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would effect a considerable saving both in distance and
expenditure.
The Bil, was opposed by Mr. Hnpr, on behalf of the
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company.
The case had not closed when the Committee ad-
journed.

works, but time failed it ; and it appears , that the
second Itepublic is destined to fulfil the wishes of
the first."
The Three per Cents. closed at 50f.; the Five per
Cents., 73f.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 545 f.; Rouen,
405 f.; Havre. 2001'.; Great Northern, 350 f.; Avignon,
2081. 75c.; Vierzon, 250 f.; Bordeaux, 395 f.; Basle, 871.
50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 353 f. 75c.; Tours and
Nantes, 3361. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 3061. 25c.

WAVENEY VALLEY AND GREAT
YARMOUTH RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the shareholders in this company, as
well as in the Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth,
and also in the Norfolk (Waveney Line). was called
for one o'clock to-day, at the London Tavern.
Wilshere, Esq, took the chair at the appointed time.
The CHAIRMAN stated that no arrangement had yet
been made with the Norfolk Company (now amalga-
mated with the Eastern Counties), but that the directors
expected an offer would be made by the Eastern Coun-
ties in the course of the next three weeks. The
directors considered that the prospects of the company
were more satisfactory now than they had been for
some time past. He begged, therefore; to move the
adjournment of the meeting for four weeks, in order that
the negotiations now going on might be brought to ma-

turity.
A motion to that effect was then adopted, and the
meeting separated.

KILLARNEY AND YALENTIA
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The adjourned meeting of this company was held this
day at twelve o'clock, at the offices of the Corn Ex-
change- btaldings ; R. Spooner, Esq., !itt.P., in the chave
The report and accounts, abstracts of which h
already appeared, were approved of, the
whoaccoun werets being
rendered subject to the approval of auditors,
appointed at the meeting. •
The retiring directors were re-elected.

, pursuant .
---------------!---- OXFORD
BIRMINGHAM AND DAY.)
J I; NC f lON RAILWAY and Oxford
The proprietors of the Birmingham
atternoon at the King's
Junction Railway met toin
the
tji ocunranimr. en t from
Arms, in Palace-yard
last week; .Mr. William bhe
following resolut.4lt
Mr. PAYTON moved
in
Rtahi
lewanyamceomo of
Company
she
petitions have been pre-
appearing that two
Birmingham
rented to the house
andf r Oxfordconferring additional powers on the
against the Bill
Railway
Company, with reference to an
Great Western
thelt i soei Commons
Junction
12th of November, 1846, lot; the
agreement of
ham, Wolverhampton and Dudley pur-
chaseßail-
by them of the Birmingham an Oxford Junction,
and the Birming ‘
y solved that Messrs. Dobrie, Colmore, and Beal
vi::llordethey are hereby directed to appear on both or
t, sure
of stick petitions as may be advised by counsel,
area to employ
.counsel and agents to appear on behalf of
in support of both or either of the said
petitionsthi°inPsilY
cbeto. re the Committees of the Houses of
Lords and. Commons, and that no other persons do ap-
pear for, or represent, this company upon the slid peti-
tions, or either of them, before any such Committees."
The motion having been seconded by Mr. PAGET,
The CHAIRMAN said a similar resolution was pro-
posed at a former meeting when Mr. Muntz, the Chair-
. man of the company, declined to put it; upon that pre-
cedent he should decline to put this one.
A PROPRIETOR asked the Chairman if he had any
objection to enter into an explanation of any other
reaons he might have fur not putting the resolution.
[ The CHAIRMAN said he had much rather not.
Mr. PAYTON then put the resolution himself, and de-
clared it to be unanimously carried.
On the motion of Mr. PAYTON, the meeting then ad-
journed till to-morrow.

ELECTIGN COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
LON G FORD.
The Longford Election Committee re-assembled this
morning ; Mr. Bouverie in the chair.
The whole of the day was taken up with the argu
inents of counsel relative to the power of the Committee
to re-open the register.
At the close of the arguments, the Committee ad-
journed their decision till to morrow.

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING
Six o'CLocK.

7 to 1 agst Glendower—taken
7 to 1 agst Springy Jack—taken
7 to 1 agst Loadstone—taken
10 to 1 agst Swiss Boy—taken
12 to 1 agst Surplice—taken
18 to 1 agst Nil Desperandum
20 to 1 agst Sponge—taken
30 to 1 agst The Fiddler
35 to 1 agst Voyager
I,ouo to 10 agst Oscar
SOXERSETSHIRE STASES.
3 to 1 agst Beltenden
5 to 1 agst Saddle
5 to 1 agst Executor
6 to 1 agst Silver Eel

FRAN CE.

The following is a report of the proceedings in the
National Assembly yesterday :
At twelve o'clock M. Buchez, the President, took the
chair.
M. SAnard, wbo first ascended the tribune reminded
the Assembly that, on the previous day, it had adopted
the proposition of Citizen Dornii to the effect of appoint-
ing an Executive Committee of five members. In the in-
terval reports were circulated, and that morning he had
heard in the Hall of Conferences, that some members of
the Provisional Government whose names had been in-
scribed on that " list of conciliation," had manifested a
desire not to accept those functions should their col-
le-agues not be chosen from amongst its members, or
snould certain names remain inscribed on it. He bad
fe-en requested by a number of representatives to wait
upon the members of the Provisional Government who
were said to have expressed that opinion, and he bad the
.ati-faction to announce to the Assembly that they had
trade no such declaration.
M. Martin de Strasbourg next rose, and stated that
the venerable Dupont de l'Eure had just told him, and
authorised him to inform the Assembly, that it was im-
possible for him to acept a seat in the Government.
This declaration excited loud murmurs, and several
members observed that, having rejected the resignation
of Beranger, they bad an equal right to reject that of
M. Dupont de l'Eure.
When silence was restored, M. Beaumont ran up to
the Tribune and said, that he could not understand the
possibility of excluding the venerable founder of the
Republic from the Executive Committee.
M . Be rryer observed that the omnipotence of the As-
sembly was compromised by a discussion of proper
names. Its vote shetild not depend on the will of any
of its members. or be influenced by lotteries. The re-
volution had sufficiently revealed the men entitled to the
confidence of the country, and their names should not be
uallotted at the tribune.
M. Jean Renaud replied that there were no lotteries
in the As,einbl), and that one of the lists alluded to had
been prepared by 150 members.
M. Bdrbes then rose and moved that each represen.
tative should pruclaid aloud the candidates in whose
favour he voted. This proposition, however, was re-
jected by the Assembly, not more than twenty members
having. supported it.
A ballot then commenced, which gave the following
result:—
Number of Voters
Abselutu majority
Arago
Ga, nier Pages
Marie ...
Lamartiue
Ledru Rollin

794
... 398
725
715
••• 702
••• 643
..• 453

The "fiVe mAnners having obtained the required ma-
jority were proclaimed members of the Executive
Committee.
W. Wolloski next ascended the Tribune, and pro-
posed the immediate appointment of a committee charged
with devisitag measures for the improvement of the
condition of the labouring classes.
M. 1V 01l , wski after .sards announced that in the morn-
irg of that day, the delegates of Posen, Cracow, and
G dlicia had waited upon him with an address, for-
warded by the Polish patriots to the National Assembly,
,n which they oe.:criberl their suffering, and demanded
the_,i
ut.: iaista r, e e of France. lie trusted that the Assembly
w•, id invite the Executive Committee to take into con.-
siaergtion the
tr..,i,
rn___ prayer of the memorialists. He en-
M.
lisp d•-lay, ~„nne,l'fer, the Assembly to address, without
, weheoi n resuscitating ancient Poland.
Di ,I
to i.,ienevrialt,o the German nation and the Frankfort
die Polish patriots. spoke next, supported the prayer of
should be humaniateirehe French Revolution, he said,
it should prepare an address to
would express its determi-
thought that the Asambia: :ell as political, and he
the whole world, in whicli
nation to uphold everywhere
osfitwuahtiicohn oit
t
• had asserted the triumph in FraencPerfaciPtiehse
A Member asked M. Lamartine if he a
incon-
venience in giving the Assembly any info-r" any ,
received from ;his diplomatic agents on information he had
I fly, or if he prefei red• that the Assemblyshould
day to hear those explanations. fix a
M, Lamartine replied that he was ready to give those
explanations, if the Member insisted, but that it Would
a,ahyorththate
whenpur po„.Ile,
4 shouldthe co-
liii%pt.rv,,,f.err,a,byloeultdo as
state
necessary to Italy it
einbte fore and
operation of France
that
should occur again in 1848.
events of 1831
no denied, and the Member need not apprehend
the
not
Monday was fixed to hear those explanations.
The c tutzon • nel states that the magnificent
cavalry barracks
of Saumur have been burned to
o nextnsti
fire is unknown.
the ground. The loss is estimated at one million of
francs. The cause of the
The Journal de 'Rouen of yesterday states that
b' fi • the
several houses have
been con
ave been occasrioned
Canton of Fauville, suiposed to
shum ed 3, ein
by incendiaries.
The Piesse states that M. TWEBS is spoken of as
the representative of the devirtine of the Seine,
n* ~
in place of M. LAMARTINE. M. TIIIERS has male a
communication to the electors of that department,
informing them that " proud of their suffrages, he
would
accept the honour of being their representative
in the Constituent Assembly."
The Con.stitntionnel states that " the Military
Commission appointed by the French Government
has recommended that the fortifications of Dunkirk
be restored. They were rased in the year 1713, in
virtue of the Treaty of Utrecht, and the port
filled tip. TO3 Convention wished to restore those

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THE SUN, LONDON,_ THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1848.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY.
The extreme beauty of the weather brought together
an immense assemblage of distinguished and fashionable
visitors to the first flower show of the season, which
took place yesterday afternoon, in the Inner Circle of
the Regent's Park. The Queen arrived at an early
hour, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Alice, and the Duchess of Kent.
The royal party, attended by Lord Byron, and the Hon.
Miss Paget, and the Lady Caroline Cocks, the Lords
and Ladies in Waiting upon her Majesty, the Baroness
de Speth, Colonel the Hon. C. Grey, Captain the Hon.
A. Gordon, and Colonel Sir George Couper, was re-
ceived at the Queen's entrance by the Duke of Norfolk,
president of the society, and conducted by his Grace
and the members of the council through the various
marquees comprising the exhibition, and also through
the spacious conservatory and the grounds.
Among the miscellaneous company there were his
Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia, the Count
de Montemulin, the Prince and Princess Metternich,
Baron Hugel, the Marquis of Ailesbury, the Duchess
of Sutherland, the Countess of Mulgrave, Lady L.
Vaughan, Lady Calder, Lady Buxton, Lady Grey, the
Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency the American Mi-
nister, M. Van de Weyer, Count de Reventlow, the
Marquis of Lisboa, Prince Calimacki, Viscount da Torre
de Moncorvo, Baron and Lady Goldsmid, Lady Brinck-
man, Miss Burdett Coutts, Earl Bandon, the Bishops of
Durham and Winchester, Lord Sondes, Sir George
Staunton, Sir J. Buchan, Sir John Barrow, Lord Tern
pletown, General Sir L. Lushington, and H. J. Hope,
Esq., M.P.
The bands of the Royal Horse Guards and the Ist and
2d Life Guards were in attendance as usual.
The following are the chief of the awards made to the
successful competitors at the exhibition of the plants
and flowers, which were characterised by the judges as
Cully equal to the shows of *ley preceding year:—
For a Collection of 30 Plants.—The extra gold medal
to Mr. Fraser, nurseryman, Lea Bridge-road.
For a Collection of 15 Plants.---The medium gold
medal to Mr. Cole, gardener to H. Colyer, Esq.,
Dartft
For a superb Specimen of Dendrobium Nobile.—A
silver medal to Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Autrobus,
Bart.
For a new Orchid (Loslid Majalis).—To Mr. Wil-
liams, gardener to B. Warner, Esq., Hoddesdon.
For a Specimen of the Upas free (Autiaris Toxi-
caria).—A medal to Messrs. Veitch and Son, nursery-
men, Exeter.
For 15 Cape Heaths.—The medium gold medal to Mr
Hunt, gardener to Miss Train, Bromley.
For 12 Cape Heaths.—The gold medal to Messrs.
-Fairbairn nurserymen, Clapham.
For a large Collection of Orchids..—The extra gold
medal to Mr. Myatt; gardener to S. Rucker, Esq.,
Wandsworth.
For 15 Orchids.—The medium gold medal to Mr.
Williams.
For 6 Orchids.—The large silver gilt medal to Mr.
Plant, gardener to J. H. Schroeder, Stratford.
For 12 Roses.—The first prize to Messrs. Lane and
Son, nurserymen, Berkhampstead.
or 8 Roses.—The first prize to A. Rowland, Esq.,
Lewisham.
For 30 British Ferns.—First prizes (equal) to Mr.
Smith, gardener to J. Anderson,
.Esq., Regent's-park,
and. Mr. Taylor, gardener to J. Coster.Esq., Streatham.
For 12 Pelargoniums—Amateurs.—First prize to Mr,
Cook; second, Mr. Staines. -
For 12 Pelargoniums—Nurserymen.—First prize,
Mr. Dobson; second, Mr. Gaines.
For 6 Pelargoniums.—Amateurs.—First prize, Mr.
Staines; second, Mr. Packer; third, Mr. Robinson.
For .9 Pelargoniums—Nurserymen.—First prize, Mr.
Gaines. ,
For 6 fancy Eelargoniums.—First prize, Mr. Gaines.
Seedling Pelargonimns.—First prizes to Mr. Beech,
Messrs. Veitch and Son, and Mr. Ambrose.
Seedling greenhouse Azaleas.—First prizes to Messrs.
Ivery and Son, and Mr. Fraser.
Seedling Heuths.—First prize to Messrs. Veitch and
Son.
Pansies.—First prize, Messrs. Bragg and Bright;
second, Mr. Turner.

ST. BARTHOLOMEW HOSPITAL
This ancient hospital, founded in the year 1123, by
Rahere, minstrel of Henry 1., re-founded in 1547 by the
bounty of Henry VIII., was yesterday visited, accord-
ing to annual custom, by the President and Governors.
Although so lung a period of time has elapsed since its
first institution, though it has grown rich during the
interval, and with its wealth might be supposed to have
acquired some of those vices with which large revenues
and great age are generally associated, there can be no
doubt that it still retains all its youthful vigour, and
fulfils to the spirit and letter the purpose of its founders,
" moved thereto with great pity for and towards the
relief and succour and help of the poor aged sick, low,
and impotent people lying and going about begging in
the common streets of the city of London and the
suburbs of the same, and infected with divers great
and horrible sicknesses and diseases." Such is the
language of the Royal Charter, and truly the visitation
of yesterday bears out its terms. Within the space of
300 years the hospital has increased to an enormous
extent. It was first erected to contain 100 beds, and its
medical staff consisted of a physician and three surgeons
Now it accommodates on an average more than 600
patients. Its medical staff has been proportionately
enlarged; a collegiate establishment has been connected
with it; and, in every respect, it has adapted itself to
the growing wants of the metropolis, and the increasing
emergencies of science. Among its surgeons, physicians,
and professors are some of the most eminent men in the
profession, and its interests are watched over by a trea•
surer whose benevolence and zeal have done more per-
haps than anything else to extend the sphere of its
usefulness.
Yesterday the Lord Mayor, who is virtute ogicii pre-
sident of the hospital, accompanied by a large body
of Governors, visited the wards, and a more interest
ing and satisfactory inspection it has seldom been our
good fortune to have witnessed. Not only was every
corner of the whole hospital scrupulously clean, but
each room was ventilated in the most admirable manner,
choice flowers were scattered profusely in every direction,
and the patients, in the midst of all their physical ste.
tering, were evidently in the enjoyment of perfect ex
ternal comfort, receiving attention far greater than they
could possibly command at their own homes, and cared
for in the most benevolent and considerate manner. Mr.
Bentley (the treasurer), Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Lawrence, and
the other officers of the hospital accompanied the visi-
tors while making their round of the wards, and in each
the patients and their nurses were questioned as to any
ground of complaint which might exist. In every in-
stance the medical men, Miss Baker, the matron, and
the poor suffering victims of disease themselves, bore
testimony to the kindness of the treatment they expe-
rienced from the sisters and nurses in attendance ; while
as a stimulus to perseverance in good conduct, the Trea-
surer awarded prizes fur good conduct in the following
cases :—Ann Briggs, John's Ward ; Frances Dixon
and Mary Abbott, Queen's Ward ; Elizabeth Church
and Ann Lewis, Faith Ward; Mary Lane, Bentley Ward;
and Mary Duffin, Henry VIII.'s Ward. The rewards
given were-5/. to the sisters and V. to the nurses ;
and it was evident that they were awarded with great
dis mmination. Among the remarkable features of the
inspection we notict d the prevalence of erysipelas, cases
of very low type, and also two cases of exceedingly rare
diseases—one of catalepsy, the patient being a boy not
more than seven years old; the other of molilies opium.
The use of chloroform is extensively and successfully
practised in this hospital. We were informed that it.
has been administered without the slightest injury in more
than 3,000 cases, and several of the wards were filled
with patients who bore testimony to its efficacy in dead-
ening the pain of a severe operation.
After the visitors had made the round of the Hospital
they dined in the great hall with the medical officers
and the prize students for the year. The dinner was
supplied in the usual style of the Messrs. Staples, whose
good cheer contributed not a little to the pleasures of
the evening, and to the heartiness with which the dif-
ferent toasts proposed were received. Mr. Toole was
toastmaster.

MADAME P.AULINE VIARDOT
GARCIA.
Pauline Garcia is born of a musical family, which
for three centuries has illustrated the lyric stage.
Her father was the lamed tenor, Emanuel Garcia, and
her mother, Joaquin a Stitches, was a celebrated ac-
tress, under the name of Brianes, on the Madrid
stage. The sister of Pauline was the lamented Ma-
libran, and her brother Manuel Garcia, now the Pro-
fessor of Singing at the Conservatoire, in Paris, who
has written one of the best standard works on the art
of singing, was master to Jenny Lind. The school
of Garcia in vocalisation is, in fact, European.
Pauline Garcia was born in Paris, on the 18th of
July, 1821. At four years of age she spoke with
fluency four languages, Spanish (her maternal
tongue), French, that of the country in which she
was burn ; English, which she acquired in the family
travels ; and Italian, destined to be the study of her
future art. At a later period, when invited to appe
on the great lyric stages of Germany, she made her-
self thoroughly conversant with the Teutonic lan-
guage. Her genius in painting and drawing was se
i soon developed as her faculty for languages, and her
aptitude for music. Her surpassing talents for
sweet sounds were developed from her earliest in-
fancy. At seven years of age she accompanied
on the pianoforte her father's pupils, when he gave
his singing lessons. Such was her manual dexterity,
facile fingering, and poetical touch, that at Srstit Was
proposed she should pursue the career of a pianist,
and she became one of the most accomplished scholars
of Liszt. Curiously enough, she never received any
regular lessons in singing. Her father died in 18320
before her voice was fixed, and her gifted sister,
Maria Malibran, was wandering unceasingly through-
out Europe, so that Pauline never heard her but
twice on the stage. Her brother Manuel resided in
Paris, whilst her education was going on in Brussels,
so that what she acquired in vocalisation was the
result of her spontaneous studies, guided, however,'
by the good taste and counsels of her mother
After having accompanied the family migrations,
first to England, then to New York, and after'
wards to Mexico, Pauline returned to England i?
1828, and completed her education in the Bee
gian capital, drawing and painting occupying her,,,
earnest attention es much as music and singine:
At sixteen years of age her voice became tile;
Like the organ of her sister, in quality it combine,*
the two registers of the soprano and contralto, having,
that soul-stirring tone which exercises such a potent
spell on her hearers. In compass, her voice had three,
octaves. In the month of May, 1839, before she hi'
attained her eighteenth year, she made her first ar
pearance on any stage, at the King' Theatre, is this
capital, in the character of Desdemona, the se°
season that Mario first made his debut in this countrY:
Her success was most brilliant, and she was recelen,
several times during the progress and at the end
the opera. In the month of October following, en;
gaged for the Italian Opera at Paris, then playing 1.1,,
the Odeon, she created equal enthusiasm by hetedeb7
in the same character. Her repertoire ,was confined'
however, to Tancredi, Cenerentola, Arsace, in A.S'ezeira;
mide; and Rosina in II Barbiere. In the month
April, 1840, she was married to M. Louis Viard°ol
t°
homme de lettres, at that time director of the Itslifi.l
Opera, who on his marriage resigned that post. I",
Viardot is a distinguished publicist in Paris, and WI
recently offered the post of Charge d'Affaires
Madrid, by the Provisional Goveinment of the Ile
public.
The appearance of Pauline Viardot Garcia W 0
quite a musical event, and European managers We".
eager to offer her engagements. Her last appearancv
in London was in the season of 1841, when; she
in Cimarosa's Orazi et Curiazi, with 'Mario. liesi
health was not in the best state, and her phri het
strength not sufficient to answer to the calls upon
ardent nature, in giving ventlo the dramatic excite,
ment of the scene. It was for this reason that she
declined to receive the offers made to her by the
Academie Royale de Musique in Paris. She pre'
ferred to travel, and visited Spain, singing in Miefir-1
and Grenada, and then passed another season in
am,
singing with Grisi And Persians. Her next engagkee;
ment was for two seasons in Vienna, where
triumph was immense, singing- every school of mum%
so as to satisfy the exigencies the most class
he
musician, as well as to astonish and delight t
general body of amateurs of Italian music. %%The°
Rubini formed the troupe at St. Petersburgh, Madame,
Viardot Garcia was the selected prima donna, Itr!!.
there, by the side of Madame Castellan and Man,'
AlbOni, she had three triumphal seasons, the rig:
of the climate alone compelling her. to try a 01°,.';
congenial atmosphere. Finally, she appeared at tolict
Italian Opera, in Berlin; and when Mdlle. I'
quitted the German Opera, Madame Viardot t°°o
her place in the repertoire. Her lakt engageraerie
were at Berlin and. liamburgh, in German oper-ar'
completing her career, in March last, in the form
capital.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., s' as ordered
yesterday by the Admiralty to report upon the state-
ment made by a morning contemporary respecting the
Pellerophon's corporal and minor puhishments. .after
a careful investigation the Admiral pronounced the
statements in question " very much exaggerated, as
usual."
We have intimation of the Firebrand steam-frigate,
Captain Hope, being at Rio on the Ist of March, a
letter of which date states—" The Inconstant, 36, Cap-
tain Sheppard, and the Acheron steam-sloop, Captain
Stokes, arrived yesterday. We go to-morrow to the
River Plate with Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, and
expect tour eturn here at the end of this month en route to
England.
Mr. George Allen, master of the Ondine packet, on
the Dover station, is ordered to this port with all the
eaten furniture and stores of the Ondine, for the service
of the Fire Queen yacht at this port.
The Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant Commander
Mann, arrived this morning from Cork, which she left
on the Bth, after fruitlessly endeavouring to tow to sea
the Canopus, from which ship she is manned. Captain
Collis, of the Royal Marines, came in here. When she
left. Cork Sir Charles Napier's squadron were expt eting
to be ordered to Spithead.
The Sharpshooter steam-vessel, Lieutenant- Com-
mander Bailey, went out to Spithead at seven o'clock
this morning, and left this afternoon to cruise off
Brighton for the protection of the fisheries.
The Dragon steam-frigate, Captain W. H. Hall, left
Cork on the afternoon of the 3d, and arrived at Water-
ford at seven, P.M., on the following day. She was sent
there by Sir Charles Napier to assist the authorities, it
requisite, at the Repeal meeting on Sunday. She had
an addition made to her complement of 95 officers and
men of the Royal Marines. All were lir readiness to
land at a minute's notice. The guns which the Dragon
received from the Amphion have been returned to that
vessel. The Dragon left Waterford fur Cork on the
evening of the Bth.
The 46th Regiment disembarked from the Hereford-
shire freight-ship at this dockyard this morning, and
marched to the Landport terminus of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway, whence they left
by special train for Brighton, at half-past nine, under
the superintendence of Mr. Sutton, the manager of the
Portsmouth traffic on the above railway. The troops
would be billeted at Brighton to-day, and leave to-
morrow for Canterbury, via Reigate.
The Albatross, 16, Commander Farquhar, was off St.
Helena on the 22d of March; a letter of that date says
—" We have done pretty well in making captures,
having taken three vessels and shared in the capture of
three others. We leave for Rio and Singapore in a day
or two, where we hope to be in July. All well."
PLYMOUTH, MAY B.—There are only two vessels
belonging to northern ports the captains of which have
as yet thought it advisable to take shel er in this harbour
during the present disturbances between Prussia and
Denmark, via., the Prussian brig Fanny, of Siet:in,
from Bordeaux, with wine, for Stettin, and the Danish
brig Courier, Thompson, of Apenrade, from Monte
Video, with hides and wool, for Hamburgh.
The masters of several other vessels circumstanced
like the Fanny and Courier have been spoken off this
port, but they have refused to avail themselVes of the
advice which has been transmitted to them by the consuls
and ship-agents in the Channel. These captains either
do not credit the accounts given them of the true position
of their Goeerninents, or else they are determined to mu
the gauntlet in the North Sea and at the entrance to the
Cattegat, and endeavour to reach their ports of discharge
in defiance of the threatened danger.
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Triton, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Charles J. P. Glinn, arrived at Lisbon on Tues-
day evening, the 25th of April, in 60 hours, from
Plymouth (having left the latter port on Sunday morn
ing, the 23d of April). The Triton was still there on
the 2S th, having been detained for a mail by the senior
officer, Captain Erskine, of her Majesty's ship Havannah.
The Stromboli was also at Lisbon. The Comet had left
for Oporto.
WOOLWICH, MAY 10.—Admiral Sir Charles Adam,
K.C.8., Governor, and Rear Admiral Sir James:Alexan-
der Gordon, K.C.8., Lieutenant Governor of Greenwich
Hospital, visited Woolwich dockyard to-day, and went
on board the Fisgard flag-ship with Commodore Sir
Gordon Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.H. The pay-clerks
from the Navy-office arrived in the forenoon for the
purpose of proceeding to Greenhithe to pay the Enter-
prise, Captain Sir James Clarke Ross, and the In-
vestigator, Captain Bird, six months' wages in
advance, previous to the departure of the officers and
crews of the vessels for the Arctic regions. Ad-
miral Sir Charles Adam, Rear-Admiral Sir James
Gordon, and Commodore Sir Gordon Bremer,
who superintends the payment of vessels ordered to be
paid 'at this port, proceeded with the pay clerks, in the
Monkey steam-vessel, to Greenhithe about half-past
twelie. The Enterprise and Investigator will be both
paid this afternoon, and will leave Greenhithe at the
earliest dawn to-morrow morning on their North Pole
expedition, and the Monkey steam-vessel will accom-
pany them through the Swin. The Charon steam-
vessel went to Greenhithe yesterday with several of the
petty officers, who had been allowed to remain at Wool-
wich until the compasses of the vessels were adjusted at
Greenhithe.
The Trident steam-vessel cf 350-horse power was
commissioned, and had her pendant hoisted to-day at
this port by Lieutenant Risk, who will have the com-
mand of her, having been transferred, with the officers
and crew of the Lucifer steam vessel, to serve in the
Trident.
The young man named Matthewson, whose leg was
taken off by the falling of a log of timber, when dis-
charging the cargo of the Symmetry hired 'tessel, died
at the Royal Marine Hospital on,Sunday morning, owing
to the serious nature of the injury he met with.

1 I

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS'
LIVERPOOL, MAT 10.
STOCK EXCHANGH.—The market continues to presell.tteSolit
improved appearance. Dovers, Midlands, and North-
stockW:lCP are in good demand, and prices generallY ul3-1- o'•
The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire .11100,
tion, 311. Shares, 6% dis.—Ditto (C. and B.), tats
Shares, 13—Chester and Holyhead, 1814
Counties, 15 L,4 —East Lancashire, 25/. Shares, 741,4 [ce.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 4—Great Western,
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 9 p.—Ditto, Quarters, 2bitto,
—Ditto, Fifths, 3/4 dis.—Ditto, 32/. Shares, 71,4 di dori sop
Fifths (late West Riding Union), 33/4 dis.—Lonpitto
North-Western, 1351/2—Ditto, New Quarters, 211 soga
( Man. and Bir.), A and B, 214 p. c.—Ditto (rla Slice
Man. ), 514—Ditto, ditto, Thirds, 13/4 dis.—Manchesiii ter, (ste
field, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, %
Grimsby and Sheffield), 21 dis.—hlidland Stock, I°°-- Sort'
New Halves, 4 c. dis.—Ditto, Erewash Valley, 7P. Doter
Staffordshire, 2 dis.—Shrewsbury and Cheshire, 10/.
ence, 273 p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 254--Ditt°•-i.
ypi
Thirds, 2% dis.—York,. Newcastle, and Berwick y
B.), :No. 2,1% p.—Ditte, G.. N. E. Purchase, 1 4
Ulster, 612 dis.
MANCHESTER, MAY 10. „co;
STOCK ExcuAnor..—The sales are--Ambergate, ao
ham, and Boston, '2% dis.—Birkenhead, Lancashil‘feA
Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—Lancashire and Yorksiliriepti
Riding Union), 3 11-16 dis.—London and North,-
~dd.
(Leeds and Dewsbury), 10./2 dis.—Ditto (late ki",best:„
t
Man. Rail. and Canal), Thirds, 1 5-16 dis.—blsti"
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Quarters, No. 2, ,
Eighths, 43/4 dis.— Ditto, Preference, $00t•
Thirds, 13/4 dia.—North. Staffordshire, 2% dis'
--
Eastern and Dover, No. 4,2% dis.
HULL, Mit 10.
STOCK EXCHANGE--The sales are—Hull 11°00
Halves,.49ll/4 —North British, Quarters, 51,4—pitt°'
'cY 235. 6d.
of dal
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—There is no Remedy
equal to Holloway's Pills for the Cure of Asth,l33aiferi
Richard Treacy, of Belmont, Carlow, having oer's to Pi;
much benefit from the use of these Pills, wishesa 0'0'"
made public for the benefit of all persons troubjlo9o
Asthma, that he had been suffering from this 7E104
ing complaint for the last 15 or 16 years, and a•-geole,
he.had tried a great variety of remedies, yet o'Lllegoolleci
to do him any good; he then had recourse to 0° q
tly
Pills, which invaluable medicine in a short tin°
him relict; and his breathing has become perfecoosof
and easy.—Sold by all Druggists, and at rt.
Holloway's establishinet.t, 244, Strand, Lood°°',o
POST-OFFICE NoTicE.—Yesterday noticeGrsO;
sued at the General Post-office, St. Martiree'leii by Ileo
that mails would be made up, and forwarcle„oort
Majesty's steamer Gorgon, to sail from De/13e,
the 13th instant, to Madeira, Rio Janeiro, 100','
Ayres, and Valparaiso. Letters to Madeira, "'a 'sraw„'
Rio Janiero, 2s. 9d. ; Buenos Ayres, 2s. 7d. ; !into .P,;(1
paraiso, 2s. 9d. per half ounce. Newepeiler,:iro 11"14
deira and Valparaiso 2d. each, to RipoapJe3rtlsii—tottige°•tp
Buenos Ayres free. Letters and news
this vessel must be specially addressed by her
steamer Gorgon."
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On the 26th tilt., at Oporto, Mrs. John Ramon
of a son. cool,
On the sth inst., at Ballyness, near Coleraine, 1r ter•
claog
lady of Herbert Taylor Ottley, Esq., C.E., of a sre,
e'
On the 6th inst., at Hean Castle, Pembrokeshirop
Oldham, of a daughter. 5
On the' 6th inst., at Dawlish, the wife of P. .1. f 1;4
Esq On ~ of a daughter. Digo
the 7th inst., at Wargrave-hill, Berks, the of •
Jennings, .Esq., of a daughter. son'
On the 7th inst., at Forest-hill, Mrs. John 1106of
daughter.
lady
On the 7th inst., at Westover, Isle of Wight, the Ol
the Hon. William a'Court Holmes, of a eon. SOO
On the Bth inst., in Oxford-street, Mrs. Jolla
a son. 03iegh$r*
On the Bth inst., at Winson Cottage, near JAI.
Mrs. E. A. Cowper, of a son.
eMARRIED. .a Tr
On the 4th inst., at the Church of the or Ist
Exeter, George C. Tugwell, Esq., of Crowe Hall, pear
to Virginia Arnold, eldest surviving daughter 01 0
10e
Major-General Mackie, C.B. Q„a iSht fiat
On the 9th inst., at the Catholic Chapel, °lu —o.
and afterwards at St. John's Church, Paddington,.,,bter
Sheridan Dillon Purcell, Esq., to Jane, youngest (13"
Sir Francis Des Anges.
th°
DIED. nor* toel'
On Sunday, the 7th inst ,at Hook Norton, of
26th year of his age, Richard' Liddell, Esq solicit °r'
paaid
to
Om
On the let inst., at Mount Shannon, near rf
Fitz Gerald, Esq., aged 43. T. riefi
On the sth inst., Christina, wife of the Re
White, of Sevenoaks. ix 'a Si° Or
On the 7th inst., at Leaton Knolls, Salop, .11;1.1,,, for
eldest daughter of the late Francis Lloyd, Esq., ifo of
county of Montgomery.
On the 7th inst., in Great Coram-street, stet'lStsrg
dWerejt,
John C
On thease y
7, Es q
th inst., Henry Clare, of Upper Cho
Pgrj‘i
Clerkenwell, aged 43.
Mr. nThthoemiatshyionustn.g,
,inagßedelistoh.a-villas West, Belll.sl:bt:::ctisitor.
Water
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a7mt hsianrsktiu,sa tr Cashel tottet-hs ter elle, IdaP
Service, aged 73. o
EsOq'.l,
thee d7t7h inst., at Eaton Villa, Leaming
aOn the Bth inst., in Tavistock-square,
infant daughter of Rowland Neste.
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county
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 71/4 0*" be
Strand, in the Precinct of the SAVOY, °I the
Middlesex, Thursday, May 11, 1848.

SALE OF THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.-1 ester,
day a large portion of the Chandos and Buckingham
estates, situate within the counties of Buckingham, Ox-
ford, and Northampton, were sold by public auction
(under a power for that purpose contained in the mort-
gage of these estates by the Duke and Marquis) by
Alderman Farebruther, at Garraway's, Cornhill. The
state of Fillmore, Oxfordshire, upwards of 1,200 acres,
the rental 1,2261 14s. per annum, 3 miles from Bucking-
ham and Brackley, 7 from Bicester, and 12 from Ban-
nut.), was put up at 35,0001.; the first offer was 24,0001.;
it was knocked down at 31,3001. The Syresham, Fal-
colt, and Astwell estate, Northamptonshire, comprising
2,000 acres, with a rental of 2,3001. (subject to an annuity
of 500/. to the Hon. Lady Grenville, now in her 76th
year), 5 miles from Towcester, 4 from Brackley, and 8
from Buckingham, was put up at 70,0001.; the fii st offer
was 53,0001.; it was knocked down at 65,3001. The
Hellesden estate, Buckinghamshire, 2 miles from
Buckingham, 8 from Bicester, and 16 from Aylesbury,
containing 2,890 acres, with a rent roll of 4,7631. per
annum, was put up at 150,0001.; the first offer was
97,00 CL; it was knocked down at 130,500. The Thorn-
hill estate, in the borough of BuckinAam, consisting of
440 acres, rental 6651, sold for 22.800/. The Stockhill
farm 2 miles from Buckingham, consisting of 189 acres,
sold for 8,300/. Three small dairy farms in the count'
of Buckingham, were sold respectively for 4,700/, 4C
and 2001. The total amount produced from the sale
ass 262,9904
VACANCY IN THE REPRESENTATION OF NORTH
CHESHIRE.—By the elevation of the Hon. E. John
Stanley to the Peerage, as Baron of Eddisbury, in
Cheshire, a vacancy has occurred in the representation
of' the northern division of that county. A very
numerous meeting of the electors in the Liberal interest
was held at the White Bear Inn, in Manchester, on
Tuesday, Mr. J. Cheetham, of Dukinfield, in the chair,
when resolutions were unanimously passed, declaring
that Mr. Francis Dukinfield Palmer Astley is a fit and
proper person to represent the northern division of
Cheshire, and appointing a committee for the manage
ment of his election. The committee already com-
prises a large number of freeholders of weight and
influence in the county, and includes most of the
enterprising manufacturers in Stockport, Ashton-under-
Lyne, Ilyde, Dukinfield, and the neighbourhood. It
will be recollected that Mr. Astley was nominated at
the last general election, but was subsequently with-
drawn to make room fur Mr. Stanley. There is no
other candidate in the field at present ; and there is
every probability that Mr. Astley will be elected
without opposition.
EXTENSIVE FIRE AT RATCLlFFE.—Yesterday morn-
ing, between two and three o'clock, a fire of a very
alarming character broke out upon the premises belong-
ing to Mr. Thompson, a carpenter, &c., situate at No. 1,
Old. Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe-highway. The flames com-
menced in a low range of workshops at the rear of the
dwelling, and, owing to the inflammable nature of the
stock, it spread with unusual rapidity, and in less than
five minutes after the discovery was made the workshops
of Mr. Thompson, together with the back premises of
Mr. Littlejohn, baker, No. 63, St. George's-street, and
Mr. King, carpenter, were blazing sway with the greatest
vehemence. The engines were worked with vigour for
upwards of two hours, when the brigade at length got
the flames extinguished, but Mr. Thompson's work:hops
were destroyed, the back premises of Mr. Littlejohn
burned down, the workshops of Mr. King consumed, the
property of Mr. Hayman, pork butcher, No. 64, St.
George's-street, materially injured, as well as a building
belonging to Mr. Palmer and Mr. Harding, in Lavender-
place, Pennington-street. The origin of the fire is un-
known. Mr. Thompson and Mr. Littlejohn were insured
in the Phoenix Fire-office, but Mr. King was uninsured.
Mr. Hayman was also insured in the Sun Fire-office, but
Mr. Palmer and Mr. Harding were not insured.
GROCERS AND TEA-DEALERS' BENEVOLENT PRO-
TECTION SOCIETY.—The anniversary festival of this ex-
eellent institution was held at the London Tavern, on
Tuesday evening. A letter was road from his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge expressive of his sin-
cerest regret that he was prevented taking the chair on
this occasion, owing to an attack of gout, and enclosing
his Royal Highness's chest's:. for twenty guineas in aid of
the bounty. The chair a.as taken by the president of
the society, Henry Kemble, Esq. The list of new con-
tributors exceeded that of any anniversary for many
years, amounting to about 840/., of which 801. were new
annual subscriptions.
A Fuarous BULL.—On Wednesday last the
neighbourhood of the Swansea slaughter-house was the
scene of great alarm, caused by one of the animals, a
fine bull, brought to be slaughtered from Carmarthen-
shire, becoming unmanageable and almost mad. After
very considerable difficulty he was made to enter the
yard, but he had not been long there before he became
alarmingly furious. He tore down some of the walling,
jumped about and attacked everything near him. Find-
ing all attempts to pacify the animal
useless,a council
of war was held by the butchers, and it was etermined
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