The Sun. — London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

iA.STBAN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Arum 12, 1846.—An accident occurred on this line between Edmonton and Ponder's End to a special train that left London for Chesterford this day at 1 30 P.M. The cause is at present unknown, but an immediate and full investigation will take place. The speed of the train was about 43 miles an hour, as the secretary and super intendent of the locomotive department were on one of the 'engines, noting it by their watches at the period of the accident. The directors announce with much satis faction that there has not been loss of life, and that two persons only are injured —one a guard, who is pro nounced by , the medical gentleman not to be in any danger, and a porter, who has suffered a slight contu sion. The Deputy Chairman of the Company and a director, who lives in the vicinity, arrived shortly after the accident, and the line was cleared and put in working order within two hours of the arrival of the necessary apparatus. DESTRUCTION OF A WARE HOUSE BY FIRE. On Friday morning, about twenty minutes before two o'clock, the warehouses occupied by M essrs . P eter Jack son and Co. furriers, wool merchants, and silk plush manufacturers, Auburn-street, London-road, was dis covered to be on fire. Th e di scovery was ma d e b y t h e police, and no time was lost in communicating the intel ligence to Mr. Rose, at the police yard. When first seen, however, the fire had made considerable: progress through the building, and although Mr. Rose and a com pany of firemen, with the Thames engine, reached the place a few minutes before two o'clock, the blaze was distinctly visible to them . as they went along Portland-street. The building, indeed, was then on fire from the top . almost to the bottom, and the flames were issuing from the windows. Water was flowing abundantly from one of the plugs which had been opened, when the engine ar r i ve d. An "upright" was fixed into the plug, and the water came with such force, that it was easily conveyed by means of canvass hose, to the top story of the building, which is five stories high. The Mersey, Niagara, Water Witch, and Thetis engines were on the spot soon after wards, making five engines altogether. Three of them were quickly got into play, the water being directed upon the building both at the back and front ; but it was four o'clock before the flames were effectually sub dued. The roof fell in soon after the arrival of Mr. Rose, and the entire building may be sa id t o b e gutte d , with the exception of a portion of the ground floor, used as a counting-house. The outer walls, however, are quite perfect. One of the gables adjoins the warehouses of Mr. Frederick Schwann, merchant, and Mr. B. Gibbons, nail manufacturer; the other gable faces Messrs. Plant and Son's cotton mill, from which it is separated only by a narrow street running from Auburn-street to Upton street ; and behind the building destroyed is a yard nearly filled with sheds, which extended to the premises of Messrs. Cottam and Travis, ironmongers. Notwith standing, however, the contiguity of so much valuable property, Messrs. Jackson and Co.'s warehouse is the only building which has su ff ered i n jury, a fact which says much for the exertions of the firemen, and thejudi cious conduct of Mr. Rose and M r . Thomas Ros e , i n giving their directions. The police, to whom much praise is also due, assisted by other persons, succeeded in getting some goods an d an iron safe o u t o f th e ware house at an early period in the progress of the conflag ration. Showers of sparks flew in the direction of the large warehouse of Messrs. Patchett, M`Kay, and Co. carriers, but effectual precautions were taken by the fire men, police, and persons connected with the warehouse, to prevent it from being set on fire. It is supposed that the total damage done to Messrs. Jackson and Co.'s warehouses and stock of goods, will amount to about 5,0001. The stock is insured in the Sun fire office for 4,0001., and in the Protestant Dis senters', for 1,0001. 'The building, which belongs to a brother of Mr. Jackson, is, we understani, insured in the West of England office, for 2400/. Its dimensions are 16 yards by 9 yards, and it will probably cost from 1,0001. to 1,2001. to restore it. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mr. Jackson locked up the premises a little before nine o'clock on Thursday night, and at that time everything appeared quite safe, and no smell of fire was perceptible. The fire is supposed to have commenced in a room where no fire had been used on Thursday, though Mr. Jackson had been in the room with a light, which, however, he used with the greatest caution. Every opinion, therefore, as to the cause of the fire, must b. mere conjucture. Captain Willis was present in the course of the morning. Owing to the hour at which the fire broke out, there was a much less crowd assem. bled than is usual on such occasions.—Manchester Guar. dian, THE WEATHER.—T HE FLOODS. We had an almost continuous fall of rain, night arid day, for five days, up to Wednesday, when there were indications of better weather. To-day (Thursday) the sun has come forth in all his glory.—. Hull Packet. RUINOUS EFFECTS OF THE RAINS.—Among several instances of injury dune by the recent rains, we have heard of none so' disa,trous as has proved to be the case with an industrious individual on the Anlaby road. The party, with whose name even we are unacquainted, lately hired a worked-out brick field near St. Stephen's Church, and on which he had expended the earnings of his whole life to raise a new soil, and to stock it with seeds and plants for the supply of the vegetable market, when the deluge—for it has lit orally proved one on the face of his two or three acres—has completely destroyed all the prospects which in his honest industry he had contemplat, d.—Hull Packet. FLOODS IN THE EAST itlDlNG.—Trundreds and hun dreds of acres on the low lands around Hull are now under water. Between Hall and Beverley, and Selby and Brough, numbers of fields present the appearance of one vast lake, and in many places the drains and water courses are undistingeishable from the land on either side. On the road from Hatfield to Hull the highway in one part is covered with water knee deep. It is said that the land in the East Riding has not been so gene rally and heavily flooded for 30 years, and unless we speedily have dry and windy weather, very injurious effects are anticipated, especially with respect to the crops of spring corn.—Hull Packet. FLOODS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. The floods now covering the valley of the Trent are higher than have been known for manyiyears. The whole of the works on the line of railway between Nottingham and Newark are at a stand-still in consequence; and the Midland Railway, between Nottingham and Red Hill, is covered in two places. The destruction of property in various directions by this calamity is considerable, and very many lives are reported to have been lost; but this, we believe, is without foundation.—Lincoln and Nottingham Advertiser. THE FLOOD AND ITS CASUALTIES.—The almost fines ant rain which has fallen since Saturday, has caused this town and neighbourhood to be visited with a larger flood than has been seen for many years past ; and though rumour with her ten thousand tongues has whis pered many distressing tales, yet after careful inquiryand visiting many of the villages on the banks of the Trent, we: believe that little has occurred beyond what is ordi nary in cases of this description. The inundation is cer tainly very extensive, the meadows and lands adjoining the Trent, north and south, for many miles being an almost unbroken sheet of water, and several newly built bridges and portions of works in the course of erection, hay stacks, hewn timber, cattle, and property of a moveable character, have bean swept away. At present, how ever, notwithstanding the extraordinary reports in cir culation during Tuesday and Wednesday last, we have not been able to discover that a single human life has been lost. Before noticing particularly the reports in cir culation, we may remark that so l arge a fl ood has not taken place during the last twenty years, and so rapid was the rise on Tuesday night, that a general expectation prevailed, as a portion of the line of the Midland Rail way between Beeston and Kegworth was under water, that the trains to and from Nottingham would not be able to proceed on their respective journeys. This, how ever, has not been the case; little or no difference has been made in the railway communication of this town. The works on the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway in the Meadows and East Croft, adjoining this town, have been entirely suspended, the water having covered the whole of the land, with the exception of the Flood-road, leading to the south from the town, and we believe that along the whole line the men have ceased working. At Gonalstone, a bridge built by the railway company, over the Dover Beck, on the property of John Francklin, Esq., gave way on Tuesday morning. and considerable damage was done by the flood. The entire streets and approaches to whole villages on the banks of the Trent are covered with water several feet deep, and the labouring poor are without employment. At Stok e , Shelford, Hoveringha Hazleford, Bleasby,Fiskerton, & c ., the ordinary roads are quite impassable to foot passengers, and even dangerous to persons on horseback, in gigs, carts, and other vehicles. Between Hazleford and Bleasby the water was so high on the horse-road on Tuesday and Wednesday as to prevent approach by any means, except by boats, the hedges in many fields having quite disappeared. The communication from these villages having become so difficult, will in some measure account for the extraor dinary Deport. alluded to, though so widely circulated within the last three days, remaining uncontradicted. Late on Tuesday evening we heard that an accident had occurred in the neighbourhood of Fiskerton by the sudden rise of the waters of the Trent, and that many lives had been sacrificed. On inquiry as to the nature of the accident, we were informed that 16 persons, engaged upon an ozier bed, had been suddenly swept away by the flood. On Wednesday morning we received a private letter, stating that on Monday afternoon, a boat laden with coals and soap, on the river Trent, was upset be tween Hoveringham and Hazleford, owing to the over flow of water, and that three men and a woman on board had perished. This piece of intelligence led us to sup pose that probably the report of the accident at Fisher ton had taken its rise from this circumstance.. Being unable to obtain any satisfactory intelligence, we deter mined on making personal inquiries on the spot. On arriving at Bulcote, we heard that a foreman of the Nottingham and Lincoln Railway had positively stated there that morning, that 18 men had been drowned near Fiskerton, and the inhabitants were won • daring how this event had occurred, and who were the sufferers. At Lowdham and Bleasby no further intelli gence could be obtained, and at Fiskerton the villagers were quite astonished to hear that such an cient was stated to have occurred there. They could not say what had happened elsewhere, as the fl)od prevented com munication, but no person, to their knowledge, had lost his life at Fiskerton or in its neighbourhood. Hazelford was so deeply flooded that we could not approach the village, and after passing along the road above a mile in water, we re turned, and took a circuitous route to Hoveringham, where we found the villagers also quite ignorant of any such circumstance. One individual had heard of an accident said to have taken place at Harem, near Newark, where a bridge is being built over the Trent, but he, like all others, merely related it as a report. At Bartan we saw the man who was said to have originated the report, and he told us that he had just learned the whole was a fa- brication. The public may, therefore, be assured that the story does not contain any truth whatever. The fine weather, yesterday, has caused the flood to abate very fast ; and if the weather keeps fine for two or three days, the meadows will again resume their v onted ap pearance.—Nottingham Journal. DUTCH MAIL. THE HAGUE, APRIL B.—ln the sitting of the Second Chamber of the St a t es -G enera l to-day, the project of law on civil pensions, was adopted by a majority of 36 to 16, after a discussion, in which several Members de livered their opinions, and the Minister had answered the objections made to the law. The HAGUE, APRIL B,—The President of the Second Chamber of the States-General proposed to-day, and the Chamber agreed, that the debates on the projects of law, respecting an indemnity for the military inun dations, shall commence on Monday, the 20th of this month. APRIL 9.—The accounts from the river announce an extraordinary rise of the Rhine, which, on the 6th of this month was at 18ft. Bin. at Cologne, had risen on the following day to 23ft., and on the Bth, was at 23ft. 9in. AMSTERDAM, APRIL B.—To-day being the 22d anni versary of the birth of her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimer, was observed with the usual festivities. Welch, the shopkeer, and his son, who ha been in prison about three months, on account of the fire which took place in December last, have been set at liberty by order of the tribunal of this distriet, as there did not appear sufficient grounds for further proceedings against them. APELDOORN, APRIL B.—We are assured that her Royal Highness Princess Albert of Prussia, intends to favour us by stopping two or three days at the Loo, on her journey from the Hague to Carnenz. ALPHEN EN RID, APRIL 6.—We learn that last night about fifty persons, each carrying a bundle, and coming from Belgium, passed over the heath, and were attacked by 11 police officers on the line, who, by raising an alarm and discharging their pistols, dispersed them, and ob tained possession of 26 bundles of the value of 5,000 florins. THE HAGUE, APRIL 9.—Mr. Gevers, his Majesty's Minister, President to the Courts of Baden, Bavaria, and Wurtemburg, has been honourably discharged from his officer as Minister of the Court of Baden, by a reso• lution of his Majesty of the 31st of March, with thanks for the services he has rendered. By the same resolution Mr. T. G. Trours, his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Athens, is appointed Minister Resident to the Court of Baden, with direc tions to have his residence at Mannheim, there to act as Consul General, and M. T. M. Roist Van Lunburg, at present acting as Counseller of Legation to the King's Embassy at Vienna, is appointed Charge d'Affaires and Consul General at Athens. His Excellency 3EMercier, Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with an extraordi nary mission to the Court of the Netherlands, arrived at the Hague yesterday evening. CAUTION TO DISHONEST BREAD BAKERS. In so numerously a populated place as Hull, there are thousands of persons who have not the profitable oppor tunity of baking their own bread, and such persons (and they are mostly of the poorer classes) are frequently liable to the dishonest stratagems of bread bakers. Of late, numerous have been the complaints, not only in letters addressed to ourselves, but at the weights and measures office, as well by persons who have purchased of the bakers and in provision shops. of loaves of bread considerably deficient in weight. Those parties have urged LB to expose the bakers and dealers, and they have urged the inspectors to summon such shopkeepers before the magistrates ; but the inspectors find that this would be wholly beside and beyond their sphere of duties, and we believe they hare usually intimated to the complainants that the remedy is wholly in their own hands. But it seems to be very little known, that there is an Act in existence which imposes a penalty on any bake, selling bread otherwise than by weight. We shall therefore, notice two or three of the yrincipal provisions of this act (the 6th and 7th W. IV. cap. 38)' which passed in July, 1836, and is usually called " the Bread Act." This statute, after repealing the several acts relating to bread to be sold beyond the limits (specified) of the city of London, including those which enacted the assize of bread, by the second section makes it lawful to make and sell, offer or deliver, bin ad made of flour or meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buck-wheat, Indian corn, peas, beans, rice, or potatoes, or any of them, and with any common salt, pure water, eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potato, or other yeast, and mixed in such proportions as they shall think fit, and with no other in gredient or matter whatever. The 3d section authorises bakers to make bread of any weight and size. The 4th section is the important one. It enacts!— " That from and after the commencement of this Act, all bread sold beyond the limits aforesaid, shall be sold by the several bakers or sellers of bread respectively beyond the said limits, by weight; and in case any baker or seller of bread beyond the limits aforesaid, shall sell or cause to be sold bread in any other manner than by weight, then, and in such case, every such baker or seller of bread, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding forty shillings, which the magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before whom such offender or offenders shall be convicted, shall order and direct: Provided always, that nothing in this t contained shall extend or be construed to extend to prevent or hinder any such baker or seller of bread from selling bread usually sold under the denomination of French or fancy bread or rolls, without previously weighing the same." The Stn section requires bakers to use the imperial avoirdupois weight of 16oz. to the pound, and its aliquot parts; and imposes a penalty not exceeding 51, or less than 40s. for using any other weight. Then the 6th section requires:— " That every baker or seller of bread beyond the limits aforesaid shall cause to be fixed in some conspicuous part of his, her, or their shop, on or near the counter, a beam awl scales with proper weights, or other suffi cient balance, in order that all bread there sold may from time to time be weighed in the presence of the pur chaser or purchasers thereof, except as aforesaid ; and, in case any such baker or seller of bread shall neglect to fix such beam and scales, or other sufficient balance, in manner aforesaid,or to provide and keep for use proper beam and scales and proper weights or balance,or shall have or use any incorrect or false beam, or scales, or balance, or any false weight not being of the weight it purports to be, according to the standard in the Exchequer, then, and in every such case, he, she, or they, shall for every such false beam and scales and balance, or false weight, forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five pounds, which the magistrate or magistrates, justice or justices, before whom such offender or offenders shall be convicted, shall order and direct" The ith section requires bakers and sellers of bread, delivering by cart, &c , to be provided with scales, weights, &c., for weighing bread ; and imposes a penalty for refusing to weigh, if required, any bread purchased or delivered out of such cart, in the presence of the purchaser. Then follow various clauses relating to the adulteration of bread ; and the 10th requires all bread made of mixed meal or flour (other than wheat flour) " to be marked with a large M, under a penalty not ex ceeding 103." By the 20th section, informations may be laid before the acting magistrate or magis trates of the district (or borough), any one of whom msy issue a summons, and, o n h ear i ng , conv i ct; the 25th section giving an appeal against such conviction to the quaeter sessions, whose decision is to be final. It is, therefore, clear that any person finding that the bread purchased by him is deficient in weight, may pro ceed at once by i.nformation at the borough police•court; and this appears to the only way in which frauds of this nature can be hiyestigated and punished.—Hull Packet.: A rumour is current in nailitary circles, which we notice with the utmost reluct,lncey and in the hope th a t this public allusion to it m,AY elicit some authori se d contradiction or explanation. It . Alt! the recent victoriesst have struck our readers that in the official accounts Ot in India the praise so justly bestowed on the extraor dinary valour of her Majesty's 3d Dragoons, 6th Lancers, and other cavalry regiments, did not inet:lde the 9th Lancers. This latter corps must be well known to our metropolitan readers; it was frequently review're6 on the parade in St. James's Park by his late Majesty 011 his revered consort, Queen Adelaide, and the distinctu: ll . o f " Queen's Own" was con f erre d upon i t. Th e reg i ment, befo. w e , its departure for India, was commanded by Lord Rosyln, the present master of the Queen's Buckhounds, aid no body of men could havebeen in a higher state of discipline and efficiency. It is, therefore, with !surprise and regret we hear e tha l t in the . late transactions it-wholly di sappo i nted the ation, that this circumsta nce i s attributed togthneeiticeaaeil. ness of one of the superior officers of the corps, and that it has been deemed necessary by Sir Hugh Gough to direct a court of inquiry into his conduct.—Observer. A laughable incident occurred at Romsey Abbey Church, on Sunday morning last. An out-asked couple, a " navie" and one of the factory ladies, presented themselves to be united in the indissoluble bond of matrimony. The ceremony performed, the officials naturally looked for their fees—the lert„eyman received his, but the clerk and sexton heard iv di rueful countenance that none were forthcoming for them the husband stating that the parson was quite enough to marry him, " without them other two fellows." As neither threats nor entreaties could prevain on him to alter his determination, it was resolved to try the effect of a little confinement, so the happy couple and their attendants were locked into the vestry; but 'Jere, however, consolation under trials was not want i ng, f or b e i ng ar med with their pipes and a match, they comfortably enjoyed themselves for more than hour, till the arrival of veople for morning ser vice compelled them to be dismissed; the fumes of the to bacco rather offending the olfactory nerves of some of the more sensitive part of the congregatioit.--Brighten Gazette. HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTI)N.—A t a recent meeting of the poffimittee of Management of tl Y.e Hospital for Con sumption and Diseases of the Chest, 1 ield at the Hospital , Chelsea, th e Ri g ht R ev. the Lord Bishop of Durham, offered t o , contribute 501., providing nine similar s labscriptions could be procured, for the es p ec i a l purpose of a (ding the fund f or tusnishing of the new hospital, recently 'erected at Brompton His Lordship's benev o l ent i ntention h as been followed, by. Philip Rose, Esq., Rob er t V yner, Esq James Alexa nder, Esq., Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughan, Si r R .c .b ert Fitz Wygram , Sir John Kirkland, and It. Beazon de 1 :eauvoir, Esq. EASTER TERM.—The ensuing ter. 2 t will commence on Wednesday sext, upon which day the Lord Chancellor will entertain the Judges and members of t be. inner bar with the usual Easter Term deleziner at his Lor dAtup ,l house, whence they will proceed to Westminster Hall, .about one o'clock. C uß rors DiscovEitv.—On Wed itesday, while some men were engaged in removing a he lige in the vicinity of Wi.eeler's-street, Birmingham, they , iiscovered two copper plates, evidently constructed for forgi sg 11. and 21. notes of the Bank of England, of date 1814. [here appeared to have been a quantity of what are believ tel to be forged notes placed betwean the plates ; but ow 'ing to the length of time they have been concealed, they Pvere almost reduced to powder. The plates have been forw . arded to the Bank of England. THE SUN, LONDON COURT OF ALDERMEN. THE CITY PRISONS. A Court of Aldermen was held at two o'clock on Saturday. The Remembrancer informed the Court that Lord Sandon bad given notice in the House of Commons that it was his intention " to call the attention of the House to the state of the prisons under the jurisdiction of the city of London." Alderman COPELAND said, he felt no hesitation in de claring that it was his intention to second the motion of Lord Sandon, who, he supposed, contemplated the ap pointment of a committee to inquire into the state of the gaols. He, at the same time, should take particular care to suggest that the report of the inspectors of prisons appointed by Government be referred to the committee. Anything so grossly erroneous and absurd never issued from the lips or the pen of man as the representations in that notorious report. It was impossible to conceive any composition which contained falsehoods more glaring than those which abounded in the descrip tion of her Majesty's gaol of Newgate.—(Hear, hear.) He had already stated his opinion of the report he alluded to, and of the spirit by which it had been dic tated, and those who visited the prison saw that there was no exaggeration in his censure. The prejudices of the inspectors were, in fact, altogether frightful, and it happened that their judgment was so blinded by the force of those prejudices, that they involved themselves in the difficulty of contrasting the management and arrange ments of Newgate with those of Reading Gaol, one of their favourite specimens of what a gaol ought to be.— (Hear, hear.) It was impossible to let such a notice as the City Remembrancer had just given to the court pass without urging the Government on to an inquiry, which must have the effect of completely stultifying the specu lations of the inspectors ; and if the Court were of opinion that he should adopt the course, which struck him as most reasonable, when the motion of Lord Sandon should come forward he would certainly take care that the injurious representations of the gentlemen appointed to inquire into the condition of the city prisons should undergo a strict investigation. The inspectors had never ceased to declare the gaol of Newgate was in every respect an utter abomination— and what was the opinion expressed by disinterested people who visited it ? The grand jury, who had been just discharged, had visited Newgate, and expressed their surprise and satisfaction at the state of the prison. —(Hear, hear.) He was in the prison at the time of their visit, and he entered in the book the opinion they had expressed. Mr. Cobden had visited Newgate in the apprehension of finding it a complete Augean stable, and he also expressed unaffected surprise at the difference between the character given and character deserved.— (Hear, hear.) It was in fact quite impossible not to feel the strongest indignation at the calumnious matter contained in the voluminous reports made by the inspec tors, and he trusted the Lord Mayor would appoint a day for the consideration of the question, of which Lord Sandon had given notice, in order that every facility might be afforded to the committee, which would no doubt be appointed.—(Hear, hear.) The LORD MAYOR said he should feel great pleasure in appointing a day for the consideration of a subject of so much importance. A day will be appointed for the discussion in the course of next week. THE CORPORATION AND THE GOVERNOR 07 CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. The Lord Mayor laid before the Court a corre spondence upon the subject of the dispute between the Lord Mayor and the Governors of Christ's Hospital, from which it appeared that the latter have made ample concessions on the point of the Spital sermons at Christ's Hospital. His Lordship had determined, in consequence of the refusal of the Governors of Christ's Hospital to recognise his authority in the appointment of a preacher of the Spital sermons on Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday, at that institution, to cause the Spital sermons to be preached at the parish church of St. Bride's, and hzd issued summonses accordingly. Such a proceeding upon the part of the chief magistrate, who manifested throughout the whole affair a disposition not to abate ore jot of the privileges or dignity of the mayoralty, had, it would appear, a very consitkrable effect upon the Governors of Christ's Hospital, for it was announced in the Court that, in all probability, all differences of opinion between the corporation aLd Christ's Hospital were at an end. A letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury was read. It expressed much regret that any opposition of senti monts should exist between the Corporation and the in stitution of Christ's Hospital, and very plainly indicated tha venerable Prelate's opinion that the course pursued by the Lord Mayor was sanctioned by custom. The Court ultimately came to the resolution of making the following arrangement, in consequence of the com munications received since the last day of meeting from tv,) ordinary authorities of Christ's Hospital, viz, : that the first Spital sermon should be preached on Easter Monday at St. Bride's Church, and that the second Spital sermon should be preached on Tuesday at Christ Church, Thus the extraordinary scene which was anticipated of a decided authority as to the preaching of the sermons has been avoided. The Bishop of St. David's is to preach the morning sermons in the two churches, and the Rev. Charles Fare • brother, the chaplain to the Lord Mayor, is to preach the evening sermons. It is necessary to state that a respectful form in the hospital's report, which was m-ant to have been omitted when the dispute was at its height, is to be introduced, and appear in its accustomed terms. The Court expressed much gratification at the very firm and resolute manner in which his lordship asserted the privileges of his fellow-citizens, and the Court ad j urned. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. G. Daniel, Esq., in the absence of the rector, was cL.lled to the chair. PROPOSED COUNTY PRISON AND LUNATIC ASYLUM Mr. JOSEPH inquired if the vestry had received any information respecting the steps proposed to be taken by the Middlesex magistrates, in reference to the County Lunatic Asylum, and the new prison about being built. Sir P. LAURIE said, that he was not at the last meet- in; of the magistrates, but his nephew was, who in formed him that there was a deal of mysterious secrecy in their proceedings. It was however clear, that Sir James Graham was opposed to their views regarding the silent system. He (Sir Peter Laurie) looked upon the silent system as the most dreadful punishment that could be inflicted. It had failed in America, and would also fail here.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. C. ELLIOTT having spoken upon the subject, it was intimated that the vestry would receive the earliest information of the final decision of the magistrates upon the County Lunatic Asylum, and the proposed altera tions in the prison discipline. NOMINATION OF CHURCHWARDENS. The following gentlemen were nominated church. wardens for the ensuing year:—Mr. Charles Elliott churchwarden for the parish on the part of the vestry Mr. W. Elridge for Trinity; Mr. C. Carr for St. Mary' s and Mr. Stephen Grange for Christchurch. POLICE INTELLIGENCE MANSION--B OUSE. 3IPORTANT DECISION WITH RESPECT TO STEAM VESSELS.—On Saturday, Captain Rose, commanding one of the Greenwich steam vessels, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for having acted on board without having a license from the Watermen's and Lightermen's Company. The question comprehended the important one of overcrowding steam vessels to the great danger of the lives bf the people, and the interest excited was pro portionably great. Mr. Newbon, the solicitor to the Watermen's Steam boat Company, attended for the defendant. Mr. George E. Nias, Gracechurch-street, printer, stated that on Monday last he went on board the Prince of Wales steamer at London-bridge, and observed that they had not got the number of passengers which the vessel was authorised to carry painted on the boat, in conformity, to the rules and regulations passed some time ago by the Court of Aldermen. He paid fourpence for his passage to Greenwich, and he observed the de fendant acting as captain while he was on board. The trip the vessel took was from Hungerford-market to Greenwich. Witness inquired at the Watermen's and Lightermen's Hall and found that the captain was not licensed. The witness, upon cross-examination by Mr. New bun, said the boat was not overloaded on the occasion, but his determination to proceed had arisen from the fact that a short time ago he had been on board a steamer which was most dangerously crowded, and that not having had evidence enough to prove his case against that vessel, he had resolved, in order to prevent future ( ;,,nger to the public, to prosecute the very first vessel which he should find acting in opposition to the rules an d rt; gulations ; and the vessel named in the summons was the first. He took up the case upon purely public grounds, amd would be reg u l a t e d as to hi s f uture opera tions by eL"cumstances. stated that C apta i n R ose was not li- Mr. Bang - an, clerk of the Water men ' s an d Lighter men's Compaciy, censed to use a Steam-boat in the river f or th e purpose of conveying pa-Vengers % The captain wa s a f reeman of the Company ?y servitude, and had b een ma d e free on the 11 th of De,lembF, 1834. In answer to a pcstion from Mr. Newbon, Mr. Good man (the chief cleric) stated that the date of th e bye laws passed by the , court of Aldermen was Sept. 29, 1845, and the date of the settlement of them by the judge was Dec. 22, 1845. Mr. Bangan, in cross-examination, said that no licence had been granted to any captain since the passing of the rules aid regulations, neither had any been applied for, neither had the Court of Watermen taken any steps to carry out the rules and regulations. The above was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Newbon said he at once admitted that the defend ant was not licensed under the regulation alluded to, but he submitted that laws, in order to be efficacious, ought to be general, to cause a beneficial operation ; and in the present case there had been one vessel, and that belonging to a small and newly-established com pany, marked out and selected for prosecution, at the same time that it - was well known that long-established companies were constantly acting in opposition to the arrangements made by the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Nias (the prosecutor) declared that he knew calamities steam-boat w h ieh belonged. every nothing whatever about the circumstances of the corn onheliv: who objectlla p w a a ' s y to to preventwhich thee e any feeling and thought anticipated from the overcrowd_ ing of steam-vessels. Arr. Newbon said he had no reason to doubt that Mr. Nias was actuated by the best f ee li ngs; b ut it was . really too bad that all the other vessels should be al lowed to escape, and one which was, perhaps, the best regulated on the Thames, should be shot at. The LORD MAYOR said it was his duty to listen to any charge brought under the Act, and that if Mr. New bun chose to bring charges for similar offences against other steamers, his complaint should be attended to with equal alacrity. Mr. Newbon said the fact was, this Act and the laws and regulations were considered to be a mere dead letter. They were completely inoperative, How was it possible that the captain of a steam vessel could prevent the public from rushing into his vessel? When the Black wall railroad brought down 500 or 600 passengers, who was to prevent them from rushing on board the steamers in waiting? If the City would b e so goo d as to supp l y the vessels with policemen to prevent the overcrowding, the thing might be manageable, but under existing cir cumstances it was altogether impracticable. He was aware that some remedy was necessary, but to attack a new company for the purpose of trying an experiment was quite unfair and ungenerous. The LORD MAYOR intimated that the case was proved. Mr. Newbon said the company had no alternative but an appeal. The case must be laid before the Court of Queen's Bench. The LORD MAYOR—I consider the case established, and I shall thank you, or any other gentleman, to supply me with similar cases; and you may depend upon it I shall convict upon every one which is so well proved. The defendant was then fined in the penalty of 403., or seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correction. The defendant appealed against the conviction at once, and entered into bail accordingly. DISGUSTING CASE.—A man, named Michael Adams, who stated that he was a printer, was charged with having exposed himself before three very youthful females on Saturday morning. Three distinct cases were proved, and the defendant said he had been out drinking the whole of the night before, and knew no thing. about the matter. He argued, too, that the chil dren had followed him, and not he the children, and that of course, if anybody appeared to be culpable, he was not the person. The Lon]) MAYOR sentenced the defendant to be im prisoned in the House of Correction for fourteen days. WESTMINSTER. A case of a very extraordinary character was brought under tho cognizance of the magistrate on Thursday and Saturday. The public may be aware that of late a number of private soldiers have, in consequence of a recently-discovered defect in their enlistment—that, we believe, of being enlisted in one county, and attested in another—claimed their discharge, and many in the Guards have been within the last few days re-enlisted. On Wednesday last, Francis Bowen, a private of the Grenadier Guards, received the enlisting money (a shilling), and on the following day was brought by the sergeant major to this Court, and was attested ; but at the time of his attestation he expressed his dissent whilst Wore the magistrate, and tendered the " smart," as it is termed, claiming his right to be discharged. The sergeant-major objected to take the smart, but the recruit continued to dissent under the 37th clause of the Mutiny Act. The sergeant-major objected to take the money ten dered as above, as it was one of the regulations of the military that, having government property in his posses sion (firelock, belt, &c.), it should be delivered up at the barracks to the proper authorities. After some conver sation it was arranged that, as Good Friday is a dies *on, the recruit should come before the magistrate on Saturday without prejudice to his right as regarded time topay the "smart." The soldier applied for the sergeant-major on that morning for, him to attend with him before the magistrate, but the sergeant-major said he could not come at all without an order from the Commander-in- Chief, and the soldier or recruit attended at half•past one alone, and asked his discharge. Mr. Burrell re commended that he should wait till two o'clock, at which hour a sergeant and an escort made their appearance, and the former said that he had received orders from the commanding officer to take the man back to barracks, his first enlistment being good. Mr. BURRELL said that he had nothing whatever to do with the first enlistment. The recruit had done all that was required under the Mutiny Act, if prepared to pay the money claimed (smart and keep). The recruit, who was in the uniform of the regiment, produced the money. and again claimed his discharge, The sergeant ref - used to take the money. Ills instruc tions only were to take the man to barracks. The recruit having paid 1/. 4s. into the hands of Mr. Taylor, the chief clerk, as smart and charges since, Air. BualtELL discharged him from the second enlist ment, but he was immediately taken into custody by the escort. At the close of the court, the soldier or recruit's wife complained that her husband was confined in barracks, and that they would not allow her to see him. Mr. BURRELL said he could not assist her in any way. He had no power to interfere. THAMES. _ _ William Frazer, a Man of rather respectable appear ance, was charged with fraudulently obtaining a quan tity of cutlery, the property of Messrs. Hems and Son, cutlers, 37, High-street, Whitechapel. According to the evidence of Mr. William Hems, and his shopman, Henry Gough, the prisoner went about half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, and stated that he wanted some articles of cutlery, as he had taken the Nag's Head public-house, in Hounsditch, and desired to see some knives and forks, some to be used in the taproom, and others of a superior quality for the parlour. The purchase was made to the amount of 3/. lOs., and the prisoner desired that they should be sent with a bill to the Nag's Head, when the amount would be immediately paid. Gough accordingly took the articles to the Nag's Head, and inquired for the prisoner, who came from the parlour, without his hat, with the perfect air and manner of one who was master of the house. He invited Gough into he parlour, and having given him a glass of ale, said, "I suppose Mr. Hems would have no objection to take one pound in copper, which was agreed to, and the prisoner went out as if to get the money, taking the articles with him. It is needless to say that the prisoner, who had nothing to do with the Nag's Head, disappeared with the property. He was subsequently traced , by a police-constable to a house in White Lion - street, and taken into custody, but no portion of the property could be discovered. He was fully committed for trial. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. (From the Dublin Evening Post of Thursday). Last night, at nine o'clock, James Kirwan, Esq., City Coroner, held an inquest at Abbott's Hottl, Prince's street, on view of the body of Robert Heinekey, Esq., proprietor to the Bilton Hotel, Sackville-street, who came by his death by taking a large dose of laudanum. Isaac Newton, the porter in Abbott's Hotel, stated that deceased came to the house after six o'clock in the morning and engaged a room, and told witness to bring him up hot water ; he asked for a quiet room ; brought up the water, and deceased locked the door, telling wit ness not to call or disturb him. Mathew Doyle, head-waiter in the hotel, stated that he knocked at the door between three and four o'clock, and heard the deceased snore deeply; the door was locked inside, and witness, with a sergeant of police, and Mr. Thomas, went into the room ; went to the bed, and saw deceased very pale, and his chest was heaving or drawing very heavy ; he was in a dead slumber, not able to speak ; saw three bottles, which had " laudanum poison" marked on them ; there was a letter directed to Mr. Bunn, and also some papers relative to a will got on the table with a watch and 1 ls.; Mr. Abbott came up at once and sent for a doctor. Here the folloving letter directed t,o, Bilton tonßuunontewl,aps Dublin, April 5, 1846. "Dear Friend,—Many, many thanks for all your kindness. Forgive your poor friend--but life has be come insupportable, and 'ere you view this his trouble and anxiety will be at an end. Let me be interred at Howth as quietly as possible. Continue your kind friendship to my poor wife. I see no prospect of being anything but a trouble to her, and after a time I hope my loss will be her gain; she is harassed in mind and body. Matters cannot !,;o on as they are, and it is better I should be out of the way as I am only a con tinued source of anxiety and trouble to all in connexion with me. My unfortunate constitution of mind is the only cause, but this I cannot overcome, and though it must be felt severely at first I shall soon be forgotten; a few short years will, sir even months, must end my miserable life or place me in a lunatic asylum, a still greater burden to my family. Pity and forgive your poor weak-minded friend, and the best and last good wishes of your unfortunate friend are for your happiness and prosperity. " R. HEINEKEY. " Who can administer to a mind diseased ?' I have struggled in vain, and at snot endure a lingering death. " See Gresham as soon: as you view this." The Coroner read a letter directed to himself from deceased, as follows : " Sir—This is probabiy the first note yon ever re ceived from one on whose body you were likely to hold an inquest on. My object; in addressing you is, to save you and the jury all unnecessary trouble. The cause of my death is two or three ounces of laudanum, administered by my own. hand, and the only reason I rabl c e an sta g te ive of fo m r ind th l e b oo ity w e ar b d e l e y n a i c n t f i o s r , s th om e e m t i i s m e- e past. Neither you or the ;jury can form an idea of the horrid nervous feeli ngs I have in vain struggled against. I have been a trouble and constant anxiety to all around me ; althou f :h I have had no real cause, and feel, in my pre sent state of mind, that cmeyrndseoafthliNfveillisbesufeohr a th s e to n .d i v n a j n u t r a e y g m e o f my dear wife and family. I s h a ll soon be forgotten; but if I live, my own incapacity t o manage even the m ost trifling con valuable business, and, perhaps, end in grc. at loss. No one can conceive my horrible and self -rep) :oaching feelings. Although I have no right to hope, I Jo trust in a merciful Creator to forgive me. My dear ivife and family are affectionate and kind, and no blame can be attached to any of them. el M i et y aamn o e vi e n n n td m mu roaerkbeiistd me oe o n dl s or t ne i t ga n tle t rit.ohne May f papy m r oti the e n e d hA a o n l ndi eachgni e lt r y v d o sf u yo s ;gis e n x v de his wretched creature. " frowtb, 6th Ap r il , ' 46.—T0 the ROBT Coroner." NEKEY. After the exarninatio n of some medical gentlemen, the jury found a verdict that "Death was caused by de ceased havhng taken a 'ery large quantity of laudanum, while in a s tate of temp. (miry derangement." EXECU'llrit)N ot ANITJEL YARII AM, TH l YARNIO—UYI-1 MURDERER. NORWICH, SATURDAT4 —Probably no culprit has ex piated his dre 1 fiful offer ice on the scaffild, and has created so muo't sensaf ion from the peculiar circum stances attending the eT .mmission of the crime, as the wretched man Samuel) Tarham, who suffered the ex treme penalty oC the is w, for the murder of Harriett Candler, at I. l .:arrnouth,, at noon this day, on the drop at the castle of •the city. At twelve o ' c lo c k Y et i am made his appea rance on the scaffold. Th e ye ll o f t h is f popu l ace was of a most fright ful character:, and whichi continued for the fe w minutes the wretched man stood 4 e t I the gallows, when the fatal bolt was drawn and the In sharpy fellow was la unch ed into eternity. Hi s sufferinir s were very gr o a t. a full W confession'e were cr et tibl y infortr i :43 that the culpri t h as gi v en 't his gv might not be wr iting, which he desired 1 E4 14 IV 101Y11 un til three days after his death. 3.1.t' in RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SPECULATION IN 1845. A curious document came to light on Saturday in the shape of a report from the Registrar-General of Joint stock Companies, to the Privy Council for Trade for 1845. It forms a gigantic index of upwards of fifty fo lios to the doings in railway speculation for the past year, and can be likened, in its length and curious dis closures, to nothing else but the ramifications of a Welsh pedigree or Homer's catalogue of ships. An in teresting biography or book upon bubbles might be wrought out of it in the hands of a judicious selector. It is, moreover, a mirror of that memorable period of na tional hallucination when every bubble was invested with a value, as the true offspring of the joint-stock genius of England, by the then reigning epidemic of speculative cupidity and caprice. In the return every scheme is impaled as nicely as ephemera in the folios of a naturalist. Each scheme is accurately named and numbered, so that all whom it concerns may take notice and see how the multiplied schemes that came out starred with premiums have given up the ghost of a moonshine existence, and found a place in the catalogue of all defunct things. This list is an eloquent doge of the wild spirit of project and speculation that charac terised the past, and will be highly useful to the pos terity of speculators and projectors in all time to come. The report is but a record of the establishment of the evil of a plethoric speculation, without at all unveiling the disastrous and uncalculating consequences that fol lowed the most puissant period of speculation in the world's history; consequences that can only be ade quately arrived at by diving into the depths of woe and Whitecross-street, which is said to be half peopled with speculators and projectors, who had a chief hand in the late railway game of hazard. The list consists of fifty-three pages, and contains the titles and specifications of 1,520 schemes, the off spring of 1845, the majority being for railways, water companies, banks, insurances, mines, and an immensity of other joint-stock corporation. The year opened with a mere handful, but as the days rolled on and the fever became fiercer, they doubled, trebled, and quadrupled in quantity, until, in September, October, and Novem ber, they came thickly thundering on, at the rate of from 100 to 300 and 500 a month, and an average in September—the most prolific of months—of from 16 to 46 each day, or 457 in the month, as will be seen by the following analysis of the return. In December, when the panic rang the tocsin of alarm, and the excite ment was gradually subsiding, the climacteric was 31. The following shows the number of projects registered each month, with the aggregate totals for the same : Number registered. Total. _ _ In January - 16 . 16 February March April May June July August September October November December ... ..... 31 Total schemes registered from January to December The period, it is well known, gave rise to the most whimsical and Quixotic scheminga, and we select from the one thousand five hundred and twenty! some of the most amusing anomalies and nondescripts. The People's Colliery Company. Melides Anglo-Franceza Mining Company. Biographical Dictionary Society. St. Marylebone and Paddington Joint-stock Building and Trading Company. Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Company. White Knights Improvement Company, now called White Knights Estate Company. Tehuantepec Colonization and Canal Company. Greenwich Bath Company. York-street Flax-spinning Mill Company. Bury Athenaeum Company. Lancashire and Yorkshire North -Eastern Railway Company. Patent Concentrated Tea Company. Wigton Joint-stock Brewery Company. Tollesbury Oyster Company. National Land-draining Company. Patent Fuel Company. Rotherham and Masborough Public Bath Company. Wilder's Burton Brewery Company. Hull Cotton-mill Company, now called Kingston Cotton mill Company. Victoria Dock and Grand Union Railway Company. National Joint-stock, Loan and Discount Company. Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Extension Line to Monmouth Company. Quartertown Cotton Joint-stock Company. Economic Draining Tile and Brick Company. General Oceanic Telegraphic Company. Catholic Law and General Life Assurance Company. Northern Loan Association. Church of England Cemetery Company. National Land Drainage Company. Highbridge Market-house Company. Lancashire One Hundred Pounds Money Company. Drapers' Fire Insurance Company. Ocean Mutual Marine Assurance Institution. New Protecting Society. Norfolk and Suffolk Ramoneur Association. Australian, Sydney, Paramatta, Liverpool, Richmond, and Windsor Junction Railway Company. Mercantile Bill of Exchange, Discount, and Loan Com pany. National Widows' and General Life Annuity and As surance Society, now called Widows' National and General Life Annuity and Assurance Society. Fidelity Guarantee Society. London and Aberdeen Granite Company. Patent India Paper Manufacturing Company. Marine Glue Company. Wenham Lake Ice Company. Tehuantepec Ship Canal and Colonization Company. Patent Cork-Cutting Company. Harwich Pier and Docks and Birmingham and Central England Grand Junction Railway Company, now called Harwich Docks and Birmingham and Central England Railway. Hull Worsted Mill Company. Wylam's Steam Fuel Company. Practicable, General, and Invalid Assurance Company. Dacca Sugar Company. Burnley Cotton Twist Company. Defender Company, now called Property Protection and Insurance Company against Fraud and Robbery. Great Hibernian Central Junction Railway Company. Universal Guarantee Society, now called Surety Sociaty. Craig Ddu Slate Company. Patent Timber Company. Great British Advertising Company. Railway Club House, Chambers, and General Goods Depot Company, now called Bank Approaches Im provement Company. British Class Journal Company. National Glass Company of Ireland. General Commercial Telegraph Company. National and General Harbours Company, by the adop tion of Sleigh's Patent buoyant Sea-barrier or artifi ficial Beach. Railway Carriage Building Company. Groat British Railway Company. Great British Extension Railway Company. Hinckley Union Mill Company. Prosser's Patent Wooden Railway Guide-Wheel Com pany. Dudley, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, Syston, and Leicester Railway Company, now called Dudley, Wol verhampton, Walsall, and Tamworth Railway Com pany. British and Colonial Provident Life Assurance Annuity Endowment, and Freehold Investment Company. Liverpool Joint-stock Railway Bank Company. Thames and Scheldt Steam Navigation Company. Burnley Building Company. Manchester Auxiliary Investment Company. Bridlington Quay and Public Rooms Company. Wolverhampton, Wallsall, Stamford, Peterborough, and Norwich Junction Railway Company, now called Wolverhampton, Walsall, Leicester, Peterborough, Norwich, and Great Yarmouth Junction Railway Company. Burnley, Bradford, Leeds, York, and Hull Direct Union Railway Company, now called Ribble and Humber Junction, or Preston, Blackburn, Burnley, Bradford, Leeds, York, and Hull Direct Union Rail. way Company. Mutual Investment Society. Fitzroy Investment Association. Hull Sugar Refining Company. Great British Railway Company. Royal Irish Glass Company. New Share and Stock Exchange Company. London Rail Way Company. Royal Grand Junction Railway Company, uniting the London and South-Eastern, the London and Brighton, the London and South-Western, and the Great Western Railways. Westminster and Charing-cross Building Company. London and Liverpool Direct Railway Company. Cooke's National Railway Company. Chorley's Cotton Twist Company. General Canal Steam Haulage Company. Philadelphia Steel Works Company. Metropolitan and Brighton Sea-Water Conveyance Company. Provincial Sewage Manure Company. Great City Shambles Company. Midland Counties Coal-Fields Railway Comp_ arg Nova Scotia and Now Brunswick Transit and Coloniza tion Company. Universal Railway Contracting Company. Joint-stock Newspaper Company. Ulster Irish Centralization Railway Company. London Circles Railway Company. Railway and General Gas Company. London and Harrow-on-the-Hill Direct Railway Com pany. Railway Land Investment Company. London Concentral Exchange and Junction Railway Company. Victoria Aqueduct Company. Inland Ports and Sea Ports Ship Railway and Goods Traffic Company. Isthmus of Darien, Atlantic, and Pacific Junction Rail way, Harbour and Dock, and Steam Packet Company, now called Isthmus of Darien, Atlantic, and Pacific Junction Railway Harbours, Docks, Canal and Steam Packet Company. Northampton General Cemetery Company. Metropolitan Necropoli, or Grand Eastern and Western Cemeteries Company, now called Metropolitan Near°. poles, or Grand Eastern and Western Cemeteries Com pany. Sheffield Coal Consumers' Company. Bradford Sanatory Building Company. Metropolitan and Great Western Junction Railways of Canada Company, from Toronto to London (Canada), now called Extension of the Great Western Railway of Canada from the district of London to Toronto. Direct City South Union Atmospheric Railway Com pany. Thames Tunnel and Metropolitan Suburban Junction Railway Company. Manchester District Circle and Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway Company. Atmospheric Rapid Mail Conveyance Company. Great Independent London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Liverpool Direct Railway Company. United Iron and Railway Extension Company. Paddington and Saint Albans Railway Company. Dublin Coal Ship Company. Railway Contracts Company, Royal Irish Railroad Carriage Company. East of England Locomotive Engine Building Com pany. Patriot Association. Malabar and Coramandel Coasts Junction Railway Com pany. Somersetshire Lighting Company. Devonshire Lighting Company. Law Chambers Society of Ireland. Norwich Church of England Burial Ground Company. British Patent Naphtha Company. Union Joint-stock Building Company. Hibernian Coal and Peat Consumers' Company. Liverpool Stock-Exchange Building Company. Draining and Flooring Tile Pottery aud Brick Manufac turing Company. Great Metropolitan Artesian Water Company. England Life and Invalid Hazard Assurance Company. Grand European Mining and Manufacturing Iron Com pany. Miniature World, or Grand National Association. Grand National Association for the Profitable Employ ment of Capital, Skill, and Labour in Trade, Com merce, and Agriculture. Dublin Omnibus Conveyance Company. South London Newspaper Company. Patent Fibre Manufacturing Company. National Investment and Benevolent Land Association, for the Encouragement of Agricultural Labourers and Small Farmers. Adelaide Railway Company. West Kent Hop Company. Central Union to the North of England Railway Com pany. Hereford Cottage Association. Litherland Land Company. National Philanthropic Investment Company. Senator's Screw Ship Company. This disposes of section No. 1, of companies "pro visionally" registered in 1845—amounting to 1,520. Section 2 professes to give a list of companies, 57 in number, " completely" registered during the same period, and amongst these figure The Manchester Bonding Warehousing Company. The Ipswich Paper Mills Company. The Victoria Park Cemetery. The Patent Fuel Company. The Patent Cork-cutting Company. Section 3 informs us that there have been iao cases during the year in which application has been made for the enforcement of penalties for failure to regi ster, and result of the proceedings thereon. Section 4 gives a list of those provisionally, but not completely registered during 1:45. It is principally a recapitulation of the previous list, and gives a total of 1,484. Amongst its originalities are :—Th e Pr ov i nc i a l and Foreign Water Company, the British National Brewing Company, the Tollesbury Oyster Comi may, the General Post-office and Great Metropolitan Junction, the Great European Railways Company, the Gi•eat Bri tish Advertising Company. Sect. 5 affirms that no change has been made during the year in the return of the regulations made by the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade with r egard to the returns required to be made by companies. Sect. 6 consists of a return of persons appointed to the office of registrar of joint-stock companies, ai id other officers and clerks, with their salaries, &c., 1845. From this it appears that there is-1. George Taylor, for merly first clerk, appointed assistant-registrar, " with a salary the same as formerly returned." 2. Geor g r e Craw ford, appointed assistant-registrar for Ireland„ in the room of Ponsonby Arthur Moore, resigned at a salary of 200/. 3. Stephen Pritchard, appointed clerk in the room of John Young Jameson, deceased, at a. salary of 801. Sect. 8 furnishes a return of the amount of all fees paid at the offices for the Registration of Joint-stork Com panies, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110, during the year 1845. It is as follows : FEES AT THE HEAD OFFICE IN LONDON. X. S. d. Quarter from Ist January to 31st March ... 465'. 11 9 Ist April to 30th June . 1,609' 7 3 f t Ist July to 30th September... 4,032 19 5 lit October to 31st December 3,750 , 1 4 Total.. £9,857 19 9 FEES AT HEAD OFFICE IN DUBLIN. Quarter from Ist January to 31st March 57 11 3 fl Ist April to 30th June GS 16 7 9 9 Ist July to 30th September l5l 12 3 9, Ist October to 31st December 230 0 9 Total . Total . ..E505 0 9 9,857 19 9 £10,363 0 6 The fee on capital of companies completely registered is at the rate of ls. for every 1,0001. in the case of pro visionally registered companies, and 6d. for every 1,000/. in the case of companies registered as existing. Section 8 says that no change has been m tde in the return of the scale of fees appointed by the Lords of the Treasury for the services to be performed by the Re gistrar, and of the respective amounts of such fees. Section 9 states that no cases in which companies have failed to appoint auditors, and of the proceedings taken thereon during the year, have come within the knowledge of the Registrar. Section 11, the return of the number of bankruptcies of joint-stock companies, and of the amount of the debts and assets of such companies, gives the name of the Forth Marine Assurance Company (date of fiat, 2d July, 1845), but states that the amount of debts and liabilities have not yet been ascertained.—Chronicle. BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND lIASTINGS.—SUBSIDENCE OF THE PRESTON VIADUCT.—This viaduct consists of 27 arches, and it crosses the turnpike. road from London to Brighton, near the Brighton terminus. It has been finished several weeks, and the principal portion of the wooden centres supporting the arches taken away. On Saturday morning the :men engaged in ballasting the line over the viaduct discovered symptoms of the middle arch, which crosses the turnpike-road, having given way. Workmen were immediately employed in placing timber to support the arch. It was found to have sunk a foot or eighteen inches, and will have to be taken down and rebuilt. This arch was of wider span than the others, and was the only elliptic arch in the viaduct. Some persons ascribe its subsidence to its being built in that form, but it is more probably owing to the continued wet weather, as another of the arches has since been found to be cracked. They will have both to be taken down and rebuilt. The line was to have been opened in May, but in cousequence of this untoward event the opening must be deferred probably for six weeks or two months. Thousands of persons visited the spot yester day, it being within a mile of B r i g ht on . WINDINGS UP.—The shareholders in the following companies have called meetings, to be held during the current week, to consider the propriety of forthwith winding up their affairs :—Taw Vale Extension ; Lan cashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern; Leeds and York; Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction ; Boston, Newark, and Sheffield ; London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct ; East Coast ; Central Devon ; London, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster ; Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia ; North Staffordshire; Chester and Manchester Direct ; Direct Birmingham and Lei cester ; Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ; Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine ; British and Irish Union (Dum fries to Portpatrick). From our official returns (says the Railway Chronicle) it appears that the amount of traffic for the last week, on nearly 1,800 miles of railway, was 124,0731., thus ac counted for :--59,5161. for the conveyance of passengers only ; 33,2611. for the carriage of goods ; and a re mainder of 31,2961. for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned; being an increase over the corresponding week of last year of 24,3571. (To ren der this comparison fair, the opening of new lines should be credited in the calculation as included.) VALE OF NEATH.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Aberdare was held at the Town-hall last week, to peti tion Parliament in favour of the immediate passing of the Vale of Neath Rail wa y Bill. A reso l u ti o n was adopted to the effect that the p ro p ose d line would prove of incal culable benefit to Aberdare and its neighbourhood, from the connexion it would establish between it and R om er hy e r th o t t o h t e h r i eu m e p u o s r e tan e t f facilitiesa n and H irw i a t i n w 0 ; u l a d n a d ff o s r t d i 1 l o fmeohr cheap a p a ad from traagpeiodus communica tion towns to the west o with Neath s f n N d ea S th w . an A sea p , et a i n ti d on Commons in favour of the line en trusted to Sir John Gue st, M.P., for presentati on . was adopted, and CORK AND WATERFORD. —A meeting of the Exeter shareholders in this undertaking is to be held forthwith, Mr. C. Hubbard in the chair, to consider the propriety of winding up the affairs of this Company. DISSOLUTION of RAILWAY COM PANIES. The following is the official letter from the Board of Trade, detailing the previsions of the intended measure on the subject of the voluntary dissolution of projected railway companies:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, " Whitehall, 9th rd April 1846. "Sir,--I am directed by the Los of , the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to communicate to you the following information, with a view to your making it known with the least possible delay to those provision ally registered railway companies to which it relates. "It is the intention of her Majesty's Government im mediately after Easter to propose to Parliament a Bill to enable any railway company, which at the time of the passing of the Bill shall not have obtained an Act of Parliament, to dissolve itself. "By the Bill it is intended to provide for the calling of a meeting of the shareholders either by the managing body, or by a given number of shareholders, at which meeting it is intended that the holders of a majority of the shares in the company, or the holders of three-tilths of the shares belonging to those present or represented by proxy at the meeting, shall have the power to deter mine upon the dissolution of the company. "Due provision will be made for a sufficient public notice being given of the time and place of meeting, and of the mode in which absent shareholders are to be re presented by proxy. " Upon the dissolution being carried at the meeting, the property of the company is to become vested forth with in certain persons to be appointed for the purpose of winding up the concern, and, after discharging the liabilities, for distributing the surplus. " The actual holders of scrip are to be taken as shill' holders entitled by thems e l ves , or their proxies, toy tend the meeting.—l have the honour to be, Sir, - <I Your obedient servant, (Signed) " JOHN LEFEIro' " F. Rogers, Esq., &c. &c." " Joint Stock Companies Registry Of ce ' " Sergeants' Inn, April 11, 184 6 . h " Gentlemen,—l annex a copy of a letter stiriy c have received from the Lords o f th e C om mittee of K 4 Council for Trade, and which I am directed to cor0031.1?e, cate to such provisionally re g i s t ere d ra ilway cotclonir as it may concern. I forward it to you, as Ido not P i e ceive that your comp an y h as no tifi e d to this office ebu its dissolution or its incorporation by A c t of Parlia me " I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "FREDERICK ROGERS', " Register of Joint Stock Compallies. RAILWAY RE MARKE TS. LS, A. The absorbing topic of th EE D e week isPRIL the ll business-like and b° 9 ld io'it Yl most wise, declaration of the Premier, relative to the sn s Pe s uch new Railway Schemes, and the winding up of the affairs of se sue a majority of the proprieto. s are wishful to abandon. Sf b y ttt measure as that alluded to is rendered imperatively necessary exigencies of the times for the relief of the commerce of the a ii era tiot b a y nd al t l h d e iv im id p e r n o a ved value which will be attained through the 0000 establishment ofprAitylilnwga be given for obtaining returns of deposits, cannot but give r h , railway stocks, prosperity;w i I tendwhi while r t e h a e t 1 facilities c t i l o i ti the o p P ro e satisfaction to the most needy class of speculators. The o , n ', e rryini back to the general feeling of satisfaction at the prospect a' ' fl iadlr oat of the views of Government on this subject is, that in d e ach criminate suspension of a ll new schemes, bond fide ones, 7-es, as are really needed fo r th e proper development of existing - 1 0 00e' for the accommodation o f th e manufactaring districts, fa ry along with the worthless. Th e d elay is, however, but teull ,e 'ss the good ; and the cautious policy proposed will eventUallY?nass even for the better class of sche mes , much more jud i c i o us tho',4tiot ing them now when money is req u i re d so largely for the e e aider of lines in progress. The fluctuation of prices has no t been tw ee. , aft able this week, and upon the various markets better apPear an _ ta , manifested ; there seems a little dispositi on t o ma k e i n vestnie i ' v cif* some scrips are recovering in the increas e d p ros p ec t of a spee d y sion of what remains unexpended. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, APRIL 11. 25 (111; STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Caledo n i an EatenOA tie 06 —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 275. 6d. dis.—No vel ' 9 9 l9.o' Glasgow Direct, 225. 6d.—Northumberalinl and Lanca -West Riding Union, p. YORK, APRIL 11. Yort Srocs EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ea s tern Countles,_, tension, 11. ls.-Grand U n i on (N o tti ng h am an d Lynn), 7_0 4 Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 11. 25.-London and York, 1/. 48 . A ger' chester, Buxton, Matlo c k, an d Midl an d , 2. - Newca stle wick, 17%-Newcastle and Darlington Extensions, 7% -14° .01 01 , tish, Carlisle Extension, 1 %-Y or k and North Midlan d EX. I 311,4 -Ditto, New (East and West Riding), 814. EDINBURGH, APRIL 8. „ de Ina Srocx EXCHANGE .- The sales are-Aberdeen, 15-Air"isS. -- Bathgate, 435.-British and I r i s h U n i on, 3-Caledonian, ,'" Caledonian Extension, 245. 6d.-Cornwall and Devon, bor Direct Northern, 315.-East Indian Railway, 7s. 6d.- and Bathgate, 40s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 265.-Dit tO ' 2IIV port, ls.-I)itto,Lochgelly, I Is. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 010 Edinburgh and Perth, 455.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 3 59 ;;6111 8 P gow and Belfast Union, 225. 6d.-Gl asgow, Dumfr i es , and .1%24 225.- Glasgow and Dundee J unc ti on , 34 5. ki.-North `-ect,33o; 108.-Ditto, Extension to Carlisl e , 31 s . -P er th an d C r ieff in" -Perth and Inverness, 245.-Scottish C en t ra l, 121. 178.-Sw- Dunfermline, 225. COPPER M Au IN sI E ,:a S ALI I A N . SOV (From the Adelaide Observer, October 4.) „ ree t The commencement of operations at our _ l 7,sle northern mines is attended w i t h c i rcums t a nces D' if not altogether new, in the history of mining , O f Consecutively with the departure of the first p o iks men engaged on " owners account," sixteeo, h or have been sent u p t o b r i ng away the first lot (wwbst two tons) of th e co pp er ore ; and, judging from ia has been seen, examined, and performed, we 51 1. ° t hese all probability, have t o recor d , that the value el first first dray-loads, rai se d b y a f ew hands, within the i 0• seven days, will am oun t t o 7 00 1 .—a very prett y bed to ning. But w ere the English m ar k e t pr i ce offerwoald the Mining A ssoc i at i on, we understand they outatio guarantee to deliver a th ousan d tons i n f our and allow a liberal deduction for freight and c hargu t l es s Indeed it is diffi cu lt t o spea k prospect i ve ly of .. 0 far mines in mea sure d terms , more espec i ally as they s'_`, ais• exceeding the most sangu i ne pre d ict i ons of t h e first ta coverers and explor e r s ; an d as we h ave n o y ye cherish any undue expectations, we shall, upon the present o ccas i on , as i n future when we chron icle assured suc cess o f t h ese undertakings, limit ours hut as much as p oss ibl e, to actual facts and occurrences, sae it would be un j ust to the respective owners o' vf , s o northern and southern divisions of the property, r l 7 e t ae much the subj ec t o f di scussion, did we omit to not' c e re high promise, now more than ever afforded, of is ys munerative employment for the capital embarked in "Burrs Cre , k Survey." r° The productive operations instituted by the Wor ths so d proprietary, upon their moiety of the twenty the il n ot acres, have already so far removed from their inves_, t ''' rs everything of a speculative character, that s e iall changing hands at 50 per cent. premium, and we 2:„„ believe the most cautions matter of fact eurmugr; t he the colony (if there be such) would fain screw ouf h ot price of a share at a handsome premium, if offered by a needy holder, constrained to realise. tisf‘ e. Little beyond explor a ti on of th e surface, and sa bo as tory examinations of specimen s o f co p per ore, having ;61., yet carried out by the propri e t ors o f the southern 1 0. 90 we are only enabled to say that the first lave an , i r„ 0 ,1/ impressions have been a b un d antly confirmed ; '" probability the mineral riches will rival those a head)" • obvious in the adjoining property. At all even ts / competent auth or i ty h as estimated its value at 50, 0 p 0 I ' o , Nor are all th e energ i es of the " copper mining" 4°o, nists likely to be expended upon the great mineral vey in the north. A requisition has been loalged 4 r e the proper au th or i t i es for the survey of several Woe miles of mi nera l l an d , a b ounding with copper, ii :• district of M oun t B ar k er ; and such is the genet's' id, pression as to the difficulty of obtaining sufficient teat; port for our superabundant metalliferous wealth tol unrefined state that the proposed erection of smelting fu naces will be carried out at no distant day, under eir elj o s stances which o ff er i ncreased encouragement the 111 they are subjected to inquiry and examination. We are hea r tily g l a d to l earn that it is intendsu. gratify the citi zens w i t h a s i ght of several loads O f oir coined treasure —not because " seeing is believing! _if not to tempt th em to ma k e i nv i t i ng communications to throe friends in Britain or upon the continent of Europe 1 :;. or both at home an d a b roa d they will be able to judrs'e'en themselves) ; but that those who have borne the .. 1) r ' fa ! and heat of the d a y i n esta b l i shing our highly ance ess ga s t colony, io n fro may a y a sig derive htl fo e e n f c aa o tnhg u der r i a ce g unn e iae m t truig e vr encouragement caas well 1 wale) Bra s e h ; !i destined undertakings,infuse whether n p t a u sto al r l al o , u o r r co ra ll e s airc t l F : tile ; and to stimulate into which this province has es and vise the inventive faculties and salutary 0 already furnished so bright examples. productivehidusi o 7 ; oo ; When it was asserted of the colony, some years se; and bef ore i ts capabilities were apparent toeverbodY comprehension, that it abounded" ith all the elements the by of wealth and prosperit y ," i t was asked, alternate l l , desponding and the credulous, " Where are the p r- a tended eleme n t s ?" If it were possible that sac' question co u ld b e propounded now-a-days, the attse ', d attac h colonist m i g h t point to some of the countless flocks t. herds whi c h b edeck our verdant and nutritive pctoe. rages ; to the " smiling" corn-fields, which have i n s moved all lack of bread, and rendered our ga rners rs sufficient—to our fr u itf u l v i neyards, orchards, and gts dens --to the t ens o f t h ousands of unencumbered ite`j which to invite the labours o f th e husbandman--"Atitb; lastly, the sub-soil riches, which see m t o pro mise ",.„1 Government a full t reasury, and the governed a genera from p enury, an d exultingly ask, " "" element s o f wealth and prosperity do you find wanting ? R. trite' ICHEST COPPER MINES IN THE WORLD.--..%-i.- from a letter dated Eagle River (Lake Superior), ° o r 21, 1846:—" We are now taking out a large amount the silver roc k, h av i ng s t ruc k i t at the depth of 60 feet. ca The digging s have never look e d so well since I "ill known them as at present, and I f ee l confident they /14 improve as we progress. I have now a party of men work on the bluffs on a well-d e fi ned vein of 40 fee „.10 0- width. At Copper Falls th e y are in a fair way to . tonish the world. Childs h as struck a mass of nailo copper in the centre of hi s s h aft, which extends entirely across the shaft, 10 f ee t, and is equally large where enters the rock as at any part of the mass. He has su n , over nine feet on th e s id e of it without any appears% of coming t o it s t erm i nat i on in that direction. At tRO Pittsburgh Company's work on the Bluffs they have rich and well-defined vein. The North American Con; pany have a goo d p rospect. Their location, takes t rich vein of th e Pi t t s b urg h C ompany i n lass than hs lf e, mile 0 thehildsis a richest pointt work(Copper on thev Falls) has be enein The v twrhacicehdfroonillri c o the location belonging t o t h e North- Wester; Company, of Detroit. At Eagle Harbour the prospec t : is very flattering. Ther e are not more than two e three locations where th ey are at work but what los"'k^ well." Eas ter On Wedne s d ay next, being the first da of Ess r w - a Term, the L or d Chancellor will receive the Judges tlrl Queen's C ounsel at breakfast, at his house in Gres t George- street. Sir J. Graham left town on Saturday for Folkestone' BIRTHS. On the 9th inst., at Rothley Vicarage, the lady of the 10 ' . W. Acworth, M.A., of a daughter. On the 10th i ns t., at Hatcham, Surrey, the wife of the g el ' er. a Augustus K. B. G ranv ill e , M.A., i ncumbent, of a daug ht On the 11th i ns t., a t C room ' s -hill, G reenwich, Mrs. Ge°l.6 Busk, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Mile-end, th e l a d y of Alfred Hi d , Esq., of a son. On the 11th inst., at Montague House, Hammersmith , the ' wife of Thomas Griffiths Esq., surgeon, of a daughter. On the 11th in3t., in Upper Gower-street, Bedford-aq ua' Mrs. Tait, of a daughter. MARRIED. a ,„da r On the Bth inst., at St.. Mary's, Swansea, Mr. Moses of Islington, to Sarah, second d aug h ter o f Thomas Wan..— Esq., of Swansea. re, On the 9th inst., at Linslade Church, Buckingbany wi J . James White, Dq., to Lucy Matild a , secon d daughter , Osborn, Esq., of the former place. DIED. On the 9th inst., the infant c hild o f G. M. Ogilvie, Es c l!„ On the 9th inst , at Rothley Vicarage, the wife of the lie" W. Acworth, M.A. On the 9th inst., at Warrens, Wilts, Beatrice Catheria.' youngest daughter of George Edward Eyre, Esq. On the 9th inst., J o h n F earn , second son of Mr . J. S' e Neall, of Glengall-grove, Old Kent-road. John On the 9th inst., Carolina, youngest daughter of Staekhouse, Esq., the Grove, Camberwell, aged 37- h On the 10th inst., in Alfred-place, Bedford-square, Joseph Hawker, Esq., F.S.A., Clarenceux King of Arms, aged 81. On the 10th inst., at Grove-place, Hackney, Mr. John- Gardiner. On the 10th inst., at Randolph-street, Camden-toW II, _ _ John Doyle. On the 11th inst., at Shacklewell, Ann, wife of Willi am Gregory, Esq., aged 77. -.00! London: Printed and Published by 34 - crimo YOUNG, of No. 112. Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Previte; of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex. Monday, 13. 1846. MONDAY EVENING,'"rAPRIL 13, 1846. :.