The Sun. — London, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. ' (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGIL) The January quarter sessibils for the county of Middlesex were, for the first time, held on Monday at the Guildhall, Westminster, under the provisions of the recent Act Of Parliament. There were but ten cases for trial, nine of which were felonies, and one an assault. The ASSI3TANT-JUDGE, in his charge to the grand jury, said,that they were for the first time called upon to discharge the duty of jarors in that place, but they must understand that it was not for the city of West minster, but for the county of Middlesex, that their services were required. By the recent Act of Parlia ment for the better administration of criminal justice in that county, all the jurisdiction of the Westminster magistrates was gone ; but a clause was inserted which provided that adjourned sessions might be held at West minster. They (the jury) were, therefore, exempt from serving at the Middlesex sessions or anywhere. But in Westminster it was entirely a privilege ; but what had they gained by it ? The effect was this : 72 inhabitants of the city of Westminster would be summoned annually to attend that Court, to relieve eight or nine of their neighbours who might have to come there to prose cute, and the expense of each session would be 801., or 101. for the trial of each prisoner, when the expense should not be more than 11. ss. each. That was the whole secret, and, for his own part, he hoped that such a state of things would not continue , as that they should be taken from their homes, their business, and families for the sake of a few individuals who might be obliged to attend the Court. At one time it was supposed that the whole business would be brought there, and that they should have to try the whole of the Middlesex cases at the Guildhall, Westminster. However, that absurdity was put an end to. He was in great opes that they would have sessions there upon a proper footing, or have none at all ; let an equal portion of business be done at each court, or have them all at one place. Under the present law, the Westminster magistrates had no jurisdiction, they could not even sign a warrant. The prisons were overflowed in Middlesex, while that fine prison, the Westminster Bridewell, was not half full since the Westminster Sessions have been suspended. Frederick Green, 17, pleaded guilty to an indictment, c h a rging him with stealing six pounds weight of mutton and three pounds weight of oheese, the property of Eliza Helen Morgan. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, in passing sentence, said this boy had neither father nor mother, nor any one to look after him or give him instruction. His father had .been dead two years, and since then he had been go i ng about the streets. What was he to do with him ? The state of the law was this—it put a certain definition upon cases of felony ; a child under eight years of age could not be guilty of felony, because he is not at an age to know right from wrong ; but at the age of four teen they were to be tried and punished as felons ; and there was no provision at all for children between the ages of seven and fourteen. There was one instance of a boy eleven years old having been hanged for murder ; but in that case it was shown that he knew he had done wrong as he had hid himself in a wood. The state of things that existed then did not exist now, the state of property was not the same, society and knowledge were not as in the present day—yet the very same definition was put upon those cases, as in those barbarous ages. The effect was, that if a bey were convicted of an offence, he must either be convicted of a felony, and punished ac cordingly-, or receive no punishment whatever under 14. No means were provided by the law for the reformation of juvenile offenders. The county of Middlesex had set an example to all the counties in England, by the esta blishment of schools for children iu the prisons. He considered such a subject should not be optional upon the magistracy, but imperative, and that the State itself should interfere, and see that proper places were pro vided fir the juvenile offenders ,of the country, fur it was perfect nonsense to imagine that children ought to be punished as' grown persons. He. did want to see something done for these poor children. Within the last eighteen months he had seen no fewer than three hundred of these little creatures, between the ages of seven and f urteen, who had been placed at the criminal bar without any . provision whereby they could be saved fr: an destruction ; in fact, the law had provided no place to which they could be sent. A short time since, a child of eight years old, who had bar twice con vieted previously, was breught before him for the third time; he was of course obliged to send him to prison, but he said to the Bend . ) at the time that they were sending him to gaol to harden him. In the present case be should send the prisoner to Westminster Bridewell, where there was a good school, and .where he would have the benefit of mural and feligious instruction during his confleement. The sentence, therefore, was,, that he be imprisoned fur the term of six months, and kept to hard leleour. - ,lanaesFllutt, IG, was found Guilty of stealing seven linon shirts, and othvr articles, the property of John Tayix*. • The ASSISTANT-Junco said that this boy had been only fourteen days out of prison, where he had been serving his term of imprisonment, to which he had been sentenced at the Central Criminal -Court, for uttering base coin. The prisoner was sentenced to seven ye: is' transpor tation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-ROUSE.. METROPOLIS MILK —A man, named John Taylor, was brought before the Lord Nlay , r yesterday, upon the charge of having adulterated the milk in which his employers dealt. - Mr. Pelham, who appeared far the complainants, Messrs. Socket and Raherts, extensive dairymen and dealers.in milk, stated that the subject was one in which the whole community. was interested. The complain. ants employed a great number of men, whom they sent round with milk received from Ilford end parts of Cum berland to a vast number of custorneraabout town. They found that, some of the servants were in the habit of adulterating the, milk, which was deposited for the mei e complete security against fraud, or plunder by servants, in the sealed cans. Anxious that their character as dairymen should not suffsr, and having heard serious complaints of the quality . of the articles in which they dealt, they set persons to watch the movements of the servants of the concern, and the defendant was observed to go to a house in Swan•lane, Tower-hill, and to return with a large additional quantity of what was called milk, .but which deserved the name of chalk and water, or some more mischievous or disguatinf , compound. When the defendant found that he was detected, he capsized the cans into the streets, but a small quantity of the contents was sawed in the bottom, and the Lord Mayor would see that any other designation would be more applicable to the commodity, and that it was no longer matter of mfr .:prise that the trade was falling off.. It was found, also, "that the defendant had received 18s. Bd. from a Mrs. Baker for milk, for which the copplainants had no ac .count whatever. Judging from what had been already ascertained, it was esident the complainants were victims to a serious extent, for ,of forty quarts per diem, the quantity disposed of upon the average by the defendant, he must have made at any rate eighty, thus doubling the -trade, but reducing the' respectable customers, and de .grading the character of the employers. • The complain ants were indifferent as to the course of proceeding his Lordship might suggest in this case, whether it would be prudent to charge the ,defendint under the Malicious Damage Act, or the 4th of Geo. IV., for enlarging the powers of justices of the peace on hearing complaints ibetween masters and servants. The Loan MAYOR asked the complainants whether the defendant had a weekly salary? The reply was, that when the defendant was first en gawed he received a weekly salary, but that afterwards, in order to encourage zeal and activity, the complain ants increased his remuneration according. to the quan tity scald by him. The LORD MAYOR said that such arrangements put an end to the idea of prosecuting under the latter Act alluded to. Mr. Pelham admitted that it was a fatal objection; but thought that, as the pUre.araele was given to the de feadant, aad an adulteration, which had the effect of de, nroying that article, had taken .place, She. case might ecnie under the Act for punishing wilful and malicious daimage. The adulteration was as compete as could . have been effected on any other property; and- the con sequence was the ierious injury to st . ' very excellent trade. • 1 been or may be entered into by certain banking 'aid other copartnerships," and on the back of the Act were the following pieces of information:— " Page 114, Railway list of subscribers, published, 1845, by order of Parliament. " John Rogers, Clerk, Penrose, 4,5001." "Mr. Rogers—BY these two Acts of Parliament, and the memorial to the Secretary of State, you may per ceive the practice of the manager of your company, of admitting clergymen into partnership, is not only unlawful but highly dangerous, leading to the miserable situation of the Union Bank of London, where 700 gen tlemen are in daily risk of being declared outlaws and rebels. Save himself who can. " I advise you to sell out immediately, and to be quit of such unlawful concerns.—Respectfully. " JOSEPH ADY, " A housekeeper 40 years, and known to the Right Hon. Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor; and by all the worthy Aldermen of London, and every banker in the kingdom." LAMBETH. CHARGE OF FORGING BILL AND RECEIPT STAMPS. —John Hancock, a tall, thin, and well-dressed young man, who was described as an actor by profession, was charged with forging a number of bill and receipt stamps, and thereby defrauding the revenue. Henry 011ard, a marine-store dealer, in:Lambeth-walk, and who had been charged on Saturday last at this Court, with three other persons named Watkins, but who was admitted to bail to appear on Friday next, stated (but not upon oath) that on Saturday, after the examina tion, and while passing to the cells, Mrs. Watkins ask e d him what her husband thought of the charge? He re plied that her husband was anxious to know where she got the stamps, upon which she exclaimed, "It's all right, I got them from John Hancock." He, 01lard, feeling himself perfectly innocent of any participation in the charge with which he was mixed up, he had made up his mind to use every exertion to find out the parties really guilty; and, believing the prisoner to be one of those, he had caused him to be taken into custody. Mr. HENRY desired him to state the nature of his sus picion, and 011ard said, that on the evening before he was sent for to go to the house of Watkins, in Oval-place, Ken nington, where a quantityi of the forged stamps had been found, and while there the prisoner came in, and on hearing his name, and believing him to be the per son alluded to by M rs. Watkins on Saturday night, he gave him into custody. William Swan, a shopman to Mr. Watkins, and who, with Mrs. Watkins, lived at the shop in Oval-place, Kennington, deposed that the prisoner was in the habit of coming to the shop of his mistress very frequently— as often as three and four times a week. and was in the habit of going up stairs with his mistress. He also heard his young mistress, when they spoke angrily to gether, ask her mother where she got the stamps ; and she replied, why from John Hancock. Witness was also in the habit of making up parcels of groceries for the prisoner, and when he did so and entered them in the book, his mistress always told him to write paid to the bottom, though he had never seen any money pass. Police-constable 137 L deposed that about a quarter past nine o'clock on Sunday night the prisoner was given into his custody by Mr. 011ard on a charge of forging stamps. The prisoner denied the charge, and said he had been in the habit of calling frequently at Mrs. Watkins's with orders for the theatre, and that he knew nothing whatever about forged stamps. The pri soner further said he was an actor by profession, and had been engaged at Drury-lane and the Adelphi. After locking- him up he (the constable) searched his lodging, and, with a number of papers which appeared to be parts of different plays, he found the two stamps he then produced. Mr. HENRY carefully examined the stamps, upon one O f which a receipt for a large amount was written, and the other blank. The stamp on the latter was very much worn and pressed, which might materially lead to the inference that it had been used for some purpose, and the other part seemed perfectly clean. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he had al ways obtained his living as an actor at the different theatres, and was at present employed at the Adelphi.as a " figurant." fie had, he said, known the Watkins's for many years, and ft ad been in the habit of calling on them with orders for the theatre. Having read in a Sun day piper of their having been charged at this Court on the day before, he had merely called to make some in quiries about it. In reply to a question from Mr. Henry as to what ac count he wished to give of his possession of the two stamps produced, The prisoner said he had picked them up four or five, or it might be six months ago. Mr. 011ard here said that there was one circumstance which he had omitted to mention, and that was, that at the house of Mrs. Watkins he saw ayoung woman who he believed to be the sister of the prisoner, though he did not seem to recognise her, and while the policeman was searching his lodging, this sister made her appearance in his room. Mr. HENRY thought this was quite enough to detain the prisimer until Friday next, the day upon which the others will be brought up, and remanded him accordingly. THAMES. , ; ditEAT BERXAMPSTEAD, HER _ TS In accordance with the public announcement a meet- I ing was held in this town on Friday last, in the Odd Fellows Lodge-room, Chaffcut• ers Inn, much to the chagrin of the protectionists of this neighbourhood, who, but a few days before, elated with the success of Mr. Halsey, the monopolist candidate, said the League or its agents never dared to venture into the town. The chair was taken by Mr. Cranston, of Hemel Hemp stead, at seven o'clock. The room was well filled at the commencement, and before the meeting was over several were unable to gain admittance. The Chairman opened the business of the evening, by referring to the question at issue at the present time, and, in conclusion, intro duced Mr. Falvey to the meeting. Mr. FALVEY then rose and addressed the meeting at a considerable length, commencing with the history of the corn-law of 1773, which he termed the most liberal corn-law, allowing corn to come in at a regis tration-duty of 6s. per quarter, when the price reached 48s. per quarter. He then showed to the meeting, that protection to the farmer was not that sort of protection which he was in the habit of thinking it was, inasmuch as the farmer was a consumer as well as a producer —the arable farmer consuming the produce of the dairy farmer—he pays more for the same butter by 20s. per cwt., cheese, 10s. per cwt., and the consumer of hops paying 4/. 10s. more for the same ale, at the expense of the other, for the maintenance of the corn-laws, taking out of one pocket to put into another—in short, robbing Paul to pay Peter. He then showed that there were three conditions necessary to make the farmer prosper ous, namely, regularity of price, security of tenure, and capital to employ on the land. No man doubted but that a change was coming, but, unless it was a complete settlement of the question, the League was solemnly pledged not to rest while a ray of the corn-laws remained.—(lmmense cheers.) Their opponents had now changed their ground, and they cried out for protection to native industry. He would ask were not cotton, cloth, woollen goods, silks, watches, and porcelain as much the produce of native industry as wheat and beef ? Mr. Cobden had ten acres of ground at Chorley, where he paid in wages 30,0001. a year for labour employed there, and taking an average of every man, woman, and child, he paid 139. per week ; some as high as 305., and some skilled hands 40s. or 50s. When the produce of their labour was ac complished, had he not a right to send and sell the same in the world's wide market. After alluding to the va rious agricultural dinners that have been held, of late, he said the working men have been studying 'economy while the Dukes have been idle, and as an instance he referred to the Goatacre meeting, where he pointed out the knowledge of the working men in the agricultural districts. After alluding to the assertions of Sir Minto Farquhar, at Hertford, where he said land in Poland was let at ss. an acre, and the wages are 3s. 1111—(how nice a calcula tion !)—(cheers)---he showed that a man might get many acres for a week's work, and in England a labourer was compelled to give 8/. an acre for his potato ground. He said labour alone is what mlkes land valu able, and if it is not, why plenty of land might be got, even 140 acres in the Oregon, for settling there. He then made a comparison between the Duke of Richmond, as Prime Minister, and Punch, and of the two he pre ferred the latter. He concluded by saying, if Sir Robert Peel would bring forward a total and immediate repeal, let him be backed in it; but they must depend on them selves, and their just rights cannot long be withheld from them. Mr. BOUTEM then rose, and drew a severe contrast between the meeting of that evening and the one held on . the early part of the week at Royston, when the protectionists .passed itesoluti(an after dinner that they would not use the hoese which was kept by two orphan . girls, if they let the League have-the use of the room which they had engaged, thus depriving them of the benefit of letting the room when they might do:so to their advantage, and urged strongly on the meeting the necessity of attending to the registration. The CHAIRMAN then rose: and asked if any one had any questions to ask, or any thing to advaace for or against what the lecturer had said, and invited diseu4sion,! but to no purpose. Mr. J. SEWELT, moved,.and Mr. - A. EVANS seconded, the follbwing resolution : " That this Meeting highly approves of the efforti of the Anti-Cern law League. to increase the constituency of thls county, and pledges itselt to assist, with all• their power,'in carrying into 'effect so important an ohje9t." A vote of thanks was given to the Chairrpan, and three cheers for the League, and the meeting quietly separated. REVIEW OF THE WOOL TRADE. (From Messrs. Jacomb's Annnal Circular.) In the first ten months of 1845, more wool was sold at .good prices than in any previous similar puke!. The :trade was sound; moat of the manufacturers well employed to order with light stocks of all kinds ; consequently the sales opened in February at a very considerable advance on the prices of the 'previous autumn and whiter, which state of things continued down to the eud of October; since which time a gloom, heavier than - usual at thiS season; has hung over the trade, occasioned by the temporary scarcity of money, political and other causes. There are, however, signs of improvement ; and as money is becoming more plentiful, we confidently hope that early in the year we shall see a re turn of healthy and good business. Manufacturers continue tolerably well employed. The state of trade at Bradford, however, still continues unsatisfactory. The stock of colonial wool in importers' hands is so light (say 8,000 bales), and so small an accession can take place before the arrival of the new clip in April and May next that we cannot think any serious reaction in prices cati:oc,mr at,the approaching sales, which will most probably be in February. The import of colonial wool is now in weight 'decidedly in advance of that from Germany, nod will continue to increase. The wools from New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, and the Cape, have arrived, in 184 r,, in better condition, and of more healthy growth than in former years. Their consumption is gradually spreading throughout the west of England, and in Scotland; and they will doubtless, ere long, be used there to ai great a comparative extent as they have been in York shire for many years. To continue them in the estimation of the manufacturers, however, will require the constant care and attention of the growers, as they will assuredly have to meet a strong competition from the .Russian wools for cloth ing, and from the United Statesfor combing purposes. The increase of Cape wool this year is full 55 per cent. over last year; the quality continues to improvc, but much still re mains to be done in the proper assortment of the fleeces before pocking. Even by an unpractised eye ' • a selection of the coarse from the fine is easily made. The latter remark applies also to those from the United States. The trade in German wool has been rather unsatisfactory throughout the year. In most cases the high prices paid at the fairs have not been realised here. The stock, compared to the demand, is considerable, more particularly of wools from 2s. Gd. upwards. Lower qualities have been much dearer in comparison ; and it must be borne in mind that the scarcity of low-priced German wools (from the increasing consumption of their own mannfactures) has been a principal cause of firmness to the prices of colonial wool. Russian merino has beeri imported to a considerable extent, and, would have been to a much larger but for the demand direct from France, Belgium, and the United States. At present • little is doing; but prices are steady. Of Spanish, the import has been a mere bagatelle, having rapidly declined from the position it once held of first on the list, being superseded for .most purposes by colonial. East In?ia continues in fair de mand at good prices, with small stocks.—Alpaci is in little request, and to effect sales at present, low rates must be sub mitted to. Of IoW wools generally there are considerable stocks, with little business doing. The English wool market is steady, and price&firm. A MUTINOUS SEAMAN'S CLAIM FOR WAGES.—Mr. ChwLs l'll‘ Curley, the master of the ship Success, from Calcutta, appeared before Mr. Broderip.to answer the claim of Thomas Brown, a seaman, who sued for a balance of 111., fur his services on a voyage from London to Calcutta and St. Helena. Mr. Wells, sllicitor for the seaman, stated that the ship's articles were signed on the 6th of August, 1844, and wages were claimed at the rate of U. 15s. per month for services up to the 23J of June, 1945, when the agree ment Was terminated by the conviction of the seaman fur an assault upon the captain at the island of St. Helena. The question which he now intended to raise was this, whether the man was not entitled to his wages up to the period of his commitment. He contended that, as the master had taken his remedy, and the seaman had suf- fired the penalty of the law, it would be unjust to de prive him of his wages for the services he actually per termed. It had been held by Dr. Lushington, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, in the case of the Blake, that a single instance of 'misconduct would not deprive a sea man of his wages. Mr. M'Curley said he was part owner of the ship, and he was directed by the managing owner not to pay the seaman any wages. There was, in fact, only 275. due, if the magistrate should order payment of wages. He felt bound to resist the demand, because the seaman! bad been guilty of a gross act of mutiny, and had caused the ship to be detained at St. Helena for two days. He con sulted the authorities there, who advised him to convey the seaman to Demerara, where there was a Vice-Ad miralty Court to take cognisance of the serious offence he had committed. The seaman was again brought on board, and while the ship was at anchor struck him a violent blow in the face and knocked him down, and then vauntingly said, " Now I've done something you can put me in prison for here." The complainant was again on shore taken before the magistrate, who fined him 51. for the assault, and, as he was unable to pay the fine, committed him to prison for two months. Mr. Wells said, if it was a mere question of a few shillings, it would not be worth while to go into it. If the magistrate would permit him he would retire with the captain, look over the log-book, and come to some arrangement satisfactory to both parties. Mr. BRODERIP said that the point raised was a most important one, and he should have given it his serious consideration if the case had been proceeded with ; but if the captaie had stated that which was correct, he did not see hoW the man could come into Court and demand any wages at all. The solicitor and master of the Success were absent for a few minutes, and upon their return Mr. Wells said he had ascertained from the log the accuracy of the master's statement. The complainant had certainly been guilty of very bad conduct, and had deceived him as to the. real merits of the case, which ho should no pursue any further. - The summons was then dismissed. EXTENSIVE. FORGERIES IN HULL. The serious case ef forgery which lately transpired in Hull has undergone a rigid investigation, which has termi nated in, the committal for trial of two brothers, Benjamin and Edwin Adamson, the former landlord of the Durham Ox, in that town, and the latter a junior clerk in the service of Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson, and Co., steam-packet pro prietors; and also of Hugh Doran, another Junior clerk in the same employ. Edward Adamson is charged with forg ing the body of twenty cheques, upon Messrs Pease and Liddell's bank, from the 11th of May, 1844, to December 19th, 1845, for sums ranging from 30/. to 360/., and of the united value of 2,379/. 155,--and of course average upwards of 110/. each. The whole of the cheques have been cashed, and charged to Messrs. Brownlow, Pearson. and Co., who are sufferers to that amount. Renjamin Adamson is charged with forging the indorsements upon the first forged cheque (for 301.) and two others. Doran is charged with forging the indorsement upon a cheque dated Nov. 12, 1845, for 125/. The police are in search of Thomas Adamson, landlord of the Marfleet New Inn, brother of the above, suspected of being largely concerned in these transactions, and who took flight'on the apprehension of his younger brother. The pri soner Edwin Adamson acknowledges his guilt, and implicates his brother Thomas and Doran as his only accomplices. Benjamin Adamson has been admitted to bail in 800/. ; the bail proposed for Doran. (viz., his- father, who is a publican in Blackfriargate, and another publican in the same street) have been rejected. The magistrates positively refuse bail for Edwin. The proceedings before the magistrates disclose to what a fearful extent allotments of shares in projected railways have been made to ,junior clerks, and make it certain that they have had transactions in the purchase of scrip_ also to an exorbitant amount for their station. The youth Doran appears to have set his father np in the public-house busi ness, and appears to have been dealing very extensively in scrip, although his salary was only 12s. a-week.— Yorkshire Gazette. IRELAND. THE LAW APPOINTMENTS. Duaraar, JAN . . 16.—Mr. Richard Wilsoir Greene has r ceived the appointment of Attorney-General in succession to Mr. Smith, the new Master of the Rolls. This announce ment is made apon " authority," and thus far it has been all fair sailing before the wind; no party disputing the claims The LORD'MAYOR (having consulted With Mr. Good- of 'the gentrenien who' have been selected for promotion by man) said he regretted much that he, could not interfere her 'Majesty's Government: ' - ' to punish so very palpable an act of • delinquency. No. ' Mr. Smith , t h e ex-Attorne y -General ; left town suddenl y doubt whatever ex i s t e d as to the gross adulteratiOn of last night for London; and his abrupt departure gave rise to the milk. That th e , d e f en da nt h a d adulterated it for his a variety of rumours . ; ' amongs others, that the Right Hon. Gentleman has been requested by the Premier to assume for own profit, and that th e a d u l terat i on was calculated to the present his old office, and thus relieve the Minister from prejudice the trade, wa s lik ew i se obvious but, unf rt ' newly, the defendant, who h a d , w i t h the arrange9meitil; his fresh" difficulty, viz., the absence of a law officer to conduct the 'lrish business in' the House of Commons. The „made with him after he had ceased to receive pay as a Tfivening ,Mail, however, thus dispesea of' this rumour:— ~ eekly servant, become . a sort of . p ar t ner, . an d thus ---.,, The Rfght Hon. Gentleman's visit to London is solely es o, aped the punishment he so well merited. . with a view ao arrange matters connected with several Bills T...he defendant, who did not utter a word, was then to be subniitted to. Parliament at an early day; and the mo dischla rged, but not without receiving a sharp reproof went these matters are settled he will retu rn t o thi s coun t ry from V 1 ,3 Lord Mayor.. , , , , , . and take his seat' as Master of the Rolls. The patent for An apr'licatiou was made to the- Lord , Mayor for his holding that office is an English patent, and passes under the Great Seal of' England. Pieviously loMr. Smith's depart ure , valuable montane° on behalf of the .widow and family of * gentleman who Im4 held for. many years the important he returned the briefs lie .held in the Courts here, as well as for in an appeal case in ths House of Lords, Which stands MILITIA BALLOT.—On ThurSday evening a large public office •of Chief Clerk . at Qacenssquare Police- unesaay„ arguinent, and in which 'he waS pne . of the leading .L. meeting was held at Mr. J. J. H ' Dolphin court, bat whose death; after s fewliours' illness, had Homer's, s, Tavern, Hackney, to form a Militia S u b s tit u t e Society. - Mr. C. left his widow and eight children ; the eldest of whom , Hackney, OF PARLIABIE,NT. 1 Green presided, and addressed the meeting on the necessity Was under fourteen years of age, in a state l as it of poverty. The :Evening .31 m h • that - , t up to this period the usual o f p rov iding, by mutual a ss i s t ance , a ga i nst the unenv i a b le ' ''The LORD MAYOR replied; that he was well acquain:ed . summonsMinisterial' has not beei issued to the supporters of h 'our of acquiring fame in the militia service. He was a with the deeeased,-'• VP t gentlemen, who was cer ain 3 , ,s mos Ministers in the II ottse of Commons. The leader a the House °L subject, but his love for her • Majesty would not tempt loyal ... estimablo public servant, and it would giire Jahn ' the of Lords, heyaever, has shown more activity, as witness the leave home for military glories. He felt great highest follovving " ciacular" addressed to Memb ' fthe him to gratification -to • • trill titans for tho metre con a ers o House of enrolling himielf a member of the society; under widow and he 1 • the i:'. l mman er-in-Chief t — • of Mr. Homer, whose character guaranteed his r large faintly, Ills Lordship suggested , the auspica.‘ also that• *h. a Strathfielda aye, Dec.-31. a Mr. Homer was a lover of peace,. and -, e friends of the family should endeavour t -e "My Lord,a-As it appears that Parliament respectability obtain admission for . ' ment is to assemble :hat the exertions of the press, aided,by the seine of the children into' one- or for the dispatch of business on Thursday, earnestly hoped a• other of the. valuable y , the 22d of e Peace Society, would, be successful in January, institutions • ' • with which the ine- I tainture to suggest 'to you the expediencylaudable effortsof t:.' tropolis aboura2ed, ald tl of your Lord-. f• threatened war. No reflective :poll with the aid of tam . _. 'ought it not improbable, that, ' strip's attendance. • averting the g horrors o \ t eyes to the' f e 1 c t tat •our public pres 3 such , an object might be ' "It cannet he doubted that business of a titian, however, could s, e his , . accomplished. •• importance as i ca was it may to be disturbed ' ; well as the state df the country, have rendered neces ' friendly relation with Arne." 'The following commun.ication 1 '' sary the • • 4 contemplated the airmation pe l t : L e relative to . Mr. Ad y, asseinbliag of P'arlitliment at so early a period, and that it is in which case, the Governmet....- f huslrind , , brothers, who never fails to snart at ;ai r of militia troops. To rers.oir .t ' Was form ed i e l s dli s e a Lauria, to , a pa ose desirable that the House of Lords should be tally attended. activity and perseveraucts sto was ' rodelat e a f • , or his.pe oses " I have the hondur to be, my Lord, .your Lordship's most and lovers in fatherland, their •• Ilif s i r e s Y n a basis that . would cution sad conviction rut the Caentral • , " WELLINGTON." was sure that its rules were foucta . c Criminal c faithful humble servant, ourt, en read from eaused'Soine amusement : :, STATE OF THE COUNTRY. ensure general approbation. •the . .rtuals were then ointment he appoi t ofd the chair, and agreed to; and ::iter / a .Penro se, near }Liston. 'The authoritieSareaMstirring themselves. The 67th Re • 1-- a ;; ; N•ge number of in t.'" Ada' !raving MY Lord AfaYor,--A . a iduallers of Hackney his usual civculars. I was induced, by the circumstance order this afternoon to hold thems'elves in instant readiness habitants, comprising many license and its vicinity, were enrollee:. A vote of thank: was given /hat any father' had - lase sueis in diiYarent st-oeks in the NtiehemaSch for Mohill and the disturbed parts of Leitrim, to the chairman, and the meetiog separated. Bank of England, to ran ;1. 111:11 a pi)it-t,t116 Ord, for t r t 4 the z a t N ti r e military force is at present Wholly inadequate for y duties in' ao- - . Iti • ' . 1 - MYSTERIOUS —Susrictous CASE.— OCCIIIIRTBC.3- , . I- , ~ The accompanying letter is the en.f lace. _hall , , a I ia. .of the peasantry. • 'l l l ..aa . upon it ba the awless movements On Wednestiay evening, or aariy on Thursday morning, a ceived, it is true that I tun a substeaber isa, a. railway to-inorroi: in •-•'' o.ning le mat division con - melees its march intu•der is supposed to have peen ciammitted, in a bash be- Twci Coy -. yap Whiah My pao,perty is much connected, . 1 a): 1 I am one , _,.., e 7 err -anent proclamations were • •? i • . i longing to Mr. Charlesworth at lasagnos. On same of the Issue- this even'n s . also on the pro-visional tannmittee ; but Ido not' ►vant to °tr ring a reward of C,O/ for the di. covert/ of 1 -9 ' - •• ' 1.5.1 • d r•in r they dis tu, parties sere ants going into the barn on lnas ay 1 min a• .. •tit nrid ° attacked the hott e sof I ' g -round, saturated with blood. be infurMed by Mr. Ady of the. proynions of the I • the county of Limeriak • ohn tanniors, a bunmovlan i covered a fen *Vs cap upon the 2d Vie. o. 106, with which lam already: well acqtWn'ted ; wounding Connors, ancl9se°Nli the 1 , 6 „1 /1 i nstant, firi ng at and The cap was trimmed with 1 ,1,,,k -. ribbon,• and appeared to and I, therefore, as I have told hail, consider him Qs refers to the eecentattack ere '' on the police b bestirs his son ; the second Y a band be one that had belonged to a res not hear that there w.ere any indielt 'useable person. We do ioas of ft Struggle having a 12 men, having • obtained my soitereiesn by• false pretences. a who tired at ithd wound Ni tWO 1.0. ice-••onstabl,a--100/. reward ; taken place in the barn, but there. rW•tfe Considerable plan " Vol- the sake fho • '' ff f h . • impositions, ( .the third also offers NU for the - take _ . o a ae woo su t's rom• ,s e apprehensio n of near to the d., twrty of 11 'men for an attack on the houses of G an armed • tities of s ec' on different parts of the door, and the,liNerty of sending ship. 1 1 ng this' letter to your Lord- Izio.hard Scott,•of Toureen, in the county of Limerick,eorge and cal" an ,opera razor was found likel alBe deeply stained with have the .honour to be, •my Lord Mayor, your . f lire and 1 1 . 0 (4 A long track of blood was traced for a considerable must obedient rolyberyo-arms. , , ,lataiace On the odd which lead a a nt servant • ' . , ro the barn. Diligent. search has been nude by the s r th 'nhabitants of In the letter w "J. ROGERS." A retiring pension of 2,500/. a year reverts to the the district, svith - ' Paaec and --f),) a , . eistaneeess. Wbat readers the affair most An Act to mal- as enelased a litho'graphed 'copy of h ' ay the deat of the Right Hon. Arthur Moore, ex- mysterious is, the filet thak n . f • ' e)nalt. or otheiTetiM,l la the ' ( 4° 0 t, 1 cert ;Crown' neighbourhood is m' • -.° a.n coati which have . 'Vim j u dge, . men Meas.—Limerick Paper. isma . .- , -Aiwkifieeo L7lO °nick 1 - • w tq di 4 ~'lhl ► n NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. - - Poirrsmourn, JAN. 18.—Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., Commander-in. Chief at this port, gave another entertain ment at the Admiralty-house on Friday evening, which, being the last of the series, was upon a scale of princely hos • pitality and splendour never before equalled in this establish ment. The Flag-Captain (Sir Richard Grant) and nearly all the naval, military, and civil officers at the port were present, together with the nobility and gentry of the county, with their families. These magnificent entertainments, given at the Admiral's expense, have been conducted upon a sca le of liberal and impartial hospitality highly to the honour of the gallant chief. All have been invited, from the Admiral- Superintendent and General commanding the garrison forces, down to the naval cadet and military ensign; from the bishop to the curate, the legal and medical body; in short, none have been passed over who were eligible as guests of the Commander-in-Chief of the first naval arsenal in the world. The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier, C. 8., is to have her mid ship-magazine moud im f l u lro rth ve er m f e o n rw tst rd m , a n d e e r b b o el w ow a , nd to s o te n rn u p in o e st . miler to those in the . Queen. r a o ft u e s r e t o d , d a e n t d a l o — th s e i r The fatal accident on board this ship arose out of the mu tinous conduct of a party of marines left in charge of the ship after the crew had been transferred to the Victorieuse hulk, pending the repairs. A sergeant's guard (a ser geant, corporal, and eighteen privates) was left on board to keep watch during the night, but it appears, instead of performing :faithfully that important duty, they broke open one of the store-lockers, and regaled themselves with wine and spirits until they became intoxicated. About ten o'clock on Thursday night the policeman on duty challenged the ship, 'kr party left in charge, accord ing to the rules of the dockyard, when a corporal (one of the party left in charge of the ship) appeared at the port at which the brow or gangboard was placed to answer the challenge, and he missed his footing, fell into the dock, and struck one of the shores as -he fell, fracturing his skull and ribs in a dreadful manner. The party were immediately "relieved" on board the Rodney, and placed under arrest, where they remain pending a court of inquiry. We have since been informed that the " relief" also of drunk. No commissioned officer was left on board the sMp, or such dis graceful conduct could not have happened. The Scourge steam bomb vessel, Commander Caffin, is having the old mortar beds of the Atna fitted to her, and another wooden bed made at Woolwich. She will leave the basin on Tuesday or Wednesday. The 23d instant is the day named for her going to sea; prior to which, however, we are informed the sea Lords of the Admiralty will take a short trip to the back of the Isle of Wight, in her, to witness the firing from the mortar and long 56, and the respective effects upon the vessel. We are also told by those most likely to know, that the complement (145, officers and men) given to this vessel will be very inadequate to her requirements, She is to be fitted with an electro-galvanic apparatus for transmitting communications from her paddle boxes, or bridge connecting them, into the engine-room, whereby in any kind of weather, day or night, the proper directions may be given to the engineers for their guidance, instead of the mode at present adopted of shouting down below "Goon," "Ease her," " Back her," " Stop her," &c. The ap paratus being portable, may be moved to any part of the vessel, and is therefore not confined to the use of the officer on the bridge or paddle-boxes ; the steersman may have it, or the " look- ont" forward. A trial of the efficacy of this admi rable invention was made on Friday, in the lecture-room Of the New College in the dockyard by the inventor (Mr. W. J. Hay, chymical referee of the establishment), in the presence of Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart. ; Captain Sir R. Grant ; Captain Chads, of the Excellent ; Mr. J. Fincham, master shipwright ; Commander Caffin, of the Scourge ; Com mander Otter, of the Sparrow ; Mr. Watts, assistant-mas ter-shipwright, and other distinguished and scientific officers, when the application was found to succeed most admirably. The extreme simplicity of the invention astonished every one present, and no ene more so than the Gallant Port-Ad miral, who expressed his gratification in warm terms to the scientific officer, the originator of the application. The ex pense of fitting the apparatus is a mere trifle (about 31.) and only one passage is required for the wire. Yesterday another distinguished party of scientific officers visited the lecture room, and witnessed the interesting experiment, which was pronounced by all to be eminently successful, and far superior to every other mode of communication with the engine-room now iii use on board steam-vessels. The Grampus, 50, Captain H. 8.-Martin, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon from Woolwich. She s4luted the Port Admiral with 17 guns just inside the Nab, which was acknowledged by the St. Vincent. This splendid fri gate came up in beautiful style. She hove in sight ender topsails, courses, top-gallant sails and royals, jib, flying jib, and spanker ; wind very light from E S.E., tacked en to the westward of .the Spit Buoy (the wind having shifted to lie opposite quarter, west-north-west), and stood over to wards Sea View, again tacked, in top-gallant sails, up courses, and ran down to her anchorage, just ahead of the Superb, under her three topsails and jib. She shortened sail in a very smart style, and appeared to be worked, in a very easy and seamanlike manner, which is saying much, considering she is shorthanded, is a heavy frigate, and com parative] v new in all her equipments. When she has completed her complement, she will receive advance here, and sail for the Pacific station to join the squadron under Rear-Admiral Sir George Seymour oa the coast of California, touching at Baenos Ayres. Commander Watkins takes passage in her to join the Modes!e, 18, one of the Pacific squadron, to the com mand of which vessel he has just been appointed, vice Baillie, promoted to the rank of captain. The Fairy Royal yacht tender, Master Commander Roberts, went out again yesterday on a short excursion. The Athol troop-ship, Master Commander Foam, put in at Madeira on the 25th of December,'smallpox having broken out on board. - The Apollo troop-ship, Commander Radcliffe, arrived a Rio on the 17th of November. The-Rhadamantbus steam-sloop, Master Commander Laen, is about to leave Cork fur Corfu, to bring home about 300 invalids. The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes, flag of Rear-Admiral Pigot, the Crocodile, 26, Captain Maxwell, and the Dee steam-vessel, Master-Commander Driver, were -in tht Cove of Cork on the 14th inst. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenants—F. A. Ellis (1836), A. Grant (1836), the Hon. M. KAT (1837), T. G. Drake (1841), C. E. Rbwley (1843), W. Crooke (1823), A. Miles (1827), C. A. Wood (1841), and A. P. Ryder (1841), to the rank of commander. Mates—C. Douglas (1838). C. Baskerville (1838), W. H. Conolly (1838), C. Atkins (1840), A. Luckraft (1841),IE. G. Hore (1842), G. I. Lock (1842), VT. T. F. Jackson (1842), V. G. Hickley (1842), F. Mavnell (1842), C. B. Hore (1843), the Hon. F. A. C. Foley (1843), and G. C. Ca m pb e ll (1843), to the rank of lieutenant. - Assistant-surgeon—T. ,Somerville (1837) to the rank of surgeon. APPOINTMENTS. Captain—W. Broughton, to the Curacoa, vice Sir Thomas Pasley, sent home with dispatches. Commanders—W. IL Hall, to the Electra; T. B. Brown, to the Snake. _ Lieutenants—E. Burstall, to the Porcupine; . J. R. R. Field, to the Penelope; W. A. Hood, to the President ; A. Wilm=hurst and T. D. Sullivan, to the Excellent; W. H. Conolly (additional), to the President ; C. Atkins (addi tional), to the Hibernia; A. Luckraft (additional), to the Collingwood ; E. G. Hore (additional), to the Vindictive; W. T. F. Jackson (additional), to the Hibernia; V. G. Hick ley (additional), to the Vindictive; G. C. Campbell (addi tional), to the President; H. G. Morris, to be Flag to Ad miral Sir Charles Ogle ,• A. Fletcher, to the Resistance; A. R. B. Carter, to the Snake; and A. D. Gordon, to the Electra.. Masters—P. Chown, to the Snake; W. E. Hyne, to the Electra. Surgeon—T. Somerville, to the Cleopatra. Paymasters and Pursers—W. F. Maturin (acting), to the • Snake ; C. S. Giles (acting), to the Electra; S:4l. L. Giles, (acting), to the Scout. • ,• Midshipmen—T. D. Williams, H. W. Corneck, and rA. L, M. Montezuma (additional), to the Carysfort. Naval Cadets—R. Kennett, to the Rodney; the Hoh. A. Drummond, the Hon. A. Hay, C. D. Moultrie, G. D. lYavid son, and A. C. F. Heneage, to the Carysfort ; R. Wynniett, to the Rodney , . Clerks—J. Woodruff, to tilt Bittern; T. Ley, to the scout. COAST GUARD. Removals—Lieutenant E. J. Voules, from Rickhurst Pag• tam station, vice Slaughter, resigned. THE COUNTY MAGISTRACY. Among the provincial complaints of magistrates, by their not duly attending to their duties, inconveniencing the public, Nottinghamshire is not in the arrear of some ,other counties. The following, from a Nottingham pjaper of last week, shows a " second edition" of neglect in that county. Country justices are fast paving the way for stipendiary magistrates in the provinces. The Nottingham papers Says ; —" From a communication which has reached us this week, we learn that from the latter part of last July, till the be ginning of September, the inhabitants of the Retford district were much annoyed and inconvenienced by the irregular at tendance of magiarates. Week after week passed, and little or no business was got through, owing to the absence of these gentlemen from the sphere whose duties they had undertaken to fulfil, We are also informed that in conse quence of a few of the parishes which formerly belonged to the Retford district, being now included in the recently formed Worksop division, the meetings at the former named place are to take place only once a fortnight, instead of weekly as before. " Now, although we have no wish to meddle with matters which do not concern us, we do feel bound as journalists, labouring in the cause of the people, just to remind our worthy friends who adminster justice, that there are, such things as public duty and public convenience, and that until such things are transported as outlaws, they should stand foremost in the minds of all public functionaries. We know that these things are very irksome occasionally, but then we also know how easy it is to dispense with the cares of office, if they are but willing to renounce its honours. The old say ing that' Every sweet has its bitter,' is most true. arid we do think that those who accept the one should brave the other. We do hope that these remarks will be received as goal humouredly as they are written ; and would say in con clusion, good sirs, pray have mercy on the long vexed pa. tience cf the poor neglected public." A RYLETIONE VESTRY.-On Saturday, at the meeting of the Marylebone Vestry; the Rev. Dr. Spry, the rector, in the chair, Mr. Michie begged to ask Mr. P. Laurie whether it was true that the office of clerk of the peace for the county of 'Middlesex was not a sinecure place ; and also whether it was or was not the intention of the magis trates to increase the salary of that sinecure officer, in the shape of fees payable out of the county-rate. Mr. Laurie said there was such a thing as that alluded to by Mr. Michie going on. The office of clerk of the peace for Middlesex was at the present time occupied by a party who never did any duty himself, but who availed himself of the privilege granted by the Act of Parliament to appoint a deputy. He thought they had no right to interfere with a man who re ceived a moderate salary, and who chose to pay another for doing his duty, providing those duties were performed pro perly ; but when he found ' steps being taken for making a schedule of fees to such a person, affording a remuneration out of. the pockets of the rate-payers, to the amount of 5,000/. ptr annum, he thought it was proper that some check Should be ptit upon such reckless expenditure. By the proposed schedule of fees, the clerk of the peace was to receive Is. 3d. for every printed circular sent to a magistrate. He was,to have Is. for every summary conviction that took place at any police court, and one guinea for every time his deputy was called out of his office to seak to a com mittee. He (Mr. Laurie) was one of the Committee on the Schedule of Fees, but lie had not attended until lately, and When he did he was utterly surprised at what ha I - taken place, and had, with the aid of some other members, suc ceeded in reducing some of the items. The most monstrous thing in the whole affair was, that these fees, exorbitant as they were, were, to the extent of three• fifths of the entire amount, to go to thel clerk of the peace,' who never, on any occasion, even put his foot within the walls of the Session House. He (Mr. Laurie) hoped that the vestry would urge upon the magistrates of the county who were members of the Board, to use every endeavour to defeat so nefarious a job. Mr. Michie said he would at once adopt the suggestion of Mr. Laurie, and give notice of motion for Saturday next. Mr. Tritton, as c h urc h war d e n of Trinity district, applied flu. a committe e t o cons id er the' propriety of appropriating the surplus pew r en t s o f th e c h u rch to the erection of a rectory house,. whi c h, Vestry then separated. eller some discussion , wa s agreed to. The" t ADVERTISEMENT. j THE - OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—My attention has been drawn to an advertise ment, which appeared in your columns on the sth inst., containing certain resolutions, passed at " a meeting, most respectably attended, of landowners and occupiers of land, held at the Bear Inn, Wantage, the 12th of January, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of opposing the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway Company for an Act of Parliament to form their line.' At this meeting Philip Smith Coxe, Esq., presided. The Chairman, Mr. Stone, and Mr. Robey were ap pointed trustees of a fund• to be raised for opposing the Bill in Parliament, and to be deposited in the bank of Messrs. Barnes and Medley. These three trustees, with Messrs. Barnard, Dearlove, and Goodwin, were formed into a committee for the general direction of the busi nees ; Mr. J. H. Ansell was appointed secretary ; and Messrs. Bischoff and Coxe were requested to undertake the conduct of the proceedings. The resolutions of such a meeting, whose future ope rations are to be carried on by a chairman, committee, trustees, bankers, solicitors, and secretary, are calcu lated not only to attract public notice, but to excite some little apprehension on the part of those to whose objects, however well matured and honourably supported, this formidable array is opposed. The readers of your jour nal, and of other papers in which probably this adver tisement has been published, may reasonably consider that the opinions of " a meeting, most respectably at tended, of landowners and occupiers of land," whose re solutions were " moved, seconded, and carried unani mously," are entitled to respect, as embodying the sen timents of a large proportion at least of the residents in the vicinity of Wantage, on a subject of great local in terest ; and the public in general, who of late have most properly viewed with scrutiny, if not distrust, all proposals for the construction of railways, may be in duced, by the resolutions to which I refer, to class " the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway" amongst those which are undeserving of local or general patronage. The opinions and resolutions of the recent meeting at Wantage, on which I am desirous to make a few com ments, are the following, viz.:— " That the suggested lines of railway from Oxford to Salisbury direct is quite uncalled for, inasmuch as there is neither passengers' or goods traffic along the proposed line requiring such accommodation, and, consequently, that whilst a great sacrifice of private property must take place, no adequate, if any, benefit can possibly arise to the public by the formation of such a line," and " That, as the line throughout presents one unbroken agricultural district, possessing, within easy distances, markets and fairs, amply sufficient to absorb all the produce thereof, the schema in question appears a more wanton speculation of the day, possessing neither merit in itself, OR'a reasonable prospect of a return for capikil required for the undertaking.' - It is difficult to conceive language more condemnatory of" the suggested line," than the terms in which " the meeting of landowners and occupiers of land" have thus promulgated their " unanimous ' opinion. A semblance of truth is ingeniously shed over the premises from which the gentlemen present at the meeting, have drawn their authoritative conclusions ; and would, if capable of proof, warrant, in some measure, the strong terms of reprobation in which they have publicly ex pressed their determination to -" use their best,endea yours, individually and collectively, to defeat the pro posed measure in Parliament." The first resolution declares " that the suggested line of railway is quite uncalled-for." I adopt the language of the meeting for the purpose of showing that this declaration is literally untrue.. This line of railway has been actually called for, both orally and in writing, as I will proceed to prove. On the 24th of October last, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Abingdon, convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition forwarded to him, was held in the Council Chamber there, to consider the expediency of the proposed Oxford and Salisbury Direct Rail Way. At this meeting, numerously attended, the Mayor presided, and the following resolution, proposed and seconded by members of the Town Council, was unaniously passed : "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the formation of the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway would be beneficial to the town, and was therefore deserving of their support.'' And on the sth of November last, being a market day, a public meeting of the inhabitants of Wantage and the adjacw,t district, called by advertisement in the eleven newspapers circulating in the counties of Berks, Wilts, Oxford, and Somerset, and also in the Times newspaper, was held, not at the Bear Inn, but in the Town-hall, to consider the expediency of this line being formed. At this latter meeting, also numerously at tended, Thomas Goodlake, Esq., of Letcotnb Regis (a parish immediately adjoining %Vantage), one of the Ma gistrates for the county of Berks, took the chair, and a resolution, with scarcely a dissentient voice, was car ried— "That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Oxford and Salisbury Direct Railway, passing near to the town of Wantage, will be highly beneficial to the town and its neighbourhood, and is therefore entitled to the support of the inhabitants." So much for parol evidence produced from the towns of Abingdon and Wantage , distant about ten miles apart, and adjoining the line of the proposed railway. My do cumentary testimony to prove that " the suggested line" is celled for is the following, viz.:— In the course of a very few days, in the month of No vember last, testimonials, " approving of the line, and desiring that it may be speedily formed," were signed by inhabitants of every city and town directly affected by it in the following numbers, viz.:— Inhabitants of Abingdon lbangerford ' 93 - Ox ford l9O - Wantage Landowners, farmers, end dealers attending Wantage Market Inhabitants of Salisbury 39 -136 ~.. 73 Making a total of. Evidence of the meetings at Abingdon and \Vantage is to be found in the London and Provincial newspapers. The inclosed copy of the testimonials, sent for your own satisfaction, bears out the latter assertion. And, as re gards the Wantage testimonials (which 1 select for the especial attention of the gentlemen present at the recent meeting), I appeal with confidence to the whole of that neighbourhood, when I assert that the signatures repre sent an amount of wealth and intelligence fully en titled to the deep respect and serious attention of the public at large. The gentlemen present at the recent meeting assert, in their resolutions, that " there is neither passengers' nor goods' traffic along the proposed line requiring rail way accommodation," and that the line throughout pre sents one unbroken agricultural distric , possessing, within easy distances, markets and fairs, amply suffi cient to absorb all the produce thereof." True, it is, " and pity 'tis, 'tis true," that at present there is but little traffic along the whole line of the proposed line, but there is a great deal of traffic on parts of it. There is no public conveyance between Oxford and Salisbury, as the residents in those cities, and the districts north of the former and south of the latter, know to their incon venience. The most expeditious means and channel of transit, are by the Great Western and South-Western Railways via London ; for a traveller between Oxford and Salisbury, unless he be furnished with his own car riage, or hire a conveyance for his special use, cannot travel by any public means between the one city and the other in a less time than from twelve to thirteen hours, and then instead of pursuing a direct line of 56 miles, he must take a circuitous route by Marlborough and Swindon. It would be absurd to argue, that because there is not at the, present day a large and increasing traffic between any two given points, across a district of country capable of almost incalculable improvement, hitherto neglected, and to a great extent allowed to lie waste, and therefore a favourite locality for fox-hanting, no improvement is to be attempted, no facilities of trat sit afforded, no impetus given either to agriculture or manufactures; the inhabitants to be deprived of those railway appliances, by means of which they know that other parts of the country have been greatly bcnefitted, and' that, the progress of science, intelligence, and in dustry is to be arrested at each of the termini. The same argument would conten I that a large proportion of the intermediate province shall remain a wild, unculti vated, and desolate plain, and the whole be preserved as a memorial to posterity of the ignorance, as well as the selfishness, of the present " landowners and occupiers of land." On this part of the subject I cannot do better than give the following extrust from a speech made by Mr. Towle, of Oxford, at the \Vantage meeting, on th e sth of November : " lie was satisfied that the formation of a railway was all that was required to raise the property of Wantage and its neighbourhood to a level with that of any other part of the country. At present they were under great disadvantages. Their poor had to suffer all the priva tions of other neighbourhoods, with the additional ca lamity of scarcity of fuel. Coal, 'in his neighbourhood, cost at present 255. per ton. He was close on the line of the Great Western Railway, but received DO l oenefit from it except in quickness of transit, Their line had been very expensive, and probably they could not afford to carry for less, and they were then charging within a fraction of 2d, per ton. He himself paid lOs. per ton for coals in Bristol, and 245. 6,d, when he got them at his mills near Oxford. The promoters of the Great Western, previous to its formation, promised that 80,000 tons of coal a-year should be carried to Oxford, but they had grievously disappointed tho public in that respect,—_(Cheers.) The formation of the line would almost double the value of the land and its produce. At present their hay, straw, and corn were sent into the manufacturing districts where it was sold at the prices which the same articles fetched that were grown in the neighbourhood, the whole expense of the•t • iansit falling on the producers. The' neighbourhood was one of the best in the world for manufactures. Witney ought to have several tall chimneys, an•: to turn their wool into blankets, Abingdon ought to make large quantities of coarse carpeting, instead of sending their wool at a large expense into Yorkshire. Mr. Hudson had stated before a committee of Parliament that one engine would co:1- vey 95 wagons, at the rate of 18 nkiles an h our, each waggon conveying five tons Of cQA, at an expense f about 9d. per mile, and his option was that a railway passing through a neighbourhood was equal to bringing Goal mine into it. In bis jud,.);ment coals ought to be supplied at 12s. per ton!' And Air. Goodlake, the Chairman, concurred in these remarks, when he express e d hi s op i nion that " tbe gen tlemen who formed the deputation deserved the thanks off f t he met and of the t own of \Vantag e f or t h e i r eowards bring inc, ' a rail way i nto the neighbour hood. Ile must say that as far as fox-hunting went, gentlemen might be injured by railways, but'the pros thenperity of the country and it s i nhabitants, the warming , in winter,, and feeding them through the whole of the year, was of far more vital importance than such sport. When he looked at the facilities which would be afforded for the importation of fuel and - the exportation of produce, he thought they had reason to rejoice that a railway was about to be formed near their town. Under these circumstances, having determined that the line would be beneficial, he trusted that the inhabitants of Wantage would give the scheme as much encouragement as they possibly could."—(Cheers.) I admit—and having quoted the sentiments' of Mr. Towle and Mr. Goodlake, I am perfectly willing to do so—that the proposed line passes materially over an agri cultural district, but by no means over an unbroken one. The town of Abingdon, neglected in an unaccountable manner by railway proprietors and promoters, cannot be considered as a purely agricultural town. There are two highly. respectable manufacturing and trading esta blishments there, employing between them (as I have been personally informed by their proprietors) not less than one thousand five hundred hands ; and there are moreover, between thirty and forty persons of respecta bility engaged as master manufacturers. In the article tonnage alone the inhabitants of Abingdon would be benefited to a very great amount by the proposed line, which would bring a railway close to their town, instead of requiring them, as at present, to send their goods to a station between three and four miles distant. The pitched market, established within the last twelve months, at Wantage, arid which is steadily improving, owes much of its prosperity to railroads, being regularly attended by dealers from remote parts of the country, who would never otherwise have dreamt of dealing in corn there. At Salisbury, in consequence of the same expectant faci lities, it is also contemplated to establish a pitched market, and the inhabitants of that ancient city look forward anxiously to the advantages to be conferred upon them by railways, for enabling them to resume the exercise of their almost unequalled water-power, and again to flou rish in those manufactures of cutlery and flannels for which they were formerly,most justly famed. . The lines of railway in progress and projection will necessarily make Oxford to the north, and Salisbury to the south of " the suggested line," two points from whence radii will diverge like the outspread fingers cf the human hand. From the manufacturing districts of Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire, Warwick shire, Staffordshire, and Norfolk (to some extent) — from the mineral, and especially the coal regions of South Wales, Staffordshire, and several of the midland counties, the products of industry will, by means 'of the proposed railway and its adjuncts, be brought at a much reduced price into this " agricultural district," whilst the produce of a land whose capabilities of pro duction remain to be tested, will be unmeasurably aug mented in the staple articles both of food and clothing, the means of transit diminished in time and expense ; and the private property which the members of the late meeting weakly imagine would, be sacrificed, will be (as has always in similar cases been proved) very largely increased. It appears, however, in the opinion of those gentle men, that " the scheme in question is a mere wanton speculation-of the day, possessing neither merit in itself nor a reasonable prospect of a return for capital required for the undertaking." They have a perfect right, I ad mit, to entertain this opinion, but, as I will presently en deavour to show, they have no right to publish it. They do not, I apprehend, imagine that any persons of the pre sent day are so deeply imbued with the principles of universal philanthrophy as to construct a railroad at their personal expense, for the mere satisfaction of confehing a material advantage upon the town of Wantage and its neighbourhood, highly respectable as the inhabitants undoubtedly are. They cannot, I should suppose,' con ceive that modern benevolence is so universal as to in clude their " unbroken," and, as some people believe, neglected " agricultural district" in a rapidly advabcing system of general utility, without thinking that thq pro motors of an honourable, useful, and, as has been shown, highly approved project, may also look forward to an honest participation in the general good. The principles, however, upon which this railway has been brought for ward, were ably and truly developed by the Chairman of the Committee of Management. at the meeting held at %Vantage, on the sth of November:-- " He assured the meeting that it was the determina tion of the directory to carry out the measure if they possibly could. It was a bona fide scheme, and the Di rectors proved it to be so by their acts ; they were not asking persons to furnish them with money, taking the chance of having it returned, but they had themselves provideii the necessary funds for carrying on the sur veys and preparing the necessary parliamentary docu ments. Their engineer was bound to finish the survey in proper time, and would be a loser to the extent of 1,0001. if he failed to do so. He was, therefore, bound by his own interest, as well as for the sake of his pro fessional reputation, to finish the survey by the time ap pointed. He could assure the meeting that every atten tion would be paid to laying out the line, it being mani festly the iut• rest of the promoters of the li ne to inter fere as little as possible with valuable property." ' • In corroboration of this statement, I have only to re mark that the principles thus laid down have been acted upon to the letter; the whole of the Parliamentary plans, sections, and books of reference have been depo sited in all the necessary offices, and with all the ap pointed authorities ; the requisite notices have beer, served upon the landowners, lessees, and occupiers (hence these tears!), and all the standing orders'have been fully complied with. , The sneer which the gentlemen of the late meeting have thought fit•to introduce by way of " sting in the tail" of their resolutions is utterly unworthy of fair and honourable opponents, I allude to the original inser tion of the names of persons in the list of the provi sional committee. To say the least of it, the charge is deplorably stale, and, in the terms used, it is not true. It was, however fully and satisfactorily expl a i ne d, b ot h at the meetings I have above referred to and in the pub lic press. I refer your readers to that faithful record of daily occurrences, which in these days of enlight enmer A and intelligence seldom errs—l believe I may say, never materially errs without detection and exposure, There is something justly imposing in the resolutions of a public meeting, and a very large majority of your readers would believe that those to which I have taken the liberty to refer, were passed in such an assembly. The formula which they adopt, the functionaries whom they appoint, the style of serious business which they as sume, impress the mind with imaginary multitudes, im portance, and solemnity. A resolution, proposed, se donfled, and unanimously passed, implies, in the estimate of the humblest understanding, an explanatory speech, a confirmatory address, a brief appeal to surrounding numbers from an independent president, and an un opposed vote carried by loud acclamation, or silent show of hands. The excitement and exhilaration of a popular assembly have often produced great and unexpected effects, and in the present day, when many signal re sults have been worked out by means of public meet ings, those who desire to operate on the mind of the many, are apt, wisely enough, to resort to this course to effect their object. Nor is there a better expedient for giving publicity to opinions, whether of a political ten dency, of local interest, or for the purpose of promul gating or opposing a public project, Having thus dealt, and I hope fairly, with the resolu tions of the meeting, " most respectably attended by land owners and occupiers of land," I will say one word about the meeting itself. I learn, from local information, that the meeting consisted of seven gentlemen only ; from the same source, that Mr. Coxe, the chairman, is a member of the very respectable firm of Bischoff and Coxe, the solicitors to whose care the proceedings in Parliament in opposition to the " Oxford and Salisbury Railway Com pany" are entrusted ; and I further learn that Mr. An sell, the secretary appointed at the meeting, is the manager of the Wantage Branch Bank of Messrs. Barnes and Medley (the bankers of this selkonstituteti committee), whose principal establishment is at Far ringdon. Let your r ea d ers g l ance over the names of th e . chairman, committee, trustees, bankers, solicitors, and secrete r a y t , t a h n e d o rßt Bear representedh a e r y I w n i n l find at awat tthnhetaat meetingt h e wh o o f l e seven o f them geni present t w le e m re en ge. 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Edward Maginn will be consecrated in the Catholic cathedral of Derry as Bishop of that diocese.—Cork Examiner. - - , SIR CHARLES WOLSELE,I REPLY ' SO TO THE EDITOR OF T H E SlR,—The Sun of the 30th December has beTitel sent to me. It contains an article on a certai v a l ',, , , dressed to the ssorking classes in the manufact oats through the Stockport Advertiser. Had there u t.n".o thing pithy in my letter you would not have notic,is fore I had meddled with it, had I been the editor 0 1 I would have been sure of my facts. is est S/ You assume, Sir and you get into an argil fa° assumption, the Earl Talbot " has no labourersolooss sume that the Earl's " personal exertions" are into action, because forsooth " he lets his ;were-, not cultivate himself." You assert " that th hta avis among landlords, as he must pay his ten ~`", in the cultivation of his estates, because he csiirs. his own;" and, to finish with assumptions 311'spleki you say the Earl has, except servants, grooms, 6 &c., no one to pay the 12s. a week wages t°' a t Now, Sir, just give me leave to tell you; 1 3 1110 s assumptions or assertions has even a se° therein! arT,, I could not have pitched on two men ni° l : e e - rer Lord Talbot and Mr. Cobden, " as the respeen, v he parr trues of the landed and trading interest. for u ' n fort . ° s instituting a comparison between them;" f er ' a isly for all your assumptions, Lord Talbot is certtors of farmer, and one of the most extensive caltiofispeer, all England, employs an im m ense number ordAiir farms in the first-rate style ; and as to hi s I ', 00 0 01 ' sonal exertions," on th at score he is certainlYcobdo• the back ground even whe n co mpared to M r ' re the printer of daffidowndillies is a man of 111° world than the one w ho p ro duces food; ° ell ' Lordship would be obliged to knock under. mgr./ I thank you for having given me, a any rt., o f4r4 titles; but why not have added " the mat t ed net?" and I think by the time the public b as , o f ` l t Or they will have found out that a little more fact" from The Sun would have given ge l " - article. • 01 0 to th e j Now, Sir, allow me to repeat my advice Go isles ing workmen. I did not " guess" that Ml' eat". is 5,000/. ; I guessed it was so. May I astY' sal; blood and sweat do the other " ten times th at s assert it to be, come from? Why, his workmen, t°beekij},,, fore, when the abominable corn-laws are 07 0 11% with the more abomin a bl e C urre n c y Bill of 18 , 9 ;10 1 4 to have their eyes on th e mas t er s' gains' : 13 eses ° ,,,rr'' s think they have got p r ofit eno ugh for ani ha sp je r)" already ! And as the L eague promises workmen, e'en let them have it w i t h o ut tP out " Halves !" o f V et a.# I am not "a protectio n i s t" i n your sen se s i r , principle I detest the corn-l aw s. But, "00 e' t Leaguers seem to have forgot the origin °,; bf irs s i 0 1 ,;. just put you in mind of a "matter of fact, f og fug up my character. At the end of the war t i vf tl l4 e' return to a metallic currency, but,unfortiniltereA doubled, and both Whigs and Tories sa ie nsiA do away with the paper currency, ev e u- 'A I' there, then, was the bargain. No ' w, if i ss! s y! leave to say it is somewhat sly in the ' Leag e ,',' 17, r m t dishonest too, to wish to do away with n, ° '' t se e s or' i d " bargain. Let us only have fair play, an' "cic . re; come in from Europe, Asia, Af r i ca , a nd Au ler t / i .ls^,y; _opinion, the bane of Engla n d i s n ot the e i ° yoo,fLi Peel's Bill must be added t o th em .—l ani e , .lo l ; - servant, ,a - Jan. 16,1816. tb b e e 0 , 0 1 [lf the "matter-of-fact" B arone t had re ad 30th of December, on which he comn:iet s l found the following passage :—"Now, if 0 to emploY himself in productive labour. s elf hit does (if he were to cultivate his estate • in,"' flio re l ,"o('ii; letting it), he too would have an income e i ,'; - 1 40 1 e ,"0,5' per cent. on his capital—that is to satl . ; - ths,PW three per cent. on his capital invested P,.'", 1 i; labour." It is out of his profits as a i a-- , e tb'',o Y , of his interest upon capital as a landorne" , s'or bot pays his labourers. He pays no labearer: his three per . cent., so that our lvs it ` ° 6 3 " ) touched. •As to the " matter-ef-fa ct l, sumptions and assertions with . regard capital and profits, we think we may ven t- , giseLF, a ; own words, and say to him, "N ow , Sir, intros,.'",, tell yott,Snot one of your assumptions or ' ass e fts 0 4 9 imublance of *truth therein." With reg ei %slif law, we have ever d enounce d i t as e nerge ll ser+ i lOt the corn-law, and an A n ti-G o ld St an dard L e t 1, it shall be formed, sh a ll h ave our b es t suPP ° o r k: t 7,ti bargain as that• alluded to, by " the-mattn,s o 7, was entered into betw een P ee l an d it i 5 O V cracy, such a bargain is as illegal as f .f s et and this statement o f th e "matter . ° t if it be "matter of fact," more than i ns ": o lis . Vi terms which have of late been trfori,yi conduct. The "matter-of-fact" Baronet 11 ' sat,"ttl.' agitating for a repeal of the currency - l i‘ 4 said a word about a repeal of the corn - le is Leaguer'retort upon 'him with some eff ect s -, sill" ;I' you must give me leave say it is soraeW"iis 0"" what dishonest too, to wish to do away the bargain ?"—En. Sun.] LONDON SESSI OI1 g. F. D. --LEWIS v . RAT1180.,:5/#,/ - TO THE - EDI7'OR OF Tl ib rePortiof the above trial l 0 or e. ta r of the 12th in st . conta i n i ng errors wbio w ill, materially to misle a d th e pu b l i c m i n d, We d Of of the following corrections:—The nalt' n e ; -` 1 is "Francis David L ew i s "— not "J. : sts t ; ;; , , , ) of the aceount against the CompanY , "a'- i so 4061. Os. 6db, out o f w hi c h , in ref)** to question from the - defendant' s counae L 1 11 0 i he was out of pOcket,". Mr. Lewis stay, 0 .0 ? hundred and fifty- pounds,"--not 2 , 513 ,;: it i00 making- an-ob v i ous - diff erence of. an 6 ' 0 1 ') his l e a t e y h to i I t e h r e i : o a pa i o e . e d . these sti.-- 1--" • 0 0- unnoticed, but on fir,iii eg the last mentled operated to our prejudice, we are comP eb this counter- s t s : (*trent equal publicity. oi We are, Sir, your obedient serva nt 'd LEIVIS Gp SPORTING INTELLI r. - TATTERSALL'S--YEsTvr; 4 O Ol! J Although far below the average Of 10th business transacted yesterday afternee ll . de cilf t dency towards improvement —more def3 er bt,l ever, on the Chester Cup than the ... ..perp event there were three distinct "pots el Warp, and Mickey Free—their prices 0 10 50 and 33 to 1, end closing, as near as be 0 to guess them, at 35 to 1. Several other 0 ,10 4 ,0 at the previous quotations. Beyond ala bale ment in Spithead, whose supporters a'c li tio asYo at the prices quoted, the Derby transaf,o s Sy of interest; and the only bets on the vy,090 1 10 agst Cuckoo, and 700 to 20 eig st h al PIP Newmarket Handicap promises to be s P oar Two or three parties were disposed to ta ke only bet laid was 1,000 to 95 agst rug prices : — we) CHESTER CUP (ACCEPT OR -„ 35 to 1 a gs t L or d G . B entinck ' s Bes t D° / 35 to I agst Mr. Irwin's Warp _taken , a keo 35 to 1 ag s t M r . I rw i n ' s M i ckey F ree X o 40 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Whinstone—vnelf 59 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of ZoK 50 to 1 ag s t M r . Pl ummer ' s Alice Heigt:ste,Pfro 1,000 t o 20 agst L ord Howth ' s Mermaid---„ts' 50 to 1 ag s t M r . W o ff enden ' s Miss IW°' 50 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Flattery ni e 50 to 1 ags t M r. P attison names Little id DERBY ke 6 1° 11 to 2 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—t 4 14 to 1 ag s t G eneral Shubrick's Brocardi °'ote 27 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's lago—tak e 30 to 1 agst M r . E . Peel's Spithead---ta ir ' - et 30 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm r,f '33 to 1 agst M r. O' Brien ' s The Traverse2:Ar 35 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklant's Fancy Beg t. 40 to 1 ag s t Si r J . Hawley's Huradruia,',Kt',i) 1,000 to 25 agst D uke of Richmond's TuV,' sod „ 50 to 1 agst L or d E xeter ' s Galata colte:,;.,v 1,000 to 20 ags t M r . W orthington ' s Sharsw j3ll/ f or four timas 1,000 to 40 agst Lord Albemarle's Smugg ler dulphus—taken. OAKS. 0 611 20 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Cuckoo''reAl 35 to 1 agst Mr. Littl e d a l e ' s F anta stici til ia FiY The Liverpool Steepl e , Fl at, and H ur dle 00 off on the 4th of M arc h . T he horses I° , l ' 00 . 4 1 which 1001. will b e added, must be nacc e :4 l.9 l :V J inst. ; and for the Hurdle Race on the IA will be add e d to t h e latter. The entry fo r offr Plate of 504 on the Flat, will be on the 1 214. - o m c DISEASED POTATOES AGAIN.—The het' trioh potatoes in Irela n d b y t h e destitute poor is - d expected, a fruitful source of fever and disease' e p y crease in the number of fever patients has ta t hospital of Fermoy.—Banne r of Ulster. .~ uuspitat or k ermoy.--Banne r of U1..4-....- I. BIRTHS. o ff , ' i On the 14th inst., at Castle Counell, the 1211 "' i tV Dwyer, E sq., o f a daughter. a rYt i On the 15th inst., at Albert-road, Regenerr of S. Tomki ns, jun., Esq., of a ton: s s4 ' ,! On the 15th inst., the lady of W. Bolllllol* algid On St. John's-wood, of alson. be f ilid On the 15th inst., at Peasemore Rectory' , t t ill',ll% Rev. Thomas Archer Houblon, of a daughter,' 5 , 1 / 6 iv On the 16th inst., at Hans-place, the ' 4 1 , 1 4 , ,4" Wood, Esq., of the Inner Temple, of a daugl": 10 P . 4 ; On the 16th inst., at Woodhall, Norfolk, i V o Rev. Francis Daubeny, of a son. sic i f 0 , On the 16th inst., at Wimbledon, the I Bowden, Esq., of a daughter. 0 -84 1 On the 17th inst ., in Montagu-place, Mont° ...ft' lady aW. It Kelly, Esq., of a daughter. A O,' y On the 17th inst., in Oxford-terrace, Mrs. A iY ----- ~„, t e t.', MARRIED. , Cag ii i( On the 25th of October, 1845, at Poon/V l Wi ', Heatley, of her Majesty's 22d Regiment, to . 3 ' l '4' 4t o ' _ te.- ~ eldest daughter of the late Major-General 1- • e 0 V., Bombay Army. , h itell s W On the 13th inst., at Trinity Church, l' — ;00 4k 4 John Senhouse Jackson, merchant, to Georg . d' ,?, eldest daughter of R. P enn i ngton, Esq., CaPta i° i (X' Royal Cumbe r l an d Mili t i a, o ff , ' On the 17th i n st., a t B r i g h ton, Lionel, elde-sigsfof Booth, Esq., of Newman-street, to Emma / , Blakeney, of Canno n -pl ace , Brighton. ___...----- 0 Blakeney, of Cannon-place, Brighton. - V I r ' ,' DIED. JO e 5 ? On the 6th of December last, at Barbsub 3e- ' _ 1 ; tv I man, Esq., late Postmaster of the Island. _,. ~,,,, fe'c nab On the Bth inst., at Sydney-place, Bath, • 13 ' 8 " . ii a ,e late Captain Hough, aged 90. , r eet , IkP , Oa the 14th inst., in Lower Pembrokeil o n ileA ut 4 4 Georgians Elizabeth the wife o f Lieutenant ''' e Engineers. dlO l On the 1.3t1f inst., John Ad amson , Esq., el Walbrook, age d 76 . (18/18 ;G' On the 15th inst., Emma, the second' (18/1° , Powb,oth am , of Bedworth-mills, near Coventri,; a ser• as tij On the 17th inst., in Goswell-road, Mr. G re = ii r c l - of Y eti On the 18th inst., at Brighton,Mary, ii, 0 i Crawford Walwyn, 'un , aged 36. On the 18th inst., jun., Susses, Eliza X94' .0 614 of the late T. Kilgo . ur Es Isabella, 18 7110 , On tlie 19th inst., wife of Jllln i ci Finsbury -square. 0 , i !--"-- ----- ypti i‘ 11 , 4 ~ 0 , ~ London: Printed and Published by IS fillip u . 4 1 4 4 .,0t7 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The sun °fit I ee' Strand, in the Precinct of the Say Kor, il l hliddleau t Wue3day, January 20, 1010. ,• ' lc ( Itt In Th, Th, th e dret T