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ter, or the .e been have had: 1 of good. iedly, that , bliged to 2ot on for oof of the he would ; different Lys and er )n ly to b e one of Si. e Governor sure to fo ie payment iim for the 1,0001, just received 81. 3,599,2221. Id have the Year. The cent. was ge beyond ial increas e ar ent s m en gum &vent' id the Pr *- ug ht it the a s large the ebbe e C o urt , 0 1 they cog s ! them At "erence W ng. the thfre amoun t t° Id mak_ n e of be ca&• le of lefr )r had an/ unissioller% • state t 134 I sts A e rest! *II a difi cierl - the iesP °—d : lusioa )ed no A' • rue o°4 w bo lets t. he ioterejj really !nd of fat , ' rd Ashbor; an iedivv:. 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'irioule .ied ilrur ula iis 0° „i os the— be C °urt the Go a to ill° ItTS - ) olders 0 Tace rli n ; le draft )rlii°P th ; o in the E p so e pire e. Londorl, o'clock , meet int; P ers°l3s by the luilVg The SECRETARY read the advertisement convening the teeting. The CILUnMAN having stated the object of the meeting, The SOLICITOR read the abstracts and titles of the Bills; o and , series of resolutio ns a pp r oving of the same were agreed o ellanimousl jhe thanks „f the meeting were given to the chairman , the 'netting broke up. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. T he Deh ß dale C Stakes ß of N 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, Two 11r .e,, miles. kr:il. war d Hyde Clarke's Leo, list 71b...(Capt: Little) 1 hi. • Nenders . s The Miller, list 71b 2 4 e• Brookes's Eagle, Ilst 71b 3 Tat Warwick Handicap of 10 sa. each, h ft, and 40 added. S' c Two miles. l i r , • Coekerell's Congress, 3 yrs, sst (Evans) 1 „tr. Whiles's Infringe, 3 yrs, gst 61b a l 1 • 3 1. etkleot's Godfrey, 6 yrs, 9st 4lolater, 7st 121 b, Rfelstreak, Tat 101 b, and Trifle, 7st 41b, ti s i ' d ' t r k a n, • Won by a head, the same distance between second The '" i rd• Run in 3 minutes 47 seconds. OrdTrial Stakes of 10 sous. each, and 50 added. One mile. Warwick's Aliwal, 3 yrs, Gat 121 b ... ...... (Crouch) 1 par: IWhiles'.s Infringe, 3 yrs, Est 121 b It. owler's Ranthor, 3 yrs, Est 121 b 11r. qu artermaine's Mona colt, 3 yrs, Est 121 b 4 Sir t j t. Pe e l' s C redential, 3 yrs, 7st. 5 Si r e ° ll , l l Gerard's Dipthong, 3 WA, 7st ' - 4 ,,.• Coekerell's Duke of Richmond, 4 yrs,9st 7 Th e vi ,"` on by a head. Run in 1 minute 55 seconds. 14 . w illoughby Handicap of 20 sovs. each, and 50 added. tlr p• H. Johnstone's bgby Y. C.idland, lOst 101 b 1 ,; Ir r's Troj an , 6 y rs , list 21b .. ••••••••••• Lora otr athmore's Satyr, 6 yrs, Ilst 3 ke l p Won by a head, in 3 minutes 49 seconds. , PTANCES FOR THE NORTHUMBERLAND Ty, PLATE. .. 0 Miles. Acceptances to be declared by the 31st inst. ti k h,,,, yrs at lb , yrs at lb IV' ' u ng ... 6 9 0 Pleasure Trip 4 612 h,onesour ................ a 812 Collingwood .. " Kt, 841 g ............ 5 812 Alliance (, 4 at t°ll Sykes 4 810 Woodpecker 4 611 I ll ph h er a i r t i r n es; ............. a 8 8 Sister to Flambeau 4 611 a 8 8 Cossack Maid 4 611 ittoter.... ........ ::::. 5 8 8 Druid 1, 48 Sarah .. . 5 8 8 Football 1 ,, ,,° . .........:::" . . 4 8 7 Camera Obscure 4 6 8 lit°; 'don ...... •. 4 8 7 Ukraine 6 6 p at r Peth ... .... . 6 8 6 Punch I ,.,ti c) ' &))%.* 4 8 5 Slayer's Daughter 4 6 6 4 " Z 7 R 0binAr k ed 0 ........... 5 8 2 Soft Stone ...... .. 4 6 6 b o r i luale . t._efel ....... .. .. 5 712 The Lamb n'lebrook ... . .... 4 712 Dictator. ntastori ... . ~qope .•••• • •• 4 712 Eryx • 3 6 2 Sti o .„ ................ 5 711 The Liberator 3 6 2 N - Maab a 7 9 Tim Whiffler .. ... 3 6 2 111.2.-vi Juror 1 4 4 1 , u rrt ............. 4 7 9 Spur 4 6 0 11, 41LO Tyne .... a 7 8 Eglantine ArilWaYllaan 5 7 &Hannah Raine ... 4 512 hest r .... 14,2! Three..... 6 7 7,l.Tlysses tit - o:,ad ••.......... 6 7 sBlaok Dwarf Pi a '"n ..... 5 7 s'St. Leon l a i tidit ....... . 5 7 s'St. Oswald 3 510 et t , w ,ood ........ 4 7 5 Christopher....... 3 510 S,.hoVacy ..... 4 7 5 Wiseacre 3 510 Si uol i - I ,`" .. ...... ... 4 7 5 Old Port' 3 510 r ( 1 .,.' 1111 0ch ..... 4 7 5 'Rob Roy 3 510 Q 4a sieorg e kiel t rU P e d ••• 4 75' Bannockburn 3 5 7 e o h ”' Free t ri e/tad 444 e " I.Yrlre 3 5 5 e t i hl natter .. .. 5 7 .pExecutor 3 5 5 adinan ............ 5 7 4; Euclid c—Taurus 3 5 5 Pit z a ge ............ 5 7 3, Deloraine pd .•,,,._. 4 7 3; Bedlam the,... cea3 Alice 4 7 3 1 Glenwhilt ........3 5 5 Jo i r'oeY 111 47 Wren ..... 5 7 211 Infringe• Du a elibed 3 5 0 ........ 4 7 2I Meaux V. of Richmond 4 7 2 1 George Hudson t.lllah ..... 4 7 0j Emerald Isle , 3 410 It' o lll Tou z i; ..... - er, 131 Isabella Noel a„ , thaughter.. a 6 13,Prince Alfred 44 'wards of 450 horses have been weighted for the Free . Mi ca or tird P, three quarters of a mile, the top honours being "iv, eel to Alarm, 5 yrs, 9st 91b, and the distinction of t Xtr ( t 4el l Spoon "to The Gift, 3 yrs, 4 st 41 b. Mr. Radfore s Of th i 9n 3 have been ceaseless, and there is every probability 1,,,1r being rewarded bv a first-rate meeting. ''''' NORTH OF ENGLAND STEEPLE-CHASE ENTRY. be North o f E ng l an d S weeps t a kes of 10 soya, each, h ft. bo tir mt Sailor, aged—Walter Gay—Clementina, aged—Nut ho,;lle,„ aged—The Infant, aged—The Emperor, aged—The tin g ' of " the Valey. t 4e ' t e Northumberland and Durham Sweepstakes of 5 sous. 64 "-Blue B onnet , age d—Th e Infant, aged—The Tanner, aid - -Youn g Ireland—The Captain—Brunette, aged—Anel, Aze",1.....---The Dove, 6 yrs—The Bishop, 6 yrs—The Sailor, Cremona, aged—The Golden Plover, aged. Ga EA.T WILTSHIRE PICTURE COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Everleigh Stakes.—(Continued,) Captain Squire's Helen beat Mr. Buckworth's Buffer. M. IV. Etwall's Wyandotte beat Mr. Parkinson's Stockton. First Ties. Melon beat Rushlight. 1 Wyandotte beat Y. Cecrops. qelen beat Probity. Stakies_.T.{horFesirwst T , a3 i L e a s s . ) sb. Symphony. The Druid Sherwood beat My Mary. I Phoebe beat Cricklet. ~tralet beat Victor. I Seidlitz beat Highland Lassie. It' Deptford Stakes.—(First Ties.) hie beat Enford Lass. Wildfire bet Bran. tw ilight f beat Shepherdess. I Lord George beat Rufus. 1 11 The Stonehenge Stakes.—(First Ties.) Ildfall beat Figaro. 1 Backsh tech beat Conceit. ill uggler Bill beat Plicenix. 1 Native Industry beat Position. The Beacon Hill Stalc.s. l i r; Turvin' s H ec t or b eat Si r G eorge G ore ' s Lin co ln. iui • Etwall's Eaglet beat Captain Squire's Omen. e r•ltake's Royal Consort beat Mr. Graham's Conciliation. Ir v ' ‘YYndha's Woodlark beat Mr. Anstruther's Crisis. - "Pan's Varna beat Mr. Et wall's Waterfall. T 24 Goo üblic should be aware that by the I st and 1 141 ge IV., cap. 78, all bills due and pay a b le on Wed 'a)le4l 4?xt, being a solemn fast day, become due and pay ee / I j l _,-tuesday preceding, and in case of non-payment may sece; eu and protested on such preceding day , and it is not tifi t .,Y to give notice of dishonour thereof, until the day kati a ‘ n l ' il e . Fast Day. The Act, however, does not extend to IB btp..,„ 4 - TURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY PROM THE WiGirr.—At a quarter before two yesterday, her t)44 orti l and suite embarked from the beach in front of 4ati e e on board the royal yacht, under a salute from Cowes 'sat ti, * His Royal Highness Prince Albert , before leaving , the Yarborough secretary of the Royal Yacht Squadron 201 ., towards arb orough monument. kA k t° °MSBURY COUNTY COURT OF MIDDLESEX, mi cct V.—To -day this court was opened at the new pre .o Jaerners-street, Middlesex Hospital, before Mr. Ser g p eath, the judge, and his deputy, under the new Act. ke bb A TAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—OH Tuesday th e Oon the following melancholy catastrophe took place on off the Bishop of London's pleasure - grounds at name , " About half-past three o'clock a young gentleman 1111," , dattield, a member of the St. Bartholomew s Aquatic the Bells Tavern, at Putney . , in one of ho i l le i ,s outriggers, accompanied by Thomas Elliott, alias t he „ e ar°, the coxswain of the Neptune Club, and one of Rerec ae k watermen of the Thames. At the time of ttro t i„"6" the tide had ebbed about an hour; there was . a 1 4tt southerly wind blowing, and considerable surf; in to ; a great deal too much to render it prudent to venture tlet fragile; i thing like au outrigged wherry . The mpru tr:i?' the act was still greater, as the boat was not c - 4463 HI with canvass either fore or aft. Mr. Hatfield was in teee ti g for a match, and it was Elliott's intention to pro ,in u P the river along the Middlesex shore. They were dot~twenty yards of the shore, and off the Bishop's mea ie:)sl-',,„`‘,.hen the wind, as it is supposed , sudden l y cau g ht the qtte"„Vls quarter, and in an instant she upset , an d M essrs. abl er and Elliott were in the water. Mr. Hatfield , being tl to swim, caught hold of the boat, and for some little Itel kh 7eld up Elliott, wbo could not swim. His superior end h; however, compelled Mr. Hatfield to part from him, 'tits Sunk before assistance could arrive. The accident Fulhvfitnessed at Putney, and several boats put off, but the aut watermen, we regret to state, exhibited the greatest at p„Y- Two landsmen, named Cook and Maddox, being stat e -tn eY, brought Mr. Hatfield ashore in a very exhausted di ate i and he was taken into the Bells Tavern, and 'mine )44 3 ' put to bed, under the personal direction of Mr. Avis. wh e Were dragging for the body of poor Elliott for an hour, Ihe two Robinsons and Cobb, watermen, of Putney, sueeeeded in finding the body, and took it to the Bells, % t i e , i t Was speedily stripped and examined by Mr. Cot , " 111 r. Shillito, and other medical gentlemen. The la th remedies were adopted, but all were ineffectual. The lib, e t °f the deceased was drowned at L o ndon-bridge when -g t the same age. AlktiNß RELIEF FUND.— Yesterday the committee , th e British Association for the relief of extreme dis t ress to Ireland and Scotland made a repor t o f the sums received, ILtie now amounts to above 230,000/, which includes Ib e/0/. received from her Majesty's Secretary of State for t Ze Home Department, being part of the collection under Queen's letter. \ARRIVAL OF THE SARAH SANDS.—LIVERPOOL, , 131 4issDAY.—The auxiliary screw steam-ship Sarah Sands, o t r t jed here to-day from New York, after a very fair passage el ie w enty- one days, considering the circumstances in which Na"as placed. The following is the captain's reort a n Sands (screw steamer), New York to Liverpo p ol, left 4 t Z York February 24, at three P.M., light wind from S.W. r ati '', four P.M., air-pump broke short off, disconnected, and lie t nder canvass for the next four days, but the winds being ac es find ahead made little progress. March 2 Got up te re T Which carried the vessel to long. 40, when she encoun the a succession of heavy gales from S.S.E. to E.S E. On f ore ! th of M arc h , d ur i ng a gale from S.E., lost bowsprit and tu, t.° Prnast, and b e i n g afterwards sent to northward by the t,ii`ristits, bore away for the North Channel, previous to en finding the port air-pump lever cracking in the four ? l ace where the other broke, disconnected for twenty effjw'euts, and put two preventer plates on it. On ilnday bo was in company with a large fleet of inward litror. v essels, and since then beat down Channel against a Q g south wind. QING„. .74 h AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest tiers held Yesterday by Mr. Bedford, at the Coach . and ata r T , Flood-etreet, Westminster, on the body of William 'ttee ' t i : a l i v i ' age!) 77, a master bootmaker, of Great College 'tem c estminster. On last Saturday noon the deceased 4 _ e tenei h c "ing the carriage road in College-street, when in en the kerb stone his foot slipped, and being unable h imself from feebleness, he fell into t he g utter on his turgid which th e nec k o f t h e right thigh bone was e *here lie was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, dea t h . de died on Tuesday morning. Verdict, "Accidental A , held ` A L FALL FROM A WINDOW.—An inquest l was Renthe Yesterday by Mr. Bedford, at St. George's H . ospita , on of Henry 111anbv, aged 18, an apprentice to Mr. "4 th e y Plumber, of Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square el a ,:e afternoon of the 17th ult. deceased was sent to 4 a t ree u t the back attic window at No. 59, Upper Berke.ley -4 and whilst so employed a small iron balcony, fixed 1.4 b. e .ontside, on w hi c h he was standing, gave way from and h ' e t ekwork, in consequence of the posts having rotted, hef eet was precipitated en to a lead flat, a depth of nearly d e d ne was conveyed to the above institution, where Ae'ei t i " Monday last from injury to the brain. Verdict, t entai d eath. ,, grop e ee ttie telegraphs are, by order of the Austrian l' elltb rilment, to be established between Vienna, Prague, kid LITERATURE. THE INGOLDSB.I 7 LEGENDS. Third Series. There is something inexpressibly melancholy in the compound of biography and facetiousness in this volume. It brings to our recollection at once the beautiful pen siveness of the famous " Last Lay of Thomas Ingoldsby"—those dainty verses which are appended to the third and final series of his inimitable "Legends;" and it brings especially to our recollection that one mournful and touching stanza:— " But I lave a-thykynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, And sadly sang the Birde as it ptrched upon a bier; That joyous smile was gone, And the . face was white told teas, As the downe upon the Swan Doth appear, As I laye a-thynkynge—oh ! bitter ,flow'd the tear!" It is much " too late in the day," as the phrase is, for us to presume upon any critical remarks upon the humourous compositions of Richard Harris Barham. Those compositions are now as familiar to the appre ciators of the witty and the ludicrous in poetry, as the adventures of Hudibras, the poem on the Bad Shilling, the burlesque lines of Somerville, the nonsense-songs of O'Keefe, and the memorable horse-exercise of John Gilpin. They are as familiar, and we would wager that with the majority they are as much prized as the very best of those grotesque writings. I.):ep sad caustic as is the retire of Samuel Butli r, we arc not ashamed to acknowledge, and we are satisfied that we are. by no means alone in acknowletlging that there is immeasurably more of the comic, of the pleasant, and (in every sense) of the readable in the versification of Mr. Barham. Follow the latter down one page of any one of his legends, and you are irresistibly borne away by the glibness of his rhythm, the felicity of his language, the extravagance of his illustration, and the outrageous absurdity of his plots — you are carried off helter-skelter through the verses— your breath is almost taken away by the perusal of a single sentence—page after page he is pelting you with the most impossible rhymes, and he brings you to the end at full gallop, and with explosions of laughter. That is literally the effect of his metrical pieces. It is the effect in the " Black Mousquetaire," in his tale by Mr. Sucklethumkin, in his anecdote from Mr. Simpkin, in his Legends of the Dark Entry, of the Bishop of Blois, of the Execution, and of the Ghost. But apart from the mere manner of his muse, he is by no means inferior to Butler, or Hood, or Somerville, or Canning, in point and drollery. To him we are indebted for the most execrably good pun that man ever dreamt of. Who can forget it? When the monks and abbots with the bishop at the head of them, to the number of thirty, are seated round the refectory table, debating upon the probable cause of the disappearance of one of their number—when the dead body is jumping piecemeal from the neighbouring well, head, legs, arms, and trunk— when it has rolled and tumbled and hopped to the door of the monastery—bounced into the room of audience and stood erect upon the council-board—a ghastly corpse: "The Prince Bishop's jester, on punning intent, As he viewed the whole thirty, in jocular terms, Said they put him in mind'of the Council of Trent, Engaged in reviewing the Diet of Worms I" Then, again, for the ludicrous arrangement of his scenery, his character, and his " situations," Tom Ingoldsby has no equal. His characters especially are destructive to the gravity of the very sourest of all sour curmud geons, and the carelessness with which they are sketched offonly renders them the more grotesque. Tuke "Hairy faced Dick," for instance : _ . " Hairy-faced Dick had a swarthy hue, Between that of a gingerbread nut and a Jew, And his queue was long, and bushy, and thick, Like a pump-handle stuck at the end of a stick." Or take, again, the companion picture : " There's an old yellow Admiral living at Bath, As grey as a badger, as thin as a lath ; This old yellow Admiral goes to the Rooms, And he plays long whist till he frets and fumes, For the ace, and the king, and the rest of the trumps Get into the hands of the other old frumps." One of the most felicitous peculiarities in the rhyming of poor Barham was that of iterating and chiming upon a word, not merely as a tag throughout a long para graph, but intermittently and oddly in the run of a single line. As this wise : "In Ratcliffe highway there's an old marine store, And a great black doll hangs over the door; Tliere are dusty bones, and fusty rags, And rusty locks, and musty bags, And a lusty old woman, called Thirsty Nan, And her crusty old husband's a hairy-faced man." Upon this wonderful facility of rhyming, a facility that appeared to be absolutely inexhaustible, Tom Ingoldsby built up his reputation as a comic writer, almost as much as upon the richness of his humour. It would be a fallacy for any one to rate Mr. Barham among the ephemeral humourists of the day who amuse for a season and are forgotten, simply because he resembles them inasmuch as he indulges in the popular slang. The reason goes for nothing when we turn to the Hudibrastic couplets of Charles the Second's time, and find them interlarded with the cant expressions then in use, or if we look into the chapters of Gargantna and Pantagruel, and find that immortal work deformed in a similar manner. The perishable nature of the flies cannot destroy the amber, they are themselves preserved and enveloped by that amber. Between Ingoldsby and Rabelais, however, there is not merely this resemblance they are kindred in many other particulars. Like the great French droll, Mr. Barham very frequently disfigures his fun by gratuitous snatches of impiety that sometimes expand into the blasphemous. Thu fault, however, is almost inevitsble when matters and men ecclesiastical are jumbled up in burlesque narrative ; when friars and saints, and " goblins damn, d" aro made the habitual dramatists per sum. Like Rabelais, again, Barham occasionally runs off into extravagancies, that render the works of both anomalies—admixtures of wisdom and folly. Like Ra belais, he at times seizes hold of ideas so utterly entre that they are " insults to your understanding." Once, for instance, the devil is carrying a sackful of victims on his shoulders for his own particular repast in his own particular locality. By an adroit slit in the sack, the victims are liberated and scamper away to the chagrin of the demon. After expatiating upon the plumpness of " a little fat monk," who is making the best use of his legs, the devil laments his escape with the exclamation— " Olio! he'd have made a delicate roast, Dressed like a wood-cock and served on a toast." It would - be as hopeless, however, as it is unnecessary to attempt any very accurate delineation of the characteris tics and merits of the two preceding series of the " In goldsby Legends"—from which two series all the fore going quotations are made from memory—without en • croft:ling upon our space to a most superfluous extent. Besides which, as we have already intimated, such a delineation is altogether as uncalled for as a formal criti cism upon the " Battle of the Frogs and Mice," by Homer. The present volume is rendered peculiarly in teresting by the elaborate and brilliant biographical paper upon the late Thomas Ingoldsby by his brother. The memoir is written in a strain of appropriate gentle ness, and is brimming over with anecdotes, not merely of Mr. Barham himself, but relating to the wittiest of his contempararies—such as Theodore Hook and Sidney Smith. We will not mar the unity of this charming and delightful biography, by transcribing an odd frag ment : we refer the reader to it cordially and confidently as a source of much pleasantness, and as a satisfaction to much laudable curiosity. From the miscellaneous cull ings from the hitherto uncollected writings of the dead Wit—writings hitherto scattered through magazines and other periodicals—we shall content ourselves by making but a single selection. And we quote this exquisite little love son g , because of its sapphic elegance and be cause Mr. Barham's power in the tender and plaintive is less recognized than his power in the comical and • satirical: — There sits a bird on yonder tree, More fond than the Cushat Dove ; There sits a bird on yonder tree, And sings to me of love. Oh ! stoop thee from thine eyrie down 1 And nestle thee near my heart, For the moments fly, And the hour is nigh, When thou and I must part My love ! When thou and I must part. In yonder covert lurks a Fawn, The pride of the sylvan scene ; In yonder covert lurks a Fawn, And I am his only queen ; Oh 1 bound from thy secret lair, For the sun is below the west ; No mortal eye May our meeting spy, For all are clos•d in rest, " My love Each eye is clos'd in rest. Oh. sweet is the breath of morn ! When the sun's first beams appear ; Oh I sweet is the shepherd's strain, When it dies on the listening ear ; And sweet the voice which speaks The Wanderer's welcome home ; But sweeter far By yon mild pale star, With our true Love thus to roam, My Dear With our own true Love to roam We are pleased with the introduction of Tom In goldsby's " Last Lay," immediately before the Finis of his last work. In its sorrowful tone we recognize a similarity to those beautiful lines of,the poet Hood, end ing— " I smell the rose above the mould." As Hamlet says of the King's jester, and as Sterne says of the poor clergyman—as lovingly too and as sadly es they did—may we say of Thomas Ingoldsby—" Alas ! poor Yoriek. " A BULL IN A CHINA-suor.—As a drover was driv ing a herd of bullocks up the City-road, towards Islington, at half-past eight o'clock on Friday evening, the attention of one of the animals was attracted by the red shawl of a lady a short distance in advance of it, and to which it irstantiv gave chase. The lady fortunately perceived her danger before . it became too imminent, and Pied precipitately into the shop of Mr. Berry, a glass and chinaman, at the corner of Feather stone-street, through which she ran into the back parlour, and there sank down in a state of exhaustion. The door was instantly closed, but only just in time to save the lady, for the bullock was so close in pursuit of her that it was through the shop and entering the parlour when the door was shut in its face. Mr. Berry, who happened to be behind his counter at the time, in great consternation at the inevitable de struction of his fragible wares, seized the first implement he could lay his hands on, and began to belabour the unwel come intruder over the head and sides with great vigour; but, as this course was certain to involve an extensive da mage to the crockery, which was strewn about the floor in profusion, he desisted, at the vehement entreaties of the drover, and the animal, glad to escape from such a hearty reception, turned itself round and, apparently picking its way a mongt thei plates, pans, and dishes, walked back again into the street, without the fracture of anything. The lady shortly after recovered sufficiently to proceed to her own residence, but the singular intrusion of the bullock created such excitement in the neighbourhood, that the scene of it was surrounded for some time after by a mob of persons, whom it was found ultimately necessary to disperse with the atsistance of Hayward and other officers from t h e station b use 4jQinii3g. 'lll k , THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY El/ENING-, MARCH 18, _1847. RAILWAY BILLS. ought to be considered an exception from the ordinary rule of legislation, and a special case ought to be made out in each instance for authorising such a course. In the present in stance the decision of this question must involve an inquiry into the general merits of the scheme, which would appear to be scarcely within the orderof reference made by the House of Commons, and the examination of the necessary evidence on such a subject might cause a delay w hich would be in compatible with the object of these 'reports. Under these circumstances, the Commissioners are of opinion that they will best discharge their duty b y s i m ply calling the attention of the Committee to the subject by the foregoing observations. By order of the Commissioners of Railways. FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE, Secretary. COURT CIRCULAR. REPORT of the COMMISSIONERS of RAILWAYS on certain RAILWAY BILLS comprised in Groups Nos. 12, 14, and 27. Br the first of the five Bills in the above Groups, it is pro posed to give power to the Lynn and Elv Railway Company to extend their line to Bury St. Edmund's, and for that pur pose to increase their capital by 464,8001., and to borrow 154,9001. By the second Bill it is proposed to authorise the Fame Company to make an extension from Wisbeaeh to Spalding and Holbeach, and to raise a further capital for that purpose of 874,8001., and to borrow 124,9001. By the third, to make a deviation in their line, and to construct docks within the borough of King's Lynn, and to raise 144,0001., and to bor row 48,0001. for these purposes ; and by the fourth, to raise 36,000/., and to borron 12.000/., In order to make a Naviga tion from Lynn to Wormegay. By these last three Bills, being those comprised in Group 27, the company would be enabled to raise 551,8001., and to borrow 184,9001. By the four preceding Bills, if passed, the Lynn and Ely Railway Company would be enabled to increase their capital by 1,019,600/, and to borrow 239,8001. By the fifth, or last of the above-mentioned Bills, and which is comprised in Group 14, it is proposed to empower the Lynn and Ely, the Ely and Huntingdon, and the Lynn and Dereham Railway Companies to unite under the title of the East Anglian Railways Company, and to authorise the new company to raise an additional capital of 382,0001., to borrow 127,1001., and to lease their railways to the Eastern Counties Railway Company; but it is not proposed to give by this Bill any power to the Eastern Counties Railway Company to take the lease. It must be observed, that the foregoing sums do not agree with the sums returned to the Commissioners by the companies, who state that it is their intention by this Bill to take powers to raise only 265,600/. and to borrow 88,500/. The difference is explained by them as follows : "By the Ely and Hurtingdon' Railway Act of 1846, the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company is empowered to raise an additional capital of 120,0001., which, at the time the above Amalgamation Bill was deposited in the Private Bill Office (viz., 31 December, 1844), had not been raised; but as the above Amalgamation Bill repeals such Act of last session, it was necessary to give the Amalgamated Company power to raise the above 120,C001. The three Companies were also desirous of raising an additional capital of 262,2001. for the purpose of laying down a double line of rails on their railways, the original estimates for which railways contem plated earthwork and bridges for a double line, but the per manent way for a single line only. These two amounts of 120,0001. and 262,200!. constituted the sum of 382,0001. speci fied in the Bill. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, and attended by the Countess of Desart, Hon. Miss Napier; ' Major-General Bowles, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, left Osborne-house at twenty-four minutes before two o'clock yesterday afternoon, crossed in the Fairy to Gosport, and proceeded to town by a special train on the South- Western Railway. The august partv was escorted by a party of Light Dragoons from the Nine Elms terminus to Buckingham Palace, where her Majesty and her Royal Consort arrived at twenty-five minutes before six o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert were received at the Palace by the Hon. Miss Murray, the Master of the Horse, the Earl of Morley, the Vice-Chamberlain, and General Sir Edward Bowater. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, Hon. Miss Murray, Earl of Morley, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Bouverie. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also honoured the performance of the French Plays with her presence yesterday evening. Her Royal Highness was at tended by Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Couper, and Lord James Murray. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yester day at Marlborough house. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by the Lady Augusta Cadogan, honoured the French Ambassador and the Countess de St. Aulaire with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at the resi dence of the Embassy, in Manchester-square. Viscount Falkland had an interview with Earl Grey yes terday, at the Colonial-office. A Deputation from the Staffordshire Potteries, consisting of Messrs. Enoch Wedgwood, Edward Walley, Samuel Keeling, and Benjamin S. Brough, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street, to obtain a reduction of the stamp duty on apprentices' indentures where no premium is paid.. The Deputation was accompanied by the Member for Stoke-upon-Trent, Mr. Alderman Copeland, and Mr. Ricardo. Lord Carrington had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. Mr. Bowen had also an interview with his Lordship, at the Colonial-office. Sir John Hobhouse gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence in Berkeley-square. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the North American provinces. The Marquis and Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady Georgina Douglas, have left Farrance's Hotel for Brighton. Lord John Browne has left for Devonport. "Since the Bill was deposited, a portion of the 120,0001. (namely 40,1971.10 x.) has been raised by the creation of new shares, which new shares have been appropriated amongst the proprietors in the Ely and Huntingdon Railway Com pany; and it has been agreed that the sum of 79,802/. 108., the balance of the 120,0001., shall be set apart for the pro prietors in the Lynn and Ely, and Lynn and Dereham Rail way Companies. It is proposed to introduce into the Bill, in 'Committee, clauses to carry into effect this arrangement, and to reduce the amount of capital to be raised under the Bill by the sum of 120,000/. Such capital would then amount to 262,200/., which last-mentioned sum it is proposed to in crease to the sum of 265,6001., to enable the same to be more equally divided amongst the proprietors of the three Com panies." The Act incorporating the Lynn and Ely Railway Com pany was passed on the 30th of June, 1846 ; it authorised the Company to raise a capital stock of 300,000/., and to borrow 100;000/. Under this Act, 12,000 shares of 251. each, representing, consequently, the whole of the capital autho rised, have been issued, and 201. per share have been called, 224,750/. have been received, and the arrears on the calls amount to 15,250/. _ _ _ Money has been borrowed on debentures, in sums varying from 200!. to 5,000/., to the amount of 99,7501., the rate of interest being five per cent. 53,250/. is to be paid off in three years; 20,6001. in five years ; and 25,9001. in seven years. No special provision has been made for the payment. Of the capital authorised by the first, and only Act of this company, 51. per share, or 60,0001., remain to be called ; but the power to borrow has been very nearly exhausted, and the loans can only be increased by 2501. The whole of these funds will be required for the works already authorised. The Lynn and Dereham Railway Company was incorpo rated by an Act passed in 1845, and authorised to raise a capital of 270,000/., and to borrow 90,000/. The capital stock has been created by 10,800 shares, of 25/. each, on which 15/. per share has been called, and 154,4681. received ; the arrears amounting to 7,5321. Loans have been obtained at five per cent. interest on debentures, varying in value from 2001. to 3,000/., to the extent of 62,650/., of which 2,200/. is to be paid off in three years, and the remainder in five years. It does not appear that any special provision has been made for the payment. The company retains power to call for 10/. on each share, or for 108,0004, and to borrow 27,3501., and these funds, it is stated, will be required for the works now in progress. The Ely and Huntingdon Railway Company was incorpo rated by an Act passed in 1845, and authorised to raise a capital of 194,400/., and to borrow 64,800/. By an Act passed in the last session, it war empowered to raise a fur ther capital of 120,0001., and to borrow 40,0001. Under these two Acts it has received power to raise a capital of 314,400/, and to borrow 104,8001., or to expend altogether 419,200/. The capital stock authorised by:the first Act, was created by the issue of 10,800 shares of 18/. each. On these,l2/. lOs. per share has been demanded, and 115,953/. 15s. received, the arrears amounting to 19,046/. ss. Under the second Act, 11,485 shares of 31. 10s. each have been issued, representing a capital of 40,197/. lOs., or about one-third of the stock authorised to be raised by the Act. Nothing has been re ceived upon them, but a call of 1/. per share will become due on the 3d of April, and the reason given by the company for the present issue of these shares has been quoted in a preceding paragraph. No money has been borrowed, and the funds available to this company for their works in pro gress may be considered, therefore, to amount to 284,200/., as they retain power to call for Si. lOs. on 10,8004 shares, to obtain 1:.;0,0001., under the second Act (for only a part of which the shares have been created and nothing received), and to borrow 104,8001. It is stated that these sums will be required for the works authorised. The funds available to the three companies under their present Acts, and the additional funds applied tor, are shown in Appendix, No. 2. No nominal addition has been made to the capital of any of these companies, nor any guarantee given, nor sale, nor purchase, nor lease of any other line effected. The deeds considered nece,sary for the Bills named at the head of this report have been signed by the directors of the three companies, on behalf of, and under the authority of a general meeting of their respective companies, and there are no other subscriptions. The amount thus subscribed for is 549,0004 a sum considerably less than three-fourths of the capital proposed to be raised by the Bills in question. The following explanation has been received from the com paaies:— " With regard to the two Bills for authorising extensions to Bury St. Edmund's, and to Salding and Holbeach, by which an excess of capital over the estimates is asked, amounting in each Bill to 134,8004 the explanation is as follows: " These two sums of 134,8001., represent the new capital sought to be raised by the Amalgamation Bills, and were inserted in these Bills in order to prevent any difficulty that might have arisen froui the Amalgamation Bill having been lost on standing orders, or from any other cause ; but if the Amalgamation Bill passes, it is proposed to reduce the amount of the capital to be raised on each of these Bills to the amount of the estimate. " The excess of capital in the Docks and Navigation Bills over the estimate is taken as a margin, which has generally been allowed in Bills of a similar description, to enable the promoters to execute works which, although not necessary in the actual construction and use of the works, may be found useful in carrying the same into execution, or may be required in the passing of the Bill through Parliament" There are several points in connexion with these trans actions, to which, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the special attention of the Committees on the Bills ought to be directed. Ist. It appeared that. by the Bill for the amalgamation of the three companies, power is proposed to be taken to raise capital to the amount of 382,000/. It is proposed to reduce this sum, for reasons which have been already stated; but power is to be retained of raising the sum of 265,6001„ which is stated to he for the purpose of laying down an additional line of rails, the original estimate having contemplated a permanent way only for a single line. The purpose for which the money is proposed to be raised does not appear in the Bill ; and the Commissioners arc informed that it passed the standing orders as a Bill of the third class, that is to say, as a Bill by which "no further work than such as was au thorised by a former Act is proposed to be made." Conse quently no estimate or subscription contact for any portion of this capital has been deposited. 2d. It appears that the above sum of 265,6001. is not only authorised to be raised by the Amalgamation Bill, but also that a power for raising a nearly corresponding sum is pro posed to be taken is the Bury St. Edmund's, and Spalding and Holbeach Extension Bills, over and above the sums -..- which are covered by the estimates deposited for those Bills. The purpose for which this sum is required does not appear in either of these Bills; but the promoters state that they have in fact inserted a power of raising the same sum twice over, for the reasons which have already been quoted in their word. The Commissioners think it right to call the attention of the Committee to this fact, as an unusual, if not an irre- Deviation and Lynn Dock Bill, the capital gular 3d. p ß r y oc t e h ed e ing authorised to be raised is 144,0001., the capital covered by the estimate being only 120,3001.; and by the Lynn and Wormegay Navigation Bill the capital authorised to be raised is 36,0004 the capital covered by the estimate being 31,3001. The excess. amounting in one instance to 23,700/., in the other to 4,7001., is stated by the promoters to be a margin which may enable them to execute additional works, which, though not necessary, may be found useful, as has already been quoted from their statement. The 34th stand ing order of the House of Commons requires an estimate to be made " of the expense of the undertaking under each Bill." Without presuming to express an opinion on the con struction of this 'standing order, the Commissioners would remark, that the intentions of the House of Commons in re quiring the deposit of a subscription contract to the amount of three-fourths of the estimate will be frustrated, it the practice is permitted of taking power by the Bill to raise capital for the execution of works not contemplated in the estimate. If the works in question are intended to be exe cuted, they should be included in the estimate; if they are not so intended, no power to raise money for them should be taken by the Bill. There appears to be no good reason why any " margin" which may be required should not be in• eluded in the estimate. 4th. The subscription contracts for aiewerit 11 these Bills have been signed only by the directors of th e three of the ar companies , d t state ando h unde r avebeen p t e meet ings, eight directors having thus si g n e d y for 5 companies,on behalf special ,e deposits paid either out of the funds of the companies or on the private r : fe credit of the directors. subject The i Commission ers their report would o n htehree Ipswich rto their nci remarks on this that the p u r r ( ); p orti o Railway proportionate Company's Bills, adding, however,. amount of new capital, proposed to be rai • sed under the pre sent Bills (though very considerable), is not nearly o large as in that case. The capital already authorised tob s eraised by the three companies is 884,400/., and the loans 294,8001. The capital actually raised is 495,171/. 155., and the loans 162,4001. The new capital proposed to be raised is 1,015,6001., and the loans 338,433/, making together 1,354,033/., a sum which is more than two-and-a-half times the amount actually paid up by the shareholders, and for which:no guarantee is offered but the subscriptions of the directors on behalf of the company. sth. It will be seen that, by two of the Bills, it is pro posed to authorise the Lynn and Ely Company to construct a dock and a navigation. It is stated that a dock is required for the purpose of facilitating the loading and unloading of goods between the railway carriages and the vessels by which they may be brought or taken away; and it is also stated that the canal is required not only as a navigation but also for the purpose of supplying the dock with water. The ex pediency of conferring upon railway companies powers of this kind, which relate to matters not immediately connected with their ordinary functions, or the purposes for which they are incorporated, appears to be a question of considerable importance, especially when it is proposed to give such com panies the exclusive control over docks or canals. In the opinion of the Commissioners tin grant of 611th powers EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT. Yesterday evening the fifth annual meeting of the Early Closing Association was held at Exeter Hall; the Marquis of Westminster in the chair. On the platform were Lord Robert Grosvenor, 111. P., Lord J. Manners, the Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Mr. Mont, M.P., &c., and the body of the hall was crowded to excess. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the members of the association could point with satisfaction to the change that had taken place with respect to the early closing movement, not only among employers, but among the public generally, without the limitation of locality. In Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Brighten, tristol, Portsmouth, Exeter, and other important towns in the kingdom, the movement had been most successful. The modes operandi had been to hold meetings, to circulate pamphlets on the subject of their exertions, and to diffuse in every way information on the subject. It was also proposed to raise a fund of 5,0001., which was to be allocated for prize essays, &c., but which was now to be restricted chiefly to prize essays, which it was intended to circulate most extensively. With respect to the finances, there was a balance in hand. The report, after stating that the movement was not confined to any class, sex, or locality, concluded by an energetic and eloquent appeal to the meeting and those interested in the movement to renewed exertion.—(Cheers.) The Noble CHAIRMAN said that he accepted the cheer that they had been kind enough to confer on the earnest, and he was happy to say the successful, exertions of those who had been engaged in forwarding the object which they were met that evening to discuss. The meeting which he had the honour to address was quite as compe tent as any association to forward that object. They had heard from the report that the object for which the association (was established was progressing. Though the society did not profess to establish branch societies, there were societies with the same objects esta blished in Brighton, Manchester, and other important towns, who were ready to co-operate with the present association in their endeavours. With respect to one of the towns to which allusion had been made, namely, Manchester, he would wish to make a few observations. He was able to confirm the statements that had been made. That town was always ready to do the good work. The people of that town were subject to violent convulsions of trade. They were assembled in great masses, but there was no town in the kingdom where the inhabitants were less likely to be influenced by any in jurious operation.—( Hear.) They had given in their adhe sion to this cause. lie would take the liberty to mention to them a circumstance which had happened to himself. He had walked from the Euston-square station to Oxford-street the other evening, and he found in that street that the shops were then closed early. The change struck him as re markable ; success would be the effect produced by a simple volition, not towards evil, which would be counteracted, but b oy persevering in a course towards a good end, in which all parties should join for a common advantage.—(Hear, hear.) The result produced on the people of England by conduct such as this was wonderful, and was certain to be rewarded with signal success. An Act was likely to be passed to dimi nish labour in the manufacturing districts. Many kind persons were of opinion that the hopes entertained respecting that measure would not be realised ; but in a case like the present he for one had no doubt that the favourable views in which they indulged of a successful issue would be realised. If they were to consider of what influence and ha portance the middle classes were, it would be evident that everything should be done to enable that class t retain its just position. Many of the assistants employed in this metropolis were of respectable families in the country, whose parents were anxious that they shoulduoccupy a respect able position in society. Was it not of importance that they should have an opportunity of doing so? They were aware that incessant toil was injurious to the body and debilitated the mind. It was most important that those present should bear ;in mind the statements of the gentlemen who would address them that evening, and who would give them every information on the present question.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Owes moved the adoption of the report. Mr. ThwarrEs, in seconding the resolution, bore testimony, as a quondam assistant, to the evils of the system of late closing. The resolution was carried unanimously. Lord Joint MatmEas said that it was most improper to put forward the objection to the adoption of the early closing system, namely, that if more time were afforded it would be abused by those who were employed in the pursuits of com merce. They ought not to suppose that there would be an abuse of that which was never afforded. He could bear testimony to what had been stated in the report respecting Manchester, for the most lively interest was felt in that town in favour of the present movement. Looking at the present state of society, he was not surprised that there should be a strong feeling on this subject. He had just come from a different sphere of action, but where the subject of the diminution of labour was agitated, and he had beard, only a few hours ago, the Prime Minister of that country, who adorned his office as much by his private virtues as by his public acts, state that he could not consider, as had been asserted, that the great mass of the people of this country were only born to work, eat, drink, sleep, and die, and that they should have an opportunity of attending to more than the gratification of wants merely physical. Was there anything more calculated viewsof the P t r h im at e e Minister vening; than lie h th op e ed ob t j h e a c t t forwto hawt carry hhac dh o out been they addressed h e d d by a poet of the sister isle, to his had a assembled enthusiastic countrymen, would not be any logger applicable to this country : " Ever to toil, ever to moil, That's your social charter ; The city slave, or rustic serf, The toiler is its martyr." —(Loud cheers.) The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the following resolution : "That this meeting, while justly proud of the pre-eminence to which the country has been raised by the industry, inge nuity, and enterprise of its people, is yet firmly of opinion that the permanent welfare of a state cannot co-exist with an unsound mental and physical condition of large classes of the population; and that toil, protracted beyond the limits which nature has aesigned, causing lassitude of the body and dejection of spirits, is productive of such unsound condition, and cannot be advantageous either to the employer, the em ployed, or the community at large, nor in any way necessary to support the commercial prosperity of the country." The Hon. W. COWPER seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR, M.P., said that there was a custom at the court of the Queen, by which it was required that when a person either succceeded to his title, or got mar ried, or was promoted to any situation, that he should be re-' presented to her Majesty on the occasion. When he first had the honour to be presented to her 'Majesty, he was Member for Chester; since then he had been promoted to the honour of representing the Metropolitan county, therefore, in compliance with the custom of courts, he felt bound to renew his allegiance, and to declare his unabated interest in the question which they had assembled to promote.— (Laughter and cheers.) Since the honour to which he had alluded had been conferred upon him he had not been able, by the consequent responsibilities, to give that attention to the present question which he would have desired. They might not all be aware of what the present day was the anniversary. He wo4ld beg to inform them that the 17th of March was St. Patrick's Day. Now, St. Patrick was said to be celebrated for ridding Ireland of all its veno mous reptiles. Now, he was of opinion that this statement was merely of a legendary or allegorical character, and that he (St. Patrick) was, in fact, the patron of the early closing movement, and that he was desirous of banishing the pre sent system from the country. The Noble Lord concluded by proposing the following resolution : " That this meeting deeply deplores the continued exist ence of a system of protracted labour in the shops and ware houses of the metropolis, and the country generally, which is proved, upon the concurrent testimony of all practical and observant men, to be productive of premature bodily decay, mental decrepitude, and moral deterioration, to a large and important class of the British'people; and hereby expresses its conviction that a flagrant wrong is being inflicted on that class, and that it is the duty of persons of all conditions to co-operate with the Early Closing Association in its efforts to eradicate the evil complained of, as well by pecuniary contri butions as by personal exertion." The Rev. Dr. CUMMING seconded the resolution, which was unanimously carried. Mr. MOFFAT, M.P., proposed, and Mr. Nasn seconded, the following resolution, which was unanimously carried : " That this meeting cordially approves of the principles upon which the Metropolitan Early Closing Association is established, and desires emphatically to express its sympathy with the classes in whose behalf that association is labouring, and its earnest determination to assist, both by precept and example, in putting an end to the unnecessary and perni cious custom of late shopping, especially by abstaining from making any purchases after seven o'clock in the evening, so that no inducement may be held out to employers to keep their establishments open after that hour." Mr. WYSE, M.P. ' addressed the meeting, after which thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman. The meeting then separated. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—l request your permission to insert my reply to the letter which appeared in the Times of yesterday, signed "Edward Jennings." " 11, Fitzroy-square, March 16, 1847. " Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 13th instant, and have only to observe, that on receiving the original letter from Madlle. Lind (addressed to me), which you state to be in your hands, and of which you have 'inclosed me a copy, I will instantly reply to it. "I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " A. BUNK. • " E. Jennings, Esq." &c. &c." Mr. Jennings waited upon me, and showed me a letter, not written by, but signed ," Jenny Lind," which he refused to leave with me, although addressed to me. To that letter I have sent an answer, giving a negative to the professional points therein sought to be maintained; but making a pro position, which, if Madlle. Lind has that sense of disinte restedness and good faith claimed for her, she will not hesi tate to accept. As to the non-existence of any legal claim, from opinions alleged to have been delivered by the Law Officers of the Crown, I beg to say( have acted upon the judgment of the first lawyers in England and Prussia, and feel assured that no such offer as 2,0001. would be made, if their opinion on the contract signed at Berlin, in the presence of the British Minister, were questionable.—l have the honour to be. Sir, your much obliged servant, London, March 17, 1847. A. BUNT. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. A new drama was produced last night at this theatre, called Dreams of the Heart, an adaptation from the French ; but unless we are much mistaken, it is a re-translation ; the story from which the chief incidents are taken having appeared in Blackwood's Magazine some fourteen or fifteen years since, from the pen of the late Rev. Mr. Barham, under the title of The Trance. It is a story of love and mesmerism. There are two acts, between which an interval of a year is supposed to have elapsed. The first scene is laid in the tavern of the " Croix d'Or," at Toulon, where the Marquis de Brienne (Mr. Ryder ), a distinguished admiral, has arrived to take command of the French fleet, accompanied by his daughter, Hermine, (Mrs. Stirling), the heroine. Ile re ceives several letters,one of which is an order from the Minister of Marine for his immediate embarkation and departure; the other, also from high authority, stating an application by the Viscount Henri de Clermont (Mr. H. Hughes) wbo bad retired from the service a year before, to be again em ployed, whiCh he is informed, cannot be granted. He inter rogates his daughter on the state of her heart, and expresses his regret that she would not marry before his departure. She denies any attachment; but exhibits emotions on hear ing the name of Henri de Clermont, that proves she is not in different to him, although she expresses contempt for him. Im mediately after Henri enters, and is shortly followed by new ar rivals, the Count Annibal de Boattev tile (Mr. J. Vining) and the Chevalier de Montaran (Mr. A. Harris), the Count is a roué, who having succeeded to, and expended, three fortunes, had married a rich Italian merchant's daughter for a fourth, which he had also spent, and she had drowned herself at the end of six months, just as she would have succeeded to a fresh inheritance. Henri informs them that he has acquired the mesmeric power. Shortly after the Baroness de St. Sevin enters, to whom Henri had paid some attention, but he had deserted her, his heart being devoted to ,Hermine, whom he resolves to see once again by means of his extra ordinary powers. Hemline is then brought across a gallery, and to the front of the stage in a state of mesmerism; lie interrogates her, and finds that she is devotedly attached to him, and that he may gain her by joining in the contest for freedom with the noble hearts in America, and vows herself his till death if he should do so, and gives him a pledge of her affection. The Baroness then enters, and sees her in the state of somnambulism, but hearing voices, leaves the room, having extinguished the light. The Marquis enters, and sees Henri leading his daughter to her bed-room, and the act closes on the father's despair, who is at the moment summoned to embark. The second act finds Count Annibal, who has succeeded to a barren Marquisate in the interval, the plighted husband of Hermine, who has at length yielded to her father's commands to marry him. The Chevalier has been married to the Baroness a week after the scene at the "Croix d'Or," is now heartily tired of her, and desires that her application to sag with him to the United States may not be granted. The Marquis, who is under the conviction that his daughter had been dishonoured by Henri, had com pelled her to consent to marry Count Annibal in order to save the honour of his house; but first writes him a letter, informing him of what he believes to be her guilt; this letter he intrusts to a creditor of the Count's, who does not deliver it, fearing that it would break the marriage, by which alone he can obtain payment of his debt. The marriage takes place, and llenri enters—having highly distinguished himself in America— with dispatches. He meets Hermine, the bride of the Count, and is left alone with her. lie describes the mesmeric scene as a dream, and awakens the greatest astonishment by de scribing what she thinks she had seen in a similar dream. The Marquis entering, discovers Henri kneeling to his daughter, but is appeased by a letter from his son, in America, that explains the fatal error into which he had lento. Count Annibal enters, who has just received the letter which should have been given to him before marriage. A duel is fixed for that night between him ay.d Henri. There is then a repetition of the mesmeric scene, in which Hermine again acknowledges her love, and says that she will be happy as the wife of Henri. The Baroness then turns out to be the first wife of the Count, who is contented, as she has succeeded to an immense inheritance, and the lovers are made happy. There were some slight marks of disapprobation during the mesmeric scenes, but the applause decidedly predominated. There are some highly interesting scenes, and Mrs. Stirling performed the part of Hermine most admirably. The piece is decidedly too long,:and will require considerable curtailment. If the pruning knife should be judiciously applied, it will probably become popular and have a considerable run. To-morrow's tide in the Mersey will be the highes' in the year.— Liverpool Mercury of Wednesday. DEATH OF HERVEY LEACH.—The mortal career of this remarkable individual, who earned for himself con siderable reputation both in this country and abroad, for his clever personifications of the habits and eccentricities of the monkey race, under the assumed name of Signor Hervio Nano, terminated, after a short illness, on Tuesday evening, the 16th inst., at his residence, George-street, Shoreditch. A short time ago deceased exhibited himself at the Egyptian Hall, disguised as an extraordinary animal captured at the Cape of Good Hope, "supposed to be the link between the human race and the ourang-outang," and called " What is it ?" The last place deceased performed at was the Standard Theatre, in December last, where, notwithstanding the deception having been discovered and made public, he continued to represent "What is it ?" lie was about to start for Lisbon when taken ill. Ile was a native of America, and in his forty-sixth year. The last request of the de ceased was, this, his body should be presented to Mr. Liston, the eminent surgeon, not to be buried, but embalmed and kept in a glass case, as the doctor had been a particular friend to him. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM CURTIS, BART.—This gentleman, whose name fur so many years has been familiar in commercial circles, died suddenly at his residence in Port land-place, on Tuesday evening. lie was son of Sir William Curtis, first baronet, who for thirty six years, viz. from 1790 to 1826, represented the city of London in Parliament, and filled the office of Lord Mayor in 1796. The deceased is succeeded in the title and estates by his son William, born in 1802. The baronetcy was conferred by George 111., in 1820, Viscount Sidmouth being at the time premier. BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.— A crowded meeting of shareholders took place at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham, which lasted from two o'clock till half past six last Saturday evening. A report, to the extent of nearly two of the Observer folio columns, appeared in that journal, in London, on Sunday morning. Thus were the proceedings of this important meeting, although not con cluded at Birmingham till half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening, within twelve hours conveyed to London, written ont, composed, printed, and published in the Observer at six o'clock on Sunday morning. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The annual dinner of this society took place yesterday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern. At half-past six o'clock the Es2:l of St. Germans took the chair, supported by the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Labouthere, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, and several other noblemen and gentlemen. The' chairman entered into a detail of the good which had been effected in giving education to a large body of Irish children, and tpprenticing them to useful trades. The report stated that the total of the year's subscriptions amounted to 8151. 'The absence of the majority of the Irish Members of Parliament was the subject of general observation among the company. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM.—A fes tival to celebrate the anniversary of this institution, took place at the London tavern last evening, when the Earl of Auckland presided. The design of the institution is to afford relief to the orphans of seamen in the merchant service, by providing them with clothing, maintenance, and education. The children, consisting of about GO boys, in nautical costume, and 30 girls, were introduced, and subsequently addressed, in an appropriate lecture, by the Rev. I'. Fraser, one of the vice-presidents of the institu oJm.aEs.vvC_oarxd,anEns(qn.m;cleodwa. f d ro o m nat t i t o lo n T o r f in s i oO ty / . . f t r io o n m . th T e h l e are ße T v h . house ; 50f. f f i t o h s e . East ir l om n h d e i r a (2 1 o a j m e p s r a ; 3. ; ; 3ai.n Se. a from l n o b ; scr iption o IOL Queen Dowager; and 935/. collected at the table in aid of the charity. IRISH LAW.—Every poor landlord has a right to keep a pia of bounds to run.through his property,—Anch, FINSBURY BANK FOR SAVINGS. -- - The managers of this institution held their 30th annual meeting at the bank in Sekford-street, St. John's-street, on Friday last ; Mr. H. Carr in the chair. The auditors' accounts were presented and approved, and showed on the 30th November last a capital of 205,967/., or an increase since November, 1845, of 5,450/. The number of the deposits in the year was 14,488, and the number of new accounts 1,950. The interest received from Government was 6,480/., an in crease on the last year of 270/. The amounts received and paid were again larger than in any former year. The interest payable to depositors is 3 per cent. (within 10d. of the limit allowed by law), and since November last the capital has been considerably increased. The increase referred to may be attributed partly to the amount of interest given, and partly to the fear of those extreme fluctuations to which the public funds are liable. The average number attending weekly to deposit money has been 295, and to open new accounts 40. The annuity department continues to increase its business; during the past year the amount paid 'for annuities was 5,989/., and the amount paid to annuitants 1,1221. While provisions are so dear, employment scarce, and large calls are often made upon the industrious classes to assist their fellow-creatures in distress, it cannot but be pleasing to observe, that a bank situated as this is, in the midst of a population of working people, has not only not fallen off in its deposits, but is one of the very few banks in London whose capital has been considerably increased. The result is gratifying also, as exhibiting a disinclination to embark in the many specula tive schemes which are afloat to tempt the poor man to his ruin, and a steady appreciation of such benefits as are pecu liar to these institutions, namely, Government security, freedom from the income-tax, and the certainty of receiving the entire snm deposited, with interest and compound interest added, whenever it is required. A deputation from the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market and Abattoir Company, accompanied by Mr. Henry Francis Richardson, the solicitor, have had interviews this day with Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. B. 13. Cabbell, M.P., and Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., at their respective mansions, on the subject of the removal of Smithfield Market, and the se lection of a suitable site for the new market. POTATOES.—A gentleman in India writes thus : " I wish I could send you some of our potatoes so beautiful and white. I am sure the reason the potatoes in England have become so bad is from over cultivation. All those tine manures have altered and destroyed the natural structure of the root, and if farmers would let the ground alone, the po tato may be again plentiful and good. Some time hence they may find that not only wheat but other grain may become like the potatoes." SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 17.—The Royal West India mail-packet the Trent, Captain Surdie, left the river this day, at 3 r. 31 , with mails for the West India Islands. The Trent, since her 'return home on the 24th of January, has undergone a thorough repair, and yesterday went on a trial trip down the river, which she performed CO the entire . satisfaction of the commander and engineers. The Trent has 40 passengers, 3,000/. in specie, and usual cargo. The Oriental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Captain NN , eeks, left he the docks at the same hour, en route for Gibraltar, with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails, also - 14 pa aVery full Cargo of bale good s , & v . asengers. and SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TIM Del. TIMES.—The Factory Bill appears fated to supply one oC the most remarkable chapters in the history of British legis lation. Not to go back to its strangely c h ec k ere d course i n previous sessions, what it now suffers is quite without parallsh Every Wednesday it comes on, not to be regularly discussed on its merits, but to run the gauntlet of endless manoeuvres. Its opponents think everything fair that can injure it. The objects of its protection are women and young persons, classes towards whom grown-up men are too o ft en. ready to forget the rules of fair play. The chief stratagem, employed against it by the enemy is not only to talk a ga i nst time themselves, but also to entrap its friends into doing the same thing. Every attempt is made, every provo cation thrown out, to induce Lord John Russell and its other principal sxpporters to make long speeches. His Lordship is reminded every Wednesday of the little he has said, and the little that has been said by any body on his side of the question. Mr. Bright or somebody reminds bins of his reputation and position, his illustrious parentage, his services to the State, and, above all, of the very good estimation in which he was so fortunate as to stand with the Hon. Member himself. He is then entreated net to disappoint this splendid premise by an ignoble silence, but to deliver a good long oration worthy of his talents, h:a virtues, his fame, hi s f a th ers , hi s co ll eagues, an d his coun try. It does not require much penetration to see the object of this flattery, when all the time allowed for the progress of this Bill is not quite six hours once a week. It is the old story of the Fox and the Crow. " Oh, you beautiful bird ! How graceful your form ; how glossy 3 - our coat!! You soar like an eagle, and perch lik e a dove. - Then, your voice ! how sweet, yet how full! Could yo u but sink, - 1 should say you were the king of the woods." Lord John Russell opens his mouth, and Mr. Bright scampers off laughing in his sleeve, with a good slice of time in his maw. This kind of tactics, however, cannot always be tried w i t h equal success. While one party is intent on killing time, the other becomes equally anxious to save it; and while the former is ingenious at im pediments, the latter, if it only be in earnest, acquires a peculiar talent for progress. Yesterday the usual budget of delae swan produced. First the Rating of Tenements Bill was thrown like a barricade in the way, and was not removed without a sharp skirmish and an actual divi sion. The result was decisive; but—;ono avulso non deficit oker—the Juvenile Offenders Bill immediately took its place. That was soon cleared. After some time un avoidably consumed in presenting petitions, Mr. Den nistoun made a long speech, in which he com pensated for the obsolete character of his arguments by the remarkably novel and original character of his concluding proposition. We will not trouble our readers with the par ticulars of a plan so industriously and ingeniously compli cated that, in the judgment of the Hon. Mover, it would take the whole nation a fortnight to understand. That, indeed, was its principal merit, as it afforded a pretence for that much delay, and for throwing the second reading over Easter. It was described as a system of relays, and therefore particularly adapted to its object, which was, that the oppo nents of the Bill should perpetually relieve one another in the work of resistance and distraction. After a good deal of discuSsion, including a long speech from Mr. Bright, the motion was withdrawn. But the reader will observe the re sult thus far. It was now four o'clock, and four hours out of six had been wasted in hostile motions, and in speeches not bearing on any one proposition more than another, but merely rambling over the generalities of the factory ques tion. At this point, however, the fortune of the day turned in favour of the Bill. On the question that the Speaker do leave the chair being put, Lord John Rus sell made that statement of his views which has been so fre quently demanded, but for which he had not yet found a good opportunity. With the single exception, that his Lord ship was for leaving to future legislation the step from the eleven hours' to the ten hours' limit, we have seldom read a speech to which we can accord such warm and un qualified praise. They who have so confidently challenged the Minister for his arguments will have reason to repent of their temerity. We are inclined to suspect that they have got more than they bargained for. Every one of those hack nied objections which are daily obtruded on the public with all the foppery of empiricism, the impertinence . of sar casm, and solemnity of nonsense, was treated in its turn. with that short and easy method which pure motives and common sense are sure to suggest. The chimeras that the prosperity and glory of this empire depend on the odd hour of labour,—that the eventual difference of production would be really commensurate with the drop from twelve hours to eleven or ten,—that all the advantages we possess over other nations are not equivalent to one hour a day,— that the object of the Bill is its indirect results,—that labour from five in the morning to seven at night is a natural and proper allowance of toil,—that to work, to eat, to sleep, and to die, is really all that a state should leave to the most in dustrious and deserving of its children ;—these and many other idolafori his Lordship demolished with his own unapproach able suaviter in modo and fortiter in re. His Lordship took a masterly survey of all those existing circumstances of manu facture and commerce, those recent enactments, and those growing ideas of society that bore on the question. It is no disparagement to the real ability of his argument, but rather its highest praise, that he brought out the case of the Fac tory Bill as a genuine development of our social progress. With regard to this, as to many other measures, we are inclined to think that the particular date of their success depends rather on a humble readiness to acknowledge the teachings of experience and the warn ings written upon the face of human affairs than on a special power of statesmanship or forethought. Our great men are not such very great men that they should not submit to take a lesson from the humblest, and let the " little ones" of this world imitate their measures. No person of the most ordi nary candour, after reading Lord John Russell's speech, can harbour the suspicion that he is suffering the penalty of a mere factious move in the days of opposition. If it be so, never was man so convincing and persuasive against his own inner convictions. Such a talent of duplicity, however, is notoriously not among his Lordship's gifts, He says what lie thinks, and dares what he approves—a course which con tributes as much respectability to his failures as glory to his success. The date and the manner of the further reduction from eleven hours to ten is one on which there has been a very great. and, we will add, a very natural latitude of opinion. The truth is that whatever is done at this moment, any change postponed for a twelvemonth is virtually resigned to future legislation. If, what we certainly do not expect, the, women and young folk shall be content with the boon of one hour when two hours are within their reach, the Legislature will be happy to accommodate their industrious desires. Lard J. Russell wishes to leave the question to another year. The manufacturers, on the contrary, affect to say that now is the time for the entire reduction. If they are in earnest, they will still have the opportunity of amending the Bill in the Lords, but at present, very pro perly we think, the original clans?, limiting the number of hours to ten, from the Ist of May, 1818, stands part of the Bill. FRIGHTFUL GIG ACCIDENT IN FLEET-STREET.— Yeverday afternoon, between three and fuur o'clock, an acci dent of a most frightful character occurred to a gentleman named Saunders, who was driving with a friend along Fleet street. Just as they got past Shoe-lane, the animal shyed, fell, and both gentlemen were thrown out with great force. Mr. Saunders sustained very serious injuries. He was picked up senseless, and removed into Mr. Ilutchinson's surgery, in Farringdon-street, where an extensively lacerated wound was discovered on his forehead, besides other injuries. Ino-about an hour after the occurrence Mr. Saunders was removed front the surgeon's to his residence. DREADFUL MURDERS OF A P AY -C LERK AND PO LICEMAN IN KILKENNY.—The Dublin Evening Post contains the following :—" Kilkenny, March 15. This morning,about nine o'clock, Arthur Primm, Esq., pay-clerk of the barony of Kells, was proceeding, accompanied by a policeman, to pay the people employed. About one mile from Kells, near the demesne •f Chapelizod, they were attacked by six. or seven fellows who fired five shots at them, and killed both. It hal caused an awful sensation here. There is an account here— I hope and believe a true one—that the people turned out and pursued the murderers, and captured two of them, who had separated from the others. It is also stated that a man has been found dead in a bog near the same place, supposed to have been shot by the policeman. The murderers did not get the money (2501.) in possession of the pay-clerk, I be lieve, as the horse, through fright, gallopped on to Kells." EXECUTION OF THE Iwo NORTHUMBERLAND MUR DEREES.—James Welch and George Matthews (both Irish men) yesterday morning underwent the sentence of the law at the county gaol at Morpeth. The former, it will be re membered, was convicted of the murder of Thomas Proud, on the 7th of last month, in the neighbourhood of New borough. The unfortunate victim of the culprit was a la bouring man. He had invited several of his neighbours to the christening of one of his children. Welch, who was ex cited by liquor, insulted him and the women who were with him, and particularly one Mary Ann Toward, who refused his advances. A scuffle ensued. Proud and Toward endea voured to get away, but Welch overtook them and stabbed Proud with a long-bladed knife in the back of his neck, of which wound he died immediately. Matthews was employed on the railway being formed between Newcastle and Ber • wick, and his victim, Daniel Ilives,worked on the same line. Matthews and another man, Hughes, on the sth of last Oc tober, were beating the deceased, who called out to a Cap tain Potts, who witnessed the attack, to p r ote c t him front being murdered by the two Irishmen. Captain Potts sup ported him, and whilst so doing, Matthews slyly walked past and stabbed Hives in the abdomen with a knife, which he drew from under his frock. The juries in both cases, after returning verdicts of "Wilful Murder," recommended the prsoners to mercy, and a memorial was forwarded to the Government praying a commutation of the sentences. The conduct of Welch after sentence was that of the most har dened and impenitent culprit. Matthews, on the cent; ary. appeared duly impressed with the atrocity of his crime, and was very attentive to the exhortations of the Catholic cler gyman, the Rev. G. A. Lowe. St. Patrick's-day appointed for the execution, 1 d o a sed b so ei m eg e dtihse meenonestetqhueepritel; turbance might : be oc t c ro a n si g on b e o d dy by o t f i p e o c l i c u e n N tp as , scaffold appeared more affected than pre viouswhen on the itinesatctoein) condemned; hu a t behaviour had le the Divine His mercy. 22 years of age. fellow criminal, 20th year. strong of the sort took place. hisNVelch. d people to anticipate, and died im ploring This wretched man was only Matthews, was is his HUNGERFORD SusrENsiox BRIDGE STEAM-BOAT PIER. —Yesterday the long pending dispute between the Hungerford Market and Bridge Companies was brought to an amicable termination, the Market acceptingis now railedtließridge Company's proposal. A space six feet in width off on the west side of the bridge, from the north turret to the market termination, for the use of steam-boat passengers, who will, in the course of a few days, be able to land and em bark from these vessels, and pass over the Suspension Bridge without being subject to any charge. THE NAVIGATION-LAWS. —A meeting was held last evening at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, to consider the question of the navigation-laws. The two first resolutions:were to the effect that the repeal of the navigation laws would prove ruinous to the country. The person ap pointed to move the third resolution, and who had that re.. solution in his possession, was called upon to perform his duty, when, to the dismay of the chairman, and the amuse ment of the meeting, it was found the " gentleman" had absconded, carrying the resolution with him. A. gentleman now got up to make some objections to the resolutions adopted, but he was sharply informed by the chairman the meeting was convened for a specific that Anotherplirpo purpose e h a e k h e a r d thought better g theto nseaxytaga evening.insta thattllat i t f a take t i lTe d ro u o n lil t f h o i r n it very ungentlemanly conduct on the part of the chairman to refuse to hear the objections. At this the chairman seized his hat, and, vowing vengeance on the " person who had h.- stilted him," precipitately left the platform. A vote of thanks to the chairman for his " impartial " conduct closed the meeting. MR. Ot CON NEIZS ITEALTIL—We have been in formed that the health of the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork has not much improved, it at all, since his arrival at Hastings. The only benefit which the change of air has produced is, that he seems in somewhat better spirit. With this exception, however, he is, we are informed, in much the same state of health that he was in before he left town. Although there are other accounts given of the Hon. Gentleman's health, we have reason to believe that this is the true one Mr. Milnes paired off with the O'Coner Don in favour of ten hours, on ON Factories Bill cliTisl9 l3 : yesterday. " JO ti) 71 1 u If • ofic; a" , 0.4 s ' of PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. - - ---- - (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, ➢MARCII 17. The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time: — Chester and Holyhead (Extensions at Chester and Holy head, &c.—No. 2 )—" to enable the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company to make certain Extensions of, and Alte rations in, the Line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway, and for other purposes. Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct—" for making a Railway from Kilmarnock to Ayr, with a Branch to the Harbour of Ayr, to be called ' Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct Railway.' " The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection Gloucester and Hereford Railwayand Canal Purchase. York and Newcastle (Main Line Improvement, &c.) NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. The following Railway Bill is appointed to be read a second time on Monday, March 22 : Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan (Amendment, De viations, and Branches). _ PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, MAECri 17. FACTORIES BILL.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 2 (And be it enacted, That from the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, no person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any such Mill or Factory, in such description of work as in the said first-mentioned Act is specified, for more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than fifty-eight hours in any one week, except as in the said Act is provided ; and that from the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, the said two Acts shall, in all respects, be construed as if the provision in the said first-mentioned Act contained, as to persons under the age of eighteen years working in Mills and Factories, had been confined to ten hours instead of twelve hours in any one day, and fifty-eight hours in any - one week instead of sixty-nine hours) :—.ll otion made, and Question put, " That the Clause, as amended, stand part of he Bill." The Committee divided:— , MAJORITY—AYES, 144. - - Fitzroy, Lord C. If ewport, - Visct. Fleetwood, Sir I'. Newry, Viscount Flower, Sir James O'Brien, A. Stafford Fox, C. R. O'Brien, W. 8. Frewon, C. IL O'Connell, D., Jun. Fuller. A. E. O'Connell, John Gaskell, J. M. Owen, Sir John Granby, Marquis of Packe, C. W. Granger, T. C. Paget, Colonel Grimsdltch, Thomas Pakington, Sir J. S. Grogan, E. Palmer, Robert Grosvenor, Lord R. Palmer, G. Grosvenor, Earl Plumridge, Captain Hall, Sir Benjamin Polhill, Frederick rialsey, T. P. Rashleigh, W. Hamilton, G. A. Rawdon, Colonel Harris, Captain Rendlesham, Lord Hatton, Captain V. Rich, Henry Henley, J. W. Richards, Richard Hervey, Lord A. Rolleston, Colonel Hildyard, T. B. Rushout, Captain Hindley, C. Russell, J. D. Hodgson, R. Ryder, G. D. Holland, Robert Sandon, Viscount Ilernby, John Shell, R. L. Howard, E. G. Sibthorp, Colonel Howard, P. 11. Smith, J. A. Humphery, Aid. Smith, Vernon Inglis, Sir R. Spooner, Richard Johnson, General Stanley, W. 0. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. H. Staunton, Sir G. Kernble,lllenry Stuart, J. Lascelles, W. S. Strickland, Sir G. Law, C. E. Tollemache, J. Layard, Captain Tower, C. Lefroy, Anthony Trevor, J. R. Liddell, H. T. Troubridge, Sir E. Lowther, Sir J. Turner, Edmund Lowther, Hon. Col. Verner, Sir W. Manners, Lord J. Vyse, R. H. R. H. March, Earl of Vyvyan, Sir R. R. Masterman, John Waddington, H. S. Maunsell, T. B. Wakloy,,Thomas Miles, William Walker, Richard Morgan, 0. `yawn, J. T. Morris, David Williams, W. Mostyn, E. M. TELLERS. Minas, G. F. Fielden, John Newdegate, N. Brotherton, Joseph Acton, Colonel Adderley, C. B. Aglionby, H. A. Ainsworth, Peter Alla, J. P. Arundel, Earl of Baillie, H. J. Baillie, W. Barnard, E. G. Baskerville, T. Bennet, P. Bentinck, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord 11. Berestord, Major Bernal, Ralph Blackstone, W. S. Blake, M. J. Brisco, M. Broadley, Henry Bruen, Colonel Buck, L. W. Itulkelcy, Sir R. B. Sunbury, T. Butler, P. S. Cabbell, B. B. Cayley, E. S. Chapman, A. Chelsea, Vise. Chichester, Lord I. Christopher, R. Codrington, Sir W. Cole, lion. H. A. Collett, John Cenyngham, Lord A. Courtenay, Lord Cowper, W. F. Crawford, W. S. Curie's, H. B. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Douglas, Sir 11. Douglas, J. S. Duncombe, T. Dundas, Sir David Du Pre, C. G. Entwisle, W. Etwall, Ralph Evans, Sir De Lacy Ferrand, W. B. Finch, G. MINORITY—NOES, 66. Aldam, William Fitzwilliam, G. W. Patten, J. W. Antrobus, Edmund Forster, Mathew Philips, Mark Haim, Walter Gibson, Thomas M. Protheroe, E. Muddy, Henry Grey, Sir G. Pusey, P. Bell, Matthew Ilanmer, Sir John Rice, E. R. Berkeley, Craven Harcourt, G. Ross, D. R. Bouverie, E. I'. Hawes, Ben). Russell, Lord J. Hewes, ohn Hope, Sir J. Stansfleld, W. R. liewring, Dr. Houldsworth, T. Stuart, Lord J. Brown, W. Howard, C .W.G. Stuart, V. Brownrigg, J. S. Hume, Joseph Strutt, Edward Buller, Charles Jones, Captain Thornely, T. Busfeild, William Lambton, H. Towneley, John Byng, G. S. Langston, J. II Tunic% 11. Carew, W. 11. role Lawson, Andrew Vane, Lord 11. Denison, J. E. Legh, G. C. Villiers, Charles I )ennistoun, J. Lemon, Sir C. Wall, C. B. Dickinson, F. H. Lindsay, Colonel Ward, H. G. Duncannon, Lord Macaulay, T. B. Wood, trir Charles Dundas, J. C. Mitcalfe, H. Wortley, J. S. Egerton, W. T. Monahan, J. 11. TELLERS. Egerton, Sir I'. Morpeth, Viscount Bright, John Evans, William Ogle, S. C. Duncan, George NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY,—The Sidon steam-frigate, Captain Henderson, C. 8., went out of harbour this morning on an experimental cruise, to test the working of her ma chinery (which has undergone considerable alterations in the starting gear), and to proceed to Cowes for the inspection of her Majesty, by special command, as we understood, con. veyed through Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, the Commander in -Chief at this port, last evening. The vessel left the harbour about 9 o'clock, with the fol lowing officers and visitors on board:—Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C. 8., the designer of the Sidon ; Mr. Murray, chief engineer octhis dockyard; Mr. Taplin, as sistant ditto; Mr. Deaning, assistant engineer of Wool wich dockyard; Messrs. Seaward and Brunet, the con tractors for the machinery; Major Henderson, 11.E.1.C.5.; Captain Lawlor, R.N.; Mr. Best; Mr. Roberts,_triM.A.; &c., and proceeded outside the Nab, with a - strong head breeze, with 630 tons of coals in her coal boxes, and tanks, water, and provisions for 3:10 men for three months, com plete; all her ammunition, guns, stores, &e. and 25 tons of powder, when she drew 17 ft. 4 i n . a ft and 16 ft. 10 in. for ward. She went, under the above circumstances,7i knots, very steady, and increased her speed up to 8 knots, with her engines making 131 revolutions and 14. The alterations made, there fore, answered remarkably - well. After rounding the Nab, she went before the wind, with steam, above 11.2 by common log, 9.6 by patent log down to Cowes. When off Osborne a royal salute was fired from her main deck long 32-ponders in a very smart manner. She then went as far as Yarmouth, and then returned dressed in colours to the lazaretta vessel off the Motherbank, where she lay to until her Majesty in the Fairy came up (half-past two Jclock), when three cheers were given, and a royal salute was tired. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort bowed their acknowledgments from the deck of the Fairy, which crossed the bows of the frigate slowly, and then steamed on for the harbour. The steam was then turned on in the Sidon, which followed to Spithead, where she anchored after sunset. This trial of the capabilities of the Sidon was eminently satisfactory, and leaves no doubt that, with her intended in crease of complement of 80 men, she will prove the best steam vessel for war purposes yet in the Royal Navy- Captain Henderson, his officers, and ship's companY have laboured hard to make the vessel in every way efficient and a credit to the service in which she is destined to figure' and we have no doubt but that the most satisfactory result will emanate from such exertions. The Sidon burns only 35 tons of coals per day, fa steam ing. She can, therefore, steam 9 3 days right out. Whereas the Terrible consumes 85 tons per day, and can only steam at most eight days, being only enabled to carry 550 tons ; the Retribution about the same, but she is ordered tubular boilers, which will decrease her weight 100 tons, and enable her to carry that quantity more coals. With the expansive gear the Sidon made 15 revolutions. A court-martial is expected to take p l a ce on Saturday on a marine of the Salamander. A court of inquiry is also ex pected, to investigate some alleged most extraoserdinncearyfprioe ceedings which have taken place sin ce the ab implicated. t Salamander, in which a distinguished officer is Lieutenant Scott, of this ship, was summoned to the Admi ralty last night. We are also informed a reprimand is awaiting the Lieute nant of the Vestal, 26, on the China station, fur deficiency of knowledge in gunnery. ALLEGED MURDER IN SHOREDITCM-At half:past ten o'clock last night a fearful murder was committed by a man, named Thomas Brooks, an umbrella-rib-maker, residing in Shoreditch, upon William Gobert, who at the time was living with the sister of the former. The prisoner, when d to the station-house, at once confessed the crime, nestosenortCelyyeassigning as a reason for its commission that had he not deceased, the latter would have shot . him. When powder and shot were found on his person. starched, some ears that deceased, i n com p an y From his statem ent it a p p with the female mentioned, entered the house and demanded some trifling property in the prisoner's possession. Upon being ordered to withdraw, and refusing, Brooks threatened to lodge a bullet in the breast of deceased, and instantly fired, the shot entering on the left side of the breast; death ensued instantaneously. The prisoner is apparently under 20, and his victim under 23 years of age. ESCAPE FROM CRELMSPORD GAOL.—On Friday morning, it was discovered that Charles Py e w h o h at the had been c onvicted the evening previously had effected his escape from the gaol at Chelmsford. The prisoner had been found guilty on Thursday of entering the house of an independent old couple named Ilockley, in com pany with others, and not only ransacking t h e house, but ill treating the inmates in an atrocious manner, so that the life of the old lady was for months despaired of. Ile was sentenced to 15 years' transportation, and was taken back to the gaol, in which extensive alterations are going on, part of it being pulled down for the purpose of introducing the separate sys tem of discipline; and it would appear, that, in the confusion of putting down a van full of prisoners in the interior yard, l observation,the works he managed to conceal lillunsteolofntarnisvoondgsttosoonv aede of f or buildings. Having tit he found little dif ficult y , front the state of the wall s an d the various scaffolding s about the building, to make good his escape when all became quiet. As soon as his escape was discovered the county police were moving after him in all directions, a nd the metropolitan force we re not i f i ed of it 1 by electric telegraph, but he has not yet be en retaken. This is the third prisoner wh o has effected his es cape from the gaol during the progress of these works, which were under taken through the Government pressing for an improvement in the discipline of the prison, and .will cost snore than I 30,0001.—hate/eh Ezprcss. T HE N A vy.—The members of the Royal , Navy. Club had a second dinner, in commemoration of the battle of the Nile, last evening, at the Piazza Hotel, Covent-garden, when several gentlemen of the naval profession assembled.. This old. established and national club now possesses stock to the amount of 15,400/., producing a dividend of 4621. per annum, which is appropriated to the relief cf the widows attel orphans of deceased members. The Conde de Montemolin, who has been elected an honorary Member of the British and foreign Institnte, has signified his intention of being present, with his suite, at the Soiree of that Literary Association, to-morrow even ing, Friday. nailtribZ 27.'2r b't 0411- 033,A. _ ANIS 1 - a , ~ -7 1 4