The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

A new writ was ordered to be issued for the election of
a member for Dartmouth, in the room of Mr. Joseph
Somes, deceased.

The following bills were read a third time, and passed :
—Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool
Junction) Railway ; Liverpool and Manchester Railway;
Richmond (Surrey) Railway; Belfast Improvement;
North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway ;
Newry and Enniskillen Railway; Great Western Railway
(Ireland) (Dublin to Mullingar and Athlone); Birming-
ham and Gloucester Railway (Gloucester Extensions,
Stoke Branch, and Midland Railways Junction); St.
Helen's Improvement ; Glossop Gas.
The Lords' amendments to the following bills were then
considered and agreed to :--Whitby and Pickering Rail•
way ; York and North Midland (Bridlington Branch)
Railway.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, on the reading of the order of the
day for committee of supply, moved that returns of Nos.
72 and 248, made by the General Post Office, be referred
to a select committee, with a view of enquiring into the
accuracy of those returns ; also, into the present mode of
remunerating by fees and perquisites certain officers of
the General Post Office, and how far the duties of that
establishment may be rendered more satisfactory to the
public and less un qual and oppressive to the persons en-
gaged therein. The hon. gentleman enlarged upon the
abuse of allowing certain officers of the Post Office to
fling all the labour of compiling the addresses for the
" Post Office Directory " on the postmen, who were fre-
quently dismissed from the Post Office for errors in doing
that which formed no pert of their business for the Crown,
whose servants they were.
Mr. CARDWELL opposed the motion, on the ground
that it was not an efficient mode of proceeding. If such
abuses as tho. e complained of really existed, on complaint
to the Postmaster General they would be quickly re-
medied. The motion was negatived by a majority of 106
to 30.

Mr. WYSE then moved that an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be gra-
ciously pleased to give directions for the establishment
and maintenance of a Museum of National Antiquities,
in conjunction with a commission for the conservation of
National Monuments.

The CHANCELEOROf the EXCHEQUER could not in
the present session, with such an accumulation of busi-
ness, consent to enter upon so important an enquiry.
The motion was negatived without a division.

FUREIGN AND COLONIAL,

TIIE UNITED STATES

We have received by the packet-ship Cambridge,
which arrived on Tuesday last, New York papers of
the Ist and 2nd instant, being two days later than the
previous dates. They contain no intelligence of political
importance, but give details of a dreadful conflagration in
New York, by which upwards of one hundred houses were
destroyed. The fire broke out in Eighteenth-street, at
one o'clock on the morning of the Ist instant, and there
being a great quantity of combustibles in the premises, and
a strong wind, it rapidly extended to other neighbouring
streets, thaking great havoc of property. There were 100
horses in a range of stables that took fire. Sixty of them
were got out, but many of these were so much burnt that
they were shot, so that out of the whole about thirty only
were saved. The estimated loss is between 200,000 and
300,000 dollars. It was supposed the fire was the work
of an incendiary.
The steam-ship Great Western arrived at New York at
noon on the Ist instant.

There was ice on the ponds near Philadelphia on the
30th of May.

FLOODS IN FRANCE.—The Universe gives a most de-
plorable account of the disasters caused by the late thun-
der-storms in the French provinces. The coaches from
Paris to Lyons were detained twenty-four hours at
Moulins—a part of the road having been literally swept
away by the floods. In several communes of the depart-
ment of the Loire et Cher, houses were levelled to the
ground ; and at Alengon the thunder fell upon the College,
and rove it in three portions.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR IN GREECE.—A quarrel recently
took place in Greece between General Calergi and General
Grivas, and the lattter sent a message in the following
terms:—" Let us both be locked up in a room without
seconds, and fight until one has killed the other, or we
kill one another pour purger le pays." General Calergi
declined upon the ground that that would be a murder
not a duel. Grivas next proposed that they should meet
in a solitary ravine, and there fight with sabres, without
seconds ; but that the latter might be so placed as to look
from a height upon the combat. To this the seconds ob-
jected, saying that they would not go as mere spectators.
Grivas then made a third proposition, that " he and
Calergi should meet with pistols, to be held at each other's
mouths, but no seconds to be present." General Calergi
thereupon submitted the whole question to a meeting of
officers, and Grivas did the same, and at both meetings it
was agreed that the former could not have accepted a
challenge to fight in the manner proposed without seconds.

The accounts from Hayti state that the country was still in a very
disturbed state. President Pierault, on his arrival at Port-au-
Prince, ordered the troops of that place to march against the Spa-
nish frontiers. The troops refused; and in the confusion that pre-
vailed, the President is said to have been shot at.

ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.
The British and Ncrth American royal mail steam-ship Cambria,
Captain Judkins, arrived at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, hav-
ing left Boston at 3 40 p.m. on the 16th, and Halifax at 10 15 a.m.
on the 18th, and thus made the passage from portto port in 9i days.
The Caledonia reached Halifax on the 17th instant.
The trial of the individuals indicted for the murder of Joe Smith,
the Mormon prophet, and his brother Hyrum, last June, in the
Carthage Jail, terminated on the 30th May, in a verdict of acquittal.
Save only the province of Guatemala, where every thing was
tranquil, Central America was still harassed by internal feuds.
The latest news is that the troops of Salvador were on their march
against Honduras.

NEW YORK, JUNE 19.—Sales since our last moderate in extent,
but at very full prices ; in revising our quotations, some of them
are slightly advanced. Upland and Florida, ordinary to good ordi-
nary, 5i a 5& cents; middling to good middling, 5 a 6} cents;
dliug fair to fair, 64 a 7 cents; fully fair, 7i a7s cents; good fair,
71 a 7i cents; fine, nominal. Mobile and New Orleans, ordinary
to good ordinary, 5i a 6i cents; middling to good middling, 6i a
6i cents ; middling Lair to fair, 7 a 7i cents ; fully fair, 7 t a 8 cents ;
good fair, Si aSi cents; fine, nominal. Total sales for the week,
10,250 bales.

NEW ORLEANS, JUNE s.—The cotton market opened with a good
demand this morning, and transa:tions amount to 1600 bales, at
very full prices. About 1200 hales of Louisiana and Mississippi,
and the remainder Texas Ou, outside figures are more in unison
with the true state of the market. Louisiana and Mississippi—in-
ferior, 41 a 51; ordinary to good ordinary, 54 a 51; middling, 54 a
61 ; good middling, 64 a6i ; middling fair, 64 a 6/ ; fair, 7 a 71
good fair, 74 a 8; good and fine, —a —. Tenuesee and North
Alabama—running lots 54 a 54; extremes, 44 a 64.
MOnILE, JUNE 7.—The market has been characterised by in-
creased inactivity, with a declining tendency in pr.ce. Sales for
three days estimated at only 600 bales, and for the week at 1800,
principally for England. Stock unsold about 3000 bales, of which
sundry lots are limited considerably above prices. We reduce our
figures fully an 4 since the 30th ult. : the market closes heavy.
Fair, 7 a —; middling fair, 64 a —; middling, 6 a —; ordinary,
54 a 54.

Monsieur Thierry, who attempted to establish himself
as an independent sovereien in New Zealand, having dis-
appointed or given umbrage to his barborous subjects, was
recently k'lled, cooked, and eaten by them at a solemn
public banquet.

THE RHINE.—The Dutch government has lessened,
by one-half, the navigation dues payable by foreign ves-
sels passing up the Rhine, while the transit and fixed
duties are abolished altogether upon ships from Dutch
ports to the ports of those states on whose rivers the same
privileges are accorded to the vessels of Holland.

Accounts from Beyrout of the 24th represent the state
of Mount Lebanon as worse and worse. Every day a
contest took place between the Druses and Maronites
with varying success. The American Christians are re-
presented as undergoing persecution ; and, although tor-
ture has been abolished throughout the Turkish empire, a
young Greek was at Candia lately tortured to such a de-
gree that he died of his sufferings.
INFAMOUS PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN POLAND.
—An ordinance was published by the Director of Police
of \Vilna on the 7th ult., containing a description of the
dress hereafter to be worn by the Jews residing in Poland.
Any male or female Jew who shall deviate from the cos-
tume prescribed, or shall wear any article of dress indica-
tive of their religious faith, shall pay a fine of four silver
roubles (equal to 155.)

Mr. James Breen, a rich farmer and barony cess col-
lector, in the county of Clare, murdered his wife a few
days since with a pair of tongs. He is considered insane.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.-At the weekly meeting on
Monday a letter was read from Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN, who
is now attending to his parliamentary duties in London,
in which epistle he declares that the visit of himself and
other repeal members to this country " will be unproduc-
tive of advantage to Ireland. A report was read from a
Sub-committee, deprecating Lord Stanley's Irish Te-
nants' Bill. The rent was £454.

THE FINE ARTS.—The first prize at the Academy of
the Fine Arts at Paris, has this year been gained by a
Jew, M. Emile Levy. The President of the Acadamy,
likewise a Jew, M. F. Halevy, delivered the address • it
is represented as an eloquent oration, exhibiting the bib-
lical studies as well as the antiquarian research of the
venerable president, in his allusions to the recent identi-
fication of the site of Nineveh.— Voice of Jacob.
DR. STEIGER'S ESCAPE FROM LUCERNE. Doctor
Steiger has, with the concurrence of three gendarmes who
guarded him, made his escape from the prison at Lucerne,
and the whole party, accompanied by many friends,
arrived at Zurich at half-past eight o'clock, on the morn-
ing of the 20th. It appears he was provided with a
uniform of the gendarmerie, and in this costume passed
in company of the others out of the town, entered a car-
riage in waiting, and passed the frontiers.

QUEEN FOMARE.—lntelligence has been received from
Tahiti by the directors of the London Missionary Society ;
by which we learn that the child to which the Queen gave
birth about seven months since is not expected to live.
The Queen had retired to the island of Itaiatea, but
avoided sleeping in any of the towns or villages, for fear of
being betrayed into the hands of the French. A project
is in contemplation to raise among the Protestant
Churches of Europe a sum of money sufficient to remove
the exiled Queen and her faithful subjects to an island of
one of the neighbouring groups, where, placing them-
selves under the protection of some of the European
powers, they may be secured in the quiet enjoyment of
their property and their religion.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN AMERICA.—At the latter end
of May a very destructive fire occurred in Quebec, by
which no fewer than 1630 houses were burnt down. The
fire broke out in Richardson's tannery, and the flames
were carried by a strong easterly wind into the suburb of
St. Roch, which was almost entirely destroyed. St.
Paul's market and square. and all the streets on the right
of the city, were consumed.—On the Ist of June the sta-
bles of Mr. R. H. Palmer' at New York, were set on fire
by an incendiary, and 120 houses fell a prey to the flames.
The number of families left almost wholly destitute by
this catastrophe was not less than 500. The amount of
damage was estimated at 200,000 dollars.--Another fire
broke out at Plttsburgh, which destroyed 60 or 70 houses,
damaged 30,000 dollars' worth of property, and rendered
700 persons houseles.s. It was supposed to be the work
of an incendiary.

MURDER OF A PROTESTANT MAGISTRATE.—on Sun-
day week as Mr. G. F. B. Booth was returning from
Kilmore church, in his gig, with two of his children, one
five, the other six years old, his eldest son, a boy of about
11, riding behind him on a pony, he was met by a man,
who walked coolly and deliberately along the road, smok-
ing a long pipe. The villain walked up to Mr. Booth,
presenting a horse pistol. It is thought Mr. Booth
stooped his head, and that, on his doing so, the murderer
fired. The ball entered the upper part of the forehead,
and lodged within the skull ; he fell instantly from his
gig—he was dead. The horse, frightened by the report of
the shot, ran away, throwing the two children on the road
—one of them had his arm broken in the fall, or by the
wheel of the gig passing over it. The scoundrel escaped.
No motive can be assigned for the awful deed, but the de-
ceased was a truly kind hearted man, and a Protestant
magistrate.

DEATH OF ONE OF THE FEMALE lOWAY INDIANS,
IN PARIS.—The loway Indians have sustained a severe
loss. 0-ke-our-mi, the wife of Little Wolf, died on
Thursday week, of an affection of the lungs, brought on
by grief for the death of her young child in England.
Her husband was unremitting in his endeavours to con-
sole her and restore her to the love of life, but she con-
stantly replied, "No ! no! My four children recal me.
I see them by the side of the Great Sprit. They stretch
out their arms to me, and are astonished that I do not
join them." The Little Wolf had not appeared at the
exhibition since Monday, nat having quitted his dying
wife for a minute, watching over her night and day, and
suffering no one else but himself to perform the offices of
tenderness which her condition required. She charged
him to make her acknowledgments to the physicians who
had kindly attended her, directed the dress she was to be
buried in, and requested that a medal of the Virgin
Mother of the Great Spirit of the Christians, which she
wore round her neck, might not be removed. The three
other women wept over her corpse, although she belonged
to a different tribe, the Sioux, who were enemies to the
loways.

STATE OF IRELAND.—A correspondent of the Dublin
Mail gives the following account of what is new going on
in the neighbourhood of Cavan. " The excitement
caused by the barbarous and brutal murder of R. B.
Booth, Esq., is without parallel i❑ this county. The
Protestants came pouring down, armed every man, to the
scene of murder, as early as two o'clock, a.m., on Mon-
day morning. There were from seven or eight hundred
armed men on the road, t ill evening ; and we are threatened
with calamities even more dreadful. The Protestants
think that they are deserted by the government, and left
without any protection, such as can avail in such a state
of disorganization. The ordinary law, adapted to civilized
society and peaceable times, is a mere farce, and felt to
be so now by all parties. Though the murderer ran
slowly, with a large frieze coat on, through a well-popu-
lated country, seen by numbers, none dared lift a voice,
much less a hand, to achieve his capture.—Every one
knew and felt that the secret tribunal which sentenced
that unfortunate gentleman to death, and which found so
daring an executioner of its fearful decree, would visit
with like vengeance any man who ventured to assist in
bringing its barbarous instrument to justice, and that
hundreds of executioners, who must act on pain of
death were at hand to carry out its vengeance. The un-
fortunate Protestants, seeing their gentry here, and else-
where, taken off, one by one, in this way, and knowing
their turn will come next, see no hope of averting the
evil but by retaliation equally fearful. This is the dread-
ful state we are brought to. May God avert the calami-
ties that appear to hang over us."
PRIESTS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—An institution, un-
der this title has been establishA in Ireland about twelve
months, Lord Roden, patron, for the purpose of affording
protection of such priests of the Church of Rome, who,
having renounced the errors of the Romish faith, are ex-
posed to persecution and poverty. The first annual report
of the society, which has just been published, gives the
names of five priests who have publicly conformed to the
Protestant faith during the year 1844, and contains some
cheering accounts of the growing disposition which exists
throughout Ireland to search after the truth. Thousands,
we are told, of the laity, and members of the priesthood,
are anxious to escape from their spiritual bondage; and
the movement is only restrained by the fear of temporal
persecution and suffering which converts have to undergo.
To assist such persons, and especially to provide support
for the priests who voluntarily resign comparative wealth,
by leaving their own church and ministry for the truth's
sake, the association has been formed,and appealsearnestly
to the friends of Protestantism for assistance, which we
trust will not be withheld from it when engaged in so good
a work. A lecture-room has been opened by the society,
lectures have been commenced (the first being delivered
by the Rev. C. M. Fleury and the Rev. R. J. Mc Ghee)
for the benefit of such priests and others as have aban-
doned the Church of Rome, of divinity students, and of
all who took an interest in the struggle now going on be-
tween truth and error, and from the eagerness displayed
in acquiring the information thus afforded, the happiest re-
cults are anticipated—results which will practically refute
the assumption of the present ministry, that Ireland must
for ever be governed and remain as a Roman Catholic
country.

MURDERING IN JEST.—A very singular circumstance,
involving a duel and death, took place at Cincinnati last
Tuesday. An Englishman named Robert Bland kept a
tavern in that city. On the afternoon of Tuesday (as we
learn from the Commercial) Mr. Bland got to arguing
with one Samuel Powell on the subject of shooting at a
mark, and each had been boasting of his skill. From
shooting at a mark the subject turned on duelling, when
Bland went behind the bar of his tavern, and took up a
pair of pistols, letting Powell take his choice, signifying
that they could determine the point by a trial of skill. As
they both went out of the tavern door, Mr. Bland said to
Powell—" the pistols are loaded." They had agreed, it
appears, to fire at a distance of 20 steps, bit- after taking
their position, in the manner of duellists, they each walked
two or three paces, wheeled, and both fired ! The result
of this was, that Mr. Bland was shot, the ball entering
the right side, and then passing through the region of the
chest to the point of the shoulder-blade, where it lodged.
He lingered till about half past eight o'clock next morn-
ing, when he died, leaving a wife and two children. Both
parties in this tragedy were Englishmen, and what led to
it is mystery. During the night following Mr. Bland
stated that " he had not intended to kill Powell, and was
glad be did not."—New York paper.
PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA.—It is this
day our pleasing duty to communicate to our readers a
fact, the probable consequences of which are of such a na-
ture as to cast into the shade, in point of importance, the
events which for the last few years have fixed the atten-
tion of Europe and the world upon the " hoary-headed
dynasty" of the East. The edict forbidding the circula-
tion of the Bible in China has been repealed by the Em-
peror himself; and henceforth the Word of Truth is to
have free course among the teeming myriads of that vast
and important empire. Are we presumptuous in saying
that in this act of the Emperor of China, we see additional
light thrown upon the purposes of the Almighty towards
that long-benighted portion of our world, where Christia-
nity has been hitherto unknown, except through that cor-
rupted form taught by the subtle politicians of the school
of Ignatius Loyola? A few years only have passed since
Morrison, the first Protestant missionary, set his foot upon
China, and began that work which has immortalised his
name, and placed him in the highest rank of benefactors
of the human race. For months and years did this great
man labour with unwearied diligence, under trials and dis-
couragetnents more than sufficient to have turned aside
from its purpose any one who had not drunk deep into the
spirit of the divine Redeemer. At length, the whole of
the inspired volume was translated into the language of
China ; and the mighty lever was placed in the hands of
the Christian church, by which the inhabitants of China
are soon, we trust, to be raised to the dignity and happi-
ness of men made free by truth. On completing, in 1819,
the translation of the Scriptures, Dr. Morrison expressed
his feelings and convictions in the following language :
" To have Moses, David, and the prophets, Jtsus Christ
and his disciples, using their own words, and thereby de-
claring to the inhabitants of this land the wonderful works
of God, indicates, I hope, the speedy introduction of a
happier era in these parts of the world ; and I trust that
the gloomy darkness of Pagan scepticism will be dispelled

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AMERICA. b y the dayspring from on high; and that the gilded idols RAILWAY INTELLIGENC-E•
The Great Western arrived on Friday morning, soon after one of Budha, and the numberless images which fill this land,
• iftl
o'clock, having made the passage in little more than fourteen days. will one day fall before the power of God's word, as Dagon
fell before the ark." Notwithstanding the obstacles T„ this ..,_:,
She brought papers to the 13th ultimo. Captain Matthews reports
LEEDS AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY.—In on rii
that on the 18th, at 1 p.m . in lat. 48 10 N., lon. 46 20 W., passed
which the prejudices of the people, the letter of the law, several icebergs and a quantity of loose pieces.
The harvest was expected to be an average one, though there and the power of the priesthood, raised against the labours pdoaryt,atehtactatshee,
preamble
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were reasons to fear that the crops would be deficient, on account of the missionaries, the cause of truth was graduallv mak- On Thursday a collision between two trains e olio'
• ,en Op
of injury from drought. ing its way, and not a few among the Chinese were turned on the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, wh
Among the passengers in the Great Western are Senor Canedo, from dumb idols to serve the living God. The hostile engine drivers was severely hurt. ailed
of Mexico, and H. A. Cobb, the French consul at Texas. " Senor
events of the last few years put for the time an effectual LYNN AND DEREHAM RA ILWAY.—TbiS bill Plollsi
Canedo," says the New York Herald," it will be remembered, left
Vera Cruz on the inth nit., in a very secret manner, in the Ew,_ check upon the direct movements of the Protestant mis- through the Standing Orders' Committee of tne,eeere.
nia, for this port, in the capacity of special agent, as was said,t-to sionaries. The happy settlement of the disputes under of Lords on Friday, and may now be considered * biii
the American government, to arrange some matters connected with the wise and liberal negotiations of Sir H. Pottinger and , This iu
annexation. Instead, however, of having much or anything to do the Chinese Commissioner Kev-ing, and the establish- LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWA.• •op
with us, he has quietly taken his passage in the Western, and is
merit of the British power in Hong. Kong, revived the passed the Lords on Friday without amenchalentysfalnneestel
off to England, on probably the same mission that he was reported
of a very strong opposition on the part of the 14
to have started upon for Washington. Mr. Cobb, the French con- hopes and the efforts of the Christian church in England Canal Company• a re'
sul, goes to France at this time as bearer of despatches to his own and America ; and now a wide and effectual door has, we • - '
solved 'l' h e directors
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government, and probably to England, relative to the absorbing trust, been opened by Him who opens and no man shuts.
topic of annexation. What the result of the movement of these May we understand and discharge our duty, and may
gentlemen will be, time will develope."
China know the day of her visitation. —Bell's Weekly anilsaialwreaYt°_hira:-lictieth'
the fast trains, as it wral owing to those lightly-eeldne'ote oC.
The New York Herald says, the accounts from Mexico and
vehicles getting off the rails that the late Ire ,
Texas confirm the then existing belief that Mr. Elliot, the British Messenger.
curred.
ptist
envoy, is moving heaven and earth to prevent annexation, while
f the . be
Texians are getting wild in favour of the measure. It now looks
The two great events in the railway world of aPt
be
than probable that Mexico, if no fresh revolution take place, IRELAND.
will declare war against the United States, encouraged and instiga •
ted by England and France - - - wwe,e2ci.
Da are,
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LEEDS AND WEST RIDING RAILWAY.--In this kri•
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engine drivers was severely hurt.
of Lords on Friday, and may now be considered, sec to
LANCASTER AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.-ThS
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passed the Lords on Friday without amendments, „sof
accidents of a very strong opposition on the part of the Lan'
Canal Company.
The directors of the Great Western Rails's)? -encwitb
solveds that
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vehicles getting off the rails that the late accideni
curred.
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The two great events in the railway world of the the
week are, the victory of the West Yorkshire eve;
the
West-Riding Junction in the House of Lords, an oath
defeat of the South-Western, Guildford and Portsaluore
Line in the Commons. These two events are the „toot
remarkable in this respect, that they are both iteP°
defeats to the Board of Trade. GSIMS
MANCHESTER, MIDLAND, AND GREAT
JUNCTION RAILWAY.—Looking at the scbelee S lie
Eastern communication from existing railwaYe'r Trade
considerable claim to importance. The Board jive
in its detailed report states, that that poriion of tutroble
from Rotherham to Gainsbrough is decidedly P ach
to the Sheffield and Lincolnshire, and the BawtrY üb"-otter
of the London and York ; and that it affords No,
connexion also with the important town of liotherSiroct
and with the North Midland railway, and gives ashrodb
a communication as could be desired with Gains-
committee appointed to inquire into the
and Lincoln.—Railway Times.
sCitt
RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIAMENT.-"."- f
railway bills now before Parliament, have reported
res
" in order to prevent expense and delay in the Prlos9
through Parliament in the next session of such I.'oo
bills as it may be found impossible to pass into laws, prs•
want of time for their proper investigation during theca to
sent session, it is desirable that a bill should be Wei 01
progress ° twat
prevent the proceedings on such bills being disconcullegi
by a prorogation of Parliament, and that this Pitllbeee
shall be extended to such bills only as shall he;;',
reported to the house and ordered to be engrossetah. e pot
PROGRESS OF RAILWAY BILLS.—During
week the preambles of the following bills have °,,,,ie".9tete
Glared proved by the Commons :—lrish Great v';,' to;
(Dublin and Galway); Glasgow, Barrhead, and Nesol•
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth, as far eg rz"
ming, and from Portsmouth to Fareham •, Direct Ilieriet
and Portsmouth, without reference to the AttnVPrgieh,
and Chichester and Portsmouth. The Direc'; 17,°„ sae
is at present regarded as not negatived. The Lonoet-o be
Brighton (Wandsworth hranch) is declared n‘etithwil4
proved. In the Lords the preambles of the "100
bills have been proved during the week :—Edinbell Dor'
Hayrick ; Ely and Huntingdon ; Southampton se,„ation
Chester ; Lancaster and Carlisle ; Bridgewater l'l3,rngton
and Railway ; Newcastle and Darlington (Bre"1- b);
branch) ; York and North Midland (Harrogate blurt!'
Edinburgh and Glasgow ; Dundee and Perth k
line); Aberdeen.
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NOTTINGHAM, VALE OF BELVOIR, AND pi 0..
RAILWAY.—The above line, which is connected at oud
tingham with the Nottingham, Erewash, Amberget9t ity
Manchester Railway, will open out one of the Mew or
portant channels for the traffic of Manchester anclitio'r the
nufacturing districts to the Eastern Counties, sou duce
conveyance of the minerals and the agricultural PLiii be
of these counties to their best market. The route win to
Nottingham ; it will then proceed by the Erewe
nearly direct from Grantham, by the vale of Bellrajlef
sb load
to Ambergate, where it will join the line by Matt°„c aria
Buxton to Manchester (the Manchester, Blixte"4.fcr
Midland Junction.) We observe that the a p dare
shares would not he r ceived after Satt.rday last ;
informed that they were most numerous and Witt' pre'
which is not surprising when we a.e the bandsomeerpia
mium which the shares of the Erewash and Arot;,,t tbe,
line are realising in the market, and are informed io'rtste
two are speedily to be amalgamated. Another ire,Pb,i, the
feature is, that the above railways are promoted a that
canal proprietors from A mbergate to Grantham, aEot the
they have also secured the landed interest throughctoprie
whole district, as well as the majority of the coslettialr
tors in the mineral counties of Derbyshire and
hamshire.
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SHOCKING SUICIDE ON A RAILWAY.—Aning--0„, 0.
held at Hunslet, near Leeds, on Thursday, on clo the
the body of John Sutcliffe, who had been kille4..9.dueS'
Midland Railway, near Pepper-lane Bridge, on Atoll/
day morning. The body of deceased was dreei age'
mangled. He was a warehouseman, and 46 yea" °raja'
He bad left his home about four o'clock that olatterlf
telling his wife he was going a-walking. He „.ha.dnrrn 1)1,
been drinking, but hid work to go to, wit'orevie"-
whom he had been employed 27 years. The r odieg;
week he had carried a cord with him, and was desPctgo
so that his wife watched him, as he had two years le let"
his throat under similar circumstances. Wheirf ocbert
home he was quite sober. An engineer on the ~en oboe
ter and Leeds line said that he got with his tre.totnesit
a quarter past seven on Wednesday morning. did Of
proceeded :—" Before we got to this bridge Who gate;
see any one on the line, but just before entering t 00 tn.,
way of the bridge this man threw himself dowubove 1p
rails. As near as I can judge he would not be is: jai;
yards before the engine when he threw hitnse,e, Tu"
We stopped as soon as we could, but it was too plea
engine cut him in two. I looked back and saw sea
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was killed—his clothes were flying about the woe`..ruen"
I could see that his head was off.' The jury retf while
verdict to the effect that deceased destroyed birosel
labouring under temporary insaii ty.
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EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.—ALLEGED C° 00 , •
CONDUCT.—During the proceedings on ThursdaZeourn4
London and Croydon Atmospheric Line, Mr. C hieb,;
Q.C., brought before the committee a case, c°,_ roe,
substantiated, would reflect seriously against the ctoe Tb
of the solicitor to the Ordnance—Mr. Hignet letter
learned counsel applied to be allowed to produceh-oa
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from him, which, he stated, would shew that be. .Soot
plied to the secretary of the line connected with ttn; meta'
Eastern Company to obtain shares for himself oleic asi
bers of the Board of Ordnance, as the price of t geset•
Mr, Ser n 0
sent to the proceedings of the company. o
Wranghann, for the company, opposed the Pr°—ordeirbty
the letter, which he contended was asked for "
invalidate the letter, favourable to the line, reeVai cape
this company, signed by Mr. Hignett in his offiets,oais;/
city. Mr. Cockburn replied by expressing hiS 9tej 0%4
ment at the production of the letter being ()Wee boobe
his learned friend; and intimated that Mr. Hignett to to,
with the South-Eastern Company gone °v,erle tr
other parties, that his evidence was by the wThe rOlOO
section rendered of a doubtful character. itotionbst
was cleared, and the committee were in consult Lir
an hour and a half, when the chairman ann°eU tee
the letter could not be read, as it was not wit'otaief of
province to inquire into the charges which it eegour(!...re
but that they would require the letter from tbe; betpuo
Ordnance received by the promoters of the t t
them to be proved. Mr. Sergeant Merewether, `fore tag
his friends felt it their duty to bring the affair "
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notice of the Board of Ordnance himself. was
a select committee of the House of Commons
pointed to inquire into the allegation.