The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS. (Bear.) It was well known that Bolbormbill riidnner-street had been the opprobrium of the city be owe. It was said to be • disgrace now to the corpora de% mid new to the potentness ; bat it was certainly a elleprass to 'embody ; and in future, if it continued, the agree, would be divided among thews now composing the Inet*D. ("Wear," end a laugh.) He proposed to raise ulna Wiese& me to • level of 17 feet innehes. lie was gadded 'bat Mk set be done by saw ow or the other, kr the pulses ei watt bag bear isayalsest state. (11ear.) (Hr. Pawns flan weeeseded to paint wat ea se large nape which wen streteleal es the walls of the Teem the muse of the teepee* railway). Ha than urged that the great railway should he mode to sp ak what their intention, were w7M regard to it. One of his great objects was the Mae up of the Fleet Valley, by moans of • sub mittals an ~d•sseepprrrr surface. It would scarcely be believed that ba street and larriegdometreet a mar of ba di placed for this gigantic scheme. Ergo ' ilentlina ded to deseribe the position of the terabits at betel" width was the outlet for so many linty, and the Mlle ben which now came ever London-bridge; sad stated that the area of that station bole a very small proportion to that intended to be occu pied by his station. Ile then alluded to the small outlet which was afforded for the traffic of the Blackwell, with its tributary line, which connected the Loudon sod North Western to the Lonion Docks, sod stated that the Great Western also proposed to hare a similar cir ' ninon, hoe skirting the whole of the metropolis. A com , parison with them stations showed that in the site selected ' there was ample roam for his central terminus. It was said that if there was one central tensions, although you might ' relieve the City generally of • large amount of teethe, yet that the particular locality would be subjected to an creased inconvenience. Ito met this by saying that it was not intended to c sleet the central traMc of the City and the west-end in the City, the west-end portion to be after ' wards sent to its destination ; but the object was to bring ' only those who hail business in the City. The evil was, that oat- stations caused an neres tie of t rsae in the City. From the Brighton station, an average of 10,000 persons walked into the City who would come in vehicles, if the terminus hail been placed, as had been proposed, either at the Brick ' layers Arms, or the Oval, at Kennington, and the streets would have been so much the more encumbered. There was no reason that persona going from Paddington or Bus . tea-mums should come into the City ; but, on the ether hand, persons coming into the City on wines by the pro ' posed line would save both time and money. The London ' and North Western and Great Western might rely on it that if the Great Northern or Eastern Counties agreed to come into Farringdon-street, they would run away with their traffic. (Hear, hear.) The Great Western line was unfinished until they had an outlet for Buie traffic in the City. With regard, nest, to the amount of cost. He had heard it said that the plan would cost 15 millions, or at least 10 millions. Now land from the site of the Fleet Valley along Victoria street to the Great Nor ' therm Terminus was required and would no doubt I cost a large sum, probably larger than was ever required by • similar undertaking, sod if it was not to he returned by any other means than by • railway, that would not pay; and, moreover, unless the London aced North Western, and the Urea; Western, and the Eastern Counties, concurred in ' the plan, and coutributml to it, the line could not be made with profit. He (Mr. Pearson), however, affirmed that the ground could be cleared, and the line male with four double lines, equal to the accommodation of all the railways north of the Thames, betimes a domestic lino unencumbered with other traffic. for a share capital of two millions. But he 5 would not recommend any independent company to put thissum down to accommodate the London_ and North Intro meeting was held yesterday the the Lon , , for the :peeve , of enabling the eitiseas of n itre, *then interested in railway accommodation It• " If their opinion on Mr. Charles - Peanon's project; of"'nioneetiog laeriegdon-street with the provincial and mitten railways, both in action and emtemplation b, Thaell" by means of • great truth line with , a▪ t e t Jo a g ic p a ir of capable o be f nasiataining II frequent asap intentiesaanicatioa tweets the city and the "--. .-barbs. The inertias was • very crowded one. Sir „, prig, MT. , was in the chair, and among the gen. ,"- sent Mr. W. William', M.P., Mr. Sheriff Croll, j.1:111 a pet r. Themes liakin, Mr. Delete, de. )iThe Cumulus! briefly opened the proneeditge of the e al,re ming his conviction that the project, in relation t ,-,,,k,„h they had met, was fully entitled to coeaideretion, out great advantages, both 44 regarded the con vi (neat tragic of the city and the bettering the condition of t t, ns of many of the working classes, who were huddled and crashed together in the district to le:a• :lithe plan was intruded to apply. Mr. C• VLAILSUN then came f.trward and wee rewired • gnat smitten. Ile read a letter which tistimallidi e..no Itothechild's regret that his absence ea the Contiama vented his being present at the meeting. lie thou able Zr: , e ,l the mettles in a speech of nearly three hours. Ile suileatedinmeelf trots a charge at petulance which bad has betodht adattedliiol,(l)4lloo.l On the wording of the advertise.. latnt ion , . ning the meeting, in which he had stated that if did not sue.ced in getting hie project adopted, he would c hop up the in ,del, end endeavour to forget his scheme. All lie meant was, that soles. the scheme was that day pat em a looting of realisation, it would be put en end to for rue and he could assure them he had brought no chopper with him. (Laughter.) Ile thought, after the preliminary meetings which had been held at the London Collie-house, that it would now be only necessary to raise the standard, and numbers would Lock to it, and curl the plan into entr ee:rm. Ho should divide his address into emend head", as the. tint, he would describe the relating evils; ',condi', Ow causes of those weds ; thirdly, he would state the pro p osed remedies for these evils; Numbly, the amount of vet neceeeary ; fifthly, the erotic and lose he anticipated; and sixthly, who were to undertake the project, and the talent of their reopened/Ultimo. Firstly, then, as to the ex -otiag evils. li,, would not dwell on tire overcrowding of the streets of the City, to which every outo's intention must have been drawn. In the leading thoroughfares, such ea Fleet•strecti hlolboru, Newinte-street, Cheapside, Leaden hall-street, Fenchurcla-street, and the interacting aud in ten:wince streets, ouch as Uraceeherchestrcet, King Wile ti.ou•street, Bridge-street, and Moorgate-street, the number of vehicleo daily pulsing had, in the last ten years, doubled, trebled, quadrupled, end, in some instances. quintupled. There were now 12,000 omnibus journeys daily into the Cite. while the amber of tabu, light eerie, hucksters' and INC:Ve111 1 had trebled in the last ten pearl. Whet, then, was nut be anticipated if the laws of increase went on in th: sum ratio ? The next evil was the overcrowding et the dwellings of the humbler classes In the bye yews of the City which were not overcrowded with ethnics. • gnat number of the inhabitants of the humbler districts (not of the vicious classes), but porters, ATOMS, mechanics, and clerks of the humbler kind., wet. obliged to live huddlcd and crushed together, and in close prusimity to the moat degraded classes. Many persons of respectability had lived fur 10 or 20 years in those whose duties required them to be in the City, and who had not money to ride, or leisure to walk, from the suburbs. Minh had been said in sanitary reports of the evils ar.sieg Isom the overcrowding of the dwellings of the poor; but it appeared from the decennial censures, that, whih, the number of lumen elsewhere had increased, in proportion to the population in the City the population had inCnabed enormously out of proportion to the number of dwellings. The great improvements made by the corpo- ration tad rooted out the tumble dwellings, and forted their tuhabitants to take shares of those of their poorer brethren. It was a fact, that since 1811 while the number of bosses bad decreased by 1,300 the population bad U ncle,' by 4.000, and it had had a proportionate effect on vi:elity. Next, with regard to the comes of those evils. The metropolis of London stood on a site of 20 square mace, and contained a population of about 2,361,000, and this enermous number had increased in the last 10 years in a ratio for exceeding the previous decennial periods. The site of the City was about one square mile and it contained 3 sleeping population of 120,400. The ay, as avoided its boundaries, remained stationary, while the population la ma.," is and around it. Three of the most impeatigt bridges communicating with Kent and Surrey were in the City, and the people who came from those districts were engin to enter London through the City In making their way to the outlying districts, while &up means of convey ance by omnibus and railway, and OW greet change in the debits of the people of the preeMtes and the neigh bourhood of London as regiw locomotion, all tended to augment the overcrowding of the City. The great ado mince in the prosperity of this sssatry had tended to attract population to the City. The City was is point of Lc; the property of the metropolis; Ike metropolis was the property of Eugland, and Eagleiall was the property of the civilised word. The City weasel wealthy on its account,l but on account of its containing vast establishments which generated wealth, such as the lisak—the Post ed:an—the Eschange—the totaled ILevners-eillee—the lediarbesee, de , met which mere& the sumetene etteodense of perms woo E , red ie the subsets and reminess. If the City wee to be prosperiny belllties refgnaw Me Moe it oust be reinteinef. Coe* it he espersit h = 4 l2 rem establishments as had been eared wadi be render an the City unless their fresrastees had isellities al sr. rasuiestioa Why were awe 12,000 dolly anadhesjeer nevi into the City ? It could hardly be he Me WNW IC its fruntine—(laaghter)—bat it was bade red brieser which would leave the City =awe seek krilles ere secured. It each facilities of intsesernmenierine tree swaged, Lad in the City read be woe& thew sots emu, nay, it was new sang at the Rh of 30,0001., 100,0e01., 200mit. auses.,_ 101 l acre. (Serration.) gestienrn hod rid lir a = told lead in Vernhill at the tees of 419091. is sou net with the property ea it, bet mods dogma ilea wen the market value, and be bad had is SOW Ils revue diss umlaut from a brisker, who withal to dear ert *veil s sum in buildings far ether 'nit tees slertege ef gig 41 feet, sad was bought fee the meth* ehd net lie a tiros rear. (Cheers.) Utbeee ore whirs errs, with security for mac, these we Doom peopearty I. the City rah( not easusand. Them yore epee near where they thee were, sites sow esee by searatale dwellings, whisk sight benne pre Winn rerisse, end 'trete right be meth egad In Wools Onneer eteert. The as.. air word be bright to per on the reit of Loden by de etiokieg up of rearrftellen bored a metro prat es the removal of trade had Ind en ether towns, sack se Wu with, which had folks ire decoy by the rearral of the perm statism; foe the great Mediations whisk it now sustained would be neserwel. The Inland *crease Ogles we, about to be reemwed, and he had been told by weer essaected with it that it wee import* he he eislolo to stn on in the city ; and this woe bet the sorreseement. hew.) Noe wee the retail trade alone aireelad bat the highest order et emosereo was involved. Then with regard to the proposed remedies. If the steers wow overcrowded with trainer our. red railwaymen. the (obvious remedy was to din/nisi\ them. If the theesegiw Wes were erred is ansoormes of the position of mirk" they must be removed. How was his (Mr. Peeneses) rip way to arm is tinting this object t Now, if there woe 140011entaibus jeerer imamysisi daily, say 144,000; our rag that the railway brought m sad earned oat lON Crthen raid be • peopertionere relief in the Err :saw= end ear ; sod with regard to the masher the niway s.ps wee d t th em new awns of comesuelem lir end as It regarded Newer, market. It writ hare the of "eaislsg the siege of Nowa street," mad ristarreng "the tenures, " fer. reeerly, there was now • Irmo there frees mrhiag MB (Hem hew.) par deeding as the oderrieges whisk would her the rereval of end ether melee= songediess, whisk be otheled by means eil the wiry sal the that would be elheded . Mr. Pew ees reseeded to • drerigien Bi ha r ay was adored by die Cersandatere of arid which, it stated, was to ream of You of many from Firtingdon.street to Bettlwbeidge, sad somm eafmtfag with such of the northers lines se word erre Meer Mats stamens and pay trial the thee west es to soy thee he did not propose this erlway es • soketiree he the other groat railway stations Ist as eraziliney Asa (deer, bear.) If the who* of the Iris of theme knee was drawn to or spot • georse evil would be erred ins now existed nor wee them any spat solidently leap he the reception of ash heft ex IMO the anent wide enough to distribute it. It wee set punish to get di of all the railway weep= is the Mere s bet still amen might be dose. The reeds mid lights geode right ho collected at his terminus Are distribotaen her the needier lines, and much right he der to pet so 4114 to the blocking up of Greeherstrest, whisk red le be riled Piet fort-strat—(" heer," end • Ist ) -Ait the wen houses of Piddled, end Char* ad enneed saw pieta blockade them. It woe news that this terminus should be the central dread ell mothers lines. list the Lein sad North 1141114.111 Ilaydon sqaue a ger rose kr &reasoned the 111111111‘ SUM of the same opinion as repelled .1 ennyressil i bat they were ratan rens they weld get them Are th e tp Pore, although wort es eerie* Meese h their smaller pareels, as Olr. Peereeend rerinne nail he for those of the lariat Aram.. ./10 thed=r 9 dsli da scribe the railway ken a row beton • Me said he took faZirreth mbar wee 96 feet wide at its new rowed wed Beeper to Meg op its width to Kies* ens. the geese weedi be emsnere either es a asset iingerement se • leileleefellipeha24but if wen both rind the drier* wee obeen)-1* the bunko wee divided. If the gamed ors bought at • large prise • doodle rise was imputed le it. Then would be two whew I • enabsorlese he the midway rid • reper.sorfset for a oimiage-wayt Oa NM then word be two sites fur buildings, sad two puieltm would be or mired. It would be a ghlelfe se by it there would be Wiley vt a 7 at the backs of wareisemme whisk wand he erected along the lime—ehne relding elm* ip = age. This would be en warrens err& kr geode be carried at Id. per ton per wile, indend et the Mr. Pearson then proceeded to urge thee imp ealwo %hilt iweleable property in the city . lied ha th e het 40 yeas increased 129 per cent., while ut other rite of the metre polo it had decreased, sad that was re resent of the in ereibe of trade sad Male is the Org, nerd by its keel advantage' ; sad if that was est plum* there mast he a retromessios in the value of that proper. If that pro perty wee in the hoer of NM pmpiletsd he word est hesitate to speed • milieu to preens It; sad if it our 114 the hands of trey why should Wry sot mite for the tare Western, the Great Western, and the Eastern Counties, If 1 they wanted the 1112., they must contribute to it. He had been in communication with these companies eight months agonsad so answer had been received from them, except (rem the Beaten Counties, which declined to come into the Osa. Mr. Pearson then proceeded to state that he had acceded for the present to the view of the corporation of London to keep the terminus to the north of Holborn-bridge, and therefore it was probable that the domestic line might be made without reference to ' these companiee. He had, however, had a full communi. ' cation with the Great Northern Company, and that com pany bad rose to the conclusion that this plan if carried out would be of immense importance, sad • resolution had boos cease to by the board of directors that when • com pany was formed for this purpose competent to negotiate, the Great Northern would be prepared to negotiate on a fair and liberal basis. (Loud cheep.) If the Great Northern determined to join him, he would have the others at his feet—(cheers)—and although they would be in his power— although they should pay for it—they should not be ex cleded—(lwar, hear)—although the Great Northern should have the best place ; and if that company had the City end& they might go on to Manchester it they liked. (Host, hear.) Mr. Higgins and Mr. Bunning, the architects, dif fered with him, and thought the line ought not to come south of the Holbora valley, and they said the cost would not exceed 1.600,000/. In all street improvements two-thirds was lost, but here the capacity of the ground was doubled, for It was covered twice, and such largo returns would seems from the property as to justify the opinion expressed by an eminent man, who said that it would ulti mately jay annually more than the whole cost. (Hear, hear.) What he now proposed was to appoint a committee for an ezainination of the question. In order to effect the object in view, pediment must be asked to give peculiar powers to &company, excepting them from the usual pro vision en airing them to sell their surplus land in fin The time was come when railway companies should s i n e lieved from this obligation. He estimated the cost of the line frees the north side of Holborn at one millioa. With regard, nest, to what it would pay he only calcu lated on 12,000 persons coming in and gong out of the City daily; as assuredly small estimate. The charge would be Id. a mile for tint, esti id. for the mooed clam pas men. Ono third would be annual. one third and one third casual passengers. He took hese ' the daily pusesgere one th:rd, and from the annual one- suppose the line worked as far as Potter' Bar, where the Great Northern woo walla( to come. On that brio, supposing the slum eirilel to be ern million, there winhi be • set whet 7i per east. from within a year sad *Mite eater ies i• the usholohlat ; and it was • Werke te it weeld_iihehrg Su execute. name 1/111111 tidy to:r mi rZ- VerdreeemeM et the laud required. whisk was a great tsp. He thright he had sew mode eat &prima jam woe la favour et his pies. (Load chime.) Then, with =Lne he purrs who were is eadietaira the project. homit 'Ma it was dire. He papeied that it druid be 'ended est by am et middle sleeks. by active and mews* mom He pseperd that ell arras bold be paid into he ark is the mow of the throe assimmelal Erebus he Me Oily_ He was seedy to the pies. end a_beeks of rehearse he et ith ems Wired He leopard that. it the peeredes et the hose =plat impaired to enable them to p. *paella asset was set missilbed by the 7th el J , dot every sherdrike shoull have his departs whirr de dudes. (Obsems) He wee popeyed le umbertale what M hell brow he sue sesiihst et the result. Hasa. the egires end Yr. iheesek the WON MN l art eery hems es he Ise bed bees meisured end (Hear. hese.) Met he seer Wald we t est • eimmiree be sprinted to =allhe issapery end be was happy to wig that wise set werrames editirot peetiles. she wee. • ea ildrtrule, by sieving twens==le Se Orli m 1. That media iMe_gessrel principle of rimier. mil, wider* Mid et drain. was of that it would be • meows et mime le the pubis. and=as canalest. it the maks& espied welt be sad a return et a reressable rereseratha weld be drew" L 'that • mumbles be appointed tondo the telpielte stops le dbit the eldest la view, ea the dieing wader that Ea minim of the eetaadelee se eabosaibet &eatl. liable be tso pert el the agesonsa mad Out.. eae should be aspieped alibis. • willies voineakies diet Mr. Pewees theodd pay tha damn isanial asides the mishits tam ese ring bare peabunten ; that the ape dubs pW V the use elleastate ; eel diet if three-hestla of the 'vital be net eabtielbed by Vie Met Jemmy. nay ra dea. hno,Ve assails, be Mem& le bin without &law " _ V. Puma, slid lot all booked Ow lie pert sad Mem meioses/A enrsoor woo, that air Ow Ho ha 4 been doe TOM 42111111111111114 tha 1111111116111111111 eh.wld sir. to him ow his haft ploosoL (Loot diem ) The reolotitas won Ow rl i ew.b spool M, wad a amebae of eagebtod to oft so a osomililso, with power to ooM to dote owoise. Aarestbe amuse were these of Ur J. Deka, /LP., Mr. Baikal Qom* LP., Mr. W.Waliano. M.P., Kr. Sheriff Cron. Mr. Weespor, MI P., Mr. lily. the esetreder Pm the new hewer of pediment ; Mr. Hallett, Mr. Wane, Mr. Melia., Mr. Deputy Pon tine, ett. With a vote al thanks to the Chairman the protoodiap terminated. Au Siormarzes CRUEL?—This partisalar Hs have inhisreatly a peat plaintive l• *a of Stymied didlealthe overwams; mu sty, u I tan lip lesema lbw Eves of • kmpa arabesttper them are szmakralymigiabe lOW and eel. and, farther, ere • smuggle ..tied dilleatimoted. farther MOO, beams es he he form of ataidemiel 'Mug, or any Mad of ghee or disability in se very eselwas in their own sphere. I will = se kk parades of mise. Take the ale of • direly oebody supple= m young NW. her in the ph who falls IMO lift Or M e t lar grime tbe - beby ow wpm, would be at all diverted by meth an meartmen of the stage. Nor b the deems wookema is the= who le transported hernia bpsarast pumas by • ht with which ha me • mat pmllemaa eat of • two-pair of stairs whed.w, be be dambnPrig ha lj seepiels• that he would be is the least ....thermal by mob a rgoeeels is any street in Leaden, Per* er Now York. It always appears to me that the secret of Me OM joyment Um is the temporary superiority to the 41111111111115 Mari sad mkshaaem of udt ; in Nola. eataillso. tread whim he realy meat with Maly mid mental onf• fed% hem. owl weft. Mama how* a may roast tart of pastry willow he hoot bum being doss to anyone _tbs women of Maser in a wt.:rains bobs to bromeUy betworewe, he be se prase at all. Kash Ws the. Medea I era w•derstand the mother with • moy vulnerable baby at Um. mod g ee rej no L gus iobi the limulateable_ baby.. Ile Mese, se is the itt/ I mg _emilseolami Ike muss elm eiweptheble to El of asosibbi la Me lamb. le be meth/ to the blephrl, baying aa Mahn al the radial_ posimege la qpnegis. wbo pm Ye the ape! • bll. or upside lowa. end who . Ile lime it hr greaot reatallei ems the Luzammon skill end dasterily, somemerel %M -ee *bees to which be mod Ms eimminSemee aro sir espeed.—Dichwe's"HowerAard Words.. • THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1852. LITERATUBR form, and the remarks which he makes he having to tell his own story and to speak Mr. Thaekeray's censures, too. On the whole, however, it is surpris ing how well Eemond's personality is preserved, how seldom Mr. Thaekeray's Abe looks unmistake ably out from beneath the Colonel's head-garb; and there is great art in the management, as there is abundant nature and genius in the whole substance of the book. We subjoin a few extracts : 77es History of Ussery Esmond, Esq., • Colossi is the Srreiee gt Her Asgiesty Qualm Anse. AVrittes by Himself. By W. Y. Take AAAAA . Smith and Elder. The curiosity with which this new book of Mr. Thackeray's has been expected has derived an addi tional stimulus from the fact, that for him to write a historical novel was a dangerous experiment. His reputation had been so completely derived from pictures of the most modern life, that it was natural to think of him with uneasiness and uncertainty in any other ago of the world. It seemed as if we should scarcely recognise the creator of Becky Sharp and the satirist of " Snobs" in a wig or Queen Anne's time. And, truly, this was natural enough: historical novels are in very indifferent odour, in this country, just at present. To make a desert island interesting you must have a Robinson Croon; and was Mr. Thackeray such ? This was the ques tion implied in these doubts, and to this question our criticism must now return an answer. lIIALIMING von 81A172 1101. Oak any one, who has palmed through ibis world and wallies' the nature of men and women there, doubt what had Wiles her ? I have men, to be lure, some people easel 61111 with then late old age the %meal bloom of their pleated love, and I :know that Mr. Thomas Parr lived to be a hundred sad sixty years old. But, for all that, threesoore and ten is the age of iron, and tow get bored it; and 'tie certain that a nun who amiss for maw haw your. as my lord did, madden hie part of the sentract at end when the women ceases to fulfil here, and his love does sot survive her beauty. I know 'tie often otherwise, I say; and out think (as most men in their own experience may) of many • house, when i lighted in early years, the sainted lamp of low bath never been extin guished; but so, there is Mr. Parr, and so there is the great giant at !be fair that is eight feet high--exceptions to men —and that poor lamp whereof I speak that lights at first the nuptial chamber is extinguished by a hundred winds and draughts down the chimney, or sputters out for want of feeding. And then—and then it is Chloe In the dark, stark awake, and Strophe's snoring unheed ing; or rice verso, 'tie poor Strophes that has married a heartleea jilt and awoke out of that absurd vision of conjugal felicity, which was to last tor ever, and is over like any other dream. One and other hen made his bed, sad to must lie in it, until that final day, when life ends, end they sleep separate. An eminent writer remarked, many years ago, that the painting of historical scenes in modern fiction had begun to acquire a "sign-post chsracter." The epigram was acute. Sir Walter Scott having, one may say, exhausted the flower of his intellect iu this department, came at last to be an imitator of him- self. Ile had acquired, in the course of that study and practice, such an acquaintance with past periods, that ho was able at any time to bring up the forms of them—whether or not his genius retained suds vitality as to be able to gift them with life. The helmets and feathers—the brands and the hawks— made their app , stance in his pages long after he had ceased to invest their bearers with the reality of humanity. This was the misfortune of this great man. But it was the fault of his imitators ; who deluged Europe with mimicry of forms which he had mum ;lowa, alive, iu beautiful activity ; who built " curiosity shops" of literature along the thorough fares of life:—men who stupidly tried to rival the manna that bad fallen from heaven by manna which came from the chemist's shop. Various faults of different kinds have beset the writers of historical fiction. The most obvious one was that of the men to whom we have been more particularly alluding. They were never able to do more than bring in the furniture—like the most or dinary supernumeraries at the play. They could tolerably manage this department ; they were curious in old jewels, and tasteful in oak carvings; good, perhaps, in everything but that which was the es sence of the whole. Of course, this skill admitted of every difference of degree. Many extremely clever and successful productions must be classed amongst those to which we are alluding. We may parttculariae, however, the besetting tault of the best of them. This was—that they aimed at making move and act in their works the men and scenes of former ages, not as human men and human scenes— bat rather as the conventional men and scenes that history had handed down to us. Such • writer hearing that Pope was bitter and malignant, awls Pope, in his novel, bitter and malir maid, whenever ho appeared made Dryden talk, as if he was always talking of Tonna end Shadwell, and introduced every hero ia a particular attitude. Thin was as absurd es the conduct of the gentleman in the "Critic" who makes Burleigh perpetually nod. Pascal's remark might have taught such bunglers that even Aristotle and Plato were, for the most part, good ordinary mortals like their neighbours. They should have known— weld have known, had they felt deeply enough—: that the way to picture a man truly is to get at the heart of the expression of his life, not to potter about mere external signs of it here and there. Bat they were truly sign-painters, and had any of them takes, foe instance, the Prince of Denmark's story in hand, wo should have had, instead of Ophelia's lover and Ho ratio's friend, end the adviser of the players, and the converser with the gravedigger—a solemn, stupid, young gentleman in black, always excellently dressed tor the part, and breathing commonplace and murder only. Now, writers such as these, having made historical novels intolerable, Mr. Thaekeray had a difficult part to play. And we may say at once of his book, that he has done excellently in a certain particular. His book is of Queen Anne's time—but the main in terest in it is not that it deals of Queen Anne's time. As a popular lecturer on the writers of that period, a great temptation was open to him, which a small author would have found it impossible to resist. To have brought in all the beet known names of the period, all thro ug h, and to have made everything tem on them—to have made Addison dull till he had =and Steele dull when deaddrunk—to have in Marlborough taking bribes, and Beliegtwohe always quoting Cicero to have made the reader, live half at " Button's," and the other half among beauties with patches—here was what the actors call " Winces !" What's —the interest of " Esmond" is in the male a purely human interest; the hurt of the tale hes been the first object of oonsideratoa. The author has borne in mind that though the easliew kook is of high importance (and it balmy paperved with smart that is delicate, and subtle, and steels ever yea, gra dually)—that the matter of the highest imprianse is the genial and real life of the lanes. Hia pp r. manages wear wigs, but—you do net ems away beet them, remembering that, as the chief het. Tea Mara • great deal about Queen Anne's time, but you meat people there as interesting and real to _you as these to "Paideseis" and " Vanity Fair." They On de. metre, sack as the world always has in every ep—. moiriz i r s this particaler sus, for the time. of Mr. Theis ts leeks will understood! is tibia we tell them to aged their Wilda ia Erweal, the hero; their Mika Peedennis As p. 4 Lady Cestlewood—sad a very wooptioisi ma of the other side et ilmniebe nature in lase daughter &atria. illmo shay is mop than any thing airs= city The hire emus under Mul bri is wounded at Ilsolisim ; he drinks with Steele, and writes a c =; , : n he sees Addams actually at work on the a i" he is trained by a Jesuit, and heights a due But after all—the pleasure inspired by fling made a spectator of these stirring adventures is sot the main pleasure to be derived from the book. That, the iambi will find to ease from the interest of human warmth in it—of hum= sharacter—from the development sad dimby of shmeelor. the of the boo is that Ansa Wimp lit as well as to Adam% time ; and that sae limb itin bitterest in the pellanagea as If &Um* *Ws easestare. The ailed u if you seddeely acme bete that'll time u into a chamber—but the bib! Iraa see things by is that of the warm dogteeth' fin Moan there. It is by that light that you ere the hem of the painted old ladies, and the jolly ISM of Attire, and the great lords, and the brave soldiers. The mere historical part is rightly made subservient to the other. And we must modes the ingenuity with which the two ere made to serve each other—so that the story of the Esesosid family is made to be a vital part of the story of the Mar dom. This is particularly well mitm in the whole important section where the Priftadu is introduced (the " Old Pretender" of coarse), whisk can pus for nothing else than profound and exqui site portraiture. As the story is delivered in the auto-biographical form, the style partites of the greater gravity and formality, of those Make dings. At lint, the effect of this is stiff mad nesesy I me that the first volume of this book is mph the dullest, as if the author were rather heavy ia his irgit is a sew atmosphere. But he warms—the plot develops—the sense of reality and sees you discover that the book is as se any previous book of the Whet's. and, "Ms, more absolutely real than any historical slam Scott's early ones. There are more ansmieg scenes in " Pen dennis and " Vanity Fair i" for how life like are ear assbingsadss sugared with anybody whatever 1 Tot, if 1110116111( is lost in this way, eastetideff is alekpiesi. Ti g: is to the serious of asset le Mr. litetbstay's --and nowhere, aecertliegly, have we mint w Wier specimens d his more serious sad aemtat pia. His style has ellein Arneson and fipity, and bet aim ti a better saywhere. We - pike pooh**. to anything in the treatment of the historical part— except that we wish Swift bad had a better chases gives him this he bow. Mr. Ileatharey cannot moan to imply that that peat man's meal appar ent' is asse paps is quite worthy of his historical piass After all, Swift might of course have des and said what he is here portrayed dein and ay.' lug, but why select just the worst of se partible ? us Letremark, too, that an in is peresplibil sometimes between the notion of d, whist me anvics. And who does not know how ruthlessly women will tyrannise when they are let to domineer ? And who does not know how useless advice is ? I could give good counsel to my descendants, but I know they'll follow their own way, fur all their grandfather's sermon. A man gets his owu experience about women, and will tako nobody's hear 'my ; nor, indeed, is the young fellow wortlha dg that would. lu I that am in love with any mistress, not my old grand mother that counsels me; 'Us I that bate fixed the value of the thing I would have, and know the prise I would pay for it. It may be worthless to you, but tie all my life to me. Had Esmond possessed the Great Mogul's crown and ell his diamonds, or all the Doke of Marlborough's money, or all the ingots sunk at Vigo he would have given them all for tills woman. A ' fool he was, if you will; but so is a sovereign a fool that will give half &principality for a little crystal as big as a pigeon's egg, and called a diamond. Bo is a wealthy nobleman a fool that will face danger or death, and spend half his life, and all his tran quillity, caballing for a blue riband. So is a Dutch mer chant a fool that heth been known to pay ten thousand clowns for a tulip. There's some particular prise we all of as value, and that every man of spirit will venture his life fut. With this it may be to achieve • great reputation for lemming ; with that to be a man of fashion, and the admi ration of the town ; with another to consummate a great work of art or poetry, and go to immortality that way and with another for a certain time of his life the sole object and aim is a woman. _ LOVE'. ZTIRNITY. Who, in the course of his life, bath not been on be witched, and worshipped some idol or another? Years after this passion bath been dead and buried, along with • thousand other worldly cares and ambitions, he who felt it met recall it out of its grave, and admire, almost u fondly se he did in his youth, that lovely queenly creature. I in lobe that beautiful spirit from the shades, and love her mill ; or rather, I should say, such a put is always present to a man; such &passion once felt forms • put of his whole being, and cannot be separated from it; it becomes • portion of the man of to-day, just as any great faith or con viction, the discovery of poetry, the awakening of religion, ever afterward indolence him; just as the wound I had at Blenheim, and of which I wear the scar, bath become part of my frame, and influenced my whole body--nay, spirit subsequently, though 'twas got and healed forty years ago. Putino and forgetting! What bifida' heart can do thus ? Our great thoughts, our groat afertiosa, the truths of our life, leave us. Sorely, they easaat separate from our eonlciousness ; shall follow it vWlhsmeneva. that shall gp ; end are of their satin divine sod imametal ma. *D4ll6=ll swam Within a twtk afbe tee 474; ilrtildieoa's thirst had goose up a proillgine pine la the lehory of III& AU rho tows was la al weer of adadratioa of he peen, the " Oarepaiga," yid& Diak Seed* was at every 4)0049.1111.110 la Whitehall sad anen wits on the ether aide of rumple -bar salu t- Mai at we as the greatest pees the world laad seen for epee; the people has. reed fit Marlboros* sad for Addison, sodomise lira this, the peaty is power peovided fro the neritedsue pest, sad Mr. .era at the oppelalseshl of Quiedwieser of Rzeisa, lAA* thelmeres Kr. Leaks raseled, sod vase from the pies at ether dignities and healers; his prosperity hen hateshodi at das end of hie lib beteg seem era is- Bat I doubt whether be was art lionise la ha garret la the Haymaker, than ever he .wse is Ids ephadld palms at Lassingion ; and I believe the foram that saws to Ida is the shape of the counter his wife, was as better them a shrew and a vixen. THE BARBAROUS MURDER OF AN OLD MAN AND RlB WIFE NEAR STAFFORD. Since the oommiewiot of this abominable edam, a brio( account of whisk @Hensel Am sees ineessisa es Tuesday lest, the mesblewlee, chid enstable, eel ether authorities in the Media bays base nose dfilesat is making imeuiriss into the slessmossesss seaseited with the barbs tess glair, sad their elite have regaled to the appretten else st ltv ma. against 'fora raspicies is satartained, bet med. atm peelsalsrly spimst two of then. MP of the dee Ifeeleeiny t I sensor Mr Ike Skbiet, W. W. Wee/ reenmsi eke isquat urn the belles of the deemed, Won a empselmide jury, of which Rebut Sid ney, Req., was tha Mmes. The inquest was formally opened ism Asp prinisedy in order kat th e beam might Ye imagoes/ Tbs fist wham sailed wee Mr. John BAWL farmer, drill& NNW, nom Stafford. He deposed that the issoosok Ma mad Jens Blackburn, were aged 78 and 73 =roepsoilvely. Hs lived widths 400 yards of their Ng Ill• Koala, ateraiog, tits 26th October, he by It about 7 Abet. hot observed nothing amiss. Abssi loltaa bow afterwards he returned haw, and then la prig Illesithersh home, le saw masks aarrWliaagg from It. Ha imasdkasilysna to • Sold la the a oy hbo.rbood, and poseneed the molutemee of ems raw wee won at work sowiagust Isdasi. Previous NW., lotus ',Wake to the Mw,he saw a nes gaig seem a dell in the thmr beet et the been, befealietrevedri She dee he NW on weft et Ws, *mph he meet heard hie odes of " Fire' The dam ef the bewee mu heed open wi th a bee (the two dews end whims beige SINN % and the door of the tree above the kitties woo emceed to be on are. Oa Sop elsim th e rem in wide Ihekbarn generally we. mho hand to be I. Imes. Oa the games and bdag cleared away, the Maned bodies of Blackburn mad ids wife were found upon the bed, the dollar old maapsamenewa b e a t thebid. top. sad the eldi to in a at this Kr. lilies Webb, bens selpis of the Illeihrdthire 01011111/1 Mel he hid mods a post leerdave ez=ei7Ti; bodies of the deemed. He dawdled the extend of the bodies, whisk wee al a met eaters, and then weer es to nista the of the injuries they hell onoteleoL BOWS the arise the bodies have received pass hem the lime OM deo than the trunka , the gni et the old as had bsea fractured in several time at the NKOMO bekonsot severe. 'The the whims lad been aneemedimer the right ye. A balatiet •Sao owl lealaterliat the blows might have *Ma heeled AM le aliment inelleiment vie febries IWO witti be mese heath. He mid aot tall bow kag the beam hail hem butting, bat he thought it probable line se Mr bean. Thames Athey, imbed to Mr. Wright, of Cappsaliale, WMet be bathe spa th e dose with a huge - Len hr W 1 ' Wog ass, the tat cos. lean Min teen carman uw, he west le the well and drew water he them. • deg whisk wee Jesting at the op sank to the bottom Themes 11 , me et the /sat be ester ilis hams, awl Maim Brib.w, WOO nest memised. They de. suited As mppomassof the roam is width the bodies wore Mead. it weal mem UM the Mao Mil been burnt by mums at eamething pissed upon them One of the whams wee at *ales that hay had been need, as these wage maim a( hay la the nem, partly bust, and some eimbustibie matter, turpentine, pitch, ee something ',that kind. Hie Illf these witnesses also &decibel& the of the ssosolas of . handkerchief or shawl round ara lllrs a : a ekbara's *ask, as leading to the oonainsioa that eho bed beim elmagled, oe that ea attempt hod been made to dm& bee, oe that the an had bees tad in drag whore boy body up lam the mem from the toot et the stairs, SIMI bad been atiesked. Thin was bleed upon the Sour Milts test el the shims, sad also m the wall. At the 411•11111.64 of the evidetios of the lest witness, the iniptiry wm dimmed. Trig SEARCH FOR SIR 7. FRANKUIC.—We may take this opportunity of meatioaing, that in a private letter frns Captain Kellett to a gentleman in London, be states that when at the meth of Wellington Channel, he and his dicers saw a great number of birds perched on what turned oat on examination to be square pieces of whale blubber, whisk were drifting oat of the channel. They bore every of having been cut freet the animal. Captain ellerart mie am' to the orsolusies that the Priam Albert was ekes at hand, but that ship was at the time in liment's Islet. The blabber must, therefore, have boat eat either by Zequimaar, or by Franklin's party. We should state, that when the blubber was seen Sir E. Belcher had not gone up Wellington Chanel.—Afkavonen. DARING ATIIIIPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-011 Thunday *maim at the early hour of seven o'clock, as Mr. James Oen, et Wkltsinueh, was returning home from DM,/ emi had smashed as far as Knowle4lll, he was 101.6111 by lee IMO, see of whom knocked him off his bille by a dreadful blow on the head (it is supposed with • limptemerver. They had unfastened his sloth's, and Illinveathe le take hen him his watch, when the Alio hosed SIMS MI eepreeeldag, and made off. Dr. ef Chew • WW I / 2 end other persons, then came 1 11 1 , 1 2 4 11Milaid MINICIUMMe Ma every ardstance. It is with nor*w SIMS dell the raglans have not yet been detente/ paststhea wee deemed as a stabletasn.—firistoi REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE. (►ro. the Nark Lane Swam.) The early part of the month wee favourable for field labour, and farmers were busily occupied on the land Up to the clue of last week. The immense quantity of rain which has dna fallen has however, put a total stop to ploughing, sowing, &e., and these operations (previously somewhat backward for tho period of the year) mast now be deferred for a time, as it will be impossib le to work the laud advantageously until it shall have been freed of super. aeons moisture. The wet weather must be considered as very unfavourable In another respect, inasmuch as the effect of so humid a state of atmosphere cannot be otherwise than detrimental to the condition of all kinds of grain in suck; and there Is, consequently, little chance of any improve ment taking place in the quality until an interval of frost shall have been experienced. Under these circumstances farmers will not, we thick, be disposed to thresh freely at present, and those who ere in a position to wait will, no doubt, do so • but many, we fear, will not have the option, limey cer tain of obtaining more remunerating rates fur their produce after It shall have been hardened and im proved by frost. The tone of the wheat trade has not varied materially sines our last; the firmness we then noticed has in no way diminished ; but, on the other hand, there has been no in crease of activity. The opinion that prices will undergo a moderate rise has gained strength; still purchasers have not deemed it prudent to add materially to their stocks, and it has, consequently, been very di ffi cult I. establish any advance. The arriva ls of breadotufa from abroad have rather exceeded expectation, which has certainly tended to cheek the upward movement. A large fleet of vessels, laden with wheat and Indian corn, arrived oil the coast in the early part of the week from the Mediterranean and Black Sea, and the receipts of flour from America into London, Liverpool, he., have also been considerable ; besides which, a fair supply of wheat has come to hand from the continent of Europe. The greater part of the Black Sea supply has been ordered to different porta in Ireland, where the want of wheat and Indian corn appears to be very urgent. Tito shipments of Hour from Liverpool to the sister isle also con tinue, and this extra demand has absorbed a large propor tion of the supply which would otherwise have some upon the English markets. That the cultivation of wheat in Ireland must have lessened very materially cannot be clues doped, and the probability is that she will continue to re• quire considerable importations of that article, a circum stance which is likely to have a material influence on the future range of prices here. For the moment there is no want of foreign wheat on this side of the Channel, but our stocks are nut particularly heav) ; and as it cannot be denied that the soft condition of one new wheat will render an unusually large mixture of old necessary, a falling off in the arrivals from abroad would be soon felt. The quantity on passage from the Baltic is not now very great, and as prices there are relatively higher than in this country, the shipments will in all probability be comparatively unimportant till next spring. Freights and the premiums for insurance ate rapidly rising, which must throw impediments in the way of con signment: or the execution of the orders which may be sent out on British account. It appears, therefore, that after what may still be in the way from ports east of Gibraltar, and America, shall have reached our shores, we may calcu late on a break in the regularity of the foreign supplies ; and we certainly see no reason to expect lower rates than those now current ; on the contrary, we feel tolerably well satisfied that the valueof wheat has been at the lowest for the present, and should certainly not be surprised to witness a moderate advance. It may be regarded as a somewhat singular fact, that the upward ohein m g o d veme om i o n t w t i o c r i ld th lus e ve co ,“ m t m i e s ne r e e d po i r n te tllou to te a r:: given the most favourable results. This has, nevertheless, been the case thus far; business having for some weeks past been much more active in [kedged, Ireland, and also in some of the northern markets in England, than in the south, where the mischief occasioned by the unpropitious weather in August was unquestionably must severely felt. The only way 311 which this can be accounted for is by the pressure of foreign supplies the greater part having been directed to those places at which the wants would, it was presumed, prove the greatest. Business at Mark-lane has maintained a decidedly firm tone, but the supplies of mat articles have kept pace with the demand, and prices have undergone little or no change The arrivals of wheat coastwise have been small, only 4,935 qrs. having been reported during the week ending this (Saturday) evening. The show by land-carriage samples from the neighbour ing counties has been equally unimportant ; the Essex and Kent stands being nearly bare en Weanerday, and only a few small lots being exhibited on Friday. The offers from Lincolnshire Cambridgeshire, and that neighbourhood, have also Win small, prices having lately risen there fester than with us. . . . The millers have throughout the week acted cautiously, and, though the tendency of prices has been rather upwards, no quotable advance on last Monday's currency has been established. — Foreign wheat has come forward rather more liberally thea expeeted, 29,906 qrs. having been received at this port daring the week. A small portion of this supply has gone direct to millers, and the remainder into the hands of those who are not disposed to make any surifice to sell from on board .hip. There have, consequently, been no pressing sellers; but the demand hu, on the other band, been of • retail character, buyers having in (general declined to take more than they have needed for immediate use. In this position of admire, quotations have undergone no change, and we consider that purchases might have been made on as favourable terms for the buyer on Friday as earlier in the week. The arrivals of wheat off the coast from ports east of Gibraltar have been large of late. Many of the cargoes were, however, disposed of before they reached our shores, and several have been height for Irish account. Pre vious prices have, notwithstanding the liberal character of the supply, been exceeded in some instances ; and for the cargoes remaining on sale very full terms are demanded, say Foliate Odom 38.. 9d. to 395. 64., and 421. to 42a. 61. for the finer descriptions. The inquiry for town-manufactured flour has not been particularly active, but the top price has been steadily sup ported, and fresh country marks have brought quite as mach money as previously. From America we have re ceived 36,000 barrels; having, however, in addition to a good consumptive demand, had some inquiry from parties intending to held over ; former rates have been well main tained. Moderately good qualities have sold at 21s. to 225, and extra superfine at 28s. to 24r. per barrel. There was not • large display of English barley either on Wednesday or Friday, and the demand for fine malting sorts being active, very full terms have been realised for the best qualities. Secondary sorts have not sold so freely, but in the abeam of supplies of importance, quotations have been steadily maintained. The market is, and has for some time been, nearly bare of good old grinding barley: the only kind of which any quantity remains in warehouse is Egyptian. The demand for Danish and similar sorts of barley has been lively ; and Egyptian, owing to the scarcity of other descriptions, has been taken to a fair extent, at full terms. Malt has been held with great firmness, and needy buyers have experienced some difikulty in purchasing at former rates, • small advance baring berm pretty generally in sisted on. The arrivals goats cemeteries hays been small, but from Ireland 25,000 quarters, and from abroad 8,000 quarters, have been received ; there has eeusequently been no scar city of this_ paia. The demand was not particularly Wive either cm Wedaesday or Friday, the principal dealers pay ing late rates with more or less relartanee. There sou, however, not the slightest dispoddon on the part of factors to give way, and we consider that prier wt ea quite as high at the close as they were In the beginning of the week for fresh old ewe. Beano have net maenad wash attention, and their value has undergoes no change. Peas of ell eons have commanded menthe rates. In Indian earn a large helices, has been done, and pe eler's prises haulm many uses been exceeded by Is. per gutter. FOREIGN. The advicee from abroad are of mach the suet character this week as before. The tendency of inioes appears to have continued upwards at all the leading Deltic ports, and purchases in that quarter cannot now be effected at anything like prime to have a margin for profit in our markets. Dane( letters of the MU October inform us that some further purchases of wheat had been made there at very full terms, and that buyers bed bad to pay as meek as 44.. to 44e. 6d. per muter Ikea onboard for flee hlghlrelzed quali ties. eats hod heleght eserespostling rates. Vessels were seance, sod freight@ • portion of the wheat sold was believed to ban bola taken on amount of the parties who have lately been operating In the Dutch markets. Konigsberg advice., of the 26th ult., state that a lively demand had been experienced there, and that surly everything which had come forward bad met a ready sale, at advancing prices. High mixed wheat, old and new, weighing 6141 u. per bushel, had sold at 425. Bd., and new at 445. per qr. free on board, and other sorts at correspond ing rates. Stocks were small, sad the supplies from the grower., which had been tolerably good the week before, hi s ill r :jaan fallen off. Of spring core scarcely any had ap p . For white peas Rs., and for beans 30s. per v. free on board had been obtained without difficulty. Freight to London or Hull was 3s. 9d. to to Scotland 3.. 6d. to 94., to the west eout 4.. 9d. to 65., and to the Channel 4.. 6d. per qr. for wheat. From Stettin we learn that the supplies of grain had sot kept pace with the demand. A disposition to speculate in grain evidently prevails at that place, and stocks being small, prices are high there, say 40s. for fair red Pome ranian wheat for shipment In spring; and for d 2 lb.. new barley equal to 20.. per qr. had been veld for local oossamp don. At Rostock rather large transactions appear to bare taken place in wheat, partly for immediate shipment to London. Holders bad been encouraged therefore to ask higher terms, and it had become impossible to put fine qualities on goard below 41s. per quarter. The deliveries fram the growers had increased, hut the demand had been sufficiently active to take off all that had been brought forward. At the near ports quotations have, it appears, been well supported. llawourg fetters of Tuesday report a good steady Mummies in wheat at full terms, say for new red upland, on the spot, weighing Gil lbs. per bushel, 425. 6d. lo 425. 9d., and old red wheat of 61 lb.. weight, free on ►eard, at Lower Deltic ports, at 40s. 61. to 41$. Gd. For sprhig delivery higher ratee were asked. The demand for barley had continued active, and for new Danish 235. per quarter had be truly offered, bet sellers had not felt disposed to accept below 235. 3d. to 23e. 6d. New 38 lbs. to 39 lbs. oats, from the Danish islands, had found purchaser, at 15s. to 16e. per quarter, free on board. From Holland we learn that the same parties whose pur chases created so great a sensation some time back, had again begun to buy wheat for shipment to England, at prices out of all proportion to those current here. At Amsterdam equal to 395. 6d. per qr. was paid on Monday ' fur red wheat of 56Ibs. weight, and 48e. 6d. per qr. free on board for 60 to 601Ibe. mixed Dansig. At Rotterdam some sales were also made at high rates, the buyer being, it was believed, the same as at Amsterdam. Oats keep up in price in Holland, and the latest adviees from Groningen quote 40 to 421bs. Polands 17s. to 17s. 9t1., and 55 to 3718 e. black teed 14s. ld. up to 15s. per qr. free on board. Vessels were scarce, and freight rising. From Franco we have nothing new to communicate; prices being relatively higher there ,than with no, no ma terial supplies from thence can be calculated on. At the chief markets in the Mediterranean a moderate extent of business hu been done in wheat and Indian corn, at full prices. The most recent accounts from America do not report any material change in prices. At New York, on the 2let ultimo, good shipping brands of Flour No. 1 were Ohtani. able at 18. s. Bd. to 19s. ld., and pure Genessee at V.. Id. to 21s. 10d. per brl. The expos is during the precedinst fort night had amounted to 17,871 brio. ll•ntr, and 2)5,650 bushels oc,lndian corn to Liverpool; 26,595 brls. il.tur, and 35,674 bushels of wheat to London. PLYMOUTH AND TAVISTOCK RAILWAY. A general meeting of the parties interested in this proposed railway was held at Plymouth, on Friday, to ra ceira a report from the provisional dirtetors ; Mr. 1. in the chair. The report' stated that tke tint publication of their pros pectus was on the 25th of May, and that of the rival com pany, called the South Devon and Tavistock Railway Com pany. on the bth of July. The shares were commenced to be allotted on the 3Uth of July, and in cousequeece of the rival scheme being in the field, • portion of the allottece had declined to pay the deposit, but the direcore were neither surprised nor discouraged at this result. The at tention of the directors had been called to the enlergent.nt of the scheme by en extension of the proposed Pis mouth and Tavistock line to OkeLamptou, North Tawton, and Coleford, where it will form a Junction with the North Devon line, and will open a new communication with Easter and the no rth of Devon. To the residents of Tavistock and its vicinity it states that such a line will be of great ad vantage, by bringing them 30 miles nearer to Exeter. In conclusion, it states that the extension scheme is c i:culated not only to insure success, but will also confer ineolculable benefits upon the port of Plymouth, as well as on the whole of the north of Devon. The directors therefore recommend that the present scheme should be merged into one for a railway from Plymouth to Eider and Barnstaple, via Tavistock, Okehampton, and North Tawton. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he held is his hand a list of nearly all the landowners u a w n ho had promised n t i n sed em to nn ta d ke sa t 6 b e aa v n alue of Ter• the proposed lanel lice,shares d many bed for additional shares. There was only one dissentient land owner on the line between Plymouth and Tavistock, and they impeded eventually to obtain his anent. The traffic return' they had reason to expect would be above 18,0004. Mr. J. BATLY stated that the population of Tavistock bad increased considerably during the last few years, in conse quence of the mining operations in its neighbourhood; and he congratulated the shareholders on the prospect of having a cheap and useful line of railway. The report was adopted, and after • short conversation the meeting separated. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S—MoN DAT. A heavy, and if we may speak from the complaints that reached us from all quarters, a very unsatisfactory settling on the Newmarket races, prevented any regular ill:Mille= on future events. All that we could mike out on the Epsom Autumn Handicap was that The Varmint, Tested, and Hobbie Noble were nominally at 6 to 1, and that 700 to 60 and 1,200 to 1011, were laid against West Australian, and 3,000 to 100 against Pharold fur the Derby. Nothing farther has been done in the Trinket affair. LIVERPOOL AUTU. 7MN MEETING. :rzox EC&DL RAM WBIGBTB FOR THZ Cu Ago at lb Warwiek Gaylad Sir Robert Haltand-pelf LittleQuiten 6 11 2 The General Rattrap a 10 12 Caurire 6 10 10 _ Age st lb The Drag Tomboy Woudtsld a 10 7 Crabbs Perjury I 10 2 Labyrinth .... 5 9 7 Sluggard RPOOL ArTUMN STIMPLII tied on or before Thursday Age it lb The General • 10 0 Rourton Vistrus • 9 10 Rattrap a 910 View Halloo Tho Drag 5 9 4 Poll HA N 6IC AP for the CHASE. Forfeits to be Age st lbi British Yeoman a 11 4 Ahdelkader a 10 10 ?dim Mowbray a 10 10 Peter Simple a 10 10 Vainbope C 10 10 Little Qneen Carrig a 10 4 Hall aad-half a 10 2 FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT.—TWO MEN KILLED.—.- Yesterday afternoon, shortly before four o'clock, a deplora ble accident occurred upon the premises of Messrs. Williams, the soapinskers, of Compton-street, Goswell road. For some days men have been at work connecting the new drain in the street with Messrs. Williams's pre mises. Abutting on the latter stand a number of small dwellings, workshops, stables, sheds, de., the defective drainage of which has for a long time been a nuisance to the whole neighbourhood, and against the back wall of Messrs. Williams's premises are several if the cesspools. The men on Saturday had, in carrying back the new drain, which has been dug a considerable depth, come in close 'proximity to one of these places, as was evidenced by the damp oozing through the mould, and they were told to be most careful how they proceeded in their operations. Not any danger being apprehended the operations were pee. ceeded with, avoiding the direction which had threatened to break in. They continued their work until the after men when some water was seen pouring along the bottom' of the drain, the men being out of it at the time. Upon making this discovery one of the men, although warned I. be careful, descended the ladder, but had not got far down when, overcome by the dreadful stench that was emitted, he fell into the drain quite senseless. The poor fellow who stood next to him on the bider instantly descended, in the hopes of rescuing him, arid he in the same manner fell wakeless. His brother, elm woe standing by, attempted to dWicend, having a rope to wise Islas; but he had not got far down when, from the same emu, he fainted, and was drawn up by those above, and heed to be in a dying state. He was instantly taken to a pahlhhouse opposite, and emedical gentleman sent for, who had him put to bed and every attention paid to him, but all efforts to restore him to consciousnessfatled. Whilst this was going on a fourth man essayed to go down, but in study became quite insensible ; and, upon being got out, was, by the advice of the medical gentlemen who were pre sent, sent in a cab to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital. After a lapse of about a quarter of an hour, the intensity of the vapour having somewhat abated, the two poor fellows who first wont down were got out quite dead. The one that had been taken to the public-house having somewhat reco vered, but still in a state of insensibility, was placed upon a bed and cionteyedlo the hospital. DARING ROBBERY IN MONMOLTREUIRE.— Off Wednesday evening, the 21th ult., between fi and 7 o'clock, the dwelling-house of Mr. George Window, of Lansabbsth Farm, in the parish of Llanover, which adjoins the seat of Bir Benjamin Hull, M.P., and is three miles from the town of Abergavenny, in the county of Monmouth, was entered by six men, five of whom were armed with bludgeons, and the sizth with a large pistol. Four of them had handker chiefs tied over their faces, and the others used no disguise. A niece of Mr. Window had charge of the house, Mr. and Mrs. Window being absent on business; and this young . lady, on encountering the ruffians in a passage of the; house, succeeded in escaping, and ran to the dwelling of the Roy. J. Evans, in the immediate neighbourhood. The rev. gentleman, on learning from her that thieves had en tered her uncle's house, proceeded thither, and found that the male and female servants had been ma de prisoners, and were placed in a corner of the kitchen, with their faces to the wall. The robbers immediately pounced on the rever end gentleman when be made his appearance in the house, and having deprived him of his money, amounting to about 201., placed him also in the corner with their that hatch of prisoners. The next person captured was a Mr. Prince, the village miller, who, observing that some thing unusual wu going forward on the premises, looked in for the purpose of satisfying his curiosity, when he was instantly collared and forced to join the others in the corner. In the meantime the cry of " Thieves " had been raised in the village, and three men, a farm servant, sn under gar dener of Sir B. Hall, and the village harper, proceeded to the beleaguered house, but they were instantly seemed, and compelled also to stand in the corner with their facie to the wall. Three of the robbers were employed in guard ing their numerous prisoners, while the other three ran sacked the house in a leisurely and effectual manner,.carry ing off a considerable quantity of property of a =smile, nevus description. They remained in the house about half se hour. The fellows are believed to be Irishmen and navigators. lltearrutT or A DEAD BODY.--On the 30th September, 1842, a foreign lady and two porters called at Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson, and Co.'s wharf, Iligh.street, Hall, and left there a large chest, which was directed to be kept until called for. It has remained there ever since until Friday last, when the Messrs. Brownlow, being about to remove from the premises, the cheat in question was opened, and a wooden coffin found in i - the ' inscription, " Sasebo) Walter Sourin, c aged nine menthe and twenty-five d was deposited a leaden coffin, and wi , containing the body of a male child position. Information was given to tb the coroner, by whom an inquest w Head Inn, High-street, when a verdict was returned. The body was ordered t' authorities of the parish in which it w some clue has been obtained to the • Advertiser. in it, with tre followi died Bth June, 18.. M dap." In this coda within this was a Aline ild in a state of d 1 1 / 4. - ) the po:ice, an , WU held at t , 1 .‹ ,!• ,, 0- ,Tdict of " Fount" tt ed to be iuteir , was found. W ~ • • - past uts of the . j ,‘ Tl - :.:x ii