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SOUTHWARK ELECTION. -MEETING OF THE
FRIENDS or SIR WILLIAM. MOLESWORTH.—Last evening
an influential meeting of the electors of the borough of South-
wark tv,,s held at the Queen's Head, High-street, to devise
means to secure the return of Sir William Molesworth to Par-
liament. The Committee formed the previous evening was
enlarged to one hundred, and the canvassing books delivered
out with the intention of commencing the canvass the beginning
of the week. Certain explanations were given of the course
which had been taken by the Reform Association in bringing
sir William forward which were deemed satisfactory to the
great body present, also with regard to his views on the May-
nooth question. On Monday evening a general meeting of the
electors is announced to take place at the Bridge Hotel, at
which it is stated Sir William will make his first appearance.
To-day his address was forwarded to every elector in the
borough, 6,000 in all, so by this time every voter has a copy of
it. The other candidate, Mr. Jeremiah Pilcher, issued his
address at six o'clock in the evening. Beyond this we did not
hear of any movement in his favour. Mr. Daniel Whittle
Harvey has declined standing as a candidate at present, having
intimated that to be his intention yesterday forenoon to a depu-
tation of the electors that waited on him.
CHATHAM DOCKYARD.—The Right lion. the Earl
of Haddington, Admiral W. Bowles, C. 8., Vice-Admiral Sir
W. H. Gage, G.C., the Right lion. H. T. L. Corry, with
Captain Brandreth, Director of Engineering and Architec-
tural Works ; the Hon. Captain R. S. Dundas, Storekeeper
General; Mr. Loyd, the head engineer of works at Woolwich
Dockyard ; and Mr. Pease, private secretary to the Hon.
T. L. Corry, visited Chatham Dockyard on Tuesday, the 12th
inst. Their Lordships, on landing at the Queen's stairs, were
received by a guard of honour of the Royal Marines, consist-
ing of two sergeants and 50 rank and file, under the com-
mand of Captain Finmore, with First Lieutenant Henry
Bremer and First Lieuteaant A. Ramsay, who bore the
Queen's colours. The band of the Royal Marines, on their
Lordships passing, played "Rule Britannia." Their Lord-
ships were received by the Captain-Superintendent, Captain
W. H. Shirreff, and other officials of the yard. The purport
of their visit was to inspect the store-houses, ropery, and
anchor wharf ; after which they inspected the ships building
and those in dock, and also the mast and boat-houses, and the
paddle-box boats built for the Retribution steam-frigate, now
in dock, which are beautifully made, being each 39 feet 9 inches
in length, and each capable of containing 250 persons. Their
Lordships, after further progress, proceeed to the saw mills,
when Professor Airey, of Greenwich, introduced his model
of a saw-machine for cutting timber in various shapes, to
which it is understood their Lordships will give their atten-
tion. Their Lordships, after inspecting the new metal mills
in course of completion (the roof of which is of very
beautiful construction, made of iron), and inspecting the im-
provements now being carried out by Messrs. Baker and Co.,
returned to the residence of the Captain Superintendent, where
they partook of a luncheon, and at half-past 2 o'clock pro-
ceeded in the Admiralty barge on board the Janus steam
sloop, which vessel was cast off from the sheer hulk, and pro-
ceeded under steam down the river with their Lordships and
Captain Shirreff, followed by the Black Eagle Admiralty
steamer. The rate of the speed of the Janus was about three
miles an hour, the wheels revolving about five times in a
minute. On its arrival in Gillingham-reach their Lordships
seemed to have had enough of the vessel, for they left it, and
proceeded on board the Black Eagle to Sheerness, at which
port their Lordships dined, at the Port Admiral's residence.
Acccrding to a Vienna letter of the sth inst., the
Emperor of Austria has issued a Cabinet order that no new
grant for the formation of railroads, within the empire, shall
be made to private companies until the year 1850. By this
period all the railroads now in construction must be finished.
This determination will prevent capital from being absorbed in
these undertakings, and at the same time put a stop to the in-
ordinate speculation in shares. In June last, the aggregate
number of passengers by the Austrian railroads was 1,103,000,
being 87,000 more than in the corresponding month of last year.
THE RISLEYS ON TIIE CONTINENT. The conti-

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nental papers continue to teem with the most enthusiastic en-
comiums on the performances of the Risleys, father and sons.
So great has been their success in the principal cities of
Europe, that they have been obliged to forego engagements
amounting to twenty thousand florins, in order to open in Paris
at the Porte St. Martin, at their stipulated time— the first
week in August. One of the Vienna papers contains a long
and highly complimentary notice of their appearance at the
St. Joseph theatre, in that city, last month, where they took
the phlegmatic Germans by surprise. The Vienna critic says,
" The beauty of the performance of the Risley% does not con-
sist so much in the exhibition of muscular strength as in their
adroit;elasticity and their indescribable grace. 'I he father is a
fine handsome fellow—the boy's beautiful children. The spec-
tator is surprised and delighted at their feather-like leaps, and
their bounds are as daring as if their bodies were made of India
rubber, instead of veritable bone and muscle. Their elegant
silver dresses, the variety of their feats, the novelty, and above
all the refined and classic taste that marks every phase of their
performance at once stamped their popularity in this city. A
hurricane of applause followed their efforts, and the ballet
which introduced them, by M. Pickier of Brussels, contributed
much to their success."
LITERARY CURIOSITY.—The learned Secretary to
the University of Glasgow is about to publish a perfect literary
and political curiosity—the old Glasgow Courant, from the
14th of October, 1745, to the 13th of October, 1746—which
gives a complete detail of the movements and romantic ad-
ventures of the Pretender. As a record of news, notices, and
advertisements of the inhabitants of Glasgow 100 years ago, we
have every reason to believe that Mr. Meikleharn's is the only
copy of this paper in existence. The particulars of the mode
of publication will be found in another page. We understand
that se eeger are the people of Glasgow to posz,egs this curious
record, that several hundred copies were subscribed for in one
day.

terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.