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London, England, 1845-05-24 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

FRIDAY, MAY 23.
The Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway)
Bill, was read a second time, and committed, and referred to
the Committee of Selection.

The West Cornwall Railway,—Petition for additional pro-
vision; referred to the Select Committee on petitions for
Private Bills.

The following Bills were reported, and the report referred
to the Select Committee on Standing Orders
London and Brighton Railway (Wandsworth Branch).
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and
Ashford Extension).
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction Railway
(No. 2).
Trent Valley Railway.

Goole and Doncaster Railway,—Report from Select Com-
mittee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to be brought
in by Mr. Stuart Wortley and Mr. Parker.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Report from
Select Committee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to
be brought in by Mr. Wilshere and Mr. Burroughes.
West London Rail way,—Report from Select Committee on
Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to brought in by Captain
Rous and Mr. Mangles.

The following Bills are to be read a third time on Monday
nest :
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway.
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway.
Chester and Holyhead Railway.

PRIVATE 'BUSINESS, FOR MONDAY, MAY 26.
THIRD READINGS.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Come).
York and North Midland Railway (Bridlington Branch).
York and Scarborough Railway Deviation.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Berks and Hants Railway.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway.
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch, and Hey.
wood and Oldham Branches Extension).
Eastern Counties Railway (Ely and Whittlesea).
Lynn and Ely Railway.
Whittle Dean Waterworks.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway.

Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported;
1. " That, in the case of the Eastern Union and Harwich
Railway and Pier (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders
ought not to be dispensed with."
2. "That, in the case of the Harwich and Eastern Coun-
ties Junction Railway (No. 2) petition, the Standing Orders
ought not to be dispensed with."
3. " That, in the case of the Lady's Island and Tacum-
shin Embankment petition to read their Bill a second time,
the Sessional Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to read their Bill a second time accord

4: " That, in the case of the Diss, Becclea, and Yarmouth
Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their

5. " That, in the case of the Whitby and Pickering Rail-
way amendment on consideration of report, the said amend-
ment is of such a nature as to justify the House in enter-
taining it, if they shall think fit."
. .

6. '-'.-That, in the case of the Goole and Doncaster Railway
petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill on
omitting such clause or clauses as enable the Company to
sell or transfer their Railway to the Midland Railway Com-
pany :—And that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in
the first place, how far such Order has been complied
with, and do report the same to the House on the Report
of the Bill."

7. " That, in the case of the Shrewsbury and Grand Junc-
tion Railway Petition, the Standing Orders ought not to be
dispensed with."

g. That, in the case of the Midland Railways (Syston
to Peterborough) Bill, amendments on consideration of re-
port, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted
by the House without the re-commitment of the Bill."
Third, fourth, and sixth resolutions agreed to.—Report to
lie on the table.

iniers,=-Motion on the Corn-laws, deferredcsftaToiletf
NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY, MAY 23.
1. Lord John Manners,—Address to her Majesty, for-
Copies of any Correspondence which may have passed be-
tween her Majesty's Government and the Government of
France, with reference to a Petition from certain Spanish
Officers and Soldiers, presented on the 14th of March last,
deferred from Tuesday, May 27, till Tuesday, June 3.
24 Leti'd Asbley,—Two Bills fur the regulation of the care
and treatment of Insane persons in England and Wales.—
Tdesdayl June 3.
31 Sir Valentine Blake,—Motion respecting Members.—
Tuesday, Jun W.
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picfs of land et houses Ireland from County Rates or Grand
Jury Taxes, unless are possessed of lenses for a term of
not less than seven -Tuesday—Tuesday, June 10.
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NOTICES- GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
York and North Midland (Bridlington Branch) Railway,
—Third Reading, Monday, May 26.
York and Scarborough .Railway. Deviation,—Third read-
ing, Monday, May 26.
-Harwich Railway,—Committee .on petition, postponed
from Monday, 26th, till Friday, May 30.
Cambridge and Bury Railway,—Committee on petition,
Tuesday, June 3.
South:a-tiptop. and Dorchester Railway' —Qonsideration of
Report, Tuesday, Ma' 27. r

( FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
I was sorry to find by the account furnished you of the
Gorhambury meeting by your excellent reporter, that it was
not unlikely it would be discontinued on the ground that as
the gambling booths are abolished, the expenditure exceeds
the income. Surely so good a sportsman, and so popular a
nobleman as Lord Verulam, will pause before he puts an end
to a meeting which has annually been the means of afford-
ing infinite amusement to the inhabitants of the county, as
well as materially benefiting the ancient town of St.
Alban's, of which he may be said to be the patron.
Owing to the unfafourable state of the weather and the
Queen's ball, the attendance at Gorhambury was not so large
as of late years. Still there was a fair sprinkling of fashion-
ables present, and the speculation on the Derby and other
races pretty brisk.

The Queen of the Tyne winning the Gorhambury Stakes
showed a marked improvement in her form from when she
ran at Chester. Millipede or Philip, I imagined, would
have won, but the former was not sent, I suppose, being kept
for Epsom, and the latter was only beaten half a length.
Fitzallen ran exactly as I thought be would. Lord Verulam,
as matter of course, won the Prte Stakes with his Liverpool
colt, nothing but Velox having started against him; and
Mr. Martyn sent him only, I expect, to get back his stake,
which, as second, by the condition of the race, he received.
The less said about the Brigade Stakes the better. The
Double-headed Oak Stakes, as I told your readers on Mon -
day, went into Mr. Dawson's pocket by means of Crim Con
and Tommy Lye beating the touch cried-up Maynooth, who
looked far more like a hunter than a Derby winner. The
Park Stakes were assigned to the Duke of Richmond's Tug
Net, which was sent from Goodwood, instead of Cherokee,
preserved in lavender, no doubt, for better engagements. The
St. Alban's Handicap the Squire won entirely by fine riding.
The' winner, Europa, is a useful anima], and will, no doubt,
pay her way.

The - rise of Weatherbit and Jinglepot, and the decline of
Pam, are exactly in confirmation of the remarks I made
upon them in my last. I also said, from the fact of Mr
Greville's matching Alarm against Old England for so large
a sum as 5001., he could not be very much amiss. He was

then 18 to I—now his price is 7to I. The other great
winter lion—l mean the Cobweb colt—from being quoted at
Tattersall's at 200 to 1, would not, I imagine, as I have pre-
viously stated, start. The Duke of Beaufort and Marquis of
Noimanby, to whose decision the qualification of the Iron-
master was left, yesterday pronounced an unfavourable
judgment against him. He is therefore out of the race. The
terms in which the above two noblemen couched their
opinions, and the clear and sensible reasons they afforded for
them, render it impossible for any one to cavil at or question
them. Sweatmeat's success at Shrewsbury is most encou-
raging to the backers of The Libel, which horse
I expect to see before the day at far less odds
than he stands at now. For the convenience
of the country subscribers, I perceive, the room was opened
to-day, and is to remain so to-morrow. I understand Mr.
Ferguson's Clear-the-way has arrived at Epsom, and that
his owner is doing everything he can to make the public
imagine what a valuable horse he has got. For instance, he
has a bed iL the same stable with him, and has engaged an
eminent jockey to ride him, promissing him a thousand
pounds it he wins. 1;;:tt, in spite of all this parade, the bait
does not take, and Clear-ti,:• way still remains at 50 to 1.
On Monday I shall treat fina2y of the Derby, and at the
same time analyse the public running of the Oaks' mares.
London, May 23, 1845. TELEGRAPH.

WEYMOUTH.
QUEEN'S BENCH, MAY 15.
THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF WEY3IOUTIT,

This case was argued in Trinity Tenn last by Mr. Sergeant
Kinglake and Mr. Crowder. Attorneys, Mr. Coppock and
Messrs. Hicks and Co.

JUDGMENT.

Lord DmotAm—The Queen against the Mayor of Wey-
mouth. A, mandamus to the mayor, aldermen, and bur-
gesses of the town of Weymouth and Melcombe-Regis, to
elect—to proceed on the 28th day of June, and do all that
was necessary for the election of two assessors for revising
the burgess list, in the place and stead of two whose year of
office expired on the Ist day of March, when no election of
new assessors was made. The return is, that on the day
named the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses met, and were
ready and willing to proceed to such election—the aldermen
and burgesses to vote, and the mayor to receive the voting
papers when they were so assembled; but there was not, nor
bath been, any assessor of the said borough, and in conse-
quence thereof they could not proceed to bold the said elec-
tion. We hold this return to be clearly bad, for the reasons
assigned in the demurrer. It leaves the Court in doubt
whether an assessor duly elected has died or become in-
capable; or whether, in case no assessor was elected, or some
assessor was elected whose title is thought to be invalid from
some legal defect. In any of these cases, which appear
•to be all the words of the return can suggest, the
real state of things ought to have been distinctly pleaded,
that-the prosecutor might have an opportunity of question-
ing its existence, or bringing forward other particulars to vary
its effect, or of placing before the Court such points of
law as the known facts of the case might raise. It
was argued that the special circumstances relied on to
support the return need not be stated, because the mandamus
itself was ill. for it directs that to be done which, applying
only to provisions of public interest to the facts stated in it,
could not by law be done—that it would, therefore, make the
return argumentative to state the reasons why it could not
be obeyed. The answer is two-fold, without adding the fact
of there being no assessor, no difficulty appears in the way
of obeying the writ, and, secondly, simply to return that fact,
unless the inability to elect equally exists under every sup-
posable state of circumstances under which there may have
been no assessor of the borough would be sufficient ; but we
think the Ist of Victoria, chapter 78, meets the difficulty
which would otherwise exist under the present state of
things. In any election made before this Act, or "
this Act," the expression is any election made before this Act
or under this Act shall be good, although made before the
appointment of assessor. There is a redmeeadny for omission, and
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doing what the law requires, we are bound to givejudgment
for the Crown for a peremptory mandamus.
The effect of this judgment will be important to the liberal
interest in Weymouth.

DRUItY-LANE THEATIIE.—The non-appearance of
Madame Thillon last evening was attributable to the opinion of
her medical adviser, Mr. /earsley, that a further repose of a day
or two sas absolutely necessary for the perfect restoration of tier
health. We have seen Madame Thillon's letter to the lessee, in
which, subject to this indulgence, she has stated her ability to ap.
pear on Mgnday next, and also Mr. Irettrsley's letter urging the i
necessity of that terse.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,—Third reading, Mon--
day, May 26. -
Berks and Hants Railway,—Third reading, Monday,
May 26.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway,—Third reading,
Monday, May 26.
Dublin and Drogheda Railway,—Report, Monday, May 26.
Manchester and Leeds Railway (Burnley Branch
and Hey-
wood and Oldham Branches Extension),—third reading,
Monday, May 26.
Eastern Counties (Ely and Whittlesea) Railway,—Third
reading, Monday, May 26.
Lynn and Ely Railway,—Third reading, Monday, May 26.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Third reading, Monday,
May 26.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Third
reading, Monday, May 26.

RAILWAYS.
The Select Committee on the Groups HH., 88., and SS.
are postponed from Tuesday 27th till Thursday, May 29, at
One o'clock.
Select Committee on Group LL.
Mr. Edward Heneage discharged from attendance on the
Committee.
Mr. Fellowes (Huntingdonshire),
selected, and added to the Committee.
MEmouaNnum.—The Committee of Selection will meet on
Thursday in next week, instead of Wednesday.

MARKET IN TELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of May 23.)
SUGAR.—To-day West India was in excellent request for
grocery and refining purposes, 500 hhds, &c., finding pur•
chasers at a further improvement in prices, making the ad-
vance for the week Is to Is 6d per cwt, and the total sales
3,370 hhds and tierces, which is a very large quantity.

COAL 211CARIEET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West
Hartley, 17s Gd ; Chester Main, 15s; Hasting's Hartley,
17s 6d ; Hollywell Main, 16s 6d ; Old Pontop, 13s 6d ; Ord's
Redheugh, 14s; Townley, 15s; Taylor's West Hartley, 17s;
West Hartley, 17s 6d ; West Wylam, 15s 3d ; Wall's-end,
Hilda, 16s; Killingworth, 16s 6d; Eden Main, 17s; Bel-
mont, 17s 6d ; Braddyll's Hetton, 18s 3d ; Haswell, 18s 9d ;
Lambton, 18s ; North Hetton Lyons, 17s ; Pemberton, 16s 3d ;
Russell's Hetton, 18s ; Richmond, 17s 6d ; Shotton, 18s ;
Caradoc, 18s ; Hartlepool, 18s 6d ; lleugh Hall, 17s 6d ;
Kelloe, 17s 9d; Adelaide, lis 9d; Bowburn, 16s; Tees,
17s 9d ; Graigola, 21s 6d; Lewiss Merthyr, 21s; Sydney,
16s; Powell's Dtffryn Steam, 22s 3d ; New Walker, 15s.—
Ships arrived, 24.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—FRIDAY.
Although only a bye day, the room was well attended,
and some reasonably brisk business transacted on a few of
the Derby fal;ourites. Idas was backed for several hundred
pounds at 5 to 2, and Alarm for nearly a thousand at 6
to I, the layers having the pull in the first instance, and
the backers in the other. Weatherbit was in demand at 8
to 1, and Winchester at 1,000 to 12 and 15; and the Lo
(J. Day's), at 4to 1. The investments on the whole nul
heavy. Takers of 12 to 1 about The Libel, of 20 to 1 about
Doleful, of 30 to I about Mentor, and of 40 to 1 each about
hedger, Pam, The Merry Monarch. and Jinglepot.
Wets to take 1,000 to 15 about the Cobweb colt!
Nothing of consequence done on the Oaks:
DERBY.
5 to 2 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas
4 to 1 agst J. Day's lot—taken
6 to 1 agst Mr. Greviile's Alarm—taken
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit
10 to 1 agst Forth's lot—taken
11 to 1 agst Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa
20 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England
30 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Merry Monarch
40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's hedger—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Waller's Columbus--taken
40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam—taken
40 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Jinglepot—taken
50 to I agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-Way
50 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt
1000 to 15 agst Mr. Gully's Winchester—taken
1000 to 15 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen.
1000 to 10 agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy.
OAKS.
5 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair
10 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Rose of Cashmere.