The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-13 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 51.

Baird, William Darby, George Lockhart, William
Barkly, Henry- Emma, William Mackenzie, W. F
Bernard, Viscount Fitzroy. Henry M`Neill, Duncan
Bolder°, 11. G. Flower, Sir J. Masterman, John
Borthwick, Peter Fremantle, Sir T. Manic, Fox
Bowles, Admiral Gaskell, J. M. Nichol', John
Boyd. John Gordon, Captain Pringle, Alexander
Broadley, 11. Gottlburn, H. Bashleigh, W.
Brotherton, Joseph Graham, Sir J. Richards, McCaig
Bruce, Lord E. Greene, Thomas Scott, Frances
Bruce, C. L. C. Harris, Captain Smith, T. B. C.
Bruges, W. 11. L. Hawes, Benjamin Stuart, Henry
Buckley, Edmund Henley, J. W. Sutton, 11. M.
Cardwell, Edward Herbert, Sidney Thesiger, Sir I'.
Claute,j(W. L. W. nape, G. W. Wellesley, Lord C.
Clerk, Sir Georgo James, Sir Walter TELLERS.
Curry, Henry Jannyn, Earl Young, John
Cripps, William Lincoln, Earl of Lennox, Lord A.

THE WHITE SLAVE; OR, THE RUSSIAN PEASANT
GIRL. BY THE AUTHOR OF " REVELATIONS OF RUSSIA."
—This remarkable novel will doubtless meet with an
equal degree of public approbation as has been bestowed
on the analogous productions of Hope and Morier. The
fiction has been framed, not only to illustrate the con-
dition of the immense white-slave population of the
Russian empire—with a few of its horrors—but as a
living portraiture of men and things in that-country. It
brings upon the scene personages drawn from the most
varied classes—from the Emperor down to the slave-
girl Nadoshta. A connecting link throughout the tale
is the interesting Jane Grudzinska, the daughter of a
Polish squire (created Princess of Loviez), the second
and beloved wife of the dreaded Grand Duke Constantine,
who, after repudiating his first wife—a Princess of Saxe
Cobourg—consented to renounce the Imperial throne
to secure her hand. This singular episode acquires an
immediate interest from the trial at present pending
before the Court of Berlin, between the creditors of that
lamented lady and the Emperor Nicholas, they grounding
their claim against him on the fact that ho did not allow
her to inherit the fortune bequeathed to her by her
husband, and, after her death, claimed in vain by her
aged father, who retired to die in poverty and obscurity,
after having seen his daughter intermarried with the
Russian Caesars.

PENINSULAR SKETCHES, EDITED BY W. H. 'MAX-
WELL, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " STORIES OF WATERLOO."—
Mr. Maxwell is so well known for the talent and variety
of his works, that his very name on the title-page of a
book is sufficient earnest that its contents will contribute
to the amusement of the reader. No one cvxeels Mr.
Maxwell in his sketches of the military club and mess-
table, in the description of officers at home, and in his
pictures of their mixed labours, perils, and wild inter-
vals of sport and diversion in the field or on real service.
In the work before us we have perils by sea and land,
bold operations, and narrow escapes by night and by
day, the most picturesque narratives of service, and
incidents and adventures of the most attractive order.
These are subjects to suit the taste of every reader.—
Messenger.

LABOUR PROVIDED BY RAILWAYS. - That some
idea may be formed of the immense stimulus the trade of
the country would derive front the formation of the con-
templated railways, it is only necessary to state that were
2,000 miles of the projected railways to be constructed, it
would give employment to 500,060 labourers and 40,000
horses for the next four years. The necessary building,
sheds, and permanent way would cover 20,000 acres of land,
and to lay a double line of rails would require 400,000 tons 1
of irort.—Railway Shareholdera' <Vanua&