The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-01 00:00:00

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (STRA...

THEARNE DEVIATION).
Mr. TALBOT, on the part of the Scottish Central line,
spoke at
great length in favour of a clause which he propJsed to have intro-
'Mead into the Bill, and the object of which was to prevent the Edlll-
burgh and Northern Companies from entering upon the North Inch
of Perth. The Learned Counsel urged the fact that in tqr John
iloblionse's Committee, it was decided, alter a long investigation of
die merits of the case, that part or the plans of the Dundee and Perth
line, which gave powers to enter upon the south Inch, was rejected.
The Learned Counsel's speech occupied the Committee for more than
an hour.

GROUP XI.
This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, Mr. Henley in the
chair. Other Members present, Hon. W. 0 Stanley, Lord Alford,
uid Viscount Eastnor. Absent, Mr. Smith O'Brien.
The clauses that were postponed yesterday were submitted this
morning, and agreed to.

WILSONTOWN, ztacauvrArGsnm, and COIN"
NESS (IMPISOVEMENT and SEANCHES)•
'this Bill, which is unopposed, was then proceeded with.
31r. GRAHAM briefly stated the objects of the Bill, which wall to
change the existing Wilsontown, Alorningside, and Coltness, from a
single into a double line, and to make two small branches to 'roil
works tor their accommodation.

Proofs having been given • or conformity with Mr. T. Duncoinbel
resolut .ons,

31r. ( (Allmon, civil engine: r, was called, and shortly examined AS
to the necessity of the cha.,ge proposed and the two branches,'
hi outer to. accommodate the mineral traffic. The gradientS
and curves were generall favourable, and there were no other
engineering difficulties. One branch was 4% miles long, and would
cost 40,001.; and the other, to Shott's ironworks, under a mile
length, would cost 5,0001. The whole capital was 80,180/.
Air. Forman corroborated the evidence of the previous witness.

The Committee immediately declared the preamble proved.
The clauses were then gone into and agreed to.

GROUP XXXVI.

WAZZPIELD, PO or EFRACT, AND GOOTO
(IMEITHLEY, aszmn,w, AND OAICENSHAVir
(rev C=ON), WALTON AND Dairrxxxa,
3,7 NC TIOBT.

The Committee to whom these Bills had been referred, met aid
morning in Committee•room No. 25, Mr. Bernal in the chair.
The preamble of the Newcastle and Uarlington, and York and
North 'Midland branches, which were originally referred to COI
C. minittee, but subsequently assigned by them to Mr. Greene, were
declared proved yesterday.
The Committee first proceeded with the clauses in the first-men"
(toned Bill, which was passed at their last meeting, and having all_„'"
L-ente(l to the whole f them, the Chairman Intimated that he woUP
report the favourable decision of the Committee to the. House *big
evening.

IV/ALTON AND DRIPPXELD.
The usual formal process having been given,
Mr. lisma proceeded to explain the nature of the project.

GROUP XXXVII.
The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in No. 21 of the no.
Committee Boon's. cresent, Lord Seymour (chairman), Lord Ebrizir
ton, Mr. F. French, Lord Edwin Hill, and Sir J. Lopez.
They immediately resumed the consideration of the
SHEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, BARNSLOIro
WAKEFIELD, H UDE ER S rIELD, *NIP
G ti OLE.

Mr. James Walker, of Wakefield, engineer and mine surveyor, was
examined at much length by Mr. ROBERT HALL in suPport of Of
11111. Witness was well acquainted with the mineral district throng"
which the proposed line would pass, as far south as WOrSbOreilgil.
He had agencies for and other professional business with most of the
coal mines and other works along the line, and he corm'
bunted, with some additional particulars, the evidence giTLIII
by the previous witnesses, as to the advantages to ."
expected to the West Riding generally, and especially t?
Sheffield, Barnsley, Waked. ld, and the adjacent counties connected
with the Silkstone and Barnsley coal beds. That field contained
two seams of coal, of which the productiveness amounted, in roan!:
numbers, to 300,000,000 tons of coal, of good quality. Witness di"
not think that any other line —any of those that he had known co,
uta
projected--would afford such convenient and beneficial access tO us
large body of coal.

In cross-examination by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, Mr. Pickering,
and Mr. Lee, for the different opponents, the answers of the witnegg
were merely explanations in detail of his chief evidence.

Sub-Committee, No. I.
The Committee met to-day at Twelve o'clock, in room No. to
Mr. Strutt in the chair, and resumed the consideration of the
WEST RIDING
on which the standing orders were declared not compiled with.
STIRLINGSSIRE MIDLAND JUNCTION

(PETITION FOR ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS).
The Bill was sent up to the Standing, Orders Committee. Ordell
not complied with in Committee to purchase.

ERUPTIONS OF MOUNT HECLA.—A letter from Coro'
hagen of the 16th of April, says :—" The packet which arrived Ye•:.
terday from Reikavik, In Iceland, has brought us letters from that
town of the Bth of March (four days later), which give curious de'
tails resi,ecting the malady under which the cattle were stlfTering
from having eaten grass, &c., covered with the ashes vomited b/
Mount Heels. These ashes (say the letters) act more particularlf
on the bones of the animals which have swallowed them. Thus, 0'2,,
the hones of the feet there are lormed, in less than twenty-fo.`
hours, osseous excrescences, of an oblong form, which graduallY
sume so formidable a development, that they prevent the beast:
from walking ; the same phenomenon is then manirested in tb_:;
lower jaw, which is at the same time enlarged, and extends in
directions so considerably that it eventually splits in several plsce"
whilst on the teeth of the upper jaw there is formed a spe.deli° '
osseous needles, very long and pointed, which take root in the lower
jaw, and even traverse it— a phase of the malady which always deter'
mines a fatal issue. As high winds had prevailed for some time, the 101:
canfc ashes were scattered throughout the island, and a great nuntbe`
of cattle, especially oxen, cows, and sheep, had perishes. p the
eruption of Ilecla (says the letters from Reikavik) is prolonged for
two months more, ail the rural propretors who nave not enough he,
to feed their herds—and the majority are in this situation—will Do
obliged either to slaughter their cattle, or to abandon them to certain
death on the pastures thus poisoned by the volcanic ashes. 1.136
eruption of Mount Hecla was extremely violent. 'File-flames which
issued from the three great craters attained a height of; 14,000 feet,
and their breadth exceeded the greatest breadth of the river Picersenr
the most considerable river in Iceland. The lava tad already formed
lofty mountains, and amongst the masses of pumeestone vomited by
the volcano, and which have been found at a distance of three-fourth);
of a mile (a French league and a half), there were some which
weighed half a ton (480 kilogrammes Fren&r). By the eruption 0!
' Heels the enormous quanti;les of snow and Ice which had accantu_
lated for several years eu the sides of that mountain have been
melted, and partly fallen into the river llangen, which has „
over-
flowed its banks several times. The waters of that river, which run"
almost at the foot of Mount Hecla, and which receives a large Poi:
lion of the burning lava, were so hot that every day they cast UPI;
the banks numbers of dead trout, almost half baked! Every night
vivid streaks of the aurora borealis illumined the sky."
AN UNEXPECTED I.P.EssING.—The fig was so intense
one day last month, that the whole of Trafalgar-square was Corn
pletely concealed from view from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.—Almanac* of
Mouth.

EDUCATION BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—It has been
announced that a Submarine Electric Telegraph is to be laid do*
from Dover to Calais. If this great feat is accomplished, we tat%
have, in addition to electrical eels, a quantity of galvanic soles, 31,.ifl
pert aps, an immense assortment of shocking herrings. 'We
have salmon amusing themselves by going through a series of WO',
derful evolutions or, the slack wire, and other facetious members °
the finny tribe, hurrying to and fro upon the great medium of Se: ifl.
"
munication between ranee and England. It would be awkWar
sonic mischievous old shark should snap the wire in two, just as It
might be in the act of conveying some very important piece of intelit.
gence. Be might cut short a royal speech with a slight elf!'
of his jaw ; or, with a wag of his tail, abbreviate the
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most interesting announcement. Our object, however,
alluding to the Submarine Electric Telegraph, is for the
purpose of recommending that it should be devoted to education?"
purposes. We are aware that prof..re already advertise tlit
readiness to leach " French, comparatively in no thne ;" but tbs
language may be acquired in that wonderfully brief space of tint!
distinguished as " the twinkling of a bed-post" by the wonderful aid
of the Electric Telegraph. Supposing branch wires to be connected
with the main line, they could be laid on to all the schools in EDP
land, particularY about the Kentish coast, where the experiment
might be tried in the first instance. A French master stationed 41;
the Calais end of the wire could direct his lessons along the line, an
a
variouseo dre:i
ocxfhe hools would communicate to theta
ihtnet
course,
nabeigelgitualbelyeawpaeblileadoaf
l allt: .t wireshe7.e instructionlsgal dmoe nsytstoh:
eat
other studies.—Punch.
Two curicua sales have I t taken place Parisi
aeyin f
the first was of lour shrubs, being of as many different varieties 0
camellias, sold for the sum of Io,ooof. (4001.) at the mere inspection
of the drawing representin,, them ; the other was by M. de Lasatf;
tine,
thir who has sold to the Presse the copyright of a volume of 51y3...--
ty pages, being the " Youthful Memoirs and Confidences" of lA'
illustrious poet. -
A small granite pyramid is about to be erected on the,
patfTedorid;
spA where Lecomte fired at the King of the French, as a menials'
of his Majesty's providential escape from the hands of the assassin' •
We understand the Governmeht has signified its sr
proval of the plans which have been submitted for laying down,sl
electric communication between tile British and French coasts. "10
of the inventors of the plan has lately inspected the coast betweisei
Portland and this vicinity, with a view of ascertaining its capatat
for the trial of the experiment. —Poole Herald.
EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.—It is calculated AO
30,n0 persons will have emigrated from Ireland In the present 3%14
Many of them are known to have considerable sums of money; Du
at only 201. a head, they will withdraw from the small capital of this
impoverished country no less an amount than 600,0001.—Pwn
Weekly Register.

BIRTHS,
On the 29th ult., the wife of Samuel Naylor, Esq., of the Oda.
Temple, barrister-at-law, of a son.
wile
On the 29th ult., at Cornwall-place, New Camden-town, the
of the Rev. John Hobart counter, of a daughter. rau*l
ca-- On the 29th ult., at Cdeugall-place, Old Kent-road, Mrs. ..,
Morris, of a son.
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MARRIED.
On the 29th ult., at St. George's Church, George Egerton, ..D.lfor.
Lady _glary Louisa Campbell, tburth daughter of the Earl of Cafirso
On the 30th ult., at St. Alphage, Greenwich, the ReY• 1".• of
Frederic Douglas, Chaplain to her Royal Highness the 'Mae. to
Gloucester, to Christiana Fansliawe, eldest daughter of A.dinnl"
Hon. Sir R. Stopford, Governor of Greenwich Hospital.

Charles Draper, youngest sonDIED
of Mr. William Draper, of WO
Holborn, aged 21. nia third
On the 19th ult., at Leghorn, Thomas A. Carmichael, ''
son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Carmichael, awed 22.ye11,
0 r
On the 26th ult , at Macloneigh Rectory, the Rev. Richard
O
eon n
the 28th Rothe, Recult., at Dover,tor of KilnuchaelJane,Cork Dalrysnele. . Ptain
the wife of Ca
Luke Smithett, of her Majesty's packet service. Solitb'
On the 28th ult., at Grove-place, Brompton, Henry George
R.N., late of her Majesty's yacht William and 111ar_yz_.............._____......!..

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