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LONDON, TUESDAY. MARCH 31, 1846.

The Lords met at Five o'clock.

On the motion of Lord KINNAIRD, a select committee was
appointed to consider the subject of railway legislation gene-
rally, and their Lordships adjourned.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Mr. MILES M'DONNELL took the oaths and his seat for
Mayo.

Several Railway Bills were read a second time, and ordered
to be committed.

The Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Deviations
and Branches) ; the Brighton and Chichester Railway (Steyn-
ing Branch); and the South-Eastern Railway (from Tun-
bridge Wells to Hastings and Rye), were read a third time
and passed.
Sir R. PEEL gave notice of his intention on Thursday next
to move the thanks of the House to Sir H. SMITH and the
Commander-in-Chief for the late glorious victory in India.
Sir J. GRAHAM then moved that the orders of the day be
now read, for the purnose of postponing them, in order to
enable him to move the first reading of the Irish Life and
Property Protection Bill.
Sir W. Sommtvmme moved, as an amendment, that the
word " now " be left out. He objected to the first reading
of the Bill, as a measure containing enactments of the
greatest severity, and suspending, in fact, the con-
stitution of the country. It was idle to suppose
that a measure that made it transportation to
be out after dark in Ireland would stay the arm of the mur-
derer. The measure had been adverted to in her MAJESTY'S
Speech from the throne, it had progressed but slowly in the
Lords, and now, on the 30th of March, they were called
upon to read the Bill a first time. The
Irish Members felt called upon to oppose the
proposal of the Right Honourable Baronet. He was sure it
was the best for all parties that the first reading of the Bill
should be postponed. It was best for the Government, be
cause in the mean time they might lay their other
Irish Bills before the House, which he had no
doubt would prove that it was the intention
of the Government, not only to punish the evil-
doers, but to reward and encourage their industrious fel-
low sub,;ects in Ireland. He moved that the motion of the
Right Hon. Baronet should be negatived.
Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN seconded the amendment, which he
trusted would be acceded to by her Majesty's Government,
because ha could assure them they were now about to enter
into a controversy that would last ler months, and
one that the Irish Member were not desirous to enter into.
Sir' J. GRALLAX said that it was now the opinion of her

Majesty's Government that the time had arrived when the
measure should be submitted to the consideration of the
House of Commons. It was perfectly competent to the
House, if it thought fit, to throw out the measure on
its first reading;; and should it think proper to do so, it was
the duty of the Government to bow to its Cecision. He was
aware of the importance of the corn-law measure, and no
exertions would be wanting on the part of the Government
for its final adoptio,
but still he attached great import-
ance to the fact• of the opinion of the House of Commons
being taken in this measure. He could assure the House the
Government were sincere in bringing this measure forward
in their desire to protect, life and property in Ireland, and it
they did not succeed in perivading the House to read that
Bill a first time at the present moment, that sincerity might
be doubted. If they would allow him to go Into the merits
of the case, he had no doubt of convincing the House of the
necessity of t he measure.

Mr. SHAW would not oppose the proposition of the Govern-
ment, although he was not very sanguine of the success of the
measure: The Rif,ht Hon. Gentleman then proceeded
at some length to answer the attack made upon him
on Friday by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and solemnly averred that.
in all the communications be had had with the Members of
the Government, lie was actuated by no selfish motives, and
had no wish for any office except that which
he held, which was enough for him, his bread,
and his independency. He believed that the Go-
vernment was a falling Government, that the Right Hon.
Baronet at the head of the Home department was the evil
vilius that caused that fall, and that no Government could
exist with such a Member in it, He entertained the sin-
cerest respect for the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the
Government, and was sincerely sorry that he had been caught
in the net of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the
Home Departmen', for whom he entertained a feeling that,
out of respect to the House, he would not mention.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM thought he was perfectly justified in
the course be had pursued towards the Right for. Gentle-
man. He had refused to give his sanction, ac a Minister, to
a proposition to pay the Recorder of Dublin a salary o:
3,000/. a- year out of the Consolidated Fund, with a retiring
pension to the present possessor of the office; and no doubt
that had been the chief cause of the vituperations of the
Right Hon. Gentleman.
Lord G. BENTINCK supported the proposition of the Go-
vernment. _ _ _

Sir G. GREY thought that the Corn-law Importation Bill
ought to be proceeded with by the House before any other
nv-asure. _ _

Mr. 11. GR.Arnue supported the motion of the Hon. Mem-
ber for Drogheda. If the Irish country gentlemen did their
deity, there would be no necessity for the Bill.
Mr. S. HERBERT trusted that the House would not adopt
the motion of the Hon. Member for Drogheda.
Lord J. RUSSEEL thought with his lion. Friend the Mem-
be r for Devonport that the Corn Bill ought to be dis-
posed of before any other measure was proceeded with. He
hoped the House would assent to the motion of his Hon.
Friend the Member for Drogheda.
Sir R. PEEL, did not expect to have heard any state-
ment made casting a doubt en the sincerity of the Govern-
ment with respect to the Corn Bill. They had been told
that they would be met with every species of delay to the
IL ish Bill; that might be so, but it was the duty of the Go-
vernment not to permit such menaces to vary their course;
they would not be intimidated by such threats; they would
pursue the plan they had laid down, and if the House did
ri.iot adopt it, the House would take upon itself the responsibi-
lity, and remove it from her MAJESTY'S Ministers.
Sir R. H. INGsas supported the proposition of the Go-
vernment.

Lord WORST.EY supported the amendment.
Col. RAWDON opposed the motion.
Mr. J. O'CoNwELL supported the amendment.
Mr. COBDEN also suported the amendment, and regretted
lie course the Government had chosen to adopt.
_ _

The House then divided, and the proposition of the Go-
vernment was carried by a majority of 39 ; there being for
it, 147, and against it 108.
Sir JAMES GRATIAM then at considerable length moved the
i!rst reading of the Bill, entering minutely into the reasons
that had induced the Government to propose the measure.
At the consent of Sir R. PEEL, the debate was adjourned
to this day.
The orders of the day being disposed of, the House ad-
journed at a Quarter past Twelve.

Looking to the necessity that exists for Parliament
legislating with promptitude to meet the different ills
I bat at present affect the common weal—some springing
I.rom bad laws, others from the visitations of PROVIDENCE
—the vastness of the various subjects that have, there-
fore, been already brought under the consideration of the
Senate, and looking, also, to what is even still more
desirable, that as soon as we shall have adopted the
-valuable provisions now before the Legislature, for
'checking and mitigating the sad effects of a stunted and
abortive commercial code on the one hand, and of im
perfect legislation for Ireland en the other, our law
givers should be readily addressing themselves to the
important task of eradicating, by well-considered mea-
sures, the causes to which such infelicitous consequences
may be severally attributed,—we grudge every hour
uselessly or injudiciously wasted within the walls of
St. Stephen's. It is with great regret, therefore, we-per-
ceive that Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE hasgiven notice that
he will move an Amendment against the first reading of
the Bill for the Protection of Life in Ireland, sent down
to the House of Commons from the Lords The first
result of this will be tp prevent the Corn Bill from
being read a third time until after Easter ; and any
delay thrown in the way of passing that measure of
vital importance Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE must him-
self well know will be of the most serious detriment to
the mercantile and other interests of the country. The
next is, that the time the discussion will consume, will
so far, if not altogether, prevent the Ministry from
effectuating the measures of primary urgency in suffi
cient time so as to enable them to carry, during the pre-
sent session, any others that might be instrumental in
placing Ireland under a system of government far more
salutary than any she has hitherto enjoyed. Again, it
is unusual to raise the chief discussion upon the first
reading of a Bill which has received the sanction of one
branch of the Legislature, except where it happens to
be one quite novel in its nature, and likewise produc-
tive of some extraordinary ,change in the work-
ing of our Constitution. The usual custom was,
therefore, derarted from in questions of such extraordi-
nary magnitude as the Catholic Relief Bill, the Reform
Bill (although just and equitable in themselves), and
others of similar import. On the other hand, the ordinary
rule is observed avowedly upon the principle, that the
second reading and subsequent stages of a Bill afford
ample scope fcr a full discussion of any measure, before
it can receive the ultimate assent of either House of
Parliament. Unfortunately, too, a Bill for the preven
tion of murder in Ireland has nothing of novelty in it,
the present century having too frequently witnessed
similar enactments under the recommendation of Govern
inents, Whig as well as Tory. It is a measure, too,
which has n, vcr lasted long, Parliament ever rejoicing
to limit its duration to the shortest possible period con-
sistently with the painful necessity by which it was
evoked. Again, before giving the notice to which we have
alluded, and which must ental the pernicious const quences
to which we have adverted, Sir WILLIAM Soisteevieax
ought to have recollected, that Ireland has (although ma
fortunately not so numerous as we could wish) many
warm and sympathising friends in the House of Peers,
men of vast acuteness, and who, unless they had felt
themselves overwhelmed by the awful exposition of the
state of society in that country by the Earl of ST
GERMANS, would have been prompt to rise, and elo-
quently denounce the proposition for clothing the
Government with the extraordinary power demanded.
The statement, however, remains unimpeached ; and,
indeed, it may be said, that every day's intelligence from
Ireland confirms its truthfulness. Lord Aleanotrams,
to whose administration the people of Ireland will ever
recur with grateful sentiments, has recently declared
that he considers the Ministerial measure, as not only
being imperitively called for, but as having been too
long delaye I. Earl GREY, moreover, to whose speech
the Irish may refer with thankfulness, did not at •
tempt to question the necessity of some such
measure, although he sought, and not unsuccessfully, to
mitigate the severity of some of its provisions. For
these reasons we lament that Sir WILLIAM SOMER-
VILLE. has departed from the usual course. No greater
misfortune could possibly occur to Ireland, than that she
should find herself deprived of men of rank and pro-
perty, which must inevitably be the case should the ex-
isting outrages continue unstayed. The assassinations
are confined to men of no particular party, or political
opinions—the man of integrity and benevolence falls
equally the victim with the man of the most opposite
character. To such a pitch has this fearful lawless: ess
arisen, that darkness is no longer required as a special veil
for the assassin—his daring acts are perpetrated with
fancied, nay, in too many instances, with real impunity,
in broad daylight. Ireland requires the influx of capital
and a good resident gentry; but, unless these harrowing
practices are vigorously put down, we shall look in vain,
for her either receiving the one, or benefiting by the
other. Lot it not be supposed, however, that we are ad-
vocates fur the entire measure, as it has come from the
Lords. No, on the contrary, we feel that it is sus-
ceptible of many and valuable corrections, that the
stringency of some of its provisions may be mitigated,
without depriving it of its efficiency. But, so long as
some such measure is imperatively demanded, we depre-
cate the loss ultimo which must necessarily be incurred,
should any prolonged discussion take place on its first
introduction.

The calm tone which pervades the Paris journals, even
the most violent of them, when reference is made to
England, form a striking contrast to that exhibited some
few years since. Till about two sessions ago from the
time of the Syrian expedition, the most violent animosity
was displayed by the Opposition, both in the Chambers
and in newspapers, against everything English. Never
was any interesting debate got up in the Chambers
without the encroachments of the English, their selfish-
ness, their tyranny on the seas, and the humiliation of
France forming the principal themes for the displays of
the BAIIROTS, and BILLAULTS, and MAUGUINS ; the
English Cabinet had everything its own way, the entente
cordiale was a mockery and an insult, GUIZOT was
the Minister of the " Foreigner," the affair of
PRITCHARD was magnified into a great national ,
ance, a just cause of war, and the Marquesas and Ota-
heite Islands were considered of infinitely more im-

portance than were in by-gone days the whole of the
French settlements in India, or the valuable possessions
in Canada. A small spark would have been sufficient at
the time to have roused all the violence of ancient anti-
pathies, and thrown the whole of France into a con•
flagration. A most perceptible change has gradually
taken place without concessions on either side, and
affairs in which tbe two countries are deeply
interested may be discussed without national
prejudices, and with a moderation becoming
two powerful nations. A remarkable instance occurred
last week in the Chamber of Deputies, when the Chan-
nel Fisheries Bill was under consideration. The Mem-
bers conversed on the subject, and debated on the
different clauses, like a body of legislators, and not, as
in former instances, like a mob ; they seemed anxious
to obtain what they considered the rights of the French
fishermen, without materially interfering with those
which pertained to the same class in England, and a
Bill, on the whole satisfactory—as far as our knowledge
of the subject enables us to judge—was adopted by a
large majority. Even the remarks in the most violent
Opposition journals are extremely moderate, and only
go so far as to assert that France has hardly obtained
her just claims. The Courrier Francais, usually most
hostile to England, has treated the subject with the
utmost good humour, in an article which deserves
praise as much for its peaceful tone as for its wit and
originality. A brief extract will enable the reader to
judge :

" Between France and England is a vast sheet of wafer
forming the abode of innumerable swarms of fish, which
are brought to our tables not only for the gratification of our
palates but for the support of our existence. This rich prey
has been disputed by the ichthyophagi of the two nations.
Hence have arisen conflicts, warm and acrimonious crimi-
nations and recriminations. and earnest and loud applica-
tions to the two Governments to obtain justice for these
irritable and sometimes bellicose appetites. Under such
embarrassments, what can our diplomatists do ? The fish
prefer the coasts of England. There they may bask in the
revivifying rays of the sun, or gambol in peace, sheltered in
calm bays, protected by stern ramparts formed of capes and
promontories. Oys;:ers, on the contrary, armed with their
shelly panoply, remain faithful to the shores of France, and
particularly delight in the Bay of Granville. the bed of which
is paved with them. Seeing this, the English diplomatists
have prcposed to the French negotiators to trace a line
drawn at the distance of a marine league from each coast,
reserving the spaces between the two lines and the ,Lures re-
spectively to each nation, thus leaving to us our oysters, and
to the English all the rest of the fish of the sea—leaving us,
in short, the means of sharpening our appetites, while cur
neighbours over the water are left more than enough to fill
their capacious stomachs. We are invited to grant what is
called an act of courtesy, but which we should rather term an
act of abnegation. This is what the amiable Marshal Soult
eagerly did in 1839."

We congratulate our neigbours on the other side of
the channel on this altered tone, and confidently hope
that they will ih time see it is infinitely better to settle
disputes in this way than by appealing to muskets
and cannons, and throwing the whole world into con-
fusion about a matter which tad() reasonable men
could adjust in a few days or a few hours, without pre-
judice to the interests or the honour of either country.
In looking at this change the friends of peace cannot
fail to pay a high tribute of respect and gratitude to the
Foreign Ministers of England and France. By their
moderation, their love of tranquillity, and an almost
total absence of those national antipathies which have
caused the world so much suffering, Lord ABERDEEN
and M. GUIZOT have acquired a high title to the praise
of their countrymen. They have thereby paved the
way to a more rational system of settling differences for
the future, made the establishment of commercial rela-
tions more easy, and rendered England and France the
arbiters of Europe.

At the risk of repetition, we should feel compelled
from a sheer sense of honesty, supposing our own indi-
vidual sympathies were not implicated in the matter, to
persist in our strictures upon the deplorable condition of
Ireland, and the moral necessity there is for some alle-
viation to its inhabitants. Nothing can divert our atten-
tion from the dire visitations of one kind or another
now rife in the social atmosphere of that unfortunate
island—the effects of those visitations being famine,
contagion, murder, and general insubordination;
the cause of all being solitary but grievous.
We mean a long political mismanagement.
And this is no mere hypothesis; it is a truth sanc-
tiened by the acquiescence of a vast majority both of
the Legislature and the people. One single para-
graph in the Royal Speech delivered by our Gracious
SOVEREIGN at the opening of the present session would
alone be a sufficient demonstration of this fact. So also
would the promised motion of the Noble Lord the
Member for the city of London, or the petition
introduced the other evening by Earl GREY, or
the Coercion Bill itself. Each of these, individually,
and all of them collectively, prove beyond the shadow
of a shade of a question that the present miseries
with which the Irish population are now overwhelmed
are alone removeable or eradicable through some veri-
table political interference. Government has ineeed
recognised this truth, and the Executive has taken such
measures for the decrease of starvation and disease as
were consonant with its capacity for independent move-
ment. One hundred thousand pounds have been already
expended in the purchase of provisions: 26,000 quarters
of Indian corn, and 24,000 barrels of corn
meal have been imported at the instance of Govern-
ment, and such other arrangements as appeared
compatible with the exigencies of the time, and the dis-
position of the multitude—such, for example, as fever
Bills, and alterations in the deep-sea fisheries, and the
impulse given to railway business—have been sedulously
attended to by the Ministerial authorities. Yet, not-
withstanding all these laudable exertions, there is a fear-
ful accumulation of evils still untouched, and increasing
both in extent and intensity. The Executive department
of the Legislature has acted, within the last few months,
with the most praiseworthy regard for the welfare of the
Irish, still their task is very far from being completed ; their
duties are still onerous. According eves to the report
officially published, 250,000 quarters of Indian corn
were estimated as the quantity alone capable of sup-
plying the deficiency of human food even at the
smallest computation. Of these two hundred and fifty
thousand quarters, scarcely more than one-fifth has been
introduced into Ireland! Two hundred thousand quar-
ters are even at this moment req'iired to make up
the original estimate. From the Premier's own
statement it appears that 100,0001. have been
already expended in the purchase of that
article, namely, in the purchase of one-fifth. Con-
sequently, to make up the deficiency, an additional out-
lay of no less than 400,0001. would be necessary. Nor
is this all. The concomitants of the evil aro numerous
and terrible. They are deepening and enlarging on all
hands with frightful rapidity. The condition of the
destitute is becoming each day and almost every succes
sive hour more heartrending to hear of—how much more
so to behold ! From North Tipperary we receive
the intellig-nee that Roskiteisrn is still prevalent.
An racial response to the deputation from the city of
Limerick, which recently waited upon the Lord-
L'eutenant, has recognised the existence of " extreme
distress in that district." On Friday last, an assassina-
tion was attempted upon a coroner of Clare, at the
gate of Newboll, near Ennis. From the Enniskillen
papers of the preceding day, we likewise learn the de-
tection of a diabolical conspiracy for the murder of a
magistrate of Fermanagh, a Ribbon warranthaving been
discovered upon one of the parties implicated in the busi-
ness, together with "a gun charged with six inches of
powder and shot." Every supplementary account, in short,
from the sister island tends more and more to attest
her unsound and truly lamentable condition—every
fresh packet is else disclosure of some new and ulcerous
wound. Nevertb eless, there is one especial exposure of
a grievance so cruel, so siguificant, and so unparalleled,
as to demand some more particular allu-
sion. It is the eviction of tenantry from
the property of Newtown-Gerard—a case already
notorious from its frequent mention in the House of
Peers. The spectacle of desolation which presents
itself to the inquirer in that doomed neighbourhood is,
from the remarks transmitted by a reporter to Free-
man's Journal, dispatched thither for the purpose of
supervision, truly pitiable. Every habitation but one in
the village of Ballinglass, the scene of the visitation, is
not only rendered untenable by the destruction of the
thatched roofs, but the very walls are thoroughly
levelled with the ground, and even the founda-
tions are rooted out of the earth. Tho single house,
still standing amidst that arena of ruin, is occupied
by a wretched couple, incapable of exertion from ex-
treme disease, and "even they." to quote our informant,
" have since been served with notice to leave the place within
fifteen days, or the house would be tumbled on top of them !"
Nothing is visible except the remnants of cot-
tages, endeared by a thousand tender associa-
tions to the outcasts, fragments of furniture, shreds
of wearing apparel, and the broken remains of crock. ry.
The eviction occurred on the 13th of the present month;
the scene of devsst ttion occupies an area of 400 acres;
61 families, in all 270 souls, were driven forth from their
tenements, houseloss and pennyless. And these
wretched creatures found shelter only in the roadside
ditches. Could anything be more ruthless than this
wholesale system of eviction? Could anything be more
indicative of the fallacy of the social code of that
country ? We think not. On the perusal of such re-
citals as the foregoing indignation merges into pity ;
may that pity, in regard to our legislators, resolve
tself into some substantial token of their cornmisera-
ion I—a wholesome and comprehensive measure.

The intelligence from Madrid, which is to the 22d, is nearly
all gleaned from private correspondence, for nearly the whole
of the journals have disappeared, even some of those hitherto
strong-supporters of monarchical principles; among these—the
Catolica and Esperanza. The Tiempo, which still exists

states that in consequence of the Universal, Espanol, Tiber
tad, Eco, Clamor, and Espeetador, having ceased to ap-
pear, above six hundred printers are without work. The
Heraldo continues to defend its patrons, and adduces as
a proof of his regard for the constitution the
publication of the new electoral law in the Gazette. This
official organ also contains five royal decrees. One of them
appoints Don PEDRO SABATER, Political Chief of the pro-
vince of Madrid; another appoints Don Luis Josa SARTO-
RIUS, Secretary of State and of the Council of Ministers; a
third confers the appointment of Captain General of Burgos
on General BALBOA, lately Political Chief of Madrid ;
by a fourth, Don JUAN VILLALONGA, lately Captain-
General of Burgos, is appointed Captain - General
of Gallicia ; and a fifth appoints Don FRANCISCO
Maxim, Minister Plenipotentiary in Switzerland. It is
said that General BALBOA is so detested at Madrid for his
cruelties during the civil wars, that NARVAEZ had considered
it prudent to appoint him to another place. All the troops
in the neighbourhood had been ordered to approach the
capital, every necessary measure had been adopted to put
down any attempt at insurrection, and about twenty General
Officers, supporters of constitutional Government, had been
ordered to leave Madrid. On the 21st the Three per Cents.
closed at 321/1 for cash, and 32% for the 26th of April. The
Fives were not quoted.

The Paris papers contain no news of much imnortance.
The Chamber of Deputies had been engaged for two days in
discussing a Bill for the better regulation of the Channel
Fisheries; and it is gratifying to find that the debate was
conducted with great moderation, and without any remarks
respecting the English fishermen which could give offence.
As the Bill is of considerable importance to that class, we
have given a comprehensive summary of the clauses in
another part of The Sun. It was adopted by a majority of
235 to 8. The Committee of the Chamber, on the Budget,
for Algiers, met on Saturday, when the question was dis-
cussed whether Algeria should be formed into a separate
department ; and the Members in general expressed them-
selves favourable to the plan. In the Chamber, on
the same day, the Minister of the Interior introduced three
Bills, one relating to foreign refugees, a second demanding
200,000 f. for the celebration of the " July fetes," and the
third for establishing an electric telegraphic line from Paris
to Lille, at a cost of 410,000 f. It appears that the Bill for
constructing a railway between Bordeaux and Bayonne will
be introduced in a few days. The papers still continue their
comments on the affairs of Spain, but, with the exception of
the following extract from the Presse, we flnd nothing
requiring notice. We hope, and, indeed, are inclined
to believe, that the communication made to that
journal is founded on facts. "We had, yesterday,"
says the Presse, "communicated to us a letter, written from
Madrid, by a personage who is highly placed, and is one of
the most influential of the Progressist party. This letter
states distinctly that Count BRESSON has used every effort to
prevent the return of General NARVAEZ to power, and pro-
tests loudly and openly against the system of reaction
adopted by the new Ministry. This letter is a confirmation
of our own direct intelligence, and, were we permitted to
name the author, the Constitutionnel would see bow incon-
siderate and unjust are the attacks it has been making upon
our Ambassador."

On Thursday the Orleans and Tours Railway was opened with
great pomp and ceremony at the latter place. The Dukes of
NEM9URS and MOWTFENSIER were present, and great crowds
went from Paris to witness the scene.
On Saturday the French Five per Cents. closed at 119 f. 85c. • Four
per Cents., 106 f. 50c. ; Three per Cents., 83f. 75c.; Treasury
Bonds, 3% a 3 et 8 am. ; Neapolitan (Rothschild's) Definitives,
10If. 25c. ' • Romans, 101%f. ; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840),
10214 %f.; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5634 f. ; Belgian Bank,
94.5 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents. (1841), 36N. Exchange on London
—one month, Money, 25f. 62%c. ; three months, Money, 25f. 42%c.
Railway Shares are lower.—For cash, Parts and Orleans closed at
1,290 f. ; and Rouen, 1,032 f. 58c. ; Rouen and Havre, 750 f. ' • Avignon,
945 f. ; Strasburg and Bale, 236 f. 25c. ; Northern, 770 f. ; Bordeaux,
660 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 533 f. 75c.; Nantes, 560 f. ; Dieppe, 465 f.;
Vierzon, Montereau, an 1 Fameoux net quoted.
Lyons Dellnifives offered at 600 f., but no buyers.
RUMNESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Ifeacit 28.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), I —Dutch Rhenish, 634—East Indian, %—Great North-
ern ei France Constituted, 15% —Great Western Canada, 2A,
Lyons and Avignon, 2—Madrid and Valentia, % —Namur and Liege,
2—Orleans and Bordeaux, l2%—Paris and Orleans, BOLA—Paris
and Strasbourg (Constituted), 6%.

We understand that Mr. Henry Rich, formerly Member
for Knaresborough, will offer himself for Richmond, in the
room of the Hon. W. R. Colborne, deceased.

The following is a correct list of the Members who voted
on the second reading of the Corn Bill, not having been in
the previous division. For, nine—A. B. Cochrane, T. C.
Granger, James Kelly, John O'Brien (Limerick), R. Os-
borne, Caleb Powell, tight Hon. A. Rutherfurd, Lord Gran-
ville Somerset, W. H. Watson. Against, six—R. Archbold
(Liberal), Lord Henry Bentinck, W. J. Denison (Liberal),
T. S. Forman, T. B. Hil lyard, and H. St. John Mildmay.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTER SALLS-Y ESTERDAY.

The attention of a large muster of the subscribers was again
chiefly directed to the rich Handicap to be run for on Epsom Downs
on Friday next. It was obvious from the very commencement of
the betting that Peasant was to be invested with the premiership.
The Commissions were numberless, and a few, fortunately for the
principals, were executed at 8 and 10 to 1 ; the layers, however,
were net slow in taking advantage of the eagerness to got en, and
the odds, consequently diminished to 6to 1, takers. We have reason
to believe that there was still a good deal of money to get on at the
close. Auricula was backed freely at 1", 11, and 12 to 1, Lyons at
,2 and 13 to 1, and Satyr at 18 and 20 to 1 ; the other transactions
were not indicative of any decided feeling, either for or against the
horses quoted. With the exception of Miss Burns, who appeared to
be rath:r on the totter, most of the Chester Cup heroes were steady,
at something near the last average ; of the outsiders Crim. Con. was
most in request. The Derby betting was flat, still we should'mee-
tion that Sting and Brocardo were in constant demand, and that
1,000 to 30 was taken in three or four places about Humdrum ; Tib-
thorpe declined to 30 to 1, but left off with backers. We subjoin the
last quotations :

METROPOLITAN STAKES.
6 to 1 asst Duke of Richmond's Peasant—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Auricula
12 to 1 apt Mr. Lowther's Lyons— taken
13 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's My Mary
14 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Lord Saltoun
18 to 1 agst Lord Glamis's Satyr—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Beeten na Tell—taken.
mini ER cm..
11 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Sweetmeat—taki 12 to 1
18 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy—taken, and aftr. offered
20 to 1 agst Mr. Woffenden's Miss Burns—taken
20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Best Bower
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thompson's Hope—taken
25 to 1 asst Mr. Hesseltine's Fitzallen
35 to 1 agst Mr. Copeland's Arthur
40 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Corranna
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
45 to 1 agst Mr. Dawson's Crim. Con.—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. W. H. Johnstone's The Roper's Daughter—t.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Davis's Redstreak—taken
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Polish—taken.
DERBY.
7 to 2 agst Lord'E. Russell's Sting—take 4 to 1
11 to 1 agst Gen. Shubrick's Brocardo—take 12 to 1
30 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Tibthorpe—taken
1000 to 30 agst Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy—taken 501.
1000 to 15 agst Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock—taken.
OAKS.

16 to 1 apt Col. Peel's Queen Anne—taken freely
16 to 1 asst Lord George Bentlnek'syrineess Allee—taken

THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, 1847.—0ne tavern keeper in
the City has already collected 501. towards this race, and we hear
that, be-.ides the parties already mentioned, Mr. Barr, a very exten-
sive drawer of " swee,s," has "pronounced" in favour of appro-
priating his per centage on the coming events to the next bonus.
With so good and so early a beginning, we have not the slightest
doubt that the licensed victuallers of the metropolis will succeed in
establishing the richest Spring Handicap of the season.

Lord Brougham on Saturday left town for Paris,
where the Noble and Learned Lord will meet Lady Brougham, who
has arrived there from tile seat of his Lordship at Cannes. We be•
Have that the Noble Lord and Lady will arrive in town by the 20th
of next month.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on
Saturday last for Broadlands, near Romsey, Hants. The Noble
Viscount and Viscountess purpose to return to Carlton House-terrace
on Wednesdey next. Her Ladyship has issued cards for an assembly
on Saturday next, which will be preceded by a dinner party.
The Friend of litdia publishes the following with re-
spect to the capture of one of the Scikh chiefs. It is interesting its
forming part of the general history of a people whose movements at
the present moment are reviled with a more than usual degree of
attention:—" Lena Singh, one of the ablest men in the Punjaub,
quitted the scene of anarchy in his own country nearly two years
ago, under the pretence of going on pilgrimage ; bat in reality with
the view ef escaping those dangers to which every man of eminence
in'that distracted country was exposed. He has evidently large
funds at his disposal. Ile has travelled about with a large retinue
from one station to another, and has in every instance experienced
the most hospitable reception from the officers of onr Government.
He arrived in Calcutta about two months ago, just at the period
when the Seikhs were preparing to cross the Sutlej, and he declared
his intention of going to Jugunnath Pooree. Re subsequently pro-
ceeded to the shrine at Gunn Saugor, and on his return thence after
the late bathing festival, took up his residence about three miles from
town, on the Dum-Dum road. On Friday last he was arrested un-
der orders from the Governor-General, by Mr. Mytton, the magis-
trate of the 24-Pergunnahs, and a detachment of artillery from Dum-
Bum. A very large amount of treasure, which he had deposited in a
boat, kas also been sequestered by Government, and is now safely
lodged in the treasury of the 24-Pergunnahs. It is proper to add
that he has been subjected to no indignity, and to no inconvenience
beyond that ef being confined as a state prisoner its his own resi-
dence. The cause of his apprehension has been variously reported,
and the propriety of it commented on in our public journals. By some
it is attributed to the fact that the Sirdar Runjoor Singh, who very
recently crossed the Sutlej, and Lurnt a part of the cantonments at
Loodirnah, is his brother, and has been managing his estates during
his absence. But we can scarcely suppose that this would have had
sufficient weicht with the Governor-General to induce his placing
Lena Singh antler restraint."
EDUCATION IN W ALES.—A meeting of gentlemen
connected with Wales, and interested in its social advancement, was
held on Thursday evening, at the City of London Literary and Scien-
tifie Institution, Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of maturing
plans, which have been for some time under consideration, for ex-
tenllng popular education throughout that country. It was resolved
to form a society, to he called " The Cambrian Educational Society,
for promotive the Establishment of Day-schools in Wales, on the
Principles of the British and Foreign School Society." It was stated
that the society, although wholly distinct from the British and
Foreign School Society, was not intended to oppose that noble insti-
tution, but to relieve it from all care about Wales, and to take out of
its hands all that pertains t the establishment of schools in that
country. It was also stated that the "Cambrian" would seek the
patronage of the Lords of Cambria's soil, and possibly that of her
Prince. That it would he her endeavour to raise a large fund (hy
voluntary means), for the purpose of employing agebts throughout
the principality, to guide the people in the establishment of schools;
of providing school plans suitable to all localities ; of assisting in pro-
curing grants from the Government, w, ere such grants may be de-
sired ; of employing persons of experience to organise schools, or to
set them in motion when they are established; of assisting com-
mittees in procuring suitable teachers ; of aiding promising but poor
young men to undergo the necessary training at a normal school,
Borough-road, or Brecon; if preparing and publishing ,chool-books
adapted to Wales, in the two languages, English and Welsh ; of
making grants of school-books, &c., &c. The schools, it was re-
marked, would be schools for all and net for a sect, and would be not
n name only, but truly and emphatically National Schools.
THE POPE AND THE PUSEVITES.—The f act of St.
Gregory was celebrated at Rome on the 12th with great pimp in the
church of Monte Cello, in the convent of the Benedictines. A triduo
had been ordered en the occasion, to demand from the Almighty the
conversion of England. A number of English Catholics had joined
in the pions ceremony, and the remainder of the month of March
was to be devoted to prayer for that intention. The Pope has made
a present sf a splendid emelt,' to Mr. Newman.
DARING AND SUCCESSFUL ACT OP POCKET-PICE -
INQ.—Wednesday, about two o'clock, a gentleman got his pocket
picked of 1501. in' the neighbourhood of the Royal Exchange. He
had been at the Royal Bank, lifting a considerable sum of money, and
put the parcel of notes loose into his great-coat pocket. The gentle-
man states, we understand, that he never stopped between the Bank
and Glassfard-street, and that he did not observe any person near
him he couldsuspect of having taken the money.—Glavoto Chromic(e •
The movi.ment in the ',tree provincial towns to en-
deavour to stay the further proceedings of the hulk of Railway Bills
in Parliament is extending to every distrct, In fact, opinion may be
said to be unanimous on the subject, and the people In the provinces
expect that their efforts will 5e warmly,and vigorously seconded by
the London Sock Exchange.
M•Plisiloen, of the 65th Regiment, has just.
had bequeathed to him, by an uncle, deceased, in India, the large sum
of 10,0001.