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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1846.

Another majority of thirty-three, by which Lord
ICKLOW'S amendment of a fixed duty of five
shillings in liEu of the proposed sliding-scale was
quashed, gives an additional assurance to the country
that our congratulations as to the final settlement of
these measures are neither injudicious or precipitate.
Slowly, it is true, but steadily, the principles of free
trade are winning their way to the statute-book. A
pure metal has been cast into the machinery of Par-
liament, and despite the casual disarrangement of that
machinery and its occasional clashing and entangle-
ment, the golden metal will ultimately come forth
stamped with the signet of legislative accordance.
As we have repeatedly taken opportunities to remark,
the discussion upon these extraordinary innovations
upon our commercial policy, though em-
bellished with the tropes of rhetoric and
enforced by the inferences deducible from

statistics, have nevertheless displayed a more remark-
able discursiveness than possibly any previous debate
in the records of the Imperial Parliament. Some
amongst the antagonists of the measure have shirked
every consideration bearing upon its intrinsic merits :
they have sedulously avoided any direct allusion to a
given point of its application, and have contented
themselves with certain vague inuendoes or rambling
references to colonial disaffection and other extraneous
matters. These orators, and these alone, have been
the utterers of what Mr. DISRAELI most happily de-
signated as " damnable iterations of stale sophistries.
They have showered upon the Ministerialists and upon
the nominal Oppositionists an appalling shower
of globular
missiles—but these missiles have
invariably proved to be nothing more than the
bubbles of a specious and pretended logic. Others
have strayed still further from the question of impor-
tation and exportation duties by indulging in a strain
of. vituperative bitterness upon personages whose poli-
tical judgment they had previouslyfollowed as infallible.
But their revulsion of feeling has especially expended
itself upon one whom they had heretofore scarcely
neglected apotheosising. Inflamed with chagrin, and
debilitated by an irreparable defeat, their voices have
mingled tones of reproach and lamentation ; they
oscillated between personal invective and self-com-
miseration ; they directed their ejaculations almost
exclusirely to the Prime Minister, and have almost
addressed him, in the very phrases of CATULLUS
" Nullane res potuit crudelis flectere mentis
Consilium ? . . • • •
At non lime quondam nobis promisre dedisti
Voce : mihi non hoc misern sperare jubebas !"
Only anxious to avoid any decisive collision upon the
real bearings of free trade, whether upon commerce or
agriculture, and at the same time to ensure, if pos-
sible, the discomfiture of those whom their morbid
imaginations pictured to them as their deadliest ene-
mies, they have snatched at anything likely to prove
a stalking-horse for the ebullition of their excite-
ment—no matter to them if it were as garbled as the
statistics they selected as their first weapons of attack,
or as decrepid as their last weapon of attack
—the language used upon the Catholic Question, no
less than seventeen years ago, by Sir R. PEEL.
Such has been the behaviour of the advocates for a
perpetuation of the corn-laws in the House of Com-
mons. And, saving the avoidance of anything like
individual recrimination, the Peers have displayed no
inferior versatility. As Lord BROUGHAM jO.
cosely, but truthfully, observed, their speeches
reminded one of " choral symphonies," various
in their modulation, but "attuned to the same gamut."
If we required any demonstration of the accuracy of
this statement, the discussion which ensued upon the
Earl of WrcKLow's amendment would illustrate its
correctness. What shall be said, for in-
stance, of a debate upon the taxation or non-
taxation of the food of the people degenerating into
a mere theme for quoting from VOLTAIRE, for
quibbling upon a text from " Paradise Lost," or for
jesting at the absence of physiognomical beauty in
the ex-Chancellor, Lord BROUGHAM ? Do these mere
frivolities of boarding-school chit-chat accord well
with the solid and thoughtful reputation which Lord

STANLEY has acquired as a Parliamentary speaker ?
Are they not, on the contrary, thelindications of an
incapacity to battle with a solemn and sober earnest-
ness when the tide of defeat has set in ? Neverthe-
less, distressing as is this ill-timed exhibition of
pleasantry upon a question of such infinite importance,
we cannot but regard it as auguring well, and congratu-
late the country upon it accordingly. It is manifest
without question, that after the triumphant majorities
which each division upon the Corn Bill has given in
favour of free trade, both in the Upper and the
Lower House—it is manifest, we say, that this very
display of merriment among the protection-
ists proceeds from the very hopelessness and
helplessness of their position. Seeing that
their ultimate overthrow is inevitable, they appear to
be partially reconciled to their destiny, and prepared
to take the defeat in good part. Conscious that all
arguments upon the mercantile benefits or
in-
juries which must follow the adoption of the proposed
policy would be altogether so much useless exercise
of their lungs, they disdain the ancient admonition
of " sparing their breath to cool their porrage," and
digress upon all kinds of subjects saving and ex-
cepting alone the subject under discussion. From
this very insouciance we may perceive the certainty
there is of shortly beholding free trade the law of
the land, and of beholding, moreover, the most in-

veterate protectionists bowing down iu acquiescence
to the doctrines of their antagonists, when time and
experience shall have proved to them that freedom of
commerce is the surest means of promoting agricul-
tural welfare.

Sir G. Cianta last night brought forward in the
House of Commons five resolutions founded on the
recommendations contained in the minute of the
Lords of the Privy Council of Trade, of the 6th June
inst., and the greater part of the evening was devoted
to the discussion. We have already alluded at some
length to these recommendations, and approved of
the spirit in which they were framed, preferring
them to those contained in the report of the
Gauge Commissioners. The two first resolutions
were only disposed of last night, and the further con-
sideration of the other three was adjourned until this
day. There is no doubt that considerable evil
resulted from the break of gauge, and that consider-
able inconvenience was occasioned thereby; but the
great question seems to be, is that inconvenience so
serious in amount, and productive of so much injury
to the public, as to make it worth the while of that
public to devote a large sum of money, amounting
at least to 1,000,0001. sterling, for its removal ? We
have already shown that if the change is to be at all
effected, it can only be made at the public expense.
Any other course would be so totally inequitable and
unjust that there would be little prospect of its re-
ceiving the sanction of a British Parliament; indeed,
we doubt if a single supporter could be
found in either House to so monstrous a
proposition as that the great expense of
altering the gauge should be thrown on the par-
ticular company whose line was to be so altered for
the public convenience. Before, then, we come to a
conclusion on this question, it is necessary to con-
sider whether the evil is wholly unmixed, and whether

.here is no advantage to the public in the existing
difference. There is little doubt, that in consequence
of the jealousy that has hitherto existed between the
London and Birmingham and the Great Western—the
representatives of the rival systems—each of those great
companies has been stimulated to the utmost
degree of exertion to increase the accommodation
afforded to the public, and to diminish the expense
as much as possible, for the purpose of securing the
public suffrages in favour of their own particular
gaobaiudtgt.teet.hceotßpyribtnhriesleis means the great evil which would
therwise have resulted from the monopoly exercised
have
been in a great degree avoided,
degree of competitilzneas the benefit of a certain
only one to which rail-
wayof
which
hertois been exposed, and
mwoesltl. known and
management
it
yet bisust:iul uinnifversally
the great advantage
fully appreciated. Again,
the
raaidrwitatyedextpheartiewnceear; veasatsimprovements areiatranodeuyel
in every year, and it is quite impossible to say
how
far these improvements may be extended, what
new
It is no trifling advantage
applications of the resources of science may be made.
that scientific men should
have an opportunity of observingthdeifiNi.e'orreknitngsoft
the
present system under varied and
circum-
stances, and it affords an additional chance of early
discoveries being made and carried into execution.
It is, therefore, in some points of view, desirable tlat
there should still exist a difference in gauges, and is,
at least, quite sufficient to warrant their Lordships in
not at present recommending a reduction of the broad
to the narrow gauge at the public expense. It is also
impossible to say that some simple and cheap plan may
not speedily be discovered for doing away with, or at
least considerably reducing, the evils at present at-
tendant on a break of gauge. Many mechanical
contrivances, stated by their Lordships to be of great
ingenuity, have already been submitted for that pur-
pose ; and although none of them may be quite suffi-

dent altogether to do away with the yet it
is clear that the inventive genius of the

country is at work: on the question ; and it is

impossible to say how soon the problem may be
solved. This great expenditure would then become
worse than useless, and there is therefore strong

reason to pause before a step of the kind is irrevo-
cably taken. It being then admitted that the exist-

ing broad gauge lines are not to be disturbed, the
next question is, what course can be adopted to re-
duce the inconvenience to the minimum—so that the
public should suffer as little as possible? The recom-
mendation of the Commissioners seems well calculated
to effect the object.

It appears reasonable that all new lines should be
constructed on that gauge which is in the most ge-
neral use throughout the country, unless they are so
closely connected with existing lines on the broad
gauge as to cause a great inconvenience by a differ-
ence therefrom. We, however, fully concur
in the justice of the reasoning which
sanctions the construction of the South
Wales line on the gauge originally approved of and
sanctioned by Parliament. The importance of a
second continuous line of railway to Ireland cannot
be overrated ; besides the direct communication from
London with the Government dock-yards, near
Pembroke, and with Milford Haven and Fishguard,
wilt be a great public benefit. It cannot be forgotten
that the speediest route to the whole of the southern
district of Ireland will be thereby effected. The sea-
voyage from Fishguard may be made in little more
than four hours, and if a railway be carried on to
Valentia, the distance from London may be regularly
travelled in about twenty-four hours. By this means
our communication with America will be greatly
expedited ; and it is scarcely too much to say that,
ere long it will become the high road for all
travellers to the western hemisphere, not
only from England, but from the entire
of Europe. The first resolution was agreed
to without a division, with the addition of the words
" and South Wales Railway" after the words "Great
Western Railway," by which the inconvenience of
short lines of a few miles, emanating from the South
Wales line being constructed on a different gauge
from the parent line, will be avoided. The second
resolution was altered in its terms, the House having
no power to bind parties by their mere resolution. It
would appear ridiculous to vote that which they had not
power to enforce. It was therefore, in place thereof, re-
solved, " That it is the opinion of the House that
provision should be made by law to prevent the direc-
tors of railways from altering their gauge." This is
perfectly just, and we doubt not a Bill will speedily
be introduced to give effect to the resolution of the
House. The remaining three resolutions respect
the different lines that should be made on the different
gauges, and we have already expressed our approba-
tion of the manner in which they have been selected.

Intelligence from Portugal of the 10th inst. has been
received. The PALMELLA Ministry was still in power;
but it was considered not improbable that they would
have to give way to SA DA BANDEIRA and his friends.
The juntas were dissolving themselves throughout the
country, except at Santarem, where the junta, headed
by MANDEL PAssos, had under their control a force of
from four to five thousand armed men. His proceed-
ings, however, were sanctioned by the QUEEN, who had
expressed her approval by a royal decree. There were
a thousand men under arms at Villa Franca. The
peuplehad retired from before Oporto, and had in most of
the districts returned to their homes.

The Augsburgh Gazette states that the Sardinian Go-
vernment had proposed to Austria to submit the ques-
tions in dispute between them, on the subject of the
wine and salt duties, to the arbitration of some third
Power, to be chosen by Austria. The same paper an-
nounces the arrival in the port of Ancona of two Aus-
trian men-of-war, and states that the city itself is
guarded by Austrian troops.
The Emperor and Empress of RUSSIA arrived at Cra-
cow on the 4th instant.

Madrid papers of the 10th have been received. The
arrival of GONZALES BRAVO in Madrid, from Lisbon, is
announced by El Clamor Publico. This is the only
article of intelligence in these papers.
MADRID BOLSA, JUNE 10.—The Three per Cents.
closed on the 10th of June at 33 9-16 I cash, 33.1 paper;
Five per Cents., 204 cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The
opening of the Great Northern Railway took place on
Sunday. The papers state that the announcement of
disturbances in the Pontifical States, published in the
Marseilles journals, was premature. A rumour was,
however, prevalent that two Cardinals had died, and
that a third had been murdered.

The Presse says—" The Central League, which de-
sired to establish itself at Paris for the furtherance of
free trade, having demanded permission from the
Minister of the Interior to constitute itself, has been for
the present refused such authorisation."
General LANORICIERE has arrived at Port Vendres
from Algiers.

A courier from Madrid passed through Paris for
London, with the funds necessary to pay the half-year's
interest on the Spanish Three per Cents., due at the end
of the month.

The approaching recal of M. BRUAT from Oceanie is
announced in the Arnzoricain of Brest.

The Three per Cents., closed on the Paris Bourse on
Monday at 83f. 10e. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 30e.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,245 E ; Rouen, 1,015 f. ; Havre,
742 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 735 f. ; Avignon, 8801. ;
Vierzon, 6221.50 c.; Bordeaux, 600 f. ; Boulogne, 4871. 50e.;
Dieppe, 415 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 503 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 517 f. 50c.; Paris and Lyons, 538 f. 75c:
Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 515 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette Definitives, 509 f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 16.
Central of Spain, I%—Dutch Rhenish, B—East Indian, 3 —Lou.
vain and Jemappe, ILA ex d.—Luxembourg, IN,—Orleans and Bor.
deaux, 101,6—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6k—Paris and Rouen,
39 lA—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 5 .—Rouen and Havre, 28.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.-(THIS DAY.)
A quarterly General Court of this Company was held at
the Company's House, in Leadenhall-street.
Mr. loon took the chair at twelve o'clock, and reported
that the company had taken proper measures to secure that
the pension granted to Lord Hardinge should be paid irrespec-
tive of his salary as Governor-General of India.
The former directors were then re-elected.
An HON. PROPRIETOR rose to bring under the attention
of the Court a motion of which he had given notice, namely :
—" That adverting to the charge of the Lord Bishop of CL-
cutta on his recent departure from Bengal, and now re-
printed in England ; and also to the printed statements of
the Rev. James Peggs, late a missionary in Orissa, it be re-
ferred to the Honourable Court of Directors to consider
whether the time is not arrived when such rites and usages
as contradict the law of nature and overthrow the first prin-
ciple of our common humanity, may not be terminated con-
sistently with the amelioration of the natives and the security
of our Indian empire." The sacrifice of human life which took
place in India, and the idolatrous worship which existed
there, ought, in his opinion, now to be put down. Such was
the opinion of the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, and such, he
conceived, would be the opinion of every Christian in the
country. He would, however, withdraw the motion, as he
did not conceive that he had sufficient information from
India to lay before the Court.
A letter was read by the CHAIR.VAN, from Mr. Thompson,
stating that his health would not permit him to attend the
Court, and begging leave to postpone his motion in reference
to the case of the deposed Raja of Sattara. Leave having
been granted,
The CHAIRMAN declared that the business of the Court
having been concluded, it stood adjourned.
Some disappointment was manifested that the notice re-
specting Lieut. Waghorn's services was not brought forward.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY
OLD COURT.

Before Chief Justice TINDAL and Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
Mr. PRENDERGAST applied to have the case of Dr. Ellis, who is
Indicted for manslaughter In a case of hydropathic treatment, post-
poned till Saturday, which the Court allowed.
Louisa Baptiste, a decently-dressed young woman, 23 years of age,
was indicted for feloniotisly coining a half-crown.
William Binney, inspector of the G division of police, said, he went to
a house in New-court, Duck-lane, Westminster, on May '23, between
four and five o'clock in the afternoon. On going up stairs to the
front room second floor, he found the door fastened outside and in.
The door was fastened inside by an upright plank, and a bar
barricading that from the floor, and similar obstructions
were used on the outside, giving the house the appearance of bang
unoccupied. When the police went in they saw the prisoner stand-
ing by a large clear fire, having a plaster of Paris mould in her right
hand, and a large iron spoon, containing white metal in a fluid state,
in her left. When she saw them she laid down the Spoon on the
hearth, took half-a-crown from a "get" on the chimney-piece, and
pi Rai; ntliya
threw it into the spoon, and then dashed the mould in her
light hand into pieces, stamping on it with her feet.
ebeenri
hit hand
onhathd e
csecuredy
piheeere,
otnheeyof found
htharde
Melted, and ame h
on being
.ecinee t e teeth of which were filled with white metal.
rights, but you li'a
the e said, "You b-----, you thought to have me to
inlght
roods xne. not; if you had come half an hour before, you
into the m dropping Yout oug alto have been searched before coming
Constable 20 CI producheldngi3n y enter."
which he found Wet with somCoeurt some pieces of copper wire,
fluid,attached, lying Ott the table, in theunid, and a piece of silver leaf
batteries,which had fluid in them at theelemb°e.
urhood of two galvanic
of plaster of Paris in the cupboad. The mouldl,lvehfird also powder
hand was hot. The batteries were produced in Court, together ha:
in
her
a pot of silver sand, two plate brushes which had beegnet er
With
used on
piaster of Paris, and several other articles.
Mr. Field, inspector of the Mint, examined the pieces of metal pro-
duced, and the 11,1 f-crown, and said they were Britannia metal. The
batteries used were Smec's batteries ; the liquid contained in one
bottle was a solution of salt of silver, and another bottle produced
was full of a weak dilution of sulphuric acid taken from the
batteries. He said tire silver sand was used to give a
polish
from the mould, to the
coin after being taken and the " get e spoken of by
the officers was the superfluous metal, which must be detached from
the edge of it.
Mr. Bodkin and . Mr• Ellis conducted the prosecution, and Mr. T.
Payne defended the prisoner.
the evidence, and the
. Justice TINDAL summed . t
the prisoner
jury after
Chief
ed a verdict agains lie prisoner of aiding and
consultation return
present.
abetting, and being personally
ears' trans
The Court sentenced her to seven ypo rtation.
Post-office cases fixed to come
have the
Mr. CLAIESON applied to
on on Friday, as that day would best suit the convenience of the
Attorney-General.
The Court agreed to the application.
,
Joseph Carter was placed at the indicted for the wilful murder
of John Oddy, by stabbing him in the belly, on the 19th of May, in
the parish of St. Giles's, Cripplegate.
to tile) ury, and called
Mr. HUDDLESTONE Introduced the case
was at
Henry Mathews, a copper-plate printer, who stated that he
the Crown public-house at the corner of tinion-street, about nine
o'clock on the evening of the 19th of May. There were several others
present; and Carter, after the witness had been there some
time, came in. ()tidy was there when witness entered.
r i pot Of
Carter, on corning in, wished to drink O

THE SUN, LONDO'N, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1846.

beer standing on the counter which belonged to Oddy and his
companion. Oddy said to him, he was a spungy beggar, and he
should have no beer from him, and Carter thereupon appealed to a
shoemaker with a wooden leg standing by, as to whether
he was a spongy beggar. This man replied that he did
not know, he never saw him spend any money. This
produced a laugh. Four or five of them after that stood chaff-
ing and wrangling together, but Carter in a few minutes attempted
to get up the pot again, and Oddy removed the pot with his one
hand, keeping Carter off with the other, without, however,
strikirg any blow. Carter stood for about a minute,
muttered something to himself, gave a stamp with his
foot, and went out. He returned in about a quarter of an hour,
pushed the door open and looked in, upon which the wooden-leg
man went towards the door and said, " Do you want me, Joe ?"
Carter said something which witness did not hear, and
nodded his head to Oddy. Oddy rose to go towards the door,
and as he was making, thither, another said to him, "he has got a
stick or a poker behind him." Oddy said, in reply to this, as he
passed, " I'll stick him." The people, and witness among them,
followed Oddy out to the door, and saw Carter back
away from the door till he got within a foot or two
from the corner of the street, which might he five or six
yards from the door. Oddy put his left hand on Carter's
shoulder, and lowered his right hand towards his skirt, as if with a
view of disarming Carter of whatever he had in his hand, and said,
" Give it us, Joe, like a man," or something to that effect. Oddy
was calm. Carter on this punched Oddy, as witness thought, two
or three times, and Oddy bent double, saying he had gotten a severe
blow, and was stabbed. Carter was tripped up by some other person,
and the knife fell out of his hands through the grating.
(The case was proceeding when our report left.)

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWF
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000 to
5,000 bales, including 1,000 bales American, at sd. to 6d. per
lb., for export to Russia, 800 Egyptian at 51/2d , and the rest
American at former rates. The market closed heavily,
though prices on the whole were unchanged. Shares were
dull.

At the Court of Proprietors of the East India Company,
held this morning, the subject of some public manifestation
towards Lieutenant Waghorn by the general body of the
East India proprietors was fixed to be brought forward, and
no doubt a most unanimous vote would have been
come to upon the merits of this gentleman. In
what form, however, the resolution will ultimately be
proposed, was not known at the meeting of the Court, as the
proprietor who gave notice of the motion was not present to-
day. We believe that the directors have already subscribed
300/. to the fund now raising for the gallant and persevering
Lieutenant. The subject is one which excites a great deal
of interest among all parties interested in the East India, the
China, and the Australian trades. In reference to this sub-
ject it may be stated that some disappointment has been
expressed at the formal reply of Mr, Gladstone to the
Lieutenant, upon the subject of shortening the communica-
tion between Singapore and Port Jackson, the expense being
at present the objection to the snaking of a trial. In a
great commercial country like this, surely the "stingy"
principle cannot be the best policy.
There are no later Colonial arrivals in the City this
morning.
The Consol Market has been very firm this morning at
95141 for the Account. The Three per Cents. Reduced have
been just quoted at 951/8 %; and in the New Three-and a-
Quarter per Cents. there has been an improvement from
96,/8 to 971/8. Exchequer-bills have risen to 15s. premium,
but they are now a shade cheaper. India bonds from 275.
have receded to 21s. premium. The additional success of
the Ministerial Corn- law project in the House of Lords last
night has given much satisfaction in mercantile circles this
morning.
The only bargains in the Foreign Market to-day have been
a rise in Portuguese Four per Cents. for the Account from 48
to 4914, and a slight reaction in Spanish to 24; in the Three
per Cents. to 37-;4, and in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. to 5934.
The Railway Shares and Scrips have been steady, without
any material change in the quotations.

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95 lA%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per• Cent. Aims. 96% 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 3, 1860 .. 10 3-16 4.
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. 27 21
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 21 27
Consols for Opening .. 95% iy
Exchequer Bills. 1 J, 116 d.
1,0001... • 11 15 11 pm.
5001. . 11 15 16 pm.
Ditto, Small ▪
•• 15 16

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE
FOREIO'N FUNDS, O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 28
Ditto, for the Account .. 28
Ditto, Deferred .. 16%
Portuguese Four per Cent .. 48 49%
Ditto, for the Account .. • •
Russian Bends 109%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. • • 24%
Ditto, for the Account .. 24!,6
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .• • •
Ditto, for the Account .. • • • . 3714
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto, for the Account
A PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES,

CLOSING
PRIC ES.
95%

CLOSING
PRICES.
23M
28 14
16%

109%

5944:

BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. 10 .... 3% .......•3 34
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... - ..
Bristol and Exeter .. .. 75 .... 84% .....
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 2% 1 % .....
Derby and Crewe .. 2% .... ..
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5 •• • • 37,8 •-•• • • • •
Direct Northern .. ....
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 2% .......
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165... 24% •• .• •
Ditto New .. 10/. 165....• 8%% p
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 42. hi 1 p
Ditto, ditto, .. . No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. - .....
Ditto, York Extension 10s.
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... - •••• • • • •
Ditto % Shares .. 10 .... 17% .. ••• • • •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22%
Great North of England -100 .. • • - ..
Ditto, New .. . 1% .. • . 14%
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 •.. - •• • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 15 .... 35%
Leicester and Bedford .. 225..... par %
London an I Birmingham . -100 .... 225
Ditto Fifths .. 2 25%
Loudon and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8
London and Brighton . 65
Ditto ditto Fifths .. • . .. 30 -
London and Croydon 13/. 153. 9d... - .•
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. -
Do. Prefer. or Privilege .. 18/. 17s. 2d. 22
London and South-Western .• 411 6s. 10d..• 77 .• •
Lynn and Ely .. .. • . .. 15 -
Manchester and Leeds .• •• 82 - .........
Ditto Extension .. • • .. 425. .. - .........
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 81%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4 13%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 ....
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. % p.......
Manchester and Southampton .• 2 .... 1%
..100 ....
Ditto, New .• • - • • •• 18 • • 31% % .......
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 123% .....
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .. • • 45% .........
Ditto, New • • • • • • • 1 •• • 9
Ditto, New, Branding • • • - 25 ••• .. 44%
Norfolk .. • • • • • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares • . • . 5 . _
Ditto, Extension - • • • • 2
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North British • • • • •• 22%
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Ditto, Half Shares .. • - • -8% •• • • 11% ......
Northern and Eastern .- • • 50 _
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 12% •...
North Staffordshire • • • • 429. •• • • 4
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South Midland .. • • • • • • 425. % di5....•....
South Eastern and Dovor . • • • 33%
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Do., New (do. 15!.) . • O. 4. •• • 2% % ,
Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke.. 5% „ 2,
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Waterford and Kilkenny .. .. 8
West Riding Union • • • • • • 428. .... 2%14 D..
Witbeach and Si. Ives .. • • ' 2 • • I% 2..
York and Lancaster .. • • • . 1
York and North Midland .. • • 50 _"
Ditto, Scarborough Branch 25
Ditto. Extension .• .. 15 •,
.Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.- 1 -11

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HOUSE OF LORDS.

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DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOTTTU.
GUILDFORD, CrITCHEST:aIt, POItTSIVIOUTH,

AND PARE:SIAM.
Their Lordships met this morning in Room A (New Houses of
Parliament) at the usual hour. Lord Beaumont In the chair. All
the Members were present.
The case on the part of the promoters of the Guildford and Chi-
chester was proceeded with.
The Duke of Richmond was called by Mr. Sergeant WRANGUAM to
give evidence in favour of this line, which his Grace declared to be
far superior to the Direct London and Portsmouth, not only on
account of its being shorter (by two miles), but also as it gave ac-
commodation to more important places. Chichester was by far a
mere important place than Petersfield, and he thought it would be
much better to have Chichescr on the main line and Petersfield on
branch, as they would be on this line, than to have Pe: ers-
field on the main line and Chichester on a branch, as proposed
by the Direct London and Portsmouth. It would be
a great advantage to the rich agricultural eistriets through which
this line would pass, to have the direct communication it would
afford to London and other important places. The Direct London
and Portsmouth would certainly r o considerable damage to his pro-
perty, but he was not the person to oppose a railway Bill on such
a ground as that. He denied that he had entered into an agreement
with the London and Portsmouth, by which he became an interested
party ; " and indeed," observed his Grace, " I never yet was con-
nected in any way with any railway, and I never intend to be."

His Grace was not cross-examined by counsel on the other side.
Other witnesses were then called, and gave similar evidence.

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The Committee on this Bill met again this day at eleven o'clock ;
Lord Somers in the chair.
The case for the promoters having closed, Mr. Alexander, Q. C.,
opened for Mr. Fountain Wilson and other landowners opposing
the line.

The Learned Counsel contended that the line was unneces,ary to
the population of the districts which it proposed to accommodate ;
and that the injnry it Would du to property would be much more
than the good which would result.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XIII.
The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Sir William Clay in
the chair. Oilier members present, Earl Jermyn, Mr. Curie's, and
Mr. P. Ainsworth.
The clauses cf the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway Bill
were postponed till to-morrow.

CAMEDONXAN 3ErXTENS2COI7.
This line was then proceeded with.
The formal proofs were then put in, in conformity with Mr. Dun-
combe's resolutions.
The line is opposed by the Duke of Portland and several petition-
ing landowners, for whom Mr. Austin, Mr. Sergeant Bellasis, Mr.
Deedes, and Mr. Denison appeared. The Ayr and Glasgow Railway
also petitioned, and was represented by Mr. Andrews.
Counsel in favour of the Bill are Mr. Talbot, Mr. Sergeant Wrung-
ham, Mr. Hope, Sir Win. Ri dell, Mr. Richards, and Mr. Boyle.
Mr. COCKBURN opened the proceedings on behalf of the Bill. The
line for which he appeared, he said, was proposed to run from Ayr to
a point on the Caledonian line, about two miles from Lanark, called
Ravenstruther, with two branches north and south, the former the
Lesmahagow branch, and the other went en to Abingdon
on the Caledonian line. The great obj&ct of the main
line was to connect Ayr with Edinburgh, so that the
traffic from the former might be carried forward on the Edinburgh,
York, and the Caledonian line. It passed through the important
mineral fields of Enterkin, Muirkirk, Glenhuck, and Douglas. The
object of the south, or Abingdon branch, was to open those extensive
coal fields to Annandale and Dumfries-shire ; and the north branch
was intended to open up the valuable coal field of Lesmahagow,
which at present was locked altogether. The Lesmahagow was a
most extensive and valuable coal field, containing an abundant sup-
ply of gas coal, which would command through the railway a ready
market in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The line, with the branches also,
would be of the greatest service in accommodating the agricultural
traffic of the three counties that would be connected of ith the line.
With regard to the accommodation of passengers passing from Ayr
to Edinburgh, he believed that at present by the coast route the dis-
tance was fifteen or sixteen miles more than it would be by the pre-
sent line, independent of the break of two miles at Glasgow, which
would occasion a material delay. Even were the Barrhead and Kil-
marnock line formed, the distance would still be ten miles in favour
of the Caledonian Extension. This advantage was indepen-
dent of the great mineral fields that would be opened up.
The whole scheme was 76 miles in length ; the main line being 45
miles, the Lesmahagow branch 17 miles, and the Abingdon branch
12 miles. The main line was estimated to cost 782,236/., the Lesma-
hagow branch 302,8621., and the Abingdon branch 193,264/. ; making
the total capital 1,330,0001. He would support the scheme by wit-
nesses of the highest respectability, and though the scheme was op-
posed by several proprietors, h, did not think they could make out
a case that would justify the rejection of such an important line. The
Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call his witnesses.
Mr. Bell Telfer, shipper, of Ayr, examined—lle said he was in the
habit of shipping the iron of the Muirkirk Company. He had three
ships of his own, and exported about 2,000 tons of that iron yearly.
The iron was brought twenty miles by carts, at a charge of about
10s. a ton. That was a low charge. He also exported a consider-
able portion of wool that came from the Muirkirk district. The line
passed through an important agricultural and mineral district. The
principal return cargoes were salt, guano, and oil cakes, which were
sent up into the interior. There were large cotton works at
Cartine, with which there was considerable traffic from Ayr.
There were considerable beds of freestone along the line that
would find an outlet to Liverpool by this line. There were 100,000
tons of coal exported from Ayr at present, which came from ports
between Ayr and Mauchline on the route of the line; the supplies
were mainly on the Auchincruive estate. A considerable amount of
grain and flour was shipped into Ayr from Ireland, a great portion of
which went into the interior. At present the largest ships that
entered were 250 tons register, but the harbour might be mach im-
proved, and the line would tend to that object. The harbour
trustees were in favour of time line and he belived such was the
general feeling of the inhabitants. The Town Council had petitioned
In its favour.

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