The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

MARINE GLUE.

Copy " of the report from the senior officer in charge
of her Majesty's ship Penelope, to Admiral Sir C. Ogle,
, dated the 18th day of May, 1846, relative to the ad-
vantages which have resulted from the application of
the Marine Glue to the deck of that vessel, during her
service on the coast of Africa ;" and " of the reports
of the Committee of Master Shipwrights on the
Marine Glue, dated the 11th day of January and the
4th day of March 1842."
Her Mnjesty's Ship Penelope, Portsmouth,
18 May, 1846.
Sir,—ln obedience to the directions contained in your
order of this day's date, desiring me to report on
Jeffrey's Patent Marine Glue, I have great pleasure in
acquainting you, for the information of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, that after three years' ex-
perience, two of which were passed on the coast of
Africa, I consider it to be admirably adapted for the pur-
pose of a ship's dtek.
The deck of this ship has never leaked ence it was
pa 3 ed in February 1843, excepting a few places in the
pat gangway, where the glue was put in in a hurry ;
and whereas in other steamers the heat in the vicinity of
the boilers, when the steam was up, caused the pitch to
melt, so as to require their being caulked in that neigh-
bourhood several times during the commission, the
Penelope has never required caulking in any part near
the boilers. _ _

It is, moreover, much cleaner than pitch, and conse-
quently much better in hot climates, where daring the
heat of the sun the pitch sticks to the soles of the feet,
and is carried about the deck in all directions ; but the
marine glue is as bard in hot weather as it is in cold,
and therefore does not stick to tho feet when walked
upon.
The only objection seems to be, that the glue does not
adhere to the nail heads ; but I believe that the patentee
has remedied that defect since the Penelope was p yed,
by countersinking the nail heads, and. rendering them as
perfect as the seams.
In recommending this glue, I am sure I am but speak-
ing the sentiments of Commodore Jones, who, had he
been well enough to write himself; would have bestowed
upon it a higher character than I can do.
I have, &c.
(Signed) JOHN M. D. SMITH,
Senior Lieutenant in charge.
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., &c. &c. &c. .
Portsmouth.

(Appendix, No, 7.)
Woolwich yard, 11th January, 1842.
Sir,—Agreeably with the directions contained in Sir
J. Barrow's letter of the 7th instant. to take into con-
sideration the subject of Mr. Jeffrey's new composition
for paying the seams of ships, we have tried several ex
periments, both with it and pitch, by bringing them
under different degrees of temperature, from which we
find that the latter, when heated to 120 deg., was found
to run considerably, while no perceptible difference was
manifested by the ettoutchouc ; the same superiority was
maintained by the latter when subjected to a tempera-
ture below the freezing point, and its elasticity increases
very much its value in resisting the admission of water
when a swelling or shrinking of the wood takes plaee ;
this, we consider, would add materially to its advantages
on le topsides of ships, which are frequently too much
disfigured by the pitch running from the seams in hot
weather. We therefore recommend, as the best means
of fully testing its advantages, that in addition to the
experiments now making at Portsmouth, it be tried on
the Monkey steam-vessel at this port, by applying it to
the seams on the decks, as nearly as possible to the
boilers, using pitch on the opposite side, and that a few
seams may likewise he payed on the quarter-deck and
forecastle, as well as the short stuff between the ports on
some new ship ; and we further recommend that the
oakum prepared by Mr. Jeffrey, with the same substance,
be used in caulking the seams under experiment.
(Signed) 0. LANG.
T. F. HAWKES.
R. BLAKE.
J. FINCHAM.
J. ATKINS,
Captain-Superintendent Sir. F. A. Collier, C.D.
.(Appendix, No. 8.)
Woolwich-yard, March 4, 1842.
Sir,—With reference to the directions contained in
Sir J. Barrow's letter of the ;7th January last, to take
into consideration the-subject of Mr. Jeffery's composi-
tion for paying the seams of shins, and to our former
report of the 11th January, stating that we had tried
several experiments, from which we were induced to
recommend that it be tried on the Monkey steam-vessel,
by applying it to the seams of the deck as near as pos-
sible to the boilers, &c. &c., we now beg to report, that
we have since witnessed various other experiments,
from which we have become fully convinced, not only
of its advantages in paying seams, but of its invaluable
properties for other purposes.
As a glue, its tenacity has been proved by the wood
giving way before the joint ; being impervious to wet,
it is well adapted for the purpose of covering the beads
of nails, which pitch never effectually did (and which
has always been a grey t desideratum), and thereby
saving the expense of copper nails ; and from its
strongly adhesive and elastic nature, we have reason to
believe it would prove of great benefit in joints ofr masts,
timber, and all paying surfaces, in all shakes, in timber
and plank, for the Joints of bulkheads, a,nd various other
purposes, where, should it meet our expectations, we con-
sider it will prove one of the most important discoveries,
for ship-building purposes, of modern times.
(Signed) 0. LANG.
F, F. HAWKES. .
R. BLAKE.
J. FINCHAM.
J. ATKINS.
Captain Superintendent Sir F. A. Collier, C.B.
H. F. AMEDROZ, Chief Clerk.
Admiralty, 23 June, 1846.

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TBE PLEASURES OF HOME
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—I trust. you will permit me to trespass on your
attention for a very brief space, respecting the following
paragraph in your review, of my pi cm in your papa of
Monday last :—" But while thus excording high but de-
served praise to the poetry of Dr. Farquharson, we
must protest against his criticism. In a preface, which
extends over six ty-slx pages, he has thought proper to
revive and elaborate the malicious heels of a 'rancorous
renegade' and to drivel oc,ais of nonsense in vitupera-
tion of the Satanic school of poetry.'"
The wide circulation, and the value which is set upon the
critical remarks which ripl,ear in The Sun, and the truth
by which they are invariably characterised, renders me
anxious to make a few observations on the above pas-
sage. The libels of the late laureat were certainly de-
serving of censure, and were given with a gusto and an
id-natured severity which betrayed any thing rather than
good sense ; such is not the style of observations I have
indulged in in any cne line of my preface ; and the cbscr-
vations. such as they are, respecting the " Satanic
school," occupy but a small portion of the sixty-six pages,
the end and aim of the prier': e beieg remarks on the art
of poetry genet ally, and not merely " to drivel oceans of

nonsense in vituperati,n of," &c. -Far be it from me, or
any genuine lovcx of all that is beautiful in poetry, t) in-
dulge in sarcastic and libellous detraction of any of the
bright and glorious names of that galaxy of choice beings
who burst on the world in the early part of this century.
It is the imitation of the style of certain poets, without
their excellence, that prompted the observations
I have indulged in, and amounted to nothing more
than this—that a poem might be just as diver-
sified and redolent of wit, pathos, and imagery
as " Don Juan," without its licentiousness.
The name of Byron is one of which England may well be
proud, whatever the Chapter of St. Peter's, Westminster,
may think to the contrary. With respect to the critical
notices of the poem itself, they are in such a generous
tone of good-natured encouragement and zeal, as to ap-
pear more like the eulogy of one " that has passed that
bourne from which no traveller returns," than one in the
land of the living, and which affords me the hope you
will permit me to counteract the effect your review may
have, in circulating the impression that I have revived
and elaborated the libels of the past. "De mortais nihil
nisi bonum," for modest merit is like fruit hid amidst
autumnal leaves, remaining untested, unperceived, until
it falls, and thus by its very death appearing and burst-
ing into life ; so I would aim no shaft at those who, un-
happiest among the unhappy, became the laureates of
despair, nor seek to revive forgotten slanders.—l am, &c.,
STUART -FARQUHARSON, D.C.L.

June 25.
[We willingly give insertion to the above, and are re-
joiced to find that Dr. Farquharson did lint intend the
language he uses in his preface to bear the iaterpre'ation
which we have put upon it. The term " Satanic
school," however, is one we should wish. to see expunged
from his second edition. As to Ihe tribe of imitators, we
give them up to the wrath of any one who may think it
worth while to expend wrath . upoa them. In poetry,
imitation "is mcst tolerable and not to be endured."--
ED. Sun.]

GENERAL LITTLER AND THE
62d- REGIMENT.
In consequence of the remonstrance of General Lit-
tler against the censure passed on him in the letter
addressed by the Military Secretary of Sir Hugh Gougb,
to Major Shortt, the following letter has been addressed
to General Littler by Major Grant, Adjutant-General of
the Bengal army :
" Adjutant-General's Office,
" Head-quarters, Lahore, 7th March, 1846.
"Sir,--I have had the honour to submit to the Com•
mander-in-Chief your letter of the 6th instant, bring-
ing to notice the publication in the Friend of Indict
nevvs,aper, of a letter addressed by his Exc.llency's
military secretary, under date the 27th January last, to
Major Shortt, commanding her Majesty's 62d Regiments
which letter you conceive ' reflects injuriously on your
character.'
"In reply, I am instructed to state that no one can
more strongly than the Commander-in-Chief, reprobate
the publication of any official document in the columns
of a newspaper, and his Excellency's strongest repre-
hension of the publicity to the letter in question, will bo
communicated to Major Shortt and the Officers of the
62d Regiment.
"I am directed to state that the Commander in-Chief
is net surprised that you should, in ignorance of the order
to retire, so culpably given to the 62(1 by Brigadier Reid
without reference to you, have imagined that in falling
back the corps had misconducted itself, and your dispatch,
written under this impression, must be viewed as a true
and correct statement of facts as they appared to yott
at the time to exist. When the letter of the 27th
January was written, the Commander-in-Chief did not
know that you were unaware of the order given, by
Brigadier Reid, and it was under this impression that
his Excellency considered that the character of the 62d
Regiment had been aspersed.
"The letter was prepared on instructions verbally
given to the officiating military secretary, and he inad-
vertently dispatched it without laying it before the
Commander-in-Chief for his Excellency's approval.
Had the Commander-in-Chief seen the letter he would
have expunged the sentence, which describes that ' the
battery had been gallantly charged by the 62d regiment;
for his Excellency is satisfied that no such charge was
made, and that no soldier of the corps ever advanced to
the battery.
"The Commander-in-Chief knows that you, of all men,
are utterly incapable of supprtAising information which
you ought to have furnished, or of making a prejudiced
report on any subject, anti he trusts that the explanation
contained in this letter will satisfy you that no such im-
pression could for a moment have found place in the
mmd of any one acquainted with the circumstances of the
case, and the high and honourable reputation you have
established and ever maintained.
" While the Commander-in Chia will not altogether
debar you from making the contents of this letter known
to your friends, he strongly deprecates any further pub-
lic agitation of this unpleasant discussion, .and he trusts
that you will yourself see the propriety of abstaining
front having recourse to a procedure so injurious to the
discipline and chitracter of the army—as an appeal to the
public press.

" I have the honour to be, &e."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Albatross, 16, Comd
mender Reginald Yorke, arrived at Spithead this; morn-
ing, between seven and eight o'clock, from the west
coast of Africa station, on which, during the last four
years, she bas been engaged in the suppression of the
slave trade. She came up with the yellow filig at her
masthead, but having no contagion on board, obtained
pratique soon after bringing up and saluting.
The Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds, arrived at
Ascension in 13 days from, the Bight of Benin, with
tidings of the Flying Fish, 12, Commander Harris,
having, after a long chase, run a Spanish slave felucca
ashore ; and that on Lieutenant Robins (who was in
command of her) proceeding to board her, for the pur-
pose of taking her tonnage, the boat in which he was
capsized, and, unhappily, he and four of the crew were
drowned in the surf. Mr. Simpson, midshipman, to-
gether with one man, succeeded in reaching the shore,
but were knocked down ley some of the slaves whose
release from bondage they were endeavouring to effect,
and Mr. Simpson had one of his fingers cut off by them
for the purpose of obtaining a ring which he wore.
The Wasp, 16, Commander S. H. Usher, had taken
three slavers, one a schooner, after a hard fight, in which
13 men of the schooner were killed. The prizes were
taken to St. Helena by Lieutenant Elliot, of the Wasp.
The Prometheus steam-sloop, Commander Hay, bad
also very recently captured a slaver, which she had sent
to St. Helena, in charge of Dr. Tvi eedale, the surgeon,
all the other executive officers of the Prometheus being
away in other prizes.
Mr. Rundle (master), and Dr. Yeoman (surgeon, of
the Styx), had died.
The Pantaloon, 10, Commander Afton (acting); the
Heroine, 6, Commander Edmunds; the Hecate steam-
sloop, Commander West; and the Tortoise store eta
guard ship, were at Ascension on the 13th ult,
The following officers invalided, and came home in
the Forfarshire Indiaman, which passed this port yes-
terday for L.,ndon :—Commander Wilson, of the Panta-
loon; Mr. Forster, Master of the Actaeon; Lieutenant
G. F. Day, of the Bittern; and Dr. Brimmer, assistant-
surgeon of the Flying Fish.
This being the anniversary of her Majesty's corona-
tion, at eight o'clock the ships in harbour, and the Albs•
tross at Spithead, dressed in colours, and the Royal
standard was hoisted on all the Government establish•
ments, and at one o'clock royal salutes were fired.
The dockyard ai tizans, we believe, will have their
holiday to-morrow, and the tradesmen of these towns
suspend business as usual upon this day. •

PROMOTIONS.
Gage Morris
Lieutenants—W. Morris (b),
man of the Genoa, at Navarino ; Henrysr Charlesag Ogle
(1837), Fiag-Lieutenant to Admiral Sir
(1840), late
Whipple, to the Diet) ; C.
Rai perov, in the, Wiu-
Adrni
Bart., at Portsmouth ; and J.
Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-
Gr:inmander.
18:8, who was midship-
man
frigate, to the rank of
APPOINTMENTS.
Heroine), to the Styx ; E. H.
Wake (late mateand Cardofthe King=
fisher,
Alston, of the Ranger,
Lieutenants—T. C. .
theo D.
mender..
Master—I. T. Crout, to thel nflexible.
fisher, to the Pantaloon, the former as acting Coma
Su, geon_u. T. Osman, to the Inflexible.
Assistant-Surgeons—S. Sterret, to the Inflexible ; A.
tLhi
el 1 i err D,
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s.
e,
,tßot tvh:t eh t .
, GeP Sty.an t axl o;
Crocodile, to the Dido. on
BEriiGto.nl:Mvi.l3Dg, f-Mro.n2D9thoef
'2
.Bell,eorge tom athrsehA,
tvoetutgleerc.
C Secondhapl a i
Mastern—
oe
Naval Instructor,—W. Kerr, to the Spartan.°nstance.
Midshipman.—R. Craig, to the Dido.
Coast Guard.—Rernovals.—Lieutenant W. Bailey (b),
from Mothereombe, to Rickman station, vice Voules,
previously removed ; Lieutenant J. Walker (b), front
No. 2 battery, Deal, to Bovisand station, vice Heins,
previously removed,
PLYBIeUTII, JUNE 26.—Yesterday morning her Ma-
jesty's frigate Constance, 50, Sir Baldwin Walker, was
towed from Hamoaze into the Sound, where she is moored
inside the eastern arm of the Breakwater.
Last evening her Majesty's sloop Fly, 18, Captain F.
P. Blackwood, arrived here from Portsmouth.

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PILLS.—READ THIS !—Mrs. denims Albert, the widow of a naval
officer, residing in Campbell-place, St. George's•in•the-East, had been
ill ibr a long time with a distressing cough, accompanied with much
expectoration, great weakness of the chest, and continual head-
aches, besides this, her digestion was greatly impaired, appetite
completely gone, and always drowsy. She considered herself pa'•L
cure. Yet notwithstanding her advanced age she is restored to !Iti)
highest state cf health and vi.; our by the use of Ilellewit% 'a
declaring she feels more like a young girl than one of her years, being
so halo and strung,--Sold by all druggists, and at professor la 01-
loway'a Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

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Atlas ••
British Cc
Clericl,3le
County • • .
Crown •
Eagle • •
Eng. & Sri
European.
Freemason
Globe •
Guardian •
Imperial I
Imperial I
Indemnity
Law Life.
Legal and
London Fl
London Sh
Marine •
Med. Invli
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National I
Palladium
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Provident
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INSITEANC2-1 COMPANIES.
-
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Priczt
Annum. Share.
---. ---
X s. d. X s. IL
Albion .............. 31. 10s 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18%
Ditto Marine.• •• • - 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5%
Atlas •,•,•....
British Commercial • • 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7%
eleriel,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 00. 210 0 614
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 51,4
Eng. & Scot. Law •• .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
European Life .. 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .•••• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe 6/. per cent. Stock. - 136
Guardian •••••• - • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 4830
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 61. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 240
Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine •• • . IL sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29
Law Life............ 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 52
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire -••• • • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 14%
London Ship •.••• • .. 108. 25 0012 10 0 1434
Marine •••• • • • ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid& Gen. Life 4)41. per et. 50 0 0 20 0 3
National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life.. •• • .... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 934
Palladium Life ...... .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2/. Os.
Phcenix 3/. p. et. & bs. - - 205
Protector Life.... ... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 33
Provident Life •.•• • • .. 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23
Rock Life •••••• • • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 198
Sun Fire ..... .... .. - - 210
Ditto Life . • • • • • • - - 49
Universal Life .• • •
ZEST or SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PELICES,
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of 'Paid. I Price.
Annum. Share.
.----- -- --- -
X s. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 170
British
Bank of Scotland per cent. - 100 0 0 157
2ritish Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 223
Commercial ••_ Bank .. 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 161
A 0 00, National 8ank...... - 1 15
50 0 0 92%
Union Bank of Scotland 73%1. pr cent. -
North
Bank • • • • • . -
A 0 0 0 85
orth of Scotland Bank Si.SI. per cent. - 50 0 7%
Clydesdale Bank.• •• - 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Eastern Bank. •••• • • • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11
Caledonian Bank - 210 0 41A
Pdinb• &Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 50 0 7
City%
of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
ocottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245. 9d
llercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
t
11sur. Co. of Scetlnd Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9%
North British Insur. • • 53(1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22
tdinYurgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 - 181/e
(1111. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75
Ditto, % Shares •• • • 7s. 6d. p. S. 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edit. , Leith, & Grantn - 20 0020 0 0 1534
°langw &Ay rshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 74
.lasg-w&Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 11l paid. 16),
t 9
iaßw &Garukirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 40%
R undee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 38
tandard Life Amsernce. I 61. per cent. 150 0 0 1 2 10 0
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DOOMS.
.......
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. I X s. d.
',,lTllnercial
t and West India
4•s
k.aSt Country ••. • •
London ......
k. Ratharine .........5 per cent. , Stock. 104
Southampton • •
........,..
IKTATZI.-WORKS.
--.....
Dividend Amount ,
'-`Tame of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- --- -- -- _
--
£ s, d.
Fastast London.— - 90
81. 100 0 0 210
,and Junction ••• • • • 3/. 101. 41 13 4 n 70
rnt.......... ..
West
.•••• • • • ..
130
Middlesex ••• • • • 51.55. pr cut. 63 12 9

. CANALS.
i Dividend
Xames of .9 !Dividend Price Names of
C"aPanies. 'Ol 1 per 1 Companies. Annum. per Price.
4
' Annum. m
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.£ X
'lt
n& ohzi, (.7 5/.55. p e 70 NfonmOutliSh 100 81. 160
,BbY-d-la-Z, 113 4/. 70 Mntgomrysli 100 5/. 93
tnsley •• .. IGO 121. 180 Macclesfield. 1001 3
,aSingstoke.. 100 - - Meath ...... 100 17/. 3403
'''rkrikgcAbrg 150 5/. 85 Nottinglifun. 150 12/. -
)Zinford.... 100 141. 150 Peak Forast. 78 32. 40
bedley...... 100 4h - Regent's ••• . 33 1/. sg. 5
brbY •• • ... 100 6/. 73 Rochdale .. •. 86 4/. ,77
erare&Chs 133 a. 55 Shropshire • • 125 81. -
I,,,tewash 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 130
•av,rth & Clyd 100 4/. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c. 11
eadJunctn,lool 71. 95% Stffrd&Worc 140 28/. 295
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1/. 10s. - Shrewsbary.. 125 151. 230
qh,4l2rgnsh . 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridgc.. 145 201. 315
qc`rtk Bruy, no, - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. -
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ItAJLWAY COMMITTEES.
(TUIS DAY.)

-
HOUSE OF LOUD S.
GROUP C.
BERCULATIDUM DOCKS.
toll? e Committee re-assembled this morning, Lord Ashbur-
tietil the chair, when, after some time, the preamble was
ared to be proved. The clauses of the Bill were passed
14:11gh without amendment, and the report ordered to be
light up.

IVLA GROUP D.
--WCHEST En, PITZDZA.NDS, AND GREAT
GlialitSVZ .7171VCIVION.
the
Committee assembled tnis morning, Lord Somers in
e chair.
„,Witnesses were called to show the nature of the produce
r.O the respective lines of the present competing companies
,r this line, the chief points being to show what
ea the extent of magnesian limestone carried into
and
from the neighbourhood of Worksop.
"od the supply of stone for grindstones sent from Thrybu,gli
and,.,i
4f. vVckersOy to Sheffield, as also the number and extent
the ironworks in the neighbourhood of Rotherham.
Thelo statements with respect to the miner .1.4 were made by
~_Lr. Sellers and Mr. Byron, both conectad with the district,
41e latter agent to Earl Fitzwilliam for his mineral pro-
lefty. Mr. Dyson, of Rotherham, was the principal e it-
'ha called to show the extent of the ironworks, and Le
Stated that bis own manufacture was 500 tons daily, and, of
%arse, many thousands of tons a year.
. Mr. Chadwick stated that he was the owner and the oe-
41Pier of the stone quarries at Thryburgh, and that the
°thl)Posing quarries at Wickeraby are nearly exhausted; while
pre was the additional advantage, the stone having to
'eL,cend a considerable elevation.
-the Secretary of the line was
e_
then put into the box, and
"Pitiated the formal proofs which had been deposited before,
Ziele-ording to the standing orders. The population within
e_ree miles of the line, but including all those residing in Gains-
C°rough and Rotherham, as stated by Mr. Belton, who has
"'en employed in taking the traffic, was 65,855 on a line of the
t'crooters, exclusive altogether of the population of Sheffield.
~,_ ithout speaking as to accuracy, he found that the local
ITloulation was 39,000, or, according to the statement of the
engineer of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire line, only 34,000.
A long cross-examination ensued, in which Mr. PAGET
ndeavoured to elicit that the Several places
,
the line for
i,hose population credit had been takm were, though
'„ently, really several miles distant; but the discrepancyaPPa-
2Peared to be reconciled by the circumstance,
th
at though
Farts of the several parishes were far off, yet the population is
scattered, and spread over wide districts.
Mie macconnell, the engineer locomotive superintendent
of
the Bristol and Birmingham line, who attended under a
~arrant from the Speaker, expressed an opinion that
4 there would be danger in the junction of the Sheffield
Lincolnshire line with the Rotherham Railway, as the
e was there on a descent. He was impressed with the
,ill
fr,eeeSSity of having four policemen stationed at each of the
'llr points of this Junction. It would be necessary also to
li ave a first-class station there, where all the trains might
cep, as, from the natural slope of the ground, it was impos-
Sible to see the trains as they approach. The northern point
it, the Midlands Railway would be particularly dangerous,
.„, consequence of the cutting interrupting the view
both
"aYs.
the
re-examination by Mr. PAGET, it appeared that all
d ;unctions in the kingdom are made by the up or the
that
train passing from one pair of rails to the other, and
still
the junction here spoken of was on an incline of 1 in 100,
ll he had himself formed a gradient of tin 37, though he
disliked gradients.
Te Mr. Sergeant Wieteres the witness said, that tke
e
ePleyment of policemen would be inevitable, and thus
the
vipense would be ten guineas a week for this watchieg.
th!th respec to the junctions which bad been allude. 4 te, ell
iCetrains nit e Birmingham cad Midlands Railways, with
hmexeeption of the express train, stopped at Rugby, end he
1,..; understood, with respect to the Warringtoa line, ;that it
'''' considered so objectionable, that the people of Lifer 9944

GROUP XVIII.
LONDON, NEWBURY, AND EATH DIRECT.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. ATERREWETHER then called Mr. Walker, the Admiralty
engineer, who stated .that he had been in communication
with the Speaker for a considerable time, which was his
apology for not appearing before the Committee at twelve
o'clock, and that he thought he should be able to save any
further delay and trouble to the Committee, as he hoped he
should be able to conclude an arrangement with Mr. Brunel.
After a short time, which was spent in consultation be-
tween Mr. Brunel and Mr. Walker,
Mr. MEREWETIIER stated that he had been informed that
an arrangement had been entered into between the parties,
which he would lay before the Committee in a formal and
proper manner to-morrow.
The Committee then adjourned till twelve to-morrow.

GROUP XXXIII.

SITLIVIINGHAIVI AND OXFORD JUNCTION.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

Mr. ViTfiArEtar then addressedlthe Committee on the part
the promoters of the Bill at great length. The Learned
Counsel said, that the only very important opposition to the
line was on the part of the trustees of the chapel, and on the
part of Sir Edward Smythe. In respect of the latter, he
would only say that he was prepared to refer the question as
to whether the Company should buy the whole of his pro-
perty or not, to any gentleman they might choose; and he
would then refer the price to be paid for it to arbitration ;
or of Sir Edward Smythe wished to keep his property, or
any part of it, they would refer the question of compensation
to arbitration, and would give the most liberal compensa-
tion. In respect of the chap.], the learned Counsel repeated
the offer made by Mr. Cockburn on Saturday, as to the con-
tingent building of a new chapel, and said that he
thought the Company could not make a more liberal offer.
He also instanced several cases of places of worship
being situated in the immediate vicinity of railways, and no
inconvenience being sustained, or, at all events, complained
of. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to object to the
Warwickshire and London Railways. He said that the
London and Birmingham Company had, in this case, pur-
sued an obstructive policy. These lines were not intended to
supply the wants of the country, but to take posses-
sion of it and keep every one else out of it. The
Learned Counsel objected to the three lines of the
Warwickshire and London on these grounds. The
Worcester and Weedori was an Eastern and Western
line, and it had been proved that the whole traffic was north
and south. There had been no attempt to-prove a case of
traffic on this line, except in regard to lean cattle, and indeed
there was no traffic that could go by the line but that. The
same was the case with the Hampton and Aschurch and
the Hampton and Banbury; there had been no evidence
whatever as to traffic on either? and the latter was a line
beginning nowhere and ending nowhere. It stopped
at half a mile from Banbury, and a junction could not be
made with the Oxford and Rugby line, because the level of
the Hampton and Banbury was thirty feet above the Oxford
and Rugby. Besides this, the Hampton and Banbury ran
for a considerable distance parallel to the Oxford and Rugby,
and then passed through n- ost valuable property. Again, the
case set up on the part of the London and Birmingham
Company, as to the hospital at Warnford, that the rail-
way would be rather an improvement than an injury to
the hospital. It certainly had been said, by Doctor Jephson,
that the patients would rather like it than not; but he
would ask the Committee whether a man in the height of
fever, or a poor fellowwho had had his leg taken off, and had
taken an opiate for the sake of forcing an unnatural sleep,
would be very much pleased by a train passing by, with the
engine hissing, screaming, and roaring in the dead of the
night?—(A laugh.)
The Learned Counsel's speech occupied about an hour.
Mr. AUSTIN then rose on the part of the

wzazwzczEszinE AND LONDON (won-
CESTER. AND WED.o.ON, ELANIPTing" AND
73A1VBURY, HAMP,LOIV AND ASHCHURCH).

In reply to the speech of Mr. WHATELY, he dwelt at some
length on the accusations of that gentleman against the
London and Birmingham Company, and observed that
he was very sorry that the Great Western Com-
pany should instruct their counsel to make such allegations
as this, which could not be disproved, but which he thought
could have no effect with the Committee. The Learned
Counsel proceeded to show thrt the three lines of the War-
wick and London were not competing with the Birmingham
and Oxford. The only parts of the two schemes which
could at all be said to compete, or even to compare one with
another, were the Warwick and Banbury portion of the Hamp-
ton and Banbury and the corresponding portion of the Bir-
mingham and Oxford. It had been said that the station of the
Warwickshire and London, at Leamington and Warwick,
were not convenient. Now at these places each line formed
a letter S (Mr. Austin here referred to a plan). In the War-
wick and London, one curve brought them close to Learning-
ton, and the other brought them near Warwick; and at each
place the station was within one street's length of the popu-
lous part of the town. But on the Birmingham and
Oxford the S was
_reversed, one curve taking the line far
away from Leamington' and the other carrying it far away
from Warwick._ The Hampton and Ashchurcb, and the

Worcester and Weedon were not mere east and west lines,
but north-east and south-west lines, and would carry a large
amount of north-east and south-west traffic. The Hampton
and Banbury ilne did not fall short of the town of Banbury,
as represen(ed by Mr. Wakeley. There was a station to the
west of the Oxford and Rugby line, which was common to
this and the Tring to Banbury line, and although it was
to •t in the Tring to Banbury Bill, it still remained
in the Hampton and Banbury line. The Learned Counsel
dwelt at great length on the question of monopoly and com-
petition, and urged that the passing of the two Bills for lines
competing with one another, would not have the effect of
preventing monopoly. There could be no competition be-
tween two canals or two railways, as when the tolls had
once come down to the lowest point to which it was the in-
terest of the companies to bring them to, they,
would amalgamate and raise the prices The ne-
cessity for high tolls being increased by the double
expenditure of capital, the passing of both lines would rather
injure than advantage the public. He did not look upon bis
Learned Friend's'observations as to the mischiefs that might
result from the line passing by the Hospital as likely to have
much weight with the Committee. He thought the evi-
dence of Dr. Jephsou had set that point at rest, and he
should think that gentleman's opinion much more worthy to
be relied on than that of his Learned Friend.
Mr. AUSTIN'S speech occupied about two hours.
At about live minutes to four o'clock the room was cleared
in order that the Committee might consult as to the course to
be adopted in proceeding with the case. On our re-admis-
sion the Chairman said that the Committee would prefer to
take the evidence of the engineers who had been sent down
to examine the levels of the Worcester and Weedon line, on
Thursday, instead of to-morrow, if that would be equally con-
venient for the parties.
The Counsel having declared that it would,
The Committee rose at about half-past four, and adjourned
till to-morrow at eleven o'clock.

GROUP XXXVIII.
The Committee met at the usual hour.

WEST RIDING UNION.
Mr. BAWLS, Q.C., opened the case for the promoters of this
line, in a speech of considerable length.
The first witness called was
Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer to the line. He was also
the engineer to the Manchester and Leeds Railway. The
whole system of railroad included in this scheme was about
45 miles in length. The main line was laid out so as to form
a continuous line of communication between Leeds, Bradford,
and Halifax. The nest branch was proposed to accommo-
date Bradford., Halifax, and Huddersfield. The third branch.
ran in the direction of Bradford, Dewsbury, and Wakefield.
branchlllTesrhioNe,elcvacoosmaacallsi(fit)teaeledsadiadjourned
from the main line at Brighouse to
eßradford.ro.exa iAn
abt
oann col
cocuualled the Cockersdale branch was pro-
Peoislef to be made for the purpose of accommodating the ex-
ptrlin.leiedsd
tdthiiiesltwrli2ehtot.loe_Trno
floiem examinationto-morrow.
and
the day.

GROUP XLVIII.
2VIONTWOUTHSIZIRE,
The Committee met again this day, Mr. Oldham, chairman.
The remaining clauses of the Bill were proceeded with,
and a lengthy discussion ensued on the proposed amendments.
The other clauses of this Bill were postponed till twelve
o'clock to-morrow, in order to give the promoters time for
introducing. some amendments.
prr..IWPORT, .12.33ER.G.A.VMNNT, AND "norm-

a duty therefore to insist on the question of the accuracy of
Le measurement of his Learned Friend's clients' line being
settled. They had proposed that it should be settled by the
engineers of both lines, or, in case of their disagreeing, by
the decision :of their referree. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to read and comment on the terms of settlement
proposed to be entered into between the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and
Dudley Companies.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then addressed the Committee
at some length on the terms proposed by his party. He
contended that the low level was the best level for the town
of Wolverhampton, and that the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Company did not struggle for the high level there for the
purpose of accommodating the district, but really to
construct a line by which they might pour upon their
canal line (if they were to obta►n it) the whole
of the traffic coming from Shrewsbury. The question
of the levels was a public one, and he hoped that
the Committee would so decide as to force the traffic
arriving in Wolverhampton to be brought in on the low
level. His clients were perfectly willing to give up that
part of the line which would accommodate Dudley, but he
contended that in return for this concession the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham ought undoubtedly to give up to his
clients that part of their line between Tipton and Wolver-
hampton.. because the population end the traffic of
that district did not require it. The Learned Sergeant con-
cluded by proposing to put in a written statement explana-
tory of the propositions of hi's clients, but
Mr. HOPE having objected,
The Hon. CHAIRMAN decided that the document ought not
to be received.

Mr. HOPE then contended that the proposals of arrange-
ment of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Com-
pany were not such as his clients were fairly entitled to, and
replied to the remarks of the Learned Sergeant. The propo-
sitition he pronounced to be the most niggardly he had ever
heard. The question of levels was entirely an open ques-
tion, and would not, as his friend had adroitly re-
presented, settle the lines of the district under the
consideration of • the Committee. He contended that

if the Committee did not sanction that portion
of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line between Tipton
and Wolverhampton, they would band over that district
bound hand and foot to the Great Western Company. His
Learned Friend had proposed amalgamation in the same
.breath that he had extolled the benefits arising from corn
petition. The fact was that if the line proposed by his
Learned Friend were sanctioned in its present shape, it would
lead to one of the greatest monopolies in the country.
Mr. SRLFE said he appeared on behalf of a body of inde-
pendent ir9nmasters, who were very much interested in the
question now before the Committee. He understood that an
arrangement between the two companies had been proposed
to the effect that the district in question should be fairly
and equally divided between them. He begged to say,
on behalf of the public, or at least that portion of
the public which he represented, that they had a most
decided objection to any arrangement which should prevent
the green line (the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South
Staffordshire) from Tipton to Dudley being carried through
to Wolverhampton. He trusted that the interests of the
public would not be sacrificed by any arrangement between
the two countries.

Mr. COCKBURN submitted that before the Committeee de-
cided upon the terms proposed, they ought to hear his clients
on the question of level. They were quite willing to
amalgamate with the Shrewsbury and BirmingLam, provided
the low level at Wolverhampton were adopted. If the Com-
mittee decided that the high level of that company should'
be sanctioned, the fate of his clients' line was sealed.
Mr. HOPE said that,tfor the purpose of coming to a fair
arrangement with the Learned Counsel's clients, he proposes
that both levels should be adopted, and he submitted that
the Committee might fairly come to a decision on the terms
proposed between the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and the
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Companies, with-
out hearing the case of the other companies as to the advan-
tage of the low level. Let that lengthened inquiry be re-
ferred to the engineers—that course had been adopted in
other Committees.

The Hon. CHAIRMAN said he thought it would be well, in
his opinion, that the Learned Counsel on the opposite side
should consent to refer the matter.
Mr. COCKBURN objected to do so.
It was, however, eventually arranged that the question of
the supposed inaccuracy in the level should be referred to the
decision of the engineers of the lines.
The room was cleared of strangers, and on our re-admission,
after the expiration of half an hour,
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE again attempted to lay the
written statement before alluded to before the Committee.
_ _

Mr. HOPE again objected, and
The Hon. CHAIRMAN decided that it ought not to be
received, remarking that the written terms already before
them required no supplemental explanation.

DECISIONS.
The Hon. CHAIRMAN then said 'that the Committee had
come to a decision in favour of two stations at Birmingham,
and also two at Wolverhampton. They had also decided
that the whole of the lower line (as represented on the map)
should be assigned to the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Company, and the upper to the Birmingham, Wolverhamp-
ton, and Dudley.
After a short conversation between the Hon. Mr. Talbot
and Mr. Lang and the Committee,
The Hon. Citaittmax said that the Committee had come
to the decision that the preamble of the
SIMOPSIIIRM UNION ItAILWAY and CA-
NAL (cHEsnov. and WOLVCIZIIA.IVIPTON)
Bill had been proved.
At the request of the Learned Counsel, the Committee
postponed going through the clauses of the Bill until to-
morrow. -

Ihe Committee then adjourned, at half-past three o'clock,
twelve o'clock to• morrow.

GROUP LXI.

EDINIIITIZGH AND GLASGOW, AND SCOT-
TISH CENTRAL JUNCTION.

The Committee met again this day at twelve o'clock, and
proceeded with the clauses of the Bill. After some amend-
ments several were agreed to, and the counsel for the oppo.
nents continued to propose other alterations in various clauses
of the Bill.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
•
Their Lordships met at the usual hour in Room 6, House
of Lords, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair.
There were five Bills on the list, all railway Bills.
LEICESTER AND BEDFORD.
The Committee decided that the promoters of this Bill
had proved compliance with the standing orders.'
PORTBURY PIER AND RAILWAY.
Their Lordships made a similar decision in this case.
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE.
In the absence of two witnesses, this part-beard case was
adjourned till Monday.
EDINBURGH AND BATHOATE.
The standing orders were declared complied with.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (WEEDON AND
NORTHAMPTON BRANCH).
This case was adjourned until Friday.
Their Lordships then resolved themselves into a Select
Committee on Merits.
There were twelveßills on the list, four only being railway
Bills.
WAKEFIELD, PONTEFRACT, AND GOOLE (METH-
LEY, ASKERN, AND OAKENSHAW BRANCH.)
The preamble of this Bill wee declared proved, clauses
being inserted to insure the building of lodges at all level
crossings.
ST. HELEN'S CANAL AND RAILWAY.
The preamble cf this Bill also was declared proved, clauses
being inserted as in the last case.
WISHAW AND COLTNESS (GREENHILL BRANCH).
The promoters of this Bill also succeeded in proving their
preamble.
SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, AND MAN.
CHESTER (DUKINKELD, WORSBOROUGH, AND
OTHER BRANCHES).
Preamble proved. Clauses inserted as to level crossings.
Their Lordships then rose at half past three o'clock.

MARKET INTELLIG EN CE.
(From the London New Price Current of June 30.)

SUGAR.—To-day the dullness in the Colonial Sugar market
further increased, prices again gave way, and which is to be
attributed to the uncertainty that exists as to what
alteration the new Ministry will make in the duties
on t-ugar the produce of free or slave labour. Although
the rates taken for West India Muscovadoe were 6d per
cwt under those of Friday, still all kinds were pur-
chased with extreme caution by refiners and groeers, the pri-
vate sales not exceeding 160 hhds and trcs. At auction 97
hhds 22 tres of Barbadoes were all withdrawn for the want of
buyers.

--ifEFINED.—Today the home trade purchased Refined
Sugar with extreme caution, and the nearest quotations are
68s to 69s for brown lumps, and 69s 6d to 70s for standard
lumps; the refiners are desirous to sell for forward delivery.
Bonded Crushed Sugar has further risen in value, 34s 6d to
35s per cwt being insisted upon for first quality.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was no public sale of
Mauritius Sugar, and privately very little business was done,
although there were sellers upon rather lower terms.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Madras Sugar
brought to public sale was large, and amounted to 11,435
bags; the whole sold at and atter the sales, but at a decline
on former rates of is per cwt. .
TEA.—There
ut has
merchants have been compelled to accept
previous low rates.
SA Coi,so.trlediTgahnti ssfauaftarae
aawdntiitdt3thosalswlifho pkgs of Assam Tea were offerer at public sale,
Sugar
anrokoent raatt eps , that is to say from is Id to
3s To-day
üblic sale 36 boxes were sold
F vas much better supplied
onEtax.—To• day the market N
at public sale allto I 431 chests yellow, and 115
quantity offered
amounting I
A 269 cases 334
, barrels Rio, and 332
irtefininisamvaanilite which
of the yellow
' Havanna a part only ..oubnags Pernambuco ;
is higher.
ad-
t d buyers, •in consequence of an
t yauce on formir rates of tid to • quired
of
39 dhehscdrsip:lonusse,ntrhaeoq,
. ls per cwt being re •

BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT ACT.

On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, this Bill was
read a second time.

PROTECTION AGAINST VEXATIOUS ACTIONS.

This Bill was also read a third time and passed, on
he motion of the same NOBLE AND LEARNED LbRD.
SUGAR DUTIES BILL.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH moved that this Bill be
read a second time.

On the motion of the same NOBLE DUKE the standing
orders were suspended. The Bill went through Com-
mittee, and was subsequently read a third time and
passed.
RAILWAY COMPANIES DISSOLUTION BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of DALHOUSIE, the
Commons' amendments to this Bill were agreed to.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM moved the re-com-
mittal of the Buckinghamshire (Tring and Banbury)
Railway Bill to the decision of the Select Committee on
the Bill. The object, he said, was to consider the propriety
of passing a portion of the Bill which was not objected to.
.

He must inform the Home that he made the motion
with the concurrence of the chairman, else he should not
have presumed to have done so.
Lord STANLEY explained the reasons why the Com-
mittee decided against the Bill in question. They
did so because they believed the line as an
independent scheme would not pay the share-
holders for the capital invested. Since then he
understood the scheme had been so altered, that
the major part of it was to be abandoned, and a branch
of twelve miles retained to accommodate the towns of
Brockley and Buckingham. This small portion
sought to be obtained was unobjected to by the
landed proprietors along the line, and would be worked
by another company. Under these circumstances be
had no objection that the Bill should be re-committed
for the purpose of considering the propriety of granting
the portion in question.
Lord BROUGHAM had always felt a great objec-
tion to the interference of the House with railway
committees. In the present case the circumstances
seemed considerably altered since the Bill was before
the:Committee; he thought, therefore, that there was no
objection to the Bill being referred back to the Com-
mittee.

Lord CAMPBELL did not think they were departing
from the sound principles of non-interference with the
decisions of railway Committees by referring this Bill
back to the committee.
The motion was then agreed to. --- --
It was then crdered that the Bill be referred to the
Select Committee for re-consideration.

Their Lordships then adjourned till Thursday next.

rHE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, JUNE 27, 1846.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities
of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Lord
Francis Egerton, and the heirs male of his body law-
fully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Vis-
count Brackley, cf Brackley, in the county of North-
ampton, and Earl of Ellesmere, of Ellesmere, in the
county of Salop.
The Queen has also be pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
(if a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland to the following gentlemen, and the re-
spective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten,
viz. :—The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, of
Harpton-court, in the county of Radnor ; John Somer-
set Pakington, of Westwood-park in the county
Worcester, Esq. ; John Gladstone, of Fasque and
Balfour, in the county of Kincardine, Esq. ;
James Weir Hogg, of Upper Grosvenor-street, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq. ; William Feilden, of Fenis-
cowles, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Esq.; Wil-
liam Verner, of Verner's-bridge, in the county of Ar-
magh, and of Inismagh, in the county of Tyrone, Esq. ;
and Sir Moses Montefiore, of East Cliff-lodge, in the
Isle of Thanet, and county of 'Cent, Knight.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto William
Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton Douglas, Esq.
(commonly called Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale),
the office of Knight Marishall of Scotland, in the room
of William George Earl of Erroll, deceased.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Brownrigge Collisson, 8.A., to the vicarage of Saint
Michael, in the city of Coventry and diocese of Wor-
cester, void by the death of the Rev. Robert Simson.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Duncan Campbell to the church and parish of North
Knapdale, in the presbytery of Inverary and county of
Argyll, vacant by the death of the Reverend Donald
M'Lachlan, late minister thereof.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
John M'lvor to the church and parish of Small Isles,
in the presbytery of Skye and country of Inverness,
vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Henry Beat-
son, late Minister thereof, to the church and parish of
Barra.

DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 27, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Major• Gen,
Sir Patrick Ross, K.G.C. St. M. and St. G. to be Go•
vernor of St. Helena.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint William
Thomas Denison, Esq., Captain in the Corps of Royal
Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Governor of Van Dieman's
Land.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Hon.
F. W. A. Bruce to be Lieut.-Governor of Newfoundland.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Murrell
Robinson Robinson, Esq., to be Second Assistant Sur-
veyor for the colony of the Cape of Good Hope.
Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Daniel
H. 0. Gordon, Esq., to be Chief Justice fur the Virgin
Islands.

Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Sin-
clair Bryan, Esq., to be Treasurer for the said Islands.
DOWNING-STREET, JUNE 27.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following
officers, in her Majesty's service, and in the service of the
East India Company, to be Companions of the Most Hon.
Military Order of the Bath :
Lieut.-Col. H. S. Phillips, 53d Foot.
Lieut.-Col. T. H. Franks, 10th Foot.
Lieut -CoLG. L. Davis, 9th Foot ; and
Lieut.-Col. J. R. Smyth, 16th Lancers.
Lieut.-Col. C. Godby, 36th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. C. D. Wilkinson, 63d Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. R. A. Stedman, Ist Bengal Cavalry.
Brevet. Lieut.-Col. N. Penny, 69th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. J. A. Thompson, 59th Bengal Native Infantry.
Lieut.-Col. H. J. Wood, Bengal Artillery,.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J Alexander, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. Nash, 43d Bengal Light Infantry.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. J. T. Lane, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. H. M. Lawrence, Bengal Artillery.
Brevet Lieut.. Col. F. Abbott, Bengal Engineers.
_

Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. S. Laurenson, Bengal Artillery ; and
Major H. Forster, Commanding the Shekawattee Brigade.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 26.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Pedro
Degola y Ravara, as Consul at Malta for her Majesty the
Queen of Spain.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 26.

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Captain and Brevet-Major
A. W. Hope to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sandilands, re-
tired on full pay; Second Captain W. B. Young to be Cap-
tain, vice Hope; First Lieut. E. W. Rodwell, to be Second
Captain, vice Young; Second Lieut. J. L. Bolton to be First
Lieutenant, vice Rodwell, June 23
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, 'Turin 26.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Lieutenant-Colonel E. Matson,
to be Assistant Adjutant-General, June 15.
Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners—Brevet Major J.
Lynn, Royal Engineers, to be Adjutant, vice Whitmore, pro-
moted, June 18.