The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-08 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

IThe following Members have been added to the List from
which Members will be selected to serve on those Railway
Committees which will commence their sittings in the week
Capt. the Hon. E. A. Harris Mr. Marshall
beginning Monday,
Mr. Ilornby Mr. McGeachy
The Hon. W. S. Lascelles Lord Harry Vane.
The Right Hon. Fox Maule
The Committee of Selection have appointed the Select
May 26:
Committee on the group A. to meet in the week commencing
Monday, May 26, in addition to those named on Wednesday,
April 30.
Select Committee on Group N.
Great Western Cornwall Railway Bill or project,
referred to the Committee.
Select Committee on Group 11.
referred to the Committee.
Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill or project,
The Committee of Selection have nominated the following
Select Committees on Railway Bills:
A Committee of
2.1. Thei.or Rightdn ar
rIH,
Vane
Fe,
(South
oxlNra ule(Perth),—Chairman,
Durham),
3. The Hen. W. S. Lascelles (Wakefield),
4. Mr. Marshall (Carlisle),
5. Mr. McGeachy (Honiton),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised
in group A., viz.:—
Central Kent Railway,
London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway,
London, Chatham, and Chilham Railway,
South Eastern North Kent Railway,
London and Ashford Railway,
South Eastern Railway (Hungerford-bridge to Tonbridge),
South Eastern Railway (Tonbridge to Hastings),
Rye and Tenterden Railway,
South Eastern Railway (Ashford to Hastings),
Brighton, Lewes, and 'Hastings Railway (Kepner Branch),
Brighton, Lewes, and Ilastings Railway (Ashford Branch),
South Eastern Railway ( Maidstone to Rochester),
South Eastern Railway (Minster to Deal, and Walmer and
Margate Deviation),
Kentish Coast Railway,
Gravesend and Rochester Railway (Thames and Medway),
London, Chatham, and Gravesend Railway,
London and Croydon Railway (Orpington Branch),
London and Croydon Railway (Enlargement and Branches),
London and Maidstone Railway,
South Eastern Railway (Headcorn and Rye),
London and Greenwich Railway (Widening),
South Eastern Railway (London and Greenwich Extension),
London and Greenwich Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, May 26, at
Twelve o'clock.
A Committee of
1. Mr. Colquhoun (Newcastle-under-Lyme)—Chairman
2. Sir B. Hall (Marylebone),
3. Mr. Cobden (Stockport),
4. Mr. Wykeham Martin (Newport, Isle of Wight),
5. Hon. James Howard (Malmesbury),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects com-
prised in group K., viz.:—
Eastern Union and Norwich Railway,
Diss and Colchester Railway (with Branches),
Norwich and Brandon Railway Deviation, and Dies and
Dereham Branches,
Lynn and Dereham Railway,
London and Norwich Railway,
Eastern Counties Railway (Colchester and Bury' St. Ed-
mund's Extension),
Lowestoft Railway,
Dies, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway,
East Dereham and Norwich Railway,
Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge and Bury St. Ed.
mund's Extension).
Wells and Thetford Railway,
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway,
Norwich and Brandon Railway (Norwich Extension), now
called Yarmouth and Norwich Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, May 26, at
half after Twelve o'clock.
A Committee of
1. Sir Charles Lemoa (West Cornwall)—Chairman,
2. The Hon. Clarks Hope (Linlithgowshire),
3. Mr. Horsman (Cockermouth),
4. Sir E. Elmer (West Kent),
5. Mr. F. Winn Knight (West Worcester),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised
in group KK., viz.:—
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway,
Liverpool and Bury Railway,
Liverpool and Manchester Extension Railway (North
Tunnel), •

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Liverpool and Manchester Extension Railway,
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Parkside Branch),
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (St. Helen's and Ruf-
ford),
Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Patricroft and Clifton
Branch),
Liverpool and Manchester ( Rainford and Liverpool Branches),
Southport and Euxton Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Monday, May 24, at
One o'clock.

A ComMittee of
1. Sir Charles Douglas (Warwick)—Chairman,
2. Mr. Buck (North Devon),
3. Mr. Baskerville (Herefordshire),
4. Colonel Ferguson (Kirkaldy, &c.),
5. .Mr. J. H. Hamilton (Dublin County),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised
in group
Blackburn and Preston Railway,
North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway,
Preston and Wyrc'Railway (Lytham Branck),
Preston and Wvre Railway (Blackpool Branch).
The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday, May 2i, at
Twely o'clock.

A Committee of
1. Viscount Sandon (Liverpool)—Chairman,
2. Mr. E. Ellice, jun., (St. Andrew's),
3. Mr. Spooner (Birmingham),
4. Mr. J. E. Vivian (Truro),
5. Mr. Ricardo (Stoke-upon-Trent),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects comprised
in group 88., viz :
Waterford anti Kilkenny Railway,
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Railway,
Kilkenny Junction Railway,
Kingstown and Waterford Railway (Carlow and Wexford).
The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday, May 27, at
half after Twelve o'elock.
A Committee of
1. Mr. David Dundas (Sutherlandsbire)—Chairman,
2. Mr. Hutt (Gateshead),
3. The Earl of Listowel CSt. Albans),
4. The Earl of March (n est Sussex),
5. Mr. Brisco (Hastings),
to whom they have referred die Bills and projects comprised
in group SS., viz.:—
Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Railway,
Erewash Valley Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Tuesday, May 27, at
One o'clock.

.A7Committee of
1. The Right Hon. Vernon Smith (Northampton)—
Chairman,
2. Admiral Dundas (Greenwich),
3. Mr. Adderley (North Stafford),
4. Mr. Milner Gibson (Manchester),
5. Mr. Wiggett Chute (West Norfolk),
to whom they have referred the Bill comprised in Group CC.
viz.:—
The Cork and Bandon Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Wednesday, May 28, at
half after Twelve o'clock.
And a Committee of
1. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone (Newark),
2. The Viscount Castlereagh (Downshire),
3. Captain the Hon. F. Berkeley (Gloucester),
4. Mr. Dennistoun (Glasgow),
5. The Viscount Acheson (Armagh),
to whom they have referred the Bills and projects corn-
prised in group NN., viz :
The London and Epping Railway,
The North Woolwich Railway.
The Select Committee will meet on Wednesday, May 28,
at One o'clock.
Select Committee on Group G.
Bristol and Exeter Branches Railway Bill.
The Committee will consider the Bill on Monday, May
19, at Twelve o'clock.

Memorandum.—The Committee of Selection will meet on
Friday next, to consider applications for the appointment of
Committees on Bills after the Whitsuntide recess.

CATASTROPHE AT YARMOUTH.
Tsamount, MAY 6.—The jury re-assembled this morning at
the Church.hall, shortly after nine o'clock, and thence proceeded
at once to view the bodies of eleven persons, whose names had been
registered at the police-office.

The names of the eleven other deceased persons are : -Henry
Dye, aged 9 years ; Elisabeth Read, 6 ; Mary Ann Roberts, 19 ;
Ann Beckett, 8; William Walter Watts, 9; Reeder Hutaston
Balla, 16; Elisabeth Fulcher, 16; Alice Gott, jun., 9 ; Alice Gott,
b 1 ; Emily Young, 6 ; Susannah Field, 8.
The jury, having completed the view of their bodies, returned
to the Church-hall and re-commenced the task of formal identi-
cation.

The whole of the eleven above mentioned were Identified, and
the total number that had been viewed by the jury and formally
identified amounts now to 75.

At the conclusion of this duty,
The CORONER said— We must now consider what is, as far as
we are concerned, the most important part of the question. There
are several reasons why this matter should be re-considered, and
there is, I believe, a gentleman in Norwich who can throw some
light upon this matter; for he states that on Thursday he saw a
fracture in that portion of the bridge where the bar broke.
The Foreman said it was certainly a matter of necessity in the
consideration of so important a case as this to ascertain in what
state the bridge was at the time of the accident, He thought it
was essentially necessary that some scientific gentleman should be
had before them, and he had in his hand a list of questions which
had been suggested to him as fit ones to be proposed to such a
witness. In the propriety of these questions tie fully concurred,
and he would read them to the jury. They were these By
whose orders did you make the bridge wider ? What was the
extra width, and how many square feet were added ? What was
the weight of the cast and wrought Iron with the wood placed
extra upon ihe bridge? Did you offer or give to Mr. Cory any
mechanical ideas as to the propriety or impropriety of making the
bridge wider, or explain the consequences of adding extra weigtht
and breadth to act as leverage beyond the chains ? Did you
know the weight the bridge was calculated to bear by the con.
tractors, or inquire of Mr. Cory the terms of the specification ?
Did you examine the chains, bolts, bars, Ac., before commencing
the alterations, and report ,the same to Mr. Cory as to their
soundness and capability? Did you calculate the extra weight
you were going to add to the bridge before you commenced the alte.
rations, and report the Caine to Mr. Cory ? Did you suppose that
if the bridge had been in its original state, it would have broken
with the number of persons then upon it ?"

A juror said, that according to the mechanical rule, he believed,
that every square foot of surface should bear a hundred weight,
and that the suspending power was generally made exactly in that
proportion. It appeared here that one-third additional surface had
been added to the bridge by the platforms on each side of it, and
that nothing had been added to the suspending power.
The CORONER observed, that that matter would more properly
be discussed when the general merits of the case should come on.
The room was then cleared of strangers , and, after a short dis.
cussion amongst the jury,' the following presentment to the Town
Council was agreed to :

" We, the undersigned, now acting as jurymen upon the in-
quisition upon the bodies of the several persons who met their
death from the falling of the suspension-bridge on the River Bure,
within this borough, beg to represent to the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors of this borough, in council assembled, the absolute ne.
cessity that exists for the employing some scientific engineer, in
order to come to a just consideration of the circumstances in which
the bridge was placed, and to enable them to discharge the oaths
they have taken."

Mr. S. Cobb, a magistrate, who was on the bench, undertook to
support it.

The inquiry was then adjourned to enable the jury to receive
the determination of the Council.
Theexcitement appears to have nearly subsided in Yarmouth.
The bodies found and identified are far short of the number
returned as found by the boatmen. The discrepancy can only
be accounted for by supposing that they returned, as dead,
parties who were afterwards recovered. The Coroner stated that
the jury had viewed 75 bodies, which, with the four missing, makes
79 in all.

COAL MARICET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adair's Main,
15s; Buddle's West Hartley, 16s 6d; Carr's Hartley, 17s;
Chester Main, Iss 6d; Charlotte, 15s; East Tanfield, 14s;
Hasting's Hartley, 16s 6d; Holywell Main, 16s; Nelson's
West Hartley, 16s 6d ; New Tanfield, 14s ; Old Pontop,
13s 6d; Pott's Primrose, 13s; Ravensworth West Hartley,
16s 6d ; Taylor's West Hartley, 16s ; Tanfield Moor, 17s 6d ;
Townley, 15s; West Hartley, 17s; West Wylam, 15s 6d;
Wall's-end, Clennell, 16s; Heaton, 16s 6d; Hilda, 16s;
Killingworth, 16s ; New March, 15s 6d ; Riddell's, 16s 6d ;
Walker, 16s; Wharncliffe, 16s 3d; Eden Main, 17s 3d;
Braddyll's Hetton, 1836 d ; Haswell, 18s 9d ; Hetton, 18s 6d ;
Hylton, 15s; Lambton, 18s; Russell's Hetton, 18s3d ; Rich-
mond, 17s ; Caradoc, 18s ; Hartlepool, 18s 6d ; Heugh Hall,
17s ; Kelloe, 17s 3d ; Adelaide, 17s 9d ; Evenwood, 15s 2d ;
Eden Hartlepool, 17s ; Maclean's Tees, 15s 6d ; Seymour
Tees, 17s ; South Durham, 178 ; Tees, 18s ; Cowpen Hartley,
17s ; Derwentwater Hartley, 16s ; Hartley, 16s ; Sidney's
Hartley, 16s 6d; West Hartley Netherton, 16s 6d.—Ships
arrived, 103.

MAGNIFICENT PRESENT FROM THE EAST INDIA
COMPANY TO MEHEMhT ALL—The friendly deportment of the
Pacha of Egypt towards our country is abcut to be acknowledged
by the Court of Directors of the East India Company in a manner
worthy of the greatest political and military power of the East.
A silver fountain of extraordinary magnitude and exquisite work-
manship, intended as a present to Mehemet Ali from the Company,
has just been completed by Mr. Smith, of Duke-street, Lincoln's-
inn-fields. It is upwards of ten feet high, and contains 10,400
Qunces of silver. It Is richly ornamented with fruits and flowers,
the likeness of beast, bird, or fish being scrupulously avoided, in
deference to the feelings of the good Mahomedans, among whom
its permanent resting place is cast. The fountain has an inscrip-
tion on each of the bur sides, simply, and in excellent taste, re-
cording the titles of the givers and the reeoiver, without any
addition. The language on each side varies; the four languages
employed are English, Latin, Arabic, and Persian.—Allen's Indian
Mail, May 7.

IWithin the last few weeks a new disease has been
very prevalent In the dairies in and around the metropolis. It
chiefly attacks cattle in the hinder extremities, paralysing the
limbs.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, May 7.
PUBLIC EXPENSES.
On the motion of Mr. WILLIAMS, returns were
ordered relative to the allowances to the Royal Family,
and to his Majesty the King of the Belgians ; the
establishment of the Lord Li( utenant of Ireland ; the
expenses of the two Houses of Parliament, and the Civil
Departments; the other pensions on the Consolidated
Fund, on the gross revenue, and the Civil List ; also,
the payments for the adminit-tration of justice ; diplo-
matic expenses, and an account of the sums voted for
the army, navy, ordnance, and miscellaneous services ;
also public works, bounties, and Post-office.

LIGHT SOVEREIGNS.
Mr. HUME wished to know from the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether there was any public office
where persons might bring light sovereigns, and have
them changed, deducting the difference in the lightness ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
there was no such office.

CONDEMNED SERMONS.
Captain POLHILL wished to ask the Secretary of
State for the home Department, if any communication
had taken place between him and the Sheriffs of London,
respecting the admission of persons to hear condemned
sermons? and also, whether it was not his opinion upon a
recent occasion the Sheriffs only acted in conformity
with their undoubted rights and privileges ?
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that, in answer to the
inquiry of the Hon. and Gallant Member, he was pre-
pared to say that he (Sir James Graham) had under-
stood that a commission had reported on the subject in
1825, and communications had taken place between his
predecessor, Lord Normanby, and the corporation of
London; and that, in consequence, the corporation had
made a regulation which absolutely prohibited the ad-
mission of the public generally, to bear the comiewed

sermon on the Sunday previous to the day ordered for
execution, Meting
.otl the Authority he rossetl3 he
(Sir James Graham) had ordered a prison inspector to
proceedlto New gate and to inquire into the circumstances
connected with the last execution. The inspector had
received instructions to examine into the transactions
both of the Sunday and of the iNlenelay morning.. As
soon as he should have received tl.at report he should
be prepared to lay it on the table, and to express his
opinion on the whole matter.
Alderman COPELAND was glad to hear the couree
the Right lion. Baronet intended pursuing, and fay ad-
mitted the necessity for an inquiry. A morbid appetite
was abroad on this subject. The curiosity of the public
upon occasions such as these exceeded anything the
House could conceive. This curiosity pervaded all clas,es,
and the desire sf persons, not only to get seats at the
trial, but to be present at the condemned sermon, was
beyond all conception. Having been the sitting magis-
trate at Guildhall on Easter Monday, eases
had come before him, that led him to the
conclusion that the time had arrived, when the
authorities ought to consider whether it was not ad-
visable to dispense with these public exhibitions. On
Easter Monday he sent some for trial, and convicted
three in a fang for picking pockets under the gallows,
and this had led him to the conclusion that it would
be better to adopt some means of putting an end to
these executions altogether.
Mr. BROTHERTON rose to express his concur-
' rence in the remarks of the Hon. Alderman, but he
was called to order by the Speaker, who put the gut s-
tion, that the returns he laid on the table, which was
agreed to. . .

Mr. EDWARD ELLICE moved the substitution of
Lord Frederick Hallyburton and Mr. David Morris for
Mr. Patrick Stewart arid Mr. Bickbarn Escott, on Select
Committee on Prisons (Scotland.)
Mr. PRINGLE opposed the motion, and said he
would divide the House.—(Great laughter.)
The gallery was then cleared, and the House divided,
when there appeared—
For the motion
Against it .
Majority for the motior —sB
MAZZINI.

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Mr. BOUVERIE said that it would be recollected
that the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State
for the Home Department had, upon the debate
with regard to the opening of letters in the Post-
office, made a charge of a very grave and heincus
character against Mr. Mazzini, which had never yet been
withdrawn. A charge of such a nature as that made
against Mr. Mazzini was one which, under no circum-
stances, could be justified, unless there was the strongest
grounds for believing it to be true. That charge was
aggravated, coming, as it did, from one in the position of
the Right Hon. Baronet, whose Parliamentary privi-
leges prevented Mr. Mazzini from taking those steps
which he could do if the charge had not been made by
a Member of that House within the walls of Parliament.
That charge was spread abroad next morning, nut only
through the country, but through the world, stamped
with the authority of the Secretary of State. The Right
Hon. Baronet derived the ground of his charge from an
anonymous statement in a 'French newspaper, and he
promised to substantiate it by papers which he would de-
liver to Members of the House. The only papers delivered
were papers which he (Mr. Bouverie) held in his hand,
but they did not contain one iota of evidence to substan-
tiate the charge.—(Hear, hear.) He therefore hoped
that the Right Hon. Baronet, reflecting upon the hor-
rible nature of the charge, would think that he ought
to withdraw it. He might mention that the French Go-
vernment communicated to a friend of his, a Member of
that House, that they carefully investigated the matter,
and that they found there was not one tittle of evidence
to support the charge.
Sir J. GRAIIAM stated that the Hon. Gentleman
who had sat down gave him notice yesterday, by a note,
of his intention to but this question. If there had been
a House yesterday, it was his (Sir J. Grshatn's) inten
tion to make voluntarily the statement to the House,
which it was slow his duty to make. On Mon
day last the Honourable Member for Kilmar-
nock, and another Honourable Member, communicated
with him on the subject., and he stated to them what was
then strictly true, that he was not in a position to make
a statement satisfactory to them or to Mr. Mazzini. In
consequence of the question put to him by the Honour-
able Member for Bolton, he thought it his duty to insti-
tute inquiries through his Noble Friend the Fort ign
Secretary in those quarters %here he would be likely
to obtain the most correct information on the subject ;
and, till yesterday, the information which he had re-
ceived, so far from shaking his impressions, only tended
to confirm them. But, not satisfied with the question to
which the inquiries were directed, he was particularly
anxious that the judge who presided at the trial of Ribiero
and Caprioli, in 1833, and also t he public prosecu tor, sheuld
be consulted, and at his request those persons were con-
sulted. He did not, till two o'clock yesterday, receive
an answer to the inquiries made, and if there had been
a House yesterday it was his intention voluntarily to
have made the statement ; it was now his duty to make
it, in answer to the questionput to him. The Hon. Gen-
tleman referred to the statement which he (Sir James
Graham) made originally. He stated that the informa-
tion being derived from a newspaper, and not from an
official source, was not entitled to implicit confidence.
And he was not aware, till the lion. Member for Fins-
bury afterwards stated it, that Mr. Mazzini had, in 1840,
brought an action against a newspaper for repeating a
statement which first appeared in the Moniteur. The
Hon. Gentleman said that in the papers which he pre-
sented to the blouse there was no recognition of the
statement which be quoted from the Moniteur. If
the Honourable Gentleman looked attentively at
the papers he would see a letter from Mr.
Foster, their agent at Turin, to the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, and that there was a distinct
recognition of the statement to which reference was
made. He was bound to state that the accounts he re-
ceived )esterday rested on the statements of the judge
who tried Ribiero, and of the public prosecutor, and
their answers to the inquiries made were full, explicit,
and direct; and they stated that no evidence was pro-
duced at the trial which inculpated Mr. Mazzini in the
least.—(Hear, hear.) Had he known at the time he
made the original statement the fact that Mr. Mazzini
brought an action against a newspaper for repeating the
charge, and much more, if he had known what the im-
pression of the judge who tried Ribiero, and that of the
public prosecutor were, he would never have made the
statement he did.—(Hear, hear.) •He now thought it
due to Mr. Mazzini to make the only and the best repa-
ration in his power—namely, that the retraction should
be as public as the accusation.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. DUNCOMBE said he thought that no Member
had any right to press or wish another Member to make
an apology to another individual unless he was persuaded
that that individual deserved to have an apology or a re-
traction made to him. He thought the Right Hon.
Gentleman was right in abstaining from making ad
apology till he made !himself acquainted with the facts.
But he thought the Right Hon. Gentleman had reason
to complain of the individual who put the Moniteur
into his hands—(bear)—who must have known that the
statement against Mr. Mazzini was fabricated and false,
at the time, for it was publicly known. It was the duty
of the person who gave the Right lion. Gentleman the
Moniteur, to give him also the judgment of the judge of
the Tribunal Correctionnel, pronounced on the 23d of
April,lB4l, which in itself was a refutation of the charge.
The retraction came late, but certainly the Right Hon.
Gentleman was right not to make it till he inquired into
it. Now that it was fully made, it would be satisfactory
to Mr. Mazzini, and the other exiles who were in the
country; and he (Mr. Duneombe) would say, if he did
not believe Mr. Mazzini to have been innocent, he would
not have introduced his name in that House, because
he would thee consider him not only to be unworthy the
consideration of that House, but unworthy of the friend-
ship of many high men in this country, wh ch it was his
happiness and his privilege to enjoy.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir J. GRAHAM said that the Hon. Gentleman
stated that the explanation came late. He would state
the facts to the House. He had a letter from Lord
Cowley, dated the 2d of May, enclosing the answers of
the Judge who tried the case and the Prucureur du Roi,
which were not received by Lord Cowley till the Ist of
May. He received a note from his Noble Friend the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affiiirs, dated yesterday,
and stating " the enclosed papers were received yester-
day (on the sth of May) from Lord Cowley, and the
statements are of a different tendency from those pre-
viously given by the Pref., ct of Police and the Minister
of the Interior. He received the papers yesterday at
two o'clock, and he could only repeat his assurance that
if there had been a House yesterday he would have
made the statement he now male.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. DUNCOMBE did not mean to attribute any un-
necessary delay to_the Right Hon. Baronet.—(Hear.)