The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-29 00:00:00

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APRIL 29,

TRE,EXHIBITION of PLANTS, FLO WE RS , and FRUIT, in the Gardens of the ROYAL BOTANIC
SOCIETY, Inher Cfrolc, Ile+ent's Park,•velll be held this season in
the. New Conservator:,-I),t WEDNES,DAYS May 20, June 3, and July 1.
—Tickets may be obtab:ed at the Gardens by presenting an order
from a fellow-or member, price 4s. each, until May 9. Fellows pri-
vileged tickets wall cease to be Issued also on the 9th of May.

ROrioveltles of extreme interest and Inform‘tion at the
YAL POLIT.MINIC INSTITUTION
Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY form 'a part 'aim en-
tirely NEW SERIES :ot DISSOLVING 'VIEWS,. PORTRA4TS of
the most Distingukhcd Men .in the SIKH GOVERNMENT and
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MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
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Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Lectures on
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Admission, Is. ; Schools, llalf-price.
A brief Description of the Oregon Territory, from Notes by a Nine .
Years' Resident, presented to the Visitors.

BIIITISH HOTEL, COCEESPUR-STREET,
- -CHARING-CROSS. ' •

H. BRIAhTT respectfully informs „Noblemen, Gentlemen, and
Fanilies;that he has taken the above Hotel, every part of which
has been.tronowated and greatly improved. IL B. begs to assure
those who may honour him with their patronage that every at-
tention shalL be paid to
,their comforts, and his charges strictly
moderate. .

The British Hotel Is pleasantly situated, being near the Houses of
Parliament and the 'Theatres, and is easy of Access from all the
different Railway Stations. This Hotel contains Rooms suitable for
Committees and Public Meetings.

VALUABLE AND IMPORTANT HOTEL FOR SALE.
' GLOBE 'HOTEL; "PLYMOUTH.
THIS well-known freehold HOTEL; COM-
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Radmore, whose term expires at. Lady-day, 1847, will be SUB-
MITTED to SALE at PUBLIC AUCTION, by SKARDON and
SON, at the above Hotel, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th day of May
next, at Twelve at noon, by order of the Trustees of the late Mr.
Joseph Murch, aubj•at to such conditions of sale as will be then
produced.

The premises are situated in and fi onting Bedford-street, with a
continuation to George-street and Frankfort-street, which streets
form the most public thoroughfares and trading part of the town, and
possess advantages of locality unrivalled, and stand on an area of
8,5 M feet.

Particulars may ba knawn, and permission to view, by applying
to Mr. Edward Oldrey, Norley-place; or to Messrs. Woollcombe,
Square, Stephens, and Prance, solicitors, Plymouth.
Plymouth, April 22, 1846.

OLD CROWN, LICHFIELD.
GEORGE CALLA WAY, in returning most
sincere thanks to those Commercial Gentlemen, Agricul-
turists, and the public generally, who have hitherto so kindly sup-
ported him, begs respectfully to solicit a continuance of their
favours, and assures them that no effort shall be wanting to secure
their comfort and accommodation.
April 27, 1846.

WANTED, A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN,
who has had experience in the business, to take the manage-
ment of a Commercial Inn. None need apply without the mos/
respectable references as to character and ability.
Address to G. Callaway, Old Crown, Lichfield.
QILVt-

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new and second-hand Silver Spoons mad Forks; new and second-
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the new plated on white metal Spoons and Forks, Watches, Clocks,
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This overcoat recommends itself to the Public generally by its
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against the almost constant humidity of the climate of Great Britain.
To be had in London only of the Patentees, 1 l t Regent-street.

PORTUGAL.
We have received accounts from Lisbon of the 21si
instant.

Agrarian disturbances bad broken out in the province of
Minho. The constitution was suspended on the 20th 'inst.
for a term of twenty days, the press suppressed, military
tribunals created for the trial of all offences against the
State, and summary' proceedings were to be instituted after
the fashion of those in Spain—those condemned to be pas-
sados par as arms though not merely on identificatisnAas
l's
by the orders of farvaa. It is not very complimentary 'to
Sir Robert Peel to find his Irish Coercion Bill quoted by the
Portuguese Minister for an example in his country, and a
justification of his atrocious measure.
The following are extracts from our correspondent's.
letter :

"This country was placed under martial law yesterday,
the 20th inst. The present Government has been four years
in office, and in that brief period the constitution has been
suspended three times. The province of Minho has been
the scene of agrarian outrages for the last twelve days,
arising from the attempt to put in force the new system of
taxation by repartition, and to levy imposts in the agri-
cultural districts, under the new bill of health, particu-
larly burdensome and oppressive. One of the first tumults
was caused by a refusal of the local authorities to suffer the
burial of a poor peasant to take place without obtaining a
certificate from a medical officer, who is empowered by this
oppressive law to exact a sum for his signature little short of
ten shillings sterling. The friends of the deceased in vain
pleaded their inability to pay the sum in question. The
rites of burial were refused; the women of the district rose
en 2nasse ; the troops were marched against them; resistance
was offered, and it is stated that several women and children
were shot by the valiant soldiery, but not before some of
the latter were routed by these exasperated women. The
peasants of the districts of Guithares, Porado, and Penella,
the J)iario of the 17th states. revolted on the 14th
instant, entered Braga, attacked the barracks of the
eight regiments in a most daring manner, and were
repelled with a loss of many wounded and a sufficient num-
ber of dead—muitos feredos e bastanfes mortos.' The Go-
vernment organs have abstained from giving any detailed
accounts of the further tumults and their results, but it is
acknowledged that two other desperate attacks were made
on the quarters of this regiment, that scattered detachments
in adjoining districts have been assailed, and in one or two
instances repulsed by the armed peasants, in some places in
bodies of upwards of two thousand men—that the houses and
offices of the local authorities, whose duties are connected
with the carrying into operation of the new system of taxa-
tion have been broken open, the schedules of those taxes
destroyed, and that the cries of the insurgents were Viva,'
for the Queen and for religion, and Morras ' for the Mi-
nistry.
" Senhor Jose Bernardo Cabral, the Minister of Justice,
left his portfolio yesterday for the seat of war,' via Oporto,
accompanied by the 16th Regiment.
"The accounts from Minho this day are, that the move-
ment is extending to Tras os Montes, and that a detachment
of soldiers, proceeding from Chaves to the chief scene of dis-
turbance, had been obliged to retrace their steps. The pro-
bability is, h)wever, that order will be restored, but at a
very dear cost to the interests of the country and of the
Throne. •
"Five per Cent. Inscriptions, 66% 67; Four per Cent.
ditto, 57 58 ; Apolices Old Five per Cent., 68 69; Ditto Four
per Cent., '5814 583%; Bank Shares, Lisbon, 768 milrees;
Union Ditto, 112 milrees; Confianga, 971,1-10 per cent.
Exchange on London, 90 days, 541."—Chronicle.

RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
The following is the Bill introduced into the House of
Lords last night by Lord Dalhousie.
A BILL INTITULED AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE
DISSOLUTION OF CERTAIN RAILWAY COM-
PANIES.

Whereas it is expedient to facilitate the dissolution of cer-
tain railway partnerships as hereafter mentioned, and to
afford facilities for the winding up the concerns of such part-
nerships : may it therefore please your Majesty that it may
be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same,
that when any persons shall have entered into any contact
usually called a subscription contact, or other agreement or
agreements, for the formation of a company or partnership
for making any railway which cannot be carried into exec.u__
execu-
tion without obtaining the authority of Parliament,it shall
be lawful for such persons to dissolve the said company or
partnership, contract or agreement, in manner hereinafter
mentioned, and that whether or not this contract or agree-
ment shall contain any powers or provisions for dissolution
of the company or partnership intended to be thereby formed.
2. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful ter the com-
mittee, provisional directors. or other persons by such con-
tract or agreement as aforesaid intrusted with the manage-
ment and carrying i?.to effect of the undertaking, and who
are hereafter called " the committee," to call a meeting of the
shareholders for the purpose of determining whether the part-
nership or company intended to be formed (and which is
hereafter called the company") shall be dissolved, and in
what manner; and that if such meeting shall determine, as
after mentioned, that the company shall be dissolved, then,
as from' the date of such meeting (subject as after mentioned)
the company shall be taken to be dissolved, and the com-
mittee shall not have the power to proceed any further with
the undertaking.
3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for any five
shareholders, as after defined, by writing under their hands,
to require the committee to call a meeting for the pupose
aforesaid; and that if the committee refuse or neglect, within
six days after any such requisition shall have been left at the
registered place of business of the company, or shall have
been served personally on any member of the committee, to
call such meeting, it shall be lawful for any five shareholders
to call such a meeting.
4. And be it enacted, That the meeting shall be held to
have been duly called, although the votes of the parties
calling the same, or any of such votes, shall be disallowed at
the meeting by the scrutineers to be appointed as herein-
after mentioned.
5. And be it enacted, That the calling of any such meet-
ing shall be by notice, signed either on behalf of the Com-
mittee by any one member of the same, or in case the meet-
ing shall be called by the shareholders, then by the share-
holders calling the same, such notice to be advertised eight
clear days, and not more than fifteen days before the time
to be therein fixed for holding such meeting in the London
Gazette, and also within the before-mentioned limits as to
time in three London daily newspapers; that in the case of
railways to be made in Ireland, the said notice shall also be
advertised within the before-mentioned limits as to the time
in the Dublin Gazette, and in two Dublin daily newspapers;
and as to railways to be made in Scotland, the said notice
shall also be advertised in atleast two newspapers in common
circulation in the city of Edinburgh.
6. And be it enacted, That every notice of meeting shall
specify the day, hour, place, and purpose of meeting.
7. And be it enacted, That the person to be in the chair at
every such meeting shall be some member of the committee,
to be elected by a majority of the members of the committee
present at the meeting, and in case the votes of the_ members
of the committee present shall be equally divided, or there
shall be no member of the committee elected, then some
shareholder entitled to vote to be elected by the meeting;
and every person present to have one vote
rfor the election of
the chairman and scrutineers; and v
have a casting vote, in addition to any other vote which he
may be entitled to; and if any such chairman shall refuse to
give his casting vote on the question of dissolution or bank-
ruptcy as after mentioned, the question shall be considered
as carried in the affirmative for dissolution or bankruptcy.eau
a. Aa be it enacted, That We C41.41111M at Trych

1846.

PRICE SD.

meeting shall be bound to put to the meeting any quistion
proposed for the dissointionof the company, or as to the
mode thereof; 'and the election of scrutineers, and that no
business shall be transacted at any such meeting other than
the consideration of any such' question so proposed, and the
election of a chairman and scrutineers.
9. And be it enacted, That immediately after the election
of a chairman at such meeting, the meeting shall proceed to
elect as scrutineers three:shareholders in the company, whose
business it shall be to verify as after-mentioned, and take the
votes of the shareholders entitled to vote and cast up the
same, and the decision of them, or any two of them, shall be
&lel is all reipects.
10. And be It enacted, That in case it shall be discovered
by or shown to the 'scrutineers that the chairman at any
meeting is not entitled to vote as a shareholder, it shall be
lawful for the meeting either to elect a new chairman or to
maintain such existing chairman, but such chairman so main-
taineditl oflice,shall not thereby acquire the Tightof votingas
shareholder, or of giving a casting .vote; and in case the
votes shall be equally divided, the resolutions shall be con-
sidered as carried in the affirmative for the dissolution and
asl to the bankruptcy of the company,. provided always tint
vote,
acts, and deeds by the chairman not entitled tb
the meeting presided over by him, given or done
befoer,r.otleb3 discovery of his not being so entitled, shall be valid
and effectual. A
nd
11. be
it enacted; That-tiny such meeting . • ,
in the event of the prescribed quorum afteir-meanstiafonoerdesaniodt
being present at such meeting, then the chairman shall cattle
the votes of the persons constituting theo said meeting to be
taken anti recorded, and shall then gd
held at the safne place and at a day adjourn
deleediaars:eldmebyidtl4teg
cluiiiman, such day not being less than three
More than one week from the original day of metinand,tnitoll
day and the time of meeting in the meantime beingaadver-
tised twice in each of three London daily newspapers, and in
'the case of a Scotch railway, also twice in two EdinburFlt
newspapers, and in the case of an Irish railway, al .o twice
in each of two Dublin daily newspapers ; and at snch ad-
+Sarnia meeting the votes of such personti-constitntinnthe
same as had not voted at the original meeting shall be taken
and recorded, and the total number of votes given at the
original and adjourned meeting shall be received as if given
at one and the same meeting.
12. And be it enacted, That the hour to be fixed for ho

ing any meeting under the provisions of this Act shall be
that of noon.
13. And be it enacted, That the only persons entitled to
be present and vote at any such meeting as shareholders (ex-
cept as to the appointment of a chairman and scrutineers)
shall be those persons who shall for the time being be in pos-
session of and produce certificates or receipts declaring parties
entitled to shares in any company, or acknowledging the
receipt of a deposit in such company, usually termed "scrip,"
ot " receipts" for deposits on shares, and that notwithstand-
ing the party in possession may not be the party to whom
the same was originally granted, or that the same may not
have been legally assigned to the party in possession, and
that notwithstanding the same may be held by the holder as
a mere mortgagee, or the same may be subject to any charge
or lien, and which parties are not by this Act called "share-
holders."
14. And be it enacted, That every shareholder shall be en-
titled to one vote in respect of every share held by him up to
ten, and to one additional vote for every four shares beyond the first ten shares held by him up to one hundred; and to
an additional vote for every ten shares held by him beyond
the first hundred shares; and that all shareholders producing
such scrip or receipts shall be entitled to attend meetings
and to appoint proxies according to the form contained in
the schedule hereunto annexed, or in some form to the like
effect: provided always, and be it enacted, that the fact of
any such party attending any such meeting shall not in any-
wise increase or alter his rights or liabilities.
15. And be it enacted, that the appointment of any such
proxy shall be signed by the party appointing the same be-
fore a Master or Master Extraordinary of the Court of
Chancery in England or Ireland, or a justice of the peace in
England or Ireland, or before a sheriff or sheriff depute or
justice of the peace in Scotland, or before the registrar of
joint-stock companies or his deputy; and that on signing the
same the scrip or receipt in respect of which the proxy is in-
tended to be appointed shall be produced to the Master,
justice, sheriffor sheriff depute, registrar or deputy registrar;
and the numbers of shares and the name of the party enti-
tled shall be verified, with the numbers and name stated in
the appointment of proxy, before such Master, sheriff, sheriff
depute or
.justice, registrar or deputy registrar; and that no
such appointment of proxy shall be subject to stamp duty.
16. And be it enacted, That to constitute a meeting under
the provisions of this Act for the purpose of deciding on a dis-
solution, and the mode thereof, persons representing at least
one-third part of the shares in the undertaking actually
issued must be present and vote; and that, for the purpose
of effecting a dissolution, and the mode thereof, there must be
at least three-fifths of the votes of persons present, and voting
either as shareholders or proxies, in favour of the motion for
dissolution, and the mode thereof.
17. And be it enacted, That the chairman at every such
meeting shall sign a minute of the proceedings, and that every
minute so signed shall be advertised within the shortest pos-
sible time in the same papers in which notice of the meeting
is herein-1 efore required to be given; and a copy of the
London Gazette containing the advertisement of such meet-
ing shall be evidence of the meeting having been duly called
and held, and of the resolutions recorded having been duly
passed by the majorities therein mentioned ; and that any
person who shall insert or cause to be inserted in the London
Gazette any advertisement under the present clause, knowing
the same to be false, in any material pattieular, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanour.
18. And he it enacted, That as regards all projected rail-
ways as aforesaid any portion of the intended line of which
is situate in England or Wales, the meeting aforesaid may be
held, as shall be specified in the notice calling the same,
either in the cities of London or Westminster, or at the
registered place of business of the company ; or as regards
any railways any portion of the intended line of which is
situate in the counties of Lancaster or Chester, such meeting
may be held at Manchester or Liverpool ; or as regards any
railways any portion of the intended line of which is situate
in the county of York, such meetings may be held at York
or Leeds ; that as regards railways situate in Ireland, the
meetings may be held either in London or Dublin, or at the
registered places of business, as shall be specified in the no-
tice ; and that as regards railways situate in Scotland, the
meetings may be held either in London or Edinburgh, or at
the registered places of business, as shall be specified in the
notice.

19. And be it enacted, That no parties shall be entitled to
vote, except in respect of scrip certificates or shares actually
issued or given before the 31st day of March, 1846, and that
the shares or certificates actually issued or given, shall, for
the purposes of this Act, be taken to constitute the whole
number of shares in the undertaking, although the contract
may have provided that the undertaking shall consist
of a greater number ; and that for the purpose a as-
certaining the number of shares or certificates actually
issued the committee of any projected railway company
shall, within twelve days after the passing of this Act, be
bound to send in unto the registrar of joint-stock companies
a return in writing under the hand of any member of such
committee specifying the number of shares or certificates
actually issued or given as aforesaid, the amount of each
share, and of the deposit paid or to be paid thereon ; and
that in case such return shall not be so sent in within the
aforesaid period, or shall be found to be incorrect, every
member of the committee shall forfeit the sum of pounds,
to be recovered in like manner as any penalty under the
Act, intituled "An Act for the Registration, Incorporation,
and Regulation of Joint-Stock Companies," is recoverable.
20. And be it enacted, That the registrar of joint-stock
companies shall, within six days from the passing of this
Act, send to the registered place of business of every such
company a notice in writing under his hand requiring such
return to be made ; but the omission to send any such notice
by the registrar shall not exempt the committee of any such
company from the penalties aforesaid ; and every person
shall be at liberty to inspect any return made to the registrar
under this Act on payment of a fee of one shilling for every
such inspection, and also to require a copy or extract of any
such return to be certified by the said registrar on payment
of a fee of sixpence for every folio of such copy or extract ;
and that in all courts of law and equity and elsewhere, such
copy or extract so certified shall be received in evidence.
21. And be it enacted, That in addition to the question of
dissolution, it shall be imperative on the meeting to decide
whether such dissolution shall or shall not be taken to be an
act of bankruptcy for the purpose of having the affairs of
the company wound up under the provisions of the Act after-
mentioned.

22. And be it enacted, That in case the meeting shall re-
solve that the dissolution shall not be so wound up, then (sub-
ject to the power herein-after given to the committee and
to creditors of the company to petition for a fiat) the affairs
of the said company shall be wound up according to the or-
dinary rules applicable to the dissolution of partnership un-
dertakings.
23. Provided always, and be it enacted, That the resolu-
tion to dissolve the company, or the actual dissolution thereof,
shall not alter or affect the rights of
per-
sonscredmitoanryosrhoaarvnoyethlaewrfuily
engage-
ments t being
whatsoevershareholders
which
the in
thecompany,committee
entered into, and shall not affect any suits pending before
the passing of this Act ; but that the company shall not be
bound to perform any engagement which cannot be per-
formed by reason of the dissolution.
24. And be it enacted, That where any meeting called to
consider the question of dissolution shall have determined
the question of the dissolution of the company in the nega-
tive, no new meeting shall be called to consider the question
of dissolution, or any matter relating thereto, until the lapse
of six months from the day in which the question was last
resolved in the negative.
25. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the majo-
rity of the committee of any company, at any time after the
dissolution thereof shall have been resolved, or for any cre-
ditor of such company to such amount as is now by law re-
quisite to support a fiat in bankruptcy, or of any shareholder
as before defined holding at least shares, within
months after the dissolution thereof shall have
been resolved, to petition that a fiat in bankruptcy may issue
against such company.
26. And be it enacted, That upon the production of a copy
of the London Gazette containing the resolution of any such
meeting as aforesaid, whereby it shall be resolved that the
dissolution of the company shall be an act of bankruptcy, or
upon the petition of the majority of the committee or share.
holders, or of any creditor under the last preceding clause, a
fiat in bankruptcy shall issue against such company by the
registered name or style of such company ; and the company
shall thereupon be deemed to be within the provisions of an
Act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of
her present Majesty, intituled "An Act for facilitating the
winding up of Joint-stock Companies: unable to meet their
pecuniary engagements," in all respects as if a fiat in bank-
ruptcy had issued against it under the said Act.
27. 'And be it enacted, That the following words and ex-
pressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them
respectively, so far as such meanings are not excluded by the
context or subject-matter; (videlicet)—
The word "month" shall mean calendar month.
The word " person" shall include corporations.
gender And
respectivelyw oa
to
deno teibnagl tbhee
bseilndg er
apply
of persons and things or to females respecti -
m:y.be amended,
Passed in this session
28. And be it enacted, that thisbeA
altered, or repealed by any Act to numbera,ls o andto a masculine
plurality
of Parliament.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.
FORM OF PROXY.

I,ectively A. 8., of holder of shares, numbered
respectively
in the projected railway company, do
hereby appoint C. D., of ,tobe my proxy upon
anymatter relating to the dissolution of the said company,
to vote,
vote, dissent, and act as he shall think proper.
witness my hand, the day of

ANNIVERSARY ;DINNED.
The anniversary festival .0-slie- Highland Society was
celebrated on tiaturday eve., "at the Ifpndori Tavern,
Bishocsgate-street ; about two hundred gentlaaen sat down
to dinner. His Grace the Duke of Richmond presided. The
Early of Rosebery, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir
James Clarke, Bart. ; the Chishelm ;--Mr.--Sheriff Laurie,
Win. Tite, Esq., F.R.S. ; Jas. Malcolmson, Esq., C. Knight
Murray, Esq., and Dr. Hoffman, occupied seats in the imme-
diate vicinity of the chair. The CHAIRMAN, when the cloth was removed, gave in
succession the healths of " The Queen ;" " The Queen
Dowager ;" "The Duke of Rothsay, and the remaining
branches of the Royal Family." In prefacing this last toast
the Noble Chairman expressed his conviction that, at any
time, the company would be anxious to do honour to the
toast, but more particularly on that day, which was the sn-
nivereary of the birth of two members of the Royal Family, ,
namely, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Alice.
The toasts were drunk with the greatest enthusiasm.
The Army and Navy were next toasted ; and then
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to advert to the benefits con-
ferred by the society which they had assembled to support.
Through its instrumentality and the munificence of the
contributors to its funds, 20,000 children were educated, who,
with( tit their aid, would have no means of educe -at t,1%
all. In conclusion, he proposed " The health of his Ro
Highness the Duke of Cambridge (President of the Society),
and prosperity and perpetuity to the Royal Highland
Society."—(Cheers.)
The Earl of ROSEBERY gave " The health of his Grace the
Duke of Richmond, and prosperity to the roof-tee of the
house of Lennox."—(Cheers.) _ _

The Noble CHAIRMAN returned thank., and proposed
" The health of his Majesty the King of the French," whose
name was enrolled amongst those individuals who had made
donations to the society.—(Cheers.) H e was worthy of this
tribute of their respect, not only because he was a subscriber
to their funds, but also because he was a great man, who
thought that war should never be resorted to if it could be
avoided. • _

. The SECRETARY announced the receipt of subscuriptiens. I
amounting to 6501., in which the following
cy Cambridge,e
uch, 501 . . 2 O/.
Duke; '
uf
Her Maje&ty, 50/. • the Queen Dowager, 1 0
0/7 elres.in; included
de
of
Tagore, of dalcutta, 10/. ; Duke of Richmond, 251. ; Earl of
R"eberY, 104 ; Vice-Chancellor of England, 10/. 108.; Lon:.
Duchess
of
Roxburgh, Gloucester,
ll4ddo, NM., &c. 261. ss.
150 s
./.:
D w Dukea
r koafußa
uutch-
The CIIAIRMA N propoSad "The healths of the Vice-Fresi-
The Earlc i
ia titiz ilost -I,zsi.Nopaoir proposed "The
lea
dents of the Society," with Whose names he cOtipled those
of the Duke of Wellington and tle Earl of
liosebery.—
(Cheers.)
thanks.ilt
The h
of the Vice-
Chancellor of England," which was drunk with Highland
honours.
The next toasts were "The health of the Secretary, Mr.
Thmil,nsOn," "The Chiefs of Clans," and " The Chisholm."
in the coarse of the evening Mr. Wilson, at thedesire of
the Chairman, sang tome Scottish airs.
The band of the Scotch Fusilier Guards was in attendance,
also her Majesty's Highland piper, and the piper of the
Duke of Sutherland.

REFUGEES IN FRANCE.—It appears that there are at
this time, in France, 4,525 refugees receiving relief, 428 Spaniard',
either
Italians,erof th e,e categories.
3 ,7do not vrithin anTdhfeounrumpebrsoernosf whoref4deeos whonotco
re-
ceive any relief Is 7,778, viz.,
flans, and 179 Germans. Of the aggregate total of 12,203 refugees,
Pole
6,424 Spaniards, 269 Poles, 209 .Ita-
only nine hare been sent out of France, most of them from causes
tinconneeted with politics.
lIIGH LEVEL BRIDGE OVER THE TYNE.—The first
pile of the coffer dent to be used in the erection of the high level
bridge over the river Tyne at Newcastle was driven into the bed of
the river on Friday last in the presence of Mr. Robert Stephenson,
the engineer of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Company. A
splendid drawing of the projected bridge, from the design of Mr. Ste-
phenson, has been executed by Mr. Carmichael, and has attracted
much attention in Newcastle, where it was exhibited In the Guildhall
during several days last week.
IiER MAJESTY'S SHIP GLADIATOR.—On Saturday
morning this new steam-frigate, built by the Surveyor of the Navy.
left her moorings off Woolwich and proceeded round the Nore Lights,
to test her engines and try her speed ; her gallant commander,
Captain Robb, haVing invited on board a select number of ladies and
gentlemen to enjoy the excursion. As a model of naval archi-
tecture, it must be admitted the Gladiator displays great
fertility of genius and immense practical skill on the part of
Sir William Symonds, Indeed, for nicety of adjustment in all
those details upon which at once beauty and power depend,
we believe few rivals to this admirable vessel will be found in
her Majesty's navy ; while the machinery is' so perfect, its
movements so smooth and noiseless, that even when the revolutions
were 19 per minute, one scarcely knew the ship was under way, Lit
for the rapid progress she made through the waters. The Gladiator
is 1.190 tons, and Is fitted with engines by Messrs. Miller and Raven-
hill, of 430 horse-power, and carries a complement of 175 men. She
stows 380 tons of coal, 63 tons of water, and had on board during the
above trip four months' provisions of every kind (with room for an-
ether month's), four month's slop clothing, twelve menthe
stores, besides sixteen tanks and a quantity of other
stores for conveyance to Portsmouth Dockyard. The arma-
ment is as follows :—Bow pivot gun, 1 56-pounder of .87
cwt. ; forward beam guns, 2 68-pounders of 65 cwt. ; aft beam guns,
2 84-pounders (10 inch), 85 cwt. ; quarter deck, 2 32-pOllll4l car-
ronades, 17 cwt. ; stern pivot gun, 1 56-pounder, 87 cwt.; •for
paddle-box boats, 2 24-pound carronades, 13 cwt. ; pinnace, 1
12-pound carronade. 6 cwt.; brass field piece, 1 6-pound gun, S cwt.
The engines worked admirably, there being no occasion, in the
course of the trip, to stop for " hot bearings," as usually is the case
with new machinery. The rate of speed by the patent log, was 103( knots, and by the common log, 11 knots two-tenths per-
hoer. The Gladiator is well rigged, beautifully clean, Mid.
in excellent order, which is the more creditable -• to
her officers as she is still 40 short of her complement
and wants petty officers and able seamen. Captain Robb had pro-
vided an excellent dinner and elegant dessert, with abundance of
champagne, claret, madeira, and other wines, of which his friends
partook. After the usual routine toasts, the health of " Captain
Robb. and success to her Majesty's steamer Gladiator," proposed by
Dr. M'Crea, was drunk with all the honours, and followed by the
health of " the Surveyor of the Navy," proposed by Mr. Milner,
" Mr. liavenhill, the engineer," &c. On reaching Greenhithe the
Gladiator anchored, and the party of ladies and gentlemen, who
were delighted with the trip and the kind attentions of Captain Robb
and the other officers of his ship, left in one of the Gravesend
stearneis for London, the band playing "Rule Britannia."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.— An accident, which has terminated fatally, occurred on Satur-
day morning to a workman on the line at Bull's-bridge, between the
West Drayton and Southall stations, the poor man having been
knocked down by the buffer or me-engrite-nnuestect to the seven
o'clock train from Bristol to Paddington. It appears that the unfor-
tunate man had charge of two horses, which were at work on some
repairs going forward on the railway, and which were in the act of
crossing the line at the time the whistle of the engine sounded to
announce the approach of the train. The man had just time to get
the animals off the up line on to the down line of rails before the
train came up; but neglected from a sudden fear, which it is sup-
posed overcame him at the moment, to pass clear over the up line
lihrself. The train was stopped as soon as possible after the accident,
and returned to the scene of the calamity, when it was discovered
that the poor man must have been killed almost instantaneously,
The deceased, whose name could not be ascertained at the time, was
known amongst his fellow-labourers by the nick-name of " Monkey."
BEETHOVEN QUARTET SOCIETY.—The fourth meet-
ing of this Society was held on Mcnday at the Harley-street Rooms,
and, as upon former occasions, the attebdance of distinguished
amateurs and of the leading members of the musical profession, was
far from inconsiderable. The quartets performed, in compliance
with the chronological plan laid down last year, consisted of—No. 2,
in G major, op. 18 ; No. 6, in B flat major, op. 18 ; No. 11, in F
minor, op. 95 ; and No. 17, op. 135. The executants were—Sivori,
Sainton, Hill, and Rousselet ; and these fine artists played with that
exquisite finish and ensemble for which they are so celebrated, and
which it would be utterly impossible to exceed.
ART-UNIONS.—On Monday evening a meeting of
artists was held at Willis's Rooms, King-etreet, St. James's, for the
purpose of supporting the Bill introduced by Mr. Wyse, for the lega-
lisation of art-unions. The chair was taken by Sir W. C. Ross, sup-
ported by many artists of professional distinction. Some resolutions
were unanimously adopted, expressing the opinion of the meeting
strongly in favour of the principles on which art-unions are based,
and their influence in fostering a taste for the fine arts among the
Link of the people. A petition, founded on the resolutions, and im-
ploring the Legislature to pass the Bill, was adopted. The meeting
was very numerously attended.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OF FOUR
PERSONB.—On Sunday afternoon, about five, a waterman's boat,
containing two gentlemen, a lady, and a child, was observed coming
up the Medway from Upnor towards Chatham, having a sprit sail
up, with a fair wind blowing from the north. A suddent gust caused
the boat to jibe, and as the sheet was made fast, the boat upset, and
immersed the whole of the party into the river. The accident was
witnessed by the quartermaster and others on board the Poictlers,
and boats were instantly manned; four from the Poictlers, one from
the Hussar hulk, and one from her Majesty's ship Warsplte ; and
they succeeded in rescuing the whole. They were taken on board
the Poictlers, when every attention was given to them by placing
them in hot beds, and the medical officers were hedefatigable in ap-
plying everything requisite. The names of the parties are Mr. James
Ilarvey, No. 16, King William-street, City, lamp and lamp-glass
manufacturer, his wife, child, and foreman. The latter having ar-
rived the same morning from London, with a message for his master,
who has been in lodgings with his family at Upnor for the last week,
and was taking the foreman to Chatham to proceed by railway to
London.

CAUTION TO CHARITABLE SOCIETIES.—Sunday waS
.e day appointed for the collection in London at all the Baptist
Chapels for their Missionary Society, and at one of these meetings
in the evening the abominable trick was played of obtaining us. as
change for a half-sovereign at each of the doors, both of the ha' 1-
sovereigns being afterwards discovered to be counterfeits.
SUGAR DUTIES.—On Monday copies of two Orders in
Council, dated the tth day of August and the Gth of April (presented
pursuant to Act of Parliament), respecting sugar duties, were issued.
Tito first order has reference to sugars of Slam, and it is declared,
that from the Ist of July neat, the sugars of Siam shall be deemed
and taken not to be the produce of slave labour. The second order
steles,os sugars
gisa,c,zy. (notth a
Granada,t b froming tsrlhettieafiled,stir)o,if.th,Mpeoartgyrecionwerxtritoi,mofbirthohewednoditoimitini:olonsoVnsadofOot
the
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or cml a
any y e
republic 4
British possession abroad, baying been imported into'such British
possession from the same dominions, be admitted to entry for con-
sumption into the United Kingdom at the respective rates of duty
of I/. 88. and 11. as. 4el. per cwt., subject to the production of certifi-
cates and declarations as required with respect to sugars the growth.
,JaN'a,orlia
Manila.
CHOLERA.—ThisT destructive scourge of humanity
osefemhinisioEance more on its way to ravage gethe continent of Europe, ori-
ginating, as before, in the heart
first quarter in which it was noticed ; it islig°radrthuealmlyPaerpisairaoabringgththee
confines of Europe. The chief cities of Persia already count by
thousands the number of their dead who have hiatve fallen victims to
Meshed,chelera The line of route taken
Asiatic cholera.
for it attacked in regular succession the'p citresthef be almost
Teheran, and Ispahan, while recent accounts from
Odessa state that two or three cases of Asiatic cholera had been ob-
served at Tiflis. Should it continue to advance at its present rate, it
may be looked for in Eastern Europe in a very short time. Indeed
it is stated from Riga that it has already broken out at Orenbnrg and
Kasan, and that several persons at St. Petersburgh have been at-
tacked by the influenza, a disease that usually precedes the cholera ;
proper precautionary measures ought, therefore, to be taken to check
the progress of the cholera in due time, for arriving as it will in the
middle of summer, the season most favourable to its development and
propagation, the consequences in .he densely crowded towns and
cities of the Continent will be awful.—Gerrnan paper.
ELOPEMENT.—OXFORD, FRIDAY.—This morning the
family of Lord Valentia, of Bletchlngton-park, was thrown into a
state of the greatest excitement by the discovery of the elopement of
his Lordship's daughter, the Hon. Nee Ada Arthur Rose d'Amour
Annesley. The only circumstances relative to this affair known
here are these :—That a gentleman arrived at the Angel Inn yester-
day, who turns out to be Hercules G. R. Robinson, Esq., of the 87th
Fusiliers, second son of Captain H. Robinson, R.N., of Rosewood.
county of Meath, Ireland; that he ordered a chaise and pair to go to
a village a few miles on the Banbury-road, when he met the lady
on the road without any attendant. He immediately alighted and
handed the lady in, and ordered the postboy to retrace his steps to
Oxford, and drive as fast as possible to the Great Western Railway
station, where, on their arrival, a special train was found awaiting
1
them. They were soon whisked away to London, ati
o'clock were united in the holy bands of wedlock,
The happy couple left London immediately
a and
St. before
James's
Church, Church, Westminster.
after the ceremony, en route for Ireland.
fartocincurMruzaayt,
Magill!
DfiLtstarts.—On Monday Mr. Bedford, coroner
storey a
,
Green Man Little George-street, storey IS Gate, on
an inquest at the ,
THE RECENT ACCIDENT AspLo :Sr
wiDeaFtmLinlstFeEr,
held
accident that j‘
48, who lost their
thaebo-Fuietld.st:o
Mill-
bank. After some evidence had bees. taken in reference to the facts
the bodies of
bwhich have already been published in this paper, the case was ad-
journedCotiFxnsteTiort.—OnMonday' the Lord Bishop of
Georglieveßsiach:arthdesorneCeangetdacsc7fol
till 'Thursday next.
London Tie comnatirremheidonupeNsysardosrofLtlotrnede hundredond ery
persons, of
bobthy some
other Ipdarisisihlacdhitetsrc, haroef,Stit. Gisilessa-in
d:
RIMS
balls" in Lon and,n, after the style and get up I. Hibernian
manner of the Wavesley balls.
The fracas in the House of Commons on Friday night
did not terminate there. Colonel ?eel sought Mr. Disraeli, and ad-
dressed an observation to
him of a nature that induced the Member
for Shrewsbury to send Lo
rd George Bentinck to Colonel Peel for an
explanation. Lord George was referred to the Honourable Captain
Rous, with whom his Lordship had so satisfactory an interview that
any further proceeding was deemed wholly unnecessary.
CASE OF POISONING NEAR NoRWIcH.--On Saturday
last, a female about 30 years of age, named Maria Smith, who has
been living as cook in the family alt. J. H. Harvey, Esq., of Thorpe,
next Norwich, son of Sir Robert John Harvey, Knight, was com-
mitted to take her trial, on a charge of having administered poise*
(cantharides), to a fellow•servant named Martha Digby, and also to

a younger
VIENNA.—Eight of the principal danseuses Viennoi
have returned here to their parents. Jenny Lind has just a
pisehes leaves for Stutgard for the re-opening of ow theatre t
and dOil no visit 1411d011 this onion.