The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

SICILY.

The following is the decree of the Sicilian Parlia-
ment, nominating the Duke of GENOA King of
Sicily .
"Art. 1. The Duke of Genoa, second son of the pre-
sent King of Sardinia, and his posterity, are called to
reign in Sicily, according to the constitutional
statutes of the 10th July, 1848. Art. 2. He will
assume the name and title of Albert Amedee 1.,
king of Sicily, in virtue of the constitution of
the kingdom. Art. 3. He shall be invited to ac-
cept and take the oath required by the 40th article of the
statutes. Done and delivered at Palermo on the 11th
July, 1848. (Signed). The President of the House of
Commons, the Marquis de Torrearsa; the President of
the House of Peers, the Duke de Serra di Falco."

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
HOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD SHAFTESBURY'S CO M MITTEE.—DurN-
DEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY (Dundee Junction).—
This Bill was re-committed to introduce certain amended
clauses relating to the capital.
ROYSTON ♦ND HITCHIN EXTENSION RAILWAY.—
Clauses further considered, and Bill ordered to be re-
ported. _ _

G ROUP No. B.—NORTH AND SOUTII-WESTERN
RAILWAY (Harrow to Brentford).—Case for the pro-
moters and opposition of the Great Western Company
further considered.
GROUP No. 9.— SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY (Amendment of Acts, and Branch to Law-
rencekirk).—The case for the promoters and the oppo-
sition of the Aberdeen Company being closed, the room
was cleared, and the Committee, after a short delibera-
tion, decided that the preamble was not proved.
PAISLEY, BARRIIEAD, AND lIIIRLET RAILWAY.—The
object of this Bill is to authorise the construction of a
line of railway to open up the mineral field in the imme-
diate vicinity of Glasgow. The case was opened to-day,
and evidence taken in its favour.

GROUP No. 'Ib.—LIVERPOOL, MAICHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The
object of this Bill is to authorise the abandonment of
the line and the dissolution of the company. It is op-
posed by several landholders along the route of the
proposed railway, who insist that the dissolution of the
concern is sought for stock-jobbing purposes, and that
the public ought not to be deprived of the
benefit of the line to enable the shareholders to pocket
large sums, and a competing line to monopolise the
whole traffic of the district. The case was opened to-
day, and evidence taken in its favour.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
DUBLIN.

The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds'
majority was resumed yesterday, and in the course of the
day the petitioners succeeded in striking off one addi-
tional vote.

NORTH CHESHIRE.
The North Cheshire Election Committee met again
proceeded with the case of treating
the sitting Member. The evidence
)a-geasitnersdt tsAyi,naLnedigh,
went to show that each voter was supplied
with a voting card, which was exchanged for
a refreshment ticket after he had polled. The
refreshments supplied to the voters consisted of
cold meats, beer, and brandy and water. One of the
witnesses stated that he had promised to support Mr.
Leigh's opponent, but the prospect of a good dinner,
which Mr. Leigh's friends held out to various electors,
induced him to vote for that gentleman.
The evidence had not closed when the Committee ad-
journed.
The charges of bribery contained in the petition are
abandoned.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 24.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our market to-aay is dull, little
business doing, and prices lower. The sales are—East
Lancashire, Preference, % p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
321. Shares, 7 dis.—Ditto, 10/. Shares, Preference, % p.—
London and North-Western, 126—Ditto, Fifths, 5% p.—
Ditto,New Quarters, 11A p.—Midland Stock, New Halves,
p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 2 dis.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purhaso), 1% p.
MANCHESTER, JULY 24.

STOCK EXCHANGM—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, sR p.—Great Northern, B%—Lancashire and York-
shire (late West Riding Union) Fifths, 3%8 n. dis.—Ditto, 10/.
Preference, 6 per cent., 5A p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Eighths, 5 c. dis.—Ditto (Grimsby), 20/.
Shares, 834 dis.—North
_Staffordshire, 2 9-16 dis.—North
Union (A), 20214—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
2 11-16 dis. _ . _

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 24.
STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
21—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 514.

A FEMALE SAILOR.—Yesterday a good-looking
sailor youth (as all in court took the prisoner to be),
attired in a blue jacket, striped blue shirt, &c., was
placed at the bar of the police-court, charged by a
stout whiskered seaman, named James Kitson, with
having robbed him in a lodging-house of 8/. Mr.
i'arkinson, the Bridewell-keeper, intimated before
the case was gone into, that the prisoner turned
out to be a young woman. The complainant then
said that prisoner had accosted him on Saturday in the
street, asking his assistance, as he was in distress, and
wanted a ship. Witness took him and gave him his
breakfast, and afterwards his dinner, at Mr. Parker's
cookshop, Wapping. It appeared that complainant had
afterwards introduced prisoner to some of his ship-
mates, and that the whole had been drinking together
rather cheerfully during the day. At night Jack in-
vited his young companion to wept of part of his bed,
and they slept together. He had previously given the
prisoner a jacket, so as to appear more tidy than before.
In the morning, the sailor somehow suspected the sex of
his partner, and missing his money went down stairs to
the landlord, and told him there was, he believed, a
woman in his room, who had robbed him. The land-
lord laughed, and said he must be mistaken, and had
perhaps had " the horrors." The prisoner was not,
it appears, really discovered to be a female until
taken into custody. Seven shillings were found on
the prisoner, and she said the jacket was given to
her by the complainant, and she had found the
money in it. Mr. Parkinson said he had learned that
prisoner's mother bad gone from Manchester by a packet
ship from this port to New York, that they had some.
how missed each other in coming here, and that the pri-
soner had come in disguise, in hopes of working her way
out as a sailor. Mr. Rushton remanded her. She gave
her name as Mary Ann Martin.—Liverpool Standard.
DUTCH CATTLE.—The steamers from the Dutch
ports are now bringing some lambs on each occasion, in
addition to other live stock, the produce of Holland.
The importation of this description of young stock
having hitherto been of a remarkably limited character,
.during the present season. Three vessels, which have
just arrived on one day from Rotterdam, have each
brought a considerable number of lambs, as a portion of
their cargoes.
Tna CHOLERA.—On Monday a letter was received
by the owners of the Marion, of Leith, dated Elsinore,
stating that the master, Captain Beal, had died of cho-
lera, on the voyage home from St. Petersburgh, and that
one of the crew was labouring under the disease.—Eiin-
burgh Post.