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a Itto. 01 wly Clar et mow. Closes • WEL - ;60 1 - - - RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP VI. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH AMENDMENT (No. II). The Committee met this morning at twelve; Mr. Deedes in the chair. The first witness called was Mr. W. Dennison, carryingon the business of a butcher at Portsmouth. He was purveyor to her Majesty's dockyards at Portsmouth. He was in the habit of killing about forty beasts and a large number of abeeP weekly. The market of Salisbury was the one which he considered most preferable for the purchase of cattle. He Puti2hased nearly all his stock at that market. GROUP XX. The Select Committee appointed to consider the Bills 'comprised in this group ,re-assembled at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Goulburn in the chair. O.IIOPORD, WORCESTER. .AND WOLVER RADIPTON (CHELTENHAM AND EVE SRAM LINES). Mr. MELLoa was engaged the whole of the morning in addr essing the Committee on behalf of Mr. Fudge, an oppos ing landholder. GROUP XXXY. ILI IaT LANCASII IRE ' DEVIATIONS (RAW- STEMMA'''. COAL BRANCH). The Committee met this morning, Mr. Fitzroy in the v when they first took the Rawstenstall Branch, which is merely a short extension, of ten chains long, of the East aa. alleashire line, to enable the directors to get at certain Ta &liable beds of coal. There was no opposition to the Bill. XXX. The Committee met GROUP this morning at VII twelve. CI3IIEAT NORTHERN (EXTENSIONS TO ZEEDS AND WAKEFIELD, DEVIA TIONS, 4&.c.) The proceedings commenced by Mr. TALBOT, who claimed (and argued his claim at considerable length) to be heard on behalf of the London and North-Western Company, against he proposed extensions of the Great Northern Railway to Leeds and to Wakefield. Mr. M . CHAMBERS appeared as the counsel for Lord Mex 11°113_,_ ugh, and consented, on the part of his Lordship , to with - Warr the opposition to the Bill, provided in case of the passing of the Great Northern Railway Bill, that that company ;should consent to the terms of the agreement entered into between the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway Company and his Lordship. Mr. Sergeant WRAXGIIAM contended that Mr. Talbot had 310 right to appear on the part of the North-Western Corn -1)1103', there being no petition of that company referred to the Committee. With respect to the arrangement between the Leeds and Dewsbury Railway with Lord Mexborough, be could only say that he was at present perfectly ignorant of the nature of those arrangements, but he could venture to Lay, on the part o f hi s c li en t s , that they were perfectly ready _ make arrangements that might be considered fair and rea mmtble to the parties immediately concerned. Aft TALBOT, in reply, said that, although by the general ! 1 , 1 _ 16 he admitted that he could not appear without a petition, Jet, trader the peculiar circumstances of the case he was in t eti to appear, there not having been sufficient time to pre a Petition to the House since the decision of the Corn mi Z!tee on Saturday last, as to the course they proposed to with respect to the Bills before them. GROUP XXXIX. Charles Committee met at the usual hour this morning; Lord Wellesley in the chair. 142141)13 AND THIRSIC (LEEDS, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE EXTENSXON). air. BAINES op ened the case for the promoters of this ex rap ai,ve scheme, which is brought forward for the purpose of arming a competing line to the existing York and Newcastle I , r :fay. The line would commehce in junction with the 1,171ig . Leeds and Thirsk Railway at Ripon, pass through f o Ztualerton, Yarm, Durham, and thence on to Newcastle, LZ"..ng a shorter and more direct communication between and these several towns. The line was opposed by the York and Newcastle Corn e?, and several shareholders. t i ne remai n d er o f th e d a y was occupied with the general evi ' sl uice Usually adduced in favour of new lines. GROUP XLVI. T h a nnta r il BRITISH RAILWAY (No. I). a Committee met at the usual hour, Mr. Sotheran T an * veir he eruanstax stated the House would adjourn to-mar ', b at that it was th e intention of the Committee to sit ' 2°2l that day, and also that after that day the Comm i tt ee "'"Td not meet again until Tuesday week. y : cross-examination of Mr. Miller was then resumed aL oo T r ._' Sergeant BELLASIS—The proposed line would take " "c l l acres of the property of Mr. Miller. The water 'lona Made for the purposes of irrigation were not shown the n the Parliamentary sections. In such parts where cour, waY would pass below the level of the water there would be no difficulty in carrying guivi vrat er across the line by means of a syphon ; of gees provision was made for these expenses, under the head titi est ?, s ti ngencies. The radius of the curve at the part in er e% ef the railway was ten chains. The railway would b oorh °Pcn the level over several of the roads in the neigh- Pcaecir °f Mr. Miller's property. Upon the roads pro cenaid....-ht.? creased on Mr. Miller's property, there was a Wer e ele traffic, chiefly among Mr. Miller's tenants, who tom " r Y llll Merous. He did not anticipate any objection uritiiiiZLng the roads on the proposed plan. The North 'aect many of the roads by the same mode. c o -.11 c ool GROUP XLVIII. urteee. I nittee met to-day at twelve o'clock ; Lord gi rsikaio in ttp til e chair. air* AtainuE, AND DIONICLANDS 210 e A ard (COWLAXRS CENTRAL 3 - 17 NC • The nCARDTIM BRANCHES). Afr. 14 7 opposition to this Bill was resumed. of th e • , Robson. Was re-called, and cross-examined on behalf .mll. Th e obj ect was to show that Mr. Walker's line otdd not accomm odate t h e through traffic so well as the Cen tral Junction proposed. This closed the case for the corporation against the Bill. NEW ZEALAND TARIFF. The following is the tariff adopted by the Legislative Council of New Zealand during its present session:— On spirits, for every gallon, imperial mea- s. d. sure, hydrometer proof, and so on in propor tion for spirits of greater strength; all cordials sweetened, spirits, and liquors being rated as proof spirits 0 5 0 On cigars, cheroots, and snuffs, at the rate of every lb. weight ... ••• ••• 0 2 0 Oa other manuf a ctured tobacco, per lb. ... 0 0 9 43 4 all guns, weapons of every description, gunpowder, munitions of war, bullet and shot, at th e rate o f every 1001. va l ue ... 30 0 0 Oa Wine at the rate of every 1001. value ... 20 0 9 On all beer, porter, cider, and perry, at the Oa of every 1001. va l ue ••• ••• 15 0 0 all goods, wares, and merchandise, not otherwise charged with duties of Customs, and not herinafter set forth as free of duty, Un the produce or manufacture of the m on 'kingdom, or any British posses ao ea t h ci it l e a r o n ad at the rate for every 100/. value ... 10 0 0 o l t iixis h e e res-eh' in vrares, and merchandise, not arged with duties of Customs, after set forth as free of duty, produce or manufacture of any reign th e ga state, at the rate of every 1001. value 12 10 0 tiles ARTICLES FREE OF DUTY. i 4; h es of common glass, imported full; bullion and ye i or ses, mules, asses, sheep, cattle, and all other not bei_lnals; seeds, bulbs, and plants; and printed books, lig account-books. Ref it&u:l/IRERIES AND ACCIDENTS AT THE EPSOM TaRMINUS ON THE DERBY DAY.—Yesterday, aft e 3 noo 've o'clock in the morning until half-past two in the 100, 000 up twenty-four trains of immense length, with near Ep so Persons, left the terminus at London-bridge -for th e ,Pl. The crowd was so great during a great portion of v 4 5 1111 03 that many p er sons were severely i n j ure d. O ne man th e ... 4r oacl by the pressure of the mob over the balustrade of ithere the second and third class passengers were he to be admitted, and received several frightful inju feb,',"e Was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. Several f.; -I tell received such injuries from the pressure that they ted away and were trampled upon, but with a consider able deal of difficulty they were extricated and conveyedin- I g li sible to the station, where they received every attention. England gentleman lost his pocket-book with a 301. Bank of 4, figland note. Others lost their purses and contents, and When they got inside the terminus they were doomed to . be disappointed. The purses were afterwards picked up minus the contents. .The scene from eight o'clock until two was almost indescribable, the shrieks of the females were terrific, Dad the noise and uproar beyond all conception. ROYAL MARINES. — By an Order in Council of the 24 th April, this corps has been increased to 12.000 °IF !rs and men, ,w ho will be thus divided: Ten artillery companies, each consisting of 1 captain, 4 knoalterns, 7 sergeants, 7 corporals, 3 bombardiers, 3 iotiglers, and 125 gunners; ninety-four divisional coin- Pa ._ tile s, consisting each of a captain, 2 subalterns, 5 "virptuits, 5 corporals, 3 drummers, and 95 privates, oftthha staff composed of 67 persons. In consequence of this are augmentation, Lieutenants Tate and Langley t„, P ro moted to the rank of captain and appointed Kt", aw of the addi t i ona l art ill er y com p an i es . Captain coa st ° s 0 some service while serving on the north Z t° Pain, and was severely wounded in the thigh Gentl efenditt3 r , an outpost on the heights of Passages. and dthßle men eta *Callum, Wriford, Ansell, Poore, aalgette have pass ed the requisite examinations RuYal Nav al College and will be presented with Zholataissions on Tuesday - next. Lieutenant Crockett, of to e s , artiller Y c ompanies, has been ordered to Woolwich, stn-wved Lieutenant Digby, embarked in the Dragon T ni „,, fri r ,gate• Captain Eiall, fitting out at that port. bin PRESS QUEEN WITH HER CROWN AND SCEPTRE;' Triee,, -1/EBB 'WITH ITS BLACKING BALLS.—At a recent he of the Preston Board of Guardians, Mr. Addl. orkthe chairman, thus spoke:—" They ought not to he of i gnorant clamour, or interested clamour. f...tibould totally di sregar d newspapers, which lived to "'Ear excitement and clamour. Editors ough l t , the Queen, present theiV n t_tbe truth, but if they did so, they could not se as go.S E rZ L „ --- (Laughter.) They were, however, perhaps . At the the rest of the world, as it at present existed time the Government was divided between c o , , with her crown and sceptre, and the press with a Useg ie of blacking balls—(Much laughter)—which they them u t° defame the character of those who differed from 81 1 4 (Continued laughter.) All that the newspapers thi n °li ght to be totally disregarded, and went for no ° A with people of common sense. He did not think it w rt to he permitted—but as it theest way 84 .. 1 ° Pay no attention to it."— [N e wspap er c o mm ents, f r t Mr. Addison (evidently a descendant from the _end of Sir Roger de Coverley), go for nothing with Z al u p le , of " common sense." They evidently go for t ,,, t ,: , ,'nF,vvith hint (Mr. Addison) or why these stric ow,il 6fervi+C•d, a:Tort - Lug to the geutletnau p l ''glunelV, IS obvious.] Lo r d h l / 1 " 01 -R , ' POULTrRERS i INSTITUTION.— the ceremony it is stated to us, has consented to perform luatitutof laying the fi rst stone of the Asylum of this .0n , at W ood - green, near Homsey, which interesting Itteiztk n g will take place about the middle of the ensuing THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1847. EPSOM RACES. WEDNESDAY. The Derby has passed away with no very new or marked feature to distinguish it from its predecessors. The main difference in relation to its accessories was, that the promise of direct railway accommodation from London bridge to the town of Epsom was fulfilled, and the result was, that thousands thronged to the races who would have hesitated to visit them by the route of Nine Elms and Kingston, or by the more direct and not less fatiguing one, via " The Elephant." Whilst we, how ever, admit that the new channel possessed, at all events, the recommendation of being cheap, and, in its express trains, direct, and that the consequence was an unprece dented number of visitors, still we cannot grant that it by any means added to the respectabili'y of the assemblage, but had evidently the effect of diminishing the presence of titled and fashionable company. With respect to the line, we have to regret that the directors allowed themselves to throw it open without having provided the requisite accommodation for passengers in the shape of stations and efficient employes ; for the fear that great inconvenience, and probably something worse, would ensue, deterred great numbers from tra velling by the new route. The-e evils, however, pro duced good, and hence the South- Western Company, and the job-masters, had a fair share of the profits the Derby day brings with it. This new division of the traffic produced another beneficial effect, as it materially lessened the confusion, stoppages, and danger that used to prevail when the route was more limited. The race was advertised for half-past two, long before which hour the mass of visitors had settled into such posi•ions as their fancies dictated, the equestrians locating themselves on the hill in order to witness the start, others congregating at " Tattenham-corner"—an interesting point of the race, at which the winner may usually be selected out of four or five — but the majority stationing themselves either in or as near the Grand Stand as possible, thereby obtaining the twofold advan tage of seeing the preliminaries of the race and its issue. The crowd in this quarter was immense, and a fair proof of the soundness of the policy that led to the saddling, &c., on the course, and the removal of the betting ring from the hill to the Grand Stand enclosure, was offered by the fact that the receipts at the different stands were on a greatly increased scale. In touching on the actual business of the day, and the chief incidents arising from it, we must return to the Spread Eagle, at Epsom, where the betting men usually congregate for a couple of hours before they repair to the Downs. Their number was immense, and their rallying point the most inconvenient imaginable, i. e. the area in front of the inn, which by some unaccount able eaprioe, they prefer to the undisturbed accommo dation of the Subscription-room, opened for their special use and convenience. The general business was not by any means heavy, but it was remarkable for the extreme eagerness with which Conyngham was backed, of course to the prejudice of The Cossack, who declined to 5 to 1, kis rival's closing price being only 4 to i l. Between twelve and one o'clock the ring dispersed to re-assemble soon after within the enclosure of the Grand Stand, where, amidst the Babel-like din that ever prevails on this occasion, we collected that Conyngham gradually in creased in favour, and at the close was backed at a shade under 3to 1. Some confusion arose from an unautho rised announcement having been made in the ring that Old Port would not start.; it was not contradicted until within half an hour of saddling. Mounting, cantering, &c., having followed within view of the excited assem blage, the horses proceeded to the post, and, a quarter before three, were started without the slightest failure. We have fully described the race underneath; it was run in a good old fashioned style, Cossack having been in advance nearly from end to end, beating the same horse that he beat at Newmarket, and by precisely the same distance. With the exception of the winning one, none of the crack lots made any figure in the race. We may ob serve, in conclusion, that no Des by within our knowledge has come off so perfectly "on the square." The race over, there was a tremendous rush fur the refreshment rooms, and both in the Grand Stand and in Mr. Care less's the supply was scarcely equal to the demand ; it is satisfactory to state that if some little scarcity prevailed no complaints were heard of the charges. Three other races followed the great one, and the day's amusements were brought to a close in good time. We have only to add a selection of the principal visitors : Duke of Rutland, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Beau fort, Marquis of Exeter ; Earls of Chesterfield, March, Granville, Strathmore, Grosvenor, Caledon, Uxbridge, Glasgow, Wilton, Stradbroke; Countess of Chesterfield; Lords Maidstone, Suffield, G. Bentinck, W. Powlett, S. Osborne, G. Manners, A. Lennox, W. Lennox, G. Lennox, Burghley, Brownlow, Cecil, Bateman, C. Fitzroy, E. Russell, Vivian, Newport, Stanley, Drinkald, Fitz-Clarence, Paget ; Sirs R. Pigott, G. Heatbcote, C. Cockerel!, W. Codrington, J. Hawley, W. M. Stanley, S. Spry, J. Shelley, F. Goodricke, W. W. Wynne, Baron Rothschild, Count Batthyany ; llonourables Colonel and Mrs. Anson, G. Byng, 11. Forester, H. Pitt, Boyle, Admiral Poulett, &c. &c. and 7 to 2 agst Chemise. Won cleverly by half a length, Bletsoe Lass a good third, Tell a moderate fourth, Sylph fifth, and Bretw•alda sixth, Bedouin beaten off. - - - ASCOT RACES. We are authorised to state that Alarm will not start for the Emperor's Vase. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - - SIR, —Tuesday's racing ended as I anticipated it would by the triumphant victory of Flatcatcht r for th e W oo d co t e Stakes and Crozier for the Craven Stakes. Most extraordinary success attended my prognostica tion, I having in both instances named the first and second. A mistake crept into my list of starters for the Derby in Mathematician, who was scratched on Monday. As I did in my last epistle, so shall I do to-day, in giving the list of starting horses for Thursday and Friday's races, I shall place an asterisk (*) a ga i ns t t h ose w ho are in all probability likely to prove the winners. THURSDAY. DURDANS STAKES. Widred Anna the Third Binnacle *Bedlam Dean Swift *Queen Mary Marquis of Conyngbam Teresina Pineapple *Miles's Boy. ND PLATE. GRAND ST yrs. st. lb. yrs. st. lb. Laundry Maid ...4 8 8 Mr. Martin 3 7 6 *Bravissimo 4 8 4 Sir Simon 4 7 5 Giantess 5 8 2 Alkali 5 7 4 Gannett ...... ..5 8 2 P o lk a 4 7 0 Little Jack 5 7 13 Eryx 3 6 13 Conjugation ...aged 7 10 Christopher 3 6 8 *Colt by Amato...4 7 10 *Deloraine 3 6 5 Attorney 5 7 8 1 Sultana And perhaps two or three more. *lcicle COBHAM STAKES. Conceit. DENBIES STAKES. Capt. Pepper *Clemanthe *Treacle. Carissima Satyr Sarah Sykes FRIDAY. OAKS STAKES. Brown Bess Miss Whip filly Maid of Saragossa Emerald Isle *Vanity lonia Gift Mangosteen * Lady Lift Noiseless Slander Jumble. *Clementina Filly—Quilt Arnold's dam Cwachia Kite Maid of Motherwell Exhortation So Nice Nannette filly Palma Marie Louise Farmer's Daughter *The Queen The remaining stakes—the Members' Plate, and the Derby and Oaks Stakes—are so much dependent on those preceding them that it would be impossible to give a correct list of the starters. I am, Sir, yours, &e., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 19. LITERATURE. ADVENTURES OF THE CONNAUGHT BANGERS. 2 Vols. By William Grattan. Little if anything could be desired with reference to the victorious campaigns of the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula after the masterly volumes of Napier. Of a purely historical character nothing indeed is requi site after the works that have already been published, but of the anecdotal adventures, of the hair-breadth escapes, and the personal rencontres of that stormy epoch much —very much—remained unchronicled. Mr. Grattan has done well towards the filling up of the hiatus. As Lieutenant of the Connaught Rangers during the days when that valorous regiment was ac quiring its chief renown and covering itself with im perishable glory, he is in a peculiar manner entitled to command our attention when speaking of the military achievements of a body of men whose bravery, and ardour, and audacity, and perseverance, and success have imparted to them the distin guishing title of the Fighting Eighty• Eighth. But Mr. Grattan is no dry didactic narrator of events. He can describe a siege or a pitched battle with all the pre cision of a Napier and all the minuteness of a Siborne, if not with the eloquence of a Gibbon or the enthusiasm of a Tacitus. Beyond this, be tells an anecdote with the gusto of Harry Lorrequer—proving himself to be a rare companion over a dish of walnuts and a flask of Madeira. There is an unction, too, about his humorous passages that irresistibly tickles one into laughter. And all the advantages are "set off" by a winning modesty as regards his own personal .movements, and a delightful and unaffected - Zonhommie. 4 Where, moreover, could a soldier find a fairer field fbr discursive chat than the peninsula of Iberia. and Lusitania, when the marshals of the Emperor Napoleori and the generals of England were contending for the mister); amidst a fruitful vegetation, a delicious climate, - and_ a_..distracted people ? And where could the lovers of military adventure look for incident, for merriment, for daring, for vicissitude, and fur a very forgiveabla rascality, if not to the Con naught Rangers—the Boys—the Fighting Eighty-Eighth? Surely nowhere. Mr. Grattan has chosen a glorious theme, and he has treated it gloriously. The book, though rambling and discursive to an inordinate extent, is enthralling from page 1 to page 675. As Phia-like illustrations to Napier's Peninsular History, these chapters are excellent and invaluable. They testify in a brilliant manner to the indomitable . courage, the un repining endurance, and the national peculiarities of the British troops ; but, like the descriptions of all battle grounds, they are' mournful in their very pleasantry, and ghastly in their very facetiousness. We honour Mr. Grattan, especially because he shovit here and there throughout his volumes that there is a tender core to his Heart of Oak that he has a bosom to feel for the suffering as well as to bear the brunt of the bayonet—that he can, in no maudlin tones of affectation, but with a manly candour and explicitness, lament over the desolations and woes of war as well as exult over its glory and its heroism. In this respect he ffects a sort of compromise between Captain I'en and Captain Sword. As a specimen of the drolleries con tained in these adventures, we extract the following characteristic remarks upon Wellington from the lips of a Connaught Ranger with the felicitous name of Paddy "I Well I' said he, now ids all past and gone, and wasn't it the diva's own dthroll business, the taking that same place ; and wasn't Long-nose (meaning the Duke of Wellington) a quare lad to sthrive to get into it, seeing how it was detinded! But what else could he do, afther all? didn't he recave ordhers to do it ; and didn't he say to us all, 'Boys,' says he, ' ids myself that's sorry to tbrouble yees upon this dirty arrand; but we must do it, for all that; and iv .rees can get into it, by hook or by crook, be the powers, id 'ill be the making ov yees all—and ov me too!' and didn't he spake the thruth? Sure,' says he, did I ever tell yees a lie, or spake a word to yees that wasn't as thrue as the Gospil? and, iv yea folly my directions, there's nothin can bate 3 ees?' And sure, afther we got in, was he like the rest, ethriving to put us out before we diverted ourselves? Not he, faith. It was he that spoke to the boys' decently. ' Well, boys,' says he, when he met myself and a few more aising a house ov a thrifle, well, boys,' says he (for he knew the button), God bless your work ! ids myself that's proud to think how complately yees tuck the concate out uv the Frinch 88th, in the castel last night.' Why sir,' says I '(forgettin to call him my Lord), the divil a Frinch Connaught Ranger ever was born that the Irish Connaught Rangers isn't able to take the concate out ov;' and ids what he said upon the same, splitting his sides with laffin, that it was thrue for me there wasn't ; and blur-an-ouns, boys, aint he the man to stand by? Don't he take the rough and the smooth with us, and wouldn't it be a pity not to give him his dew? don't he expose himself to the wet and the cowld with us, lie out on the grass at night, like any other baste? and aint he afthur kicking the French before him, just as we'd kick an old foot-ball? Be the powers, whin I see him commin next or nigh me, my heart gets so big that my body isn't big enough to hould it, and it jumps up clane into my throat—to get room l And don't think that I'm romancin, when I tell yees how he said we tuck the concate out ov the Frinch 88th ; he said every wcrd ov it, and more too—iv I could repate it in his own words.' " replied Cornet' Fagan, what you say is per fectly thrue ; we o ug ht t o s t an d by him—and didn't we? Sure yeas remember how Misther Mackie ran up the laddher as nimble as a cat, and poor Misther Martin thought to do the same, till he was kilt I and didn't Captain Seton owe his life to his being so thin that the French couldn't hit him? and whin we have such a man to direct us, and such officers to lade us on, why, what else can we do but folly them through thick and thin ? '" With such an opinion of the capacity of their leader, and with such an aptitude for fingering the trigger and plunging forward with the pike themselves, it is not difficult to comprehend how the British arms became predoniinant over a dejected an tagonist and estranged commanders. In review ing the campaigns of the Spanish and Portuguese Peninsula, it must never be overlooked that England was then enabled to concentrate all her military strength upon those two countries while France was battling against the leaguered arms of northern, eastern, western, and southern E ur op e . A ver y mournf u l sub ject is brought under consideration in the present work, namely, the anomalous character of the immortal Picton. Though the conduct of that illustrious warrior was certainly of a very questionable, if not of an entirely reprehensible, kind towards the 88th Regiment, it is cer tain that he has entitled himself to the respectful and lasting remembrance of his countrymen by his enter prising life and his heroic death. Mr. Grattan speaks antipathy ne u boldly, behaviour apvaitnhny and w to end his aswveient apparent rea ee va. rvWe ererentahas cannot n n e 0 , u 0 tn resistpo t en upon p t i h et h a t i t ee G n e e n f et: feeling of a e e s doubtful blemish es i n the disposition of a popular hero like Picton. The hero of Sinde would have afforded of Aliwal. To desist, andhim aanvbenrrydidniaffteernent notion of the care due to privates the agonised victims of the blasphemies, who note only see only the laure ffi ls ce a rs n this • ful however, abruptly from painful topic, here is a picture d — n a o n t d t so ho also blood, would who t the ar hero on ly for the contemplation of those who the triumphal telling about the terrific storm of Ciudad Rodrigo:— " city. It is an symphoniesincident thus author and ho t :he r not n " During a contest of such a the bauble by medals,tthe shrieksti h n e h p e i pillaged a i g g and h e t d , innaantdu battle-fieldr not o k t et ahn u ed p as may be supposed, much was of necessity left to the guid ance of the subordinate o ffi cers, if not to the soldiers them selves. Each affray in the streets was conducted in the best manner the moment would admit of, and decided more by personal valour than discipline, and in some instances officers as men as privates had to combat with the imperial troops. In one of these encounters, Lieutenant George Faris, of the 88th, by an accident so likely to occur in an affair of this kind, separated a little too far from a dozen or so of his regi ment, found himself opposed to a French solOier who appa- . rently was similarly placed ;—it was a curious coincidence, and it would seem as if each felt that he individually was the representative of the country to which he belonged; and had the fate of the two nations hung upon the issue of the combat I am about to describe, it could not have been more heroically contested. The Frenchman fired at, and wounded Faris in the thigh, and made a desperate push with his bayonet at his body, but Faris parried the thrust, and the bayonet only lodged in his leg ; he saw at a glance the peril. of his situation, and that nothing short of a miracle could save him ;—the odds against him were too great, and if he continued a scientific fight he must inevitably be vanquished ; he sprang forward, and seizing hold of the Frenchman by the collar, a struggle of the most nervous kind took place; in their mutual efforts to gain an advantage they lost their caps, and as they were men of nearly equal strength, it was doubt ful what the issue would be. They were so entangled with each other, their weapons were of no avail, but Faris at length disengaged himself from the grasp which held him, and he was able to use his sabre; he pushed the French man from him, and ere he could recover himself he laid his head open nearly to the chin; his sword blade, a heavy, soft, ill- made Portuguese one, was doubled up with the force of the blow, and retained some pieces of the Beall and clotted hair! At this moment I reached the spot with about twenty men, composed of different regiments, all being by this time mixed pelf moll with each other. I ran up to Faris—he was nearly exhausted, but he was safe. The French gre nadier lay upon the pavement, while Faris, though totter ing from fatigue, held his sword firmly in his grasp, and it was crimson to the hilt. The appearance of the two com batants was frightful!—one lying d ea d on the ground, the other faint from agitation and loss of blood ; but the soldiers loudly applauded him, and the feeling uppermost with them was that our man bad the best of it ! It was a shocking sight, but it would be rather a hazardous experiment to begin moralising at such a moment and in such a place." As a kind of companion-story to this very ghastly anecdote, we give the following account of the execution of deserters:— "At eight o'clock t he division was under arms, a n d f ormed in a hollow square of small dimensions; in the centre of it was th e Provost-Marshal , accompanied by hi s f ollowers, with pick-axes, spades, shovels, and all „ the necessary et ceteras for marking out and torming the graves into which the unfortunate delinquents were to be deposited as soon as they receivd the eland amost imposing of milit ary ho nours—that of being shot to death ! In a few moments afterwards, the rolling of muffled drums —the usual accom paniment of the death march—was heard ; and the soldiers w ho guarded the prisoners were soon in sight. The divi sion observed a death-like silence as the prisoners defiled round the inside of the square ; every eye was turned to wards them; but Mangin, from his well-known good cha racter, was an object of general solicit u d e. The solitary sound of the muffled drums at last died away into silence— the guard drew up in the centre of the square, and the pri soners had, for the last time, a view of their companions from whom they had deserted, and of their colours which they had forsaken ; but if their countenan ces they to repent seemed were a just i n dex of their minds , The three greatly th e ac t ti l es , h a d committed! men of the 60th were in their shirts, as was also Mangin, of the 88th, but Curtis wore the old red rag, most likely from necess i ty, having, in all human prob abilit y , no sh i rt to di e i n; a circumstance by no means rare with the soldiers of the Peninsular army. "The necessary preliminialarides, such as re a di ng the crime, and finding the sentence, d finished, whe n t h e A d j utant- G enera l announced the par on granted to Mangin, who was immediately conducted away, and placed at a short distance in rear of the division ; the rest staggered onward to the spot where their graves had been dug, and having been placed on their knees, their legs hanging over the edge of the grave, a bandage was tied over their eyes; the Provost-Marshal then, with a party of twenty musketeers, their firelocks cooked, and at the recover, silently moved iu front of GC prisoners unt ho reached to within five paces of them, and then, giving two motions of his hana_the one to present, the other to fire the four men fell into the pit p r epared to - receive them. The three Germans were dead—indeed they were nearly so before they were fired at! And if the state of their nerves was a criterion to go by, a moderate sized pop-gun would have been sufficiently destructive to have finished their earthly career; but Curtis sprang up, and with one of his jaws shattered, and hanging down upon his breast, presented a horrid spectacle. Every one seemed to be electrified, the Provost-Marshal excepted ; he, I suppose, was well accustomed to such sights, for without any cere mony, he walked up to Curtis, and with the most perfect composure levelled a huge instrument (in size between a horse-pistol and blunderbuss) at his head, which blew it nearly off his shoulders, and he fell upon the bodies of the Germans without moving a muscle. "The ceremony over, the division defiled round the grave, and as each company passed it, the word Eyes right' was given by the officer in command, by which means every roan had a clear view of the corpses as they lay in a heap. This is a good and wholesome practice, for nothing so much awakes in the mind of the soldier, endowed with proper feeling, the dishonour of committing an action which is almost certain to bring him to a disgraceful end, while it deters the bad man from doing that which will cost him all that he has to lose—for such persons have no character—his life. It was ten o'clock before the parade broke up, and we returned to our quarters, leaving to the Provost-Marshal and his guard the task of filling up the grave. Several Portu guese peasants crowded near the fatal spot, and so soon as all danger was past, they flocked to witness the interment, making, all the time, divers appeals to the Virgin Mary; but whether they were intended for the preservation of the souls departed, or their own bodies corporate, I neither knew nor inquired. _ " ➢tangin, the man who bad received his pardon, was still in a state of stupor; after the lapse of an hour or so his captain went to see him ; but the shock he had received was too se vere; he had not nerve to bear up against it; he replied in an incoherent manner, soon fell asleep, and awoke an idiot! Every effort that could be made by the medical men, and every assurance of favour from his captain, proved vain— he became a 'palpable, irreclaimable idiot, and shortly after wards died of convulsions." In justice to the officers and soldiers who'partook in our Peninsular victories and campaigns, and whose services have been so long and shamefully unacknowledged, we transcribe two passages from these volumes. The Duke of Wellington would evince no little anxiety to ingra tiate posterity with his character did he but take a hint from what follows. The author has just mentioned Wellington's applications to the Duke of York and to Earl Bathurst respecting the Waterloo medals, when he proceeds— " Now, is there any disinterested man to be found who cannot, at a glance, discover the cause, the mainspring, of this wonderful solicitude—this maiden effort of the Duke of Wellington, to obtain a badge of honour for his army, nine tenths of which he had never seen before that day, and who, as a matter of course, had never laid eyes on him? Is it to be supposed that he who could, and did, quietly accept the immense riches, honours, and titles that were showered on him, and gained for him by the best blood of his Peninsular army, without once raising his voice in favour of a medal for his old and tried veterans,—his companions during six years' terrible war, and victorious in every battle I the men who had carried him, it may be truly said, on their very shoul ders, and placed hi m i n th e exa lt e d pos iti on h e now occup i es ; is it, I say. to be s u pp o s e d he f e lt, or cou ld f ee l, anyinterest in an army that he had but just seen, and an army that had fought under his command for little more than as many hours as his Penin sular soldiers had fought for years, except for the gratifica tion of his own personal vanity? If not this—but who can doubt it ?—why did he write to the Duke of York on the subject? Why! because he had beaten the great man in person, and he was determined that Wellington' and Waterloo' should be banded about on the breast of his hundred thousand soldiers, more than a half of whom had never seen a shot fired before that day, and many of whom were not only not in the battle, but knew nothing about it for a day afterwards; yet all these men—absentees included —got a medal ! I therefore ask what interest—except to gratify his own ambition—could he take in this Waterloo army, or any other army the world could produce, when he forgot the services, and trampled under his feet the applica tion of an army that made him what he now is? But having written to the Duke of York, as his dispatches avow he did, why did he not say so in his reply to the Duke of Richmond? Does he not, in point of fact, deny in his speech that which we have, printed by his own authority, in his book of dis patches? and his assertion that since the battle of Waterloo not a shot has been fired in Europe' is perfectly contemptible when adduced as a reason for granting a medal for that battle, and refusing one for the Peninsula. Why has there not been a shot (an hostile one we presume the Duke meant) fired in Europe since then? Because Napoleon was properly secured after Waterloo, and had he been so secured after Toulouse Waterloo would never have been fought. But how did the Duke of Wellington know (for I put the good and amiable Duke of York out of the question, as also the Ministers), that there would be no more fighting in Europe? lie knew not, nor could he know any such thing; but in a few months after his beating Napoleon (this was the hobby !) we find his Waterloo army with their medals dangling at their breasts." " Had the Duke told the House of Lords," he continues, " and told the army that he had suggested to the Duke of York the expediency s , f granting this medal to his Waterloo army, he would have told that which a great number of people had never heard before; and he might have added, with the most perfect safety, that if he had asked the same favour for his Peninsular army, it would have been as freely granted as his Waterloo suggestion,—and, his Peninsular army will add for him, that it would be granted even now but for the heartless opposition he gives it. But the whole secret has been already told: Napoleon, the greatest general of this, or perhaps of any other age, was beaten in person ; and it would seem that this all-absorbing thought haunted the Duke of Wellington so early as the night of the battle, for Captain Sherer tells us, in his history, that on the night of the battle, when at supper, ' Wellington re peatedly leaned back in his chair, and, rubbing his hands convulsively, exclaimed aloud—" Thank God I have met him I thank God I have met him."' How different were Nelson's meek but fervid words after his great victory at Trafalgar ! The dying hero's last words were—' I thank God I have done my duty —I hope my country will be satis fied that I have done my duty !' But the Duke of Welling ton, according to Captain Sherer, was thinking much more of himself and his beaten adversary than of his country. However, he did not forget his army, for, as has been seen, in ten days after the battle, he begged leave to suggest' (in plain English, he asked the Duke of York to give the medal, and it was given,) the expediency of giving this medal to his army." Mr. Grattan records a multitude of the most inte resting and diiersified adventures, savouring sometimes of the romantic, sometimes of the horrible, and always of the remarkable. We scarcely know whether to him the flavour of mulled wines, the smell of gunpowder, the sheen of' the green herbage, the vermillion lips of a donna, the elastic amble of a horse, or the cheers and rush of a forlorn hope are preferable. Everywhere and in everything he finds matter for disquisition, and he either "points" an episode with an Irish witticism, or " colours" it with an English pleasantry. As a decoction of all sorts of ad. venture Mr. Grattan has imparted the raciest taste imaginable to the outpourings of his memory ; and he has nobly fulfilled a duty incumbent upon an officer who can write so well—a duty honourable to his soldier's heart and his soldier's intellect. THE DERBY STAKES. Of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old; colts, 84 71b; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second horse to re ceive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 109 sovs. towards the police regulations of the . course ; last mile and a half. ( 188 Subs.) Mr. Pedley's Cossack (Templeman) 1 Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle (Boyce) 2 Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp (J. Marson) 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham (A. Day) 0 Duke of Richmond's Red Hart (Cotton) 0 Mr. Merry's Limestone (S. Darling, jun.) 0 Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin (Calloway) o Duke of Richmond's Halo (H. Bell) 0 Lord E. Russell's Nottingham (E. Edwards) 0 Lord Caledon's Wanota (Marlow) 0 Mr. Irwin's Oxonian (Sly) 0 Mr. Mostyn's Planet (W. Abdale) 0 Mr. Mostyn's Crozier (Ford) 0 Mr. Mostyn's Gabbler (Kitchener) 0 Lord Strathmore's Signet (Crouch) 0 Mr. Ford's Clarendon (G. Edwards) 0. Captain Delme na Resolution (Pettit) 0 Mr. Meiklam's Deloraine (Hornsby, jun.) 0 Mr. H. Bulkeley's Montpensier (Bumby) 0 Mr. O'Brien's Liberator . (Cartwright) 0 Lord Warwick's Aliwal (Wakefield) 0 Lord Glasgow's Chainbearer . (Whitehouse) 0 Mr. Sainsbury's Questionable (J. Sharpe) 0 Colonel Anson's Bingham (Butler) 0 Mr. Bowes's Epirote Sir G. Heathcote's Bellerophon (Chapple) 0 Mr. Robertson's Good Coin (W. Howlett) 0 Mr. Lowther's The Admiral (Bartholomew) 0 Mr. Greville's Mirmillo (Nat) 0 Mr. Osbaldestone's Pantomime (Retort colt) (Mann) 0 Mr. S. Conway's Christopher . (W. Scott) 0 Mr. Worley's Old Port (Robinson) 0 Bedlam did not start. Won by a length. Thirty-two ran. Betting at starting-11 to 4 agst Conyngham, sto 1 agst Cossack, 7 to 1 agst Van Tromp, 14 to 1 agst Mir millo, 16 to 1 agst Red Hart, 15 to 1 agst Oxonian, 20 to 1 agst Wanota, 20 to 1 agst Planet, 25 to 1 agst War Eagle, 30 to 1 agst Montpensier, and 50 to 1 agst Halo. The horses reached the post about twenty minutes before three o'clock, and, in five minutes after, not, as of yore, after a dozen failures, were started at the first signal. Gabbler was the first to make running, but in a few strides was headed by Cossack, who went on with , it at a strong pace. Gabbier waited on him, followed by Conyngham and War Eagle ; Epirote, Wanota, Mirmillo, and two or three others lying next, and in the centre Van Tromp, Limestone, Halo, Mr. Martin, and Bingham. Mirmillo and Gabbier lost their places at the top of the hill, and at the commencement of the turn, Wanota was beaten, and War Eagle had taken his place next Cossack, Conyngham lying third; Halo, Van Tromp, Limestone, Bingham, and Mr. Martin were also in the front rank, but not near enough to the two leaders to flatter their backers with the slightest chance of winning. On crossing the road Co nyngham was beaten, and Van Tromp became third, lying about two lengths from War Eagle, Cossack now leading a clear length ; they ran thus to the half dis tance, where War Eagle made a gallant effort, and for a moment got to Cossack's shoulder, but was disposed of opposite the stand, and beaten cleverly by a length. Van Tromp finished a very . bad third, Mr. Martin was fourth, followed past the chair by Halo, Limestone, and Conyngham—in what order, from the prevalence of yellow jackets, we dare not attempt to specify. The race was run in 2 min. 52 sec. Value, 5,2501. The Carew Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added ; three yrs old, 7st 1 01 b; four, Bst 11lb; five, 9st 21b; six and aged, 9st 61b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., &c. One mile. (7 Subs.) Mr. Goddard'abrahim Pacha, 3 yra ...(Whitehouse) 1 Mr. O'Brien's Conceit, 3 yrs The following were not placed :—Mr. Drinkald's Moodkee, Col. Anson's Treacle, Mr. Death's Guaracha, Mr. Woodward's The Slot, Mr. Horusby's Bokhara. Betting-7 to 4 agst Moodkee, 3to 1 agst Ibrahim Pacha, 4to 1 agst Conceit, and sto 1 st Treacle. Won by a length; Moodkee third, a length - from the second, and a length before Treacle. The Polesdon Stakes of 5 soya, each, with 30 added; three yrs old, 7st lolb; four, Bst 1 ilb; five, 9st 21b; six and aged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed albs. The winner to be sold for 120 sovs. if demanded, &c. One mile. (4 Subs.) Mr. Winch's Lebanon, 4 yrs .. . (W. Abdale) 1 Mr. Drinkald's Mistress Jean, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Dawson's Bretwalda, 5 yrs 3 Mr. Drew'S Cameo, 3 yrs Betting-6 to 4on Mistre*s Jean. Won by a head. Bretwalda a good third. The winner was claimed. The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added; three yrs old, Bst 21b; four, Bst Illb; five, 9st; six and aged, 9st 41b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold tor s 0 sovs 84n One mile. (7 Subs.) Lord Chesterfields Mu.inbrue.., 3 yrs ...........(Nat) 1 Mr. Theobald's Cheinise, 5 yrs • Mr. Hope's Bletsoe Lass. 6 yrs The following were not placed :—Mr. B. Green's Bedouin, 3 yrs ; Mr. Drew's Sylph, aged ; Mr. Daw son's Bretwalda, 5 yrs ; Mr. Smith's Tell, 4 yrs Betting- 5 to 4 agst Minbrace, sto 2 ago Bedouin, COURT CIRCULAR. Lord John Russell had in audience of the Queen yes terday at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, took an airing yes terday in an open carriage and four. His Royal High ness Prince Albert rode out on horseback at the same time. The Equerries in Waiting, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Captain the lion. A. H. Gordon, attended her Majesty and his Royal Highness on horse back. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena, took airings yesterday in the royal gardens. The Queen and the Queen Dowager visited her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her residence at Kensington. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes terday, included his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, Prince Leichtenstein, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Captain Francis Seymour. It being the Queen's intention to hold a Drawing• room at St. James's Palace on Thursday, the 27th inst., to celebrate her Majesty's birthday, the exhibition of the royal pictures must close alter Saturday next, the 22d instant, and it will be resumed on Saturday, the 29th instant, the interval being necessary to prepare the Palace for the Drawing-room. No tickets to view the royal pictures will be issued from Saturday next, the 22d instant, to Saturday, the 29th instant. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, honoured the Achbishop of York with her company at dinner yesterday, at his residence, in Grosvenor-square. His Grace received the Noble Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music. _ : _ _ Their Royal Highnessess Prince Albert and the Duchess of Kent honoured the performance of the Concert of Ancient Music with their presence yesterday evening at the llanover square Rooms. A deputation from Windsor, consisting of the Rev. Dr. llawtrey, the Rev. E. Coleridge, Rev. W. G. Corberley, and the Rev. E. H. Pickering, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth on Tuesday, at the office of the Com missioners of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place. The Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., will not meet at the Lord Chancellor's on the first day of Trinity Term (Saturday next). The Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Ex cellency had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at the office of the Board of Trade. _ _ A deputation of tbe Severn and Wye Railway Com pany, consisting of Mr. Joseph Cookson, the Chairman; Mr. Edward Thomas, the Treasurer; Mr. Stephen Jar rett, Rev. H. Sheets, Mr. 0. C. Lane, Mr. Coates, the Parliamentary agent; and Mr. Bigg, the solicitor to the company, had an interview with the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday. A deputation from the Birkenhead and Lancashire Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Laird, Mr. Coch rane, and Mr. Lister, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt at the office of the Com missioners of Railways in Great George-street. Captain Hayes had an interview with Earl Grey yes terday at the Colonial-office. Major-General Sir Charles Smith had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official resi dence in Downing-street. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday,- at his official residence in Downing strt et. Lord Northland and Admiral Sir Charles Adam had interviews yesterday with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. Mr. Aldam, M.P., and a deputation of the Surveyors of the Highways of Leeds, consisting of Messrs. Brock, Jackson, Rosson, R. Roberts, and Barrett, accompanied by Mr. Btckett, M.P., had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial Office for the Governor of Ceylon, and for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY. A general Court of Proprietors of the British American Land Company was held on Monday, at the London Tavern. The meeting was specially con vened for the purpose of considering the provisions of a Bill now before Parliament, for amending a former Act, and granting the company further powers. The chair was taken by Alexander Gillespie, Esq. Mr. B. BALDWIN, M.P., said he felt bound to op pose this Bill, which sought to confer unnecessary powers. He would ask whether any proxies obtained under the circular that had been issued would autho rise the directors in proceeding with this Bill. ' e e protested agai ns t e ngag i ng i n new works i n the pr sent circumstances of th e company. H e trusted th at the course taken by the directors would not be sanc tioned. It was his determination to oppose this Bill in every stage. Mr. BISCHOFF, solicitor to the company, read a copy of the Bill. In addition to provisions respecting the payment of interest, it provides that new powers shall be conferred upon the company. Clause 6, which provides that the company shall be authorised to subscribe to other undertakings, was the principal matter about which difference of opinion arose in the meeting. It provides as follows :—That it shall be lawful for the said company to subscribe towards, or become shareholders in, any existing or future under taking for making or working any railway, canal, road, bridge, dock, port, harbour, mine, or other public works of like nature in the several provinces and colonies in North America in the said charter re spectively mentioned, or their dependencies, the esta blishment whereof may appear to the said company likely to further the objects for which the said com pany was constituted ; and also to make any loan or loans for the purpose of enabling any such public work to be made or worked, &c. Mr. B. BALDWIN and Mr. SAUNDERS objected to conferring such large and extensive powers on the directors. After some discussion, Mr. ROBINSON (ex-governor of the company) pro posed the following resolution :—" That this meeting approves of and sanctions the Bill now read, entitled, &c. ; and that the directors of the company be hereby authorised to take all the necessary steps to carry the same Bill through Parliament." After some discussion, it was proposed, in order to obviate the opposition of Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Saun ders, that words of limitation should be inserted, so as to limit the powers to be conferred on the company to engage in undertakings, and to subscribe only to public works " affecting the lands of the company, and being either within such lands or immediately contiguous thereto." The resolution in its amended form, as proposed by Mr. Tl. , ,,biuson, was F. econded by Mr. Gould, and wa ti;,7n uoaulinously :greed to Afti;:r some routine lace louiued. thA meeting The price of bread at Brussels for the se con d fort night of May has undergone a reduction of one centime per kilogramme. THE PEACE SOCIETY. The thirty-first anniversary of this society was held on the 17th and 18th instant. The meeting of mem bers, on the 17th, convened by printed circular, was in the large room at the White Hart Inn, Bishops gate-street, Joseph T. Price, Esq., in the chair. The report of the committee was read by the Rev. J. Jefferson, the secretary, and unanimously adopted, and ordered to be read to the public meeting in Fins bury Chapel. The officers for the ensuing year were appointed, and the general business of the society at tended to. The following gentlemen took part in the proceedings :—John Allen, Esq., W. Astbury, Esq., R. Barrett, Esq., Mr. E. Clarke, R. Ransome, Esq., E. Smith, Esq., Mr. A. B. Stevens, and Mr. P. Wheeler. At the public meeting in Finsbury Chapel, on the 18th, the chair was taken by C. Hindley, Esq., M.P., and afterwards by J. T. Price, Esq., and the follow ing gentlemen addressed the meeting :—Rev. T. Ave ling, Rev. J. Burnet, J. Brotherton, Esq., M.P., J. S. Buckingham, Esq., Mr. Elihu Burritt, of Worcester, Mass., and Mr. Clapp, of Lynn, Mass., United States. The resolutions were embodied in a petition which was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, praying that suitable measures may he taken to settle interna tional disputes by arbitration or other legal process, without having recourse to arms, From the report it appeared that the cause of peace is gradually advancing. It was stated that by the agents of the society and other persons there had been delivered, under the immediate sanction of the com mittee, about 500 lectures during the past year, to 110,000 persons; half a million of tracts have been distributed ; the pe_riodical press has been employed both in England Wales ; the sale of the Herald of Peace is increasing ; fairs and markets have been visited ; Sumner's Oration and Bowring's Lecture on the Commercial Importance of Peace have been cir culated ; petitions for a legalised system of arbitra tion have been extensively adopted ; and on the con tinent of Europe twenty lectures have been delivered —some of them to as many as 1,500 persons, and many thousands of tracts distributed. The report referred also to the dock-yards and the coming general election, as also to the decease of J. J. Gurney, Esq., and T. Clarkson, Esq., and others. Including a balance of more than 5561. at the com mencement of the year, the income of the society has been 2,1471. 19s. 10d. There is a balance of more than 1001. on hand. BO'NESS.—MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, a little before ten o'clock, an engine stalk, which has lately been erected by John Wilson, Esq., near the School yard Pits, 13o'ness, fell with a tremendous crash in the di rection of the School-brae ; destroying one house of four storeys in height, and another of one storey. The inhabi tants of the buildings were buried in the ruins, from which one female was taken out dead, and several others severely injured, but who are since progressing favourably. It is re markable that more lives were not lost, as the road over which the stalk fell is the one leading to the parish school, and the accident happened at the very hour of the assembling of the school. Some narrow escapes took place. The erec tion was upwards of 100 feet in height.—lnverness Journal. ASCOT RACES.—The alterations which had been for some time past in progress in front of the grand stand, for the increased accommodation and convenience of the public, have just been completed under the superintendence of Mr. Hibburd, the active clerk of the course. A great improve ment has also been effected in front of the royal stand, which is now undergoing the usual embellishments for the recep tion of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, who, with the distinguished guests who have been honoured with invita tions to the Castle, are expected to honour the course v ith their presence on two days during the races. It is also ex pected that their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal will accompany the Queen and the Prince, for the first time, to the course. DEATHBLOW TO THE LOCOMOTIVE.—We had the privilege yesterday of a " private view" of a new invent ion by Mr. William Martin, the national philosopher, which, use his own expre,mve phrase, will " hobble Iludon." It is to "superaetle the locomotive." Mr. Martin (lispen3rs with 03`.: e and steam. and falls hack upon hand labour. Two or tniee men, turning a crank, will move a train at th e s p ee d (as t h e A m ericans would say) of " greased lightning." We congra tulate Ur. Martin on his great mechanical achievement. Its airoplicity ifi reellarkable. -- Gateshead Observer. THE RAGGED SCHOOLS. Yesterday evening a public meeting was held at the Clerkenwell Parochial School-rooms, Amwell street, in support of the Lamb and Flag Ragged School. Th e meeting was densely crowded by a most respectable assembly, who appeared to take a warm interest in the proceedings. Lord Brougham presided on the occasion, and the Bishop of Norwich opened the business of the evening with prayer. A hymn was then sung by the children of the school, who, raised on a platform at one side of the building, maintained a propriety of de meanour which wonderfully contrasted with their ragged and wild appearance. Lord BROUGHAM said he was sure that he spoke the sense of all present when he expressed his gratification at seeing them meet on such an occasion. They were really engaged in doing one of the very best works that it was possible for man to be engaged in, for they were endeavouring to rescue from a state of helpless and hopeless ignorance, which was the parent of crime, a great and important body of our fellow-countrymen. — (Hear, hear.) It was the cruel lot of the poor of our land, that at all times, as well in seasons of plenty as in those when Providence had visited us with a scarcity or any other calamity— unhappily there must always be in this and every other fully peopled country—every country where there was not an infinite amount of land unsettled, that was to say, over every country in the old world and a considerable part of the new—there must of necessity be this deplorable result, that the wages of the poor were reduced to the lowest ebb, far, far below what every humane mind must wish to see them at; far, far below what was sufficient to minister to their comforts, and, be was afraid truth compelled him to say, reduced as nearly as possible to the lowest amount on which man could subsist.—(Hear, hear.) He did not say this to make the poor discontented ; God forbid ; but he said it to make the rich mindful of their less fortunate neighbours, and to render them anxious by every means in their power to alleviate the necessarily hard lot of the humbler classes. Now, various men had various opinions as to the best way of carrying into effect their humane inten tions in this respect. Some thought it best to interfere with the employment of labour, and to tell the poor man he must only work a certain number of hours in the day; while others, considering that the labour of the poor man was his only wealth, thought he should be al lowed to labour unrestricted and in the best way he could. He would not say which of these two opinions he held, and he stated them only to show how much different minds differed as to the means, though all agreed in the great end, that of promoting the good of the humbler classes. It was natural, then, to ask whether there was any neu tral ground on which men could meet, which would not raise controversies between different religious sects, be tween the Jew and the Gentile, between the Christian and the heathen, who dwelt in utter darkness. He found that neutral ground in attempting to promote by all means in their power the free education of their fellow citizens of the working class. The children of that class were a burden to them, and would grow up to be a curse to them and a pest to society at large, if they were al lowed to remain in that state of ignorance which led to vice and immorality and the infraction of the laws both of God and man. The question then was, how could they rescue from this deplorable state creatures born in misery and bred in crime; and this led him to remind the meeting that they were assembled to perform one of the most acceptable services which men could render to their Maker, and to show forth not only by thanksgiving, but by good works, their gratitude for being placed in happier circumstances than their brethren of the humbler classe 3. His Lordship then proceeded to touch upon a va riety of general questions having a more or less direct bearing on the subject of education for the children of the poor. He referred to the preponderance of crime among that class, and contended that it was not to be effectually counteracted by any reform of criminal law—the ex ample of punishment operating only in preserving the good in their habits, and not in deterring those who had once become depraved. He admitted that some pro gress had been made in the reformation of offenders in France and Germany, the example in that respect hav ing been set at Stretton, in the county of Warwick. He was, however, for beginning a step earlier, by educating the children of that class which produced nearly all the criminals in the country. His Lordship concluded by saying that, as the greatest satisfaction had been ex pressed at the improvement of the children at the Lamb and Flag Ragged School, he hoped that its numbers and means would increase, and with them the satisfaction of its patrons, who would thus derive the sweet consolation of benevolence, attended by that without which benevo lence was a barren plant—beneficence; the doing good as well as the meaning good.—(Cheers.) Mr. C. WHITE read the report, which stated that 300 children were on the books of the school, and which gave a most encouraging view of its usefulness. In moving the adoption of the report, The Bishop of Nostwzor said, that he had heard since he came into that room one argument in favour of ragged schools which scattered to the winds a thousand arguments against them. He had heard these children praising God with lips which would have otherwise blasphemed him. The Right Rev. Prelate here addressed himself to the children, and told them, for their instruc tion, a very affecti ng s t ory o f an accident in a coal mine, by which many people had perished. Among them was a boy, who had written on a slate with a rusty nail the following words;—" Mother, dear mother, grieve not for us, mourn not for me; we are singing the praises of God in our last hours, though we shall see you no more." The Right Rev. Prelate then proceeded to point out the prejudices with which the cause of educating the poor had ,hitherto been opposed. Their Noble Chairman had lately expressed a doubt as to whether this was the year 1847; but the reason why he (the Bishop of Norwich) believed that it was so was the signs which he saw of increasing interest in the instruction of the humble classes. Even if the ragged schools did nothing else, they would secure cleanliness, which was a great - point, for he made bold to say it as his experience that he had never known a very wicked man with a very clean face. —(Laughter.) Mr. Peto, by educating the navigators working on the railways in the county of Norfolk, had beat the beer-shops out of the field. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded by an earnest appeal to the meeting to promote with hand and heart the cause of instruction among the poor. The Rev. Mr. HUGHES, in seconding the motion; bore witness to the good results which had attended the Lamb and Flag Ragged School, not only to the children but also to their parents. The resolution having been carried by the meeting, Mr. WIRE moved the second resolution, which was— " That this meeting, recognising the important truths conveyed in the report of the committee, earnestly in voke all parties to co-operate in removing the evils arising from and incidental to juvenile delinquency." In reference to a statement made by Mr. Wire, Lord BROUGHAM, at the close of that gentleman's ad dress, rose and said that it was, he was sorry to say, thirty-seven years since he presided at the first meeting in founding the British and Foreign School Society, the object of which was that, without interference, schools might be established to teach all classes secular in struction. That was their principle, and he was sorry to say that it had placed him between two fires.— (Laughter.) He had the Church on the one hand, of which he was a humble member, and the Dissenters, whom he very much respected, on the other, and it was hard to say from which he bad encountered the most opposition at different times. As he was about to state a thing in which they all would agree, he would also state on what they might differ also. The Dissenters proved themselves excellent friends to the cause of edu cation, and indeed began it. The parochial clergy, also, were excellent agitators, and both agreed in doing a great deal about it; bat there was one thing both were a little more agreed in, and that was in endeavouring to gain victory over each other. Some slight confusion followed this expression of opinion, in the midst of which his Lordship left the chair, which was filled by the Bishop of Norwich. The meeting terminated after hearing addresses from Mr. Bellenden Ker, Mr. Payne, and other gentlemen,and adopting resolutions supporting the objects for which they had assembled. e..on- y li ne fi , FATAL FIGHT.—On Saturday evenins fi ght took place at Cramlington, near . Newcastl. w jo as hn u " nf 7 o ai r t.o tu n narel d y killed. joseph S A i n ima in s 'ques im t tal w e as a, h w el h d en on th M a e fo rday er , before Mr. S. Reed, coroner, at the Bay Horse public-house, Cramlington, when it appeared in evidence that on the day in question the parties had been at the Town Moor, New castle, at a bowling match, and that some words afterwards ensued between them. Simms, however, being afraid of mis chief, left the house in company with a friend, took the train, and reached Cramlington at 7 o'clock. The deceased seems to have been in the same train, for on reaching the station he came up to Simms and challenged him to fight, but at that time he declined. Some irritating expressions having soon after been made by the deceased, both parties threw off their clothes, and, after exchanging blows, the deceased seized Simms by the hair of the head, and both fell down, Simms falling against the fence, and the de c eas e d into the ditch. On getting up, and while the deceased was advancing towards Simms, in a fighting position, the latter struck him on the side of the neck, when he fell on his hands and knees. The deceased got up, but after walking a yard or two, fell down, and soon afterwards expired. There were altogether but two rounds. The jury returned a verdict of " Man slaughter against Joseph Simms," who was committed, under the coroner's warrant, to Morpeth Gaol, to await his trial at the next assizes. The deceased is understood to have been of a quarrelsome disposition, while, on the contrary, Simms bears the character of a well-disposed man. THE GREAT BRITAIN.—Since the fine weather has set in, pedestrians and equestrians, by dozens have been visiting this ship, the on being the breakwater. The spring tide beginning board great point of a a t t tr a a t c i tTo e n , taken on Wed nesday last, the labourers along the bay workthe leviathan, which ba had been it was g s; knowno o n nin ada with that wer e t a h m e i t effect n d o f thecar penters was to be tried. The pumps were known to be working as the tide rose, by the streams of water seen issuing from her in several places. As the tide rose it was perfectly evident that thTebsuhriLroyseslightl3 mornin g ,- alshon,wbeuvtart,heit rose muchtidewas not h a ig h h i e g r h , and ai. the same efforts were repeated; and at high water it was quite visible that the vessel was nearly upright, and very little by the head. At low water, it was evident amazingthatshe quant i tystood ou t a f o f large he r and old bed small two stones or w three er a f eet, 0 thrown and an n the hollow left from her rising. S ome of the la bourers who have been on her from the the first are intelligent men, and they stated that she was all in motion and quite afloat everywhere. It blew strong, and the_ sea was v er y hi g h . The ship seemed to h ave settled back a little, but it is quite clear those in authority have her in hand, although the large hole is still not high enough for patching.—Newry Telegraph of May 18. SWING S A farmer near Retford, Nottinghamshire, having several corn. stack s i n hi s f arm - yar d , has received an anonymous letter stating that unless he thrashes out the k u gra c in o ,u t i l i t cl puts it into mar k e t, i t w ill b e thrashed for h i m. Torre del Lago and suite arrived at Black ; w.lll ytz.l, - -rday afternoon by the General Steam Navigation Coiufaii. ) 's steam-ship Venezuela that left Ostend in the morning. CHEAP STEAM TRAVELLING.—Yesterday the boats I running from London-bridge to Harwich and Ipswich re duced their fares to is. 6d. for the entire distance. IRELAND. ATTEMPT TO MURDER MB. J. W. S u OF BALLYCORNEY. Limerick Examiner Office, One o'clock, P.M . This moment Surgeon Wilkinson passed . ." his way t o B a ll ycorney, to g i ve h i s pro f ess i ona l at to Mr. James Watson, who was fired at about half past ten o'clock this morning from behind a hedge, on the road between Bridgetown and Mlleloe. It is fe and that the wound is dangerous, if not fatal. Mr. Spai pht, jun., has just arrived from Killaloe with the melanch soly intelligence of Mr. Watson's death. The only ca t , se assigned for the murder is, that he became an agent m er some property in the room of Mr. Rogers, who emigre.% ed to America. A man, named Edmond Duet, dropped instantly dead on the rope-walk of the Messrs. English, this morniAg, after breakfast. DIIIIIIN, MAY 19.—An Extraordinary Gazette was published yesterday evening, containing the follow ing official announcement:— " Dublin Castle, May 17, 1847,. " Last night, at the hour of eleven o'clock, died, at her Majesty's Castle of Dublin, his Excellency John William, Earl of Besborough, the late Lord Lieutenant -Genet al and General Governor of Ireland, to the infinite regret of all ranks of people." .....1 .4 )st k our office b 0 77 1 i 1.7 St q w If:.",`-f:A.: ‘ l 'l/VZ --- THE FUNERAL. The arrangements for the funeral are to be made under the direction of Sir William Betham, Ulster King at Arms. The funeral is intended to leave the Lower Castle yard, on Friday evening with a train of carriages, and will arrive at the terminus of the Great Western Railway, Island-bridge, about five o'clock, where . special trains will be in attendan c e to conv e y the remains and the procession to Carlow, where carriages will be in wait ing to convey the body to the family burying-place, at Besborough, near Kilkenny, where it is expected the meloncholy cortege will reach on Saturday evening. The guns in the Park, by order of Town-Major White, commenced to fire at 'intervals of one minute at eight o'clock in the moaning, and discharged 66 rounds, that being the number of years of his Excel lency's life. This is the usual custom when Royalty, or any of its representatives, depart from this life. Town- Major White also ordered the bands on the different pa rades, when mounting guard, to be muffled, &c., and parade is to be carried on in solemn silence until after the interment. All the vessels in the river had their flags floating half-mast high, which is the sign for mourning on such occasions; and the flags at the Castle, Barracks, and Magazines, were hoisted in like manner. is understood that the Ladies Ponsonby will leave the Castle on Wednesday, en route for Besborough Castle, Kilkenny. Several noble families will be put in mourning by the sad event, which has deprived them of an affectionate relative and friend. The several tradesmen belonging to his Excellency had their shops closed yesterday in respect to the me mory of his Lordship; and, indeed, all classes of citizens seemed to be deeply affected at the loss this country has ~ustained. The following letter has been received from the Rigtit lon. the Lord Mayor in reference to the funeral:— "To THE EDITOR OF THE ' FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.' " Mansion-house, Monday Evening, May, 17, 1847. " Sir,—l have received the annexed communication relative to the funeral of the lamented Earl of Besborough. " I have the honour to be your faithful servant, " MICHAEL STAUNTON." " Dublin Castle, May 17, 1847. " My Lord,—l have to acquaint your Lordship that the remains of the late Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland are to be removed in state from the Chapel Royal on next Friday afternoon, the 21st instant, to the terminus of the Cashel Railway, at King's-bridge, and from thence privately conveyed to the family vault at Besborough. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient servant, " T. N. REDINGTON. " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin.' " SWEARING IN OF LORDS JUSTICES. Mr. Savage, the clerk , the Council, issued sum monses yesterday, for the purpose of having Lords Jus tices sworn in, pending the arrival of the new Lord- Lieutenant. The Queen's letter, nominating the Lord Chancellor, the Commander of the Forces, and the Archbishop of Dublin, Lords Justices, is expected to arrive to-morrow, when a Privy Council will sit for the purpose of administering the oaths. The following is a copy of the notice and proclamation issued by the Lord Chancellor:— " Council Chamber, Dublin Castle, May 17,1847. " Sir,--I am directed by the Lord Chancellor to transmit to you a copy of a proclamation for the election of a Lord Justice or Justices, and Governor or Gover nors of Ireland, ir. the room of the late Lord-Lieutenant, the Earl of Besborough. And you will forthwith, on receipt thereof, publish the same in your bailiwick, and will cause to be summoned every member of the Privy Council of Ireland who shall be resident therein, to attend at the time and place appointed by such procla mation; then and there to elect a Justice or Justices, and Governor or Governors of Ireland, as aforesaid.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " M. W. SAVAGE, Clerk of the Council. " To the Sheriff of Dublin City." " BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. " Victoria R.—W hereas by an Act passed in the Par • liament of the kingdom of Ireland, in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, entitled An Act for repealing an Act made in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, entitled an Act fur the election of the Lord Justice, and also fur the election of a Lord Justice and Governor of this realm, upon the event and in the manner therein mentioned,' it is enacted, that if at any time after the passing of the said Act the office of Chief Governor of the said realm should be avoided by the death of the King's Lieutenant, Deputy Justice, or other Chief Governor or Chief Governors, or otherwise, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keep er , or Lords Commissi oners for the custody of the Great Seal, fur the time being, shall immediately issue or cause to be issued a proclama tion, under the Great Seal of the said kingdom, thereby in the name of his Majesty, his heirs or successors, sum moning and requiring all and every the members of the Privy Council of the said kingdom, wherever they shall then be, to meet and assemble together in the Council Chamber of the Castle of Dublin, or in some other public and fit place in the city of Dublin, at some certain hour, on a day not later than twenty-one days nor sooner than fifteen days from the issuing of such proclamation, for the election of a Justice or Justices and Governor or I n re d s a u n r d o , eduringand d e plea- until s G u o re ve o r f no h r is s m e f a t j h e e s ty s a , id h i r s ea h l e m irs oi a his, her, or their further or other pleasure shall be known : _ "And whereas the office of Chief G overnor of that part of our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, called Ireland, has become avoided by the death of our trusty and right well-beloved cousin and councillor John William, Earl of Besborough, our Lord Lieutenan t and General Governor thereof; now, therefore, according to the said statute, we do hereby summon and require all and every the members of our Privy Council of that part of the said United Kingdom, wherever they may now be, to meet and assemble together in the Coun cil Chamber, at our Castle of Dublin, at the hour of one o'clock of the afternoon of Wednesday, the second day of Jnne neat ensuing the date hereof, fur the election of a Justice or Justices, and the Governor or Governors of Ireland, during our pleasure, and until oar further or other pleasure shall be known. " Given at our Castle of Dublin, this seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and in the tenth year of our reign. " DfAZIERE BRADY, C. " God save the Queen." RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL TRADES' POLITICAL UNION. 1 The Freeman of this morning states that the National Trades' Political Union is about to become reorganized in anticipation of a general election. The old committee has already had several meetings, and we are led to be lieve that long before the election of the city can take place, the Trades' Union of Dublin will be in a position to turn the scale, and ensure the triumph of the national cause, as it has often done before. COUNTY OF GALWAY ELECTION. The election took place yesterday. James Burke, Esq., proposed Captain Burke, and the nomination was seconded by Robert Bodkin, Esq. There being no other candidate, the High Sheriff declared Captain Burke duly elected, amidst loud cheering. Never, perhaps, was there so general or unanimous an election in Galway. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. The weekly meeting cf the Repeal Association, post poned yesterday in consequence of the death of therd- Lieutenant, took place this day at the Conciliation-hall, Mr. James Burke in the chair. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL read a long letter from Lor4 Ffrench, and covering a subscription of 54 Mr. J. REYNOLDS made a long speech in reply to the Nation newspaper, which asserted that the Association was in a state of bankruptcy. Mr. Reynolds denied that the fact was so ; they had reduced the expenses from 3001. to 301. a week, and their income was equal to all the present wants. The rent was announced to be 491. 7s. 6d. CORK AND PASSAGE RAILWAY. —The k wor - s on this railway will be commenced forthwith. STATE T l a 0 18 ____________------ MANCHEST , --T T he ß re has been rather more inquiry for yarns talky, but sales have been ef fected only at lower rates. There has been a little more doing in goods, but without any improvement in prices. Short time is gradually extending in different districts and its adoption will doubtless be hastened by the adV vance in the price of cotton, reported elsewhere. ROCHDALE, MAY 17.—There has been a better feeling' in the market to-day, but little or no improvement in the demand for goods: the buyers are waiting to hay* them for less money, which has been resisted on the part of the manufacturers. Wool is rather easier to buy. at somewhat lower prices. HALIFAX, MAY 15.—Our piece hall to-day presented the usual dull appearance, and scarcely any goods were disposed of. The demand tor yarn has greatly fallen off; and a great deal of machinery is running short time, with the prospect of more mills following their ex ample. Very little wool, of any kind, is changing hands. The price of long wool is in favour of the buyer, more especially in lower sorts; but short wool remains firm ' fl on account of the scantiness of the supply. IIvDDEitsFIELD, MA', 18.—W, 11.4 v. tigain had a veryk 1 I flat markt. , t; icanufacter make bitter complaints, a n y, , several mills are wOlkittg half time. t , LLEDS, MAY 18.—Out market continues in the simic inanimate c on di t i on as we have had to report these In di few weeks. Business is at the very lowest ebb, and thy. advent of a favourable change seems as far removed a* ever,—Manchester Guardian, , ... ill be each quite 6d to and here ; 4d; veal, the Pigs, 61 to ttoo, ss; origc ,t the „ c ard 5 6 4 d ; 48 44 , of the 1 raio L ifie! t 1 1•) a or, P eli' a f siz th e ' gigs °. eor tite t Op t 1 ill rO litli }let° al*? 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