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etch , ' with the above.named port. Length of line 18 miles ; c lammed cost 250,0001. Engineers, Gorge Leather and Son. Mr. tLLICOMBE am eared for the promoters of the line. Petitions were presorted from the following gentlemen sLaist the promoters : The Proprietors of the Navigation of the Rir cr Don—Agent, Mr- Sheppard. From Mr. Robert Baster, landed proprietor—Agent, Mr. Parkes. From Messrs. Knight and Jones, landed proprietors—Agent, Mr. Lang. There seas also a petition from a Mr. John Fordon, but no agent a lVearing on his behalf, the petition falls to the grourd. The formal notices having been proved, Mr. SHEPPARD on behalf of the proprietors of the River Don, submitted the first allegation in the petition. The allegation was, that the notices which appeared in the Gazette and newspapers were insufficient for the objects of the Present Bill inasmuch as the original notices were for application to Parliament for a line of railway of 39 miles in length, whereas they had since a b an d one d near l y one h a lf t h e wor k s, an d th e i r ill now asked but for power to make a I:ne of 18 miles. •Air• ELLICOMDE maintained that the notices were good, inasmuch 14 t hey had not taken any new districts by the present Bill, and the notices in the Gazette had provided for the owners and occupiers of the pro; erty to be affected. 11.1 r. SHEPPARD contended that the notices were informal. He wo uld refer th e C omm i ttee to the precedent in the case of the Direct Nott hErn Railway, w hi c h was th rown ou t o f t h e S tan di ng O r d ers ' t'°onittee, principally through their having abandoned the greater Part of lin e . Th ere was anot h er case i n po i nt, t h at o f t h e Fells and Derehamoshich was also thrown out ; and the promot,rs 14 that line had only abandoned a very small portion of their works. lhe room was t h en c l eare d , an d , a f ter some d e lib erat i on, t h e Parti " were called in, and informed by the CHAIRMAN that the It tOng orders in that instance had not been complied with. 11 next allegation was, that t!,e promoters proposed in their 'co, to let or, • lease part of their works to the Midland fiailway ._cl ra PanY, whereas the notices issued did not ention that fact ; 7n that this w as asking for powers not only for m themselves but for re Company to add to their existing works. The room was cleared, and upon return, Ole CHAIRMAN said, that "Id not been complied with. in this instance the standing orders of ' i t few trifling allegations w ere th en sus t a i ne d, on th e groun d Den of noti: e t o cer t a i n owners an d occup i ers o f p ro . 2 - 0 n the proposed line „_ i s closed t h e petition. for the proprietors of the River Don Group 0. GRAND JUNCTION POTTERIES LINE. Th e C ommittee having met at the usual hour, est ‘ h ° CHAIRMAN, in reference to the point which had been urged th e "ddY by Mr. Macaulay, of being allowed to give evidence on te - u P i ar t of certain landowners in the Pottery districts, with respect sou: "ernes of railway for those districts, said that he had con. ttot e - C l °elnber s of great experience upon the subject, and their lillote "W4 s, that Counsel on behalf of the landowners might be Or 1 1 : d . ~t o give general evidence in reference to those schemes. th 'oPeland, M.P. for Stoke.upon-Trent, examined—l was one iiep r e Promoters of a r a il wa y s cheme for the Potter i es, with a °I having a communication towards London and Liverpool. s on w nded the meeting of the 18th of October. There were per. ile...._ 4tte nding on behalf of several railway companies. After 4: 1 '1 the various lines discussed, and the opinions of km' c onstitue n t s, I advocated the line from Rug b y b y Ilar and Stone to Crewe. I think the line to ten aord i nconsistent with the line I have just mentioned. The 111, 4 : 11 °Pinion was in favour of the Birkenhead. The line to pa se : r .,d w ould not be listened to for a moment. I always op. tor_ t he line f rom B assford to Stoke. I presented a memor i al tt rl Dalhousie against the line proposed by the Grand June. I "VanY• The preamble of the Bill for the line which Pre c ferred Was passed by a Committee of the House It . "n ° oo s, after being sixty.fonr days before them. th -14 nut followed up on account of the lateness of the session and be=et expense which it would occasion. The line which I I,ot:d was a line from Manchester to London through the oones The Cburnet Valley line were defeated on the Stand. s.err. They st ill i ntend to come to Parl i ament for their line. Part °f examined b y Mr. COCKBURN—We i ntend to propose, as and neCh urnet Valley scheme, a line. from Macclesfield by Leek The ii„ "e , t eri to join the Derby Junction line at Willington. lilit p ;" ° `Letween Stoke and Leek is also to stand. There is also a f c,°red from Leek to Congleton. There is to be a double Pos e 4 ° , l ° Leek to Stoke and from Congleton to Stoke. We pro !pent Valley the line from Stoke to Rugely, and to run on to the .ora line. Ido not know if the line from Stoke to Staf. Italie alto gether abandoned. I was a director of the Trent VithYne- I did not cease t o b e a di rector o f th a t li ne to be li / lep to the promotion of the present :cheme. I ceased with t , a director, because some arrangements were made P alle ) ," e li ? ' lr toingha ' rn and London Company for leasing the Trent tho• ughtner of which I was k ep t i n i gnorance , an d th e r e f o re th, my services were no longer necessary. It is part of A tu__ nel "'e to mak e a line from Stoke to Crewe b y H arecast l e. the ex h s hould be cut through Harecastle. I cannot say what orae d Pe , n 'e might be. We were always led to believe that the c Junct ion Company would make a line from Stoke pr esent e ' Mr. Kinnersly is a petitioner against the tp , sc heme. I heard that he was offered 30,000/. c'fr IDitt e h is opposition in 1837. That appeared before the Corn the ` o f which I was a member. Mr. Kinnersly was in favour of ot te rsr? °s ed scheme, b ut his opinion is changed. He thinks that ofth:,! e roe will b e of more benefit to the Potteries. The object by a , t . hur net Valley line w as t o g i ve th e P o tt er i es a c c ommod a t i on ahae an ch from L ee k to Stoke. I i ntend to b e a cons i dera bl e Th e " ° l4er in ou r present project. The shares are not yet allotted. 1 30 et 3:„,1 n tir 000 e capital is paid up. The Trent Valley are to takean interest :04 , The Churnet Valley are to have 1,300.000 f., and e kpo ° ,, :- 0 are reserved for local interests. The direction was to be . tten, , d seven directors for the Churnet Valley, two for the t hat t - h v e ., ll ,eY, and six to represent the Potteries. I am not aware balingha "urnet Valley is in the hands of the London and Bir. „ -- biler„ t „,„. 4l C ° 4l Pany. It is perfectly unknown tome if it be so. I ‘1:41:--utteert-s'esVi iithat there were some arrangements made with the s a -eY for leasing the line, in the way of an amalgamation Ala• t etard ej'an tewe lobe Copeland was then examined a t g reat length with ~- 0 tat ents he made at meetings, wishing for a line to s made by the Grand Junction Railway. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY. The c Group D D. diat ov ••ornmittee re.assembled this morning at twelve and innne- ,;13' a fter Proceeded t o b us i ness . Lne examination of witnesses was resumed by pi 'qr. Sergeant WHANGIMM calling M r . S m i th, agriculturist and ll engineer, who stated that he had been employed in his capacity Wengineer in various parts of the kingdom, and was well acquainted With the country through which the railway is proposed to be tairr e,il. The route taken by the Central Railway was the best trunk line that could be found, and in his opinion would realise a to nsiderable income to its promoters, on account of the large pas sel:ler and other traffic between th e towns of Glasgow, Perth, th atirl int and Dundee. Th e coal fields of Bannockburn supply all e country north of Perth with c.ml ; and the consumption of these * NW be increased the gof a ,as fa. owHl itata theirgreatly conveyance. by Peat is maki us n ually biant railway now it would in districts h ere, if there was a railway communication, this inferior fuel lit tu be superseded b y coals. There were great quantities of _el in the neigbour h building purpo,es, ood of Stirling nd which was extensively used b e T a ntlre and a ' their consumption would Mitchell's If the line were made. He had carefully examined Mr. t hic en's tables of the traffic, and considered they were con. th e t " ° ll sound principles, and the results were quite within 4ill _proper mite, There were a few items omitted to be named :- Mitchell's statement, viz., slates and potatoes, in which the tal t ,. he ' e Was a considerable trade from the northern districts to 07gew Market, and in the former from Dunk . eld. The h wa d nt all "Abo ut B'lo drainage was greatly felt in the neighbour oo if 4r, aini„. ta , t here, and it would be an inestimable advantage Aeo,„4"!es could be brought by railway . into the locality. The tlaeuo It'll °ee derived from the carriage of tiles alone would amount 700/ „ to be - SOO/. He had calculated the value o . f the land and ,th bt taken for the purposes of the railway, in conjunction 44 Waan r a .,.: 1 „beals and Mr. M`Kinnon, and the result showed an ItatioN"' ,3,2 44/., which being added to the sum set apart for Thi t s !,, would give a total of 80,000/. re b , ' e bee "fless was subjected to cross-examination, but his evi- Mr•.fained Unaltered. Int 4 % called Mr. Errington, the engineer, to ask . an . im 'est %' e tch Batton„ which had been omitted in his examination of r k wished to know what was the calculation of the b. alf t i :"Penses of the proposed line ? ra ther ',l_4ten, in reply, stated that the working expenses would •. - 411 than 40 per cent. SYs-r- O N AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY. 4 ne e Group T. 44 G. °4 clerk nirree on this Railway Bill met today at twelve o'clock The,i Batt. in the air. 1 , 1 11at•C . " Matter into was a petition from the Leicester Na. t 'a,.a ' , La - '44r3Pany against the proposed taking up of the Oakham " It Proj ee - t a t r eed to between the Oakham Canal Company and The c: 441 of the line the latter end of last week. groiletts-Intlnittee decided against receiving the petition, on the th( ugh an arrangement had been spoken of between .."sPe cti .. lll4 Canal and the railway companies, yet that nothing . 1 he P,-, -"tt t he taking up of the canal was included in the Bill. sa t etip an „ to Parliament next session L 4 ti n would have to apply . ' lt ricd elnPliwering them to take tilr the canal, provided they . "Isa °.et that arrangement and then would be the proper time . 4 P e ettii en to be presented ' against such an incorporation. nha ra ela nres in reference to tolls were then read. They provided d tl als ; ',7 O f 3 d. pe mile for first class per mile for second A. t h -nd I id. Per r in e for third class passengers. elekettort d iscussion ensued on these clauses, when the room was 4,, Ono Med th a t the CHAIRMAN intimated that the Committee had dal The- e clauses should stand part of the Bill. 4,1:17t clause considered was that relating to the carriage of "as a ' M e, providing a charge of lid. per ton per mile. This TIPL e d ro. earriaeg,„—rnMittee likewise confirmed the clauses relative to the Pri c. " ot her kinds of goods without any alteration. The scale . 1 41 14 - wa h of the a bogse .__laUlle restiec;i the carriage of horses and cattle was like rte, to. It provides n a charge of sd. per mile for each mall f or each head of cattle, and 31d. for each sheep or other Th e 4n irnai. Inticti on cl anses for the speed of the trains near Peterborough at the s treet at *WI the E astern Company ' s Ra i lway, t h e cross i ng o f t h e kilo % Stainford, the passing of the line through Lord Harbo• Itir eu . h groUnds, & c., as given in our report of Monday, were ittill:, and severally agreed to. e l on i ) AND LONDON RAILWAY COMPANY. co ne d a. aUses especting tolls on this line, which had been post. *aril ands Harmer sitting of the Committee, were now brought for. I n for e , a greed to. The rate of charges are similar to those now bu Nsl, l ll the London and Birmingham line. toftn LONDON, and BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. ° I . Du n a n unopposed line, and is proposed to connect the town R ey _ ble with the London and Birmingham Railway. length:l witnesses were called in support of the preamble. The dined :even miles, and the c Tital is 50,000/. There is an in. e Att ne, P r o Posed to be worked by weights, and, with this ex. ar th th e steepest grad i ent is lin 73 This is at the junction rtire:a4ndon and Birmingham, and rises to the latter line. The lin e o a re favo urable, and there is no tunnel. It is to be a single 41k, d' railway, except where the inclined plane is. The profit, S re as,. dc ting all expenses for working the line, is estimated at , r,"` Cent c • nrouaittee decided the preamble of this Bill to be proved. th ea r ePorts on the three Bills, with the amendments made, were o•o• up and read. to the rnmi ttee decided that th ese b e repor t e d by th e Ch a i rman T he ?_eua e. flnime4."eernittce then adjourned, the business of this group being TES- hit ; e r e Commissi oners o f the Customs h ave rece i ved a phi Mr- Cardwell one of the secretaries to the Lords of the is o ry to the effect that he has been commanded by their Lord oiled authorise the payment of a drawback on sugar candyTehfre ev,,,,! ( qua! to that allowed on single refined sugar. . order Ricers throughout the kingdom have had notice o f %It-it:der, with directions to carry it into el from the pre trcl6. )4 4 , 11 a meeting of the five district societies of . th e Reboil; held at the Court-house on Wednesday, Apri l "t tevt, R e 0 - S. Tenfold, D.D., in the chair, the reports of the out districts were read; from which it appeared that during the t hat I ti e i ar 3,78 = persons hzd been relieved by their visitations, and I k e sums distributed amount to 1,500/. ss. 11 g. dre.sPOIITANT, IP TRUE.—IR the window of a hair 'wi shop in the Strand is the following ant,ouncement i— itabdatahtuade so naturally as to escape detection " We under sirto „ a t Lord John Russell has recomint.nded the establishment i t , to_ retobert Peel, who, if he can be made a Whig so naturally 414,7 ape detection, may join the Liberals without being finned 4 to r n._ that is always/oast/Jo to s Dilaistsx....rtinck. e e ; SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tittbitt Optitton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and Queen of the French received the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Ccunt de Fla. hault, the Marquis de Bumigny, Vice-Admiral Baron de La Sussc, the Counts de Montesquiou and Dumas, and the Baron de Saint Didier. The Duke of Devonshire, who went to Paris, it is said, cx. pressly to view the exhibition of the Horticultural Scciety at the Luxembourg, has, on the nomination of the Duke Decazes, been made an honourary member, and was on Sunday presented with his diploma. His Grace congratulated the Scciety on the excel. lence of its pro-Ince, and made considerable purchases for his con servatories. The following is a list of the principal objects required for the fortifications of Paris, according to M. Allard's report :-2,208 mortars, cannons, or howitzers, of which 50 are Paixhans howit zers, 5,750 rampart guns, 200,000 muskets, 1,500 fused de guerre, 2,760 gun.carriagcs, a million of projectiles of various sorts, such as bombs, grenades, balls, and shells—in all, 9,129,000 kilos. of cast metal ; 40,350 ball-cases, and 800,000 kilos. of lead, 2,0.:0,000 kilos. of gunpowder, 10,300,000 cartouches, be. sides a considerable assortment of miscellaneous articles. The Prcsse says :—" We have to announce a spontaneous act of the Government. It has nominated to be members of the Legion of Honour three eminent authors, namely, M. de Balzac, M. Al fred de Musset, and M. Frederic Soulie, without any of them hav ing solicited this mark of distinction to which they had an incen testible claim. Let there but be a few more such acts as we have now to report, and like that which raised M. Victor Hugo to the dignity of Peer of France, and the Ministry will discover that it is promoting its own interests by shaking off that supineness in which it has indulged itself too long." Fhe Journal des Debats makes the following remarks on the state of affairs, as regards England and the United States : " People arc excited against England, as if by maintaining under her domination Canada and the adjacent provinces, the British Government is spoliating the United States. These are bad symp toms, or ridiculous clamours. As regards Canada, New Bruns wick, or even the Oregon, these demonstrations are without danger. England is powerful enough to command respect from a haughty and insatiable democracy, better able to talk than to act, when the question is cue of military enterprise against regularly organised forces, and against one of the greatest nations of the ci vilised world." A correspondent writes from Vienna on the 21st :—" Prince Metternich, who has been suffering from ill health, is entirely re. stored, and has again returned to business with all his accustomed activity. Yesterday he had a long conference with the Archduke Palatine." A letter from Hanover of the 23d states that a new loan, at 31 per cent., to be secured on the taxes, is sbout to be raised, for the purpot e of constructing railroads. I.A.V.T AND POLICE. The hearing of the adjourned examination of James Gibbs, the money scrivener, late of Jermyn.street, by Mr. Commissioner Holroyd, in the Court of Bankruptcy, has been postponed to Monday. The Chief Judge of the Court of Review has decided in the case exparte Clark re Harris, that the bankers of a friendly society cannot be considered as officers of the society ; and that, there. fore, the society must, in the event of the bankers becoming bank. rupts, come in like other creditors, inasmuch as the provisions of the Act 1 0 Gco. IV., giving friendly societies, in the event of the bankruptcy of their officers, a right to be paid in full before other creditors, does not apply to the bankers. At Bow-street, Mr. J. G. Mayer, a furrier, residing at SS, Ox. ford-street, was charged with assaulting his brother-in-law, Mr. E. Mcclean, a frame and print shop keeper, near the Strand Theatre, 169, Strand. It appeared that the defendant had knocked at the door of prosecutor's house late at night, and that on the prosccutor appearing defendant had struck him several blows over the head with a thick stick, Lnd inflicted severe punishment on him. The defendant's solicitor did not deny the assault, but begged that his client might be admitted to bail, alleging that he had received great provocati;n, as the prosecutor was the seducer of his only daughter. The magistrate, however, refused, and the prisoner was committed for trial. John Murphy, one of the swell mob, charged with attempting to pick pockets in the saloon, at White Conduit-house, at a meet. ing at the T.vern on Tuesday night last against the Endowment of M.4ynooth College, was committed to the House of Correction for three months, with hard labour, from the Cleikenwell Police-court. At Worship-street, Henry Webb was remanded on several charges of swindling, and on one of forgery. It ap peared that a decently-dressed woman had called at va rious shops in Spitalfields, and ordered certain articles which she was aware were not generally kept in stock. Shortly afterwards the prisoner made his appearance, representing himself as the town traveller of some well-known firm which dealt in those articles. Having received an order, he lost no time in executing it, and received the money for the goods on delivery. Of course the articles furnished were worthless; none of the firms knew anything of the prisoner. On another occasion he forged the name of a firm to a receipt. He was remanded. COUZT-FASHIONABLE. The Queen will have a concert at Buckingham Palace on Mon. day next. _ _ _ The Queen Dowager has issued cards of invitation for a grand soiree and concert at Marlborough Ilouse, on Monday next, the sth May. The Duchess of Kent intends to give a grand ball at Clarence House, St. James's, on Friday, the 9th. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have issued cards for a grand dinner at Montague House, on the 9th inst. The French Ambassador gave a magnificent banquet last evening at the French Embassy, in honour of the fete of the King of the French, to most of the Foreign Ministers and the principal mem bers of the Government. The only toasts given were that of his Majesty Louis Philippe, and that of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria. The Archbishop of York gave a grand banquet at his mansion in Grosvet:or-square, to the directors of the Concerti of Ancient Music, the Archbishop being the director for the evening. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Archbishop with their presence upon the occasion. Lady Brougham had a soiree at her Ladyship's mansion in Grafton-street, which was attended, among others, by the following members of the fashionable world :—Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the French Ambassador and the Duke de Broglie, the Spanish Atnbassador, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dictrichsten, the Russian Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the Dutch Minister, the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Everett, the Bavarian Minister, the Duke of Richmond, &c. The meeting at Almack's, which was the last of the first sub scription, was very numerously attended. The second subscription commences on Wednesday. ZWIXSCEILMILNZIOUS. The debate in the House of Lords on the subject of the admis sion of the public to the condemned sermon in Newgate, has caused some stir in the City. The Sheriffs take upon themselves the en. tire responsibility of what has occurred, and are ready to justify all they have done whenever they may be called upon. The Bill introduced by the Duke of Richmond into the House of Lords, on Tuesday night, on the subject of spirit licences in Scotland, granted to the keepers of turnpike.gates, is entitled a Bill " for repealing so much of an Act passed in the first and second year of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourch, entitled ' An Act for amending and making more effectual the Laws concerning Turnpike.roads in Scotland; as relates to the powers of Justices to grant licences to Tacksmen of Tolls, &c." The Bill was presented by the Noble Duke, and read a first time. No day has yet been fixed for the next stage of this Bill. From a return issued yesterday, by order of the House of Lords, it appears that the amount of the banknotes in circulation in Scotland, in 184'2, was, on an average, 2,820,726/. The average of 1843 was 2,731,7701.; and of 1844, 2,950,7041. Some months the amount exceeds 3,500;0001.; but the averages of the years were as above stated. Miss Davenport is suffering from a severe and dangerous attack of bronchitis, and it is feared that it will be some time before she is enabled to resume her professional duties. The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the receipt of 101., sent by some person unknown, in a note dated the 30th of April. _ . On Tuesday morning, as a man in the employ of Mr. Bryant, master carman, was loading his waggon with bags of sugar, at the back of B warehouse, in the St. Katharine's Docks, two of the bags, white in the act of being loWered from the loophole, slipped from the sling, and falling, broke the poor fellow's leg. He was instantly removed, in a state of great suffering, to the London Hospital. A too often successful trick is now playing off in and about Lon don by a seafAring.looking man, who, finding from gossiping neigh. bours, any one who has dear relatives abroad, immediately goes to him, and pretending that he has just arrived from that country, re. presents that he was charged with a box or some other small package from the distant relative, which was detained on landing at Liverpool by the Custom-house, on account of some duties on cargo, and stating that he is about to return to that place to rejoin his ship, proffers his services to pay the charges, if the patty will only ad. vance him the money,. And as most persoos are anxjons to have any memorial from a dear friend abroad, the impostor succeeds, in litany instances, in obtaining money and causing great disap pointment. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.— We believe that we can state with almost a certainty, that there is no foundation for the paragraph which appeared in the Globe of last night, and copied into some of the morning papers to-day, respecting it being the intention of Earl Lonsdale, the Earl of Liverpool, and the Marquis of Exeter to resign office, in consequence of not agreeing with the increased grant to Maynooth. We understand no such intimation has been given by the Noblemen alluded to.—Herald. PEEBLES-SHIRE ELECTION. — The election for Pee bles.st.ire is fixed to take place at Peebles, on Monday next, the sth inst. There is not to be any opposition to Mr. Mackenzie, on the part of the Conservatives. The Liberals applied to Sir James Forrest, late provost of Edinburgh (who, it will be remembered, allowed her Majesty on her first visit to Scotland to steal a march upon him by reclining too long on his pillow one morning), to be come a candidate ; but Sir James, it seems, declined to exchange the privacy of domestic life for the dubious honours of a county re presentative.— Herald. THE FINE ARTs.—Yesterday, the fifth and last day's sale of Mr. Henry Rice's collection of pictures and drawings took place at Messrs. Christie and Morison's. Lot No. 894, • Cellini p esenting a censer to the Pope," an original painting by Sir David Wilkie, which was presented to Mr. Rice, was, after a spirited competition, knocked down for 705 guineas. LIABILITIES OF AN EDITOR.—Lord Denman has laid down the law recently, that an editor has no right to insert any paragraph before he has ascertained " that the assertion made in it is absolutely true." So then, in the case of the late disco veries made by the Earl of Rosse's telescope, an editor ought to have proceeded to the different planets mentioned before he inserted any statement respecting them. According to Lord Denman, the Man in the Moon and Orion would both recover swinging da mages from almost every editor in the United Kingdom for the reflections cast by the Earl's telescope on their characters as planets. —Punch. - - bUICIDE OF THE CAPTAIN OF A DANISH SHIP.- Yesterday the captain of the Danish brig Betsy, whose name Is at present unknown, committed suicide by cutting his throat while in a warm bath, at the bath establishment in Tower-street. TURN-OUT IN THE GLASS TRADE.—The workmen at the principal glass-bottle manufactory at Warrington have turned out for an advance of wages. They at present receive more than twice the usual rate of wages paid to artisans in Lids country, but they hope to obtain more now that the duty has been taken off all kinds of glass. As the proprietors of the glass-works in question have a six months' stock of bottles on hand, they care very little how long the men stay out, except for the sake of the inferior class of workmen, such as cr..te-makers, who are dependent on the progress of the manufacture for their daily bread.—Liverpool Times. EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.-200 ACRES OF PLANTATION CONSUMED.—One of the largest fires that has been known to occur in Cornwall for many years happened on Friday, about noon, in the parish of Boconner, in that county, adjacent to the park of the Hon. G. Fortescue. It originated amongst some loose furze on a large heath. By the falling of a quantity of burn ing peat, and °wil; to the dried condition of the furze, the flames spread with great rapidity in all directions. The surrounding domains being evidently in great danger, about '250 labourers were engaged to stop the fire. They immediately attempted to check its career by cutting down the shrubs, but this they speedily found was of no avail, for before they could remove it it Ignited. The conflagration is described to have been one of an awful character; and at one time great fears were entertained for the safety of Broodock Church and the park. After it had raged for several hours, destroying near 200 acres of plantation, it was subdued by digging a deep troth. The prope;ty kaopged to the Sou. fintSiCilet THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1845. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The loud cries of " No Popery," the Maynooth Bill, and the backsliding of Sir Robert Peel have at last roused Blackwood from his slumbers, and com pelled him again to return to politics. This excuse for such a long and dreary silence is not a little cha racteristic of the class to which he belongs. He wishes to go with the Tory leader. He can have no hope in Russell, or Palmerston, or Howick—they would be tenfold worse than Peel. He therefore waited to see if an accident would occur, by which he might be able to catch something to make a good plea for adhering to his party. Unluckily, the course into which Sir Robert Peel has entered is so clear and defined that not a turn or a winding was left for the great Apollo of northern Toryism. He is obliged, therefore, to make the best of his pitiable case, and simply lament in tears the degeneracy of the man who was regarded as the only prop and stay of Con servatism, and the last hope of the Protestant Church. The reasons he gives for his long silence are curious : " Of late," says he, " this journal has a good deal re tired from the strife of politics. Our readers must not misunderstand this. It was not through any treachery to that duty of hope which we have been insisting on as sacred : it was through a change in the public rather than in ourselves." And he then goes on to say that there was nothing to write about but O'Connell and the corn-laws. Domestic feuds had dwindled into the corn question. The audience fell away to nothing as the garrulity of the speakers increased ; the public patience languished as its abusers multiplied. Indeed, nothing but corn-laws and O'Connell ! Why, Sir Robert Peel last session announced, in the most ex plicit terms, that something must be done for Ireland. That a new system of education must be adopted which would include Catholics as well as Protestants, and to suppose that this new system would not cost so much as 26,0001., about which 30 much noise is made, and make this an excuse for silence, is abso lutely puerile. But besides these topics, there were others not less momentous to the party which looked up to Blackwood as their guide. During the whole session, which has now lasted three months, the Go vernment measures were so purely those f Cobden and Hume., and Russell, and the various sections classed under them as chiefs, that all the applause Sir Robert Peel received came from the camp of the enemy. Was it nothing to make a complete revolution in the tariff, to take the duty off glass, reduce the duty on sugar 11d. in the pound, and abolish the customs duty on 400 articles, while Bankes and Miles and all the farmers' friends, prayed in vain for the slightest favour ? Never since 1831 has there been such a stirring session as the present, and never did the old Tory party stand so aghast, yet Black wood says there was no strife of politics. That is a lame excuse for silence, and perhaps it would have been better for his character had he preserved it longer, for such a lame, halting, pithless attack on the Maynooth grant has not issued either from Co vent-garden or Exeter-hall. One of his reasons for opposing this popish measure is of a peculiar character, and only shows to what shifts a man is driven when under the plea of consistency he refuses to listen to the voice of reason. The dire hostility, so long maintained in this country between Protestants and Catholics — the bloody deeds that have disgraced British dominion in Ireland—the " half-hanging and flame," be regards as the greatest of blessings toleration in religion as the greatest curse, and attributes the inferiority of the Continental States entirely to the harmony in which Catholics and Protestants live with each other. We give the principal reason for persecuting the Catholics in his own language, as a genuine specimen of red hot Toryism in its golden age : " It is a record of the political imbecility, it is to the high disgrace, of the continental states, that with most of them Catholics and Protestants could meet in this in sipid harmony : it was a harmony resembling the reli gious toleration of people—tolerant, because careless of all religion. Had they, like ourselves, possessed a con stitution of slow growth, a representative system, a popular mind, all stimulating to noble political feuds, — in that ease they would have had high principles like ourselves; they, like ourselves, would have faced the action and re-action of endless contest ; and their po litical progress, like ours, would have been written on every page of their history and legislation. It was because they slept and snored for ages with no instincts of fiery political life, that they were able, in modern times—Catholics and Protestants—to fraternise in effe minate ruptures of maudlin sentimentality." The other articles in the Number are of a more amiable character ; among others we may mention " The Cut of a Coat and the Good of a Gown," suited to both sexes ; the continuation of " North's Speci mens of the British Critics," including Dryden and Chaucer ; and " A Glance of the Peninsula," founded on that excellent work, entitled " Revelations of Spain." From the first of these articles we extract the following genealogical pedigree of the _modern frock coat " Our modern coats, those chefs-dteuvre of Stulz and Co., are to be traced back by their pedigree to about the middle of the seventeenth century; while our. paletots, wrappers, or whatever else you like to call them, may lay claim to a higher antiquity by three hundred years. In the brilliant courts of Louis XIII., Philip IV., and Charles 1., the costume had changed from the tight jacket or vest of the sixteenth century, to the open and somewhat neglige, though picturesque jerkin, so familiar to the lovers of Rubens and Vandyke. Over the linen integuments of his body, a gentleman in those days wore only one upper permanent garment, the jerkin or vest in question: the sleeves were loose and rather short; the waist was not pinched in; the cut was rather straight; the length extended only to the loins, and abundance of fine linen and lace was displayed. Over this garment, which was very plain, was worn a small cloak, more or less ornamented, in the hall or the hunting field; but in the tented camp, the cuirass was buckled on, and the jerkin appeared below, covering the tops of the cuissards or thigh-pieces. There is many a charming Vandyke portraying our ancestors in this elegant dress; and even the furious fanaticism of the Cromwellian times allowed the fashion to remain in England, till the taste of the French Court underwent a change, and modified the habiliments of nearly all civilized Europe. To what cause we do not know, but probably to some degree of additional comfort required by Louis XIV. and his courtiers in their earlier campaigns —is to be asc rib e d the lengthening of the skirts of the jerkin, and the corresponding increase in the dimensions of the cloak, which we find to have taken place soon after 1660. The portraits of Mignard, and the battle-pieces of Vander meulen, all show us the change that was then going on at the Court of Versailles : we find the form of the dress stiffening, the sleeves lengthening, pockets either yawn ing wide, or covered under deep lapels, the cuffs turned up half way to the elbow, and a glorious display of gold lace and ribbons, that must have made a fine gentleman of those palmy days glitter with the colours of the rain bow. To the easy and languid elegance of the Spanish costume had succeeded a certain degree of military stiff ness and precision among the French beaux : all Europe was at that time lost in admiration of the Grand Mo narque ar.d his brilliant Court ; and their fashions were adopted as the universal rule of taste. It was the stiff coat of Louis XIV. that was the direct progenitor of two degenerate, yet widely differing, sons—the habit or coat, and the frock or suitoutt of the present day. De generate descendants truly ! Who that ever saw the rustling, heavy, and almost self-supporting coat of Charles II.; could have imagined that the plain, close fitting, and supple frock, or the be-clipped and almost evanescent habit pare of the nineteenth century, were to spring from them as types ?" COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in a pony phaeton in the vicinity of Claremont on Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday morning her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Claremont in a carriage and four, at half-past eleven o'clock, for town. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their accustomed airing yesterday in the pleasure grounds at Claremont. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marl borough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, honoured the Archbishop of York with her company at dinner. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay, also honoured his Grace with their company. The Noble Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music were present, the Archbishop being the Director for the evening. After dinner the Duchess of Kent and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge accompanied his Grace and the Noble Directors, from the Archbishop's residence in Grosve nor-square, to the Hanover-square Rooms, to attend the per formances of the Concert of Ancient Music. _ The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meek lenburgh Strelitz, attended by Lady Caroline Murray, honoured his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen with their com pany at dinner yesterday, at his residence in Carlton-house Terrace. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards went to the performance of the French play. The Grand Duchess Ste phanie of Baden also honoured the French play with her presence last evening. Her Royal Highness was accom panied by the Duchess of Hamilton and Countess of Lincoln, and was attended by Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meeklenburgh Strelitz yesterday, at Cambridge House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the London Hospital yesterday, and attended the afternoon service. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, transacted busi ness yesterday at the:Foreign office. A Deputation from the School of Design had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade• Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with th© Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his resi dence in Downing-street. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT. We hasten to correct an error in the return of the match between Dr. Hill and Comrade, into which we were led by the crowd at the winning-post having prevented our obtain ing the result from the Judge himself. Dr. Hill, instead of winning by a head, was beaten by a head. Annivats.—The. Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Normanby, Earl Vernlam, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl of Glas gow, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl Sefton, Earl Stradbroke ; Lords—Godolphin, S. Osborne, G. Bentinck, Duncannon, Newport, Villiers (and Lady), Macdonald, Ed ward Russell, Count Kinsky ; Sirs—John St. Aubyn, W. Codrington. M. Farquhar, W. M. Stanley, H. Mildrnay, R. Bulkeley, J. Hawley ; Honourables—G. Fitzroy, Captain Roux, Colonel and Mrs. Anson, F. Villiers, Francis Villiers, Henry Forester, Captain Pitt, Captain Spencer, Captain Vaughan ; General Grosvenor Colonel Hornby, Colonel Charritie ; Messrs.—Magennis, S. Graham, Meytick, Neville, Jaques, W. Campbell, Powell, Waddington, Thornhill, D. Radcliffe, Brand Delmd, Higgins, S. Stanley, J. Stanley, Newton, Portman, Batson, Payne, Greville, Hungerford, Booth, Lowther, Bastard, Sutherland, &c., &c. An improvement, suggested by Mr. Hibburd, was' carried out here this afternoon, by the introduction of a red signal flag, to denote to the trainers and jockies the time for sad dling. It is raised about ten minutes before the appointed hour of starting, and lowered on the white flag in front of the starter being raised, by which it is understood the jockies are to go to the post to start. This simple plan prevents the horses being saddled and brought out too long before the time of starting, which in bad weather is attended with great risk ; it also is the means of securing punctuality, which has been strictly observed in every race during the week. It gave general satisfaction. WEDNESDAY. 501. for four years old, 7st 81b ; 5 yrs, Bst 11Ib ; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 3lb. B.C. Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 4 yrs, (Whitehouse) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's John O'Gaunt, aged 2tol on John o' Gaunt. Plantagenet made all the run ning to the ditch, whence to the Duke's Stand it was carried on by the favourite. Plantagenet then resumed his lead, ran the longest, and won a good race by half a length. Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for four-years old. A.F. Lord Stradbroke's Boarding School Miss ( tbdele) 1 Duke of Richmond's Red Deer, Bst 71b 2 Duke of Rutland's Welbeck, 7st 71b 3 5t04 on Boarding School Miss-5 to 2 agst Red Deer — and 3to 1 agst Welbeck. Boarding School Miss made all the running, and won by three lengths, Red Deer beating Welbeck by a length. The Burghley Produce Stakes of 130 sovs. each, h ft. Colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 31b. D. M. (5 Subs.) Captain Spencer's The Wryneck (albs) (Whitehouse) 1 Duke of Bedford's Leopard 2 Lord Exeter's Pilgrimage (31bs) 6t04 on Wryneck, and 2to 1 agst Pilgrimage. They cantered together for three quarters of a mile, and ran nearly head and head to the cords, where Pilgrimage dropped off, the struggle continued with the others to the end. 'W ryneck winning by half a length, with nothing to spare. Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft. T.Y.C. 4 Subs. Lord Chesterfield's Knight-of-the. Whistle, Bst 71b (Nat) 1 Sir J. llawley's Bishop of Romford cob, 5 yrs, Bst 21b .. 2 Col. Peel's Garry Owen, aged, Bst. 81b Mr. Shelley's Prince of Wales, 4 yrs, 7st 2 to 1 agst the Cob (t)-3 to 1 agst Prince of Wales 3to 1 agst Garry Owen, and 3to 1 agst the Knight. A re markable fine race between the first three, and won only by a head, Garry Owen beaten by a length, and Prince of Wales by three or four. THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-5 to 2 taken about the Estelle filly. Longitude is not here. Txs DERBY.-40 to 1 laid agst Clear-the-Way.—No other change. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. Acceptances for the Suffolk Stakes. Alice Hawthorn, aged, 9st 91b—Minotaur, 5 yrs, Bst 71b— Khorassan, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Bishop of Romford's Cob, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Misdeal, 6 yrs, 7st 71b—Young Lochinvar, 5 vrs, 7st 51b—Queen Mab, 6 yrs, 7st 31h—Wee Pet, 5 yrs, Est I'3lb —The Turquoise colt, 4 y rs, 6st 111b—Buzz, 4 yrs, Est 91b— Best Bower, 4 yrs, Est 31b—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, Est 31b— Comrade, 3 yrs, 6 yrs—St. Francis, 3 yrs, sst lllb—Fuzbos, 3 yrs, sst sth—Prologue, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Secutor, 3 yrs, sst 31b —Deodara, 3 yrs, 4st 71b. EPSOM RACES.—The stewards of the Jockey Club have confirmed the appointment of Mr. Henry Dorling, as Clerk of the Course, in the room of the late Mr. Farrell. DONCASTER RACES.-Mr. Martin, the Clerk of the Course, died on Saturday last. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuEsDAY. CrtLsTurt Cur.-8 to 1 agst Semiseria (t), 9 to 1 agst Cataract, 9 to 1 agst Ould Ireland, 9 to 1 agst Obscurity, 10 to 1 agst Fitzallen (t), 18 to 1 agst Portrait, 25 to 1 agst Trueboy, 30 to 1 agst Winesour. CHESTER ST. Lk:GElt.-4 to 1 agst Libel (t). DERay.-12 to 1 agst Kedger (taken freely). (RECEIVED THIS DAY. ) NEWMARKET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. LATEST BETTING. 1,000 GUINEAS STAKES. 2to 1 agst Estelle filly (t) I 7to 1 agst Prudence 5 to 2 agst Pug (t) I Bto 1 agst Sister to Ma Mie The only horses remaining in are the Pug, Tisiphone, Estelle filly, Heather Bell, Prudence, Topaz, Sister to Ma Mie, and Timbria. The Kremlin filly was backed at 4 and sto 1 before dinner, but was scratched a few minutes before ten. CHESTER CUP. 7 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen 16 to 1 agst The Era (t) 7 to 1 agst Cataract 25 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne. 9 to 1 agst Obscurity 10 to 1 agst Portrait l 0 to 1 agst Odd Ireland 33 to 1 agst Counsellor (t) to 2 agst Semiseria 10 to 1 agst Sorella DEillY. 2 to 1 agst Idas 30 to 1 agst Old England l 0 to 1 agst Weatherbit 40 to 1 agst Ironmaster 12 to 1 agst Alarm 40 to 1 agst Minikin colt 14 to 1 agst Pam 40 to 1 agst Clear-the•way 1,300 to 200 agst Pam and Alarm (t). ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Queen's Plate—Discord, John o'Gsunt, Pine Apple, and Plantagenet. Handicap T.Y.C.—Discord, 9st 61b—Hartshorn, 7st 81b— Poor Soldier, ist 71b—Manto Lilly, ist 31b—Estelle filly, 6st 51b." • Winchester arrived this evening for the Newmarket Stakes 100 to 5 laid on Idas against him, both to start. Lcrd Verulam's Christina colt is christened Maynooth and the Duke of Richmond's Estelle filly, Pic sic. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The Creation is to be performed in Exeter-hall on the 2d and 16th of May. Miss Birch and Staudigl will sing on these occasions. GERMAN JOURNAL—Deutsche Londoner Zeitung.— There has long been a French paper printed in London, and it was matter of surprise that so numerous a body as the Germans are, should not have a periodical devoted to themselves. At last a very respectable stamped paper, under the above title has been started and will without doubt meet with due patronage. From the few numbers which have already appeared it seems fully conducted on the liberal principles promised when it commenced, and this is the more to be appreciated when it is considered that there is no such freedom al lowed to the press in Germany as characterises it in this country. There are able and impartial papers on the political affairs of Germany, and the reports are re markably clear and particular in detail ; there is also an ample space devoted to literature, science, and the fine arts. It is a folio of twelve pages, and will not only be a great acquisition to natives, but will be read by those who have made this fashionable language their study, with much advantage and instruction. GRAY'S INN, APRIL 30.—Mr. Giles Hall was this day called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Ho nourable Society of Gray's Inn. The Musical Union was on Monday again honoured with the company of its Royal President the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Falmouth, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Viscount Temple town, Lord Saltoun, and most of the noble lady amateurs of the institution. Nothing can be more enjoyable than the manner In which this institution is conducted. Intstrumental chamber music is here heard to perfection, and is thoroughly appr ec i ated. BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The new time bill was issued yesterday. The first train from Euston-square still leaves at a-quarter past 6 o'clock in the morning. The 7,8, 9, and 10 o'clock trains are continued. The half-past 9 o'clock and the quarter past 10 o'clock trains are abolished, and, in lieu thereof, two trains leave at half-past 10 o'clock; the first arriving at Rugby at half.past 1 o'clock; the second at Aylesbury at a-quarter past 12. The 11 o'clock train is continued ;as is also the 1 o'clock a.m.; but a 12 o'clock train, to arrive at Rugby at a. quarter past 3 o'clock, is added. The trains at 3 and half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon are discontinued, and a train will leave at a quarter past 3 o'clock instead. The great change and improve. ment is in the establishment of the 4 o'clo k express-train. It will arrive at Tring at 48 minutes past 4, at Wolverton at 20 minutes past 5, at Coventry at 25 minutes past 6, and at Birmingham at 7 o'clock. A second train at 4 o'clock will reach Wolverton at 6 ; and the 5, half-past 5,6, half-past 8, and 9 o'clock trains are con tinued as heretofore. By the express train, which leaves London at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, passengers may reach Liverpool the same night at 10 minutes past 10 o'clock. The express train from Birmingham will (cave at 20 minutes past 7, and reach Euston-square at 10 minutes past 10 o'clock ; thus affording the most ample time both in Liverpool_ and Birmingham for the trans. action of business. The liberal reduction of 3s. on the ftrst.class fares for Birmingham, and a proportionate reduction of the second class fares, together with the admirable arrangements for the de parture of the trains to suit the purposes of business, deserve the highest commendation. The British Museum closed yesterday afternoon until ktiday, 9tl - 1 natant, = - - DUTCH MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 6.—On the 21st of last month a dreadful affair took place at Darnietta, which has no parallel, except in the times of the most cruel persecu • tions of the Christians. I add a detailed account which will certainly be read in Europe with horror and indig nation. This melancholy event has excited indignation among the Europeans bring in Egypt, and anxiety and terror among the Levantines and Christians. It is a fresh proof of the progress of civilisation in this country. Let it not be imagined that the inhabitants of Damietta alone are animated by this fanatic hatred of the Chris tians ; the entire population of the country participates in this feeling, and is kept in check only by the fear of punishment. The European Governments, which have made so many sacrifices for the abolition of slavery, which have concluded so many treaties among them selves, should think of the Christians living in the East, in the Turkish dominions, and secure them from the oppression and despotism of the Mussuimen. How easy would it be if they acted in common to take all Chris tians, including the Rajas, under their protection. The Rajas should pay the ordinary taxes, but not be subject to the most cruel treatment by the barbarous and fanatic Turks because they are Christians. and li e declared would that severely punishexpected the e from auth h o i The English Consul-G enera l, an d F renc h a nd Aus trian vice-c.msuls, had m a d e represen t a ti ons to the vice roy, authorities justice ti eso . that Damietta. His Highne ss , on t h e fi rst i n t e lligence of the shocking affair, which be received from the French consul, sent Achmet Pasha to Damietta to investigate the affair, but without waiting for his report, sentenced Ali Bey, the governor of that town to five years' im prisonment in the Castle of Abouker, and to a fine of 5,000 piastres (500 florins), to be paid immediately, for the benefit of the victims, and for the confiscation of his property, from which an immunity for them is to be taken : the guilty shieks and ulemas are banished to Tantah, which is in fact no punishment at all. It is ex pected that Mehemet Ali will set out from Crako this we,k for Lower Egypt, and then come to this city. DAMIETTA, MARCH 21.—1 take up my pen under the painful impression made by the melancholy scenes which have passed before my eyes, because I consider it my duty as a Christian to paint to you in a few words the disgraceful scenes I have witnessed. The Mussulman population of Damietta is the most fanatical and intolerant in all Egypt. Four or five times as numerous as all the Christians of different nations together, they see with the bitterest ill-will the flags of Europe flying on their walls, and commerce, pro sperity, and wealth concentrated in the houses of the men who are appointed by Christian sovereigns to be their representatives in this town. The wretches do not inc:eed venture directly to attack the persons or the property of our agents, because they are under the pro tection of our flags, but they wreak their vengeance on the innocent defenceless Rajas for all the evil that they would willingly but dare not do to us, and favoured by the innate hatred of the highest authority in the coun try to everything that bears the name of Christian, they lose no opportunity to make them feel the power of' the majority. Since I have resided in this city I have fre quently witnessed the ill-will of the Governor of Damietta towards all who do not profess the religion of Mehemet. In August last year, a schismatic Greek, named Zucharia, under the protection of Eng land, died. He was a man highly respected as well for his character as his extensive commercial connexion. On account of the great distance of the burying-ground, and the oppressive heat, the relations of the deceased thought it their duty to have the funeral procession accompanied by eight water-carriers. As soon as the Governor was in formed of this, he sent for these men, reproached them in language the most insulting towards the Christians, for having carried water at the funeral of an infidel, and concluded by ordering them to be bastinadoed (100 blows to each, and to their leader 200). As the Divan is in the centre of the Christian market, all those horrors were perpetrated under the windows of the Consular agents, as it were in defiance of the flag of England. Very lately, two miserable men of baecbaracter, an American and a captain, renounced their faith; these op portunities are eagerly laid hold of by the inhabitants of the town and the Turkish authorities, to give vent to their hatred of the Christians. The latter completed his apostacy hardly a fortnight ago. He was of Manjurah, and in order to excite attention had endeavoured to in gratiate himself with his new associates, and for other reasons to gain the favour of the Minister of War, who was then at Manjurah, where he still is. But as Achmet Pacha did not show any inclination to favour his views, he came to Damietta, surrounded by an ap plauding multitude ; he has solemnly abjured his faith, and the mob paraded the whole day about the Christian quarters. It is hardly necessary to observe that such scenes never pass without a smaller or larger number of Christians being insulted and beaten ; even our Con sular agents, with their families, are obliged, on each occasion, to remain quietly at home, if they would not ex pose themselves to insult. I could mention many similar facts, but I hasten to relate the unhappy affair which is the immediate object of my writing. For some time past the hatred of the Governor to the Consular agents manifested itself by continually increas ing exertions. Every day he brought forward new and groundless dernanis and pretensions with re gard to the preteges, and even subjects of the several consulates. I believe that several reports have been made on the subject. Our agents opposed in some measure by the Vis inertia, but this only increased the anger of the Bey, and the ill will of the people and of the Sheiks increased in the same manner. Now came the anniversary of the Prophet's birth -day; this day in their eyes required a victim, and according to custom they sought for one, not among those whom they most hated, but among those who like the ass in the fable have no protection except their innocence and helplessness. A poor Captain, above 60 years old, with a white beard, worked in an establishment for peeling rice; he got into a quarrel with an ass driver employed in the same es tablishment. After a short altercation the latter went to the Governor and accused the other of having ridiculed religion and the Prophet. Without further ceremony he was immediately seized by Rawasser and brought be fore the Mehkeinch. This so called court of justice, the President of which is Ali Cofasia, the Great Shiek of Damietta, heard the evidence of the ass-driver, and of another fellow who had joined him, and caused the unfortunate Captain to receive in the first instance 500 blows with date staves, which were bought with his own money—so it is said the law re quires. The poor fellow, so mangled, and loaded with chains, was conveyed to the dungeon. Yesterday, the birth- day of the Prophet, all the shieks repaired soon after sun-rise to the governor in the divan. The dis cussions were then carried on with closed doors, and a re port was spread that the question was put whether the prisoner should not be burnt alive. But fear of exciting too much the anger of the Viceroy deterred the as sembly from carrying this proposal into effect ; they, therefore, resolved that the poor prisoner should receive another thousand blows with the staves, should be gagged, and with two dogs bound fast at the sides, be placed on a buffalo, with his face to the tail, and so be car ried through the whole town. A frightful scene ensued. After he received 1,000 blows on his back and soles of his feet he was placed as above stated on the animal's back. But this was not enough; they tied a wooden cross to his back, and on his breast a tablet, on which was inscribed the sentence, surrounded with threats against the Christians. After covering his face and his whole body with the most disgusting filth, the vile pro cession, consisting of several thousands of the refuse of the population, proceeded directly across the quarter of the Christians, then by the Bazaars through the chief streets of the town, amidst the incessant savage cries of the mob. I will not attempt to describe the torments of the unhappy sufferer during the six hours that he was so carried about the town. I have not the courage to do so. I only observe that the furious multitude only vied in .treating him in the most cruel and contemptuous manner. Though a shawl was b o und round his neck, the two ends of which were held by man, one on each side of the buffalo, he fell off four or five times like a dead body. At the harbour, a bout a hundred steps from the divan of the Governor, a man who was employed in caulking a boat dipped his brush into the boiling pitch , w i t h which he daubed his back, the mob loudly applauding. The houses of the consular agents were attacked with showers of stones as the procession passed by • the windows of the Sardinian and American vice-consuls were broken ; the shop of Mr. Panajotti, an lonian under English protection, suf fered great injury ; and, in the course of the day, above twenty persons were more or less ill treated. But enough, and more than enough of the melancholy picture, to show to what a pitch the shameless fury of these wretches is raised, and how, by the connivaNce of the authorities, it has reached the highest paroxysm.—Augsburg Gazette, April 24. THE HAGUE, APRIL 27.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-General yesterday, the project of law relative to the collection of the direct taxes was agreed to, after some discussion, b y a majority of 41 to 12. THE HAGUE, APRIL 28.—The Second Chamber of the States-General, in its sitting to-day, agreed to the project of law respecting the Mint, by a majority of 36 to 18. Tice debates on the law on expropriation for the public benefit was fixed for Wednesday next. It is said that their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess will make a journey, during the summer, to Hol land, Prussia, and Austrit'. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 27.—We regret to learn that a slight indisposition of her Majesty the Queen has caused the intended visit of the Court to be deferred for a fort night. We are happy, however, to add, that her Ma jesty's indisposition is not so serious as to prevent his Majesty from coming here for a couple of days. [ADVERTISEMENTI—A WONDERFUL CASE OF AN ATTESTED CURE OF DROPSY BY lIOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. —Copy of a letter from Mr. Thomas Taylor, chemist:—" Stockton, April 17, 1845.—Sir, — Mrs. Clough, the wife of :qr. Juhn Clough, of Acklam, a respectable farmer, had been suffering from dropsy for five years, and had the best medical advice without re ceiving any benefit. - She had heard of your pills and ointment, and used them with surprising benefit, that she has now left off taking them, being so well, but pre viously she had been given up as incurable. Signed, Thomas Taylor." Sold at Professor Holloway's Estab lishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis) and by almost all fespectable vendor s o f me dicine throughout the civilised world. It appears from official returns made to the Rail way Department of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the various accidents that occurred on the several railways of the kingdom, that, during the year 1844, 84 individuals were killed by such accidents. • In addition, in the same year, there were 102 who were more or less injured upon the different lines. Returns have also been I made to the same authorities, showing the number of accidents during the 61.4 quarter of the presentl year, ending-the Ekes -ult. -- It thence appears that tbere have been, during that period, 22 persons ti),leci 6 ?l+away lia4dento, besides I/ injuries thereby. e • BENTLEYS MISCELLANY, Bentley , is, as usual, full of amusement; leaving political affairs, and all such serious matters , for the consideration f graver periodicals, the livelyllfiscel lany seeks to entertain, and in that it succeeds to the uttermost. Full of variety, and written in a light and pleasant style, it effectually serves to banish " dull care," and interests without fatiguing. The first tale, however, must be excepted from this list. " The Marchioness of Brinvilliers" is, alas ! not only terrible, but true. We could wish the writers of romance would only lend their powers of fancy to embellish the records of virtue and heroism, and be content to leave such scenes of horror to the oblivion they deserve. In this Number we have an account of the first and most dreadful crime committed by the wret2hed Marchioness, when she delivered the cup of poison to her unconscious father, even while he blessed her. We gladly turn from this gloomy tale to those which follow. " the Lost Mantle" is an amusing account of the wild adventures of Gaston of Orleans, the brother of Louis XIII. " The Writ of Error" describes the embarrassing mistakes arising from that frequent source of perplexity, a mis-directed letter. The " Lines on the Death of Laman Blanchard" are full of feeling, and well suited to the mournful occa sion. The " Gaol Chaplain " is not so gloomy as usual ; it contains some reflexions on game-preserving , which all the arguments of the Hon. Mr. Grantley Berkeley would be unable to refute. " There must exist a class of men in this country to whom, strange as it may appear, unpopularity is grate ful—men who revel in the execration of their fellows, and glory in incurring a formidable share of public odium. Upon this principle may be understood the self-complacency of game preservers. A greater curse to a community cannot exist in an agricultural district a nd those most conversant with the poor—wi tath their privations , h abits, feelings, and temp tions will be the first to exclaim, ' If you wish to ruin a village population ; if you desire rapidly to introduce among them demoralization and insubordination; if your aim be to brutalize them—to make them bad fathers and bad husbands —insolent to their employers and disaffected to their superiors—worthless and desperate-1 ersuade some landed proprietor to come amongst them m ho is a stickler for the game-laws, and resolved at all risks to have his covers s trictl y preserved. In point of fact, game preservers inflict infinite damage on a community. They are, in many points of view, obnoxious to its wel fare. Farmers incur heal.) , loss by the depredations of game. Labourers suffer injury by the want of em ment, since it is a well. established and notoriou s P fact that in any district where there is much game, it . act utter impossibility to have good farming. The commu nity, nity, as a body, is injured ; first, by the destruction u o - f food which game occasions ; and next by the facilities . and temptations to crime which gamo atFords. agrt cultaal tabourev earns 9s. a week. zalig' le night's poaching will bring him 20s. Is is wonderful that gaols require new wings, and that the croweed state of our pri sons calls for a winter assize ? The cause of this per petual increase of misery and crime—where is it to be found ? In the laws enacted and maintained for the amusement of the country gentry. The last are the parties who convert their fellow•creatures into crimi nals. The disappointed poacher is, by rapid and easy prcgress, converted into a robber. Precluded by vigi lance of keepers, or by an unexpected augmentation of watchers from taking game, the agricultural labourer Hill enter his master's fold, and take a sheep ; or he will stealthily climb into his master's barn, and take his oorn. A poacher's calling and habits have depraved him. He has lost all sense of right and wrong. But who has caused this sad and wondrous change in his character ? Let the game preserver supply the answer." " Mr. Yellowly's Doings," from the pen of Charles Whitehead, is a not very uncommon tale of the seasonable assistance of an Indian uncle. " Out pourings" consists of some lively recollections of the actors of by-gone days, and, among others, of many anecdotes of Charles Mathews. We have also an other account of George Brummell, that never ending source of amusement. It is strange, while so many worthy men die and are forgotten, the memoirs of this celebrated "Beau" are brought forward again and again, and never seem to weary. We subjoin an account of his melancholy downfal "At last, however, the hour in which a man is as no thing to any one else,—the hour of misfortune, arrived. His ruin was consummated ; he knew it : with dandy apathy ho had calculated, watch in hand, the time that he ought to remain on the field of battle, the theatre of the most wonderful social success that a man of the world ever had, and he determined to show no humilia tion at the close of his career. On the 6th of May, 1816, after dining on a fowl from Waiter's, and drinking a bottle of Bordeaux, Brummell wrote hastily and hope lessly the following note to his friend, Scrope Davies : My dear Scrope—Lend me 2001. The banks are shut, and all my money is in the Three per Cents. It shall be repaid to-morrow morning. —Yours, GEORGE BRUMMELL.' " The reply was Spartan in brevity and friendship : It is very unfortunate, but all my money is in the Three per Cents.—Yours, SCROPE DAVIES.' " Brummell was too much of a dandy to be hurt at this answer, and, as Captain Jesse sensibly remarks, he was not a man to moralise upon it. There was a cruel dryness in Scrope's answer ; but it was not vulgar ; be tween dandy and dandy their honour was safe. Brum mell perused the note, and dressed stoically for the opera. He was as a plicenix is on the pile—unlike in this, that he knew he should never rise from his ashes. To see him, who would have known him for a doomed man ? That night he wai at Dover, and the next in France." IVe must not omit an account of " the discovery of the Oregon territory," not written in any political view, but tending to prove, beyond a doubt, that the prior discovery of that disputed country is due to " our countrieman, Sir Francis Drake." AI SIT'ORTIPS MAGAZINE. " Revelations of London " continues as full of mystery as ever. Mr. Ainsworth must have a de cided taste for the horrible and marvellous ; he seems animated by the same feeling as Crebillon, when he exclaimed, " Corneille s'est empare du' ciel, et Mo liere de la terre, rien ne m'etait laisse que les Rulers et je m'y suis jete." Whether imposed by necessity or choice, he fulfils his task with vigour, and has doubtless many admirers among the lovers of' ro mance. " A Bit of Still Life" is an amusing adventure at an illicit still among the hills of Connemara. Mr. W. F. Ainsworth's "Travels in the East " are as interesting as ever ; the present Number, entitled " The Habor, Re hoboth, and Saladin's Castle," is full of information. We subjoin a description of the last memorial of the mighty Soldan It is remarkable that this chieftain, who became the bulwark of Muhammadanism, at a time when it was seriously threatened by the enthusiasm of the Christian nations, who was the greatest terror of the crusaders, and whose name, indeed, belongs as much to poetry and romance as to history, has left few monuments behind to commemorate his power and prosperity. It was a part of that character, which he assumed, when his talents and energy had established him as defender of the faith, and in which he was throughout as consistent as he was in that humanity and chivalrous moderation which has earned to him the applaue of history, that he never allowed himself to be dazzled by his great elevation and successes : his garments were of coarse woollen, his drink, water, and he unifo'r'mly discountenanced all pomp and vanity. Hence his works were consecrated to public use. Cairo was fortified with a wall and a citadel, and mosques, colleges, and hospitals, were endowed in every city of Arabia and Syria ; but for himself he never built either a palace or a castle. At the presnt day a hall, with noble monolith columns of red granite, some rude granaries, and a solitary well, still preserve his name in lisr al Kahira ; a fort on the confines of the desert, ce lebrated in the annals of French occupation, a suburb of Damascus, and the ruins now first resuscitated from darkness and oblivion, are among the few existing remi niscences of the noble Saracen. _ _ _ - " The ruins now before us formed, indeed, in their utter desolation the most fitting monument to that self denying warrior, who commanded at his death that no solemnities should be observed, but that his shirt should be made fast to the point of a lance, and carried before his dead body, as an ensign, while the public crier an nounced to the people that Saladin, Conqueror of the East, of all the greatness and riches he had in his life, carrieth not with him after his death anything more than his shirt.' A sight,' says an old historian, worthie so great a king, which wanted nothing to his eternall commendation more than the true knowledge of his salvation in Christ Jesus.' " The following account of the combustible pro perties of asphalte is worthy of attention, with regard to the facilities it may afford in the navigation of the great rivers : " We obtained at this place—the inhabitants of which were very friendly and well-disposed—large quantities of a-phalte, or solid bitumen, and the Colonel determined upon remaining the next day, to experiment upon its qualities as a fuel. The experiments were made on board the Tigris, and it was not found to answer well, alone, being so fusible as to cake and extinguish itself for want of air. The great quantity of combustible mat ter also caused so much smoke, or of carburetted pro duct, to be given off before complete combustion had taken place, as to choke the vents, and add to the impedi meuts already existing to a free supply of air. These inconveniences were, to a certain extent, obviated, by mixing it with other substances ; but we had only earth and stones and dry dung to experiment with. It natu rally answered best with the last, which is the ordinary fuel of the Arabs. It would answer still better mixed with cinders, and a fuel has been lately patented in this country, which is made of the refuse cinders, used in brickfields, and earth, cemented with oil of tar, which is a fluid bitumen, or petroleum. " I have been the more explicit upon this subject, be cause so highly combustible a substance exists in con siderable quantities in various places on the Euphrates, Tigris, and Persian Gulf, and it may become of high im portance in any future steam navigation of the rivers ; also because the result of the experiments was made the subject of special reports to Government, not all of a fa vourable character ; while it is quite evident that it would require the exercise of but trifling ingenuity to overcome obstacles which positively take their origin from the excess of combustible matter presented to us." The " Forger" is a translation from Alexandre Dumas, written in that abrupt and vigorous style for which all his productions are remarkable. The for= lowing simple tribute tcr , the lamented Laman Blan chard must be admired by all, for all must feel its truth : Vir probus et justus, facet hic ; qui vixit honest 4 ; In medie vitae, sors inopina fuit. Supra alios homines, scribendi doctus in arte ; Quod scripsit, pulchrum est ; utile, et inocuum. The adventures of " llereward, the Saxon," which is commenced in this Number, promises to be inte resting ; it is an account of the Norman Conquest and the ineffectual resistance of the son of Lady Godiva, another Harold the Dauntless. "The Haunted House in Yorkshire " is one of those terrible ghost stories which must not be believed, yet cannot be re futed. On the whole Ainsworth must this month be very welcome to the lovers of light literature; it is full of variety, and pursues its course with unabated spirit. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. The historical sketch of the disturbance in Switzer land contains a great deal of information and some sound reflections in a small compass. The writer justly remarks that nothing can afford a more strik ing example of the manifold evils attending a Federal Government than the presentposition of thatcountry. Distrust, jealousy, nay, even feelings of the most hostile nature exist between the German, French, and Italian Cantons. Their political, commercial, and religious interests are in many instances op posed to each other, and the whole union is threatened with a civil war, because one canton chooses to adopt a certain system of education. But, besides, there is a radical defect in the original construction of th e Union. There is no controllin g p ower sufficientl y strong to neutralize or curb the rebellious dispo sition of discontented S t a tes, and Switze r l and exhi bi ts it self among monarchical governments o nly as a beacon to warn them against democratic i n s titutions. But Switzerland is not the only repub lic Lnited States led the T where this e x hi. bition and ds thetak place. etnwo togetherway, have certainly lowered very much in general estimation_ the whole system of Republican at L Government. uerne After giving a summary of late events and Zurich, the writer thus concludes : " But whatever may be their professions, it is quite certain that .wifzerland is no longer the seat of those disinters sted sentiments, and noble feelings, which once illuminated its history. On the contrary, the chief cha • racteristic of its rulers and of its society is littleness ! the littleness of small towns. Ambition is little, poli tical views are narrow, and intrigaes are for paltry ob jects. Great talents find no exorcise worthy of their powers ; ai.d it is not wonderful that where they do exist, their possessors desire to see a capital in their own country, and a means afforded by a central govern ment for the development of a larger system both of commerce and of politics. Though great advances have been made in education, much yet remains to be done as regards moral culture. The Protestant clergy are un fortunately regarded with little respect throughout.rthe C41114a. of Zurich; slue() wally of them allowed tplas 0§ to be made the tools of party ; their churches are thinly attended, whilst drinking houses, dancing rooms, and the theatre, are crowded every Sunday to exeess. There is no country in the world where there exists in propor tion such an enormous number of public houses, and those of the worst character, or where they are so con tinually frequented, alike by young students, the pea santry, and the townsmen. The universal laxity of morals is almost incredible. " Whilst, however, the views of the Liberals are more enlarged, and better calculated to enable their country to keep pace with the progress of the age, than those of their opponents, it is to be regretted that they have af forded them, in various ways, just grounds for reproach. Many of the leaders of the party make no secret of their want of respect for the established religion ; and on se veral occasions they have shown a great want of political prudence in provokine , the enmity of the clergy of their own persuasion, and precipitating measures which, without effecting any good, have excited the malevolence of their opponents, and the distrust of their more pru dent friends." This Number contains the conclusion of " The Goldsmith's Daughter," by ➢lrs. Johnson ; a review of Thiers' History ; and an article on Poor-laws for Scotland, in which the writer says, " He demurred not at what ➢lr. Wakley thought the perfection of a poor-law—the supply of a butcher-meat dinner and two pints of porter per day, but we wish to put an end to the cruel and selfish hallucination in this country, that a human being can be efficiently sup ported on a shilling a week." There is also a pithy disquisition on the Maynooth question, which tells some striking truths, from which several of the Libe ral party might profit. We give the following as a specimen That this measure is, in many grave respects, a highly disagreeable one to us, it must be needless to as sure our readers. State endowment of a particular form of religious belief, a new ecclesiastical impost, taxation of the public in favour of the creed of a sect, the salary ing of theologians out of the Consolidated Fund—no thing can possibly be worse, except that state of things of which this scheme is a slight corrective. But we can not overlook the " circumstances" which turn this wrong into a sort of right. That gigantic iniquity, the Church of England in Ireland, is a circumstance which, in our apprehensioh, completely forbids, so king as it continues to exist, the application of the principle on which we would otherwise deal with the matter. We confess we have no heart to introduce the " voluntary principle" into this business. It is not a case fur the voluntary principle. If voluntaryism is to be the rule of our eccle siastical legislation, make it the rule—lrish Catholics have no sort of objection. But voluntaryism is not the rule. Do what we will, we cannot yet get it made the rule. Not voluntaryism, but state endowment is the rule of the ecclesiastical polity of Great Britain ; and this being so, it is hard that the case of the poorest, and most oppressed and insulted body of religionists in the empire should be made an exception. Do-the-boys Hall is scarcely the fittest field for a first experiment in ecclesiastical economy and laissez- faire. We must begin somewhere else the war against state endowment of theological creeds. We should be indeed delighted, if we could stop this Maynooth grant, in the pure, unaided strength of the voluntary principle : for, were the prin ciple strung enough for that, it would be strong enough for some other things of considerably more practical moment. But we cannot. Voluntaryism has, really and practically, no voice in the matter. The protestations of voluntaryism are drowned and lost in the clamours of 'No Popery' and Protestant Ascendency.' The strength of the agitation is not in the voluntary princi ple, but in the no popery and ascendency passion. Vo luntaryism is perfectly powerless in the matter, except as a subordinate ally of no-popery and ascendency. As it is powerless, we think it should be neutral. One thing at least is clear—if the advocates of the voluntary prin ciple feel themselves bound actively to oppose this Bill, they are most especially bound to oppose the opposition —the most illiberal, bigoted, and fanatical opposition— with which it is assailed by men whose principles are as contrary to theirs as darkness to light." ADELPHI THEATRE. Mr. Webster's able and accomplished lieutenant, Madame Celeste, took her benefit last night, being about to leave London for her country engagements. The entertainments remained as before, with regard to the stock attractions, the Green Bushes and St. George and the Dragon; the only novelty being a revival of an extravaganza, which appeared some time sine at the Haymarket Theatre, entitled The Pretty Girls of Stilberg. It is of a character admirably suited to the house, and to judge from its reception last night, the second edition will equal the success of the first. The principal parts were tilled, as before, by Madame Celeste and Webster, the latter as the young page who personates his master, Napoleon, making up an admirable like.. ness of the Emperor. The rapidity with which the resemblance is assumed, and its striking correctness, took the house by storm, and brought down continued rounds of applause. Madame Celeste, as the head of the "pretty girls," played the part with much natural vivacity and humour, and wore a charm ing costume. She was supported by Miss Woolgar, who, though with little to say, compensated for it by her attentive and intelligent " by-play," and her piquant and graceful appear. ance. She had one or two little snatches of singing, which were executed with taste and delicacy. Wright, as the drunken drummer, of course did not fail to shake the sides of the audience, and Munyard exerted himself success. fully to enhance a small part. The appearance of the " pretty girls " en rnilitaire was exceedingly striking, and their evolutions, performed with the utmost precision, drew down enthusiastic ap. plause. Webster and Madame Celeste were called for at the fall of the curtain. The house was crowded in every part. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30. Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported ; 1. " That, in the case of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dis pensed with :—That tho parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 2. " That, in the case of the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 3. " That, in the case of the Wells and Dereham Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 4. " That, in the case of the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, and that they prove before the Committee thereon that the parties to the subscription contract of the 17th February, 1845, have, by a new deed, bound themselves, their execu tors, and administrators, for the payment of the money sub scribed, as applicable to the present Bill :—And that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the first place, how far such Order has been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill." 5. " That, in the case of the Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway) petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 6. "That, in the case of the Direct Northern Railway (No. 2) (Lincoln to York) petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 7. " That, in the case of the Tottenham and Farringdon street Extension Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 8. " That, in the case of the Liverpool Docks Bill, amend ment on third reading, the amendment is of such a nature as may be adopted by the House if they shall think tit." First, second, fourth, and seventh resolutions agreed to.— Report to lie on the table. The following Bills were read a second time, and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection : Epsom and Dorking Railway. Erewash Valley Railway (No. 2). South Eastern Railway (Branch to Deal and Extension of the Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway). South Eastern Railway (Maidstone to Rochester). Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No 2). Waterford and Limerick Railway. The following Bills were reported, and the report refer to the Select Committee on Standing Orders:— Diss and Colchester Junction Railway. Whitehaven and Furness Junctionailway. . . Gdildford Junction Railway,—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Mangles and Mr. Baring Wall. London and Brighton Railway (Horsham Branch),—Peti tion for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in by the Earl of March and Mr. Kemble. RAILWAYS. Select Committee on Group F. Mr. Home Drummond (Perthshire), selected and added to the Committee; Mr. Ord discharged. Select Committees on Groups N. and V. Mr. Hope Johnstone (Dumfries•shire), discharged from the Select Committee on Group N., and added to the Select Committee on Group V. The Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay (Edinburgh), discharged from the Select Committee on Group V., and added to Select Committee on Group N. Select Committee on Gro Q. Mr. Pusey up (Berkshire), selected and added to the Committee ; Captain Gladstone i n G t rhoeulp week eBkB., commencing C C., , Monday K . KK, and May . 26. di s charged. Th e Committee of Selection h a ve a pp ointed the Select Com mitteesNN„to themeet on The Committee of Selection will not appoint the first meet ing of any Committee on an opposed private Bill f or any day previous to Monday, May 19. DEATH OF MRS. GILBERT.-EASTBOURNE.-It i 3 our painful duty to announce the death of Mrs. Gilbert, relict of Davies Gilbert, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., and for many years President of that Society. Mrs. Gilbert expired at the family residence in this place, on the evening of Saturday last, at an advanced age. The deceased lady, actuated by an earnest desire to improve the condition of the labouring classes, has for several years devoted her energies to agricultural affairs, and was a zealous supporter of the allotment system, which she carried into practical operation to a large extent on her estate in this parish and the neighbour hood. The benefits resulting from her benevolent proceedings, we believe, have fully realised the expectations which the supporters of this system anticipated. Self supporting industry schools have also been instituted by her, and the plan appears worthy of imita tion. We fear her loss will he severely felt in this place.—Susses Express. The Bill for winding up the affairs of the " Agri cultural Bat,k of Ireland" being now before the House of Corn. moos, a short history of this unfortunate concern, abridged from an article in the Bankers' Magazine may be interesting. This Bank seems to have owed its origin to a desire to emu th late e prosperity of the " Provincial Bank," which was established in 18'25. To give a national character to the 0 Agricultural," a prospectus was issued, announcing that the shares should be proportioned to the finances of those who formed the great body of the nation, and the nominal value was fixed so low that the poorest man might become a proprietor. A nominal capital of 1,000,0001. was tc be raised in shares of 5/.., on which only 1/. was to be called up and paid. To extend the number of proprietors, it was intimated that bank accommodation would be afforded to those who took shares, and this caused persons of the very humblest means to enrol them. selves on the list of shareholders. Even the capital thus raised was not bona fide, as bills were often discounted on the condition at the parties presenting them taking further shares, anl the .. P_ric! or the shares, taken at 11. per share, was deducted. The tiabcauat.... for the managers of the branches was the r 'w ss as :unsoldered a 11111 and this possession, in many eases, result of the whole sy ig stern u f ' poll the pressure it was required to t en he ce. concern Tbe peroomvpedenstatoiooli.:otarbei s e mtomeirepia..l that riant tb ile eta d da ltnioer an d that, after -a ser i es of unlimited issues (sometimes bg braiictes without any real capital), prONSedint:/.lUli, ht4tii ( oiyAcca, ttc Sfral; stowail,f4u,s4tt