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2 Vrottrbings ilt Varliamtnt. 40. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-: 'MONDAY. The house resumed the debate on the resolutions for a rate in aid (Ireland), and another long discussion on the state of that country followed. Sir ROBT. PEEL said he had voted for the grant of £50,000 to save individuals from perishing, and he should vote for these resolutions because he thought it more fair to levy a small rate on the whole country than a heavy one upon the vicinage of the destitute districts. He thought, however, that something permanent should be done for Ireland, and suggested the influx of capital and -the conveyance, upon equitable terms, of the estates of the present possessors to resident, younger, and more vi gorous hands. Many of the present landlords had done their duty nobly, but he thought some just measure of this kind necessary. Mr. E. ROCHE ridiculed Sir Robert Peel's plan, and thought it would be infinitely preferable to raise up a nu merous body of small yeomanry. Sir G. GREY, on the other hand, approved of the sug gestion, but thought that this was not the time for its adoption. After two propositions for postponement, Lord JoHN RUSSELL consented to another adjournment. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuEsDA Nearly the whole evening was taken up with the ad journed debate on the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill. Major BLACKALL opposed the Government proposition, and moved en amendment to the effect that a rate of 6d. in the pound should be made to meet the present emer gency, to be levied on all incomes exceeding £l5O a year from property, or otherwise, in Ireland. Mr. W. BROWN supported the proposition of the Go vernment, and excited the amaz t of the Irish mem bers by offering to prove that, so far from Irel creditor of England for £60,000,000, she the anm After vas a debtor to peeches from 'several other hon. members, and after sew sixpenny ral divisions, the Government resolutions—for a rate in aid—were affirmed by 206 to 34. HOUSE OF COMMONS. — Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND, in mov mil to facilitate the tr observed that every attempt ' from its cumbers hitherto futile, the hands of their s were bid, wit , ' ties. This old system count► selves some and expensive ,nd that landowner mit knowing 8 tlemen must make an effort to deliver then f the bands of their solicitors, and the on entries in a t Court of ( whereas without examination the d r owner would be at the mercy of attorneys. He believed that in most cases substantial justice would be done by passing a declaratory act, that from a certain time every man should have a Parliamentary title to his estate. All he now asked was that the house would affirm these two points—first, that there should he a registration of landed property ; and, secondly, that the transfer of such pro perty should be made, not by 70 sheets of parchment, but just like tranfers of stock. - The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, with the most sincere de sire to make this an effectual bill, saw no possibility of doing so, either in its plan or its details; and be recom mended Mr. Drummond to withdraw it, and to reconsider the subject after the report of the Registration Commis- Mr. Drummond had not done the lawyers justice, since they were the only persons who, from the time of Sir Matthew Hale, had agitated the question, and their determined opponents had been the country gentlemen. Many of the objections of the Soli citor-General applied to the details, not to the principle of the bill. This was the only civilised country in the world without a general register, which in Belgium and France added four or five years' purchase to the value Of land compared with its value in this country. The discussion was continued some time longer, and on a division the second reading was carried by 55 to 41. The bill was then referred to a select committee. Mr. BANKES, in moving for an account of all Ordnance stores re.turned to any contractor in 1848, to be sent to the Sicilian insurgents, expressed the surprise lie had ex perienced at hearing that Lord Palmerston had autho rised the supply of arms from the Ordnance stores to a contractor, to be sent to the insurgents in Sicily. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to the motion if Mr. Banks would retrench certain expressions implying opinions as to the merits of a question respecting which the house has not yet information. With reference to the subject of the motion, he explained the circumstances under which he had given his sanction to the delivery of some iron guns to the contractor, and stated that the Eng lish minister at Naples had been authorised to explain to that court, if necessary, that it had occurred through in advertence. After a vehement attack upon Lord Palmerston from, Mr. Urquhart, the house divided upon the question whe ther the motion of Mr. Bankes should be agreed to en tire, or curtailed, when the amendment of Lord Palmer ston was carried by 124 to 39. WOOD said OF COMMONS.- HOUS -THrwQrkl Viscount MAHON called the attention of the house to the instructions issued in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848, with respect to the transportation and discipline of con victs. The noble lord entered at great length into the whole question of transportation to our colonies, pointed out many of the inconsistencies in the experiments of the Government, and said that Earl Grey had altered many of the plans of his predecessors in office without due con sideration. His object was to extract explanations as to the motives influencing the Government in the exercise of their discretion in carrying out the systems of trans portation and prison discipline, and he should not, there fore, seek to obtain the opinion of the house upon the subject, but would content himself with moving for papers, to which he believed there would be no objection. Mr. HERBERT seconded the motion, and complained of the badly regulated condition of the gaols in Ireland. Sir G. GAY said that every person at all acquainted with the subject, would admit the difficulties by which it was surrounded. With regard to the inconsistencies which Lord Mahon had charged upon the present head of the Colonial Office, the noble lord was aware that the system required great care and great caution in carrying out; and at the time that system was resolved upon, it was distinctly understood that many important modifica tions might hereafter be required. The right hon. gentleman then proceeded to detail the various alterations and modifications which had been introduced into the ad ministration of the penal settlemements of this country, and defended the course pursued by'Earl Grey in carrying out the system of separate confinement amongst the con victs at home. He also expressed his conviction that that system had beers attended with the most beneficial conse quences in effecting the reformation of criminals. Mr. HUME said the interests of the country had not been attended to, or a proper system would have been long since adopted for the transmission of convicts to our colonies, free from the objections which were now so justly urged against that mode of punishment, or rather against the want of system which at present prevailed in its application. After some observations from Sir J. PAKINGTON, Mr. GLADSTONE defended the course pursued by Lord Stan!ey, and complained of the inconsistency of some of the orders sent out to the Australian colonies by Earl Grey. He feared, as regarded the application of the punishment of transportation, that we had degenerated from the wisdom of our ancestors. They had sent out. transports so sparingly, that they were quickly lost in the community to which they were transmitted, whereas we sent them to so limited an area, and in such numbers, that a convict character was imparted to the whole. The chief thing to be attended to was to establish as many re ceptacles as possible for our convicts, as otherwise such a system as had existed in Van Dienien's Land must ren der the punishment so odious as to lead to its abandon ment altogether. After some observations from Mr. Ewart, Nrr. Alder man Sidney, Mr. P. Scrope, and Sir G. Grey, the papers were ordered to be laid on the table. Mr. DIERAELI then rose to move certain resolutions declaratory of the unequal burdens cast upon real p r op er ty the House to iake equitable apportionment of the public burdens. He said he hoped to induce the House to consent to a great mea sure of conciliation, of justice, and of policy. Assuming the admission of great agricultural distress in the country, he declined discussing the causes of it, as unnecessary for his argument, or to enter upon a controversy as to the policy of the changes by which, according to Mr. Cobden, the agricultural class had not been fairly treated. He still thought that our new commercial system was founded upon erroneous principles, and he shortly enumerated some of the reasons upon which he founded that opinion ; but he looked not to a sudden retrogression, but to legiti mate means, for remedying the evils of this new system. The question before the House was extremely simple. No less than £10,000,000 was levied last year by direct local taxation upon real property, independently of £2,000,000 land-tax ; that is, a direct taxation of £12,000,000, from which other property was exempt, was levied upon a rental of £67,000,000. The whole income of the country was £249,000,000; on v.hat principle of justice could £12,000,000 of local taxation be cast neon little more than one-fourth of that income ? Who would suppose that this burden was cast, in the teeth of the law, upon the proud and rapacious aristocracy, who always made laws for their own advantage ? He exposed the confusion of terms which annexed the idea of locality to these taxes, whereas they were of a much wider and more comprehen sive character; and he illustrated this argument by an ingenious exposition of the nature and objects of these so-called local rates, and the local causes of some of our general national taxation. The grievance and anomaly of these two forms of taxation had been long felt, and, as a remedy, a system of national rating, had been recom mended ; but to this he objected. He would not resist an inquiry into the subject of the probate and legacy du ties, for the result would show that a large proportion was paid by the land, or the property of the farmer ; but this was beside the question as to the justice of throwing £ 1 2,000,000 of taxes upon one-fourth of the property of the country; and if the house would go into committee, he would offer a plan to remedy this inequality. In a spirit of compromise and conciliation, he should propose, the present system of local administration remaining, the present levy of rates continuing, that the local districts should be responsible for one moiety, and that the other should be paid by the Consolidated Fund. Mr. Disraeli then described, in forcible terms, the treacherous manner in which the agricultural interest had been treated on the subject of the malt-tax, the repeal of which he neverthe less persuaded them not to press for, but to be content with the measure he proposed—a measure founded in justice; and he concluded with an eloquent picture of the claims and wrongs of that interest, of the insults they had received, and the forbearance they had displayed, warning the House, however, that the blood which had refused ship-money was not to be trifled with. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY On the motion for the second reading of the Navigation Bill, Mr. llERans rose to oppose the further progress of the bill, it being his intention to conclude with moving, as an amendment, that the bill be read a second time that day twelve months. It was a sweeping abrogation of the navigation laws, with some such trivial reservations as only served to render the bill more absurd. That discus sion was in the nature of an adjourned debate, for in the last session of Parliament this question had been very ably argued ; and in the intervalwhichhadsinceelapsed they had had time for enquiry and consideration. They now, therefore, approached the object with the advantage of having in the petitions on the table from all parts of the country an expression of public opinion which was not to be mistaken. They had had communications from Cana da proving that public opinion in that colony was de cidedly the adverse of what it had been represented to be in the quotations made in that house from documents, which documents had been judiciously selected for a pur pose, while other passages in the same documents had been omitted with equal judgment, because they would have militated against the purpose for which the docu ments had been quoted at all. Public opinion, at home and abroad, he believed to be adverse to this unfortunate proposition, and from all that could be gathered from foreign powers, there was but little hope that they would meet us even on terms of reciprocity. The right hon. eman then proceeded to contend that the navigation country enabled us to keep up a great corn md that a great commercial marine was, J marin, al powe ling this measure they would dustry Of the country—they would be dealing with the sea as they had already dealt with tho load, exposing both to ruin, for the benefit of foreign nations, who would not be slow to profit by the delusions under which we were acting. The right. hoa. gentleman concluded by moving his amendment. Mr. J. WILSON supported the second reading of the bill, maintaining that Canada was very anxious to have the restrictions removed which the navigation laws placed upon the navigation of the St. Lawrence. Several foreign contended, had returned favourable answers ures respecting the principles of free trade, ild not bring his mind to believe that the powners were not capable of maintaining a ompetition with the shipowners of any other or that they required higher freights in order to to our over meet their expenditure. The - hon. gentleman argued against the principle of reciprocity, because no country in the world had an equivalent advantage to give us for our throwing our ports and colonies open to them, but still he was of opinion that we should repeal our navigation laws, because it would be doing justice to our colonies, and sugar and other articles could be bought by the London refiner two or three shillings a cwt. cheaper when coming by a foreign vessel than when it came in a British bot tom, and also because a Belgian vessel could bring wool from our Australian colonies cheaper than it could be brought in a British vessel. The Marquis of GRANBY said, the real question was whether it was possible for the British shipowner to com pete with the foreigner, if the navigation laws should be repealed, and to this question he was prepared to answer in the negative. Everything in this country was dear, and even in Sunderland ships could not be built so cheaply as they could be constructed in foreign countries. The re sult, therefore, of a measure like this would be to throw out of employment all the labourers in the kingdom en gaged in that branch of trade. The government was ready enough to attend to the petition of ten or twelve persons in Canada, though by no means ready to listen to the petition of 27,000 of the inhabitants of Liverpool, and over 20,000 of the merchants and traders of London. In com peting with the Americans, the latter would have every advantage, in order to establish which position, he quoted passages from Mr. Mackay's " Western World," to show that the Americans possessed greater facilities and resources than the British shipowners, though he could not agree with that gentleman in the conclusions he indulged in as to the future prospects of England suggested by that fact. Mr. CARDWELL strongly supported the second reading of the bill, and in order to show the prejudicial way in which the navigation laws operated against Canada, stated the case of a gentleman who had asked for his interference at the treasury under these circumstances. He had re ceived a cargo of flour by an American vessel, and on look ing at the brands, found that the flour was Canadian. He made no secret of the fact, and as soon as it became known the delivery of the flour was prohibited. Had the flour been American it would have been delivered ; so that it was clear that Canadian, as compared with American pro duce was placed at a disadvantage in our markets, and all because the navigatiion laws would not allow American or foreign vessels to enter the St. Lawrence for the purpose of bringing the produce of Canada to this country. He hoped, therefore, the house would not stop the further pro gress of the bill, but allow it to go into committee, where all parties could be heard, and whara such alteration,: might be made as would consult the interests of all parties. Mr. HENLEY commented on the inconsistency - ot the hon. gentleman, who was prepared, in order to improve the navigation laws, to vote for sweeping them away altoge ther. With respect to the Canadian question, he would observe that the Canadians asserted that freights to E❑g land must be reduced 50 per cent. in order to enable them to compete with Americans. If such were the case, was it to be inferred that this measure would reduce the freights of the shipowner 50 per cent. ? And if it would do so, was not that an argument to show how injurious it must be to all interested in British shipping ? He then proceeded to exhibit the gross inconsistencies of the arguments of Mr. Wilson, who repudiated reciprocity, and yet paraded the fact that the government was corresponding with foreign courts, in order to attain their assent to reciprocity treaties. Mr. GLADSTONE then moved the adjournment of the debate until Monday, which was assented to by Lord John Russell, on the understanding that there should be no fur ther adjournment. It was then arranged between Lord J. Russell and Mr. Disraeli that the adjourned debate on that hon. gentle man's motion respecting the burdens on agriculture should be resumed on Thursday, instead of Wednesday, as previously arranged. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL FRANCE In the Assembly, on Thursday, M. Buvignier called at tention to the state of foreign affairs, which he said could not be viewed without alarm. He called on the Assembly to ratify its vote of the 24th of May, and to declare against interference in Italy.—M. de Lamartine was sure that the best policy for that country to pursue was that of non-inter vention.—After further discussion, a vote was passed in favour of non-intervention either for or against the Pope by a majority of 438 to 341. A sensation has been created on the Paris Bourse by the failure of one of the largest speculators there. He was a Bear to the amount of 1,800,000 rentes, which re present a capital of 50 millions of francs. His deficiency, at the settlement amounted to no less than three millions of francs. One agent de'Change is a loser to the amount of £120,000 sterling. One or two other fail ures are spoken of. The distress in Paris, we are told, is almost incredible ; 40,000 individuals are out of work, and the assistance given to the poor is to be abridged. UNITED STATES AND CALIFORNIA The Niagara, Captain Stone, arrived in Liverpool on Tuesday, with intelligence seven days later than that brought by the Wisconsin. The news by this conveyance is of an interesting character, particularly as regards California. The sessional proceedings had not been im portant. Mr. Benton, the senator, from Missouri, has introduced a bill for a national road from the state of Missouri, at or near St. Louis, across the continent of North America, to the bay of San Francisco, on the Pacific Ocean, with a branch road up the Sacramento and along the base of the Sierra Nevada, to the tidewater of the Columbia river. This great highway is neither to be confined to a railway or a macadamized road, but a noble track of a mile in breadth, within which may be embraced thai'all kinds of ti=itisefling;V gfht`aP, l l,7t9alida,c(Adt:.: case may be, shall henceforth and for ever be free, across the Prairies, the Rocky Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada, mountain passes being now known that are entirely prac ticable, and easy of ascent and descent. This grand scheme will no doubt be carried into effect, perhaps with some few modifications, either in the present or next ses sion of Congress; and that it may be accomplished with comparative ease, and even with an outlay by no means extravagant, will be readily seen, when it is remembered that the property in land (a few Indian claims to be allowed for) along the entire line is now vested in the United States. LATEST ADVICES FROM CALIFORNIA. The following are the advises from the land of gold, brought by the Niagara, which arrived on Tuesday last : (From the National Intelligencer.) Extract of a letter from an officer in the navy, to his friend in Washington, dated " SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 28.—You would be surprised that in this region an enthusiasm could be excited by any thing. The gold mines in this neighbourhood have stirred up the natives to a galvanic activity. This little village is literally deluged with gold, and common labourers are refusing to work in the mines for a hundred dollars a day. The stories told, you will take it for granted, must be all fabulous ; but were you to see the vast quantities hawked about the streets for sale, you would look upon the tale of the " Arabian Nights' as quite a probable narrative. There seems to be no exhausting the vein, which is said to extend over a district as large as Virginia. " To give you some idea of the state of things here, I will mention the prices of a few of the necessaries of life. Flour has been selling at :S"300 per barrel ; pork, 70 cents per lb. ; brandy, B`6o per gaMon, and washing .86 to -8 - 8 per dozen, and most other things in proport i o n . "The officers are becoming nervous and excited, while the men desert by the dozen. " Young 8., of Baltimore, is hard at work making his fortune, and will return in a year or two a rich men. I saw Dr. M., also of Baltimore, and he is also coining money ; he is highly popular and esteemed, 1 think he is the first man in the place. " I trust J. will not take it into his head to emigrate. Gold hunting is a most dangerous amusement. The mor tality is really frightful among the diggers, and the poor beggarly looking creatures returning from the mines, have, no doubt, paid dearly for their peck or two of gold." (From the Brooklyn Eagle.) FROM THE GOLD REGION.—We are indebted to Mrs. Lozier of this city, for the following extract of a letter WEDNESDAY g the sfer of r t ond read -1 property, of the law about their - own ti lt up by the roots; THE LIVERPOOL .STANDARD. rewired from her husband, Mr. Geo. T. Lozier, dated tin -ship Ohio, at sea,"having sailed from San Francisco 27th of Dec. last. It being currently reported that Mrs. L. has received a large amount (S 15,000) in gold from her husband, and also, that he had deserted, and gone to the " diggings," Mrs. L. requests us to say, for the in formation of her numerous friends, that said reports are untrue ; she having received no such amount, and Mr. Lozier being engaged in the performance of his duty on board the Ohio, as late as January Bth, as will be seen by his postscript of that date, at Mazatlan. But to the ex tract—he says : " I have brought to bear all the means that I could muster, walked into the gold market, and have of the precious metal, for which I paid about 8— the oz., it goes by apothecaries weight, 12 oz. to the pound. At Mazatlan, their gold weight is 14 oz. to a pound, and it is said that we will get Sl4 per oz., which makes it equi valent to Sl6 per oz.: as we buy at twelve and sell at fourteen, so perhaps I will make a trifle, and perhaps a little on return trade, &c., &c. * * * An overcoat, which cost only S 7 50c. brings £25 readily. No officer has been exempt from trafficking ; none let the golden oppor. tunity slip. " There are many sickly and cardaveroes looking per sons in San Francisco ; some have irretrievably ruined their health. They have to work so much in the water, that all suffer more or less with fever and ague. That which is called the " dry diggings," is an upland marsh. The " wet diggings," is standing in the river up to your waist, and every time you stoop to get a pan or spade-full of earth from the bottom, you dip your face in the water. " A new spot has just been discovered which is said to yield 700 or 800 dollars worth of ore, at $l6 the oz.—one person's labour for a day. Ido not doubt it—we doubt nothing of this great mine. Nearly every man in San Francisco, who, otherwise, would be very poor, and many loafers, now talk of their thousands, and carry a bag of gold ' • and eight dollars a day will not tempt them to work. Doubt not a word, for every word I tell you is as true as the gospel. Every day it will be getting better for those who are willing to work at their trade or calling. When we sailed, flour had fallen from £35 to £lO per barrel, and other articles in proportion._ _ _ '` Not a Mexican face is to lie seen in San Francisco, and nothing but English is spoken. All Yankees, and one-third New Yorkers. There is a Broadway, a Fulton, and a Washington market ; a New York store and all that. Grog shops, a few,—drinking and gambling are the orr'PT - Tiio graator part of tho gUld ha; fallen into. un worthy bands, but it will soon be gathered into the coffers of the industrious, provident, and wise. Nothing short of a millionaire can be a rich man in California after next year ;—a man will be poor with only 10,000 dollars. Crime is rife, murders are frequent, the perpetrators of some have been taken and hung. A man living near Pueblo, named Reed, and all his family to the number of ten persons, were killed, and their bodies thrown into a heap, preparatory to firing the house. The clatter of the postman's horse alarmed the murderers and they fled. There is no Government. The people are calling and have had several meetings, with a view of establishing a Provisional Government, until our Congress take some steps in the matter. I predict that Colonel Freemont will be the first civil governor in California. Monterey is a beautiful place, but San Francisco is hilly, and in some places, low and muddy, but it has a beautiful and capa cious bay, whilst. Monterey is quite an open roadsted. " MAATLAN, Jan. Bth, 1849.—We arrived here yes terday, a fine passage of twelve days and a few hours. We remain but a short time;—from this port going to San Blas. from there we will go immediately to San Francisco." The Protestant Episcopal Church of America, has a missionary bishop (Dr. W. J. Boone) in China, who, I fancy, is styled " Bishop of Amoy." _ _ The Provisional Governments of Tuscany and Rome have entered into negotiations by which there shall be an entire fusion between the two states, upon the basis of equal tariffs, equal postage, a common currency, &c. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of eman cipation was held at the Court-house in Louisville, Ken tucky, on the 13th ult. The committee appointed at a former meeting reported a series of resolutions which were unanimously adopted. It was reported at Vienna on the 3d inst. that Cracow had revolted, but that the troops of the garrison had re stored order, the city having been first bombarded. Several executions had taken place, by order of a council of war. The Austrians have had another engagement with the Hungarians, at Esseg, which took place on the 27th of February, when the former were victorious. The rebels lost between 200 and 300 in killed, and about 1000 were taken prisoners. The loss sustained by the Austrians was considerably less. RUSSIA AND THE POPE.—The Augsburgh Gazette of the 2nd states, that the Emperor of Russia has written a letter to the Pops, in which he expresses his devotedness to his cause, and offers his assistance. The Emperor also pronounces himself in favour of legality, and offers his Holiness money and troops. The Pope has accepted the former to the amount of 6,000,000 scudi. Letters from Genoa confirm the statement already pub lished, that the Austrians had entered Tuscany. Other accounts only go so far as to say, that 5000 Austrian troops were on their way to Tuscany. Some of the Italian journals assert that, at the solicitation of the latter repub lic, Ch.. King of Sardinia had nrdprPri a nortion of his troops to enter that Duchy, which they accomplished on the 28th ult., at a place called Sarzana. RUSSIA.—The Russian Government lately demanded from the Sultan of Turkey permission to send the Rus sian fleet through the Dardanelles down to the Mediter ranean, but this demand was rejected. The Russian agent then intimated that the required passage would be effected by force. Previously to sending its troops into Transylvania the government of Russia also apprised all the courts of Europe of its intention, and obtained, it is said, their unanimous sanction to that measure. Russia is admirably working out the policy of Peter the Great. AWFUL WORK IN CALIFORNIA.—The accounts from California speak of the continued increase of adventurers in search of gold ; and daily discoveries are made of fresh deposits of this precious metal. Murders and robberies are of frequent occurrence, no less than 15 of the former crime having been committed within three weeks. In one family, which consisted of ten pel sons, viz., man and wife, two children, and six servants, all fell victims to an armed band. The head of the family had accumulated a vast amount of gold, and it was to obtain this valuable treasure that these ruffians perpetrated the horrid deed. It is worthy of notice that the California gold fever has rendered an immediate and important service to Mexico in a manner that was probably little expected. All the vagabonds left by the American army, as well as the na tive robbers that have always infested the roads during the unsettled state of the country, have marched off for the gold regions, which will save the government a great deal of expense for supporting a police. SLEIGHING WITH A TIGER.—A novel exhibition was presented in Washington-street, and on the Neck, yes terday, which drew off attention for a time from the racers. Herr Driesback made his appearance in an elegant sleigh with his pet tiger by his side ; not the tiger of English comedies, but a bona fide four-legged tiger. He seemed to enjoy the sleighing highly, and leaped upon his master, licking his face and showing other kinds of excitement. Driesbach had to slap him several times to keep him off. After astonishing.the city, Driesbach alighted with his tiger at the Tremont House, and, taking him into one of the apartments, invited gentlemen to walk in and be in troduced ; but there were few who seemed anxious to avail themselves of the opportunity.—N.York Harbinger. THE LATE INDIAN WARFARE The Times, in allusion to the flight, as yet unexplained, of a gallant regiment, and to the mismanagement that appears to have prevailed throughout the melancholy massacre, for we cannot call it battle, says : The 2nd European Regiment was at one moment so wholly surrounded that it had to fire in every direction and to charge alternately straightforward and rear rank in front. Infantry were entirely unsupported by cavalry, and cavalry by artillery. Field batteries were exposed to capture for want of troops, and troops were unable to make head against the Sikh artillery for want of guns. It is impossible to see without infinite concern that some sudden panic caused the disastrous retreat of a most celebrated regiment, and entailed the actual loss of a portion of the British artillery. Whether this misfortune originated in any mistake in orders is not yet ascertained, but the cir cumstance is rendered probable, not only by the misdirected bravery of this corps at Ramnuggur, but by the distrust and suspicion which a succession of such disasters has generated both in officers and men. It is well known that the Sikh tactics are artful in the highest degree, and moreover that they are unmatched by any corresponding persOcuity on the part of the 36riMn't fmmie.Bslfiriy W . PSIMPIMieff IA., ing el'efilt.e9VX have the best authority for stating that General Thackwell, in the affair at Sadulapore, was only withheld by the caution, thus made so imperatively necessary, from seizing what appeared to be so favourable an opportunity of crippling his antagonist. Even in the case of the fort of Attock, our private correspon dence informs us that the whole affair—attack and defence—is now reported to have been a feint to allure us across the Jhelum—an improbable story, but one which forcibly exhibits the relative estimation in which Sikh and British tactics are held. The Delhi Gazelle says: An excuse has been put forth for the flight of the 14th Dra goons : it is said they mistook an order given to them to move to the right or left for an order to retire. The Horse Artillery have called for a Court of Inquiry, and it is to be hoped the painful question may be cleared up ; at the same time, the pre cipitate and disastrous retreat of such a regiment cannot be looked upon otherwise than with feelings of the most profound regret. Brigadier Pope, who gave the order, is now no more. The conduct of the sth Bengal Light Cavalry is scarcely likely to meet with an apologist. Very different was the conduct of the 3d Dragoons, as described by a person who was present : Brigadier White protected the left of the infantry, Colonel Brind's guns being po s ted between White and Campbell's division. Bodies of Sikh cavalry wade demonstrations on our left. General Thackwell directed a squadron of the 3d Dra goons and sth Light Cavalry to charge them. The Dragoons willingly obeyed the order, and under their gallant leader, Captain Unett, dashed through the Sikh wedge, and cut their way back. The sth cava l r y, in spite of their officers, came back in confusion, and intense was our anxiety about the fate of the 3d squadron. At length they emerged covered with. glory! Two officers of this squadron were wounded, the gal lant Unett and Stisted, and the loss among the men amounted to 46 killed and wounded. Such gallantry deserves to be handed down to posterity. The flight of the 14th Dragoons and Bengal Cavalry is accounted for by their acting under the influence of a panic, but this !nay admit of explanation. Lord Gough says:-- The right brigade of cavalry, under Brigadier Pope, was not, I regret to say, so successful. Either by some order, or mis apprehension of an order ' they got into much confusion, ham pered the fine bri ga d e of horse artillery, which, while getting into action against a body of the enemy's cavalry that was coming down upon them, bad their horses separated from their guns by the false movements of our cavalry, and, notwith standing the heroic conduct of our gunners, four of those guns were disabled to an extent which rendered their withdrawal at the moment impossible. The moment the artillery was extri cated, and thecavalry re-formed, a few rounds put to flight the enemy that had occasioned this confusion. With this excep tion the conduct of the troops generally was most exemplary. Although the enemy, who defended not only his guns but his position with desperation, was driven in much confusion and with heavy loss, from every part of it, and the greater part of his field artillery was actually captured, the march of brigades to their flanks to revel parties that had rallied, and the want of numbers and consequent support to our right flank, aided by the cover of the jungle and the close of the day, enabled him, upon our further advance in pursuit, to return and carry off unobserved the greater portion of the guns we had thus gal lantly tarried at the point of the bayonet. IRELAND. _.______ At Carrick-on-Shannon Assizes the murderers of Father Tom Maguire's brother have been found guilty, and sentenced to death by Judge Moore. Mr. Gavan Duffy has established a novel distinction in the repeal camp, highly to his own credit. He declares himself willing to become a public convict, but he declines the character of a public pauper. The trial of Mary Reynolds and Hugh Quin, for poi soning the celebrated Rev. T. Maguire, took place on Tuesday last, at the Leitrim Assizes, and ended in the acquittal of both prisoners. At Tullaraore, in the King's County, Michael Murphy was found guilty of the murder of Sergeant Grant. The details of the case are very disgraceful to the peasantry, several of whom witnessed the murder with perfect cool. ness. A deputation from the Town Council and ratepayers of Belfast, consisting of Mr. W. G. Johnson, Mayor of Belfast, Mr. John M`Neile, L.L., and Mr. S. G. Fenton, J.P., had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Fri-' day, and presented his lordship with the resolutions agreed to at a public meeting in opposition to the rate in aid. At the Longford assizes, in a case tried before Baron Pennefather, it was proved that a witness had been re ceiving out-door relief, though he had £34 in his posses sion. When rebuked by the learned judge, the witness excused himself by saying that he had seen all the farmers about him receiving relief in the same way, On Saturday night, 45 sheep, the property of the late Robert Cooke, Esq., of Kiltynan Castle, county of Tip perary, were maliciously stabbed by some villains, who left the carcases on the fields. They stabbed them nearly all in the same part, near the head. Twenty-five of them were killed on the spot, and many more of thorn have died since. NINE LIVES Losz.—On the 28th ult. a boat was cross ing the river with nine passengers and some sheep and cows, when the wind rose to a gale, and one of the men struck a cow, which caused the animal to make a plunge, and her hoof started one of the boards of the boat, which instantly fillcd and sank. The boy at the helm saved himself by clinging to an oar, but the others were all drowned. The men were jobbers, and had many hundreds of pounds in their possession.—Nenagh Guardian. THE IRISH POOR-LAW UNIONS.—There are 131 Poor law Unions in Ireland, of which 110 are able to support their own poor. The average rate of all Ireland in 1848 was 2s. 6d. in the pound • being in Ulster ls. 91d. in the pound ; in Leinster, Is. ; in Munster, 3s. 71d. ; and in Connaught, ss. Bd. The rate in aid of 6d. in the pound, from the whole of Ireland, is asked for about 20 unions in the two last provinces, in which the pressure of on the rackrent The Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry, died at his residence in the Island of Valentia on the 7th instant, in his 76th year. He is succeeded in the ancient title of Knight of Kerry by his son, Mr. Peter Fitzgerald, High Sheriff of Kerry for the present year. The late knight was a highly accomplished gentleman, one of that class which was fashioned in the best days of Irish society, and which shone pre-eminently in almost every court in Europe. PASTORAL SKULL-CRACKERS.--The Rev. Mr. O'Neill, of Sligo, whose fame in the use of the " skull-cracker " has been rather more notorious than enviable, has been made to pay the penalty of his indulgence in the pugnacious pastime. The case was tried at the Sligo Assizes on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Lefroy, when Mr. Cordukes and Mr. Delany having fully proved the assault, the jury, after a few moments' heq,itation, brought in a verdict of guilty. The defendant was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and the judge stated that if the indictment had been properly framed he would have transported him. COLLECTION OF PETER'S PENCE.—The last drag at the pockets of a people steeped to the lips in poverty, namely, the tribute now in course of collecting for relieving the alleged pecuniary wants of the dethroned Pontiff, has not been generally successful, at least in more than one dio cese in Ireland. The peasantry, as well as the better class of farmers, in Kildare and the Queen's County, have all but openly " pronounced" against the impost, declar ing that while so much distress exists at home it is " too bad" to cripple their scanty resources by any fresh tax upon the fruits of their industry. To such an extent had this feeling prevailed " out of doors," that the subject formed part of an altar discourse on Sunday last, the officiating clergyman soundly rating his grumbling flock for their worse than lack of enthusiasm in the cause of the accredited head of the Roman Catholic Church. COURT. AND FASHION. The Queen of the Belgians arrived at Dover on Mon day, where she was met by the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, who accompanied her to Claremont. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury gave a mag nificent entertainment on Wednesday to his Royal High ness the Prince of Orange, at the family mansion in Ar lington-street. LAW INTELLIGENCE. The Preston Chronicle states that a person, paying a temporary visit to that town on Thursday, was arrested by the bailiff of the County Court for a debt, being a balance of one shilling, the costs upon which were twenty four shillings. The valet of a gentleman travelling on the Great Wes tern Railway, on the 10th of May, 1848, sustained frac tures of the right leg and right fore arm. One of his eyelids was severely lacerated, and, in fact, torn from the brow. In addition to these injuries, the whole of the right side, as well as the right ankle, was most severely contused. These injuries rendered him incompetent to perform his duties, and he was awarded, in the Court of Exchequer, last week, £750 damages. GRAND JURIES IN DANGER.—In the course of the proceedings in the Central Criminal Court, the other day, Mr. Alderman Farebrother thought it would be an excellent arrangement if grand juries could meet a few days before the sessions commenced, and then they could have plenty of bills ready for the courts to go on with. The Common-Serjeant hoped it would not be long before the grand jury system was entirely abolished ; it did not afford any protection to trade, and was useless excepting in political cases. Mr. Alderman Farebrother said the grand jury was one of our ancient institutions, and we had broken up enough of them ; no good could arise from abolishing this one. He could not help thinking grand juries were a great protection to society. The Common-Serjeant—" I do not think they are of the least value, except as I have said before, in political cases, and then they may be done away with. I know the Attorney- General has got a bill in his pocket to abolish them entirely." Mr. Parry, and several other gentlemen of the bar, having expressed their opinion in concurrence with his lordship, the matter was dropped. BIGAMY BY A SOLICITOR. —At Worcester Assizes, Henry Stanton Pyke, aged 46, attorney-at-law, pleaded guilty to a charge of bigamy. In 1824 the prisoner was practising as a solicitor in the county of Norfolk, where he became acquainted with Miss Emma R. Howlett, a young lady of most respectable connexions, to whom he was married on the 4th of August in that year. He lived with her, but not very happily, until the year 1838. Sub. sequently, he obtained a situation as assistant clerk to the magistrates at Stourbridge ; and was at that time accus tomed to visit Worcester frequently, and thus became ac quainted with Miss Eleanor Moss, a young lady of consi derable personal attractions, to whom, after paying his addresses for some twelve months, he was married on the 12th March, 1844. They lived together about two years, when, in consequence of her husband's poverty, she re turned to her father's house. Some time afterwards he sent for her to London, where he very shortly deserted her. After that occasion, he was for some time lost sight of, but the fact of his previous marriage having become known to Miss Moss's friend, he was at length accident ally discovered in Liverpool by one of the unfortunate lady's own sisters, who was residing there, and appre hended at his lodgings, where he was living with a lady in first-rate style, in the month of January last. His first wife had no family by him, but his second has one child.— Mr. Cooke, for the prosecutor, after the prisoner's plea had been received, addressed the court in aggravation of punishment, commenting on the high respectability of the EzijsmeT . '? second . 2 wife's .. fam!ly . ,..nc , kaver ruin he had addressing his Yordship, said that after what VP. VA% had said he felt bound in justice to himself to ask his lord ship's permission to put a few questions to the prosecutor, Mr. Moss, which he obtained.—Mr. Moss at first de clined to answer the prisoner's questions, but his lordship told him he was bound to do so, as he had brought any unpleasantness that might arise therefrom on himself by the course adopted by his counsel.—The prisoner then elicited from the prosecutor that his eldest daughter had two illegitimate children, and his second, one illegitimate child; and that she was in the keeping of a gentleman, being still unmarried. Prisoner said he could advance much more against the morality of the family, but did not wish to do so.—His lordship said what had now transpired entirely altered the complexion of the case, and deferred sentence. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. _ 4 _ Mr. William Rathbone has been solicited to become a candidate for the representation of Bury, Lancashire, but has declined. Now is the time to try the arbitration system of Messrs. Cobden and Bright; and we sincerely hope they may be induced to accompany Sir Charles Napier to India, espe cially as Lord Gough has so signally failed to pacify the Sikhs and Affghans. THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—On Friday a deputation of shipowners, consisting of upwards of 50 gentlemen, from Glasgow, Greenock, Newcastle, Sunderland, and other principal sea-port towns in the kingdom, had an inter view with Lord John Russell, at his official residence in Downing-street, for the purpose of urging upon his lord ship the necessity of reconsidering the bill now under the consideration of the House of Commons for the repeal of the Navigation Laws. Amongst the members of the de putation were noticed, Mr. Masterman, M.P., Mr. Card well, M.P., Mr. G. F. Young. Mr. Dunbar, chairman of the Shipowners Association, Mr. H. C. Chapman, Mr. T. Bold, and Mr. W. R. Coulburn. The depu tation were introduced to his lordship by Mr. Master man, M.P., and Mr. Cardwell, M.P. After Mr. Dunbar had eloquently expressed himself, Mr. H. C. Chapman thus addressed his lordship,—He commenced by adverting to a public meeting which had been recently held in Liver pool to protest against the repeal of the existing law. That meeting was so numerously attended that the usual place of holding public meetings in that town was incapa ble of containing a tythe of the people who crowded round the doors to obtain admission; in consequence of which the Mayor adjourned the meeting to the Amphi theatre, the largest building in Liverpool. [Her e M r . Chapman read his lordship the resolutions passed at the meeting, which were to the effect that the bill recently brought into Parliament to repeal the existing law was eminently and directly calculated to discourage British shipping and navigation.] His lordship would allow him to observe that this meeting was not composed of the friends merely of the Navigation Laws, but it was a town's meeting, and the streets of the town were placarded by the free-trade party, calling on their friends to come to the meeting in great numbers, and support an amend ment which they meant to propose, affirming the necessity for the , repeal of the existing law. Only about 20 persons held up their hands in favour of the amendment, and the motion condemning the bill for the repeal of the law was carried by a large majority. Mr. Chapman concluded, by intimating to his lordship that a petition signed by about 24,700 of the inhabitants of Liverpool, would that evening be presented in the House of Commons, praying the House not to pass the bill for the repeal of the exist ing law.—Mr. G. F. Young, and two other gentlemen, then spoke, when Lord John Russell said that as his mind was made up he could only receive their representa tions, but that the bill must be proceeded with. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The Bishop of Gloucester has finally settled the ques tion as to the manner of performing the service in Bristol Cathedral, after hearing the question argued at great length in the Court of Visitation last week, by ordering the practice of chanting to be resumed. GORHAM v. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—This case is still proceeding before Sir Jenner Fust, in the Arches Court. The arguments on behalf of Mr. Shore were com pleted on Thursday, but Dr. Addams will be heard in reply before judgment is given. The Rev. William Cook, Incumbent of St. John's the Evangelist, St. Pancras, London, has been appointed Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester, on the resignation of the Rev. James Cartmell, now Master of Christ's College, CambridcTe. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service on Sunday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, London. The Rev. Dr. Wesley preached the sermon end administered the sacrament. At the daily service the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Chester, the sacrament was administered by the Bishop of London. In the case of " the Rev. Sir W. Dunbar v. Bishop Skinner," the Court has unanimously confirmed the in- terlocuter of the Lord Ordinary in favour of the pursuer or plaintiff, declaring that the Court had jurisdiction to try the case, whether Sir W. Dunbar had not sustained damages by the sentence of excommunication pronounced against him by the Bishop of Aberdeen. The Bishop . . AII.REST OF THE REV Shore preached in Spafi SFIORI The Rev London, on Friday evening, and immediately Gaol, in consequence of the proceedings taken by the Bishop of Exeter. In reply to a letter from Mr. Shore, stating that he was " cast into prison for preaching the Gospel, and might have to lie there if the costs were not paid," Mr. Barnes, the Bishops' Procter says—" The . , sentence of the Arches' Court being against Mr. Shore, he appealed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which court dismissed Mr. Shore's appeal, with costs. In consequence, the usual attachment against Mr. Shore for the costs of the appeal was issued, some time in the last summer (I am writing on the instant, without the power of referring to dates) after due demand on Mr. Shore to pay the same. The attachment was in due course placed in the hands of the officer to be executed, and, it appears, has been put in force. The writ requires Mr. Kore to, pay a certain sum - or costs, and nothing more. It is not true that if Mr. Shore were to pay the sum in which he is condemned for costs, he would still be under contempt of court." THE NEMESIS OF FAITH. By J. A. Froude, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Chapman, Strand.— Between Newman and Newman, between Froude and Froude, how wide is the extreme of error ! Newman and Froude started in a design to improve the church : they got bewildered in their course, because they abandoned the guidance of sound principles. The result is that Newman is a bigotted Papist and Froude is not to be spoken of ; and see where the brothers of these men have been driven, perhaps, by their false leaders! Mr. Francis Newman is with the bitter Baptists, and Mr. J. A. Froude, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, is a Deist.—or something still more remote from truth—and writes books that, but for some saving passages in them touching of humanity, we should say had been written at hell's threshold, under the instigation of the most male volent of demons. Such a book is this " Nemesis of Faith." Exeter College, of unenviable memories, has reason to be proud of this her " Fellow !" His book has, indeed, startled the members, and on the 27th of Febru ary it was solemnly committed to the flames of the hall fire, under the auspices of Mr. Sewell.—Church and State Gazette. ANOTHER BISHOP'S CHAPLAIN.—We have only space this week briefly to direct the attention of the members of the Church of England in general, and of the Bishops of London and Oxford as well as of the Vice- Chancellor and Heads of the University of Oxford in particular, to a work which has just issued from the press, the joint pro duction of the Rev. Thomas Allies, M.A., one of the chaplains of the Lord Bishop of London ; the Rev. Chas. Marriott, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; the Rev. John Wynne, and the Rev. J. H. Pollen, also, if we are not mistaken, Fellows of Colleges in the same University. The publication before us purports to be a " Journal " of a tour made by these nominal adherents to the Anglican Church, in France and Italy, in the year 1845, 1847, and 1848; with the object, to all appearance, of conforming. in every particular which their case admitted to that cor rupt communion. Monks, priests, and Jesuits appear to have been their sole companions in their first journey— high masses and low masses their ordinary occupation. Three of the four confess to their intimacy with Italian Jesuits—to having " knelt " before the Popish Bishop of Trent—three Anglican priests receiving " his blessing !" —and, after visiting the blasphemous imposture or the Addolorata at Capriano in the Italian Tyrol—the wretched victim of which is affirmed to have subsisted several years on the flesh of the Saviour, transubstantiated from the sacramental favour—these CLERGYMEN ask her prayers for themselves and for England ! We believe that all three are at this moment actual officiating ministers in the same diocese ! What is the Bishop of Oxford about ? —Church and State Gazette. THE PROPERTY OF THE CHURCH.—Mr. Noel says— " Who gave the Church property to the clergy and for what end was it given ? It was the Legislature (I), which justly took it from the Roman priests, because their ministry was judged noxious to the country, and which gave it to the Protestant clergy (I) for the good of the whole community. As justly might they take it from the episcopal clergy—existing i'iterests being respected— and give it to Presbyterian or Independent ministers !" The execrable error which here is drawn out of its hole needs only to be seen to be disarmed of its meditated mischief. It is enough to assert, in return, that there were no Protestant clergy, ready to take the place of the " Roman" priests who were supposed to have been ex cluded ; to which fact we need only add that, taking the Churches as a whole, theformerly-Remi.sh clergy left the Romish errors, remained in their respective incumbencies, and became " the Protestant clergy.' There was, in general, no such thing as the ousting of one race to make room for another. Take the person of Archbishop Cran mer : his predecessor was Archbishop Warham, a Roman ist. Cranmer had been a Romanist himself, and he still was a Romanist, though the light was fast breaking in upon his mind. Warham died—Cranmer was appointed. Cranmer was consecrat td on March 30; 1533: the Pope sent his bull to " legalize" Cranmer's accession—Cran mer still offered mass and believed in transubstantiation. It was not till subsequently, at the time of the persecu tions of the martyrs under Henry VIII.'s " Six Articles," that Archbishop Cranmer renounced transubstantiation. At Edward Vl.'s accession, Cranmer became fully a Pro testant. In his person we see the turning-point of the Reformation. Was Archbishop Cranmer, the Papist, put out, that Archbishop Cranmer, the Protestant, might be put in ? Yet this is what Mr. Noel would affirm :—" The Legislature took the Church property (Canterbury, par excellence) from the Roman priests and gave it to the Protestants" ! ! This a wicked fiction in Mr. Noel's mouth ; and the excessive ignorance which he displays he shares with all the radical senators who declaim against Church property : they are " steeped" to the neck in in fatuation. Now, Archbishop Cranmer's case is the type of what took place at that era among " the Roman priests" at large throughout England : they themselvesbecame the expulsion of thes - e' Protestant ministers by bloody Queen Mary, under whose auspices many foreign priests and friars were imported. Nevertheless, on the whole, any violent change of the men in occupation of the parochial churches in England was put partial. The point would be clear if each incumbent in the country would investigate the particulars affecting his own Church.— Gillmor' s reply to Noel. THE STRETHALL BURGLARY (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) We have stated that Mr. N. Perry has been in the habit of keeping loaded fire-arms upon his premises, and now add some particulars which tend to throw some light upon the affair as it at present stands before the public. These particulars have for the most part been gleaned in the neighbourhood. Mr. Perry is a bit of an eccentric, and some thirty years ago used to tolerate the presence of a large number of gipsies upon his premises, being urged thereto by the attractions possessed by one of the female members of the " Shaw" tribe, with whom he had a lia son. This female he ultimately made Mrs. Perry ; but the marriage, like all ill-assorted ones, has not turned out happily. Mr. Perry has for some time past lived sepa rately from his wife, whom he keeps in a state of great seclusion, at a house in the neighbourhood, on Cartmere farm, and has threatened to visit with the most dire ven geance any man who should be seen speaking with her. Notwithstanding this, however, the gypsies, when in the neighbourhood, are generally to be found on the borders of Mr. Perry's estate, from which they have been warned repeatedly. They have been known to have had commu nication with Mrs. Perry, and the gossips do not hesitate to assert that the deceased burglar is a member of the gang to which the " Shaw" tribe belong, and that the have treatment been o s f e e their h e i n ir thee object of the visit to Strethall-hall .s was to wreak th e i r r v a e n n t ge m a ern nce bei. upon . s A o l m r. e P e er f r neighbourhood very lately, and rumours are afloat in con nection with this last visit, which it would not do here to repeat. If Mr. Perry has exhibited his ire towards the 3 ; the r tribe gipsies, they have been no way backward in repayment, and left him a memento of one of their visits by poisoning a very valuable horse, which was found dead in one of his closes on the morning they decamped. The inquiry was holden at the hall, and the body of the luckless wretch remained in the same position as he was left by his com panions, His countenance is of the most forbidding kind, March 13, 11141 &ice d b l. l and, in addition, be ar s the u sua l expression in o t) the agony of a gun-shot wound. At the inquest u P f 4 , j0 body of the bur g la r shot by M r . P err y, a verdict ° v iod tifiable homicide" was returned. The body " 5 o f tIO in the course of the morning by a large numbe r o fo , police, constables, and parties who are in the habiLai tending fairs. A number of these said that the of was a Smith, (a gipsey family,) but could not P° s d name him. Mr. Perry was in capital spirits , °fl e d, I t that " if he bad known whi c h way the rascals esc 3 P, d o nlf could have picked a couple more off, as they CO u ',, s get through the windo w at w hi c h they entered °ll- e , time." Superintendent Cl ar k, o f the Essex forc_lo been in possession of the premises since the occ url ; s o! and the place was visited on Saturday morning by Pe rti from all quarters, some of whom arrived before It wo, light, and one of the most clamorous of whom was s we is man named Hannah Burton, from Elmdon, ich °s was to touch a wen on her neck with the dea d man S b ubo having been advised to this course by a neighbou,tratio, said she had been cured under similar circUm 1 ,10 The face of the deceased bore a most marked resew d, tY to Madame Tussaud's representation of Daniel Gcl° bo6 murderer, which was detected by several persons t° ,:bo 4 it bad not been mentioned. The charge entere.o,oo, the seventh rib, and appeared to have proceeded,' b u : , wards through the heart, carrying with it part of t" , e , , A 9 ton of the coat, and a piece of the coat, waistcoa,_ t v shirt. The top of a large wine-glass would cove' whole of the injury externally visible. RAILWAI AFFAIRS - • r olt ° NORTH KENT RAILWAY.- - Last week an expe l • t b. trip was made upon this line. from Gravesend to Er l o6 Mr. Hudson passed through York on Thursda3'9eioto the conclusion of the investigation of the commute his share transactions with the York, Newcas t i e e ' poi! Berwick Railway Company, in high spirits, and apP satisfied with the result ofihe irWestigation. 61 0 , The reductions which the Directors of th e pegg Western Company hare made in the number of Pa s 'eoP trains will effect a saving in the expenditure of the oC pang to the extent of £lOO a-day, or at the rate ' wards of £36,000 a year. ling 1 RAILWAY PICKINGS.—At the half-yearly inhered the South-Eastern Railway Company, Mr. J. 31 0 10' admitted that Lord Torrington, for his services in P ir i e d, ment, had recei v ed o u t o f th e cap it a l accoun t a se r ptio plate worth £2,800, given at a dinner which cost besides 1000 No. 4 shares. There were 112 persons killed, and 120 injured, 0 1 0 i the railways opened for public traffic in Great Bri t %lae Ireland, during the half-year endi ng th e 31st Dec e 1848. The number of miles open on the 31st Del was 5,007, and the number of passengers conveyed the half-year, 31,524,641 st oille; indications of a revival of trade 111,13: anal tne tact tnat tne tramc of tne -1-4 u— o f -Western, for seven weeks since the closins ne last nail-yearly account, shows an increase £17,000 over the corresponding period of the P 4 '6o twelve months, or an increase at th e ra t e o f £2, week. SOLITARY CASE OF IMPROV ED D IVIDEND .- - 1 " t,5 r per, as well as pleasant, to notice one exception, 111 . 0 0 suits of the last half-year, to the g ene ra l ru le of diro: to profits. The Lancaster and Carlisle we are ea u idel' advancing in prosperity and making an improved cli'„ e di while all other railways, if not station ar y, have fo r an opposite direction, and are reducing theirs. 0 00, The amount of traSc for the last week, on 4, 4 %51 of railway, was £175,798, thus accounted for for the conveyance of passengers only, £55,9 2 , 0, carriage of goods, and a remainder of £44,50 9 ',?, 0 0 i sengers and goods together, not respectively aPP° rl , l e being an increase of £30,083 over the correspondi n 'ori of last year, when the mileage was £3,396. The earnings per mile was £5O, whilst last year t'' -Fl9 aah. At the South Eastern Railway meeting, on TO-ti the directors proposed a committee of investigatit',:;cl, ( v, a stormy meeting the chairman an d di rec t or s OSP ) election of their own party by a very large majoritV; Prichard was present, and e n t ere d i n t o the Pa r ) o o B ,,• which caused the differences between himself an' hu t two other directors and th e r e s t o f th e b o ard' ir e meeting was almost unanimous in favour of the eh' whose reception was very enthusiastic. , t., LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY CoS tik OlL On Wednesday morning the 25th half-yearly elefi ° til this company was held at M anc h es t er : HenrY 're9`';t worth, Esq., in the chair. The Secretary read thf. 1 5,,,,": which stated that " Th e di sposa bl e amoun t o f ',I IoY, 10s. 6d. would provide for th e p re f erence s h ar es ao," and for a dividend on the ordi nar y s h are apita~ss, rate of 2 per cent. per annum, subj ec t t o i nc ome of ~ a would leave a balance of £13,993 14s. ld. to be„ g ev, forward. After some conversation, the report, I li 17 , with the accounts of the directors, was unamEnowej ried. A dividend of 2i per cent. for the halfi l , then adopted, and the retiring directors re-electe tit; FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.-011 SatUrdaY 1 4 ; . , e ) dent happened to the express train on the Y°,, r , oYf castle, and Berwick Railway, on its way to t',7 0 00 11 4 , When about six miles from Darlington, at a place t e " Modern Carrs," the engine, when going at t itP i k speed, crossed over the un line, and em bedded, o p es , the soil. The engine -driver (Lo v e) was kil l =ed p ot spot, and the stoker so much injured that be I,c #(‘ pecteu to recuve.. Fortunately the coupnup,6,.e and the carriages escaped comparatively uniP: t i a Tuesday, on the London, Brighton, and `: ) '" - c ps 9 6, Railway, one of the beat engino-drivers of the n lost his life, and a young wife and family are thrt'` c o , c l ";; destitution. The driver had taken the twelve down passenger train from London Briag e vr passed Brighton in safety, but when betweli hampton and Arundel, he, it is said, was "lar ks the roof of one of the carriages or tender, and o'" under a bridge forgot its dangerous proximity „ 6° dashed from the train, then going twenty miles II" , and instantaneously killed. MR. HUDSON AND THE COMMITTEE OF t be • —The Yorkshireman says :—" During, 00 week, the Committee of Investigation a ppointed ups into the facts relating to the sale, by Mr. d I P 2,800 £l5 shares of the Great North of England IDloe has been sitting. The inquiry has not yet ter 5 91 nor have we received any information—that is t f u lt• thentic information—touching the probable r e ' c itf course there are various rumours floating in the 0 1‘ (Friday) morning, but it would be hazai dons ttl -irff readers to depend upon one of them. The iqueseo, bably, will not terminate before this (Saturdali ii tio o l Our own impression, however, is that no exPla i ° , o o,, , be sufficient to entirely exonerate Mr. th i nsPf charge of upwards of £2,000 for broker's co,,'', look upon as fatal to the abdicated Iron .„air,l3 Yorkshire Gazette, on the other hand, ettY: o inV public have been told that the charge made V.'„ Hudson is, that he, being chairman of the ' J O ;' 0 castle, and Berwick Railway, had sold to the coo:1'01i shares in the Great North of England line at P io reo , aging £5 per share above what they migh t ths t°o l/ bought at in the market. Now the fact is ,: t herg,k4 charge was ever made by Mr. Prance or any t he r; man. On the contrary, Mr. Prance said that the shares in London at the time in question ty 0? premium, and according to the published accou n t bf t i pears that the average premium of th ose boug ° company was £2O 19s. 90. There is therefore") tence for accusing Mr. Hudson of having : f P") £14,000 unfairly, as our malignant contempt: l ' l ;6T( insinuates. The committee of inquiry mee t %IV and we repeat our belief that Mr. Hudson 8 :," fro' directors will be fully and honourable acquitte u t bep and every charge that has been alleged againstop THE RAILWAY.—A RUNAWAY TRAIN. 0 10 0 ," last, while a train of wagons, loaded with coal _ e p conducted into the Kirkaldy branch line, for tifigya of being shipped into one of the whalers ,r l i t io yi d edge of the quay. so soon as the train was e ta the drag was put on. Almost at once, hovver e et p got unmanageable—so much so that the te safety of their lives, sprang from their places' pt to its fate. It soon acquired such a speed to l d could stop it, and some fearful catastrophe al it ot Fortunately the train went off the rails before.ooo) the terminus, when all the six wagons, conts o ttp five tons weight each, went over the embankt y , o st r i ing the rails and sleepers, and scattering their t'ori around. Happily no lives were lost. It 9q beep' the accident was caused by the brake or dra! ' ~ r weak to check so great a force.—Glasgow Pa RAILWAY RECEIPTS. „ tbehO m at is Eo say, up to the date to which th PeiPec are made : e A Week ending 46! 0 ' 0 701 3 0 88 73 0 p 29'g 0 , 0 Io , r, 0 1170 g , 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 23 ,„ 0 55Fg 0 22-ku 0 911 0 609 9 0 o st 0 171 9 0 69 1 n 0 221 , 0 o 16419 ,hari mer 1424 ' uncle churlT - -e die t a blY ad G to 7 - qUarti he G T he arn r E °r about hl rLeN _n es for coat t, a be i ACt -11 t os i, hilegleCt cb ad th e tests. P° RAILWAYS Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne Belfast and Ballymena Birkenhead, Lan. and Cheshire. Bolton, Blackburn, C. and W. Y Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cockermouth and Workington Dublin and Drogheda Dublin and Kingstown Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Anglian Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern E. Counties, N. Eastern, and N. East Lancashire Eastern Union Glasgow, Kiluck, and Ayr Glasgow and Greenock Great Northern and East. Line. Great Southern and Western Great Western Kendal and Windermere Lancashire and Yorkshire... Lancaster and Carlisle Liverpool, Crosby, & Southport. Londonderry and Enniskillen London and North-Western London and Blackwall London & Brighton, South Coast London and South-Western M'chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle Midland, Bristol, and Birming ham Midland Great Western (Ireland) Monklands Newcastle f nd Carlisle Norfolk North British Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Chester South-Eastern South Devon Tad' Yale Ulster Waterford and Limerick Whitehaven Junction York, Newcastle, and Berwick Perk and North Midland, &c.,