The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Two o'clock. -e--- LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. THIS DAY. Our present arrivals, taken as a whole, are much smaller than we have to notice in any single week during the last twelve months. ARRIVALS OF CORN. From t, 26th to the Ist June, inclusive R ; l ` . . - N. iTOTAL Wheat 56 15 133 go 304 543 3153 37 1759 38 9,)2 Bears Pease Shelled Barle Rapeseed. Oatmeal .. Sack s 3579 g 76 3504 23390 qrs. ; Pease Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, 19 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 185 qrs. ; Bar qrs.; Indian Corn, 1433 1 2 Ms. —Coastwise. Oats, 717 EXPORTS.—Foreign. V Barley,— sacks ; Fl ley, q 4 qrs. ;:Peage, 4 qrs. Oat Meal, 16 sacks Indian Corn, 56 ks 16s bus Average wheat 55 ees of Grain, for the week ending May 23. 18:6. sd. L Barley 2Ss. lid. Oats 235 , , Bd. Rye 31s. 6LI Wheat 565, Duty on For Wheatlfised I Barley Beans is Ed I Pease Od. I Bark ns Os. C Wheat. :8 qrs., r Wheat I. Treat Que Cloakllan aspire to err works not and to y iittrra OTICES Pease.. 345. 6d NEW ^n Land Sun Surveyor, " Loud k before us is a valuable manual for those who cent in survcOng and levelling railway a mere perusal of it will make a man a ►y more than any of the dozen lessons ineering quacks will make a man such ; ihle many a well-grounded surveyor, I his attention b-yond tithe or other ever, er ever to ery remunerative employ- larid fur railway surcei- lrdinate duties in that line very .ply that of a thoroughly fly practical hints which zctly educat,_ j oung engineer may benefit .y making nis manual in field work. It is well got up, with diagrams and maps of considerable neatness and worth. practical man, conveys n the most perf THE MAGAZINES AND SERIALS. :wood for the present month contains several in- cc° of great va n par- Fall of Rome, its Causes at mpire," ought to be read attentively :lies to be guided to political con- ~!"Tl work in t lutely her lar The wri id ultirrat er traces wit] e full of th ;licy which rendered her abso r distant provinces for the food tggrandised the inhabitants of whilst it destroyed her agricul central provinces of Italy and had, in her nays of greatness, [lose arms and discipline had world. We shall take an op rely from this article next Ition ; which 'ns and ports, ecruited those legit nabled her to subdu porter elet's new wolk, " Le Pen is that of Lord Brouglarn's and Science who flourished in The literary articles are of wdinary r The Fortunes of Turlogli 0' Brian—(Dublin, James M`Glasha.n ; London, W. S. Orr)—improves as it pro ad contains in this number some stirring scenes The illustrations by Es. oct, j )f the six weeks. rley 2gs. Bd. I Oats.. 235. 6d. I Rye 333. gd 2d. I Pease.. 315. 4d. avcrag _ n Produce this week. 9s ed 1 Oats bs od 1 Rye.. gs 6d es 6d 1 Ind. Corn Os Od 1 Flour gs 70 Duty on Canadian 6th I Oats .. Os. Cd. I Rye.. Is Od e Os.6d. I Ind. Corn Os.od. I Flour .Os lid s. 6d. I Oats, 6d. I Rye... ase.. os. 6d. I Flour. Is. giri 31 Aver k ending ay 26, 1846 Barley, 18 qrs., price 28s Sd; mce Os. Od. Irt. LICATIONS eying and Levelling. By John Lutbor of the " Art of Lana : Relfe and Fletcher, 15, nd incialents, very ably tieptc ` , ..st style. Phiz are in Fraser contains some articles of a very even merit. That, in particular, upon " Contemporary Orators," (ia which the character of Mr. Shiel is very ably handled,) and one upon the past and present condition of British fame of-Regin of tuu sins its usual Protestant .ting miscellaneous matter. wsily ma' .one, and is full of inter VARIETIES. ORD BYRON'S " CAIN," VICAR 01 ISKIPTON not the we He well desery rd of God, but Byron's fable; es the rod—l'd Cain him were I Abel, Every rook requires at least one pound of food a week, and nine-tenths of their food consists of worms and in sects. One hundred rooks, then, in one season, destroy our thousand seven hundred and eighty pounds of worms, insects, and Lirvx. From this feet, some slight idea may be formed of the value of this much-persecuted [bird to the farmer H or ALWAY —The first question which should pre management of a particular case t itself t 9 you in the east one of which the patient may reco- There are, indeed, too many cases in ,ondition is so manifestly hopeless, a for you to overlook it. Let me, ,n you that you do not, in any instance, Ly at this conclusion. Our knowledge is e and certain as to prevent even well-in formed persons being occasionally mistaken on this point. This is true, especially with respect to the affections of internal organs. T iduals have been restored to health, dying of disease in the lungs or glso true, though to a less —ls the d ver, or is it 130 t which the patient's that it is impossib not so a .:upposed to teric glands _ icrnaies, who are now alive and were supposed to labour under malignant dis of the uterus; and I could mention many cases in patients have recovered of what had been regarded It is a good rule in the common affairs of life, for de of the question, so far we can consistently with reason do so. A sanguine lnind, tempered by a good judgment, is the beat for a medical practitioner. Those who, from physical causes or habit, are of a desponding character, will sometimes abandon a patient to a speedy death, whom another would have preserved altogether, or for a considerable time. — Sir B. Brodie's Surgical Lecture. Tun APOSTOLICITY OF THE Cutucu.—Though the " Apostle's fellowship" did not consist in, nor of neces sity include, outward and visible companionship, but ra ther an experimental oneness in the enjoyment of God of one another ; yet it surely did not inclUde ' "‘,- authoritative instructions of the doints of doctrine, but also in mat d worship, e.g. To the Church at Paul wrote plainly and pointedly Supper, leaving no doubt in the -I.r of his epistle that every - • well, vi isease c practice of our art, as in the us to look on the favourable s :e Witt not only in A.postl ters of discipline Corinth tl: ' and drink of that cup.' He wrote, also, concern -cmage to be used in the public worship of God, ' a language " understanded of the people," hearer might be able to say Amen to the giving of thanks ; for that, otherwise, the speakers and hearers would be as barbarians to one another. If, in defiance of this, the Corinthian Church had adopted a ' , le, rendered imperative by their local ecclesiastical au 'ties, by which the use of the cup in the Lord's Sup always confined to the officiating ministers of the and never extended to the congregation ; and Another rule, by which the most solemn services of the Church in public worship were always conducted in a fo reign and dead language ; it would have been palpable 'onteropt of the Apostles to have recognised that Church any longer an apostolical Church.—The Church and "*Q bu the Rev. H. AP.2\reile. per WM Chard PAYS OF MONKEYS. — Iie (Major Rogers) had once ted the invitation of a brother officer, in a totally ent part of the island, to try a few day's hostilities st the elephants of that neighbourhood, and bad cnnrt. to within a mile or two of the host and hostess were awaiting his by a delightful cool-looking river, would be the most renovating luxury 3n existence; so a plunge he determined to take, sending on his servants with the guns, and an intimation that in ten minutes be would be home to dinn er. So stripping, anti placing his things very carefully on a sto ne, he be g an - "apital swimmer, and bungalow w arrival, be a ;ht a plu ,ter. 'He warn to some distance, when, to his h rror and dis -4..ft his habil may, on a dozen monkeys "overhauling" his ie ! One was putting bis legs through the is shirt ; another clamming its head into geeyes of h his tro7 easure was concealed in I a boot ; whilst the hat formed a source of two or three others, vent and amusement to sorr who were endeavouring to unravel its mystery by unrip and taking half-a-dozen bites out of the as he regained his mental equilibrium (for ng was so ridiculous that it made him laugh heartily, thatanding his disgust at seeing his garments turned , vile purposes"), he made with a ll haste to the shore; loge of his horror when he saw these " precious ras each catch up what he could lay b o ld o f, and rattle _1 s peed into the jungle, not leaving poor Rogers even the vestige of an article of raiment to cover himself! All he heard was a glorious chattering, as they one by on e dis appeared, the last one lugging off his shirt, which, being rather awkward to carry, was continually tripping it up, by getting between its legs. Here was a pret!) , pickle for a man, under a broiling sun ! and here he staid till the in mates of the bungalow, beginning to suspect some acci dent, came out in search, ann found p oor Rogers sitting up to his neck in water. in a frame of bo d y a n d mind which may be "more easily imagined than described." — J eminiecences # the late Major Rogers. As soo ORIGIN OF LYNCH LAw.—John Lynch, the terrible judge, was a native of South Carolina, who emigrated to Kentucky shortly after the pioneer, Daniel Boone, had established himself there. Toe settlers on " the dark and bloody ground," as Kentucky was then called, were far from any seat of justice ; the nearest court-house being at a distance of 450 miles. The appointment of Lynch, es a judge, and the first exercise of his jurisdic tion, took place in the case of an Indian, who stole a horse from Daniel Boone. The Indian was caught, almost in the act, and Boone immediately instituted a court, and twelve jurors, to try the offence. John Lynch was elected chief justice. The Indian was tried, convicted, and sen tenced to receive 39 stripes, which were forthwith given. The authority thus given to Lynch was retained by him, and trials under " Lynch law" were had, whenever an outrage was committed. Lynch was a daring dissolute fellow, addicted to every species of vice. It had not been alleged, 'nowever,: that his decisions were partial or un just. He outlived Boone, and resided during the latter part of his life, on an island in the Mississippi. The author of the geography of the Mississippi speaks of him as one of those remarkable men of the " buccaneers of the west." TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN ITALY.—It is not un usual to see, lying on the edge of the tank at these times, or on another flat stone, an unfortunate baby. tightly swathed up, arms and legs and all, in an enormous quan tity of wrapper, so that it is unable to move a toe or finger. This custom (which we often see represented in old pic tures) is universal anion: the common people. A child is left any where without the possibility of crawling away, or is accidentally knocked off a shelf, or tumbled out of bed, or is hung up to a nook now and then, and left dang ling like a doll at an English rag-shop, without the least inconvenience to anybody. I was sitting one Sundiy, soon after my arrival, in the little country church of San Mar tino, a couple of miles from the city, while a baptism took place. I saw the priest, and an attendant with a large taper, and a man and a woman, and some others ; but I had no more idea, until the ceremony was all over, that it was a baptism, or that the curious little stiff instrument that was passed from one to another in the course of the ceremony by the handle—like a short poker—was a child, than I bad that it was my own christening. I borrowed the child afterwards for a minute or two, (it was lying across the font then,) and found it very red in the face, but perfectly quiet, and net to be bent upon any terms. The number of cripples in the streets soon ceased to sur prise me.—Dicken s Pictures from Italy. Ax APOSTOLICAL MINISTER.-1f we sec an ordained na'nister commending the scriptures, explaining the scrip. tures, endeavouring, by judicious patient, and persever- ing efforts, that men, women, and children may have op portunity " to hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly di gest" the contents of the sacred volume ; here we see a ' worker together with God,' and in this particular, , at see an or- least, an apostolical minister, according to scription of such. On the other hand, if w dained minister, whether bishop or presbyter, opposing reading of the Scriptures by the people generally, on lea that through the ignorance of the people, and the ,re, more injury than benefit will arise from it _de him objecting to the cbildren of his people being taught the Scriptures in the schools; if we know of his interference to prevent the attendance of his people at scriptural readings ; if, as one remarkable instance, we find him commending the zeal of a peasant who put a Bible in the fire, and enlarging in terms of high approbstion on the orthodox horror of a contaminating touch, which induced that peasant to take the vile thing in the tongs rather than his fingers. Do we here recog nise a " worker together with God " or:a worker against God? Do we here recognise a successor of Peter, who earnestly commended the Scriptures as a light to which the people did well to take heed ; and exhorted all the faithful, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappa docia, Asia, and Bithynia,' to ' desire the sincere milk of the word, that they might grow thereby' (2 Pet. r. 19 ; 1 Pet. ii. 2); or do we not, rather, recognise here a suc- Luc 1 obscurity of the Script fwes cessor of Judas, who betrayed his Master and his cause through worldly ambition ? Peter and Judas bad the same ordination. It is not by their mission in visible succession that ye shell know the true ambassadors far Christ,' from tho false, but by their fruits.—The Church and the Churches by the Rev. H. Neile. ULTERIOR VIEWS OF THE LEAGUERS.—Some there may be who think that by conceding this measure, they will put an end to agitation, and satisfy the Anti-Corn- Law League. There cannot be a more futile reason — there cannot be a great►r error. (Hear, hear, and cheers) When was organised agitation put down by concession— extorted concession? (Hear, hear, hear.) Depend up on it, a body thus organised, thus banded together, will not so easily relinquish political power, when they have tasted the draught, and found it to be sweet. (Hear, hear.) I agree with my noble friend, that the passing of this measure would not suppress the Anti-Corn-Law League—there would be that or some other similar body. But, my lords, there is no secret made of this. I won't say every member of the League shares in this feeling. To my knowledge many worthy men have entered the League, and who would desire its abolition if this measure were passed. But what was the language used by Mr, Lawrence Heyworth, who was chairman of a free trade meeting held in this city ? (Cheers.) After talking of the miracle that had been wrought in the Prime Minister, he says, " But there is something more than corn. The people will begin to ask why the system of levying taxes, by which the comforts of the people are destroyed, should be continued—they begin to ask whether it would not be better to have one tax, a tax on property, and to abolish the Custom-house al[oge,her." And he suggests that a board may be hoisted, on which should be written, " Ho nest traders from all ports may land their stuff here. No taxes—no customs !" (A laugh.) He further said, " They have lived to see their cause triumph, but he would not have the friends of free trade to relax. They must remember the House of Lords yet lived—it was the stronghold of the aristocracy. They were struggling now for something more than the maintenance of commercial liberty; commercial liberty would promote intelligence. After the settlement of the free trade question, the people would have more time to agitate for the great principle of universal suffrage. If it were good for commerce to be free, it were good for man to be free—if it were good for cotton and corn to be free, it was good for man to be free. Everything which weakened the aristocracy and which in creased the intelligence of the people, must be in favour of that noble and Christian cause." And I would wish to call the attention of the right rev. bench to the con cluding passage :—" Could they have free trade in com merce without free trade in religion, or could, whilst such a system of ecclesiastical despotism prevailed as now blinded our country, the time be far distant when the Catholic and the Dissenter would ask why the Church of Christ should be subject to such trammels ? Freedom of religion, as to be obtained by the separation of Church and State, would be one of the glorious results of free trade "—Lord Stanley's Speech. SHOOTING RED DEER IN GERMANY.—Our party was posted, as before, around a thicket, which was beaten in vain. Stretching off the❑ to the left, we reached a wood placed in a sort of narrow mountain gorge, at the very top of a wooded glen, to the foot of which the beaters de scended, and were to advance upwards. Here we lost sight of the markgraf; but our friend, the forst-rneister, in formed us in a whisper that this time we had got into as good a position as any one else. Lying down, then, flat, behind a cairn, we cocked both barrels, and waited, rather despondingly, on the chances of the " trieb." For about an hour all was silence, and once or twice we had almost fallen asleep. At last, a slight rustling sound ; and tak ing off our cap, we looked up. Gracious heaven ! what a sight met our eye! About eighty yards from our am bush, coming quietly from the glen, pausing at intervals to snuff the air (and lucky it was that we lay to leeward), was a magnificent red deer. '• It was a stag, a stag of ten, Bearing his branches sturdily In an instant our heart was in our mouth. We have, since that moment, experienced a variety of excitements stirring enough in their way—we have felt that awful si lence, still as death, when rising in a crowded court, with the ermine and the inscrutable countenance of the judge above us—a stolid and impenetrable jury before, with some trembling wretch in the dock, whose fate and fortunes de we were about to utter. We have ,e word watched, with a throbbing heart, the foreman return, wi:h the paper in his hand which held the issue of his fate ; we have heard the waxy-faced clerk of the crown utter, in tones the monotony of which was worst of cli — " Gentle men, are you agreed ?"—" answer to your names"—what say you ?—is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ?"—" not guilty—and so say you all ?" and with the verdict of ac quittal, we have heard unmoved, comparatively, the cheer which seemed to rend the heavens from the crowd with out. By the green-covered tables of Baden we have stood the hazard of the die, among a crowd as reckless as our selves and having, with a quiet eye, seen ourselves cleaned out, we have carelessly tossed our last louis d'or on the red, and with calmness watched the result— " Messieurs, faites votre jeu," the cross twirls, the hall spins—calm and unmoved we hear from the inscrutable croupier—" le rouge gegne, " as he pushes over to us a . . . . ment, and, With the exception of a run with the " Blazers," have stood the test of them all ; but we do not recollect ever having been so profoundly stirred—ever having ex .l the almost agonising sensations of that moment. :t leaped—our brain wcs in a whirl—the very light left our eyes—every pulse throbbed with such wild excite ment, that it was a mercy the rifle did not go off by acci dent. Still, however, as death we continued So lie, hold ing our breath hard, while on came the stately creature. Aware that the reputation of our country was at stake, by a desperate effort we recovered ourselves, and leaning the rifle on a rock which projected from one side of the cairn, came the anxious moment He wt;s standing perfectly motionless, with a curl of proud disdain on his nostrils as we slowly covered him just behind the right shoulder. Alarmed by some slight noise, he moved on. He was within fifty yards of us. " Now or never !" we thought. Our finger touched the trigger ; it seemed stiff—we pulled ; " downer and blitzen !" it stirred not; we had forgotten, it appeared, to cock our right barrel ; to do so now was impossible; the click would have sect off the stag like the wind. W e looked in despair at th e l e f t barrel ; the hammer of it was certainly drawn further back. Not an instant was to he lost. We touched the trigger ; a flash, a crash, a thud !—that sound which is always beard when a deer is smitten ; and down went the stately ani mal, with an ounce of lead in the heart. With a mad hurra that woke all the echoes, we leaped from our am bush, and there, with his life blood crimson on the green sward, lay the magnificent deer— " O'er him we beet our falcon eye, And grimly smiled to see him die.'' There, with one of his spreading antle rs fastened, b y the force of the fall, into the earth, lay the " King of the Wilderness," pitching in the convulsion of death, and his bright eye, as we thought, turned a melancholy look of reproach over us, as the film of death closed over it. — Dublin University Magazine. ooking THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. RAILWAY INMLLIGEAGE. ADAM SMITH STOLEN WHEN A CHILD.—When child of only three years old, he was stolen by a gang of the vagrants, called, in Scotland, tinkers, and resembling gipsies in their habits : the same race which Fletcher, of Saltoun, describes as having, in [his day, become so nu merous as to form a considerable portion of the Scottish people. It was a fortuuate circumstance that, being soon missed, his uncle, at whose house be was residing, pur sued the wretches, and restored him to his affrighted pa rent.—Lord Brougham's Lives of Men of Letters. A DOG'S KNOWLEDGE OF TIME.—It is a curious fact, that dogs can count time. I had, when a boy, a favour ite terrier, which always went with me to church. My mtither, thinking that he attracted too much of my atten tion, ordered the servant to fasten him eip every Sunday morning. He did so once or twice, but never afterwards. Trim concealed himself every Sunday morning, and either met me as I entered the church, or I found him under my seat in the pew. Mr. Southey, in his " Omniana," informs us that he knew of a dog, which was brought up by a catholic, and afterwards sold to a protestant, but still he refused to eat anything on a Friday.—Jesse's Anecdotes of Dogs. TIIE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE CORN BILL.—IS not this a singular state of affairs ? The strength of the ar gument confessedly with the Protectionists ;—the bill, if passed at all, to be passed by the votes of men who dislike both it and its author ! About one-fourth of the House of Lords are coerced into the support of it,—hating the measure heartily all the while,—lest Sir Robert Peel's government should be broken up. Another fourth are similarly coerced into an equally unwilling support ; for, as Lord Londonderry remarked, there are not six mem bers of the house who ever thought such a thing possible till within these few weeks ;—by the assurances of Lord John, that only by this path can he attain the government. So that 100 peers are to vote for a bill which they hate, in order to keep Sir R. Peel in office; and another 100 are to vote for the same bill, in order to bring Lord John into office ! Both parties cannot be right;—which of the two is deceived ?—.Herald. LORD STANLEY'S CONCLUDING APPEAL TO THE Loans.—My lords, if I know anything of the constitu tional value of this house, it is that it should interpose a wholesome and salutary obstacle to rash and inconsider ate measures—to protect the people against the conse quences of their own indiscretion. It has never been, and it never will be part of the functions of this house to resist the continuous expression of deliberately formed and united public opinion—that your lordships will never be disposed to do; hut you will oppose a check to the pro gress of hasty and irreparable measures. It is yours, al though the constitution would hardly be deemed to pro vide such a security—it is yours to protect the people, not against their own caprices and hasty judgments, but against the treachery of those above them, and chosen as their leaders. My lords, if acting on your own deliberate and impartial judgments, you scorn the degrading suspi cion of acting from unworthy motives—if you pursue that course which, in your own consciences, you believe to be for the good of the empire, you may be unsuccessful, but not disgraced ; yell may be conquered and overborne by numbers, but not degraded. You may fail to save the people from the threatened evil, but you will secure the approbation of your friends, and compel the respect of your opponents. And, my lords, if, by the blessing of God upon your proceedings this night, you can arrest the progress of hasty and ill-advised measures, and give time for the intelligence of the country to act upon the public mind,—if you should be happily successful in bringing it back to wiser councils, then, indeed, you may be proud of what you have achieved ; you may be proud of having dis charged the duties which the constitution has imposed up on you—proud of having performed those duties, unre duced by the allurements of power, and uninfluenced by the intimidations of agitation—proud of having saved your country from serious and irreparable evils. Your best re ward, my lords, will be the consciousness of having per for:ned your duty. But you will have another—you will have the reward which will arise from the approbation and the thanks of an admiring people, who will exclaim— ' Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of " Thank God that we have a House of Lords now !" Bath, with every appearance of an abundant crop. COSTUME OF A GERMAN SPORTSMAN.—The costume It is rumoured that Ibrahim Pacha is to quit Paris en of a German jager appears somewhat strange to those who June 5, to proceed to London. are accustomed to the trim dress of the English sports- The Daily News sys that Czerski, the German re man ; and as he is an animal not often seen by our touring former, is expected in this country in a few weeks. countrymen, we may as well describe him. At first sight It is said that the vacancy in the Lord Chamberlainship, it appears strange how he can even walk with any corn- occasioned by the resignation of Earl Dolawarr, is not fort ; as to shooting, that we confess, until we had an op- likely to be immediately filled up. portunity of personal observation, appeared to us quite PRICE OF BREAD.—The price of the 41b. loaf has been out of the question. The coat, which is usually made of considerably reduced by the London bakers—in some in some very thick warm cloth, is long in the skirts—longer, stances the fall is as much as 11d. at least, than any of the shooting jackets we are accus- Agnes Browne, of Stamford, in her will, dated 1470, tomed to behold ; thick cord or leather unspeakables ; bequeathed £75 "to a priest, to sing for her fifteen years and huge jack boots, bigger than any guardsman's, are the continually." main articles of his dress. The hat is conical in the On Wednesday last, the church spire at Cheiter-le crown, end wide in the leaf, like a Spanish sombrero. It street, Durham, was struck by lightning and much shat is made of green or white felt ; and, besides sundry deco. tered. rations—such as the family crest, if the wearer happen to The notorious Joseph Ady was, on Thursday, commit be a nobleman, or some little fanciful device, if be be of ted for trial, on a second charge of obtaining money under inferior rank—there are usually great bunches of feathers false pretences. stuck in the front. Suspended from the shoulders by a Two of Lord Francis Egerton's gamekeepers were at broad leather strap hangs at one side, a huge game bag, tacked by poachers on Sunday morning, and one of them made of leather or of twisted cord, and along the top of dreadfully, if not mortally, injured. which is a device which we take this opportunity of re- The hay cutting is rapidly going forward around Lei commending to such of our Cockney friends as are fond of cester. sporting, and at the same time have no desire to conceal A man named Richard Burrow, of Malvern, has been their success. It consists of a number of small loops. or committed to Worcester gaol for trial on the charge of running nooses, fastened in a row on the outside of the biting off the ear of Edward Thomas, in the course of an bag, from which are suspended the beads of any unfortu- affray at North Malvern. nate birds which happen to fall victims to the sportsman's A barrister named Ward, while labouring under brain skill. From the other shoulder, slung by another broad fever, got out of his bed-room window, at the house of his leathern band, depends the gnn ; and bow it could ever be brother, Dr. Ward, of Kensington, London, and fell into got off in time for firing was to us a marvel. Another the area, by which he was killed on Saturday last. leathern strap is fastened somewhere about the person, , An explosion of fire-damp took place at Mostyn col and at the end of it the setting dog—for he is rarely al. liery on Monday evening last. Five men and boys were lowed to range the fields—meekly follows his master, who, considerably burnt, and a horse and fivemen were injured thus equipped at all points, with a long pipe in his mouth, by the blast. and, should the weather happen to be at all cold, a huge A CURIOUS BIRD'S NEST.—A few days since Mr. bear-skin concern, something like the sporran of a High- John Hubbard, Burton Joyce, found a tom-tit's nest, lender, in front, for the purpose of thrusting both his containing several young ones, in an old hat placed on a hands into, the German sportsman goes forth to the stick in his gardens.—Nottingham Journal. slaughter ; and the mode in which he does so is pretty REVERSE OF FORTUNE.—One of the men now engaged nearly as follows:—He walks across a field, to where the as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway " trieb" or beat is appointed. He is posted with his back station at Leamington and Warwick, was, in ]B3l, mayor against a tree, and looks listlessly on, while the beaters of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon. advance with loud shouts, driving whatever game is in the The underwriters at Lloyd's, in preparation for any field before them. A big lump of a bare, something contingency arising from the hostile position of affairs on smaller than an Irish calf, cornea cantering along, at first the other side of the Atlantic, refused, last week, to apparently unconscious of the least cause for alarm. At insure American vessels, except at advanced premiums. last it discovers this singular apparition, and stops short The duty on foreign wheat at present is 16s. per quarter, to have a look. The jager meanwhile cocks both barrels ; at which, however, it is not likely, under existing circum and taking this opportunity to get a quiet aim, raises his stances, that there will he much cleared from bond. The gun, covers the bare as well as he can through the haze of grain markets throughout the country continue in a very tobacco smoke which surrounds him, he fires. The languid state. quarry seems surprised at the noise, looks round, and gal- A man named Park has been committed at Durham lops right up to the sportsman, who then gets flurried as for the manslaughter of William Robson, at Quarrington he sees it approaching ; he endeavours to take a better hill, in that county. The two were quarrelling about a aim with his second barrel, but the hare comes up so fast, gun, and in the scuffle for it, it went off, and Hobson was he cannot ;if he fires, he may possibly shoot off the ex- killed. treme end of the tail—if he does not, it puts its best foot The large fish which was observed last week in the foremost, and bolts past at the top of its speed, leaving Medway was washed ashore on Monday morning, near the sportsman much exasperated and inclined to swear. Upnor. It proves to be what is called a " white whale." Such is a scene which we have often witnessed. It is by It is of the genus Beluga, and measures thirteen feet long, no means an exaggerated picture of the trieb, or " jagd," and is six feet in circumference. where the sportsmen are drawn up in a hollow square, Some months since, a horse was stolen from Mr. Cross, around a large field, the game found in which is obliged to of Glentworth, who, having employed a gentleman as run the gauntlet through a formidable array of jagers ; agent to purchase him another, it is not a little surprising and although occasionally a good shot is to be found that he should buy and deliver to Mr. Cross his own among the German jagers, as a class they are the worst horse ! Such, however, is the fact, and the police enter appointed, the most clumsy, and the slowest sportsmen we taro hopes of being able to trace out the original thief. have ever had an opportunity of observing.—Dublin Uni- The last steamer from Halifax brought over a quantity varsity Magazine. of new Canadian or Oregon caviare, an esteemed delicacy AN OLD ENGLISH COUNTRY INN.—A more lovely prepared from the sturgeon, for the supply of which we country does not exist than all that fertilized by the have hitherto been solely indebted to Russia. The cargo " Wharfe," the most beautiful river for its size, and also included a quantity of canvass back ducks, preserved, flowing amongst scenes the most delicious and diversified, a very rich delicacy. to be found in any part of England, or even Europe. CRICKET.—EXTRAORDINARY HIT.—On Saturday, in From Harewood Bridge (or even Tadcaster) to Skipton, a match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and ele by Ilkley, Otley, Bolton, and Barden Tower, the Wharfe ven members of the University, the Earl of Stamford winds amongst a succession of beauties. Meadows of struck a ball clean over a building in the gaol, the height deepest soil, on which beef is produced worthy of the of which is 20 feet, and the distance from the wicket 240 name, with alternate amphibious woods, half on land, feet. half in water, grass, and waterfalls, complete the changing Sir George Murray is again in a dangerous state of scene. The deer-park and manor-house of the squire— health. Within the last few days he has ruptured a blood the farmstead and comfortable dwelling of the yeoman— vessel, and the most serious apprehensions are entertained. , with the neat, yet humble cottage of the labourer, are all Sir George is about the same age as- the Duke of Wel in the background of this unrivalled picture. When you lington. and with the single exception of his Grace, there I get to Bolton Bridge to dine, and find a room in an inn is not another name of more established reputation in furnished with easy chairs, pictures, and Turkey carpet, the British army. with windows opening upon a lawn, across which, through On Friday week as two young ladies were walking on vistas of laurel, rhododendron, and roses, you see the the road between Worcester and Whittington, they were lovely prospect and distant hills, you fancy you have mis- met by a cow, belonging to Mr. Hook, of Norton, when taken the hotel, and got into the duke's shooting-box ; , one of the ladies having a natural fear of these animals, but if you ring the bell and order dinner, the very neatest ran away screaming, whereupon the cow pursued her and of all country lasses will bring a trout fresh from the tossed her several times, cutting her face and otherwise stream, weighing a couple of pounds, place a chicken, bruising her severely. boiled home-cured bacon, with beans and parsley and Immediately after the race for the Derby on Wednesday, butter before you (which, if of the true faith, you will a carrier pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, the proprietor ask for), and with a smile, as she hands you the bread, of the Windsor Express newspaper, was tossed on Epsom inquire if you drink ale or water? /say the latter, and.a Downs, with the names of the three first horses attached pint of old port afterwards, which sip with open windows in the usual way. Within less than thirty minutes after and half-closed eyes in delicious languor, ruminating on 1 wards, the bird alighted on Mr. Oxley's pigeon-house. your walk and its delights, taking your first glass to the The distance from Windsor to Epsom is very nearly thirty health of " absent friends." Tell me not of chariots and miles, straight across the country. phaetons, or any other conveyance, as aids for seeing RUSTIC SIMPLICITY.—One of the servants of the Mid these things, but your feet. * * I cannot quit this land Company, at the Nottingham station, a few days most beautiful of all beautiful spots, and most unique of ago, received a letter from his lady-love in the country, country inns, without one lingering reminiscence. Before upon which he had to pay twopence. On opening it, bow you retire to the chamber allotted to you for the night, ever, be found that the writer had enclosed one of the at " the Bridge" (one replete with comforts and cleanli- postage stamps with which he had supplied her, " lest if ness), pull off your shoes and gaiters in the kitchen, it she stuck it on the outside it might be lost or stolen, and only to get a sight of it. The white stone floor and hearth cost her dear Richard an extra penny."—Nollinyham are swept and sanded for the evening. The large range, Mercury. boiler, oven, and fire, are as bright as the sun just setting At Rome, on the sth ultimo, the Rev. George Dudley over Barden Tower. The long plane-tree table and Ryder, his wife, Mrs. Ryder, his sister, Miss Sophia dresser are much whiter than this paper. The bacon and Ryder, and his three eldest children, were received into hams, incrusted with flour and salt, hang in goodly rows the Roman Catholic Church by Cardinal Acton. The high above your head. The dish covers, crockery, and Rev. G. Ryder is the second son of the late Lord Bishop warming pan, brilliantly garnish the walls—the old- lof Lichfield and Coventry. nephew of the Earl of Har fashioned clock is ticking in the corner. A large "horse" rowbv, and first erelein of Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Esq., is before the fire, with a pair of sheets on his back, in- of Grace Dieu e. .. Mrs. George Ryder is the sister tended for your slightly fatigued limbs, and the bonny in-law of the Lot d Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce. tidy lass ironing, at a small side table, a few of her mis- EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.—On Sunday tress's caps, and her own. I have been in a few of the evening, a lad about seventeen years of age , named Wil kitchens of France, and have seen the dreadful dens, the Liam Bowman, residing with his brother, who is a hair bearded, night-capped cook, taking a pinch of pepper for dresser, North Shields, was discovered to have hung him your cutlet, after having performed a similar civility to self. The boy had been left alone in the house, and on his nose. The fowl, or " half gigot" of mutton, roasting his brother's return he found the door locked inside, and, within one inch of the floor, before a few crackling sticks as no one answered tile knocking, another door, leading —and that floor ! Enough, enough ; go into the kitchen from a side passage, was broken open, when the unfortu at Belton Bridge by all means, but keep out of all in nate youth was seen suspended from the ceiling, quite France, if you wish even a twenty-miles walk to give you dead. The deceased was dres sed in a st y le similar to the the slightestl appetite; the former will in everything you culprit recently executed, whom he had seen, and the see increase it ; the latter produce the " rnal de terre," neck was protected from the cord by a pillow, which had if you persevere. But thank God we are yet at Bolton, been placed between the rope and the skin. A night cap in our mind's eve. What a scene awaits you in the morn- was pulled over the face, and the legs were tied ; and an ing, as you shake off the deep sleep of a pedestrian, and attempt seeu.ed to have been made to pinion the hands, prepare for the ramble before you, one of the most lovely, but one was at liberty, having, it is supposed, got loose for its extent, to be found in the whole world. You are during the poor fellow's struggles. The rope was drawn awoke by that peculiarly pleasing sound, the whetting of through a ring bolt at the ceiling, and a chair seemed to a scythe under your windows. The gardener is shaving have been used to jump off, and thus complete the catas the lawn of its week's growth of ambrosial beard,—not trophe. No reason, whatever, can be assigned for the blue but beautifully green, and bathed in the healthy act. The deceased bad for years visited every execution sweat of night. Every blade is loaded with dew; the sun which had taken place in London, having resided there is streaming over the eastern hills and flowing Wharfe, until within a few months since. He also took great de fresh from the ocean.—Pedestrian Bemmiscences at light in reading accounts of the conduct and execution of Home and .Abroad. criminals. The opening of the Lancaster and Carlisle railway this year is certain. _ The Morecombe Harbour and Railway Bill has been approved by a committee of the House of Commons. The East Lancashire Railway is expected to be opened in the course of next September. The Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company have determined, by a majority of 55,202 shares, to pro ceed with the undertaking. The Furness Railway is about completed, and was to be publicly opened for the conveyance of both passengers and traffic on Whit-Monday (yesterday.) The shareholders in the Grand Junction Railway, at a meeting on Tuesday, agreed to proceed in Parliament for all their bills. The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Bill was read a third time in the House of Com mons on Friday, and passed. RAILWAY SURVEYORS.—In the course of the trial of an action in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, brought by a surveyor to recover remuneration for ser vices performed for a railway company in September and October last, some of the witnesses stated that 10 guineas a day for a surveyor was a very reasonable sum at that time ; and that they had known an engineer receive £306 for ten days' work. DOMINIONS OF THE GREAT RAILWAY POTENTATE.— In cross-examination by Mr. Wranghana, before the com mittee upon the Eastern Counties Extensions Bill, Mr. Hudson, M.P., said that he " was chairman of the Ber. wick and Newcastle, the Newcastle and Darlington, the Great North of England from Darlington to York, the York and North Midland from York to Normanton, the Midland from Normanton to Rugby, the Branch from Rugby to Derby, the Birmingham and Gloucester, the Gloucester and Bristol. the Leeds and Bradford, and the Eastern Counties Companies, as well as of several branches from the Midland to Hull and elsewhere. Those com panies represented a capital of between 50 and 60 millions sterling. That was the present extent of his dominions." A responsibility so great was seldom placed upon one man's shoulders. PREAMBLES PROVED.—During last week considerable progress has been made in the bills before Parliament. The preambles of the following have been declared proved. In the Lords :--Midland Sys°o❑ and Peterborough. In the Commons—proved :—Airdrie and Mon klands ; Buck inghamshire—Thring to Banbury ; Glasgow Southern Terminal; Grand Junction (Hutton to Warrington) ; Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds, London and Birming ham (Camden and Euston Stations); Midland (Notting ham and Mansfield); Midland and Eastern Counties — Cambridge and Weedon ; Midland (Burton on Trent and Nuneaton) ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, South Wales, No. 2, with Amendments. Not proved : Caledonian (Dundyvan Branch) ; Caledonian (Langholm Branch) ; London and South Essex, Halesworth and Nor wich, Ipswich, Norwich and Yarmouth ; Norfolk (Exten sion to Stowmarket); North Gravesend, North British (Carlisle Extension) ; St. Helen's Canal, and Waveney Talley. THE CJURT ty FASHIONABLE WORLD, We are happy to say, that the Queen and the infant Princess are going on most favourably. The daily calls of the nobility and gentry at Buckingham Palace continue to be very numerous. Prince Albert and the junior mem bers of the Royal Family have taken their accustomed ex ercise, and continue in excellent health. We hear that the infant Princess is to be named Eliza beth, after the " Virgin Queen," whose reign was among the most brilliant in the annals of English history. GENERAL MISCELLANY DISAPPOINTED OF A SCENE.—In the House of Com mons, on Monday, Mr. O'Brien, shortly after his libera tion. entered the house. He evidently expected a scene, but, alas ! none took place. He was dressed for the oc casion in white kid gloves, &c., &c. He took his seat without any human being appearing to notice his en trance, evidently to the no small chagrin of the martyr. This apathy on the part of the Saxon will, no doubt, fur nish matter for another address to the Irish nation. SHORT-TIME MOVEMENT.—At a meeting of the Leeds Short-time Committee, a few days ago, at which 52 dele gates were present, a petition to the legislature was agreed to, which embodied a declaration that the operatives in this district are willing to submit to a reduction of wages rather than lose the Ten-hours' Bill, should the passing of that measure tend to produce such a result as some of its opponents prophesy. The petitioners, however, are far .from regarding a reduction of wages as a natural concomitant of the measure. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE—A CHILD DEVOURED BY A SOW PIG !—On Thursday week, at Castle Blunden, a fine child, about six months old, belonging to William Egan, was literally devoured by a sow pig ! Mrs. Egan having gone into the yard for a few moments, and incau tiously neglected to shut the door of her dwelling-house, on her return was met by the sow proceeding from the cradle with the head and arm of the child in its mouth, the remainder of the body having been eaten !—Kilkenny Journal. THE FRUIT CROPS.—We regret to state tbat a serious caterpillar blight has attacked the fruit plantations in Mid- Kent, which has affected them to such an extent that orchards which a month since presented the most luxuriant appearance, and the most promising bloom, now threaten to be almost unproductive. The laud generally is also in fested with slugs, which cause the greatest havoc, parti cularly on garden ground. The mildness of the late win ter is no doubt the cause of these visitations.—Maidstone Journal. ATTEMPT TO POISON.—At Birmingham last week, Mary Ann Lawless was committed to take her trial at the assizes, for the county of Warwick, for attempting to poison her husband and two other persons—a Mrs. Mur tay and child, who had called in that day and partook of tea at their house. The prisoner was seen to put some ingredient into the tea, and it was proved that she had just before purchased some arsenic along with soft soap, at a druggist's shop, stating she wanted it to clean bedsteads with. All the parties are now likely to recover. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The late Samuel Barber, Esq., of Walsall, has bequeathed the following sums of money to the undermentioned institutions :—To the Ge neral Hospital, Birmingham, £500; Queen Mary's School, WTalsal, £5OO ; Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edcbaston, £500; the British and Foreign Bible Society, £500; the Church Missionary Society, £500; the Church Pastoral Aid Society, £500; St. Peter's Church, Walsall, £200; the parish church of Cannock, £lOO ; the Blue and Na tional School, Walsall, £lOO.-IVolverhamplon Chronicle. SUFFOCATION IN AN EPILEPTIC FIT.—On Friday night week, a young man, named Farques, living in Ber wick-street, London, went to bed much in his usual state. The next morning he was found dead in his bed, with his face downwards between the two pillows. The surgeon said that in the course of the night the deceased bad, no doubt, 'been seized with a fit of epilepsy, and his head sinking between the pillows, he was unable to rise, and so was suffocated. Had any one slept with him who was able to render assistance, his life in all probability would have been saved. _ _ _ EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—On Sunday week, as Mr. J. Dutton, of lleywood, was playing with his child, about fourteen months old, he felt something sharp in its side, just above the hip. On examination he found it was about an inch and a half in length. He took a small pair of nip pers, with which he got hold of the substance, and on drawing it out found it to be a black needle. The point of the needle was towards the skin. There was no inflam mation about the part. It has been remembered that some time previous to the child's birth, its mother accidentally swallowed a similar needle.—Macclesfield Herald. CONVEYANCE OF NEWSPAPERS.—The London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, Midland, and Northern Railway Companies, have made arrangements, in con junction, for the conveyance of newspapers by the ordinary passenger trains, at a charge equal to one-half the existing rate for parcels, provided that in no case the charge for a single package be less than one shilling. The London and Birmingham Railway Company, in giving notice of this arrangement, require that the packages shall contain " newspapers only," anti that they shall have authority to open and examine them whenever they have reason to believe that this regulation is infringed. FATALITIES FROM LIGIITNING.—On Thursday week, at Rhes y-cae, near Henan, the following fatalities oc curred. A poor woman, residing in a cottage, at the mo ment rocking a cradle containing a sleeping infant, was struck dead by the electric fluid ; the child was left un hurt, but one corner of the tenement was thrown into ruins.—On the same day, during the storm in which the above occurred, two men were ascending from the interior of a coal-pit. During their ascent, the windlas at the top was struck and shattered by an electric shock. The broken pieces fell into the pit, and immediately killed the two poor men who were coming up.—Chester Chronicle. Aisr INGENIOUS TEST.—A few - days ago, a merchant, in prosecuting his morning tour in the suburbs of Edin burgh, found, as he walked along a purse containing a considerable sum of money. He observed a lady at a distance, who, he thought, would be the owner and loser. Determined to be correct in the party to whom he deliv ered it, he fell upon a strange, yet ingenious plan to effect this. He resolved to act the part of a " poor distressed tradesman," and boldly went forward, hat in hand, and asked alms. This was answered with a polite "Go away—l have nothing to give you." The poor man, however, persisting in his entreaties, would not go until he had relief for his famishing wife and children. The lady, from reasons, ❑o doubt, similar to Mrs. Maclarty's, at last condescended, but to her dismay, found that the wherewith was gone. The merchant. now satisfied that he was correct, with a polite bow returned the purse, with an advice that in future she should be more generous to the distressed and destitute. THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—The crops around Edin burgh and vicinity are more forward and promising than in almost any district for many miles either to the north or west. On the north shores of the Forth, indeed, the wheat and early sown barley are equal to anything in this quarter. In Stirling and Linlithgow shires there are still oats and barley unsown, and from the long continuance of wet weather fields are generally behind ; land intended for turnips having, in many cases, to get an extra ploughing. Wheat is well ; oats have suffered from grub ; and, with a few exceptions, barley is not in so forward a condition as to warrant any remark. We are much gratified by the generally favourable accounts of the potato crop. Those that were early planted have come up well; while those more late put into the ground have been on examination found healthy. There are still, however, a good many to plant. Clover grass is now being cut, and the crop is heavy.—Scolsman. AWFUL TUUNDER•STORM.—On Wednesday week, this town and neighbourhood were visited by one of the most severe storms of thunder and lightning we have expe rienced for many years past. The forked lightning was extremely vivid, and the peals of thunder much resem bled the firing of heavy artillery. The rain fell in tor rents, and hailstones descended as large as peas. The electric fluid entered the dwelling-house of Mr. William Parkin, of Spofforth Haggs, and in every nook and corner of the dwelling traces of its ravages are exhibited. The housekeeper, maid-servant, and a little girl, the daughter of Mr. Parkin, were the only inmates at the time, and their escape with life stems to have been truly miraculous. The maid-servant has since remained speechless. either from the effects of fear or some invisible injury. Several huge trees, which have braved the storm of ages, have also been shattered in this vicinity ; but the storm, al though so furious, was not of long duration.—Brad f ord Observer. JOSEPII ADY.—At the Thames Police-office, Thursday, this notorious person was committed for trial charged with obtaining 60 postage stamps, value 55., from a Mr. Samuel Smith Hill, under pretence of affording informa tion " something to the advantage" of Mr. Hill, but which resulted in no benefit whatever to him. Another similar case was also adduced against him, in which Captain Wil liam Wilson Hornsby, a retired officer in the army, was the victim cf Ady's deception. The prisoner was also committei on this charge, but the magistrate, Mr. Bro derip, consented to take bail, requiring in each case two good sureties of £lOO each, and the prisoner in £2OO. Two respectable tradesmen in Whitechapel consented to be bail, and the prisoner was liberated. Ady is an old man, about 72 years of age, and is described as looking very hale, hearty, and in good condition. He was attired in the garb of a quaker, but we believe the society declines the honor of acknowledging him as one of its members. RAILWAY LABOUREILS.—DISTURBANCES IN WALES. —A private letter, dated Penmaenmawr, Saturday, states that a number of Irish labourers employed by a railway contractor in that neighbourhood, had been attacked by a body of the country people, 300 Welshmen, who bad dri ven away the Irish, and cleared the whole of the line be fore them as far as Bangor. Some of the ringleaders were captured by the police. One in particular, whom the police had great difficulty in capturing, they placed in pri son. Immediately afterwards the tumult became so violent, that it was deemed necessary for a magistrate to read the riot act, which was done. During these proceedings, a party of the Welsh went behind the prison and threw a rope over the wall, by means of which the prisoner man aged to effect his escape. Most of the railway contr ac t ors along the line were sworn in special constables. All the public-houses were closed by order of the magistrates, and were ordered to keep closed till further orders. The dis pute arose from a feeling on the part of the Welsh, against the employment of so many Irish, when numbers of Welsh labourers were ready to work. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—On the afternoon of yesterday week, the hey. James Dobbie, minister of the Secession Church of Annan, died suddenly, and there is little or no doubt that he was poisoned by partaking of a bottle of porter, in which, it is supposed, some delete rious substance had remained when the liquor was bottled. It appears that Mr. James Pool, farmer, Croftheads, had called upon Mr. Dobbie in the afternoon, and partaken of some bread and cheese with him and Mrs. Dobbie. As, unfortunately, there happened to he no porter in the house, half a dozen bottles were procured from a shop in the town, one of which was drawn, and drunk by the parties mentioned. Not long after this, Mr. Pool went away, and Mrs. Dobbie called a servant girl up stairs, telling her she was very sick and faint. Mr. Dobbie also went up stairs, and complained of being unwell. Mrs. Dobbie proposed to send for medical assistance ; but, un fortunately, her husband did not think this necessary, and it was not until fully an hour after they were taken ill that a medical man was called in. When this was done, however, all human aid in the case of the reverend gen tleman proved unavailing, who, after much sufferin g , di e d about seven o'clock in the evening. —Dumfrie s Courier. REMARKABLE CONFESSION OF A PAPIST.—There is nothing more essential than to ruin the reputa'ion of the J an e d sui i t f s. R. B m y e th b e e ru r i u n in o e f d, the re J l e ig s i u o i n ts, w ß i o ll m r e e w fo i r ll m be i ruined ; —Father Paul', Letters, 1600. June 2, 1R46. CORN BILL-SECOND READING.-HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 28. MAJORITY PRESENT,I3B_ Ld Chancellor Dalhousie Lovelace Thurlow DUKES. Aberdeen Ztland Ly ttelton Norfolk Rosebery Auckland Calthorpe St. Albans Glasgow Ellenborough Blayney Buccleuch Cowper Uxbridge Gardner Roxburgh Radnor Bruce Rivers Leinster Spencer 'VISCOUNTS. Sandys Wellington Bathurst Strathallan Crewe MARQUISES. Clarendon Torrington Churchill Winchester Talbot Sydney Prudhoe Huntley Fortescue Clifden Ilowden Lansdowne Liverpool Ilawarden Glenlyon Abercorn Meath Canning Delamere Sligo Bessborongh BISHOPS. Forester Camden Mornington Durham Wharncliffe CholmondeleyCourton Lincoln Brougham Londonderry Charimont Chester Dinorben Conyngham Clan william Ripon Denman Ormonde Clare Salisbury Carew Clanricarde Leitrim Norwich Glenelg Breadalbane Bandon Hereford Hatherton Westminster Rosslyn St. David's Strafford Normanby Craven Worcester Cottenham FOR. EARLS. Romney Lichfield Langdale , Devon Chichester Oxford Lovat ' Suffolk Gosford Tuam Portman Denbigh Grey LORDS. De Manley WestmorelandMinto Dacre Wrottesly , Essex Verulam Camoys Sudeley Shaftesbury St. Germans Byron Leigh Scarborough Morley Rollo Lurgan Jersey . Howe Kinnaird Dunfermline Erroll Burlington Montfort Monteagle Home Ripon Foley Keane Haddington Granville Carteret Campbell Galloway Effingham Suffield Vivian PROXIES, 73 Acccarscor.Ailsa Camperdown Dunally Canterbury EARLS. Lichfield . Abercromby DUKES. Pembroke Ducie Erskine Somerset Lindsey VISCOUNTS. Manners Leeds Carlisle Melbourne Castlemaine Bedford Albemarle Melville Downes Devonshire Stair BISHOPS. Bexley - Hamilton Buckingham London De Tabley Argyll Fitzwilliam Carlisle Plunket ' Northumber- Cornwallis Peterborough Heytesbury land AI t.EdgcombeEly Talbot of Ma• Sutherland Cork Limerick lahide MARQUISES. Fingal LORDS. Poltimore Tweeddale Kingston Stourton Mostyn Hertford Sefton Petre Godolphin Bute Caledon Saye and Sele Methuen Donegall Kenmare Dormer Stuart de Headfort Rosse Ward Decies Northampton De Grey Monson Colborne Anglesey Dunraven Wodehouse Seaton Bristol Amherst Cloncurry AGAINST Willoughby. de Broke St. John Saltoun Polwarth Sondes Boston Hawke Wal.ingham Southampton Grantley • Berwick S,,erborne luny on Br a;brooke Carington Bayning Bc;lton Northwick Lifford Clonbrock Crofton Redesdale Colchester Rayleigh Feversham Tenterden Skelmersdale Wynford Templemore Abinger Ashburton De Freyne EARLS , MINORITY PRESENT, 126. DURES. A shburnbam Ranfurly Richmond Warwick VISCOUNTS. Grafton Guilford Hereford Beaufort Hardwicke Maynard Marlborough Delawarr Strangford Rutland Mansfield Middleton Montrose Beverley Gage Manchester Carnarron Doneraile Newcastle Cadogan St. Vincent Buckingham Malmeibury Sidmouth Cleveland Egmont Lorton MARQUISES. Longford Lake Salisbury Enniskillen Exmouth Downshire Wicklow Beresford Ely Lucan Combermere Exeter Wilton Canterbury Westmeath Limerick Ponsonby EARLS. Clancarty Hill Huntingdon Winehelsea Chesterfield Sandwich Powis Nelson Charleville Winchester Alanvers Bangor Oxford Rochester Lonsdale Llandaff Ilarewood Gloucester Brownlow Exeter Bradford Chichester Sheffield BISHOPS Cardigan Abingdon Eglinton Kinnottll Airlie Selkirk Orkney Oxford Dartmouth Aviesford Stanhope Eldon LORDS. Falmouth Stanley Somers De Roe Stradbroke Hastings Cawdor Clinton Munster Beaumont ?Om fret PROXIES, 38. Waldegrave Glengall Sinclair Ilchester Yarborough Reay Digby Gainsborough Dynevor Shannon VISCOUNTS. Bagot Roden Az buthnott Farnham M'Cashell De Vesci Alvanley Mayo O'Neill Ravens worth Erne LORDS. De Saunlarez DonoughmoreWilloughby de Bisnors. Ouslow Eresby S:. Asaph Beauchamp Vaux Bath and Weill Portland Shrewsbury Poulett Moray Balcarres Sheafield Fe rrer s Taukerville Macclesfield Lord Belhaven paired for the bill, with the Earl of Lauderdale against it. [ADVERTISEMENT.] TO THE LIVERPOOL SHAREHOLDERS IN THE SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. BROTHER Sif AREHOLIDERS,—It has for some time been to me a subject of serious doubt whether the Board of Directors of our undertaking, honorable men as we admit them to be, have, in their new projects, been pursuing that course which is most likely to advance our interests and improve the usefulness and consequent value of our property. At the outset of this difficult undertaking , i t will .be remembered by all who were original shareho ll ders, like myself, that one of the most important feature° of the line was the fact that it promised to open out to the manufacturing districts a cheap and abundant supply fuel from the Yorkshire coal-fields to the east of Peniatcl and Wortley. For this object it was mainly contende d for, and supported through a long period of depression, bl the millowners in the district through which it 0 06 1 For this object we prosecuted the formation of the 1 305 arduous work to be met with upon any line of railwaYl viz. the summit tunnel of three miles, from the valley I; the Don to the valley of the river Mersey (or Ethers"" on the Lancashire side of the range of hills. It is ne t ten years since the act of Parliament forming the cos pany received the royal assent ; yet the Yorkshire cool field is unopened; not an ounce of railway-borne cowl 111: ever reached the Lancashire side, although the tonne opened throughout; and without some-change in the P a u st liry of our authorities, that most valuable traffic d md;,. urgently-required commodity for the manufactur in g tricts seems destined, by some fatality, to be k e pt away. from from us, unless some company, more alive to the int ere sts of the country and of the shareholders than we ar e, shoal(' volunteer to do for us what we ought long ago to have. prepared earnestly to do for ourselves. Last year was a period of inflated railway prosperity and projection. There was nothing to prevent our directors; from developing fully the interests of our excellent under' taking. How did we avail ourselves of it ? We took into our hands the Barnsley Branch scheme, after it had bees rejected upon its merits, and created its shares our e vil) quarters No. 3. The committee has just thrown it out once more, upon its merits, closing that coal-field againss our approach to it. There was another coal-field 1511 , close upon our line—the Wortley coal-field—b • Pas e°3l " - through which we secured the be s t p os sible supply of for the manufacturing districts, the nearest route bet'iceen, the east and west coasts, and the traffic west wards frer Rotherham, the cattle market for the manufacturing tricts of Lancashire, Che s hire, an d th e town o f Manel les' ter. We entangled ourselves, i ns t ea d o f availing °,,r I; selves of this valuable adjunct, with the Great Grire e o Docks and Harbour, and a line from Gainsbro' to W i f e / Grimsby ; and sedulously kept aloof from the W o 'o coal, preferring to go in search of that commodity into.de monopolised and exhausted coal field of Lincolnshire• to 'd allied ourselves for this purpose with the Shiffiel c Lte• Lincolnshire Line—one which can never serve our , ve rests adequately. And ilow how are we situated. Ad are, as I have already said, shut out from the Barn coal-field by the adverse decision of the Parliano,, e aa. Commitee; and another company, the Ilorbury pany, has got possession of a line, the preamble proved, connecting our line with Rotherham, by 0 1 %0 from near the station of the Huddersfield and She 'l. Line to Rotherham. A further line, the Maneh, e ;Ai Midland, and Great Grimsby J unc ti on , t a kes the '',;, - 0 0 1 of the west eastwards to Gai ns b ro ', sav i ng several m ile for route between sea and sea, whilst we are still fight' l3 „ l 'ol" the Sheffield and Lincoln, which it is now quite irof:the ble that Parliament can ever sanction. To oPP e " th e Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby Line, we took gbito most absurd line ever projected, the South Vi c , JO Coal Company. That line the Committee has luedett; thrown out. We are, therefore, completely s trap • h and for our supineness deserve to be so. or la I submit to my brother shareholders that it is V ° i n ipty time that we should come to our senses. I cast 0 4 ha/ tations against those whose councils in our directnat 0 11 brought us to this dilemma ' • but it is imperati ve t'oate connexion with the Sheffield and Lincoln s hould he to the, doned ; and that we should look around us and n 3l/ o tiar. t o best bargain now left within our reach. Ou r bro%! course, having the Great Grimsby Line to G ajOstbe Lit to get to Gainsbro' by the shortest route; and - f s i mg b r verpool shareholders would bestir themselves, r l ,. oil, still succeed in that object, and possibly save snroseiett' funds and influence by refusing to fight for a n ie ` P' scheme in committee. .1 11 1 • shY e The Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby fox tion, a line which it will be remembered was g o rbor! t last year by the Board of Trade, would, Line, from Peniston or Wortley to Rotberb,?,T, ond,. our purpose fully. They are our legitimate alatTNera, with the , aOOl.O we cannot possess ourselves of one or both a t 12:itharn ought at least, under present circumstances, t a 2.7, 6 why our support from the Sheffield and Lincolot,a r e d. 11 7 0 ',. we should have been wise if we had never cu object in this hasty address is to urge my_ tor the holders in Liverpool to make a movement ,annot,"„f tion of their interests. It is clear that tn _% 3o tira:( f the 19" promoted by conceding to the present bias of our pu ppy „"( Directors, who appear more enamoure d ot , the 190, coal securing the Duke of Norfolk's mono I S 1 - Isir ie coal to Sheffield than of serving the inPt°erYests of the ir u stituents.-1 am, Brother Sharebolders,nsi AN ORIGINAL PROPRIETOR ...,-, T U H A S Ug Iia 4 FIELD AND MANCHESTDa Liverpool, 234 May, 1846.