The Express. — London, England, 1852-12-18 00:00:00

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. A ape itl meeting of this company was held yes wog, at the London Tavern, fur the purpose ef resehieg „wisest from the dirveton r to the masses' tatiesial le brousht forward is parliament in the emeing leasies helialf of the company, or by other parties, and wide\ idea the isterests of the company. Mt. l • WaDDINUtroN, chairman of the comply, , 5 aliening the proceedings, explained that the thareholdires had bon sum • nen ed in fulfilmeat of • pledge given by the drawn that no great expending* of Money should be assiertsken without previous consultation with the tied, elf ooreholders; and, first of all, perhaps it would be math romenient to state the measures which bad been brought (" ac ed by other companies, is order to enable the .sum to judge how far, after explanations, they were likely to damage their interests. (Hnr, hear) first was • bill promoted by the Thames ll,„. Dirk and Railway Company, which did mot at all sane their interests. fib mid any dares be introduced manual to their interests it will be the directors' ditty to opus. them. There was also a *Mice given by the Itriesh Electric Telegraph Company. This bill required watihug is a similar way, as there were two different eanyailies under the same title, and he cool I best dis t:4:4loli them as the old company and the new company. With the old company they bail made • joint and beneficial ammo meat tar the traffic of the Emden Counties It'll way and aim that over other lines which can be sp. rroached through the medium of the Eastern Counties Lalisay. The second company they had no coanexion arch, and they sack to take pogrom to use the Bast. eau Cuuntiee hue of railway, which of comm this Caoupsuy are not disposed to grant, having ar nica:eon-oho already existing with the other company. There was also notice given of a bill fur the construction of the Nero ich Dicks, the reclamation of land from the river Stour, and foe power to enter into arrangements with the Eotera Counties and the Eastern Union Railway Comps-', Lies. They me' k for powers to reclaim land, and to build • jetty at Doveniurt and to construct docks there. As yet the dinctong heal no communication with that company, but, as thi y se, k fur posters to make arrangements with the Eat. rn Ceun•iiv, anomie in say negotiation. it would be the Juncoes' duty, before weenie to terms which will commit the sliareholdeis to any outlay or toroth* you in in any guarantee, to miluoit such measure and styli pro. out to them for consideration. (Hear, hear.) There is Malice also given by the Be am. Union, ine *pectin of the amalgamation, fee powers similar to the which thy sought for last askesbeffismo—which was proved briar,' the committee to be issegreffeet, and the bill was thrown out. They muebt again Se Mom Powers, yonder bat grounds he was at • Ism beesmerin. The L uslon an.l Watford Water Compaq bag elle gives artier for a bill to enable them to maim lets sassomers with the E dean Counties Conroy /es fait wear ekes the aides of that line. There was we liewbe toy would eater negotiations with that simpeety ; bat the directors, if they grant a boom, would take ease le ISNIVe ea (valve kat is the amp. d remeneratie• Y seems ihr ite ke.,, hear) There had he's • sego ghee, bed whisk dtot bear the signatures Oro solielasek or ether parties, Ming for • lose from Lowestoft to Zssmstelk. He presumca the Norfolk Company will epos" soh as application. Thin was also notice Riven by the Victoria Dock Company UT eat noon of powers and the construction of • new dock also to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to divert the North Woolwich line, and the Lack Company to costribets towards the camas. of the some. This was • hoe promoted by the Victoria Dock Company, with • view of gasses incresaed facilities for their traffic, by which of coarse Eastern Connti-s" traffic would also be benefited. The saver Lee tr Wee* had Risen aotice for • bill for the 'lterates of the• bridge over Bow Carrels. When that bill came before the committee it would be their duty to see that the els/ratios was tot ass is a way at all to interfere with s interests of this aseigamy. Then was also notice Po" h, aw leakffellfflellke making • line be. teem Salami mil Mabee& Ma was • same which wee submitted to the Nemers Ornedise, with many atlas, to taw what they called inseeneell meemeedatios to the yubbe The dirictors i in ewe& ONO settee, issued • circular to the proprietors thatthe latent Counties board true calmly eansidariagehatilatricts of country which tale line was e Cculatcsl to eleWallelet• should be pro m wit by this company. They eseekbared the apolicationa that wire made to them, sad mini at the conclusion laud , d upon the experience gained of the working of the East Annan line —that however cheaply • line might be constructed. yet that there was • limit to the traffic in that district which was especially shown in the portion between Lelia sad Wisbeach, two of the most populous towns is the daonct, and they saw that it would be with the greatest cigiroi•y they could work the line so as to cover the coot et maintenance and the working impasses. (Hear, hear.) They therefore lilt, however dasirable it might be to pra t glade parties an that district who were minions to promote the lane tor their own individual accommodation, yet it was to be done out of the revenue apportionable to themselves, sod they decided that they could not countenance nch a scheme, insealueli as nothing but loss could seise from It. h(Load cries of " Hear, hear.")— tk At these explanatioas, under the head of bills pro to,ticl by other companies, he would pass oa to notice those measure. which the Eastern Counties were promoting themselves. There were four bills in all. The first was a bill relating to the North Woolwich hoc for _power to make a railway from North Woolwich to Ham Creek and Uterine Thames. This was • notice for • bill to obtain powers to make the short line to the Victoria Docks—and thematic of giving notice arises in this way :—lt appeared. sailer the advice of their solicitors, that they were bowed to cave this notice if the line was to be coostruted, but that the Victoria Duck Company had guaranteed this oorn posy mono all cost and outlay respecting it. The obtain the act would be at their eem TM line would be mintructed by the Eastern Goa ass, sed the Victoria Com pany would trombone the. the met al the Mlle, and the object would be the man eleentelnient working of the traffic mem:main with the aim The meeting would agree with him, that the esameeimlise with Ukase decks must of necessity presses the mode of their ems line. The neat project was that kw the Wesdhog yes, 7 miles in b ale • This lin double line whisk mai este IlSkablier WW I " wi. e, which was mongol ens mind- the iotal tolge , would, if cheaply anaressa. pm per dam , co the outlay. The mat point to whisk he - Mewl to tall their attention was, the proposal of the inseams* segindiee the mortgage debt, asesessieg to 1,210.111111., abbe, in the present favourable stoat alba moseveralmt. nomed to do at the rate of 31 per sent (Near, hew.) The Pee' reams must again be sebesitesel totint shmesheigsee for their approhation; but he leek thee epportnefte tiling them that 3;_ wee the noise= they mooed Wert in their bill. The third seam bed given was ger en ar pinatas for a railway hem dr Mass lons Ilaa• a actin to Harwich, with offer to make a berbeter, ass, at the latter place. With sagest to this prosehies. h• might mention that the leans Voles Mil obeased a act in 1847 fee the ease yns the crupalsory wren of Oda sighed la let's they obtained an salaries of time te JON The semptey mend into se wannent, liming the bee to the Ewan Corinne for Nil peso sad is Angell. 1161, the seal of the company we. allenbith to the ill that agreement it was 'evensong NO lhe wow soy for the ettionetion of the lise deed/ he oder the control of a joist eelendelee. IMeftildeo %eel be from each board. On the ese t atelles of weds the hewn Counties wee to pay lame ger sort,' with MU the roots above that am. Ho 4 purcmet or hase tow Ny llsore mail V isi es. esi Nevoid's* lino w ee . y Mi r o or poem amaonse. The ill C alaltal• had obtained perdwee kr 161. a shape the lies km Casehrille Ice Newel. sod le alas/ the hes hem Newmarket to Hoy. with yermimi=ofee the wheis Ilse, the whole mess be the been Counties eharelesidare Ar i l= sageolatiee. The ant Pant wee their oontesalatal WONSISIDeat with the herfellt aid laetant Oslo Sail The Norfolk shinheldere lesit ea tbis with Wine teem these of she 'nem mail Imam Woe alheatesy bet to 'mew hillresses In wee pranged he ohm& tbs tenths to Mee Odegendeut geedsom wholly ea as weed wish dim pan% who wad& de ea the fair 'alai a the prepay. le believed that the Nerhik Osse- Pmfur; weft eremite* eet the goal= is • spirit, hat he M i d set teesomeng that they should be admitted late peassailp with the Rasters Cooties at the eeriabellia ef their Mmut lean ea ether them eqpitabie Wow The male might be said ebb segensee le the &Ore raise, bat whole wale selaillial M halphadsat and iatelogeot see. r' — as r seedipmesisa, ha write my there wee so babe Ilea reeler Sea ellfaapo• 'ats were mated MO the Is Ulan wise slams itneeratime he beedle i =reh is see morass boats between Ipwish sal ad hod leech secesaos they bad any made ram hawse is the treat ef the Zoom Osman Nos. Mr. Hon gosh' thee Mee seise of them asenglientei erneremooda skald have bees give. to dm alio le that holders ; lethented his immetem hi =wings reriellea elm. Kt. Maio inquired whether the abercheldas genersily W neeived detailed leferatetion se to thus daara H e had received sane terse tie ink. The eigelftWee eharved die wee sandy a console- shoe swing, sidled he Se pirrals 11181•8 ehereholdm the chi the imam bad view. They moat be seem sailed towage es • eaten gen to give • lanul Ir lle ia res i EM . the timedisliers "hold hem had feller preview lf tikeyr•••• 4 ••w o ad aterlieis men aid al a eiholla ant jai. their pease' i s be quasi whet lima la he %Asia, the Halm Cameles - hed heal alealf• Pt tutees and lessee, end ehesld net reek late eentrams Whisk weald have the sreAloeddlmWieg this dielasala The Woodford line, he hseed, wail lea bed spesellaiima kehop, . it did, aewbeee. eel o t cqi way ha rind mamba: traffic, skid' wee SOW Pet .d . enkt • other metropolitan lines. The spaher all • th e other Mints, eamdeded by cam ples shoe is al - Weii matters Ow direness samba be NW IS IS dale OM r^reeetbility, and le sew eheramei wields lehr• the Mecum Ps that Ibe Cita t iimalt l =Li prefeeee, the arguments he bed and is hi ors* 'ahem raM hall our eland that the directors were quite reedy to usidatak• t he "sired reemadmity. (" Hear," end ehan.) ne Cita OMAN *ea pet • ran lades to the abet Oahe ening havlaibissadlNlMNl.lbems be by tr lselb wosisg, vas seenaing by Mr . moms. nal eller seme hather dheemisa wed eh The and eels et Soaks lesimeel Ile piesselefs. THE EXPRESS, DINNRR TO TEI INGLISH .C9MXISSARII3. DUTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. On above lbw gave a *sada dimmer to the E. coenniewrier, by way of ookbraling pre Natation W those gentle sea ed a molineedel lass .4 the admisaidea with wince their seseseetel seediest. while grapplies with the dif- Messes formerly Wades be the direction. bed ill them. The movement originated at a meeting of the2r i el Whine in September het, wbea it woe resolved to agonies a see mittee for the lierpose et dories' mom Is 'vines their approval of the eminent sereises ,aimed M the esespany by the orstedwaries. The present met wee the generous respoaas of tho sharsheiden to the appeals mods Mt am by the committee is question. Charles Holland, Seq., occupied the chair, and was ably supported by Alex ander Macgregor, Esq. Annisgst the company present were W. Alleard, Esq., Henry Harrison, Esq., Thome Hooch, Esq., Woo. Cleaton, Esq. T. F. Benactt, J. A. Tian", Esq., Lewin Mealey, Esq. J. Rsq. , EN., W. Wardell, Esq., H. Littledsle, Thomas Enna, Esq. Briggs. Esq., B. J. Arnold, Esq., T. B. Barclay, Eq ., H. C. Belo*, Esq., de. Notes had been re• calved from several gentlemen, 'spraining regret that una voidable circumstances had prevented their being present. Amongst others from John Muss, Eq., Thome. K. Moss, Esq , Jos. Langton, Esq., C. H. Joins. Esq., R. Gladstone, RN., W. R. diutdbadi, E.q., J. B. Neilson, Esq., D. Esq., dec. After the health of the Quota bad been drunk in the most loyal manner, CHAS. HOLLAND, Esq., the chairman, said that there was but one feeling among the commissaries in regard to the handsome testimonial by which the shareholders bad chosen to manifest their sense of the way in which their task hail been fulfilled. Ile was sure that he was only speaking the sentiments of his brother comma mules when he said that it was nut the pecuniary value of the testimo nial, but the spontaneous and unsolicited r. cognition of the services of the CGINMIAPAIieII which the shareholders, through their committee. had displayed, that was so grate ful to their &gimps. Ile felt it due to Isis brother commis saries to state that such had been the labours through wl.ich they have had to pus, that, could they have had a fore taste at the lint meeting, five or Mx can ago, in Mr. Haloes other, of the difficulties they hWI since cocoon. tared, they would not have ventured to engage in them. With the slight exception of two miles, they were now in possession of all the land b.-tween Utroeht and Rotterdam ; so that in every point the line might be mid to be in a state of active progress, and results far exceeding the most ea • se espeetations of the shareholders aught be looked for. It was gratifying also to find that those whe had been obliged in some sort to coerce, in order to emabirse them iuto one harmonious action, had, without exception, ap• pended their names to the list of subscribers to the testi monial awarded on that ocessios. In conclusion he pro pond the Prosperity of the Dutch Rhenish Railway Company," and he would venture to connect with it the name of Mr. Lewin Mosley. Mr. Lew Ix MooLer, in returning thanks, made an affect ing allusion to his deceased brother, to whose seal in the affairs of the Pitch Rhenish Itaioway he attributed much of the success of the comiany. Mr. Bocell returned thank. for himself and brother com missaries, and is the course of his observations referred to the praiseworthy conduct of the late Mr. Elias Mosley, whom, with the other Englidi cenunieraries, he entirely ex culpated from aiding in the forfeiture of shares, which they WA and every argument and exertion to prevent. Mr. lisuaisnx, in a humourous speech, returned thanks, and proposed the health of Mr Moe, of Liverpool, and Mr. Jansen, of London, of both of whom he spoke in the higher urns. Several other toasts were given before the terminatioa of the proceedings of the evening. LEEDS NORTHERN RAILWAY. AMALGAMATION WITH THE TORE COM FANIRS. . _. _ An adjourned extraordinary meeting of the &aro- holders iu this undertaking was held in the Stock Exchange Hall, at Leeds, ori Thursday, to consider and decide upon a proposal to amalgamate they intetest with those of the York, NI wrestle. and &retch, and the York apd North Midland Railway Companies. The more immediate object of the meeting was to receive and decide upon the adoption of a report prepared by a committee of shareholders, ap pointed at the meeting held on the 2nd ot November last, in reference to the amalgamation. T. CONITARLIt, Esq., the chairman of the company, pre sided, and mast of the directors were present. The pro eeedinas occupied nearly its hours. parties conceded the coati-ability of amalgamation, the principal points in dispute being la reference to the claims of the prehrence shareholders, some of whom refuse to submit to the pro poposed reduction in their dividends et 6 par cent. The report of the committee was then reed. Mr. Jonsson, of Lichfield, as the alarms. of the share holders' committee, moved the following resolution :— "' That an amalgamation of this company and its under taking with tha Y. rk, Newcastle, sad Berwick, and York and Mirth Nam! Railway Companies sad their da t e the the OEM ele ta the mart, dated the Oth day of Dearibee of the ommert tee of shareholders appointed on the day of Novem ber last, sad detailed is the Meet mposmant As Males• me to Mr meter& lle ors : ash &pewee* me be seeds ea altered - he W i g these reeelodame I me Mat the direetees art de seem. plots see egresiment, erd aim that the directors sompkto an egreement as Or maim beets lir the lateral' Weeping sad encasement of Ibe Mee of the said these madm takie me, with mesh medlisedeas or alterations tbsomia els spectiv..ly as they ow deem engettimt, Sr require, and to sad the some reepservely wrt i l e ith ili ree= an behalf of this tampony, mil do apply or maw is as application to mama tee an ast en acts to seredes ad carry out each ausignmemiem and Lateran' tram allemmge meat., and to rails dr milditiamal ca tal rogaleed is met existing liabilities, and de ale Os anon of dividends due jobramo shasshaNsat ajp hi the Slit instant, as teellelltlieVeUreill mod pespood la the com mittee's said repeat; mil leggin the eshome of Attune dividT ads is the hawks ad prieedo Ws.:-Ist, Four per seat. mom as the said sac ahe raised by aseerapate ib.. preaseme rah. with lreeral he pay Atm par.-114 Ms re asst. par moot to the flat pro. foresee er gernMr For per ans. pm ea nos to all Ober pahossms shams.- 4 th, Pao pm sent. per masa ea the 3ebereo Mea Se be ossamil by capitalising the au at $ 1,8161; being the amasser esti mated amass et divides& es peedmaass shams , to the , 1 Slut of Desember, Ilia, with pewee to pay et at par. Toramd-oltalt per cent, per wawa on all their,. sitaros.-6th, If say the MN shall be divided rateably armag gs r sheedeadare. That esmomy he imposed se pay WA posibmees shares at the smogs pisa Oat fragosilie IMMO at shams have bear en the Ueda Nadi Bostiaago Mama day et Jassary sad the lid do or Sommabor, IMO, sad fur that popes to take owns he olio the requisite amount by room shares, se le s pediement may permit or re ad me the existing powers of pay soy of the awes. And if say dispute ebell sae with impost to emeli average, the same shall be miliemd to the *wander of Leeds ter the time being." Mr. Rosser ;wort, a member at the ossamittse, se seeded the propmellies. Atha a god deal of diseentio, as samadnisat, imply apporfas Mt dm tams of the amalgamation as set kith is the commilleme repot, was premed sad seasadsd. Oa th• aalsa of Mr. Cannon, a private osaimmee was aamtga4 NM the ehairmais, several mambos at the samadlho sad aims sf ths pre/news holden, wlbd to image the mastar. After ma ars s. of nearly or her, they Manisa hito the hall, whea The Camoom said it had been agreed that the reestn. Lopeeed by Idr. alma amid be rend, with the Odom wads " slalom* to sok alantians sr maillisadia sellosain is iho teems et Molina av enged WM= the WWlshe sof sharehaidas la this =as a asomitssontpothrsase and =VW share kat stoma she Molds spa." she mosiallos as modal w the. psi sad needed all bat amelosally. mad pe r t ell e_ . thee part el Ile Mr. Moos Kr. I. Sorkin MTirod;s, of iamb ad Mr. James Weeds% efNamelevar. Oa the Mliidt seigiaal shosimidase : Mr. Thom Is on ; H. ; Mr. H. W. Saidowas, Mass *, Kr. Jos. IMO* ChM 1 The than LUDO, naI:MORD, AND aturAx Joteriox Raziwar.—The first aseft of the abarsheiders ia this eadertaklag woe habl at the Los& Crsart-hseise yesterday = a , /Award Akre/4 Esq., chairman of the Ward at beldam se yeeeeh iedielh h e Wean w en toes *sly sheet keg M a a lyis *am e aril as ase of a Iherel deform The abeineas pee a Wray of tba Om die teas of the famed= el lie um. P p i Zer dli a the maim at their WI by o ff le Jur bie le 415 ad the le easseeft iiriatethire the ma Nadi WeeZ es. the Mare, and the Irearthe awl Tablas Com He esprene • eery rediret eiders diet the whisk la se laet yes] "0001. I geoid yam neurerative Ihe shemehdeer led aleM reel& tt se warm aimieeM yeiverlei It o be geed lbel be hells ely is 1114. The aims dee eeeseered is the few Mal fiat dry VIM mkt( to pudereas this ..dm, for ma earners of *skirl to Winger a. firs 1,6 84 401 • tarp 406 i walk h erysileL The varier relaiedeee one WWI 2 , awry ble sod ern d. mese aof *obi to the eb ui r s eur2 ll awar MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT SALTCONEL--OD Sa turday easelog • bony stars wee espedeeeed hem, aetempriedtMllimy oda, main emy river NA kook No as lemma' height ; the tee was el le very histi. At dayheeeli ngs a si y et beer*/ sas s eV& appose ea have bra la se e was sue amber rim Summate , Dere. About , the wild beet•z z alseed • Hale. • mom wood AkiNiaett Hie, awl a aimed lilies Won. 'ley hillaskabism • NEM best, le tale up eine I s 1• pooseellutas. Ihms they rsta They of walk tefloli Seek lets the They mode ea allompt to nut tie slew ea the ihsr &ode ; bet, are pain •••••i w timmlionr the beet wee one to spat, beih woe sollielmattly Tho be 4 of the boy wr pi was AN*. =: 4- whoot body lee met hoes ireoetteed. •• young Ewa. sad re loft • war. Wbr perws the rreurrar =spas dastraelag tote meats at Ilbs boy was W r go or la bat, Bar barn puked lb of s ae boy was swan,—aboOmess. BUTURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1852. LITERATURE. Monsoiro, Joarrieol, and Corrospoodnom, of TAoosas Moore Edited by *be Right Him Lord Joist! Kress Lt.. Long• (Snood Notice.) The contents of the .scored volume of these relics of Mean are of deeper and more varied interest than those of the first. The hero of the tale has been draws loco the vortex of a healer world—the whirl of that vortex has become more stormy and im psases--and he has himself caught the contagious excitement, become imbued with more earnestness, and engrossed with more serious interest.. We find him hameght into familiar contact with the leading spirits of the age at the time when the allied 'ove rtire visited London; when Napoleon snatched rfor a brief and stormy interval th e guidance of destinies of France. It was a spirthatirring epoch, such as those who did not live in those days can have no conception of. And the intenser life which inspired men in public affairs, was felt also in their literary efforts. The interest with which the publications of the snout popular favourites of the public are nowa days looked for and received is hence compare] with that which was awakened when works from Byron, Scott, and Moore, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Shel ley, and a host omioor aspirants, issued daily trout the press. The clam of society with which Moore was most intimately associated was that of the aristocratic whigs. In his letters and journals, therefore, we catch the reflex of their tone, less impassioned, less stormy than that of the democracy, on the surface of which they . floated. Their's was a courtly libe ralism, aspiring to the toleration of the despotic circles it opposed, ambitious of being distinguished the vulgar discontented. Their character is well indicated in a letter from Lady Donegal (a good natured partisan of the court) to Moore, prescribing to him how far he may go in liberalism : You will be in the society of some whose beads awl hearts are too wrong to bays any iniluenee with you, but their very society will do you harm, and the association of their sautes with yours would grieve me moat sincerely. I be seech you to avoid them all if you eaa, and if you cannot he u guarded as in your nature lies, for the Irish democrats (if you choose I will call them opposition) arc a &aprons, unprincipled set as ever existed, and are held in great dis repate by all the respectable part of the opposition in this country; I pat all my own courtly feelings out of the qua. tioo. • • • lam satisfied that you should go as far in your politics as Lord Lansdowne or Lord Grenville, but 1 will give my consent to your going one step beyond them. /As for Sir F. Burdett an this country, and Mr. B. and others I could name in Ireland, I bare a horror of them, &adjoin heartily is the general feeling of contempt into which they have fallen. Moore's natural disposition prepared him to con form to this advice, and it is accordingly with the' politico-literary Holland-house and allied circles that we find him most intimate. We do, however, find him occasionally associating with " wilder " men, such as Burdett, Hobhouse, Douglas Kinnaird, &c. ; but always with something of that feeling en tertained by decorous, steady-going men, who indulge in occasionally consorting with fascinating nosh. In justice to Moore, however, it must be remarked that his native good sense frequently led him to warn and remonstrate with his whig friends when their pOOO-curantiam in politics was pushed to excess. Tee tone of eircles such as he mingled most with in such excited periods is that of careless resignation to fate. They affect indifference in, and laugh at, or satirise everything. Hence records of their familiar conversations are peculiarly frequent. Their bon mote, levelled alternately against ministers and popular leaders, are amusing to the extreme; their unceremonious treatment of dignities edifying. Here is a sample from Moore's diary : Went to Holland House; had some conversation with Lord Holland before dinner. Mentioned to me a curious scene which be bad with Sheridan and the Prince while they were Is power. Sheridan having told him (while they waited in se sate-chamber) about some public letter which he had corrected or re-written for the Prince, the latter, as their admission to him, told quite a different story, referring to Sheridan, who all the while enurteonsly bowed ament ; and, said Lord Holland, "I could not, for the soul of me, make out which was the liar." Mr. Dalton is scarcely more complimentary to the externals of the Regent than Lord Holland to his inner man. In June, 1814, Mr. Dalton writes from London The Emperor [Alexander] is a very amiable-looking pers on ; the King of Prussia is, I think, much more interesting, from his simple and unostuatidiess demeanour ; but the contrast between their Wawa manner and unaffected dress, and the &Hiegel dignity and manufactured emanate of our Itegent, ie most striking." The same setter recounts a rather smetify hag adventure of him whom Thackeray calls " Game the Magnificent : The swot striking eabiMtion witch I saw was the first appositions as i masptiime M the peat visitors at the Opera. • • • • no ltagent, who meowed along with the Em peror and ling of Prowls, nod wile at sparse shared in the appleue, "NA was peedigiaek Wiwi pale when ha sew the artfully timed s waaatofthePefaeessof Wales 'wally opposite,ali tie critical assamea whoa the applause bad sub sided. I wee saw anything so painted as the manner in whit dime the entire setileaw turned to her sad cheered harf -- Flitminlitess of that dity biro is one respect a era* Melees to these adm resent, in •d•etiolf the seamen of their ft. On this head poor, wrote to Lady n April, 1816 : By the bye, a= yes er an yea not a little eabamed of ear dear binds. the misistsest I dent lases ea the more of their wields ea abaft Ile lir is this rupee they are, of worse, es eimiraWe es ever, hat ter the shabbier's with which they am daily mereaderiag so many wile, Wisps & sable, sad use mos amisof ampeeares to the Malin of eyeesities. " Time was when the braes were one the tea woad die ;" or that whet a Waiver (es rombemy says) was proved a feel, be would go sear to be thought se too; bat sew we ses that, so be keeps his Mace, he seed sot be aim. es le whets sessearee he keep ley , V s lie h m as asst the vises, or some te hem what he aisle a Me ad vammiss. he lee the seamiest prim= he he tiem hem whet thoy pines ayes Nes. We dell sou ham all measures artgleate with dm 41111psitisa : they will. ley the sp, sod drikiiml soden eishows will bomb *e the Ice the present fragmentary asini-antassaistie rela tions of was is opposition, the followair Mature os easiitjeasr dawn& ia 1819, has an istemot : Modatimb Minis madam warmly, sad is measialy right es to Sheila/MI erhielyie. though some of the mid imbues. Ism boa neimey. TM *Wendt cen tury wail full of asalitioos the Bumbstioa was brought shout by a eseUtisa ; Lord 's Nation with the Duke of Newer& hued oat year reedy. • • • llie ' said that Wee etelitlem were Mewed, - we and Mink ler em Is a ottadlog swat minis** ; end the arms Wine ..sip • sees of wthunidas mod, tia tiss eiai l inehethedity th em lapse of —die to es I mama essimme die lessper et their sad nal them dam essemisilni themeless le rash *ohm e a r im pesselegie messerse. wadi an Mle an sews of delouse sad poise sash *eels as maid 'Ma the esnallasties. The light throws upon bilamo's own Amstar and *aim in these volumes is ample. He called limit a Rosen catholic, but his devotion to diet Nth dem sot upper to have gam auk braise this a nodes that it wee a Pont of Maims sot to essede from a ehmalt of wkiak ho bed ease thawed himself a .amber. His ebildroa were baptised and educated as protestan% sad boss awry early pedal of his life be absolved himself hem the eademisa. la the autoblegraphisol whichWiest Lard Lord Aim Russell's rollesidtga of the Now =IL speak the post tolls us: Of this venerable_ seisms [O'Halloran, his diet and rely esahreml, led la bele end masaer, se he sat Healey to me in the esoesseimed, I hays given a dremip!loe, by ao moose everstreged, in the lest volume of we Trends of as Irish Deellssasa." It was, if I reeelbeet Aght, twits a year that I used to tally teeth, before kfast, to pectins this sebum INSISIII7-41, smear I thsa ce rtainly felt it— del ame hes wrier pet of the illersises work was my Immildmese oder ohs esaibmisa with en old Medea of my =Mar, Mrs. Demme, the wife of a West India amide, whit lived is a Weft of Towasheetetree, sad a meet lambus dkylsy of bettered teest, sap, beeirmeek, di., l i t i ad ee legie ms en those essesisas. - To this part of the essemosies I Wok beak, ems now, with a sort of Owen ; but set se to tit* trylas geese which lad gee* Made it. Noteithsteeding the patio sad parietal mown of the sit esaleser, his peeitice, sitting there es Wei" maimed allM wfal la say was; sad the awne d whims up a isy boyish yeeeedille s, y V l Llo l6.l t■ "lna ' alid eada bot b e aa e a har " : humilisdag. W e a we ts InrethoTt me seeit par sad Mani- Medea era selatie to the W. awl 1 en ail mess/ we Mety 11. the sentneim is awed smwelat areas heft soma argnmena sad high halm* ha IN flwar. has lermrse, did it at lam home se me i MO shoal a _year eta two ear my entrants lam eel*. 1 walosello signify t• samb.• a wish that 1 Medd am Maga we issod, afte a slight /411•1111111111 W. she essay *Nisi le my wish. It Is easily dissolvable that periodical explicit con tagion, to a gran, elderly priest, must have been rather awkward he the author of "Little's Poems." Bat though ths scapegrace deserted his duties an a dameeatlslie, maternal lore persevered in time for him. There is something mud • cal in precaution which the semi-oceptic's mother took in fitting him out for his first trip to London : My peer mother bad long been hoarding op every penny she *mid scraps tepther towards the expenses of my ,Ouraey to Limiest, foe the purpose of being entered at the Temple. A part of the smell sum which I utak with nte was legal/lees, end I recollect wee earsfully sewed up by my mother in the waistband tam , pantaloons. There was also another treasure which she had, unknown to sae, sewed up in some other part of my clothes, and that was a scapular (se it is called), a small bit of cloth blessed by the priest, which • food superstition laclined her to believe would keep the wearer of it from harm. And thus, with this charm 1 about me, of which I was wholly unconscious, and my lit tle packet of imbues, of which I felt cl.eply the responsi bility, did L f or t h e flr,t time, start from home for the great world of London. The success of the charm was, as usual, rather equivocal. It was the singular fate of one destined to be not only a distinguished pet, but the especial , pet, of the 'typically fashionable world, to make his debut in London as the comrade of a seedy sharper. At Northampton, a young man entered the coach who "had been on the continent, talked of his hunters (though rather shabby in his appearance), and was going to London then only to get rid of a little money." This genius attempted to thrust him self on the raw Irish lad. Moore, however, was prudent enough to save his money and good s, but could not escape altogether the equivocal honour of the adventurer's company. You ought to see a little of London (he said), and I will show it to you. Allowing him to remain under the im pression that all Ude was likely to happen ! I yet ventured to say that I must first visit those friends whom I have mentioned ; and to this he considerately acceded, saying that he would himself after we had breakfasted, walk with me Dart of the way. To this, not knowing how to get rid of him, I assented ; sad accordingly, arm in arm with that swindler (as I have no doubt the (*lbw was), I made my brat appt 'ranee in the streets of London. The believer in the efficacy of scapulars will attri bute to the one which Moore's mother had stitched into his raiment the saving of his purse and clothes ; the sceptic will ask how the holy charm did not save him from such an inauspicious first appearance in the metropolis. This occurred in the year of grace, 1799. In 1803 he was exposed to an indignity scarcely less than that of compulsory association with a swindler. It has hitherto, we believe, been kept a profound secret, that in 1803 the laureateship was offered to Moore, that (from pecuniary considerations) he at first accepted it, and that he actually wrote one birthday ode. He thus speaks of the incident in a letter to his moiler ' dated 20th May, 1803: Never could I hay. bad the faintest idea of accepting so paltry and degrading a stipend, if I had not the toying apprehension that my dearest home wanted it ; but Heaven be praised that you are not in instant seseepiq for as subsume which aseessity alone could ultimate. I will do better for you, at least as well, by mesas more grateful to my feelings. The manner in which Mr. Wickham commix, sleeted the eircumstases to me would disgust every man with the least spirit of independence about him. I accordingly, yesterday, after the receipt of my father's letter, enclosed the Ode for the birthday, at the same time resigning the situation, and I slept sounder last night in consequeses than, I assure you, I have dons for some time. It would place me on "a ladde r" indeed, but a ladder that has but one rank, when I would remain stationary fur ever. Feeble as my hopes are of advancement under go vernment, I should be silly to resign them,withoat absolute outstay, fur a gift which would authorise them to consider me provided for, end leave me without a chance of any other or further advantage ; it would " write me down as au" and a poet for ever. The story of the duel (or semi -duel) with Jeffrey is told by Moore in a gay, playful, self-complacent style. It does not, in our humble opinion, do him much credit. He states that the review of his poems affected him at first so little, that he treated it play fully in a conversation with Lady Donegal and her sister Miss Godfrey. It was only on second thoughts that he resolved to make it the ground of a chal lenge. This proceeding he palliates by remarking: However boyish it might have been of me to consider myself bound to take this sort of notice of the attack, there was certainly but little, if any, mixture either of ill temper or mere personal hostility with my motives. That they were equally free from a certain Irish predilection for sue encounters, or wholly unleavened by a dash of vanity, I will not assert. The motive wu not only vanity—the silly ambi tion of the eclat that attends (or attended) the duel list—but vanity ootabined with great vulgarity and coarseness. Moore himself describes the challenge he sent as follows : Of the short note which I sent, the few first lines have long escaped my memory; but, after adverting to some as sertion contained in the article, accusing me, if I recollect right, of a deliberate intention to corrupt the minds of my readers, I thus proceeded: To this I beg leave to answer, you are a liar ; ye., sir, • liar • and I chooee to adopt this harsh and vulgar mode of delta:see, in order to prevent at once all equivocation between uss, and to compel you to adopt, for your own satisfaction, tha t alternative which you anytht otherwise hays hesitated in affording to mine." This was sheer brutal bullying. It was not so much a demand of reparatiou for wounded honour es an attempt to goad au adversary into personal con flict by the use of language that could only redound to the discredit of him who used it. Such language,' such conduct, would scarcely have been' excusable under the influent* of a personal squabble in the ex- citement of wine or gaming; deliberately used, after the lapse of days (if not weeks), for a literary quarrel, it is coarse and rerolting. Moore's aooount of his own deportment at Chalk-farm is worthy of tho beginning; it is entirely melodramatic—the sen timental,graceful ineoweeenee of an actor sustaining a part quite different from his own vulgar habits: HMI( retired with Hume behind the wee,, for the pur pose of loading the pineal., Iseelog Jeffrey and myself toge ther. All this bed rempled bat a very few minutes. We of ape= bed bowed is nob ether an meeting ; bet the last west I MANI Se have pared between us was JAW 9 ogler, on per belattleft together, " What a beau tiful men* it is." " Tee," I answered with a mile, " me dui made for better purposes ;" to which his only re growl'''. a sort of assenting sigh. As oar 'errante were net, say more than ourselves, very expert at warlike mat they wen rather slow in tide pesseethage; and as I end I walked up end down "gmber, we came mice in sig ht of their operathea ; upon vldelt I related to him, as rather d-propos to tte purpose, what Billy Bean, the Irish barrister, roes said, when b• was saunteriag Meat in Re newest while the 'be* wen hiding his eaugesis: A = little fellow, e~ ewe is his angrily to beep hi : " Don't who yourself erelq, asy dear Mew" Ikea, " sure lea% it hard sueugh is ihe the du" IMMO being at the shier up." Jeow seizes* Ilse Is mile at this *my wham ear ire Kends, twain, bin haul di Om is. - - - Thiagiiii,ll7A‘Cw, of the pp amid fashion appears to have had a prodigies Abet ea the two taw thatch lads—tar at Set time Herm and Juba wun little better. We de net binge Jeffrey br brig es usesselled be Meer% for Moon had both ftable as:drolly rateable qualities. His induct to hie parents throughout, and his resslate iniones, are bored praise. Bat in the admii , he essmeived for Mews • gay dememmer on the deli JeCrey allowed himself to be haired to Abe ea explanation, dish woe in het an apelemp and retracted.% although in his review being only said of Little's Poems gist they doesrved, and 'gouging it pg as sad to that proligate wheel et literature of which thole peon, mei Lowie's Welt; are the last remembered examples. " A la Bleats" serried it away. Enough et Moore. Thu first volume .stains in oidental nodose that throw light en grime charac ters. Lard Moira makes a very poor appearance. Moore himself, it is apparent, Met inure epos the Regent's profeseions than he nonght be make the world believe in the prefaces to his collated pams. The following anecdote of Lord Wellington shows that, like many other great men, his merits were not observed by his early acquaintances. I have bea• enabled to nark mere arbiaty the ate of this toy's [the toy salted is Pima landahrs, ad:r u e . pais], from a oltemssames meatiemsd to me by leek semeralai the NW it Wellieglem. who. EA the lime I ems spooking st, WY UN of the sides dasump et the Lord Liagensaat of Imbed. sad is the year 179 e, soma& isi to Lied Plashes's assamt, east kayo bees a resmberof the Ida House of OSIMUMIL " I remember." said Lied Mel" so • ammeillee with him ; and it le a • Lord Alma Fitsmeraid wee elm am at the membe rs it. TM Duke th p l ay :Capadm WESaikti or Wisky), was,l reeellset, with NIS it those lays ealWApilsom, ths whale time et t sitibuitia ears mita." nib 1114111, the Dube Ali all that have baud abed *biome ma's frivolity at that pedal et kis life. Latrl ledges, who is about two yams ales thaa the Duke, se al who lived es terms of Mama with all the /belle an of them dqs. has the =am. is the Ms atoll the Duhe's permt glory, frellell the faun betimss of the miss with whim ht U be had said to bimtelf, at iftelkillire whet be, Well, let who will get ea is this walk you artsialy will met." Si MOM iambs did awe appear et that time of am the mist @Mims, emotes is lib la the sea whe elms accumulated mad his am " 1.16 Pr is e :: I nd" k i n. onnwes wellington, it was (at tkinlte ate ried, at lent) Italy ma a soldier. The dank as a datums had not yet been re aegiaed. titimgh some W legs to sospeet him of sqpiring to aiyil me well es military distinction. Moore notes in his diary a cooesesaties ma this sub ject which be had with P tesoater itur Devizes, and a bank director in 1819, whey the bank question was under discussion : ----- • Pewee says It is understood la town that the Data of Welliagton is very anxious to booms Primo MialArt, aad that in order to gelato character or as imestaireghiroa he had himself named oa the Beak Ourollteer and attended it newt pasetsally every day. This will Sot do. If the Bank meta be takes by a weep de wain, his grace might be the person, but God preserve us from his states manship. The diary is replete with amusing anecdote and. illustration, of character. portions of the years INIB and 1819 embraced in the second volume being those in which Moore was engaged collecting mate rials for his life of Sheridan. anecdotes of that mark ing a large space in it. Many of the best and moat authentic have been passed over in silence in the memoir from prudential considerations. In truth, the diary affords us more insight into the character and fortunes of Sheridan than his " Life." The next most prominent figure in these pages is Bowl, s, the parson and poet. The anecdotes relating to him have this ad vantage over the Sheridomana, that, whereas the latter are gleaned from others, the former are ream Moore's own observation. Bowles was a near neighbour, and on intimate terms. A richer mixture of bonlionimie and absurdity with literary ambition and taste can not be well imagined. Ho is always rich, alike when superintending his straw hermitages and water-fano; dictating to the waiter at an inn his rejoinder to Campbell's strictures on his conclusion of " Hope"; or libelling Calvin and all his sectaries. Perhaps, however, the following exhibition of him self is as amusing as any the good man ever made : Bowles told me of his having advised the poor psalm. writer (that comes to him for charity), to turn dissenting preacher ; of his rigging him out with an old black coat and breeches of his own, and saying, "There now, you are fit to preach before any one." Excellent, this, in a minister of the establishment. The following anecdote of Sheridan, though not so new, is not bad in its way: One day at B.'B house the servant in passing, threw down ati plate-warmer with a crash. Sin riders, after meolding most furiously, at last exclaimed, " And how many plates ■re broke ?" Oh, not one, sir," answered the fe:low, delighted to vindicate himself. " And you dsmneil foul (maid ), have you made all that noise for nothing i" But we must break off, referring our readers for full satisfaction to the &imitating pages where we h..ve been extracting, and repeating the assurance with which we concluded our former notice, that these volumes are a valuable addition to the rich stores of Baglish biography. LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL REFORM ASSO CIATION. The annual meeting of the Financial Reform Association was held on Thursday evening at the Concert 1141, Lord Nelson-street. The chair was occupied by Ro bertson Gladstone, Esq. He congratulated the meeting on the approach of the termination or the first five years of its existence. (Cheers.) The first business would be to read the report. The next business would be to propose • peti tion to parliament in opposition to the budget of her Ma jesty's ministers—(loud cheers)—which, in point of fact, might be summed up in a few words : it was • trick to compel the poor man to pay for the rich. (Cheers.) The third hominess would be the appointment of a council for the ensuing year. The report was read by Mr. Mit..ex, the ouretary. It commenced u follows: " The put year has been marked by so much political and party excitement as to leave little scope for the profita ble discussion of practical reforms. Your council have, therefore, abstained from holding meetings, or otherwise attempting to press the subjects of economical expenditure, combined with increased simplicity and efficiency of admi nistration in the several branches of the public service, and the yet more important ohj.c: of a thorough reform of our fiscal system, upon a public pre-occupied by electioneering occurrences, or impatiently waiting the announcement of the financial policy of Lard Derby's ministry " The report then proceeded to discuss the merits of the budget, which it denounced as both a fraud and a failure. It then proceeded : " By the dime anation of free-trade principles, the Anti- Corn-law League triumphantly exploded the key-stone of monopoly from its legalised position, and thereby de- molished for ever the combined arch of exclu sive protection. But customs dudes, which con fine within comparatively restricted limits the com merce of England with the world, remain yet to be abolished. Why may notthe Financial Reform Asahi ation put forth the irresistible energies of a combined heap to emancipate the springs of industry wholly from the op pression of this fiscal hindrance, and win for the cowslip and the wield the great commercial desideratum of per fectly fres ports' throughout the British empire ? LM the bases ofeeesmercial freedom, who have so persevere in* mill seensifolly fought the battle of free trade spirt sow dffeasegrthe i ow i n n telli t te e nce a which will e to col the national revenue 4y imposts n on ma arliTle le s y of mer e of on the one hand, and, on the other, the compare tire mignal advantage of direct taxation ; then the pau • 'seal system of indirect taxation will soon cease to to the of obstruction to the expansion of commerce, rliltipestest barrier to the progress of human advance ment—is civilisation, in moral improvement, and in late'. lectual elevation—will be removed. Tree omnipotence of enlightened opinion is as available now to sweep away from our statute book the excise and cus toms duties which are the inveterate fiscal yes : tips of barbaric ignorance, as heretofore it was to erase the corn laws. Glorious, indeed, and will be the coming day when all enlightened men shall com bine to make their rallying cry—' The substitution of direct taxation for all excise and customs duties.' The world's opinion would quickly gather round the advocacy of this just, profitable, and political fiscal system of direct taxation with a forte that would ensure its universal adop tion, Thenceforward every labourer would be fully employed and liberally remunerated. Productive industry would everywhere pour out its wealth of industrial produe tins fiscally uuburdeoed, which would render all occurs. tics. profitable, and enrich all classes. Amidst such general aluence all would be willing sad able to pay for good goverusniat their fair share of direst taxation. Every one would thee mut accarately his own individual cost of the national mgmaditare, aud string meow in the manage ment of Ms _pa lblis hada wadi be thereby neces sitated; Os ditsibutisu se *sty sod prosperity would be dieing Ilmmoismat this seutstry sad the world, and the amity of seramsmial ties tottered, sad multiplied by the repeal of costa= dulls', would le marywhem inter nationally interwoven, and would burs= alms enough to neutralise sad ristesia all asthma smiths, and disarm war for ever of Ili 1111111ka5ity. Am natio= thenoeforward would, in the sisitemwet of materilly bewsikial interests, be practically sisalgualstsd ssmessis would be an absurdity, and anneudisa an act of sapaursestion. And ought not Sir Robert Peel's trial of embiltistioa of direct taxation for indiresio—ehisb has premed eminently rumen. ful, because of dm gnitielireeriiiiion of customs duties this segatdom operation hes effected—to be the pole star of cur foal palsy? Ought not this sucteesful experiment to swages the vast advan fte that would meow bum tite total extinction eCall annum Muer% sad ens ear society with wisdom and seal to piped to the pane and to the soma neat the presentees of the wine way of attaining to • stiff greater Wrenn of prosperity *a the country ? Tiss substitution by the legislature of lbws taxation for suer toms and excise duties is the rational centimes to Sir Robin Peel's succeeds] experiment, sad IS. esseewion to the an. lightened dessatul of the poldie Mealy • question of Rm. The glory sad honour of behrMeg sheet this eliblesseset of fissal jades la the menial diesse—of benefit to emery Sher den of send astleasl penny, and of extends& hese - nines to the whets banes lually—is surely wertliy the 1... nenl the honest principles, and indomitable enterprise of w. d's intelligent merchant princes." "C"meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. A. C. Stewart, Mr. F. Bonk, Mr. J. R. Jeffery, and Mr. L. Hey worth, and a petition against the budget was unanimously adopted. Thanks were then Toted to the chairman, and the meeting broke up.—Liverpool Chronicle. PREPARATIONS TOE CIIBISTSIAS.—In almost every dwelling in every street,in every quarter of this gigantic city, Christmas Cs heralded in with a clatter of knives and fasts, a fieurishing of spoons, end a jingling of glasses. In wanly chapels royal, whore doles of bread are given to the per ; in miserable garrets, where the addition of another red herring is made to the always minty meal, on the ground that it is Christmas there, low down, as well u elsewhere, higher up ; Christmas to brought in with a jovial, genial sort of—let us not call it by a harsh nun— gormaadising. As we trudge through the streets every body sums to be eating and drinking, or pre panng to eat and drink. The crossing•sweeper munches a large paralsllopipedon of bread and treacle, bestowed on hiss, no desk, by some kindly spinster in the neigh bourhood; the policeman leans somewhat lazily against a rallies, notwithstanding the cold. He bake ple• thoric, dyspoptie. Goodness ! what number of supports has that ausietpal officer consumed with what num ber of Nobs I How many puddings, in their raw state has he tweed ? How many sly little nuggets off noble joints have been broiled ter him ? How many sanasges—links in that chain which binds the turkey to our heart—will be miming to-morrow, owing to his Christmu Eve rapacity ? Will X. 99 dine ? Of course he will; and Mrs. Policemen X 99 is at this moment concluding the purchase of a mighty piece of pork and a colossal amalgamation of cabbages, known in the precincts of the Brill, Somers Town, where the trans etion takes place, as a " green ;" which pork and green will cheer the heart of hour , * X 99 when he comes off duty.—Dickena's "Household Words." BALLTIAACAIBEIT COPPER MINIM—WC are gre ti ned in learning that a wealthy English company have ob tained possession of au extensive field of copper mince at Ballymacarbery, in the parish of Kilronan. They have already employed several hands in nuking the ne preparations for mining on a large scale . R'e unde ee nl i n the gentlemen commissioned by the company to commence operations are so confident of an ample return for any amount of capital that may be expended on the undertak ing, that they are determined to spare no expense in work ing the mines vigorously and anciently. Mosel Chronid.. Arnurenatura . HaLL—Namee of gentlemen who named their examination in the science and practice of me dicine, and received (*infinite* to practise, on Thursday, Dee. 16, 1862:—Allred Adams Marston, Hilton, Gloaces tenhire : William Derbyshire, Stockport, Cheshire ; Fred erick Ellis, Birmingham. HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY. swa Law Caaacas.sna, Luta CON ourros, awa LOAD 8.1114 A. 1,11 alma. CULL= v. BLAClL—TitaNseleit he it•ILWAT AtiAltr.a. Thin was an appeal from the Court of Bemion in Gentians% and the question is whether the court was right in directing an issue of certain disputed facts between the appellant and defendant to be sent to a jury for trial, or whether the ea* ought not to have been dismissed at ones, without any in vestigation of the disputed fact, on the ground of its being irrevelant. An action was brought against the appellant. Mr. John Cullen, writer to the signet, Edenhargh, by the respondent, Mr. Alexander black, sharebrukur, Glasgow, with respect to certain shares of the Great Northern Hail= way Company. Accordirg to the case for the appellant, on the 12th of October, 1847, he instructed Mr. Arehibald Kerr, stockbroker, of Glasgow, to purchase for him 180 , Great Northern shares before the loth of October. On that day 1:e received a letter, stating that he had bought the shares, which the appellant stated he was ready to accept and pay fir no receiving the transfer, but which he could not chisels until the Gth November, when he elet to Glasgow fur it. The transfer which was went to the appellant was a double one from a Mr. Lindsay for 13U share', and t em Nis , . Black the re maining 60, making 180, Red the coneideratien money, oe sum to be paid, was left in blank in the transfer. Thy ap pellant afterwards discovered that the aharee were hot pur chased before the leith October, the tone lia..te el for the purchase, but on the Gth November, so that the authority* purchase had expired. It also aiipearet that eie the 3rd d November a call of 10e. per share bad Men made by the company, which neither Lindsay or Black bad paid. Neill* party being willing to pay the tall the shay. s were for feited ; but previously to that action ass brought against the respondent, is, the registered proprietor of the slimes, by the company, La toe amount of the e i November, 1847, and another in February, 1818. Tilt' respondent then brought his ',even against the appellant, declaring him to be liable tor the said call, rand that the rehpoteleht should be relieved from any liability. An issue was di rected by the court, and against teat decision an appeal wee by leave of the court, brought to this house. Few the appellant it was contended that ha had, in ext., never purchased the shares ie question from cite re sperelent, inasmuch as Ken's authority, as his age re, expired ou the 16th October, and he had no authority to lewd Lim to a sale on 6th November; that the transfer itself w:ol void, be cause it did not contain the amount of coml.:mat:on money to be paid for the shares, but that that part of it was in blank ; and, besides that, the respondent, being tl e regis tered proprietor of the shares, and not Laving paid the call made on the 3rd November, could not If gaily teamster them; that, as the respondent was the registered proprie tor of the shares, and liable to pay the calls, and ie:s.sed to do so, sad they were forfeited, he had no claim against the appellant; and that if it was competent to the court to send an issue toe jury, the issue which had been sent war not in conformity with the facts of the ease. Fee the respondent it was urged that he bona tide sold the shares to the appellant through the ages cy of Kerr , and that the question of that agent's authority relecel be tween him and the appellant, who took and retained the transfer; that, as the calls not having been paid before the sale, it was clearly within the obligation and untertaking of the appellant that he should have paid it, and that he had only to pay that call in order to get the transfer regis tered ; and that, as to the transfer being void hie not stating the consideration money, the acts of parliament only im posed a penalty for such au omission, and the instrument did not become a nullity. At the dose of the arguments for the appellants on The.rsday, The Lord Chancellor suggested that the parties should coma to some arrangement so as to enable the court below to deal with the we. _ An adjournment took place until yesterday, when it was arranged that, with the consent of both pastier, the ease should be remitted to the court below to be Manion certain admissions, the LUAU) in dispute to be withdrawn. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YeaTERDAT. Ann/1w AT Ni. PRIM IP LOPTIOX. 7 I3IIOIIII Loco CA WILLI. UM tram& Jurise BUSINESS OP THE COURT. Lord Campbell gave notice laring consulted with the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, he ha l ar ranged that the sittings at Nisi Prins, both at Westminster and in London, should, after neat term, tOUST3ISZIOII at ten o'clock. OLVER V. DOCBLIDA7.—PIOVIS!ONAL CoMMIT?IIN U(. This was au action for work and labour done, as an engi neer and surveyor. The defendant pleaded he did not pro mise to pay ; on which issue was joined. Mr. Crowder, Q.C., and Mr. Wordsworth were counsel for the plaintiff ; and Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. 'lnca ap peared for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was a surveyor and engi neer and the defendant a surgeon. The work done, for which the action was brought, was making a survey fur the purposes of a prop- • sed railway from Falmouth to Penzance. This survey was made between September, 1415, and De cember, 1846 ; the statute of limitations did not apply in this case, the d. fondant's liability, if it ever existed, having been kept on foot by writs issued from time to time. The only question was as to the existence of that liability. The circumstances under which the plaintiff alleged that payment was due from Mr. Doubleday were these: On the 11th of October, 184.5, the defendant wrote to Mr. Hervey the promoter of the line) that he should be glad to join the corn; any to effect its formation, and accordingly, in a prepustus issued on the 16th of October, Mr. Doubleday's name appeared is the list of provisional committeemen. The defendant was pre sent, as provisional committeeman, at a inciting held soon after the 13th of January, 1846, and also at another meet ing, at which a list of the liabilities of the embryo com pany were made out and read, and a resolution pawed that • contribution should be made for their payment. In this list Mr. Olver's claim was comprised. The witnesses for the plaintiff were called, and Mr. James was proceeding to address the jury, when he was stopped by Lord Campbell, who suggested to the jury whether the plaintiff had proved his case. The jury, after considering a few seconds, said they were of opinion the ease was not proved. Verdict fur the defendant. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. &Tram AT OVUOTIALL Arms Iticaatuou Tam, emu ram LSD CUM BATOR APO •/PTI.TAL JO/T. ANDIMION e. THURNSON.—SHIP SANT CASZ. This was an motion to recover the mum of 11,6001., being the 'MOUS% of Mulroney effected upon the ship Samna Hicks, on her voyage from Baltimore to London, the de fendant being the underwriter at Lloyd's, and the plaintiff a member of the firm of Allen, Anderson, and Co., provi sion merchants in the city. The defendant pleaded that he had beg Bedewed to underwrite the vessel in mosequence of soluepresestations, concealment of material facts, and fraud. Tha Solieitor-General, Mr. Crowder, Mr. Hugh Hill, and Mr. Arnold, instructed by Mears. C. sad J. A. Morgan, appeared for the plaintiff; and the Attorney- General, Mr Waimea, Mr. Keating and Mr. Doerdeetrell instructed by Mr. J. Leigh, conducted the ease for the de! finsdaaL --- It appeared from the plaintiff's ease that the Samuel Hicks kit the quayat Baltimore on the sth of January, 1860, with a general cargo of provisioev, consigned princi pally to Messrs. Allen, Anderson, and Co., the plaintiffs. In consequence of adverse winds the ship did not reach the open sea which is about 160 miles from Baltimore, until the 12th of January, and the average time occupied in the voy age from there (the Capes) to the More is about 45 days; but she was never heard of more. The plaintiff received on the 4th of February a letter, dated the 21st of January, from his agent in Baltimore, stating that the Samuel Hicks had salad from the Capes for England on the 12th January. The weather was very tempestuous at that time. In the month of January there was an account in a newspaper filed at Lloyds of the clearing, outwards of the Samuel Hicks, from Baltimore, on the 2nd of that month. A mail arrived on the 18th of February from Baltimore, giving ac counts up to the 4th of that month, and the plaintiff, being alarmed at sot receiving any intelligence of the ship by that mail, Memel: mod Mr. Harper Powell, so insurance broker, on the 19th February, to effect an insurance of the cargo on board the Samuel Hicks to the extent of 5,6001., if he could do so at • premium of 40s. per tent. After some negotia ' lion, the defendant wrote that sum on the 19th. An insur ance of about one-half of the cargo had already been effected in America, and the value of the uninsured goods consigned to the Plaintiff's house was upwards of 11,0001. On the 20th of February the plaintiff i n str uc t e d Mr. Powell to effect a further insurance of 6,0001., if he could do so at a premium of 60e. ; and the defendant also underwrote for that sum, making the amount of the insnranee which be had taken 11,5001., the sum now sought to be recovered. The defendant, however, declined to write a further risk under a premium of 60e , which was pnid by th e pl a i nt iff. The 20th of F. broke arm on a Weduesday, and on the following Friday thi plaintiff met a Mr. Phillips on 'Change, who was also interestsd in part of the cargo of the Samuel Hicks, and be (Phillips) told him that infor mation had reached Lloyd's that some lard and other pro visions had bees picked up iu the Atlantic in the probable trash of that vessel. The plaintiff then went to Lloyd's, but could not get any iatelligenee of the kind. He was subsequently told that the information was conveyed through a paragraph which appeared in the A'ere York Shipping Onzette of the tad of February, and nn examin ing that paper, which was regu'arly scut to his office, he found a paragraph of which the following is a copy " Brig Edinburgh, at Holme'a Hole, '26th ult., reports—. Night 18th, about let. 37, lon. 70, had a hurricane, which limited eight hours. 21st. Lat. 37.41, lon. 69.15, passed large quantities of barrels, half-barrels, and kegs of lard, and a yawl bottom up; picked up two barrels, five half barrels, and two kegs of lard." The newspaper in question had been in the plaintiff's counting-house for some days, but he had not examined it ; and he stated in the witaese-box that he had never been accustomed to look to it for accidents end disasters at sea, and that he was in total ionoraace of its containing the I paragraph until Mr. Phillip* had informed him of the fact. Halt-barrels of lard plaintif also said were unusual pack ogee, sad he was eonsequattly induced to examine his freight list, which he had not looked at before, when he found that such packages had been shipped on board the Samuel Hicks. The original invoices of the goods shipped were made out six weeks before the sailing of the 'vessel ; but when plaintiff was about to effect the insurance, be instructed his clerks to ascertain the value of the rods lity the market prima at that time, when it was ascertained gut the goods had risen is prime by about 20 or 25 pet mat. The plaintiff (Kr. likdereos) and Mr. Harper Pews!' ' l ll