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London, England, 1845-04-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1845

to the necessity of a greater stringency in the standing
orders on the subject of railway Bills. He proposed to
narrow considerably the power at present possessed by
railway companies of deviating from the line. He
thought they ought to be restricted to twenty yards on
each side, and if in consequence of accident they were
compelled to trespass on the property of the adjoining
landowners, he would leave them to make their own bar-
gain with the person on whose property they had en-
tered, without the intervention of a jury. _ _ _

The Marquis of BREADALBANE complained of the
hostility manifested by the Noble and Learned Lord to
all railway schemes ; and
The Earl of DALHOUSIE refused to go into the question
at present, and would content himself with saying that
some of the statements of the Noble and Learned Lord
were overcharged.
The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and
their Lordships adjourned.
The House of Commons met at Four.

The second reading of the Hemel Hempstead Small
Tenements Bill, on a division, was carried, the num-
hers being :—For the second reading, 69 ; Against it,
39 ; Majority in favour of it, 30.
Various motions standing for this evening were pcst-
poned, in order that the adjourned debate on Maynooth
might be resumed.
In answer to a question by Mr. F. FRENCH,

Sir T. FRE3IANTLE said that it was not the intention
of the Government to propose any alteration in the Irish
poor-law. It had worked well hitherto, and the Govern-
ment were determined to give it a fair trial.
Sir J. GRAHAM fixed the second reading of the Medi-
cal Bill for Monday, and
Mr. WAHLEY gave notice of his motion on the subject
of the College of Surgeons' Charter for Tuesday.
Mr. FERRAND moved that the petition of the Dublin
Operative Conservative Associatien. praying for the im-
peachment of Sir R. PEEL, be printed.
The motion was seconded by Mr. HINDLEY and op
posed by Colonel RAWDON and Lord NORTHLAND.
The opposition was grounded on the fact that the peti-
tion was couched in language offensive to the Roman
Catholic subjects of her Majesty.
Mr. REDINGTON did not consider the expressions in
that petition as more offensive than those contained in
the coronation oath.

Sir R. INGLIS supported the motion.
Sir J. GRAHAM said that if the petition was to be
made the foundation of a motion respecting the allega-
tions against the First Minister of the Crown, no mem-
ber of the Government could offer the slightest opposi-
tion to the printing of the petition.
Mr. FERRAND said that on the third reading of the
Maynooth Bill he should bring forward a motion to the
following effect :—" That the Catholic Bequests Act
was a violation of the Act of Settlement, and a contra-
vention of the oath of supremacy."
Lord J. RcrssELL considered that the allegations in
the petition were frivolous, and should therefore oppose
the motion for printing it.
After a few words from Mr. S. CRAWFORD, Mr. LID-
DELL, Mr. REDINGTON, and Mr. DUNCOMBE,

Mr. FERRAND said he did not intend to make a dis-
tinct motion on the subject of the petition, and, amidst
the loud laughter of the House, withdrew his motion.
The adjourned debate on the subject of Maynooth
was then resumed by Major BERESFORD, who opposed
the Bill, on the ground that, as had been stated by the
Home Secretary on a former occasion, concession had
reached its limits.

Colonel VERNER opposed the grant, as mischievous
in tendency and unjust in practice. It would be ill re-
ceived by the Irish Catholics, and excite suspicion in the
minds of the Protestants.
Mr. HUME considered that the course adopted by the
Government was the only one calculated to put down
that agitation in Ireland which had arisen from the
refusal of that justice to which the Irish had a right,
and that this measure would remove some of those
grievances of which the Irish had a right to complain.
Mr. NEWDEGATE opposed the proposition of the
Government.
Mr. PAKINGTON supported the measure, and denied,

that the present Government had made the " No Popery"
cry a stepping-stone to office. They had only raised a
cry to defend the Protestant religion when they really
thought it was in danger ; and he for one was ready to
take the same course again.
Mr. P. M. STEWART protested against the Govern-
ment throwing away the weapon by which they had ob-
tained power, viz., the "No Popery" cry. He believed
that in consenting to this measure they were violating
the protest which this country had made against Popery.
Although he might be in a minority in the House, he
was in a majority in the nation, and he should certainly
record his vote against the measure.
The House was subsequently addressed by the Earl of
LINCOLN, Lord WOESLEY, Mr. M. MILNES, Mr. Sergeant
MURPHY, Sir J. HANMER, and Mr. Ross ; after which
the debate was adjourned, on the motion of Mr.
HAMILTON.

The accounts from Ireland respecting the grant to
Maynooth are on the whole satisfactory. The measure
appears to give general satisfaction to the Catholics, but
the value of the boon is greatly diminished by the
strong feeling evinced against it in England, and the
revival of the " No Popery " cry, of which not a whis-
per has been heard for years till now, though Puseyism,
or Popery, has been making such fearful inroads on
the Protestant Establishment. At Oxford, one of the
great fountains of national education, the Catholic reli-
gion is prized far above the Protestant ; several of the
teachers of youth openly avow its tenets, others, with
more tender consciences, have gone over to the an-
cient faith, and not a few of the Bishops have
been exerting themselves to bring back the po •
pulation to the bosom of Mother Church ; but,
if we except the demonstrations exhibited in two
or three dioceses where the attempt has been made
prematurely, there has been little said against such
traitorous proceedings. Have not the Irish, therefore,
reason to complain that this religious zeal of the Eng-
lish and Scots is very partial, and that they submit with
wonderful composure to the spread of the Catholic reli-
gion in England and in all her colonies, and kw-
' it with horror only when it is associated with the sister
country. Such a contradiction is quite inexplicable
here, but in Ireland, we regret to find, the cause is attri-
buted not so much to religion as to a hatred of the Irish
nation. That hatred unfortunately is too mani-
fest in many instances. Their priests are
reviled, and the system adopted at Maynooth
is described as tending only to evil, as preg-
nant with mischief to the community, and an en-
couragement to rebellion and immorality. So invete-
rate is this prejudice in some English minds, that the
only Government journal in London cannot defend the
grant without insulting the Irish. Was there ever such
a preposterous argument in support of Sir ROBERT
PEEL'S policy, as the following put forth in the Morning
Herald ?—After adverting to the Charitable Bequests
Bill, the bewildered writer says : " But next comes
the Maynooth Bill as necessary to complete the work of
permanent pacification. With the priests of the present
class—heated with politics, illiterate and unfitted for
habits of either restraint or economy by a long life Of
coarse indulgence—rothing can be done having the least
Promise of success ; and therefore it is necessary
to improve the education of the future priest..
h00d.." Well may Sir ROBERT PEEL exclaim, " Save
me from my friends." Mr. O'CONNELL, at the Repeal
meeting on Monday, adverted to this uncharitable spirit
with great mildness—a quality for which he is not re-
markable—and spoke of it in sorrow rather than in anger.
He condescended to refute the calumnies raised against
the prelates and the inferior clergy educated at Maynooth.
" Our enemies," said he, " have been villifying Maynooth
in all manner of ways. Now, he could tell them on in-
disputable authority, that of upwards of 15,000 students
who went through the course of education at Maynooth
during the past fifty years, not a single one was ever
charged with a crime—not one was ever brought
before a magistrate charged with an offence. It
was a miracle that of 15,000 young men, with all the
weakness of manhood, not one was brought before
the authorities charged with a crime." Can Oxford
or Cambridge, or the Universities of the: North say as
m ? We will not furnish instances to the contrary,
and at becausethe last rtain
proceedings in our Ecclesiastical Courts,
assizes, are fresh in the memory of every
reader. We mention the fact only to show how a
malignant spirit might be excited between the two
theye more
expressions
Christian
;
countries if the Irish
charity.d? mse thatto ,r,eetvaelriayttehi;ngbiunt heuylthave
They pass over such
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.e otiI(jONNELL'S words,
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n.
and we confidently express a bop
tended by it will not he marred by
tional antipathies.

Mr. Huxz has a notice on the paper, for the 17th (to-
morrow), of a character that demands our best atte-
tion. It is to the effect—" That this House will, on the
day of April, resolve itself into a Committee of the
whole House, to consider the following resolution: That
an humble address be presented to her MAJESTY, pray-
ing that she will be graciously pleased to grant such a
pension as she shall think proper to the Right Hon. Sir
HENRY POTTINGER, Bart., K.C.8., as a reward for his
eminent public services, and especially for having, as her
MAJESTY'S Plenipotentiary in China, brought the war
in that country to a conclusion by a peace alike honour?

able and advantageous, and to assure her MAJESTY that
this House will make good the same.' "
There may or there may not be technical objection to
the form and wording of this reso'utior.—a question into

which we do not fed ourselves qualified now to enter.

But there is no mistake, and can be no doubt, about the
truly public-spirited motive which has dictated the no-

Lice. Mr. HUME has now been before the public for up-

wards of forty years in the character of a consistent,
jealous, and uncompromising guardian of the public

purse. In that capacity he has fearlessly pursued,
through good report and through evil report, the unbroken

tenor of his self-imposed but most important duty. The
exercise of functions such:as that duty supposes, often
invidious, always liable to misconstruction, and never
secure of being duly appreciated by a contemporary ge-
neration, demands the rare union of sustained energy,
unsleeping vigilance, and uncompromising disinterested-
ness. The worst enemy of Mr. HUMB—and he has
many more than might have been anticipated from the
admitted advantage which the public has realised from
his labours in the work of retrenching the public expen-
diture, and developing the resources of the public re-
venue—the worst enemy he has cannot dispute his dis-
interestedness. Had he sought office, there have fallen
out abundant occasions on which be could have com-
manded it. We can all of us remember some conjunc-
tures when the Ministerial succession has been in
abeyance," as it were, for days and even weeks together,
to the great uneasiness of the public mind. It is certain
that had Mr. HUME, in these instances, sought to em-
barrass the free action of the constitutional choice of
the Sovereign, he was at the head of a section in the
House of Commons whose support or opposition must
have made or marred the newly-formed Cabinet before
it could have concentrated its strength for active Par-
liamentary warfare. But Mr. HUME was pledged to
measures—not to men ; and he fairly and honourably
gave opportunity to the new servants of the Crown to
make good their appeal, if they could, to the confidence
and favour of the nation. A general concurrence of
political opinions, and views of commercial as well as
fiscal policy, has not enabled us, on all occasions, to go
with him in some of his extreme notions connected with
such matters. We have found ourselves differing from
him widely at times, and have felt ourselves bound to
record that dissent in very unequivocal and emphatic
' terms ; but we have always remained convinced of the
honesty of his prepossessions, even when we could not
coincide in them. In short, whether in consideration
of the vigilance to detect, and the energy to expose,
abuses, which his whole Parliamentary career has mani-
fested—of the disinterestedness with which he has main-
tained that career against open vituperation and secret
obloquy, only to be silenced by the invincible fact of his
voluminous efforts being unimpeached by any solicitation
for, and unrequited by any dispensation of, office, or
patronage, or emolument—or, of the millions by which
he has directly or consequentially reduced the public
expenditure—we hold that a very inadequate expression
of public fvour and respect has yet been proffered to
him, in return for his almost innumerable services, in
a very various and extended sphere of usefulness.
We have dwelt on these facts the rather because they
singularly enhance the value and, significancy of a com-
pliment which even so meritorious and distinguished a
public servant as Sir H. POT'TINGER may well feel gra-
tified to have elicited from Mr. HUME. For Mr. HUME
to take the initiative in proposing an address to her
MAJESTY to grant this eminent diplomatist such a pen-
sion as her MAJESTY shall think fit," without previous
suggestion or stipulation of any kind as to its amount,
is a triumph less marked, indeed, by the splendour or
brilliancy of its accessories than festivals, and ban-
quets, and balls in his honour in all the mercantile
capitals and emporia of the kingdom, But Sir HENRY
may feel assured that such a step, by such a man as
Mr. HUME, towards moving the Crown to so signal an
act of grace and recognition in his (Sir HENRY'S) be
half, is a certain and unfailing assurance (if that indeed
be wanting) of the confirmation which the British public
is fully prepared to give to any, even the most impres-
sive and munificent testimony of appreciation and confi-
dence which the SOVEREIGN maybe advised to tender to
one of its most accomplished and successful servants.
We congratulate Sir H. POTTINGER most cordially on
this remarkable tribute to, and effect of, his rare abilities
and rarer fortune. Whatever may be the fate of Mr.
HUME'S motion, the object it purposes to achieve can•
not long remain unperfected ; but the manner in which
it has occurred to the most inflexible and unsparing
champion of economy in the disbursement of the public
money thus to originate au act of national respect and
bounty, without even preliminary conditions or limita
ions, is alike extraordinary, interesting, and honourable
:o all parties concerned in it.

The Madrid Gazette of the Bth publishes a decrea
giving the royal assent to the following resolution
adopted by the Cortes :—" The property of the secular
clergy that is unsold, and the selling of which was sus •
pended by the royal ordinance of the 26th of July, 1844,
shall be restored to the clergy." The Chamber of De-
puties met on the Sth. All the Ministers were present,
and previous to the commencement of the discussion on
the budget, General NARVAEZ, amidst gmeral attention,
rose and read the following decree relative to the mar-
riage of the QUEEN-MOTHER with Don FERNANDO
MUNOZ :

"Considering the powerful reasons submitted to me by
my august mother, Donna Maria Christina de Bourbon,
and after hearing my Council of Ministers, I authorise her
to contract marriage with Don Fernando Munoz, Duke de
Rianzares ; and I declare that, by contracting that mar-
riage of conscience with a person inferior in rank, she
has forfeited nothing in my heart and tenderness, that she
shall retain all the honours and prerogatives belonging to her
as Queen-Mother; but that her husband shall enjoy only the
honours, prerogatives, and distinctions belonging to his
rank, and retain his armorials and name; the children that
shall issue from this marriage shall be subjected to the pro-
visions of article 12 of the ninth law, title the 2d, book the
10th, of the New Collection of Laws, and shall be enabled to
inherit the free property of their parents, in conformity to
the provisions of those laws.

"Given at the Palace on the 11th of October, '1844.
(Signed) " THE QUEEN,
_

The QUEEN'S Civil List was 'then voted unanimously
and the pension to Queen CHRISTINA of 30,000/. was car.
ried by a majority- of 116 to 9.

The funds rose considerably on the Bth, and conside-
rable transactions took place in the Three per Cents.,
which closed at 351 cash, and 35i at 60 days. Five
per Cents., 26 at 60 days. Passive Debt, 81, at 60
days. Vales Reales, 101 at 60 days.

The Paris papers bring no intelligence of importance'
On Monday, at nine in the morning, the KING left the
Tuileries for the Chateau d'Eu, where he will remain, it
is said, till Friday. The Presse states, that previous to
his departure, his MAJESTY signed five ordonnances,
raising the following persons to the Chamber of Peers
—The Duke of TREVISO, M. BERLIN DE VAUX, M.
VICTOR HUGO, General ACIIARD, and M. LE TILLEY.
The Journal des Debuts has a long article on the grant
to Maynooth, in which it gives long extracts from SYD-
NEY SMITH'S "Fragment on the Irish Church," an outline
of the discussions in the Commons, and other particu-
lars, which may render the subject intelligible to fo-
reigners, but possesses little interest for the English
reader.

These journals contain an account of the proceedings
in the extraordinary Diet, which met at Zurich, on the
10th. M. KERN, Deputy of Thurgau, read the report
of the Committee appointed to investigate the late un-
fortunate cccurrences at Lucerne, which may be thus
summed up:—
" The Committee commenced by obtaining accurate no-
tions of the state of facts. It first of all heard the Federal
Commissioners. These expressed a fear that some capital
executions might take place at Lucerne in the course of the
week. The accounts of the state of the prisoners were not
very favourable. Huddling them together in a way to en-
gender sickness was particularly complained of ; the wounded
were better treated. After having heard the Federal Com-
missioners, the Committee sent for two of the Deputies of
Lucerne, MM. Siegwart and Attenhofer, who declared that
it was impossible that executions or even judgments'could
take place during the week ; that the proceedings and their
consequences would demand several weeks. The Deputies
of Lucerne took this occasion to express a desire that the
Diet should not adopt any measures likely to attack the can-
tonal sovereignty. This circumstance engaged the Commit-
tee to examine the question of the amnesty in all points of
view, and it came to the decision that the most efficient means
of arriving at favourable ground for this question was to pro-
pose measures in completion of the decree of the 20th of
March respecting the free corps, and to order the political
refugees to be removed from the Lucerne frontier."
M. KERN'S report was listened to with the utmost in-
terest, and after it came very long discussions (from
nine in the morning until five in the evening) on the two
p'opositions first presented by the Committee. That of
the free corps met with but little opposition, even on
the part of the states which rejected it three weeks
back, but it called forth violent recriminations between
the deputies of Lucerne and Argau, on the part taken by
the volunteers in the last troubles. In this discussion,
the exultation of the victors was manifested without con-
cealment. The proposed decree did not please them, be-
cause, in their opinion, it did not go far enough, in not
placing a direct responsibility of a character sufficiently
strong on the cantonal governments which might tolerate
freetmgheoetrhee
rs
ecovonerlrypes . The Deputies of the cantons favourable
to the Jesuits, therefore, all demanded modifications of a
Committee, anistedevnewdliehniCoyr.
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even if it bad a right to interfere, the moment was ,
inopportune for doing so. The most powerful con-
siderations found, on the contrary, eloquent inter-
preters it several Deputies, and amongst others,
those of Glitris, Thurgau, Vaud, and Zurich. Some
other Deputies, who spoke in favour of the same con-
siderations, desired to see some changes made in the
wording. On the vote, eight states and two half
ones pronounced in favour of not meddling with the
matter. Nine states and one half state voted against
the proposition of the majority of the Committee. Thre
other states kept the protocol open. Thus there
was no majority either one way or the other. All the mem-
bers of the Diplomatic corps were present at the sitting.
The Diet was to take into consideration the other pro-
positions contained in the report; but this grand Council
evidently is without power, the representatives of the
different cantons cannot agree on material points, and
a sufficient number of votes either one way or the
other cannot be obtained, so as to render any decision
e flee Live.

THE BOURSE—MoNDAy, APRIL 14.

First ll4h,st Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
Frcnch Five per Cents. ••••• 117 10 •• 117 15 .• 117 .. 117 10
Fours.. ....... • •• .. 107 50 .• 107 50 •. 107 50 .. 107 50
Three per Cents •• •• 83 80 83 80 85 75 .. 85 75
SG 33 .. 86 40 83 35 .. 86 40
Bank of France •• •• •• "3215 ..3215 ..3215 3215
Gouin Bank. I,ooof Shares 1110 • • 1110 .•1110 —lllO
Belgian Bank. • • ..
Belgian Fives, 1840
Four-and-a-Half •• 101:;•4 •• 101:4 .. 10138 .. 1013 i
Two-and-a-Half 62 25 62 25 .. 62 25 .. 62 25
Dutch Two and-a-Half ..• •• 64 •• 64 .. 64 . 64
Spanish Threes 411 i .. 414 .. 414 •• •• •• •• •• •• 411,i
Passive . ...... •• • • 74 • • •
• • 74 .. 7%
Portuguese Five per Cents • 66 .. 66 .. 66 .. 66
...................10774 •• 10774 .. 1077; •• 1077 i

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain • •
Versailles, R.B• 5-0 .. 5130 .. 570 .. 572 SO
370 . 380 .. 370 .. 380
Rouen 1014400 ...1014500 .
...1135
940
.. 0
..114407
50
Rouen to Havre
Orleans 1245 ..1247 50 ..1242 50 ..1245
Strasburg to Bale.• 325 •• 327 53 .. 320 60 .. 325
Avignon to Marteilles•• •• —1092 50 ••10..i2 50 ••1087 50 . 1092 50
Bordeaux to Tette, •• •• •• 217 50 •• 217 50 .. 215 .. 217 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 16.

St. Germain::••...........1110
Versailles, R.H. • 580
L. 8.. 280
Rouen • • • •...............1135

..113q
.. 580
380
..1140

-1110 ..1130
.. 570 .. 572 50
.. 375 .. 380
..1135 -1137 50

Rouen to Havre . • . •• •••••• 94')
Orleans . • . .................240

~ 962 50 .. 940
..12W ..1240

Strasburg to Bale • . • 320 .. 327 50 • • 320
Avignon to Marseilles• • • ...1095 .. 1095 .. 1085

.. 950
..1250

.. 326 25
..1087 50

THE OREGON TERRITORY.-Mr. Wyld has published
two excellent maps, which will be found of great service
in ascertaining the right of England to the disputed dis-
trict. The first is a general sketch of the north-west
coast of America, with the different boundary lines
clearly marked ; and the other " The United States and
the relative position of the Oregon and Texas." They are
accompanied with a small work giving a chronological
statement of the events connected with the rights of
Great Britain, and the claims of the United States to
the Oregon territory. Want of space prevents us from
giving extracts from this pamphlet at present, but we
shall take the first opportunity of laying the most im-
portant parts of it before the public.

THIS DAY'S NEWS

QUEEN'S BENCH.-('THIS DAY.)
The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing motions,
none of which possessed any general interest.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before 111 r. Justice COLERID.E.)
GARTER v. DAiISON.

This was the first case: called on, and was an action to compel
compensation for labour done, but as it is likely to last over the
evening we refrain from noticing it in its present stage.
There were no motions of the slightest interest this morning,

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
,Sittings in Banco before the LORD CHIEF Bartox, Barons PARSE,
ALDERSON, and ROLFE.)
. . . .

Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with motions
of n• general interest.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
;Sittings in lialiCo before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice
COLTMAN, Mr. Justice CRESWELL, aid Mr. Justice ERLE.)

COOPER V. WILLAMOT.

This was an action of trover, the details of which were not pe.
culiar, to recover the value of goods alleged not to be the property
of the person for whose debt they had been distrained and sold.
The verdict was for the plaintiff. _ . _

Mr. Sergeant SHEA, after a long argument, obtained a rule nisi
for a new trial.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURf:
(Before the C 03131 ON.SE RG EANT.)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—John Powric, a baker carrying on
business in rinsbury.pavement, and Caroline Powrie, his wife,
surrendered on bail to answer a charge of conspiring to get rid of
an infant.

Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Parry appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Doane for the defendants.

It appeared that the male defendant met a young woman whom
he knew, named Gillespie, but who neither knew him by name or
occupation, in Smithfield, on the 16th of January, and sated her
if she would take charge of an infant, then unborn, and get it on
the parish, if he gave her 51. She refused, but said she would speak
to her landlady, Mrs. Milbourne, living in Field•place, Fetter-lane
about it. She afterwards met him at his request, and took him to
this person. Mrs. Milbourne mot him by appointment in Fetter-
lane on the night of the 11th of February. The female defendant
was there with an infant in her arms, which she gave to her, to-
gether with a 5/. note. Mrs. Milbourne had previously communi-
cated with the police, having had her suspicions strongly excited
and City police-constable Finn, having been placed on the spot,
came up and took the female defendant into custody. The male
defendant took to his heels on seeing the constable. He was
afterwards taken into custody, and both were held to bail at Guild.
hall Police-office to answer the charge for which they were in-
dicted to.day. The infant was but a few hours old on the day
mentioned, the 11 th of February, and Mrs. Milbourne was di-
rected by the male defendant to endeavour to get it into the West
London Union, and was to receive 5/. for her trouble.
In the conversation which he had with both her and the girl,
Gillespie, he expressed his anxiety to get rid of the child altogether.
Whese child it was, or why so much anxiety was evinced to cast
it off and disown it, heedless of its fate, and in the heartless manner
described, was not made public.
The
C
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to m
support
conspiracy,
and the defendants
under his direction were acquitted.
It is fully expected that the sessions will terminate to.day.
nothing °Np-o8; t the

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
that years, was charged with the following rob.
bevies.
past
sat the prisoner, for upwards of two years
p
(THIS DAY.)
Robert
had
t .Pe n peeil
a,, e abed
a pred
orter in the employ of Mr. William Wootton,
been
of Frederick.street, Gos well-street-road, accountant. On Wednes-
day, the 9. 6t h of ispril last, the prisoner absconded, taking with
him a cashbox, containing 15 sovereigns, a Si. Birmingham bank
note, three bills of exchange, for 3/. each, and various memoranda.
No tidings whatever could be gained of him until last evening he
was taken into custody. On being charged with the robbery, he
confessed it, and said he had spent the money in roaming about
different parts of Kent. When apprehended he had no money in
his possession, and was evidently in a state of extreme destitution.
Mr. MALTBY asked him if he intended to say any thing then.—
He replied, " No; I've nothing to say for myself."
He was fully committed.
A second charge was gone into against him, on which he was
also sent for trial.

ITTEES.
RAILW(ATYHICsOiM)AMy.)
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY—MAIDSTONE AND
ROCHESTER LINE. '
Mr. Bushe appeared as solicitor for the promoters of the Bill,
and Mr. Dyson for the petitioners against the Bill.
The usual matter.of.course evidence was given as to the service
of the requisite notices, &c.; and the case was then postponed to
await the arrival of witnesses ; and that of
TUNBRIDGE TO TUNBRIDGE WELLS
was called on, it being on the same line, as are also the following :
—Ashford to Hastings; Branch to Deal, and Extension of the
South. Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate; Hunger..
ford.bridge to Chilharn, with Branches; and Lewisham to Tun.
bridge and Paddock Wood.
The Solicitor for the promoters of the Bill for the Tunbridge and
Wells line, gave evidence as to the services of notices, &c., and
said they abandoned all such portions of the tine as the Board of
Trade had not approved of.
ASHFORD AND HASTINGS.
Mr. Dyson appeared as solicitor for Thomas Fortune and Robin.
son Lattee, petitioners against this line.
DEAL AND RAMSGATE AND MARGATE EXTENSION
BRANCH.
The
asgaaminestsOthliicsitßoirll.appeared on behalf of Robinson Lattee, peti-
tioner

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
NEWMARKET, TUESDAY NIGHT.
Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b
and fillies, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. (6 Subs.)
Duke of Bedford's Captain Phoebus (F,. Edwards) 1
Lord Sandwich's bf by Jerry, out of Legend ........... 2
Mr. Mason's b f by Redshank, dam by Tramp
Mr. E. Batson's b fby Liverpool, out of Harriet 4
6 to 4 on Captain Phoebus, who won easy by a length.
Match—Lord Lowther's Hvrcanian, 5 yrs (BartholomeW),
beat Sir W. W. Wynn's Rowland, 5 yrs (Mann), by four
lengths; 50, h ft, Bst each. R.M.
BETTING IN THE EVENING.
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.—Even between Idas
and John Day's lot.
CHESTER Cur.-7 to 1 agst Semiseria-8 to 1 agst Cata-
ract-20 to 1 agst Ould Ireland-20 to 1 agst Portrait. No
others mentioned.
DERBY.--9 to 1 agst Idas-10 to 1 agst Alarm-17 to 1
78e5a0—to5°50tha
agst Kedger-17 to 1 agst Weatherbit-18 to 1 agst Clear-
the-Way-20 to 1 agst Newsmonger (t)-30 to 1 agst Pan-
tasa (t)----30 to 1 agst Mentor-40 to 1 agst Wood Pigeon-
-4025 agst Secutor (taken several times)-1,000 to 10 agst
Thousand Guineas and Derby 1,000 even between Wood
Pigeon and Old England. No others mentioned.
Entry for the T. Y. C. plate to-morrow :—Oakley, Celia,
1 agst Jinglepot-2,000 to
Khorassan, Delapre, All-round-m-Hat, and Caroline.
COLUMN STARES.AII are scratched except Tisiphone,
et Idas winning the Two
Sister to Potentia, Mr. Bowes' two, Javelin, Jet, Adrianople,
Topaz,
Due
au Darras, Queen of Cyprus, Hersey, and Win-
chilsea. About six or seven expected to run.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst Semiseria (t 9to 1)-10 to 1.
agst Cataract-11 to 1 agst Obscurity (t)-14 to 1 agst The
Era-25 to 1 agst Winesour-25 to 1 agst Strathspey-25 to
1 agst Trueboy (t)-28 to 1 agst Ould Ireland-30 to 1
agst
Yheoman ac Knuck.
Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-2 to 1 agst Idas (t)
—5 to 2 agst Kedger-6 to 1 agst Cobweb c.
DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Alarm (t)-11 to 1 agst Idas-13 is
1 agst Kedger-15 to 1 agst Cobweb c-17 to 1 agst Clear-
the-way (t)-22 to 1 agst Weatherbit-25 to 1 agst News-
monger-30 to 1 agst Mentor-35 to 1 agst Laird o' Cock-
pen-40 to 1 agst Doleful-12 to 1 agst Forth's lot (t).

SALMON FISITING.—The fishing this week has been
rather more productive than for several weeks past. The prices
continue at Is. Bd. per lb. for salmon, and trout 18.—Bertaick
Warder.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was dull ; sales 2,500
bales, at previous rates ; shares good, except Direct Northern.
Aberdeen Railway, 51/1 43A ; Barnsley Junction, 8%; Bir-
kenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 151/ 16%; Birmingham
and Gloucester, New Shares, 45' ; Blackburn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 9 14 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 534 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 1414 %; Caledonian, 13% 14;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 976 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 53 % ;
Ditto, New Shares, 451/2; Ditto, Half Shares, 261 • Chester
and Holyhead, 12% 34 ; Churnet Valley, 10% 34 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 43/4 5 ; Clydesdale Junction, 11 ; Cork
and Bandon, 5% ; Cork and Waterford, 31/8 ; Dereham and
Norwich, 14 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 1018 14 ; Dublin
and Galway, 511 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 3% 4 ;
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 41,4 34 ; Eastern Counties, 2114;
Ditto. Perpetual, No. 2, 275. ; Edinburgh and Northern, 435.
6d. ; Ely and Bedford, 234 ; Glasgow-and Dumfries, 1/. 6s. 1/.
Grand Junction, 225 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113 •, Ditto, New
4s. ; Quarters, 4414 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 63/4 ;Great
Southern and Western, 17% 18 ; Huddersfield Canal and
Railway, 4% 34 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% ; Inver-
ness and Elgin, 2% 2 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
3 %; London and Birmingham, 235 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 45 ;
Londonderry and Erniskillen, 31/2, ; London and South-Wes-
tern, 82 ; London and York, 4 ; Direct Northern, 4 ; Leeds
and Thirsk, 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 714 ;
Lynn and Dereham, 58s. 6d. ; Manchester and Birmingham,
59% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 101,4 ; Blanchester and Buxton,
5 6 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 10 14 ;
Midland Railway, 1561/, 157 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 20 3/4 ;
Newark and Sheffield, 6-34 7 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 16 ;
Newry and Enniskillen, 5 %; North British,l9 ; Ditto, Half
7A
Shares,
5:!%1 , ; North Union (A), 143 ; North Western,
41 ; North Vales, 334 ; Oxford and Birmingham 3 unction, 6 ;
Runcorn Gap, 33; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
16 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 578 ; Shrewsbury,
Oswestrv, and Cheshire, 4% %; South-Eastern and Dover,
421,2 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 16% • No. 2, 11%; No. 3,
9 8% ; Scottish Central, 7% ; Trent Valley, 20, 34 ; Water-
ford and Kilkenny, 41,8 ; West Yorkshire, 41/2 4 ; Worcester
and Tring,, 5 ;Whitehaven and Furness, 3% Vs ;York and North
Midland, New Half Shares, 1714 ; Constituted Central of
France, 17% ; North of Spain, 314 ; Lyons and Avignon
(English), 274 ; Northern of France (Laftitte's), 5 5% ;
Ditto, (Rosamel's), 2% ; Paris and Lyons, English (Laffitte's),
3 ; Paris and Lyons, (Ganneron's), 234 ; Paris and Rouen,
431/4 ; Paris and Strasburgh, 3/. Is. 6d. ; Paris and St. Quentin,
21. 4s. ; Verona and Ancona, 11. 18s.
There are no arrivals to-day.
At the Indigo sales prices have ruled about the same as
last January.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders have
received a communication, dated Paris, from M. Mosquera,
who promises an early visit to London to carry out the last
arrangement with the New Granadian Bondholders.
The public Securities have been very steady to-day.
Consols have been marked 9918 to 991% for present transfer
and 991% to % for May. The premium on Exchequer-bills
has ruled at 595. to 575. New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 10114 to %, and the Three per Cents. 98%
to 14. Bank Stock has been worth 20914 to 213. The
Government broker continues his purchases.
There has been very little doing in Foreign Stocks.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been 3014 %, and the Three
per Cents. 4034. Portuguese Converted are marked 6612.
Mexican Bonds have been 361/2 3/4 ; Colombian, 1512 % ;
Brazilian, 87. Dutch Four per Cents. are 97% to %.
The Railway Share Market is firm. The Direct Northern
line has been depressed ; the standing orders not having been
complied with, has materially altered the market value of
this investment, while the London and York have rallied.
Shares in general are buoyant.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock ' 210 20914 210
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9814 %
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9914 %
New 314 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860— 111;4 'A
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 11%14
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 276
India Bonds 1,0001 7l
Ditto under 1,000/ 7l
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 134(1. 11/sd.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto &nail -
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 363/41/2
Ditto Deferred Stock 16% 171,4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B6l/6
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto Deferred
' Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21%2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Aberdeen ... ............ ........ 21/2 5%14... to
Armagh, Coleraine, Pnrtrush 1% 3%%... to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 139
Ditto, Half Shares ...
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 10
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New ... 2 .. 814 to
Caledonian 5 ...... 14 13% to 1414
Cambridge arid Lincoln ...... 11/2
Chester and Holyhead 5 ... 131A/474% to 14
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and Nun•
eaton
Coventry and Leicester ...... 11164 3 4... to
Cornwall . . 3
Circa Northern ... ......... .. 2% 3%...... to 4%
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21/2 10%14... to 1014
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine 21/2 3%4 to
Dublin and Galway 2%...... 5%%1/4 to
Dublin and Mullingar 2% 4143/4— to
Eastern Counties
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Ely and Bedford ll4 2/. to 3
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Extension
Great North of England 100 195 ...... to 196
Ditto New ...
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portme. 21/2 OA 14... to
Harwich 1
Hull and Selby .. . 50 lOl
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Half Shares ,
London and Birmingham —lOO 237
Ditto 14 Shares
London and Blackwall 16% 814%... to
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and, South Western.. 41% Bll2 to
Ditto New 21?; 16%%... to 16
London and York ... ..... ...... 2 A 4IA %,,f,i, to
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Birmir.gliam 40
Midland 100 159 ...... to 160
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 ll9 ...... to
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .. ...
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 5%1/... to
Northern and Eastern
Norwich and Brandon lO ....•. 17% to
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 ...... 4% to 5
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 5 to
South Eastern and Dover ... 33%...... 42%14 to
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 914 ...... to
South Wales
Trent Valley 2 ..... 201 21 to 2014
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 4% to
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland ... 50 lO 4
Ditto Scarboro'Branch
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux,Toulouse and Cette 2
Great Northern Of France
(Laffitte's) ...... ...... ......... 4
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ... 2 ..... 2%1/2••• to
Great Paris and Ly0n5......... 2
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon
Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% to
Paris and Rouen ..
Paris and Strasburg...
Paris and St. Quentin
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale
Teurs & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 15.—The sales
are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4; Chester
and Holyhead, 13; Eastern Counties 20%; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 40 ; London and South-Western, New Shares, 15% •
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 1018 ; Ditto,
New Quarters, 6 1,4 prem. ; Midland Railway Consols, 401.
Shares, 20 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, 9 ; Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrusb, 3%; Barnsley Junction, 8% 9 • Belfast, Bally-
mena, and Carricfergus, 5%; Birkenhead, ilanchester, and
Cheshire Junction, 14% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring-
ton, 914 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5%; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 1414 s ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
9% 5/4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 414 premium ; Coventry
and Leicester, 3 2% ; Churriet Valley, 10% %; Direct
Northern, 412 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone,
314 ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester, 1%;
Huddersfield and Manchester' Railway and Canal, 4% ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8%; Liverpool, Orms-
kirk,and Preston, 314 %; London and York, 41;4 % ; Man-
chester and Buxton, 54 9- 16 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Midland, 10 ; Newark and Sheffield, 6% 7 ; North Western,
51/2 14 ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 3 1-16 % prem.; Scot-
tish Midland, 41/2 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction,
275. 6d. ; Trent Valley, 1912. Whitehaven and Furness, 314 ;
Bordeaux, Toulouse, ' and Cette 2% ; Great Northern of
France (English), 5% ; Ditto, Rosamel's (French), 275 ;
Paris and Lyons, Ganneron's (French), 2%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LoNsoox, APRIL 16.—Wind this day at noon, Northerly,
strong breeze, and cloudy.
OFF DARTMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Agnes, Fox, Trinidad. •
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind N., strong gales.—AiTd.
Jessamine, Duller, Ichaboe. Since yesterday morning it has
been blowing a very strong gale from N. by W. to N.N.E.;
and continues.
FALMOUTH, APRIL I.s.—Wind N. to N.N.E., fresh gales,
with violent squalls.—Arrd. Betty, Schyth, Lima, sld. Dec.
29 ; Herald, Jones, Warrens, Beech, and Flora, Mitchell,
Ichaboe ; Familier, Nyberg, Rio, aid. Feb. 18. Sld. Panther,
Rio. Off, Concord of North Shields, Ichaboe ; Mary Laing,
Ellison, Creufurgos, sld. 2d. ult.
BRISTOL, APRIL ]s.—Wind N.N.E., strong.—Arrd. Tom
Cod, Escott, Africa, left Gaboon, Feb. 5. The Queen Vic-
toria, Sutton, hence to Port Talbot, in going down the River
yesterday, got ashore near the Round Point, and sunk.
BELFAST, APRIL 14.—Arrd. Gondola, Warwick, Ichaboe.
OFF THE HUMBER FLOAT, APRIL 15.—Harmony, Ichaboe.
YARmouni, APRIL 15.—Arrd. Mary Ann, of Lynne, with
loss of bowsprit, &c., having been in contact with the Sarah,
of 'Whitby, which has put into Lowestoffe. with loss of an-
chors, &c.
OFF DOVER, APRIL 15.—Botley Wood, St. Michael's, after
being in contact with the Jane Ann, of Beatunaris, in the
Downs.

DEAL, APRIL 15.—Wind N.N.W. to N.E., strong gale
with severe squalls.—Arrd. Hector, Fox, and Spartan, Barclay,
Jamaica. Sid. F. I. Crisp, Cape of Good Hope; Alexander
Baring, New Orleans. A great number have lost anchors,
and some are running down Channel, having slipped their
anchors.
RAMSGATE, APRIL 15.—Wind N.E., blowing hard.—
Several vessels have put in here with loss of anchors.
SOUTHAMPTON, Arum 16. A rrd. 5 A.M. Montrose steamer,
Gibraltar, &c.
DovEit, APRIL 15.—The Tweed, Walker, supposed from
the Gambia, reports having spoken, let ult., lat. 4 lon. 11
W., the Spanish felucca Hurricane, a prize to her Majesty's
steamer hydra, bound to Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind N.N.W. to N..N.E.—SId.
Paramatta, Valparaiso; Catherine Elizabeth, St. Vincent;
Quebec, New York ; Standai d, St. Andrew's. - Off, Wapner
Castle, and sailed for London.
COWES, APRIL 15.—Wind N., blowing a gale.—Arrd.
Charlotte, Ichaboe ; Port-a-Port, Romare, Bahia. The Pearl,
Hayward, from London to Ceylon, drove this morning during
a heavy gale at N., and came ashore off Shrape Mud, but has
come off with the flood. The weather is now (5 30 r.m.)
moderating.
STARCROSS, Arm!, 15.—1 t is blowing a heavy gale from
N.N.W. to N.N.E.

LivErtrom., Arnu, 15.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Aller

ton, Phillips, Hope, arid Parsee Merchant, Icbaboe ; Mary
and Ann, Whitty, Buenos Ayres; Reliance, Bedford, Ceara;
John, Fell, Laguna; Victoria,, New Orleans; Aguara, Greif-
nev, Herculian, and Scotland, Mobile; Chieftain and Jessie,
Charleston; Off, Lancaster, Bombay; Rainbow, Trinidad;
Atlas and Nancy, —. The Lord Keane had been dis•
charged and condemned at Ichaboe, prior to February 18.
The barque Eu, of Greenock, inward bound, was passed off
Point Lynas yesterday ; this morning she was discovered
inside the bank having been wrecked during the night on
West Hoyle; part of crew drowned, and the fate of the others
unknown.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL 15.—1 t blew a heavy gale all last
night, at N.N.E. and N.E., and continues, several vessels
have lost anchor.
HARWICII, APRIL. 15.—1 t has blown a heavy gale during
the day at N.E. to E.N.E., but is now more moderate.
WHITSTABLE, APRIL 15.—A brig has just gone ashore on
on the Spanish ; assistance has gone to her. The Countess of
Dnrham and the Tuscan have lost anchors, &c. It is blowing
hard at N.E.
CLYDE, APRIL 14.—Wind N W.—Arrd. Chaucer, Elder,
Chevalier, Keir, Europa, Bugle, Formosa, Boyle, Hannah
Isabella., Shanks, Matthew King, Murchie, Retrieve, and St.
George, all from Ichaboe. Sld. Adam Cair and Trident,
New York; Annabella, Barbadoes ; Mary Pring, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
CORK, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Barlow, Fell, Lord John Russell,
Garrety, Sisters, Lamplough, and Wilmot, Miller, Ichaboe ;
Brothers, Knowles, St. John's, N.B. Off, Protector, Dove,
Ichaboe.
LEITH, APRIL 14.—S1d. Cicero, Pernambuco.
WELLS, APRIL 15.—The Nautilus, Wilson, of Faversham,
is ashore to the eastward, but expected off when the wea-
ther moderates.
TORBAY, APRIL 12.—S1d. Civility, Prince Edward's Island.
A large brig (supposed a laden collier) has been towed to
Gravesend this morning (Wednesday), dismasted and with
loss of bowsprit.