The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. Ilighuess the Dur.he.;s of Gloucester r i i :" ls ed • vli tii is tuor in t1i(! at Her R Highness proceeded to her residence br•d c , e 'n 3 oni. His Royal Highness tbe Duke of Cam - t,,l bride arrived at Richmond in the afternoon, from a tour VI a visi , to the Roy al Duchess. bny Count de Reventlow,tlie Danish Minister, transacted l e ,, al yesterday a t t h e F ore ign-office. His Excel- Yeater the Brazilli an illi n i ster, a l so transacte d business daY at the Foreign-office. officesPatchos were received yesterday at the Colo-nial tute, from the Governor of Sierra Leone. e Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord gresdent), has re d to his seat Bowood-park, Wilts, from a sisit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE Th e t TATTERSALL'S—MornaY. p rop wo leading favourites for the Cambridgeshire im the e d on the last betting at Newmarket, less, however, from be t anlou nt of money sent into the market than from the re -6(1 offers to back them. Next to them, the only horses I, o : r ee were B est Bower and Alexa ; both were i n hi g h fa with Pith many parties. In no other respeet did the betting ans event possess any interest. Closing prices : . THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm Ito 1 agst Mr. Nunn's Sister to Joanna colt 0 to 1 ag s t C o l onel Anson ' s lago 5 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Conspißowracy '4) t o 1 a g st Mr. Pemberton's Best er—taken to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting 20 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin 25 to 1 agst Lord ~dChesterfield's Lady Wildair to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Garry Owen to agst Mr. P. R o lt's Alexa—taken freely 2 5 to 1 agst Mr. Forth Richmond's Refraction 's False Rert 2 5 to 1 agst Duke of po 17 to 1 agat Mr. Roles Evenus I,!0 to 1 agst L or d E xe t er ' s Si s t er t o P ergu la r ia to 1 agst Mr. Hook's Buttress—taken ' 3 3 to 1 agst Mr. Wyatt's Laundrymaid 4 0 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Tom Tulloch 9 to 2 agst lago and Sister to Joanna colt. DERBY. 33 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt—taken to• agst Mr. Mostyn's Projectile—taken so agst Mr. Gully's Tantivy—taken to O6 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Miss Iris colt—taken 1,00 r „ " 1-aget Mr. Mostyn's West Indian Planter—taken agst Mr. Mostyn's King of Morven—taken. ~ E W,„„ 1 1ARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. 'No e 4 ch betwe e n Lo r d Eglinton's Thersites and the bet w - ' D J Bedford' s P aragone, i s o ff b y c o nsen t, an d i n that the IP ErYx and Esther, belonging to the same nobleman, joke pays 50 sous. forfeit. hist forth portion of the Bentinck stud was put up for salo 11. 1 ,, 1 7 i '1aY, but on l y three lots d i sposed o f , v i z. : —L e t- us - s t o p- Yea r i,!' e 'saYs-slow, 160 gu i neas; J o y ous , 46 guineas; and a ng colt by Colwick, out of Skilful, 26 guineas. Th,,,,EIVMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1847. r toar„4_bAor•—M 3, r. Greville's Alarm, Bst 41b, agst Mr. y t •rAte Baron, Bst Ilb. T.M.M. 500, h ft. Tr, SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847. _ _ 11 W... 8 .. 1)47 .-Idr. Barns's Sotterlj, Bst 71b, agst Duke of ."I\ts Duplicity, Bst 51b. T.Y. . 100, h ft. The DUMFRIES RACES.—FILIDAY. "Itt ern Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 tt, with 40 added. lijr. -A , Once round and a dis. (14 Subs.) i; 'Johnstone' s R owena , 5 y r s, 7st 101 b walked over. s,,Ave and T a k e Pl ate of 25g., added to a Sweepstakes of k r. each, 3 ft. Heats, once round and a dis. (7 Subs.) !litelock' s F a i r R osamon d, 5 yrs (J o y) 10 1 N i ; i rl'ing's Jane, 3 yrs O. 1 3 b1t,4•,11. Johnstone's Jack Cade, 5 vrs ler e Mace's False Position, 4 yrs ...... .. .2 dr kr. Vlandicap of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added. ,Twomiles. kr. It • 11. Johnstone's Roper's Daughter, aged, 9st 1 11 b... 2 Robertson' Tom ' Torn Tough, 6 yrs, lOst kr. IN hitelock's Fair Rosamond. 5 yrs, Bst t ;1: John st one ' s Fair Helen, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b 4 Th e • Johnstone's Jack Cde, 5 rs, Bst 71b 5 I\`WhipStakes Handicap of a one guinea each, and a purse k r. 1 , dded. O nce roun d an d a di s . (5 S u b s. ) kr. pras a er's Queen of the South, llst 101 b . raser's Burnie-my-boy, list NAV AL PREPARATIONS IN FRANCE. ho er e Presse announces, that important contracts have or li e °ncluded by the Minister of Marine at the ports • included Brest, L'Orient, Toulon, and Rochefort. 4 nrin lB I(b °‘cn,'' adds the Presse, " that the ,Chamhers ei ene gi the last session, struck with the deplorable defi- Yall s 3 ' w hich appeared in the stock of oak in the dock kay ' Voted c ons id era bl e cre di t t o th e Minister of Th e 'ne to enable him to procure a sufficient supply. wi th late contracts were concluded in compliance to t „, th is resoluti on o f t h e Ch am b e rs, and amount ir e less th an f rom 25,000 f rancs to 30,00 0 1 2 he s ' na aad emb race a per i o d o f t h ree y e ar s . le apor a aunt of th ese con t racts , an d the political ev er ta nce, which is so legitimately attached to itis t i 3r i ' na tter which c ons tit u t es our mar iti m e resources, i nfor Y the care which we have taken to collect accurate diffn lat ion relati ve t o th e con t rac t s concluded in the Minient peter fn • • s, and w hi c h h av e been submitted to th , .. k noll or opprobation. The contracts for Toulon for ch . nt t° 3 2,260 steres of oak; for Brest, 40,150 steres; 4 , 4 'hug 24,960 stares; for L'Orient, 34,463 steres , tht ZiLallii°teith; contracted for fort, 32,910 stems. The comparison ports of wi t h the secondari; kiai.« llat for T ou l on , leads us to suppose at he. relies upon other resourcfs, otherwise it l wou . ld ou r li neult to ex lain the improvidence of neglecting hi Prirl _ e iPal naval arsenal in the Mediterranean, i mpo rt eh ,,`"aY be called some day to perform an l and ,"'t Pare during a political complication. Eng 9.4atirseilses more foresight ; she purchases enormous lies. 'ti es 1 „, of timber in the Adriatic and in the Black /3 7 , 11 44,,.'3 7 should not we imitate her ? After the 44 ari la i 01 the Mourillon, at Toulon, the Minister of en g i ne have orders to one of our most experienced sh b ,s, to expre the abundat stock ot timer for lili ip tek tit ding to be found i n the n neighbourhood b of the re nd Sea. Th a t eng i neer h as re t u rned, he has info ;er e d an account of his mission, and, if we are well r his report has full y justified the .previou , s in i;e) ta atiOn. A new source of su pply for our arsenals may °Pened in that quarter. But even that must not dis- Pease With our internal resources, and in this respect the administration of some of our ports has ill understood the mission intrusted to it. We are authorised to state that Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, did not arrive at Liverpool by the steamer Cambria. He intended to leave New York by the steamer Great Western on the Bth inst. The Hon. Harriet Grimston expired at an early hour on Sunday morning, at her residence in Upptr Grosvenor -street, in her 70th year. The deceased was the only surviving sister of the late Earl of Vernlam. CANADA AND THE CANADIANS IN 1846. By Lieut.-Colonel Sir Richard Bonnycastle, 2 vols., 21s. bound. The abuse work is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published: -2. Vol. 6, of Madame d'A.rblay's Diary and Letters. 3. A third and cheaper edition of " The Nemesis in China," comprising a com plete History of the late W ar , &c., in 1 v o l., wit h Maps a nd Plates, 12s. bound. 4. Burke's Hist or y o f the Lkanded Gentry, com pl ete i n 2 vols., royal Bvo., 21. 10s. 1"111(1- Q 5. Vol. 9, o f A gnes Strickland ' s Lives of the u's of En g l an d, compr i s i ng Mary of Modena, Con- Sort een , of James 11. 6. Th e N e l son Letters and Die. E's, complete in 7 vols.. 8vo.; and 7. Travel's and 4 ravellers, by Mrs. Trollope', 2 vols., 21s. T HE BONDING WAREHOUSES AT MANCHESTER. f„I e l have much pleasure in laying before our readers the ;,„_"°.wing statement of the amount of customs duties ending at the custom-house here, during the quarter th ere the 10th of October last. It will seen that i i l r r e te i r S , a a n ud in 3 c B re , in crease of 2,6101. above the receipts of last 176/. above the corresponding quarter of eliding 10th of October, 1846, was 56,640/. ; during the quarter ending 10th of October, 1845, 18,4641. ; i ncrease Zo o the quarter, 38,176/. LllParatives tatement showing the amount of cus. "Is' duties collected in Manchester during the firs th ;n g qua me-qartrters oers f o 1 f the present year, and the correspond ` B4s: 1845. 1846. 1846. qr. en dg. sth Kprl 11,043 sth Apr 138,427 Incrse 27,384 , s sth July 12,689 sth Ju1y54,030 „ 41,341 90 10th Oct. 18,464 10th Oct. 56,640 „ 38,176 -- £149,097 ~ Z 106,90, It i t £42,196 e ei gratifying to observe that there .al is st a ti n n i d n i c n r g eas th e e olafrrgee t,,,Dts during the last quarter, notw ithstanding Celnit of duty paid during the former suproni t.Peel's wheat, core of meal immediately after the passing iitasur. We understand that it is acco l unted ta f g o o r b o y t. the the aler.eased number of parties taking fL l ' l ,ng of charges, as well as the conven ad ie v v ie ic a h nd is sa n t o is; Ci e l ' h attending the bonding system, n a _ eg generally , adopted by the ' s and spirits, &c., in G I s in tobacco, tea and coffee,Twine Manchester all principal wholesale E x anche3ter and the neighbourhood. —Manchester OU r :1\ El , CASE. —On Monday one of the la tb d tor in s in n gaol died, and the gaoler has been p 't b e • legal 4wkwar position t'.s to what he shall do wit h the body, l te , I ng the opinion of some of the most emin ent „ivil,l here, that if the gaoler delivers up the bod y, be :ehlliob€' "swerable for the debt. Cases have be en cted i a , Z° !he debt had to be collected before the bo dy could buried but whether in this case they think, t hep oor _ with:,ltlaving paid the debt of nature is to get . h ff f e r m . ee - . Without P a Ying his creditors , is likel to furnish —ent f decidethe case —Norwzch .driv erliser, er Cleve r men to MuR s Zthe,3-IC's"--ThiS is an old remedy, which, like many that ha„ been thrown aside, might in many cases . , s e employed with advantage. Every one must have el . Ferieneed its influence in soothing or exciting the fee t. 3 g B ' and 'withdrawing the mind from . painful recollee -1°713. In some stages of fever, and in many nervous diseases I have no doubt it would be highly useful, and that it would o p i ates fail—Doften succeed in procuring sle e p w h ere Moore. h WA NTON D ESTRUCTION Or SHEEP IN THE ESSEX 4CBR E B .—For t h e last two or three Sundays the in habitants of Plaistow and East Ham have been subjected t° e°nsiderable annoyance by the incursion of a large cumber of Cockney sportsmen into the parish, for the ostensible purpos e of spending the Sabbath by shooting in the marshes, but as the following will show, for the eal purpose of doing considerable damage to the sheep and cattle turned into the marshes prior to being brought tp to Smithfield Market. The " sportsmen,' who ge nerally belong to the working classes from the neigh bourhood of Shoreditch and Whitechapel, muster in con siderable force. as many as from thirty to forty being "ell " popping " at whatever may come in their way at a time. During the last week a number of sheep have been taken ill, and on were ?pone or tw o o f them dying they opened insides' and a lar ge quantity of shot discovered in their he s with which the marshes abound, and have been drowned: Three men Were arrested on a charge of the above description and ptaken befor e th e magistrates at Ilford Petty Sessions. They were, ho wever , di scharged ng t 9 39E48 i a f ormalit , iy. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, .00T013ER 2l, 1846. TIM MADRID AND VALENCIA AILWAY. A special meeting of the shareholders in this Com pany was held, at one o'clock yesterduy, at the London Tavern, to hear a statement from the chairman, William Chadwick, Esq.; who has been recently in Madrid on the affairs of the Company. A considerable number of shareholders were present. Mr. FOWELL, the secretary, having read the advertise • meat convening the meeting, proceeded to read the re port as follows : " The directors have, through the personal interven tion of their chairman, Mr. Chadwick, made the most important and satisfactory arrangements with the board of the Spanish directors, at a meeting held at Madrid on the 25th of September last. "At which meeting it was resolved and confirmed by a written engagement of all the board, "That 27,000 shares should be forthwith taken up and paid on at par, that being the proportionate number set apart rateably to those subscribed for in England, in accordance with the sth article in the concession, as follows: " The Company is hereby bound to admit such Spanish capitalists as may require it, to a participation in this enterprise, to the extent of one-third of the shares of the Company.' " The Spanish direction have, in conformity with this article, met the terms of the concession. " His Excellency Senor Don Luis Mayans, the chair man, reported— " That by the advice of Mr. Chadwick the members of their board had felt it their duty to memorialise the Go vernment to authorise the Company to carry out the work of the whole line by sections. " This important modification having been conceded, the directors are satisfied that they can at once under- take that valuable section of the line extending over 271 miles of the most productive portion of the country, con necting Valencia with San Felipe, and from the reports made by the engineers, and confirmed by the personal investigation of Mr. Chadwick, the directors feel confi dent that the profits on this section will, in a short time, enable the Company to divide a very considerable dividend. " They likewise recommend the construction of that part of the line between Pinto and the Tagus. " In consequence of the great facilities afforded by the Spanish Government for carrying out the undertaking, the directors do not deem it expedient in the existing state of the money market to issue any more shares at present ; but those unappropriated will, at a future period, should their expectations be realised, be offered in the shape of a boon or bonus to the shareholders in rateable proportions. "The directors cannot, however, e - mclude their report without reiterating their undiminished confidence in the merits of this project, for, in addition to the presont • extensive local traffic to the port of Valencia, in corn, rice, and fruit, a large increase must arise from this being the through line for railway commueication to and from France and Spain, as well as the main trunk line for the traffic from the Mediterranean coast to Madrid and the interior. "The directors have the folleA confidence that the funds in hand will amply meet all engagements for the carrying on the works of the sections alluded to during the next twelve months, consequently there will be no necessity for any call on the shareholders within that period." . The report was received with loud applause and a few hisses. The CHAIRMAN said. when the directors last had the pleasure of meeting the shareholders it was thought desirable not to proceed with the undertaking until a further application wasueade to the Spaniards, in order to know what amount of capital they were willing to take up. The directors, however, upon a full consideration of the subject, thought there was ono point far more important than that, namele, the possi bility of carrying out the works of the line by sections, and thereby showing the Spaniards if they once had a line in that company how to appreciate it. There was no doubt in the world, when the line was made, ti at there would be such an' amount of traffic from other dis tricts of the country as would defray aluost any amount of outlay; but the difficulties of the country in many parts were of such a nature as to prevent lines from paying an adequate sum for the large eutlay neces sary for the construction of the works Having recently gone over the country traversed by their line, he must say his previous opinions were confirmed, that it was of e which would yield an ample return for the capital invested in it. But there was one feature which he begged t put strongly before the meeting; it was this—that he was deeply confident that the only line by which the capital of Spain could be reached from other parts of Europe, namely, through France, was by a coast line. It was quite impossible to surmount the difficulties of the !Pyrenees in going from Bayonne, they must go along the coast of the Mediterranean. He was not. pre viously aware of that fact, but he now found that it would materially ant? beneficially affect their stool>. especially when they considered that they shook not only have the local traffic, but the prin • cipal traffic from France, and consequently from any part of Europe, the traffic must pass along the coast from Valencia to Madrid. This was a fact which cer tainly added materially to the value of th ir company.— (Cheers.) He hoped they would believe that the direc tors had one fee ing in common with the share holders. They (the directors) had embarked their capital in it, and had given up a great deal of time to the transaction of its affairs, and he and his friends would not remain in it another day un less they considered it would ultimately yield them a fair return of their time and trouble.—(Hear.) In order not to take up time he would, as a matter of form, read two resolutions which he would submit to the meeting. The first was that the report be received and adopted, and the second that on the pay ment of 27,000 shares at par in Spain, w lhe.directors be empowered to carry out those sections might appear to them best calculated to promote the In reply of the undertaking. ly to questions, the CHAIRMAN intimated that the occupy execution of th e fi rst section of twenty - seven m il es w o u ld not more than twelve months, but as railways of course were new in Span, it was possible they might not get possession of the land so soon as they could in this country, not, however, more than twelve months after obtaining, possession of the land. They should commence at once if they had the land. Parties were now endeavouring to obtain a concession for a line between Barcelona and Valencia. They were aware that a line, under the auspices of Mr. Locke. had been commenced between Barcelona and Matera, which was a very fair line. The expenses up to that time did not amount to more than from 2s. to 3s. a share.—(Cheers.) Air. RICHARDSON wished to ask several questions of the utmost importance. He wished to know if he was correct in supposing that they had paid 30,0001. of the property of shareholders in - Englaud to the Spanish Government ? The CHAIRMAN—NO but I will h( ar you out. Mr. RICHIRDSoN said it was of the utmost im portance that the shareholders should be set perfectly right on this point, because if they had paid the Spanish Government a large sum of money, he entertained great doubts if they would ever be able to get it out of their hands again.—(Laughter and cheers.) If they had paid it he apprehended the majority of the meet ing would be glad to get as much of it back tgein as possible. The directors proceeded upon he assumption that the line was a most desirable one; now be (Mr. Richardson) proceeded upon the very contrary assumption.—(Cheers.) So bad a" opinion did he entertain of it, that he cons; lered they would he unable to complete the first section. If they doubted this let them look to the state of opinion at thu present moment—to the matrimonial alliances.—(" Ques tion, question.") It was the question; he was one of those who would ask a question df a chairman, and be satisfied with any reply he might think proper to give. He repeated that he wished to know whether a certain sum of money had been deposited with the Spanish Go vernment, and if so, what legitimate prospect there was of the British public receiving a dividend ? He wished to God that the capitalists of England would not invest their money in foreign railways.—(" Why did you ?") Let them keep their money in their own pockets, in their own country, and whilst they had 16,000,0001. in the Bank they need not fear a mo netary crisis. —(Hear.) Every railway made in a fo reign country was an injury to those at home.—(Laugh ter and cries of " No, no.") He would not, however, debate that question. If they could get their money hack again, he, for one, would say, pay Mr. Chadwick, who had gone to Spain for the Company, and the di rectors handsomely for their trouble ; but, whatever you do, let us have some of our money back again. The CHAIRMAN explained that 30,000/. had been de posited as " caution " money. He apprehended that they 'had not met to consider whether they should go into a foreign railway, as they were in a foreign rail way already.—(Hear, hear, and uproar.) They should consider what was best to be done under the circum stances which the directors had detailed to them in their report. They did not dictate to the shareholders, but were ready to adopt any course they might think proper to prescribe, Dr. BoWRING, M P., said that they were involved in this undertaking, and they had met the directors, who had furnished tnem with reasons for proceeding or not proceeding. He should have been glad of some more information from the chairman and the directors. — (Hear, hear.) He did not complain of the deposit, be cause it was usual for foreign Governments to render the deposit of a large sum of money necessary as a pledge of the good faith of the parties negotiating with them. They were exacted by foreign Governments, who interfered more in these matters than the Government at home. Had the Spanish Government offered any interest on the money so deposited ? Mr. WALEY, a director, said the Spanish Government had not received a farthing of the money which was de posited in the Bank of England in the name of the Chair man, the concessionaire, and the Duke Sotomayar. Mr. RicHA.RDSON said, supposing the money was paid into the Bank of England in the name of the Spanish Government, how were they to get it out ?.. The CHAIRMAN said the Spanish authorities here would wait until they received instructions from the Court of Spain before they released the money. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know if the Company was broken up what they would get? The CHAIRMAN said abcut 12s. per share, after de ducting the expenses. Another SHAREHOLDER considered that those who wished to withdraw from the Company, and receive the residue of their deposits, should have the op tion of doing so. The directors were bound in honour to afford such the opportunity of withdrawing. Dr. BOWRING understood that the 30,0001. was bond money, deposited in the Bank of England in order to give security to whatever, arrangements the Company might enter into with the Spanish Government. (Hear, hear.) If they did not proceed they would lose this money, as it was a pledge which they had given for the execution of the works. And then they came to the consideration, whether, all matters weighed, it was better to proceed or withdraw. The report reflected great credit on those who drew it up, but it would have been more satisfactory if a financial ..tatcment had been attached to , it. Having pa.sed, :nary years of his liFe. in Spain, he considered that there v, as no country in which railways would be more prosperous if well and economically constructed. He had known many instances in which the price of commodities had been increased from 50 to 60 per cent. on account of the enormous expense of conveying them over short distances. lie knew no country the resources of which were more capable of development than Spain, and therefore he had a good opinion of the undertaking. But if there was a large amount of discontent amongst the shareholders, he earnestly recommended the directors to adopt some means of allowing them to withdraw. A SHAREHOLDER said the shares were selling at one• half their original cost, and therefore he saw no reason ,-hy those who chose to withdraw should have so much advantage ; he was anxious to have the undertaking proceeded with. Mr. BIGG said the name of the Chairman was a guarantee that the undertaking was one which stood great chance of success; but since the last meeting, the political and commercial phase of Spain, had undergone great changes; its condition was of a precarious cha racter; it was not as if they were about to embark their capital in a country with which Great Britain was likely to remain in amity. The Spaniards had not yet paid on the 27,000 shares, although the Chairman had said, four months ago, that it would be paid before this. He was neither sufficiently chivalric or Quixotic to desire to embark his capital in a company when their copartners in the undertaking held back with so much tenacity. With respect to political documents, it was said that brevity was the soul of wit ; but in their case they might say with truth, that the report was so brief as to be little better than the skeleton of a report. This was the more strange, as the chairman had been to Madrid, where he had been feted, and feted others in return! He had a high opinion of the direc• tors, but for the reasons he should mention, he was desirous that the Company should be dissolved and the residue paid to the shareholders.—(Cheers.) Of course the 30,0001. would be forfeited if they did not go on. The CHAIRMAN reminded the Hon. Proprietor of the words of the motion, " that on the payment of the deposits on 27,000 shares at par in Spair, ex the direc tors; &c." Mr. ilicuannsoN moved that the company be dis solved, which was seconded. Mr. MASTERMAN wished to know if there was any thing in their constitution which gave them the power to dissolve the Company. He was willing to proceed under the skilful management of the directors. Not withstanding the efforts of the press to cause dissatis faction in Spain, the marriages had happily taken place, and no doubt would have that happy effect which the marriage of our Queen had had.—(Loud cries of " No, no," " Question," and disapprobation.) He ad- vised them to take legal advice with respect to their dissolution. A SHAREHOLDER inquired if there was not some ar rangement that the Government should take 30,0001: Spanish stock, instead of 30,0001. of English money. The CHAIRMAN said that was in the course of arrange ment. Mr. KEDDEL, the solicitor to the Company, explained that the Company, as it then existed, was but a branch of the former Madrid and Valencia Railway Company, and that all they could do to-day was to express their opinions, as any resolution which was not in conformity with the statutes of Spain would he useless. The pro spectus set forth that the Company would be formed according to the commercial code of that country. It was not possible for a branch to dissolve the whole Com pany. Dr. BOWRING, M.P., with a view to bring the meet ing to a decision, proposed the following amendment:— " That this meeting do now adjourn in order to give the directors an opportunity of considering whether any legal means can be found to enable discontented share holdrrs to withdraw from this undertaking." The motion was seconded. Mr. WALLY defended the directors, and contended that they had conducted the affairs ira the most econo mical manner. They had surveyed fifty- miles, sent three embassies to Spain, kept a secretary, and but one clerk and a porter, and were ready to show any account, and every part of their transactions, to any one who might wish to see them. They had spent a good deal of their time in; its affairs, and had not charged for a single glass of wine or a biscuit.—(llear, hear.) If the com pany were dissolved to-morrow they would experience a release rather than pain. Mr. GEORGE briefly addressed the meeting, and sub mitted some propositions, which he afterwards with drew in favour of Dr. Bowrint's amendment. Some further discussion occurred, from which it ap peared that by converting the caution money into Spanish stock, some 10,0001. would be caved ; that if they proceeded, the 30,0001. would be available for the construction of the first section; and one shareholder inquired if they could pay in Spanish " bonds," which excited some merriment, but no response from the chairman. The report was received. Dr. Bowring's amendment was then put and carried, and a vote of thanks having been awarded to the Chair man and directors, the meeting broke up. COURT OF ALDEIIMEN. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of busi ness. CITY PRISON'S CONTRACT. Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL presented a petition from le baker who is now serving the con tract to supply the City prisons with bread. It stated " that in consequence of the failure of the potato crop, which caused so un looked for an advance in the price of flour (nearly 11. per sack, and a further advance expected), the price to tbo petitioner now having amounted to little more than half the price now charged for bread at many baker's shops in London, in consequence of which he daily lost to a considerable amount, and he prayed that the Court would take the matter into consideration, and allow him an advanced price, so that he might be 'able to supply bread of the quality he would wish to keep up, and at the same time to lessen the great loss he was sustaining." He thought the application was a very rea sonable one, under the well-known. existing circum stances of the high price of the com modify, and the fact that the petitioner, as well as his father, had per formed every contract they had talsen perfectly to the satisfaction of the City authorities. Alderman FAREBROTHER said he was anxious to do -all in his power to remove the impression which had been very generally made, that a failure to a very fear ful extent had taken place in the potato crop and in the corn crop. He knew from the best authority that the grossest exaggerations had been m ide in the condition of these two articles of food, by, no doubt, parties in terested in raising the prices for the purpose of deriving an unreasonable profit from the pu'ohic, which the ap prehension of famine could alone ex cite.—(Hear, hear.) It was cruel to excite alarm of the kincl. The corn would prove to be, according to informeetion procured from those well qualified to judge, an undoubted average crop, and the growth of potatoes, which was spoken of with such despair, would turn out to be very different from the public expectation. The fact was that immense quantities of potatoes were kept bitch. from the market last year until they were completely spoiled, in conse quence of the calculations of the monopolists. His ob ject in rising to speak was not to diminish any claim which the petitioner might have upon the consideration of the Court, but to prevent it from going forth to the world that scarcity was expected, without accompanying the statement with his denial.—(Hear, hear.) He felt confident that Providence would continue those► favours which had been so graciously dispensed to this nation on all occasions. Alderman LUCAS said he thot'ght it was reasonable in people, when they found the pribe of grain and other necessaries of life had risen all over Europe, to feel some alarm for themselves.—(Pear, hear.) For his Part, he hoped there would be e•aough for all, bat cer tainly his opinion was that the cultivation of the soil did not bear a fair proportion to the increase of the po hear.) He betlieved that the price of in Paris or )antzie as it w as i n thi s po pulation.—(Hear, country. H a(sFi e he h iag o ril ped there would be sufficient to carry all countries through, but he could not help expressing his fears, and he could not blame 'others for entertaining apprehensions, although they ' , vete called upon to wLit m i g ht calculate upon the result. It patiently n r a tl t y h , er an h d they a rdto expect people to wait until t hey should have nothing to eat. — (A laug h, and " Hear.") Sir P. LAURIE said, that AWrman Farebrother and he had been lately visiting the Corporation estates in Yorkshire, and they had ascertained that one farm had not one bad potato upon it.—(Hear, hear.) The croi,s were very large. It would be found, upon the authority of the Edinburgh Review, that double the ordinary ,quantity of corn had resulted from the agricultural cul• tivation. Alderman CHALLIS said, it appeared to him that the present question was not famine to the community, but famine to the contractor and his family.—(A laugh.) Sir CHAP3IIN MARSHALL paid he did not apprehend a famine, but he thought that the unexpected dearness of food gave a claim to the petitioner.—(Hear, hear.) The petition was then refer red to the Gaol Committee. THE EXPENSES OF THE SURVEY OF THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF THE THAMES. When the Court were passing the several accounts, Alderman MUSGROVE said he observed that one of those accounts was the Water Baliff's, and one of the items was 690/. for the expenses of the survey, by the Lord Mayor, of the Western. District of the Thames. He expressed a wish to be in:formed by whom, that item had been paid. The WATER-BAILIFF-1 paid it. Alderman MUSGROVE—Upon whose authority ? The WATER-BAILIFF—By order of the Lord Mayor himself. The Court was then cleared for the consideration of the communication from tile Special Committee of the City Common Council, in relation to the erection of a new City Gaol. FOREIGN POTATOES.—A. vessel, arrived from Lima (South America), has brought, in addition to 1,412 packages of copper ore, and other productions, 23 bar- . refs of potatoe s , th e p ro d uce o f th at di stan t qu art e r of the globe. This esteemed description of article has before been imported from the Bermudas and other of the West Indian Islands, but we are not aware of a similar importation having taken place from the conti nent of South America, and therefore the one under notice is remarkable, and requires particular menft:n. Some other arrivals of potatoes have taken place during the past week from the continental parts of Europe, and as there were none for a considerable period, and this article is at present the subject of universal cotnin , nt, the mention of them wilt, ba of i n t eres t. Th e Watt steamer, from Havre, brought 100 sacks, the pro duction of France ; the Giraffe seven baskets, the Bata vier 20 baskets, and the Ocean three baAtlts, from Rot terdam, the produce of Holland. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 19.—The St. Vincent, 120, C ipt. Milne, flag-ship of ..A(ltniral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., Commander-in-Chief of this part, which came into har bour on Monday last, and has since comfortably settled down at her old moorings off Gosport, is ordered to refit and complete for sea service again with all possible dis patch, pursuant to an Admiralty order promulgated this morning. The confusion this order has created, and the absurdity of the host of reports it has given rise to on shore, vire of the most extraordinary description. Cer tain it is, that according to present orders, the fine old ship will be at Spithead fully manned and stored again in a few days. The Admiralty dispatches brought by the Cyclops are supposed to have been the cause of this change in the winter quarters of the St. Vincent. The Vengeance, 84, Captain Stephen Lushington, having had her bottom broomed down, was undocked and floated into the basin this morning - , where she is pro gressing with her rig as rapidly as the smallness' of her complement will permit of. Another hundred men have, however, been ordered to her, making her complement 450. She is entering the extras fast, the fame of her First-Lieutenant having brought him a host immediately the placard, announcing the want of seamen and petty officers for the Vengeance, was exhibited this morning. She got her cross -trees, masthead-pennants, and tops over this morning. The marines have not joined yet. On the St. Vincent leaving for other service she will take the flag of Admiral Sir Charles Ogle. Practice from the Excellent gunnery Ship, on Friday last, the 16th inst., at the Leviathan, 74 ; range, 2,400 yards :-14 rounds burst short, several close to the ship; 4 rounds (ricochet) missed the ship ; 2 ditto passed the ship without bursting ; 1 struck the ship, but did not burst ; 1 (last) the effect could not be seen. Total, 22 rounds fired. _ _ The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain W. F. Lapidge, came into harbour to-day to replenish fuel, and repair a few defects. The Crocodile, 8, troopship, Commander G. Lowe, is undergoing the process of smoking, to rid her of the nuisance of rats, with which vermin she is much in fested. The Waterwitch, 8, Commander Birch, was at St. Helena on the Ist ult. The Emerald and Mercury tenders returned from Ply mouth to-day. The Powerful, 84, advance-ship, has been docked in the room of the Vengeance. The Blazer steamer, Lieutenant-Commander H. E. Wingrove (acting), embarked a number of Marines from the barracks this morning alongside the dockyard, and sailed for Ireland, to be employed under the orders of Commissary-General Hewetson. The Commander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., went out this morning in the Myrtle steamer, and mustered and inspected the Nautilus, 8, Lieutenant-Com mending J. M‘Donnell. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 17.—Her Majesty's ship America, 50, Captain the Hon. J. Gordon, which left the Sound on Tuesday, the 13th, remained outside the harbour (in consequence of contrary winds) until Thursday even ing. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, Captain Sir Henry J. Lecke, then in the Sound, signalled the America about midday on the 15th, and the Netley tender, 8, went off to her with Admirelty dispatches. At sunset there was a light breeze off the land ; the America was observed with her topgallant sails set, and no doubt ere this she is clear of the Channel, on her passage to the Mediterranean. Her Majesty's ship Thetis, 36, was put in commission yesterday by Captain Codrington. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 110, at high water, after sunset this evening, was towed by a steam-ship and a tug from her'mooriags in the Sound to Hamoaze, where ',he will bear the flag of Port Admiral Sir John West. WOOLWICH, OCT. 9.—The Sidon steam-frigate, Capt. Henderson, C. 8., has her steam up to-day to try her en 2.,ines at her mooring=. Captain Lord Fitzclarance, Edward Paget, and Commander Otway, son of Sir ;-;eorge Otway, Bart., visited Woolwich Dockyard to day, and went on board the Sidon, where they re• mained some time. 300 men of the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines vacated the Royal Artillery barracks to-• clay, where they had been accommodated for some time, and marched to the Hebe receiving sh'p, at the west-end of the Woolwich Dockyard, which is to be their future quarters until the new Royal Marine barracks are fully completed. Colonel Mercer, and Major Little, barrack-master to the Royal Marines at Woolwich, visited the Ilebe in the forenoon, to ascertain that she was in proper order for the accom modation of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Marines. The Maria Somes has arrived off the Royal Arsenal, and is unloading stores. APPOINTMENTS. G. T. Roberts, Lieutenant, to the Penelope ; Robert K. Pringle, Master's Assistant, to the Acheron ; George Hop Mansell, Midshipman (Supernumerary), to the Victory ; John Seaton, Lieutenant, to the Coast Guard; George Murdock, First Engineer, to the Penelope ; George Baker, Andrew M•Gregor, and Robert Lling, Second Engineers, to the Penelope ; Andrew M'Farlane, Thomas Dancannon, and John D. Lamond, Third Erigineers, to the Penelope ; Peter Rundle, Acting- Master, to the Prospero ; John Raimbutt, Second Master, to the Prospero; Peter M. Godfrey, Lieutenant, to the Mutine ; James Pike, Gunner, to the Penelope ; George Dinham, Gunner, to the Thetis ; George P. Mends, Lieutenant, to the Eurydice ; lion. Frederick Pelham, Captain, to study at the Steam Factory ; H. W. Crawfurd, Commander, to study at the Steam Fac tory ; Thomas H. Lysaght, Lieutenant, to study at the Steam Factory ; Charles Stirling, Midshipman, to the Thetis ; Charles Fellowes, Lieutenant, to the Queen ; Henry Chalmers, Master's Assistant, to the Gladiator ; Henry West, Clerk's Assistant, to the Gladiator ; John Bell, Paymaster and Purser, to the Penelope ; Benjamin Dyer, Paymaster and Purser, to the Thais ; T homes Coutts. Boatswain, to the Penelope ; John Haves, Car penter, to the Penelope ; Jeremiah Hyde, Boatswain, to the Thetis ; Francis Chord, Carpenter, to the Thetis ; Frederick Forbes, Lieutenant, to the Penelope ; Robert H. Swinton, Naval Cadet, to the Thetis ; John A. Lut trell, Naval Cadet, to the Collingwood ; George Collier, Master, to the Eurydice ; Lawford Miles, Lieutenant, Agent for Mails, Liverpool. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. Lemon', OCT. 20.—Wind S.S.W., light breeze, and fine DEAL, OCT. 19.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate.—Arrd. from the River, Pestonjee Bomanjee, Norfolk Island; Belhaven, Gilkison, Batavia, &c.; Childe Harold, Lilley, Bombay; Jessie Smith, Baxter, Algoa Bay; Johanna, Falconer, Cape of Good Hope; Gilbert Henderson, Tweedie, ditto; Earl of Durhatr, Stephenson, Sierra Leone; Isabella, Filley, Rio Janeiro; Jane Goudie, Goudie, Bahia; Ocean, Briar, Tri nidad ; Ealing Grove, Falconer, Dominica ; Mina, Forrest, Antigua; Caroline, Stone, Jamaica; Ada, Broadhurst, ditto; Prince Royal transport, West Indies ; John Garrow, Thom son,Orleans; Unicorn, Cushing, ditto; James Caskee , piis b N u regw, Charleston ; Walpole, Thomas, New York. Put back, Sultana, for Pernambuco. Sid. Clementine, Sandwich Islands; Princess Louise, Bahr, Valparaiso. NEWPORT, Oct. 19.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Yorkshire, Tripp, Quebec. Sid. Rambler, M'Lachlan, St. Thomas. DIVERPOOL, Oar. 19.—Wind S., moderate.—Acrd. Fanny, Wheeler, Cape of Good Hope; Hopewell, Carter, Maran ham ; Sheridan, Cornish, New York ; Glencoe, Galbraith, Pictou ; Ambassasor, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ambas sadress, ditto; Phoenix, Kerr, Quebec; Lady Milton, Hayes, - ditto ; Laurence Forestrell, Bale, ditto; Erin steamer, Wexford, with the specie from the Templeman_ t stranded in B a lleyteigne Bay. Ski. Alil ece t o , Hunter, New Orleans. The brig Ratchford, of Waterford., was passed, 6th inst., lat. 46, long. 33, abandoned ; and, on the 7th, lat. 47, long. 31, the Euphrosyne, of Quebec, also abandoned, by the Hope well, Carter, arrived here; and the brig St. Louis, aban doned, and with nothing but the bowsprit standing, was boarded, Ilth inst., by the Sheridan, Cornish, arrived here. ROTHESAY, Ocr. 16.—S1d. John Scott, Trinidad. Cotta, Oar. 15. Sld. C. Hutton, Andrews, Newfoundland ; Swiftsure, Witt, Africa. 16th, Bruce, Boyd, St. John's,New Brunswick. IPSWICH OCT. 17.—Arrd. Lady Combermere, Quebec. S 1 c111.v 6 , t ;0 1, Lady Cr.lsk—e n S n l a d w . a E v, t hel d Avery,r e Cape of Bradford, Goo d Falkland Hope. Isles. STOCKTON, OCT. 15.—Arra. Paragon , Be ll, Q uebec. YARBIOUTH, Ocr. 17.—The Lord Goodridge , from Oswego to London, was passed waterlogged, loss of bulwarks, and stancheons, and nearly all her provisions and water washed overboard on the 16th ult., in let. 70 N., lon. 36 E. by the William, Millichamp, arrived in the Roads , which has brought eight of the crew; the captain hoped to get with the remainder into Hammerfest. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 19.—Wind S.W.—Std. Marmlon, Fletcher, China. Orr SA LCOMBE, OCT. 16.—Bissell, Haesloop, Baltimore. 19th, the wreck of a brig of about 300 tons was passed on the 29th ult. in tat. 40, bin. 59, by the Toronto, Pratt. PLYMOUTH, Ocr. 19.—Arrd. Eliezer, 'formic, Demerara. A quantity of stores have been saved from the wreck of the Eden. BIDEFORD, OCT. 19.—Arrd. Three Brothers, Pugslev, Prince Edward's Island. Blau-slams, Ocr. 17.—Wind N.E.—Std. Corsair, Cum mins, Newfoundland. L Y THAM, OCT. 19 —Wind S.S.W., fresh.—Std. Camilla, Ritchie, Yarmouth, United States. Wars:lo'oßu, OcT. 18.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Std. Star, Mountain, Newfoundland. PIVELHELI, 18.—The Friendship, Evans, has been got off Abersoch Beach, and is now in the harbour with trifling damage; and the Mary and Ann, Jones, was got off Hillsrbouth Beach yesterday, and into the harbour. Ls'NN, Ocr. 17.—The Sampson Steam-tug, which sunk in this harbour on the 12th inst., was raised on the 15th without damage. CcRK, Ocr. 17.—Std. Zephyr, Barbadoes •; Ironsides, Campbell, Galveston ; Bruce, St. John's, New Brunswick. IPswicts, OCT. 17.—Arrd. Lady Combermere, Quebec. S A L C OMBE, OCT. 17.—A ship is reported to be on shore about ten miles to the westward of this harbour, by the Moult, Sladen , arr ived here. YARMOUTH , Ocr. 19.—The Friezeland's Gouverneur Van S ytzama , Zegletta, from Amsterdam to Algiers, has put in here i 19.-The schooner Fl ora , o f an d f or Glas gow, front Londo n, g ot ashore on the Gunfleet Sand this morning, but came o ff w ithout da mage, and proceeded. ) Hum., OCT. 19.—Wind W.S.W.—lirrd. 18th, Hesperia, a u ßN t v l c c ll a , rg o o cr ( h . a sdamaged, and i s di sc h arg i ng. - Manger, Patagonia. IVENHOE, OCT. 19.—The wreck of a vessel was seen 16th inst. on the Long Sand, the sunk light bearing N.N.E., it is supposed to have been a French or Spanish brig, laden with coals, of abont 150 tons, and had either a white or yellow side, with black. The wreck had, apparently, taken place a few hours previously; crew supposed to he drowned. LOSS OF THE HELEN JANE OF LIVERPOOL, AND PRIVATIONS OF TWO OF HER CREW. The following is a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Cork —"The Rose and Eliza, reported yesterday, fell in with the wreck of the barque Helen Jane of Liverpool, bound from Belize to London, on the '27th ult., in lat. 39, long. 58—her ma in and mizen m asts g one ; was w aterlogged , and top - sid es o f her crew , had left her in the long boat on the 2tlth ; five m en remait.ed on board, three of whom died. The t w o survivors we re taken f rom the to p; they had no provi sions, and, as we may imagine, were in a mot awful state, having been compelled to make use of their deceased ship mates.pa-sed immense quamities of wr , ••1: ; about eight dais since Thee t wo men go to Liver P ard to-da y . The Rose na sed iSwedisit slt,.p-ttf-war, s , a.ato,g t" tie sow tken-J." Fool' RACE.-0.1 Monti: y the 200 yarls race be tween Lambert mid Gill, for 24A, was d.ouled at Iloilo ancl won by the hater, SUBTERRANEAN TELEGRAPH THROUGH THE METROPOLIS. Daring the last few weeks considerable interest hss been excited i❑ the scientific world, and the several rail way companies whose lines run into the metropolis, by the announcement that the Electric Telegraph Company intend forthwith to establish a central telegraph station at the Company's depot in the Strand, by means of which communicatton will be obtained from one point to all parts of the country. In the Company's Act of Incor poration the thirty-fifth clause empowers them to lay down and under any street any pipes or tubes not being of larger size than three inches bore, for conveying or conducting the wires of the electric telegraph. In pur suance of those powers, they intend to extend the wires from the several railway stations in London, in the way described by their Act of Parliament, under the streets of the metropolis. The extension of the telegraph on the South-Western Railway will be first commenced. Mr. Hatcher, the Company's engineer, attended a meeting of the Lambeth vestry on Friday evening, for the purpose of explaining the route it will take through the streets of the district. After leaving the terminus at Nine Elms, it will pass through Kennington-lane and road, Oakley-street, Waterloo-road, over the bridge, and thence to the station in the Strand. The plan proposed to carry out this extraordinary project is as follows :—ln the first place, the wires will undergo a process of coating, so as to preserve them; they then will be fixed in metal tubing, which will be laid under ground about 18 inches from the surface. Every quarter of a mile proving posts, which in size, and appearance will be similar to the present street posts, will be erected, thereby insuring the proper connexion of the wires. The principal mem bers of the Lambeth vestry have arranged to inspect the route from the South-Western Railway this day with the Company's officers, and to determine on the position of the posts. On the sites being fixed, the telegraph will forthwith be laid down. In the course of three months it is anticipated that it will be completed. A much longer period, however, will transpire ere the wires on the other lines are extended. Lately the Government, we are informed, have directed the Company's officers to report the practicability of extending the " main" telegraph to the principal Govern ment depots. The result has not as yet been ascertained. The 50th clause of the Company's Act sets forth, " That at all times, and whenever, in the opinion of one of her Majesty's - principal Secretaries of State for the time being, such art emergency as aforesaid shall have arisen, it shall be lawful for such Secretary of State, by warrant under his hand, to cause possession to be taken of all telegraphs and apparatus at the various stations of the Company, for one week from the date of such warrant, for the purpose of preventing any communications being made, or signals given, and also by further successive warrants to cause possession of them to be retained from week to week, so long as their detention might be deemed expedient, the Company receiving reasonable remunera tion for such loss." THE ST. PANCRAS POOR. On Monday afternoon a vestry meeting of the parish of St. Pancras took place at the rooms in Gordon-square, for the purpose of adopting some measures for the amelioration of the condition of the poor. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Thomas Dale, M.A., vicar of the parish. Mr. Churchwarden HOWARTH proposed, in a length ened and elaborate speech, the following resolution : " That the vestrymen present avail themselves of the opportunity offered by the attendance of the Rev. T. Dale, M.A., vicar of this parish, in vestry this day. to make known to him the satisfaction with which they regard his appointment to the high and important office which he fills in this extensive and populous parish; and whilst they are well assured that he will zealously and efficiently discharge all the spiritual duties of his office, they are disposed to believe that be will cordially support that beneficial system of local self-government now esti- Wished in this pariah, in connexion with the election of vestrymen freely chosen by and responsible to the whole body of rate payers." The resolution having been carried nem. con., The CHAIRMAN said he could not receive this mark of their kind confidence without endeavouring to ac knowledge it. He felt that the position which he had the honour of occupying involved duties of a most ar duous and responsible character—he hoped they would allow him at all times to throw himself upon their can dour and good intention—he had come amongst them without any previous knowledge of the affairs of the parish, but he found them a bo ly of gentlemen to whom the management of those affairs were entrusted. With regard to the principles of self-government he could not but adroit that it was the only just and fair government. —(Much cheering.) They were perhaps aware that he was not there merely from his own choice; the act of the Legislature which had consti tuted them for the management of parochial matters had likewise placed him there, and it afforded him great encouragement to be amongst a body of gentlemen by whom he had been so kindly received. He regretted to find the ecclesiastical affairs of the parish in so unsatis factory a state. All, however, that he would say at present on the subject was, that he trusted to bring a scheme for the promotion of the spiritual interests of the parish, and he hoped he should receive the support of all those who wished well for the spiritual and temporal welfare of the parish.—(Hear.) They must do all in their power to ameliorate the condition of the poor of that parish, and he (the Chairman) spoke necessarily as one altogether untried, but he had left a parish in per ' fect peace which he found in a state of division and irre gularity. After some further remarks the Rev. Chair man resumed his seat amidst much cheering. After some further discussion the meeting adjourned. NEW STRAND THEATRE. An entertainment, interspersed with songs and anec dotes, illustrative of the peculiarities of the Down East Yankee, was given on Monday night by Mr. Morley, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. Its title is Cross ing the Atlantic, and Traits and Travels in America. The anecdotes are characterised by that half-Rabelais, half- Irish humour, and exaggeration of figure, for which Brother Jonathan has become so notorious. We are treated with a New York boarding-house lady's notion of independence by her counselling her lodger to procure brushes and blacking paste, and clean his own boots. Then we have the large lie of a Yankee green-room habitue, who, upon some merriment being excited in the audience by the long pause which occurs between the shot of Caspar's rifle and the fall of the eagle in Der Freyschutz, cooly avers that, during a shooting excursion on the Delaware, the river became suddenly over-shadowed by a dark cloud. The sports man, tired of doing nothing, lets fly his rifle. No result immediately follows—the party take coffee, and resume their conversation. Ultimately, however, our friend with the rifle is struck on the herd, and the deck of the vessel is strewed with canvass-back ducks, one of which coolly flies away with the cigar of the wonderful marksman. The sketch of the Lunatic Asylum, at Haarlem, is of too painful a nature, and should be omitted. There is a very clever song, " The streamer of England," by Eliza Cook, composed by Louis Emmanuel. Tee melody is striking, and the accompaniment graceful and musician-like. The second part consists of miscellaneous matter, introduc tory to some characteristic songs, written by George Soane, the music by Edward Loder ; and selections from Sam Slick's famous book. These were given with much dramatic humour by Mr. Morley. The rendering of the vocal portion was marked with gocd taste and effect. There were several encores, and Mr. Morley was greeted with considerable applause. The enter tainment is worthy of a visit, and will, no doubt, be come popular. Mr. Lewis Emanuel presides at the pianoforte. An arrangement has been announced as having taken place between the Shropshire Union and the North-Western Company to the following effect: — The former line is to be leased to the latter company, ..—-- - and the shareholders are to be guaranteed a dividend equal to one-half of that paid by the North-Western Company; but in the event of the profits of the Shrop shire Union being greater than the half of the North- - Western, the shareholders are to receive such longer rate of profit up to six per cent., beyond which the profits are to be divided; so that in no case can s he shareholders of the Shropshire Union receive 1 !ss than . a dividend equal to one-half of that paid by the North-Western, while it' it makes more they will receive it for their own account up to six per cent. Another and important condition is. the shareholders are to participate, in the same pro portion as those of the North-Western, in the shares of a!1 nee ly- created stock for the future. Moreover, while the works are in progress the shareholders are to receive at the rate of four per cent. for their calls. These terms are considered very favourable. The Board of Directors for the line is to consist, one-half of the present direc tors, and one-half of the directors of the North-Western. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.--A , satisfactory ar rangement has been entered into between the Load el and Birmiegham and Shropshire Union Companies. The London ald North-Western guarantee, as a minimum dividend to the Shropshire Union share holders, one half the amount of dividend pad on their own stock, or five per cent., and a full par ticipation in the future creation of stock by the North-Western, proportionate to their respective capitals. In the event of the Shropshire Union line pay ing 10 per cent., a division of profits is to take place after 6 per cent. is paid to the Shropshire Union pro prietors. Any calculation as to the value of Shropshire Union shares must be based on the price of New Bir mingham Fifths, which become entitled to participate in the dividends of Birmingham Stock in 1852. These ' shares are at a premium of 14. The relative premium, therefore, on a Shropshire Union share would be 5i ; 4 per cent. is paid on all calls. REFUSAL OF INTERMENT AT BARKING, ESSEX.— On Sunday last an extraordinary degree of excitemeut was occasioned in the above place, in consequence of the Rev. Denton, curate of Barking, refusing to inter the body of the late Mrs. Rushton. Due information had been given that the funeral would be at the church at three o'clock, but when the procession arrived at the churchyard gates (which are usually kept open on Sun days) they were found closed, and, after stepping some time in the road, tho mourners were obliged to retrace their steps The deceased had been visited during her illness by one of the Plymouth Brethren, which circum stance, among others, it is supposed, gave offence to the vicar and curate. The body of Mrs. Rushton remains still uninterred. • We are sorry to state that Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P. for Renfrewshire, has been seriously unwell for several days past, at the residence of the Dowager Lady Shaw Stewart, at Carnock. The Hon. Member took seriously ill while in Renfrewshire, during the latter end of last week, and on his reaching the residence of his mother at Carnock, his case assumed so alarming an appearance, that the first medical advice from both Glas• g.t.v and wa. c ii d in to his assistance. We are happy to state that, by the latest accounts, .Jr. Stewart stiaa represtet.tA to be considerably better, al though still not beyond danger. Glasgow Saturday Post S u, Ai . r.l/4‘, ,_:„,,,A, .„e„,.,,::::.._ ~. , „,n c _..:„., ~..,,i,,. ~. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC J FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF 0U RN ALS. once to render him useless and unnA YESTERDAY. he does what Romans do. ITo ca;no ~~~ ~.: S/ -, . ~, ' I- ... , .", - ,.....4 41.,. I** 4 "'Z . *,_ -. 1*. 4.'"1' j t a :;c TIME tO tf, I. 11 - phouL raismg the character of the falls himself to the general level. Let him be as strong as Hercules in intellect, it is ten to one that he proves himself feebler than a child in bringing it to bear upon the land of his adoption. Nobody is safe who breathes Irish air and treads Irish soil. The disease is endemic, and affects all, high and low, rich and poor. Worse than the plague of Egypt, it does not come and go, but it is constant and abiding, as well as vernacular. We blame no man for being affected with the evil. We do not re proach the Celt for a physical and mental weakness, shared with the Saxon equally with himself as soon as he sets foot in Ireland. Protestant and Ro manist are alike mad when the fit is on. Moral force is as rabid as physical,. and the Archbishop of Dublin quite as eccentric as Father O'Driscoll. A form of prayer prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and agreed upon by her Majesty in Council, humbly imploring Almighty God to avert from Ireland the impending calamity of famine, is forwarded to Dr. Whately, that it may be read in his diocese as well as in every other in the kingdom : and his Grace, instead of obeying her Majesty's Council, at once preaches a sermon, political and religious, denying the constitutional right of the Council to issue their command, and proving the visitation a direct judgment from God, which it weuid be blasphemy to interfere with. Was Sir Rabert Peel wrong when he pronounced Ireland to be the great difficulty of the Ministers ; or, would he not have been nearer the mark had he said Irishmen, and those to whom the care of Irish matters, political and spiritual, is entrusted ? When Shakspeare spoke of " the anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders," he must surely have had unhappy Ireland in his sagacious and far-seeing eye. ADVERTISER.—Our readers will have seen an advertisement in this journal a few days ago, announcing that an address is to be delivered on Monday next, by Mr. Charles Cochrane, in the Princess's Assembly Rooms, Castle -street, Oxford-street. The object of the address will be, to endeavour to create such a manifesta tion of public sympathy and anxiety for the sufferings of the poorer classes throughout the country, as may lead to the immt diate removal, by Government, of all duties on every kind of food essential to human wants. Mr. Cochrane is an earnest and enlightened pkilanthro i pist, and has already been instrumental in doing great good to the lower classes of the community. His bene volence is not of a visionary kind: it is as practical in its character as it is pure and praiseworthy in its aims. He was the founder, and has hitherto, we believe, been the ,main supporter of the "Poor Man's Guardian Society," an Institution whose claims to the countenance of the charitable and humane, have, on repeated occasions, been enforced in the columns of this journal. He will confine himself to the remaining taxes on human food. On this subject we have freely and frequently expressed our opinions. Every day's post from Ireland brings us accounts of new instances of the peasantry in that country dying from want of food. And yet Lord John Russell restricts the supply, and keeps up the price of corn, by persisting in the maintenance of the existing duties. A whole nation are enduring the horrors of famine ; . and instant death, from the sheer lack of sus tenance, stares myriads in the face. Perish the harsh, heartless theories, be they what they may, which inter pose between a people and their necessary food ! Lord John Russell, in refusing to open the ports, is not only guilty of cruelty, hut of the very quintescence of inhu manity. Nor is this all. A still graver charge lies at his door. He is, more or less, morally responsible for the death cf every miserable creature who perishes of want. 'tore than this ; if we comprehend the genius of our Constitution, he is also constitutionally responsible. It is idle to talk to us of an understanding among all parties that the Corn Bill of last session was to be a final set tlement of the question. Away with all such " under standings," at a crisis like the present ! Let conven tionalisms, no matter what may be their nature, be flung to the winds, when they would put a veto on the supply of food to a nation perishing of want. It is the first and paramount duty of Government to prevent any of her Majesty's subjects dying of hunger. All other con siderations must give way to that. And the Minister who allows a single human being within these realms to perish for want of food, while any practicable effort remains unmade to provide the means of sustenance, is much more deserving of impeachment than many a Minister who has had to stand, before now, before the legislative bar. not keep ; butchers' meat bee, Sil.:S tainted in tweii4-ivar hours ; milk turns tour as soon as it is looked at ; a seriously aggravated mortality indicates a want of pre servative power in the life both of man and beast; West minster bridge partakes of the general decay ; Kings' promisrs and Parliamentary pledges are equally going to the dogs ; parties have melted like snow in summer ; interests have rotted ; Ministries have dissolved ; laws have repealed themselves ; a law only two years old fell to pieces this spring ; another Act, passed on its ruins, is already waiting its quietus; a third measure for Ireland has been unavoidably amplified, not to say super. seded. by Government;—lastly, (we know it to our cost), articles will not keep. By the second day a news paper article beconmes fit for nothing but a grocer's shop, or a volume of posthumous remains, edited by a very near relati ve . H av i ng su ff ere d ours elves by this class of casualty, we have become rather keen and also rather merciless to the disasters of our neighbours. A quarterly review, however, has no claim whatever to our pity. It can be written and printed in a fortnight; and there is no reason why it should ever be more than a fortnight past time. But here is our old friend the Edinburgh opening with an article which might just as well have been written by the decree of his imperious Majesty King Nebuchadnezzar, as for the month and year impressed on the Edinburgh's azure physiognomy. The substance of the article is evidently as old as the Edinburgh itself, though done imp afresh, with a few modern dates and names. Think of a paper professing to be a " Proposal for extending the Irish Poor-law," which does not make the remotest allusion to that fear ful crisis in the fortunes of Ireland which engages the attention, the curiosity, and the sympathy of the whole civilised world! At the foot of the last page, just after a railway article, there comes the following curt apo logy:— " NOTE to the First Article. This article was wholly written and printed early in Au gust last, which is here mentioned to account for its not taking notice of the subsequent proceedings of Parliament respecting its subject." There's impudence for you! We don't know what stuff the readers of the Edinburgh are made of, but we know very well how our own readers would take snch an announcement. Let them just imagine their finding a " leader," or a letter from our Spanish correspondent, or a " City article," most perplexingly out of date, and by the time they had mystified themselves hind part before, having the luck to light upon a P.S. or an N.B. in an ob scure corner, infOrming that the said article was written two months since, a circumstance which it was necessary to meetion, because the article could not be expected to' notice any of the numerous critical events which had happened in that period ! They would merely conclude the editor must be off his head, and expect to see, in the next number, the melancholy intelligence that he - had thrown himself from Blackfriars-bridge. We don't know what makes the Edinburgh or its readers an exception to general rules, but it is very clear that an equal amount of sanity on the one part, and surprise on the other, is not there ex pected. May we be permitted to ask how far their in difference to novelty extends ? Do they wear hair powder and shorts ? Do they reject the fresh resources of Newgate and Leadenhall markets for salt pork that has gone twice round the world? When Covent-garden renews its luscious display, do they still go on sickening on fermented preserves ? But, besides this extraordi nary " note," the author of the article himself, writing at his leisure, in August, with the whole quarter before himself, with Parliament still going on sitting, and Acts passing at the rate of twenty a day, and thus with every opportunity and every inducement to keep up with the progress of affairs, after all, willfully and deliberately, of .malice prepense, makes no attempt whatever to meet, we do not say this year's distress, but the average state cf Ireland for the whole of this cen , His article is a stale and unprofitable one, . only for October, 1846, but for August, 1846, and, in fact, for the day of the creation itself, and for this world altogether. After saying that the great Act of Elizabeth will not do, and out-door relief and compul sory its-door relief will not do, and the labour-rate will not do, and charities will not do, and mendicancy will not do, and forbidding mendicancy will not do ; and, finally, that nothing which man ever thought of will de, he suddenly remembers that his readers, whatever their gullibility, will at least, by the merest animal instinct, revolt from a universal negative. So he proposes at last —what does the realer imagine? It is the one palmare expedient of the Edinburgh for the most desperate ma lady the social state of man ever exhibited ; so it ought to be something at any rate plausible. It is simply this, —that all the charitable foundations, and all the funds subscribed for charitable purposes, shall be forthwith handed over bodily to the Poor-law Commissioners, to be dealt with in strict conformity with their system. After we hare stated this, our readers will ask a little breathing time. So there, for the present, we stop. CHRONICLE.—Of all the objections now urged against opening the ports for the free admission of grain, a fear that such a stop would be prejudicial to the re venue is—according to all recent experience—the most groundless. If that experience has taught us one lesson more distinctly than another, it is—that the net income of the State is not to be calculated by the rates of duty imposed on commodities—that taxes which, however in directly, interfere with commercial prosperity, are in variably reductions from, in place of additions to, the entire receipts of the Exchequer. But this general obser vation may be said to refer to two distinct classes of unpro fitable and wasteful imposts. The first, to the case where the duties imposed are so excessive as to interfere mate rially with the consumption of the particular commodity itself, so that the diminished quantity consumed at a high duty does not yield so much as the increased quan tity which would be consumed at a toner duty and a cheaper price; and the second is the case where duties are so injudiciously imposed that they directly interfere with commercial prosperity, and are the means of de stroying much more revenue indirectly than they them selves yield directly. Of the first class of unprofitable taxes now referred to we have recently had many striking examples. It is but a week ago—when in commenting upon the revenue returns for the last qnar ter—we showed that, notwithstanding the great reduc tions which have taken place in the duties upon many important articles during the last two years, amounting to no less than 2,818,0001, the actual loss to the State, even in the first year, very little exceeded 500,0001. ; and if we would seek for examples of individual articles which furnish striking illustrations of this principle, we have only to turn to any of those which have been subjected to this experiment. We have seen within a few Years the duty on coffee reduced to one-third, and the net revenue more than doubled—we have seen the duty on cocoa reduced to rather less than one-sixth, and the met revenue fully sustained. We have seen, within the last eighteen months, the duty upon sugar reduced from 245. to 145., and the consumption in the first year rise from 207,000 tons to 245,000 tons. We have seen the reduction of the timber duties increase the consump tion from 739,696 loads in the first eight months of 1844, to 1,142,633 loads in the same period of the pre sent year. In short, we have seen in almost every case where duties have been reduced, before long, -the net revenue increased. The second class of. duties to which we have referred as unwise and unprofitable, does not depend so much upon their being excessive, as upon their being imposed at all ; and the benefit to the Exchequer does not, therefore, depend upon the increased consumption which a repeal of such duties never fails to afford, but upon the influence which such a relief exerts.over other branches of revenue. In this category we class all kinds Lounß ' OSSE S --OYSTER TELESCOPE.—A paragraph of raw materials or manufactures—on the abundance has gone the round of the papers stating that an attempt and cheapness of which depends, to so great a degree, was made by some fanatics, a few days ago, to "injure the general prosperity of the great consuming classes ; the speculum of Lord Rosse's monster telescope in the and we may as certainly class the first articles of neces sity, the price of which determines what fund will be dis - Armagh Observatory." There is not the slightest posable, not only for the consumption of all those articles foundation for the report ; we publish the paragraph to show up the fabricator of such a story capable of menu which afford the largest income to the State, but also of factoring mom ter falsehoods, and decking them out in a our manufactured goods, which afford the means of sub somewhat plausible style. The whole fabrication is an sisteace to so large a portion of the community. When the cotton and the stool duties were roll: quished, rove ingenious, but at the same time a flimsy hoax—Armagh nue to the extent of nearly 800,000/, was apparently Sporti CA ng Chronicl e . AN. — Yesterday mornin g Captain sacrificed—gone completely and for ever. No matter Elosken, R.N., the commander of the Great Britain, ar how much the consumption increased, the revenue rived here, old Belfast, from Dundruin Bay. lie will could not be compensated from that source. But is remain, during his stay in Liverpool at the Ad elphi hotel. there any ono so short-sighted as to fancy that thereby Yesterday he was waited upon by several mutt.. the net income of the Exchequsr has been lessened ? cal tgentlemen, and today he will have an interview with the reduced cost of cotton and wool gave to those great' the agents of the vessel, Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. branches of industry a greater prosperity, it is the We believe that, after a brief stay here, he purposes plainest conclusion in fiscal science that the revenue would be benefited thereby. The additional demand, going to Bristol, to communicate personally With his for foreign markets as well as for home censumption, for directors.—Liverpool such goods, only because they were cheaper, could Lot THE ' LATE FIRE IN i'SOUTHWAUK.—MODriIIy night, at fail to promote such an extended use of all these articles eight o clock, Mr. J. Payne, the peputy Coroner, held upon which the revenue mainly relies, as to secure a an inquest at Guy's Hospital, respecting the death of quick and certain compensation to the Exchequer. The John tlantell, aged 21 years, who died from the effects of building of new mills, the distribution ..f more wages, injuries received at the late explosion upon the premises the reduction of public burthens, the increased profits of Mr. John Sharp, printer, of Kent -street, Southwark. and the rapid accumulation of capital, seeking new than- It will be recollected that the deceased was an appren :lets of investment, promoting in its turn a new demand Lice, and on the night of Friday, the 9th instant, the de for labour, all tend to swell so much the consumption of ceased and two females were engaged in making -squibs everything that yields revenue to the State, that the first for sale for the sth of Noveriaber, when a portion of the reduction ultimately ends in a great positive gain. combustibles ignited by accident, whereby the deceased HERALD.—There exists an evil influence in Ire. and the females were most frightfully burnt. Ellen hind fatal to the carrying out of the simplest, and, else- Sharp, aged 18, was killed on the night in n qu h e e stz e n d ; fr le nni t where, most practicable undertakings. No man can the deceased lingered until Satu n r o d t a b y e , r I d vh au e hter now lies escape it. Beneath it., logic becomes grotesc,ue—the very dangerous g state. The the effects of the injuries.na A natural relation of things is broken up, is lost sight of, in the above hospital, Deteeratwhl.l,i,ch At , the ethjeurysarmee and disappears. The English Channel is not the only strip of water that separates our islatei from a strange theytCutr,rnoendear remarkedverdieuiftoain:thAiceccidaesiei expressed their unanimous disapprobation people. The differences that exist between out selves and tim ;ist tihe practice of allowing children to make fire the races inhabiting the land on the other side of St, w o rks, ai more especially in such a crowded neighbourhood. George's, are as violent as any marking the independent re , ..E.EMPERANCE MOVEMENT.—On Mone.sr evening, origin of the denizens of Dover and Boulogne. If the f. the ninth anniversary of the Walworth and Camber- Frenchman speaks a foreign language, the inhabitant e well Total Abstinence Society was celebrated by a public the Emeral Isle acts upon thoughts and feelings equally meeting, in the school-room, Queenhead-row, Newing strang2 and unaccountable. If it seem impossible to cot ton. The meeting was most numerously and respectably legit a meaning from the quick gesticulations and quicker attended. The Rev. W. W. Robinson, M.A., presided. volubility of a people who speak as much i with their The report stated that 400 persons had joined the so hands as their tongues, it is equally ciety, and that amongst these were several of the most congruity in the conduct of individual(siffiwehunit act to now inveterate inveterate drunkards in the district ; that 500,000per from impulse, by and by from rashness, never upo d n . rule sons arid principle, generally acknowledged and r. Feive no less than 60,000,0001. s w o e , r o e oo sp ,o e o n o t annually n b u u a s l h l ye bushels n o f i n grainto sl - do conscientiously believe, that if the patients of the eating drinks ; and that Flanwell Lunatic Asylum had been called upon by the were used h to manufacture them, and th a t a t a period, Government to undertake a n y matter whatever of p ublic too, Nl' en one of the great articl e s of h uman sustenance duty, they would have con ducted themselves far more rati ma llv than many of the gentlemen who have been had been destroyed, and thousand s were on th e verge of , requested to perform that certainly pat rio t ic, but very famine. Resolutions to supp or t th e soc i e t y , an d pro easy duty. of spending money not their own, on (Meets mote the cause of total abstinence, were agreed to; after in which they have an interest, exclusive and peculiar. ,Which the meeting separated. "The extraordinary presentment sessions" for the barony IMMENSE TRAINS.--Two luggage trains passed by of West Ala,kerry, held on Tuesday last in the Court- the Rugby station on Saturday f last,.on ti the London and house of Macroom," was, in ,truth, au extraordinary North& eV et:t eui er ta n presentment, in more senses than one. The proceedings, carriages,nearly 400 tons of we are told, were 'condu.:tei in a manner that renders it by one of Ste hen g so n n e ' a a r y six-whee n l s engt Sllg e tWO cons d uste . d t u r d altogether imposs'ble to furnish a faithful report of others; the other P train consisted of 84 carriages, and them. No discussi , ll arose in which at least ten eerstained 384 tens of metchandise, &c. ' d raw n likewise speakers did not im Ape-nate e an l simultretteausly take by three engines. The lengflieof the first train was nr part, whilst at the same time the great body of spectators wards of a quarter of a mile. in the Court were shouting with alltheir voice and strength."l Miss Martineau is about to 'Tweed, in comport,' None but Irishmen should do Irish work. To take an I with some friends, to Egypt, where she promos to spend En4lishman from his own country to perform it, is at the winter.--Liverpool Albion. THE GREAT BRITAIN. (From the Northrrn Whig of Saturday.) "TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN WHIG. " Dundrum, Oat. 16, 1846. " Sir,—From the handsome and open-handed manner in which you have espoused my proffered voluntary as sistarce towards the relief of the Great Britain, I feel bounsl to comply with your request, in expressing my opinions relative to her present position. There can be no doubt in the minds of any scientific men but that she may be saved, and that without trusting to the trea cherous spring tides. Every person who has visited her has expressed his doubts as to her ultimate fate; and the general opinion appearing to prevail is, that she may be given up as a total loss. From the first moment I was made acquainted with the exact position of the Great Britain, I stated that she could be got off, since which my opinion has not been altered one iota; and the more I see the more I am convinced that if it is the general wish of the parties concerned in her fate, she may be again afloat. " My plan of proceeding with respect to this ship is founded on purely scientific principles. We well know that we' have a large body to contend with, the dead weight of which is upwards of 1,500 tons. To move this ponderous mass by any other means than those of many adjuncts is quite impossible. No power of traction could be applied to any one point, and even if applied to dif ferent points would be as useless and futile as were the attempts at the last spring tides. The ship's position is as favourable as it can well be for any proceedings that may be taken towards her rescue. The means applied to her Majesty's steam-frigate Gorgon are, from their re sults, sufficient of themselves to recommend them; and upon the same principles would I proceed in the case of this ship. She has from seven to nine feet water along side at high water, quite sufficient to float her. Upon the whole I do not consider her position so precarious as is generally supposed. She is well secured by the head and stern; but as to how she may weather the ensuing six months' gales and seas, I should be sorry to venture an opinion. " I have been actuated to offer my services upon this occasion merely from the fact of having the advantage of practical and successful experience in similar cases, and from which I form my opinions with respect to the Great Britain. Many nautical and scientific gentlemen have consulted with me, to whom I have explained my plans; and 1 am happy to state they are all of one opi nion as to my success, if employed. " Many and various rumours have got abroad, and are daily gaining ground, not only in this neighbourhood, but all over the country, and questions, some of no slight difficulty to answer, are constantly being put as to the ultimate intentions with respect to this ship. " I intend remaining in this neighbourhood for a few days longer, in order to give the directors due time to reply to my offers relative to the Great Britain, and must conclude by quoting the old adage of ' Where there's a will there's a way. " Your mast obedient servant, " THOMAS S. S. GABRIEL, R.N.'' ;ury. ,-. i!A 1 08 / / r e , .. /, 4i 5 0 /