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The Nankin, 50-gun frigate, launched atWoolwich
on Saturday last, arrived at Sheerness at nine o'clock
A.M., on Sunday. It is supposed she must have
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with a file he had obtained from some of the work-
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CHATHAM, Manzi' 19.—The Nankin, 50 guns,
was towed into this harbour on the afternoon of Sun-
day, the 17th instant, by the African
and Jasper
steam-vessels, and on Monday she was placed under
the sheers, where her masts were put into their places ;
and the same day she was taken into the third dock
to be coppered and fitted for sea.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK.
The directors have issued their report with respect
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England purchase shares. They state that they can-
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to seek for any modification of the terms on which
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judicious to secure to those shareholders a minimum
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on the 171. yet uncalled, as the calls on these shares
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dividend with the capital Stock of the company.
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on Great North of England purchase shares
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made on these shares, payable by instalments of 1/.
on the Ist of July, and 1/. on the Ist of January
next, which call they have accordingly made. The
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the shares will be applied in reduction of the amount
due to the Great North of England proprietors; thus
relieving this company from a corresponding amount
of the rent payable for the Great North of England
Railway, and so preventing any increased burden to
this company, in its allowance of four per cent. divi-
dend on the calls to be made. The directors are glad
to announce that they have been enabled to induce
Mr. Plews, under certain conditions, to allow himself
to be proposed for re election as a director at the ad-
journed meeting. Mr. Alderman Hodgson also
consents to be again put in nomination. Should
these gentlemen be re-elected the only remaining
vacancy will be that occasioned by the retirement of
Mr. Love.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TlMES.—Apropos to slavery, we have to record
an act of personal subjugation, as bad as anything in
the evidence given last year to the Committee of the
Lords. The scene was not the Bight of Biafra, nor
Gallinas, but Downing-street; the victims were not
the glossy children of Ham, but 160 Members of the
British House of Commons; and the ostensible au-
thor of the extraordinary outrage was not a Brazilian
skipper, but the head of her Majesty's Government.
By the sound of the Tleasury whip the unfortunate
captives were mustered early in the above-mentioned
barracoon, and there shortly and sharply instructed
in the terms of their servitude. Without so much as
allowing them the opportunity of tendering their sporas
taneous support, Massa Russell, for so we must call
the principal actor on this occasion, informed his cap-
tives that if they did not support him in the blockade
of the African slave coast, he would turn them all
out into outer darkness to find a new master if they
could. It was in vain that they protested and
demurred, talked of money and reputation, and
other topics customary with sensible men.; his Lord.
ship would take no denial. Their opinions they
might keep, but their votes he must have. As ap-
pears from the division last night, his Lordship suc-
ceeded to the desired extent. The poor sufferers
came out lamenting their hard fate, but few of them
dreamt of actual resistance. Thus, by a sort of vica-
rious bondage the British M.P. has taken the place
of the African, and done task w ork to the music of the
lash. Such, in fact, is the history of last night's di-
vision in the Commons. Let not the public be de-
ceived for one moment. The 232 Gentlemen who
vote for keeping this Old Man of the Sea on our
shoulders, themselves inwardly groan at the pres-
sure. We believe that any one of them would
rather carry a sack of coals, or all the blue books
of the session, from Westminster to St. Paul's,
than vote away another million for this deplorable
humbug. Sed fata aslant. If they don't do as
they are bid Lord Palmerston will go out, Lord John
will go out, and all the rest will go out, and it is im-
possible to say who will come in ; perhaps Mr. Dis-
raeli, perhaps Mr. Cobden, perhaps Mr. Feargus
O'Connor. Nor was this all.. The philanthropists,
sure of their victims, were not content with exacting
a dumb vote. They bad prepared what we can only
call a song of victory, which was to he chaunted in
honour of the African squadron and; its complete ill-
success and glorious certainty of failure. Mr. Hutt's
motion was simple enough, and they
who did not like
it might think it sufficient to move the previous ques-
tion. Not 90 these gentlemen. In the notices of mo-
tion for last night stood a monster amendment, of
which due notice had been given by
Mr . W . Evans,
Member for North Derbyshire, and better known at
Exeter ball than St. Stephen's. After reciting with
fitting pomp all that had not been effected by her Ma-
jesty's naval force employed on the coast of Africa,
this amendment went on to ask for further supplemen-
tary measures—fresh cominunicatione;representations,
and remonstrances addressed to other powers, in the
hope of persuading them to do what they have pro-
mised to do, but what they will undoubtedly see us
all at the bottom of the ocean before they will do.
There was a certain tone about the concluding and
most important clause of the amendment, a certain
" gravity," and " friendliness," and regard for " the
character of this country," which, coupled with some
recent passages in our history, does just suggest the
idea--we beg to be excused if we are wrong—of an
armed apparition in the Tagus, or perhaps in the har-
bour of Rio. This may, of course, be an injurious
surmise; but, as the foreign Powers we have to deal
1 with are slaveholders to begin with, are our rivals in
trade, and make a very good profit by our philar,
thropy—as they break all their engagements with
us when slave trade is concerned, and leave us alone
in our Quixotic undertaking, nothing is more likely
or natural than that the fleet now at the Piraeus
should have to stop at Lisbon on its way
home and ask a few questions ; and, if it be so,
it is difficult to suppose that so prudent and farseeing
a man as our present Foreign Secretary, with such
an instinctive hatred of war, should not have that
vision before his eyes. Such, at all events, is the
image irresistibly awakened in our minds by the last
clause of the amendment intended to be moved last
night, but withdrawn, perhaps for the very fact of
this ill look about it—perhaps out of tenderness to the
feelings of the Ministerial supporters. Now, in all
seriousness, what are to be 111inisterial measures, and
what are not? A Minister does not derive all his
power from his own person, essence, and being. He
is a creation of Parliament, just as that is a creation
of the country. Of course if he produced his ma-
jority out of the fountain of his own perfections he
might impose on it what laws and conditions he
pleased, as he might on any other creation of his
brain. But in our view of these matters a party is
just as independent as its leader, and if it owes him a
considerable degree of obedience he owes to
it a still '•,.larger, degree of consideration.
Above all, he is not to impose Ministerial questions
at discretion. If it supports him in free trade, or
the colonies, or education, and other standing mat-
ters of Parliamentary dispute, it does not follow that
he is at liberty new tax on i;s allegiance
in the
th eshapeei,
a t o impose
perpetuala
blockade costing a million
a year—not a farthing less—and absolutely ineffec-
tive for its purpose. At this rate no man can say
what he may not be called on to vote for. He rises
in the morning a free agent, and reads in the notice
paper that before night he will be committed to that
which he holds in utter abomination. It is bad
enough to be pledged to heaps of things by force of
custom and prescription, merely because one was
horn to them or bred to them ; but worse, still, to be
under an indefinite obligation to think and do what
one has not at present the least idea of. But
what is the value of a majority made up
of such materials ? The country must take
this matter into its serious consideration. A large
proportion of our fleet—a fourth, it is said—is
employed on this interminable fool's errand in the
tropics without the least benefit whatever, but great

deal of harm. A million a year is a low estimate of
the expense. By the admission of the philanthro-
pists, as expressod in the amendment placed on the
notice piper, not only is that expenditure quite
thrown away, but it involves the dire contingency of
" remonstrances with other Powers, consistent with
the character of this country." So it is out of the
question to talk of reducing our IL-et under these cir-
cumstances. This one monster waste swallows up
all our savings. It is a mere farce to cut down the
salaries of poor little officials, and do other igno-
minious cheese-paring, flint-skinning sort of work, if
all the while we are playing at pitch and toss with a
million at a time. Yet this is to be made a Minis-
terial question. Then economy is not a Minis-
terial question. The Whigs first came in on the
Civil List. They stick in on the African squadron.
Out of the Civil List they have contrived to save a
few odd thousands, which, in the course of a half
century or so, will amount to one year's cost of the
African squadron.

TRAGEDY AT CLAYTON-ON-THE-

HEIGHTS.
HALIFAX, MARCH 19.—The beautiful and secluded
little village of Clayton was on Saturday the scene of
a dreadful tragedy, in consequence of a young man
recently married having shot his wife through the left
breast and blown out his own brains. The subjects
of the present tragical occurrence are two young
people, named Abraham and Elizabeth Jessop, each
about 25 years of age, and the cause of it an un-
happy and ill-assorted marriage, leading to a separa-
tion, which the wife's friends had unwisely attempted
to render permanent, instead of seeking a reconcilia-
tion. The main supports of the village are some
extensive stone quarries in the neighbourhood ; and
Jessop, who had come to reside there from Brighouse,
was a smith, and was principally employed in sharpen-
ing the delvers' tools. He had paid his addresses to the
girl for some twelve or eighteen months, and about three
monthsago they were married. Jessop had not a cottage
furnished to take his wife to, and they took up their
residence along with the wife's mother and sister.
Almost immediately afterwards quarrels with his wife
and her friends led to his being turned out of the
mother's house, and a consequent separation. He had
attempted in vain a reconciliation; and the unhappy
man seems to have sought an interview on Satur-
day evening last, with a view to putting a period to
all future strife and heartburning about the matter
by murdering his wife, and afterwards destroying
himself. After fortifying himself by taking several
glasses of ardent spirits, he entered the house where
she resided about half-past three o'clock on Saturday
afternoon, and found her in the presence of her
mother and sister. He asked her to accompany him
to the door for the purpose of a private conversation,
but she declined, observing that she had no secrets
which her mother might not hear. lie then attempted
to induce his wife to give him an audience in another
room, telling her she might relate what passed
afterwards to her mother if she thought,
fit. This she also refused, and he then took
from one of his coat pockets a pistol, and
hastily advancing towards her, discharged it with
the muzzle almost close to her person. The ball took
effect in the left breast, but missed the heart, piercing
the breast in the direction of the left arm, and
emerging immediately under the arm. Before any
attempt at interference could be made, he then drew a
second pistol, and placing it under his right ear, dis-
charged the contents through his bead. The unfor-
tunate wife ran to the door and sank upon the cause-
way, in a state of insensibility. She was afterwards
carried to bed by her mother and some neighbours
who lent assistance, and surgical aid being procured
and the wounds stanched, she still survives. It is
feared, however, that the ball has passed through a
portion of the lungs, and that she cannot ultimately,
recover. The wound which Jessop inflicted on him-
self was of a more immediately mortal character. He
fell at once upon the floor, and expired in a pool of
blood—his skull being fearfully shattered. The body
was removed to the Black Horse public•house in
Clayton.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF TUESDAY.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE. FED 21, 1850.
Notice is hereby gil en, that his Royal Highness Prince
Albert will, by the desire of her Majesty, hold a;Levee at
St. James's Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on Wed-
nesday, 20th March next, at two o'clock.
It is her Mejesty's pleasure that presentations to his
Royal Highness at these Levees shall be considered
equivalent to presentations to theQue2n.
Addresses to the Queen may either be forwareird to
her Majesty through the Seeretlry of State for the
Home Department, or may be reserved until her Majesty
shall hold a levee.

EGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE
LEVEES AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE.

The noblemen and gentlemen who purpose to attend
the Levees at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring
ith them two large cards, with their names clearly
written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's page in
attendance in the Presence Chamber, and the other to
be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce
the name.
Those gentlemen, who are to be presented, are
hereby informed, it is aksolutely necessary that their
tames, with the names of the nobleman or gentleman
who is to present them, should b• sent to the Lord
Chamberlain's Office, before twelve o'clock on the Mon-
day previous to each levee, in order that they may be
submitted for approbation ; it being her Majesty's com-
mand, that no presentation shall be made at the levees,
but in coLformity with the above regulations.
It is particularly requested, that in every case the
names be very distinctly written upon the cards t,) be de-
livered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there
may be no difficulty in announcing them.
The state apartments will not bo open for the re-
ception of company coming to Court until half-past one
o'clock.

CROWN OFFICE, MARCH lB.
The Peers of Scotland elected and chosen to sit and
vote in the House of Peers in the present Parliament of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
TiZ.:—The Right Honourable the Earl of Airlie and
the Lord Blantyre, in the room of David Earl of Airlie
and John Lord Colville of Culross, deceased.

—.—
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire.
The lion. Peregrine Francis Cust to be Deput)
Lieutenant.

Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorsetshire.
Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Csvalry—Dior
:on Grove Mansel, Gent, to be Cornet, vice Pitt, re.

signed, Feb. 15.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 8.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed George White, of
Epsom, in the county of Surrey, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS-
James Harbidge, miller, Islip, Oxfordshire, to sur-
render, March 23, at half-past one, and April 27, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee,
Guildhall Chambers, Bssinghall-street; Berry, South-
ampton-buildings; Druce, Oxford.
John Spicer, blacksmith, Barking, Essex, March 25,
at two, and April 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Rawlings, Rumford,
and John-street, Be iford-row.
Charles Cove, builder, Hornchurch, Essex, March 25,
at half-past two, and April 29, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-
street; Rawlings, Rumford.
John Barton Balcombe, share broker, Cannon-street,
City, April 11, at two, and April 26, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street; Goddard and Eyre, Wood-street, Cheapside.
John Bedford, music-seller, Bath, March 30 and
April 30, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller,
official-assignee, Bristol; Hellings, Bath.
William Gore, wheelwright, Liverpool, April 3 .and
23, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Ooze-
nove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bradley Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
W. Buddle, Paddington, timber merchant and saw
mill proprietor, April 11, at twelve.
In the Country.
C. Pope, St. Philip and Jacob, near Bristol, copper,
zinc, brass wire, and iron hoop manufacturer, April 11,
at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—S. Colville,
commission and forwarding agent, April 9, at eleven, at
the Court, Liverpool—J. Hodge, Colyton, Devonshire,
currier, April 18, at one, at the Court, Exeter—T.
Daniell, formerly of Trelissick, Cornwall, and now at
Boulogne, France, copper smelter, April 18, at one, at
,he Court, Exeter.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
_ _

J. Porter, ls. 4d., on Thursday, March 14, or any RIC'.
ceeding Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office
of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, l'asinghall-st►eet.
J. Yeomans, Sheffield, Yorkshire, merchant and table•
knite manufacturer, 55., on Saturday, M.arch 16, or any
subsequent Saturday, between eleven and two, at the
lrec);,, .11)67
oc
rs s tae
y, Ysktrirbkss(lli rat grocer,stur7, 7e., on nhnoffice uf Mr. Freeman, Sheffield.
Satur-
day,jlMlieleven and two, at the office of Mr. Free►nan, Sheffield.
W. Clayton, W. Clayton, and W. Wilson, Preston,
bankers, a third dividend of 3s. 9d., on Tuesday, March
19, and every following Tuesday, between ten and one,
at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester.
M. M'Giverin, Manchester, amallware manufacturer,
205., on Tuesday, March 19, and every f Mowing Tues-
day, between tun and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson,
Manchester.
J. Johnson, Manchester, smallwaro manufacturer,
2s. 6d., on Tuesday, March 19, and every following
Tuesday, between ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hob-
son, Manchester.

FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. Her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to become the Patron of the
Female Orphan Asylum, Lambeth, of which his Royal
llighneee the Doke pf CAMbridge is 1) I 1 bid e Lit.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
! The performance of Verdi's Nino at this theatre
last evening was honoured by the presence of her
Majesty and Prince Albert, who occupied the box
heretofore known as the Queen Dowager's box, being
one farther from the stage than the box which her
Majesty occupied during the preceding seasons.
Her Majesty and the Prince remained until the con
elusion of the magnificent ballet Les Metamor-
phoses, with which they seemed highly delighted.
Itie opera of Nino was performed last evening for
the purpose of introducing to an English audience a
new baritone, Signor Loreez), who, as Lorenzo
de Montemerl;, has recently achieved an im-
mense success in Paris, a success which, judg-
ing from what we saw of him last even-
ing, will be more than equalled by his
triumphs in this country. His voice is of the purest
and sweetest quality, of great flexibility, fall of ex-
pression, and he always sings in tune, a rare thing
among baritone singers. His features are remarkably
handsome and expressive, his figure is com-
manding, and his action at once graceful and ener-
getic. His performance in the second act, in which his
crown is struck from his head by lightning, was sub-
lime. Never have we seen the feeling of solemn awe
so characteristically yet so classically delineated as it
was by Signor Lorenzo last evening in this scene.
His attitude at the moment he is struck was a study
for the sculptor. In the beautiful duet with
Abigail in the third act, "Oh di qual onte,"
he was full of pathos ; never have we heard the pas-
sage "Ah de perdona" so feelingly rendered ; and in
the finale, where, having made his peace with
Heaven, he once more resumes his sword, he was
full of animation, energy, and dignity. He seemed
indeed a king, ay, every inch a king. He was
much applauded throughout, and the duet with
Parodi (who was the Abigail), in the third act, was
encored. He was frequently called on dur-
ing the course of the performance. The
Abigail of Parodi is by far the best on
the lyrical stage. Impassioned, yet majestic—
haughty, yet impulsive—at once revengeful and am-
bitious, the slave Queen is a character to which Ma-
demoiselle Parodi alone of all our lyric artistes can do
full justice. Her genius and her power enable her
to act the character, while her youthful appearance
enables her also to look it, and the consequence was
that last evening the representation was perfect. The
great improvement in her vocalization, which we re-
marked in her Medea, was again conspicuous last
evening. Her Abigail was as perfect as a piece of vo-
calization as it was as a histrionic performance. Bel-
letti was the High Priest ; this has always been one
of his greatebt characters, and he was last night as
great as ever. Solemn and impressive in his manner,
his singing was, as it always is, critically correct and
most effective. His Orostaspe left nothing to be
desired. Madame Giuliani made a most interesting
Fenena. She was encored in her final air, which
was beautifully rendered. Signor Michelli as Istaspe
was painstaking, but the music of " Verdi the violent"
occasionally overpowered his voice. The numerous
choruses were well rendered, and the " Va Pensiero"
was, according to custom, encored. At the conclusion
Signor Lorenzo and Mademoiselle Parodi were called
on. The beautiful ballet Les Metamorphoses,
which nightly increases in popularity, followed, and
was enthusiastically received. Les Metamorphoses
promises to be a ballet " not for a season but tor all
time." The house was very fashionably attended.

THE ARMY.—We understand that arrangements
ere in contemplation for the appointment of Lieuteeant-
General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., to the situation of
Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, vice Sir Willoughby
Cotton, G.C.8., who is expected to give up his command
in the course of the ensuing autumn.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—
Messrs. Morison and the Society of Hygeists and Me-
dical Reformers hereby caution the public, that they
have no sort of connection with the ointments, pills, and
farinaceous powders sold in chemists' and druggists'
shops.—British College of Health, New-road, London,
February 1, 1850.
A woman named Emily It eville' with at least
a dozen aliases, was yesterday remanded from Lambeth,
charged with having stolen a gold watch, the property
of M. Theodore Rousseau, from the house of Sirs.
Hunter, 20, York-road, Lambeth. The prisoner engaged
apartments at Mrs. Hunter's, and had not been there an
hour before she entered the bedroom of M. Rousseau,
who also lodged at Messrs. Hunter's and stole his gold
watch. The prisoner belongs to a family the members
of whichhave for years past lived by victimising lodging-
house keepers and tradesmen. One of her brothers is
at preset t in Maidstone gaol.
The Middlesex Sessions commenced yesterday.
There are 63 prisoners for trial. No case of importance
came on during the day.
Three young urchins, named Kimball, Wright,
and Bol'on, were yesterday committ, d from the Mary-
lebone Police-court, charged with having robbed the
poor'a.box of St. Stephen's Church, St. John's-wood.
A brutal fellow, named John Blackburne, a car-
man, in the employ of Messrs. Smith and Pearse, the
contractor: for making the tunnel of the Great Northern
Railway line through Copenhagen-fields, was charged
with having cut out the tongue of one of his master's
horses. The fellow has escaped, but there is every pro-
bability of his speedy apprehension.
Mr. George Watson, a jeweller, in Norton I'ol-
gate, was yesterday ordered by Mr. Hammill, the
Worship-street magistrate, to pay to a lady named
Mitchell, residing at Grimsby, 41., the value of a gold
chain she had left at his shop to be repaired, and 21.
compensation tor her detention in London to prosecute.
Mr. Watson declared that the lady was mistaken, as she
had never left any such chain at his shop; but Mr.
Hammill, although exonerating Mr. Watson from all
personal blame, considered it conclusively proved that
the chain had been left their for repair as stated.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Admiralty, March 18,
1850. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the in-
formation t f the Committee fur blaia.ing the Affairs at
Lloyd's, that her Majesty's steam-vessel Trident, or
Shearwater, and her Majesty's ship Superb, have been
ordered to proceed to the Chops of the Channel for the
relief of the homeward-bound trade.—(Signed) W. A.
B. HAMILTON. Captain G. A. HansTEn, R.N., Secre-
tary of Lloyd':.
NAVAL CADETS.—From an official statement just
issued in return to an order of the House cf Commons,
it appears that the number of cadets admitted into the
royal navy, during the year ending Ist January 1850,
was 96.;,,,
FJRF.—Yesterday a fire took place at a cabinet
manufactory, Old-street-road, Shoreditch, opposite Pit-
field-street. There was a ready supply of water, and
fortunately the firemen succeeded in confining the da-
mage, which was extensive, to the workshop.
MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—The market for
manufactures is in the same inactive state as it has re-
mained for several weeks past. Prices were nominally
lower, but concessions were readily obtained where bu-
siness could be at all effected.

RUINS IN CALIFORNIA.—It is reported that near
San Diego, at the head of the Gulf of California, an
immense extent of the ruins of ancient buildings have
been discovered, including temples, atone pyramids. &c.,
with hieroglyphics, the records of a great and civilised
race of inhabitants who have vanished from the face of
the earth.
A numbei of books and instruments for Univers*
College, which have arrived in this country by steamei ,
from France, have been admitted free, by permission of
the Lords of the Treasury.
The Rev. It Mures, the new master of the Ro-
chester Grammar School, appointei by the Dean and
Chapter, is to be examined at the Town Hall to-day on
a charge of beating one of the scholars to an extraor-
dinary extent. The affair excites a great deal of in-
terest in the town.
HIGHWAY. ROBBERIES.-011 Saturday, the 16th
inst., between four and five in the afternoon, as Mr.
Osborne, traveller to Berries and Co., of Manchester,
was driving in his gig from Bala to Llanfillin, North
Wales, at a lonely part of the road, near the top of
Borwyn Mountain, four miles from any dwelling-house,
he was attacked by three men, who stopped his horse,
and dragged him out. Mr. Osborne att•,mpted to strug-
gle with his assailants, but he was beat about the head
till he became insensible, and whilst in that state they
took from the gig box 2751. in gold and silver. The
ruffians got clear away. On Saturday a gentleman was
stopped outside Manchester, and robbed of 3751.
LOAN TO THE DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION.—

We have heard from good authorit;;;;there is:almost
the certainty of the Government advancing the Dublin
and Belfast Junction Company 160,0001. or 200.0001. on
loan; but the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in pis finan-
cial statement on Friday night, math, no allusion what-
ever to the subject. He proposes to advance a sum of
200,0001. for land ireprolements, tied 800,0001. for arte-
rial drainage, but not one word about railways. The
absence of all allusion to the loan, however, in the finan-
cial sta!enient, is not to be taken as conclusive against
its being granted, though it would he well
if the direc-
tors were prepared to apply a gentle pressure, ns early
as possible after the Easter recess.---'11.6h Railway
Gazette.
THE !for DUTY. Mr. Hodges, 1\1.P., has ad-
dressed the following letter to the editor of the Maid-
stone Gazette :—" Sir,—Aware of the intense anxiety
that must prevail in the hop-planting district of the
counties of Kent and Sussex, after the financial state-
ment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Friday, in
which no allusion to the hop-tax was made, I felt it to
be my first duty to request a meeting of the chairmen of
the planters of both counties, accompanied by gentlemen
who have taken active part in the exertions hitherto
made to obtain a reduction of that duty; and their
unanimous opinion is, that I shall lose no time in ob-
taining a meeting in London at the Members of Parlia-
ment connected with the hop growing districts of the
different counties of England, with a view to the adop-
tion of such a course of proceeding its may be best cal-
.