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L t%ei a.Ui s. NOTICES. NEW PUBLICATIONS A Treatise on Land Surve!, Quested, Surveying ClJak-lam The work before us is 1 of it civil engineer, advertised by e it will, howeve who h urned k surveys, to meat of ors, and Eatisfactori by making with dia2n Blac terestii ticular, c „y and Levelling. By John Surveyor, Author of the ” Art of Land ," London : Relfe and Fletcher, 15, aluable manual for those who Till znakea man a- of the dozen lessons II make a man such ; minded sur beyond tithe or other lov- nerative er nand for railway survey- Form subordinate duties in that line very The work is evidently that of a thoroughly and conveys many practical hints which d young engineer may benefit It is well got up, ble neatness and of consid THE MAGAZI wood for the pre AND SERIALS month contains several in- r two of- great value In par- ausea at t to be read attentively aided to political con- by every man who wishes to be elusions by historical experience The writer traces with startlir Roman empire tl lutely dependents Id ultimate fall of the 1 rendered her abso provinces for the food ,ed the inhabitants of t it destroyed her agricul tral provinces of Italy and in her days of greatness, arms and discipline bad I. We shall take an op ely from this article nest t's new work, " Le Peu- n her distant of her populatior her large towns a Lure, and depopulated those cei Greece, from which she had recruited those legions whose enabled her to s portunit week. ty of quoting extens The review of Miche bly written s is that of Lord Brougham's 's and Science who flourished in III." The literary articles are of " Lives of Men of Lett the T more than ordinary merit The Fortunes Of Turlogh O'Brian—(Dublin, James MlGlashan ; London, W. S. Orr)—improves as it pro ceeds, and contains in this number some stirring scenes and incidents, very ably depicted. The illustrations by Phiz are in h tv' Fraser con' snr That, i which ticles of a very even merit. Contemporary Orators," (in Spiel is very ably handled,) nt condition - of Britii and on . w poetry, are well orthy of the fame of Regina. The Dublin University maintains its usual Protestant tone, and is full of in VARIETIE EPIGRAI 'S "CAIN," t least one pound of food a week, Ired and e IA idea !my uted bird to —The first qu an which should pre- DI a particula e patient may reco- and nin four thousam insects, and I be formed of the fume HOPE is this—ls thedis ver, or is it not which the patier )a jua OF THE CHURCH.—Though the lid not rnnßiAt in_ nnr Of neces- o you in the man ALWAYS There are, indeed, too many cases in s condition is so manifestly hopeless, however, caution you that you C arrive too I ) not, in any instance, 1. Our knowledge is prevent even well-in- not so aim' formed persons .n on this poin This is true, especially with respect to the affections of internal organs. Individuals have been restored to health, who were supposed to be dying of disease in the lungs or znisinteric glands. But it is also true, though to a less I know fea e now alive and atect extern well, who Jour under malignant di ease of the ute ion many c which 1 'ood rule in the as an Inc practice or our us to look on t as we can c mind, temp I by a ) 1 , ana I co Sir B. Brodie's Surgical Lec TH city include, outwar ther an e compliance v ters of discipl4: Corinth tl tkpostl concerning the I n the enjoyment of God et it surely - did not include authoritative instructions of the but also in ma To the Church at ,nly and point g no doubt in the mind of any intelligent reader of his epistle that every member of that church should reverently ' eat of that bread and drink of that cup.' Ile wrote, also, concern ing the liniguage to be used in the public worship of God, that ►t should be a language " untlerstanded of the people," Bo that the unlearned 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, i❑ defiance of this, the Corinthian Church had adopted a rule, rendered imperative by their local ecclesiastical au thorities, by which the use of the cup in the Lord's Sup per was always confined to the officiating ministers of the Church, and never extended to the congregation ; and another rule, by which the most solemn services of tl Church i hip wer zeign and de contempt of conducted in a fo. would have been palpable ngnised that Church —The Church and as any longer an apostolic the Churches by the Rev. H al Chnrcf FREAKS OF INIONKEYS.—tie accepted the invitation of a brc different part of the i r Rogers) had once Lo t is of that nei officer, in a totally a few day's hostilities against the elepn...__ ,nbourhood, and had ar rived, after a day's sport, to within a mile or two of the bungalow where his host and hostess were awaiting his arrival, when, passing by a delightful cool-looking river, he thought a plunge would be the most renovating luxury in existence; so a plunge he determined to take, sending On his se ten minutes he would t and placing his things very care to luxuriate in the water. He w. And an intimation that in to dinner. So stripping, fully on a stone, be began ;capital swimmer, and bad swam to some distance, when, to his horror and dis may, on looking to the place wbe'e he had left his habil ments, he perceived a dozen monkeys "overhauling" his entire wardrobe! One was putting his legs through the sleeves of his shirt; another cramming its head into his trowsers; a third trying to find if any treasure was concealed in hia boot; whilst the hat formed a source of wonderment and amusement to some two or three others, arid tak to unravel its mystery by unrip ing half-a-dozen bites out of the it made him laugh heartily his garments turned ), he made with all haste to the shore; these " precious ras- who were endeasourn ping the the thing was so ridicul notwithstanding his dis, to so" vile our_ but judge of his horror when he s off full speed 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 one 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 pretty pickle for a man, under a broiling sun I and here he staid till the in mates of the bungalow, beginning to suspect some acci dent, came out in search, ann found poor Rogers sitting up to his neck in water, in a frame of body and mind which may be " more easily imagined than described." — Reminiscences of the late Major Rogers. DIGNITY IN ART.—The starting-point of all effort—of us say at once the consideral a purpose; 81 rid more, a barn- accord with id highest aims of e graves comprehensive, is to admit such secondary influences as ~ cruple and expedi ency—to hold out honours to quackery, idleness, and folly—to convert a ministering angel into tempter. On no other ground can the pursuit of art be thoroughly de tensible. On every other hypothesis must refined tfillet autism dwindle into such a C'hinanionslerism as Addison satirized, and llogarth helped to make ridiculous—while the admiration of the people reduces itself to such a neces sity for stimulants or narcotics, as calls aloud for a Mathew with his medals, or for a Whitfield with his awakening powers. What would become of the Drama, were it " winked at" as an entertainment conducted on no principle of moral responsibility ? What is it in countries where the Mime is abased to the degraded state of a mere buffoon ?—an outlet fur the grossest and most unblushing sensuality. Music is, in every respect, less directly to be apprehended : there being no such thing, —as some one has forcibly put it—as an immoral symphony, or overture, or quartett ; and the peril thereof only to be proved when it is mated with questionable poetry. But what has made many admirable persons mistrust music? or only accept it under trammels or reservations, which, if wrought out, must end in the extinction of the art ? What but the folly and frivolity of its professors ? and the toleration these have met with on the part of a society too contemptuously eager for its aimless diversion, to care bow truth is tram pled upon and talent wasted. Neither have the painters —albeit they seem to us to have struggled more satisfac torily than their brethren, possibly because their art brings them less immediately before the immediate suffrage of the public—done all for their " high mystery" which they Wright have done. With some, bitter jealousy, with others, reckless licentiousness—or a thirst for larger gains, or an impatience of labour, have been allowed to impair powers of study, to degrade fancy to meretricibus exercises, to drive them audaciously upon tasks to which they were wholly unequal. They have never been honoured by so large a share of censure from the txrverse, the prejudked, or the stupid, as actors or musicians ; but we cannot ac quit them of sycophancy, of a want of loyalty to each other and their cause, the effects of which are felt rather than seen—felt in the deterioration of their own faith and self-sacrifice — felt in the failure and decline of all the higher branches of their art—felt in the fact, that it seems now the world's province to raise them to the place of poets, instead of it being their privilege to raise the world ! "-New Quarterly Review. To build upon 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. The 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, as 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 furors. 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, however,: 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." usual to is not un- ATMENT OF CHILDREN IN ITALY _ 1g 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 among the common people. A child is ft any where without the possibility of crawling away, lentally knocked off a shelf, or tumbled out of )ok now and then. and left dam,- or is a hpa nt ling like a doff at an English rag-shop, without the least inconvenience to anybody. I was sitting one Sunday, 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 had 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 not to be bent upon any terms. The number of cripples in the streets soon ceased to sur prise me.—Dicken s Pictures from Italy. AN APOSTOLICAL MINISTER.—If we 'mean ordained m'nister commending the scriptures, explaining the scrip tures, endeavouring, bg 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 least, an apostolical minister, according to St. Paul's de scription of such. On the other band, if we see an or lained minister, whether bishop or presbyter, opposing ares by the people generally, on the reading of the Scr of theSciipture,more injury than benefit will arise from it ; if we see him objecting :to the children of his people being taught the Scriptures in the schools ; it 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 approbation on the orthodox horror of a contaminating in the tongs rather than his fingers. Do we here recog: worker together with God" or'a worker against 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. i. 19 ; 1 Pet. ii. 2); or do we not, rather, recognise here a suc- through worldly ambition . ? Peter and Judas had the same ordination. It is not by their mission in visible succession that ye shall know the true ' ambassadors for Christ,' from the false, but by their fruits.—The Church and the Churches by the Rev. H. 111'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 greater 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 t League shares in this feeling, nen have entered 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 Cut-tom-house altogether." 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 tree 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 he 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 a-k 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 then to the left, we reached a wood which was surrounded in a similar manner; and we were 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 forsr-meister, 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 quietly from the glen, pausing at intervals air (and lucky it was that we lay to leeward), ~nificent red deer. sh, coming " It was a stag, a stag of ter 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 pended upon the words we were about to utter. We have watched, with a throbbing heart, the foreman return, wiih 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 ell—" Gentle men, are you agreed ?"—" answer to your names"—what say you ?—is the prisoner guilty or not guilty ?"—" not so say you all • which seemed to rend the heavens from the crowd with out. By the gr, en-covered tables of Baden we have stood the hazard of the die, among a crowd as reckleL , s 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 voire jeu," the cross twirls, the ball spins—calm and unmoved we hear from the inscrutable croupier—" le rouee gagne," as he pushes over to us a handful of gold. We have sought most kinds of excite 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 perienced the almost agonising sensations of that moment. Our heart leaped—our brain was 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 to 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, we slowly brought our sight to bear upon the stag. Now came the anxious moment. He was 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 ; " donner and blitzen !", it stirred not; we had forgotten, it appeared, to c oc k our right bat rcl ; to do so now was impossible ; the click would have sent off the stag like the wind. We looked in despair at the left 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 heard 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 bent our falcon eye, And grimly smiled to see him die." There, with one of lvs spreading antlers fastened, by the force of the fall, into the earth, lay the " King of the Wilderness," pitching in the convulsion of death, and his bright eve. as we thought, turned a melancholy look of renroach over us. as the film of death closed over it.— Dublin Univerd•ity 431awine. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. ADAM SMITH STOLEN WHEN A CHILD.—When a 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 fortunate circumstance that, being soon missed, his uncle, at whose house he 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 mother, thinking that he attracted too much of my atten tion, ordered the servant to fasten him up 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.—.7 - esse's Anecdotes of Dogs. THE 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 anther ! 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 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 ; you may be conquered and overborne by u- - but It ' 4 Y fail Ambers, _ not degrades. ..ou may to save the people from the threatened evil, but you will secure the approbation of your friends, and compel the respect of your oppenents. 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, unse 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 formed 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— " Thank God that we have a House of Lords now !" COSTUME OF A GERMAN SPORTSMAN.—The costume of a German jager appears somewhat strange to those who are accustomed to the trim dress of the English sports man ; and as be is an animal not often seen by our touring countrymen, we may as well deslribe him. At first sight it appears strange how he can even walk with any com fort ; as to shooting, that we confess, until we had an op of personal observation. appeared to us unite 3ortunit ie question. The coat, which is usually made of some very thick warm cloth, is long in the skirts—longer, at least, than any of the shooting jackets we are accus tomed to behold ; thick cord or leather unspeakables ; and huge jack boots, bigger than any guardsman's, are the main articles of his dress. The hat is conical in the crown, and wide in the leaf, like a Spanish sombrero. It is made of green or white felt ; and, besides sundry deco rations—such as the family crest, if the wearer happen to be a nobleman, or some little fanciful device, if be be of inferior rank—there are usually great bunches of feathers stuck in the front. Suspended from the shoulders by a broad leather strap hangs at one side, a huge game bag, made of leather or of twisted cord, and along the top of which is a device which we take this opportunity of re commending to such of our Cockney friends as are fond of sporting, and at the same time have no desire to conceal their success. It consists of a number of small loops, or running nooses, fastened in a row on the outside of the bag, from which are suspended the heads of any unfortu nate birds which happen to fall victims to the sportsman's skill. From the other shoulder, slung by another broad leathern band, depends the gun ; and how it could ever be got off in time for firing was to us a marvel. Another leathern strap is fastened somewhere about the person, and at the end of it the setting dog—for he is rarely al lowed to range the fields—meekly follows his master, who, thus equipped at all points, with a long pipe in his mouth, and, should the weather happen to be at all cold, a huge bear-skin concern, something like the sporran of a High lander, in front, for the purpose of thrusting both his hands into, the German sportsman goes forth to the slaughter ; and the mode in which he does so is pretty nearly as follows:—He walks across a field, to where the " trieb" or beat is appointed. He is posted with his back against a tree, and looks listlessly on, while the beaters advance with loud shouts, driving whatever game is in the field before them. A big lump of a hare, something smaller than an Irish calf, comes cantering along, at first apparently unconscious of the least cause for alarm. At last it discovers this singular apparition, and stops short to have a look. The jager meanwhile cocks both barrels ; and taking this opportunity to get a quiet aim, raises his gun, covers the hare as well as he can through the haze of tobacco smoke which surrounds him, be fires. The quarry seems surprised at the noise, looks round, and gal lops right up to the sportsman, who then gets flurried as he sees it approaching ; he endeavours to take a better aim with his second barrel, but the hare comes up so fast, he cannot ; if he fires, he may possibly shoot off the ex treme end of the tail—if he does not, it puts its best foot foremost, and bolts past at the top of its speed, leaving the sportsman much exasperated and inclined to swear. Such is a scene which we have often witnessed. It is by no means an exaggerated picture of the trieb, or " jagd, i ' where the sportsmen are drawn up in a hollow square, around a large field, the game found in which is obliged to run the gauntlet through a formidable array of jagers ; and although occasionally a good shot is to be found among the German jagere, as a class they are the worst appointed, the most clumsy, and the slowest sportsmen we have ever had an opportunity of observing.—Dublin Uni versity Magazine. out of t AN - OLD ENGLISH COUNTRY INN.—A more lovely country does not exist than all that fertilized by the " Wharfe," the most beautiful river for its size, and flowing amongst scenes the most delicious and diversified, to be found in any part of England, or even Europe. From Harewood Bridge (or even Tadcaster) to Skipton, by Ilkley, Otley, Bolton, and Barden Tower, the 'Wharfe winds amongst a succession of beauties. Meadows of deepest soil, on which beef is produced worthy of the name, with alternate amphibious woods, half on land, half in water, grass, and waterfalls, complete the changing scene. The deer-park and manor-house of the squire— the farmstead and comfortable dwelling of the yeoman— with the neat, yet humble cottage of the labourer, are all in the background of this unrivalled picture. When you get to Bolton Bridge to dine, and find a room in an inn furnished with easy chairs, pictures, and Turkey carpet, with windows opening upon a lawn, across which, through vistas of laurel, rhododendron, and roses, you see the lovely prospect and distant hills, you fancy you have mis taken the hotel, and got into the duke's shooting-box ; but if you ring the bell and order dinner, the very neatest of all country lasses will bring a trout fresh from the stream, weighing a couple of pounds, place a chicken, boiled home-cured bacon, with beans and parsley and butter before you (which, if of the true faith, you will ask for), and with a smile, as she hands vou the bread, inquire if you drink ale or water? /say the latter, and a pint of old port afterwards, which sip with open windows and halt-closed eyes in delicious languor, ruminating on your walk and its delights, taking your first glass to the health of " absent friends." Tell me not of chariots and phaetons, or any other conveyance, as aids for seeing these things, but your feet. * * I cannot quit this most beautiful of all beautiful spots, and most unique of country inns, without one lingering reminiscence. Before you retire to the chamber allotted to you for the night, at " the Bridge" (one replete with comforts 'and cleanli ness), pull off your shoes and gaiters in the kitchen, if only to get a sight of it. The white stone floor and hearth are swept and sanded for the evening. The large range, boiler, oven, and fire, are as bright as the sun just setting I over Barden Tower. The long plane -tree table and dresser are much whiter than this paper. The bacon and hams, incrusted with flour and salt, hang in goodly rows high above your bead. The dish covers, crockery, and warming pan, brilliantly garnish the walls—the old fashioned clock is ticking in the corner. A large "horse" is before the fire, with a pair of sheets on his back, in tended for your slightly fatigued limbs, and the bonny tidy lass ironing, at a small side table, a few of her mis tress's caps, and her own. I have been in a few of the kitchens of France, and have seen the dreadful dens, the bearded, night-capped cook, taking a pinch of pepper for your cutlet, after having performed a similar civility to his nose. The fowl, or " half gigot" of mutton, roasting within one inch of the floor, before a few crackling sticks —and that floor ! Enough, enough ; go into the kitchen at Belton Bridge by all means, but keep out of all in France, if you wish even a twenty-miles walk to give you the slightest appetite; the former will in everything you see increase it ; the latter produce the "mal de terre," if you persevere. But thank God we are yet at Bolton, in our mind's eve. What a scene awaits you in the morn ing, as you shake off the deep sleep of a pedestrian, and prepare for the ramble before you, one of the most lovely, for its extent, to be found in the whole world. You are awoke by that peculiarly pleasing sound, the whetting of a scythe under your windows. The gardener is shaving the lawn of its week's growth of ambrosial beard,—not blue but beautifully green, and bathed in the healthy sweat of night. Every blade is loaded with dew ; the sun is streaming over the eastern hills and flowing Wharfe, fresh from the ocean,—Pedestrian .Remsniecenera at Home and Abroad. RAILWAY INTALLiu.Eivais, 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 SIIRVEYORS.—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. Wrangham, 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 pi eyed. In the Lords :—Midland Syston and Peterborough. In the Commons—proved :—Airdrie and Monklands ; Buck inghatnshire—Thring to Banbury ; Glasgow Southern Terminal; Grand Junction (Huyton 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 (Duodyvan 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 valley. THE CJIIRT (5 , 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 bear 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. ighbourhood of Haymaking has commenced in the n( _ Bath, with every appearance of an abundant crop It is rumoured that Ibrahim Pacha is to quit Paris on June 5, to proceed to London. The Daily News s ys that Czerski, the German re former, is expected in this country in a few weeks. It is said that the vacancy in the Lord Chamberlainship, occasioned by the resignation of Earl Delawarr, is not likely to be immediately filled up. PRICE OF BREAD.—The price of the 41b. loaf has been erably reduced by the London bakers—in some in stances the fall is as much as lid. Agnes Browne, of Stamford, in her will, dated 1470, bequeathed £75 " to a priest, to sing for her fifteen years continually." On Wednesday last, the church spire at Chester-le street, Durham, was struck by lightning and much shat tered. The notorious Joseph Ady was, on Thursday, commit ted for trial, on a second charge of obtaining money under false pretences. Two of Lord Francis Egerton's gamekeepers were at tacked by poachers on Sunday morning, and one of them dreadfully, if not mortally, injured. The hay cutting is rapidly going forward around Lei cester. A man named Richard Burrow, of Malvern, has been committed to Worcester gaol for trial on the charge of biting off the ear of Edward Thomas, in the course of an affray at North Malvern. A barrister named Ward, while labouring under brain fever, got out of his bed-room window, at the house of his brother, Dr. Ward, of Kensington, London, and fell into the area, by which he was killed on Saturday last. An explosion of fire-damp took place at Mostyn col liery on Monday evening last. Five men and boys were considerably burnt, and a horse and fivemen were injured by the blast. A Cunsous BIRD'S NEST.—A few days since Mr. John Hubbard, Burton Joyce. found a tom-tit's nest, containing several young ones, in an old hat placed on a stick in his gardens.—Nollinghanz Journal. REVERSE; of FORTUNE.—thie of the men now engaged as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway station at Leamington and Warwick, was, in 1831, mayor of the borough of Stratford-upon-Avon. The underwriters at Lloyd's, in preparation for any contingency arisinc , from the hostile position of affairs on the other side of ° the Atlantic, refused, last week, to insure American vessels, exc?pt at advanced premiums. The duty on foreign wheat at present is 16s. per quarter, at which, however, it is not likely, under existing circum stances, that there will be much cleared from bond. The grain markets throughout the country continue in a very languid states A man named Park has been committed at Durham for the manslaughter of William Robson, at Quarrington hill, in that county. The two were quarrelling about a gun, and in the scuffle for it, it went off, and Robsoa was killed. The large fish which was observed last week in the Medway was washed ashore on Monday morning, near Upnor. It proves to be what is called a " white whale." It is of the zenus Beluga, and measures thirteen feet long, and is six feet in circumference. Some months since, a horse was stolen from Mr. Cross, of Glentwortb, who, having employed a gentleman as agent to purchase him another, it is not a little surprising that he should buy and deliver to Mr. Cross his own horse ! Such, however, is the fact, and the police enter tain hopes of being able to trace out the original thief. The last steamer from Halifax brought over a quantity of new Canadian or Oregon caviare, an esteemed delicacy prepared from the sturgeon, for the supply of which we have hitherto been solely indebted to Russia. The cargo also included a quantity of canvass-back ducks, preserved, a very rich delicacy. CRICKET.—EXTRAORDINARY HIT.—On Saturday, in a match between the Marylebone Cricket Club and ele ven members of the University, the Earl of Stamford struck a ball clean over a building iu the gaol, the height of which is 20 feet, and the distance from the wicket 210 feet. Sir George Murray is again in a dangerous state of health. Within the last few days he bas ruptured a blood vessel, and the most serious apprehensions are entertained. Sir George is about the same age as the Duke of Wel lington. and with the single exception of his Grace, there is not another name of more established reputation in the British army. On Friday week as two young ladies were walking on the road between Worcester and Whittington, they were met by a cow, belonging to Mr. H ook, of Norton, when one of the ladies having a natural fear of these animals, ran away screaming, whereupon the cow pursued her and tossed her several times, cutting her face - and otherwise bruising her severely. Immediately after the race for the Derby on Wednesday, a carrier pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, the proprietor of the Windsor Express newspaper, was tossed on Epsom Downs, with the names of the three first horses attached in the usual way. Within less than thirty minutes after wards, the bird alighted on Mr. Oxley's pigeon-house. The distance from Windsor to Epsom is very nearly thirty miles, straight across the country. _ _ RUSTIC SIMPLICITY.—One of the servants of the Mid land Company, at the Nottingham wation, a few days ago, received a letter from his lady-love in the country, upon which he had to pay twopence. On opening it, how ever, he found that the writer had enclosed one of the postage stamps with which be had supplied her, " lest if she stuck it on the outside it might be lost or stolen, and cost her dear Richard an extra penny."--Nottingham Mercury. At Rome, on the sth ultimo, the Rev. George Dudley Ryder, his wife, Mrs. Ryder, his sister, Miss Sophia Ryder, and his three eldest children, were received into the Roman Catholic Church by Cardinal Acton. The Rev. G. Ryder is the second son of the late Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry. nephew of the Earl of Har rowby, and first cousin of Ambrose Lisle Phillipps, Esq., of Grace nor. Mrs. George Ryder is the sister in-law of the Lod Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Wilberforce. EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A BOY.-011 Sunday evening, a lad about seventeen years of age, named Wil- Liam Bowman, residing with his brother, v:to is a hair dresser, North Shields, was discovered to have hung him self. The boy bad been left alone in the house, and on his brother's return he found the door locked inside, and, as no one answered the knocking, another door, leading from a side passage, was broken open, when the unfortu nate youth was seen suspended from the ceiling, quite dead. The deceased was dressed in a style similar to the culprit recently executed, whom he had seen, and the neck was protected from the cord by a pillow, which had been placed between the rope and the skin. A night cap was pulled over the face, and the legs were tied ; and an attempt seen ed to have been made to pinion the hands, but one was at liberty, having, it is supposed, got loose during the poor fellow's struggles. The rope was drawn through a ring bolt at the ceiling, and a chalr seemed to have been used to jump off, and thus complete the catas trophe. No reason, whatever, can be assigned for the act. The deceased bad for years visited every execution which bad taken place in London, bating resided there until within a few months since, He also took great de light in reading accounts of the conduct and aiecution of DISAPPOINTED OF A SCENE.—III 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 I 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 del gates were present, a yetition to the legislature was agree 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 OCCURRENTE—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 that 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 land 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.—Maidatone 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, Walsal, £500; Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edgbaston, £5OO ' • 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 Scbool,Walsall, £loo. Wolverhampton Chronicle. SUFFOCATION IN AN EPILEPTIC FIT.-011 Friday night week, a young man, named Farques, living in Ber wick-street, Landon, 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 had, 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 Heywood, was playing with his child, about fourteen months old, be felt something sharp in its side, just above the hip. On examination he feuad it was about an inch and a half in length. He took a small pair of nip pers, with which be 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 he less than one shilling. The London and Birmingham Railway Company, in giving notice of this arrangement. require that the packages shall contain " newspapers only," and that they shall have authority to open and examine them whenever they have reason to believe that this regulation is infringed. FATALITIES FROM LIGHTNING.—On Thursday week, at R hes y-cae, near Halkin, 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. AN 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. Ile 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 famiqting wife and children. The lady, from reasons, no 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 how returned the purse, with an advice that in future she should be more generous to the distressed and destitute. TIIE 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.—Scotsman. AWFUL THUNDER-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 seems 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.—Bradford Observer. JOSEPH Anr.—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 tire army, was the victim of Ady's deception. The prisoner was also committed 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 LABOURERS.—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 had 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 yoceedings, 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 zontractors 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. MELANcii , LY OCCURRENCE. — On the afternoon of yesterday week, the t: ev. 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 be 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 about s e p v r e o n ve o tt e u lo unavailing, k va i i n li n th g e , ill that a medi ca l man was ca ll ed i n. Wh en thi s was d one , however, all hum an a id i n t h e case o f the reverend gen tlemanwevheonin who, after —Dumfries Courier. REMARKABLE CONFESSION OF A PAPlST. — Thereto nothing more essential than to ruin the reputa . ion of the Jesuits. By th e ru i n of the Jesuits, Rome will be rained; g. much suffering, died and if Rome be ruined, religion will reform. Itself.- -Father Paul'. keitere, 1600. June 2, TR46. CORN BILL-SECOND READING.-HOUSE QE LORDS, MAY 28. FOR. kGAI BISHOPS sboroug MAJORITY PRESENT,I3B Lovelace Thurlow Zetland Lytteltoa Auckland Calthorpe ...uw Ellenborough Blayney . _....a Cowper Uxbridge Gardner I, nr.gh T . ' Bruce Rivers VISCOUNTS. Sandys Strathallan Crewe Torrington Churchill Winchester Talbot Sydney Prudhoe Huntley Fortescue Clifden Bowden Lansdowne Liverpool Hawarden Glenlyon Abercom Meath Canning Delamere Sligo Bessborongh BISHOPS. Forester Camden Mornington Durham Wharncliffe CholmondeleyCourton Lincoln Brougham Londonderry Charlmont Chester Dinorbea Conyngham Clanwilliam Ripon Denman Ormonde Clare Salisbury Carew Clanricarde Leitrim Norwich Glenelg Breadalbane Bandon Hereford Hatherton Westminster Rosslyn St. David's Strafford Normanby Craven Worcester Cottenham 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 Ld Chancellor Dalhousie DUKES. Aberdee Norfolk Roseber St. Albans Glasgow Bumlend' Cowper Radnor T Wellington Ba ISES. Clarendon PROXIES, 73 Camperdown Dunally EARLS. Lichfield . Abercromby 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 AlLEdgcombeEly Talbot of ISIsAi Sutherland Cork Limerick lahide vi nil LORDS. Poltirnore 'ingston - - Mostyn -tefton Godolphin and Sele Methuen Stuart de Decies ARCHBISHOP Canterbur DUKES !dale Kingston Stourton 3rd Petre Bute Caledon Donegall Kenmare Headfort Rosse Dormer Ward on De Gr Colborne ngiese Bristol Dunraven Wodehmn Amherst Cloncurry MINORITY PRESENT, 126 DUKES. Ashburnham Ranfurly Richmond Warwick VISCOUNTS Grafton Guilford Hereford Beaufort Hardwicke Maynard Marlborough Delaware Strang ford Rutland Mansfield Middleton Montrose Beverley Gage Manchester Carnarvon Done St Vincent, NS T . Willoughby de Broke St. John Saltoun Polwarth Sondes Newcastle Cadogan Buckingham Malmesbnry Cleveland Egmont Sidmouth Lorton Lake Boston Hawke MARQUISES. Longford Salisbury Enniskillen Downshire Wicklow Walainghana Southampton Grantley .... Exmouth Beresford Berwick Sherborne Lncan Wilton Limerick Combermere Canterbury Kenyon Ponsonb Hill Winchester Bangor Rochester Llandaff Gloucester Exeter Chichester LORDS De Roil Clinton Beaumont Ilia. 38. Glengall Yarb Ga VISCOUNTS Aibqhnott Braibrooke Carington Bayning De Vesci O'Neill Bolton North wick Lifford Clonbrock Crofton Redesdale Colchester Rayleigh Feversham Tenterden Skelmersdale Wynford Templemore Abinger Ashburton De Freyne Sinclair Reay 6 Dynevor Baget Farnham Alvanley Ravensworth. De Saumarez LORDS ❑ghby de BISHOPS. sby St. Asaph Bath and Wens Lord Belhaven paired for the bill, with the Earl Of Lauderdale against it . [A DVERTISEM ENT.] TO THE LIVERPOOL SHAREHOLDERS IN THE SHEFFIELD. ASHTON-UNDER•LYNE, AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY_ BROTHER SHAREHOLDERS,-It has for some time beers to me a subject of serioua 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 out property. At the outset of this difficult underto,irrg, i t will be remembered by all who were origin*l-11. arehol ders, like myself, that one of the most im ant features of the line was the fact that it promis o open out to the manufacturing districts a cheap abundant supply of fuel from the Yorkshire coal-fie s to the east of Penistoa and Wortley. For this ob . t it was mainly contended for, and supported through long period of depression, by the millowners in the trict through which it passes. For this object we pro cuted the formation of the most arduous work to be t with upon any line of railway viz. the summit to el of three miles, from the valley of the Don to the v ey of the river Mersey (or Etherow), on the Lancash . e side of the range of hills. It is now' ten years sine the act of Parliament forming the com pany receive the royal assent ; yet the Yorkshire coal.- Feld is tinoitened ; not an ounce of railway-borne coal has ever reac d the Lancashire side, although the tunnel is opened throughout; and without some change in the pct.. , licy of our authorities, that most valuable traffic and most urgently-required commodity for the manufacturing dia.. tricts seems destined, by some fatality, to be kept ewer from us, unless some company, more alive to the interests of the country and of the shareholders than we are, should volunteer to do for us what we ought long ago t 6 boa prepared earnestly to do for ourselves. Last year was a period of inflated railway pr . osperity 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 been. rejected upon its merits, and created its shares our own quarters No. 3. The committee has just thrown it out once more, upon its merits, closing that coal - fie ld against , our approach to it. There was another coal - field lying close upon our line—the Wortley coal - field — by passing th r ough which we secured the best possible supply of fuel. for the manufacturing districts, the nearest route between the east and west coasts, and the traffic westwards from ßotherham, the cattle market for the m anu f actur i ng disc tricts of Lancashire, Cheshire, and th e t own o f Mulches. ter. We entangled ourselve s , i ns t ea d o f ava ili ng our selves of this valuabl e a dj unc t, w i t h th e G reat G r imsby Docks and Harb o u r , an d a li ne f rom G a i ns b ro ' to Greg Grimsby ; and sedulously k e pt a l oo f f rom th e Wortley coal, preferring to go in search of that commodity into the monopolised and exhausted coa l fi e ld o f Lincolnshire. Wet/ allied ourselve s f or thi s purpose w i t h the Sheffield al 3 ' Lincolnshire Line—one which can never serve our irate' rests adequately. And now how are we situated. W are, as I have already said, shut out from the Barnele/, coal-field by the adverse decisi on o f th e P ar li ame nts" Corrimitee; and another company, the Horbury COol" pany, has got possession of a line, the preamble heir* proved, connecting our line with Rotherham, by rural from near the station of the Huddersfield and Shek el Line to Rotherham. A further line, the ManchestW Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction, takes the tra of the west eastwards to Gaindtiro', saving several miles 4 route between sea and sea, whilst we are still fighting : the Sheffield and Lincoln, which it is now quite iu3Pc )s t tei ble that Parliament can ever sanction. To oppose t he Manchester, Midland, and Grimsby Line, we took up most absurd line ever projected, the South YorkO l s g Coal Company. That l ine th e C omm i ttee h as a lso. e a; thrown out. We are, therefore, completely strand s and for our supineness deserve to be so. I submit to my b ro th er s h are h o ld ers th a t it i s nosy e l. ; time that we sh ou ld come t o our senses . I cas t n o •I li bs P fer rations against those whose councils in our director'''. 0 0 ' brought us to this dile m m a • but it is imperative thel o pe connexion with the Sheffield and Lincoln should beS e doned ; and that we should look around us and motrs' best bargain now left within our reach. Our pa t s,lS course, having the Great Grimsby Line to Gainsb i r ;O: to get to Gainsbro' by the shortest route; and if t verpool shareholders would bestir themselves, we dent still succeed in that object, and possibly save soree f ieiee' funds and influence by refusing to fight for an ie 4 scheme in committee. PO" The Manchester, Midland, and G rea t Gritos hl p roce ti tion, a line which it will be remembe r ed was 1 1 4 ' o rbor , last year by the Board of Trade, wou ld, w ith the sto ol Line, from Peuiston or Wortley to Rotherham , a pa our purpose fully. They are our legitimate allies4o We , we cannot possess ou rse l ves o f one or both oft t harSt ought at least, under p resent c i rcums t an ces, to wh ich our stippoz,t from the Sheffield and Lincoln , u s r e d, gl we should have been wise if we had never to sq .shs_.r e "' object in this hasty address is to urge nil fe" ° pro ms ` tion a ds o is f in t heir Liverpool interes t t os s. matte is a movement for t f b o eo r;b ..c e s i sran et be off promoted by conceding to the present bias of.2l l , o kid u n t Directors, who appear more enamoured of e llv e securing the Duke of ri otfolk's monopoly fir ee'" s e t o i a tn i etontSsh.—effiltlE Ely AN ORIGINAL PROPRIETOR IN r A ii,WAiar e FIELD AND MANCHESTE 3 e a l d m t . hßa Brother h f er serving Shareholders, the i nteres t E s Liverpool, 23d May, 1846. . 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