The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, IION DON, SATURD A Y EV.gN.ING, AUGUST 23, 1845.

AT the HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEET-
ING of the PROPRIETORS of the NORFOLK RAILWAY
COMPANY held at their Offices, Guildhall-buildings, London, on the
22d day of August, 1845,
ADAM DUFF, Esq., in the Chair.

The Report of the Directors having been read, and also a statement
of the accounts of the late Yarmouth and Norwich and Norwich and
Brandon Companies,
The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to :-
Ist. That the comwon seal of the Company be alflxed to the Regis-
ter of Proprietors.

2d. That the Report now read be received and adopted, and printed,
and circulated among the Proprietors.

3d. That interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum be pgid to
the proprietors of the late Yarmouth and Norwich Company, upon
their paid up capital to the 30th of June last.
4th. That pursuant to the proVisious of the Act of the last session
for altering the line of this Ita:lway, and making a branch to East
Dereham, an additional capital of 220,0001. be raised by the creation
of 22,0 0 new shares of the value of 101. each, to be appropriated
among the Shareholders of the Company in manner provided by the
same Act.

sth. That the Directors be empowered to make arrangements
with the Shareholders in the Diss and Colchester and Wells and
Vereham Railways, for admitting them to subscribe (upon terms and
conditions to be agreed upon) for part of any new capital which it
may be necessary to raise for making extensions or branches from
the line of this railway.
6th. That the number of Directors of the Company bo increased to
Twelve, and that the present Directors be authorised to elect the ad-
ditional members that will be necessary to make up the number.
7th. That the agreement entered into by the Directors of this
Company with Mr. Charles Cory, on the 16th May last, for securing
to him an annuity of 800/. per annum in lieu of all tolls and
charges upon the passenger and goods traffic of this railway passing
across the river Bure at Yarmouth, redeemable on payment of the
sum of 24,0001., and giving this Company the power of buikling a
bridge for the purposes of their traffic across the said river at a
point mentioned in the said agreement be, and the same is hereby
confirmed.

Sth. That the Directors be authorised to make arrangements with
the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour Company for leasing of their
line to apply to Parliament in the next session for the power to carry
the same into effect.

The Chairman having quitted the Chair, it was unanimously re-
solved, That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the Chair-
man and Board of Directors for the zeal and ability shown by them
in the conduct of the affairs of this Comp: ny.
RICHARD TILL, Secretary.
Guildhall-buildings, London, Aug. 22, 1845.

BIRMINGHAM and OXFORD JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
With a DIVERGING LINE through STRATFORD-ON-AVON, to
UNITE with the MORETON-IN-MARSH RAILWAY.
Capital 600,000/., in Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. per Share.

Provisionally Registered, puruanerto Act 7th and Bth Viet., c. 110.
Offices, 449, West Strand.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTER.
The Mayor of Birmingham
John Adams, Esq , Sergeant-at-Law, London
J. T. Alston, Esq., Liverpool
W. Alston, Esq., Elmdon Hall, near Birmingham
John Aston, Esq., Birmingham
Robert James Atty, Esq., Ligon Grange, Stratford-on-Avon
F. P. Barlow, Esq., London
Matthew I'. W. Boalton, Esq., Great Tow Park, Oxon
Colonel Charles Oldfleld Bowles, North Aston Park
W. E. Boyes, Esq., Alkerton, near Banbury
James Boffin, Esq., Westfield House, near Rugby
C. H. Corbitt, Esq., Adminton
vY alter Cowan, Esq., Offchurch Bray, near Leamington
John Crosthwaite, Esq., Liverpool
Sir George Dashwood, Bart., Sirtlington Park, Oxon
William Dickens, Esq., Cherrington, near Shipston
Rev. John Ellis, Wooton, Henley-in-Arden
Edmund Darby Ford, Esq., Stratford-on-Avon
John Branston Freer, Esq., StrattOrd-on-Avon
J. Gardiner, Esq., Southam
Darwin Gallon, Esq., Edstone Hall, near Stratford-on-Avon
Robertson Gladstone, Esq., Liverpool
J. Haddon, Esq., Leamington
W. Judd Harding, Esq., Baraset House, near Stratford-on-Avon
Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., Liverpool
Captain Hitchins, Idlicote House, near ShipstonllP
Charles Lawrence, Esq., Liverpool
John Lechmere, Esq., Steeple Aston
Charles Mann, Esq., Leamington
William Marshall, Esq., Husbands' Bosworth, Leicestershire
WillianfMathews, Esq., Edgbaston, Birmingham
J. W. Miles, Esq., Bristol
John Moss, Esq., Liverpool
P. H. 31untz, Esq., Birmingham
Rev. Charles l'al.rier, Lighthorne
J. G. Reeves, Esq Birmingham
John Rich, Esq., Bearley
John Roskell, Esq., Bath
Francis Rufford, Esq., Bellbroughton, near Stonrbridge
Charles Russell, Esq., M.P., London
Charles Shaw, Esq., Birmingham
Major-General Smith, Rugby
Gustavus T. Smith, Esq., Gridicote, near Stratford-on-Avon
Samuel Edward Steward, Esq., Leamington
Thomas Thomson, Esq., M.D., Mayor of Stratford-on-Avon
T. H. Thorne, Esq., Leamington
Rev. Henry Townsend, Bennington, near Shipston
George Richard Walker, Esq., Ileathfleld-house, Bletchington, Oxort
Charles Woodmass, Esq., Avonhurst, near Stratford-on-Avon.
(With power to add to their number.)

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT.
J T. Alston, Esq. J. W. Miles, Esq.
F. P. Barlow, Esq. Joh Moss, Esq.
J. B. Freer, Esq. P. H. Muntz, Esq.
Robertson Gladstone, Esq. F. Rufford, Fsq.
J. Haddon, Esq. C. Russell, Esq., M.P.
Charles Lawrence, Esq. Chas. Shaw, Esq.
W. Mathews, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., Lorrelon
Messrs. Attwood, Spooner, mid Co., Birmingham
The Birmingham Banking Company, Birmingham
Messrs. Miles, Horton", and Co., Bristol
The Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, and
th • Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington
and Warwick
Messrs. Moss and Co., Liverpool.
The Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Company, Stratford-on-
Avon.

QOUTIIWARK ELECTION.
►y At a PUBLIC MEETING of the ELECTORS of the Borough
of SOUTHWARK, held at the Bridge House Hotel, pursuant to
public advertisement, on Friday, the 22d day of August, 1845,
CHARLES SHAW, Esq., of llorselydown, in the Chair,
It was moved by EDWARD PALmza, Esq., of Saint George's, and
seconded by WILLIAM GRISENTIIWAITE, Esq., of Saint John's, and
Resolved, That upon hearing an exposition of the sentiments of
Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq., the resident candidate for the representation
of the borough, vacant by the decease of our late lamented fellow-
townsman, Benjamin Wood, Esq., this meeting entertains the fullest
conviction that his return to the Commons House of Parliament as
their representative is of the greatest importance to the constituency
at large.
The thanks of the meeting to the Chairman was proposed by
Thomas Camplin, Esq.; and seconded by Thomas Dare, Esq , of
St. Olave's. .

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A MAGNIFICENT, EXTENSIVE, and UNIQUE COLLEC-
TION of TROPICAL FRUITS, modelled by Mons. Grimaud during
his long residence in the Isle of France, is just deposited.
The ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY is Lectured upon by Professor
Bachhofiber, and exhibited Daily and in the evenings. A NEW
.4.MEIIICAN INVENTION, COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMO-
TIVE ENGINE, for ascending and descending inclined planes on
Railways without the aid of stationary power. SWIMMI\ G and
DIVING ILLUSTRATED by the son of Captain Stevens, the ce-
lebrated teacher of swimming, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at Two o'clock, and on the Evenings of Tuesdays and
Thursdays at half-past Eight o'clock. The other exhibitions, &c.
as usual.

Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price,

BALLOONS, BALLOONS, BALLOONS.-
CB E.4ORNE GARDENS.—Remember, my beloved public,
051 MONDAY NEXT, the great Nassau Balloon, with a large party of
ladles and gentlemen, will ascend from these exquisite grounds by
sun-light or rain-light, as the weather may be. On Wednesday Mr.
Green will again ascend by moon-light, star-light, or dark night, as
the weather may be. On the latter occasion the veteran will, on be-
coming a quarter of a mile high, shower on shorter men below, bou-
quets of irascible light and streams of exasperated tire. On both
occasions, fete, tun, and fireworks.— Admission Is. ; children half
price.

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
- MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, 1845-46.
The WINTER SESSION will COMMENCE on WEDNESDAY,
the Ist day of October next, at Two o'clock, p.m., with an INTRO-
DUCTORY LECTURE, by Professor MILLER.
DE iCRIP E and SURGICAL ANATOMY--Richard Partridge,
F.R.S.
PHYSIOLOGY, GENERAL, and MORBID ANATOMY—R. B.
Todd, M.D., F.R.S.
PRACTICAL ANATOMY—J. Simon, F.A.S., and W. Bowman,
F.R.S.
CHEMISTRY—W. Allen Miller, M.D., F.R.S.
ANALYTICAL and EXPERIMENTAL CHEMISTRY (Labora-
tory Class)—W. A. Miller, M.D., and John E. Bownian.
MAT ERIA MEDICA and THERAPEUTICS—J. F. Boyle, M.D.,
F.R.S.
MEDICINE—George Budd. M,D., F.R.S.
SURGERY—WiIIiam Fergusson, F. R.S.E.
MIDWIFERY and DISEASES of WOMEN and CHILDREN.—
Arthur Farre, M.D., F.R.S.
SITMM ER COURSES.
BOTANY—Edward Forbes, F.R.S., E.L.S.
COM I'ARATIVE ANATOMY—T Rymer Jones, F.R.S.
FORENSIC MEDICINE—W. A. Guy, M.B
CHEMICAL MANIPULATION—John E. Bowman.
RING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.
The Hospital is visited daily at Haltpast One o'clock, and 'Clinical
Lectures are given every week by Dr. Budd and Dr. Todd, and by
Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Partridge.
The Physicians' assistant and clinical clerks, the house-surgeon,
and dressers, are selected by examination from the students of the
hospital.

A FRESH ARRIVAL OF NEW PROVIDENCE PINE APPLES.
WITESSRS. J. and J. ADAM will SELL, by
AUCTION, at their Sale-room, 11, Pudding-lane, Lower
Thames-street, on MONDAY. August 25, at Three o'clock precisely,
5,,00 NEW PROVIDENCE PINE APPLES, in line condition, now
landing by the William Forster, from Fieuthe. a.
To be viewed on the morning of sale, and Catalogues had of
J. and J. ADAM, Brokers, 11, Puddiug-lane.

INCOME WITHOUT RISK.
THE LONDON GENUINE TEA COM-
PANY, established Nov. 5, 1818, at 23, Ludgate hill, are
now filling up their Lists of AGENTS; and Persons desirous of such
An appointment, by which many have derived considerable incomes
.vithout risk during the last twenty-six years, are requested to
apply to the Company, at their Warehouses, 2, Laurence Pountney-
hill, London.

rro THE EMBARRASSED.-IMPORTANT.
1. —There are thousands of persons who have struggled long
against the force of misfortune, hut few arc aw're that by a very
recent act all small.traders owing debts not exceeding 3001., farmers,
and all others owing to any amount, cal be entirely raised trom
their difficulties at small expense, and without imprisonment or bank-
ruptcy. All such, islr. Weston begs will apply to him, at Moira
Chambers, IL Ironmonger-lane, Cheapsidc, by letter or personally.

TrONDON REVERSIONARY INTEREST
L SOCIETY, Established ISM, for the purchase of Reversionary
Property, Policies of Insurance, Life Interests, Annuities, &c.
4, New Bank-buildings, and 10, Pall-mall, East.
Sir Pr TElt LAURIE, Alderman, Chairman.
FRANCIS WARDEN, Esq. (Director 11. E. I. C.), Vice-Chairman.

Parties desirous of disposing of Reversionary Property, on liberal,
terms, and without unnecessary delay, may obtain blank forms of
proposal on application to the Secretary, Henry T. Thompson, Esq.,
4, New Bank-buildings, or to the Actuary, 10, Pall-mall East.

JOHN KING, Actuary.

NA'rIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital 1500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and suLstantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borriw, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
Om table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
if his Interests to meet other convenience,/ sr necessity. Assurances
fbr terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation,lo declare a third
Bonus, varying fl'om 30 to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

The division of profit& is annual. and the next will be made in De-
,ember of 'he present year.

F. FEROITSON CAMROUX. Rea.

Ll llt E PRO I ECTIVE and GENERAL
A: BUILDINGS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, for the PRE-
SERVATION of LIFE from FIRE, and PROPERTY from
ROBBERY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 150,0001., in Shares of 251. each,
Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share.

The Provisional Connilittee hereby 'give notice, that all Applica•
lions for Shares must be made on or before MONDAY, the 25th inst.
as on the following day the Committee will proceed to the Allotment
M. BRAY, Secretary.
Office, 9, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Aug. 19, 1845.

GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS-
SURANCE SOCIETY,
14, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
THE CHISHOLM, Chairman.
WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Great advantages offered by this Institution.
The whole of the profits divided annually among the MEMBERS.
after payment of five annual premiums.
An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to the fund continually
accumulating from Premiums, fully sufficient o afford complete
security.
Credit given to MEMBERS for half the amount of the first ♦e
annual premiums, without security.
Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed.
An extremely low rate of Premium, without participation in the
Profits, but with the option, at any time within five years, of paying
the difference between the Reduced Rates and the Mutual Assur-
ance Rates ; and thus becoming Members of the Society, and entitled
to a full participation in the Profits.

Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance of 100/,

Annual Premium.
Age' One Year. Seven Yeara. WIIOIe Life.
20 f£a. d. £ 5. d. £a. d.
1 0 9 1 1 6 1 13 11
301291 3 3 2 2 1
40 1 5 6' 1 7 6 2 16 4
50 1 15 9 2 1 6 4 1 11
60 3 3 5 3 17 0 6 8 3

Full particulars are detailed In the Prospectus.
A. R. IRVINE, Managing

Director.

IFE ASSURANCE—The BRITISH MU-
TUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY entertains proposals
or any description involving the contingency of human life; and offers
the following advantages to Its members :--
A BONUS ANNUALLY (in shape of low premiums) equal to those
of other offices, granted every three, five, or seven years, and
The PROSPECT of a LARGER BONUS than can possibly be ob-
tained at those offices, in the peculiarly beneficial mode adopted in
the distribution of the surplus.
Prospectuses and every information may be had on application at
the Office, 17, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

FitUIT SE A SON.---The experience of past yeitrs
having proved the advantage, at this season, of acting upon
the advice of the Faculty, in the substitution of weak Brandy-and•
water, as an ordinary beverage, for Beer or other fermentable
liquors, and at no greater cost, J. T. BETTS, Jun., and CO. trust
that they need only to caution the public against any of the spurious
articles offered for sale being foisted upon consumers in lieu of their
Patent Brandy, and, at the same time, to refer to its superiority and
economy for preserving fruit.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY is protected against fraudulent
substitution, when sold in bottles, by being secured with the Patent
Metallic Capsules, embossed with the words " BETTS'S PATENT
BRANDY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BARS." Purchasers of single bottles.
at 3s. 6d. each, cannot be too particular in observing that the Cap •
stiles are so embossed. a

This pure and healthful spirit is preferred by the highest medical
authorities to any other, and is used, to the exclusion of Foreign
Brandy, at St. Thomas's, Guy's, St. George's, the Westminster, and
other Hospitals ; at the Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, and other In-
&mules ; and, indeed, at the principal sanative institutions through-
aut the country. .

BETTS'S 11ATENT BRANDY may be obtained, in the capsuled
bottles, by way of sample, and at 18s. per gallon in bulk, of the most
respectable wine and spirit merchants in every locality.
The DISTILLERY, 7, SMITHFIELD-BARS, LONDON, is the
my Establishment of J. T. BETTS'S, Jun., and CO., where quan-
ti es of not less than TWO GALLONS, in bottle or bulk, are.
upplied.

TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS,

WANTED, a PERSON of FIRST•RATE
BUSINESS QUALIFICATIONS, to repttsent a leading
LONDON HOUSE. But few samples used.
Apply by letter, with fall particulars of present or late employment,
to S. Y., Deacon's Country Newspaper Office, 8, Walbrook.

PUBLICATIONS.

Now ready, in Bvo., with Portrait, ss. bound,
T.
HE FOURTH VOLUME of M. 'rIIIERS
HISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPIRE,
. . .

A. Sequel to his " History of the French Revolution."
Translated by D. FORBES CAMPEELL, Esq.
With thesanction and approval of the Author.

The present volume comp: loos, among other important and inte-
resting topics, the Rupture of the Peace of Amiens—The Camp and
Flotilla of Boulogne and Threatened Invasion of Englaud—The Con-
spiracy of Georges—The Death of the Due D'Eughien, &c.
" The publication of M. Thies' History of the Consulate and Em-
/Are is an event of an interest not confined to the world of literatur..
The charms of so fa,:ile a style, the method of so lucid a narrative,
and the abundance of its authentic and hitherto unexplored mate-
rials, place this work amongst the most important' productions of
our times."--Times.

Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MR. HOOD'S LAST NEW WORK.
Now ready, to 2 ♦ols. small gyo, price 21s. bound,
VVIIIMSICALITiES, by 'THOMAS HOOD,
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS by LEACH
"In this work are some of Mr. Hood's best efforts. Things that
will make the th,,ughtful wiser, and the unthinking merrir. Can
any one read our lissty extracts, and not wish to possess two vo-
lumes rich in wit, sense, good feeling, and good poetry."—Examiner.
Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE ALBION BALLOON,
No. I. of

TUB BALLOON ; or, IBROSTATIC MA-
GAZINE. Price 6d.
.;ontains an engraving, and the history of this well-known Balloon,
which has just been lost under the most perilous circumstances.

No. 2, on September 1, will point out the means of preventing
such disasters.
London: published by Stelll, 20, Paternoster-row, and sold by all
booksellers.

NEW EDITIONS OF MRS. GRANT'S MEMOIR AND
LETTERS.
This day is published, 3 vols. post Bvo., with Portrait, 31s . 6d.
M EA.10113, and CORRESPONDENCE of the
late Mrs. GRANT, of Laggan.
Edited by her son, J. P. GRANT, Esq. 2d Edition.
Also, 6th Edition, 2 vols. post Bvo., 21s.
MRS. GRANT'S LETTERS from the MOUNTAINS.
Edited, with Notes and Additions, by her Son.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

FRINCE CHARLES EDWARD sTE‘VART.
.11 A work of great Interest, a perfect Literary and Political Cu-
riosity, most fascinating to the general reader, curious to the anti-
quarian, and invaluable to the historian is in the Press, and will be
issued as soon as the list of subscribers, which is already numerous,
is completed. It is a reprint from the only copy now extant of the
first Filly-two Numbers of the

GLASGOW COURANT,
Commencing with the 14th day of October, 1745, and concluding with
the 13th day of October, 1746, and containing very curious, and
minute accounts of the extraordinary movements of the
UNFORTUNATE PRINCE.
With ample details, from week to week, of the striking events which

took place at that time.
. By WILLIAM MEIKLEHAM, LL.B.,
Solicitor in Glasgow, and Secretary to the University,'
Proprietor of the Volume.
The work will be printed in a similar type to that furnished one
hundred years ago by Alexander Wilson, letter-founder, Glasgow, to
Robert Founts, bookseller, the celebrated printer,
Subscriptions will be received by the Editor, personally, or by
letter, post-paid, addressed to him, at his Chambers, 72, Wilson-street,
Glasgow, or to the Tavistock Hotel, Covent-garden, London.
Also by Messrs. Longman and Co., Paternoster-row, London ;
Wareing Webb, Liverpool ; and by the following Booksellers in Scot-
land : —ln Glasgow, by John Smithand Son, St. Vincent-street ; in
Edinburgh, Bell and Bradfute, William Blackwood and Son, A. and
C. Black, and William Ritchie, London Bible Warehouse; iu Aber-
deen, by George and Charles King ; in Dundee, by Frederick Shaw ;
In Perth, by R. Morrison; in Falkirk, by Achibald Johnstone; in In-
verness, by Kenneth Douglas; in Paisley, by Alexander Gardner.
Subscriptions will also be received in New York, by Doctor David
Scott Meikleham, M.A., of Balliol Coll., Oxford ; and by Thomas Jeffer-
son Man Randolph Meiklehatn, great-grandson of Thomas Jeffer-
son, President of the United States.
Price, neatly bound and lettered • • • • • • 20s•
Stitched in sheets

The personal appearance of " handsome young Charlie," as he
marched at the head of his troops, or partook of the festivities of balls,
&c., is graphically described, and numerous highly Interesting anec-
dotes, showing the bewitching influence of this chivairors adventurer
on the fair sex, are interspersed throughout.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
LESSEE, SIR. B. WEBSTER.
THIS EVENING •
Will be repeated the Comedy of CAPTAIN TARRADIDDLE ; or,
What will the World Say? Captain Tarradiddle, Mr. W. Farren;
Pye Hilary, Mr. Hudson; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Miss P. Horton.
The celebrated Pianist, Leopold de Meyer, wilt perform this
Evening, after the Comedy, Introduction and Marche Marocaine."
To }e followed by the admired Drama of GRANDFATHER
WHITEHEAD. Grandfathet Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren; Dray.
ton, Mr. Tilbury; Langley, Mr. Stuart; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. E.
Yarnold; Susan, Mrs. Stank•y.
After which will be repeated a New Dramatic Sketch, entitled
MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES; or, Matrimonial Chap-
ters. Mr. Caudle, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Caudle, Mrs. W. Clifford.
Private Boxes, Two Guineas and one Guinea and a.Halt each.
Tickets and • laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office.
tom Ten till Five o'clock.

THEATisE ROYAL, ADELP/11.
UNDER MR DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTI.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. The Stranger,
Madame Celeste.
After which, SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES. Billy Lackaday,
Mr. Munyard; Eugenia, Mrs. Yates; Laura, Miss Woo War.
To conclude with THE IRISH DRAGOON; or, Wards in Chan-
cery. Paddy Murphy O'Brollaghan, Mr. Hudson.
On Mouday, positively will be produced, Mrs. Caudle Abroad
and at Dome.
Prompter, Mr. Gallot ; Principal Painter, Mr. Pitt ; Leader of the
Band, Mr. Mellon.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
UNt)ER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY

The Third Juvenile Night, and pOsitiv,ly the Last Night of Cinderella,

TIILS EVENING

Willbe performed a New and Original Comedy, to be called THE
GOVERNOR'Sentirely New Scenery, Dresses, and
Appurtena WIFE,
nees.Principal
withc
liaraers by Messrs. Diddear, Keeley.
te
F. Mathews, F. Vining, and Collier, !Iss Dawson and Mrs. Keeley.
After which, an entirely Now, Original, and Novel Grand Fairy
BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT, entitled LES FEES. In which Les
Danseuses Anglaises will upp?ar:,

To be followed by an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric,
Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CIND E REL LA. The Principal
Characters by Mr. Keel'f, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr.
J. W. Collier, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Vinare, Miss Fairbrother, Mrs.
Woo111:ige, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, Etc
To coneiude with A MODEL OF A WIFE.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
LESSEE, MR. J. 31. MADDOX.
OPEN EVERY EVENING TILL THE END OF THE MONTH.
THIS EVENING,
Wl-1 be revived THE DEVIL'S IN IT. The Oland Duke, Mr.
Lynne; Albert Holstein, Mr. Walter Lacy; Bernard Bunne, Mr.
Compton; Rollo, Miss Emma Stanley.
To which will bz added A COUR I BALL IN 1740. In which will
be introduced the Dances as pertbrmed at her Majesty's Bal Cos-
tume,wi th the Original Music.
To be followed by THE BRIG I.IID. Alessandro Massa-oni, Mr.
Wallack ; Rubaldo, Mr. Ranoe; Ottavia, Miss Grey; Maria Grazie,
Mrs. Brougham.
After which, TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy Mullowny, Mr. Collins.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITIIYATRE.
PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY.
Last Week but One of the Engagement of the French Equestrians
—The New Grand Spectacle is nightly hailed with shouts of appro-
bation.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATR E.
Fecond Week of Madame Vestrls and Mr. C. Matthews.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed I TIE Marplot, Mr. C. Ma-
thews; Miranda, Madam Vestris.
After which, tHED UP. Supported by Messrs. C. Matthews,
R. Ilonner, Neville, Heslop, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. R. Ilouner, and
Mss Niartin.

To conclude with LES rELLE ; or, The Wrecker's Bride. Simon
Potts, Mr. R. Honner; Pierre La Roche, Mr. H. Hughes; Jean
Kinroe, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Lestelle, Mrs. R. Houner.
Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner. at the Boa-
° tee, tom Eleven to roar.

31 /rnlng .. 30 minute* after 5
HIGH WArElt AT LONDON-HI:HRH: THIS DAY.
Evening .. 49 minutes after 5.

THE WEATHER.—Sus OFFICE, AUG. 23.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 4A; Highest, 68; Noon, 67.

BAROMETER, 30.19.
WIND S.W., fine sunshiny weather.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1845.

In all the delinquencies of Parliament at the apprbaching
close of a session, there is nothing so shocking as the steam-
power haste with which (the legislators being resolutely
fixed ou the day for leaving the scene of their duties) the
arrear products of legislation are consigned to the //mho of
unfinished Bills and embryo motions and measures. Bills
for the protection of partridges or the punishment of
paupers ; for the creation of new channels of legal
patronage, or for defrauding the poor of their rights
of common and waste ; for extending, beyond all
principles recognised by the common law or the Constitu-
tion the powers of the creditor to indict the met merciless

visitation on any debtor to him, under judgment, in a
sum not exceeding 213/. ; or for arbitrarily interfering with
the representative of capital and with its employment
these, indeed, are carefully exempted from this unceremc-
nious handling. One would suppose that the Premier could
not sleep soundly in his bed, during the recess, without, in
the first place, disburdening his conscience of the duty
of previously seeing every objectionable or oppres-
sive measure conducted through all its stages to
the effective maturity of a statute. When the Earl
of LINCOLN, with Lord WOASLEY'S assistance, has
fenced Out, warned off, and thrust back the hardy but poor
yeomanry—the-laborious but vulgar peasantry of England
and• Wales—the ever-toiling but ill-clothed and worse-fed
artisans of our manufacturing districts—from all the
healthful fields of exercise :and relaxation that yet re-
mained to them in the wild commons and healthful
waste-lands of their native country ; he can rush
down by rail or steam-boat to the moors of the far north.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after breaking open the letters of
M. Mazzistr, libelling his character, and then discovering
" that he believes he must have been mistaken" in the ter-
rible imputations that he had thus cast on a foreigner, to
whom the State had accorded the protection of its sanctuary ;
after " running-amuck" against all the " geseral practitioners'
of the medical profession ; and replying to communications
touching the disgusting mismanagement of paupers in
union houses (to tho unimagised atrocities of which every
day has since supplied fresh evidence), by vague and worth-
less protestations of his own incredulity on the subject,—Sir
JAMES likewise, in his impatience " to be off," throws
overboard all his pledges on matters of poor-law
amendment, the improved sanatory condition of towns,
&c. &c. The grouse. of Cumberland are still better
flavoured than those of Inverness-shire, and the sport
is little inferior. So this Lord of Netherby hastens fram the
haunting appeals of poor-law misery, and of dear connexions
untowardly mixed up with sorry explanations about
the buying and selling of railway shares. The Premier,
having been again beaten off in his attempt to strangle
the monetary system of Scotland, from which she has
imbibed the energy and buoyancy that have sustained her
for a century and a half, advancing her by slow, but always
established, steps from one stage of political strength and
improvement to another, contents himself with deter-
mining to complete for that kingdoin next year the same
process of monetary disorganisation and ruin which he has
already succeeded in applying to this. But all adequate
provision for "Harbours of Refuge" on our southern and
eastern coasts—all conservative measures of an enlightened
humanity, for the better protection of industrial labour—
all efforts towards the modification of admitted
deficiencies in the social systems of which be has assumed to
himself no small degree of credit, for being the great
orignator (let us instance particularly the Metropolitan
Police-courts and force, and the Courts of Petty Session i►,
their jurisdiction of summarily convicting) ;—all these the
Right Hon. Premier leaves either wholly uncommenced, or,
if began, in the plight of the "adventure of the bear
and fiddle,"—broken off "in the middle." He is content•
to leave the several recommendations of the numerou,
" Commissions" which he has granted or supported—as dead
letters; untouched or unimproved. No progress has been
made in enforcing the regulations reported to Parliament as
necessary to be adopted " for the better prevention of ship-
wrecks ;" and as little in carrying out the practical advice of
the first naval men in and out of Parliament, as to the best
means of keeping up a sufficient number of able seamen en.
service, and of reinforcing that number with any required
addition, through the grant of half-pay, or pensions, to such
men from the moment of their being first paid off out of
active service; their title thereto being the condition of re-
ceiving such provision, in the nature of a retaining fey
for their services, whenever these are called fur by the
Government. Nothing more consolatory has yet been
effected to ensure the adoption of those principles of
ameliorated construction, improved efficiency, and increased
armament which have ever and again been pressed upon their
attention, and acknowledged by their reluctant admissions to
be absolutely indispensable to the maintenance and security
of our naval supremacy (especially as to the steam arm of
the force) in any future maritime war. _

Ali this is " true, 'tis pity—pity 'tis, 'tis true." But of
how much less moment to the community, these instances of
a graceful, well-bred neglect of the " bores" of official duty,
than would be the serious moral evil which must ensue from
a failure in the First Lord of the Treasury, the First Secre-
tary of State, and the First Commissioner of Woods and
Forests, to respond to those more exciting and interesting
appeals—the calls of the grouse at this time of year 1
What would be said if Right Honourable Minis-
ters of the Crown did not discharge that most
important of their functions which is identified with the
discharge of their double MANTONS and PURDYS on the 12t1.
of August ? The " wastes" over which the Earl of LINCOLN
sports were never meant to be " inclosed " by that lofty
genius which presides over the spluttering of flower-pot
fountains—the ornamental (1) decoration of mock-asphalts
pavements, that almost rival the magnificence of a pri
son tennis-court—or the hopeless contrivances for re-
deeming the anomalous cockneyisms of a "National
Gallery," into which the exquisite connoisseurship of
her MAJESTY'S principal servants has admittett
two or three of the most palpable forgeries, paid for by prices
that should have purchased the chef d'ceuvres of RAPHAEL.
MICHAEL ANGELO, or TITIAN. The wastes to be shut 111
were those from which, without these iniquitous Acts of
Parliament, the poor could not have been shut out.
Some injury to the national service may still b(
to be dreaded from discontent among the best and
bravest of our seamen, labouring under the im-
pression that their interests are neglected, their
just expectations thwarted by a niggardly economy, the only
attempted excuse for which is, that it enables the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to make a better array of balances in the
financial statements that he delivers, with so muck
unction, every year to the House of Commons. But
what of all this ? Not to hurry down to ac-
complish for the birds their illustrious destiny of
dying by Ministerial guns would, doubless, create a spirit of
the most dangerous disaffection and resentment among
the grouse and black game of the North. Let public
.busi-
ness, therefore; take care of itself ! Still, to speak seriously,
the interests of human life demand somewhat more of decent
attention, of external manifestations of consideration, if not of
active sympathy, than they receive at the hands of our rulers.
How often have we had occasion to refer, as each new recur-
ring casualty has been announced, to the scandalously neg-
lected resolutions and propositions of the Select Committee
on Accidents in Mines. The most urgent and the most simple
precautions by which vigilance and care may hope to guard
against the operation of powerful subterranean agents of
destruction, are still but partially adopted throughout
the kingdom ; and the sacrifice of all the hecatombs of
human victims which in a single year they sweel.
away, seem powerless to arouse either the First
Lord of the Treasury or the First Secretary of State, in the
closing period of a session, to the great duty of steadily and
strictly enforcing their general introduction in the localities
that must necessarily suffer from the absence of them. It.
addition to the sad, the appalling catalogue of colliery
explosions we have had to record within the present year,
our paper of to-day gives an account of two more, which,
in our present deficiency of absolute evidence in these
cases, we will not undertake to say, have been caused by a
similar neglect of the similar precautions we allude to. But
they powerfully corroborate all the solicitude we have ex-
pressed on this painful subject. At the Tividale Coalworks,
near Dudley, no less than six unfortunate labourers
have been killed by fire-damp—many more wounded; but
at Jarrow Colliery, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, thirty-
five dead bodies have already been brought up, out of, pro-
bably, many more victims, exterminated by an explosion of
the fire-damp ; and of 14 others who were retrievedalive, but
severely wounded, three or four have since died. The fate 01
others who still remain entombed were, at the last advices, un-
known, but may be too readily anticipated 1 These terrible
accidents have signalized one short week ! Had the duty of
that supervision of such mines been adequately fulfilled
before Parliament separated for the holidays, which the
reports t f the Committee in question devolved on the Home
Department, and the head of the Government, we may
surely assume that it is very possible they might have been,
and would have been averted.

The assembling, on Thursday last,of a jry,or inquest, sum-
moned by the City of London Coroner, " to inquire by what
means a certain house in Aldermanbury had been burned,'
is an event of sufficient interest to call for especial notice. In
modern practice it is quite a novelty to assemble the Coroner's
court after a fire, where there has been—as fortunately the
case was in the recent destruction of the Messrs. BRADBURY
and COMPANY'S enormous premises and stock—no sacrifice of
human life. Mr. PAYNIZ justly observed, however, that he
was only acting in strict conformity with the ancient usage
of his office ; and a most salutary usage we conceive it to be,
and we heartily trust that it will be generally revived by
coroners. On every ground of policy and protection, it is
desirable that, when serious accidents have happened in large
towns, their origin and history should be narrowly inquired
into. The result may be to prevent their recurrence in fu-
ture, or to bring to light important facts in relation to the
cases investigated. It is well that there should be some juris-
diction to make inquisition into affairs which, as really con-
corning every body, would otherwise be affairs looked after by
nobody. There are a thousand conceivable, though generally
latent, causes to which the firing of dwelling-houses and
warehouses may be attributable, the knowledge of which
can only be arrived at by means of such inquiries. It is
highly probable (though we put the matter hypothetically,
of course,) that had there been an inquest on the last pre-
ceding fire which had occurred in the City, without loss of
life, the destruction of the Fenchurch Chambers, with loss
of life, might have been prevented.' Unsuspected agents of
spontaneous combustion may be possibly detected, every
now and then, by inquiries of this kind, which will be thus
serviceable, not only to the protection of life and property,
but to the interests of science. Setting aside all considera-
tions of this latter nature, fire inquests (if we must so call
them) would undoubtedly demonstrate dangerous and de-
fective modes of lighting the interior of private dwellings,
and also of warehouses and store-rooms ; of constructing
fluo a,nd setting up fire-places; and running main timbers,
the -17inrciffiint of-which would assuredly operate to produce
their removal, where convenient- or practicable, from
existing houses, &c., and . to prevent 'their intro-
duction into such tenements and premises in futdre.
It might be well if a public notice of the par-
ticulars of every such case, and the finding of the
jury in full, were affixed to the church doors, or other public
places, for the information and guidance of the parochi4l or

district community. The inquest of.; Thursday was fur-
ther remarkable for the additional proofit has supplied of dm!
culpable, almost criminal, and altogether unintelligible neg
legit and apathy, with which the securities and resource.
supposed to be provided, and very largely paid for, in Let
by the community, are allowed in the most dense and wealth
sections of the city of London to fall into desuetude am.
oblivion. One of the unfortunate partners in the house of
BRADBURY, Guentronax, and I.3Eam,, stated, in his evidence,
that the fire-plug could not be found for a considerable time,
although the directing-board on the house- front clearly indi-
cated that the distance was 17 feet in a specified direction.
It turned out, on the information of a juror, that this 1)14
had long previously been removed from the position so indi-
cated at the request of another of the partners in the saint
firm. Now, what the public at large is clearly interested ii
ascertaining is—Was this alteration of the communicatiw
with the fire-pipe or main duly reported ? to what quarter:
by whom ? and does there exist any registered evidence
of the fact ? If there be no officer charged by the Water-
works Company, or other authority, wit h the duty of reporting
such alterations, and no certain aLc;rtained department en-
trusted with the care of noting such reports, the neglect of
such ordinary precautions in a matter of such signal import-
ance is a strange deficiency in the precautionary police of
municipal regulations of a great city. If there be such at
officer or department, how comes it that the old directing-
board has not long since been replaced by an amended one,
:;hewing the altered position of the plug? It was
proved before the inquest in this case, that when, at length,
the true plug was found, considerable difficulty and delay
were experienced before any supply of water could be ob-
tained. This does appear to us to be a state of things per
fectly unpardonable in such a city as London, and such a
portion of it as Aldermanbury, where there is nothing to pre-
vent the supply from being, at all times, most abundant. It
is not too much to assume that, in all probability, a timely
and adequate supply of water might have caused, with coin
paratively little injury to the stock, the extinction of a fire
which has probably consumed a more enormous amount of
property than any burning of private premises which
has happened in London for several years past. The
early hour at which the flames were first discovered,
and the fact that they were seen, by all the evidence
which was taken, to have originated in the basement or
cellars of the house, raise the very strongest presumption that.
had the water-mains been duly supplied, a calamity that has
probably visited upon a hitherto opulent and very ex-
tensive trading firm losses to an enormous amount, might
have been averted. We lament that the Coroner did not
call before him the turnkeys and others, who are bound to
explain why there was all this fatal " unreadiness" for such
an exigency as that of Monday night last. Again, we repeat
that had a similar species of inquest sat, and returned its
verdict, upon the last preceding tire, without loss of life, there
would, in all likelihood, have been a speedy and effective
check upon the conflagration in Aldertnanbury. In
the next place, it was stated by Mr. BEALL that great diffi-
culty had been always experienced in turning off'
the gas below, a difficulty which, where the supply
is so large, is evidently an element of constant
danger. If we mistake not, the Corporation of London,
in reply to the repeated applications that have been made
to it by other parties for a participation in the supply of gas
to the city, under the newest and mast scientific improve-
ments fur its safe and eflicient regulation, have persisted in
upholding their Chartered Company, or a strict monopoly of
the gas contract. It would have been important to ascer-
tain, and we recommend the point to the next " fire inquest"
that may be impanuelled in the City, whether or not the diffi-
culty spoken to of turning off the gas is one which is ex
perienced, in an equal or a less degree, by those who use the
fittings and apparatus of the more modern but excluded
companies, with those who are compelled to adhere to the
supply and management of the chartered monopoly ? In
elation to these and other such points, interesting to a
conservative municipal policy, we are rejoiced to find Mr.
PAYNE coining forward to re-establish an ancient, and, as we
conceive, valuable employment of the functions of his impor -
rant office.

We have received accounts from Leipsic of the 17th. The
students had continued to do military duty up to that time,
out they are now relieved from it, and replaced at all the
points they occupied by the Communal Guard. The troops
were still confined to their barracks. On the 15th the KING
and QUEEN arrived at Leipsic from Dresden. Their Majesties
went among the people, by whom they were received with en-
thusiasm. The KING promised that a rigid inquiry into the af-
fair of the 12th should take place, and that he would provide for
the children of the victims. He then went to the hospital to
console the wounded. On the same day about thirty persons,
who had assembled before the barracks hooting the soldiers,
were arrested. On the 17th the Municipal Council and the
officers of the Communal Guard, met at the Town-hall, to
receive the reply of the KING to the addresses that had been
presented to him. The KING'S Commissioner, M. DE LAN-
GEUN, read the following as the answer of his MAJESTY:—

" I have received the Deputies of the city of Leipsic, who came
to express to me the pain that had been inflicted upon them by the
events of the 12th, and to give me the assurance of their fidelity
and devotedness. I think it right to communicate what follows to
the city of Leipsic, and I desire that the public may be made ac.
quainted with it. I was happy and proud to reign over a faithful
people, respecting law and justice, and who have so often mani-
fested their attachment to the dynasty, under the most difficult cir-
cumstances. Relying upon and respecting the constitution of the
country, I was justified in hoping that the Saxon people, penetrated
with its spirit, would remain faithful to it even in the most
stormy times, and that they would never depart from the
constitution and the laws. I have been the more grieved that
the second city of the kingdom, in which I loved to reside,
and in which I have received so many proofs of fidelity and
devotedness, a city so happy and flourishing as Leipsic, should
have been the theatre of such an attack, inasmuch as the law
has been violated in the person of my beloved brother, who,
to perform a patriotic duty, had, full of kindness and confi.
deuce, presented timself in the midst of the citizens. lam
profoundly afflicted to see that the public opinion has beets
shamefully excited by reports as ignoble as unfounded. I recom-
mend, paternal y and seriously, that no faith should be placed in
them. I pity deeply the victims, perhaps innocent, who have fallen
its consequence of the necessary intervention of the troops. A se-
vere and impartial investigation into the conduct of the authorities
will throw light on all this affair, and if well.thinking citizens unite
their efforts, order will be maintained, and more severe measures,
to have the laws respected, will not be necessary. But I must de.
clare, with profound grief, that my previous confidence in a city
in which the idea of such acts could arise, and be put into execu-
tion, is shaken. Therefore is it that I address with kindness and
firmness my royal word to the great number of the loyal citizens
of Leipsic, who have at heart the welfare of their country and of
the city, and the honour of the Saxon name. May they rally
round the Throne and the Constitution, and resist with force and
dignity the efforts of those who are opposed to constitutional
order, so that the law may remain inviolable, and that my ancient
confidence, in a city which has always been dear to my heart, may
be restored."

Atter the reading of the reply, the President of the assem-
bly exclaimed, "Long live the King !" and the whole a the
persons present repeated the cry. On the same day the
King's reply was posted up on all the walls of the town, and
the Municipal Council announced that an extraordinary com -
mission had been formed fur receiving such claims as any
individuals may have to make. The Municipal Council also
announced that, according to the most precise information, the
perso:,s killed were Messrs. Nordmann, Prieur, Jelin, Frey-
gang, Muller, Kleeberg, and Arland, and that five persons
were wounded.

Prince JOHN, immediately on his arrival at Dresden, went
to the Castle of Pilnitz, but is about to leave Germany for
Italy.
The Leipsic Gazette of the 15th contains a declaration by
Major DE JECHAN, adjutant of the staff of the communal
guards of that city, to the effect that Prince Joux did not
give the order to fire on the 12th.
General Rocitow, the new Prussian Ambassador at St.
Petersburgh, has arrived in that city. Before proceeding to
his post, he had been charged by the King of PRUSSIA with
a secret mission to the King of HANOVEM

It would appear from the following extract, from a letter
dated Athens, Aug. 8, that COLETTI still persists in carrying
out the designs of himself and his co-conspirators to swindle
the Greeks out of their Constitution :—" On the sth inst.
the KING yielded to the long-persisted-in solicitations of
COLETTI, and swamped the Senate by the creation of 16
am Senators. Their names are CIIRISTIDES, MANsoLns,
DOUCAS, THEOTOKY, KARACATZANI, KARAMENO,
DELYETI, CANELOPULO, DARIOTTIS, ELIOPOLIS, MELAIKIS,
HADOI PETRoS, AIEXIS, D. BULGAIUS, GLARAKIS, and CON-
TOUJIAS. The two last named are KLNG's then. The others
are all creatures of CoLErri's. Immediately ou his MAJEs-
rY's signing their diplomas, METAXA, the Minister of Finance,
gave in his resignation, which was accepted. He stated that
his reason for resigning was, that he considered this act (the
nomination of the new Senators) as both prejudicial to the
throne and to the nation.

It is the general opinion of the best-informed persons here
that a violent crisis is approaching, and it is clear that a de-
termined conspiracy exists against the Constitution, which
conspiracy is most warmly supported, and almost openly, by
more than one of the Ministers of the European Powers.

Madrid Papers to the 16th have arrived. The Gazette
publishes a convention between the Governments of Spain
and Portugal, fixing the precise attributes of the consuls of
the two nations, and which was signed at Lisbon on June 26.
l he Progressist and Moderado journals of all shades attack
with extreme violence the Ministry of .NARVAEZ and theacts
of the Government. The Tienipo and G lobo maintain that it
is impossible for NARVAEZ and his colleagues to continue in
power in opposition to the unanimous manifestations of the
press and public opinion, and that it is their duty to retire or
immediately convoke the Cortcs.
The Tic vo has a long article attacking the Government
for having authorised the Duke of SOTOMAYOR to oiler a
building at the ilavannah to the English Government as a
depot for freed
.negroes. The same journal states, that the
proprietors of houses were preparing a remonstrance against
the impost on house-rent.
According to El Espectador, a rumour, believed to be well
founded, is in very general circulation, of an approaching
modfication of the Cabinet. It adds, that two additional
Ministers were to be named, one of Public Works, and the
other of the Colonies. Among the rumours afloat were those
‘I the of Foreign Affairs having tendered his resigna •
don, and of a Carlist plot having been detected at Tolosa ;
bent neither report obtained much credence. The two
younger sons of Don Cannos have, according to the Herald°,
enteiTd his Sardinian Majesty's service, one as colonel of the
cavalry regiment of Savoy, with a pay of 6,000 francs; the
other as major in the regiment of Arqui, with a pay Of
4,000 francs.
ies the instructions issued by the Finance
The Herald° pubis `t
Minister, according to wli;,,t the unsold Church property is to
restored to the clergy. The samji,airnal mentions the fact
of apricot in Avila having extorted frotri q llin in his dying

:noments a promise that he would cause to be restored to the
jhurch a large amount of property which he had bought.
l'he priest orlered a notary to be sent for, and the will was
'lade out according to his wish ; and, to the astonishment-of
.he family of the deceas:ed, for he died in a few hours atter,
:t was found that everything was left to the Church. De'
,:eased's wife and children intend disputing the validity of the
will. His name was TARAVZJI, and he had been deputy for

The Barcelona journals state that the Company for a rail-
road from Barcelona to Mataro has received the royal autho'
eisation to commence the work, and to import whatever
materials, machines, &c., may be required, either for the
working or carrying on the railroad, provided they are not
to be had in Spain, or would come dearer by eight per cent.
than if imported from another country.

The Three per Cents. were rather firm to-day, for cash;
they were quoted at 311/, ;31% at 60days. 23,600,000 reals
done. Five par Cents., 22% at 60 days. 2,000,000 reals done.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursd3y. The
storm of Tuesday had blown down three factories at Rouen,
and buried several hundreds of unfortunate human beings ill
the ruins. The particulars of this dreadful disaster will be
found in another column. The lowest estimate of the pant-
her who have suffered in this dreadful calamity is 40 killed
and 120 wounded, many of the latter so severely, that there
is but little probability of their recovery.
The Prince and Princess DE JOLNVILLE arrived at Paris eo
Wednesday.
M. Timers returned to Paris from Vichy on Wednesday.
The Prince and Princess DE SALERNO, father and mother
of her Royal Highness the Duchess D'ACMALE, have arrived
at the Chateau d'Eu.

The Journal des Debuts has the following on the subjeel
of the German Catholic Church :

" We are assured that the Prussian Government is about in
take severe measures for arresting the progress in Germany of O.
new sect of Catholic Dissenters. A circular has been sent by the
Minister of the Interior to all the censors of the kingdom, directing
them to strike out every article having the Lightest tendency to
promote these religious movements, which may be proposed to be
inserted in any cf the journals, or other periodicals, which are got
expressly authorised to treat upon these questions."

General GALBOIS has been ordered to proceed to Algiers tO
organise the Spahis., or native cavalry, into three regiments-'
those of Algiers, Oran, and Constantine; each regiment t°
consist of six squadrons. One of the squadrons of the reillt
went of Algiers is to go to Senegal.
We extract the following on the subject of the concessiett (Yr
the Great Northern Railroad from Galignani's Messenger;
" We mentioned yesterday that a deputation of the Enter
Committee of the Decan-Lebeuf Company for the Northern
Railroad had waited on the Minister of Public Works. TO
course had been adopted by these gentlemen in consequence P,
reports having been circulated that the company was not ip
a condition to send in a tender for the line. The more immediate
object of the visit to the Hon. Minister was to convince him that
all the conditions required by law had been strictly complied with,
that the capital had been fully made up, and that the nceee64.l_l.
vouchers and documents, as well as the caution money, could v`
deposited with him at any moment he pleased. Mr. F. Monet,
the President of the Committee, in order to convince the On
Minister that the whole transactions of the Company were °I
bona fide character, exhibited, exhibited to M. Dumon the sunvoa
of the English subscription in Bank of England notes. Thy
Minister received the deputation with great politeness, and list
to their statement with marked attention."
The National comments warmly upon the coalition of
capitalists which has taken place for the purpose of securing
the adjudication, and concludes in these words—
" The Minister of Public Works should not hesitate. Let him 111114.
order an inquiry, and next the postponement of the adjudication. Se
called upon to do this by the interest of the treasury, of his
honour, and of his ministerial existence."
The fell in our Stock Exchange on Tuesday, and the /S'„
creasing scarcity of money in Paris, induced a decline of,
prices on the Bourse on Thursday. Towards the close °f
business business an actual panic prevailed, in consequence of a reP°l
of the illness of the KING. It was also said that an atte_.
had been made against the life of the Duke de Ntmov';
Mont de Marsan ; but the real cause of the fall was suPP°5
to have been occasioned by a further depression in Consols°
Wednesday.
Psi
The Three per Cents. closed at 84f. sc. ; the Five Cents. at 1216 60c. ; Orleans Railroad shares, I,=`",‘",
Rouen, 1,0801.; Vierzon, 702 f. 50c.; Havre, 900 f. ;
1,0551. ; Basle, 281 f. 25c. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38/11'
The following are the quotations of the new lines :
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2156 premium ; Boulogne, 1201
premium ; Troyes and Montereau, 552 f. 50c.; Paris
Lyons (Laffitte), 36f. 25c.; ditto (Calon) ; ditto (0470
neron), 136 75c.; Northern Line (Laffitte), 60f.;
(Rusamel), 29f. ; ditto (I°epin),ls6 ; ditto (Decan),l6f•'f.
Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 16f. 25c. ; ditto (POTA,
lard), If. ; ditto (O'Neill) 76 50c.; ditto (Jacques !i-to
fevre), 4f.; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ;
(Talabot), 40f.; ditto (Compagnie Metidionale).
Bordeaux and cette (Mackenzie), If. 50c.; ditto (EsPeLl
156 ; Creil and St. Quentin (Carette), 7f. ; ditto (C0117:e
If. ; Paris and
,Strasburg (Ganneron ), 15f. ; ditto 03ecos
26 30e. ; ditto (Ilinguorlot), 12f. 50c. ; Dijon and bille7
sen, par ; Dieppe, 40f. eptl'
LYONS, Aeu. 18.—Avinmon and Marseilles, 1,072..9 of
of Augu,t ; Paris and Avignon
1,2931., ditto; Parisitto;
Rouen, 1,073 f., ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 791 f., ...lief,
Orieans and Bordeaux, 715 f., ditto; Nimes and Morl!r-
-587f., cash.
'r
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS A •
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Auo. 21' 124
Boulogne and Amiens 11 ,Orleans and Bordewa.‘
Bordeaux &Mediterran Over Yssel ........... 314
Bordeaux and Toulouse 'l'aris & Lyons (Latitte)
Do. and Cette 2 j Ditto (Ganneron's).
Central of Spain .. 1 Ditto (Calon's)•••• .;14
Dutch Rhenish ...
Dendre Valley ...... ;Paris and Rouen
Dieppe & Paris Juliet. :Paris and Strasburg
Dijon and Mulhouse (Ganneron's)...
East Indian
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Qt,'entin.
(Laffitte',)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons -7.. lloyal North of Spain'• 84

- --,.
Jamaica Junction 4% Sanibre and Meuse ...•
...,, •
Do. North Midland I% Strasbourg and Basle .
Louvain and Jemeppe — Tours and Nantes 3
Lyons and Avignon 2% ! (11.‘Kenzie's) .........
Luxembourgh.. 2A I Do. (Lefebvre's) .....
~..,
Namur and Liege 5 Verona and Ancona.... 434
Orleans and Vierzon .. 17% West Flanders .........

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY•)

(Before Mr. Commissioner FAris.)
IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE 11311• LL DEETS ACT."'"os

OF OF REQUEST. t be
This morning,JURISDICTION several applications having been made tge
Learned Commissioner for summonses issued against perg'pl
judgments given in Courts of Request, Aoseeg
The Learned Commissioner FANE said he would give i 074, gbe
in one of these cases. In consequence of the mode in 111'4'.ge
Act was framed, it was impossible to generalise the poiet" lb*
would, however, say that this Court had not only to loek tr/
judgment of the court from which the judgment issued, but cgel•
the question of jurisdiction, and to pronounce whether it 01.001
petent to adjudge in the case. Now the Act before him oes"-oef
many special exemptions—that it should have no jurisdiction.ty,
lands—nor testamentary, matrimonial, or ecclesiastical eityld
tithes, tolls, or insurances. He would like to know how be aide
be expected to say that the amount claimed might not arise
one or other of V.ese cases or exemptions ? IS1:4(
The ATTORNEY fur the plaintiff' said that he believed, e-dieger
of the judgment or order of the Court, the Learned Cooleli-
could proceed.
The Learned COMMISSIONER—I am of a different opitt.e-- coo'
first bound to see that there is a judgment; next, that tu„-;,n'a
has a jurisdiction. I know the jurisdiction of the Court a no*
Bench to extend all over England, but I do not know 1%401
diction of every court in the kingdom. These are .0 sre
points, and in these cases, where difficulties arise, Tert'tio
called upon to appear in person ; therefore I have OS
vantage of a solicitor.
eets bot
The ATTORNEY said the errors of the law might be .•gr
the public could not answer for them.
Ti di Pelt°
The Learned COMMISSIONER—Neither can L
occur they must be surmounted legally. °Ob.
The ATTORNEY said that there was prima facie evidence joys--
jurisdiction of Use Court, by the fact of process being either
or issuable. It reeepleal
The COMMISSIONER—If the Act means anything, --
matter of fact, not of presumption. I might, if I have
egt
with presumptions, commit a party on an erroneous iudr-c.. Of;
t
an incompetent court, and make myself liable to all etrogo
for false imprisonment. The rational course would hay..„,judr
every court depending on its own jurisdiction to enforce 1-e assts
ment. The Learned Commissioner then proceeded to 11510001
under all the circumstances, he should refuse to act, o°o sli,e.
saying what course should be pursued, he should advise a coped
to take advice of their solicitors until a judgment of

court was obta.iied.
CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DJ/11..)

OLD CO Cllt7:
(Before Mr. Baron PLArr.) groat°
MANSLAUGHTEIG—TRE PRINCE OF WALES MAZOATS
—Henry Ross, the captain of the Prince of Wales Marilee ste of
too
was indicted for the manslaughter of David Davis, the iltof
small vessel called the Culloden, on the 22d of July, in the
Thames. e Otte
Mr. lITtAAID conducted the prosecution on behalf of thl4
London, and from the statements of the case to the furl
him, it appeared that, on the day in question, the vessel, of
the prisoner was in command, in consequence of the °trectilleds*
pidii yat which she was going, came against the boat of the or
of which the deceased was mate, and swamped it, hf Wh,.icothete
persons were thrown into the River, and Davis and trs'
drowned. he Pilir
Mr. Prendergast appeared also with Mr. Ryland for
cution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin defended the 15,.."1:L
Enoch Evans belonged to the Mary and Margaret
the 22d July was employed to unmoor the Culloden, rate, ties
Thames. At this time a steam-vessel passed by at a raln'l tee,
swell of which filled the boat of the Culloden with 11:11
caused her to sink. The witness and four other penes who
in the boat were immersed in the water. Witness We Dee
-
the other three mess were lost. h nit/
Cross.examined by Mr. CLAsitsox—The boat in whictio loot'
was saved was a waterman's skiff, and much smaller thetho P;
boat of the Culloden. The long-boat was chained, 55 hat-
vented its rising with the swell occasioned by the steinn-07.0101'
the chain had been loosened, the boat would not, in all Pr
have gone down.
Re-examined by Mr. PRENDERGAST—The skiff in WlPfr- •
sa. t
news was was greatly affected by the swell. oot get
By Mr. Baron PLATT—The stated
water from the swell did
the skiff
Williams, then in which witess was saved. ett
oon
Mr. commander of the Milord Pe-A got of
that he knew the deceased David Davis. On the dal nO. dbe
he was on board his vessel, which was near the Col"-e, of • •
chain fisi•
saw Davis and three other men unmooring the stern
hoe 0
Culloden ; they seemed to be doing it in a workero,ol fte
Witness saw the boat capsized, in consequence of the
000
the steam-vessel, of which the prisoner was captain. bolt 0,101
By Mr. Baron PLATT—CouId not say whether the .tiered '
fie cons,
have floated had it not been for the chain.
the skiff flea ed because no person was in it. to o.Bllo'
Ephraim Keely—Saw the accident, and endeavour.' greet to,
three men that were drowned, but the swell we endeavour.'
he could nut do anything with his boat. Neer 04% t 0
where the accident occurseJ, there was generally IP -
top n"
of vessels and boats. Ic was necessary at this Pet 1
asso..a
be very careful in the navigation of steam -vettels" „„, 0, -..0
Cross.examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Was a vree'-ses, "
not Bice steain-vessels.—(Laughter,) All the steam,"
tol at
there can go fast down the river.
By Mr. Baron PLArr—Did not think it prudent for
17 uolf;s
uhdcr chains, as had been done in the present casoo,oo V t
oo
vessels,
.when it was known that steam-vessels were
the river. It was well known that a great many Ste .° a
et O
down the river about ten o'clock In the morning- eideace
Mr, Cooper, a barge-buLkler, corrobQrsted tO.