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

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of lasi -77 - '' fWednetsday) 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, cubsc - riLers, - ;u;c1 -- the — Public are respectfifily nformed, that there will be an Extra Night (not included in the Subscription), THIS EVENING When will be performed Bellini's Opera I PURITAN'. 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 Danseuses Viennoise.s (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; 3fdlle, Monaelet, 3fdlie. Cassan, M. Perrot. To be followed by the 4th Act of Verdi's Opera, ERNANI. iLlvira,Xad;une Rita Borio ; Emani, Signor Moriani ; Silva, Signor Einasari. After the Opera " I Puritan'," a Divertissement, entitled LA VIVANDIERE. La Vivandiere, Mdlle. Cerito ; Le Postillon, 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'Amour Voyageur. Kaya, 3fdlle. Lneille Grahn ; 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. ft is respectflilly announeed that the LAST REPRESENTA vioN of this celebrated Work will take place on MONDAY, May 5. Preceded by a Grand Miscellaneous Selection of Choral and Vocal Mesta from the most classical Authors, and executed by the dis tinguished Artistes of this Establishment. Tile Orchestra and Choruses will include upwards of 200 Per. loaners, the whole under the direction of Sig. Costa. PROGRAMME. PART I.—Pastoral Symphony—Beethoven. The Hunting Chorus Euryanthe"—Weber. " Les Hirondelles," Sig. Moriani—David, ",Lasela Amor Segue Matte, Sig. Lablache—Handel. chorus " I Ciell immensi narrano Martha. Duu, " Crudel perche Finora' —Mozart. " Let the Bright Seraphim," Madame A. Castellan ; Trumpet Obligati), Mr. Harper—Handel. " La Carita"—Rossini Overture, " Anacreon"—Cherubini. PART ll.—The Desert. The solo parts by gig. 3foriazi. 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 I I.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night': air sung by Signor 3foriani—Arabian Fantasia--The Dance of [the dimes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments T -Sleep _ . . Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the Meezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey —The Cara van gradually disappears ig the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the D esert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Doors open at 7dalf-past Seven ; to commence at Eight. Boxes, Two, Thr.ee, and Four Guineas each, may be had on appli. cation at the Be,x_offiee, Opera Colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING *lll be performed LA SONNAMBULA. Count Rodolpho, Mr' • - 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. Burdini, Miss Betts, Miss liainforth, &c. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperln' will dance their celebrated Polka. 'To conclude with the Second and Third Act of DECt FREISCHUTZ. Dress Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s ; Gallery, 2s ; Vpper Gallery, Is. - Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. TIIIS 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 Fottescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glower; Patty, Mrs. Ilumby. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaga'iza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, _ A T. 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. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELE'''. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE • OREKN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Selbj; George, • 3Tr. Hudson : Wild Murtogb, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; 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 Iyoolgar, Miss Brooks, 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. Wallack ; Duchess de Bracciano, Miss Cushman. After which, the Music Entertainment of NO SONG NO •UPPER, with all the Original MUSIC. Crop, Mr. Leffler ; 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. Woollldge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT. To conclude with a New Farce, called A GOOD NAME. Cha ricters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. • ' The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES. Tho public is tespectfully Informed that, in consequence of the Im• mense success which attended the first representation of the cele brated MONSIEUR PHILLIPPE, 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 Drapoau National, La Cuisine Infernale, Les Bassin de Nep. tUne, et La Grande Menagerie will be presented every Evening. Doors will he opened at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com. mence atyalf-past Eight. Stalls, is. ; Boxes, 4s. ;711t, 25.; Ampitheatre, Is. Cal. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's royal Library, 33, Old Bond, treet ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'A ROYAL ASIPIIITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING A VARIETY OF ATTRACTIVE NOVELTIES. Mr. BATTY, ever anxious to retain the patronage that has been ao bountifully bestowed on this Establishment, feels a degree of plea sure in announcing the greatest combination of Foreign Equestrian Talentthat 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, Hubor, and Popowitz ; M. Popowitz, the Frenc!l 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 Establishment, by Mr. Moncrieff, the plot ofwhich is taken from the works of Eugene Sue, will also be produced on the same Occasion. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Sco., or, THE TWO NATIONS BY B. DISRAELI, ESQ., NI.P. AUTHOR OF " CONINGSBY." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. C OLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE AND NAVAL AND MILITARY JOURNAL, No. CXCVIII, FOR MAY, Contains :- 1. Kolapoor and Sawunt Warree. 2. The Battle of the Spurs. 3. Nelson's First Visit to Naples. 4. The Spirit of Military Institutions. By Marshal Marmont. 5. War of Succession in Portugal. By Captain Hippisley.. 6. Twelve Montli's Service in Western Africa. By Captain L. S. O'Connor. 7. Prayer During Battle. 8. Russian Troops at Wosneaensk. 9. The Pirate Delano. 10. Reminiscences of a French Prison. 11. Defonsive Force of the British Islands. By Lieut.-Cel. Wilkie. 12. Sketches of Foreign Military Life. 13. Late Admiral James Carpenter. 14. The Waterloo Correspondence. IS. Organization of Arsenal and Harbour 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! WESTMACOT'I'S ORIGINAL. JOUR'SAL 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 251. 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, Trhoio lcngth Ia about 47 miles : if it be thought expedient, and an arrangement can be made, to run into the proposed GranclJunc tion I'otteries 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 Nltlleys of the Dove, the Tenn, and the Blythe, rendering very slight cuttings necessary, 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 unexceplionable references. Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at 4/. 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 he 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 3Er. Samuel Eyre, share broker, No. 5, Queen-street, Derby, and to JOHN IRISH, S9lleitor, Derby. Derby, April 30, 1845. CWMORTHIN SLATE COMPANY. Capital, 100,0001., in 10,000 Shares of 10.:. each. Deposit, I/. 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, New Adelphi Chambers, London.. DAVIDOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Is conseqUence of the immense sensation created by the Feats of Mr. Canfield, the American Samson, he will repeat his liercalean Feats every Evening. THIS EVENINCI Will be performed THE GYPSEY FARM ER; or Jack and Jack's Brother. Supported by Messrs. Hicks, Honner, Cowell, Mrs. H. Vining, Mrs. Hughes. Miss Martin, &c. To be followed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American flampeon. • ' • - After which, JONATII.A.N BRADFORD, Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box• *Mee. from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an Original Drama, entitled GEOFFREY KURDISTON or, the Blacksmith's Daughter and the Mock Mar riage. Supported by the whole Company. After which, TIIE FOREST OF BONDY. In which the Dog Hector will perform. To conclude with THE DUMB MAN OF MANCHESTER. 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 most Gracious MAJESTY, her majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, 11. R. H. PRINCE ALBEI!,:r, & c . & c. ROYAL SUltv' .6Y ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. MONDAY, May .i TUESDAY, May 6 ; WEDNESDAY, May 7 , arid THURSDAY, May 8, 1845. A magnificent Modelled Representation of EDINBURGH, the i Pride of Scotl an d and of Scotchmen, and the immortal Scott's "Ain R omantic TOWN" i n t ro d uc i ng th e Old an d N ew T own , th e Loch, as it ib rmerly existed, the Carlton Hill, Nelson's Monument, Ar thur's Seat, Salisbury Crag" the Castle, Sir Walter Scott's Monu then_ ta the Royal Institution, Holy - rood Palace, and all the most inter ."l3Jt thiturea of " A uld Reekie. " he Proprietor had the honour of submitting the Model to his nul'al Highness Prince Albert, and he is delighted to say it met with his most decided and perfect approval, and from the more than usual Pare which has been observed in its execution, he points it out as the hanpiest production of Mr. Danson's pencil. The drawings were Panda by Mr. Denson on the spot, and present a bird's-eye view of ths. - Principal objects of the Old and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c. The PROMENADE CONCERTS, so decidedly popular at this Establishment, will this season be on an unusually effective scale. Mr. GODFREY has been occupied since the close of last summer, In com posing and arran g i ng a varied and pleasing succession of superior ovelties, Which will be produced in rotation, including some Ori ginal Pieces by Fo reign Composers, not yet performed in this country. At Dusk 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 tires on the Carlton 11111, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Moun tains, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings which took place on her Majesty's Visit will be accurately pour trayed. And, as a Finale; a grand Aquatic Royal and Patriotic Tableau, Fifty Feet in - Height, will be exhibited in the centre of the Lake 1 The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame. and surrounded by emblems and other devices will be in trodneeil. The Tableau designed and executed by Mr. Danson. Mr. Southby has been occupied for months In giving effect to this matchless and superb design, which combined with the Feux D'Arti flee, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur rounding heights, will form the most brilliant Pyrotechnic Display ever witnessed. Feeding of the Carnivore, at half-past Four ; Pelicans, &c., at rive : Concert, at Six ; and Pyrotechnic Display, at Nino. Admission. One Shilling. PORTLAND BREAKWATER.—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 Sands, laden with seed, &c., as reported on the 20th inst. ; also some butter firkins, marked " Ostfrieeich," (Hanoverian horse); and several oars havo been landed at Dcal. It is said-that she beat off the sands, and was seen to float with the wind and tide. The Lord Warden's officer bas siuta Ilu% poop:aim of lia.wpover Chronicle. FORM OF APPLICATION. I request you will allot to me shares of 107. each, in the Cwruorthin 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 mad• thereon, and to sign the Company's deed of settlement when required. Dated the day of 1845. Name .• .• • • . . .. Resitience .. Profession ...... • • • • •• • • Name, residence, and profession of a referee. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAY 1. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 62; Noon, 65. BAROMETER, 30.01.—WIND, W. Vona.—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 I Evening .. 13 minutes after 10. 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 that 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 term? 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 veneesnee r f 6. 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 eion 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 oven 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 soleinn;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 who 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 I" The judge does well—and tenderly—and like a Christian man. lle 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 I 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 demirep, 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 a s they watch the far more terrible pangs 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 3 mpathetically noticed, by a real, undoubted Sheriff, whose Olden 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 exhibition's 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 HOCKER'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 !—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 ofN en-gate to know (and thatthc "gentlemen more o f anxious the press"to d are ree pre sent,record) anxious 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 attenti,n being again (Lost improperly and cruelly, as we think,) directed to the fact, that these " gentlemen of the press" were there, the miserable man, st art l e d i n the very outpourings, we may suppose, claimed, Gospel i l ch ea h n e bo h t ad sti re y v n er n e 3 n t t b i i a n ll g y b be b e w n , lsisitren;inlgamto, no of his ov er l oa d ed conscience before the minister of that sufficiently composed.lf perhaps."lhadNo on knowntha d tt b h t ey of had been it And h coming usw we shouldhere, I mighty have had one more chapter added to those which r cord the terrible results of that faeti- 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 followers in their flagitious career. Happily for the body of legitimately occupied rtpo►ters," (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 for 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 crinenal 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 Lecond 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 LIEGAs 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 calca lations, and boil s the measure was absolutely neces sary. Something must be done to place that debt on a proper footing. Senor PACISECO 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 LAMBRUSCRINI, the object of which was to calm the apprehensions felt 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 xic q.v-v., niaL vde oath exa•2ted 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 35i, at sixty days; Five per Cents. at 251, 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 in 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'B 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- ROCCO. 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. GITIZOT'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 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 Pomare, who was still in a little island to windward, and who refused all communica tion with the French authorities. The Phreton steamer had been charged with a fresh mission to her, but had returned to Papeita w ithout being more succes s f u l t h an at first. It was reported - that she had rejected an overture from Adm i ral Hamelin, and that she would not even recei ve a l e tt er f rom hand. Her intention,MajestyLouisP hilippe, written t o h er w i t h hi s own it was said, was not to enter into any communication with the French authorities except i n th e presence of the English Admiral, who was expected to ar rive shortly in an 80-gun ship. The unitary 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 Virginie frigates, an d t h e Ar i ane and Rhin corvettes, were co-operating actively in the erection of buildings for habitat ion an d defence." THE BOURSE--TUESDA.Y, APRI L 29. First lila : st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. •••• 119 20 •• 119 20 .. 119 10 .. 119 10 Four-and-a-Half— • ll5 .. 115 .. 115 .• 115 ours,. ....... ..• .. 108 50 .. 108 50 .. 108 50 .. 108 50 Three per Cents .. 85 65 .. 85 65 .. 85 55 8 5 50 86 35 •• 86 35 .• 86 20 .. 86 20 Bank of France .... —3260 ••3260 ..3260 "3260 Gouiii Bank. I,ooof Shares • . 1107 80 "1107 50 ..1107 59 ..1107 50 Belgian Bank. •••• ••••••:: G3 O•• 6 30 •• 635 630 Belgian Fives, 1 84 0 .• •••• 3 •• 103 .• 103 .• 103 1842........ 105 % •• 1 40 .. 105% .. 1054 106 42% 106 ICI r 36 10 4 6 0 42 8 New Deferred.• ••• • 18 •• 18 .• 18 .• 18 Spanish Passive 1 8 .• .• .•• 4 . : 74834 8% .• 42% .. 42 Threes •••••• •• •• --- RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles, ••• •' 1," 5 2., 2 1 5 525 ..1215 . ... 1 5 19 20 5 •. 13 •. 1 5 1 2 9 0 5 L.•• •• •• •' '• •• •''',s ..• 335 •• 332 50 .. 332 50 Rouen 1085 • 1085 ..1085 .. 1085 Rouen to Havre•• •• • ....... 870 •. 880 .. 870 .. 880 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 287 50 .• 287 50 .. 250 .. 280 Avignon to Marseilles...... looo ..1005 ••100) . 1005 Bordeaux to Teste •• •• •• " 215 •• 215 210 .. 210 Orleans to Vlerzon • • • • • • • • 812 50 • • 81 250 • • 810 810 • -RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOU' , .:IT, MAY 3. • St. Germain ..............1303.505 :10 3 :7 2 50 50 :1 3 0 2 4 7 0 50 : 1 3 0 2 4 7 5 50 ••••• 520 •• 525 .. 517 50 517 50 Versailles, R. 8..•• •• Rouen ........ •••• •• •••• ••1085 ••It'Bs ..1070 ..1070 Rouen to Havre ........... 8 25 12 92 50 892: :25 50 •• ..1190 867 ..19 50 .. 1 86 0 7 50 12 Strasburg to Bale•••• •• •• •• 287 50 .• 287 50 .. 280 280 Avignon to Marseilles ••• • •• 1010 .•1010 ..1000 —lOO5 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 wetk ending April 26, was 904, show. ing a decrease of 24, as oompared with the previous week, and about 60 less than the average of live years. We argo glad to see that the fatality from diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration is now reduced to about the average. Bronchitis and pneumonia are the only exceptions. There were thirteen violent 'deaths including four suicides, one murder, and two from burns. THIS DAY'S NEWS. E XCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) TRIAL AT BAR .— TH E GREA T DISTILLERY CASE. THE ATTORNEY, GEN ER AL V. GEORGE 8 31 ITIL The Court ag a i n met at ten o'clock this morn i ng, an d th e names of the jurym en h aving Sohn Dring w as placed in the witness-box an d exam i ne d by Mr. —I am MARTINbeen called over, 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 speaki ng to Mr. Smith. I le f t t h e s pi r it ware h ouse before ttem. I h ad b een near the rece i ver f rom t w elve o'clock o f the preceding night till six next morning. I did not observe that the board ar ound the suction pipe was l oose . I reco ll ect, in June, 1844, Fatten being inside the receiver. I was outside, and h e inside, and I heard him knocking. He asked G a t es, who was along w i t h me , if h e h a d such a thing as a hammer or chisel. Grates said he had nothing but a can d le. I had the rod use d f or t urn i ng th e coc k s in my hand. He took it out of my hand, and he put i t under. neath and knocked this plug out. I never had noticed the plug before. He ' hen 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 SOLICITOR.GENERAL-It was my duty to attend to the third receiver. By the LORD CHIEF BARON—The force required to knock out the plug in the cover of the receiver was very violent. Cross-examination continued—There was a pump kept in the spirit stare-room. It was n'A a moveable pump. I never observed the boards on the cover of the opirit.receiver loose. I never ob. served the nails th ere. Be-examined by Me. M ARTIN — I was sent for by Mr. Drink. water when the hole i n th e spirit-receiver was discovered. I was standing on the rec e i ver when Battcn was inside, and what he struck first was the B ap on the receiver, an d 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 o r t w i ce a d ay . Ido not know of any cupboards there. I know of on l y one p u mp there, and it is a fixed one. I can p o i nt out in tbc roola is. plan where the spirit still. THE SUN I LONDON, THUISDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1845. Mr. Baron PLAT—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 remeved 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 cocks 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 14136 I attended to the pipes which supplied the premises of Mr. Smith with water. I know the pipes that lead to the granary. recollect 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 stop cocks out, and men to put them on. The boxes had the initials of the company. Mr. MARTIN-My Lords, you wilt find the bill for these charged to Mr. James Smith in June 4, 1838, 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 for other private persons. Chatles 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 *am, Cross.examined by the SOLICITOR ,GENERAL-1 did not notice it some days after. 'We used the water for all domestic purpoies. 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 1841 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 commuai. 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 Mr. Carpenter. There was an officer on the premises for a short period between the removal. 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 12111 conversation with me referred to the old communication, and directed me to state to him what I saw relative to any attempt to lay 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 nature of spirits. I have seen the pipes to which the experiment of passing spirits from the distillery to the rectifying.hcuse 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, nct 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 LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said it had been provel 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. Janvis said, if his Lordship would look at the plan he would see, that if the experiment had been made by the trader himself, it would be e•ssy to dra•v off every particle of spirit from the pipe at the officer's room and pass it directly to the wash tub. The LORI) CIIIEF ItAttox—lt is so. It is quite clear that there are sufficient meals of preventing a drop of spirit from being lost, or any taint being left for a considerable time ; I do not speak of the blind pipe, for I cannot see how it could be got out of that. Dr. Ure's examination continued—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 alteri.ately 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 lse worked upon 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 CHIEF 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 Excii-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 Soucrroft-GENERAL—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. 10(1., and the value of the spirit without the duty is under 2s. 6d. The Loan CHIEF 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 SPEARINQ.) OPENING OF HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION FO-0- Pursuant to public, notice this bridge was opened to the public at twelve o'clock today. Long before that hour immense crowds of people were assembled at the approaches on both sides of the river, anticipating the usual formalities that accompany such an interesting event ; but they were doomed to be disappointed, for with the exception of a display of lags, 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 gentle 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 pastfners. 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. CHT, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 bales, 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. 21. 18s. 9d. ; Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 1% : Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 51. 18s. 9d.; Belf as t an d Bally mena, 9 1 A ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% %; Cale donian, 12 11% ; Ditto, Extension, 765. 3d. % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7 3 % 1 / i ; Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares, 234 ; Chester and Holyhead, 16 3 / 4 % ; Churnet Valley, 714 . Clydesdale Junction, 8 ; Cork and Band o n, 8% ; C or k an d Killarney, 3 1 ; Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dereham and Ncrwich, 1 1 ; Dublin and Belfast J unc ti on, 12 111/, ; Dublin and alway, 3 1 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, an d Athl one, 5 4 3 4 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 5A 3 Bs. 9d. ; Eastern Counties, 2014; Edinhurgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 16 ; Ditto, New Quarters, 64 3,1 ; Edinburgh and Northern, 2%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 295. ; Grand Junction, 227 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113 1 114 ,• Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 44 1 / 1 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 1914 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 6 1 4 ; Goole and Doncaster, 19s. ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 8/. 18s. 9d. ; Inverness and Perth, 16s. ; Jamaica Junction, 4 3 / 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 9 1 /s ; Liverpool, Ortnskirk, and Preston, 58s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 32 1 2 ; Londonderry and En niskillen, 41/. 34 ; London and York, 5% lis 6d. ; Direct Northern, 2:IA ,• Leeds and Dewsbury, 10 1 / 2 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7 1 / 2 5 / 4 ; Lynn and Dereham, 2% ; Manchester and Buxton, 6% ; Man chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 8 7 3 / ; Manchester and Leeds, 137 ; Mi dland Railway, 158 159 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 193 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 43% ; Newcastle and Berwick, 14%; Newry and Enniskillen, 5 1 A ; North British, Half Shares, 5; North Western, 41% Ils. 3d.; Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 375. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 116 117 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 335. 325. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5 1 4 ; South- Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 2, 9 1 % %; Ditto, No. 3, 7 3 / 1 % ; Scottish Central, 7 1 / ; Trent Valley, 194 3 A ; Trent Valley Continuation, 2 1 / 2 1 4; Welsh Midland, 1% 2 ; West Yorkshire, 71 6%; Wexford and Carlow, 5%; Worcester and Tring, 4% ; Austrian and Sardinian, 5 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 51s. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 574 3 /t ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (Dr,glish). 11 1 A, ; Paris and Lyons, English, (Laffitte's), 2% ; N'aris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 51s. 2%; Paris and Rotten, •t'l ; 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, t a. 7 though any re flecting man must see that the number of thos e already pro • jetted, or even of those actually subscribed t - )r, with the view of accoramodatingdistricts of the United Kir, ;dont really much in want of rail Way 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 nec ess.ity for a single new foreign line being brought out here, , Ind excvpt some of the French, such as Paris and Lyons, 13 , odeaux , and Toulouse, and Tours and Nantes, counting first -rate mcr, in their direction, and promising a very ample IT Aim, we are glad to see that some of the lately published ft reign schemes WlQw_very weak Committees. They may 7 1 * r k 4-.-- , table, . '." 4. IT timing ;t-,-.-z nit LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1845. The Douse or Lords did not sit. The Commons mot at Four. Mr. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on the second reading of the Maynooth Bill be 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 House 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 Cana] 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 WO 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 , and 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. THIERS, 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, OR 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 repeaters, 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 expressions used by an Irish Catholic clergyman feel ings of his countrymen. `gain'lTanohndegedvulerirnitsrlg,m" in a letter t o M r . O' CoxNELL are in unison with the as e t e y e . h E a es Every m y w o h o ninet one, havehave s t :t k tl e e n d t p h l e ae q e ue in stio E n n even the most apathetic, has been alarmed and aroused to a s ense o f nat i onal duty, anddespair p any measure of j us ti ce f rom England has sunkd r e of into every heart." A n d i n another place—" Much g) has been said ab ou t th e grat i tude we owe fo the grant to Mayno o th, b ut I confess that I for one r (and I am joined in the sentiment by the priests and people of this diocese) feel no gratitude whatever. In the fiat 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 miserablein amount, that it Vltiho looks uPouja uo other light thou u s Diner ec,. v* Q,MII • 41 '4'. 44t - T . Zi . k -e . Ur' t • . . • .12) •M. O T 4 11C2333"'' .'.17 but they are neither influential nor wealthy. The tnglish, 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 bees 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 ac commodating a very important district from Kerry to Queen's County. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 30.—The sales are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 614 ; Man chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 10 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 17 ; Barnsley- Junction, 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2 1 %; Belfast, Ballymena, and Carrickfergus, 10 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 6 ; Caledonian, 1.2 q Cambridge and Lincoln, 8 1 / I ; Clitheroe Junction, prem."; Direct Northern, 3 2 3 / 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 6 1 ,4 IA cum new; Hudders field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 814 % ; Leeds and Thirsk, 6 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 13 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7%; London and York, 5% ; Manchester and Buxton, 634 11-16; Newark and Sheffield, 5 ; North Western, 4 1 % 7-1 6 ; Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton, 134 is ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 134 % prem. ; Scottish Midland, 434 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1 ; Southport and Euston, 234 ; Trent Valley, 181 19 0 /4; Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 27 IA prem. West Yorkshire, 7% 7 ; Great Northern of France ( English), 5%. Etittion NEW MARKET RACES (THIS DAY--BY EXPRESS.) TIIE ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES of 100 sovs. each, h ft, fur three yrs old fillies, Bst 71b. D.M. Duke of Richmond's Estelle filly Lord G. amtinck's Pug 2 Mr. Bowes's Heather Bell Won by a length. Eight started. Wee Pet bat Comrade. LIM VD'S 1 PPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, MAX I.—Wind westerly, fresh breeze and fine. FALMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind S. W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. William Ward, Gueby, Ichaboe ; William Kerry, Sunderland, 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. Otl; Vesta, Bowster, Port Republican, for Hamburgh ; Lady Hilda, Bounce, Barbadoes ; Jane, of London, Nevis; Christopher Columbus, Conidet, Guadeloupe, for Havre; Hamea, Havre, for Guadeloupe. MARKET NE W S.-(THIS DAY.) _13.5.Y M.A.3IIBETS. SMTIMIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4/ 16s; use ful do., 4/ lis to 5! 8s ; fine Upland do., 5/ lOs to 5/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ 4s ; Oat Straw, I/ 18s to 21; Wheat Straw, 2/ to 213 s per load. Hay and Straw moved ofr steadily, at full prices. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 14s to 4/ 18s ; useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 103; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 12s to 5/ 17s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 103 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; Wheat Straw, 2l is to 2/ 4s per load. A moderate supply, and a ready demand. Quotations as on Tuesday. WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4/ 18s . useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 8s; fine Upland ditto, 5l lOs to 5/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 12s to 6/65; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ Is , Wheat Straw, 2/ 2s to 2/ 3s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. MILE.A.T BICARIEr.ET S SOUTIIALL, Arun. 30.—Although we had a fair average supply of fat stock on sale to-day, the demand was tolerably- steady, at about last week's quotations. Beef, from 38 to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 3s 5d to 4s 2d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per Slbs, sinking the offal. . _ Rai Foul), Arum 30.—Prime Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs command a steady sale, at full currencies ; but otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 3s 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, 183 to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to IBs ; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calves, 16/ to 19/ each. I-LuusnAm, Arun, 30.—We had about an average time of year supply of stock here this morning. Generally speaking, the trade was steady. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s; Mutton, 3s to 4s 4d; 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 45 2d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 10d per Blbs. CHICHESTER, APRIL 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, 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per 81W. Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calves, 16/to 191 each. COAL MARKET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d; Holvwell Main, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 14s 6d ; Tay lor's West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley, 15s ; West Wylam, 15s 6d; Wall's-end Braddyll's Hetton, 19s ; Haswell, 206 3d ; Hetton, 19$ 9d ; Stewart's, 20s ; Adelaide, 19s 6d ; Eden Hartlepool, 17s ; Evenwood, 16s ; Tees, 19s 6d ; Gar naut Stone, 22s ; Hartley, lis ; Lawiss Merthyr, 21s 6d ; Alorgan's Stone, 21s 6d; East Hetton, 17s 6d.—Ships arrived, 23. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended April 2 , 4, 1545, made up from the Returns of tl e Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat .. .• •. 458 Ild Oats .• .••.• • 208 lld Beans ...... 35s 9d Barley •••• • • 31s 6d I Rye•• • • .. 30s 2d Pease .•... • . 36s Id AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. ending eeks Wheat. Barley. ! Oats. r 71 ye. Beans. Pease. - 1 m.; Mar. 22 .. .. 29.... April 5.. .. 45 5 32 41 21 8 30 45 10 32 4 21 5'32 45 5 32 3i 21 4 29 46 3 32 5 120 9 30 45 11 31 II 121 4 32 45 11 31 6 20 11 30 34 6' 35 8 3t 10 34 8 34 9 135 7 35 5 36 6 35 36 1 35 9 36 1 IMPERIAL AGGRE , Wheat • • • • • • 46s (k 1 Barley • • • • • • 32s 2cl =ATE AVERAGES 0, Oats • • • • 21 31 Rye IRS ON FOREIGN C, Oats . ...• • . 6s 01 Rye .... • • .. 103 6d F THE SIX WEEKS. Beans •• . 35 Id Pease •• ••• • • . 35 9d !ORN. Beans Pease.. •• •• •• 7s Gd Whea ...• • Barley ...... 6s Od RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Group V. GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD PROJECT. THURSDAY, FOURTH DAY. The Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock this day, and proceeded 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 deposed that it would afford all the conve. nienecs 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 him now by c , unsel, he nol having at the commencement stated that he would appear by counsel. Mr. HILIYVARD 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 tither, 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 Nypitld pay the sum the valuerninuld 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 panics settling it amongst themselves. The engineer then proceeded to detail the reute of the line, as described by Mr. Hope in his opening statement. Ite 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 rals for the present. The line would be brought into conjunction with the new docks. From Hulk)! 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 fret 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 s ame place. The crossing at Market-raisin was one mile from Brigg, and not close to any populous town. The bridge would cost 5,000/. ; 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 Market.raisin and Hull to London, would be as follows :-. 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 ~ .... . 244 miles 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, in 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. xx, Hay ttlea icoulacd, hii cioos.eauliuAtiou oud the WitIMO -- —.------..----.—.----- was severely catechised upon a long-contested point in rail lgai tactics, namely, the power or expediency of dispensing stationary engine upon inclines with secure gradients. Tb e W .' nest nevet theless persisted that there was no necessity for "_r tionary engine, and mentioned several instances where huarell of tons of goods are daily carried up heavy inclines by a , I n g g locomotive engit.e. Air. AsetaNn, on behalf of the Halifax turnpike-road, cross-en mined Mr. Hawkshaw, with the view of showing that engine' a n carriages running at that point at 1 in 100 would he dangerous to the public safety. with.ta. In reply to a question from the Committee the witness said It was not the intention of the West Riding Company to work any part of their lines upon the atmospheric principle. Their lines, however, would be so constructed, that if it should a fterward s arils thought desirable the atmospheric power c ould be applied hao' Group X. LONDON AND YORK RAIL WA. The Committee re-assembled this morn in g , the chair. LorYd Courtena l in Samuellen o ff in Balde e ' . Mr. PAGET, for the promoters, calle d Mr. printer, of Barnet, who deposed that that t own had fal trade since the Great '.'orth-Road had been diverted bY th e el. isting railways. The population of Barnet was near 4,000. . . of Cross-examined they in i g.ei e l x tua a :edm m x pib i i t ee : cc e dit d f i t b tbah y yti s l‘ ll.l l : r iirpl.e 'l wr ' a , cty L oß rt w ;: : : : ceDsa:iadblitiositi established. owuwadh What :ahredpg•a; Cross owner against the London and York Ra w il i w io ay a . trade of Barnet had been reduced • taken °°l 4 by the coaches being road. Mr. J Duckworth was then called and examined by ?J r ' 1) ,... 5 0 ; NISON —The witness spoke to the nature of the produce tiised ii 0, the land round Barnet. This produce consisted chiefly ef na gr : of and the greater part of it went to London- A Ches Per In t - 0 to conveyance than at present existed would be a grea t a d r i n n s ialue _ p p v ea e r i e ie dr d o r t ,a at l , ari th b d i the district. Property in Barnet had greatly depreciate since the coaches had been taken off. ..,,, a a nd h e Mr. o f l John Hopewell, a grocer at Barnet, w as then call. ",te. lie stated that the trade of the town had greatly fallen off _.,.., obtained his goods from London. There wa s no water convdole7( La n o Gem ni n, London to Baniet. The cost of car riago f"n sugar was Sd. a cwt. By railway it would be about 40. be elated Mr. Buckle, an ironmonger in Barnet, was called, and ite t 7 e ~, that he got the principal part of his stock from Londo n. ", re' ceived about two tons per week from London. Ile A i° sP : :N. the depreciation in the value of property in Barnet Hu l a h ell n pe a r w t y fo himself which ol. i l i :d p e r o e s a t e himata amount of fa whichndgeneral g lie co src r w e x brought into Baret was bout 75 ons. oa t M g r. Lucas, hin n ker, of a Hitchin, t was then call ed and e x- o at by Mr. KING LAKE —He deposed to the quantity ge of don P ail ' ws , opt to L from Hitchin to London. The cost of carria could be shilling per quarter. The total cost before t h e malt about ew 9 4 , d r ya s into the warehouse of the brewer in Lond on was ton. By a railway, if it should be established, the cost W roc o be more than 3s. per tun. He should, therefore, pr efer tha t • vo lt of conveyance. Such a saving would give an impe tus to Oleo,. i trade of Hitchin. The price of coal at Hitchin WO a hnnt . 004 ton. The coal used was Derbyshire coal. He would s al' nt 0 1 a year in the reduction of the price of coal by the estahl iih rm. II railway. The railway would reduce the price of . l l:Wh ch thousand. There was formerly a tanning trade at flite• -1 oar The al ho d, might be restored by a railway being esta blished tion of coal was about 6,000 tons annually , or about a ton e_ „ r e. , The saving in the carriage of coal would mo re than double e to`r t amount of the poor's rates in Hitchin. otte n ', Cross-examined by Mr. VV. LEE who appeared fort "opstree' ham and Farringdon-street Railway Company. tt g Fairing iDI.OOO station would be much more convenient than the .-.- Company exined is b y a Mfr.avi completeWE L ts— t a r station. Cross Eastern to carry it on to Hitchin. That Hertford,linheeilsi county of Hertford than the proposed London , in d h "- li ni°l2 would be if it were constructed. The population W itin the of Hitchin is about 20,000. sti " °°'t Re.examined by Mr. KINGLAKE—He thought there communication diagonally from King's-cross to Sinithtiell n e r o o : t . lie niNortherntgnis"lr ostop oi : t bo : I Group E. A. NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK LINE 6 . 4 . 11"114 r . v eur °- This Committee continued to.day to hear evidence inG:teosed. this proposed line. Wm. Henry Barkett, Alderreen ° f „ e s s li ne Wm. Hind, who had been ten years en d ea vouring to b n r _OOOl e aril 13erwiet through Northuli.berland,and Mr. Hutt, ~ spok of the advantages likely to accrue from the Newcastle lines. allY at icaP • t ri t ; Thomas Harrison , civil engineer, spoke to the goer- O ne h e lot genus ° rc - ed u P °P , genus nature of the radients, with the exception 170 feet, and the :,ther being 150 feet, which had bee n -° . , ci oreY '- them f,:r the purpose of avoiding a passage through L°l,Jeviostle property. The viaduct in the principal streets throuk b ' g. 2 fee t, was 75 feet, while the Brandling Junction in Gateshead WO from which no inconvenience was felt. Group G and G 2. WILTS AND SOMERSET RAILWAY. , ee d to-c is/9 The inquiry into the merits of this railway was tesn'loieittee. before the Chairman, the Hon. I'. H. Liddell, and the ' n o f thos e The Committee assembled at twelve o'clock, the attendandaer o f the interested in the line being as large as on the previous ed that investigation. stat 4 Previous to entering into the evidence, the Criarg"A n iore n°4 7, having some very urgent business to attend to Committeeto e such being the case with two other members of th e s ' would put it to those interested whether any St eal inc° r n ocee di"' would result from adjourning the Committee after th e P gr. until Monday. d oted , The counsel on both sides having immediatell s t ! 0110 00 M that erewether was about to oen the case of Cap _, „ e el& when by a proposal from Mr. Brunel, the opp oei " °- „ ° et man's behalf was obviated. o f the S` guers of Mr. GREENWOOD proceeded to open the case the forts shire Canal Company. The Company objected t° the branch to Radstock, from a con( eption t hat line would be in no degree affected if this branch thous fbe It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Brunel, h One jeets of the Railway Company was to en u the field. The advantage of this would be p gett g h Radstock coal up to Bradford by the Warminster l;f very st.ght differeoce of price the coal coul b d Pt ttee ''l c l a a ai : io t et:t i lt: i fct:r db h t h i l c d anal, while the effect of forming the railway would be t° „ e e nt sSi th estroy the property of the canal. This canal, vit" — oeP the assistance of tram.roads from the pits and by the Avi field way the coal from the whole of the Somersetshire ce"-wiltS was conveyed into the Kennet C ana l , an d t h en ce into ; cost or Canal, , end thus through a l arge di s t r i ct. Th e canal ha d pee wards of 260,0001., upon which no dividend at all had he if or fur fourteen years, and on an average only three.and-eP:jettlre cent. had been paid. The Act of P ar l iam ent entitled the Plv.delth! to take ten per cent., but from th e mo d e rateness of theirche'eriess greatest profit ever obtained was only six per cent. on the ~/elop e capital. The Canal Company had always been rea d y to ca s t; o s coal than had ever been offered by the coal masters , se tit The A a evident no disadvantage had been suffered by the public*, toe the enabled the proprietors to charge 2 1 / 2 d. per ton Per ' nil 61' the whole distance of ten miles, which was the length of the can fr '9d.e Company might charge 2s. Id.; their usual charge was. haWe lut the ton per mile, which for the whole distance would be Is. tEtde eis pece• Company only charged one shilling for the whole of this which. The Somersetshire canal locked into the Kennet and A v°° t ; eiss took the coal up to Bradford, and for which carriage thecoesylef further charge of 9d. a t on . Th e capital of the Canal nuorber r e , e e t tire l i ci ~e ; was divided into a great number of shares held by a of persons, and the prop er ty o f th ese persons would be reel' stroyed. The real question was whether the publ ic she° COOP tl.eir coal at Bradford, which they could do without the ,u. „ . or at Frome, which would save a water carriage of eigh t C; Mr. Carpenter, Secretary of the Some C an tee n , patsy, and who had been in that office between e i g h e f W it" nineteen years, was produced to prove the outlay "ooters, but this was admitt e d on b e h a lf o f the railway r eact t 101. this wee The highest dividend ever paid was 121 ' share of 150/. This was in 1842. In the following e ea . . t . t year ll' reduced to 81. 10s., and to Si. in 1844. In 1818, the §net e i which a dividend was declared, the division was 11. 1 0 t , 1 ye ltle ° and it then gradually rose to the sum stated above. The these 150/. shares was 981., which was th e ~,,e se t hert i'l; tered price ; but a share was said to have been sold te" „as '2; for 841., but this was hearsay. The price charged for ec h e tno Ar; a ton per mile, less by a halfpenny than the surn ' chi : v on C ar' : gave them, and the whole charge to the Kennet and "" w as : I was one shilling. The price of coal at the mouth i aserage flee:a-guinea a ton, and the districts te e n . the si. Isy means of this canal, an d through co net and Avon and the Wilts and B et.l'S pet i t comprised Bradford, Trowbridge, Abingdon, swin don, and te- , Newbury, Hungerford, the village and vale o f ruce:' sgrefv. whole of the centre of Wilts, Marlborough, and D evise i f part of this district lying on the line of the Great Wester n a se pp though the latter towns do new approach it ; he by , te t of the whole of them would be i nter f e red w it " veer elj a ' proposed railway. The quantity of coal carried by t h 44 it shire Canal in 1843, was leB,ooo tons, and i n 1 '; enile .h ti l 124,000 .ons, but he was un a bl e t o sa y what was the amount of toll received, but it did not amount to 10,0.01' f renter year. On his cross. examination by Mr. SreenseD , ; Ton ti' n ° confirmed his previous evidence as to dividetids P ai d S ° , - ; capital. The distance of Trowbridge from the line e t- e rtir` a - i v h e: r s a e n a c d was about, or within, two miles, which had to be ans be' a ea about fouretaornt, ,, th ad e d w t h h e e l e e d w st e w ig a h s t a c b or t ey i e s d . abytonsutcohr crnserriefgewence, turnpikes. There were no means of water et e" to the south, though there might be toward s 6 ; Al Kennet and st a d n p d page A t v h o a n t he C r a e n c a d l llec in ted to b t y he dr i i i : g e b ; carc t tho ng T by here th h e ad there had been by frost, although he had not known nn coal occasioned by the stoppage of the canal re e, To the Chairman Mr. Carpenter stated that the' : he intermediate stations for depots of coal, but `,"" re ample opportunity for forming a depot at Bradf°l". canal largest quantity of coal ever carried hi 1e v was 162,000 tons, in 1841, the excess above t he folio being occasioned by the demands of the Great Western "oltit` If the demand for coal from Dorsetshire and the adjoiniageostitillg were to be largely Increased, the canal could carry doub le thellt tb carried in the year of which he had spoken. He do,gebogl„ Is. a ton would be an excessive charge for lifting coals frotn•to ye o ' on the canal to the railway carriages. The way or g ettinlit so F r° t would be by the canals to Trowbridge, thence by rall °l and if the railway were formed, the coals would be car*„,eirie - ' from Radstock by rail. It appeared by Mr. Entwistls pfdl"b'e nsede that the extra expenses of keeping the conveyanie nt, for tra n sv l out thus—l s. 9d. from Radstock to Bradford Pd. plus the charge direct from Radstock to Froine, whict,geabed to half the distance. The freight and the quayage and loc'"" , the be added to this, the freight being about 9d. a ton. je tbs. he To the inquiries of Mr. YORKE, the witness sa. d -,eoege price of coals at Bradford would reach to ISs. a tons ' uring the could not assert that it would not exceed that Pri ee e, sit last year the canal had never been stopped bY dr ° "",..l 0 / l eis To an inquiry by Mr. ENTWISLE—Tce carriage 0. eon. Tr from Radstock to Trowbridge would be Is. to Is. 4d• closed the case of the Semersetshire Canal ComPanY• efre bsti t Mr. WIIATELEY was about to open the cases of Dr m - betea en enstte d _ the Mr. Hughes, but during the conversation which him and Mr. Slyhead, who appeared for the P railway, f h e e"' t t. co Mr. WEATHERTIALL announced that the opposition 0- and that ba h n e ds oe sham-road Commissioners had been withdrewn, raissibners felt bound to state their sense of the ve r Y ee n. efle ‘ manner in which the Railway Company bad obviated tee iso sition. The opposition of Dr. Brabant and Mr. Hughes s ed, °f 11 f was e. withdrawn. Mr. Fuller was a witness on behalf of Mr. vines, whose kitchen.garden would be destroyed hY `" t" - bY s pOill ocu it o He considered the house would be entirely railway. He had marked out another line oided. 131, construction by which the house would be altogether tet r in w hic the adoption of this line another station might he reade'end abb e, rorooters the disadvantage of the elevation of the town of Devizes, 00 to be, the Bear Field, where the terminus was at present P t° P pol ser hie the ra l would be lessened, and the alteration was quite wit in sefe of deviation, and the ascent would not be so steep n.e to. Th'' places on the road between Devizes :and ChipPe ce _ a _ the tosen! . would be a convenience of 13U or 140 yards in distance luta:wont and save a great destruction of property, and all the era This Committee re a S s u s bei-nCbolmedinaitttTeeweNivoe. o'clock, in r _ r 7 von, 14 0 Y p e l s , e h TeILE firstca John oe callE : d r A l o e ns ßuller, was o.g N, c ec h A a t .l hAemo:Ai he t f D r. Deedes, Mr. Yorke, and Mr I h caster, 'Eß This line of railway i 3 to be from DOIICIISter to . the _ l° /) 1. ao. Goole, connecting the tewu of Sheffield, a s well in connexion with the Swinton and Lincoln lin Willa d aa the an d districts traversed by the midland Railways an d the SheiS lu cogt m audit - Au Itailwap, and the Sillsatone Vlic°l)"l44l ,) 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-office, 112, Strand. Just ready, in 3 vols., post firo., S YBIL ; or, THE TWO NATIONS. BY B. DISRAELI, ESQ..