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London, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

SICILY.

The following is the decree of the Sicilian Parlia-
ment, nominating the Duke of GENOA King of
Sicily
"Art. 1. The Duke of Genoa, second son of the pre-
sent King of Sardinia, and his posterity, are called to
reign in Sicily, according to the constitutional
statutes of the 10th July, 1848. Art. 2. He will
assume the name and title of Albert Amedee 1.,
King of Sicily, in virtue of the constitution of
the' kingdom. Art. 3. He shall be invited to ac-
cept and take the oath required by the 40th article of the
statutes. Done and delivered at Palermo on the 11th
July, 1848. (Signed) The President of the House of
Commons, the Marquis de Torrearsa ; the President of
the House of Peers, the Duke de Serra di Falco."

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

LORD SHAFTESBURY'S CO M.MITTEE.—DuN-
DEE AND ARBROATH RAILWAY (Dundee Junction).—
This Bill was re-committed to introduce certain amended
clauses relating to the capital.
ROYSTON. AND HITCHIN EXTENSION RAILWAY.—
Clauses further considered, and Bill ordered to bo re-
ported.
GROUP . No. B.—NORTH AND SOUTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY (Harrow to Brentford).—Case for the pro-
moters and opposition of the Great Western Company
further considered.

GROUP* No. -9.— SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION
RAILWAY (Amendment of Acts, and Branch to Law-
rencekirk).—The case for the promoters and the oppo-
sition of the Aberdeen Company being closed, the room
was cleared, and the Committee, after a short delibera-
tion, decided that the preamble was not proved.
PAISLEY, BAItRHEAD, AND HURLET RAILWAT.—The
object of this Bill is to authorise the construction of a
line of railway to open up the mineral field in the imme-
diate vicinity of Glasgow. The case was opened to-day,
and evidence taken in its favour.

GROUP No. 10.— LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE-UPON- TYNE JUNCTION RAILWAY. The
object of this Bill is to authorise the abandonment of
the line and the dissolution of the company. It is op-
posed by several landholders along the route of the
proposed railway, who insist that the dissolution of the
concern is sought for stock-jobbing purposes, and that
the public ought not to be deprived of the
benefit of the line to enable the shareholders to pocket
large sums, and a competing line to monopolise the
whole traffic of the district. The case was opened to-
day, and evidence taken in its favour.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
DUBLIN.
The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds'
majority was resumed yesterday, and in the course of the
day the petitioners succeeded in striking off one addi-
tional vote.

NORTH CHESHIRE.
The North Cheshire Election Committee met again
yesterds,4nd proceeded with the case of treating
against Mi.-Leigh, the sitting Member. The evidence
went to show that each voter was supplied
with a voting card, which was, exchanged for
a refreshment ticket after he had polled. The
refreshments supplied to the voters consisted of
cold meats, beer, and brandy and water. One of the
witnesses stated that he had promised to support Mr.
Leigh's Opponent, but the prospect of a good dinner,
which Mr. Leigh's friends held out to various electors,
induced him to vote for that gentleman.
The evidence had not closed when the Committee ad-
rn ed.
The charges of bribery contained in the petitio❑ are
abandoned.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS,
LIVERPOOL, JULY 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our market to-day is dull, little
business doing, and prices lower. The sales are—East
Lancashire, Preference, A p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
32/. Shares, 7 dis.—Ditto, ltd. Shares, Preference, % p.—
London and North-Western, 126—Ditto, Fifths, 53/4 p.
Ditto, New Quarters, Ire p.—Midland Stock, New Halves,
534 p.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 2%
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purhase), p.

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MANCHESTER, JULY 24.
STOCK ExmArrais.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pre-
ference, % p.—Great Northern, B%—Lancashire and York-
shire (late West Riding Union) Fifths, 3% n. dis.—Ditto, 10/.
Preference, 6 per cent., % p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, Eighths, 5 c. dis.—Ditto (Grimsby), 20/.
Shares, PA dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 9-16 dis.—North
Union (A), 20214—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4,
2 11-16 dis.

BIRMINGHAM, JULY 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North Staffordshire,
2%—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 51A.

A FELuatE SAlLop„—Yesterday a good-looking
sailor youth (as all in court took the prisoner to be),
attired is a blue jacket, striped blue shirt, &c., was
placed at the bar of the police-court, charged by a
stout whiskered seaman, named James Kitson, with
having robbed him in a lodging-house of 8/. Mr.
Parkinson, the Bridewell-keeper, intimated before
the case was gone into, that the prisoner turned
out to be a young woman. The complainant then
said that prisoner had accosted him on Saturday in the
street, asking his assistance, as he was in distress, and
wanted, a ship. Witness took him and gave him his
breakfast, and afterwards his dinner, at Mr. Parker's
cookshop, Wapping. It appeared that complainant had
afterwards introduced prisoner to some of his ship-
mates, and that the whole had been drinking together
rather cheerfully during the day. At night Jack in-
vited his young companion to accept of part of his bed,
and they slept together. He had previously given the
prisoner a jacket, so as to appear more tidy than before.
In the morning, the sailor somehow suspected the sex of
his partner, and missing his money went down stairs to
the landlord, and told him there was, he believed, a
woman in his room, who bad robbed him. The land-
lord laughed, and said he must be mistaken, and had
perhaps had " the horrors." The prisoner was not,
it appears, really discovered to be a female until
taken into custody. Seven shillings were found on
she complainant, and she had found the
the prisoner, and she said the jacket was given to
her by
money in it. Mr. Parkinson said he had learned that
prisoner's mother had gone from Manchester by a packet
ship from this port to New York, that they had some.
how missed each other in coming here, and that the pri-
soner bad come in disguise, in hopes of working her way
out as a sailor. Mr. Rushton remanded her. She gave
her name as Mary Ann Martin.—Liverpool Standard.
DUTCH CATTLE.—The steamers from the Dutch
ports are now bringing some lambs on each occasion, in
addition to Qther live stock, the produce of Holland.
The importation of this description of young stock
having hitherto been of a remarkably limited character,
during the present season. Three vessels, which have
just arrived on one day from Rotterdam, have each
brought a considerable number of lambs, as a portion of
their cargoes.
TUB CHOLERA.—On Monday a letter was received
by the owners of the Marion, of Leith, dated Elsinore,
stating that the master, Captain Beal, had died of cho-
lera, on the voyage home from St. Petersburgh, and that
one of the crew was labouring under the disease,—Edin-
burgh Pot. ••• • •

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 24.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.
The Earl of DARNLEY took the oaths and his seat.
The Earl of liAItROWBY presented a petition from
the journeymen bakers, praying for a diminution of the
hours of labour; also from the Shrewsbury Waterworks
Company against the Healths of Towns Bill.
ECCLESIASTIC AL PATRONAGE (IRELAND)
BILL.
On the motion of Earl FORTESCUE, this Bill was
read a second time.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL.
On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
' ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL (No. 2).
' On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was
read a third time and passed.
VEXATIOUS ACTIONS BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved that this Bill be read a
second time.
The Earl of WICKLOW hoped a similar Bill would
be introduced for Ireland.
The motion was then agreed to.
IRISH CONSPIRATORS DETENTION BILL.
This Bill having been brought up from the Commons,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that it be read
a first time.--Agreed to.
The NOBLE MARQUIS then said he was about to pro-
pose to their Lordships to adopt an unusual, but not an
unprecedented, course. He had in the first instance to
state to their Lordships, that only three days having
elapsed since this matter had been discussed in
that House, additional and overwhelming proof
had been furnished of the existence of the exi-
' gency under the pressure of which their Lordships
were called upon to act. He held in his hand a short
report on the state of Ireland, which contained a state-
ment of facts relating to that country up to Saturday.
It stated that the system of clubs for organizing rebel-
lion was advancing at an accelerated pace, and that in
Cork, Waterford, Meath, and Kilkenny, those clubs
were endeavouring to gain possession of the country.
Since the Lord-Lieutenant had proclaimed Dublin, Cork,
and Waterford, the leaders of the conspiracy had been
moving from county to county to review their forces.
These measures had been adopted without disguise, and
it would seem as if the leaders had endeavoured to prove
the necessity of passing this measure. But, without allud-
ing to the sedition and treason with which numerous
Irish papers had come laden to this country, he would
allude to a few significant paragraphs which clearly
showed the objects which those parties had in view.
In one of these papers he found .a paper signed by a
leader, named Brennan, declaring that they were now
in a state of war, from which they could not recede,
and urging the young men of Ireland, as very rash and
rather inclined to be fiery, to proceed at once, and to
let their watchword be " Now or never." Then there
was another article, signed by Mr. J. F. Lalor, urging
the Irish to destroy the 40,000 English soldiers in
Ireland, to kill and capture them in the best and
swiftest manner possible. There was another paper
which, after sneering at the Earl of Clarendon's prac-
tical instructions in Ireland, headed a column as their
own practical instructions, instructing the people
in every means of destroying life and property that
the most hellish ingenuity could imagine. He,
therefore had turned to those precedents which
showed to what means their Lordships had recourse to
pass measures in times of emergency to proceed in one
day to carry a Bill of this importanee through all its
stages. He found that in 1803, without any previous
notice, two Bills for the suppression of rebellion iR Ire-
land, and enabling the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to
arrest suspected persons, were passed through the
House in one sitting, that the standing orders were sus-
pended, and a resolution passed enabling the Lord
Chancellor to put the question upon every
stage on the same day. He had no hesitation in pro-
posing to their Lordships to act upon that precedent.—
(Hear.) He had no doubt but the persons who were
engaged in organizing rebellion, who had proclaimed
war without subjecting themselves to the dangers of war,
were not entitled to the benefit of those regulations
which were never intended for rebellious subjects.
One of those writers had asked who would strike the
first blow for Ireland—who would shed the first blood ?
and if no one should be found to strike the first blow or
to shed the first blood, it would be mainly owing to their
Lordships passing this Bill without delay, and which
would at once receive the Royal assent. He concluded
by moving the second reading of the Bill, and the sus-
pension of the standing orders.
Lord BROUGHAM was aware that it was a most
dangerous power with which it was now proposed
to invest the Lord-Lieutenant, but it was an absolutely ne-
cessary one. Without detaining their Lordships, he would
at once say that ho gave his cordial consent to his Noble
Friend's proposition; but when he saw the exultation
which those events had produced in France, he
must protest against it being understood that we
wanted this measure or any measure to protect the
integrity of the empire or to retain for us Ireland.
The integrity of the empire was never in jeopardy.
This measure was not wanted to prevent the severance
of the empire, but to prevent attempts at that severance,
which would produce bloodshed and civil war, which
civil war would end in the destruction of those rebellious
persons who excited it.—(Hear, hear.) One of those
proclamations which his Noble Friend had read
had been issued by a man who was in prison
for his crimes. He trusted, that there was some
prison discipline in Ireland as there was in England, to
prevent prisoners, when committed to prison, from com-
mitting a repetition of their crimes. If such were not
the law of Ireland, it ought to be the law of Ireland ;
and if it were, he trusted it would be carried out. As
to the leaders of these people, he believed they would
not; be very sorry to see this Bill passed.—(Hear.) They
had in Ireland leaders of two sorts—the first who
preached up repeal but took care not to commit them-
selves, and warned the people to do nothing unlawful—
these were sordid, cautious, crafty, money-getting men,
who thought they did enough to absolve their con-
sciences—if any they had—or to save themselves
from prosecution, if they said pray do not break the
law, as if they had taken gunpowder and placed it near
a fire and said pray do not explode. Of late had arisen an-
other set of leaders who wished to make a noise, to make
speeches to become notorious. He believed that rebellion
was the last object they had in view; and then they were
hatching a rebellion which they wished never to
come into existence, but which would come into
existence if the persons of those leaders were not
secured, and it was to secure the safety of the
country from those who wished to rebel, viz ,
the followers, and from those who did not wish, but who
would be forced to break it, viz., the leaders, that he
voted for this Bill.
The Earl of WICKLOW asked for some assurance
that measures should be adopted for preventing pri-
soners in gaols from writing and publishing seditious
letters?

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there was every
reason to believe that although these letters bore the
initials of the prisoners, they were not written by them,
although they might have been written by their au-
thority.
The' Earl of ELLENBOROUGH believed that this
measure, if introduced some months ago, might have pre-
vented the organization of the clubs, but he believed
thst now it would be too late to prevent rebellion. Writings
as exciting had been published three months since by that
parson who have now been transported for his crimes,
and no steps had been taken in consequence. Three
months since. he (Lord Ellenborough) had urged the
necessity of proclaiming Dublin. Were they to be
told that it was not till the 18th July that the Lord-Lieu-
tenant for the first time saw the necessity for applying to
Parliament for fresh powers? That rebellion had been
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south, they ought to arm and organize the north.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE assured the House
and the Noble Lord that the Government had well
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The Marquis of LANSDOWNE h • aving moved that
the standing orders be suspended, the Bill was read a
second time, the Co • mmittee was negatived, and the Bill
was then read a third time and
passed.

HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL.

Lord CAMPBELL moved the Committee on this Bill.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH thought it bad been
greatly improved in the Select Committee.
Lord REDESDALE considered that the proviso which
excluded somany works from the operation of the smoke
prevention clause in the Bill was unnecessary. He had,
however, been obliged to accede to it.
The Bill then passed through Committee, and was re-
ported to the House.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair et Four o'clock.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments to Payne's Patents (Improve-
ments .in Preserving Vegetable Matters) Bill was
agreed to.

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time :
Newton's Estate Bill.
North Wales Railway (Dissolution of Company) Bill.
SECOND READING.
The Regent's Quadrant Colonnade Bill was read a
second time.