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received information that it had been inflicted by the pri• ruled heavy, on the following terms :—Beef,
soner, witness proceeded to her lodgings, and found her. A 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 4s Bdfrotom6s2:
the
sharp-pointed white-handled table-knife was lying on a3s4dto4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per Bibs by
table in the room, and a portion of the blade was smeared carcase. Yea ],
with blood. Witness asked her if she was the person who
had stabbed the man ? and she unhesitatingly replied that
she was. He then took her into custody, and conveyed her
to the station-house. The wounded man was removed to
Charing Cross-hospital, where he at present remains.
Mr. MALTny asked the prisoner if she wished to say any-
thing ?—She replied that she had been living with Murray,
and passing as his wife for several years past. For the last
two days they had been on the drink together. Last night
after supper they went into the public-house, where they
quarrelled, and Murray struck her a severe blow on the eye,
on which, in her passion, she snatched up a knife that was
on the table before her, and made a stab at him. She was
now very sorry that she had injured him.
Mr. MALTBY said he should remand her until Tuesday
next.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA

LONDON, APRIL 30.—Wind Southerly breeze, and clouay.
DEAL, APRIL29.—Wind W.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Royal
Albert, Balderston, China ; Charlotte, Bombay.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 29.—Wind W.S.W. to S.S.W.—Arrd.
Caroline, Lisbon, in five days. Off, Wolga, Brown, Ichaboet
and sailed for Hull; Naiad, Davies, Paraiba, and sailed for
Antwerp, experienced a whirlwind, and lost several sails, acq
11th ult., lat. 6 S., lon. 34 W.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 29.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd•
Alice, Abbots, Reading, Atkinson, and Othello, Thom!on,
Calcutta; Nautilus, Ward, and Lola, Valparaiso;
Partridge, Africa ; Diana, and Swordfish, Green, Pernambuco'
Resolution, Evans, Maranham.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, one-half of which were on speculation. Prices
were without alteration.-Shares were better, es-
pecially as regardel some of the Irish lines.
Barnsley Junction, 31,4 4; Ditto, Half Shares, 1% 2 ; Bir-
kenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire, 81% 91,44 i Blackburn,
Darwen, and Bolton, 6% % ; Belfast and Ballymena, 8%
9% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% 3A ; Caledonian, 12%
12 ; Ditto, Extension, 3% 16s. 3d. ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
6% 7 Chester and Birkenhead, 48% ; Chester and Holy-
head, 16% ; Churnet 714 % ; Clitheroe Junction, 23/4 ;
Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dublin and Belfast Junction,
12% ; Dublin and Galway, 4% ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
5%; Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 1, 63/4 ; Glasgow and
Dumfries 28s. 295. ; Grand Junction, New Quarter Shares,
44%; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 1914 ; Great Southern and
Western, Extension, 131%; Goole and Doncaster, 17s. 6d.
225. ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 81% 3/4 ; Hudders-
field and Sheffield, ; Inverness and Perth, 15s. ; Limerick
and Waterford, 93/ % ; Liverpool and Manchester, 203 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 23/4 58s. 6d. ; London
and Brighton, 63%; Londonderry and Enniskilen, 4% ;
London and York, 4% 16s 6d. ; Direct Northern, ;
Leeds and Dewsbury, 9% 10 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 514 6 ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 61% ; Lynn and Dere-
ham, ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
9% 10; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 51/2 ; Manchester and
Buxton, 6% %; Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 19% %;
Newcastle and Berwick, 14 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 5 ;
North British, Half Shares, 5 ; North Western, 414 ; North
Wales, 2% ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 414 % ;
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 13% ; Sheffield
and Lincoln, 13% 345. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire,
5% ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 3,8% 8;
Trent Valley Continuation, 2% %; Welsh Midland, 13/4 ;
West Yorkshire, 7% 3/4 ; Worcester and Tring, 4%; Louvain
and Jemeppe, 41%; Northern of France (English), VA 65.;
Pitt°, nosamel's (English), 2% 6s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons,
Uffitte's (English), 2% 58s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's), 515.; Ditto (Calon's), 375. 6d.; Verona and Ancona,
425. 445.
The change of wind favours ship arrivals from various
quarters, but the accounts they bring are net generally
of later date. A large increase, however, to the quantity
of produce on hand will be made by these arrivals,
and especially to the choice of Australian wools to be offered
at the next public sales. We observe that flour is also
Coming' in from Van Dieman's Land, There has been a
good deal of West India sugar arriving.
The English Stocks continue rather flat, and sales pre-
ponderate. Consols have been 98% to 98% for Money, and
98% to 99 for Account. Exchequer-bills have realised
575. to 595. premium, and India Bonds 70s. premium. Bank
Stock is dull at 2091/2, and India Stock has declined to 278
and 276%. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are
100.
T% he Foreign Investments have been very inactive, though
nominally they are supported. Spanish Five per Cents. have
been nominally about 30%. Mexican are 38 to m. Dutch'
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 6314 to N.
In the Share Market this is the day for the settlement
of the differences on the Scrip lines, and there is very little
else doing. Direct Northern, owing to the non-compliance
with standing orders, have receded to 34 and % premium,
while London and York are up to 3 premium. Cambridge
and Lincoln have been 53/4 to 8 premium, a rise having just
taken place. The Irish lines are firm, South Eastern have
improved a little, and the French lines are better supported.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 3% per Cents 1003 A VA% 100
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11% 5-16 11 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 ll 11-16 9-16 11 9-16
India Stock . 278 2761% 276%
India Bonds, 1,000/
Ditto under 1,0001... 7O 70
South Sea Stock ,
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account... ....... 98% 98%
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d. ... 57 59 pm. 59
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ... 57 59 pm. 59
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

(THIS DAY.)

Group B.
The Committee re-assembled this morning at the weal
hour, and proceeded with the affirmative evidence in the Case
of the
LEEDS AND WEST RIDING JUNCTION LINE. ,
Mr. Samuel Holland, of the firm of Samuel and Josef"'
Holland, of Brighouse, said there was a considerable CO'
munication carried on between Brighouse and Bradford, am'
Brighouse and Leeds and Manchester. He thought the
the
West Riding Junction afforded mere accommodation to
district than the West Yorkshire line.

ENGINEERING EVIDENCE.
Mr. Hawkshaw, a civil engineer, and the engineer of the
Manchester and Leeds and the Manchester and 80l
ton
Railway, was employed last year to lay out the West WI
system of railway. The country through which
passed was greatly undulating, and was thickly in-
passed
habited over the whole district The country WI der
extremely difficult one to carry a railway across, and °lull&
any circumstances, or whatever route was taken, In. ._
be • tunnels. He thought he had marked out the 117
which would most benefit the public. He had fair
it out in branches. The first was the main
from Leeds to Copley Mills ; the second from
Loumore to Bradford ; the third from Loumore to De
bury; and the fourth from Pickle-bridge to Brighouse. shed
first branch would be 17 miles and 6 furlongs in length; b
the greatest gradient would be lin 100. Upon that bran.
they had five tunnels altogether, the total number of YlaTi;
in which was 4,207 ; and the length of arching On
whole branch was 117 yards.

Group 0.
GRAND JUNCTION POTTERIES
The Committee met at twelve o'clock. Mr. PP"—
Chairman. toed
Mr. M‘Veagh, engineer, called and examined--$e s
that there were no eninrin difficulties.
Joseph Locke, engineg examined—He examg ined—He stated that the linf
from Bassford to Stoke was the best line that could be aleti;
He did not think that a better line could be made. t
knew tha country well. He believed they had got the loyfe°,
and best summit on their line, and the shortest tulles'
He did not think any other line could be made cheloPtd
The gradients on the line were not at all dangerous ;
not think it would be possible to make a line more n—rand
nient for the inhabitants of the Potteries. If the -irons
Junction Company were not allowed to make a line "i
Bassford to Stoke the inhabitants of the Potteries would 0.,d
the great advantage of a line to the north-west. The Gra.'e,
Junction Company could convey the products of the Potteri,..
cheaper than any other line. The inhabitants of the F4:*
teries were in favour of the line. led
Cross-examined by Mr. MAcAuLAy—Does not ree°,:lo to
that the inhabitants of the Potteries wished for a
Bassford. They wished for a line to Crewe. Witness coal,
dered Chet a line to Bassford was the same thing as 1;11 der
Crewe. The line by Bassford to Crewe was, in fact, es'l49.icie
line than a line to Crewe direct, which would have to el bt
Crewe Park. A shorter line than the line to Bassford
be made, provided that expense was not an element taiik.nel;
into consideration. The line to Bassford was the hest -
with reference to convenience and expense. ,-insof
Re-examined—Thinks that the Grand Junction tOn-r,,,f
would be able to afford cheaper conveyance than ani,:ar.
the au, to
company. The potteries would be likely to lose
able he
tages which the Grand Junction Conapany would be The
afford them, if any other than their line were made' the
gradients on the proposed line arose out of the nature owere
ground. It would be better if the gradient of lin 10° ie.
1 in 200, but it would not present any serious obsta,;,he
Thinks that the line ought to be continued to Stafford.
con.
Trent Valley, he believed, covenanted to make this c°
tinuation. •
Captain Huish, Secretary to the Grand Junction Line,
_us
amined—He stated that in consequence of communicatt(Le
i
with several influential inhabitants of the Potteries, . Tor
Company sent engineers to survey the Potteries districet,cted
the purpose of constructing a line. The engineers self the
the line known as the T line, but the inhabitants gr.
Potteries, especially Mr. Ridgeway, objected W it.„ the
Ridgeway's name was attached to the deed hetwee-
en-
Trent Valley and the Grand Junction respecting the c
struction of the line.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 86
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 15%% 15x/4
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 3814 38 38
Ditto Account
Ditto, Small lkf •
Ditto, Deferred 18%% 18%
Ditto, Debentures -•— 11
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3O 30
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted. —
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred ... 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto,. Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 973/41/2
Ditto Bonds
PRICES OF
PAID.
RIILWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush ... 1% 2%
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 136
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ...... 7A 9% 2%
834...
Churnet Valley
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June. 21 ... ...... ...
41114
Dublin and Galway
Dublin and Diußinger 2l/ - 4% %
Eastern Counties 25 ... . 204
Eastern Union l5 .. ... .
Ditto. Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 —
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% 6 Great South. and West. ...... .. .....
(Ireland)
Great Noith of England..loo
Ditto New....
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 21/2...
Hull and Selby 5O lO3
Do. Half Shares
London and Blackwell. 161. 13s. 4d. 9%
London and Brighton... 50
.ondon and Croydon, 13/. ss. 9d.
"'' Do. Guaranteed 5 per
! Cent.
.holidon and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d lOl
If don and S. Western 41/6410d 79
- po. New
Lon don 'anatork ...... ... 2IA 5
Lynn and Ely 2l/2
Manchester and Leeds 73 .....138
Do. 1/ Shares
Midland 100
_
Do. Fifths
Do. New
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 5l ....
Do. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick I% 134....
Newark and SLeffield ... 1% 5
North British
Do. New
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon
Do., New
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 1%••• 314%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. ... 41,2 ......
South Devon l 5
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 413/4
Do., No. 2.
Do.,
No. 3
South Wales 2l, 64 ..... .........
Staines and Richmond... 1
Trent Valley 2 ..... 19 18%
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
York and North Midland 50
Do. Extension lm 171%
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 434 %%
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 15 ,
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 9% 104 93A
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, 2
Paris and Rouen 2O —
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Sambre and Meuse
Stock Exchange shut to-morrow.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 29.—The sales
are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 6 9-16 ;
London and Brighton, 63%; Manchester and Leeds, 63 60%;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 51u prem.
South-Eastern, No. 3, 8 7% ; Barnsley Junction, 4; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 8% % ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
;
Bolton, 5% 6 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12% 11% ;
Caledonian, 1% ; Ditto Extension, 4% Cambridge and
Lincoln, 7% 14 ; Clitheros Junction, 3 4 prem. ; Churnet
Valley, 7 ; Direct Northern, 3% % ; Huddersfield and Man-
chester Railway and Canal, 8% 1/2 ; Huddersfield and Shef-
field Junction, 8 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 514 ; Leeds and West
Riding Junction, 64 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
31/ 3; London, Worcester, Oxford, and Rugby, 4%; London
and York, 43/4 ; Manchester and Buxton, 6% 9-16 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 5 ; North Western, 4% ; Preston and Wyre
Extension, 1 13.16 % prem. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 13/4 % ; 'l}ent Valley, 1814 ; Trent Valley Con-
tinuation and Holyhead Junction, 234 % prem. ; West
Yorkshire, 7 4 9-16.

Group V.
WEDNESDAY, SECOND DAY. r 10.
GRIMSBY AND SHEFFIELD JUNCTION shortly
The Committee proceeded to business this day
after twelve o'clock.
Mr. Henry Grantham was the first witness ckaollol that
deposed that he resided near Brigg. Does net, more ist;
Barton is an important town for fairs. Lincohy,;,,oot.
portant and so is Castor. Barton is a fortni/311',7„.0 fairs 11
the Pr2„tor,
never sent a head of cattle there. There are
the project
Castor certainly in the year. Would prefer
line to the Hull and Selby line for sending cattle tobinping
because there is great inconvenience attending. the 5.. rattle
of cattle at the ferry and unshipping them. Has sen
ould
to Wakefield. Is of opinion that the Gainsborough line "aid.
be a more convenient one than the Selby line to Walt
Feeds about twenty beasts, and sells abeut 400 sheeP
annum. Fro
Mr. James Torry—ls manager of the ferry at Hull.
be-
-50,000 to 70,000 passengers cross the ferry every year,' ep,
sides about 350 horses, 450 carriage conveyances, 4,000
and 600 tons of merchandise. The present mode of coef'ln_
ance through the county of Lincoln from one town t° was
other, such as Market-Risin, Newholland, Castor, *el live
either by mail or private conveyance. The prelost
would greatly facilitate intercourse between those tow"'

A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSINGPRICEf3.

Group E.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.. 00
The case of this line, which was opened yesterd*
proceeded with to-day. ersbl°
Mr. Wood, of Killingworth, was examined at conso une
length as to the position of the Newcastle and Berwick
with respect to certain coal pits at present at work ante
ected, and the probability of the coals coining over tb.....0f
in preference to the Northumberland line, in the co.
which he entered into several statistical details quits
teresting to the public.

Group X. thist
The Committee, to whom the Bills contained in Lo been referred, assembled in room No. B;Pr Mr
Courtenay, Chairman ; Mr. B. Wall, Mr. Br Geac*
Darby, and Mr. P. Scrope. ,
As soon as the Committee assembled, f tue
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM directed the attentionold
Committee to the inconvenience which the veer.
agents were subjected to by the arrangements, which The
in force respecting the admission of parties to the rnsLn'ai he
-
counsel were greatly incommoded by the pressure rforol
hind, and were, in consequence, unable properly to Pe fence
their duties. In Mr. Stewart's Committee this inconvel'
had been felt, and a remedy had been applied.
The CHAIRMAN said the attenti9n of the Coin
been already drawn to this subject, and arrangemeacoar
been made by Captain Gossett to remedy the evil
plained of. _ busol

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LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY-
vidreo
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM then proceeded with Woge
in opening the case for the promoters of this railwaY'n the
took a review of the report of the Board of Trade uPeded to
London and York scheme, and more particularly nilti
tnat part of it which stated that the construction ot_qi.
proposed line would in its cost far exceed the oe'sect
mates of the engineer. He contended that the Pre:i ea
-
line would be constructed at as small houla
the opposing scheme, the Direct Northern. , give
thin opposing line be constructed, it would 01,'"ich be
the public that accommodation which the line for viu,..o or
appeared would give. The estimate for the construe,' half,
the London and York line was about six millions andt. fivade
and that sum would not be exceeded. The Board
_ago •
in their report had contrasted the estimate for the C°""ifiat
tion of the first 112 miles of the London and York line
the actual cost of the London and Birmingham line

iq
THE TOTTENHAM AND FARRINGDON-ww rP*
EXT
This Bill was saidENSION in our ThirdRAILWAY Edition. last night to be
thrown out by the Standing Orders Committee. The
however, is not the case, the Bill is allowed to go 00es
error originated through a false ruMour raised in the PL*O7,--010"
to the Committee-room, by some of the gentlemen wu solar'
terests are compromised by the success of the promoters
Sub-Committee No. 1.
The Committee re-assembled this day at tweloyeiniers
in room No. 7 ; present Mr. Strutt, Chairman ; Pif_irr•
Stuart, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Cavendish, and Mr. B,,e`,
The respective agents of the Bills set down for tei'reodto
mittee having conferred with the Chairman, it was ag
adjourn the following petitions for Bills: mitllol
The Goole and Doncaster till to-morrow-41" stir
Railways Company (Birmingham)--Gloucester end ate
tol, and Gloucester Railway purchase, to Tuesday ue.,ts, to
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Acts, Amendme"Dob-
Tuesday next—the Great Western Railwtiy (Ireland)
lin to
Comm
till to-morrow. ioto
ThCommittee proceeded with tke adjourned
the allegations in the petition ag,;:inst the
STAINES AND RICHMOND RAILWAY' were
Several allegations of misdescription of property'
allowed.
ID-
1, et"
Mr. Samuel Hughes, the civil engineer, of D7ostreork-
Westminster, was called by Mr. Venables, to prove the cool'
ings on the plans and sections. Standing orders o°',
plied ith inumbern those instances. re were
A large of allegations of a clerical nature
sustained. WO
interest f
The next allegation possessing anything like ri rs °
that the promoters had not served notices on the ewe ;liver
a field at Staines, through which flows a portion of th
Thames. 8111
Mr. ELLICOMBE, for the promoters, objected to the e
tion, on the ground that it was not sufficiently slaecwc,rmers
considered the allegation should state who were the‘.4t oo
zu
of the River Thames. It was impossible to prove fe otir•
notices had been served without naming who were
ties that should be served. bad °lli'
Mr. VENABLES submitted that the River Thames • ht
servators, and it was plain that they were in the lib
owners. f enable
The CHAIRMAN ordered the room to be cleared, -°
the Committee to consider the allegation. and
After a short deliberation the parties were
tb
informed by the CHAIRMAN that the standing orders
case had not been complied with. called isin,

MARKET NE WS._(TII IS DAY.

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY
We had only a moderate supply of Wheat of •home pro-
duce on offer, yet the demand for that article was in a very
sluggish state, at barely Monday's quotations. Foreign
Wheat, free as well as in bond, was heavy, and the rates were
unaltered. Barley and Malt were a mere drug, at almost no-
minal quotations. Oats, Beans, and Peas were quite as dear
ARRIVALS.
Barley.
130 qrs.

Wheat.
1,760 qrs.

English ..
Irish •••• • • • •
Foreign .• • • • •

Coats.
870
9,100
1,170

Flour.
2,950

540 I 3,280
Mita, 2,040 qv!.
WILITECHAPEL.
We had a full average supply of Meat, while the demand