The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

~..,. ;~~ " u 'INK. OP AusTRALASIA. An extraordtnar , (Trl 1S DAY.) It % c o ,, , • 3 general meeting. of . the Proprietore for t h '""Led yesteroey, et their otfice in t . l i ii . stin-fri t a , r . s o , si c ., e Pu!P .e, among other business, of tilling up ofitte,.iis 14 the dieetorv, occasioned by the resignation , ke"itird Norman, Esq . ', and Bass, tt 3/avid Cu)a vin, E.. q. ti Ath r% -rowerig ha.vieg taken the chair, and the adve.- ke e - i 'llt e "fling the nseeting fleeing been read by the tbi l l ri ;erl', the Uheirmati ai aS proceedine to explain th ht e ..: ' 8 he Pursued in the new election, when he was ,; iep to b. , zo14 1 „ ) . ke it d , 'SAM, Who thought that a previous qiiestion de- The , the attention of' the proprietors, which was, whether birevruPrietors ought to accept the re..ignation of the two be ett.B . who hie( retired, ter, consiiii ring the present tb ey - PPY stete of the 'Affairs of the bank, especially a. Hilt ~w're affected by the trial which might be sted to . be the '"id,ing brtween them and the Rank of Australia, 41 rmill ih qu es ti on oug h t to have felt themselves ha te ''''°"r, and by mood obligstions, bound !() k ir retained th e i r places at the beard till d i%e li i a : fl uirs were somewhat retrieved from the ti me -- r ties in which they had been involved during the n t leete ° 4 the Ase gentlemen being in office. Having been "Y, : tua ' t h aiiiig received reinueeration as Directors, tola rt -8 tno nglit,"oneht to be held aceountahle t and t it ti) h ave given an s ucconni of their stewardship to 400,11fietors. by whom they had been elected. The u ithiletorhaipertieotror having observed somewhat further tir ed the Directors in having resigned, kes sp 9 Proprietors cannot accept the resignal i 7o , n_ o .u f ke Which and Colvin, as they were involved es d e i . dally 'ich endangered the affairs of tare bank, and i ,a. p V . ln the t ransaction with the Bank of Aus..ra av thatrth,,lt°l3lNsots having reiniediat the Hee. Proprietor tsti,th.lc,ould not help receivieg (he resignation o l f h t u lse ( It, 411 ' ll question, as they had disqualified by se g The e , m)r, viegA•la3tast thought it proper to say that the Direc- Oki toiwti their eesl nation with disapprobation, and for l e t ' 4B rl e i t ion of th g e meeting he would give them the ''riee ti e a "eged by the gentlemen themselves for . are etieZ.Nia the .beerd. Mr. Norman assigned his pi ny, ve of the Si tuation of manager of another .v c e u Ili3 g," c onditi• n ef.which was that he should fp p . ::IdA t ~.ion with every other company whatever, ;'r tilt . ' )l 'llis that the stnte of bis father s health, 4 P ts•eSt f t • I f 1.• ° ins partners in business, made it neces- A Lin n , NAfte r .0 resign, ib ( Sev eral others had expressed themselves disap- S k • IV of this tie, conduct , and the . t° l. 4l( ine a r s m ueb as intimated their opinion that they L .1 441 14 ' 8 Mr. Newsam's motion, that gentleman, eu Llted r against any illegality in their procedure,. p of u'esi r , I himself against accepting the resignation ,Th e ',', '":"I'm an andgcolvin. p * ,kroti, h " then proceeded to fill up the vacancies by a new Alled ) '„ 1 „!he voting b‘ , i e concluded, the Chairman de ll tj',"'P Hebei?, E 11 . 1 ' Walthamstow, and Nathan :ho t ei ()--I 'sq , the successful eandu'ates on the occasion. ket t i ,`441131AN then said, that this being a half-year y l 'em 't 4, they Le- 4 , tqict ip . ey would have no accounts laid before k j th e t ' mallets had been as usual his would have b p s 'er an t tiny of saying he would be happy to rke e . -). questions the proprietors thougat proper to e l4 Rs it was, however, he had other disagreeable ' r 7 P i ‘ t - '''' l Y before them. At their last me!•ting a it isj -u r hql advanced charges sericusly affecting one 4 4 j 1 , 11 11 : - Il t. t i r , 4 4 : 3 9 t n t 111 n i i r: in t o heo!onies, and the p roprietors then they ought to be disregarded, at the ~bltttit:e,. that theybcoud not be investigated in a public . Are' "ad refer d it to the investigation of a select t wr. ett ee. ~ re. been ti; ... 01 the...t!..ittntion had given to these charges k k r : 4 , 1 114 4 1] al been completely refuted, and others of i( i gaa i n ' .i _P i aired by such documents as the Direc 11,1"]etore:_11_,Iir possession, but it was thought ad tlitir't•hat 0 , 11 , 4 e whole to those . in the colonies, and they th Jud gin " ' , lle . Hon. Proprietors would have suspended li l y were int till a decision had been returned. But e t er e iv tiZ,tllleted are that a pamphlet had been issued and e . ll .l'es, ' ,r'_flecting severely uon that Director in the off er ' t ftee nt n account of that pamphlet he thought that § 0 e l th ey ut the affairs of the . bank, which had been, i 4 41 b at their last meeting by the Directors, . 11 ; e eL1 4 . 1 ) . , eetl„"ard. to-day, for though . it . might do them at ci .• retraining from making it public might 1 11 4111 much He then stated that th 4 e 10.. more. Oh vt i. meetin ; they had _ beetltld that 15,0001. en the I),.` i 'f s p h " . 4 e !, was a residue of 1 0 ,, e ', a bte, they were also told thatthe pr_oe -1(4 hap t ' w ould more than absorb that sum. 11 4ECori e 'l to state that - since that time their affairs, 4 7 9 ','t!-',-ption were much improved; their loss had lilei llit 0'0 2 , 1 ' That sum had been stated as theagents 1 4. 41 P e ri !tic correct estimates of their . agen h t 'ili i 1 hiendents in the colonies. A security on one .h ki11414 L a h ad bee() better than they expected, whit, t .' P% ii h k it e lY to reduce me that amount to 71,000/. 4 111„, It 'R tei te ta here said, that leaving out the suit Klit.d . l ie th d e lc Bank e o e f Australia, the capital was ed, t the request of several i 'ei l, i e e t43 ' t" g'v n e li s P o r r u el e e details of the suit which had t I; ,t the qi t ilt .. , tlih:,, y h„," 11 l against the Bank of Australia. '" ve„ -- ' been unsuccessful, and on the second trial, ht °l ' l ai ' u' " a point of 1- w at bar,. they had 41 6, 1 , 1 °F Chief Justice Dickenson in favour . of t ett '" that judge b• ing in a minority, l kii h let '4•. e ail was directed unfavourable 0 them,. -en., et'a . A" ha 0 .. against the opinion as well of the Chief 1 4 It 4 4 (In th e jury on the trial. te t (top, ' )RUPRIETOR then moved that the body of 11 1 , t:eh;•tetore view the resienation of Messrs. Norman 4Nfe, l4 %ith a- i 'so critical a moment in ; - .4 of ~, bp,...asure at b . . 1 was le •• Company. to ti : 18 th,„-ionded and carried unanimously. e bir - e " c l o s t _: . t t hr, meeting having been warmly voted 8 1 broke up. - 'AY OF Itjllll-IERN RAIL" b A p,,, FRANCE. etio-ae-itt ~_ se„'"iy ot 1., electing of the share h h e o u ld r e s r u s i i i n ite t d he c N om or p t a h ,n ez ),. if' hcld r"lee (Deccan and LI: report t r 4 g,h( )psta Ytesterday at the City of London Tme U. street for the pur Committee, and . qq Pr"eee-li • Managing ed for closing ttlt 1itt,,,,,,. ugs of the puse of receiving a to is4,ftlirs ~7. ! a , What measures ,i _s r h . e F l . lb m e o a a ohatp u t . 4,,'lte C s Ine CO.lnpan)t. o hat more num _. let $441,1 afaikts, in opening the business of h tltZthig. oilsstiYal2ad expected a i n t the e chair. meets.t f. the fact 0- the , i . He Il tt' l ias • •ehold,rs, but p s er ili f• e a w s the tfli pl l t be t ,', 3 he explained by .. of alrea-Y • Manage r scant _() a m tt a e t n t d er k,,''t a,, ',almost as it were aiq t hici a ' w ever, that the disposed roperdayt day. k t til', d•erned it but rightc,nim Committee of p that taken 111 the h 811Th'ilubiera to ts. rlirrit- ..,... lil t , , ' With r ~ ur hearing !-.." • . ti, 4 thraleri ilia to their a . meet tfairs, d o the w m hat had ... tt:l)kit l it en a report, with a vie H e had_ a t it vallairs of the Company altogether . - to all present which w of enabling a hem no t trek hkri "id be matter of notoriety f companies, w the ire ti, ea ter matter into a fusion o By virtue of . at `ee il l p • tlf Yore . ails some time definitive t'lq,littesion, that Company obtained , been 1 e shares had ili t tl Pie ly le stuck, or rather shares in the sli% ll hi ti A great portion of . these ago.a certain portion inviting the of the of their It) qf attiongst the original shareholders,. them i t 11, 4 t_ Main objects . . 11e tot, li ''' r eceive the instructions I the na of the shareholders_ IP:to i,:soJe in which the residue of the shares should 1 Z s i bs . fie had before statt d g 11 'i It i l 4 th o - conditions of that treaty. received in'Q 1, - , I ‘"%ty of fusion, but he would now T st i a i t i . s - C m o o m re .. at, l ' •fe e i, .c?Eact their p il ofi th . 0111110 y represented . 400.000 shares, of ' 4) Q 4 ' 3 '''' . a ed companies t then ate of one fo r 4 4 q W dsf • 11 I- e hie was a b u t he should Ipi"! l ;l ei , i 'nue shares, 1,000 over, but last moment. 4 414 that 'l'4l."' includinge tailed at t tin.. 2U0.000 at,Nite tl , ,th,•ir French allies si, renresen•- " 1144, „I,rr part of the eel)..crel r litt:atled t h t l i }l ;3' had to 1 poi definitive i raised a 4 1 1 ; 1 1 4 ~I . while P t r hi P f 'I French i H Company 195,000 shares. 11 4, 4 o tti .' n only entitled them ' the deficiency, shares had to 12 whichs ,l:oo a before tti4litiitte 114 d distributed t anner be had that littt:), 441 shar eholck rs in the m ten ; ar d after kll,,rlblltionl!l37, one share for d a '4v b el ice h t e ( ir purtion in hand of not 2 th , ,. lii there remaine- - a . t h at they had sottesath.,,e hould, however, explain . 4 . tkli h''!r lit their isn of their consequence al . yott whie ttiok pl .ce in . I'l4 . 'nu t i . ostd, owing to some little_ the Northern It t i1(... 13 !like canital as it were, under three dls kik lilitie ' ',, , under • and th t 9r4. ot , 8, that was to s.a), d t 4 t. Quentin, th e 1,41 Prance, the Crell an 11Y 114114%x and IL zebrouck. o I()‘sstiire°lllll:fitted an err . or toldcl,4: 't hi s a n umber of definitive i shares heir amountFrench in g e o t i o . ~, 3 eenfusion arose out of t rtiou of the a"t beii .1,1 • ' their pr'l3') • actual 4 ,,,, ,iga e to rise . ti;tl4l. ; tn eY had only 392 shares how they t :14 :; .t . was fur the meeting to determine inviting them . in tl e i. retie ttt,kpr,,s,elspoKed of. Before, however,..ie wished t 1 etP„Atit : 1 1 ' 1 °Pinion upon that pin . me exomee in C re - ,klti g . tk e e Intnittee had incurred so §tsc`triat,,t" afgtirs of the Corn they did not hesi -Ist tub,,list. he had already stated ; the enedet-- pany,and under the to ttii () as ~,L i l'ig. these expense for te L b. 1, ultimate question of most b "ia I,' would be in the recollection , 1 ad• 'INN • f there being their consi e t '4lO(4Ni 1.8 that, in the event °- goaranteed , to tittee lull 14 des„"' the M"aging Cumn deducti„g any ‘n.t. tie f,..0. ,qt in Inn, without ' ' Irik ', s tk , h, ' " (1411 ZEIS, it being pttt.fie i441,,..a1u!a the interest on the deposits s of the com t4.),• t„ l '`' t 0 li.ite and ordinary expe.ns' customary fo fo r r e d urn ef m ra i y. having received to "Dil s i t he Must retnark that their IvhattNts , 4 , 4 t the last moment, it was out of no interest 1 11,. 4 . 've t . : 4 of them, and they obtained deemed it b°,l)riei: rase porti,,n of th,u). They their their power litittieal,ko...:tt therefore, to transfer thecapi e tal from it remained f 44 11 th e ," to the Bank of England, where They 1 0 0 . 411 0 sei,3-7 ti::euired it to send over to France. ti,144e,4., ,tie tuimey, hoe ever, by the exchanges with }l4v.et, threat three-quarters of a franc per pound of the r Il lit l44 ' qt '): eirellnl,tan,es, and in c 444!.bett4,4,11;!`l what was considered ia En g' d onsequenr a e n .. t.ome i . l oi s Stge Tail an ad judication, and their . having a ihe ''' 1 111 ()1 a haTt'S la hand, the Committee allow e k ' 4 t q ~0,,q reeommendin the shareholders to Pe tl , qe.i seal ' g -I •ires to defray the mute() had re 1, 4 4 sea wh ie , e. hail the surplus a ic 17 0 s t, a nail b- en incurred, which would take tray4l the ° res, and leave the remainder to be ' 1 e has 1 . ~, % IN : , tq101,1,-rs thought proper. The ei!pusndi' 14,4 t 1.,:1ed to 4,338/. 19s. 5d., and the recei to ilVettsms• 6d., but the shareholders wouhi t's,''A to bear in mind that the sum of , 0%4' Which Managing ;Nt,„ ''l, e; ' was advanced by the under. ‘lf' 'a the first onset of the lur ' a l , P''ar kft ti 'qu i .4 on both sides of the •. heet. tis q r i of t ,d'•vn he felt it right to state that s the tfiLaaci ;the „`-inittPany might minor een wound up long. 4' lilaep.a' neen for some disputes which had ,it.il'. bquwtttli..the emnpanies in France. Pr thtli tc„tiY„ !-;olliseY wished to know who would be tt l to otißVicipate in the surplus shares —the present th e ° Ma rk '"' shareholders —those who had purchased Ai ? Choi t, or thoae who had their shares allotted to Ti lt , , N,, th vh,,,,, :n,k . hiCtlkr 4t qUesti SCd he was not in api ski( nto an uze, °ll'_, me ktr saiii 110 cleat woul be int e nded to move a reseluticra ti se'sthe matter at rest. Re Je v ASP 1 t . 11" vscrl e t he en t a tie3 g rs ta ia cease w f biti ,-our of thosi retie i° „Jr „ s on- s ! o r 3vlgiu gl ' vo , ~erlar its t' tori iarofoc tP ft° x t we , to o' dif )ffee 11 0°6 ; Con o 1r • m ber h E aSt Id, Neib e o ett. ) tbe e~ ° ~~ ~0 W lift 5 esr 'DP' '1), ,F ol° EGO .rticle ) gri eigr. l o deClAreso, tve hat t b w igh ' s , 0 0 , ° ' le„ of lloi trade 1 1 10. Of Ile / 11) of t h ip 7t4 P ririCe o lsl .84.1 o f Of eri o l ,d, 4 ° as dee , f ioo - co ds 10 .00 5 ':f/ 0 1 1 tre ,v 00 :1 not' 0( 11 , Dot, g tor,i uss i,oi cit 6 rant` . _„abF ther ' 'chhay! of 'chats ofi 1 ~ EaF ° O r if' 00 0,1 1.. cvh joj tile el a'dva fo l re r :!i s IDOS p ith tb r e ve, be WI itPitte peror 13i ts. S. 9 ' eP , , •4, 4 IA F 1,4 91 1 1 61 / of 2 1 1, TILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, :JANUARY 13, 1846. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE BROAD GAUGE. On Saturday morning two experimental trips were made on the broad gauge (the Western Railway) in the presence of the Gauge Commissioners ; the weather was rather unfavourable, the morning being dull and damp, and very little wind stirring until the afternoon. The Hercules was again selected for the purpose ; it is a powerful engine, having connected wheels 5 feet in dia meter, cylinder 16 inches, stroke 18 inches, and weighs 22 tons. At 7h. 52m. 24g. she started from the one mile post, Paddington, with a train of 13 trucks, coal laden, an additional wider, and a first-class carriage, w hi c h was o c c upied by Sir F. Smith, Professor Barlow, Mr. Watson, Mr. Saunders, Secretary to the Company ; Air. Harmer, and Mr. Gibson ; on the engine were Mr. Brunel, engineer of the line, and Mr. Gooch, superin tendent of the locomotive department. This experi mental train was driven from Paddington to Didcot, a distance of 521 miles, whet , it arrived at 10h. 19m. 285., having made stoppages at Ealing., Southall, West Dray ton, Slough, Maidenhead, Twyford, and Goring. For the exact time of arrival and departure from the several stations the reporter has been indebted to Mr. Seymour Clarke, the principal superintendent of the line, and it is as follows . Miles from Padding- Arrival. Departure. Stoppage. ton. —.-- h. m. s. h. m. a. h. m. a. Paddington - - 7 52 24 5% Ealing 8 4 53 8 7 42 0 2 49 7y Harwell -- - 8 12 36 9 Southall -- - - 8 16 52 8 20 41 0 3 49 13 West Drayton - 8 35 25 8 40 33 0 5 8 18 Sloagh -- - - 8 14 38 8 55 43 0 4 5 22% 31alcktihead - - 9 6 41 9 11 32 0 4 51 30% Tw)ford- -- - 9 2* 33 9 33 44 0 5 11 35% /Wading -- - - 9 44 42 41% Pang' ourne - - 9 54 8 444 Goring lO 0 8 10 2 0 0 1 52 47% Wallingford-road 1 ) 9 30 52% Dideot lO 19 38 Total stowage 0 26 5 Total stoppage 0 26 5 The dig am, was ticcompli.i.ed in 2h. 27m. 145., or at a rate of 26 75 miles an 11 , ,ur. The weight of train pro pelled, exclusive of the engine, was 204 tons 18cwt. lqr. 31b. Soon after the arrival or this train at Didcot, the Ixion, a powerful passenger engine, having driving wheels 7 feet in diameter, came up with a train on 15 trucks, laden with coal, to be attached to the train of the Hercules, making in ad 28 trucks and one first class carriage. After all matters were arranged this levia thian train proceeded on its journey ; its weight, length, and the time it passed the different stations, are given from the same aut:writy as that of the down trip : Weight,4o6 tons 3 cwt. lqr. 10Ib. ; length of train, 232 yards. Started from Didcot - - - • - - Wallingford-road - - - Goring Pangbeurne - - - - - Reading Twyford 3iaidenhead - - - - Slough West Drayton - - - - - Southall Hanwell Ealing Arriving at the 1k mile-post from] Paddington From Paddington ➢files, 53 47% 44 414 34 4 30% 22% h. 1 22 15 I 38 0 1 49 0 1 57 0 2 8 30 2 22 15 2 41 0 2 51 0 3 7 0 3 23 0 3 25 0 3 29 0 39 0 Perluruaing the journey in 26. 16w. 455., at an average rate of speed of 23 miles an hour. The rate of the gauges now stand thus : Broad gauge train of 400 tons 23 miles per hour. Narrow gauge ditto . Excess of speed for broad gauge 4 miles per hour. IRELAND. RESIGNATION OF CHIEF JUSTICE PENNEFATHER. The Mercantile Advertiser published the following yesterday afternoon:—" We are now enabled to an nounce that Chief Justice Pennefather has resigned. The appointments consequent on the retirement of Mr. Penntfather have not Set been fully arranged. If Mr Blackburne should be transferred to the Queen's Bench, Mr. T. B. Smith, the Attorney-General, will go to the Rolls Court. If this arrangement should not be adopted the Attorney-General will get the Chief Justiceship. In any event Mr. Greene advances to the Attorney- Grneraiship ; and it is said Mr. Sergeant Warren will be the new Solicitor. General, For that office other mimes are mentioned ; but on this point all at present is mere speculation." The most contradictory rumours are afloat as to some of the changes rendered necessary by the resignation of Mr. Pennetather. The latest version is that Mr. Smith, the Attorney-General, will get the Chief Justiceship of the Queen's Bench, the scene of his extraordinary en counter with Mr. Fitzgibbon during the state trials ; that Mr. Wilson Greene advances to the Attorney- Generalship, to he succeeded as Solicitor by Mr. Brews ter ; and that Mr. Corballis, a Roman Catholic Queen's Counsel, is to take the place of Mr. Brewster as advising counsel to the Irish Government. The Attorne) -General being made a Judge must vacate the pocket borough if Ripon ; and if Lord de Grey be consenting party, Mr. Gladstone can thus find another opening into the house of Commons. Perhaps, after all. this was one of the cause of the well-timed resignation of Chief Justice Pennefather. PROSECUTION AGAINST THE " NATION" NEWSPAPER. The Freeman's• Journal says, " Notwithstanding all the counsel learned in the law whose services the Crown have an official right to command, the Attorney-Ge neral did nut deem himself secure in entering upon his presecution against the Nation, without retaining Mr. Henn, Q.C., ot.e of theprinctpal defenders of the state traverstrs in the meinorable trials of 1844. Mr. Duffy having been served with notice that informations had been received against him, on the same day on which they were sworn wrote by that night's post, through his solicitor, to retain Mr. Henn, who was then at Lifford, in Donegal, presiding at Quarter Sessions. Mr. Henn's reply was, that he had been already retained by the Crown ! This was sharp practice on Mr. Duffy, for the retainer to that gentleman must have been given be tore informations had been sworn. ETERATURE. THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. 1Vo: LXXIL • This number contains several articles of a first-rate character. Indeed we have rarely seen the Foreign Quarterly display so much ability, or furnish so many papers of general and deep interest. There are two, however, on the affairs of France that require par ticular notice —that on " Capefigue's Europe since the Accession o f L ou i s Phili ppe, " and the other on the " French Revolution," as described by Dahlmann and Niebuhr. It is to be regretted that the writer of the first has displayed so much nationality, in some instances not very impartial, that he has occasionally maligned the French, and that one of his great ob jects is to prove, what he calls " the cardinal fact," that Louis Philippe, both before and after the revolu tion of July, played the part of a consummate hypo crite. We are not the apologists of the King, and are ready to admit that after he mounted the throne the acts of his Government materially differed from his recorded professions, both at that period and for some short time afterwards; but still it is only fair to incriire whether he could safely have acted otherwise, and whether a man, on being convinced of the danger of carrying out certain political doctrines which he once admitted, is to be consistent at the risk, nay, with the certainty, of committing greater faults or crimes. One of the principal objects of Louis Phi lippe was the maintenance of peace in Europe, and, to the wonder and admiration of the world, he has, for fifteen years, been eminently successful. Some of these professions certainly led the French to believe that the Kh:g was favourable to democratic institu tions, and that his reign would exemplify all that was implied in the epithet " Citizen King, ' but even the accuser of this extraordinary man admits that the French are not adapted for democratic institutions, and that they must submit to servitude under some form or other till they have a national religion. " The French," says he, " perceive no absurdity in prating from time to time about democratic institutions as though it were practicable to reconcile such things with the charac ter of a people, a moiety of w h om , by th e i r o wn show ing, live in iabitual disregard of the fundamental duties of society, With these data before him any one may foresee what is to be the future destiny of France. It must submit to servitude under some form or other until it can resolve to have a national religion ; Catholicism, if it can discover nothing better. There is no freedom without faith." An impartial writer would not have allowed the oppor tunity to escape of doing justice to Louis Philippe on both these points, He has done more to restore a sense of religious duty in France than ever was done by any monarch, and what ruler, nay what private individual, ever showed more regard to the " funda- mental duties of society ?" the example of a Court has any effect in encouraging morality in cherishing domestic affections and forming the cha racter of a people, Louis Philippe is surpassed by none in that respect. It is admitted by all parties— by even the most bitter enemies of the present dy nasty and of all dynasties—that his conduct in his family is not only unexceptiont.ble, but merits the highest praise. Religion and morality being abso lutely necessary, according to this writer, for the es tablishment of free institutions, and without which there can be nothing but servitude, the highest praise should have been bestowed on the Sovereign who is thus paving the way for good government on the very principles recommended by the person who heaps upon him abuse. Notwithstanding these de fects, however, much useful information and interest ing details are given respecting the state of France since the July revolution. It may be necessary, however, to make another remark with regard to the party who overthrew Charles X. The writer says it was the intimate friends of Louis Philippe, men with whom he was in daily and nightly habits of in tercourse, between whom and him there were no secrets, that did it all. " Few men," he adds, " knew exactly that the ordinances were coming, but most persons anticipated some foolish act of power, by which the throne would be endangered or lost ; and the probability is, that among the keenest haruspices in France, his present Majesty Louis Phillippe was the chief." This only does honour to his sagacity, if the word can be applied in reference to events the effects of which were pal pable to all :careful observers. In this country, every newspaper conducted with ordinary ability prophecied what took place, and repeatedly warned the Polignac party that they were taking every pos sible step to complete the parallel between the Eng lish and French Restorations. Could a clear-headed man, like the Duke of Orleans, fail to see things in the same light ? and is any blame to be attached to him that he prepared for the consequences ? The other article alluded to, that on the French Revolution, brief though it is, contains much, and merits the highest praise, not only for the excellent language in which the writer expresses his sentiments, but for the comprehensive views he takes of the great events and the leading, men that distinguished that remarkable event. There is nothing vague, or na ti or sectarian in his remarks; they are appa rently the candid expressions of an impartial observer, and are entirely uninfluenced by the prevailing opinions respecting the conduct of such men as Robespierre, and Mirabeau, and Brissot. We only regret that he adverts to so few of the leading cha racters. He does full justice to Mirabeau, and even ventures to praise Robespierre ; and shows, in the fol lowing extract what alone was wanting to make the revolution produce good fruits : "In this univ.srsal enthusiasm of the nation was to be found, not only the living principle of the revolution ; but the explanation of the circumstance that few of its leaders were great men, and that the greatest of them accomplished but little. The multitude was, probably, at first neither better nor worse than the mass of a popu lation migr.t be expected to be found, when exposed to the effects of ignorance and poverty. li_ its excitement, it became like an intoxicated man, more fearless and forgetful of self, and at the same time more ferocious and reckles . But, the leader of an infuriated mob is almost necessarily weak or wicked. Only a blood thirsty maniac, like Murat, could keep pace with the violence of the people, without a deliberate conscious ness of guilt. The only field for great qualities was in resistance ; only Mirabeau was powerful enough to stem the current for a time, and before it had reached the height of flood, he was removed from the conflict by death. One indispensable r equ i s ite of greatness consists in a business-like instinct, which can discriminate be t seen definite practicable objects and empty systems of words. Great men would not have wasted time like the Constituent Assembly, and the Girondists, in discussing the merits of constitutions,fill they had first secured the means of enforcing . obedience to them. They would have provided a moving force, before they adjusted the machinery. Robespierre, almost alone, relied on the extreme revolutionary spirit as the support of his power ; but, he also was filled with impracticable dreams of a future reign of fraternity and benevolence, in which his only instrument of government, the guillo tine, should be laid aside. His method could not be last ing, and he had provided no alternative to succeed it. It is more possible, however, to attribute greatness to Robespierre than to Roland or Brissot." The history of Abelard and Heloise will be read with interest by many, but we think too much has been made of such a revolting subject. Neither of the parties display one quality useful in society. They both acted the part of hypocrites. The hero was a hard-hearted, designing, and merciless villain, and the fate of his victim, notwithstanding the pane gyrics heaped upon her by the writer, ought to be held up as a warning to all virtuous women. Ac cording to her own admission, she devoted herself to a religious life without one quality compatible with its duties; she acted the part of a hypocrite from some wayward fancies ; and, even in the most solemn scenes of the cloister, seemed to forget every virtuous sentiment. Pope's description of her is not a whit overcharged, and he might well make her say : " Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame; August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all these views remove; Fame, wealth, and honour, what are you to love?" itehh.haavtEe been so harassed THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXVIL Already, in another department of The Sun, we have discussed the particular merits and demerits of decidedly the most sensible, the most valuable, and the most sagacious review in . this . number of the Edinburgh, relating to " Legislation for the Working Classes." And we have there specified the several thirst n for better inaccuracies which tarnish what would otherwise have been a very candid exposition of a very compli cated theme. The reviewer indeed . tagkleuslasCtaapteaserniCseuns things h u a i r vn v eg e sy with o f the w h endeavoured ich ttho e measures ap s os b pu y ua ever since the abolition of feudal is m ; still there is an ra we c h e ostensible obliquity in his vision—the obliquity arising rather from the m edium through which he gazes than from any . inherent . propensity to misrepresent. The medium in question is evidently a straggling, insufficient, and desultory book-r ea di ng . It is from this blemish—this spattering about of odd and incongruous facts—in the article particularised, that we turn with more relish to th e o th er top i cs . A pleasant and rapid glance is taken at the gradual insinuation of Shakspere upon French popul ar ity in the paper christened " Shakspere in Paris." This insinuation of genius upon the mind . and heart of a nation has been advancing, though in sluggish and spasmodic jerks, ever since I , °Raise endeavoured to disabuse his countrymen of the n o ti on t h at our mightiest of poets was a sort of l iterary monstrosity— a barbarian jangling the har p of Apollo w ith ou t a ny knowledge of his art, with accidental chords of melody, though more frequently w ith harsh and rugged discords. sot, however , until 1821, was this declaration publicly b ac k e d by the accordance of any influential critic, when M. Guizot in that year boldly asserted in the teeth of all his predecessors 1 that the glory and the gemus of S haksp ere were no longer discussed, that no one retained the hardihood to contest the point, but that another and a grea t er question hnd arisen, a question as to " whether the dramatic system of Shakspere was not better than that of Voltaire." Here then .the latter had dug a " pitfall for his own footsteps, and time after time that I pitfall has been deepened and enlarged on every hand ; after Guizot by Victor Hugo, then by Count Alfred de Vigny, then by Anthony Deschamps, then by Leon de Wailly, then by Augustus Bsrbier, and finally by the migration of a company of English tragedians into the French capital during the winter of 1844-5. What the influence of criticism or the mellifluousness of translation had failed to accomplish, was achieved by the severe, but startling mannerisms of .Macreaoly and the tender and irresistible pathos of Miss Helen 'aucit. Those among the Parisian audiences who were sufficiently acquainted with the language of the dramatist, received, through the medium of their passions, and their idea-drinking hearts, some glimmer of that brightness which falls, as with a sunburst, upon all who can appreciate the divine form and compass of our mighty bard. To stand with Lear upon the heath and hear, amidst the rain, the babbling of that old, mad king—to weep with Hamlet over the , jester's skull, and catch be tween whiles the mocking carol of the gravedigger, " A pick. axe and a spade, a spade, And,o fora winding. sheet 1" _ _ To sigh out one's whole soul from very excess of happiness with Jessica in the moonlight showered down among the pine-leaves in the garden—to watch with Richard the grey dawning of his death-day through the tent-loops at Bosworth—to stand breath lessly by the Vane of Cawdor, in the silent galleries at midnight, or on the moor amidst the tempest —to do all this, and feet the pulses of a man dead more than two hundred years ago beating with all the strength and glop and energy of life in every line— was indeed something worthy of being rendered palpable to a great and civilised nation like our neighbours across the Channel. Still from the tem perament, the habits, and the whole intellectual ens of Frenchmen, .we assert the utter impossibility of so filling their imaginations with the copiousness and philosophic infinitude of Shakspere as to render their admiration eithei staunch in its duration or propor tionate to the merit s o f th e su bj ec t. Before these things can possibly come to pass, the entire fabric and animus of Gallic thought, must undergo a per fect transformation ; and it is in this particular that we dissent.so entirely from the spirit of the re viewer. Speaking of the various exertions of the translator already enumerated, he exclaims, " A few more such generous efforts, generously hailed, and we may be spared the humiliating spectacle of science, letters, and art,' bowing before senseless clamour." Multiply these efforts, say we, usque ad nauseam, and France will remain as incapable as ever of compre hending the daring sword- cuts and subtle allusions of Shakspere. Among the students of foreign Mem ture some must always, according to the impulses of nature, entertain for him a feeling of idolatry; but the mob, the Boileau-loving, Racine-spirited mob can never persuade themselves into anything like genuine affection for the insular poet. He is essentially too untrammelled, too vast, too universal, and too deter minate a thinker to arouse the sympathies or elicit the applause of a'people notorious for the daintiness and mincing precision of their drama. Besides this the impossibility of rendering Shakspere into French couplets, and at the same time sustaining his creations in their original elevation, forms another obstacle to his popularisation in Paris : Achilles in a " taglioni" could never excite in us sentiments of awe or admira tion. W hat is there in the following version of Hamlet's soliloquy—however elegant, or literal, or ingenious the verson may be in itself—to fill our souls with the solemn and pathetic reverie always roused within us by the original ? Etre ou ne pas etre ; oui, voill la question:— Lequel vaut micux? S'armer de resignation Sous les traits outrageants du sort toujours contraire; Ou hien se revolter, et, d'un coup, s'y soustraire? Mourir,—dormir, : —c'est tout," &c. Surely this is the degeneration of grandeur into prettiness ! It is a modern dandy beside Jupiter Tonans ! Hence it is that we dissent from the re viewer's position, that by a repetition of such attempts as the one just quoted, we shall be " spared the hu miliating spectacle of nations shuttering their eyes to light, closing their ears to truth and knowledge, and refusing to listen to the voice of melody, if transmitted across a frontier llne, or a few leagues of salt water." Until the French ,fire more approximated to us in spirit, until their idiom possesses a closer affinity to the idiom of Albion, they cannot entertain any genuine, natural, unaffected regard for the mightiest of our national genius—William Shakspere. There is an enlightened and detailed bird's-eye view of the "Political State of Prussia" in this num ber, the gist of which is condensed in the sentence— " Royal authority is no longer an object qf reverence; and the laws themselves, being considered in no higher light than as the expression of the royal will, are gra dually losing their salutary influence." In addition to this there are some sagacious impressions respect ing the " German Catholic Church," and a sensible commentary upon'" Charles Lyell's Travels in North America." We shall, however, content ourselves with giving the subjoined estimates of the " Earls Spencer and Grey:"— "Lord Grey wag • a man of lofty integrity—of un blemished honour-the object of affectionate attachment to his friends—of respect and admiration to all his countrymen. He never swerved an instant from that line of public duty which appeared to him the most direct. Office accompanied by the desertion of a friend, or the abandonment of a principle, was in his eyes in famy.* For years• he confronted obloquy, and defied an adverse Court. His perceptions were too clear to allow him to adept what was vague or obscure ; his heart was too upright to allow him to sanction what was mean or dastardly. lie could not stoop to flatter a prince ; he could not play tricks to please a rabble. His public speaking reflected the character of the man. His lan guage was admirably adapted to convey his meaning, neither sinking too near the ground nor rising out o: sight—clear, genuide, unadulterated English. Although no one could see Lord Grey without marking in him a certain dignity of bearing and high. bred courtesy of manner, his ordinary life was entirely without formality or pomp." " Lord Spencer was eighteen years younger than Lord Grey. His diligence was indefatigable, his sagacity quick, his judgment seldom at fault. His views were large and comprehensive, embracing the whole compass of improvement in our laws, our commerce, and our constitution. His tongue was far from eloquent ; and although his arguments were sound and comprehensive, he was so often wanting in words as to be obscure, and unable to convey adequately his meaning. But the confidence of his friends, his party, and the country, supplied all deficiedeies and gave to his few and simple expressions as much influence over his audience as had ever been obtained by the most admired eloquence of our greatest orators. He was plain in manner and in dress, but a short intercourse disclosed the scholar, the gentleman, and the statesman. " Men may differ about the wisdom of their Parlia mentary measures, Or the ability of their civil adminis tration ; but the noble, exalted, stainless spirit of these two men must always be venerated as long as public virtue is admired, and the name of England has its place in history." This eulogium comes with peculiar force and appo siteness immediately upon the close of the year (1845) in which both these celebrated noblemen expired— " the one full of ; years, sinking gradually into the grave ; the other .in the full possession of bodily vigour and mental activity, swept away by a sudden inroad of disease,"—men with great earnestness of purpose and great force of character. * How far this sentence is applicable to Lord John Russell, with reference to Lord_Palmerston and the abolition of the corn-laws, upon the occasion of his late resignation, we leave it to common sense to'-decide. THE NETV TIMON. A Romance of London. Part 11. Already, in our notice of the first portion of this satirical poem, we have particularised the peculiar merits of the writer, —his completeness of metre, his terseness of idea, 11s appositeness of illustration, and his capacity for sketching character. The present continuation of his romance however opens in a most ungrateful and unwelcome manner. There is an un pleasant egotism in the very first line, " London, I take thee to a poet's heart!"—an anonymous audacity which rather inclines the reader to gainsay the author's pretensions to so lofty a title : and where he afterwards utters the vaunting ejaculation , " Me life hath skill'd !" our distaste is even redoubled. But what we more peculiarly object to in this second part of the "New Timon s ' is a very sickly and ungenerous attack upon Alfred Tennyson. Alfred Tennyson l the most true, the mpst ge nuine, the most , spontaneous of the poets of the day ;—Alfred Tennyson . the veritable and acknowledged representative of our young bards. No more delicate or deliciousverse has issued from the press of lat e years than his "Sleeping Beauty ;" no more origina l conception than his " Lotos Eaters." In venting his sp leen, or possibly his yealousi, upon a mind so sensitive and , charming .„ as Tennyso n s , the author of the "Modern Innon has acted without either delicacy or judgment : he has acted w ith ou t delicacy in thus arrogantly raising his pretensions to popularity, while he endeavours to crush one of the most s ubtle-minded and gentle-hearted of his contem poraries ; he has acted without judgment in selecting as a target for his ridicule perhaps the most excellent of Tennyson'sproda . tions, "Mariana i n th e M oa t e d G range . —a piece wnich for its desolate and artless beauty is enshrined among our ballad literature. As for his creative power, what can he more new and ex quisite than his " Miller's Daughter ?" As fa- his attempts to propagate a humanizing spirit among his fellow-men, what can tend more strongly to that pur pose than his picture of the "Palace of Sin," or that noble curiosity about : " St. Simeon Stilytes," in 'which he di-plays the dark and God-despised folly of fanati cism ? As to his delvings into the human heart, what can be more truthful,or penetrant than his lamenta tion of " Oriana ?" Before the wiiter of this " Ro mance of London" descends to pen a sarcasm on the golden intellect of Alfred Tennyson, he should show, what he has never yet shown, that one entire canto of his composition is of equal value with a single stanza of Tenn \ son's. Authors, but particularly poets, are so seldom the recipients of any pecuniary recompense for their genius in this country, that a direct remonstrance with the Government upon a trifling pension to a man like the one in question, is ! ill-timed, ungenerous, and absolutely harsh. We ourselves know Tennyson only from his books, but for the sake of those books—few and small though they be—we esteem him as a poet, and love him for his soul-sympathies. He possesses capabilities for higher flights and and loftier themes than he has hitherto essayed—and we have only to accuse him of not taxing those capabilities to their real bent. As to his deserving contumely for never having as yet " moved thousands" by his poetry, we would simply remark that Milton failed in arousing the attention of the mukitude in his generation ; and surely, on this account, he is not to he regarded with indifference ! No, we honour Sir Robe:t Peel for—that gilding for the bay-garland—the pension of two hundred pounds hich w has so stirred up the bile of our " New rimon" satirist. But to return to this second portion of the romance : its preliminary lines, when speaking of the metropolis, are admirable : " Let schoolboy Strephons bleat of flocks and fields, Each street of thine a loftier Idyl yields ; Fed by all life , and fann'd by every wind, The, e burns tie quenchless poetry—mankind!' Both the heroines, mentioned in our previous notice, are in Part 11. entirely deserted, whereas a new actor appears upon the arena of the story, in the person of Lord Arden ; and a narrative of his vicissi tudes forms a very agreeable episode to the poem, being introduced in a dialogue between himself and the Timonic Morvale. One passage uttered by the former contains great store of earthly wisdom ; and, as such, we extract it for the perusal of all searchers after the true philosopher's stone—experience : See how the grey world "In trtrut h, grafts its age on youth ; See how w e learn to prize the bullion vice, Coin'd in all shapes, yet still but avarice ; The stamp may vary —you the coin may call '; Ambition,' Power," Success,'—but gold is all. Mine is the memoir of a selfish age— Turn every leaf—slight difference in the page— Through each, the same fierce struggle to secure Earth's one great end—distinction from the Poor; All our true wealth, like alchemists of old, Fused in the furnace—for a grain of gold." There is much that is picturesque and touching in the description of Lord Arden's viewing his young bride through the cottage lattice : " Alone!—that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;" And also in the old man's sudden death, which comes directly afterwards. Indeed, the whole of this nar rative is drawn with a delicate and tender pencil. Several blemishes of style, however, obtrude them selves here and there; for instance where the principle character exclaims, "Mine one dark deed," &c., an affectatation in the pronoun, essentially rugged and inelegant; and again, where he observes that " the curse of stagnor settles on the universe," an expres sion for which the author appears to have a terrible fondness. Besides these two specimens of careless ness, there is one of a meaner and yet more incor rigible nature, namely, the selection of a most inap propriate and inexpressive adjective—the lowest but least excusable fault in poetry. By this single word a very fair, though somewhat trite, metaphor is ruined : " 0! what delight to struggle side by side With one loved soother!—up the steep to guide Her faithful steps—unsbrinking from the thorn; And front with manly breast, the biting winds of scorn! And when stout will and gallant heart had won, The hill -top opening to the steadfast sun." &c. Here the epithet applied to the wind totally dispels the illusion of its rushing down the acclivity in the face of the one clambering to its summit. Altogether this part of the "New Timon" is greatly inferior to its predecessor ; though it is interlarded with the same caustic and epigramatic points which we have already particularised as the chief merit of Part I. IIE AGE OF PITT AND FOX. By the author of " Ireland and its Rulers." Vol 1., Bvo. The subject of this work is of infinite importance, not only from its historical interest, but because it has• intimate relation with the great science of Poli tics. For nearly five-and-twenty years Pitt and Fox battled for supremacy. Theirs was no common con test. The noblest and the best were arrayed on one side or on the other, for it was considered honourable to serve under such mighty leaders. They have passed away, but it was fitting that some memorial of their long struggle should exist, and the time has now arrived when the truth may be spoken of these illustrious dead without any fear of injuring the inte rests or wounding the feelings of the living. The popular and clever author of " Ireland and its Rulers" has undertaken to write an ac count of what happened in this country from the termination of the American war to the death of Charles James Fox. In other words, to sketch the political history of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1782 to 1806. During the whole of that period the Government of this country was in the hands of Pitt or Fox. llence, a work tracing their career must give the history of public affairs. We may say, at once, that this design, although of great magnitude, is neither too large nor unmanageable for the writer before us. The first volume of his work, embracing a history of the coalition ministry, and of Pitt's administration to the close of 1784, exhi bits great industry, much eloquence considerable skill in arranging and condensing facts, and the highest impartiality in commenting upon them. Every accessible source of information appears to have been visited, and while we have greater accuracy than Wraxall possessed, we have a philosophical exa mination of the springs of action which was far be yond him. The style is remarkably free and flowing, reminding us of Lord Brougham's best manner. _ _ The author commences with the downfall of Lord North's Government, in 1782. The Rockingham Ministry succeeded, but was personally distasteful to George the Third, inasmuch as he believed that the party ha office wished to make the sovereign a mere cypher—to reduce him to the nominal power of a doge—possessing, the highest apparent station, and the smallest actual power. That Cabinet broke up by the death of Lord Rockingham, its nominal head. Then ensued a struggle between Fox and Lord Shel burne, which ended in the defeat of Shelburne, and the well-known coalition between Lord North and Fox —the sacrifice, indeed, of principle to power. The Coalition Ministry terminated in the disc om fit ure of all connected with it; Fox's India Bill being the ostensible cause of the dismissal of the Ministry. Then followed the Premiership o f Pitt, and the Parliamentary contest between that able and fearless Minister and the great Fox party. The course and tOrmination of that strife is relatedwith force and clearness, and the con clusiot, of the volume is occupied with the very Vest account we have ever seen of the great victory ‘N hich was gained in 1782 by the Irish Parliament—a vic tory which obtained for that Legislature the in dependence it required—a victory v. hich, badly used, became as ruinous as a defeat. Mingled with the narrative are brief sketches, personal and charac teristic, of the principal Irish leaders of that time. All are brought belore us—Grattan, Flood, Charle mont, Fitzgibbon, and the minor stars composing that galaxy of ability and patriotism. The mention of these sketches reminds us of the peculiar merit of this author in pen-portraiture. His sketches of eminent individuals, scattered through the volume, and illustrated with anec dotes, seem to us the best things in it. He - eels in this, and scarcely ever names a publi c man without sketching him, a full length, in pen and ink. Among the personages in this portrait gallery are George the Third, the Prince of Wales, L ord Chatham and William Pitt, Lord Holland and Charles James Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Lord North, Lord 'l'hurlow, Dundas, Lord Rockin gham, Townshend, Wilkes, Horne Tooke, Canning, Flood, Grattan, Lord Charlemont, Lord Avonmore, the Bishop of Derry, Lord Karnes, Ad am Smith, and many more. 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The " North Star" has also a match iu progress with Barlow (alias Tallick), of Bolton, whose pedestrian per turniances in America ha's raised his fame. This latter is for 751. a-side, and.to steno off over Doncaster race course, distance four miles, on the 30th March. Max field lr s already been oncti defeated by Barlost, over the same course and distance ; but was, in his turn, beaten on the last day of 1845, in a ten mile race, by Manks (the Warwickshire antelope). Szcrissiorr FROM THE Cuuncir.—The Rer. Spen cer Northcote, M.A., late Scholar of Corpus Christi College has been received into the Roman Catholic Church at ,Prior Park. Mr. Northcqe obtained the highest classical honours at Oxford.--Post. thought they owed a deep debt of gratitude to the Managing Committee for the zealous and judicious trirtatter in which they had managed the affairs of the Company, and he should move that the best thanks of . the shareholders be given to them, end that the surplus shares he placed at their disposal. The motion having been seconded, Mr. Deputy CORNEY moved an amendment to the ( fleet that the latter part of the resolution be reserved for a future and a fuller meeting; but, on learning from Captain Barlow that the shares, if divided amongst the shareholders, would not yield more than 1/1 pcx share, lie declined to press his amendment, and the original resolution was carried nnanimouAy. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who briefly acknr:,wledged the compliment, and the meeting separated. WEST-END AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the subscribers to this line was held at the Company's offices, Chatham piece. Blackfriars, Mr. Carter in the chair. Before the business of the meeting was entered upon, some discussion took place us to whether the scrip hold. rs who had not signed the agreement shOuld be ad mitted to take a part in the proceedings ; and, after much debating, po and eon, it was determined that no gentlemen should be admitted to the meeting but those who had signed the deed. Mr. PAYNE, the engineer to the Company, then pro ceeded to enter into a statement as to the intention of the Company to carry their line to Waterloo-bridge, and the advantages that a terminus in the Strand would aff ,rd. Several shareholders expresso': themselves desirous of hearing fre in the Committee what was the original object in view when the line was foravd. Mes-irs. PAYNE and PENRY both said that the prin cipal object of the railway was to form an amalgamation with any line of railway south of the Thames, and to form a connecting line from them to the western part of the metr , polio, -so as to haie themselves the benefit of the short traffic, and to give to the line with whom they joined the !trig traffic, as very c :nsiderable disappro bation had been expressed with regard to the principle of having short traffic on long lines. Mr. SMITH said that these statements were not the business for which they had met. They wished to know the state of the Company in a financial point of view. Mr. TAYLOR then inquired what proportion of the shares had been paid upon ? The CHAIRMAN said about one-half. Mr. SMITH wished to know whi they the Chairman had no statement of accounts to make to them. The CHAIRMAN said that there were certain reasons why the report that had been prepared should nit be read that day. The circumstances were such, that the laying any statement before them would be itnprud, nt. Mr. FORREST said that it was very strange that they should be caned to receive a report of the state of affairs of the Company, and when they did come they were to hear nothing at all. The CHAIRMAN said that the report had been pre pared, but certain reasons were in existence why it should not be read. It would be ready in a week or two. The Committee had all subscribed, and were all in the same boat with the shareholders. Mr. FORREST—Have you done anything at all ? The CHAIRMAN said that there was a negotiation with another line then in progress. Mr. TAYLOR said that the shareholders ought to have been desired not to come, by the insertion of an adver tiserceut, if nothing could be done. Mr. H. ARROWSMITH (one of the Committee) said that the board appeared before the shareholders with much pleasure, as all was to be fairly transacted. There were certain clauses in their deed, and the question was, whetht r those clauses should be acted upon this session. Mr. KEMP said that there were gentlemen in the room who would make their proceedings public, and he wished that those gentlemen should not leave without taking with them some explanation of what had occurred. The only explanation that had yet been given was, that the Company had been formed with the view of amalgama tion with other lines, and a portion of their shares had been reserved as an inducement, so that they were formed with the view of giving to other persons the fruits of their money and lai.our. The gentleman who offered this explanation certainly intended to give it as a reason that the Company was formed for the purpose of giving a direct line of traffic from the Greenwich Railway to the \Vest-end, but to do that it would .be necessary to get the consent of several o;her companies. They had tact that day expecting a statement of affairs, and nothing had been said except that it was their intention to amalgamate with another good company, so as to benefit themselves. and unless such a thing could be ac complished, it would be of no use to go on at all. He did not wish to tamper with the proceedings of the Com pany, but he certainly thought that an adjournment, until some more tangible information could be obtained, was necessary, as it would be unwise to spend any more money until such information was given. Mr. ARROWSMITH said that, in his opinion, no blame could be attached to any of the offic..rs of the line, as they had amply proved their capacities on a previous line of railway. Mr. KeMP wished to put a motion—" That this meet ing do seijourn." Mr. PENRY said that it was only half an hour bi fore the meeting was to have taken place that a communica tion was receiv, d which rendered it necessary that no report should be read. The solicitor had been consulted, and his advice was, that no report should be read, but that the meeting should take place, as the closing of their doors on such an occasion would have a very bad app- nraoce. The assistant to the solicitor to the line expressed his concurrence to this statement. After some further discussion, Mr. Kemp's motion was adopted, and the meeting was postponed until that day week. After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting &Tended. ADDFESS TO LORD MhTCALFE. MEETING AT THE ORIENTAL CLUB-HOUSE A very numerous meeting of gentlemen connected with India was held yestemay at the Oriental Club. Hanover-:quare, for the purpose of considering the pro priety of addressing Lord Metcalfe on his return to his native country - . There were present at least two hun dred and fifty gentlemen of the highest character con nected with the civil and military service of India. The chair was taken at two o'clock by The Earl of AUCKLAND, who was greeted with con siderable applause, and having explained the purpose of the meeting, proceeded to eulogise the character of Lord Metcalfe in every part of his distinguished career. his Noble Friend had been his schoolfellow at Eton, and from that period to the present day he had had the happiness and pride of Lord Met calfe's friendship. The Noble Chairman traced the progress of Lord Metcalfe from the early part of his public service in India down to the time of his return to this country from the East, with the expectation of being allowed to pass the remainder of his days in repose at home. But his eminent merits marked him out as a fit person to be entrusted with the government of Jamaica in a time of great difficulty and delicacy. The manner in which he discharged his important and ardu ais duties in that colony induced another Ministry, of different politics from that which appointed him to Jamaica, to send him to Canada, where the interests of this country were in danger, and the affairs of' the colony irretrievably involved. Whilst suffering d u i n s cl e t r har t g h e e i m ,is os i t in s p e o v r e t r a e b ntd od u i t l i y es r a i n n a lwieitshtilslucchol,nsutiencuees-ds act to call for the marked approbation of the Govertimety, which was expressed by th e Q ueen ' s calling him io her' councils and raising- him to the peerage. The N-ble Lord was loudly applauded throughout an eloquent and earuest speech. Mr. HOLT MACKENZIE moved, and Sir J. RYAN se Culided (also in highly eulogistic spi eches) the following resolution, which was carried unanimously :—" '1 hat an address be preserted to Lord Metcalfe, expressing the high sense entertained by this meeting of the honours by which those' services have justly been re cognised by his Sovereign ai.d his country ; their cor dial sympathy in the affliction by which his career of eminent usefulness has been interrupted ; and the at. fection, respect, and admiration with which they re gard his public and private character." Mr. 13:BAYLEY thin read the draft of an address, which had been pr.:pared by the committee, and which he moved should be adopted as the address of the meet inv. It was couch, din very strong terms of affection and honours as well as of sorrow and sympathy for the ph) sisal suffering with which the Noble Lord was afflicted. Mr. Henn, M.P., in support of the address, confirmed all that had been said by the previous speakers as to the high character, kindly disposition, and distinguished servict-s of Lord Metcalfe, who, he was sure, would not feel less gratification with the tribute that day offered to him here, than by the well-mcrittd honours which his St.vtreign had bestowed on him. The address wag unanimously agreed to, and ordered to be engrossed, and to lie for a fortnight at the Oriental Club-house for signatures. Thanks were then voted to the Noble Chairman, and the meeting separated. E. WILD AND RAWLINGS.—These men are matched to run one miles, on the 20th inst., for 10/. a-side. SIR W. H. CLINTO N —This Gallant General has for the last three weeks been seriously indisposed, but we have much pleasure in now stating that strong hopes are entertained of his recovery, he having been already pronounced out Of danger. He remains at his residence in Autlley -square. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE JUNCTION, AND LANCASHIRE AND NORTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAYS —We understand that these two powerful cutup inks have completed; their amal gamat i on on un usually advantageous terms, and that it i s i nten d e d to apply to Parliament in the ensuing session for power to carry out the arrangements entered into. The united Company is to be styled the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tune Junction. This amalgama tion will not only considerably advance the intere-ts of the shareho!drs, and prevent an expensive Patliarnen ta-y contest, but the iublic will be assured of obtaining the lest C mmunication bi tween the dense and active p bpulati( n of Lancashire and the West of Yorkshire on Vie of e hand, and the co:inties of Durham and Northum ber:and on the other, and masses of people more numer ous and enterprising than any other in the kingdom We understand that this amalgamation has been the means of bringing Mr. Hudson and Mr. Houldsworth upon the same board of direction. Theifirst meeting of the amalgamated Board tee& place in London on 1 ucs day last, at which the position of both companies was fully 14( ne into, and both being found perfectly satisfac tory, there is every reason to believe that the amalga mated Company will go through rarliament unopposed. —Railway Record. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Mr. Sergeant Hon 711 t, chairman of Tipperary, in ad dressing the quarter sessions grand jury, at Cashel, on Wednesday, said, "It is most gratifying to me to see so numerous and so respectable an attendance. lam glad to tell you that the cases are not very numerous nor aggravated. There are sixty cases in all, in which eighty persons are charged, but they are not of a serious nature, with the exception of one case of assault, where there was no great injury done. The use of fire-arms is on the decline. Gentlemen, take care to call the several v+itnesses, and do not be absent when they appear." Mr. NEWEL BARRON, chairman of the King's County, thus addressed the quarter sessions grand jnry, at Philips - town, on Tuesday:—'•l have to congratulate you on the continuance of the peaceable and quite state of this part of the King's Country—free, I may say, from agrarian disturbance. The calendar of crime, being of a light character, requires from me but few observations. It presents only one case cf petty larceny, and four for assault. I shall detain you for a short time while refer ring to an important topic. The deplorable and calamit ous disease which has taken place this season in the potato crop, and which threatened this island with a dearth of provisions, if not a famine, imperatively de mands from men of your station unceasing exertion, and assistance as far as your means permit. Gentlemen, for the sake of the suffering poor, you will give additional employment., which will be an aid towards arresting the progress of distress, and tend to alleviate want." SERIOUS CAB ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon, bhb by t d w w. e h e i4 nc narrow r n t oi e , we (el and sr,i .vat driver re o o o' c of ft I I t oe , he k eci , ar a b serious vane cab s. Itap appeared numerous ea e r i d eo d e t h n e t t rh o a c p c te u ras o r r e ! sb , , was passing down Waterloo-place, at a rapid rate, when the horse took fright, and set off in a furious gallop towards the Duke of York's column. The driver endeavoured to arrest the e t pwairfkli,otuhteectebc was , a sa overturned, dashing ried d tl o ie w p n ro t g h r e e s ss te o p f s t l h ea s di a i n ig n n a t i o , and the driver thrown beneath it. At the moment there were upwards of thirty persons on the spot, who all fortu nately escaped injury, as did the sentry, who had a narrow escape, his firelock being knocked out of his hand by one of the wheels. The horse broke away with the front part of the cab and the shafts, and galloped on through the Park, in the direction of Storey's-gate, till he arrived at the railings ending the gravel walk, against which he rushed violently, and fell, when he was secured by some bystanders. The driver was extricated, having sustained only a few slight bruises. ----- THE LATE SIR LAWRENCE JONES, BART.—FuII and satisfactory confirmation of the untimely death of this young Baronet having reached this country, his executor has duly recorded his will in the proper Court. It was made by him in London just twelve months before his death, and entirely in his own handwriting, witnessed by Messrs. T. S. Cocks, jun., and C. Biddulph, of Charing-cross, by which he has left his property, real and personal—the latter, valued at 35,0001.—t0 his brother Willoughby, now Sir Willoughby . Jones, Bart., subject to the payment of the following annui ties and bequests :—To T. A. Jones, a cousin of his late father, 401. per annum. To Mrs. Margaret Coote, 20/. per annum. To his uncle, E. B. Lawrence, the print of Bolton Abbey, and 50/. to purchase a more lasting memorial of his regard. He appointed his brother, the present baronet, sole executor, who will inherit the estate of Cranmer Hall, Norfolk, the deceased's late residence. The deo. ased baronet was in his 29th year; and whilst travelling in Turkey, in company, on the 7th Novem ber last, in the middle of the day, was waylaid and mur dered by robbers. When near Dullamarry, a short distance from Macri ' on passing a rock, a discharge of musketry in their rear from this banditti, who were concealed in crevices, killed Sir Lawrence and one other of his party, six in num ber, and seriously wounded his friend, Captain Twopenny, who fell from his horse from loss of blood. The ruffians in an instant sprang from their hiding-place, robbed them of their money and arms, ransacked their baggage, and not until they had plundered them of all they could conveniently , lay their hands upon, would they allow the survivors :o con tinue their journey. They had then to travel a distance of twenty-three miles, and reached,Macri late in the evening, when they immediately dispa. shed some men in a boat to search for the dead bodies, which they had left near the coast, and which they succeeded in bringing back, and had them buried, with decent obsequies, in the cemetery belong ing to the Greeks.— Post. MEMORIAL TO SIR R. PEEL.—A memorial to the Right Hon. Baronet, from the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants of the town and parish of KLighley, praying him to introduce such measures in the coming session as shall abolish all restriction on the free importation of corn and provisions of every descrip tion, and to remove all taxes on every article which tends to cramp and paralyse manufactures, has received no less than 2,000 signatures, a circumstance which, a few ) ears ago, could not have been accomp li s h e d b y any means. So much for the change of men' s o pi n i ons in t h e favour of the free-trade question.--Leeds Mercury. Lord F. Egerton's youngest .son, Mi. Granville Egerton, will shortly enter the Royal Navy. RECOVERED MANUSCRIPT OF ARIOSTO. We mentioned, some weiks ago [ante, 993], on the authority of the Italian journals, that Signor Innocenxits Giampieii. Conservator of the Palatine Library of the Grano Duke of Tuscany, had diseolfered the manageript of a large portion of an unpublished epic poem by Ariosto, entitled "Rinaldo Ardito " (Orlarkf:' the Bold). Signor Giampieri has, since, published a notice (7! WI manuscript, from which we extract the following de— tails : "The manuscript in question," he says, " bears the title of Rinaldo Ardito.' It was in July last that r discovered this precious manuscript in a village of the Ferrarese; and I was fortunate enough immediately to effect its purchase. The manuscript is incomplete ; but there is every reason to suppose that it is entirely in the handwriting of the illustrious author of the Orlando Futioso;' for it resembles in its most minute particulars the autographs of Ariosto which are preserv( d at Ferrara—and with which I have carefully compared it. It appears that, on the death of Ariosto, in 1533, his relations and friends were wholly ignorant of the existence of the 'Rinaldo Ardito,' for his son,Virginio Ariosto, makes no mention of it in his Memoirs of the Ariosto Family,' published at the time, and in which he gives the most circumstantial details relative to his father's works. It was only so long after as 1551, that a Florentine biographer, Antonio Francesca Dona, in a sort of catalogue, entitled Liberia, mentioned it in these terms:—' Lodovico Ariosto, Rinaldo Ardito, dodici canti.' But shortly afterwards Giovan Batista Pigria and Girolame Garolfo, historiographers to Al phonso 11., and two distinguished literary men, Muzzuchelli and Barotti, denied the existence of the Rinaldo Ardito,' and accused Dona of havilag wantonly invented the title. Girolamo Baruffaldi, in his Biography of Ariosto,' published about the middle of the last century, cites the work in question, and says that he has himself seen a manuscript which contains 244 stanzas —some of which he transcribes. There is every reason to suppose that the manuscript which Baruffaldi mentions is the very one now in my possession, for the number of stanzas is the same, and those quoted by him are word for word in my copy. The 244 stanzas now found form the third, fourth, and fifth cantos complete, and portions of the second and sixth. The remainder of the poem is want ing. It appears, from the fragments of the sixth canto, in which the author speaks of the battle of Pavia and the capture of Fr anc i s th e Fi rs t, th a t th e Rinaldo Ardito was composed by Ariosto in 1525, nine years after the publication of the earliest edition of the Or lando Furioso,' and eight years before the author's death in 1533. The manuscript in my possession has been written very rapidly, and is full of erasures and correc tions in every stanza, which made its reading very diffi cult. But I have succeeded in perfectly deciphering it, and have made a copy, which will be immediately sub mitt( d to publication. '—Ather.ceurn. MORTALITY IN THE 87TH FUSILIERS.—We have been much concerned to observe the unusual number of deaths which have lately taken place in the garrison of this city. The gallant 87th have been the chief sufferers. Since their arrival here fever and pulmonary complaints, we understand, have carricd off about 14 or 15 of them. Indeed, for the last two months, few days have paised without the solemn and affteting spectacle of a soldier's funeral. It is truly melancholy to see so many of these gallant fellows droppi ng , "i n lif e ' s morn i ng march,'' into the silent grave. A finer or a Letter behaved body of men we have not bait in this city for many a day.— Aber*en Journal. THE SOUTIIAMPTON ANTI-CORN-LAW MEMORIAL. —The may-or has received the following reply to the memorial forwarded bt his wor,hip, as agreed to at a pubiic meeting of the inhabitants two or three weeks • " Whitehall, January 5, 1846. " Sir.—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to inform you that he has not failed to lay before the Queen the address of the inhabitants of Southampton, praying for the immediate opening of the ports for the admission of foreign grain and provisions, and for the early repeal of the corn and provision laws.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, "GEORGE PHILLIPS." —Hampshire Independent. SINGULAR ROBBERY.—At the Essex Quarter Ses sions, George Firmin, aged twenty, labourer, was charged with stealin g he sum of 95., a tobacco pouch, and half an ounce of tobacco, the property of John Warner, at Great Horkesley. The principal witness in the case was Eliza Bacon, a good-poking young woman, who it appeared, was, on the evening of the 20th of December, in company with the prosecutor, at Bruce's beer-shop, in Great Horkesley. The prisoner was also amongst the company, and having aroused the jealous ire of the prosecutor by paying what he considered undue and unsolicited attention to the damsel, he proceeded to avenge it on the person of his rival ; a fight took place until the parties were placed hors de c&mbot by the pro secutor being dragged away and locked in the cellar for such time as to enable his irritation to subside. Miss Bacon, about whom the disturbance originated, was for a similar period safely deposited in the brewhouse. Eddenee was given that the tobacco-pouch, which con tained the money, was seen in the prisoner's possession, and he had been heard to say the tobacco would do for him to smoke on the following day. Mr. Marsh, for the prisoner, contended that there was no felonious in tention, and that as the transaction had arisen out of a " squabble " as to which of the parties had the greatest claim upon the young woman's attentions, in all probability he took the tobacco and tore the coat in a spirit of revenge, and with no intention to appropriate the money to his own use. The jury appeared to fall in with this view of the case, and returned a verdict of Not guilty. WEST - RIDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LEAGUE FUND. At the West Riding dinner to be held in Leeds on Wednesday next, we hope there will be the announce ments of most liberal contributions to the Great League Fund of 250,0001. The crisis of the free-trade cause, and the noble example of the sister county, Lancashire, both demand a spirited effort. Messrs. Cobden and Bright, who have devoted not only money, but their strength, heart, soul, and whole time to this cause for years, will expect to hear of worthy doings in Yorkshire. Each town, of the West Riding challenges the other, and we expect from their generous competition a splendid result. The Leeds subscription at present promises well. It is headed by the munificent firm of Messrs. Marshall, with 1,0001., followed by others not less munificent, to the means. At this time the subscription exceeds 5,0001., and we hear that a much larger amount is to be attained. The Hud dersfield subscription up to Thursday had reached 2,7001. The Bradfcrd subscription exceeded 2,0001. on Wednes day. Each of these spirited towns is likely to attain is far higher figure before Wednesday next. The people of Halifax, Sin ffield, Wakefield, Barnsley, Dewsbury, Keighley, Cleckheuton, Heckmoudwike, Hebdenbridge, &c., &c., may be expected to subscribe with correspond ing liuerality, in proportion to their wealth and num bers. Let every ton n and every man now act and give under the conviction that this is likely to be the crown- . ing and decisive E ffort, I'HE LATE MEETING AT CHICHESTER.—A cor respondent in the neighbourhood of Chichester writes as follows Your observations on the meeting at the . Corn Exchange at Chichester, on the 31st tilt., are true enough : it is useless to give the details of such meet ings upon a subject on which the monopolists have been refuted again and again, and where the labourers were brought by their masters. But you ought to have stated that an order was given for each man to be paid Is., in adtii Lion to his day's wages, and that a person was planted at St. Pancras toll bar to give the shilling ticket to every labourer who had signed the petition—the question being first put ; and that the ticket had to be spent either—.ust at the Swan ; at a public-house —I forget wte th e sign j e a 's, at Halnaker along side through the Goodwoodtol ] toll-bar 0 : u atse ;or n Wood's, —all houses of the Du ke."—Bri g hton Herald. F ATAL ACCIDENT. —On Wednesday last a' man tcaotbdnrbeac named Themes Fletcher, living at Brockworth, went to the Victoria Anna, on ti e road between Whitcombe and Gloucester, where a pigeon -match was to take place. While produced hemorrhage, which terminated lf one of the party (Mr. Chapman, the landlord of the house) was shooting, his gun burst, and a portion of the barrel 81,i,xasoc'call?ecdk sabumt struck Fletcher on the thigh and perforating the femoral vein, medicalnig t assistancellir . C l utt eprrbouivsceked, o i tn Gloucester, about Cheltenham Free Press. existence RnertulTAIENT IN SWITZERLAND.—According to the ilea:die, M. Gonzales Bravo has been replaced by M. Aylton, in Switzerland, and a rumour is afloat that among its cantons the Narvaez Ministry is anxious to muster 100,000 recruits, with the assistance of which the counter-revolution in Spain may be completed. Lucerne, Friburg, aui Valais, however, are more readily inclined to supply mercenaries to the Sovereign Pontiff, or the King of the Two Sicilies. If these reports be cor rect, the new hidalgo will find his schemes somewhat frustrated, and the continuance of his government over the Peninsula not quite so firmly established as he has hitherto imagined. A GREAT CHANGE AT HAND.—A very signifi cant circumstance occurred on Tuesday, the 6th inst., at a meeting of the Gloucestershire magistrates in the county tov‘n. A proposition having been made for the erection of additional lodgings for the judges, the Hon. Craven Berkeley objected to it on the plea that " the country was on the eve of a very great change with regard to the agricultural interests, and they were bound to defer ex pending such a sum (7,0001.) until they knew what course would be taken." These remarks were backed by the acquiescence of Mr. Berkeley's brother, the Earl Fitzhardirg, who observed that though that court (the grand jury-room) " was not precisely the place for poli tical discussions, they could not shut their eyes to the fact that some great change would take place which would affect the agricultural interests very much in deed." These expressions are, however, only in ac cordance with the language used by one of the principal opponents to the Anti-Corn-law League three days id af terwards, to the effect that a more perfect enig not exist, at the present moment, than the Feel and die futurity of the agricultural interestsouc Ministry, was cave and obscurity, of thethe approaching strug gle, the landlords will be astir, lien are astir —and as suredly not without reason. NEW Sour" 1, ALE • r s rorn a return of all sta tistical !ravers of any importance in connexion with our Australian possessions, we glean the following facts :—The population in 1836 was 77,096, consisting of 49,265 free, and 27,831 bond persons. In 1844 the pqm i at i, n tiqd increased to 175,377, numbering 154,202 free, and 19.175 Loud persons. The revenue of the colony in 1836 was 183,218/ , in 1843 it had amounted to 322,5881. The ntunber ef emigrants who arrived at the public expo rise in 1844 was 4,139, and in 1843 the amount paid by the Government towards they maintenance of convicts was 63,046/. In 1843 the im ports of trade were 1,550,5441. ; in 1844 they diminished to 9 31,2601., whilst the exports in the latter year were 1 ,128,1151. In 1843 there were 145,653 acres in culti vatien, and the live stock in the same year was as fol lows :—Horses, 62,017 ; horned cattle, 1,017,316 ; and sheep, 5,055,337. / j oo " 75, 10,7 001 . 1 01 • 6 , •: 1601 '• 123* • 1610 19 6 '. 141 124 . ,4 • • 111 • 10° I I