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TUB OUN . , 1. - 0N00144, WEDNTBSDAY rbtib xbttton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) ROUSE OF LORDS. ROOM A. Oa EAT ... NOR.THERN (HERTFORD, HAT- - _ PIE I. D, ST. ALBANS BRANCH). Their Lordships decided, on the conclusion of the case, that it would not be necessary for Mr. Sergeant Wrangharn to address the Committee on behalf of the preamble of the Bill, but it was thought desirable that some clauses should be introduced for the protection of the property of one of the opposing landowners. A clause was, after some consultation, tendered to the r Oommittee, which was agree d to b y t h e opposition, and the preamble of the Bill c , '‘ as delared to be proved. Room B. MANC RESTER, BUXTON, IYEATLOCIE AND BTZDX.A.ND TOLUCTION (DEVIATION). Their Lordships were occupied in hearing evidence in c.opposition to the proposed deviation. Room E. zavisraPooL, MANCHESTER, AND NEW CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION. Their Lordships declared the preamble of this Bill to be pro, ved. tine next Bill which the Committee decided upon proceeding with was THE EAST LANC lISHIRE • (SOUTHPORT BRANCH), evidence in favour of which occupied the Committee during the whole period of its sittings. Room F. 36 074D0N-BRIDGE TERMINI AND GENERAL ENLARGEMENT. Mr. Cubitt, C.E., and several other witnesses were examined in support of the proposed enlargement of the 'existing station at London-bridge. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. SA.LISEUILY AND YEOVIL—EXETER, YEO VIL, AND DORCHESTER—AND ELAND -7202&D AND IMOTON. The Committee met at the usual hour. Mr. Cock BURN proceeded to reply on behalf of the whole of above-named schemes. The Learned Counsel, in intro ducing his address, stated that he felt great pleasure in congratulating the Committee upon the speedy termina tion, upon this, the fiftieth day of the inquiry, of the protracted proceedings which had taken place with re spect to those Bills. The arguments were arranged under three distinct heads, and were enforced with the Learned Counsel's usual clearness, ability, and elo quence. Under the first head he proceeded to comment upon the evidence which had been adduced, in order to show the absolute necessity which existed for railway accommodation in and through tilt: district between Sa lisbury and Exeter. Tne claims of the South-Western Railway to s upply thi s di s t r i c t, on the grounds of its superiority over, and the conwdetition which it would afford, with the existing or proposed extensions of the Great Western Railway, were then most forcibly brought before the Committee. The attention of the Committee was next drawn to the consideration of the question whether any of the collateral questions which had been raised 'uy the competing companies in the course of the inquiry were such as to induce the Committee to with hold its sanction to that scheme which, under the second head, he had endeavoured to prove was the most entitled to obtain that sanction ; and, relying upon the weight of evidence which had been already adduced, the patience, the judgment, and the impartiality of the Committee, he had not the least mis giving,. as to the result of its decision. The Learned Counsel had not concluded his address when the Committee ro=e. GROUP XXX. .axizoLmE, (rnoivx LEEDS AND SELBY). The Committee met at the usual hour. S , rgeant KINGLAKE opened the ease for certain landowners whose property would be affected by the proposed line, and who were petitioners against the Bill. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. ABUSE OF THE RELIEF FUND IN IRELAND, (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said it would be seen by the report that the distribution of rations amounted to between three and five millions daily ; and looking at the diffi.ndt duties the relief committee had to perform, he could not help thinking that a great degree of credit was due to them for the systematic manner in which they hag fulfilled their functions. No doubt there had been several instant-s of gross abuse, but that was no more than was to be expected from the magnitude of the system of relief. It Was asked, why not have a general inquiry? He confessed that he did not think a general inquiry would be productive of good—a general inquiry over all Ireland, to ascertain who had and who had not per formed their duties with regularity and efficiency in the relief committees, would give rise to a good deal of ar‘iongst the gentry, would necessarily lead to acrimonious statements and counter statements, and he therefore did not think it at all ex pedient to institute a general inquiry into the conduct of the magistracy throughout Ireland. It would be much better, he thought, to leave' it to the officers of the Executive Government to eradicate these abuses than to resort to a general inquiry. He could not sit down without referring to what had fallen from the Noble Lord opposite, who designated the system of relief afforded by the Government as a general ;scramble. No doubt many of the landed proprietors of land had erroneously looked upon it in that light, and had felt that they were justified in availing them selves of in aid to the utmost extent. Lord CLEMENTS said he described the relief to be a (reneral scramble, because the GovernmeLt did not define the parties who were to be entitled to relief. Lord J. RUSSELL did not think the Noble Lord had mended his statement at all by the explanation he had just given, but he would not pursue the sub ject further, and he would sit down, expressing his belief that generally the magistracy and gentry of Ire land had performed their duty with cheerfulness and efficiency.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. lIA.SIILTON was unwilling to throw any blame whatever upon tne Relief Commissioners for publishing these charges, but they ought to have pointed out by names the parties who had been guilty of the dereliction of dut; complained hit He was, however, not disposed to support a proposition for a general inquiry, but he would giaolly support any motion which should have the e ff ce t of suvplyi,.g them with further i n f orma ti on on this painful subject. Atter a few words from Mr. WILLIAMS, Sir U. FERGUSON said it was difficult to recon cile the report of the Commissioners with the letters of Sir John Burgoyne, a:1 , 1 he thought, therefore, that the suggestion of the lion, Baronet the Member for Mallow ought to be agreed to.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. P. 130 R CFI vica" also thought it was the duty of the Government to supply the House with further information of the charges of the Commissioners. The subject then dropped. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. Messengers from the Lords brought down several Bills. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Sir G. GREY expressed a hope that before going into the order of the day for the second reading, the Hon. Member who had charge of the Bill would not press it upon the Huuse then, fur many Hon. Members had left town upon the understanding that the Bill would not be proceeded with in the present session. The Govern ment intended in the course of the ensuing session to take measures to prevent the frequent occurrence of accidents which took place in these mines and collieries. Mr. T. S. DUNdOSIBE said that he was very anxious teat this Bill should be read a second time, even if it should proceed no further, for it was one in which a very large and influential body of gentlemen in this country took great interest. Many accidents—and those of the most serious natuire—were constantly taking place, and he did think that it was quite time that some interference on the part of the Government was put in force. In many of these instances it had been proved that these accidents arose from neglect, and from the want of a proper system of inspection on the part of the Government. Besides this evil, it wad well known that the grossest impositions were practised upon the men, by a system of making them work by measure instead of weight, and this was particularly the case in Staffordshire and Lanca shire. The Acts which had been framed to supersede the payment of wages at a public house had been evaded by putting the men in cl asses , and p a yi ng them by w money order, which they would only get changed at the public-house, and by each man paying a ,certain sum for beer, as the charge for changing the money (viler. He could see no reason why an adequate protection slai "mid not be a ff or d e d to the labourers inminesas well as Ile t o the labourers in fa c t or i es. that the House an d the Government would allow this Ped Bill to be read a secorK l time, as its rejection would disappoint a great number of the industrious labourers of Great Britain. Colonel SIBTLIORP had had great satisfaction i hearing the speech o f the Hon. Gent leman, andhen o l n y regretted tile, in spite of all t he o pp osi tion offered by the Government, he did not trust to the support of the „Rouse, which would carry the measure through all its . stops. The Host, had brought be f ore L em the accidents which were liablo to take place i n min ,s and collieries; he might have added to these the accidents which had taken place, and were daily taking place on railways, and if the Government refused to in ve-tigrt,'e the causes of these accidents, he could only sdy that it would prove his opinion correct, that they were utterly unworthy of the position they occupied. Ile ten'lere.i his thanks to the Hon. Member for Fins bury f o r his Sin as far as it went, but he should have wisi.ed that he had carried its nrovisions further. He did :not always agree with he Iton, lilember for Fins bury , bat where the interests of the peoplP were con cerns d he trusted he had never been found backward in coming forward.—(Laughter.) Mr. LIDDELL felt called upon by a sense df ditty to move that the Bill be read a second ti; uc .that day three months. He was not less anxious than the Honourable Member for Finsbury .to adopt measures which would prevent accidents in mines an ,-1 ,toflieri,cs, but he would wish that measures for that f purpose should be - intiaicecl b 4 y proper authority. This Bill of the Hon. Member's was one of the most ridiculous in its provisions that it had ever been his fortune to see, and it required no great discernment to see that the Hon. Member had made the accidents that might happen in mines and collieries the peg on which to hang measures for the furtherance of his other objects. The Bill pro vided that three inspectors should have the power of superintending the working of mines and collieries in England, to examine into petitions, and to exercise a very extended authority under the operation of this Bill. Now there were three great coal fields in England—the Northumberland and Durham, the Staffordshire and part of Yorkshire, and the Welsh coal-fields, and there was, besides, the extensive coal fields of Scotland. If Scotland was to be taken into consideration, one of these districts would require to be a supernumerary one. He was unprovided with docu ments, and could not, therefore, say at that moment what was the number of mines and collieries in Eng land, but he believed that in Northumberland and Dur ham alone there were between two and three hun dred. Could it be expected that one gentle man could pay that attention to this district which was contemplated by the Bill? The other portions of the Bill were equally defective. He thought that the course to be adopted would have been to have a Select Com mittee appointed on the subject ; then, when they had certain and established facts before them, the Govern ment could bring in a Bill which would receive the at tention of the House, and be calculated to be of some real utility. He would move as an amendment that the Bill be read a second time that day three months. Mr. BERNAL said, that whatever absurdity was in the Bill, as the Right Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had stated, it could be remedied in Committee. He did not think that the number of commissioners ap pointed should form the entire ingredient in the conside ration. The Bill was intended to give protection to the lives, limbs, and fortunes of those who were engaged in these mines and collieries, and he thought that an attempt to remove the causes of those accidents, which were of such frequent occurrence in these places, was deserving of their best attention. He did not think, however, that it would be of any use in his Hon. Friend to press on the Bill to a Committee this session, but he was of opinion that he had acted rightly in bringing it before the House, as it would attract public attention to the subject, and be the means of getting a measure passed with reference to these evils in a future Parliament. Sir G. GREY said that his Hon. Friend who had just sat down asked what peril would there be in reading the Bill a second time? He (Sir G. Grey) asked of what advantage it would be to read it a second time if it proceeded no further ? (Hear, hear.) The Go vernment were fully alive to the importance of the subject, but he did not think it right that they should interfere so sweepingly as this Bill pro posed to do, for they would' be entirely preventing those who were most interested in the prevention of those acci dents from adopting such steps as it was their duty to take, and as they would take, in the absence of legislation. fie begged the House to suspend its decision on the Bill at present, as he believed such a course would lead to great public advantage, and while he admitted the duty of some Parliamentary interference, he thought the course he proposed would be the most judicious one under pre sent circumstances. Mr. BECKETT DENISON was not opposed to the principles of the Bill, but would suggest to the Hon. Member for Finsbury to adopt the suggestion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary, and withdraw the Bill for the present. Lord HARRY VANE concurred in that suggestion; for, by those means, time would be given for more mature consideration and more deliberate inquiry; and he believed his Hon. Friend would exercise a wise dis cretion in adoptine. it. Mr. WAKLEedid not know how his Hon. Colleague could adopt that suggestion. Every one admitted the principle of the Bill, and yet, beoause it related to the interests of the House, there was an extraordinary hesi tation manifested to incur the expense of carrying it into effect. If a Noble Lord lost his life by an explosion in a mine, he believed it would cause such a sensation that legislation would take place with regard to such accidents in the earliest part of the next session, and he was not sure but that it would not be mentioned in the speech from the throne.—(Laughter.) He thought they should not hesitate a moment to legislate upon this subject, for the cause of humanity demanded it. It was said there was not time to consider it. He would ask why there was not time? He saw no necessity for the House rising on any particular- day, and he trusted that this plea of want of time would not be made with regard to this measure. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought the subject was too im portant to be disposed of at the close of the session when there was not time to discuss it properly, and he quite concurred with the Hon. Baronet the Home Secretary in the propriety of withdrawing it for the present. Mr. AGLIONBY did not agree with the observations of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Finsbury. If the Government and the coalowners opposed the Bill the Hon. Gentleman would be placed in a most unfortunate position. He thought, therefore, as no good could arise from proceeding with it in the present session, that it would be better to withdraw it, and that the Government and the Hon. Gentlemen should well consider and revise the measure during the recess, and bring it forward in an amended state next session. He had withdrawn the Medical Registration Bill notwithstanding so many petitions had been presented in favour of it, and he could only regret that, on this occasion, he did not adopt a similar coarse. Mr. P. HO WARD also considered that the Hon. Gentleman should withdraw the Bill. At the same time he considered that the mines ought to be subjected to a more rigid supervision ; and as this could only be done properly by the Government, he trusted that they would support the principle of the Bill, and if he held a seat in the next session; he promised them his earnest support. Mr. FORSTER considered the Bill a most absurd one. Everything that science or art could supply had been taken advantage of by the owners of mines for the pur pose of protecting those in their employ from injury. They were not to blame, because nineteen out of every twenty accidents that occurred were caused by the care lessness of the workpeople themselves, and how could he prevent by this Bill carelessness on the part of workmen? Whenever an accident occurred the owners of mines lost several thousands pounds, and this was surely far greater punishment, if they were guilty of neglect, than the fine of 1001. Coalowners did not object to inquiry. —(Hear.) In fact, be thought that inquiry was necessary in order to set the public mind right in the matter. But if any interference was necessary it should be in the hands of the Government.—(Hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE said if the Government would give a pledge that they would bring in a Bid on the subject, no doubt the Hon. Gentleman would withdraw his Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY admitted that interference was necessary, and that it might be advisable to recommend legislative measures on the subject. The subject had received the attention of the Government, and would continue to receive their attention ; and if, on inquiry, they found that legislative measures were necessary, the Government would bring them forward. Many of the coalowners had shown the utmost desire to aid the inquiries of the Government. Mr. T. DUNCOIIBE said it appeared that he had to contend against a great body of coalowners, against nearly as large and as powerful a body as the cotton lords.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. M em b er f or D urham (Mr. Liddell) ridiculed his Bill, but he represented the coalowners—he was a coal-field in himself—(Laughter) —but when. he did so he ridiculed the report of the inspectors appointed to investigate the causes which had led to the loss of 73 lives in the Barnsley colliery, who recommended such a measure as the one be had brought forward. He had only done his duty in introducing the Bill; it contained no extravagant provisions, although some parties might think so. After the statements of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Home De partment he would cheerfully leave the measure in the hands of the Government. The Bill was then withdrawn. LUNATICS BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of ,he Lunatics Bill. Sir G. GREY trusted that the Hon. Member for Finsbury would not press this Bill at the present moment, as it contained provisions so absurd that the Hon. Member himself would object to be a party to them. It proposed, among other things, to place the care of luna tics in the hands of the bishops.—(Laughter.) Mr. 'l'. DUNCOMBE must confess that he was not so confident with respect to this Bill as to the last, but still the measure contained some excellent provi sions, and such as he felt convinced were much required. No one could doubt that the present lunacy law was most defective, and that under it many persons were confined as lunatics who were no lunatics at all. The present Bill was intended to amend the law, but he was afraid that at the present period of the session it would be useless to press the measure. He should, however, keep his eyes fixed on the commissioners under the present law, and if he was a Member of the House in another session, he should introduce a similar measure. Lord SEYMOUR defended the conduct of the com missioners. Mr. WAKLEY thought his Hon. Colleague had acted wisely in withdrawing the measure, and his only wonder was where he got it.—(Laughter.) The idea of placing the lunatics of the country under the care of the bishops was absurd. —(Laughter.) It was well known that religion often caused insanity. Pie was ready to admit that in some, nay in a great number of instances, lunatics had been improperly, if not cruelly treated, but he thought nothing of the sort had occurred since the present law was in existence. He thought that private lunatic asylums were objection. able, and he hoped shortly to see the day when they would be abolished altogether. Mr. V. SMITH said that the paid commissioners under the present law had ever since their appointment had their time constantly employed in visiting lunatic asylums, and he believed had, by their great exertions, effected considerable improvemert. He agreed that the s,,oner private lunatic asylums were abolished the better. ~..,:r_he Bill was then withdrawn. "k-)IjCTION AND PROSTITUTION SUPPRES r SPOONER moved the further cons id era ti on o f SION BILL. M. on this Bill. BERKELEY asked th e S ecretary of State for the Home Department if he allowed offer S any the lur. c report . i this Bill t o p ass ? t was n o t hi s i ntent i on to agreed to, and the Bill ordered to G y EORGE GREY sa i d o pposition to the Bill. r r o e s p s e o d r t WAS then . be T en h g e HO LYHEAD HARBOUR B ILL. On the question being put for going into Committee on this Bill, M r . IvILLIAMS expressed a hope that the Bill the present would not be I:).Tsevered in during .. sessio n ' d ture of public because it would involve A 11Selcss .expen i 1r hl °kin; the pro money, without producing the del ATii ) f • moters of the measure had in view. He begged to move that this Bill be committed that day three months. Mr. WARD said that he should very shortly answer his lion. Friend, for really the subject had been so re peatedly discussed, that it would be unnecessary to tres pass at any length on the House. It had been peeved that the harbour was a good one, and from the reports of the engineers, he believed that the termination of the oper ations would be satisfactory to the public. Those evils which had been complained of by the Hon. Member were founded in error, and perhaps existed only in his imagination. The gallery was then cleared for a division. On eur re-admission we found For the motion For the amendment Majority for going into Committee —Bl The House then went into Committee upon the Bill. The various clauses were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be reported to-morrow. THE WELLINGTON STATUE. Lord G. BENTINCK wished to put a question of some importance to the public, and which, he believed, that every man in the country would feel interested in He wished to know whether the Noble Lord and her Majesty's Government had not the strongest reason for knowing that the removal of the statue from the arch, and the retraction of her Majesty's grant of that site for it, would be in the highest degree distasteful and he felt even as an indignity to the illtntrious per sonage, whose great military deeds it was the intention of those who subscribed to that memorial to comme morate. Lord J. RUSSELL—I certainly received information from a gentleman who called upon me in Downing-street, that the Duke of Wellington had expressed to him in a letter that the removal of the statue would be considered by others as injurious to his reputation —or words somewhat to that effect. The letter was written a _ considerable time ago —in February—and since that time her Majesty has been pleased to order not only that a more fitting pedestal should be placed for the statue whenever this House should grant the funds, but also that whenever this House does grant the funds for that purpose, that the arch should be ornamented after the more approved manner in which triumphal arches were formerly ornamented, and ornamented in honour of the Duke of Wellington, and, in fact, to make it an arch dedicated to that illustrious personage, I cannot suppose that the Duke of Wellington can any longer entertain the feelings which he has expressed in that letter. Lord G. BENTINCK begged also to ask the Noble Lord whether he had not seen, under the hand of that illustrious personage, since the time when that noti fication was given to that House, an intimation to which he (Lord G. Bentinck) had before referred, and whether he did not know that a letter had been written, which left no doubt that the feeling of that illustrious individual was that the arch should remain unchanged. Lord J. RUSSELL said that since the intimation re ferred to by his Noble Friend had been first received from the Duke of Wellington upon this subject, they had received no further intimation of the feelings of the Noble Duke upon this subject, and, in fact, he did not himself believe that such was at present the feeling of the Noble Duke. It was always in the power of any person to ask the Duke of Wellington what were his feelings upon the subject, but he believed that the Noble Duke would consent to that site being made for the statue which her Majesty's Government thought most fit for it. Mr. Wakley, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Newdegate ex pressed their belief that it was the opinion of the public that the statue should be allowed to remain where it was. The subject then dropped. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Six o'clock. SERIOUS COLLIERY EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. Yesterday, about one o'clock, an explosion of fire damp, fatal in its consequences, we fear, to a number of persons, took place at the colliery, known some times as the Hier Patricroft Colliery, but more pro perly as the Kirkless Hall Colliery, near the boundary line of the townships of Ince and Aspull, on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool canal, about two miles from Wigan. The result of the accident, as far as we could learn, up to five o'clock yesterday afternoon, was the death of two persons, the very seri ous injury of eight or ten others, and the injury, more or less, of at least a dozen more. From information hastily collected on the spot, it appeared that the cause of the explosion arose from the blowing up a quantity of coal by one of the men, which set it on fire ; and before the fire could be blocked up or extinguished, the accident occurred. We must here state, on the best authority, that the firing of coals by miners, which is doubt less practised to save their own labour, is against the rule laid down by the proprietors of the colliery, and on this occasion was practised without their know ledge or consent. About half-past eleven in the morn ing, one of the men had been having a " blow up," and the consequence was the setting on fire the coal in that part of the mine,_which we are• told , is of a highly bituminous and inflammable nature. The under looker, George Evans, on the first alarm being given, directed all his efforts to extinguish the fire, collected his best men for the purpose, and sent several out of the pit for safety. The reports in the neighbourhood being much exaggerated as to the number of persons in the pit when the explosion occurred, it may be well to state that the pit is divided into two sec tions, one of which only felt the effects of the acci dent. In this section, we believe, thirty-two persons were the full complement employed, or sent down in ' the morning. Of these, six or eight were sent up, and had given in their lamps, and the remaining portion were at the place of the explosion. Alter an ineffectual attempt to put out the fire, all the efforts of the men appear to have been directed to the closing or building up that part where the fire was burning ; and the confinement of the air, and consequent stopping of the usual current in that direction, is supposed to have caused the explosion ; but the underlooker being severely in jured, and the other men on the spot knowing little of it, or being incapable of supplying any in formation, no positive facts can be at present stated. Immediately after the-accident, the efforts of all were directed to the getting out of the injured parties, and up to five o'clock twenty-three had been brought to the top of the. pit ; of these, two or three belonged to 'the other section of the mine. It was found, however, impracticable to prosecute the search with safety until the fire had been effectually blocked up ; but at five o'clock one man only was said to be missing. The following is, we believe, a correct list of all those brought up after the explosion, none of whom, it is said, escaped unhurt:— John Cartwright—dead. Joseph Wilkinson, a boy—said to have died on his way home. Robert Wilkinson, father of the above—seriously in jured. John Berry —very badly burnt, with no hopes of reco very. Very badly burnt—John Rhodes, George Evans, underlooker, Henry Rawson, John Riley, Ashmore, a boy, and Samuel Evans. More or less injured—William Dainty, John Rol croft, John Bolton, James Naylor, Joseph Penman, Eli Monk, William Jackson, Richard Currie, John Web ster, James Belshaw, John Mills, Thomas Laurenson, Samuel Simkin. Robert Southern, the only one said to be missing, and supposed to be dead.—Manchester Guardian of this day. The eE CounsellorGEo Lo GI s o : S State, T h E e r J d ournal , des .D - th g i a E n ts:p s a u n b t i L 9 lsh . rs the following letter, dated Odessa , the 1 University n orit Pro fessor of Geology at the Im per ial twho at this moment is travelling in the soui of It rl3l " ' ' lIIS*IB, f has discovered in a property situated to: the north of Odessa several skeletons of fossil animals of enormous dimensions. The skeletons are 83 in nßraber, viz., 6 elephants, 1 rhinoceros, 2 oxen, 4 stags, / antelope, 61 bears, 2 hyenas, 2 dogs, 3 cats, and a ruminating animal, species unknown. Those skeletons, together with the bones, were found under a thick layer of cal careous earth. The discovery made by M. Erdmann is the more remarkable, as hitherto there never has been any remains of the antediluvian animal reign discovered in Russia." The India mail was conveyed from Boulogne to Dover, yesterday morning, by the General Steam Navi gation Company's steam-ship Star; the time occupied from leaving Boulogne until the mail was landed at Dover having been 1 hpur 55 minutes only. ASIIBURTON.-It is with continued pleasure that we can report most favourably of the growing crops of potatoes in this part—not the smallest sign of the dis ease. The early sown potatoes are being taken from the ground, and are of an exceedingly tine flavour and excellent quality. ACCIDENT BY GUN COTTON. Monday evening Mr. W. Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital, on view of the body of If. Redford, aged thirty-three, who was in employment at the con• Breve rocket manufactory, of Mr. Q. Forsyth Wade, West-Ham Abbey-marshes, and who with Michael Gur• ney and H. Tuft, lost their lives by an explosion of gun cotton. J. Brayley, principal of the factory, having described ,he accident, Mr. Wade said he had the evidence of scientific gen tlemen to show that the accident arose from compressed air, which being overheated ignited the gun cotton. Mr. Edward Horton Wilmot, assistant lecturer, at the London Hospital, said that Mr. Wade requested him to prepare some cotton which would not take fire easily. He manufactured a quantity which he submitted to the weight of a 141 b hammer; the blows being repeatedly given. He believed that the accident arose from the compres sion of atmospheric air, which, being overheated, gave out its caloric, and set fire to the cotton, causing the explosion. This would ignite at a heat of from 320 to 350 degrees. He believed that every precaution was used to prevent an accident, both in the preparation of the gun cotton, which was made not to explode, and in the care taken to fill the cylinder, and his surprise was that one did wenn Mr. P. B. Wall, gunpowder manufacturer, said that he prepared the cotton, which was made weaker than usual. He believed the accident arose from compressed air. He has used the gun-cotton since October last, for making rockets, and has had only one accident, when a boy was injured. That occurred while using the monkey. lie has since used the lever, which gives a more gradual and regular pressure, and no accident has since occurred. When the explosion he alluded to took place, the cylinder or tube was about one foot long and two inches in diameter, and about ten ounces of cotton were rammed in the tube. He thought the gun cotton useful for artillery practice, and it possesses a far greater range of power. Dr. Letheby, lecturer on chemistry, said that it was j Ins oion the accident arose om trictn of he coton on th e m sides of the cylinder. fr Had it io taken t place by I BVENIMG, JUNE 80, C#44l. compressed atmosphere, being overheated, it would have happened before, as took place in the case alluded to by Mr. Wall. The CORONER summed up, observing that no blame was attributable to any one. Verdict—Accidental death. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE aq LORDS, June 29. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack shortly after Five o'clock. QUALIFICATION OF PEERS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This Bill went through Committee, on the motion of the Earl of ROSEBERY. POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL. The Marquis of LANSDO WNE then rose to move the second reading of the Poor-law Administration Bill. The object of the Bill, as their Lordships were doubtless aware, was to have the Poor-law Bill, which all, he thought, would agree was an excellent Measure, pro perly carried into effect. Hitherto certain individuals only had been entrusted with carrying out the provisions, but the present measure proposed to increase the means of carrying out its adminstration, by increasing the re sponsibility and number of the public functionaries under it. It was maturely considered whether the power to be exercised under this Bill should be vested under three Commissioners, or under one; but it was even tually thought that it would be better to vest it in the individual, and to have others joined with him in carry ing out the details of the pleasure. Another improvement suggested was, that the head of the board should have a seat in Parliament, and bs that means every explanation asked for would be given'ly a person who was competent to supply it, and so assimiate it to the Board of Control. The Noble Marquis cone uded by moving that the Bill be read a second time, and on an early day, should there be any objection 0 the details, an opportunity would be given for considering them in Committee. Lord BROUGHAM said that he adhered in all essen tial points to the great lass of 1834, and he believed the present Bill was an improvement in the machinery for carrying the Bill into effect. The Poor-law Commis sioners and their secretary, no doubt, were very ob noxious to those who were agitating the country by demonstrations and by invectives through the press, and it, therefore, was the duty of Par liament to see that they did not suffer the law to be carried oat improperly. He re gretted, however, that the Commissioners had not mani fested the firmness for whidm Mr. Chadwick and Captain Nicholls had been remarkable. The law had thus, in many instances, been imprtperly administered, or it had not been carried out in the spirit in which it was passed. The Conmissioners had not had the moral courage to stand ip for the pure administration of the law, owing to the wvere censure of the press. It was a most lamentable thiig that the Commissioners bad been dismayed by public chmour. If a man or a public body were innocent, those censures would pass them by innocuously, and as they had but a public duty to per form, they should not hive heeded those censures. The law was not framed to benefit the rich, but to benefit the poor, and the man who vould carry out the law in its in tegrity was the best frienc the poorcould have. They should have allowed these " ptper-pallets," as Cromwell ealled the attacks of the press, to pass over their heads un heeded, and not have succumbed to the clamour of anti poor-law demagogues and vituperative diatribes. When they came to debate the measure he should be ready to fully discuss the measure—he should then be ready, as mow, to condemn the conduct of those who had flincked from carrying out the principle of the law, whilst, at toe same time, he should be ready to bear his testimony to the merits of those who had performed the duties assigned to them in the proper spirit. Lord REDESDALE protested against that portion of the Bill which provid2d that the Commissioners should sit in Parliament as he considered no good would accrue irom it. He should say not content to the Bill. Lord CAMOYS advised the Government to well consider the 23d clatse. After a desultory conversation the Bill was read a second time and ordsred to be committed on Friday. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Baths and Washhouses Bill. Lord CAMPBELL stated that the object of the Bill was to provide baths and washhouses of such a cha racter as should be accessible to all classes of the people. The maximum churge.ss_ander thc,,,Act,. would be 6d. for a warm, and 3d._ for a cold bath. The Noble Lord ridiculed the idea that the baths and washhouses to be established by this Bill, would enter into competition with the baths at present in existence, which were only intended to be used by the wealthier classes of society, and urged their Lordships to adopt the clause. Lord MONTEAGLE opposed the clause on the ground that it was contrary to every just principle of economical science. The Bishop of LONDON supported the clause. He thought that a few private interests ought not to be allowed to interfere with the interests of the public at large, more especially with such advantages as were proposed - to be conferred by this - Bill. After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM, Lord STANLEY 'said that the 'establishment of public baths was of great public advantage. With regard to the erection of two classes of baths, it had been defended by the Noble Lord who brought forward the motion on the same principle as lunatic asylums, where one class of patients were charged, and the pro fits from them went to defray the charge of the poorer class of patients. He was prepared to support the clause as it stood, but would suggest the propriety of fixing a minimum as well as a maximum price. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE made a few obser vations which were inaudible in the gallery. Lord MONTEAGLE said that nothing had occurred to change the opinion he entertained, and being satisfied that he had done his duty, he would not press his objec tions further. The Bill then went through Committee. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 29. There being only sixteen Members present at Four o'clock, the House stood adjourned till to-morrow at Twelve o'clock. THE " NO-HOUS: ,The following Members we, took the chair, and the Lions quence of there not being 40 Bhrnard. Thornely. Brotherton. Duncan. Bowring. Hindley. R. Yorke. Kemble. E" YESTERDAY. re present when the Speaker le stood adjourned in conse- Henabers present : Greene. Hamilton. Pattison. Christie. Ward. Wakley. Trelawny. COMMITTEE on the NAVIGATION LAWS. The Select Committee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the operation of the navigation laws re-assembled on Thursday. The following mem bers were present:-Mr. M. Gibson (chairman); Mr. Liddell, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Ricardo, Sir Howard Douglas, Admiral Dundas, Mr. Hume, and Mr. LyalL Mr. Robert Anderson was examined. By Mr. Liddell-He was a shipowner resident at South Shields, and was chairman of the Shipowners' Society at that port. He had been engaged in the North American, the East and West India, the Medi terranean, the Baltic, and the coasting trades. He had a general knowledge of the operation of the navigation laws, and he considered that they afforded employment rather than protection to British shipping. The witness handed in a statement of the average rates of freight from 1817 to 1846 for timber from Quebec, deals and tallow from St. r.t...r.hurgh, and coals from Newcastle to London. In the first four years from 1817, the average rate of freight for timber from Quebec was 2/. I6s. 3d. per load; in the second four years it was 21. 7s. 6d. per load; in the third four years, 21. 9s. 49d. per load; in the fmirth four years, 2/. Is. lOid.; in the fifth four years, 14 18s. 9d.; in the sixth four years, 21. ls. 3d.; in the seventh four years, 21. Is.; in the eighth four years, ending in 1845, 1/. 14s. Bd.; in 1846 the average rate wts 1/. I9s. id.; and at present it was 21. ss. per load. The average rate of freight fur deals from St. Petersburgh was, for the four years com mencing in 1817, 41.35. lid. per load; for the next four years, 41. 3s. 9d.; for the next, 3/. 12s. 6d.; the next, 34 Bs. 104 d.; the next, 31. 9s. 6d.; the next, 3/. 65.; the next, 21. I ls. lid.; tho next, ending in 1845, 21. 19s. 4d.; and the average rate at present was, he be lieved, 41. 2s. 6d. per load. Mr. Mitchell-It appears from your statements that the rates of freight in the Canada trade, which was pro tected, hare fallen since 1817, while the rates in the St. Petersburgh trade, which was not protected, are the same now as they were in 1817 . ? Mr. Anderscu-It is so. By the Chairman-At present England had the whole of the Russian trade; but in consequ ence o f a l a t e treaty of reciprocity with Russia he apprehended competition with the vessels of that country, because the Russians allowed their new ships to trade to the Russian ports for the first three years without paying port charges, and they were allowed to come to this country on the lame terms as British ships. By Mr. Liddell-The various treaties of reciprocity Which had been entered into with foreign countries by successive Governments had proved very injurious to British shipping. He had before him a statement, which showed how these treaties, and the many other relaxa tions in the navigation laws which had been made from time to time, had affected the trade of Newcastle. The statement included the amount of shipping engaged in the import and export trades between Newcastle and Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Hanover, Oldenburg, the Hanse Towns, Holland, and Belgium ; in short, every c o un t r y, nort h o f F rance, ex cepting Russia, the trade with which he had stated Eng• had. Taking the average o f t h e years already and 1823, which w as p rev i ous to t h e dateslar'd 1820, re of many of the treaties with those countries, he found that there were entered inwards 99 British vessels, and 92 foreign vessels ; and that 330 British and 218 foreign vessels cleared out with cargoes. In the year 1844, 113 British and 332 foreign vessels were entered inwards ; and 587 British and 1,068 foreign vessels cleared cut with cargoes. In 1846, the number of British vessels entered inwards was 102, and the num berforeign vessels was 449 ; th e n u mb e r o f B r i t i s h vessels that cleared out with cargoes was 629, and the nu of number erof foreign vessels that cleared out was 1,379. The result of the 23 years was, that British vessels trading between the port of Newcastle and the foreign countries he had named had increased only 70 per cent., while foreign ships had increased 489 per cent. ' By Mr. Ricardo-During the last 30 years there had been an increase in British shipping, but not at all in proportion with the increasing trade of the country. The increase of sailing tonnage, exclusive of colonial, during that period, would amount to about 500,000 OEM Mr. Ricardo—Mr. Porter states that the sailing ton nage has, since 1824, increased 618,000 tons, and that the whole British tonnage has increased 1,500,000 tons. Examination continued—He would say that ship building has increased generally in the ports of the north of England since the passing of the reciprocity treaties with foreign countries. It had not increased in Newcastle, but it had in Sunderland. By Mr. Mitchell—He was aware that sugar was allowed to be imported into Prussia, in English ships, from Havannah and Cuba, but he did not consider that a proof that the Prussians treated us with more liberality than we treated them because it was a mere nominal trade. By Mr. Liddell—He believed that the shipping of the ports in the Adriatic was increasing in their trade with this country. By the Chairman—He thought that Parliament was right in adopting any measures which it thought calcu htted to benefit the people in the way of providing food for them or otherwise; but he did not think that the navigation laws hindered the importation of corn when there was no duty on it. By Mr. Liddell—He did not believe that freights had been lowered a quarter for corn since the navigation laws were suspended. Th.: Committee then adjourned. IMPORTANT LIBEL CASE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BEN CH—Dublin, June 24. THE QUEEN, AT THE PROSECUTION OF THE EARL OF LUCAN, V. THE HON. FREDERICK CAVENDISH. This was a criminal information, filed at the instance of the prosecutor, f or libels published of him in his ca pacity of Lieutenant of the county Mayo, and which ap peared in the Castlebar Telegraph, of which the defendant was the sole registered proprietor. Mr. Napier, Q.C. (with whom was Mr. Holmes), scated the case for the plaintiff. The libel complained of consisted of three articles which appeared in the ayo Telegraph of the 14th of O c t o b er . Th e fi rst a ticle, which was headed " Publi c W or k s ," a f ter a luding to the suffering of the people, went on to state 1 t at their hopes of employment were frustrated by the c nduct of the Earl of Lucan, who, in his capacity of li utenant of the county, convened a meeting of tt e magistrates of the county, at which resolu ti ns, prepared by himself, condemning the pro v sions of the Relief Act, were carried, and a deputation was appointed to proceed to Lon d a to remonstrate with the Government against t e provisions of the Act being carried into e ect. " This proceeding, suggested -by Lord Lucan, a d aided by the influence of other landlords throughout I eland, induced the Lord-Lieutenant to violate the pro v sions of the Labour Act, by which the employment of t e people has been so long postponed as to drive them i t some instances to acts of desperation which has caused t e shedding of blood." * * * "We do not hesitate to s' ay that Lord Lucan has exercised the influence he pos sOsses as lieutenant of the county to deprive the poor of that prompt relief whi c h th e L eg i s l ature prov id e d f or them. On his Lordship rests an awful responsibility, as bis remonstrance against the provisions of the Relief Act sinking under famine and disease." The next article referred to a letter inserted in another part of the paper from M. J. A. Browne, J. P., D.L., and stated that the Writer was entitled to public gratitude for the " expo sure of conduct extremely offensive, and of the most un heard-of nature, pursued by the - Earl of Lucan ; t,tie power that is conferred on Lord Lucan, as Lieutenant of the county, has been used by him in a manner insulting to the Roman Catholic clergy, and to gentlemen of property, of rank, and undisputed respectability ;" it concluded by recom 'pending a strong remonstrance to Government for the removal of Lord Lucan from the office of Lieutenant of Mayo. The third article complained of contrasted the donduct of Lord Lu ;an and certain magistrates in the county of Cork, with respect to their anxiety to provide employment for the people, and thus concluded :—" Hear it, famishing Roman Catholics of the barony of Carra— three Protestants—the landlord, his Caleb Quotem, and the rector of Agltsh, sitting in committee, for what pur pose may be easily inferred, from the fact that they would transact no business while your reverend clergymen Messrs. Geraghty and Curley remained in their presence l" The Earl of Lucan and some other witnesses were examined, after which Mr. BUTT, Q.C., addressed the jury for the defendant. He dwelt forcibly on the circumstances of frightful ne caiity iii,vvhich the country was situated - at the time the articles complained of were written. . Re thought the jury' would be 'of opinion that the charge of ,delaying the relief operation was no t t oo s t r on g t o have been brought against the Earl of Lucan, when the people were dying of starvation. In these articles, written by the Honourable Frederick Cavendish in his capacity as the editor of a newspaper, there was not one word of personal or private attack on the prosecutor. The charges made against him were in his public capacity, and the jury should not judge of those charges by the same rigid rule that they would judge of charges brought against private character. A justification had not been pleaded, because it would,be inconvenient,. and in its nature very. difficult to sustain ; but they would remember that the very moment he iought to show the circumstances con nected with the case, he was stopped by his Learned Friend ; and he begged to draw their attention also to the fact, that a letter of Mr. J. A. Brown, addressed to the Earl of Lucan, complaining that he and his father were excluded from a private meeting held at his (the Earl of Lucan's) residence, was not in cluded in the indictment, because the matters stated in it could be put in evidence. He begged of the jury to consider the circumstances under which the articles were written—they were written when the county Mayo was, in common with other parts of Ireland, reduced to a state of extreme destitution, when the people of that county were in a state which was a stigma on a civilized people. The Labour Rate Act—however inefficient it might be in many respects—was at that time the only means of saving the lives of thousands who were pe rishing with hunger ; and any step which tended to de lay the relief of the people then, no matter how expen sive the mode of relief might be, ought to be reprobated. If the jury put themselves in the place of the defendant when he wrote these articles, with the people perishing about him, their indignation would not be more mode rate than his at the conduct of the Earl of Lucan. Mr. Butt went through the various articles paragraph by paragraph, and contended that none of them were libellous. The Chief Justice, in charging the jury, read several passages from the articles complained of, and then said, that if the defendant meant to impute to Lord Lucan that he was actuated by mercenary views by postponing the operation of the Labour Rate Act, that was in the opinion of the court a libel. The question whether the articles were, in point of fact, libellous or not, was entirely for the jury. Upon that the court gave no opinion. The Chief Justice concluded his charge by expressing his re prehension of the practice of counsel making appeals to particular classes of jurors, as being of one religion, or as entertaining particular political opinions. He adminis tered justice without knowing the opinions of any man; and nothing was likely to be more prejudicial to the calm and true discharge of justice than appeals to pre- j udices and feelings which were associated with the reli gion or belief of any man. A EThe jury retired at four o'clock, and in an hour re turned to ask if the articles imputed corrupt motives, but there was no malice on the part of the defendant, did this constitute a libel ? The Chief Justice observed, that if corrupt motives were imputed the law implied malice. 'The jury retired, and a after a considerable time came into Court, and handed to the registrar their verdict of " Not Guilty." TRIAL FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. TUE QUEEN, AT THE PROSECUTION OF BROWNE CLAYTON, Y. HENRY LANAUZE, STOCK BROKER. Friday the Court of Queen's Bench was occupied the greater part of the day in hearing the above case, which arose out of the circumstance of the traverser having been charged with obtaining money under false pre tences, and for embezzlement of moneys entrusted to his charge by Mr. Browne Clayton, for the purpose of in vestment in Government securities, which moneys the traverser applied to his own uses. The jury found the traverser guilty on two counts, one of which charged him with embezzlement. The judgment of the Court cannot be pronounced until next term. The traverser in the meantime stands out on bail. HERTFORD MIDSUMMER SES- SIONS. Before the Marquis of SALISI3II RY and a full Bench 01 Magistrates.) THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY, APPEL LANTS; W. PARKER, ESQ., G. S. THORNTON, ESQ., AND _ . OTHER COUNTY MAGISTRATES, RESPONDENTS. This matter, which has been long in dispute, and exciting considerable attention in this part of the county, was again brought before the public in the shape of an appeal against a conviction by the Magistrates at Ware Petty Sessions. _ It appeared that the commencement of these proceed ings originated in an information laid by the Rev. W. Blakesley against the company, for not stopping a certain train previous to crossing the road at Amwell end, in the Hertford line, as directed by the company's Act, 7th Viet. cap. 35, which sta tes t h a t t h e " tra i n to and from Hertford and London shall in all cases stop within 150 yards of the said road of Am well-end," &c. The hearing under this information took place before the bench of Magistrates sitting in petty sessions at Ware, on Tuesday, the 15th instant, when the company was convicted, and a fine of 40s. inflicted. Against this conviction the company appealed to the sessions as above, the chief point in dispute being as to the construction or meaning of the word " stop,' which it was contended, on the part of the company, only meant a slackening of speed, and not coming to a complete and perfect standstill. For the respondents it was contended that the mean ing of the Act was that the stoppage should be " actual and entire," and which might be presumed from the 4th and sth Victoria (the company's original Act), when a " maximum speed" was prescribed as contradistinguished from " actual stoppage." The Bench con;ide‘ied that " actual and entire stop page" was meant by the Act, and accordingly confirmed the previous conviction THE LAKES.—The delightful village of Bowness has of late been a scene of bustle. At present it is un usually full of visitors. Although it is much extended, the accommodation is inadequate to the demand. The steamer on Windermere Lake is a great inducement, and of late has been very gay with parties in pursuit of pleasure and varied and romantic scenery. The facilities for visiting the queen of lakes by the " rail," and other means, are so great, that numbers are induced to take a peep in the morning at the beautiful scenery of the lake district, and return to their homes in the evening.— Carlisle Patriot. LA WINTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'SC - o — thi T — , -- iune 29. (Before Sir L. SHADWRLL.) HANSARD V. HANSARD. Mr. J. Parker, with Mr. Rolt and Mr. Southgate, applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant, James Hansard, late partner in the firm of Hansard and Co., printers to the House of Commons, from direct ing the sheriff of Middlesex to sell the household fur niture and stock-in-trade, now upon the premises in Great Turnstile, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in pursuance of a writ of execution issued on the 19th of May, 1847. The defendant, who was lately at the head of the firm, and is the father of the plaintiff, about the year 1844, being desirous of retiring from business, agreed with his son Liake James, the present plaintiff; who was also his partner, that the stock should be valued, and his (the father's) proportion awarded him. Upon a valuation of the stock being taken, it was ascer tained that the defendant was entitled to a sum of 22,261/. 19s. sd. It was then agreed by deed, dated the same year, that this sum should be paid to the defendant in half-yearly instalments of 1,500/., with interest up to the day of payment. There was also a second agreement, by which the plaintiff undertook to pay to the defendant an annuity of 4001. by quarterly payments. The due payment of the whole was secured by a warrant of attorney, with judgment signed, on which the defendant, in case of default being made in payment of one instalment, or of one quarterly payment of the annuity, was empowered to issue execution for the whole sums respectively. In March last the quarterly payment being in arrear, the defendant issued execution immediately, upon which being done the plaintiff paid the 100/. into Messrs. Hoare's bank. Under these cir cumstances, it was contended by the son, Luke James Hansard, that the defendant had no power to issue exe cution, and the present application for an injunction was accordingly made to the Court. It was contended by the defendant that he was entitled at all events to issue execution for the rent due on the premises, which still belonged to him; and also that the defendant's object was to preserve the property. It was stated that the son had been recently neglecting the business, and had incurred considerable expenses in starting and conducting a weekly newspaper, called the Spirit of the Times, of which he was the sole editor. Mr. Bethell and Mr. Busk appeared fur the de fendant. The counsel for the defendant has not been heard, but it was arranged that the second motion should come on at the same time. HANSARD V. HANSARD. This was a motion to dissolve an injunction granted by his Honour on the 3d of June, restraining the defen dant, Luke James, who was plaintiff in the suit above mentioned, from interfering in the affairs of the part nership, except under the direction of the Court, or ne gotiating bills in the name of the firm. The plaintiff in this suit is Henry Hansard, the cousin of the de fendant, with whom he has been in partnership, as the plaintiff contended, for several years. A deed had been executed by which Henry Hansard con sented to advance a sum of 2,0001. as a contribu tion to the stock in trade, in consideration of which he was to be admitted as a partner, with one-twelfth share in the profits. The defendant, in consequence, as it was stated, of certain eccentricities, was dismissed from his situation as printer of the House of Commons, and his cousin, the plaintiff and partner, was appointed in his stead; shortly after which event the plaintiff caused to be inserted in the daily journals an advertisement an nouncing a dissolution of the partnership. In reply to this statement the defendant immediately caused to be inserted in the Morning Herald, of the 21st of May, an advertisement denying that any dissolution of the partnership had taken place, and threatening to take legal proceedings against the plaintiff for having made such a statement. Mr. Stuart and Mr. Green appeared against the motion. Both motions were adjourned at the rising of the Court POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Joseph Boah, a warehouseman at Mr. Lloyd's, printer, Salisbury-square, was charged with robbing his em ployer of a quantity of cheap publications, and Thomas Harman, a shopman at Mr. Berger's, a bookseller, in Holywell-street, was charged with receiving them, know ing them to be stolen. The prosecution was conducted by counsel. The Learned"Ginfleirtan (whose name we did not catch) stated that his client issued a number of cheap pe riodicals, and the prisoner was employed in delivering them to the trade when they came to purchase at the premises, another person taking the cash, to facilitate business and to prevent embezzlement. The evidence would show that, on several occasions, Mr. Berger's man had come with a list of periodicals, and had been served with them, it was supposed, by the prisoner Boak, who then called out to the cashier to take a sum less than the actual value of the books. It was presumed that the two prisoners subsequently shared between them the difference between the real value of the goods and the price actually paid, though this could not be shown. Mr. J. G. Berger, of 19, Holywell-street, Strand, stated that, as clerk to his father, it was his duty to make out the lists of periodicals wanted, and to send for them. On the 9th instant he sent the prisoner to Mr. Lloyd's for publications of various kinds, to the amount of 11. 11s., and he brought them home correctly. Oa the 16th he sent him for goods to the amount of 1L 4s. Bd. ; on the 23d to the amount of 175.8 d. ; and on the 24th to the amount of 10s. Ild. He brought them home correctly. To prove that by the direction of the prisoner Boak, smaller sums had been paid, the cashier, Anthony Ber ridge, an aged deaf man, said on the 16'h he received 11. 2s. from the person who paid in the name of Berger. Mr. Alderman WOOD asked him if it was the prisoner Harman who paid him that money? The witness said he could not recollect. He knew the prisoner, as he did a great many more, by sight, but without knowing in whose employ they were. The prisoner was not the only per son who delivered goods. Mr. Alderman Woon said there would be a legal dif ficulty in prosecuting, in such a state of things. It might not be the prisoner Harman that received the goods, nor Boak that delivered them. It was not shown that Beak received any money. The counsel said he could go farther. Charles Wilson, in the service of Mr. Lloyd, deposed that on the 9th and 16th he watched Harman from Holywell-street to Mr. Lloyd's, and back to Holywell street, anti saw that he neither bought nor sold any books on the way. Mr. Lloyd stated that he was watching the prisoners on the 9th. As soon asHarman left the premises with the publications, Boak followed him, and they went together into a public-house round tne corner. lie did not know what passed between them there, for he re turned to see what sum Harman had paid to Berridge, knowing he could ascertain as precisely the sum he ought to have paid. Mr. Alderman Woon said the evidence was incon clusive. The difficulties had not been removed, and he must discharge the prisoners. Anna Sophia Longfoot, a woman about 40 years of age, was charged with begging in St. Paul's Churchyard, she having at the time a savings' bank book in her pocket, with deposits to her account to the extent of 361. Mr. Alderman WOOD committed her to Bridewell for a month, and ordered her maintenance to be defrayed out of her deposits. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. George Dickens, a chemist, was charged with having stolen bank notes and gold, of the value of 5.51:, the pro perty of Mr. Ferdinand Arundel. The prisoner and prosecutor lodged in the same house in Great Titchfield-street. The prosecutor received a sum of money from Bristol, which he placed in a carpet bag, in his apartm en t. During his absence th e apart merit was entered, the lock of the bag forced open, and the money taken away. The prisoner left his lodgings suddenly, and at the time was in arrear for rent. The prisoner was traced to have left a sum of money, in notes and gold, at the house of a publican, in High-street, which sum he afterwards drew out of the publican's hands. It was presumed that this money formed a portion of the property stolen from the prosecutor's carpet-bag. The explanation of the prisoner was that his father in-law had sent him recently a sum of upwards of 30/., and that this was the money which had been left in the hands of the publican. The prisoner's father-in-law was called, and he said he had sent some bank notes and other money to the prisoner. This witness prevaricated in his statement on cross r examination, and gave such contradictory accounts of the circumstances under which the alleged remittances kook place, that Mr. Bingham said he should not place , the least dependence on what the witness stated. He did not believe a word of the evidence of the witness about his having sent money to the prisoner, and there fore the defence fell to the ground. A police-constable, who had been to Derby, where the prisoner's mother lived, said that the prisoner and his father in-law had been at variance for some time. The prisoner's mother had remitted him a pound or two only. Mr. Robinson, who attended for the prisoner, said he should call witnesses to prove that the prosecutor was never in possession of the sum of money which he stated he had lost. In that case he presumed the Magistrate would not detain the prisoner. Mr. BilicHA.3l said he should certainly commit the prisoner fur trial. If it were shown that the prosecutor could not have lost the money, he should still commit the prisoner for having property supposed to be stolen i n his possession. Mr. Robinson then proceeded to question Mr. Arundel with respect to the money he said he had lest. Mr. Arundel stated that he had formerly been i n business at Bristol, and had been obliged to comp oun d with his creditors. A young man named Beard, formerly in his service, had been iu the habit of sendine hi m sums of money from time to time, to satisfy the creditors. 11,. had received upwards of 601. recently in this way, and the money lost formed part of the money remitted. Mr. Robinson said he wished for further time to make inquiry into the truth of this statement. Mr. BINGHAM consented to give the prisoner till Thursday next to make the requisite inquiries. A second charge was then brought forward. Mr. Edward Taylor, surgeon, Skein. surgeon, in C the e te n n e h w alu sp - a c p o e m rs m t o h n e , said the prisoner was in his empl o y at the commence out ut recollected a a letter, gentleman that for n i ment of the present year. particulars of his apprehension, he January last he missedacehneq remitted 1 18s. This cheque had been named Brereton, and witness had subsequently ascer tained that the prisoner h a d changed the cheque at a tradesman's shop in Clapham. Mr. William 13rewington, boot maker, High-street, said the prisoner brought a cheque to his shop, which cheque was cashed by Mrs. Brewington, in his absence. The prisoner called some time afterwards and asked if the cheque was all right, 'y ~ The prisoner was ordered to be brought up again on Thursday on this charge also. WORSHIP-STREET. Thomas Smith, a hawker of earthenware, was charged with having attempted to s t rang l e a young woman, named Mary Montgomery, and also with feloniously cutting and wounding her mother, whereby her life wag seriously endangered. The younger complainant, who exhibited a livid and extensive discolouration of the throat, stated that she had been living with the prisoner as his wife for the last eight months, and had suffered the most brutal ill-treat ment at his hands, during nearly the whole of that period. On the preceding afternoon he came home, and after beating her in an unmerciful manner, and declaring that he would murder her outright, he forced her down upon the bed, and passing a thick cord round her neck, compressed it till she was on the point of strangulation. On hearing her cries, her mother ran in to her assist ance, but the moment she entered the prisoner exclaimed with an oath, " that he would do for her also," and snatching a knife from the table, rushed towards her and made a desperate blow at her head. She instantly stag gered back into the yard bleeding profusely from a fright' ful gash above the temple, but was saved from falling by some of the neighbours, who conveyed her to the house of Mr. Wildbore, a surgeon, in Shoreditch, where the wound was dress e d, and she was afterwards remo ved to the hospital. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS• LIVERPOOL, JUNE 29. STOCK Exclisicox.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 11. 18s. 9d. dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 1 1 4 dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 7 3 / 4 p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preference, 21 p.—Chester and Birkenhead, 40 1 / 2 —Ditto, New 20/. Shares, 2 1 4 dis.—Eastern Counties, 21 1 / 2 —Ditto, York Extension, par—East Lancashire, New, )4 p.—Ditto, New (scrip), 6s. 3d. p.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 73—Ditto, Halves, 7 1 41 1 1 ", Great Northern, 1% dis. ex int.—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 2 1 / 2 p.—Ditto, Extension, % p.—Lancaster and Preston, Quarters, 13 1 / 2 —Leeds and Dewsbury, 4 1 4 p• -- Leeds and Thirsk, 4% dis.—Ditto, Preference, i% cester and Bedford, % dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Soup port, 1 3 / 4 p.—London and North-Western, 186—Ditto, New Quarters, 16% p.—Ditto, Quarters (G. J.), 18!,‘ Ditto, 401. Shares (L. and M.), 29 p.—London, Manchester. and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 7% p.—Manchester and Leeds, 321. Shares, 3 / 4 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), Ai p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 1, 23—Ditto, Eighths, 1 1 4 dis.—Midland Stock, 134—Ditto, 401. Shares, 8% p.—Ditto, New, 4 3 4 1 ) - -- Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 1 4 p.—North British, Quit . : ters, 1% p.—Ditto, New, Quarters (scrip), p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—North Union (A), 213—North-West . ern, 1 dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester, New, ls. 3d. IN --- Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 91. 12s. 3d. Sharee(l3), dsi.-- Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 1% dis.—South-East ern and Dover, 37 3 / 4 —Ditto, New, No. 4, % dis.--South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, 1 ,4 dis.—York and New: castle, Preference, 5 p.—York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extension), 13 1 / 2 p.—Dutch Rhenish, 3 dis. MANCHESTER, JUNE 29. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are--Ambergate, Not- STOCK tingham, and Boston, 1 1-16 dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashire. and Cheshire, 1 1 / 2 dis.—Birmingham and Oxford Junction. 7 1 / 2 p.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., Preferentials, 1% IN — Bristol and Exeter, 3 3 / 4 dis.—East Lancashire, New, 1 / 4 Pe"" Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 1% dis.—Hudders field and Manchester R a il wa y an d C ana l, 2 7-16 p.—Ditto. Thirds, 9-16 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, New, 3 1 / 2 dis.—Ditto , Preferentials, 1 / 2 dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester , 3 1 / 2 p.—London and North-W es t ern ( M anc h es ter and Bir• mingham), Quarters (B), 7 p.—Manchester and Leeds, 32/. Shares (late Extension), 7-16 p.—Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 1 / 2 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln• shire, Quarters, No. 1,3% p.—Ditto (Sheffield and Lin colnshire), 2% dis.—Manchester and Southampton, 1 5-16 dis.—North Staffordshire, 3 7-16 p.—North Union (13), 141 —North-Western, 1 dis.—Oldham Alliance, 1-16 dis.-- Shropshire Union, 1% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 1, 1 p.—Ditto, No. 4, % dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference. 5% p. LEEDS, JUNE 29. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, 10s. dis.—East Lancashire New, ss. dis.—Ditto, New (scrip), 2s. 6d. p.—East and West Yorkshire, 1U n. Great Northern, 1% c. dis.— Huddersfield and Manchester, 1 3 4 p.—Ditto, Thirds, 15s. n. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 49 e• p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 5% dis.—Ditto, Preference, 13 s• Leicester and Bedford, ss. dis.—Malton and Driffield Junc tion, 12s. 6d. dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Halves (late B ud. and Sheff.), 2% p.—Ditto, Quarters, 3% p.—Ditto, ~21- Shares, ss. p.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 1 4 P. --da r chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, ls. 6d. dis.—Mrd! land, New, 81 p.—Ditto, Preference, 4%p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 3 p.—North British, Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto, Ex tension, 2s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, p,—Nort hern Counties Uniun, 3 c. dis.—Oxforn, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 1 1 / 1 , dis.—Shropshire Union, 1% c. dis. — South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole, 10s. dis.—Wharfdals Jan e ' tion, 19s. dis.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 434 P. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Juxu 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great Northern, 1 ..% dis.—Liverpool, Manchester, an d N ewcas tl e Junction, 3 1* 6d. dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 112—Ditto, New (scriP)t 114—Newcastle and Berwick, 9 4 p.—Ditto, 14 HULL, JUNE 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 24s.—Blackburn, Clitheroe, Pre ference, 375. 6d.—Manchester and Leeds (West Ricu n g Union), 7s. 6d. p.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 1?•-• - , North British, Quarters, 975. 6d.—Ditto, Extension (serif:Vv. 3s. c. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—South Staffordshirs, par. SHEFFIELD, Arm' 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are—Ambergate, Notting ham, and Boston, 1% dis.—Eastern Counties, York Exten sion, dis.—Great Northern, 265. dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, % dis.—Manchester and Lincoln Union, 295. • 6d. dis.—Manchester and Leeds ( West Riding Union), 11 4 .—Manchester, She ffi eld, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby an R Sheffield), 64 dis.—Ditto, 201. Shares, 435. dis.—Ditto, 121. 10s. Shares; 28s. dis. —Ditto (Sheffield and Lincoln), 48s. dis.—Newcastle and Berwick, New, 3 1 / 11 p.—North-Western. 3 dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 225. dis. EDINBURGH, JUNE 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, Airdrie and Bathgate, 31. 10s.-Arbroath and Forfar, 27/. 55.-Ditto, Halves, 151.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. 25.-Cale. donian, 301.-Ditto, New, 21. 3s. 6d.-Caledonian and Dum bartonshire, 1!. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 421. 103.-Dee side, 3/. 55.-Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, 11. 7s. 6d.. -Dundee and Arbroath, 381.-Ditto. New, No. I, 27/. 10.3. -Ditto. New, No. 2, 301.-Ditto, New, No. 3, 31. 2s. 6d. -Dundee and Perth, 321. 10s.-Ditto, New, 131. -Eastern Counties, 20/. 12s. 6d.-Ditto, York Extension, 71-East of Fife, 1/. 18s.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 71. 153.-Edin.. burgh and Glasgow, 691.-Ditto, Halves, 221.-Ditto, Qum.. ters, 171. 3s. 9d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 181. 10s. -Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 181. Bs. 9d.-Ditto, New, 3/. IN.-Ditto, Newport, 71. 10s.-- Ditto, ditto, New, 2/. 125.-Edinburgh and Perth (Nary Co.), 1/. Is. 6d. -Glasgow and Ayrshire, 120/.-Dittai, New Stock, 411. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 81. 195.-- Ditto, Halves, No. '2, 61. 155.-Glasgow, Dumfries, e.nd Carlisle, 5/. 45.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 39/.-Glasgow General Terminus, 12/. 155.-Glasgow and Greenock, 17/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 81. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 81.--Glasgow. Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4/. 55.-Great North of Scot land, 11. 17s. 6d.-Newcastle and Berwick, 281. 2s. 6d. North British, 33L-Ditto, Halves, 15/. 55.-Ditto, Thirds, 2/. 125.-Ditto, Quarters, 4/. 135.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 15s. 9d.-Ditto, Fifths, 61. 10a.-Scottish Central, 27/. 17s. 6d.-Scottish Grand Junction, IN.-Scottish Mid. land, 181. 10s.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 51.-Stirling and. Midland, 2/. 65.-Wishaw and Coltness, 491.-York and. Newcastle, 37/. 155.-Ditto, New, 151. 17s. 6d.-Ditto, Pre ference, 11/. 12s. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras, 2s. -East Indian, 2s. 9d.-Great North of, India, 2s. Great Southern of Madras, 25.-Madras, Nellore, and Ar cot, ls. 6d. GLASGOW, JUNZ 28. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 43a -6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 49/.-Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 675.-East Indian, 35.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves., 224, -Edinburgh and Northern, 16-:I a sg Baja-Glasgowo -Glasgow, , Haru Kilmar nock, and Ayr, 120 L-Ditto (5 per cent. guar.), 42/-Dittc h Halves, No. 2, 61. 1 ls.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 54. Bs.-Glasgow and Greenock, Halves, Mineral, 345. 6d.-Manchester and Southampton, 155.-Midr land, Halves, 97 1 ) i -North British, Thirds, 535. , Quarters, 933 .-South-Eastern and Dover, New, No.. 1 4, 4 3 / i -Wishaw and Coitness, 4814-York and Newcastle, P"re ference, 1258. MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—The ballot or the eloctiefa of a managing committee for the Middlesex Hospital„ measure recommended by a large majority at the ge,ne ral meeting of the governors on the 7th of May last, will take place on Thursday next, the Ist of July, bot ,weets the hours of two and four o'clock in the afterne i c sn. It is necessary that the governors of this excellent,. ;.nstitu tion should understand that the interests of the :hospital require their support, for the list of governor s recom mended in the requisition signed by the Duke of North umberland, Viscount Beresford, Lieutenant-Gene ral Sit James Bathurst, Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Sir _Robert Harry Inglis, and other influential governors of the hospital. The names contained in the above list are die same as those originally proposed by the Hon. Capt'Ain Maude, R.N., and we are informed that his Royal W.W.I ness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his in.terinon , to attend and support the list which has received Coe re commendation of the Duke of Northumberland and the' governors above mentioned. BIRTHS. On the 29th inst., in Chatham place, the wife of M.- Saward, Esq., of a daughter. On June 21, at Abercrombie-place, Edinburgh, M ll6 Robertson, of a son. On June 24, at Kynaston Lodge, Harrow-weald, the lady of Charles Appleyard, Esq., of a daughter. On June 25, at Fruit-hill, county of Londonderry, Ireland,. Mrs. Edward Senior, of a daughter. On June 23, at Paris, the lady of George Henry Esq., of a daught er . On June 26, a t U pper Cl apton, t h e l a d y o f Alfred K.— Barber, Esq., of a son . On June 26, a t H ast i ngs, M rs. G . Ri v i ngton, o f a son. On June 27, a t D over , M rs. J . H aseld i ne, o f a son . On June 27, th e l a d y o f R alph Char l es P r i ce , Esq., Of Sydenham-hill, of a daught er . Strutt,. On June 27, the lady of Henry Carling, Esq., of Raw A gate, of a son. On June 28, in Upper Gower-street, Mrs. Walter J os ephs, of a daughter. On June 28, at St. Helen's-place, the wife ' ,f George da Bosco Attwood, Esq., of a son. On June 28, at Campden-hill-villas, Kensir s gton, the Wife of the Rev. W. J. Kennedy, of a son. D On June 26, at St. Margaret MARRIE 's, , West:ninr,ter, Mr. Jac Philps, of Dorking, to Harriet Margare:t Wr A rd, of Trevor — square, Brompton. On June 26, at Trinity district chr, re b, "i'wicken ham, Jap l Temple Bowd o n ' , E sq ., l ate Capta' of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guard s , t o Eli za b et h, turd daughter of Sir Wm. illia Clay, Bart., M.P., o f F u l we ll I , oc l' ge , Middl esex . m On June 22, at Ramsggi a ., DIED. Colonel IL J. liudlestor. On June 24, M IT M r. ugridge, of the Postern - perkr Harriet, the wife of Lieutenant -. Tunbridge, Kent. On June 25, J. latlewood, Esq., of Wood-street, Cheapside. On Jane 26, Louisa, second daughter of the late Thoma/A Ridge, Esq., of Great Yarmouth. On June, 26, at Bruges, in Belgium, George Rix Cart is/ Esq., aged 69. On June 27, at Hastings, William Broadbent, Esq., O f Lawrence-lane, City, aged 67. ~' -- -_— ------ •:. --- London : Printed and Published by MIDIDO YOUNG. 01 F itr. 11Z' oot Strand, Printe r , .t The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, In the' free of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, IVednefik j, 30, 1847. •" vic api ma Co Du Ted Sato Satu depa Rege ALB TIU Mos July 8 Stati 9 All will Annt the I vous from Cons' the c Th tion ; durir perk busin tte prep Til filly Ward M. atree table plain the r and 1 With in th 31 4 of W viliil( Bevel of in until good M. Jams table COrni of ti in th rood tioui 31 Men