The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-09 00:00:00

GRETNA BRANCH.

This was a foarth petition of the North British Railway
Company, for leave bring in a Bill to construct a branch
from a point on their main line to Gretna, the estimated co4stcot
which is 80,000/. The usual evidence of the deposit of plans.
&c., having been adduced, the Committee decided that the
standing orders had been complied with.
ZDINOURGII AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
This was the petition of the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway
for leave to bring in a Bill to make a branch railway from a
point on their main line to Queensferry, the estimated cost of
which was 140,000/. The Committee decided that The fixed the standing
orders had not been observed in one respect. point
where the branch commences on the main line was not suffi-
ciently specified on the plan of the branch by some distinc-
tive mark. It was stated in the section that the branch
wouldwouldcommence at the point on the plan where the main line
diverged, marked A. The plan showed the point where the
main line diverged, but it was not marked A.
The Committee adjourned shortly before five o'clock.

Sub-Committee No. 4,
,Itoomll.
An additional Sub-Committee was appointed for this day,
eonsisting of the following Members:—
Sir W. ileatheote, chairman ; Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr.
M .J. O'Connell, Mr. packs, Mr. Acland, Mr. Evart, Mr.
Sh Rome Drummona, Mr. Childers, Mr. Cornwall Leigh, Mr.
E. P. Shirley.
The business of this Committee commenced at twelve
o'clock, when there were present Mr. Home Druniroond,
Chairman, in the absence of Sir William Heatlicote ; Mr.
Mope Johnstone, Mr. Shirley, Mr. Packe, and Mr. F.vans.
uplivazz-ccrbuurizrzwiEnr 7iGIACTozry.
This ?nil A Bill to empower certain persons therein named

to divide the rectory, which is in the county of Norfolk, into
three parts ; to build one or more churches in each district,
and to add a burial-ground to each new church; to provide
parsonages and glebe land, and to raise moneys.
Adjourned, owing to the petition not being before the
Committee.
TEE SALFORD WATER-WORES HILL.
was passed.
WINDSOR, SLOUGH, AND STAINES
ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
This was a Bill to construct a railway from Windsor to i
Staines, in length eight miles, and estimated to cost 150,0001.
Mr. Walmesley, the agent of the Bill, appeared before
the Committee, and the usual preliminaries having been
gone through, the Committee declared the Bill to have
passed it.
SOUTH MIDLAND (HUNTINGDON BRANCH)
AND (NORTHAMPTON AND BEDFORD
BRANCH) RAILWAY.
These were two Bills for the construction of the above two
branch lines, which were together 91 miles in length, and
estimated to cost 1,900,0001.
The Committee declared that the standing orders had
been complied with, except as to there being only one con-
tract deed for both lines, which was reserved for future con-
sideration. Messrs. Venables and Co. were the agents for
these Bills, and Mr. Vignolles the engineer of the lines.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN (FARE-
HAM AND ALTON BRANCH).
Length 21 miles, estimated cost 300,0001. This petition
was declared proved. The agent for this and other Bills of
the Company is Mr. Eddiscombe.
GRAND JUNCTION (1117YTON AND ASH-
TON, HUYTON, PRESTON, AND ST. HELEN'S,
WARRINGTON AND KENYON, WARRINGTON
AND PARKSIDE, LOWHILL AND PORTOBELLO,
AND EDGEHILL AND HUYTON BRANCHES)
RAILWAY AND GRAND JUNCTION (HUYTON
AND WARRINGTON BRANCH) RAILWAY.

Two Bills had been introduced for the construction of the
above seven branch railways. The estimated cost for the
whole is 1,480,000/., and the length 46 miles. The en.
gineers are Mr. Locke and Mr. Woods ; the agents are
Messrs. Burke, Pritt, Venables, and Co.
Mr. VENABLES appeared to promote the Bill, and the two
petitions were declared proved by the Committee.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND MID-
LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.
This is a contemplsted railway from Sheffield to Chester-
field, with a branch to Bakewell, the estimated cost of which
is 1,050,0001., and the length 23 miles. The engineer is Mr.
Vignolles, who was this day examined as a matter of conve-
nience to himself, but the petition will be taken in its proper
turn.
NEWCASTLE AND ZERWICIC RAILWAY.
The estimated cost of thiA line was 54,0001. Mr. Venables
appeared to promote the Bill, and the Committee declared
the petition proved.
The Comitteee adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING
Six O'CLOO K.

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ALARMING POTATO RIOTS AT

INVERNESS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
INVERNESS, lan. 6, 1846.—As some excuse for not at-
tending to your letter, I enclose two proclamations and a note,
from which you rill gather the alarming nature of the po-
sition of Inverness, and, indeed, as I am informed, of every
shipping place in the northern counties, but our situation is
much more critical than that of any other place from the
large body of navigators at present employed in the neigh-
bourhood, and who are taking an important part in the fray ;
and as some of them are captured, we may to-night
expect an attempt at rescue. Unfortunately there is only
a small number of military at Fort George at present,
but as many have come into Inverness as could be spared 80
as to leave enough for the defence of that important position.
There appears to be about 70 or 80 who occupy the castle,
and under the prudent and spirited command of Captain
Campbell, of the 87th Irish, they have been of important use
in preserving order, and as yet nobody has been killed, but
the number wounded must be ten or twelve, some pretty se-
verely, by the bayonets which the soldiers were obliged to
use when retreating to the castle with about a score of pri-
soners ; and some of the gentlemen and constables were se-
verely cut by the stones.
If in the course of the night the navigators,
of whom there are upwards of a thousand, overwhelm the
military, it is impossible to say where this unfortunate
affair will end, the whole town and neighbourhood will be
at the mercy of these blackguards for six days, being the
shortest period within which we can obtain assistance. Oh
for twelve hours of our Perth and Inverness railway 1 If
anything will open the eyes of Government, it is the danger
in which we are at present.
The riots began on Wednesday, in the attempt to ship
some potatoes at Thorn Bush pier. The low popula-
tion of the town opposed it successfally, in spite
of the police magistrates, and the military were
sent for, and placed in the castle, in case of
need. The town was quiet all day on Thursday, being the
Sacramental fast-day, but in the evening thenavvies marched
in from the canal, and being joined by our own mob, pro-
ceeded to smash windows, threatened or attempted to set
fire to the Provost's distillery, and it was considered proper
to order out the military, who, after a brush, succeeded in
capturing about twenty rioters, when the mob dispersed.
To-day special constables were sworn in, and under cover of
a strong body of constables, with the Provost and Sheriff at
their head, an attempt was made to ship the rest of the
cargo. About half-way to the pier the mob attacked us
slightly, but surrounded us in thousands, and after
the Sheriff read the Riot Act and a proclamation,
we continued our march to the pier. The mob
had taken up a very strong position here close to
the place of shipment, and whenever the attempt was made to
ship the potatoes we were attacked with the utmost fierce-
ness, and we were all after a very short combat obliged to
fly. The soldiers were sent for, but before they arrived our
cart and its potatoes were sent into the river. The military
shipped another, and so the affair ended in the meantime.
The soldiers have behaved very well, and Mr. Tytler and
• Provost Sutherland are heroes.

There was a riot in Nairn last night, and at Campbeltown,
Invergordon, &c., the Same spirit prevails, and not a potato
will be shipped without a military escort, though the
authorities assured us to day there was an abundance in the
country.
The following proclamation has been issued by the Sheriff
of the county :
" Whereas, notwithstanding the proclamation issued by
the Provost and magistrates of Inverness on the 4th inst., the
authorities of the county and town were this day deforced and
assaulted by a riotous mob, compelled to read the Riet Act,
and call in the assistance of the military power.
" The authorities, in addition to the prisoners already in
custody, have marked several others, who were active in the
riot and mobbing, and they have been informed that the
public peace is still threatened ; they therefore prohibit all
parties from appearing on the streets, lanes, and roads
of the town of Inverness and its suburbs, after the
hour of nine o'clock of this evening; and they hereby inti-
mate that any person or persons so appearing on the said
streets, lanes, or roads, between the said hour and six o'clock,
to-morrow, shall be deemed and held to be disturbers
of the peace, and act and part in the said riot and mob, and
shall be apprehended and prosecuted as felons—the Riot Act
already read being still in force.
"The authorities aforesaid, while they are determined to
enforce the law, take this opportunity of informing the in-
habitants, that measures have been taken for supplying the
market of Inverness with potatoes.
" God save the Queen

"By order of William Fraser Tytler, Esq., Sheriff of the
County of Inverness, and James Sutherland, Esq., Provost,
and the other Magistrates of Inverness.
" PATK. GRANT, Sheriff-Clerk.
"ILEX. MACTAVISH, Town-Clerk.
"Inverness, 6th Feb., 1846."

THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH,
(From the Edinburgh Wtehly Journal, Feb.
has 4th.)
The engagement of Celeste and Mr. Websterproved
signally successful.derabie power,
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his first appearance in any character would cause us
and h
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cipate ; this, we think a great proof of excoicn
throws himself so thoroughly into his part, and evinces so
much taste and discretion, and in fact is so much at home that
we do not know how he couid well go abroac into a different de-
partment, till we find hint eqnally- at home there also. Perhaps
his ablest personation is in his own clever farce, called
The Miseries of Human Life, where old Mr. Ally Croaker,
fretting at every thing, finds, of course, every thing to fret
him, even to the pulling on of his boots. He does, in-
deed,
seem as if he had been scalded or skinned, and
then clad in a shirt of nettles—while his droll agonies
are well contrcsted with the coolness of his friend
Mildmay (Murray, who was quite in his element),
to whom nothing comes amiss, and who, equally
of course, finds every card a trump. The Lioness
4. the North is a clever comedy, founded on the
mistake of Elizabeth of Russia (Celeste), who makes im-
perial and imperious love to a young lieutenant (Webster),
thinking that he is the famous Biron Duke of Courland.
Celeste acted the sovereign virago with her usual animation
and dignity. Mr. Webster, in his character of Alexis, rose
into graceful and genteel comedy, and fully sustained his re-
putation. Mr. Murray, as the intriguing, conceited) and ever
baffled Schuvoloff, or Sugar-loaf, or Shave-all-off, we forget
which, the Russian chief spy, or minister of police, was very
effective, as was Ray in the perplexed kind-hearted jailer of
Shiusselbourg. Lloyd has a capital part—as capitally acted
—an ambitious " full private," making love to an Empress,
and rewarded with an immediate ducking in a horse-pond.'
Altogether, the piece was very snccessful. A new and better
adaptation of the " Invincible.," called " The Pretty Girls of
Stibery," was brought out on Monday, with very great
succes, and, we may say, thunders of applause. Web-
ster—a pert page—undertook for Napoleon ; this was
doubted by his comrades; he turned hid back for a few mo-
ments, unbuttoned his coat, turned his wig, and presto ! the
very " little corporal " himself turned round and justified the
apparently involuntary military salute of his merry comrades.
He was ever afterwards in and out of Napoleon, in the
drollest and most graphic way, particularly when he did—
what Napoleon never did—got thoroughly drunk. Celeste,
as a Prussian captain, thereafter took them all prisoners.
She appeared at the head of a most efficient troop of heroines,
ably assisted by Sergeant Majoress Tenet.
(From the Edinburgh Weekly Express.)
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the audience. The Polka danced with Mr. Webster, will
giTe an entirely fresh idea of it to our Assemblies.

IMPORTANT NEWS from MEXICO.
(From a Second Edition of the Times.)
We have received the following important intelligence,
brought by the West India Mail steamer Trent :
The Royal Mail steamer, Trent, Captain Boxer, arrived at
Southampton this morning, from the Gulf of Mexico, last
from Bermuda. She brings 510,522 dollars, 1,256 ounces of
silver, and a large quantity of platenum, cochineal and inigo,
from Guatimala. The passengers by her are Lieut-
tenant Peel, son of Sir Robert Peel, from the Pacific, with
dispatches, Gen. Mendoza. Captain Gracio and lady, Mr. and
Mrs. Neilson and child, and Mrs. and Miss Trew, Captain
Deering, lady, and two children, Messrs. Stanley, Michaud,
Bonavero, Seruton, Silva, Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Valmyniple,
Boshill, Dr. Vamu, Lieutenant M'Cleave, Dr. Findlay, and
Mr. Wm. Neilson, of her Majesty's late ship Romney, Mr.
and Mrs. Dalrymple.
PRONUNCIAMENTO OF GENERAL PAREDES AND
MARCH OF HIS DIVISION ON THE CITY OF
MEXICO.

We have received from our Correspondent in the city 01
Mexico letters of the 30th of December.
General Paredes, with his division 7,000 strong, pro-
nounced on the 15th tilt. at San Luis Potosi, and marched
against Mexico on the 21st for the avowed purpose of over-
turning the present Government, and calling a National
Convention to establish whatever Government it might
think fit.
Parades and his division arrived on the 29th in the imme-
diate vicinity of the capital.
The Government prepared to resist in an energetic manner.
They appointed General Bustamente Commander-in-Chief,
armed 3,000 Civicos or National Guard, barricaded the town,
cut trenches in all the roads, declared the city in a state of
siege, and called out the mals population between the ages of
16 and 60.
The garrisons of the fort of San Juan de Ulloa, 'Vera Cruz,
Jalapa, Guanxuato, Guadalaxara, Zacatecas, pronounced in
favour of Paredes, but the civil authorities in all those places
and in several other towns issued manifestoes in favour of the
Government.
Several arrests were made, and the Archbishop was con-
stituted a prisoner in his palace at Sacubaya.
M. Slidell, the new Minister of the United States, has not
bee■ received by the Government under the plea that Mexico
agreed to accept a Minister ad hoe for the regulation of the
affairs of Texas, and not an Envoy for general purposes. M.
Slidell has written a very angry note, and retires to Jalapa,
there to await instructions from his Government.
Lieutenant W. Peel (son of Sir R. Peel), of her Majesty's
ship America, now at San Blas, on the Pacific coast, passed
through Mexico on the 27th for Vera Cruz, charged with
dispatches for the Hon. Captain Gordon, of the America, sup-
posed to be relative to Upper California and the Oregon.
Our correspondent at the moment of closing his dispatches
says, that the whole of the garrison has pronounced in favour
of Paredes, and that the Government of Herrera may be
considered at an end. The city was perfectly quiet and not
a shot fired.
The Clyde brought to Bermuda the windward mails, they
bring the dates since the last steamer left, to the 14th of
January from St. Thomas, and Bth from Jamaica.
There is nothing of any marked interest among the islands,
the out ships have begun to congregate at the different ports,
to receive the coming crop, which it is said will at least be an
average one, or perhaps beyond it; as the cane, especially to
windward, was much favoured by the rains at the end of
last year.

THE EXPRESS
EDITION•

SUN-OFFICE, Half-past Eight