The Standard from London, Greater London, England • 3

FRANCE. ti the conn (From the Morning Herald.) IRELAND. DUBLIN, FfilDAT MORNINO. PUBLIC MEETING MR. DAROAN.

In pursuauce of a requisition hearing upwards of 2000 siguatures, comprising nearly ail the Irish nobility and prelacy the represeutatires of the corporations and of the gentry and traders of all political opinions the Lord Mayor called a public meeting of the citizens of Dublin, which was held yesterday in the Rotundo. The object of the meeting was, according to the requisition, for the purpose of considering the best means of rendering a tribute of respect and gratitude to our fellow-coiiLtryman IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS Friday. The following bilh were read a third time Edinburgh, Perth, ami Dundee Railway Bill Lands improvement Company (No. 2) Bill Traleeand Killarney Railwav Bill Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Bill; Upton St.

Leonard's, Birdlip, and Briinpsfleld Roads Bill; Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, and Batley Water Bill; Wakefiold and Sheffield Road Bill; St. Ives (Coruwall) Harbour Bill; St. Ives and Went Cornwall Junction Railway Bill. THE LAW OF EVIDENCE BILL. wing addr (FROM OUR OWN udience at the PARIS, Friday Evening.

ils of the ill. The inquiry into the late meditated attempt on to ybr Emperor at the Opera Comique has led to the perty managed by delegation, it was absolutely necessary that entire confidence should be reposed in those who hid its direction. Unless this were so, it was impossible any parties could act with efficiency. Some few years ago he unfortunately became a director of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway. He bad not long held that position before he found there was a wild notion in the heads of some of the directors of two or three of them at least who guided the afiairs of tho company, and who controlled othere of the board who had les.s business knowledge and less fin mi ess, that they could make their property valuable by entering upon a certain piratical policy.

They said, We have got a line the Shrewsbury and Birmingham which, ith the and Chester, reaches very nearly to Liverpool. We have our local traffic, and if we can also induce the through traffic to come over our line, by ranuiug at lower fares, we shall thus be able to command a very large addition lo our receipts." Well, the directors entered upou this arrangement at a time when they had no direct line through, bat were obliged to stop short at Wolverhampton, acd had, besides, no method of conveying their traffic from Chester to Birkenhead. He had endeavoured to dissuade them from this policy, and had pointed out to them how fruitless it w'ould be to attempt to compete with the London and North-Western, but they could not be diverted from their purpose, because, they contended, they would be able to add 500. a week to their receipts by the arrangement. tuallv fiwlry be relied uixn word graphic because it seems more applicable to the subject than accurate or exact would be.

As in painting there is often in a portrait something which impresses us with the idea that it is a good likeness, though we have never seen the original, so it is with this book. Even had we learned nothing of Russia or Circassia from other books, we should think this work a faithful account of life in those countries. The author's aim appears to be to describe the leading points of his subject. He prefers illustration to description. His book abounds with pieces of Russian and Circassian poetry.

Much of the latter is really very beautiful, bearing a strange resemblance to many parts of the works of Byron and Moore, of the latter more especially. The second volume concludes with, and is nearly entirely filled by, a Russian opera, in four acts. Conversations and national anecdotes, and festivals, make up the greater part of the work. We cannot but think that the author has acted wisely iu the means which he has taken to place a picture of the East before his readers. No description would be as much read as the collection of Eastern traditions, life, ceremonies, and literature which he has made and if it were read, woidd be so easily or remain so long impressed ou the reader's labia.

No history would give us as good an idea of the reigns of Elizabeth or Anne as we should get from the works of Shakespeare and Ben Jouson, or Pope and Addison, and certainly the latter would be the more amusing study. counter til 'On Wednesday next, the 20th the Tribunal of last EH rreetioiial puice tr? tue Hffair called the Commune the ex lutionaire. Tlie indictment comprise 'Jl persona, of 1G years, bnra saveral are absent. Their name are as follow the ops" 'Firstly, Felix Pvat, Bon-hot, Causiidiere, L. Avril, cnt of 'ngee, Bravard, Augnste Bertier, Genin, Gravier, Ige tliat euve Ltbewalle, Bardot, Cordier, Lugenie Merlet, and allotted figneaud, foi having, in 1852 aud formed part of ny first secret society.

to 'arW Secondly, Felix Pyat, Borchot, Canssidiere, Avril, lew com wagee, Bravard, and Bertier, for being the chiefs aud their mi jnder of the said society. erary rep 'Thirdly, Bravard, Bertier, Genin. Gravier, Veuve uiiaiii ifargan, ior nil unparalleled exertions, which, under the blessing of Almighty God, have so singularly tended to benefit our country, developing her re-sourceu and directing the industry of her people. At one o'clock the Lord Mayor took the chair. Amongst those ou the platform at this hour were the Duke of Leioster, the Marquis of Westmeatb, Lords Caatlemaine, Gougb, Clancarty, Castlereagh, aud Ferrard, ic.

The Lord Mayor read a letter from the Marquis of Lans-downe, regretting his inability to attend, but he added, I shall most readily join in contributiug to any tribute which may be determined upon in acknowledgment of services so efficient aud so disinterested as those which Mr. Dargan has rendered to his country." The next letter read by the Lonl Mayor wai, as he' said, from that distinguished nobleman the lateVieerov of Ireland, Iord Eglinton i in, una yrwlle, Kemmo Foubirt. Otin, and Dssenfants. for aken froflf" Wg jn paris, in 1853, distributed writing without ii una ueeu he chain 'Fourthly, Bravard, Bertier, Geain, Gravier, Veuve Femme Foubart, Ohin, and Desenfauts, for mien, rfiJliU "ln, by one of the wear denounced in Article 1 ol the of th I'll, Kl'l in re espft intituled, 'Lettreau Peuple dated nstiuctedl hat the Lord BROL'GHAM had a question to put, to his noble friend on the woolsack relative to a very important matter. Now he thought he and their lordships hail a right to complain of the treatmeut which had beon given ebwwhere to inost important bill which had been sent down by their lordships house to the other House of Parliament.

At a verv early period of the nession namelv, in November last, be liad laid upon the table a bill in reference to the law of evidence and procedure, to which thev were pleased to give a second reading upon the 10th of March. It was then found that there was no difference of opinion whatever between his noble friend on the woolsack and himself, or betweeu his nohle friend the Lord Chief Justice and himelf, relative to one iwrtion of that bill a portion of very great importance he meant the supplement to the act of 1851, enabling parties to be examined it witnesses in the cause in all the ooo i ts the other enabling or compelling them to be examined, ai the ca might be. And on the great benefits derived from tbit act it was ueedles for him to enlarge Iucmkc testimony bad been nnauimoulv and cheerfully borne as to thmn by all the who had assisted in administeriug the law under it. But there wai one moit important omission in that act that which regarded the evidence of husband aud wives. His noble and learned frieud on the woolsack and lie had had some difference on that subject two voars ago, when the act pawed; but be (Lonl Brougham! then vielded his opinions ujH.n the oiut at isue, ami in consequence the act wa passed with that very important defect However, bis noble and lonruod friend, with his won tod candour, admitted that he had since changed his opiuions upon the subject and that he was uow clearly in favour of the bill for supplying the defects in the act of 1851.

Accordingly, that part of the bill had acquired the entire concurrence of his noble and learned friend, as well ai that of his noble and learned friend the Lord Chief Jnstico. But rinding that they did not agree upon other points, and particularly as to tlie requirement of deeds and documents, ho thought that it would be expedient to divide the bill into two portions, and to pass forthwith the part upou which no difference of opinion whatever existed, especially cousideriuir 4 1... 4 4 I. A 4 ft 4 1 1 a It 1. 4 1 Irantagef nd Borchot nade bold "2.

41 :1. 'c property and family TITK LVUXDATIOXS. and ieasary, the -Willi, 3. if, kftf.ra.l mill contempt for the ch alters tinn t.i cl "4. With t.lm (applause) to a similar effect.

Letters favourable to the object of the meeting were read from Lords Clarendon, Naas, Fltewilliam, Portarlingkio, Talbot de Malabide, His Graco the Duke of Leinster proposed the first resolution, viz. That, considering the great benefit conferred by Mr. Dargan on the iudustrial population of Ireland, nut only in the vast amount of employment he has given, but als" iu the lesson he has successfully taught, this meeting jft of opinion that he ia entitled to our warmest approbation aud most grateful acknowledgments." The Right Hon. Francis Hlackhurne, ex-Iord Chancellor of Ireland, seconded the motion. John Benton, Governor of the Bauk of Ireland, moved a resolution to the effect that all classes should be invited to co-operate in the erection of some testimonial that would perpetuate th name of Dargan.

The motion was duly seconded and passed. Sir Edward M'Donnoll, the chairman of the Great Southern Railwav, and Mr. Ennis, the chairman of the Midland Great Western, severally addressed the meeting. Sir B. Kane moved a resolution to the effect that subscriptions should bo received from le.

to li. An amendment was moved to the effect that subscriptions would be received from Is. upwards. A lively discission ensued, and the amendment was carried by acclamatiou. Tho Marquis of Westmeith was the second chairman, an a certl still Johta and authority derived by the President of the Public from the constitution and also with having offence against hia person.

O. Willi hi mliora thii irirr ml Loudon le sam JWy excitements, having for bject to induce them to oanl on their duties and obedience to their chief. iempiaH 'ket, a( They went on with this for some time, but at length be prevailed upon them to give it up, and a deputation of three directors, of whom he was one, was appointed to confer with the London and North-Western boanl. The deputation were received, and the matters iu dispute were on the point of being settled, when the two other members of the deputation, without consulting him, went to the Great Western Company, and, supported by a majority of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham directors, made an agi cement with them which completely shut out the London and North-Western Company (shnmej. He was going to France at the lime, and knew uothing whatever about it, and while he was away a meeting of the directors was called, and the agreement was come to which they now said was binding a fact which he utterly denied (hear, bear).

If that agreement were binding, then their property was all lost, because they had tied themselves to a competition which must ultimately ruin them. He did not wish to go into a long history, but he would merely tell them tlie minority of the board who acted with him were placed in a false position. The majority gradually got rid of all except himself, for whom he supposed they entertained some peculiar affection. There was Captain Ptobyn who now faced him they got him out, and so with all the other ineu who had the interest of the shareholders at heart (hear, hear). This state of things was goiug on in the board, and he assared them it was extremely unpleasant for him to find himself contending with persons who were not acting out of regard for the property of the shareholders, but upon foregoue conclusions, and a stublxm desire to carry out those conclusions, not at their own expense, but at the expense of the shareholders (hear, bear).

He had never hesitated to tell the board of the past impropriety of their conduct, although he had carefully avoided any personal misunderstanding. Since the appointment of Mr. Cardwell's committee, the directors, being anxious to stave off the opposition of the shareholder, had appointed Cap-tin 'odd ring! on to take the management of the traffic. That gr.llant officer had gone iuto the affairs of the company bnt very superficially before he clearly saw that if it were not for the foolish disputes and competition with the London and North-Western Company, a much larger amount of dividend could be obtained tlian even under the guarantees. He bad himself, over and over again, endeavoured to promote friendly ne-'ociations with the London and North-Western board, and that company had staled that while the shareholders in the Shrewsbury and Birmingham line had a Loiuijide intention of enteribg into an arrangement with them, they on their part would not enter into anv agreement that attacking the respect to the Jaws, and the the rights consecrated by them.

Seeking to disturb the public peace by excit'ng ii With outraging and turning into derision religions, the estah i. "i- P.4-.4 i6 i repair mode I comfortl ui wuicn is leguny reeoguisei nance. LTcitinK to the crime of assassination. in surpin 10. Excitiliff to t.h h.ivinir fnr nliinet nitlun- hoUMOtg Jvil War.

bv caiiftinir citizens to arm acainst each other, or ted, it I eany murder aud pillage into one or several communes. ml mt II. Exoitinir to bavins for obioct to aauae citi- iuid inhabitants to take aim1 against the government. thet "Fifthly, Felix Pyat, Gatuwidiere. and Sirchot.

with ad fnrH 'lnving written for publication, and tranamittad for haU -iistributioa, the above letter the people, and thus l.lc..,.l..l ,1 I ll. -1 ll.r.. -yiii iii mi. iiiiuhiui me liicaii 01 'Ulmittiug the above-named offences, and thus becoming uir accoinplieen. and a vote ol thanks was pasoed to the Duke of Leiuster.

The meeting separated. MOXAOTJAN ASSIZES. Ribbonism. Mb. Batehon's Murtirb.

The jurry at Monoghan wereat eleven o'clock last night still in consultation, or rather in confinement. Fiveseveral times were they culled iuto the box to hear definitions of the law ou points that seemed to embarrass them. When the last account was disnatohed, the jury were nearly 3d hours shut up. It is stated that eleven are for conviction, and one for acquittal of the prisoners. Capital Comvictiom.

Thomas Hodgins was tried at Monaghan, vesterday, upon an indictment for Laving, on the 1st cf January, 1852, conspired with others to mnrder Palrick M'Ardle; and in the second connt, for having, on the 29th of the rame mouth, in pursuance of the conspiracy, Uin in wait, near at a plsice called the Khyber Pass, armed with a loaded blunderbuss, to shoot, kill, and murder the said Patrick M'Ardle." BANBURY, FaiDAT Aftkrxoon. The country immediately contiguous this town is now completely inundated, and for miles on the eastern side there is little to tie seen but one vast expanse of water. The Lr.mense qttautity of hay outlying ready for being carried has been in the majority of cases completely swept away, the owners of which have been great losern. The line of the Oxford and Birmingham Railway, for nearly LOO yards ou either side of the station, completely Hooded, and at an early hour this morning the water was not less than IS inches deep immediately within the statiou. It, however, subsided to some exteut before the ordinary day traffic commenced.

At Bracklev, about 10 miles from this town, on the Buck-iughauiAhire Railway, a great amount of damage has beeu done by the overflowing of the Ouse. So rapid was the flow of water that it rose no less than 18 iuche ubour half an hour, sweeping sheep and hay away in its destructive course. For several miles in various directions the country presents the curious appoarauce of one vat lake. At Buckingham the River Ouse is much swollen by the heavy rain, and a great quantity of the low meadow laud is under water, but we have not heard that any material damage has been done, except to the hav mips. A RM A RTH NSH IRE.

The severe storms which have bund over the face of the country have been the source of much injury in mauv parta of South Wales, and in Carmarthenshire great damage has been occasioned. The Vale of Llanddowror, on tlie western side of the county, has been completely swept of hay, shep, and articles which could be carried away. At Llanddowror, where the main road from C.nmartheu to Haverfordwest erosHew the bridge, the waters accumulated until they capped the parapets, whon the structure gave way, thus cutting off the communication. The Towy was also much flooded, and iu Pembroke the raint have been verv heavv. LEICESTER, Friday.

From one o'clock yesterday morning until after twelve at noon there was an incwaut fall of heavy rain in this neighbourhood, and the result is that the Soar and its tribuUnea have overflowed their banks and inundated the adioieiug streets, gardens, and meadows to a very considerable extent. The factories of several manufacturers have been invaded, so that the machinery cannot bj set iu motion, and some hundreds of hands are unable to get to work. The gardens en the western side of the town are literally destroyed, and large quantities of hay have been carried off from the meadows. Froiu various villages in the county through or uoar which brooks flow, the reports are very similar the meadows and fields are inundated, and the hay is swimming away." About eleven o'clock this morning the water began to recede in Leicester, and in the course of an hour aud a half it hail lowered two inches. Si-, L' lioillc with having, in 1853, I im Will Mil ol mumtioim of war without I with having in Paris, within the an threeyears, fraudulently abstracted two bells, two locks, in i ag aUt' OIUe pici of iron and copper, to persons uuknowu." Yesterday the Government journal, the gave a promino that it would to-day enter on the J0jeet of Count de Nesaelrode's second dispatch, i'll 'rMle has indeed npoken, but not quite so "Uy us itfl rati.ev ostentatiously expressed promise led lo be hoped.

Here, in fact, is all that this PapW allows itself, or is allowed to say fcfwVf Monilrur pnbliohed yesterday mornitig the reply firvi 0nyD Minister of Foreign Affair, to the rt circular of Connt de N'esselrode, Fel are therein mited with great precision. Although this document anterior to the second circular of the Minister of the Uiperor Nicholes, it is nut the lea a refutatiou by aatici-V tion of sorao of the assertions contained in the new viuJitig of the Russian Minister for Foreign Affair. thi head it possesses real interest. The reply of M. "tiyn de Lhuvs.

moreover, bears the imprint of that iiiiv, us wewi ui inui uwi jwaseu, it i oecome oi essential importance for the administration of tlie common law. To such a suggestion such as that he acceded and accordingly, the bill, with respect to tho evidence of husbamis ires, formed the sole subject of one 4f them, the otlmr being postponed, and liaving ae yet to receive the sanction of their lordahii' house. But when did the other bill piss their lordships houne? Why, upon the 5th or th of June; and at that time he (Lord Brougham) was assured (hat there could ensue no difficulty whatever to prevent its receiving the sanction of the other house; and that, consequently, it would immediately pass into law. Yet, what had happened? Why, the bill bad slept ever mucc. although hey had now arrived at the 15th of uly.

Ami wliat was the consequence? That the circuits had begun that all the circuits were being holdeu or would be holdeu luring tho next six weeks, without the great ami neceai benefit of that change in that aot. But there was stiil another cousoijueuoe to which he to call ibeirlon-shipn' attention. When he saiil that there was uo doubt whatever of its receiving tho assent r.f the other house, he hdd every reason to form such an expectation, because he found that on the 19th April a bill received the Roval assent extending to Scotland the provumms of the verv bill which he ha4l th honour of obtaining tbeir lordships' assent to for England. So that here they had uotonlv the inconvenience of delay all the inconvenience of administeriug the act of 1851 with its owu ))-miliar ammndies, bnt there was the further anomaly that they bad oue law for Scotland aud another law for England, and that the Scotch courts were now examining husbands and wive under precisely tlie fcm powers and precisely the ame qualification iut.l guaiil that were to bj found iu the bill hich their lonUhips bad seut do upu the Gth of June, to be consigned io its long rest for a peri of seven weeks in the oilier boue. He renlly thought that if any one Ind a right to complain of tho remissness showu in the furthering the pacing of the bill it was his noble ami learned friend opposite (Lonl Campbell), and he, therefore, hope! that some explanation would be rendered on the subject.

He would ouly say in conclusion, that if, when he consent! to the division of his bill, he had bail the least suspicion of what was to have occurred, that ho would have undoubtedly, no matter at what inconvenience, ham pressed the passing of the bill as a whole. Without then iittempliug to affix tho blame in any particular quarter, be must be allowed to express his regret at tlie delay wuiclt had taken place. The LORD -HAN'CLLLOU said he could assure his noble and learned frieml that he could not rcgrut more than he did the delay which had taken place in reference to tho passing uf that very useful meamre which had I their midships' house somo seven weeks ago. It was not in the power of any member of their lordships' house to control the proceedings of the other House of Parliament, bnt he would state, by way of explanation, in what way the matter stood, and be would show to hia noble and learned friend (Lord Brougham) that no disrespect whatever had been intended toward him. As his noble and learned frieud had truly stated, he (Lord Brougham) introduced a bill for the improvement of evidence ami procedure iu November last.

Their lordships, however, were all aware that the communion appointed to impure into the state of ihe common-law courts made a very nsi-ful report, suggesting matters which led to the first amendment in the common law; anil the commissioners were engaged during ths last winter, up to au advanced period of the spring, further investigating the proper course as to evidence aud procedure. In that state of things he had expressed to his noble and i friend a widi that he should not pre his bill iu reference to this same subject until it was seen a little more clearly what the commissioners were altout to suggest. But as it appeared to him (the Lord spirit of moderation and of calm and resolute dignity LANDSLIP AT BRISTOL. Owing to the heavy rains of Wednesday and Thursday a large portion of land at tho oxtreinity of Brandou-hill, which overhangs Jacob's Wolls, Bristol, gave way on Thursday morning, and fell down ou the houses beneath, canning a very considerable destruction of property. At the back of ihoo house aro courtledges, and also behind them a wall bad beon erected for the purpose of protecting them from tho floods from the hill, but the raiu fall in snob tremendous torrents and gained so much force in descending the hill, and being augmented by some water from a siiiier-snifaco drain in connection with the National Schixds, which are situated in tho immediate vicinity, that it overbore the wall and carried it completely away for the length of six or seven houses.

The amount of the damage is not yet ascertained, but it must be considerable. At Beduiinster, near Bristol, the rivulets have overflowed their banks, and placed largo tracts under water almost to the hedgetops, and, in many places, fields of corn, LITERATURE. There and Back Again, in Search of Beauty. By James Augustus St. John.

In Two Volumes. London Lougman, Brown, Green and Longmans. Mr. St. John is the Mordauto of itinerant authors, as various and as rapid in his wanderings as the hero to whom Pope and Swift gave the name by which we designate him.

His Egyptian pilgrimage, Isis," had scarcely ceased to amine and gratify, before its author is there and back again" with a new assortment of agreeable articles. We may use the commercial figure with more propriety, because both the books we have named really represent a well-assorted consignment, in which there is something pleasant for every one. Let him write never so frequently or publish never so rapidly, the demands upon public attention of so taste-fid an observer, so honest a thinker, and so graceful a writer as Mr. St. John will never be considered importunate.

How to describe There and Back Again," further than by saying that it is a narrative of a journey from the neighbourhood ot Vevay, the Bceue of the early life of that prince of fascinating coxcombs, and, we must in homely phrase add, scoundrels whom Mr. St. John nevertheless admires to Egypt and Syria, and back again by way of Greece, Sicily, Italy. This is the periphery of the new work, but within are obtained such odd thing as nobody ever imagined, from solemnly-attested ghost stories, and nctual serpents faithfully guarding treasured gold, down to fricaseed cats, fce. As we have said, there is some tiling for every lody, and therefore something which must be loss pleasing to some.

For our part, we could dispense with much of the description, and all the sentiment of both of which there is a large amount in There and Back-Again but a dislike to description, where description is not animated by some story or adventure, is perhaps an idiosyncrasy of our morose nature, though one great poet puts it in opposition to sense Where pure description held the place of sense and all the greatest poets from tho Mteonian downward strenuously avoid unaniuiated description of any length beyond an epithet, as many-fountained Ida, sandy Pylos, and the like. When, as in Scott's works, description ia neceasary to the understanding of an interesting story, it is welcome, but every where else it is unendurable, for this plain reason, that it tells nothing for the best description ever put upon paper could never enable a painter to make a faithful picture, and therefore it really makes no iuiag ou tho retina of the mind still less can it agitite our breasts like the explosions of Etna, or the eternal thunders of Niagara. Let it not bo supposed that Mr. St. John sins more than others in this.

14 Omnibus hoc vitium est we want a word for travellers, for neither viatoriims nor peregrinis will scan. Mr. St. John is no worse than others. As to seutimeut, we are williug to dispose of it, with Sir Peter Teazle not the less willing when it cornea recommended by the example of such a miscreant as Jean Jaques Rousseau.

With thee abatement upon the score of description aud sentiment, both of which we know will charm many, we pronounce There and Back Again'' a delightful book, full of anecdote, interesting adventure, fun, and solid information. Life in Sioedtn with Excursions Kortcay and ItentnarL By Selina Bunbury. London Hurst and Blackett, successors to Henry Col-burn. Miss Bunbury i an experienced, nn observant, and a discriminating traveller, with but one fault we can discover a violent Tractarian tinge, which, however, does not render her book less amusing for a smile only is excited by her occasional bursts of displeasure at the modest simplicity of Protestant worship in the northern kingdoms. Miss Bunbury makes her voyage by way of Denmark and Norway to Sweden, and nnds much, indeed everything, by the way strangely contrasted with her experience ot southern travelling and southern manners.

Her account bears an unequivocal impress of truth, and really represents a description of a tour in terris incngnitis; 30 ignorant are we of the liabits of nations allied to us by race, by a common religious faith, and most intimately connected by common po'itical interests we may add, geographically so near to these islands. It is certaiuly a misfortune that wo have not that reciprocal intimacy with the kingdoms of the north that we ought to have and undoubtedly Miss Bunbury renders a great service in dispelling, to the extent that she does, the ignorance that prevails on our fide. Tlie effect of a difference of climate in producing a diversity of manners is more remarkably illustrated in a comparison of the social habits of our own country with those of Norway and Sweden than any comparison between English manners and those of the countries enjoying a genial climate. This difference is observable chiefly in the multitude of small things that make up the incidents of common life, and which therefore cannot be adequately represented by detached incidents but Miss" Bunhury's work sets tho whole out in broad l-elief, and will be read with nleasure and advantage by all who cau overlook its Puseyite bitterness amounting almost to want of charity. Stray I wees from Shady Places.

By Mrs. Newton Crosslaud (late Caroline Toulmin), Author of Lydia," A Woman's B.iok," 41 Partners for Life," London G. Bout-ledge and Co. This is the first of Mrs. Croas-tanU's books that we have had the good fortune to read, and it is a work which we conscientiously declare wo cauuot praise too highly.

It relieves us from a jealousy of our fair kinswomen at the other side of the Atlantic, which, we confess it, was beginning to grow upou us. We do not pretend that the 14 Stray Leaves can oompete with Uucle Tom's with which, indeed, it affects no rivalry. Mrs. Stove's work stands alone, aud will" long so stand, treating of the most deeply interesting of all the avail-Able subjects of our age, and bringing to the task talents of the very highest order. But though Mrs.

Crossland has no such subject it her command, the little volume liefore us proves that she is not deficient in ability to deal with it. or any other subject, with complete suecess. We will tell what we believe she herself really does notkuow, that she possesses talents, and even genius, for fictitious narrative as high as any living writer with whose works we are acquainted. The volume before us contains nine or ten short Rtories (there is a great merit in short stories), all well constructed and abounding in pathos, and each of the first four or five of which affords matter and feeling that might with ease, and even with improvement, be expanded into a three volume novttl. Of these, we vvein every case reached the conclusion with regret; not regret at any w.ont of satisfactory finish, for all end just as we ixmld wish, but regret that the tale was not longer.

Could we hope that our advice might prevail we should urge the fair authoress to adventure upon a more prolonged story, for we repeat it, we think she is not awaro of her powers. We have but one word more of commendation to add Ihe tales are written in a generous and beautifully pious spirit. Qualification of the high praise which an houest conviction has extorted from us, we Jiave none to offer. We would not, if we could, altera line of the 44 Stray 1 weaves." Diogenes has published his first volume. Though we cannot approve of bis politics, we can admire his fun, and the honest and manly feeling by which he appears to be actuated.

Ho always takes the part of the oppressed, even should the oppressor be a blo.ited money spinner an animal which some who affect Diogenes' polities hold up as the perfection of rational civilisation. A little time ago, whenever attention was called to the sufferings of he London dress-makers, Diogenes was conspicuous for his zeal in the cause of humanity. Several of his articles on the subject displayed considerable talent, much power of satire, and giKal feeliug. He does notprostitute the names of reason, liberty, and humanity to party purposes. It is much to his honour that he is not, like a contemporary, the menial toady of the Times.

He is thoroughly honest, and deserves to be, as we have little doubt he i9, thoroughly uas inspired an ine aetertninaiious oi tne govomment. From this language tho of l'ICu "the expreion may be judged of that policy detaches itself with the most noble good faith from to connect itself only to right, truth, and eon-' If we had not considered it proper to allow the muter cf Foreign Affairs to speak, we should have given Ur opinion of the second circular of M. deNesselrode. hat j(e tny however at present say is, that while fully cotnpre-'endnig the sutceptibility whiah this document may excite, Q'l while regretting the errors in facts which it contains, nhull avoid exaggerating the bearing of it. Far froai rdiug it a1 a threat of war, wo have rather remarked 11 it tendencies lo compromise, disguised under bitter evidently seeks to justify her conduct; she uoea not, therefore, wih to render that justification impossible by aggravating her proceedings.

We reserve to our-8elves to show, that after, much more thn before that JJcuinent, if there still lemain chances of war, all the are in favour of peace." Situation of the Bank of France with the branch nks to Thursday, July 14, 1853 Cr. iuN 1 wronld not insure them 4 per cent, for their capital. But he could not eontrivtf to press this subject upou the London and Norlh-Westeru board tin less tho shareholders would act for themselves iu the matter. If they chose to appoint other directors, he would be answerable for the fulfilment of that pledge of 4 per Imt if they allowed the present directors to remain in office they must take upon themselves the consequences, and he would not ask the London and North-Western Company to consider any other interest but their own. Moreover, he would not, as an honourable man, remain auy longer iu his position its a director.

He did not hesitate to say thero had been a total want of consideration for the ishes of the shareholders, aud an entire disregard of their interests (hear). The shareholders had had majorities upon many question, and if ordinary honesty hail prevai.od among the directors and officers of the company they would not have held their present places so long. The utuioit difficulty was thrown iu the ay ofobtain-ing a correct list of the shareholders, aud when proxies wore hamletl to the secretary means were taken by the directors to iadnee the shareholders to withdraw them. Oo the other hand, if proxies were to be used by tho directors they were taken by the secretary up to the latest moment, and the names of their owners carefully kept scoret. By these means tho direotoi wero enabled to ascertain what number of votes would be recorded against them, and then, in order to meet the opposition, they manufactured votes, and tho directors themselves split up their votes for this purpose (ories of He had worked unceasingly for tho ist 18 months to endeavour to bring the board to a rational vew of their affairs, but he lid uow come to the (letermitut ion that it was totally impossible with the present directors that the shareholders would obtain anything like a fir return for their property (hear, hear).

Ab far as Mr. Clive, tho chairman, was concerned, ho would not say one word derogatory to his character. He belie red a great deal had gone on of which he knew nothing, and that he had boen only told just what certain parties cliosa to commuuicate. No matter how high hi station, he did not think he was a proper man to conduct the afliurs of this company, (A Voice. He baa no stake.) (Mr.

Oeach) was a large holder himself, but he did not wish to pak of that, but lie might state it as a fact that the directors, who were keeping them out of their dividend, had scarcely auy interest iu the ordinary stock of the company (hoar, hear). It was very iainful for him to take the course he had done, but he felt he ahoubl not be an honest man if he did not toll the shareholders that they ought to take their affairs into their own hands. After some further observations the hon. gentleman said if the shareholders wnnld come forward and elect directors, who were reasonable mou, aud who would take a reaiouable view of the case, he would in- very glad to remaiu at the board, ami exert himself to the utmost to develop the resources of their property, but if they refused to help themselves in this rpect, then he should decline to continue a battle which required no little moral coarago to misUm it (cheers), Mr. Kennedy and other shareholders urged the necessity of a united effort to dislodge the directors at the forth-meeting, lAjJWjT! j-j 1 The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously.

Captain Probyn, R.N., alluded, in implimentary terms, to the exertions of Mr. Scott and Mr. teaoh, and stated that tbeir advice been the proprietors would have got the dividend which had been wasted in litigation. In inclusion, he moved, 14 That the cordial ihauks of the meeting be given to Mr. Scott and Mr.

Geach, M.P., their attendance that day, the explanations they had given, snd for the effoits they had made ou behalf of the shareholders." tfhjvl The motion was seclude 1 aud carried by acoUination and the Chairman having briefly acknowledged the com-plimcut, the meeting separated. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. Mileaopend. Receipts. and more especially barley, have been laid by tho violence of the storm.

id the branch hanks 373,043,141 69 1W.72G.381 0 221,132 39 bills overdue otamercial hill discouti 133,570,237 45 151.14M7G 0 1,783,000 0 791.074 0 35,671,038 10 12,171.010 0 68,107,708 0 21,718,906 0 HAIL WA INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. An iuiportaul and uuuierously attcuded meeting of share-holders in thin railway was held yesterday, Fendall's Hotel, Palace-yard, ith a view of considering what steps it might bo necessary to take to bring about a change in the management and jwliey of the company, by the removal of the present board, and the election of a new set of directors. The chair was taken by Mr. Oeacb, M.

a member of the present board of directors. Mr. Scott opened the proceedings by explaining his position as a member of the two committees which had been appointed to consider the policy of the directors. It was to be regretted that a short line of railway like tlie Shrewsbury and Birmingham, possessing so mivuy natural elements of prosperity, and connecting together so many populous districts, should be in the uu fortunate position of paying no dividend at all. He was enabled to slate, without fear of contratliction, that if the line hsd been under a prudent system of management, it would have become a valuable baiTjain either to the broad or narrow-gauge interest.

The policy pursued by tbo directors, however, had beeu to plunge the company into litigation and hopeless competition, and to array it in violent hostility with ils natural of which 51c. were from the branch batiks in the branch banks "yivanced ou a deposit of nullum. 'Itto, by the branch banks dvanced on Fivuch Public Securities Mto, by the branch banks 'vuticod on Railway Securities b-v 1,16 hnh tatl" to the state on the treaty of fuue l8i8 'veinnient Stock reserve. -B JMto, 'JR st potel Mn rumilureof the Uuk J-i'ided property of the hranchea lltereal iu the N'utloual Discount Offices '-tnenses of ank and branch banks tndriea Th -1 One of the conspirators, who turned approver, a ruffian uamed Thornton, detailed the whole doings of the gang who murdered poor M'Ardle. We learn from this man's sworn testimony that a large number of persons of his own rank of life weie engaged in a conspiracy to murder teveral obnoxious individual.

M'Ardle was not particularly objectionable to any one of them. Why, then, was he assassinated? Listen to Thornton The reason why M'Ardle was to be shot was that M'Mahon might be shot coming to hisfnueral." Is there not something terribly revolting iu this An unoffending man is to be murdered that his friend may be drawn from his hidiug-piaee and likewise murdered. Here is a shor. extract from the report of this evidence 44 1 stated here to-day the reason why M'Ardle was to be shot was that M'Mah might be shot ooming to his funeial. I know where M-igin wan watching he could see the police coming.

The iolice pursued him when they came back thty said there was no one. I never fired except one shot at M'Mahon. Hodgins fired first, and M'Mahou called out to him he then turned round and aked What do you want I Ciime up then and fired. I did not wish to shoot M'Ardle on Sunday, because the people knew me, and I thought they would bring me to juflico. Hodgins was paid off aud discharged by Corrigun, but M'Xamara said not to mind Conigau, but to shoot M'Ardle.

II nlgins said he woutd chance at M'Ardle if M'Xamara would leave him the blunderbuss. Curtis also bid me shoot M'Ardle. The first time he and I metwa about three weeks before Christmas. The reason he wishud me shoot him was, that M'Mahou would come to his funeral, and then he could hi shot. I never saw my father.

My wife is a county Monaghan woman; I uever lived with her; sheand I did not agrei. I only went to her of an odd time. When I was working at the railway I lived with a married woman named Neligau. She said had two children by me. I believed her.

I lived in Dorry Island. Heard of a policeman nanv-Kl Dawsou being shot. I had mflt Thomas Gartlan, the tailor, some time before at my mother's bouse on a Sunday. slgins, Gartlan, and I went out and stood on the side nf the road. Gartlan gave me 3s.

He asked Hodgins what money he had got froui Oorrigan. He said 4., and that Corrigan hail got 5s. from Fat Boyle, and had kept Is. to buy powder in Castlebhniey, and had not afterwards given him either tho Is. or the pow der.

Gartlan said he might have given him more, for that Boyle bail told him he had given Corrigan and that Boyle would give now no more until he saw something for it. Gartlan then said, 4 Let me not see a sight of you again until 1 hear something after Hodgins turned round and said to Gartlan, Corrigan and some of the people beyond is not willing that wo should shoot M'Ardle, and I am afraid if I shoot M'Ardle they will give me no Gartlan said, Never heed Corrigau, aud if you shoot M'Ardle, if Corrigan never gives you a farthing, I'll get you your Gartlan then went on to chapel. This happened some Sunday or holiday. The Monday before the Thursday I was taken we slept at Breen's. This evidonce was fully corroborated by othor witnesses.

After the return of the jury into court, Tho Foreman stated that they had agreed in a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner Thomas Hodgins, but accompanied this verdict with a recommendation to mercy. Hi Lordship asked the jury on what ground the recommendation to mercy was founded. The Foreman, after consulting with bis fellows for a few moment, stated that they founded their recommendation to mercy on the fact that they did not believe the prisoner to be the principal instigator tothecommisMonof tbesttempted crime. HisLortfohip.Gentliiuen, tha4 foundation appears tue quite intelligible. The prisoner wai onlei eil to stand by.

LiMEKICK ASSIZES. Capital Conviction and Suicide or tub Convict. Johu Mulligan, a police constable, was on Wednesday night convicted at Limerick of the wilful murder of his illegitimate child, Yesterday morning, at the sitting of the Court, The Clerk of the Crown Ihe gaoler) said Put forward John Mulligan. Gaoler. He is dead, my lord.

Baron Greene. -How and when did he dio Gaoler. Ho died tins morning, my lord, shortly before eight o'clock, and bis death was oiused by strangulation. He hanged himself with a handkerchief over one of the prison staircases, ami when the body was cut down in a few moments life waa found to be extinct. Baron Greene.

This is a very extraordinary circnm stance, and one that must be marie the subject of investigation. 4 abould like to know what course the Crown would HOfricest aa proper to be pursued. Mr. J. L.

Fitzgerald, Q.C. In the case of the Rev. Mr. Jackson, who poisoned himself in the dock when ou trial, the cotuse taken by the judge (Lord Clonmel) was to em-pannel a jury and hold an inqnest on tho deceased in open court but I apprehend it is not necessary to do so in the present case, eveu if it were competent for a jury of assise to bold such an investigation. In Mr.

Jackson's case Lord (Jloumel, as Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, was chief coroner of Ireland, and as such had perfect jurisdiction bnt the jurisdiction of your lordship mighi, perhaps, bo questioned, and it would be better therefore to have the inquest held in the ordinary way. Baron Greene. I feel the difficulty of a judge of assize holding any inquiry into the death of a prisoner undor such circumstances. 1 will, however, make an order, which I think will answer all purposes. His Lordship theu directed an entry to be made in the Crown book substantially as follows: John Mulligan, convicted of the murder of his child, having beeu called upon for judgment, and the baving stated tl at he was dead, and died by hia own band, let an inquest be immediately held on the body, and lot the finding of the coroner's jury be returned to the Clerk of the Crown, and entered upon the Crown book." 70.000,000 10,000,000 55,451,514 37 4,000,000 0 3,841,813 0 37,000 0 81.455 281,021 Fl, 045,542,796 9 3GT Da.

ally the London "and North-WesWrn Railway. It was F01, 250,000 0 12.980,750 14 4,000,000 0 4X9.280,100 0 164,907,550 0 6,373,070 90 12,230,344 0 58 158,892,674 50 25,21 4.2S9 0 tlw Bank jtasrve the BanR 'tto, lauded propwt.U v'-ik notM iu circulation 1 itUi, nf tlie branch banks ank-iioten to order receipts payable at reurn ry account current (creditor) Accmnt current ia Paris. IJitto, in branch banks payable rf-n- "Lscoiint and sundry interests during the lat months deceived on account of protested bilta "undrie .421.5 69 (X10 76 402 0 381 63 524 27 now full time for the take itie matter into their own hands, and to say what should be done with their property. Various arrange-meiils might now be made, either with private individuals or with groat companies, by which a valuable return might be obtained fortheir espital, bat all those projects were thwarted by a board of directors, who neither represented the capital nor the wishes of the shareholders (hear). The majorities which the dhectors had obtained in favour of their policy were xeenred by the colourable and fraudulent mode of splitting votes, and how was it possible that the sbarcholdei could be properly represented hy a board who did not hesitate to resort to such practices? (hear, hear.) He had faith whatever iu the directors he found that they had surreptitiously inserted clauses in their recent act which wore fuUl to the independence of tho shareholders as a representative body.

One of them was to avoid the necessity of advertising their ordinary meetings, except in a single county uewspaper, aud the other was to prevent the election of a new director from among the body of the shareholders, by making it necessary that 14 days' notice of his nomination should be given the secretary of the company. This was tantamount to a restriction, because as it was impossible to ascertain when the 14 days' notice of the general meetiug would bo given, no adequate arrangement could ever be made to secure tho election of an independent director (hear, hoar). Tho present board of directors had Aberdeen ftelfast and Ballytnena Uirkenheaii, Ancashire, and Cheshire Junction Bristol ami Bxeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock. and Passage Chanoellor) that the bill of his noble frieml could be Jiviiled iuto two portions namely, one containing that most valuable, useful, and short amotidmcnt of the law, to ihe effect that husbands and wives might henceforth give evidence iu cases where one or both wert concerned, it struck him that there could be no difficulty iu passing suoh a measure, as he understood that both in Lheir lordships' house, as well as elsewhere, the measure was one which was regarded with au almost unanimous concurrence of opinion. That portion of the bill waa accordingly sent down to the other and it was expected that it would very shortly reseive the Royal assent.

It appeared, however, that the common law commissi ouc had been eugagod in a very laborious inquiry, and iu regard of which they proceeded to euibodr their repot iu a bill; and in that bill they hatl incorporated almost toti'htu tho enactment of his noblo and learned friend. A draft of that bill haviug beeu put into his (the Lord Chancellor's) hands yesterday, he at ouco came to the c-mclusion that it would be discreditable to any government to pretend to introdn such a moamre without having a great deal more time to examine into it than they could now have. He was iu the hubit of receiving anonymous leltors, telling him that he was obstructing the progress of law reform. He trusted, however, that ho should bo able lo receive such imputations unmoved. Hia intention Wits to devote himself with all bis energy to mastering every part of that bill, aud he folt ijuite sure that when they had the leisure to do so that he would be aided by bis uoble and learned friend with regard to it.

As with regard to tbo former bill, not olouc iu committee of their lordships' house, but night after uight at their own private residence- they w4uld go through its clauses one by one in a way perfectly imposaihle iu parliamentary committees, and the result of that process, us applied to the former bill, bad been that though it consisted of more than 200 clauses, there was never au act which had worked so smoothly. However, ho could mention that he had seen his learned frieud the Attorney General in reference to the bill of his nohle and learned friend, and he bad promised him to use his best endeavours to pan it through the House of Commons. He believed tho bill bail very fow defects and he trusted therefore that before very long it would become tho law of tho land. Lord CAMPBELL said, on several occasions within his recent experience, the want of this bill had been greatly felt. Frequent ilisputes had arisen, and thero had boeu great -hiiigci of jn t.

-v be pei verted in continence ot power existing to call the wife as a it nogs where the huahaml was I'oneerneil. But he nM to omit stating that lit noble and learned frieml on the woolsack desorvod the thanks of Hie country for his efforts in accomplishing the great changes which had been either recently, or were about to be introduced into the u1miuislration of the law. After an observation or two from Lord BROUGHAM the subject dropped. LANDS IMPROVEMENT COMPANY (No. 2) BILL.

Thi Duke of ARGYLL, in moving the third reading of this bill, said tho uiniu object of it was to enable the eotn-panv to raise money on debentures, trau.ferablc by endorsement, for the improvement of laml. Since the discus T-sO la Fl.045,542,790 9 Certified by the Governor of the Bank, Count d'ARGOUT. Bovuse. But a limite.l amount of business was tianaacted at the Bourse to-day, the absence of intelligence from the Eotifc of a decisive character preventiu speculators from operating, and causing a decline in prices. The Three per Cents, fell aii-1 the Four-and-a-Half per Cents.

10cM both for cash, whilst for tho account there was a decline of 55c. in the Three per and of 50c. in the Four-and-n-Half per Cents. Tlie final quotations Were for money Three per 76f. 90c Four-and-a-Half per Cents, ditto, lOlf.

90f. for the end of the month Three per 76f. 80c. Fuur-and-a-Half per 10lf. 50c.

The Railway Share Market has also been dull, although there is not much variation to report in prices. been in office for four years, aud daring thai time they had produced Do profit hatever to the shareh Ills was, scosaary, or were ould be move being of this iu ins iuiuo, amply Minioieiii. in reiuiei a cnunge 1 and it was his conviction that if the direi not displaced, the properly of tho shareholders utterly destroyed. In conclusion, he begged the following resolution That this meetii of opinion that the disastrous condition company has mainly arisen from the policy pursued by the directors, considers it absolutely necessary that a change in the management and policy of the company should take place, there beimt other SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th do not contain a einoe line of interest to foreign readers.

That day, bein Sunday, the Stock Exchange was closed. wise no hope of socuriug those advantages to the shareholders which should i from the position of the rail Dublin IU Dublin and Ifrogheda Dublin and Kingstown Duudalk and Enniskilien Dundee and A rbroath Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen East Angtla" Kast em Counties 'inclu. Norfolk East Lanoaaliire Union Edinburgh ami Qhvigow Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee. (Jlasgow and South-Western it Northern Oreat South, and West. 1 1 roUnd) Oreat Western Irish South-Eastern Kendal aud Windermere Lancaster od Carlisle Lancashire and Yorkshire Liverpool, Crosby, and South pur; Londonderry and Coleraina Loo don and orth- est era London and Blackball London, Brighton, ib Sooth Cvasl London aud Londonderry and Ennlsklilen Sbetneid, 4 MaachesWrHouthJuuctlouand i Altrinchain i Mary port and Carlisle Midland Midland Oreat Westom I Ireland North British (Including Dal-1 keitb Branch) i North-Western Oxford.

Worcester, aud Wol- verb am ptou JFt Scottish Central Scottish Midland Junction Shrewsbury aud Birmingham. Shrewsbury and Cheater Uulon South Devon nsti South-Eastern South South Yorkshire, Duucasler, Tafl Vale UUtwr Wattrford and Kilkenny Watorford ant Limerick West Coruwall West Hartlepool Harbour Kail Whitehaven unction 1863 1853 1862 i7 1693 87t 37 723 S3 33 2413 IS32 84 6399 D007 18 189i 10-205 4 I 944 -Vlll 4'3S ft 10 301 185 342 I 334 66 32 1340 1008 63 63 lbh3 1232 71 I 71 1683 1236 2ft SO 2''P 30O 161 14 730 81 31 78 675 67 67i 8H1 619 328 322 18388 16841 81i 79 4964 4714 94 94 1 8261 891 89 4344 S7JM 78 70 2740 3663 1741 1741 4ftS4 I 4064 383) 233 15. lis USsr, J8H I 188 618A 6143 317 2751 2673 i 19181 26 26 198 220 10 ioi I 90 I 90 6381 48iil 260 260 1944H 17816 UU 1 ftlti 241 73 663) I 54H4 M869 49801 6 ti 1799 JAflt 173 1731 1395 i 1221 36 1 2441 I 13842 344 94 640 391 1674 M7J 8640 I 7287. i C93 I 760 4S4SJ 498! 25063 23U34 12Kt 1264 2904 3404 149 1 149 37t)8 P690 46i 1208 83S 4fti i 2165 60 60 229, 2022 32 324 746 I 663 59j 29 48 48 SinU) 1 1843 30 i So (174 K67 674 671 227J '-'Itv; 289 289 i mi -s 1(1 111 i i 1(104 3466 14 77 77 1614 12u5 38 88 3147 S6 36 1170 10M6 29 13 194 fll 68 69 463 2.. Iff; 648 40t 3179 1917 12 1J 363 213 683 060 27196 p1.

fyl fp 67) 1 674 1640 16 i 316 26-i 446 3ti8 36704 22874 I 77 3 82 I 62 8816 8192 I 69 69 3775 i 3361 274 24 476 I 331 99 99 6710 4641 sion which had taken place in respect to it a few nights ago. everal ii with against hint been tmme ill tlie loll, hjections that were thon raisetl hat tho objections, which wen? been removed, he should not in which Lord St. Leonard, WD ALE detail, ha 1 further. way, ami the populous manufacturing dutr.ct through which it poshes; this meetiug, therefore, earnestly recommends the shareholders reldent iu London and the neighbourhood to entrust their proxies to the committee appointed at the last general meeting to waieh thu interests of the shareholders, wilh a view to secure the election of other directors at the approaching half-yearly meeting of the company." Mr. Whalley, M.P., seconded the motion, and observed that his suspicions were most strongly awakened by the circJiustaiice th.it the secretaries of the Shrewsbury and Choster aud Shrewsbury ami Birmingham Companies, after pursuing a course of policy most inimical to the interests of the shareholders, luwl both become not only directors, but the leading minds in thoir respective boards.

The policy which hail guided the affairs ot both these compauies had plunged them into a sea of litigation, competitiou, and contention, effectually depriving the shareholder of that return for their capita) which they had fair right to expecU The company wad now iu a difficulty from which it could not Us extricated unless the shATeholders took the matter into their own bands, and at oncechariged the policy by changing the board of directors. Mr. Otsich, said he was anxious to explain to the meeting how it was thii, being a director of the Shrewsbury aud Birmingham Company, he came to attend a meeting which was not ouc of the ordinary meetings sanctioned by law. He assured them it wan a matter of extreme difficulty for him to divest, hia miud of the many considerations hich pressed upon it at that moment, and which he felt it necessary to lay before the shareholders bnt of one thing ho did not hesitate to assure them, and that was, that ho felt they had a perfect justification for assembling there that day. Iu railway, as in nil ot her pro AUSTRIA.

The English aud French Governments having demanded an explanation from the Austrian Cabinet respecting the concentration of an army in the neighbourhood of IVterwaradin, they have lwjen informed that it was of an exclusively defensive character. Th encampment will consist of about men. The Emperor has left Vienna on a tour through Moravia, for the purpose of inspecting the military establishments. There are three American veasela at present with tlie Turkish fleet in the Boaphorua the frigate Cumberland is reported to have brought a considerable amount of money to Constantinople. Paruamkvtary Papers to Mechanics' Ijfau- Trrriosrs.

Yesterday a select committer- of the House of Commons reported on the question whether parliamentary pipers should be supplied to literary and mechanics' institutions. They recommend a supply on a moderate scale at first. mK jj iu. mti: krwl jbt Cpstoms. Messrs.

C. J. Cox, J. A. Bussell, and J.

M'Fbersoc, senior searchers of customs, bavo been nominated to act. as landing surveyors of the waterside department, when from pressure of business or other causes their services may be required in tint capacity. Lady Howard's Morning Partt. Yesterday, Lady Howard gave her ladyship's second morning party, at Craven Cottage, Fulhatn. Her ladyship was honoured with a very numerous and distinguished circle of the aristocracy and occta moiute.

Their Highncjwes the Duchess of Cambridge and tlie l'i iucoss Mary of Cambridge, attended by Iidy Suflield and Lady Croliue Cust, were among the earliest arrival, ami were shortly followed by his Serene Hihnw the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strolitz. Australasian pAcinc Mail Steam Oojicpaky. The first half-yearly mooting of the Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Company took place yesterday, when the report hrouidit U'waid wa upaniuiounly adopted. The prospect of the undertaking arc doscriicd as encouraging. Of the 1 shares isued, tlie whole have been paid upon with the exception of about 300, the various calls made luiving been punctually liquidated.

The company's first vessel, the Kaugaroo, i expected to lie ready for soa in about Honesty at the Diggings. Mr. John Briatow, formerly publican at Buckingham and Bieeater, who a few el is since left England in embarrassed circumstances for Australia, where he has been very successful in nugget tiudiiig, has called on persona having claims on him to tend in their accounts in order that he may discbarge them. Yrk. Newcastle, and Berwick, 1 n.i,1 V.l Midland i Lord Campbell, the Duke uf ISueclcoeh, and the Marquis 41 Salisbury took part, tho bill wns read a third time, and PJe1' GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

Tho Earl of ELLF.NBOROL'UH moved for returns of the oath taken by the director i the liat In lia Company of the bye-law of the company prohibiting he directors from deriving pecuniary advantage fnm tbeir patronage of the bye-law prohibiting t-hem ftom uVmg their patronage in remuneration for votes; of the establishment of a regiment of European infantry in the service 4if the compeny, and the annual oluugo thereof: of tho rules by which officer are appointed to the several ranks on the formation of a now regiment in the -ei ie nf tho company and several other returns relating to the charge the Indian amir. Hie lordship sUied that bis object in moviug for those return was to render the government of fndia bill its pfeot and efficient as possible. The noble earl said, as he fancied there would be uo objection made to the production of those papers, he wau uuwiiliug to make any observation and Leeds Northern i FOREIGN. Dutch Rhenish Si aria Antonia i rthorn of Franco Parts and Orleans Paris and Boaeu Paris uud Strasbourg'! Kouen and Havre Sainbre and Menae Western uf Prance West Flanders T)i Morning Laiul or, A Thnvswl on I One Days in the East. By Friederich Bodenstedt.

From the German, by Richard Woddington. Second Series. In Two Vols. London "Richard Bentley. These volumes form the sequel of another work of the same namo.

They present a graphic picture of Russian and Circassian life. We use the I.