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NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " TIIE RANSOM." Just ready, in 3 vols., post Sao , K IRKHO LAI lel PRIORY; or, Mo:lern Heroism. By the Author of " The Ransom." Riella:d Bentit%y, New Burlington-street." P.AILWAY SILkitES Pt;111.1C SALE ALUCATItiIIO(2ENEPitS, Ü b i e lti g to Co th — ank AthleiLr I LIIAIiE F‘Trize‘nds Ind the Public tor their continued support and patromage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Ball of Commerce, Threadneedle -street, London. to which place, favours, containing Instructions (with a reference), are respectfUlly requested to be addressed. 4111 Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day Previous to their being offered ; awl advlces 01 results will be lorwarded by the first post after the tale, and the proceeds lame- Stately disposed of acco•rding to instmctions. Otilces, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle -street. London. ------- HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility. Goutry, Subscribers is the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed, that this Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON on TUESDAY EVENING Next, Feb. 16th, when will be performed Donizetti's celebrated Opera of FAVORITA. Fernando, Signer Gardoni (his first appearance in this country); Alfonso xi. (King, of Castile), Signor Superchl (his first appearance) Baldassare, Signor Bouche (his first appearance) ; Leonora, Mdlle. Sanchtoll ; Ines, Mdlle..Nascio (her first appearance in this country). . . . . . After which a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaux, ItY Mr. Paul Taglioni, entitled CORALIA ; or, THE INCONSTANT KNIGHT. Coralia, Mdile. C. Rosati (her first appearance); the Knight Bul debrand, M. Paul Taglioni ; Squire, M. Gouriet; Bertha, Mdlie. Petit ; Page, Mdlle. Honore; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fraisendin, M. Venefra; Fisherman, M. di Mattis. THEATIU ItoYAL, Marla-LA-SE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreyille, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. Horncastle; Ardenford, Mr. W. Harrison; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss It. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After which, the new Ballet, callad THE PRETTY SICILIAN. Count Amede, M. Croce; Rosella, Mlle. Baderna. To conclude with the Last Act of DER FREISCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. King; Caspar, Mr. Stretton ; Zamiel, Mr. Payne ; Linda, Miss Messent ; Rose, Miss Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Ilumby, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and " rlelen" Polkas, &c. To concludo with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, 'disc P. Horton, NI rs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. Tiir.ATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. TILLS EVENING Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called .£5OO REWARD. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meadows, Emery, 11. Butler, Miss Pillars, and Miss Forster. Alter which a new Farce, called THE WIGW A.M. Characters by Messrs. MatthewA, o.therry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To be followed by the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Captain l'opham, Mr. Wigan; Dabster, Mr. Keeley; Miss Fanny Curry, Miss Dickinson. To conclude with the Farce of MRS. WHITE. T(I EAT r. E ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Rill be performed the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. With the original cast. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA (]!SELLS, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; or, the Wilis Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, 31r. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullen Ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, 11;ss Emma [larding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Bellini's Opera Serie, entitled NORMA. Pohl°, Mr. Allen ; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Flavius, Mr. Wynn ; Adelgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke; Norma, M as In the course of the evening Professor HEM Si ING and his ta -1 rated ILDRE N will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform •• The Ante rizan Polka," Introducing " The Railroad Overture." To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en- HUM The ENCHANTED BE IUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; er, The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Columbine, Miss Burbidge ; Sprite, Mr. U. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. MONDAY EVENING Will he performed a new Drama, entitled MARIE ,TE ANNE ; on, La Femme du Peuple. Bertrand, M. Langewal ; Marie Jeanne, blrllle. Clarisia. To conclude with the Play of L'AUBERGE DES ADRETS. Robert Macaire, M. Lemaitre ; Clementine, Mdlle. Fotupet. During the piece, M. Lomaltre will dance " La False de Fanit." Boxes, r,s., Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-pact Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN CERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing i 'heir Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, Tlll3 EVENING (Saturday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, arid the Entertainment com mences at Halt-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Due notice will be given of their next DAY PER FORMANCE. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, `zs. ASTLEY'S ROYAL ANIPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. 'Tinder the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. To conclude with the successful Comic Equestrian Fairy Pantomime entitled THE FORTY THIEVES; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Rochez ; Harloquin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. Box <Alice open from eleven till tlvo o'clock.—Doors open at six ant c Inmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee. Mre. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING• Will be performed a new Drama, entitled RA BY RATTLER; or, 'll.e Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole strenOli of the Company. To conclude with a grand fairy Pantomime, called THE KING Ol' THE CASTLE ; or, Harlequin in the Land of Dreams. Har lequin, Herr Deulin ; Pantaloon, Herr R. Dentin ; Columbine, Mdlle. Theodore; Clown, Herr N. Deulin ; Punch, Herr E. DeulM. Box office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BLACK DOCTOR. In which Miss Vin e.,nt, Mrs. G. Lee, Miss L. Pearce, and Messrs. N. T. Hicks, lloward, Bird, Searle, Forman, &c., will perform. After which, BURIED ALIVE; or, The Illustrious Stranger. Benjamin Bowbell, Mr. Forman. To conclude with THE RUINED HOUSE AT MILBANK ; or, The Murder at the Lonely Creek. Boxes, le., Half-price, 641. ; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3J- WEATHEII,.--Strx OFFICE, FEBRUARY 12. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 12; Highest, 36 ; Noon, 29, BAROMETER, 29 9.—WIND N.W., frosty. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-I - 31410(W. This DAY. Morning .. 0 minutes after 0. Evening .. 12 minutes after 12 •26. If t .1. .0 01 GUI N, -1 3 46" j t • MS E u "6 " * • '46'314 Pitman ;-;1111; LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1847. The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. On the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE, certain returns relating to the divisions of baronies in Ireland welt agreed to, after a short discussion. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table certain returns relating to the bishoprics of England and Wales. The Sugar Duties Distillery Bill was read a second time, and or4red to be referred to a Select Committee; after which their• Lordships adjokirned. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. After the transaction of private business, the pre sentation of petitions, and the ordering of various unopposed returns, Mr. ROEBUCK asl“d bow it was that the answer of the Foreign Secretary to the last dispatch of the Mar quis of NORMANBY had appeared in the newspapers before the dispatch could have reached Lord NORMAN BY ? He asked the question merely for information, as he believed that the conduct and good faith of Lord PAL NERSTON and of his agents, in relation to the recent rwlations with France, had been completely vindicated. Lord PALMERSTON said, that copies of the last dis patch of Lord NORMANDY, and of his (Lord PALMER STON'S) answer thereto, had been laid upon the table of the House last night. The Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. In answer to Mr. F. FRENCH, it was stated by Mr. LABovenEaF. that the Irish Government had removed the Board of Health in Dublin. On the motion for the second reading of the Railways (Ireland) Bill, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if the measure were carried, the Government were not pre pared to undertake the responsibility of carrying it out. The Right Hon. Gentleman then went into various de tails, with a view of showing the impo ss ibili t y o f th e Go vernment, consistently with the duty they owed the country, making an advance of 16,000,0001. to the share holders i n Irish railways, and concluded by moving t h at the Bill ) !a read a second time that day six [Rooth:. Mr. BAI LLIE would not consent to a grant for Ireland, unless there was one for Scotland also. He therefore opposed the motion. Mr. STUART supported the Bill. Mr. F. T. BA.RINO Oppowd culated to :)roduce a th `" 43 . 3 ure. It was cal moatpon the to the money-market, and would do no ju g r o icbu d s effect u Ireland. Where a bad line ran througho people of repayment of i mpoverished district there would be no security for the an consequentlynte d a,a advances, the line would not b. , niwi e , the labouring population would not be beneficed, when the line was a good one, the shareholders would, for their owa interest, proceed with the work without any Government advances. Several other Hon. Me übers having addressed the House, the debate, on the motion of Colonel CONNOLLT, was adjourned, The Compensation to Irish Tenants Bill was read a first time. _ _ The other orders of the day was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'Clock. Upon the decision of Parliament on the Irish railway scheme, introduced by the Noble Lord the representative cf Lynn, the Prime Minister has an nounced his intention of staking the existence of the Government. ilad Lord JOHN RUSSELL done other wise, he would, without question, have been charged by the Opposi ion with tenaciously clinging to office, after a possible defeat upon the grandest of all matters of Ministerial polity at the pre ' sent moment—namely, the salvation and resto ration of Ireland. Under any circumstance:, indeed, the present Administration would have been liable either to invidious insinuations or to a positive impeachment—under any circumstances, it would have been pierced with the poisoned arrows of party rancour—under any circumstances whatever, saving the peculiar circumstances in which it is placed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S announcement. In speak ing as the Noble Lord the head of her MAJESTY'S Government has spoken, he has acted with a boldness and a candour most honourable to himself and to his colleagues. As a conscientious statesman, it was impossible for him to sanction the reckless ap propriation of an enormous loan of 16,000,0001. to any purpose, however benevolent, unless the applica tion of that amount was proved to tally with the principle of the golden rule of legislation—" the greatest good to the greatest number." Unless it was ostensible to the Ministers of the Crown that the effects of this gigantic piece of generosity and confi dence would inevitably be the restoration of the starv ing peasantry to health and happiness, and at the same time the emolument of those individuals from whom the requisite sixteen millions were borrowed — unless this reciprocal advantage were demonstrated to be the natural and necessary result of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S propcsition, it would have been criminal in the members of the Government to give their coun tenance to any such stupendous venture. " Nothing risk, nothing gain," is all very well in the atmosphere of CaocKroao's, and might be emblazoned with some point on the lottery-wheel of the Art-Union, but in the conduct of a Legislature the proverb would be a sample of very paltry philosophy. The rulers of an empire are, by the assumption of authority, ipso facto invested with a vast and sacred responsibility. The national resources are not to be squandered away like the gold of a gamester or the reputation of a concubine. It is not just, it is not honest, it is not consistent with their characters as the guardians of one of the sublimest Constitutions of Christendom, for the Ministers of Great Britain to lavish sixteen millions at a time upon the suggestions of a political adventurer, aided by the clamours of an interested minority. Now, it is manifest to every sensible and dis passionate man, that the railway scheme of the Noble Lord, the Member for Lynn, originating pos sibly in a benevolent and patriotic sentiment, is one of the maddest games of legislative hasard ever con ceived by the mind of the most speculative politician. Ireland is dPstittita. By a common and spontaneous sympathy the less afflicted people of the United Kingdoms evince a readiness to assist the sufferers, and, in accordance with that general manifesta jon of philanthropy, the Parliament, the Minis try, and the SOVEREIGN coincide in passing measure after measure for the relief of the indigent. For a while the unanimity which is exhibited is complete and uninterrupted; boon after boon is conferred upon Ireland; immunity after im munity ; advance after advance ; stimulus after sti mulus. The consequence of this splendid munificence is obvious. There is a pause in the distribution of bounties. A consciousness gradually insinuates itself upon the minds of the people, of the Parliament, and of the Ministry, that enough has been bestowed by Government—that an extension of this assistance would be injurious if not absolutely fatal to exertion on the part of the Irish multitude themselves. CURTIUS and his horse, armed cap-a-pie, had been plunged into the chasm, the sacrifice of anything beyond that was unnecessary, and would have been little short of insanity. As we have said, there was a pause therefore. The Ministry and the community at large felt more fully than ever the wisdom of that noble old motto, " Gon helps those who help themselves." And having shown the impoverished peasantry of Ireland an example of activity, and the landowners a model of timely muni ficence, they paused. 'The work which they had already accomplished in behalf of Irish penury was the verb of a great movement of renovation and re generation. More on their part would have been un wise, and might haveproved actually ruinous. That was the position of affairs when Lord GROEGR BENTINCY advances to the table of the House of Commons, and proposes the transfer of sixteen millions of money over and above all that has been done already, to Ireland, to relieve the Irish landlords of any burthen whatever, and to saddle the industrious people of England with all the woes produced through the mi:management of those same landlords, and in accord- ance with the all-wise dispensations of the DEITY. Six teen millions of money—to set business astir again in Capel-court, to impart its pristine importance to scrip, to pamper the able-bodied " navies" of Great Britain, to protect the agriculture of Ireland from the most reasonable liabilities—to sow new winds, in short, for the simple purpose of reaping new whirl- winds. The alternative of the Government was visible. Lord JOHN Russsus. has acted with a wisdom and courage in this delicate position which cannot very quickly be forgotten. The clouds are gathering thick and fast ar)und - he self-dishonoured Minister. The storm of public indignation, as we predicted would be the case, is ready to burst over the head of M. Gutzar. On every side severe and justly-merited retribution threatens the man who descended from the high posi tion which he held, a short while since, almost uni- vernally, in the eyes of Europe, to become the servile minion of royalty. M. GUIZOT has betrayed his country and blasted his reputation. When he banished every sentiment of honour from his breast, which, in justice to France, should nave punctiliously ruled his every thought and action as he: high functionary for Foreign Affairs, he broke a sacred trust, and recklessly abused the confidence which a generous people had reposed, under the excusable delusion that his integrity was as pure as his ability was undoubted. His talents still remain unquestioned ; but his integrity, without which the former are worthless, except for mis chievous and malevolent purposes, has been discovered to be nothing better than a skilful counterfeit. Now that the lacquer has been subjected to the h'althy friction and trying test •f public opinion, the basis is found to consist of the coarsest metal. M. GuizoT, in order to continue to bask in the royal sunshine, wantonly trifit , cl with the interests, and shamelessly dimmed the lustre of the honour, of his country. The French Nation are profoundly sensible of the injury which has been inflicted upon their national cha• racter, and are already loud in their murmurs against the perfidy of the Minister. We speak not of the French Chambers, which, as we have recently written, present no real constitutional type of the interests and sentiments of our chivalrous neighbours. The intelligence from Paris renders it highly probable that M. GUIZOT must almost immediately retire from the Ministry, notwithstanding that the Address will be carried in the Legislature by a strong majority. That M. GUIZOT should succeed in passing the Address in the terms couched by the Government, and yet be constrained to resign, is precisely the anomaly which proves how farcical is the representa tive system in France. It proves, moreover, that public opinion cannot be imperiously slighted, and it is a satisfaction to England to know that France can not be fairly judged of by the acts of her Executive or Legislature, between which and the people there is no real sympathy whatever. Had any English Minister been guilty of such duplicity and dishonour able conduct towards Frar,ce as M. Guizor has ob served towards England, he would, in all probability, have been unable to have shown his nice in the House of Commons. In the first pace, his constituency would have immediately demanded the resignation of his tr us t i n t o t h e i r h ands ; and i f this requirement had not been complied with, the House of Cstnmoris would have prevented any administration, associated with such a colleague, from carrying an address to the Throne, by moving e a immediately p iasetel3e,c cashiering of them vote of di rec t censure , an d fromthel\il power. ciblias completely lS DE MIRAFLORES, in Madrid, on the I s t instant,r omplet e ly put to t h e rack the mind of every honourable Frenchm an . The Marquis has declared M. Guizor was 44 inexact" in stating that he, when Minister, ever , made any overtures respecting a marriage be tween the Duke pa MONTPENSIER and the In fant!. The Marquis denies it in tom—nay, he asserts that he told M. BRESSON such a marriage was quite out of the ques;:ion, in fact, impossible; and that he could not understand the necessity of the nuptials qf the royal sisters beiny simultaneously solemilzed. The Marquis appeals to M. BRESSON for the truth of his assertions. The Marquis admits he was in Paris in July last, and had frequent interviews with the KING and conversed over the question of the Spanish mar riages. The Marquis does not deny that he sought to impress the KING with the desirableness of a Prince of Comma being selected for the hand of the Queen of SPAIN, which Lord PALMERSTON alleged (as his belief) the Marquis was disposed to try and accomplish. The Marquis is silent on this point, but he declares that he went to Paris in a private and not in any of ficial or diplomatic capacity. If he repaired to the French city at the instance of Queen CHRISTINA, he could not have gone officially, for the QUEEN MOTHER, not being a member of the Government, could not have conferred any such authority upon the Marquis; neither could his mission have been a di plomatic one, for IsTuarTz, the Minister, could alone have invested him with such a function. Therefore the speech of the Marquis DE MrnAruonEs completely bears out, in substance, everything advanced by Lord PALS ERSTON in his able dispatches, and henceforth no man can place the least reliance upon M. GUIZOT'S veracity. Ile will be offered up as a sacrifice by his wily SOVEREIGN to appease the offended dignity of France and of civilized Europe. Lours PHILIPPE will have no feelings of compunction in being driven to take this step. His system has always been to keep down every man of talent in his dominions, and wherever, by the ful filment of his own wary schemes, a Minister happens incidentally to have acquired personal weight and celebrity, the KING of the FRENCH invariably de signs a pitfall for the ruin of his official victim. May the fate of M. GUIZOT prove a salutary warning to the future statesmen of France! Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. Their con. tents are unimportant. MADRID BOLSA, FED. 4.—The Three per Cents, closed at 324; the Five per Cents. at 20i; Coupons, 19i, We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The leading articles of almost all of them comment on the financial state of the country as developed in the de bate of the day preceding. A general feeling of uneasiness prevails in Paris on the subject of the differences between the French and English Governments, differences the gravity of which have been materially aggravated by the gross and wanton attack which M. GUIZOT thought it right to make on the Marquis of NOR MANDY in the Chamber of Deputies. It was rutnoured in Paris that the Marquis of NORMANDY had broken off all communication with M. GUIZOT, and had sent home to his Government requt , sting either to be recalled or to be furnished with fresh instructions. The letter of Lord NORMANDY en the subj,ct, and the answer of Lord PALMERSTON, will be found in another coltnnn. The consequence of these rumours was a de olin© in the value of public securities of (-wry descrip- iun. To increase the embarrassments of 111 - . GuizuT, the direct contradiction made by the Marquis of MILL YLORES to his statements arrived in Paris on Sunday; and that has shaken the faith of many who, up to that moment, believed that implicit reliance might be placed on any statement made . by M. G IJIZOT. Marshal SOULT, it is said, has tendered his resignation, and M. Du- CIIATEL will be the new President of the Council. This change will necessitate th• resignation of M. GUIZOT, who had been promised the Presidency of the Council, whenever Marshal SOULT should resign, and Lis place will be filled up by Count MoLE. Such is one of the many rumours in the salons of Paris —rumours which, however they may differ in other respects, all agree in representing Count MOLE st, the " coming man." It is reported that, on Tuesday, a Cabinet courier arrived from Brussels, with a dispatch from the KING of the BELGIANS, expressing his astonish ment that the relations between France and Great Britain should be rendered additionally difficult 01 arrangement by a speech from his Majesty's Ministei for Foreign Affairs, not merely because of its containing pasrages capable of being deemed contradictory of cer tain portions of the dispatches of her Britannic Ma jesty's Ambassador in France, but because of the tone and air of defiance towards England which it displayed throughout. The debate on the financial p a ragraph of the Address was resumed on Tuesday, on whi c h occasion M GRAUDIN inveighed with great fury against the free traders, and was replied to on Wednesday by M BLANQUI, in a most convincing and argumentative speech. The paragraph was ultimately adopted. L discussing the paragraph relating to Algiers, the Mar quis DE CASTELLANE demanded explanations as to th( mission of M. ALEXANDRE DUMAN, when the Minister°. 'War declared that the Veloce steamer had been placed a, the disposal of M. Dusts.s by mistake, and the Moist,' of Public Instruction denied that he had sent M. DUW on a mission either to Madrid or to Tunis—it wa to Algiers, and to Algiers alone, that he was sent. Accounts have been received from Toulon announc ing that a French fleet had left that port for Tunis foi *le protection of the BET. The Presse and the National have, in their ardour against England, managed to place themselves in a most ridiculous position. Our readers will recollect their magniloquent backing up of what they considered the protest of the Journal de la Haye against the occupatior , of Labuan by England, and their indignation against the Debats and the :Constitutionnel for not perceiving that the Journal de la flaye was right in protesting against it as a violation of the treaty of 1824. It ap pears, however, that the article of the Journal de la Ha:p referred exclusively to Borneo, and not to Labuan. Tl.i -is clearly shown by an article of the Dutch journal 01 the 6th, in which it corrects the error of the Presse and .National, and adds:—" We claim our rights only where they are well established. We have no claims over Labuan; the English, therefore, are at liberty to take possession of that island." There is some good-humoured banter in the Constitt , - tionnel on the subject of the absurd error into which the Presse and the National hare fallen The Three per Cents., which fell early in the day to 77f. 20e., recovered in a slight degree, and closed at 77f. 35c. the Five per Cents., 117 E 75c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,222 f. 50e.; Rouen, 847 f. 50c.; Havre, 6771. 50c.; Great Northern, coy. ; Avignon, 816 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 5651. ; Bordeaax, 5321. 50c. ; Boulogne, 4121. 50c.; Basle, 2031. 75c.; Dieppe, 3401. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4661. 25c.; Tour', and Nantes, 4671. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c.; Lyon! and Avignon, 4851.; Cette, 4551.; Belgian Two-and-a• Halt per Cents., 54; ditto, Three per Cents., 34. N. BUSINESS DONK IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TRH LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 21. tlll.llAlly 11. Boulognu and Amiens, 14-Dutch Rhenish, 4N-Narnar and Liege, 2%-Northern of France, 12--Orleans and Bordeavt, 7. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY l3, 184; ESCAPE OF DON MIGUEL FROM ITALY. A telegraphic dispatch from Marseilles of the 7th announces that I)on Miguel has secretly left Rome. tie gent down to the port of Ostia, entered a boar waiting for him, which put him on board a vessel cruising off the port, which immediately set sail. It is believed that he intends to return to Portugal, where, however, he will probably arrive too late to find any of his adherents in arms. CABINET COUNCIL. —Summonses have been issued to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council on this after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. INDISPOSITION or MR. O'CONNELL.—We regret to learn that the Honourable and Learned Member for Co: k was prevented, by illness, from attending in his place in Parliament on Thursdaynight. DEATH OF Hl3 GRACE THE DUKE; or NORTHUM BEI:LAND.—We regret to state that his Grace the Duke of Northumberland departed this life at an early hour on Thursday morning. The melancholy event took place at Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. His Grace bad been suffering from a slight attack of influenza, but there was no thing to excite the suspicion of his friends. About seven o'clock on the morning in question, on one of his servants en tering t he bed-room, be found his worthy master, as he sup posed, asleep. Having spoken to him, but without receiving any answer, the servant became apprehensive that his Grace had expired, ar.d upon calling for assistance such was found to be the fact. His Grace was in his sixty-second year, and was universally beloved by all parties. SIR HARRY SMITII.—Upon the fame of the victo ries of Aliwal and Sobrson penetrating to the retired village of Whittlesea, in Cambridgeshire, the birth-place of Sir 11. Smith, an address of congratulation to the hero of these two hard-fought fights was set on foot by those of the inhabitants who could remember the stripling cadet whom they now heard of as the distinguished general. It was prepared by his old preceptor, the Res. G. Barges, who, in his 82d year, rejoiced in the glory of his gallant pupil. Sir H. Smith's reply has been only lately received. It is full of the kindest feeling•, and evinces throughout that warm attachment to home which Lag absence, however honourod, is seldom tibia to quench. ,We understand the shipwright: of the river Tyne have bad an advance of wages froth 4s. to 45. 6d. per day. —Sunderland Herald. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The Queen held a levee (the first this season) yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived film Buckingham Palace at two o'clock, at tended by the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes; the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting; the Earl cf Morton, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Wz,iting to Prince Allwrt ; Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in W..uting; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to Pi ince Albert ; Colouel, the Hon. Charles Grey, Equerry in Waiting; Captain the Hon. A. IL Gordon, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert; and Mr. Forbes, Page of Honour in Waiting. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were received at St. James's Palace, by the Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Major Stephens, and Count Alexander Mensdorff attended the levee. Before the Levee, the Queen gave audiences to the Mar quis of Anglesey and Lord John Russell. The Duke cf St. Albans had an audience of her Majesty, and returned the badge of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath woru by his late uncle Admiral Lord Aurelius Beauclerk. Captain Sir George Graham Otslik Bart., R.N., had an audience of the Queen, and returned the riband and badge of a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, worn by his late fatter Admiral Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bart. Captain Barlow, R.N., CB., bad an audience of her Ma jesty, and delivered the riband and badge of a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath worn by his late father Sir George Hilaro Barlow, Bart. The Field Officer in Waiting, and the Captain of the Guard, had audiences of her Majesty, In the foreign diplomatic circle, the following presentations to the Queen took place : Mr. de Schemioth, Consceller d'Etat actual de S. M. l'Empereur de Russie, and M. Kornilotl; Capitaine de la Marine Imperiale, by Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Minister. Mr. John R. Brodhead, Secretary of the Legation of the United States of America, by Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister. Le Comte A. E. de Rosen, Lieutenant-Colonel du Corps du Genie de la Marine Snedoise, by Baron Rehausen, the Sweedish Charge d'Atlairs. The General Circle was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Bishop of London, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control for the affairs of India, the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the President of the Board of Trade, the Paymaster-General of the Forces, the Chief Secretary fur Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Cap tain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at -Arms, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord Langdale, Master of the Rolle ; Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas; the Secretary at War, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn wall, Mr. S. Mark Phillipps, Under- secretary of State; the Adjutant-General of the Forces, the Quarter-Master General to the Forces, the Lord-Advocate, the Lord Mayor, the So licitor-General. Sir George Philip Lee, Lieutenant of the Yeomen Guard, Mr. M. Wyatt, Standard-bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentleman at Arms; the Solicitor-General for Scotland, Mr. Sheriff Chalis; Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Sir C. Young, Garter ; Lord A. Paget, Clerk Marshal ; Sir Harris Nicolas, G.C. M.G., Chancellor of the O r d er o f St. Michael and St. George; Sir A. Clifford, Bart., Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod; the Queen's Proctor, Major Hon. R. Boyle, Groom in Waiting; Sir John Henr i }' Petty, Bart., Deputy- Master of the Trinity H ouse; Si r }rancis Palgrave, K.H., Deputy Keeper of her Majesty's Public Records; Mr. Law rence, Surgeon Extraordinary to her Majesty ; Major Ge neral Brown, Deputy Adjutant General; Sir George Hay ter, M.A.S.L , Painter of History and Portraits, and principal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty; Col. Bouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert; Colonel Owen, A.D.C. to the Queen ; Lieut. Gen. Sir James 3lacdonell, K.C.8., K.C.H., Honorary Equerry to the Queen Dowager ,• Captain E. Somerset, Equerry to her Majesty the Queen Dow ager ; Major Stephens, Equerry in Waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Scots Fusilier Guards, Field Officer in Brigade waiting ; Mr. Under-Sheriff Tilleard. Mr. Under-Sheriff Baylis, Mr. James Bunce Curling, Adjutant of the Honour able Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Sir Samuel Hancock, Exon of the Yeomen Guard; Captain Sadler, Exon in Wait ing; the Queen's Registrar, Sir Benjamin Smith, C. S. ; Rev. Halstead Cobden, Lord Mayor's Chaplain ; Captain Green, Gentleman Usher in Waiting ; Major-General Godwin, Gen ' leman Usher to his Royal Highness the Prince Albert in Waiting; and the following Le Chevalier de Tacon, Charge d'Affaires d'Espagne, Baron le Rehausen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires, and Le Comte Adrien de Revel, Charge d'Affaires de S. M. le Roi de Sar daigne, were severally presented to the Queen by Viscount Palmerston G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 'The Foreign diplomatic circle was attended by Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador; le Cointe de Jarnac, tirst Secretary, Mr. George de Rabaudy, Chancelier, and M. Felix Cottu, attaché to the Embassy; Count Dietrichstein, the Austrian Ambassador; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister; M. Mo reno, the Buenos Ayrean Minister; Baron de Brun now, the Russian Minister; Baron de Nicolas, Se cretary to the Legation, and Captain Schwabe, Imperial Russian Engineers; General Prince Castelci cala Neapolitan Minister, and M. G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation; Count do Kielinaneegge, Hanoverian Minister; Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister; and Prince Lowen stein, Secretary of Legation - le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister; and J. T. de Amaral, Attaché to the Legation; Count de Reventlow, Dania' Minister; and I. de Bielke, Secretary of Legation ; Colonel Iturregui, Peruvian Minister ; Prince Callimaki, Ottoman Porte Sinister; Mr George Bancroft, United States Minister; Count Schimmelpenninck, Netherlands Minister; Baron de Rehruisen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires; le Chevalier de Tacon, Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and le Chevalier de Pedrorena, Secretary to the Mission; le Comte Adrien de Revel, Sar dinian Charge d'Affaires, and Marquis Pallaricini, Secretary to the Mission. Duxes—St. Albans, Buecleoch. MARQUIS/S.—Anglesey, Granby, Worcester, Westmeath. EARLS.—De La Warr, Listowel, Clarendon, Auckland, Lincoln, Denbigh, Clare, Fitswilliam, Rosalyn, Radnor, Ripon, Wilton, Ellenborough, Somers, Sheffield. VISCOUNTS. —Anson, Folkstone, Cantilupe, Duncan, Syd ney, Newry, Gage, Goderich, Clements. Bisnors.—Hereford. LORDS. —Stanley, Walsingham, Ernest Bruce, A. Fits clarence, Rivers, Mahon, Camoys, Hatherton, Colchester, Hotham, Cremerne, Brooke. RIG HT HONOUR.% *LES —Sir Robert Peel, Sir Thomas Wilde, Sir James Graham , Henry Goulburn, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Edward Strutt , M.P. ; Sir S. Canning, Sir T. Frankland Lewis, H. V. Smith, M.P. ; E J. Stanley, Sir A. Foster, Bart., H. Ellis , Colonel Darner, M.P. ; F. Shaw, M.P. J unaz.—Vaughan Williams. lioNottaasers.—Rev. Reginald S. Wee, Colonel Sir E. Cust, Spencer Lyttelton, Mr. Vereker, John Fortescue, Thomas Edward Stonor, Spencer ouver Ponsonby, F. L. Gowe r , W. C ow p er , P. Fielding , P• P. Bie, E. P. Bouverie, H. Fitzroy, W. 0. Stanley. M.P. ; Captain Crofton, Colonel Finch, H. NI. Sutton, Rev. F. J. Noel, Dea n o f Wi n d sor. BA ItONETS.__J. Henry Pelly, James Weir Hogg, Moses ogg, m onte g ore , W. Somerville. C. Hunter, J. Carmichael, A. B. Brooke, G. Clerk, H. H. Inglis, D. Norrey, M.I. ; F. Hamilton. sn s i „ F.._Hoderiek Murchi o J. South, Fi tcroy K elly. Frederick Thesiger, Francis Palgr e . P e t er L awrie, J. Kirk. land, H. Willock, C. Napier, W. av Pell, J. Atkinson, A. L. Hay, M.P., G. Walker. . Couscr.—G. Metaxa 31irarque. QUEEN ' S Corr x s zt.—Kindersley, W. p age Wood, spencer Walpole, John Rorailly, M.P., Rolt, Baco n , Richard Godson, m.p H. Tancrea, ALP., Joseph Napier. Re . v. Docroas.—Jelf, Hawtrey, s yrnong. REV. 'M ES SIEURS. -- W illia m Webster, Randall Ward, John C. Cave • Jackson, Henry Howarth, Cavendish, T. C. Glyn, An chitel Anson, V. H. Biedermann, H. P a l mer, G. W, Carl son, R. Burgess.. Ringland, Billing, R. Ferguso n , Henry DOCTORS•-- - ry Lee, F• Winslow, Bowring, m . p . Laitham, F. L. Roberston, W. W. Lloyd, Henderson. Loney, Peterkin,_ Charles Russell, 31 P MESSIEURS— • •, G. Buckley Bolton, Th omas Richard Walker, James Little, William Tottie, Lawrence, E. Duke Moore, Rich, ALP , R. William Grey, m o s on, Farrer, Greece, M.P., Atkinson, Daniel Sergeant Tho r • 31 P., John O'Connell, ALP., F. Go lb O'Connell, inn., • u urn, G. Berkeley. Kenlock, Sergeant Talfourd, H. E. F. Young, Judd, R. M. 3lartin, E. Rice, ALP •1 Hodges, J. W. Allen, W. D. Bruce, R. Neville, M. A. Montgomery, H. U. Addington, H• G. Ward, W. Coope r , T. B oyrens on , J. J. Parker, 31 P • •, G. Close, Penrh •n San ders,Whiskin, Stanley, -• . _ Sergeant ). Bax, G. Craig, Morris, M Manning, C. Lewis, W. H. Cooke, Gwynne, Cardwell, C. B ruce , A rc h. C. D. deacon Hale, C D Goldie, Sergeant Shee, J. Wood, Mant e ll, H. Reeve „ " in f ra y, Ingham, C. .1. Palmer, F. P. B ar - • J. ri F . W. Jerningham, W. Partridge, Qublier, Bar low, Beardmore, c C. Plowden, W. Morris,C L. V. Watkins, M r • C. R. Gibson, 0. Higgins, P. F o werie,Beckett, M.P., It. Palmer, ALP., E. Rice, M J. Gardner, J. O'Brian, M.P., Bramsto n , AI. p • E. Fortescu e , N Vaughan, APGildowney, W. Cril PE • Denison, M.P., H. M. Rs Wyse,s, F. Fortescue, F. Caven dish,. J. Bl ac kburn, M. p., J. A. Kirwan, Oliveira, Packe, 31. P., T. Clifton, A.-. •, P G. Re ton, Hutt, M.P., C. E. Tre - velyan T. W T• Egerton,P Dodd, M.P.. G. B. Childs S. Flood, - • FIELD MARSHALS—The Duke of Wellington, Grosvenor. . GENERALS—Sir Henry Wh eatle y , Sir John Doveton, K. C. B K.C.8., Sir Robert Gardiner , Sir John Gardiner tr , George S G.C.8., c0 W. Hon. W. H. Gardner, Cavendish , Huskisson, Sir Anson, Lomax. Sir George neeigginson, ll Sir Sir Macßean, K.C.8., John McDonald, Godwin, Charles Dalbiac, Lord Charles Manne rs, Latter. COLONELS—Meyrick, Cornwall, lion. George Koppel, Everest, F.R. S. Sir J. M. Burgoyne, Hodges, the Marquis of Pouro, Borthwick,: Yorke, Thomas Le Breton, Earl of ' Cardigan, 13" A. Irvine, C. 8., J. L ow , C. 13., C°dngton, J. K. Sir Henry Lenout, C. 8., Sir Claude 31. Wade , C. • MacLeod, Hutchinson, Parker, Oldfield, A. D.C • , , Hall. 31. P;•, Lockyer, F or b es , G oo d man , Lurasden, C. 13" B Nlont entin gcmeri ck, W. Dunn, James St o p ford C. 8., Clitheroe , He nr y , Pottinger, Owen, Hamilton, Lord Frederic k Paulet, •riming, Rolleston, M.P. Udne MAJORS. —J o h n L ew i s, H u tt, Morse Coope r, y, Daniell, Sadleir, H. Forbes, J. L. Elrington, O. Ewart.,,r, CA PTA I N S .— H OD . M ort i mer S. West, Polhill, 11 , . • ; Hamilton Du • W. Ha ll, Tyler, Charles White, ar nun, F. Whyte Mel ville, Bateman, Poulett Somerset, henry Rudd , d George Frederick J. D. Sbakespear, David James Ward, Woo • rge Frederick Sympson, Sissmore, Yonge, Gardiner, J. M'D uff, Felix Asispitel, Hon. J. A. Keane. LIEUTENANTS. Ak E. H. Smith, E. J. Carthew. Ed- LIEUTENANTS., Akers, ward Hen eage D er i ng , M anners Wood, Henry Bliss, C. C M'Callum C. H. Hin a mae, L. E. Mackinn on,.A Dew, F. J. Goldsmid , Edmond Walker, Plunkett Burton, Petty, Charles Edmund Thornton John Davenport Shakespeare , Winfield, Julius Richard ',in, Sidney Farrell, Hon. H. F. Keane, Wood, R. L. Newman, E. A. Noel, Hopper, Mowbray Smith, M'Gowan, Cormack. ENsizsrs.—George Augustus NPNair, John Morrison Allan. ADMIRALS.--Sir Edward Codrington, Sir Edwa r d C. Strode, K.C.13. ; Dundas, C. 8., 31. P. ; Sir Charles Adam, K. C. B. ; Sir H. Dillon. Shirreff, T. Brown, Pym, Sykes. Ca terains.—Elliee, R. Eden, Berkely, B. Hamilton, Sir G. A. Westphal, D. Curry, Newell, Sir J. G. Sinclair, Sir T. Ha s ti ngs , N evill, G. Macdonald, G. Broke, Sir G. Otway, Eden, Hon. D. Pelham, C. Buckle, Lord J. Hay, A. Fan shawe, Sir E. Horne, Sir F. Nicolson, E. Belcher, Barlow. CAI . TAINS.—( Trinity House) Edward Foord, John Shep. herd, Henry Bonham Bax. COMMA N G. Brown, William Peel, J. E. Katen, J. Sanderson, A. Ryder. V. Massingberd, Crispin, E. Inglefield, W. Griffiths, Robson, J. Finch, Rawstorne, Hon. G. Keane. LIEUTEN A.NTS.--Freestun, Darell. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen had the honour of being presented to her Majesty : Sir James Weir Hogg, on being created a Baronet, by Sir Rob.rt Peel The Alarquis of Anglesey, on promotion Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, on his appointment as Lord Chief Justice of h er M ajesty ' s Court o f Common Pl eas , b y the Lord Chancell or Hon. Colonel Sir Ed war d Cust, upon his appointment to be be; Majesty'. Mast er o f the Ceremonies Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams, by the Lord Chancellor Viscount Anson, by Viscount Palmerston The Hon. and flee. Reginald Sackviile West, un his appoint ment as one of her Majesty's chaplains, by his father, the Earl Dc La Warr The Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, on his appointment as marshal, of the ceremonies, by the Lord Chamberlain Sir Mows Montefiore, on being created a baronet, by Sir R Peel, Bart. Right Hon, Sir Thomas Freemantle, on his appointment as Chairman of the Board of Customs, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Hon. Mr. Vereker, by Viscount Gage Sir Charles Napier, by Lord Auckland Mr. Humphrey, on his a pp o i ntmen t as one o f h er Majesty s Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. Bacon, on his appointment as one of he r Maje s ty's Coun sel, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. Rolt, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. Thomas Richard Walker, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Hen. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley Mr. Spencer Walpole, on his appointment as one of her Ma jesty's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. James Little, on his appointment to her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley Mr. Kinderslev, Q. C., on his being appointed Chancellor of the County Palatine of Durham, by the Lord Chancellor The Rev. Dr. Jelf, on his appointment as Sub-Almoner to . the Queen, by the Bishop of London Mr. Joseph Napier, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's Counsel in Ireland, by the Lord Chancellor Doctor Reingland, by the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, M.P. Rev. John Jackson, Rector of St. James's Westminster, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. William Tottie, Sweedish and Norwegian Vice-Consul in London, by Baron Rehausen, his Sweedish and Norwegian Majesty's Charge d'Affaires Mr. Farrar, on his appointment as Captain in the Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, K. G. Mr. Rich, M.P., en his appointment as a Lord of the Trea sury, by Lord John Russell The Lord Mayor, by Lord J o h n R usse ll Major-General Sir henry Wheatley, on being created a Ba ronet, by the Duke of Norfolk Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, on being appointed one of her Ma jesty's Sergeants -at-Law, by the Lord Chancellor The Lord Advocate, on his appointment, by Sir George Grey • The Solicitor- General, on his appointment, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. Sheriff Kennard, by Lord John Russell Mr. Sheriff Challis, by Lord John Russell Sir George Haver, M.A. S.L., &c. &c., Painter of Hi s t or y an d Portraits, and P r i nc i pa l P a i nter in reinary to her Majesty, on his marriage and return from the Continent, by the Right Hon. the Lord Chamberlain The Solicitor General for Scotland, on his appointment, by Sir George Grey Mr. Undersheriff Baylis, by Sir George Grey Mr. Undersheriff Tilliard, by Sir George Grey Mr, Henry Edward Fox Young ; or, appointment as Lieutenant- Governor, Eastern Districts, Cape of Good Hope, by Earl Grey Surgeon-Major Judd, Scots Fusilier Guards, on his amooint ment as Surgeon in Ordinary to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by Colonel B. Drummond Mr. R. Montgomery Martin, to present his report on the English opium traffic in China, by Viscount Sandon Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., en being appointed Deputy-Lieu tenant, Kerry county, by Mr. Labouchere Mr. Daniel O'Connell, jun., M.P., by the Right Hon. H. Labotschere Mr. Atkinson, by Mr. Gre ene , M . P . Mr. Frederi c k Wm. Jerningham, by Earl Grey Mr. Ingham, on his appointment as Attorney-General of the ty palatine of Dublin, by the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey Mr. Sergeant Shse, on receiving a patent of precedence, by the Lord Chancellor Mr. Gibson Crai•a, on being appointed a Lord of the Treasury, by Lord John Russell Mr. Penrhyn, by Lord Stanley Mr. William Henry Cooke, on his being appointed a Deputy- Lieutenant for Herefordshire, by Earl Somers Mr. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknock shire, by Lord John Russell Mr. James Whiskin, on being appointed Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salisbury Mr. H. G. Ward, on his appointment as Secretary of the Ad miralty, by the Earl of Auckland Mr. Alantell, Member of Council, Gambia, by Earl Grey Mr. Alfred Montgomery, on his appointment as a Commissioner of Stamps and Taxes, by Sir Robert Peel Mr. Frederick Pratt Barlow, on his appointment to the Deputy- Lieutenancy of Middlesex, by the Marquis of Salisbury Mr. Beardmore, High Sheriff of Hampshire, by his Grace the Duke of Wellington Mr. Quiblier, by Earl Grey Mr. William Morris, by Mr, C. Reginald Gibson Mr. Charles James Palmer, by his father, the Rev. Henry Palmer Mr. Hodges, Recorder of Poole, by Sir G. Grey Mr. Francis Fortescue, Lieutenant, Scots Fusilier Guards, by the Earl Fortescue Mr. Wyse, M.P., on taking office as Secretary of the India Board Lieutenant -General Sir John Doveton, K. C.B. , on promotion, by General Lord Aylmer General Sir George Anson, G.C.8., on his appointment to the Lieutenant Governorship of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea Colonel Cornwall, on appointment to be her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Ceremonies, by the Lord Chamberlain, and on promotion, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Lieut.-Colonel Everest, F. 8.5., on his marriage, by the Earl of Denbigh Rev. William Webster, Chaplain to Mr. Sheriff Kennard, by Mr. Sheriff Kennard Mr. Sergeant Manning, on being appointed Queen's Sergeant, by the Lord Chancellor Colonel Sir John Montagu Burgoyne, Grenadier Guards, on promotion, by Colonel H ome Colonel Hodges, her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires and Consul- General to the Hans Towns, on his return home on leave, by Viscount Palmerston Colonel Thomas Le Breton, Royal Jersey Militia, by Sir George Grey, Bart. Colonel Sir Henry MacLeod, late Governor of Trinidad, by Earl Grey Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, on his marriage, by his father, the Earl Delawarr Major General Cavendish, Ist Life Guards, on Promotion, by the Marquis of Anglesey Lieutenant Pelly, ;Madras Cavalry, on his return to India, by his Father, Sir J. Pelly, Bart. Ensign John Harrison Allan, on his appointment to the Royal London Militia, by Colonel Sir Claudius S. Hunter, Bart. Lieutenant Edward Heneage Dering, on his appointment to the Coldstream Guards, by H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge. Lieutenant Akers, on appointment to the Royal Engineers, by the Earl de le Warr. Captain Gardiner, Rove! Horse Artillery, on promotion and appointment to the Royal Horse Artilery, by the Marquis of Anglesey. Captain W. F. Hall, on his appointment to the Adjutancy of the Royal London Militia, by Colonel Sir Claudius S. Hunter, Bart. Captain Henry B on h am B ax, Elder Brother of the Trinity House, by the Duke of Wellington. Captain the Hon. Hamilton Duncan, Scots Fusiliers Guards, by Col. Berkeley Drummond Captain Edward Flood, Elder Brother of the Trinity House. by the Duke of Wellington Colonel Hall, M.P., Ist Life Guards, on promotion ; and Lieut.-Colonel Parker, Ist Life Guards, on promotion, by Viscount Consbermere Captain John Shepheard, Elder Brother of the Trinity House by the Duke of Wellington Major-general Higginson„ on promotion, Major-general God win, on promotion, and Lieut.-colonel Goodman, by Lord Fitzßoy Somerset Lieut.-colonel James Stopford, C. 8.; Captain J. Mac Duff; Lieut. Cormick; and Lieut. M‘Gowan, on return from foreign service, by Lieut.-general Sir Alexander Woodford, K. C. B. and G.C. M. G. Dr. Wm. Loney, surgeon, R./se, on promotion, by Sir W, ham Burnett , Dr. William Lloyd, by Colonel Sir Robert Nickle, K. H. Dr. Henderson, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym Mr. John W. Allen, by Captain Sir Thomas Hastings Mr. Granville Close, by Lord Northwick Mr. Charles Dashwood Goldie, on going abroad, by Lieutenant General Latter Assistant-Surgeon George Borlaxe.Childs, on hi, appointment to the Royal London Militia, by Colonel Sir C. S. Hunter, Bart. Mr. John Andrew Kirwan, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county of Galway, by the Marquis of Clanricarde Mr. AP Gildowney, by the Marquis of Donegall Hon. John Forteseue, by Earl kortescuss The Rev. Randall Ward, on return from India, by the Earl of Clare. Rev. Charles Cavendish, by Major-General Cavendish. Rev. Henry Howarth, Rectory, St. George's Hanover -square by the Lord Bishop of Loudon. Rev. Anchitel Anson, by General Sir George Anson. Dr. Forbes Winslow , Sir James Clark, Bart. Dr. Lockhart Robertson, by Sir James M'Griger, Bart. Hon. Spencer Ponsonby, by Viscount Palmerston. Rear-Admirals.—Sheriff, on his promotion; Dundas, on his appointment as a Lord of the Admiralty ; Captains.— A. Fanshawe, on being appointed one of her Majesty's Naval Aide-de -Camps ; Sir E. Belcher, on return from the China Seas ; D. Curry, M ac d ona ld, G . N . B rooke, on promotion, and return from service ; Hon. Crofton Berkeley, Sir G. A. Westphal, Lord J. Hay. A. Fanshawo, on being appointed Aide-de-Carnp ; Sir G. Otway, Sir =CI. Hastings, Ellice, I. Shakspeare ; Lieutenant. olonel A. Irvine, C.B. ; Commanders Rawstone, on promotion and attendance on Royal and Distinguished Personages at Portsmouth ; J. W. Finch, the Hon. G. D. Keane, Robson, J. Sanderson, A. Ryder, on their promo tion; V. A. Messingberd, on appointment to H.M. steam vessel Alecto; G. Brown, E. A. Inglefield ; Lieutenant Darrell, on promotion, Hopper and Sir W. Pell, on appointment as Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, by Lord Auckland Colonels Codrington and H. Bentinek ; Lieutenant-Colonels Forbes and F. Paulet ; Majors L L. Ebrington and Daniels, Captain C. White, on their promotion; Lieutenant P. Bar. ton and Hon. P. Fielding, on their appointments ; and Cap tains W. Melville and P. Somerset, by the Duke of Cam• bridge Right Hon. Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, on being created a Baronet, by the Earl of Ripon Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Chetham Strode, K.C.B. and K.C. H., upon being appointed Knight Commander of the Bath, and on taking the additional name of Strode, by the Earl of Haddington Captain Nevtll, R.N., on his return from the East India and ChiHa stations, and on promotion, by his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Ch an d os Commander Pell y, R.N., on his return from the West Indies, by his father, Sir Henry Petty, Bart The Hon. Thomas Edward Stonor, by his father, Lord Camoys Sir William Somerville, on his appointment as Under-Secretary a State, by Sir George Grey Lieutenant- General Sir G. Scovell, on promotion, by the Duke of Wellington Captains Sir F. Nicolson, on promotion and return from Ser via, Sir E. Home, on being nominated a Companion jK.Eaton,ofthe Bath; C ommanders W. Grif f iths, on promot i on . by Sir C. Adams Colonel Montgomerie, A. D. C., on appointment • Lieutenant- Colon e l L ums d en ; Major W. Forbes ; sCartfi and Mr. T. D. Ward, d Tylee; Lietenants Winfield and F. m Boyrenson, on return from India, by Sir J. Hobhouse Lieutenant-G enera l H on . W i n. Gardner, on being appoint e d Colonel- Commandant of the 10th Battalion Royal Artillery, his and on p romo ti on ; Colonel Oldfield, on p romotion; Lieutenants C. Smith, E. Carthew, A. Dew, an d J. Shake spear, by the Marquis of Anglesea. Command r William Peel, R.N., by Sir Robert Peel Lieutenant Sidney Farrell, on appointment to the Royal Engi neers, by the Earl of Denbigh Lieutenant R. L. Newman, 71st Highland Light Infantry, on his return from the West Indies, by the Earl Fortescue Lieutenant E. H. Noel, 41st Regiment, on his return from service on the Sutl, j, by the Hon. and Rev. F. J. Neel Ensign George Augustus 11 , 1• Nair, 67th Regiment, on appoint ment. by Lieutenant-General Clitherow, K. G. Major. General John Ai'Donald, on promotion from 92d High- Lieutenant-Genertl binders, by Sir W. 31a c B ean , K. C. G. Colonel Yorke, Scots' Fusilier Guards, on promotion, by Colonel Drummond Lieut. -Colonel J. K. Lenout, C. 8., Madras Army, on being wointed Companion of the Bath, by Lieut.-General Sir J. C. D-Ibiae, K. C. H. Lieut.-Colonel Hutchinson, Madras Army, by Major-General Sancta ith Lieut.-Colonel Lockyer, 97th Regiment, on promotion, and going to Malta, by Lieut.-General Sir H. F. Buuverie, K.C. B. Major Hutt, on receiving the honour of Companion of the Rath, by Viscount Palmerston Major Sadlier, 4th Kings Own Regiment, on his return from India, by Geu. Sir Thos. Bradford Captain the Hon. John Arbuthnot Keane, Ride Brigade, on promotion, by Sir Andrew Barnard, G. C. 8., G. C.H. First Lieutenant Julius Richard Glyn, Rifle Brigade, by his father, the Rev. Thomas Clayton Glyn Lieut. Edmund Walker, Royal Engineers, on appointment and promotion, by General Lord Aylmer Lieutenant Manners Wood, A.D C. Bth Hussars to Gen. Thorne, by Mr. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins Captain Felix Ashpitel, sth Fuailiers, en appointment, by Lieutenant-Colonel Gaspard Le Merchant Captain Yenge, 60th, or King's Royal Rifles, on promotion, by Lieutenant-General Sir W. G. Davy, K.C. H. Captain Sissmore, Bengal Artillery, by Lieutenant-General Sir James Watson, K. C.B. Captain Carlyow, 10th Royal Hussars, on promotion, by Col. Middleton Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, K.C. 8., on appointment to the Admiralty After the levee the Queen gave audience to Viscount Falkland. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal suite, returned to Buckingham Palace. Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, was prevented by his long-protracted illness from attending her Majesty's levee. The Rev. Mr. Perry had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday morning the February half-yearly meeting of the above company was held at the Euston-square Station, at twelve o'clock: On the arrival of the chairman and directors in the board-room, The SECRETARY proceeded to read the advertisement con vening the meeting, and the minutes of the last half-yearly assemblage. The CHAIRMAN then said—Gentlemen, it is now ten years since, through your kindness and that of my colleagues, I have had the honour to hold the situation which I now occupy, and in presenting the accounts to 3ou on the present occasion I cannot help feeling the extraor dinary difference between the position which the company occupied in the year 1837 and the position in which it is at the present moment. It will be in the recollection of many proprietors that the year 1837 was a year of extraordinary commercial pressure, and its depressing effects were felt more eepeeially in those districts of England through which the line passed, and in those classes of society which constituted the greater part of our proprietors. I confess that at that time, in common with many others engaged in similar large undertakings, I felt a degree of anxiety and suspense upon what was generally regarded with considerable dismay. However, by the help of our shareholders and by perseve rance the difficulty is now overcome. Ido not say on the present occasion that I apprehend that there is the slightest idea of a state of things similar to the year 1837, quite the contrary, but I may say that our currency is established on a more secure footing, and upon a better regulated basis than it was then, and, I may add from expe rience, that the commercial organisation of the country is in a better state. I have not the slightest idea of drawing a comparison between that period and the present, but I think that from the public papers yoc must have perceived lately a great tendency to continued and untiring exertions on the part of those to whom, in the first in stance, devolved the responsibility of these great undertakings. I confess, gentlemen, that it does appear to me that upon those who first tried this great experiment upon so large a scale—and really it was nothing but an experiment—it is rather hard that on the successful result of their schemes, they should be called upon to give up any of the ad vantages they have justly earned. I believe, gentlemen, and on this subject, circumstances authorise the belief, that if the Kilsby tunnel had proved too much for Mr. Stephenson, the Box tunnel for Mr. Brunel, or the Primrose Hill tunnels for Mr. Locke, we should have had not the slightest as sistance from Parliament. And, gentlemen, I do not think that we should have found any talented leader of the Oppo sition to propose a vote of sixteen millions in our favour.— (Hear, hear) That would nut be done for us.—(Hear, hear.) However all our difficulties are over, and they have been surmounted by the energies of those whom I see before me. I am happy to say that on the present occasion we are enabled to offer you, as we have invariably hitherto done, accounts of which the gross results are entirely satisfactory. At the same time the accounts deserve, and I hope that if vou take them home you will give them, a careful analysis. - You are aware that we have lately made very large reductions. Those reductions on the goods traffic have been repaid by an enormous increase, and on the pas senger traffic by an increase in a smaller degree, but not in an equal ratio. With regard to the passenger traffic, I must draw your attention to that, as it is very important that you should see, and that the proprietors of other companies should be made aware, by the medium of the public press, of one fact, for I think it will put a stop to the very danger ous competition which at present exists. The total number of passengers during the last six months who have travelled over every part of the London and North-Western Railway amounts to the extraordinary number of 3,277,596; and just let me observe, in passing, that out of the whole number of passengers transported, we have not had one single serious ac cident. The number transported in the same period in 1845 was 2,793,372, showing an increase in a period of two years of 484,224. Now mark the conclusion. From the diminution of tares, the gross receipts for passengers this year has been less than in 1845, while the expenditure has been, of course, much greater, in consequence of the increased accommoda tion. The deduction which I draw from that is, that the reduction in fares and the altered mode of travellir g has been no benefit to the public and none to ourselves. Ido not wish to conceal from you that it is possible, in the course of time, by improvements and increased accommodation, we may reduce in some degree the working expenditure. That is a point which I hope the Legislature will deal with with the greatest care and caution, for nothing is so detrimental a foolish or overstrained economy in large undertakings of this sort. We ought certainly to be economical, but not at the expense of the public. There are evils connected n ith competition which I have always viewed as most se rious. It is the call made by competition, which causes uch a reduction in the rates; and if proprietors do force upon us the overstrained economy consequent upon it, the - result will be that the public must eventually suffer—and themjvou will regret it when it is too late—by a loss of life. Another point in view, which will create fresh traffic, and to which I wish to call your attention, is the necessity forced upon us nf providing in some way or other increased means of transit for the traffic which already offers itself. Before going into this question I must say that traffic has come upon us in an unexpec ed rate of increase, and therefore, during the two latter months of the past year, we have not done our duty towards the public in the way for which we were for merly celebrated. We have failed in some degree in regu larity and in our ordinary punctuality, b u t d ur i ng t h e l ast mouth the evil has been repaired, and we are now going on as usual. The point which you must carry out is to give us better means of transit. The subject has occupied our atten tion for a long time. We are not disposed to increase the expenditure unnecessarily, but the question has been forced upon us lately, and in such a shape, and way, that slow as I was to be convinced on the subject, I have yielded to the necessities of the case. I must say, in justice to several of my Hon. Colleagues, who have, fronetime to time, pressed the question, that they have long been con vinced of the necessity of adopting such a step. The mea sure which we shall propose is, to lay down, between Primrose Hill tunnel and Watford, two additional lines of rails. We hope to accomplish that without going to Parliament for in creased powers, but if there is the smallest necessity for such a step, we shall not hesitate a moment to apply to Parliament at once. We propose also to continue this increased accommo dation from Watford to Tring, in order to take advantage of the Buckinghamshire lines, and we shall go on until we meet the Birmingham and Oxford line, by which means we hope to render to the district and the traffic the most ample ac commodation that can be wanted. The estimated cost of laying down the second line is 350,0001. We hare not yet got the estimates as between Watford and Tring, but they are in the course of preparation. I think gentlemen, if we are to judge from the state of the internal traffic in which we,have engaged during the last six months, although I am prepared to admit that traffic is very unsafe to trust to, as a criterion of what the state of the country may be, because it may have been divteted for a time from other channels; but, taking our own experience, and , the ex perience of railway companies, we are inclined to think that the internal traffic of the country has, during the last year, taken a prodigious stride. The internal prospects of the country are increasing daily, and are recovering from the commercial pressure which has lately acted as a drawback to it, and which, I believe, is passing away now, but which, at all events, will not be of any lengthy duration, if it does last. I hope, even, that if we go on in the same ratio of increase, that not only the existing railways, but even the canals, may keep their own. Under the circumstances, gentlemen, I will not detain you any longer. You have in the report nearly every subject which it will be necessary for the directors to bring before you; and I am most anxious to save time as much as possible, by not going over ground unnecessarily at this meeting; but there is a point upon which you must allow me to make a few observations as Igo on. I allude, gentlemen, to the state of your schools at Crewe and Wolverton, which are on a satisfactory footing; and I believe, I may say, that it is re garded by the parents of the children connected with the works there, as well as by the whole neighbourhood,tieesta blished as a real blessing to the country. The objectof ms schools is to make the education furnished there a practical and useful one, and one which shall shal i l ve se h rv av e e a h e ad a model for other schools of the sameucated atu in these schools, and children of all denominations d although they are under the immediate e superintendence of the principles of the education your clergyman, Dr. W administered are such that we have never bad a single I parent who found the slightest fault. We have also had applications from o ther parts of the country for sub scriptions to their school?. We have not th oug h t i t right to accede to th ese applications, not having any autho rity from you to a dminister your funds for that p urpose. We should like to be enabled to allow subscriptions fur a thing of that sort. We should like to carry the principle out fur ther. I can mention that I have received notice that some of the directors sitting at this table have, of their own accord, volunteered from their own purses the means of supplying spiritual instruction to many of your men. When I mention that fact,l am sure that it is not a way in which you would like to leave it. Ido not think it right, because individuals at the table have furnished funds for these schools, that no further measures should be adopted. I conceive that the principle to be acted upon is the principle that property has its duties as well as its rights and advantages, and many here have thought it a duty to furnish the means front their own pockets. and they can hardly doubt that it is their duty, as well as their advantage, to furnish spiritual instruction to their men. On this subject I speak without having any previous communication whatever with any of my colleagues, but I believe that they are all actuated by one sentiment—l thi n k, un l ess t h ey h ave your permissi on , I will not say votes, to apply certain funds to this purpose. many of them will not take the oppor tunity of receiving any funds, for they would sooner pay it out of their own pockets than have it sparingly and grudgingly bestowed for a purpose so essential to the general benefit of your men and the country. The following is an abstract of the Report : In compaling the traffic receipts for the six months ending 81st December last, with those of the corresponding half year to the 31st December, 1845, it will appear that both in the number of passengers and quantity of goods conveyed, there has been a considerable excess, while the rates of charge have been materially reduced. In merchandize the increased quantity conveyed . has more than compensated for the reduction in rates; the excess in the goods' receipts being 68,3621. In the coach department, on the contrary, the re ceipts have fallen off 6,7964 By the account s o f t h a h a l f-year now sub- 4 mitted to the meeting, it appears that the net profit (after deducting the interest on borrowed capital) amounts to ... X 653,010 0 0 To this sum must be added the rest, or surplus fund, shown in the accounts for the six months, to the 30th Juue last ... 102,645 0 0 Amounting together, to £756,555 0 0 The directors recommend a dividend of 51. per share of 1001 on the London and North %Vestern stock, amounting to 4578 , 604 And 41. 108. per share on the Manchester and Birmingham E tock, in conformity with the terms of agreement, amounting to ... 74,229 0 0 Being together ... .E 652,8.330 0 And leaving a balance of ... £103,722 0 0 to be carried to the credit of the next h a lf- year ' s accou nt. The directors have to communicate to the proprietors the' fallowing new measures, for which application will be made to Parliament in this present session :- 1. A Line from Cheltenham to Oxford and Tring, to be called the" London, Oxford, and Chelthenbam" Line. It is propssed that the London and North-IVestern Company shall guarantee a dividend of 44 per cent. on 162,6001., the whole capital to be provided being 1,500,000/. 2. A Line westward from Cheltenham, by Gloucester, to Hereford, in connexion with the Gloucester and Hereford Canal, and in extension of the Line (No. 1) from Tring to Cheltenham; this company providing the capital of 600,0001. without guarantee as to dividend. 3. A Line from Bletchley to Wellingborough. 4. A Branch from the Trent Valley Line near Atherstone. The estimate is 170,000!. Coventry and Nuneaton Branch is already sanctioned by the proprietors ; estimated cost 25,0001. It is also intended to make, in concert with the Great Western Company, A short extension of the existing West London Railway to the river Thames. Tne application to Parliament for the fol. , lowing works, which were sanctioned by the proprietors in the last year, are also renewed:—The Watford, St. Alban's, and Dunstable Railway, with an extension to Leighton. Ex tensi 41 of the Buckinghamshire Railway from Tring to Wine slow, a. .d Brackley and Banbury, with a deviation to Oxford. A line from Northampton to Banbury. An extension of the Rugby and Leamington line to Warwick. Branches from the Stour Valley line to Stourbridge and Hales Owen, and a de viation of the present line at Smethwick. In the Northern Divis on, the Bills for which application will be made , to Parliament in the present session, are for-Ist. a line froM Portobello •to Wolverhampton, • and from Wolverhampton to Bescot; estimated cost, 50,000 L 2d. Branch lines in connexion with the Liven-et A and Man chester Railway, for the accommodation of the St. Helen's district; estimated cost, 380,0001. 3d. A Bill to improve and extend the stations at Liverpool, and at Crewe ; estimated cast, 70,0001. 4th. A Bill to vest in the London and North-West ern Company, the Huddersfield and Manchester, and Leeds and Dewsbury lines; the conditions being that the London and North- Western Company guarantee to these companies a dividend equal to 7-10ths of the dividend which shall be „ payable to the London and North-Western proprietors, with a condition that the shareholders in the guaranteed line par ticipate in any new creation of shares. The amount of capital of the Huddersfield Company, to which this guarantee attaches, is 1,007,000/.; and of the main line of the Dewsbury Company,e. 600,0001. The di rectors have made a provisional arrangement with the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stcur Valley Company for the lease of the Stour Valley line in perpetuity, at a rental which shall be equivalent to two-thirds of , the dividend, for the time being, of the London and North- Western Railway Company. The proprietors of the Stour Valley Company being entitled to a pro. portionate allotment of any new stock which may be henceforth created by the London and North- Western Company. The capital of the Stour Valley company being taken at 760,000/., on e -f our th o f w hi c h already belongs to this company. The directors request your ' sanction to their opposition, in conjunction with the land owners, to a proposed line from Southern to Coventry (called the Oxford, Banbury, and Coventry Railway), whi c h ap pears to be uncalled for by any public necessity. The directors have to report the opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, which took place from Lancaster to Kendal on the 22d of September, and the whole distance to Carlisle on the 17th December. From the short experi ence which the directors of that line have had, both in the passengers and goods traffic, they have every reason to be satisfied with the result. The construction of the various works on the Holyhead Line, in which the proprietors are aware that this company holds a large interest, has proceeded satisfactorily during' the last six months. Arrangements have been made for the construction of a commodious station at Chester, for the joint use of the Holyhead, the London and North-Western. the Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, and the Chester and Shrewsbury lines, in concert with the respective companies. The Trent Valley Railway will be completed and opened for traffic in the course of the ensuing summer. Tha directors are compelled to offer a determined opposLion to the Regent's Canal Railway, which interferes directly with the company's station and works at Camden-town. The new arrangements for the accommodation and extension of the goods traffic over the whole line have required from the directors a close and anxious attention. After the most careful consideration, they are of opinion that to this source the proprietors may look for a most important accession to their net revenue; an advantage to be at least as much an ticipated from an improved system of operations, and a more experienced management, as from an increased tonnage over the line, it the existing traffic were placed under the imme diate control of the company. The CHAIRMAN moved that the report be adopted, and re ceived, and circulated amongst the proprietors. Captain WATTS complimented the chairmau on the lice of conduct he had assumed, He considered that the alteration a tion in the policy of the board w as a , cre dit t o t h em selves and boon to the railway world. As to the additional preiecti: might safely be left to the discretion of the directo r s. had great confidence in them. He begged to Fix:position, that the report be received and adopted f the Mr. ENTWISLR, M.P., asked whether the sanction o Bills for the amalgamation of the company with the Leeds second the and Dewsbury and Huddersfield and Manchester lines would be deemed an approval of them? The CRASKMAN, after a pause replied that by implication the passing of the report would be construed to be an ap proval._ Mr. ENTIVIsLR then would oppose such a policy. This company were involving themselves in a gigantic scheme of amalgamation which could not in the end be productive of anything but certain confusion and eventual doubt and dis trust in the railway world. It was a question whether this company was not paying more than it ought for the lines it was so greedily swallowing up.—(Hear, hear.) Let the proprietors know the price; there was a lack of in formation on the subject. He himself was perfectlyastounded at the magnitude of their engagements, and before those agreements were confirmed he wished the proprietors to be satisfied by facts and figures that the acquisitions would be beneficial.—(Hear.) The CIIAIRMAN—If he understood the Honourable Pro prietor, he did not wish to discuss the proprjety of entering into those engagements now, but wanted - to. know whether the lines they had already taken had proved so profitable as was expected. He felt bound to admit that the calculation made previous to the amalgamation had not for the 'wait year been borne out. There was a loss of 17,0001., but then they must remember that a r ed uc ti on of rates and fares had taken place.—(Hear, hear.) Besides, and he laid gre" stress upon it, the acquisition of the Birmingham and 111an cheater line had been forced upon them as a matter of neces sity; if they had not taken it. the Great Western would. A PROPRIETOR inquired whether the report that they will going to take the Gloucester and Birmingham line ival correct? The CHAIRMAN was glad the question had been asked; the report was not true. He then moved a series of reaolll - including one authorising a dividend of 5• per cent. o n Loudon and Birmingham a n d G r a n d J unc ti on stoc k , and it on the remainder The retiring auditor was re-elected. Captain Wierrs, who had previously given notice of the proposition, moved that the proprietors be allowed to travel free on the line to and from special and general meetings• Gentlemen lived in remote parts, and were called upon to ps7 for the honour of attending a meeting like this.— (Rear, ands) laugh.) The meanest functionary of the company could psis free, and yet a proprietor could not. A share might ,be per: chased to enable a person to some to town.—(A cry, "and pay 200/. for such a journey.") He could travel on the Mid land free ; he lived in the county of Durham, and gave the company the benefit of 200 miles of railway. Those who ob jected to his proposition lived within the sound of Bow bells. —(Laughter.) They were a great company, ultimately would be a British one, and proprietors from all parts of the king• dom would like to attend. Was the Midland affected by the concession? No.—(Confusion, and loud expressions of dis• approbation.) He suggested the propriety of the meetings being held at Birmingham, or alternatively et the great towns on the line. There being no seconder, the proposition fell to the ground. Mr. ENTWISLE thought a general expression of confidence in the directors should etnagate from the mailing. The motion was seconded and carried sub A PROPRIETOR inquired when any calls would be made on the quarter shares? The CHAIRMAN replied in April and July, and the amount would be 51. at each call. As to holding the meetings .st Birmingham, it was impossible; the Act would not allow them to do it, and their convenience prevented it.. Mr. Bass Err moved a vote of thanks to the chairman and board of directors;. the motion was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compliment, and remarked that he and his coadjutors concurred in all that had fallen from the Hon. Member for Guildford in the House of Commons last night. The meeting then terminated. MAILS DUB Y ESTERDAY.—The following is a list (alphabetically arranged) obtetrhealtreailsyduAematerithm, B half-past a e il l s e t r o e n n , o'clock yesterday, viz.:—A g nn, Bishopscastle, Brackley, Brecknock, Bailth, Bridgecd, Car. digan, Carmarthen, Cardiff, Chepstow, Crickwell, Chirk, Oritfirld, Hay, Haverfordwest, High-Wycombe, Hereford, Horndean, Hobspoint, Hungerford, Ironbridge, Jersey and Guernsey, Kingston, Llandillo, Llandorrey, Llanga dock, Liphook, Llanelly, Ledbury, Merthyr' Tvdvil, Milford, Monmouth, Warbeth, Neath, Nuneham, yew town, Newport (S a l o p), N ewport (Monmouth); Oswes try, Peterstield, Presteign, Pembroke, Rhayeder, ,Ross, St. Chard, Stokenchurch, Sheffield, Sr. Leonard's, Swansea. Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, Shoreham, Tenby, Tetsworth, Theme, Taibach, Usk, Whately, Wedneebury, Worthing, Welshpool and Wellington (Salop). The follow ing Irish mails are likewise due :—Derry, Galway,. Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, Wexford. Six mails dueyesterday have not arrived, viz Aberystwith, Cardigan, Haverfordwest, Mu" ford, Narbeath, and St. Leonard's, making a total of eighty. two bags due at the above hour. ROBBERY or 1,5001.—0 n Saturday a parcel, con taining 1,5211., belonging to the Tipperary Joint-stock Bank, was placed in the boot of the Nenagh and Limerick coach* On arriving at the Limerick coach-office the parcel was missed, although the lock of the boot in which it was place?, was not disturbed. Suspicion a t once f e ll u p on a man name d James Corboy, son to the former driver of the coach, who got up on the coach a short dista nce outs id e Nena:gh, left it on entering the suburbs of Limerick. Soon 4 ter th e coach reached its destination, Corboy ma d e his apPgarance, and, although none of the money was found on his person , he has been committed. SOUP KITCHEN FOR THE DISTRESSED POOR.—The soup kitchen, opened three weeks since in Liecester-square , for the distribution of bread and soup to the poor during the inclemency of the weather, is relieving about 300 individuals daily. About 4,000 necessitous persons have, since its open ing, participated in the bounty thus dispensed. The Government contract for 100,000 gallons of rum for the navy was again taken on Thursday by Blesirt- Lemon, Hart, and Son, of 59, Fenchurch-street. OxroaD, FEE. 11.—A fire broke out this afternoon at the Bishop of Oxford's, Cuddeaden Palace, but was b.f.; pily extinguished before much damage was done. it is ea!ll to have originated with some warming apparatus newly laid down. his Lordship was absent at the consecration oi Tub ney Church. THE FAMINE RELIEF FUND.—The subEcription list of the 12th Royal Lancers, at Hounslow, for the relief of the distressed poor in Ireland and Scotland, has just now closed. It amounts to oyer 604