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btrib ImEtition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (TUIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Jockey Ciub Plate of 501., B.C. Lord Exeter's Hydrangea, 4 yrs, 7st 21b (walked over.) -- - _ Sweepstakes of 50 sovs. each, last three miles of B.C. Lord Orford's Footstool Lord Albemarle's Radulphus The Champion Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft. (30 Subs.) Duke of Bedford's Bridle Lord Orford's Ziska Handicap Plate of 50 sovs. A.F. Mr. Barnes's Tufthunter 1 Lord Strathmore's Secundus The Suffolk Stakes of 15 soy. each, 5 ft. Last mile and a half of R.C. Mr. Greville's Mirmillo, 3 yrs, sst 31b .................. Col. Anson's Lazarillo, 3 yrs, sst 51b ..................... Lord Exeter's Cosachia, 3 yrs, 53t 31b .................. Fifteen ran. Won easy. RAILWAY COMNIITFEES, (THIS DAY•) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP V. The Conmittee met this morning, at twelve;lLord Harry Vane in the Chair. v7rnms OIL The Committee were occupied most of the day with evidence against the Bill, as to the injury which would be done to Eton by the railway passing through the grounds of the college, and to the town and precincts of Windsor. The Earl of Lincoln and others were examined. The Committee adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP VI. The Committee met at the usual hour; Mr. Deedes in the chair. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL, AND EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER. In consequence of an application made to the Committee, it was arranged that several witnesses should be heard from Sidmouth and Bridport, and with respect to the proposed Blandford and Bruton Railway, in order to afford an oppor tunity for Mr. Locke and Mr. Cockburn to attend in other Committees, where their presence was required. Captain Parratt, naval officer, from Poole, was then called, and gave evidence of the facilities and importance of the harbour of Poole, and its superiority as a harbour over the port of Weymouth. Other evidence of a general nature was a dduced, and the Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow,at which hour it is proposed to proceed with the cross-examination of Mr. Locke. GROUP VII. SOUTIZAWIPTON AND DORCHESTER, AND NEW FOREST DEVIATION BRANCH, The Committee met at twelve o'clock, in Room E, and almoit immediately adjourned, and the consideration of the New Forest Deviation Branch was postponed until Monday. GROUP VIII. ssznprELD AND LINCOLTZSIZIEZ (OLD NAM BRANCU). The secretary to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway and several other witnesses gave evidence in favour of this branch. Mr. JAL:NIES was proceeding to address the Committee on behalf of the Richmond and Bury St. Edmunds Railway, when The Committee intimated that there would be no neces sity for his addressing any remarks upon that portion of the line between Thetford and Diss, as it was the opinion of the Committee that no case had been made out to justify the construction of that line. The Learned Counsel then proceeded with his address, at the conclusion of which the room was ordered to be cleared. Th-, CHAIRMAN, upon our re-admission, stated that the Committee were of opinion that the preamble of the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds Railway (No . 1, Extension to Yar mouth) was not proved. The Committee then adjourned till Tuesday next, at twelve o'clock, in order to receive the report of the Admi ralty and the Railway Commissioners. GROUP XVI. The Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills, comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Kemble in the chair. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (DUN ST-1.11 XAM ST. ALBAN'S, AND LUTON 82.6.1\TC2X. This case was called, but the Committee not having re ceived the report of the Railway Commissioners, declined to give any decision for the present. ENTIMMD AND EDIVIONTON EXTENSION, The case for this line was next gone into. The line con tinues the existing Enfield and Edmonton line on to the Great Northern Railway, and through the medium of the Eastern Counties line giving the traffic of the Great Northern line access to the East and West Indian Docks. The esti mated cost was 60,0001. GROUP XVIII. Tile Committee on this p.roup m4t to-day at two o'clock ' • the Earl of Lincoln in the chair , when the opposition of the proprittirs wa' proceeded with. T; e evidence taken was chiefly as to the way in which the prcpostd line would affect the town of Cheltenham in a sanatory way, as well a= to the convenience of the station. Tae Commictee adjourned four o'c!coli. GROUP XX. The Comnettee met at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Goulbur❑ in the chair. DX=.IVLINGB allf/ AND OXFORD TUNCTION (1,171.11 7 1. 1, W1CK AND STIZATTOILD DIGANCEE). Tie general evidence in favour of this Bill was continued. Mr. Brunel proved that the line was an easy one in an engineering point of view. He estimated the cost at 200,0001. _ Tne landholders' opposition was adjourned till Friday. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXI. This Committee met as usual this morning, in Room No. 22; Sir Janiei Graham in the chair. EIR.MINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND STOUR. VALLEY (No. I.) Mr. WITATELET wag occupied nearly the whole of the day in replying fur the opponents of this line, namely, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company. The Committee postponed their decision till they had re ceived the report of the Railway Commissioners. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND STOUR VALLEY (NO. XX.) MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LIN COLNSHIRE JUNCTION (BARNSLEY BRANCH). The whole of the day was occupied with general evidence in favour of the line. The Committee adjourned at the usual hour. GROUP XXXIII. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; the lion. E. Yorke in the chair. LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER (EXTENSION TO vrair.ErsELD, &c.) On the assembling of the Committee this case was pro ceeded with. Mr. Benjamin Gott, of Leeds, was examined at some length as to the advantages the scheme would confer in con necting the important towns of Leeds, Wakefield, and Dews bury, and also to its superiority over the rival schemes. This closed the case of the promoters. The opposition of the landowners and other proprietors were then proceeded with. Mr. J. M. Gaskell, M.P., deposed as to the damage which the line would inflict on the residence and ornamental grounds of his uncle, near to Wakefield. Dr. Wright was examined as to the damage the line would do to the property of West Parade, Wakefield. He represented it to be very considerable, and the proposition had given great dissatisfaction. Mr. Walker, agent of the Wakefield cattle-market, stated that the scheme would do great injury to, and interfere ma terially with, the business transacted there. The Committee then adjourned till to morrow at twelve o'clock. lintriTING7:IAM. WOLVEICHA.MPTON, AND DUDLEY (sTounnium GE AND WEST ER.OVEWICH BRANCHES). ON.POR,D, WORCESTER, AND WOLPER- HAMPTON (No. II.) In these cases the Committee decided that the preambles had not been proved. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXXIV. passenger and the goods traffic would receive great benefits by the amalgamation. Mr. Errington, civil engineer, was examined in support of the previous witnesses. He considered the shareholders would never get back their capital or interest on it without a union of this kind. At present the Caledonian had no port for their 160 miles of railway, while the Ayrshire Com pany had access to six or seven ports. He corroborated the evidence of the previous witnesses as to the cheaper working of the line under a joint management. He thought 7,0001. would be saved by the joint management. The witness was cross-examined at some length, with the object of showing that with the leases and amalgamations in progress by the Caledonian, the latter would have port ac commodation not only at Glasgow and Greenock, but through out Ayrshire. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. GROUP LI. This Committee met at twelve o'clock; Sir John Yards Buller chairman. CALEDONIAN AND BRANCHES. Mr. Hope Johnston, M.P., was called and examined by Mr. Sergeant MURPHY—Ho was chairman of the Caledonian, and resided in a part of the eountry traversed by the line. In the year 1836 Mr. Locke was employed by a committee, formed of persons interested in the districts, to survey the best route from Carlisle north, and he examined it as _far as Biggar. Royal Commissioners were appointed, and on their recommendation the line laid out by Mr. Locke was mate rially altered. In 1845 the Dumfries came forward as an opposition scheme for a through traffic to England. The Caledonian Company were successful in the contest, but in 1846 the Dumfries again came forward, on the ground that they were required for the local traffic, and on this ground solely their scheme was sanctioned. Had he con ceived that the North British would be allowed to extend their line from Hawick to Carlisle, and to strike at the Eng lish trade by Brampton, he should never have sanctioned such a gigantic expenditure as that already incurred by the Caledonian Railway, in giving accommodation to Scotland, and he was convinced that if this rival interest were sanc tioned, the result would be, that the energies of both would be crippled. The Caledonian had no desire to injure the trade of the Dumfries line, and they were ready to be bound by enactments to keep engines always ready at Carlisle for the purpose of forwarding the passengers by that line, pari passu, with their own. They would, therefore, whether at Carlisle or at London, through the medium of the London and North- Western, throw no obstacles in the way of passengers de sirous of proceeding by the west of Scotland. Cross-examined by Sir Tflomas PHILLIPS--The pro spectus of the Caledonian Company was before the public in May, 1844, and in the same year the North British had ob tained their Act for giving accommodation by the east of Scotland, and connecting Newcastle to Edinburgh. The first. prospectus issued by the Caledonian excluded Dumfries, but he must be allowed to explain to the Committee that that prospectus was necessarily imperfedt, and required to be improved as the wants of the public became known. He thought he was right in stating that the Dumfries Bill of 1846 was granted for the purpose of accommodating the local traffic. He did not limit local traffic to the mere dis• tricts, he understood by the term the trade between the districts of Ayr, Dumfries, and England. He thought that the effect of a competition in this case would be to lessen public accommodation, but he was not sufficiently conver sant with railway enterprise to instance a case where rail way competition had proved injurious. He had a strong opinion that competition would lead to irregular working of these lines. - By Captain PLUMRIDGE—The reason why the Caledonian would suffer more from competition than its rivals was, that for a portion of its course it traversed a very barren district. By Mr. NEWDEGATE—They would never be free from a through competition from Lotidon to Edinburgh while the North Briti , h existed. Examination continued by Sir T. Pau tars—He did not think that they had much to fear from competition in their northern traffic. He bad heard a different opinion expressed. They had endeavoured to secure themselves by entering into arrangements with the Scottish Central, the Dundee and Perth, and the Dundee and Newcastle. It was not his own opinion that the traffic from Kilmarnock--and more espe cially the passenger traffic—to England wonld go round by Glasgow. He thought that the Caledonian had a prior right to the district between Annan and Springfield, as they had laid out their line in the first instance to suit that dis trict, and only had altered it at the suggestions of the Rail- way Commissioners. By Mr. PATON—The Caledonian had entered into arrange ments with the Dundee and Arbroath, for the purpose of making that line a feeder to the Scottish Central line. Mr. Locke, C.E., examined by Mr. COCKBURN—He bad originally planned the Caledonian line. The witness pointed out its course to the Committee. It was always contem- plated that Dumfries should form a feature in this system of railway communication, and he knew of no instance in the history of railways where one series of lines had so injured and encroached upon another as the Dumfries had upon the Caledonian. The Caledonian had been eventu ally laid out on the recommendation of the Railway Com missioners, and on the absence of any opposition immediate or contemplated ; and, therefore, a considerable portion traversed a district, which could not, under any circum stances, pay a company. Such a district was that from Moffat to Camwath. He considered that this country was overlaid with railways. By Mr. TOLLEMACITE—it did not follow that trade would be increased in the same proportion with railway com petition and accommodation. It was necessary that a limit should be placed, because a trade which might remunerate an expenditure of 16,000!. per mile, would never repay the ex penditure of a million per mile. The Birmingham and Derby was an instance of this, which, having vainly tried to exist, was at last obliged to incorporate itself with the Midland. By Mr. COCKBURN—If the North British scheme were sanctioned, they would have a double means of competition, by Berwick on the east coast, and again by Hawick to Edinburgh. If the Caledonian were to live at all, it must depend in a great measure upon its through traffic. By Captain PLUMRIDGE—He had in his scheme of 1839, never contemplated the branch from Springfield to Brompton. Lord Jonsr MANNERS—Did you ever propose this scheme until the Dumfries Company had first determined to supply it? Mr. Loske—That branch was never contemplated until this year. Sir TatomAs Pnit.mrs—l hope that answer may not be considered conclusive as to your Lordship's question. Lord Joirw Islasinzits—Oh, it satisfies me. By Mr. COCKBURN—It would be important, as a matter of protection against their competitors, that the Caledonian Company should construct the Brampton branch to accom• modate their southern traffic. Cross-examined by Sir Tnomas Purturs—The Caledo nian, when before Parliament for their Act, calculated upon an estimated traffic which would yield the proprietors 8 per cent. That was before any of the north or west branches were thrown out. lie did not know that in this estimate the traffic from Dumfries and Ayr was taken at something leas than 1,000/. By Mr. TOLLEMACHE—SO long as the 24 miles of differ ence between the Dumfries and Caledonian existed, it might be considered a sufficient protection to the latter company, but they could not say that that difference might not be lessened by the Dumfries Company in the next session of Parliament. By Mr. Burr—lf the lease of the Annan branch were granted to the Caledonian, he thought It would benefit the public, and end these disputes. This closed the case for the Caledonian Railway, with the exception of the Dalmakedder branch, which it was agreed should be afterwards considered. THE NORTH BRITISH COMPANY. Mr. TALBOT opened the case for the Caledonian Company, and contended that as the East Coast Railway was first in the field they should be allowed to extend their scheme from Hawick to Carlisle, thus giving accommodation to a district which, by the system of the Caledonian Company, would be altogether deprived of it. Mr. Rutherford, Crayling, Roxburghshire, said that the county was an important agricultural one. The acreage at present devoted to agricultural purpose (the greater quan tity being for the rearing and breeding of sheep) was 437,421, and the capital employed was upwards of a million and a half. There was grown of different descriptions of grain 270,999 quarters, and of this quantity there might be ex ported 71,000 quarters. This would be sent to Hawick, and westward to Dumfriesshire and Cumberland. Seed was also exported from Roxburgh to these counties because it was considered of a superior quality. Great num bers of cattle were imported for the purposes of feeding from different parts of Scotland, from the Highlands, and from Ireland. There were many markets in the district for the sale of these cattle, which would be on the line of railway. The cattle at present imported were driven, but they could be fattened at a less cost if the railway were constructed, as it would do away with the fatigue from which the cattle suffered by the present mode of travelling. M b saloi r nn e u o d i e u t r h g e Lw. s h i e e v t Tr The Thmhep g eop r y e rut a re t F n us u l edu m ooa b a nfl e s r oedn o b or f these u hein-i mportdgu Itswerehtnedf rsentnland, Boeir t fr now this tifchoker efetharooeipry;i e w oten; o a ,eu s fdol a .,rt_ v ti ery large one, about 100,000 sheep being ian their own use, and thereby be able to export a larger quan tity of the grain raised in the district. For agricultural pur poses they could have oil-cake from Berwick and other places, which might be brought to the various districts by the proposed railway. Lime was exceedingly expensive (not less than 183. per ton in the centre of the county); but by the projected line, it might be laid down in the districts within six or seven miles of the line, at a moderate cost. The land would require about five tons per acre in every fourteen years, or six tons in every nineteen years. The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Burr, and re examined by Mr. PATON, but nothing particular was elicited in addition. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP XXII. This C.,mmittee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Lord Harry Vane in the chair. GLOUCESTER , AND HEREFORD it.a.xxivirair IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF . COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. TAE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 'EV'E NIN G, MAY 5, 1847. On the motion also of the same HoN. MEMBER, the order made on the 26th day of February last, for refer ring the Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction Railway (Masbrough to Doncaster) Bill was discharged, and the Bill withdrawn. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN presented several peti tions from different parts of the country against the re moval of Smithfield market. FEES IN CHANCERY. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the Law Society of Manchester, for the reduction of the fees in the Court of Chancery. The petition, on the motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman was ordered to be referred to the Committee appointed to consider the subject. DUBLIN PAVING. On the motion of Mr. T. O'BRIEN, the papers rela tive to the Dublin Paving, &c. (printed Ist March) were ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Dublin Consumers Gas Bill. CORPORATION OF DUBLIN. On the motion of the Hox. MEMBER, the following return was also ordered :—Return of all expenses incurred by the Corporation of Dnblin in deputations, stating ex penses of each deputation, its object, and the names of the persons comprising that deputation, from the Ist day of November, 1830, to 30th day of August, 1841. SUPPLY. The report from the Committee of Supply was brought up, received, and adopted. POLICE CLAUSE BILL. On the motion of Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, this Bill was referred to a Select Committee, to consist of the following Members:—Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Greene, Mr. Attorney-General, Viscount Sandon, Viscount Ebrington, Sir William Heathcote, the Lord- Advocate, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Escott, Mr. Loch, Mr. Beckett , Dr. Bowring, Mr. Wil son Patten, and Mr. Morgan John O'Connell. The LORD-ADVOCATE stated, in reply to a ques tion from an lion. Member, that he would ascertain whether the Bill could be applied to Scotland in its present shape; if it could not, a Bill having especial reference to that country would be introduced. MEDICAL REGISTRATION AND MEDICAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Sir W. JOLLIFFE wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment whether he had received any communications from the presidents of the three medical colleges with respeet to this Bill, and whether it was the intention of the Government to oppose or support it? Sir G. GREY said he had received communications from these bodies, requesting pate allowed to wait upon him as a deputation ; and if die Hon. Gentleman the Member for Finsbury (Mr. Wakley) had been in his place, it was his intention to have asked him to postpone the second reading of this Bill, as it had only been printed that morning, and as the President of the Col lege of Physicians, and others, had not had an opportu nity of stating their objections to it. He had also re ceived communications from persons connected with the medical profession, and as he was as yet ignorant of their objections, the postponement of the second reading of the Bill was indispensable. No doubt the Hon. Gentleman would be in his place in the course of the day, and he should endeavour to induce him to consen" to its postponement. DRAINAGE OF LANDS BILL. Mr. GISBORNE presented a petition from Leicester against the Bill. Sir H. lIALFORD felt bound to move the second reading of this Bill. In 1844 a Commission was ap pointed to inquire into the distress that prevailed, which produced a most able report, and from which he would beg to read to the House some extracts. (The Hon. Member read from this document several passages, which stated that there was a graiaal reduction in the wages of those employed in the hosiery trade, from 1814 down to the .ime at which the inquiry was instituted, and that the general appearance of the frame-workers was extremely wretched, while demoralization kept pace with the misery of this class of the community. The report also stated that the increase in the demand for labour led to no increase in the wages, and that the parents were totally incapable of affording their children, not only education, but the actual means of existence. Such having been the result of this Com mission, he would ask the House whether they should refuse to redress these evils. He believed the provisions of this Bill would meet the circumstances of this case, but in order that it might be rendered as effective as possible, if the House would grant him the second reading he would move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee. What was the case with re spect to the artisans of other countries? In Saxony, in 1843, the same trade, that of hosiery, was carried on, and it was three times as great as that of any other part of the world.—(The Hon. Member here read the evidence of Mr. Widscombe in support of this assertion, in which it was stated that the condition of the people of Saxony engaged in the stocking trade was far superior to the people of this country.) He had received a letter from a gentleman opposed to the Bill, himself a frame-owner, conscientious of great evils in the system, who acknowledged that it was a scandal and shame that it should exist.—(The Hon. Member then read a number of extracts from the evidence before the House, contained in the blue book, that the frame work system was most pernicious.)—(Hear, hear.) The objects of the Bill were to do away with the sub-contrac• tors, to prevent any contract being made with any one who was not himself a manufacturer; also to do away with the frame rent. He was well aware how incompe tent he was to bring such a subject as the present under the consideration of that House, but he sincerely hoped the House would not refuse the inquiry he demanded, and that it would give a second reading to this Bill. Mr. WYNN ELLIS said that it was so seldom that be troubled the House with any observations that he hoped that it would listen to the few remarks he had to offer to their notice. The accounts given by the Honourable Baronet of the distress and misery which existed were by no means exaggerated, and in his opinion it arose from the want of knowledge on the part of those weavers, and their want of sufficient energy to try to avoid bringing up their children in the same misery as themselves. There had been a gradual, but certain diminution in the export trade for many years, and during that time the supply of labour greatly exceeded the demand. The consequence was a fall in the value of that labour, and the present existing distress. The existence of this distress and the causes and con sequences of it had been amply set forth in the report of a Commission upon this subject, but no remedy had been applied. The Hon. Gentleman had, about two years ago, brought in a Bill upon this subject, but owing to the incorrect construction of the principal clause it became inoperative. That Bill in the first instance con templated the removal of what was called " middle men" and such an Act would be most injurious. The evils arising from that system were much less than was really stated, and considerable good was effected by it. (The Hon. Member then proceeded to quote at some length the evi dence of Mr. Biggs, as given before the Commission.) This branch of trade furnished another instance of the evils of protection, for had the corn-laws not existed, they would not have found the destitution that existed amongst this class of artizans. From the authorities on this question it ' appeared that in foreign countries there was a better state of things. For instance, in Saxony the stocking-workers were much better off than they were at present in England.—(Hear.) He felt convinced that great evils would result from sending the Bill to a Committee up stairs. In the pre sent state of trade it would produce an ill-feel ing, which would be most ;pernicious, if it would not produce a stagnation of trade. Upon these grounds, therefore, he would vote against the Bill, but he also objected to it on principle, for he would like to know on what grounds the Hon. Gentleman desired to interfere with the frame rent. Mr. GISBORNE said this Bill was a corollary on the Factories Bill ; it was founded on the principle of a fair day's wages for a fair day's work. He would have been glad to see the First Lord of the Treasury in his seat, and the Home Secretary. They had entered into a course which they could not carry out. He believed that no exaggeration of the distresses of these manufac• turers had been made, but be contended such measures as these would not remedy the evil. They alone in this country carried on a struggle which was no longer attempted in the United States or in France. In these repeated attempts to destroy the self reliance of the working classes, though they had struggled manfully, he saw much to apprehend. It was a dan gerous experiment that was being made in this inter ference with the working classes. The Honourable Baronet wanted to persuade the House that it was a most profitable thing to be a pos sessor of these frames ; but the fact ,was that the contrary was quite the case.—(Hear.) The whole principle that had been acted upon, was founded upon the assumption that the hosiers were the most destructive and worst class in the country. He had often told that class of persons that from this House they could not expect that redress which they required. He contended that those who supported the Factory Bill were bound to look to this matter. Mr. MILNER GIBSON suggested that the Bill should not be proceeded further with that day, as it would interfere with the other business of the House. After some conversation as to what day the debate should be resumed, to-morrow was fixed for that purpose. MEDICAL REGISTRATION AND MEDICAL LAW (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. WAKLEY moved the postponement of the second reading of this Bill till Monday, and he would, after its second reading, propose that it should be re ferred to a Select Committee, when any alterations that might be required might be introduced. After a few words from Sir GEORGE GREY and Mr. HUME, Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that, before voting for a Committee, as was proposed by the Honour able Member for Montrose for a Select Committee, would depend upon whether the Honourable Member for Finsbury would take the chair, and the Hon. Mem ber for Montrose would attend.—(Laughter.) Mr. HUME said he would do his best in the matter. Mr. WAKLEY said he could not engage to attend at the Committee in question till the differences of the profession were settled, for he would have to sit there till one day after the day of judgment; but if the Com mittee were granted he would do what was in his power to carry out the Bill he had introduced. The second reading of the Bill was then postponed till Monday next. TENANTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD postponed the Tenants (Ireland) Bill till to-morrow (Thursday). COUNTY BUILDINGS ACT. This Bill went through Committee and was ordered to be reported to-morrow.' The House then resumed. NAVAL SERVICE OF BOY'S BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Friday. The House then resumed. and T he the House otherord a e d r jrn s o o u ft e h d e adtasyixwocrleoctilc.ien disposed of, On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Colonel SIBTHORP rose and inquired if the Noble Lord ( Lincoln) would have any objection to intro duce a clause into the Bill for the protection of copy holders, who, without the insertion of such a clause, would be materially injured ? He disapproved of the machinery by which the Bill was proposed to be carried out, as it would lead to the appointment of commis sioners and others who would have nothing better to do than going about the country, without conferring any real good upon property. Lord LINCOLN certainly should object to the in sertion of such an amendment in this Bill, which referred simply to property, and not to the mode in which it was held. It was an amendment which would more properly find a place in a Bill having direct refer ence to copyholders. He, however, at the same time, fully admitted that the laws relating to copyholders re quired amendment, and he should be happy to lend his assistance to the Gallant Colonel, or to any other Honourable Member who might bring forward a Bill for the purpose of amending those laws. It was a mistake to say that new commis sioners would be appointed to carry out the Bill, as the Enclosure Commissioners would be entrusted with the carrying of it out: it certainly would not add to their emolument, but it would add materially to the labour which they were now called upon to perform. After a few words from Sir G. STRICKLAND, the House went into Committee on the Bill. The clauses up to 17 were agreed to. Sir G. STRICKLAND moved an amendment in the 17th clause. After a few words from the Earl of Lincoln, Colonel Sibthorp, and Mr. Hume, the original clause was agreed to. The remaining clauses were then agreed to. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Friday next. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. On the order of the day for the second reading of the Registration of Voters Bill being read, Mr. WALPOLE called the attention of the House to the reckless manner in which objections were taken to voters, not in the hope that the votes will be struck off the roll, but that the voters may be deterred from coming up to the hustings. A number of persons were paid to make these objections, and he would ask the House, ought there not to be some guaranteee for the bona fide character of the objector? He thought that it was abso lutely necessary that the objector to a vote should be resident in the same district as the person to whose vote the objection was made. It would also be of great benefit to the country, and the means of saving much trouble, if the objector and the voter had an opportunity of com:nunicating with each other before they came before the court. He thought also that a certain sum of money should be paid into the court by the objector, and, in case of his succeeding in his objection, it should be returned to him, but if he failed it should be handed over to the party to whese vote the objection was made. In conclusion, he ought to men tion that there was one of the suggestions made by the Committee that was not inserted in this Bill. That was with reference to what was called the system of splitting, namely, the plan of dividing a house into so many compartments, giving a vote for each. He should venture hereafter to call the attention of the House to the subject, but as it was likely to cause much party discussion, he bad for the present omitted it. The subject was one of immense importance, and de serving the most serious attention of the Legislature. The other suggestion of the Committee was that there should be paid public officers to investigate these ob jections. He thought that under the present system the business was hurried over much too quick. That was, however, a question for the -Executive Government. He hoped that the Government would discontinue the practice of placing persons in the anomalous position of judges for one part of the year, and in their places advocates for the remainder. The one office was not compatible with the other, and he hoped that the system would be altogether changed. These were the observations he had to make to the House upon this measure. It would remedy the reckless and indiscriminate manner in which these objections were taken to the best and most un doubted voters, and save much serious and unnecessary expense in defence of their votes, which were attaked year after year on the same grounds, and with the same chances of success.--(Cheers.) Sir G. GREY said that he did not rise for the pur pose of following the Hon. Gentleman through all the clauses of the Bill, but merely to express a hope that the House would permit the second reading to take pleat) without any objection. The Bill was one which em bodied many valuable suggestions made by the Com mittee, and was very likely to prove most beneficial in its effects. Mr. BRIGHT said he rose for the purpose of calling tke attention of the House for one moment to the statements which were made on moving for this Com mittee by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire. It was stated that choice was made in serving these objections to persons whose votes were been known to be legal, and who resided at the greatest distance from the courts. The report of the Committee did not bear out this statement. There were 400 different definitions of copyhold tenants, 250 of leasehold, 50 of occupying, and 576 of free holders, making a total of 1,276 different definitions of these voters; and, therefore, when such a state of:things existed, it was absolutely necessary to have great freedom allowed for the making of objections.—(Hear, hear.) He had the same objection, however, as the Hon. Gentle man—namely, to increase the number of voters, and although he did not approve of the whole of the measure, he should be happy to aid the Honourable Gentleman or any one else in placing properly qualified persons upon the register. He considered that the Anti-Corn-law League had acted fairly and openly in Warwickshire. Mr. NEWDEGATE said the Committee appointed to consider the existing state of registration, in accord ance with whose recommendations this Bill had been framed, consisted of members of all shades of political opinions. He contended that the charges were true. which he had on a former occasion brought against Mr. Wilson, the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law League, with respect to his proceedings relating to the regis tration in Warwickshire, Staffordshire, and other coun ties, and quoted 'registration returns to show that the League had improperly interfered with the registration, In proof of this, be stated that fifty persons claimed to be registered in Barnsley for a few houses, called " Bright's Buildings," the whole value of which was not more than 1,5901. Mr. V. SMITH should vote in favour of the Bill, but he considered that the Bill did not make sufficient pro vision for preventing persons who had had their names properly placed on the register from being harassed by frivolous o bj ec ti ons to t h e i r v otes year after year. He trusted, therefor e , th a t th e Bill would be considered in Committee. After a few words from Mr. ADDERLY in favour of the Bill, Mr. G. HEATHCOTE said he considered that parties sustaining objections, and persons objected to, who sustained their votes, should be entitled to costs for the trouble to which they were put. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER dwelt upon the fact that the Committee from whom the Bill emanated represented all shades of political opinion, and that they were unanimous in all their recommendations. Mr. GISBORNE thought that by one of the pro visions of the Bill there was a lireitation of the franchise; in other points he thought the measure unobjectionable. The Bill was then read a second time. HOSIERY MANUFACTURE BILL. On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill being read, Sir H. HALFORD presented a petition from his con stituency in favour of the Bill, and praying that it might be passed into law as soon as possible. Two other peti tiOna were presented in feavux of the Dill REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS DURING THE WEEK. ENDING MAY 1. D ea ths registered in the week. Births reg i s tered in t he week . i Males ... ..• ... 503 Males ... ... ... i 622 Females ... ... 480 Females ... ... 654 _ Total . . 983 Total ... 1,276 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, TUESDkT. 501., for 3 yrs old, 6st 21b ; 4 yrs, Bst ; 5 yrs ; Bst 71b ; 6 yrs and aged, Bst 121 b. T. M. M. The winner to be sold for 2001. Mr. Shelley's Tarella, 3 yrs (Pearl) 1 Lord Exeter's Veronetz, 3 yrs Mr. Batson's fby The Doctor, out of Revelry, 3 yrs 5 to 4 each agst Tarella and Veronetz. Tarella jumped off with the lead, but after going about fifty yards, went out to the right, and the running was taken up by the Revelry filly, Veronetz waiting on her. At the T.Y.C_ starting-post this pair changed places, Veronetz going on to the T.Y.C. winning-post, where Tarella recovered her lead, and ran home an easy winner by three lengths. The winner is objected to, on the ground of having run on the wrong side of a post, but as the starter is prepared to prove that such was not the case, there is no chance of the judges' fiat being disturbed. Ran in 3 min. 53 sec. Fifty Pounds, for three years ß old, colts Subs Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 41b .M. (7 .) Lord Orford's gr cby Clearwell out of Angelina ... (Nat) 1 Mr. Wigram's Deriades .... ...~ L o rd Exeter's Circassian Maid Mr. Hargreave's Spem Gregis 4 The following also ran :—Mr. Stephenson's b c by the Doc tor, Dam by Buzzard, Mr. J. Daley's Dromedary, and Mr. Roger's Jolly Dick. Betting 7 to 4 agst Joly Dick, 7 to 2 agst Circassian Maid, and 4 to 1 agst Angelina colt. Spem Gregis made first running, but was passed in a few strides by the Angelina colt, which was never afterwards caught, and won cleverly by a length. Deriades beat Cir cassian Maid by half a length. Spem Gregis and Jolly Dick well up. Run in 1 min 59 secs. Match; 50, last half of New, T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, 7st (Pettit) 1 Sir R. Pipit's Birthday, 7st 101 b .......................... ...it,..21 Betting-2 to lon Fistiana, who won by a length. in 54 secs. Sweeps of 100 sovs. each, h ft. Criterion Course. (3 Subs.) Sir J. Hawley's Piccinnino, Bst, walkeodulodvere. su b per- Comment upon so meagre a day's racing, w fluous ; even with the R. M. Plate, once lightest de pso_rtant, with reference to the Derby—it failed to exci mina!, and the tion was almost no teeethinte of the gree of interest ; specula favourable state attendance, notwithstanding the edent. weather there, almost beyond prec The list for to-morrow promises well for sport. (RECEI VED THIS DAY. ) 10 o'cr.octr. NEW MARKET, TvESDAY NI GH T, E SUFFOLK STAKES. LATEST BETTING ON ' fli 6 to 1 agst Hydrangea 4 to 1 agst Doctrine 1 10 to 1 agst Watchdog 9 to 2 agst Pau ltons 6 to I agst Cosachia PLATE (WEDICESDAY). E/ " 1 " " it A.F. Cocoa Nut, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b Prussic Acid, 4 yrs, 9st lb Libation, 4 yrs, 7st 71b1 S e cundus, 6 yrs, ost 5 rs , Sat 41b Bella Donna, 3 yrs,. s st 121 b Campanile , 5 Y Bst 21b Tuift Hunter, 3 yrs, sst Collingwood, 4 yrs, Caroline, 4 yrs, Sat 21b jinx= WAS rTAATE, D.C.- Hydrangea walks over, AND CANAL PURCHASE: On the assembling of the parties this Bill, which was opened yesterday afternoon, was proceeded with. Mr. Anthony, a proprietor in the district through which this line is proposed to run, gave general evidence in support of the scheme. Messrs. Davis and Brown gave general evidence in favour of the line, and Messrs. Biddulph and Price as to the accom inodation which the line would confer on the district for the carrying of goods, minerals, and passengers. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. GROUP XXIII. The Committee met this morning at twelve; Mr. Mac kinnon in the chair. S`CVA NS EA. VALLEY. Mr. JAMES proceeded to call evidence against the promoters of the Bill. Mr. Heighton, formerly traffic manager of the Taff Vale line, and manager of collieries in the north of England, gave evidence of the inconvenience of the broad gauge, upon which it was proposed to construct the Swansea Valley in connexion with the South Wales. It would fail to connect the port of Swansea and the district with the Birmingham line and the north of England, and it did not offer the same convenience Sar shipping coals as the narrow gauge. Other witnesses were called for the opponents. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP XXV. The Committee on this group met this morning at twelve o'clock in Room 14; Sir Charles Lemon in the chair, lII.O.NCHESTEIL F, ND LINCOLN UNION DEVIA.TXON. The consideration of this line was postponed, in the hope that some arrangement would be come to between the parties. IVIANCIIESTER, BUXTON, MATLOCX, and IVIIDI.A.NDS JUNCTION (DEVIATIONS, - 1132ENDIVIENT, &c.) some time was occupied in considering the objection as to whether the inhabitants of Bakewell had any locus standi in opposition to this line; hut it was eventually decided that they - should be heard. Mr. Thurgooland, a lessee of tolls, and Mr. Wildgoose, a traffic-taker, were then examined, and deposed to the great traffic which might be expected along the line, and to the great accommodation it would give to the district. Mr. Paxton, one of the directors of the company, was next examined to show the advantages of the deviation. The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to morrow. GROUP XXVII. Th Comittee sat to-day at twelve o'clock, i n R oom 32; Mr. Cardwell in the chair. WHZ GELZJIT NORTHERN (ExTmesixoze TO LYNN). The Committee were occupied all day in hearing evidence in favour of this line.—Aljourned at four o'clock. GROUP XX VIII. LONDON AND YORIC AND EASTERN COUNTIES (SPALDING TO NEWARK). The Committee met to-day at half-past two o'clock to give their decision upon the several branches promoted by the London and York an d E as t e rn Counties Companies in the district between Spalding and Newark, but in conse quence of not having received the report of the Rail wa y Commissioners, which is in the hands of the printer, Mr. T. D. ACLAND, the chairman, stated that they must adjourn till half-past three on Friday next. GROUP MI. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re •assembled at the usual pour this morning; Mr. Shaw in the chair. NORPOLX EXTENSION (THETFORD AND YARMOUTH). The case for the promoters closed after hearing the evi dence of several witnesses. Mr. MERZWEATILER summed up on behalf of the Norfolk Railway Company. GROUP XXXIX. The Committee to whom this group was referred met this morning at the usual hour, in Room 12; Lord Wellesley in the chair. HARTLEPOOL AND STOCKTON JUNCTION. Mr. Jackson's cross-examination was then resumed by Mr. Gray. He was also cross-examined by Sir Walter Riddell, on behalf of the Duke of Cleveland's trustees ; and was after wards re-examined by Mr. Rowe. Mr. James Gascoyne Lynn, civil engineer, was then exa mined by Mr. RowE—He deposed to the practicability of the construction of the line, and to there being no engineer ing difficulty of any magnitude. Mr. Gregory, civil engineer, corroborated the evidence of the last witness as to the practicability of the ; line in an engi neering point of view. Mr. Johnson, merchant in Hartlepool, was then examined as to the traffic, when the case for the promoters closed. The case of the opposition will be gone into to-morrow. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP XLI. The Committee on this group raet at the usual hour, in RO3lll 13 ; Lord Seymour in the chair. DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA (BRANCH PROM NAVAN TO KELLS). The Committee intimated this morning that, with respect to this line, it would be expedient to adjourn for a fortnight, till they received the finance report from the Railway Com missioners. NEWRY AND ENNISKILLEN (AMEND- !KENT). Mr. ALEXANDER then spened the case of the Newry and Enniskillen amendment line. He objected to the Marquis of Downshire and other opposing petitioners being heard against the line; but After some discussion, in which Mr. Talbot and Mr. Cairns appeared for the opposing petitioners, the Committee per mitted the petitioners who had land along the line to be heard. James Brea don, the London secretary of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway Company, was then examined, to show the advantages of the line. - Lord Newry and the Marquis of Downshire were then examined, and the room was then cleared, and on our re admision, The CommirrEx announced that they would not consent to the Bill unless a clause was inserted to carry out a direct communication between Newry and Armagh before any other portion of the line was opened, and they preferred to leave the details of this arrangement to the parties them selves. --- The Committee then adjourned till Tuesday next. GROUP XLII. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WICK• LOW (ENNXSCORTECY BRANCH). _ __ This Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock; Mr. Tollemache in the chair. _ At the opening of the proceedings an objection was taken on the reception of the evidence of a meeting of the share holders, where a small minority had determined to oppose proceeding with the Bill. The room was cleared for some time, but at length it was decided that counsel should be heard on the merits of the case, and Mr. Sergeant Wrangham spoke in their behalf. Mr. AUSTIN replied at considerable length on the side of the promoters, contending that the Committee had virtually come to a decision already. After hearing Mr. Austin's reply, the Committee stated that, as they had not received the report of the Railway Com missioners, they were not in a condition to proceed, and they accordingly adjourned. GROUP XLVIII. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock; Lord Courtenay in the chair. CALEDONIAN, GLASGOW, GARNEIRE, and COATIIRIDGE (BRANCH TO GLASGOW STATION). The Committee, after deliberation, declared the preamble proved, and required a clause in the Bill, binding the com pany to construct their works v here they passed under the canal and over the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, to the satisfaction of an engineer to be named. GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR BRANCHES. Mr. DUNCAN opened the merits of this Bill, which he stated to be for three short branches; one to connect the joint line with Vie General Terminus, and with the Polloc and Govan Railway; one to form a junction with the Barr head and Neilston Direct, so as to take the goods to the Goods Depot, or to the Greenock Railway; and one to con nect the General Terminus with the Caledonian Railway, and, by means of the first, with the joint line. The branches were unopposed. except by the Ayr Company, and he denied that they bad a locus stoma. Counsel were heard for the Ayr Company. The Committee, after the room had been cleared, declared that the Ayr Company had no locus stanch against the preamble. Mr. Robson, the engineer, said the length of the three branches was one mile and a half, and the cost would be 43,6001. They were to effect objects of great public import ance, and had to contend with no engineering difficulties. The CHAIRMAN declared the preamble proved. The clauses were then read and agreed to. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, xxxavrAD.Nocz, AND AYR BRANCHES (No. IV.) The Committee proceeded to consider this Bill ; the only part of it retained was for making another station in Tradeston, Glasgow. Mr. Johnstone, engineer of the Ayr Company, said the proposed station in Tradeston, Glasgow, was positively ne cessary, as the present station was quite inadequate for the traffic. The cost of the station would be 20,0001., including 14,000/. for land. The CHAIRMAN declared the preamble proved. The clauses were read and agreed to. CALEDONIAN AND DUMBARTONSHIRE 3 - UNCTION (DEVIATIONS BETWEEN DITNTOCBER. LIME-W ORKS AND BOWL- INC, tke.) Mr. MAcsEn opened the merits of this Bill. He stated the deviations were become necessary from the amendments granted by the Committee in the Garnkirk line. These were from Hamilton Hill to Dobbies Loan, passing under the canal southward; again, at the eastern terminus, passing eastward so as to join the Caledonian line; third, on the property of Lady Blantyre, to diverge from her house and grounds, and to avoid a tunnel near Duntocber ; and fourth, at the western terminus near ilelensburgh, to enable them to pass two mountain torrents more advantageously. Mr. Robson, the engineer, was examined, and proceeded to give the details of the proposed deviations. The cost of the Glasgow deviations would be 76,5081. They passed under the canal by a tunnel 500 yards long. The strata were favourable for constructing. The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock to morrow. GROUP XLIX. This Committee met to:day at twelve o'clock; Mr. Cripps in the chair. CALEDONIAN AND GLASGOW, PAISLEY AND GREENOCK AMALGATION. The case on behalf of this line was resumed. - —.-- Mr. Grieve, Provost of Greenock, was examined in support of the Bill. The amalgamation would be the means of opening up a direct communication between Greenock and the mineral districts of Lanarkshire, and also between that port and London and Manchester. Arrangements are in progress to connect the railway with the harbour, so that coals could be loaded on the quays. Mr. Hunter, a magistrate, of Greenock, gave evidence that the supply of coal at present was limited on account of the want of direct access with the Lanarkshire mineral fields, and that it was dear as compared with the price at Glasgow. He considered the united management and the continuous line would give them much larger and cheaper supplies, and enable them to increase their exportation. At the present time the trucks had to be changed at Glasgow, and tran shipments made. The Lanarkshire coal, which at present cost 13s. 6d. at Greenock, would, he thought, by the amalga mated line, be sold for Bs. 6d. per ton. Mr. James Ferguson examined—Said he knew all the lines in connexion with Glasgow very well. He knew also the coals of the Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, and he gave the de cided preference to the latter over the former. At present many of the ships at Greenock were obliged to take out rubble and stones, on account of the difficulty of getting coal s cheap enough. This would, iu a greater measure, be obviated if the companies as proposed were united in management. Mr. Baird, a coal-merchant, of Greenock, gave evidence as to the increased advantages Greenock would receive front direct railway communication with the Monkland and Ha milton coal-fields. At present the supply of coal was limited, and came mainly by the river and canal from the Monkland coal-fields. Mr. Ker, the manager of the goods traffic on the Greenock line, deposed as to the present traffic, and the great benefits the amalgamation would confer. The company at present ran five goods' trains each way daily, taking on an average 324 tons each train. Their engines could take about three times as much if necessary. The benefits of the undi vided management would be to keep up a better staff and plant, and enable them to give better accommodation to the public. Hitherto the dividends had been but two per cent., r s eaxta presentmi n e d but the Cal e d on i an b a d guarantee d f our per cen t., w i t h sub sequent advantages. Cross -examined—The o to Th Greenock Ayrshire, reenock a s theyCompanyobj ec t d at id to no th t e ca ra r t r e y minerals , which was 2s, a ton from Paisley to Greenock. Mr. Dixon, for the whole distance, was because Mr. Dixonwas charged ls. 9 1 Ad. a ton. This used his own trucks and servant s , and the comp an y had nothing to do but t o fi n d h au l age f or Captain Huish, general manager of th Western Line, said he had formerly e London and North been secretary of the Greenock Co natty for four years. It was ' • - e impossible to work a short line so profitably as along one. He knew a good deal of the benefit of amalgamations of this kind. One of the most remarkableas the Grand Junction with w the North Union. Before the amalgamation the traffic between the two lines rates high, but since the very small and the was creased, w H hil the public were beneted t ra ffic had vastly in c vices. e e considered that both fi t he by the redaction of pri THIRD READINGS. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the following Bills were read a third time and passed :--__ _ Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Rail way (Lease to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Company). Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury and Halstead Rail way (Extension to Melford, Lavenham, and Clare) (Clause and Amendment to be proposed). Claridge's Patent Asphalts Company. REPORTS. The following reports were brought up and agreed to, and ordered to be engrossed : Chard Canal and Railway Extension and Amalgamation. Dunfermline and Cupar Court•houses. Inverness Gas and Water. Liskeard and Caradon Railway. Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (No. )—Bru ton, l'itcombe, and Rodden and Bradford Deviations). Mr. R. SPOONER moved, according to notice, that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Railway Bill, that they have power to entertain the petition of the com pany of proprietors of the Birmingham Canal Naviga tion, notwithstanding the same was not presented to the House on or before the 3d day of this instant May, pur suant to the resolution of this House of the 19th day of April last.—Agreed to. Mr. GREENE moved, pursuant to notice, that the petitions presented against the Leeds Waterworks Bill, and referred to the Committee on that Bill, be referred to the Committee on the Leeds Waterworks (No. 2) Bill ; with leave to the petitioners to be heard thereon, by themselves, their counsel, agents, and witnesses. — Agreed to. On the motion of Mr. GREENE, it was ordered that the r o e y f i e o r t r i i t n m g s the petition p p roac toh o m wner an s, to l n ess s ee ta s, ti a o n n : borough occupiers of land in So u th or p e a nd Sutton to th e Com mittee on th e Midl an d at a i lway ( S yston an d Peter • Bill, be discharged. THE DisrtrrED T.M.M. PIATI , —The objection against 1 Tarella has been overruled. ' - TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. DERBY.-5 to 1 agst Conyngh2.m (t freely), 6to 1 agst PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, LORD GREAT CLIA.M. Cossack BERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MAy 3, 1847. (off), 9to 1 agst Mr. Martin (t), 12 to 1 agst Van Tickets to see the New House of Lords, in the Palace of Tromp (offe rs t o t), 15 to 1 agst Planet, 22 to 1 agst \V anota, Westminster, will be issued from the Lord Great Chamber -30 to 1 agst Mathematician (t freely), 50 to 1 ast Notting- lain's-office every Wednesday, between the hours of ten_ane_d ham, 50 t o 1 ags t Phil oso ph er (t), and 50 to I agt Bowstring. four oVock, fur the subsequent or any other Saturday. each OAKS. 4 to 1 a Daughter (t 6to 1 agst Clementina, 5 to 1 agst Farmer's ticket will admit the bearer and ones:Aber person. All apple*. to 1 agst f out of Quilt Arnold's dam, cations for tickets must be made personally, or through a re- Daughter l 8 to 1 agst Ellerdale,) an d 18 to 1 agst So M. sponsible agent, as it will be impossible to send tickets cp_r_a. _ swer written applications. Persons receiving tickets will required to leave their names and addresses, written on a card,. at the office. Tickets will be admitted on Saturdays only,. between the hours of ten and live o'clock. The numberavoef tickets being necessarily limited, those persons who b 0 _ been unable to obtain them will have a stamp placeds clili their cards, at the office, and preference will be given t°, ?_,,. stamped cards, if presented at the office betbre eleven o ciowb on the following Wednesday. 'SBY G•G* (Signed) WILLOUGHBY DE ERE t , MAY 1. The Queen has be WHITEHALL en pleased to direct letters patentnito.b.! passed under the Great Seal, nominating, presenting, a Eden, , 11 _k.,', -. pointing the Honourable and Rtverend Robert John ,u , v 0 0 71 ALA , to the bishoprick of the Isle of Man and Sodor,._boa; by the death vf Doctor Walter Augustus Shirley, late Bis hop of that see. EFFECTS OF LIGHTNING IN THE ROYAL NAVY. The Hazard, 16, Commander Egerton, fitted with light ning conductors of Smith's wire rope, after a method re commended by the Surveyor's chief draughtsman, Mr. J. Edye, was twice struck by lightning during her late service in China. On the first occasion, May, 1846, off Diamond Point, on the north end of Sumatra, the elec tric fluid divided between the small wire rope and the mast and chain sheets ; part of it came into the ship with explosion, and split the topsail sheet hots ; the rest of the charge went over the wire rope into the seas and tore some of the copper off the bottom. The wire conductor was cripplied and bulged out by the force of the electirc shock. The second time, June 12, 1846, when lying off Cape Po, at anchor, on the coast of Borneo, the electrical discharge again struck the ship. In this case the effects were more destructive ; the dis charge again, divided between the rope and mast; the maietopgallant mast was splintered and carried away, also the main topmast, part of which fell through the quarter deck into the gun-room. The other part of the discharge passed down over the wire conductor into the water. The officers on board the Hazard state that conductors of this kind are totally unfit for carrying off the heavy strokes of lightning ex perienced in this part of the world. These are very im portant facts. They are the results of experiments on the great scale of nature, deduced by means of the gigantic electrical machinery of the thunderstorm, and which go directly to:show that nothing short of a general and extended system of conduction throughout the masts and hull of a ship will ever aflbrd 'perfect security from lightning. It will be remembered that about seven years since a naval commission, appointed by the Admiralty, inquired and reported to the House of Com mons on the merits of various plans of lightning con ductors, and they terminated their report by earnestly and unanimously recommending the system proposed by Mr. (now Sir William) Harris, to be carried out fully in the Royal Navy. Notwithstanding, how ever, that this recommendation stood supported by the most profound men in this department of science, such as the late Dri Wollaston, Sir H. Davy, Daniell, Wheatstone, and others, yet, in the very teeth of all this, the Navy office' " sub," through Sir W. Sy mond's interest with the First Lord of the Admiralty, contrived to have these wire ropes introduced into the navy, which the Commission had declared not only an inadequate defence, but absolutely dangerous. Of course the Surveyor's draughtsman was better authority than fhe best scientific and naval men in the country, he possessing the usual requisite qualification for the Somerset House officials—viz., that of being totally ignorant of the subject he was professing to understand. These small wire ropes were served into the dockyards in considerable quantites at a very great cost, and several ships were supplied with them. Now behold the consequence. Here is a ship struck by lightning, and the predicted inefficiency of these small wires is completely 'verified. It must be admitted that the result is at least favourable to the view Mr. Harris took of this most interesting question, and we do not hesitate to avow that had any of the ship's company lost their lives from the inefficiency of this incomplete plan of lightning conductors, in direct opposition to the opinions of the best talent of the country, the party who ordered, and the authorities who sanctioned, its application, would be guilty of nothing less than the crime of manslaughter. FREIGN-OFFICE, MAX 3. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Mar TtlPPer Clod, now British Vice-Consul at Monte Video, Esq., her Majesty's Consul at Buenos Ayres. The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Gr e Y Sullivan, Esq., now British Vice. Consul at Amoy, to be bet Majesty's Consul at. Ningpo. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 3. crick Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Frederi.,. Wodehouse to be Captain, vice A. H. Frazer. retired on fin t i , to be to be pay; First Lieutenant Charles Lawrence D'Agniler' Second Captain, vice Wodehouse ; Second Lieutenant,' L0u412. Martineau, to be First Lieutenant, vice D'Aguilar, Apri,',,`,'„'t Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant George 9 " to be Second Captain, vice Downes, deceased ; Second Lie.," tenant Charles Herbert Sedley to be Fiist Lieutenant, vet: Bent, April 16 ; First Lieutenant Edmund Yeomans Walco 0 Henderson to be Second Captain, vice Reynolds, re tired o tes halt pay; Second Lieutenant William Francis Lambert to First Lieutenant, vice Henderson, April 2 '. ~,c •'''rr ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMDs', - ,-,' ' to be Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Ambrose L awson ' Surgeon, April 19. or folk. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of N _ Prince Albert's Own Corps of Norfolk Yeomanry Cavell-s'. Francis Marryat, Esq., to be Captain, vice Proctor, regigolitel: Cornet George Wood to be Lieutenant, vice Boyddarroal iv . William Wood, Gent., to be Cornet, vice George " °°d, P rooted, April 19. i rdi g of Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West '' i- li the county of York, y eo man/ Ist Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) ...;„ vice Cavalry—William Brooke Naylor, EN-, to be Riding). Taylor, deceased, April 24. BANKRUPTS. vgban" Ann Collyer, cowkeeper, Stoke Hammond, On c ,r . l l-- ae 15, shire, to surrender May 11, at half-past eleven, A" ' - o fficial at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cann er ;',. jetties assignee, Birchin-lane ; Meyrick, Furnival's Ina ("'"• and Smythies, Aylesbury). book' George Horne and Alexander Macleod Burghes?„,,,,, 15, sellers, Cheapside, May 12, at half-past eleven, and " - leeia l at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, 0 assignee; Billing, King-street, Cheapside. rs Stria. Thomas Stirling, sen., and William Stirling, elate '. t, the ford, May 8, at half-past one, and June 2, at two , " sa .. Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderra bury; Scott and Co., St. Mildred's-court, City. sr 16, Robert Cogan, glass merchant, Leicester-squoe, hurt May 16, o f at half-past twelve, and June 12, at twelve, at the 13 , Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -00t" • singhall-street ; Richardson, Moorgate-street . leo 10 A George Southwell, baker, Whitstable Kent, s•-, -- _s, cjurt half-past one, and June 14, at half-past eleven, at to' "act l of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coletnan4`.- Richardson and Co., Bedford-row. I f s g o,._a t William Rolph, innkeeper, Billericay, Essex' If " 1 ter one, and June 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankllleod Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry Chambers; ;le and Co., London-street, Fenchurch street. Essex' MaY 14 ' James Cooper, cattle salesman , Billericay, Ess .. st a nk.. 0t ., : at half-past two, and June 11, at one, at tAbchur the Court f or too ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, he Court; and Son New-street, Bishopsgate ,A. at John ' Alfred Trimmer, victualler, Brentford, M a y 1 1 i. two, and June 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bank r " c • Old P ig/ ' Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's -place, Lawrence and Reed, Gutter-lane, Cheapside. d j o ne 39 John Pulleine, jun., brewer, Selby, M a y 18, an is i g nee at ten, at the Leeds District Court. - Young , 01 1 e v i e e d i d a all 504 Leeds; Wiglesworth and Co., Gray's l u o ; Parker, Selby ; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. i cr ttinghti tiV Francis Rippingale, auctioneer, Thrumpton, 1v rig D i s trict shire, May 14, and June 11, at ten, at the Le e 7 1 ol d Co., Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds;..._ Johneesboeld. Temple, London ; Bowley, Nottingham ; .15n1.1,3eYlito IA and John Munks, licensed victualler, Sheffiel d ' . ley 14, June 11, at ten, at the Sheffield District 0 4 : 4 "," „,..s.stre at s official assignee, Leeds ; Tattershall, Great da"- London ; Broadbent, Sheffield. r 14 and Richard Burkinshavr, sharebroker, Sheffield, )55Y.,,...,:man, June 11, at ten, at the Sheffield District Court. x '7; 100 , official assignee, Leeds ; Butterfield and Co., G ri l - London ; Potter, Rotherham, Yorkshire. an d P I Z Thomas Robinson, builder, Liverpool, May 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. laird' official assignee, Liverpool ; Cornthwaite, Old JewrY-absin London; Pemberton, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS DECLARED strAee. t— M a ac d le iv od . of an 9 d d. F in b t l h a e cq p u o e u e n n d , s m o nercahnayntpr i dLaeys! In t b V; office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court , J. Cuthbert an M. Clark jun , wine merchants, un.t cheater-street, Savage-gardens "v • gullet of Vgd. in tne City —a • Sambrook pound, on any Friday, at the office of Mr. , court, Basinghall-street. Basinghall-street._ .. W. F. Cwer B. F. Cowper, and apers„ Darlington —first div. of 75. drapers„ Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 0 J. Wilkinson, wharfinger, Stockton-upon-Te.es—first div. p i n . the ß . Cowper, pound, olni linen 1 ; f 2s. in the pound, on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. G. Goodwin, merchant, Hull—final div. of 2%d. in the pound, on any day till atter May 10, at the office of Mr , Young, Leeds. W. 11. Fitzhugh, merchant, Liverpool—a div. of 7s. 6qd* in the pound, on Wednesday, May 12, or any subseq uent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghae. etree t. J. Duckham and R. Lankeste r, warehousem.n, Drea A u: street, Cheapside, May 27, at two—C. Best, pris.ter, James's-walk, Clerkenwell , May 27, at half-past elev.i--Jboe • Coker, builder, Narford, Norfol k, May 26, at half -past elect J. C. Ross, merchant , Savage-gardens, City, blaY 26 ' eleven—M. Dove, grocer, Maidstone, May 27, at half-P; e 6, twelve—J.. Cartlitch, victualler, Whitecross-street, gaY e „ at one—J. Bates, grocer, Three Colt-street, Limehoto. May 26, at half-past twelve—J. Bird, tintberstd Club-row, Bethnal-green, May 26, at twelve —G• Br°lo, timber merchant, St. Mary, Southampton, May 26, at elev e In the Country. m a y 28. at H. C. Ilowells, jun., stock broker, Bristol, ,District e eleven, at the Bristol District Court —B. H. Hunter, chant, Liverpool, May 28, at twelve, at the Liverpoo" „ a g, Court—J. W. Harvey, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, ;vuisoii, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court --J• G. May 25, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. shown to CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be the contrary, on the day herein mentione.,l-ne, Bet- A. Innskipp, leather manufacturer, Long cer.place, mondsey, May 26—J. Ullathorne, builder, Brixton-road, May 26—W. F. Cowper , B. F. Co S w Pe p n e r, 5206.... d P. E D . ix C , ow sa p d e d r ie l r i , nendrapers, Darlington, May 28--J• ..r i. i n iber , Wells, Somersetshire , merchant, North Cave, Yorkshire, wine merchant, Huddersfield, May 25—Rev. A. ' lei ' rshara, scrivener, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, June 1— •___° •er merchant, Liverpool, and W. H. L. Conan, merchants, Liverpool, May 20 r: C .1 Ingham, wool Dutchman, Durhatn, biltenwortb, May 2 6..-A. J. ICitit vain stapler, Liverpool, May pl‘ll3sYur2n-s—) 25 • Liverpool, May 25—J. Jebb, grocer, Basehurch. Shropstii_e, June 9—W. Clemson, victualler, Shifnall, Shropshire, May M a y V —II. Hunter, confectioner, St Dunstan 3-hill' City, ...5......j. —J. Lewis, butcher, Dawley-green, Shropshire, May -4 tr eet, Burbidge and J. Burbidge jun., cabinet-makers, Tysoe-,k., _... .un., bookseller: Clerkenwell, May 25—T. Jeynes, butcher, Longdon. itee'r, cestershire, May 25—J. Newby, haberdasher, Lel"' May 25. A MODERN HENRY the EIGHTH BRESLAU, APRIL 22.—The Prince Archbishop of Breslau has launched the thunders of the church against one of the German princes. He has excommunicated the Prince of Hatzfeld de Trachambourg and de Jasch kowitz, member of the order of nobles in the General Diet of Prussia, at present assembled in Berlin, and ene of the richest and most influential princes in Prussia. The following are the circumstances which have led to an act of rigour on the part of the church so uncom mon in the present century : About five years ago Prince Germain de Hatzfeld, who is a Roman Catholic, fell in love with the Duchess de Reichembach, a married lady, and a Protestant. Fel some reason, of which we do not know the particulars, the Duchess de Reichembach got herself divorced. Soon afterwards, in virtue of a royal decree , abridging the delay which, according to our laws, must take place be tween the divorce and the re-marriage of any of the divorced parties, the Prince of Hatzfeld got the Lutheran pastor of Breslau to give him the marriage blessing. Thereafter the P.ince of Hatzfeld was anxious to have his marriage made valid according to the rites of the Catholic Church, and for that purpose he applied to several ecclesiastics to perform the marriage ceremony, but they all refused, on the ground that they were for bidden to do so by the decisions of the Council of Trent, and more especially by a brief addressed, in 1843, by the late Pope Gregory XVI. to the bishops of Bavaria, and in which the Sovereign Pontiff designates a marriage between a Catholic and a divorced Protestant as con nubium adulterinum. The Prince of Hatzfeld did not lose his courage. He went to Rome, threw himself at the Pope's feet, and supplicated his Holiness to confirm his marriage with the Duchess de Reichembach. Gre gory XVI. was moved; and after having received from the Prince of Hatzfeld a solemn promise that he would support the interests of the Catholic-Church, his Holi ness validated the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Hatzfeld, and gave orders to the Prince-Archbishop of Breslau to give them the nuptial benediction, accord ing to the rites of the Catholic Church, which was ac cordingly done. For some time the Prince of Hatzfeld kept his word to the Pope. He placed himself at the head of the Catholic aristocracy of the province, and he constituted himself the protector of the clergy, who, in consequence of his intercession, obtained in a short time great privileges and considerable immunities. In consequence of this zeal, Pope Gregory XVI. conferred upon the Prince of Hatzfeld numerous decorations and other marks of distinction. After two years of marriage, the love of the Prince of Hatzfeld for his wife began gradually to cool, and this coolness increased to such a degree that at last he drove her out of his house, and obtained a divorce. At the same time he formed an in timate connexion with another Protestant lady, Madame de Bach, who had also the mishap to be divorced, and on the 6th of the present month of April he married her publicly in the Lutheran Cathedral of Breslau. On the following day the Prince Archbishop of Breslau pronounced a sentence of the greater excommunication against the Prince of Hatzfeld, in which, after reciting the above facts, he says—" Considering that his Serene Highness the Prince Germain of Hatzfeld de Trachem bourg and de Jaschkowitz has rendered himself guilty of polygamy, since, during the life of his wife, he has married another woman; that such an act should be punished the more seuerely from its being committed by a person so highly placed as the said Prince of Hatzfeld by birth, rank, and fortune, and whose example must necessarily have a great effect upon the people; that the Prince of Hatzfeld has shown a supreme degree of in gratitude to the late Pope Gregory XVI., who loaded him with favours and honours; that the Prince of Hatz feld, who was at the head of the Catholics of Silesia, has by his conduct covered his co-religionists with shame; that it is notorious that he has stated everywhere that he had no uneasiness about what he had done, and that by means of money he would obtain from the clergy the validation of his second marriage as he had the first: that it is necessary to prove to the public in a striking manner that it is an erroneous impression which is current in our country, that the clergy are always indulgent to the powerful of the earth:—We, Melchoir, by the grace of God, &c., Prince Archbishop of Breslau, in virtue of our archiepiscopal functions, and in conformity with the holy canons, but to our regret and with a profound grief, excommunicate the said Most Serene Prince Germain of Hatzfeld, as a public and obsti• nate contemner and transgressor of the laws and doctrines of the church; and we strike him with the anathema of the church, and with all the legal consequences of that measure, and that in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Breslau papers state that the Prince of Hatzfeld, on learn ing that sentence of excommunication had been pro nounced against him, intimated his intention of joining the Lutheran Church, but that by the advice of his friends he abstained from doing so, because the consequence would be that he would lose two of his richest and most valuable lordships. The Prince of Hatzfeld above spoken of is brother of the Prince of Hatzfeld Schoenberg, whose liaison with the Countess !ant" Meyendorff gave rise to a celebrated trial at Cologne 1 December last. -....--------......... e the Su n ' SUNDERLAND DOCK.—The directors of derland Dock Company have agreed with the ownersd for the purchase of all the property that will be creelitix ; of having rp for the dock and its approaches, and without the ~e „ A jury. The the 'value of any portion thereof assenssea '-', i t h r soil from part of contract for excavating the clay amt in ; re ,quired for the the town moor and the battery site of the new dock, will be let - t of the groynes by the ratbdyilennder in the course of a few days. The breach made l i a month ago, has been filled sea, during the tremendousangda ein order to guard against any up with solid masonry' ; are now employed in strengthening m parts an d s thereofthe entrance with solid to o similar accident, the three groynews brykrnrte:cnovinhstinruhct= mason u'. The oldeTEnr mediately pulled down, the site being ceasedChnasasltoGnguard. to be fortified, but river wear, required for tishetdbdocbk. the Coast has been occupia Y unAL SOCIETY.: .-- The concluding sluing liouTic uLT he ld yesterday afternoon, at the rooms in meeting wasGovan, Esq. Regent-street, when the chair was taken by R. The p 'zes awarded were, silver Banksian medals to Messrs. Tlreeekrsiand Wickham for specimen plants, and certificates of merit to I\ fr. Ayre for strawberries, and Mr. Donald fur two plants. From Sir T. Dyke Acland was a dish of new pota toes, grown without heat, and which did not appear to be affected with tie prevalent disease. prom Mr. Cuthill was a drain tile, made entirely of novel materials, being made of compressed peat moss, a substance considered to be particu larly eligible where clay or other material was with difficult) to be obtained. The extract from the Meteorological Register ' kept at the gardens since the last meeting, on tiie 20th April, ga ve, barometer, highest, 2'2d April, 30.064 in c h—l o west, April 29, 29.528 inch; thermometer, highest, April 25, 62 deg. F.—lowest, April 26, 20 deg. F.; and quantity of rain, 0.40 inch. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—One hundred non-commis sioned officers and men of the Royal Regiment of Artillery were medically inspected yesterday at the Ordnance Hospital, to hold themselves in readiness to embark for Canada, to augment and fill up the companies in that quarter of the world to the requisite strength. THE ARMY AND NAVY CLUB-HOUSE.—Yesterday the whole of the houses on the west side of George-street, St. James's-square, as well as several in Pall-mall, were being demolished, this spot having been selected by the committee for the erection of the intended Navy Club sew Arwy and PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. hi n ana J. Prime and J. Ross, grocers, Eastcheap—M. Cmg' - ' s o cl H. J. Carr, woollen cloth merchants, Leeds --A. Fowler and R. F. Swift, tin plate workers, St. John-street —C. Ki!lgliiin J. Emson, warehousemen, Bread- street, City—T. P. 6 1 1 M. and R. Lumley, ironmongers, Builth, Breconshira-- . r. f p. Whittaker and W. A. Trill, linendrapers, Blackheath ..0.„ Oxley, S. W. Sexton, and F. Wilde, dyers, Openshavf• na cashire (so far as regards J. P. Oxley )—J. C. Vaughan Pn. T. M. Chapman, fruit merchants, I3otolph-lane, City--, Trowbridge and J. S. Faulkner, brassfounders, Fore-strenvl Cripplegate—R. Roy, J. Blunt, jun., and D. G. Johnston e' ~,r. solicitors, Loth (so far as regards D. G. Johnstone)l4, Grace and T. Jepson, general merchants Leeds --R- ea et moot and T. P. Williamson —J. Clay and merchants, Cooke, lea'; cutters, Norwich —H. S. Smith and F. Perfect, share mb ice n i t' Leeds—J. George and J. Lambert, silk mercers, Rege ton street—T. Whalley and R. Shepherd, grocers, Faring ~.: Lancashire —J. Stuart, D. Stuart, and J. Stuart, mercbn.Y. Manchester —N. hllJ. Y. Ring, G. Thomas, J.''. Thomas, and J. S. Th o mas, vinegar makers, Bristol--„. Watson and J. Hamilton, drapers, Preston, Lancashire--" Dale and W. Dale, jun., bootmakers, London-wall —G. 131;2" bidge and G. M. E. Snow. auctioners, Moorgate-street, CAI W. B. Bragg_and D. Piikington, ship smiths. Liverpool -- • J. Finney and IL Polglase. engineers, Blackwell —G. GilkeS, G. Worsdell, an C. Pridham, ironfounders, Warrington, Lancashire —J. Beardsell, J. Beardsell, C. Beardsell, and I. Beardsell, fancy woollen manufacturers, Aldmondbury, LlM cashire—J. Turner and E. Wade, surgeon dentists, York. t T a C ilo H r, SEQUESTRATIONS. Edinburgh, ma y 12 Robert Henry,BCand June 2, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Junner, in urgh. Elizabeth M'Kinlay, grocer. Glasgow, May 10 an d June V , at twelve, at the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow. h 1 BUY -1 William Cameron, mere ant, Munlochy, Ross-shire, and June 1, at one, at the National llotel, Dingwall. coal master, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, May 7 a nd John Watt, 27, at one, at Eagle's Temperance Hotel, Glasgow. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, May 4. The House met at Five o'clock. FACTORY BILL. t hi s Bill 105 On the motion of Lord FEVER SHAM, st* read a first time ; and he gave notice that on the 14th to he would move that the Bill be read a second tiolle' Lord BROUGHAM hoped way the Noble Lord would permanently fix the Bill for that day, and not giv to any solicitation that might b e made for a further postponement of it beyond that date. The Earl of CLANCARTY gave n otice that h e would move an amendment on the Poor Relief Bill, L. COUNTY LUNATICS ASYLUM BIL •6 Lord CAMPBELL moved t he second reading of th is Bill. L or d VIVIAN had great objection to several clauses of the Bill, but he would not o pp ose the secondery reading. L or d REDESDALE said t he Bill was a vill': portant one, and shou ld not be hurried on with toc great precipitancy. FA CTORY BILL. Lord FEVERSHAM postponed th e second reading of the Bill until the 17th instant. NS . ASS EMBLING OF SQUADRO Lou Earl of HARDW ICK in q uired if it was the intenti? of the Government to assemble the squadrons in course of the summer? The Earl of AUCKLA ND confidently trusted Or! the Governme n t w o u ld, in the course of the suinmer,f; ena bled to a•semble a squad ron in the Channel un% the command of Sir William Parker and another in im Mediterranean. 1 1 i ~' • r. a~~": ~,: ~: .'u N AY, ~.~~ '~k Y'f . n l v. ' I