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~~ AILi'AY COMMITTEES. (SAMRDAY.) Group W. AKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE RAILWAY. The Committee to whom this group of railways was referred, met to day at twelve o'clock in room No 6, to hear the further exami. nation of witnesses on behalf of the promoters of the above line ; Pakington in the Chair. Previous to the examination of Mr. Harris, engineer, being re sumed., further evidence was, at the suggestion of Mr. Talbot, heard, to show the oaily inconvenience which arose at the Nor. roanton station, from the great amount of traffic that passed that station. _ _ . Mr. P. Clarke was then - examined—He stated that he had had the general superintendence, for the three years up to April last, of the York and North Midland Railway. Had the arrangement of the trains at the Normanton station —the power to make alterations rested with him. He exerted himself to the utmost to remedy the inconvenience and delay which arose at the Normar.ton station, in consequence of the immense amount of traffic which passed that station. The increase of workmen and assistants could not remedy this. If more buildings were erected so as to afford larger accommodation for the re.arrangement of the trains, a little relief might be afforded. He thought, however, that the traffic at present was beyond what could be accommodated con. veniently, and that any increase of it would materially interfere with the interests of the public. By Mr. KNOWLES--Passenger trains from York by the York and North Midland line, are not detained at the Normanton sta stion by the necessity of an engine to take them on. Mr. John Harris, engineer, whose evidence was partly heard yesterday, stated that the, terminus of the proposed line at Goole would be at one of the shipping docks. It was a convenient station for passengers, and was admirably adapted for goods traffic also. There were large warehouses situated near it. There was a branch in connexion with the railway at Goole, about a mile in length, and which proceeded along the streets of the town, and terminated on the banks of the Ouse. The gra dients on the whole line were favourable. The worst gradient from Wakefield to Goole was lin 250. There was a gradient of in 253 in the Midland branch. The Sheffield and Bight branch had a gradient of 1 in 150 for about one-half of the line, and the rest was nearly level. The narrowest curve on the pro posed line was eighteen chains in radius. The remaining curves were favourable and very few. The witness then proceeded to detail the items of the estimated cost of the line. The cost of land was 52,9441.; of fencing, drains, &c., 13,7071. ; earthworks, 97,8131.; bridges and culverts, 60,8061.; crossings and road-gates, 5,2.571. ; rails, 54,3901. ; (which were calculated at 101. per ton.) The supp,,rts on which the end of the rail rests was 1 2,705. Mr. Harris continued to detail the estimated expense of the line. The sleepers for the rails were estimated at 20,707/. ; the wood stays, 1,015/. ; wood pins, for fastening the chairs, 7311. ; the cost of ballast road laying and carriage materials would be 24,6131.; and stations and contingencies, 20,306/. The total cost was 365,000/. 'as quite sure that the proposed line was the best that could be selected to open up the resources of the country, and was besides the least expensive, from the favourable nature of the ground through which the line passes. The estimated cost would be quite ample to complete all the works. The whole length was 27 miles, and the cost per mile would be about 13,6001. The height of the line above high water was 16 feet. By Mr. KNOWLES—The Ayre and Calder Company has en gaged to give every facility to the line. Mr. PIERERING here rose and said that he felt himself again under the necessity of requesting the Committee to interpose their authority to prevent Captain Laws from making suggestions, and acting as a prompter to the different witnesses under examination. The CHAIRMAN repriaranded Captain Laws, and suggested the propriety of his leaving the seat where he at present sat and of re moving to another part of the room. Mr. Harris was subjected to a long cross-examination by Messrs. PICKERING and KNOWLES, with a view to point out the inaccuracy of the estimated cost of the works on the line; but as the Committee did not think that any slight discrepancy which could be pointed out in the cost of the construction of the works was worthy of such a protracted examination, The' CHAIRMAN suggested to the opposing counsel the propriety of abridging this cross-examination, unless some very material error could be pointed out. Mr. AUSTIN, who had entered the room a short time before, here rose and said that that was the strangest doctrine he had ever heard annou , ced from a Railway Committee. At that rate an engineer might come forward and say anything he pleased. He might say that the estimated cost of a line was 100,0001., while in reality it would cost 1,000,0001. "khe CHAi RAI A N said that the Committee had not the least idea of dictating to counsel the course which they ought to pursue, but he thought that unless some very great mistake could be pointed out in the estimate, they were only taking up their time to no purpose. He had no doubt but the competing lines were both very good, but he thought that their duty would be limited to the consideration as to which of them would be most advantageous to the public interests. A very smart conversation then took place between counsel on both sides, in which some personal observations passed between Mr. Austin and Mr. Wilkins, and which resulted in an apology from Mr. Wilkins for the warmth into which he had been betrayed. The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on Monday. Group V. SHEFFIELD AND NEWARK LINE. The oppontlits of the Parliamentary line continued this morn. ing to call evidence. Mr. Haync, C.E., sail that the tunnel on the amended line would cost at least from 401. to 501 per yard. He was acquainted with the stratum through which it would pass, and he did not think it the same through which the Parliamentary line should be made. Joseph Meashorn, coal agent, was called to show which line would best open up the coal-fields. His opinion was, that the ori gin line would be decidedly the best. John Boots gave similar evidence. This was the case for the opponents, and Mr. WHATELEY, Q.C., rose to address the Committee—He con tended that his Learned Friend Mr. Baines had not proved a ne ceisity for the scheme before the Committee, and that as the valu able purposes of such a line were exceedingly doubtful, the Corn.. =Mee should decide against it. The preamble of the Bill had not been proved, but even if doubtful the Hon. Committee were bound to reject it. The Learned Counsel then entered at considerable length into detail to show that the valuable minerals of the country could not be more easily conveyed by this railway. Mr. BANES replied, and the Committee determined that they would net pass the preamble of the line under consideration until they had heard evidence on the Sheffield, Manchester, and Chester field line. The Committee then adjourned. Group EE. DUNDEE AND PERTH ;NORTH) RAILWAYS. The Committee on these lines resumed this morning at the usual hour; the R.ght Hon. F. Bating in the chair. Mr. M'Veagh examined by Mr. FORSYTH—Is a civil engineer of grew experience. Has had the estimates given in by Mr. Miller and Mr. Storie submitted to him. Does not believe that the railway projected from Dundee to Perth can be constructed at anything like the sum named by the former, who has considera bly underrated the cost in almost every particular. Mr. Miller's estimate for the Dundee and Perth line is fully 50 per cent. lower, than any other constructed by him. On his own computation there would be 30 feet of base, and an average slope of 1 to 1 ; the earthwork will comprise 639,000 cubic yards of clay, and 278,000 cubic yards of rock work. On the permanent way he anticipates an increase of 30,0001. above the price stated by Mr. Miller. Cross-examined by Mr. AstnriEws—The other lines constructed by Mr. Miller, with which he had compared his estimate of the Perth and Dundee, were the Glasgow and Greenock, and the Glasgow and Edinburgh. The former is an unusually expensive line, the earthwork having cost no less than 15s. a yard in some places, and the tunnel ling was extensive and difficult. Has had no experience, nor has examined the line himself ; but lie is competent, by assuming the correctness of Mr. Storie's evidence, to state positively that his, and not Mr. Mi ler's estimate, was true. Mr. Enington, examined by Mr. FORSYTH—IS a civil engineer and having been astonished at the great difference between Mr. Miller's and Mr. Storie's estimates, caused five different surveys to be made of the line, and as many computations were sent in of the quantity of work and cost required, all of which confirmed the statement of Mr. Storie, and contravened that of Mr. Miller. Mr. Enington, cross-examined by Mr. ANDREW*--It is not abso lutely necessary in the survey of a line that shafts should be sunk to ascertain the nature of the earthwork borings are frequently em ployed, but neither will give perfect accuracy. Has had con nexion with the Junction and the Glasgow and Greenock lines, and in comparison with those lines estimates the expense of working at forty-five per cent., and the average cost of earthwork at Is. Bd. a yard. The management will entail an expense of 2,8901. Mr. Miller, examined by Mr. FORSYTH—Is an inhabitant of Perth, and having seen the traffic tables handed in by the promoters of the Dundee and Perth line, has discovered various discrepancies. The witness was on the point of mentioning the items in which inaccu. racy was palpable, when Mr. ANDREWS objected to any evidence being proceeded with on the question of traffic, relying on the faith of a pledge given by Mr. Forsyth not to enter into that subject. The Commirrce ruled in favour of the objection, and witness was accordingly withdrawn. This being the last witness on behalf of the opponents of the line, Mr. COCKBURN proceeded to sum up the evidence on the case, and avowed his intention of confining his objection chiefly to the erroneous and underrated estimate furnished by the promoters of the Bit. That estimate had named 200,000/. as the sum wee's. sary for the construction of the line, and they had only asked for powers to raise that sum, besides a loan of 66,0001., which it was very doubtful if they could ever effect. But Mr. Stowe, a most emi nent engineer, and a witness fully competent to give indisputable evidence, had solemnly stated that not less a sum than 365,0001. The question, therefore, for the Committee to decide was nar rowed to the one, whether they were perfectly satisfied that Mr. Miller's estimate was sufficient to complete the project, and whe ther, in the event of its insufficiency being established, they were prepared to pass the preamble of a Bill which would empower a company to begin a line, find their funds inadequate to proceed, cncroacu on the land of owners, and then leave mounds and incumbrances, whose only effect would be to swallow up the capital, which, inadequate for the purposes proposed, was suffi cient to entail considerable loss, if not ruin, on the unfortunate parties who subscribed. Another objection was the in terference it would necessarily create with the Aberdeen Railway—a project to come before the Committee in the ensuing week. He, therefore, conjured the Committee to refuse the preamble of the Bill, as a matter of justice to that company whose merits and consideration were yet in abeyance. Mr. FORSYTH, on the part of the conservators of the River Tay, addressed himself to the subject of the inconvenience arising to that river from the erection of the bridges. Group R. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY. Mr. Gibson Craig in the ch Sir John 51`Nieil's cross-examination continued by Mr. Alex ander at some length, respecting several lines he had formerly surveyed, one or two of them at the instance of the Government Railway Commission, and 'which he stated had much more favour. able gradients than the line now under the consideration of the Committee. One or two of the lines surveyed were inland. The reason why the gradients were then made so slight was the belief, by engineers, that no railway could be constructed with gradients less than one in two or three hundred. To Mr. BOYLE—tie surveyed in 1835 a line between Drogheda and Portadown, at the instance of a Company, called the Great Trunk ; he also surveyed, at the instance of the Railway Commis sion, lines between Dublin and Armagh and Dublin and Enniskillen. He received no instructions as to including Bel fast, Newry, and Portadown. This he was quite certain of, as his instructions were to survey the best lines between certain points that were set forth. He also surveyed four lines for private Companies in the north of Ireland. Among others, he surveyed a coast line, which at that time was thought to be a mere specula tion. Events since had shown the value of that opinion. The traffic since that time had much improved. The present line would give the greatest amount of accommodation to Newry, Armagh, Portadown, Belfast, and Dundalk. There were rising gradients for 23 miles towards Portadown, averaging 1 in 210. To Mr. O'MALLEY—He had read the Board of Trade report re specting the North Western Line, from Dublin, through Cavan, to Kells, but he did not recollect the purport of it. His ch Drogheda opinion was, that a line from the Navan to was ther:ghed a was much greater than the traffic to Dub lin. Dro g heda nearest and cheapest port for Navan, and the best market for agricultural pro duce. He considered the making ofa e liinnnectfrinonmn isiTaKvaerobutaldncbhei a waste of money. The height of the with the Dublin and Drogheda Railway was 95 feet abovethe m le a v d e e of the Boyne. He expected there would be an arrangement fur lifting up produce from the quays t, the line, but tltwasan after consideration, it was not provided, in .he Bill. To the Ciwasiast—He was convinqsei that this line was the best for the interests of the county. I oew the whole county vett, and that was his matured and t. led conviction. lie did j - , THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 26, 1845. That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on omitting such clause or clauses as enable the Company to sell or transfer their Railway to the Midland Railway Ce in pany :—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 Repo! , of the Bill." _ _ 7. " That, in the case of the Shrewsbury and Grand Junc tion Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 8. " That, in the case of the Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough) Bill, amendments on consideration of re port, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted by the House without the re-commitment of the Bill." Third, fourth, and sixth resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. THE MAYNOOTH BILL. The Maynooth Bill has passed the House of Com mons, and goes up to the House of Lords recommended by as great a weight of argument and authority as can ever be expected in favour of a legislative measure in volving disputed principles of policy. No opposition that we can remember has made so poor a figure in Par liamentary debate as that by which the Bill has been resisted. Not one has been so conspicuously wanting in the power of viewing the subject comprehensively, and with reference to the actual circumstances of the empire. Upon one topic, indeed, the anti-Maynooth orators are pointed enough. The attacks upon the Prime Minister for inconsistency, tergiversation, and betrayal of his party, are as pungent as the attempts to reply to his argument are feeble and contemptible. But what, after all, is the fact which forms the basis of these accusations? Simply that Sir Robert Peel has abandoned, as impracticable and mischievous, principles which, though they might be acted upon for a time by an irre sponsible and reckless Opposition, could not he applied by any Minister to the government of the country. The Opposition which overthrew the Whig Cabinet as an aggregation of jarring elements which could not hold together after that work of destruction was accomplished, and the principles which it put most prominently for ward would have led us to social convulsion and the dis memberment of the empire. Every one can remember how Anti-Poor-law demagoguism, the most vulgar and unscrupulous, then added to the popular strength of the Tory party. Every one can remember how all the cor rupt monopoly interests in the country were banded together, to fight the battles of that party, in the belief that its triumph would prevent all change, and secure them against the most just demands of the public. Above all, no one can forget how the Conservative Opposition was nourished, and invigorated, and extended by the ex citement of that No-Popery feeling which, whether latent or active, has been for ages one of the strongest sentiments in the popular mind of England. This feel ing the strength of the Opposition and the weakness of the Whig Government during the five years that preceded 1841. Alleged alliance with the Roman Catholic party in Ireland was the head and front of Lord Melbourne's offending, and all the machinery of popular influence was put in play to stir up the pride of England against that " semi-Popish domination." The extension of corporate reform to Ireland was resisted, year after year, as a new Roman Catholic concession which would be fatal to the Protestant Church. Divi sion lists were analysed, in order to mark and parade the names of Roman Catholic and Irish supporters of the Government, as persons upon whose votes it was dis graceful to a Cabinet to be dependent. The promotion of Roman Catholics by the Irish Government was de nounced as truckling to Popish agitation. The Roman Catholic priests wt re branded by influential journals with infamous appellations, and accused of conniving at, if not encouraging, the most atrocious crimes. In short, every conceivable device was employed, from factious motions in the House of Lords down to forgery at Exeter Hall, to inflame the prejudices of the English people against their Roman Catholic countrymen, and to overwhelm with odium a Government desirous of conciliating the Roman Catholic millions of Ireland. A course like this, in which various agents might work in various ways for a common purpose, without being formally connected, might serve the pur proe of an Opposition, but no Government could countenance the promotion of religious dissensions between different parts of the empire. Sir Robert Peel, indeed, might have been expected to see, on his accession to office, that no Government could go on without active efforts to allay the religious dissensions which had been so unhappily ex ited, and to diminish the prejudices by which he found England and Ireland divided. For a time, however, he did not make those efforts. What was the consequence ? At the end of two years Ireland bad become unmanageable. According to the statement of the Prime Minister himself—a state ment most truly described by L..rd J. Russell as a sad and humiliating confession for any Government to be obliged to make—the condition of Ireland, towards the close of 1843, was such as to render the enforcement of the law absolutely impracticable. The only instrument for en forcing the law, says Sir R. Peel, is an appeal to trial by jury; but trial by jury is not available where the great mass of the people is hostile to the Government. A most momentous acknowledgment I Such was the practical result of overthrowing Lord Melbourne's Government by incessant and unscrupulous attacks on his Irish p,slicy. The mass of the people hostile to the Government, and trial by jury not available for the enforcement of !be law I Language cannot convey a stronger expression of the utter failure of the Go vernment to accomplish the main purpose of its exist ence. It was high time to make a change. A Go vernment to which the mass of the people is hostile is a tyranny, let its name and forms be what they may ; and if it be not only detested, but so weak that it cannot enforce the law, it is one of the worst evils under which a countr) can suffer. Such a Government was the natural offspring of the late Tory Opposition. It is not surprising that these who were guilty of producing such a monster should now be repentant. Sir R. Peel has abandoned former principles, but not before they brought him to the verge of anarchy. Government, law, pro perty, public order, are all the creatures of opinion. They have no deeper foundation than the habits and feelings of the community. Disturb these customary feelings, shake by any means that habitual respect and obedience to the laws which surround life and property as with walls of brass, and the vast struc ture of society totters to irretrievable ruin. The mass of a people hostile to the Government is one of the most awful facts in social exist ence. It points to convulsion, revolution, intermin 3ble disorders. How is such an evil to be cured ? E 7idently not by force in a country having free institutions. There is nothing for it but to remove the popular distrust by removing its causes, and the remedy must be potent in proportion to the inveteracy of the disease. Above all things, Government has to consider what was enforced by Lord John Russell, in that most noble and masterly speech with which he closed the I,laynoo!,h debate, that there is much to be done before Ireland can be expected to show gratitude. "I hope, the Right Hon. Gentleman hopes, that the disease may be cured, that we may now be on our way to better times ; but there must he other measures—(Cheers) —recourse must be had to a further policy—l don't know that I should say of conciliation—l don't want to use the word— but of justice towards Ireland. Nor must we any more hear that old cry of Oh, how ungrateful the Irish are? —(Cheers.) We give this grant to Maynooth, and yet they are not thankful.' This has been the continual parrot cry ever since you first relinquished the atrocious penal laws. You said, Only think of these Catholics—we have allowed them to educate their own children, and yet they are not grate ful. We have allowed them to have 'priests of their own chil dren, without fining, transporting, or Imprisoning them, and yet they are not grateful. We have permitted them to ride horses, w hi c h ro sy be of the value of 301., and yet they are not gratefuland foryet indulgence. W e h ave allowesti them to go to mass, not grateful. We have allowed them even to inherit land ed p ro perty , and yet this barbarOts and savage nation will n ot be grateful—they still ask for ocher things.' To be sur e, Sir, they ask for other things , and the they are they will ask for other things—(' Hear, hear,' from Mr. Sheri) —until with respect to England and Ireland there is a perfect and just equality.—( Loud cheers.) Anil then when you can say that there is perfect and just equality I shall fear nothing from this cry for a repeal of the union, formidable and powerful as it is, among great masses of the people of Ireland at the present moment." Let Sir Robert Peel, in attempting to carry out a Whig policy, observe the advice of the Whig leader, and he too will be able to say, what he cannot now, that be " fears nothing from this cry for a repeal of the anion."—Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF CHANCER Y, May 24. THE HANOVER JEWELS. The Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, and the other Learned Judges who have attended the hearing of the case with re spect to the Crown jewels of Hanover, sat to-day again, in his Lordship's private room at Westminster. The public, as hereto. fore, were not admitted, the matter being kept strictly private. not believe it possible to approach Newry in a better manner that he proposed. Mr. Ackersley, a Director of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, was next examined about the traffic of f.lle line. He toot, it in October last, at some stations for fourteet days, and in othe.s for twenty-one. Tnere are six public conveyances between Drogheda and Portadown, each averaging about fifteen passengers. On the branch line only three public conveyances, two coaches and a car. On the Dublin and Belfast JuactiOn the population was 79,000. The estimated annual increase from- all sources was 129,7411. 135., which, after deducting all expenses, would leave an available sum for dividend of 66,3411. 135., or 8 per cent. on the capital. The tables on which these general results were based were then put in. This witness was examined by Mr. Boyle, Mr. O'Malley, and Mr. Smith, but no material point was further elicited. . . The formal proof-of the capital was then given by the Solicitor of the Company. This closed the case for the Dublin and Belfast J*nction line. The Committee adjourned till Monday, at twelve o'clock. Group X. LONDON AND YORK LINK. This Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock, in room No. 8, Lord Courtenay in the chair. Soon after the Hon. Members had taken their seat➢, Mr. HILDYARD said he would feel obliged if the Committee would state whether they intended to sit during the holidays, of which there were two in the ensuing week, one to be devoted to her Ma jesty's drawing-room, and another to the Derby. He would like to know if the Committee contemplated sitting on either of those days. The Derby day was long considered a dies non. Mr. Dainty—Do you wish to go to the Derby, Mr. Hildyard ? (Laughter.) Mr. lituayatto—lt is almost a question which I cannot answer, Sir—l should certainly like to be there.—(Laughter.) The Oral/utast—As far as the Committee are eonceraed they are ready to sit every day next week. The inquiry is rather im portant as it affects the public time, and any saving of that time by our sitting will be a great benefit. Mr. BARING WALL—If one is to have a holiday at all, it may as well be bad on the Wednesday as on any other day. The CH►IRMAN—As the majority of the Counsel are agreed to have Wednesday, we shall sit on every day during the week save that day. Mr. Muschamp was then called and examined by Mr. PAGET—Is a coal.owner, residing at Lancaster lodge, county Durham. The witness was examined very shortly to the same effect as Mr. Pease yesterday, namely, as to the present facilities for and expense of, the transit of coals from the pits in Durham to London, and expressed his opinion that the proposed London and York line would very materially increase the coal traffic between South Durham and London, and diminish the cost of conveyance. In his cross-examination by Mr. HILDIikED (who was counsel on behalf of the Midland Counties, the Lincoln and Cambridge, and the Eastern Counties schemes) he deposed that the coal owners had at present tram-roads from the pits' mouths to the different ports of shipment. Mr. Muschamp, in his cross-examination by Mr. HILDTAID, who was counsel on behalf of the Midland Counties, the Lincoln and Cambridge, and the Eastern Counties schemes, deposed that the coalowners had at present tram roads from the pits' mouths to the different ports of shipment Coals were improved by the breakage consequent on repeated• shipment ; did not think the same amount of injury would be in curred by a railroad transit of 240 miles. Although there were coal wharfs all along the margin of the river Thames, for the delivery of Durham coals for domestic use, still witness was of opinion that coals for domestic use would on an average be de livered from the depot at King's-cross one shilling per ton cheaper than from the wharfs. Mr. W. J. Reynolds, wharfinger, deposed that the charges upon coals for domestic uses to the merchant, coming by water, exclusive of the cost price of the article, would be 6s. I lid., which of course would be charged against the consumer by the merchant; much of this would be saved if the article came by railway. After a few questions in cross-examination, the Committee adjourned. Group FF. The Committee re.assembled this day at twelve o'clock, in Room No. 7, Lord Ashley In the chair, and proceeded with the ad. journed case of THE EDINBURGH AND HAWICK RAILWAY. Mr. Ctsase appeared on behalf of Mr. Walker, a landowner, as opposlng petitioner to that part of the line in the parish of Stswe. The Learned counsel had to press upon the Committee the adoption of a deviation in the course of the line This would save the inte. rests of his client :nd prevent the danger which would, according to the plans, be incurred by the position of a school-house, in pro eeeding from which children would be constantly crossing and re. crossing the line many times in tb.l day. Mr. Pringle, M.P., having been called to prove the position of the school-house, and the great danger attached to it, stated that a bridge over or archway under the railway, would altogether obviate the difficulty. The number of pupils attending being very small, and the country being very thinly peopled, a simple archway under the line would be quite sufficient. Mr. CL►R[ objected to the estimates. They were insufficient. Mr. AUSTIN called Mr. Miller, the engineer to the Company— tie stated that the cost of the tunnel over the line would be 10,0001., and there would be cuttings at each end. The room was then ordered to be cleared, and after some time spent in consultation the parties were called in, and The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee declared the pre amble of the Bill to be proved. The Committee hzd also agreed that a clause should be introduced into the Bill, restricting the rate of speed between Middleton.muir and Dalhousie.manse. The clauses were then gone into. Some discussion having arisen as to the rate of speed, Mr. AUSTIN thought twenty miles an hour would not be too high a rate. Mr. CLARKE thought it ought to be much less. The parties not being able to agree, the room was cleared. Upon the parties being called in The CHAIRMAN said the Committee resolved that the rate of speed between Middleton Muir and Dalhousie Manse should be fifteen miles an hour. Mr. BURKE then drew up a clause, limiting the rate of speed, which, having been approved by the Committee, was declared to stand part of the Bill. The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the Committee adjourned to twelve o'clock on Monday, when they will proceed with the Edinburgh and Northern line. PARLIAMEIN TAtt Y DIVISIONS. ( &en. the Vo'es and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) FRIDAY, MAY 23. LADY'S ISLAND AND TACUMSHIN EMBANKMENT BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the cad of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided: — MAJORITY—AYES, 115. Adare, Viscount Elphinstone, 11. Napier, Sir C. Aglionby, H. A. Feilden, William O'Brien, J. Arkwright, George Fielden, John Ord, William Arundel, Earl Forbes, William Oswald, James Baillie, Joseph Forster, Matthew Palmerston, Viscount Baird, William Gisborne, Thomas Patten, J. W. Baldwin, B. Greene, Thomas Pendarves, E. W. Baring, F. T. Grimsditch, T. Philips, G. R. Barnard, E. G. Grimston, Viscount Plumridge, Captain Barron, Sir 11. W. Hanmer, Sir J. Polhill, Frederick Berkeley, Captain Hatton, Captain Pringle, Alexander Blackstone, W. S. Hayes, Sir E. Rolleston, Colonel Blake, M. J. Ilayter, W. G. Rushbrooke, Col. Bowring,:Dr. Heathcoat, John Russell, Lord J. Boyd, John Henley, J. W. Russell, Lord E. Brocklehurst, J. Henniker, Lord Smith, Abel Brotherton, J. 'Lindley, Charles Smith, Benjamin Bruges, W. 11. Hodgson, F. Somes, Joseph Buck, L. W. Hope, Charles Spooner, Richard Buller, Sir J. Y. Howard, C. W. Stanstield, W. It. C. Burroughs, H. N. Howick, Viscount Stuart, Lord J. Busfeild, W. liumphery, Alderman Stuart, W. V. Carew, R. S. Inglis, Sir R. H. Strutt, Edward Clive, Viscount Johnson, General Tennent, J. E. Codrington, Sir W. Johnstone, Sir J. Turner, Edmund Collett, John Labouchere, Henry Vane, Lord .11. Connolly - , Colonel Langston, J. H. Walker,:ilichard Damer,:Colonel Legh, G. C. Walsh, Sir J. B. Dawson, T. V. Lockhart, W. Warburton, H. Deedes, William Lowther, Sir J. 11. Wawn, J. T. Dennistoun, J. Lygon, General Wilehere, W. Dickinson, F. H. Mackenzie, W. F. Winnington, Sir T. Divett, Edward Mackinnon, W. J. Wodehcuse, Edmond Douglas, Sir C. Macnamara, Major Wortley, John S. Duncan, Viscount Manners, Lord J. Wrightson, W. B. Dnudas, Admiral Marjoribanks, Si. Ebrington, Viscount ;1 1 , Marton, George Egerton, Sir P. Masterman, John Ellice, Edward 31ilnes, R. M. Ellis,Wynn Morrison, James TELLERS. Murphy, F. S. Hawes, Benjamin MINORITY-NOES, 17. Archbold, Robert Duncoinbe, Thomas Martin, T. B. Baillie, H. J. Esmonde, Sir T. O'Connell, 31. J. Bateson, 'Thomas Etwall, Ralph Osborne, Ralph Blake, Sir V. Ferguson,Sir R A. Chapman, B. Gore, Robert TELLERS. Clements, Visoount Gregory, W. H. Redington, T. N. Corbally, Matthew Hamilton, G. A. Power, James PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. FRIDAY, MAY 23. The Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway) Bill, was read a second time, and committed, and referred io the Committee of Selection. The West Cornwall Railway,—Petition for additional pro vision ; referred to the Select Committee on petitions for Private Bills. The following Bills were reported, and the report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders: — London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch). Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and Ashford Extension). Birkenhead, Blanchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway pio. 2). Trent Valley Railway. Goole and Doncaster Railway,—Report from Select Com mittee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Stuart Wortley and Mr. Parker. Dies, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Report from Select Committee on Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Wilshere and Mr. Burrougbes. 'West London Railway,—Report from Select Committee on Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to brought in by Captain Rous and Mr. Mangles. The following Bills are to be read a third time on Monday next : Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway. Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway. Chester and Holyhead Railway. PRIVATE BUSINESS, FOR MONDAY, MAY 26. THIRD READINGS. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal. Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway. Leedi, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway. Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Colne). York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington Branch). York and Scarborough Railway Deviation. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Berks and Hants Railway. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway. Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch, and Hey wood and Oldham Branches Extension). Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea). Lynn and Ely Railway. Whittle Dean Waterworks. Ely and Huntingdon Railway. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway. Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported ; 1. " That, in the case of the Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 2. " That, in the case of the Harwich and Eastern Coun ties Junction Railway (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be dispensed with." 3. " That, in the case of the Lady's Island and Tacum shin Embankment petition to read their Bill a second time, the Sessional Orders ought to be di s p ense d with :—That the parties be permitted to read their Bill a second time accord ingly." 4. " That, in the case of the Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill." 5. " That, in the case of the Whitby and Pickering Rail aismoefndsmu c e i n i t a o n n c a o t n u s r i e de a r s at t i o o n j n o s f t r it e ,y p o t r n t, e t u h e o u sai se d in am en e t n e d r- - t nw a l i ae n yn i t ng it, if they shall think fit." li th a e t, s in tana th n e c g ase o Orders e t r h s e ought Goole toandb d Doncaster peed Railwaywith: petition, NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY, MAY 23. 1. Lord John Manners,—Address to her Majesty, for Copies of any Correspondence which may have passed be tween her Majesty's Government and the Government of France, with reference to a Petition from certain Spanish Officers and Soldiers, presented on the 14th of March last, deferred from Tuesday, May 27, till Tuesday, June 3. 2. Lord Ashley,—Two Bills for the regulation of the care and treatment of insane persons in England and Wales.— Tuesday, June 3. 3. Sir Valentine Blake,—Motion respecting Members. — Tuesday, June 10. 4. Mr. Villiers,—Motion on the Corn-laws, deferred from Tuesday, 3d, till Tuesday, June 10. 5. Sir Henry Winston Barron,—Bill to exempt all occu piers of land or houses in Ireland from County Rates or Grand Jury Taxes, unless they are possessed of leases for a term of not less than seven years.—Tuesday, June 10. 6. Mr. Hindley,—On reading the Order of the Day for Committee of Supply, to move for a Return of the names of the persons receiving the allowance granted to Protestant Dissenting Ministers in England, with the names of the Trustees administering the same. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. York and North Midland (Bridlington Branch) Railway, —Third Reading, Monday, May 26. York and Scarborough Railway Deviation,—Third read ing, Monday, May 26. Harwich Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday, 26th, till Friday, May 30. Cambridge and Bury Railway,—Committee on petition, Tuesday, June 3. Southampton and Dorchester Railway,—Consideration of Report, Tuesday, May 27. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,—Third reading, Mon day, May 26. Berke and Hants Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. Dublin and Drogheda Railway,—Report, Monday, May 26. Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch and Hey wood and Oldham Branches Extension),-1 hird reading, Monday, May 26. Eastern Counties (Ely and Whittlesea) Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. Lynn and Ely Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26. RAILWAYS. The Select Committee on the Groups HH., 88., and SS. are postponed from Tuesday 27th till Thursday, May 29, at One o'clock. Select Committee on Group LL. Mr. Edward Heneage discharged from attendance on the Committee. Mr. Fellowes (Huntingdonshire), selected, and added to the Committee. AlEstottAisnum.—The Committee of Selection will meet on Thursday in next week, instead of Wednesday. THE ISLAND OF LEWIS. James Matheson, Esq., M.P., the new proprietor of the Island of Lewis, has commenced the improvement of it in an extensive and spirited manner. About 1,000 acres of moorland in the vicinity of Lewis Lodge have been drained and enclosed for planting, of which fully more than the half has been already planted; and the drainage has been so effectually and carefully executed, that there can be little doubt of a successful result. The Mains Farm attached to the proprietor's residence has been furrow_ drained, partly with tiles, and partly with stones, under the super. intendence of John Scobie, Esq., his factor, and Mr. Grant, an experienced agriculturist, who has been engaged to overlook the agricultural improvements of the island. A most interesting and important experiment with tussac grass is being tried. The seed was sent home by the Governor of the Falkland Islands, where this grass grows luxuriantly. It is to be hoped it may succeed in Lewis, and we shall look forward with no small Interest to the result. The country is being opened up by new roads and bridges. A new line to Bayble—a very important fishing station on the east side of the Island—leas been completed. The line to Harris is in rapid progress ; and one to connect the parishes of Lochs and Uig is proposed. The old road to Oress, last year almost impassable to wheeled vehicles, has been thoroughly repaired. The Barvas and Callernish roads are to undergo the same process. Curing.houses are being erected at the principal fishing stations, and, much to the credit of the spirit and humanity of the proprie tor, the bothies occupied by the cod and ling fishermen are to be replaced by habitations of a more comfortable and suitable de scription. Mr. Scobie has been introducing improved stock, both of cattle and horses ; r.nd much good can be thus brought about without putting the proprietor to much expense. A new era has burst upon the Lewis and its inhabitants. Those who are willing to work now find employment—of itself an ines. timable boon to the population. The improvements they see going forward will stimulate and instruct them to drain and take in their own crofts. The quantity of sea-weed and of shelly sand with which the island abounds, might enable them to convert into arable land hundreds of acres of the moss, which is of first-rate quality at the sea-aide; and, with a proprietor, able and willing to assist, there is no doubt but that in a few years the surface of the country will be much altered, and the moral and physical condi tion of its inhabitants vastly ameliorated. It is reported that Mr. Matheson purposes visiting personally his estate during the summer, and he may rely on receiving a cordial and hearty reception from the warmhearted tenantry of Lewis. It is also said that he purposes extending the benefits of steam navigation to Stornoway, to get a patent slip for the build ing and repairing of ships erected. And what is of most import ance to the people, that it is his wish to take the management of the education of the island into his own hands.—lncernesi Courier. NORTH AMERICAN BUFFALOES. The buffalo, or wild American ox, which formerly abounded in most parts of North America, is every day becoming scarcer, in proportion as civilization and culti vation advance. It was found throughout the whole range now occupied by the United States, with the ex ception of that part which lies east of Hudson's river and Lake Champlain and of narrow and swampy strips of coast on the Atlantic Gulf of Mexico. The fineness of the buffalo wool, which, within a few years, has caused it to become an object of commerce for the manufacture of hats and cloths, is mentioned by Merton, a New England settler, iu 1637. He says, " Their fleeces are very useful, being a kind of wolle, as fine almost as the wolle of the beaver." At present they are seldom seen east of the Mississippi and south of the St. Law rence. But they are found in considerable numbers west of the Rocky Mountains, in the Columbian region, nearly to the borders of California, and west of Lake Winipeg up to the sixty-third degree. Their general colour is dun: sometimes they are spotted. The frame of the buffalo is larger than that of the generality of domestic cattle, and, though the fore parts are uncouth, the hind parts are handsomely and rather delicately formed. It looks very formidable from its large shoulder hump, its flowing wiry mane and sweeping beard, and thick horns, curved backwards. A herd of buffaloes, when pursued, especially if there be a great number of bulls, emits a strong odour of musk, which is left in their wake, and their feet make a loud crackling noise. Their sense of smell is very acute. Sometimes they will scent man, if to windward of them, at a dis tance of two or three miles, and then they will gallop away with the greatest speed. When they cannot scent a man they will bear his near approach, or advance themselves very near him without any shyness. Whether this is to be attributed to the imperfect vision of the animal, whose eyes are obscured by the great quantity of hair which covers his face, or not, it is not easy to determine. Though buffaloes and elks are seen on the same prairies, they do not herd together. Wolves commonly attend them, and neither seem to molest the other. It is almost impossible to kill this animal by shooting it through the head or chest : the head is so protected by a matting of coarse, wiry hair, that a ball becomes entangled in it before reaching the bone; and the chest is so fenced by a bulwark of bone that it will require many bullets to penetrate it. Accordingly, the hunters contrive to gallop by the side of the animal, and shoot it, with bullet or arrow, behind the shoulder blade. They sometimes congregate in such myriads on the prairies west of the Rocky Mountains that the whole circle of vision within the bounds of the horizon presents one dark mass of these animals. The bulls march at the head of the cows, and it is then dangerous to encounter them, for, if they become enraged or frightened, the whole herd start off in a straight line, and in close order, regard less of all obstacles, and would crush to pieces men, horses, and waggons, if in their way. Some of these bulls weigh 3,0001b5. each. When there is abundance of this sort of game the hunters often content themselves with the choice parts, the tongue, the slices by the hump ribs, and the marrow, the carcases being left to the wolves. This waste often leads to woful want. When this animal is hunted he becomes sometimes bewildered and exasperated, and turns round on his pursuers : then it is inevitable death to come within range of his horns. —Dunn's History of the Oregon Territory. THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SIIIP.—This magni ficent vessel will leave her moorings at Blackwall in the early part of the ensuing month. The Directors, it is understood, intend her to put in at the various ports round the coast, viz., Spithead, Ply. mouth, Falmouth, &c., on her way to Liverpool, so as to afford the residents an opportunity of inspecting her. Her arrival in the Mersey is anticipated on the rod of July. She leaves on the 26th of that month for her first trip across the Great Atlantic. The Bazaar closes finally on Tuesday, and all the unsold goods, and the decorations of the Gothic Hall wilt be re moved at once to Manchester, preparatory to holding another bazaar there In the Great Free.trade Hall during the month of August. PREPARATION FOR WAR.—A foot-race lately came off at Hounslow, between the Blues and 2d Life Guards, in refe rence to which a newspaper paragraph states that, " for some time a great spirit of rivalry has existed between those distinguished regiments, as to which of them could produce the fleetest runner." To run, hitherto, has not been the ambition of the British soldier; and we hope this kind of emulation between the Life Guards and she Blues, has not arisen in anticipation of war.—Punch. 'l'he Rectory of Bothall, with that of Sheepwash, Northumberland, have become vacant by the death of the Rev. Wm. Parry. The benefices are in the gift of the Duke of Portland, and are worth 1,500/. per annum The rectory of Venn Ottery and the vicarage of Harpford, in the diocese of Exeter, have also become vacant by the death of the Rev. Marwood Tucker. They are in the gift of Lord Rolle. SIR ROBERT PEEL.—ESTATE OF CLOSEBURN.—A paragraph has been going the round of the press, and was copied by t ui c h s on Friday belongingP. r e h el so h rt a . d e dto S i r rc g vaes Charlese purchased t t h h les publ ic ,s Stuartta t nn tt C re l a daotslie, Monteath, for the e in Es du , Th u b m oufr f g r 2 if s o :l od h ov i . r 0 last, from a Glasgow paper, stating that Sir Robert 1. R s t. i a c tem KE e T nt ._ we T u n n E de iv rs i ta A n u d y t L o E b ß e o in N c E or c re L ct u , B an A d N w D e v. Tits Parwowrit ewe AND GILOUND.—This first-class GROUND v. brought to aconclusion on Wednesday afternoon In the midst ef somewhat heavy rain.—lderylebene the winner. ROLLS' COURT, May 24. The Master of the Rolls did not sit to.day, in consequence of having to attend the Lord Chancellor to hear the further argu. ments in the case of the claim of his Majesty the King of Hanover to the Hanover Crown jewels. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, May 24. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His HONOUR took motions today of no interest to the public generally. The Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Bauca took motions ani causes; and the Vice-Chancellor Wmaam, after disposing of the case of Buckle a. Fawcet, proceeded to hear unopposed and opposed cause petition COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May _24. The Court was occupied during the early part of the day in hearing a motion for a new trial, but the case presented no features of public interest, the arguments being purely technical, COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, May 24. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURNO IN RE GARRET, ♦N INSOLVENT. This insolvent, who was a farmer at Milton, Northamptonshire, came up for his final order, and was opposed on the ground of having made a vexatious defence to an action on two bills of exchange. The insolvent said that he had acted under the advice of his at. torney, who told him there were a good defence to the action. The COMMISSIONER—What, a good defence, when you chose to sign accommodation bills without having any possible means of meeting them. The insolvent said that he had been taken in, whilst drinking a bottle of wine ; but he could assure the Court that he did not know of the proceedings till after they had commenced, and then begged nothing further should be done, as he could not pay. The COMMISSIONRR—Where is your attorney i—A boy about fourteen or fifteen, said his father could not attend to-day, but he was watching the case. The COMMISSIONER—Watching the case, indeed 1 This is too often the case. Some attorneys lead their clients into diffieulties, and there leave them. He said that nothing justified the insol vent's conduct in giving the bills, but at the same time the aggrava. tion, if put in on sham plea, was caused by bad advice. Vnder the circumstances, he should act upon the 28th section of the /,et, and withhold the protection of the Court for three months, and adjourn the making the final order sine die. WEYMOUTH. QUEEN'S BENCH, MAY 15. THE QUEEN U. THE MAYOR OF WEYMOUTH., This case was argued in Trinity Term last by Mr. Sergeant Kinglake and Mr. Crowder. Attorneys, Mr. Coppock and Messrs. Hicks and Co. JUDGMENT. Lord DENMAN- -The Queen against the Mayor of Wey mouth. A mandamus to the mayor, aldermen, and bur. gesses of the town of Weymouth and Melcombe-Regis, to elect—to proceed on the 28th day of June, and do all that was necessary for the electiOn - of two assessors for revising the burgess list, in the place and stead of two whose year of office expired on the Ist day of March, when no election of new assessors was made. The return is, that on the day named the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses met, and were ready and willing to proceed to such election—the aldermen and burgesses to vote, and the mayor to receive the voting papers when they were so assembled; but there was not, nor hath been, any assessor of the said borough, and i❑ conse quence thereof they could not proceed to hold the said elec tion. We hold this return to be clearly bad, for the reasons assigned in the demurrer. It leaves the Court in doubt whether an assessor duly elected has died or become in capable; or whether, in case no assessor was elected, or some assessor was elected whose title is thought to be invalid from some legal defect. In any of these cases, which appear to be all the words of the return can suggest, the real state of things ought to have been distinctly pleaded, that the prosecutor might have an opportunity of question ing its existence, or bringing forward other particulars to vary its effect, or of placing before the Court such points of law as the known facts of the case might raise. It was argued that the special circumstances relied on to support the return need not be stated, because the mandamus itself was ill. for it directs that to be done which, applying only to provisions of public interest to the facts stated in it, could not by law be done—that it would, therefore, make the return argumentative to state the reasons why it could not be obeyed. The answer is two-fold, without adding the fact of there being no assessor, no difficulty appears in the way of obeying the writ, and, secondly, simply to return that fact, unless the inability to elect equally exists under every sup posable state of circumstances under which there may have been no assessor of the borough would be sufficient ; but we think the Ist of Victoria, chapter 78, meets the difficulty which would otherwise exist under the present state of things. In any election made before this Act, or " under this Act," the expression is any election made before this Act or under this Act shall be good, although made before the appointment of assessor. There is a remedy for omission, and it is large enough in its terms to include any omission to ap point assessors. All electors since that Act may be called electors under it, for they are all subject to its provisions. If the proper time had elapsed the corporatio - n may obtain authority by writ of mandamus, and ought to do so. This may be a necessary step previous to the particular election now prayed for; but their own neglect to take it cannot re lieve them from the duty now sought to be enforced. Seeing, then, that there are means intrusted to them by law for doing what the law requires, we are bound to give judgment for the Crewn for a peremptory mandamus. The effect of this judgment will be important to the liberal nterest in Weymouth. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. C. Lee, Customs' locker, Liverpool—first div. of Is. 7'%d. in the pound, May 28, and any following Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. G. Taylor—first and final div. of 13s. 9d. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury. S. Law, upholsterer, Great Portland-street—final div. of Is. 7d. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Greer, Aldermanbury. T. Higginson, pawnbroker, Liverpool—second div. of 2s. in the pound, May 29, and any following Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. L. 'Watson, smith, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire—first div. of ss. 9d. in the pound, next, and any following Wed nesday, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's * Arms-yard, Cole man. street. F. B. and W. Stacy, warehousemen, Lawrence-lane, Cheapside—first div. of 6 1 / 2 d. in the pound, May 24, and any following Saturday, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frede rick's-place, Old Jewry. W. Hinchliff, haberdasher, Marlborough-road, Chelsea —first div. of 4s. Bd. in the pound, May 24, and any follow ing Saturday, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. R. Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool—first div. of Is. in the pound, any Saturday after May 24, at the office of Mr Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. W. Pringle, carrier, Morpeth—first and final div. of Is. 4d. in the pound, any Saturday 'after May 24, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Donnelly, merchant, Liverpool—first div. of 2d. in the pound, May 26, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. J. Herdman and E. Herdman, jun., millers, Congleton, Cheshire—second div. of 51 2 d. in the pound, May 26, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. R. Swainson and J. Gardner, grocers, Liverpool—second div. of 24d. in the pound, May 26, and any following Mon day, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. J. Carbuet, publican, Liverpool—first div. of 3s. 10d. in the pound, May 28, and any following Wednesday, at the office Morgan, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At she Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Paulton, stone mason, High-street, Portland-town, June 13, at twOlve—T. Dingley, draper, Strutton-ground, Westminster, June 33, at half-past twelve—M. C. Painter, grocer, Peter-street, Westminster, June 17, at twelve—J. Green, wine merchant, Pall-mall, June 17, at one—W. Spencer, common brewer, Wallingford, Berkshire, June 17, at eleven—W. Armfield, draper, Northampton, June 13, at one—W. H. Mills, wine merchant, Mark-lane, June 13, at twelve—R. Swansborough and H. Oake, warehousemen, Bread-street, June 13, at twelve—S. Harvey, cattle dealer, East Mersea, Essex, June 14, at half-past eleven—J. Mou • trie, music seller, Bristol, June 14, at twelve—W. K. Ro berts, grocer, Abingdon, June 14, at eleven—M. H. L. G. Colnaghi, print seller, Cockspur- street, June 13, at one— R Marshall, stone mason, Deptford, June 13, at twelve— D. Smith, merchant, Bucklersbury, June 17, at twelve. In the Country. G. Ball, carpenter, Bath, June 18, at eleven, at the Bris tol District Court—J. Johnson, merchant, Liverpool, June 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—T. and W. Wilson, merchants, Liverpool, June 17, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—C. B. Buchanan and W. Cunning ham, merchants, Liverpool, June 17, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—T. Whyte, hardware merchant, Birmingham, June 17, at eleven, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court—W. Munton, Greatford, Lincolnshire, June 17, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—N. N. and R. Solly, iron masters, Tividale, Yorkshire, June 23, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—G. R. Gitton, printer, Bridgnorth, June 18, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. W. Burt, boarding-house keeper, Harrow road, Padding ton, June 17—R. Stockley, cabinet maker, Ramsgate, June 17—J. Welch. licensed victualler, Ring-cross, Hollaway, June 14—J. Gibbs, grocer, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, June I6—J. Hollingsworth, butcher; Paddington-street, Maryle bone, June 16—A. Donald, bookseller, St.Alban's, June 17— T. Weston, plumber, Southampton, June 17—M. Farrand, fancy cloth manufacturer, Huddersfield, June 16—W. H. Mills, wine merchant, Mark-lane, June 13—J. Martin, victualler, Bexley-heath, Kent, June 13-11. Green, woollen draper, Liverpool, June 13--T. Lane, scrivener, Hereford, June 13—J. Pim, linen draper, Clapham-common, June 13— T. K. Gorbell, bookseller, Bedford-place, Commercial-road, June 13—R. Swansborough and H. Oake, warehousemen, Bread-street, June 13—G. Haywood, bricklayer, Luton, Bed fordshire, June 13.—J. Banks, seedsman, Birmingham, June 1 3—H. C. York, lodging-house keeper, Cheltenham-place, Westminster-road, June 13—R. Rochester, butcher, Hartle pool, Durham, June 13—A. Knott, miller, Trevford, Sussex, June 13—J. Roberts, grocer, Liverpool, June 13—W. Reeves, coach builder, Walcot, Sornersetshire, June 13—J. Kewlev, tailor, Liverpool, June 13—S. Marshall, builder, Hull, * June 13—W. Burchett, chemist, Whitechapel-road, June 13—W. Conyer, T. Ridsdale, J. Senior, E. Bailey, J. Milnes, W. Mayman, J. Oldroyd, J. Castle, S. Oldroyd, J. Breary, J. Denton, A. Ellis, M. Healey, J. Bailey, and J. Clegg, woollen and scribbling millers, Batley Carr, York shire, June 13—C. Burrage, butcher, Newgate-market, June 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Saunders, T. F. Saunders, and J. Bloor, common brewers, Burton-upon-Trent—G. Clement and G. Inskipp, linen drapers, Hastings—C. W. Wood and A. Cooper, sur geons, Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire—M. Gomperta and H. L. Haswell, exhibitors of dioramic pictures—R. Ridway and T. Dent, joiners, Manchester—M. Heyman, L. Webb, and M. Mitchell, coach builders, Guildford—W. Skinner and D. Robertson, cheesemongers, Bermondsey-street—E. Har rison and T. Houlker, attorneys, Preston—M. Hardy and H. Unthank, wine merchants, Manchester—H. S. Ash and J. Parsons, purse manufacturers, Nottingham—R. Campling and J. Creake, haberdashers, Norwich—R. White and A. Ralston, nurserymen, Poole—S. and G. Green, innkeepers, Langsett, Yorkshire—C. Coxon, W. Fieldhouse, and J. Hawkins, china manufacturers, Foley, Staffordshire Potte ries—M. Lowe and W. Morrison, manufacturers, Leicester — S. Holtham and M. E. Brewer, milliners, Brighton—D. G. Moody and L. Jones, fruit merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —J. Poulson and J. Spencely, varnish manufacturers, Church • lane, Whitechapel. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Robb, china merchant, Aberdeen, May 29 and June 30, at one, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. Robert Taylor, jun., and Co., wholesale tea dealers, Glas gow, May 29 and June 19, at twelve, at the chambers of J. Monteith, Glasgow. GREAT MUNSTER and LEINSTER RAILWAY. A meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the above scheme was held on Saturday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing Directors. Mr. C. H. Latouche was elected to the chair, and he was about to call upon the Secretary to read the advertise ment convening the meeting, when Mr. Sstrim said he would object to that, as he was prepared to maintain that there was no Secretary to the Company. It was known that some years ago a resolution was passed, the effect of which was to put the Company in abeyance. The offices had been closed and there bad been a total cessation of the powers of all parties con nected with the Company, and therefore Mr. Harte could not officiate. In this opinion he had been con fined by the advice of several eminent lawyers. Several meetings had at various times been held, at which he had invariably acted in the capacity of secretary, and he would contend that he was the secretary for all the purposes of the Bill. The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to the objections of Mr. Smith, he would read an extract from the minutes of the meeting which was held on the 13th September. It was as follows:—A communication having taken place between the Directors and Mr. Harte relative to his future services as secretary, it was mutually agreed that his present salary should cease at the expiration of the pre sent quarter, Mr. Harte entering into the views of the Directors as to the necessity of reducing the expendi ture of the Company ; but the Directors deom it essential to the interests of the -company that Mr. Harte should still retain the appointment of Secretary at nominal re muneration, to secure to the Company the advantages of his experience, should circumstances enable them at a future period, to proceed with the undertaking. After a great deal of discussion, which was noisily carried on, amidst great confusion, for some time, as to the eligibility of Mr. Smith or Mr. Harte to act as Secretary, it was agreed that their respective claims should, for the present, re main in abeyance. The orignal business of the meeting for the election of Directors, on the motion of Mr. BEAMISH, was then proceeded with. A diffi c ulty, however, arose as to the re ception of proxies which were held by Mr. Smith, for persons absent in the country, as it was doubtful whether they were bon4 fide or not. It was ultimately resolved that the Chairman should receive them under protest. The annexed resolution was then moved by Mr. SMITH :—lt is resolved that the following gentle men be elected Directors —viz • J. B. Beamish, J. Par. nell, B. Shaw, T. Mooney, P. Gale, J. Alexander, Esqs., Capt. Lamont, J. D. Lowden, Esq., and that it be an in stuction to those Directors to nominate P. P. Collett, Esq., M.P., N. H. Thomas, J. Brand, Esqs., Sir T. But ler, Col. Bruen, ALP., E. Grogan, Esq., M.P., W. P. lloey, R. S. Ginness, and T. Redmond, Esqs., as soon as the last-named gentlemen had qualified under the Act. This list was objected to by Mr. BRYSON, who pro posed to substitute another, but his amendment was lost, and the original motion was passed pro forma by the Chairman, on his receiving under protest the proxies which Mr. Smith held. After the discussion of some unimportant routine business, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting separated. Lord Sidney Osborne, uncle to the Duke of Leeds, has taken a mansion in Vypor Portland-place. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES rzi RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 23. RAILVIAI.TS. Dividend per Amount of Share. Annum. 41. Os. per sh 1/. 121.165. per 811 X s. d 25 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 MO 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 6 13 4 6 13 4 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 8 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 24 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 32 0 0 25 0 0 16 13 4 50 0 0 50 0 0 13 15 9 9 0 0 12 15 4 18 17 2 41 6 10 40 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 6 5 0 40 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 00 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 33 2 4 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 14 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 2 0 2 0 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Pric• Annum. Share. s. d. s. d. Australasia ...• ••• • • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 42 Britsh North American 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47 Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 22 Colonial .• • •• .. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15% Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27 London Joint-Stock .• . 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 59 Ditto, New. ........Si. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 National of Ireland 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 21 Nat. Proencial of Eng. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 5 38 Ditto, New.... • • . 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia. •• • 25 0 0 25 0 0 26)4 Union of London... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- - £ s. d. £ s. d. Albion Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 Ditto Marine. 6l. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 e 6% Atlas . British Commercial .. 7e. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Clericl,Mcd.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County .........• • ... 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 9s. and Crown -- - - ...... i 61. ss. bs. l 40 0 0 5 0 0 18 Lagle Os. 50 0 0 i 0 0 57i Economic Life ... ..... [lP 3 e o r s e b t ;'} 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Eng.& Scot. Law Life.. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 27‘; European Life ••••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' ••• •••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe .- ••.•••• .• • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 142 Guardian Imperial Fire •• • ..... 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 100 Imperial Life... ••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine .• • • 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 I 30 Law Life 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6% London Fire •.••.• • • • IN. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% London Ship ••.•• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 8 15% Marine .... • . Med. Invlid& Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life.. - • .... 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life ...... • . 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% Phoenix - - 195 Protector Life.. ••.• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 2e. Provident Life •••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life.. ..... . Royal Exchange .• •.• • 51. per cent. Stock. - 185 Sun Fire .. ..... .. . - - Ditto Life 1/. 6s. - - Universal Life . DOCES. Dividend Amount Warne of Company, per of I Paid. Price. Annum. Share. -- -- X s. d. £ s. d. Jommercial . Last and West India 5%1. pr cent. Stock. 140 East Country London ........441. pr cent. Stock. —11 G St Katharine •• • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. 108% Southampton •• . . LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. s. d. s. d. Plank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland Cl. per cent. 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company 81• per cent. 100 0 0 228 Commercial Bank .. • . 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 170 National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 81 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7% Clydesdale Bank.. • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank...—. • . 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank Edinb.&Glasgew Bank 51. per cent. 5 0 0 7% City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 14 : X. Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 U Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Incur. Co. of Scotlnd Si. per cent 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Incur 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27% Caledonian Fire Insur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur 6l. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19 Edin. &Glasg. Railway 5/.percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 63 Ditto, IA Shares... • 4%l.percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 15 % Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 5 '34 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4% Z. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 62 Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19 Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Dundee & Arbroth Rail. Si. per oent. 28 0 0 All paid. 34% Name of Company. Aberdeen • • •• •• • •• • • Armagh, Coleraine, & Portrush • Birmingham & Gloster Ditto, New, iss. 71 dis.l Do. Half Shares • • • • Brighton, Lews,& Hast. Bristol and Exeter .... Do. Neva .. Ditto and Gloueasterl Caledonian •. Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Chichester & Brighton Churnet Valley .• • • • • • Coventry, Bedworth, & Nuneaton .• •• •• • • •• Coventry and Leicester Cornwall ..•• •••• • • Direct Northern . •• •• Direct Norwich •• •• •• Diss,Beccles, & Yrmth Dublin & Belfast June. Ditto aHd Galway • • Do. and Mullingar • Eastern Counties ... • • Do., Perpetual, No. 1 Ditto, ditto, No. 2.. Eastern Union ..... Do. Extension •. • • • • Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. New Quarters • • Ely and Bedford .. • • rand Junction .• • • .• Ditto, Half Shares .. • Ditto, Quarter Shares 3t. Southern & Western Do. Extension. • • • • • Do. Additional Great North of England Ditto, New .• • • • • • . • Do. New • • . 4 ;mat Western .• • •• • • Ditto, Half Shares.. Ditto, Fifth 5........ Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmouth .. • • • • • • Harwich . • • Hull and Gainsborocgli Hull and Selby .• • ...• 'Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. Half Shares • • • • Kendal & Windermere Kentish Coast • • • • • • • • Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Bradford. • • Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto, Half Shares.. Ditto, quarter Shares London & Birmingham Ditto, Nell. , Thirds • • Ditto, New 4 Shares London and Biackwall London and Brighton.. Do. Consolidated Bths :.,ondon and Croydon • Ditto, Guarntd. 5 p. c. London and Greenwich Ditto, Pref. or Priv • • London and S. Western Do., New Cons. Bths Ditto, New London and York .• • •• Lndonderry& Coleraine Do. & Enniskillen .. Lynn and Ely ••• • • • Do. & Dereham • • • • Manchester and Leeds Ditto, Half Shares • . Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Sixteenths . • • Manchcstr & Birming. Ditto, Quarter Shares Midland . • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto, Fifths . • . • • • • Do. New •• :• . ••• Ditto, Einr..k Derby Newcastle & Berwick Newcastle & Carlisle Newestle & Darl. June Do. New Brandling Newry & Enniskillen Newark and Sheffield North British .. Do. New Northern and Eastern . Ditto, Scrip, 188.5/. d Ditto, Quarter Shares North Kent North Wales . . Norwich and Brandon . Ditto, New • • • • Oxford & Worcester . • Preston and Wyre .• • • Ilichmnd& W.E. June, Scottish Central .....• Do. Midland.. •• . Sheffield and Lincoln • • Sheffield & Manchestr Ditto,Quarter Shares) Shrws., olv.,Dud.,Bir. :louth Devon ••.• • • • • • South-Eastern & Dove. Ditto, New iss. 32/.dis. Do. New, No. 2 .. •. Do. New, No. 3 .• • • South Wale! .• • • • • • • • Staines and Richmo Trent Valley Trent Valley and Holy. head Junction .• • • • - Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall.... • - Yarmouth & Norwich. Ditto, New York & North Midland Ditto, Half Shares•. Do., Scarbro' Branch Ditto, Selby Scrip .. Ditto, Extension .... Bordeaux and Toulouse Do. and Cette Boulogne and Amiens. Dieppe and Paris June. Gt. Northern of France Lyons and Avignon.... Orleans and Vierzon Orleans & Bourdeaux Paris & Lyons (Laffitte) Do. (Ganneron's).... Do. (Calon's) Paris and Strasbourg . Paris & St. Quentin • . Paris and Orleans..... Paris and Rouen .. •• Royal North of Spain. Rouen and Hare .... Sambre and Meuse.... Strasbourg and Bale • • Tours & Nantes ('Mae kenzie's) ... Do. (Levevres) ...• •• Bs. per sh. 21. 5s p. sh. Its 3d pr. sh lel. per ct. 101. per ct. 101. per ct. 6/. Os. p. sh. It. p. sh. St. per ct. St. per et. 81. per ct. 3/. 10s. pr. sli. l 1 17 s. 6d. pr sh 91. per cent. 91. per cent. 91. per cent. 101. per ct. 10/. per et. 10/. per et. 6s. 31. Os. per ch. 160. per sh. 4/. per share 10s. pr. sh. 151.125. per sh, 121. 2s. per sh. .21. per share. 61. per cent, 14/.125 — .6d. p.c, 14/. Os. per sh. it. per share. 11.145.10d.p.s 21. ss. 15s. i l/.105.6d.p.5. its. 10d. p. sh, 4s. 6d. 10/. par Cl 101. per et 101. per ct. MARKET NEWS. (SATURDAI') COVENT-.011 12 N. Nothwithstanding the suppli G .23 es of Coth Fruit and Vegetablyieg. was on the increase, the demand ruled ac tive on the folio ing terms :—Old Potatoes, from 3s p to p e 4 s s , pet: cwt 3s, and Is 9d to 2s 6d Young Onions, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; Coleworts, or Greens, Is 6d to 3s ; and Leeks, 8d to is per dozeil,l bunches ; Spinach, 9d to Is 3d ; A -1 2•to 3s an d ° Onions, 2s per half sleve ; Cherries, 15s to 21s ; Force 6,1 tatoes, 4d to 8d ; Pine-apples, 8s to 105 ; and Filberts ls r per lb ; Parsnips, 6d to is ; and Cabbages, 25 to 3 3 P!, dozen ; Rhubarb, 4d to Is 4d ; Asparagus, 2s 6d to SV O Horse-radish, 3s to ss; Brocoli, Is to 2s 3d; and CelerY , 15 _, d 2s per bundle ; Oranges, 7s to 13s ; Lemons, Ss to 125; a' - '„ Forced French Beans, 2s per hundred ; Cucumbers, is to .." each; Turnip Greens, ls 6d ; and Brocoli Sprouts, 35 g r ; bushel ; Radishes, 4d per dozen hands punnet; Small Salad, and Mushrooms, is to is 6d per Strawberrias, ''' per small basket. HITNGEROILD. °T ed For Meat we had rather an active demand at iMPr __,,, quotations. In Fruit and Vegetables more business w' passing. IC EWCZ.ATE AND ZEADIANIEUL/ to' , Beef and Veal were in request, at improved (1 11° t ied. while the value of other kinds of Meat WAS steadily suPP°b, 9 Beef, from 2s 10i1 to 4s ; Mutton, 33 4 d to 4s 10d ; Lanic,),, the to 5s 10c1; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork. 3 s to 4s per 811)3, • , g t carcase. We had a large supply a F ore ign peal lr "\rog that of English was by no means large. Generally Ild to the trade ruled dull. ✓ Fowls, 4s to 7s 6 d; Chickens, `._,:af, 4s 6d ; Pigeons, 6d to 9d ; Duckling,,, 3s 3d to 5s Go3o 4s to 6s 6d; and Guinea Fowls, 3s to 4s each . . NEWPRT. , D e, There was a steady trade at enhancea curre nc ies. a too; from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4 s 10 d ; Lamb , 5,2 Veal, 3s 10d to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per Slbs. ,„, ea nna,XNGSGATZ. Most kinds of Fish, the supply of which was good's c eil (.. df slowly, at barely late rates. Turbots, from 83 to 1 401 1, Cod Fish, 3s to 7s each ; Eels, 4d to 10d; anct-citerel, 10d to is 4d per lb; Soles, 4d to 2s 6d per pair ; , o' s 22s to 31s per 120. WILITECHAPEL. , f t verf f , i ' ll ! Rather an extensive business was passlng , 7 - 4 10.,' prices. —Beef, from 38 to 4s ; Mutton, 3s s€ l ' o ,, 3 5 3 4 ,1 1 " Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s; Veal, 3s 10d to ss; and to 4s per 81bs. HIDE ARSET , a e ifers IVI Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs :---Best Steers snu r ot d i t to 5s 6d to 5s 8d ; Middling ditto, 4s 10d to 55 4d ; I° fer s i t ia:" . 4s 2d to 4s Bd. Sheep and Calf-skins, at per 55 6 d; Market Calf, 6s 6d to 8a • Long-woolled Sheep, 4' 16 ` 6 d ; sg‘' Short ditto, 3s to 4s 6(1 ' ; Lamb Skins 10d t° Shearlings, 64:1 to Bd. n ß il ret a i 4l b s D n ihe Metropolis frO The prices of Wheaten ° i i s a 7d to 70 ; of Household ditto, 5d to 6d p er or SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadowf li was, Ttl 0 , ntos,4issr:c;-iro - :„ei, ful do., 4/ 14s to 5140 _,. fine LT land do., 5 0 5 t... vbeat ~.- li 2 Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1118 s.. to 2 3 ; 1 d $ 614 ,05 lls to 213 s per load. A moderate supPlY. an 40 demand. 4/ 1 3/ 12 , t( 1 0 5/ 1 21 ! CUMBERLAND. Coarse Meadow Say, o 51° 1 ‘)* ' useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditt , to 2 t Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 61 ; Oat Straw , ,1,11.1d8,3 rtes dY g Wheat Straw, 2/ 2s to 21 4s per load. .r" 4/ WI; late rates. s i 5t 0 5 45 i t') WHITECHATEL.—Coarse Meadow nays -- A I ,l o i t . -I , ''' useful ditto, 41 12s to 5/ 3s ; fine Uplau" --t ii ° lB s '° ' Ate 5/ Ss ; Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to Cl 3s ; Oat Straiv,hut ode r- Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 213 s per load. SuPP IY ' and trade rather dull. ___........• STATE OF TRAlo'o3.,Vst°l,l; FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, M AV x teli si l e dt o actions in foreign wools have been pretty e tio nce u 'ore week for the season of the year, and the a e oing i t et. realised at the London wool sale s now ino Pois ate imparted an additional firmness to prices .„...130'11,0; ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, 3 ' l ' 4 ' orte ei• d in er e. still continues in the same state as rep d or p to ,l two advices. No alteration either in den ian sve ha re 3ing WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY 23'--;.0,1 doll'pre°e rather more inquiry this week than for se en the t l4 weeks for middle wethers, which have b e te a le o jel article of sale for some months past, an d T o s '' Oi e O a holders by some further submission in P r ' c ., ' 9ta e t , J9 o l° have been passing. Hogs continue light r i t , t oe stationary in price. Short wool of all 5° beea %,,se l e at rather improved rates. 11S "". eg`J LEEDS.—The cloth markets at both h a ort le e rsl ) l very dull, both on Saturday and Tuescla,Y;,to ~( ' ',l 3 big ° fur goods of low qualities. The Wer Cl ' a p of t ile s fo r are holding off purcha,ing in conseaseue- the le p ar r e et b ty y , s n t o ea m dy ea d n e sla n rg d e , prices to which they have advanced during d the ' t: „ ill months. Prices, however, are firm, an t ° t° rice s ' large. Fine o itera 00 ar oy 01 The great influx of people from the co keeping 0 o eo visiting London, has had the effect of e ,ce, bes weel'' thei _., oe _,ipP the larger buyers at home, and in consclar.tig the ii,en t; has been rather dull in the warehouses °R.irloogsetiare' LEICESTER.—Hosiers are making for the autumn trade, and worsted spian":„ sot N oe ec e tee , l tr il : t l i t. ta fore more active. Wools remain without ~ n 1 . 7 ., t osa a ' A fair ho ds demand is generally' tured goo.—Leicester Journalof ,Y es i t rb r e/ is b " y o f 1 ,1) without con tiee in veolf, BRADFORD MARKET, TB tIitSDA ..-.-. inil e er 6 - % f '' l ‘ l combing wool changing hands ; so u gh being i ' o pef!; very great caution, the prices m o re e xtend clip 0‘ high to offer any inducement to the coin i n g cl i l i rol lions ; and the prospeo t ef . $ r being an average, causes t the price' cot t till they can replace to ro e d l‘ e f dulness Dote ~or or , here. The same degree o he Y arn 'll ti e ; o veral weeks past, still pervades t . , dal e r betweenpmd ra(produced ui in iendqo theudr inquired reweadini raw s at ofa m , nes a dru t : e cah r and the stopping of machinery is beconlOstios 50 ; a° the staplers to ha l o ffer' general, for at no period was the disprcP°drthell 04 other alternative remaining but to h,'' ' „y P r i v ;y e t`' ,; In the piece market there is a stead; hes,:,•tieoeLaprea fi tl makers complain very much, and this bran ° lr: oinabdaluarlaergnels.d: not o)Latlisorpwiii e s' :I'l will tg:iencil.tsbo3feut;:butiau-e- o r - : I : , a re 1 ,. is very unprofitable. v g I Sfe ,, '' 'd! rill MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EYENLy.,----thii,' :ea , ` l ,lo, cipated, but we fancy that rather less doing iu cloth since Tue suaJ t theobsee‘o to be quotable. The tendency how i rly i ' li t t i l i; ,11 ‘ .01 prices havern? s, 0, totior downward, and applies to goods enablede to 1 $ Fr' and descriptions. Spinners are veil f r at productions without difficulty, and at fag bee lsl indeed, the demand is most excellent. 0.,...., ors ce, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, M AT a tar a „eo /1 ,0 , market seems at length to have taken r tti v , WWI' t o and has certainly assumed a more bea"lll:des`ai,, In our own market the transactions, ja a ti o tod f i'l o.. 1 :0; have been large, and prices must be _qouotst'° rea11.4., ls. 6d. per cwt. above our last week; and tbse.gri fined goods continue in brisk demanuv:_„ „rice are still enabled to obtain their o ''' I 4 CA ' t Mercury. .............................../ o p o p , _ ___ I . CO n d le ti i i eat er ( RHAYADER. •••-• THE NANT - ' e raT, oil' ti i RWNANT MINES.—Most valuable COPotwo eolisvotta have been discovered and are no!' `_`' i, th a e, 0 . ,,r , prise and spirit in an isolated district otcyriattiesfloya Brecon, on th , estates of Martroduke uo je i r ate or ibo I D. 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About si ;,ci tl a ' of la , for my hair getting allday more w eak ci ,aoP te it ea ti 'lo o oo l discoloured from practice Ihs i d los e c d, l it it , ,ed continually; fearing that I sh& ti o ossa r v rei a l d, v ial hearing of the efficacy of your '''.' a 0 0 the tos ch l or ig , ;,r, some time past constantly used ' t 't and t hicU , o f IV * my hair is now perfectly rester,e(becoale of e 0 1 g i ol in appearance and colour, havin o ut th e frie s ' t.f ri s a glossy ; it also curls freely To all aIX 0 40 ° 0 4 which it never did before. a r 0 1 ' A 9 I wilt or warmly recommended your , •- ira° ,1 1 5 , 5 hair' y° ls iett er ;o o restorative and preservative .for `. ll - t , I hf 11 1 I S a ppl ic p' objection to see my name i n P ri to sh ° r efe r oar publish it; but you are at liberty it, „acl i of I , make any other use you pleas; of effi ese : A t bi , to me, if necessary, in proof o vast' Lev .4 p ' 00' Off) • t cassar Oil.—Your obedient s e . and r ep • o g s 1 pe g s‘rj iu „ee 0 Rowland's Macassar Oil prole of f or, o loar,;400 Hair ; prevents it from falling, ~o 1 11 oesa P • Origins it Changes Grey Hair to its i 9, 1,es , from Scurf and Dandruff, so u °3 t . 0i 1: 10, ;h 0 0 rfel 00 i mid curly. _ for " Rowlanel,yerit cow- (Airily!" ij i,o bo o li c All others are fral lui ; or o d SO, o or 1 SPLENDID ARRANGE)ISI4 .. e adet °VII° 0 producing the effect of a long a' 0 .• in it° , . 0.1 . as to cause a doubt whether you ~ OP, I°o cce°' an d so t ` • Rome. Arch pile °a h e g " " Arch follows arch, and P te d to earring a oo lli o b,,g This unique apartment is deer ba r. je ~300.0,,i in g the hair in, and wit h arnotiod-0° onc i 0., 10 view of Naples, are on the gent, R° s° , a tear ' fre e , tention to their esta.blishatheir sy 0 ,0 03 , oe i, to notice the advantages e t , youtl e g fo r 0 Old never take apprentices nt°omers a'1‘11; ele: O i l a(' celery re seal t bilPreir do country, nor object to man to wait upon them ; they never being used twi . c% ~,, thl ic a 1$ , and parties are not presseell _07,•'119 I.' T i'' gate-street. want. Address, Ross and b ° -----" /0 0 _.----, fele o fP _ _,,,, ~ Bl itiPl the " lte e st° o 8 of a " Brown, Vicar of St. alar7 ~___, s o ot 1 v ,,. .. , , e tola_r i lit„t On the 19th inst., at renW .D. , o f a s°'s o raer,f lo is v o r o , ,V Wilbraham Falconer, Es(l.4'es,_magns,oo,oJora,f j On the 20th inst., at "Aabie Oronlaet,l3o-` io,V. On the 16th inst., at Leicester.,3obyfra.ies, th . i. , 0,, wife of the Rev. EdwardiA'. i t James -street, 0.50 Ijs urea 0 0, son.... fan to r I 9 f oe , lady of Montague . Montg. Be . '' ~,o Ox the 20th inst., la f 3 daughter _ _,e_ ilotP 'bor. to lady of H. P. Gipps, .1., Esq./-oorcbester dog t he , On the 20th instoo,ionper, Esq., isee, 13, i On the 21st inst., at rn E s q,l ito ws,' , ~ 1 • Albion-ro , On the 21st inst., la ep tell' t e Claridge, Esq., of a sou. ictotop; I. c. rr.,00 , inst_ Switbin 5, isa, oriy,,,, coloo,ir lady of William M. Redfe , a d, o On the 12th inst., at jemima L -the , l'e 00 1 11 / l il lei' litchcock, Esq , '',' , F,sseX , Ar til o f the late S. I Slietie.r , , r ine 5 4., On the 18th inst., at 80 .,1 al cr w t , grocer, Cannon-street, to ,r GreenbY L i e ute to . 4 1 ) of the late fe r garet, third daughter •h P d' ,C, 1. House. /a/gl i „, Hei ner %, I , ' Georg - Gibsone, commanding the w, Sa s" 4 On the a Prvo wn : tieho P Prince of Waldeck an „ ao h, rat it...,.a, ~.,8 for m On the 19th inst., at De Tborild ii‘e ' ' 10 0 ' j OP I I der gavil n .oe , tenant Charles AleXall 1 15th inst., at Arolsen,d to o, , r oe williaa l f i t Doti - ,llinh nt of Light /if 0% , ,,, I ; th Iteg nne 0 0 )ti of her 'Majesty's 13 l'i lj 0 0 ' CA'" d Fablished r hie Saa,o to Lonaur. : eruatod an ntar. at • savoff I At his residence, Bat 1,, Pre ' a the ~, midawox, woo, ki- , sNtor.,,l:26stthrsendprocili,.. 26, ir... Paid. X s. d. 2 10 0 1 7 6 100 0 0 17 10 0 3 0 0 20 0 0 70 0 0 2 0 0 30 0 0 5 0 0 1 10 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 Price. 2 10 0 1 0 0 1 7 6 50 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 1 10 0 1 7 6 15 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 Stock. 2 0 0 2 0 0 50 0 9 16 0 0 6 0 0 8 0 0 7 0 0 2 10 0 2 10 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 21. 14 4y, 314 1 p. % pm. 20y, _2 65q 15N 61 ,4 234 224 215 14 108 3 IY, 17N 2,4 24