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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDA I EVENING,

mortar boats, and many others carry guns of the largest
calibre. We may hereafter enter more largely into the
particulars comprised in this return ; but we have
enough, we trust, to justify us in saying that no
Englishman can look ot. the actual force—availa-
ble of immediate extension—and gradually increasing
aggregate of our steam navy, without a proud but serene
consciousness of his country's maritime greatness, and
unbounded confidence, if she be but true to it, in the ade-
quacy of its resources to meet any exigencies at any
moment—so long as this confidence shall not generate a
laxity of administration in the civil departments of the
service. There is still much to do; and nothing is to
be considered certain, humanly speaking, whilst aught
remains to be done in that further progress to complete-
ness and efficiency which our honour and our interests
alike demands.

The annual general meeting of the proprietors of the
New Zealand Company, was productive of some ex-
traordinary disclosures touching the want of good faith
displayed by the Colonial Department in particular, and
by both the Home and the Colonial Secretaries per.
sonally, in their recent correspondence, or rather nego-
tiations with the Company. We have, on many for-
mer occasions, expressed a not very favourable opinion of
the good faith evinced by the Directors of this very
Company, in their dealings with settlers and emigrants,
whose purchases of lands, for any benefit they brought
to them, or any equivalent which they yielded for their
own good money, might just as well have
been made for land in Abyssinia or the Khyber
mountains. We are by no means prepared to say, that
the New Zealand Company have ever expurgated their
character from the imputations which have been cast
upon it by so many luckless victims of the peculiar me-
thod, in times past, of selling lands which they had not
the means of delivering, because they never were in
their authenticated and established possession. We can-
not see that any sort of reparation has yet been made
to those martyrs to their own credulity and the puffery
of the WAKEFIELD principle of making colonies pay
their own expenses, who voyaged 12,000 miles out to a

ordinance was passed approving of the statutes of the
Company. The duration of the lease is fixed at forty-five
years. The Lyons and Avignon line was also adopted, and
the amendment of M. BOISSY D'ANGIAS, to have it pass
on the right bank of the Rhone, rejected. It was announced
in the Chamber, that, on Monday, the Minister of Marine
would propose an extraordinary vote of credit for 10,000,000
francs, to carry out the new treaty for the suppression of the
slave-trade. Some of the papers state, that Admiral DUPE-
TIT THOUARS will be appointed to the command of the fleet,
to be stationed on the African coast, for carrying the treaty
into effect. He will hoist his flag in a fifty gun frigate, and
Captain BOUET VUILLAMEZ, who attended the Duke DE
BROGLIE, in London, during the negotiations, will be the
second in command. The Minister of Marine had addressed
a circular to the Marine Prefects, recommending the use of
tubular boilers for the steamers of the royal navy, as the old
boilers became unfit for service. As these boilers are at pre-
sent entirely constructed abroad, the Minister recommend the
Prefects to direct the attention of the iron-masters to the
subject, in order to induce them to supply such boilers
without having recourse to foreigners. The following
particulars of the arrival of the Royal Family at Bizy
appear in the Illoniteur :—" On Wednesday, the KING, the
QUEEN, the Duchess of ORLEANS, the Count DE PARIS, the
Duke DE CHARTRES, the Duke and Duchess of SixE CO-
BURG, and the young Duke of WURTEMBURG, attended by
Generals Count FRIANT and DE CHABANNES, MM. DE MONT-
GUYON and DE MONTMORENCY, two orderly officers, and the
suite of their Majesties and Royal Highnesses, were received
at the Vernon station by the Prefect, General LALAING
D'AUDENARDE, the Commandant of the National Guard, and
the other authorities. The royal party immediately entered
their carriages, and proceeded to the Chateau de Bizy. The
KING soon afterwards came out again on foot, leading the
Count DE PARIS by the hand, and accompanied by the young
Dukes DE CHARTRES and WURTEMBURG, and reviewed the
troops drawn up on the road, by whom and a large assemblage of
the people he was received with loud and continued acclama-
tions. After the review his MAJESTY re-entered the chateau,
and received the Bishop of EvnEux, and the civil and mili-
tary authorities."
On Friday afternoon the royal party returned to Neuilly
in excellent health.

land of promise, and—if they-did not die there—tra-
velled 12,000 miles home again, only to record, in their
own experience, that they had been sold, if the
lands had not been delivered. But when we
see a meeting of so many gentlemen of mark and credit
assembling to hear, and voting unanimously to confirm
a " report," in which they not only accuse the Govern-
ment of positive duplicity, but make out a case to show
that, in these transactions with it, at least, they had to
choose the alternative of profit with dishonour, by
closing with the views of the Colonial Minister, or
honour without profit, by persisting in vindicating their
own claims, and the rights and the protection of the
colonists. We must suppose that the present Directors
of the New Zealand Company feel themselves strong
in the moral justice as well as legal bearings of the case
they have so well developed in the report which was
read at the proprietary meeting in question. We might
have been better pleased, to be sure, bad Mr. SOAMES,
the Governor of the Company, been at his post, seeing
that he was not exempted, among other influen-
tial authorities, from the bitter denunciations of

deceived and defrauded purchasers)—instead of being
" detained by a particular engagement." But there were
among other Members f Parliament, Lord INGESTRE,
Mr. H. A. AGLIONBY, Mr. CHARLES BULLER, Mr. J.
A. SMITH, Mr. S. MAJORIBANKS, Mr. R. D. MINGLES
besides Sir JOHN PIRIE, Baronet, General BRIGGS:
Captain NAIRN, Dr. EvANs, &c., present on this occa-
sion ; and the report of the Committee which was read
undoubtedly must be taken as pledging all those parties
to the same views as it announced of the deportment of
Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM—arid of the in-
capacity, misconduct, and absurdities of the late Go-
vernor FITZROY. It appears that the cause of Mr. C.
BULLER'S deferring his motion relative to New Zealand,
which would have brought the whole conduct of the
Colonial Minister to the Company and to the colonists
under the review of Parliament, was a suggestion con-
fidentially given by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in an
interview which he had with Mr. BULLER about

a week prior to the day for which this
notice stood—that if it were, as a preliminary condi-
tion, withdrawn, the Government would be disposed to

settle the disputes between it and the Company amicably
—which it could not do, if it appeared to act under any
stress or pressure—such as that of a pending motion for
such a Committee of Inquiry. Mr. BULLER consented,
had some personal conferences with Sir J. GRAHAM,
and by that Minister was induced to submit the specific
proposition he had tendered for the consideration of
Government in writing, for the opinion of Lord STAN-
LEY. That proposition went on the basis of obviating
all necessity for any fresh adjudication upon the mat-
ters immediately at issue, by constituting a new pro-
vince in New Zealand, which formed a part of the middle
and a part of the more northern districts of the island,
and vesting this in a new Company, in which the New
Zealand Company should merge, under arrangements
for the security of its present interests and property.
The proposition was discussed largely between Sir J.
GRAHAM, Mr. BoLLER, and Lord STANLEY, who,
though he took some objections to particular details,
instructed Sir JAMES afterwards to inform Mr. BULLER.
that he did not look upon those objections as insuperable.
This produced a second written letter from Mr. CHARLES
BULLER to Lord STANLEY, who—after the motion had
been withdrawn, and the time for urging such matters
with effect on the House of Commons was fast waning
away—intimated to Mr. BULLER that Government now
found its objections to his propositions were insuperable
This cavalier treatment is as much characteristic of Lord
STANLEY (who never imagines that all the world should
not stand still when the Colonial office is of opinion that
it ought not to move), as the extraordinary account
given by Dr. EvANs of Governor FITZRoY'S extrava-
gancies in New Zealand is of Downing-street patronage-
pets. For all these matters we must refer the reader to
our report. At parting we cannot help saying that the
law of poetical justice has been well observed in this affair.
If the New Zealand Company, at its outset, victimised
emigrant yeomen with some little money and much
less sagacity, the New Zealand Company (i. e., its
Directors) has been absurdly victimised in its turn, by
Ministers of some little sagacity, and no scruples.
That Mr. CHARLES BULLER (" good, easy man !")
should have been deluded into postponing his motion by
so notorious a political hocusser as Sir J. GRAHAM,
is, however, marvellous to us, who held a very high
opinion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's genera
shrewdness, as well as singular talent and ability.

The Madrid Gazette of the Ist inst. publishes a law,
passed by the Cortes, by which the sum of 159,000,000 reels
(1,590,0001.) is appropriated for the maintenance of the clergy,
and also a royal decree appointing a commission of three
clergymen and two civilians, the Archbishop of TOLEDO, pre-
sident, to superintend the expenditure. Also a decree con-
firming the contract entered into with the bank of San Fer-
nando opening a credit of 100,000,000 reals for the stipends
of the clergy and the maintenance of public worship durng
the present year. The Finance Minister was actively en-
gaged in organising the system for levying the
income-tax passed last session, and the Minister
of the Interior was preparing the organic laws.
Subscriptions had been opened for paying the fines
which may be imposed on the proprietors of the Espectador
and Clamor Publico. The QUEEN reached Valencia on the
29th of May. Intelligence of the abdication of Don CARLOS
had reached Madrid, but not in an official form.
The Three per Cents. closed at 32% for cash, and 333/4 at
60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 221/2 for cash, and 22% at
GO days.

The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers :
" The Mode, a Paris journal, says—' Whatever may be asserted
to the contrary, the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies is de-
termined on, and the new elections are to take place in the month
of November next.' "

" The Semaphore de Marseilles of the 4th instant announces
that, in consequence of the Minister of Commerce having re-
cently modified the quarantine regulations, without previously
consulting the Sanitary Board of that city, the members, consider.
ing their dignity compromised, and being unwilling to incur the
responsibility of acts to which they have not been parties, have all
sent in their resignations.
" The Egyptian steamer Nile arrived at Marseilles on the 2d
inst. from Leghorn, where she had called in on her passage from
Alexandria. Halim Bey, one of the sons of the Pacha of Egypt,
came passenger in that vessel, with 23 young Egyptians.
" A Vienna letter of the 29th ult. says :—' One of our Archdukes
will go to Gotha to pay the compliments of the Court to the Queen
of England on her arrival there, and it is said that the King of
Prussia will have an interview with her Majesty, but it is not pro-
bable that this will take place at Berlin.'''

On the Paris Bourse the Three per Cents. closed on Sa-
turday at 84f. 35c. ex div. ; the Five per Cents. at 122f.10c. ;
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,223 f. 75c. ; Rouen, I,llof. ;
Vierzon, 825 f. ; Havre, 891 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 1,050 f. ; Basle,
272 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 42% ; Spanish Pas-
sives, 7%.

The French Chamber of Deputies was engaged, during
the latter part of last week, in discussing the Bills for lines
of railway from Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avignon,
and the debate on the first Bill was brought to a close on
Saturday, when, without any material alteration, it was
adopted by a large majority. M. MURET DE BORT had pro-
posed an amendment, the object of which was to compel
the Lyons Company to use the Orleans Railway line, as
a trunk common to both, as far as Corbeil, but the
Chamber negatived the amendment. The line will,
consequently, run from the Paris terminus, to be esta-
blished on the right bank of the Seine, near the site of the
Bastille, cross the communes of Bercy and Charenton, pass
Villeneuve Saint Georges, between the town and the Seine;
ascend to the high grounds of the Brie, by the valley of the
Yeres, and proceed along these grounds to the town of
Melun ; thence to Fontainebleau, near which town it will
pass ; it will then traverse the valley of the Loing, between
Moret and St. Alamet, and following the valley of the Seine,
arrive at Montereau, proceeding along the valley of the
Yonne, as far as La Roche ; thence ascend through the
valley of the Armancon to Aisy ; then go through
the valleys the Brenne and the Oze ; cross at
Blaisy-Bas the high ground between the Seine and
the Sabne, and arrive at Dijon at such a point
as shall be determined on by the Government. The Chalons
to Lyons line will be established on the right bank of the
Sailne, pass near Sennecey, on to Tournus and Macon, and
traverse the city of Lyons at a point to be decided on by the
Government before the public adjudication. The following
is article 64, which relates to caution money :—" Whoever
proposes to send in a tender for the adjudication must pre-
viously deposit in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations,
24,000,000 f. in cash, State stock, or public securities, of which
sum 6,000,000 f. shall be set apart specially as caution money
hev iou shouldely,
as propose
required that
by h
for the sections from Paris to Dijon, and from Chalons to
Lyons." The Finance Minister said, as the sum required
tsuec h
article,
rst ui
for caution money was only 16,000,000 f., out of the 24,000,000 f.,
bem
but dthepaotsitthede
otherpre
. -
UVU, • which was ' considered as part payment of the sum
to be paid the State for the works which they might
4,1,9 executed on the liner should be paid before the Royal

JUNE 9, 1845.

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2IA to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 135
Ditto, Half Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Bristol and Gloucester 3O 5Bl
Caledonian 5 ll 10% to 11%
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth,and Nun -
eaton
Coventry and Leicester
Pirect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21,4 IO3A to 11
Dublin and Galway .. ... 2l/2 ...... 4%
Eastern Counties
iDo. New 41. 16s 76%... to 7

, ..
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. Igo. 1. 5/.13s 4d 114 to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.

Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Great South andW. (Irish)... 10
Ditto Extension
Great North of England 100 245
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portms. 2% 5% to
Hull and Selby ... 50 lO4l/5 to
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 20 ...... 47
London and Birmingham ...100 239 240... to 258
Ditto, New Thirds . ........ 2
Ditto % Shares ...
London and Blackwall 16% lO
Londou and Brighton....
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d 19% to 20
Do. New l3s 4d l% to
London and South Western.. 41%
Ditto New 2%
London and York ... ..... ...... 2% 314.m... to
Lynn and Dereham
Manchestet and Leeds 73 .....168% to 169
Ditto Half Shares - 32
Ditto Sixteenths
Ditto Quarters
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s ......
...43/1 4 to
_...

, .
Midland
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo 144
Newcastle &Darlington Sum. 25 ...... 51 501/.; to 50
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2%...... 5%
North British
Ditto New . 1 . 6% to 6
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon lO ... 21
Oxford and Worcester 2% 6 ...... to 5%
Perth and Inverness
Preston and Wyre
Richmond and West End June. 1
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Scottish Central
South:Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 7% to 8
South Wales
Trent Valley ... 2 .. .. 19
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. .. 3% to
Welch Midland 2l/2 .... 4% to
York and North Midland ... 50 ......107
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 4 834 ..... . to 914
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) 2 ..... 2:414... to
Louvain and Jemeppe
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Over Yssel 413 s 4d 1%36— to
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ...
Do. (Hainguerlot's)
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSELS, JUNE: 4.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent •••.•.• • • . • • • •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent •.•• • . • .
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. • •
Ditto Three per Cent.. ........ • ..... • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1840 . . 102%
Ditto, ditto, 1844....
Ditto of the City, 1833 ....... ....... .. 101%
Ditto, 1843 :102%
Bank of 8e1gium...... .... ..... .... .• • . 643
—Brussels Papers, June 4.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 28.
5 per Cent. Metalliques •
4 per Cent. ditto •
3 per Cent. ditto ....... ••-• • • • • ......... 78
Loan, 1834 . .
Ditto, 1839 • .
Bank Shares 1645
Esterhazy's Loan 55
--Allgemeine Zeitung, June I.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.;

LONDON, JUNE 9.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze and cloudy. -
DEAL, JUNE B.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., very strong.—And.
Carnatic, Hyne, Bombay ; Mountaineer, Sierra Leone ; Maria, Van
Caumenga, Feyen, Cotingruba ; a whaler, supposed the Sarah Ann,
South Seas for London ; Catherine, Greene, St. Kitts ; Hunter, of
Goole, New Orleans. Sld. Lady M`Naghten, Calcutta ; Justina,
Madras; Hebrides, Bombay; John Brewer, Aden; Mary Irvine,
Mauritius ; Fairlie, Ascension ; Fox, Valparaiso ; Highbury, Ja-
maica ; Glasgow, Dalhousie ; Marquis of Bute, China ; Lady Hilda,
Barbadoes, and the rest of the outward bound, except Gilbert lien.
derson and Thetis.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE B.—Wind N.W., frezh.—Arrd. Euphrates, Wil-
son, China ; Eleanor Chapman, Noss, Mazatlan; Jupiter, Matthews,
Maracaibo; Rochdale, Jamaica; Agnes, Ewing, Glentainer, Gram-
pian, Laura, Lord Sanion, Mayfield, Octavius, Provinelalist, and
Republic, all from New Orleans ; Alhambra, Duncan Ritchie, Hector,
Robert Parker, and Tay, Mobile ; Solon, Apalachicola ; Warren and
Panther, Charleston ; Tarolinta, New York ; Perseverance, Kestrel,
and Osprey, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Warman, Gibb, Rio de
la llachc ; Islam Morphew, Barbadoes ; Lydia, Jones, An-
tigua ; Joseph Anderson, Savanilla ; Sicilly, Bell, Tampico ;
Hampton, North Pole, and Jos. H. Parkins, New Orleans ; Birken-
head, Lancaster, and Rockingham, Mobile ; Glendower, Savannah ;
Susannah and Thomas Bennett, Charleston. Put back Sisters, for
St. Lucia, leaky. Sld. Dumfries, China ; Christina, Batavia; Ocean,
Singapore; Barbara, Calcutta; Protector, Ceylon; Orinza, Bombay;
Ariel, Columbia River ; Eu, Valparaiso ; Ann, Buenos Ayres ; Star,
Rio ; Hopkinson, Africa ; Columbia, Demerara ; Crescent, Jamaica;
Josephine, Tampico ; Liverpool, New York ; Edward Kenney, Hen-
rietta, Mary, and Jane, Quebec.
Huta, JUNE B.—A large barque, reported to be the Surrey, from
New Orleans, has got ashore this morning on the Sketter Sand,
where she remains high and dry. _ _

REDCAR, JUNE 7.—The Emanuel, Heinrick, from Antwerp to
Stockton, ran on the rocks off here yesterday, but was got off with
assistance, and into Middlesborough, without much damage.
YARMOUTH, JUNE blew a heavy gale last night and this
morning at South, but is now more moderate.—Wind W. to S.W.—
The Virgo, of Shields, for Honfleur, with coals, has been assisted in
here leaky, having been in the Shipwash Sand. The Maria, from
Neath to London, widi potatoes, has also been assisted in here with
damage.
HARWICH, JUNE S.—A coal-laden brig got ashore this morning on
the Cork Sand, but came off at high water, with assistance, after
throwing part of cargo overboard, and is now at anchor near Cork
light-vessel.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Hundreds have been dis-
appointed of obtaining seats each night. Madame Anna Thillon
has appeared in The Enchantress, and so great an impression has
her performance made, that she plays only in this opera during her
stay in London.
The Queen Dowager and Household leave Marl-
borough House to-morrow, for Bushey Park.
HER MAJESTY'S BAL COSTUME.—The coiffures Of
the following distinguished personages, made and dressed by Mr.
Willis, of Great Marlborough-street, attracted universal admira-
tion :—Prince Edward, Count Esterhaay, Marquis of Worcester,
Earl of Fife, Lord Clanricarde, Earl of Rosslyn, Earl of March,
the Hon. W. Bagot, Sir William Cavendish, Sir Watkins W.
Wynn, Captain Pitt, Lord Nelson, &c. &c.
SIR JAMES GRAIL% M AND MR. TwYFORD.—O❑
Saturday a meeting of the Marylebone Vestry took place, when
several Members of Parliament and influential persons were pre-
sent. The Rev. Dr. Spry, the Rector, having taken the chair,
Mr. Gomm brought forward the motion of which he had given
notice, that the vestry call upon the Borough Members to bring
the case of Mr. Mayer before the House of Commons, on the
ground that the letter received by the vestry from Sir James
Graham was not satisfactory. Sir B. Hall, Sir Charles Napier;
and General Evans expressed their approbation of the conduct
pursued by the vestry, but said they considered the condemnation
of the course pursued by Mr. Twyford, circulated as it would be
throughout the country, sufficient puni,hment for the fault. Mr.
Williams, M.P., also concurred in what the vestry had done, aid
said he would be happy to move in the House of Commons for the
production of the correspondence between Sir J. Graham and Mr.
Twyford. Several other gentlemen having spoken, Mr. Gomm
asked permission to withdraw his motion, as the course which Mr.
Williams had declared his intention of pursuing would answer
every purpose aimed at by the vestry. This being assented to, the
vestry separated.

The Constitutionnel states the report of the arrival
of M. d'Aubigny in Paris was unfounded. Immediately after his
arrival at Rochefort, in the Embuscade, which lelt Otaheite on th•
20th January, and Brazil on the 12th of April, M. d'Aubigny pro-
ceeded to Lorient to visit his family, and was there to await the
orders of the Minister of Marine. Count Ney, the French Charge
d'Affaires at the Court of Brazil, and Lieutenant-Colonel Favereau
who had the military command at the Marquesas, also arrived in the
Embuscade.

SALE Of A CADETSHIP.—Mr. John Henry Drew,
auctioneer, King William-street, and Mr. James Ballet, of Bays-
water, were charged before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlborough-street,
on Saturday, with being concerned in negotiating for the sale of a
cadetship in the East India Company's service, in violation of the
49th statute of George 111., sec. 126, which makes such proceed-
ings a misdemeanour. Mr. Clarkson attended to prosecute on be-
half of the Chairman and Directors of the East India Company,
and stated that the offence with which the defendants were
charged consisted in having negotiated for the sale of a
cadetship in the Company's service to a person named James
Matthews Boswell, the stepson of a gentleman named
Coppard. The amount of the sale of this cadetship was one
thousand guineas, which was to be paid by Mr. Coppard
into the hands of Mr. Sprye, on the part of the two parties
at the bar, and other parties who were not, but who would
shortly be, before the Court. A gentleman named Mr.
Shank, formerly a director of the East India Company, was the
person through whose intercession and influence this appointment
was said to be promised by the parties accused. After a lengthened
investigation, Mr. Hardwick agreed to admit both parties to bail,
upon entering into their own recognizance for 5001., and finding
two sureties to be bound in the sum of 5001. each.
TILE GRAND CALEDONIAN BALL.—This magnifi-
cent reunion takes place to-night, under auspices that will secure
a numerous and brilliant assemblage of our leading nobility. The
several ladies patronesses had disposed of the whole of their vouchers
on Friday last; but, owing to the urgent solicitations of some in-
fluential persons, we learn that a limited number will be issued at
double the ordinary charge. The exchange of vouchers has
already exceeded 900. Most of the corps diplomatique have ac-
cepted the invitations of the ladles patronesses, and Prince Lieven,
Prince Galatzin, and several distinguished foreigners, have signified
it as their intention to be at the ball, by the fact of applying for
vouchers. The members of the Royal Family will be received by
the ladies patronesses, and will meet in the saloon commonly called
the tea-room, where the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Ministers,
&c., will also assemble. It is said the splendid ball.room and con-
necting rooms, as well as the supper-room below, are all to be ar-
ranged precisely as at the Waverley ball last season. A number of
ladies have promised to be present in the superb dresses they
wore at the royal sal costume on Friday night ; and the Marquis
of Breadalbane, the Marquis of Lorn, and Lord Macdonald,
will be among the noblemen wearing the Highland garb, who fully
intend to appear in the rich additions to the national costume of
Scotland after the mode of 1740 to 1750. The Duchess of Suther-
land, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk, the Duchess of Somerset, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Breadalbane, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the
Countess of Roseberry, the Duchess de Coigny, the Marchioness
of Lorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, and above 500
personages of title have agreed to honour the ball by their presence.

RAILWAY BILLS.—The following paragraph :ap-
pears in a country paper :—" We have heard that the Govern.
ment intends to permit all such Railway Bills as cannot, for want of
time, get through this session, to resume their progress next session
at the point at which they leave off this." No such intention has,
as yet, been avowed; but considering all the circumstances, the
pressure of Bills that are ready for consideration, yet cannot be
considered, it is by no means unlikely that something of the kind
will be resolved upon.