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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.

_oole 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 Railway,—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
next :
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway.
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway.
Chester and Holyhead Railway.

PRIVATE BUSINESS, FOR MONDAY, 21.1.4. Y 26.
TIIIRD READINGS.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Colne).
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 RLlway (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 Tacuni-
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, Beccles, and Yarmouth
Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill."

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."
8. " 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.

NOTICES GIVEN ON FRIDAY, MAY 23.
1. Lord John Manners,—Address to her Majesty, for
Copies of any Correspondence which may nave 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.
2. Lord Ashley,—Two Bills for the regulation of 'the care
and treatment of insane persons in England and Wales.—
Tuesday, June 3.
3. Sir Valentine Blake,—Motion respecting Members.—
Tuesday, June 10.
4. Mr. Villiers,—Motion on the Corn-laws, deferred from
Tuesday, 3d, till Tuesday, June 10.
5. Sir Henry Winston Barron,—Bill to exempt all occu-
piers of land or houses in Ireland from County Rates or Grand
Jury Taxes, unless they are possessed of leases for a term of
not less than seven years.—Tuesday, June 10.
6. Mr. Hindley,—On reading the Order of the Day for
Committee of Supply, to move for a Return of the names of
the persons receiving the allowance granted to Protestant
Dissenting Ministers in England, with the names of the
Trustees administering the same.

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.
llarwich Railway,—Committee on petition, postponed
from Monday, 26th, till Friday, May 30.
Cambridge and Bury Railway,—Committee on petition,
Tuesday, June 3.
South.mpton and Dorchester Railway,—Consideration of
Report, Tuesday, May 27.
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway,—Third reading, Mon-
day, May 26.
Berke 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 (Burnle 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 lIH., 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.
MEMORANDUM.—The Committee of Selectiop will meet on
Thursday in next week, instead of Wednesday.

NIARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Cu.-rent 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.
REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar brought further ad-
vanced rates, and there are many orders unexecuted for
Home Trade goods; brown lumps are 695, and standard
lumps 70s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar sells freely at
37s Gd to 38s.

AlAumnus.—The demand has been extensive for every
description from grocers and refiners, and some parcels have
been taken fur the outports indeed the quantity brought
forward has not been sufficient to supply the wants of the
trade. At public sale yesterday 13,695 bags 19 cases and :5
casks were disposed of at prices showing an advance on
those of the previous sale of is to is Gd per cwt.
EAST INDLA.—II(?Iders of Foreign East India evince much
firmness, the stock In first hands is much reduced, and prices

(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 unfavourable 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 a matter of course, won the Pm 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 much 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 animal, and will, no doubt,
pay her way.
The rise of Weatherbit and Jinglepot, and the decline of
Pain, 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 500 L, 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
Normanby, 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
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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. Sweattneat'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 in the same stable with him, and has engaged an
eminent jockey to ride him, promissing him a thousand
pounds if he wins. But, in spite of all this parade, the bait
does not take, and Clear-the-way still remains at 50 to L
On Monday I shall treat finally of the Derby, and at the
same time analyse the public running of the Oaks' mares.
London, May 23, 1845. TELEGRAPII.

WEYMOUTH.
QUEEN'S BENCH, MAY 15.
THE QUEEN v. TILE MAYOR OF WEYMOL7TII.
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 DENMAN—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
hath been, any assessor of the said borough, and in conse-
quence thereof they could not proceed to hold 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 " under
this Act," the expression is any election made before this Act
or under this Act shall be good, although madelisbseiofonreto tahpe-
appointment of assessor. There is a remedy for omission, and
it is large enough in its terms to include any on
point assessors. All electors since that Act may be called
electors under it, for they are all subject to its provisions. If
elapsedthaendcoorupogrhattitoon dino asyo. This b
porriotpye rbytilmvrei had
o fmandamus,
madulaety be a necessary step previous to the particular
election
authority
now prayed for; but their own neglect to take it cannot re-
lieve them from the duty now sought to be enforced. Seeing,
then, that there are means intrusted to them by law for
doing what the law requires, we are bound to give judgment
for the Crewn for a peremptory mandamus.
The effect of this judgment will be important. to the liberal
interest in Weymouth.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The non-appearance of
Madame Thillon last evening was attributable to the opinion of
her medical adviser, Mr. learsley, that a further repose of a day
or two 'was absolutely necessary for the perfect restoration of her
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 Monday next, and also Mr. Yearsley's letter urging the j
I
necenity of that repose,

I are still on the advarce. The total quantity oflered at auc-
tion has amounted to 12,100 bags, nearly the whole of which
found buyers. The stock of Bengal and Madras is 80,432
bags more than last ycar at this time.
FOIZEIGN.—The market has still an improving appearance
for Foreign Sugar, buyers are anxious to operate, stocks di-
minishing, prices still looking up.
COMPEE.—To-day there was a large amount of business
transacted by private treaty, and the rates paid were rather
above those previously quoted. A cargo of Aux Cayes Coffee
of 3,000 bags to arrive tOr orders have been sold afloat at 29s
per cwt, deliverable at Trieste, and another cargo at 30a 3d. • TRA.--The home trade have evinced little desire to pur-
chase any description of Tea this week, and shipping orders
come in slowly, some parties have been more inclined to
realise, the stock being very large. The limited purchases
made have been upon rather lower terms.
NOLASSES.—To-day many inquiries existed for West
India Molasses, and some parcels sold at full rates to a small
advance; St. Kitt's very low old fetched 1.55, good New An-
tigua 18s 6d, old 178 6d, Nevis low, 16s, and Grenada
lis 6d per cwt.
Rtiu, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Prices have ruled firm
fur Jamaica mum, and a good home and export demand has
been experienced. Demerara has sustained the former value,
and is wairted. In Leeward Island a large business has been
transacted at full rates, indeed, in some cases, a small advance
has been paid. Of Calcutta, some parcels have been disposed
of at Is 5d proof with certificate. Brandy has met with in-
creased attention, and several parcels have been disposed of
at a slight improvement in prices. Geneva is more wanted,
Is 8d to is 9d is now the value of common export sort, and
fine tit for duty 2s 4d to 23 9d per gallon. English Corn
Spirits lOs 2d per gallon cash.
TALLOW—The accounts come to hand from St. Peters-
burgh, stating that the supply of Tallow would be less than
in former seasons, produced increased firmness in the market
here, and a further advance in prices of 3d to 6d per cwt has
taken place.

COAT.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's West
Hartley, 17s 6d ; Chester Main, 15s; Hasting's Hartley,
17s 6d ; Holly well Main, 16s 6d ; Old Pontop, 13s 6d ; Ord's
Redhetigh, 14s; Townley, 15s; Taylor's West Hartley, 17s;
West Hartley, 17s 6d ; West Wylam, 15s 3d ; Wall's- end,
Hilda, I6s ; Killingworth, .16s 6d; Eden Main, 17s; Bel-
mont, 17s 6d ; Braddyll's lletton, 18s 3d ; Haswell, 18s 9d ;
Lambton, 18s ; North Hetton Lyons, lis ; Pemberton, 16s 3d ;
Russell's lletton, 18s ; Richmond, I7s 6d ; Shotton, I8s;
Caradoc, 18s ; Hartlepool, 18s 6d ; Heugh hall, 17s 6d ;
Kelloe, 17s 9d; Adelaide, 17s 9d; Bowburn, 16s; Tees,
17s 9d ; Graigola, 21s Gd ; Lewiss Merthyr, 21 s ; Sydney,
163; Powell's Duffryn Steam, 22s 3d ; New Walker, 15s.—
Ships arrived, 24.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S—FRIDAY.
Although only a bye day, the room Is as well attended,
and some reasonably brisk business transacted on a few of
the Derby favourites. Idas was backed for several hundred
pounds at 5 to 2, and Alarm for nearly a thousand at 6
to 1, 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 Lot
(J. Day's), at 4to 1. The investments on the whole not
heavy. Takers of 12 to 1 about The Libel, of 20 to 1 about
Doleful, of 30 to 1 about Mentor, and of 40 to 1 each about
Kedger, ram, The Merry Monarch. and Jinglepot.
Offers 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 Alerry Monarch
40 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kedger—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 1 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—t.
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.