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This closed the case for the Dublin and Belfast Junction line.
The Committee adjourned till Monday, at twelve o'clock.

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Some discussion having arisen as to the rate of speed,
Mr. AUSTIN thought twenty miles an hour would not be too
igh a rate.
Mr. CLARKE thought it ought to be much less.
The parties not being able to agree, the mote was cleared.
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The CHAIRMAN said the C-mmittee resolved that the rate of
speed between Middleton Muir and Dalhousie Manse should be
fifteen miles an hour.

Mr. BURKE then drew up a clause, limiting the rate of speed,
which, having been approved by the Committee, was declared to
stand part of the Bill.

The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and the Committee
adjourned to twelve o'clock on Monday, when they will proceed
with the Edinburgh and Northern line.

STATE OF TRADE.

FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, MAY 23.—Trans-
actions in foreign wools have been pretty extensive this
week for the season of the year, and the advanced rates
realised at the London wool sales now pending have
imparted an additional firmness to prices in this market.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, MAY 23.—Business
still continues in the same state as reported in our last
two advices. No alteration either in. demand or price.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, MAY 23.—We have had
rather more inquiry this week than for several preceding
weeks for middle wethers, which have been the dullest
article of sale for some months past, and being met by
holders by some further submission in price, more sales
have been passing. Hogs continue light in stock, and
stationary in price. Short wool of all sorts meets sale
at rather improved rates.
LEEDS.-The cloth markets at both halls have been
very dull, both on Saturday and Tuesday, particularly
for goods of low qualities. The merchants generally
are holding off purchasing in consequence of the high
prices to which they have advanced during the last few
months. Prices, however, are firm, and the stocks
are by no means large. Fine goods continue to be in
pretty steady demand, without any alteration in prices.
The great influx of people from the country who are now
visiting London, has had the effect of keeping many of
the larger buyers at home, and in consequence, business
has been rather dull in the warehouses during the week.
LEICESTER.—Hosiers are making their engagements
for the autumn trade, and worsted spinners are there-
fore more active. ools remain without any alteration.
A fair home demand is generally expected in manufac-
tureti goods.—Leicester Journal of yzsterday.
BRADFORD MARKET, TimusDAL—There is but little
combing wool changing hands ; the spinners buy with
very great caution, the prices sought being tar too
high to offer any inducement to more extended opera-
tions ; and the prospect of the eoming clip not
being an average, causes the staplers to hold firm,
till they can replace to meet the prices offered
here. The same degree of dulness noted for se-
veral weeks past, still pervades the yarn market,
acd the stopping of machinery is becoming daily more
general, for at no period was the disproportion so great
between the raw material and yarns, and there is no
other alternative remaining but to bring the quantity
produced down to such a level as will pay prime cost.
In the piece market there is a steady business doing to-
day in Orleans and Coburgs. Low inerinoes are also
more inquired after, and are not plentiful. The fancy
makers complain very much, and this branch of the trade
is very unprofitable.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We have had
rather less doing in cloth since Tuesday than was anti-
cipated, but we fancy that prices have not changed so as
to be quotable. The tendency however is, on the whole,
downward, and applies to. goods of nearly all qualities
and descriptions. Spinners are enabled to quit their
productions without difficulty, and at very full prices;
indeed, the demand is most excellent.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 23.—The sugar
market seems at length to have taken a turn upwards,
and has certainly assumed a more healthy appearance.
In our own market the transactions, in all :descriptions,
have been large, and prices must be quotod from Is. to
Is. 6d. per cwt. above our last week's quotations. Re-
fined goods continue in brisk demand, and the refiners
are still enabled to obtain their own prices.—Brista
Mercury.

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THE MAYNOOTH BILL.
The Maynooth Bill has passed the House of Com-
mons, and goes up to the House of Lords recommended
by as great a weight of argument and authority as can
ever be expected in favour of a legislative measure in-
volving disputed principles of policy. No opposition
that we can remember has made so poor a figure in Par-
liamentary debate as that by which the Bill has been
resisted. Not one has been so conspicuously wanting in
the power of viewing the subject comprehensively, and
with reference to the actual circumstances of the
empire. Upon one topic, indeed, the anti-Maynooth
orators are pointed enough. The attacks upon the
Prime Minister for inconsistency, tergiversation, and
betrayal of his party, are as ptingent as the attempts to
reply to his argument are feeble and contemptible. But
what, after all, is the fact which forms the basis of these
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though they might be acted upon for a time by an irre-
sponsible and reckless Opposition, could not be applied
by any Minister to the government of the country. Ihe
Opposition which overthrew the Whig Cabinet was an
aggregation of jarring elements which could not hold
together after that work of destruction was accomplished,
and the principles which it put most prominently for-
ward would have led us to social convulsion and the dis-
memberment of the empire. Every one can remember
how Anti-Poor-law demagoguism, the most vulgar and
unscrupulous, then added to the popular strength of the
Tory party. Every one can remember how all the cor•
rupt monopoly interests in the country were banded
together, to tight the battles of that party, in the belief
that its triumph would prevent all change, and secure
them against the most just demands of the public. Above
all, no one can forget how the Conservative Opposition
was nourished, and invigorated, and extended by the ex-
citement of that No-Popery feeling which, whether
latent or active, has been for ages one of the strongest
sentiments in the popular mind of England. This feel-
ing constituted the strength of the Opposition and the
weakness of the Whig Government during the five years
that preceded 1841. Alleged alliance with the Roman
Catholic party in Ireland was the head and front of
Lord Melhburne's offending, and all- the machinery of
popular influence was put in play to stir up the pride of
England against that " semi-Popish domination." The
extension of corporate reform to Ireland was resisted,
year after year, as a new Roman Catholic concession
which would be fatal to the Protestant Church. Divi-
sion lists were analysed, in order to mark and parade the
names of Roman Catholic and Irish supporters of the
Government, as persons upon whose votes it was dis-
graceful to a Cabinet to be depeadent. The protnotion
of Roman Catholics by the Irish Government was de-
nounced as truckling to Popish agitation. The Roman
Catholic priests were branded by influential journals
with infamous appellations, and accused of conniving at,
if not encouraging, the most atrocious crimes. In short,
every conceivable. l'evice was employed, from, factious
um:ions in the house of Lords (!own to forgery at
Exeter Hall, to inflame the prejudices of the English
people against their Roman Catholic countrymen, and
to overwhelm with odium a Goverment desirous of
conciliating the Roman Catholic millions of Ireland. A.
course like this, in which various agents might work in
various ways for a common purpose, without
being formally connected, might serve the pu
pose of an Opposition, but no Government could
countenance the promotion of religious disc
between different parts of the empire.
Peel, indeed, might have be
his accession to oft-
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Group R.
DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
To Mr. O'MALLEY—He had read the Board of Trade report re-
specting the North Western Line, from Dublin, through Cavan,
to Kells, but he did not recollect the purport of it. His
opinion was, that a line from the Navan to Drogheda was much
greater than the traffic to Dublin. Drogheda was the nearest and
cheapest port for Navan, and the best market for agricultural pro-
duce. He considered the making of a line from Navan would be
a waste of money. The height of the junction of Kells branch
with the Dublin and Drogheda Railway was 95 feet above the level
of the Boyne. He expected there would be an arrangement made
for lifting up produce from the quays to the line, but that was an
after consideration, it was not provided in the Bill.
To the CHAIRMAN—He was convinced that this line was the
best for the interests of the county. He knew the whole county
well, and that was his matured and decided conviction. He did
not believe it possible to approach Newry in a better manner than
he proposed.

Mr. Ackersley, a Director of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway,
was next examined about the traffic of the line. He took it in
October last, at some stations for fourteen days, and in others for
twenty-one. There are six public conveyances between Drogheda
and Portadown, each averaging about fifteen passengers. On the
branch line only three public conveyances, two coaches and a
car. On the Dublin and Belfast Junction the population was
79,000. The estimated annual increase from all sources was
129,741/. 135., which, after deducting all expenses, would leave
an available sum for dividend of 66,341/. 135., or 8 per cent, on the
capital. The tables on which these general results were based
were then put in.

This witness was examined by Mr. Boyle, Mr. O'Malley, and
Mr. Smith, but no material point was further elicited.
The formal proof of the capital was then given by the Solicitor
of the Company.

Group X.
LONDON AND YORK LINE.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. Muschamp, in his cross-examination by Mr. HILDYARD,
who was counsel on behalf of the Midland Counties, the
Lincoln and Cambridge, and the Eastern Counties schemes,
deposed that the coal owners had at present tram-roads
from the pits' mouths to the different ports of shipment
Coals were improved by the breakage consequent on repeated
shipment ; did not think the same amount of injury would be in-
curred by a railroad transit of 240 miles. Although there were
coal wharfs all along the margin of the river Thames, for the
delivery of Durham coals for domestic use, still witness was of
opinion that coals for domestic use would on an average be de.
livered from the depot at King's-cross one shilling per ton cheaper
than from the wharfs.

Mr. W. J. Reynolds, whartinger, deposed that the charges upon
coals for domestic uses to the merchant, coming by water, exclusive
of the cost price of the article, would be 6s. which of course
would be charged against the consumer by the merchant; much of
this would be saved if the article came by railway.
After a few questions in cross-examination, the Committee
adjourned.

Group FF.
EDINBURGH AND HAWICK RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. AUSTIN called Mr. Miller, the engineer to the Company--
He stated that the cost of the tunnel over the line would be
10,0001., and there would be cuttings at each end.
The room was then ordered to be cleared, and after some time
spent in consultation the parties were called in, and
The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee declared the pre-
amble of the Bill to beproved. The Committee hEd also agreed that a
clause should be introduced into the Bill, restricting the rate of
speed between Middleton.muir and Dalhousie-manse.
The clauses were then gone into.

he. found England and Ireland divided. For a
time, however, he did not make those efforts.
What was the consequence ? At the end of two
years Ireland had become unmanageable. According to
the statement of the Prime Minister himself—a state-
ment most truly described by Lard J. Russell as a sad and
humiliating confession for any Government to be obliged
to make—the condition of Ireland, towards the close of
1843, was such as to render the enforcement of the law
absolutely impracticable. The only instrument for en-
forcing the law, says Sir R. Peel, is an appeal to trial
by jury;-but trial by jury is not available where the
great mass of the people is hostile to the Government.
A most monlentous acknowledgment ! Such was the
practical result of overthrowing Lord Melbourne's
Government by incessant and unscrupulous attacks
on his Irish policy. The mass of the people hostile
to the Government, and trial by jury not available for
the enforcement of the law ! Language cannot convey
a stronger expression of the utter failure of the Go-
vernment to accomplish the main purpose of its exist-
ence. It was high time to make a change. A Go-
vernment to which the mass of the people is hostile
is a tyranny, let its name and forms be what they
may ; and if it be not only detested, but so weak that it
cannot enforce the law, it is one of the worst evils under
which a country can suffer. Such a Government was the
natural offspring of the late Tory Opposition. It is not
surprising that thcse who were guilty of producing such
a monst,r should now be repentant. Sir R. Peel has
abandoned former
principles, but not before they brought
him to the verge of anarchy. Government, law, pro-
perty, public order, are all the creatures of opinion.
They have no deeper foundation than the habits and
feelings of the community. Disturb these customary
feelings, shake by any
means that habitual respect
and obedience to the laws which surround life and
property as with walls of brasQ, and the vast struc-
ture of society totters to irretrievable ruin. The
mass of a people hostile to the Government is
one of the most awful facts in social exist-
ence. It points to convulsion, revolution, intermin-
able disorders. How is such an evil to be cured ?
Evidently not by force in a country having
free institutions. There is nothing for it but to remove
the popular distrust by removing its causes, and the
remedy must be potent in proportion to the inveteracy
of the disease. Above all things, Government has to
consider what was enforced by Lird John Russell, in
that most noble and masterly speech with which he
closed the Maynooth debate, that there is much to be
done before Ireland can be expected to show gratitude.
"I hope, the Right Hon. Gentleman hopes, that the disease
may be cured, that we may now be on our way to
better times; but there must be other measures—.(Cheers)
—recourse must be had to a further policy—l don't know that
I should say of conciliation—l don't want to use the word—
but of justice towards Ireland. Nor must we any more hear
'that old cry of 'Oh, how ungrateful the Irish are?
—( Cheers.) We give this grant to .Maynooth, and yet
they are not thankful.' This has been the continual parrot
cry ever since you first relinquished the atrocious penal laws.
You said, Only think of these Catholics—we have allowed
them to educate their own children, and yet they are net grate-
ful. We have allowed them to have priests of their own chil-
dren, without fining, transporting, or imprisoning them, and
yet they are not grateful. We have permitted them to ride
horses, which may be of the value of 301., and yet they are
not grateful for the indulgence. We have allowed them to go
to mass, and yet they are not grateful. We have al:owed them
even to inherit landed property, and yet this barbarous and
savage nation will not be grateful—they still ask for other
things.' To be sure, Sir, they ask for other things, and
they will ask for other things-4' Hear, hear,' from Mr.
Sheil)—until with respect to England and Ireland there
is a perfect and just equality.—(Loud cheers.) And
then when you can say that there is perfect and
just equality I shall fear nothing from this cry for
a repeal of the union, formidable and powerful as it is,
among great masses of the people of Ireland at the present
moment."

Let Sir Robert reel, in attempting to carry out a
Whig policy, observe the advice of the Whig leader,
and he too will be able to say, what he cannot now,
that be "fears nothing from this cry for a repeal of the
anion."—Chronicle.

GREAT MUNSTER and LEINSTER
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the
above scheme was held this afternoon at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of electing Directors. . Mr.
C. H. Latouche was elected to the chair, and he was
about to call upon the Secretary to read the advertise-
ment convening the meeting, when
Mr. SMITH said he would object to that, as he was
prepared to maintain that there was no Secretary to the
Company. It was known that some years ago a resolution
was passed, the effect of which was to put the Company in
abeyance. The offices had been closed and there had
been a total cessation of the powers of all parties con-
nected with the Company, and therefore Mr.llarte could
not officiate. In his opinion he had been con-
fimed by the advice of several eminent
lawyers. Several meetings had at various
times been held, at which he had invariably acted in the
capacity of secretary, and he would contend that he was
the secretary for all the purposes of the Bill.
The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to the objections of
Mr. Smith, he would read an extract from the minutes of
the meeting which was held on the 13th September. It
was as follows:—A communication having taken place
between the Directors and Mr. Harte relativ3 to his
future services as secretary, it was mutually agreed that his
present salary should cease at the expiration of the pre-
sent quarter. Mr. Harte entering into the views of the
Directors as to the necessity of reducing the expenii-
tore of the Company, but the Directors deem it essential
to the interests of the .Ampany that Mr. Harte should
still retain the appointment of Secretary at nominal re-
muneration, to secure to the Company the advantages of
his experience, should circumstances enable them at a
future period, to proceed with the undertaking.
After a great deal of discussion, which was
noisily carried on, amidst great confusion, for
some time as to the eligibility of Mr. Smith or
Mr. Harte to act as Secretary, it was agreed
that their respective claims should, for the present, re-
main in abeyance.
The orignal business of the meeting for the election
of Directors, on the motion of Mr. BEAMISII, was then
proceeded with. A difficulty, however, arose as to the re-
ception of proxies which w re held by Mr. Smith, for
persons absent in the country, as it was doubtful whether
they were bona fide or not.
It was ultimately resolved that the Chairman should
receive them under protest.
The annexed resolution was then moved by Mr.
SMITH is resolved that the following gentle-
men be elected Directors—viz ,J. B. Beamish, J. Par.
nell, B. Shaw, T. Mooney, P. Gale, J. Alexander, Esqs.,
Capt. Lamont, J. D. Lowden, Esq., and that it be an in-
stuction to those Directors to nominate P. P. Collett,
Esq., M.P.. N. 11. Thomas J. Brand, Esqs., Sir T. But-
ler, Col. Bruen, M.P , B. Grogan, Esq., M.P., W. P.
Iloey, IL S. Ginness, and T. Redmond, Esqs., as soon as
the last-named gentlemen had qualified under the Act.
.
This list was objected to by Mr. BRYSON, who pro-
posed to substitute another but his amendment was lost,
and the original motion was passed pro forma by the
Chairman, on his receiving under protest the proxies
which Mr. Smith hold.
After the discussion of some unimportant routine
business, and a vote of thanks to the chairman, the
meeting separated.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S
GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.

J. C. Lee, Customs' locker, Liverpool—first div. of Is. 714 d.
in the pound, May 28, and any following Wednesday, at the
office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
G.,Taylor—first and final div. of 13s. 9d. in the pound, any
Saturday, at the office of Mr. Green, Aldermanbury.
S. Law, upholsterer; Great Portland-street—final div. of
ls. 7d. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr.
Green, Aldermanbury.
T. Higginson, pawnbroker, Liverpool—second div. of 2s. in
the pound, May 29, and any following Thursday, at the office
of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
L. IVatson, smith, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire—first
div. of ss. 9d. in the pound, next, and any following Wed-
nesday, at the office of Mr. Belcher, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man. street.
F. B. and W. Stacy, warehousemen, Lawrence-lane,
Cheapside—first div. of 61,4 d. in the pound, May 24, and any
following Saturday, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Frede-
rick's-place Old Jewry.
W. Hincliliff, haberdasher, Marlborough-road, Chelsea
—first iliv. of 4s. Bd. in the pound, May 24, and any follow-
ing Saturday, at the office of air. Edwards, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry.
R. Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool—first div. of Is. in the
pound, any Saturday after May 24, at the office of Mr
Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
W. Pringle, carrier, Morpeth—first and final div. of Is. 4d.
in the pound, any Saturday after 11Iay 24, at the office of
ia, n
May 26, and any
following Monday, at the office of. Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
J. Donnelly, merchant, Liverpool—first div. of 2d. in the
millers, Congleton,
Cheshire—second
pound, May F 26, and any following Monday, at the office of
Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
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R. Swainson and J. Gardner, grocers, Liverpool—second
div. of 21%d. in the pound, slay 26, and any following Mon-
day, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool.
J. Carbuet, publican, Liverpool—tirst div. of 38. 10d. in the
pound, May 28, and any following Wednesday, at the office
of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool.
DIVIDENDS.

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Green, wine merchant, Pall-mall, June 17, at one,--W.
Spencer, common brewer; •Wallingford; Berkshire' June 17,
at eleven—W, Armlield, draper, Northampton, June 13, at
one-.W. 1-1. Mills, wine merchant, Mark-lane; Jtine 13; at
twelve—R. Swansborough and H. tian ~.
i., 4,.-e; 4ararehougemen,
Bread-street, June 13' at tiVelVe---;,.0. tiarrey; tattle dealer,
East Monica, Esse:tc, June 14, at haltlnast elererj _M •
trle, musk edict-, Bristol, Jline 14, kr tiitit.4...,. v.
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bells, grocer) Abingdon, June 14, at eleten•-111. II; L. G.
Culnaghi print seller, Cocks ptir kt
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R. Marshall, stone nta,sorl,,Ptptlbillk Rine l:;' at tiVelve,-
D. Smith; merchant,buddersbury, June i,
at twelve.
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G. Ball, carpenter, Bath, June 18ry,
at eleven, at the Bris-
tol District Court—. Jolmsorb mereban,t. Liter:Viol, June
17, at eleven, at the LiVefpnOl...A6triet CiiiirtT. And W.
Wilscn, merchants, LiVettidol, is tine Pi, at twelve, at the
Liverpol Viet; ii Conrt—C. IL Buchanan and W, Cunning-
ham, merchants; Liverpoolo hut 1?, at tOrelfe, at the
Cotirt.,4l'. 'Whyte, hardware merchant,
119vrtenrPin7hi District_
ani ;Birk 17, at
eleVen, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court--W. Munton, ClreAtfnrd, Lincolnshire, June 17,
at half-past t7ieittl, at the Birmingham District Court—N.
N. and E. so!ty, iron masters, Tividale,.Yorkshire, June 23,
at clevi"" t the Birmingham District Court—G. R. Gitton,
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June 18, at eleven, at the Birmingham
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W. Burt, boarding-house.koeper, llarrow-road, Padding
17—J. Welch, licensed
June 14--J. Gibbs, g Huntingdonshire, June
Ramsey,
grocer,
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,sgHatoeilaJwnatyle,
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ton, June 17—R. Stockley:iecattillineetr,lllßalitnegr,-
bone, June 16—A. Donald, bookseller, 't.Alban's,, June 17—

T. Weston, plumber, Southampton, June 17—M. Farrand,
fancy cloth manufacturer, Htiddersfield, June 16—W. H.
Mills, wine merchant, Mark-lane, June 13—J. Martin,
victualler, Bexley-heath, Kent, June 13—H. Green, woollen
draper, Liverpool, June 13—T. Lane, scrivener, Hereford,
June 13—J Pim, linen draper, Clapham-common, June 13—
T. K. Gorbell, bookseller, Bedford-place, Commercial-road,
June 13—R. Swansborough and H. Oake, warehousemen,
Bread-street, June 13—G. Haywood, bricklayer, Luton, Bed-
fordshire, June 13—J. Banks, seedsman, Birmingham, June
13—H. C. York, lodging-house keeper, Cheltenham-place,
Westminster-road, June 13—R. Rochester, butcher, Hartle-
pool, Dur:fam, June 13—A. Knott, miller, Treyford, Sussex,
June 13—J. - Roberts, grocer, Liverpool, June 13—W.
Reeves, coach builder, Walcot, Somersetsbire, June 13—J.
Kewley, tailor, Liverpool, June 13—S. Marshall, builder,
Hull, June 13—W. Burchett, chemist, Whitechapel-road,
June 13—W. Conyer, T. Ridsdale, J. Senior, E. Bailey, J.
Milnes, W. Mayman, J. Oldroyd, J. Castle, S. Oldroyd, J.
Breary, J. Denton, A. Ellis, M. Healey, J. Bailey, and J.
Clegg, woollen and scribbling millers, Batley Carr, York-
shire, June 13—C. Burrage, butcher, Newgate-market,
June 13.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Saunders, T. F. Saunders, and J. Bloor, common
brewers, Burton-upon-Trent—G. Clement and G. Inskipp,
linen drapers, Hastings—C. W. Wood and A. Cooper, sur-
geons, Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire—M. Gompertz and
11. t. Haswell, exhibitors of dioramic pictures—R. Ridway
and T. Dent, joiners, Manchester—M. Heyman, L. Webb,
and M. Mitchell, coach builders, Guildford—W. Skinner and
D. Robertson, cheesemongers, Bermondsey-street—E. Har-
rison and T. Houlker, attorneys, Preston—M. Hardy and
H. Unthank, wine merchants, Manchester—H. S. Ash and
J. Parsons, purse manufacturers, Nottingham—R. Campling
and J. Creake, haberdashers, Norwich—R. White and A.
Balston, nurserymen, Poole—S. and G. Green, innkeepers,
Langsett, Yorkshire—C. Coxen, W. Fieldhouse, and J.
Hawkini, china manufacturers, Foley, Staffordshire Potte-
ries—M. Lowe and W. Morrison, manufacturers, Leicester—
S. Holtham and M. E. Brewer, milliners, Brighton—D. G.
Moody and L. Jones, fruit merchants, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
--J. Poulson and.J. Spencely, varnish manufacturers, Church •
lane, Whitechapel.

S6OTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Robb, china merchant, Aberdeen, May 29 and June
30, at one, at the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen.
Robert Taylor, jun., and Co., wholesale tea dealers, Glas-
gow, Ma 29 and June 19, at twelve, at the chambers of J.
Monteith, Glasgow.

NORTH• AMERICAN BUFFALOES.
The buffalo, or wild American ox, which formerly
abounded in most parts of North America, is every day
becoming scarcer, in proportion as civilization and culti-
vation advance. It was found throughout the whole
range now occupied by the United States, with the ex-
ception of that part which lies east of Hudson's river and
Lake Champlain and of narrow and swampy strips of coast
on the Atlantic Gulf of Mexico. The fineness of the
buffalo wool, which, within a few years, has caused it
to become an object of comrrerce for the manufacture
of hats and cloths, is mentioned by Merton, a New
England settler, iu 163?. He says, " Their fleeces
are very useful, being a kind of wolle, as fine almost as
the wolle of the beaver." At present they are seldom
seen east of the Mississippi and south of the St. Law-
rence. But they are found in considerable numbers
west of the Rocky Mountains, in the Columbian region,
nearly to the borders of California, and west of Lake
Winipeg up to the sixty-third degree. Their general
colour is dun: sometimes they are spotted. The frame
of the buffalo is larger than that of the generality of
domestic cattle, and, though the fore parts are uncouth,
the hind parts are handsomely and rather delicately
formed. It looks very formidable from its large shoulder
hump, its flowing wiry mane and sweeping beard, and
thick horns, curved backwards. A herd of buffaloes,
when pursued, especially if there be• a great number of
bulls, emits a strong odour of musk, which is left in
their wake, and their feet make a loud crackling noise.
Their sense of smell is very acute. Sometimes
they will scent man, if to windward of them, at a dis-
tance of two or .three. miles, and then they will gallop
away with the greatest speed. When they cannot scent
a man they will bear his near approach, or advance
themselves very near him without any shyness. Whether
this is to be attributed to the imperfect vision of the
animal, whose eyes are obscured by the great quantity
of hair which covers his face, or not, it is not easy to
determine. Though buffaloes and elks are seen on
the same prairies, they do not herd together. Wolves
commonly attend them, and neither seem to molest
the other. It is almost impossible to kill this animal
by shooting it through the head or chest : the head
is so protected by a matting of coarse, wiry hair,
that a ball becomes entangled in it before reaching the
bone; and the chest is so fenced by a bulwark of bone that
it will require many bullets to penetrate it. Accordingly,
the hunters contrive to gallop by the side of the animal,
and shoot it, with bullet or arrow, behind the shoulder
blade. They sometimes congregate in such myriads on
the prairies west of the Rocky Mountains that the whole
circle of vision within the bounds of the horizon presents
one dark mass of these animals. The bulls march at the
head of the cows, and it is then dangerous to encounter
them, for, if they become enraged or frightened, the whole
herd start off in a straight line, and in close order, regard-
less of all obstacles, and would crush to pieces men,
horses, and waggons, if in their way. Some of these
bulls weigh 3,0001b5. each. Whet► there is abundance
of this sort of game the hunters often content themselves
with the choice parts, the tongue, the slices by the hump
ribs, and the marrow, the carcases being left to the
wolves. This waste often leads to woful want. When
this animal is hunted he becomes sometimes bewildered
and exasperated, and turns round on his pursuers : then
it is inevitable death to come within range of his horns.
—Dunn's History of the Oregon Territory.