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lONDeN, SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1846.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack ac
five o'clock.
Various petitions having been presented,
The Earl ST. GERMANS moved the third reading of th
Irish Pacification Bill.

Several verbal amendments were proposed and agreed tu.
and after a desultory conversation, the Bill, as amended, wa
read a third time and passed.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'clock.
Several railway Bill: were read a second time and ordeie.
to be committed.

Lord HENRY BEN-111110i took the oaths and his seatVo
firth Nottingham.
Several railway Bills were read a third time and passed The Grand Trunk, or Stafford and Peterborough Railiva
Bill was read a sesond Mme, after a division, by a majorit
of 20.
I
Lord J. Ressm,i. gave notice of his intention on ThUrs-
day, the 26th of ILarch, to move that the House on that dad
do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House fortin
purpose of considering the state of Ireland.
Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from an Hon
Illember, said it was impossible for him to say on what day
he should bring forward the reduction of the sugar duties.
It was his intention, however, to do so as won as the con
importation measure was disposed of.

In answer to a question from Mr. O'CoNlytt.l., Sir R. PEU
mid it was the intention of the Government, immediately um.
the Irish Protection of Life and Property Bill coming into al,
ifolisc, to more that it be printed, and taken into con-
Sideration on an early day.
The South Sea Company Bill was read a third time are
passed, on the motion of the CHAIiCELLOII of the EXCHEQUER
Sir J. GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill to eon
fb:n Wary provision for persons all'ected with fever in Ireland.
Mr.lVAK.nnvthought the best course to stop the disease that
was now raging in Ireland was to provide the people withfood
After some observations from Mr. COLQUIIOUN, Captain
OSBORNE, Lord G. BENTINCK, Mr. HUMP, Mr. O'CONNW.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that nothing had been lost sight of b.)
the government to alleviate, as far as possible, the distress
Anti misery that was existing in Ireland.
Mr. S, O'BRIEN believed if the English proprietors of Ire-
bad were compelled to do their duty, the people of Irclan,
would be in a much better condition than they were at pre-
sent, and would obt be under the necessity of calling upon
British generosity.
After,some further discussion, leave was given to bring in.
the Bill.

Mr. GREENE then brought up the report on the custom,
and corn importation measure ; and on the question that th,
first resolution with respect to silk be read a second time,
Mr. It. SPOONER moved that it be read a second time tha,
day six months, believing that, if carried, it would have thf
effect of paralysing native industry. The lion. Gentleman
attributed the vrhole of the evils under which the countr)

he
was at present labouring to the Bill of 1819, enforcing t
resumption of cash payments.
Mr. NEWDEGATE seconded the motion.
Sir G. CLERK seconded the resolution. and, after a short
discussion, the amendment was withdrawn.
Upon the question that a reduction should take place in.
the duty on foreign butter, some considerable discussii.on
ensued,,and, upon a division, the original resolution was c ar-
ried by a majority of 102.
Upon the question for the reduction of the duty on hosiery,
a division took place, when there appeared a majority for
the reduction, of 88.
The further consideration of the report was, after a short
discussion, postponed till Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
Muse adjourned till Monday.

A Parliamentary return, which has just appeared, fur-:
nishes some curious, we may almost say startling, informa-
tion about these terra incognita, the Universities of Oxford
and Cambridge. It is a return of ♦arious particulars relative
to certain professors in the two Universities, and, among
other particulars, of the number of pupils attending their lec-
tures. The professors included in the return are the Regius
Professors of Divinity, Physic, Civil Law, Greek and
Hebrew, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, and the
Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic in both Universities,
the Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ecclesi-
astical History in Oxford, and certain professors, to whom an
annual stipend is voted by Parliament, and who, we gather
from the return itself, are paid by Parliament, as follows :

OXIO R D.
Modern History, Dr. Cramer
Geology, Dr. 8uck1and............ , lOO
Mineralogy, Dr. Buckland
Chemistry, Dr. Daubeny...... lOO
Botany, Dr. Daubeny
Experimental Philosophy, Ur. Walker .lOO
CAMBRIDGE.

History, Mr. Smyth 330
Anatomy, Dr. Clark ......... • lOO
• Chemistry, Mr. Cumming ... lOO
Botany, Mr. Henslow
Natural Philosophy, Mr. Willis lOO
Mineralogy, Mr. Miller lOO
The sums voted by Parliament are certainly not large, but
the question is, whether for the good which these professors
seem to do they are not paid dear at these small salaries;
or, probably, the inefficiency of the professorships:is to be
traced to the smallness of the emoluments ; and if so, we
should by all means say, pay the professors better, and make
client more efficient. Arany rate, .the present state of things
is„ indefensible. Either give •no money, .or give enough to.
do good.
The celebrated Dr. BUCKLAND bolds the two professor-
ships of geology and mineralogy in Oxford; And how many
pupils' does the reader think that this philosopher of
quropean reputation has.had in both classes during the last
fouryears? 107, says the return. That is, less than an average
of ten for each class in the year ! Dr. DAUBENT'S average
annual number for his botany class is six, and for chemistry
eleven! The Professor of Modern History averages twenty-
four; while the Professor of Experimental Philosophy beats
all his colleagues, having had, in 1842, seventy-five pupils;
in 1843, ninety-one; in 1844, sixty-two_; and in 1845, eighty
five. But there may be, and probably is, some special reason
for these larger numbers, as we tee by the returns that a
considerable proportion comes_ each year from one college
(Christ Church), where probably some regulation exists for
enforcing attendance. _ _

In Cambridge things are no better than in Oxford. The
Prefessor'of Anatomy had only six pupils last year, and the
Professor of Chemistry only ten : the average number of
pupils with the Profesior of Botany is pnly twenty; the Pro-
fessor of Natural Philosephy has only ten to fiften pupils a
year the Professor of Mineralogy cannot state the number,
not, however, we may safely conclude, because they are too
numerous to count; and the Professor of Modern History has
;,iven no lectures at all for the last four or five years, " not
;Ally (we quote froM a letter written by the professor,
-.%.11ich is quite a curiosity in its way), because I had
!become deaf and old, but because I found that I had lost
my audience, and that- if my lectures' were to
lave any chance of doing good they. must be
published, which was accordingly done, precisely. as I had
~een accustomed to_ deliver them." To the loss of his uni-
,Tersity audience, then, the public is indebted for Professor
SMYTH'S worlis on " Modern History," and the " French
Revolution." But why did he lose his university audience?
" The number of pupils," he says, " that used to attend
.sere, for some years, from 70 to 90 ; but when the examina-
ion, called the Little-go,' was instituted, I lost a consider-
ble part, of my audience, one-fourth at least.. My audience
.fterwards dwindled down to about la or 20." We believe

hat with most professors, as with Professor S.:Amu, recent
changes in the educational system at the Universities, which
lave the effect of absorbing more and more of the time of
'he young men in classical and mathematical studies, have
een the cause why their lecture-rooms have been emptied.
Ills is the explanation given by Mr. LYALL in his strictures
,a the Eughsh University system, in his work on America.
Jut what can justify to foreigners, whatever there may be
o explain, the desert state of lecture-rooms presided over
)3, such men as Professor Sstrrn and Professor BUCKLAND?

Nothing can be more lamentable than the frequent occa-
,ions in which, of late years, public attention has been drawn
:o the serious delinquencies—Ao use the mildest term—of
which, in our courts of law, the clergy of the Established
Church, whom, from their position, we are taught to regard
ts the appointed instructors in both moral and religious edu-
cation, have been found guilty. Our columns of Friday
contained the:report of the second day's trial, of an, action for
lamages, in which a reverend gentleman, a doctor of di-
vinity, an incumbent, having the cure of souls, and the
.ecipient of a large income, figured as the
,defendant, and in
vhich the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. We are not
tbout to descant upon the evidence upon which this verdict
was obtained ; suffice it to say, that a special jury, composed
,f men of property, education, and intelligence, whose sym-
,)athies, if they could at all be supposed to sway :their judg-
nent, would be far more likely to be entertained on behalf
X the reverend defendant, a gentleman in, their own rank
,f life, and moving in their own circle, than of.his accuser,
:rho had been his menial, found the charge to be true,
dthough this divine enjoyed all the advantages which
wealth can afford, especially in securing for him the
services of the Attorney-General, who has made , himself so
listinguished an advocate in cases of this peculiar description.
['hue, then, has another instance been added to the black
:atalogue. of clerical offences. Are these shocking errors
raceable in any degree to the loose manner in which the
Universities educate, and the hierarchy suffer, candidates for
aoly orders to be inducted into the Establishment ? How
iotorionsly loose is the life too generally led by young
nen at Oxford or Cambridge; and where is the restraint
ipon the destined and youthful recipients of clerical prefer-
nent from following in the crowd of his dissolute com-
anions ? Once formally through his degree and the subse-
lucid nominal examination of the bishop, he immediately
tcquires, without test, let, or impediment, the full enjoyment
,f his family patronage in the Church, the emolument of
.yhich he has been taught to regard, from his earliest years,
►s being as much his own as that of the ancestral domain is
,f his elder brother. How different is the probationary
.;ourse with the ministers of other persuasions. The evidence
)f their fitness for the sacred office must be well established
previous to their entrance upon it by a long course of

1 arduous study, supported by a life of irreproachable purity.
Surely the time has come when sonic better means should be
adopted by those seats of learning for grappling with the evils
)3,, which the public mind is, as it were, gangrened and
.ehich spring, too, from the very sources which are regarded,
Ind which they boast, to be within their own special juris-
liction. For years have the Dissenters claimed the right of
admission into the Universities, which bigotry and spiritual
,lonopoly have, as yet, unfortunately too successfully resisted.
his narrow-mindedness is reaping the penalty of its own
-elfishness, for we are constantly witnessing the unhappy
ruits of the education pursued within the college walls;
,vherea., if the doors of the national :academies had
,een long ago liberally thrown open, as they ought to have ,
,een, to the disciples of every creed, bigotry and superstition I
,vould have soon become shrouded under the auspices of that
nlightenment which is the sure result of permitting all
!lasses to mingle together, and generously to com •
dete for the honours of the state as well clerical as laical.
No doubt much has of late years been done by the Legisla-
nre towards eradicating in part, and more in amending,
nany of the administrative evils of the established religion,
gut it is greatly to be regretted that so little has been
!fleeted towards improving the constituted ecclesiastical
ribunals for visiting in a more efficacious manner the recog-
tised functionaries of religion with the severest penalties
ellen they have been adjudged guilty of such atrocious
.barges as have, unfortunately, within the last few years:been
,o frequently brought against them. To the exemplary
nanner in which the ministers of the various classes to which
ye have referred have discharged their solemn vocations,
.re we indebted that the State religion has been compelled to
elopt even such partial and scanty reforms as those to which
Ne have alluded, and. we do sincerely hope that the example
els.! att. i
e,
:t
e will
k.soon
curniShed to us by the Scotch Church, in the investigating,
cud (if guilty) punishing such ministers of religion as uteri-
elr a
e teitrshig.
bh o o g to the gratification of their lustful pro-
Ibne
thatfollowed,
Church,and itseb snpuilrdi t incorporatedenrnr,;ai
nt bin
e
nade against one of its pastors, it is in the first instance ad-
udicated on by the Presbytery, from thence an appeal lies to
the Synod, and thence to the General Assembly, the
-ourt of final resort, whose decision is binding and con-
.:lusive. To a tribunal so constituted there can be no
:Me objection ; every one must be satisfied of the im p
delay with which its judgment is arrived at. The wise
Aovision of our Brittish constitutional law, that every con-
ested fact in which the life, the property, the reputation of
Lny man is involved, shall be left to the decision of his peers,
3 there acted up to, and the public, satisfied that strict jus-
ice is done, at once acquiesce, without cavil or complaint,
in the ultimate decision. Such, however, cannot be the case
,when the entire matter is to be investigated before a single
aulge, whose prejudices and feelings may possibly lead him
o take too lenient a view of the citcumstancas, and it is to
the comparative impunity with which
,so many grave of-
lenders against all that is sacred, against ama ll that they
have so solemnly undertaken to fulfil, and by pre-
cept and example to inculcate, have been suffered to escape,
that the confidence of the public mind his been altogether
Shaken in the decisions of the clerical courts of judicature.

The force of public opinion is ever the herald to salutary re-
formation ; and it is the duty of the journalist to give this
opinion a faithful embodiment; and, certain that we are only
correctly pourtraying the public feeling when we urge the
necessity of stringent and immediate measures for the cor.-
struction of a proper tribunal for the investigation of these
serious charges,, and the purification of the altars of religion
from such polluted ezerescences—we shall not cease to urge
the adoption of a different system from that which now pre-
vails, to the end that, on the one hand, the disgust engen-
dered by these repeated exhibitions of clerical demoralistion
may be removed ; and, on the other, that by a salutary
change, the approbation of every well-regtiated member of
society may be secured. ,

Destitution, disease, ane want of employment, are 'spread-
ing with the most alarming rapidity throughout Ireland.
Even the veriest sceptics of the misery genisinating among
the populace of that doomed country find it no longer possible
to hesitate in acknowledging the present emergency: Sir D
PEEL, in his character of Prime Minister, has demanded in -
the most solemn language the assistance of Parliament
for those millions of starving Irish. Mr. O'CorusEra
has pronounced the condition of his fellow-countrymen as
requiring one immediate help from Government, if the legisla-
tors would comply with their responsibilities as guardians 01
the multitude, or, in fact, if they would fulfil the most be-
nign precept, of Christianity by feeding the htingry. Pro
fessors KANE and PLAYFAIR have given us the detaile6
statistics of that deficiency in vegetable food, which is now
tending to debilitate, if not to exterminate, a fearful portion of
the population of Ireland. The Legislature also has acteda be-
coming and merciful part on this occasion ; the ordinary routine
of Parliamentary business has been internipted to afford an op-
portunity for expediting certain measures likely to entai
much benefit upon the sister island. A preference has beet,
given to questions hinging upon Irish Matters. Indio:
corn to a considerable .amount has been purchased
with our national funds, and shipped for the principal ports
of Ireland, as much to preserve the scanty crop remaining
of sound potatoesto.he employed as seed for the next harvest,
as for the purpose of placing wholesome provisions at a
moderate charge within the reach of the sufferers. Various
modes have been 'devised and mooted, both within and with
out St. Stephen's, by Which remedies might be appliee
to an extensive - and importunate and spreading
evil. Some of these devices have been adopted. But
while arrangements are thus making tardily and with hesi-
tation, the penury . and helplessness of those four or five
millions of human beings are daily becOming more and mein
dire, and hopeless, and awful. Each packet is the bearer of
still more calamitOus intelligence, the harbinger of yet
darker days. r Starvation in some districts is not only
threatening—it, has already commenced: Agents hav,
been dispatched to thosescenes of wanti and idle-
ness ; their communications in return have more ,that
corroborated all_ the previous rumours of wretchedness
Fever and dysentery—originating in tainted roots, or in 4.
total absenee of nourishMent—are prevalent to no unim-
portant extent in several of the towns and villages of Clare.
While the hovels, which in moments even of plenty are always
choked up with filth enough to generate a mallaria, are now
abandoned to a yet greater state of dilapidation ; the EW►,.
and muscles of their inmates rendering. them by emaciation
but little inclined to exertion. 'Nor are these terrible griever:-
cies confined to the inner and mere_ rustic .parishes; the
dwellers on the sea-shore are beginning to, experience all the
fiercest pangs of privation. So extreme is their indigence—'
so hopeless their future—that not merely have the poor fishers.
men been compelled to part .with their little scraps of house
hold furniture (such as beds) and their wearing apparel, it
order to appease for a time the hunger of their families,,
but they, have. been driven to that final stress.. of all, the
necessity of raising a trifle of money upon their. nets. 13)
these circumstances all opportunity Of redeeming their po-
sition is lest for ever, unless some charitable interference ma's'
enable them to struggle again in their own calling for theb
livelihood. Seventy-five of these. fishing-nets have beer,
staked away for food in the above manner on the
south-west coast alone ; and so urgent were the cir
cumstances under whiCh the hargain was struck, that
the pawnbroker of Kilrush declares his conviction that it
the unfortunate men could possibly have conveyed the',
boats to his warehouse, they would have resigned those instru-
ments of their industry, into his possession for the purpose o
buying meal. That these significant occurrences may no
pass without the observation of Government, a petition fron
the fishermen of Clare has, it appears, been drawn up, inn
ploring the Members of the Lower House to take the pennr, 1
o the petitioners into consideration. And fain are we
to believe that that prayer will not remain long un
answered.. The dykes are breaking down; if they b,
not speedily repaired, Ireland will be inundated with woe.
Believing, however, as we do, in the promptitude and justice
of Parliament, we cannot for a moment suppo.se that that au-
gust body will remain,impervious to the• lamentatiens of the
famishing. Let our legislators remember, however, that the
scarcity among the Irish is gradually dwindling down to
nothing: and that, after the warnings ,and supplication:
which they .have . already received, they will b,
answeralle before Hearen for one singie victint
st arration ! In addition to the Government pro
posal, there is the suggestion of the Premier, that private
charity should co-operate with the Legitlature finereg sus
tenance and employment for the poverty-stricken Irish.
Th!s suggestion appears to have been treated slightly, or to
have been altogether contemned ; bat for ourselves, we
conceive it to be imperative upon every individnal who is
competent, to join in some,grand, national contribution for
affording succour for the famished crowds in Ireland. A
mere mite from each would accumulate into a vast boot.
for those destitute classes of our countrymen. By deprivint
ourselves of not one single comfort we might ward off death
from the unfOrtunate„ An .omniscient Dvanr has though'
proper to visit Ireland with one of his severest scourges: i
is the very moment, therefore, when England should follow
one amongst the noblest precepts inculcated by that DEITY.
We feel assured that this recommendation frOm tbe bps 01
the Prime Minister is not merely feasible, but that it is ab-
solutely requisite. Indeed it is but reasonable, while coer-
cion is, proposed for the suppression of Melly Maguireism.
of the Rockite factions, the Whiteboy conspiracies, and
those hideous agrarian assassinations which are unhappily se
prevalent in our sister country ;—it is but reasonable, we say,
that this coercive system (abstractly so obnoxious to the
Irish tenantry, should be reconciled, in some measure, to the
populace, by simultaneous efforts on the part of Government
and of the British public, to employ the unemployed and t('
feed the foodless. A community of action such as this woulc
be conducive to the welfare of the peasantry, while it walk
enforce their reverence for
-and obedience to the majesty of
the temporary law. As 'a co=operative MeaSure, nothing,
however, would be more likely to ensure this happy consum
mation than a strenuous movement on the part of the Irish
landlorda—an interference on behalf of the labouring classes
more, natural than any interference of Government, of
of the English public, and one more certain of ensuring the
tranquillity and of compensating for the bygone miseries o
that luckless multitude. It was from a conviction of tbi:
fact that Mr. WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN endeavoured to iris-
press the necessity upon the .representatives and the Mi-
nistry; it was from a conviction of this fact that Sir
'PEEL immediately afterwards declared that "sinless the Irish.
proprietors can be induced to come forward and co-oPerate
with the. Government, all that can be done will be almost
entirely useless." Surrounded, hoWever, by those gloom;
signs of hesitation, and increased poverty, and contagiom
maladies, let Ireland still remain patient and hopeful ; her
cup of sorrow is coming to the dregs ; a happier epoch is
approaching.
In the midst of such scenes the very ingratitude of Mr. S.
O'Barxx will pass by unheeded, and the ill-timed and in-
jurious remarks, which he made last evening, be drowned
amidst the cries of starvation from his countrymen, •

We observe that Mr. PARKER, the Member for Sheffield
has given notice of a motion on the subject of railway legis
lation, which wears much more of a practical appearance
than the proposed motion of Mr. MORRISON. Mr. PAnxim's
motion is for a Select Committee, " to consider whether pre-
cautions cannot be devised by which the effects of the rail-
way legislation, now pending, on the labour and monei
markets of the country, may be provided against." This is
hitting the right nail on the head. Mr. PARKER'S motion is
fixed for Wednesday next. Before then weshall return to the
subject. Mr. Monnisox has fixed his motion for Thursday
next; but Mr. PARKER'S motion, on Wednesday, will pro-
bably lead to a debate that will bring out the views of
both Hon. Members, and render Mr Momusotes motion
unnecessary.

We have received Madrid journals of the 6th,• but they
bring no news. The Funds on that day were rather more
firm: the Three per Cents. closed at 294 for the 30th inst.
Nothing was done in the Five per Cents.

The Paris papers in general regard the Polish insurrection
as at an end, though some of more sanguine temperament
still entertain lingering hopes that in the distant provinces
the struggle may be carried on with some chance of success,
That, however, is neither the common ,belief, nor even the
wish of the best friends of Poland, and all that can be dont
now, is to raise funds with a view to render Some relief to
the devoted victims of this ill-judged attempt. All classes in
France have evinced their sympathy for Poland. Even the
clergy have come forward and mingled their prayers
with the sympathetic wishes of their countrymen for the
restoration of this afflicted people. The Bishop of PUY
has addressed the following appeal to the inhabitants of
his diocese :—" Beloved diocesans, we will respond to
the wishes of those brethren who by their impetuous valour
and the brilliant qualities of their hearts have' desired to be
called the French of the North. Never, perhaps, was Polani
snore worthy of the sympathies of all Catholic hearts. Be-
hold her in her hale, old age bringing forth martyrs, whose
heroism is no wise inferior to that of the first champions of
our faith. Poland, unhappy and beloved sister, you will not
have vainly placed your hopes in the Galilean Church ; we
will all minister relief to your sufferings. The pentiffs, clergy-
men, and faithful unite their voices and hearts to implore peace
and mercy in your behalf. Our prayer Will ascend to Heaven
with the still smoking gore of your martyrs, and the blood
of martyrs, mingled with the prayers of the saints, ever falls
as a shower of blessings oat the land from which it rose. We
'already descry, at no remote' distance,' the dawn of less'in-
auspicious days, which the LORD reserves for that noble
land. The entire of &trope is attentive to the groans escap-
ing from the boscms of your children on the icy shores of
Siberia. Everywhere generous voices are raised to demand
your deliverance, and everywhere those voices are rapturously

',ailed by the sympathising nations." Not fewer than 149
Members of the Chamber of Deputies have subscribed sums
or the relief of the insurgents. Most of the public schools
m.nd the Parisian bar also lave subscribed; The sums, it
's true, are small, but France is not a wealthy country,
Ind the universal feeling of sympathy only shows-
what the people would do if they had the means.
the Polytechnic School has subscribed 50/.; the Normal
ichool, 36/. ; the Central School of Arts and Sciences, 16/. ;
Ind the Parisian bar, 38/. The Government are anxious to
:epress any popular demonstration which may give offence
o Russia or other powers; but, as far as can be judged from
~he official organs, even the' Ministers feel great sympathy
n the cause. Some nights since police agents were eta-
ioned in the pit of the Opera to prevent any outbreak of
popular feeling, and, according to the National, the ballet of
Diable a Qualm was prohibited on Wednesday night,
,ecause, the scene being laid in Poland, some noisy
demonstration was likely to be made. The same jour-
lel relates the following occurrence :—"As the KING to-day,
it three o'clock, was driving in his carriage across the Place
de la Concorde, on his way to Neuilly, a citizen took off his
hat, and saluted his MAsYsTv with the cry of Vive la
Pologne !"fhis was immediately repeated by some five-
Ind-tu enty persons, and it was sufficiently loud, notwith-
standing the noise of the carriage and the galloping of the
')orses, to reach the ears of the KING, who, on hearing it,
hrew himself back in his carriage." We have no later
mews from Cracow in these papers, but the following details
4* what occurred •in the surrender of that town will be read
with interest. They appear in the Journal des _Debate :

" The German papers and private letters we have to-day received
rem the frontier of Silesia confirm the entry- of the troops of these .
,rotecting powers on the Republic's territory, and the occupation of
,he city of Cracow. The intention of the inhabitants does not appear
o have been to offer any resistance whatever to the combined threes
the three powers.. As early as the lot of March, two days after
'he re-capture of Podgorze by General Collin's troops, they had re-
.iioved the national red and white flag from the residence of the
Provisional Government, and substituted the white flag. Flags of
'ruco, borne by the most notable inhabitant's of Cracow, repaired' to
leneral Collin's head-quarters, in order to render the capitulation
the city. The Austrian General, before- all, demanded
-lostages, the surrender of arms, and unconditional sub-
.nission. Whilst these conferences were proceeding, the
Russian coro war advancing by the Olkusz high road. moving
owards the north-east of the city, the part that can be least de-
ended. The moment , General Collin heard of this movement, he
:rdered two battalions to cross the bridge and enter Cracow, which
.hey entered at the lame time as the Russians. What the fate of
he Inhabitants will ,be who have taken part in the insurrection is
sot yet known. It is-to be feared that the instructions issued-to the
lenerals commanding the troops of .occupation order them forthwith
.0 establish councils of war, and proceed with the utmost. rigour. The
.noat compromised insurgents had left the city of Cracow almost hu-
neeliately after General Collins entry into Podgorze, and had striven
o cross the Vistula ; but, the opposite bank was already occupied by
he Austrian troops, come to support General* Collin. They therefore
'epaired, on the 2d. of March, to Neu-Berum, en the Silesian frontier,
,here the Pruselarriroops were. The three principal leaders, Colonels,
thorowski, Wodzielsi, and Bninski, after an interval with General de
Felden, laid down tit& arms on the sth March, and surrendered at
liscretion. The insurgents delivered up to the Prussian troops alto-
tether 200 horses,' fOO scythes, but not a flre-arm. Tie Prussian
corps crossed the sante day the republic's territory, and was to have
'trrived at Cracow. on the Ith. 'We yesterday reckoned the force of
he Prussian corps at 3,000 men. Having received large reinforce-
.nents from Breslau-it must amount to 7,000 men. The Russian
•orps. is 'of five thousand; as well a. 4 the- Austrian corps, which
was
,partly to remain at Podgorze, facing Cracow. General
;ollin, since he left Cracow, until his return to that place,,
iris received but two battalions of reinforcements. Thanks to the
itrategic line of railroads, which now extends from k:oliemia, Austria
'..,ouldhave easily assembled from 20,000 to 30,000 men in three days,
nn the Vistula. It is supposed that the reinforcements sent to Ge-
; aeral Collin have been sent to maintain order and tranquillity in the
:circles wherein the insurgents have striven to the insturection."
At Dresden the fate of the unfortunate Poles haS excited
.he deepeit sympathy • and in the Second Cnamber, on the
•
4th instant, a strong demonstration was made in their favour.
M. DE GABELENTZ, in pursuance of a notice given the pre-
ceding day, asked the Ministry whether it was true that all
Poi* without excepting even those who had long been set-
led in Saxony, had been ordered to leave the kingdom, and
if this were so, to explain the motives for such an extreme
Measure, in order to satisfy those who feared that the sacred
rights .of hospitality were 'not in any -degree violated by
Saxony, which country had ever made it a point of honour
to observe them most religiously. The Minister of State,
R. DE FULKENSTEIN, declared that he was the more ,ready
give the explanation demanded, as the measure had
been unjustly condemned. It was, he said, general, but was
r.sken in such a manner as. to leave those affected by it
sufficient time to make every requisite preparation for de-
parture and arrangement. for the' future. The measure,
hough general, did not exclude exceptions, and the number
if Poles in Saxony wholit it. could be applied to was only
sixteen, but he could not make known in a public sitting
.he motives which had induced the Government to adopt
it. AI. Di GABELENTZ" then made a motion, that the
Chamber should insert in its minutes that it was confident
that the Ministry would modify the measure taken with
regard to the Poles in 'such 'manner, that those who were
Able to prove they bad a legal domiCile 'in Saxony should
continue to reside in the kingdom. Upon the motion of M.
DE LESCHAU, the Chamber went into secret- committee.
This secret sitting lasted two hours, at the end of which the
Chamber resumed its public sitting, and after a further
'debate, the motion of 31. DE GABELENTZ was carried unani-
mously. "
• We subjoin some miscellaneous extracts from the papers :

The, St. Peter/311=W journals, of the 25th ult., publish the reports
5f General Prince Andronikoff, Commander-in.Chlef. of Southern
•!Isighestan According to these reports, part of .the Caucasus may
Le regarded as entirely pacified. Generals Niesteroff and Freitag
Nave made, in the forest of Sheki, openings like those effected in the
wood of Goilo in -December last. The Russian detachments. have
iiad some skirmishes with the Schetchenes, which latter wore
worsted, and their country, one of the most difficult in the Caucasus,
Is thereby opened to the. Russian armies. On the right wing of the
line of the Caucasus, the warlike tribe of • the Ahadseks, which
.mounts to about 100,000, has made its submission to.Russin.
A letter from Stutgard, of the 2d inst.. says :—" Yesterday the
municipal council, with M, Gutbrod, the mayor, at their head, pro-
ceeded to congratulate the King on the approaching marriage.of the
{'ranee, his son, with the daughter of the Emperor of Russia, the
Princes 3 Olga. After having thanked the deputation for their
Criendly sentiments, the King said: ' I take advantage of this oppor-.
unity, gentlemen, to tranquillise certain' persons not only in our'
•onntry, but throughout the whole of Germany, who have seen in.
this circumstance cause of alarm for the independence of our future.
,policy. The union which my beloved son is about to contract is
..ntirely unconnected with political 'considerations ; and you may
:•ost satisfied that as long as I live I shall follow the exclusive
system of German interests, which is that of out country. I feel
:.:orivinced that my son, when called on to govern, will act as I do.' "
A letter from Posen, of the sth inst., states that about 20 ale-
clonal arrests had been Just effected there f'amongst them were
'some ecclesiastics. The Catholic Gymnasium and Ecelestaitical
School have been tlosed, . .
The National states that M. Guizot, in . his anxiety to prevent
the Deputies fiom subscribing in favour of the Poles, said—" EVery
new adhesion 'on your part will be resPoLided to by the decapitation
of a Polish insurgent:"
The French Funds improved ;considerably on Thursday. The
Three per Cents. closed et s4f. 10e. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 80c.;
the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,315 f. ; Rouen,:. 1,05. ; '•Havre
• 752 f. ; Great Northern, 782 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 987 f, 50c.; Yierzes, 7501.
50c.; Bordeaux, 670 f.; Boulogne, 525 f.; Melte, 2421'. 60c. ; Dieppe,
172 f. 50c. Paris and Strasburg, 545 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 578 f. 75c.;
Paris and Lyons, definitive, 627 f. 50c.; Spanish Actives, 34% ;
Spanish' Three per Cents:, 38.
• The following are the quotations : for other lines:—

(Talabot) 512 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe),
506 f.
,
ditto (Compagnie Meridiansle), 504 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette
plackenzie), 5041. ; ditto (Espeleta), 5121. 50c. ; Charleroi, 4961.50 c.
Lyons and Avignonßailroad
MaasEILLEs, MARCU. 7.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,0101. ; Nor-
; Tlerzon, 747 f. 50c..
RO4ESIIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
thorn, SOK 20c.
Maxon 13.
X—CBlloArdtaGut Toulouse, and Cette
Lt
BUSINESSYO
uo slosg
n,belLaot ta
NI: r i,DD
004_
m Amiens,:
sTc 10.--Rouen,STUCK
(Mackenzie), 2—Dutch Rhenish, 6% —East Indian, % —Great North-
ern of France' Constituted,- 16—Great Indian Peninsular, %T Great
Western Canada, 3%,-Jamaica South Midland Junction,
.I%
Vier-
ion, _a node
a ejeg tuaPPeld l % —Luxembourg, 2—Orleans and . Vier-
Bordeaux, I2%—Rouen and Ilavre, 29%
Tours and Nantes Constituted. 7% —West Flanders, 3%.

A meeting of Irish Libtral MeMbers has been called, by
Mr. O'Connell, for to-day, at the Reform Club, to consider
the course to be taken in the House of Commons,. with re-
gard tb the Suppression of Crime (Ireland) Bill.
Mr..Newdegate is to propose, on IlIonday; to nominate the
we
following Members for the'Committee on the -Registration of
County
A d
dVoterser gate, Mr. Craven Berkeley,
ur. Viscount Sandon, Mr.
Charles Wood, Mr. James Stuart Wortley, Mr. Charles
leDir. Ridley
Colborne,d
Buller, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Charles Villiers, Mr. Hodgson
Hinde, Mr. Parker, Mr. Banker, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Sir
John Walsh.

Mr. Etwall is to propose an altered list on Monday for the
Committee on the Andover Union, in which the names of Mr.
Sheridan, Mr. Langston, Sir John Walsh, and Sir William
Jolliffe, are substituted for those of Mr. Charles Wood, Sir
William Heathcote, Mr. Beckett Denison, and Mr. Henley,
in the list first proposed.

MARKET NEWS_-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GARDEN.

All kin's of fruit and vegetables iu season were in good supply,
and sluggish demand, at low prices —Potatoes kom 45 to 8s per
ewt ; Tarnips, Is to 2s ; Carrots, 3s Gd to ht 6d; Spring Onions,
2s to 35 ; Greens, Is 9d to 2s 6d ; and Leaks, Gd to Is 2d per dozen
bunches. Apples, Is 6d to 4s ; and Spinach; 6d to 1011 per half sieve.
New Potatoes, Gd to 10d; Pins Apples, Gs to 8s per lb. Savoys
Gd to 10d ; and Cauliflowers, Is 6d to 55 par dozen. Celery, 8d to
2s ; Horseradish, Is 6d to 5s Gd; forced Asparagus, 5s to Gs ; and
Rhubarb, Gd to is 4d per bundle. Oranges, 7s to 125; and Lemons;
is to lOs per hundred. Sea-kale, Is 3d to 2s Gd per punnet. 'Turnip
Greens, Id to 3d ; and Brecon Sprouts,. 4d to fid per bushel; Ra-
dish's, 4d to 8d per dozen hands.

NUNGETLYOND.
Fair average supplies of most articles were on offer, but the general
demand was in a sluggish state, at about previous quotations.
NEWGATE AND liEA.DENEALL.
Frline Beef, Mutton, and Veal commanded a steady sale, at very
full prises. Otherwise the demand was inactive. Beef, from 2s 8d
to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 8d to 5s 10d. ; and
Pork, as to 5s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. Turkeys, 35 to 8s ;
Geese, 5s to 7s; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 3d ; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to Is
8d ; Wild ditto,. 4d N 8d ; Pigeons, Gd to Is ; and Ttaasting Pigs, 6s
to Sc each ;
Fowls, 38 6d to 85 per couple ; Pheasants, 3s 6d to
4s fid ; Partridges, Is to 2s Od ; Ilares, 3s to 3s Gd ; Woodcocks,
2s to 2s fal ;
Snipes, 6d to 10d ; Grouse, Is 6d to 2s; Wild Ducks,
Is 6d to 2s ; and Widgeons, Is id to 1s 6d each. .

NEWPORT.
Beef from 2,'Bd to as 10d; Mutton, 4e to• 4s 10d; 'Vial, Ss to
5s 10d ; and York, 4i to 5s per Mbs. . . .
BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, Ss to 16s ;
Brills, 2e to 5s ; Cod Fish, 3s to 8s ;
Whitings, 4d to 8d ; Mackarel, 4d to 8d ; Lobsters, is to as ; and
Crabs 8,1 to 2s each; Soles, 6dto 3s ad per pair, Smelts, is Gd to
2s 6(1. and Thames flounders, Is Gd to 2e per dozen ; Salmon, 10d
to Is 4d per lh ; Eels, 4d to ls ; and Crimped Scate, 7d to Scl per lb.

• -
WHIII`ECRA.PEI.
Beef, from 2s 84 to 3s 8d ; Mutton, is 8d to 4.1 Bd.; Veal,
4s 104 to 5s 8d; and Pork 3s 8d to 55 per 81bs.
BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 8d to
81,4 d ; of Household do., 7d to 8d per 4lbs loaf.
RIDE MAR ET.
Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 24d to 3d ; do. 64Th to 721 b, 3d to
3!4c1 ; do. 721 h to 80Th, 3144 to 3%d; do. 801 b to 881 b, 3344 to 4d;
do. 881 b to 861 b, 4,1 to 4%d; do. 96Th to 104 Th, to —; Calf
Skins (each), 4s to 7s ; Horse Hides, 13s ; Polled Sheep, 48 6d to
55 8d ; Halfßreds, 3s Gd to 4s 8d ; Downs, 35 to 4 $ ; 3s to 4s. ;
ihearlings, 4.1 to 8d each.
BEAT VIDLIZILISTS.
Surrinnun.--Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ 85; Clover ditto, 41 108 to
61; Oat Straw, 111`28 to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 143 to 1/ 16s per
load. Trade rather dull, at but little variation in prices.
CUMBEELAND.-11eadow Hay, 31 58 to 41 lOs ; Clover ditto, 41 is
to 51 155 ; Oat Straw, 11 14s to 11 168; Wheat Straw. 11 16s to 11 188
per load. ♦ moderate supply, and a steady demand.
Wntrenintb.—Meadow Hay, 31 bs to 4/ 8s ; Clover ditto, 41 10s
to 61; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s. Wheat Straw, 11143 to 11 lie per
load. Supply good; and trade rather dull.

ERRATUM.—By a mistake the advance in Consols
yesterday was printed three per cent. instead of three-eighths.
THE NEW DUTIES.—The new scale of duties on the
articles contained in Sir Robert Peers resolutions passed by the
House of Commons on Monday evening comes itito operation at the
LontiQll Custom-house on Saturday. •

•
MONEY and :COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CITY; QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
4.000 bags, all to the trade, and without any change in prices.
The market was steady, but quiet. Shares were in better
request, and firmer generally.
Itlessrs. Lamond's public sale of railway shares yester-
day afternoon, at the Hall of Commerce, was well attended;
and a very large business was done, decidedly more cor,fi-
dence being shown. There were plenty of buyers, but it is
fair to observe, -at very low prices. Shares which a few.
days ago were totally unsaleable, moved-off at this auction.
The -Bank of England, on the six days to the 14th inst.,
was still- augmenting its circulation and bullion, but the
other deposits and securities were greatly diminished
The features in the present return are briefly these
Notes Issued X27,079;270 - •
Increase 63;975 •
Bullion ' 18,787,235
Increase .11'.435
-'Rest Increase -68,275'
Other Deposits 17,528,778
Decrease ' 818,290
7-dayand other Bills decrease . 49,256
Other Securities ... 22,118,987
Decrease 1'7123,041
The English Funds have to-day been very steady, Coniols
at 961,/s % for- transfer, and at 96% fur Account. -The
market is v.ry quiet. The Exchequer-bills have been at
-345. to 378. premium.
The Foreign Investments are steady likewise, though dull.
Spanish Five per Cents., 26 to %, and the Three per Cents.
36%; Mexican, 311 to 31%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. have been 60-to 59%.
EXcept that there is rather more doing in Railway Shares,
it does not appear that any particular change has occurred
in the market. Prices are for the most part well Sustained.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
. • (From the Official List.) . . •• •
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • • • 9614%54%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
- • India Bonds, 1,0001. ..
Ditto, under 1,0001.
. Consols for Account
Exetequer Bills.
1,000/. • • .. • • - .. • . 34 37 - - pm.
51)0/. • • .. • • 34 37 -
Ditto. Small .. .... 34 37 - pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE vcr.octr..
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • 313434
• Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, for the Account ' • • .• 26%
Ditto, Deferred • • • • • • • 16%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • - .
' Ditto. for the Account , • • :1654
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Scrip, 3 per Cent .. • • 55
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 61 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 9454 95.
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY. SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Rxitwsxs. LAID. PER SUARE.
Bideford and Tavistock ••• • • ••"I% • • • • %••• • to -
Birmingham and Gloucester • • • • 100 .. • • 125 •• .. to - .
' Bristol and Exeter .. .. • • ..• 70 • • 84% to -
Buckinghamshire • . .. • • 425. al.. to -
Caledonian • • • • • • 10 1114% .. to -
Ditto Extension • . • • • .. 2% •• • • 1% .. ••to -
Direct Northern . • .. • . 2% .• 2% 2. to -
Eastern-Counties .. • . 141. I6s. .• 20y, .... to 21%
Ditto, New • • .. • . .. 8/. I6s. Ott •• • 65414 pto -
. Perpetual, 5 nerCt. No.l, 61. 13s. 4d.•... %p•• to -
Ditto, ditto .. .. No. 2, 61.135. 4d... p.. ,to --
Ditto, York Extension .• • • • • 10s. •• • . -1% %54 .to -
East Lincolnshire .. .• 114 • ..• 1% • • • to -
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50 ••• • 73 ••.. to
Goole. Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. • • .. .p.: to -
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 15 . ...• 17 ...• to --
Great Western ' -. • • '• • - • • .• 85 •• • - •• • • to -
Dittos Half Shares • • .. • • • 50 •• .. 82% .... to 83
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. • • 5 .• .. 17% • • to
Ditto, Fifths . . • • • .. • • • • 20 •• • • 32 •••• to -
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%. •• • 24 %.... to - •
London and Birmingham 100 218 .. •• to 21934
Ditto, Fifths • . • • .• • • .. 2 24 •• • • to-
London and Illackwall • • 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • - •• .. to -
Ditto; New • • • • .• .. • • 2% •. • . 4 .• .. to -
London and Brighton • • .• to -
Loudon and Croydon .• • • 131. 15s. 9d. • • 22 •••• to -
London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 .... %.... to -
London and South-Western 411.6. i. 10d. •• • - . to -
Ditto, New .. • . • . .• 123 • ... 22%.., • to.-
London and York • • • • . • . 2% 3% !,‘ .•to -
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil • . .. 2 .... to -
Londonderry anti Coleraine .• .• 754..... 654 •••• to - •
Manchister and Leeds • • • • .. 82 .• • .129 .. • • to --
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... 12 .... to -
-Manchester and Birmingham .. • • 40 •; - .... to -
Ditto, Quar.er Shares (B) • • • • 2 •• • • 9% •• • • to "--
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • .. 1 • •.• • • 8 •• • • to
-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. •. • • 1% %p to ---
Midland • • • • .• • • • • • • 100 • • ..144 •• • • to -
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 18 • • . 31 •••• • to -
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .... 4354. ••• • to -
Ditto, New, Brandling • • • • •• 20 .. •• 17 •••. to -
Newcastle and Berwick • • • •• 10 •• .. 19% •••• to 20
North British .• • • • • .. • . 20 •• • • 27 •• • • to -
Ditto, Half Shares • • .. • . .. 6 .• .• 9 •.•to -
'Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. .• I • • 25434 •.to -
North Kent and Direct Dover • .. 25% .. • . 2;434 .. to -
North Staffordshire •. .. 425. • 3%% pto -
Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .. • • - .... to -
Ditto, New .. • • • • •• • 5 ••• • • S to-
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton .1234 .• •• 1214.. . to -
Preston and Wyre .. • . .. 25 • ... - •• .. to -
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 234 .• .. 6% to -
Scottish Central • . 734 14 .• • • to -
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .. 234 •• •• 3 to 274
Shropshire Union • • •. 425.• • dis to -
South Midland '• • . .. • • 425..... 154 p.. to I p
South and Midlands Junction .. •.. 425; 1 die to
Trent Valley .. • . • • .. ••• " •.• 5 .. • • 2714.... to -
York and North Midland .• .. • • 50 •• .. 97 . ..., to --
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • p.. 25 •• • • 46.% :. to -
Ditto. Extension .• • • .. .. 15 •• • • do% .... to 31%
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 1 .... 9%14 to --
FOREIGN RAILWAYS..
Dutch*Rhenisli • • .. • • 5 .. .. 634 .... to -
East Indian • • .. • . ss. •• • . - to -
Great Northern of France Constituted 5 .... 16% to -
Great Western Canada .. .. 314 • 3% to -
Luxembourg . • • • • 4 .... 1% •• .. to -
Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. .. 6 •• • • 12% .. .. to -
Over Yesel .. • • • • • • 4/. 3s. 4d... 274 dia.. to -
• Sambre and Meuse .• .. 6 454 •• .. to -
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
•
• London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 27 .... to -
MINES. •

10 7,-16

•• 964%
1.5 Q U 1 _
130.

Real del Monte. Unregistered ..
COURSE OF EXCEIAI
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9%
Ditto, at sight • • l2 biyi
Rotterdam ...... 2 U 12 10
Antwerp .......... 26 15
ilamburgh .... • .M.B. 13 14%
Paris„3 days' sight .. • 25 75
Ditto, 3 mouths 26
Marseilles • • • • 26 10
80urdeaux.......... 26 10 ,
Frankfort on Maine 122%
Petersburgli, 3 Us . •
Vienna, effee. flo ••• • • • 10 10%
Trieste, ditto. • lO 10%
Madrid ••.. • • . ••• • • • 35
Cadiz • • • .. .
Bilbao.. .
Barcelona •• • • . . •
...... •

• • - .. • . 3% •• • • to
TGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Glbraltar
Legh0rn............ 3O 75
Genoa 26 10
Milan
Venice • • •
Naples .... 39%
Palermo, per in—.-- 119%
Lisbon .....
Oporto • • ..... ••.. •
Rio Janeiro 23

Bahia • —
Buenos A.yres
New York, 21-days' sight •
Philadelphia
PRICES OP BULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars ..,Z3 17 9
Portugal Gold Gehl .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons . 0 0 .0
New Dollars . O. 4 93/,3
silver to !Ars 0 4 11%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Mutat 14.—Wind light airs and hazy.
FALMOUTH, Molten 12.--The Lady Ann, put back here, saw, ten
days ago, a schooner's mast, appeared to have been cut by the board,
lat. 47 N., lon. 17 W. The Karel Nuberding, from Port-au-Prince to
Antwerp, which put in here 11th instant with damage, has been sur-
veyed, and must discharge.
IlaiszoL, MARCH 13.—The Sarah Crowell, from St. John's, 'New
Brunswick, to Liverpool, which got en shore in the river yesterday
morning, has been assisted off with much damage.
. . . .

LIMERICK, MARCH 11.—The report of the loss of the Rachel is in-
correct, the vessel having arrived at Tralee ; all well.
BRIDLINGTON, MARCH I4.—The schooner which Sunk in the Bay
on the 12th or 13th of December last, during a gale, proves to be the
Removal, Furse, of Brixham ; crew supposed to have been drowned.
DUNDALK, MAacn 11.—The Robert,.E. Ward, of Strangford, which
.was ou shore on the Ballast Bunk, hove off This morning.
DEAL, MARCH 13. Arrd. Providence, Hicks, Calcutta. Arrd. from
the River, Cinderella, Purvis, Sumatra; Eoliiar, Keurick, Madras;
East Anglican, Stevens, Ceylon; Hartley, Wilson, St. John's ; Alice
and Eliza, Wells, Boston. Arrd. from the River and sld., Gladiator,
Bunting, New York. Sld. AIM, Smith, DeMentra ; Ellen, Demerara;
Matilda, Luckie, Berbice.
LivEltroot, Manor 13.--Wind.W., fresh.—Arrd. Oressa, Smith,
Calcutta; Thetis, Honduras; Aspatria,. Little, Honduras; British
Princess, 3lather, New Orleans, lost boat, bulwark's, &c.; Letitia,
Ileyn, Parry, New Orleans ; Grampian, Graham, Savannah ; Brook-
lyn, Laidley, New York ; Londonderry; Finlay, Licata. Off port,
Isabel, New Orleans. The Charlotte, hence to Leghorn, on shore.at
Dublin, was got off yesterday, after being lightened of about 200
tons of. cargo, _

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) ' I
if A special meeting of the shareholders in the above l t
was held this day, at the Nine Elms station, Vauxhall, or
the purpose of giving their sanction to several Bills or
branch lines to be made from this line. Mr. Chaplin took
the chair at twelve o'clock.
The SECRETARY then informed the shareholders that tlhe
present meeting was merely a formal one, to get the assent
of the shareholders to such Bills as should be laid before
them. The sanction of a large body of, the shareholders had
been substantielly obtained at a previous meeting, and the
present formal assent was required by the standing ordcrs of
the House of Commons.

The CHAIRMAN said that a great number of the' Bills had
already passed the Standing Orders Committee:
The SECIitTARY then read the following list of Bills, and
explained the powers to be obtained in each
Ist. Bill for amending the Acts relating to the London
and South-Western Railway Company, and to authorise the
said Company to enter into contracts, end to complete
arrangements with certain other railway companies.
2d. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Railway
Company to extend their railway to High-street, Southwark,
and to the Thames, near London•bridge, in the county of
Surrey.
3!1. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way COmpany to make a branch rail Way to Hampton Court
bridge, in the county of Surrey. .
4th. Bill to enable the London and South:Western Rail-
way Company to make a branch railway to Epsom, in the
county of Surrey.
sth. Bill to enable the. London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a branch railway to Chertsey and
Egham, in the county of Surrey.
6th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make a branch railway to Farnham, in the
county of Surrey, and Alton, in the county of Southampton.
7th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to make 'a railway by Whitchurch and An-
dover to Salisbury.
Bth. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to connect their Bishopstoke and Salisbury
branch, with the Wilts, Somerset, and °Weymouth Railway,
near Salisbury.

9th. Bill to enable the London and South-Western Rail-
way Company to wake a railway from the Bishopstoke and
Salisbury branch of the London and South-Western Rail-
way at Romsey, to the Southampton and Dorchester Rail-
way at Redbridge, in the county of Southampton.
10th. Bill for making railways from Guilford to Chiches-
ter, and from Fareham •to Portsmouth, vtith branches to
Peterafield, in the county of Hants, and to Chichester Har-
bour, in the county of Sussex.
11th. Bill for authorising the sale of the Guilford Junc-
tion Railway, and for enabling the purchasers to maintain
the same, and to make and maintain a railway therefrom to
Godalming, and from the London and South-Western Rail-
way ,at Fareham to Portsmouth.
12th. Bill for vesting the Portsmouth Extension of the
BrightOn and Chichester. Railway in the London and South-
Western and London and Brighton Railway Companies.
13th. Bill for making a railway from the South-Western
Railway, near Basingstoke, by Salisbury, to Sutton Bingham,
in the county of Somerset, with a branch to the town of
Yeovil, to be called the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil
Junction Railway. • -

15th. Bill for making a railway from Exeter to Yeovil,
and to West Wilton, to connect the same with Dorchester,
with branches, to be called the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor-
chester Railway.
16th. Bill for making a railway from Penzanee and Fal-
mouth to Exeter, to be called the Cornwall and Devon Cen-
tral Railway. - - •
17th. •Bill for making branch railways from the Cornwall
and Devon Central Railway, Hayle, Lelant, St. Austell, and
Bodmin.

The unanimous assent of the shareholders having been
given to the powers sought for in the above Bills, and a re-
solution empowering the Secretary to affix the seal of the
Company to them, the meeting separated. •