The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

, - . ' - s - --, E inpertat Varliament,•. of Assembly in'Ava ScbtiOnCebontributed the skim of CT toward* the relief of the distress in Ireland and _____..'..„...— .. s . t a,nd. . ; ,;1,ti;: , , ,,,, ,_,_, • , HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. ' MrAmsouelfsitt in sorer tb - 'l,lr. Foster, said the Lord ASHBURZON moved for various returns, showing Government had sanctioned importation of 606 bushels the amount of capital embarked in the various railways of of superior flax seed into Ireland, but it was not intended the United Kingdom, the amount borrowed, and the to make any further importations whatever of that article sums advanced by the Bank of England-on railroad secu- upon their own accounts. rities, but which motion, at the suggestion of the Earl of Mr. B. HAWES, in answer to Mr, Barkly, said a ves- CLARENDON, the noble lord withdrew until Thursday, sel was preparing under the authority of the Government, stating that he did not feel any alarm at the monetary for the purpose of establishing a steam communication condition of the country ; a ll h e w i s h e d was that parlia- between the coast of Africa and the West Indies, for the snent should be in possession of information Which might purpose of facilitating the emigration of free labourers. avert mischief. In reply to Mr. Bright, Lord J. RUSSELL was under- The Destitute Persons (Ireland) Bill originated a de- stood to say that he would, on Monday, lay on the bate, but no decided opposition, and was read•asecond table a copy of the memorial of a large bodrof miliowners time. in Lancashire, which had been presented to him, on the HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. subject of the Factories Bill. The noble -lord also inti- Lord MORPETH, in answer to Mr. C. Berkeley, said mated, in answer to Mr. W. Collett, that the earthworks the committee of the Wellington Statue had given direc- , of Irish railways would in all cases be considered as relief Lions that a still further portion of the scaffolding should ' wnr , .., if the nn.. t..c. rnmnsinies nhic.etPti to that rulP_ Or de- be removed, in order to enable the Government fairly to sired its enlargement, they must do so byway of memorial. judge of the merits of the statue in its present position. The noble lord stated, for the convenience of Irish mem- The Government had not thought this proceeding at all bers, that, on Monday, either the Chancellor of the Ex necessary, but inasmuch as the expense of partial demo- chequer or himself would make the'financial statement of lition, re-erection, and final removal, would fall on the which he had given notice, and proceed with the Railway committee, they left it to them and the sculptor to take Commissioners Bill ; and as the estimates must be moved their own course. He might add, that on a review of the in the next and following week, it would be Monday different sites to which the statue might be removed, the fortnight before the house could proceed with the bills for north portion of Waterloo-place was considered the most the improvement of Irish -estates, and - that for the relief fitting. of the poor. The adjourned debate on the Irish Railways Bill was Mr. HOME announced that when any vote was pro resumed by the Marquis of Granby, who was followed by posed to be taken on account of the British-Museum, he Alderman Thompson, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. J. O'Connell, should bring under the consideration of the house what and Mr. Disraeli, in favour of the second reading, which he considered to be defects existing in the constitution of was opposed by Mr. W. Brown, Colonel Mure, Mr. F. the governing body of that establishment. French, Captain Corry, Sir W. Clay, Mr. Shaw, and Sir The question of going into committee on the Labour- W. Molesworth, the debate standing adjourned. ing Poor (Ireland) Bill, originated a:discussion on all the debateable points referring to the present state and condi- HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY. don of that country, after which the house went into, and On the motion for the resumption of the adjourned the bill passed through, committee. debate on the second reading of the Railways.(lreland) Bill, FOREIGN .5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. S. O'BRIEN drew the attention of the house and government to the system by which whole districts were AMERICA. involved in the punishment of specific outrages upon The packet-ship Oxford, which left New York on the public works, with the intention of asking the govern- 4th instant, has brought no papers to that date, which meat if they sanctioned such a system. contain important news. _ _ _ _ _ __, _ Mr. LABOUCHERE observed That such had been the We learn that General Taylor had really captured rule laid down by the government, in order to protect Victoria, which town he entered with General Quitman public servants in the execution of their duty. It was on the 9th. General Quitman drove the Mexicans before the only manner in which they could be adequately pro- him the last 30 or 40 miles before entering Victoria. tected, and the result had, in many instances, proved the The Mexicans were very reluctant to give up the place, wisdom of the rule. but went out on one side as Quitman entered on the The adjourned debate on Lord G. Bentinck's bill was other. General Quitman, having no cavalry, could not then opened by Mr. B. Osborne in favour, who was fol- pursue *Lem. The Mexican army, it was believed, was lowed on the same side by Col. Conolly, Sir John Walsh, not far off. The Mexican soldiers seen in the neigbour Sir Henry Barron, and Mr. W. R. Collett. The bill was hood of Saltillo are supposed to have '- opposed by Captain Layard, Sir R. Peel, and Lord John parties of some 1500 to 2000 men kept in possession or Russell. this side of the desert between Sakillo and San Luis, tc seen advanced Mr. MUNTZ should vote against the bil had spoken in favour of it, on the groundi though he destroy the water tanks in case the American army should move in force in the direction of San Luis. Col. Kinney would involve the resignation of government. brought a•rumour to Tampico, that 15,000 Mexicans were 'Lord G. BENTINCK having replied, the house divided, to attack Saltillo on the 27th of December. Large Mexi and the bill was lost by 322 to 118. can forces, mostly cavalry, were at Tula at the last dates, under General Valentia. Generals Urrea, Romero, and HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. Fernandez were also reported in that vicinity. The adjourned debate on the Factory Bill was resumed On the Ist of January General Taylor sent forward Col. by Sir A. L. HAY, .who contended against the bill, quo- May to examine the mountain passes between Montemo ting the opinion of Mr. Horner that it would be the ruin rales and Labradores. On his return he took another of the manufacturers. pass leading to Linares, and was attacked by a large body Mr. BERNAL supported the bill, which the operatives of the enemy, and his rear guard cut off by rolling large themselves had demanded, though threatened with a re- stones into the pass, which was scarcely wide enough for action of wages as the consequence. Independently of a single horseman. Colonel May managed to get through all other considerations, it was absolutely necessary for with the main body of his force, and reached a spot where their health that the hours of labour should be dimi- he was enabled to dismount and return to succour the nished, rear guard. But it was too late : the enemy had retreated opposed the motion as an absurd with their prisoners. At one time May's dragoons were ms interference with the industry of the almost at the mercy of the enemy, had the latter dis- Americans had already an advantage of charged their pieces with accuracy • for the position they Mr. DENNISTO and dang count! ght an win passed. per cen wer _ ....us of the troops. Col. loss had not been ascertained, nor whether he had any men killed. There can be no doubt, however, that e over our manufacturers equal to ten I oce ald be greatly increased if such a bill I Ma -•••v 4.144111, 1/LIVV CV Mr: FERRAN]) strongly supported the bill against a some had fallen. Generals Taylor, Twiggs, Patterson, measure of the nature of which .he had never, during the and Pillow were at Victoria wih a large force. General ten years he had advocated it, known a manufacturer Shields, with 650 men, marched from Tampico on the to oive his opinion in the prese nce o f hi s 10th towards Alt am i ra , w ith th e suppose d i n t en ti on o f b -4 , , arguments of its opponents went to put opening communications with General Taylor at Victoria. rise or fall of a farthing a pound in From two to three thousand Mexican troops were between • lives of the unfortunate beings who Tampico and Victoria, with which it was . supposed Gen. [then a' operatives more v toned in ine mins and factories. Inc cotton trade of the onielas mint nave an engagement. The force remaining country was carried on at an annual sacrifice of the lives at Tampico numbered 950 men. Colonel Kinney states of thousands of the people of England. that the Mexican force at San Luis amounted to 30,000 Mr. ROEBUCK admitted that the labouring population men, and he estimates their entire force in the field at of the country entertained opinions favourable to the bill, 50,000 men. Generals Taylor and Patterson, with 6,000 but was satisfied that, to grant it, would inflict a serious men, were at Victoria, waiting orders from General Scott. evil. He was certain that, if the bill were passed, the The Secretary of the Treasury had sent a report to Chancellor of the Exchequer would be the first to feel its Congress, recommending an increase of duty on various effects ; and he was positive that the cotton-spinners articles, and a diminution on others. The other com themselves would turn round on the hon. member for mercial news we give in another column. Knaresborough, and those who, like him, were exciting The Earl of Elgin had arrived at Canada. nd be as loud in their complaint; the act as they were then in their demands to them on the question for passing - have it The tow-boat Phoenix had exploded at New Orleans. The Phoenix was towing the British ships Manchester and Mr. Borthwick, Sir R. Inglis, Sir George Strickland, when all of her six boilers exploded at once. By this and Lord Etrington, supported the bill ; and Mr. Tre- calamity Mr. Lathrop, the pilot, was blown overboard, lawney opposed it. and seven men holding various stations were killed. On Mr. NEWDEGATE was in favour of the second reading board the bark Leontine the destruction was yet greater. of the bill, and he regretted that he had been too late to Eight Germans were killed, and a large number wounded. present a great number of petitions, with which he had ti Two of the Manchester's crew were killed. The bark been entrusted from Huddersfield, in favour of it. had come up to town with 126 German emigrants, and Mr. T. DUNCOMBE believed that both the master ma- the explosion made a fearful wreck. mufacturers and the operatives were tired of the agitation of the question and; if that were so, he could not but government had not come forward to FRANCE. The Journal des De'bats of Wednesday, announces in regret that setth se question at once, and finally. Believing that leader type, and with the easily recognisable conspicuous the bill would be conducive to the moral improvement of ness in which important intelligence is communicated, that the people, he would cordially vote for the second reading. the French ambassador has been received at dinner by her After some further debate, interrupted by cries of Majesty the Queen of England.; and had subsequently " Divide," in which Sir R. Peel declared that he should passed the evening at Lord Palmerston's. This announce vote against the second reading, and Lord G. Bentinck ment had the effect of leading the public to believe that ;4-s favour, the house divided, and the second reading personal misunderstandings were at an end ; a general by a majority of 195 to 87. • pression prevailed, that M. Guizot would take some op portunity of explaining in the chamber those expressions OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. of his last speech which had proved so disagreeable to the r having briefly related the events fanlimr. of T Lord BEAUN dras on the condition of being treated with all the flours of war, and the shameful act of the Portu f the French Bishops for his year are tinctured with an unusually strong infusion of Ultra-montanism. Papal supremacy is the exclusive theme of some, and forms a more or less promi nent feature in all which we have seen. In more than one of these letters the terms in which the doctrine is in culcated, indicates something like a feeling of insecurity on the part of the writers. They seem to suspect or antici pate a latent insubordination among the inferior Clergy ; and to cling to the Roman centre of unity, simply as the key-stone which upholds the episcopal authority. As The Lenten IA, )ral Lett( 'nese Gc vernment in placing forty or fifty of the captured officers on board a brig with the intention of transporting them to a penal settlement on the coast of Africa, asked if our Government had received any communications on the subject, and if they had done anything to obtain a re versal of the Portuguese decree. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE admitted the fact, and deeply regretted that the Portuguese Government had so resolved to use men who had surrendered on condition of being treated with all the honours of war. But all that could be done had been done. The moment the British Charge d'Affaires had heard of the decree, he presented a representation to the Court of Lisbon ; and the Belgian and French "' ' ' hey inc )e weak anc WEST INDIES. The steam-ship Teviot arrived at Southampton on riday. She brings no news of importance. It, is be had likewise presented representations. The 'object of our large force on the coast of Portugal was to protect British interests ; and, acting with strict neutrality, circumstances might arise, such as the presence of Don Miguel, or of persons acting with 'the object of placing him on the throne, which might give rise to the question how far ex isting treaties would warrant our interference. The Earl of ABERDEEN remarked that this Government ueveu ui .J amaica mat it is the same disease which has destroyed the potato in Europe that has attacked the cocoa in that island. Major-General Berkeley, in com mand of the forces at Jamaica, is spoken of in Barbadoes as the new commander-in-chief of the Windward station. A very heavy rain last Christmas was experienced in Barbadoes, Grenada, St. Vincent, and Tobago, which was exceedingly welcome to the planters. Col. Torrens should be particularly cautious, because it had somehow, whether rightly or wrongly, obtained circulation that the cause of the insurrection had the good wishes of the British Government. The force we had in the Tagus was sufficient to overawe the entire kingdom. We took a, perhaps, too active part in placing the Queen of Portugal on her throne, and we ought now to give at least such was to be succeeded in the governorship of St. Lucia by Major Yea, of the 7th Fuziliers. At Antigua a bill to as similate the currency of the land to that of the mother uutußry nett passea Lne assemoly. Ib4 emigrants trom Madeira arrived at Dominica on the 19th of January. A smart shock of earthquakewas felt at Trinidad on the 13th of January. Lord Harris, the Governor of Trinidad, has offered a premium for the best essay on the cultivation of arl of ELLENHOROUGH could not say what our - - of the garrisor Luv iasus was tnere tor; but he cou that, but for its presence there, the Queen I have met Don Miguel in London. Year's-day The Duke of Portland (se six days Portiigal woul 'pain, on t on the state of the criminal law, especially with respect to juvenile offenders. The noble lord then entered, in an elaborate speech, into the statistics of crime in this and other countries, and called on the house, if they arreed wit employers NEW ZEALAND. The bark Cecilia, Captain Pearce, with a full cargo of Ara and the petitioners in their sense of the infinite importance of the subject, and thought that the time was come when even they ought to apply themselves in good earnest to the amendment of the criminal law, and more especially of the laws relating to prison discipline, to be prepared for a proposition whicl arrived at Plymouth on the 15th - inst., from Auckland, New Zealand. The native chief Heki, who formerly dis turbed the northern colony, continues quiet, and appears likely to remain so. In the south the vigorous measures of Governor Grey have completely suppressed the rebel ' lions effort- f Ranehiet- t-' sutmit to them, and at a very early day to comply with the prayer of the petition. After some observations from the Duke of RICHMOND and Earl GREY, some other business was disposed of, and their lordships adjourned. so. ___.„ .a, whose her was taken priso ner in Cook's Straits, and has been executed, after an in vestigation which proved his participation in the late dis turbances on the river Hutt. The course pursued by the new colonial government at Wellington has given entire sa tisfaction. RIVER PLATA.—The William Peile, Captain Sproat from Monte Video, arrived at Liverpool on Friday. Sh left the Cisplatine capital on the 16th December. but ul ;o that HOUSE OF LORDS FRIDAY The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Ma jesty's Ministers would produce copies of a correspon- dence whit Lace • between t he government o: India and the promoters of railways in that portion of vera had gone up the Uruguay, with a force 013000 men, her Majesty's dominions, on the subject of advances All is quiet in Monte Video, and trade generally was dull. by way of loan, for carrying out such, projects. The noble , The London Observer says that Lord Howden is still at Earl also complained that the people of India had to pay 1 Paris, and that there is no reason whatever to doubt that five per cent. for money, when it -could be raised in Eng- he will be speedily enabled to proceed to his c }and for the purposes of Government at three-and-ahalf. armed with the combined instruction of the Governments The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there would be no of France and England for the settlement of all points in objection to produce the correspondence when complete. dispute between the belligerent parties on both sides of Conditions had been suggested by the Government, on the River Plata. So far as the negociations have pro -which ,certain advances might be made on account of rail- ceeded there is no point of difference, and they only wait -ways to he constructed in India, but up to the present the leisure of the French Cabinet from other more press time•they had not been accepted. ing matters, to be put into such a shape as will enable the Lord ASHBURTON renewed his motion for various re- British Envoy to carry out the wishes of both Govern turns relative to the capital embarked in railways, and of ments for a satisfactory pacification. the investments of the bank of England in bonds, deben- The public slave-market at Constantinople has been [estination, tures, or ether securities of railway companies . abolished, but it is suspected that the traffic in human be- The Earl of CLARENDON objected to the latter return, ings will still be carried on in the shape of private bargains. on the ground that it would establish a precedent, by Lord Hardinge has resolved on the reduction of the ,•1_1•• . • . • - which the bank might be hereafter compelled to disclose postage throughout India, and the introduction of a sys to the public the names of those parties to whom they tem similar to that of Rowland Hill. At present, for a bad given credit. , daily paper, restricted in weight to about one-fourth of a Lord ASHBURTON was willing to substitute for the re- London journal, the postage amounts in some parts of turn objected to by the noble earl, one to the effect of an India to £lO annually. account of public securities held by the bank, his only THE EMIGRATION TO CANADA IN 1846.—The Mon object being to enable Parliament to see what had been treal Herald furnishes the following official statement of the cause of the movement in the money market, and the 1846 :—,Number of Emigrants landed at the Ports of extent to which the agency of the bank had been used in Quebec and Montreal, 32,753, viz., from England, 9,263 ; reference to railway securities. He begged it to be from Ireland, 21,049 ; from Scotland, 1,655 ; Germans clearly understood, that he cast no reflection upon the from Hamburg and Bremen, 896; total, 32,753. Adults, bank dir e ctors, believing, as he did, that no body of men males, 12,366 ' females, 10,826 • children, Ito 14 years, could be more honourable in their trans ac tions. males, 3,901 ; ditto, females, 3;814 ; children under one On the or d er o f t h e day for going into committee year, 1,180; total, 32,153. The male adult emigration is on the Sugar in Breweries and Distilleries Bills, a discus- classed as follows, viz., mechanics 715 ; farmers, 4,831; sion of seme length ensued, Lord STANLEY proposing, as labourers, 6,733 ; servants, 87 ; sot'al, 12,366. Destine an amendment, that the Distilleries Bill be referred to a tion—Proceeded to Western Canada, 24,136 ; estimated select committee up stairs uuon whirl] mnfinn a rlivici nn rturnhAr in Fficifprn 011119,10 9 ADD • doe finnt;nn 'miry -mum at 5ii,0,.... . tov-.0.-.. ! 4..“.....u. Jo .-..i.crii %.,ainicus, Ayouv ; UMIIIIIIIIOII 1.111/I.IIOWII, took place, when there appeared, for the original motion, estimated as haling gone to the United States, 6,617 ; contents, 35 ; non-contents, 27 : majority, 8,--and the total, 32,753, The emigration into Western Canada via bills then went through committee without further oppo.. , the United States, from actual returns received, is 2,864, sition. I of which number about 500 are Germans, Of the Ger- Housg OF COMMONS. —FRIDAY. j man emigration this year, via Quebec, upwards of 200 The City o f London Small Debts Bill was read a second have settled in Upper Canada; the remainder we.Z.lt to the time. , United States. The Irish emigro*: of the .0-- ation of ft,. gr. HAWES informed the house that the House of estimated at upwards of five-sixths of the whole I thence went to Tunis, where the be y ,pain— . 5 ...._,...., _ the private marriage. It was then I received the grand cordon of Charles 111., which was given not to the liter ary man, but to the man—to me, Alexandre Dumas, Marquis Davy de la Pailleterie, and friend of the Duke of Montpensier.—(Sensation in court.) s ,ois received by his brother, who received me as a French en voy, and conferrevl upgn Ipe the order of Nichan. lii Qr, was absent, but I was honourably T HE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. '3%t4e% DREADPOL SHIA RE C K.- 1 -The fine packet Creole, which was long employed 1 3etween New Orleans and Bordeaux, has been wrecked on the eastern coast of the island of Cuba. She left Borg Beaux on the Bth of Novem ber, with 135 persons on boar d, including crew- and pas sengers. On the 19th of Dec ember she was driven on the submarine rocks off Nuevitas„ Canal of Bahama, and re mained in this perilous situati on during two days and three nights. All hopes of getting her off, notwithstanding the passengers added their exerts. ons to those Of the crew, be ing at an end, the captain oreiered her masts to be cut off by the board, and turned ev. effort to save the passen gers; but before means could be taken the ship broke up. Out of 155 persons, only 82 reached the shore. Among those who were lost was the captain, M. Jules Cayol, who refused to quit the vessel 'until every other living person had been.got off. Those saved have been-well-treated by the inhabitants, and were expecting to leave shortly for New Orlea , s. THE BLikeK SEA.—The Siecle quotes the following letter from Odessa, of the 29th ult. :—" The trade of Odessa .was never more flourishing than in. 1846. In the course of that year, 1,441 vessels entered our harbour, and 1,512 -sailed from it. The exports amounted to 22,763,055'effective roubles (91,052.220 f.), and the im ports to 7, , 715,047 effective roubles (30,508462 f.), forming together a total of 30,508,462 roubles ' and showing an increase,. as compared with the amount of the preceding year, of 4.,318,360 roubles. The imports of 1846 con sisted of .5,840,803 effective roubles (25,363,208 f.) in - landise, and 1,904,605 roubles (7,618,4200 inspe7 merc The wheat exported last year exceeded 2,000,000 tzetwers, representing a value of 15,000,000 of effective roubles (60,000,000 f.), the largest quantity of grain ever exported from Odessa in one year. There were still lying at Odessa, on the Ist instant, 725,000 tzetwers of wheat (1,515,250 bectolitres), and 95,000 tzetwers of other grain (198,350 hectolitres), besides 30,000 tzetwers of flax seed." A MONSTER STEAM SHIP.—On Saturday, the 31st ult., the first of a line of steam ships, to run between New York and Bremen, touching at Cowes, was launched at New York. She is built of white oak ; length of keel 220 feet, length of upper deck, 240 feet, extreme length over all 260 feet ; breadth of beam moulded, 39 feet ; depth of hold, 31 feet ; on the outside 40 feet ; Custom house measurement, 1750 tons ; carpenters' measurement, 2350: the has four decks, the upper one will be flush fore and aft. She is to be fitted with two engines, each of 1000-horse power. The capacity of the cylinders is 72 inches, with ten feet stroke, and they weigh 20,000 pounds ; each of the bed plates, which are of cast-iron, weighs 40,000 pounds ; she has an entire wrought-iron frame ; four cranks and shafts, each weighing 8000 pounds ; the shafts are 20 inches in diameter, and IS inches , in the journals. The boilers are 16 feet front, 36 feet long, and are braced in every square foot. The whole will be 40 feet diameter. The cabins are designed to accommodate 200 first, and about 72 second class passengers. Her freight eanacities. and all the wants of the shin_ inelndirny coal; be - 600 tons She will be commanded b; Capt. Hewitt, late of the Havre packet ship Utica, and will leave New York on her first voyage about the first of March. EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—Mr. Seaman has introduced a bill into the House of Representatives, the object of which is to prevent the evils arising out of the course pursued by the pariAh authorities in many of the European states, namely, that of sending their crimi nals and paupers in ships to this country—thus ' for a tri fling sum, getting rid effectually of supporting them ; and throwing upon us the responsibility and expense of pro viding poorhouse or prison accommodation for the trans ported. The bill provides that the consuls and commer cial agents of the United States shall examine on oath or otherwise, as may best serve the proposed end, all immi grants who take passage in vessels from the ports where they are resident, and which vessels are bound for the United States ; and if it appears that such emigrants have not been paupers‘or convicts, then the consuls are to give certificates to that effect ; but if, on the contrary, it ap pears that they have been the inmates of prisons or work houses, the consuls are to refuse the certificates. The certificates, when given, are to be duplicated, and a copy sent to the authorities of the port for which the N.23sel sails. Persons arriving in ports of the United States without such certificates are to be sent whence they came, and the master or owner of the vessel from which any im migrant is landed without such certificate shall be liable to a fine of g2so.—American paper. . AN INDIAN BATTLE.—A letter from a gentleman at Council Bluffs, dated on the 17th of December, to his cor respondent in St. Louis, states that on the previous day a band of the Omahas were met by a band of the Sioux, in the neighbourhood of the Bluffs, that a battle ensued be tween them ; and that the Sioux killed 60 of the Omahas before the conflict terminated. The following particulars we find in a letter to the St. Louis Republican :—" it was a cold-blooded butchery of women and children, in the absence of all the warriors of the village. On the night of the 12th and 13th, the letter states, a war party of Yancton Sioux Indians defeated and destroyed 14 tribes of the Omaha tribe of Indians, located at the time at W' d's Bluff- it -- ' situated about 60 miles from this ilice-L- Belleview. The men and warriors of the Omahas had left the camp on a hunt ; and the Sioux, soon after they reached the camp, discovered that they had only women and children to contend with. The slaughter was terrible 73 were killed, and 19 mortally wounded. Two men made their escape—one of them named Joseph Lafleche, a trader in the employ of Mr. Peter A. Sharpy, and at the time in charge of a stock of goods. He ran from the scene of blood barefooted, and arrived at Belleview with both feet frozen. Mr. Sharp and Major Miller, the pre sent agent, dispatched a party of men to ascertain the facts, and they confirmed, on their return, the report of Lafleche. They also reported that five of the Sioux In dians had been killed, no doubt stabbed by the Omaha Squaws. Going 20 miles further than the ground of the massacre they found the place where the goods of the trader had been divided among the robbers. It seems," adds the letter, " that fate is against the Omaha Indians. Four or five days before this event took place, one camp, lodging at Carbanne's old trading house, was attacked by a war party of Ayonasi commanded by the well known chief White Cloud, and four of the men wounded. and one woman killec SUPPLIES FROM NEW ORLEANS.—We find, in an American paper, the following estimate of the supplies that can be furnished from New Orleans, and which is stated to be made by a long-established and extensive house in New Orleans, intimately acquainted with the capabilities of all the cultivated districts on the great plain of the Mississippi, the produce of which passes by New Orleans. The statement embraces the probable amount of provisions that have come or will come to New Orleans, from the Ist September past to the 31st August, , 1847." It is impossible ( say the writers ) to ,say.witir any accuracy what portion of it will reach England, as large ships cannot get to New Orleans for want of a sufficient depth of water at the entrance of the Mississippi ; this difficulty will be overcome next year by the recent dis- covery of Cat Island Harbour, where vessels of the largest class can be admitted and laden with grain and provisions, this fine harbour being connected with a short railroad of only .forty-six miles in length, by which the produce landed from the Mississippi can board in less than three hours travel be put on Quarter sacks 500.000 say Ditto Flour in barrels 900,000 „ 2,000,000 or 250,000 4,500,000 „ 550,000 bulk Ditto shelled in sacks 1,500,000 „ 4,500,000 „ 510,000 Ditto meal in barrels 150,000 „ 450,000 „ 56,000 Oats, barrels, and sacks 300,000 „ 900,000 „ 112,000 ,608,000 000 quarters of grain of every description, to 500,000 lbs. weight of hams in bulk, 45,000 barrels and kegs of butter, 400,000 barrels and casks of salted pork, 1,000,000 lbs. weight inbulk of salted pork 110,000 barrels of lard, 350,000 kegs of lard. " The total estimate of the value of products brought to New Orleans this year, including sugar, molasses, cotton, tobacco, hemp, hay, tallow, staves, lumber, &c., , may be set down at 90,000,000 of dollars." TRIAL OF A NOVELIST.—On the 29th ult. at the tribu nal de la Seine, the Paris papers, Le Constitutionnel and La Presse, preferred their charge against Mons. Alexandre Dumas and the proprietors of certain Parisian journals. M. Alexandre Dumas was charged with having broken his engagement with the two above-named journals in the year 1845, and for not having wr: tten any one of the works assembled, it having been announced that the lr illilirroo 7 author of Monte Cristo" would plead his own cause ; and the doors were scarcely thrown open, when every corner patient audience had listened to an unimportant and un interesting case which was going on, and their impatience was in no wise allayed by the non-appearance of M. Dumas. It began already to be rumoured that he would not appear, when he was ushered in by . the hussier by a private door. He was at once recognised by his dark complexion, -and his being extremely over-dressed. The first outburst of satisfaction at his appearance having sub sided, a deep silence prevailed. Dumas pleaded his own case, contending that he had not broken his engage ment, but must first complete previous engagements to the extent of 80 volumes Weeeli was less remark able for modesty that for (French) eloquence. He dwelt complacently upon his almost superhuman labours as a Writer. " The plaintiffs pretend,"' said he, " that at my villa at St. Germain d remained idle. I wrote there eight volumes of Balsamo.' At the same time I was occupied with representations of Shakspere and Dumas in the theatre of St. Germain ; hut I do not think I can be re- proached for that, especially as I gave them 27,000 lines in two months. As regards my journey to Spain, I never solicited a mission ; the Duke of Montpensier, who en tertains a degree of friendship for me, said to me as his brother had said formerly. ' Come to my marriage, I wish 'Saivanc you to be pregent at a national fete.' M. (16 then asked me if I could leave for Spain and Algeria, and I replied that it was the very thing for me, as I required repose. ' You will then go to Spain,' said the minister, ' and to Algeria, a country not much known, especially to our deputies, who speak about it every day without know ing anything at all about it.'—(Laughter.) I left for Spain as a guest, and was the only Frenchman present r . lMSPclnwr2L.lmsw2pmgssw der to reach nuns, the French government had placed at my disposal the steamer Veloce ; it was for the use of myself and the Bey of Tunis alone.—Such favours are only granted to Princes and friends. We were close to the African coast when I learnt that our prisnueis might be liberated by prompt intervention on my part. Twelve lives were to be saved, the sole remnant of the captives who escaped the. massacre of Sidi Brahim. It was I, who, with the Veloce under my orders, saved Captain Cognard and his brave comrades, and brought them to Melina, where 3,000 persOns offered me-a banquet. lam now, forsooth, asked for 50,000 francs damages for having been idle—whilst I—yes, I—saved from the sword of the enemy the lives of twelve of my countrymen ! I took six persons in my suite, who represented the art of painting, as I my self represented the art of literature."—The case was ad journed. A large crowd was collected outside to see M. Dumas come out, and they accompanied him to the Rue Barillerie, where a magnificent Arab charger, with gold trappings, was waiting for him. IRELAND The Ballinasloe Star contains several instances of the re-appearance of .the potato blight in the forthcoming crops. It is a remarkable fact, from which each will draw his own inference, that there are not less than fifteen thousand puncheons of whiskey at present stored in Dublin. At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the rent for the week was announced to be £l7 14s. 2d., of which £ll was forwarded from Liverpool. The Queen Dowager has sent £2O to the remote and retired district of Headford, in the county of Galway, where there has existed a lace factory for more than two centuries. The remittance was accompanied with an or der for lace to that amount. THE BANK PARCEL ROBBERY.—The parcel containing £1,500 sent from the Nenagh branch of the Tipperary bank to Limerick, was found in a stable of the Limerick coach-office. The boy who was taken up on suspicion confessed to the robbery, and pointed out the spot where the booty was hid. STOCK OF CORN IN DUBLIN.—So unusually large is the stock of corn at present in the Custom-house stores in Dublin that no room exists for a further supply, nor can there be any more warehoused there until a new loft in one of the large stores, which is at present being erected, shall have been completed. Two cases of blunderbuses arrived in Clonmel from Bristol on the Bth inst. The proprietor said the price of the blunderbuses was two shillings and sixpence each, and guns and pistols cheaper. These arms, he said, were obtained from the pawnbrokers and Jews' hops in Lon don, where they are lying useless, the owners being glad to get rid of them at any price. The barque Champlain, so long known as a regular trader to Cork, was totally wrecked on the night of the Ist of January last, at the entrance of the harbour of Li verpool, Nova Scotia, and has since been condemned, and the hull materials sold. • She latterly belonged to, Mr. George Lawrence, of Cork, who, we are glad to learn, was insured. The master and crew were all saved. MURDER NEAR CHARLEVILLE.—The house of a man named Fox, situated in Coolsmuttane, parish of Shan drum, within about three miles of Charleville, in Cork, was attacked and broken into on Saturday night, and the occupier Fox, who it is supposed resisted the entry of the miscreants, was shot dead. The motives which could have influenced them in their fatal attack have not trans- pired . Mr. Monahan, the Irish Solicitor-General has been re turned for Galway, by a majority of 4 over the repeal can didate. The numbers for Mr. Monahan 510 ; and for Mr. O'Flaherty 506. It is said that much bribery was resorted to. Some imprudent person caused the Cathe dral bell to be rung, and the consequence was a riot. The mob collected round the Cathedral and demolished all the windows at the west side, and the houses of several of Mr. Monahan's supporters were injured. The Marquis of Waterford has dire!ted the purchase of Indian corn to the amount of £4,000, to be retailed at prime cost, and a portion to be distributed gratuitously where destitution prevails. The Marchioness of Water ford, independently of establishing a soup kitchen and a clothing institution, has subscribed £l6O to the Portkiw Poor Relief Fund. The Marquis established a soup kitchen at Curraghmore, which has been open during the winter, and one at Kilmacthomas. - OPERATION OF THE PUBLIC WORKS SYSTEM.—The Meath Herald publishes the subjoined extract of a letter received by a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Kells : " I think it but right to inform you of two persons who have been put on the public works in the barony of Skryne by the relief committee. . One of them is the son of a widow who died in May last. He sold, since then, two cows for 24 guineas, three pigs for £l5, two yearlings £l2, one cow £6, one calf £3, making a sum altogether amounting to £6O. The other man was in the employ ment of a gentleman since May. He left his place about three weeks since, because he could not get a 13etter din ner on a Sunday than a leg of roast pork, or bacon, and 6d. per day." With such practices of daily occurrence, it can scarcely be wondered that spring work on farms should be wholly neglected. LOVE AND CONSPIRACY.—A very curious case of love and conspiracy came before the Bantry petty sessions on Thursday week. Mr. Cornelius O'Donovan, a young gentleman residing at Bantry, received no less than forty love letters, purporting to be from Miss Catharine O'Sul livan • but, when matters had become ripe for marriage, they 1111 proved to be forgeries, Miss O'Sullivan knowing nothing of the matter. These letters were brought to him by a beggar named Connelly, answers being duly returned by him through the same source. On one occasion he received a present of a watch, a scarf, and a ring, all of inferior value. He went twice, by appointment, to Cork, but the lady of his hopes never came. Connelly, on the second occasion, was with him, and was well fed by Mr. O'Donovan, in addition to the receipt of several presents. Evidence was called to show that the letters had been written by a Miss Nano O'Sullivan, who, it was consi dered, designed to marry Mr. O'Donovan by personating the former lady. Informations were granted both against the county assizes. HORRIBLE MURDERS IN IRELAND.—On the night of the 11th instant, about four miles west of Louisburg ( Mayo), a wretch, named James Gibbons, after robbing a house in which lived two sisters, named Mary and Honor Gibbons, but one of whom (Mary) was absent, set fire to the premises, and the unfortunate inmate, Honor, was burnt to death. The murderer was a brother of the deceased, and some of the property was found hid in his house ! He was committed for trial for wilful murder.— On Saturday week, a farmer named Kelly, reported to be wealthy, and living at Cranah (Carlow), was murdered by a man named Helehan, who afterwards ransacked the house for money, and then stripped the dead body. He made his escape. A verdict of wilful murder was record ed against the same county, on Friday se'n night, a bailiff, named Hynes, while in the execution of his duty, by a seizure for rent in the house of a man named Brennan, was struck by the latter in the eye with a pitch fork, which penetrated the brain and produced death. The murderer absconded, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against him. IRISH OUTRAGES.—Returns of the number and de scription of outrages specially reported by the constabu lary throughout Ireland; in each of the years 1845 and 1846, have been laid before Parliament. It appears that the total number (in class 1) of offences against the per son amounted in 1846 to 1,923, against 1,639 in 1855, thus exhibiting a large increase in the number of outrages. The list of crimes thus committed in Ireland during the past year contains 176 cases of homicide, 158 cases of fir ing at the person, 6 of conspiracy to murder, 1 of poison- i (drape, 49 of assault with intent, &c., 100 of in- Le, 18 of abducting, 83 of assaults on the police, 604 assaults endangering life, 28 of assaults with intent to rob, g and maiming, of common assau cealing births of children, and one of unnatural crime. In 1846 there were 4,766 cases of offences against the public peace, including 465 incendiary fires, 611 robberies of arms, 232 administrations of illegal oaths, 1,783 threatening letters, 536 attacks of houses , 449 injuries of property, and 167 cases of firing into dwelhng-holirs. .1n class 3, " Offences against property," the alarming inn class stealing, from 73 9 81 t o a f e no o p fd u lu n cl n ti d e e s ri in ng w p h r i o e vi h provisions. 534 robberies, 287 cases crease 3 bs,u6r7gola cases,ri i s e s, 25iincluding exhibited,highway w34:4:005e62bn.5be cases casesTs 4 hes s seo, T o l f B h 4 n e 6 a g:e a ni n g i e ai n ra n g l s ca t to B t t:a l le l o4 , is 12,380 cases of crime and offence in appears to have been the most rife are those of Tinn^ - Cork, T Clare _., Roscommon, and Leitrim, whigi ehose most free from the stigma are Antrim, London derry, Louth, Kildare, and Carlow. in the county of Limerick, got acquainted with a Miss Honora Macmahon, who is said to have £2OOO fortune, while she was on a visit with her maternal uncle, Mr. Larkin, a wealthy shopkeeper in the town in which she was stationed. 'the attachment having reached the ears of the family, the father forbid the acquaintance, and " to hand d e o a f ssu i r i a s n s c m e d a o cni ubiy on su , r w e a ,' s ' ,ibalaedtao marriage k ria t g h e e determined upon. The wedding clothes were bought— ina-trloadduecleig the marriage settlements completed, and the day named. But, as the old adage goes, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," so it was with respect to the Mac mahon family, for the night before the appointed day, the sly policeman rescued the bride-elect from the custody of her watchful uncle, and before the discovery of her elope ment, she waa on the road tO her intended, people-in-law at Rathcormac. , When the morning came, Newcastle was in a ferment. A warrant having been obtained from a magistrate for her arrest upon a charge of felony, the family of the Macmahons was up in arms, and the Country around was searched'' for the delinquent, and a reward of £lO was offered through the Limerick Chronicle for her apprehension. Within two days Webb returned to his station, to avoid coming under the charge of deser tion and resigned his office as policeman ; but so great was the indignation of the family and the friends of the Macmahons that he had to be escorted out of the town. Perceiving he was " set," with the instinct of a policeman, he made a circuit to arrive at the place of appointment, and, eluding his pursuers, arrived in Cork on Sunday night. Here he met his "intended," and on Monday they went to get married, but were recognised by an old soldier of the local companies, who gave them into cus tody. They were immediately taken before the presiding magistrate, who discharged Webb, but remanded the ' lady. However, on Tuesday, Webb having engaged the services of Mr. J. -J. O'Brien, he showed the bench that she was not criminally chargeable, and she Was•conse • fluently discharged. This was a fortunate release, for that day, being Shrove Tuesday, they were enabled with out much delay to be joined in Wedlock by a priest. On Wednesday, the father and uncle of the young wife arrived in this city, but they found they were a day' too late, the happy eonple having started the same morning to enjoy the scenery of the Lakes of Killarney.—Cork Constitution. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. The number of members in the university of Oxford is now 5930. This time last year it was 5878. The Rev. Lonsdall Formby, B.A. (1844), of Catharine hall, has been appointed to the perpetual curacy of Formby, Lancashire: vice : I. Bowman, resigned. The Lord. Bishop of Chester has appointed the Rev. Richard Parkinson, 8.D.. Principal of St. Bees College, to be Rural Dean for the Deanery of Whitehaven. The Rev. Thomas Dale has called the attention of the parishioners to the spiritual destitution of St. Pancras, and proposed a plan in which he suggests the division of the parish into ecclesiastical districts, and that ten additional churches be erected, so as_to afford church-room for at least one-fourth of the population. The funds to be raised by subscripth n. ' THE NEW BISHOPS.—It is said that the four bishoprics will be conferred upon the Hon. and Rev. Montague Villiers, M.A., Rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury ; the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's ; the Rev. J. Slade, M.A., Canon of Chester, and Vicar of Bolton-le-Moors; and the Rev. B. P. Symonds, D.D., Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor of the University. The Senior Esquire Bedell, of the University of Cam bridge, is the bearer of the news of his election to the newly:elected chancellor of the university, who presents him with a gold chain of the value of a hundred guineas. Mr. Gunning, who has held the office for 58 years, now possesses three of these costly perquisites of office, pre sented to him in succession by the Duke of Gloucester, the Marquis Camden, and the Duke of Northumberland : and he will soon receive a fourth from the next chancellor. The Rev. Edward Hawkins, D.D., provost of Oriel College, Oxford, has been elected to the new chair of Exigetical Theology formed by the late Dr. Ireland, Dean of Westminster. Dr. Hawkins is a sound and able the ologian, and filled the office of Bampton divinity lecturer at Oxford in the year 1840: he is also the author of an able work on tradition, and of other miscellaneous theolo gical works. He was selected by the late Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Wynter, as one of the board of six doc tors who condemned the sermon of Dr. Pusey on the Eucharist. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The SUM of £12,000 iS vested in the under-mentioned religious institutions, under the will of the late Mr. John Wilkinson, of High Wycome, Bucks, who died on the 24th of December last, and such bequests are payable on the decease of his widow, in the following proportions, viz. :—To the British and Foreign Bible Society, £3OOO ' • to the London Mission ar y Society, £2OOO ; to the Church Missionary Society, £l5OO ; to the Baptist Missionary Society, £l5OO ; to the Wes leyan Missionary Society, £lOOO ; to the Religious Tract Society, £lOOO ; to the London Association in aid of the Missions of the United Brethren, called Moravians, £l5OO ; to the Pastoral Aid Society, £250 ; to the Irish Society of London for Promoting the Education and Religious In struction of the native Irish through the medium of their own language, £250. The Cambridge Advertiser states, that, in case of the refusal of Prince Albert to be put in nomination for the Chancellorship of that University, the Trinity men will bring forward Lord Burlington ; while the Times of Wed nesday states,. that the Marquis of Northampton will be their candidate. The name of the Duke of Buccleuch has also been mentioned. The Johnians to a man will support Earl Powis. The Earl graduated at St. John's, M.A., 1806 ; he is in the 62nd year of his age. The last con tested election for the Chancellorship was on the death of the Duke of Grafton in 1811. The votes were, for H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, 468 ; the Duke of Rutland, 391. Lord Powis is the only candidate as .yet in the field for the vacant office, though a requisition to Prince Albert has been signed by, we believe, all the heads of colleges, except the master of St. John's. The election is on the 25th. THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.-A gentleman, resident in the East, has communicated to one of the London pa pers the fact of the arrival in safety of Dr. Gobal, at the Holy City, which he entered on the 30th December. The Bishop, his family, and suite landed, though not without danger, at Jaffa, from her Majesty's steam-sloop Hecla, which conveyed them from Malta. The party was there welcomed with much kindness, by the authorities and others, and they remained until the 28th, when the Bishop and attendants proceeded on their journey. On the 30th they neared Jerusalem, and they were met by all the English and other residents mounted, by whom they were escorted into the city, and *seeded very soon to the church, where, as the Bishop entered, a touching and interesting hymn was sung. The Te Deum was read and the Litany of our Church, when the Rev. Mr. Nicolayson addressed the Bishop in a very interesting and feeling manner, to which tile Bishop replied, and greeted the congregation, blessing them in the name of the Lord. Tranquillity reigns throughout Palestine. COURT AND FASHION. The Court left Buckingham Palace on Saturday, for Claremont. They return to-day (Tuesday.) On Thursday, the Queen and Prince Albert honoured the French Plays with their presence. Her Majesty and the Prince, with the Royal Children, have taken their ac customed airings in the vicinity of the palace. The Duke of Bedford is to have the Garter vacant by the death of the Duke of Northumberland. The venerable Earl of Derby has so much improved in health, that his lordship intends to leave Knowsley Park for town at the end of the month. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. The Whitehaven Junction Railway was opened on Monday. It extends from that town to Maryport. The Lynn and Ely, Ely and Huntingdon and Lynn and and Dereham respectively have confirmed the lease of the lines to the Eastern Counties. There is a general report that the East Lancashire have purchased the Lancashire and Preston. Thus the East Lancashire will obtain a direct line from Liverpool through Ormskirk and Preston to Lancaster. Such has been the demand for locomotives during the last two years, that out of ten engines ordered by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire two years ago, only three have been as yet delivered. Mr. G. R. Ward has jiist finished a beautiful engraving of Mr. Mackenzie, the eminent railway contractor, from an excellent likeness by Mr. H. J. Midge, painted by public subscription, made at Paris. The proposition of the Taw Vale to lease the Exeter and Crediton was accepted by the latter. Five per cent. to be paid by the Taw Vale for paid-up capital ; the pro fits exceeding five per cent. up to a half per cent., and when exceeding five-and-a-half per cent., surplus to be shared. NOTTINGHAM, AMBERGATE, BOSTON, AND EASTERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.--The first sod of this line was cut on Friday, with much pomp and circumstance, at Bottes ford, near Belvoir Castle, by th e l a dy o f the chairman, as sisted by the noble owner of the castle—his grace the Duke of Rutland. The Brie' ,nton pay the best dividend they have yet done ; 31 per cent. for the half-year on the consolidated stock, and 28s. upon the fifth shares, whereon £4O had been paid. It is quite clear, that welcome as is this dividend, it is so, not merely as a fact by itself, but as a warranty of increased prosperity in future. SEIZING RAILWAY PARCELS.—An action has been raised before the Sheriff's Court of Paisley to decide as to the legality of the joint railway seizing the parcels of pas sengers to ascertain if they contain other than personal luggage, that being the only kind of luggage allowed to passengers. The railway company has craved time, and are to conduct their case by written pleadings. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Thursday afternoon, in conse quence of the heavy fall of rain, about thirty yards of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, near Woodhead, was washed away by the flood. A down train to Sheffield, and another to Manchester, had just passed over, when the line fell in. Had the fall occurred a few moments before, the accident must have been most frightful. In the Court of Common Pleas an action was brought by Mr. C. Barker, the advertising agent, to recover from Mr. Griffith, a merchant in Liverpool, as a provisional director and member of the committee of management of the Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool Direct Trunk Railway, the sum of £3O 3s. 6d. for work and labour done in advertising the prospectus of the company. The jury gave a verdict in favour of the claim. Four per cent. for the half-year continues to be the declared dividend of the Great Western. Delighting in that confidence which has won them so many triumphs, t' le chairman gave • his version of the existing state of affairs between the London and North-Western and his company ; and Mr. Heyworth patronizingly advised the uniform gauge companies to give up " tinkering," and to , I put their houses order. The report of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire is flattering. The traffic is progressing favourably. A dividend, after the rate of 5 per cent. per annum is to be paid to the holders of the original £lOO Sheffield and Manchester shares. The No. 1 quarter or preferential shares are to receive at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum. Satisfactory arrangements have been made with the neigh bouring lines. GERMAN RAitAtUAns.-From recent German papers we gather that within the year 1846 there opened of Ger man railways 174 German miles, or, in round numbers, about 800 English miles in length. The longest section, amounting to 94 German miles, was opened in Prussia, and includes the direct line from Hamburgh to Berlin. There is a line from Frankfort on the Oder to Bertin, which joins the line from Upper Silesia to Stettin, on the Baltic Sea. Upper Silesia is, therefore, connected by railway communication with Stettin on the Baltic, and with Hamburgh via Berlin. In another year there will be another line to Hamburgh, vid Dresden, which is now finished as far as Hanover. The Prussians completed their direct line to Hamburgh while the good . King of Hanover was raising the wind to change the uniform of his soldiers from red to blue. In the south of Germany the grand Austrian trunk line from Vienna to Poland passes through Upper Silesia, on its way to Galicia. A portion of the line already constructed leads through the vale of the Oder, and is continued to Cracow, The line now constructing from Frankfort to Leipsig will complete the communication between Upper Silesia of the Valley of the Oder to the Rhine at Bierberich. The line in pro gress from Cologne to Minden and Magdeburg will form a second means of communication between Upper Silesia and the Rhine near Dusseldorf. Between the coast of Belgium and the Rhine, the communication is opened from Antwerp and Ostend. It is intended to construct a railway from Flushing to Dusseldorf directly through Dutch and Prussian territory, in order to afford ano ther good communication with a port always open. The reader cannot but have been struck with the direc tion which all these lines seem to take. They uniformly tend from the coast towards Upper Silesia. The moun tains inclosing the valley of the Upper Oiler are traversa- Me. Over their passes the Prussian Silesian railroad either has been, or speedily will he, orried to join the grand Austrian line from Vienna to Cracow,' ieb. 23, 1847. THE DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY.—On Saturday a meeting of the sh are h o ld ers i n thi s ra il way was held in the cotton sale-room, to receive a report from a committee .appointed on the 3d of September last to inquire into. tlle 'past proceedings of th e di rec t ors , and to inquire into the present and future p ros p ec t s o ft the undertaking. The meeting was most numerously-attended.—The chair was taken by Mr. Charles Holland. He said it seemed strange; that an undertaking that had been so auspiciously usherea, in, and was accompanied at the outset by a high preminal in the market, should have sunk to a very great dis Count without any ostensible reason for the change. A meeting of the shareholders had been brought about by advertise ment last year, and was pretty numerously attended. It then appeared that nearly all of them were in total igno rance of the merits of the line, and that they had entered into it on the faith of the prospectus, and the assurance of names which were entitled to the highest credit, and that they had not given themselves the trouble of inquiring into' the matter. A committee was appointed, but for any infor , mation obtained they were indebted to the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Beloe. The object now was to estab lish confidence in the concern, if it deserved it, and to avoid all irritation.—Mr. Beloe read the report, but it was not considered advisable to publish it. Mr. Tort said the statistics of the railway were in a very small compass. Deducting the expenses last year, and paying the interest on the bonds, there would remain to the shareholders about ls. 6d. per share. He assumed that the bonds would be liquidated, and that the capital of the company would be two millions. If they took fifty seven miles of railway now open, which yielded £lB per mile per week, then the whole 112 miles would yield' something like £92,000 per annum. This would leave £50,000 nett, and would yield 2 1 . per cent. From that , point, and that point only, were the shareholders to pro ceed ; and it was now for the meeting to ascertain from the information of any gentleman present whether there , was a prospect of advancing to five or six per cent.—Mr- Chaplin (of London) said he had no doubt but the line would yet realize all that had been said, in the same pro portion as the Rouen line. He alluded to the management of theline by commissaires appointed by the Dutch govern ment. Thesegentlemen were disinterested,and no one could complain of their not acting properly. He then alluded to their solicitor and engineer in Holland,. both of whore were worthy of the highest confidence. He denied that bonds had been purchased with a view of securing the private purposes of parties in that country. He suggested that the report should be withdrawn, as it might be felt that it unjustly impugned the conduct of parties there. He had the same interest in the concern now that he held from the first. To some enquiries he said the companY, could effect a di v id en d o f 3s. 6d. per share upon paid capital on May-day. A long conversation took place relative to the purchase of the bonds, which was explained," and the Directors had promised not to purchase mare.- - Mr. Moss expressed his confidence in the concern.- -3 fr° Mozley said he was willing to take Mr. Chaplin at his word, and to view any errors which might have been com mitted as errors of judgment. What could not be undone must be submitted to. He looked at the future with, confidence ; and he was willing, for the sake of the con cern, to forgive and forget. He moved that the present provisional committee be requested to continue their ser vices pending the carrying out, by negotiation, with the' London and head direction, such arran gemen t s as ma y tend to the removal of the dissatisfaction at present existing, and to the promotion of the prosperity of the concern.—Mr. Tool seconded the resolution, and it was carried unanimously. It was agreed not to publish the report, and the meeting dispersed. THE BENCH AND THE BAR One of the judges has declared that the persons placing money in the savings' bank, who do not draw some por tion within six years, are debarred from all claim by the Statute of Limitations. William Allcard, Esq., civil engineer; Joseph Stubbs,. Esq., file manufacturer ; and John Allen, Esq., cotton ma-, nufacturer, all residing at Warrington, have been placed on the commission of the peace for this county. The Lancaster Assizes closed about noon on Thursday. The business of the Crown Court was finished on Wednes day night, about eight o'clock. On Thursday their lord ships (Barons Rolfe and Alderson) proceeded to Appleby, to open the commission for Westmorland. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, FEE. 18 (Before Baron Rolfe and a Special Jury.) LEVINS AND LAWTON v. BOUSTEAD AND LIABILITY OF PROVISIONAL COMMITTEEMEN ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who are surveyors at Manchester, to recover the. of s is of £l2B 10s. from the defendants, who are both ge is en of private fortune, Mr. Henderson, residing at Liverpool and Mr. Boustead, at Sedburgh, in Yorkshire, for services ren dered in that capacity, in reference to a projected line of railway between Lancaster and Newcastle, and in the prospectus of which the names of the defendants 'appeared as provisional committeemen. A great number of witnesses were examined, who proved that the defendants had authorised their names to be placed on the provisional committee, and that Boustead took such an active part in the scheme as to direct the diversion of the route from that originally contemplated by the surveyor sent over by Messrs. Levins and Lawton. It was not e p e s r e o ci x v g e ce d un , mt se o tm w a ne e 11 : e e , s r hatt tthheer l e ep i a r n t e h r s e eo r dn o al f Bl the yar o or rn d be directedfye n p r d o a x n y t Underengaged t h t e h s plaintiffs to be nonsuited. Mr. Baines, for the plaintiff, wished to tender a bill of exceptions, as the case was a most important one. His lordship had no objection to Mr. Baines taking the case to a court o f error or t h e H ouse of Lords. He mig ht nevertheless remark that the state of the case was perfectlt they clear took personsehaecnhoth other forbetterentered or into w a er e s o e m ei m t e i r le c r bial y tnhteres selves or their agents. B u t thi s was not the ease with n joint-stock speculations, and least of all with provisionP committees. When a man entered into partnership, he knew who were his partners ; but no provisional corn' mittee man knew who was to be placed on the list after him. It appeared to him, therefore, that there was no' thing startling in the doctrine that provisional committee men were not responsible for contracts in which they boo not taken an active part. On the 17th one of the de fendants was appointed a member of the provisional coin: mittee ; but that did not make him employ the defend' ants, and was therefore no evidence whatever.—Verdic t accordingly for defendants. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, LYTHAM SPRING CHAMPION COURSING MEETING."I This meeting took place on Wednesday, Thu r sd a y, an d Friday, over the grounds of Thomas Clifton, Esq. The hares ran well, particularly the two latter days. The fol . lowing are the returns :—The Great Clifton Cup was won by Mr. Coupe's Handy, beating Mr. Temple's Tricksy The Talbot Cup was won by Mr. Jardine's Liddesdalef beating Mr. Barnes's Lady. The Lytham Cup was Wen by Mr. Buxton's Octavia, Mr. A. Graham's Send-back the-money running up. The Veteran Stakes were we'; by Mr. E. Robinson's Old Nick, beating Mr. Saunders Dressmaker. Sapling Stakes—No. 1, won by Mr. E. 6 ' Hornby's Her Highness, beating Mr. Jepson's Hussy; No. 2, won by Mr. E. . Hornby's Hydropathy, Mr. Taylor's Ruby running up ; No. 3, won by Mr. Edmund' son's Beggar Boy, beating Mr. Atkinson's Amber; 4, won by Mr. Edmundson's Gin, beating Mr. Rogers 0 Reindeer ; No. 5, won by Mr. Reade's Sultan the Se' cond, beating Mr. Browne's Phoenix. The match be tween Mr. Graham's Sir Edward and Mr. Bake's Bird lime, was won by the former. The match between Calk Hogg's Handy Andy and Mr. Browne's Stunning Je e ‘ Banks, was won by the latter. POLITICAL MISCELI Sir Joshua Walmsley has consented to be a candida te for the representation of Leicester. On Friday, Sir Robert Peel presented a petition fro° Liverpool, in favour of further relaxation of restrictive do i ties on manufactures and commerce. of MANCHESTER BOROUGH ELECTION . — At a meeting - Lord Lincoln's committee, held on Friday, it was r e ; solved that a deputation should proceed to London Tuesday, to present the requisition, asking his lordsni to offer himself as a candidate for the rep r e sen t a tion the borough. V. SLAVERY. - Lord Brougham, in presenting a petitie, ll to the House of Lords on Friday, from the Foreign AO' Slavery Society, said he had been informed that in coTis e ; quence of the bill of l as t y ear sugar plantations had b e en propagated in Cuba and B raz il , wh i le coffee plantation; had been thrown out of cultivation. The price of slave had also increased from 20 to 25 per cent. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK'S RAILWAY BILL.- 1 Entwisle, Esq., J. I. Blackburne, Esq., J. T. COI Esq., B. Disraeli, E sq ., G. Hudson, Esq., and W. Ferrand, Esq., voted among the minority in favour of this bill. Lord Sando n , W. Brown, Esq., SirP.Egerte l „' T. Thorneley, Esq., E. Ca r d we ll, Esq., W. T. Egertsj E sq . W. Ewart, Esq., Si r P. H . Fleetwood, Capp` Gladstone, Lord R. Grosven or , Earl Grosvenor, and Jervis, Esq., voted with the majority against the bill. Mr. Barry, the architect of the new Houses of Peri l , t; ment, has intimated to th e M arqu i s •of Lansdowne tlly the HoUse of Lords will be completed for the receptio% o their lordships after th e E aster recess, with the eePrrtibe of the fresco painti ngs an d t h e statues in the niche. ""fot new House of Co mmons i s not expected to be readY bo some time. The Victoria Hall, at the south e n d, and t p Peel Lobby, at the north end, and the corridors, are il l great state of forwardness. LORD GEO. BENTINCK'S BILL AND THE IRISH at , . h t BERS.—The division was a curious one,- and no don t ; many will . go into an analysis of it. Th e Irish metni,),Bof played a very peculiar part. Two of the " dear sons . 0 0 Mr. O'Connell voted for the measure of the " sportlo lord," namely, Mess r s. D an i e l a n d John. One -0( i nests' sons Mr.( Maurice O'Con ne ll) did not vote at all, 4lO did 'AIr. O'Connell hi mse lf ; b ut his nephew (Mr. 31 ° I. Pae , John O'Connell) gave hi s vote on the ministerial s i i4 Thus the O'Connell int eres t h as b een neutra li se d in 'OO division. Much has been said as to alleged trickery O'Connell's part in the affair. THE TEN HOURS BILL. —We find the foll o o ll l names among thos e w h o vo t e d i n f avour o f t h e se o o,. reading of the Ten HOurs Bill :—Lord Sandan, Si r e d, Douglas, Sir George Strickland, Sir P. H. Fieetwil io e Mr. P. Ai n s wor th, J. I. Blackburne, Mr. W. S. Cr by ford, Mr. W. Entwisle, Mr. C. Hindley, Mr. J. Hornso Mr. R. Walker, Lord R. Grosvenor, Earl G rosv enor , e. P. Egerton, aptain Gladstone, a nd J. T o lleinauig. Against the second reading :—sr. Bowring, 31r• Brown, Mr. E. Cardwell, T. M. Gibson, Hon. Cap e' ' Lindsay, Mr. M. Phillips Mr. J. W. Patten, T. 'rig'. ley, Sir R. Peel, and W. T. Egerton. Feb, duties upon S 1 131 1e1 RO Greenw it 4 e was walk 41:4na horse, b u t a s uit him, wan ° ftered him of trice. He a, it f . it or and he , 4; _o rum. zecov er i nt i 4 `tc, h t _ g a r e eg r g 11 ) h n wall ) 311° . 13 B 4i r R a s - I°l'in ,' G e ° o r n i ' ledgi ng u s eic_ corn er o ' f Midde n ,' Le ' 1 3 , Y kno4 .1 a i nn , vl atk br.." abo the thief,°rn diat wl " e Y can .I ,IYI a small rc 7r. 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