The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-01 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Wednesday) Evening contained : The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings before the various Railway Committees of the House of Commons. The Conclusion of the Day's Proceedings in the Court of Exchequer, in the Great Distillery Case. ..Parliamentary Intelligence, being a full Report of the Evening's proceedings in the House of Com mons. The whole extending to nearly Four Columns of small type. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectflilly xformed, that there will be an Extra Night (not included in the Subscription), THIS EVENING When will be performed Bellini's Opera I PURITANI. Elvira, Madame Grisi ; Henrietta, Madame Bellini ; Arturo, Sig. Mario ; Riccardo, Sig. Fornasari ; Walton, Sig. A Giubilei ; Giorgio, Sig. Lablache. After the first act of the Opera, the Dansenses Viennoises (under the direction of Madame Josephine Weiss) will appear in their most admired Pas. After the second act of the Opera a New Divertissement, entitled LA BACCHANTE. Characters by Mdlle. Lucille Grahn; Noncelet, Mdlle. Cassan, M. Perrot. To be followed by the 4th Act of Verdi's Opera, ERNANI. Elvira, Madame Rita Borio ; Ernani, Signor Mori ant ; Silva, Signor Fornasari. After the Opera " I Puritani," a Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE. La Vivandiere, lidlle. Cerito ; Le Postilion, M. St. Leon. In the course of the Evening, the celebrated Spanish Dancers will appear in various national Pas of Spain. To conclude with the New Ballet Divertissement of KAYA ; ou, L'Amonr Voyageur. Kaya, Mdlle. Lucille Gratin ; Knud, M. Perrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ; to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THE DESERT, BY FELICIEN DAVID. It is respectnilly announeed that the LAST REPRESENTA TION of this celebrated Work will take place on MONDAY, May 5. - Preceded by a Grand Miscellaneous Selection of Choral and Vocal Massie from the most classical Authors, and executed by the dis tinguished Artistes of this Establishment. The Orchestra and Chornsses will include upwards of 200 Per formers, the whole under the direction of Sig. Costa. PROGRAMME. PART I--Pastoral Symphony—Beethoven. The Hunting Chorus. " Euryanthe"—Weber. " Les Hirondelles," Sig. Moriani—David. " Laseia Amor Segue Marie, Sig. Lablache—Handel. Chorus, " I Cieli immensi narrano—Martini. Duo, " Crudel perche Finora" —Mozart. " Let the Bright Seraphim," Madame A. Castellan ; Trumpet Obligato, Mr. Harper—Handel. " La Carita"—Rossini. Overture, " Anacreon"—Cherubini. PART IL—The Desert. The solo parts by Big. Morin!, PROGRAMME OF THE DESERT. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm —The Caravan resumes its march. Part ll.—Night. The Evening star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night': air sung by Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of ;the Almes—Tke Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening, reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orche..tral accompaniments—Sleep I Part lll.—Sun-rise. tall of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic Jeords—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; to commence at Eight. "Boxes. Two, Three, and Four Guineas each, may be had on appli cation at the :'sox-office, Opera Colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolpho, Mrl Stretton ; Elvino, Mr. W. Harrison ; Amina, Miss Romer ; Lisa, Miss Betts. After which, A GRAND CONCERT. Supported by Herr Staudigl, Madame E. Garcia, Mr. Borrani, Mr. 13urdini, Miss Betts, Miss flainforth, &c. TO'he followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini will dance their celebrated Polka. To conclude with the Second and Third Act of DE 2 FRE 'SCHUTZ. Dress Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s ; Gallery, 2s; Upper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par - sons, at the Pox-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Miss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Humby. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs.,Humby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Kr. Selby ; George, Mr. lludson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which will be repeated,' THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Webster, in which he will give his celebrated personation of the Emperor Napoleon; Margot (her original charac ter) Madame Celeste. To conclude with a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs. Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Breaks, and Miss E. Chaplin. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be produced a New and Original Play, entitled INFATUA TION. Duke de Bracciano, Mr. 11. Wallaek ; Pierre Laroche, Mr. Wedlock ; Duchess de Bracciano, Miss Cushman. After which, the Music •1 Entertainment of NO SONG NO SUPPER, with all the Original Music. Crop, Mr. Lefßer ; Frede rick, Mr. Horn, Jun. To conclude with THE REAR-ADMIRAL. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be produced a New and Original Comedy, entitled OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by WHITTINGT)N AND HIS CAT. To conclude with a New Farce, called A GOOD NAME. Cha- Meters by Mes‘rs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan troth Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES. The public is respectfully informed that, in consequence of the Im mense BUCCCS3 which attended the first representation Qf the cele brated 3fONSIEUR PHILLTPPE, of the Theatre Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, and the general astonishment, excited by his experiments, A limited number of SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES will be given at the ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, every TUESDAY THURSDAY, and SATURDAY. Le Drapeati National, La Cuisine Infernale, Les Bassins de Nep tune, et La Grande Menagerie will be presented every Evening. Doors will be opened at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Half-past Eight. Stalls, 7s. ; Boxes, 4s. ;Wit, 25.; Ampitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING • • A VARIETY OF ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES. Mr. BITTY, ever anxious to retain the patronage that has been r ao bountifully bestowed on this Establishment, feels a degree of plea sure in announcing the greatest combination of Foreign Equestrian Talent that ever appeared in the Metropolis, he having engaged the whole of M. Tournaire's Company of French, German, and Italian Artistes, and the entire Stud of highly-tutored Horses. The Com pany embrace the following distinguished Professors :—M. Benoit Tournaire, M. Ferdinand, M. Francois, M. Ernest ; Signors Angussi and Rinaldo; M. F. Klatt; Mesdames Louise Klatt, Ilubor, and popowitz ; M. Popowitz, the Frene't Clown ; Herr Hubor, the Dutch Grotesque. This talented Corps will make their First Appearance on Whit Monday. A new Dramatic Spectacle, written expressly for this F,itablisinent, by Mr. 3loncrieff, the plot of which is taken from the works of Eugene Sue, will also be produced on the same occasion. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, In consequence of the immense sensation created by the Feats of Mr. Canfield, the American Samson, he will repeat his Herculean Feats every Evening. THIS EVENINCI Will be performed THE GITSEY FARMER . ; or Jack and Jack's Brother, Supported by Messrs. Hicks, Homier, Cowell, Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, &c. 'To be followed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American Sampson. After which, JONATHAN BRADFORD, Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., S YBIL ; or, THE TWO NATIONS. BY B. DISRAELI, ESQ., Ni. P... AUTHOR OF " CONItioSBY." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlborough-street ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled GEOFFREY KURDISTON or, the Blacksmith's Daughter and the Mock MAI , riage. Supported by the whole Company. After which, THE FOREST OF BONDY. IltulAn rrll2 perform In which the Dog To conclude with Tilt.; D Sits M OF w.t Nctt ESTER. DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON!-GRAND OPENING FETES. First Exhibition of the Colossal Pictorial Representation suggested by H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT. Under the Patronage of her moat Gracious MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, &c. &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MONDAY, May 5; TUESDAY, May 6 ; WEDNESDAY, May 7 , _ . - and THURSDAY, May 8, 1843. A magnificent modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, the 'Pride of Scotland and of Scotchmen, and the immortal Scott's " Ain Romantic Town," introducing the Old and New Town, the Nor' Lech, as it form er ly ex i s t e d, th e C ar lt on Hill, N elson . s Monument, Arthur's Seat, S a li s b ury Craggy, th e C as tl e , Si r W alter Scott's .3 . 10 n u the R o y a l I nst i tut i on, Holyrood Palace, an d a ll th e most inter esUnn features of " Auld Reekie." It The Proprietor had the honour of s u bmitting the Model to his oYal Highness Prince Albert, and he is delighted to say it met with his most decided and perfect approval, and from the more than usual tare Which has been ol , served in its execution, he points it out as the happiest been of Mr. Danson's pencil. The drawings were made by Mr. Damson on the spot, and present a bird's-eye view of the principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, so decidedly popular at this atablishment, will thi s season be on an unusually effective scale. Mr. GODFREY has been occupied since the close of last summer, in com sing and arranging a varied and pleasing succession of superior loroveltles, which will be produced in rotation, including some Ori ginal Pieces by Foreign Composers, not yet performed in this country. At Desk will take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of FIREWORKS ever attempted. Tha entire of the Gigantic Model Will be Illuminated. . The different devices in front of the houses, the Ares on the Carlton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Monti- Mina, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings which took place on her Majesty's Visit Will he accurately pour trayed. And, as a Finale, a grand Aquatic Royal and Patriotic Tableau, Fifty Feet in Height, will he exhibited in the centre of the Lake The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by emblems and other devices will be in troduced. The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Hanson. Mr. Southhy has been occupied for months in giving effect to this matchless and superb design, which combined with the Feu D'Arti flee, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur rounding heights, will form tho most brilliant Pyrotechnic Display ever witnessed. Fee ling - •-f• the Carnivore, at half-past F our ; P e li cans, &c., at live: Concert, at Six; and Pyrotechnic Manley. at Nine, Admission, One St!llitiz. PORTLAND. BREARWATER.—Various have been the rumours lately respecting the breakwater at Portland ; but we are happy now in being enabled to state (and this, too, from the most unquestionable authority), that not only is this great national undertaking to take place, but it is to be the first breakwater that will be com menced, and to be completed with as little delay as pos sible.—Somerset County Herald. DUNGENESS, APRIL 24.—The hull of a vessel with two masts was towed in by two smacks, which had picked up the same off Dover, and is supposed to be the foreign galliot wrecked on the Goodwin Sauds, laden with seed, &c., as reported on the 20th inst. ; also some butter firkins, marked " Ostfriesich , " (Hanoverian horse); and several oars have been landed at Deal. It is sai4 _that she beat off the sands, and was seen to float with" the wind and tide. The Lord Warden's officer his sumo tau possepiou of her,..l2over Chronick. RAILWAY NEWS. Subscribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAILWAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDITION of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY. Sun•ofce, 112, Strand. C OLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE AND NAVAL AND MILITARY JOURNAL, No. CXCVIII, FOR MAY, Contains :- 1. Kolapoor and Satrunt Warree. 2. The Battle of the Spurs. 3. Nelson's First Visit to Naples. 4. The Spirit of Military Institutions. By Marshal Mannont. 5. War of Succession in Portugal. By Captain llippisley. 6. Twelve Month's Service in Western Africa. By Captain L. S. O'Connor. 7. Prayer During Battle. 8. Russian Troops at Wosnesensk. 9. The Pirate Delano. 10. Reminiscences of a French Prison. 11. Defensive Force of the British Islands. By Lieut.-Col. Wilkie. 12. Sketches of Foreign Military Life. 13. Late Admiral James Carpenter. 14. The Waterloo Correspondence. 15. Organization of Arsenal and Harbortr Guards. 16. Names of Ships. 17. The American President's Message and the Oregon Question. 18. Count Montholon and the late Sir Hudson Lowe. 19. The Indian Mail. 20. Lieutenant Bridge's Court-Martial. Stations of the Army and Navy, with all the Professional Intelli gence of the Month. Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough-street. T HE AGE! WESTMACOTT'S ORIGINAL JOURNAL REVIVED !! The unprecedented success of " The New Age" has convinced the old Editor that his former labours in the good cause of Conservatism are not forgotten. " The New Age" may be ordered of every Book seller and Newsman in the United Kingdom. Office, corner of York-street, Catherine-street, Strand. D ERBY AND CREWE JUNCTION RAIL WAY, BY THE POTTERIES. (PROVISIONALLY REGISTERED.) Capital 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit, 21. per Share. PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT. This project is intended to form a direct Railway communication between Derby and the Midland and Eastern Counties, with the Potteries, Liverpool, and Ireland. The whole length is about 47 miles : if it be thought expedient, and an arrangement can be made, to run into the proposed Grand Junc tion Potteries Branch at or near to Stoke, the length would be not more than 36 miles. The population between Derby and the Potteries alone, including the termini, is upwards of 150,000, and the traffic is of a remunerat ing character. The proposed line proceeds for nearly the entire distance through the Valleys of the Dove, the Tean, and the Blythe, rendering very slight cuttings neoessa7y, and the gradients are of an easy description. A,single glance at the map will tell the very great saving of dis tance that will thus be made between the places proposed to be con nected. One half of the Shares will be reserved to parties locally interested, and the remainder will be allotted to those giving unexceptionable references. Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at 41. per cent. per annum on all deposits and calls, from payment until the opening of the line. The Subscribers' agreement will contain power to the Provisional Committee to run into other railways now or hereafter to be• Made, and to alter the termini of the proposed line, so that the main object of the scheme be carried out. The names of the Provisional Committee, with a full prospectus, will shortly be published ; in the meantime application for further particulars and for shares may be made to Mr. Samuel Eyre, share broker, No. 5, Queen-street, Derby, and to JOINT HULSE, Solicitor, Derby. Derby, April 30, 1845. CWMORTHIN SLATE COMPANY. Capital, 100,000/., in 10,000 Shares of 101. each. Deposit, 11. 10s. per Share. Notice is hereby given, that an allotment of the Shares in this Company will take place on the sth of May next, before which day applications must be made according to the following form. By order of the Provisional Committee, April 24, 1845. THOS. A. CORLETT, Secretary.' Prospectuses and further information can be obtained from the Secretary, at the Company's Offices, T.N.Tetv Adelphi Chambers, London. FORM OF APPLICATION. I request you will allot to me shares of 10/. each, in the Cwmorthin Slate Company, and I hereby undertake to accept the same, or any less number allotted to me ; to pay the deposit and all further calls duly made thereon, and to sign the Company's deed of settlement when required. Dated the day of 1845. Residence • • . • • • .. .......... Name, residence; and profession of a referee. THE WEATHER.—Stm OFFICE, MAY 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 62 ; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.01.—WIND, W. Notes.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS. DAY:: Morning 37 minutes after 9 Evening .. 13 minutes after 10. 714 ,. -Y , ,-Qs • N.. 4 -, • 401 . 116, 44italiiitir ,e4ovf 40, , •••.„. tat* SECOND EDITION. "`~ifl; LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1845. The House of Lords did not sit. The Commons met at Four. Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the second reading of the Maynooth Bill he should move to limit the grant to three years. Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice of an amendment to Lord Joan RUSSELL'S resolutions on the state of the country, calling the attention of the Hcuse to the consi deration of the propriety of extending the suffrage The third reading of the Maynooth Bill was fixed for Monday, May 19, and the debate on Lord J. RUSSELL'S motion on the state of the country, was fixed for May 26. Sir R. PEEL promised to state his plan with regard to Provincial Colleges in Ireland before the Holidays. Mr. WATSON, at the request of Sir J. GRAHAM, post poned the second reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill to the 28th May. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE consented to the discharge of the order for the second reading of the Arrestment of Wages (Scotland) Bill, on the understanding that the LORD-ADVOCATE would take up the subject, and that there should be no arrestment of wages except upon ex ecution. The Canal Companies Tolls Bill, and the Canal Companies Carriers Bill, were respectively read a se cond time. The Common Law Process Bill was read a first time, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Six o'Clock. The commotion excited in Great Britain against the Maynooth grant has been responded to in Ireland, and bids fair to widen the breach between Protestants and Catholics, and render the Union a curse rather than a blessing. Every friend of peace, every lover of his country must lament the result, because a separation would be one of the greatest calamities that could befal the two islands ; and the next to it would be a union maintained at the point of the bayonet. Should this re ligious war be carried on much longer, these are the only two alternatives to which rational men can look, - tind . the prospect certainly is sufficiently dismal. When we are threatened by the United States, when the war party in France are only waiting for the death of LOUIS PHILIPPE and the return of M. TRIERS, the mortal enemy of England, to office, we are torn by internal dissensions, and sowing the seeds of a civil war. If any feasible object were in view—if Protestantism could be made ultimately triumphant, and the Catholic religion banished from the country—there might be some rational ground for the attempt ; but all history, the test of three hundred years, the increase of the Catholic popu lation in Ireland, the hopelessness of making proselytes, by persecution, and the unanimity which prevails among statesmen of every party against ruling Ireland by force, leaves not the slightest chance that such a result could be attained. The speech of Sir R. PEEL, on introducing the measure, and the cordial sup port which be received from the Opposition, and also many staunch Conservatives, diffused a general joy throughout the sister island, but the loud clamour now raised against it, mixed with cries of " No Popery," and the marked hostility to the Irish nation displayed in so many quarters, have destroyed the bright pros pects of millions, and rendered this healing measure the cause of only more bitter enmity between the two countries. Mr. O'CONNELL is roused to madness by this unexpected insult ; his ardent feelings are shared by the whole body of the repealers, and it is needless to say that the priests and the people will follow in the train. What else could be expected? Never was so grievous an injury from so mean a cause Inflicted on a brave people. They are treated as aliens, their religion is described as idolatrous and damnable, and they are not even allowed the privileges of Canada or the most contemptible colonial possession. The ex iihnn gpasr lettereosfs t h o i s n s t ce m u u s nv e t. d r oy c b e y on N. N a E,g n a, LlmTa no l h and r ev i g s eed h viulenrr inCiutns events," i t :s h eets o nhan i iye. s htEa c hes l v e t, te r ,hr, g mew y ofh m oenii ec a l telhh n ., even the most a p a th et i c , has been alarmed have have takenettled theplacqeueinstioEnu Every and aroused to a sens e o f nat i onal duty, and despair f any measure of justic e f rom E ngland has sunk deep into every heart." And in another place--" Much has been said about th e grat i tu d e we owe for the grant to Maynooth, but I confe ss th at I for one (and I am joined in the sentiment by the priests and people of this diocese) feel no gratitude whatever. In the firit place, our own energies and determination wrung that paltry sum from a bigoted and and anti- Irish Cabinet ; nor shall we ever thank the rich glutton when he disdainfully flings us the crumbs from his table. Secondly, the grant is so misersblein amount, that it csu be look° upon in uo other light thou $ sheer mockery and insult. There are 8,000,000 Catholics in this country, and the grant would be about three far things yearly for each." The truth of this cannot be denied; but what is of more importance, it cannot be de• nied that scarcely a whisper was raised against Popery in this country when no doubt whatever remained that it was the favourite religion at Oxford, that many teachers of high rank in th seat of learning had openly avowed its tenets, and that the heads of the English Church were either openly encouraging, or secretly abetting a scheme for reconciling the Protestant Church to the See of Rome. Where was all this wild roge against Popery then ? Have not the Irish reason, therefore, for saying that the outcry is against them, not against their reli gion, and, come what may, they never will submit to the Union on such degrading terms? They have justice on their side, they have the sympathy of all Europe; they have the support of the Treasury Bench and the Oppo sition Bench in Parliament ; they' have the example of Scotland before their eyes, and if they rest satisfied with less than that small country so triumphantly wrested from an unwilling Government and an unwilling people, they must admit that they are an inferior race, and doomed to be only "hewers of wood and drawers of water." On Monday morning last the convicted murderer, THOMAS HOCKER, expiated his crimes by undergoing the capital penalty of an ignominious death before the debtors' door at Newgate. Many good, and wise, and conscientious men have entertained very conflicting opinions on the expediency, or even the lawfulness of such punishments. Believing, as we do, that a rigorous necessity—a vicious principle in the constitution of human society, or an original disparity between the moral and the physical or material forces of all laws for the repression of crime—render this occasional exercise of this terrible and destroying power indispensable to the internal peace and welfare of all civilised communities, we do not pause to discuss the validity of the scruples and exceptions which are entertained on the subject by others. This much, at least, is certain—that with the infliction of the capital penalty the vengeance of the law is satisfied. After the fatal sentence has been passed, and the criminal is remitted into the hands of the Executive to await his fate, the law, on the pre sumption that the infliction of that fate is adequately guaranteed, demands no supplementary suffering, no penultimate torments, to embitter and render still more agonising the last closing and fast approaching agony of existence forcibly terminated. It is now three centuries, wanting ten years, since the legalised practice of torture, which up to that period had been the common precursor of the more merciful, extreme penalty of death, was abolished. And ever since the awakened spirit and intelligence of humanity have been revolted at the notion of dragging to the block, or carry ing to the gibbet, the mutilated and mangled victims of the rack, the wheel, or the iron boot, whose sufferings appeared to invoke the instant vengeance of Heaven rather upon their merciless tormentors than on their own crimes. But in our times there is visited on wretched capital convicts a "vengeance beyond the law "—after sentence, but prior to execution—more mentally tor tuous, more cruel, more demoralizing in its influence on the world beyond its victims, than ever the brutalizing excesses of the old " Press-room" and the " Question Chamber." This cruel refinement on the demands even of our criminal code consists in the practice—the per mitted, cherished, notorious, heartless practice—of a direct contravening, on the part of the City of London authorities, magisterial and official, of the last solemn;in junction which the majesty of the law, in the person of the judge, addresses to the trembling victim, when it is dismissing, as it were, from its own person, to appear at the tribunal of Eternal Justice itself. " Let me beseech you," is the last human appeal of the ermined dispenser of human justice to the wretched delinquent wbo trembles before him—convicted—doomed—hopeless—" let me beseech you to employ the few remaining hours allotted to your existence in this world to the duties of penitence and prayer, and making your peace with your offended GOD !" The judge does well—and tenderly—and like a Christian man. He does not add—" But you shall be brought out from the dark privacy of your solitary cell, —from the solemn communings of your own memory with your own conscience,—from the holy, though mournful associations conjured up by the contemplation of your present desolation and despair in the strong holds of infamy and shame with the brighter visions and recollections of your happier home, your youth's fair promise, your once generous and manly purposes ;—but to no secret, though sincere penitential abasement before the Throne of Grace ; to no fitting retirement in which self-examination and humility may mitigate the terrors of that transition which your spirit is so soon about to undergo from this condition of being to an unknown, an awful, an unfathomable hereafter ! No. These self communings, these reminiscences, these incentives to a deep devotion, these stimulants to a faith, full of solace even to the guilty, these tardy but profound prostrations of the soul and the passions before the idealised presence of an offended GOD must be rudely interrupted, broken in upon, dispersed, set aside, and for what? To gratify the inane curiosity :of a civic functionary;—a Lady Mayoress's cousin, it may be, or her Ladyship's milliner; a roué nobleman, never heard of but when some case of revolting criminality, the exposition of which promises to elicit details calculated to excite his jaded appetite, calls him to—' his duties,' forsooth on the bench ;—or a City sheriff, or his sub;' or a fashionable dernirep, halting, in the decline of life between the satiety of luxurious enjoyment and the keener pleasures of an excited appe tite for horrors; or the morbid tastes of that vast section of the community of fools who are always excusing to themselves and others their own prurient tendencies by this trite axiom:--' That it is proper for a man to see everything, however beautiful or detestable, before he dies.'" But what the judge does not say the gaoler or the governor of the gaol does. The culprit in his custody, who is doomed " to die on the gallows tree," is a pro perty to him. Pretty women—must it be owned — lovely girls, fresh from the country, join the dowagers, male and female, who besiege " dear Mr. COPE," and " dear Mr. Sheriff," and " Reverend Sir," the Ordinary, and all the aristocracy of under-governors, and in spectors, to oblige them with tickets that will admit them to be present at the "condemned sermon." Condemned sermon, indeed ! Let it be, from this day forth, for ever, condemned to eternal desuetude. What is the right—the title—the pretension—that any of these people have, to parade the wretched violator of human law, about to be " launched into eternity," (as a vulgar, but not impartial, nor inexpressive phrase has it—before the curious, distracting gaze of a hundred people, whose ill-regulated " curiosity" would contemplate the exqui site sufferings of impalement with as much serenity as they watch the far more terrible ptifig's of a despairing criminal, who is made regularly to pass through the farce of a moribund tableau in the last scene but one of the last act of a doomed felon ? Well, it is cruel, per haps ; but let us consider. Can it be no consolation to him, who feels the fatal noose already adjusting itself to his neck, to be spoken to, shaken hands with, confiden tially whispered to, recognised, smiled at, s) mpathetically noticed, by a real, undoubted Sheriff, whose golden chain attests the fact of his attentions to the unhappy felon to all who have eyes for the insignia of shrie valty ? Seriously speaking, these exhibitions have become disgusting. As the Marquis of CLANRICARDE well said on Tuesday evening, they are illegal. But they are more ; and could we hope to express ourselves forcibly enough after Lord BROUGHAM, we would endeavour to follow him in his stern reprobation of that " detestable" pruriency which battens on the last moments, aspects, thoughts, convulsions, terrors of the victims whom Justice has marked for her own. We are well pleased to find that Lord STANLEY manfully admits the illegality and the abuse complained of ; we have no doubt of their speedy removal. They are a disgrace to our age, to our country, to the progress of civilization. But the most revolting passage in the last scene of ROCKER'S recent tragedy is this—that, half an hour before the period assigned for his extinction, that body of persons appear who designate themselves the "represen tatives of the press," but who are probably the "rejected ones," called " Penny-a-liners"—were "admitted into the chapel-yard," with sheriffs, under-sheriffs, and gaol governors. At this time the wretched young man was with clasped hands listening to the Ordinary, relapsing ever and anon into fainting fits. In a quarter of an hour more a sheriff comes to the " gentlemen of the press" with a sort of intimation that they may enter the con vict's cell l—that cell, in which he is offering up his last supplications (let us hope, at least) to the ALMIGHTY. In this condemned cell he is informed by the chaplain of Newgate that the "gentlemen of the press" are pre lwegeloeadhheeerde might,h pre sent, anxious to know (and more anxious to record) whether " he has anything further to say for the infor mation of the public." Strange to tell, he takes very little notice of the intruders. But on his attention being again (most improperly and cruelly, as we think,) directed to the fact, that these " gentlemen of the press" were there, the miserable man, startled in the very outpourings, we may suppose, had d n r s e c v ie e n re c n e t b ia e l f l o y re be t e h n e l m is i t n e i n s i t n e g r o to f , that ex claimed, I c m a s n hp n oo o use t ldd s .b ay aivf a e ny thing now, Sir ; I am not of foni been sh d p c i i es ct e l ho n m wv t l s eh i y r n i had paedr ho na known ns perhaps." n r Ne t oc h h a da t po uttebhrte added f h a i d t to those which r cord the terrible results of th a t facti„ tious self-possession, and inordinate vanity, which, being administered to by the minute and incessant attention of these intrusive, übiquitous, reckless, unscrupulous, omni vorous "gentlemen of the press," make so many present victims to the violated laws fearfully insensible to their crimes and to the infamy of their notoriety; and call into a noxious activity so many future follovk ers in their flagitious career. Happily for the body of legitimately occupied " repo, tees," (and the sooner they can be per suaded to recognise that designation, only, for their im portant and invaluable calling, the better for themselves and fur society,)—they run little risk, from their talent, their character, their pursuits, or their deportment, of being confounded with this "profanum vulgus," which at once panders to and perpetuates the dreary succession of criminal enormities that they live by recording. Great criminals and bad historiographers have become a national curse. It is well that the Government means to abolish so fruitful a hot-bed for both as the " con demned sermons" of the Newgate Ordinary. We have accounts from Madrid to the 23d ult. On that day the Chamber of Deputies discussed the second article of the budget, when the Finance Minister de manded an authorisation from the Cortes to make cer tain regulations respecting the public debt. Senor LIEOAs opposed the motion, declared the debt exhibited a perfect chaos, and the amount was frightful. The Finance Minister said much misapprehension prevailed on the subject, founded on mistakes and erroneous calm • lations, and bosidts the measure was absolutely neces sary. Something must be done to place that debt on a proper footing. Senor PACHECO put a question to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, relative to a note said to have been addressed by the Spanish Am bassador at Rome to Cardinal LAMBRUSCHINI. the object of which was to calm the apprehensions ft lt by some Spaniards with regard to their oath to the con stitution, and which had been brought under the notice of the Holy See. The Minister admitted such a com munication had been made, but declined to produce it. The following is the note referred to : " Her Catholic Majesty the Queen Isabel has seen with regret that the oath exacted by the constitution of her kingdom had disturbed the consciences of some good Ca tholics. Her Majesty is convinced that the above-mentioned constitution, modified in the sense that it has been, ought so much the less to excite those inquietudes, inasmuch as the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion will continue to be professed in her states to the exclusion of all other worship. Nevertheless, having consideration to the title of Catholic Queen, with which she is honoured, and her lively interest for the spiritual good and interior tranquillity of her faithful subjects, her Majesty, in order completely to tranquillise all consciences, has deigned to order the undersigned, her Minister Plenipotentiary, to de clare solemnly in her name that, in exacting from the public functionaries, and other subjects, the above-mentioned oath, it is to be well understood that no one is obliged, in virtue of this oath, to do anything, whatever it might be, that might be contrary to the laws of God and of the Holy Church. " The undersigned, in directing the present declaration to the Cardinal Secretary, according to the orders which he has re ceived from the Queen, his sovereign, to that effect, has the honour to beseech his Eminency to be pleased to bring this declaration before the Holy Father, and to receive at the same time the sentiments of his high consideration. (Signed) "JOSE DEL CASTILIO Y AYENZA. " Royal Palace of Spain, 29th March, 1845." The Three per Cents were done at 35k, at sixty days; Five per Cents, at 25k, at sixty days ; the Coupons at 28k, at sixty days ; and the Debt without interest, at 84, at sixty days, with 5-16 premium. From a brief discussion which took place ia the French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, it appears that the representatives of the people are resolved not to increase the army estimates to carry out Marshal Bu- GEAUD'S conquests in Africa. They think the expenses are already sufficiently great, and that he ought to be satisfied with a gallant army, amounting to at least 80,000 men. M. DE BEAUMONT put some questions to the Minister of War relative to the proposed expedition against the Kabyles. Marshal SoULT said it would be inconve nient to discuss in that place the plans of a campaign, but he might state that a demand had been made by the Governor of Algeria for two additional regiments, which could not be acceded to, as the Chamber did not seem disposed to vote the necessary funds for the pur pose. The expedition, therefore, had been abandoned- The Chamber voted the indemnity to the French agents in Morocco, who had suffered losses by the war. M. BILLAULT disapproved of such grants, as he thought the money should have been paid by the Emperor of Mo uocco. The Committee on the Paris and Lyons Rail way have decided unanimously that there should be a separate terminus for this line, and that it should be erected in the neighbourhood of the spot formerly occupied by the Bastile. In the Chamber of Peers, the new Peers, among whom was M. VICTOR HUGO, took the oaths and their seats. The accounts of M. GUIZOT'S health are not quite so favourable. It is said that he labours under a chronic disease of the liver, and could not resume his official labours for some months. This 1 circumstance caused a slight depression of the Funds. Accounts have been received from Otaheite to the 4th of January. The Journal du Havre says : "Admiral Hamelin had arrived there in the Virginie frigate a few days before, but nothing had transpired respecting the object of his mission, and his presence had not produced any result. The situation of affairs was such as the last news had left them. The natives, still intrenched in their camp, continued to guard an expectant attitude, without, however, having recourse to acts of hostility. They appeared to be guided by the conduct of Queen Pomard, who was still in a little island to windward, and who refused all communica tion with the French authorities. The Phaeton steamer had been charged with afresh mission to her, but had returned to Papeita without being more successful than at first. It was reported that she had rejected an overture from Admiral Hamelin, and that she would not even receive a letter from his Majesty . Louis Philippe, written to her with his own hand. Her intention, it was said, was not to enter into any communication with the French authorities except in the presence, of the English Admiral, who was expected to ar rive shortly in an 80-gun ship. The sanatary condition of the colony was most satisfactory. The troops of the gar rison and the crews of the vessels o n th e station, consisting of the Uranie and Vaginie frigates, and the Ariane and Rhin corvettes. were co-operating actively in the erection of buildings for habitation and defence." THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, APRIL 29. First lliglast Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price. French Five per Cents. •••• 119 20 .. 119 20 .. 119 10 .. 119 10 Four-and-a-Half.. •• 115 115 .• 115 .• 115 r0ur5.... .......• •• 108 50 .. 108 50 .. 108 50 .. 108 50 Loan Three . 1' • e • r • C • ::,.6883650 35 •••••• 6 8 8 3 5 6 0 6 3 :7 6 8 8 3 5 6 4 5 20 5 6 8 8 3 5 6 0 ( 1) ) Bank of France •••• •••• •••3260 • ••3260 "3260 .. 3260 Gouin Bank I,ooof Shares-1107 80 ..1107 50 ..1107 50 ..1107 58 Belgian Bank . •••• •"••••• Belgian Fives, 1840.. •• •• •• I'3 •• 103 103 1842 ....... . 1054 .. 105}. .. 105?,4 .. 106 42 M . . 10 44 6 02% 18 .. Is .. 18'' l• 10 4 4:2 . • 42 Passive ......... • 8 14 • • •• 1 Spanish N TA e le4 w trieNe' D es 18 .. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, R.B •••••• • • " • • ~5 25 • 525 • • 520 • • 520 L. 8.• •• • • •••• •• "'" • 3 3 5 .. 332 50 .. 332 50 Rouen ............•• •• •• ••1085 . 1085 —.1085 —lOB5 Rouen to Havre•• ....... 870 •• 880 .. 870 .. 880 Orleans 1215 ..1215 ..1195 ..1195 • ...... • ••' •" • • •••• Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 287 50 .. 287 50 .. 2 , 10 .. 280 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 1000 ••1005 ..1003 • 1005 Bordeaux to Tests ........ 215 .. 215 .. 210 .. 2 10 Orleans to Vierzon •••• • • • • 812 50 812 50 .. 810 .. 810 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAY 3 St. Germain • ..... 520 .. 525 .. 517 50 .. 517 SO 1055 ..1057 50 .•1040 ..1045 • •••• •• •• •• Versailles, R. 8.. •• •• 330 .• 332 50 .. 327 50 .. 327 50 1085 ..1085 ..1070 ..1070 Rouen to Havre . •••• •• •••• 892 50 •• 892 50 .. 867 50 .. 867 50 1225 ..1225 —ll3O ..1195 .. 287 50 .• 287 50 .• 280 .• '2BO Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • Avignon to Marseilles •• •• ••1010 .•1010 ••1000 ..1005 The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the royal suite, arrived at Buckingham Palace at twelve o'clock this day, from Claremont. Her Majesty and the Prince are expected to pay a visit this afternoon to the Royal Academy Exhibition, in Trafalgar-square. _ MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week ending April 26, was 904, show. ing a decrease of 24, as compared with the previous week, and about 60 less than the average of five years. We arge glad to see that the fatality from diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration is now reduced to übout the average. Bronchitis and pneumonia are the only exceptions. There were thirteen violent 'deaths including lour suicides, one murder, and two from burns. THIS DAY'S NEWS. EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY.) TRIAL AT BAR. .THE GREAT DISTILLERY CASE. THE ATTORNEY. GENERAL V. GEORGE SMITH. The Court again met at ten o'clock this morning, and the names of the jurymen having been called over, John Dring was placed in the witness.box and examined by Mr. MARTIN-4 am in the employ of George Smith, and have been so for eighteen years. In the year 1843 it was part of my duty to attend to the receiver. I recollect Batten, the officer, coming to the premises on the 18th of December. I saw Drinkwater and Batten in the spirit warehouse at two o'clock in the afternoon. They were speaking to Mr. Smith. I left the spirit warehouse before them. I had been near the receiver from twelve o'clock of the preceding night till six next morning. I did not observe that the board around the suction pipe was loose. I recollect, in June, 1844, Patten being inside the receiver. I was outside, and he inside, and I heard him knocking. He asked Gates, who was along with me, if he had such a thing as a hammer or chisel. Grates said he had nothing but a candle. I had the rod used for turning the cocks in my hand. lie took it out of my hand, and he put it under.. neath and knocked this plug out. I never ha d noticed the p lu g before. He th en came out of the receiver. He then said that he had thumped it out with his finger. I saw him do it with the iron rod. Cross-examined by the Soriciron.GErannat,—lt was my duty to attend to the third receiver. By the Loao CHIEF BartoN—The force required to knock out the plug in the cover of the receiver wits very violent. Cross-examination continued—There was a pump kept in the spirit store-room. It was not a moveable pump. I never observed the boards on the cover of the spirit-receiver loose. I never ob. served the nails there. Re-examined by Mr. Mean:sr—l was sent for by Mr. Drink. water when the hole in the spirit-receiver was discovered. I was standing on the receiver when Batten was inside, and what he struck first was the flap on the receiver, and he struck three or four times afterwards, but where I cannot say. By Mr. Baron PLATT—I attended the receiver for between three and four years, and during that time I was in the habit of entering the spirit-warehouse once or twice a day. Ido not know of any cupboards there. I know of only one pump there, and it is a fixed one. I can point out in the plan where the sprit still. room ie, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1845. Mr. Baron PLAIT—Come down, then, and point it out —The witness did so. John Hodges examined by Mr. MARTIN—I have been five years in the employment of Mr. Smith, as millwright. I recollect being sent for by the two Surveying-Generals in the month of March, 1844. Some time before that I had removed the valve from the stand-pipe above the buckets, and its use was to prevent liquor fall ing down when repairing the buckets. It was of no use for pump ing up liquor. It acted in this way—when the stream rushed through the pipes it stood a little up or open, but when the stream ceased it shut. The valve had become leaky, or what is termed honeycombed, and I took it out for the purpose of getting it re paired. It was taken out some two weeks before the Surveyor. Generals came, and when they asked where it was, I told them it was in the coppersmith's opposite, and I went and got it, and af terwards showed it to them. Cross.examined by Mr. JARVIS-I have an assistant occasion. ally. His name is James Julien. He is not constantly em:loyed. I saw him outside the Court here yesterday. I attended to the rack cocks. They are fastened by wire. My duty is to keep the eocks in repair, but I have nothing to do with regulating the liquor. John Stanford examined by Mr. MARTIN—I have been in the employ of the East London Water Works for 18 years ; and in 1t36 I attended to the pipes which supplied the premises of Mr. Smith with water. I know the pipes that lead to the granary. I rccollect the pipe being laid down from the gateway of the distil. lery to the rectifying-house. I suggested that stop.cocks should be placed on these pipes. I made the suggestion to Mr. James Smith. The reason was that a pipe had burst and inundated the granery some time before. The company sent stopcocks out, and men to put them on. The boxes had the initials of the company. Mr. MARTIN—My Lords, you wili find the bill for these charged to Mr. James Smith in June 4, 18:38, amounting to 171. 15s. Examination continued—When the pipes were laid down they were open to the public. Cross.examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I did not attend to all the pipes that supplied Mr. Smith. I attended to the one that supplied the vats. I never supplied other stop-cocks fur other private persons. Charles Marshall examined by Mr. WATSON—I am a veterinary surgeon, and attend the stables of Mr. Smith. I was in the stables on the 23d of Oct. The water to them Is supplied by a pipe. On that day I observed a strong smell of spirits from the water. It might be about 11 o'clock. The horses did not like it at all. They did not like gin and water.—(Laughter.) They would not come near the pail. By the CHIEF BARON—Several buckets were allowed to run into the trough, and then a bucket was taken for the horses. David Atkins examined by Mr. GREENWOOD—I was footman in Mr. Smith's house, and recollect the 23d of October. The water in the pantry was tainted with spirits, and I pointed it out to Mr. Smith. My attention was directed to it by the smell. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—And taste afterwards, I dare say. By Mr. GREENWOOD—I noticed the state of the water for some time after. Cross.examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL-4 did not notice it some days after. We used the water for all domestic purposes. There is a force pump in the house used for forcing up water for domestic uses. Alfred Mason examined by Mr. WATSON—I have been em ployed by Mr. Smith as surveyor upon this occasion. I made the plan of these premises. I was called in on the 24th of October. I went into the house on the 24th of October and tasted the water in the dairy. It was flowing from the tap, and was tainted with spirits. James Beck examined by Mr. WATSON—I have been employed by Mr. Smith for many years as surveyor. There is a branch pipe which supplies the house with water. There is a force pump in the cellar, which I presume was there in 1832. David Atkins was recalled, and asked by the Lord Chief Baron how often the pump was used. The answer was every morning, excepting Sundays. Mr. James Smith was asked by the Lord Chief Baron how long the pump had been upon the premises. The reply was since 1813. Wm. Jacques examined by Mr. MARTIN—I am an officer of Excise of twenty years' standing. I had been employed from 1833 to 1843 at Mr. Smith's distillery. I was principal officer there. I recollect the opening from the distillery gate to the rectifying_ house in 1836. Ido not recollect the pipe being laid. The old rectifying.wall was pulled down, and a new one built; and Mr. Phillips (since dead) pointed out where the old water communi. cation had existed. Mr. M'Culloch was the superior officer at the distillery before Mr. Drinkwater came. He left in October or November, 1841. Mr. M'Culloch was preceded by Nir. Carpenter. There was an officer on the premises for a short period between the remova; of M'Culloch and the arrival of Drinkwater. His name is Spyvie, and he is still in the employment of the Excise. The communications to the Board of Excise are made through the su perior officer. Cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL-Mr. Phillips, in his conversation with me referred to the old communication, and directed me to state to him what I saw relative to any a.tempt to Ily down a pipe. I saw no pipe laid down, and knew of none laid down. In my ten years' experience there, I knew of no other communication except by the open trough. Re-examined by Mr. F. KELLY-Mr. Phillips and I with all the officers on the premises knew of this opening. Dr. Ure examined by Mr. KELLY-I am professor of chemistry, and well and practically acquainted with the stature of visits. I have seen the pipes to which the experiment of passing spirits from the distillery to the rectifying-he use was effected, and I know the branch pipe leading to the officer's-room. The branch very slightly declines. In his judgment (which was formed, nut only on his previous chemical knowledge, but actual experiment from the plans) it would be impossible to pass water through the pipe from the distillery to the rectifying house without leaving a large quantity of spirits in various parts, which would take a considerable time to mix with the water, which would, therefore, in the mean. time, have a strong smell and taste of spirit. A long discussion then took place as to the quantity of spirit which would remain in the pipe leading to the officer's room. It was at length calculated and agreed to that there would remain at least fifty gallons. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said it had been prove.' that, after the experiment made by the Excise, the water supplied to the officer's room, the stables, and the dwelling-house, was tainted with spirit for several days. Mr. JARVIS said, if his Lordship would look at the plan he would sea, that if the experiment had been made by the trader himself, it would be e•tsy to draw off every particle of spirit from the pipe at the officer's room and pass it directly to the wash tub. The LORD CHIEF BARON—It is so. It Is quite clear that there are sufficient means of preventing a drop of spirit from being lost, or any taint being left for a considerable time ; I do nut speak of the blind pipe, for I cannot see how it could be got out of that. Dr. tire's examination contioued—The pipe, in its ordinary state, was not capable of carrying spirits. It was necessary to render it air-tight throughout its course. The same pipes could not be used habitually and alternately in the conveying of spirits and of water through so great and complicated a length. The pressure of the water from the tanks would be rather upwards, and air-holes in the pipes would not interrupt the course of the water, which would tend to escape up through them in spurts ; but the pressure of the air through a very sm .11 air-hole would prevent the passage of spirits which could not proceed until the air was shut out. He said this on the suppositson that the pipe must be worked ur•on the principle of the syphon. By the LORD CHIEF BARON—It is not necessary to work this machinery of pipes upon the syphon principle. If the vat, No. 8, were constantly kept full, or not quite full, but up to seven feet— that is half full, it would not be necessary. Mr. KELLY—That is supposing that vat 8 was used with the new series of piping employed by the officers. The LORD CIIIEF BARON did not imply that it had been done. Dr. Ure cross-examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Has not discontinued to be employed by the Government and Exci• e. Had written a book called " The Revenue in Jeopardy." Had not undertaken to pay off the National Debt.—(Laughter.) Had proved that by frauds on the Excise the revenue lost half a million sterling out of six millions. The Soucrrort.GcNeast—That is all I shall ask you. The LORD CHIEF BARON—Dr. Ure, are you aware what is the duty en spirits, and what the prime cost per gallon ? Dr. Ure— The duty is 7s. 10d., and the value of the spirit without the duty is under 2s. 6d. The LORD CIIIEF BARON—Then it is not the fact that the trade could afford to lose one hundred gallons out of every two hundred ? Dr. Ure's answer was not heard. The jury then retired. When the Court resumed, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) OPENING OF HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION FOOT-BRIDGE. Pursuant to public, notice this bridge was opened to the public at twelve o'clock to.day. Long before that hour immense crowds of people were assembled at the approaches on both sides of the river, anlicipa*.ing the usual formalities that accompany such an interesting event ; but they were doomed to be disappointed, for with the exception of a display of flags, there was no ceremony of any kind on the occasion. The toll is one halfpenny each person, and the arrangements for re. ceiving it are similar to those at Waterloo-bridge. It stands much higher above the water than any of the other bridges, and its light and airy appearance presents a very marked contrast to the solid and massive structure a little lower down, of which it threatens to be a formidable rival. In consequence of the wind being rather high, there was a geatle swinging about the centre, that resembled the motion of a vessel in rough water, but it was not so great as to cause any inconvenience to passengers. Judging from the immense crowds of people that were continually passing to and fro, its strength and powers of tension will never again be subjected to a greater strain, at least by foot passengers. The police were in attendance, to preserve order. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 bah s, 5,000 of which were taken on speculation. Prices were very firm, and buyers had the market rather against them. Railway Shares were rather better, and there was more doing at the rates subjoined : Armagh and Portrush, 31. 2/. 18s. 9d. ; Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 1% : Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, Si. 18s. 9d. ; Belfast and Bally mena, 9 1 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% 1 / 2 ; Cale donian, 12 11% ; Ditto, Extension, 765. 3d. % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% %; Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares, 23 1 /, ; Chester and Holyhead, 16% ; Churnet Valley, 7 1 / 8 . Clydesdale Junction, 8 ; Cork and Bandon, 8% ; C or k an d Killarney, 3 1 / ; Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dereham and Ncrwich, 1 1 / 4 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 12 11% ; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 5 4 3 % ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5 1 3 Bs. 9d. ; Eastern Counties, 20 1 4 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 16 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 6 1 / 2 %; Edinburgh and Northern, 2%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 295. ; Grand Junction, 227 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113 1 / 114 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 44 1 4 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 1 1 . ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 6 1 4 ; Goole and Doncaster, 19s. ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8/. 185. 9d. ; Inverness and Perth, 16s. ; Jamaica Junction, 434 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 9 1 /s ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 58s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 32% • Londonderry and En niskillen, 4 1 ,4 ; London and York,i 5% 1 is 6d. ; Direct Northern, 2: 3 / 4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury', 10% %; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds a n d W es t Riding Junction, 7% %; Lynn and Dereham, ; Manchester and Buxton, 6% ; Man chester, Sheffield, and Midl an d J unc ti on , 8 7 3 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, 137 ; Midland Railway, 158 159 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19 3 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 3% ; Newcastle and Berwick, 1 4 / 2 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 5 1 4 ; North British, Half Shares, 5; North Western, 4% l ls. 3d. ; Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 375. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 116 117 ; Ditto, Q u a r t e r Shares, 15 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 335. 325. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 54 ; South- Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 9 1 4 %; Ditto, No. 3, 73 4% ; Scottish Central, 7 1 / 2 ; Trent Valley, 1914 34 ; Trent Valley Continuation, 2% 1 4, ; Welsh Midland, 1% 2; West Yorkshire, 7 1 ,4 6%; Wexford and Carlow, 5 %; Worcester and Tring, 4% ; Austrian and Sardinian, 5 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 51s. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5% 3 4 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (English), 11%; Paris and Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 51s. 2%; Paris and Rouen, 42; Verona and Ancona, 2% 465. It appears that we are still threatened with a flood of fo• reign schemes, French, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, Portu guese, and we know not how many others, although any re flecting man must see that the number of those already pro. jected, or even of those actually subscribed for, with the view of accommodating districtsof the United Kingdom really much in want of railway facilities, is beyond what the surplus capital of the country is likely to be able to meet. In fact there is not a shadow of necessity for a single new foreign line being brought out here, and except some of the French, such as Paris and Lyons. Bordeaux and Toulouse, and Tours and Nantes, counting first-rate men in their direction, and promising a very ample return, we are glad to see that some of the lately published foreign schemes show_ very weal; committees. They may Oe respeotable, but they are neither influential nor wealthy. The English, Scotch, and Irish lines, on the contrary, are most - commanding in this respect. The first landholders, merchants, and manufacturers are enrolled in their behalf, and there is no risk of total forfeiture in the event of a Continental war. Perhaps if the Scotch and Irish lines had beers brought forward sooner there would have been less favour shown to these foreign mushrooms. Among the recent Irish lines the Great Munster stands foremost, as cc commodatinga very important district from Kerry to Queen's County. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.—The sales are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 61; Man chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 10; Manchester, Bury, and Uossendale, 17%; Barnsley Junction, 4 % ; Ditto, Half Shares, 24 ; Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrickfergus, 10; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 834 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 6 ; Caledonian, 124 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 8 1, ; Clitheroe Junction, 3% prem. ; Direct Northern, 3 2 3 / 4 ; Dublin, Mullincrar, and Athlone, 4; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 611 1 / 8 cum new; Hudders , field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 1 / %; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 • Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 13 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 %; London and York, 5% % ; Manchester and Buxton, 6% 11-16; Newark and Sheffield, 5 ; North Western, 41 7-16 ; Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton, 1 3 / 1 % ; Preston and \Vyre Extension, 1% 5 / prem. ; Scottish Midland, 4% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1% ; Southport and Euxton, 23 ; Trent Valley, 18% 19%; Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2% % prem. -. West Yorkshire, 7% 7 ; Great Northern of France (English), 54. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY I.—Wind westerly, fresh breeze and tine. FALMOUTH, APRIL 30 —\Vind S. W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. William Ward, Gueby, Ichaboe ; William Kerry, SundcrLind, for Montreal, leaky, having been struck by a sea on the 27th inst., in a gale from W.S.W. ; Sarah, Newport, from New York, cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea on the 26th inst., lat. 50, lon. 12. Off, Vesta, Bowster, Port Republican, for Hamburgh ; Lady Hilda, Rounce, Barbadoes ; Jane, of London, Nevis ; Christopher Columbus, Conidet, Guadeloupe, for Havre; Hamea, Havre, for Guadeloupe. RAMSGATE, APRIL 30.—The Laureana, from Havannah to Bremen, has commenced discharging her cargo. SALCOMBE, APRIL 30.—The Norbetten, Kraeft, from Bahia to Cowes, sugar laden, is ashore near the Prawle Head, and expected to go to pieces; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Kate, Jamie, Monte Video, and not the Jane; Cadet, Hillman, Australia, and sailed for London. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30.—William Barber, Manthorpe, Valparaiso; Ariel, Ichaboe ; Era, Kingston and Diana, Greig, Paraiba ; Victoria, Cuba; Ann Dingwall, Loney, Porto Cabello ; Malabar, Mobile; J. and M. Sinnot, and Lady Falkland, Savannah. Bi.v-rn, Amu, 29.—The Eliza of Lynn, and Jane of Yar mouth, in leaving the harbour this morning foundered on an anchor and sank. BELFAST, APRIL :28.—The Favourite, from Tobemory to Liverpool, ashore at Orlock Point, has been got up and in here. LIMERICK, Arum 28.—The St. Peter, Hammond and Bal ling Lass, received damage at the quays last night during a strong gale from the westward. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) MILT WZAREETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 to 4/ 16s ; use ful do., 4/ 17s to 518 s ; fine Upland do., 5/10s to 5/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/10s to 614 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 213 s per load. Hay and Straw moved off steadily, at full prices. CumBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 14s to 4/ 18s ; useful ditto, 5/ to 51 lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 12s to Si lis ; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 ; Wheat Straw, 2/ Is to 21 4s per load. A m3derate supply, and a ready demand. Quotations as on Tuesday. WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41 ISs useful ditto, 51 to 5/ Ss ; fine Upland ditto, Si 101 to Si 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 12s to 6/6s ; Oat Straw. 11 18s to 2/ is Wheat Straw, 21 2s to 21 3s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. rex..a.T zaa.nicnTs SOUTIIALI„ APRIL 30.—Although we had a fair average supply of tat stock on sale to-day, the demand was tolerably steady, at about, last week's quotations. Beef, from :3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Lamb, 53 to 6s ; Veal, 3s 5d to 4s 20 ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per bibs, sinking the offal. ROMFORD, APRIL 30.—Prime Beasts. Sheep, and Lambs command a steady sale, at full currencies ; but otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 35 to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 18s ; and Mild Cows, with their small Calves, 16/ to 191 each. Arum 30.—We had about an average time of year supply of stock here this morning. Generally speaking, the trade was steady. Beef, from 2s 104 to 4s; Mutton, 36 to 4s ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 2d ; and Pork. 2s 10d to 3s 6d per 81b. ARUNDEL, APRIL 29.—There was only a moderate business passing on the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 8d ; and Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 20 ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per Sibs. CmcntsTEß, Arm, 30.—Most kinds of stock were in moderate supply and steady demand, at our quotations. Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 's 6d to 4s 2d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per Sibs. Suckling Calves. 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Stare Pigs, 16s to 19s ; and Milch Cows, with their small Calves, 161 to 191 each. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d ; Holywell Main, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 14s 6d ; Tay lor's West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley, 15s ; West Wylam, Iss 6d ; Wall's-end Braddyll's Hetton, 19s 9:1; Haswell, 20s 3d ; Hetton, 19s 9d ; Stewart's, 20s ; Adelaide, 19s 6d ; Eden Hartlepool, 17s; Evenwood, 16s; Tees, 19s 6d ; Gar naut Stone, 22s ; Hartley, I7s ' • Lowiss Merthyr, 21s 6d; Morgan's Stone, 21 s 6d ; East Hetton, lis 6d.—Ships arrived, 23. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 26, I t 45, made up from the Returns of tl e Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat Barley .. •• .• 3ls 6d I Rye.. 3os 26 Pease ....• .. 36s Id AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Bye. i Beans. I Pease. - _ F,Sid Mar. 22.... 29.... April 5.... 45 5 32 4 21 8 30 5 45 10.32 4; 21 5 32 0 45 5 32 3HI 4`29 6 46 3 32 5 j 20 9j 30 6 45 11 31 11 21 4 32 1 45 11 3 6 2) 11 130 2 I 34 6 125 83 31 10 34 8 34 9 35 7 35 5 3G 6 35 1 36 I 35 9i 3G 1 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF' Wheat ••.• .. 46s Od I Oats .... •• • • 21 3,1 Barley •• •• 328 2d I Rye ••• • 30 5:1 THE SIX WEEKS. Beans •.. 35 Id Pease •• • • •• • . 35 lid 'ORN. Beans • • • Pease.. Whoa • • 20s Od Barley • • Gs Od lES ON FOREIGN C Oats . ...• •• Gs NI Rye •• • • 73 Gt.! •• • • is Ed RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Group V. GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD PROJECT. THURSDAY, FOURTH DAY. The Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock this day, and prece?ded to hear engineering evidence. When our reporter entered the room he was addressed by an in. dividual acting in the capacity of clerk to the Committee, who said that " there were already two reporters in the room, which he deemed sufficient, and that he could not let the room be crowded, he could not indeed." He then made an appeal to the Committee, but they declined to interfere. Mr. Fowler, the engineer, spoke of the advantages of the line he had struck out, and depost d that it would afford all the conve niences to the public in the districts stated by counsel in his open.. ing statement. The CHAIRMAN said, in reference to the Rev. Mr. Willan's petition, they could not hear hint now by c •unsel, he nol having at the commencement stated that he would appear by counsel. Mr. HILDVARD said he was in a difficulty with respect to Mr. Duckle's claim. He had a stack-yard and other buildings which would be destroyed by the projected line, and, therefore, he claimed Littler to have similar buildings put up for him by the Company, or to give him 1,000/. Mr. HOPE, on behalf of the Company, said that the buildings' were old and decayed, and were old church property; but he would propose that the premises should be valued, and the Com pany would pay the sum the valuer should name. A considerable time was consumed in discussing this point, the Committee having offered several suggestions towards making an amicable arrangement ; it was finally agreed upon to postpone that question, with a view to the parties settling it amongst themselves. The engineer then proceeded to detail the route of the line, as described by Mr. Hope in his opening statement. He said that from Gainsborough to Brigg, which was a distance of nineteen miles, they proposed to make a double line of rails ; but from Grimsby to Brigg, which was also a distance of nineteen miles, they pro posed should have but a single line of ra:ls for the present. The line would be brought into oonjunetion with the new docks. From Hubby to New Holland was a distance of seven miles, and the terminus of that town would be a great convenience to the passengers crossing their ferry; the line from Market-Raisin to Brigg was fourteen miles, and passed quite close to Castor, and went into the town of Market-Raisin. There was no opposition to that line, nor no engineering difficulty. It was intended to join with the Sheffield and Lincoln line on the west, but it would not unless that line should be approved of by Parliament. It was proposed to build a bridge across the river Trent, which was approved of by the Gainsborough Navigation Company. The line then crossed the river at a distance from Gainsborough.bridge, and followed the course of the river for about three-quarters of a mile. None of the traffic would be diverted from the bridge except that which usually went by railway. The bridge proposed to be built was the heaviest work on the line except the tunnel, which would be 1,100 yards; it was near Castor, and would be 91 feet deep; the ground was of blue clay, and presented no peculiar difficulty; it would be lined throughout with brick. The worst gradient on the line was 1 in 135, for a distance of three miles, and had no curves. Petitions had been received against the level crossings from three out of four turnpike companies. Two of these crossings were on the main line, and one on the Market.raisin lines. One of these was two miles west of Brigg, and the other one mile east of the sa me place. The crossing at Market-raisin was one mile from Brigg, and not close to any populous town. The bridge would cost 5,0001.; the total amount of the estimated cost would be 590,7501., or about 10,0001. per mile. The saving of distances to be effected by this line, assuming other lines which it would cross to be in existence, by going by Marketraisin and Hull to London, would be as follows r-- From London , 66i miles From Birmingham From Derby From Nottingham The saving to be effected to the same places from Hull, supposing the line from Gainsborough made, that was to say, going direct north and avoiding crossing the Humber, would be as follows :—. From Hull to London 39 miles To Brigg To Derby To Nottingham To Sheffield 26 miles Group B. The Committee re-assembled this morning at twelve o'clock, and proceeded with the engineering evidence in the case of the LEEDS AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION RAILWAY, Mr. ALEXANDER obtained leave from the Committee to cross. examine Mr. Hawkshaw, the Company's engineer, on behalf of a Mrs. Mary Anne Walker, the present possessor and owner of Shiddon Hall, near to the town of Halifax. The object of this cross.examination was to show the Committee that the estate in question, which had long been a place of some note in the county, would be dreadfully disfigured, and, hi some respects, totally de stroyed by the progress of the proposed West Riding Railway. The witness admitted that the deviation of the line would demo lish one of the buttresses of the mansion, and the line itself would pass through a kitchen garden and a pleasure ground attached to it. Mrs. Walker is, unfortunately, a lunatic, and this was urged by the Learned Counsel, and acknowledged by the witness to be an addi tional objection to the line passing near to the mansion. Mr, Huy then remind his cross.examination, and the witness —... was severely severely catechised upon a long-cntrsted point in rally's,. tactics, namely, the power or expediency of dispensing The w , • stationary engine upon inclines with secure gradients. ness neve' theless persisted that there was no necessity for tita ness engine, and mentioned several instances where hundreds a o ingle of tons of goods are daily carried up heavy inclines by locomotive engine. Mr. A SpLAN D, on behalf of the Halifax turnpike-road, cress-W:1 mined Mr. Hawkshaw, with the view of showing that en g ines . an te carriages running at that point at I in 100 would he dangerous - with ta the pulic In re b ply saf to ety. a question from the Committee the witness said it was not the intention of the West Riding Company Their lines, part of their tines upon the atmos • atmospheric principle' rds h• however, ,would be so constructed, that if it should afterws ii to the • thought desirable the atmospheric power could be apPlied to work An Group X. LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY. The Committee re-assembled this morning, Lord Cour t e nay in the chair. Mr. PAGET, for the promoters, ca ll e d Mr. Samuel Daldoc. k printer, of Barnet, who deposed tha t th a t town had al ien off in trade since the Great :-'orth-Road had been diverted hY ex isting railways. The population of Barnet w as near W ha t the . _ Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—Did not know what the pr ied of coal would be if this rail aay were establish ed. Had heard that they might expect at /. p ton. . l cl- Cross-examined it I by Mr. er CROWDER, who appeared for .. Lathe owner against the London and York Railway.—Believed t.,o_, t' e trade of Barnet had been reduced by the coac hes being takc taken csu road. Mr. J Duckworth was then called and examined bY Ur. Dr:os; NISON—The witness spoke to the nature of th e produce raised. the land round Barnet. This produce consisted chiefly of 11" 56 ( and the greater part of it went to London- A cheaper inc sie t o o conveyance than at present existed would be a great the district. Property in Barnet had greatly depreciated in I since the coaches had been taken off. „a he Mr. John Hopewell, a grocer at Barnet, was then called. s' / .0 stated that the trade of the town had greatly fallen o ff of late ..nce obtained his goods from London. There was no water conv e, " „f L o ndon; from London to Baritet. The cost of carriage fom sugar was Sd . a cwt. By railway it would be about 4id. Pe r to te d , i nd he ,t : e , Mr. Buckle, an ironmonger in Barnet, was called, that he got the principal part of his stock from London' He rto advert vain` eived about two tons per week from London. He also noero the depreciation in the value of property in I3arnet. fle " A i, perty himself which had cost him 4,0001. ,, and which hecould n° ll now for 2,000/. The present amount o f general goods per el t e -e g brought into Barnet was about 75 tons. exa mined Mr. Lucas, banker, of Hitchin, was then calle d and to by Mr. KINGLAKE—He deposed to the quantitY London shilling Hitchin to quarter.Lo n dio,nh.e totalTh e ecoosstt of beforecarritahgee t maltoLo into the warehouse of the brewer in London was abcootiti;eA °Pe n; ton. By a railway, if it should be established, the cost wo w ' oi l o b f e e m on o t r , e ey t a h h a r n e. ss. spoecrht.ons.arioHge would give tivheeraeofortme,pPerteurser co, to the . 50. o trade of Hitchin. The price of coal at Hitchin was a bout ' OO /, ton. The coal used was Derbyshire coal. He would es° . t of a year in the reduction of the price of ceal by the establislua% , a railway. The railway would reduce the price of brielOwl Jo thousand. There waoformerly a tanning trade at Hiec hi torre might be restored by railway being established T h e co , . beid , Con of coal was about 6,000 tons annually, or about ato Pe r r e• sentTh e saving ani nun i t n n t f h t e h c e a r p r o i n a g e e s oraftceosailnwHouttledhimo.ore thanadoyle gthtilio Tet te°. Cross-examined by Mr. V. LEE, who appear ed for the „eet ham and Farringdon-street Railway Company. Ferr in ,,, g L i n: re° Oa . oot station would be much more convenient than the N.P. ' station. _.„ an d i s T o ethet" po wi Cross.examined by Mr. WELLS—The line of the Eastern Company is now complete to Hertford, and it i s : P r to the to carry it on to Hitchin. That line is more ben ,divrill county of Hertford tln.n the proposed London an would be if it were constructed. The population within th e of Hitchin is about 20,000. _„ 3 good Re.examined by Mr. KINGLAKE—He thought there eld• l' ig. communication diagonally from King's-cross to amithfi Group E. k i WA YS. ° NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK LINE OE !l ayout i f This Committee continued today to hear evidence .n,3-3,00.430. this proposed line. Wm. Henry Barkett, Alderman °f — pt a l ine Wm. Hind, who had been ten years endeavouring to a - to ogli , spoke le r Y 0 % 0 0 through Northu nberland, and Mr. Hutt, M. r. of the advantages likely to accrue from the Newcastle and lines. nv adf anti. Thomas Harrison, civil engineer, spoke to the genera. c ein% 170 feet, and the other being 150 feet, geous nature of the gradients, with the exception tieyl°' one te n them fur the purpose of avoiding a passage throug h L o rd s ocea il property. The viaduct in the principal streets throt 4h 1 ,2.2 tee" was 75 feet, while the Brandling Junction in Gateshead" from which no inconvenience was felt. which had r Goo Group G and G 2. WILTS AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. _ A to .dalt The inquiry into the merits of this railway was reauetn,r,..„wittee• before the Chairman, the Hon. T. H. Liddell, an d th oa st ttenda t ? The Committee assembled at twelve o'clock, ties interested in the line being as large as on the pre vious dayc!.s the investigation. stated ths. Previous to entering into the evidence, the CITAIRMAN a nd having some very urgent business to attend to to-morrow' consW ittee." such being the case with two other members of great in o r _on o would put it to those interested whether any aftet the P o c would, result from adjourning the Committee until Monday. e ntects Mr. The counsel on both sides having immediately aSa n wd eams. ge ntles Merewether was about to open the case of Captaol tion o to. t when by a proposal from Mr. Brunel, the opPosi e af eere t ' man's behalf was obviated, of the Mr. GREENWOOD proceeded to open the c_ A • -- rorMation to t e h eit y o f the shire Canal Company. The Company object'. the - c neeabioa th " lot ' f o rmed. the branch to Radstock, from a conception th at line would be in no degree affected if this branch Was of the ob. that °C ., we lt Coa l. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Brunel, jects of the Railway Company was to open uP the I laus bo ey sa d field. The advantage of this would be getting the T itnt ,, $ Radstock coal up to Bradford by the Warminster bra by th e very slight difference of price th e coa l cou ld no w be ear rir- n ere l i canal, while the effect of forming the railway would be toeh With destroy the property of the canal. This canal, eate r'" the assistance of tram.roads from the pit s an d by th e 6 0*A way the coal from the whole of the S omers etsbire C°""solte was conveyed into the Kennet Canal, and thence into the t or,, Canal, and thus through a large district. The canal had P t ; wards of 260,0001., upon which no di v id e nd at all ha d P e. for fourteen years, and on an average only three.and-a' "rietorl cent. had been paid. The Act of Parliament entitled the PrnPdesthe to take ten per cent., but from the moderateness of their eha4isipat greatest profit ever obtained was only six per cent. on the mo re capital. The Canal Company had always been ready to e ar . it Ws / coal than had ever been offered by the coal masters , so tba,be Ac evident no disadvantage had been suffered by the public. 7 ; , r th e enabled the proprietors to charge 2%d. per ton Per ° t a xi; 1 whole distance of ten miles, which was the length of th e e.- f' ad 's Company might charge 2s. Id.; their usual charge veas, hnteele bet the ton per mile, whirls for the whole distance would be Is. Company only charged one shilling for the whole of this n oich The Somersetshire canal locked into the Kennet and Al ° r i e was a took the coal up to Bradford, and for which carriage t he co mpsai further charge of 9d. a ton. The capital of the Can al , fl ash er g a nest de• was divided into a great number of shares held by pant.' l e of persons, and the prop er ty o f th ese persons wou ld be - i d sec° s ehe stroyed. The real question wa whther t public h°n I .* their coal at Bradford, which they could do withollt t he or at Frome, which would save a water carriage of eigh t Co at ; Mr. Carpenter, S ecre t ar y o f th e Somersetshire `ht tee e a n i pany, and who had been in that office between e i g W its : nineteen years, was produ c ed to prove the outlay tooter but ' this was admitted on behalf of the ra ilway es cil The highest dividend ever paid was 121. I Cts * t his vi s share of 1501. This was in 1842. In the following ir. e t year „ 6 reduced to Cl. 10s., and to 81. in 1844. In ISIS, the o r- er shall which a dividend was declared, the division was 11. IL"' hp li / slue° and it then gradually rose to the sum stated above. l' r s , reg lS ; these 150/. shares waswhich was) th e .3 0 00 41 ; tired price ; but a share was sad to have been sold the wa s r e f for 84/this was hearsay. The price charged fo r , c 1: tee A c e ' a ton per mile, less by l a halfpenny than the suns wh' c or , Ca n- n gave them, and the whole charge to the Kennet and was on an was one shilling. The price of coal at the pit's m outh , o ppli average !net:a-guinea a ton, and the district the s I{o' IV means of this canal, and through es a t i. net and Avon and the Wilts and n er— ftesd if6 ; swind en, comprised Bradford, Trowbridge, Abingdon, Newbury, Hungertord, the village and vale of F use 4 Y„,.} great/ whole of the centre of Wilts, Marlborough, and De vil % slail yfr i i part of this district lying on the line of the Great Wes ter t - h e 009% - e though the latter towns do now approach it; by t ; of the whole of them would be interfered with ers -t. proposed railway. The quantity of coal carried by th:4sirit shire Canal in 1843, was 128,000 toes, and in I F,,omila t h l I 124,000 ,ons, but he was unable tosay what sves t h f o - f. ine it '" et amount of toll received, but it did not amount to 10, 0 ." -- n eat if year. %,, Ca r r tile On his cross-examination by Mr. SLYHEAD, ''"'" it io 00 confirmed capitei.Th h e is dis p ta re u v c i e ou uf s T e r v o i i d v e b n ri e d e ge as fro t m ce ti th iv e id u e n e e d / nf l i ; csor te r r o C i e n i veyance was about, or within, two miles, which had to he os h e d horse and cart, the whole weight conveyed by such tee „iage sll ce about four tons, and the cost was t about Is. a ton for C a o ; - 0 01a o n- 4 turnpikes. There were to the south, though there might tns be towards tt r t he fto o. , b r y ere the Kennet and Avon Canal into the r iver t tiO v gi t l a sa d d b b ee ce u n b n y o f s r t u o s p t. pa a g b e ho th u a g t tl h h e e r h ec a o d ll u ec ,, t t e k d u b e y wu d r a ct o tt y gl :c ' o eit, tiers h coal occasioned by the stoppage of th e cana l, We re ns: To the Chairman Mr. C a rp en t er s t a t e d that ther e bor e d ,,1 0 m termcdiate stations f or d e pot s o f coal, but t Br the csrl" ample opportunity for formin g a d e pot at largest quantity of coal ever carried hY fi t n li w e ing l e :v r was 162,000 tons, in 1841, the excess above the l e '''. itsib v- it being occasioned by the demands of the Great W eSter- d iStC If the demand for coal from Dorsetshire and the a d i ninia e sntitf t were to be largely increased, the canal could carry double the oughtg tbli no teal Is. in the year of which he had spoken. Peet Is. a ton would be an excessive charge for lifting coals t -r°lllt to , o f gett l o% 0 Fro® eft the canal to the railway carriages. The way would be by the canals to Trowbridge, thence by railwaY ed duel' and if the railway were formed, the coals would be cars etsirieh from Radstock by rail. It appeared by Mr. Entwistle's. old be read! that the extra expenses of keeping the conveyance wouta,,,,oent. out thus—ls. 9d. from Radstock to Bradford, 9d. for tall y "; o pli plus the charge direct from Radstock to Frome, wh ich , e ba d 10 half the distance. The freight and the quayage and Inc- sg , the be added to this, the freight being about 9d. a ton. stated that he To the inquiries of Mr. YORKE, the witness price of coals at Bradford would re ach to ISs. a ten ' th uri - eg could not assert that it would not exceed that price' r a il last year the canal had never been stopped by droue. of " coa t bl,l is To an inquiry by Mr. E NTWISLE —TI : e carriage ton. from Radstock to Trowbridge would be 15. to Is. ed • a closed the case of the Somersetshire Canal Compa n y' Th . ben" s ,, a a t na Mr. WHATELEY was about to open the cases of Dr• betW` - r the Mr. Hughes, but during the conversation which en s u re ss - Pr om him and Mr. Slyhead, who appeared for the Pr railway, o f the 0 . Mr. WEATHERIiaLL announced that the opposition the co sham.road Commissioners had been withdrawn, and th at ,, no dsoO te very r eir op po. reissioners felt bound to state their sense of the manner in which the Railway Company had obviated t sition. Was 100 The opposition of Dr. Brabant and Dlr. Hughessof ve , withdrawn. Mr. Fuller was a witness on behalf of Mr. A nst by the t ee vizes, whose kitchen.garden would be destroy e d by f He considered the ':use would be entire l y sPot'''"iwc c d railway. He had marked out ancther line lei s ed. I' l construction by which the house would be altogether a " ' in whic" the adoption of this line another station might be de' e and ish ele • e the disadvantage of the elevation of the town of Devi,s s o to I , T' o the Bear Field, where the terminus was at present In.°P°Ahe would be lessened, and the alteration was qu ite within several of deviation, and the ascent would not be so steep 39 0 0 places on the road between Devizes -and Chippenhanehetown, would be a convenience of 13U or 14') yards i n distance batooeut. and save a great destruction of property, and all the crate m So. 7 ; Sub-Committee No. 2. This Committee re assembled at Twelve o' clock, in r°°- o r De n ' p m re r. se D n e t ed S c ir s, Jmorh.ny.Yrakredeanßdumllerr.,LCeghha.irman, the O'Conn or The first case called ' on was acGai sosTtotuel:erih:s eci:h niot Le:cern:en:en, iteirnx o awgiio L lawnt ryEhawey with D DONCASTER as THE GORAILWAY' a nd ma ricts traversed by Midland Railways and the S __ bc ; e h Oaf ~ti,: oi easb f we s iinf i r e to o ill: n n e idaD n ,o d n cL a i s n t ec r o i, r line a. P it : d p r i t S h andthe sillistone auti W" 4 " v " -- as tile