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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1845.

The House of Lords met at Five o'clock, and ad-
journed in half an hour, after forwarding several Bills a
stage.

The Commons met at Four.

The several orders of the day were read and postponed,
after which, Lord ASHLEY moved for leave to bring in
two Bills for the regulation of lunatic asylums in Eng-
land and Wales. His Lordship, in order to prove the
necessity of his measures, entered at considerable length
into the statistics of lunacy.
Sir J. GRAHAM, in seconding the motion, passed a high
eulogium on the character of Lord ASHLEY, and said
that the Government had considered the measure, and
gave it their most cordial support, and he stated it as his
opinion, that private asylums, even where there was only
one patient, should ba subjected to frequent visitation
and supervision.

Lord CLEMENTS was desirous of a more efficient mea
sure for the regulation of lunatic asylums in Ireland,
the one introduced by Sir THOMAS FREMANTLE was
quite insufficient.

Mr. Fox MAULE urged the necessity of amending the
law regulating lunatic asylums in Scotland.
The LORD-ADVOCATE wished to see the result of
this measure as regarded England before extending it
to Scotland.

After a few words from Sir G. STRICKLAND, Mr.
BROTHERTON, Mr. HENLEY, and Mr. WYNN, the mo-
tion was agreed to, and the House adjourned at Seven

o'clock.

We observe that, after a session of exemplary forbear-
ance, certain of the Peers aro beginning to evince serious
displeasure with the-architect of the New Houses of Par-
liament, Mr. BARRY, on account of the apparently inter-
minable delay in providing any better accommodation
for the Lords than that which they have been so long
compelled to put up with. It must be confessed that the
Chamber in which they meet is absolutely disgraceful—
even as a " make shift" for the purposes of so dignified
an Assembly. Its wretched lighting, its miserable di-
mensions, its ventilation which, like the Satyr in the
Greek fable, blows hot and cold at one and the same
time, and the manner in which the galleries are
projected into the area of the chamber, render it at once
the most paltry and the most inconvenient saloon in
which a great legislative body was ever assembled, not-
withstanding the be-crimsoned hangings and cushions
and coverings which every where obtrude the contrast
of splendid drapery to the most homely carpetry. Here
and there a small window piercing the walls, at two-
thirds of their height from the floor, has an effect of
Cyclopean awkwardness and insufficiency in relation to
the huge blank which they reveal rather than give light
or air to the interior. Mr. BARRY has promised fairly
enough, over and over again, that, at all events, the ac-
commodation for the Lords would be ready ere this ;
and as it seems that, in October next, eleven years will
have passed since the old Parliament Houses were
burnt down, it does not seem unreasonable in Lord
BROUGHAM to complain of his utter faithlessness.
About a year and a half ago we directed attention to
the report of a Select Committee of the House of Lords,
on the progress of the edifice generally, but specially
on the extraordinary departures which Mr. BARRY had
made from the designs approved and settled by former
Lords' Committees appointed for the purpose, and which
departures, involving a huge additional gallery super-
added, in very bad taste, to the designs so settled, ap-
proved, reported upon, and adopted, was severely cen-
sured by the Lords as utterly unauthorised. The new
gallery and other features, which Mr. BARRY
affected to consider himself at liberty to add, under
the general discretion reserved to an architect, will
cost the country, it is understood, at least 150,0001.,
in addition to the enormous sums already expended
on this immense pile ; and when Mr. BARRY
was pressed in his examination by the Peers, on the
occasion we refer to, he acknowledged that the altera-
tions had not originated with himself, but were the crude
suggestion of some unauthorised party, by acquiescing
in whose notions of " effect," and the necessity for a
greater surface applicable to the display of decorative
art, &c. &c., Mr. BARRY must, ere this, have had the
satisfaction of discovering that he has marvellously com-
promised the unity and character of his own design, and
given much offence—not to say disgust—to the truly
constituted authorities, to whom he was bound to have
referred the question of these additions, or excrescences
rather, before one stone was squared for their construction

Lord BROUGHAM affirmed, and his remark appeared
to be acquiesced in, that Mr. BARRY'S assurances were
net worth the paper they were written on ; but if the
Learned Lord would be at the trouble of ascertaining
how much labour and time, as well as money, have been
devoted to the excrescent new gallery, designed and
built upon the unwritten "suggestions" in question, he
would little marvel at the delay which has constantly
intervened in the progress of the New Chamber for the
Lords. From the first exposure of this affair by a
Noble Peer, whose own distinguished taste and ability
as an architect gave great value to the state-
ments, we were quite satisfied that the other portions
of the work would always be liable to what we
must term the same "liberties" which Mr. BARRY was
guilty of, in disfiguring the settled designs by an addi-
Von so utterly unwarrantable, and in itself so objec-
tionable. What Lord BROUGHAM can mean by de-
claring that Mr. BARRY fancies he has beyond the
House protection so powerful that he is regardless
of any displeasure within it, we do not stop to inquire;
but if Mr. BARRY do indulge in any such fancies, we
quite concur with the Noble and Learned Lord that he
will find himself egregiously mistaken. It is really high
time that some progress more rapid and decided towards
the completion of the interior works, necessary for the
accommodation and business of the Legislature, were
made, instead of Mr. BARRY'S occupying so large a
portion of the means and the staff which he has at
his disposal (to an extent, we believe, unprecedented in
the annals of public works executed in England), on the
multiplication of those heraldic monsters which com-
pose the multitudinous menageries in stone that are to
attest to future ages what were considered the appro-
priate effigies and decorations of the palace of the Bri-
tish Legislature. Whether the appropriation of these
quadruped supporters to the arms of all our Kings,
from WILLIAM the Norman, down to RICHARD IL, the
latter of whom first assumed them, is another of the

gratuitous caprices which enter into Mr. BARRY'S

definition of the " discretion " of an architect, we
know not. But it is very clear that the time be.
stowed on chiselling these works of superogatory
heraldry on stone, supporters for two Williams, three
Henries, one Stephen, one Richard, one John, and three
Edwards, who never carried them (according to a
writer in the Art Union, from whom we derive the fact
and the authority), might be more properly bestowed in
advancing the accommodation of Parliament. However,
Mr. BARRY is in Lord BROUGHAM'S hands, and if he
cannot plead satisfactorily to the charges that Learned

Lord may prefer against him, we wish him, rather than
hope fur him, " a good deliverance."

It is always contended by the friends of the Established
Church that the general conduct of its ministers must
have been highly meritorious—otherwise the laity would
not have consented, during many ages, to contribute so
munificently to its endowment and their maintenance.
The argument is a sufficiently fair one. We should be
inclined to give any other parties the benefit of it, cateris
paribus—why not the Church? But like all other argu-
ments, its application may be inconveniently extended
beyond the limits at which those who have benefited it
under one condition of circumstances would desire to
see it pushed under another. The converse of the pro-
position may be disagreeable, but it is not the less
forcible, namely, that if the general conduct of the minis-
ters of the Established Church be not highly meritorious,
the laity will not continue in future to make such liberal
provision for their endowment and maintenance. Now
to that clergy we desire to commend this latter consi-
deration, because we take them to be worldly wise, and
shrewd enough, in their generation. In proportion as
they are so, the argument will weigh with them as sig-
nificant and cogent; and may thus produce a more salu-
tary effect upon their conduct and deportment than
twenty episcopal charges or ordination sermons. It may
be a sordid motive to perseverance in a. just and upright
course to hold out the probable loss of temporal wealth
and station as the penalty of kdeparture from it; but, if

it be an efficacious one, we shall not quarrel with it.
Now—without any desire invidiously to recur to by-
gone delinquencies—we may remark that the last two
years have been sufficiently fruitful of clerical offenders,
contra bones mores, on the one hand (in those against
whom irregular, vicious, and even licentious courses have
been established), and contra bonds consuetudines, on the
other (in such as have set aside the old established forms
and rituals of the service to introduce new and offensive
changes therein). The clergy, as a, body, will do well
to bethink them how seriously these frequent exposures
of the criminal weaknesses of individual members of it,
must be calculated to prejudice and compromise them in
the public estimation. People will be very apt to in-
dulge in very impertinent and disagreeable speculations
on the expediency of cutting down the scale of the con-
tributions they pay in aid of the endowments in ques-
tion, for the support of a hierarchy, more particularly,
who certainly have revenues of an amount scarcely com-
patible with the purity and simplicity of•the " rule of
life" affected by the teachers of a reformed Church,
which owes its existence entirely to the excessive cor-
ruption, wealth, and luxury of the older Church that it
has superseded among us. For these reasons, we are
as much astonished as scandalised when we read of dig-
nitaries of our Establishment committing themselves to
any proceedings that bring them into collision with their
flocks, or their subordinate functionaries, and make
them parties to appeals to legal and spiritual tribunals,
where the very fact of their appearing is calculated to
damnify them, and to injure the moral character and
authority of their sacred calling. Is there no teaching
these gentlemen the value of decorum ?—the impressive
merit, in their case, of unobtrusive quietness.
Very many days have not elapsed since we brought
under the notice of our readers the case of the pluralist
rector of Oakingham, in Berks, patron, rector, and in-
cumbent of the church and living, and Dean of Salis-
bury, withal. We showed that in consequence of
the alarming state of dilapidation into which the parish
church had fallen, the parishioners had vainly applied
to, and attempted to negotiate with, the Dean and his
lessee, to induce them to repair, in conjunction with the
parishioners, the chancel and the fabric. The evasive
bandying of the parishioners between Mr. Dean and Mr.
Lessee, the architect of the one and the surveyor of the
other, and the no-result of the business will not, we sur-
mise, be easily forgotten. It appears from certain " Re-
solutions" agreed to at a meeting of the inhabitants of
Oakingham, on Monday last, to determine on the steps
proper to be taken for tha repairs of the edifice, and
making further provision for the cure, that the Most
Rev. the Dean is still contumacious ; that on the part of
his lessee he offers to subscribe 1001• towards the re-
building of the chancel, on the express condition
that he should be released from all further charge
or demand on that score by the parish ; that the
meeting expressed their astonishment at such a
proposition, which Mr. Dean must have well known
when he made it that the churchwardens could not
comply with, inasmuch as they have no powers by law
to enter into any such arrangement. And the meeting,
seeing the Dean would not co-operate with the pa-
rishioners, instructed the churchwardens to repair and
uphold the chancel at the least pbssible expense, and to
maintain the fabric as far as possible, in its present condi-
tion, &c.

We should like to ask the Dean of Salisbury whe-
ther he falls back upon an inward consciousness of such
pure and disinterested affection for the Church that has
advanced him to so high a rank among her servants,—
upon the personal humility of a servant only anxious to
exalt the glory of his LORD, to render all worldly as well
as spiritual homage to his Divine Master in the careful
maintenance of His time-honoured temples,—that he
can thus afford to repudiate the respect and insult the affec-
tions of his flock ? That he is thus content to earn an un-
becoming notoriety among those dignified ministers of the
Establishment who will give least towards the keeping up
of religious fabrics, which it should be their pride as it
is their duty to preserve and cherish, because they re-
ceive most from the congregations to whose personal
wishes and comfort they are so palpably indifferent ?
That he will thus venture to challenge public indigna-
tion at his emphatic determination to keep his pockets
full, though he thereby render the church empty ? Per-
tinacity of this kind offers but sorry prospects to those
friends of the Establishment who are anxious to see her
recovering, by all exercises of Christian humility, active
charity, brotherly love, and true and unsordid zeal for
her honour, whatever influence or authority sh© is said
by some to have lost through the proselytising energy
and uncompromising devotion of her Roman Catholic
rivals !

Another conflict is anticipated in Switzerland. It
appears that the Ultramontaine party in Lucerne, under
the influence of the Jesuits, meditates an attack on
Argau, a neighbouring canton, which refuses to-accede
to their terms. Their object is to assist the insurgents
at Freiamt, and overturn the existing Government of
Argau. The Zurich Gazette says 2,000 volunteers
from Lucerne are ready to move upon the expediton.
This movement has caused great excitement in some of
the Protestant cantons, but up to the 31st ult. no col-
lision had taken place.

According to intelligence from Madrid of the 30th
ult. the excitement caused by the illegal proceedings
against the press continued unabated, but the public
peace had not been disturbed. The Gazette publishes
the treaty concluded between Spain and Morocco,
signed by the Plenipotentiaries of the two countries and
the British Consul, Mr. DRU3IMOND HAY, as mediator.
By this treaty the frontier of Ceuta shall be re-esta-
blished such as it was conformably to the 15th article
of the treaty of recce. The EMPEROR engages to pre-
vent the Moors on the frontier of Melilla, Penon, and
Alhucema from molesting either the inhabitants of those
places or the vessels approaching the coast.
The QUEEN arrived at Almunza on the 28th. and was
to enter Valentia next day.

The 'Direr: per Cents. cio34,d at 32 tor cash, arid :;zsi
at 60 days ; ti,e Five per Cects. at 22 13-16 for cash,
and 23k at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at
8 at 60 days.

The Paris papers contain long comments on the new
treaty for the suppression of the slave trade ; but, with
the exception of the Messager and Journal des Debats,
they are of little importance. The former journal points
out en error in the translation which relates to the
right of search ; and states that, by the 10th article, it is
abolished, and not suspended, as inferred from the text
published by the London journals. " The conventions
of 1831 and 1833," says that journal, "cannot be re-
established but by the previous . concert and common
consent of the two Governments; and in default of
this common consent, they are, at the end of ten
years definitively abrogated. This is what results
from the very text of that article. As to Article 8,
when the instructions annexed to it shall have
been published, it will be evident that they only
go to regulate the execution of a principle of the right
of nations, conformably to the constant practice of the
French navy, to the precedents of our laws, and esta-
blished in the same form, in the same terms, by the
official documents of the Government of the United
States."

The Chamber of Deputies had passed the Colonial
Bill by a majority of 193 to 52, and also a second Bill
for the introduction of free labourers into the Colonies
by a still greater majority-215 to 20. The sum of
18,140,000 f. was voted for extraordinary works at Dun-
kirk, Grenoble, Lyons, and for the sea-ports of Brest,
L'Orient, Rochfort, and Toulon.

On Wednesday the KING and Roy al Family left Neuilly,
by the Rouen Railway, for the Chateau of Bizy, in Nor-
mandy.

The Three per Cents, closed at 85f. 70c. ; the Five per
Cents.at 122 f.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,230 f. ; Rouen,
I,llof. ; Vierzon, 825 f. ; Havre, 887 f. 10c.; Avignon, 1,020 f.
50c. ; Basle, 272 f. 50c. ; Spanish Three per Cents, 42%;
Spanish Passives, 73/4.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 225 f. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, 60f. ; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 21f. 25c.; ditto (Calon), If. 52c.; ditto (Gan-
neron), 7f. 75c. ; Northern line (Laffitte), 31f. 25c.; ditto
(Rosamel), Bf. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), Bf.
50c; ditto (Drouillard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 7f. 50; ditto
(Jacques Lefevre), par; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe),
17f. 50c.; ditto (Talabot), 40f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridio-
nale), 12f. 50c. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), If.
50c. ; ditto andCette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin,
If. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), Ilf. 25c ; Dijo❑
and Mulhausen, If. 50c.
LYONS, JUNE 2.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,040 E, end of
June; Paris and Orleans, 1,230 f. ditto; Paris and Rouen,
I,llof. ditto; Orleans and Vierzon, 822 E, ditto; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 725 E, for the 15th of June ; Boulogne, 611 E, ditto ;
Montereau, 560 f., ditto.

Amongst the rumours regarding the Colleges
about to be established in Ireland, it has reached us
that Dr. Cook, of Belfast, and Dr. Kirwin, of Galway,
are named as likely to he the future Presidents of-the
respective colleges of these places. If clergymen be
eligible to these responsible situations (and we cannot
see why they should not be considered the most eligible)
we do not think a better selection could possibly be
made. These gentlemen's acquirements, talents, and
liberality of opinions are well known to the country, and
held in the highest estimation by persons of the religi-
ous professions to which they belong. And we have no
doubt their appointment will prove equally acceptable
to the Presbyterians of the north, and to the Catholics
of Connaught.
The " Chinese Collection," at Hyde Park, is ad-
vertised for sale. In these days of awakened attention
ding
to the intellectual wants of our people, and the cultiva-
tion of all branches of useful and popular knowledge ;
when a Bill is actually pen
in Parliament for the

better establishment of museums in great towns ;
we should have been disposed to hope that her
Majesty's Government would have regarded the " Chi•
nese Collection" as an acquisition well worthy securing
for the nation. Of all the people congregated together
under one sceptre and one system of civil, political, and
social institutions, on any part of the surface of the globe,
and at any period of its known history, the Chinese, it
is not too much to say, are the most marvellous, and in
some respects the most interesting. Of all the States
over which European civilisation has extended itself,
England, beyond all competition, has established the most
extensive, the most beneficent, and, we may now trust,
the most permanent relations with that vast
-but jealous empire. To commemorate the spirit,
the enterprise, the liberality, the valour, and
the inflexible perseverance which have been mani-
fested by her in establishing her mercantile colonies
in those remote regions, we can imagine no means more
admirably calculated than the careful deposit and pre
nervation of such a collection as this of articles illustra-
tive of the social character, the domestic manners, the
arts, and the refinement of that many-peopled nation.
Instead of allowing it to be broken up, sold piecemeal, and
dispersed into a thousand hands, it ought to be purchased
by us, as that European nation which first rendered
potent to the rest of the world the resources of so stu-
pendous an Asiatic empire. That the collection should
have been made by an American gentleman does not at
all affect this view of the question; for without the pre-
vious establishment of the paramount authority of the
English among all the other " barbarian " races at
Canton, the collection itself could never have been
made. The extraordinary patronage it has already
found with those classes among us who have had the
opportunity and means of visiting it, may afford a just
notion of the value it would possess with the whole
British public, if rendered gratuitously accessible to
their inspection and study. The costumes, the spirited
and admirable models, large as the life, of men and
womtn of various races composing part of the great
Chinese family, the superb specimens of native manufac-
tures, and the elegant glimpses afforded of the interior
economy of their houses, temples, &c., combine to ren-
der this exhibition one of the most popular and instruc-
tive that was ever seen in London. We heartily trust
t hat arrangements may be made to prevent its being
taken out of the country; and it would be a great reflec-
tion on oar public spirit if we hesitated to purchase it
for the nation, on the fair and equitable terms which we
should suppose would be those required for it,

MAYNOOTH BILL DIVISION

HOUSE OF LORDS.
MAJORITY PRESENT, 155.
ARCHBISHOP. EARLS.
Dublin Meath
DUKES. Besborough
Cambridge Mornington
Norfolk Charlemont
St. Albans Kingston
Leeds ClanwilliaM
Rutland Wicklow
Hamilton Clare
Buccleuch Leitrim
Roxburgh° Lucan
Leinster Kenmare
Wellington Rosslyn
Cleveland Chichester
MARQUISES. Wilton
Winchester I'owis
Iluntly Gosford
Lansdowne Rosse
Salisbury Lonsdale
Abercorn St. Germans
Donegal Morley
Headfort Somers
Camden Stradbroke
Londonderry Cawdor
Ormonde Munstor
Clanr:carde Burlington
Westminster Ripon
.Nomianby Yarborough
EARLS. Zetland

Camoys
Beaumont
Byron
Saltoun
Belhaven
Montfort
Foley
Walsingham
Suffield
Brayhrooke
Thurlow
Lyttelton
Calthorpe
Car rington
Bolton
Lllford
Rossmore
Crofton
Gardner
Alvanley
Redesdale
Rivers
Erskine
Crewe

Manners
Glenlyon
Delamer°
Forester
Downes
Wharneliffe
Tenterden
Brougham
Talbot of Malahide
Templemore
Dinorben
Denman
Carew
Abinger
Ashburton
Glenelg
Ilatherton
Strafford
Cottenham
Langdale
Bateman
Wrottesley
Leigh
Lurgan
Colborne
De Frey-ne
Monteagle of Brandon
Campbell
Vivian

Devon Auckland
Essex Ellenborough
Shaftesbury Bruce
Scarborough VISCOUNTS.
Jersey Strathallan
Haddington Torrington
Dalhousie Sydney
Leven Strangford
Selkirk Midleton
Aberdeen Gage
Rosebery Hawardert
Glasgow Lake
Cowper Canning
Waldegrave Canterbury
Warwick Ponsonby
Fitzwilliam BISHOPS.
Hard Mae Durham
Delawarr Norwich
Spencer St. David's
Bathurst Worcester
Clarendon Chichester
Fortescue BARONS.
Beverley Lyndhurst
Carnarvon Stanley
Liverpool De Ros
Malmesbury Clinton
PROXIES, 82.
DUKES. EARLS. BARONS,
Bedford Mount-Edgecumbe Petro
Devonshire Cork Arundel
Portland Fingall Stafford
Northumberland Courtoun Clifford
Sutherland Sefton Rollo
MARQUISE& Donougbmore Polwart
Tweeddale Harrowby Carteret
Sligo Minto Montagu'
Northampton Cathcart Cloncurry
Anglesey Glengall Clonbrock
Bristol De Grey DunaLly
EARLS. Howe Prudhoe
Pembroke Amherst Bowden
Huntingdon Camperdown Ravensworth
Denbigh Granville De Tabby
Westmoreland Dude Cowley
Lindsey Leicester Stuart de Rothsay
Abingdon VISCOUNTS. rleytesbury
Albemarle Massareene Poltimore
Poulett Melbourne Godolphin
Erroll Doneraile Lovat
Eglintoun St. Vincent De Manley
Home Melville Methuen
Lauderdale BARONS. Beauvale
Balcarras Dacre Stanley of Alderley
Tankerville Stourton Stuart de DecieS
Macclesfield Berners Wenlock
Harrington Vaux Seaton
Buckingham Shire

MINORITY PRESENT, 59.

DUXES. ______, BISHOPS.
Grafton Nelson Liondaff
Manchester Charleville Chester
Newcastle Manvers Oxford
Buckingham Orford Gloucester
MARQUISES. Harewood Exeter
Downshire Brownlow Peterborough
Exeter Beauchamp Lichfield
Cholmondeley Sheffield Cashel
Breadalbane Eldon
MASONS.
EARLS. Effingham Willoughby be Broke
Winchilsea vISCOI7NTe, Sinclair
Kinnoul Maynard Southampton
Mansfield Sidmouth Grantley
Digby Lorton Kenyon
Cadogan • Combermere Bayning
Egmont Hill Farnham
Roden BISHOPS, Sandys
Bandon Winchester Colchester
Caledon Lincoln Rayleigh
Onslow Bangor Bexley
Romney Carlisle Feversham
Clanf=ty

EARLS.

Canterbury
York

DUKE.
Marlborough
MARQUISES.

'Westmeath

l'iteXlES, 14
EAILLB.
GuiViord 1401111011""i.
Mountoashel St. Aaaph
Longford Ripon
Bradford
viscovaT.
O'Neal

Morton, Earl
Aylesbury, Earl
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord
Portman, Lord

PAIRS.

Basoir.
Berwick

Dunraven,AGAlNST. Earl
Dartmouth, Earl
Beaufort, Duke
Gaineborough, Earl

Lord Strangford voted in the majority against Lord Roden's
motion for the appointment of a Select Committee, and afterwards
In the minority against the Bill.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAT.)
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA'S CUP AT ASCOT.
2 to 1 agst Foigh-a-ballagh—(taken to 2001. )
3 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
4 to 1 agst Dawson's lot.
6 to 1 agst Hesseltine's lot.
10 to 1 agst Lightning.
11 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn.
12 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne—(taken).
12 to 1 agst Semiseria—(taken).
14 to 1 agst What.
14 to 1 agst Pagan.
15 to 1 agst Aristides.
15 to 1 agst Northumberland.
WINSLOW ROW.
WEDNESDAY.—The Ladies' Purse of 101. added to a
Sweepstake of 1 soy. each, twice round, was won in two heats
by Mr. Neal's Victory, beating Mr. Cresswell's Victoria, Mr.
Howard's Cinderella, and four others easily.
MATCH.—Mr. J. Grace's Lilly of the Valley beat Mr.
Bond's Clear-the-way.
The llnnters' Stakes of 2 Boys. each, one mile and a
half, winner to be sold for 601., were won in two heats by
Corbett 'sFAanllny Fours, beating
(bolted).beating Mr. Cross's Harkaway and
Mr.
The Hurdle Stakes of 51. each, with 20 added, winner to
be sold for 1001., twice round and a distance, were won, in
two well-contested heats, by Mr. H. Robbins's Mantrap,
beating Mr. Wesley's Sola and Mr. Manning's Mirth.
ASCOT HEATH. TUESDAY.
Weights for the Queen's Gold Vase :—Alice Hawthorn,
aged, 9st 111b—Foigh-a-ballagh, 4 yrs, 9st 101b--Itkuriel,
4 yrs, 9st—Delapre, 4 yrs, 9st—Alamode, 4 yrs, 9st—
Example, 4 yrs, Bst 91b—Zanoni, 5 yrs, Bst 91b—Khondooz,
5 yrs, Bst 91b—Ironmaster, 3 yrs, 7st 31b—Sweetmeat, 3 yrs,
7st 31b—The Libel, 3 yrs, 7st 3lb—Wood Pigeon, 3 yrs, 6st
131b—Fuzbos, 3 yrs, Est 131 b— fby Glaucus, out of March
First, 3 yrs, Est 81b—Cinizella, 3 yrs, Est 81b.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(yßom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
The season of 1845 may at length be said to have commenced.
The continued cold weather, or some other cause, has kept the
company back to this late period ; now all is bustle amongst the
yachtmen to get ready, and the Commodore is expected down on
Monday. There will be the finest fleet of yachts afloat this season
ever seen. We have the following
ARRIVALS DURING THE WEEK.
Royal Yacht Squadron cutter Turquoise, C. H. Coote, Esq.,
from Southampton and Portsmouth ; cutter Breeze, Viscount Ex-
mouth, from the Westward, and proceeded for Havre; schooner
Julia, L. B. Mackinnon, Esq., from Lymington ; schooner Merlin,
Viscount Milton, from Seaview ; schooner Maud, Thomas Legh,
Esq., from Portsmouth ; cutter Elizabeth, Hon. A. Moreton, from
Guernsey ; cutter Osprey, John Petre, Esq..
from Portsmouth ;
schooner Wyvern, Duke of Marlborough, from Portsmouth ;
cutter Wave, Marquis of Blandford, from Portsmouth ; cutter
Ganymede, J. H. W. P. Smyth Pigott, Esq., from Plymouth.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
,
Schooners—Fairy, W. Peareth, Esq. ; Esmeralda, T. W. Fle.
ming, Esq.; Julia, L. B. Mackinnon Esq. ;
Merlin, Viscount
Milton; Maud, Thomas Legh, Esq. ; and wyvernt the Duke of
Marlborough.
Cutters—Noran, Sir H. B. Hoghton, Bart. ; Ariadne, Captain
Ponsonby (dismantled); Turquoise, C. H. Coote, leg. ; Fanny, Sir
Edward Scott, Bart. ; Elizabeth, Hon. A. Moreton ;
Wisp, Captain C. H. Williams, R.N. ; Osprey, John Petre, Ef4 i
Gaily mede, J. H. W. P. Smyth Pigott, Esq.; and the Way..
Marquis of Blandford.
A special general meeting of the Royal Yacht Squadron has been
called forth, 14th inst., at the Thatched Howe Tavern, Lenders,
at which a large attendance of the =AIM 11 expected.

THE SUN, LONDON, SATUR DA I EVENING, JUNE 7, 1845.

A fine schooner of 105 tons was launched from the building.
yard of Mr. Joseph White, at East Cowes, on Thursday. She has
been built for the Duc de Stackpool, of the R. 1% Y. Club.

NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
5,000 bales. The market was dull. - Shares were
lower, and there was less doing. Barnsley Junc-
tion, 6% %; Birkenhead and Cheshire Junction, 10
1%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% %; Bella%
and Ballymena, 83/4 ; Belfast and County Down, 335. ; Bolton'
Wigan, and Liverpool, 133% 13 ; Caledonian, 11% %; Cam'
bridge and Lincoln, 81/ 14 ; Cambridge and Oxford, 3s. -
Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 49% ; Ditto, Ha,!..
Shares, 274 1/2 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% % ; Clydesdal"
Junction, 936 ; Cork and Bandon, 9 ; Cork and Waterforde
21% %; Coventry and Nuneaton, 4% ; Dublin and Galway,
4; Dundalk and-Enniskillen, 5; Eastern Counties, 21 ; New
Shares, 10% ; Ditto, Perpetual No. 2, 245. ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 67 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 195.05. ; Glasgow,
Paisley, and Greenock, 16% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
3% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 20s. 6d. ; Great Western, 203
205 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 115 110 ; Goole and Doncaster,
13% ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 734 741 ; Kilkenny
Junction, 19s. 6d. ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 48%; Leicester
and Birmingham, 1% 36 ; Limerick and Waterford, 9 83/4 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 54; New Shares,
40; Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston, 2% 58s. 9d. ; London
and Birmingham, 237%; Ditto, 321. Shares, 45% 46 ; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 35; Londonderry and Coleraine, 5% ; Lor.-
donderry and Enniskillen, 43/4 945. ; London and York, 3%
1,4 ; Direct Northern, 3% % ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 81/2 ;
Leeds and Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
7% %; Lynn and Dereham, 3 1%; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 61 • Ditto, Quarter Shares, 10% 1/ ; Ditto, New Sharess,
7% ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 7% 1% ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Half Shares, 75; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
25; Matlock and Midland, 536 4% ; Midland Railway, 185
383 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 26% 3/4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 171 A.% ; Newry and Enniskillen,
5 % ; North British, 21%4 2214- ; North Kent, 5% ; North
Union (A), 161 ; North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5%; North Western, 41% 4; Oxford and Birming-
ham Junction, 5 41%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp-
ton, 53/4 % ; Preston and Wyre, New Preference Shares, 3
2% ; Preston and Wvre Extension, 23/4 ; Runcorn Gap, New
Shares (80 dis.), 141. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 130 129 ;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16% ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 345. ;
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 16s. 6d. %; Shrewsbury,
Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5%; Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Cheshire, 88s. 6d. 4%; Shrewsbury and Trent
Union, 335. 6d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 451/ % ; Ditto,
New Shares, No. 3, 73/4 % Is. 2d. ; Scottish Central, 63/4 ;
Waterford and Kilkenny, 4%; Welsh Midland, 436 795.;
Worcester and Tring, 2% A ; York and Carlisle, 1% 295. ;
Boulogne and Amiens, 93/4 ; Central of Spain, ‘6s. 6d. ;
Jamaica, 363/4 • Jamaica Junction, 4; Northern of France,
(Laffitte's), 51A ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 465. 3d. ; Paris and
Lyons (Laffitte's), 595. 3d. ; Paris and Lyons (Calon's), 1% ;
Paris and Rouen, 423% ; Sambre and Meuse, 11%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 6.-The sales are
-Barnsley Junction, Half Shars, 31% • Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Chester, 10 ex new ; Blackburn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 8; Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North Western
Junction, 1% prem. ' • Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 514 ;
Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 13% ; Caledonian. 11% ;
Ditto, Extension, 3%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 734 ; Churnet
Valley, 5%; Clitheroe Junction, 33/4 % ; Eastern Counties,
21 ex new ; Erewash Valley, 27 ; Exeter, Yeovil, and Dor-
chester, 15s. ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. ; Goole, Doncas-
ter, Sheffield, and Manchester, 13%; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, 7%; Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 7%; Kendal and Windermere, 4%; Leeds and
Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8%; Leices-
ter and Birmingham, 435. 48s. ; London and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 35; London and Windsor, 1% ' • London,
Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 2 1,4 • London and York, 3%
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendafe, 16%; Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland 5% 5-16; Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9% ; Manchester and Birming-
ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2%; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 24% 24; Ditto, Sixteenth
Shares, 83/4 ; Midland Railway, 40/. Shares, 27 26 ; North
British, New Sharess6 ; North Eastern, 13/4 % prem. ; North
Western, 41%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,
6 5%; Preston and Wyre, 32% 3% ex new; Ditto, Half
Shares, 3%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 11% % ex
new ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quart er Shares, 16% ; Shrews.
bury and Trent Valley Union, 2% 9-•16; Shrewsbury, Wol-
verhampton, Dudley, &e.' 55 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 46 ;
Ditto, No. 3,7% 13-16 ; Trent Valley, 19%,; Do., Continua-
tion and Holyhead Junction, 2 9-16; W akefield, Ponte-
fract, and Goole, 13% 14; Welsh Midland, 4% 14 ;
West Yorkshire, 2% 2 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15-16 ;
York and Carlisle, 1% prem..
There are no late ship letters, although we have plenty of
arrivals to-day.
There is an increase shown in the Bank of England's issue
of notes last week to the amount of 223,1901., while its stock
of gold and silver was 15,635,7351. in the Issue Department,
and 776,243/. in the Banking Department, giving an in-
crease of 139,227/. The Rest is less by 10,216/. The Public
and Private Securities together increased upwards of one
million sterling.
L The Scotch banks, during the four weeks ending the 31st
ultimo, increased their circulation of promissory notes by
356,011/. The Irish banks, on the contrary, lessened theirs
by 125,269/., probably in order the better to meet the con-
templated operation of the proposed new Currency Bill.
The Public Securities have been heavy again. Consols
are marked 99% to par for present Transfer, and 99 for Ac-
count. Exchequer-bills are down to 595. to 60s. premium.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. obtain 102% to
102%. Bank Stock is about 211.
The accounts from the Madrid Bourse, where the excessive
speculation carried on has resulted in most serious losses,
causes the value of Spanish Stock to rule heavy here. The
Five per Cents. have been 29% 4, and the Three per Cents.
411/ 3/4 ; Portuguese Converted have realised 6714. Mexi-
can are flatter at 373% to 381% ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. are 634% to %.
Railway Shares are still fluctuating, but there is a good
deal doing. The disposition is rather to sell.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991/4
3 per Cent. Consols Anna lOO 99%
New 3% per Cant. Annuties
India Bonds 1,000/ 7l
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 13/4cL 11,4 d.
1,000/. -
500/. ... - .. ... 62 - pm.
Ditto Small - pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 15%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 37%
Ditto for the Account .. - ..... .. 373% 38%
Ditto Deferred Stock 20%36
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent -
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1843 -
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 3 per Cent -
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21,4 per Cents - 63% %7i
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2 to -
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 - to -
Ditto, New... -
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2 -
caiedoii; -,3 ' 5
Ditto 1,...-t easion
Cambridge end Lincoln
......... 1 ',i bl,4 t., 3
Churuot Valley 2 -
Cork and Waterford 11.i...... 2% ...... to -
Coventry, Bedworth,and Nun-
eaton
Coventry and Leicester ...... 1% 2% ...... to -
rirect Northern ... ......... .. 2% 3% ...... to -
Direct Norwich 1 ...... 0%3%... to -
Dublin and Galway 2% 4 ...... to -
Dundalk and Enniskillen...... 2% 5% to -
Eastern Counties l4/. 16s. ... 20% %... to 21
Do. New 4/. 16s 63/4 %... to -
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 5/.13s 4d 14 to -
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .... 68
Ely and Bedford l% 2%...... to -
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10 - to -
Ditto Extension
Great North of England ..... .100 246% to -
Ditto New ..
Great Western
Ditto % Shares 5O ll5 -
Ditto Fifths -
Guildford, Fareham, Portma 21x2 5% to -
Lancaster and Car1i51e......,.. 20 ...... 46 -
London and Birmingham ...100 -
Ditto 14 Shares 2 -
London and Blackwall 16% lO 93/4- to -
London and Brighten 5O 6934% .. to 69
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d 20 IA ... to 201%
Do. New l3s 4d l% to -
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 6
London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d... 103/4% so -
London and South Western.. 41% 82% to 81
Ditto New .. 21,4 1343 to -
London and York 2l,i 3%%... to -
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2142 23/4 to -
Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% 4%4%... to -
Lynn and Ely -
Manehesi to and Leeds 73 ..... 168
Ditto Half Shares - 32 ..... 78
Ditto Quarters
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto New Quarters... 2 -
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland .•.••..100
Ditto New 2
Newcastle & Darlington ;Aine. 25 _, 26 1/2 ... to -
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick -
Newport and Abergavenny -
-
Newark and Sheffield ......... 1% -
North British -
Ditto
New .................... 1•
66%. to - North Kent .................... 2% • • 5- - 53/
. 4 •••• • • to _/8
Norwich and 8rand0n......... 10
Ditto, New ................ 1 -
-
Oxford and Worcester......... 2% .. 6% 6 -
Perth and Inverness ........ 2% ....
23' -
Rugby, Worcester. and Trin 1
8 .... to -Shrew?. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ... -
South-
Ditto New, N 0.2 ... 7 15? 8 -
.... . ..... .. •• • 4 to -
Trent Wales .................. 2% 5 46.- to -
Trent
Valley ............... . ' 19 ' - to -
Valley land Holyhead
Junction..,
-.• IX 2%...... to -
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 23% to -
Welch Midland -
•...•
York and North Midland ... 501. to -
--
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's) ...- ..... 4 -
Jamaica Junction
Louvain and Jemeppe ...... ... 2 -
Lyons and Avignon 2 -
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 2 -
• ••
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d 1%%... to -
Paris and Lyons(Laffitte) ... 2 -
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2% to -
Paris and Rouen .. ...... ..... 20 -
Royal North of Spain 2 -
Sambre and Meuse 4 ll -
DE. - -------- M
- -

MO

—ATII OF AYR. GEORGE STANSBURY, COMPOSER
AND VOCALIST.—Another name is added to the dramatic obituary
oeceabe et' ibis Citi et a., %CFI-1010WD mast, Wilo expired
on Tuesday night, at his house, Melina-place, Lambeth, at the ago
of
.forty.four, after a painful illness, which terminated in dropsy.
Stansbury was a native of Bristol, whet*e his father kept a musical
repository.

June 1
May 31
June 2

May 31

June 1
May 31

:31

L;;' .1 I. orre.i

June 3

Bristol an Biriniz4;hatit .•••• • • • • •
Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • •

Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • • .
Dublin and Kingstown • • • ...........
Dundee and Arbroath .
Durham and Sunderland . • .
Edinburgh and Giasgow ........
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Glasgow and Greenock. • ..
I Grand Junction ............... .....

May 31

June 1
May 31

June 1
May 31

Gravesend and Rochester.• • • • • •• •• .
Great North of England .......... .
Great Western . • • •• •• •• •

June I
May 31
June 3
May 31
31
June 1
May 30

Hull and Selby • •
Liverpool and Manchester
London and Birmingham . .. •••••
London and Blacks ail.. • • • • • • • .....
London and Brighton

Londoa and Cr0yd0n........

London and Greenwich
London and South Western
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • •
Manchester and Birmingham........
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc••
Midland Counties..

Newcastle and Darlington ..........
Newcastle and Carlisle......
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans •• •
Paris and Rouen ...................

Preston and Wyre..............
Sheffield and Manchester........

3,376
527
858
1,406

South Ea5tern.........

Taff Vale ••••••••
Ulster ............

710
2,837
5,049
1,942
1,058
9,120

963
8,439

199
3,133
17,482
1,372
5,208
19,627
1,205
4,033
1,394

1,625
18,900
1,219
5,553
17,930
1,328
4,866
477
1,019
7,118

Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland.

892
8,255
902
3,897
5,944
10,810
1,207
1,567

402
1,708
5,771
5,241

683
4,979
1,144

4,441
7,401
10,273

728
1,321

345
1,673
6,053
6,209

605
1,269
4,137
895

247
2,577

332
1,896

•
LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following distinguished
fashionable, have visited this theatre during the last few days:
—His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, his Royal
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Marquis of
Douro, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Northampton,
the Marquis of Blandford, the Earl and Countess of Chester-
field, the Earl of Huntingdon, the Earl of Wicklow, Lady
Braybrooke, Lord Castlereagh, Viscount Seaham, Lord
Macdonald, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord Wm. Lennox,
Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Earl and Countess of Shelburne,
Lord Mornington, Lord Bexley, Lord and Lady Alford, Lord
and Lady Ingestre, Viscount Cantilupe, Lord Somerton, Lord
Guernsey, Lord Villiers, Lady Tvrwhitt, the Ladies Scott,
Lord Clarendon, Lady Farquhar, Lord Ranelagh, Lord Arthur
Lennox, Lady lontgomery, Lady Joddrell, Lady Sykes, Earl
and Countess of Dillon, Lord Vivian, the Earl of Oxford,
Lord Paget, Sir William and Lady Curtis, Lord Dysart, Sir
J. H. Lowther, Sir Henry and Lady Webster, Sir J. and
Lady Gerrard, Sir Thomas Wylde, Sir Charles Lamb, Baron
de Sternberg, Sir Charles Shackerley, Captain Tyrvvhitt,
Captain Moffatt, Lady Frances Russell, Colonel Boucher, Sir
H. Smythe, Hon. H. Stanley, Hon. Spencer Lyttelton,
11. Villesbois, Esq., George Wombwell, Esq., B. D'lsraeli,
Esq., G. F. Muntz, Esq., Colonel Forbes, E. Tennent, Esq.,
H. Beauclerk, Esq., H. Drummond, Esq., &c. &c.
PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY FROM TILE EMPEROR OF
Russis.—On Thursday afternoon the General Steam Navigation
Company's vessel the Princess Royal, arrived at Blackwall from
Hamburgh, bringing four magnificent horses, three black and ono
grey, with Cossack attendants, who had come by that route from
St. Petersburgh, from whence the horses had been sent by his
Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, as a present to her most
gracious Majesty. The noble animals having been disembarked in
the usual mode, each having two attendants, and covered with
splendid cloths, the imperial eagle, crown, and cipher N., being
beautifully worked therein, were leisurely walked through the
City, Strand, Charing-cross, &c., to the Royal Mews, and their
general beauty and symmetrical forms attracted a large concourse
of spectators, and excited general admiration.
WILL OF ROTIERIC LADBROKE, ESQ., TILE LATE
BANKER.—Probate of the will and two codicils of Robert Lad.
broke, late of Hedley, Surrey, and of itorenc,, in Tuscany,
Esq„: wAs granted on the 30th ult., to the nephew, Felix Lad.
broke, Edmond Sexten Pery Calvert, and William Beresford,
Esqs., the executors. Personal estate in England sworn under
160,000/. The testator died on the Ist of February last, at Flo-
rence. The will is dated 23d of July, 1842, and the last codicil
in July, 1844, and confirms the will. He leaves an annuity of
1,400/. a year to his brother, Henry Ladbroke, and 5001. a year
to the wife of his nephew, Felix Ladbroke, if she should survive
her husband. Devises and bequeaths his freehold and leasehold
estates in England to his nephew, Felix Ladbroke, and his issue
nude; in default, to his brother, Henry Ladhroke and his issue
in cidauit, to ills cousin, t.drwuqu ,sexte. Per) Calvert, and
his issue male, and so on ; and in default of male issue, to his
right heirs, to take the name of Ladbroke, and bear the family
arms. Bequeaths the residue of his 'estates in England, Italy, or
elsewhere, to his nephew, Felix Ladbroke.

•
EAILWAY COMMITIW

(THIS DAY.)

GROUP FF.
The Committee met again this day at twelve o'clock, in Boor
Corte"'
No. 7. Members present—Lord Ashley, chairman, Mr.
Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. Collins, and Mr. Blackstone.
THE EDINBURGH AND NOHTIIBIIIII

- --- -----
-RAILWAY.
Mr. William Anderson, examined by Mr. HOPE-iag been for
some time guard of the mail coach from Edinburgh to Abereen,
Burnt'
The time occupied in crossing the river from Granton to
island varies from forty-five minutes to an hour and tenty-tire
minutes. The usual time in fine weather was forty.flvwe minutes.
The passage was very rough in boisterous weather. The pass!:
gers suffered from sea-sickness, and the water frequently wash"!
over them. The passage was very dangerous. The Greaten Pt*
was not very safe. A gentleman fell off the pier into the water A
short time ago, and would have been drowned but from the nature.
of his clothing, which kept him afloat. The mail was subject to
great delay in crossing the ferry, and witness had often coroplaild
to the superintendent of the pier, and the answer was that it eau _
not Le remedied. Thedifficulty and danger could be got rid of h.!
going further up and crossing at Queensferry, where it was OW
one mile across. t
Cross-examined by Mr. WICEIL—The pier at Granton was
adequate to the traffic which would arise from the construction
ter
o. a
railway. It was greatly exposed to the sea. The gentleman
fell into the sea from the pier was heavily clothed, but that WOW;
means of saving his life. Could not say be fell in from t rfi_t,
cloaks he had on tripping him up ; such might have been th he e
".
but considered it owing to the boisterous weather and the expotl'-
of the pier to the beatingof the sea. The cloaks certainly UPl°its
afloat.
but 11°Lb"
The witness was briefly re-examined by Mr. Hops,
of
Mrinterest. John to
Rattray, an the case at
other guard of one of the Edinburgh A./
issue was elicit. h sa
was to 1.
Aberdeen mail coaches, was examined. Ws evidence
same effect. He was a 0 starlet
Mr. S. Barker was examined by Mr. Hors-- eand.
man and commnded a steam-vessel plying .between Burun,
ti
the
iThe, passage was most dangerous, and would be more so wucorto
"ncreased traffic of the railway came to it. Vessels "'1.., so
broke from their moorings in consequence of the great expnev
thetits bt
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant BOLAS ,
his evidence in chief was not upset.
Mr. John Ray, examined by Mr. CLERK--- V"' Webs
Duty.house at Granton-pier. The spray often was over of
steamers plying at the pier. It was not a safe place for shiPPO2 0
landing cattle; Passengers were exposed to great danger from
heavy swell of the sea.
The witness was cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant BOLOS' ~...
000
Mr. A. G. Som ' l ervil e, examined by Mr. Sergeant Woe.. fo.
Was clerk in the Post.office at Edinburgh. The to° fie
to Edinburgh.
tbeit
Queensferry were the most regular coming
B rntisland mails were frequently much behind 1°
very clerk
r t
arrival. Arl /1 O:
Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant BELLAsta--Tbe —ll-0101.;
the opening of Granton-pier were 19. It was open ."-_ 00100
months. The delays on the ferry and on the road weee. trete
in that number. Could not say bow many of those ,
Queensferry were 86 in the same period.
caused by the ferry; many might have taken place on the '-„,, the
delsleo7l9o
Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAX.'""The
between the delays of the Queensferry and Burntioland tv-'
ferr OA
y 34 hours behind, and Burntisland, 44. the °PI'
The delays
on the Burntisland were put down to 0
on the Queen's to the road. . i tello4
A El n
Mr. Sergeant BELLAIIS—Have not the fluer,-.,,,e5s cue"'
thro • wing the delays on the Burntisland ferry ? 141.-
answer that ; they were very well-conducted well'
The differete
goo