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Tiri OPEN STAKES.-Mr. Lawrence's Linchpin boat Mr.
Bowles's Bridal ; Mr. Goddard's Smolensko beat Mr. Par-
kinson's Slyboots; Mr. Bowles's Bean Btummel beat Mr.
Wyndham's Wesuvius ; Mr. Lawrence's Linda beat Mr.
Parkinson's Sprite Junior.
THE WEYLAND STAKES.—Mr. Wyndham's Varty beat
Mr. Parkinson's Sylph ; Mr. Lawrence's Leinster beat Mr.
Bowles's Bondmaid

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C. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.

LAMBETH,

S OUT H-W E STERN EXTENSION
RAILWAY.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
ASHDOWN PARK COURSING MEETING.
THURSDAY.
SECOND TIES FOR THE Cur.—Laura beat Walburgha ;
Brocade ran a bye, and beat Mr. Gordon's Crape in a match.
FIRST TIES FOR OPEN STAKES.—Linda beat SmoTensko;
Beau Brummel beat Linchpin.
FIRST CLASS CRAVEN STAKES.—Mr. Parkinson's Sarah
Bates beat Captain Archdale's Mayfly; Mr. Bowles's Bles-
sington beat Mr. Lawrence's Lothario.
SECOND CLASS CRAVEN STAKES.—Captain Wyndham's
Whim beat Mr. Lawrence's Laudanum; Mr. Bowles' Bridal
beat Captain Archdale's Mischief.
THE CONSOLATION STAKES.—Mr. Lawrence's St. Leon
beat Mr. Goddard's Spitfire; Mr. Parkinson's Slyboots agst
Captain Wyndham's Vesuvius (not run).

At a very numerous MEETING of the TRUSTEES appointed
under the Act of Parliament for Watching, Lighting, Cleansing, and
otherwise Improving the Roads, Streets, and other public Passages
and Places in this Parish, held by adjournment on the 26th instant
for the express purpose of taking into consideration the probable
effect of the above Extension Railway,
JOHN HUNT, Esq., in the Chair,
It was Resolved,—That in the opinion of this Board the proposed
Extension of the South-Western Railway through this parish will
be highly beneficial to the parishioners, as a measure of general con-
venience and fiscal amelioration ; that it will clear off a number of
tenements of an inferior description, hitherto the periodical re-
ceptacle of infectious disease, and will greatly conduce to the health
and comfort of the locality, by the erection of a class of building
conformable to the provisions of the Metropolitan Building Act.
That Petitions from this Board to the Houses of Parliament be
presented, embodying the above resolution.
By order of the Chairman.

WIL S 0 N'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN-
At the MUSIC-HALL, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE,
On MONDAY EVENING, March 3, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will repeat his Entertainment of
WANDERING WILLIE'S WALLET.
SONGS.
PART I.—The Minstrel—Hey the bonny breast-knots—The Cove-
nanter's Lament—Name came our gudeman at e'en—Bessie Bell and
Mary Gray—The Bonny House o' Airlio—O Bothwell Bank thou
bloomest fair—John Grumlie.
PART ll.—Hail to the chief who in triumph advances—Why left I
my kerne P—M‘Leod of Dunvegan, a curse lies upon thee—l geed a
waefu' gate yestreen—Hersel be Highland Shentleman—Watty cam'
out on a moonshiny night—Gude night and Joy be with you a'.

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STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES
RAILWAY.
Capital 1,200,0001., in Shares of 251. each.
Deposit 11.75. 6d, per Share.
Registered Provisionally puruant to 7 and 8 Victoria, c. 110.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
W. T. Copeland, Esq. M.P. •bert Williamson, Esq.
J. L. Ricardo, Esq., M.P. Job Meigh, Esq.
W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P. Charles Harvey, Esq.
John Masterman, jun., Esq. William Baker. Esq.
Thomas Kinnersly, Esq. C. J. Mason, Esq.
H. H. Williamson, Esq. R. 11. Haywood, Esq.
Edward Kinnersly, Esq. J. J. Capper, Esq.
F. W. Tomlinson, Esq. John Ridgway, Esq.
With power to add to their number.
BANKERS—Thomas Kinnersly, Esq., Newcastle-under-Lyme; Messrs.
Masterman and Co., London.
SOLICITOR—WiIIiam Keary, Esq., Stoke-upon-Trent.
This line is projected to afford adequate railway accommodation to
the Staffordshire Potteries. Proceeding along the Pottery Valley in
a northwardly direction, the line will form a junction at Crewe with
the three Railways that diverge from that point ; whilst an arm to be
extended from the principal line after it has passed through Hare-
castle Hill, and to be carried by way of Congleton to Macclesfield,
will connect it with the Manchester and Birmingham Railway at that
place. Thus to the North it will present the best and most direct
communication, in connexion with railways now established or in
course of construction, with Manchester and the manufacturing towns
of Lanca.hire and Yorkshire ; with the Port of Liverpool and the
North of England and Scotland ; and through Chester with the in-
tended new Docks at Birkenhead, and also with the Port of Holyhead
and the mineral district of North Wales. At its Southern extremity
the line will unite at or near Colwich with the Trent Valley Rail-
way, for which (having received the sanction of the Board of Trade)
application is being made to Parliament in the present session, and
thus afford the best access by that line and the London and Birming-
ham Railway to the Metropolis and all the South of England ' • and
likewise by the intended Alrewas Branch of the Trent Valley Rail-
way to Derby and the agricultural counties to the eastward. A short
branch out of the main line at Stone will be carried into the Grand
Junction Railway at Norton Bridge, which will maintain the com-
munication with the county town of Stafford, with Birmingham and
the populous mining district in its neighbourhood, and with the Ports
of Gloucester and Bristol as well as the south-west of England.
By the projected line, thew, it is obvious that the Potteries will be
placed in a position the most favourable as regards the advantages
of railway communication. The distance from thence to London
will be reduced to 145 miles (less than by the old coach road) ;
whilst Birmingham will be brought within 45 miles, Liverpool via
Warrington within 58 miles, Birkenhead within 49 miles, and Man-
chester within 37 miles of the Potteries.
The claim of this district to improved railway accommodation has
long been recognised, and is now pretty generally admitted ; and
various schemes have been brought forward from time to time with
the view of affording it.
In 1837 two rival Manchester companies each projected and ap-
plied to Parliament to construct a line of railway through the Pot-
teries, which would afford the best and most direct communication
between Manchester and London. In the Committee of the House
of Commons the two companies were amalgamated, and an Act was
passed authorising the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany to construct a line from Manchester through the Potteries to
join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, near Stafford, with a branch to
Crewe. The main line, after being marked out and the works actu-
ally commenced, was finally abandoned ; and the result was the con-
struction merely of the existing line from Manchester to Crewe.
In consequence of the powers conferred by that Act not having
been carried out, the Potteries have been left in their present desti-
tute condition in regard to railway accommodation ; and it is to
supply this deficiency, so grievously felt and lamented, that the line
now submitted to the public is brought forward.
The rcheme embraces altogether about fifty miles of railway, and
the proposed capital is amply sufficient for its construction.
The Valley of the Trent, which the line will pursue for the entire
distance between Colwich and the Potteries, it is well known presents
unusual facilities for the formation of a railway; and the nature of
that part of the country is such as not to require, in any instance, a
gradient exceeding sixteen feet in a mile. On the portion of the line
between Hare Castle and Crewe, although the gradients will be less
favourable, they are not of a character to offer any impediment to
the economical and efficient working of the line.
Before the Parliamentary Committee, which inquired into the alle-
gations of the petitioners for the Bill in 1837, it was proved that the
exports and imports from and into the Potteries in earthenware and
its raw materials, coals, ironstone, and other merchandise, amounted
to 328,000 tons per annum, or after the rate of nearly 1,000 tons
daily. Since that time the mines of ironstone, which abound in the
Pottery districts, have been more extensively worked, a large quan-
tity of which is calcined on the spot, and then transported elsewhere
to be smelted,' whilst several furnaces have been established in the
district for the smelting of iron, and thus a considerable increase has
taken place in that source of traffic. In respect to coals and earthen-
ware also, an increased and increasing traffic may fairly be calcu-
lated upon.
As regards passenger traffic, from the inconvenience and obstruc-
tion to which it has been subject, in consequence of having to travel
by a hilly road a mean distance of eight miles to the nearest station
on the Grand Junction Railway, it is difficult to form any correct
estimate ; but it may suffice for the present to state, that the district
which the projected line will traverse between Colwich and Crewe
and Hare Castle and Macclesfield, comprising the towns of Stone,
Newcastle-under-Lyme, the Potteries, and Congleton, embraces a
population of upwards of 160,000.
Independently, however, of any local traffic, it may confidently be
anticipated that a large proportion of the traffic from London and
the South to Liverpool and Holyhead will flow in the channel which
this line will provide for it ; and it must necessarily command the
great bulk of the Manchester traffic, inasmuch as it will place that
capital of the cotton district within 181 miles of London; and,
taking gradients and distances both into comparison, will constitute
in every way the most perfect communication between those all-
important places.
The projected line therefore, whether it is regarded as a link in the
great chain of railways which will connect the Metropolis by the best
and shortest route with Manchester, as well as with Liverpool and
Holyhead ; or as offering the fullest measure of railway accommoda-
tion to a populous district, entitled thereto, no less from being the
principal seat of the earthenware manufacture, than from the valu-
able mineral products with which it abounds, and now destitute of
the advantages of that rapid means of transport which railways sup-
ply—is manifestly one of great national importance, and cannot fail to
afford an ample return on the capital invested.
Due notice will be given when and where applications are to be
made for shares

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
GEORGE HUDSON, ESQ.
SIR,-I now enclose a reply I have had from the
friend who accompanied me at Derby, on the 20th of
January, who, it appears, has not yet left England.
Permit me to add, as it may give additional weight to
his opinions, that Mr. Edden (the writer) is a gentle-
man of the highest respectability, a member of the Irish
bar, and just about to be called to the English bar by
the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, and that I have
not seen him since the 20th of January, nor have I had
any conversation or communication whatever with him
on the subject referred to in his letter, save a note I
addressed to him on Saturday last (in duplicate to York-
shire and to Ireland), requesting to know if I had re-
presented matters correctly or not.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
ALEXANDER M'HAFFIE.
Kensington Park, London, Feb. 26, 1845.
MR. EDDEN'S LETTER REFERRED TO IN THE ABOVE.
MY DEAR WHAFFIE,—In consequence ofyour having
directed your letter of the 21st to Wath-hall, and of in)
having left Yorkshire some days since, I did not receive
it till now.

In reply to it, I have no hesitation in stating, that I
understood the remarks of Mr. Hudson, made to Mr.
Beckett Denison, M.P., at the Railway-station at Derby,
on the 20th of last month, with respect to the dishonest
getting of money to have reference to the " London and
York Railway Company," and none whatever to Mr.
Denison in his private capacity. I also recollect per-
fectly having told Mr. Denison (after his having applied
rather harsh epithets to Mr. Hudson), that I had so un-
derstood the latter gentleman, and that one of our fellow
travellers said several times that he had put the same
construction on the observation of Mr. Hudson.
My impression at the time was, that all the gentlemen
in the carriage entertained the same opinion. I may as
well add that the conduct of Mr. Hudson on the occasion
was most forbearing, and that he seemed to regret much
that his remarks bad been misconstrued by Mr. Denison.
I am, my dear WHatfle, yours sincerely,
JOHN WILLIAM EDDEN.
6, Vaughan•parade, Torquay, Devonshire, Feb. 24.
To A. M'Haffie, Esq., Kensington-park.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA
MENT.

NOTICES GIVENAT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.

THURSDAY, FEB. 27.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway—Second reading,
Monday, March 3.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway—Second
reading, Monday, March 3.
London and Greenwich Railway—Committee on petition,
Monday, March 10.
South Wales Railway—Committee on petition, Monday,
March 10.
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour—Committee on petition,
Monday, March 10.
Midland Railway (Nottingham to Lincoln)—Committee on
petition, Monday, March 10.
Midland Railways (Swinton to;Lincoln)—Committee on peti-
tion, Monday, March 10.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough)—Committee on
petition, Monday, March 10.
Midland Railways (Lincoln to Ely)—Committee on petition,
Monday, March 10.
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway—Committee
on petition, Monday, March 10.
North Woolwich Railway—Committee on petition, Monday,
March 10.
Norwich and Brandon Railway Deviation and Diss and
Dereham Branches—Second readinl-, Monday, March 3.
Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway—Committee on peti-
tion, Monday, March 10.
Middlesborough and Redcar Railway—Committee on peti-
tion, Monday, March 10.
Wear Valley Railway—Committee on petition, Monday,
March 10.
York and North Midland Railway (Doncaster Extension)—
Committee on petition, Monday, March 10.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal—Second
reading, Monday, March 3.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway—Committee on
petition, postponed from Tuesday, March 4, till Wednes-
_day,_March 5.

Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway—
Committee on petition, Monday, March 10.
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway—Second
reading, Monday, March 3.

The following Bills were read a first time :
The Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction.
The Norwich aud Brandon Railway Deviation and Diss and
Dereham Branches.
The Leeds and Thirsk Railway.
The Bridgewater Navigation and Railway.
The Barnsley Junction Railway.
The Whitby and Pickering Railway.

Petitions for the following Railway Bills were referred to
the Select Committee on Petitions for Private Bills .
Bedford and London and Birmingham Railway.
Harrogate and Ripon Junction Railway.
London and Greenwich Railway.
Dundee and Perth Railway.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway.
Midland Railways (Syston to Peterborough).
Midland Railways (Swinton to Lincoln).
Midland Railways (Nottingham to Lincoln).
Midland Railways (Ely to Lincoln).
Lowestoft Railway and Harbour.
North Woolwich Railway.
Middlesbro' and Redcar Railway.
Wear Valley Railway.
York and North Midland (Doncaster Extension).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway.

The following petitions for Bills were also reported, and the
reports referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders :
Cambridge and Lincoln Railway.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway.
Glasgow Junction Railway.
London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway.
York and North Midland Railway.
Manchester, Bury, and Rosaendale Railway (Heywood
Branch).
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Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling Junction) Railway,—
Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in
by Lord Harry Vane, Mr. Hodgson Hinde, and Mr. Hutt.
York and ginth Midland ( Bridlington Branch) Railway,—
Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in
by Sir John Lowther, Mr. Redhead Yorke, and Sir John
Johnstone.

Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Railway (Heywood
Branch),—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Walker and Mr. Brotherton.
Harwell and Streatley Road,—Petition for Bill reported,
and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Robert Feltner and
Mr. Pusey.

SUGAR DUTIES.
PAIRS ON LORD J. RUSSELL'S AMENDMENT.
FOR. AGAINST.
Aldam, W. Douro, Marquis
Barron, Sir li. Hillsborough, Earl
Bell, John Ackers, J.
Bowes, J. Broadwood, H.
Bulkeley, Sir R. Hornby, John
Cayley, E. S. Rashleigh, W.
Chapman, B. Lindsay, IL
Currie, Raikes Walsh, Sir J. B.
Duncan, Lord Maunsell, T. P.
Dundas, Admiral Bruce, C. C.
Dundas, David Hope, Beresford
Elphinstone, IL Ffolliott, John
Etwall, Ralph Bagge, W.
Ferguson. Colonel Campbell, Sir H.
French, F. Alexander, N.
Fox, Colonel 11. Sheppard, T.
Grey, Sir G. Knight, Henry G.
Guest, Sir J. ' Pakington, J. S.
Hoskins, K. . Price, Richard
Havter, W. G. Davies, D. A. S.
Hatton, Captain Acton, Colonel
Jervis, J. Powell, Colonel
Layard, Captain Daaier, Hon. Colonel
Loch, James Egerton, Lord F.
Martin, John Mildmay, H.
Mangles, R. D. Hodgson, Frederick
Matheson, J. Gaskell, J. M.
Ogle, Saville Cresswell, C. B.
Philipps, Sir R. Bradshaw, J.
Phillpotts, John Vivian, J. E.
Pigot, Right Hon. R. Bernard, Lord
Pr.ttison, James Stanley, E.
Ricardo, John L. Collett, W. R.
Stuart, Lord J. Adare, Lord
Smith, R. V. March, Earl of
Somerville, Sir .W.
coCoomtptosnir, H. C.
Tufnell, Henry e,
Vivian, Hon. J. C. Forester, Hon. C.
Vivian, J. H. Heathcote, Sir W.
Wrightson, W. Baldwin, C. B.
Westenra, Hon. J. Ashley, Hon. C. H.
White, Colonel H. Hamilton, H.
White, Colonel S. Vesev, Hon. T.
Worsley, Lord
Tomfine, George

THE FATAL POACHING AFFRAY AT CROOME.
WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY EVENLNG.—The result of to-day's
final examination of the men mentioned as having been re-
manded on the charge of the murder of the gamekeeper,
Thomas Staite, at Croome, was that nine of ,the poachers
were fully committed for trial at the Lent Assizes.
The inhabitants of East Grinstead have sent a
petition to her Majesty in Council, praying for some steps to
be taken to terminate the " melancholy schism" which at
present divides the Church of England.—Brighton Herald.

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FOREIGN.
On Monday afternoon the King of the Frencl4 accom-
panied by Colonel Dumas, and two orderly .officers, paid a
visit to N'euillv, but returned to the Tuileries to dinner. In
the evening their Majesties received the Ministers of Marine
and Commerce, the President of the Chamber of Deputies,
the Duke de Preslin, the Marquis de PAngle, the Baron de
Bourgoing, General Derainle, and Colonel Count d'Orakon.
"Last night," says the Currier Francais of Tuesday, "the
Court treated themselves to the amusement of a visit aux
flambeaux to the Louvre galleries. Tour footmen dragged
two cars with arm chairs, in which the King Until-he Queen
sat. Ten footmen carried reflector lanterns, placed on the
ends of long poles."
The same paper states that Louis Pl,ilippe will spend a
part of the summer at the Chateau d'Eu, it here works on art
extensive scale are proceeding.
M. Villemain (says the Recite de Paris) ham resumed his
functions of Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy.
The honourable member, in a short and lucid address, thanked
his colleagues for the very marked sympathy which thee; had
evinced for him on a late painful occasion, which .fortunately
was now only a reminiscence.
The results of the census of Paris in the year 1841 has just
been published, from which it appears that in Paris, properly
so called, including the garrison (23,228 men), the number '
of inhabitants was then 935,261. The next census takes
place at the end of the present year.
"Government," observes the Revue de Paris; "have re-
ceived dispatches from our Ambassador in Switzerland, and
they have just sent him instructions relative to the crisis
which the Cantons are at this moment undergoing. M. Pon-
tois is instructed to declare to the Diet that, in accordance
with the other Powers, France will not interfere in the affairs
of the country, so long as they will follow their legal course,
but that she is determined on maintaining in itaintegrity
the constitution of the 7th of August, 1815, which was freely
assented to by the Cantons, and approved fby the Eurcpeaa
Powers."
A letter from Zurich, of the 20th says :—" The Executive
Council has desired the Council of War to dismiss as
promptly as possible all the troops that have been assen..
bled, with the exception of one company, to act as a guard .1...
of honour to the Diet. The Vorort has invited the Canton
of Lucerne to withdraw its troops from the frontier."
The King of Sweden and Norway opened the Storthing of
the latter country at Christiana on the 10th instant. In his
speech on this occasion, after paying an affecting tribute of t
veneration to the memory of his father, he assured the assem-
bly that his dearest wish was to realise all the paternal views
of the deceased Sovereign for the welfare of his people, and
the cordial union of the two countries on principles of strict
ustice and equality.
In addition to the comet recently seen at Berlin, Paris, and
London, M. Colla, the astronomer of Parma, announces that
he has discovered another; and in the log of Captain Hilafre
Gautier, who has arrived lately at Marseilles, a third is
mentioned. The latter is said to be placed between the two
stars No. 11 of Eridanus, and 16 of the Atlas of Harding.
This comet disappeared at the moment when Captain Gautier
approached the equator.
The Augsburgh Gazette says :—" We have before us a letter
from Cairo, of the 21st January, announcing that 8 letter has
been received from M. d'Abadie, dated Aden the 17th of
October, in which he says that he has discovered the source
of the White Nile, in the Ganira country."
LAW Thomaslt
At the Carlisle Assizes Robertshaw, a quack doc-
tor, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced. to four
months' imprisonment. He prescribed jalap and corrosive
sublimate for a man named Coulthard, who had died from the effects of the dose.
Matthew Paris, and his wife, Anne Paris, were jointly in-
dicted at the Middlesex Sessions, charged with having
wilfully omitted to provide sufficient meat, drink, and
sustenance for Robert Paris, their son ; and in a second
count, charging them with having confined the said
Robert Paris in a certain cellar, and refusing to sup-
ply him with sufficient meat and drink, between the
Ist day of August, 1844, and the 12th of February, 1845.
The jury were in the act of considering their verdict, when
the judge intimated to the
*prisoners that it would be better
for them to withdraw their plea of Not Guilty, and plead
Guilty. The prisoners, after some hesitation, adopted this
course. His Lordship then ordered Paris to enter into his
recognisance in 20/., and in the same sum for his wife, to
come
when called
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om eup for judgment
his
children
with w
more
kindness,
about it.
At Clerkenwell, Thomas Shaw was charged by Mrs. Jane
Johnson, of Gloucester-street, Gloucester-square, with bur-
glariously entering her dwelling-house. The prosecutrix, on
Tuesday night last, was alarmed by a noise, and on entering
the parlour with a female friend, they found the prisoner
concealed under the bed. They called " Murder!" and the
prisoner was given into custody. Some lucifer matches were
found in his possession, and a parcel of duplicates. He was
remanded.

COITILT-11.A.SRIONABLE.
The Duchess of Kent will take her departure on Friday
from Frogmore House. for Clarence House, St. James's. The
Royal Duchess will be accompanied by the Countess of
Wratislau, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard, and Col.
Sir George Cowper, Bart. Her Royal Highness gave a small
dinner party at Frogmore House on Wednesday evening.
Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for the first of a
series of soirees, to commence on Saturday next, at her Lady-
ship's mansion on Carlton House• terrace.
Lord and Lady Charles Beauclerk have arrived in Ring-
street from Ankerwycke House.
Earl Fortescue has arrived in Grosvenor-square from his
Lordship's seat, Castle-hill, near Southmolton, Devon.
The Dowager Countess Fortescue is passing the winter at
her seat, Wear Gifford, Devon.

The Dowager Countess of Pembroke has arrived at Earl
Bruce's, Pall-mall, from her Ladyship's seat, Wilton House,
near Salisbury. The Countess will remain at the residence
of the Noble Earl, until the repairs of her Ladyship's man-
slow are completed.
The marriage of Miss Cecilia Neil Douglas, second ltaugh_
ter of the Commander of the Forces in Scotland, Major-Ge-
neral Sir Neil Douglas, K.C.8., K.C.H., with the Hon. Au-
gustus Jocelyn, son of the late Earl of Roden, was celebrated
in the presence of a numerous and distinguished party,, friends
and relatives of the bride and bridegroom,. on Wednesday
last, at Edinburgh.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Commissioners of Customs have received a letter from
Mr. Cardwell, one of the Secretaries to the Lords Commis-
sioners of the Treasury, to the effect that he had been com-
manded by their Lordships to state to the Board that infor-
mation had been received from various quarters of the preva-
lence of an infectious disorder among cattle, in several parts
of the Continent, and to desire that they would give direc-
tions to their officers carefully to examine any cattle imported
into this country, and in the event of their appearing to be
infected with any disorder, not to permit them to be landed
without inspection and report as to their soundness, by sonic
competent person, and to report the circumstances immedi-
ately to the Board.
The monument which was subscribed for by the friends of
the late Dr. Arnold has been for some time in the chapel at
Rugby. It was executed in Caen stone by Mr. John
Thomas; the figure is recumbent, under a rich Gothic ca-
nopy, and has given so much satisfaction to the Committee
•that they have rewarded the artist with 100/. beyond the sum
agreed upon.
. On Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning. the
tower of Brodick Castle, near Arran, fell with a terrible crash.
The old Castle had been injured by the late storms, and seve-
ral of the lintels had been rent. Workmen were employed in
repairing the damage, no fewer than sixteen being working
on it on Saturday last. Providentially the fall was during
the time when no one was about it.
On Wednesday morning, about seven o'clock, as police-
constable No. 72, belonging to the G division, was on duty
in Red Lion-square, he observed a bundle lying in the en-
closure; he got over the railings, and, having opened it.
found a fine female infant, dead, wrapped up in a common
stuff apron. The constable immediately removed the body
to St. Giles's workhouse, to await a coroner's inquest.
Lord Albert Conyngham, the President of the Archmologi-
cal Association. has resigned his position as the head of that
association. A public meeting of the society is about to be
held, in consequence of some unpleasant squabbles in the com-
mittee.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 27.
Sittings at 235ci Prius, before Sir F. POLLOCE and a Special Jury.)
SIeINTOSII V. THE SIIDLAND COUNTIES RAILWAY

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday,)
On the part of the plaintiff, thedelay was attributed to the non-
delivery of the rails ; but on that of the defendants that cause was
denied, it being asserted that the rails were kept back purposely, as
the plaintiff was not forward enough to require them—a state of
things which they candidly enough attributed, not to the negligence
of the plaintiff, but to the state of the weather and ground, over
which he could have no eontrol. •

Sir F. POLLOCK having summed up the evidence.
The jury, at half past 6 o'clock, returned a verdict for the plain-
tiff for 8,9121. Is. 10d., being the full amount of his demand to-
gether with Interest.

THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE for March begins
with a capital Ingoldsby Leger.d—one of the most
amusing of those very clever pleasantries their author
has given to the public. It bears the title of " The
Blasphemer's Warning, a Lay of St. Ronawold," A
paper, called " Born under the Dog Star," by Angus B.
Reach, will also help the reader to many a hearty laugh.
e isit yesterday, "An Excursion up the Oronnoko," from the extremely
picturesque scenes described by the writer, must afford
no slight gratification. " A Visit to a Circassian Chief,"
by IL WaltPr D'Arcy, is equally worthy of a perusal,
and describes a part of the world still more interesting.
"Conversations in the National Gallery," evidently pro.
seeds from some one well acquainted with art. The
author of "Peter Priggins" furnishes a new und ludi-
crous version of the old fable of " The Frog and the
Fox." The Robertses continue their amusing adven-
tures at the German Spa, under the auspices of Mrs.
Mr. Maxwell, the author of "Stories of Wa-
terloo,' -..
terloo," contributes a narrative of deep interest ; and
ts:helde
chair.ii yß'
" The Talley rand Papers" are again full. of clever de-
lineations of one of the most extraordinary men that
ever existed. .
Hu NG ERFORD SIISPENSiNiII,Oa
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the report of the Directors, in which
prelimi-
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business,
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they announced to the Proprietors that they had resolved to open the
bridge to the public on the 24th of March, being Easter-Monday, and
that for the four weeks following the passage should be free. Ity the
22d of April every part of the works will be finished, when, in ac-
cordance with the resolutions of the general meeting of the Pro-
prietors, held on the 15th day of February, last year, the Directors
have fixed the toll to be collected at one half-penny for each pas-
senger. An objection was taken to the propriety of throwbig open
the bridge to the public for four weeks, on the ground that the novelty
of the structure would induce a large number of persons to pass offer
it for some time after its opening, and that, consequently, considerable
profit would arise therefrom for division among the Shareholders.
It was explained that althoagh the bridge would be in a condition fir the public to pass over it on the 24th of March, yet that it would be
impossible to fix the toll-gates and tell-tales by that time ; and that
the proposed four weeks gratuitous use of the bridge would be a
benefit and gratification to thousands, and not result in any pecu-
niary injury to the Shareholders. The Shareholders, however, per-
sisted in their determination to oppose tho recommendation of the
Directors, and a resolution was passed to the effect that the bridge,
should not be opened till it was in a fit state for toll to be take,;
and that the toll be a halfpenny. It was next resolved that the
plan of issuing return tickets be postponed for the consideration of the
next meeting. The report of the Directme thus amended. and tho
engineer's report, and statement of accounts, were then adopted.
GOLDEN HINT TO TRADESMEN.—A man of the
world, who keeps an early purl-house in Tottenham-court-road,
method s—He lent the beadle, who came with a summons five yearg,
assures us he has arolded serving on juries by the followg simple
the beadle slum—Punch.
ago, the sum of five shillings, and, strange to say, lie has never scuff

The annual match between the Universities of
Cambridge and Oxford is fixed to come off on Saturday, Mil 22d of
March, on the Thames, from Putney to 3fortlaise.