyn, Viscount Thesiger, Sir F. Clayton, R. R. Labouchere, Henry Thontely, Thomas Clerk, Sir George Lambton, H. Tollemache, F. J. Clifton, J. T. Lascelles, W. S. Towneley, John Clive, Viscount Layard, Captain Trelawny, J. S. Clive, R. 11. Lemon, Sir C. Trench, Sir F. W. Cockburn, iir G. Lennox, Lord A. Trotter, John Colebrooke, Sir T. Leveson, Lord Vane, Lord H. Collett, John Lincoln, Earl Vernon, G. H. Collins, William Listowel, Earl Villiers, Viscount Corbally, M. E. Loch, James Walker, Richard Curry, Henry Lyall, George Wall, C. B. Courtenay, Lord Macaulay, T. B. Warburton, Henry Craig, W. G. Macnamara, Major Ward, H. G. Cripps, William M`Neill, Duncan Watson, W. H. - - Dalmeny, Lord Mahon, Viscount Wellesley, Lord C. Dalrymple, Captain Mangles, R. D. White, Samuel Darner, Colonel Manners, Lord C. S. Williams, William Davies, D. A. S. Marshall, William Wllshere, W. Dawson, T. V. Martin, John Winnington, Sir T. Denison, W. J. Martin, C. W. Wood, Charles Denison, John E. Martin, T. B. Wood, Colonel T. Dennistoun, J. Mildmay, A. St. John Wortley, Lord D'Eyncourt, C. T. Milnes, R. M. Wortley, James S. Dickinson, F. H. Mitcalfe, Henry Wortley, John S. Douglas, Sir C. Mitchell, T. A. Wrightson, W. B. Douro, Marquis Mordaunt, Sir J. Wynn, C. W. W. 1 Dundas, David. Murphy, F. S. Wyse, Thomas East, J. B. Nichell, John Yorke, IL R. EastnOr, Viscount Norreys, Lord Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS. Emlyn, Viscount O'Conor,:Don Young, John Escott, Bickham O'lerrall, R. M. Baring, Henry Esmonde, Sir T. Oswald, Alexander MINORITY-NOES, 119. Acton, Colonel Entwisle, Wiliiam Mackenzie, T. Alexander, N. Ewart, William Maclean, Donald Antrobus, Edmund Farnham, E. B. M'Taggart, Sir J. Ashley, Lord Feihten, W. Marsland, Henry Austen, Thomas Fellowcs, Edward Mastennan, John Itankes, George Ferrand, W. B. Maule, Fox Beckett, William Filmer, Sir E. Morgan, Charles Beresford, Major Fitzroy, Lord C. Morris, David Berkeley, Craven Ffolliott, John Muntz, G. I'. Blackstone, W. S. Forbes, William Neeld, Joseph Blewitt, R. J. Forman, T. S. Neeld, John Bouverie, E. P. Fox, S. L. Newdegate, C. N. Bright, John Fuller, A. E. Newry, Viscount Brisco, M. Goring, Charles O'Brien, A. S. Broadley, 11. Greenall, Peter Palmer, Robert ltrocklehurst, J. Grimsditch, T. Pattisou, James Brotherton, Joseph Grogan, Edward Pechell, Captain Bruen, Colonel Hallyburton, Lord Philipps, Sir IL B. Buckley, Edmund Hamilton, J. 11. Plumptre, J. P. Burrell, Sir C. Hamilton, G. A. Polhill, Frederick Burroughs, 11. N. Hampden, Renn Protheroe, Edward Chetwode, Sir J. Hamner, SirJ . Richards, Richard Christopher, R. A. liastie, Archibald Rolleston, Colonel Cole, 11. A. Ileathcote, G. J. Rushbrooke, Col. Colvile, C. R. Henley, J. W. Ryder, G. D. Compton,:M. C. hill, Lard M. Sibthorp, Colonel Copeland, Alderman Hindley, Charles Smith, Abel Crawford, W. S. Humpliery, Alderman Smollett, A. Curteis, 11. B. Hussey, Ambrose Spooner, Richard Dawnay, W. 11. Je vis, John Spry, Sir S. I'. Deedes, William Johnson, General Taylor, Edward Denison, E. B. Johnstone, Hope Thompson, Alderman Dick, Quintin Kemble, Henry Tollemache, John Douglas, J. D. S. Knight, F. W. Tower, Christopher Duke, Sir J. Knightley, Sir C. Tumor, Christopher Duncan, George Lawson, Andrew Verner, Colonel Duncombe, T. Lefroy, Anthony Wakley, Thomas Duncombe, 0. Leslie, C. I'. Du Pre, C. G. Long, Walter TELLERS. Eaton, R. J. Lopes, Sir R. Inglis, Sir II 11. Ellice, E dward Lowther, Sir J. 11. Law, C. E. Amendment proposed, at the end of the Resolution, to add the words " until provision shall be made for the same, by any Act to be passed in this or any subsequent session of Parliament, either out of any surplus in the hands of the Ecclesiastical Commiss oners of Ire land, or by an assessment of the Lands of Ireland to an amount equivalent to the remission of Tithes made to the Landlords of Ire by the Tithe Commutation Act, as Parliament may deem most ad visable :"—Question put, " That these words be there added." The House divided:— MINORITY-AYES, 52. Aglionby, H. A. Granger, T. C. Staunton, Sir G. Aldan, William Hallyburton, Lord Stansfield, W. R. C. Baine, Walter Hawes, Benjamin Stuart, Lord J. Barnard, E. G. Hill, Lord M. Stuart, W. V. Bell, John 'Lindley, Charles Strutt, Edward Berkeley, Craven Hume, Joseph Thornely, Thomas Blake, M. J. Hutt, William Trelawny, J. S. Blewitt, R. J. Johnson, General Wakley, T. Bouverie, E. P. M‘Taggart, Sir J. Walker, Richard Bowring, Dr. Marshall, William Warburton, H. Brotherton, J. Marsland, H. Worsley, Lord Christie, W. D. Martin, John Williams, W. Collett, John Mitchell, T. A. Wyse, Thomas Curteis, H. B. O'Connell, 11. J. Yorke, Henry R. Dennistoun, John Philips, G. R. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Pechell, Captain TELLERS. Etwall, Ralph Rice, E. R. Ward, H. G. Ewart, William Roebuck, J. A. Tancred, H. W. Forster, M. Smollett, Alexander MAJORITY—NOES, 128. A'Court, Captain Douglas, Sir C. Lopes, Sir R. Adderley, C. B. Duncombe, 0. Lowther, Sir J. Alexander, Nathaniel East, James B. Macnamara, Major Antrobus, Edmund Escott , Bickh am M'Neill, Duncan Anindel, Earl Esmonde, Sir Thos. Martin , C. W. Archbold, Robert Estcourt, T. G. B, Milnes , R. Monckton Ashley, Lord Farnham, E. B. Mordaunt, Sir J. Baillie, Colonel Fitzroy, Henry Newry, Viscount Baring, Thomas Fitzmaurice, lion. W. Niclioll, John Fremantle, T. O'Conor Don Baring, Rt. lln. W. B. Flower, Sir James O'Brien, A. S. Barron, Sir 11. W. Sir Blackburne, J. I. Gaskell, J. M. Patten, J. W. Bodkin, Wm. Henry Gardner , John Dunn Peel, Sir R. Bolder°, H. G. Gladstone , W. E. Peel, Jonathan B or thwick, Peter Gladstone, Captain l'igot, Sir R. Botfield, Beriah Godson, Richard Polhill, Frederick Bowles, Admiral Gordon, Captain Pusey, Philip Broadwood, Henry Gore, Montague Rave don, Col. Browns, W. Goulburn, 11. Repton, G. w. J. Brownrigg, J. S. Graham, Sir J. Round, John Bruce, Lord E. Greene, T. Shell, R. L. Cardwell, Edward Grimsditch, T. S s o p m .w e n s e , , J , Joseph Carew, W. 11. P. c e h a ma man.ppb cl, Sir ße n l i l a t m i g i l i, Hamilton, llain i It o n Raiford, Sir 11. L G o e r o d re ClaudA .Smith, T. B. C. Sotheron, T. H. Childers, J. W. Hamilton, W. J. Clayton, R. R. Sutton, Henry Ilenley, J. W. Clerk, Sir G. Tennent, J. E. Herbert, Sidney Clifton, John T. Thesiger, Sir F. Hervey, Lord A. Clive, Robert H. Thompson, Aldermai Ilinde, John 11. Clive, Viscount Tollernache, F. J. C c o o l p N e - i l l a e l , ld e : Hogg, James W. l i l l o o l i :7s ( ,:1 1 - 1, ...A'Court Trotter, John Trench, Sir F. W. Cockburn, Sir G. Aldermanß. Hope, Charles Vernon, G. H. Corry, n l y l , e i‘ n C o r 1 Villiers, Viscount l?t • tthew E. Hussey, Ambrose Howard, Philip 11. Wellesley, Lord C. Wood, Colonel T. Courtenay, Lord James, Wm. Wortley, James S. Cripps, William James, Sir Walter Wortley, John S. Darner, Colonel Jermyn, Earl Wynn, C. W. W. Darby, George Jocelyn, Viscount Davies, David A. S. Lennox, Lord A. TELLEas. Dawson, T. V. Lincoln, Earl Young, John Denison, E. B. Lascelles, Hon. W. S. Baring, Henry Dickinson, F. H. Loch, James FREE-TRADE BAZAAR.—The value of the contri butions prepared for the great Free-trade and Anti-corn-law Eerier about to be held in Covent-garden Theatre is already above 39,0104 RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) Group X. The Committee on this group re-assembled this morning in room No. 8, which is a larger and more convenient room than the one in which the Committee assembled yesterday. Of the proceedings in the Committee yesterday, of course, we know nothing, the ',porters having been excluded. At the sitting of the Committee this morning Captain Gossett made arrangements for the accommodation of the reporters. EXCLUiION OF THE REPORTERS YESTERDAY. Shortly after the Committee assembled this morning they re tired and remained in consultation with Mr. Creed, the Committee Clerk, for about ten minutes. On their return into the Committee room, Lord COWITENAY (the Chairman) addressing the assembled crowd in the body of the room, said—l am requested by the Committee, before we go in to the business of the day, to say that, biotin g observed certain paragraphs in the morning newspapers which lead us to think that some misconception existed as to the authority under which Mr. Creed acted, in the steps he took in reference to clearing the room yesterday, without going at all into the subject, we think it due to our Committee Clerk to state that whatever steps he took were in pursuance of the express directions of the members of the Committee as a whole, and that they were such as the Committee deemed necessary yesterday, in consequence of the exceedingly crowded state of the room, and many of those having business here being seriously inunvenienced. This of course makes the matter worse. The Chairman has ac. knowledge(' that he excluded the press from the room, as they had no business there, for this is the natural and only inference to be drawn from the concluding sentence of the Chairman's explanation this morning. With respect to his Lordship's declaration that the room was crowded to the inconvenience of persons hav ing business there, we can only say, that the places which had been occupied by the reporters at the sitting of the Committee remained unoccupied after they had left them. The room, after the second clearance, was not incon veniently crowded, but was capable of holding at least fifty persons more than it then contained. The manner of Creed was most of. fensi( e, and he suggested the clearing of the room, by saying to Lord Courtenay, " I think, my Lord, you had better clear the room," to which Lord Courtenay nodded assent. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM applied for a Speaker's warrant to compel the attendance of a person named Harvey, who had re fused to attend before the Committee.—Ordered. The CHAIRMAN said the Committee would take that opportunity of stating that as at present advised they did not mean to sit on Eaturday In the event of the investigation not terminating before NVhitsuntide, they meant to adjourn from the Friday in the week preceding‘Vhit-Sunday for as long a period as the House shall ad. journ for. The Committee then proceeded with the clauses in the Ely and Whittlesea Deviation Railway Bill. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM opened the case for the promoters of this line. He entered into a detail of the course that the line is intended to take. The whole length of the line with branches was between 327 miles and 328 milts. The main line from London to York Was 185 miles, and the line which was called the loop, from Peterborough to Bawtry, was 86 miles. The Wakefield branch was i 9, the Sheffield Branch 21 miles, the Stamford Branch 4% miles, and the branch to Bedford, from a place called Potten, north of Biggleswade, 7% miles. The space that the proposed railway would accommodate was nearly 4,500 square miles, con.. taining 2,840,000 acres of the most productive part of the kingdom. The annual amount of produce of this portion of the country was six millions and a half. This was the amount exported, and the amount imported was 4,300,000!. a year, thus making the traffic on both 10,800,080/. The present cost of conveyance was, for exports 440,000/. a year, and imports 720,000/., making together 160,000/. This line would be the means of reducing the 444,0001. to 180,0001., and 720,000/. to 350,000/. This was for goods traffic alone. The amount for passengers paid now was about 435,0001. a year, and this cam would be reduced by the construction of the present Hue to 185,000!., being a saving of 250,000!., or a total saving of 880,000!., or equal to a saving of 245, for every man, woman, and child, rich and poor, young and old, residing in the districts. The Learned Counsel was proceeding with: his speech when the Speaker was announced to be at prayers, and the Committee adjourned till to.mortow. Group B. The Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morning. LEEDS AND DEWSBURY LINE. Mr. BusEs intimated that an agreement had been made between the Leeds and Manchester Company and the Leeds and Hudders field Company respecting the line between Leeds and Dewsbury, which would render that scheme an unopposed line. BAIL IN ERROR BILL. On tne motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Bail in Error Bill was read a second time, and went through Com mittee pro forma. AUCTION DUTIES BILL. Earl DALHOUSIE moved the second reading of the Auc tion Duties Bill. Upon the question that the Bill be now read a second time being put, Lord BROUGHAM said that this was the only part of the budget that he did not exceedingly approve of. He thought it a very unwise and ill-considered measure, and that it pro ceeled upon an erroneous view of the snbject. Nobody had objected to the existence of this tax, and nobody felt gratified for its repeal. The Bill required that the auetioneer should always have his licence in his pocket, and any Excise officer might call upon him to produce it, and if he did not immediately do so or pvy 101., and it might sohappen that he had not the 10/. either, he would be liable to be sent to prison for a month. The Bill was still more objectionable in its provisions relating to distress for rent. The Bill allowed any person to distrain and sell the goods by auction, provided the rent was under 20/, This remission of the auction duty was one of the re liefs which was the consequence of the property-tax, and he was bound to mention this instance, because it deeply im plicated a certain department which he should not mention. It did not reflect on the Government, but h e s h ou ld hand . them the paper which he held in his hand, in order that the Government might take the uroper notice of it. H e s hould state the circumstance as a warni ng to e . property tax commissioners in every part of th e country, that Parlia ment would visit such gross carelessness as was evinced in this case with its highest displeasure. The circumstance was this :—a person went into a chandler's shop to purchase some trifling article, and when he got home, to his exceeding sur prise, he (mid that it was wrapped up in a piece of paper on which was written the signed return and statement I of gross amount and the net income of the trade and profession of a gentleman residing in his own district—a paper which ought. to have been sacred from every et except those of the Commissioners for levying the tax. lie (Lord Brougham) conceived this to be an act of such gross careless ness, as to amount to malversation of trust—a degree of care lessness, which, unless he had seen it, he could not have con ceived. With these observations he should hand this paper to the members of the Government.—Here the Noble Lord walked up towards the Lord Chancellor and returned to his place with a paper in his hand, and then, addressing the Noble Lord opposite, said he hoped his Noble Friend would never be guilty of a greater irregularity than handing a paper to the Lord Chancellor, who was the Chairman of the House of Lords, and if he should, he would be visited accordingly.— (Laughter.) But with regard to the question now before their Lordships, he had known an instance of a person who was about to purchase a villa ; but he was told that the owner had returned as nothing to the Income-tax Commissioners, and was about to become bankrupt, and therefore he had better have nothing to do with it. He knew another instance of a friend of his, who had lost many thousands a year of his property by the effects of the war ; but he durst not disclose that, lest he might be ruined by it. Those were facts which he thought it would be well to bear in mind, in the event of the renewal of the income-tax after the expiration of the present period. Lord STANLEY concurred in much that had fallen from his Noble Friend opposite; but the observations of his Noble Friend applied only to one or two particulars of the Bill, and not to its principle. His Noble and Learned Friend thought that it would have a tendency to lower the character of the auctioneer. But that could scarcely be the effect when it raised the licences of the lower class of auctioneers to 101. Certainly, if the amount of licencethad anything to do with raising or lowering the character of the auctioneer, the Bill would have the effect of raising the character. His Noble and Learned Friend objected also to the clause requiring the auc tioneer to produce his licence at any auction, if required, or to deposit 10/. LortrBROUGHAM sad that he objected to the enforce ment. Lord STANLEY said it could be no more hardship to an auctioneer than to the sportsman to produce his licence. But these were details that could be considered in Committee. The Bill vras then read a second time. On the motion of Lord STANLEY the Colonial Passengers Bill was also read a second time. The House then adjourned to Friday. 110 USE OF COMMONS, April 29. There being but twenty nine Members present at Four o'clock, the House adjourned, being the first time this session that there has been " no House." LEEDS AND HUDDERSFIELD. Mr. BAINES stated that this Bill was for power to construct a railway between Leeds and Cooper.bridge, for facilitating the local traffic between Leeds and Dewsbury and Huddersfield. The cost of this line would amount to about 620,0001. or 630,0001., and the line, it was calculated, would yield a return of 71. per cent. on the capital. Mr. John Gott, of Leeds, Mr. Thomas Coke, a manufacturer, of Dewsbury, and Mr. Williams, woolstapler, of Huddersfield, - gave evidence of the necessity which existed in the district fee the line; and the traffic returns were spoken to by Mr. Thomas Taunton; while Mr. J. Grainger, engineer, of Glasgow, proved that there were no engineering -.CIL; eulties on the line ; the line would Le 16 miles in length, and the cost of construction 463,4291., or 45,000/. per mile. The principal difficulty would be one tunnel and four or five arches. The Committee declared that the preamble of the Bill had been proved. The consideration of the various clauses in the Bill was post: poned till Friday. LEEDS AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION. The evidence in this case was then resumed. Mr. Hardy lived in Loumore, and managed the Loumore Iron. works. The West Riding Railway would pass over three miles ,of his father's property, and through the township of North Birely, the population of which was 9,941. The line would, in his opinion, afford great accommodation to this district. The West Yorkshire line would be very acceptable to the inhabitants. Mr. L. W. Wickham, a magistrate of the West Riding, gave similar evidence in favour of the line. Mr. Pawson a cloth.manufacturer of Farnley, about four miles from Leeds, gave corroborative testimony. Mr. William Watson Greenwood, a millowner, Lt Bank-tep, in the township of North Bireley, near to Bradford, stated, that the West Riding line would be a great accommodation to the mill. owners of that district. Mr. W. Cheesebow, a woolstapler, a Bradford, consumed 10,000 sacks of wool annually. The West Riding line would in his opinion facilitate the trade and traffic of the district. Bradford had a population of 80,000, which was rapidly increasing. It was the emporium of worsted, and mi o ht be looked upon as the Man. chester of Yorkshire. Mr. W. Walker, another wooldealer of Bradford, gave similar testimony, and said the line would be a saving to Bradford of 20,0001. in coals alone. Mr. C. Kaye gave corroborative testimony. Mr. J. R. Ralph, a magistrate of the West Riding, proved that the proposed station of the West Riding Company in Halifax was infinitely superior and better situated than the one which the West Yorkshire Company intended to erect. Mr. John Waterhouse, and Mr. T. Danson, both of Halifax, concurred in the opinion of Mr. Ralph. Mr. Ashton Haben, a mill-owner of Sowerby.bridge, said the West Yorkshire line would not benefit that place is the least. He was induced to entertain this opinin by the fact that the popu lation already had the advantage of a railway, turnpike-road, and a canal. Mr. S. H. Walker, of Stainland, said the population in the neighbourhood of Copley Bridge amounted to upwards of 15,060, who preferred the West Riding line to the West Yorkshire. Mr. Walter Smith, of Chand, gave corroborative testimony. Mr. Anderton, a worsted-spinner, of Cleckheaton, said the West Riding line would be a great convenience to the district with which he was connected —The Committee then adjourned. Group 0. TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. The Committee appointed to investigate the lines in Group 0 met at twelve o'clock in Room 13. The Committee consisted of Mr. Hawes (Chairman), Mr. F. French, Lord Emlyn, Mr. Smoi. let, and the Hon. Mr. Char teris. Mr. Talbot, Mr. Merewether, and Mr. Lucas appeared for the promoters of the line. Nobody appeared to oppose the preamble. Mr. Forsyth appeared on behalf of the Grand Junction, who put in a petition respecting certain clauses. There was also a petition from Mr. Pease, one of the Shareholders, who objected to some of the arrangements which had been made. It appeared, from the statement of Counsel, that the line was to run from Staftbrd to Rugby, and was about 49i miles in length. The estimated cost vas about 900,060/., and from the passengers and amount of traffic it wis expected that the return would give about ten per cent, on the capital. There were branches called the Potteries Branch and the Aldrus Branch, but it was not pro posed to go into them at present. The following witnesses were then called : Mr. Charles Wilkinson, clerk to Mr. Wheeler, solicitor to the Trent Valley Company, examined by Mr. McaewEviten—The capital of the Company is 1,250,000/. The shares subscribed amount to 1,145.15401. The shares paid up amount to 114,634/. There are nineteen subscribers who have a local interest, and who have subscribed 12,760 1 . Mr. Fox, one of the agents, produced tables showing the traffic. This traffic would be chiefly derived from other lines of railway. Thomas L. Gooch, engineer, examined by Mr. LUCAS-The length of the proposed line was 49 miles and some chains. The worst gradient on the line was 1 In :264, and that but for a quarter of a mile. There were no engineering difficulties on the line. The preamble was then passed, and the clauses were postponed to Thursday. The Committee then proceeded to consider the Grand Junction Potteries Branch. Mr. COCKIVIIN opened the case for the promoters of the Bill. The proposed line was intended to run from Stoke, the centre of the Potteries, to Basstord, a distance of twelve miles and three furlongs. The expense of the line would be 9.60,0001., and tables of the estimated traffic would be laid before the Committee. It would be proved that the cost of conveying the staple goods of the Potteries to Liverpool would be diminished by thirty-three per cent. There was only one tunnel along th e li ne, and that only of si x hundred yards long. The peepest gradient was only 1 in 100, which was not one of a formidable character. The Trent Valley Company had entered into conditions entered into, advantagesw h en thewhole a the line Pottery was str to extend the propose d line b y makin g a lin e from Stoke to Staf ford. He had no doubt but the Trent Valley Company would per formon the ct conditions would they afford the greates t districts. There would be a traffic on the line which w ould afford c onstructed a good remunerative profit to the p romoters of it. Evidence was then adduced confirmatory of the statement made by counsel, after which the Committee adjourned. Group V. HULL AND GAINSBOROUGH, AND GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION LINES. The Committee on this group sat this day at twelve o'clock, and some preliminary objections having been disposed of, Mr. HOPE said he would now proceed with the statement, fur he believed that his having varied preliminary objections was no waiving of his right to state what the merits of his case would be. In laying this statement before the Com mittee he would take care to make as few observations as possible, and to confine himself entirely to facts, and to a description of the evidence he would adduce in support of this project, and then it would be for the opposing parties to refute the evi dence by evidence to contradict his facts. He begged to observe that if ever there was a case in which counsel need do no more than confine himself to a statement of facts, It was this, for the project proposed to run a line of railways through what he would call a 'virgin county, and therefore if the Committee should be of opinidn that a railway was necessary in that county, he hoped to show that the proposed line would be the most convenient and useful ; but at present there was not one at all in it. The map presented a number of beautiful sneanderings of railways which did not exist, for the only line now existing in the north of Lincolnshire was the Hull and Selby line. But so great was the want of the projected line felt by the people in that county that they had often to traverse a distance of from fifteen to thirty miles to get on the Hull line, and after having traversed a circuit of nearly 100 miles, they often found themselves in the same latitude as when they left home; and they had no rode of communication by water. The county was bounded by four rivers; but the interior had no water mode of transit except by one river, which traversed a great circuit, until it eventually got into the Eyre and Caldon Canal, and even thatarra was often interrupted. On these grounds then, he was warr anted Th ed edis l _ saying that this county was at present a virgin trict was essentially an agricu ltural one, forand had not Li, an aburi the dense populati Sh e ffield an Wakefield, on of d a nt population. but it provided f ood ill d akefield, and therefore Lincolnshire found markets for necessarieso w of life in these there wu two great of the the first nor Lincolnsh ire thef n o coal ; and at the other place a toucbed by the une, to i n t s s . produce T hen, in