At a meeting at the East India House, yesterday, a
petition against the pro- posed plan of Sugar-duties, and praying for an uniform duty of 14s. on sugar the produce of British possessions, was unanimously adopted; to be presented by Mr. Hogg- In last nighes'Gazette, the Railway Board announce, that having had under consideration the following schemes for extending railway-communication in Scot land, they have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of the Aberdeen, Dundee and Perth, (line on the North bank of the Tay,) Edinburgh and Northern,
Scottish Milani, Glasgow, Barrhead, and Wellston • and against the Glasgow and Ayr, (Barrhead and Wellston Branch.). And the ioard having further had under consideration the following schemesi, viz. the Whitehaven and Furness Junction, the Kendal and Windermere, and the Lowestoft, have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of the said schemes.
-A commission has passed the Great Seal, appointing the Right Honourable Sir Edward Ryan, Thomas Starkie, Esq., Q.C., Robert Vaughan Richards, Esq., QC.,
Harry Bellenden Ker, Esq., and Andrew Amos, Esq., to-be her Majesty's Commis- sioners for digesting the Criminal Law; and appointing James John Lonsdide Esq., to be Secretary to the Commission.—Morning Chronicle.
Lord Wynford is seriously indisposed, at Lessons, his seat in Kent.
The Standard reported, that the Reverend Mr. Oakeley, of Margaret Chapel, conspicuous for his Tractarian audacity, was suspended by the Bishop of Lon
for having written a somewhat defying letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxtiavi University, at the time of Mr. Ward's condemnation. He denied the suspension;
the story now is, that he was invited to resign—declined—was suspended—but on the remonstrance offriends was restored to his licence, with the intimation that pro- ceedings would be taken against him in the Ecclesiastical Court for breach of the Canons.
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