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THE SUN, LONDON, SATUADAY EV'ENIIyG JUL' 18, 1846._

she is allowed a champion. She has, however, an interview
with Don Rodrigue before the contest—her former love re-
turns, and she urges him to defend himself to the utmost. Don
Rodrig,ue is victorious. There is an alarm given of the ap-
proach of the Moors, Don Rodrigue defeats them, and on his
return is hailed as the saviour of his country. The King ap-
peals to Chimene to forego her prosecution of him—she yields
at length. Don Rodrigue is pardoned, and it is understood
that after a proper time shall have elapsed he is to be re-
warded with the hand of Chimene. The character of
Chimene is one of strong contrasts—filial duty and love are
in it constantly contending, and finely, very finely, was this
combat of the passions (we should rather say the affections)
delineated by Mdlle. Rachel. The character of Chimene, to
the mere reader of the play, appears inconsistent and unnatural.
It was the glory of Mademoiselle Rachel last evening to
reduce to unity this apparent inconsistency, and to prove
that the character has hitherto appeared unnatural only
because it has not been brought out fully, with all its lights
and shadows properly worked in. She was called for at the
conclusion to receive the rapturous applause of one of the
most crowded and fashionable audiences of the season.

July 11

Arbroath and Forfar .......

Bristol said Birmingham . • • • • ........
Chester and Birkenhead . • • ..........
Dublin and Drogheda.. • ... . ...
Dublin and Kingstown • . • • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath . • • • • • • • • • • ....
Durham and Sunderland . • • ....... • • .
Edinburgh and Glasgow. •• • ........
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Glasgow and Greenock • • •• • • •• • • • ••

Gravesend and Rochester.• .........
Great North of England .. • • •• • • • • •
Great Western . • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . .

Hartlepool .....
London and Birmingham, &c•••• •• ••
London and Blackwall.• •• •• •• •• •• ••
London and Brighton. •• •• •• • ..... ••
London and Croydon. -
London and Greenwich . •• •• •• •• •• ••
London and South Western. •• •• •• ••
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury •• •• ••
Manchester and Birmingham.... •...
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland C0untie5...................

Newcastle and Darlington ..........
Newcastle and Carlisle••••....•••• ••
Newcastle and North Shields.• •••• ••
North British .. • . • .

North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel], and Orleans .• ..•• •• .
Paris and Rouen . • . • • •• • • •• •• •• •• ••

Preston and Wyre•• •• •• ••

Sheffield and IS3anellester• • • • • • •• •-

Taff Vale ... .....

Ulster . • . . .....

Yarmouth and Norwich ............
York and North Midland...

20,075

861
39,517
1,476
6,973
1,977

8,022
1,151
4,315
6,898
17,596
3,086
2,027
548
1,627
1,685

6,512
1,137
1,887.
9,243
1,240

6,615

18,822

-975
38,290
1,461
5,946
1,782
,881

3,786
6,748
16,905
2,852
1,747
578
449

5,664
5,825

804
6,496
1,124

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

.From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

FRIDAY, JULY 17.

Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
to which their Lordships had agreed :
Corresponding Societies and Lecture Rooms Bill, without
amendment—Coroners (Ireland) Bill—Yorkshire and Glas-
gow Union Railway Bill—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal ( Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge
Branch) Bill—Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction
Railway Bill—Midland Railway (Purchase of Oakham
Canal) Bill—Eastern Counties Railway (Stations Enlarge-
ment) Bill, with amendments—Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Railway (Durham and Sunderland Railway and
Wearmouth Docks Purchase) Bill—Black Sluice Drainage
and Navigation Bill, with an amendment.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group No. 67.

lion. E. Yorke discharged, Mr. EI9 tcourt aelected, and
added to the Committee.

Select Committee on Group No. 69.
Mr. Estcourt discharged, Mr. Cardwell selected, and
added to the Committee.

THE OREGON QUESTION.

The following is the text of the treaty between her Ma-
jesty and the United States of America, for the settlement
of the Oregon boundary, signed at Washington, June 15th,
1846:

"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the United States of America, deem-
ing it to be desirable for the future welfare of both countries,
that the state of doubt and uncertainty which has hitherto
prevailed respecting the sovereignty and government of the
territory on the north-west coast of America, lying westward
of the Rocky or Stony Mountains, should be finally termi-
nated by an amicable compromise of the rights mutually
asserted by the two parties over the said territory, have re-
spectively named plenipotentiaries to treat and agree con-
cerning the terms of such settlement, this is to say :
" Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland has, on her part, appointed the Right
Hen. Richard Pakenham, a member of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and her Majesty's Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States;
and the President of the United States of America has, on
his part, furnished with full powers, James Buchanan, Secre-
tary of State of the United States; who, after having com-
municated to each other their respective full powers, found in
good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the fol-
owing articles
"Art. I. From the point on the forty-ninth parallel of
north latitude, where the boundary laid down in existing
treaties and conventions between Great Britain and the
United States terminates, the line of boundary between the
territories of her Britannic Majesty and those of the United
States shall be continued westward along the said forty-ninth
parallel of north latitude' to the middle of the channel which
separates the continent from Vancouver's Island; and thence
southerly, through the middle of the said channel, and of
Fuca's Straits, to the Pacific Ocean : provided, however, that
the navigation of the whole of the said channel and straits,
south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, remain
free and open to both parties.
"Art. 11. From the point at which the forty-ninth parallel
of north latitude shall be found to intersect the great northern
branch of the Columbia river, the navigation of the said
branch shall be free and open to the Hudson's Bay Company,
and to all British subjects trading with the same, to the point
where the said branch meets the main stream of the Co-
lumbia, and thence down the said main stream to the ocean,
with free access into and through the said river or rivers • it
being understood, that all the usual portages along the fine
thus described shall in like manner be free and open.
" In navigating the said river or rivers, British subjects,
with their goods and produce, shall be treated on the same
footing as citizens of the United States; it being, however,
always understood, that nothing in this article shall be con •
strued as preventing, or intended to prevent, the Government
of the United States from making anyregulations respecting
the navigation of the said river or rivers, not inconsistent
with the present treaty.
" Art. lII.—In the future appropriation of the territory
south of the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, as pro-
vided in the first article of this treaty, the possessory rights
of the Hudson's Bay Company, and of all British subjects,
who may be already in the occupation of land or other pro-
perty lawfully acquired within the said territory, shall be
respected.
" Art. IV. The farms, lands, and other property of every
description, belonging to the Puget's Sound Agricultural
Company, on the north side of the Columbia River, shall be
confirmed to the said company. In case, however, the situa-
tion of those farms and lands should be considered by the
United States to be of public and political importance, and
the United States' Government should signify a desire to
obtain possession of the whole or of any part thereof, the
property so required shall be transferred to the said Govern-
ment at a proper valuation, to be agreed upon between the
parties.
" Art. V. The present treaty shall be ratified by her
Britannic Majesty, and by the President of the United
States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate
thereof; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at London
at the expiration of six months from the date hereof, or
sooner if possible.
" In witness whereof the respective Plenipotentiaries have
signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their
arms.

" Done at Washington, the 15th day of June, in the year
Of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
" RICHARD PAKENHAM. (L.S.)
" JAMES BUCHANAN." (L.S.)

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, JULY 17.—We have a
good supply of wheats, and moderate of other grain. The
trade is extremely dull, and a limited business done in best
samples of wheat, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quarter; com-
mon qualities unsaleable, unless at a further reduction.
Beans sell freely at Is. advance. Oats are id. per stone, and
shelling 6d. to Is. per load cheaper. Malt firm. The grow-
ing crops have improved very much the last week, and with
fine weather, harvest will commence in this neighbourhood in
a fortnight.
PARISH OF KENSINGTON.—Yesterday a crowded
meeting of the inhabitant ratepayers of the parish of Ken-
sington, was held in the vestry-room of the old church, to
receive a report from the committee appointed by the rate-
payers, on the 19th June last, to draw up a letter to be sent
to the guardians, and to the Poor-law Commissioners, to stay
proceedings, and to take such measures as may be advisable
to prevent the building the workhouses. Mr. Churchwarden
Sheppard having been called to the chair, the report was
brought up and read. It stated that the efforts of the com-
mittee had been futile. The report baying been received, and
ordered to be entered on the minutes, a petition to both
Houses of Parliament, praying for their interference to pre-
vent the order of the Poor-law Commissioners respecting the
building of a new workhouse being further proceeded with,
was moved, and unanimously adopted. Thanks having been
moved to the committee, the meeting separated.
CLERICAL NON-RESIDENCE.—The Bishop of Ely, in
the course of his charge, which he is now engaged in deli-
vering at his visitations, states that more than one-fourth—
indeed, nearly one-third--of the beneficed clergy in his
diocese are non-resident on their cures. Three causes, he
adds, mainly contribute to their absence : Ist, ill health ; 2d,
the non-existence of proper parsonage houses; and, 3d, the
holding of more than one living.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. JOSEPH MARTIN.—A meeting
of a few influential inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon
Without took place on Wednesday evening, at the White
Hart, Giltspur-street. Mr. William Rogers, past church-
warden of St. Sepulchre's, was appointed chairman, and after
an impressive speech, presented a handsome watch and gold
key to Mr. Joseph Martin, in token of his long valuable ser-
vices as an inspector of the City police. The following in-
scription is engraved on the watch :—" Presented to Mr.
Joseph Martin, Inspector of City Police, as a token of respect
by a few inhabitants of the Ward of Farringdon Without, on
his removal from West Smithfield to Cripplegate, and for his
great assiduity and faithful discharge of the duties imposed
on him by that office. 1846."
CELEBRATION OF THE PASSING OF THE CORN BILL
IN MANCHESTER.—In compliance with two numerously
signed requisitions to the Mayor, Mr. W. B. Watkins, his
worship has recommended that onday, August 31, should
be observed in Manchester as a holiday, in celebration of the
passing of the Corn-law Repeal Act. No particular course of
proceeding is dictated by the Mayor. but there is no doubt
that the day will be observed as one of general rejoicing, and
that a splendid procession of the trades, &c., of the town will
be arranged.
WIND-SOWN GRAIN.—Last year, just on the eve of
the barley harvest, a very high wind occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Liverpool, which swept off from a ripe crop of
barley enough seed to sow an adjoining field that lay fallow.
The occupier of the land, observing the seed so freely scat-
tered upon the soil, caused it to be harrowed in ; it stood the
winter, shot up in the spring, and last week was cut down,
and a sample of it shown in the market, the same being of
the finest description.—Manchester Guardian.

J! ittrb bitton

THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRIT ISE FUNDS. ONE CLOS
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock _ .. 209 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96!ii 95% 96
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 97%%e 87%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 ..
Ditto, 3C, years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 1-16. 10 1-16
India Stock .. 261 261
India Bonds, 1,000/. .. 25 25
Consols for Aug. 27 95 7/ 96
Exchequer Bills. d.
1,0001. 10 11 Plll.,
500/. _ 14 pOl.
Ditto. Small 14 10 pm.
ONE
O'CLOCK,
. 9$
3

CLOSING]
Title ES.

FOREIGN FUNDS
Chilian Bonds, C per Cent ..
Equador Bonds ..
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .
Ditto, Deterred .
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 27
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 271 A
PGrtivian Bonds, G per Cent. 38
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • • • • • •
Ditto, for the AcCount 44 45
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, fur the Account • • .• . • 247'S
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • 3Gia
Venezuela Clouds, 2 per Cent .. .. 43
Ditto, Deferred .. " • • 13
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 53 59%94%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94,9%
BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction ..2%• •• • Ys ••••• • • • •
Ilirmirighamand Gloucester.. .. 100 .. 130% 129 .•• • .. 129
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 4%% 434,
Buckinghamshire 425. % dis. ••• • .. 31 dis.
Caledonian .. .. 20 .... 1339 •• •• •. • • 13 a
Ditto, half Shares 2% .. •• • •
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% ••••• • • • • • 21%
631
Derby and Crewe 2% .• • • •• ..
Direct Northern % 1.. 1
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... ••••. • • • • 1%
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 165....• 24% %•••• • • • • 24%
Ditto New .. • • 101. 165..... •• • • P
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. • •
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 2 ....... •• • 2
Eastern Union .. 25 .... ••• • • •
Do.lpswich & Bury SLEdmunds 9
Do. Extension to Norwich 2% ........ • • 1%
Lly and lluntingdon .. • • .. 739 3% 4.. ..... • 4
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%...• 39 • •
Great North of England . ..100
Great Western .. 85 • -
Ditto, half Shares .. 50 .... 85% ••.. • • .... 85%
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 .... 22%.. •• • .
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 .... .........• 5%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 .... 5G 57
Ditto New .. .. 5 10 .• •• 10%
Leeds and Bradford • • .. 26 .... 65% •••• • • •
Leicester and Birmingham 225. .... 1 dis
Leicester and Bedford 225..... 16% dis 34 dis.
Lirerp., Manch., & News, Junct. .... 1%
London and Birmingham . • .100 .... 228% ......
Ditto, Quarters .. . .. 2 ....
Ditto, Fifths 2 .... 26% 26%
London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 4d. .......

Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 3 .... ..
,ondon and Brighton .. .. .. 50 .. . G 53,, IA %......

Ditto ditto Fifths .. 30 •• .. 42q.•....•••.
London and Croydon •. .. 13/. Lis 9d.• • 233 e ...... •• • •
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. ..........
London and South-Western —4l/. 6s. 10d... 78 ........••
London and York .. .... .• ••

65%
42M
23%
__9M

Ditto, llalf Shares • • .. .. 234•.•• ...... •
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil 2% •• • • Ts ••••• • • • • •
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82
Ditto, Quarters .. 2 .... 9
Ditto, Fifths .. 3 .. 11 .. 111,E
Ditto, Sixteenths .....
Ditto Extension .. 425. .... 2%54 p...... 23d p
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . ....
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 •• .. 10% . ...... 103(,
Manchester, Buxton, Sr. Matlock 425. •• .. %% p • % p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% l%
Midland .. ..100 ....152%
Ditto, New 24 .... 401%•......•• 40%
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .
Ditto, New . 1 .... 111%,•• ••..
Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 .... 45 .....
Norfolk .. .. 20 .... 27% ..........
Ditto, Half Shares .. 5 • .. ••..•• .. • •
Ditto, Tenths .. .. 2 .... . •.•. • . • •
Ditto, Extension .. .. 2 .... 2
North British.. 22%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 12% I`4,
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1% 24,
Ditto, Dalkeith .. 25 .... ..........
Ditto, ditto ..........5 ..........
North Kent and Direct Dover .. 2% .... •• ..
North Staffordshire .. • • 425. .... 3% 3p• • • • 3% p
Northmpton,Banbury,&Chelthm. 2 .... . .
Richmond .. .. 10 .... 17% 17%
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... •• .
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 ....
Shropshire Union .. 425.
South Midland 425..... par 34 p • •

11%
45%
27%
2Si

South and Midlands Junction .. 425..... 1
South Eastern and Doyor 33% 45% 443 i .. . . 451.4
Do.. New (d 0.331. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 16 15% ...... 16
Do., New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 19% ..
Do., New (do. 15/.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 3 ........
Staines and Richmond .. 1 .. • • . • . • ..
South Wales .. 5 •. • . •.••• • • • • • 1%

Welsh Midland .. 2% .......... I
West Riding Union • • •• 425. .... 2% 1,
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 10 .... 5 ........
York and North Midland .. 50 .... . •
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... .......... 50
Ditto. Extension • . .. 15 .... 35% •. • • 36
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 • • ........ 13%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 14 .... 12 •
Central of Spain .. .. 2 ....

Dutch Rhenish 6 .... 7 .• .. •
East Indian .. . 50. 34
34
Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 .... 34
Louvain and Jemeppe . 1% 34 ..... . 34
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege .. 6 .... 31A,. • 335
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 .• .. 12% x d .. • •
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 .... Bto ...... Bki
Over Yssel .. 4/. 3s. 4d.... 2% dis.. • . 2% dis
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 5%...... •
Paris and Rouen .. 20 ....
Rouen and Havre . .. 20 .... • • ....
Sambre and Meuse

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

way formed. The line would be advantageous generally to
Ayrshire.

"Cross-examined—There was not much trails from Ayr-
shire to the south at present, but that he thought arose from
the want of travelling accommodation. With a line he
considered a supply of coal would go south, but he
could not say to what extent. No doubt a great proportion
of the coal would continue to be used for the making of iron,
still a portion might go south, notwithstanding the existence
of the Sanquhar and Canobie coal-fields. He did not think,
with regard to Ayrshire that the Caledonian line would be
a competing one with the present. They ran through en-
tirely different districts of country.
Mr. Alexander, of Ballackmyle, examined—His estate
was near Mauchliue, on the extension line from Kil-
marnock to Cuninuck. He had heard the evidence
of Mr. Crawford yesterday, and generally agreed with
it. The inhabitants of the district were generally
in favour of the present line, as it would form an excellent
communication with the south, give them additional markets,
and bring them in connexion with extensive lime-works
south of Cumnock. A large amount of dairy produce was
raised in Ayrshire, especially cheese, and tile drainifg was
carried on to a great extent. There were from forty to fifty
tile works in the country, and the tiles cost from 18s. to 20s.
a thousand. A considerable demand for those he had no
doubt would take place in Dunfriesshire. Public meetings of
both Renfrewshirc and Ayshire had decided in favour of the
present line. He was lord of the manor of Latrine, which
was extensively engaged in weaving and spinning cotton,
and contained 2,600 inhabitants. Au extensive coal-field
existed all around here.
_ Cress-examined—He felt considerable interest in the line.

He was a holder of 150 shares, and a director. He was a
director of the line last year in opposition to the Caledonian.
He did not think the present line would take any
traffic from the Caledonian that naturally belonged to it.
He did not think the difference in gradients would enable
the Nithsdale scheme to carry passengers from Glasgow to
Carlisle as quick as the Caledonian. He was not aware that
Mr. Miller had given such evidence last year. The Ayrshire
cheese was the best made in Scotland, but it was not so good
as the Cheshire cheese. He thought the Ayrshire cheese
would find the southern market, as the price obtained there
was better than the price obtained in Glasgow. He knew a
portion of cheese was now sent, but he could not say how much.
He could not say whether there was clay along the valley
of the Nith or not. The cotton works at Catrine belonged to
a large house in Glasgow. James Finlay and Colonel Ferier
Hamilton, a landed proprietor and Deputy-Lieutenant of
Ayrshire, gave evidence to the same effect as the previous
witness. He considered the line would be a great benefit to
all the property between Kilmarnock and Cumnock. He
generally concurred in the evidence of Mr. Alexander.
Cross-examined—He only held twenty five shares
in the present line. He had taken them in order
to support the line as a public benefit. If Mr. Lead-
bitter had stated, at a recent meeting, " that the
late decision of the House of Commons had broken the back
of the Caledonian Company, and that Glasgow would largely
participate in the benefits of having two lines of railway
communication with the south," he (the witness) could not
understand what was meant; he could not, therefore, give
an opinion on it.
Sir David Hunter Blair thought the line would be of great
benefit to Ayrshire. The proprietors of land and inhabitants
generally were strongly in its favour. It would be the means
of granting great accommodation to both agricultural and
manufacturing products.
Cross-examined—He did not think the present line would
affect the Caledonian much. He thought that no Glasgow
through traffic would come upon the present line.
Mr. Wood, factor to the Marquis of Bute, gave evidence
on behalf of his Lordship, and in favour of the line. The
line passed through his Lordship's estate for several
miles, and there were minerals, coal, and iron
underneath. Were the railway formed a great
accommodation would be given for the transit of coal, lime,
and agricultural produce. Beside coal and iron found on the
estates plumbago was also found and wrought ; likewise
sulphuret of antimony. If the latter were wrought the ore
would all go south. A house in Birmingham had offered to
contract for as much as they could send. Large clay beds
existed on the estate, and tiles were extensively made. He
had been told there was no clay in Dunfermline for the mak-
ing of tiles.
Cross-examined—No doubt a large amount of the coal
in the district would be consumed when the proposed fur-
naces were in operation. He thought still there would be
coal sent to the south as far as Thornhill, notwithstanding
_ _

the existence of the Sanquhar coal- field. At present the
plumbago raised was sent to Glasgow, but the price was not
remunerative. No doubt if the line from Cumnock to Glas-
gow were constructed, the price of carriage would be reduced.
Mr. J. Geddes, mining engineer, examined—He had
had extensive experience in the coal-fields of Scotland.
He was engineer to the Marquis of Bute and Sir Charles
Monteith. He had traversed the route of the line along
with Mr, Wright and Mr. Christie, with the object of as-
certaining its mineral capabilities. The Sanquhar coal-
field was a very extensive one, and extended, with the ex-
ception of a slight break to Cumnock. Limestone was also
found in the same district, both in the Sanquhar coal-field,
and at Closeburn as well as at Kellhead, near Annan. He
had found blackband iron-stone in the New Cum-
nock field, not very thick, but very good. Black-
band iron-stone was at present got and worked in the
vicinity of Old Cumnock, and several furnaces were in opera-
tion. The Dumfries people, and those along the valley of the
Nith between that town and Sanquhar at present carted
their coals from Sanquhar and Mansfield, which was very
tedious and expensive. The aggregate thickness of the
Mansfield coal seams was about forty feet. The coal was of
very good quality, both gas and household coal. The
price of coal here at the pit's mouth varied from 4s. 2d. to
ss. 101 a ton. At Sanquhar the price was ss. 4d. The price
of Scotch coal at the same time was 13s. 6d., and English coal
18s. 6d. a ton. If the railway were made a large reduction
would no doubt take place in price. Dumfries and Maxwell
contained a population of about 16,000, and he knew no place
from whence they could be supplied so cheaply as Sanquhar
and Mansfield. He thought the Dumfries district would
consume about 28,000 tons, the half of which would come
from the former coal-fields and the other half from Canobie.
About 18,003 tons more would be consumed by the other
districts along the line—making a consumption of 32,000 tons
in all. A great deal of lime would also be carried, and he had
assumed that 30,000 tons would pass on an average six
miles along the line. He estimated that 1,860 tons gas coal
would pass along the line for 'use at various points, and that
10,000 tons would be shipped from the ports of Ayrshire.
The line he considered would be a great public benefit.
Cross-examined—lie was employed by the various pro-
prietors to make the explorations he had done. He had also
been employed by the Company to give his impressions of the
mineral capacities of the district, and had so in co:'sequence
gone over the district. At present the coals from Sanquhar
-Ind Mansfield were all carted, the expense of which he esti-
mated at 33. per ton per mile. With regard to the Mansfield
and Sanquhar coal-fields he did not think much coal would
go north except the gas coal. He believed Dumfries was at
present supplied to a great extent with Cumberland coal.
His estimate of the consumption of coal was at one and a
half tons per head. The witness was here examined at
some length on the details of his table of the coal con-
sumed in the several parishes which skirted the
the lime, with the object of showing tat he had over-esti-
mated the tonnage of coal that would pass along it. The pre-
sent consumption of coal at Dumfries was mostly English coal,
but if the line were formed he did not think English coal
would be then used. The difference in price, he thought,
would be so great as to drive the English coal out of the
market. The present price of Scotch coal was
16s. 6d., and English 18s. 6d., but the railway
would make a much greater difference in price. He
did not think English coal would be reduced in proportion.
Were a line formed from Dumfries to Canobie, the coal of
the latter would equally drive out the English coal. He did
not say that 30,000 tons of lime would pass along the line
on an average of six miles ; he said 13,000. The way he
had calculated the coal and lime traffic was, by taking sta-
tions at intervals along the line, and then taking the popula-
tion surrounding them which would require supplies. He would
supply in a table all the details that arenecessary to illustrate
the amount of traffic he considered would be taken by the line.
To Mr. Sergeant MURPIIY—He had on a former occasion
reported that iron was on the route of the Slamannan Rail-
way, but though that line had been in existence for several
years, no iron had yet been found. -It had recently amal-
gamated with two other lines, because it had failed as
a mineral line. He was mistaken: by appearances in re-
porting on the Slamannan line, but in regard to the
present line, he bad made a greater examination, and did not
think he had made any mistake. He had not, however, cal-
culated on iron going along the line. He had not examined
into the plumbago and sulphuret of antimony; he only spoke
of coal and lime. He could not say that coal might be laid
down in Dumfries from Maryport for 10s.
_ _ _

The Committee then adjourned till eleven o'clock on
Monday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The statement of our Cork correspondent, that Vice-
Admiral Sir William Parker, Bart., had declined the
offer of the Government, of the post of first naval lord
of the new Board of Admiralty, is correct. We are
sorry to hear of this decision of Sir William, for we
think the country will be the loser by it. At the same
time, no one can blame the Gallant Admiral for pre-
ferring the comparatively smooth and quiei employment
as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean to the ex-
tremely responsible, laborious, harassing, and, in many
respects, most unsatisfactory duties, as First Naval Lord
of the Admiralty. As Commander-in-Chief of a sta-
tion his income is above 1,0001. a year, more, strange
to say, than he would receive at the Admiralty, us
Commander-in-Chief not only of all the naval stations,
but of all the dockyards, too, under the Crown. In the
former position, important and responsible as it is, soma
relaxation can be enjoyed at times by delegating the chief
authority to the flag captain and the indefatigable
and always able secretary ; but at the Admiralty
there can be no cessation from continuous labour—even
Sunday brings no relief. Our correspondent added—
" The gallant admiral arrived on Monday in his flag-
ship, the Hibernia, 104, eommanded by Captain Peter
Richards, C.B. He received his orders for coming to
Cork from the Trafalgar, 120, Captain Notl, which ship,
from Plymouth, fell in with him on the 9th instant, and
accompunied the Hibernia to this port. Sir William
Parker will wait further dispatches from the Govern-
ment, and will then proceed to sea in command of the
Channel fleet." It is probable that when Sir William
Parker communicated his decision to the admiralty he
had not received those pressing invitations to accent a
seat at the Admiralty, which is said to have been writ
ten him by more than one Cabinet Minister, and it is
not improbable that, upon second consideration, the gal.
lant officer will be induced to alter his mind. Bo this
as it may, however, dispatches have been sent off to
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, in Scotland, offering
him the vacant seat in the event of Sir William's ultt-
mate refusal.

Captain Houston Stewart, C.B. (1817), has been ap-
pointed acting superintended pro tern, of Woolwich
Dockyard, vice Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8., appointed
a Lord of the Admiralty, vice Commodore Sir F. A.
Collier, K.C.H., Commander in Chief pro tem, of the
Channel fleet. Captain Houston Stewart was made a
Lieutenant in 1811, and commander in 1814. He was
midshipman of the Imperieuse, and served in her boats
in many of the gallant and daring exploits of Lord.
Cochrane on the southern coast of France, and at Rosas
in 1807-8. During the operations on the coast of Syria,
and at the capture of Acre in 1840, he commanded the
Benbow, 72. The gallant Captain arrived at Woolwich
yesterday afternoon.
Commodore Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.C.8.,
on leave of absence from the Channel fleet, has left
town for Cork, to re-hoist his pendant on board the
Queen. He left Portsmouth for Plymouth en route last
evening.
Captain Sir Watkin Owen Pell, Knight (1813), who
lost his leg while midshipman of La Loire, at the cap-
ture of the French frigate Pallas, in 1800, who was ap-
pointed, in February, 1145, from the superintendentship
. of Pembroke dockyard to Greenwich hospital, will have

itthe vacant Commisaionership. . Sir Watkin's brother,
the late Lord Pell, Esq., who inherited the fortune of the
late Sergeant Pell, brought into Parliament the late
Lord Althorp for Northampton. The pay of a Commis-
sioner is 6004 per annum, exclusive of perquisites. Capt.
W. B. Dashwood (1818), who was senior lieutenant of
the Active, and lost his arm at the capture of the French
frigate Pomone, in 1811, commanded the Snap brig, and
fought a gallant action with five luggers, capturing one,
off St. Valery ' commanded the Prometheus at Algiers ;
and Capt. F. Burgoyne (1815), have been named as
likely to succeed Sir W. 0. Pell.
THE PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT.--ArariOUS ru-
mours have been eirculated with respect to the consum-
mation of this much-to-be-desired measure of promotion
and retirement, and anxious have been the hopes of the
old officers that they will speedily receive that justice
from the present Government so cruelly denied them by
the late Administration, but to which refusal, however,
we are assured their Board of Admiralty was no party.
It has been extensively reported that the scheme is to
be promulgated on Monday next, but there cannot be
any grounds for expecting such an event so soon to take
place. As a matter of course, the Admiralty must
revise the proposed measure of their predecessors, and
we believe in this work they are now sedulously
engaged ; but as yet there is no senior naval Lord at
the board, and whether it be Sir William Parker or Sir
Charles Adam wo accepts the office it must undergo his
revision and have his sanction. it cannot, therefore,
be promulgated on Monday, but we have faith in
the good intentions of the present board with re-
spect to the measure and in the weight of their
recommendation to the Treasury, that it will be com-
pleted as soon as possible, and will not fall below that of
the late board in liberality and extent. We have heard
that Sir Charles Napier has recovered from his
lethargy, and latterly has been most industriously
employed in pushing on the adoption of some
scheme of retirement and promotion in fact, that
he will, on the naval estimates being brought for-
ward, raise a discussion on every vote, and divide
the house on every item. We confidently believe that
there will be no necessity for the execution of this
threat, which, under the circumstances, may be deemed
somewhat gratuitous.
STEAMERS' BOATS.—The recent wreck of the Maiden
City, near the Mull of Galloway, from which 110 per-
sons were providentially saved by the captain being
enabled to run the ship on shore after she had struck on
a rock, affords another proof of the necessity of adopting
the recommendation of the committee on shipwrecks,
that " all sea-going steamers should be provided with
paddle-box safety-boats." To the fineness of the
weather, and the assistance from the shore (which the
steamer was fortunately enabled to reach in her sinking
state), the passengers and crew, more than 100, owe
their lives. In the Steam Navigation Bill now before
Parliament, the boats to be carried by steamers are par-
ticularly alluded to, _

CHURCH FOR THE SEAMEN AT THE ISLE OF MAN.—
The authorities having determined to erect a place of
worship on shore for the seamen belonging to and fre-
quenting the Isle of man, the Admiralty, who some
years since lent an old ship called the Industry for a
floating chapel there, have most liberally given the
vessel to them. The Industry will now be broken up,
and the materials will be converted towards the con-
struction of the new church.

THE ALBION'S SPARS AGAIN.—On the night of the
9th of June, after leaving Cork for Lisbon, the Albion,
90, Captain Lockyer, C. 8., from a shift of wind, was
obliged to bow a head-sea, when she pitched so
tremendously heavy (bowsprit completely under), that
she sprung her maintopmast, which, however, she did
not dare to shift until she arrived at Lisbon. Although
the rent is from the trussel trees to the cap, they have
bound it together with iron hoops, and have thus made
the defective spar to serve. We shall have some little
more to say about this ship shortly, and the manoeuvres
on board.—Herald.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
to Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 82, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 11th day of July, 1846.
inns DEPARTMENT.

Notes i55ued........ 29,266,360

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .. .. 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 12,844,442
Silver bullion ...... 2,421,918

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J. Ceilings common brewer, SAW* Likfifk§irt#l4l
of Is. 2d. in the pound; on any Tuesday, W 6w"
at S-
Pott, Manchester.

J. Blundell, pawnbroker, Wigan, Lancashire-first div. of
5(1. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Pat,
Manchester.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
J. Marriage, jun., coal merchant, Chelmsford, Aug. 10, at
oae—C. J. Bond, tailor, Tranquil-vale, Blackheath, .Aug. 7,
at half-past one—T. L. Evill and T. Dowglass, cloth matha-
facturers, Vigo-street, Aug. 10, at twelve—J. and J. R. Bean,
wine merchants, Mark-lane, City, Aug. 8, at two—B. and G.
H. D. Lawrence, Crown-court, Old Broad-street, City,
Aug. 11, at twelve—J. Brant, coach builder, Hatton-yard,
Hatton-garden, July 28, at one.
In the Country.
J. Wright, scrivener, Tamworth, Aug. 8, at eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court—W. Neilson, Liverpool, Aug. 7,
at twelve, at Liverpool District Court—T, 1. Hellawell,
J. Nortclitle, and J. B Hellawell, Halifax, Yorkshire, Aug. 7,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—J. and J. Woodhead,
worsted-stuff manufacturers, Bradford, Yorkshire, Aug. 11,
at eleven, at the Leeds District Court—W. Chalonei,
Lincoln, Aug. 12, at ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-rtpon-
Hull—H. West, grocer, Burgh, Lincolnshire, Aug. 12, at ,!en,
at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hall—W. Perry, iron-
founder, Wolverhampton, Aug. 20, at twelve, at the Birming-
ham District Court.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
J. Miller, painter, Whittlebury-street, Hampstead-road,
Aug. 10—E. Clark, builder, Mortimer-road, Kingslaud, Aug.
10—J. R. Holmes, brewer, Poplar, Aug. 10—J. White, wine
merchant, St. Benet's place, Gracechurch-street, Aug. 7
J. Taylor, merchant, Liverpool, Aug. 11—W. Cross, coal
merchant, Weymouth, Aug. 7—J. Bacon, carpenter, York,
Aug. 7—S. Spann, cloth finisher, Leeds, Aug. 7—P. Mot-
tram, draper, Shrewsbury, Aug. 7—T. Harrison, victualler,
Birmingham, Aug. Blundell, pawnbroker, Wigan,
Aug. 7—C. Parker, linendraper, Liverpool, Aug. 7—T. Sut-
ton, jun., draper, Atherstone, Warwickshire, Aug. 7—W. R.
l'arsons, baker, Limehouse-causeway, Aug. 7—J. Howarth,
woollen manufacturer, Rochdale, Aug. 7—E. J. Staples, sur-
geon, Bristol, Aug. 7.