The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

No. 16,755. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING SU N,

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, TRAFAL-
GAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is now OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling.
Catalogue, One Shilling.
HENRY HOWARD, R.A., Sec.

ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY,
REGENT'S PARK.
The SECOND EXHIBITION, this Season, of PLANTS and
FLOWERS in the Gardens of this Society, will be held To-Moanow,
WEDNESDAY, the 3rd instant.
In the course of the day the three Military Bands will join and
perform the following Overtures :—" Yelva," by Reisiger ; " Der
Freyschutz," by Weber ; and " Don Giovanni," by Mozart.
Subscribers to the Society are admitted free.
Visitors arc admitted by Tickets, to be obtained at the Gardens,
only by orders from Subscribers, price 7s. 6d. each.
Promenades will continue to be held every Wednesday In June
and July, except June 3 and July 1, the days appointed for the
Exhibitions.

Gates to open at Two o'clock. Carriages to fall into the line in
. the road from Pa (-square over the Bridge in the road facing York
Gate ; to set down either at the Front Gate, or at the New North
Entrance communicating with the Conservatory.

J. DE C. SONkRBY, Secretary.

WHITSUN HOLIDAYS.
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Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

MESSRS. WICKHAM and CO.'s PUBLIC
SALES of RAILWAY SHARES, &c., are held at the Hall
of Commerce. Threadneedle-street, EVERY MONDAY and
THURSDAYS, at One o'clock.

Orders received until Four o'clock of the day previous to.each sale.
Loudon, 1846.

I IERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, and
WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING
of the HOLDERS of SCRIP, or of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for
such, in this Company, will be held in the house of Mr. Thomas
Masters, commonly called the Talbot Arms Inn, Rugelcy, in the
county of Stafford, on SATraDAY, the 6th day of June next, at
Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon, for the purpose of having submitted
to them a copy of the Bill now pending in Parliament to authorise
the construction of a railway, to be called the " Derbyshire, Stafford-
shire, and Worcestershire Junction Railway," and for approving the
same, or otherwise.
Dated this 26th day of May, 1846.

R. S. MACKENZIE, Secretary.
1, Moorgate, London.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.
The Committee of Management have great pleasure in re-
ferring the Shareholders to the Report of the Committee of the House
of Commons, unanimously deciding that the preamble of the Leices-
ter and Bedford Railway Bill has been satisfactorily established
before them.

The Committee of the House of Commons arrived at this unani-
mous decision after an investigation of nearly three weeks, during
which period every effort was made by the Midland Company to
procure the rejection of the Leicester and Bedford in favour of their
own scheme—the South Midland.

The very strenuous and protracted endeavours of the Midland
Company to obtain a line of railway over the same ground as that
occupied by the Leicester and Bedtord Company, afford most satis-
factory proof of the commercial importance of the line, and its value
as a permanent investment to the Shareholders.

The Committee of Management have also the pleasure to inform
the Shareholders, that they are in a position to comply with the
Standing Orders of the House of Lords requiring a deposit of 10/. per
cent., without making any further call upon the Shareholders.
The Committee of Management beg to call the attention of the
Scripholders to the subjoined notice of the meeting to be held on the
10th of June next, in compliance with the Sessional Orders.
WYNN ELLIS, Chairman.
ROBERT LINDSELL, Deputy-Chairman.
BAXTER, ROSE. and N RTON, 3, Park-street,
Westminster, one of the Solicitors to the Bill.
Offices of the Company, 14, Park-street, Westminster.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY
Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of the Sessional
Orders of the House of Commons, a Special Meeting of the Holders
of Scrip, and of Bankers' Receipts in this Company, will be held at
the London Tavern, in the City of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th
day of June, 1846, at One o'clock precisely, when a Copy of the Bill now
depending in Parliament, intituled a Bill for making a Railway from
or near the town of Hitchin, through Bedford to the Leicester and
Swannington Railway, to be called the "Leicester andßedford Rail-
way," will be submitted for the consideration of the meeting.
The Votes will be taken at the meeting according to the amount of
Scrip held by each person present, who will be required to produce
his Scrip, and to furnish a written memorandum of his name and
address, and the denoting numbers of the Scrip produced, before
being allowed to vote.

BAXTER, ROSE, and NORTON,
One of the Solicitors to the Bill.
_ _

V~v
3, Park-street, Westminster, --
N.B. Forms of proxy for Scriphelders, who may not be able to
attend the meeting, may be had on application to the Secretary, or to
J. W. Scott, Esq., 75, Old Broad-street.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that a SPECIAL GENERAL MEET-
ING of the PROPRIETORS of the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
will be held at the offices of the Company, at Paddington, in the
county of Middlesex, on TUESDAY, the 16th day of June, at One o'clock
precisely in the afternoon, when copies of the following Bills will be
submitted to the consideration of the meeting in compliance with the
standing Orders of the House of Lords :

" A Bill for making a Railway and other Works from Plymouth to
Falmouth and other places in the county of Cornwall, to be called
' The Cornwall Railway.' "
" A Bill to authorise certain alterations and extensions of the line
of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway."
" A Bill for making a Railway from Gloucester to the Monmouth
and Hereford Railway, and to the South Wales Railway at Awre, to
be called The Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway.' "
" A Bill for completing the Line of the S Vales Railway, apd
iloriTalthittkli,ffiNitrittettlffain IffeltMf*kuvreys-nt cbunt.ttan.
therewith."

A Bill for making a Railway from Worcester to-Perth Dynllaen,
in continuation of the Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolverhampton
Railway."
" A Bill to authorise certain alterations in the I ine of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and to amend the Act re-
lating thereto."

" A Bill for making a Railway from Birmingham to join the Lines
of the proposed Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton Railways, and to be called ' The Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction Railway.'"

" A Bill for making a Railway into Birmingham in extension of
the proposed Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway."
" A Bill for making a Railway to be called' The Exeter Great
Western Railway."'
" A Bill for authorising certain alterations in, and extensions, of the
line of the South Devon Railway, and the formation of Branches
therefrom to Tavistock, Brixham, Kingswear, and other places."
" A Bill to authorise an improvement of the line of the West
London Railway and the extension thereof to the River Thames."
" A Bill for making a Railway to connect the cities of Worcester
and Hereford, the town of Ross and city of Gloucester, to be called
The Worcester, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway:"
" A Bill for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway, at
Maidenhead, in Berkshire, to the town of High Wycombe, in the
county of Buckingham."
"A Bill for constructing a Pier at Portbury, in the county of
Somerset, and for making a Railway from the same to the city Of
Bristol, with a Branch Railway connected therewith."

" A Bill for making a Railway from the Great Western Railway at
West Drayton, to Uxbridge, in Middleqex."

" A Bill for Making a Riilway from the Great Western Railway at
Cheltenham, to join the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton
Railway, near Shipton-under-Wychwood, in the county of Oxford."
The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
Dated this 7th day of May, 1846.

C. RUSSELL, Chat man.

11-4ANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE NORTH
EASTERN RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that pursuant to the Sessional Orders o
the House of Parliament, a MEETING of the HOL'DERS of SCRIP
er of BANKERS' RECEIPTS for SCRIP of this COMPANY will be
held at the Devonshire Hotel, in Skipton, in the county of York, on
THURSDAY, the 4th day of June next, at Two o'clock in the Afternoon
precisely, at which Meeting a Copy of the Bill now before Parlia-
ment, and which has received the sanction of the Committee of the
House of Commons, intituled, " A Bill for making a Railway from
Skipton to the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, to be called ' The Wharf-
dale Railway,' " will be submitted to the consideration and approval
of the Holders of such Scrip and Bankers' Receipts. As it is essen-
tial that one-third of the capital proposed to be raised by the Bill
should be represented at the Meeting, all Holders of Scrip or of
Bankers' Receipts, as aforesaid, are particularly requested to attend
the same and produce their Scrip or Bankers' Receipts ; and in order
to facilitate the business of the Meeting, and for the purpose of having
their votes correctly recorded, they are particularly requested to
forward to the Secretary, with as little delay as passible, their names
and addresses, with the denoting numbers and amount of their scrip
or Bankers' Receipts, according to the accompanying forms. Tke
Holders of Scrip or Bankers' Receipts, who cannot attend the Meet-
ing, but may wish to record their votes in favour of the undertaking,
may effect that object by forwarding their Scrip or Bankers' Receipts
to some one of the under-mentioned gentlemen on or before Monday,
the Ist day of June next, who will return the same to them after the
Meeting, in such manner as they may direct :
Matthew Wilson, jun., Esq., Eshton Hall, near Skipton, Chairman.
Joseph St. John Yates, Esq., Manchester, Deputy Chairman.
Francis Billiam, Newall Hall, Otley.
James Foulds, Esq., Trawden House, near Colne.
Henry Alcock, Esq., Banker and Solicitor, Shipton.
The Craven Bank and its Branches at Settle, Heighley, Clitheroe,
Coine, Burnley, and Skipton.

Messrs. Barnard, Dimadale, and Co., Bankers, 50, Cornhill, London,
or to
Mr. Andrew Paton, Secretary, 31, Princess-street, Manchester.
A Receipt for the Scrip or Bankers' Receipts thus transmitted will
be duly forwarded, by the Secretary to the parties Beading the same,
by an early post.
After the Ist, and until the 3d day of June next, Scrip or Bankers'
Receipts can only be received by the Secretary, at 31, Princes-street,
Manchester, and then at the Meeting at the time and place above
mentioned.

MATTHEW WILSON, jun., Chairman.
Dated this 21st day of May, 1846.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIROMPANY E NORTH EASTERN RAIL-
WAY C.

I of
of Scrip (or Bankers' Receipts) for
undertaking numbered as follows :

am the holder
shares in this

No. of Shares.

Scrip for 1 share to
Scrip for 5 shares to
Scrip for 10 shares to
Scrip for 20 shares to

THE ANNUAL GRAND POLISH FANCY
or FULL DRESS BALL, in AID of the FUNDS of the
LITERARY ASSOCIATION of the FRIENDS of POLAND, will
take place at Willis's Rooms, on MoNDer, June 8. The vouchers to
be obtained from the Ladies Patronesses only, a list of whom may be
had at the Chambers of the Association, Sussex Chambers, 10, Duke-
street, St. James's-square ; and also at Willis's Rooms.

"S URLY HALL NIGHT."-GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.—There will be an EXTRA
TRAIN from Sluugh to Pach'ington, at Half-past Ten o'clock, ?.M.,
TituasrtaT, the 4th June.

By order of the Directors,
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary,

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tures, &c., at a valuation.
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THE CORN BILL.

having a great soldier in the Cabinet, and a Fie
We can never sufficiently appreciate the advantage? lodf
Marshal in the House of Lords. It immensely facili-
tates the .mechanical process of change. Nothing is so
desultory—so apt to clog its own movements—so blind
to its destiny—so apt to waste its resources—as a legis-
lative crowd. The moment they are frightened they
get into a heap, and begin to tread on one another 's
toes. They are too great for the drill.' For many more
important reasons, therefore, than that particularised by
the Roman Emperor, it is desirable that a Senate
should have one head. The Duke of Wellington supplies
in the Lords that important disideratum. After a due
m iamountshi
og
and
orde reconnoitering, teri n
preliminaries,feeling,
n matures
mishing, iaro-
in politic silence. Just on the eve of struggle he informs
his Generals what they must do. Aides-de-camp fly
with his orders. Chiefs listen te his instructions, No
matter how little the soldier, or the officer, or even the
commander of a division, knows of the general plan. It
is theirs to hear and obey. If the Peers threaten to be
rather too high and mighty,
or if they show indications
of jibbing, there is a reserve which will either supply
their places or push them on. The Brobdignag Duke
pulls out of his pocket fifty mannikin Peers, who count for
as much as the best for this kind of warfare. The affair
goes off with all the grace and composure of a parade. The
word of command is all that they wait for. Attention !
Right about ! And they all are converted by intuition,
and turned by instinct. The people are at the same time
edified by a revolution and entertained with a spectacle.
It is really quite a lesson—whether in the art military
or the art politic, is not at first discernible—to hear the
Duke addressing his comrades. " I beg leave," he says,
" to point out to your Lordships, that it is your duty to
consider well the consequences of any vote that you may
give upon this subject—to consider well the situation in
which you place this House." ,That is the sitiestimil9r
/ the Lords. There is a delightful, a scientific simplicity
in this way of putting the case. We do not find a word
here, or indeed in all the rest of the speech, in the
smallest degree allusive to the merits of the ques-
tion, or even to its subject. The Bill might be one
for swallowing Polk's insolence and giving up Ore-
gon, or the abolition of all duty on tobacco, or a
great central railway terminus in Waterloo-place,
or the confiscation of half the property of the Peers, for
anything that appears in the speech. The corn-laws are
as rigorously excluded from it as the Ten Command-
ments are from a schoolboy's theme. He gives the pure
mathematics of the question. " Consider well the
consequences." " Consider the situation in which you
place this House." His Grace adds an expression which
speaks the very soul of military discipline. No member
is to consult his own opinion, his own safety, or his own
reputation, but to identify himself with the House. A
soldier is a unit in the army, a Peer is a unit in the
Duke's branch of the Legislature. " Nay," he says, "it is
the duty of each to place himself in the situation of the House
before he determines to give his vote, and to consider
what would be, under all circumstances, the consequence
if the House were to follow the course he may be about
to do on this occasion." We beg most entirely to concur
in this advice, and entertain no doubt that it expresses
the true theory of a legislative vote, so far as regards
the duty of a member to put himself in the situation of
the House. There are Peers, we cannot help thinking,
who have consulted their party or their pique by giving
an adverse vote, though nothing would perplex them so
much as to find the Lords placed in collision with the
Commons and the people of England. Yet, as the Duke
puts it, it does rather merge the man in the army.
His Grace then reminds his bearers that he has once
before advised them to beat a retreat, and he implies
that they retreated with success. At any rate they
saved their lives and their coronets. Like the judicious
warrior in " Hudibras," they have lived to fight another
day, and, as in the former instance, to run away also.
The Duke encourages them to hope that a repetition
of this movement will be accompanied with equal ad-
vantage. This, in fact, is pretty nearly all that he has
to say. So he says it again :—" I beg of your Lordships
to look a little to the measure upon which you are about
to vote." This seems to promise a word or two on " the
merits." No such thing. The nature of the inspection
is explained by the rest of the sentence :—" and the
consequences likely to follow from a rejection of that
measure." The Lords are to lock at the measure a little,
and pass it, just as you make a shying horse look at a
wheelbarrow a little and pass it. The inspection is not
to be tediously long, or superfluously inquisitive.
But, on the principle, we suppose, that abundans can-
tela non nocet, the Duke repeats his warning for the
fifth or sixth time, without concerning himself much to
diversify the langnage : —"I ask your Lordships to look
at the manner in which this measure has come before
you, and consider what is likely to follow from your re-
jecting it." What those consequences will be he states
clearly enough, but we fancy we can just trace a little
tenderness and unsteadiness of touch when he comes to
describe the state of things which renders these conse-
quences inevitable. "My Lords, this measure was re-
commended by a speech from the Throne ;"—written,
his Grace might have added, " by my Right Honourable
Friend in the other H0u1e?”......" t passe el by a
sessesettsesse.ss-ssmse ot Commons. My _Noble krienu
has said in the course of this debate, this vote of the
House of Commons is inconsistent with the original
vote given by the House of Commons on this same
question, and inconsistent with the supposed views of
the constituents by whom they were elected. My Lords,
I do not think that is a subject which this House can
take into its consideration; for, first, we can have no
accurate knowledge of the fact; and, in the next place,
whether it was a fact or not, this, my Lords, we know—
that it is the House of Commons that has passed this
Bill. . . . That we know by the votes of the House
of Commons." Now, this is much ado about nothing, for
the purpose of disguising something. The Duke insists
on the measure being recommended by the Crown and
passed by the Commons ; both of which are by no means
extraordinary occurrences, and neither of which is
usually considered to bind the hands of the Lords. He
parades the " facts " of the case, the votes of the House
of Commons, and all that, and then pretends that the
Lords have nothing to do with the supposed views of the
constituency. Have they not ? On the contrary, in the
clear still depth of his Grace's own sound understanding
the views of the constituency—of the great and enlight-
enkl majority of the people—are the reason why his Grace
gives way, and recommends the same course to the Lords.
He knows that the people are not against, but for the
measure. He knows also, better than we could tell
him, that the formidable " consequences " which he
mentions a dozen times over, viz., the collision of the
two Houses, the introduction of another Bill, the forcible
passage of that other Bill through the Lords, and the
irremediable damage done thereby to the Upper House,
would not arise from the mere accident of a temporary
agreement between a speech from the Crown and a re-
corded vote to the House, but from the fact that that
speech and that vote were backed by an irresistible power
of public opinion and public determination. His Grace
contrives to elude this fact. The views of the constitu-
ency cannot be ascertained, he says, and whatever they
are to have nothing to do with them. He has more to
do with them than he chooses to confess. If there were
no other votes in the case than a Royal speech and a
vote of the Commons, he might safely recommend the
Lords to do what was right in their own eyes without
fear of the consequences.
His race's discussion of the " consequence" is so
thoroughly en militaire that it deserves at least a place
in his dispatches, whatever its propriety in his legisla-
tive compositions. " I beg to remind you, my Lords,
that you ought not to take a position on which you
cannot stand, on which you can do nothing." Most
excellent advice ! Would that it were more generally
followed. Nine-tenths of the follies and miseries that
surround us would have been avoided if people bad only
considered how they were to get out of the scrape before
they got into it. Will his Grace allow us to suggest a
trifling addition to this golden rule ?—viz., that you
ought not to make an advance in which you cannot
persevere, and every step of which you will have to re-
trace. The Duke, and his friend in the Commons, have now
for three or four times, completed very long, difficult,
costly, and fatal political marches, in spite of the re-
monstrances of the wisest advisers, with no other result
than an uncommonly quick and disastrous retreat.
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the confidence
Crown in
ask you to reflect what must be the immediate consequence
of your rejecting this Bill."
Now, we must say that we think the Lords do not owe
much to his Grace for the peculiar and very gratuitous
footing on which he has placed their acquiescence. He
has made it a mere capitulation for fear of " the conse-
quences." They might be supposed accessible to reason.
He has not vouchsafed them one argument about the
corn-laws. They might value his own opinion. He has
assigned no other ground for his own conversion than
the very irrelevant and dangerous one, that he was
bound to his Sovereigns by peculiar motives of gratitude,
which obliged him to do all the mischief that his Sove-
reigns, present or future, might possibly ask at his
hands. lie might have suggested to the Lords that there
was some authority in the voice of the people, that an
opinion advanced with so much force,eloquence, discretion,
and, above all, with so marvellous and noble a peace-
ableness, could not be far wrong. On the contrary, he
studiously blinked the people. He might have recom-
mended that modesty of thought which makes the
humble and the sensible distrust their own judgment
when they find themselves alone in their opinion, which
is the supposed foundation of that unanimity requirs d in
our juries, and without which society must soon be dis-
solved. He might have urged that the cause was not
sacred, that the sliding scale was not an article of f aith,
that in a matter of mere commercial opinion it was
right for comparatively uninformed men to submit to
sound practical authorities. For these and all other
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