The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

TIqESUIN, LUG` WEDNESDAY EVEN ING, JANUARY' 15 1345.

AMERICAN NEWS.

IGHT OAYS LATER FROM
AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.

By the Mail Steam-packet Acadia, which arrived
at Liverpool yesterday morning, we have received
American papers to the 31st ultimo.
The Anti-Rent outrages still continued.
The discussion in Congress on the subject of the
annexation of Texas was fixed for Monday, Jan. 6.
Colonel William Polk, the brother of the President
elect, had arrived at Wash,ngton from Nashville.
These papers contain copies of the documents con-
cerning the relations of the United States with
Mexico, transmitted by the President to both Houses
of Congress.
The following is from the New York Commercial
Advertiser

Texas, set out for Mexico, being invested by the Pre-
sident ad interim with the conduct of the war against
Paredes. He set out for Jalapa on the 7th ofNovember,
at the head of 8,500 men, crossed rapidly the depart-
ment of Puebla, where he received some additional
troops, and on the 18th arrived at Guadeloupe, a
town near Mexico, where he fixed his head-quarters.
He had left the departments of Vera Cruz and
Puebla full of professions of loyalty to his Govern-
ment ; and he found the same professions in that of
Mexico, and similar professions came to him there
from Queretaro and Guanajuato; and he prepared
to march from Guadeloupe, and to assemble at Quere-
taro a force of 13,000, with which to overwhelm the
little army of Paredes. But, even at this moment,
all powerful as he appeared, at the head of a great
army, and with all the departments behind him
loyal, symptoms began to appear of the uncertainty
of his cause ; for though the Congress did not pro..
fessedly support Paredes, yet it insisted that Santa
Anna should proceed constitutionally, which the
latter was unable or indisposed to do. The Mexican
constitution provides expressly that the President
cannot command in person the military force
either by land or sea without the previous per-
mission of Congress.. Santa Anna had taken the
command without even pretending to ask the consent
of Congress ; and in so doing had himself performed
a revolutionary act quite as positive and serious as
that of Paredes. Nevertheless, on the 22d he pro-
ceeded on his march to Queretaro, and on the same
day the Chamber of Deputies voted the impeachment
of the Minister of War, General Reyes, for signing
the order under which Santa Anna held the com-
mand of the troops. Congress also voted to receive
and print the pronunciamentos of the revolutionised
department, in all this indicating a disposition, not to
be mistaken, of hostility to Santa Anna. On arriving
at Queretaro, Santa Anna found that, although the
military authorities were professedly in his favour, yet
the junto departamental had pronounced for the
initiative of Jalisco. Therefore, he make known
in the members that if they did not repronounce in
his favour, he would send them prisoners to Perote.
They refused, and three of them were immediately
arrested by his order, and sent off, under a strong
guard, in the direction of Mexico and Perote. When
the report of these proceedings reached Mexico, the
Congress immediately summoned before it the Minis-
ters of War and of Government, to know whether
they had authorised General Santa Anna to imprison
the members of the junta departmental of Queretaro.
This subject occupied the Chambers on the 29th and
30th of November, and their attitude had now become
so menacing, that the President ad interim, Canalizo
(after consultation with Santa Anna), took the high-
handed step of deciding to close the session of Con-
gress by force, and declare Santa Anna Dictator of the
Republic. Accordingly, on repairing to the Palace on
the Ist of December the members found the doors shut
against them, and guarded by soldiers; and on the
2d appeared the proclamation of Canalizo, as Presi-
dento interino, declaring the Chamber dissolved in-
definitely, and conferring all the powers of Govern-
ment, legislative as well as executive, on Santa Anna,
as Presidento proprietario, the same to be exercised
by Canalizo as Presidento interino, until otherwise
ordered by Santa Anna. For some days this forcible
demolition of the constitutional Government by the
creatures of Santa Anna remained without pro-
ducing any apparent effect in Mexico. But on
the very day when the news reached Puebls, Ge-
neral helm), Commandante -General of that depart-
ment, in concert with the civil authority, pro-
nounced against Santa Anna; and in a few days (on
the 6th) the garrison and people of Mexico rose
against the Government, imprisoned Canalizo and his
Ministers—Congress re-assembled—the President of
the Council of Government, General Herrera, as-
sumed the exercise of the functions of President
according to the constitution, and new Ministers were
appointed the next day, whose authority was imme-
diately acknowledged in Vera Cruz. At the latest
dates there from Vera Cruz (Dec. 12) affairs stood
thus :

The departments of Sonora, Sinaloa, Jalisco,
Zacatecas and Aguascalientes were in a state of re-
volution, and in military possession of Gen. Paredes.
Gen. Santa Anna (with Cortazar) had military
possession of the departments of Guanajuato and
Queretaro.

Santa Anna's President interino, Canalizo, and his
Ministers, were imprisoned in Mexico. Congress
had re-assembled, and a temporary constitutional
Government was installed there, composed as follows,
viz. :

General Jose Joaquim de Herrera, President of the
Council of Government, charged temporarily with the
supreme executive authority.
D. Luis Gonzaga Cuevas, Minister of Foreign Rela-
tions, State, and Police.

1). Mariano Riva Palacios, Minister of Justice, Public
Instruction, and Industry.
D. Pedro J. Echeverria, Minister of Finance.
D. Pedro Garcio Conde, Minister of War.

And it was already known that the departments of
Puebla and of Vera Cruz had declared their adhesion
to the provisional Government; and there is no doubt
that most of the other departments will also support
the Congress.

Mean'Whilv, Santa Anna is constitutionally Presi-
dent of the Republic, but unconstitutionally in com-
mand of the troops employed against Paredes. The
new Minister of War has ordered him to give up this
command.

If he refuses he becomes undoubtedly a rebel and a
traitor; because the new provisional Government in
Mexico is constitutionally constituted. If he con-
sents, he ceases to have any troops for his support; he
is placed at the mercy of his enemies.
His position is now an extremely critical one
therefore. Everything depends on whether his
troops adhere to him again t the Congress and the
constitutional Government. If they do he becomes
the military Dictator of the country.
Reports were current at Vera Cruz that a party of
his troops had already proclaimed him Dictator, and
that mother part had declared against him ' • but upon
this point no information in authentic form had
reached the public ear.
If any sufficient portion of troops adheres to him,
to enable him to continue the war, still he is sur-
rounded with difficulties, being in the very heart of
the Republic, with Jalisco and its coocurrent de-
partments to the Pacific against him on the one hand,
anal Mexico, with its concurrent departments to the
Gulf, against him on the other hand. _

. ,
He may recover himself by some new turn in the
wheel of fortune, and resume his place as constitu-
tional President proprietario of the Republic ; but this
is hardly probable, as the public sentiment is almost
unanimous against him in nearly all the departments.
It seems more likely that he will have to yield to
the storm ; and, if not deprived of his life, he may
escape to the United States by a sudden march on
Tampico, or to South America, by way of the Pacific.

termination, as well as an ability, to preserve order
throughout the Republic.
P.S.—Nov. 20.—Additional information has come
in from Lezama, by which we learn that the force of
the insurgents amounted to about 400, and that they
were subsequently encountered by the constitutional
troops and driven into the mountains.
After the death of their leaders, Centeno and Alva-
rado, they were headed by two of the sons of Cen-
teno. Many of them have been killed, and the re-
bellion is now considered at an end.
TERRIBLE STE A IM-BOAT ACCIDENT—
THIRTY-ONE LIVES LOST.
(From tha Louisville Journal of Dec. 20.)
We are again called on to record a most melan-
choly occurrence on the Mississippi river, by which
more than thirty lives were lost.
About twelve o'clock on Saturday night, the 14th
instant, as the Belle of Clarksville, from New Orleans
for Nashville, was rounding the bar below the Horse-
shoe Cut-off, she come in collision with the Louisiana,
from Memphis, on her way to New Orleans. The
Belle of Clarksville did not obey her helm, but sheered
off, by which she came directly across the bow of the
Louisiana.
The engines of both boats were immediately
stopped, but not in time to prevent collision. The
Belle of Clarksville was entirely demolished—the
hull parting from the cabin, and the cabin breaking
into two pieces. The hull instantly went down, and
the cabin floated to Old Town landing, about twenty-
five miles below Helena.

The Louisiana took from the fragments all the
persons on them. As far as can be ascertained thirty-
one lives were lost. Below we give a list of them.
Names of passengers lust, nearly all of whom were
residents of West Tennessee.
W. Tabb, P. Linn, W. Linn J. Ryan, R. Malisle,
N. Sils, W. Jones, T. 'Whitley, N. T. Allen, A.
Kirkland, J. Askew, G. Ilyer, son of J. W. Hull, J.
Peay, John Holliday (assistant engineer), four
negroes belonging to J. Peay, twelve negro hands
belonging to the boat—thirty-one.
The survivors lost all their baggage. There were
six valuable race-horses on board, all of which were
lost, among them the celebrated mare Ann Hayes.
The cargo, consisting of sugar, salt, coffee, and
molasses, was all lost. The iron chest, containing
12,000 dolls. was saved. The cargo was insured for
23,000 dolls., and the boat for 8,000 dolls.
SUPPOSED PIRATE.—The ship John Marshall, ar-
rived from Rotterdam on Tuesday evening, fell in
with a vessel whose appearance and movements were
very suspicious. The log-book of the John Marshall
gives the following account :
" Nov. 9th, lat. 37 54, lon. 16, at 8 A. M., saw a
brig and schooner to the leeward—the brig with her
starboard tacks aboard; the schooner hove to, with
her fore-topsail to the mast; next morning saw the
same schooner—she came near our lee quarter, then
luffed up and came within four miles of us ; she
hoisted Genoese colours ; at the same time she had
a black flag hoisted at her main ; we hoisted
colours, when she hauled down her black flag ;
see luffed across our stern, and went hull
down to windward, and kept in sight of us on
the same tack ; at ten o'clock P.m., saw a light to
leeward; in half an hour, she corning up with us
very fast, called all on deck at half-past eleven o'clock ;
she crossed our stern and went out of sight to wind-
ward, and hoisted a light; we tacked ship and stood
N.E. fur fours hours. Fortunately a breeze sprung
up, cloudy and squalls ; at four A.M. tacked to the
westward; at daylight could not see her; on the
12th, saw a schooner which we took to be the same;
she was a long, low, black schooner of 130 or 145
tons Isurden ; appeared to be an American built ;
vessel's hull and sails new; saw a great many men on
deck, and apparently a battery. Captain Poythress,
passengers, and crew, have no doubt she was a
pirate ; they suppose she had boarded the brig and in-
tended to board the John Marshall in the morning
had they not made their escape in the night."—New
York Advertiser, Dec. 26.
WASHINGTON, DEC. 23, 1844.—The Circuit Court
of this district have had under consideration a slave
case of some interest, growing out of the application
to carry back to Virginia a woman slave who was
brought here voluntarily some years since. By an old
law of Maryland, which continues in force in this
portion of the district, every slave brought into the
district by its owner with the view of residing here
becomes free. In the pending case, a justice of the
peace granted authority to the owner of the slave, or
rather the administrator, to return with his slave.
The Circuit Court decided that the justice of the peace
had no power to grant such authority. The case was
argued by able counsel, and excited a good deal of in-
terest.—Baltimore American.

MORMON ♦ND INDIAN OUTRAGE.—The Warsaw
Signal of the 4th instant confirms a rumour, put forth
the week previous, in relation to Lyman Wright and
his band of Mormons. It appears that Wright's band
were suffering for want of provisions, but he would
not let them disperse over the country to find employ-
ment. In order to relieve them, he went to the
traders, and finding that they had flour, he tried to
get some on credit, but was refused. He then took
thirty men, and told the traders if they did not let
him have the flour he would take it. He was defied,
and made the attack on the store. The French and
Indians fired on his men, and killed four on the spot,
and it is supposed that nearly all fell in the retreat.—
New lark Advertiser.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET DEC. 28.
$4,000 NY. State 7, 1849 1064
500 Ohio 6s, 1850
1,000 Penn. 5s 74i
40 shares Bank of Com. full 99
150 shares Del. and Bud b 10 118
10 shares N. A. Trust
350 shares Farmers' Trust 3
354
50 shares Canton Co 43
10 shares Banhattan Bank
200 shares Morris Canal.
150 shares Erie R. R. s 60 28
50 shares Mohawk R. R. 59
575 shares Long Isl. R. opg ....
20 shares New Jersey R. R.
100 shares Stonington R. R..~
75 shares Nor. and Wor. s 30 66
At the Board this morning, Farmer's Trust Co. de-
clined 1; Bank of Commerce i; and Ohio Sixes and
Stonington Railroad
12; Canton Co. advanced i; and
Erie Railroad 4,
NEW- YORK MARKETS, DEC. 28.
ASTIES.—The sales of the week embrace about 700
barrels of pots at 3 dolls. 871 c. to 3 dolls. 75c., closing at
the latter rate; and 400 barrels of pearls at 4 dolls. 12§c.
to 4 dolls. 610. with some few small lots at 4 dolls.
COTTON.—The sales for the week ending last evening
amounted to 3,700 bales, principally towards its close,
including 2,500 bales Upland and Florida, ordinary to
middling at 41c. to 5c., middling fair to fair siic. to Sic.,
and fully fair to good fair Sic. to 6i-c. ;
and 1,200
Mobile and New Orleans, ordinary to middling 4§c. to
51c., and middling fair to fair Sic. to 6-gc.
FLOUR AND GRAIN.--There is very little besiness
doing in flour, prices remain about the same, and the
market generally affords but few features of interest.

• gentry who called and left their cards yesterday at
Cambridge House, were the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk, the Earl and Countess of Haddington, the
Marchioness of Westmeath, Viscount and Viscountess
Combermere, Lord Euston, Colonel and the Misses
Fitzgibbon, Rev. Dr. Dakins, Rev. Dr. Horsley
Dakins, Marchioness of Douro, Viscount and Vis-
countess Ilawarden, Viscount Templetown, Mrs. L.
Fox, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Hon. W. and Mrs.
Ashley, Marquis of Bristol, Colonel Scott, Earl of
Warwick, Lady Mornington, Countess Dowager of
Dunmore, Earl of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitz-
gibbon, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord and Lady
Ernest Bruce, Lady Alicia Gordon, Dowager Lady
Rivers, Mr. Cox, Viscount and Viscountess Pon-
sonby, Mr. C. and the Ladies Gore, Mr. and Mrs.
John Talbot, the Lord Chief Baron, Lady and Miss
Pollock, Prince Castelcicala, Sir W. Curtis, Bart.,
Lady and the Misses Curtis, the Earl and Countess
of Dalhousie, Mr. and Mrs. George Hope, Sir
James and Lady Graham, Rev. Dr. Jelf, Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Marquis and Marchioness
of Downshire, Colonel and Mrs. Hugh Baillie, Miss
Baillie, Lady Stuart de Rothsay, Viscount and
Viscountess Canning, Lord de L'lsle, Vicount and
Viscountess Newport, Earl and Countess of Erroll,
Earl of Pembroke, Captain Henry Murray, R.N.,
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Lord Chan-
cellor and Lady Lyndhurst, Miss Copley, Mrs. de
Rothschild, Dowager Countess of Listowel, General
Sir George Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Boyce, Colonel
Cavendish, Dr. Francis Hawkins, Mr. Culling Smith,
Lord Foley, Lady and Miss Foley, and also many
others, comprising nearly all the nobility and gentry
in town.

The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz was going on favourably yesterday evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester sent
to inquire after the state of her Royal Highness.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert
Peel, Lord IVharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch, Earl
of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Ripon, the
Right Hon. IV. E. Gladstone, and Lord Granville
Somerset.

The Lord Chancellor joined his colleagues at four
o'clock.

Sir R. Peel arrived in town in the forenoon, from
Windsor Castle.
The Council sat three hours.

The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in White-
hall-place. There were present the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Earl of Chichester,
and the Dean of Westminster.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT to STOWE.
BUCKINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENING. Here, and all
along the line of road from the Wolverton station, at the
villages of Stony Stratford and Deanshangar, and indeed
at every hamlet and farm-house, everybody seems to be
in a perfect fever of bustle, preparing for the great
doings to-morrow.
At Wolverton to-day crimson cloth was being laid down
upon the platform, and the usual preparations making
throughout the station for the royal reception. Up-
wards of a dozen of triumphal arches, in various stages
of progress, some nearly fleshed with evergreens and
ivy, and others still only skeletons of poles, spanned the
road from Wolverton to Buckingham, at various points.
The loyal citizens of Stony Stratford were as busy as
bees wreathing sign-posts and lamp-posts, and windows,
and doors, with green garlands, and displaying, to the
best advantage, painted mottoes and escutcheons. The
Bucks Yeomanry, which is to form the escort from Wol-
verton to Stowe, are already under arms, and quartered
some here and some at Stony Stratford.
The good folks of Buckingham are working away
manfully to deck out their town to the best advantage.
The principal street is a perfect litter of ivy
and evergreens—there are as many loyal mottoes
as signs—green arches meet your eye at every
turning—flags are suspended from the windows of
the principal hotels and houses—from the Town-hall
and steeples, and all the raw materials for to-morrow
evening; illuminations—namely, lamps and oil, are being
arranged in the forms, and to produce the effects, usual
upon these occasions. The town is already mach crowded.
The peasantry from the neighbouring districts have
flocked in, and are parading wonderingly about the
streets—their smock frocks, and little round white hats,
contrasting pleasantly with the gay uniform of the
yeomanry, who are also sauntering here and there and
everywhere. A number of stands have been erected for
spectators, and about 1,800 charity children from the
surrounding country have had places provided for them
to see the show. Shops, &c., are to be shut to-morrow
at twelve o'clock. The procession to meet her Majesty
'ill form at one. In the evening the town will be illu-
minated, and on Thursday night there will be a great
display of fireworks.
At Stowe everything is ready for the reception of her
Majesty. The state apartments have been duly fitted
up, and are gorgeous in the extreme, studded with every
article of luxury, art, and vertu. About one half of the
house, or rather palace—the west wing—will be exclu-
sively set apart for the accommodation of her Majesty
and the Prince. Among the guests expected to be pre-
sent are—Sir Robert Peel, Lord Aberdeen, and Sir
James Graham. With the exception of one night, the
number of the party to be invited, will not exceed forty.
There is to be no ball. Prince Albert will probably
enjoy some battu shooting in the Duke's preserves. M.
Jullien's band and the Distin family are to perform upon
Friday evening, when a number of the county gentry
will be asked to Stowe. There are there at present the
Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl and Countess Dela-
arr, and Lord and Lady Jersey, and L )rd and Lady
Nugent are expected to-night. Several triumphal arches
have been erected in the grounds, which, bad as the
weather is, have still a princely appearance.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Stowe House will be brilliantly illuminated in front of
the north wing, over the grand entrance of the portico,
with the words " God save the Queen," on a large tableau,
encircled with crimson coloured lamps ; and the right
and left wings will be illuminated with the initials of
V. B. and P. A., encircled with laurels, and headed
with a large crown over each. This will be illuminated
for three nights.
At Buckingham the principal illuminations will be the
Mayer (Mr. Smith)—extra large crown, V. A.
The Rev. J. L. Long—large crown, " God save the
Queen," and stars.
Mr. Hearn—crown, encircled with laurels, V. A., two
stars, and festoons.
Captain Dews—large crown and star, and the portico
with columns in front.
Mr. Swain, Cobham Arms Inn—crown, star, V. A.,
and plume.
Messrs. Salmon and Haslop—crown, V. A., and two
plumes of feathers.
Mr. King—Vivat Regina, star, and 11 A.
Mr. Nelson—large star, V.A., and festoons.
Mr. Harrison, White Hart Inn—crown, V. A., and
plume.
Messrs. Bradford and Harrison—crown, V. A., and
two stars.
Mrs. Smithson—crown, V. A.
Mrs. Gray—star, V. A.
Aliss Thomas—V. A.
Mrs. Chaplin—star and festoons.
Mr. Seaton—star.
Mr. Bennett—star and festoons.
Mr. Freeman—star.
Mr. Partridge—star.
The principal designs will be on the left wing of the
Cobham Arms, which is to be appropriated to the offi-
cers of the Bucks Yeomanry, who will have a large
crown, V. A., encircled with the rose, shamrock, and
thistle, on a large scale.

ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In perusing your influential journal of the 10th
inst. I observed in the article upon the trial of the
Great Britain steam-ship, that Mr. Samuda was men-
tioned as the patentee of the atmospheric railway. I beg
you will allow me to correct your error.
The patent which rendered the atmosphere capable of
being used, practically and commercially, as a motive
power on railways was taken out by Mr. Clegg, the in-
Yentor, who, in conjunction with Mr. Samuda, still holds
the right. —I have the honour to be, Sir, yours,

OBSERVER.
[The article in question was taken from
,a Morning
Contemporary.—ED. Sun.]

EXTENSIVE FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between
the hours of three and four, a fire, attended with a con-
siderable destruction of property, broke out in the spa-
cious coach and carriage manufactory belonging to Mr.
John Waude, at the corner of the New and Old Kent-
roads. The premises, which were three stories high,
were composed principally of wood, and at the time
of the outbreak contained property to the value of
several hundred pounds. The discovery was made by
a police-constable, who perceived smoke issuing from
one of the painting lofts. Mr. Waude, with his family,
who were sleeping in an adjoining house, were instantly
aroused. It then became apparent from the strong hold
the fire had obtained, that nothing could prevent the
complete destruction of the manufactory. The po-
lice and neighbours, therefore, set to work, and by
great exertion, they succeeded in removing from the
show-rooms a large number of coaches, the fire at the
time was falling through the floorings upon their heads.
The engines soon arrived, and, being well supplied with
water, copious streams were thrown upon the blazing
pile, in spite of which the fire continued to spread most
fearfully, so much so, that at one time it was appre-
hended that the flames would reach the King's Arms,
and other contiguous buildings, they having already
fired the back part of one of the houses in Pitt's-place.
By five o'clock, however, the flames began to assume a
less frightful aspect, and in the course of another half
hour the fire was safely extinguished. By that period
the store-room, the three painters' lofts, counting-house,
and show-room were entirely consumed. Fortunately
Mr. Waude was insured.
We understand that the several Noblemen and
gentlemen whose meeting at Lord Howard's was noticed
on a former occasion have continued their deliberations
from time to time upon the Church question, and were
preparing resolutions and a memorial to the Qucen
against the recent changes in the form of conducting
public worship, and attempts to subvert the principles of
the Reformation, to be submitted to a more extended
meeting intended to be held early in this week, but under
existing circumstances it has been deemed expedient to
suspend their proceedings until after the meeting of Par-
liament.— Times.

NEW PROJECTED RAILWAYS.
(From the London Gazette of Last Night.)
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE.
Whitehall, Jan. 14, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the
transaction of railway business, having had under con-
sideration the following schemes for extending railway
communication to Portsmouth, viz.:—
The Brighton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension,
The Direct London and Portsmouth,
The Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham
Branch,
The London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shore-
ham bridge, Fareham, and Reigate,
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of
the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham
Branch;
And against the
Brighton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension,
Direct London and Portsmouth,
London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shoreham-
bridge, Fareham, and Reigate;
And the Board having further had under consideration
the following schemes for extending railway commu-
nication in the Metropolitan district, viz.,
The Epsom and Dorking,
The Grosvenor Railway,
The Great Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction,
The London and Brighton—Wandsworth Branch,
The London and Croydon Dorking Branch,
The London and Brighton Dorking Branch.
The London and South-Western Epsom Branch.
The Metropolitan Central Junction.
The Metropolitan Extension of the London and South-
Western,
The Richmond and West-End Junction,
The South London and Windsor,
The South• Eastern Branch to Reigate and Dorking,
The Staines and Richmond,
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of the
Metropolitan Extension of the London and South-
Western,
Richmond and West-End Junction,
Staines and Richmond ;
Against the
Grosvenor Railway,
Great Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction,
London and Brighton—Wandsworth Branch,
London and South Western—Epsom Branch,
Metropolitan Central Junction,
South London and Windsor.
And recommending the postponement until a future
period of the
Epsom and Dorking,
London and Croydon—Dorking Branch,
London and Brighton—Dorking Branch,
South-Eastern Branch—Reigate to Dorking.
DALHOUSIE.

C. W. PASLEY.
D. O'BRIEN,

G. IL PORTER.
S. LAING.

THE MURDER AT SALT-HILL.
EXHUMATION OF THE BODY OF THE MUR-
DERED WOMAN.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY EVENING.—The mother of
Sarah Hart, through the activity of the police, has been
at length discovered. She was residing with her second
husband, named Hadlow, a blacksmith, at Gravesend,
and, strange to say, neither of them had heard of the
supposed murder until they received a letter from one
of the police on Friday last, communicating the parti-
culars. The mother and her husband arrived at Eton
this afternoon, when a meeting of the county magistrates
took place, with a view to the further investigation of
the case. After the depositions of several witnesses
were taken, the woman proceeded to the churchyard at
Farnham, where the body of the deceased was disin-
terred in the presence of Mr. Norblad, Mr. Champneys,
and Mr. Moss, surgeons, the churchwarden of the
parish, and foreman of the jury, and a number of other
persons.
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- The coffin was placed on trestles at the church porch.
and the lid being removed, the mother placed her hand
on the face of the corpse, and exclaimed in the deepest
agony of feelings, " This, indeed, is my poor girl."
Decomposition had not taken place, and the corpse
had undergone no change in appearance since its inter-
ment. The coffin was then consigned to the grave. It
appears from information we have been able to ascer-
tain from the mother, that the deceased's name is Law-
rence, she being a daughter by a former husband. She
was born at Chatham, in the year 1805. The last
time she saw her was between four and five years ago,
when she was living with the prisoner Tawell, at
Bridge-street, near Southwark-bridge, as his servant,
but she was not aware of her having the two children
of whom the prisoner is supposed to be the father. At
this period the prisoner had established a charity school
in the above neighbourhood, to which he subscribed one
hundred pounds per annum.
The poor woman declared her inability to support the
two children, both of whom, being illegitimate, will be
passed to their respective parishes, and one being born
in Marylebone, and the other at Chiswick, the poor
children will be separated. Larkin, the superintendent
of police, produced before the magistrates to-day a
quantity of drugs found at the prisoner's house at Berk-
hamstead. There were upwards of fifty phials, con-
taining various liquids, which underwent an inspection
by the surgeons, Mr. Norblad and Mr. Champneys, none
of which, I believe, contained prussic acid. In obtain-
ing the drugs the officer received every assistance end
courtesy from the wife of the prisoner, who is a very
elegant and highly accomplished woman, and the
daughter, a young lady of seventeen year:, assisted in
packing up the drugs in a hamper.
The assistant to Mr. Hughes, chemist, 89, Bishops-
gate-street-within, has been down to Aylesbury gaol to
day, fur the purpose of seeing the prisoner, and he states
that he remembers having sold to the prisoner on the
day on which the murder was supposed to be committed
a quantity of prussic acid.
There are many additional facts with which the ma-
gistrates have been made acquainted, but in the present
stage of the proceedings it would not be prudent or even
fair towards the prisoner to publish them.

THE FORMER APPREHENSION AND CONVICTION OF JOHN
TAWELL, FOR FORGERY.
The following is an extract from the Old Bailey re-
cords of 1814. It relives to the person who has been
committed for trial for the alleged murder of his old ser-
vant, Mrs. Hart, near Slough :
" London.
" John Tawell (thirty years of age), from the Poultry
Compter, committed by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor
(Birch), on oath of Edward Anthony Thorogood and
others, for feloniously, falsely forging and counterfeiting
a bank note for payment of 101., with intent to defraud
the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
"Dated 4th of February, 1814.
" Detained on oath of Joshua Bray and others, for
feloniously, knowingly, and wittingly having in his pos-
session and custody a forged bank note for payment of
101., knowing the same to be forged and counterfeited.
" Dated 4th of February, 1814.—Indicted. Confessed
possession." _ _

The confession of Ow minor offence of having posses-
sion of the bank note, the making of which confession as
a means of escapiLg the capital punishment, was consi-
dered to be at that period a very great favour indeed, had
the effect of causing a sentence of transportation for 14
years upon the convict.
The Poultry Compter was the prison which is now
called the Gilt,ptir-strset Compter.

It is stated upon authority that the Cheshire and
Shropshire Junction Railway is withdrawn, and that the
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway
will go into Parliament without opposition.
One of the Members for Brighton, the Honourable
Captain Pechell, has delivered a speech to his tenantry
upon the present state of agriculture and the working
of the corn. laws. We stop not to inquire as to the
amount of the lion. Member's rent roll, but we do say
that, with an immense amount of absurdity, he spoke
one plain truth. There is no doubt that agriculture does
not pay itselt, as Captain Pechell admits, but one would
be almost tempted to say, from his statement, that the
farmers of his property, from the state of their rents,
ate in a flourishing condition. There is no one who
reads the Gallant Captain's speech who will not admit
this,. and it is well for him that he can afford so to do ;
to keep up his position in society, to be a Member of
the Legislature, and still to redts,e his rents. All land-
ldrds are not in the same position, as we believe the
tradesmen of many country towns and villages can at
present testify. It is very well for Captain Pechell to
talk of steady prices; such, we believe, all agriculturists
wish for, but the difficulty seems to us to be that prices
may be steadily unremunerating, and we think Captain
Pechell himself admits this fact. How, then, are the
present corn-laws beneficial ? Let Government do what
it likes, the agriculturists are losing money every day by
the protection they are at present alleged to enjoy, and
all that can be said of the matter, even on Captain
Pechell's statement, is, that they are losing money by
steadily low prices.—Morning Post.
GRAND DINNER AT THE MAN510N24,...T-Ta)OoUrmSeEse.s:aoevrnt,:
Monday the Lord Mayor and the Lady
a very splendid entertainment to the numerous members
of his Lordship's household,
illiantiy for the occa-
Parlour, which was lighted up r
the Venetian
magnificent ma_ yofralty
lo the ladies
lilt
sion, and in which the very
was exhibited to great advantage.
his Lordship's
gentlemen of
vs as
spent orradisnh
tp 'vac familyry *
the evening
was kept up till a
were present, eplriesaesn fanthde
de-
lightful manner. The tables
.were laid out most grace-
fully and bountifully, the loving cup went round with
amazing rapidity, and the hospitality
very late hour, to the very great delight and warm ap-
probation of all the gentlemen of the household.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN THE CITY-ROAD.—Tues-
day night, about half-past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in
the extensive patent fire -wood manufactory of Mr. Gor-
ton, City-basin, City-road. The proprietor himself was
the first to discover the fire, but imagining it to be no more
than the foul state of a chimney he took but little notice,
when the flames burst forth with great fury from the
resin-room. Messengers were dispatched for the engines,
and very promptly several arrived. Fortunately there
was an abundance of water procurable from the canal,
and by eleven o'clock the firemen succeeded in their ef-
forts to arrest the progress of the fire, but had not finally
acoomplished their tasks till the workshops were com-
pletely destroyed. About forty loads of wood were en-
tirely consumed. Several persons had ducklings in the
canal, but no serious accidents occurred.