The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The tlvetors of this company have concluded an ar-
rangement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to
the terms on which 500.000/. are to be advanced for the
construction of the lane from Mullingar to Galway.
That sum is to be advanced by way of loan, and the
company are to proceed with the line as speedily as
possible. The rate of interest on the loan is to be 3i
per cent. per annum. At the expiration of ten years the
principal to be repayable by intalments of 11 per cent.
per annum, independently of the interest, 3i per cent.
per annum, which it is calculated will liquidate the debt
in about thirty-five years. Should the net profits of the
railway from Athlone to Galway not prove sufficient to
pay the interest of the loan, the deficiency is to be made
good by the county of Gah-vay, and by two baronies
of Roscommon. These terms arc considered to be very
favourable to the railway company. A meeting of pro-
prietors will shortly be held to confirm the arrangement.

FBENCII RAILWAYS.
It appears from a return of French railways that the
estimated cost of construction of 18 lines amounted to
927,410,000'. (37,096,4001.), of which 13 were esti-
mated to cost 624,110,000. (24,964,4001.), and it has
since been ascertained that they will cost 849,422,000 f.
(33,976,880/0, being on the atqrscre 36 per cent. above
the es:innate& Some of the lines cost between GO and
75 per cent. above the estimates, whilst others cost. no
mere than 21 to 16 per cunt. above the stem specified.
Two of tt.e lines were completed within the estimates
—namely, the Paris and Rotten, and the Boulogne and
Ainions.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MAIDSTONE.--14.'e have accounts from all quarters of
a great accession of vermin. A Specimen was brought to
our office yetterday, completely black with fly.
lIOLLINGBOURNE, REARSTED, OTF/AM, &C.—The Hops
have come out evenly and well, growing very fast and
looking rfmaikably kindly ; a little fly h3s been sit n.
YAWING, WA lERINGBURY, AND ADJOINING PARISI/ES.
—ILI this district there is a general increase of fly. In
other rcipeeti the gardens lock well.
STAPLEHURST, MARDEN, &c.—We have • a great deal
of fly here, which is rapidly increasing.—Mtsidstoae
Journal.

STATE OF THE CROPS IN MID KE-VT.
Bars—The hop bine is growing fast, and looking
wtll, but there is a gradual increase of fly.
Cosa.-TheConN.The wheat plant is looking well ; and the
same remark, we are happy to say, applies to barley,
oats, and beans. Peas have suffered much from the
effects of the slug. the ranges of which have exceeded
anything almost ever before known, leaving the plant
very thin 'on the ground.
Fnum.—Cherries are very much blighted, but there
will be some black hearts and Kentish reds. The goose-
berries are entirely destroyed. Currants and apples
promise a good crop.
There is every appearance of an abundant crop of
grass. Clover and seeds generally look well.—Muid-
stone Journul.

CONSECRATION OF THE NEW BISHOPS OF VICTORIA
AND PRINCE RUPERT'S LAND.--CANTERBURY, TUES-
DAY EVENING.-1118 Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury having appointed this day for the consecration of
the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Rupert's Land, a
large number of prelates and other dignitaries of the
Church assembled in the cathedral, shortly before ten
o'clock. The Archbishop of Canterbury occupied the
throne. Fad choral service was performed, and at its
close the Right Rev. George Smith, D.D., cf St. Mary
Hall, Oxford, Bishop elect of Victoria (Hong Kong),
and the Right Rev. David Anderson, D.D., of Exeter
College Oxford, Bishop elect (S Pritlee Rupert's Land,
were then introduced to the Archbishop, and the con-
secration service, as se t out in the Book of Common
Prayer Was per;ormed. Dr. Smith and Dr. Anderson
Purpo.o starting for their distal t CPSeI; in the course
f a few weeks. Both the Right Rev. Prelates will be
accompaniwi by clergymen, ichoolinasters, and catechists.
SCOTTIAI BENCH.--Lord Med wyn, we are
informed, is ab, ut to retire from that bench which he
has so long adorned. The Solicitor General, Mr. Mait-
land, will, it is surpo!ed, be called on to supply the Ira-
c3ncy in the civil court, while we observe from the Lon-
don Guzette that Lord liory has been proMoted to the
Justiciary, an appointment which we have no eoubt will
be Imilt.d with great satisfuction by the bar and the
public.—North .B:itisle Mail.

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FRANCE.

Ile National Legislative Assembly met yesterday.
M. Keratry in the chair.
M. Kcenig observed that the President had ordered
a copy of the regulations of the late Assembly to be
distributed to alt the Members of the new Assembly.
M. Kconig wondered that the President had not
thought pro;,er to order the Censtitution to ha
larly distributed.—(Cries here arose from all sides
that the President had done so, and several Members
held up the book which contained it.) M. Kceaig
apologised, and said that his object in snaking that
demand was to convince the Assembly that the 5.h
article formally prohibited the intervention of foreign
powers in the internal affairs of other nations.—(Cries
of "Enough.")
M. Laudolphe said that he deemed it his duty to
protest against the manner in which the first sittieg
of the Assembly had been conducted. Every former
Assembly began by saluting with its acclamations
the Governmett of the country, and his friends would
have taken the initiative, if they did not expect the
signal from their President. What, he added, was
passing out of doors at that moment ? The people,
full of confidence in :the Assembly, crowded round
the palace. crying, " Vive la Republique !" (" Yes:,
to the tune of the Lampions," exclaimed voices from
the Right.) Well, that crowd was driven from the
palace by charges of cavalry. Had the people, under
the Monarchy, presented themselves on the passages
of the Sovereign, and rent the air with expressions of
their love and respect, would the Monarch have
ordered them to be charged by his escort ? Certainly
not. Well ! The Legislative Assembly allowed
that indignity to be perpetrated on Monday !
All the members of the Montagne here stood up,
and ;cried " Vive la Republique !" The Right
re-
mained
immovable, in spite of the taunts and threats
of the Left.

M. Segur d'Aguesseau then ran up to the tribune,
and :said that he felt a want to protest against the
abuse made of the word " people," which they all
represented. The French nation should not be con-
founded with a fraction of the people. It was the
policy of a fraction to divide the Assembly into two
parts, in order to have it to print in their journals
that one side of the Assembly had cried " Vive la
Republique," and that the other had remained silent.
1-Jere all the .Montagnards rose, and cried " Vive
la Republique Democratique et Sociale," amidst the
murmurs of the Right.
M. Pierre Bonaparte exclaimed, "The Democratic
Republic as much as you please, but down with the
Social !"—(Bravos and applause.)
M. D'Aguesseau added that he had abstained from
joining in the cry, because he did not desire that Re-
public, whose main principle, to judge from the con-
duct of its voters in the Assembly, seemed to be to
impede the first of liberties, that of the tribune.
Here the President, turning towards the Left,
called to order one of the Members who had first
raised the seditious cry. All his colleagues then
rose and repeated the cry, asking to be also called to
order.

When silence was restored,
M. Segur d'Aguesseau declared that he knew no
other Republic than that voted by the universality of
the French people, and founded on the Constitution
of 1848. It such was the Republic it was intended to
salute, he would heartily and sincerely join in the cry.
The entire Assembly here rose in a mass, and cried,
" Vive he Republique ! "
Alter a few words from M. Beaune, the President
invited the reporters of the different bureaux to submit
to the Assembly the result of their investigations re-
lative to the qualifications of the representatives. The
elections of a nuaiber of departmente were found per•
fectly legal, and the Members proclaimed. The eke •
tien of the Arriege alone gave rise to an incident—M.
llovin Tranchere asked if a M. Pilhes, returned in
that department, was not the individual of that name
who, with a Captain Laviron, had fired on the French
troops at Rome ?
li. Pilhes, a Montagnard, having ascended the
tribure, said, I have only two words to say. 111.
Pilhes, who is now at Rome, is my youngest brother.
He is animated with the same sentiments which beat
in my breast for the cause of liberty.—(Murmurs on
the Right.) The person who addresses you is Victor
Pilhes, former commissioner of Ledru Rollin, who
has been shamefully calumniated.—(Laughter.)
M. Lacave Laplagne, elected in the department of
the Gers, having died during the election, several
members demanded that the next candidate on the
list should be proclaimed representative for that de-
partment. The committee, however, considering
that M. Lacave Laplagne had died in Paris, at seven
o'clock in the evening of the 14th, that is, after the
close of the poll, and that, when he was proclaimed
on the 16th, it was impossible the account of his
death could have reached the Gers, was of opinion
that a new election should take place, which was
agreed to by the Assembly.
Left sitting.