The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-09 00:00:00

MRP J'intr Ttising ,visioDS i to be tbe Cbtri laittton I ~`yn ~. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. , AILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. TEE CORNWALL RAILWAY. t ir_he Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock, the Earl of Z i lb°ro ugh in the chair. silNethewy and Veale were called by the promoters of the gas. Both gentlemen are t ra d ers res id ent i n C ornwa ll. Th e y '• evidence in favour of the line, which they thought would be ;Zlneneficial to the people of that county, more especially to the abitants of Truro and St. Austel. The present cost of carriage etit 'pl great, and much time was consumed in it. .The lin h e biinu,salso benefit the pilchard fishery on the coast, in which muc s was do ne. b en l e l fi r ; Drew,mayor of Lestwithiel, said the line would greatly eiht;Les ` it le agricultural di s t r i c t b or d er i ng on t h at t own, by the fa bit would create for the carriage of lime, &c. All the inha krt!!' of Lostwithiel were in favour of the Bill. The line would „7.9 ben e fi t the mining trade of Cornwall. Cros s —Was a shareholder in the line. and Mr. Fox gave evidence in favour of the Bill Ititterwitness stated that the population of Plymouth had '"nnbied since the war. The orth e r emainder of the day was occupied in hearing the evidence Fat, Ea rl 01 St. Germans, the Earl of Morley, and the Earl of pr ol ;:; u tn, Who severally bure testimony to the advantages of the ihat i. eci li ne. They thought it was the best practicable line, and us wo uld confer gr ea t b ene fi ts on C ornwa ll. lam e details entered into were, however, wholly uninteresting, th e Cora en g i neering evidence had yet to be disposed of, when th e tolttee adjourned a. -•—• ' , 'clock. 03tv, JONI "$D s W D •-•• HAMPTON. THE BATTLE OF' TIIE GAUGES. The Committee met to-day at eleven o'clock. Members of Corn- Zett !e _r e sen,t Lord Auckland, Chairman, Lords Saltoun, Rosalyn, I"uiand Winchester. The cross- examination of Mr. Mathews was then resumed in It h er the L ondon and Birmingham scheme, but nothing of rirtance was further elicited. • r. barker trap * iron and coal master, of South Staffordshire, was next the district, He ai he was connected with one of the largest firms 'district, being aestablishment that made one.fourth of all ef t . l eable iron iii the district. The make of iron in the district vik-'lllh, Staffordshire he represented to be 9,000 tons of pig iron 14, c ; "mg nearly one-thirst of all the make of Great Britain. ooo tgi °l e Make of p i g iron for the United Kingdom was 3 ,o 11 .0 1eitl Y. Of thi s 10 , 000 t ons were ma d e i n S out h W a l es, they t....ntabs in South Staffordshire, 7,000 tons in Scotland, and 41. ,eet theing 3,000 tons in Derbyshire and Shropshire. itZ eh y t he l had great difficulty in competing with troth tht ir onmesters in shipments to the Continent, arising He-had e , i gh rate of carr i age an d the i m p er f ec t accommo d ation. llieeti n ; e M the evidence of Mr. Mathews, and agreed with him ° r enew ° the superiority of the present line over the rival line Xrtin n Re could speak, however, definitely respecting that tinf; 1e Dudley to Wolverhampton, in which space the line Watikeeasideration accommodated the greater number of iron ',land, He had seen the machine at Paddington for tr a nsh i pm e nt W aS perfectly satisfied with its efficacy for the purpose. Veils ,„ - „, -arni ned by Mr. HOPE—He was nat able to explain the .titad,^fttlY for the transhipment of goods proposed. That efitiCe better done by the engineer. From what he had seen I l l rpo t Z et eri he was satisfied it would be found efficient for the lit - h ret i h t gred. The principal markets of his firm were Liver. L l 'elitl 4 :"" t er, and Hull. He did not send so much to Bristol Row He und ers t oo d th a t th e t onnage on th e b roa d an d trin oi saaBes were to be the same, and in that case, so far as tta th.as concerned it did not matter much which linethey used. : 4 , 41 or i L tts tled that ' competition was bpneflcial in reducing the talle. Before the opening of the Liverpool and Bit - NI nEh -'n e, the carriage of lime was 20s. per ton to Liverpool. i t ,t l taken for 10s., and he thought. it might be still less. h`th'reli,"°rheYcroft ironmaster, of Wolverhampton, was examined ry evi W WI respect to the merits of the two con ptting hoes. 14 4- h i l ee Was principally contirmatory of tie evidence Nivtn oy tre,aLl's yesterday. He admitted that the new line 1 . 0 Lon necessary in order . to force the London and Birmingham hY to accommodatei the public better than they had hitherto Nat "'vas•e Xalitination of the witness did not elicit anything par ti- Ile th._" 4 74brook , th."'lS of the of Stourbridge, deposed as to the general cor. e evidence furnished by Mr. Matthews. He believed •N'teitit "I of South Staftl , rdshire was in favour of the Great ti c i , r 1 Scheme. No farther back than last Saturday he sent ' o 46:P et ition to the House of Lords in favour of this scheme tilthtrthres, when every master in the district of Stourbridge kr. izt, With one exception. 4 4 , to th is ar den, alkali manufacturer, of Stoke Priors, was examined "'taunt of the salt trade of Worcestershire. He deposed 44joi, _With lop - "Proved facilities for transmitting the salt, three erstetilt-• Counties might use at least 100,000 tons yearly. At " * Ss b„.thelnake was 1,500 t ons wee kl y. T wenty years ago it k r : 300 tons weekly st id B " t h, farmer, of : Berkshire, gave evidence respecting the *,:,!tsititl.tantage which would be conferred on Berkshire in supply t districts by the construct ion of this line. to„" ' l 6ht arlds between Reading and Basingstoke required salt for rite bh -41 8. and if it could be had from Worcestershire at any lew hs - L d " a I/. it would confer a great benefit. The present line, wiippirstladed, would accomplish this. It might be supplied at gaqd tif Horton at 12s. 4d. per at Farnborou g h at 17s. 9d., asi ngstoke at 19s. , Con -M ittee then adjourned till to-morrow at eleven o'clock. ab lirsrAT AN D 1371X.PAST /UNCTION I MPORTANT DECISION. •%1, "' e "ect Committee on this Bill reassembled this morning e tc ele ven eleven o'clock, and proceeded with the evidence in favour for the promoters of the Dublin and Belfast Junction eist,, 'Ms Somervill e , M . p . for Drogheda, was called to prove Ite n . s .'e Majority o f the people of that town were in favour of the Si railway. pr, rJ e nna M'N e il, th e eminent engineer, who had laid out the b ther:di :a i m ; t h tuh e o; happnraodo: vteaittddowthat it was one of the most important in Ire. great stream of traffic running e k : o i n u t the. The length of the line from q"anl7ll ,sebuetretshtecuirtiv-lae" '6.14 Pz' 1 miles r. IToir:gemiles, and from Drogheda to Calculating from Dublin the trunk line would be n w d a l s ine would be eight or ten miles twenty-seven chains radius, and th:lteepest gradient 1 in 100. There would be a viaduct near th;._ l4l ne of about 400 yards in length. He estimated the cost of s hlll ' e in ain line at 630,5451., and the branch at 117,027/. He set o '4... gM etes down at 7 4,7571. He estimated the working ex at nn 4h. - w Per cent , upon the expected annual revenue. sle"..-Cdriess was cross-examined by Mr. M. CHAMBERS . at c0n ,444111..1e len gth, With a view of showing that the necessities of the its t i,; , called for an inland instead of a coast line, and that the Thi s the line were of a very difficult character. jit het % lZ 4 ',. e tt the case for the promoters of the Dublin and Belfast k r. n 'Me. atZh "Aleaatta then applied for an adjournment, urging that „. b een taken so much by surprise by the very sudden ap 4ith,"‘ of the Committee that they had not had time to get their kr:" ever from Ireland. kltt ee Huiteliv resisted time application, and eventually the Corn- Litt, r i n n ed to grant it. Zeit o ; L;Hastiseas then proceeded to address the Committee on li tt "hal .. the promoters of the Dublin and Armagh inland line, 'es c 'ne that the coast line was commencing at the wrong end. 1,1 , 1,7,„ reh'stoners appointed in 1836 to ascertain the best mode If 7:1 reizb Ireland with a general system of railway communication houh 1 4 4 ihtetnrirriended that all main trunk ines ought to pass through ii " the country, as had been done in England, and g -r ti me to produce branches to time main ports and exten. the c oast The Dubin and Armagh Railway was one % % I S s - co lt-14 _ 4 k trunk ' lines, but the Du n d a lk a nd P o riad o wn w a s t e it htle t t tht ex tension, and therefore the L e arned C o uns e l con. th e latt et at the C ommittee ought to prefer the former, and reject e lw • p ith a. ., - ese„ 4 es were the n ca ll e d to prove th a t th e i n l an d li ne was k:ht "e two, and the case for the opponents closed. ta_ . was therefore cleared, and trte Committee having re. teed"'gtd " whberation for five or six minutes, strangers were re. hen e,jianate announced that the preamble to the Dublin and U nction Bi.l bad been proved. 1 1 C t r ,'" b ING ORDERS COWLIKTTTEE. °- ' n 'ittee met a t th ree o ' c l oc k. The Earl of Shaftesbury c f h a i r, : t he pol.,lo.ing Bills p asse d th roug h C omm ittee •411, Wenon a nd . Wyre Railway Bill. Gh_a rni ch and Bandon Railway Bill. I,Zhej"g„ (4" J unction Railway Bill. tip"stlerition of the Great Western Railway Bill was post. tho to-metrow. 5 e 1 , 44 W e etyr Y and Ekien Raway Bill was uner Eldora tettlithterte.Qur reportnn lt is ft, ll but it il was expected to d pass = through I-1 0U SE OF CO 3IMONS. GROUP A. 0 'Z'Xzr 140 in, c TERDEN AND EYE LINE. fh 4 irman taking his seat this morning, the cross-exami- A) , h,L t da r4 y: t ,. - • ( Who was examined on the part of the above line T~Pul 4ti . ' 4 resumed by l‘lr. JOHNSON, when it appeared that 4ti,„, With oh O f Rye was about 4,000. Was then re-examined by Mr. BELLLIIS, but stated Ito portance. amt N e, 1 : 1•81 5 then put in a letter from Major Curtis, a resident ; 1 %44 4 to the P oor-law Commissioners, pointing out the danger 65,41 y, ton wo rkhouse at a certain spot known to be very un lio;rs r noch so that he himself intended to pull down some itl4,lttetitz,p:errhiiosvnesrleivniieiagr the place, arid which lie was about to pull in them were in danger of ague. This ) 1 toy oclueed to prove that the bout), which this line will Ito 'an wa tt °fn., account of which he petitioned against this line, *nt -- lue 4 tr • to th e " - is then called Mr. Salmes, a farmer and grazier, who it th how advantages to be derived from this line. He himself 4 4: 4 Was iarge quantity of corn, which he would send to London d th, he t ha railway to send it by. Has no shares in theprope if ‘ ll4 1 141 1) 44 a very good opinion of it, and intends ge t s hares I. t het 1 1 . 411 ,!ek Thinks Rye would support two lines of railway, to t 3_ l %•eb oh, ll '_is Bill were to pass, the line would certainly succeed. Ih k ,:lbj ur . "'s S m ith, a sheeo salesman at Smithfield market, spoke tist 4 •o l4, ll l done to sheep by being driven long distances A tiLf_ti n ee n known to lose six or eight pouni i n . weightby 1 41' 14 , I'd fro m Bye to London. Sheep often had their shoulders ttid,"ito.. -o n l excessive driving. He was no relation to the for ' Oki " 0 , Mr. J. Smi th , but he sold sheep for him in London, I I tt f 'etitie t •• • o dealings with him. Miller at Bennington spoke to the expense of convey .'4lh "°t4 t hatstation of the 'til b 'Past place to Staplehurst, where the kt as ; to b er n line is, and where it is necessary to send it in l' et ;tho t . st &v e it conveyed to London. To convey 800 sheep to 1114,, 4 „n1e0 fne4t 321. The same number would be conveyed to 61 . 4s. The witness spoke at some length as to the ' to ur which w ou ld b e sen t to London if there was a rail -4 ".elf at present ground about seven loads per week by 1 1 1 , • nere 4 about thirty-two loads by steam. His business would It:r t al %b ed v ery much if the railway were made. There were lie, et Millers in Bennington, who were all of opinion that 1, Would 10t. a great advantage to them. 1 0. t her, 'Ke i a farmer, and also a general dealer, at Rolvington, cirliL ce eal led, and spoke to the feeling in favour of the line at tettlitle Tae alb to the advantage to trade, &c., expected from n e Population of the parish of Rolvington was about . `%Ot arai nfl, another witness from the same neighbourhood, h i .. F red the former evidence. lii flip a e tt lt "aao was about to call another witness, when in je ct of i ?, lll4 ax said th a t h e th o u g ht no further evidence on th e s tith a k "le feeling in f avour o f the lisle, and of the necessity 7, 4 4 t li ne was n ecessary, and that M r. Hild yar d oug h t now to p en g i neering evidence and the traffic-tables. 11444,411),1'n•raan said th a t h e was no t prepared to p ro d uce th e 1411 t but if th a Committee would a ll ow hi m to exam i ne a L l lll l l 44 :Tenterde n , b e wou ld be atria to produce the traffic. crj a telY afterwards. 4 m,, o,7ius. a resident at Tenterden, gave evidence in favour of 047 1 i t ; 64 1h*. Sta 11 ° 'p , Civil engineer , was th en called and examined. kWh • WU engaged tb lay den a line (tom Headecan Rye, and accordingly surveyed the country between those places for the purpose of laying down the best possible line in the direction pointed out. He bad also estimated the expense cf the line, which he calculated at something under 140,0031. The items incaided in that sum were as follows : For fencmg, 5,5351. ; for earthwork, 35,5301. ; for masonry of all kinds, including 14ri,:ges, &c., 15,963/. ; Inc .tati,,ns, 4,9651. and fir contingencies, 18,7631.—being about 17 per cent. This was a very liberal estimate for coml. gencies, the usual amount allowed being 10 per cent. The object of the line was to make a communi cation between the port at It) e and the interior of the country. The steepest gradient on the line was lin 130. There was no tunnel on the line. There were no very important curves on the line The length of the line was 17 miles. Captain Moorsom was then cross-examined by Mr. HILL— Witness had had an assistant to work the calculations, which were founded on observations made on the spot by Mr. Thompson, who was now present. Captain Moorsom was then cross-examined by Mr. CLLRKSON, on the part of Major Curtiss, a petitioner against the line—He did not think the line would do any injury to Major Cur tiss's house, though it passed within a quarter of a mile of it. The engines when passing the house could not be heard there, as there was a hill between the house and the line, which would be an obstacle to the sound, but they would be heard at the house both before and after they came directly oppo. site to it. He did not think it would injure Major Curtiss's pro perty, as the value of the land through which it passed was not equal to the improvement in the value of the land in general. Mr. MELLOR was about to cross examine Captain Moorsora, on the part of several landowners whose property it passes through, and who petition against it, when Mr. littorstin said that he wished to call a witness who would prove that the opposition of these gentlemen was in reality con ducted by the Brighton Company. Mr. MELLOR objected; and after some discussion, Mr. HILDYARD asked a question of the person he had alluded to, without calling him as a witness ; arid being satisfied with the an. ewer, withdrew his objection to Mr. Mellor's cross.examination. The witness, being cross-examined by Mr. MELLOR, said that this line passed through a field belonging to Mr. Sutton, a petitioner against the line, and separated a piece, one acre in size, from the rest of the field. Mr. HILDYARD asked whether the witness was aware that the field in question was called " Starvation Glen," from the extreme barrennes of the soil ? (A laugh.) The witness replied that he did not know the name of the field. Mr. HILDYARD said that he must call another witness to prove that fact. ()n the conclusion of Captain Moorsom's evidence, the Corn mittee adjourned shortly before five o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, VVEDNESDAI JULV 9, ir;,i?), Lord DUNCAN ajectrel to the hurried manner in which the bill was being passed. He also comilained that the town councils and magistrates had not been recognised by any of the clauses. After a few words firm Mr. VERNON SMITH, the clause was agreed to with verbal amendments. Clauses 52, 53, and 54, were agreed to, with some verbal amendments. Clause 55 was then proposed and agreed to, after some slight di:cussion as to its woroieg. Clauses 56 and 57 were then ,greed to. Clause 58 was then proposed. Mr. WAKLEY objected to the free access of the overseers and guardians to the lunatic paupers, which was allowed by the clause. He thought that they would go on parties of pleasure to the country, under the plea of making an investigation.— (Laughter. ) Lord ASHLEY moved that the words " at all reasonable times " be inserted after the words " free access." The clause was then passed as amended. Clauses 59 and 60 were agreed to. Lord ASHLEY then moved the postponement of the fur ther consideration of the clauses to give an opportunity of swearing in a Member. The matter was caried, and the SPEAKER took the Chair. Sir J. DUCKWORTII was immediately introduced by Lord Lincoln and Sir J. Y. Buller, and having taken the oaths, took his seat in the House as Member for Exeter. The SPEAKER then left the Chair, and the House went again into Committee. Clauses 61 and 62 were then agreed to, as also were clauses down to 70. . . _ _ Clause 71, which makes provision for the discharge and re moval of lunatics from asylums, and for a penalty of 50/. on officers for allowing them to escape, or to be at large without permission, was objected to on the ground that the penalty was too high. The clause was amended, and the insertion of the words " if fiat more than 201., and not less than 101.," and agreed to. Clauses up to 74 were also agreed to. Clause 75, which provides that in case of the death of a lunatic its cause should be stated, and sent to the clerk of the peace and the Commissioners of Lunacy, was proposed. Mr. DUN COMM objected to it, on the around that in every case of the death of a lunatic information of the fact should be sent to the Coroner, who , •hould hold an inquest on the body, and proposed that the clause should be so amended. Lord ASHLEY said they should recollect that they were dealing with italic lunatic asylums. He could not see the necessity of holding an inquest in every case, however necessary such a step might be where death occurred in private asylums. Mr. WAK LEY had had considerable experience as to the necessity of the amendment during the period he had held the office of coroner. He con , idered that it was also necessary as a species of supervision on the Commissioners of Lunacy. Whenever a criminal died an inquest was invariably held on his body, and he saw no reason why this should not take }lace on the death of a lunatic. If half a dozen rate-payers were empowered to visit an asylum, and inspect the body of a lunatic, he should not press the necessity of hold ing an inquest. They ought to give these unfortunate persons all the protection in their power. Mr. V. SMIIH was in favour of adopting some middle course respecting those dying in private as well as in county asylums. It ought not, however, to be made peremptory, because many lunatics died from a long course of disease, at.cl not from any other cause. Besides, the friends of the lunatics might have a great objection to the holding of inquests on the bodies of their relations. He objected to it being left to rate payers, who might be incompetent for the discharge of the duties which w , trld thus devolve upon them. Mr. DUN CO .N 1 BE thought the holding of an inquest ought not to be left to the option of the fi tends of the deceased. The same protection extended to the rich ought to be extended to the poor. The House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 4 Against it Majority against the amendment Mr. WA K LEY moved that the names of the parties present at the death of a lunatic should be inserted in the schedule specified in the Bill, which would be signed by the medical officers of the asylum. Lord ASHLEY offered no objection to this proposition, and the clause was, as amended, agreed to. On the next clauses being proposed, Mr. DUN COA IB E inquired I, by Bethelem was to be exempt from the operation of this Act ? Lord ASHLEY was understood to say that there was a special Act of Parliament now in operation applying to the hospital of Bedlam. Mr. T. DUNCO M BE thought that if Bethelem were exempt St. Luke's ought also to be exempted. He believed that the Noble Lord was afraid to grapple with the monopoly existing in the institution of Bethlehem. Lord ASHLEY said that Bethlehem was an institution distinct from all other lunatic asylums in the country. It had been established by royal foundation, and was under an especial government of its o. n Mr. DUNCOMBE still thought that this Bill ought to apply to the Bethlehem Hospital. The clause was then agreed to. On the first schedule being proposed, The Earl of ARUNDEL suggested that some provision should be made for the spiritual instruction of lunatics who had any glimmering of reason in their minds. Lord ASHLEY was afraid that provision being introduced into this Bill respecting religious opinions of the lunatics might much impede the effectual working of this Bill. The Earl of S 4ELBURNE thought that such a provision would have a tendency to lead to religious persecution. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought the suggestion of the Noble Earl (the Earl of Arundel) ought to be entertained. Provi sions similar to that suggested by the Noble Lord were always introduced into Acts of Parliament relating to prisons. Why, then not be introduced into this Bill? Mr. P. HOWARD said, that when a man was not abso lutely raving mad, it might be of advantage that religious in struction should be afforded. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Friday. RAILWAY STANDING ORDERS. Mr. GREENE moved that standing order, No. 123, re quiring reports on railway Bills to -be discussed upon every Tuesday, be suspended to the end of the present session. A gr;od to. MANCHESTER AND ALTRINCHAM RAILWAY. The Lord.' amendments to the Manchester and Altrincham Railway Bill were agreed to. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAIL Vl AY. The Lords amendments to the Manchester and Birmingham Ashton branch) Hallway Bill were agreed to. ASHTON, S I'ALYBKIDGE AND LIVERPOOL RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the Ashton, Stalybridge and Liverpool Railway Bill were agreed to. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the London and Brighton (Horsham branch) Railway Bill mere Agreed to. NORTH WALES RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the North Wales Railway Bill were agreed to. English Universities had a character of their own—ancient and a deeply marked character it might be, but gcod or bad it was in perfect harmony with the system of tests. The Irish colleges had no character at all they have yet to receive it from the Legislature, and wouldbear any impression which the Legislature put upon them. But the Scotch Universitiesihad a distinguishing character ists quite out of harmlny with the system of test. lie intreated English Gentlemen not to be irir,ros , d upon by the word University, nor to derive their idea from the nature of the Cambridge and Oxford Universities. What ought to be done with the English Universities was a perfectly distinct question to be dealt with on entirely distinct grounds. At Cambridge and Oxford the object was to bring up men members of a particular church. At Cambridge no person was suffered to graduate without de claiming his adhesion to the Church of England ; at Oxford they were still more strict. The discipline even outside the walls of the college was analagous to that preserved therein. (LEFT SPEAKING.) - - --- ATROCIOUS CRUELTY AN AT . TE t1IVIE1) VIOLATION. George Morris, a well-known donkey driver and keeper of ponies for hire on Blackheath, was brought before Mr. Cot • tingham, on Munday, at Greenwich Police-court, charged with having committed an assault of the most ageravated nature upon the person of a poor widow named Ann Rivers, and also with attempting to commit a rape. Sergeant Lovell said the prisoner had been traced to Fairlop fair and lost sight of. He, however, apprehended him by a little stratagem at three o'clock that morning. Ann Rivers, the prosecittrix, on entering the witness-box, presented an appearance truly grievous, her eyes being black ened in a frightful manner, her cheek severely bruised, and her hands and arms covered with black marks. She deposed as follows : —On Wednesday last I went into the Hope public house, on Loam Pit- hill, Lewisham, and called for a small glass of gin and cold water at the bar. After beinn served with it, I went into the tap-room, and sat down to rest. The prisoner and some other persons were there. After a time I asked if any one could tell me of a lodging. The prisoner said that he lived with his mother, and could get me a lodging at her house. He lived in Hanover street, which was close by. I went to the house with the pri soner, and agreed to pay Is. 6d. per week for a small room. I did not see his mother, nor any female, as I expected. I sat down by the fire at his request. He then made several attempts to put me on his knees. There were some men in the room, who went out at his request, and shut the door. He then said there was no mistress, but he could ac commodate me as well, and I could lock my own room door. On going to the room, I observed that there was no fastening, bolt, nor lock. Afier this discovery, I consi dered that I was in danger. He followed me into the room, threw me down on the bed, and tried to effect his purpose. I resisted him with all my strength, and repeatedly called upon him to desist, and then I scre,,med murder and called for help. During the struggle he took hold of my throat, and iil-used mu with such violence that I thought I should be killed. He struck me incessantly during the struggle. It was a struggle for life. M 3 calls at last alarmed the neighbours, and they came in. At the last struggle he put out the candle, and used towards me great violence, arid declared he would " rip me up" if I did not consent. Some men and a woman then came into the house. George Edwards deposed—l am a labourer in the Queen's Victualling Yard, Deptford. 1 saw the prosecutrix in the prisoner's house with a light in her hand. I saw the poor woman at the window with a candle in her hand, and I saw the prisoner put it out and throw his arms about her waist. She had thrown up the sash to call for aid, I suppose, as she was screaming. I stood at my door, as did other neighbours. The female had been in the house about half an hour. After she got out of the house she sat down at the next door exhausted. Heard her repeatedly call murder. Mr. COTTINGHAM-Why did you not go to her assistance? Witness—l did not like to go into the house ; I was alarmed. Elizabeth Owen—l am a married woman. I saw the pri soner and the nrosecutrix go into the house together. I neither saw nor heard anything'more until the window-sash was closed. It was opened and again slammed down. I then heard the woman cry dreadfully. She often called " Murder, murder," and begged earnestly to be let go. I heard her after this cry, as if in great pain, say " Oh my head, oh my head!" I applied to 'wen arid women, but nobody would enter the house then. A man named Mills went in soon after, and pulled her out of the room. She was in a dreadful state, and covered with blood. Henry Mills, of Hanover-street, Lewisham, labourer—l live in the same street as the prisoner. I ran into the prisoner's hcuse in consequence of the noise. I saw Morris and the woman on the bed together. I ordered her out. 1 fetched her down stairs, and she went out. I did not see any marks of violence on her person, nor anything else to attract my at tention. I never heard her cry " Murder." Elizabeth Owen recalled—l told Mills that the woman was being so brutally treated some one ought to go up, and he re plied that it served her right, as she had no business there. Prosecutrix was calling in God's name for assistance. Mills went up with a candle, and I ran off for the police. Mills threatened to kick me down stairs, and said it was no business of mine. Mr. CoTTING HAM (to the prisoner)—This is a most serious charge, for which I shall most assuredly commit you for trial, and in the meantime I will remand you for a week, so that you may get your own evidence to meet the case. Mr. Cottingham then said he intended to remand the prisoner until Monday next, and in the meantime he would take bail, himself in lOW., and two sureties of OW. each. Two of the witnesses said they feared violence on going home from the prisoner's acquaintances. Mr. COTTINGHAM said, should that be the case, warrants would be immediately granted for the apprehension of the offenders. In default of bail the prisoner was locked up. BRITISH HEROISM SCORNED Ai , :ll NEGLECTED. TO THE EDITOR OF THE sulr. SlR,—The ready , assent of the Minister to Mr. Hume's proposition of a national pecuniary mark of appro , al of the services of Sir Henry Pottinger, and the favour 'A itil which it was received by the House of Comaions, point out this favourable disposition of Hon. Members as the most befitting possible occasion far making reference to the extraordinary, almost incredible neglect of a man, whose heroic conduct challenges comparison with the most meritorious acts to be found in the military annals of any country—presenting an almost unexampled in stance of self-devotion to his country, and her fair fame (which, but for him, had been most foully stained), tin der the most trying conceivable circumstances, and what a gallant soldier ought to be ; therefore, by consequence, affording a glorious model for emulation on future simi lar trials—provided always, that it be justly, generously, and nationally appreciated. I remember some years since to have read an account of this affair in the 6' United Service Journal," subse quently I met the hero at the house of a mutual friend, and now, after the lapse of some twelve or fourteen years, I learn that lie still exists (arid barely so), but that no substantial mark of approbation has been vouch safed for his surpassing merit. I have been at some pains to ascertain the truth of the following condensed statement, which may be relied on as substantially correct, and therefore I hope worthy ofinsertion in your columns, as a case in which the true interests of our country, and the morals of its army, are alike intimately involved : On the Continent never have I detailed the case, and its most saddening issue, that it has not evoked a burst of admiration, of surprise, of sympathy, and, lam com pelled to add, of contemptuous execration of our boasted feudal institutions, mixed with wonder at the success of our arms. " Mon diet; est it possible ? Quel infame ! C'est dans cette faeon done qu'on recompense yes braves! Est-ce pour eels que Messrs. les Anglais se bat tent si bien ? Je tends grace a Dieu que je ne suis pas votre compatriote !" Such were the ordinary ejacula tions. Our Gallic neighbours tell of '• la decoration de la Legion d'Honneur," that would have been conferred " sur l'inatant," as well as promotion, pension, favour, " sous l'Etn;are," and also now under Louis Philippe. At Berlin, this story has confirmed many in their pre ference of the regime of a single despot to aristocratic domination. " This is the roan," say they, " whom our good King would delight to honour." At. Vienna, "our Metternich is just, and never unmindful of merit!" was the Austrian exclamation—" he would have felt proud to direct the Emperor's notice to this man 1" Thus, all men think and feel abroad, and how he seems to be the victim of neglect in free and affluent Britain, excites surprise in generous and lofty minds. The fallowing is the case so strangely overlooked for nearly thirty years: — The transport, Arch-Duke Charles, laden with troops (in all 200 souls, including women, and children, and the crew), sailed from Quebec for Nova Scotia, and at mid nleht of the let of June, 1816, struck on a sunken rock when off that coast, in weather most impetuous, and fog intense. All hope of getting eft soon vanished ; a wreck the ship was sure to be. The swimmers—they who ott had boasted their amphibious powers, were sum moned now, in vain, to lend their aid—the beating of a distant surge giving some hope that land was not far off. One volunteer alone, from all those paralyzed and of frighted fighting men, offered to explore what could not be discerned, and that one was Captain, then Lieut. Stewart. With a line around his body, and breakers for his goal—so oft the seaman's terror, now his hope, he plunged into the mountain flood, with which, long buffetting, he, at length, was dashed upon a rock, to which he clung with that firm grasp the dying only know ; again another wave recalled him to its briny bosom, whom the succeeding one hurled back again. For four successive times he thus was made the sport of the engulphing element ; at length a wave more friendly and gigantic than the rest (and far more pitying than his country since), washed him beyond the fetch of its antagonist fellow waves, stunned, shattered, bruised, exhaused—in part insensible, yet with a vague consciousness of the fearful horrors of that dreadful night, he lay as dead, and like a thing inanimate, under the re-action of his lusty efforts to escape from death. how long entranced in this mute dream of death he could not tell ! but rising as from a sleep refreshed, though sorely bruised, he fixed the rope to a projecting broken rock, and aiming in the dark to coil it round, down was he pre cipitated once more to the foaming flood beneath. Again the same great struggle was to be renewed, for at such juncture no brave man has time to parley with despair, so desperate is the conflict for existence. How he came once more to be on shore found no place in his memory then, nor since ; yet who can doubt that it is chronicled on high, his errand being hallowed by its aim to be the saviour of his country's sons ? To sum up all, by help of that same rape (at break of dawn this gallant soldier signalling that it was fast), the living cargo of that hap less ship :gain trod terra firma, and she soon after sank , before their eyes. Yet, thus to be upon a barren rock, exposed away from land—a rock submerged with every wind, save that which just then blew, gale but a respite from a dreaded death—and at the return of tide nothing else was looked for. A council then was called ; the valiant Colonel's proposition was (there being one small boat), that he and al the officers should first seek land, and then send succour to the men abandoned. To this but one dissenting junior voice was heard, which was young Stewart's; and when despair and shame, contempt and anger, tired the men at a suggestion so unworthy, he quelled the tumult, and enforced obedience. The first boat's freight comprised the chief, his wife, and some few more participant iu his fears. The third and last time came the minim bark for the Adjutant and Lieutenant Stewart ; the former went, not so the latter. "It never shall be said," exclaimed this hero, " that two hundred British soldiers perished de serted, without one officer to share their fate. Go, tell your Colonel that though death be all but certain, yet here will I perish with my fellow soldiers." The friendly wind, by Heaven's decree, continued still to blow for two days longer, when a merchant vessel sailing by was hailed ; the simultaneous shout was heard, and all hands saved. Now, for this exploit of saving British lives, he was entitled to a stated salvage, which surely in a cause so holy, and withal so bravely earned, no length of time can cancel or diminish ; but, in the dauntless message to his chief, and constancy to the forsaken men when death seemed certain, there was a thousand times more merit, for which 110 medal, thanks, reward, promotion, pension, could be given without court-martial on the recreant chief. A reward, indeed an ample one, has been be stowed, but it was by proxy ; for, strange to say, by an inversion scarcely credible, the Colonel was promoted— was named a Governor and substitute of our most vir tuous Queen. Such are the prominent features of this case. There is not a man amongst us who is not herein affected and afflicted ; but most of all concerned is that most gallant band, the British Bayards—" ces preux chevaliers, sans penr et sans reproche"—on whose profession a foul stigma rests, and must remain until their brother soldier, not grudgingly, but as becomes a nation, is requited. I have full confidence there are noble-minded wen in Parliament will s, e to this, and will demand a strict in quiry of this case ; and if the issue prove what is here advanced (as surely it will be, if evidence be not sup pressed), then let the hero's name along with Pottinger's be honoured, and meet like favour for his worthy deeds. G. D. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Prince de Leiningen have arrived at Vienna. RELIc OF NELSON.—An interesting relic of Nels )n has been discovored ; and some interest also attaches to the man ner in which it has been secured to the nation. Sir Harris Nicolas in his laborious researches for editing the hero's dispatches, had satisfied himself that the coat and waistcoat which Nelson wore when he fell at Trafalgar were carefully preserved. In pursuance of the Admiral's directions, they were given, with several other things, by Sir Thomas Hardy, his Captain, to Lady Hamilton; by her they were transferred, sander peculiar circumstances, to a late alderman of London, arid they remained in possession of the alder man's widow. The'lady is not rich, and she asked 1501. for the relic. The sum being beyond his own means, Sir Harris deter mined to raise it by subscription, in order that the coat and waist coat might be deposited, like tha coat which Nelson wore at the battle of the Nile, in Greenwich Hospital. With that view, he put the proposition in writing, and had it printed as a circular. Before issuing the circular, he sent a copy to Prince Albert, who immediately desired that the purchase might be made for himself, as he should feel " pride and pleasure" in presenting the precious memorials to Greenwich Hospital. Sir Harris Nicolas took them to the royal putchaser on Wednesday, and we under. stand that the Prince manifested a very fine feeling on the occa sion. There is kind and generous wisdom in this act ; for no thing could so help to identify the Queen's husband with the Bri tish people as such little tributes to their maritime pride. The coat is thus described in Sir Harris Nicolas's circular; and it will be seen that it has an historical value ;—" The coat is the undress uniform of a vice -admiral, lined with white silk, with lace en the cuffs, and epaulettes. Four stars—of the Orders of the Bath, St. Ferdinand and Merit, the Crescent, and St. Joachim—are a sewn' on the left breast, as Nelson habitually wore them; which dis proves the story, that he purposely adorned himself with his deco rations oh going into battle. The course of the fatal ball is shown by a hole over the left shoulder, and part of the epaulette is torn away; which agrees with Dr. Sir William Beattie's account of Lord Nelson's death, and with the fact, that pieces of the bullion and pad of the epaulette adhered to the ball, which is now in her Majesty's possession. The coat and waistcoat are stained in several places with the hero's blood."—Spectator. SUPPOSED SUICIDE IN THE bEttPENTINE. — Last evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Malpas Arms, Charles. street, Grosvenor.square, on the body of a female unknown. Richard Henry Webb, a grocer, said that between ten and eleven o'clock he heard cries as of a woman in distress, apparently pro ceeding from the Serpentine on the north side. Witness immcdt. ately ran to the spot whence the sound came, and he then saw the d.sceascd in the river. The Royal Humane Society's boats were brought to the spot, and the deceased was taken out of the water, and conveyed to the Receiving-house in Hyde-park, and placed in a warm bath. Mr. Williams, Superintendent of the Royal Hu mane Society, said that the deceased was very poorly clad, and that a halfpenny was all tl,e money she had upon her person. A pawnbroker's duplicate fell from her pocket into the boat whilst the men were getting deceased ashore. Although inquiry had been made, the deceased was still unknown. Verdict—Found drowned. PRICE or GoLn.—The premium on gold at Paris is 17i per mill', which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10,(1. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 59 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 65, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburg'', the price of gold is 435 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 12, it follows that gold is 0.91 per cent. dearer iu London tan in Hamburgh. THE STOAT AND THE [1 AltE.—A farmer from the neighbourhood of Ampthill, while on his way to attend Bed. ford market, on Saturday last, heard screams as if from an animal in distress, in a fie!cl adjoining the road. Having alighted from his cart, he proceeded to the spot from whence the sounds issued, and found a hare attacked by a stoat, In the agonies of death. Sa intent was the ferociotts little creature on the destruc tion of its victim, that the approach of the stranger was unheeded, who, with the butt end of his whip, and before the death.,truggle of the hapless hare had ceased, laid the stoat dead at his feet. The hare was of the male kind and very large, weighing about 101bs., whilst that of its little blood-thirsty antagonist scarcely exceeded 1t Ja pOund,Stilbtid Aftreark, TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. W. Ferguion, tea dealer, Liverpool—first div. of 2s. in the pound, July 14, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. G. Brocklehurst, H. Dircks, and J. B. Nelson, millwrights, Liverpool—third div. of 3s. 2id. in the pound, July 14, :rod any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. H. Dircks, millwright, Liverpool—second div. of 15s. 7d. in the pound, July 14, and any following Monday, at the office of Mr. Turner, Liverpool. M. H. L. G. Colnaghi, print seller, Cockspur-street—third div. of 10d. in the pound, July 12, and three following Satur days, at the offiee of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. A. A. Dobbs, wine merchant, Liverpool—a div. of 20s. in the pound, July 9, and any following Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Follett, Liverpool. DIVIDEND S. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. F. Wright, builder, Earl's Colne, Essex, Aug. 1, at one— J. Lambert, licensed victualler, Portsmouth-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Aug. 1, at one—T. Wood, wine merchant, Little Queen-street, Holborn, July 29, at eleven—J. Miller and G. Craddock, patent sail cloth manufacturers, Stockton-on-Tees, Aug. 6, at half-past twelve. In the Country. S. Askham, commission agent, Bradford, July 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. Mears, grocer, Leeds, July 30, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Coupland and W. R. Bolton, merchants, Liverpool, July 30, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court--C. Parker; flax spinner, Houghton le-Skerne, Durham, July , 30, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court—Z. Bond, brickrnaker, Manchester, Aug. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—A. Ur quhart, stuff dealer, Manchester, Aug. 8, at twelve, at the Manchester District Cuurt—J. Bakewell, size manufacturer, Manchester, Aug. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—H. Priddey, upholsterer, Droitwich, Worcestershire, Aug. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—W. Barker and S. Adams, hosiers, Nottingham, July 29, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court—M. Thomas and contractors, Plymouth, Aug. 1, at one. CERTIFICATES to be . granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. T. Seeger, leather cutter, Hammersmith, July 29—T. For syth. hotel keeper, Durham, July 29—M. Graham, ship owner, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire , 30 —W. Lowe, ivory turner, Bristol, Aug. I—G. Samson, corn dealer, Weymouth, July 31 —M. Cox, ironmonger, Weymouth, July 31—L. Barnes, pro vision dealer, Bury, Lancashire, July 30—R. Mirfin, draper, Leeds, July 30—C. Jacobs, fruit salesman, Parringdon-market, July 29—H. J. Doogood, wine merchant, Camden-terrace West, Camden-town, July 29—A. 11. Simpson and P. H. Irvin, engineers, Blackfriars-road, July 29—F. Cock, painter, Lambeth- walk, July 29—T. Gibbons, jun., merchant, Wells next-the-Sea, July 29 —J. Lamb and T. Lamb, engineers, Kidderminster, July 29—J. Balmer, timber merchant, Hartle. pool, Durham—J. Batt and T. Batt:dealers in silk, Old Broad street, City, July 29—M. C. Painter, grocer, Great Peter street, Westminster, July 29. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. G. Douthwaite and J. W. Bowen, wholesale jewellers, Castle-street, Holborn—H. Nash and L. Howkins, chemists, Norwich—J. Thomas, jun., and M. A. Thomas, grocers, Northwich, Cheshire—T. Graham, H. Fisher, and T. Dar wen, cotton manufacturer., Chorley, Lancashire (so far as re gards T. Damen )—J. Sharp, C. Sharp, T. Sharp, W. Sharp, and J. Sharp, jun., muslin manufacturers, Paisley (sa far as regards T. Sharp, J. Sharp, and C. Sharp)—J. Moore and J. Gudgin, farmers, Stratford—W. Halstead, H. Halstead, and B. Halstead, woollen cloth manufacturers, Engine-bridge-mill, Yorkshire (so far as regards W. Halstead)—T. H. 'Wilkins and B. M. Quin, milliners, Soho-square—W. Baily and J. Daily, jun., farmers, North lodge, Nottinghamshire—J. Bowler, sen., and J. Bowler, hat manufacturers, Bridge-street, South wark—T. Cross and J. Aspinall, nankeen manufacturers, Manchester—E. Roberts and R. Grainger, plasterers, Man chester—J. Walmsley and J. Turnbull, painters, Manchester —F. A. Tiddeman and R. Guthrie, iron merchants, Purfleet wharf, Earl-street, Blackfriars—M. F. and W. C. T. Wag staffe, surgeons, Long-lane, Southwark—E. Grafton and M. A. Twining, confectioners, Gloucester—G. D. Paterson, G. Leach, A. E. Somerset, and T.Woollcombe, Truro Wood Works (so far as regards G. D. Paterson).—J. C. Westbrook and H. Isaac, boeksellers, Northampton—W. Holt, E. Holt, and J. Holt, wool merchants, Leeds (so far es regards W. Holt)—R. Johnson, W. Bulmer, and J. Johnson, warehousemen, Wat ling-street (so far as regards W. Bulmer)— W. and G. P. Swinden, law stationers, Liverpool—T. Monk and F. Booth, surgeons, Preston—W. D. and E. Gadenne, machine rulers, Maidenhead-court, Moor-lane—J. Arbouin, jun., T. Butcher, and A. W. Blease, wine brokers, Mark-lane—E. C. Batt and G. Conquest, corn merchants, Newport, Isle of Wight. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Anderson, manufacturer, Dunfermline, July 16 and Aug. 6, at twelve; at Hutton's Inn, Dunfermline. John and James Loch, merchants, Whitburn July 12 and ' Aug. 2, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Miller, Linlithgow. George Stuart, draper, Earlston, July 15 and Aug. 8, at one, at Shiell's Inn, Earlston. lames Stevenson, commission agent, Edinburgh, July 16 and Aug. 6, at the chambers of Mr. Alexander, Edinburgh. Neil Carmichael, spirit dealer, Glasgow, July 12 and Aug. 2, at twelve, at the chambers of Messrs. M'Ewan and Aitken, Glasgow. DEATH OF SIR WM. S. WISEMAN, BART.—Sir Wm. S. Wiseman, Bart., died on Tuesday last at Hillindon.end, Kent. The deceased was born in 1784. He married, first, in 1812, Miss Macintosh, second daughter of Sir James Macintosh, Knight; and, secondly, in 1827, Miss Davis, daughter of the Rev. George Davis. On the death of his grandfather, in 1810, he suc ceeded to the baronetcy. He entered the navy at an early age, and his commissions were dated as follows :—Lieutenant, April 30, 1807 ; commander, Sept. 24, 1811 ; and captain, Nov. 22, 1820. His eldest son by his first marriage, Mr. Edmund Wiseman, born in 1812, succeeds to the baronetcy and family estate. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, after taking a farewell of the King and Queen of the Belgians on Monday morning next, will proceed by railway to Gosport, and there embark on board the royal yacht for Cowes. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort contemplate sojourning at Osborne.house until the close of that week. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal will accompany their illustrious parents. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. TUESDAY, JULY 8. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were agreed to:— Leeds and Thirsk Railway. Great North of England and Richmond Railway-. Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal. Blackburn and Preston Railway. The London and Croydon Railway Enlargement Bill, — Report to be taken into consideration on Friday. Manchester and Leeds Railway (No. 2) Bill,—Read a second time and committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. Ulster Extension Railway,—Lords' amendments to be considered, Thursday, July 10. Select Committee on Group NN. (Epping Railway)—Ad journed till Thursday, July 10, at twelve. Launceston and South Devon Railway,—Report, Thurs day, July 10. South Devon Railway (Tavistock and other Branches), — Report, Thursday, July 10. Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway,—Third reading, Thursday, July 10. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 8. THE DRAINAGE BY TENANTS FOR LIFE BILL. In answer to a question from Lord STANLEY, respecting the third and fourth clauses of the Bill, as to money lent for drainage purposes being repaid by instalments, The Duke of RICHMOND replied he had every reason to believe that there were people who would be ready to do this, and if his Noble Friend (Lord Stanley) would propose, either in committee, or on the third reading, any amendment to enable them to do so. he (the Duke of Richmond) would be happy to accede to it. Afttr a few words from Lord ASHBURTON, Lord BEAUMONT said individual landowners would not be inclined to lend money which was to be paid by instalments, but, generally speaking, there would be no objection to doings o, as the money being expended on permanent improvements on land would he a safe investment of capital, in which security would be afforded both to the borrower and lender. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE considered that the mea sure would effect much good, as land which was allowed to re• main in an unproductive state would be cultivated. It would be very beneficial to Ireland. The Bill then passed through Committee, and the report vas brought up and received, GAMING AND WAGERS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND). Lord CLANCARTY presented the petitions of which he had given notice with respect to medical charities in Ireland, which stated that they were in an inefficient state, and did not afford that relief to indigent persons to which they were en titled, and prayed that an inquiry might be instituted into them. He would not, however, at that late period of the session, make any specific motion on the subject, but would re commend the matter to the attention of the Government. Lord STANLEY was not prepared for the course pursued by the Noble Earl, in going to such an extent into the question of the poor-laws in Ireland. The Government, early next session, would institute an inquiry into the state of medical charities in Ireland, and if the Noble Lord was prepared to introduce any measure embodying the sentiments he enter tained on the subject, he was sure that his high standing and character would recommend it successfully to the attention, not only of their Lordships, but of the other House, and of the members of her Majesty's Government. The Noble Earl (Clancarty) had virtually admitted the effi. ciency of the poor-law by stating that in the workhouses in Ireland aged women, the blind, infirm, sick, and helpless of all classes, were received with readiness, arid provided with assist ance and a comfortable asylum. To remede this state a strin gent Vagrant Act was proposed—a Vagrant Act which would be useless unless accompanied by the admission of the able bodied into the poorhouses. Such, however, could not be adopted without an enormous sacrifice of money, and the Go vernment were neither prepared to recommend such a course, nor any amended system of medical relief, as advised by the Noble Earl. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY was perfectly satisfied with the statement made by his Noble Friend the Colonial Secretary : although at first opposed strongly to the system, now that it had been introduced, he hoped it would have a fair trial, especially as its efficient working was beginning to be felt and admitted through the country. The greatest improve ments had taken place in the position of the people, and all Ireland wanted was to be let alone.—( A laugh.) If the Go vernment would but cease making and amending laws for the neat three years, it would be the very best act they ever did. The Earl of CLANCARTY testified to the accuracy of his Nobe Friend (the Marquis of Londonderry) with respect to the great benefit which the poor-law had conferred on Ire land. The Marquis of CLANRIC d RDE denied that the work howes in Leland %vie merely houses of refuge for the aged, sick, and infirm ; if so he should have supported it; but chi,• dren to a vry age extent were at present domiciled there, and the operation of the measure thus materially retarded. On Monday next he should move for a return of the number of children thus annually supported. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. Several messages from the Commons were then brought up, announcing their concurrence in the amendments proposed by the Upper Howe in various railway Rills. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Do cumentary Eviience I3ill was read a second time, and the House then adjourned. fIoUSE OF COMMONS, July 8. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. On the order of the day being read for bringing up the report of the South Wales Railway Bill, Mr. VIVIAN moved that the report be taken into considera tion on Friday, I Ith July. Captain BgRKELEY said that the usual time for consi dering the report w ,old be Tuesday next, and he saw no reason why they should deviate from the usual course. Mr. GREENE considered that, the usual rule of the House ought to be observed. If they violated it in the present in stance it would be drawn into a precedent. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said the question was, whether or not the House would throw an impediment in the way of a great national undertaking. The.Clairman of the S IT W i ' "! f; ::itt';',-,- 1 , ,V1,. .f.;• - _ t: l • ,-- ,1'41:;-„?-.:. '2 Committee had reported in favour of an early considers ioql; . , .` f: -. V. , ' , 4-4:: ,: i ;-,,,,.., Was an important national undertaking, and the questi • 'at c.-, -_-!. -, ''--..,_'-/...: would the House consent to these impediments in the ai , 11± ... D. :: ,IS the Bill upon a matter of form, and after the report of the' - ' ' - Chairman in its favour? " '•E iN' tiSAVAINI Mr. ESTCOURT thought that the orders of the House ' ought to be strictly observed. Mr. LABOUCHERE would be sorry to throw any obstruc tion in the way of the passing of the Bill. At the same time it was of the utmost importance that the regulations of the House should be observed. This Bill TM supported by a powerful company, possessing great Parliamentary influence, and he considered it most objection able that parties connected with railways, who possessed in fluence in that House, should use that influence for the pur pose of inducing the House to depart from the standing orders. Mr. VIVIAN was anxious to have a communication be tween South Wales and Ireland. He was no railway share holder, but hoped the House would order the report to be considered on Friday next, thereby giving three clear days. An Hon. MEMBER whose name we could not learn , had no desire for any peculiar indulgence to the south Wales Rail way, but thought the Chairman of the Standing Orders Com mittee might, with great propriety, extend the license now pro posed to be given to the South Wales Railway to all other railways similarly placed. Mr. SHEIL had no personal communication with the South Wales Railway, nor any share in any , particular railway; but he was connected with the south of Ireland, and felt an inte- . rest in the welfare of Ireland generally, which he thought would be promoted by this Bill. When the Holyhead Railway was brought under the consideration of the House, the Minister said the interest of Ireland must be a paramount obligation. Why should they not be so considered in this instance ? Lord HOWICK thought that railways in general had strong claims upon the consideration of the House, because the mere fact of applying to the Board of Trade threw each scheme back a full month.— (Hear, hear.) Unless the House took means to extricate them, they would not be passed in tt , ,at ses sion, and that seemed to to constitute a special case why they should show indulgence in cases like these. He did not: believe that any injury would be inflicted on any party by taking this report on the day desired. He did not think that this in dulgence could be with justice extended only to this Bill, for any other coming before them under similar circumstances ought to be similarly dealt with. Mr. DUNCOMBE said he thought the House ought to agree with the motion of his Hon. Friend; and he also thought his Hon. Friend ought not to lose the advantage he had bad, merely on some point of mere punctillio. These railway Bills had now become of such importance that surely a particular day in a week ought not to be raised 2s an objection. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as Tuesday had been the day fixed, it woul.d not be convenient now to alter it. Sir G. CLERK said, that as the regulations of the House required three days' notice before the bringing up of such Bills, if the Hon. Member's motion should be carried, notice should be given to-morrow in order to bring it before the House on Friday. Mr. GREENE said that an alteration should be made in the standing orders to effect the change he proposed. The motion was then agreed to ' • as was also a similar motion in the case of the Monmouth and Hereford Railway. Bill. - DUDDESTON AND NECHELLS IMPROVEMENT BILL. Mr. SPOONER moved the consideration of the report on the Duddeston and Nechells Improvement Bill. Mr. MUNTZ opposed the motion. Nine-tenths of his con stituents were adverse to the Bill; it was brought forward to answer the ends of a certain little clique of very ultra-Radicals. It had better be suspended till next session, when the whole subject of drainage would have been gone into. He moved that the report be received that day three months. After a short conversation, the House divided, when there appeared For the report Against it . Majority —s The report was accordingly brought up and received. DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH RAILWAY. On the bringing up of the report of the Direct London and Portsmouth Railway Bill, Mr. J. A. SMITH said he had intended to move an amendment to the Bill, but as he felt satisfied the House would support the decision of the Committee, he would not pre's it to a division. Lord A. LENNOX said that he felt bound to oppose this Bill. By the atmospheric line, the distance from London would be eighty miles, while by the South-Western line it would only be sixty-one miles. By the former line the country passed through was of the poorest and most desolate character. He felt it necessary to say thus much in behalf of the city which he represented. Mr. MANGLES thought that the report ought not to be brought up. Mr. F. BARING considered the decision the best possible adjudication for Portsmouth. Mr. J. A. SMITH opposed the report. Captain BERKELEY said that this railway was quite in convenient for the country through which it passed. His pro ' perty happened to be near Chichester, and this line would put him thirteen miles further from London than he was at pre sent.—( A laugh.) Sir C. NAPIER thought that it was of the utmost import ance tha ithere should be as speedy a communication with the great arsenal of the kingdom as possible. Mr. E. B. DENISON said that ho regretted that the decision of the Committee had not given satisfaction, for the Committee bad taken immense pains to arrive at a right con clusion, and they had reason to believe that this project had been satisfactory to the majority of those concerned. The report was then adopted. RAILWAY BILLS. The Brighton and Chichester Railway Bill was then read a second time. The Lords' amendments to the Thirsk Railway Bill were agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the North of England Railway Branch Bill were agreed to. The Lady's Island and Tacumshin Embankment Bill was then considered, and the amendments thereupon agreed to. UNION WORKHOUSES—LUNATIC ASYLUMS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition signed by 2.700 persons from the counties of Derby and Nottingham, complain ing of the union workhouse of Mansfield and its management with respect to those persons who sought relief for one night. The petitioners prayed far the removal of the master. He had also to present a petition from Captain Diaby, complaining of illegal confinement in Huntingdon Lunatic Asylum. He added, that his solicitor applied for a copy of the certificate of confine ment, and the Commissioners refused to grant it. This refusal he considered most unjustifiable and illegal. The petitioner prayed for inquiry. LANDLORDS AND TENANTS BILL. Mr. BELLEW presented a petition from the landlords and agricultural labourers of the county Louth, in Ireland, in favour of the Landlords and Tenants Bill. LAND TENURE IN IRELAND. Mr. COLLETT presented a petition from certain poor-la guardians in the county of Athlone, praying that an alteration might be made in the land tenure in Ireland. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.' Mr. WARBURTON moved that the petition of the Hon. Member for Cheltenham have precedence over the other orders of the day. Mr. BAINES would, as the Hon. Member for Cheltenham had himself petitioned that the officers of the House should be allowed to give evidence in the action brought against hiin, briefly recapitulate the facts of the case, in order to put the House in possession of the circumstances connected with it, and here he would say that he did not purpose to cast the slightest imputation on the Hon. Member for Cheltenham. If he were not in order in addressing a few remarks to the House, he should be happy to be corrected.—(" Hear, hear," and " Go on.") In August, 1840, the Messrs. Scott, ship-builders, of Greenock, contracted with the East India Steam Company to build a vessel for 55,0001. They did so, and the total cost, owing to certain alterations, was considerably increased. The prospectus of the Company exhibited the Hon. Member's name as one of the directors and his name was also in the Act which passed through Parliament, granting them a charter of incorporation. Messrs. Scott were induced to consider the Hon. Member as one to whom they ought to look for redress for their loss of 50,0601., and therefore they brought this action. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that as the prayer of the Hon. Member for Cheltenham was that the officers of the House should be ex: mined, he thought they should allow their attendance. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY said he was most anxious to have the fullest inquiry into this matter, because it might be thought that he interested himself personally, if the officers or their documents should be withheld. He distinctly denied all connexion with the Company which formed the ground of this action. Sir R. H. INGLIS said, that by the Act of Parliament no member's name could be inserted in any incorporated company without his sanction in writing, and that very fact be thought was sufficiently decisive of this case. The petition was received and agreed to. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. In answer to a question from Lord G. SOMERSET, Mr. MACKINNON said he should postpone his Bill till to morrow week, the 16th instant. RIGHT OF SEARCH. Mr. SHEIL wished to put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government. He desired to know the number of frigates employed by the American Government that had exercised the right of search since the Treaty of Washington. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that the number had been very considerable since that treaty, but no injurious consequences had supervened, for the most amicable relations had existed between the frigates of both countries. He could give two cases in illustration occurring as late as April, 1845, where the right had been exercised in the most proper manner. The Right Hon. Baronet read a letter from the coast of Africa, dated the 2211 of April, 1845, in proof of the assertion, and their efforts had been successful, for two slavers had been taken by their joint endeavours. Lord PALMERSTON said that, rising to make the motion of which he had given notice, he trusted that he should be ex cused for trespassing for some little time on the attention of the House. When they considered the atrocious nature of the crime which it was the object of this motion to prevent, he trusted that the House would fully un derstand that it was no common occasion that induced him to come forward. It was a crime which tended not only to the demoralisation of the employed, but also of thosewho were the owners of slave property. In America, . n b ot h North and South, the evil pervaded every distr ict, and .E urope it was su ffi ciently diffused to poison all those healthy of thy the im impulses which ought to actuate men. By t h e stat ement Member for Gateshead (Mr. Hutt), it appeared that the num ber of negroes transferred from the coast of Africa to the sugar producing districts was 200,000 a year. Now, considering this number, and the immense numbers also who were destroyed by the horrors, of the middle passage, he thought it the duty of a Christian coi great ntryto changesput anendhtoadthtiaskheonrripbllaecetrasffiince.e thisHe question wasaw are that had been first discussed. The honourable and worthy individuals who bad first united to put an end to this nefarious traffic had lost, as it seemed from their reports, a'l hope to remedy the evil, but he conceived that their fear was altogether groundless, and that it was a duty incumbent on the country to efface that disgrace to human nature by all practicable means. If t'ecy looked at the measures which had been adopted since 1814 for the suppression of the slave trade, and the re sults which had followed, he thought that the parties of wham he had spoken had no reason to despair. It should be recol lected that the deportation of negroes from Africa was an established practice, sanctioned by law, and if they were to attempt to abolish it it must be by a series of efforts. If they were to attempt to uproot a tree in the folk vigour of its strength, it would be a project in which, pro bably, every effort would fail ; but only lay the axe to the root of that tree, and the whole fabric of nature would be immedi ately laid low. So it was with the slave trade. Their efforts had been directed to the reduction of this tremendous evil. If the return which he had moved for had been granted, it would be seen that the difficulties of which so much dread had been expressed would be overcome. It was impossible to aggravate the horrors of that passage, for, so great e ere they, that though they might be mitigated, he believed that they could not be in creased. The return which the Right Hon. Baronet had for. warded to him was so imperfect, and made up in such a bungling manner, that he had felt it a duty to return it to him; with observations on its defects. The number of slaves imported into the Brazils from the coast of Africa was enormous. It appeared that tf.ere were at least 54 vessels employed in the trade, and allowing only 300 to each, not less than from 50,000 to 60,0e0 slaves were Imported into the Brazils every year. The uncultivated lands in Cuba, Brazil, and Surinam offered GROUP KK. SOUTHPORT AND EUXTON JUNCTION RAILWAY. The Committee met at twelve o'clock. There were present Sir Charles Lemon, Chairman ; the Hon. Charles Hop; Sir E. Filmer, and Mr. Horsman. The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come to the decision that the preamble of the above Bill had not been proved. The Committee then broke up. GROUP X. LONDON AND YORK LINE. This Committee resumed this morning at the usual hour, Viscount Courtenay in the chair. Mr. Pickeregill, under examination by Mr. WEBSTER, deposed to his being a surveyor and architect, and having lateq made a sur vey of the stations as laid out by the London and YOI k and North Midland Railway. 'I he former would be most inconvenient, cross ing as it would five lines, and obstructing the traffic in the neigh bourhood. The witness here produced a model of the projected position and construction of the stations as scheduled. Mr. John Oliver, examined by Mr. WEBSTER—Is a farmer and auctioneer, having resided at Stainforth more than thirty years, and is, therefore, fully acquainted with the nature of the Don navigation. In 1833 the a. ch of the old stone bridge was removed, in order to enable light vessels safely and easily to pass under. In this altered and improved state it remained till October, 1844, when the archway was again removed, and a platform made to swing, affixed to the top of the bridge. Since this latter change, a vessel with standing masts, went through ; previously such a circumstance was unheard of and impracticable. In the capacity of parish officer 01 Brandwith, he had occasion, last year, to complain to the Commissioners of the Don navigation of the diversion of the roads. Mr. J. Lee, a wet/ man, resident at Thorne, examined by Mr. WEasraa—Proved the existence of three fixed bridges over the old river Don between Goole and Thorne, and six over the new navi gation, some of tte latter having been altered during the last year. The depth of the river is about 5} feet, and craft of between 60 and 65 tons are the largest that can be got up, and these have had to leave their masts behind ever since the opening of the bridges. Mr. COCKBURN here stated that the evidence on his case had closed with the last witness, excepting only some formal evidence, which was not as yet complete. He, therefore, wished at this sea sonable juncture to mention a circumstance which had of late come to the knowledge of his clients. He was in formed, and he believed he could prove to the satisfaction of the Committee, that a fatal error had been made in the plans and sections as deposited by the London and York Company ; an error precisely similar to that which had been discovered and held fatal in the case of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and which, there fore, must place the former in the same predicament. In the ten miles from King's-cross an error of no less than ten feet hail been committed. The surface level was ten feet too low, taking the working sections as a criterion, and thereby both the navigation and the roads would be materially interfered with. The law allowed only five feet difference in the limits of deviation, and on a turn pike road only two feet. In one place, however, an error of no less than twenty-seven feet had been made in the line as now before the Committee, and he contended that the Bth Victoria c. 20 had been violated. There was no difference between them and the case of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and he called upon the Committee to inflict on those who had first suggested the import ance of the error the same penalty as had been paid by the Com pany which the Committee had postponed for the present session. Mr. Sergeant WitANGIUM, without entering into the merits of the case at al, would merely submit that his Learned Friend has. ing neglected to cross-examine any of the engineers who had been in the witness-box on that point, were now precluded from enter ing into any es idente on the subject. Mr. COCKBURN insisted upon his right to adduce any argument for the case, and asserted that his Learned Friend could not bring any precedent for the c:.urse which he desired the Committee t.) take. The Committee then retired for consideration, and on their return, Lord COURTENAY stated that as the Committee understood Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, they were not in a position to give their deci. sion till to.morrow morning. The points were so impel tent, and invoived so many interests, that tilt) , were anxious to consider them carefully, but to-morrow he thought they might safely decide as to the course which might he taken. Mr. AUSTIN intimater that he had evidence to tender on the part of the York and North Midland Company similar to that pro posed by Mr. Cockburn, and therefore this decision would affect all the three parties who were opponents of the London and York Bill. It was agreed that Mr. Cockburn's evidence should be taken to- morrow. Mr. WEBSTER stated that he was prepared to prove that an error of 18 feet had been made in the datum line of the Sheffield branch, and proceeded to call evidence of the traffic on the line proposed by the Direct Northern Company between Lincoln and York. Mr. Mansell, an assistant of Mr. Bush, traffic taker for the line, put in a number of tables to show the amount of traffic on the line. MPERIAL PAR LIAME:NT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after twelve o'clock. Leave was given for the different Committees to sit notwith standing the sating of the Hou-e. LUNATICS ASYLUMS AND PAUPER LUNATICS BILL. Lord ASHLEY moved that the House should resolve itself Into a Committee on this Bill. Alt. LIDDELL regretted the absence of any of the :Wein. hers of her Alajetty's Gi,vernment. as he was anxious to draw their attention to thr tact that persons who had titivate lunatic asylums would be greatly injured by the operatii n of the Bill. lie wished to know whether any c au.e would be introduced into the Bill to give them compensation. lie was favourable to the principle of the hill, thinking it the duty of every county to give support and an asylum to its pauper lunatics. . _ _ Mr. WILLIAMS agreed with the principle of the Bill, but he regretted that it had been introduced at so late a period of the session. A Bill of such importance ought to have had more time for consideration. He thought that the case of parties who would be injured by the measure ought to be taken into consideration, where that consideration would not inter fere with the prineip eof the Bill. He objected to the juris diction of the justices of the peace, thinking that the Commis sioners were the proper parties to adjudicate upon any question that might be raised. Mr. P. HOWARD said that the Bill had caused great apprehensions in that part of the country from which he came, and it was thought hard that small counties should be compelled to - erect lunatic asylums, when there were num bers of other asylums to which they might be removed. He believed that lunatics would be much sooner cured by removing them to a distance, than by placing them in asylums where old scenes and recollections would be fresh before them. If some ma terial alterations were not made in the Bill, he should on the third reading, move the rejection of the measure. He thought it quite unnecessary to knee such a measure forward at the pre sent late period of the session. Lord ASHLEY thought it would be better to go into Com mittee on the Bill, and to discuss the different points that had been adverted to when the clauses with respect to them came before the Committee. The Hou.,e then resolved itself into Committee on the Bill. On clause 46 being proposed, Mr. LIDDELL objected to the imprisonment of idiots and imbeciles in these lunatic asylums. Lord ASsiLEY observed that ten per cent. of the lunatics of I.ngland were idiots and imbeciles, but as all lunatics were to he taken before a magistrate, he would be governed by the opinion of a medical man, which, if it were to the effect that any of them were only idiots or simpletons, and harmless, the) would, of course, be discharged. Mr. WAKLEY considered that great care ought to be taken that the opinion of the medical man who first saw the lunatic should nut be the opinion on which the magistrate should act. If this precaution was not taken, the lunatic would not have that protection to which he was entitled. Lord ASHLE Y considered if that course was adopted, it would greatly retard the operation of the Bill. 'the subject, however, be could assure Hon. Members should be fully con sidered. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 47 being proposed, Mr. WARBURTON doubted whether sufficient protection was given to the public under this clause. The little savings of the pauper lunatic have been sold by an order of a magis trate, whicla has left him and his family destitute. The same, also, applied to small tradesmen and persons with trifling in come, who had the misfortune to become lunatics ; their per sonal property did not meet with sufficient protection under the proposed law. Lord ASHLEY instanced a case of a poor hard-working woman, with 95. per week, with a large family, who had the misfortune to be afflicted with insanity, and who was supported by the parish for some time, and eventually the entire family, owing to the mother's inability to supply them with necessaries, became chargeable to the parish. if this woman in the first instance had been smut to the County Lunatic Asylum, she would probably have been cured at an expense of 4/. or al., and the parish would have been relieved from the burl n which had been entailed on it. his clause would provide against any such occurrence as that which he had described. Mr. PA KIN GTON observed that the clause woted make the pauper lunatic chargeable to the county and not to the parish. After a few words from Mr. Baring, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr. Heel. y, Mr. Wortley, and Mr. Biiuverie, Mr. WAKLEY said that he knew of many most atrocious ea-es in which lunatics had been confined in order that their property might be appropria7ed by their relations. He thought that the clause, as it at present stood, would tend to encourage constabies in doing wrung, by affording them facilities for suing the property. selling the property of pauper lunatics. The clause was then withdrawn for the purpose of being in troduced in an amended form on the bringing up of the report. Clause 48 was agreed to, as were also clauses 49, 50, and 51. On clause 52 being read, GROUP A. Mr. LASCELLES moved that the reports from the Com mittee on the Railway Bilk and projects included in group A, with reference to the South-Eastern Railway ( Widening and Extension of the Greenwich Railway) Rill, and on the South- Eastern Railway (Tunbridge to Tunbridge Welk) Bill, be taken into consideration on Fl iday neat.—Agreed to. BETHNAL-GREEN RECTORY BILL. The St. Matthew's, Bethnal-green, Rectory Bill, was read a :hird time and pas-ed. GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY. The report of the Committee on this Bill was brought up and received. TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. The amendments of the Lords to this Bill were severally read and agreed to. TAW VALLEY RAILWAY AND DOCK. _ The amendments of the Lurds to this bill were likewise brought up Lind agreed to. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this 13d1 were brought up, read, and agreed to. Air. BELLEW presented a petitio from the county Louth in reference to the Irish Colleges Rill. SALM() FI;4IEBIES BILL. Mr. PAKINGTON said that the Committee on the Salmon Fi heries Bill had been unable to bring their labours to a con clusion this session, and therefore begged that the second read ing of the Bill should be postponed to next session. UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion that the Universities (Scotland) Bill be read a second time, Mr. MACAULEY said that on the occasion of the first in troduction of the measure her Majesty's Ministers hail con sulted together and had consented that the promoters of the Bill should have means to bring in the Bill. It was expected that the opposition was over. It was ex pected that this important and salutary measure would have been allowed to pass. It had, however, been intimated that it was the intention of her Majesty's Governmeat to resist the further progress of the Bill. Were the present an ordinary case he should not have been so much surprised at that unex pected intimation ; at the same time, however, his confidence in the strength of his case was so great that he could not think that the oppositio ► of the Government would avail in defeating the proposed measure. He had been sent to that House by the inhabitants of a great city, which was in former times the greatest city of a noble and independent country, and it still continued to be the intel lectual metropolis of a free and intellectual people. The University had been so constituted that its renown during several centuries had progressed gradually to the furthest ends of the world as a great school of moral and intellectual science. That noble institution was now threatened with ignominious ruin by the narrow-minded and short sighted policy of the Government, which was resolved on its destruction without even the miserable excuse of fana ticism. He pleaded for all the great academical institutions of Scotland, and, while pleading for those institutions, he felt. satisfied he should be heard with patience by every man who loved learning, and who valued religious liberty. He said, firstly, that this Bill was founded upon sound prin ciples ; and he said, secondly, that even if the principle of this Bill was not one which could I.e defendt d as generally sound, still there were special circumstances in the case of Scotland which would make it their duty to pass the Bill. In the first place then he said the principle was sound, and whoever might controvert this proposition, of this he was sure, that it was not for her Alajesty to do so, for it was only the other day that they had come down to that House, and proposed a system of secular education altogether divested of religion or religious instruction, and tests of every description. Yes, they brought in and defended that measure against zealous members of the Church of England, and they defended it, too, against the prelates of the Church of Rome, and it was only the day before yesterday that they refused to accept one of the most moderate tests he had ever seen. Was it seriously meant—was it desirable that they sl:ould sink below the aborigines of New South Wales? if educa tion was an evil, he was sure no man in his senses would give it his support. He supported the Irish College Bill, the principle of which and that of the Bill be fore the House was one and the same.—( Hear, hear.) Scotland had a tight to know from those who brought in the Irish College Bill why they called sipon them to throw out this Bill. In Scotland there was no clamour against the Universi ' tie, of England, or against the test taken by English professors ; and Hun. Gentlemen opposite well knew that whether they sent missions of peace to Scotland or not, Scotland wouA in every extremity be found faithful to the common cause of the empire— ( Cheers )—and he was confident on that account, that any.hing bestowed on other parts of the empire, ought not to be withheld from that country.—( Hear and cheers.) In Scotland, as well as in Ireland, the Established o iebpp,e:re:ortut het Church oaahtrptaeitskoi oenn proportion t a ot tslifhtnitntsli members teet the esc3f greatt. h cot u uah r ttea c hoh ; hsnoplroi proportion Presbyterianohlot rra h tet e i ii.arnnep m inns; to professors pi thel t alp y es rls ofl o , f.wet t de ' hosei t pdser h olyee e r s trusted rihof o une t t. yiut Ireland, ee a di stcasi had in he d n cjoe that the youth of Scotland were less safe? Tne Bill bad been founded on the same principle as that al lowed by Ministers. But if they did hold the principle of the Bill to be generally inapplicable, he could show a peculiar teas. n for adopting it in this case. He could not cone: ive how any person at all valuing consistency, and who voted for the motion of the Hon. Alember for Devonport, could refuse to vote for this Bill, nor could he understand how any Hon. Member voting for the Irish Colleges Bill could refuse to vote for Academical education in Scotland had some peculiar character. istics. It differed entirely from that of England and Ireland. The CRICKET. TIIE MAEYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND V. THE COUNTY OF HANTS, WITH Box, Plum, AND MARTINGELL.—At the close of the play in this match on Monday the game stood thus : ➢larylebone Cricket Club—first innings, 146 ; Hampshire, with five wickets down, 80—Box and Pilch still in, and both hitting well. Yesterday these two players again made their appearance at the wicket, and hit away until the former had obtained 29, and the latter 55 runs, in excellent style. The score o f " byes" proved the third " best man." The total score of the county was only five fewer than that of the club. Marylebone then went in for th e ir se co nd inning s , an d by means of some very fine and beautiful play by Mr. Dewing, who made 36 runs without a chance, and Mr. Haygarth, who carried out his bat for 20, and the veteran Lillywhite, to whose account as many as 17 were placed, obtained a good hands ; although, when the fifth wicket went down, 30 runs only had been gained, Mr. Dewing and Lillywhite, however, not simply arrested the tid6 of ill-luck which had set iu against their side, but ran ahead of it. Hampshire had in the end 125 to go in against, and whet' the wickets were struck for the day had lost two men for 17 runs. The match will be continued this morning. HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the Maidstone Journal.) MAIDSTONE. —Our hops, generally, look very promising, but 'they are still in danger, there being so much fly. In some in stances they must go black, whilst in other grounds they seem to set the vermin at defiance. The famouq College ground still maintains its high character—it is well named the "crack ground." The duty is still 180,000/. From Worcester we learn that there is less fly since the storm on Thursday last. The Hereford plantations are said to be foul. OnfAx.--The hops in this parish remain clean and healthy, and promise well for a good crop. MEREWORTH.—The bine is looking extremely well, and growing fast. There is no vermin at present, and should the weather continue kindly for a few weeks longer, there must be a large crop. BEENCHLEY.—The late high winds have had the effect of clearing the plantations of vermin, which have almost wholly disappeared, and the blues are in a high flourishing state, with no indications of mould. WROTHAM, PLAXTOL, IGHTHAM.—The hops remain free from vermin ; and although the plant suffered much from the encingenial winds and weather experienced the first part of the week, the last few fine warm days have made all right, and, generally speaking, it is impossible for them to look better. An e xception must, however, be made with respect to the young plants, which have very materially declined. EDENsatnox.—Our hops are growing nicely; we have a little fly, but they are so near the tops of the poles that they can scarcely be found. On the whole they seldom look better at t his time of the yea r . Ca wrzasuay.—The weather of the past week has been somewhat rough for the hops, the result of which has been the blowing down of a few poles, and braising the bine. In other r espects, the hops have been relieved of a little of their vermin, and for the most part, appear very luxuriant. WEST KENT AND SURREY. —(From our Sevenoaks Cor respondent. )—Nothing can exceed the beautiful appearance of the plantations ir. this parish, the bine healthy, clean, and every appearance of a good crop. CHEVENING.—The hops are remarkably strong, branching in all directions, and clean, without a fly. Su INTBRIDGE.—North side looking well, the bine is not in some places so gay on the south side as we could wish, but no indication of vermin. BILASTED.—The same observation applies here, with the ex ception of Toys Hill, where theme are some first-rate pieces. The observations above are equally applicable to Wester ham, Litnpstield (some particularly good), . Oxted, Godstone, and in fact the parishes in Surrey generally, from Reigate on the west, bounded by the great chalk range on the north, to Horley and Burstow on the south, the line never presented, in the memory of th e oldest. inhabitant, so luxu riant or so healthy an appearance as at the present time. We visited the plantations at Seal, Otford, Shoreham, the Crays, and thence towards Dartford, and also upon the stiff chalky soils above Farningliam and Eynsferd, and still find the same result. That there is fly there can be no doubt, but it is a difficult matter to state where. The greatest probability is, it is near extensive w oods, where w e have found them ; but so small in quantity, and so few and far between, that they are Taking the plantations enerally, we not worth naming. mean the parishes in the Sevenoa k sneversaw atnhdelnDlarnntkforbdetdtiesrt,ricntrs and Surrey grounds, we greater indications of a cro. As to the du ty , it will top 2ooif present ap pearances are to be a cr iteri on, !. OW., so far as we are concerned, and our plantation is not small. SETTLEMENT OF THE DIFFERENCFs BETWEEN THE BRIGHTON AND DOVER CONPANIES.—The long pend i ng and ember ra.ased question as to the reimbursement, by th e South-Eastern Railway Company, of the cost of the six miles of railway north of Reigate, which six miles, to save the expense of two lines running nearly parallel to each other for twelve miles, were constructed by the Brighton Company, has been settled, and the sem of 340,000 L, including interest and impro v e m e n t of the funded investment, will be, in a few days, paid over, in cash, to the Brighton Railway Company. Of the above s um of 340,000/ . the Brighton Corn. parry have anticipated the rece i p t of, and have di vided interest to the extent of, 27,000/. We congratulate the proprietors of both companies on this result, so satisfactory to all parties; and we especially congratulate the Brighton proprietary en the arrange . ment, attributable, as it mainly is, to the business.hke habits and energy of Mr. Peter Clarke, the ne w mana g e r of the line.—Herald. lie. _ Herald. STATE: OF TRADE.—There was a to rather ve;• Lealthy market yesterday for goods generally, with a tendenc y higher prices, particularly in shirtings for the east, and in domestic cloths. The demand for yarn continues still buoyant, and higher prices were obtained for some numbers, for which large contracts have been made.— R OCH DALE FLANNEL m Ae Re; MONDAY, JULY 7.—We have bad a brisk demand for goods to-day, at prices better than those obtained on the prece di ng Monday. Wool is still upon the advance, and certain kinds used for flannels are be coming more and more scarce.—Manchester Guardian. /4 • The movement in favour of improvin - g — ib e condi tion and elevating the moral tone of the working classes, is to be followed up in the metropolis. Mr. Simpson will address the working classes in Exeter-hall this evening, developing the same • views that he has been so zealously propounding in the chi2f pro vincial towns. Lord Brougham will preside, supported by the via of Normanby, the M arqu i s of Duke of Buccleuch, the liar Lansdowne, and many other noblemen and gentlemen. For work. lug men the admission wiil be gratt.itous and' by tickets. The re quisition from them for the delivery of the lectures has been signed by upwards of 3.000. QUICK ComanNicATloN. -- What would folks fifty years ago have ,said (asks the l'illsburg - Age) had they received, a London paperbSith an eografing of a lire lit Pittsburg before the , ruins had ceased smoking ? yet such is the case n ow. We re. ceived a paper of this kind on the 4tli . , and lit a cigar among the ruins on the game morning. 1 I