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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY_ EVENING, MAY 6, 1847.

The House then resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Six o'clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES,

communication between Newry and Armagh before any
other portion of the line was opened, and they preferred to
leave the details of this arrangement to the parties them-
selves.

The Committee then adjourned till Tuesday next.

brought to it. The great number of these were sent to the
south. They could import guano and bone-dust from Berwick
and Liverpool, for the purpose of enriching the land, if this
line were opened. They could also import Indian corn for
their own use, and thereby be able to export a larger quan-
tity of the grain raised in the district. For agricultural pur-
poses they could have oil-cake from Berwick and other places,
which might be brought to the various districts by the
proposed railway. Lime was exceedingly expensive (not
less than 18s. per ton in the centre of the county); but
by the projected line it might be laid down in the districts,
within six or seven miles of the line, at a moderate cost.
The land would require about five tons per acre in every
fourteen years, or six tons in every nineteen years.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Butt, and re-
examined by Mr. Paton, but nothing particular was elicited
in addition.

The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow.

REGISTRY of BIRTHS and DEATHS
DURING THE WEEK ENDING MAY 1.
1 Deaths registered in the week Births registered in the week.
Males ... ••• ••• 503 Males ... ... ... 622
Females ••• ••• 480 Females ... ... 654

Total . • 983

Total ... 1,276

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SHERIFFS' COURT, May 5.
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.)

BADCOCK V. TUE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY

COMPANY.
In this case, Mr. H. Badeock, a manufacturing chemist
at Bow-common, near Limehouse, claimed compensation
from the Blackwall Company for his premises, which
they required in the extension of the line of railway.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Lush were for the claimant, and
Mr. Bovill and Mr. Phippson for the company.
The case occupied the whole day. It appeared that
the claimant had asked 450/. and had been offered 1141.
by the company, exclusive of the fixtures and other
matters, which were to be taken at a valuation. The
evidence went to show that in 1843 Badcock was dis-
charged as an insolvent debtor; in 1844 he obtained a
21 years' lease of the premises now in his occupation, and
that he had since carried on the business. Several wit-
nesses were called with the view of showing the value.
It n as stated that since the passing of the New Building
Act it was difficult to obtain premises to carry on certain
occupations, including the business in which the claimant
was engaged.
Mr. BovILL addressed the jury for the company, but
called no witnesses. Ho contended that the offer of the
company, which was exclusive of fixtures, was a very
liberal compensation to the claimant.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF summed up the evidence,
and the jury assessed the compensation at 4001.

•-
A MODERN HENRY the EIGHTH.
BRESLAU, APRIL 22.—The Prince Archbishop of
Breslau has launched the thunders of the church against
one of the German princes. He has excommunicated
the Prince of Hatzfeld de Trachambourg and de Jasch-
kowitz, member of the order of nobles in the General
Diet of Prussia, at present assembled in Berlin, and ene
of the richest and most influential princes in Prussia.
The following are the circumstances which have led
to an act of rigour on the part of the church so uncom-
mon in the present century:—
About five years ago Prince Germain de Hatzfeld,
who is a Roman Catholic, fell in love with the Duchess
de Reichembach, a married lady, and a Protestant. For
some reason, of which we do not know the particulars,
the Duchess de Reichembach got herself divorced. Soon
afterwards, in virtue of a royal decree, abridging the
delay which, according to our laws, must take place be-
tween the divorce and the re-marriage of any of the
divorced parties, the Prince of Hatzfeld got the Lutheran
pastor of Breslau to give him the marriage blessing.
Thereafter the Prince of Hatzfeld was anxious to have
his marriage made valid according to the rites of the
Catholic Church, and for that purpose he applied to
several ecclesiastics to perform the marriage ceremony,
but they all refused, on the ground that they were for-
bidden to do so by the decisions of the Council of Trent,
and more especially by a brief addressed, in 1843, by
the late Pore Gregory XVI. to the bishops of Bavaria,
and in which the Sovereign Pontiff designates a marriage
between a Catholic and a divorced Protestant as con-
nubium adulterinum. The Prince of Hatzfeld did not
lose his courage. He went to Rome, threw himself at
the Pope's feet, and supplicated his Holiness to confirm
his marriage with the Duchess de Reichembach. Gre-
gory XVI. was moved; and after having received from
the Prince of Hatzfeld a solemn promise that he would
support the interests of the Catholic Church, his Holi-
ness validated the marriage of the Prince and Princess
of Hatzfeld, and gave orders to the Prince-Archhishop
of Breslau to give them the nuptial benediction, accord-
ing to the rites of the Catholic Church, which was ac-
cordingly done. For some time the Prince of Hatzfeld
kept his word to the Pope. He placed himself at the
head of the Catholic aristocracy of the province, and he
constituted himself the protector of the clergy, who, in
consequence of his intercession, obtained in a short
time great privileges and considerable immunities. In
consequence of this zeal, Pope Gregory XVI. conferred
upon the Prince of Hatzfeld numerous decorations and
other marks of distinction. After two years of marriage,
the love of the Prince of Hatzfeld for his wife began
gradually to cool, and this coolness increased to such a
degree that at last he drove her out of his house, and
obtained a divorce. At the same time he formed an in-
timate connexion with another Protestant lady, Madame
de Bach, who had also the mishap to be divorced, and
on the 6th of the present month of April he married
her publicly in the Lutheran Cathedral of Breslau. On
the following day the Prince Archbishop of Breslau
pronounced a sentence of the greater excommunication
against the Prince of Hatzfeld, in which, after reciting
the above facts, he says—" Considering that his Serene
Highness the Prince Germain of Hatzfeld de Trachem-
bourg and de Jaichkowitz has rendered himself guilty
of polygamy, since, during the life of his wife, he has
married another woman • that such an act should be
punished the more severely from its being committed by
a person so highly placed as the said Prince of Hatzfeld
by birth, rank, and fortune, and whose example must
necessarily have a great effect upon the people; that the
Prince of Hatzfeld has shown a supreme degree of in-
gratitude to the late Pope Gregory XVI., who loaded
him with favours and honours; that the Prince of Hatz-
feld, who was at the head of the Catholics of Silesia, has
by his conduct covered his co-religionists with shame;
that it is notorious that he has stated everywhere
that he had no uneasiness about what he had
done, and that by means of money he would obtain from
the clergy the validation of his second marriage as he
had the first; that it is necessary to prove to the public
in a striking manner that it is an erroneous impression
which is current in our country, that the clergy are
always indulgent to the powerful of the earth:—We,
Melchoir, by the grace of God, &c., Prince Archbishop
of Breslau, in virtue of our archiepiscopal functions,
and in conformity with the holy canons, but to our regret
and with a profound grief, excommunicate the said Most
Serene Prince Germain of Hatzfeld, as a public and obsti•
nate contemner and transgressor of the laws and doctrines
of the church; and we strike him with the anathema of the
church, and with all the legal consequences of that measure,
and that in the name of the Father, of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Breslau
papers state that the Prince of Hatzfeld, on learn-
ing that sentence of excommunication had been pro-
nounced against him, intimated his intention of
joining the Lutheran Church, but that by the advice
of his friends he abstained from doing so, because
the consequence would be that he would lose two of his
richest and most valuable lordships. The Prince of
Hatzfeld above spoken of is brother of the Prince of
Hatzteld Schoenberg, whose liaison with the Countess of
Meyendorff gave rise to a celebrated trial at Cologne in
December last.

POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH

CHINA.
(From the China Mail.)
The ignorance and inattention of the good folks at
home regarding the postal arrangements with China, is
a never-failing source of annoyance to residents here.
We have repeatedly essayed our possible to enlighten the
select portion of the British public who enjoy the oppor-
tunity of perusing the China Mail, but hitherto, we regret
to find, to very little purposa, if the annoyingly amusing
instances which have just come to our knowledge afford
a fair criterion. We select two of them : _ _

A friend in London, wishing to give the latest infor-
mation on private affairs, frets and bustles to have a
letter on the 4th of the month, because, some ten years
ago, in the infancy of steam communication with the
east, he had learnt that a mail was made up via Mar-
seilles on that day, Ana-being evidently a disciple of the
Finality School, had no fan in subsequent improve-
ment; and so this effusion becomes a dead letter, and is
mercilessly entombed in a pigeon hole of the London Post-
office for three weeks. Another intelligent correspondent
living within a stone's throw of the Edinburgh Post-office,
to make sure work, writes a letter on the 18th, in
ample time for the Southampton dispatches, but having
by over '-strudy -or Directories and Almanacs, acquired
some confused notions about the greater expedition used
with Marseilles letters, marks his via that route, and
posts it on the 21st, but neglects to pay the postage,
no doubt because he had discovered that such a preli-
minary step was not necessary in the case of letters
sent by the English packets. The consequence was that
his letter was detained in London a month, less a couple
of days, when, after all, it was sent via Southampton, the
only route for unpaid letters. The accident which befel
the Ripon steamer deprived us of the October mail in
due course, and so this letter, written on the 18th Sep-
tember, and inclosing a bill of lading, which ought to
have been here in the middle of November, did not ar-
rive till the end of January, a few days after the vessel
containing the goods. Such are the consequences of
neglecting a five minutes' study of a very simple ar-
rangement.
The mails for India of the 4th and 7th of the month
are, however, the most fruitful source of the blunders
we Celestial sojourners have to complain of ; and,
strange to say, they are encouraged by the Post-office
itself, which from time to time issues notices that
" Mails for China, India, &c., are to be made up is
London on the 4th and 7th," while, according to its own
regulations, all letters for China direct are dispatched
only on the 20th and 24th. None are more readily
caught in this trap thTtn news-agents, and nothing is
more common than to see bundles of papers ad,d,ressed
and paid for " via Marseilles and Bombay 1 We,
therefore, with the most profound respect, beg to assure
the ingenuous, but, we are compelled to add, remarkably
stupid home public, that letters for China direct never
visit India at all, unless addressed to the care of some
one there, in which case the chances are they are never
more heard of, except as lumber to the Bombay or
Calcutta Post-office. The mails of the 4th and 7th,
therefore, carry letters for India, and not for China ;
those of the 20th and 24th bring letters for both India
and China.

But as our readers at home are proof against all that
has appeared in our journal upon the subject, we have
printed the following notice at the head of a ream of
letter paper, in order that at least our own correspon-
dents may not plead ignorance:—
" There is only one mail for China made up in Lon-
don, via Southampton on the 20th, and via Marseilles
on the 24th of each month. It is not necessary to
pre-pay letters sent by to former route; by the
latter pre-payment is imperative, otherwise letters
though marked via Marseilles by the sender will be
detained in London for the next Southampton dispatch.
The mails of the 4th and 7th are for INDIA and not for
CHINA, though the contrary is erroneously stated in
the Notices issued by the London Post-office. Postages
via Southampton charged by the I ounce, vie& Mar-
seilles by the ounce. All letters by either route
should be invariably written on good, and never on
spongy paper."
Adopting the admirable system of Mrs. Trimmer,
Mrs. Barbauld, and others who have devoted them-
selves to teaching the. young idea, we here
begin with general principles easily understood ;
and when our tyros have learned their first
lessons, we shall proceed gradually to unfold to them the
mysteries of Marseilles letters bearing double rates, the
one English the other French, the former advancing by
half ounces the latter by quarters. And our crowning
lecture will be an eulogium on the noble generosity of
our own country contrasted with the nip-cheese mean-
ness of our Gallic neighbours, who double their charge
on letters when they come up to the specified weight,
while we only do so when it is exceeded. But these
abstruser disquisitions are kept in reserve, to instigate
our neophytes in postal science to a diligent study of
the present rudimental Grades.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The concluding spxing
meeting was held yesterday afternoon, at the rooms in
Regent-street, when the chair was taken by R. Govan, Esq.
The prizes awarded were, silver Banksian medals to Messrs.
Weeks and Wickham for specimen plants, and certificates of
merit to Mr. Ayre for strawberries, and Mr. Donald for two
plants. From Sir T. Dyke Acland was a dish of new pota-
toes, grown without heat, and which did not appear to be
affected with the prevalent disease. From Mr. Cuthill was a
drain tile, made entirely of novel materials, being mad? of
compressed peat moss, a substance considered to be particu-
larly eligible where clay or other material was with difficulty
to be obtained. The extract from the Meteorological Register
kept at the gardens since the last meeting, en the 20th April,
gave, barometer, highest, 22d April, 30.064 inchil 7lowest,
April 29, 29.528 inch ; thermometer, highest, Apr 25,
.62
deg. F.—lowest, April 26, 20 deg. F. ; and quantity of rain,
0.40 inch.
A line of sailing packets between Antwerp and
the ports of Galatz and Odessa is about to be established, in
execution of a treaty passed on the sth ult. between the Bel-
gian Minister of Foreign Affairs and M. Frederic Harkort.
The engagement is made from the present year up to 1851 in.
clu4iTely.—Galignanit

IRELAND.

SPREAD OF FEVER.

DUBLIN, MAY 3.—The accounts, particularly from
the western and southern counties, exhibit an alarming
increase of pestilence in several districts ; but it is
worthy of remark, that in all cases where efficient
sanatory arrangements are adopted, a decided decrease
in the virulence of the malady has been the consequence.
In some parts of the northern province too, for instance.
in Enniskillen, Lurgan, and Belfast, fever is making
fearful ravages. In the last-named town, on Saturday,
a public meeting was held, to make arrangements for
providing additional hospital accommidation, and to
raise a general subscription.
Subjoined are some of the accounts received this day :
" &lc°, MAY I.—Typhus fever still continues to rage
with unabated fury. ;iligo is a plague spot; the whole
town is now in the state the poor-house was in formerly.
Fever is in every street, and fever of the worst kind. If
the Almighty God do not mitigate this dreadful dis-
temper, we have, particularly now as the warm weather
approaches, a horrible prospect before us.
COUNTY OF GALWAT.—BALLINASLOE, MAY I.—We
regret that fever rages in the workhouse of this town
to a very violent degree. On Thursday the schoolmas-
ter fell a victim to this virulent disease.

EYRECOURT, APRIL 30.—Fever is spreading furiously
in this town and neighbourhood ; cases of dysentery
are also not uncommon. A great many persons con-
tinue to emigrate to the United States of Ameri3a.
Our relief committee is contributing greatly to dimin-
ish the dreadfulness of famine. Meal and soup are
distributed every day to the famishing applicants for
out-door-relief.
KING'S COUNTY.—BANAGHER, APRIL 30. This
neighbourhood is truly in a most melancholy condition.
The poor famine-worn inhabitants are falling fast from
fever and dysentery. Tho clergymen are absolutely
exhausted, between attending relief committees and the
death-beds of the afflicted.

COUNTY OF KERRY.—TRALEE, MAY I.—The num-
ber of paupers in the workhouse is 1 064. The deaths
during the past week amounted to 26 ; and the dis-
charges to 29. Four weeks ago the commissioners ordered
that there should be no more admissions until the
paupers in the house were reduced to 1,000 in number.
The inmates were then 1,350. The deaths since then
amounted to 139, and the discharges to 149, reducing
the number in excess to 64. The Fever Hospital gates
have been closed against the reception of any more pa-
tients for want of room.
AWFUL CONSEQUENCES OF IMPERFECT SEPULTURE.
DOGS.—In the neighbourhood of CastleiMand
and Ballylongfod, from the imperfect covering thrown
on the dead victims of famine, troops of dogs prey from
day to day on the bodies. This is not all : violent mad-
ness is the result, which has already led these rabid ani-
mals not only to attack one another, but the cattle in
the fields. The authorities and the gentlemen of the
county should at once look to them.

MILLTOWN, APRIL 30.—Fever is on the increase in
this much-neglected and miserable place. There are at
least thirty cases at present, and it is to be feared that
the disease will not be confined to this number, owing
to the want of some sort of hospital to send those poor
wretched creatures to. The several labourers employed
on the public works in this locality rushed into the town
yesterday, and were disposed to act with great violence.
Even some of them had the audacity to lay hands on the
parish priest, and used threatening language.— Tralee
Chronicle.
TUE PUBLIC WORRS.—The Sligo Chronicle says:—
"We have just ascertained that an order has come down
to continue the able bodied labourers upon the public-
works."

EMIGRATION—SLIGO, MAY I.—From the sth of Jan.
to the present date, 3,239 persons left this port direct
for America. Of this number 176 went in the Carrick s,
which was chartered by Lord Palmerston.
CLONMEL, MAY I.—ATTACK BY A LARGE ARMED
MOB, AND ROBBERY OF FLOUR.—OR yesterday a most
daring attack was made on a boat laden with flour, on
her way from this town to Waterford. She started at
eleven o clock, accompanied by the usual military escort,
but was delayed on her passage at Two-mile-Bridge,
where a delay occurred in consequence of the boat hav-
ing grounded; however, after some time she was got off.
She had on board one hundred and fifty sacks of
flour, seventy sacks of which were the property
of Messrs. Thomas Hughes and Son, and the re-

mainder the property of—Messrs. Thomas and James
Hughes. When the boat reached Poulakerry, the
military escort returned to town, and she proceeded
on her way without an escort, there being, we
should imagine, some misunderstanding, as the
Carrick escort usually met the boats at this point.
When the boat arrived at or near Ballydine, a large mob

of persons had assembled on the banks of the river, about
one hundred in number, several of whom were armed
with guns and blunderbusses. The boat was ordered to
stop by one man, who had his gun presented, several of
the party also presenting at the same time. The persons
managing the boat being placed in terror of their lives
through the threats of the attacking party, brought the
boat to the bank, when the mob compelled the boatmen
to go into the cabin, and commenced the plunder. They
had a " yawl" in their possession at this time, which was
also laden with flour, and they took from the two boats
no less than 50 sacks of flour, saying at the same time,
"The devil's cure to those who would eat yellow meal
when they could get good flour." Ono of the women in
the mob had her apron full of fire-arms, which she laid on
a fence for the purpose of terrifying the boatmen. On
this morning 26 additional constables arrived here from
the depot, Phoenix Park, under the command of Adjutant
Manby, for the purpose of strengthening the several sta-
tions in this district.—Tipperary Constitution.
THE CROPS—TILLAGE OF THE LAND.

SLIGO, MAY I.—The crops are looking exceedingly
well, and, up to this, the prospect of a good harvest is
most cheerful. It is true that a large portion of the
ground remains untilled.—Sligo Champion.
TRALEE, MAY I.—Our reports of the early crop are
favourable. A gentleman in the vicinity of 'l'ralee, who
sowed rye last August in potato land, immediately after
digging the early crop, informs us that it has come in
for spring feeding on the Ist of April, in ear, and the
ground is vacant again for another crop. Mach injury
has been effected by the storm of Tuesday. In many
places, the early potatoes, which were exhibiting every
promise of health and abundance, have been nipped and
checked.— Tralee Chronicle.
MURDER.—On Thursday last, the body of an unknown
man, aged about forty, was found buried in the cailows
of Clonkeen, in the parish of Killian, near Kentstown.
From the deposition of the medical gentleman who
examined the body, it is probable that he had been
strangled ; and, from the state of the body, it could not
have been interred more than four or five days. No
money was found on his person. An inquest was held
on the body of the unfortunate stranger, and a verdict
of wilful murder returned against some person or per-
sons unknown.—Ballinasloe Star.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The weekly meeting of the association was held this
day, Mr. E. W. O'Mahony (barrister) in the chair.
Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL wished, before the business of
the day commenced, to express in a few but sincere
words the deep regret which he as an Irishman felt, and
he was quite sure the Association participated in the
feeling, at the announcement of the illness—he feared
he should say the fatal illness—ol their Lord-Lieutenant.
It was true they had nothing to thank the Government
for—it was very true they had much to blame them for ;
but it was his (Mr. O'Connell's) sincere conviction that
Earl Bessborough was in no way blameable for the
short-comings of the Government ; and he felt satisfied
that if his dispositions and his representations had had
their due weight with the English Cabinet, Ireland
would at that moment be in a condition far different
from her present miserable situation. [During the ad-
dress of the Honourable Gentleman Captain Clarke of
the Victor, the ship which brought the cargo of provi-
sions from the citiaens of New York, for the relief of
the distressed people of this country, entered the meet-
ing, and on being introduced was warmly received.]
Mr. O'Connell congratulated the Association on the ap-
pearance of an American citizen in Conciliation Hall,
and then gave notice that a special meeting of the Asso-
ciation and of repealers generally be held on Thursday,
for the purpose of expressing their unbounded and over-
flowing gratitude to America for the assistance afforded
by her to the starving people of Ireland.—(Cheers.)
Captain CLARKE expressed his acknowledgments for
the kind reception he had experienced, and observed
that his sympathy was, and ever had been, with old
Ireland.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. J. KELLY, solicitor (the gentleman who has
exhibited to public view the landlordism of Mayo), ex-
pressed his regret he was not able to fulfil his promise
of bringing under the consideration of the association
and of the world the conduct of certain landlords in
Mayo. The reason of his not being able to do seodwoars
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combined effects of his journey and the inclement
weather, and would not therefore be able to proceed at
once to Rome, but would be under the necessity of re•
maining a month, or perhaps two, in the south of France.
After some further business had been disposed of, Mr.
John O'Connell proceeded to address the meeting, and
on concluding announced the rent for the week to be
271. 17s.
The meeting then adjourned.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.---011 Tuesday morning,
a little before ten o'clock, an engine stalk, which has lately
been erected by John Wilson, Esq., near the School-yard
Pits' Bo'ness, fell with a tremendous crash, in the direction of
the School-brae ; destroying one house of four storeys in
height, and another of one storey. The inhabitants of the
buildings were buried in the ruins ; from which one female
was taken out dead, and several others severely injured, but
who are since progressing favourably. It is remarkable that
more lives were not lost, as the road over which the stalk
fell is the one leading to the parish school, and the accident
happened at the very hoar of the assembling of the school.
Edinburgh Post.

ROYIL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-LANE.—
The influx of applicants to this charity, during the past few
days, has so greatly increased, that it has been found utterly
impossible to attend to all applicants. At a meeting of the
board held last evening, the Rev. Dr. Rice in the chair, it
was stated that distress and its concomitant debility and
fever, induced by the unusual inclemency of the season,
mud a great portio4 pf the wading mitierY And ackne",