The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-21 00:00:00

TALLOW

There is no change in this market since our last worth
notice. Fine Y.C., in small parcels, on the spot, is rather
above our quotation, and for forward delivery, October to
December, the price is 38s. Town Tallow is 38s to 38s ad
nett cash.

ERRATA.—In our report of the proceedings of
the House of Lords on Friday evening, the name of the Mar-
quis of Clanricarde was, in two instances, inadvertently sub-
stituted for that of the Marquis of Normanby. It was the
Marquis of Normanby who brought in the Bill for giving the
franchise to all persons paying the Property-tax, and it was
the same Noble Marquis who gave notice on the subject of
New South Wales.

TIIE HOMCEOPATIIIC SYSTEM.—On Friday last Mr.
Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the New Crown, St. Paul's-
terrace, Ball's-pond, Islington, on the body of Mr. Samuel
Friend, aged fifty- seven, landlord of the above house. It
appeared in evidence that deceased was found dead on the
floor of his bed-room, on the afternoon of Tuesday last. Mrs.
Barry, his housekeeper, said he had been ill for a conside-
rable period, and latterly had next to completely lost his
appetite. A friend of his had taken him to consult Dr.
Epps, for a week previous to his death—" And," added the
witness, " I was very sorry to hear that he had been taken
there." By the Coroner—He was only a week under Dr.
Epps' and had no signs of death when he first went to con-
sult that doctor. The Coroner—What did Dr. Epps order
him with regard to food ? Witnes'—A lamb chop, oysters,
arrow-root, &c. The Coroner—That's not exactly the
starving system. I held an inquest the other day on the
body of a homoeopathic patient, who had been for ten days
kept upon water. On the eleventh day his doctor said he
might have toast and water, but strictly forbade his eating
the toast, lest he should make blood too fast. On the twelfth
day, as I suppose, a supreme treat—a great " blow out "—the
homeopathic physician allowed his patient ore spoonful of
beef. tea.—( Laughter.) Mr. Jefferson, a surgeon, who for
merly attended deceased, attributed his death to affection of
the heart ' • and having been shown some prescriptions, signed
J. E., and some bottles of medicine made up according to
them,the chief component part of which was "aqua pura ;"and
being asked by the Coroner his opinion of" the mixture," he
said it could not do any injury, nor could it cure any disease.
The Coroner—Do homeopathic doctors take honimpathic fees,
I wonder? Mr. Jefferson—l fancy not. It is a good thing
that they cannot do any harm. The Coroner—Do you say
so seriously? Suppose a patient was attacked with inflam-
mation, would homoeopathy do no harm then ? Mr. Jefferson
--I should not like to try it. I would stop the progress of
inflammation by active and proper medicines, not adminis-
tered in infinitessimal doses. The Coroner—To be sure.
Well, all I can say is, that John Bull, with all his reputation
for good common sense, is the greatest visionary in the world.
A stubborn, stiff-necked bull, indeed 1 Call him rather an
inexhaustible, meek niilch-cow, for fattening every species
of quack. The jury, thinking that disease of the heart, and
not homeopathy, caused the death of deceased, returned a
Verdict of " Natural Death."
We regret to announce the indisposition of Viscount
Melbourne, chiefly arising from an accident which befel his
Lordship a few evenings since, on alighting from his carriage
at the door of his mansion in South-street. The Noble
Viscount, it appears, caught his foot in the folds of a cloak
in which lie was enveloped, the consequence being that he
fell heavily upon the stone steps leading to the hall of the
mansion. The whole of his Lordship's left side was very
badly bruised by the fall, and we are sorry to learn the Noble
Viscount has been confined to his bed ever since the accident.
Prince Albert has called once personally on his Lordship.
Mr. Anson has paid daily visits to South-street, on the part
of her Majesty and his Royal Highness, to make inquiries as
to the Noble Viscount's health. The Duke of Wellington
and a gitat number of the nobility leave also called to make
similar inquiries. Dr. Copeland is in attendance upon his
Lordship.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.— On Sunday, the 19th
inst., a gentleman, a passenger to Bristol by the twelve
o'clock down-train from the Paddington terminus of the
Great Western Railway, discovered, shortly before the
train arrived at Slough, that he had lost his purse con-
taining Bank of England notes to the amount of 9001.,
besides 21. 10s. in gold and Bs. 6d. in silver. Immediately on
the arrival of the train at the Slough station, lie proceeded
direct to the office of the electric telegraph, in a state of
very great excitement, not knowing whether he had been
robbed of his money in the railway carriage or had lost it
before he entered the train. Information of the loss was
instantaneously transmitted to the superintendent of the
telegraph at the Paddington terminus, who immediately pro-
ceeded to the booking-office, where the gentleman paid for
his ticket, where the purse and its contents were found un-
touched. Within five minutes from the time of the loss being
made known at the Slough Telegraph-office, the gentleman
had the satisfaction of knowing, by means of this extraordi-
nary invention, that his property was safe, and shortly after-
wards he received it by the following train.

CONTINUED DISTRESS IN THE CANE TRADE.—
Sad and general complaints still continue to prevail in the
above trade. The lots of cane kept back in bond are now
nearly all sold out, and at unheard of prices ; and if very
shortly hence a fresh cargo of stock does not arrive, there
will, of necessity, become a complete stand-still throughout
the trade. Of late years, the above article has been gra-
dually getting scarcer and scarcer, owing to the great re-
luctance with which owners of vessels consent. to freight their
craft with cane. Being very elastic, it is with great diffi-
culty compressed into a convenient compass, and the stowage
of it is attended with considerable trouble, independent of
which it is a light freight, and very inadequately pays the
masters for the pains and trouble they are at in shipping it.
The dealers in the rattan article are wholly unable to meet
the orders they are daily receiving from large houses, whilst
the hands employed in the latter are doing nothing. A
speedy arrival of cane would just now tend to resuscitate a
branch of business which was never so depressed as it is at
present ; nor is there a scarcity experienced in the rattan
stick alone, the cane trade is generally at an ebb, and fur-
nishes a theme for much discontent and disappointment. It
is not, perhaps, generally known that the rattan is, unlike
all other articles of a similar nature, sold by the pound avoir-
dupois.
CALLS TO THE BAIL—The first series of calls to
bar in Easter Term, of the Honourable Society of the Middle
Temple was made on Friday, and on Saturday the after-
mentioned gentlemen were sworn in before several of the
benchers in the dining-hall :—Mr. P. J. Nagle, the second
son of James Nagle, of Ballyelis in the county of Cork, Esq. ;
Mr. Charles Lavingtone Pannell, the only son of the Rev.
J. Pannell, of Oldsworth, in the county of Sussex ; Mr.
Henry Beeston, the second son of William Beeston, of Grove-
terrace, Kentish-town, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ;
Mr. Henry Leigh, the eldest son of Henry James Leigh, of
Taunton, in the county of Somerset, gentleman ; Mr. Alex-
ander Shea, the eldest son of Alexander Shea, of Gibraltar,
Esq. ; and Mr. William Holmes Edwards, the only son of
George Edwards, of Framlingham, in the county of Suffolk,
gentleman.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CROYDON RAILWAY.— li
On Friday afternoon, about one o'clock, a carpenter in the
employ of the Croydon Railway Company was Proceeding
up the line to his work, and had gone about a mill distant
from the Croydon terminus, when, perceiving the up train
approaching, he stepped over on to the down line; in an
instant a Dover train was upon him, and his transition from
life to death was the work of a moment. The body was
taken to the Windmill public-house, Croydon-common, to
await an inquest.

A game at whist is about to come off, to be played
in quite a novel way by means of the electric telegraph. The
four players to be stationed—one at Southampton, and his
partner in London ; their adversaries at Gosport, and Basing-
stoke. The time it will take playing will be little more than
the peripd occupied at UR) usual game.

RAILWA Y COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
Sub-Committee (No. 1.)
This Committee, consisting of Mr. Pakington, Mr. Forbes,
Mr. V. Stuart, and other Members, met this morning.
ABERDARE RAILWAY.
This is to be a branch line of eight miles in length, e 0,111:
mencing at the Navigation House station on the Tali Alal
'
Railway ; cost 50,000 e
Mr. `'enables submitted the necessary formal proof, and
the Committee decided that the standing orders had been
complied with.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAI LIVAN.,,,
The length of the line is fifty-seven mils, and the
450,0001. Engineer, Sir John M'Niel.
Standing orders complied with.
NORTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAY.
Standing orders complied with.
Committee (No. 2.)
WEST YOKKSIIIRE.
The names of the Committee are—Mr. P. M. Stewart'
Renfrewshire, Chairman ; Mr. Moore O'Ferrall, Kildare
Mr. Redington, Dundalk ; Mr. Rice, Dover ; Mr. Trotter,
Surrey.-
The Committee having remained in deliberation for gene
time, admitted the parties shortly after one o'clock, when
The Cualll3lA.N said that from the mass of business befell
them the Committee had resolved to take the lines io the
following order :—They would first take the Heywood branch,
from Manchester to Leeds ; then the line to Burnley ; then
that to Manchester and Huddersfield ; then the Dewsbury"
and Leeds; and then the West Riding and West York-
shire shire Bills; and when those should have been disposed °
they would take up the Leeds and Thirsk Bill.
LYNN AND ELY, AND ELY AND HUNTINGDON
LINES.
The Committee appointed to investigate the merits of these
lines met to-day in Committee-room.elo. 11.
The Committee were Lord Paltnerston, the Chairman, lit'
R. Palmer, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. F. Berkeley. .
The I ynn and Ely line was first considered. The prine.ht.
pal petition against it was that of the Middle and Sent"
Level.
Mr. Austin, Mr. Sergeant Wragham, Mr. M. Smith, and
Mr. Baggerly appeared for the Bill.
Mr. Talbot and Mr. Paget appeared for the petition.
ll
Mr. AUSTIN stated the case for the promoters of the 01,.,
He said that the length of the line between Lynn and
was 26i miles. The population of Lynn was 18,000. 1.11„,11
was a branch to Wisbeach, the length of which was lq
The population of Wisbeach was 12,000. There was al° of
line, called the Harbour Branch, of seven-eighths".
a mile ; the total length of proposed line was, Iherefore,3lll
miles. It was also proposed to make a line from Ely to
Huntingdon, and from thence to Bedford. The length iron
Ely to Huntingdon was 25 miles ; that made an
tire length of proposed line of 621 E miles. It ar;
proposed that both lines should be placed untie'
an united management. The levels on the line were gnu"„
the gradients were good, and it was a line on which 11,,,"
such thing as tunnels would be thought of. With regard,'"
the trade at present, it was carried on by navigation, uld
means of four rivers, the Cam, the Ouse, the Lark, an„
Little Ouse. Now with regard to each, and several of thes:',
he would show that the navigation of them was sle".
,
uncertain, inconvenient, and expensive. If the Comndttba;
looked at the map and considered the position of
northern counties of England, that the commerce with Lyn,
was earned on through the town and port of Hull one
Gainsborough, and thence by sea to Lynn. In this way toe
passage was made to Lynn, and in this way .04
traffic in manufactured goods, as hardware, was carn_.
on. There was also a considerable traffic carried on beto!,l
Lynn and London in agricultural produce. The estimat;
cost of the line between Lynn and Ely was 300,000/. It 0
expected there would be a gross income of 43,0001., an be
net income of 25,800/., giving a return of 8% per cent. oa th,
expenditure. Thegross income was expected to be made 0)0'1a
16,0001. from the profits on the carriage of coals, slates, SO,
27,0001. was expected from the carriage of passengers 3.0'
traffic. The only substantial petition against the line wd
that of the Middle and South Level. The petitioners State
that they owed 48,0001., and that they wouldst
seriou ly injured if the traffic which they hadoo
present was attracted from them by a railway. era
was the substantial ground of objection, bat as they ria
not in a worse position than any others in this respect, ret
as it is not a Parliamentary ground of objection, they futt..oo
stated that the Bill contained no provision fur the proteoly
of their works, and for the drainage. But the ColnEr be
were ready to make any reasonable protection that ring"" it
thought necessary with regard to the branch to Lynn'
crossed a bit of land belonging to the petitioners, and
was the reason they came there.
Mr. C. Willett, Mr. Riley, Mr.Cresswell (banker, of
and Mr. Charles Berners Preston, were then called by tes
Austin. The result of their testimony was to show that 10
proposed line would be of the greatest benefit to the to
and neighbourhood of Lynn.

RETURN OF DR. WOLFF FROM BOICHARA.---
terday morning a sermon was preached at Trinity Chu D
Gray's inn-road, by the celebrated Rev. Joseph Wolff, 170
who has within the last few days arrived in England 'tie et
Bokhara. The Rev. Gentleman preached a most eMrje9
discourse from the Ist chapter of St. Luke, 30th to 33d vteiote
inclusive, to a numerous and deeply-attentive congreg3 of-
consisting of at least two thousand persons. After th,e
.. to
v..ce a collection was made on behalf of the Society net,'
Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and also for the Sig
for Promoting the employment of additional Cursancia.
populous places, which amounted to 371.45. At the de'
sion of the service, and as the Rev. Gentleman took ' were
parture from the church, a great number of person,.' t, to
collected round the doors, anxious to pay their resP7o of
the celebrated and devoted philanthropist, with 01"
whom he cordially shook hands. took
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A hostile mee,.an, •mprota•
place yesterday morning, between the Hon. Dominic Dal, tteoJ6l
cial Secretary, and the Hon. T. C. Aylwyn ; the former a sr.
by S. Derbishire, Esq., and the latter by Dr. Tache, P. hate
Dominic Daly was resolved that the session should not terinco
without his doing something to rescue himself from the cote"-to
into which he has fallen. He, on Tuesday night, used languageola
Mr. Aylwyn publicly in the House, which no duellist could si.,l
noticing in the manner that was desired. We quote the Cossilfor,
report, and would merely add that some of Mr. Daly's supine'
cried out very audibly across the floor, " Take that ; take t 0
—Mr. Aylwyn—.. I have read Mr. Bull's pamphlet, given lo°7wg
the Member for Megantic." Mr. Daly—" I have no recolleci;og
of it." Mr. Aylwyn—" Yes. you did." Mr. Daly—" I nd o
believe it." Mr. Aylwyn (rising).-" I say you did." Mr„—`-pelf
" Sir, it is false." Mr. Aylwyn—" What do you say ?'' 3(r,
fists
—" I say that it is false." Mr. Aylwyn sat down. linui.oted
steps were taken to arrange a meeting, which fortunatelytertalsoisr
without bloodshed, after an exchange of shots. It is ;110
enough that while in England her Majesty is giving Pr°°` f duel.
daily of her deep anxiety to suppress the barbarous custom° root
ling, when by the very last mail we have accounts of a °Dew%
being dismissed, and an ensign put at the foot of the list fur oa•
implicated in an affair of this kind, a member of the Canadian on.
vernment should set such an example to the people..-Pfl°l'
treal paper.
SUICIDE OF THE VESTRY CLERIC OF MITC-111
Mr. William John Clark, jun., the officiating vestrYorr
parish clerk of Mitcham, committed suicide on }rids,' %be
ing by hanging himself with a rope to a beam in one it
out-houses belonging to his father. The deceased, Who
appeared was fifty-one years of age, rose on Friday got
between seven and eight o'clock, leaving his wife, who ,!"faat,
more than twenty-two years of age, in bed, with an '-:;ea
chile!. Having dressed himself, he wrote a letter addre-bi3
to his wife, and then left the house. As he did not ioakeeat
appearance at breakfast his wife became alarmed, and, eat
into an office, where she found the letter, in which t,Ll7tor,
ceased said it was impossible for him. to exist The
and by the time she read the letter he would be dew' re'
cause of this act is supposed to be certain defalcation,s.:3ot,
spout to the office of actuary to the Mitcham Savings
which had been held for some time by the deceased. I if
We hear, as a rumour at Liverpool on Saturday'
that the blockade of Monte Video has been broken UP; tri.
Mr. Weekes's plan for lighting towns by el kilter
city is about to be carried into effect in America. The t Ii""
of the Cincinnati Mechanic states that au experimeolitio
lately witnessed was perfectly successful ; that the apPF two
is by no means costly; and that for lighting Cincinnati, to
towers, it is considered, will be sufficient to illuminate to
whole city. Mr. Weekes's plan was first published in
country as far back as 1831.—Builder. Ole
NEw FA RRINGDON-sTREBT.—On Sattlfulky,,, ee,
Surveyors of her Majesty's Woods and Forests were eng,ao
in planning out, and lotting off for building groualreet
ground recently cleared from the portion of the new scoln-
now formed to Peter-street, leaving but asmall space 50 -cisyg
photo the line to Clerkenwell-green. Within the last fev'cielea
the tenants ofseveral houses inWest-street, presentingobs'ted
to the " improvement" of the neighbourhood, have 1"-'c',4-0•
true bills of indictment having been found against the P
prietors for keeping houses of ill fame. soic
t At the second concert of the Royal Academy of .0'7,0-
on Saturday, several of the young pupils made first aP,Ph-ro-
ances, which, though they indicated different degrees 0' ,rted
ficiency, were all promising, and gave proof of a well-dire' of
course of study. The room was crowded. The Duke ere
Cambridge and a number of distinguished dilettanti
present.
The Earl of frowth, Lord Leigh, Lord BT,,c'fikl,
Lord Guernsey, Viscount Lewisham, and Sir C. PD 700.1‘3
Bart., M.P., are among the subscribers, with hail'A
donations, towards the erection of a tennis-court at Lead e 4
ton Spa, the cost of which is estimated at 1,6001. Tbirthat
hundred pounds have already been subscribed towards
object. res
LOVE AND FOLLY.—In an action for breach of P
raise of marriage, Commins v. Willesford, tried at E2retesd
Saturday week, Mr. Justice Coleridge, in summing UP'ever
that he believed the love letters of the cleverest men °-
did much credit to their heads.
The British and North American RoyalS'oef
steam-ship, Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, sailed from the luepd
on Saturday, with the semi• monthly mail, for Canada, '-
the United States, and a large number of passengers•
Net
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LLOYD'S COLLECTION OF CHARTS.—Theu.
lands Government has presented to the establishment of
Lloyd's copies of the maps and charts published in
country by official authority. the
A rumour was very current in Dublin that tot
Lord-Lieutenant is in the receipt of a letter from Sir Ec'd f'
Peel, to the effect that her Majesty will leave for Irelan t to
or about the 10th of July. The Corporation are al° OF
advertise for tenders for the decoration of the Round- rec:
in which their predecessors entertained George the Fourth o 4
THE LATE ROB'IERY AT THE RAILWAY STAThUO.
AT READDra.—On Saturday morning Thomas HenrYlPnitli
son and Ann Harriet Southall, the former charged iFog-
stealing and the latter with receiving a 501. Bank of 74e.
land note, the propertyaif the Great Western Railway v7ii-
pany, were brought up to the public office, before the mania_
trates for this borough for final examination. The_noutgl
trates committed Robinson for trial at the adjourned ffo
sessions to be held on the 9th of May. An applicaticalt.‘o
made by Mr. Carrington to admit the prisoner to bail, ro-
was objected to by Mr. Williams, who appeared for the lb.
secution ; the Bench, however, assented, and stated thoeco•
would be discharged from custody upon his finding two 30-
rides of 1001. each, and himself in 2001,, to appear at thetbsil
sions, and to give 48 hours' notice of his security. Slut- 501•
was liberated upon entering into her own recognisiuice °
to be present at the next sessions.
bosts
THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—Last week the ht
in Mount's Bay were tolerably successful, and
ashore considerable quantities of fine mackerel. thlorir
day that the Hayle steamers left that port for the
tol, the fish realised 16s. per hundred ; but On tioo•
days on which there was no steam commionciadreti•
between the ports named, the price fell to ss. a 11°00
With a railway communication with the markets bet, De
Penzance and the metropolis, the fishery in Monne'rices
may be expected to be considerably enhanced by the Poo'
the fishermen will no doubt realise for their fish. The it of
ket gardeners, too, will reap the benefit of a quick too'
their early produce.--Penzance Gazette. JOY
A painful rumour is afloat, which is unfortutil
too well founded, that a junior clerk to the firm of 31e;dea
Miles, Harford, and Co., bankers, in this city, has absee,,.---
with a considerable sum, the property of his employ"
Bristol Journal. broofho

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
I RUN THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—The tone of Sir Robert Peel's speech fully
proved that he felt his position. It was one more tribute to
the policy of his opponents in cultivating friendly relations
with those permanently organised bodies which possess
the confidence of the Irish masses. Every Government
that is not at war with its subjects ust cultivateor-
such relations. There are passages in m
Burke's C
respondence, applying to the Emperor Joseph 11. and
his subjects in the Netherlands, which are equally ap-
plicable to Ireland at this present day. We shall take future
occasions of reproducing them ; and at present have only to
say that, however questionable the shape or source of this
measure, or the means of its execution, we cannot entertain a
doubt that an organised clerical body (like any other organ-
ised body in a country, whose necessity and utility is ad-
mitted) ought to be made its friend, If possible, by the Go-
vernment of the country. And for this plain reason—if both
are working for public good, they can assist each other ;
if either is working fur public mischief, then indeed it is
clear that they cannot be friends ; but it is equally clear
that one or the other is not in its normal and natural state.
To conciliate a priesthood is not, indeed, to reconcile a
people ; nor is to endow a college even to conciliate a
priesthood. And the difficulty of the present men is
that the slightest move which they make in this direction
arrays against them not only all that is genuine in zeal on
their own side, but a vast deal of what is genuine in popular
spirit throughout the country. Mr. Sheil may call this
fanatical insurgency by a very ill-advised figure of speech.
In the veteran ringleader of the Catholic Association
the charge may excite amusement. But we beg to
remind Mr. Sheil that in England we are accustomed
to think i 1 y a loin de la plume au poignard. It is
precisely because Englishmen are in the habit of
petitioning, that they are not in the habit of insurrection.
They petition Parliament when they are its constituents,
and they attend it when they are its members ; they have
an innate contempt for demonstrations of what they don't
mean to de, and threats of transferring allegiance as substi-
tutes for performances of public duty. If Mr. Sheil will pick
ns out from the " three denominations" on which his scorn is
visited, twenty-five ministers of religion, sole signers
of a requisition for holding a " monster meeting," for
the purpose of defying the Imperial Legislature, and not
of petitioning it—we will be content to call such Pro-
testant ministry " fanatical insurgency." Not till then.
We are well aware that much of the fault of priestly
hostility is to be charged to that sinister policy, which
by exciting Protestant animosities, naturally aroused Roman
Catholic discontent. We are rejoiced to hear the final
declarations of Conservative statesmen that those days are
over. But English Protestantism (except passively and
ignorantly) had really nothing to do with the old system
of Irish ascendancy. Nor is English Protestantism of the
present day answerable for the difficulty of adopting a wiser
system. Sir Robert Peel long retarded that system; and
now, when he wishes to promote it, he is alike abandoned by
his friends, who dislike his ends, and by the public, who dis-
trust his means. But he seems prepared to draw his mantle
round him, and fall decently.
,STANDARD.—The debate upon the second reading of the
Maynooth Bill, after six days' continuance, terminated this
morning at a little before three o'clock, when the House
divided as follows :—For the second reading, 323 ; against
it, 176 ; majority, 147. We may not conceal that we are grati-
fied by this result, but it is not a case for exultation.
The contest, in which we see opposed Members of
the same and of our own party—"cognatas acies"—are
indeed the "belle nullos habitura triumphos." We cannot
triumph because one section of our friends has, even in a
cause which we believe to be politic and just, overcome
another section of our friends, commanding, perhaps,
even a greater share of our respect and affection,
than the victors. There is one circumstance connected
with this great contest, however, upon which we can look
back with unalloyed satisfaction, because it is impartially
honourable to both divisions of Conservatives. We
mean the perfect fairness and courtesy with which
the discussion was conducted on both sides. Nor
would we confine this praise to the Conservative party
only. Mr. Sheil and Lord John Russell, and some
others of the regular Opposition, are justly entitled to
share in it ; and we think all must acknowledge
with Sir Robert Inglis, the honoured leader of the defeated
party, and a leader infinitely exalted by his noble though
unsuccessful struggle, that never was so long a debate so
little disgraced by deviations from candour or good man-
ners. Some sufficiently disgusting exceptions offer, no
doubt in the case of Messrs. D'lsraeli and Macaulay, and,
though in a far less degree offensive, one or two others ; but,
on the whole the conduct and temper of the debate were ad-
mirable. Last night, as generally happens when an immediate
division is anticipated, the debate was highly animated. Mr.
Shell and Lord John Russell spoke well. Sir R. Inglis said
whatever it was possible for an able and honest man to say
against the Bill, and said it with matchless ability. Sir R.
Peel never spoke with more perfect self-possession, or with
more complete success, than at three o'clock in the morn-
ing, at the end of a 'ten hours' sitting and a debate of six
days. He therefore has not yet sunk under the combined
assaults of Messrs. Babington Macaulay and Benjamin
D'lsraeli. We cannot expect the attention of our readers
for a retrospect of the arguments in this long debate, or
even for an analysis of the last night's proceedings ; it may
be useful, however, to point to a particular passage of Sir R.
Peel's speech which refers to that anticipation that more
than anything else has excited alarm in the minds of
Protestants. It will be remembered that the Chancellor of
the Exchequer distinctly disclaimed, on the part of the
Government, any purpose of proposing an endowment of
the Roman Catholic clergy, or any expectation that such
an endowment could be contemplated by any Ministry or
Parliament of the nineteenth century. Sir J. Graham on the
following night repeated the disclaimer on the part of the Go-
vernment, but let fall an acknowledgment that he himself was,
as an individual, not indisposed to such an arrangement. The
acknowledgment was unnecessary for the information of
those who remembered the Right Hon. Baronet's former
connexion with a party with which this endowment has
always been a favourite plan ; from which party Sir James
separated only because he would not consent to a robbery of
the Church in order to provide the means of the endowment
in question.

was resolved into a large globular cluster of stars, not
much unlike the well-known cluster in Hercules, called
also 13th Messier.
Although, however, the power of this telescope in re- I
solving nebulae into stars hitherto considered irresolvable '
was extremely gratifying, still it was in my mind little
more than I had anticipated ; for experience has long
since told me that a telescope may show nebulae, even
those resolvable by it, very well, when directed to a
bright star, with a very moderate magnifying power, its
imperfections will be actually offensive. During Sir W.
Herschel's lifetime, with the 20-feet reflector at Slough
I saw, amongst others, 3 Messier, 5 Messier, 13 Messier,
92 Messier, the annular nebula of Lyra, and the great
nebula of Andromeda. No telescope of its size pro-
bably ever showed them better ; yet on the same night
the same instrument, when directed to Alpha Lyme (a
star of the first magnitude), broke down under a power
of about 300.
Perfection of figure, then, of a telescope must be tested,
not by nebulm, but by its performance on a star of the
first magnitude. If it will, under high power, show the
star round and free from optical appendages, we may
safely enough take it for granted it will not only show
nebulae well, but any other celestial object as it ought.
When about to buy my large object glass at Paris, in
1829, I directed it to Aldebaran, viewed it in the tele-
scope, certainly not one minute, and paid for it the next,
without any one of the astronomers of Paris then pre-
sent, and by my side, imagining I had even had the
telescope on the star, much less that I had pur-
chased it in consequence. Regulus on the 11 th
being near the meridian, I placed the six-feet
telescope on it, and with the entire aperture and
a magnifying power of 880, I saw, with inexpres-
sible delight, the star free from wings, tails, or optical
appendages ; not indeed like a planetary disk, as in my
large achromatic, but as a round image resembling vol-
taic light between charcoal points ; and so little aberra-
tions had this brilliant image that I could have measured
its distance from, and position with, any of the stars in
the field with a spider's line micrometer, and a power of
1,000, without the slightest difficulty; for not only was
the large star round, but the telescope, although in the
open air and the wind blowing rather fresh, was as steady
as a rock.
On subsequent nights, observations of other nebulae
amounting to some 30, or more, removed most of them
from the list of nebulae, where they had long figured, to
that of clusters ; whilst some of these latter, but more
especially 5 Messier, exhibited a sidereal picture in the
telescope such as man before had never seen, and which
for its magnificence bat: es all description.
Several double stars were seen with various apertures
of the telescope, and with powers between 360 and 800;
and, as the Earl had told us before we should—before
the speculum was inserted in the tube, in consequence
of his having been obliged to quit the superintendence
of the polishing at the most critical part of the process—
we found that a ring of about six inches broad, reckon-
ing from the circumference of the speculum, was not
perfectly polished; and to that the little irradiation seen
about Regulus was unquestionably referable.
The only double stars of the first class which the
weather permitted us to examine with it were Xi Ursm
Majoris and Gamma Virginis ; those I could have mea-
sured with the greatest confidence, whether, however, it
would have separated some of the closest or of the most
difficult double stars I cannot say.
D'Arrest's comet we observed on the 12th of March,
with a power of 400, but nothing worthy of notice
was detected.
Of the moon a few words must suffice. Its appear-
ance in my large achromatic, of twelve inches aperture,
is known to hundreds of your readers ; let them then
imagine that with it they look at the moon, whilst with
Lord Rosse's six feet they look into it, and they will not
form a very erroneous opinion of the performance of the
Leviathan.
Thus, then, the difficulty of constructing a Newtonian
telescope of dimensions never before contemplated is
completely overcome ; but to render the part on which
I am about to enter more generally intelligible, let me
say, that the Newtonian telescope is composed of a
large concave speculum, of a small flat speculum,
and of an eyeglass. The large concave speculum
lies in the close end of the tube at right angles
to the tube's axis. The small flat speculum is placed
near the open end of the tube in its centre, but at
half right angles with the tube ; whilst the eye-glass (a
hole for the purpose being pierced in the tube's side)
is fixed opposite the centre of the flat speculum. The
rays from the object to which the telescope is directed
fall on the large concave speculum, are reflected from
it into a point called the focus, in which the image
of the object is formed, this image falls on the small
flat speculum, and is reflected from it to the eye-glass,
by which it becomes magnified, and enters the ob-
server's eye. But only a part of the light which falls
on the large concave speculum is reflected oa the small
speculum; and again only a part of that which falls
from the large speculum on the small one is reflected
from the latter to the eyeglass. Newton, to avoid this
lass of light by the second reflection, proposed the sub-
stitution of a glass prism for the small flat speculum;
but from some difficulties which have attended its use, it
has (perhaps too hastily) been laid aside.
In 1728 Le Maire presented to the Acad‘mie des
Sciences the plan of a reflecting telescope, in which the
use of the small flat speculum was suppressed; for by
giving the large concave speculum a little inclination he
threw the image formed in its focus near to one side of
the tube, where an eyeglass magnifying it, the observer
viewed it, his back at the time being turned towards the
object in the heavens ;—thus the light lost in the New-
tonian telescope by the second reflection was saved.—
Vide Mach. Appr. par l'Acad., tom. vi., p. 61.
No one, however, seems to have availed himself of
this form of construction till 1776, when Herschel, with
a 10-feet reflector, tried it and rejected it. In 1784 he
again tried it with a 20-feet reflector, but again abandoned
it. In 1786 he adopted it, eulogised it very much,
amongst other advantages, for " giving almost double
the light of the Newtonian construction," and called it
" the front view." Subsequently to this period, all his
20-feet telescopes, as well as his 40-feet telescope, were
constructed as Le Maireans.
The excess of light, however, is very much overrated
y Sir W. Herschel ; for experiments since made indi-
cate that the diameter of the Newtonian telescope must
be increased about one-fifth only to obtain equal light
with one of the Le Mairean construction.
That we might have a practical pro if of the advan-
tages of the light of the Le Mairean construction, the
three feet Newtonian of 27 feet focus which stands in
the demesne by the side of the Leviathan was tem-
porarily fitted np as a Le Mairean. Stars of the first
magnitude were seer, not well defined as in the New-
tonian form of the instrument, but the superiority of
the Le Mairean, where a large quantity of light was
required, was most decided. The small pole star
was as bright as a star of the fourth magnitude when
seen in a five feet achromatic of 34 inches aperture. The
dumb-bell nebula, or 27 of Messier, was resolved into
clusters of stars in a manner never before seen with it.
The annular nebula of Lyra, brilliant beyond what it
had ever yet appeared, was surrounded by stars too
bright to escape immediate notice, although neither the
dumb-bell nebula nor the annular nebula had more than
15 degrees of altitude when I placed the telescope on
them.
On the 15th of March, when the moon was seven days
and a-half old, I never saw her unillumined disk so
beautifully nor her mountains so temptingly measurable.
On my first looking into the telescope, a star of about the
7th magnitude was some minutes of a degree distant
from the moon's dark limb. Seeing that its occultation
by the moon was inevitable, as it was the first
occultation which had been observed with that tele-
scope, I was anxious that it should be observed by its
noble maker ; and very much do I regret that through
kindness towards me he would not accede to my
wish; for the star, instead of disappealing the moment
the moon's edge came in contact with it, apparently
glided on the moon's dark face, as if it had been seen
through a transparent moon, or as if the stars were be-
tween me and the moon. It remained on the moon's
disk nearly two seconds of time, and then instantly dis-
appeared, at 10h. 9m. 59.725. sidereal time. I have seen
this apparent projection of a star on the moon's face
several times, but from the great brilliancy of the star
this was the most beautiful I ever saw. The cause of
this phenomenon is involved in impenetrable mystery.
The only telescopes in point of size comparable with
Lord Rosse's 3 feet and 6 feet, are Sir William
Herschel's 20 feet and 40 feet Lemaireen's. The 20
feet had a speculum of 18.8 inches diameter, and the 40
feet one of 4 feet.
The Lemairean of 18.8 inches diameter in point of
light is equal to a Newtonian of 22 inches and a half
diameter.
The Lemairean of 4 feet diameter is equal to a New-
tonian of 57 inches and 4 tenths.
The Lemairean of 3 feet is equal to a Newtonian of
43 inches.
And the Lemairean of 6 feet is equal to a Newtonian
of 86 inches.
By substituting then the Lemairean form for the
Newtonian, the present 3 feet Newtonian will be made
as effective as if it were 43 inches diameter, and the 6
feet as if it were 86 inches in diameter ; or the quantity
of light in each elescoe, after the aeration, will be, to
its present light,t as 7 to 5 nearly, or altlmost half as much
again as it now has.
Seeing, then, that the change from the Newtonian to
the Lemairean construction will be attended with such
an accession of light, Lord Bosse, having determined
geometrically the form of the curve requisite to produce
with it a definition of objects equal to that which each
of the telescopes at present gives, is devising mechani-
cal means for producing it ; but, as he is in about a
fortnight coming over to England to attend his Parlia-
mentary duties, it is probable that this important desidera-
tum will scarcely be effected till autumn comes upon us.
What will be the power of this telescope when it has
its Lemairean form is not easy to divine ; what nebulae
will it resolve into stars ; in what nebula.: will it not
find stars ; how many satellites of Saturn will it
show as ; how many will it indicate as appertain-
ing to Uranus ;—how many
by mortal eye will it nebuhe never yet seen
us what causes variable present to us ; what spots will
it show us on
various
sbrigPtfilatnneestss of;
manywill
oi
ft
tell
the fixed stars ;—will it give us an •in ormrion as to the
constitution of the planetary nebulae 1 it exhibit to
us any satellite encircling them it tell us why
the satellites of Jupiter, which generally pass over J
ter's face asdiscs nearly of white light so • Jupi-
ter's ,
it as black patches ;—will it add tog our
in,ineotwirrilees traverse I
physical construction of nebulous stars ;—of tetof the
terious class of bodies which surround some stars, called,
for want of a better name " photospheres;"—will it show'
the annular nebula of Lyra' merely as a brilliant lumi-
nous ring, or will it exhibit it as thousands of stars ar-
ranged in all the symmetry of an ellipse ;—will it enable
us to comprehend the hitherto incomprehensible nature
and origin of the light of the great nebula of Orion ;
will it give us in easily appreciable quantity the par-
allax of some of the fixed stars, or will it make sensible
to us the parallax of the nebulae themselves ;
finally, having presented to us original portraits of
the_raoou and of the sidereal heavens, such as matt 134 s

•
THE EARL OF ROSSE'S LEVIA
T lIAN T LLESCOPE.
We have been favoured by Sir James South, of the
Royal Observatory, Kensington, with the following de-
scription of the enormous telescope lately constructed by
Lord Rosse, and from the extraordinary powers of which
great discoveries have been anticipated :
In the Times of September last I had the gratification
of announcing to the public that the construction of the
larze telescope by the Earl of Rosse was so far advanced
that the instrument had actually been directed to the
heavens, and that, too, with satisfactory results.
The great speculum, however, as then used, had been
only approximately polished, and was inserted in the
tube merely to ascertain if its focal length coincided
with that which it was . esigned to give it.
The difference being considerable, it was suffered to
remain in the tube without having been used by the
Noble Lord till Dr. Robinson's and my arrival at the
Castle at the commencement of February last ; but a
continuous series of bad weather haring precluded all
possibility of observing any other object than the moon,
on the 21st of February the large speculum was re-
moved; and on the 4th of March, having been reground
and repolished, it was reinstated in the tube.
The diameter of the large speculum is six feet, its
thickness five inches and a half, its weight three tons
and three-quarters, and its composition 126 parts of
copper to 57i parts of tin ; its focal length is 54 feet—
the tube is of deal ; its lower part, that in which the
speculum is placed, is a cube of eight feet; the circular
part of the tube is at its centre, seven feet and a half
diameter, and at its extremities six feet and a-half. The
telescope lies between two stone walls, about 71 feet from
north to south, about 50 feat high, and about 23 feet
asunder, These walls are as nearly as possible parallel
with the meridian.
In the interior face of the eastern wall, a very strong
iron arc, of about 43 feet radius, is firmly fixed, pro
vidsd, however, with adjustments, whereby its surface
facing the telescope may be set very accurately in the
plane of the meridian—a matter of the greatest import-
ance, seeing that by the contact with it of rollers at-
tached to one extremity of a quadrangular bar, which
slides through a metal 'six fixed to the under part of the
telescope tube, a few feet from the object end of the latter,
whilst its other extremity remains free, the position of
the telescope in the meridian is secured, or any deviation
from it easily determined, for on this bar lines are drawn,
the interval between any adjoining two of which corres-
ponds to one minute of time at the equator. The tube
and speculum, including the bed on which the latter rests,
weighs about 15 tens.
The telescope rests on an universal joint, placed on
masonry about six feet below the ground, and is elevated
or depressed by a chain and windlass ; and, although it
weighs about 15 tens, the instrument is raised by two
men with great facility. Of course, it is counterpoised
in every direction.
At present it can be used only between 14 degrees of
southern altitude and the zenith, but when completed
its range will embrace an arc between 10 degrees of ald.
tude toward the south and 47 degrees north ; so that all
objects between the pole and 27 degrees south of the
equator will be observable with it ; whilst in the equator
any object can be viewed with it about forty minutes of
time on either side of the meridian.
The observer when at work stands in one of four gal-
leries, the three highest of which are drawn out from
the western wall, whilst the fourth, or lowest, has for its
base
an elevating platform, along the horizontal sur-
face of which a gallery slides from wall to wall by ma-
chinery within the observer's reach, but which a child
may work.
When the telesco is about half an hour east of the
meridian, the galleries hanging over the gap between
the walls present to
aspectator below an appearance
somewhat dangerous 's
uttee observer, with common
a prudence, is as safe ground, and each of the
galleries can be drawn from thee wall to the telescope's
side so readily, that the observer needs no one else to
move it for him.
The telescope lying at its least altitude
.can be raised
to the zenith by the two men at the windlass in in
that six
minutes; and so manageable is the enormouswi
give me the right ascension and declinationofanmeiestial
object between these points, and I will have the object
in the field of the telescope within eight minutes from
the first attempt to raise it.
When the observer has found the object, he must at
present follow it by rackwork within its reach. As yet
at has no equatorial motion, but it very shortly will, and
at no very distant day clockwork will be connected with
it, when the observer, if I mistake not, will, whilst ob-
serving, be almost as comfortable as if he were reading
at a desk by his fireside.
The night of the sth of March was, I think, the finest
I ever saw in Ireland. Many nebulas were observed by
Lord Bosse, Dr. Robinson, and myself. Most of them
were, for the first time since their creation, seen by us as
groups or clusters of stars; whilst some, at least to my
eyes, showed no such resolution. Never, however, in
my life did I see such glorious sidereal pictures as this
instrument afforded us. Most of the nebulae we saw I
certainly have observed with my own large achromatic;
but although that instrument, as far as relates to magni-
fying power, is probably inferior to no one in existence,
yet to compare these nebulacomparing, as seen, as seen with it
with the
and the
6-feet telescope. is like
naked eye, the dinginess of the planet Saturn to the bril-
liancy of Venus.
The most popularly known nebula observe.d. this
night were the ring nebulas in the Canes Venatim, or
the 51st of Messier's catalogue, which was resolved into
stars with a magnifying power of 548 ; and the 94th of
Messier, which is in the same constellation, and which

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TRH !MN, LONDON, MONtAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 18

never dared even to anticipate,—will it by daguerreotypic
aid administer to us copies founded upon truth, and
enable astronomers of future ages to compare the moon
and heavens as they then may be, with the moon and
heavens as they were? Some of these questions will be
answered affirmatively, othPrs negatively, and that, too,
very shortly; for the noble maker of the noblest in-
strument ever formed by man, " has cast his bread npon
the waters, and will, with God's blessing, find it before

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many days."
As it is interesting to trace the progress of human in-
dustry and intelligence, I will say a few words, indi-
cating their effects as far as concerns the Newtonian re-
flecting telescope. It was discovered by the head and
made by the hands of Sir Isaac Newton, in 1671 ; its
large speculum was two inches and 3-10ths in diameter ;
its focal length was about 6 inches, and magnified 38
times ; it is in the possession of the Royal Society. I
regret to say it is in a most dilapidated condition, and its
eye-glass is lost
The next of any importance was made by Hadley, in
1723 ; its large speculum's diameter was about 6 inches;
its focal length about 63 inches; it magnified 230 times;
in performance it equalled the great Huygherian re-
fracting telescope, of 6 inches diameter and 123 feet
focus. He gave it to the Royal Society. Its metal is
ruined, and its tube, its stand, and others of its appur-
tenances are last.
Short succeeded Hadley. The figure of his metals
was very good, but their composition was bad, and very
liable to tarnish. Still he greatly excelled all who had
gone before him, and, that posterity might not be aided
in their attempts to make reflecting telescopes by any
knowledge he had acquired, he ordered, before his
death, all his tools to be destroyed.
Next to Short came Herschel ; his metals were of a
very inferior composition ; in others' hands his tele-
scopes did but little, but in his own they raised for him
an imperishable name.
Watson followed Herschel. His metals, in composi-
tion, figure and polish, were exqusitely perfect ; his
largest Newtonian did not exceed 9 inches aperture ;
with large ones he never grappled, but for such as he
did mak, I doubt if he was ever equalled, and am sure
he never was surpassed.
Contemporary with Watson was Tulley ; his teles-
copes were superior to Short's, but certainly inferior to
Watson's.
Ramage, about 1820, constructed telescopes of 15
inches diameter and 25 feet focal length—they were Le-
maireans. One of them was many years in the court•
yard of the Royal Observatory of Greenwich, where its
performance was much vaunted. At the request of my
friend Dr. Wollaston I examined it whilst it was there.
Sir J. Herschel accompanied me, and with an aperture
beyond 7 inches it was good for nothing. It has, lam
told, recently been purchased for the Observatory of
Glasgow.
From the late Earl of Stanhope's endeavours all who
knew him expected much—for some 30 years before his
decease he occupied himself very much in endeavouring
to produce large reflecting telescopes. Although, how-
ever, he was a sound mathematician, and a most power-
ful mechanic, his failure was complete. After his de-
cease, his manuscripts on scientific subjects having be-
come the property of the Royal Institution, I thought
that even the errors of such a man must be instructive ;
I have therefore recently waded through all that relate
to the manufacture of reflecting telescopes, and I think
there uis scarcely amongst them a single hint which is
worth remembering.
Having dwelt so long on the telescope itself, I have
only space to say that the mechanism for using it is
worthy of the telescope and of him who made it. All
appertaining to the telescope, except its principle, is
original. The only master who might have left some-
thing like a copy for imitation was Sir W. Herschel—
for any information, however, which the Earl of Rosse,
or any one else, except his son (who has for nearly a
quarter of a century kept it to himself), has derived from
Sir W. Herschel's experience in making large telescopes,
Sir William might as well never have been born. In-
formation which might have been in the highest de-
gree important, if communicated to the world at a proper
season, can now, thanks to Providence for having given
us the Earl of Rosse, who is openness itself (for his own
fame, perhaps, even to a fault), be easily dispensed with;
whilst a hint is given to those who, like Short and Sir
W. Herschel, kept their secrets even unto death, that
other will succeed there, the success of whose energies,
industry, and talents will most assuredly eclispe theirs;
and who, by following con luct as generous as theirs was
selfish, will be regarded as benefactors to mankind.
Far be it from me to say a disrespectful word of the
late Sir W. Herschel. Whilst he lived, I loved him ;
now dead, I venerate his memory—nay, I respect the
very ground he worked on ; his integrity as a man and
as an observer I implicitly confide in. I cannot, how-
ever, refrain from saying, that if it be true that the 6th
and 7th satellites of Saturn were not discovered by the
40 feet telescope made by him at the expense of George
111., as from his own words, found in the " Philosophical
Transactions," I stated they were, in a lecture given at
the Royal Institution, on Lord Rosse's telescope, in
May, 1843,—1 must, however painful to me to do
so, regard the remains of that telescope, which I visited
not long ago, as a monument of failure. I therefore
entreat his son, seeing that his father's veracity is im-
pugned by doubts which have been recently and publicly
expressed by one of the first astronomers of Europe, to
give to the world every information on the subject
which his father's manuscripts supply ; assuring him,
however, that till this be done by him, and till it de-
monstrates the contrary, there shall be at,least one of
his father's friends who believes that by Sir W. Her-
schel's pen plain or naked truth was never violated.

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50 0 0
20 0 0
35 0 0
1 0 0
50 0 0
12 10 0
1 10 0
15 0 0
5 0 0
100 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
Stock.
2 0 0
2 0 0

JOINT-STOCS BAN:

Dividend
per

Name of Company.

Australasia • • .. .....
Britsh North American
Commercial of London
Colonial . • • • • • • • • . • • • •
Londn and Westminstr
London Joint-Stock . • •
I%letropolitan
Provincial of Ireland..

Ditto, New.• • • • • . • .
National of Ireland ..
Nat. Provnelal of Eng.
Ditto, New.• • • • • • • •
Union of Australia• . • •
Union of London.• • • •

Annum.

St. per cent.
41. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cant.
61. per cent.
61. per cent.

SI. per cent.
M. per cent.
M. per cent.
51. per cent.
51. per cent.

GREAT LEINSTER and MUNSTER

51. per cent.

Amount

Share.

X 0. d.
41 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
100 0 0
0 0 0
25 0 0
109 0 0
10 0 0
50 0 0
100 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
50 0 0

14'
IN
9,4
434
3J

1p
1U Pm.

634
15%
VA

202 IA

18914
105%

2%
103

40i
21%

237
45%
33%
81gi
64%
13%
_ _

4%
7%
149

S 0 0
2 10 0
2 10 0

2 0 0
20 0 0
8 0 0
50 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
1 5 0
2 0 0
4 0 0
2 0 0
2 0 0
2 0 0
2 0 0
20 0 0
20 0 0
14 0 0

X s. d.
40 0 0
50 0 0
20 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0
10 0 0
7 10 0
25 0 0
10 0 0
17 10 0
35 0 ei
10 0 0
25 0 0
10 0 0

A meeting of a few of the Shareholders of this Company
was held on Saturday at theLondonTavern, Bishopsgate-street.
Mr. LATOUCH was called to the chair shortly after one
o'clock, when there were but very few Shareholders present.
Mr. SMITH apologised for the negligence of one of his
clerks, in not sending circulars to all the Shareholders ; and
read a report of the last meeting and a minute of the pro-
ceedings adopted at the meeting of the Wexford, Carlow,
and Dublin Junction Railway Committee, which was to the
effect that a report had been received from the Committee of
the Great Leinster and Munster Railway, which recom-
mended the issue of 6,000 shares for the undertaking.
Mr. SHAW said that he understood that the Dublin and
Cashel Junction Line was to cross the Barrow at Carlow.
Mr. SMITH said, in answer to a Shareholder, that the Wex -
ford and Carlow shares were now at a premium of 2/.-per
share. The Directors of the Carlow and Kilkenny line would
have no powers but those they derive under the old Bill ;
but all the papers would be referred to the solicitors, in order
that every necessary precaution should be taken. He believed
the title of the new scrip would be the Carlow and Kilkenny
Line; and that, on the payment of 21. 10s.,each Shareholder
would get anotherscrip ; and it was intended, in the next ses-
sion, to apply for a Bill to consolidate the Carlow and Kil-
kenny Line with that of Wexford.
Mr. WILSON—The question for this Company was, would
such a proposition be advisable ? He did not see why it
would not.
Mr. SMITH believed there could be no doubt but that the
Wexford would be a profitable line. When the consolida-
tion should take place, then the Directors of the Kilkenny
line would become Directors of the Wexford and Carlow

line.
Mr. ROBERTSON suggested that this meeting should be ad-
journed until some negotiation had taken place between the
two parties.
Mr. Wrisox concurred in the suggestion, as he did not
think anything decisive should emanate from so thin a
meeting.
The Shareholders agreed to the proposition, and adjourned
to Saturday next.

10%
159
118

4%
27
42%
17
6%
2%
17%

45%
45%
22
14%
27
144,

46 .
16%
37K

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------- -- -
X s. d. £ e. d.
Albion • • . • • ...... • • •
31. 101. 500 0 0 50 0 0 72%
. ..
..... .. .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 it 0 0 16%
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine. • • • • •
6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6%
•
Atlas ... .
British Commercial .• 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7
Clericl,Med. ScGen.Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
County ••••••• " • • • • • c 9s. and I
Crown ••••••• • • • • • • ' 1 61.55. bs. 3 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
61. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5%
Eagle ••• • •
Economic Life .• ••• • • • EBc 30s. bs. j 1000 0 0 250 0 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Life.. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2%
European Life........ 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' .. •••• • • • Si. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
•
6/. per cent. Stock. - 142
Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 50%
Imperial Fire ...... 121. per cent. 00 0 0 50 0 0 195
Imperial Lite. ••••• • • •0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 30
Law Life •••••• • • " • • 11. Se. 100 0010 0 0 45%
Legal and Genieral Life -
..
l2s. 5
100
50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire .. •• • • •'lox. • 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
10s.
Loudon Ship ••••• • • • • 25 0 0 12 10 0 15%
Marine ....... ...... . - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life 50 0 0 20 0 3
National Loan Fund. • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 ' 2%
8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9%
1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
National Life • • • • • • • • •
5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
Palladium Life • ..... • •
..... ~..... 3/. p.ct. & bs. _
Pha•nix • • - 195
si. per cost. 20 0 0 1 0 0 U. 2s.
Protector Life • • • • • • • •
4s. 5 0 0 010 0 4%
51. per cent. Stock.
Royal Exchange . • . • • •
6/. 10s. - - 188
Sun Fire • • ••• • • " • • • 11. 62. - -
Ditto Life . • • • • " • • • -
RProocvkileiitiet.L.i.fe. ....
6 15 0 14
....... 10%1. pr cnt. NO 0
Universal Life

DOMES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per I of Paid. Price
.
Annum. Share.

---------- ______
per sh. 100 0
?last Country, X 8. d.
Commercial .• • • ..... 3/. per cent. Stock.
••••• • • • I IL e East and West India.... 5%1. pr cent. Stock.
London ..... . ... • ... 4%1. pr cent. Stock.
St. Katharine •• • • .... ' 5 per cent. : Stock.
Southampton .• • • .... 41. per cent. 50 0 0

-
IVATEIL-VTOILICS.

s. d.

50 0 0

Dividend
Name of Company. per
Annum.

Amount
of , Paid. Prli
Share.

East London.. • • • • • • • • 2';
Grand Junction • • • • • • 31.
Kent
Vauxhall .... •• • ..... 5/. per cent.
West Middlesex .•• • .. 41. 16s. pr ct.

X s, d.

100 0 0'
46 11 4 -
100 0 0 -
100 0 0 -
63 12 9

230
90
65
60
127

LIST OP SCOTTISII COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- --__ ----. _
.£ s. d. X a• d.
Bank of Scotland ... • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 172
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168%
British Linen Company 8l per cent. 100 0 0 226%
Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 167%
National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15%
50 0 0 95
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent.
50 0 0 765
Western Bank. 6/. per cent.
50 0 7
North of Scotland Bank. 61. per cent.
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent.
10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank.... •• • • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 13%
Caledonian Bank
5 0 0 75
Edinb.St Glasgew Bank 5/.
City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent.
per
8 15 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. pper cent. 20 0 0 10 0 15
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Scotind 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
North British Insur 9l. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 18 0 0 24
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18%
Edin. &Glasg. Railway
4%1. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid 16
Ditto, 5 Shares 4% /.
20 per cent. 12 100 0
0 20 0 0 15
. 5
Edin., Leith, & Grantn
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4391. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 6514
Glasgw &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 15
Glsgw & Ganikirk Rail. Si. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28
Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32%
__----------.

CANALS.
--------
1 .2. , .: Dividendi
Names of !p. Dividend Names of 1...' per Price.
Ashtn & 014111, 97 51.55. p c'
Companies. A ! per Price. Com„anies. 4
A Annum.
r cf.
cr., Annum;
-- __- -____ - ---- -
X'
1.1. 98
Ashby-d-la-Zlll3 4/. ! 70 Mntgoinrysh 100
15
IlarnsleY •• • • !160 121. • 180 Maccieslleld . 100 -
11asingstoke-1100 -_ 5 Neath ••• • • • 100 20/. 365
12L. 260
Brictik&Abrg 150! 5/. 85 Nottingham • 150 3!.
40
Cromford - • •1100 181. 160 Peak Fsrest .78
24
Dudley. •• .• •1100 4/. 80 Regent's ••• . 33 It.
72 151onmouthsh 100 91. 160
5 41. 55
Derby • . llOO 81. 103 Rochdale -• •
123120
Ellsmre&Chs!l33 4/.
Erewash lOO 321.
Forth & Clyd!100 4/ 105 Do.Lk I'd St 12 6/. p. c. 11
GrandJunctn 100 71. 124 St ffrd &II ore ' 140 25/. 480
5/. 230
Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. 25 Shrewsbury.. 12s 1
Giamorgush ;172 14%1. 210 Stourbridgo .. 145 20/. 360
Glstr & Brkly! 00 - g Strtfrd on Av 791 1/. 10s. 30
Grantham • • 150 12/. 100 Severn and 45180 Lilmr°rPseltdCreoal 1401 71.81101.
26 1/. Bs. 29
Iludderstleid.! 57 - 20 Wye Rail.
Kennt & Avn' 39 7s. fid. 7 Trnt & Mr- i5O 301. 450
Lancaster .•• ' 47 11. 10. 40 sey, ~,i sh. 3
Leeds& Livrplloo 34/. 570 Thams &Med 19 10
Leicester ..• .1140 10/. 110 Worestr &/ 78 4/. 50
Leiestr &Nth 83 41. 70 Birming.
.
Loughborogh 142 701. 1050 llts & Bib 67 U. 4S. 11

BOW-gTI?EE.7'.

LAW INTELLIGENCZ.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, April 19.
CUMMINS V. WILLESFOND.

Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE moved for a new trial in this
case. which was a breach of promise of marriage. The
circumstances were fully reported when the action was
tried. The plaintiff had recovered 7001. damages. The
grounds stated were that the evidence produced at the
trial relative to the income of the defendant, who was a
lieutenant in the army, was not correct ; that the state-
ments made as to his keeping five horses were without
foundation ; and that the defendant had acted a most pm-
dent part in breaking off the match with the young lady,
when he discovered that his income did not amount to
more than 2501. a year.
Lord DENarAN refused the rule.
TROTTING MATCH—BOWLES V. MILBOURNE
Mr. V. LEE moved for a rule for a new trial in this
case. The action was tried in London, and a verdict
given for the defendant. It appeared that a wager for
50/. a side, for a trotting match, was laid between the
plaintiff and another party, and that 201. a side was
placed in the hands of the defendant, for the purpose of
securing the performance of the wager. Previous, how-
ever, to its coming off, the plaintiff demanded from the
stake-holder (the defendant) the money which he had
placed in his hands, which the latter refused to give up.
The plaintiff then brought his action, but a verdict
passed for the defendant. It would appear according to
the argument of the Learned Counsel that the principle
upon which the verdict passed did not fairly apply in
this case, and he, therefore, contended that the plaintiff
ought to h tve recovered.—Rule nisi granted.

first instance for attempting, by means of a forged letter
and petition from Mr. Best, of Greenwich, to obtain
money from the Earl of Devon.
It appeared that it was the practice of the defendants
to concoct petitions, setting forth cases of great afflic-
tion and destitution, and to make use of the names of
different clergymen, as parties recommending the cases
of the petitioners to the benevolent consideration of
those noblemen and gentlemen to whom the petitions
were addressed. In the case of the Earl of Listowel,
the name of the Rev. Mr. Nicolay, of St. Katherine's,
was used, and the petition was so plausibly drawn up,
that his Lordship addressed a note to Mr. Nicolay—who
had offered to be the " almoner of his bounty"—enclo:ing
a Post-office order for 11., or the relief of the alleged
case of misery. The Rev. Gentleman was natu-
rally surprised at receiving such a communica-
tion, and an explanation having taken place, a
statement of the occurrence was forwarded
to the office of the Mendic ty Society in Red Lion-
square. Horsford, one of the constables, was instructed
to keep a look- out fo- the parties, and on Tuesday last
he succeeded in falling in with them accidentally in Pall-
mall. Having kept a watch on the m Ali a' of Jarratt
and Musgrove, he traced them to the residence of the
Earl of Devon, in Berkeley-square, on Wednesday
morning, and after the visit to his Lordship's house had
terminated, the constable took them into custody. It
was then discovered that the defendants had been palm-
ing off a petition on Lord Devon precisely similar in
character to that furnished to Lord Listowel, with thk-
exception of the locality and names of the parties who
furnished the recommendation.
Mr. Best came forward, and on being shown the let-
ter and petition purporting to be in his handwriting,
immediately pronounced them both to be forgeries.
Jarrett denied all knowledge both of the letters and
the defendant Musgrove. Musgrove said he had re-
ceived the letter from a man in the city that maiming,
who had promised him a shilling if he brought back an
answer. He also declared that Jarratt was an utter
stranger to him.
Horsford said the defendants were not aware that he
bad watched them on the day before he took them into
custody to a coffee-shop in Strutton-grouud, where they
had lodged together for some time.
Mr. HARDWICK said he was quite satisfied with the
evidence of the guilt and the connexion of the defend-
ants. The course of imposition they pursued was one
which ought always to be visited with the rigour of the
law, inasmuch as it tended to check the stream of pri-
vate benevolence towards real objects of commiseration.
e should therefore send them to prison for three

BAIL COURT, April 18.
(Sittings in Banco.)
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
THE QUEEN V. ALDRED.
Mr. RosiNsoN stated that in this case an indictment
had been preferred against the defendant for certain
slanderous words he had spoken of and concerning
the Mayor of Yarmouth. To this indictment the de•
fendant had pleaded not guilty, but he was now an
xious to withdraw that plea, and plead guilty, and he
had also instructed him (Mr. Robinson) to express his
(defendant's) regret that he had made use of the words
complained of.
Mr. MArxxx said that he appeared on the part of the
prosecutor, who had felt himself compelled to insti-
_tate the present proceedings, in doing which he was
not actuated by any personal feelings toward the de-
fendant, and after the expression of regret which the
defendant's counsel had made, he was willing to forego
all further proceedings against him on payment of the
costs.
Mr. Justice CoLERIDGE—Very well.

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS.
On Saturday, Mr. Elks Ben field, a merchant, resid-
ing in Great Tower-street, was indicted for having
assaulted the Hon. Captain Charles Lewis, of the Grena-
dier Guards, on the evening of the 31st of March, and
for obstructing a detachment of the Guards as it pro-
ceeded from the Tower to the Bank. The defendant,

it appeared, was standing on the pavement talking to
a friend, when the picquet passed ; the foremost soldier
requested him to move on one side, and then endea-
voured, by laying his hand on his shoulder, to put him
on one side ; the defendant refusing, was about to be
forced off by the soldiers, when he laid hold of Captain
Lewis and pushed him into the middle of the road, and
then struck him violently over the head several times
with a piece of rough wood, which he held in his hand.
Mr. O'BRIEN, on behalf of the defendant, said he was
anxious to plead guilty to the charge, and to express his
deep regret for the assault he had committed. From
several serious domestic calamities the defendant at
times evinced great irritability of temper, and to that he
attributed the uncalled-for attack. _ _

Captain Lewis had consented to withdraw this charge
on condition that 5L were presented by him to some
charity.
The RECORDER congratulated the complainant on the
kindness of feeling wjiich he had shown to the defendant.
It was a very seria's offence, but he would not stand in
the way of the complainant's mercy, and therefore should
only bind the defendant to keep the peace.
Captain Lewis requested the 5L might be put into the
poor-box of the Mansion House.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.

On Saturday Mr. Lewis, of the firm of Israel and
Lewis, sheriff's officers, Strand, attended before Mr.
Alderman Farebrother for further examination, on the
complaint cf Mr. W. Cole, of Clapham, for substituting
a gold watch and diamond ring for similar articles of
greater value, the property of Frederick Lindsay Cole,
seized under an execution for debt. The evidence pre-

months.
The third defendant, Owen, was charged with at-
tempting to impose on Mr:Bailey, M.P., No. 6, Bel-
grave-square, by means of a petition and recommenda-
tion from the Rev. J. Nicolay. When the defendant
was searched a number of cards of noblemen and gentle-
men were found on him, together with an ample supply
of materials for future frauds. He had also two begging
petitions, directed to the Countess of Wilton and the
Earl of Bradford. _ _ _

viously taken was read over, showing that the effects
seized by the sheriff having been advertised for sale by
auction by Mr. Izod, the complainant employed a broker
to purchase certain articles. He bought only the diamond
ring. Upon seeing it Mr. W. Cole found it was not his
brother's, and waited upon Mr. Izod, who said the ring
would be sold at a future time, and offered to return the
money if the ring produced had been purchased in error.
From the evidence of Mr. Harding, a solicitor, it ap •
peared that the defendant, who acted as a sheriff's officer,
sold him the ring by private contract. He gave 201 for
the watch and ring. On the evening of the same day, or
the next morning, Lewis asked him to allow the ring and
watch to pass through the sale as a matter of form, as
that would ba more regular. No application, however,
was made for the articles till after the sale, when Mr.
Izod by letter, and Mr. Lewis in person, applied for
them, that they might be sold by auction and bought in.
Mr. Harding parted with them for that purpose, receiving
Lewis's written undertaking to return them or forfeit
501. At the sale they produced 321
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTBER,after consulting with

—..
The defendant, who shed tears, admitted his guilt.
He had been driven by severe destitution into the course
adopted, and he was truly ashamed of the degrading
situation he had placed himself in, by connecting him-
self with such a gang of bad characters.
Mr. HARDWICK hoped the punishment which he
wouid now have to undergo, would have the effect of
bringing him to a true sense of his scandalous conduct,
and would induce him to seek some honest means of get.
ting a livelihood. The defendant was sent to hard la-
bour for three months.

the City solicitor, pronounced his decision from a minute
drawn up by the latter. He said Lewis, it was admitted,
had lawful possession on 13, half of the Sheriff, and the
right to the property remained in Cole, as the lawful
owner. The officer had a right to sell the articles to Mr.
Harding for 20/, if he intended to account for the money to
the Sheriff. It he intended to suppress the fact of that sale,
and to appropriate the money to his own use, that mo-
ment he completed the offence, and no act of the parties
subsequently could alter the eharactcr of it. It was
immaterial what Lewis had subsequently done with Mr.
Izod or Mr. Harding, to endeavour to recover the pos-
session of the ring, after inquiries respecting it had been
instituted. If it were a bond fide sale of the ring to Mr.
Harding, there could be no reason for inserting the
article in the catalogue, and by doing so strong evidence
was afforded that the former sale was a fraudulent con-
version, and not a bond fide sale. A jury must determine
the intention of the officer, and he should require him to
find sureties to answer any charge that might be pre-
ferred at the sessions.

Mr. Manning said, if the officer had been irregular in
his proceedings, that would not subject him to be con-
victed of felony.—The defendant was bailed.
A person who gave his name as William Pealce, was
charged with obtaining money by false pretences from
the proprietors of the Morning Advertiser newspaper.
Dr. SHERIDAN, the editor, began to state his charge,
when the prisoner interrupted him to assure the magis-
trate that the charge was scandalous, malicious, and ab-
surd, and was an attack on his reputation, which he de-
fied him to prove.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL entreated him to be quiet
till the complaint was made.
Dr. SHERIDAN stated that he charged the prisoner with
sending to the newspaper a fabricated account of an in-
quest, which was not holden till the following day, and
which did not give the verdict the prisoner had antici-
pated. He had a clerk to prove that the prisoner de-
manded and received 2s. for his false account, and he
had a reporter to show when the inquest was really
holden and what the result was. He did not, however,
wish to press the charge against the prisoner, but merely
to show that these tricks were not to be played.
The prisoner said he had borne a good character on
the press for 24 years.

Slr CnAPmANsaid, as Dr. Sheridan had kindly with-
drawn the charge, it was unnecessary to go further into
the matter, and he discharged the prisoner.

CHARGE OF SDI UGGLIN G.—C AUTION TO STEWARDS
OF VESSELS.—A man named John Murphy, who stated
that he was second steward on board the City of Bou-
logne steamer, now moored near the Custom-house, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged w ith
smuggling on shore a bottle of French brandy, with in-
tent to defraud her Majesty's customs of the duty.
A constable of the Thames Police proved that about
seven o'clock on Friday evening he was walking along
the Strand, when he met the prisoner carrying a bundle
in his hand. He asked him what it contained ? to which
he replied, nothing, except dirty linen; but suspecting
there must be something more valuable than he stated,
witness inquired whether he had not some brandy
about him, to which he answered that he had
a little. Witness insisted on seeing it, and for that
purpose took him down Milford-lane, where, on search-
ing him, he found the bottle of brandy he now produced
in his side-pocket. which he said he had brought ashore
for the purpose of drinking with a friend he was going
to visit. Witness then took him before the inspector,
by who ze directions he was detained, and the goods
were seized. The prisoner in his defence said he cer-
tainly brought ashore half a bottle of brandy, or there-
abouts, in order to treat a friend ; but not wishing to
take it to him unless it was full, he went to a shop where
he had it replenished, but on his coming out he unluckily
met the constable, who questioned him, and he admitted
immediately that he'had the brandy. He had no inten-
tion of disposing of it.
Mr. JARDINE asked whether the practice of conveying
goods ashore from the foreign steam boats was carried
on to any great extent ?
The Inspector replied, that he believed there were iin-
manse quantities lauded at various times.
Mr. JARDINE said, if such were the case, the, only
means to be adopted for stopping these proceedings was
to make such persons who were detected feel how ex-
pensive it was to treat their friends to smuggled brandy.
However, as this was the first case of the kind brought
before him, he would mitigate the penalty from 5/. to
20s. or in default he must commit the prisoner for a
month.
Murphy stated that the bottle was only half full of
smuggled brandy when he came ash.we.
Mr. JARDINE said, that if there had been only a single
glass in the bottle, he would have been just as culpable
as if he conveyed ashore a large quantity.
The prisoner paid the fine, and was discharged.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET. _

BEGGING LETTEII6.;;;.--(Tharles Jarratt alias con-
ten, Philip Musgrove alias Richard Wright, and Robot
Owen, were brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged by
the Mendicity Society with being confederated together
for the purpose of obtaining charitable contributions from
the nobility and gentry, by means of false and &audu-
lent pretences.
The Earl of Listowel and Mr. Bailey, M.P., were present
to prefer charges of imposition against the prisoners.
The tWQ first prisoners were taken into custody in the