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THE SUNK LONDON, TiIt:MADAM EVENING, MARCH 19, 1846.

by party jealousy, or sordid views, what embarrassment
might he not have caused to the Government, what fearful
consequences not entailed upon the country, had he stood upon
his right of earlier bringing under the consideration of Parlia-
ment his motion respecting Ireland—a motion which, now, by
being well timed, may, regard being had to his well-
merited fame and great abilities, be productive of much
national good. hence, we have in an unrivalled
commercial country the leaders of two great parties
in the state such, that were either of them to make
a tour through the principal marts of our land, they
would be everywhere welcomed as men of whom we had just
reason to be proud, and to whose masterly superintendence
we may in future safely confide the consideration of all our
national interests.

In Lord JoEN we recognise a mental structure of that pro-
minent "capacity which has always enabled him to take his
place in the van of civilisation, and of its own strength to evolve
sound schemes of policy, justly anticipating the public
wants, and judiciously paring away the various defor-
mities which, with the progress of time, are apt to
be constantly incrustating the different institutions
of even the best of states. In his great rival
we have another mind of equal largeness—but not by nature
so prone boldly to grapple with wholesome theories, so as to
launch them in time to attend upon the march of public
events. Yet, as a practical man, which is a valuable feature
in the statesman of a country like ours, where such great
and complicated interests have so artificially sprung up for
winnowing their hurtful ingredients from new and
daring schemes, pregnant with the seeds of exten-
sive alteration and reform in our body politic, and
for accommodating them in a safe and cautious
spirit, in nicely poised accordance with the surrounding cir-
cumstances, which have evoked the necessity, Sir R. PEEL
presents to us a combination of admirable qualities and at-
tainments suitable for the high position to which his talents
have so justly elevated him. Sir ROBERT PEEL
has had the disadvantage of being hitherto con-
nected with men who have ever lagged behind the
growing enlightenment of their compatriots ; while, on the
contrary, Lord JOHN has had the benefit of being in com-
munion and action with minds kindred to his own. Lord
Jourt has, no doubt, by his intellectual superiority,
braced up the minds of his colleagues, and thereby accele-
rated the extraordinary improvement we have effected in
our institutions within the last twenty years. Sir ROBERT
PEEL has, with equal certainty, by his firmness and cola•
mending powers, given a healthier tone to his official
associates, and through the attempering their feel-
ings, and moderating their prejudices, has succeeded
in saving the nation from the rude shock of many a
civil convulsion. It is impossible that with other than
feelings of warm and grateful admiration we can regard
two such pillars of the State, securely upholding, as it were,
by their united exertions, the graceful pediment of our
matchless Constitution, and keeping its portals thrown
widely open fer the introduction of the riches of
civilisation, in addition to the inestimable treasures
already within the ancient walls of the noble
edifice. May these two great statesmen long be preserved
to us ; and may we from their joint wisdom derive many
additional benefits to the benefits that we have already re-
ceived at their hands.

The question as to how the destitution in Ireland is to be
alleviated, as it is the most importunate subject of the present
Parliamentary session, has elicited an extraordinary number
of propositions. Among these may be particularised Govern-
ment loans, railway measures, fever hospitals, the erec-
tion of lishory piers, extension of public works, cunt
cteteris paribus. Yesterday other plans were propounded
by Mr. I'. &ROPE and seconded by Mr. CRAW •
roan. Altogether, the discussion consequent upon the
introduction of these schemes was remarkable for

its array of facts, and for the earnestness with which those
facts were enforced and applied. The proposal of ➢lr.
ScrtorE amounted simply to the following :—" That the
guardians of the several poor-law unions in Ireland be re-
quircd to relieve with food all such destitute persons within
their unions as may be in danger of perishing from want, or
from disease the consequence of want ;" and upon this motion
the Hon. Gentleman built up a further recommendation, to

the effect that the entire social fabric of Ireland should
undergo an immediate transformation, by incorporating
with the Irish institutions the system of compulsory charity,
through the medium of which our English paupers have
been fed during times of scarcity, or whenever they might
be unable or incompetent to obtain employment. This pro-
position contains in itself the germs of a vast and daring
system ; and, although we are desirous that permanent
as well as temporary benefit to Ireland may redound
from whatever enactments are passed during this session in
behalf of that country, we cannot but feel with the
Home Secretary, that it would have been advisable for the
Hon. Member to have reserved it until the time appointed
for the Noble Lord, the Member for the city of London,
to introduce the question of Ireland and her various exi-

gencies in all - its entirety. Until that moment
arrives, it is scarcely advisable to retard the pro-
gress of those measures from which immediate
assistance could be affurded to a starving and debilitated po-
pulation—it is, we say, scarcely advisable to retard those
more necessary measures, by mooting questions of the most
subtle complication and of the most gigantic character, when
neither the Parliament nor the multitude are prepared for
their reception. It is evident, however, from this very preci-
pitancy, as well as from the sagacious arguments adduced by
Mr. P. SCROPE, that the Hon. Member was induced to bring for-
ward his motion yesterday from sentiments of the deepest
commiseration for Ireland and her unfortunate people ; nor
do we despair for a moment of seeing some great and prac-
tical measure advanced when the rigid time collies! A mea.-

sure built out of the accumulation of the experience and
wisdom among onr legislators—a measure by which
the Irish labourers may be kenceforth protected from starva-

tion by having a readier access to employment and greater
facility in the purchase of economical and nutritious food.
According to the assertions of Mr. SCROPE, the eviction of
tenantry is still carried on with all those adjuncts of
wretchedness which have attracted the sympathy of the
philanthropist for years past : this of itself would be sufficient
to demand some official eftnrt at alleviation ; but when it is

remembered that it forms only one amidst a number of

equally lamentable abuses, the necessity for some attempt at
their eradication on the part of Government becomes doubly
apparent. Nor can it possibly be a matter of a moment's

question whether the men of authority should wrest
assistance to the local destitute from those who
are capable and (from their relative position) are
bound in conscience to afford it, when that assistance
does not flow forth spontaneously. Simultaneously with the
formation of the grand measure by which the whole fabric
of Ireland might be remodelled upon a firmer, more
comprehensive, and more natural plan, the recom-
I mendation of reclaiming and draining waste land
should on no account whatever be overlooked or
forgotten. Increase of health, increase of useful employment,
and increase of profitable territory, would be the necessary
and not unimportant consequence of such a clause. We
cannot but feel satisfied, from the behaviour of Mr. P. &ROPE,
Mr. Canwron.D, and Mr. S. O'BRIEN, during the debate
yesterday, that those honourable Gentlemen will not allow
the matter of destitution in Ireland to subside until some
rational means be adopted by Parliament for its removal ; at
the same time, however, we cannot but acquiesce in the
opinion uttered by Sir JAMES GrArrAm, that it were advis-
able to delay the introduction of such comprehensive mo-
tions until after the evening stipuhtted by Lord Joitx Res-
SELL for the thorough consideration of the actual condition
and the positive wants of the Irish multitude.

Madrid journals of the 11th have been received. No busi-
ness was done in the Cortes on that day, the anticipated
change of Ministry, which we announced yesterday, having
put a stop to all business. The Funds continued to decline.
On the 11th the Three per Cents. closed at 29 3-16 at 30
days, and 29 for the 31st inst. The Fives were not quoted.

In the French Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the debate
on the motion of M. RemusAT was resumed, when M.
THIER3 made a long speech in support of the motion for
excluding salaried Deputies from the Chamber as well as
those who received pay from the civil list. The debate
began to excite some interest, not on account of the subject,
but as a trial of strength between the Government and the
Opposition. The dissolution of the Spanish Ministry is
noticed in several of the papers, and they seem to agree in
the opinion that the change has been brought about by
NARVAEZ, and that he,will be called upon to form a new
Cabinet. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA had left Madrid
before the downfal of the PifIRAFLORES Cabinet, and arrived in
Paris on Tuesday. • These papers contain no later news from
Poland. It appears from one of them that a diplomatic com-
munication had been made by the Austrian, Prussian, and
Russian Ministers to M. Guizov, iintimating a resolution
come to by the three Powers to interfere in re-establishing
order in Cracow, and declaring their intention to occupy
the city and territory as long as may be re-
quired to suppress the present spirit of the population.
GUIZOT returned an answer, stating that the
Cabinet of Louis PHILIPPE should make no objection
to this intervention. The answer was the subject of discus-
sion in the Council of Ministers, after a private audience
granted by Louis PIIILIPPE to Count D'Arroxv, the Aus-
trian Ambassador. A similarth communication has been made
to
northern Lord
Aprerneir'sEEN
Lbcsvnotmlonee,orfuttbethe answer of his Lordship
bepresentatives of the same three
tillieopepoltilsihat
inthsteirrecintisounrrecjbt°ianoan may y
had not transpired.
vain
yet succeed.
If been
suppressed,'
journals yet entertain the
says the Rcforme, " the Northern Governmentsee would
have hastened to announce it witla great pomp. If
the insurrection was suppressed, the Austrians wouPlodn.ot
be
obliged to said 40,000 men into Gallicia. If the insurrection
e
had been suppressed, we should have i7een told what had
bec9ine of the insurrectionary columns, whose march is at-
tested by their bold action• We should lave been told that
one column wwis defeated on such a day, or that it had been
compelled to lay down its arms. The ernes of the victorious
generals would have been announced, and we should have
known the number of victims. The organizers of the mas-
sacres at Tarnow would not have scrupled to terrify the po-
pulation by sanguinary executions."
Accounts had been received in Paris from Algiers, dated
the 10th instant, according to which AED-EL-lADEn had
quitted the Kabyle country as soon as he heard of the ap-
proach of the troops under BUGEAUD. General CAVAIGNAC,
according to the Akbar journal, had made a razzia, and

took 7,030 head of cattle. One of the French prisoners who
has had the good fortune to make his escape from the deira
of ABD-EL-KADEIC has furnished some information as to the
comrades in captivity. They are in good spirits, but are
fatigued by the long marches that they undergo. Those
who remain in the rear from weakness or sickness are exe-
cuted by order of Bou HAMEDI. Six of our poor fellows
have been already thus massacred by this ferocious Ka-
byle. The same journal publishes the following proclama-
tion, addressed by Ano-m-Bazaß to the Arabs

"Oh ! ye Musenlmaris! Shako off from your eyes the blindness
into which you have been plunged by your commerce with the infi-
dels I Recognise their perfidy, of which you can judge by the follow-
ing facts :—When the French wished to seduce you to submit to
them, they said—Become subject unto us, and we will guarantee to
you your religion, your property, your women, and your children.
We will leave you under the rule of your own chiefs. We will not
interfere with your customs, and we will respect your laws. We will
only watch that you may be justly governed, and that you do not
become the victims of the exactions which weighed so heavily upon
you when you were under your Sultan Abd-el-Bader. You believed
their lying words, and submitted to the Christian. As soon as the
impious man believed he had strength enough, and I had for a
moment disappeared from among you, he hastened to violate all
his promises. He applied your mosques to profane uses. He took
your best lands and gave them to his own people. He has purchased
the virtue of your women. He has enrolled your children in his
abominable cohorts. He has enfranchised the slaves which God had
given. He has arrogated to himself the rights of justice. He has
persecuted your most noble families. He has changed your chiefs,
replacing them by infamous Mussulmans, who have sold themselves
to him. Yeur nobles andyour marabouts, whohave been so insensate
as to serve him with fidelity, have had for their reward an eternal
prison in the country of the Christians. You are now commanded
by Roumi, judged by Roumi, administered by Roumi. And to render
his perfidious designs the more evident, he comes and reckons your
warriors, your women, and your children, as the master counts the
sheep which he wants to send to the market for sale. In spite of the
mission I have received from God to fight against the Infidel, to the
last drop of my blood, I have allowed him some repose. I have de-
parted from the theatre of war, because I was certain that the Chris-
tian would destroy himself by his own misdeeds. The day of your
awaking is come ! Rise all at the sound of my voice ! Oh, Mussul-
mans, God has placed in my hand his flaming sword, and we will
go forth and fertilise the plains of our country with the blood of the
Infidel !"

On Monday Louis Prnurpz reviewed, in the court of the
Tuilleries, four regiments of the line, one of dragoons, and one
of hussars, with two batteries of artillery, forming the garri-
son of Paris and the banlieue. After riding along the lines,
attended by the Duke de Nemours, the Prince de Joinville,
the Duke de Montpensier, and the Duke of Wurtemberg,
his Majesty distributed numerous Crosses of the Legion of
Honour to officers, non- commissioned officers, and soldiers,
of the different corps, after which they filed off with the
utmost precision. The King was hailed with repeated accla-
mations.

The Funds continued to Improve. On Tuesday the Three per
Cents. dosed at 541. 55e. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 80e. ; the
Orleans Railroad shares, 1,337 f. 50c.; Rouen, 1,172 f. 50c. ; Havre,
757 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 795 f. ; Avignon, 1,000 f.; Tlerzon, 760 f.;
Rersleaux, 687 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 535 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 430 f.;
Basle, 245 f. ; Fampoux, 462 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 545 f. •
Tours and Nantes, 5770 bOe.• Paris and Lyons, definitive, 625 i.
50c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57 ; Spanish Three per
Cents., 37% ; Ditto Passives, 5%.
The other quotations were :

Lyons and -Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 512 f. ; ditto (Le-
eointe), 505 f ; ditto (Cornpagnie Meridionale), 504 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cetto (Mackenzie), 504 f. ; Charleroi, 500 f.
BUSINESS DON 3 IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIES
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Meacm 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 1034 —Dutch Rhenish, 6—East Indian,
%—*reat Northern of Franee Constituted, 161,4—Great Western Ca-
nada, 3%—Jamaica South Midland Junction, IN—Jersey, %
Namur and Liege, B—Orleans and Bordeaux, 12% —Paris and Or-
leans, 51—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 7%—West Flanders,3%.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day.
WILKINSON V. lIARWOOD.
This case came before the Court upon the petition of Miss
Hannah Keningate Wilkinson, presented under rather singu-
lar circumstances. The object of the petition was, that part
of a fund to which she was entitled, amounting to between
2,000/. and 3,000/. stock, might be sold, in order to pay the
costs of certain proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts and
in the Court of Chancery, rendered necessary in consequence
of the following circumstances :—lt appeared from the state-
ments in the petition that Miss Wilkinson, who was of rather
imbecile mind, became possessed of the amount in question
under the will of her grandmother, and that by an
order of the Court she was placed under the guardian-
ship of her father, who sent her to the house
of two ladies of the name of Revell, living at
Sudbury, with whom she had ever since resided. It ap-
peared that in May last she came to town, accompanied
by one of the Misses Revell, on a visit to a gentleman named
Fenn, who resided at Blackheath; and that on Saturday,
the 24th of May, a young seafaring man, named Watts
Wilkinson, the cousin of the petitioner, came there, and
stated that he had come for the purpose of taking Miss
Wilkinson to spend the day at her aunt's, in Brudenell-place,
Hoxton. Mr..Fenn and Miss Revell, believing the truth
of the statement of young Wilkinson, hesitated not to
let the young lady go with him. Instead, however,
of taking her to Hoxton, he persuaded her to go with him to
Stepney Church, under the pretence of viewing it, and when
there (having previously obtained a license), after consider-
able objection and reluctance on the part of the young lady,
the marriage ceremony was performed, the young lady for
some time declining to sign the contract, but ultimately
doing so. Both parties then went to the aunt's at lloxton,
and, upon the petitioner threatening to inform her of what
had taken place, young Wilkinson, left—no cohabita-
tion having taken place, and the marriage being
unconsummated. Miss Wilkinson informed her aunt,
Mr. Fenn, and Miss Revell of all that had taken
place, and ultimately returned with the latter lady
to Sudbury. A suit was then instituted in the Ecclesiastical
Court and a decree of nullity of marriage obtained against
Wilkinson, who, it appeared, had gone to sea and was totally
unable to pay the costs awarded against him. Such being
the state of the case, the present application became neces-
sary in order that the costs might be provided for.
His LORDSHIP made the order as prayed.

BANK OF ENGLAND.--(THISDAY.)
A general half-yearly Court of the directors and proprietors
of the Bank of England was held this day, in the large room,
for the purpose of declaring a dividend. A considerable
number of proprietors were present.
Precisely at twelve o'clock the Governor (William Heath,
Esq.) and a number of directors entered.
The SECRETARY (John Knight, Esq.) having read the
minutes of the last meeting,
The GOVENOR said—This is a half-yearly general meeting
of proprietors, appointed to be held by law to declare a
dividend. It is, therefore, my duty to acquaint you that the
Court of Directors, having considered and examined the ac •
counts, are of opinion that a dividend may be made of
3/ 103. per cent. on the interest and profit of the half-year
ending the sth of April next, without any reduction for
income -ta x. (Cheers.) It is probably agreeable that I
should state toyou the amount of " the rest." The gross rest at
the last meeting, on the 31st of August,lB4s, was 3,588,8871.
which was 15,363/. more than at the previous meeting. The
rest on the 24th of February, 1846, the period when
the accounts were last made up, was 3,689,4301.,
showing an increase of 100,5431., and a net increase
in the year of 115,9061.—(Cheers,) I therefore beg to move
that this Court do order the payment of 3/. 10s per cent. for
the half-year ending the sth of April next.
Mr. FIELDER was about to call the attention of the Go-
vernor to some discrepancy in the levying of the income tax
on money received by persons from the Bank, but he was
called to order by
A PROPRIETOR, who said the Court had not been called
to listen to the dispute of Income -tax Commissioners with
persons receiving money from the Bank , but to declare a
dividend.
The GOVERNOR said he should be happy to answer any
questions Mr. Fielder might think proper to put to him, if
he would call on him at his room privately after the meeting.
As the Hon. Proprietor had stated, the question was one
which ought not to be brought before a general meeting.
The motion was then carried unanimously.
The GOVERNOR said the document warrants would be
ready on the 6th of April.
DAVID &sumo/is, Esq., said they ought not to adjourn
without giving expression to their approbation of the con-
duct of the Governor and directors. It would be stnfitting
to the respect and dignity which that Court held to allow
that occasion to pass by without announcing their
opinion of the communication which the Governor had
made to them respecting their affairs, especially as
they met, for the first time, under new circumstances.
When Sir Robert Peel introduced his measure respecting
the Bank, many doubts as to its probable effect were ex-
pressed, both in and out of that Court. Peculiar circum.
stances had marked the first year of its trial, and he must
say that, out of that Court, a general feeling of satisfaction
prevailed as to its working, and as to the conduct of the G-
overnor and directors with respect to it. If this feeling of
approbation at the conduct of the directors prevailed
out of doors, surely a similar expression of feel-
ing ought to be made in that Court. He
should not have ventured to come forward to make these ob-
servations, but when he saw so marked an improvement in
the affairs of the Bank of England, and when he knew that
that improvement was one quite consistent with good
management, which offered proper accommodation to the
commercial world, and that no attempt had been made to
take advantage of circumstances by which their profits
might have been probably increased—(Hear, hear)—he
thought that this feeling should not only be expressed there,
but conveyed through the aid of the press elsewhere.
As one of the proprietors of the Bank of England, as one
whose capital and energies were enlisted in the commerce
and energies of this city, he felt much pleasure in stating
that great satisfaction was felt at the way in which the
affairs of the Bank were managed by the Governor and di-
rectors. As no other proprietor had come forward, he pro-
posed " That the thanks of that Court be given to the
Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Board of Directors, not only
for their able management of the affairs of the Bank of Eng-
land, but for the assistance they had afforded to the commer-
cial world during the last half-year."
Mr. MARRIOTT said that he certainly thought that the
meeting should not separate without expressing its satisfac-
tion at the way in which the governor and his colleagues
had attended to the interests of the proprietors, and also their
satisfaction for the way in which they had met the late mo-
netary emergency of the public.
Mr. BARNES HAMMOND said, that it had been his inten-
tion to propose a resolution similar to the one proposed by
his friend, Mr. Salomons. He saw that a great alteration
had taken place behind the bench during the last few years.
Every shareholder who now asked a question had it an-
swered immediately, and without reservation of any kind,
showing that both management and manners were very
much improved.—(Laughter.) He knew the labour and
unwearied attention given to this corporation by the Go-
vernor and his colleagues. The whole time of the Governor,
and his whole talent (which was not small), were devoted
to the interest of the Company; and he, therefore, cordially
supported the proposition, that the thanks of this meeting be
expressed to him and the directors also.
Mr. LEVI said that he thought, as 8 per cent. dividend had
formerly been paid, that a similar amount ought to be paid
at present, as the affairs were in a flourishing state. The
sop of no reduction being made was not sufficient to make
up the difference between 81. and 71. 103. per cent. being paid.
The resolution for a vote of thanks to the Governor,
Deputy-Governor, and Board of Directors were then put to
the meeting and carried unanimously.
The GOVERNOR said that he felt that on the part of the
Deputy-Governor and Board of Directers, that if anything
could reward them for their exertions, it was such a compli-
ment as had just been paid to them, particularly the manner
in which it was paid to them. He felt with his colleagues
that it would act as a stimulus to their future exertions, and
he, on his part, was not likely to forget it.
The meeting then adjourned.

REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.iceandofsobmreeadtofe6lildin.
vTalhieou highest --Yesterday
ghpeearttspriofeethoef
ttohempr,
metropolis,
is nowfrom R. , 7anldel the lowest Gid. per four pound loaf..
Colonel Voisin, who was implicated in the affair at
Boulogne, but was recently pardoned by the King of the French, died
two days age at I'assy, after long illness,.
THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND.--The accounts re-
ceived in this town from Ireland, as to the state of the potato crop,
are worse today than they have ever been before. The demand fur
Indian corn for that country is rapidly increasing, wig tua casl,,e4 a hatcr Guardian
cnusiderable tin In price,—kranc , j

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bags, including 500 Americans on export. 1,500 Americans
were sold on Tuesday, after the usual hours of Business, for
exportation. Prices wire firm. Shares were dull, and lower.
There are no later arrivals to-day, but the Indian over-
land mail seems to be expected.
The memorial of Lieut. Waghorn, presented to the East
India Company, and praying for the grant of a pension, has
excited attention in the City, where it is deemed well en-
titled to the most favourable consideration. Lieutenant
Waghorn expresses himself somewhat bluntly in his
memorial, but he evidently writes his thoughts
without disguise, and tells all he thinks too.
Some of the readers of the memorial think probably that
there might have been lese frankness—but so think not we.
It is characteristic of the man, and those who read the letter
at once know him. We regret much to hear of that gentle-
man's having incurred heavy pecuniary liabilities on ac-
count of his overland experiments, which no remuneration
he has received could be expected to cover. In
fact, as far as private interest is concerned, Mr.
Waghorn must have been a great loser by quitting
his original profession, to say nothing of the harrass of mind,
and constant unsettled state which the career he has since
pursued, must necessarily have occasioned him.
From the New Zealand papers to November 22, we take
the following account of the progress of the colony :
" In last year's return, the quantity of land in cultivation
was given at 1,262 acres, of which 237 were in wheat. This
season we have no doubt there will be over 2,000 acres, of
which not less than 600 will be in wheat. Taking 25 bushels
to the acre (which is not at all too much to expect, consider-
ing what the crops were last year, and how much better they
ought to be every year, as the land is better cleaned and
worked), this will give us about 300 tons of flour. We be-
lieve our consumption is not above 200, so that we shall have
100 for exportation, which will go to pay, not our debts, for
which we shall receive in return.
none, but for various necessary imports
in Nelson we owe
" Oar potatoes also will probably form an article of export.
Last year we had 288 acres. Probably the quantity will not
be doubled this, as more land will be put into wheat and
barley in proportion to other crops. We have, however,
more than enough for local consumption, and some probably
will therefore be exported in the coming year. Of barley,
last year, we had 182 acres, and should have had much more,
but when the sowing time arrived it was discoved that no
seed was to be had, and potatoes, oats, and other crops were
put in instead. This year there is seed enough; and,
as a second brewery is to be started at the be-
ginning of the new year, there is every encourage-
ment for the agriculturists to grow a larger quantity, which
we understand is being done.. In 1843 our sheep amounted
to only 1,130 ; last year they were 5,782 ; this year we ex-
pect they will not be less than 10,000. Horned cattle last
year were 918 ; allowing one-third for increase, they will be
about 1,200 of this. Of minor stock, such as goats, pigs,
and poultry, we can only say that, early in the spring as we
yet are, fowls have been retailed at is. 6d. a couple, eggs at
6d. a dozen, and pork, as usual, in the carcase. at about 2d.
a pound." _ _ _

The Stock Market is flat again this morning. Console
realise 95% 5 for present transfer, and 95% to 96 for Ac-
count. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been reduced
to 295. and 245. There is very little doing.
In the Foreign Market the transactions are very circum-
scribed, not extending to half a dozen bargains. Spanish
Five per Cents, are 26, and the Three per Cents. 304.
Dutch Four per Cents. are 9434.
For Railway Shares there is scarcely any inquiry.

BRITIgN FU2il)5.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
COMMITTEE ON BILLS.

The following Irish Bills were grouped to be heard before a Com-
mittee of their Lordships, which opened its sittings this day : —The Silge
and Shannon Railway, the Galway and Kilkenny, the Irish Great
Western (Mullingar to Galway), and the Irish Great Western
(Dublin to Galway).

The Committee consisted of Lord Falmouth, Lord Byron, the Duke
of Beaufort, Lord Ayleaford, and the Chairman (Lord Selkirk).
The first case called on was
W 833 IRISH GREAT WESTERN (mum=

TO GALWAY).

Mr. AUSTIN opened the proceedings on behalf of the promoters
of this Bill, which he said was opposed by the Mullingar Company.
The Learned Counsel in the first instance stated that the
opposition to the Company was most unjustifiable, and entered into
with direct violation of a written agreement entered into between
the direetors of both Companies, that tbo opposition should be
mutually withdrawn, and that each line should be allowed to obtain
their respective Acts without farther opposition. Now, in direct
violation of that solemn agreement, the Mullingar Company at-
tempted to obtain a line from Mullingar to Galway. Ile trusted that
their Lordships would repudiate this attempt in violation of an
agreement which would be binding in a court of law.
The following is the contract which the Learned Counsel com-
plained of having been violated :

" That both parties waive all opposition on the standing orders in
consideration of the several matters hereinafter mentioned, viz.,
" Ist. The Mullingar Company giving up their line from KulUngar
to Athlone.

" 2d. Mr. French undertakes for himself and the other peti-
tioners against the Mullingar line, to withdraw all opposition to the
said Mußinger and Longford line, and to give this latter undertaking,
and the branches to the northward connected with it, all the support
in their power.

" 3d. Mr. Perry undertakes for himself and the others concerned,
to withdraw all opposition to the Galway line, and to give it, and
its branches to the southward, all the support in their power."
Dated this 4th April, 1845.—And Signed,

FITZN. FRENCH.
JAMES PERRY.
" If Mr. Perry shall be unable to prevail on the Grand Canal
Company to withdraw their opposition, and that they shall not suc-
ceed in throwing out the Galway Company, this agreement shall
exist the same as if the opposition had been withdrawn."
Signed by F. FRENCH.
J. PERRY.

(No. II.)
At a meeting of the Deputation held in London, the 9th April,
1845, it was unanimously agreed—
That in the fullest confidence that the arrangement entered into
between Mr. French and Mr. Perry will be carried out by both
gentlemen and the Companies they represent, as well as all those by
whom they are supported, or with whom they are connected to the
utmost of their ability for securing the Acts of Incorporation for
both lines, we acquiesce in, and confirm the said agreement.
Signed by FITZN. FRENCH.
JOHN ENNIS,
Deputy Chairman to the Mellinger Line,
and HUGH M. TUITE.
(No. III.)
Memorandum, sth May, 1845, London.
The heads of an agreement for carrying into effect the proposed
measures for a railway from Dublin to Mullingar and Longford, to
be ultimately contintull to Sligo, and another railway from Porter-
lington to Galway, through Athlone. It is agreed that the petitions
now pending in Parliament for the above purpose be withdrawn, and
that etch party assist the other to carry the pending Bills (but con-
fined to the above objects) into effect.
If any difference shall arise as to the mode of carrying the above
arrangement into effect, it is hereby distinctly agreed by all parties
signing this paper, that the mode of doing so shall be submitted to the
decision of the Committee to whom the Bills be referred.
For the Dublin and Mullingar Company, JAMES PERRY.
For the Galway Company and other petitioners,
FITZN. FRENCH.
Mr. Sergeant Witanctual addressed the Committee in Lehalf of
the Mullingar Company. The Learned Counsel complained of the
construction which had been put upon the contract mentioned by
his Lt arned Friend. He trusted the Commi-tee would not sanction
a breach of contract; but what his Learned Friend had stated was
entirely a mistaken view of the whole case as between his clients
and the Dublin an Galway Company, and this he would show to
their Lordships before he concluded his address.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

GROUP IX

This Committee met this morning at half-past eleven o'clock, Lord
Worsley In the chair. All the other members of the Committee
were present.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW AMEI
MENT AND BRANCHES.

The CHAIRMAN gave the decision on this Bill, which was, that the
preamble of the Bill was proved, with the exception of that portion
relating to the Port Dundas branch, which was ordered to be
struck out.

The clauses of the Bill, with the exception of those relating to the
rejected portion, were then read ; and, after several unimportant
amendments, passed.

The report was tnen agreed to, and the Chairman instructed to
present it to the House that evening.
_ _ _ _

Mr. Robson, clvil engineer, called and examined by Mr. HOPE—
He surveyed, in last autumn, fur a line to connect the Polloc
and Govan, the Glasgow and Ayr, and Glasgow and Greenock
joint line, and the Barrhead and .Nellstou Railways. It was
to be connected with these lines by three branches. The heaviest
gradients were one ascending one of one in 104, and a descending one
of one in seventy. The shortes cur• e was twelve chains radius. The
other mineral lines around Glasgow had worse engineering difficulties
than these. It was superior in this respect to the two competing
lines, both of which had severer curves and gradients. The Grand
Junction scheme was too high up the harbour, and interfered with
house property and feued land ; and the Mineral Harbour was too
low, being two miles from Glasgow-bridge. Both these lines were
also longer, while the latter would give very imperfect accommoda-
tion to the Lanark coal fields in the east of the city. His estimate of
the general terminus was—for works, 51,216!. 13s. Bd. ; for land,
50,358/, 10s.; contingencies, 10,157/. Both the other schemes were
much inferiorly situated to this. It possessed a medium to accommo-
date the harbour well, and also to avoid the general traffic of the
river. The opposing lines were not only longer, but connected with
the southern lines in an inferior manner.

Cross-examined by Mr. MONTEITM on behalf of the harbour
Mineral —No house property would be interfered with by the
General Terminus. The locomotives were to be brought within
fifty yards of the harbour, and there unyoked and used to push the
waggons gently behind along the quay. His estimates included
land fora depot. _

Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS cross-examined this witness, with the
object of showing that the Grand Junction would not interfere so
much with house property as had been represented, but no point
different from the examination in chief was elicited. He admitted
that the Grand Junction would join the Polloc and Govan some-
what nearer Glasgow than the General Mineral. This would also be
the ease in reference to the joint line of the Ayr.
.and Greenock
Railways.

The engineers and agents are the same as in the former Bill.
The isi, as in tilt lasz e isd, ,v,03 uno,
having been adduced, the standing orders were declared to be com-
plied with. '

Sub-Committee No. 2.
This Committee met to-day shortly after twelve o'clock. Present,
Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Mr. 'Walker, Mr. Kemble, Mr. E. Yorke,
and Mr. Bramston.

CHELMSFORD AND nurty.

The consideration of the remaining allegations in the petition
against this Bill, which was commenced yesterday, was resumed.
These allegations stated that there were several inaccuracies in the
gradients, rate of inclination, and other engineering points, on the
plans ; and several of these on the Suffolk and Essex portions of the
line were sustained, while several others were abandoned. Amongst
the former were the 33d mile and 7th furlong, 3d mile 2d furlong, 7th
mile let furlong Ist chain, 7th mile 7th furlong Ist chain, &c.
The remaining allegations of this class, down to 51, were admitted.
An allegation that there was an error in the datum line, at,the
point 223 miles 6 chains, which should have been marked 220 feet,
was sustained.

It was next alleg,d, that on the plans and sections deposited with
the clerks of the peace for the counties of Suffolk and Essex, the
rates of inclination on certain turnpike-roads, &c., were not eimwn.
Several instances of the alleged omissions were adduced and sus-
tained, and several more were admitted.

The next class of allegations was, that the height of the embank-
ments at various points on the line wrs not stated hi the same plans.
Several instances were susta!ned.

Bab-Cemmittee No. b.
This Committee met in room No. 11, at about half-past twelve
o'clock, when there were present, Mr. Packs (Chairman), Mr. Ca-
vendish, and Mr. Walker.

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD (BIRMING-
HAM EXTENSION), AND IMMINGHAM
AND OXFORD 3ITNCTION RAILWAYS.
The discussions as to these Bills, which, it will be remembered, are
part of the same project, making together but one line, were re-
sumed. In reference to the former Bill the Committee reserved two
points—that as to the datum line, and that as to the necessity of the
sections being on the same scale as the additional plan. In reference
to the latter point, it was observed by Mr. Carter that, as the small
plans had been admitted to be incorrect, there was no other plan for
the sections to agree with but the additional plans.
Mr. CARTER resumed the discussion on the question of sufficiency
of the notices, in which there was no distinction made between the
parts of the line for which separate Bills were to be obtained, al-
though it was stated that the proprietors intended " to go for a part
or parts" of the Bill. (Mr. Carter spoke at great length in answer
to the arguments used by Mr. Burke en Tuesday, and Mr. Burke re-
plied, although the Chairman considered it unnecessary.)
This question also was reserved, the Chairman wishing to consult
with Mr. Hope Johnstone (who was not now present), and some
other persons.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.

15his Committee resumed its sittings this day, at twelve o'clock,
Present, the Earl of Shaftsbury, in the chair.

TAW VALLEY.
The object of this line is to connect Barnstable and Bideford with
Exeter. The whole length of the line is thirty seven miles, including
an extension of six miles from Fanninaton to Bideford. The main
line is from Barnstable to Crediton, whore it joins the Exeter and
Crediton Railway. The estimated cost is 515,000/. Engineer,
Joseph Locke ; Parliamentary agents, Dyson and Company.
The Company were opposed by the proposed North Devon Rail-
way Company.

After hearing the usual evidence, the Committee decided that the
datum line of the extension was not formed from such a point as
was contemplated by the standing orders, and they theretore re-
jected that portion of the line ; with respect to the main line, they
decided that the Company had complied with the standing orders.