The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Saturday,
at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the Royal
Gardens of Buckingham Palace, on Saturday morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen on Saturday forenoon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal left town in a carriage and four, at ten o'clock
on Saturday morning, for Claremont.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken an
airing in the Royal Gardens on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace in
an open carriage and four, at a quarter-past twelve o'clock on
Saturday, for Claremont. The Marchioness of Douro, Lady
in Waiting ; Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting; Colonel
Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, and Col. Bouverie, Equerry
to Prince Albert, followed in another carriage and four.
Her Majesty and His Royal highness were conducted to
their carriage by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the Hon.
Misses Stanley and Hamilton, Lord George Lennox, Sir
Frederic Stovin and Captain Francis Seymour.
The royal party were escorted from the Palace by a party
of Light Dragoons.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Royal suite,
and the domestic Household, attended Divine service at
Claremont. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited Prince
Alfred and the rincess Alice yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The Royal infants were taken for pony and walking
exercise in the forenoon.
THE DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER.—Her Royal Highness
passed an indifferent night on Saturday night.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Royal Duchess yester-
day at Gloucester House, and the other members of the
Royal Family sent during the day to make inquiry after the
health of their illustrious relative. _ _ _

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service yesterday
morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prayers
were read by the Rev. Mr. Hall ; the Lessons by the Rev.
Dr. H. Dakius. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Dibdin, from St. John, chap. ii, verse 25. The Anthem,
" I was glad" (Purcell), was sung by Messrs. Hobbs, Haw-
kins, and J. B. Sale. Sir George Smart presided at the
Organ. Her Majesty was attended by the Marchioness of
Wellesley, the lion. Miss Mitchell, and the Hon. William
Ashley. The Duchess of Kent was attended by Lady Anna
Maria Dawson.

The Duke of Cleveland, the Countess of Wilton, Lady
Wharncliffe, Lords Devon, Cawdor, Colville, Cantilupe, Ha-
therton, Polwarth, Norreys, Ingestre, Templemore, and
Ebrington, were among the nobility present.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Fred. Trench attended
the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, y6ster-
day. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and preached the
sermon.

The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz attended Divine ser-
vice yesterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel. Baron Knese-
beck and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were in waiting on their
Royal Highnesses.
His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh Streliz, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured
the Earl of Sefton with his company at dinner on Saturday,
at his residence in Belgrave-square.
The Duchess of Kent honoured the Italian Opera with her
presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness was
attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir
George Couper. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, also honoured the Italian Opera with their presence
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl
inspected Captain Siborne's new Waterloo Model on Saturday.
Mr. Everett, the American Minister, had an interview with
Sir R. Peel on Saturday.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Sa-
turday.
Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Somes, and a Deputation had an in-
terview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet-
ing on Saturday, at their office in Whitehall-place. There
were present the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Ban-
gor, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop
of Lichfield, the Lord President of the Council, the Earl of
Devon, the Earl of Besborough, Lord Ashley, and the Right
Hon. Sir George Grey.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview on
Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Sir R. Peel had a Parliamentary dinner party on Saturday
at his residence in Whitehall-gardens.

THE LIGHT FOR ALL NATIONS.
DEAR have the satisfaction to inform you that
I and ray workmen have taken possession of our resi-
dence in the round house on the summit of the column
for my new light on the Goodwin, and it is my intention
to reside here until I have succeeded in ascertaining the
strata beneath the sand, should the weather continue
favourable. That being done, I shall proceed to com-
plete the lighthouse by fixing the lantern.
I think I may fairly state that another inhabited
island is now added to her Majesty's dominions, in the
bowels of which arc embedded great treasures, and which
will form a nucleus for batteries and fortifications, as well
as for a harbour of refuge in Trinity Bay in the Downs,
and when completed, be the key of the British Channel,
and thus form a second Gibraltar. _ _

As so many unfounded reports have been in circula-
tion respecting this undertaking-, I will thank you to send
this information to the London journals.—l am, dear
Sir, yours truly, WILLIAM BUSH.
Richard Clay, Esq., at Lloyd's.
P.S. I have commenced boring to ascertain the sub-
strata of the Goodwin, and, at fifty feet beneath the plat-
form, have found nothing but hard sand, nearly as solid
as rock itself.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—It is well known, in all
musical circles, that l)onizetti composed the opera of
Lucia di Lammermoor, for the express purpose of afford-
ing Duprez an opportunity of creating the character of
Edgar of Ravenswood. It is in that part; rendered by
him so celebrated, that he makes his appearance here
to-night—in addition to which, Madame Eugenie
Garcia will make her debut at this theatre, in Lucia.
This great attraction, with Polin and Gasperini in the
new ballet, will undoubtedly fill the theatre.
SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—Great progrem is makin
on this railway between Teiemouth and Newton ; thge
wall against the river is raised to its height, in
3QI"
places, and in the course of three month it is fully ex-
pected to be cumplgteti to the liewt.on station.-- We4ern
TimA

AMERICAN SLAVERY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Living in a remote corner of the empire, it was
only this morning that I perused the debates in Parliament
on the Oregon question, which will be hailed with
delight by every Briton who has the honour of his
country at heart.
The present crisis between this country and America
is certainly one of fearful importance, and it is to be
hoped that the new President of the United States will
maturely consider the consequences that may result from
his decision before he involves his own country in a war
with the British :empire, a war which may shake the
boasted institutions of his Government to their founda-
tion, and plunge a great portion of the citizens of the
United States in utter rtain and desolation.
Mr. Polk, the new President rf the United States,
seems giddy with his recent exaltation, and anxious to
signalise the limited period of his brief authority by
making the British Government to crouch to any terms
he may please to impose on it, without dreaming of the
possibility of Britain being able to make any impression
upon the American Union ; and, under this impression,
he sets Britain and all other Governments at defiance,
calling upon their subjects to revolutionise their own
countries, and fraternise with the must virtuous and en-
lightened Government on the face of the earth, carefully
keeping in the back ground that their own Government
is bankrupt, both in credit and reputation, and the
damning fact of the horrid and inhuman system of
slavery which is upheld in their southern states, where
human beings are made to breed like cattle, and their
unhappy progeny are sold like cattle, and sent to the
new countries in the far west, where their lives are not
worth more than from two to three years' purchase.
The virtuous citizens of the United States may sneerat
the idea that the wrath of God will overtake them for
this inhuman traffic, but such they may rely upon it will
certainly be the case, and I will now unfold to them how
easily it may be accomplished, and how Britain may be
made the instrument of inflicting this vengeance upon
them and their country—the British Empire possessing
more means of aggression against America than all the
rest of the world put together, and America being more
vulnerable to attack from Britain than from any other
nation.

Britain could at once land on the shores of the
southern or slave states of America from thirty to forty
thousand disciplined sepoys, led on by British officers,
in a high state of discipline, and accustomed to victory,
not one of whom would desei t, and send along with them
a complete train of artillery, with veteran gunners.
With this force she could send from the West Indies a
few thousand disciplined Africans, commanded by
British officers, to make acquaintance with their slaves ;
and with this combined force she could land from twenty
to thirty thousand British bayonets, accompanied with
arms, clothing, and accoutrements for 300,000 emanci-
pated negroes.

Against this overwhelming force, I ask the people of
America what resistance they could make? On the first
proclamation from British head-quarters granting
liberty to the slave, the unhappy African race would
immediately desert their masters, and be formed into
corps for their destruction, and the whole force would
advance into the interior, like'the simoom of the desert,
destroying all that opposed them.
The sepoys only require that the promises made to
them should be faithfully kept, and from their attach-
ment to their officers, they will readily follow them.
The writer of this has been with them on foreiga ser-
vice oftener than once, and he thinks he sees them now
march three paces to the front, with their military shout,
when volunteering to follow their officers.
I tell the citizens of the slave states that their present
fancied security depends altogether upon the forbearance
of the British Government, and that so long as they con-
tinue to possess a slave population, they will be con-
tinually exposed to destruction from their efforts to free
themselves from their cruel yoke—that the superstruc-
ture of their constitution is built up with the tears and
blood of their hapless slaves, and that when the day of
retribution arrives, great and dreadful will be the ven-
geance they will take upon their inhuman masters.
With the powerful force I have mentioned, Great Bri-
tain could at once settle the question of slavery in
America, and oblige the repudiators of their own bonds,
who are lost to all sense of honesty, to pay up their
bonds with interest to the last farthing, at the same time
that they would bring our dispute about the Oregon ter-
ritory to a speedy termination.

A "SIPAIII SIRDAR."

RAILWAYS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUZY.
SIR,—AII secrets are better out respecting railways.
to prevent the knowing ones fleecing the ignorant, and
thinking many will be obliged for the following informa-
tion, you, perhaps, will allude to or allow this a corner
in your paper :—The Leeds and Manchester are nego-
tiating for the lease of the Huddersfield and Manchester,
thus throwing overboard the Leeds and Dewsbury, and
securing the success of the West Riding Junction.
Yours, &c. W. THOMPSON.
York, April 10.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—In reading the debate on the auction licence,
I was much surprised to find no Member advocating
the general interest of the revenue, and which appeared
to me so very clear—which is that the duty or license
for cities or boroughs should be fifteen pounds, and all
others places seven pounds ten shillings. It would insure
the greatest revenue, as I feel confident that not one less
would be taken out in the cities and boroughs, but a
great falling off in the country places would be the conse-
quence of one uniform charge; but reducing it half would
insure a continuance of the same number in the country,
which is a great convenience to the rural districts. It
may be observed that the agriculturists would par-
ticularly feel the benefit of the continuance of the ap-
praser's separate license, as nine times out of ten farmers
arc called in for the valuation between farmers when
there is an exchange of tenants, they understanding the
nature of it much better than an auctioneer.
Ripon, April 12. A FARMER.

GLASS MANUFACTURE.
Concurrently with the abolition of the duties on glass,
recent improvements are likely to give an extraordinary
impulse to the manufacture of it, and to cause the ma-
terial to be employed for the fabrication of a variety of
articles it has hitherto never been applied to, and even
of many which require strength and solidity—the specific
gravity of glass being very great (about half that of cast
iron)—consequently when used in thick masses it is not
liable to accidental injury. To afford one instance of
its applicability to novel purposes, we may mention the
employment of glass of deep and brilliant golden hue for
frames to small or moderate sized pictures ; also for
ornaments in friezes or cornices, capitals of columns and
pilasters, and a variety of decorations now executed in
gilding—one very obvious advantage over the last-men-
tioned mode being durability, owing to the impossibility
of fading or tarnishing. We do not say that the effect
would be so precisely the same that the eye could.not
distinguish between ornaments cast in gold•coloured
glass, and those coated by a surface of actual guilding,
yet the beauty of the one mode might be fully equal to
that of the other, although with a difference. So far,
then, new resources seem to be " opened up," as the
Scotch say, to decorators.
. .

Looking to a more immediate and obvious purpose of
architectural embellishment by means of the material, we
have been struck by the decidedly great improvement that
has lately been introduced into the manufacture of or-
namental patterns in coloured glasi for windows by the
Messrs. Powell, of Temple-street, Fleet-street, one which
for its superior economy no less than its intrinsic excellence
is incontestably preferable to that produced according to
the usual process. Instead of being traced on the glass and
burnt-in of a darker or nearly opaque colour, the pat-
terns on diapered glass may now, in consequence of
Messrs. Powell's invention, be cast in the glass itself
by a single operation—an improvement analogous to that
of printing compared with manuscript. The pattern is
thus produced in relief, or actually embossed on tale
side of the glass, whereby is not only greater accuracy
and uniformity of outline obtained, but also a peculiar
and singularly beautiful effect; for, owinc, to the refrac-
tion of the light, a sort of gem-like, flickering brilliancy
takes place, productive of richness, without any sort of
gaudiness. Of course such glass is monochrome; but
although each quarel or pane is only of a single colour,
the different panes may be of different hues, and also of
different shapes and sizes, so that any combination of
patterns and colours can be introduced into the general
design of windows so executed. Besides its obvious
value for " painted windows," where the entire aperture
is to be so tilled in, this embossed coloured glass is so
admirably adapted for window blinds (inasmuch as,
while highly ornamental within, they could most effec-
tually serve as a screen from without), that it would not
be a matte: of surprise were blinds of the kind shortly to
come into vogue. Embossed glass is further susceptible
of variety of colour, for we observed one specimen at
Messrs. Powell's show-room, in which smaller pieces of
different hues were inlaid into certain parts of the pat-
tern, so that it had the appearance of being studded with
gems; whereas large masses of the more intense colours
are apt to have a rather overpowering, too glaring. , and
somewhat crude effect—one less pleasing the wisdows
themselves than for the coloured light shed from them
upon other objects.
This invention is about to be employed in the decora-
tion of the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—The board
have just determined on a further reduction of the fares.
The following are the prices to which the fares are reduced
on the whole distance from London to Birmingham. The
fares to the intermediate stations are reduced in proportion.
By express train and daily mail, 275. ; mixed and Ist class
and trains,—the Ist' class 235., the 2d class 175.; mixed
stopping trains,—lst class 205., the 3d 14z. On the Ist of
May they commence their fast trains, running to and from
Birmingham in three houss. These fare-reducing measures
evince an unequivocal desire, on the part of the Birmingham
board to serve the public interests as liberally and well as
they do their shareholders; that they do not wish to grasp
too much for the one, at the expense of the other. Having
secured a large tr!tfic, which proCuces equally large profits,
they seem determined to pursue a moderate
and just course,
by giving the public the advantage of any increased traffic
by a nearly proportionate reduction of the tariff. We
cannot applaud this spirit too highly, feeling convinced that
while it is generous towards the public, it is the best means
of securing to a large establishment, like the Birmingham, a
firm and lasting foundation.—Railway Journal
A gallant instance of intrepidity and courage was
displayed on Wednesday se'nnight, by George Soper, of
Exe-lane. Walking up the banks of the river, on the
Exwiek side, he saw two children, who had just rolled
into the water from a steep bank, and at once plunged
in to their rescue. Although it was ten feet deep at the
spot, he succeeded in getting them both out. The chil-
dren, who belonged to a navigator, working not far off,
had wandered away to gather primroses, and rolled into
the
havedeep nodoubt
water.
that The the fa
Humaneitlerexp Societyresse willdhis gratitude.
Wei
more substantial acknowledgment.— Wotan 7 inns.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
TUESDAY, APRIL 15.

Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverhampton Line).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Deviation)_
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Branch amt
Cheltenham Extension).
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Extension,
Stoke Branch, and Midland Junction).

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester
Railways.
Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension Railway.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment.
Staines and Richmond Railway.
London and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch).
THURSDAY, APRIL 17.
Diss and Colchester Junction Railway.
Direct Northern Railway (No. 1).
Bristol and Gloucester Railway.
FRIDAY, APRIL lE.
Great Western Railway ( Ireland) (Dublin to Mullirigar and
Athlone).
Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester, and
Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purchase).

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE:

FRID.tY, Amu, 11:

Diss and Colchester Junction Railwav,—Committee oil
petition, adjourned from Monday 14th till Thursday,Aprill7.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Committee on
petition, adjourned till Wednesday, April 16.
Bristol and Gloucester Railway,—Committee on petition,
adjourned till Thursday, April 17.
Great Western Railway (Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingat
and Athlone),—Committee on petition, adjourned till Friday,
April 18.
Direct Northern Railway (No. I),—Committee on peti+
tion, postponed from Monday 14th till Thursday, April 17.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon+
day, April 21, at twelve.
Blackburn, Burnley, Atcrington and Colne Extension
Railway,—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Bristol and Gloucester Railway (No. 2),—Committee on
petition, Tuesday, April 22.
Dunstable and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com+
mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway,—Com+
mittee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough),—Committee
on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway,—Committee oA
Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway (Shipley to Colne),
—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Barnsley Junction Railwav,—Committee on Bill, Mondays
April 21, at twelve.

Huddersfield and Manchester Railway,—Committee at;
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch),—.
Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Leads and Dewsbury Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon.
day, April 21, at twelve.

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Harrogate and 1;i; :on Junction Railway,—Committee out
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
West Yorkshire Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday,
April 21, at twelve.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday,
April 21, at twelve.

huddCrslield and Sheffield Junction Railway,—Committee
on Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts Amendment,—,
Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th tilt
Wednesday, April 16.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,-4
Second reading, Tuesday, April 15.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Leeds and West Riding Junction Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway,—Committee ors
Bill, Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Belfast and Ballymena Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, April 22, at twelve.
Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and
Heywood Branches Extension) Railway,—Committee on
Bill, Monday, April 21, at twelve.
Lynn and Ely,—Committee on Bill, Monday, April 21, at
twelve.

Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No.
Committee on petition, postponed sine dic.
Staines and Richmond Railway,—Committee on petition,
postponed from Monday 14th till Wednesday, April 16.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Wolverhampton Line) Rail
way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th
till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Deviation) Rail-
way,—Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th
till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Worcester Branch and Chel-
tenham Extension) Railway,—Committee on petition, post-
poned from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester (Gloucester Extension, Stoke
Branch, and Midland Junction) Railway,—Committee on
petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Tuesday, April 15.
London and South•W'estern (Epsom Branch) Railway,—
Committee on petition, postponed from Monday 14th tilt
Wednesday, April 16.
Midland Railways Company (Birmingham, Gloucester,,and
Bristol and Gloucester Railways Purcliase),—Committee on
petition, postponed from Monday 14th till Friday, April 18.

MURDER OF A CHILD AT
HAMPSTEAD.
On Saturday afternoon a jury was empannelled before
Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern,
Hampstead, in the same room in which the inquest was
held on the late Mr. Delarue, to inquire into the death
of a male child.

The jury comprised several of the gentlemen who
were on the inquest above referred to.
Police-constable Alexander Mackay, 197 S, stated
that about half-past five o'clock in the morning of the
7th inst., he was on duty in Hampstead-road, near
Sinton's nursery, between Haverstock-terrace and the
Load of Hay, and in a ditch passing along the edge of
the nursery and the main road, he discovered the bedy
of the deceased. It was perfectly dressed in the clothed;
produced to the jury. They consisted of the usual
children's clothing, of the finest texture. The flannel
was quite new, and edged with silk. The under clothing
was of fine cambric, and the cap had a rich lace border.
The body was wrapped in two diaper towels, and sown
up in an old dark green child's cloak. He conveyed
the body to the station-house, where it was seen by the
surgeon.

Mr. Daniel Gower, surgeon, of Hampstead, deposed
that when he first saw the deceased its nose was much
flattened, and there was a mucous issuing from the
mouth and nostrils. He had since made a post molten.;
examination. The umbilical cord had been properly
tied, and its appearance, together with other circum-
stances, indicated that it had lived several days. The
lungs floated, and there was every other symptom to
prove this. There was no mark of violence on the per-
son, or any poison in the stomach. The brain presented
a very vascular appearance, and there was a good deal
of fluid blood on its surface. Re was decidedly of opi-
nion that the deceased had died from some kind of suffo-
cation, and, from the mucous issuing from the mouth
and nostrils, it was his his opinion that the suffocation
was by drowning.
The CORONER said, after this evidence, he thought
there could not be a doubt upon the mind of any one
that the case was one of wilful murder, although they
had no proof whatever of who the parties were that
committed it.

The jury acquiesced, and at once returned a verdict
of " Wilful murder against some person or persons un-
known."

Mr. WAKLET then remarked he was in the Court of
the Old Bailey on Friday night, and heard Rocker's
statement and the sentence passed upoa him, and he
could assure the jury that Rocker exhibited all the cool-
ness he displayed when in that room at the inquest; in-
deed he was as unmoved as the table before him. The
judge was ten thousand times more moved than locker
was. He seemed completely bound up in vanity, but he
hoped the sense of his awful situation would soon have

the effect of removing the film from his eyes, and enable
him to see his position more clearly than he at present
appeared to do. He acknowledged the writing of the
letter signed " Caroline," and from the very outset of the
case he believed he had done so.
A juror remarked that Hocker's statement with re-
spect to his covering himself with blood in a slattghter-
house at Hampstead was absurd. There was no
slaughter-house that was not kept under lock and key.

FIRST QUARTER'S REVENUE OF THE RAILWAYS.—•
We have now before us the official railway returns made up
for the last three months, being that quarter of the year in
which the traffic is smallest and also least subject to fluctua-
tion. It appears that the aggregate receipts from traffic,
since the Ist of January, on the principal public railways,
amounts, in round numbers, to 1,210,0001., while last year it
only reached 1,054,000/., at the same period, being an in-
crease of 156,000!. on the quarter. Of this increase, we find
that 26,0001. belong to the Great Western, 12,000/. to the
London and Birmingham, 11,0001. to the Grand Junction,
5,000/. to the North of England, 6,0001. to the London and
Brighton, 10,000/. to the Manchester and Leeds, 21,0001. to
the Midlands, 22,000/. to the South-Eastern, and 5,0001. to
the Eastern Counties and North-Eastern. Among the
smaller lines we have an increase of 1,200/. to the Chester
and Birkenhead, 3,000/. to the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
3,400/. to the Glasgow and Ayr, 3000/. to the London and
Blackwell, 9,0001. to the London and Croydon, 3,5001. to the
Manchester and Birmingham, 3,7001. to the Newcastle and
Carlisle. Of the lines not opened last year, we have on the
Yarmouth and Norwich at present an increase of 26/. per
week, and on the Newcastle and Darlington an increase at the rate of 2001. per week. Some of those amounts are
effected by extensions of the line, &c., but the greater part
arise solely from the steadily increasing trade of the coun-
try.--Raeheay Chronicle.
DEATH OF TUE EARL OF ABERGAVENNY.—The
Earl of Abergavenny died at his seat, Eridge Castle, near
Tunbridge Wells, on Friday night, in the 56th year of his
age. The family of Nevill is of high antiquity, having de-
scended from Gilbert de Nevill, a Norman chieftain, who is
said to have been Admiral to William the Conqueror. Its
members have been distinguished for their prowess in the
field, their talents in the senate, and their eloquence in de-
bate. They have occupied the highest stations in England,
six having tnen Lords Chancellor, two Archbishops of York,
and one Archbishop of Durham, and their names are associ-
ated with the brightest periods of our history. The late Earl
was never married, and his only surviving brother, the lion.
and Rev. Wm. Nevill, vicar of Frant and Billing, Kent, suc-
ceeds to the title and estates.

Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner on
Saturday last, at the family residence in AV i tehal l- gardens,
when the following Members of the House of Commons dined.
with the Right Hon. Baronet :—The Marquis of Douro,
Viscount Chelsea, 'Viscount Barrington, the Right Hon.
Charles F. Law, Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart., Sir Jamea
Flower, Bart., Sir Howard Douglas, Mr. Allies, Mr. Broad-
ley, Mr. Brewnrigg, Mr. Copeland, Mr. Beckett Denison.,
Mr. Dugdale, Mr. 'Patton Egerton, Mr. Escott, Mr. Forman,
Mr. Iteneage, Mr. Ambr6c Hussey, Mr. Thomas Hussey,
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, &c. General Arbuthnot and Mr. Co-
quhoun were unavoidably prevented from dining with the
Right Hon. Baronet.
The Hungerford Suspension-bridge it is now stated,
is to be open to the public on the 18th inst.
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are unable to say.— Watern Times.