The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE. The quartet - 1y general court of directors washeld yes terday, in the East India House, Leadenhall-street, for the purpose of transacting the routine business of the Comeany; and also to take into consideration the mo tion of which an Hon. Proprietor (Mr. George Thomp -s°n) had given notice—namely, "To call the attention of the proprietors to the conduct of the court of direc tors, and prefer certain charges against that body in connexion with the case of the deposed Raja of Samara." Sir James Hogg, Bart., took the chair, an ii on his right and left were seated Henry St. Geo'.ge Tucker, deputy-chairman, Major Urquhart, ac., &c. The minutes of the previous court !raving been read, Mr. Gortscier moved that the., mineites of the proceed ings of the last court be prireteil for the use of the pro- Prtetors. It was surely not the intention of the directors that their proceedings shot' Id be held secret; and, if not Made public, how were the people of India to ascertain What were the proceeditres of that court, and how they were affected by them? The Hon. Member concluded by proposing his motior, which, not being seconded, fell to the ground. The titles of certain returns were then read; also the titles of certain par Jr; ordered by the court on the ith of April and 6th of July last. Mr. GORDON ae,ain proceeded to address the court, but was interrar,, e d by the Chairman, who called on Mr. George Then' pSon to proceed with his motion. Mr. GE°P,GE THOMPSON understood that a notice of 'notioni.e hr.d been given by the Hon. Proprietor behind ar d, with die sanction of the Court, he should wish that that ',ion. Proprietor should precede him. After a few words from the CHAIRMAN, SULLVIAN proceeded to call the attention of the `•; , errt to the, circumstances attending the seizure, for he "mild not dignify it by the name of conquest of Sinde. `l4l ear, from Mr. G. Thompson.) He did not wish to , pen that Court the whole history of the transac rns inthat country, but he felt that it was incumbent lr'°o. him to refer to the latter occurrences in that e nn try. The Court would recollect the saying of the n't - error-General, " that nothing but the clearest evi deuce of the treason of the Ameers could justify him , t o proceeding to extremity against theme." These men f el been proceeded against, and convicted, because they as it was termed, been discovered writing treason- Zde letters to the Raja of Lahore. The Hon. Proprietor 44 en proceeded to show that the alleged treasonable letters Were fictitious. Lieut. Mill, in writing to Major Outram, t "he was unable to produce documentary evidence" to support of the charges against the Ameers, because, tis he asserted, teusty messengers had been intrusted with verbal ceenmunications. It would but require a small degree of prcof indeed to satisfy Sir Charles Napier, who when he went to Sinde stated that he wanted but a pretext to coerce the "!nreers. Did he ask the Princes of Sinde to disprove "ur, treasonable letters? Did he show them those let 4e''''s? No. When they were asked for, they were in lemed that they were in Calcutta; they went to Calcutta, and were there informed that the letters *ere in India. Was there any shadow of justice In this? Yet the historian of the victims in Sinde Lind the audacity to declare that his brother (Sir . 4 1 Tharlee N a pi e r) had sifted these charges to the isottom. H e would read the extra ordinavy passage Which avouched this glaring misrepresentation. The 1 1 .. °n• Proprietor did so, and then proceeded to read rissages from the work of Major-General Napier, corn luenting upon them as he went on, and showing from tje testimony of Major Oueram himself that many of 'e C. Napier's movemerecs were insane in a military point of view, and mo9',, unworthy and ungenerous in a %oral sense. When the Court some years before had voted !heir thanks to Sir C. Napier for his services in India, r (Mr. Sullivan was the only proprietor who dissented, rr en intimate acquaintance with the Sinde papers had Vreed upon him the conviction that Sir Charles Napier, p r oceed once entered upon hostilities, was determined to Voceed until he had crushed them. It was then endea 'toured by those who justified the vote of the Court to ! h ow that Sir Charles Napier was only an inferior ser- L,, - " a °t, acting under the orders of a higher Court. He - " 141 endeavoured to show that he had acted diametrically : ( 4PPosite to the orders received from the Governor- Ineral, but prize money to the amount of 60,0001., a eegctvernorship of lo,oqol. a year, the colonelcy of a regi rnt, the insignia of the Bath, and a peerage, were 7arful incentives to the perpetration of a monstrous 4 ." - niquity. A n d haw was the whole of this tragedy wound ? By the imprisonment of several of the Ameers, .1) fter th ey h a d rece i ve d th e assu r a n ce o f Si r C. N ap i er et hat lt if they remained quiet no harm would come to them. Wound up by the imputations of the most shameful '-"nracter being thrown upon them. And who were the ten who were thus treated? Were they th e enem i es o f t ogland? No; they were her benefectors. They were the very men who assisted General N ott and General Pol lock in their Caubul expedition. H e would cite the highest a uthority in the empire to proev this fact. (The Hon. rop r i etor quoted from the woek of Mountstuart Elphin atone, in corroboration.) Ii- could conceive how this 1 1 1 ° 1 ) 1 e-hearted and noble-rnie ded man must have wept as .e contempl a t e d the fentaseic tricks which were played n that country- in that country which he bad so much assist e d to consoli:late by his wisdom, his integrity, and m oderation. —(Haar, b ear .) He had felt it his duty to attachlila. to Sir 'Charles Napier, but he believed his soul fleet the originator of all these sasters and all this outrage was Major Outram. no.) But it w as not yet too late to do an act of A nl t tee• It was not yet too late to restore Sinde to the e trs• The conquest of that country was an act of it i '7 on'.y exceeded, if possible, by the attempt to ainie e te . If any person would take the trouble to exa that ; :ue limp of ndia, he would see to demonstration e itl i„ ' 4 ' Was not a further extension of empire they re -1),7e0, but the assistance of a friencly power, who would 7, 4 ° fleture times united with them in the bonds of amity. OM friendly power they had once in Sinde ; that Tee dly power he affirmed they might have again. The 4 0 re Proprietor concluded by moving—" That in the of pinion of this Court the restoration of Sinde to the Arueers is a measure called for by considerations of jus :tiee, of sound policy, and economy, and that the Court '°f Directors be iustructed to take such steps as they it taY think expedient for the furtherance of this object." . 4 Captain McKee/sole seconded, and Captain EASTWOOD ' 4 Pported the mot; io n. 11thDIRECTOR, whose name we could not ascertain, de -4 ,el Colonel Outram, and defied any one to show a Ing . .le instance in which that distinguished officer had 11 °P , desired to avoid the shedding of blood. 4 , The CHAIRMAN said that he trusted the object of 'lgn Honourable Proprietor had been gained by the state- I nent which had been made before the Court, but it might be expected that he, as the organ of the Court . .2f Dir ectors, s h ou ld s h ort l y sta t e w h at steps t h e C ourt bed taken in t'ae matter of Sinde. The Court of Di rectors had weitten to the Governor-General in India, re ;letic6ting hi.m to investigate the subject, and to favour Coure w ith hi s opinions upon the policy which %h at 'been adopted towards the Ameers of country. When that reply was received tr, Directors would not lose a moment in f 37 ' - ,r ( Et the communication before the proprietors. 4 ,_ e rn aps the Hon. Proprietor would, under such circum e7:ces, see the necessity of not pressing his motion to a ‘n r asion. Mr. 6ueravaer, on the assurance that the subject 'ould e have the earliest consideration from the Court of Directors, would withdraw his motion. 4 _ Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON did not see why the manifes tation of their feelings should ho endeavou red t o b e con 'tied on that day. The question with regard to Sinde W ) ,,tts not a mere matter of speculation ; they dealt with '''sLPrical facts. lvlr. MARRIOTT rose to order. The CHAIRMAN said the Hon. Proprietor was strictly 1 order. Mr. GEORGE THO3IPSON was aware that he was so, but the Hon. Proprietor opposite, like his (Mr. Thomp -8"es) evil genius, ever rose when he attempted to ad dress the Court. The Hon. Proprietor then proceeded t ° substantiate the allegations of Mr. Sullivan with re gard to the incapacity, civil and military , of Sir Charles 4 Narier in Sinde. The motion was ultimately, after some desultory dis elusion, withdrawn. The Court, after the transaction of some formal busi. mss, broke up. STATE OF TRADE. - - - - - MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 . — The mar het to - day has shown increased firmness in price, though 31 ° great 'amount of business has been done. Most de aeriptions of Yarn have advanced to Id. per pound, and manufacturers have generally succeeded in obtaining the slightly increased rates which they asked, but could act command last week. .„ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 21. - -lhe demand for flannels has not been so good as it was 15 n the previous Monday, whilst prices have been much the same. The wool market has been rather still, and th e business transacted limited. HUDDERSFIriIiD. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22.—The rirtrket has been flat to-day in the Cloth Hall, although there is a demand for some descriptions of goods that are not to be had. A fair business is also doing by order, and a good demand for fancy goods. The trade, as regards the warehouses, is much the same as last week. Wools are firm, without any alteration since last week. LEEDS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 22,—We had a thin attend ance of buyers and a very dull market to-day at our cloth halls. The unusually fine and warm weather brings the demand of the home trade later on, and thus retards operations, which generally begin ere now. MURDER IN LIVERPOOL. - Yesterday . evening, about half-past seven o'clock, a woman named Catherine Tunney, residing at 42, Thomas-street, received such severe injuries at the han ds of hcr husband, Owen Tun nay, as caused her death. From the very imperfect ac counts we were enabled to glean, it appears that they had a quarrel, during which Tunncv knocked his wife down by a blow upon her head with his fist; and when she was down he kicked her so violently as to cause her death, before a surgeon, who was sent for, could arrive. The unfortunate woman was in an advanced state of pregnancy. The man ab,c,nded immediately, and had not been apprehended at a late hour last night.--Liner- Pool Times. DanaDrut. ACCIDENT. —On Saturday last a young m 1", named John Kenny, while employed in putting on the roof of Mr. Kershaw's new mill, near Ashton-under tine, fell from the top, a distance of six stories, and lighting with his face downwards on an iron bar, was so Inutilated that he expired shortly afterwards. An in quest was held on the body on Monday, when it ap peared that his death was purely accidental. Deceased Was 22 years of age. The Journal de Liege contains the following ad- Y ertisement:—" A. P., captain or infantry, having an nounced in the journal of the Bth that he will not acknow l.ed4-e or pay any debt contracted by his wife, she thinks It right, in her turn, to inform the public that she Ilia hrpay any debt contracted by her'husband, and that pecuniary resources enable her to pay her debts much better than her husband can pay his." THE SUN, _LONDON, TitUltS A V MORNING, BPTlAlitg_it 24, Hie. COURT CIRCULAR. Wittu)son, SEPT. 23 —her Majesty the Queen Dow ager and her Royal Highness the Princess ot . Prussia, attended by the Earl of Denbigh, paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore Hour,c, this morning. 'Their Royal Highnesscs the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess 'Royal, and the Princess Aline, took their accustomed pony exercise this morning in the grounds around the Castle. The Duke of Wellington is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to the Queen. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Countess of Westmoreland, and Viscountess Palmerston are also expected to arrive on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen will give a grand dinner this evening. The illustrious company is expected to include her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, her Royal Highness the Du -leis of Kent, his Excellency the Chevalier Maven, the Duke of Wellington, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dowager. the Countess Haack, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, the Countess of Westmoreland, the Eirl of Denbigh, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Clifden, Lord Edward Howard, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Count Puckler, Count Witzleben, Colonel W. lde, the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, Sir George Couper, the Rev. David Markham, and Colonel the Hon. H. Cavendish. The banquet will be given in the Waterloo Chamber. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the castle. _ _ Lord Morpeth had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches from the Governor of West Australh were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. RETURN OF THE COURT TO WINDSOR. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty, Prince Al bert, and the Royal Family, attended by Colonels Grey and Bouverie, Equerries ; Viscountess Canning, Lady in Waiting ; the Hon. Miss Kerr, Maid of Honour, and the usual staff of domestics, embarked at Trinity-wharf, East Cowes, this morning, at ten minutes past nine o'clock, on board the Fairy yacht, under the command of Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, R.N., and left for Gos port under royal salutes from the Royal Yacht Squadron battery and yachts in the roads, some of which were gaily dressed. The Fairy, with the standard of England at her main, was navigated leisurely to Spithead ; on approaching the anchorage, at 45 minutes past nine o'clock, the Re cruit, 12, Commander Slade, manned her yards and sa luted, which was followed by similar tributes from the Abo, Russian corvette, Captain Reedneef, and the Hon. Company's steam-frigate Moozupper, Captain Ethersey, all handsomely dressed in colours. The Moozupper at tracted especial attention from her Majesty and the Prince Consort. At 56 minutes past nine o'clock the Fairy entered this harbour, under salutes from the Platform Battery, the Victory, and Excellent, those ships, together with the Bulldog steam-sloop, Commander Davis, the Lightning, the Myrtle, and Victoria and Albert giving their ensigns to the breeze, and the larger of them manning yards and cheering as the Fairy passed. She steamed up the Wee vil Creek, and was put alongside the jetty, where the royal party disembarked at ten minutes past ten o'clock. Here were assembled to receive her Majesty—Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., the Commander-in-Chief ; Major-General the lion. Sir Hercules Pakenham, K.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor, with the keys and a report of the state of the garrison ; the Hon. Lady and the Hon. Miss Pakenham ; Captain Pasco, of the Victory ; Captain Superintendent Carter, R.N.; Lieutenant Raw storne, of the Victory (appointed to attend upon all royal and other distinguished personages at this port); Colonel Daly, Brigade-Major; Town-Major White; Captain Pakenham, A.D.C.; Lieutenant-Colonel Van Straubenzee, of the 3d (Buffs) Regiment ; Major Cun ninghame, of the 13th ; Mr. Davies, Master-attendant; Mr. T. T. Grant, F.R.S., Storekeeper; Mr. Cornelius Stovin, General Manager, and other chief officers of the South-Western Railway Company ; and a guard of honour of the 13th (Prince Albert's Own) Light Infantry, under the command of Major Fenwick ; Captain the Hon. E. W. Forester, Lieutenant A. Oakes, and Ensign Browne, the latter bearing the colours recently presented to the regiment by the Prince Consort. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence joiaed the royal train on disembarking from the Fairy. Her Majesty was escorted to the carriage by Sir Charles Ogle and Sir Hercules Pakenham, and at 13 minutes past 10 the engine was set in motion by Mr. Naylor, when the train left for Farnborough. The train stopped at Basingstoke, where Mr. Stovin supplied her Majesty with the morning papers, and it arrived at Farnborough at half-past 11. The royal party immediately left in four carriages for Windsor under an escort of cavalry. CITY OF LONDON REGISTRA- TION. The Revising Barrister, Mr. Arnold. resumed yesterday morning the examination of the householders' lists for the parishes included within the wards of Aldgate and Bishopsgate. The overseers of these parishes were not in attendance upon the opening of the Court at half-past ten o'clock. Mr. ARNOLD immediately proceeded with the parishes lower down in the list, and gave notice that in every case where the overseers neglected to attend he would refuse to sign their certificates of expenses. The Learned Gentleman also gave notice that he would audit the overseers' accounts on the same days in which the lists of their respective parishes were revised. The particular cases determined during the morning were of no marked importance. MARYLEBONE REGISTRATION. Yesterday morning the Revising Barrister held his court for the revision of the list of voters for the Pad dington district, and also for disposing of the objections which remained over yesterday evening at the closing of the Court at the vestry-room of St. Pancras parish. POSTING OP NOTICES.-THE PADDINGTON DISTRICT. Previous to any of the claims or objections being taken, a gentleman named W.B.Perry, - handed in a pro test against the Revising Barrister prcceeding to revise the list of voters for the Paddington district, inasmuch as no notice that D. C. Movlan, Esq., had been ap pointed to revise such list had been posted, in accord ance with the provisions of the Act, upon the church doors in the parish. lie had himself been objected to, and he was most anxious to support his protest, because it was by the merest chance that he heard where and before whom he was to meet this objection. The REVISING BARRISTER said he could take no notice of the protest lodged by Mr. Perry, neither should he allow it to influence his disposal of the votes coming before him. In consequence of the returning officer not having properly authorised any person to act for him in his absence, he (the Revising Barrister) would not be able to give the lists when concluded in revision to the proper party, until Mr. David Salomons should send an authority from Paris. The Paddington lists were then gone through. EAST SURREY REGISTRATION. Mr. Fyshe held his Court yesterday at the Town-hall, Croydon, in order to revise the list of voters for that parish. The same agents attended as at Reigate. There were a great number of obj( ctions, but they were prin cipally grounded upon mis -description of the parties in the qualification, and in most of the cases the barrister emended the list. There was no point of the least im portance discussed during the day. Two LIVES LOST ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Mcnday evening a dreadful accident occurred at the Farringdon-road station, on the Great Western Railway, by which two of the passengers were killed and others seriously injured. From what has been ascertained, it appears that the quarter-before-five o'clock Bristol train, from Paddington, proceed in per fect safety until within a short distance of the station at Farringdon-road, 63:1 miles from Paddington, when the steam was thrown off, and the breaks applied, for the purpose of stopping. The luggage-van, which was between the tender and second-class carriages, ran off the rails, thereby diminishing its velocity, and con sequently the second-class carriage next to it ran into it with a fearful crash, being impelled forward by the remainder of the train, which was an unusually heavy one ; the carriage was entirely demolished, and two passengers lost their lives ; their names, when this account was written had not transpired, the strict silence observed by the officials and servants of the company, precluding the possibility of any details relative to the melancholy occurrence being known; but it is rumoured that there has been serious injuries sustained. A coro ner's inquest is to be held on the bodies of the deceased, to attend which Mr. S. Clarke, the principal superin tendent of the line, and Mr. Collard, the superintendent of the railway police, left town yesterday morning. No blame can :possibly be attached to the engine-driver or guards, as it is understood that the break whistle was blown on throwing off the steam, and the breaks applied as usual. The luggage van which caused the disaster, is a small four-wheeled carriage, something similar to a horse-box, and consequently too light to precede heavy six-wheel carriages, which acquire such a very great velocity in long stages, the last between Steventon and Farringdon-road beir'- Id a half mib _ Jing seven an, That destructive insect, the locust, continues to be picked up in considerable numbers on various parts of the coasts of Northumberland and Durham, many of them being three or four i nc h es l ong , an d of propor tionate height. The unusual heat which has been ex perienced in our climate this year is supposed to have directed these destructive visitors to our shores, where the rigours of the approaching winter will probably ex tirpate such as escape capture in the interim by the hordes of naturalists and others who are now daily in pursuit of them. GAME FASCINATED BY TERROR.—We have fre quently heard of birds being rendered powerless by the serpent's glare, but we had no idea that game could be fascinated by the pointer's eye. Yet such appears to be the case. A correspondent assures us , that while enjoy :ng a walk with a sporting gentleman , over his moors in Ross-shire, the other day, the pointer came to a sudden s and, and, on looking minutely, he observed a grouse cock, lying about twenty inches from the dog's nose, with his eye intently fixed on his. It seemed petrified with horror, and although unwounded and quite healthy, permitted the gentleman to take and put it alive in the big. We have heard of a white hare being taken in a similar manner in Glenmoriston, some years ago.— Inverness Courier. Mr. llaydon, the son of the late celebrated artist, who was appointed by Sir 11,,bert Peel to the situation of Landing Waiter in the Customs Department, has entered upon the term of probationary instruction usual previously to any person, so appointed, perforniieg any actual service. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. esierday a Court was hell for the dispatch of much public business. THE LORD MAYOR. ATM CHRIST'S HOS- I'ITAL. Tll%l To\VN CLERK sta'ed that he attended at Christ's hospital on St. Matthew's day, and four.d that the list of governors had not been made out in the proper form; but he wouid direct that a proper list should be made and presented at the next Court. Some members of the Court having expressed a w ish to be informed whether any misunderstanding existed between the governors and the Corporation, The LORD MAYOR said that in the list which had been exhibited, the name of the Lord Mayor appeared under those of the President and the Treasurer, and that, as he considered such a position was an insult to the Chief Magistrate and the Corporation of London, he had refused to sit down to the dinner provided at the hospital. Mr. ANDFRTON said that if all Lord Mayors acted in so spirited a manner, there would be no insult offered to the office.—(Hear, hear.) SCRIPTURE READERS' ASSOCIATION. Mr. WIRE presented a petition from the Scripture Readers' Association, praying for a donation in aid of their funds. The great object of the association was, he said, to aid the clergy of the Church of England in diffusing Christian knowledge amongst the poorest, and most desolate, and most ignorant of the poEsalation; and for the purpose of accomplishing that object they were employing persons who were competent to the task of instructing, and were recommended by the officiating clergyman of the parish which it would be necessary to visit. The result, he was convinced, would be that a new aspect would be placed upon society.—(Hear.) Mr. R. TAYLOR thought that such an application ought not to be made to a municipal body consisting of individuals of many different persuasions.—(Hear, hear.) The society from which it came was evidently a prosely ting society. If it had come from a Catholic society the Court certainly would not for a moment listen to it. Why, then, should they entertain a petition from a body belonging to any other exclusive church ?—(Hear, hear ) Mr. LAWRENCE objected to the application. The petitioners, instead of showing that they wanted money to advance their object, very plainly proved by their statement of their income above their expenditure, that they had no occasion for the assistance of the Corpora. tion at all, and moved that the petition should lie upon the table. Dr. LYNCH seconded the amendment. He considered the object of the Association to be partial and proselyting, and altogether at variance with the tolerant and generous spirit which was daily diffusing itself amongst all classes.—(Hear, hear.) He did not wish to encourage the frantic railing of journeymen shoemakers, and tai lors, and carpenters, who, under the plea of a call from the Lord, uttered all sorts of extravagant folly. Without meaning to give the slightest offence to the gentlemen at the bar, he could not help declaring that he looked upon the plan thus proposed of assisting the clergy as a most bitter satire upon that body. It was telling the lazy dogs that it was actually necessary to get up a secu lar staff to do the duties which they were bound to per form themselves.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HARRISON said that Mr. Lawrence did injustice to the Association, when he said they were not in want of the assistance for which they petitioned. It was but a new society, and every one knew that it was the prac tice of patrons to subscribe liberally at the beginning of an institution, in order to give encouragement to the the public Yo follow the example ; but it would be ab• surd to calculate upon the permanency of such contribu tions.—(Hear, hear.) The Association stood in need of assistance in carrying out their object, and he trusted they would receive it most extensively. He regretted t.) hear the epithet lazy dogs applied to the clergy. He well knew how they laboured, and he knew that it was quite impossible for them to go round to the lanes, and alleys to the poor creatures who required religious in struction. Perhaps in the district of one clergyman there were thousands of poor whom it would be the care of the Association to supply with the instruction which, without such aid, it would be impracticable to administer. Mr. ANDERTON said it appeared to him that the As sociation did not at present need the aid of the Corpo ration. If, at any time, they should be in a condition to require that aid, then they might come forward with a good excuse and good effect.—(Hear.) Mr. BENNOCH thought the ridicule cast upon those who, without being possessed of liberal education, under took to expound the Scriptures, illiberal and unjust, and referred to the great apostolical labours as evidence in favour of their zeal and energy. He was in favour of anything at all calculated to take information, religious or secular, into the miserable, benighted dens of the metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) There was no cant, in his opinion, more despisable than the cant of parsimony, when a fair demand was made upon the funds of the Cor poration.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. PEWTRESS said the question was whether the ob ject was a legitimate object upon which to expend the funds of the Corporation. In his opinion, they had nothing to do with the subject. If the funds belonging to the Established Church were properly disposed of, there would be no need of application to that Court. After some observations from Mr. LOTT, who said there were plenty of poor clergymen well able and willing to do the duties prescribed by the Association, and from other members, a division took place, when the original motion was carried, by a majority of nine, in a Court consisting of 69, INTERMENT OF THE DEAD WITHIN THE CITY OF LONDON, &c. Mr. ANDERTON rose to move that the Court do petition both Houses of Parliament to pass an Act to prohibit the interment of the dead in churches and church-yards within the City of London, and other large cities and towns, and prevent the violation of graves. Eight months had passed away sine.) he had put the notice of motion to which he had called the at tention of the Court upon the paper. Since that time the subject had undergone discussion so extensively in the newspaper press, and through other sources of public intelligence, that it became unnecessary for him to enter with any degree of minuteness or particularity into its merits. He expected a unanimous concurrence on his motion. If he required any late additional testimony in favour of it, that testimony was to be found in the ma gisterial examinations which had just taken place. (Here Mr. Anderton called the attention of the Court to the revolting scene in the Friday-street burial•ground.) He asked whether those who surrounded him could quietly listen to the unexaggerated descriptions of the horrors which accumulated at their very doors ?—(Hear, hear.) Could they look patiently at the violation of graves, at the exposure of the partially decomposed bodies of their fellow-creatures on the dunghill? Could they read the statements made by the sanatory Commissioners, who showed that by burying the dead amongst us we were scattering amongst the living the seeds of pestilence and death—could they read these statements and remain inactive as the corporation of the great City in which such scenes were daily enacted ?—(Hear, hear.) He felt assured that he calculated rightly in calculating upon their unanimity. In 1726 the practice of burying the dead within the City was petitioned against by a clergyman, who represented it as the remains of one of the grossest superstitions that ever visited mankind, and condemned it with as much indignation as if it had attained its present enormous maturity. In 1846 the superstition existed to bo destroyed he hoped by the example of London operating upon all other places of dense population.—(Cheers.) Mr. NORRIS seconded the motion. Mr. LOTT did not object to the principle, but he wished for some qualification. There were certain feelings to be respected, particularly the feelings which operated upon the members of families as to lying in th 3 same graves.—(Hear, hear.) lie believed that a good deal of the opposition to churchyard burials arose from the monopoly of cemeteries.—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear, hear.") He would only ask the Court to look at what was going on as to the monopoly of railways.—(Hear.) Mr. W. S. HALE said that whenever there was a crowded churchyard ill-health might be expected. He witnessed the effect of these burials in the very neigh bourhood in which they were that moment speaking. In Coleman-street churchyard, which was paved, the effluvia from the dead bodies escaped through holes made in the tomb-stones, and made the air pestilential. —(Hear, hear.) How such an abomination could be allowed to exist so long was a thing he could not at all comprehend. Dr. LYNCH supported the motion with pleasure, They wei e indebted to Mr. Anderton for his able and lucid, though brief exposition of the evils referred to. Upwards of 3,000 years ago Abraham ordered the dead to Le taken out of his sight ; upwards of 2,000 years ago the Roman Commonwealth did what they were about to do—passed laws against burying in cities. "In urbe ne sepelito " was an ordinance rigidly enforced.—(Hear, hear.) The horrible effects of allowing the dead to be deposited in the midst of the living, had been fully esta blished by the labours and writings of Mr. Walker. Mr. Chadwick, too, in his invaluable work, had accumulated and epitomised a mass of evidence of such a revolting nature, that the wonder was that so frightful a practice could have been so long tolerated.—(Hear, hear.) It vl as well known that 12-13ths of the dead human body dissipated in the air we breathed, and that disease was daily resulting from exposure to the foul and pestilential exhalation of the grave-yards. The festering putrid matter was allowed unrestricted vent and diffusion every time a grave was opened. It impregnated the atmos phere all around. In some cases 45 had been opened in a day in one churchyard. The bodies were piled carcase upon carcase until they had reached a depth of 10, 20, and 30 feet, the topmost body being only a few inches from the surface.—(Hear, hear.) St. Andrew's Church was 25 feet above the level. The putrescent accumulation raised every churchyard in London upon an average 10 feet high. They were all fourfold over-charged. The number of persons dying annually in London was upwards of 50,000. Some 4,000 or 5,000 were buried in the cemeteries, and the remainder in intermural grounds. The aggregate area of these latter was under 220 acres, and the average annual number of burials per acre was 203, or about twice the number permitted in continental states. That average afforded no indica ti.m of the restriction of the evil. Were the burials equally distributed over the space allotted them, the consequence would be comparatively little felt, but the reverse took place. The burial grounds were mostly situated in the poorest and most crowded parts of the town. Where there were most of the living there were most of the dead—where the burial grounds were fruit ful and perpetual sources of disease, there the liability to disease was greatest, while the ability to guard against it or to provide a remedy was the least.—(Hear, hear.) There was to be seen the narrow plot of ground reeking with pestilence, its soil supersaturated with sulphurated hydrogen and carbonic acid gas, its surface strewed with bones and moist with matter and exhalations alike disgusting to the senses and destructive of health.— (Hear, hear.) That plague spot was hemmed in with hovels, in which space was economised to the verge of suffocation, and the narrow streets and cesspools aided the morbid exudation to percolate the subsoil, and under tl e of the poor,..by which reetine ,feVeri dysentery, screful e and - consumption Were never absent. hear) In summer the dead smell from the Vaults was easily pereqe.ible in many of the best churches. 1" ) ,:f e often returned home from them, afflicted with bea,.:aches, vomiting, and fainting fits. The house of God was thus filled with poisonous exhalations. It was in feat a charnel house, and the guardian of the sanc tuary was made by the present abominable system to have an interest in its pollution. There was notaccommodation or cubical space for one-fifth of the dead, without re ference to the most disgusting stratagems to get rid of the excess. Within the Memory of the present genera tion, upwards of a million of dead bodies must have been interred in London. In some small churchyards there were upwards of 1,200 to the acre. Here Dr. Lynch referred to some of the statements of Mr. Walker and Mr. Kelsey, and to the notorious practices of consuming the corpses eith fire to get rid of the excess, and con cluded by calling upon the Court to do itself honour by leaving no effort untried to get rid of an evil so tre mendous.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WIRE hoped the Court would not be influenced by the gross exaggerations which they had just heard. lie wished to know, after all, where the poor were to be buried.—(Bear, hear.) It was well to cry out about the , burial-places of the opulent, but where was the body of the indigent man to be taken to but to the churchyard of his own parish ? The Court ought to consider the rights and interests, and privileges of the poor. If the Corporation were determined to aid the poor, let them purchase ground and give it gratuitously for the burial of those who could not of ,rd to go to a cemetery. Mr. LAWRENCE said Mr. Wire must surely know that the parishes must find burial-places for the poor. Mr. BLAKE was strongly in favour of the motion, and pointed to the example of the cities of tie days of old, within the walls of which the dead were never per mitted to be detaineJ. The motion to petition Parliament was then carried by acclamation. Air. ANDERTON then procosed and carried a motion for a petition to Parliament to pass an Act to prevent nuisances arising from the smoke of steam-engines and in buildings in and near London and Westminster. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WINDSOR, SLOUGH, AND STAINES ATMO SPHERIC. -PROPOSED AMALGAMATION WITH THE SOUTH-WESTERN. WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—A meeting of the scripholders in the late Windsor, &c. Atmospheric, took place this day in the Town-hall. Mr. J. T. Bedborough presided, and there were present Messrs. Ridgway, Wreford, Cleave, Oxley, Corfielrl, C. Norris, Pearl, Minton, Ewens, Clarke, Fowler, Foster, J. and G. Bedborough, Gray, &c. The following report was read to the meeting:—" The provisional committee appointed at a public meeting of the scripholders, held pursuant to adjournment, at the Guildhall, Windsor, on the 21 instant, have to report the following result of their negotiations uith the directors of the South-Western Railway Company and the Staines and Richmond, namely :—The completion of the arrange ment for the amalgamation of the Windsor and Staines, and the Staines and Richmond Companies. The basis of an agreement for a new company, to be called the South- Western, Staines, Windsor, and Farnborough Railway, or some !lam.) comprising Staines and Windsor, having for its object t%e most direct communication practicable from Windsor, Staines, Hounslow, &c., to the London, Richmond, and Farnham portions of the South-Western Railway. Mr. Locke to be the engineer, and to fix the amount of capital (supposed at present to be near one million). The Windsor and Staines, and the Staines and Richmond amalgamated company to subscribe not ex ceeding 350,0001 (their original capital), the remainder to be provided for by the South-Western Company. The shares to be 20/.; deposit 21. 2s. The scrip of the Windsor and Staines Company, upon which a deposit of 21. 2s. per share has been paid, to be exchanged, with the balance remaining of such, for scrip in the new company. The past expenses of the amalgamated com panies to be charged to the new company. The directors to represent as near as possible the capital subscribed, namely, Windsor three, Staines four, South-Western eight. Four per cent. interest to be allowed on all paid up calls from the passing of the Act to the completion of the lines. The South-Western to guarantee a rental of four and a half per cent. on the gross outlay from the completion of the line, and one-half the profits, and to have the option to purchase the undertaking, by the transfer of 15/. fully paid-up capital in the new company. It is also arranged that the railway approach to, and the terminus at Windsor, shall be made in the locality most approved of by her Majesq's Commissioners of Woods and Forests and by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, and may be used as a common approach and terminus by any other railway company under proper stipulations." The committee, in concluding their report, drew a comparison between the offers which had been respec tively made by the directors of the South-Western and Great Western Companies in favour of the terms pro posed by the former. The CHAIRMAN then read an amended report from the committee, which detailed at considerable length the proceedings which had taken place at the several meetings which had been held previously and subse quently to the dissolution of the Atmospheric Company. That report thus concluded:—" The committee, in al luding to the proceedings of others, are actuated solely by the necessity there exists for some decisive and united course, being at once taken. The committee have named the sum of 150,0001. as the amount which the Windsor scripholders shall be entitled to subscribe, that being the amount of the capital of the late com puny; and for this 150,0001. they will be entitled to ap point three directors, being at the rate of one director for every 50,0001. t follows, that if a large portion of the scrip of the late company is abstracted from the company connected with the South-Western, and car ried to the Great Western project, that a corresponding reduction must be made in the number of directors; and an equally corresponding diminution of the credit and importance of the scripholders, and the interest felt in the undertaking, will be the result. The CHAIRMAN stated, in reply to questions put to him by two or three scripholders, that the number of shares held by directors in the late company who sup ported the plan proposed by the Great Western Com pany was 750; that three directors had given in their adhesion to the South-Western arrangement; and that four directors had, up to the present time, remained neutral. The Chairman further stated that the terms which had been originally offered by the Great Western had been considerably modified since a negotiation had been opened with the directors of the South-Western Company. He had no means of knowing how many shareholders had agreed to enter into the South-Wester n arran gements; but he thought he might say the holders of about one-third of the shares had consented; Mr. MINTON, one of the provisional committee, stated that he was strongly in favour of accepting the terms offered by the South-Western Company, considering it would be an act of inainess to go on with the project if the Government or the Crown were opposed to them. Even if the authorities of Eton College were opposed to them, they ought, in his opinion, to hesitate, and be ex tremely cautious, before proceeding further. Mr. BEDBOROUGH said the South-Western Railway Company were determined to endeavour, under any cir cumstances, to get a line into Windsor, whether the holders of the scrip in the late Atmospheric Company joined them or not. After a very lengthened discussion, it was moved by Mr. PEARL, seconded by Mr. J. CLEAVE, and carried, " That the report be approved, and that the following be appointed members of the committee of manage ment for the Windsor district of the new company:— Messrs. J. J. Bedborough, Samuel Minton, and Caleb Norris." Mr. MINTON again begged to observe that he thought it would be the height of madness to go on if they were to be opposed by the Court and the College of Eton. PROSPECTIVE OPENINGS. The Newcastle and Berwick, between Newcastle and Morpeth, is•announced to be opened in the early part of the ensuing month. The whole line is expected to be finished by February next. The bridges over the Tyne and Tweed, now in course of erection, will occupy two years at least ere they can be opened. The extension of the North Shields line to Tynemouth will be thrown open to the public in a few weeks. The Whitehaven and Harrington Railway is in so for ward a state as to promise its opening for public traffic in the early part o! . October. The South Devon will be opened on the atmospheric system of traction in about three months. The engines at the Exeter and Countess Weir stations are completed, and have been tried. The valves are being fixed to the tubing, and the connecting pipes for the engines will be forthwith laid down. Mr. Sounds was on the line on Tuesday last superintending the works in progress. The Bridlington branch, the property of the Hull and Selby, extending from Hull to Bridlington by way of Beverley and Driffield, a distance of thirty-one miles, is appointed to be publicly opened on Tuesday the 6th of next month. _ _ The Margate line, a branch of the South-Eastern from Ramsgate, is on the eve of completion, and will be thrown open to the public in a few days. The Hertford branch of the Eastern Counties was opened yesterday as a double line. General Pasley certified it last Sunday. The Hertford people are to have the benefit of express trains. The Bedford branch of the London and Birmingham will be completed the first week in October. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE.-011 the 27th, the direc tors caused two trial trips to be made between Carlisle and Penryth, being a distance of about eighteen miles, but that portion of the line is not yet open to the public. General Pasley, on PriJay last, inspected the line between Lancaster and Kendal, who cer tified that it was fit for public use as a single line. As might naturally ba supposed, the occasion gave rise to considerable interest and bustle both at Lan caster and Kendal. About ten o'clock on Moi,day fore noon last,, a powerful engine, with a long train of car riages attached to it, which were filled up by a number of the directors, shareholders, and ladies and gentlemen of Lancaster and the surrounding neighbourhood, started from the Lancaster station. The train went off at an easy speed, which was gradually increased, and arrived at Kendal about twelve o'clock, amid the cheers of a large concourse of people who had assembled at the spot to witness the arrival of the train. Soon afterwards a lunch was spread out at the Whitehall building, to which upwards of 100 sat down. The train again re turned to Lancaster, where it arrived about four o'clock, having been joined by Mr. E. W. Hasell, the chairman of the board of directors, and other directors. The party dined together at Lancaster, Mr. Hasell in the chair. According to the statement of the chairman, made at the last half yearly meeting, held at Penrith, the whole of the line will be opened to the public in the course of next month. Looking at the vast deal of work which remains to be done on certain parts of the line, it is almost impossible that this will be the case at the time mentioned. however, the exertions of the en ; rpneers are indefatigable, using their best efforts for the speedy and effectual completion of the works and final opening. IMPROVEMENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WEST ERN.—Of all improvements now in progress on metro politan lines, the most extensive are at Euston-square. About sixty or seventy houses that formed the east side of I Vhittlebury and Cardington-streets have disap peared; also those in Birchmere-street, and two or three small thoroughfares that lead to it. They have been cleared away, and labourers are actively engaged in ex cavating the area some fifteen or sixteen feet below the level of the main roadway, so as to carry out the in ter.ded alterations. Spacious warehouses, carriage stores, and repairing buildings are springing up. The principal entrance to the station in Drummond-street will undergo alteration. In a line with it, however, at the south- west corner of Whittlebury-street, a banking or receiving-house is to be erected, and ad jacent to this, at the back, running the whole length of the street, about eight hundred feet, will be formed a station, so as to correspond with the one on the opposite side, both verging into the per manent line. At the end of this edifice nearest Drum mond-street a commodious station, or pavilion, will be built for the express accommodation, it is said, of her Majesty and the Royal Family, when travelling on the line. It will be distinct from the other portion of the terminus, and will be approached by a suitable entrance. The building will be of the Doric order, and its interior will afford an elegant suite of waiting-rooms. Further up the same side of the above street, another entrance to the terminus will be formed, leading to a range of stores roz• parcels (a new department.), and the auditor's offioe. They will be three stories in height, and in unison with the general style of architecture of the other parts. To the left of the extreme end of this second station, extending over the left of Cardington-street, nearly to the Hampstead road, and beneath where Birch mere-street stood, immense buildings are in cow iv) of erection. One, the carriage-repairing d -partment, is upwards of three hundred feet in length, and 120 feet in width, the roof supported by 50 iron co lumns. There is also a spacious smith fat t )ry, with an octagon peculiarly built shaft 80 feet in height to carry off the flues of nine forges. The line of rails leading from the station to what is termed the usual permanent way are being increased to three times their present number, so as to run into the duplicate station and meet the great increase of traffic. This addition has been effecte.l by removing the bridge which carried Birch mere-street over the line into Seymour -street, and about 25(1 feet of the bricked embankment or retaining walls on each side. The large workshop on the Seymour street side of the station is to be pulled down, to make way for these improvements. The open quadrangle in front of the present station will be considerably enlarged, and waiting-rooms, booking-offices, and a public vesti bule will be formed in a buil ling of Grecian architecture, to be erected in the centre facing the grand portico, and communicating with the station on either side. These works will necessarily occupy a considerable period. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SEPT. 21.--ThTusual wetkly meeting of the Repeal Association was held this day, at the Conciliation Hall; William ,'Guinness, Esq., in the chair. The SECRETARY read the minutes of last day's pro ceedings, after which Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL read the following letter from his father:— " Darrynane Abbey, Cahirciveen, Sept. 17. "My dear Ray,—lt is impossible to exaggerate the frightful prospect of famine and pestilence that lies before us. The failure of the poor man's crop is known to be all but universal—indeed, the fact is so familiar that it is quite superfluous to repeat it. " The plan for affording relief through the medium of public works will be in full operation in the course of the ensuing fortnight. To be satisfactory, however, it requires the most active co-operation of the landowners and farmers. " Unhappily, in the present state of the country, it will not be sufficient to procure employment for the people. The great difficulty is, the procuring sufficient food. The great deficiency is in the supply . of food— food is already at famine price, and the leaving in the hands of the mercantile men the supplying food as a commercial speculation will necessarily keep it at a famine price. The intervention of Government is, therefore, absolutely necessary—such intervention is surrounded with great difficulties, and will impose an enormous ad ditional burden upon the Government. It must, how ever, be done, or the people will starve ; it not being, I repeat, safe to leave the people at the mercy of specu lators in bread stuffs.' " It is true that promises are held out to keep the market down, by pouring in a supply of Government provisions. Thus the difficulty meets us again • for the Government, in keeping down the markets, will be very likely to drive the mercantile classes out of the trade, so that the supplying of the food will ultimately fall altogether upon the Government. " Many plans have been suggested to meet the diffi culties, especially plans to borrow from the Government, at a low rate of interest, moneys to be laid out on pro ductive improvements on leads, to be repaid by the borrower. _ _ " Let it be remarked that there are already a million of pounds sterling in the hands of the Board of Works, to be lent for the drainage of Irish estates, and yet very few indeed have availed themselves of that fund. " One feature in the present emergency affords the greatest satisfaction. It is that which exhibits persons of every class, and of every persuasion, and of every political opinion, combining together, without the slightest reference to any irritating or party topics, but one and all endeavouring to find out the best mode of mitigating the approaching famine. This has never happened before. It is the first time in Ireland that unanimity, complete and entire, has shown itself among men of various persuasions and different political opinions, and that unanimity has been un viola ted amidst the fervour of public meetings. " The consequence has been, that various plans have been suggested for alleviating the present misery, and anticipating the evils to result should another year of famine follow the present. " When we were dealing with the afflicting, but still partial distress of last year, we fondly anticipated relief from the promising harvest of the present year ; but it has pleased Providence to disappoint our hopes, and ag gravate the evils of our prospects. " Who shall tell us with confidence that we shall not have another year of similar calamities? Judging from what has happened in other countries, we have great cause to dread the blight will not terminate in the present year, but that we shall have another famine year to provide for. Under such circumstances, every man who produces a plsn to obviate the dangers and difficulties of our position and prospects, is, to a certain extent, a public benefactor. " There is another consideration deserving attention, that the Government plan of succour is calculated to produce throughout Ireland, a more extended poor-law, necessarily calculated to extend out-door relief to all adult labourers and their families in a state of destitu tion, as well as to all other destitute poor. The English statute of Elizabeth is being extended to Ireland, and the poverty of the country is about to be placed for sup port upon the property—especially upon the landed property. " In seeking to relieve the present distress, it will re quire the utmost care and vigilance to prevent Ireland being involved in the entire detail of the English poor laws. "But the greatest evil of all is the want of combina tion and co• operation between the Irish gentry gene rally. The late meetings afford a proof of the practica bility of such a combination, but then those meetings lasted for only part of a day. " After conferring amicably, and resolving eloquently, they dissolved into their original elements, and left no combined body to carry out their intentions. " Now, what I most ardently desire is this, that the gentlemen who resolve so well, and who talk so wisely, should make up their minds to give permanency to their efforts by the continuance of some committee or depu tation. • " How delighted I should be to be able, with any prospect of success, to propose that the gentry in each locality in Ireland should appoint a delegation of their number to meet together in Dublin without delay, in order to organise the best plans for obtaining Govern ment and loyal relief during the impending calamities of famine and pestilence, and to embody, in practical form, their suggestions to Parliament for laws suited to the emergency. " The first duty of such a meeting as I allude to would be to address the Ministry, and, if necessary, the Crown itself, to call together, without delay, the Parlia ment ; such a demand, coming from such a body, would be irresistible. " When the Parliament met, the influence of such a body as I describe would, necessarily, be all-powerful ; and every hope would arise that an effectual plan for re lief of the people of this magnficeut Ireland would be realised. I may be sneered at by some, and laughed at by others, for making such a proposal ; it will be said that what I want is an Irish Parliament, and I confess that there would be some remote resemblance to an Irish Parliament in such an assembly l but there would be none which a British statesman need apprehend, or the most timid anti-Repealer object to. - " There are other topics which I would wish to sub mit to the Association, but for the present I postpone them. Let me, however, conjure the gentry of Ireland seriously to reflect that unless they adopt some plan to make their weight and importance felt by the Govern ment, the English plan of out-duor relief in its worst form, will be almost insensibly communicated to Ire land, and their estates not only burdened, but actually confiscated. " In the meantime,, let the Repent Association con tinue its exations—let it accumulate documents for the discussion of the repeal question in the next session of Parliament. No t-tional - man tan object to such a dis cussion in the British Parliament ; neither can there be the slightest shadow of a dutt'st that the union has worked badly for Ireland. Before th'e present distrcsi it was proved on the over memorable Devon commii sion, that the agricultural population of Ireland, bring seven-eighths of the entire. endured more misery than any other people in Europe. Perhaps, now that it is as certained beyond any controversy, that the plan for working out the restoration of the Irish Parliament is purely and undeviatingly peaceable—there may be such an accession to our strength as w ou ld ren d er the repeal inevitable. "Believe me to be very faithfully yours, " To M. Ray, Esq." " DANIEL O'CONEL. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in moving that the letter be inserted in the minutes, said that he had just been in formed that a meeting of ratepayers, which was held at Cashel, had separated without doing any thing for the people. The meeting was presided over by Lord Glen gall, and they had done nothing for the starving people. The Reverend Mr. Kirnan, who had informed him (Mr. O'Connell) of the circumstance, hastened up to Dublin to lay the matter - before the Lord-Lieutenant, with a view of inducing. th e __AvArrtmont +ri halra +ha chat etfairs in that locality into immediate consideration. Parliament, he said, sbould assemble in three or four weeks, and endeavour to avert the painful evils with which the people were threatened. Mr. Josh O'CoNNELL announced the resignation of Dr. Cann, Of Itilkenny. It was with the sincerest sorrow that they accepted Mg resignation. He hoped that at a future period Dr. Cann would adopt the principle which the Bishops and Archbishops have adopted, he meant the glorious moral force principle. Captain BRODRICIE seconded the motion, which passed. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that there were others who wished their names to be removed from the books; he would move that Mr. Ray be desired to comply with their wish.—Passed. Mr. R. D. BROWNE, M P. (who entered the meeting a short time previous), then came forward, and was warmly received. He said that he would not detain them long, but he could not let such an opportunity pass without full,' expressing his full approval of the " O'Con nell moral force" policy, and his strong disapproval of the course pursued by the " physical force" gentlemen. —(Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Browne) was always a re pealer, and the more he saw of England and Ireland's relative positions, the stronger he was in his belief in the absolute necessity there was for a native Parliament.— (Cheers.) The Learned Gentleman next alluded to the Labour Bill, which I e teal he hoped would succeed in establishing the golden rule of agriculture or commercial labour—" A fair day's pay is worth a fair day's work," and " a fair day's work ought to have a fair day's pay." It was a good measure, and one of the first good measures ever passed for Ireland. —(Hear, hear.) Now he had heard of repealers being abused for supporting the Go vernment which passed it ; he svcsgd ask—why should they not support a Government which seemed disposed to do justice—and which was composed of such men as Mr. Ward, Mr. Gibson, Mr. M'Culloch, and Sir Wil liam Somerville ?—(hear, and loud cheers)—men who were known to be the ardent friends of liberty, and whom he believed would yet be found amongst their ranks as repealers. His principle would be to take their support, and alt the good measures they could get from the Whigs, and use them as stepping-stones to repeal— for nothing but repeal would satisfy them.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. LAUGHNAN, T.C., next addressed the meeting, in handing in some money, and expressed a hope that ere long he would see a reconciliation between the" Old and Young Ireland parties." Mr. O'CoststELL said that they would be most happy to effect a reconciliation, but, as he had often stated before, it lay with the Young Ireland party to make the move, as they had swerved from the rules of the Asso ciation, and could only be again connected with it, by a determination to agitate by moral means alone.— (Cheers.) They had erred, and they were the parties to repent of their error.—(Cheers.) The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then alluded to the Labour Rate Bill, and the Treasury minute regulatins , . it. He said that that order directed that the wages should, in each locality, be twopence lower than the wages given by the landlords in the neighbourhood, and if such were the case, the people would be starved, as the wages in the county of Meath, one of the best counties in the country, were only nineper.ce farthing a day, in summer, and sevenpence-halfpenny a day in winter, which would leave only fivepence-halfpenny a day to support a labourer dur.ng the approaching winter. Trait was the calcula tion as regarded the best counties; but in other parts of the country, in the west and south, there would not be threepence a-day coining to the labourer under the Treasury regulation—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear") — therefore the Government should at once consider the matter, and make provision to give fair remuneration for a fair day's work.—(Cheers.) Mr. J. M. M'DONWELL, M.P., then banded in some money, and made some observations with regard to a Mr. Lynch—(Hear, hear)—whom he denominated " the rotten Papist of Mayo," stating that be was not even fit to drive one of Croal's coaches. He said that he would not advise any one to do anything improper or illegal ; but he knew he would not starve, if food was to be got at.—(Cheers.) In conclusion, Mr. M'Donnell proposed the enrolment of Mr. Peard, of the sth Dragoon Guards, as a member of the Association; which resolution was seconded and passed. After some short pause, Mr. J. O'CoszstEu. rose and said he did not know, but that it might be dangerous for gentlemen in the army joining the Association.—(Cries of " Hear.") He would, therefore, beg to move the suspension of his ad mission for the present, until they should have an op portunity of consulting some more legal persons, more competent to give an opinion than he was. Motion withdrawn. - Mr. BoURKE postponed the reading of the report from the Repeal Discussion Committee, until Monday next, in consequence of the hour to which the proceedings had been protracted. After which the rent was announced to be 61/.165. 4d. Mr. Bourke was called to the chair, and the meeting adjourned. THE CONTINENTAL FORGERIES.---The two forgers, Theodore Herweg, alias Romansou or Raumanzow, and Knapps, hare undergone several interrogations before the examining magistrates, and several witnesses have also been examined. It appeared that Romanzou scarcely ever remained in one apartment more than a quarter of a year, and was to leave that in the Rue d'Anjou, where he was taken, in October. He never went out, and was not visited during the time he stayed there by more than three persons. The preliminary proceedings are likely to occupy several months, on account of the evidence which will be required rom several foreign countries. Knapps is confined in the prison of the Madelonnettes, and Romanzou in that of St. Pelagrie. The thirty-two notes found upon Roman zou were for 1001. each, and not for 5/., as was at first stated. Both the prisoners have made a full confession. Romanzon states that, after having sonarrowly escaped from arrest on the 6th January, 1832, when the woman DAnelle, and Pressel, the native of Wurtemberg, were surprised at Passy, where he, Romanzou, had set up a press, he got over the frontier into Switzer land, and made his way into Italy, where he lived for four months upon a sum of money that he took with him. Fearing an application for his extradition, he re turned to France, thinking he would be able the more easily to conceal himself there. His resources were then reduced to two genuine Bank of England notes for 1100/. each ; and be conceived for the first time the idea of imitating them. But the difficulties he had to con tend with were so great that he was for two years working assiduously before he could succeed ; living in the most parsimonious manner upon one of the notes being obliged to keep the other as a model. At the end of the two years he found that he had produced a perfect ' forgery, but not daring to trust the uttering of his false notes to any third person, he issued them himself, and in three days exchanged twenty-six of them for 1001. each at different money-changers' offices. He then sto• ed, and travelled till he saw the effect pro duced upon the Bank of Englard. At the time of his last capture, Romanzou was engaged , with- the assistance of his momplice Knapps, ill' manufacturing a greater number of notes of the Bank of England, with the intent, as he says, of raising 100,000 f., with which he hoped to g s over to America, and there live an honest life.— Galignani, INDIAN CORN.—There Ire at present growing at Admiral Duff's, Braemorriston, two rows of Indian corn, which have arrived at much perfection. Having seen the other day this sample of Eastern crop, we were much gratified with its rich and luxuriant appearance s tLe stalks, which are fully ten feet in height, containing abundant and closely-grown -grain. The seed was sown in March in the open air, has largely partaken of the fruitfulness of the season, and the produce shows that our climate is fast approximating to a more mild and general temperature. We 'also saw several fig-trees in the same garden, bearing a rich crop of very fine fruit. —Elgin Courant. MORTALITY OT THE METROPOLIS.—The total number of deaths registered in the metropolis, for the week ending Sept. 19, is 863 ; of these 826 were deaths from disease, showing a decrease in the number of deaths from disease of 60, as compared with the week pre ceding. The deaths from cholera during the week were 2; from dysentry, 2; and from diarrhoea, 79. The births during the week were 1,235. THE RESTORATION OF . ST. JOHN'S GATE.—It ap pears that the restoration of St. John's Gate is progress ing piecemeal. 1301. only having been subscribed, a sum insufficient to complete the work, the masonic opera tics' are necessarily limited. The restorations effected in the north front are, the two towers and the upper portion of the gate have been recased with stone, rough to accord with the present stonework, new solid stone embattlements, and new solid window heads, jambs, and sills to the turret windows. The red chimney pots have been taken off, and others in accordance substituted. The Roman style door front has been removed. It is said that about 901. more will restore the stone embattle ments to the south front. TROTTING MATCH FOR TWENTY-FIVE POUNDS ASIDE.—On Tuesday, a match between Mr. Reynold's grey mare, and Mr. Dilion's black horse came off at Wimbledon-common, the contesting distance being two miles; when, after a good race, the grey came ita the winner by fifty yards, having covered the distance in seven minutes and twenty seconds. TRUCKS ON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.--011 Tues day, about noon, several persons were knocked down on Westminster -bridge, by fellows rushing through the narrow thoroughfare left open for foot passengers drawing trucks after them. A row of posts placed at either end would effectually prevent such another occurrence. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT BRITA,TN.—LivER- Pon, TUESDAY.—The steam-ship Great Britain, Captain Ilo,,ken, sailed hence for New York this forenoon, carry ing out no less than 181 passengers. Amongst these were Mr. King, late Minister of the United States to the Court of the Tuileries; and also the troop of children lately organised in imitation of the celebrated band of Dan sew es Vicnnoises VOLCANO or SADDLE ISLAND, IN THE RED SEA. —A dispa'ch received at Lloyd's on Tuesday afternoon from the East India-house, enclosing a copy of a letter I rker. o f the H on. East India Com from lieutenant that on the pany's steam-vessel; Victoria, m;:::,"2"' es 14th of last August smoke was observed to issue i g roril the summit of Saddle Island, in lat. 15 7, N., lon. 42 12, E. The weather at the time was very squally, with thunder and liKirtning.. Saddle Island is one of the group called " Zebayer" Islands, in the Red Sea, in the direct track of vessels proceeding up and down, and are all of volcanic origin; but there is neither recor d nor tra dition of their having been in active operation. Jibble Seir in lat. 15 32, N., and lon. 41 55, E., was observed to be smoking when visited by the officers of the Benares during the survey of the Bed Sea, but never [since. There is a tradition among the Aritb pil o ts of its having been on fire some fifty y ea rs ago, and bears among many of them the name of Jibble I)ookhan, or " Rill of Smoke," and has the appearance of having i;ecrt in active operation at 4 much 149 - pvriod than the 4 0 .4rr Wands. TRENT: VALLEY, MIDLANDS, AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held yesterclty, at two o'clock, at the com pany's offices, 19, Great George-street, Westminster. Hennir TOOTAL, Esq., deputy-chairman, having taken the chaff, said his first duty was to express his extreme regret that tile chair was not occupied by the chairman, the Hon. Colonel Anson. He held in his hand a letter, stating that severe domestic affliction, namel.r, he death of one of his children, prevented him from being present. The SECRETARY read the advertisement, and after• wards the report of the directors. It stated that the meeting had been specially convened to take into CollEi deration the proposed amalgamation of the company with the North Staffordshire Company, to ratify the agreementr, dated the 23d February and 19th June. 1846, to that effect, and to confer the necessary powers on the directors for fully effectuating that object. The capital stock of the amalgamated company would con sist of 945,0004, composed of 78,750 shares of 121. each, of which 35,000 would belong to the Trent Valley Com pany, and a 12/. share in the amalgamated company would be issued to each holder of one 201. scrip. The accounts showed a sum of 73,5001. receipts and de posits up to the 22d September instant, and 12,7101. 15s. 6d. payments on account of expenses, thereby leaving a balance of 60,7891. 4s. 6d. The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders, on their first meeting after obtaining deir Act. At an early stage of their proceedings the circumstance of another company having been formed, which aimed at the same objects and traversed the same country, was a reason why the directors felt anxious that they should be brought together. He had now the pleasure to tell them that the agreements for amalgamation had been pre pared, and now all that was necessary to complete it was the consent of Parliament. He believed the railway would benefit the country through which it was con structed, and be remunerative to those who had invested their capital in it. He moved that the report now read be received and adopted, printed, and circulated among the members. Mr. J. VT. UNETT seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said the next business was th. election of directors ; he wished, therefore, to state that in the terms of the amalgamation, the South Stafford shire Company appointed ten of the directors, and the Trent Valley eight. The eight retiring directors were then unanimously re- elected. Messrs. George Sanders, Wakefield, and James Dur ham, were appointed auditors, at a salary of 25/. each. The CHAIRMAN said the special business of the day now came before the meeting, namely, the approval of the atnalgamati ,, n of the Trent Valley with the South Staffordshire. The other company were to find of the whole capital 525,000/, and the Trent Valley 420,0001. The SECRETARY then read a series of resolutions voting the amalgamation of the two companies, and authorising the directors to carry it out. The CHAIRMAN moved these resolutions. Mr. BEALE seconded them, and they passed unani mously. A PROPRIETOR said he observed that the 201. shares were now reduced 12/.; be wished to know when the bor rowing clause would come into operation, if at all? The CHAIRMAN said the reduction was necessary, as the capital of the two companies would have been more than was needed, and they had still the same power to borrow to the extent of one-half as before. A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether this company would make the Shewbellow Branch, or would leave it to be made by the Grand Junction Company ? The CHAIRMAN said it would be made, but by whom he could not yet say. Mr. WALKINGSHAW moved a vote of thanks to the directors, which was seconded, and carried unanimously. The DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and the meeting then separated. GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY. A meeting of the scripholders and shareholders in this company was held yesterday at the company's offices, 5, Gresham-street, City, for the purpose of determining whether or not the company should be dissolved. Mr. Ward, M.P., was voted to the chair. The advertisernnt convening the meeting having been read, the following gentlemen were appointed scruti neers, viz., Messrs Spackman, Huberstey, and Crosbie. The meeting then adjourned to the Guildhall Coffee house. The CHAIRMAN having made a long personal expla naticn as to the occasion of his former non-attendance, Mr. COHEN said he wished to know whether the meeting was duly called in compliance with the require ments of the shareholders. The SECRETARY then read the case put to Mr. Lloyd, the barrister, and the opinion of the counsel that the present meeting was strictly legal. After some desultory conversation, The CHAIRMAN said that with regard to the delay that had occurred in the calling of the meeting, in the first place, till the passing of Lord Dalhousie's Act, they had no power to dissolve the company. A meeting would have been called immediately after the Act had been passed had not the directors been in negotiation with the Newport and Abergavenny Railway Company. The. directors had an agreement, by which the shareholders were secured the possession of one half of the shares in that Company if they chose to avail themselves of such a power. The Hon. Gentleman then entered into an ex planation of the various meetings which had been held, and of the reasons for his not attending, and the com pulsion to which he was subjected to perform official duties at the Admiralty, &c., respecting which such severe comments had been made. Then, with regard to the subsequent notices that had been served on them (the directors), there was some informality in all of them. If the rotices thus served on him had been legal, he would have attended, as he had ob tained Lord Auckland's permission to do so. From these statements, which he felt it his duty to make, it was evident that he did not intend to run away from them. He, as well as the other directors, had no intention or desire of frustrating the dissolution of the company as to the terms upon which that disso lution was to be effected.— (Cries of " Hear, bear.") An opinion was entertained that the shareholders had a claim on the directors for 40s. a share. Now the circu lars that had been issued contained a complete perversion of the facts of the case. As to the legal claims of any body of shareholders against the directors, it was a matter that must be decided by a legal test. But it had been put to them as a moral obligation to meet the views of the shareholders on this point. If he could see that that moral obligation existed he, for one, would not be with held by legal technicalities from acceding to the views of the shareholders. But he denied that such was the case. The documents to which he referred, and which con tained the statement as to the obligation of the directors, altogether omitted the words " preliminary expenses" in all their statements. Now, it was absurd to suppose that any men of sense would attempt to carry on a line of any length for 10s. a mile. Such a thing was never known in the railway world, and cer tainly was never contemplated by him. The simple question for the shareholders to consider was, whether or not they (the directors) had discharged themselves properly of the duties which they had agreed to perform in the undertaking in which they had embarked, with the rest of the shareholders. They were all suffering from the engineer's conduct. (The Chairman here read a letter, written by him to Mr. Gravatt, the engineer, de precating his delay in proceeding with the line, and concluding with the words, " that if the line was not prosecuted it would be a disgrace.") Mr: COHEN—Why then go to Parliament? The CHAIRMAN—By adopting that proceeding they were now in a position to resist the whole demand of Mr. Gravatt, as well as to pro ceed against him for the money already paid. Having given a history of the Parliamentary battles of the company; he, in conclusion, said he had only to repeat that be only desired that there should be a satisfactory arrangement, and as far as he himself was concerned, he was precluded by his position from any future connexion with railways. A most protracted discussion ensued, after which the Secretary read a financial statement. From this it appeared that the money received was 103,2311. 4s. 9d., while the liabilities exceeded 40,000/. The balance in the bankers' hands was 42,599/., and the outstanding claims were for the solicitors, 13,1421.; the local agents, 1,782/. 15s. 2d.; to Mr. Gravatt, 7,500/., &e. Captain HEAVISIDE then moved, and Mr. GRIFFIN seconded, that the company should be dissolved, which was carried. It was then moved by Mr. GRIFFIN that this dissolu tion should not be taken for an act of bankruptcy. Mr. ENcLisst seconded the motion, which was car ried, and the meeting separated. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT A RAILWAY STATION -Oa Saturday night last, about half-past nine o'clock, a number of passengers, many of whom belonged to the regiment of yeomanry who had been attending the review at Weteester, booked themselves at the Spetchley station for Birmingham. After waiting a considerable time they were informed that the train had been delayed at Defford by the breaking of one of the axles, and would not be up for some time, an annoulicement which was not calculated to give much sati4action to the ex pectant travellers. One gentleman demanded the money which he had paid for his ticket, stating that he would return to Worcester, but the demand was refused; and words running high, the person in charge of the office proceeded to eject the applicant by force from the station. The altercation, as may be supposed, attracted the attention of the other passengers, wbo rushed to the rescue, and a grea t commotion ensued , ill the midst of which the ticket manager thought it prudent to take rbAige in an adjoining office. After waiting several hours, the mail train from Bristol came up, and the passengers be gan to felicitate themselves on the prospect of being at length forwarded on their journey; but to their extreme mortification, they were informed that they could not be allowed to travel by that train, although there was abundant room in the carriages. The result of this complication of mishaps and unnecessary annoyances was, that they did not s:lt out from Spetchley till nearly Qne o'clock) and instead of arriving at Birmingham at half-past tell, they did not; reach their destination till past two o'clock in the morning, while the passengers , 13 t tni e n e g l h e a b i r n a J te o d ur a lu tr i. ess, destined for the north lest all ;:hence of pursuing their journey, and were obliged to stop for the night in Birmingham. —Birmingham London, from a tour through the provillnca:sr, she was accompanied by two lady pupils, various journals speak in terms of high laudation. o f whom the et i u n rn , e a d ie t h o DISEASE IN THE CELERY PLANTS.,--Ihe leaves Of the celery plants are stated to he withering, and on dividing the two coats of the discaied leaves,, it will ; be found that there are a number of small green insects be tween them, which are rapidly destroying the inner parts of the leaves. This disease is quite new to us, and vvilis I Wiely to be fetal to Bauch a the celery.