The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-20 00:00:00

RIOTS IN BOHEMIA.

PRAGUE, JULY 10.—We had fresh disturbances on the Bth,
but on this occasion blood was spilt. The workmen on the
railway assembled, to the number of some hundreds, near the
Porzitseh-gate, and remained perfectly quiet during the
morning, but did not work. It is said they are dissatisfied
because, it having rained the day before, they were prevented
from working, and received only part of the day's wages.
Some companies of infantry and squadrons of cavalry were
sent to occupy the gates. About four o'clock in the afternoon,
it is not known from what causes (some say because the
cavalry attempted to disperse them) they began an attack
with stones on the Porzitseh-gate, which was shut. Ten rods
of the railway were broken up. The stones were torn from
the new wall, which runs along the Risks Mountain, and
thrown at the soldiers. The Custom-house was demolished,
the Imperial Eagle torn down and trampled under foot, till at
length Prince Windisch Gratz, •the General commanding in
Bohemia, ordered the troops to fire. Two persons were killed,
one of whom was the child of a merchant that happened to
be standing at a window. We saw six wounded persons, but
do not know if there were more. It is said that there are
several in the hospital who were wounded by the cavalry.
The animosity and rage of the populace is great, especially
against the Jews. Several companies of soldiers remained in
the neighbourhood during the night of the Bth, to protect the
Jews' quarter.

GOVERNMENT AND THE RAILWAYS BILL.—We
are gratified in being enabled to state that the result of the
interview which took place on Wednesdaybetween Mr. Glad-
stone, on the part of the Government, and Mr. Entwisle,
M.P., Mr. Hudson, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Saunders, &c., as a dep.-
tatiou from the railway companies, was in the highest degree
satisfactory. The subject having been fully gone into, the
Right Hon. President of the Board of Trade stated his deter-
mination so to modify the Bill as to render it in every way
unexceptionable to the railway interest. The measure will
now pass through Parliament without opposition, and will
prove, to adopt the language of a gentleman, a member of the
deputation, who has hitherto taken a leading part in opposi-
tion to the Bill, " a good Bill for the public as well as for the
railway shareholders.—Ministerial paper.
THE Hors.—MAIDSTONE, JULY 16.—Our hop ac-
counts received yesterday speak of great damage having
been done to the plantations in this district by the gale on
Saturday night and Sunday morning. Poles have been
thrown down in all directions, and an experienced planter
gives it as his opinion that not less than twenty thousand
pounds of duty has been blown away. In one plantation of
between thirty and forty acres the damage is estimated at
four tons. This, added to the shortness of bine in many places
f.ent,en and the extensive blight in Sussex, must make the
crop a short am—Maidstone Intellisencer.

Borough of Birmingham—Richard Spooner, Esq., in the
room of Joshua Scholefield, Esq., deceased.
ADMIRALTY, Jut 12.
Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant P. T. M. Payne
to be Captain, vice Brevet Major H. B. Mends, deceased ;
Second Lieutenant G. Drury to be First Lieutenant, vice
Payne, promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire.
Liecestershire Regiment of Militia—Captain and Adjutant
H. F. Hawker, from the Queen's Own Tower Hamlets Regi.
ment of Militia, to be Adjutant, vice Deakin, deceased,
March 22.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of

Yorkshire.
First West Regiment of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—G.
Sitwell, Esq., to be Captain, vice Lord Howard, resigned;
Cornet D. Nisbett to be Lieutenant, vice Swann, resigned ;
W. Fowler, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Nisbett, promoted,
July 13, 1844.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayrshire.
Ayrshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Regimental Ser-
jeant-Major A. B. Calvert, from the 2d Dragoon Guards, to
be Adjutant; Adjutant A. B. Calvert to be Cornet; Rev. J.
C. Jamieson to be Chaplain, vice the Rev. J. M'Leod, D.D.,
deceased, July 10.