The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUNDAY TRAINS QUESTION. At the last Edinburgh Town Council the discussion of ' this much agitated and important question, as regards free public convenience and right, and the intolerance, on a small scale, of a ludicrous railway tyranny, was in troduced by Mr. C. B. TAIT, who brought forward the motion of which he had given notice at last meeting. He feel perfectly confident that the moderate extent which the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway afforded of tra a tra velling on Sunday never would, with the exceptionof very few of our Scottish towns, have created the I am slightest observation in any other city or town in Europe. _ no Sunday traveller myself ; but I have occasionally travelled on that day, and I must say that I do not envy that man who, being obliged to travel on that day, eannot by observation and reflection improve his mind end profitably occupy his time. The rich man is com paratively independent of the privilege of travelling on 3undzy ' - but I maintain that every man who uses a vehicle of any description on Sunday is equally guilty of committing a breach of the Sabbath as the man who travels by a railroad.—(Hear, hear.) May we not say to those directors who so scrupulously compel Sabbath observance on those who may have a legitimate reason for spending an hour or two in travelling on the Sunday, "Ye hypocrites, why do ye not first take the beam out of your own eye before attempting to take the mote cut of your neighbour's eye" if it be true that about one hundred of the railway clerks were em ployed on the books of the company from ten o'clock in the morning till a late hour in the evening. —(Hear.) Since the council gave their former deliverance on this subject, a document has been issued by the directors, which proves that we can have no hope of making any impression on the four gentlemen on whom the controul has unfortunately been devolved by their colleagues, ex cept by the adoption of some such decided measures as that at which my motion aims. In the face of the fact that their proceeding has not received the support of any responsible or representative public body in Scotland, with the doubtful and chance exception of the town council of Dundee, these four gentlemen declare that they have the support of public opinion. The process by which they arrive at this conclusion is by comparing the number of signatures to the memorials on each side of the question. In this way the petitition of some congre gation in a distant part of the country, who have not one particle of interest or of knowledge regarding the ques tion—(A laugh)—is reckoned by these four gentlemen as several hundred times more worthy of attention than the memorial signed by your Lordship on behalf of this oouncil, which, by the confession of Dr. Candlish himself, fairly represents on this question the opinion of the Scottish metropolis.—(Hear, hear.) I have every proper respect for Kirk Sessions and Presbyteries so long as they keep within their own sphere ; but when they would assume more than the functions of a legis lature by laying restraints on personal liberty, it be comes the duty, especially of a body like this eouncil, to make a stand. In fact, the whole of this controversy has arisen from certain leaders in these church courts having become proprietors and directors, with the sole view of conducting the railway according to their own theological opinions ; which is the same thing as com pulsorily regu!ating the Sunday movements of the in habitants of the most populous districts of Scotland. In the document I have referred to, these four gentlemen complain of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway having been selected as the battle-field of this question. The selection was entirely their own. The question had been brought by certain rigid Sabbatarians before the shareholders again and again, and the largest number of votes ever given in favour of the motion for shutting the railway on Sunday, was fifty-six shares, held by about a dozen individuals. Now, here was the question de cidedyear after year—the Sunday trains in operation, and not a word of compl a i nt f rom the public. At this stage. the four gentlemen to whom I have alluded purchased shares in the railway. On the 19th of August last, up to which day the list of shareholders was corrected, not one the four directors whose votes have stopped the Sunday trains held a single share.—(Hear, hear.) They new only hold as many shares as qualify them as directors, and there can be no doubt bought those shares for the sole purpose of attempting to stop the Sunday trains, w hi c h purpose t h ey have been accidently enabled to accomplish by a crisis in the affairs of the company to which I need not refer ; and after all this they turn round upon us and deprecate their railway being made the " battle-ground of the question."— (Hear, hear.) The part taken by the press affords a strong refutation of the bold assertion of the directors that public opinion supports them. Almost the only papers that have given them any support are the three or four which are thirled to the Free Kirk—(a laugh) —and which can hardly be looked on as ordinary, newspapers, being maintained for a specific purpose and being directly under the control of clerical com mittees. Laying these three or four aside, the only paper in Scotland that supports directoral tyranny is one of Tory politics, in our own city ; another, which had at first given them a modified support, having since aban doned the field. In Glasgow (with one exception, of the class already alluded to) the directors have not, in the press, a single supporter. In England, also, I may add, they have been almost unanimously condemned. And the loudest in condemnation have been those papers usually called religious. It would be needless to point out the bearing of these facts on the monstrous assertion of the directors that they are supported by public opinion. (Hear, hear.) It is evident that men who resort to such unscrupulous devices, both in action and speech, need not be dealt with very tenderly. I cannot see that my motion goes in the least beyond the exigences of the case.—(clear, hear.) The railway company are ap plying to Parliament for extended powers, including the power to take possession of private properties, aed to monopolise the means of transit in new dis ttricts; and the p!ea, of course, on which they make this application is the public benefit and conve• thence. I cannot see how any man can deny that is such a case we have a right to tell Parliament that the com pany have failed in their duty as regards the powers they already possess, and that they should therefore re ceive no further powers till they exhibit a determination to make a better use of them.—(Hear, hear.) The council have already memorialised the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on this subject, and have been civilly told that the memorial will receive the attention it justly deserves; but I conceive we must now make use of such means as are fairly in our power for the purpose of bringing them to reason. If, as I maintain to be the case, this company has violated the compact virtually made with Parliament, in procuring their sanction to the Bill for making the railway, are we not justified, when this company makes another ap plication to Parliament for additional powers, in taking steps to enforce the fulfilment of their compact? Before the opening of the railway, the public had the benefit of the mail coaches between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Now, when the mail is carried by steam, these directors say, "We will carry the bags, but we will prohibit the persons." Had they ventured to tell Parliament, when they were applying for their Bill, that, as soon as they bad a monopoly of the read, they would shut it up en tirely every Sunday, the proposition would have been scouted; indeed, so preposterous does it appear, that no one could think of introducing a clause to provide against it.—(Hear, hear.) Now, however, that the absurdity has been perpetrated, our proper course is to take mea sures, when these directors appear before Parliament again, to call the attention of the Legislature to the manner in which they have abused the powers formerly given to them, and to insist that they shall first fulfil their engagement to the public before further powers are granted. What precise measure should be taken it is necessary to prescribe. It may be best to remit to the Lord Provost's Committee to adopt such measures as they consider advisable.—(Applause.) I beg, therefore, to submit to the Council the following motion:—" That the Town Council should oppose any Bill brought into Parliament by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company till they accommodate the public by restoring the means of conveyance on Sundays, to the same mo derate extent as they enjoyed previous to the late reso lution of the directors to put an entire stop to Sunday travelling." Mr. A. ROBERTSON said he had great pleasure iu seconding the motion of Mr. Tait. Every day brought new facts before the public connected with the atrocious conduet of these four directors.—(Hear, hear.) It was a fact quite notorious, that some of these very individuals who had so shamefully deprived the poor man of all opportunity either of visiting his friends, or of attending worship in some of the neighbouring churches, rode several miles in their carriages en the Sundays. By de priving the hard-wrought mechanic of the opportunity of enjoying himself on the Sunday in innocent and healthful recreation, they had inflicted a serious injury ' on the community, and he had no doubt that a shout of universal execration would be raised against them throughout the length and breadth of the land.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He had been t o ld by many influ ential parties belonging to Liverpool and Manchester, that since the commencement of the Sunday trains, drunkenness and crime had been greatly diminished, and bearing, in this respect, on one locality, he had much pleasure in bringing under the attention of the council a letter from Mr. List, the able superintendent of the county police for Mid-Lothian. The letter was written at the urgent request of Dr. Renton, who was anxious to ascertain some information in regard to the effect which the running of Sunday trains had on Sab bath desecration in this district. Mr. List's letter was as follows : "County Police-office, County-buildings, Edinburgh, Dec. 10, 1846. " Dear Sir,—ln answer to yours, I. beg to give you the following information. In doing so, I have no doubt that I shall be condemned by some; but as I am per hetly convinced that much crime arises through drunken. ness, I think every exertion ought to be used towards weaning the labouring class from frequenting the dram shops, and facilities afforded those who are immured in town from Monday morning until Saturday night to get fresh air and recreation, and thus endeavour to prevent them d esecrat i ng the Sabbath by driving them into dram shops. Of two evils, most assuredly choose the least. "Previous to last summer I always found it necessary to have two extra constables on duty at Jock's Lodge, daring the Sunday afternoons and evenings, for the purpose of maintaining order, owing to the number of people that frequented the public-houses in that imme diate neighbourhood —there being no less than nine such houses all Within the circumference of a quarter of a mile, Fighting and breaches of the peace were of we t kly occurrence; i n fact, on many occasions, the road at the barracks and along to Mead ow b an k had more the al)Fearance of a fair -day than the S a bb at h . L ast summer I found no occasio n to have any extra con statles at Jock's Lodge, the public-houses being less ire quented, and no breaches of the peace committed. The same ap pli e s all around Edinburgh. The sergeant at o Mwselburgh reports that he saw public-houses in his district, neither no increas e he see at mre the drunkenness than on former oocasions. It is quite true that the Sundayt isll e t g ra u i s ns y tr lea u d e m th zan from the town churches; but i ----- many attend churches in the country, with their aged parents, who were never able to do so before. Some of these places of worship are those they attended in childhood. " I have often contrasted Edinburgh and Glasgow with London, Liverpool and Birmingham. In the two former places there is scarcely any opportunity afforded the labouring classes to see the beauteous works of na ture in the country ; bnt ample facility to waste their time in public-houses, become drunkards, outcasts, and ultimately food for the police. On many occasions I have walked and rode about Edinburgh and the suburbs, on a Sunday evening, and counted no less than 60, 70, and 80, and on one occasion 125 intoxicated persons, in my perambulations of about three hours. :Cow, look ing at the latter places on a Sunday evening, yo - 7. 1 may see hundreds returning from the country—some with their wives and families—and scarcely one amongst them the least intoxicated. Surely there must be some thing wrong. "In conelusioti, I beg to say that I am as anxious as any one for the proper observance of the Sabbath, but I do think the present ` eitation on the subject by a por tion of the religious part Fthe community, will not in any way tend towards the impr;:'vement of the labouring class. indeed ; but that the nunaber lea vin g Glas g ow, and going out at such stations as Kirk intilloch, Cro y , and Castlecary, was very great. He ascerta ined that from 200 to 250 left Glasgow every Sa bba t h, but that the great majority of these persans were not on works of necessity or mercy. They were not connected with the localities to which they went ; and that they went to Kirkintilloch for the purpose of spending the day in the neighbourhood of Campsie Glen. He was likewise told that in the afternoon it resembled very much a fair or a race-day, and that it was necessary to open the sta tion• house an hour before the usual time, in order that they might issue the sixpenny tickets to these persons. He mentioned these facts for this reason, that if the former resolution was to be again adopted by the com pany, it might be done under proper regulations in reference to the matter to which he referred. He had already said that the motion was premature ; i od he thought there was great force in what was statet: l Bailie Mack, in regard to the matter of the funds. Were they, as a Town Council , cal l e d u p on tie interests of the community so much m er b e e d r th o a f t in a_a diviu:, by the urgem::, them as to affect vof this matter ?—did it come so near to e . yh i ad not yet got(and a herespec specific c return should a . 0 .?. f pass- Edinburgh to Glasgo;79 as ing on the Sundays fron2 would justify them in using funds of the corporation in carrying on an opposition to C. , e Bills of the company in Parliament ? There was another reason, however. rireenanub These gentlemen said that it was a regard for the Sala bath which induced them to come to this resolution ; ana wore ' they to visit this act with pains and penalties? „ —(Crieswould ask his is - leads the " No, No.") He . dissenters at the council board, to consider weil this matter before the'," were prepared to take such a step. sill from Parliament for the pur- If he wanted to get a - DeFuniary interests, and if, pose of advancing his ow; be was to be opposed because he held certain prinCipie - ..7, - to by the Town Council in his endeavour' get that Bill, they were punishing him bee case he held t Migious 4 , opinions.—(" No, no," and " Hear, hear.") i fie3 h re e was another ground on which this motion shout, resisted, and that was the ground taken up by Mr. Dick. They all knew that no measure which I his com pany might introduce would pass the Legislature unless it in some degree contributed to the advantage of the public welfare; and this being the case, the motion pro posed by Mr. Tait reminded him very much of the story of the boy who had got his foot hurt, and because he did not find his mother disposed to pay some little at tention to him, and to grant him some little request, he said, "I will be revenged upon you;" and ho struck hts foot against a wall. Now, because the directors of this railway refused to run Sabbath trains, they were pro posing by this motion, to frustrate the attempt of the company to got means which would be for the public welfare.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore he thought that in the whole circumstances, the consideration of this motion should be disassociated ‘"ith anything that the council did on a former day; and fie (Bailie Duncan) could see no inconsistency whatever in Oeutlemen who supported the motion proposed at the previoo meeting, now voting against that of Mr. Tait.—(Hear.) The LORD PROVOST said that the diffiCtlit.Y started by Mr. Dick in regard to the motion was fully o:et, if not in the motion, at all events in the speech of Me. Tait, in which he proposed that it should be left to tlt , l Lord Provost's committee to take such steps as they alight consider to be most proper for accomplishing the objeCt• There had been a great deal said about the large sum that would be expended in opposing the Bills of the rail way company in Parliament, and he begged for himself to say that if the matter came before the Lord Provost's committee, he would oppose as much as any one the ap propriation of the city's funds for opposing this Bill. But he would tell them that, without expending one far thing, they would put a spoke in their wheel. He would take upon himself to guarantee this. Then, as to the tyrannical nature of the motion, alluded to by Bailie Mack, his lordship said he would like to know on whose aide the tyranny lay. He was of opinion that it lay u ith the directors, who had tied up their legs, and would not allow them the means of locomotion, who had placed a wall across the railway, and said, "You shall not cross it."—(Hear, hear.) Bailie Mack proposed—and the proposition was a very natural one to come from a lawyer—that if they wanted redress they should takeout a suspension and interdict of the Court of Session. That was not a very pleasant thing; but he would suggest that a far more easy road was, to meet the directors in Par liament, when they would be quit of the quibbles and quibbling of the law.—(A laugh.) Therefore, as to ap plying for an interdict, he had no wish to try that. The Council had already come to the resolution that they should endeavour to have that road opened en the Sun day; and if it was a right thing that this should be done, ought they not to take effective measures for se curing-that object? And as they had the means of ef fecting that object, they ought not to hesitate to take them.—(Hear, hear.) The memorial referred to by Bailie Mack, as emanating from the tradesmen of Lon don, was against the opening of the shops on the Sundays. This was not the opening of a railway, but the opening of the regular business of London. Now, he, for one, was as much opposed to the carrying on of or dinary labour on that day, as he was opposed to the re solution of the directors discontinuing a morning and an evening train on the Sundays. Bailie Duncan had given them an account of the numbers who went from Glasgow to Kirkintilloch, for the purpose of visiting Campsie Glen. Now he had the authority of a talented and highly respected gentleman for saying that, as Glas gow drew its working population from all the towns in the country, the railway, being open on the Sabbath day, enabled many of those persons to visit the towns from which they came, and to attend the churches there with their parents or their sisters. But even granting that a great number of those that went to Kirkintilloch spent the day in visiting Gampsie Glen, if they did not think they were doing wrong, what right had we to coerce them by shutting tip the means of conveyance? And when it was remembered that these were not the individuals who were in the habit of attending upon church, he would ask if it was not better that they should be enjoying themselves in a visit to that glen, rather than in the lanes and tippling houses of Glasgow. As to the idea of pains and penalties mooted by Bailie Duncan, his Lordship said he had no difficulty at all in meeting it. The directors, when they went to Parlia ment, came undea an implied agreement that they were to give accommodation to the public ; and if they did not fulfil that agreement, was it not quite right, when they came again before Parliament, that they should not get farther powers, until they had discharged the duties previously imposed upon them?—(Bear, hear.) The Lord Provost concluded by saying that there was nothing that a railway company dreaded more than a little opposition in a Parliamentary Committee ; therefore, if the directors did not do what was just, they had only to tell them that they would meet them where they would get justice.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. C. B. TAIT having added to its motion the follow ing paragraph :—" and that it be left to the Lord Pro vost's committee to inquire what steps may be taken to give effect to this resolution," the roll was called, when 20 voted for the motion, and seven for the amendment. For Mr. C. B. Tait's motion,—The Lord Provost, Bailies Ritchie and Tullis, Messrs. Burk e , F a lk ner, Wil son, Anderson, Stott, A. Robertson, Blyth, \Veinyss, Hay, Drummond, Cochrane, Calder, Dick, Cruckshank, Clark, C. B. Tait, Renton. "I remain, dear Sir, your; truly, _ a A. LIST. „_ 9, " Superintendent of County Poi,. ". Mr. WEssyss said, he begged to inform the Coune that on Sunday, tht 15th ult., the first day on which the railway trains were stopped between Edinburgh and Glasgow, no less than 241 carriages of a private kind drove up to the various places of public worship ; and if the day had happened to be wet. which it was not, it was not unlikely but that this number would have been considerably greater.—(Hear, hear.) They had no he sitation iu saying that not fewer than 400 horses, and as many servants, coachmen, &c., were employed in con nexion with these carriages. Bailie MACK said he regretted exceedingly that Mr. Tait should have expended his maiden speech at the council board in suppoit of the motion which he had laid on the table. The motion he (Bailie Mack) held, with great deference, was not only irreligious but highly tyrannical. First of all, and speaking in a financial point of view, if this motion was carried into effect, it might be necessary to involve the corporation in a large sum of money, expended in Parliament, opposing the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bills. Now, as he understood the motion, it proposed that the council should, in an ultra vires manner, apply the funds of the city's creditors and of the community to oppose those bills. But, apart altogether from that, he held it to be a most tyrannical proceeding towards those gen tlemen. What was the state of the case ? The old di rectors introduced the running of Sunday trains—a thing which was very little to their credit, seeing that they did it in opposition to the wishes of upwards of 100,000 of their fellow citizens. Having, in the face of that opposition, set agoing, and carried on Sunday trains, until such time as the public, most unquestionably, were roused to the enormity of the crime —(A laugh)—then these gentlemen were ousted, they were turned out, and very properly so ; and they were succeeded by gentle men equally respectable, he was sure they would all ad mit—by gentlemen who feared God and had respect to his commandments—(Mr,. A. Robertson—" I don't be lieve it")—and who, besides, had respect to the statute law of the country. He did not mean to go over the law of the case, as he had done so on the last occasion the subject was before them ; but he submitted that these gentlemen were doing nothing contrary to the law.— (Hear, hear.) What right had the council to go to Par liament to oppose them ?—what right had the council to hold this in terrorem over them ? He did not go the length of some of his friends as to the powers of a rail way ; but he contended that they were only bound to keep it open on lawful days.—(Mr. Robertson—" Every day.") He maintained that they were bound to keep it open on lawful days ; but if his friend (Mr. Robertson) were of a diffarent opinion, was he taking a manly course ? Let him apply for a suspension and interdict against the resolutions of directors, or let him raise an action of declarator in the Court of Session to find out whether the directors were acting contrary to law, and bound to open the railway on Sunday hereafter. Then he (Bailie Mack) would understand it ; but it was a cowardly proceeding to hold this motion over the heads of the directors. He repeated that it was not a manly way to bring this question to a final issue, to do it by threatening opposition in Parliament. It these gentle men were wrong, they were amenable to the laws of the country ; and let those members who had spoken in sup port of this motion resort to the law for redress. Bailie Mack then, at great length, referred to movements that had taken place in London for opening the Post- office on Sundays, but which was frustrated by the religious feel ing of the community. He read one of the memorials which had-been presented to the Treasury on that occa sion, by some of the tradesmen of London to show the high estimation in which they regarded the Sabbath. He then read a portion of the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Sabbath observance to a similar effect ; as also a memorial which had been presented to the direc tors of the South Eastern Steam Packet Company sail ing from Folkestone for Boulogne, by the engineer of that company, who set forth, in such a strong light, the disadvantages and immorality which resulted from Sabbath sailing, that the directors gave it up. He con cluded by moving, as an amendment, the previous ques tion. Mr CUSHNIE seconded the amendment. Dr. RENTON said, in place of a speech, which he had not prepared, and which, after the full discussion the subject had received from the hoard, would be an inflic tion on the patience of its members, in the same way as the abolition of the Sabbath train itself has been upon the patience of the public—he would simply read an ex tract from the Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 of Victoria, chap. 85, sect. 10, respecting the purchase of railways by the Legislature, which enacts, as regards all rail ways having Sunday trains, °lt will be imperative thst the company shall provide comfortable covered fourth-class carriages, stopping at all the stations, to run for Id. per mile."7--(Hear, hear.) The Act of Parlia ment recognises the principle of Sunday trains, to be run at a very moderate rate, on certain conditions most favourable to the working classes, but it does not make it imperative for railways to run Sunday trains. This must be a matter of arrangement to be made by the board of directors of every company.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped, therefore, that the pressure of public opinion upon the Edinburgh and Glasgow board will render an application to Parliament unnecessary, by making them feel the very unenviable position in which they have placed themselves by the late compact they have entered into• It was, to say, the least of it, a most unholy alliance• The same outcry had now been raised, against the Sab bath trains that was formerly so loudly extended against Sunday funerals. It was then said that these funerals, with hearses, provided for the poor, would lead to dis order, tumult, and desecration; in place of these the very opposite effects had resulted, - namely, peace, order, and the greatest decorum, without the slightest detriment to religion and morality. Exactly similar beneficial con. sequences had accompanied the running of the railway trains.—( Hear.) After a few words from Mr. WHYTE in support of the amendment, and some remarks from Mr. FALKNER in favour of Mr. Tait's motion, Mr. DICK said he had no doubt whatever, when this matter was formerly before the council about supporting the motion of Mr. Faikner, that the Sunday trains should be continued; but he confessed that he had some doubts as to the propriety of opposing bills which the railway com pany had introduced into Parliament for entering upon undertakings that were intended for the public benefir, merely because the directors refused to annul the leso- lutiori to which they had come to as to the running of Sunday trains.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. CLARK said—Without expressing any opinion on the motion now before the council, I could have wished that Mr. Tait would have allowed the directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company time to re consider more fully the position in which the inhabitants of these important cities have been placed by their shut. ting up all intercourse between them for nearly thirty consecutive hours of every week. I think if the council were to move at present in the matter they may after wards have cause for regret, from the fact that a portion _ . of the directors of that board left the matter in the; hands of those who were more immediately located and con nected with, and supposed to be cognisant of, the feelings and opinions of the inhabitants of Scotland, seeing that after an appeal has been made to the public opinion they find that matters are much in accordance with their own views instead of what was represented to them, when they deputed their colleagues to make such arrange ments as would prove acceptable to the inha bitants of Scotland in reference to a commu- nication between these cities on the Sabbath-day. As I have now good authority for stating that the line of neutrality which the English directors have hitherto adopted shall not longer be continued—(Hear, hear)—and that the original facilities enjoyed by the public will shortly be restored, therefore, in my opinion, any application to the Legislature is unnecessary, the more so, that the power exists within the Board itself to rectify the injustice which the community has sustained, in consequence of the infringement made on their civil rights and pri v il eges, of which they have be e n deprived by the unhooked for, and I had almost said sur reptitious movement, on the part of a merq local portion of the Board. Fur Bailie Mack's Amendment—Bailies Mack and Duncan, Convener Cushnie, and Messrs. Burgess, Whyte, A. Tait, and J. Robertson. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. EDINBURGII, DECEMBER 23. Mr. BLYTII and Mr. STOTT followed in support of the motion, and pointed out the inconsistency of many of the individuals who joined in the Sabbath desecration cry by travelling in their own coaches, while they would not allow the railway to be open to the working man for purposes of necessity and mercy. Bailie DUNCAN had regarded this question as a different question from that which had been discussed at a previous meeting. lle held that they were not discussing whether it was a right and proper thing for those railway directors to run a morning and an evening train on the Sundays or not; but they were there on a motion calling upon them to go to Parliament and oppose this railway company i❑ reference to any Bill which they might see STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, New, 59s.—Direct Northern, 465. 6d.—Dundee and Perth, 29 Ditto, New, 15—East of Fife, 545. —East Lothian Central, 45s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Halves, 20% —Edinburgh and Northern, Newport, 6% ex new—Ditto, New, 745. Edinburgh and Perth, 355. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4N —Great North of Scotland, 55s.—North Bri tish, Thirds, 78s.—Ditto, Quarters, 72s.—Ditto, N ew Quar ters (scrip) 31s. —Stirling and Dunfermline, 70s.—Stirling and Midland, Ns —Strathern Junction, 82s. 6d.—East Indian Railway, lls. 9d. GLASGOW, DECEMBER 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 25L-Cale donian, New, 495. 6d.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 425. 61-Direct Bombay and Madras, ss. 31-Direct Northern, 475.-Dundee and Perth, 29%-Eastern Counties, York Ex tension, 725. 6d.-East of Fife, 595. 6d.-East Indian Rail way, 12s. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 475. 6d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 15 i 4 -Di tto, New, 743.-Edinburgh and Perth, 355. 6d.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 38 H- Ditto, Halves, 9%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 61. 95.-Glasgow and Greenock, Preference, 51. 75.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 51. 75.-Glasgow, Airdrie. and Monkland Junc tion, 605.-Great North of Scotland, 503.-Great Indian Peninsular, 65.-Great North of India, 4s. 3d.-Great Southern of Madras, 4s. 9d.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 515,-Manchester and Southampton, 325.-Midland, Halves, 6-Newcastle and Berwick, 35 1 4-Scottish Midland Junc tion, 14% -South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 575. 6d.-Stir ling and Dunfermline, 665.-York and Newcastle, Pre ference, 7%. it right to introduce into Parliament. Now he thought with Mr. Clark, that this motion was premature. The gentlemen who were in charge of the railway might get a little breathing space to consider the matter, and it was possible enough, if they saw such demonstrations of opinion of the enlightened opposition of this country as had been alluded to, that they might be induced to re store matters to their former condition. He was much A RIGHTEOUS DECISION.—Some time ago, a poor fHgitive escaped from Maryland, and, hotly followed by the pursuer, on his way to safety beneath the broad flag of Old England, in Canada, was overtaken and seized in Vermont. The abolitionists instantly got out a habeas corpus, and carried all parties before court, to see what warrant they had to arrest any man in Vermont who had committed no crime. Three judges were on the bench, two of them young and energetic, one aged and feeble, who came to his seat by the habit of years, but seldom spoke, his eyes being dim and his strength abated. The counsel spoke—the defence wished to know why the man was held in custody. The lawyer for the slaveholder rose to reply, and said he should move the offender was guilty of a breach of the laws of Maryland state ; he was a slave, and had stolen himself. The other l aw y er th en sa id he iould require proof that he was a slave. The slaveowner then stood up, and held forth a document ; " This," he said, " is a bill of sale, made in my favour, for this man, signed by his original owner." Then the old judge rose to his feet, and with a voice of thunder, strangely loud for one so old, de manded, " Who signed it, sir ?" " John Wilikms," replied the astonished owner. " Take it away I take it away I" said the old man, raising his hands to heaven, " It is not valid, sir ; it is falsely sighed, sir ; it is a blasphemous forgery ; none can sign that bill of sale but God Almighty." The court was electrified ; the slaveholder slunk out, and Vermont, awakened like a sleeper, gave twenty thousand abolition votes at the next election.—Extract of a letter from, Troy, State of New York, Oct., 1846. pleased to receive from a gentleman connected with the railway company the motion on which the Sunday trains had hitherto been running ; and he would take the liberty of reading it. It was adopted in February, 1842, and was to the effect, that trains should be dis- patched morning and evening, at such hours as should allow the servants of the company, and those travelling with the trains, an opportunity of attending divine ser vice. Ho was not aware, when the discussion took place, of the precise terms of this motion, but he had since ascertained, upon what he considered good au thority, that this motion had not always been acted up to. He had been told that the number of individuals leaving Glasgow and corning to Edinburgh, was small THE ORDNANCE CORPS. — Serjeant-Major Jones of the Hoye' Sippers and Miners at Woolwich, has been awarded the 20s granted annually by the Good Conduct Warrant of January last, to the most deserving non commissioned officer in that branch of the service. This sum is given in addition to his pay, as he still remains on active service. Thirty-four fine young men, recruits for the rayal regiment of Artillery, arrived at the head quarters at Woolwich on Thursday, from Coleraine, in Ireland, under the charge of Sergeant Anson, for the Ist battalion; and upwards of 100 recruits have been reported as enlisted by Lieutenant Clarke, at Lisburn, in Ireland, and they are expected to join head-quarters before the end of the present month. TRES 'UN, _LONDON, SATUROAV V:ENING, DECEMBER go, 1848. THE NEW COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. The following is a correct return of the gentlemen elected to represent the several wards in the "Civic Par liament : " ALDG.ITE WARD.--Alderman Humphery, M.P., has returned eight, viz., Messrs. Lake (deputy), Freeman, Whiteside, Fisher, Massey, Clifton, Jerrum, and Salter. has returned the fQllowlng g:4 - 4 1 2r,:h ? p, A LDERSG ATN WARD.—SIr . Peter Laurie, Ald erman , J. Lorken (deputy), J. T. Norris, S. Maw, J. Woods, G. Stacey; 4 H. de Jersey, J. Sharwood, and F. Godson. BAssistrAw WARD.—S. Farncomb, Esq., Alderman, has returned four gentlemen, vI4 , T. Britton (deputy), W. B. James, W. Lister, and ,J. Wilson, the latter gen tleman having been elected durin g . the past year in th e room of Mr, W, Frisby, late deputy, BILLINOSCIATE WARD.—T. Sidney, V sq ., Ald erman; has returned the following eight gent l emen;—Curling (deputy), W. Williams, Bower, linill, Roberts, Phillips, Old, and Moms, he laster g en tl eman i n the rom of hes, ) Ll‘\ l l , i l lia jrß g di l n eß . z r u hi ES: D m ra ll g aD , n jE nDs' .i l ,st . : :T l : ih tv n ) . (R u l . a. , g r E ts s l n e ß E -I n r ep T a e ed v v t ij u l W t vs (deputy),- 3 Ti n r i A r e e i T.n ßd y D , Ft::.l% D. Lawrie, ). V 'f oe :LI T-41 n ta:rarirwvewocuisifr:::. Marshall, di e f e B re i a. , j p g rp lN: oht tuD . yi ag. Alder man, [:tug ,am, E dasNer gentl emen:nciv: a man, Knott, Mr. J. Hill, Mr. J. G. Cope, Mr. H. Matthews, Mr. Charles Wetham, Mr. W. Chadwick, and Mr. W. Lowe. BISHOPSGATE WARD.—W. T. Copeland, V.sq., M.P., Alderman, has returiied the following fourteen gentle men:—Messrs. Stevens and Peacock (deputies), J. R. Carr, W. Johnson, R. Ashley, 11. Patten, Pilcher,* Owden, Hall, Bennett, Thomas, W. Tozer, Jones, and Sharland. BROAD-STREET WARD.—Samuel Musgrove, Esq., Al derman, has returned Messrs. T. Corney (deputy), C. Warton, T. W. Foster, R. W. Jupp, James White, WARD. —Si r M RD a .— "i S ot i t ; U.. , r an „ Carroll, EID , _, uro zsd Messrs. J. Evans (deputy), Bond, Blades, has recur and T. R. Romp. TI. 1 -4 . ` , .. iD G L a E d w Sd ic e K n, , , , -- WARD — Samuel Wilson, CASTLE-AJAYNARD . . Esq• • Al derman, has returned l‘cessrs. - 1 3. Hicks (deputy), W. Collingwood, F. Farrar, H. Miiggerijo, J ames B a il ey, J. Rownson, J. Hoppe, and A. Adlard. CHEAP WARD.—W. Thompson, Esq., M.P., Alder man, has returned Messrs. R. Brooke (deputy), R. G. Pead, E. Phillips, R. Hardwick, E. Hickson, E. Fen nincr, G. Oliver, and E. Watson. , CORNIIILL WARD.-Sir J. Pixie, Alderman, has re turned Messrs. E. Harrison (deputy), John Carter. R, Deber, James Waterton, Richard Randal, and J. Hun ter, as representatives. CORDWAINERS WARD.—T. Wood, Esq., Alderman, has returned Mr. W. Muddell (deputy), Mr. T. Lott, Mr. W. Croucher, Mr. J. Jolliffe, Mr. 11. L. Taylor, and Mr. Joyce. CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN WARD. —T. Challis, Esq., Alderman, has returned Messrs. H. Smith (deputy), Brass, Hoyle, W. Cash, Last, Brown, ABennock, and D. Dewar.* CRIPPLEGATE WITHOUT.—The same Alderman has returned Messrs. R. Dixon (deputy), R. L. Jones, S. T. Bead, T. Saddler, Eldrid, Meadway, Johnson, and T. X. Gilbert. BA NS. ury Bank, Canterbury —Hammond and Canter' Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La, Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round; Green, and Co. 31,842 22,670 3,364 COLEMANSTREET WARD.—W. Hunter, Esq., Alder man, has returned :ilessrs. Allen (deputy), W. S. Haile, Hall, G. Bracher, Perkins, Davies, Johnson and Phillips. DOWGATE WARD.—J. Johnson, Esq., Alderman, has returned Messrs. J. Brown (deputy), J. C. Prior, T. Prior, FL Kebble, R. T. Cousens, and G. Harker. FARRINGDON WARD WITHOUT.—Sir James Duke, ALP., Alderman, has returned the following 16 gentle men :—C. Obbard (deputy), Bedford (deputy), Ander ton, Dr. Lynch, J. Isherwood, M. Prendergast, W. Harding, R. Taylor, W. Buckmaster, Williams, Burn, Edkins, Barnard, J. Walter,* IT. J. - Lias,* and T. Tur ner;* the three last gentlemen in the room of Messrs. Charles Stokes and Hodgson. FARRINGDON WARD WITHIN.—J. Kelly, Esq., Al derman, has returned the following. gentlemen:—Messrs. Hayward and Eigleton (deputies), Rutter, Holt, Ridley, Hartley, Virtue, M'Lauchlan, Bonsor, W. H. Ashurst, Blake, Morris,* Phillips,* and Humphrey's;* the three ' last in the place of Messrs. Westwood and Prichard, dead, and Wheelton, resigned. LANGBOURNE WARD.—Sir J. Key, Alderman, has re turned Messrs. S. Unwin (deputy), J. Dixon,. Snilling, E. Howard, E. Shawe, J. C. Gibson, W. J. Frodsham, and W. 11. Miller:* the latter gentleman in the room of Mr. Collinson, resigned. LISLE -STREET WARD,—C. Farebrother, Esq., Alder man, has returned Messrs. D. Cork, T. B. Simpson, T. Symonds.* and W. Turner;* the last t wo i n room of Messrs. Mitchell (d e p uty ) and Corse, resigned. PORTSOKEN WARD.— F. G. Moon, Esq., Alderman, has returned Messrs. Wright (deputy), Killby, Christie, Jutsum, Dunford, Thomson, Hayward, and Barker. QUEENHITHE WARD.—J. K. Hooper, Esq., Alder man, has returned Messrs. Goss (deputy), Acocks, Sykes, Curtis, Tyler, and Rathbone. TOWER WARD.--M. P. Lucas, Esq , Alderman, has returned Messrs. G. Finnes (deputy), G. Selson. T. Brigg's, T. Young, G. Aitcheson, T. Turnbull, H. Capel, and L. Redhead. ' VINTRY WARD.—Sir W. Magnay, Alderman, has re turned Messrs. T. Sporague, J. Lepard, D. White, J. King, Marsden, and J. Welsh,* in the room of Mr. De puty Elmes. WALBROOK WARD.—M. Gibbs, Esq., Alderman, has returned Messrs. Watkins (deputy), D. W. Wire, J. T. Rowley, Dawson, Condor, and Hale. Those marked thus * are new members. Average Amount .. Acney—Williams, am Oxfordshire Witney Batik lir (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Clinch, and Co.„ .. An Account, pursuant to the Ac 4 seventh and eighth Pease's Old Buil- _ 10,832 Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Beverley ' --.., Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Penzar- 0 b " L ' 4l ' ' Hull-Pease and Co 45,703 Pe 'yerbri - - ' 11,017 Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur- " j "...nit, Penzance-Batten and Co day, the 12th day of Dan., 1846 :- Averagei.-. ough Bank and O un dl e Bank, Peter- PRIVATE BANKS. Arr,-,:,,y4t; " ~,rough - Messrs. Yorke Abingdon Bank, Abingdon--knapp and C 0,..,,,, ) 1 : 4 ' eeterborough Bank, Peterborough -Simpson, Andover Bank. Andover-Heath al, c.,....„.• - ~..i67 White, and Simpson 10,086 Astrford .Bank, Ashfar: l - - .ti altti P - 13,102 Pc:abrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest-J. and - -cl emmi Ayishaaa Bank ' z - R.-R. a- -1 - - omfret 10,488 W. Walters I Ayiesbur- '-. Old Bank, 4- -a E. Copeman 5,008 Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and ~T -ylesbury-Rickford Truro Bank, Penzance-Rickets, Enthoven, and Hunt Bahlock Banl- and ' _ . . .............. : ............. 39,695 and Co - ' . Baldock and Biggleswade Reading Bank, Reading-Simonds and Co 36,238 /3ar_lc, 8a1dry,;',,...._m- 1 , - ir e is, Hcarg and Lindsell - Reading Bank, Reading-Stephens,Blandy, and 38.560 Basi.::;sto/ce and Odihan.: Bank, Basingstoke-- 'Richmond Bank, Richmond-Stapleton and Co 6,293 Cole, Seymour, anf,l Co, 22,005 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and Be.ifili flank, Bedford -T. Barnard Bedford and B e df ordshire Bank, Bedford- 33,719 Co un ty o f P oole Bank, Ringwood-Ledgard Trapp, Halfh ea d , an d Co and Sons Bewdley 8,074 Rochdale Bank, Rochd a l e --Cl ement, Royds, Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, an d and Co Crane : 14,104 , Roche s t er , Ch at h am, and Strood Bank, Roches- Bieester and O x f or d s hi re Bank and Oxford ter-Day and Nicholson Bank, Bicester-T u bb , W ootten, and Co. ... 26,555 Romsey arid Hampshire Bank, Romsey-Foot- Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Att woo d s, ner and Son Spooner, and C o 22,890 Royston Bank , . Royston-Fordh a m an d S ons... Birmingh am an d W arw i ckshire Bank, Birming- Rugby Bank, R ug b y -B ut li n and Son ham---Lewis, M o illi ett, and Co ..... 17,552 Rye Bank, Rye-Curteis Pomfret, and Co Blandfoid Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak. 7,960 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy- Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 67,762 don, and Darking Bank, Reigate-Nash and Boston Bank, Boston -Gee and Co 1 3,808 Co BridgT., ter Bank, Bridg wa t er -E . & J. Seale 7 , 476 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross-Pritchard Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 38,452 and Allaw ay Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 24,366 Walden -Messrs. Gibson Birekino ham Bank, Buckingham - Bartlett , Salop Bank, Sh rews b ury- B urton, Lloyd, and Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Scarb rough Old Bank, Scarborough -Woodall Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co .... 78,168 anc Co Bahl ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 40,384 Shrewsbury and Marked Drayton Bank, Shrews- Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 50,145 bury-Adams, Adan.s, and Co Briti - : City Bank, Bath-Moser and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard -Bassett an d G rant Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury--Ro e k e , Eytons, . • Biriningham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and 35,668 and C o . Lloyds 36,002 -Vali ance an d S on and A. Harris Bradford Old Ba n k, B ra df or d , Y orksh i re-H Southampton Town and County B an k, South -12,218 ampton-IVladdison and Son Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and C 0... 68,203 Southwell Bank, Southwell-Wylde and Co Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 22,922 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's-J. S. Story Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, Salisbury Bank, S a li s b ury -Messrs. Brodie and Borrer - Brodie and Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- King Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- ton-Atherly and Fall J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stou r b r id ge and Broms- Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge -Rufford, grove Bank, Bromagrove-Rufford, Biggs, Wragg, and Co and Co. 16,495 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford -Stevenson and Co Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam- Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge-Bate and bridg ix e-Messrs. Forsters 9,545 3,790 9,353 16,G93 11,662 21,306 3,02 4,644 45,903 7,299 24,419 8,826 41,608 3,100 15,635 13,249 2,873 20,014 7,460 5,626 5,817 Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart... Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Bundle, and Co 7,217 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton -Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston-Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 25,573 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-Leatham, Tew, and Co 43,788 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,960 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 79,311 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick 2,090 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 15,689 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten ... 7,754 York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 44,901 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 49,229 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield ! Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,458 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,496 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 36,455 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,6 98 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 21,796 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 147,425 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield., 33,769 Hull Banking Company, Hull . Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,317 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax ......................................... 40,025 Helston Barking Company, Helston ............... 1,350 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 22,433 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 23,432 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,443 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 56.513 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 50,800 Leamingtoo Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds... Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 28,103 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 76,232 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilt:- Banking Company, Melksham 55,954 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 79,329 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton ..... 23,163 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 54,100 Pares's Leict2str.rshire Banking Company, Lei cester..... 55,836 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,344 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,946 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford , 51,325 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Corn pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and 1 Illlarnshire Banking Company, Sheffield . . Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sh.llic'd Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond ...... Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, 5t0ckt0n,....., Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .. Suffolk Banking ; Company, Ipswich Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 35,506 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,450 Whitehaven Joint -Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Le.mir.gton Banking Company, Leamington West of Englan4 and South Wales District Bank, BrutQl. .... 80,645 20,161 9,618 5,272 6,068 1,518 9,986 9,064 600 FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE FORETGN-OFFICE, DEC. 22, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to approve of M. Manoel de Oliviera Santo , as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope fur the Emperor of Brazil. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 18. Corps of Royal Marines—Captai n and Brevet Major pay ; First Lieute nant P hineas Priest to be Thomas Wearing to be Lieutenant-C o l one l , vice Hewes, re tired on full Captain, vice Wearing, promoted ; Second Lieutenant John Manger to be First Lieutenant, vice Priest, promoted. OFFICE OF THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS.. Somerset House, Dec. 24. In pursuance of an Act passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, cap. 76, intituled "An Act for the amendment and better administration of the laws relating to the poor in England and Wales. This is to give notice, that the Poor-law Commissioners have appointed Aneurin Owen, of Egryn, in the county of Denbigh, Esq., to be an Assistant Commissioner of Poor laws; and that the said Aneurin Owen, on this said 24th day of December, took the oath required by the said Act, before the Hon. Mr. Justice Erle, one of the Judges of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, at his chambers, in Rolle- ' gardens, Chancery- lane.—By order of the Board, W. O. LUMLEY, Assistant Secretary. WHITEHALL, DEC. 11. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Wiles, of Hor bling, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, Dm. 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Thompson, of Bishop Wearmouth, in the county Palatine of Durham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. F. Jones, Ventnor, Isle of . Wight, apoth ecar y, J an. 15 , a t half-past one—H. A. F. Kingscote, Sandgate, Kent, mer chant, Jan. 18, at half-past one—E. Leman, Church-row, Old Swan Pier, Upper Thames-street, Jan, 18, at half-past eleven. In the Country. S. Shute, Crediton, Devonshire, woollen-manufacturer, Jan 21, at one, at the Court, Exeter—W. Tweddle, Liverpool, soap manufacturer, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool-- W. Barker, Tottington Higher-end, Lancashire, cotton spinner, Jan. 22, at twelve, at the C our t, M anc h ester —W . Taylor, Springhead, Yorkshire, wool and oil-merchant, Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Potter, Man chester, and AV. Maude, Darwen, calico-printers, Jan. 20, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester —R, Compton, M. Price, and T. Crompton, Shrigley, Cheshire, brickmakers, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—C. H. G. how, North Shields, ship and insurance -broker, Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne —W. Thompson and J. Mellis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video, mer chants, Jan. 21, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon- Tyne--J. Rawlinson, Spalding, Lincolnshire, tailor, Jan. 15, at twelve, at the Court, Nottingham. CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. C. Starks, jun., Southampton, builder, Jan. 15, at one— W. Aldred, George-street, New Kent-road, builder, Jan. 18, at half-past twelve—lt. Walton, Church-road, Battersea, li censed victualler, Jan. 19, at half-past twelve—T. Thomp son, Brighton, grocer, Jan. 19, at twelve—G. Jaques, Tot hill-street, Westminster, plumber, Jan. 22, at one. In the Country. J. Garsed, sen., and J. Garsed, jun., Leeds, Yokshire, cloth- manufacturers, Jan. 19, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds —J. Nortcliffe, Thornhill Briggs, Halifax, Yorkshire, dyer, Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—J. Birley, Eccles, Lancashire, card manufacturer, Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester —G, B. Franklin, Shrewsbury, printer, Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Knight, Birmingham, t imber - merchant, Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, Jan. 15. J. Bradshaw, Marylebone-Street, Piccadilly, woollen draper—J. Beaton, Upper-street, Islington, tailor—S. Joyce, London-wall, stove and range-manufacturer—J. Gibson, Manchester, vet erinary -surgeon —H. Hutchinson, Liverpool, merchant—J. Wheelwright, Stoke Saint Melborough, Shrop shire, farmer and timber -dealer—J. Southern, Kiddermin ster, victualler—A. I'. Edwards, Idol-lane, Tower-street, bricklayer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Barugh and W. B. Sunlev, Ratcliffe-highway, store - shippers—E. H. Jones and W. J. Fryer, Cornhill, jewellers —F. Boardman, W. T. Naylor, J. I'. Naylor, J. E. Naylor, IV. Armstrong, S. P. Oxley, and J. 0. Owen, Valparaio, Tacna, and Lima, merchants—..k. Wentzell and C. Cownden, Lambeth, licensed victuallers—W. Hughes and J. Frimston, Manchester, hardware-dealers and cotton-dealers—R. Freer ugeleY, Carr, Staffordshire, 1111 li te r -street, nava l a r ch i tects—J. Mur surgeons—S. Hither raaaon}dl a al n Vn d d. l l j' l i. . eji S d. l ' l iarpe, Paternoster-row, woollendrapers—C. H. Beaumont and H. Fearman, Charles-street, Hatton-garden, plumbers—S. Crowder and G. Crowder, Sun-street, cane and whalebone manufacturers—J. 1L Sparke, A. Sparke, and T. Cooper, Norwich and East Dereham, Norfolk, ironfounders (as far as regards the said T. Cooper)—A. L. Edgar and H. Amey, Liverpool, brokers—J. Morris, J. Hall, and W. E. Milner, Bedford, Lancashire, coal proprietors—Katherine Hudson and Sarah Crouch, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, school mistresses—G. Gatton and W. Wright, Sheffield, stock brokers—T Wolfe and J. Purkiss, Russell-mews, Keppel street, Russell-square, liverymen—R. W. Lloyd and C. Wallis, Liverpool, law-stationers—Maria Greenough and J. J. Holland, Manchester, smallware manufacturers—R. Ferris, W. Score, and N. Chappell, Bristol, vinegar makers— W. Sutcliffe and W. Pass, Greenacres-moor, Lancashire, cotton-waste dealers—T. Tarsey and T. Millgate, London— J. Patison and W. A. Turner, Star-court, Bread-street, Cheap side, warehousemen—L. Allen and I. Isaacs, Hounsditch, cigar manufacturers—J. Hillman and J. M. 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Ha.ydon... 13,303 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0.... 30,492 Hastings 01(1 Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. 33,919 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware- S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co 5,675 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall 23,525 Honiton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. 12,678 llertfordshireHitchen Bank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. 37,824 Rerefbrd. Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 24,656 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffblk, Iladleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Batik, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. 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PRESERVATION : A Medical Trea ti se taw' sUleGdßAenVlNveloeg, pries kJ on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and 3fa _ for 35. 6d. in Postage StalnPla illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the .Anateay. Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Orgl= explaining their various structures, uses, and functions, and she= the injuries that are produced in them, by solitary habits, andii excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatme nt of 10.-,wo Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diSen ol the Urethra. By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON, _ . 9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London; ~.o ria l Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Il u " Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, LiCentia ta Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. CONTENTS OF THE TREATISE. et° CHAPTER 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its HlnufSß..... and 0 bligations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Uniont.,. CHAPTER 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the General Organs, their inflator's, structures, and secretions, proving that Mental and Physical Power arc dependant upon their healthy aCPM —CHAPTER 3. On Solita r y H a bi ts; their various effects on n Animal Economy; the concealed cause of Debility of the functi4s of the Stomach, Lun gs , an d B ra i n, and general weakness _.°l,its Mental Faculties. CRAFTE R 4. O n t h e Secret Disorders of nod and Maturity, al. d the Treatment of Nervous and Local iVe 3 2f oa Mental Debility, and Premat ure D ecay. —C HAPTERS 5 an d , the Disorder^ arising from indiscriminate Excess, GOON 1. -- Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of the Urethra. REVIEWS 07 THE WORK. .11 SRO "The author of this si ngu l ar an d t a l en t e d work is a 1eg..../ Bed medical man, who ha s ev idently had considerable experl en- op the trr Atment of the various disorders arising from the Wil l o w &elided of early indisc re ti on . The engravings are an invent s " dition, by demonstrating the consequences of excesses, Willa:Lai act as a saluta r y warning to youth and maturity, and by its Pf:ir many questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit l "‘' peal, even to the most confidential friend." — Era. o ; fle . Oxford-street. Static, Tiehborne Published by the Author, and may be had at his residers C0..7 from Kent and Richard. 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay and Ow Leadenhall-street, London; .Newton, ifo, Church -street, Li and by all Booksellers. and tO g At Home for Consultation daily, from Nine till Two, — ot os% Five till Eight ; and all letters immediately replied yap' the tee of IL, for advice, -street, Quadrant; Gordon, &c.-9 BEDFORD-STREET 1-.., SQUARE. LONToox s BO ROYAL F REE HOSPITAL, —RAT' li "t ig al . wer e AD• All the conv a l escent pat i ents in this lln s P„ i m udd in g ° Christmas D a y rega l ed with roast beef, P"—." and porter. the ftnn i n t STRANGE ITEMS.—It is estimated that *- amount expended in New York city for cigaro,4dieg less than 730,000 dollars. The annual cost of 1 „ e the dogs in the United States is said be se / 7 sat lions of dollars! It is said tliat said sacks dew' dust are annually consumed in London for stuffing alone. TT VI E ! REYOLTING CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER.- - --,L. 0 1,..-_ s TUESDAY.—An inquiry into one of the most al era' cases of neglect on the part of a husband pro ba bly ad , heard of in this part of the country, was, after ela journments brought to a close yesterday. A k r ° ore before Mr. llenshall, the coroner, at the public house in this town, on the body r of Alic e e plly the wife of a f armer, li v i ng i n a lonely house '11,1,--a, Wi ek g known as the "Eighteen Acre Farm." On being view e d, th e j ury di scovered that t h e left e' r — c sttai the poor woman h a d b een gnawed away by ruts%andi. The bed in which it laid was in a horribly filt,f„ititilli tion. The lower parts of the body were f ri g a fisr mutilated, and the flesh had evidently been e aten bon e, There were holes in the thighs and back to tb° and in breadth the size of the hand. T k i lf:gial were informed that the husband had slept in u ti e n d fre the corpse for one or two nights, and that be quently heard the attacks of the vermin on the" From the evidence of numerous witnesses exareimnry appeared that the unfortunate woman having ba d :JpieS l lytic stroke, she was confined to her bed in a condition for two years and a half. The heab an— n ettf stated to be in good circumstances, possessing rhibeci to the extent of upwards of 3,0001. He was e s "„ 0 as being so penurious as to refuse to provide it Pe rs J o tell wait upon her, or even to obtain what Was Moo+ 000 1 necessary for her comfort. Several witnesses (1 101 • to the most inh uman neg l ect on the part o f t he bus n gett The medical testimony proved that her death was ° , 011 4 by the gross neglect of those who had charge of il e 7 t e be the jury found a ver di c t o f manslaughter aVIU I ' the husband, Heaton, who w a s comm i tte d f or tr ial 11 ' , ensuing assizes, on the coroner's warrant. pig [ADVERTISEMENT.] A GUARANTEED CUR., 001 , STHMA, OLD COUGHS, A FFECTIONS OF THE CHEST, &C. , s .; 101 LOWAT'S Pius.—Recently some ext raord i nary e xperiluer o ok i e' been made upon v a ri ous pat i ents, su ff ering for long perleatgect most distressing asth ma ti c complaints, while others wer e "" -- t sP; with indigestiou, acidity, s i c k ness , soreness, and a sinkilirOP" stomach, producin g s y mptoms that frequently terminate J. and other dan gerous d i seases . To the number of a doze n I* t{ea , o f .. At s were chosen, b e i ng cons i dered more or less Incurable ; theleeet put under a co urse of Holloway ' s Pills, which completel y .„ in the cure of them within seventy-five days from thec„,7 ° ment, and som e even i n less than half that time.— , 3'—g t rai' druggists, and at Professor Holloway's EstablLslunent,.244, London. BIRTH& On the 19th inst., at St. James's Lod g e, Enfie ld , t he 4 of the Rev. Alexaner Chirol, of a son. On the 22d inst., a t M ar k et Drayton, the wife of Cs ollll Homer, late of the 55th R eg i ment, of adaughter. On the 23d inst., at Shepton Beauchamp, Salle'' . lady of the Rev. J. S. Coles, of a daughter. MARRIED. • On the 21st inst., i n G uernsey, P h i l i p W. S. Mi l e s, ner.' M.P., to Pamel a Ad e l a id e, fif th daughter of Major-ura W. F. P. Napier. DO ° On the 23d.inst., at Alrestord, near Colchester, the „p a r de Lindon, Att ac h e t o t h e L egation from the C our t of temburg, to Fanny, daughter of the late Colonel Affleck: t r On the 22d inst., at the British Embassy, Brussels, P e o nant-Colonel Edward St. J o h n N ea l e, h er B r itannic Neje° t d o s Vice-Consul at Alexandretta. in Syria, to Adelaide, yotilig daughter of the late henry Sewell, E. 91. D. On the 16th i n st., M r. John Biggs, of Holloway, aga d 79 ; and on the following day, Sarah, his wife, aged 74. ilf On the 16th inst., in Grosvenor-place, Camberwell Mary Anna, daught er o f C a pt a in H. Sergeant, aged IS ; bo as on the 23d inst., a t A c t on -pl a ce, Kingsla n d- roa d, Eliz, 3 Burton, wife of the above Captain 11. Sergeant, aged bikor. On the 20th inst., at Turkey-mill, near Maidstone, shall, second son of John Hollingworth, Esq., aged 3 3 .,v a . ista On the 22d inst., in South- s t reet, Finsbury', D'Aguilar, aged 63. On the 24th inst., R. King, Esq., of Chester-street' J3•l' grave- square. On the 24th inst., Mrs. Scarnett, of Upper Clapton• ' 9• On the 24th inst., in Eaton-place, J. Gage, Esq., age 1 114 1,10._..14 Lon;on : Printed and Published 'by AtiTRDO YOUNG. °: rra 0.— ....., in 03 _ yv Strand, Printer at The Sun Offlee, No. 112 . Strand, OW' of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, Sa t cember 26, 1846. Average Amount. Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 62,685 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud• derstield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, 6,93 5 Worcester York Union Banking Company ' , Y0rk............ 63,373 York City and County Banking Company, York 89,251 Yorkshire Banking- Company, Leeds ............ 119,47 1 P. DEANS, Registrar of thnk Returns. Stamps and Taxes, December 19, 1846. ON SINGLE and MARRIED LIFO (An Original Medical Histol7.` CONTENTS: Analysis of the Affections—Early Conventiona l Restraint — M lS direction—Marital Anticipations and Realities —L a ws of Paternitri Maternal Influence—Phesomena of Gestation—On Infelicit°","' t Infertile Unions—lncongruous Alliances —Late Marriages—,'" Matches—Curiosities of Twenty-three Years' Medical Xxl , er' OP c. &c. 2. On CHASTITY and its INFRINGEMENT S (An Essay for 184 G.) "Of human Ills and frailties I discourse, Those taught by nature, and by art social/M. Of griefs conceal'd, and disappointinents keen, Which young and gentle, the matu red and sage. The. lonely and the mated—all sustain. In kindly spirit, herein counsel's glv'fl, How health, how hope, how happiness to gain." 3. WHAT to EAT, With Diet Tables for all Complaints. n (paling Contents :—How to ensure perfect digestion, trangtin •--- ~ good night's rest, a clear head, and a contented mind. 13): . _a 24 ... DitINIC, and AVOID servance of the instructions herein containej the feeble, the d 1! yously delica e, even to the meet shattered constitution, zna._,r— the greatest amount of physical happiness, and reach ix be.."' full period of life allotted to roan. " How we should liv e —what eat, what drink, what shunt To reach in health full threescore years and ten." . _.,, . very delicate Import, as their titles irnplY, upon subJenr. These interesting little volumes, although bear in g fin cr es--. nimble and general utility, for they tell of matters everyliving.o _et. ture able b understand ought to know, but which internist! _n u ; these enligh felled times, except that quality promulgated ' questionab e haneels, is at a very terrible discount. w ood In the exposition hereby offered of the till now hidden .. ,_,,,, nature, Cl human disappointments and their ways of rellef..__lLlZ,o will be found of. contended that every r.coler shall become his or her own P 5, 1770 any more than their own lavvyei, :•*.:t it is insisted open ; 0 1w. should know the simple principles of our own organizs tie t koala/ whereby our existence and th e issue thereof in th eir severviia, states depend, the duties that arc expected of US in earholth and capacities in the family circle, and the terms on which t r h: to rey. happiness 01 the present and future race of nlenk in , d ,,,A lls i t inW art ,,, ed ,,, By such knowledge, and which is herein nu" ---1- d haPP.',,,,... health will be found to be in our own ken in ftib i t,.." -. within the attainment of all ; by the availment lle.w" 00 offsP , ''',.. our duty to ourselves, we secure the like advantages °8 bich is ." face t ittles, le hAdy to follow, and finally by the cultivation 000 --c as the L'" -- ,_,'',, a hAe ll conistent with degenerate health the rend as - the siii- --' be exalted to the summit of ' perfection, a. bait becoutes rit' of God's creations. „... 0 his 010 .iris The author ' s ' • Justification for this seeming e nlebi -f a ''" -- t be fuel by and the avowal of their integrity of Purpose, must be that the by their perusal—his accredited qualifications guarani topics broached involve his legitimate study and Perf ul o c ,,,,,,' 0111 I 4 1; To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster -row ; 4 `' - ournhilll , Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford. street ; Me an ' " (leding "" direct from the Author, 10, Argyle-place, Regent-street„, 00 000 Great Marlborough-street), who may be advised Pere en n Y ul Nine. matters daily till Three, and in the Evenings from ave" 8,221 5,800 2,565 24,70 2,390 28,110 2,710 8,487 0,992 .2,650 9,798 6,357 4,173 -. .~ MTh, et al % er a rinse IN .....:.... 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