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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1846.

The House of Lords sat last night for a short time
only. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to
no less than fifty-eight Bills, among which was
Viscount HARDINCIB'S Annuity Bill, giving power to
the East. India Company to grant an annuity of
5,0001. to the Noble Viscount, independent of his
emoluments as Governor-General of India.

After the tammission nothing of any particular
interest came before their Lordships.

The SPE/AIM took the Chair shortly -.after Four
o'clock.

After the private business had been disposed of,
some discussion took place upon the remaining reso-
lutions of Sir G. CLERK with respect to the broad
and narrow gauge. The resolutions were ultimately
agreed to.
Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention, in the
course of the debate on the Protection of Life and
Property (Ireland) Bill, to enter into an explanation
respecting the charges made against him by Lord
GEORGE BENTINCK respecting his conduct in re•
ference to the Catholic Emancipation Bill, in the years
1825, 1827, and 1829.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice
of his intention, in consequence of the length of the
debate on the Coercion Bill, on Monday next to
move that the existing Sugar Duty be continued for
one month, in order to give time for the discussion
of the various amendments of which notice had been

sure. The Commons have passed it by an over-
whelming majority. Without one exception, every
man of weight and long-tried public service, on both
sides of the Lower House, swelled the majority. The
Lords have already affirmed the principle by a
considerable majority; and setting Lords STANLEY
and Asnuurcroisi on one side, every Peer of known
public influence has voted in favour of the second read -
ing. The Crown too, we know, is likewise favour-
able to the measure. Under such circumstances the
Protectionists plead for a dissolution !

One word with Lord STANLEY. He observed,
upon the division of thirty-three, that it was
" small by degrees and beautifully less." This
was not honest, and it will not serve to
mislead the country. We shall, therefore, repeat
what we have before stated. The division on the
main question was 47. This number included the
"proxies." Deducting the "proxies," it was tauntingly
remarked, that Ministers 'ad only a majority of 12
upon the second reading. The division of 33 in
Committee was independent of "proxies ;" so that, in
point of fact, as far as the Peers present were con-
cerned, Ministers increased their majority by 21.
This must not be lost sight of. The vessel of free
trade is sailing gallantly towards us, and will soon be
safely moored.

given.
Air. HUME thought this would be a most desirable
course to adopt.
The adjourned debate on the Protection of Life
and Property (Ireland) Bill was then resumed by
Sir A. ARMSTRONG, who, in a most indistinct tone,
opposed the Bill.

- Mr. BENNET thought that after the long delay
that had taken place there was no necessity for the
measure. lie had considered the subject long and
anxiously, and he was now convinced that he ought
not to support the Bill.

The three remaining resolutions, founded on the
recommendations of the Board of Trade, were last
night agreed to, after some discussion, in the House
of Commons. The third resolution appears to be in
the nature of an instruction to future Committees of
the House in the next sess ion, and an encouragement
to persons to undertake the construction of new lines.
It is, that in order to complete the general chain
of narrow gauge communication from the north of
England to the southern coast, and to the port of
Bristol, any suitable measures should be promoted to
form a narrow gauge link from Gloucester to Bristol,
and also from Oxford to Basingstoke, or by any
other shOrter route connecting the proposed
Rugby and Oxford line with the South-Western
Railway. This, as we have said, is a suggestion
for future legislation, and, if adopted here-
after, it will go far to remove a considerable
part of the inconvenience attendant on the break of
gauge. It is founded on the recommendation of the
Gauge Commissioners. There is little doubt that
much public benefit would be derived therefrom, and
the only question will be for the speculators to say
whether the undertakings are likely to be remunerative,
and to afford a fair return for the expenditure to be
incurred. It is probable that the great narrow gauge
companies will assist and become parties to the projects
which will doubtless be formed for the purpose of
giving effect to the resolution. We have already
stated our opinion as to the vast importance of a
second continuous line of railway to Ireland, which
will be the medium of communication to the entire
of the south of Ireland, and, in all probability, to
the western hemisphere. This is conclusive as to
the point of the construction of the South Wales
-Railway on the broad gauge, as originally sanctioned
by Parliament. Indeed, the House practically
adopted it on Tuesday night, in adding to the first
resolution the words—" and South Wales
Railway," in order that short lines emanating
from the South Wales line might be constructed on
the broad gauge. This, however, was the only one
of the resolutions on which a division was taken,
wh2n it was carried by a majority of 53. The last
resolution applied to the formation of a double line
of rails, thus having the broad and the narrow
gauge existing on the same railway. The companies
which are called on to effect these double lines have no
fair cause of complaint against the additional expense
thus entailed upon them. They are purchasers with
notice, having undertaken, at the time of obtaining
the Acts by which they were incorporated, to lay
down such additional lines with all convenient speed,
if required so to do by the Board of Trade, in con-
formity with the report of the Gauge Commissioners.
But the question of vast importance in the pre-
sent instance is —Can the twofold gauge
exist with perfect safety on the same line ?
Some doubts have existed on this subject,
and it has been said that there would be great diffi-
culty and confusion in the working, but we cannot
conceive it possible that the Board of Trade should
have overlooked so obvious a consideration, should
have neglected so important an element in the calcu-
lation. We therefore must assume that bfore they
acted on the authority conferred on them, and im-
posed the additional expense of a second line
of rails on the two companies, they must
have fully satisfied themselves that there would
be no additional danger attendant on such a course,
and that the difficulties could not be of an insuperable
nature. The question then must be answered in the
affirmative, that the broad and narrow gauge may be
united without danger. The broad gauge being still
retained, there is nothing to prevent the Legislature
to compel any future companies which may be
formed for the construction of new railways
in the neighbourhood of existing broad gauge
lines, to lay down a double line of rails. By this
means, any further break of gauge may be avoided,
and the companies can have no cause of complaint at
the increased expense to be occasioned thereby, be-
cause they will have been acquainted with the addi-
tional outlay rendered necessary before they had ob-
tained the sanction of Parliament to their projects. A
fair opportunity will now be afforded of testing the sys-
tem, and should it be fund to act well, and to be advan
tageous to the public that it should be further extended,
a similar power should be reserved to the Board of
Trade, in all new projects, of compelling the laying
down double rails, should it appear advisable, the
Board making a special report to Parliament in every
case when about to exercise that power. Of course it
will be necessary to have a Bill brought in to give
effect to the second resolution, but, from the state-
ment of Sir GEORGE CLERK, it appears that it has
not yet been decided whether it shall be a separate
Bill, or part of one for the general regulation of
railways.

Captain LAYARD opposed the Bill.
Mr. lIENLEY also opposed the Bill. He would not
vote for a Bill like this for England, nor could he
vote for such a Bill for Ireland.

Sir 11. W. BARRON opposed the measure, and ex-
pressed his firm conviction that the Bill would totally
fail in the objects it had in view. All such measures
would of necessity fail until Parliament went to the
root of the evil—the poverty and the wretched con-
dition of the people of Ireland. The measure, if
carried, would cause great agitation-in Ikeland.
Captain FITZMAURICE supported the second read-
ing of the Bill.
Mr. IIAwEs opposed the Bill.
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON supported the second
reading of the Bill.
On the motion of Mr. S. CRAWFORD, the debate
was adjourned till to-morrow.

The-other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned.

The spirit of antagonism marks every step of the
onward movement of the Corn Bill in the Upper
House. Whenever a grand illumination is advertised
to induce the public to resort to any place or
entertainment, the great display of the pyrotechnic
art is generally reserved to the last. The Pro-
tectionist Peers have reversed this order of tactics—
all their fireworks were blazed off upon the second
reading of the Bill. Lord STANLEY was their "feu
de joie." Perhaps they miscalculated the strength of
their resources. It is clear they have exhausted
themselves ; they have no new materiel at command.
If they send up a rocket now and then, it as
much as they can do. The battle kept up between
the Monopolists and Ministerialists reminds us of
what many naturalists and travellers relate of the con-
tests they have witnessed between certain birds called
,‘ boobies" and others called " men-of-war frigates."
The latter waylay the former whilst repairing to
their nests with the fish they have caught for their
young, and, by repeated blows on their back, compel
them to disgorge their predatory spoil, which is never
done without the utterance of a scream. In the
same way the advocates of free trade in the Lords
have vigilantly pounced upon the Protectionists, ruffled
all their feathers, and forced them to drop the produce
which they flattered themselves they could steathily
hurry on with to their agricultural nests. This, how-
ever, they did not accomplish without having to listen
to many a piteous moan. The first bird attacked
was the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. His Grace knew the
strength of his adversary, and resigned his
prey at the first blow. Lord STANHOPE,
from an ardent regard to his species, got up a fright-
ful scream, but:all in vain ; thirty-three " men-of-war
frigates" appeared in the field, and the fish was lost for
ever. The Earl of Wicm-ow was the next to try to
reach his nest. His fish was a "fixed duty." The same
ill-luck attended him. The " frigates" were on the
look-out--another fight, another scream, and off flew
the " boobies." How many more similar disasters
these unfortunate birds may wish to meet, we cannot
divine; but we should recommend them a little
repose.

The debate upon the fixed duty amendment pre-
sented nothing new in the shape of argument. The
Marquis of CLANRICARDE sought to detract from the
high opinion justly entertained of the merits of Sir
ROBERT PEEL as a Minister, not only in both Houses
of Parliament, but by the country at large.
We think the Marquis missed his aim. We are
strictly a practical people, and Sir ROBERT is essen-
tially a practical man. As such he is eminently quali-
fied to sway the destinies of our great empire, whose
commercial interests are so extensive, and at the same
time so artificially interwoven one with another. The
Premier is an apt scholar of the Baconian school. He
builds and acts upon experience. The prosperity of
this country would be fearfully hazarded if we were
governed by statesmen of a mercurial temperament,
who would rashly embrace every plausible theory on
its first promulgation. One precipitate step, in a com-
plicated state of society like ours, might engulf us
in irretrievable ruin. When great changes are sug-
gested, it is not impolitic on the part of public men
in office to resist their rapid adoption, with
the view of securing their being sifted in
all their bearings in every possible way,
till repeated reflection, as well by the representa-
tives as by those they represent, and till, in some
instances, experiments upon a small scale having first
,been successfully tried, shall yield us the strongest
presumption that national prosperity will be accele-
rated by developing the principles recommended.
Supposing Sir R. PEEL•had years ago (and before he
had experimented upon their principles, as he has
done by his tariff of 1842, his foreign cattle
Intext ya ea r
clause im-
portation
scheme, his Canada Corn Bill, &c.), had
sympathised with the opinions of the League, would
he then have had the slightest chance of carrying
them through the process of legislation ? Certainly
not. Nay, had he been conscientiously convinced
long ago of what he is now, and propounded his pre-
sent measures, the probability is he would not, for
years to come, have had the power he now enjoys of
effectuating them. The truth flashed out unwittingly
from the Marquis of GLANRICARDE when he said,
"Every one of Sir R. PEEL'S changes had been with
the current of the moment ; and a single instance
could not be found on record in which he . had
changed his opinion in the House of Commons and
had been beaten upon that question." This involves
no n.ean compliment. It admits a practical sagacity
which constitutes a chief desideratum in the mind of
9' Minister of England.
liell I:o,,teYnianefaWiliNCHlLSEA talked downright nonsense.
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surprised at such twaddle,
rather assertion, were a good on
that every fresh Act should
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their element. They have both of them got into
good sparring condition—
they both love the science.
They are both finished debaters, in the limited sense
of the word. We have no doubt their t ordships
will be enlivened by frequent exhibitions of their
gladiatorial skill. Lord STANLEY will be
found no match for his adversary where
any question demands the exercise of large,
broad, and constitutional views. Let Lord STANLEY
choose his own ground, and that a narrow one, and
then, by the aid of "spicy" personalities, which he
and his gifted opponent equally delight to revel in,
we augur their oratorical rivalry will be entertaining
enough. ~
Lord STANLEY has again pressed for in ap-
peal to the country. His affected ignorance
of all constitutional rule is palpable. He
would unnecessarily appeal to the passions
of the people, when he knows that one of the funda-
mental advantages of a legislature is to pass laws
divested of those passions which always injuriously
affect the deliberations of the multitude. We have
all the constitution/1 requisitea 41 avow* of the mel4-

We yesterday directed the reader's attention to
the prevalence of an anxiety amongst the populace
to testify their gratitude to such individuals as have
ameliorated the condition of the empire, or promoted
its prosperity. Our satisfaction upon this particular
might have been appropriately coupled with our dis-
satisfaction upon another—our joy at the spontaneous
and graceful tributes offered by the public to
its most meritorious members, with our disgust at
the deliberate ingratitude or the niggardly recom-
pense with which these persons are usually rewardel
by Government. And here, be it observed, we em-
ploy the word Government in its most diffuse and
generalised signification, as the failing in this
respect is attributable alike to a Whig Admi-
nistration and a Tory Administration, a Con-
servative as well as a Liberal. There is
scarcely in the register of bygone genius an instance
to be adduced in which a national benefactor has not
in some measure been officially neglected ; in which
he has not encountered on the part of those in autho-
rity the most discouraging indifference ; or, if at
length any acknowledgment of his services has been
extorted, that acknowledgment has arrived so tardily as
to afford him neither solace nor compensation—being
ghreanneitek .
we
expended either in the alleviation of his decrepitude
or of his premature prostration, or yet worse, in the
erection of some empty mausoleum of emblazoned
Hencefin waecbnehAold a Sir HUGH MIDDLETON,
himself to gratify the palates and to
h n the constitutions of all future Londoners ;
beggaringstrene
Holborn," peroting
gloomily,
in a garret near
Yoilasp
frrirebdbrby contumely,"
we ml statesman,
and personall ighted by
discover such
WALPOLE ; hence, also, in our days
an intellect as that of THOMAS HOOD
down unnoticed under the corrosive influence of over-
work and disease combined, rewarded by the
State only by (that mockery of a re-
compense !) a pension to his
widow ! We
could continue this mournful catalogue through manyi
chapters, but the fact of official neglect to
genus, or
ingenuity,
or modest worth (when unaccompanied
by the glory of prowess
inannthsa); so
is farbecome
c fromom
e
requiring any
demonstration,
one of the proverbial
vices
of legislation. Our
intention, however,
at present is, neither to deal
with the pittance of the poet, the utter disre-
gard of the philanthropist, or the
unsympa-
thised struggles of the philosopher—it is simply to
commemorate another instance
of gratitude in the
people, and of ingratitude in the Government, towards
one of the foremost of those who are do-

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 19, 1846;

sirous of beholding the practical improve-
ment of their country and of their ge-
neration. As if to signalise the displeasure
of the population at that unaccountable act of un-
graciousness to Mr. ROWLAND HILL, by which he
was officially discharged from any further connexion
with the Post-office department, a tribute of money
has been collected amongst all classes of the
community to the amount of fifteen thou-
sand p.,unds, and on Wednesday last that national
testimonial was presented, at Blackwell, to the projector
of the Penny Postage. Immeasurably disproportioned
as is this subscription when compared with the bene-
fits accruing from the system of communication for
which we are indebted to that gentleman, it is never-
theless gratifying to find the English people coming
forward to acknowledge their obligations to
his exertions, and by so doing virtually to
discountenance the blundering and ungracious pro.
ceeding of the Post office authorities. It must be
remembered, moreover, that the tribute in this case is
not for some probable or specious advantage,
not for any illusory hypothesis of good,
not for any pecuniary chimera ; the system has
been advanced and adopted, and ever since
the really memorable period of its adoption it has
redounded more and more to the credit of its origi-
nator, it has justified his most sanguine predictions,
and while proving a source of inestimable advantage
to the public, has acted in no wise prejudicially to
the Exchequer. Before we can properly estimate the
merits of the Penny Postage scheme, we must behold in
it a power labouring for our improvement in three
separate directions : the scheme acting beneficently
upon our heads, our hearts, and our pockets. It
lightens the cost of correspondence to a marvellous
degree, it widens and deepens the interchange
of sympathies from one extremity of the kingdom
to the other, and it has aroused to an
epistolary intercourse hundreds who would otherwise
continue unlearned in pencraft, and torpid in the
communication of thought. We maintain again,
that through the Penny Postage system we shall ex-
perience a material advancement as a think-
ing people, a domestic people, and a mer-
cantile people. In causing the adoption of
this inimitable plan Mr. ROWLAND HILL has shown
himself the promoter of brotherly love amongst his
fellow-men, he has aided in the intellectual crusade
whose Peter the Hermit was the Society for the Dif-
fusion of Useful Knowledge, and he has established a
system kindred in all material respects with the
spirit of those great commercial measures which are
now being sanctioned by Parliament. For achieving
all this, Mr. ROWLAND HILL has been ousted from
his office in St. Martin's-le-Grand, and been presented
with a national testimonial in Lovegrove's Tavern, at
Blackwell. Will Government never tire of receiving
lessons in justice, in liberality, and in gratitude from
the people ?

The latest accounts from Rome are of the Bth
June; at that date the city , was perfectly tran-
quil. The Constitutiunnel publishes the following
account of the last moments of GREGORY XVI. :----
" On Whit• Sunday the Pontiff determined to have mass
said in his chamber, and to take the communion himself.
This was opposed, and he was obliged almost to get angry,
in order to have his wish complied with ; and if he had
not done so, ha would have died without the sacrament.
His valet-de-chambre said to him, But, Holy Father,
you will alarm the whole city; they will say that you are
very ill.' Certainly,' replied he, lam very ill. I
feel it; and do you want me to appear before God with-
out having taken the bread of lite ? lo voglio morire
da frate, non da savrano.' (I wish to die as a monk, and
not as a sovereign). The malady made such rapid progress
the following night that the Cardinal Confessor, whose duty
it is to assist dying Pontiffe, could not be summoned in time ;
it was the assistant-curd of the pontificial palace who gave
extreme unction to the Pope, the cull not having arrived.
Gregory XVI. had expired when Cardinal Bianchi, his con-
fessor, entered his chamber. The other ecclesiastics, who
were summoned according to custom, had only to watch over
the mortal remains of their master. The Pope expired in
the arms of Cardinal Lambruschini, who had hurried up with
all the speed of his horses, and who assisted him in his last
'moments with the tenderness of a friend and a son."

NEW ZEALAND.

END OF THE WAR, AND PRO-

CLAMATION OF PEACE.
(From the Times.) ,

L'Ami de la Religion publishes the following ac-
count of the testamentary bequests of the late Pors
" Pope Gregory XVI. has made two of his nephews his
iresiduary legatees, and appointed Cardinal Matei his execu-
tor. The Pontiff has left several legacies to the Propaganda,
the convent of St. Gregory, the monks of the Camaldules,
and some of his household. The fortune which he has left
has been greatly exaggerated. A more just idea of it may
be formed when it is considered that the civil list of the
popedom does not amount to more than 80,000 f. a year. A
rich library, some valuable paintings, jewellery, and works
of art, with other property of unimportant amount, form
the whole of the inheritance left for his nephews in the Ve-
netian States,, instead of the millions at which it has been
estimated."

A letter from Ostrowo, in Poland, states that on
'Whit-Monday a number of persons collected in the
market-place of Miloslaw, and two of them, with the
purpose of creating a disturbance, proceeded to the
church, and rang the tocsin, which increased the
crowd. The burgomaster not having any troops at
his command, and finding himself unable to restore
order, sent off to Wreschen for aid, and the next
morning a squadron of hussars arrived. Several
persons were arrested and removed to Wreschen.

The foPowing important intelligence is extracted from the
Launceston Examiner of the 28th of February :
The " war" is at an end, and a general amnesty has been
proclaimed. This intelligence has been received by the
Water Lily at Hobart Town. We subjoin a summary, prin-
cipally from the New Zealander :
It appears that on the let of January the British forces
established themselves in a strong stockade, about 400 yards
from the pah of Kawiti, and in which were mounted two
32-pounders, and four small si-inch mortars.
On the 2d, Kawiti made a sortie from his pah, for the
purpose of turning the flank of this stockade, and destroying
it before it was finished ; but Nene and our allies drove them
back, killing four and wounding several of the enemy.
On Saturday, the 10th, all the batteries being completed,
a general fire was commenced for the purpose of effecting a
breach, and rockets were likewise discharged, in order to
annoy the enemy within the pah. Towards evening three
breaches were made. An assault was then contemplated by
the commanding-officer, and 200 of the troops were told off
to lead the at,ack. The chief Mohi Tawai remonstrated
with the commanding-officer, asserting that it would be
sacrificing the lives of brave men to attempt the assault on
that evening; and that by continuing the breaching, the
object would be accomplished in a few days. The troops
were then ordered back to the camp.
On the following morning, Sunday, the 11th, about twelve
of Nene's natives, with William Waka, his brother, ap-
proached the breaches to reconnoitre, and not perceiving or
hearing any natives within the outer stockades of the pah,
they entered, and, as soon as they found they were unop-
posed, conveyed signal to our forces in the batteries, when
the sailors and troops rushed forward into the pah, before
Kawiti's natives, who were outside the pah engaged at their
karakia (worship), could re-enter. As soon as they ascer-
tained that they had thus, by negligence, lost possession of
their stronghold, they commenced a heavy fire on our troops
from the woods, and from the back part of the pah ; but the
numerical strength of the European forces and native
allies, in addition to the protection afforded by the internal
defences of the pah, rendered all attempts unavailing; and
after continuing the fire; in order to carry off their killed and
wounded, the natives retired into the woods to a pah, about
three miles distant, recently erected by Heki (who joined
Kawiti) as a place of refuge for Kawiti, in case he should be
expelled from IZunpskapeka.
The loss of the European forces was 12 killed, and of which
number 9 were seamen and marines, and 30 wounded, in-
clusiTe of 17 seamen and marines. The native rebels suf-
fered a loss of 25 killed, as correctly as it could be as-
certained.

Within the pah no ammunition or provisions were found.
The former had been divided among them on Saturday even-
ing, anticipating the attack ; and they had been subsisting
on fern root alone for some time previously.
His Excellency Governor Grey was present during the
whole of the operations, and was eye-witness to the assault.
A proclamation had been issued by the Governor grant-
ing free pardons to all concerned in the late rebellion, the
chiefs having made complete submission 'by letter, through
Tomata Waka Nene.
We have received additional accounts from New Zealand
14 days later than the news brought by the Water Lily, from
which we learn that a pah, more strongly fortified than that
which had been lately stormed and taken by the British
forces, had been purposely set on fire and destroyed by Heki,
who had resolved to take to the bush, as affording better
means of protracting the warfare than fortified places, which,
whatever the amount of resistance offered, must eventually
fall into the power of disciplined forces provided with artil-
lery.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY).
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord DasmAN and a Common

Jury,)
WYLD V. LEAHY AND ANOTHER.

This was an action brought by Mr. Wyld, the geographer
and engraver, of Charing-cross, to recover the sum of 5161.
19s. 5i1., the balance of an account due for preparing and
executing the plans and sections of the Great Munster Railway.
Mr. Crowder and Mr. Sergeant Allen appeared for the
plaintiff ; Mr. Martin and Mr. Phinn for the defendants.
Mr. CROWDER stated the case for the plaintiff,
who, he said, was the well-known and highly
respectable engraver of Charing-cross; and the object of the
action was to recover from the defendants, who were engi-
neers, residing in Dublin, the sum of 5161. 193. 5d., being
the balance upon an account of 1,2001., incurred for the
completion of the plans and sections of the Great Munster
Railway. The order was given last summer, and an under-
standing was come to as to the cost of the work, but from
the delays that took place on the part of the defendants in
supplying the plans and sections to be engraved, and the
fact that the greater portion of them had to be executed
within a very short time prior to the 80th of November
last year, when the prices paid to operative engravers
was enormously high, the expense was much increased be-
yond the original amount specified. 7001. had been paid on
account during the progress of the work, and this the de
fendants alleged was quite enough to satisfy the reasonable
claims of the plaintiff; and further that the sum he sought
to recover was excessive, and a violation of the original
understanding come to between the parties. The Learned
Gentleman said he would be prepared to show that this de-
fence was invalid, bothfrom correspondence between the parties,
in which Mr. Wyld distinctly intimated that thedelays of the
defendants throwing the execution of the work near to the
30th of September, would much enhance the expense, and
also by witnesses he would call. The work was well ex-
ecuted—no fault had ever been found with it; and, consi-
dering the demand for labour at the time, and the fact of
engravers being obliged to work night and day, it was done
at a reasonable price. The company had failed in going
forward with their scheme, not front any fault in the plans
and sections, but from other causes, and now they sought to
lighten themselves of the liabilities they had incurred.
The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call his wit-
nesses.

Madrid papers of the 6th have been received ; their
Portuguese news has been anticipated by the steamer
which arrived the day before yesterday, and their
contents are utterly devoid of interest.

We have received the Paris papers of 'Wednesday'
The estimates were passed on Tuesday in the Cham-
ber of Deputies by a majority of 210 to 27, after an in-
effectual attempt on the partof the Legitimatist Mem-
bers to draw out M. Guizor.on the affairs of Syria. Both
Chambers sat on Wednesday, but their proceedings
were uninteresting. The Deputies assemble for the
Last time on Saturday. The Peers will sit a short
time longer to dispose of the various Bills sent up to
them from the Deputies.

"It is on the occasion of the credit of the fetes
Of July," says the Constitutionnel," that the Prince DE
Mosxowa is to speak in the Chamber of Peers, rela-
tive to the incident in the deliberation respecting the
verdict upon LECOAITE."
The papers contain accounts of the brilliant files
given at Brussels and Lille on the opening of the
Northern Railway. The Princes returned to Paris
from Brussels by rail in twelve hours, and the fetes
passed off without the slightest accident.

The Courier du Havre says that all the American
ships in that port hoisted their flags on the arrival of
the news of General TAYLOR'S victory. It adds :
" Our underwriters seem to be so little alarmed by
the risk the American ships have to run from the war,
that the premiums are tending to fall down to the
ordinary rate.~

COURS AUTHENTIQUE.—PARIS, JUNE 17.—Five per Cents.,
120 f. 15c. 20c; Four per Cents., 106 f. 25c. ; Three per Cents.,
83f. sc. 82f. 95c.; Bank Actions, 3,490 f.; Belgian Five per
Cents., 1840,100%; Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 56%;
Ditto, Bank, 1835, 880 f ; Spanish Actives, 31 ; Ditto, Three
per Cents., 38; Rente de Naples, 102 f. 65c. Exchange on
London, one month, paper, 25f. 60c.; Money, 25f. 60c.;
three months, money, 25f. 42%c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 18.

Barbadoes, %—Boulogne- and Amiens, 11 —Dutch Rhenish, 7%
—East Indian, y —ltalian and Austrian, 13/B—Louvain and Jemappe,
1 ex d.—Luxembourg, 2—Northern of France Contituted, 14%—
Paris and Lyons Constituted, 614—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted,
434—Sambre and Meuse, 4,4—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 5 ;‘,

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the royal
suite, left Buckingham Palace at half-past two o'clock this
afternoon, for the South-Western Railway station, to pro-
ceed by a special train to Gosport, on route to Osborne House,
Isle of Wight.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The last soirée
of the season, but one, was held at the Institute last evening, being
the eleventh of the year, and was more than usually rich in objects
of interest and curiosity, as well as in musical variety. Among the
new paintings exhibited were a splendid Raphael, " Christ bearing
the Cross ;" an exquisite Corregio, "the Holy Family;" and a fine
head of Tazzos Leonora, by Andrea del Sarto. Considerable interest
was melted by a large silver shrine of Hindoo workmanship, repre-
senting the inner sanctuary of one of the temples of Vishnu, with the
Various attendant deities, executed with a skill that was worthy of
the silver shrine of Diana at Ephesus. Of the music it may perhaps
be sufficient to name the professors and artistes who took part in the
pieces of the evening. These included Messrs. Kiallmark, Salaman,
F. Chat terton,Vieuxtem ps, Saiuton, the Di stin family, Messrs. Machin,
Weiss, Bennett, Sir George Smart, Madame Anise Thillon, the
Misses Pyne, Madame Beekholst, Madame Knispel, Madame Cleric
Hennelle, Miss Riviere, Mr. and Mrs. Macfarren, Mademoiselle Vera,
miss Novell°, and many others. The company did not separate till
a late hour.

STATUE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Mr.
Wyatt, the designer of the gigantic equestrian statue of his Grace the
Duke of Wellington, visited Woolwich Dockyard in the early part of
the week, to ascertain the best mode, and what aid could be obtained
in raising the great weight of material, about forty tons contained in
it, to its destined position. The Captain Superintendent Lord J.
Hay, C. 8., afforded the talented artist every assistance and fa-
cility in acquiring the desired information, and it was ul-
timately arranged that Mr. M`Callum, the boatswain of the dock-
yard, whose great experience in raising, fleavy weights
,pu the
shears Nvheti'placing' 'the' engines and boiler of steam-Vessels
into them, should superintend-the raising of the statue;/ the plan he
suggested having previously been made upon drawing paper, and sub-
mitted and approved by the Admiralty. Mr. M'Callum is now in
London, superintending the raising of the scaffolding, and on its com-
pletion will raise the statue by means of four powerful crabs, worked
by eight men each, at some distance above the arch, with two men
at each, to hold on the 6-inch cables, of which it' will require four
lengths of 130 yards. On the statue being elevated to the required
height it will be then moved in a horizontal position on a tramway
to its future position. The weight of the men and materials, at the
time of placing it, is calculated to be 60 tons.
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