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London, England, 1846-06-24 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

..POLISS FRONTIERS, JUNE 9.—The Citadel of War-
saw is to be considerably enlarged, as appears from the
purchase of several parcels of land in the vicinity on
account of Government ; the number of political pri-
soners increases, which probably renders an enlarge-
ment necessary. The editor of the Warsaw Library,
a scientific journal, which is rather popular, is said
to be accused of some political offence, which may be
an obstacle to the publication of the journal.
VIENNA, JUNE 4.—lt is said that the inspection of
the Prussian contingent to the army of the German
Confederation will be gives by his Majesty the Emperor
to an Austrian Archduke, and that the Prince ot
Prussia will inspect ,the Austrian contingent. It is
said that 30,000 men will take part in the autumnal
reviews near Vienna. After the review the levy
of recruits in the German province will begin. It
is said that the levy will amount to 50,000 men.
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Stephen arrived
here yesterday evening, from Prague.
BERLIN, JUNE 14.—The King and the country have
sustained a great loss. One of the most disti,,guished
of our statesmen, who has rendere,l the most important
service to the monarchy, Baron, Von Nagler, Minister
ot State and Postmaster-General, died yesterday at
half-past three o'clock, of an apoplectic fit, in the 76th
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year of his age.
Since yesterday the report has revived that the city
of Cracow, and probably the whole of the countrya
the R.-publie, will be given up, on certain conditions, to
Austria.

The day before yesterday, seven young Boyars, ac-
companied by a captain of the llespedar of Moldavia,
arrived here from Buchareth, who are to enter as
boarders into the Academy of Cadets, to receive a
scientific military education.
A new ordinance for the exercise of the Prussian
army has been drawn, and is already used by the
cavalry of the Guards. Some new evolutions are intro•
duced, an i all foreige words in giving the ,ommand are,
to be discarded; which, at first, the officers will find it
difficult to observe. Many commands hitherto given in
one short French word, which by long use has become
naturalised in the German language, must now be ex-
pressed by a paraphrase.
BRESLAU, JUNE 13.—1 n the second meeting of the
Christian Catholic Provincial synod, it was resolved to
return to the baptismal form—" In the name of God the
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." It was recog-
nised that the only source of Christianity is the Bible.
DUSSELDORFF, JUNE 10.-With respect to the exhibi-
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ion of relics in the Cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, which

is to take place on the 10th of July, sick persons who
desire to be touched with them are required to produce
a medical certificate of the state of their health, and an-
other from their priest, respecting their moral conduct.
The hopes of the approaching harvest are everywhere
favourable. The weather has been extremely fine, anl

we have had some rain, which has had a very beneficia
effect.

GALACZ, MAY 25.—A continued drought prevails in
Wallachia, so that feats are entertained for the standing
crops, which in the Spring promised to prove so

abu.ndant.

The Moldavian clergy went yesterday in solemn pro-
cession from Gslacz to the corn-fields. The sacred
banner was carried before them, and a vast crowd of

people to put up prayers for rain. The Governor fol-
lowed in his carriage. As no rain has yet come, the
fanatic Greek clergy ascrit• the failure of their prayers
to the circumstance that the Governor was accompanied
by a Lutheran (Prussian) officer, his friend, and on this
account there is to be another solemn procession.—
Hamburgh papers, June 19.

BILL FOR THE REGULATION OF
STEAM NAVIGATION.
A Bill with the above title has just been introduced
into Parliament.
The following are among its most important clauses:—
Steam vessels to be divided into compartments--That
from and after the first day ef January one th
eight hundred and forty-seven, all sea-going steam-
vessels, the building of which shall have b ?en commence.;
after this Act, shall be divided by transverse eater tight
partitions, so that the fore part of the vessel shall re se-
eareted from the engine by one of sueh partitions. and
so that the after-part of such vessel shall be separated
from the engine-room by another of such partitions.
To be sufficiently provided with boats.—And be it
enacted, that from and after the said first day of Ja-
nuary one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, no
-ea-going vessel, the tonnage of which shall be twe
hundred tons or upwards, shall proceed to see from any
port whatsoever, tin!ess it shall be provided with beats
duly supplied with all requisites for their use, and net
heing fewer in number, nor less in their dimensions
than as follow:—Each vessel of from 200 to 250 tons
burden to carry one long boat of eighteen feet letieth
and six feet beam, and one boat a stern, of feurtei n
feet length and five feet bee :n :---each vessel of 350 (0
550 toes to carry three boats, namely, one long le at se
twenty feet length and six feet and a half beam ; one
beat on the deck or quarter, of eighteen feet length and
five and a half feet beam ; and one a-stern, of foarteen
l'es't length and five feet beam ; each vessel of from
550 to 850 to carry finis. boats, viz. :—one long bo:at
of twenty-four feet length and seven feet beam ; two
boats on the deck or quarters—ono of twentp-two feet
length and six feet and a half beam—the other eighteen
feet in length and 5} feet in beam ; and one boat astern,
of 16 feet in length and 51 feet beam: each vessel of 850
tons and upwards to carry four boats, viz.:—one long
boat of 26 feet length and 8 feet beam ; two on the deck
or quarter—one of 24 feet length and 7 feet beam—the
other 22 feet length and 6i feet beam ; and, one boat
astern, of 16 feet length and 5i- beam :—and that no sea-
going vessel, the tonnage of which shall he under 200
tens, and above tons, shall proceed to sea unless it
shall be provided with a dingy, and with a boat suffi-
ciently large to receive and carry ten persons (such dingy
and boat being duly supplied with all requ.ites for their
use); and, that in every case one of such boats, as afore-
said, to be carried outside on the quarter or on the stern,
shall be fitted up as a life-boat : Provided always, that
when steam vessel shall be provided with such boats as
are usually called paddle-box boats, such steam vessel
shall only be required to take two other boats, namely,
the long-boat and the boat astern, mentioned as aforesaid.
And be it enacted, that if any such sea-going steam-
vessel as aforesaid proceed to sea without being so
divided as aforesaid, or if any sea-going vessel of one
hundred tuns burden or upwards proceed to sea without
being so provided with boats as aforesaid, the owner
thereof shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred
pounds, and the master thereof shall forfeit a sum not
exceeding fifty pounds.
To take a Certain Course in Rivers and Narrow
Channels.—And be it enacted, that every steam-vessel,
when meeting or passing any other steam-vessel, shall
pass as far as may be safe on the port side of such other
vessel; and every steam-vessel navigating any river or
narrow channel shall keep, as far as it is practicable, to
that side of such river or channel which lies to the star-
board side of such vessel; and the master or other per-
son having the charge of any such steam-vessel, and
neglecting to observe these regulations, or either of
them, shall for each and every instance of neglect forfeit
and pay a sum not exceeding fifty pounds.
To Carry Lights.—And be it enacted, that the master,
or other person having the charge of any steam-vessel
which shall be in any river or narrow channel in
Great Britain or Ireland, or the adjacent islands, or
upon the sea within ten miles to any part of the coast of
Great Britain or Ireland, shall, whether under weigh
of at anchor, between sunset and sunrise, exhibit such
lights within such places, in such manner, and under
such circumstances as by the said regulations hereinbe-
fore authorised to be made by the said Lord high
Admiral or by the said Coraissioner shall be required ;
and in default thereof shall forfeit and pay a ruin not.
exceeding twenty pounds for every night in which such
default shall be made ; and the owner of any steam-
vessel in which such light shall nut be exhibited as
aforesaid, shall not be entitled to recover any recom-
pense or damasse whatsover which may be sustained by
such vessel in consequence of any other vessel runniug
foul thereof during the night.
And be it enacted, that if any damage to any person
or property, shall be sustained in consequence of the
non-observance, as respects any steam-vessel, of the
rates contained in the two enactments lastly hereinbefore
contained, the same shall, in all courts of l h
~usr_ce, ee
deemed to have been occasioned by the wilful default of
the muter or other persons having the charge of suet
steam-vessel ; and such master or other psrson and his
employer shall be subject in all proceedings, whether
civil or criminal, to the legal consequences of such wilful
default.
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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen took an airing in the rides adj
Osborne House on Monday afternoon, after the epar-
aczt to
ture of her illustrious visitors.
terTdahye.Royal Family went in the pleasure
afternoon, and touk their
early ilerw
Majestytrans-
acted and her Royal Consort took their usual
Their Royal Highnesses, tattih,eo
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Princess
Alfred, the Princess ltoxs
ctern miens Alice
tahte French
accustomed exercise.. went to 7 the
interview with the Chan-
beach yestreiridad:n i
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accotiCtodi r:bnoupft s deit
business
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Exchequer .fl. AW:
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tielenacirdiudrsea:ryi Yesterda);, at his official resi-
td; 0 an interview with the
dence in Downing-street.
mr.
Wickham, Chairman of
the Stamps and Taxes, had
Right Hon, Gentleman,

iii PERIAL P ARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF r:0111MONS, June 23.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at FAD. o'clock.
REPORTS.

The reports on the following Bills were considered and
agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be engrossed, viz.:—
Blackburn and Preston Railway; Dublin, Dundrum, and
Eliniskerry Railway ; Eastern Counties Railway Stations En-
largement ; East Lancashire Railway (Deviation and
Branches); Enfield and Edmonton Railway , London and Bir-
mingham Railway and Birmingham Canal Arrangement;
London and Birmingham Railway ( Aylesbury Railway Pur-
chase); London and Birmingham Railway (Coventry to
Nuneaton) ; London aid Birmingham Grand Junction
(Manchester and Birmingham Railway Amalgamation);
London and Birmingham Railway (Weedon and Northampton
Branch); North Union Railway ; North Wales Railway ;
St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable Railway ; South Eastern
Railway (from the Greenwich Railway to Chart, near Ashford,
with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead); Shrewsbary,
Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway (Crickheath and
Wem Lines); Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction
Railway (Extension and Deviations); Wath-upon-Dearne Im-
provement.

THIRD READING.
The following Bills were read a third time, and passed, viz:
Ardrossan Municipal, Police and Improvement—Forth and
Clyde Navigation arid Bowling Bay Improvement—lpswich
and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (Norwich Extension)—
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and
Goole Railway—Stockton Gas—Wakefield, Pentefract, and
Goole Railway, and Port, &c., of Goole.
COVENTRY; NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM AND
LEICESTER RAILWAY.
The report on this Bill was brought up, and after a few wor,ls
from Mr. GREENE, who objected to the introduction of a cer-

tain clause' vras agreed to.
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES. AND CARLISLE RAILWAY

BILL.—CONSIDERATION OF REPORT.
Sever:A petitions from Glasgow, Dumfries, and other places
in the west of Scotland, were presented in favour of this line.
The order of the day was then read, that the report be taken
into consideration on that day six months.
Mr. EW ART rose, and said that in dealing with the im-
portant subject before the House it behoved them to be careful
how they interfered in expressing an opinion with respect to
the decision of the Com Littee.—(Hear, hear, from Mr. P.
Stewart.) Notwithstanding the cheers of his Honourable
Friend, he ventured to state that the character
of the House would not allow the operation of the
C mmitteos to ba changed to suit the convenience
of more personal aggrandisement. A Committee had been
formed of gentlemen, selected particularly for their high integ-
rity, independence, and ability, arid they bee., atter due delibe-
ration and investigation, given in their decision, which was
now sought to be set aside by parties who had interested
motives. A powerful combination of parties was formed against
the progre.s of the measure. He altogether blamed these
parties. There was the Caledonian Railway, there was the
Grand Junction. there was also. he believed, the Carlisle and
Lancaster Company, who were all united with a special
object to defeat the intentions of the Bill in
order to promote their own special interest, and to
cause their own special notions to be adopted.
He would a;k the House, whether they were prepared to lose its
character in the eyes of the public by rejecting the Bill under
their consiierition ? He considered that they sere it farness
bound to resist this attempt to oppose the passing of this
measure, which was calculated to confer the greatest benefits
on the country through which the line would pass, and particu-
larly
on that part with which he had the honour of being con-
nected. If the House were to overturn the decisions of its Commit-
tees on such grounds as had been alleged, they might be constantly
reversing their det isions.—(Cheers.) It was very well for his
Right Honourable Friend to cheer him ironically, but he
hoped that that would nut pr:•vail upon the House. He was
sure that his cheering would not prevent them from giving►
such a decision as would be con,ouant with common sense, and
that they would uphold the well-considered and impartial deci-
sions of the House. if they did not the public would be
injured—deeply injured. As far as regareed the general
question, they were told that this line ought not to be
sanctioned principally because it would be a competing line.
Why, he always thought that should be the very reason why
the tiouse should grant it.—( Hear, hear.) He had always
thought that the eery principle of the legislation of that. House
was the sanctioning of competition—( Hear, hear)—be-
cause by doing so he had always thought that they
were furthering the interests of the public. But
this railway was not a competing railway, even suppoi.ing
that competition were to be discountenanced by the House.
It was a railway which struck off at a considerable angle from
the railway that it was represented to compete with by his
Hon. Friends near him, or, at least, the supporters of that
railway; and in order to lead the House into the belief that
it was a competing railway, its supporters had been obliged
to distort the geography of the country. They had not, there-
fore, a single ground to stand upon when they represented
that this was a competing lice. It would pour its tributar•i
streams into the Caledonian Railway. The people of that
part of the country through which it would pass were certainly
in favour of this and against the other line. It was said that

a conatniss;on had reported in favour of the Caledonian line,
but, as a collateral branch, the line now under the considera—
tion of the House had c, rtainly been sanctioned by the Com-
missioners, and the report of the Board of Trade
bad, in fact, taken the same view of thi. line as the
promo' ers had; it. would afford a direct communication
with Edinburgh and Glasgow and England, and instead
of acting prejudicial.), to the interests of the proprietors of the
collateral branches, it would rather tend to increase them.
The traffic on the trunk line between that part of the country
with which he was connected and the north would be in-
creased. He contended, then, that as the Board of

Trade had distinctly reported in favour of this line;
it ought also to receive the sanction of the House.
The Glasgow, Dumfries, anti Carlisle Railway was admitted
to be a tributary to tie Caledonian. The Committee ap-
pointed to decide upon that Bill was composed of persons for
whom he entertained the highest opinion; they considered that
the part of the country through which the line passed required
a separate and independent line for itself, in consequence of
the great mineral wealth which it possessed, and it was there-
fore of the utmost itnport at ce that a through line of eommunica
tion should exist between it and th is country. All these important
eircumstancet came under the considsration of the properly
constituted tribunal—the select Committee upon Railways,
appointed by that Heu•e. Having gone before this tribunal,
consisting of persons of the highest abilities, his Hon. Friend
the Member for the Tower Hamlets being chairman of the
Committee, and an unanimous verdict was come to in favour
of this railway—the Hon-e was now called upon by three
powerful companies to rel esl this decision of the Committee,
and thereby to leave the whole of the valley of the faith with-
out railway accommodation. The Honourable Member
who represents that district must know that there is a
neral teelirg an unanimous assent in favour of the line
If the House were allowed to te peal the decision of this Corn •
mittee, it would indict a great injustice upon tl at important
district throuJi which the line would piss. It the House
were thus allowed to rescind the decision of its Committees,
when powerful companies came down to the House with
interested motives and fee.ines, praying the House to do so,
it w iuld be in vein that the Hon. Member for Ox!ord (Mr.
Esteourt ) exert. d himself to reform and improve the tribunals
of this House, entrusted ei,h the management of railway
I affairs. Public conftlenci would become shaken in the
decisions of the Cemmittees, especially when they saw
personal and local interest advocated in that House,
and the interest of powerful companies represented, as was the
ease with one by the Hon. Member for R.nfrewsh,re (Mr.
Stewart), who ware not ashamed of seating their personal in-
terests, and declare their intention to vote according to those
interests. A powerful journal which exercised considerable
influence upon the public minds, called the attention of the
public to this important question, and asked if these decisions
were to be always re,cinded in, this manner, and if so what
was the possible use of these tribunals. This was an
indication of the feeling of the public mind on this
matter, and he called upon every Member of the House
to prevent this feeling becoming general out of the House.
He would move, then, that this question should be taken into
further consideration and if this House should decide that
powerful compe.nies should not prevail in the House because
they were powerful, he would further move that this report be
forthwith taken into consideration.
Mr. HAWES disclaimed t acing any interest in either of
the lines before the House, and said he rose simply to urge
upon the House a few of tho, considerations which seemed to
him to affect the subject before them. He said the Hon.
Member (Mr. Ewart) had stated this as a simp e case in which
a Committee having considered a particular line, and re-
ported in favour of it, that line ought to have the support of
the House. Now if that were the simple consideration in the
case before the House, he (Mr. Hawes) would certainly sup-
port it. But the House would be surprised to learn, after
hearing the speech of the Hen. Gentleman, who said that this
line was not a competing scheme with the Caledonian
Railway, that this line had been rejected by the
Board of Trade, and not only by the Board of Trade, but by
the first Commission which was appointed to inquire into the
best communication between England and Scotland. He held
in Lis hand a report from the Beard of Trade, in which they
distinctly stated that it was quite clear that the traffic from
Scotland to the south was not sufficient to support two con
peting systems of railroad; that one must be adopted, and the
others neglected, and that the Caledonian and the Nithsdale
lines were two systems inconsistent with each other. He (Mr.
Hawes) owned, that after reading this report. he did not think
that the last Committee had adopted the most proper
course in their proceedings. Honourable Members
had in a full House rejected that line, the Board of Trade and
the Commission had decided against it, and he (Mr. Hawes)
would support the decision of the House against the late Com-
mittee. Against the Beard of Trade, against the Commission,
and against the decision of the previous Committee, the late
Committee, he thought, c:me to an unwise decision.
He would simply ask the House whether the evidence of public
documents did not preponderate in favour of the Caledonian
line, and against the decision of the Committee on the Dum-
fries line? There was, for instaece, a Committee of their own
House who had reported against the latter line—the Board of
Trade had done the same, and a Commission appointed by the
Crown had given a decided opinion in favour of the Caledonian
line. He sa.d then this was no ordinary case, and the House ought
not to allow the Dumfries line to pass. at least for the present.
Bat there was another consideration which he would urge
against this decision. They were living in times of wild rail-
way speculation, and he found front a paper which had been
laid before the House, that there were Bills before them
authorising railway companies to raise capital to the
extent of three hundred and sixty millions, while,
up to the etth of June, the - Bile in the
other House amounted to upwards of one hundred millions.
Now, he put It to the House, whether, under the circumstaln:cbs;
it was not fit and proper that the Dumfries Railway e
pas paned till a more favourable period for carrying
t, 'sake of
Believing this to be the best that could be done foevidence
of
the public interest, considering that gsb:tuout ?
public
documents preponderated again!%:uhs.eh:
had autho-
decision of
the Committee, knowing that the ti
a line in the same
rised art existing company to ~Timk: of money, affording
portion of which was
the Present state o;
district, and to raise two
an immense amount of labnostr,,ermainialnga:ly,
Howe
,h mod postponeould the
now in operation ; end money market, he thought it
railway speculation sad t
uniatcycorn
Passing ol
accommodate
highly desirable that te
the Dumfries line w thelluiifries Bill till
.a more favourable opportunity.
Mr. district, most of whose landed Mr. Osw
an extensive and
pro-
prietors supported
the line. It would also afford great local or-
con,,,,,eetation, while it would prove a source of considerable
convenience and advantage to a
large
agricultural
interest ; and, under these circumstances, he, for on,
should -upport the decision of the Committee
It was said that the Nills —(Hear, hear.)
scheme of last year was the same
as the one in which the Committee adjudicated this year, but
that was not the case, The
line of last tear was an integral
line from Giugow to Carlisle;
whereas the line of this year
started from Cumnock, and passing through Dumft ies, termi-
nated in the Caledonian line at Gretna, so that this line would
have to pass along the Caledonian from Gretna to Carlisle, to
the great advantage of that line. The line under the conside-
ration of the House would give great accommodation to the dis-
trict through which it passed, taking agricultural eroduce from
Dumfriesshire, and conveying coal and other minerals from A 3 r-
shire to the south. He hoped the House would confirm the
decision of the Committee.
Mr. BAILLIE thought the course which had been adopted
with regard to the present Bill most objec•ionable. The ques-
tion had really been decided last Tuesday night, in a full
House. The majority which then decided against the Bill
was not a very large one, still it was a majority, and the House
was a very full olatt. It was most unfair for the promoters of