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zi:tht
erefore ever be entered by any Church of England
nor by am- inspector who did rot on.i.,y the
erce of tile ~:mittee Pr:vi'ege,. It tht: managers
of
such
schools desired the aid o
! Government to enable
ohtoapprentice pupil teachers—to procure for these
00l assistants exhibitions to • Normal schools at the close
ftheir apprenticeship--or an augmentation of the salaries
Ltheir masters, the principle on which the inspectors of
7"°018 are appointed would oppose no obstacle to their appli-
cation for such aid, for no person would be so employed who
id not ent,:,y-
The „ the confidence of the Committee of Privileges.
the Committee
conception is a delusion which the proceedings of
'-^Jininittee of Council as recorded in their minutes from the
Year 1R
abun-
dant -"39 to this date disprove. Those minutes contain
yrProof that the Committee of Council have with un-
fiering impartiality endeavoured, on all occasions, to pro-
ttr the interests of the minority from civil injustice, while
11,7 have paid due respect both to the rights of conscience
"4 to the religious institutions and convictions of all classes
of her Majesty's subjects.
I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient bumble servant,
"JAMES PHILLIPS KAY SHUTTLEWORTH.
4et Robert Eckett, 6, Argyle-square."

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS
(Fre
the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Conant us.)
FRIDAY, MAZCH 12.
The Lr •
vt,oilowing Railway Bills were read a second time, com-
'-"lta:°, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
IKret and Edmonton Extension.
o eater and Birmingham and North Staffordshire Junction.
4,l9Vorcester, and Wolverhanntan (No. I—Extension
tdi4llb amendment).
Urgh and Northern (Improvement of the Ferry be-
en Ferry Port on Craig and the Northern Shore of
tltzhe River Tay)
bi,',„°lme (from 'the Leeds and Selby Railway to Gains-
rc'tigh, with Branches).

T, STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
v 4, followin Resolutions were reported from the above
Melia • gl. That,•—
petiti in the case of the South Metropolitan Waterworks
on, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
.
dle That in the case of the Westminster and Part of Mid-
Sewers petition, for leave to deposit a petition for a
the ,the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That
3.P1 tied be permitted to deposit their petition accordingly.
NI hat the Committee having,considered the Special Re.
nlade by the Examiners on the Glasgow, Kilmarnock,
With Ardrossaa Railway (Amendment, Deviations, and
factri,ches) petition, are of opinion that, with reference to the
With.therein stated, the standing orders have been complied
Nat and that,: with reference to so much of their report as
tnitt" t° the petition for the Bill referred back to the Com-
itted to
tionee,e for re-consideration (together with the above-men-
orde Special Report), they are of opinion that the standing
pt: ought to be dispensed with, and that the parties be
proceed with their Bill.
theetZtr and third resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on
IpT
Th--,s GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
Waterford
1,„„ e following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
'lid time
TUESDAY, MARCH 16.
and Limerick.

qlot, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17.
cester and Hereford Railway and Canal Purchase.
Iji,biurgh and Glasgow, Monkland and Kirkintilloch,
Bal-
°t Lease.-the and Slamannan Railways Amalgamation, Sale,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
The, WEST LONDON RAILWAY.
ialf-yearly meeting of this company was held yester-
th,t
the
a.
, H. Grounds in the chair. The report stated.
it 4i
he lessees declined to bring the line into operation until
ha:i extended to the Thames. The claim of a landowner
Bale ac bean decided, they will now be enabled to close the
afteraccolint with the London and North-Western Company ;
knights which the deposits made upon the Thames and
84C bridge Extension shares will be returned to the
`'Qribers. The line is to be extended by the Great
ISreealeril Company across the Thames to join the South-
all,' ;till Railway The receipts were stated to be 272,0351.,
the disbursements. 271,8901., leaving a balance of cash in
,d of 144/.
belhe directors expressed their confidence that they would
en
to introduce a clause into the Act to protect the
7eats of the company.
th:ilolutions were passA adopting the report, re- electing
o:_airectors, who go out by rotation, and authorising the
pe7lors to attach the common seal of the company to a
lion to Parliament for powers to compel the Great West-
ti .and London and North-Western Companies to carry out
e 4 agreement with the West London Company.

DA BRITOL AN EXETER RILWAY.
,Imt a Special meeting held at Bristol,A on Thursday, the
'ranghts of two Bills now before Parliament were approved
k"-- Make a branch railway, from Lyng near Taunton, to
111 the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway, at Castle-
; and also to make a branch line from Bleadon to
h,Llatonbury. It was mentioned that an agreement had been
-"Me with the Exeter and Crediton Railway Company,
~*hich had been subsequently repudiated and rejected by
ni proprietors of the latter railway ; but it was thought
%at a Parliamentary Committee would set the matter to
lights. The meeting, in the meantime, sanctioned that
Ntreement, in accordance with the wish of the directors.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
-E LATE ACCIDENT AT HER MAJESTY'S NEW

PALACE.
ultAncit 12.—1 t is stated that some men were employed
p`P'N'ing a centre under one of the arched passages of the
~`(oipal building now in progress when the arch gave way,
k fell on the scaffold below, precipitating that and the
on it to the ground, a distance of nearly forty feet. The
the ti foreman of thebricklayers, who was on the arch at
talhanile giving directions to his men, fortunately escaped.
I,ery rt, but three of the men on the scaffold were injured
dead; 11ri4,1i; indeed, James Blake WAS thought to be
e Jacobstill remains in a very dangerous state. Clement
"acob has been set, and he is going on favourably,
of the 1'174 had two of his ribs fractured. In consequence
were tak'e:rivY fall of snow, the men employed on building
been otf in the morning, or the loss of life might have
herj 1)1 p,"erY serious • t here has Often been a hundred men em-
°n this part (4f the work. On hearing of the accident
Ltliist„aiestY and the Prince gave directions that every
qotrr„-"ce should be rendered the sufferers. Drs. Cass and
th, ""eister, her Majesty's surgeons, have been attending on
the Court
men.
t;lte,i Court leaves Osborne on the 17th.
ERAL 'nix Hort. SIR EDWARD PAGET, G.C.B.—This
I+'e arm,(Alleer has been very seriously ill all the winter, but,
ling'%Py to say, is now better than he has been for a
Period.
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1,14 tCAL KIIBERNIAN BALL.—Another opportunity
'Jeer, ; exercise of those benevolent feelings, which have
feri„ 'ready so munificently manifested in behalf of our suf-
tan countrymen, presents itself on the occasion of a
IHt. is to take place at Willis's Rooms, on the 7th of
.ttish.- ()nth, in aid of the funds for the relief of the destitute
rallivt Much as has already been done by the English coin •
tlol4ht?' to forward this most humane object, we have noi
Iltion",t,hat the public will eagerly respond to this fresh ca
t4it their smpathy. The ball is under the patronage of
and „"Yal llighnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
Gu°;:ne of the most exalted of our nobility, and is also
the et,t-nanced by some influential gentlemen connected with
41.)de-rDeration of London. The tickets are issued atba
I, rate Price, and there can be no doubt that, under t e
411 eedenee of the committee of managemen.t,. the are
ti will be such as to ensure to the visitors the
teii,e't degree of personal enjoyment in the practice oft in.
recreation while they will have the mop gra
are',!etlection that in pursuing their own pastime they
If.jating in a work of genuine and comprehensive charity.
bur ce, understand that Mr. W. F. Beadon will succeed
1:1,,,1ve as police magistrate at Wandsworth.
he In " BOOKSELLERS' PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.-
11143-,ilintlal general meeting of this society was held on
and Ir,aY evening, at the Albion tavern, Aldersgate-street,
t'qie very numerously attended ; among those present sett
Ihlr 4e"--111r. B. E. Green, Mr. E. Hodgson, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Fellowes, Mr. Greenland, Mr. Baldeck, Mr. Ives,
the „," • Sharp, and a large body of members intere ted in
}..ftl.ess of the institution, which was established about
yeas
sec ago, for the purpose of relieving booksellers and
ecsa" era assistants. their widows and children, "when in
‘,'14115 circumstances." The chair was taken by Mr.
noteii''-‘,ititiet, of Berners-street, the President of the institu-
kid after some formal business had been gone through,
eletZort of the directors for the past year was read by the
stkisia"Yh._ Secretary, Mr. Meyrick, and received with great
NI ;5. We are sorry our limits will not permit of more
c.',-!'erY short notice of the state of the institution as dis-
-Idilie ,",.3" the report; but it will be sufficient to say that
the amount granted in .relief was larger than in any
r „t, Oe,ar, the funds of the society are still rapidly increasi
7•oo(inng reached in a short space of time upwardst
and ing the very liberal cbobn
trti
talli• 's 'mei the trade in support of the retreat at Ao 's
lottiV,ta most valuable branch of the parent society...
btAs,
,"sd tzluanks was passed to the President, Vice-Presidents,
8414 tees, for their assistance during the past year. M •
""-k• the chairman of the reli• f committee, passed some
Pell.terited encomiums upon the honorary medical officers T
eteen`r- Pellowes warmly enlogised the services of the
.
Ineei`ar, Secretary, who returned thanks for the compli-
keilt Plud him. The directors also received the acknowledg-
Paid a of the meeting for the labour and attention they had
114^t° the institution during the past year ; and after a
is ,7ita,uus vote of thanks to Mr. Nisbet, the chairman, who
ktrotisieremost in works of benevolence, one of the. mo.st !u-
Par t 11(1 pleasant meetings ever held by the institu ion
par
.le4, -vision FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The
Johj,Clay from New York, Richmond from Charleston, and
.rerpoc'iarrew from New Orleans, which were reported at Li-
-4011,. ~°l' the 10th and 11th instant, bring 2,103 barrels
refs bags and 2,290 quarters Indian corn, 1,277 bar-
-I),:an corn meal, and 23,294 bushels rice.
bten iriAL MATERNITY CHARITT.—Her Majesty has
this t,e •B—,
`-' to intimate that she will become the patron of
"geeti which, since its foundation in 1757, has afforded
assiti..el. relief to 346,357 necessitous married women, by
and 81i% them in their accouchement at their own homes,
.1-101)1/ing them with medicines, &c.
4144 Lxcellency Count Raczynski, Prussian
Pertu er, at the Court of Lisbon, has arrived in town from
Si gal, and is about to proceed to Berlin.
Exen Robert and Lady Peel's dinner party was to his
kitr,,-;encY the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the
c't °f Chandns, Lord Hcwden, the Speaker, the Dean
IPlilel"inoster and Mrs. Buckland, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. R. M.
Eti .11.• Win. Hamilton, Mr. Pickersgill, Mr. Barry,
Landseer, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. E. Smirke, &c.
of k nazi
te CH PLAYS.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess
j.lt, attended by the Ladies Fanny and Mary Howard,
a`reechaptnies.Alui..ray," and Sir George Cooper, honoured the
Pot, 53 8 with her presence last evening.
ktreu B,c)llie time past, Mdlle. Mars, the celebrated
448 been seriously ill, and her malady has now be-
hop,
Oa, alarming that her 'friends have not the slightest
it being able to save her.— Galignani.
13,..nudinwas erroneously stated, yesterday, that the
"indao-g a9bining the royal dairy in the Home-park, at
aupPl r,
,is intended for the slaughtering of cattle for
. the
eaatfs. et the royal household when residing at Windsor
t boilin The truth is, that the building in question is simply
and otalannse, for the purpose of boiling Swedish turnips
stead
our vegetabks for feeding cattle and poultry; and, in-
kitemn now being in course of erection, it was erected last
r; Ind has been in use these four months.
Eger LATE DOWAGER COUNTESS OF SHREWSBURY.
the „Ladyshi P.before her death, transferred to her chaplain
fr 4ev• Al
etn her Pulls Staples, the yearly
to,anuity of 3,100 f.
of . Preneh funds, and has secured him an annuity
legate'', from, her English
Lad ' and one f property. He is also, the residuary
25 ,Yshir,,, 0 the acting executors under the will. Her
"uuk Personal Property in this country is estimated at