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London, England, 1839-07-01 00:00:00

RAILWA

KWA LL.

The following statement has been circulated among the
Members of both Houses of Parliament and is well de-

serving of attention. Various unfounded representations

having been industriously circulated, with regard to the
Bill now before Parliament for the Extension of this Rail-

way from the Minories to Fenchurch street, the
Directors feel called upon, in justice to themselves--
to The Preipiietors, whose interests they are bound
to protect—to the public, whose convenience they are de-
sirous to promote—and to the neighbourhood, whose good
will they are anxious to cultivate, to put forth:the followr
ing statement of facti, for the accuracy of which they
pledge their veracity, and (unlike their anonymous as
F alants) offer as a guarantee the sanction of their names :
In the year 1836 two lines of Railway to Blackwell were
projected—the one north of the Commercial-road, the
other (now in progress) south of it; hut both purposing
to come within the City boundary. The City authorities
withheld their consent from both ; but, at an interview had
at Guildhall with the Directors of the Southern Line
(that now before Parliament), the former offered not
to oppose its progress, provided the promoters would
agree to confine its operation to the eastern side of the
Minories. This offer was accepted, but with the distinct
and oft repeated avowal, made at the moment to the City
authorities by the Chairman of .the Company, that at a
foure period they should seek to continue the Railway into
the City, so as to have a terminus nearer the Royal. Exchange
than that in the Alinories. This stipulation was met by the
City authorities with the observation that "sufficient for the
day is the evil thereof." Thus closed the negotiation at
Guildhall, and the two Companies having afterwards
coalesced, an Act was obtained authorising a Rail-
v;ay, south of the Commercial-road, from Blark wall
to the ea-tern•side of the Minorir•s; but, in the course o
the ensuing year, the Directors having become more and
more convinced that the great objects contemplated by the
Bill, and the convenience of the public, required that Olt
terminus of the intended Railway should be brought nearer
to the centre of business, they (with the consent of the
Proprietors) gave notice of their intention to apply to
Parliament in the Session of 1837, for an extension of the
Line as far as Leadenhall-street.

Permissior. froni.tbe City was of course applied for, when
the application was referred to a Select Committee, before
which the Directors of the Company appeared, as on the
former occasion. A resolution wag passed by that Com.
mittee, recommending to the Court -of Common Council

that permission should be granted ; but the recommeuda•
tion so resolved upon being of course unpalatable to those
who had interests of their own tdverse to the Railway, an
active canvass was commenced against it ; and upon the
question being again brought before the Committee, strange
to say, the resolution was rescinded. The Extension Bill
was nevertheless brought before the House of Commons,
and referred to a Committee, before which a charge of
breach of faith was (as now) brought against the Di.
rpetors of the Railway, but sati.lactorilg disproved
by the evidence of the City RememLrancer, the Par-
liamentary Law Officer of the Corporation, and b)
whom their resistance to the Bill was conducted, who
being appealed to by the Chairman of the Committee,
honourably admitted that it had been distinctly avowed
by the Chairman of the Railway Company that application
for an extension of toe line into the City would be made.
After seventeen days' patient investigation, permission wa,
given, by a m,jority of fourte ±ri to four, to carry the Rail

way to the very site now sought for, i. e Fenchurch
street.

The Bill was then sent to the
,Upper House (befOre
which the alleged breach of faith by the Company was
distinctly disproved upon oath), by .a Committee of which
it was in the progress of investigation when the King died,
and the Session being about to ttrmivatc, a proposal was
made to the Directors to withdraw the Bill, Mr, Sergetnt
Merewether, on behalf of the City, addressing their Lord-
ships to- the following effect.*
" I may state in one word, that which on bel Alf of the City
Of London I am prepared to propose, and I helieve my
brother Andrews is prepared, 'on the part of the Parishes.
also to concur in it, and that is, to put it upon the shortest
and simplest point, that we are ready to undertake, in the
'next Session, TO USE OUR BEST ENDEAVOURS TO ADVANCE
*AM( BILL BROUGHT IN BY
.THE PROMOTERS OF THIS

MEASURE SIMILAR TO THE PRESENT, TO THE SAME STAGF
AT WHICH YOUR LORDSHIPS NOW ARE, so that it ~,ay be
taken up as if your Lordships were going on with it to..

morrow.

" That is the proposal I make, in which—MK Sergeant
'Andrews concurs; and I hare also the sanction ot•Mr. Mire-
house, the Common Sergeant, for the City, and there can be
no doubt that that proposal will be carried out."
To which-Mr.. Coalman-SergeAnt ;MO-choose emphati

cally added:— . .
~..45.1.ifqoythird party shined come in, we , are bound
IN xo4oUa to come forward and state the particular circu• 171-.
stances that hare occurred, and to i-eawARD the measure up
to this point as much as possible:"

To this'pruPo6al Mr. HArrimn agreed on behalf of thr
Railway Company, observing, "that is very candid ; ano
as I have it from Ire counsel for the City of London, I
have not the least doubt of it being carried into iffct.
An agreenwnt\ was Iteeordingl. drawn up in the Lord-'
Committee, and under tite.sam.:tion
.of Lord Shaftesbury ;
the t'ollowing is a copy t

" That a simibr Bill for extending the line of the Commercial
Railway might be proceeded with in the next or following Session,
without any opposition on the part of the present Petitioners, up
to the particular period at which the present Bill had terminated:"
To which Counsel of their own accord added :

" The Committee finding some parts of the agreement in-
consistent with the forms of the House, have made some altera-
tions in it, and omitted certain passages ; but we hereby de-
clare the above to be the substlace of the agreement between the
parties, and which we consider them bound to carry into effect.
( Signed)
WILLIAM HARRISON.
"HENRY ALWORTH MERENVETHER.
THOAAS ANDREWS.
•
" House of Lords, I4th July, 1837.,,

The agreement in question was ratified by a vote of the
Corporation on the 27th July, 1837, and ought to have
ben considered binding in law as well as honour. But
not so; for the Railway is again opposed by the same
parties; although the Bill now introduced is a similar fill,
and the evidence to be given before the Coininittee will
show the proposes mode of working it to b•-3 vastly pre-
fetabte to .the former one, inasmuch as no locomotive or
steam engine of any kind will be worked within the City
boundary, and the whole Line will •be free- from the
alleged nuisances of smoke, noise, danger from fire,
&c. &c: so prominently put forward against the former
plan, which required the use of locomotives, 'The
stationary engines for working the Line to and from Black-
wall will be erected outside the City boundary, and the
carriages will be propelled from the Nlinories to the termi-
nus; in Fenchurch-stref t by momentum alone, •and %ill re-
tuin from. Feuchureh-street to tiro their own
aravity, and in both cases without either rope or pulley.,

Oil the facts now adduced, which cannot b.:, contradicted,
the Directors of ;he Railway submit tle,t the charge so in-
dustriously eh cuLited :gaitist them of a " breach of
(on the heiiet of which, a, well as of oiler ihiretic.•;ewa-
oohs, their opponents obtained so large a minority against
the second reading of the Bill, on Thursday, the 21st in-
stant), is ALTOGETHER VNFOUNDED.
But how aiffereutly stands the charge of .‘ breach of"
faith" brought by the Directors against the City and their
other opponents, parties to the above iejted agreement
and declarations, and which were with due font gravely
and deliberately acknowledged as binding.
The Directors are nevertheless will ng to believe that
the facts of the case have berm either es itirheter, or su mys-
tified, that the honour of the City of London, as a Cor-
poration, has been unintentionally sacrifie%d through the
exertions of a few individuals having interests of their own
to serve, wholly at variance with those of the pubic, and
which are saught to be protected by perpetuating the pre-
sent disgraceful state of the Pool. 'Tile truth of the
matter is, and it is better told at once, that the Corporation
is on this occasion really made subservient to the St.
Katherine's Dock Company, and the wharfingers con.
tiguous to London-bridge. 'rite proprietors of these
establishments are alarmed at the advantages which the
Railway will confer on the Docks and Wharfs at Black.
wall, at which ships and steamers of the largest size may
take in and discharge goads and passengers at all times
of the tide, thereby avoiding the dangerous navigation of
the Pool, which must be encountered in proceeding to the
St. Katherine's Docks and London-Bridge Wharfs. This
will at once explain the eiluse of the extraordinary zeal
evinced on the second reading of the Railway Bill, by the
Chairman and Seicretary of ahe St. Katherine's Dock
Company Tooke and Sir John Hall), and the other
Directors cF tile Company, whether in or out of 'Parlia-
ment, apparently in defence of City rights, though really
in support of ihoe.- nearer home. Nor were the Wharf-
ingers inactive; but their interests being also without a
locus standi before Par4iarnent, whereon to be beard against
the Railway, they have tieed driven to resort to the pre-
tence that the undertaking militates against the interests of

the City.
The principal object of the Directors on the present oc-
casion has been to clear themselves from the charge of
being gailty of any breach of faith whatever, which they
trust they have successfully done ; but they wish at the same
time to avail themselves of the opportunity to state that
the Railway, which is constructed on arches of such
dimensions and height as not at all to interfere with
any of the thoroughfares which it passes, is in full operation
towards completion up to the Minories, and that it will be

* Taken from Mr. Gurney's short-hand notes.
t S2e Minutes of the Lords' Committee for 13:h July,
1837.

E-VIINING EDITION .' ' a

open to the public within twelve motths. -Above Tr%o
Hundred Thousand 'Pounds have been expended in the
purchase of property ; all the necessary works are now in
active progress; and the Directors are more than ever
convinced that this Line will prove to be a great public_
convenience; that it will be the means cf removing the
present impediments to the safe navigation of the River,
and will ensure to the merchants of London increased
economy and dispatch in the transaction of the general
_
business of the Port.

(Here follow the names of the Directors.)
London, April 3, 1839.

POSTSCRIPT, MONDAY, JUNI: 17, 1839.

Notwithstanding the agreement thus circumstantially
entered into by the legal representatives of the. Corpora-.
tion of the City of London, and confirmed by its vote of
the 27th July, the Bill of the present Session, although
essentially the same as its predecessor, has been opposed
on the second reading, and delayed in Committee for
twenty. one days, as will appear on a reference to the printed
Report.

The preamble was voted proved, on the fourteenth
day, by a division of 9 to 3, and the remaining seven
days were devoted to a full, free, and impartial con-
sideration of clauses, during which period all par
ties claiming to be heard, were heard by the Com-
mittee. Nevertheless, the Committee's Report, of such
patient and protracted investigation, is to be questioned to-
morrow (Tuesday), when submitted to the House for adop-
tion, and an attempt made to have it referred back to the
Committee for re-consideration.

The Directors of the Railway Company are wholly at a
loss to discover at whose instigation so extriordinary, a.
course is to be adopted, seeing that (as already stated) all
parties having a locus standi have bad their claims already
camidered by the Committee ; but, from whatever source
such opposition may come, the promoters of the Railway.,
earnes►ly hope that the House of Commons will noi,
countenance a proceeding, whereby, from the probable?
shortne,s of the session, the Bill may be lost (as it was

in tho se-sion of 1837, in consequence of the death of the
K.ng), and, in such case, the completion' of the Railway
b cielayed a whole year, instead of' its being opened to

the public in March next, as it will, should the Bill
now before the House pass this session. Indeed, without
hming recourse to any very uncharitable conclusion, the ;!.
belief of the Directors is, that the opposers of the Bill,
having failed in their opposition to it on the second read-
ing, and in Committee, arc attempting to strangle it by
unnecessary delays.
A reference-to-the-Report of the Committee, and of the
Divisions it sets forth, is earnestly requested.
The Directors could easily rebut the many maliCiOus
and,unfounded reports which have been industriously,cir.
cdated, both verbally and in print, against their Railway ;
but they feel confident that such must be now unnecessary,
seeing that its merits have been aelfnowledged by decided
majorities of the Committees which have sat on it during,
sessions 1E336, 1837, and 1839, and which have devoted,
in all, about seventy days to hearing evidence, for and

against it.
The. adoption of the Report above referred to, was.an
cordingly opposed on the 18th inst , but carried on a divi.
by 176 to 73---Majority 103.

THE IRISH GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE.-

is reported that by the Committee of the House of Lords,

appointed on the motion of Lord Roden, a most triumphant
case bas been made out in vindication of the Irish Govern-

ment ; and that iis Report, when presented, will amply'
justify the conduct of Lord Normanby, so' virulently as-
sailed, and cover his accusers with cosausion. The Dub.
tin Evening Post of Thursday last gives a letter froin a
London correspondent, which states that " Lord Nor-
manby, instead of an impeachment, will come out of the
ordeal—albeit the great- majority of the Committee are
Tories—with increased claims to public approbation for
his firm, impartial, and eminently successful administra-
tion of the Government of Ireland." " Ido not think,"
adds the letter, " it would be prudent, or indeed proper,
to mention all I have he on the subject out of doors r
but this I may safely state, that a most triumphant case
has been made in vindication of the policy of the Govern.
ment and its salutary eff. c's in Ireland—that charges made
against it have been met most unanswerably—that errors
and delusions respecting the enmparative amount of crime
have been entirely set at rest—and that, in fact, a:lteW
aspect ha,, been given to the entire matter as regards the.
system'of government in Ireland for the last five yearsi
One f-ct only in the way of detail, which I shall give as'
An illOstration. It has been proved that in the returns of
the Clerks of the Peace (which had been relied upon as
proving the increase of crime) one man was returned,
charged with the same crime, no less than thirty times;
and in another instance, another person was returned more
than thirty times I have heard that lord Stuart de
!Decks, who has been added to the Cammittee„has etati-
bited very great ability in the course of the examinations.
`Some new witness ,s are coming over ; but I think, never.:

the'ess, the.Committet will present their first, and perb4s
their only Report, early next weak."

All sheriffs ought to take warning from a cir-
cumstance that occurred last week at St. Louis, and never
seize in person anything that contains a steam-engine.
The sheriff at. St. Louis seized the steam•boet General
Brady, and slept on board for the better security of the
property. But, lo I during the nights, the engineers pnt
the boat in motioe, aud went off down the Mississipi, land.
ing the sheriff and his a'sistant in a wild forest, to rumi.
nate on the glorious uncertainty of the law.—Philadelphia
Correspondent. of the 111,:rnipy Chronicle.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN -AMERICA.—
The copy-of a letter from America, containing an account
of a cat -trophe to two scientific men and others, sail)'
deeply affect some families in Derbyshire. Mr. Wallace
and Mr. Banks. botaniqs, from Chatsworth, Mr. Leblanc
end his three children and-others, in all eleven persons,
were unfortunately drowned beneath the raging waters of .
the Columbia, when attempting to run one of the rapids.
The boat filled, and the above-named individuals perished j
iu attemptng to gain the shore. The two young men,
Wallace and Banks, went from Chatsworth Gardens into
North America, in search of seeds and plants.—Carlie'te
Patriot.
BRUSSELS JUNE 'O.—The Moniteur Be. lge
contains a Royal Ordinance, conferring a pension of 6,000
francs per annum on Baron de Stassurt, late Goveetuor of
the province of Brabant.
CLANDESTINE MARRIAGES.—iNiore persons
can understand facts than arguments, I therefore send you
the following :—"Two • parti-s lately gave the necessary
notices to the Superintendent Registrar of a neighbouring
union, fora marriage by banns. These had expired, acid
the ceremony was to have taken place next morning, when
it was discovered that the parties lived in different unions,and that notices had not been given to the Superintendent.
Registrar of each, as required by the. Act—no marriage
could therefore take place. The luckless couple tten rei. -
solved to take a license from the superintendent—they
might have the licence, but alas I that must•have a week's
notice before the ceremony mild be performed—in viin
was it urged they were necessar-ly to leave the neighbvur-
iacillo.nitreldleig'anshire aud Merioneth,
hood the next day—the law was imperative ; but 'o raise
their droopieg spirits, the good-natured Superintendent
suggi-sted that a proctor's licence might find a key to tlee
temple of Hymen, Off they started, though at tin
and next morning were united in orthodox style. Viy an
embryo descendaritfrom the Apostles in the city M 'Exeter..
Is there a.dolt who can now-doubt which is wateee obnoxious
to clandestine marriages, the old law or tb-5
a Corre.qponcleNt of the Western Times..
l'Arts of the Scottish
spoken, the Chartists
c single lodge. The like
hhiloa
goodaonEt dCHARTISTS.—In
been wiAt hhaßebrlrTeeci2tSGOaT:edses it
Gaelic
establish
lds
and those parts Qf Wales 'where the people. still confine
themselves to the language: and dtistoms of the tymri. ,
CAPTURE OF A BANKRUPT.—A case came;
before Mr. Commissioee e
Holroyd yestet'ay, at the.
rioasinghall-street, shows how
mCoatneyrt osflißpsanktirieuipetcy,
`are between the cup an the lip for,
desire, in Clese days of
sficauandautleranyteitlriandesreen who may
g. to take a transatlantic trip with their
Creditors' prepe.ety. The name of the bankrupt in ques-
tiou is Thorne; Parker, and it appeared, from a statement
made to the Court by Mr. Hudson, the Solicitor to the
fiat, that thit latter was opened on the 14li of May last;
that Mr. fleet, jun., one of the messenger; of the Court,
was despatched by the evening mail train of ethat day to
Coventry, where the bankrupt had carried on business,
fur the purpose of making inquiries respecting his pro-
perty. On arriving at that town Mr. Fleet soon disco-
vered that the bankrupt had absconded, taking with him a
considerable sum of money. Upon further inquiry of Mr.
Jacomb, of Coventry, who had dealt largely with Parker,
Mr. Fleet discovered that information bad been reoeived
from Scotland to the effect that Parker had sailed for Ante.'
rice in the Andromeda. Upon this in(ortnation being given
to Mr. Hudson, that gentleman immediately convened a
meeting of the creditors. It sir,s now the evening of the
15th, and the Great Western was to sail on the 17th, and
the Andromeda would, on the latter date, have sailed three
weeks. Hopes were, however, entertained that the
steamer would arrive out first, and a gentleman Villo
,Waa
going out by her was put in possession of all necessary
documents, and instructed to take the proper F,teps for the
apprehension of Parker. Luckily for the creditors, the
Great Western arrived at New York six days before the
Andromeda made ber appearanee, and 'Parker was appre-
hended just as he was making ready to pack up.."` Seven
hundred sovereigns were found in his possession, the whole .
of which sum has been recovered for the benefit of the cre-
ditors. Parker remains in prison in America, at the suit
of the creditors in England.

EARLY HARVEST.--Theie is a small field of
barley on the Canal•side, in the neighbourhood of
the Links, which is in such a state of forwardness, as to
lead us to anticipate an early conclusion to the labours of
the husbandman —the stems generally being from two to
two and a-half ftet long, arid showing a er-- long ear,
which the present rains will tend to fill rapicl:l.=—Aberdeen
Herald.

The Geological Society of France have decided
that their extraordinary meeting shall be held this year at
Buuingee-sur- Mer, on the Bth of September.
THE LATE EXPLOSION OF A POWDER-MILL.
--Two men have died from the effects of injuries received
by the explosion of the powder. mill at Ewell, belonging t(1
Sir Henry 13,idges, ai before noticed.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.--;fes-
terday afternoon, between seven and eight o'cloel-,
a fatal
accident occurred to a youth named William. Porter, 17
years of age, residing in St. Clement's-lane, r..l,lare-market.
It appears that deceased, in company w three other
youths was in a boat on the river eppo.,.c
xT n • •
strand, when it upsat by running
. -
if*,"o:4*.ist a barge, and the
deecagcd was drowned. The
.1 was found in about an
Swan public-house.
hour afterwards and conveyed ',.0 t;/A

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- A NIN G FD IT lON.

COURT CIRCULAR.

•
Fir Majesty and her august inather, her Majesty., tie
Queen iliovager, and the Princess- Augus!a; -•rit!end(..l
Divine Scri,;ce yesterday moiliing in tlci Chapel ilesal,
St. Jlmes's. The Sermon was reacla-d 11,,n. and
Rev. N. Grenville, from Si. Mark, chap, 9, cin,l part ot'
the-s!h verse The lessons were read by the Res. Ali-.
D.kins, the Prayers by the Rev, Dr. Vivian ; and the
Communion Service was read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian r,nd
the Rev. Mr. Dakins. The Chant was Hawes ; the Te
Deum and Jubilate, Burrows's in F; the Sanctus and
Reponses, Gibbons, in F. The Anthem, " The 1.,,rd is
my shepherd,"( Kent) was sung by Messrs. Hobbs and J.
B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the organ.
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. Her Kijesty was attended by the
Duchess of Sutherland, theCi.runtess of Burlington, Hon.
Miss Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscountess Forbes.
Lord Gardner, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. W. Cowper, and
Co'.onel Wernyss. The Queen Dowager was attended
by the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Hon. Miss Boyle, and
Earl Howe. The Princess Augusta was attended by Miss
Wynyard.
Her Maj,sty and the- Duchess of Kent returned ,O
Buckingham Palace after the Service.
The. Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cesseei Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, visited the Queen
yesterday. The Royal Duchess and the Princesses also
visited the Duchess of Kent.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty.

The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty on
day.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess of Leiningen,
and' attended by the Countess of Burlington, Hon. Miss
Cocks, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Viscountess Forbes, Lord
Gardner, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, and Colonel
Wemyss, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence on
Saturday evening.
The Waterloo Shield was submitted to the Queen on
Wednesday previous to the Levee, and her Majesty vas
pleasedito express her approbation.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of
Hohenlohe, attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in
Westminster Abbey.
The Queen Dowager, attended by her Suite, rode out
on horseback on Saturday.
The Queen;Dowager, accompanied by the Princesses of
Holenhole, visited the -Princess Augusta yesterday at Cla-
rence House, St. James's. to take leave of her Royal High-
ness on her departure for Frogmore Lodge. The Duke of
Cambridge and the Duchess of Gloucester dined with the
Princess Augusta last evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday
morning in Grosvenor Chapel ; Miss Kerr was in waiting
on the Royal Duchess.
The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta on
Saturday.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at-
tended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the
Viscountess Valletors with their company at the concert
given by her Ladyship, at her residence in Dover-street.
His Excellency the American Minister entertained his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and a distinguished
party at dinner in Portland-place, on Friday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held on S tturday afternoon at
the official residence of Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-
steeet. It was attended by all the Ministers.

Tire Council sat two hours.
William Allen, and the Military Secretary to the Com-
mar,der of the Forces, had interviews with Lord John Rus-
sell on Saturday at the Home Office.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Office
from Earl Grenville, Ambassador at Paris.
Mr. Hume, M. P., Mr. J. Montague, and Mr. S. Re-
vans, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby on Sa-
turday, at the Colonial Office.
Mr. Bryden, of Liverpool, and Mr. Hibble, of London,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
on Saturday. in Downing-street, upon the subject of the
Beer Acts' Amendment Bill.
The Lords. of the Admiralty dined with Sir Thomas
Hardy on Saturday at Greenwich Hospital.
Despatches from Sir Lionel Smith, Governor of Ja-
maica, from Sir Juhn Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of
Upper Canada, and from Major General Napier, Governor
of the Cape of Good Hope, were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left, town on Satur-
day- for Tonbridge Wells. The Judicial Committee of
the Privy Council sat on Saturday. The Lords present
were Lord Brougham, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice
Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir E.
East and .Sir A. Johnston sat as Privy Councillors.
The Bora. W. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting. •
An appeal. from Bengal ( Waselant case) came on for
hearink. Rajundernarain Rai v. Bijai Govind Singh
"second appeal). Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. John
St wart were heard by their Lordships. The latter gen-
tled. 'an had not concluded his address when thc Court rose.
Th• e French Charge d'AfTtires transacted busiucss on
Saturn: 1Y at the Foreign Office.

Mr. S.'haw' of the Scottish bar, has been ap
pointed- Pre, nentor of Signatures in- Scotland, in the pface
of the late Si. - J. Montgomery.
On Saturday, at the Court of Excise, Samuel
h
Ellis, of the Kink, •'s Arms, Roupel street, Lambeth, was
fined 3001 for aduqteeating, and for attempting to bribe
penalty for the adulteration
officers who detected .C. m• The
was 1001_, and the further r fine of 200/. was imposed for the
attempt to bribe.
At the last audit Of ill e Earl of Coventry's rents,
the increase of from 10 to 2e2 per cent., which his Lord-
ship some time wince gave notice of to his tenants, was de-
mended and obtained under t;te threat that notice to quit
wattle follow the refusal. Tl.is fully explains the Noble
Earl's anxiety to uphold the Corn-laws.— Woreestrr
Chronicle. .
Captain Symonds, of her INritannic Majesty's
ship Rove; has-planted the British stet, dard on, and taken
possession of, the island of Ruatan. Gua tetna'a. us: Br: ish
property.
MUTINY 1W THE TORY CAMP.-__ The follow-
ing mutinous allusion in the , Times is to tahe Duke oF
Wellington :—" Rumours have got abroad—eve' trust twl
are persuaded false rumours, put in motion for. similar
ends that some repugnance has been manifested in. guar-
-1 ' ters which have heretofore commanded the most implicit
respect and confidence from the people. to take any s.'•ront!
or decided course against this [Post s'.espirahle of all ..qo
vernmetos that ever were inflicted on the British empire.'
C ti URCH-RATES.-oil Saturday, in the Arches
. Court, the case of Hawes and Vicat v. Pellatt was called.
It is a suit for subtraction of church-rate, promoted by
Messrs. Hawes (the brother of the !VI-ember fur Lambeth)
and Vicat, the churchwardens of Cheist Church, Surrey,
against Mr. Apsley Pellatt, a clissenting inhabitant of the
parish, and brought by letters of request from the Commis-
sary Court of the diocese. Mr. Pellatt, who had entered a
protest against.the citation, appeared in Person, and, in
support of it, remarked on the injustice of' subjecting Dis-
senters to the payment of church-rates. On this point
he . was interrupted by the Court and Dr. Addams,
the opposing Counsel, it being irrelevant to the sub-
ject at issue. Mr. Pellatt then argued that it was
most unfair to take the case from. the inferior Court of
the COmmissary of the diocese into this Court, thereby in-
creasing the expense to which he must necessarily be sub-
jected; that the talents of the Proctors and Advocates
here were of no service to him ; and that he ought not to
suffer for the incapacity of the Commissary. Dr. Addams,
eoeire, said that the law had settled the liability of every
Parishioner to church-rates. The mode of proceeding in
other eases was similar to the present, and therefore the
protest must be over-ruled. The Court agreed in this
view oe-the-caste it was its duty to act upon the law as
it stood, and not to speculate on what it ought to be. The
form of •prozeeding had been similar in other cases, and it
was found the most convenient for the purposes of j ustice.
It, had been established in the case of t" Daw ts. Williams ;"
no ,doubt could be entertained as to the jurisdiction of the
Coma ; the protest must be accordingly oversruled, and
with e. osts.
SALE-IN THE ISLE of ELY.—A sale of land
and house and property took place by Mr. Beadel, at the
.3riffiti tun, March, on the 7th of June instant. The
property comprised about 700 acres of land, several resi-
dences, cattages, .'c., situated in the towns of Match and
Wiathlington, or in their immediate vicinities. The pro-
Petty, chiefly enclosed land, waves divided into lots, of
which. 34 lots were under lot acres, and seven lots ouly
exceeded 20 acres, thew hole being equal to freehold, but
subject to land tax, quit rents, drainage, river, Eaubrink, 1
corporation, and other dues slid taxes, with the customary
tenou shillingstgoin
per of the country,
acre;countr the i
y,in somaini ,er instances
b tane paidces am
for.
rntinF Theto
whole of the auction duty was les, led upon the purchasers.
This deviation from the sseneral rule in respect to the duty,
the property having realized upwar Is of 35,0001. was more
I than 5001. in favour of the vent 'ors. No room in the
I;sense was sufficiently spacious to „contain the company.
Ti, ii circumstance suggested the idea of charging each per-
son_ (Sseb-- shillings and sixpence on admission to the
sale roots,. which was cheerfully complit d with by those who
intended- ta-become purchasers, and it se ill afford some cri-
terion of the-pressure when it is stated -.that the money so
ooldeettrdantounsed to 141. The sale c timmeneed at two
o'clock,"and the cOole of the lots were t Disposed of before
six, when it apreared that there were no less than thirty-
eight distinct purchasers. The particulars announced that
the estates were " for peremptory sale," ,of which some
jealousy was, at first entertained, but after a: Sew lots had
been sold, and the names of the eaurchasers pia telitimed, Mr.
Wattlel established the fullest confidence in the company
present. As is customary at salesiw auction in the Isle of
Ely, wine and punch were liberal)y supplied, of which
those present, it will appear, came fully prepare( I to par-
take, when it is stated, that there were drank s, sventeen
bottles of wine and about forty crowrr howls of out ich, he-
sides a little of the genuine spirit, which some pr, 'ferred
Unadulterated. Four barrels of beer were given tt. ' the
\ labourers after the sale. It was generally admitted th, at a
sale of such magnitude had never before taken place in .the
Isle, or such high prices obtained for land there..—
Cambridge
Chronicle.
--In the nursery oi"
BOTANICAL CURIOSITY.
merry other 'beautiful spe-
Mr. Page, of this town, amongchasms of the rarest productions of nature, is one which
• claims more than ordinary notice. .tt is the :night-blowing
cereus,--a species of the cactus, and . exhibits the peculiar
quality of unfolding its short-lived beauties in the dark.
iness and solitariness of night, and ca sting ita ri- eh perfume
iq seeming waste, upon dank And su aless air. Bat some
raciptent, capable of its enjoyment, is nt ) doubt provided,
though the vigilance of the botanist has ',hitherto
able to d Neon un-
discover it. Nothing has been created iri "in'
The 'sea' is some weeks in arriving at tha t period of d,e4 ht,
;e-
-toPernent, and that invariably opens at o r near inidnig
after which it takes about three hours b efore it reaches
full matuiity. It then unfolds leaves of delicate whiteness,
beautifully tinted with yellow, and sends , 'Orth unrivalled
odour ; but its beauty must be then F.',rt and i's scent
then inhaled. if at all, for both are so ,h -- oral that their
state of P erf, ction almost imnr.diat(ePly cpil, 'WS away.
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MAGAZINE Ofi.Y.

.B 1: A Ca' (..) OD'. 11 :4 GA ZIN E.
Christopher handles his eruteh this month in a ery
determined and masterly etyle, mate, we suspect, to Dr.
M'llenry's edification, than his satistiacOon, whose re-
cently publi,,hed epic poem, the"Antedilaviaus," he turns
into remorseless ridicule. The humour and sarcasm of
this critical notice, which is not without a touch or two
Of good-nature, despite its severity, are exceedingly
reli hing, and cannot fail to extract a hearty laugh from
all but the unfortunate victim. If Dr. 111.• Henry be as wise
as an epic hard should be, he will laugh too, instead of
flying into an unavailing rage, fJr his " Antediluvians,"
though no great shakes, is by no means so had a poem
as the quizzical Kit makes it out to be. We have read
in our time much more vap'd, inflated, pot-bellied blank
verse, especially on sacred themes. " French Litera-
of the Eighteenth Century" gives a brief, sketchy ac-
count of the principal authors who flourished in France
during that period. Incidentally alluding to Bayle, the
writer observes that " his multifarious researches af-
forded to his successors, at an easy rate, a store-house of
learning." This is justly remarked. The notorious
Encyclopaedists all pillaged Biayle's ample store-house—
Voltaire, in particular, who drew from the " Dictionary"
most of the specious objections that he urged against
Christianity. Gibbon was also a plagiarist from Baele,
who furnished him with in any of those grave, ingenious
quibbles which the reader finds amplified in the text, or
condensed in the notes, to the " Decline and Fall of
Rome." During the eighteenth century, the " Dic-
tionary" was the fashionable work in France, its terse,
elegant style recommending it to the wits, and its tales
of gallantry to the ladies. It is now nearly forgotten—
undeservedly so, for it is a prodigious " store-house" of
learning ; is full of curious disquisitions on the
subject of love ; and was praised by Johnson
..-aa consummate judge—for the excellence of
its biographical sketches. " Notes of a Traveller,"
are amusing, and will serve well enough to wile away a
half hour. In " Legal Dietetics" there is some smart-
ness, if not humour. The description:of the old pawn-
broker, who was so rich that he was " compelled to
bring his money to the Bank in a coal-scuttle," would
create a roar, if delivered with due emphasis by Bob
Keeley in a farce. Perhaps the subjoined detail of a
Lincoln's Inn dinner may amuse ;---
" In his respective hall, the youthful aspirant for btu ris -
terial honours eats, year after year, his impatient way. to
the bar, exactly as an active rat fixes his persevering tusks
in one side of an old Cheshire, and never leaves off until he
gees right through it, poking his proboscis through the
rind on the other side. In their respective halls, barris-
ters, in like manner, eat their tedious way to a colonial
judgeship, or attorney-generalship of the Cannibal Islands,
a revising barristership, a commissionership of any thing__
or secretaryship, or under secretaryship of any thing else,
cr in short, whatever they can by any possibility lay their
hands on. In their respective halls, too, of which they
may, be considered the licensed victuallers, and whose
treasurer for the time being is a sort of principal
waiter, the veneral benchers, 'defended by a screen from
the intrusive gaze of the inferior cormorants, devour their
rations of victuals and wine in all the dignity of learned
leisure and professional elevation. While the students
eat heartily, and the b:lrri,:ters hopefully, the benchers,
more experienced in the vanity of human wishes, handle
their napkins with the gravity that becomes their tears
and station ; while through the body of the hall resounds
the professional badinage, the execrable pun, or the fitty
times told joke, from the table of the benchers not a sound
more articulate is heard than a low and pleasing murmur
of conflicting glasses, and a silver sound of forks harmo-
niously jingling in the plate basket."
The " Picture Gallery" furnishes us with some
sketches of the landscape scenery in the neighbourhood
of Reading, introduced through the medium of a tale.
A " Family Continental Tour, and its Results," points
a useful moral. An honest, unsophisticated English
country gentleman is seduced, by his wife and 'daughter,
to make the grand tour, which has the effect—as is too
of_en the case—of confounding aL their notions of pro-
priety, and accomplishing their ruin. The daughter
runs off with a scoundrel French adventurer ; the mo-
ther dies, a martyr to her new-fangled notions of gen-
tility ; and the father marries agaie, in order that his
runaway child and her vagabond husband may not conic
into possession of his estate. The incidents of this
serviceable tale are hit off with a spirit and buoyancy,
that even O'Doherty has not often surpassed. In the
hasty narrative of an " Excursion over the Mountains
to Aberyetwith," there is some vigorous painting ; but
the writer has not taken pains enough ,with his details.
His manner is so rambling .and confused, that it is next
to impossible to gather a distinct idea of his localities,
His observation—" The Welsh must be a powerful lan-
guage ; we imagined it to be in sound between Greek
and German," is correct. We have ourselves been
struck with the similarity in sound between. Welch and
'Greek ; and once heard a field-preacher declaiming in
the open air near Criekhowel, who forcibly reminded
us of the late Mr. Taylor declaiming the sonorous hexa-
meters of the Iliad. " The Bower of Peace" is an ele-
gant poem, from the pen of Delta.