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tutional principle, we should Lever have been
haunted by the dying groans of OTWAT, or the
emaciated and hagard visage of CHATTERTON. Had
there been some rational allowance made by the
State for those who are struggling in penury through
the treasures of intellect, the bloody and horrible
catastrophe which on Monday morning terminated
the career of poor
prevented. And surely
HA.itlxm, might have been
we are not endeavouring to
extort an exaggerated moral by merely playing upon
the sensibilities of the people when their hearts are
wrung and their imaginations inflamed by a spectacle
of such ineffable desolation and de,pair as that of the
suicide of this most remarkable man ! Surely there
is a tendency to commisseration in the mere retro-
spect of the evil against the existence of which we are
inveighing ; surely there is a mournfulness and a
rationality about it, altogether irrespective of any
temporary cause of incitement to those sentiments!
Can any one remember the premature decay and
the torments of involvement which had ren-
dered the death of JOHN BANIM inevit-
able before the Government vouch,afed him
the miserable pittance of 1501. a year, without feeling
the horrible consequences of this legislative apathy ?
Can they remember the death-bed of Thomas HOOD,
that saddest death-bed poet ever came to, without
mourning that the pension to his widow was only
sealed by his last breath ? When we find, indeed,
that 9,6741. is all the money annually
conceded to literary, scientific, and artistic eminence,
and that one hereditary pension alone from the ExCise
revenue (and in recompense for no good service
whatever), amounting to 10,5841., is paid yearly
into the pocket of a Noble Duke, we cannot
but revolt at such a disproportionate distribu-

tion of the national funds. In the lament-
able self-destruction of LAM AN BLANCHARD,
only the other year, an instance was afforded us of
the fearful effects of thus contemning the unfriended
worshippers of knowledge. In the recent calamity,
so analogous in some particulars to the preceding, the
truth is forced still more vividly upon our conviction
that the contingencies of poverty to intellectual men
should be foreseen and prevet.ted. Unless some
effort in behalf of our militant and suffering genius
be officially made, the blood of our men of arts or
letters, shed by themselves in the madness of destitu-
tion, will continue to be an indelible stain upon

the Legislature. The Premier has, in this
recent case, been preserved from the pos-,ibility of
having any stigma of neglect cast upon himself
by an act of genuine benevolence, which would never
have been revealed but for the unanticipated decease
of the historical painter, and which will serve to
stabilitate the popularity and assure the love of the
people towards Sir Romai. PEEL; the more espe-
cially so as this beautiful and affecting instance of
generosity is simultaneous with the malevolent and
vulgar derision with which he has been himself
treated. From that unfinished painting of " King
ALFRED and the First English Jury," before which
was discovered the dead body of Havrios, shall we
not diaw a moral ? Must genius still continue to
starve, and become madmen, and commit self-murder?

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived. The only
intelligence that can be gleaned from them is that, for a
wonder, tranquillity prevails throughout the length and
breadth of Spain.
MADRID BoLSA, JUNE 18.—The Three • per Cents.
nrcre done at 33i for cash and 33 7 16 for paper ; the
Five per Cents. at 201 for paper ; the 13,- hi without
Interest at 6i fur cash, aid 6i for taper ; the shares of
the Bank of San Fernando at 280, and those of Isabtl
at 96.

Letters from Rome state that the number of cardinals
assembled in conclave for the election of Pope was fifty-
one. The news of the election of Pins IX. was received
with acclamations by the people of Rome. The en-
thronement of his Holiness took place on the 17th. The
first Ambassador whose felicitations the newly elected
Pope expressed his desire to receive was Count Ross;
the French Ambassador. His holiness, in Ins reply to
the Count, expressed the most friendly sentiments
towards FraLee.

The Universal German Gazette publishes a letter from
Posen of the 17th inst., which says that the son of Count
PONIXSKY, who had taken a passport at Berlin for Po-
land, fur the purpose of visiting his father's estate, had
been arrested at lialiseh and taken to Warsaw, where the
Guvernor declared that he should not be released
uz.til Prussia gave up the Pole Domnnowsla,
one of the chiefs of the Into insurrection.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

- -
The Apogee, which is the organ of the GuizoT Minis-
try, contains an article on the refusal to give an autho-
risation for the meetings of -the Anti-Prottactiooi is
League in Paris. This article, which we give below, is
important, as showing that free-trade principles are
making progress in the French Cabinet, which by this
article may almost be considered as a Governmental
manifesto, plainly refuses to identify itself with the
protectionist party. The cause of free trade has every-
thing to hope from the liberal commercial tendencies of
the Government, as shown in thi, article:—
" Certain journals assuming to themselves a monopoly of
all liberal sentiments exclaim with great indignation against
the refusal of authorisation or license to the Association de
la Libert4 des Eschanges.' We cannot participate in their
alarm, nor discover that the progress of our industry or
commerce is compromised by the refusal of which they say
so much. As a first ground of ciasolation, we offer to them
the example of the calmness with which we have received
this measure. They may say to themselves, that having
seen with a lively pleasure the formation of this association,
that having hailed its birth with favour, we should have
been seriously afflicted if any misfortune had happened to
it, that its existence cannot be really threatened as long as
we do not hear those lamentations and sobbings which are
ever excited by the loss of an object of sincere affection.
We are indeed sufficiently happy to have it in our power to
observe that this refusal which creates so much indignation
in those journals and causes them to tall into such over-
powering grief has not, scarcely in
,any degree, the lugu-
brioua signification they attribute to it. It is in fact in our
opinion quite erroniously that they have consioered it as an
act of and hostility to prevailing ideas and to men
wishing to promote freedom of trade, in order to increase
pr gressively the wtll-being of the people, the public pros-
perity, the national power. In this there can be nothing in
common with the refusal of a license to an association, even
an association formed with the view of developing a free ex-
change of commodities, asd the convictions of a Cabinet or
a Government on questions of public economy. It is per-
fectly allowable to believe that a Cabinet or Government,
in refusing to auth, rise officially the establishment of au
association whose avowed object is the promotion of this
freedom of exchange, may be perfectly convinced that there
is much to do to ameliorate the economical condition of the
country. We, for our part, are intimately persuaded that
there is not in the present Cabinet any blind protectionist—
any one enemy to the progress of political economy. It
moreover seems to us to be very easy to assign legitimate
motives to the refusal given to the Association de la
Liberte des Echanges,' setting entirely aside the direct
interests which the association pursues. Under a
free constitutional government, with representative
institutions of a very democratic character, private
associations are certainly not the only forms and
instruments necessary for realising the desires and
wants of social progression. These obiects have
other means of realisation. To ob sin this what is there
need of more than the councils of arrondissement, the coon•
ails-general of the departments, and the three councils-
general of agriculture, manufactures. and commerce, with the
Chambers 01 Commerce and the commissions incessantly ap
pointed and consulted by the Ministers, together also with
the right of petition, with the agency of the press and the
tribune, with the influence of public opinion, Queen of the
world, with, in fine, the irresistible power of the majori-
ties in the Chamber ?. Let us then acknowledge in -the ful-
-1 lest feeling of consolation and even of pride, that France, in
order to amend her laws, to improve her habits, her arts, her
commerce, and general industry, is not reduced to such a
hazardous state as to require the union of a certain number
of persons under whatever denomination upon any one point
of her territory. Let the Parisian journals be fully convinced
of this, and pursue their vocations in peace. We can safely
promise them they will not lose their time and labour, and
when the day comes that they can consider their plans to be
worthy khe civilisation of France and Europe, they will have
at their command every means of causing them to be accepted
by a happy and grateful people.".
The Chamber of Deputies on Monday held its last
sitting before the official termination of the session.
L the Chamber of Peers were engaged in discussing the

Bill for an extraordinary credit of 93,000,000 francs for
the navy. In the course of the discussion Count
BEUUNOT, .M. DE MONTALEMBERT, and several Peers,
expressed their desire to see France a first-rate naval
power, and M. nx CasTELLINE insisted on the necessity
of constructing another naval arsenal and dockyard on
the ccast of the Mediteranean, in addition to Toulon.
The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance, charging
the Minister of Public Works with the portfi,lio of the
blinistry of Public Instruction during the absence of
the Count DE SALVANDY.

French Consul-General
paaafarliB:Bll3 Paris
aris at
----M. Y. DAVID, Deputy for Calvados, and formerly
rithf,idorthlbetaedelyni.
It was in Paris on
agreed Sunday.
M. D 5,
rm
ljAmußrTed i w
in
n Prince METTERNICH and the Papal Nuncio at
Vienna that the Austrian forces in Italy should be aug-
mented by 10,000 men.
On Tuesday a grand mass was performed at Notre
Dau.e, on the occasion of the decease of the late POPE,
at which all the Ambassadors in Paris representing Ro-
man Catholic Sovereiens were present.
The steamer Cuvier arrived at T. ulon on the 18th,
with dispatches from the Prioce DE JOINVILLE. The
squadron of win tion yaw thou at Palma, the capital of

idajorea, from whenc: it would sail in a few days for
Barcelona, and from thence proceed to Algiers.
Marshal MTGE:ACP returned-to Algiers from Oran on
the 14th. The Duke D'AUMALI had accompanied him
as far as Dj.-ma Ghazaouat, and then lett for Tlemcen
with General CAYAIGNAC.

D. n CAuLos, aud the Princess DE BEIRA, his wife,
passed through Chamber) on the 17th instant, on their
way from Turin to the waters a Aix.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris ilourse on Tun-
day at 82f. 95c. ; the Five per Cents., at 120 f. 45e.; the
Orleans Railroad :hares, 1,242 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,007 f. 50e.;

11;;;;e,72.i; Great Northern, 721 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 870 f. ;
Vierzon, 620 f.; Bordeaux, 58elf. 25c.; Basle, 217 f. 50c. ;
Dieppe, 405 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 497 f. 50c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 5121. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons. 532 f. 50c. ; Spanish
Actives, 31%; Ditto Three per Cents., 3736 ; Ditto Do-
mestic Debt, 3214.
The following are the quotations for other lines:—
Lyons and Avignon, Definitives, 5011.25 c.; Bordeaux and
Cette, Definitives, 485 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TM

LONDc.N STOCK EXCHANGE, Jcnqz 24.

Anglo-Belgian, 2% —Boulogne and Amiens, 12% - East Indian,
%—Luxembourg. 1% —Lyons and Avignon, 138 - Namur and Liege,
3—Xorthern of Franoe Constituted, 13% - Orleans and Bordeaux,
9;6—Paris and Lyons Constituted, h%—Sambre and Manse, 414-

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TPIREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was heavy,
but there was very little alteration in prices. Sales, 5,000
bales, including 700 for exportation; 200 bales Pernambuco,
at 414 d. to 7d. ; and 80 bales Bahia. at 6d. ; 200 Egyptian,
at 5%d. to 81-Ad.; 200 Surat, at 3d. to 3%d. ; and the rest
American, at 4d. to 5%d. per lb. Shares were dull again.
An arrival from ('ape Town furnishes advices of April 25.
The Governor, Sir P. Maitland. having matured his prepara-
tions, and put the whole of the inhabitants of the frontier in
a state of defence, advanced with the main body of the troops
into the Kafir territories, but found that no preparations to
oppose him had been made by the enemy, who in tact had
fled into the mountains. A good proportion of the chiefs
were friendly to us, Sandilla, Macomo, and Botun excepted.
The necessity of teaching the Kafirs a wholesome lesson of
our power seems to be fully recognised by the Governor, and
the effect we may hope will be permanent security. That
even now very vigor us proceedings will be indispensable,
we may judge from the fact of more robberies and a murder
having been committed by ose or two straggling parties of
Kafirs.
The Crane packet, arrived at Falmouth, brings later in-
telliget ce from Rio de Jareiro and the Rio Plate. The Bra-
zilian Ministry had resigned, but otherwise there is nothing
of interest to be noted in these accounts. As regards belli-
gerent operations in the Rio Plat-, since the battle of Salto
there was nothing new, save a few skirmishes. At Monte
Video, up to April 16, the Government seemed to be still
rather unsettled.
Accounts of February 16th, from Sydney, afford very little
local news, and in advicea of the 13th of January, from New
Zealand, we, do not find that the troops had moved further
up the country after the affair with Kawiti on the-Ildr-of
that month, having, of course, scarcely had time to do so.
There is a-flat market again fur -the Public Securities, and
the probability of the Peel Administration going out and
leaving the country in a state of political confusion, has a
depressing. influence, which, we much fear, will not
be got over until a firm Cabinet is spin
in power,
,and whale that is to come from, if Sir
Robert Peel refuses again to head, sorely puzzles City
men. Lord John Russell is admitted to be fully competent
to the task, but it is doubted whether the Conservatives who
followed Sir .Robert "more in sorrow than by choice," will
adhere to a Whig successor, even though to forward mea
cures planned nearly in the same spirit as are thoSe of the
existing Ministry. 'These are City Views, and we give them
for as much as they may be considered worth. Consols for
time bring 94% %. Exchequer- bills are heavy at 9s. to
13s. premium. Bank Stock has receded to 205% and 204%,
and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been
down to 96%
The Foreign Investments are heavy, as may be supposed.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 48 to for Ac-
count ; Spanish Three per Cents. obtain 37% to 36% ;
. Mexican Bonds have been worth 27% ; and Brazilian, 84%.
Dutch Two• and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 604
to 60%.
In Railway Shares and Scrip there appears still to be very
little inclination to do business, either for speculation or
investment. The quotations are rather easier in the majority
of cases.

BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSIN• •
O'CLOCK. PRICEs
Bank Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 205% 204% 204%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 943'8- 95 95
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 96% % % 96%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1660 .. 10 3-16 qi 10%
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 18 18
Ditto. under 1,0001. .. .. .. .. 23 23
Copse's for Opening .. .. .. .. .. 94% %, 94',74
Exchequer Bills. Ilid. 1 vol.
1,0001... .. .... 9 13 9 pm. '9
5001. . .. --.... 9 14 13 pm. 13
Ditto. Small .... 14 13 -- pm. 13

CLOSINC;
PRICES.
84%
27
16%

ONE
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'Ci.O K.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 84%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, S per Cent .. 27%
Ditto, Deferred 164 %
Portuguese Four per Cent .. 49
Ditto, for the Account .. 48%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. -
Ditto, for the Account 37% 367
Dividends on the above payable in Lenuun.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 604 34
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates • • 92% %
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen .. .. 10 3% • • -- • • • 31,4
Amber., Notting., Boston. and -
Eastern Junction 2%. 1%
11/4
Birmingham and Gloucester ..100 128 127% .. • 12734
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 234
Buckinghamshire 421. .... 54 dis 34 dis.
Caledonian 10 .... 10 974 • 934
Direct Northern 234.... 134%
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. I tis.... 23%7, • 2334
Ditto New .. . • .. 10/. 16s. •• • 73s p••• • • • 7
Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 13s. 4d. .. • -
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p 34 p
Ditto, York Extension 134 ...... • . • •
East Lincolnshire .. • • .. 14 34
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto 34 Shares .. • • • .. 10 .... 16y„
Exeter, Yeovil,. and Dorchester .. .... 1% j
Great North of England . ..100 ....225 223. •
Ditto, New • • •• •• •• 5 •• •• 54% • • 544
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • •-• 134, ••• 16 ••••• • .. • • 16
Greet Western • • • • • • .. 85 ....141
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. 50
Ditto, Fifths . • • • • •• 20 31
Hull and Selby . • • • • • .. 50 •• .. - •• • • .... • 102%
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 40 .... 54% 55 .. 55
Leicester and Itediord ••• • • 225..... 1
,4 dis .. 34 dis.
Leicester, Tamworth, Bcc. 425. - .• . • ..... %di .
Live:p.. Stanch., & Newc. Junct. 2% 13i..... 1
London an Birmingham _lOO ....225 .......... 224
Ditto Thirds . • • • • • •. 24 .... - ....... 62%
Ditto Quarters • • •• • . 2 .. 28% 28%
Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • 2 .... 25 25
London and Blackwell 16/. 134.4,d. 7.14
• • 7%
London aed Brighton .• • 50 .. 6434% .... 64%
London and Croydon • • • • 13/. I:Ss 0d... - .... • • 22%
Lot.don and South•Westem 411. 61. 10d... 77 •
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 1734 .... 28%
London and York • • • • • • .. 2% .... 13e lso
Manchester and Leeds . • • •• 82
Ditto, Quarters • • • • • • 2 .... 10
M anchester and Birmingham .. 40 , -
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4 13% ..... 13%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 9j4
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. % p..., 134 p
Midland .. • • • • • • • • ••100 ....149% . • 149%
Ditto, New - • • • • • •• 24 .. .. 374••..•. . 3714
Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 25
Ditto, New • • • • • • • I .. 934 . .. •
Newcastle and Berwick . • •• 15 .... 2456
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston 1%
Norfolk .. • • • • • • • • • • 211 •• .. 25
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. ~ 5
..... ..
Ditto, Tenths ••••••• • 2 .. • • 234• .•• • •
Ditto, Extension • • • • 2 .. „
North British .. • • • • • • • • 2234. 294
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • .. 814.
Ditto, Carlisle Extension 14 1%34 . .....
North Kent and Direct Dover 2y 1
North Staffordshire • • • • • • 424..... 343'4 p
Oxfd.,Worcester, Wolverlimpte. 12% 8 „
Portsmouth Direct • • • • • 3% ... 4%4 .. • .
Swath Midland • • • • • • • • 425. .... dis..
South Eastern and DOYOr 33% 401,4 39% ••
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 1914 „„ „
Do.. New (do 33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .... 13 .. ••.. • •
Do., New (do. 30!.) • • No. 3. 15 .... 17%
Do., New (do. 151.) • • No. 4. 2% .. 2% % ........
South Wsles • • • • • • • • .. 5 1
Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • 2
York and Carlisle .. • • • • • • 2% • •
York sad North Midland .. to
5...
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 4714
Ditto. Extension • • •• 15 •33%1
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 ... 114%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Ceylon .. . • • • • • • • • • 58. •• • - • .
Demerara .. • • • • • • • . 2%..~
Dendre Valley • • • • •• • • 2 ....
Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • . 6
Louvain and Jemeppe • • • • 4 .. . 1 ......
Luxembourg .. • • • • • • 4 .... 174
Madrid and Valentia • • • • .. 2 .... 1% . • ....
Aram and Liege • • • • • • 6 .... 3 ..
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 .... 1234 13
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 534% . .
Paris and Rouen .. .. • • 20 .• .. 38% •
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 4% 34 ...
Rouen and Havre .. .. 20 .... 28% ......., „
West Flanders .. •• ' . 6 .... a%
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. 20 ....'l7 •• • .......
London Joint-Stock • • .. .. 10
MINES.

R*ll del Monte, Unregistered .. ...: 3%...... ...

291,i
11
13q
1%
42 p

(its
39%
194

13%
54
381
414
26%

LLOYD'S SH I PPING.-(T H IS DAY..)
• Loweow, JiTtrx 215.—Wind S.W.. light brosze, and fine clear weather,
DEAL, W.S.W. to S.S.W.; P.M., S., light.—
Arrd. Ratcliffe, Gilbert, Sydney, New South Wales ' • I'udor, Lay,
Calcutta ; St. George, Norris, Patagonia ; Thames, Davison, ditto ;
Trieste, Marsobett, Bahia; B. his, Toronto; Tinker, New York;
Victor, Murray, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Oriental, Hoigt, ditto;
HoPe. Gambia. Arrd. from the river, Queen of England, Pearson,
Ch na. Sld. Triumph, Leggett, Montreal; Wellingsley, Davis, Bal.
timore ; Antoine, Meyer, Texas; Adrianus Jacobus Preciosa, Krog,
New York ; Bueephalus, Bell, Madras, &c. ; Lady M`Naughten,
Hibbert, ditto.

OFF Ponrsmorrit, Jura 24. —Achilles, S. Wilson, Alexandria.
COWES, JUNE 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Virginia, Porto Rico.
Fstmourn, JUNE 24,—Wind N.N.W —Arrd. 23d, Commodore.
K:llea, Patagonia; Aiary, Isbister, Sierra Leone. 24th; Crane
packet, Rio Janeiro, sailed 11th ult., Bahl;-21st, and Pernambuco
27th ; on freight, 9,0001., in gold and diamonds.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 23. Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. 24th, Jolly Robin,
Beverly, Calcutta ; Courier, Carr, Lima ; Bee, Murray, Arica ; Oc-
t a via. Reed, Valparaiso; Avon, Robinson, Patagonia; William
Russell, Paleth. rp, Ilahia ; Corsair, Rio de la Ilache ; Alecto,
Anal], Barbadoes ; Triumph, Hassal, Barbadoes ; Mary, Hodges,
Maracaibo ; Mary, Jackson, Galveston ; Republic, Sullivan, New
Orleans ; Troubadour, APDort-all, New Orleans; Argo, Mitchell,
Mobile; Coromandel, Broadfoot, Mobile. The brig Africa was
wrecked at Ascension on the 2Gth of April. The Hope hu been
wrecked at Patagonia.
LIMERICK, JUNE 23.—Wind W.—Acrd. Ann, M'Fie, St. John's,
Nvw Brunswick; Hornet, Ileddigan, ditto; Jessie, Challas, ditto.
Batman., Juan 23. Wind W.—Acrd. 21st Tarolinta, Smith, New
York; 23d, Alvarado, Ames, New York. Sld. 21st, Duke of Corn•
wall. Ronald, St. John's.

Poi/TownTit, JUNE 24. —Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. Welcome.
Broadfoot, Moulmein. Sld her Majesty's steamer Terrible on a
cruise. The Chartertield, Saunders, got on shore on Southsea Beach
yesterday evening, was asaistlid off on the flood, and proceeded to
Seaham. The Oscar, Videler, from Aaleiund for Spain, which put
In here yesterday, is leaky, has been surveyed, and must discharge.
WARREN POINT, JUNE 22.—Acrd. Brothers, Wilson, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

Tilt: WEA.TIdER AND THE CROPS.—The fresh and
exhillrating rain of this morning (Tuesday) has done wonders in the
fields Rain was much needed for farming operations, especially for
turnip sowing.—Bury Herald of yesterday.
ORDER or TEE POsTMASTER-GENERAL.—Yesterday
morning au order was posted In the letter-carriers' °Rice of the
General Post-office, instructing the men by no means to leave any
chargeable letter at any counting-house, or place, without payment
of the sum charged. If the parties are not In, the letter is to be
brought away and Lendered again ahen the letter-carrier has de-
livered the remainder of his letters.
DREADFUL HURRICANE. IN LOMBARDY —A letter
from Dfouza, in Lombardy, of June 11, states that a dreadful burri;
cane had almost destroyed the forest near that town, 4,000 tree
having been torn up by the roots, and the rest stripped of their leaves.
The country was filled with birds killed by the ball. The storm ex-
tended to the Venetian territory, where it also did fireat damer,

I 5 27
WHEAT. BARLEY.'
235
as
OAIS. RYE. 1365 BEANS. 132 s PEAS.
PRICE .. Ia 5d s 3d 3d 4d 4d Gd
DUTY... 'B5 04 9s Od bs Od 95 6d Ti 6d 85 6d

RAELWA Y COM NI IT FEES.

(THIS DAY)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Room B.
GLASGOV7, BAIZILHEAD, AND NEILSTON
(PAISLEY BRANCH).
IMPORTANT DEt. isION.

Their Lordships met at eleven as usual, Lord Roden in the chair;
all the Members were present.
Some further evidence was given on the part of the Glasgow. Kil-
marnock, and Ayr Company ; and their ease against the Bill th ing
clo,ed, _ _ _

31r. HILDYARD, on the part of the promoters, replied to the address
of Mr. Wakeling, who spoke on behalf of the Ayr Company yesterday.
The Learned Counsel went over the whole case at considerable
length.

•
On the conclusion of Mr. Hildyard's speech,
The Co iduittee ordered the room to be cleared., in order that they
might consult as to their &cis on. In the course of about ten mi-
nutes we were re-admitted, and
The CHAIRMAN said the Committee have come to a unanimous
decisi.n as to this Bill. We arc agreed that the line of country
through which the railway w .uld pass is a most important district,
and requires railway accommodation, but we think that accommo-
dation would not be supplied by the passing of the Bill, which would
wit pen the mine of wealth which should be opened in this district,
and we, therefore, declare the preamble not proved.
Their Lordships then rose finally.