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• itIAAMENTARY BUSINESS. rates ..!'-oreedings of the Rouse of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee in the case of the Van Diemen's Land Company i:cdtio.i, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with plrties be permitted to proceed with their Bill. ). That tri :he case of the British American Land Com pany petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed fhat the parties be permitted to proceed with their BM. 3. That in the case of the Leith Harbour and Docks Dues petition, for adtaional.provision, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce such additional provision, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit. 4. That in the case of the North Staffordshire Railway (Alteratuns and Branches) petition for additional provision ( nhagborough Deviation) the standing orders ought to be chspeused with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce suchadatziota: provision if th e C omm itt ee on th e Bill shall think fit, on proving before the said Committee that notices have been inserted in the London Gazette, and in some newspaper of the county of Stafford, fur three successive weeks; that plans, sections, and books of reference have been deposited with the clerk of the peace for the said county, and the clerks of the pari-hes affected by the said provision; and that they have obtained the consent of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of all the lands to be taken, and have also given notice to the owners and occupiers of the lands in which the portion of the work intended to be re linquished is situate, of their intention so to relinquish the same; and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the first place, how tar such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill.—Resolutions agreed to. THE ROYAL ORTHOP(EDIC HOSPITAL. The seventh anniversary of this excellent institution, whicti is established for the cure of club-foot, lateral curvature of the spine, and all other contractions and de formai( s, was celebrated on Wednesday at the London Tavern. about 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Lord Mayor presided, and was supported on his right by Lord Dudley Stuart and the Hon. Thomas Liddell, and on his left by Dr. Stebbing and Mr. Deputy Evani. Amongst those present we observed—the lt , v. E. Repton, Rev. John Wright, Charles Joyce, Esq., Thos. Saunders, Esq., City Comptroller ; Wm. Tooke, Eiq., G. .liotfatt, Esq., M.P., Quarles Harris, Big.. Philip Danbury, Esq., &c. rue exact nature of the charity is ably explained in the .ollowing extract fr.= the report, circulated at the din-.er " The treatment of club-foot and other distortions was, tuitil a iew years since, confined to mechanical applications ; and in the majority of severe cases was either wholly u. successful, or attended only by partial or temporary relief. A new and successful treatment, based upon surgical and scientific principles, was dis• covered by Dr. throtneyer, of Hanover, and from thence introduced into this metropolis, with the happiest re sults, by Dr. Little. The discovery of this important operation—that of dividing the tendons—by which ex treme adult cases of contraction and deformity can be cured iu a few weeks or months, and those of children in a much shorter period, obviating the slow and uncertain progress of cure under tha mechanical plan of treatment, has elicited the approbation of many distinguished members of the profession. The frequent occurrence of these deformities amongst the poor, the expense and un certainty of curing them by the sole application of mechanical means, and the great tendency to relapse on relief having been so obtained, constituted some of the mare urgent rz , asons by which a few individuals, having de-lved benefit in tht.ir families, or being otherivise con vincea izs great uti:ity anti importance, were induced, in 1338, to propose the establishment of an hospital for the cure of these afflictions by this and every available method." Subsequently the treatment was extended to the cure of c mtractions and distortions of every part of the frame, but particularly to that most distressing deformity lateral curvature of the spine. Since the last anniversary the Queen has been graci ously pleased to become the patroness of the institution, and to present it with a donation of 50/. The excellent dinner and superior wines having been done ample justice to, and the usual loyal and constitu tional ttyist; given and warmly responded to, The Loan MAYOR proposed " Prosperity to the In stitution." In doing so he stated that he had recently visited the hospital, with some of the members of his ramily, and that he had been quite astounded at the wonderful cures which had been effected, and the many severe cases which were in the course of favourable treatment ; but it was a matter for regret that the number of patients was so limited on account of the want of sufficient means to extend the building to the required siae ; still its progress from year to year had been most gratifying. Cases of she nature of which the institution took cogntrance were not attended to as a separate branch of medical science until the formation of the in stitution.—(Hear.) Contractions or malformations of the body were a source of the greatest unhappiness to those who were blessed with wealth ; but how much more misery did they entail upon those who, being poor, were compelled to support themselves by labour P— (Hear.) Last year the number of patients was nearly 1,300; and, as a greater number sought assistance than the hospital from its limited space could afford accom modation for, it was incumbent upon those favourable to its object to leave nothing undone to meet it wants : if it were not adequately supported a great public losswould be occasioned ; but, looking at the way in which it had Lher to been supported, and to the large donations it had r:eived, anti to those then present, he believed that the itt-titution would continue to progress in usefulness as it hail done since its establishment.—(Hear.) The toast was warmly responded to, as were also the fdlowi:e;:—'• His lio) al Highness Prince Albert, the patron;" The Duke of Cambridge, the president;* `• The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Vice-Presi dents;" " The Lord Mayo-;" " The Sheriffs;" "Lord Dudley Stuart and the Stewards," &e. subscriptiims received during the evening arnoint-d to nary 1,0001. Among them were the fol lowi.,4:—Thv Lard Mayor, 211.; Samuel Jones Loyd, EN., 501; Sir J. Hanmer, 101.; Lord Hobert Grosvenor, 10/ 103.; R. G. Wood, Eiq., 10/. 10s.; Sir C. Forbes, 10/.; Mr. and Mrs. Quarles Harris, 101. 10s.; B. B. Cethuit, 101., &e. Th receipts last year were 2,5351. 169. Bd., and the expenditure 2,3234 Bs. Bd., leaving a balance of 2121. 89. Tae institution is at No. 8, Bloomsbury -square. Several persons whose deformities had been cured by the institution, and some of those under treatment, were asseribled in the ante-room, and, judging from the mo de), exhibited of the former state and the appearance ve rich thty themselves exhibited, the cures must be pro nounc.d co.nin( , ndable in the extreme. Mr. Toole discharged the office of toastmaster very effectively. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HARRY SMITH, BAItT., K.C.B. The distinguished services of this Gallant Officer have been duty Tecog iised since his arrival in the metropolis. Fr.trt the clay on which he reached town the compli mentary visits of the nobility and gentry, to say nothing of the Li: vernment officials and authorities of the Indian tmptre, have been more numerous than any ever before p:o.i to an officer holding similar rank in the Queen's ser:ic-. Some idea of the high estimate in which the Gallant Officer's hard services in the cause of his country are held riLly be gained trorn the fact that upwards of twenty enter .ainmc nts have been already arranged to be given in his honour. Among the invitations already accepted by the General are ',hose of — '1 Lord Chamberlain, on behalf of her Majesty and the Pr note Co:isort. Her ‘lajesty the Queen Dowager. Her R , tint Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Duke of Wellington, under whom Sir Harry si.rved as Assistant Quarter-Master-General at Waterloo. The Earl of Ripon (late Lord President of the India Board) Sir J,)hn Cam Hubhouse, now President of the Board of Control. Sir R rt Peel. General Sir James KPmpt. Maim -•.;etieral Sir De Lacy Evans, the companion of his ear y •,ervi. es. Sir i,barles Hamilton. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, to meet her Ma jesty's Ministers. Wednesday the Gallant General received a deputation from the Got ismiths' Company, headed by Mr. Prime Warden Cox. Mr. James Garrard, warden, and Mr. Lane, the el rk. of the company, who requested his presence at a banquet to be given in his honour at their hall on the first convenient day. Sir Harry received the deoutation in person, and appoints d Tuesday, the 11th of ALty, as the day on which he would ur the comp trey with his presence. A deputation from the Junior United Service Club, headed by Sir John Buchan, K.C.B , and Sir Dudley Hill, also had the honour of an interview with the Gallant Generalon Wednesday, for the purpose of inviting him to dine with his old comrades in arms on an early day. The Gallant General received the deptVation most cor d sly, and appointed Tuesday, the 18th of May, for that pu.posel lt,;t-,rday the Gall:int Genural and Lady Smith bad the honour of dini , ,g with her Majesty the Quern Down-4er. Among the worthy acknowledgments of the Gallant General's service,, we are glad to learn it is generally end..r , t , od that a handsome pension wilt be awarded to him by the directors of the East India Company, at their first board meeting. v evening, about F OUTFIT'. A c CIDEINT. Wed deplorable laeh resulted in half-past seven o'clock, an accidentneora" must nature occurred in Fetter-lane, Holbern lane. It the death of a fide little boy, named JZllowla oo.udge, four years of age, whose parents It,eesnitohee toff.-house, in Little N about ew-street that the child was ou7 at play, and in crossing ttlaieppe.ars opposite Mr. Pimm's, the baker, he was knocked down r b} ad horse and ea t which was c :mint; along Fetter-lane at the time, the wt7tels passing over his head, cru.hiiig it in a most shocking 111 Hier, causing the brains to obtrude. The la r little relinW was immediately plcki.d lip by some of the by standers, and conveyed to Mr. Kelly 's, The surgeon, of Fetter-lane; but that gentl ,, maii being from home, he was taken to the house of Mr. Gibson, surg'2", Holborn, when that gentleman pronounced life to be extinct. A shell was then procured, and the poor little fellow was conveyed to 'Messrs. Comfort anal Faulkner's, undertakers, in Bartlett's-, passage, where ha now remains to await the Groner s Inquest. SOUTTVARK-BRIDGE COMPANY.—The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held on Wednesday, at the offices of the company, Queen-street place, City. J. Walker, Esq., took the chair. The secre tary read the report, which congratulated the shareholders upon As improved state of their affairs, but contained no thing of public interest. A dividend of 1 per cent. was de clared. The directors and auditors who retired by rotation r ' Were za-slactO, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the Proceedings. ELECTION MOVEMENTS. ANDOVER.—RETIREMENT or MR. ETWALL, M.P.— On Monday an address, of which the following is a copy, was circulated amongst the electors of this borough:— "TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF ANDOVER. " Gentlemen—A canvass having commeneed for the representation of your borough I beg to announce to you that it is not my intention to solicit a renewal of your confidence at the approNiching election. I have not taken this step without great regret and reluctance, but I find it impossible constantly to attend to my Parliamen tary duties without a total sacrifice of my health. During the last sixteen years I have served you in the Commons House of Parliament. I have endeavoured to act faithfully, honestly, and independently, in strict con formity with those liberal :principles which first secured to me the distinguished honour of being one of your re presentatives. I shall carry with me into private life the sincerest wishes for the prosperity of my native town, and a deep anxiety for the welfare and happiness of its inhabitants. I shall still be as zealous as I ever have been in co-operating with the unflinching friends of the poor in my exertions to improve their condition, maintain their rights, and redress their wrongs. " With every sentiment, &c., &c., (Signed) "R. ETWALL. "Brooke's Club, St. James's -street, April 30, 1847." Mr. Newton Fellowes, of Hartabourne Park, a rela tive of Lord Portsmouth (Liberal) ; Mr. Cubitt, the builder, of London (Conservative) ; and Mr. Coles, of Andover (Conservative), have already addressed the electors, and it is stated that a gentleman well known for his Liberal opinions, will be put forward in conjunction with Mr. Fellowes. EAST SUSSEX.—Lord Cantalupe's address to the elec tors has been issued some days. In the meantime much uncertainty was felt as to the course that would be taken by the present Member, Mr. Frewen. On Saturday, at the Hastings market, that gentleman met a considerable number of his constituents, and delivered an address, in which he vindicated his recent conduct in Parliament, and stated, that if any gentleman holding the same opi nions as himself, and possessing the confidence of the electors, should come forward, he would place his seat at their service. In conclusion, the Honourable Member said he was chiefly anxious to consult the wishes of the electors, and left it entirely in their hands whether he should retire or not. Lord Cantalupe has announced his willingness to join the Anti Malt-tax Association. MALDON.—We understand that David Waddington, Esq., deputy chairman of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, has consented, in compliance with a requisition numerously signed by the freemen and electors, to be come a candidate for the seat for this borough, to be vacated by the retirement of John Round, Esq., at the ensuing election. —Essex Herald. HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. In the week ending Saturday, May 1, 983 deaths, being 503 males, and 480 females, were registered in the metropolitan districts. Of these, the zymotic (or epidemic, endemic and contagious) diseases, the class we have at present most reason to apprehend danger from, was slightly below the average ; this, we think, must be attributed to the unusually cold weather that has lately prevailed, but should hot weather set in, that is above 66 or 68 degree s , it i s great l y to b e feared' that the typhus fever now raging in Ireland, and to which persons of the lower, middle, and highest classes have already fallen victims, will appear in its worst form in this crowded metropolis. Vast numbers of poor Irish are, it is well known, flocking over to this country, their bills emaciated cad their constitutions broken by famine, their s food having long been of a greatly deteriorated description, composed cf rotten potatoes and refuse vegetables, the veriest garbage, such as in ordinary times would not have been given even to animals. It can hardly be doubted, then, that these wretched people bring over in their systems the seeds of a disease of a highly contagious character, which, although it may be restrained for a brief period by a low temperature, will inevitably break forth at last, and spread death over the land. It is already on our thresh hold, for it is even now raging at Liverpool, where an excess of nearly 100 deaths (from typhus) over the ordinary weekly average shows how destructive this scourge must prove when it reaches London, where narrow streets, ill-ventilated rooms, defective drainage, and an incessant vapour of miasma, arising from slaughter houses, gas works, chemical works, heaps of decaying vegetables, and animal matters, and a thousand other sources of the most noisome and deleterious exhalations. will add incalculably to its powers of destruction Warning ought to be taken in time, and some step adopted for the mitigation of the impending evil, seeing that it is now too lice to prevent its approach altogether. Increased cleanliness and improved ventilation may do much ; houses might be whitewashed, heaps of filth removed from their ancient abiding-places, and other means taken to counteract the pernicious effects that will result from a rise of temperature. The number of births last week was I,276—males 622, females 654. From the meteorological observations taken at the Royal Ob servatory, Greenwich, during the week ending Saturday last, we find the mean light of the barometer to have been 29 569 : thermometer, highest 59.5 ; lowest 37.1 a ; mean 48.1 ; mean direction of the wind S.W., with a maximum pressure of 1001bs. a square foot. the mean of horizontal movement of the air (for three days) being 785 miles ; mean amount of cloud 7.7; sum of rain 0.54 inches. HABITS OF THE HEDGEHOG. The " Hedgehog question," as to whether the little animal ever milks the cow, is yet a moot point in many quarters, and we heard it recently talked over in an omnibus, and gleaned sundry facts of the habits of the animal, a few of which we note down :—Our informant, who, while in sporting rambles amongst the woods, had often found the nests of the hedgehog, says they often adopt a rabbit burrow as their home, and choking up the thoroughfare with half a sackful of leaves, there deposit the young hoglings, and he never found fewer than three or more than seven in the same nest. He has often watched the young ones, about the time when the sow deserts the litter, venturing forth from the nest, awl uttering a little squeaking cry ; the only sound, as he thinks, the animal usually makes ; as even when worried by dogs, the hedgehog is usually without cry. The young hedgehogs gambol together much like young rabbits, and at the first alarm scamper back to the nest. the mature animal, in a state of nature, is fond of fruit, and our informant once saw one apparently of twice its usual bulk, and on approaching it, perceived that its spines were surmounted by small crabs, the animal hay ing apparently rolled itself amongst the fallen fruit, below a neighbouring tree, and thus carried off his booty. In some parts of Cheshire, hedgehogs were for merly much more numerous than of late ; for the game keepers, having found they sucked eggs of partridges and other “ game" in their nests, they now destroy them whenever found. Our informant was of opinion that the hedgehog never sucked the cow. A gentleman in the omnibus said that when a boy, at his grandfather's farm, he remembers seeing a hedgehog within a few inches of a. cow that was lying in the field just before milking time ; and that when that cow was next milked, then• was very little milk came from one teat, and that milk was streaked with blood. This was the nearest ap proach to a proof he had himself witnessed ; but it appeared to be generally believed by the farmers, that the hedgehog did suck the cow. Of one thing it is clear, that the hedgehog, when domesticated, is exceed ingly fond of milk ; and he, having procured one for a friend, whose house was much infested by cockroaches, the little animal soon earned its wages, by its wholesale destruction of these creatures. As this gentleman ex pressed his desire to have an opportunity to put the question of the hedgehog's cow-sucking propensities to the test of observation, the person whom we have noticed, as well acquainted with the habits of these creatures, promised to procure him one in a few days, which the gentleman said should have every chance of approaching the cows in a farm with which he was connected. The flesh of the hedgehog is said to be exceedingly delicate ; and we have heard of a lady who gave 6d. each for as many of these creatures as could he procured, and had them roasted.—Manchester Guardian. ALLEGED LIBEL ON THE DIRECTORS OF THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILIVa T.—The directors of the com pany have caused steps to be taken to ascertain the name 01 the writer of certain letters which have lately appeared in the columns of our contemporary, the Independent Press, in- sinuating that the sum of 960,0001.—a tolerable item cer tainly—had utterly disappeared in a manner which could not be accounted for on any known principles. The name of the writer has been given, and is found to be that of a director 01 the Royston and Hitchin Railway Company. This gentle man appeared before the mayor on Thursday, and gave bail to answer an indictment for libel at the next assizes for this county —Cambridge Advertiser. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO GUERNSEY.--MT. W. B. Coiling, of the Regent's-park, is the successful competitor for the premium offered by the committee charged with the erection of a tower in commemoration of her Majesty's most gracious visit to this island. We understand that nearly thirty designs were sent in, some of which are said to have possessed great merit. Mr. Coiling arrived here on Friday last, and in the course of the afternoon inspected the proposed sites.—Guernsey Star. COMMISSIOiOF LllNACT.—Wednesday &commission de lunatic 9 inquirendo was opened at the Tyssen Arms, Dal ston. before Mr. Commissioner Winslow and a spacial jury, to inquire into the state of mind of Arthur Edward G eorge Tumour, Esq., aged 43, late an officer in the 17th Regiment of the Honourable East India Company's Madras Infantry, now of Pembroke House Lunatic Asylum, a gentleman pos sessed of property under the will of his father (the late Rev, E. Tumour, of Shrewsbury), and from the East India Com pany, of upwards of 10,0001. The evidence of Dr. Williams, of Pembroke House, Dr. Southey, and other witnesses, tended to show that the alleged lunatic had been an inmate of the above establishment since the 28th November, 1835, and had throughout been of un • sound mind, and he laboured under the delusion that snakes, boa constrictors, and other reptiles, were constantly beirg placed in his bed-room by persons who wished to he heard in jure him ; that there was a magnificent service of plate fre mvoel-:et family on the ceiling. the conclusion oi)ttho Till:Jay s placed at the bottom of his bed—the heraldic insignia He also imagined that esone occasionall y to that parties who conspired agaiist him his bedside and pulled his whiskers. At . eyitlence the alleged lunatic, a remark a `,` am', healthy... e delusions. eeeid i eb-(;i4atto: tilieusrrtikoly4,ufiatah,ewairrinterdodcouce.d., i;niodnewri,thporou.t of the most ext been finished, a ,r,eaNt'gant '...`, l et• was returned dm' of mind from 28:1 monster, size to Tb e ,e , describing . some about twice as large n inquiry having Europe, i NOVeTTI dat ing the unaoundness BETA. FOR TUE Hi:3 l* M A ri ta -18 1 - ' 3s' ,el, for the Romane MONTREAL.—A bell, equal - `JATOLIO C except the Russian anY beII A i rHEDRAII famous " Tom of Lincoln," 1, a . a n cl foundry of Messrs. Mears, vil u i i s t t ee t e :: Cornele s a t ' : th e Catholic Cathedral, Montreal. This casting weighs four tons thirteen bundleigawnetigehBPirimsehnnoirf its dimensions are as follow t—Diametereroatwtntl: B . feet 7 inches; height to the top of the ": B ci m Wu - ill . ", inches; thickness at the sound bow, 8 inches. The fo llow_f9 go. is a copy of the inscription upon thu monster bell :—"Netiamini (Juin venio oinnes spiritus laudet Dominum. A n ,. Domini 1847. Fundatte Marianopolis, 206. Pii I'. P. Pon tificatus 1. Regni Victoria Britanniarum 10." On the opposite side " Ex piissimo Meratorum, Agrieolattia, Artifictunque, Dfarianopolitananium.' THE gIYI 4 I, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1647 RAILWAY COMMITITES, James Graham in the chair. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (POR TOBELLO AND 'WOLVERHAMPTON BRANCH). _ _ HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.) GROUP V. IMPORTANT DECISIONS. The Committee met at twelve o'clock; Lord Harry Vane in the chair. The Committee were engaged the whole of the day with the general evidence in favour of this line. The case closed before the rising of the Committee. The Committee, however, adjourned without giving their decision. WINDSOZ. Evidence was continued against this railway from Slough to Windsor. Mr. HoPs, on the case being closed, then addressed the Committee against the Bill. Mr. AUSTIN replied on behalf of the Great Western Com pany, the promoters of the Bill. The room was then cleared for the consideration of the preambles of the following Bills : Great Western (Branches to West London Railway, &c.) Great Western (Branches to Egham, Staines, &c.) Windsor Railway. Windsor, Staines, and South-Western (Richmond to Windsor). Windsor, Staines, and South-Western (Staines to Ascot, &c). The Ctialaatax, when parties were re-admitted, said the Committee had unanimously decided that the preamble of the Great Western (Branches to West London, &c.) was proved; the preamble of the Great Western (Branches to Egham, Staines, &c.) was not proved ; the preamble of the Windsor Railway not proved; the preamble of the Windsor, Staines, and South -Western (Richmond to Windsor) was proved; the preamble of the Windsor, Staines, and South- Western (Staines to Ascot, &c.), proved only for the Staines and Egham and Farnborough branch, and not proved for the Wokingham branch. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow. GROUP VI. EZETER, 'YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER. The Committee was occupied during the whole of the day in the cross-examination of Mr. Locke. GROUP XVIII. CNELTENN.ADI AND TienvG. The Committee on this group met this morning at twelve o'clock ; the Earl of Lincoln in the chair. Before proceeding to the business of the day, The CHAIRMAN intimated that it was the impression of the Committee that an unnecessary number of witnesses had been adduced on the Cheltenham and Oxford branch, and, on reference to his book, he found that not less than ninety seven witnesses were engaged for both sides of the question. Without meaning in the slightest degree to interfere with the mode in which the counsel might think proper to con duct their case, he, however, thought that a greater discri mination might be used in the selection of the witnesses. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 6. The House sat to-day at ten o'clock to hear English and Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chan. cellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and the Earl of Clancarty. ' Mr. HILDTCARD, who appears for the narrow gauge line, said that, whilst not forgetting the intimation which had been thrown out by his Lordship, he should be eareful to do his duty to his clients. He would first make a few observa tions on the line which had lately been submitted to the Committee, and then state the merits of the Cheltenham and Tring line; and he would first remark that Gloucester was the real point Irons which the traffic would start, although the Bill before the Committee only sought powers to snake a line from Cheltenham. The first object worthy of the notice of the Committee was the different summits which had to be reached by the Great Western line and the proposed line of that company. According to Mr. Brunel's statement the summit of the new line would be at least two hundred feet higher than the other, while the gradients, as compared with the project of the North-Western Company, would be very materially heavier. The new line was intended to separate from the existing line at Swindon, and again met it at Glou cester, and, in the course of its progress, it would have to surmount one of one in sixty, and which would continue for four miles, and another, of one in a hundred, which con tinued for two miles. On the other hand, upon the Chelten ham and Tring line the maximu:n gradient would be only one in sixty, which was only about three-quarters of a mils in length, and there were only two others of any consequence, one which was one in seventy, and the ctlnge. one in seventy-five. Now, he was prepared to shear that the summit to ba surmounted on the Cheltenham and Oxford line would be not 200, but 217 feet above the summit of the old line. The only merit which the Great Western Com pany therefore assumed for their project, was that the dis tanbe between Gloucester and London would be shortened by five miles, but this, he thought, would be f a i r ly me t b y the greater facility which the line of the North-Western Company afforded. And, even did he not possess that argu ment, he might still cite the evidence of Mr. Brunel himself, given in 1836, when the Birmingham and Gloucester Com pany obtained their Act, and from that evidence it was seen that it was Mr. Brunel's opinion that the passengers from Gloucester would still find their way to London by Tring, and not by Oxford. In addition to that, there would be the great difficulty of crowding a traffic on a line to which it did not legitimately belong, and the further disadvantage of a bad terminus in London •, while, on the other hand, there would be on the Cheltenham and Tring line a freer transit and an admirable terminus. Then it would be recollected that there were grave considerations with regard to Chelten ham, though upon that he would not touch except just to refer to it, for counsel had been specially instructed by the inhabitants of the town to show the detriment which would be suffered from bringing the railway quite through the heart of it. With respect to the plea that the Great Western Company would be enabled to furnish accommodation to the people of the district at a lower rate, by the Railway Consolidation Act, there was already a power given to that effect; so that, in fact, one million of money would be spent for no earthly benefit whatever. Mr. Talbot, in opening for the other side,had stated that the Great Western line was the better line of the two, but on what ground he could make such a assertion hel(Mr. Hildyard) could not possibly con ceive, for the real truth was that the two opposing lines would accommodate the country much in the same way ; and, in truth, if the Great Western were to consult their own in terest, they would never construct this line at all. They had been enabled to extend their main lines down to the Land's End, and up as- far as Fishguard, why, then, if it was their interest to construct this line, had they not made it before? Mr. Brunel had, in 1836 and 1837, allowed that railway ac commodation was much needed between Cheltenham and Oxford, and yet he left it until 1845 before he took any steps to provide it, and then he allowed that lie was only prompted to devise a line by other parties being in the field. On the contrary, if the Great Western Company had no interest whatever, the North Western Company had every interest; for it so fell in with the whole of the property already established that they had every inducement, not only to make the line, but to work it efficiently, for it was fully intended to lay down a double line of rails to Blackwall all the way from Euston-square; so that in fact the whole of London would be opened up to the traffic of the western counties. Counsel, witnesses, and very possibly Committees also, had been too much in the habit of looking upon London as a point, but it should be recollected that London was a vast district which contained ups ards of 2,000,000 of inhabitants, and a district which might be split up into eight or ten towns, each of which would be larger than the largest city be side in this country. Now, leaving out a portion of the town about Paddington, with its five hundred thousand inhabitants, was it to be supposed that the remainder should be left to the inconvenience of having a terminus two miles further off than was necessary? He did not wish to put a toll-bar across the railway at Swindon, but what would be said if the Manchester Wiilway were to stop five miles short of its destination? As to the allegation that the Cheltenham and Tring line was longer, he would show by evidence that this was felt practically to be no inconvenience, for it was a fact that the Peterborough traffic, which was conveyed to London pretty equally by the Eastern Counties and the Midland Counties lines, although the latter was ten miles and a half further, for that distance sunk into insigni ficance when the convenience of the London terminus came into consideration. Then as to the fares for the 109 miles, which would be the distance by the North-Western project, the Great Western Company had, by their Bill, a power to charge for a first-class passenger 11. Ils. 9d., and they did really charge for that distance 1/. 4s. Ild. ; while the charges, according to the North-Western rates, for the first class would be 195., and by the second class 14s. 34d.; while on the sec aid-class fares of the Great Western company there was no limit in their Act. After recapitulat ing the several point?, the Learned Counsel adduced the evidence of Mr. Brunel and Mr. Saunders to show that such a healthy competition would be brought about by the con gso t t,u c tsh ti fe o o n rtwo o thha f osele t epe h rou e tfba narrow gauge li ne as must prove advan ta - l i t i n c h . e t the districtie merits o decision fotvtah loeefs twota as Commissionersbeing ges appropriated ha dpo i nted pointed ' to the narrow gauge, but the Act was so ambiguous in its terms that it was easy to say that a broad gauge line might be made there, but the whole spirit of the Act was in reality opposed to that construction. The Learned Counsel then went through the peculiar fea tures of the line, but as they are to be brought out specifi eally by the witnesses, it would be useless to state them hers. ii;;;IETL;;;;;bOut to address there Lordships this morning on behalf of the respondents, when The LOAD CIiANCELLOR intimated that their Lordships thought it unnecessary to hear the Learned Gentleman. The Learned Lord, after going through the facts of the case, recommended their Lordships to affirm the judgment of the Court below with costs. Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL agreed with the opinion expressed by the Learned Lord on the Woolsack. Judgment of the Court below affirmed, with costs. WOOD V. YOUNG. Their Lordships were occupied the remainder of the morn ing with the arguments in this case, which came before them upon appeal against an interlocutor of the Lords of the first division of the Court of Session, by which they disallowed a bill of exceptions taken by the appellants to a judgment of Lord Robertson pronounced in the course of a jury trial, whereby his Lordship sustained an objection taken by the respondent to a witness tendered by the appellant on the ground of interest. ROLLS COURT, May 6. MARSHALL V. LYSTES. This cause came on for further directions on the Master's report. It appeared that Sir Thomas Elmsley Croft married a ward of Chancery, and upon her attaining her twenty-first year, a marriage settlement was executed, by which it was covenanted that 5,000/. should be charged on the estate for his wife, and that a sum of 10,0001. should be accumulated as a provision ior the younger children. It appeared that Lady Croft married twice after the death of Sir Thomas Croft, and that one dauphter by her first marriage, had also married. The plaintiff was the trustee to the marriage settlement. There was nothing of any public interest in the cause, which was ordered to stand over (after some of the arguments had been heard) till the third day of next term. BAIL COURT, May 6. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) THE QUEEN V. SPINES. Mr. PALMER said his Lordship would recollect that, in this case, the defendant, who was a highly respectable master builder resident in Norwich, had been committed to gaol to take his trial at the next assizes on a charge of manslaughter, in having caused the death of a female, aged 87 years, by driving a cart over her, on his return from a neighbouring market. A writ of certiorari had been already granted to bring up the depositions taken before the coroner, and a rule calling upon the magistrates to admit Mr. Spinks to bail in the country. The depositions were now in court. Mr. Justice COLERIDGEIS there any opposition to your applies Lion Mr. PALMER—No, my Lord. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE wished to have the evidence taken before the coroner handed up to him. Having perused it, he said that it appeared that the prisoner was driving very fast, and that he did not stop after the accident occurred. Mr. PALmEn said, that the prisoner was not driving at the rate of six miles an hour. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then directed that the prisoner should be admitted to bail, himself i❑ the sum of 501., and to find four sureties of 151. each, to take her trial at the next Norfolk assizes. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, May 6. (Sittings in Banco.) Several motions of unimportant interest were disposed of during the morning. A long discussion arose as to a point of practice under the new rules which have been issued, judgment upon which has been for the present deferred. The Court then took up the new trial paper, with which it was occupied for the rest of the day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, May 6. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court was occupied all day in hearing motions, and determining arguments as to points of practice, but nothing important came under the notice of the Court. SHERIFFS' COURT, May 5. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BuRcHELL.) DiDCOCK V. THE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. In this case, Mr. 11. Badcock, a manufacturing chemist at Bow-common, near Limehouse, claimed compensation from the Blackwell Company for his premises, which they required in the extension of the line of railway. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Lush were for the claimant, and Mr. Bovill and Mr. I'hippson for the company. The case occupied the whole day. It appeared that the claimant had asked 4501. and had been offered 1141. by the company, exclusive of the fixtures and other matters, which were to be taken at a valuation. The evidence went to show that in 1843 Badcock was dis charged as an insolvent debtor ; i n 1844 h e o b ta i ne d a 21 years' lease of the premises now in his occupation, and that he had since carried on the business. Several wit nesses were culled with the view of showing the value. It vi as stated that since the passing of the New Building Act it was difficult to obtain premises to carry on certain occupati , ins, including the business in which the claimant was engaged. Mr. BoviLL addressed the jury for the company, but called no witnesses. Ile contended that the offer of the company, which was exclusive of fixtures, was a very, liberal compensation to the claimant. The Learned UNDEIt• SHERIFF summed up the evidence, and the jury assessed the compensation at 4001. May 6. (Before Ali. Under-Sheriff BUM:HELL.) latisXS V. MI:Kt.:It. This was an aebassiourecover damages for an illegal distress. The detendank iCbit is a broker and auctioneer, suffered judgment to go by Mr. HAWKINS appeared for the plaintiff(a Capt. Ifobli?9, who had occupied a beer-shop called the " Pleasure Boat, in the Lea-bridge-road. The Learned Counsel said that the .plaintiff, having occupied the house during the summer season of 1845, shut up the place in October of that year for the winter, as no "boating" was going on. At that time he left several boats in the dock, together with chairs, tables, and the ordinary fixtures the neighbouring counties the advantages of lime and coal, from which they were at present debarred, and from the want of which they *offered so severely. Mr. William Sewn, cattle dealer, St. Boswell's, gave evi dence as to the great accommodation which the opening of the Hawick and Carlisle continuation of the North British line would give to the dealers in his neighbourhood, by les sening the cost of transit to the great markets of the north of England, namely, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, and Newcastle. He was obliged at present to send his stock for the former markets round by Glasgow, or through Hawick to Annan, there to be shipped. This mode of con veyance necessarily involved a great cost, and much loss, from the over-fatigue to the cattle and the detention at the ports before they could be got to sea. Mr. Wallbank, cattle-dealer, Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire, said that if the railway from Hawick to Carlisle were finished, he should at once take his cattle to the latter town, and thence on to the markets of the West Riding by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. Mr. Mark Tumbrill, miller, Melrose, gave evidence in fa vour of the line, as tending to increase the consumption 4 grain in the district. There were two distillers at Lang holm, who consumed large quantities, but they were unable to supply the orders they received from the country between Hawick and Carlisle, because they could not get carts to convey the produce to its destination. If the railway were completed this objection would be done away with. Mr. J. D. Carr, miller and baker, Carlisle, proved that he could get his grain cheaper in the markets around Kelso if this line were completed to Carlisle, instead of purchasing it at Newcastle, and bringing it down by the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. He paid the latter railway about 6001. per annum for carriage. Mr. Walter Wilson, manufacturer, Hawick, spoke to the advantage which the opening of the line would give to Hawick, as giving a ready means by which they might get their wool, at the same time affording a ready transit for the exported article to the southern markets.. It would also give them a ready access to the Canobie pits, and thus lessen the prise of coal in the country. Mr. John Laing, manufacturer, Hawick, corroborated the preceding evidence. Mr. Ronald, woolbroker, Liverpool, said that he had found it exceedingly difficult to get his wool to llawick and Gala shiels; the market had 'therefore not been so profitable as it would be if there had been railway communication. Mr. Robert Gill, manufacturer, Galashiels, spoke to the increased manufactures of that town, and the necessity for a communication between the centre of these manufactures and the English markets. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. THE TAFF VALE EANLWAY COMPANY V. NIXON. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were ap pointed to be resumed to-day. fhe case came before their Lordships upon appeal from the decree of the Vice-Chan cellor of England. The following are the facts of the case out of which the appeal arises : Mr. W. Nixon was a railway contractor, and had under taken part of the works of the Taff Vale Railway for that company for the sum of 7,3954, subject to deduction or in crease proportioned to the work to be done. Eventually. becoming short of cash to carry out his contract, he applied to David Storm, another railroad contractor, for assistance, which was accorded, upon an agreement and a power of at torney to Storm, appointing him his superintendent and director of these works till they should be completed, and his attorney to demand and have of the company all sums of money which should become due to Nixon from the coin pany under the contract, with an allowance of 5/. per cent. on all advances. These circumstances were formally notified to the Taff Vale Railway Company on the Bth of December, 1838. The works were carried out and completed, partly under a new contract, when Nixon and Storm became joint contractors with the company ; Nixon having the management of the working part, Storm trans actine,,, all money matters with the company, who con. tinned to pay him various sums on account of work done. In December, 1840, Storm became bankrupt, and four of the respondents became his assignees. Nixon filed his bill against the Taff Railway Company and the assignees of Storm, stating that he and Storm had received 9,2061. on the contract, but that he had not received any part of 7.324/. since become payable for work done by the Company; that be had, on finding, on the 16th December, 1840, that Storm was embarrassed in circumstances, given notice to the Com pany not to pay him any more money on account of the contract; and also to render him an account of all moneys paid since April 11, in respect of the contract. The Com pany asserted that a larger sum than the 9,2361. had been paid to Nixon, or Storm, or the assignees of the latter since his bankruptcy, and that little remained due on account of the contract. This Nixon denied, or else alleged that any such greater sum was paid in their own wrong, and after notice not to pay anything more to Storm. The Company put in their answer to this bill, denying they had any con nexion or privity with the accounts between Nixon and Storm ; nor were those parties, or any one or more in their right entitled to institute a suit in equity against the appellants in respect of the alleged contract. The Vice-Chancellor of England, upon hearing the case, thought there was nothing to take this case out of the ordinary one of a person making a mortgage of his debt, and ordered that it should be referred to the Master to see what sum was due to Nixon, and what works were done by him under the contract, as well extra as those therein specified ; further directions and costs being reserved. And from this decree the present appeal was brought. Sir F. KELLY and Mr. STUART were heard on Monday last on behalf of the appellants, contending that what had taken place was, at the utmost, a mere legal liability, under a contract, and furnished no ground for equitable relief. It was against all principle of equity that because two joint contractors or partners had a dispute as to their own ac counts, their debtors should be thereby rendered liable to be made defendants in a suit in equity to settle partnership dis putes ; and finally, that though an award, by desire of the partners had been made by Mr. Robert Stephenson, that re ference had not been impugned by the bill in Chancery, nor had the decree of the Vice. Chancellor made any provision as to the reference and award. GROUP XX. This Committee met at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Goulburn in the chair. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION, AND BIRMINGHAM, DUDLEY, AND WOL- VERHAMPTON AMALGAMATION. Mr. WHATELY opened the case for the promoters of this Bill. He went at some length into the circumstances con nected with the passing of the Birmingham and Oxford line, pointing out to the Committee the fact that it was conceded by Parliament on the ground that the line should always be an independent line, competing with the London and North Western Company. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to detail a correspondence which took place before the passing of the Bill between Lord Hatherton, the chairman of the company, and Mr. Moseley, the tenor of which appear( d to express a desire, on the part of certain large shareholders in the undertaking, that the directors should endeavour to come to an amicable arrangement with the London and North-Western Company, but the directors declined to do anything of the kind, feeling that the interest of the public was far more important than that of the shareholders; and the line was therefore allowed to pass, in direct opposition to, and as a competing line with, the London and North•-Western Railway. The Learned Gentleman then related the occurrences which had taken place at the various meetings which had been held to consi der the question of amalgamation, and with which the readers of The Sun must be familiar, they having so recently been before the public. The Learned Counsel was then about to call evidence, but he was interrupted by The Cnafax.trt, who said the time had arrived when the Committee ought to decide whether the petitioners against the Bill had any locus standi in the Committee. Mr. CoCKBUUN contended that the petitioners, who were the great mass of the shareholders of the company, had a right to appear and oppose the Bill, inasmuch as they had never given their sanction to the measure in special general meeting assembled according to the provisions of the com pany's Act of incorporation. The directors had throughout acted in direct contravention to the wishes of their consti tuents, while in makkg an agreement with the Birmingham, Dudley, and Wolverhampttn Company for amalgamating the two concerns, they not only sacrificed the interest of the shareholders by attempting to unite their line with another of inferior ♦alue, but actually did that which they had no authority whatever to do. Now these petition2rs who were upwards of three-fifths of the shareholders in the company were deprived front voting at the special meeting called to consider the amalgamation by the act of the directors themselves, who purposely delayed the issuing of the sealed certificates, and refused to adjourn the meeting until they had performed that duty. The Committee, therefore, seeing that these petitioners, who were shareholders in the company at the time of that special meeting, having been deprived of their privileges by the conduct of the directors, could not refuse to hear them on meetings, that occasion, and he trusted the Committee would not g th s l a t attempt to exclude them from a hearing. At all the subsequent received the sanction of a t t . b is e - e p d a l: e e d a: exception of the twelven was ig d director:, three -fifths re, aerfi the h e e refo.r shareholders h e tainednf the ftther ii ! h i s e oi issuing of the sealed certificates, the pro posedohlda d e r n , with ev er The Committee pecial general meeting assembled. adjourned at the usual hour. e b ry eca sh us a e re t h t t h coam":l7 i d GROUP xxi. The Committee met at the usual hour this morning; Sir GROUP XXII. GLOUCESTER .AND REREPORD, &NE CANAL PITRCRASE. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock; Mr. Drummond in the chair. The case fur the promoters was proceeded with. Mr. Stephenson, the engineer, sad Mr. Bartley, his assistant, were examined at some length with respect to the line. The line is opposed by the Great Western, on the ground that their Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester lines will be un fairly interfered with by the project, an d th at t h e i r li nes o ff er all the accommodat ion which the district requires. The miles, and the entire cost The Committee, after the completion of the engineering 600,0001. The the line will be 34 evidence, adjourned for a fortnight, until the 17th inst. GROUP XXIII. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock; Mr. Mackinnon in the chair. SWAN/MIL VAZlarr. Mr. lona continued evidence against the line, and called Mr. Walters, of Swansea, who spoke against the propriety of granting a broad gauge line for such a district. Counsel then addressed the Committee, and th e room was cleared. on parties bein g re - a d m i tted, declared the proved; but th e C omm i ttee had deter ipnrielihmdebtClhenaoAtfirantmchlAeauNtelimust be inserted in the Bill, compelling the company to lay down a narrow gauge line if the Com missioners should require it. The clauses of the Bill were then gone through and agreed to. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP XXV. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, IVIATLOCH, AND - - -rsiDLANDS TUNCTION. The Committee on this group resumed its sittings this morning at twelve o'clock, in Room 14 ; Sir Charles Lemon in the chair. The Hon. George Henry Cavendish, the chairman of the company, was examined by Mr. TALBOT, and deposed to the great advantage which would be conferred upon the district by the proposed alteration. Mr. George Stephenson, civil engineer, was then examined, and deposed to the superiority of Chatsworth Park line, over the one that had been projected through Bakewell, which, in his opinion, would entail au enormous expense tor a tunnel. Mr. Gooch, Mr. T. H. Statham, and other engineers, cor roborated the evidence of Mr. Stephenson, and stated that the proposed deviatio❑ was the preferable line, and that the estimates were quite sufficient to construct tho works. The Committee then adjourned till 12 o'clock to-morrow, GROUP XXVIL This Committee (Mr. Cardwell, chairman,) met at twelve o'clock in Room 32, and proceeded to receive further evidence on the part of the promoters of the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (ERTEN. SIONS TO LYNN). The evidence was altogether of a local character. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP XXXIII. LEEDS, DEWSBURY, AND MANCHESTER (EXTENSION TO WAKEFIELD, &c.) The Committee met this morning at the usual hour; Mr. Hope in the chair. Evidence in support of the opposition of the landowners, particularly that of the proprietors of the Wakefield cattle market, was continued at the sitting of the Committee. Mr. Sergeant WILKINS then addressed the Committee at some length in opposition to the project, and in favour of the line which he represents—the Great Northern Railway (Extension to Leeds, and the Manchester and Leeds) — (the two lines are about to amalgamate), whose projects, he contended, would intersect the most populous parts of the district, and would, consequently, offer the greatest accom modation. The Learned COUNSEL then called Mr. llawkshaw, whom he examined at great length, in opposition to the Bill—Mr. Hawkshaw considered that the projects of the Manchester and Leeds, and the Great Northern, were vastly superior to the line of the Leeds and Dewsbury. Both sides have now completed their cases, and another Bill will be proceeded with on the meeting of the Committee to-morrow, at twelve. GROUP XXXIV. OLDHAM ALLIANCE. Several witnesses were called in favour of this Bill. Their evidence, however, did not present any feature of particular importance to the public at large. The Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow. GROUP XLII. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WXCILLOW. The Committee met this morning, at twelve o'clock—Mr. Tollemache in the chair—when a long discussion ensued as to the right of the Company to deprive the Carrick-bridge Committee of their tolls, and Counsel were heard at consi derable length on their behalf, against the preamble of the Bill. GROUP XLVIII. This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Lord Courte nay in the chair; all the members present. CALEDONIAN, GLASGOW, CO.A.T333ZXDOE (IMAM CH TO GLASGOW STATIOW). and On the assembling of the parties the clauses of this Bi were proceeded with. . . . . A considerable time was spent in the discussion of the clauses to be inserted in the Bill to regulate the works, so as to protect the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Forth and Clyde Navigation. The arrangement with respect to the clauses agreed to was, that in regard to the Forth and Clyde Canal the pro moters of the Bill would construct their works under it in a way to satisfy a neutral engineer, Mr. Walker, or, failing him, Mr. Robert Stephenson. It was provided, in addition, that the cut for deviating the canal during the progress of the works should be maintained for a year after the water was restored to its usual course, and that the company should be responsible at the time for any injury done by the works either to the canal or to the property of the public. Mr. Tennant, the Inehbally Road Trustees, and the Edin burgh and Glasgow Railway Company, also obtained pro tective clauses. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XLIX. This Committee assembled at the usual time to-day . ; Mr. Cripps in the chair; all the members present CALEDONIAN AND - GLASGOW, AND GREENOCK JLIKALGAMILTION. _... The case on behalf of this Bill was resumed. — --- - Mr. Cubitt, C.E., examined—Deposed that he was con sulting engineer of the London and Brighton line, and bad experience of its working. Formerly the London and Croy don was an independent company between London and Croydon. Then came the London and Brighton Company, which constructed the portions from Croydon to Reigate. Since then the South-Eastern came in, and the London and Croydon portion was worked by the three com panies. The London station was jointly used by them. From what he had learned of the Glasgow and Paisley joint sta tion, he apprehended no difficulty in the working of it. If the present amalgamation took place it would lead to a great economy in the working of trains and management. Mr. Harding, formerly secretary and manager of the Greenock Railway, and now superintendent of the Bucking ham lines, deposed as to the financial condition of the company when he was connected with it. They could, on several occasions, barely pay a dividend of one per cent., and had to abridge their expenses very much in officers, trains, and general management. He was firmly persuaded that the proposed amalgamation would serve, not only the shareholders, but the public. This closed the case for the promoters. After an adjournment of about an hour Mr. TALBOT addressed the Committee at some length in review of the evidence adduced in support of the Bill. He said the whole objections he had to urge were resolvable into two heads. The one was, th a t it would be the means of enabling the Caledonian Company to bring its traffic on to the joint line free of expense. on the terms of the agreement entered into between the Ayrshire and Greenock Companies. The other point was, that the public would suffer by putting the key ofthe line to Greenock into the hands of the Caledonian Company, who had the strongest interest in throwing diffi culties in the way of passengers going to the steam-packets, in order to send them through to England by their main line. On these grounds, which the Learned Gentleman amplified at some length, he submitted that the preamble of the Bill ought to be rejected. IMPORTANT DECISION. The room was then cleared for a decision. On the re-admission of the parties. The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee had decided that the preambles of both the Bills, viz., the Glasgow, Dum fries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, (No. 4), and the C a l e d on i an an d Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock, and Greenock Railways Amalgamation, were proved. _ _ _ The clauses were postponed till to-morrow, and the Com. raittee adjourned. GROUP L. The Committee met at twelve o ' c lock; chair. Mr. Bankes in the GLASGOW, ilimagguLD AND NDZLSTON DIRECT. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCE (AMENDMENTS AND DRANC RE " Evidence on the Greenock Branches from Paisley to Dyke bar was called. _ Mr. §tirratt, bleacher, in" Paisley, believed the accommo ileasteiodn, offered e r b y y n t e li c e e s? G a r r e;n e o h ck e e line e uh w t a s e f t the h e bes p r t eosfenatny pricesp ro of coal. Mr. Galloway said there was a strong necessity for getting to the Lanarkshire coast, as the Hurlet coal would easily be exhausted. Mr. Hector said there existed strong necessity for the line at Pollockshaws. There were large works at the place; but there was nu direct communication to Paisley since the canal was shut up by agreement with the .Ayr Railway. The weaver preferred Paisley work, but was obliged to seek work in Glasgow. Other witnesses were called to give similar evidence of the b;rantchhe E s d ix ers necessity of accommodation to the district. 5.1 r. Robson, the engineer, said the Pa isle y branch was three miles two furlongs long, with the ste e p est g radient at one in eighty eight. The length of the R enfrew branch t w h a e s L seven o h f s u d r e l o i e n" branch at Barrhead, 3 furlongs; the East Dy kebar branch, 1 mile and 3 furlongs; the flaw its branch, 1 mi le and 3 furlongs; the branch to the Waterloo Pits, 6 furl on g s ; the !e) furlongs bra n ,• the Maidsley c t h ree miles ; Househill branch, 6 furlongs ; the Lesmab ago w branch, 3 h miles and 6 furlongs. There are two other short extensions and deviations, which, with the others, made a total length of 18 miles, at a cost of 287,255/. The Committee adjourned till to-morrow. T GROUP LI. Committee an. ay met to-d at t we lve o'clock; S ir J. Y. Buller, he hairm NORTH BILITISII. Mr. Dudgeon, farmer, near Kelso, corroborated the evi _ence given yesterday by Mr. Rutherford, as to the expe diency of Connecting Hawick and Carlisle by a railway which would give the agricultural district. of Roxburgh and of a public-house; but on the 9th of. November, without any , notice having been given, or the key demanded, the defen dant, under the authority of Mr. Brown, the landlord, broke into the premises and sized the property, under a distress warrant, for 121. 108. The Learned Counsel said that the main question for the jury would be, whether the goods had been sold at a fair price. The UNDER- SHERIFF said, that if the goods were sold in the open market, the price fetched would probably be considered their fair value. Mr. Brookman, an auctioneer, was called, and said that there had been 20 boats in the dock. One (a galley) was worth 10/. ; the worst would fetch 2/. 10s. ; the total value of the boats and fixtures bought by the plaintiff, when he took possession of the house, was 93/. Sewell was called— He was a boat-keeper on the Lea, and bought the galley for 275. He considered it worth 41. He had bid 295. for the beer-engine, and had since offered 41. for it ; it was sold for 21. 10s. He considered the sale very fair, and he was quite satisfied, as he had got a good bargain. Mr. CHARNOCK, who appeared for the defendant, urged that there was no proof of the trespass by the breaking and entering into the house, and the goods only fetched 131.25. Bd., although the rent due was 121. 10s., and the costs and ex penses made a total of 15/. 2s. 2d. The UNDER-SHERIFF said he did not consider that the expenses could be urged in mitigation. Defendant had ad mitted he had done wrong, and could not charge for that wrong. The question was, the difference between what the goods were sold for and what they ought to have fetched. Mr. CHARNOCK said he would show that the goods had been properly appraised, and had been fairly sold at public auction. Evidence was then adduced, on behalf of the defendant, to show that the prices at which the goods had been sold were such as an auctioneer ought to take; the boats fetched, on the average, Bs. each. Mr. HAWKINS, in reply, said that the trespass was ad mitted by the default of plea, and contended that under the count for trover the plaintiff was entitled to the full value of the; goods, and that the amount of the rent said, but not proved, to be due, ought not to be deducted from the amount of damages. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said, that at first he was of opinion that the expenses of the levy, &c., could not be taken into consideration in the verdict ; but having read the record, he considered that those counts whisk, it was urged, bore ad missions, ought also to bear explanations, therefore he would admit evidence as to the whole of the declaration. He con sidered that the jury should take the rent due and the ex penses into consideration, then adduce from the evidence the fair value of the property seized, and give a verdict for the plain tiff for the difference, if in his favour. At all events the defendant, by suffering judgment to go by default, had sub jected himself to a verdict for nominal damages. The jury gave a verdict for 101., over and above the rent due. The case lasted four hours. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) On Wednesday Eliza JoAnson, a young woman, about 20 years of age, pleaded guilty to having committed a theft. The Learned JUDGE asked her what had induced her to commit this act ? Prisoner—l did it, my Lord, to be sent out of the country. lam quite tired of the mode of life I have been pursuing here, and I am most anxious to get away from it. The Learned JUDGE—Yes, I see that is what you said when you were taken. Has she ever been convicted before ? One of the officers replied in the negative. The Learned JUDGE did not see that he ought at once to send her out of the country without a previous con viction. Prisoner—l am quite tired of my life here. What am Itodo ? I have not any friends, and it is my wish from my heart to get away from the life I have been thrown into, and have been compelled to lead for some time. I am quite tired of it. The Learned J'uneF. said she must be remanded until the next morning, in order that some inquiries might be made about her. He should not, under the present state of matters with respect to women who were transported to Van Diemen's Land, feel so much compunction in sending out women to that country as he should have done some twelve months since. At that period the state of affairs in connexion with the female transports was most lamentable and dreadful. Now, however, he was happy to say that there was a very different state of things. There had been established in Van Diemen'a Land an " Institution for the Refor mation of Female Convicts," which was under the care and superintendence of a most excellent woman, with whom he was well acquainted, Mrs. Bowden, a lady who for some years had been the matron of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum. The Home Government had been most anxious to forward the views and exertions of that lady upon the subject. The jury might have heard of the removal of the late Governor of Van Diemen's Land, Sir Eardley Willmot, and he might perhaps state that one part of the reason for the removal of that gentleman was, that he had not sent any reports to this country upon this matter. He bad himself for some years been in frequent communication with Mrs. Bowden during her residence at Hanwell, and he had, therefore, had numerous opportunities of forming an opinion of her capacity of mind, and of ascertaining her views on this important question; and since her arrival in Van Die men's Land she had found a strong desire on the part of the Home Government to assist her in carrying out her object. She was much astonished to find on her arrival in that country that all the clothes for the female convicts were sent out from England ready-made, and thus that there were no means of giving the prisoners employment, even by the manufacture of the very clothes they were to wear. The first step towards the reforma tion of this state of things, and, of course, with a view to the reformation of the prisoners themselves, which was taken by Mrs. Bowden, was to apply to the Government at home to have the unmade materials sent out, so that she might give them to the convicts to cut out and make up for their own wearing apparel, thereby giving them useful employment. In this application Mrs. Bowden was successful; but even then she had not sufficient employment for all the women under her charge, and therefore she endeavoured to obtain con tracts for them to manufacture shirts. Well, then, con tracts she got, but she met with a difficulty in respect of the price she had undertaken to make each shirt for, because that charge happened to be something less than the fixed price of the colony. Upon this Mrs. Bowden was subjected to a penalty. So much for the protection system. She was Exchequered, in fact, for making shirts for less than the established colony price. But the Government had put an end to this state of matters. Still there was not enough employment; and therefore Mrs. Bowden endeavoured to discover whether she could not put them in the way of making bonnets; but, strange to say, upon inquiry, she ascertained that, not withstanding some of the most beautiful straw in the world is produced in that country, there was not a single individual at Hobart Town who knew how to make such a thing as a bonnet. All the bonnets in use there were sent out ready made. Upon this Mrs. Bowden obtained some ; straw, and ere long had taught herself how to make one; she then taught the women under her care, and having effected that object, she established a straw-bonnet manufactory, and had now 150 female convicts employed in the operation. Even with these sources of occupation she was still without a suffi ciency of employment for all the prisoners, and she next thought whether she could not establish a manufac tory for cloth upon a small scale. In this object he was glad to find she had met with much success, for she now had a vessel, the Anson, to which wool was taken in its raw state, and which the convicts on board made into the coarser cloths. The result of this energy of conduct on the part of this lady was that she now had the means of providing full employment for all the female convicts. He had a few days since only received a letter from Mrs. Bowden, who gave him a most flattering and pleasing picture of the present state of the women under her care. In consequence of this altered mode of treatment of the female transports, he should have less difficulty than heretofore in sending them out, because, even though a woman were transported for life, if she con ducted herself well and benefited by the reformatory system, she might gain a letter of leave, which would enable her to quit her confinement, and thus she might have an opportunity of earning her livelihood and of marrying, and so become once more a decent and re spectable member of society. Mrs. Bowden from her residence at the Hanwell Asylum had witnessed the effects of moral influence over the unhappy lunatic, and she had determined to try what results could be accom - plished by the application of moral influenoe to female convicts. What those results had been he had just told them, and a more gratifying end it was not easy to describe. Eliza Johnson, who was found guilty on Wednesday of a petty act of felony, and who stated that she was induced to I commit the crime merely through the hope of getting tran sported, as the melancholy and degraded life she was compelled to follow here, to enable her to get a " meal of victuals," was such that she would gladly meet any chance that might present itself to her in another country, was brought up for judgment. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said that, looking at the position in which the prisoner stood, and the wishes she ex pressed, perhaps, the most merciful course would be too grant assed her request. At the same time, he should make a r rsen t; tation of all the facts under which the sentence was p the proper authorities. The pr i sone r was then sente nced to -seven years' transp tat or- The case of Mad ame de S ouz a was adjourned to the bail day of 'the next session. •,, Il vn E s 1.l a T c e . before Mr. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Ot S ],r 7 , - Ann Maria ( , charged with stealing from the person of William Hardwick, 111 A S clt B a w ° o l i m ° a n U ff c fl o Cameron, servant, No. 23, Grosyenor•square, a purse coa tcomplainant stated that on the preceding night, about The taining a sovereign and ten shillings in silver. eleven o'clock, be was walking along North Audlev-street, when the defendants ame i dle told her him anhed re ha quested . him to stan d something to ink. d not got any beerge,but would give her a penny to get half a pint of of said " That is not enough, give me some more." He refused to do so, when she made use of an indelicate epithet and follo wed him for some distance' Seeing that the pr i sone r was determ ined to follow him, he stopped and s p oke to her, and eventually took out his purse, containing 1/. lo s , an d gave her a shilling. He had no sooner replace the purs e in his trousers pocket defendant d t of her hand sn her arms roun d him, and putting on into his pocket , p ulled out the purse. Complainant c aught e ndeavoured to was hustles struggling him and and get the we prisoner ith her men and hold of her, an d taxed her with robbing him, which she e a cs ca denied. l • y ; u pdb'euantni, f or t u nately,edde' contents, n e t n s : came up, into w hose care he at once consi gned the prisoner. ddi where she was of the , Th e pu rse was subsequently found, receive emptied of it. c l o se by where the prisoner had been standing Pulicc- cons table 19 C, said prisoner, and conve y ed her to the station searched, but no money was found upon her. She was a sibtneeialerrepeatedly before the magis tratesoallurtd fohraad notorious thief, c at thisoffenc e. The prisoner denied the charge, wh i ch trumped up by complainant in alle g ed was comply with his wishes. consequence of her refusing to Mr. HARDWICE said, that after what he had heard f ro m the constable, be thought he should he did not send the case to not be doing his duty if con - mit her for trial; at th a. JurY• He should, therefore, at Clerkenwell. e Micidlesex sessions, now holden WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday rooming a middle-aged woman was (13 trged with being concerned, yak fat Qtjac it fouggcs, uwaed garri,t Young, Jane Samuels, Mary Anne Simmons, and CatherinB on the pre .. Stone, now in custody, in a burglary and robber y raises of Mary Anne Johnson, boot and shoe manufacturer, High-street, Holton Old Town, on Wednesday night last The property consisted of 110 pairs of boots and shoes, and, according to the statement of S er g eant Conway o f the, H division, was discovered by one of the servants of the pro' secutrix, who, upon coming down s tairs in the inortung• found t ha t the shutters at one cor ner of the premises had e been forced open, and a large po rtion of the stock in th „ warehouse abstracted. From a communication which wad made to witness, he proceede d to a house in ride man's-alley, where were foun d u p wards of 100 Pill s of boots and shoes, and the above four person e s were taken into custody. The pres ent prisoner, who is th landlady of the house, was at the t ime absent, but upon his sending an officer there she had arrived homer and upon being questioned as to her knowledge of the rob bery, she replied that she knew nothing whatever about it. The parties had obtained of her a lodg in g for the night, and had brought some large packages with them. Upon preeest ing into the room she herself occupied, police-constab e Bray, 43 H, discovered, in a draw a jemmy and other house' breaking implements, and in a cupboard were discovered t.ll remainder of the boots and shoes. The jemmy Pr°(l2°`' exactly corresponded with the hole made in the thin shutter. 5 4 Mr. ARNOLD asked the prisoner if s he had any g t° in her defence? T t hehe o p t r h i s e o r , ner prisoners. whoreplied that she should reserVe her ! 16. _ fence, was ordered to be brought up ag a a ain .on the same _ ---- MARKET NEWS.--(YESTERDAY') BAT DIULEX.IIIII. SMITIMPIILD. —Meadow Hay, 31to 31 18s ; CloYe r dit_ 31 C lo u: i t h o ET I L I A S N s o ; to 4117 s ; and Straw, 11 12s to 11 16s per load. Tr iw " . 7nd M eadow stra%v, rather firm, at full rices. plyanoderately good, and trade rather dull. IV.urrEcitArm..—Meadow hay, 21 15s to 31 18s; Clovera hill"l.,2s3ltotoll 14tfs;perCiloo ditto, 3/ 15s to 51; and Straw, IL 12s to 11 16s per lo ci• A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. NEWGATE AND 363349.DENUAZZ' e. There vas an extensive business doing here, at full prf..b, Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to ss; l' a 4 T er a v d e r . ditto , sli Os 4d to 6s 2d; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 2d; and Pork, 4 3 to ' s r 81bs, by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. ,stoCk SOUTII ALL, MAY s.—Although the supPli of f at d „ so here to-day was tolerably good, the general demart .„ ~ brick, p a B t i a bs. gen ß er e a e l f; adfrvoannice3sin6dthetoqu4ostafitdusgooftf;roo:: to Gs ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 2d; Veal, 4s 4d to ss; 6d to 4s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal.trade here Bolt • - tofu), MAY s.—There was a very active ..; to -day, on the following terms : —Beef, from 3 41t0 4s Ajitiltton, 4s 10d to 6s ; Lamb, 5s 8d to 6s 2d; V,_ ea , : 1 „%,.. 13 Calfes , ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs. Suc"""d Mild' 18s o to 30s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 2 0 s; C WS, with their small Calf, 16/ lOs to 191 each. Mutton 41 I - • AIN ES, MAY 4.—Beef, from 3s 10d to 4s tid; - - A r n ' T ig, 10d to Gs ; Lamb, 5s (id to 6s •, Veal, 4s 4d to ss; and 50.- 4s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs. A sho r t I • and a brisk tra 5t__?.a..)3.L.,. and Pork, ... CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF DRITISII CORS,ttio Inspectors in the different Cities and Town s ill Ea For tile Week ended May 6, 1547, made up from the Returi!:;lo gla nd Ana " per Imperial Quarter. 1 I " ill. WHAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I RTE. I ZEA'' ..1, 114 PRICE .. I 79s E 641 I 49s 6d 30s Id 34is 641 Ms 10d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. roitTsmOUTII, MAY. 5. The Odin stearn•frigante! .o_llttiloter Geyser steam-sloop, are ordered here from Irela di° basin —sheforei foreign n i s service. troll' e:r rd the intended i f ' u h r e the Aven ger llle d i t h e r a r s a n b the Treasury in charge of the seed corn, &C. , 0 " and Vber. Avenger, disposed of a large quantity at landKillibegT in tha t morey, but very little at Lough Swilly; the r broug liC ncighbourhood was highly cultivated. The Avenger to he back 1,400 sacks of seed barley, which are ordered eeeL.takienlein_tnoitoitel ground into meal. ~,....0 to The Dee steam transport is ordered here from ti-P.L: to embark a company of marine artillery, and convey the m Pembroke. b adding 1,500 The augmentation of the marine corps, Y, _ d _ qua rtere men to its strength. has been announced to the nee recruit ac; of the various divisions, and t he y are ordered to d am cordingly. Each company of marine artillery is dditiona l three a t , to 150 officers and men, and there are to be ompan ies e companies of that branch of the corps. The c _ d too. the marines are to be increased to 110 officers an d ellent this Five marine cadets have passed out of the s e_x_, ed by the day into the corps. Companies have been e" their int° Rear-Admiral Superintendent, Superintendent, and will receive ;d missions or appointments on the m en being °r me squads. end aptains The customary notice has been issued to the c ,__ clo aca commanders of the ships in the ort to attend at toe c - eive her Victualling-yard on Friday three ' lock to r e at o c , Ma* - 4e.ty on her visit to the Isle of Wight. t of ( l eek lhe Champion and Serpent brigs will be taken out ~thy d got rc- _ A .' in a day or two, and put in the basin, masted, an d y s mixt.. for commission. The Champion has had gun" , cooper' metal sheathing (a dirty yellow) put on , instead of r. The Serpent has the usual copper applied. here from Her Majestyteamer Bulldog is xpected _ Plymouth, for 's s a court-martial to bee h e ld on one ofher officers. has lost DEATH OF ANOTHER ADMIRAL.--The navy the death of another of its old and distinguished officers , i n --- t he list Admiral of the White Stephen Poyntz, the third of ~..i . a , of full admirals who have died within the last fe.r i 7 6 1, The gallant officer was made a lieutenant in A: lie commander, October, 1795, captain, December, " h ICI a adron commanded the Solbav at the capture of a Frene- - . of the a the West Indies in 1799, and, hen in command _ Melempus, assisted at the destruction w of the Impetueux off tlcie Heury, in 1810. He succeeded to his fl ag as rear admiral in August, 1819, vice admiral, July, 1830, and ad miral, November, 1841. By the decease of Admiral Povn'z, the following promo tions will take place :—Admiral ot the Blue H. R. Glint), to be Admiral of the White ; Vice Admiral the Right Hon. James Marquis of Thomond, G.C.11., to be Admiral of the Blue ; Vice Admiral Richard Matson becaniaes senior of that grade ; Vice Admiral of the White Sir Edward Durnford King, K.C.8., K.C.H , commander-in chief at the Nore, to be Vice Admiral of the Red. Vice Admiral of the Blue Matthew Buckle to be Vice Ad• miral of the White, and Rear Admiral the Hon. Georg e Elliot, C. 8., to be Vice Admiral of the Blue ; Res t Admiral the Right Hon. Lord William Fitzroy, K.C.8., becomes the senior of that grade ; Rear A dmiral of the White John Ayscough to be Rear Admiral of the Red ; Rear Admiral of the Blue James Whitley Deans Dundee, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, to be Rear Ad miral of the White ; and Captain Edward Wallis Hoare (1810), to be Rear Admiral of the Blue. The senior captain now on the list, is John Coode , C .B. By the W' tion of awl Captain Hoare another good-service pension to the patronage of Lord Auckland. Not less than nine 114 officers have died since the promotion and retirement in November last. Wootwicir, MAY s.—The Dragon steam-frigate was CO at t: missioned to-day by Captain Hall, and is to have a crew 196 men. Mr. Watts, a resident in Woolwich , and father of William Watts, late mate of the Loch Ryan steame r, which am d os a t in the North Seas on the 9 th of Octobe r last, resented memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty , on the BLb would be of the present year, requesting that their Lordship Ps Zealous pleased to take into consideration the h umane and l.) _Del exertions of Captain Hammer, of the N orwe g ian of bri the !I plun, of Fredericshall, who saved the lives of twenty n she crew, out of twenty-one, on board the Loch Ryan, wh encountered the gale which caused her loss. A letter waS received yesterday by Mr. Watts, announcing that their Lordships bad been pleased to award 201. to Captain Hammer, and 30/. additional to be divided amongst the crew of his vessel, for their exertions on that occasion. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAY 6.—Wind South, light pleasant breeze, and tine, with passing clouds. DEAL, MAY s.—Wind E. to E.S.E.—Acrd. Louisa, WY" cherley, Callao. Std. Simlah, Calcutta; Regina, Dominica; Hendrick, Hudson, New York. LivEnrooL, MAY s.—Wind S.E., moderate.—Sid. Ferris, Ceylon; Antoinetta, New Orleans; Glasgow, St. John's' New Brunswick; Pollok, Miramichi • Benaris, Calcutta; John Biddy, Calcutta; Parthenon, an ' d New Jersey, S ew Orleans; Edwin, Savannah; Rob Roy, Virginia, London, and Rowland, Philadelphia ; Moselle, Boston ; Caroline, Halifax ; Perthshire, St. John's, New Brunswick; Ladf Milton, Rankin, and Watkins, Quebec ; Mary, Newfoundland . CLYDE, MAY 4.—Arrd. Lord Montgomery, Barbadoes. Sld. Cannata, Calcutta ; Curlew, St. Kitt's • Cynthia , N ew ' foundland ; Orion, Troon and Bahia ; Adam Carr, New York; Northumberland, Quebec. OFF HASTINGS, MAY 4.—Ellen, Rio Janeiro for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, MAY 5. Wind W.—Otr.port, Renshavi, Taylor, Mauritius; Fanuber, Nyborg , Bahia . OFF THE START, MAY 1. Manchester, N for ew York, Rotterdam. OFF HOLYHEAD, MAY 4 . — Ethiop e, Crimea, FernandoPo, out seventy days; rusker, Lovell, Norfork ; Princ e Fernando Albert, Sebor, New York, sailed() n the 10th ult., and passed Cape Clear on the 30th. WHITBY, MAY 5. Put back, William , for Que bec, leaky SOUTHAMYrON, MAY s . — A rrd. Madrid steamer, Gib raltar, &c. A N V. G O r l e l e n a r P c e l r e r o y : Ne B w EL Y F o A r S k T ; I L L a t d Y y p a tra, Norfolk. l 4lrabella, v S a i r m ia p b s i o e n .— , SHIELDS, MAY s.—Wind E. N. E.—Sid. Jane Piric, Calcutta. G UERNSE Y, MAY • Louisa, Pernambuco; Swift, Nevis. DuNsrortE, MAY 3.—Wind E.—Arrd. Hound, Waters, Newfoundland. HULL, MAY s.—Wind N.—Sid. Mountaineer, Montreal. OFF BRIGHTON, MAY s.—West Indian,: Barnett, Cape of Good Hope. BIRTHS. On the 3d ult., in Harley-street, the wife of the Rev. C. B• Wollaston, of a (laughter. On the 2d inst., at Luton, Beds, the wife of Alfred P. elch, Esq., of a son. 'kVOn the 3d inst., in Hyde-park-gard ens , the lady of Ja mes Bluth, Esq., of a son, still-born. l a c I e the On the 3d inst., i n D evons hi re - s t ree t, P or tland-P ' wife of J.IG. King, Esq., of a son. p the On the 4th i ns t., a t N e l son H ouse , St o k e NeWillg" ° lady of George Gabain, Esq., of a daughter. Ontte 4th inst., at Uppe r Cl a pt on , Mrs. Edwar d ofa son. i Gill, G. On the 4th in s t., i n T r i n ity-t errace , N ew i n gton, Mrs. J • Hepburn, of a son. On the 4th inst., at the M anor House, Kennington , ar s ' J. C. D. Bevan, of a daughter. hi i o v ens Esq., f 2d o i nsa son. t ~ at Pitt House, Devon, the lady o f Charles On lte 2d inst., Mrs. Pamir, of P ar ton House, W ilts . ofa son. i On the 3d inst., at Langley-place, East India - road , Mrs. Alfred Blyth, of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst., at Marylebone Church,George Maximilian Francois Baron de St. Mart, to Emma Kate, only daughter of the Countess Grabowski. DIED. On the 30th ult., at Swan-walk, Chelsea, Matilda. wife of J. L. Parley, Esq., aged 54. On the Ist inst., the Hon. Mrs. Milnes, of Robert Milnes, Esq. On the Ist inst., Robert Roberts, Esq., of Claremont - plac e, Pentonville. On theist inst., at Leytonstone, Mr. J. Smith, aged 30. On the 2d inst., at Kew green, George Pepper, Esq. On the 2d inst., in Cannon-street. Captain Alotander Weynton, elder brother of the Trinity House. On the 2d inst., Mrs. Noyes, of Belmont-place, Wanda" worth-road, aged 68. - London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG. of No. 1116 Strand, Printer, at The Sun °dace, N 0.112, Strand, in the Predicl of the Savoy, In tho C011.12t7 Of MiddlOOOS. Irlds7• Ma , e;‘, , 1 II