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London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

TUESDAY. APRIL 23.

TUE UNIVERSITIES.—Mr. Heywood, motion for an
inquiry into the present state of the Universities and
Colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin, with a
view to the improvement of those ancient institutions,
in alcordance with the requirements cf modern times.
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—Mr. Ewart, bill to abolish
the punishment of death.
DIPLOMATIC, &C., SERVICES.—Mr. Disraeli, to call
the attention of the house to the diplomatic and consular
services, with a view to their more economical and effi-
cient performance.
PLEADING AND PRACTICE.—Mr.:Cockburn, select com-
mittes to inquire into the state c f the law as regards
ein civil actions in the superior
and Wales, and to report whether any
be made therein.
capnl)eudardwt pleading
aEannweigerct
amendments nicnts may

FOREIGN WHEAT.—Mr. Grantley Berkeley, to move
a resolution, in a committee of the whole house, relative
to the imposition cf Bs. duty on foreign wheat imported
into this country.
SLATE-GROWN SUGAR.--Mr. Grantley Berkeley, to
move a resolution, in a committee of the whole house, re-
specting the exclusion from our markets of the produce
of slave labour.
ADYERTISEDIENT DUTY.—Mr. Ewart, repeal of ad-
vertisement duty.
PROBATES, &C. (IRELAND).—Mr. Keogh, return of
the number of probates and letters of administration
granted in the Prerogative Court, Dublin, and in each
bishop's or diccesan court in Ire:and, for the last three
rare, specifying the number granted in each year, and
the probate duty paid on each; and, bill for the im-
provement ( f the law reguLtiiig ,the administration of
the personalty of deceased persobs in Ireland.
ORDERS OF TUE DAY.

SECOND READlNG.—Tenements Recovery (Ireland)
Bill.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE ON WOOD USED
IN SHIP-BUILDING.—Mr. Anderson in the committee
above named to Irv), that the remission be extended
to all wood used in the construction of boats for the
coast fisheries.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.
ORDERS OF THE DAY.

SECOND READINGS.—Juvenile Offenders; Highway
(District Surveyors); Vestries and Vestry Clerks; Bille.
CommirrEE.—Affirmation Bill (amendments to be
considered).
reduction.MOT .
TUESDAY, APRIL 30.
INDEPENDitEkNa vieTNw to a dueOTICEti O F MOTIONS.
PUBLIC SALARIES. —Mr. Henley, a general revision
of all salaries, w
WARLIKE ESTABLISHMENTS.—Mr. Cobden, to move
that an humble address be pre eated to the Queen,
praying that her Majesty will direct the Secretary of
State f.a. Foreign Affairs to enter into negotiations with
ooke , reduction
select
com-
mittee o
the Government of France and other foreign Govern-
f
wmaerrnletistiNe oi
anErve mi tioannargaintNhtsom
e.mti esoi
rncEu. Col
r in a mutualeb r
to inquire into the rights of succession of the al-
lied and dependent princes of India.
PAUPER ScrtooLs.--Mr. Moore, copies of regulations
under which district schools for pauper children, under
7 and 8 Vic., c. 101, are conducted.
POOR RELIEF (IRELAND).—Sir D. Norreyr, bill to
provide for the more equitable distribution of the charge
for the relief of the poor in unions in Ireland.
MAILS, KINGSTOWN AND HOLYHEAD.—Sir R. Bulke-
ley, select committee to investigate and report to the
house upon all matters connected with the contract for
the conveyance of the mails between King3town and
Holyhead. To report also how far tho engagements
entered into by the Admiralty with the City of Dublin
Steam Packet Company tend to develop or otherwise
the full advantages of the direct and continuous line of
communication between London and Dublin, which the
Chester and Holyhead Railway Company are, under
the provisions of their Act of Parliament now labour-
ing to effect.
WEDNESDAY, MAY L
ORDERS OF THE DAY.
SECOND READINGS.—LandIord and Tenant; Railway
Traffic; Bills.
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Col. Sibthorp, to move as an amendment that the first
nsmed Bill be read a second time that day six months.

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THURSDAY, MAY 2.
ORDER OF THE DAY.

Adjourned debWeon motion for leave to bring in a
Bill to repeal the stamp duty on attornies' certificates.
WEDNESDAY. MAY 8.
ORDER OF THE DAY.

SECOND READINGS.—ReaI Property Transfer Bill.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR WHICH NO PAR-
TICULAR DAY HAS BEEN FIXED.

THE POST. oFFIcE.LLord Ashley, address to the
Crown on the subject of employment in the Post-offices
of the United Kingdom on the Sabbath Day. _ ..

THE LAND TAX.—Mr. Woclehouse, to dial the atten-
tion of the House to the inequalities of tho present sys-
tem of land tax quotas in the several counties and dis-
tricts throughout England, Wales, and Scotland.
MAIL PACKET STATION.—Mr. Henry Herbert to call
the attention of the house to the importance of estab-

lishing a mail packet station on the South or West Coast
of Ireland.

CATHEDRALS AND CHURCHES.—Mr. Evart, address
to her Majesty, as the head of the national church, pray-
ing that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take
into consideration the expediency of causing our cathe-
drals and churches to be generally open (so fir as is
practicable) throughout the day, with a view to en-
courage the practice of private devotion therein, es-
pecially for the benefit of the poorer classes of the
community.
RAMSGATE HARBOUR.—Mr. Mackinnon, select com-
mittee to investigate the revenue, condition, and expen-
diture of the harbour of Rsmsgate.
SALE Of A PICTURE.—Mr. Charteris, to call the at-
tention of the First Lord of the Treasury to the recent
sale by public auction at Messre. Christie's of a picture
which is confidently believed by many persons to be the
work of &antelle.

JOURNEYMEN BAKERS.—Lord R. Grosvenor, bill to
improve the sanitary condition of the journeymen
bakers.

THE LEGAL QUAYS--Sir W. Molesworth, select come
mittee to inquire into the regulations of the board of
customs that forbid the landing and warehousing certain
articles of foreign produce free of duty, and many others
paying very low duties on the Southwark side of the
Thames, and permit similar articles to be landed and
warehoused at certain wharves, called legal qua) a, on
the north tide of the river.

EDUCATION (IRELAND.)—Mr. G. A. Hamilton, ad-
dress t..) her Majesty on the subject of scriptural edu-
cation in Ireland; and to call the attention at the House
to the position in which the clergy and laity of the Es-
tablished Church are placed who object, on conscientious
grounds, to the rules and principles of the national sys-
tem of education in that country.
CARRICK-ON-SHANNON UNION.—Mr. G. A. Hamil-
ton, to present a petition from the guardians of the
Carrick-on-Shannon Union, complaining of gross mis-
management and abuses by the late vice-guardians and
other officials.

MADRAS KAlLWAY.—Viscount Jocelyn, copies of any
correspondence which may have taken place between
the Court of Directors and the Madras Government, in
reference to the proposed Madras Railway.
MINISTERS' MONEY (IRELAND).—Mr. Fagan to move
the following resolution:—" That the tax called Minis-
ters' Money,' levied in eight corporate towns in Ireland,
is partial and oppressive; is injurious to the best inte-
rests of religion; and alike odious to the Protestant
clergy, who receive it, as to the Roman Catholic reople,
who pay it; and, inasmuch as a sel( tit committee of
this house recommended that it should be abolished,
and that the Protestant minister in these corporate
towns should receive equivalent incomes out of the reve-
nues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, tbis house is
of opinion, that steps should be taken io give eff,ct to
such recommendation."

COMMERCIAL INFORMATION.—ML Newdegate, to call
the attention of the house to the inconvenience and
danger, arising from the tardy production, insufficiency,
and defective nature of the commercial information sup-
plied to Parliament.
QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS.—ML Osborne. to
move► the abolition of the property qualification for
Members of Parliament in England, Wales, and
Ireland.

KILRITSH, &C., UNIUNS.--Mr. P. Scrcpe, select com-
mittee, to inquire into the recent administration of the
poor-law in the Kilrush, Scaritr, Ennistymon, and Clif-
den Unions.

EVICTIONS, &c. (IRELAND).—Mr. P. Scrope, bill to
check systematic house-levelling and depopulation in
Ireland.
METROPOLITAN SUPPLY OF WATER.—Lord R. Gros-
venor, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, whether it is probable that measures will
be introduced this year to remedy the present defective
water supply to the poorer classes of the metropolis.
MALLOW UNION —Sir D. Norreys, to present a peti-
tion from the board of guardians of the Mallow Union,
complaining of evidence given before a committee of the
house by a member of the Board of Health in Ireland,
and praying for inquiry.
FEVER HOSPITALS (IRELAND).—Sir D. Norreys, to
move for papers relating to the erection of a fever hos
pital at Buttevant by the Relief Commissioners or Board
of Health; and copies of all correspondence during the
last twelve months between boards of guardians and the
Poor law Commissioners, or Board of Health, complain-
ing of the continuance of temporary fever hospitals by
the Board of Health.
FEES IN COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY.—Mr. Bou-
verie, to ask her Majesty's Government whether it is
their intention to take any steps, by introducing a bill
into Parliament, or otherwise, to carry into effect the re-
commendations of the select committee upon foes of last
year, suggesting important improvements of the present
practice in the Court of Chancery on this subject.
FIRE INSURANCES.—OOI. Sibthorp, reduction of duty
on fire insurances.

NATIONAL LAND COMPANY.—Mr. F. O'Connor, bill
to wind up the affairs of this company.
TITHEF.—Mr. %Vyld, bill to regulate the tithe rent
charge by the annual average price of corn.
SEAMEN'S GROG.-Sir Georg© Pechell, copy of the
report and proceedings of the committee appointed by
the Board of Admiralty to inquire into the eff-cts of
the present issue of spirits to the crews of her Majesty's
ships. •
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).—Mr. P. Scrope, select com-
mittee to inquire into the recent administration of the
poor-law in several of the distressed unions of the west
and south of Ireland.

CRIME IN SCOTLAND.—Mr. Cowan, to move for ♦a-
rious returns in reference to this subject.
SALE OF POISONS.—Mr. Stanford, selsct committee
to inquire if any restriction (and if any, what restrict
Lions) should be imposed by Parliament on the sale of
poisons. _ _

SUGAR.— Sir Edward Buxton, that it is unjust and im
politic to expose the free-grown sugar of the British
colonies and possessions abroad to a competition with
the sugar cf foreign slave-holding and slave-trading
countries.

PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS, &C. (IRELAND) BILL.—OR
bringing up the report on this bill. Mr. M. Power,
Viscout Castlereagh, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Anstey to
move amendments.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY BILLS.
—On bringing up the reports on question of the third
reading of these bills, Mr. Barnard to move that they be
respectively postponed for one month.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY GRANT.—Mr. E wart, in
committee of supply on miscellaneous estimates, to op-
pose this grant.

HOUSE OF COMMONS PRIVATE BUSINESS
LIST OF PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS,

AND PROCEEDING THEREUPON. SESS. 1850.

A Parliamentary document just issued gives the fol-
lowing account of Bills before the House of Commons,
and indicates the stage at which each Bill now stsnds:—
Aberdeen Railway, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Architects, Civil Engineers, Builders, and General Fire
and Life Insurance Annuity, and Reversionary In-
terest Company (incorporation of the company under
a different name), read 3d time March 18.
Athy, Castlecomer, and Kilkenny Road, read 2d time
March 18.
Belfast Improvement, read 2d time, Feb 19.

lston, Improvement, Market, Waterworks, and Ceme-
tery. read 2d time Feb. 19.
Birkenhead Dock Trusteee, read 2d time Feb. 12.
Birkenhead Improvement, read 3d time March 14.
Birmingham and Per,..hore Road, read Ist time Feb. 7.
Bolton Improvement, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Borough of Salford Waterworks and Improvement, read

2d time Feb. 22.
Bradford Improvement, Police, and Purchase and Closing
of Bradford Canal, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Bridge across the River Clyde, opposite to South Port-
land-street, Laurieston Glasgow, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Brighton Improvement, Purchase of Royal Pavilion and
Grounds, and Amendment of Existing Act, read 2d

time Feb. 14.
Bristol Waterw•orke Act Amendment, read 3,1 time

March 1.5.
British Electric Telegraph Company, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Buckinghamshire Railways, read 3d time March 18.
Cairnwell, Braemar, and trath Dee Turnpike Roads,
withdrawn.
Caledonian Railway (repeal of lease of Glasgow, Barr-
head, and Neilston Direct and Glasgow Southeza
Terminal Railways), petition presented Feb. 7.
Caledonian and Edinburgh and Glasgow Railways
Amalgamation, 2d reading put off for six months.
Caledonian and Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Rail.
.ways, Caledonian and Wishaw and Coltness Railways
petition presented Feb. 7.

Ciledoniaii and i.V ishaw and Coltness Railways, read 2d
time Feb. 18.

Cambridge Regulation and Improvements, Markets and
Fairs, read 21 time Feb. 11.

Cambridge and Shepreth Junction Railway, and Branch
to join the Eastern Counties Railway, 2d reading put
di for six months.

Cardiff Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 25.

Carlisle Gas Light and Coke Company, read 2d time
Feb. 11.

Chester and Holyhead Railway, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Childwall Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 21.
Chippenham Waterworks, withdrawn.
Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society
read 2d time Feb. 11.
Clerkenvvell Improvement, Amendment of Acts, and
transfer of powers, read Ist time Feb. 12.
Colonisation A ssuran co Company, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Copper Miners Company (England) read 2d time

Feb. 27. • •
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Cork Docks and Harbour Iroproyement, read 2d time

Feb. 22.
Coventry and Wolvey Turnpike Road, read Ist time

_ .
Feb. il.
Cromford and Newhaven Turnpike Road, read 2d time

Feb. 11. "
Croydon and Reigate Turnpike Road, read Ist time
Feb. 8.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway (abandonment
of the railway and dissolution of the company), r eid
Ist time Feb 11.

Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway (extension
or revival of powers for t he purchase of lands and com-
pletion of works, amendment or repeal of Acti.), read
2d time Feb. 25. _ _ .

Dublin and y Belfast Junction Railway, read 2d time
Feb. 13.
Dublin and Drogheda Railway, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks, read 2d time

Feb. 19.
Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway, read 2d time

March I.
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction,

read 2d time Feb. 15.
Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen Railway Junction,
Dundee and Arbroath, and Dundee and Newtyle
Railways, read tat time March 15.
East and West India Docks, and Birmingham Junction
Railway, read 2,.1 time Feb. 19.
Eastern Union Railway, read second time Feb. 25.

East of Fife Railway,read Ist time Feb. 4.
Edinburgh Slaughterhouses Removal, read 2d time Feb.
12.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Edinburgh and Bathgate
Railways Amalgamation, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Electric Telegraph Company (amendment of Act), peti-
tion presented, Feb. 28.
Elgin Guildry Fund Society Incorporation, read 2d
time Feb. 12.
Embankment and Reclamation (Ireland), read 2d time
Feb. 13.
Exeter and Crediton Railway, read 2d time Feb. 22.
Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, read
21 time, Feb. 19.
Farmer's Estate Society (Ireland) read 2d time March 4.
Forth and Clyde Navigation, read 2d time Feb. 19.
Garstang and Heiring Syke Turnpike Road, real Ist
time March 12.
Gattcn Lodge to Povey Cross Turnpike Road, read Ist
time Feb. 8.
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway
and Glasgow College Lands, read Ist time Feb. 4.
Glasgow, Barrlicad, and Neilston Direct Railway, read
2d time Feb. 12.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway, 'Tad 2d

time Feb. 25.
Glasgow Markets and Slaughterhouses, read 2d time

Fef). 18.
Glasgow and Shotts Turnpike Roads Improvement, read

2d-time Feb. 19.
Godstone and Highgate Turnpike Road, read 2d time

Feb. 11.
Gorbals Gravitation Water Company, read 2d time

Feb. 22. _
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company (No. 1) with-

drawn.
Great Central Gas Consumers' C,rapany (No. 2) read

2d time March 4.
Great Northern Railway Deviations. Amendment of
Acts, Alteration of Tuns, and of East Lincolnshire
Railway Tolls, read 2d time Feb. 13.
Greenwich Hospital Improvement, read 2d time

March 12.
Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company, real 2d

time Feb. 12.
Hartlepool West Harbour and Docks, read 2d time

_
Feb. 22.
Hartley's Divorce, read 2d time March 26.
Herne Bay Improvement, read 2d time Feb. 19.
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Ileronayke and Eamont Bridge Turnpike Roai, read
Ist time Feb. 12.
Inverness Bridges, read 2d time Feb. 19.

Ipswich General Cemetery, read 2d time March 4.
Kent Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Kew and Pwersham Vicarage, read 2d time Feb. 13.
Killarney Junction Railway, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, read 2d time

Ft b. 26.
Leamington Priors Paving, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Leeds and Halifax Turnpike Road (continuation of term
as to certain parts cf the road). read Ist time Feb. 4.
Leeds and Halifax Turnpike-roads (Thornton districts),

read Ist time Feb. 8.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (extension of time for com-
pletion of Leeds and Hartlepool Railway), petition

presented Feb. 5.
Leicester and Hitchin Railway, read Ist time Feb. 4.
Licensed Victuallers and General Fire and Lite Assu

ranee Company (No. 1), withdrawn.
Lieensed Victuallers and General Fire and Life Assu-
rance Company (No. 2), read 2d time Feb. 27.
Liverpool Cattle Market, read 3d time March 14.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (abandonment of
works, &c.), read Ist time Feb. 14.
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks (extension of time
for purchase of land, &c,), read Ist time Feb. 14.
Liverpool Dock', read 2d time Feb. 15.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (ieviation,
enlargement of station, &c.), read second time Feb. 15.
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway (sale or
lease to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany, &c.), read 2d time Feb. 22.
London (City) Improvements, read 23 time Feb. 25.
London (Watford) Spring Water Company, read Ist

time Feb 8. -
London and Blackwell Railway, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Londonderry aad Coleraine Railway, read 2d time

Feb. 12. -
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway, read 2d time

Feb. 12.
Manchester Bonding, read Ist time Feb. 1.5.
Manchester Rectory Division, read 2(1 time Feb. 19.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, read 2d

time Feb. 13.
Marylebone and Finchley Turnpike Roads, read Ist tisae

Feb. 8.
Merionethshire Turnpike Roads, read Ist time Feb. 13.
Metropolitan Waterworks (Henley-on-Thames and Lon-
don aqueduct), read Ist time Feb. 8.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, read 2d

time Feb. 25.
Montrose Harbour, read 2d time Feb. 12.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Railway, read 2d

time Feb. 12. -
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Improvement, Amendment of
Acts, and New Streets, read 2d time Feb. 15.
New North Road, read 21 time Feb. I I.
Now River Company, read Ist time Fab. 5.
North Kent Railway (continuation from Stroud through
Car. terbury to Deal and Dover, &c.), petition pretented

Feb. 11.
North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourne branch, power

• to 'Ewe, amendment of Acts), real 2d time Feb. 22.
North Staffordshire Railway (extension of time for pur
chaso of lands, &e.), read 2d time Fe•b. 22.
North Staffordshire and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-

aolnshire llailwAys Junction, rta I 2d time Feb. 25.
Norwich Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 12.

Nottingham Freemen's Allotments, read 2d time Feb 19.
Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton, Birmingham
and Oxford Junction, and Great Webtern Railway
Companies, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, read

. . . ..
2d time Feb. 25.
Peterborough Improvement, Police, and Cemetery, &c.

read 2d time Feb. 25.
Pontypridd Gus Light and Coke Comrany, read 2i time

Feb. 25.
Railway Assurance Company, read 2d time March 5.
Railway Passengers' Assurance Company, read 2d time

Feb. 11.
Ramsey, Upwood, and Great Raveley Turf Fens, and
Lockspit Lots and Lockspit Lands Drainage and Im-
provement, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Reading Cattle Market, read 2d time Feb. 12.
Reading Union Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 22.
River Dee Conservancy and Improvement, read 2d time

Feb. 25.
River Lee Trust, read Ist time Feb. 18.
Rochdale, though Bamford and Birtle to Bury, and other
Turnpike Roads, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, read 2d time
Feb. 12.
Scottish Central Railway, read Ist. time March 15.
Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway, read 2nd time

Feb 22.
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal, read 2d time

Feb. 19.
Snaith and Cowick, Union of the Townships, &C., read

2d time Feb. 22.
Southampton Improvement (amendment and extension
of Act), withdrawn.
Southampton Waterworks, read 2d time Feb. 18.
South Devon Railway, read 2d time Feb. 12.

South-Ea..tern Railway (amendment of Acts, powers to
rsie additional capital), reid 2d time Feb. 13.
South-Eastern Railway (power to discontinue payment of
interest on calls paid on No. 3 and No. 4 shares), &c.
read 2d time Feb. 13.
South Staffordshire Railway, read 2d time Feb. 22.
South %Vales Railway (No. 1), read 2d time Feb. 12.
South Wales Railway (No. 2), read 2J time Feb. 22.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (amend-

Inc‘nt Acts, deviation at Doncaster, &c.), read 2d

time Feb. 19.
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (amend-
ment of Acts, deviation to Worsborough, &c.), read
2d time Feb. 12.
Stourbridge Union Rates, read 2d time Feb. 13.
Suffolk and General Country Amicable Inturace Office,

real 3d time March 15. -
Surrey and Sussex Roads, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Swansea Dock Company, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Swansea Municipal Corporation, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Tewkesbury Severn Bridge and Roads, rear' 2d time
Feb. 13.
Timber Preserving Company, read 2i time Feb. 25.
Tyne Navigation, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Tyne River Conservancy, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Ulverston, Millthorpe, and Lancaster, Turnpike Road,
read Ist time Feb. 12.
Victoria (London) Dock, read 2d time Feb. 26.
Wakefield Borough Market, read 2d time Feb. 11.
Walsall Improvement and Market Act (1848) Amend-

ment, read 2d time Feb. 18.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway,

read Ist time Feb. 13.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway, read 2d time Feb. 26.
Waterford and Limerick Railway, read 2d time Feb. 12.
West Bromwich Rates, read 3d time March 14.
West Cornwall Railway, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Westminster Improvements, read 2d time Feb. 25.
Wolverhampton Waterworks Act (amendment and ex-
tension of works), read 2d time Feb. 13.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (alteration of
levels, and extension of time, &c.), read a 2d time
Feb. 18.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (arrangements
as t.) payment for the purchase of the Great North of
England Railway, &c.), read 2d time Feb. 12.
York and North Midland R‘olway, read 2d time Feb. 15.

BRITISH SEAMANSHIP.
Pr,TmouTn, MARCH 26.—Last night the dismasted
was towed into this port by the
schooner
rne )lmmis
Elizabeth.aar The Dammaris belongs to Mr.
G. P. Wittell, of Bristol, registers 148 tons, is com-
manded by Captain Joseph Miles, and left Bristol on
Monday, the 11th of March inst., for Trieste and
Smyrna, with a general cargo of bale goods, con-
sisting of twists, manufactured cottons, calicos, &c.,
a quantity of iron and coal. On the 15th inst., at
9.30 A.M., when in longitude 8.48 west and latitude
46.34 north, under all plain sail, steering south-west,
they were overtaken by a sudden gust of wind from
the south-east, which broke the head of the foremast
under the cross trees, just above the jaws, and in the
fall the foremast carried away the mainmast 17 feet
from the deck, and the wreck fell over the starboard
side. The masts thumped heavily against the ship,
and the crew cut all away as speedily as possible.
Having rigged two main staysails on the stumps
of the masts, they put the vessel before the wind,
and so ran all that day and night, and the next morn-
ing, at 8 A.M., sighted a schooner, which bore down,
and at noon took them in tow. She proved to
be the Elizabeth, John Long master, belong-
ing to Captain Collins, of London, 104 tons register,
and in ballast, from London for St. Michael's.

BIRTHS.
On the 25th inst., in Upper Harley-street, the Lady Laull/
Palmer, of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at Adelaide-terrace, Westbourne-grover
the wife of George liaise of a son.
At Cheltenham, on thei 25th inst., the lady of CePtsill
Keating, late Royal Dragoons, of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., at Bayswater, the wife of G. E. nicks'
Esq., cf a son.
On the 25th inst., Mrs. E. I'Anson, at Clapham-common,
of a daughter.
On the 26th inst., the wife of IL Maynard, Esq., of Park-
terrace, Highbqry, of a son.
On the 26th inst.. the wife of R. Davis, Esq., of Cham
pion-hill, and St. Helen's-place, of a eon.
On the 26th inst., at Bristol, the wife of the Rev. Percy
Lousada, of a son. the
wifeO of nthcee2p6ftefo u
hinsitffd..eart,rt N. f aso
Admiral.o Giffoo.rd 's,

MARRIED.
At the Cathedral, Madras, on the 11th ult., Captain G.
of the late John Edmonds, Esq.,
Baldock, 2Sth Regiment Native Infantry, to Annie, youngest
formerly et
(laughter
Majesty's 45th Regiment.

DIED,
On the 24th inst., at Burgh Rectory, Suffolk, the Rer.
F. Barlow, aged 82.
On the 24th inst . Caroline, the wife of Mr. J. Banks, jun.,
of Northfleet, Kent, aged 27.
On the 25th inst., aged it, Mrs. Day, of Marsh-gate, Rich-
mond, Surrey.
At Deal, on the 26th inst., aged 79, Edward Spencer Cur..
ling, Knight of his Netherlands Majesty's Order of the Lion,
and many years Consul at the above town for that kingdom-
On the 26th inst., et Palatine-place, Stoke Newingion
road, Mr. W. Lefever, aged 61.
Un the 26th inst., Mr. Leake, of Farringdon-market,
London.
On the 26th inst., at Adelaide-terrace, Notting hill, Mrr.
Catherine St. Georse, aged 77.
On the 26th inst., in Great Russell-street, Mr. Thomas
Toms, aged 83.
On the 27th inst., Christopher A. Gerock, Esq , of Har-
ley-place, Bow-road, aged 78

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