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London, England, 1846-06-15 00:00:00

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driwal of the clauses, and the deci,ion of the Committee that
the Hill be decided upon as it originally stood before them.
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r-nsa behalf The case for the promoters of the Leicester and Birmingham Rail-
way having been concluded on Friday last,
the Bill, addressed the Committee at considerable length.
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The Committee
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This Committee met to-GdltyO at j ve o'clock, in Room 27, New
Houses of Parliam( lit ; Mr. Baring in the chair.
Tiar. LONDON 41. ND WRIVEZNGHA.IIII (AYLES-
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mazy RAILWAY PURCHASE).
The clauses of this Bill, which is unopposed, were gone through and
passed.

THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM GRAND
JUNCTION. AND MANCHESTER AND
BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY AMALGAMA-
TION.
This Bill was then proceeded with.

SPA-FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND.—The recent award as
to the question of the existence of this well-known place ofinterment
as a nuisance has had the practical effect of almost closing the
ground. Yesterday there was but one funeral took place, and for
several successive Stutdays the average has not exceeded throe or
four. •

The past week's imports of live stock into London have consitrA.
of 18 Oxen from Prussia,2o Oxen from Hamburgh, and 120 Oxen
Cow., 240 Sheep, 59 Lambs, and 11 Calves, from Holland. TOll4
we had on offer 18 Beasts from Prussia, together with about
Oxen and Cows, and 150 Sheep from Holland. The general ctu.
Lion of the Beasts was good, but that of the Sheep was very tart,:
while the demand ruled heavy, and prices had a downward lisnue''''
•
The following statement shows the total importations during 8412 for
months in 1844,1145, and 1846, ending on the sth of NV
1844 1845. 1846.
Oxen
Cows
Calves .• •• •
Sheep • . 57 ........ 865 8,947
Lambs ...............1 27
Pigs •••• • • .• 57 •••• • • .. 161 .... 216
From our own grazing districts, the arrivals of beasts fresh up Trf;
seasonably extensive, and of most excellent quality. Owing I°%
continuance of warm weather, and the thin attendance of buyer °'
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to
tthaitelle,: oif, Mondaytradew last, of 2d perdepressedasinaverybosi, the highest state,g athat decline,
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Scots not exceeding 3s 10d per 81bs, and a clearance wag liOt
From

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SCOtS, 11,me-breds, and Short-horns ; from the Western and
Atidland collllties, 400 Herefords, Devons, Runts, &e fforn other
Parts of England, Mt of vartuus breeds ; sad /roin 6.otland, 320
liorrled and Polled Scots. The numbers of Sheep were seasonably
tOod ; while the Mutton trade was firm, and last week's prices were
Well supported. Although the• supply of Lambs was large, the
,Larnb trade was firm, and previous rates were maintained in every
Instance. Calves moved off slowly, at but little alteration in value.
In rigs very little was doing, at our quotations.

Per Sibs. to sialz the offal.

Inferior Beasts 2 4 d.
2 6
Second qualityditto. 2 8 3 0
Prime largo Oxen 3 2 3 6
Prime Scots
...Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 6
rime srliall ditto
ucklilag Calves lB 0 29 0
Inferior Sheep ..

s. d- to s. d
Second quality ditto 3 6 3 3
Coarse-woolled ditto 3 10 4 0
Southdown Wethcrs 4 2 4 4
Ditto out of the wool
Large Hogs .. .•• • 3 8 4 6
Small Porkers .. • 4 8 4lt
Quarter old Pigs 16 0 19 0
Lambs •••• . • 5 2 6 4

I P3'n.

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. Sheep. I Calves.
I 3,029 26,800 182
NEIII7GATE AND IMADENHAVL.
The continued warm weather has caused a considerable falling off
in the receipts of slaughtered meat from Scotland and various parts
of Efigland, for our markets during the past week; yet the supplies
killed in the metropolis have been seasonably good. Prime Mutton,
Limb and Veal have moved off steadily, at full prices. In all other
lunch, of meat otlly llttle has been doing. A large portion of the
country supplies has sold at very low prices. About 20 car-
ascta of foreign Beasts, and 200 di. of Sheep have appeared on sale.

At per stone, by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
beer. Inferior— .. •• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior •• 3 4 3 8
middling •. 2 6 2 8 middling.. 310 4 0
•—•— Prune large .. 210 3 2 prirae .... 4 0 4 2
/. Prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, large ........ 3 4 4 2
44•• ••••••• • • • • • 3 6 410 i small 4 4 410
Lamb. 5s 2d to 6s 4d.
ARRIVALS DURING TIIE PAST WEEK.
Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs.

Beatintid
Yorkshire •.•
****
Lincolnshire • • •
Norfolk ••
13tiffolIt ••• • • •
Carnbridgeshi
Efigex re
turrei ••
•• • •
...evonshLr; •• • •
Wiltshire • '
Other paha •• •

100
20
30
50

20 100
20 80
15 40
30 20
20 30 -
20 30 20 40
30 50 30 20

20 30 20 10
50 60 50 20

Total ••• • • • ••• • • • 225 500 120 300
Previous week's arrival.. 197 850 320 690

- - -
Difference since oar last •• • • 28 350 200 390
BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS.
Fort he time of year our markets continue well supplied with
Potatoes, the demand for which is extremely heavy, and, in many
bUstances, the quotations are almost nominal.

'WOOL.
Ltuing the ast week the imports of 00l ito London have been
seasonably exptensive, viz., 1,175 balesW fromn Launceston, 1,010 do.
uoln Hobart Town, 600 do. from Port Phillip, and 500 do. from
onoUs ether quarters. In the private contract market, so little
r.," ne'le is doing that prices are almost nominal, and to effect sales
". rates must be submitted to. This remark applies both to
.441411 and foreign. •
nonotram HOP IVILELTLICET.
Although the accounts from the plantations. are by no mefins fa-
,voltrable, the demand here is in a very inactive state, and, in some
..suistances, the quotations are somewhat in favour of the buyers. The
•uPPIY of Hops on offer is small, and the duty is called 90,0001.

TALLOW.
40vrri
The
Tallow 38s. market is very lirm, and l
rast week's prices are well supported.
to 395. 6d. re cwt.

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI-
NEERS.—PRESIDENT'S CONVERSAZIONE.
The first of a series of four conversazioni, to be given by
sir John Rennie, the president of this very useful and
Uourit3hing institution, took place on Saturday evening last,
at residence in Whitehall-place, and, was most numer-
ously and brilliantly attended by noblemen and gentlemen
eonnoted v,ith or interested in scientific pursuits. The
tZOMpany on their arrival were received, with his usual ur-
rnity, by the President, who was supported on the occasion
±ly the vice-presidents and council and secretary of the insti-
tution, and immediately commenced their inspection of the
?_ k_alay beautiful objects and models that were profusely scat-
`crecl through the noble suite of rooms fitted up expressly for
the occasion. To enumerate everything that was interesting
would greatly exceed our limits; we must, therefore, be con-
tent to notice a few of the things which struck us as being
most remarkable.
• Amongst models were an exceedingly good one of the
I,,,lscuit-bakinthe g machinery, invented by Grant, and erected at
:ortemouth Dockyard by Messrs. Rennie. Prosser's machine
_or drawing and welding metal tubes. Struve's machine for
Ilentilating mines by exhausting the upward current in the
air shaft. Mr. M'Clean's proposed method for conveying
railway trains across the river Dee, by means of a platform
'veiling upon rails fixed on piles across the bed of the river,
Navigation
the full depth of water above, by which the ordinary
t'avigation can be carried on without impediment. The St. Ka-
herine's Point and Menai Lighthouses, sent by the Trinity
~,oard. Mr. R. Stephenson's long boiler narrow gauge locomo-
fre, and the Great Western broad gauge locomotive. Several
mo• dels from the Admiralty collection, showing Sir W.
'aYraon's forms of steamers and vessels of war, and a very
number
model of the Victoria and Albert steam yacht. A
Lot:ober of models showing the arrangements by Rennie
of horizontal engines for applying steam power to the
‘r propeller, as arranged for the guard ships, in
reach
the machinery is placed' entirely out of the
:aell of shot. Models of the engines of her Majesty's
steam-frigate Bulldog. Side lever and double cylinder
itgil2,ea, by Messrs. Maudsley and Field ; a model of the
84-7°Y sluice, in the Aucholme drainage, erected by
grea,.9ort Rennie, whose design for the improvement of the
aos en?. ash in Lincolnshire, by which almost the extent of
in a Ire county will be added to the coast, was also displayed
fail Model, showing on one side the present state of the out-
-1,4 arid on the other the embankments and works as they
sheerness appear when completed. Sections of the great works at
dockyard, by the late Mr. Rennie; plans of the
inoposed harbour of refuge at Dover, by Mr. George Rennie;
aLmodel illustrating Mons. Hallett's system for obviating the
'laadvantages of the present continuous valve of the atmos-
pheric system, and a model of Mr. Ricardo's ingenious in-
atrUtnent for registering the velocity of railway trains.
We also observed two beautiful machines at work in the
room, the one being Wheatstone and Cooke's electric tele-
graph, and the other Mr. Oldham's machine for numbering
and paging registers at the Bank of England, which is also
applicable for all tickets where a series of numbers is desir-
able. The machine, however, which attracted the greatest
,_iurioluit of attention from the company present was that of
Mr. Rand, for making collapsible tubes to hold artists' co-
-4 lai°llrs-and scents, and which can be adapted to many other
411,seful purposes. The apparatus appears to differ little from
,r Le usual stamping machine, but nevertheless pre-
-ea•
ted a beautiful adaptation of the scientific principle that
when under the pressure of about twenty tons to a cir-
eular inch, will run according to the law of fluids. In the
machine exhibited the pressure was about five tons, and a
a
'LE, basin-shaped capsule being smartly struck by a solid
erindrical punch, sprung upwards, embracing the punch
eelY, and taking its shape so as to form a perfect and
c'homogeneous. tin tube. The numerous applications of this
blParatus are quite obvious, but the vessels produced are
es„,ire p 1
me articularly available for the preservation of artists'
essential oils, and all semi-fluid substances which are
by to be got out of bottles, and which become injured
,3' the introduction of air into the ordinary bottle after any
'Von has been extracted.
about
interesting works of art were profusely scattered
homes'
the room, amongst which we must enumerate Mr.
e..,°Filate beautiful statue of a female warrior. Some superb
ev,uniens of machine wood-carving, by Taylor, Williams,
and Jordan : oak hand carvings, by Rogers ; some spirited
1e51.60f etching, by Thomas Landseer and -ard ; and an
IllF2wing of Mr. Robert Stephenson's curious tube bridge i
til'aaed to be carried across the Menai Strait. Nor should
• L'aug's exceedingly beautiful"decoration of the rooms ap-
Pro ria
ted for the reception of the company be passed over
• out notice.
The guests consisted of almost everybody of note in the
Bientific world now in London, as also of several noblemen
gentlemen amateurs and supporters of the fine arts ;
Perhaps, however, the most remarkable personage present
Clus Soliman Pacha, who was conducted through the rooms
LI Mr. Charles Manby, the secretary to the institution, who
exhibited and explained to this distinguished guest, as to all
the other foreigners, the various objects most worthy of
attention.
Among the general body of distinguished visitors we no-
ticed Professor Hoffer, Messrs. Hallett's, Giban, Floresi,
Morel, and Watteville. The Marquises of Northampton
and Salisbury, Lord James Stuart, Baron Goldsmidt, the
bishop of Norwich ; Sirs Henry Ellis, C. Malcolm, J.
Claike, H. de la Beebe' C.
Lemon, W. Middleton D
)4cGregos, H. Elphinstone, and F. Ad am ; Colonels Williams,
York, Colquhoun, Sykes, and Pringle ; Captain Beton,
• N•; Professors Wheatstone, Faraday, Donaldson, and
.rist.ed; Doctors Billing, Roget, Granville, Bowring, and
•uabbage ; Messrs. E. Landseer, C. Landseer, T. Landseer,
and G. Landseer, Ward, Knight, Deighton, Westmacott,
413 ,t°llB, Thomas, Buss, Sang, Etty, Douthorn
-.4111 Wyatt, Brandon, Barry, Godwin, HarA Scolesf Abra-
cke, Cockerell,
Leigh, Jerdan, Irwin, Snow, Colquhoun (Charge d'Atfifires
for the Hanseatic States), Briggs, Stephenson, Grote,
Russell,
raYot, B. Williams. Weld, Tooke, Gowen, Wing, Booth,
•Litfroy, Parnell, Mayne, Blddulph, Young, Fitzgerald,
Townley,•Ure, M. and J. Rennie, Cayley, M'Gregor, Thomp-
lkm, Lesson, Ormsby Gore, &c.
The President of the institution did the honours of the
evening with his usual amenity, and the meeting broke up at
a bite hour.

Wrap Does.—On Saturday, the following. caution
-" circulated by order of the Commissioners throughout the metro-
tr,htan
Police district :—" All persons are cautioned to take proper
„to keep their dogs chained up or muzzled. The Act 2d and 3d of
Vclla, cap- 47, sec. 61, enacts, that it shall be lawful for any con-
Stable belonging to the metropolitan police force to destroy any dog
or other annual feasenably suspected to be in a rabid state, or which
has been bitten by any
dog or animal reasonably suspected to be in a
rabid state-; and the owner of any such dog or animal who shall
Pertalt the same to go at large after having been informed, or reason-
;We ground to believe It to be in a rabid state, or to have been bitten
by any dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a
Penalty of _not more than 51."
The hay season is advancing fast.- A large portion of
the crop has been carried in ex
cut. The yield Is abundant.- Wcellent condition, and much more is
is ich injured by a kind of bligelregr to learn that the vegetation
CASTOR OlL.—The following n.ght" Gazitte.
a friend of ours a day or two stemetation
Was related to us by
tor oil, asked his servant
ho >d who had a pint and half kale gentleman ha the neighbour-
% bring it to him, when he told him it had
diuner castors with it,
believing he having from time to time filled ph been used at table for
it, from the label, to be intended feor that purpose.—yar., mouth Advertiser.
ADVERTISEMENT.] —A CATHOLIC CLERGYMAN
declining
doctors
HoLhowar's PILLs.—A poor person, handad been in AND
state of health II r a considerable time, bad triedaalvi t
in his neighbourhood, without deriving the least benent,T
celasebrbaeteedn
restored to perfect health in a few weeks by Holloware
Pills, which were presented to the then dying man by a eteileguiehea
Member of the Catholic clergy. John Thompson, Esq., the proprie-
tor of the Armagh Guardian, can attest to the truth of this, as well
as other remarkable cures that have been effected in that part of Ire-
land, by the use of this invaluable medicine. Sold by all druggists,
and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—For some months pre-
vious to this week, Mr. Worsley, butler to George Sowerby, Esq., of
Ketton, felt considerable pain in different parts of his body without
being able to ascertain the cause. A short time ago he was playing
at cricket, and on account of the pain he experienced when the
game was finished he fancied he had sprained his right arm. The
remedies usually adopted in such cases were accordingly applied, but
without any beneficial effect. The pain in the arm increased until
at length the sufferer could use neither his arm nor his fingers. In
this state he called one day this week upon Mr. Jackson, surgeon, of
this town; who, after minutely examining the arm, discovered some-
this unusual under the skin a short way below the elbow. He then
laid open the skin and took from beneath it a common needle. linne
tely the needle was removed the patient was relieved, and had the
full use of his arm ant fingers. In what way the unwelcome intruder
got into his aim ho 'mows not, but the medical gent!e nail is of
opinion that he must at some time or other have swallow a lit.
FOOT Rack: —On Saturday, two amateur pedes-
triers, named tawford and Thavies, ran a 120 yards' race on the
Wood pavement, Oxford-street, for 5/. ; the latter won.
Earl Fitawilliam's defeat in his movement for stopping
an railway Bills in the Lords at the third reading is a point in favo, r
Of the London and pork, against which it was really directed.—Raii-
waY Herald.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHYMISTRY.—His Royal High-
ne Plinee Albert, the President of the institution, has just ex-
frssea enention of laying the foundation stone of the new labo-
hr'deg in connexion with this college, on Tuesday next, the 16th
rent
On Thursday a man, who acted as foreman at Mr.
'Plate?, wlite
.12itter, died suddenly. He had taken a -draught of cold
is supposed was the cause of his death.—Paisleypaper.
The average annual increase of attorneys exceeds 600,