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TULE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31,

life in which she is born, and when, after refusing a
match of interest attempted to be forced on her by
her father, the family are recalled to England by news
of bankruptcy and embarrassment, she is saddened
with the thought that her equally gifted lover,
Clarence Mowbray, if they marry, will be com-
pelled, with all his fine taste and love of the
arts, and partiality for foreign travel, to
work—actually work—in a dingy city counting-
house ! The family have been brought into embar-
rassments by not arfficiently "looking to the end,"
and the sounder principle now prevailing, Eva and
Clarence are as happy in the more humble sphere,
where toil makes leisure doubly pleasant, and there is
competence but not absolute wealth.

Tile work seems written to check that morbid love
of i 6 position" and " respectability" to which in
English society so much real happiness is sacrificed.
Much of the interest of the work arises from the de-
scription of Rome and its environs, though we cannot
always agree with the lady's views, theological or
artistic.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.—The Dublin, 50, Captain
Tucker, sai ed yesterday morning for Plymouth to be
paid off.
The Eagle, 50, Captain Martin, flag of Rear-Admiral
Inglefleld, sailed this morning for the Bnizils.l
The Earl of Iladdington, First Lord, Vice-Admiral
Sir W. hall Gage, and Captain Dundas, arrived by
special train on Friday to receive her Majesty on her
arrival yesterday at the Clarence-yard. The Admiralty
flag was hoisted at the dockyard gate yesterday morning,
and was saluted at noon by 19 guns from the Platform
Battery. Their Lordships returned to town yesterday
afternoon.

The Pilot, 16, Commander Jervis, was at Madras on
the 7th of February.
The Rapid, 10, Commander Earle, was at St. Helena
on the 10th of February.
The Actaeon, 16, Captain Mansell, and the Lily, 16,
Commander Newton, were at Madeira on the 2d inst.,
and the Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hope, calltd
at the same place on the 6th inst.
The Snake, 16, Commander the Hon. W. Devereux,
was at Barcelona on the 16th inst.

The Scylla, 16, Commander Sharpe. sailed from Ja-
maica on the 19th inst., for Chagres, with Mr. Pritchard,
the Otaheitian Consul on board.

The Satellite, 18, Commander Rowley, was at Monte
Video on the let ult., as was also the Racer, Com-
mander Reed.

A court-martial, comprising Captain A. Duntze, of
the Fisgard, President; Captain Sir T. Thompson, Bart.,
of the Talbot ; Captain J. J. Tucker, of the Dublin ;
Commander Gordon, of the Cormorant ; Commander
Macdonald, of the Dublin ; and Mr. James Pinhorne
(Secretary to Rear-Admiral Thomas), Judge-Advocate,
assembled on board the Fisgard, 42, Captain Duntze, at
Valparaiso, on the 9th of December, to try Lieutenant•
Bridge, senior Lieutenant of the Cormorant steam- sloop,
for a breabh of the 23d article of war, which declares
that "if any 'person in the fleet shall quarrel or fight
ith any other person in the fleet, or use provoking
speeches or gestures, he shall, upon being convicted
thereof, suffer such punishment as the offence shall de-
serve and a court-martial shall impose."
The charge was founded on a letter of complaint from
the Vice-Consul of Islay, Mr. Crompton, who allege.'
that on going on board the Cormorant to pay his respects
to the commanding officer, he met Lieutenant Bridge on
the quarter-deck, and on tendering him his hand he drew
back and refused to take it in a most haughty and con-
temptuous manner, saying. " That he did not know what
familiarity existed between them, for him to receive,
or for him (Mr. Crompton) to offer his hand to him;"
and upon pressing him for an explanation for ouch an
unprovoked insult, Lieutenant Bridge said, " That he
would not be upon terms with a person who had sowed
or was the cause of dissension on board of a man-of-
war;" and upon demanding the name of the author of so
unfounded a calumny, he said " he was a gentleman, and
that on shore he would answer," a provocation which the
Vice-Consul considered intended to oblige him to have
a hostile meeting with him.
On the Court being sworn, the prisoner, who was as-
sisted by Mr. Rowe, purser of the Fisgard, submitted
that he could not be tried for a breach of the 23d article
of war, inasmuch as Mr. Crompton, the Vice. Consul at
Islay, vas neither in nor belonged to the fleet, nor in
ally way amenable to martial law; consequently, not
being subject to its pains and penalties, could not partake
of its advantages, for he, enjoying perfect immunity,
might, without fear, urge him into the commission of an
offence for a hich he might be punished (as the article
admits of no justification by provocation) whilst the pro-
secutor escaped from: not being amenable to martial law.
He therefore submitted that the Court must declare the
charge nut within its jurisdiction, for when evidence was
afforded as to his disputing with Mr. Crompton, it could
not be received as evidence of his quarrelling or disputing
with any other person in the fleet. He further urged the
illegality of the proceedings upon the grounds of his not
having had twenty-four hours' notice before trial; that
Commander Gordon, having previously examined the
witnesses in his cabin without his (Lieutenant Bridge)
being present, had already established in himself a court
of inquiry, and was therefore ineligible to sit on that
eourt-martial as one of his judges; he morever required
Commander Gordon as a witness; and lastly, that the
Court could not proceed, inasmuch as his most material
witness, Mr. Crompton himself, was absent, his evidence
being essentially necessary to establish the correctness of
his conduct.

The above objections being overruled, the prisoner, in
his defence, contended that Mr. Crompton had no right to
insist on his giving him his hand; that though he had
been frequently on board the Cormorant, he had never
returned the attentions that had been shown him by the
officers; that he was in a position to prove that Mr.
Crompton had made incorrect representations to Com-
mander Gordon, which tended to create unpleasant feel-
ings in their small community; also, that he had, in a
mixed society of civilians and officers, proposed a party
toast, which might have compromised them as British
officers, and which embarrassed them in the enjoyment of
private society. He was not, therefore, to be brow-
beaten into a familiarity which he did not approve. He
denied the interpretation which had been put upon his
words when he told Mr. Crompton that the quarter-deck
was not the place for discussions—they must be settled
on shore. Lieutenant Bridge then submitted to the
Court certificates from Admirals Sir J. Rowley, Sir R.
Stopford, Sir T. Briggs, Captain Sir T. Hastings, and
all the officers he had served under, all of whom spoke
highly of him as a zealous, active, and excellent officer.
He then called several witnesses, whose evidence, how-
ever, was materially damaged by the determination made
by the Court to restrict the exwaination entirely to the
events which took place on the garter-deck of the Cor-
morant, inasmuch as the character and conduct of the
prosecutor was completely shielddd from investigation.
The Court having heard the *hole of the evidence,
pronounced the charge of a breach of the 23d Article of
War to be partly proved, and adjttdged Lieut. Bridge to
be dismissed from her Majesty's stoop Cormorant.

RAIL WAY IN TELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND YORK.-LINCOLN. COUNTY
MEETIN G.

LINC3LN, SATURDAY.—On Friday, at noon, a public
meeting was held here, in the Castle yard, pursuant to a
requisition addressed to the High Sheriff, to take into
consideration the various railway schemes affecting the
county of Lincoln. At twelve o'clock the gates of the
Castle-yard were thrown open, and the crowd which
thronged the Castle- bill rushed into the yard, spacious
hustings being erected in front of the Court-hou e,
formed of several a aggons with heavy timbers laid
across. The excitement during the day was consider-
able. In the course of a few minutes Thomas Coltman,
Esq., of Hagnaby Priory, the High Sheriff (with the
Under-Sheriff, Henry Williams, Esq.), took the chair.
On the hustings appeared Earl Fitz williarn, Earl of
Winchilsea and Nottingham, Lord Viscount Worsley,
M.P., the Hon. William Ashley, the Hon. Alexander
Leslie Melville, Sir John Trollope, Bart., M.P., Sir M.
John Cholmeley, Bart., H. A. Christopher, Esq., M.P.,
Edward Heneage' Esq., M.P., General Johnson, and a
number of the leading gentry of the county. The Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, with the Direct Northern advocates,
arranged themselves ou the right hand of the hustings;
and the London and York on the left. Not fewer than
ten thousand persons were present at the commence-
ment, and at least fifteen thousand towards the close of
the proceedings. The requisition having been read over,
the High Sheriff asked a candid and impartial hearing
for all parties.
General JOHNSON observed that he saw many persons
present who had no connexion with the county, and he
trusted that no strangers would be allowed to address
the meeting.—(Cheers.)
The HIGH SHERIFF sanctioned this arrangement.
C. J. PACK, Esq., in proposing the first resolution,
observed that at present Lincolnshire was without rail-
way communication to the metropolis, and to the manu-
facturing districts, and it often happened, as during the
late winter, that they were greatly distressed for coal.
During the last twelve months he had been diligently
inquiring which would be the best and most useful line
of railway communication for Lincolnshire, and he had
come to the conclusion that that line which would con-
nect nearly all the market towns in the county must be
the best. The report of the Board of Trade said that
the London and York line would probably cost ten mil-
lions, but he was assured that it might and would be
constructed for considerably less than eight. It was not
as it regarded the south communication only, but the
north and east, and the extensive grazing districts, that
they ought to consider this subject. He concluded by
reading the first resolution, which was to the effect,
" That the meeting approved of the proposed London
and York, as the best for the interests of the county of
Lincoln."—(Loud cries and uproar, mixed with cheers,
" Bribery, bribery," " Half- a-crown a day," &c.)
WESTON CRACROFT, Esq., in seconding the resolution,
said, that however adverse the Board of Trade were to
the London and York scheme, still they were compelled
to admit that it was a grand and comprehensive scheme.
(A Voice : A scheme to hire men, at two shillings a
head, to hold up their hands for you.) This railway
would connect this extensive agricultural county with
the great manufacturing districts, and it was far more
important to get a good market for their produce than
merely connecting the county with London.
The Earl of WiseuiLsEa was loudly greeted on step-
ping forward, and some slight disapprobation was mani-
fested by the advocates of the London and York. In
moving a resolution of a counter character to that they
had just heard, he assured the meeting that it was with
great regret he found himself opposed to so many gen-
tlemen with whom he was usually in the habit of acting
in public matters, but no man felt more deeply than
himself the high benefit that railway communication
would confer on this county, not only connecting it with
the metropolis, but in affording a scheme for all its
productions being conveyed to the best markets. He
had considered this great question entirely uninfluenced
by motives of a private character ; he had no interest in
either projected line ; he was no shareholder, and
therefore his judgment could not be biassed by any con-
sideration of gain, and he sincerely believed, that the
Cambridge and Lincolnshire would afford that desired
object. lie had been most anxious that a
different line to the London and Birmingham should be
made, affording a more direct communication to the
north ; and he had hitherto been favourable to the
London and York line, as affording that communication,
but since reading the report of the Board of Trade, he
must confess that his views had changed, and he was
convinced by that able document that the line by
Cambridge was the best for the Eastern Counties ge-
nerally, and the most desirable for this county in par-
ticular, especially when it was considered [hat the gra-
dients would be the best of any line in England. It
was not as it regarded Lincolnshire alone, but the
country at large, that he thought this line should be
constructed. It would be carried into effect at a much
lower rate of cost, and, in the opinion of scientific men,
would be made in one-half the time that the other line
would. Then there was the new terminus, which was
to be made in Farringdon -street ; it was the best for
the agricultural interests, being nearest to Smithfield ;
it was the most favourably situated for access to the
bonding warehouses, to the Custom-house, the Bank,
the Post-office, and for every other public office which
concerned the interests of agriculture and of commerce.
He fully coincided in the views taken by the Board of
Trade in their report, as most sound and judicious, and
therefore, he would move that this meeting do approve
of the various railway projects affecting Lincolnshire,
which were recommended by the Board of Trade in
their report of the 20th of March.
General JOHNSON said, that in seconding the motion,
he was quite as disinterested as the Noble Mover, neither
project touching an acre of his land, nor had he shares
in any railway whatever. If his own private conve-
nience wore eoneultecl,- he should give the vt-eft•renee to
the London and York, as it passed two miles nearer to
his residence than the Cambridge and Lincoln ; but he
wrs satisfied that the latter line, with its continuance by
the Direct Northern to York, would be the best. He
hoped every man would take the trouble to read the re-
port made by the Board of Trade, and judge for him-elf;
it might not be very palatable to some of those gentle.
men on the other side, who recommended the London
and York, but he defied them, with their utmost inge-
nuity, to prove that it was unfair or partial. He was
no friend to monopoly. The London and Birming-
ham line was a great monopoly : and so would
the London and York be if it ever were constructed.
He had seen the resolutions of a meeting of the citi-
zens of Lincoln, where above a thousand of them
had, on Wednesday evening, unanimously decided
that the Cambridge and Lincoln was the best, and he
hoped the country would come to the same decision. He
was anxious for cheap travelling,-for cheap coals, and for
getting their corn to market cheap. Now, if one con-
cern laid out eight millions, and the other only five, in
constructing a series of railways, it was quite clear that
those expending the five millions would be best able to
afford them cheap travelling, cheap coal, and to take
their corn cheap. There was another consideration.
The cheap line could be made in two years, whilst the
other, if ever made at all, could-not be made under eight
years.—(" Ob, oh !") The London and Birmingham
line professed to have everything finished in two years
and a half, and at a cost of three millions and a half, but
they were five years before ever they started a train, and
had expended above seven millions. The same would be
the case with the London and York at its southern ex-
tremity, if even it were begun. The terminus of the
line from Cambridge to London would be within a
quarter of a mile of Smithfield, whilst the other, at King's-
cross, would be two miles off, and that was of high im-
portance to the agriculturists. If men would but look
candidly into the matter, they would be convinced that
the line by Cambridge would be the best for Lincoln-
shire, and he believed all the county thought so, except
those personally interested to the contrary. He con-
cluded by seconding the amendment moved by the Noble
Lord.

E. BECKETT DENISON, Esq., M.P., at great length
argued in favour of the London and York scheme, which
he said was the shortest by ten miles to York ; it would
be constructed in its entirety in 237 miles, whilst the
Board of Trade scheme was 359 miles. The correspond-
ing parts of the Direct Northers'. and Cambridge would
cost 5,380,0001., whilst the:Lincoln and York line would
be made for 4,720,000 Z ; they would carry coals at
fer ton per mile, and the others would charge id. So far
rom the Farringdon Junction being made for 800,0001.,
he was assured it would cost above two millions.

Mr. JOHN COUPLAND, of Lincoln, said he was one of a
mercantile firm, which consumed as much coal as a dozen
parishes, and they paid 15,0001. a year in freights.
Cheap coals and carriage were important to them, and
he was convinced that the Cambridge was that cheap line
the county required. It would be constructed in two
years, whilst it would take eight or ten years to make
the London and York.

Earl FITZWILLIAM again spoke in favour of the Cam-
bridge line, as the best and cheapest for the conveyance
of the agricultural produce from the south of the county
to London ; the " loop," as it was called, would not
serve the interests of the middle of the county, which
would be shut up from the benefits of railways as com-
pletely as the meeting was enclosed within the Castle
walls.

The question was put, and the show of hands was
taken on either side a second time ; the numbers were
so evenly balauced, that the High Sheriff had to call for
a division.

At length each party having divided, one to the north,
and the other to the south, he decided that the majority
was in favour of the London and York line.

T. G. CORBETT, Esq., moved, and J. C. H. ANDER-
SON, Esq., seconded, a resolution in favour of the Grimsby
and Gainsborough Railway, which was carried by a
large majority.
►Sir MONTAGUE JOHN CHOLMELEY, Bart., amidst much
tumult, moved a petition, which was seconded by T.
GEE, Esq., of Boston.
On the show of hands, they were again so nearly
equal that the High Sheriff was doubtful, but declared
the motion can ied.

On the motion of Lord WORSLEY, M.P., seconded by
R. A. CHRISTOPHER, Esq., M.P., thanks were voted to
the High Sheriff, who briefly acknowledged the com-
pliment, and the meeting broke up.