The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-14 00:00:00

Th e fi r st 'l‘ FLANDERS RAILWAYS. P'it rts , h.alf-yearly general meeting of the Pro o'clock, !a thi, unthrt eltue as held yesterda, , , at ene th e Ptirp, nri s th ?, Loldon Tavern. Bishop-gate-street. for Of th e o e et laying before them the present position The .311 ?.Par'Ye W. P. Richards, Esq., presided. C 0 th e a ing the meeting was then read, as was „,b. report, the substance of Which is as follows: C omps„ Directors, at this their first general meeting of L ihee4 l l P 4 eY, are anxious that a rill) movement of their the li g B the formation of the Sot! 6é Au nyme Ptieto„..l3.tesent time should be presented to the Pro "ae; With this view they beg to place before them kl '"tiert 1 f and • • • hreference to sp t a acts in.ermation w it h 1M UB Peet Te of S of these railways as their increased know at, , tne country and its resources has enabled them vftY. kthille_tieDosit of two pounds per share became due on 14 123, 1 „"e, 1 845, and the first call of another two pounds eptereber, 1845. get, th at most satisfactory to the Directors to be able to tlnd, 4t the instalments called up have been fully If t with eYiliar exception of the second instalment on "ste p e4l which, by o mission of the holder, were r . an Nth ; _ within the last few days, and eleven sit he ° ll which a question has arisen. utit ee b: u stotint of the money received has from time ehd kshettgeeri dated r e to Belgium at favourable rates of heati ng and ge. portion of such money is invested km_iltlit4hteheaitinttieernest. The sum of 1,000000 francs, money originally deposited,. re i}4'ai p er e e hands of the Belgian Government, at interest i e Cor on . e nt• This caution money will be returned to ee.. 4 etsrre r l by fifths as the works proceed.' The th? ;e 6et tt , t"haarf.e,,obtained from the proper authority the Of d e mos„, ' 4 ,500 000 francs have been . paid up b . ) , kif"ter titi f 1 ,, i1 Belgium, which certificate, in pursuance le l'erier a ° `•the grant and law, puts in force the eonceded to the Company. The accounts sh ai rWat the disposal of the Directors a balance • epacueient for the p resent requirements of the I :7 1) 3% e lt i ll i ci such as will render the consideration of ooy of w at present unnecessary. i - 7 %et until a very late period of the last ses . Sed it n lYs w:elgian Chambers that the grant of these f t , yr Sanctioned, and the concession was given ?t ,Ohe seuito.,starces hich rendered it conven i ent .. to de %Coke t"teMent of two important points, .which ha . d . % b ite °.the direction of a portion of the lines, until Perm . il tw e e ase it w as l eft for the Company to decide, h fro k be.ie l bonth, wh e th er i t wou ld cont i nue t h e ta„uegil "ixillude to Fumes, or not ; in the other case crteet4 govertiment was to determine, whether the • E7 qaver Thiee. was to be carried to Aeltre, a town on tiz e, ionent line between Ghent and Brue•es ; or to c 'n the Government line from e• t `; to 41,1L4Atle at it iL ioa k last the Directors pioceeded to Bruges, lqiiiineufilY convinced of the superior ad e v h a d n e t d ag ) es tile . 4 9 : i 'eh ens r o 7: ll Thielt to Deynz', a A s erieteroemtmhey stated 4,l 4 l4 iss Bhts ,,, t° f ~h°"red over t ' h l' a u t le to lic Work>, and in due q tt thill ikk e r : l 4B the nece'ter ssary forms were completed,. an has granted authorising the construction th e lit tai direCtioll rti %, e°4 ,Stic Se quent periOd, after having duly examined and considered the question, the Di: ectors 4 eity froeelared their invention of making the line of kakaothek tliatnude to Fumes he 4t"._pc:stion of very serious importance . occu tl4 hi s l ' en tton of the Directors. Mr. Steenson t l / 41 , 1 ", br a j L e Port of July last, strongly recommended e,gt,t 4 , e ?'' should be made from Bossuyt, on . the trejitletpl'lttfil,rtrai, on the Lys, from which . latter point ° I ) , a , 1 / 4 ers Railways lead to Poperinghe, in one 1 ;',1 1 1 te rl e q to Bruges in the other . ; in fact, com 4Nteta, I,,Whole railway communicatio . n . of . West tei n the i) , uls induced the Directors to visit and in ,lttli;krbi3Nsed line, to collect at Bossuyt, Courtrai , N i ts ekiaees, statistical details, and to ascertain the 1 / 4 14- or th e wishes of the inhabitants of the different i 4t t , S kph Province. They are in consequence able ql6_ tkellerielate all the value of this branch. d N l si t e ta t ., 111 .e great bulk of the coal,lime,an building /I ,il ll , & tly t, slimed in West Flanders passes up the Scheldt a„ i n by a circuitous, uncertain, and.expen tkilteetetitrer ti t t - a v i l gation of about 180 miles, arrives at ' the distance of whch town by land from e. e 'reet t °4l Y nine miles. By this proposed branch ke rl ed °as scla nd uncertain communication will be yere tsf , and not only will the coal, lime, &c., which .. t ht by ra °l .e been brought by water to Courtrai, be iNah l'crap t i J , . but, owing to the diminished cost, p 4 i b „ Ili a , ° lt, Will be materially increased. ) 4 t l t4' ti ale - 1 3 „ ''"ing been duly eosited, the . Minister e'hOee su bmitting them to p the Conseil of the ilhtecl,l4ll,tbas. The report of the Conseil has been sit,:kilienitle following substance of an extract from :0 1 ,i4tir e ; p : will show that the proposed measure has h 'koti trrovel The Conseil are unanimously Ikroao it 4 t with the modifications proposed they l I, h, ba t e once favourably on the projected line. for {N lee ssie til t ,s o il f great public utility.' The f . estebe brought before the Chambers intt teletele_ in the meantime the inhabitants . gli hr 11 are expressing by petitions their anxiety tide:4l4,,tt'oeh should be made. The interests of the ; I 'c i t: t ) t . t hat it i t t )4 : ons are equally enlisted on the same tethertis th ' 4 not unreasonable to entertain strong . It at this grant will be conceded by the f 1 / 4 4Pl ar ,, will materially add to the resources of Nt h s r-L.7ers Railwa- s k ttia . ,., l 4 o "„ l eg Plans ha Y ve . been prepared according to et,4 th:s °I Nlr. Stephenson, ard tho d se T fr h o e m ar t h h e a t t railway between Bruges an 'Otte, 4111 '4 • kv td ;AA of 41 , have been approved. . The land on e jot the line is expropriated contractsar ch f o , beNct e the works, which are of a remarkably u t k r, 4 „, , tde h there is every reason to suppose that -In i 1 a be Opened by the end of Ma next. 11 ,,vet l ic i eti n „„"111 follow from time to time, especially l A' se eo- Courtrai ; and it is expected that the Otr t : t tvorksruPh-ted to that town in October ne:tt. let to h ` q tka h , ar e t iiLear Thourout, which have . been These e rt li a ' h e i n at very satisfactory prices. Or' Oa hyemate a' and the Directors to test the general tb si a `;') examine the cost of the rest of the le : h t6P e' e n b-814 of this experience of the actual offers 41:e-tithe. -etractors, Applying p there prices to the et every reason for believing that it .11 k„stiL tI sli ra-bleju co nsiderabl within the capital ori -1111-24 WIC". The whole Y distance from Bruges to be under contract during the present kki4llil)4tilielieetheirelare enabled to con . firm, all respects, I 'l l 4 ke ll e ti qtele" they have put forth as to . the valu a e 41:4(tei'' hi I N': They believe that it will prose .1 et Rhir k qf id re munerative work, and that it wi 1 tet?l,4iiteilita; period much earlier than is usual in t o d , t l e ngth, le 4 ltte, l ape n e r 8 account exhibited capital in favour d ekteekee t . % lo the amount of 171,1121.25. 6d., an ti l lie'r,hati t i tr a °3 e ssB /. 12s. 6d., leaving a balance in the 87,553/. lOs " 1 , ,, i .1hb*, 1, ie1,1,,'4 said, that this being the first occa te:44)hed ;; w Y (the Directors of the West . Flanders te,pee w e "a, dan opportunity of addressing the pro ere e,`tse °a%e t ., l 9, with their permission, make a few oh s at t 4 atto ns before proceeding to discuss the et of } e th e e t `. ll ort. Ile thought that the proprietors .. t I vlij e in k tled to some intimation of the princi- W I 14 11 ,2 e ttr :" management, which was entrusted N..' of their interests, acted, and he (1 1 11:,,Whi e l anxious to point out to them tepte - ue le .." the railway was intended to take, N l !tft l ;' s aPPlying the province of West Flanders te l S,,,thei r - slhe line in fact from which they were . llp t jeta tile r esources. The Directors had a high torel It (am ea Pabilities of this undertaking, and . each old askedit was a pleasing fact) T h h a e d y c w on e s r i e de th ra e b re le . kit, pa to o It.—(llear, hear.) sue i f pos . tl: l3l v t eotee ea rry it out to a successful is trl peri thosette e eleed. gentemen there were many m f a rc n ,m y e tt t kett, -e,e tte in railway affairs, Cat4:114.4 of d one to reside in Belgium during the ex th te e n se - Mr. wh these works. He meant 11 1:1 1 , now superintended the affairs of the Strh )1 r Nese end whose abilities, as a coed -111;,*, h e Zae,) eeto.rs had the very highest opinion.- . - V t lsl :144 th e Wi th a mind naturally formed for bum- . % 4 3 ' 4 4, 41 , i 4 u ret w s . d rantag es of a thorough knowledge ... of ki t :l 4 e, fo r 4 3' system, and was, therelote, every,. 'k r jeeetti the task he had undertaken. They, of Ok t ttiv, t 4l rnis it :!. 4 the right of any shareholders to the aye%, to te `'"°, and in whatever he might be hitde , h e individual member calling at _the . statestrostrto to e .wae sure, receive the most satis.W th e ' l4 questi ons . H e thought he m i ght t.,, Prat„jrineiples on which the Directors had te tt e„elloa„, - -eed in of t h e sacred dert,,`"Aat 'IA the Management ' °ltt th them • but he would, if allowed, Th e y to e exact fine which this railway would t 541 (1 tt h ey h ad ae eonatre date the whole of West Flan be . 4 mop there, but he was afraid that it te,',Ntitierheetra a -'1 g 'e char m a tt er f or t h e shareho l ders everY positi.)n upon it. The map itiet. s al he of a large size, one le;111uld hnat:acter, th at t h e pr i nc i pa l p l aces re- Pee ethe wi th difficulty distinguished, and the thp?cet s at, wer:he, from the place where the share -444 terp altogether invisible. Thus, they corn te",hee Z e 7 o . and the line was carried on to Courd virrtett,e'erees S S by another line to Dixmudo, an tt 'Re a • This line sui.plied a number of most . 11,4 /l (for it must ' 13.; remembered . that the GL l be tl erge e 4ra rivalled in magnitude many ` l n e d, h ' k ris i E d) sod thus they 141' Y 'll ng an trade of , rh u : ,horn al e„ r pi, d connecting lines, the ex. 11; :11 m t 4 Oitend. Their railway then (.- elixeii;tipplieedeaPlaces last named) of only 89 miles t k). 4 kt' ee • P"Pulation of above 60,000 souls, 1 ,4 t m t l i c i li t h i 4 i lc o oltu rat and manufacturing character. ge e', er• q uld esn Perations of the country were of the tvOlc t " 11 ther`piPt!„.on, and cattle of the best breeds th te quiri o ,, 410Ps, corn, hemp, flax, and other 0 1 4,l 4! ! i te a bl in the most skilful cultivation, *r el li ,t 4 eh " evh d a a . n tlYe The question might nith' Will the probable traffic to pt.. rwlst • b e y 4 rd to r B h• uestion it lit t is q t tu c• apt th_ answer What was the lac i tt 4 ? 'l, ll4 asen2er traffic in Belgium some tf • bilt e"nrse ("lerlY only two diligences left e e , kl y of a daY, lied they were not half Bruits Pasa "as no criter. 1 . the number free, el'Rers for, lon -te e 'ee h th e t • or, lookin g at some statistical 4. )lv u of Therruonde, he found that the W ill qv ) sevt.it t. pe r leaving that town daily Waey tt ,„, as e limes its ihabitants(Hear, he r) leeed ever ; so that they might see it p ki InglY flifficul .t thing to state exactl what tk i ej het „ot li r tre ,• . 01 eht be from anyon e of those towns, e,Nee e ?"'s l'astanee for their consideration was, th 'l4O i t -,4Y could be const A k td w as not then ructe e at a moderate K t , 'eel. speaking of lines like the It 1 14 4 41 e ~..° N lon /r o am, the Southampton, or some of pin % h‘vil;PerldtureilaYs ; bnt, looking to their own gt,„, g th, i _ • e vvould ask if it were likely that ce ttfid traffi c wo Prietoand pu ce old he lik e l y to fail ? He had rlO the st atements advan ce d to the doubt that they could easily I •••• ••••• •• / a . •• - ••• ..... 1 , ..... , •~~ 1 •••• / / „. 00 ... ..• / / ,•• / ••• / ••• / ..• •.• /$ ,•• $ ~• '.. / '' 10 / / , /, '' e; ~" $ !,~ 04 1 g 26 PRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA Y MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1846 return 94 per cent. upon the capital required.—(Hear, heer.) Their object was, of course, to secure the whole trail! of Flanl< rs. and if the shareholders would do him the favour to follow hint upon the map, they would find that this line effected that in a perfectly satisfactory manner. But to effect this more thoroughly they pro posed to extend a communication to Bossuyt-on-the- Scheldt, which, communicating with Courtrai-on-the- Lys, would extend in the one direction to Po peringhe, and to Bruges on the other ; thus, in fact, rofoinanding the whole of the country of West Flanders.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the mineral traffic, he might state that coal at present came from Mons to Ghent by the canal, which tell into the Scheldt. This was comparatively easy, for it was down the stream, but they were then transmitted up the Lys to Courtrai, a total distance of 180 miles, subjected to the impedi ments of river navigation, and only averaging four voyages in the year (two voyages either way). Now, if they got this railway, as it was more than likely they would, the distance from Mons would be considerably diminished, for the land carriage from Courtrai to Bossuyt was only nine miles, and the water carriage would, consequently, be avoided. They could in the same easy way transmit lime and building stone, both of which were much wanted in West Flan-I ders. The quantity of coal which would come in this way had been estimated at 200,000 tons, but they might have taken the minimum at 150,000 tons, and that alone would constitute a paying traffic.— (Hear, hear.) With respect to the expenses of constructing the line, the estimated original cost was stated at 840,0001., but from the agreement entered into with the contractor on a part of the line between Bruges and Thermonde, the Directors thought themselves justified in saying that the extension to Bossuyt could be made without call ing upon the shareholders for any further payment. Jt was a matte of considerable difficulty in an exposé of that kind to place matters in other than a favourable light before the proprietors, but in this case he thought he had kept within due limits. He was not aware that he had any further observations to make, but he would add, in the words ef the last paragraph of the report, " The Directors are enabled to confirm, in all respects, the opinions which they have .put forth as to the value of this undertaking. They believe that it will prove a sound and highly remunerative work, and that it wil. bring a return at a period much earlier than is usual in lines of a similar length." He had now to move the adoption of the report and its circulation among the Proprietary. To questions from Mr. LINDO, The CHAIRMAN replied, that with reference to the third instalment, some gentlemen were anxious to have that call made, because they had money which they wished invested. With reference to the 87,0001 of a balance, he said that in consequence of the exchanges being in the Company's favour, it advantaged them more than if the money had been laid out upon uncertain security. The commission to thefondateitrswas guaranteedby the original deed, and they could not, therefore, alter it in any way. But the shareholders would observe that the dividends. after allowing 5 per cent. to them, would be di vided into twentieths-16 20ths :of which would be given to the shareholders, and 4-20ths (deducting 5 per cent.) to the fondateurs. A PROPRIETOR asked when the whole line would be finished ? The CHAIRMAN said they would be obliged to Ir,ve all works concluded within two years and a half from that time. The report was then adopted unanimously. A PROPRIETOR asked a question relative to the Calais and Dunkirk Railway, which the Chairman declined answering. The meeting then adjourned. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 12, 1846. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Levees, at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two o'clock :—Wednesday, 11th February next ; Wednesday, 18th February next. REG ULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S LEVEES, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Noblemen and Gentlemen, who propose to attend her Majesty's Levees at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two cards, with their names thereon written, one to be be left with the Queen's Page in Attendance in the presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to present them (not the Lord in Waiting), should be sent to the Lord Chamberlain's-office, before twelve o'clock, on the Mon day previous to each Levee, in order that that they may be sulmitted for the Queen's approbation, it being her Majesty's command that no presentation shall here after be made at the Levees, but in conformity with the above regulations. It is particularly requested that Gentlemen, who are to be presented at the Levees, will have their names distinctly written upon the card to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, in order that there may be no mistake in announcing them to the Queen. The state apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court until half-past one o'clock. Notice is hereby given, that all persons, having petitions or addresses to present to her Majesty at the Levees, are to write on two cards with their names a statement of the object of such petition or addresses, and the names of tb e persons from whom they come ; one card to be delivered to the Page in the ante room, and the other to the Lord in Waiting, who will read its contents, at the time of presentation, to her Majesty ; and, on these occasions, no other statement is to be addressed to her Majesty. A deputation to present an address is not to exceed four persons. LORD CHAMBE RLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 12. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Draw ing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 26th of February next, at two o'clock. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAWING. ROOM. The Ladies who purpose attending her Majesty's Drawing Room are requested to bring with them two cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the presence. chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the name to her Majesty. And those Ladies, who are to be presented, are hereby in formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, together with the names of the Ladies who are to present them, should be sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's. office,before twelve o'clock on Tuesday, the 24th of February next, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation, it being her Majesty's command that no presentation shall take place unless the name of the Lady presenting, together with that of the Lady to be presented, shall appear on the card to be delivered, corresponding with the names sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's-office. Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Perth. The Right Hon. Willham David Earl of Mansfield to be Deputy Lieutenant; the Right Hon. George Augustus Frede rick John Murray Lord Glenlyon to be ditto; Sir R. Menzies, Bart., to be ditto; Sir W. K. Murray, Bart., to be ditto; Sir W. D. Stewart, Bart . to be ditto ; Sir T. Moncreiffe, Bart., to be ditto; W. Stirling, Esq., the younger, to be ditto; J. M. Drummond, Esq, the younger, to be ditto; J. John stone, Esq., to be ditto, Jan. 6. Royal Perthshire Militia—Major Sir T. Moncrieffe, Bart., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir W. K. Murray, Bart., re signed, Jan. 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Alleyne Lord Burghley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W.Cartwright. rosigned. Jan. 7. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of 1 uckinghamshi re. Second Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—D. P. King, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Garrard, promoted, Dec. 5, 1845. _ _ WHITEHALL, DEC. 24, 1845. The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Joseph Arrowsmith, of Thirsk, in the county of York, Gent. ; Alfred Cox, of Chipping Sodbl:ry, in the county of Gloucester, Gent.; Hugh Bruce Campbell, of the town of Nottingham, Gent. ; James Eldridge, of Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight, Gent., and William Marshall, of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, Gent., to be Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow ledgements of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Lewis, tobacconist, York. BANKRUPTS. Charles Bartlett, merchant, Southampton, to surrender Jan. 23, at half-past one, and Feb. 24, at one, at the Court of B nkruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Tilson and Squance, Coleman-street, City; Randall, Southampton. Henry Muggeridge, wire-drawer, St. John-street, Smith rißealndk, r J u a p n t . c3 2 ,. o l3 , a ei t c o h n e e r: o a ffi nol ci F al eb a . ss 2 ig 4 n , e a e t ; o, L v o el w v e e v , C at a tl n ie ce C r ;_u i r a t n o e f . Mary Guy and Henry Smith, linen-drapers, Ludgate-hill, Jan. 22, at one, and March 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. F‘Alctt, afieial assignee; Reed and Langford, Friday-street, Cheapside. John Stevens, builder, Clement's Inn, Jan. 27, and Feb. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Ashurst, Cheapside. Moira Maclean, cloth factor, Basinghall-street, Jan. 27, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 20, at • twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom bard-street; Valiance and Beioley, Old Jewry-chambers ; Croom and Harrris, Strand. Thomas Edwards, surgeon, Llansaintfraid, on Jan. 23, and Feb. 13. at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze nove, official assignee, Liverpool; Dean and Sons, Essex street, Strand; Minshall, Salop; Evans, Liverpool. James Reid, ship-broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 29, at twelve, and March 11, at one, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Plumptre, Temple ; Cram, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Henry Levy, tobacconist, Plymonth, Jan. 28, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Lockyer and Bulteel, Plymouth; Moore, Exeter; Surr and Gribble. Lombard. street, City. James Gilbert Gore, innkeeper, Cheltenham, Jan. 26, and March 2, at on e . a t t h e B r i s t o l Di s t r i c t iourt. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; Hill, Cheltenham. Thomas Carey Willard Pierce and Gilson Homan, mer chants, Manchester, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester; Abbott, Charlotte -street, Bedford -square ; Atkin sonli and Saunders, Manchester. John Wilkinson , builder , Hasngden, Lancashire, Jam. 23, and Feb. 13, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Hob son, official assignee, Manchester; Humphrys, Keightley, and Parkin, Chancery-lace; Hetherington and Woodburn, Li- verpool. Thomas Wilder's, common brewer, Burt on - upon -T rent, Staffordshire, Jan. 27, a nd Feb. 24, at tw elve , at the Bir mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming ham ; Everes and Co., Ilatton-garden. (Dividends, &c., in our next.) ----- WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENlNG. — lnstructions wt re received at the Castle this morning for the private apart ments to be prepared for the reception of her Majesty to morrow, it having been arranged for the Court to leave Claremont for Windsor immediately after an earlylancheon. Her Majesty will remain at the Castle until Tuesday, the 20th instant, on which day the Court will take its departure for Buckingham Palace. DREADFUL DEATH BY FIRE. —Yesterday, at half-past ten o'clock, a fine child, named Hannah Cavendish, eight years of age, expired in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in consequence of injuries she sustained last evening, at the re sidence of her parents, in Moore-lane, Fore-street, City. The poor child, it appears, whilst snuffing the candle in the ab sence of her mother, set herself on fire, and before assistance had arrived, she was most horribly burnt. The little sufferer was rolled up in a blanket, and at once - conveyed to Ile hospital, where death terminated her sufferings thtsmorning. expunged from the fourth rule of the Society, viz And that the Society shall on no account interfere in any election for a Member to serve in Parliament.' " The announcement of this resolution was received with loud cheers. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. B. SMITH, was then put and agreed to. Mr. BALL, in a long and energetic address, directed the attention of the meeting to the comparison of thirty years of corn-law rule with the thirty years immediately preceding it. He contended that no person could rise from the investigation without a strong conviction that the fluctuations under the corn-laws were immeasurably less than thcse which prevailed in the absence of any corn-laws. After alluding to the alarming influence ex el-wed by the pre ss an d L eague w ith th e v i ew o f anni hilating those laws, he moved the following resolu tion : " That the society is most anxious to impress upon the local protection societies the necessity of supporting, in the event of an election, only those candidates who will steadily maintain the present amount of protection, without political bias or party feeling." Mr. EVERARD seconded the resolution, which was then put and agreed to. Mr. NEWDEGATE, M.P., said he was glad to see so many men of all parties supporting the Central Protec tion Society. The reproach was cast upon a nation of antiquity, that they never went to market but for the purpose of cheating one another. Now, the agricul turists of England, ho trusted, would never act upon such a principle. He believed that the people of Eng land, in a mass, were incapable of being influenced by such habits of thought and feeling; and our ancient law givers, deeply impressed as they were with the fraudu lent tendencies of human nature, had laid the founda tions of a system of jurisprudence calculated to check those tendencies in en extraordinary degree. Upon these foundations a superstructure of property law was erected, which far surpassed in depth and com plexity the criminal law of this country. It was a system so vast that none but the mightiest intel lect could master it. The operation, however, of that system upon the national character had not been without its beneficial effects, and in the name of the people of England he might repudiate the charge that they never consulted any interest but their own. Let the aristocracy look well to every step they took ; if they once conceded a repeal of the corn-laws, then the farmers would be thrown into the ranks of the free traders. Notwithstanding these disheartening circum stances, he ventured to persuade himself that the cause would ultimately triumph. A right and true cause was one from which they should derive hope, no matter what talent might be opposed to them, and so long as they had leaders like the Noble Duke in the chair, they might confidently go forth and encounter their oppo nents ; but to do this with effect, they must organise their forces, and invite the coolest heads to their counsels. He should now move the following resolu tion :—" That the General Committee of this Society be instructed to appoint a Sub-Committee, to take into consideration those measures which the excision of the latter pert of the 4th rule may render necessary." Mr. HINDITCH rose to second the motion. He said that their opponents would find that their union was strong and indissoluble. Let them remember what they had lost ; and let them beware how they incurred fur ther loss. They had been bound by the new ropes of the cattle tariff—the green withes of the Canada Corn Bill had fettered their limbs—but let them beware how they laid their heads in the lap of the modern Delilah of the House of Commons, for, so surely as they yielded to so soft a dalliance, the Philistines of free trade would be up and upon them.—(Laughter.) The resolution was then put and agreed to. _ _ Mr. WODETIOUSE, M.P., rose to inove the thanks of the meeting to his Grace the Duke of Richmond for his readiness in taking the chair, and for the ability with which he had conducted the business of the meeting. Mr. ST tFFORD 0'13111v( seconded the vote of thanks to the Noble Dake. In acknowledging the vote, which was carried with cheer upon cheer, The Duke of RICHMOND said it was to him always a gratification to serve them ; but it was not in his power to do as much as younger men, who had not had a musket ball through their lungs.—(Cheers.) He was requested by the Duke of Buckingham to say that he was obliged to leave that meeting at an early hour through important business calling him to the country, but that he cordially acquiesced in every one of the resolutions, and was determined to stand to the last by the flag of " protection"—(Cheers) ; the Duke of Buckingham had desired this to be mentioned, but was there a farmer in England who would not have felt cer tain that the Duke of Buckingham would not abandon his position ?—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ball had asked what the aristocracy would do in the present crisis ? he (the Duke of Richmond) could not answer for the aris tocracy, but he hoped and trusted they would never fail to remember the lines of one of our poets : " Constant still in danger's hour, Princes own'd our fathers' aid; Wealth and power Well their loyalty repaid. " Perish wealth, and power, and pride, Mortal boons by mortals given; But let constancy abide, For constancy's the gift of Heaven." He believed it was necessary that this country should have an aristocracy —(Cheers)—and he felt that it was their duty to come forward and support men whom they knew to be in the right, fearless of all consequences. If the aristocracy do not do so, he should not be surprised if the middle classes despised them, and, in that case, these had too much English blood flowing through their veins to follow the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) He consi dered protection to agriculture absolutely necessary. He agreed with all that had been stated there that day. He believed that the home manufacturer for the home market was deeply interested in protection. If the farmer's interest was destroyed, what would become of that class of our manufacturing population—the most respectable manufacturers, those engaged for the home market? Why they would fall in the same ruin with themselves (the agriculturists). This was no class or party question, but a question whether England chose to be degraded into the lowest scale of nations, and to be laughed at by foreigners, who were much wiser than ourselves, because they took care to protect their native industry by their laws.—(Cheers.) He must entreat them not to slumber when they returned to their counties. True, the battle was to be fought in the House of Commons ; and he hoped—but it was impossible in these days to know to whom they could trust—(Cheers) —that they were sure of victory ; but let them be pre pared what to do in case of defeat. Let an appeal, however, be made to the people of England, and he would answer for it the corn-laws would never be destroyed.—(Great cheering.) The meeting then broke up, after giving cheers for Lord Beaumont and Mr. Gladstone. FIRE.—PRAISEWORTR Y CONDUCT.—On Sunday evening, shortly after dark, an alarm of fire occurred ht Drury-lane, near Drury-court, and smoke was seen coming from a shop occupied as a picture-frame-maker's, directly over a carpenter's shop, in which there was a vast quantity of shavings and wood, belonging to Mr. Macey, an extensive builder. The whole neighb our h oo d was i n an uproar , some, running for the engines, and others for the tradesmen who have stabling underneath, and in a short time horses, carts, vans, harness, and everything was being removed. By this time the parish engine arrived, but was some time before it could be got to work. Upon the first alarm Molloy, the well-known chimney sweep, of Drury-court, was immedi ately on the spot, and tried all he could with pails of water, assisted by the neighbours, who handed them one from the other, to extinguish the fire. Molloy, at the risk of his life, crawled into the workshop on his hands and knees, and laid hold of a long - Ipiece of wood and kept knocking off the part to prevent it extending. At this moment a window which overlooks the roof of another house was broken in, and the smoke came out in clou , is ; when it left the workshop a little clear, Molloy could be plainly seen in the smoke cutting the fire from a corner of the room. At this critical moment he run back for the branch of the parish engine, which was now got to play, when part of the flooring gave way and took the fire into the carpenter's shop underneath. Molloy then held the branch and conducted the water through the opening and put it out; he then left quite exhausted. This is not the first time he has rendered his neighbours a service of this kind. OUTRAGE ON THE GREAT WESTERNRAILWAY.- On Friday evening, a most fiendish act was committed by some ruffian on the Great Western Railway. Shortly after the express train left Swindon, a huge stone was thrown at one of the first-class carriages. It dashed into pieces the window, and struck with fearful violence against the back of one of the centre seats. Fortunately, no one was sitting there. A reward for the apprehension of the perpetrator of this foul deed is offered. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday evening last, as Mr. Milne, of Market-street, Cambridge, was crossing the river t,n Mr. Searle's new ferry-bridge, he fell into the river up to his neck. It seems the ferry does not reach the bank on the Chesterton side, but that a small bank is made in the water at the side of it for persons to step upon. Not being No. 1 company Charlton church yard of the staff, aware of this, and too dark for him to see, he stepped forward into the water.— Cambridge Chronicle. wereenT s The o e n partye r interredßridge, consisted s A CHELSEA PENSIONER'S FUNERAL.-011 Sunday, non-commissioned officers, and twenty-four privates, in uni otyl f l a e t r h d e W with rema ins oo m l lifictthahrthe Chelsea division, Ch e lse ahonours.P form, but without a firing party, as the corps was not out upon duty at the time of the pensioner's death. A portion of the expense of the funeral is defrayed by Government, and the body was carried to the grave on the shoulders of the comrades of the deceased. J. H. Campbell, Esq., M.P., for Salisbury, h as kindly given to the Mayor of that city 100/. to be distributed to the poor of the town. This gentleman, by the death of his mother, now takes the name and arms of " Wyndham," with the estates of his late uncle, Wadham Wyndham, Esq., who for many years represented that city. EXTRACTION OF NEEDLES FROM THE FLESII.--A striking illustration of one of this class of cases has occurred in Sheffield in the course of this week. The subject, in this instance, is a female servant, in the family of Mrs. Heppen stall, of Upperthorpe, and about twenty-one or twenty-two years of age. It seems the young woman was recently under the care of a medical man, whose treatment produced salt. vation, subsequently to which she fancied that needles were slowly progressing from her left shoulder to the arm, at some depth in the muscular substance. On Monday the pain became excruciating, and presently one, and soon after wards three small needles were extracted from the fleshy part of the arm ; and on the following morning two more, with part of a third! They made their appearance partly above and partly below the elbow, and seem perfe c tly b rig ht and uncorroded. Mr. John Heppenstall, who himself drew out the latter portion of the needles, says that they did not by any means easily come away; and tliat no blood followed from the puncture. Next in interest to the curious fact of the undoubted extraction of so many needles under the cir cumstances, is the question, as to how they got into the young woman's flesh? Of this she can give no account, having no recollection of ever having either swallowed them or received them into her body from any external accident; but she says that sometimes she has felt the pricking of needles in her chest, while their progress down her arm was quite perceptible. She states also, that seven years since, or when about thirteen years of age, she recollects not fewer than fifty similar needles, and pieces of needles, being extracted from one of her fingers in the course of a fortnight: —Sheffield Mercury. OCCASIONAL SKETCHES-HERE • AND THERE. No. VII. SOME PUBLIC (HOUSE) PORTRAITS "HERE.' One damp, dull, drizzling, dreary day (there's allitera tion for those who are fond of it), in the early part of last November. I landed near Liverpool, after an absence of two years from this country. It was a thoroughly English day, and from the " wet-blaaket" looking sky large rain drops came down with a dull heavy plash upon the sloppy ground. The wind and tide had pre vented the vessel from getting nearer than ten miles, or thereabouts, to Liverpool, and so, rather than lie in the river, almost within sight of port, for a dczen hours, myself and 'the captain landed in a boat at Formby Point, and after having tramped wearily over the long barren sands, on reaching the little inn found, to our mortification, that the omnibus had left for Liverpool Just three minutes before. After having been so long from home, old accustomed things looked rather strange. Whilst we were waiting for a cab to be got ready, I sat down in the small parlour of the small inn. There was no mistaking the Engash ness of everything pertaining to it and about it. A por trait of the, Queen, so unlike, that I knew directly who it was meant for, hung on the wall, which was covered with flaring red paper of a zigzag pattern, which it made one giddy to look at. A very gaudy ship, on a very brilliant blue sea, with an inflammatory mountain in an alarming state of eruption in the background, decorated the chimney-piece ; and portraits of "jolly sailors," in wild ecstasies, jumping out of boats, and " capering ashore," with purses filled at both ends in their hands, and bundles. slung upon sticks, which they jauntily threw over their left shoulders ; and of despairing and departing mariners, with the forefingers of their right hands left arms encircling pointing t o shipst the in f e waists ul 1 osfa weeping t ee p i he ng s i t v a e n s c e o , their hei sen sitive sweethearts, were displayed on all sides of the apartment. Then there were stuffed birds and dried snake skins ; and pieces of dingy coral, and branches of sea-weed, like the bottoms of old sieves, disposed weep ing -willow fashion over the frames of these pictures, to gether with walking-sticks, some of glass, and others, curiously contrived out of the back bones of voracious fishes ; and all these " curiosities " had cheerful and comfortable associates in the shapes of rosy-faced, pot bellied gentlemen in the prime of life, who were repre sented as in the act of blowing the froth from off the edges of gigantic pots of porter ; or of smoking with in finite relish 's Dutch -cut, from pipes a yard long at the least. An omnibus cad was the sole occupant of the parlour when we entered that tobacco and Burton-flavoured locality. This gentleman was busily engaged in teasing a wiry snappjsh little terrier, by sportively flinging at him a crumpled copy of Bell's Life, and the making the cur unwillingly bring it back. Occasionally he re laxed in his attentions to the dog, and diverted himself by plunging his nose very deeply into the recesses of a pot of half-and-half, the traces of whose travels were to be seen on the cross-legged table, in the shape of half-dried, sticky rings of partially evaporated infusion of malt and hops. The frequent visits of his lips and nose to the pewter tankard were alternated by tremendous attacks on a plateful of what the landlady termed " sandwidges," and which appeared to be an ingenious compound of dirt, bread, butter, mus tard, and meat. Such a " cad" could have been met with nowhere else than in England. As for his person and dress, just iniagine a lump of expressionless flesh, wrapped carelessly in a suit of dingy fustian, with a sealskin cap at one end, and a pair of " high-lows" at the other, and you have a description as near as I can give it. But the landlady I—decorated with the smartest of smart caps, with showy ribbons fluttering like streamers as she moved -briskly about—her trim figure attired in a remarkably gay mousseline•de-laine dress—and her clear, sharp voice, ringing like a bell through the house, and never stopping its clapper for a mi nute —she teas a sight, after having stared at nothing but the stewardess and salt water for the last twenty days. How she curtseyed as we entered the hostelry ; and how, when she learned that Captain C— had just arrived, did she narrate wonderful sto ries, quite as strange, or stranger than fictions, of ship wrecks which had occurred on the sands right before her own doors.' Then she was on intimate and familiar terms with all the captains who came to Liverpool—she was ; for they came down to " Waterloo" in the sum mer-time with their wives, and " used" her house. Such nice gentlemen, they was, too. Very voluble was she respecting the cheerful and snug dinners she had cooked for little parties, and could cook again, if needs be. " For her own part," she said, " she liked captins —they was such gentlemanly men —'specially 'Merican captins ; and 'the mates (she looked interrogatively at me) they were so genteel." On she went, never stopping; so to give my ears a little rest, I ordered a bottle of lemonade, and by the time I had disposed of it the cab drove to the door. "Ah ! gentlemen," said the landlady, slyly, " you should have been here an hour ago, and gone up with some ladies' maids as left this morning. Wouldn't they have liked tour company ? The women (a sigh) is so fond of sailors, somehow. My poor man was a sailor— but— " " He's better off, ma'am, I hope," said I, as the car riage drove off—the brisk widow, at the instant of our departure, having thrust a huge Lngravk d card into my hands, with a hope that we should call again. We soon entered Liverpool. There it was, just as I had left it two years before—dark and dirty (they say it always rains in, Liverpool). As we drove along, lofty stone warehouses, many stories high, frowned on us from grated windows and double-barred iron doors. Ponderous carriages, with broad wheels, drawn by gigantic horses, and driven by mighty dray men, threatened every instant to crush our frail vehicle. From the main street through which we were driving, long narrow thoroughfares diverged on the right and left hands, at every corner of which was a flaunting gin palace, an gazing down the dim avenues was to be seen a long perspective of pawnbrokers' balls. Passing the docks, the captain quitted me for the pur pose of going to his agents, and I drove to the Waterloo Hotel. I experienced a strange, undefinable sensation, at once more being in England, for I had never before been away from it longer than a month. It aas not, I fear, a particularly patriotic feeling, nor a comfortable hugging of the idea that England was the only place in the world to be happy in. A residence in another country had for me, at least, exploded the popular fallacy that comfort had any particular local habitation, and was to be found nowhere Else. I suspect that the blandness which came over me arose from a gradual sliding into the naturalness of old familiar things. As I stood before the bright blazing fire in the coffee-room, before which heaps of plates were warming up, looked on the sleek, snug waiters, heard the short, sharp, ready " Yes, Sir," gazed on the brilliant barmaid, and beheld " Boots," and more than all, when The Sun of that very morning was placed in my hand, it appeared to me as if I had just awoke from a night's sleep, and that the beautiful country I had so recently quitted—the lakes, the falls, the rivers, the forests, the sparkling houses, and the pretty women, had never in reality existed, but had only been seen by me in some pleasant dream. Let me touch off the waiter who is just now amazingly busy in moving things out of their places for the sake of replacing them. He is a young man belonging to the " nice" genus, of some three or four and twenty years of age ; and if you did not see a snow-white napkin under his arm, you would take him for the probationary pastor of a genteel country-town Dissenting congregation. He has a very serious cast of countenance, and his hair is brushed and combed into the most approved pious pro priety. Round his neck is a faultlessly-tied white cravat, and so tight is it, that when he has to turn his head, the latter rotates not do the second curvical vertebra, but his whole body serni 4 tevolves on the heels of his highly polished pumps, between which and the edge of his pantaloons silken hose are displayed. His half-open vest displays a shirt-front of amazing fineness, and a small black brooch, most probably the souvenir of some lady's maid. His movements are rapid and noiseless, and his voice low *and gentle. Sometimes, in his over anxiety to serve you, he gently slides to your table, and asks, " Did you call, Sir ?" but if you do call. he seldom hears your summons. He has little respect for common waiters at common inns, and regards those at mere eat ing-houses as beyond the verge of civilisation. For the barmaid he entertains respect—perhaps esteem. With the chambermaid he has a distant, very distant, acquaint. ance ; but for boots, he owns to sentiments of the pro foundest contempt. As for the porter, he is a yahoo. Such is the coffee-room waiter. And now, as a com panion sketch, let me try the barmaid. Ah ! I ought to depict her lineaments with a lady's golden pen, on embossed and perfumed paper. Reader ! just step with me into her sunctunt sandorunt—the " Bar." It is a large apartment, glazed on all sides, garnished with decanters, tumblers, wine-glasses, sugar-tongs, tea spoons by the dozen in rummers, squeezers, nutmeg- , graters, spices, and lemons. In the centre of the room is a table, on which lies the barmaid's needlework ; her thimble and scissors are idle now, for No. 56 has rung three times, and boots is "nowhere." Look at her ! h ,a o cp w o r ne d fm a i openenrt cili .net,she ddreys work,soeud i w he n a l which hr n ea t hsae has killed morning o i pl r l n ree i d n t t g i 0 - e irr g o fi w mg n auaro a yet nd a? As her tiny feet' go pit-pat-tap - tap over the , floorcl h 1 ce her p f e a e c il e iw n hgi looking, ci ahiasn as s o o s su o wt n: e oeetn almostpoet in p quaintly ress iosays, expression, with h t a o t i sgt_ahl backzi e ke young eomn to th e man a fire, when she sits d own to write in the bar-book , or to make out a bill, she holds says, wits great originality, if . sdh.e And, she i sh n e to ha a j ss u a g eh o a neat way of handling every thin g ; t withpunch f veryr ret t y eyes,little sugarsv h o is stands req rweitad forgets nh a t the e t p e e n h s e o r g r e ac a g fu r a l I p y h , y th , a you w t hih, cannot delicate he l p and g curiousang a angular, amazingly resembles those specimens we see in cases at the doors of private lodgings, which consist of a miser able s c , r , a a wl , sp c e o e n i m t r e a n s f d , w in i ) t r h h z a i n g d z r c i h ri a n r g a c a t e r r t e s r , pu ta r k p i n o r g t isni six lteossboens of Mr. —.She is, of course, a favourite ; and so, many a gentleman brings her, every morning, bouquets, which you may see all about the room. Unlike the genteel waiter, the barmaid is very courteous, though somewhat distant, to all the under-servants, who address her as " Miss ;" yet she exacts r es p ec t ; and no one— no, not even the flashy gentleman who goes so far as to call her by her Christian name—would dare to take a liberty with her. She is unkissable.. The very master of the -house, who has a snug chair for himself in the bar, looks at her with deference. And there she is all day long, smiling .and simpering, from early in the morning until late at night, working and coquetting, tripping hither and thither, always doing something, and never for a mi'nixte idle, with the pleasant look and the civil word for everybody—and that is the barmaid. The chambermaid is come to " show the gentleman into 49." As we follow her up stairs, we will look out of both corners of our eyes at her, and sketch her on some future occasionQ'j -- • • • WHIZ. The Mercers Company sent on M nday a donation 0 . 101. to the poor-box of blarylebone-Police-court. THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCI DENT IN THE ISLE OF THANET. On Saturday last an inquest was held before T. T. Lesaux, Esq., Coroner for the eastern division of the county of Kent, at the Five Bells public•house, in the village of Minster, Isle of Thanet, on the body of James liollands, a young man who met with his death on the works of the Ramsgate, Canterbury, and London Railway. The Coroner and jury proceeded together to view the place where the accident occurred. It is near the ut most point to which the works have proceeded, and where the ballast waggons are turned over and the con tents thrown out to make the base upon which the rails are to be laid. John blonckton, labourer, was the first witness called. He deposed that on Thursday last he was on a ballast waggon with deceased, near the tip end of the line. By the " tip end," witness meant the point where the waggons were tipped over and the con- tents thrown out. This was on the extension line of the South-Eastern Railway, between the villages of Sarre and Minster. These were eight waggons, all laden with ballast and propelled by a steam engine. They were under the management of a person named James Armstrong. On arriving at the tip end the two first waggons turned over the end of the line. Witness jumped oft; but deceased was thrown to the ground. The contents of one of the waggons fell over him, and buried him. Witness, with others, endeavoured to extricate deceased as soon as possible, but he was quite dead. Two other men were also partially buried with him. It was the duty of Armstrong to let off the steam at the crossing, and of another person to put on the break on the tender and waggons. There was no alarm given that he (witness) heard. Thomas Leach, of Minster, labourer, deposed that he was working on the line about seven o'clock in the morning of the day in question. There was a steam engine attached to the line of ballast waggons, and he saw them between Minster and Sheriff's Court. The engine one, under the management of a driver named Armstrong. Another man, by the name of Matthew Gomershall, had charge of the break in the tender. Witness did not know whether any person on the wag gons had charge of the breaks. There ought to have been some one. The morning was very foggy and dark, so that witness could not see any person on the seventh or eighth waggon. By the CORONER—Did you, when you saw the engine approaching the crossing at Sheriff's-court, do all y ou could to make the driver sensible of the fact ? Witness —I did, by calling to him, and I am sure he heard me, for he did all he could to stop the carriages, and so did the breaksman. There was a decline of about one in one hundred. The morning was frosty, and the wheels passed more rapidly than usual over the rails. By a juror —Deceased was completely buried beneath the ballast. Witness did not know where they were until they reached the crossing. George Low, of Minster, stated that he was at work at Fuller's-marsh, and from thence he saw the engine Proceeding at the usual speed. The steam was turned off by the driver about 200 yards from the " tip." One hundred yards from the tip the decline commences. It is a declivity of one in one hundred. Witness gave an alarm to the men in the waggon, advising them to get off, which several of them did. The caution would not have been necessary if it had been an incline instead of a decline. Armstrong, the driver, said that the morning was so foggy that he could not sce ; and until he was upon the crossing he was not aware of being so near the " tip." He then shut off the steam, and Gomershall applied the break to the wheel of the tender. This being the whole of the evidence, The CORONER summed up. From the foggyness of the atmosphere, and the facts that the rails were wet with frost and thus rendered slippery, and the decline commencing there, the accident had undoubtedly occurred from purely accidental causes. Verdict accordingly. Deodand on the engine 11. AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT WILLIS'S ROOMS. Yesterday, at the above-mentioned rooms, some two or three hundred persons assembled, consisting of mem bers of the Central Agricultural Society. His Grace the Duke of Richmond, President of the Association, took the chair shortly after one o'clock. Several dele gates from all quarters of the country were present, and among the noblemen and gentlemen on the platform were—The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Sondes, Lord Beaumont, Viscount Ossulston, General Sir J. Cock burn, Mr. Miles, M.P., &c. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day, said, it was not necessary for him to detail to them at any length the opinions which he entertained on the subject of the corn-laws. He had often enjoyed op portunities of laying these opinions before his fellow countrymen, and it was not his psactice to retract any, opinions which he had once deliberately and pub licly expressed: But, though it was not necessary for him to enter into any discussion of the general merits of the corn-laws, he nevertheless thought it abso lutely necessary for him to say a word or two for the purpose of explaining shortly the reasons which rendered it necessary to call the present meeting. Of course, they all knew as well as he did that no person in that room possessed the least means of knowing what were the intentions of the Queen's Government with ' reference to the corn.lawa. No man out of the Cabinet could say what the measures were which the Ministers intended to submit to Parliament ; the general impres sion, however, was, that those measures would involve an infringement of the great principle of protection—that principle which it was the main object of their associa tion to promote and defend. He lamented to say that there was too good reason to apprehend the dangerous tendency which the policy of Ministers had recently assumed. He feared that the great principle of protection was now to be departed from, but why that principle was to be abandoned no man now present could answer. Some people thought, but that was a considerable time ago, that the panic respectingfamine might not have been without its influence in exciting the fears and warping the judgment of her Majesty's Ministers ; but recent events had proved that all the fears respecting famine were utterly without foundation; and yet, though nothing could be more baseless than such a ground for attacking the corn laws, the agricultural interest were to be sacri ficed—and sacrificed, he would ask, to what ?—to the money of the Anti-Corn-law League. The gentle men of the League told the Government and the Legis lature, " Give us just thus much, and we shall be satis fied. Let us only be permitted to succeed to this small and limited extent, and with that small amount of good fortune we shall be, and for ever remain, perfectly satis fied." He would ask any Englishman with any preten sion to common sense, and with the least imaginable amount of political experience, whether there was a shadow of probability that the gentlemen of the League would stop suddenly short after having thus taken the first step in their progress? When was it ever known that success among politicians produced moderation?— (Loud cheers.) The gentlemen of the League began by assailing the corn-laws ; their next step, of course, would be to assail every species of protection, and to establish free trade in the most unlimited sense of the word, the ultimate end being to create a democratic ascendancy in every par of England. They knew per fectly well that the yeomanry and farmers of this country constituted the strongest bulwark of our ancient institutions. They knew that they must destroy the landed interest before they overturned the constitution. Was it necessary for him to inform the meeting then assembled of the means by which the gentlemen of the League intended to effect these objects? Was it necessary to repeat that which had been published by every newspaper throughout the kingdom, namely—the intention of the League to use the ample funds at their command for the purpose of eorrupting the constituencies of England ? If the League had combined for such a purpose as that, was it not fair for other men to associate in order to counteract designs which were not only unconstitutional, but self evidently unjust?—(Hear, hear.) By one of the rules of the Agricultural Society, that association was dis abled from interfering, in any respect, with the business of the registration courts; looking, then, at the condition of the country and the conduct of the League, he took upon himself fearlessly to ask that meeting whether they were not prepared to rescind a regulation which disabled them from meeting their adversaries upon equal terms? —(Loud and continued cheering.) He would ask them if they did not think the time had at length arrived when it became their duty to enter the registration courts with as bold a front as their enemies ? The gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League boasted openly that they were determined to carry the county elec tions of England by fabricated votes. This threat, he doubted not, they would endeavour to execute to the utmost extent of the means at their disposal ; but he himself had no reason to fear their influence in that part of the country with which he was more immediately connected. The men of West Sussex might defy the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Hear.) The farmers of West Sussex were not made of such slippery materials as to change their tone at the bidding of the Anti-Cern-law League.—(Loud cheers.) They were not made of the same slippery materials as those who, elsewhere, were prepared to act upon the suggestions of Mr. Cobden. — (Renewed cheers.) They had raised their standard for agricultural rights, and he felt convinced that nothing would induce them to lower that flag, and his entire per suasion was, thet to a man they would adopt for their motto, "No compromise and no surrender." He doubted not that every man felt as he did, that the protection that agriculture had hitherto enjoyed was a protection not alone operating for the benefit of the landed interests themselves, but for the evident advantage of native in dustry in all its branches. Having thus shortly stated to the meeting that the principal object for which they were assembled was to alter that portion of the rules which excluded them from the registration courts, he should now call on Lord Beaumont to move the first re solution.—(Hear.) Lord BEAUMONT said a crisis of the most alarming kind had arrived. Those who, in times past, had strenuously maintained the corn-laws seemed now dis posed to abandon for ever the agricultural interest. At such a crisis, therefore, as the present it behoved men to come forward and support the opinion which they con scientiously entertained. Ile fearlessly avowed himself a friend to protection. When he talked of protection, he never meant a system which would have a tendency to diminish the supply of food, or to increase its price. If it had such tendencies he did not hesitate to say that all idea of protection should be abandoned. It was be cause he believed the contrary that he raised his voice in support cf the existing corn-laws, and it was because lie believed the contrary that he should still exert the small influence which he possessed to maintain those corn-laws, and it was for that reason that he should call on every one then present to go and do likewise. To his mind nothing was more evident than that if free trade were established, there must be a general revision of all taxation ; that there must be also a general revi sion of all the local burdens that pressed upon land, and which burdens were considered to contain a compen sating principle for that which was called the evil of the corn laws. He did not believe in the utility, or even the existence of such a compensating principle ; but it was quite evident that an alteration of the corn laws involved all extensive revolution, and in that change what was to become:of the poor? From various quarters of the country they were told that the masses demanded a removal of restriction, but he confessed he saw no foundation for those statements. He saw no ground for thinking that the people of England were so Lull of the idea of free trade as the gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League thought proper to represent them. The Noble Lord concluded by moving the first resolution, in the f'ollowing terms: — "That protection against foreign competition is abso lutely necessary to the productive classes of this country, and that the removal or diminution of the protection now afforded to the agricultural classes will be followed by the removal or diminution of every protective duty im posed for the benefit of the home or colonial producers." Mr. CurasTornEn, M.P., in seconding the foregoing resolution, said, that for as long a time as we had colonies, or very nearly so, it had been the practice of t En ee gln t o a ti. England which hh o eghi agriculturalvet to protection se eo n interest, to nuetce those treedst, witha colonies iolfannids the at tt main the pr ex pense epseron t enjoyed w ere to b e removed at the dictation of the League, surely no one would contend that the high pro tection which the colonies enjoyed at the expense of the farmer should any longer be continued. In the county which he had the honour to represent, there were thou• imnri, of 21C1-. e capable of growing tobacco ; now if they removed the protection which had hitherto been enjoyed by those who grew wheat, they ought to remove any impediment to the tree cultivation of tobacco. He did not very precisely know what was intended, but he was sure every one would feel it to be rather a sus picious circumstance that a Ministry which had been placed in office by the agriculturists had just recently allowed themselves to resign the seals of office into the hands of a Noble Lord who was known to be adverse to agricultural protection. Now he thought that that fact, if it stood perfectly alone, would fu►ly justify him in apprehending that further attacks upon the agricultural interest were intended. They enjoyed a certain amount of protection at this moment, and he should never consent to surrender one jot or tittle of that protection, be the consequences what it might. Mr. MILES, M.P., ventured to say that at the next general election it would be felt that they (the agricul turalists) were the majority of the nation. But he would recommend the various constituencies throughout the county to demand an instant appeal to the sense of the population, if they saw that their representatives wavered for a single moment. It was in vain that we thought of proceeding upon free-trade principles; every step that we took to advance those principles would be met in foreign countries by tariff after tariff, and our best laid plans would end in disappointment and disaster. He concluded by moving the second resolution, as follows:—" That this meeting, being convinced of the great benefits de rived by all classes from the protective system, and being satisfied that every branch of national industry will be most seriously injured by the abandonmentof that system, pledges itselt to use every constitutional means to support that principle of protection under which this country has risen to its present eminence." Mr. T. M. GLADSTONE, amidst much cheering, rose to second the foregoing resolution. He began by saying that, though a manufacturer, he was a friend to protec tion. Among other things, he observed that, while the farmer and agricultural labourer could not depart from the shores of England, the manufacturer could carry his capital and his machinery wherever a prospect of profit presented itself. On these grounds, then, he contended that the condition of the agriculturist was entitled to the highest consideration. The resolution was then put and agreed to. Mr. BAKER contradicted the statements made in a pamphlet issued bti• the League, in which the steward upon Inrd Ducie's estates maintained that the protec tion which the agriculturists enjoyed (viz., ss. Bd.) was too trifling to disturb the tranquillity of the nation about. He then reverted to the following resolution, which he concluded by moving :—" That the foltowing words be BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY AFTERNOON._ The following letter from Rio Janeiro, of November 20, gives im portant views of the position of matters in relation to the Brazils : " Rio Janeiro, Nov. 20. " Our political horizon is very much darkened since my last communication. I understand this Government will not continue further negotiations until satisfaction is obtained respecting that most unfortunate Bill lately passed, and which I fear will make mischief. The Bra zilians complain, and with reason, that their coasting trade has suffered serious inconvenience by the policy and unjustifiable acts of some of our cruisers on this coast. The Brazilians also complain that if a couple of shackles were found in a coasting vessel, with all clear ances in order, she was in consequence detained ; and as they navigate their coasting vessels partly with slaves these were necessary to have on board ; even as on board our vessels of war men are sometimes confined in irons. " Again at the Cape, vessels taken there have been condemned for having those loose wooden boxes on board in which the captain and mate sleep, because one captain gave evidence in one case that these boxes were not in use in the coasting smacks. Now we all know well that many, if not all, coasting smacks use this kind of boxes. " There is no doubt but that if our Government would limit their Slave Bill to intercepting vessels with slaves, and not interfere with the legitimate goods trade between this and the coast, and which is as legal as the goods trade fom Liverpool to the coast, the Brazilians would make some sort of a treaty with us, and if we do not curtail the working of the Slave Bill recently passed to intercepting slaves, we shall undoubtedly have a rumpus before long with this country, and it now behoves us all to use extreme caution in shipments. " Yesterday and to-day a large business has been done in exchange at 26k, different length of credits according to the quality of the paper, from one to three weeks." THE SOUTH LONDON NEWS.—A new paper, of Radical politics, which has just started under the editorship of Mr. J. Lee Stevens, recommends the electors of Lambeth to start Mr. John Bright as a candidate at the next election, unless Mr. D'Eyncourt will pledge himself to support the im • mediate repeal of the con,-laws. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—The first soiree of the present session was held on Monday, at the rooms in George-street, and it was attended by a large company of ladies and gentlemen—members of the Institute. The even ing passed off in the usual agreeable manner, the urbanity and address of Mr. Buckingham contributing in no small degree to this good issue. An excellent concert was provided, in which Miss Birch, the Misses Williams, Mr. Machin, and Mr. T. Cooke, aided by Mr. Muh • lenfeldt and 14r. Chatterton, were prominent features, whose efforts to gratify were attended. it need hardly be added, with signal success. In the course of the proceed ings Mr. Buckingham delivered a short address suitable to the occasion, in which he congratulated the company upon the prospects of the Institute, and commented with felicit ous delicacy upon the attacks which had been made upon their honour and integrity, and upon the means which had been resorted to in justification, concluding his remarks by taking his customary brief review of new publications. The tables were covered with interesting books and pictures, the conversation was friendly and animated, and the reunion altogether was highly pleasurable. These drawing-room meetings are peculiar to the British and Foreign Institute, and the success which invariably attends them shows that one of the objects aimed at—that of social family inter course, conducted with elegance, and enlivened by amuse ments of a refined and intellectual character—has at least been attained. _ _ , PUBLIC OPINION IN LANARKSHIRE.—The Duke ot llamilton has convened a public meeting of the inhabitants of Lanarkshire, to express its opinions on the present state ot public affairs. In the application to bis Grace, in reply to which he has called this meeting, the requisitionists describe the industrious and rapidly in:reasing population employed in agriculture, in commerce, and in manufactures, as all suf fering from an erroneous and pernicious system of monopoly and protection, destructive alike of the real interests of the country and the welfare of the people. . _ . A GUANO MUMMY.—We have quite a fresh impor tation to delight the amateurs in the mummy line—a mummy of nature's swathing—preserved by the ammonia of Ichaboe. The body, which is now exhibiting at the Egyptian Hall, was found in the course of the late excavations . for guano, which have removed half the island to inoculate with its riches our British corn lands. It is that of a well grown man. s v, , it since h It was inclosed in a coffin, which remains perfectly en tire, as do the trowsers and shirt, the former of duck , tha latter of cotton, which the defunct wore. We ha d manual demon stration of the perfectly entire condition o f these fabrics. As for the body itself it seems tanned; t he flesh has become in a great measure absorbed, with all the so ft er animal tissues; but the muscular development remains firm, and the veins and tendons of the extremities are curiously shown stretched over the bones. The teeth are still white and sound; and the hair (rather woolly) still curls on the head. The colour of the body is a dark brown; and the whole exhibition, par ticu'arly for those who like anatomical and physiological cu riosities, is well worth visiting. It is im possible to a certainty bow long the body bad lain previous to its disco very ; but the probability' is that a centu r y has ela psed the mate, or one of the inferior officers of a mercant ship died, runn i n g down the African coast, sa ilors landed for an hour to bury the ed body of their shipmate , and s i nce a party of ,on a lone and nameless island , tenanted only by sea-birds, on the desert coast of Africa. On Saturday evening a number of gentlemen con nected officially with the Royal Polytechnic Institution dined together, for the purpose of presenting an elegant silver vase and signet ring, of great value, to Dr. John Ryan. The vase was designed and manufactured by Stor and Mortimer, the celebrated goldsmiths of Bond street, and displays their usual taste and judgment. The presentation was intended as a mark of esteem for the private character of that gentleman, who, during his official connexion with the donors, has on all occasions displayed an affability and kindness of heart that has won for him the respect of every person around him. THE LAST CONVERSION FROM OXFORD.—MT Mills, whose desertion from the Protestant faith has been already mentioned in our columns, was on Sunday morning publicly received into the Roman Clatholic Church, at St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. The ceremony took place at the grand altar, after high mass, in the presence of a numerous congregation. Mr. Mills was conducted into the sanctuary by the Rev. Mr. Ivers and Mr. Burton, late of the Established Church, and presented to the Right Rev. 1;r. Walsh, vicar apostolic of this district, who received him on the episcopal throne according to the rites of the Romish Church. Dr. Walsh was assisted in the function by the Revs. J. Moore, T. Leith, and T. Molloy. A GOOD Ex Ali PLE FOLLOWED.—The sentlemen in the banking-house of Messrs. Barclay, Tritton, Bevan, and Co., of Lombard-street, have, we understand, each received from the hands of Mr. Bevan a religious tract, giving the very best advice, and abounding in the most wholesome truths. The exc. Bent principal accompanied the acceptable gift with a pious hope that the perusal of it would confer much benefit upon those whom it was meant to serve, after the labours of the past year. The clerks, it is said, are delighted with the present, in the persuasion that " godliness is great gain.' The Bishop of Carlisle has quite recovered from his recent severe indisposition. Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in Grafton street et the end of the wok, from Pali& SHIP RAILWAY OVER. SUEZ. There have been many wonderful events in connexion with the extension of the railway system. ,IsTot the least marvellous of these is the ship railway across the h Isthmus of Su ez . Th e f o ll ow i ng remar k s o n th is sub ject are taken f rom t h e fi rst num b er of the Britte 7 and Foreign Railway Magazine : " To a mind, scientific in its bias, one subject imparts infinite pleasure. It is the consideration, resulting from the reflection, that mechanical undertakings, con sidered vast in the olden time, have now, through mo dern discovery, become so puny and unimportant, as to be barely feats for college boys ; while, in a more extensive class of these mighty labours—the , work of many thousand of artificers—capital of many millions, and the prolonged half century of the ar tisan's labour, are compressed, with all their Iliad of contingencies, into the comparatively easy nut-shell of a task, accomplished by a brace of competent engi neers, and a staff of subordinates, with the collaterals o_ material and time. It is thus, by the fortuitous discovery of the element of fire by accidental friction, that a Pro metheus augments the comforts of a race with a useful auxiliary, diminishing the savageness of primeval bar barism, and endowing it with ornament and art. The discovery of steam-power in this latter age is a second stupendous lever towards moving tardy and inert matter into rapid and astonishing movement, and also into trans portation of enormous masses, in a space of time, over a league-long distance, equally regardless of their im menseness of bulk. The Prometheus of this latter case was Watt—was Stephenson. "But in no project, perhaps, of the present day, feasible in its aims and probable accomplishments, is this new power to be comprehended in a more showy and remarkable order of development than in its pro posed application towards transporting across the Isthmus of Suez merchant vessels of the largest burden, filled with their cargoes and merchandise, by a railway and engines, after the ordinary mode of locomotion in this country. Further, it is considered that even the necessity of engines in the case proposed might be di-pensed with, and that, as a still further improvement on this scheme, it would be quite practic able to construct all the steamers employed upon the navigation of the Red Sea on such a principle as 'to do away with the nece s sity of l o c o moti v e engines to bring them across the Isthmus. They might be fitted, says the noble originato r o f th e plan, with propelling screws in lieu of paddl e w h ee l s ; i n th e pl ace o f w hich latter might be substituted railway wheels, so that the vessel of its truck could work its way with its own engines. This, then, is the beginning of the exemplification of our new plan. " To preclude the supposition that anything chimerical is proposed, or that here is tendered the pubjic any rail way toy or deceptive Glenmutchkin,' wn lay before our readers the name of the actual surveyor of the Isthmus, together with the occasions and facts which led him to the conclusions adduced. " Sir William Cornwallis Harris, major of engineers of the Bombay establishment, so far back as 1830, during the administration of Lord Clare, was nomi nated by his Lordship to the Bombay Government, who had instructed him to select an officer to con duct a survey of the Isthmus, in view to the exe cution of a navigable canal then in contemplation, although subsequent political events unfortunately set this project aside. He had, meanwhile, diligently collected information on the subject about to be confided to him, and when returning through Egypt from the mission with which he had been entrusted to the Court of Shoa in Southern Abyssinia, he enjoyed an opportunity of studying on the spot the facilities presented towards a project, important alike to the interests of Europe, and to the advancement of the eastern empire over which the East India Company presides. " The ease and simplicity of the means by which great undertakings are generally attained, naturally excite in the thinking mind feelings of surprise that no simili tude of the same idea should have been conceived before, or come under discussion for contemplation or adoption. _ _ "Sir William, however, traces the delay that to this hour obtains in the establishment of a communication which all parties must, and do, concur in admitting to be most desirable, to the rival opinions that have hitherto been advanced on the respective advantages and disadvantages, the adequacy and inadequacy, of a rail way and a navigable opening at the tra c k, port s , a nd sea i n question. " A favourite project of a late crowned king of Gaul,' was to make a navigable passage across the Isthmus of Suez. It was, in fact, one of the gigantic projects of a mind that had hoped to restore Rome to its old splendour, to re-establish the solemn Sanhedrim of the Jews—te make and unmake the rulers of enipire. To cut, as with an axe, this arm of land in two—to cause the free waters of either ocean to flew in co allied currents, through this grand and new-formed channel— and to behold the fleets of nations sailing majestically through a marine highway, with merchandise and men, was among the noblest, yet unaccomplished achievements of Napoleon, on the throne of the Bourbons. " The establishment, however, of this desirable com munication, by the combined powers of steam and machinery, has now become a matter—not of diminished grandeur or importance, but of more easily accessible accomplishment in carrying it out to a speedy consum mation. A company, capital, and co-operation are the auxiliaries in present request, and the feasibility of establishing the marine-railway in question is beyond the power of a doubt. "From the first entertainment of this project it has been stoutly asserted that the natural obstacles that op pose its construction are somewhat imminent. Sir William Harris, in his opinion on the subject, showing at the same time the ease of its accomplishment at infinitely less expense, and by a much less complicated process than a canal, as also in a much briefer-space of time, states that the line over which the rail must pass, far from being beset with difficulties to the engineer, has been ascertained to present a very favourable profile ; and a hard, gravelly soil, is known to prevail in lieu of the shifting sands of the desert, which were skilfully con jured into existence by a faction whose theory was to arrest the progress of the plan. Those who had a pur pose to serve in thus opposing the construction of a rail way, are now compelled to admit that it could be made, and would fully answer the end of accelerating mails and passengers through Egypt ; but they still cling to the scheme which dazzled the mind of Napoleon, and steadily maintain the necessity of piercing the Isthmus, so as to obtain uninterrupted water communication by means of a canal, which would enable merchant vessels of the largest class to perform the voyage between Asia and Europe without discharging their cargoes. The rails of the proposed road being laid down, the next exigent in the case is the special order of engine to be fabricated to adapt itself to the peculiar neces sities of the case. For this purpose it is proposed to construct a class of narrow steam-vessels of about 800 tons burden, suited for freight, and to transport them across the Isthmus of Suez upon trucks, by means of locomotive engines of adequate power. The vessels would advisedly be built upon the plan that will best serve to counteract any additional strain upon the sides in volved by removal from the water, and the cradle truck upon which each will be placed during the transit would be constructed with the same view. " The most eligible point to which the railway could be carried is of course determinable solely by the geo graphical character of the surrounding and adjacent country. The Nile about Cairo is clearly the point indi cated for this purpose. Here the laden steamers might be transferred from one to the other of the divided seas, through its always navigable channel. " The inaccessible Character of the Mediterranean shore, lying over against the Sea of Suez, and the gene ral unfitness of all the ports or roadsteads on that coast fur vessels of any considerable draught of water, render it alteost unsafe to regard any other point as available. " Owing to the peculiarities of the situation, the en gineer will have to look to the ordering of some few mi nutiae, which we shall specify at the end of our descrip appears, in the opinion of judges on the spot, that the engine required to draw a laden vessel of 800 need co possess above three times th e p ower o f those to ns burden series the desert of S uez , wou ld not o rdinarily used upon an English railway ; and the i ncr eased disposable breadth fur th e mac hi nery would render this p ower one as to f o ld ever and lie flat during f The masts of t h e vessel would haveeasyacquisition. eg to th eb transit, o con structedinorder to prevent any action of the wind upon them ; and a meder ate w id th between the rails would then be found sufficient. A station, or siding, to admit of vessels on their trucks passing each other midway, would also have to be constructed in the centre of the line ; and, as the entire distance of eighty four miles could be accom plished in four or five hours, communication between Suez and Cairo might be daily held each way upon a single line of rails. " A million sterling, then, in conclusion, is the outside sum at which this very noble project could be carried out. This sum falls very far short of the lowest estimate that has been framed for a ship canal, and it may appear a small sum for so long a line as that in contemplation ; but it should be borne in mind that the ground has not to be purchased, that there are neither bridges nor tunnels to construct (both of which are amongst the heaviest items of an English rail way), and that only one line of rails will be re quired. The railway might be completed in two years, whereas the construction of a canal, supposing it to be within the compass of human exertion, would occupy ten. Commercial interests generally cannot fail to be materially promoted by this mode of trans porting cargoes across the neck of land which disconnects Europe and Asia ; and it must propor tionably improve the revenues of his Highness the Viceroy of Egypt. It is always observed that the operation of a railway is to treble the traffic upon a new line ; and the improved relations with China, as well as the success of a new branch of commerce on the eastern coast of Africa, will both tend to swell the importance of the plan suggested. Recurrence also may here be made to the highly important subject of the coal beds which have been reported to exist within a reason able distance of the coast of Abyssinia, in a position the most convenient for the supply of the depots b ot h at Aden and Suez. " The plan, when carried out , will certainl y in those distant and comparatively untr fields fur a new era of commerce , an d wider the spread i!velled regions, produce of civilisation, philanthropy, and intelligence." Mr. Sheil,Theto leyaorunn,gbas _ _---,---,---- _____ d he wa in s i i s n fo h r i: gentleman at tune to lose his w only twen ty-fourth. year, and died a sh or t ti me ago at Funchal, in Madeira , whit her h e had gone for the benefit of his h ea lth. i e l y regret son. A WOMAN DROWNED IN A CISTERN.-011 SIM.. I iy afternoon a woman, named Duncombe, the wife of ,a cab man living in Silver-mews, near Red Lion-square, Holborn, went out to fetch the beer for dinner, but after a lapse of time her husband went to seek for her, and he found her in the cistern, which was at the foot of the stairs, and into which she had accidentally fallen. Her husband extricated her and rent fora surgeon, who pronounced life to be extinct. ........ ...... 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