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name, and said that he had no fixed place of abode, but oc-
casionally lived at Leamington, near Coventry. On search-
ing his house the new plair of blankets produced were found,
and identified by the last witness.
Inspector Hayes said there was reason to suspect that the
prisoner had been concerned in several railway robberies that
had been committed, particularly at the terminus of the
Dover Railway, and Dr. Roberts, who had arrived from
France, on the 29th last month, was present to identify his
property that bad been found at the prisoner's house.
Mr. JARDINE considered it preferable to entertain the
charge at a future day.
The mail bags taken at the time of the robbery were the
London and Dartford and Deptford, and the prisoner is
known as having passed under several names, but Bloomfield
is the name by which he is known to the extensive fraternity
to which he belongs.
The prisoner was remanded.

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MAY s.—The average price of wheat in the week end.
lug on Saturday the 2d of Slay, was 231. 43e. , and that of ry'i
16f. 96c. per hectolitre.

The Chamber of Representatives did not transact any business to
day.

Lord A. Conyngham, President oftheArclueological Society, London,
has just made a tour through Belgium to examine the historical
movements of the country. His Lordship embarked the day before
yesterday in his yacht for Holland. _

We find the following lines in the Courrier Beige:—" Some persons
affirm that the Ministry intends shortly to present to the Chambers
some important modifications in respect to the commercial octrois
(the toll of taxes levied on provisions entering the towns), and a re-
duction of duty on salt." •
The same journal says—" The negotiations for a commencement of
a treaty between Holland and Belgium are continued very actively.
Messrs. Mercier and Willmar have had numerous conferences with
the Ministers. We are inclined to believe that important conces-
sions have been m..de on both sides; and the question of the fisheries
and of the importation of cattle, are the principal obstaLles that re-
main to be overcome."

• LIZiERATURE.-4 .yr_~_..._

CLEAVE'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS'

REGISTER.

A very useful means for ascertaining the results of
any general election, or the state of parties, as repre-
sented in the House of Commons, at any period during
the continuance of Parliament, and admirably adapted to
its intended purpose.

THE TENDENCY OF FREE TRADE to Pro-
mote Permanent and Universal Peace. A Lecture
delivered on Thursday Evening, February 26, 1846,
at a Meeting of the " Plymouth Free Trade Associa-
tion," by the Rev. W. J. Odgers.
All members of Peace Societies should " read, mark,
and inwardly digest" this admirable little pamphlet. It
points out the only common sense method by which
peace between the various nations of the earth can be
permanently preserved. It is all very well to argue on
the unreasonableness of war, to show how contrary it is
to; the precepts of true Christianity, and to depict its
horrors in the glowing language of poetry ; but until
all the world becomes reasonable—until all the world
becomes really and truly Christian—that is to say, until the
Millenium, such arguments will have little effect upon the
bulk of mankind. But establish free trade—by so doing
make it the personal interest of every individual mem-
ber of every community to keep up and extend com-
mercial (and consequently amicable) relations with every
other member of every other community (and free trade
will do this), and war will disappear from the face of
the earth, because war will be contrary to the interest
of every industrious man. No matter what may be the
form of government, the industrious classes of all na-
tions exercise, even at the present. moment, either
directly or indirectly, a vast influence on the legislative
and executive powers which rule their respective coun-
tries ; and the influence, where it is now indirect, will
eventually become direct, and where it is direct, it will
become more and more influential. It has increased, is
increasing, and cannot and ought not to be diminished.
When free trade, therefore, shall be permanently esta-
blished, there will be practically an end of war, because
it will be then contrary to tne personal interest of every
influential member of every community.

ANNUITIES TO VISCOUNT HARDINGE AND LORD
GOUGI/.—Yesterday the Bills before Parliament to grant the
annuities to Viscount Hardinge and Lord Gough, in conside-
ration, as it is expressed, of their " great and brilliant ser-
vices," were printed. The annuity, as it is known, to Viscount
Hardinge is to be 3,000/. and his two next heirs, and to Lord
Gough 2,000 L, with the same limitation. It is provided by
the Bill that in the event of the East India Company grant-.
ing an annuity of 5,000/. for the life of Viscount Hardinge,
then the grant of 3,0001. by this Act shall cease to be made ;
and with respect to the annuity by Parliament to Lord
Gough, it is stated to be the intention of the company to
grant an annuity of 2,000/. for his life, and in that event then
only one•half of the annuity now proposed shall be payable
to Baron Gough.

ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.-Mr. Watson's Bill
for the further repeal of enactments imposing pains and penal-
ties upon her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects on account
of their religion was yesterday issued as amended by the
Committee. Three clauses have been added to the Bill, one
prohibiting the exercise of the rites of the Roman Catholic
Church in public streets; another to compel members of a
religious order in England, at the commencement of the Act,
to deliver within six months a notice or statement of and
concerning himself and his order in the form prescribed, and
those who come and reside after a certain period (to be men-
tioned) shall deliver a similar notice to the clerk of the peace
of the county. The third clause requires the clerks of the
peace to preserve and register such notices, and to send a
copy to the Secretary of State, the Chief Secretary of the
Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland, "or other chief governor or
governors of Ireland."

ALARMING FIRE IN THE CORNWALL-ROAD, LAMBETH.
—This morning, shortly after midnight, a fire of a serious
character broke out upon the premises numbered 109, in the
Cornwall-road, Lambeth, occupied by Mr. C. Davis, boot and
shoemaker. At the time of the outbreak there were .six fa-
milies sleeping in the several apartments of the building, and
the discovery was made by one of them, who experienced
a most suffocating sensation from smoke and flame. In the
course of a few moments, the poor creature who was thus
suddenly awakened appeared at the first floor window, and
at that critical juncture Inspector Carter came up, attended
by constable L 133. The officers entered the premises, and
the inspector, in rushing up stairs, had his hand slightly
burned, in consequence of some one forcing the door, and
causing a considerable draught of air to enter the premises.
Fortunately, the police maintained their ground, and the re-
sult was that all the parties were rescued. The flames mean-
time continued to extend, until the whole premises, from the
basement to the roof, were burned through, and the whole of
the contents destroyed. Engines from the several stations of
the fire brigade, and from the West of England and the
County Fire-offices, were very speedily upon the spot, and
the mains of the Lambeth Water-works yielding an abun-
dant supply of water, the flames were soon subdued, and the
adjoining property saved. The fire, however, extended to the
premises of Mr. Oollins, the Eight Bells, 108, in the road,
which were considerably injured by the fire and water. By
dint of great perseverance, the flames were subdued by half-
past one o'clock. How the fire originated could not be ascer-
tained, nor whether the parties were insured. The police
were exceedingly effective in the discharge of their duties,
and in preventing idle and other persons from impeding the
efforts of the firemen.

CHETNOLE.—INCENDIARY FIRES.—At about half-
past ten on the evening of Tuesday last, Mr. Pollock, a res-
pectable inhabitant of this place, was much alarmed by dis-
covering that a linhay adjoining his dwelling-house was on
fire. The buildings being thatched, fears were at first enter-
tained for the safety of the whole of the premises, but as-
sistance being quickly at hand, a portion of the thatch was
removed, and we are happy in being able to state that the
tire was confined to the outhouse, which was entirely
destroyed. A short time previously to the discovery of the
above fire, the summer-houses belonging to Guy Champion,
Esq., of Stokewood, situate about a mile distant, were ob-
served to be in flames, and these also were wholly consumed.
There is not the least doubt that these fires were the wanton
acts of Soule villainous incendiary, to whom we regret to add,
no clue has yet been obtained.—Sherborne Journal.
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for the completion of the locomotives nearly arrived, but the
steam-steeds were not in readiness, and the Company noti-
fied to the engineers that the penalty woull undoubtedly be
enforced. Chewing the cud of bitter disappointment one
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agreement of terms a condition, that unless ready by a cer
tain time a penalty should be ordered
the e
day, the principal partner of the firm beheld a moustached
and befrogged individual enter his counting-house, and,
being introduced, heard him speak abou!, engines, pointing
to some half dozen in an unfinished state in the work rooms.
The principal explained the case, observing that however
his workmen laboured, the engines could never be com-
Eleted in time ; and the consequence would be that he and
is partners would have to pay the penalty. "Oh ! indeed,"
replied the foreigner in broken English, having first ascer-
tained the amount of penalty imposed, " be good enough to
complete them for me, and I will pay you your price and
the penalty into the bargain. I came to England for such
engines for the S railway." The bargain was struck,
and hearing of their loss the company immediately sent down
a responsible agent to the same firm to order fifteen more,
but he received the following reply to his application :—" Oh
no, we can take no more orders yet a bit. The foreign gen-
tleman, to whom we sold the others, will keep us in work for
fifteen month sto come."—Bury Herald.
CAPTAIN O'Surxxv.ax.—The numerous admirers of
the popular author of " Stories of Waterloo" will be glad to
learn that he is about to afford them a further supply of
pleasant reading, by the publication of a narrative from his
lively pen, bearing the title of " Captain O'Sullivan ; or,
Adventures, Civil, Military, and Matrimonial, of a Gentleman
on Half-pay." We have every reason to believe that Mr.
Maxwell, in no previous work, has been so bountiful of en-
tertainment, and that it is scarcely possible to imagine a
more amusing hero than the gallant gentleman whose story
he has undertaken to relate. He is the beau-ideal of a young
Irish officer, a gay-hearted, rollicking, fortune-hunting ad-
venturer, everlastingly in love or in mischief—clever, hand-
some, and irresistably agreeable, and equally in favour among
convivial associates of his own sex as with the most senti-
mental of his, perhaps, too numerous acquaintances of the
other.

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On Tuesday, a police-oilicer, who had been stationed
at the Blisworth junction,,Dn the London and Birmingham
Railway, was sentenced to be imprisoned for two months
and kept to hard labour, by the magistrates of Towcester,
for having, on the previous day, neglected turning a train
on the down line, by which a goods train was thrown off the
railway, the engine and tender of which ran down a bank
and turned over. The engine-driver and stoker escaped by
iiirniPingoil

PRICE SD.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTSI, MAY B.—The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate,
Commodore Jones, arrived at Spitbead this afternoon, from
the West Coast of Africa station, in consequence of the ill-
health of the Commodore, who is on board, not expected to
live. Captain Manse!, of the Action, 26, was left in charge
of the station, with a broad pendant. The vessel not havinv:
received pratique, no one was allowed on board up to 5 Pal.
She saluted on coming up.
Captain Horatio Austin, 1838, late 'of the Cyclops, is ap

pointed supernumerary Ca7tain of the St. Vin Cent, to super-
intend the machinery of toe steam squadron
The Alert, 16; Commander Bosarquet, and the Larne, 18,
Commander Brisbane, were at St. Helena on the Ist ult.
The America, 50, Commodore the Hon. J. Gordon, sailed
from St. Blas, for Valparaiso, with 2,000,000 dollars specie on
board, on the 2d pf March.
Having been informed that our account of the Brilliant's
armament was incorrect, we paid a visit to her at the dock-
yard to- day, and find that we had indeed made a mistake,
but an excusable one, inasmuch as she has actually six
quakers or wooden representatives of guns on the main
deck. These are fitted with carriages. &c., like the others,
so that the deception is complete; They represent four 68-
pounders and two 32's ; and are placed, strange to say, in
the midship part of the main deck. • The use of quakers in
the navy is so unusual, that nothing but ocular demonstra-
tion could have convinced us of its reality,. nor can we now
account for it, any more than we can for the extraordinary
disposition of the real armament. The two 32-pounders on
the spar deck are only useless lumber, and tend to increase
the vessel's crankness. They ought to have been placed On
the main deck, and the guns removed from the captain's
cabin, where, if quakers were used at all, short muzzles
could have been nailed to the half ports. Such an arrange-
ment would have eased the ship in pitching and scudding
very materially, whereas by the present one she will be as
effectually strained. The captain's cabin would also have
been more commodious, and this without detracting from the
effective force of the vessel. She has taken in her addi-
tional ballast. and is re-stowing her hold. She will most
likely go to Spithead again to-morrow or Monday.— Times.
The St. Vincent will go to sea on Monday for a short trip,
to give the greenhorns a little seasoning.
The Sir Robert Sale, hired freight-ship, sailed for Landon
this afternoon. She arrived on the sth.
The Barretti Junior transport, Lieut. Edward Griffiths,
agent, arrived yesterday morning from Bermuda, with con-
victs whose terms have nearly expired. They have been put
on board the York hulk.
The Fisguard, 42, Captain Duntz, was at St. Blas on the
13th of March, and expected to be at Valparaiso in February,
1847, en route to England.
SHEERNESS, MAY B.—The Cuckoo, steak Lieut.-Com-
mander A. Parks, arrived on Monday from the coast of
Scotland, to refit, for which purpose she will be hauled into
dock to-day. When completed she will return to head-
quarters
at Leith.
The Cornwall and Conquestador, 50-gun frigates, reported
ready for the pendant last week, are ordered to be discharged
from the basin and take their place among the advance ships
in ordinary.
The Dido, 20, has had her bowsprit gammoned, and the order for her commissioning is expected daily. She is a post-
captain's command.
The Havannah, 22, razee, is the next vessel for commis-
sion. She has been recaulked and repainted during the past
week. Her masts are nearly ready, and will be put in place
shortly, when she will be reported ready for the pendant.
The Wildfire, steam-tender, Second-Master Brockman,
took the Commander-in-Chief to Woolwich on Monday, and
will return with him on Saturday.
The African steamer, Second-Master Barke, has been to
London with a number of supernumeraries, who were to
proceed to Portsmouth per railway.
The Griffin, brigantine, is to be reported ready for sea on
the 16th. She has taken her guns on board, and is com-
pleting provisions for five months. Her armament consists
of one pivot-gun, a 32-pounder, weighing 40 cwt., amidships,
and two 24-pounder carronades.

The Rochester, lighter, arrived from Portsmouth with
stores on Wednesday.
The Goodwill and Falmouth have proceedad to Chatham.
In Dock—The Worcester, 50; the Chichester, 50 ; the
Horatio, 44; and the Dart, 3, building.
In Harbour—The Ocean, 80, flag. ship pro tem. ; and the
African and Cuckoo steamers.
CHATHAM, MAT B.—The Mancenvrer sailed on the 7th
instant, with the frame timbers for the Nankin, 50 guns,
ordered to be built at Woolwich.
The following naval lighters remain loading, viz., Fal-
mouth, for Woolwich ; the Aid, for Sheerness ; the
Sinbad, for Deptford ; and the Goodwill, for Sheerness-
yard.

- The Cumberland, 70 guns, has been removed from her
moorings in Chatham-reach, to moorings at Gillingham-
reach.

Captain William Henry Shirreff, Superintendent of Chat.
ham Dockyard, we regret to state, was taken suddenly
unwell on the sth instant, and is now confined to his bed.

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
Cnamast, MAY 7.—This afternoon the following detach-
ments arrived at the Invalid Hospital, Fort Pitt, from India,
consisting of 4 men of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, and 1
man of the 16th Lancers ; with 1 sergeant major, 1 corporal,
and 13 privates of the 10th Foot; and 1 quarter-master ser-
geant, 5 corporals, and 13 privates of the 29th Regiment,
with 5 women and 12 children, in charge of Brevet Captain
R. G. Kackenzie, of the 50th Foot. --
The detachments came by the ship Ellenborough, Captain
Closs ; they embarked at Calcutta on the Gth of January
last, and arrived off Gravesend this morning, and during the
voyage, which was made in one hundred and twenty (iays,
the troops lost by death two men of the 9th Lancers, and
one man of the 29th. A sergeant's wife, during the passage,
jumped overboard and was drowned. Several of the soldiers
are blind, and others, upon medical inspection, were placed
in hospitals. The remainder were sent to the invalid depot,
St. Mary's Barracks, to await their discharge on pensions
according to their length of servitude. Troop-sergeant-
major Riddler, of the A troop of the 9th Lancers, died a few
days previous to the detachments embarking.
A detachment from the provisional battalion, consisting
of 2 subalterns, 6 sergeants, 5 corporals, and 75 privates,
march from this garrison on the Bth instant, and embarked at
the Sun-pier, to proceed by the Victoria steam-boat for gar-
rison duty at Sheerness, to relieve the grenadier company
of the 65th, which returns to Chatham to join their head-
quarters.

- The 65th Regiment,under orders for embarkation for
Van Diemen's Land, by the ship Java, consisting of 2 field
officers, 4 captains, 3 lieutenants, 5 ensigns, and 4 staff, 29
sergeants, and 600 rank and file, with 77 women, and up-
wards of 100 children, were medically inspected this day,
and the medical report was transmitted this evening to the
Horse Guards. The measles is still in the regiment. The
removal of the regiment depends on the report of the medi-
cal inspector.

THE FORTIFICATIONS AT SHEERNESS. - The im-
provements now in progress at Sheerness, under the direction
of the engineers of the Board of Ordnance, are very exten-
sive, and are rapidly completing. The Dockyard and lower
part of Bluetown will be entirely within the forts, and be
inclosed with heavy batteries and a deep moat, into which
the sea will flow every tide. The water can be retained, and
additional security thereby attained if required. The bat-
teries, when completed, will have a very formidable appear-
ance. Guns of large calibre will be mounted along the entire
line, from the entrance of the Medway to the line command-
ing the Nere.

-ROYAL ARTILLERY.—I 09 recruits arrived at the
garrison at Woolwich at half-past 11 o'clock, r.m., from Ire-
land, having been brought down the river at that late hour
by the Niobe, Woolwich steam-packet, hired for the occasion
to await their arrival by railway from Liverpool. Permis-
sion was granted to the landlord of the canteen of the Royal
Artillery Barracks to open his house to supply the men
with refreshment at 12 o'clock at night. Sixty-six of these
recruits are to be posted to the 10th battalion. It is in con-
templation to add considerably to the accommodation of
this branch of her Majesty's service at bead-quarters at
Woolwich, as the importance of artillerymen to assist
at the fortifications on the coasts of this country is
now evident, and it will require a number of men
to render them efficient. Several of the store-rooms in
the barracks are to be converted into dwelling-rooms fur
the staff-sergeants, and the premises at the present occupied
by the staff-sergeants are to be fitted for
.officers' quarters.
The store-rooms above the stables in the l
lery- square are to be emptied andmade ki3
intoa lMorse
comfortableArtil-
t
barracks for the men, and the under-ground rooms adjoiningiange
converted into store-rooms, the change
being square are to be
being made for the advantage of the men, who will then have
very healthy barrack-rooms. It was anticipated that Major
Hope's company, first on the roster for foreign service,
would have proceeded to Hong-Kong, but it is not probable
they will embark for that quarter of the world, as it is in-
tended to send out a full company to Australia, in addition
to the half company or large detachment already at New
Zealand, and the whole of the artillery force in that rising
and important colony will be placed under the command of
a field officer. Major Hope's company, being the first for
foreign service, is expected to proceed to Australia.
CIISTOMB.—The officers employed in this branch of
the revenue, as well at the port of London as at every
outport and place along the coasts of and throughout the
United Kingdom, of every grade and department of the
service, have recently been furnished with amended and
revised copies of instructions as to the mode of performing
their official duties, and the manner in which the several
rules and regulations of the department are to be carried
into effect, in respect to their particular and individual sta-
tion and capacity, for the joint advantage of the public and
the trade of the country, and the interests of the Crown
under which they are privileged to serve. This has been
rendered in a great measure necessary, in consequence of the
great changes which have been effected in commercial and
mercantile matters, either with or without the interposition
and sanction. of the Legislature, and also owing to the
amazing extension of privileges and advantages now
afforded to the shipping and mercantile interests, for the
furtherance of their designs and the requirements of the vast
trade of the country, beyond what was in former years
thought of or imagined. On the fly-leaf of these new copies
of instructions or monitors, they are directed to bear con-
stantly in mind the solemn declaration which they were
re-
quired to make on their admission to the office which they hold
under the Crown.

THE CAB NUISANCE AGAIN.—Last evening as two
gentlemen were driving along Stamford-hill towards town,
they were annoyed by a cabman, No. 1,577, by his driving
first on one side of the road and then on the other, evidently
to knock up against the gentlemen's light vehicle and cause
an up-set. Upon being spoken to the cabman used the
most low and disgusting language. On arriving at Kings-
land-gate the gentlemen alighted to take the'number of the
cab (the turnpike-man at Kingsrand-gate, without his name
over the door, having refused), when the cabman struck the
gentlemen, but fortunately for the gentlemen, the cabman
got the worst of the encounter.
THE LATE OUTRAGE IN WESTNINSTER.—Upon in-
quiry at the Westminster Hospital yesterday, relative to the
ease of Elizabeth Pullen, the report is far more favourable
than the day before. In the course of the afternoon, the at-
tendants were enabled to pass down the poor creature's throat
some beef tea, and this nourishment has since been adminis-
tered with success. The injured woman also passed a better
night than she bad since her admission into the hospital.
The alteration, in fact, was so much in favour that it was not
deemed necessary to require the attendance of a magistrate
to take her depositions.
The taking down of the spire of the Cathedral of St.
Denis has just been 'completed
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of 50f. for the danger he has incurred. The Commission of Civil
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SPORTING_INTELLIGESCI4.
CHESTER RACES.—Faro AY.
Match.-200, 13st each. Three miles: Mr. Mytton's b g
Volnu, out of Saturnia, beat Mr. B. Collett's Vitula. Bet-
ting 6t04 on Vitali. Won by a length.
A Free Handicap Stakes of 10 soya. each, It ft, with 50 added.
Three quarters of a mile. (9 subs.)
Mr. A. W. Hill's Burlesque, 3 yrs, sst 71b (Tasker) 1
Mr. Osbaldeston's Gizelle, 3 yis,. 4st 6lb (carried 4st 81b)
The following also itarted but were not. placed :—Mr.
Tempest's T'Auld Squire, Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah, Mr.
T.*Dawson's sister to Skipton.. -
Betting-6 to 4on Burlesque, who waited on Lady Sarah
and T'Auld Squire to the Bridge turn, and won by a neck,
Gazelle, by suffentnce, having got up just on the post. Run
in 1 min. 22 sec.
The Wirral Stakes of 10 soya each, with 30 added, for two
and three yrs old; two yrs, 6st 121 b; three, 9st ; mares
and geldings allowed 31b. The second •to save his stake.
T.Y C. (6 Subs )
Mr. Mostyn, sf by Laneicost. out of Miss Clifton, 2 yrs... 1
Mr. Worley's Wintonia, 2 yrs ....... 2
Mr. Harland's The Cossack Maid, 3 yrs
Sir J. Gerard's Cornelia, 3 STs
Betting-7 to 4 agst Cossr.ckMaid, 2to 1 Lanercost
filly, 5 to 2 agst Wintonia, and. 3 to ,1 agst Cornelia.
Won in a canter. Run in •one minute twenty-five seconds.
The Cheshire Stakes of 25 soyS. each, 15 ft, with 50 added.
The second to save 'Lis stake. About a mile and three
quarters. (38 Subs.; 19 of whom declared.)
Lord G. Bentincles Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs. sst
Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 5 yrs, Bst 31b
The following also started Lut were not placed :—Mr.
Irwin's Polish, Mr. A..W. Hill's Salopian, Lord Chesterfield's
Lady Wildair, Mr. Worthington's .11r. Husband, Lord Mill-
town's Colleen Bawn; Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, Mr. Cope-
land's Arthur, Mr. Osbaldeston's Petit Marceau.
Betting.-7 to 4 agst Lady Wildair, 7to 2 agst Marquis of
Conyngham, 5 to I agst Ar.hur,. 6 to 1 agst Godfrey, and
6 to 1 agst Colleen Bawn.
Won by three parts of a length,. Polish third, and Plaudit
fourth. Run in- two minutes and 37 seconds..
Match 100 sovs., h It, Cup Course—Mr. Osbaldeston's
Sorel's,' 5 yrs, 12st 3ilbS (owner), beat Mr. H. Johnstone's
Blind Hookey, aged, list witbs (owner), easy.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
CHESTER RACES.—FRIDAY (CONCLUDED).
The Ladies' Purse of SOL for the beaten horses of the week.
Heats, once round and a dis.
Sir C. 3lonck's Flattery, 4 yrs, Bst llb (Cartwright) 3 1 1
Mr. Dawson's sister to Skipton, 3 yrs, 6st Sib
Mr. Hawortles Robin Burns, 4 yrs, Bst 4lb .........
Each heat won cleverly.
' LATEST BETTING AT CHESTEP
3 to 1 agst Sting DERRY.
1.18 to 1 agst The Traverser-
-sto 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes taken
10 to 1 agst Fancy Boy— t. 25 to 1 agst Crown Prince
10 to 1 agst Torn Tullock—t. 13 to 1 agst John Day's lot
oArts.
Offers to take 7 to 1 about Vanish.

RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.—The forty•seventh an-
niversary meeting of the members of this Society took place
last evening at Exeter-hall; Sir E. N. Buxton, Bart., in the
chair. The Secretary read a report of the Society's operations
during the past year. It stated that a great and encouraging
event had recently transpired in China, viz., the promulga-
tion of a royal decree authorising the freedom of religious
worship. It was impossible to foresee the happy results
which would follow thid circuirastance.. The shops, streets,
junks, and temples, were now accessible to the Christian mis-
sionaries. The committee had caused to be distributed at
Hong Kong, 22,000 tracts, and had made grants to the
amount of 893/. In India there were twenty auxiliary
societies engaged in distributing religious works. During.
the year nearly 1,200,000 traei.s had been printed by these
societies, to which the London. Society had made grants to.
the amount of 1,587/. In the Society Isles, 215,000 tracts had
been distributed ; in South Afriea, 451,000 ; in the West
Indies, 105,380 ; in Quebec, 10,000 ; in addition to many
thousands in Montreal, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick,
making a total in British North America of 183,000, in addi-
tion to libraries formed in some of the large towns. The cir-
culation of religious tracts was producing important results
in France. A Protestant tract society has been formed at
Paris, the receipts of which during the year amounted to
229,000 francs, and which had issued 650,000 tracts. Wale.
" communes" were now forsaking the Roman Catholic
Church and embracing Protestantism. In Switzerland 8,000
tracts had been sent for the use of the Italian papulation, and
a grant made to the Geneva Evangelical Society. The 'Bel-
gian Evangelical Society had distributed during the year
42,000 tracts, and had received from the London Society a
grant of 2001. Amongst the other Continental cities where
the greatest number had been circulated were Amsterdam,
60,000 ; Stockholm, 50,000; St. Petersburgh, 167,000. The
Society's tracts had also been issued in Persia and' other
parts of the East. The number distributed in the British Isles
was altogether 2,260,000, at a cost of 2,7611, ; and the total
grants to foreign and colonial societies amounted to 450, at
a cost of 2,003/. The issues during the year amounted to
17,571,413, making, with those distributed by the societies
abroad, a total of 42,000,000, in ninety-eight languages and
dialects. The receipts of the Society amounted to 56,1101.
The report having been adopted, and several resolutions
passed, the meeting broke up,
LONDON SOCIETY FOIL • PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY
AMONGST THE JEws,...The arterial general meeting of the
members of this Society, the:Object of which is explained in
its title, was held yesterday morning at Exeter Hall. Lord
Ashley was in the chair, and amongst the supporters of the
Noble Lord were the Marquis of Cholmondeley, the Hon.
W. Cowper, M.P., Sir George Rose, Bart., the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, and a large number of
clergymen. There were also on the platform several children
of Jewish parents converted to Christianity, and educated in
the Society's schools. The report, road by the Rev, Mr.
Averat, one of the secretaries, stated that the amount of con-
tributions 'towards the general and special fund, not includ-
ing the temporal relief fund, amounted during the year to
25,5811., being an increase of 2931. over those of the previous
year. In addition to that sum, 6301, had been received on
account of the temporal relief fund, end the munificent
donation of 2,600/. from Miss Jane Cooke, of Cheltenham,
the whole of the sum required for completing the Protestant
church at Jerusalem. The increase of receipts had not,
however, kept pace with the increasing wants of the Society,
for the operations had been much extended during the past
year by the employment of an additional number of mission-
aries. Out of the widows' fund there were six widows of
missionaries and several children supported. A portion of
the funds had been devoted to relieving converted Jews
when suffering from distress, and providing them with em-
ployment. The society had distributed 3,653 Bibles, 1,613
Testaments, 2,274 portions of the Scripture, and several copies
of English religious works, translated into Dutch and Spanish
for the use of Jews in Holland and Spain. The congrega-
tions at the Episcopal chapels continued to increase, and on
Tuesday last thirty-eight Jews presented themselves before
the bishop to receive baptism. Four young students had
been sent from the Hebrew college as missionaries to the
East. Converts continued to be made amongst the Jewish
population in Warsaw, Frankfort on the Oder, Berlin,
Konigsberg, Stockholm, and other large Euro-
pean cities, and in several parts of the East, including
Jerusalem, Beyrout, Aleppo, and Bagdad. The Marquis of
Cholmondeley moved, and the Rev. Mr. Freemantle se-
conded, the adoption of the report. The motion was carried
unanimously; and also an expression of regret at the death
of the late Bishop of Jerusalem, proposed by the lion. W.
Cowper, M.P., and seconded by the Rev. Hugh Stowell,
Several other resolutions having been passed, the meeting
separated.

APPREHENSION OF A FEMALE COINER,--Information
having been received by the police that a gang of coinera
were in the habit of assembling together at a house in New-
court, Duck-lane, Westminster, for the purpose of manu-
facturing base coin, Inspector Penny, Sergeant Brennan and
a strong party of officers of the G division, proceeded thither
on Wednesday evening, armed with sledge hammers, crow-
bars, &c., for the purpose of making an entrance and cap-
turing the delinquents. On their arrival at the house, the
officers organised themselves, and made every preparation in
the event of attack or resistance. They found the street-
door open, and, on proceeding to the second floor, they
found the door of the apartment strongly barricaded with
deal boards, iron bars, and bolts. They instantly com-
menced operations, and burst into the room, when they dis-
covered a young masculine female before aburning furnace,
in the act of coining. She was greatly agitated, when she
seized on a plaister of Paris mould for the coining of half-
crown pieces, and broke it to pieces. She snatched a ladle
from the fire, and spilt a quantity of liquid metal. She then
put into her mouth a half-crown piece, and attemptedt toe
swallow it, but it stuck in her throat.
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THE BATTERSEA-BRIDGE TRAGEDY.--On Thursday
morning the missing body of one of the children drowned by
their mother at Battersea- bridge, was found imbedded in sand
at the bottom of a sluice in Battersea-fields. •
VAUXHALL-BRIDGE COMPANY.-011 Friday the an-
nual general meeting of the proprietors of the above com-
pany took place at the George and Vulture Tavern, Corn-
hill, for the purpose of receiving the report of the past half-
year, the election of officers, &c. W. Barron, Esq., pre-
sided ; and after the minutes of the previous meeting had
been read and confirmed, the general and financial reports
were read, which set forth, that the seal bad been affixed to
the license on a lease of seven, fourteen, or twenty-one years,
th the Western Gas Light Company, to carry their pipes.
across the bridge, on advantageous terms to the proprietors.
That instructions had been given to watch, and, if neces-
sary, to oppose the Bill now before Parliament, for making a
roadway from Vauxhall to Battersea-bridge, erecting a sus-
pension-bridge from Chelsea to Battersea, &c. The pro-
posed erection
of a bridge at Lambeth had been withdrawn
for the present. The directors recommend the reduction of
the tolls, for carriages drawn by four horses, from la. 6d. to
Is., and for those drawn by two horses, from 9d. to Gd. The
increase of the receipts for tolls over the past half-year was
7791. 15s. 7d, and the general favourable state of the Com-
pany's affairs justified the recommendation of a dividend ot
14s. per share; being 2s. per share more than
dues, &c.,
on any pre-
vious occasion. The gross receipts for tolls, pier
with previous balance, amounted to 9,4311. 10s. 4d. The
which related to the
report was adopted, except that portionen of Mr. Prender-
gast,reduction of the tolls. Onthe
this question was adjourned
till next meeting. Three directors amendment am
the further consideration of
having been re-elected,
the meeting, after thanks to the chairman, broke up.
A PANIC.— Yesterday afternoon, whilst the gallery of
the Committee-rooms of the new Houses of Parliament was
by persons waiting to obtain entrance into the Kent
crowded•a ay s Committee-room, to hear the decision, the work-
men on the tower above let a large block of stone fall, which,
made such a crash that it sounded as if the temporary floor.
ins were giving way, and the whole mass were coming
through. There was an instant clearance of the spot by the
counsel
counsel and agents and " the publit" there congregated, wile
rushed away in all directions in the greatest alarm. When
the danger was passed, there was a general laugh at the
"panic" and its cause. •
SUDDEN DEATH OF A. THEATRICAL BOX-KEEPER.—
Yesterday forenoon, Mr. William Carter held an inquest, at.
the Spread Eagle Tavern, Kennington-lane, Lambeth, onz
the body of Mr. George Peter Bate, aged forty-nine years,
lately residing at No. 19, White Hart- street, Kennington.
road. Deceased had been for many years box-keeper at
Covent-garden Theatre, and usually enjoyed good health.
On Tuesday morning last the deceased was dressing himself,
when he suddenly fell to the ground in a fit. He was sub-
sequently found in a state of insensibility, and before medical
aid could be procured he expired, from long-standing diseasa.
of the lungs. The jury returned a verdict of "Natural d the
L from consumption."