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subsequently addressed by Mr. FORBES, Mr. P.M. STEWART.
Mr. B. DENISON, Mr. HODGSON, Mr. F. MAcKENztz, and Mr,
H. DRUMMOND.

After which a division took place, when there appeared—
For the motion,3o ; against it 18 ; majority for the motion, 12.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the
Bill, and several of the clauses-were carried by very narrow
majorities. Ultimately,
Mr. Fox Ma imE intimated that it was not his intention
to proceed further with the Bill, and the House resumed.
Mr. F. MACKENZIE gave notice that on Friday he should
move for a Select Committee to inquire into the mode of
granting licenses to public houses in Scotland.
The House adjourned at Half-past Four o'clock.

statements, tending to kindle and inflame the strongest
feelings of the human mind, will bo sedulously
propagated, and that their consequences will remain un-
checked, at any rate untii the result of Lord JOHN'S
motion in the House of Commons becomes known. Sup-
posing that Lord JOHN should have it in his power to
originate an auspicious line of policy towards Ireland,
we cannot disguise from ourselves, that before he can
do so the session will be too far advanced to admit of its
being effectuated by adequate laws; and in this view the
protectionists will have added to the responsibility which
they are now incurring, and should recollect that the effect
of their blustering on in a friendless and hopeless strug-
gle, which has already brought down upon them the
merited reproaches of our principal seats of commerce,
may be to deprive Ireland of the wholesome and timely
fruits of improved legislation.
It is idle for the Duke of WELLINGTON to furbish
up the old doctrine of fioality. It is wholly unsuited to
the progressive enlightenment of our age. It has
been long since expended. The Duke cannot
forget his celebrated dictum on Reform in 1830,
which led to the fall of the Cabinet of that day , and no
Ministry can at this period tura upon the doctrine of
finality without meeting a similar fate. Lord FITZ-
wiLLIAH aptly informed his Grace that " this genera-
tion had no right to disinherit their posterity of their
full legislative functions, and ventured to doubt whether
a past generation had a right to disinherit this." It is
a mockery, too, for the Duke to generalise
upon the improvement effected in Ireland since
the Union. So long as Ireland continues
in her present prostrate condition, so long will it be
clear to the most superficial observer, that our legisla-
tion for her has been deplorably ineffective; neither can
you deprive the repealers of the colourable argument,
that with a domestic Parliament Ireland would not have
been in the degraded position she now is, alternately
requiring British loans and British coercion.

We thought that the fate of the POLIONAC Ministry,
and a change of dynasty, would have furnished a useful
lesson to the statesmen of other constitutional Govern-
ments, and deterred them from risking their own lives
and the throne of their Sovereign, by destroying at
one blow the most valuable rights and privileges of
their countrymen. But the statesmen of Spain
are too proud and too desperate to take warning
from the past, and NARVAEZ and his reckless and dan-
gerous accomplices having once already tried a coup
d'etat, without exciting rebellion, think that the
Spanish nation will now submit patiently to any outrage,
and that any experiments may be made with a people
so lest to all sense of consistency and constitutional order.
Yet he may carry his experiments too far, and though
he maculates upon the devotion of the army, may find
that he reckons without his host, and that a brave people,
when a Sovereign, or the Consort of a Sovereign is forced
upon them, will set every consideration, of puifety at defi
ance, and rise up as one man against what they consider
a national disgrace. In the mysterious crisis which now
exists at Madrid, it is difficult to find any appa-
rent facts which . can guide inquiry or lead to
a solution of the plot evidently formed by NARVAEZ
and Queen CHRISTINA. Every measure in that Court
is concocted in the dark: the Camarillo wW,ch environs
the QUEEN, with the Captain-General at its head, works
secretly, and by a strange perversity generally adopts
measures which suit their own views and selfish inte-
rests without the slightest regard to the good of the
community. We believe this is the case at the
present moment. The QUEEN-MOTHER is bent upon
marrying her daughter to a Prince agaLest whom the
nation generally, and even the Cortes and the press, have
evinced the greatest repugnance. Hence tb e suspension
of the representative body, preparatory to its dissolution
and perhaps ultimate extinction, and the POLIGNAC
ordonnance for annihilating the liberty of the press.
While they were allotted to perform their usual
and legitimate parts in the Goyernment of the
country, the public would be informed of everything, the
timid might be roused to action, and the firm supporters
of the constitution be only the more encouraged to per-
severe in their duty. It was necessary, therefore,
to get rid of such trouble some agents when a
settlement, almost universally opposed,
.was resolved
upon in the secret recesses of the Court. With a view
to the accomplishment of this dark plot, the
Cabinet of MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA was purposely broken
up, NARVAEZ was appointed Captain-General, his mo-
deration and ostensible wish for retirement into private
life were extolled in the Ministerial journals, and a new
set of puppets, called Cabinet Ministers, were set up, to

be knocked down when the moment for action ar-

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Then the NARVAEZ Ministry was installed,
consisting of men generally without ability or character
and ready to obey the Captain-General with as much
alacrity as an ensign or a corporal looksng for promo-
tion. The new Minister of Finance, ORLANDO, the
second successor to a Minister who had done so much
to raise public credit, is totally unknown as a states-

man, and, we believe, never had any pretensions to fill
the most difficult department in Spain. The Minister
of Marine is a Carlist, and was one of that daring band
of conspirators who made the attack on the QUEEN'S
palace. The new Minister of the Interior had some
years since been denounced by General ALAVA as a man
convicted of frauds on the public in the negotiation of

foreign loans, and we believe was expelled on those
grounds from the Chamber of Peers. The rest of the
members are scarcely known for anything,
an .1 had evidently been selected as blind tools
for carrying out the obnoxious scheme. How
the affair will end it is impossible to an-
ticipate. The Spaniards are like no other people. We
cannot reason, therefore, from experience, except only
in respect to one quality, their obstinacy ; and when
their patience is exhausted, and they are fairly put to
the trial, NARVAEZ and CunisTlNA. may find that even
the army, on which they entirely rely, may be only a
" broken reed."

Occasionally this great sluggish discussion about the
Customs is enlivened by intense gleams of the ludi-
crous. Disgusted, probably, with the dry details of a
matter which has been drawn out to the most miserable
tenuity, Honourable Members come forward as though
for the express purpose of making themselves ridiculous :
in this attempt they succeed to the heart's content of
everybody. These gentlemen ic; their particular walk
are heroes ; their conduct should excite the grati-
tude of the House, as no doui;t it does.
The witticisms of Colonel SIBTHORP hace been
diluted through a hundred repetitions to an absurdity of
the stalest description : even the arch-comedian of the
Commons, Mr. FERRAND, has become a trifle more
sparing in the display of his great genius as a burlesque
actor. Hence, any one who will undertake to immolate
himself in the cause of the vis cornice; and, at the sa-
crifice of his personal sobriety, will take upon himself
the office of Parliamentary droll, surely merits the con-
sideration of his brother representatives. Never did
SILENUS call forth such hilarity from the jovial gods of
Olympus as that elicited on Tuesday evening in the Lower
House, by a certain inimitable Mr. RASIILEIGH. After
hearing the loud and protracted mirth with which our
Legislators greeted each point of that Hon. Member's
address, we could not but entertain a shrewd suspicion
that the Roman RadiculizEdicula, or Chapel of Laugh-
ter, which occupied, in ancient times, such a conspi-
cuous position by the Gate Capella, was in reality no-
thing more than a kind of Latin Parliament, with some
such an officiating priest as the Hon. Member for East
Cornwall. He planted himself boldly. on the floor of the
House, and produced with that triumphant coolness
which a man generally exhibits on broaching some
novel and unanswerable species of logic, the identical
scarecrow of opposition, which has been worn so terribly
threadbare by the protectionists. lie taunted the
Prime Minister, in short, with his " tergiversation," and
gratified the Commons by reading long passages from a
speech delivered by that Right Hon. Baronet on a pre-
vious occasion. He recalled, in the most pensive terms,

In the additional intelligence from the army on the
Sutlej, published in another part of The Sun, will be
found a general order by the Commander-in-Chief,
which will afford universal satisfrction. It relates to
the 62d Regiment, so unjustly stigtn'atised by Sir Jourr
LITTLER, in one of his dispatches describing the battle
of Aloodkee. This officer evidently bad not been aware
of the circumstances under which this brave regiment
retired, but that is no justification for the remarks which
he had thought proper to:make on its conduct. The fol-
lowing extract from the general order places the affair
in its proper light, and shows that the troops, even amidst
the awful fire to which they-were exposed, did not retire
until ordered by the Brigadier, commanding that part
of the division:—

" The Commander-in-Chief finds that seventeen officers
and 183 men fell on this occasion, and that the regiment did
not desist from its noble efforts to carry the position until
ordered by the Brigadier commanding to fall back, as stated
in the following extract from the Brigadier's report, only
now received :
" Under these circumstances, seeing her Majesty's 62d
was exposed to a most destructive fire without any object,
as they could not move forward, I conceived it my duty to
direct them to retire, which they did in almost as good order,
making allowance for the heavy loss they had Austained, as
that in which they had advanced.' "

those days when the motions of the Member for
Wolverhampton were treated with "silent contempt," and
negatived by "large majorities." He conjured the prelates,
with all the solemnity of the last of the Tribunes, to vindi-
cate the interests " of their order, of the throne, and of the
cottage," beholding them, as he imagined, crumbling away
beneath the oppression of cheap beef and accessible biscuits.
But it was the indignation of Mr. RASIILEIGII, when he re-
proved the Honourable Gentlemen around him for smiling,
which we regard as the greatest triumph of his performance.
In a paroxysm of scorn he accused Sir JAMES GRAHAM of
smiling; his feelings were outraged; the Right Hon. Baronet
" had so right to smile." As might be conceived, the risibility
of the Home Secretary became remarkably infectious—a cir-
cumstance which - only served, however, to heighten the
amazement and indignation of Mr. Thasmx.teur. He in-
veighed in the bitterest terms upon the smiles of Mr. Cos-
nits, the smiles of Mr. VILLIEF.S, the smiles of Mr. M. GlB-
sox, and the smiles of "all the crew behind them." And
after a very artistic amplification of his drollery, con-
cluded with the choice peroration, that" he could not allow
himself to be drawn through the muck and mire of expedi-
ency to adopt the new notions of the Right Hon. Gentleman."
After this, the Member for Knaresborough may retire from
the boards; his powers are eclipsed; as the theatrical critics

Lord J. RUSSELL confessedly resigned the task of
forming an administration when he learned that he
would not.have the advantage of the Ministerial ser-
vices of Earl GREY. He felt that, deprived of so power-
ful . a colleague—one who, with respect both to free-
dom of trade and the political evils of Ireland, had
evinced a prophetic• sagacity commensurate with the
boldness and soundness of his views—he could not
successfully cope with the difficulties which would
have environztl his position as First Minister of
the Crowu. Lord Joux took occasion to state
in Parliament, during the debate upon moving an ad-
dress an 4 answer to the Royal Speech, that his chief
regret .in not having succeeded in forming a Govern-
ment arose from his belief that he could hkve brought
forward measures productive of great beneff to Ireland.
It is the recollection of these circumstances that impart
peculiar interest to Lord GR7.Y'S speech on Monday
night on the state of Ireland. The mutual political
esteem known to exist between Lord JOHN and Earl GREY
leads us to feel deeply interested in any observations of the
latter touching the momentous subject he introduced to
the Lords. Every one is aware that the Upper House
is not the most genial sphere for favourably discussing
the grievances, or eliciting a sympathy for the millions
- of our humblest fellow-countrymen, who are smarting
under wrongs without a parallel in any other state,
their poverty, wretchedness, and political degradation
being unequalled throughout the civilised world. Earl
GRE Y considered that not a moment should be lost in
con eying to the Irish nation, pari passu with the Co-
ercion Bill, that a different spirit would animate the Le-
gist:Aura in dealing with the interests of that country.
Lord JOHN is unquestionably identical in his opinions,
but, out of consideration to the Ministry, anxious to re-
lieve the immediate wants of Ireland, and embarrassed
by the dilatory and selfish manoeuvres of the monopo •
lising protectionists, has felt himself constrained to put
off his motion until after the Easter recess. Notwith-
stan ding his consciousness that the matter would have
been much more felicitiously broached in the
Corcimons under the auspices of Lord Joiest
RussELL, even though it should be simultaneously
deliberated on in the Lords', Earl GRET unflinchingly
-presented himself in the chilling atmosphere of the
hereditary branch of the Legislature, and in a well-
tempered, luminous, and skilful speech, invited them
to present an address to the Throne calculated to con-
sole Ireland under the new and stringent provisions
a be at to be imposed on them by the measure for insuring
inepeased protection to life in Ireland. Upon the simple
fiat of the Duke of WELLINGTON, and solely be-
eaivie Earl GREY pressed upon their attention (amongst
oths r mattex s) the necessity of effecting a salutary change,
by /-..1 better distribution of the revenues of the
Esta-
blishied Church in Ireland (a topic, which be it reeol-
!eote d, was not even specified in the terms of the
add? ess), the Peers, by a large majority, refused their
assi nt to the patriotic step which Earl GREY so fervently
urged them to adopt. What may be the effect of this
conduct upon our sensitive and oppressed neighbours,
will, we fear, too speedily be exhibited. There are in
that,country those who will not fail, and with success,
to depict in the strongest and most stimulating language,
that, because Earl GREY recommended a better provi-
sion for the religious wants of the Roman Catholics, and
that the vast majority of the people should he placed
on a footing of perfect equality with their more favoured
brethren, his compeers declined to approach the Throne
and express their willingness to improve the laws affect-
ing their country and the mode in which they are ad-
' ministered. We feel convinced that these and similar

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would say, "the success of the new comedian is most grati-
fying and triumphant." But, regarding the matter in a common-
sense light, with an eye to public business, and the good of
the community, what possible benefit to themselves or
any one else do the agriculturists imagine, for one moment
can result from such silly specimens of irascibility as that of
the Hon. Member for East Cornwall? Ought not the feel-

ing of very shame at their own incapacity to prompt them to
submit calmly and silently to the decrees of the popular will?
The reproof of such folly, uttered by Mr. F. BARING, was
pointed and well-timed. "However able,' s2id he, "or in-
dependent might be those who formed a Government for the
purpose of carrying out the principles of protection, I have
no doubt whatever as to the result,—they would soon find

themselves compelled to follow the principles of their prede-
cessors. Agitation was not the true cause of the defeat
of those who advocated the principle of protection ; it was
reason, justice, truth, by which they were betrayed. They
were silently undermined by the stream of time, because their
castle was built upon the sand."
If the protectionists would only accede to the broad facts
that stare them ever in the face, we might be spared the in-
fliction of much nonsense in the shape of their own advocacy,
though at the same time we should be mulcted of no little
laughter. When the entire commercial system of Great

Britain is thrown into a state of indecision or stagnation it
is not the time, however, for such supernumera:ies as Mr.
RASHLEIGH to be tampering with the time of the House.

We have received Madrid papers of the 17th inst
the day after the remarkable scene which occurred in
the Chamber of Deputies, and which evidently foreboded
some desperate plot on the part of NARVAEZ and the
QUEEN.MOTUEIL The coup d'etat which was carried
into effect on the 18th, was not then precisely foreseen,
but from what occurred at the Palace on the evening of
the 16th, the schemes of NARVAEZ were placed beyond
a doubt. According to the Espanol, the QUEEN, after
the meeting of the Camber of Deputies, sent for MIRA..
FLORES and his colleagues, and desired them to dissolve
the Cortes. The Ministers represented to her MAJESTY
that, not having experienced any oppbsition from the
Cortes in the exercise of their official power, and the
Cortes having given them marks of their sympathy and
confidence, it was impossible for them to put in force a
measure which they could not conscientiously recom-
mend to her MAJESTY. They added, however, that
they would respectfully lay at her MAJESTY'S feet their
resignation, that her MAJESTY might, at her pleasure,
nominate Ministers who might believe that they ought
to carry this desire into execution. The QUEEN accepted
their resignation, and the Ministers withdrew. This
was exactly what NARVAEZ wanted. He then appointed
the members of his Cabinet, all tools fit fur his purpose,
and by suspending the Cortes and the liberty of the
press assumed dictatorial power. In order that the
army may be more at his command, he has dismissed
General CONCHA, and several superior officers opposed
to his violent measures, and supplied their places with
men suited to his desperate purposes. It is a curious
fact, that the funds during this crisis have rather im-
proved. The following are the quotations on the Ma-
drid Bourse for the 17th :—Three per Cents., 29 15-16
at 30 days; Five per Cents. not quoted; Bank of St.
Ferdinand, 255; Bank of Isabella, 168; Canal of Castile,
142; Company of Iris, 130; Exchanges on London, 37-a;
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In the French Chamber of Deputies the motion rela-
tive to the dissolution of the National Guard of certain
large towns came on for discussion. M. DUCHATEL, the
Minister of the Interior, was the first speaker, and said
"he addressed the Chamber at the very commencement of
the discussion in order that the real state of the question
might be understood. Ministers, he said, had dissolved
the National Guard of two large towns, Toulouse and
Carcassonne, in consequence of disturbances having
broken forth in the body itself. At Toulouse the disso-
lution was pronounced at the period of the census, in
consequence of the disturbances that took place in that
city. It might be said that calm was now re established.
Yes, but the Government was responsible for the main-
tenance of order, and from what it knew of the
state of the public feeling there, it deemed it
prudent to let the National Guard remain as it was, dis-
solved. At Carcassonne, a most violent spirit of disorder
had reigned in the National Guard. Notwithstanding all
the representations made to the contrary, the members
of that body had persisted in naming as their colonel,
BARBER, who had been condemned by the Chamber of
Peers, and who was undergoing his punishment at Mont
St. Michel. Such were the facts, and he conceived that

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tl'in t, OUR

LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1846.

Tile Lords did not sit yesterday.
.The Commons met at twelve.

S3veral Railway Bills were read a second time without
opposition.

Ou the motion that the Edinburgh anti Glasgow and Scot-
tish C3ntral Junction Railway Bill be read a second time,

Mr. F. MAu LE moved that it be read a second' time that
day six months.
After a lengthened discussion, the motion for the second
reading was carried by a majority of six ; the numbers being
40 in favour of the motion, and 36 against it.
Mr. F. Mau LE then moved the order of the day for going
into Committee on the Turnpike Roads (Scotland) Bill
Sir J. Al.TAGaaaa o+ pored the motion. The House was

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the Government was fully jusiitiA in acting as it had
done. He therefore called upon the Chamber to vote
against the motion." After some remarks from
M. ODThori BARROT, and a further explanation
from the Minister, M. LACROSSE said, as his object had
been chiefly to obtain an explanation from the Govern-
ment, and that had been accomplished, he would with-
draw his motion. This did not suit the views of the
more violent party, and M. LASTEYRIE, considering a
vote necessary, took up the amendment. Previous to a
division, MM. BARROT, BERRYER, and a large number of
Opposition Members, left, and only 52 remained to vote
with M. LASTEYRIE, thus giving the majority of 230
for Ministers. The other domestic news possesses no
interest; though much anxiety prevailed in all quarters
respecting. the mysterious movements in Spain.
We subjoin some extracts from other Continental

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his .
Serene Highness the Hereditary Prince of Baxe Meiningen,
and attended by the Countess of Sheffield, Lady in Waiting,
visited the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday at Bucking-
ham Palace, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and
his Loyal Highness.
Tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early
walk yesterday in the royal garden.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of her Majesty yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of V ales, Prince Al-
fred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken
an airing in an open carriage and four yesterday, accompa-
nied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace
included her Royal Ilif,hness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke
and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr.
George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Captain
Francis Seymour.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Gusrds, under
the direction of Mr. J. R. Tntton, was in attendance at the
Palace during dinner, and perfOrmed the following pieces :
Overture—" Masauiello' —Auber.
Polonaise—H. Proch.
Selection—" Crusaders"—Benedict.
Walt zes—" Errinerung au Pesth"—Straus.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner yesterday
evening at Apaley House, to the Noble Directors of the Con-
cert of Ancient Music, his Grace being the Directortfor the
evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge were present, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, arid afterwards accompanied. their
Noble Host to the performance of the Concert. His Royal
Highness Prince Albert, attended by his suite, also honoured
the performance of the Concert with his presence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing
in a carriage yesterday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. J. Gresham, mayor of
Hull, Mr. B. M. Jalland, of Hull, Mr. Thomas Thompson,
town-clerk of Hui', accompanied by Sir J. Harmer, and Mr.
Hutt, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Clerk, yester-
day, at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday, at the office in Whitehall-place.
There were present, the Archbishop of Canterbury; the
Bishops of London, Bangor, Carlisle, Chester, Ely, Oxford,
and Rochester, the Earl of Besaborough, and the Eight Hon.
11. Hobhouee.
The Earl of Ripon gave a dinner yesterday evening to the
Cabinet Ministers at his residence in Carlton Gardens.
The Earl of Tladdington and the Hon. F. Charteris had
interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the
office of the Board of Trade,
. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,
from the Governor of the Mauritius and the Cape of Good
Hope.
Dispatches for the Governor of' Hong-Kong and Ceylon
were sent off on Tuesday evening from the Colonial-office.

papers:-
The Intialicle Russe, of St. Petersburgh, contains the fol-
lowing ref ort addressed to the Emperor by the Commander-
in-Chief of the army, Count Paskevitch d'Erivan, dated
March 4 :-" A report of Lieut.-General Panutine, just re-
ceived, an nonnces that yesterday the insurgents, on learning
the arrival of our tre,,ps at Michalowice, evacuated the town
of Cracow, which was occupied by us at three in the after-
noon. One hundred Cossacks entered first, amidst cries of
Long live the Emperor P from the inhabitants. They
were followed by a battalion of infantry, with four pieces of
artillery, the mountaineers, and other troops. The band of
armed insurgents, which had quitted the city during the
night, and which amounted, it is said, to 500 horsemen and
1,000 foot soldiers, proceeded, according to some, on our
territory of Szial, and according to others towards the Prus-
sian frontier by Krzeszowice. Colonel Prince Bariatinsky,
aide-de-camp to the Grand Duke, heir to. the Crown, was
sent with 300 Cossacks to pursue them. Another body of
150 Cossacks is to join him at Oikusz. There are now at
Cracow three of our battalions, with 12 pieces of artillery,
and 500 irregular cavalry. The other troops who were on
their way towards that city have received orders to stop
short at the points where they had arrived. The inhabi-
tants have brought their arms, and delivered them up.'
A letter from Cracow of the 16th, in the German Universal
Gazette says :-" From yesterday all the prisoners have
been kept in close confinement, without being allowed to re-
ceive any one. The banker, Wolf, who was Minister of
cinance under the revolutionary Government, is kept guarded
in his own house, not only en account of his having assumed
that post, but as answerable for the large sums raised by the
insurgents from the Austrians at Wieliezka. Many women
have also been arrested. The Prussian General Count de
Brandenburg has informed the representatives of Austria and
Russia, that he has been ordered by his Government to give
up to them the Polish insurgents in his power who are na-
tives of the territories subject to Austria and Russia."
The constituent' assembly of the canton of Berne held a
second sitting on the 18th of March, which was almost en-
tirely devoted to the discussion of a new series of rules, con-
taining thirty-five articles. Before entering on the discus-
sion, the assembly took into consideration, and adopted, the
proposition that their deliberations should be made public in
the form of a bulletin, drawn out by as many stenographers
as might be deemed necessary to report faithfully the differ-
speeches ; further, that many thousand copies should be
strns:k off, and one given to each deputy.
The Tn:ee per Cents. dosed on the Paris Bourse on Monday at
84f. ;ti Five per Cents., 120 f. 55c. ; the Orleans Railroad
shares, 1,317 f. SU. ; Rouen, 1,060 f. ; Havre, 765 f. ; Great Northern,
786 f. 25c. ; Avignon. 975 f.; Vierzon, 722 f. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 687 f.
50c.; Boulogne, 515 f.;
Zroyes and Montereau, 437 f. 50c. ;
245 f. ; Dieppe, 462 f. 50c. ;
,:aris and Strasburg, 542 f. 5Ge. ; Tours
and Nantes, 573 f. 75e. ;
d Definitive, 680 f. 75e. ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 37% ;
sparli.!th Passives, 5%.
The following are the quotations for other lines :-
Lyons and Avignon Railroad (TalaboO, 512 f. ; ditto (Le-
eointe), 505 f. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridlo:,ale), 503 f. 50c. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 503 f. 50c. ; ditto (Espeleta), 511 f. ;
Charleroi, 498 f. 50c.
Ifitaszim.r.s, Mama 19.-Marseilles and Arignent, 297 f. 50c.
LYONS, 3lsacu 21.-Marseilles and Avignon, 970 f. ; Paris and
Orleans, 1,297 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,050 f. ; Vlerzon, 726 f. 50c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY& AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Mesa' 24

Au 1.1.1.1 - -
Boulogne and Amiens, 12% —Louvain and Jemappe,ll/(3—Luxem-
bourg, 1 —Madrid and Valentin, 3i—Namur and Liege, 2.34
Bonen and Havre, 30.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHAMPTON RACES.—TUESDAY.
The Farmers' Plate of 501. Heats, once round and a dis.
Mr. A. Manning's Melody, 5 yrs flat 11b (T. Parr) 0 1 1
Mr. Hicrgin' bg by Mundig, aged, 11 st 11lb
Mr. C. Bull's the Curate, aged, list 111 b. 0 3 2
Mr. Wesley's Solitude 4 yrs, lOst 71b .. 0 6 3
Mr. C Higgins' br f, by Stapleton, 4 yrs, lOst 71b 2 5 5
Mr. Dickins s May-day, aged, list Illb 0 2 6
Mr. W. Drage's Ten Pound Note, 5 yrs; list llb. 0 7, 7
Two others ran. The first heat was won by a neck, the
others in a canter.
CHESTER CUP BETTING—TUESDAY ArrEnNoort.
13 to 1 agst Sweetmeat—(t I 25 to 1 agst Fitzallen
20 to 1 agst Clumsy I 40 to 1 agst Cotranna
22 to 1 agst Miss Burns 40 to 1 agst Whinstone.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER —TUESDAY.
Nothing done w)rth mentioning, the majority of the spe-
culators being at Northampton.
NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES.

WEDNESDAY.
The Open Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 25 added. Winner
to be sold for 1501., &c. Once round and a distance.
(7 subs.)
Mr. W. H. Johnstone na Blind Hookey, aged, llst 21b 1
Mr. May's Crocus (late Miss Robinson), 6 yrs, list 21b 0
Mr. Parr's Jack Cade, 5 yrs, lest 121 b 0
Mr. T. Dawson's Kiss me Quick. 4 yrs, lOst 51b
Lord G. Bentinck's Coal Black Rose, 5 yrs, lOst 121 b 5
Mr. Murphy's Venus, 4 yrs, lOst slb 6
Even on Blind Hookey, and 5 to 2 agst Coal Black Rose.
Won by a neck.
The Althorp Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added, for two
yrs old. Straight run in, about half a mile. (9 subs.)
Mr. R. Peel's Credential, Bst 4.b
Lord Spencer's Typhon, Bst 71b
The following also started :—Mr. G. Ongley's cby Game-
boy. out of Sister to Prizeflower, Bst 71b—Mr. John Day's
Madge Wildfire, Bst 41b—Mr. May's Honey Dear, Bst 41b—
and Colonel Anson's f by Jereed, out of Sweetmeat's dam,
Bst 41b.
Betting-6 to 4 egst Credential, and 4to 1 each agst Ty-
phon and Madge Wildfire. Won by a length.
The Northamptonshire Cup Sakes of 10 sovs. each; the
winner to be sold for 5001. Twice round.. (19 Subs.)
Mr. Shelley's Maynooth, 4 yrs, Bst 91b ......(W. Abdale) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Discord, aged, 9st 121 b
Mr. Worthington's Hooton, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b 3
Mr. S. Scott's Mosque, aged, 9st 121 b
Mr. Owen's Xanthus, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b ... -•• 5
Mr. Cooke's What, 6 yrs, 9st I`9lb d. 6
Lord Southampton nd Tractarian, 3 yrs, 6st 71b
Mr. F. Ongley's Fama, 6 yrs, 9st 101 b
Betting-2 to 1 agst Discord-4 to 1 each agst Hotoon and
What, and sto 1 each agst Tractarian and Maynooth. Won
by two lengths
The Pytchley Stakes of 15 sow. each, 10 ft., and 50 added
for 3 yrs old. One mile. (5 Subs.)
Mr. A. W. Hill's Burlesque, Bst fib (S. Darling) 1
Mr. G. Higgins's Redleg, asst 21
stol on Burlesque. Won by eight lengths.
The beaten Handicap, of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added,
once round and a dis. (7 subs.), was won by Tractarian, Gst,
beating Fairplay, ist 61b, Fame, Bst 71b, Crocus, Bst 91b, Dr.
Husband, Bst 131 b, Redleg, 6st 71b. and Muscatel, Est 41b.—
Betting-2 to 1 agst Muscat,' (taken)-3 to 1 agst Dr.
Husband (taken)-4 to 1 agst Tractarian—and sto 1 agst
Fama.
PONTEFRACT STEEPLE CHASE.—MoNDAY.
Sweeps of 5 soya. each, for 3 yrs old, 9st 71b ; 4 yrs, lOst 41b ;
5 yrs, list 21b; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Three Miles*
(20 subs.)
Mr. Addison's Why Not, aged 1
Mr. Nainby's Robin Hood, 5 yrs
Mr. Haigh's Mulatto, aged 3
Ten others started.
The Badsworth Hunt Cup of 201., added to a sweepstakes
of 3 sows. each. Three Miles. Won by Mr. Smallpages's
Truck, beating Mr. Smith's Vanish and three others.
The Flat Race, for a sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each. Two
Miles. (4 Subs.) Was won in two heats by Mr. Frankland's
Po wick, aged, beating Mr. E. Smith's The Rail, Mr. Rams-
bottom's Dudu, 4 vrs, and Mr. Duke's Lady Marv.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—The attention of your correspondent " Telegraph" is called to
the following glaring error in his article this day, which shows
how little he is conversant with the lineage of our " high-mettled
racers :"
" Of the lot, Mr. Ford's filly by Gladiator (who ran second to Mut:-
" dig for the Derby), out of Deception fan 9ala, and all but a Derby
winner)."
Gladiator rim second to Bay Middleton. Deception, winner of the
Oaks, is by Defence. Mr. Ford's Deception is by Mountebank
Yours, &c., SCRUTINATOIt.
Monday 'evening.

At Drury-lane last night every part of the theatre
was crowded as usual, Miss Rainforth and Harrison were en-
cored in their ballad?, and the curtain made to reascend
fcr
the exquisite finale in which Miss Romer surpassed herself.
The ballet of La Tarantule was also received with en-
thusiasm.
• BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK. —At the
dinner at the Freemason's Tavern, on Tuesday evening, Mr.
W. W. Simpson was announced as the donor of twenty-five
guineas, thus constituting himself a life governor of the
charity.
Mr. Green and Mr. Liston have been appointed
Examiners for the College of Surgeons, in the room of Sir B. Brodie
and Mr. Anthony White, resigned.
His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the
Countess Dietrichstein give a splendid banquet, on Saturday next, at
Chandos House, when Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and most of the
Ministers, dine at the Embassy.
CABINET DINNER.—The Earl of Ellenborough's en-
tertainment to the Cabinet Ministers, originally appointed for Wed-
nesday next, the Ist proximo, has (in consequence of the Lord
Mayor's dinner to her Majesty's Ministers) been postponed until the
Bth. In the meantime the Noble Earl removes from Charles-street,
Berkeley-square, to his official residence, at the Admiralty.
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN AiANCHESTER.—On Friday
morning, eleven vessels belonging to the Bridgwater Trust arrived
from Liverpool, bringing upwards of 300 tons of grain for the Man-
chester market.
EXPORTATION OF BUTTER.—The following quantities
of butter were exported in the years ending January, 1831, 1836,
1841, and 1846 :-65,955cwt., 79,941 cwt., 52,972 cwt., and 46,592awt.
These results are given from a Parliamentary paper recently printed,
obtained by Mr. Grogan, the Member for Dublin.
THE ROYAL VICTORIA YACHT CLUB.—On Tuesday
the noblemen and gentlemen of the above aquatic club dined tog,ther
at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street. The Commodore
of the squadron, Mr. Thomas Willis I. laming, presided. Among the
members present were Lord Rossmore, Lord Keane, Mr. G. S. Har-
court, Mr. W. W. Burrell, Lieutenant-Colonel Temple French, Mr.
A. Fountain, Mr. J. E. Jones, Mr. Wm. Bevan, Mr. James Hartley,
Mr. E. S. Chandos Pole, Mr. H. J. Hamborourgh, Mr. W. Vansit-
tart, Mr. A. Vansittart, Mr. L. Holland, &c.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—We are glad to see prepa-
rations making for constructing an electric telegraph from Hull to
Derby—thus giving us telegraphic communication to the metropolis.
—Hull Packet.
EXPRESS TRAINS TO LONDON.—We hear that the
directors of the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction Rail-
way Companies are, with the consent of the Post-office, making ar-
rangements for delaying the four A.m. mail train in Liverpool to six
A.M., but so expediting its speed that it will arrive in London by one
P.m., as at present; but that the alteration will not take place till
the Ist of May. The directors decline running an early express train
from London.—Liverpool Standard.
ORDINATION. —The Bishop of Salisbury held a
general ordination in his cathedral on Sunday last, when the follow-
ing gentlemen were admitted into holy orders :—Deacons : J. J.
Jacob, 8.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge; R. S. Moody, 8.A.,
Christ Church, Oxford ; W. P. Wood, 8.A., St. John's College,
Oxford ; W. M. Heath, 8.A., Exeter College, Oxford ; J. .J. Orger,
8.A.,;f0r di Y.
Crawley, B A., Magdalen Hall, Oxford; W. B. de Moleyns, 8.A.,
Trinity College, Dublin ; E. R. Pitman,
adphraiemsts , College,
W.
Popham, oscfrd ; C. Hinman, 8.A., Ballot College,
M.A., Oriel College, Oxford ; R. E.
O
B.A. Christ's College, Cam-
briage ; T. A. Babington, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; E.
Peacock, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge; H. E. Maids, 8.A.,
Gonville and Calus College, Cambridge; T. M. Patey, B.A. Cathe-
rine Hall, Cambridge ; 11. Watson, 8.A., Wadham College, 8.A.,
PARIS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, SITTING OF MARCH
16.—The papers read at this sitting were not of much interest. M.
Morin read a long notice on the economy effected in the transport of
hay for the supply of the army by compression, and of the presses
which have been used in France for this purpose. It appears that
even with the imperfect means hitherto adopted an enormous saving
had been effected in the transport of hay for the cavalry in Algeria,
but this probably will be double I by the use of English presses,
which have been recently purchased in England by the French Go-
vernment. M. Laurent read, in his own name, and in that of M.
Gerardt, a paper on a controversy that has taken place between
them and M. Liebig, the celebrated German chemist. It appears
that these gentlemen dispute many of the comclusious come to by M
Liebig in his researches in organic chemistry, with a view to their
practical application to agriculture and other purposes. The other
papers were all on subjects of no importance to the public at large'.
ROYAL VISIT TO ASTLEY S —On Tuesday, pursuant to
the "Royal command," a grand hippodramatic entertainment took
place at Astley's Amphitheatre, which wasi.enoured by the presence
of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, ac-
companied by a brilliant suite. Mr. William Batty, the lessee, fully
appreciating the honour, had determined that nothing in his power
should be wanting to render the entertainment worthy of its illus-
trious patrons. The centre box of the first circle was appropriated
to the royal party. The ornaments /were of the most costly
description, and of excn. I.site handicraft. The box was fitted up with
silk tabard, the prevailing colours being crimson and white, and
every porton of the theatre was 'most gorgeously decorated. The
Foot Guards lined the passages of the theatre, sentries were placed
at the stage-door, and detachments in the stable-yard and at the
principal entrance in the Westminster-road. The visit was strictly
private. Shortly after four o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert,
and their illustrious children and attendants, arrived in three car-
riages, and were immediately ushered Into the royal box by Mr.
Batty and Mr. T. Thompson, the stage-manager. The entertain-
ments, of course, exhibited to the utmost advantage the whole
strength and talent of the company. At their conclusion the royal
party retired, but not before her Majesty and Prince Albert had ex-
pressed, to Mr. Batty and Mr. Thompson, their entire approval of
tire general arrangements. Her Majesty left the house shortly before
six o'clock, after which the doors were opened, and the rush of the
public to obtain a view of the box and the other decorations (which
will not bo taken down for some time).was terrific.
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—
On Tuesday morning, as the courier was conveying the dispatches,
from Folkston to Loudon, in anticipation of the Overland mail, by
special engine, an accident occurred, which (though fortunately
unattended witli any serious result) shows the necessity existing
that some plan should be adopted by which means tae engine might
be enabled to clear the rails of any impediment, Ni
llful 1 y- or acci-
dentally-placed in the way. It appears, that, when about eight
miles from Tunbridge, the carriage was thrown off the line, and
from the speed at which the engine was going at the time it could
not be stopped for some minutes, when, after a very severe job ing,
and by the able assis ante of eight or ten labourers who were in an
adjoining field, ti e carriage was placed on the rails, but being in an
unfit state for use, the courier rode to Tunbridge on the engine,
where a fresh carriage was attached, and be arrived safely at
London. Had it been a train instead of a single carriage tire damage
would have been considerable, and loss of life very probable. No
blame whatever can be attached to the engine driver.
AN UNPARALLELED CASE OF INTOXICATION.—On
Tuesday an inquiry took place before Mr. Bedford, at the Britannia,
Portland-street, St. James's, as to the death of W. R. Keating, aged
fifty-two, an upholsterer, living in the above street. Elizabeth Keat-
ing, the daughter of the deceased, stated that her father had not
been sober since Christmas, nor had Ire attended to his business during
all that while. The witness then went on to state, that on Sunday
morning she went to ask her father what he would have for dinner,
and she tumid that his hands were quite cold ; and a surgeon pro-
nounced him dead, most likely from apoplexy, brought on by his In-
temperate course of life. Verdict, " Natural death."
FOOT RACE FOR TWENTY PoUNDS.—On Tuesday
Dolman and Mills, wafts were matched to run one mile, decided their
match at Holloway. Dolman won, and went over the distance
ander five minutes..
PEDESTRIANISM.—FouR- MILE RACE AT BIRMINGHAM
Fon 501.—The interesting trial of speed between James Byrom (the
Lancashire Runner), and John Tetlow (of Hollinwood), for 25/. aside,
came off on Monday, ten miles from Birmingham, on the ohiCoventry
road. The distance measured was from the 97th to the SBth mile-
stones. Large sums of money changed hands, the Birmingham and
Manchester men betting strongly on the Hollinwood hero. At a few
minutes to four, all preliminaries being arranged, the men started
well together. For the first mile more beautiful running has rarely,
if ever, been witnessed. The competitors touched the handkerchief
and turned for the second mile together. It soon, however, became
evident to the eye of the connoisa;ur that Byrom was running within
himself; while his antagonist was certainly going his hardest.
Strong running was kept up , which will be best shown by the fact
that the men comelated the 'first two miles in 10. minutes 25 seconds,
and the second two miles in 10 minutes 20 seconds, Byrom running
in a winner by 10 yards only. The stakes were given up shortly after
the race, Byrom presenting his defeated rival wills a sovereign, and
the subscription for the losing man (collected by Temperance)
amounting to 5/. We wish we could see more of this spirit.
THE LATE FATAL PRIZE FIGHT.—Two of 'he abet-
tors in the late fatal prize fight, on Blyth Links, have been appre-
hended, and lodged in the Northumberland county gaol, at Morpetin
on warrants issued by the coroner. The parties apprehended are—
James Renwick, of IVinlaton, and Israel Lazarus, publican, Butcher
Hank, Newcastle. Cleghorn, the surviving combatant, is in conceal-
ment, but understeod to be recovering, which was at ono time con-

aidered doubtful.
CONFESSIONS OF A PRETTY WOMAN.—The manner
in which these papers came into the possession of Miss Pardoe
is rather curious. She concludes the account by saying,
"From her own hand I received this written record of the
past, and I give it (with her permission) to the world, in all
confidence that such a transcript of the real struggles of a
woman's mind,' and of the actual trials of a woman's life,
will present more lasting- and whole,ome interest than the
romantic creations of fiction, or the practical miseries 9f a
merely fertile fancy."

BELGIAN EASTERN JUNCTION

RAILWAY.
A meeting of the etarehelders and directors of this
Company was held yeeterday at the London Tavern, Sir
Frederick Smith in the chair, for the purpose of consi-
_.

dering the expediency of disiolving the'G.an pany.
T:tle SECRETARY road the report of Mr. Stevenson as
to the fmsibilay of forming the line.
The CHAIRMAN said he wished to make a few ob-

servations upon that report. Ile had the pleasure of
being able to state that the Belgian Government were
favourably disposed towards the line if the shareholder.;
should t.lnnk fit to approve of its being made. He next
took up the report of Mr: tinily, the resident engineer,
which, he said, contained all the statiAtical det:tils,•and
was a very voluminous docunr,ht; but he would read it
if the met tine thought fit.--(Cri,..s of " No, no.")
A SHAREHOLDER ex; ressed a.wish to have the Re-
count of receipts and disbursements read.
The CHAIRMAN said he would read it, and proceeded
to do so. The amount paid up, at the rate of 21. 10,
per share, was
--„.

Caution money 30,000 0 0
Exchequor Bills
Cash in Bank „ 4,435 0 0
Nute blaring interest
Cash at the (Alice l9 6 11

In answer to a qu,ntion from a SHAREHOLDER,
The CHAIRMAN said that " the note bra' ing interest,"
meant a sum that was to be paid for the c)neet,sioll of
the French Government. He then read the items of the
expenditure, which amounted in the segregate to about
2,0001.

A SHAREHOLDER, who spoke in a strong foreign ac-
cent, said the 12,0001. was raid before this Company
had actually any existence. He was of opinion that the
Company should be dissolved. He would like to know
how many shares had been allotted to the directors?
The CHAIRMAN said they had 400 shares each, on
which they had paid up in full, and they had had not
one single share reserved to them.—(Hear.)
Mr. LAMERT suzgested that the Directors' report
should be moved and seconded, as he had an amend•
ment to move to it.

THE NA VY.
" RELATIVE TO HER M
ECLAIR.
-.. .
-era inert -- A return cf cdu, and -,,,_ ' •eno t
board her 'Majesty's t. 4"
fever broka out on bowed, tu cn,
,a.y
"'IP, frOln 'lie day the yellevr
..,e...;.• ve.untenred to serve on
9tl r.!;,,1*. of eae,b individual, the
. they aid ship was paid
off; stiting the name_
number that Clad, and
"le re- Bard, Preintition, or union
f'-.4e Admiral ,;y—to eihieh is added those
since granted by
who have been, .
promoted or
died ,Sept. 18, 1845 ; rewell.ed for service in the
Eclair, wilftlaer volunteers 'Jr not :—G. AL M•Olure, sur-
geon,
moted I:jct. 20, 1845; " ~ „
• T"' ia' a It ogers (b), assistant-surgeon,
prfAnoted, Oct. 20, 1845 ; Vl'. 41J- G. ..:,4=tew.art, surgeon, pro-
--. 4"
...rd Heath, assistant surgeen,
protneted, Dec. 11, 1845 i 8.i:)- Aey
promoted, Sept. 21, 1945, 1". Lied Oct. 9, 184:4 ; Charles Coffey,
Bernard, assistant.surgeor,
assistant-surgeon, note: for promotion when , passed ;
Lieutenant Henry
Dec. 6. 1845; P. Har rola acting-commander promoted,
**/:+ihn War ..en, 'boatswain, 3d class,, promoted,
Jan. 5, 1840_, ; 'William Hurst, gunner, 3d class, promoted,
Jail. 20 1846; *John A ttwood, gunner's mate, promoted
J 0.:,. 24, 1846 ; J. FL 1 'avne, able seaman ; John Leach,
stoker; John Power, ord.' .r.ary seaman, died Sept. 7, 1845;
*George Dickinson, ste Aker; O. Wilson, able seaman;
*Robert Thurley, able seaman ; 'John Bridger, ordinary
seaman ; *Riche:rd Barth ett, ordinary seaman ; "Joseph Todd,
ordinary set-nman; °Jo] in Hill, stoker •; William Hughes,
boy; J,:',..n Herbert, bay ; William Gardhatn, boy; *William
Cock',e, seaman, gratuity EL ; *Thomas SMith, seaman, gra'
tuity 101. ; Thomas Baillie, seaman, pension 6/. ; P. Saunders,
seaman, gratuity 101.; 1-Villiain Watson, private malice, gra-
telly 101. ; John Smith, i ,er 'man, gratuity 10/.
The following officers •eo Zuni eer,d, but their services were
not revired :—Alexand er Bryson, surgeon; J. 0: APWF:
limn, surgeon ; Francis .11se.derson,susistant-surgeon ; Charm
II Fuller, surgeon ; 1) a-eid G. Miller, surgeon; Thom Kincaid, assistant-surgeon; George Sprigg, commander, ri lc_
of the Ferret, 10, 'sloop ; A. R. Dunlap, lieutenant; John
, .
Deurv, captain, R. 31
.

RETtJIL

-JESTY'S SHIP

The following gentlen lent also offered their services for the
Eclair:—George M'Huary, , M.D.; James Gave, surgeon • A
0. Edwards, surgeon ; ;hal Barry, M.D.; Rev. Is. 0;0"
lan, Ray. T. Hardinge lye N.
I'ENSAONS, NAVY.
Under this title the following - Parliamentary return,
moved for by Sir Chark s Napier, "of naval officers wil°
have received pensions, or augmentation of pensions, for
wounds or hurts, since Clio Ist day of January, 1841. and
the report of the meuical officers who surveyed them," has
been published, dated Adrairalty, March 9, 1848, and signed
H. F. Ameclroz, chief clet k.

The SOLICITOR to the Bill said that the Company as
yet was not formed, and therefore it would be better
that the report should be printed and circulated, and
perhaps consider the adoption or reception of it at a
future meeting.
Mr. LAMERT hoped that day would never arrive.=
(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") He hoped the Company
would be dissolved, and he had no doubt they would
get back their 30,0001 due from the Belgian Govern-
ment. He held in his hand a map received this
morning from Brussels, by which it appeared there were
66 lines projected, which would cross their proposed line
Lke a spider's wen, but he hoped their money would not
be the fly to get into that web.—(Hear, hear.) With
regard to Mr. Stevenson's report, he would say that
that gentleman had a gnat many other railways
in hand, and he had been hunted for two
months before this report could be got, and now when
it appeared suddenly before them the line was found in
the position he had stated. He concluded by proposing
that the Company be now dissolved.—(Bear, hear.)
Mr. FIELD seconded the resolution, and asked a ques-
tion relative to the 12,000/.
The CHAIRMAN said that all the directors, except two,
were concessionaires, and all were liable :o the payment
of the 12.0001.
Mr. FIELD expressed himself satisfied with the answer,
and thought that the directors had acted all through in
an honourable manner.
The SOLICITOR to the Bill said, that he thought the
12,0001. was paid to a Belgian subject for property of
his over which the proposed line was to pass, and the
opinion of counsel had been taken, which was to the
effect, that whether the Bill did pass or not, the Company
were liable to the payment of the 12,000/., and to 3,0001
in addition if the Bill should pass.
Mr., FIELD could not see the use of this meeting if it
was to do no more than hear reports read. They had
heard that there were 10,000 shares which had not been
taken up, arid that means were being taken to compel
the parties to do so. tie thought that was a strong fact
in favour of dissolving the Company, though he had
heard it said that there was a renal difficulty in the way.
But he looked upon it as utterly hopeless to go on.
Mr. AMPSINK said he did not think the Cha;rmen
could put the resolution.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and cla-
mour.) Nu Company could be dissolved unless by the
consent of ail the partners, or unless Chancery com-
pelled it.
A SHAREHOLDER would like to have the opinion of
the solicitor now behind the chair upon this question,
for this was a Company held together by no other deed,
or act, or band than the prospectus he now held in his
hand.

The CHAIRMAN said the directors had foreseen the
necessity Of adopting the course, and they had taken an

No. I.—Extract from the Medical Report on Capt. Jam
Ryder Burton, R.N., dated November 24, 1843.—Captain
Burton was won .tied by a ball in the left hip, which has not
been extracted, and is still lodged in the bone, which is
greatly diseased. The wound has never healed; repeated
extbliations of bone have taken place, with a conetant die
charge, the whole producing great personal suffering and in-
jury to his general health;; and havi..g also bad the ankle of
6.1 d-piece passing over
the same side severely
it; this injury, on the wound of the hip becoming Inflamed,
sympathises with the other wound, and adds greatly to hie
distress. The hip wound still remains open, with great dis-
charge.. Captain Burton is much emaciated, and his cons"
tenance is indicative of great personal suffering, and there IS
no doubt that the wound has been, in its consequences to
bodily health, very far more than could have arisen from the
loss of a limb.

opinion.
The SOLICITOR then read-the opinions of Messrs.
Turner, \Vigram, and Palmer, upon the case submitted
to them, and which was a very lengthened document ;
the opinions were to the effect that the Company could
not be dissolved without the consent of all the share-
holders ; and that if the directors did dissolve the Com-
pany, they would be liable, not only to the dissentient
shareholders for the whole amount of their deposits, but
also, perhaps, an action for breach of contract.
Mr. LAMERT said he had t tken an opinion also. He
contended that all the shares had not been paid for at
the time of the agreement :llama the 12,000/., and the
prospectus did not state that fact at all.
The SOLICITOR said that all the shares had been
allotted at the time, which was the same thing. -
Here the proceedings became exceedingly boistereus
and irregular, and cries of (" Decide," and " put law
against law,") arose from different parts of the room,
which was crowded to excess.
The opinion Mr. Lamert had taken was then read ;
it was from Mr. Chambers, who was of opinion that the
withholding of the fact as-to the 12.00eL from the pro •
sp. ctus, would be a sufficient ground for him to seek to
recover his deposits.
Mr. LAMERT asked if an instance could be named in
which the Belgian Government, failing to ratify an
undertaking. refunded the 30,000/. dep :sited?
Mr. AMPSINK said he know of several, but that the
Belgian Government never promised without intending
to perform.
Mr. LAMERT begged of the Chairman to put his re-
solution.
The CHAIRMAN said he could not do so, and then pro-
ceeded to speak of the many advantages the line pos-
sessed, and said it would be impossible that it could have
any line competing with it.
The meeting shortly after separated, having come to
no determination; but the understanding appeared to be
that the work should go on, as there appeared to be no
legal mode of dissolving the Company.

LONDON and COUNTY ECONOMIC
INVESTMENT AND FAMILY ENDOWMENT

ASSOCIATION.

No. 2. Extract from the Medical Report on Captain Wile
Liam Alexander Willis, R.N., dated 23d January, 1845-'
Captain Willis, lately in command of her Majesty's slot?
Frolic, who, while on duty on shore near the city of SatitoS,
in the Brazils, we.s, on the sth .January, 1844, en returning
to his ship, attacked by a party of ruffians (supposed to halo
belonged to a slave vessel lately captured by the Frolic) add
beaten with bludgeons in a most shocking and, inurderon9
manner, fracturing his skull and the fore-arm of the left si6ot
and also inflicting four other severe wounds on differeq
parts of his head. He was also dreadfully bruised in severs'
parts of the body by blows inflicted by the bludgeotls
alluded to; but there was one of a more severe and delti
gerous nature in the immediate neighbourhood of the spit°
column. The consequence of these severe and numarct',"
wounds has been a confinement of nearly thirteen weeks ;It
bed on shore, attended with great p and considerable
fever. His constitution. has suffered most severely fro.t
these severe injuries, and he is frequently attacked by a
distressing pain in the neighbourhood of the fractured skt,"
incapacitating him from any exertion at the time, and re tr
dering him liable to an attack of inflammation of the inel°'
branes of the brain from very trivial causes, and putting hj.,
...,""
therefore, in constant hazard of his life. The vision is lc;
paired, the free use of both arms diminished, and the coor
mend of his urinary organs is less in his power than ball
the wounds were received. He complains also of debit.li4
and palpitation of the heart. The injuries received in tvd
case are more detrimental to the constitution than the lost'
a limb.
No. 3.—Extract from the Medical Report on Comma (OA
Henry Chads, dated Feb. 20, 1845. Commander Clt,',o
when serving as first lieutenant of the Harlequin, in -0
attack upon Pirates at Merdoo, in the Island of Sumatra, °,4
the lath February, 1844, received two severe and dangeo
sabre wounds; the first divided the whole of the flexor Vetiiii;
dons, arteries, and ligaments, at the left wrist, leaving "
hand attached to the fore-arm only by the extensor tentt,`",
ligaments, &e., on the back Of the band. The second Nc.na 1
0
deep wound, seven inches in length, in the left side, divi",l
several of the muscles, laying bare, as the surgeon of 'a
Hyacinth states, the angles of the 7th and Bth ribs, alio
wounding the periosteum covering them. The wounds t tip
been healed some time, but the left hand is irretriev-jVii
disabled, and they are equally prejudicial to bodily extie'l
with the loss of a limb. jet
No. 4.—Extract from the Medical Report on Comm fin iet
R. J. W. Dunlop, dated 18th May, 1842. Comm :o'oo
Dunlop, while lieutenant of-the Favorite, at Tingaraboo,
the 24th June, 1840, while serving on shore in an ittoy,
upon one of the native forts in that island, was struck 11_4,
musket-ball, which entered immediately under the kneci4;.,
and passing over the front of the tibia in an oblique
tion, without apparently injuring the bone, made its 004
about three inches lower down. The wound itself %Tag ",
of great magnitude, but the consequences were severe 1,4
serious spasmodic affection took place in the limb, atteo
at one period with symptoms of lock-jaw, and produiti,
contraction of the muscles of the leg and foot, and 1; 01
mutely wasting of the limb and a permanent contraction
o
the muscles and tendons of the posterior part of the 01
which does not allow the heel to reach the ground by al)?
four incises, the whole weight of the body, when this 1 cc,
used, being thrown on the toes. Commander Dunlop
_h'io
wise mentions that he is still subject to spasmodic attack,: d
particular states of weather. On a careful considered° ,
the circumstances of this case it would appear that the
jury is fully equal to the loss of a limb. sot
No. s.—Extract from the Medical Report on Lieuten
Walter Kendall, dated 22d of February, 1842.—Lieutegi0
Kendall, of her Majesty's ship Nimrod, was wounded i!t
attack upon the city of Canton on May 25, which occas!,7o,
the immediate amputation of his right leg above the !Tot
No. G.—Extract from Medical Report ripen
Augustus C. Murray, dated Bth of June, 1845.
Murray, when a mate of the Dolphin, in boarding a Braz..t:vig
slave brigantine, on the 30th of May, 1841, received
of a musket, which fractured the left clavicle, and conifole
the surrounding parts greatly. There is also on the, !'et
side a most severe sabre wound of the wrist, immedry
below where the bones of the arm are united to those to_`. to
ing the wrist, which hed completely laid the joint ndlefoor
—Lietite..4lo
an extent of more than two inches, by which the e%';
tendons were cut across, and he was thus deprived
use of the left hand, except in a very limited degte
wound in question is equal in its consequences to the 100 d
a limb. 0011
No. 7.—Extract from the Medical Report upon Lietate_roat
Lsvis Roper Fitzmaurice, dated Oct. 5, 1844.—Lieut:rie
Fitzmaurice, when serving as mate of her MajestY'os_.telf
ing vessel Beagle, and being detached in a beat to the ery lOC
chore in the Gulf of Carpentaria. at a distance of neer Loot'
miles from the ship, was wounded, on the 9th of iSrsetti
1841, by the accidental explosion of a musket whiecto.o
carried by one of the officers under his orders. Til,e.he es'
entered the left ankle joint, shattered the bones, and 'pears
ternal wound has not yet healed. The ankle jointl'otse3l.
to be ankylosed, the bones are much enlarged and dl'
,s
an-I the wound is in its effects fully equal to the for
a limb.
4- .lellll
No. B.—Extract from the Medical Report upon Ir't r'
Davies, Master, dated April 20, 1841.—1 t appears tbat'vtOB
Davies is afflicted with a double rupture, proved, i,.:loeitle
papers and certiiicatee (herewith returned)* as well L'aod
statement, to have been occasioned by the service,
ositjok:,
latter rupture while assisting in placing his ship in fed 3.;
before St. Jean d'Acre. In the action which succee;',oo.o;
Davies was slightly wounded, by a portion of a shelii..`a,
diately above the os pubis, and. exactly in a line
strap of the truss, adding considerably to the incons,,,,lll"
of the ruptures. The double rupture, quite indepeneion.ei
the subsequent wound, is fully equal to the loss of a recerco
* Note.—Those a,ainst witom an asterisk is placed have,o Tr
compensation for loss of clothes. (A compensation of 801' "oar
paid to the mother of Mr. J. R. Hallett, late paymaster and P vt
the Eclair.)
t Mr. Robert Bernard was promoted to the rank of snrge°''' 001
respect to his deceased relative, air. Sidney Bernard.

A public meeting of this Association was held in the
theatre of the Western Literary Institution, Leicester-
square, on Tuesday evening.
FRANCIS W. WALESBY, Esq., took the chair a few
minutes after eight o'clock, and proceeded to explain the
nature and objects of the Association. He gave the
meeting to understand that it was a building socie y,
founded under the Act 5 and 6 Wm. IV., on the model.
of the 'Liverpool Barrow Building Society, to enable
mechanics, on terms level to their circumstances, to be-
come possessed of property in houses. He said the As-
sociation had existed for only two months, their first
public meeting hating been held a fortnight ego in Pen-
tonville. They had resolved on holding another public
meeting that evening, in order to make their' ex-
istence and their objects more widely known. After ad-
dressing the meeting: on the nature and well-founded
advantages of the Society generally, and having stated
that the Committee received no salary, and that the
Secretary was remueerated only in proportion to his see.
vices, he called on
The SECRETARY, who stated that the maximum num-
ber of shares originally offered by the Society was 500,
and that 300 of these had been taken up during the last
fortnight. He then read a detailed pro.ipl•ctus, from
which the following extract will serve to show what the
objects and principles of the Society are:
Each shareholder contributes 10s. 6d. per month, or 31s. 6d:
per quarter per share (and if he has a loan from the Associa-
tion, an additional 35., by way of redemption money). to the
general fend, a ntil by such subscriptions, with the profits de-
rived fruin p mitt as, fines, and other incidental sources, each
share shall 1 aye realised the value of 1201., which it is an-
ticipated v ill be fu ten year- from the commeecement, when
the Ass( iatio will be dissolved. If, however, the. Associ-
ation 81, as prosperous
,as is anticipated (which, of
course, mai ~y depends upon the exertions of the members),
the dist olu ion will take place at an earlier period.
To explain more fully and practically the beneficial and
profitable working of the Association, suppose, for example,
a shareholder is desirous to purchase the lease of the house
in which he resides, for which he is pa) ing a rent of 30/. per
annum ground-rent is 5/. per annum, and the purchase-
money:9ol. : the party has one share, and applies to the As-
scciaticnt for an advance upon that and three additional
shares..ef
The shafeholder will in ten years, at 10s. 6d. per
month; upon one share, have paid in 63/., but
which, with interest and accumulations, rill in
this Association: then realise him
In consideration of receiving his share imme-
diately, he is willing to allow a premium or de-
duction of

55 0 0

Leaving a sum to be paid to him of £tis 0 0
His four shares will then produce him immediately 2601.,
being the sum above required.
On each of the four shares he will have to pay
10s. Gd. per month, in all
With redemption money, 3s. per month

Making a total monthly payment of
The following statement will serve as an example to prove
that the borrower derives more advantage by means of this
Association (besides the convenience of repayment by easy
instalments), than by obtaining a loan in the ordinary way,
and paying 51. per cent. for the same.
The value of a share will be
Discount for present cash

INSTITUTION OF CIVIL

NEERS.
prbecJrtoSiindß etohnnen i
TeN,rucP.el
osrlait3cl,e nt, in the Ch tti r tit°
Tuesday was an essay
by Bodies moving in
Ina. C. E. Auniddst,h,eb3,lrt
j.e.simst.aim;
author introduced his subjrct demon fto
-oe
scientific interest, and eu!ogisieg the eff°rt%ti 4 :I
:fnreonnit who have
that t
,danveeep
department
eung
th brought
ye :I 7: to.
im:(llplenleSicla,ndtsii recent experiments of PA' eof lb
Newtono
, „phY'd
poufblicshiveitdl
Einngitnheeers";TranannadctioSt.‘,reristicoriiii
illustriouscthG:\ißhto'bearfi'srs:u'Tr..
Institutioneasdhlhnetateeje i
gis:ng for his apparent presumption in e'tc,ebe
to add anything to a subject already so ret
investigated, he proceeded to observe that, e-ralo 0
exception of the above-named researches t" 1.4005.
and Macneill upon canal boats, all "Pe esi°4 f
have been made on bodies of too small ,ee
The communication then noticed the i:rrri,`:esce,
the properties of larger vessels being more clearserviPe°
tained, and gave a formula for doing this, bi
the diminution of the velocity ot bodies, in a it e'ecl,e
when the motive power was withdrawn ; by tb*:ed elf"
be ascert tined whether any deficiency in lor of
from a defect in the construction ot the vest" 00
propelling machinery. sel
ye.,
The following example was given t",' its v'scl
been subjected to the action of a force equal .to s seett.,,e
weight, the amount of velocity destroyed,. it.'l.l,e, as f'ls
would have begin 32 feet per second ; the-et"Aocitf
distance of 32 feet is to the observed less of veyessel
feet per second, so is th,, whole weight of the this
shown by its deplacemcnt, v(11 to the force by 'cud resTtf
of velocity has been produced, that is, the hates yeloc
ante of the water and air, corresponding to
i(l°
•
in question. this Fes
The method for ascertaing experimentally ssehss„ij
was thus described. To the bowsprit of the Vu 51:0',4,
ciently a-head to be out of the disturbed watTe'nder r°,l‘
iron bracket shoulsi be attached, to suspend a rd;
dipping at it its lower extremity into the wate"
by which it hangs being a few inches below Its u,aPr,phr'ct
upon the lower end, beneath the water, is a M' oviet
and to the upper end is attached a small cord, coo aril,
with a rectangular bent lever, the hor101), $o
of which works against a graduated areverticle
vi,lecl, that when the slender rod is hangiegvro oe nE
the ship being at rest, it should be opposite %.r.re, be 4
arc. When the ship is in motion, the g',,.7.0(1 fr,veh
iso'f the c‘ ,40
acted upon by the reAistance of the water.
the perpendicular inwards towards the bow 4
the bent lever is drawn upwards by the corLel'avatec iti
Tre
on ttle arc the amount or force exerted;
_erw_rtalnifiy
the variation of this in given times and tit
_y:seciuc
cumstances, the diminution of velocity anti c"ned.
meeting of Tuesday, March 24, 1346.: y_l'oc". DIA v.
the
Trheetafrodlilnogw
following
paperescan
wasbe efioni.nuorantneci
cydasteoe;.ribesdo_
of tho river Severn, by William Partas,As''
•

£65 0 0
Ten years' interest on ditto at five per cent.

£97 10- 0

Yearly payment on one share 103. 6d., } 8 2 0
and 3s. per month
Multiplied by ten rear lO-81 0 0

Balanc? in favour of the borrower on one share... £l6 10 0
the prospectus having been read, the St licitvr of the
Association explained the nature of the rules, and
answered several questions put by gentlemen in the
meeting.
It was then moved and carried unanimously, that this
meeting approves of the principles of this AsEociation,
highly satisfied with the explanations which have been
afforded this evening ; and th, meeting. adjourned.

MADAME PASTA.--This celebrated singer has just lost
her husband, from whom she had been separated, and w4O was
allowed by her an income of NO/. per alum.