The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1847.

rails of the Caledonian at the point of crossing, on which all
the traffic would have to go, and consequently there would
be considerable danger. In order to make such a crossing at
all eligible, they ought to have several lines of rails instead
of two; but this they could not have without rebuilding
their bridges and making considerable alterations. They had
not room for such an alteration at present. The distance
from the point of crossing the Caledonian on the level, to the
Central Junction running on to the Polloc and Govan, was
but ninety yards, so that a moderately long train would
block up both lines, and great dagger would be incurred.
Mr. Locke, C.E., corroborated the evidence of the pre-
vious witness.
This closed the evidence for the Caledonian Company.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY replied on behalf of that company
against the Bill. He said the general objections to the
scheme had been so well stated by Mr. Austin that he would
not refar to them. He would confine himself to the inter-
section of the Caledonian line, and he submitted
that no case had been made for such an interference.
The crossing would take place on the Caledonian
main line on the level, a junction which would be attended
with great danger and difficulty. Under the best circum-
stances, with a united management, such junctions were de-
cidedly objectionable, but they were much more so when
the companies were independent, and when: there would be
the leading traffic of both companies continually passing and
repassin.g. The Learned Gentleman having amplified on
these points, concluded by calling on the Committee to
reject the preamble of the Bill.
WHATELEY replied on behalf of Mr. Dixon, iron-
tr.aster.

The Committee then adjourned till to•morrow, when Mr.
Andrews will reply.

COMMITTEE on PRIVATE BILLS.
(THIS DAY.)
THAMES CONSERVANCY.
The Committee on this Bill met to-day in Room 6; Mr.
Ward in the chair.
After some discussion the preamble of the Bill was agreed
to.

LIVERPOOL GAS COMPANY.
LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN GAS COMPANY.

ASHTON GAS COMPANY.

The Committee to whom these opposing Bills had been
referred met this day, in Room 8, at the usual hour, for the
dispatch of public business; Captain Mangles in the chair.
The Liverpool Guardian Gas Company is a new company,
which sought power to borrow one hundred thousand pounds
at seven and half per cent., and undertook to supply gas
at 3s. Bd. per hundred cubic feet.
The old company sought powers to borrow two hundred
thousand pounds at ten per cent., undertaking, as heretofore,
to supply gas at 4s. 6d. per cubic feet.
After some negotiation between the parties, the Bill of the
Guardian Company was withdrawn, and the Committee
passed the Bill of the Liverpool Gas Company.
After some conversation with the agents, the Ashton Gsa
Bill was postponed till next Monday week.

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SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY
AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
The Share Market continues flat and depressed; but
although the sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs.
Lamond and Co., was not very spirited, many shares sold
at very fair prices. The following are a few of the principal
sales :
Manchester and Southampton £0 10 0
North British, Thirds
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 2 12 6
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 6 6
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate
Leeds and Thirsk, Halves 4 15 0
Cornwall
Eastern Counties
Eastern Counties, York Extension
5 15 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 13 0
East Lancashire (Scrip)
Newmarket and Chesterford 9 6 0
North Staffordshire, New Scrip
Royston and Hitchin

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day of May, 1847.
ISSUE DZPAHTDIENT. _

Notes Issued • .... •• 22,967,540

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities • • • 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 7,486,301
Silver bulliou ••• • .• 1,481,239

£ 22,967,510

X 22,967,540
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
17.
,EPAIDNEN T.

Dated the 20th day of May. 134

BANKING D:
X.
Proprietors' capital.. 14,553,000
Rest .... .
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

Government securi-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 10,549,108
Other securities • ... 16,66'1,435
Notes .. 3,793,330
Gold and silver coin.. 902,453

vidend accounts).. 4,319.786
Dther deposits ...... 8,751,171
Seven day and other
bills• • • • • • • • .. •••• 824,017

X 31,907,326

£31,907,326
". MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 20th day of May, 184'

COURSE OF EXCH,
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 8
Ditto, at sight ...... 12 5
Rotterdam ...... 2 U. 12 8%
Antwerp— . ...... ..... 26 30
ilamburgh .... ••lii.B. 13 15
Altona

LNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar .......... • ...
Leghorn .
Genoa .. • ......... • ... 26 35
Milan .. • ....
Venice
Naples .............. 39N
Palermo, per 0z........ 119
Lisbon. 5214
Oporto.. .. • ........... 5314
Rio Janeiro .......... 26

Paris, 3 days' sight ...: 25 90

Ditto, • . • • .. • • ...... 26 30
Marseilles .... • • • • • . 26 40
Bourdeaux .. 26 35
Frankfort on Maine.... 1233
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • .
Berlin
Vienna, effec.flo .. • • 10 15
rrieste, ditto.... 10 15
Madrid 46%
Cadiz • . :
Barcelona • •

Bahia .. .. . ..... .. .. ..
Buenos Ayres .. —.• • •
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... .... ..

PRICES OP BULLION, PER 08.
Foreign Gold in, bars ..43 17 9
New Dollars .... • . 0 4 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Sliver in bars ...... • • 0 4 107

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 20th day of May,
1847, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Coun-
cil, her Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare
the Right Hon. George William Frederick Earl of Clarendon,
Lieutenant-General and General Governor of that part of the
United Kingdom called Ireland.
BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, ST. JAMES'S-PALACE,
MAY 21, 1847.
Notice is hereby given, that the carriages coming to her
Majesty's Drawing• Room, on Thursday, the 27th of May,
are to fall into line and come down the left-hand side of St.
James's-street, enter at the iron gate nearest the Palace, set
down at the Arcade, turn round, and go out by the iron gate
nearest Marlborough House, to wait in St. James's-square.
When called, they are to pass from the square through Charles-
street, into Regent-street and Jermyn-street, come down St.
James's-street as before, take up, and go away through Pall-
mall. No hackney carriages will be admitted within
the gates. For all persons having the privilege
of the entree, tickets will be delivered at the
Board of Green Cloth, on Tuesday next, from eleven till
three o'clock; their carriages are to enter the gate at Con-
stitution-hill, proceed down St. James's-park, through
Stable-yard, into the Ambassadors'-court, set down, and go
out into Cleveland-row. The carriages of Ambassadors,
Foreign Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, and Great Officers of
State may afterwards wait in the Ambassadors'-court,
and those of all other persons having the entrée may wait in
Stable-yard or St. James's-park till called ; they are then to
take up in the same order as they had set down, and pass
away up St. James's-street. No carriage will be admitted
with company a second time with the same ticket, to prevent
which, it must be nroduced at Constitution-hill-gate, and
Stable-yard-gate also, where a corner of it will be torn off
by the Marshalmen in attendance ; and no person can be
allowed the privilege of the entree by any other approach to
the Palace than the gates last mentioned.
FORTESCUE, Lord Steward.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MAY 19.
Notice is hereby given, that the State Apartments, at
Windsor Castle, will be closed from Monday, the 24th inst.,
until Monday, the 7th of June.
CROWN-OFFICE, MAT 21.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PA RLIAMENT.

County of Galway.—Thomas J. Blake, of Marble-hill, in
the county of Galway, in the room of Thomas Barnwell
Martin, Esq. deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 21.
3d Dragoon Guards—Captain Thomas Tristram Spry Car-
lyon, from 10th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Stuart,
appointed to 49th Foot, May 21.
4th Dragoon Guards—Assistant-Surgeon James Flyter,
from 83d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Innes, who
exchanges, May 21.
10th Light Dragoons—Captain Methuen Stedman, from
the 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Carlyon, appointed to the
3d Dragoon Guards, May 21.
15th Light Dragoons—Cornet James Boyd Miller Ito be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Waller, deceased, Jan. 7 :
Cornet Gustavus Adolphus Ilartman to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Miller, whose prsmotion, on the 9th Feb-
ruary, 1847, has been cancelled, Feb. 9.
28th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant George Frederick
Moore to be Captain, by purchase, vice Yignoles, who re-
tires; Ensign Edward Collins, to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice Moore; Thomas Beattie Griereon, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Collins, May 21.
49th Foot—Captain George Francis Stuart, from the
3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Stedman, ap-
pointed to 10th Light Dragoons, May 21.
57th Foot—Major John Stuart, from half•pay Unattached
to be Major, vice John Weech Randolph, who exchanges,
receiving the difference, May 21.
63d Foot—Major-General Sir Henry Watson, C.B. to be
Colonel, vice General William Dyott, deceased, May 17 ;
Lieutenant Hugh Mulleneux Waltnsley to be Adjutant, vice
Bookey, who resigns the Adjutancy only, March 8.
78th Foot—John Hunter, Gent., to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Maclean, who resigns, May 21.
80th Foot—Thomas William Hunt, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Crawford, appointed Quartermaster;
Lieutenant and Quartermaster George Bodle to be Adjutant
and Lieutenant, vice Welman, promoted; Ensign George
Crawford to be Quartermaster, vice Bodle, appointed Ad-
jutant, May 21.
81st Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Henry Wil-
locks to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Sir
Charles Chichester, deceased ; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Richard Hort to be Major, vice Willocks ; Lieutenant An-
chitel Fenton Fletcher Boughey to be Captain, vice Hort;
Ensign Robert Bruce Chichester to be Lieutenant, vice
Boughey, April 5 ; William Egerton Todd, Gent., to be En-
sign, vice Chichester, May 21.
who exchanges, l)
4th Dragoon
Surgeon John Harry Ker Innes, from
nGua3rads, to. be Assistant Surgeon, vice Flyter,
mCetnap,e Mounted Riflemen.—Lieutenant Benjamin Dunbar
viceß RGEtivnzriT, . deceased,ll aj
o,
John Stuart,
21*
w ).s, from 3d West India Regiment, to be Paymaster,
Colonel in the Arm
Spurgin, of Ist Malr'as European ;
duty at the East India Co
Pears), to have the local art 3
Lieutenant, while so employed,
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian 13-a i.
of the 80th Foot, is Georg
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of 57th Foot, to be Lieut.-
Second Lieutenant John Buick
Regiment Fusiliers (doing
aoscpirieevriously stated.
's Depot, at Marley, vice
_xv difordshi: e.
Meamporary rank of Second
George,
not
Roherknte of Ensign Crawford,
Northern Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry
Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Morris Prior, resigned; ;C(l.lreling,
Devins Wade, Gent., to be Cornet, vice William Curling,g°
promoted, May 3. .
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
victualler, Bilston, Staffordshire.
, WOOllOll cloth merchant, Iludder4eld.
JGoehaorglrJalointagees,

said that he hadi 'in consequence of the desire of the
House, presented their address on the subject of the law
of marriage to her Majesty, and he had received her
commands to return the following answer:—

"1 hare received your address relating to the law of
marriage: my consideration shall be given to the subject
to which your address refers."
CROYDON COMMERCIAL GAS COMPANY
AND COKE BILL.

Mr. KEMBLE moved that the order for reviving the
Committee on the Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke
Bill be discharged, and referred to the Committee of
Selection.—Agreed to.
REPORTS ON RAILWAY BILLS.

Mr. GREENE moved that the reports on railway
Bills, which by the standing order of the House ought
to be considered upon Thursday, be considered on
Friday. the 28th day of this instant May.—Agreed to.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION, AND
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND
DUDLEY RAILWAY AMALGAMATION BILL.

Mr. SPOONER moved the third reading of this Bill.
Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS asked for a postponement
of this Bill for ten days, until they should see what ter-
mination the legal proceedings at present pending in the
Court of Queen's Bench would have.
Mr. RUSSELL said that he trusted the House
would not yield to the suggestion of the Honourable
Member. If the objection urged was a good and
valid one, it ought to have been urged on the bringing
up of the report; and after the discussion which had
taken place, he did not see that this motion ought to
have been made. If the House would resolve not to
pass any measure in reference to which legal proceed-
ings were taken it would be quite easy to defeat any
Bill.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.")
Sir C. DOUGLAS said that he would not divide
the House upon the question. All he desired to do was
to call the attention of the House to the fact, which was
not disputed by the Hon. Gentleman. He would
accordingly withdraw his amendment.
The Bill was then read a third time.
THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.

Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition against any
alteration in the navigation-laws.

CASE OF MARY DAWSON.

Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from a working
man of the name of Dawson, in the neighbourhood of
Keighley, in the county of York, complaining of the
treatment which his daughter, Mary Dawson, had re-
ceived from her employer, a Mr. Ellice. The petition
alleged that his daughter was a weaver in the
factory of Mr. Ellice, where she had a warp in hand which
was so bad that she could not weave. From some dis-
pute which arose on the subject, she left his employment
on the 10th of March. In consequence, she wrs brought
before the magistrates at Keighley, but nothing was done
with her at the time. She got employment in another
mill, where she continued till the 30th April. On that
day, without any notice, a constable came and took her
to prison. She was taken through the streets to the rail-
way station, and hurried to Wakefield, where she now
lies committed to the House of Correction for a month.
He now gave notice that after the holidays he would
move that the petition be printed with the votes, with
the object of bringing the subject before the House.
COMPENSATION TO TENANTS FOR AGRI-
CULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Lord INGESTRE presented a petition from the
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Stafford,
statinc, that the security of tenure was the exception and
not the' rule, and praying that the Government would
introduce a measure to secure compensation to tenants
for their agricultural improvements.
NAVIGATION LAWS.

The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from 4,000
seamen, belonging to ships out of the port of London,
expressing their regret that an intention was expressed
of interfering with the navigation laws, which would
have the effect of throwing them out of employment,
and giving their bread to foreign sailors. They prayed,
therefore, that the navigation laws should not be inter-
fered with. The Noble Lord moved that the petition
be referred to the Navigation Committee.

ation from grain could be resumed after distillation from
grain had been used, he begged to observed that it was
quite a mistake; for, in reality only six days' notice was
necessary before the work could be resumed. In fact
Rowe and Co., of Dublin, and Messrs. Lamen, of Rat-
cliffe Highway, were now working upon that system.
He therefore thought that any interference with the
excise was unnecessary.
Captain BARCLAY explainod that be did not wish
to throw the slightest blame upon the Government, for
he did not inculpate them in the least for allowing dis-
tillation from grain.
ACTION OF THE POOR-LAW.

Mr. FEHR AND said that a handbill had been circu•
lated in Sheffield, stating that a person named John
Darwin, who he understood had formerly been in highly
respectable circumstances, had lately died in the work-
house, and that his body had been cut up into quarters,
and sold. It was further stated that the mutilated mem-
bers had,'five weeks afterwards, been taken to St. George's
burial ground in a coffin and interred. The question
which he wished to ask was whether any information re-
specting the circumstance had been communicated to the
Government ?

Sir GEORGE GREY said he had never heard of the
handbill till the Hon. Gentleman had given notice of
his question. There was no reason for supposing that
any such occurrence had happened there, and he did
not think that the reports were sufficiently authenticated
to warrant further notice of it.