The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-13 00:00:00

GROUP XLVIII.

GLASGOW, AIRDRIE, AND NEONICLAND
JUNCTION (COWLAIRS BRANCH).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
k.,-;Mr. AUSTIN opened the case for the promoters. He stated
that the branch in question was only 2ti miles long, but its
great importance consisted in connecting the Edinburgh and
,rest
line with the present scheme, and granting the for-
mer company access to the large station to be constructed in
the college grounds.
Mr. Ewing, a director of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and
Caledonian and Dumbarton, gave general evidence in favour
of the proposed branch, as opening up good station room for
the former railway.
A question was here raised about the locus standi of Mr.
Forsyth appearing for the Monkland mineral lines.
A discussion ensued, which resulted in the Committee
deciding against the appearance of Mr. Forsyth.
Mr. Thomas Leadbetter, Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Paterson,
of Glasgow, gave evidence as to the accommodation the pro-
posed branch would give to the cattle and mineral traffic of
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Mr. Ache, the engineer of the line, was examined as to the
works on the line. They presented no engineering difficulty,
the heaviest gradient being lin 90. The cost was estimated
at 71,5001.

The Committee adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock,

DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS

THE HAGUE, BUY 9.—The improvement in his Ma
jesty's health continues, so that no further bulletins wil
be issued.

P. F. G. EVERARD, M.D.
BECKERS, M.D.
THE HAGUE, MAY 10.—We are happy to announce
that in consequence of the recovery of the King's health,
not only no more bulletins will be issued, bat that his
Majesty walked out to-day.
The Second Chamber of the States General is to dis-
cuss, to-morrow, the project of Law on the formalities to
be observed in case of the loss of bonds payable by the
State. Setting out with the principle that the State should
not seek to derive advantage from accidents of this
nature, it was necessary to think of finding means of
remedying them without exposing the State on the other
hand to losses. _ _

RIOTS AT STUTTGARD.
MAY 10.—Tumults have broken out in our peaceful
city, and the noise of arms and bloodshed fill our streets.
The tumult spread like wildfire from one end of Ger-
many to the other, not quickly vanishing, making a little
smoke, and leaving some ashes behind. But let these
ashes be carefully watched, for they may prove the focus
of future conflagrations. We need scarcely add that we
do not speak of the police, but of the skill and energy
of the statesmen. The tumult yesterday differed from
the riots in other towns in one essential character. It
was not the work of a violent tumultuous excitement,
but premeditated. In fact, it was known in the morning
that the house of a supposed extortioner was to be
attacked. As far as I know, there was no
immediate occasion fur the attack on the house
of that man. You have doubtless already
learnt the course of events yesterday by some
other channel. All is now quiet here, and but for the
movements of troops through the city, we should scarcely
perceive that any change had taken place. The Govern-
ment, however, has sent for cavalry, infantry, and artil
lery from Ludwigsberg, to be prepared against all events.
A renewal of the disturbances is, however, scarcely to
be expected, and it would be fatal to the rioters, because
they are far ,from finding
om finding partisans among the well
ordered population in general.
FRANKFORT, MAY I.—Here, too, ',here have been
some excesses against bakers, but they were happily not
very serious, and as means are taken to relieve the dis-'
tress, there is no reason to feel any considerable alarm.
The principal bakers are said to have subscribed 120,000
florins to supply the indigent with breiid at lower prices.
and those who are entirely destitute, on still lower
terms. The head of the house of Rothschild, too, re-
solved a week ago to allow all the indigent in this city
until the harvest, the sum of sixpence on every loaf
which they required, but the District Commissioners
have neglected to prepare the required lists to the poor,
so that this resolution has not yet been carried into
effect. Our much respected second burgomaster has
likewise arranged a further distribution of potatoes at
his expense.
REICHENBACH IN SILESIA, APRIL 27.—Excesses have
been committed in our market in which two potato
dealers were dreadfully ill-treated. The distress in our
parts is very great, adds the Silesian Gazette. In the
night of the 4th of May, the town of Murowaraus Gollin,
three leagues from Posen, was almost wholly destroyed
by fire. The number of buildings consumed is not yet
ascertained, happily no lives were lost.
DRESDEN, MAY I.—Violent torrents of rain, accom-
panied by a storm of thunder and lightning, fell here to
day, which caused apprehensions that a water-spout had
broken at some distance. The Elbe rose very consider.
ably on the 3d and 4th. All the meadows on both banks
are overflowed to a great extent.
GREcE.—We have received letters from Athens of
the 25th of April, which confirm the late notice of the
multiplication of the Ministry, Mr. Koletti is said to
have promised to the English Ambassador, the latest
arrears of interest,' 700,000 francs, and the Chambers to
have granted it. Nothing of importance had occurred
in regard to the depute with the Porte, the Greek mer-
chants and captains of vessels are stated not to have
experienced any hostile treatment from the Turkish
officers.—Algemine Zeitung.

'IRE AT THE MACINTOSH WATERPROOF FABRIC
MANUFACTORL—About twenty-five minutes to five o'clock
on Sunday morning, the policeman, who was on duty in
Cambridge-street, discovered a fire proceeding from the lower
part of the cellar of Messrs. Macintosh and Co.'s waterproof
fabric works, in that street. Intimation of this fact was con-
veyed by him to the station ; and Mr. T. Rose, accompanied
by his father, the whole of the fire brigade, and four engines,
at once proceeded to the works. On arriving there, it was
found that the India rubber stored in a vault communicating
with the cellar was on fire, and that several of the men in the
employ of Messrs. Macintosh and Co. had attached a pipe to
their own force-pump, and were pouring water on the flames.
Two engines were speedily geared and got into play, and,
after three-quarters of an hour's exertion, the fire was com-
pletely extinguished, without having extended beyond the
vault. The damage, it is supposed, will amount to about
150/. or 2001. The overflow of the Medlock is said to have
been the cause of this fire. The water, having forced its
way into the lower part of the premises, came into contact
with some chemical substance or liquid used in the prepara-
tion of the waterproof fabrics, causing ignition, and the
flames spread to the India rubber, of which there were several
tons in the vault. The flood in Little Ireland was at this
time so great that some of the people who went to assist in
working the engines had to swim across it:
Express.

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, attended by the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Hon. Miss
Dawson, Lord Water ark the. Hon. Colonel Phipps,. and the
Hon. Captain Gordon honoured the French Plays with their
presence last evening'. His Serene Highness the Prince of
Leiningen accompanied the Royal party.

STATE OF MEXICO.

MEXICO, APRIL I.—The revolution which was pro-
claimed here by the National Guard on the 27th of
,•: ,4

of atio vice-presta. ; Gomez Farias,
who held the latter office, to be immediately removed,
and the executive power to be confided provisionally to
Senor Pena y Pena. Towards Santa Anna the dislike
of the Moderado party, who attempted the revolution,
is quite as great as to Gomez Farias, and their fears
much greater, but they considered him to be engaged
in a hopeless expedition against the Americans in
Saltillo, from which he might possibly never return,
and they therefore treated his claim to the
Presidency with little ceremony, leaving him
simply the title of Commander-in-Chief of the
army. Santa Anna's ingenuity in converting his
repulse at the Angostura into a victory soon
convinced the Pronunciados, however, that he was
not to be thus easily disposed of, and, as the Congress
showed no disposition to dissolve itself at their bidding,
while the regular troops under Rangel remained faithful
to the Government, they found it prudent to lower their
tone And, remodelling their plan, announced as its sole
object the deposition of Gomez Farias. Santa Anna,
on his march to San Luis Potosi (to which place he
found it necessary to retreat after the battle of
the Angostura), received intelligence of these disturb-
ances, and fully comprehending their tendency as
affecting himself, wrote in the strongest terms to Gomez
Farias, exhorting him to hold out until troops,
which Santa Anna promised to dispatch immediately
to his assistance, should arrive here. He protested,
further, that if the insurgents were not punished in
the most eßemplary manner, he would himself leave
the country, considering it no longer habitable if the
laws could be violated with impunity. There is some-
thing ludicrous in this language from a man whose
whole life has been a series of insurrections, and the
Pronunciados, estimating it at its proper worth, lost no
time in communicating to him their modified plan, backed
by those arguments to which he is known to be most open.
The effect was immediately perceptible in a fresh series
of communications from him, to the Government in cool,
and to the Pronunciados in very friendly terms. Com-
plying with the invitation of Congress, he announced
his intention to assume the Presidency, by which the
obnoxious individual (Gomez Ferries) would be legally
got rid of, and directed that hostilities sh.ould cease
until his arrival. Many and anxious were the delibe-
rations of Gomez Farias, and his party the ultra de-
mocrats, or, as they are now termed Puros, on the re-
ceipt of this unexpected intelligence; but they had no
alternative but submission, as their military supporters
acknowledged no orders except Santa Anna's. The
young gentlemen of the National Guard, called by the
mob "Polkas" with (reference to a well-known dance,
not to the President of the United States), on the other
hand, were highly elated. Both parties maintained their
position, and though the streets continued barricaded,
and business of every kind suspended, the firing ceased
until Santa Anna arrived at Guadaloupe on the 22d ult.,
and, having taken the oath as President before a com-
mittee deputed by Congress to wait on him, made his
entry into this city and established himself at the