The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of ROMEO AN])
JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman ; Peter, Mr. Buckstone ; Juliet,
Miss Susan Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs Glover.

The Band will perform the Overtures, "Cenerentola," and " Due
d'Olonne," the " St. James's Polka," " Philomel Walzer," and
the " Chatsworth Quadrilles."

To be followed by the laughable Farce of UNCLE JOHN. Uncle
John, Mr. W. Farren; Friend Thomas, Mr. Tilbury; Mrs. Hawk,
Mrs. W. Clifford; Eliza, Miss Telbin.
To conclude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL-
IINGS. Mr. Golightly, Mr. Buckatone ; Capt. Phobbs, Mr. Tilbury ;
Capt. Spruce, Mr. Benda' ; Mrs. Major Phobbs, Miss P. Horton.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY.
The Last Two Nights of " Robin Hood."
THIS EVENING

WIII be performed a new Farce, called SISTER AND I. Characters
by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, A. Wigan, Emery, Turner,
Kinloch, and Bellingham ; Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden,
and Miss Forster.

After which, a New and Original Comic Drama, la Two
Acts, founded on a recent well-known event, called THE DUST-
MAN'S BELLE. Principal characters by Messrs. Keeley, Didolear,
Meadows, F. Vining, Kinloch ; Miss Villars, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a New Grand Operatic Romantic Burlesque Spec-
tacle, founded upon certain Startling and hitherto Unrevealed Pas-
sages in the Histories of ROBIN HOOD AND RICHARD CCEUIi
DE LION. Characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Fairbrother, Miss M.
Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss E. Daly, Miss Howard, Miss Bromley
Miss Laidlaw, and Miss Grove ; Mr. A Wigan, Mr. F. Matthews,
Ur. Keeley, Mr. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Collier.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed a new Drama, entitled THE MEMOIRS OF
AN UMBRELLA ; or, The Silent Observer. In which Messrs.
Lambert, Howe, Boyce, 0. Smith, Wright, R. Ryan, P. Bedford,
Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. F.
Mathews, &c., will perform.
After which a New Romantic Drama, in Six Tableaux, called
THE QUEEN OF THE ABRUZZI. The principal characters sus-
tained by Madame Celeste, Miss Chaplin ; Messrs. Paul Bedford,
0. Smith, Cullenford, Ryan, Boyce, &c.
To conclude with the interesting Drama of THE CABIN BOY.
Monsieur Vincent, Mr. 0. Smith; Largarcette, Mr. Paul Bedford ;
Julien, Madame Celeste ; Madlle. Laroche, Miss Woolgar.

proved. Lord BROUGHAM did not fail to handle
somewhat sharply the gross fallacies propounded by
Lord STAINLEy, and wound up by reading him a con-
stitutional lesson upon the topic, repeatedly urged, of
appealing to the country. We are glad to find that
so leading an authority as Lord BROUGHAM lail down
views upon this subject, in strict correspondence with
those which we have already presented to our readers.
Their Lordships last evening got into Committee.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM moved the first of his
amendments, the discussion of which occupied the re-
mainder of the night. Its purport was to secure a
protection of 10s. when corn was at 485., instead of
Is., as proposed by the measure. The Earl of RIPON
resisted it, as directly tending to maintain all the
disadvantages of the present system, which their
Lordships had already, in principle, decided should be
removed ; and he farther stated, that the exceedingly di-
minished sliding-scale, temporarily imported into the
Bill, had not been introduced in the nature of a com-
promise with the landed proprietors, but exclusively
upon the ground, that it would be not altogether wise
to allow the principle of the measure to come sud-
denly into full operation, without allowing a short
time to elapse, in order to mitigate the temporary
evils, inseparable from any great alteration in our
laws. The Ministerial clause was carried by a ma-
jority of 33. Such a division is most cheering, nay,
conclusive in favour of the ultimate passing of the
Bill. The division on the second reading, yielded a
majority of 47. It was stated that, apart from the
proxies, Ministers, on that _occasion, had only a ma-
jority of 12. We have now a majority of 33 in Com-
mittee, when no votes by proxy can be taken ! The
inference is complete. We heartily congratulate the
country.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT).
The last faint hope of the protectionists has passed
away. No longer is there doubt or danger either as
to the final fate of the great measure of free trade, or
of its being emasculated or weakened during its pro-
gress through the Upper House. The Lords have
nobly discharged the duty they owed to their country,
they have shown that no selfish considerations, no
undue desire to keep up high rents, which it has been
erroneously supposed the continuance of an obnoxious
tax on a nation's food was calculated to maintain, have
made them so indifferent to the real interests of their
order, so blind to the sigr:s of the times,
as to induce them to enter into a hopeless and vexa-
tious contest with the popular branch of the Legisla-
ture, with the nation at large. Their Lordships have
well understood the constitutional nature of their
functions. It was intended that they should present
a check to crude and hurried legislation, should in-
terpose themselves against a corrupt and venal ma-
jority of the House of Commons, if such
should have an existence, and to protect
the rights and liberties of the people at large ;
at least until an appeal to that people should enable
them to have their wishes and feelings on a great
constitutional question truly represented in their
own branch of the Legislature ; but it never was con-
templated that their Lordships should constitute
themselves into a formidable obstacle, an all but im-
passable barrier against the strongly-expressed desires
and the ardent wishes of the nation. No rational
man could suppose that an appeal to the
general body of the people could have any other
effect than to swell the ranks of the free-traders, and
to render still more irresistible the patriotic phalanx
who have arrayed themselves on the side of free trade,
the abolition of all commercial restrictions, and the
introduction of cheap food to the many: Their Lord-
ships have therefore acted wisely in at once freely
and gracefully acceding to the popular demand, and
by so doing have done more to retain the respect
and esteem of the public and to strengthen their
own power and just influence, than by any
other course they could possibly have adopted.
Many predictions had been hazarded by the enfeebled
and prostrate faction as to the line of conduct that
would be pursued : first, it was confidently stated that
the noble policy of the Government would be rejected
by the Commons, or so mutilated and altered as to be
quite inadequate to the wants and wishes of the
country. Much disappointment was felt when
it was discovered that the magnanimous and
disinterested support rendered by the great
political rivals of the Ministry, and the
sound judgment evinced by many of those who had
formerly been advocates and supporters of the corn-
laws, removed that hope. Then arose the question,
" What will the Lords do ?" and bold assertions were
unhesitatingly made that the Peers would reject the
measure, and at least delay its triumph until the re-
sult of a general election should be ascertained. This
hope was alse frustrated, and the second reading
was carried by a glorious majority. Then came
the assurance that in the Committee the work of
destruction would be effected, and that although it
was vain to contend against the principle, yet that
much change would be introduced in the details, and
that the proxies being no longer available in that
stage of the discussion, the measure would lose the
great support which had been obtained for it through
the personal influence of the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON and the number of proxies at his
Grace's disposal, and that it could then
be pared down and diluted to such an extent,
that it would no longer be accepted by the
House of Commons, or received by the free-traders
as a valuable and highly prized boon. The division
of last night has, however, tested the fallacy, and
proved the inaccuracy of the assertion. The Duke
of BUCKINGHAM, by his amendment, sought to per-
petuate the small duty retained by the Premier for
the term of three years, to save, as he himself
said, a shadow of protection to the agricultural
interest. His Grace, however, by his manner
of introducing the subject, showed that whatever
might be the expectations of his party, he himself
had little hope of carrying his proposition. He did
not speak with the energy or confidence of one ani-
mated and inshpiisresdpeebeyh tlbieorperothspeescttamopf voifetcoornysc;ioouns
Peers who spoke in favour of the
dthee contrary,
feat. The
amendment stated the little benefit that they
considered it would afford if carried, and
that, as a measure of protection, it was
ludicrous and inefficient, and that they only gave
it their support because it upheld in some degree the
principle of protection. It was for this very reason
the more dangerous, as some straggling and doubtful
votes might possibly be obtained from amongst those
who had supported the second reading. The majority
of thirty-three has, however, set the question at rest,
and we may now congratulate our fellow-labourers
on the certainty of an immediate termination of the
discussion. This very night will probably conclude
the sittings of the Committee, and in a few short days
the Ministerial measure will have become the law of
the land.

Intelligence has been received from Rome of the 4th
June. On that day the remains of the late POPE, hav-
ing been previously embalmed, were exposed to public
view in the Sistine Chapel. The fortune
left by GREGORY XVI. to his heirs amounts
to two millions of Roman piastres. These accounts re-
present that tranquillity at that date prevailed at
Rome ; but a letter from Leghorn, dated Bth June
(four days later), states that the people had assembled
in the streets of Rome, demanding the secularisation
of the Government, and that peace had not been re-
stored until a collision, attended with much bloodshed,
had taken place between the soldiers and the people.
GAETANINA, the favourite Chamberlain of GREGORY
XVI., is said to have fled from Rome and to have sought
refuge in Tuscany.

A letter dated St. Petersburgh, June 1, 1846, says—
" Many journals, both Russian and foreign, have an-
nounced that the cholera has made its appearance in
many towns on the Russian frontier. Such a statement
is entirely destitute of foundation. The epidemic has
not even approached our frontiers."

Madrid papers of the 7th have been received. They
contain no intelligence of any description. No news
from Lisbon of a later date than that already published
had been received in Madrid.
The Tiempo urges the necessity of dispatching imme-
diately to Rome some able diplomatist to watch the pro-
ceedings of the Conclave, and to open new negotiations
on the subject of the Spanish Church.
MADRID BOITRSE.—Three per Cents.,
339.16 1 cash ;
Five per Cents., 204 cash ; Debt without Interest, j..

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Chamber of Deputies on Saturday voted the
colonial budget, and commenced the discussion on the
budget of the financial department. A great num-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE l6, 1846.

her of Bills have been withdrawn. The discussion
of the budget of receipts, always the last measure of the
session, is fixed for Friday, and there is every proba-
bility that, on Monday, the session, as fat as the De-
puties are concerned, will be terminated. The
Constitutionnel, in relation to the late escapade
of Doke PASQUIER, says, " It has been remarked that
the Prince DE LA MOSKOWA has not of late been
present at the sittings of the Chamber of Peers.
We have reason to believe that he is re-
solved to avail himself of the earliest op-
portunity of publicly protesting against what,
to speak in the mildest terms, must be de-
nominated the imprudent expression, the use
of which during a recent trial astonished and
hurt the feelings of nearly the whole of the Peerage.
We hope that these words will be explained in such a
manner as to give to the son of the glorious Marshal
NEY the just satisfaction which he seeks for."

The National mentions that a rumour is prevalent
that the Government had received very important dis-
patches from Italy, announcing an insurrection in the
Roman Legation, and that Austria had ordered her
troops to be in readiness to march upon the first signal of
outbreak,

The French Government have received important dis-
pa►ches from Syria. M. GUIZOT, on Saturday, in the
Chamber of Deputies, said, as an excuse for not an-
swering certain questions relative to Lebanon, of
which a Deputy had given notice, " the despatches which
I have received by the two last packets announce that
changes have taken place in Lebanon, and measures have
been adopted which greatly modify the present state
of affairs in that province, and believing that my
discussion would injure the interests of order, of peace,
and the security of the Christians of Lebanon, I feel con-
vinced that any such discussion would be inopportune."
The Moniteur Algerien, of June 6, represents the
pacification of Algeria as complete.
The Ocean, of Brest, of the 10th of June, announces
the arrival at that port, on the Bth, of the corvette La
Somme, Captain Alain, from the Marquesas, which is-
lands she quitted on the 16th of December. The colony
was healthy, but was suffering from want of provisions.
She brings home a portion of the garrison of the islands.
At Otaheite all was tranquil for the present. No colli-
sion had taken place for some time ; and although one
tribe still remained encamped, it traded with the French,
giving cattle in exchange for seed corn. Queen
PoMABE still refused to return to Otaheite.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGX RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11% —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), 13 —Central of Spain, 1% —Dutch Rhenish, 7% —East
Indian, % —Louvain and Jemappe, 114—Northern of France Con-
tituted, 144—Orleans and Bordeaux, 10—Paris and Orleans, 47%
—Paris and Rouen, 38% —Sambre and Meuse, s—West Flanders, 4.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
This Court was occupied in disposing of common jury cases,
which presented no features of interest except to the parties con-
cerned.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Gams.)
Henry Barnaby was indicted for stealing a box containing bank-
notes to the value of 275/., and other property, belonging to John
Ratcliffe ; and Margaret Barnaty was indicted for feloniously receiv-
ing part of the notes, well knowing them to be stolen. Both pri-
soners pleaded not guilty.

John Rateliffe, a victualler, at Harefield, near Uxbridge, stated,
that on the 3d January he had a box under his bed containing bank-
notes and deeds ; he saw it safe that afternoon about four o'clock,
when he believed there were five twenty pound notes, nine or ten
ten pound, and about fifteen live pound notes in it. He missed the
box about ten o'clock the same evening. During that afternoon, the
witness had been two or three:times at the butcher's shop just by.
He had since received the deeds and one twenty pound note. The
male prisoner had been often employed at his house, which he knew
well.

John James Ratcliffe, son of the last witness, said he went on the
afternoon of the 3d of January into the back house, and found the
back door open, although he had seen it shut an hour before. At ten
o'clock an alarm was given about the loss of the box. About nine
o'clock next morning he saw the male prisoner with a man of the
name of Lamb on his way to Bayard's Wood. A constable came to
the witness on the 17th of ➢larch with information of the finding of
his father's box in a field near. Witness went, to the field and
saw it, when he found the lock of the box broken, and the notes
gone, though the deeds were there and a promissory note for 600/.
Joseph Lacy, said he found the box produced in Court, and gave it
to John Ratcliffe.

William Wither stated that the male prisoner came three or four
rnon:hs ago to Mrs. Oliver's, in the Kingsland-road, and asked witness
if he could change a 5/. note. The change was got, and witness after-
wards went with the male prisoner, and had something to drink.
While in the public-house the prisoner said to him, if any of the
other men came up (meaning from Harefleld), he need not say he
had seen him.

Mary Brash, who lived at Harefield, stated, that that on the 3d
of January he saw the male prisoner standing near the prosecutor's
house in the road, about seven o'clock.

Samuel Webb said he was at work in Bayard's Wood, OR the 18th
of Murch last, and saw, near some stubs, several papers belonging to
Mr. Ratcliffe, which he had conveyed to their owner.
Charles Filken, a blacksmith, at Harefield, said, that on the 4th of
January lie saw Henry Barnaby and the man Lamb near Mr. Rat-
cliffe's house, and proceeding in the direction of Bayard's Wood.
Witness went in a different direction, and discovered some fresh
footsteps among the hay, which when he followed led him to snares
set there. He afterwards, on the 18th of March, was taken to the
place where the papers were discovered, and the spot was as near as
possible that in which he had previously seen the snares.
Mary Fores, a servant to Mr. Ratcliffe, said she had occasion t
go out about seven o'clock, when she saw Henry Barnaby ten yard°
off from the back-door, looking over the paling. Alter she tames
back she heard some noise over head, in a room adjoining her mas-
ter's bed-room, and thought it was her master. She did not see
Barnaby that night again.
William Walmond said he had been in the company of the
male prisoner about cix weeks ago. Witness had heard of the
robbery, and had been accused of it. On that night wit-
ness said to the male prisoner, " Come, Nanny, how sly
you keep things; Charlie (meaning the man Lamb) has told
sue how you got the money." The prisoner bade him come
and sit down beside him and he would tell him how he came
by it. On the Saturday he put off his shoes, walked into Ratcliffe's, '
opened the back door, and leaving it ajar went up stairs. He
searched first one bed-room and then went into another, but while
there he was scared by the maid-servant, and he hid himself between
two beds till she left the room. He then, seeing Ratcliffe in the
butcher's shop, ;searched and found the box under the bed, which
he shook, and although he heard nothing particular, it felt heavy
and he carried it off and hid it. Charles Lamb came next morning
into Barnaby's house andisaid, "Oh, Nanny (meaning Henry Bar-
naby) old Ratcliffe has lost some money." This led to a disclosure on
the part of the prisoner, and both went out to Bayard's Wood, near
some stubs, and there disposed of the papers which 'they thought
would not be available, where they were found afterwards. Shared
the notes between them, and hid the box in a furze field, where the
snares had been seen.

Barnaby said to this witness that he had his share of the notes
sewed up in his mother's bed, and that Lamb had his sewed up in his
wife's petticoat and stays. The witness had seen the prisoner with a
51. note in his possession.
Pollee-constable 166 T said, he went to 31. Kensington-square,
where the female prisoner was in service, and charged her with
having money not her own. She denied having any, but afterwards
admitted having received two Si. notes from her brother, who said
he had picked them up. The constable still suspected she had
possession of more, and charged her accordingly; but she
denied having more. He, however, spoke to her mis-
tress, to whom he told the suspicions entertained against
the brother, and said he must search the maid -servant's box. The
female prisoner on this admitted having a 201. note of the Uxbridge
Bank, and produced it from her box.

The note was identified by Mr. Ratcliffe as his.
Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Huddlestone conducted the case for the pro-
secutor, and Mr. Doane defended the female prisoner.
The RECORDER having summed up the evidence, the jury found the
male prisoner Guilty. He was sentenced to fifteen years' transporta-
tion. The female prisoner was Acquitted.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The adjourned meeting of scripholders in this Company
was held this day, at the London Tavern ; Wynn Ellis, Esq.,
in the chair.

The SOLICITOR having read the Bill,
The CitmaatAN stated that the amount of scrip votes re-
corded at the last meeting was 22,248, and the number re-
quired in the terms of the sessional orders being 25,000, they
were consequently obliged to adjourn the meeting to this
day. The directors had since beenr entrusted with 6,522 all
in favour of proceeding with the scheme, so that there were
28,778 scrip votes in favour of going to Parliament and not
one dissentient.—(Cheers.)
A resolution was then proposed by the Chairman in the
usual form to authorise the directors in proceeding with the
Bill, which was unanimously adopted and the meeting sepa-
rated.

CHEAP RAILWAY CONiEYANCE FOR LABOURERS.—
The directors of the Eastern Counties Railway have offered to convey
labourers a distance of five miles along their line for one penny each,
night and morning.
ACCIDENT TO MR. COOKE.—Yesterday morning, a
little before eight o'clock, Mr. Cooke, so well known in connexion
with the electric telegraph, was riding a spirited horse on Blackheath
at an easy canter, when the animal suddenly slipped and came down
on his knees. The unfortunate gentleman was thrown with great
violence over the horse's head, but with the feet still entangled in
the stirrups, and on the horse making an effort to regain his legs
he struck Mr. Cooke severely on the head with his fore feet. Fcr-
tunately assistance was at hand, and the animal secured from
making further plunges, or the consequences must have been fatal.
Medical attendance was instantly sent for, and Mr. Cooke con-
veyed in a deplorable condition to his residence, en Lewisham-hill,
Blackheath.

NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—We understand that this
railway will, in all likelihood, be formally opened by the directors
the length of Dunbar on Thursday, the 18th, and that it will be
thrown open for the conveyance of the public a few days afterwards.
PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY.—EarIy in July next, a
a grand fete champetre will take place for this society, near the grounds
of the Bishop of Rochester, Bromley, Kent, on which occasion, in
addition to the amusements of the day, the principal portion of the
troop of equestrians belonging to the establishment of Mr. W. Batty,
of Astley's, have been engaged for the occasion.
DEATHS BYPROWNING IN THE THAMES.-011 Mon-
day evening Mr. Payne held two inquests on the bodies of persons
accidentally drowned in the Thames. The first was held at the
Steel-yard coffee-house, Upper Thames-street, on the body of James
Daly, aged seventeen. It appeared that, on Thursday evening last,
deceased was bathing, with other boys, in the Thames, at Bankside,
opposite to Barclay and Perkins's brewhouse, when he get out of his
depth, and was carried away by the tide, which was running rapidly
down at low water. A man of colour, named Bowling, dived after
him, and caught him by the hair, but, as he was dragging him ashore,
the force of the tide broke his hold, and before he could seize de-
ceased again, he filially disappeared. A waterman, who found the
body on Sunday morning, locked in the paddle wheel of the Topaz
steamer, said, bathing in the Thames at low water was extremely
dangerous, as the steamers drew the water off so rapidly that the
bathers were drawn with it, and generally drowned, if they could not
swim. The second inquest was held at the Rose and Crown, New-
wharf, Whitefriars, on the body of James Mackenzie, aged twenty-
four, a compositor, late in the employ of Messrs. Levy and Robson,printers, Great New-street, Gough-square. A bargeman, named
Janes, said he saw deceased, a little before six o'clockl on Sunday
ai
morning strip himself and jump off one of the barges at te
wharf. lie was a good swimmer, and swam ont Into
nethtehemnidsdwleamof
the river, when he sank, but rose again laughing.
towards the barge, and when within thirty yards of it, he threw his
hands about as if in play, and again sank. He rose once more, made
a w-
signs of distress, and then finally disappeared. Though_ effosnot rts we
found
re
made to save hhn, they did not succeed, and the bod}
until three hours after the occurrence. Verdict in each case, Acci-
dental death."
SALE of THE LIBRARY
Y t day the sale of the
AND COLLECTION OF AUTO-
GRAPHS OF THE LATE N. -o
0.
of es cr
m TM cripts, autographs, and
TTPCOTT,
formerly librarian to the
extensive library and col e tap
cott, Eget.,
state papers of the late VV-
London Institution, was commenced at Messrs. Evans's Auction-
rooms in New Bond-street. Bovvden's "
111 Memoirs of J. P. Kemble,"
published in 1625, in 2 vole., at 1 guinea, yesterday sold for 4
guineas,
in consequence of its being extensively Illustrated with
scene prints. play-bills, and newspaper cuttings referring to Kenlble.
The same author's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Inchbald,
similarly illustrated, sold for 3/. 12s. and 4/. 185. Lord lityron's
" English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," published in 1810 at about 10s., sold yesterday for 4/. 45., from its coataining portraits and au-
S. Rogers, Wordsworth, Sydne
tograph letters of Charles Lamb,
Smith, &c., Icon Basilike, the portraiture of his Sacred Majesty
Charles 1., Richard Evelyn's copy, sold for 2/. 13s. The other lots
sold yesterday consisted principally of old catalogues of book sales,
which fetched large prices, and broadsides relating to balloons, new::
paper cuttings, &c.
It was asserted yesterday, by some of Sir Robert
Peel's adherents, that he wag deteradw 19 try the 44,0 of a disw-
lutiOß DON he resigns,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWT

CITY, QUARTEt? TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
5,000 bales. The market was dull, and prices were a point
in favour of buyers. The business consisted principally of
American, at 3 d. to 511 d ; 50 Bahia, at 6d. ; 150 Egyptian.
at 51/ d. ; and 50 Sea Island, at ls. to Is. 6d.
- -

The probability of the Canadian railways being suspended,
in consequence of the unsettled state of our relations with
America, upon the Oregon question, must be a source 01
anxious solicitude with those interested in.the prosperity of
our important colonies. It is certain that, as a Toronto
writer upon this subject very justly remarks, the construction
of the Quebec and Halifax Railway is necessary to secure the
completion of all, or any of our Western lines. It is the only
thing which will give them a British tendency and thoroughly
interest British capitalists in their favour. At present the
calculations of the Great Western and Toronto and Lake
Huron Companies are founded chiefly upon the amount of
American traffic which will be secured to these routes. The
provincial business is not indeed lost sight of, but it is
brought in as secondary to the advantage which would be
derived from the travelling propensities of our neighbours.
" Such being the case, everything is at a stand-still, and
will continue so until the Oregon question is settled, and
the more threatening disturbance with Mexico put to rest.
We understand that the last letters from London to the
Great Western Company were, that the proprietors in Lon-
don would carry it through at whatever cost whenever the
war movement at Washington was a little quieted ; and we
see by the packets of the 19th April that its stock had ad-
vanced another 2s. 6d., having risen to 41. per share. What
our Toronto and Lake Huron Company are about we do not
know :

We make these observations because we think that, how-
ever much an embroilment with the United States ma)
affect the temporary and present repaving power of a
Central Canadian Railway, it has little to do with its suc-
cess in the long run. American traffic cannot be de-
pended upon, but a successive increase of our own is cer-
tain. We make them because we think that the
nature of our lines through this western province
has been put in a false position in England, and that
except in entailing an additional expense, a war with
our neighbours has little to do with their success. Such at
event would raise the price of labour, and consequently in-
crease the cost of construction, but it would also stimulate
internal trade. Our people got rich during the last war, the
farms were better stocked, and the merchants' shops
better supplied at the end of it than when it began. This
is not a manufacturing or a speculating country to be
beggared by such an occurrence—the only evil which it
could do us would be that vague fears and a high rate of pas
sage money would diminish immigration."
The funds have been very quiet this morning, but upon
the whole are firmer, owing to the favourable appearances in
Parliament for the passing of the Corn Bill. The advance
in wheat, however, is considered to indicate a disposition to
regard the weather as somewhat too dry, though foreign
orders for shipment hence to Belgium are likewise alleged a,
a cause, and this may influence the funds. Consols for the
Account have been 95%. Exchequer-bills of 1,000/. have
realised Ils. premium. The _New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 96% to 97, and the Three per Cents. 95
to q. Bank Stock has improved to 205% and 2061/,.
The Foreign Bonds have been heavy except as regards
Portuguese, which have improved on account of favourable
advices of June 7 from Lisbon, received by a Russian man-of-
war arrived at Portsmouth. The Three per Cents. have
been 4814, and the Four per Cents. 481/,, to 491/2. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been quoted 24 to 1/1, and the Three pei
Cents. 36% to 37. Mexican are dull at 28 to 14, and
Grenada at 201,4 to 20%.
Railway Shares move uniformly, to a great extent, with
our own securities, being neither very lively in demand nor
buoyant in price, and yet, at the same time, not depressed.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSIN(
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
.• 205 20634 206 v

Bank Stock ..

Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 96% 97
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10%4
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. 26 20
Ditto, under 1,000/. 26
South Sea Stock ..

Ditto. Old Annuities .. .. 94
Consols for opening • • •• 9514
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11id.
1,000/.
5001. .
Ditto. Small

11 - - - pm.
16 - - - pm.
16 17 12 - pm.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. 203 'A,
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account 284 28
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • • • 48%
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • . 49% 483
Ditto, for the Account 4914
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 2414
Ditto, for the Account 244
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 3634 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 913%
Ditto, for the Account

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
401 i
20A3

PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Buckinghamshire .. 425. di5....... dis.
Caledonian 10 .... 113 10% lO%
Ditto, Extension .. 214 .. •
Derby and Crewe .. 2% .. • • 683 S •••• • • • •
Direet Manchester (Rastrick's) 5% .... 37 ..........
Direct Northern .. .. 2y4 .... .
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 24 %
Ditto New .. .. 10/. 165..... 8 p..........
Do. Pcrpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 6/. 13s. 4d. ..........
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. Cl. 13s. 4d. % p........ % p
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 1% ....... 11A
East Lincolnshire 1 . .
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 75 .. •••. • • .. 75
Goole, Doncast., and ,theffield,&e. 425.....
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% ....
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 2214 .......... 22%
Great North of England ...100 .... .
Ditto New .. .. 5 .. • . 52
Ditto, New . .. 10 .... 39
Ditto, New .. . •• • •
Great Western .. 85 • • .
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 16% .
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 .... 4%
Leicester and Bedford.. 225.
London an i Birmingham ..100 • • • •
Ditto Quarters .„ .. 2 .... 2834
London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 4d.
London and Brighton .. 50 .. . 65
Ditto ditto Fifths
London and Croydon .. ..13/. 153 9d... 2134
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d.
Do. Prefer. or Privilege .. 18/. 17s. 2d.
London, Ilcunslow, & Western .. 2 ....
London and South-Western ..41/. Gs. 10d.. • 78 773 •• • •
Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 34 .... 52
Ditto, New .. . • .. • • 17%
London and York .. 1"%, 2. ..... .
Lynn and Ely .. .. 15 .... 13
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 • • ..124 •• ..
Ditto, half Shares .. 38 .... 5832 • •
Ditto, Quarters .. .. 2 .... 9y, 10
Ditto, Fifths .. .. 3 .... 1254 •• . •
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . ........ •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• .• 4sß p.. •
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 134
Midland .. ..100 ....149
Ditto, New ~ 18 •• • • 31 ..
Newcastle and. Darlington Juliet. 25 453{ 46
Ditto, New . • • • • • • 1 •• • • 9
Ditto, New, Brandling 25 .... 44
Norfolk .. 20 ....
Ditto, Extension . .. 2 .... _
North British .. • • • • • 2214 •• • • •••• • • •
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114 .... 1 .......
North Staffordshire .. •• 425. .... 438 37. p
Northmpton,Banbury,&Chelthrn. 2 .... ......
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 1514 •. • •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% •• •
Shropshire Union .. 425..... 132 dis ...... 134 dis.
South Midland .. 425. dis.... •• .. dis
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33)6.... 3934 ...... •• .. 3954
Ditto. New (iss. at 32/.) No. 1. 16 20 .... ••• • .. 20
Do., New (do. 157.) .. No. 4. 2% 2Y,, • 23%
Vale of Neath .. 2 .... 1171 ..
Welsh Midland .. 234 .... 11,8
West Riding Union .. 425..• .. 234 p 23.4 p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 3 2 2
Worcestr., Herefil., Ross, & Glon. 425..... 144 dis dis
York and Lancaster .... 114 .
York and North Midland .. 50 ....
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1

1% .......

8 p

16M
4i
par '

77%
52
28%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of Spain .. .. 2 .... 1 % 1
Dutch Rhenish .. • .. 6 .... 8
East Indian . ss. • • .. Y 2
Louvain and Jemeppe .. 4 . 1 % .. 1% xd
Luxembourg I'/s
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 10% .......... 10%
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 6 .• • • 6U
Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 39 ••.••• • • • • 39%
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. .. •••• • . • -
Rouen and Havre . .. 20 .... 28 .......... 28

MINES.

Real del 111Qnte, Unregistered .... ......

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY

,
LoNnog, Jura 16.—Wind E., moderato `breeze, and hot sultry
weather.

DEAL, JUNE 15.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Sea Nymph, VaSey, St.
John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Mary Honnsell, Baker, St. John's,
Newfoundland ; Enterprise, Leufstadius, New York. Arrd. from
the ltiver, Ranger, Dring, Cape Coast Castle. Arrd. from the River
and sld. Delhi, Young, Batavia, Re.; Ceylon, Leslie, Calcutta.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 15.—Wind N.N.N.—Sid. 14th, Aurora. Landela,
Havannah ; ;Corea, Finlay, Quebec; Statesman, Pyott, Sydney,
New South Wales ; England's Queen, Sheddings, Bombay ; Hope-
well, Carter, Maranham ; Cambyses, Smith, Montreal.
Coax, JUNE 13.—Arrd. Matchless, Hayes, Patagonia.
PENTLAND FRITH, JUNE 10.—Arrd. Adam Smith, Patagonia.
HULL, JUNE 15.—Wind light.—Arrd. 13th, canton, Harding,
Boston ; 14th, Intrepid, Wilson, Savannah. Sld. 14th, Augusta,
Cook, Valparaiso.

YARMOUTH RoADs, JUNE 13.—Alrrd. Agnes, Brown, ILTddewalla.
BRIDPORT, JUNE:I4.—The Irietoria, Hill, from Shields, arrived
here this morning : reports having fallen in with a vessel's mast,
about five feet off the bar, and it appeared as if the hull of a vessel
was attached to it and afloat ; the mast was to all appearance about
eighteen inches through, with iron hoops round it. Old ,Harry,
bearing N.E. and by N. about five miles.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE 01? LORDS.

THE %VlSzimez, wr. IVES, AND CAM'

BRIDGE JUNCTION.

afford to the millers and maisters of England, a communication with .
the district about Lincoln, front which they were excluded by want
of communication. This would be a great advantage, as a laPge
quantity of flour was cultivated in Lincolnshire. There was aWI
considerable traffic between Hull and Lincoln, for timber, &c.
himself, expended about 100,0001. or 150,0001. per annum In corn, 10
the immediate neighbourhood.
Lord Worsely, who stated that he was Chairman of the Company'
was next called. He gave evidence as to the great necessity for such
a line as the proposed, and the great advantages that would result
from its formation. Ile was cross-examined by Mr. TEMPLE. ,
Mr. TEMPLE, in the course of his cross-examination, suddenly
stopped. and said that he understood that some arrangement had
been made between the promoters and the petitioners; the result
the
which would be that the objections he was about to raise against
Bills, would be obviated. He withdrew the opposition on the Orb
of Mr. Alainwary.
Mr. PAGET then proceeded to call Mr. William Thorne. a pro,:
prietor of land near Barrow-, who gave general ev'i
deuce in favour of the line. The learned coatis'
was about to call the next witness, but on receiving some con'
= • Le
Ideation from Mr. Parkes, the agent for Bill e, the
observed that he had been told that he was occupy
ing
their Lordships' time uselessly, as Mr. hope had re-
moved all opposition by private arrangement.
not
Mr. PAEKES said that there was but one petition which had A
been disposed of in this mariner, and he believed no appearance
been made on the part of the petitioner. He had seen the agent this
morning, and that gentleman had told him that he had received no
communication from his clients for some time, and not having the
necessary papers, he was not prepared to oppose the Bills.
The agent subsequently came forward and confirmed this statemen!:
wit
h
the opposition being now removed, the Committee proceeded
the engineering and some other evldencepro forma.
Mr. Fowler, the engineer to the line, gave the usual engineering
evidence.
Mr. Parkes gave evidence on some points of form.
The clauses were then adjusted, and the Bill passed.
The Committee then rose, with the understanding that the BO
should be reported this evening.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XIII.
The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Sir Will
the chair. lam Clay, in

IMPORTANT DECISION.
AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY.
Mr. BOYLE proceeded to sum up the case on behalf of the pro.
rooters. He reviewed at some length the character of the line and _
accommodation it would afford to the important mineral field of
mellington ; to the a_ricultural produce of Kirkcudbright and
shire ; and to the sheep, cattle, and passengers passing to and fro'''.
(he two counties. Having dwelt shortly on the character of the oPP°
sition to the scheme, which he submitted had not made out the case,
,
he concluded by calling on the Committee to affirm the preamble 0,
the Bill.
The room was then cleared for a decision.
On the admission of the parties,
The CHAIRMAN intimated that the decision of the Committee wet,
that the preamble of the Bill had not been proved.

GROUP X.X.
The Committee on this (the Windsor) group met to-day, at tWeIV°
o'clock, in Room No. 31 (Grand Corridor). Present, Mr. SotherOn
(chairman), Mr. Pigott, Mr. Ross, Lord W. Benthack, &c.
They resumed the consideration of the
LONDON AND WINDSOR.

Mr. Thompson, the engineer of the company, whose direct evidence
in favour of the line was concluded yesterday, was now cross-exy
mined at considerable length.

GROUP XXXIII. ct
The Committee on this group met to-day in Room No. 24 (Grand
Corridor) ; present, Sir Robert Ferguson, the Marquis
of Worcester.
Viscount Norreys, Mr. Smollett, and Mr. Fellowes.
They proceeded with the examination of witnesses ou the War
wiekshire and London Railways, called
WORCESTER, AND WEEDONf
HAMPTON AND ASHCHtTRCH,
HAMPTON AND DA.NBUR.Y.
The evidence related entirely to the traffic in these lines,
~ and it
by„
was endeavoured to establish that the places to be accotr.modate'..,
them were of more importance than those to be reached by `"
itirmingham and Oxford and other competing lines.

GROUP This Committee re-assembled to•day, LIII.
at twelve o'clock, in Room 2G,
(New Houses of Parliament). Present, the Hon. E. Lascelle (m
the chair), the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Mr. R. Clayton, CAP.""
Dalrymple, and Mr. Hildyard.

SHREWSBURY AND DIRD'UNGHAMI
The evidence in favour of this scheme was again resurnedr.
mottling, Mr. Scott, the chairman of the Birmingham Canal CT e 0
pany, being the first witness. He stated that the rival sch!
would pass over some of the most valuable coal-mines in Stan°Lt
shire, thus inflicting great damage, not only on the proprietorsr l,
the public at large. His evidence in other respects WOs
that previously laid before the Committee.

THE LYNN AND ELY, THE LYNN TO SPAL-
DING, AND THE EASTERN COITNTZES

EXTENSION.
The Committee met again this day at eleven o'clock, Earl Grey
Chairman.
After some desultory conversation, the Committee came to the
resolution of passing the preambles of the above Bills, subject to the
formal proofs. The clauses of the Bills were then gone into.

36°1%11130N .aralco ironE,
TUE DONCASTSIZI, WANSTZEZID, AND

Limas

proceeded with the evidence showing the grew
amount of traffic on the proposed line of railway.

DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH.
ccumprOßD, CHICHESTER, PORTSMOUTH,
AND PAREHAPI.
The Committee on these Bills met as usual at eleven o'clock this
morning in Room A, :yew Houses of Parliament; Lord Beaumont
took the chair ; all the members were present.
The evidence of Mr. W. Cubitt, as engineer to the Guildford, Chi-
chester, Portsmouth, and Fareham, was then taken.
He was cross-exam Med by Mr. TALBOT, on the part of the Direct
London and Portsmouth.
Their Lordships were occupied nearly the whole of the remainder
of the day with general evidence.

GREAT Grarivany AND SE FIELD TONC-
WON EXTENSION. (Nos. Z. and II.)
The Committee of their Lordships' House, appointed to consider
the merits of these two Bills, mat at eleven this morning in Room B
(New Houses of Parliament). The Members are, Lord Zetland
(chairman), the Marquis of Exeter, the Duke of St. Albans, and
Lords Galway and Southampton.
Mr. HOPE, Mr. POET, and Mr. DENcoOZT, appeared for the pro-
moters of the Bills, and Mr. TEMPLE for Mr. Mainwary (t land-
owner), and other petitioners against the line. There were three
petitions : one from Mr. Mainwary, and two from the inhabitants of
Barton and Barrow. There was also a fourth petition, on which no
appearance was made.

-Mr. HOPE, having addressed the Committee on the part of the
promoters, called

Mr. Charles Seely, a mill-owner near Lincoln, who gave
geuer4l CYI4CIISI In ATlnu of tin nue, 'Mach lig 144 Winil4

GROUP ',VIII.
MIDLAND RAILWAY (PUR.CRASE OF

OAZHAM CANAL). v !at
Committee to which this line was referred met tO-da,
twelve o'clock, in Room No. S.
nnittee
At the opening of the room it was announced that the u.
intended to come to a decision will regard to the above Line.
Atter a delay of a few minutes, COln'
The CHA IRMAN announced that he was instructed by the boo
(rig'
mittee to state that the preamble of the Midland Railway
of Oakharn Canal Bill) was proved.

GROUP UV-
LEICESTER AND BIRMINGBAM. AND

BRANCH TO COVENTRY.
On the re-assembling of the Committee this morning, the P)°1::,
was ordered to be cleared, in order that the Committee might CF/3c
n the respective merits of the different lines in the locanties _
ininghani and Leicester that had been submitted to them.
On our re-admission,
The Ctiaramex said that the Committee were of
preambles of the London and Birmingham (Coventry
Extension), and 01 the Coventry and Nuneaton (Birlmn*„,-,Mbies
Leicester) Railway Bills were proved ; and that the Pre'—d
the Direct Birmingham and Leicester and the Leicester an
mingham Railway Bills were not proved. opinion that tli:

GROUP LXI.
SCOTTISH CONSOLIDATIONS.
The Committee on this groin,assembled, at twelve O'clock
In Room 33, Sir John Duckworth in the chair, when
evidence _ I:
given as to the curves and radii and other general feattireS or `,.
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway, as well as of those of the at',"
joining and tributary lines, pie object of Mr. Sergeant Wrangh4m:
apparently being to show that, in consequence of the difficulty Inte.
posed by the sharpness and smallness of these curves and radii. 16
would be a great inconvenience to bring all the traffic upon a 11°.
V
where express tiaias were to run, and to be crossed by mineral
trains.

A long crcts-examination ensued to ascertain the extant to whici!
the Monkland and Kirkintilloch line is subject to the crossing Out
passage of cross tram coal trains between the collieries and
the works connected with them, and which are so placed as to
be intersected by the railway.
At the conclusion of this evidence, Mr. Sergeant Waarion„„d*g
addressed the Committee on behalf of the opponents of the Monks 7e
and Kirkintilloch Company. In the course of his observations in
Learned Sergeant stated that the latter company e tl3
fact absorbed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company, and tranc
amalgamation be approved the effect would be to drive the
which would naturally go by the Caledonian line, the direct couif'
circuitously by the coast. It was on public grounds alone that ne
_lO
posed this line. The Caledonian Company had no other aaocy es 10
the north of Glasgow except by the Garilkirl‘ _BbatiLvd .01as-
less they were driven farther north to the Ecllnbuibljy. There
gow Railway, which is in the hands of au inimical
is no doubt but that the Garnkirk Railway ~osnect to the
getting to Glasgow. The same effect remained With itiThrkiand and
through traffic to the north. The gauge of the ° Ecthaburel
Kirkintilloch is now being altered, to suit the
ewW
and Glasgow line, and when this is completed tiler
be an uninterrupted communication with Glasgow for the Awitl_t.
is the onclOyirdPirect mode of
coal-field. The Committee would have to recollect that Lt.7l:
the clause of the Act which directed the purchase was Passed' w
railway of which it spoke, the Monkland and Kirkintilloch line,
absolutely not In existence. The question, therefore, which arse
was this, whether the clauses were binding which had been passed
under one set of circumstances, upon a totally different set of fftc.7.
By the railways as they are now, there is still an apprehended c0i.;..0.
petition, and it acted wholesomely in promoting the general benefit,
while, if this purchase were allowed, there would be a great 111113011
naent of the traffic.