The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-29 00:00:00

irbtrb Wtittton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clod, LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, JOINT-STOCIE EANXS. Name of Company. Dividend per Amount of Share. Paid. I Price Annum. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. .iustralasia ....... Britsh orth American Commercial of London Colonial.. • • • • • • Londn and Westminstr London Joint-Stock . • • Metropolitan • • Provincial of Ireland • . 81. per cent. Ditto, New......... 81. per cent. National of Ireland 51. per cent. Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. Ditto, New. • •• • • 51. per cent. Union of Australia .. .• 61. per cent., Union of London... • • 5l. per cent. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Name of Company, Dividend Amount of Paid. Price Annum. Share. s d. L C s. Albion ..... 31. 10s. 500 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 11 0 0 18% Ditto Marine.- • • 61. per cant, 100 0 50 0 534 Atlas 138.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 50 0 15% British Commercial .• 73. per share 50 0 50 0 734 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 012 10 0 10 3!. 100 0 10 0 0 Crown ••••••• • • • • • • • 10s. 50 0 50 0 - Eagle 6s. 50 0 5 0 0 - Eng.& Scot. Law •. • • Si. per cent. 50 0 20 0 3 Earopeast Life ... ••• 5% per cent. 20 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 30 0 Globe ••• • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. 136 Guardian .... ... ••• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 48 % Imperial Fire •• • 61. and bonus, 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 Imperial Life •••• . • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31 Law Life .. 1/. 53. 100 0 0 10 0 0 3% Legal and General Life 50 0 0 20 0 G 34 London Fire 10s. 25 0012 10 0 141 4 Landon Ship •••• • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 Marine •• • • 51. per cant. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invlid& Gen. Litis 1341. per et . 50 0 2 0 0 - National Leaa Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Life • .•. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 834 Vanadium ..... . Si. per cent. .50 0 0 ' 2 0 0 23/. tis Phoenix - - 195 Protector Life.... • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 lO 0 , 241. Gd Provident Life.. •• .• • • I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Lite.. • . 45. 50 0 010 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - - Sun Fire.. - - 210 Ditto Life .......••. 1/. 6s. - - 49 Universal Life • . 1034 i. pr cnt 100 0 615 0 - LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. ; Price. Annum. Share. ------• £ a. d. £ a. Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 176 Royal Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 1160 British Linen Company 81. per cent. - 100 0 0 220 Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 i 167 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 i141.10s Union Bank of Scotland. 7%1. pr cent. - 50 001 91 Western Bank ...... • • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 8534 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7% Clydesdale Bank• ••• • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 8s Eastern 8ank...,. •• • 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank ...• • 7%1. pr cent. - 210 0 41.11 s Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cert. - 50 0 1 71.23 City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. j - 10 0 0 131. 73 Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 255. 9d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 'lOO 0 0 10 0 0 14 4 Incur. CO. of Scetlnd 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 9 % North British Insur..• 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 2734 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22 34 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. :100 0 0 12 10 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 1/.los. pert. 50 0 0 50 0 0 78 Ditto, 4 Shares • 73. 66. p. 3. 12 10 0 All paid. Id% Edin., Leith, gL Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 18% Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 69 4 Glasgw& Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. ,25 0 0 All paid. 1634 Glsgw& Garnkirk Rail. Si. per cent. 125 0 0 All paid. I 39% Dundee& Arbroth Bail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard LifeAssernce.l 57. per cent. 50 0 0 1 210 0 ; 9 Names of Dividend Companies. ; . per Price ' cr Annum. Ashtn& Oltthi 57 51.55. p c Ashby -d-la-Z 113 41. Barnsley.. • l6O 121. Basingstoke ! 100 Brknk&Abrgllso Si. Cromford .....100 141. Dudley ;100 41. Derby 'loo 61. Ellsmre&Chs '133 41. Ezewash •• • 100 321. Forth & Clyd 100 41. GrandJunctn 100 71. Grand Union 100 1/. 10s. Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. i4lstr & 100 Grantham l5O 12/. Huddarstleid 57 Kennt &Am 39 7s. 6d. 5 1 4 [ Lancaster .. • 47 1/. 10s. Leeds& Lirrp 100 341. 5224; Leicester .. • • 140 10/. 105 Leicstr &Nth 83' 41. 52 Loughborogh. 142 701. I 55 t 8 - 3 Names of Companies. Monmouthsh Mntgomrysh Mac&esrield.' Beath . • • • Nottingham. Peak Forest. !Regent's .... !Rochdale .... !Shropshire ISornrset Co 4 Do.Lk St Stffrd&Worel Sl - zewsbury..l Stourbridge.. , Strtfrdcn , Severn and I Wye Rail. j Trnt & Mr-1 sey. sh. ,Thanes &Med rorestr &? Binning. Wilts & Biks 21. I 43 li. - MiIOCXS. Dividend Amount per of Paid. i Price annum. Share. £ s. d. s. d. 3/. per cent. Stock. 61. pr cent. Stock. li. per sh. 100 0 0 • 51. pr cent. Stock. I .... 5 per cent. I Stock. •• • • 1/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 WATER—WO ILICS. Dividend 1 Amount Annum. of Paid. IPI Share. I X 3. d. 1 00 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 6319 9 DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Grey, Esq., -• to be Governo r -i n -Chi e f o f and over the islands of New Zea ,„ land, and Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over each of the two separate provinces of New Ulster and New Munster. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Edward John Eyre, Esq., to be Lieutenant -Governor of each of the two said separate provinces of New Ulster and New Munster. DOWNING-STREET, Dec. 28. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir John Gaspard Le Merchant, Kat., Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the island of Newfoundland and its dependencies. WAR OFFICE, DEC. 29. Ist Regiment of Life Guards--Lieutenat the Honourable Wellington Henry Stapleton Cotton to be Captain by pur chase, vice Anderto n , w h o r e t i res; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Hugh William Boulton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice _ Cotton ; Edward John Cornwallis Lord Eliot to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Boulton, Dec. 29. ice. 3d Light Dragoons-Cornet Edward Joseph Thackwell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ireland, who retires ; Thomas Clement Belmore St. George, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Thackwell, Dec. 29. 4th Light Dragoons--Major Lord George Augustus Fredee rick Paget to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Van deleur, who retires; Captain Henry Fane to be Major, by purchase, vice Lord George Paget; Lieutenant Fenwick Boyce Barron to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fane; Cornet • Conrad Montgomery to be Lieutenant, by purchase, viee Barron ; Henry Astley Sparke, Gent. to be Cornet, by pur chase, vice Montgomery, Dec. 29. 9th Light Dragoons-Surgeon Robert Joynt Gordon Grant, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Wood, who exchanges, Dec. 29. 16th Light Dragoons-Surgeon Arthur Wood, M.D., from 9th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Grant, who ex change, Dec. 29. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards-Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Thomas Cecil, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and Lieutenant -Colonel (repaying the difference), vice John Henry Pringle, who exchanges ; Brevet Major Lieutenant and Captain Charles Ash Windham to be Captain and Lieu tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Lord Thomas Cecil, who retires, December 29. Ensign and Lieutenant (Adjutant) Poulett George Henr Somerset to have the rank of Lieutenant and Captain, Dec. y 28; Ensign and Lieutenant George John Whyte Melville to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Windham; • William Henry Reeve, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Melville, Dec. 29. Ist Regiment of Foot-Bingham Henry Edward Muller, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Rivers, pro moted in the 36th Foot, Doc. 29. its sth Foot-Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, from half-pay 25th Light Dragoons, to be Captain; Lieutenant William - Chester Master to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jeffries, who retires ; Second Lieutenant William Robert Crawford Potter to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Master; George , CS• Bennett, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Potter, Dec. 28. 13th Foot-Assistant Surgeon Frederick William Tupper, from 57th Feet, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Prout, ap pointed to the Staff, Dec. 29. 19th Footi-Ensign James Cole Taylor, from the 74th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Palmer, who exchanges, Dec. 29. 27th Foot-Acting Sergeant Major William Crozier to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dickson, appointed to the sth Foot, Dec. 29. 30th Foot-Ensign James Rose to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Whitmore, appointed Adjutant, Dec. 28 ; Ensign Frederick Augustus Edwardes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shum, promoted, Dec. 29; Gentleman Cadet Thomas William Cato r , f rom Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Rose; William Warren Hastings Greene, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edwardes, Dec. 30 ; Lieu tenant Edmund Augustus Whitmore to be Adjutant, vice Macdonald, promoted, Dec. 28. 36th Foot-Ensign Cecil Rivers, from ew Ist Foot, to b Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Car, promoted, De e cember 29. 48th Eoot-Staff Aesistant Surgeon James Dickson• to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Johnston, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 29. 56th Foot-Lieutenant Richardson Anderson to beCaptain, by purchase, vice Barclay, who retires; Ensign Henry John Tolcher to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderson ; Frederick John Gothleipe Saunders, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Tolcher, Dec. 29. 61st Foot-Captain George Fitzßoy, from half-pay Royal West India Rangers, to be Captain, vice William Ward, who exchanges; Lieutenant John Fortescue Brickdale to be Captain, by purchase, vice l'itzßoy, who retires, Dec. 29 ; Ensign Edward Shawe Powys to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mahe r , d oceased, Oct. 3 ; Ensign Richard unn Brackenbury to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Brickdale ; Gentleman Cadet John Nagel, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Powys, Dec. 29. Thomas Harrison Harrison, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brackenbury, Dec. 30. 64th Foot-Ensign Robert Bickerstaff to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maddi,on, who retires; Edward William Armstrong. Gent., t o b e E ns i gn, b y puruhase, vice Bicker staff, Dec. 29. 66th Foot-Joseph Thomas La Presle, Gent., to be As sistant-Surgeon, vice Cowper, promoted in the 56th Foot, Dec. 22. e 67th Fool-To be Captains without purchase-Lieutenant Capel Coape, Dec. 29; Lieutenant Stonehouse George Bun bury, Dec 30. To be Lieutenants, without purchase-Lieutenant William Du Vernet, from 50th Foot ; E ns i gn J ames Graham En sign' Ftzmanrice Pratt, vi ce C oape, Dec. 29. ; To he Ensigns, without purchase-Gentleman Cadet Ed ward Daubeuey, from Royal Military College; Gentleman Cadet Alfred Addington Jones, from Royal Military College, Dec. 29 ; Willi am W a ll ace Davy, Gent., vice Graham, Dec. 30 ; William Cumming Sheila, Gent., vice Pratt, Dec. 31. 74th Foot-Ensign Henry Wellington Palmer, from 19th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Taylor, who exchanges, Dec. 29. 77th Foot-Ensign Robert Mostyn to be Liutenant, by purchase, vice Walpole, who retires; William Ronalds, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mostyn, Dec. 29.. 85th Foot; Brevet Colonel Benjamin Chapman Browne, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir J. G. Le Merchant, who exchanges; Major Brook Taylor to be L ieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Browne, who retires; Captain John Blackburn to be Major, by purchase, vice Taylor, Dec. 29 ; Lieutenant Evelyn Latimer Parratt to be Captain, by purchase,vice Patterson, who retires, Dec. 28 ; Lieut. Lord Spencer Scott Compoton to be Captain by pur chase, vice Blackburn, Dec. 22; Ensign William Alexander Filder to be Lieutenant by parchase, vice Parratt, Dec. 28 ; Ensign the Hon. William Stuart Knox to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord S. Compton, Sir Henry Hope, Edwards, Baronet, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Filder, Dec. 28 ; Frederick Thistlethwaite, G ent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Knox, Dec. 29. 94th Foot-Lieut. William Henry Dore to be Captain, without purchase, vice Deere, deceased; Ensign Herbert Taylor M'Crea to be Lieutenant, vice Dore. Dec. 17 ; Richard Hull Lewis, Gent., to be Ensign, vice M'Crea, Dec. 29. 2d West India Regiment-Ensign Archibald W. Dickson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires ; Charles De Blaquiere, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Dickson, Dec. 29. 131 :EVET.-Lieutenant Colonel Lord Thomas Cecil, of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Colonel in the Army, Nov. 9; Captain Samuel Barton Jeffries, of the sth Foot, to be Major, in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837; Captain George Fitzroy, of 61st Foot, to be Major in the Army, Jaw 28, 1838. Unattached.-Lieutenant Henry Capadose, from Bth Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Dec. 29. Chaplain.-The Reverend William Walrond Jackson, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Forces, Dec. 21. Ilostazan ST aee.-Assistant-Surgeon James Townsend Oswald Johnston, M.D , from the 48th Foot, to be Staff surgeon of the Second Class, Dec. 29; Assistant-surgeon Alexander Adam Prout, from 13th Foot, to be A.ssistant surgeon to the Forces, Oct. 1. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 28. Errata in Gazette of the 22d instant.-For Gentleman. Cadet the Honourable John James Bury, to be Second Lieut enant, in the R o y a l R eg i ment of Artillery.," read, t o b e eecond Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De Butts, promoted. And for Gentleman Cadet Alexander Mackenzie, to be Second Lieutenant, in the Corps of Royal Engineers, vice De Butts, promoted, read Stace, promoted. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Regiment of Militia-Thomas Kemp Story, Gent, to be Lieutenant, vice Gardiner, promoted, Dec. 3. A SHOWER OF WHITE FLIES.-011 Sunday, thef 6th ult., a most singular fact attracted the observation of some of the inhabitants of the eastern road settle ments. About three o'clock P.N., a shower of small white flies came drifting along, borne along on a gentle breeze from the north. west. For upwards of tan hour and a half they continued to float onward in a south wardly direction past a certain point, where an indivi dual had the curiosity to watch the extraordinary flight. So that if they travelled only at the slow rate of four miles per hour, they must have reached a distance' of six miles in a lineal direction. How far they extended in width, the writer had no means of judging; but as far as the eye could reach, the atmosphere presented an ap pearance similar to what it does during a violent snow squall.—Halifax Post. The Venerable Archdeacon Shirley's conseers Ltion as Bishop of Sodor and Man is fixed to take plat :le on January 10, 1847, at Whitehall Chapel. FIRS IN THE HAYMARBET.—Late on Mr .nday night the premises belonging to Mr. Stray, a taiilor, of 39, Haymarket, were discovered to be on fire by a. olice man. He succeeded in arousing the inmates, nut, how ever, before the flames completely cut off all metne of effecting a retreat by the usual way. The parties ma naged to get upon the roof of the p rem i ses, and they were ta nt ken io the ad : joining house. The fi re was not subdued until it had 'passed through almost every apart inept in the house., destroying a considerable amount of stock, furniture, and other effects. Mr. Stray was in sured in the l y ncenix Office, but not to the amou ut of his loss. SINGeLA.7I DEATH.—The death of a young woman was lately occasioned in a somewhat curious manner, near Charl_eroy. Two dogs were fighting near the mout h of a coa't-mine, in the vicinity of that town, when, in their straggles, they approached the brink of the pit and rolled over, to the great mirth of the spectators of the 4ombat. Lamentable cries, however, were immediately 'heard issuing from the mine. The dogs, in their fall, :had alighted on, and broken, the cover of the bask et evhich was ascending the shaft, and the pieces falling on file young girl wh.o was coming up in it, fractured b,er wkall in so shocking a manner that she died on the ap pt. CANALS. privately for all sorts. White met with a fair sale at al to 9d. Pimento is wanted, but little is to be had, and 4d to 41id is the value. For Nutmegs the market has a quiet ap pearance, and former rates are not to be obtained. Mace i s no t cheaper, but the demand has fallen off. Cassia Lignea met with little attention, and is offered upon easier terms. COCHINEAL. To-day - there was an increased desire evinced to purchase all descriptions ; a good business was transacted by private treaty, and the rates paid were Id to 2d above those of the last public sales. T. —Congou of the low and middling descriptions is little wanted, and there are sellers even rather under previous rates ; these sorts are now actually as cheap as they were prior to the agitation relative to the duty ; for good and fine former quotations are insisted upon, but they have been sparingly dealt in by the town and country trade. There is now no speculative demand for any description. INDIGO. —Purchases to a fair extent have been made in all Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire. Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry— Frederick Marcus Callaghan, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice llaythorne, resigned, Dee. 14. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. IRISH LINES. (From the Railway Gazedt6.) BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas William Clark, brewer, Strood, Kent BANKRUPTS. At a meeting of direct ors of several of the Irish ra , way companies, held in Dublin, en Friday, December I 11, 1846, with a view to considering how the progress of their works might be made available towarth reliev ing the present alarming and increasing destitution of the poor in this country, it was resolved to lay the fol lowing statement before her Majesty's government : It appears to this meeting that Government aid to Irish railway companies, by way of loan, would enable them to assist very materially in relieving the present distress, and affdrd the same relief for a considerable period, by providing an immediate and ample field for unemployed and productive labour, in the acceleration of their works. That this employment would not be confined to any lo cality, but would be spread over large districts of the country, from north to south. To carry out this object the following suggestions are respectfully submitted : That, previously to a loan from Government to any Irish railway company, twenty per cent. of their capital shall be bona fide paid up, and expended on the under taking. Mary Ann Shenston, scale manufacturer, Brewer-street, Somers-town, to surrender Jan. 15, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Kell and Chaffers, Bedford-row. William Whitsed Coleman, provision merchant, South ampton, Jan. 5, at two, and Feb. 9, at twelve, at the Court • Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Messrs. Free man Bothamley, and Benthall, Coleman- s tr ee t. Henry Brewer, draper, Great Waltham, Essex, Jan. 9, at twelve, and 30, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fol lett, fficial assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinhall-street ; Soles and Turner, Aldermanbury. John Beddleton Morris, shoemaker, Hull, Jan. 13 and Feb. 3, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Hull ; Hicks, Gray's Inn, London ; Bell, or Lovett and Champney, Hull. John Percy Moore, chemist, Plymouth, Jan. 14, and Feb. 4, at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzell, official assignee, Exeter; Cross, Plymouth; Gregory and Co., Bed ford-row, London ; Terrell, Exeter. Thomas Norton, builder, Birmingham, Jan. 9, and Feb. 6, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Chesshire, Birmingham. X s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 2.5 0 0 50 0 0 X i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 20 0 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 sorts of East India, and at prices showing. an advance on those of the last quarterly sales of 2d to 4d per lb ; holders are sanguine in their expectations as to the future position of the article, and offer only a trifling quantity for sale. For Spanish a fair demand exists, and prices are looking up, the tupply being small. Rim—There has been a good business transacted is Ben gal by private treaty during the last few days ; holders mani fest much firmness, and supply the market sparingly; the rates paid have been 17s to 20s for low to fine white, but com mon and middling sorts are still in tke most request. Madras is wanted at 15s 6d to I7s per cwt, but there is little on offer. Of Java the market is still without a supply—there are se veral buyers, and at stiff rates. That the Government shall advance to such company a sum not exceeding thirty per cent. of their capital, in in• stalments of five per cent., at such times as an equal amount shall be paid up by the shareholders. The amount of loan thus required is less than that now authorised by their acts to be borrowed, but it brings that power into action sooner. FRClT.—Prices continue steady; the sales effected have been limited. Currants remain steady at 54s to 565; further sales are reported in Cephalonia for Holland at 555. Valencia Raisins are unaltered, viz. 44s to 46s for good and finest qua lities. No further arrivals of Figs, and the quotations re main unaltered, although holders are demanding rather higher rates; other kinds of Turkey fruit are quiet, and we have not heard of any business worth reporting. Sultana raisins fully support the recent advanced price of 755. Ous.—Prices are prevented from improving for Linseed Oil by the large supply, but the home trade have been in duced to operate with more freedom, and on the spot a fair quantity has been taken by them at 25s 9d per cwt, but the crushers are desirous to sell thereat as they are getting good profits. For exportation few buyers are to be met with. The demand for forward delivery has been limited, although there are sellers at 26s per cwt. The consumption continues to be as large as in this country, and on the Continent it is on the increase—prices vary little from those of this time last year. Rapeseed Oil met with a brisk demand, and an advance in the value took place. Olive Oil has been largely dealt in, and an advance in the value took place. Cocoa Nut is much in request, and owing to the small sup ply buyers are compelled to pay stiffer rates. In Palm large purchases have been made, and prices have advanced. The stock of Fish Oil has further decreased, arrivals conti nuing small, whereas the deliveries are going on largely, and a further improvement in the value took place. None has again been offered at auction, and privately the quantity on offer is less than it was of all descriptions. Cod met with ready purchasers, and prices hare improved to 271 lOs to 28/ per tun, but for arrival there are sellers rather under these rates. In Seal a good business has been done, and a further improvement in the value occurred. TALLow.—No further advance has taken place in Russian on the spot, although the demand has been good. For fine Petersburgh yellow Candle 51s to 51s 3d per cwt are the rates accepted. For spring months 51s 6d to Ms 9d are re quired, but only a moderate business has been transacted. Home made met with ready purchasers at 51s to 51s 6d nett cash. All other sorts of Tallow have been hi excellent re quest at the previous currency. FATAL ACCIDENTS WITH FIRE ARMS. We regret to record an accident of a most appalling nature, which occurred at Milverton on Friday last. The facts of the case are as follows :—A man, named Cross, had been on a shooting excursion on the above day, and on returning home placed his gun, which was loaded with a full charge, close to the clock. One of his sons, a mere youth, as soon as his father's back was turned, took up the gun, and pointing it as his mother, pulled the trigger, when, shocking to relate, the gun went off, and the whole contents were lodged in the forehead of the unfortunate woman's head, whoeimme diately fell down dead. The father immediately ran down stairs when he heard the report, when a frightful scene presented itself to his view ; the body of his life less wife weltering in her blood, and his son standing over in a frantic condition. The unfortunate woman has left a large family, to deplore her untimely end.—Seszer set County Gazette. On the 17th inst. Mr. Lovegrove held an inquest at Bream, •n the body of Thomas Isaacs, a boy about 12 years of age, whose death was occasioned in the follow ing most deplorable manner:—Three men, named Thos. Brown, Wm. Beach, and George Ridler, were in com pany together on the previous Sunday morning, the 13th inst., having two guns with them, with which they amused themselves shooting at small birds. After a while they adjourned to the Cross Keys Inn, Bream, and drank two quarts of beer between them, and then left to proceed home. The persons who had the guns were Brown and Ridler, and as they passed along the road a bird came and alighted within distance for a shot, and Ridler said, " Shoot the whoop," meaning the bird, upon which both Brown and Ridler raised their guns to their shoulders and fired. Only Ridler's gun, however, went off, that of Brown having hung fire, but this he did not seem to be aware of ; indeed all three men declare they believed at th• time that both guns had exploded. While they were looking for the bird, the boy Isaacs came up, and as he approached them Brown said to his companions, " I will have a bit of fun with the boy," and then called out to him, "I'll shoot you, my boy." The poor lad stood still and laughed, and Ridler asked him, " Where are you going, my little man?" to which he replied, " Down to Richard Morgan's to have my dinner." All this time Brown, who was about a yard from the boy, continued his most unhappy frolic, still pointing the muzzle of the gun backwards and forwards in front of the child, when at last the gun went off, and lodged its contents in the body of the ill-fated boy, who put his hand to his bleeding breast, and cried out, " Oh dear, oh dear!" Brown himself seemed horror-stricken at what he had done, and exclaimed, "Oh Lord, oh Lord! I have shot the boy—what shall I do ;" and run ning to the little fellow, he took him in his arms, and said, "my dear child, I would not have done it for the world—l thought my gun was empty." They carried the wounded victim of this most melancholy and fatal jesting to a neighbouring cottage, Brown continuing like a man distracted at what he had done, and Ridler proceeded with all haste to Coleford for a surgeon ; but long before his return the deceased breathed his last sigh, in the cottage to which his man gled body had been carried. The above facts were de posed to before a very respectable jury, and an ad journment took place till Monday next. —Gloucester Journal. Su . ch assistance, by inducing the shareholders in the respective companies more readily to pay up their calls, appears fully justified by the recommendation of govern ment loans to Irish railway companies by the committee of the House of Commons, in 1845, as— " Bringing forward a large amount of private capital in furtherance of public works of great national utility as well as emolument, and thus confer benefits on Ire land which neither public nor private capital separately employed could ever accomplish." Without some such assistance it is muck to be feared that many of the railways now in course of construction must be greatly delayed, considerably lessened in extent or altogether stopped ; thereby adding fearfully to the amount of destitution already existing. Among the numerous advantages to the government, the following are respectfully but particularly sug gested:— Alnstead of advancing an immense amount of money, unassisted, for carrying out works for the most part of questionable utility, and in many instances worse than useless, from the pauperising effect already so apparerq upon the industrial habits of the labourer by the present 53 stem of baronial relief, and with the prospect of re payment at the best but doubtful: By advancing fire millions during the next three years to Irish railway companies, an additional sum of ten millions would be paid by the shareholders, thereby causing fifteen millions to be expended on Irish railways, the advantages of which can scarcely be over-rated, as whatever improvements are in contemplation for Ireland, these must prove to be the most important This would not create any unnatural demand for, or give a false and only temporary stimulus to labour, but would enable Irish railways to progress steadily, and be completed in about the average time of construction for such works. TIIE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) It appears, from the present weekly expenditure by the Government for relief of distress, and which has been rapidly on the increase, that by August next the amount will probably be above 6,000,0004 thus exceed ing the loans required for railway companies for the next three years. The security would be ample for the repayment of the loans, which would only amount to three-eights of the money actually expended on the works, whilst the direst profit of Government, by borrowing at 3 per cent., and lending at 4 per cent., would be as follows :- 5,000,000/. to be returned by annual instalments, in twenty years, commencing soon after the advance, would bear a gross amount of interest, equal to an average of ten years. Four per cent per annum on 5,000,000/ £200,000 Three ditto dito --- Leaving a clear profit of £50,000 to the Government, which, upon an average of ten years, would amount to 500,000/. To this may be added the indirect but xot unim portant advantage in the greatly increased consumption of tea, coffee, sugar, and other articles paying duties, as well as of low priced manufactured commodities. To elucidate still further the result of the proposed arrangement, the annexed table is respectfully submitted to the consideration of her Majesty's Government. LIST A. IRISH RAILWAY COMPANIES—INCORPORATED 1845. Name of Company. Capital. Belfast and Ballymena Cork and Bandon . Dublin and Belfast Junction Dundalk and Enniskillen Great Southern and Western Extension 1,200,000 Londonderry and Coleraine Londonderry and Enniskillen Midland Great Western Newry and Enniskillen 900,000 Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick On Saturday last the following melancholy accident happened in the island of Portland :—As a preventive man, of the name of Hancock, stationed in the island, who had just returned from duty, was cleaning the barrel of his pistol, the charge of which he had unfortunately omitted to withdraw, while holding it with the muzzle pointed towards his person, it unhappily went off, and the contents were lodged in his body, excepting the ball, which passed through him, causing immediate death. We regret to add, he has left a widow and seven children to lament their bereavement of a good husband and father. An inquest was held on the body on Monday, before J. Wallis, Esq., county coroner, when the jury returned their verdict, " Accidental death." We _hear that a subscription has been begun, and liberally se conded, on behalf of the distressed widow and family.— Sherbettrne Journal. X7 ; 425,722 SLAVE AUCTION SCENE IN AMERICA. LIST B. IRISH RAILWAYS—INCORPORATED 1846. Name of Company. Capita,. Belfast and C oun ty D own 500,000 Clonmel and Thurles Cork, Blackrock, and Passage 130,000 Cork and Waterford Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Junction Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Dublin and Kingstown Extension 300,000 Galway and Kilkenny ............. Great Leinster and Munster —Carlow to Kilkenny Great Leinster and ,Munster—Kilkenny to Clonmel Great Southern and Western —Cork Ezten- In the winters of 1840 and 1841, having business in Western Virginia, where this peculiar institution flourishes in its mildest form (be it remembered I was at this time opposed to anti-slavery principles), Dec. 28th, I found myself at Martinsburg. the county seat of Berkley. About ten o'clock of the aforesaid day, I ob served a crowd congregated in the public square, in front of a superior-looking building, which had very much the appearance of a gaol, as it proved to be. On inquiring of my landlord the cause of the meeting, he said it was "a hiring"— in other words, a negro sale, as I after wards found that a number were hired for life. I walked down to the market, and to obtain a better view, I mounted a large waggon in the street, directly opposite to the stand of the auctioneer, who had commenced his work. He was a large man, dressed in aristocratic style, with a profusion of ruffles, gold finger rings, watch-seals, and last, and not least, a large whip, called by drivers a "loaded whip." The hiring I un derstood to be of a number of slaves of a certain estate, who were hired out from year to year to the highest bidder, for the benefit of the heirs. These sales take place between Christmas and new year—the holi days—quite a recreation for the slaves who are to change masters. After a number had been disposed of in this way, the crier announced that he would offer for sale six slaves. He then put up two, father and son. The old man was near sixty years of age, a cripple ; the son was about twenty-three, a perfect specimen of man. There were present two Georgia soul-drivers, who bid eight hundred dollars for both. When the crier re marked it was a small bid for both, the Georgian re plied, he would gi►e eight hundred - without the old man, as he was of no account. The young man gave the bidder a lock that would have shamed the devil ; the old man wept bitterly. The son sold on the bid ; and the father was sold for sixty dollars to an old farmer, who had never kept a slave in his life. Thus father and son were separated. The next was that of a girl fifteen years of age. (These slaves had been hired out to different individuals the past year.) She was brought crying upon the stand. With an oath, he bid her stop her "blubbering," and then proceeded with the sale She was sold for one hundred and fifty. The next case was that of a young white woman, sixteen years old, with a young child• I say white woman, because the auctioneer said she was only one-eighth black, and I have seen many of the fair girls of Ohio who could not boast of as fair complexion, or as good figure or features. She came upon the stand with her infant in her arms, in the deepest misery. A gentleman who had taken his seat beside me, observing that I was much inte rested, remarked, he thought I was a stranger in that country. I answered that I was. " These things look odd to you." " They do." Said he, "you see that man in the crowd," pointing to one within a few paces of the stand ; " that is Dr. G. He hired that girl last year and that child is his !" The Georgian bid three hun dred dollars ; some one bid four ; the Georgian bid four hundred and fifty. The girl cast a piercing glance at the crowd—her eyes rested on Dr. G., who instantly averted his face; she gazed one moment, then burst into a torrent of tears. She was knocked off to the Georgian. Thus the fiend saw his child and its mother sold into southern bondage. My God ! thought I ; is it postiible? I was cured of my pro-slavery principle.—Cineinnati Herald. 600,000 300,000 stop lOO,OOO Killarney Junction 375,000 Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Midland Great Western—Athlone Midland Great Western—Liffey Branch 33,000 Mountmellick Junction .... Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Sligo and Shannon Templemore and Nenagh .............. Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin 2,000,000 Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29 1 1846. ground the promoters of the measure take . their stand, and state that "the construction of the line cannot be postponed without the most disastrous results both to city and state—that if three millions of dollars be not subscribed to the capital stock and 10 per crnt. thereon paid in, on or before the 13th day of April next, and unless one million of dollars be paid on the amount sub scribed, and thirty miles of road put under contract, before the 30th of July following, the grant of the 'right of way' which is now only conditional, will then become positive, in which event all the advantages which we now have it in our power to secure for Philadelphia and Pennsylvania are to be transferred to the city of Baltimore, and the Baltimore and Ohio RailroadCompany,to whom have been granted the privilege of diverting the trade and travel from our own city as well as the revenue from the state improve ments. The Pennsylvania rail will, on the contrary, greatly increase the revenue derived from the state im provements, both from canals and railroads, particularly from the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad with which it will be connected. It will furnish in connexion with the Ohio Railroads, now in progress of construction, and with which it will be united, the most central, the shortest, the cheapest, and best route between the At lantic seaboard and the great West, and must, therefore, attract to itself an immense amount of trade and travel, as the following table will makeimanifest : Miles. Max'm grade per mile From Cleveland to Boston, via But falo, Albany, and Massachusetts R. Roads From Cleveland to New York via the New York and Erie Railroad From Cleveland to New York, via Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and Phi ladelphia ... 80 feet. 60 " 560 45 " From aleveland to Philadelphia, via Pittsburg and Harrisburg 466 45 " It will thus be seen that Cleveland, the most importan, city on the lakes, and the northern terminus of the Ohio State Canal, more than 300 miles in length, and the Cin cinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland Railroad, now in pro gress, 260 miles in length, both passing through highly productive portions of the State, is situated 265 miles nearer Philadelphia by the Pennsylvania route than to Boston by the new York and Massachusetts route, and 174 miles nearer Philadelphia by the Pensylvania route than to the city of New York by the shortest New York route, whilst the maximum gradients in all cases are greatly in favour of the Pennsylvania route. Who, therefore, can reasonably doubt that a railroad possess ing such superior advantages will attract to itself an immense amount of trade and travel, richly remunerating the stockholders, at the same time adding largely to the revenues of the commonwealth, and contributing beyond all present estimates to the growth and comfort, the business and prosperity of Philadelphia ? What has been the effect of similar improvements in other cases ? But for the construction of the main line from Philadelphia to Pitsburg, imperfect as it is, and im peded by frosts and droughts for a considerable portion of the year, and other internal improve• ments, the population, business, and real estate of these two cities, as well as of other portions of the State, would scarcely have equalled two-thirds of the present estimates. The construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, towards which the city of Baltimore largely contributed, although completed only half the entire distance, has. as is stated, nearly or quite doubled the amount of her western trade, and greatly augmented the value of her real and personal estate, whilst the nett earnings of the road are already more than equal to the interests on the investment. The city of New York, within ten years from the completion of the New York and Erie Canal, had nearly doubled her population, and the value of her real and personal estate had swelled from 100 millions to 218 millions,' and went on increasing, notwithstanding great pecuniary dif ficulties and devastating fires, until the completion of the railroad from Boston to Albany, which has had a sensible effect in diminishing the western trade, and thereby the value of her real and personal estate. The road from Albany to Boston was completed in 1841, in which year the value of her real and personal estate in the city of New York was 252 millions ; in 1842, 238 millions ; in 1843, 228 millions; in 1844, 236 millions; and in 1845, 240 millions ; still 12 millions less than in 1841, although in the interim several thousand buildings were erected. New York, partly with the hope of recovering her lost advantages, had found it expedient to construct a railroad (running nearly parallel with the Hudson river) and another to Dunkirk on Lako Erie, at an aggregate expense of some twenty millions of dollars. " Upon Boston the effect of this road (from Boston to Albany) has been most remarkable. In the four years intervening from 1841 to 1845, her population has increased from 93,000 to 115,000, and the value of her real and personal estate within the same period, from $98,000,000 to $135,000,000. When this growth is compared with bar former history, as the oldest city on the Atlantic, we shall be able to appreciate her astonishing progress under the disadvantages of a soil ungenial, almost to sterility." Even the city of Albany, though small in comparison, has aided much more liberally in proportion to her means than Philadelphia is now desired to, towards the construction of a rail road designed to promote her trade and intercourse. That city has thereby greatly increased, not only the business, but the value of her real and personal estate, and at the sane time is receiving dividends on the amount of her investment at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum. Yet none of these improvements held out. originally, any advantages, either general or special at all to be compared with those that may reasonably be expected front the speedy construction of the Pennsyl vania Railroad. If satisfactory assurances are given that this road will be promptly commenced and pushed forward to completion, we may safely calculate not only upon a connexion with the, Pittsburg and Cleveland road, and the road leading from Cincinnati via Colum• bus to Cleveland, but also with the Sandusky and Mans field road, either at Mansfield or Mount Vernon, with a probable e.xtension westward, through the cen tral portions of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to the Mississippi river, with branches from the north and the south, which in less than three years from its completion will bring to the main stem an amount of trade and travel far surpassing all present cal culation. This is the true, and the only true method of securing for Pi iiladelphia any considerable portion of the trade of the lak es. The produce and commodities, which, in the absence of such railroad facilities as we have above suggested, are now, at much expense, conveyed chiefly from the north ern and central portions of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to ports on the lakes, and give employment to a vast amonnt of tonnage, if once afloat on those waters, may be considerectasiost - to Philadelphia. If we design to secure for Philadelphia "the' trade of the lakes," we must intercept it before it reaches the lakes. At Cleveland, Sandusky, and Toledo, and between the two places last named, a railroad is now contemplated ; we have the advantage in distance of 174 miles, and at all points 50 miles south of the lakes, 274 miles over New York, and a still greater advantage over Boston, and during the five months of the year, when the lakes are closed, which is the season when the products of the west are generally pr epared for market, the cities named can not compete witl i us, either for the trade or travel, ex cept by our " c entral route." The navigation of the lakes is usuall7 obstructed by ice from five to six months in the fear, whilst the railroad during seasons of frost, as well as at all other seasons, will furnish a ready, safe, and expeditious conveyance, without trans-shipment, to a steady and desirable market. On such a railroad, so extended and connected, it has been estimated, by good judges, that the tonnage e annot bo less than 200,000, and the passengers 3 00,000 per annum! Who shall calcu late the effect of i such an increased amount of trade and travel upon the commerce and navigation, and the growth and prosperity of Philadelphia? But what if the Permsylvaniei. ,Railroad be not made, and the Balti more and Ohio Company, as they would in that case have the right to do, should extend their road to Pitts burg, and form la connexion - with the Ohio railroads, to which we have a hove. - alluded. 'All the advantages, we repeat, which we have it new in. our power to secure for our own state and city; would then be fransferred to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and to the city of Balti more. Some, WI) 'are aware, have affected to believL that Philadelphist; because of her superior capital, and the deservedly high character of her merchants, would still retain her pr esent portion of the western trade, al though she might not be able to increase it. This we believe to be a fatal delusion. The position of Baltimore, so far as regards the foreign and coastwise trade, is at least equal to that of Philadelphia; and, in the case above supposed, leer advantages in respect to the wes tern trade would bet greatly superior. The distance by railroad from that city to Philadelphia is 93 miles. The additional expense, therefore, of transporting 200,000 tons of freight between the two points, at the low rate of three cents. per ton per mile, and 21 cents. per ton for charges in Baltimore, would be ............ $600,000 And for conveying :100,000 passengers at the same rate, and the same allowance for ex penses in Baltimore, would be 900,000 0 Making an sainual tax of ••• ie1,500,00 against Philadolphi a and in favour of Baltimore, or n that ratio according to t he greater or less amount of business and travel passing by that route between Philadelphia aid the West. So monstrous a tax as this the business men of Philadelphia cannot afford to pay, and the Western dealer will not pay. By the con s t ruct i on of the Pennsylvania railroad, Philadelphia will be placed even nearer to Pitt aburgh, and to the main channels of the western trade, than Baltimore can possibly be by way of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, whilst the maximum gradients on the latter nearly double those on the former. Nature has afforded us advantages and facilities with respect to railroad improvements enjoyed by no other Atlar ttic city, and if we avail ourselves of these advantages I Ind facilities, while it is yet time, the growth and prospi mity of Philadelphia will at least equal, if it do not surpass;, that of any other city in the union. Some have entertained the opinion that if the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company should ultimately extend their road through - Virgini a t o t h e Ohi o r i ver at Wheel ing, or Fishing Creek, a large portion of the trade and travel ascending that stream would be diverted by that road, notwithstanding its short curvatures and gradients, varying from eighty-two to a hundred feet per mile, and cone equent high charges. This we believe to be a groundlesis apprehension. The average period in each year, for a number of years past, during which the Ohio river could not be navigated to advantage by steam-boats, is less than six weeks, say thirty-nine days —previously to the arrival of which period, western produce is usu ally sent to market—and it is during this short space of time only that this road could 'enjoy any of these supposed advan tages. The Pennsylvania route, by its connexion with Cincinnati, above referred to, will strike the river many miles below, at one of our most important cities. To and from this point the passenger desirous of avoiding the river would assuredly take the railroad. Where expedition is of more importance than low freight, or in low stages of water, the same would be the case with merchandize. Where low freight is as object, as is almost always the case with produce and heavy articles, Pittsburg, the head of navigation, would of ceure be preferrsd as the point of transhipment to any point lower down. Whether, therefore, we consider the expedition and adlantligeit of railroad commituication alone, or these combined with the f den, the Perlllaylvattia route rtil:,/ - CV , r , t . cf,•l, views of the oppii,ition are ern., diell In what is entitled an anti•sui,seription addr.sg, it on tended that the expected cost or the line of from seven to ten millions of dollars is a perfect probability, seeing that the cost of railways hitherto has only been imper fectly estimated among them. It asset is that the progress of private subscription has proved to be inconsiderable, when compared with the demands of the charter; and this was the natural cons , Aitence of what had taken place. The commissioners adjourned their last meeting in September to a day beyond the coming election, be , cause, it may be presumed, private subscription had ceased to come in. The interference of the new coun cils has become the principal, if not the final, hope of the railroad ; and after merchants, traders, manufac turers, mechanics, householders, lot-owners, and pro prietors of every kind in the city, in the districts, and in the state at large, have preyed either so blind or so true to their own interests as not to have subscribed to secure the charter, the Whig list or can did ates f or the councils has been formed by the conferees precisely in that manner that will compel s every owner of real estate in the city to submit to the road, whatever may be his view either of his o wn interests or of the interest of the corporation. A voluntary subscription has failed. It never was resorted to in the temper, spirit, and manner through which alone it could be obtained, From the very outset, all the calculations of profit and all the sug gestions of personal interest put forth by the friends and patrons of the road were completely and fatally dis credited by their own course in resorting to the city ; and it has now come to be the nearly universal feeling, that if the city does not make it, the road will not be made ; and that if the city does make it, it will only be made by her because the sacrifice of private capita' to make it will be so much beyond the value to the sub scribers, that men acting with the instincts which govern all trades and the investments of all property for their own account, will have nothing to do with it. The railroad itself is no object of aversion to any of us—far from it. We should be glad to see it made by those who see their interest in it, for then we should - be morally sure that it would be worth the expenditure ; but we confess our doubts, in consequence of the doubts which are practically manifested by those who say the road is indispensable to the city. We confess our doubts, arising from this cause, whether the road is so importnt to any interest as it has been declared to be ; and we entertain a perfect conviction that if by the interest of the city is meant the interest of the cot.• poration of the city, or the interest of the owners of property in the city, that so far is the declara tion from being true, that it is directly opposed to the truth. On this point we ask your attention to the fol lowing suggestions. There is one proposition connected with this subject, the truth of which has, we believe never been questioned ; that is to say, that if the city shall subscribe for the number of shares proposed, pri vate subscriptions will cease altogether, and the city must take the burden of the whole railroad upon her self. There is another, which we think equally clear, that she must raise the money by loans, if she can, and mast pay the interest by taxes, if she can. She has no other disposable resources. No financiering will relieve the property of the inhabitants from this burden. There is a third, that all experience in Pennsylvania shows to be as true as either of the others ; that for years and years to come, and for a period which we are unable to measure, this burden of taxes must continue. There is not an extensive work of this kind in the state, whether public or private, that brings any dividend to its stock holders. You may look around this city in every direc tion. Railroads and canals have been projected and car ried on in the same spirit which now rules, and the end at this time is that the stocks of most of the private com panies have disappeared from the brokers' exchange as of no commercial value ; that even their loans are far, very far, below par, except ,in some solitary instances, and that we pay a tax to meet the interest on the loans contracted by the state to make such of these works as are public, and shall continue to pay it, as long as the public faith shall endure. Can any person tell when the dawn is to break upon the long night which has settled upon most of these companies and works ? There have always been arguments, very good arguments, against any such occurrences as have happened ; but the occur rences are before our eyes, and unless we shut them, and keep them shut, it is impossible to avoid seeing them in every direction ; and unless men are willing to be cheated, and even desirous of being cheated, they will take no argument whatever against such experience. There is another proposition which has great probability on its side, though it may not be so evident as the other, namely, that in proportion as any dividends from a successful railroad shall meet a part of the interest on the city loans, we may look for a diminution of re ceipts upon a long line of the public works, and increased taxation to meet it. What we may cease paying in part to the city, we shall pay to the state. These taxes, fellow-citizens, are to fall upon what ? Upon any new property within the city which the railroad is to create. Upon an increased capital of the trader, manufacturer, and mechanic within her limits ? Upon an increased value of her houses and lots ? Not at all ; or if at all, only in a most inconsiderable de gree. When the advocates of this subscription say that the railroad will produce an increase of taxable capital in the city of Philadelphia corresponding to the interest on the increased debt, they use an ambiguous name, which must be reduced to certainty before we can rea son with them. If they mean an increase of capital, or a profit to the whole commercial eity, including all the districts, their allegation does not meet our objection. Our concern is in the corporate city, and the corporate city can derive no profit and no taxes from anything beyond its limits. The increase, to be of any value in the argument, must be within its limits. Now what is the probable increase of houses and stores, or in their va lue, within those limits which the railroad is to set off in aid of the tax paid ? In which direction, let us ask, is the progress of buildings and improvements at the pre sent time under the influence of existing public im provements ? Let any man take a walk round our city, and his eyes will see progress in the north, the north-east, and north-west, and very little else where. This is the destiny of things not to be arrested, and the railroad is to accelerate it. The great future growth is to be in those directions, and not within the limits of the city. For purposes of transportation to the west the whole river front may be employed, as well as that within the city, and' that to receive the trade from the west it must happen, in this case as it universally happens, that buildings of every kind will stretch out towards the country- to meet the productions which are coming in. The true interest- and the necessary policy of the city is to reduce -her taxes as low as she can, to make them; if possible, lower than those in the northern districts, to counteract the advantage of position which these districts enjoy over her western front, for ever lost to the pnrposes of trede, as much as Moyamensing, and destined to be the residence, not of tradery, but of per sons of easy fortune and of moderate income, and pos sibly of some manufactories, if the weight of taxes does not drive them away. We say with confidence that every dollar of tax which the railroad debt shall bring upon the city, is a premium upon residence and improvement in these districts, and therefore an injury to the city. It is a premium for deserting the city west of Broad-street, the only material space now remaining to be built upon. The tax will be avoided, and equal or greater conve nience in residence obtained by going north. A rail road tax upon the city_ must have the double effect to discourage investments in the city, and to increase them in the districts; to increase the value of property el se _ where, and to diminish it at home. It is felt, and justly felt, to be hard that the western trade, which is the golden fleece this railroad is to obtain for our traders, even if every dollar of it comes into the city, will not pay one dollar of taxation towards the expenses of the road. The trade is not expected to be taxed; it cannot be taxed; it eludes state taxation at this present time, when there is a clear and positive law to tax it, and th e state does not get a dollar from it. The taxes must fall on that on which the present taxes fall, and if any one thinks they are not heavy enough at present, we cannot object to his voting for those who will vote to increase them. The taxes, then, fellow•citiaens, which this railroad is to necessitate, are not to fall upon the new houses and stores within the city, which are to be built up in consequence of it, not upon the increased capital of the trader, nor upon the increased value of existing houses and stores. They are to fall upon the property now existing, and in our judgment to depre• ciate the value of the great mass of that property, and to raise the value of like property in the districts. It is this general proposition that we ask you to consider. There may he, and if the road should prove successful, there probably will be, exceptions in favour of certain descriptions of property in the city. But the proposition we hold to be generally true; and we had vastly rather, as citizens of this city, take the hazard of losing the western trade, if it is to be lost, of which we have little fear, than to incur the mo mentous responsibility of burdening the city with a tax to make the road, with the probable consequences which are before us. We wash our hands of it, as we hope you will do. There are many other objections to this scheme of compelling the corporation to build the railroad, which we can only name, without explaining and enforc ing them :—the extreme rashness of embarking the city in such a project upon mere credit, for she has no dis posable property to pay her subscription without borrow ing; the jealousy which is certain to be entertained of her by the country and by the legislature, if she success fully controls such a work, where there exists quite enough of that feeling already; the fierce contentious of party within her limits for the control of all the contracts, appointments and emoluments that are to grow out of the road; the defects of the railroad charter, which give the company no security whatever for the enjoyment of the Columbia railroad upon equal terms with those who use the state works, nor for consulting the interest or convenience of the company in the use of it, and which contains no authority to the company to make a road between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, for its own use, while, in a certain event, it is careful to Ore that right from Harrisburg to Lancaster ; the de .• fective management that must arise under the'directors and agents of a municipal legislature, of annual elec tion, of occasional attendance, of imperfect experience, distant from the scene, and expending from the city purse, and not from their own; these and other objec tions fill us with the deepest apprehensions. SHIPWRECK FROM FAIR WEATHER.—There has recently been an instance of shipwreck caused by fair weather. When the sea is agitated, it always breaks on the rocks lying at the mouth of the Charente, and sailors can thus avoid them. But one night lately the sea was so calm that, by the light of the moon, no symptom of peril could be perceived, and the English brig the Ann, proceeding from England to Charente, came right on the rocks and was wrecked. Fortunately the crew escaped. ' Dividend! per Annum. 171. - 121. - 31. 7 1/. 55. 2i 85 I 41. - 71. lOs. 61. p. C. 281. 15/. 201. 11. 10s. 1/. Bs. Name of Compuy. Commercial East and IrQit India.. East Country • Landon• ..... St. Katharine • . Southampton • • Name of Company. East London.... • • • • 81. Grand Junction ••• • • . 31. 10s. Kent .. ...... .. • • . • • • 21. 10s. Vauxhall •••-•. . • • • • • 5/. per cent. West Middlese . . . 51.58. pr cnt. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) Although the market generally was not so strong, yet a good business was done at Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of Railway Shares to-day, at steady prices ; and buyers came forward with spirit for the better descrip tions of stock. The following are a few of the prin cipal sales : East Indian South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 7 6 Great Luxemb ourg Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia ...... 0 4 6 Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. 2 12 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension 3 12 6 Manchester and Southacpton, 1847 1 12 6 Newport and Abergavenny Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 10 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Shropshire Union and Canal (scrip) Shrewsbury and Hereford London and Manchester (Renaington's) 0 9 6 Madrid and Valentia COURSE OF EXeffi Amsterdam .. • ...C.F. 12 4 Ditto, at sight • . 12 1 Rotterdam .... • • 2U. 12 434 Antwerp........ •• 25 85 Harnburgh .... • • M.P. 13 10% Altona• • ...... ........ Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 55 Ditto, 3 months...... 25 8.5 Marseilles .• . • .... 25 90 80urdeaux......... .. 25 90 Frankfort 011 Maine.... 121 ?etersburgh, 3 U 5.... Berlin ..... ....... Vienna, effec. flo ••• • • • 10 5 Trieste, ditt0.......... 10 5 Madrid ...• ••• • • . 35% 8i1ba0..... Barcelona • Seville.. NGE.-(THIS DAY).; Gibraltar.. •• .• • • • • Leghorn •••• • • 30 55 Genoa .........• ••• • • 25 90 Milan ........... Venice.. .••• • • . Naples .. ... •• • ...... 40IA Palermo, peroz ..... 120% Li5b0n.........• ••• • • . 5334 Oporto-. ..• • • •••••• •• 53 4 Rio Janeiro •• . ••• • • • 26 Bahia .. Buenos Ayres .. New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .......... PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz, Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 r Nev; Dollars T.:. •• Spanish Doubloons .. 0 Silver in bars .... •. • • 0 4 10% 0 0 5 0 N MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price current of December 29.) SUGAIL.—The business transacted in all descriptions of West India Sugar was extremely limited by refiners and grocers, on Wednesday and Thursday, the quantity disposed of amounting to only 440 hhds and trcs, but holders evinced firmness, and obtained previous prices for all sorts. The ar rivals of Raw Sugar have not been of much moment since this day week, but the deliveries continue satisfactory, and prices are lower than they were in 1815 ; in the stuck, how. ever, there is little difference. REFINED.—To-day several purchases were made in Re fined Goods by the home trade, and at firm rates, standard lumps selling at 655, and brown grocery lumps at 64s per cwt. For Bonded Crushed Sugar the inarket is firm, and there are several buyers. MAunerius.—Prices have not improved, but there has been a fair business transacted by private treaty, and the rates paid are equal to those previously current; the better qualities of yellow and grey meeting with the most attention. EAST hou.—The rates previously established are sus tained for all kinds of Bengal Sugar ; but the amount of business done privately has been to a small extent only, and non• has been offered at public sale. Madras, however, has met with attention, and several parcels have been taken ; but holders are inclined to sell at previous rates. For Ceylon and Penang former prices have been taken for small parcels. FOREIGN.—To-day Foreign Sugar met with little attention, and the only transaction worth reporting, is that of 200 cases of brown Bahia for exportation at 21s per cwt, being about the former value ; at this rate, however, holders are inclined to realise. !COIIEE . —Holders manifest more firmness, and have re rained from offering any at public sale. The market has an improving appearance, a fair amount of business having been transacted by private treaty, and the rates paid are rather above those previously current; indeed, of middling and good middling sorts the supply is far from ample for the demand. Cocoa —Th low and middli ng qual i t i es of West India have e met with a dull sale, and for such prices tend down wardr, the stock being arge, but good and tine are wanted, and th, supply bepinagrcsemlsalsolldll)rivately brought very full rates, the little business has be en or Foreign late rates are asked ; but done. SPIRITS. —. EAst In dia rum has been in good request, and the parcels sold eat stiffer rates. In Leeward Island several sales have been m small, prices rul e f i r ,. i: Ve, and the supply being emerara of strong quality has been sou ht after, and_ a fair business has been done. Jamaica is held firmness, and there at full; la t t n e d on offer ; a good busi is but a moderate quantity e f an w v i l l ness has been done, and porta w ti e n r teßrmrans.dyGiesndeuvlal of sale, and can be had upon rather lroates. n. At .e London and has met with little attention for ex s E this year. Liverpool duty has been paid on 20,015 British Corn Spirits have been in lively d e g a ai n i d l . 3 /Is 3d nett cash, Scotch and Irish 1182 a to us 3 d. ng a s i h n at per cent under proof at lOs 3d, and 22 per cent under proofla7t 9s 9d per gallon. SPlCES.—Holders of Black Pepper evince firmness, and offer only a limited quantity for sale; a fair demand exists 100 100 100 100 150 £8,817,900 AMERICANLIN)S. The Massachusetts lines are said to be reaping rich harvests. The Maine, Fitchburgh, Worcester, and Western have done the largest freight business, and the two latter have been doing a most successful general traffic throughout the season. The financial year of the Worcester and Western has closed, when their accounts will be made up; the former for six months, and the latter for five. The Charlestown Branch Road, some times called the Ice Road, which has lately been united to the Fitchburgh road, has freighted this year, in eleven months, over seventy thousand tons of ice and twelve millions of bricks. The expenses have been con siderably reduced since the union, which places both lines under one head and management, and it is esti mated that this little road, about five miles in length, between Charlestown and Fresh Pond, will yield ten per cent. net revenue, being equal to the main line. The Fitchburgh Company made a good thing by the an nexation, and the Charlestown branch corporators, by the sale of their roads and lands, have realised over Dar fcr their stock, which at one time sold at consider able discount. BOSTON AND P/tOTIDENCE.—The capital of the Bostoa and Providence Railroad Corporation has been in creased by the creation of 3,600 new shares. An as sessment of 25 per cent. on the par value of the shares will be payable on the 13th of January next; one of 25 per cent. on the Ist of April next; and one of 50 per cent. on the Ist of July next. All new shares not taken by the stockholders by the 25th of December will be sold at auction at such time as the directors shall determine, and any premium obtained at such sale will be divided among the shareholders entitled to such shares, in their proportion. WILMINGTON AND RALEIGH.—The eleveth annual meeting of the stockholders of the Wilmington and Raleigh has been held. Governor Dudley, president of the company, submitted, on behalf of the directory, a report of operations for the year ending October 1. Liabilities of the company on the Ist October, 1845, $868,817 52. Which sum is made up as follows Bonds sold in England, bearing 5 per cent. interest To the Literary Fund of the State of North Carolina, at 6 per cent. interest 85,000 00 Company's Bonds endorsed by State of North Carolina, bearing 6 per cent. in 250,000 00 Bills payable, bearing 7 per cent. interest Do. bearing 6 per cent. interest Scrip Bonds due to contractors 1,793 43 Bonds for hire of negro labourers, due Jan. 1, 1846, and previous Bonds for hire of negro labourers, due Jan. 1, 1847 18,270 00 Due sundry persons for materials,labour,&c 30,875 08 3,939 48 Total s6 68,817 Amount of receipts for the year ending Oct. 1 : 52 Passengers 5103,469 60 Freight Mail Transportation 8185,286 65 Expenses of road for the year 191,854 49 Amount of receipts from steamboats for the year end ing October 1 : Passengers and freight Mail transportation Expenses of boats for the year Net profits of road and boats 8132,535 84 97,827 96 28,140 04 In'regard to the expenses of the road the examining committee say, " It "will be seen that the expenditures of the railroad are to an amount greatly exceeding the.* of any previous year. The committee think proper to explain that there has been expended during the year for four new locomotives, two new coaches, a large num ber of new trucks, and a new coach•house, the snm cif $42,901 07, which doss not properly belong to the cut , rent expenses of the road. It appears by the report (if the superintendent of the road and road repairs thaat there has been expended for road repairs (including tilt, sum of 421,747 74 for new iron) the sum of $79,790 46.7 PENNSYLTANIAN LINE.—A fierce controversy is being carried on in Pennsylvania as to the expediency, or otherwise, of carrying out this line, by voluntary private tsabscription,Lor compulsory public loan. Upon this WORKS by ROBERT Z. CULTERIVELL. t.D. M.R.C.S. 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PROPOSED CONFER E NCE OF MINISTERS ON TS ° Y. SUFFERINGS AND PRIVATIONS OF THE PEOPLE_ UNITED KI NGDOM .—I n conseque nce of the friglfir; amount of distress an d f am i ne existing i n a ll pa d rt s a n ej the United Kin g d om , b ut more espec i a ll y In ir elan i n s bordl Highlands and Isla n d s o f S cot l an d, meeting m pnand be convened at Exeter-hall, consisting of clerZ s i duties ministers of all denominations whose !Od es !' t h e exi od itu render them more intimately acquaint- Yi d her fly gencies of the people than any - other n er ti s i s ti - og n e ,i_ t e o irs tm", jesty's subjects; for thd purpose - Of co most desirable Course to be pursued 0 m i t igate i t n e ctee s• mense amount Of 'p r i va ti on an d su ff er i n g dally s pan' ing throughout,th e country with a rapiditY trulY d t beir ing. A mong the ministers: who have tendere d ta ble zealous co-operation, may ,1, be numbered the ki°° o - O r. and Rev. Baptist Noel, Rev. S. G. Garrard , ger. and Rev. 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