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.r--~~ P• , ..0 - , ' ~ . '• so '' .. .. ..., 2I ' .... .. , • $l, Pe' • . ~ . ~, . .., 34' 4~ ~4 i • 2 4 • ..-- ~,~~ 1 1 7! 4 .-- ; 0 g 7; 31i /1 /34 1 6 1 1 li , ) : 4 1'. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamp s an d T axes , a ' an intet view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer YNerday, at his official residence in Downing-strket. Til t . E a f a 1, 0 „,i e and tel er Ckhiliet Mihipters Sir I {..bert. Pt el yesterday. i.pad c h es were received yesterday at the Colonial ottc 'row the Governor of :•sierra Leone. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 4 4 Pz TATT E R SA LL'S—YESTERDAY. r,qeetation that the brilliant entry for the Chester .41) w ould lead to some business, induced a somewhat lar ger attendance than usual ; with little purpose, how- D' er er t as it r egar d ed that event, 500 to 10 against The -i o et -a h aling been the only blow struck. Towards the theleW bets w ere ma d e on t h e D er b y an d O a k s, at g h P ri ce's and t o th e amounts i n di cate d b e l ow. W e ;,entd ob serve that the odds laid against Spithead and rset, ce Traverser were con , idered exceedingly liberal; in onsiderably above the market prices. CHESTER CUP (ACCEPT OR NOT). 4 0 to 1 on the field. ,„, 4 9 to 1 ag s t M r. E . J . I rw i n ' s W arp —taken 50 to 1 uou to 10 agst Mr. E. R. Clarke's The Baron— taken. DERBY. to 1 agst Scott's lot—taken to 250/. 1 0 0 to 20 agst Lord Albemarle's lot—takeu. 6to I agst Lord E. Russell's Sti ng —t . to 25/. & aft. of. 1 , 4 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—take 15 to 1 3 ,‘ to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago—take 30 to 1 to 10 agst Mr. Ramsay's Malcolm—taken 0 00 to 15 agst Lord Chesterfield's Ginger—taken 1,0) 0 t° 10 apt Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy—taken 1, „„ to 25 agst Mr. E. Peel's Spithead—taken y.oo to 25 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser—taken ' O O to 10 agst Sir J. Ilawley's Humdrum. 12 OAKS. agst Sir C. Monck's Vanish—taken 250 ‘29 to 10 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Cuckoo—takea to 10 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant—taken ,t.? to 10 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey—taken 20 to 400 to 10 alO apt Mr. Maher's Perdita filly a gst Mr. Stanley's Sister to Flambeau. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. CHESTER, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1846. The Produce Stakes. lirtord Miltnwn's ch f by Irish Bi r d ca t c h er , out o f Ph",j ; d Y Bet, Mr. Price's Kismet, Mr. Mostyn's Louis latiotpßs% Sir R. Bulkeley's c by Piccaroon, out of Reso ir c , data, B' 3 weepst a k es for 25 sots. each, for two years old. . W. Wynn's Leporella, Lord G. Bentinck s 4 4 1 ' n ntiltW and Projectil e , Lord Chesterfield's f by Don toi' 'in of Arachne, Mr. Price's the Prairie, Lord alq,llton's Nerisqa Mr. Mostyn's fby Lanerc.ost, out of titt Arnold's darn ' , Lord Glateis's fby St. Martin, nut N " 14 4, Mr. Peel's Credential—Mr. Buckley's Tri:ldleorth, Mr.Worley's Wintonia, Mr. O'Brien's b• l n b t i t t, te, Mr. E. R. Clarke's Miles's Boy, Mr. Jaques's i r'''° 73 g, Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure. CHESTER CUP. he Publication of an official list enables us to corr ec t 1s).411"- inaccuracies in the entries received on Saturday. alid the Frill colt (the latter once as Rowland V Were mentioned twice, and Fisticuff should be 14,4ultted altogether The additions, frisking the number 2 . are vr • • • " , Q o i tihttm. erian, Advice, Connaught Ranger, and John The -- i l i a Earl of Lauderdale has quite recovered from 'et. recent severe illness. The Noble Elul continues at irlestaine Castls. 1i...1,_14,,Y ,ROWITT'S " CITIZEN OF PRAGUE."—Fretle his- t,..'" tn , tereat and th . Empress Maria Theresa are the t'ov? P r incipal characters in Mary romantic The r,Pe'd novel just published und il er " t i h t e t'a ti r t o l m e thetiz.t. eh ° ;V PFae.'' y unusually ex btheiunsgr?eida,i,l account for 44 to. incidents of the Ve sorry can 10 a character.. of the behold the ceremonies We are initiated into the secrets of 4.64' Inaperial Cabinet—we ttl t ' magnificent of Couris—we ti,,, niagni , 'n fact, we are witness the imposing .ql7 of the bravest armies in the world—in the great e.e, w ed to see all that _ a contest, that threatened till the great conqueror and _ in . the chose to display whichgains e s e entire continent with desol etion. But these grand into a story, Fr e tt e t li als are skilfully woven . I t ,'" Much humbler objects it . principal source of interest. witZt-ittra.st to these roy tnutgliDictures of social life, the most i the most al delineattoris do t m he es T2 e r , k abounds la as g+ and the most truthlike e t d h e a d t can be conceived. in that very diffi citiuL4t, aviary Howitt has suc..e bz._c aims ' s it hi h • •at pleasing all classes of readers. MAILS. ...stteARTIJRE OF THE EAST AND . WEST INDIA ~, iiilltr-rox, JAN. 3.—The Achilles, Oriental Captain Wilson, a ae three P.M., for „bi her d e w steam -ship, built for the .... Company, )6`-'onetaLueParture from the docks this i to Alexandria I.6"taitk -t,°°Ple, taking the East India da n ' d China mails to toe"Y tie: t-,_°ol which place they will be forwarded frt passengers, 4,ueritt teamer. The Achilles has Royalo _ 11 ), ail. l_ . `",Y full cargo of bale goods. The West India ze y, peeeeet th e the islands and Thames, Captain Haste, left this port yestere " . ',.° ' t-h °l' tl ' A N;Vest Indies, with the mails for 4' ti' el' '' -e-tli of quicksilver. ' krne ge n i. ' a • She had thirty passengers, a good average ;"'%LAN° bo ttles "Ch k 1 th, h‘ 110 Ly SHIPWRECLS wrecked in AND LOSS OF LIF . C. 1 ,7 We t"'D'rzin of the 26th instant a barque was and a boat 031111:18.464Y ofg Dungenese, laden with coals; have e - i`n, of t e en driven on shore, with the name 't Eliza -4(0 he, eWcastle," on the stern. .Three dead bodies eof th e on the coast, 6 his right arm; (:)11 'ell foll and will be interred at Lydd. 'al a e sermon had initials 4 W. N." large ,reB-ister ticket un signed 6 Jo n . as one of the ~:°ta castle, X ew proves that this man es, ' on Neale," and doubt, t,IPP-ertTEttev crew who were all, without to Rouen.—A lair . t.'_'. h ship, " a e., essel was bound "La Vie Coliseum," from B :Fla t o . ` fr s In to be the .itia th eteesterdam, was wrecked near Pe.vensey Bay, ti s, "e caro,. far as ' Dun consisting of coffee, sugar, find goy block Re4l:4 other articles, have washed ashore lis Ille t ' West B ay, beach at Hast and lie strewed along ,Th e ' ,„41d some of the timber has floate t d he round the point. at • '''Alt. Were s d with the exception of one soldier (an To l it i ~ Who diaedvef;om his long exposure 1n the rigging. p° 41 4 0 of the vessel, 620 tons —A light collier was driven laetsei tbr e near Camber Sand Hills, without damage u to_th A e r k . °J. crew, and it is expected she will . be floated ff. 134 - ae F e ar o de out the gale most of the time in the Nest lie' were entertained for her safety; but s f he ef n t o be et:il anchor in the East Bay, giving another proo R ef of these roadsteads. in the absence of good Channel ° Rtt P Itt e ta—Dover Chronicle. a,9i4 I)PoRtisHIRE. INcoME . -T . l AX —. Tuesday, the for the Great kier ( Olt, vial appointed for hearing apnea s iltipit:::l division of Bedfordshire, at Bletsoe. A very great 1 44,, ,of persons were . at the Falcon Inn, all day ; very tee not obtain a . he . aring, and were told they might solin g to '' ag •that ete again day foitnight. This was very con kit ' o mparatively po'" . • [nen, wh., had walked ten to fifteen er r N and loud were t the county.— his division of heir complaints. Surely some better fl ierir might be made for t 2146eid ' • 1 ,, : ye Chroni c Se. I ° e Duk e of Nort u rish of families in the pa . & te...and clothing elv h mbArland has distributed t o 800 ha it nd munificence rar ..? e,in aZartin's, an act of charity of the Church Need; but what is the miserab a le_ drawback attached y i,? recipients of his bounty must be members ._. d Dissenter may st,;a9iand -so the poor Roman Catho le 1 f the Noble 1 ) 4 .0 if _they do not co . nform to the cree, o _ he Ito 4:, -the good Samaritan did not ask the faith of tt . bin Israelite, when he poured oil and wine upon his is ee„ Su b forthcoming financial at, t, aP/418 REVENUE.—The his ? le nt of her Majesty's revenue will, ae regards the sur• in st4tn,tlie Treasury, show a balance over the expenditure, it lA i e ", of about three millions. ItteIe,PsTERIAL SCHEMES.—AMONNt other o ffi cial Dre e :. 4 , for the ensuing session, we are told that a rumour the effect tli at ". 4, in some of the Government departments to 4 me !ot.,111:1_, connexion with Sir R. Peel's talked-of sc ade e for for an It s repeal of the corn-laws, a proposal will . be Of 11 - 1 . - of the income tax to 7 1 / 2 per cent. , .a u n i l th .at a part th t D C re ,, l3ea l Plan will be to exempt the agriculturists from Trareent of all will :I kii , tr ll ItATING OF THE CITY o F LONDON . LITERARY Alltt'v ..ItnN%--Thie case, which was adjourned from Satur .,7t, came on for hearing ' before Sir C. Marshall and . , :fir. t e ' ro.an Challi s at Guildhall ; Mr. Clarkson appearing for korp as tl,sh, and Air. Palley for the Institution. rh ra ed‘ritied nearly two hours; the argument being e the same 11'44:iced the previous hearing. Ultimately, it was again stet, : l ied for a fortnight, to enable the parish officers to in ii.‘'le books and accounts of the institution. I:;easeleNt„.!lt, JAN. I,—On the 25th ult., part of a "ogh a ,„ - " L ie (a AN. a schooner's) came with two empty Dort h a '' , and part of the deck at Overstrand onsl re at Sher- A hands tilte thr:118, marked " D naldson and Truman."m •., , e fr' erh - rraed " N. Pindei• " has been picked up, supposed to i 'atter - ,The same wreck ' Which also appears to at ‘la eten un the 2 7th, a ' medicine . chest was washedur and a be wheat u li k e eeri : 6, _ The labels are from Liverpool and Elsirie, , -AL eteuirn, written at Elsineur, , tb 4 184.3.N0rf0/k Chronicle. by J. 0. Mullen, for Captain tv ra , ti."`tt I n 'rut ADELPHL—On Sunday morning, be arm tr ~,,,, welve and one o'clock the family of Mr. Appleya , a,_ el s, street , tre k i b „ i , _Adelphi, newspaper agent, were greatly ° ott e. l e tile discovery of a fire in one of the slee p tt n e g e t. _ oriee ene,sengers were instantly sent to Chandos-s r . eni'in`e station and other laces when in a few minutes two t Pidl; * and ever firemen arrived. The fire burnt very ra in% to ' a,n,(l every p;ecaution was taken to prevent its spread. t ained " other part,. of the house. The firemen soon ob.- , the It nwater, and with 9 aeir usual ability they resorted to trtienest effectual measur i For some short time their e - ,41atele lee Placed in es. very doubtful position ; but ulti '‘ i °, eiti t `‘leY ucceeded,anvoet ' however, until a considerable ..A'reet I , of the household furniture hed been consumed, and I_6os'aniage done to the building. , 15 !eit nfp " 1113 CITY OF SIIIRAZ.—A dispatch has 'the r,,„.rwayded to Lloyd's from the India Board, by order of of , (1,...7_na tessioners for the Affairs of India, enclosing a copy 1 .4, 14, :n r t h from her Majesty's Consul at the Philippine off thelsr"rting the loss of the Bombay ship City of Shiraz, sev td. island of Xegros. Thiee,out of a - crew of forty persons, PATkt p FO UR I,:v.A j a•L TO A GENTLENIA.IY AGED EIGHTY (I4,s at thlt3Cin Saturday evening Mr. Pane held an in '''l t' - ' ' i e . F"untai,l 'rever, St George's-road, Southwark, qn'tliresid, d at No. 3, West. plac'e, EIGHTY in boe eef Mr. Williain Douolas, aged eighty-four, who M e I' rl St. George's. He was in °Jrternstanc•s. On Sunday evening week he left o n ,1 4 ou r le gl )0d health,he for the pUrpose of retiring to rest. tr, (.4411P Stain d the lantlin d g window open and ante eTed to shut it, when it i , hmissed his foot ter„ancl fell backwerds down stmh4ePis)t°;iers by which he sus left ee:tl'ev"re contain -46 u of the'btain ' andfraeture of the 1 eei n , „,- Mr. Hooper, a surgeen attended him till the fol e.k,_l, k uesay, whea he died from the injuries. Verdict-- Le' ""tal deat." atte fte „ 0 i erop , don fro/4? cf th e y r YAAMS —ln consequence of the failure several large orders have arrived in Lon velar n t'ie Weed Indies for supplies of potatoes, which it is L. , laaauleas t.co *ay 11..ive been necessarily rejected. WINDson MoNDAY.—The Queen, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn, walked in the vicinity of the Castle 1 ) t ruci mets some li me t hi s morn i ng. H er Ma j esty and her Continrt again promenaded in the afternoon. rrince rt left the C , stle to shoot this forenoon, ?:y Vi..i•euittJovelyn, aid •ittended by Colonel Ur: mint and Colonel B uverie. IF. .1 t- ken t'.iiir accustomed airings dim• - 1T.,. Their It -3'd Hi,dinesse, the Prince of he Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were rte ont in the afterno,:n. ro3 al dinner party at the Castle this evening will e lf-ifle her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady nr L i riolbe ti s i i i e ‘ y viird, the B, ass de Spiqh, the Rev. Lord Russell, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. lk Anson, and th e H u n. an d R ev. C . L es li e Courtenay. mti military band will att.nd during dinner, and her J e l 4 Y's Private band will afterwards att e nd i s the THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 18.46 THE REVENUE FOR. THE YEA R AND QUARTER ENDING .1 A UARI 5, 1846 No. I.—An Abstract of the NA Produce of the Revenue a Great Bri itain in the Years and Quarters ended sth of Januiry, 1845, arid sth of or Decrease on each head thereof. 12,800,798 1 50,601,988 1 No. 11.--Income and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the sth January, 1845, and the sth January, 1846 Quarters ended Jan. 5. Quarters ended Jan. 5, INCOME, CHARGE. Customs Excise .. Stamps ..... 3,8b8,077 3,247,030 1,601,658 1,880,490 487,541 146,000 50,000 4,334,789 3,353,440 1,792,402 1,876,050 3 , ,6,995 189,000 45,000 369,471 64,094 404,179 Permanent Debt ....... • • ...... ......... Interest on Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund Sinking Fund •. • .. ......... . The Civil List .... • . Other Charges on the Consolidated Fund • • • • • •• • • • • • • • To pay off Exchequer Bills, raised per Act 6 and 7 Vict. c. 87, for Opium Compensation. For Advances • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • • • . Property Tax •• • • • • •• • • • Post-office • • • Crown Lands •• •• • • •• • • • • •• •• • Miscellaneous •• •• • • Imprest and other Moneys ...... • • • Repayments of Advances .•••.... ... 9,190 146,759 250,980 Total Charge •• •• 11,707,725 To Cash brought to this Account to be applied to pay off Deficiency Bills.. 12,815,400 200,000 13,015,400 The Surplus .•• • . • LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY. A general meeting of the Shareholders and others in terested in the above line was held yesterday, at one o'clock, in the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of laying before the meeting the terms of amalgamation entered into with the Yorkshire and Glas gow Union Railway, as also to exhibit the general state of the Company. The chair was taken by Mr. Beresford, M.P. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, The Amount of Exchequer-bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1845, and paid off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846, after deducting 600,0001., paid off out of the Sinking Fund •.. The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund for Supply Services.. • ...... ••• •••• •• —..•••••••••• •• • • • • .. • Ihe Surplus of the Co n s o lid a t e d F und, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846 . ... . ... • • . . . The probable amount of Exchequer-bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1846 The CHAIRMAN said that the Board of DireCtors had agreed to issue that advertisement, for the pur pose of letting the shareholders know the exact position of the Company. They were prepared to give the fullest information on every matter relative to the amalgamation with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union. It was one which the Committee considered to be most advantageous for the Leeds and Carlisle, at the same time that it was equally advantageou. to the other Com pany. He would not, however, then take up the time of the meeting with any lengthened observations, rather choosing to reserve them until a later stage of the pro ceedinizs, when gentlemen might ask any questions, and ' be would give them all the information in his power. But he would beg to say this to the members present, that he was glad to i.tand there as the head of that Board, and to lay everything in the most open manner before them He was also extremely glad to see gentlemen connected with the press present, for, as he br!ore said, they were anxious to conceal nothing. They were in a prosperous condition; the conduct of the Directors had been honest and p-n, and he was sure that many would from their confidence in them become future shareholders. He would now request that the report be read ; the financial accounts would be afterwards given them, and he (the Chairman) would then be happy to give as satisfactory answers as he could to the que.tions which na , ght be put to him.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. W EBB, the Secretary, then read the report as follows : to sanction the formation of that portion of your line first which traverses the lime district, because from the ab sence of difficult or expensive work, this line would not occupy much time in construction, and because the local traffic already alluded to would yield an immediate return, and at the same time a line would be secured, which will afford a much shorter route to Scotland than any now existing or projected, and the shortest possible route to Hull from the north and north-west. " The following is the Financial Statement of this Company, to December 31st, 1845: Cr. By Deposit ... Dr. To Engineering, on Account „ Advertising ••• „ Law Expenses „ Traffic Tables „ Rent. Salaries, Tradesmans' Bills, Travelling. Office Exposes, &e. „ 35,0001. Exchequer-bills (average) 5,681,535 655,612 1,659 842,068 98,087 649,648 871,844 962,001 " Your Committee of Management have much pleasure in laying before you a general statement of their proceedings, and of the position of this Company ; under any circumstances your Committee would have deemed it their duty to have reported to you at an early period the steps that have been taken for prosecuting the object which you charged them with ; but, in the present case, that duty becomes a gratification, because your Committee is enabled to make such a statement of the affairs of this Company as they feel convinced will meet your cordial approval. " Notwithstanding the inauspicious moment at which this Company was brought out, a very great number of shares were paid upon by parties of the highest respects bility, connected by commerce, or by ownership, with the important districts which your line was designed to benefit. In the allotment, the Committee were desirous of conciliating the local interests, and th e y cons id ere d applications from such quarters as having a priority of claim ; whilst they deemed it desirable to allot generally to such as gave assurances that they would hold at least two-thirds of the shares allotted to them. Your Com mittee also conceived that their Scotch applicants should be favourably regarded, especially those of Edinburgh and Glasgow, inasmuch, as the saccess of your Bill would be identical with the interest of those important cities. The total amount of deposits received is 102,909/.. 17s. 6d. The Committee of Ma nagement have the pleasure of informing their share holders that ninety-one members of the Provisional Committee of this Company have paid the deposit on the total number of the shares allotted to them. " The line adopted by your Committee commenced at a j unc tion with the Leeds and Thirsk' line, at Hors• forth Wood, four miles north of Leeds, and passing Rawden, Yeadon, and Guiseley, to Ilkley, it continued up Wharfe Dale to Hawes, and thence through Ap pleby to its junction with the Lancaster and Carlisle' line, at Clifton, 19 miles south of Carlisle ; thus forming the most direct route from London and Leeds to Car lisle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. The length of this line is 81 miles, and presents practicable working gradients ; although to obtain these some heavy works are requisite, especially at Stakefells. These, however, your Com mittee hope to considerably reduce and amend. "In all the proceedings of your Committee it has been their policy to cultivate a friendly understanding with those companies with which your line is connected, and this spirit has been responded to generally ; the Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company,' with which your line is more directly connected, having offered every facility both for a junction and running on the line on fair and reasonable terms; whilst the 'Caledonian Rail way' Directors have expressed to your Committee, that they view any direct communication from Leeds and the centre of Yorkshire, to Carlisle, as important to the interests of that Company. " In 'prosecuting your Bill through Parliament you twould `Yorkshireh av e caonndtenGdlaarsegsoywoeueßtr:sit.lioanfecsot Company,' whose with ose respects, interests were, in manyw i fro e m nti c ca l l ift with those H of this Company, and (about 30 miles) ran parallel to your own ; thence to e we i s t passed down the valley of the Yure, through Askrig g , Leyburn, and Bedale, to Thirsk , on the Great N ort h of England Railway,' and (by a branch of seven miles) to Wadi (near Ripon) forming a junction with the • Leeds and Thirsk' line. This line had the ad vantage over your own, in points of practicability and cheapness of construction, the whole being laid down without a tunnel, or any expensive work. This Company, as well as the 'Leeds and is supported by strong local influence, and affords a complete line of communication between London, Leeds, Carlisle, and Scotland, and by far the shortest and most direct route from Scotland to the important port of Hui!. After mature consideration, your Com mittee considered it to be for the interest of this Com pany to enter into an amalgamation with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' as thereby heavy Parliamentary expense will be avoided, and by this union an important national scheme carried out. " Your Committee were gratified to find that such disposition was cordially responded to by the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Company,' which agreed to enter into an amalgamation on terms of perfect equality. Your Committee have the satisfaction of in forming you that the following terms have been entered into accordingly, viz. : " Ist. That an amalgamation be formed between the Leeds and Carlisle' and the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Companies' on terms of perfect equality. " 2d. That the affairs of the amalgamation Com pany be managed by a Direction chosen in equal num bers from the Committees of Management of bath Com panies. " 3d. That as one of the two lines running parallel to each other from Clifton to Hawes, viz.:—that of the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway,' was found to present on comparison better gradients and to be less expensive in construction, that line be adopted, and the other abandoned. " 4th. That the amlgamated Company do proceed in the ensuing session for a Bill to construct the main line down the valley of the Yure to Wath, near Ripon, on the ' Leeds and Thirsk Railway' (with a short branch to Thirsk, on the Great North of England Railway'), thereby opening a direct communication from Glasgow and Carlisle to Leeds, York, and Hull, and through them to the south. That the line from near Hawes to Leeds, by the Valley of the Wharfe, be sent in as a project only this session, in order to obtain possession of the ground, should the traffc demand at a future time two lines of communication between the north and south of England. " sth. That the stock of the amalgamated Company be contributed in equal proportions, and that each Com pany pay their own expenses up to the day of amalga :nation. " It has been already proved to the satisfaction of your Committee that the local traffic on the Yorkshire and Glasgow' line, independent of the through traffic, will be fully sufficient to reumerate the outlay of capi tal. The important it: of lime alone will yield a con siderable revenue, as the line passes through the finest fields of limestone in Yorkshire, and the inexhaustible supply which these yield, gives an ample security that the demand will be extensive and continuous; whilst the quantity of coal which will be necessary for burning the lime, will give a remunerative back carriage, and vastly ii , crea.e the prement lar,e consumption in the district. " It has been a strung inducement to your Committee 9,062,458 2,645,257 11,707,725 4,325,724 4,275,316 5,660,472 628,805 1,314,075 98,072 423,583 615,077 8,740,084 4,275,316 13,015,400 229,884 50,408 280,252 ••• ... ... £102,949 17 6 £6,000 0 0 1,008 11 6 570 0 0 1,000 0 0 at 255. prem. „ Rink Socurity „ Balance in hands of Company's Bankers, in London and th.:, Country ... Mr. GEO. JONES suggested that as there were only twelve gentlemen present to represent a Company whose capital exceeded two millions, they had better wait a short while longer to allow of other shareholders attending. The CHAIRMAN said, at the breaking up of the last meeting, several Shareholders requested that the ad journed meeting might be held punctually at one, be cause it was a great inconvenience for men of business to attend at that hour, and then to be kept waiting for a considerable time. Mr. JONES asked if the vote of the gentlemen present was to be taken as final ? The CHAIRMAN replied that all he could say was that if the Shareholders would not attend, it was not the fault of the Directors, but it placed them in an unplea sant position. Mr. SMIRKS said he never heard of the last meeting till after it had taken place, and then it was by accident that he saw it reported in the papers. The Directors ought to do more than advertise these meetings. They ought ta forward notices of them to every Shareholder. He had never seen their Company mentioned in a news pap -T, except in Spilleman's list in the Times. Ultimately it was agreed that the business should be delayed for half an hour. At the expiration of that time the attendance of Shareholders had become more numerous, and the Chairman requested the Secretary to read the answers to the applications he had previously alluded to. The first was from Mr. Thomas Lawrence, of Saint Mary Axe, who denied ever having applied for shares in the Company, and declared that his name had been placed on the Provisional Committee without his know ledtze or consent. _ _ The next was from Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who said he had paid the deposits on his shares, amounting to 5251., and requesting to know when he could sign the contract deed. The next was from Mr. Humfreys, of 68, Old Broad street, who requested to have his name immediately wi!hdrawn from the Provisional Committee. Mr. JONES asked who this gentleman was ? The SECRETARY replied that Mr. Humfreys was the father of their former solicitor, and he was allotted 200 shares at the request of his son. The next was from Lieutenant White, of her Ma jesty's ship Ocean, who expressed his inability to pay the deposits at present. The next was from Mr. William Harding, of Croydon, who said he was unable to accept more than ten shares, and he was ready and willing to pay upon that number. The next was from Mr. Charles Butler, who declared that he had long ceased to be a committeeman, and had never accepted any shares. The SECRETARY said it was true Mr. Butler was not one of the Massaging Committee, but he had never with drawn his name from the Provisional Committee. Mr. Butler, moreover, had attended some of the preliminary meetings of the Managing Committee. Several HoN. PROPRIETORS deprecated the system of allow;ng Provisional Committeemen to act at these meet ings who had formally accepted shares. The last letter was from Mr. Butler, solicitor, of Furnival's Inn, who stated that Mr. Horne, Mr. Bowyer, ani Mr. Phillips, were willing to pay upon their shares if the undertaking were carried out, or to bear their share of the expenses if it were not. The SECRETARY said these were the oak, replies he had received to 128 applications. Mr. C. GREEN aished to know how many of the Provisional Committee had paid the deposits upon their shares ? The CHAIRMAN replied that out of 130 only 16 had paid. This, however, was exclusive of the Managing Committee. The next business to be brought before them was the minutes of the proceedings which the Sub- Committee had taken for negotiating an amalgamation with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company, which, with their permission, the secretary would read. From these minutes it appeared that the negotiation had resulted in an offer from the Northern and Southern Connecting Company to amalgamate, provided it was effected upon t..e basis that three Metropolitan Junction shares, upon which a call of 12s. per share should be made, were equal to one share in the other Company. The CHAIRMAN said the Managing Directors had re turned no answer to this offer, preferring rather to leave it to be done by that meeting. He might state, however, that about an hour ago a member of the Pro visional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con necting Company assured him that the Company was not in such a position as to induce him to recommend them to amalgamate with it. Mr. KEMP, one of the Directors, said the opposite Company had represented that they had 30,0001 but their plans were not lodged till Monday, the Ist of De cember, while they had duly lodged their plans on the 29th of November, but had only 10,000/. left to go on with. Now, if the promoters of the Northern and South ern Company had been deceiving them in the negotia tion, no language could be used sufficiently strong to denounce such duplicity. They ought to ascertain who the Shareholders of the Company were, and get them to unite in obtaining that which they could not do if sepa rated. Their line was a good one, the plans were most perfect, and if the Northern and Southern Company would aid them with 30,0001., it would be the best scheme that could be brought before Parliament. If, however, the Northern and Southern Company failed them, there was the South-Eastern and the Northern and Eastern Companies, who he had not the slightest doubt would be most ready to assist them. Mr. VETCHER, of Exeter, submitted to the meeting whether it would not be better to break up the Company at once than spend the little they had left. The South- Eastern Company would have enough to do next ses sion to get out of their own difficalties, without taking up those of any other Company ; and if he was not mistaken, the Norther!. and Eastern was in the same position. At the last meeting it was stated that the receipts were 28,0001. and the expenditure 17,0001., and he for one thought, if this were a true state of the ac counts, they were most unsatisfactory, Mr. KEMP said the sums stated at the previous meet ing were erroneous. The receipts it had been ascer tained were 17,000 L, and the expenditure only 10,000/. Now, was it worth their while to sacrifice the valuable property they had purchased for this 10,000/., b ecause they were not in a position to carry out a whim of the House of Commons ? Mr. VETCHER said the Directors appeared to be in doubt altogether about the accounts; and how any set of men—how any secretary or solicitor—could carry on a concern of that magnitude, and not know the exact amount of their liabilities, be was at a loss to understand. He could not trust them any longer, and he should move that the Company be dissolved. Mr. CHARLES GREENE seconded the motion, and said he was induced to do so from a thorough distrust of the parties into whose hands their affairs had fallen. Was it not the fact that some of the funds had been appro priated to buying up the allotment letters and scrip of their own line ? The CHAIRMAN replied that such ce r t a i n l y was the case, but at the time it was done it was a very common thing, and the course was appliuded. H e h ad since shares were the ere Directors could dibought ascertained that it was a bad system, and h e would never give his consent to it again. Thesh o be appointed wi m th r a . Ge view rEov e. o nojfointerestNEsbenefiting m ove fromdan the Company,tlie purchase. amend mem, to th e e ff ec t Southern to thatn eagnCommitteenegotiate Connectingtwith tohfeCompany, Shareholders o p nny, shareholders in the No rt h ern and sandh see if if an =alga_ illation favourable to both parties could not be brought about. Mr. PAYNE seconded the amendment, and it was ultimately carried by a very large majority. The Committee was then appointed, and, at the request of the Chairman, authorised to investigate the accounts of the Company. Mr. GREENE wished to know what th ey i nten d e d to d fr o eed wi ftrhom all liabilities the deafbaiullittiiensg?Directors were they to be The CHAIRMAN was as anxious as any one that the Provisional Committee should pay 'V, b ut he wanted to know how they could reach a provisional committee man ? They could only proceed against him by filing a bill in equity, but that couli not be done without the consent of every shareholder. Mr. GREENE said there was no help for them but by exposing the defaulters. Some of them had the reputation of being , ' respectable men, but he did not t hi n k they would keep it long. Thanks ware then voted to the Chai-man, and the meeting broke up, after a very protracted sitting. January, 1846, showing the Increase QUARTERS ENDED YEAS QUARTIIIIB ENDED A YEAS i ended ; t --^ , ended , r_______„„. Year ended_ , Jan. 5. 4.4l4___arter ended Jan. 5. April 5, July 5, Oc.. 10, Jan. 5, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, Jan. 5, „Tan, 5, 1 1844 1844 1844 1845 1845 1845 1845 1845 1846 1846 ' Increase.! Decrease. Increase. Decrease. £ £ X X X X X £ ,*:, X 1 X X X X Customs • Exciie................ 1,852,689 3,115,592 3,96'0,890 3,230,940 12,160,111 1,917,485 2,965,684 3,955,106 3,339,837 12,177,112 E xc i se .... „ „ ..., 17,001 .. • • 107,607 Stamps. •• .• ... •• • • ... 1,639,011 1,705,033 1,665,688 1,601,658 6,611,390 1,742,461 1,837,076 1,780,175 1,792,402 7,152,114 1 84amps .••••• • • • • • 540,724 .... 190,744 - - Taxes ..., 7,354 .... • • • • 4,439 P, operty Tax ...... •• • • 1,992,859 752,485 1,958,711 487,541 5,191,596 1,905,711 *9,991 1,823,883 386,995 5,026,570 ' Property Tax.... .. .... 165,021 .... 100,556 P6st-office . 174,000 155,000 200,000 146,000 675,000 178,000 155,000 209,000 189,000 731,000 , Post-ffic . . ..... .. 56,000 .... 43,000 - Crown Lands...... .• .. 65,000 30,000 10,000 50,000 155,000 35,1100 30,000 30,000 25,000 120,000 , Crown Lout's...... 9,190 693,630 415,016 13,652 465,102 369,471 1,263,241 , Miscellaneous .... .. 569,611 -.. - 3 . 5 . '00' 360,2 ' 81 25,000 Miscellaneous . .... .... 41,292 422,187 220,961 - Total Ordinary Revenuehlo,sl3,9B3 13,039,406 14,220,544 12,307,954 50,081,887 10,742,124 12,411,518 13,312,908 12,332,535 48,799,085 ! Total .. Imprest Moneys, &e, .. 54,244 49,018 28,117 146,759 278,138 206,007 29,262 24,591 G 4,084 323,944 11 Imprest 3loneys,&c. 45,806 .... .... 82,675 - RepaymentsofAdvances 226,284 274,557 123,692 250,980 675,513 418,545 182,354 473,881 404,179 1,478,959 j RepainntsofAdyncs D G oe ^ d : iu 4 , 4 t 6 633,551 9 1 5 5 , 3 1 , 0 1 5 99 1 Total Income ... 10,794,511 13,362,981 14,372,353 12,705,693 i 51,235,53 s 11,766.676 12,623,134 13,811.380 12,800,798 150,601,988 I! Total .... •• • • 1,839,942 2,473,49: 855,121 760,016 Amount applied to Con- I I solidated Fund ...... 7,635,972 8,994,078 11,264,625 9,830,758 37,725,433 7,273,077 8,255,562 8,869,973 7,859,997 32,258,609 II the Year. Increase Decrease Decrease. Increase on the Q D ua e rt th e le r t . Ditto, as Advances 240,000 177,276 184,225 262,001 863,502 , 380,000 101,501 550,000 615,077 1,646,578 1,839,91t 760,016 Ditto, as Ways & Means !! of the Year• ••••• • • • • 2,919,539 4,191,627 2,923,503 2,612,934 i 12,646,603 3,713,599 4,266,471 , 4,391,407 4,325,724 16,606,891 i Total ... • • 10,794,511 13,362,981 14,372,353 '12,705,693 , 51,235,538 01,366,679 112,623,134 13,811,380 12,800,7981 50,601,988 k THE RUGBY, DERBY, AND MAN-1 MAGAZINES.--((CONTINUED.) CHESTER RAILWAY. i DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Some curious disclosures on the subject cf railway I To sustain the national character of this number, management have been made in the report of a meeting 1 the Dublin University Magazine commences and of the shareholders in the Rugby, Derby, and Manche, ! terminates with an article of strictly Irish interests, ter Railway, which took place on the 17th oh., and oft and animated with a strictly Irish spirit; the first, which copies in print have since been pretty extensively entitled "Prizes in the Lottery of Repeal," sifts and distributed. From this report it appears that the pr~- I - scrutinizes that oft- s ift e d an d o f t - scrut i n i zed question Exchange, and Mr. Brewer, solicitor of Gray's Inn, wile; of the L eg i s l a ti ve un i on b etween the sister islands. became t h e reg i stered promoters of the undertaking, ; Though the writer evidences a tolerable share of and in connexion with some other parties who s ee n e t acumen, and a very large proportion of earnestness named, the prospectus was issued, an engineer and l in his mode of combatting the opinions of Mr. secretaries engaged, surveys entered upon, and the 1 O'Connell and his partisans, we must remonstrate support of parties locally inareqed obt a i ne d b e fo re the against such an over-lavish cataract of acrimony as Company as constituted at this meeting was form, d. : that with which he saturates the unfortunate gentle- On the 22d of September a meeting took place, b-e tween the pr omoters and a number of gentlemen, a het i titan whopresumed to pen three prize es sa y s , a t th e • ey. we so satisfied with t h e representations mede to i insti e atio •n of the Repeal - Association. Nor does it them, that they p roce( ded to establish the Company. savour much of elegan ce i n compos i t i on or suav i ty in to settle the amount of capital, the apportionment i temperament, to say of one unhappy wight that "he of shares, and other routine matters of the sun? 1 turns from it with that feeling of relief, which a kind. Assurances were given on this occasien that the 1 demonstrator experiences in quitting a putrid subject of surveys were in such a state of forwardness as to all o y : . 1 morbid anatomy, the corruption of which has disgusted the deposit of the plans as early as the 10th of Novelle- I his audience, the effluvium from which has sickened his bee. A committee of manageme n t was appointel to I class." Besides the somewhat unpalateable flavour of work the details of the undertaking, to whom a report I this article in its composition, we rather deprecate of progress was made by Mr. Blunt, in which it was 1 the l selection of a subject which ' has been worn, not affirmed that "between Ashbourne and Leek (where it I th e kaleidoscopic threadbare, was said that engineering difficulties existed) the tun- but to very rags and tatters, by kaleidoscopic speeches of "the Liberator" alone; nelling would be only one mile, the earthwork would i cost 3s. a yard, and the material procured in cuttin g I we say kaleidoscopic advisedly, since the same could be sold for Is. 2d. a yard, reducing the cost to I materials, nothing more, and nothing less, are ever ls. lod. a yard. There would be no curve with a radius Present—" Repeal," " Saxons," " College-green," less than li mil es , w hi c h cou ld b e i ncrease d t o t wo " Iri s h P ar li ament, " &c., being the bits of coloured miles. The ste e p es t gra di en t wou ld b e I i n 240 ; glass, and the whole merely requiring another shake and therefore, so far from that part of the line to forma fresh oration. We theref ore recommen d t h e being diffi cu lt, it was remar k a bl e for engineering faci- writer of this article to select in future some less cities." These and similar statements creating per. hackneyed theme. The concluding paper is a digest feet confidence, the di s t r ib u ti on o f s h ares took place. of what is called the present " Social Disorganisation As time advanced, the committee, in order to in Ireland." In a memoir of Wolfgang Amadeus insure the material points of the timely deposit Mozart, the illustrious musician, which is here headed of the plans and compliance with the standing " The Prodigy of Salzburg," we are charmed with a orders of Parliament, appointed Messrs. Humphrys, Keightley, and Parkin, solicitors to the company, giving certain esprit de core, which displays much enthusi " • them the sole di rect i on an d control of their Parliamen- assn f or the divine art in th e abstract, and for the tary business. The plans were ultimately obtained, but 1 young prodigy in particular; still we mustabe per in r defective state, and they failed theref ore i n th e i r mitted to dissent in some measure from the ultra first stage. On the 2d of December, the new solicitors, laudation of this fine original. Though, without having had time to investigate the company's affairs, doubt, Mozart was the first " who rescued the world sent a report to the committee that matters were alto- from the dull depths of counterpoint," and infused gether different from what they had been led to expect, what had previously been somethin little short of that the engineerin g diffi cu lti es were very great, and mechanical ingenuity, the throbbing of the human that another surv e y mus t b e ma d e b e f ore t h e po li cy of heart and the stirring of the human intellect, we are going on with the projected line could be determined. not on that account to place him above all his sue 'his led the committee to appoint another surveyor censors, however marvellous his compositions may be (Mr. Hawkshaw), and to call the present meeting, to . whom his report, dated on the 15th of December, was themselves. ' That was agrand triumphof - in.‘,, genius, as presented. It proved the reverse in nearly all respects suredly in 'I . ~ dorneneo where he pourtrays the heroine's of that made in the first instance, stating th e jealousy by the beatings of her heart in octaves; but engineering difficulties to be of the most formidable admirable as are such examples of his capacity to in kind, that the probable cost of the line between novate, he undoubtedly has his superiors in most of Derby and Macclesfield would be 50,0001. a the different classes of music : Haydn as a composer mile, and that the tunnels and viaducts alone could not of masses, Rossina for the more intense, and Weber be executed in all probability for less than 1,000,0001. for the more fantastic and wierd kinds of Operas, The plans and sections were full of blunders, assigning, and Beethoven the Giant Em of his for example, a hei g ht t o b r id ges un d er w hi c h t h e trains p could not pass, and in fin e , Mr. Hawk s h zw d ec l ared art, Beethoven—th e qu i n t esscence o f di v i ne discords— that he could not un d er t a k e to support the li ne as at he of whom we once h ear d an em i nent li v i ng musician present laid out. The committee could, th ere f ore, only de c l are th a t h e b egan w h ere Mozart and Haydn left recommend that the company should be dissolved, its off—Beethoven in all. An exquisite dissertation on affairs wound up, and the assets divided among the " Old Letters," by Elizabeth Youatt, follows, and is shareholders. They had received the deposit of fruitful of sweet thoughts and pensive memories. No. 2/. 12s. 6d. on 30,600 shares, producing 80,325!.. out of 11. of " Irish Rivers" carries us very swimmingly eludedpaid about t O, OOO l. 6,0 r. painting the scenery on either side with much bril services. With regard to these claims, ho wever , an d Brewer, who claimed further larg e sums f or their Haney and N at ura l ness of colour. Of the dinpeminge s " also " with regard t o th e p owe r or r i g ht o f th e cone- into Ottoman Poetry" we can speak with ex tr " mince to require from the promoters a proportionate delight. The Kasseed i n p ra i se o f the Prophet A.. hmed," even as a transl a ti on , h as i n it the rush and part of the e x p e ns es i ncurre d i n res p ect o f t h e s h ares oam, and boil and eddies of a t orrent am i dst the reserved for them, the committee w ill b e gu id e d b y f professional advice." Tpis re p o rt was rece i ve d an d woods. The "Adventures of J ose ph Pi tts, " a adopted by the meeting, the immediate payment of kind of Alexander Selkirk in his way, is , most 1/. IN. a share was orde, ed, and the balance, when the interesting narrative of adventure ; followed by accounts are wound up, i s t o b e di str ib ute d ratea bl y a cont i nuat i on cf a very clever analysis of " Ariosto's among the sh are h o ld ers . Th us a hi g hl y respectable Poetry. " Immediately after this Mr. Newman is body of men, as the greater part of those who have ad- scored with the dagger of invective, and the raw vanced their money appear to be, through their credulity wounds eaten into by the caustic of satire, in a re in listening to parties who ought not to have been trusted in so important a matter without more inquiry, have to view of the ex-Protestant's last work in defence of apportion this he av y l oss among t h em . Of 87 gentle- himself and his convers i on . I n many o f th e send men on the provi s i ona l comm i ttee , to eac h of whom 100 meats expressed by the author of the Defences," a kindaper, entitled shares were a ll o tt e d, th e w h o l e , b ut w i t h fi ve exceptions, " Present Stat e o f our N a ti ona l are stated to have taken up their shares and paid the synopsis of a work recently published by Lord Ra deposits upon them. The "compensation" assigned to nelagh, we most cordially coincide; and the follow the promoters was " the patronage of 15,000 shares " for ing paragraph in particular we recommend to the the time and attention given to the scheme. and pecu• perusal of every one who is desirous of knowing niary risk incurred in its concoction. These fine pros- " the rights of the case;"— pects were soiledpo by the interference of the Times, " England should no longer consider herself simply as and the ahich stopped the issue of shares, pre- an insular power, protected by the ocean, and safe vent - without doubt th e greater part of this, now de- from attack as long as her naval superiority continues. (dared worthless, scrip from b e i ng sa ddl e d on t h e public. She can no long e r re ly upon w i nd and tide for baffling —Times. rF , e approach of an enei • 'fir ' WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, will leave the Castle for Claremont on Tuesday next, taking their departure from Windsor imme diately after an early luncheon. It is expected that the infant Prince Alfred will also accompany his illustrious parents. The Court, according to present arrangements, will remain at Claremont until Friday week, the 16th instant, on which day it will return to the Castle. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince Consort, will tak e h er departure from Windsor for Buckingham Palace on the following Tuesday, the 20th, two clays before the opening of the session of Parliament. The Court is shortly afterwards expected to return to the Castle for about a month or six weeks. The Duke of Wellington has had invitations issued for his customary Parliamentary banquet on the 21st instant, the eve preceding the assembling of both Houses of Parlia ment. Above sixty Conservative Peers are invited. FUNERAL OF THE LATE COLONEL GURWOOD, DE PUTY-LIEUTENANT OF THE TOWER.—The remains of this lamented officer were brought into the Tower in a hearse on Wednesday night. at half-past nine o'elock, and deposited in the vault behind the church. The funeral, which was strictly private, took place on Saturday, at half-past eleven o'clock. The body, enclosed in a coffin covered with black cloth, was brought into the church, when the burial service was per formed by the Rev. H. Dunnage, curate. A few of the de ceased's private friends attended, amongst whom were : the Spanish Ambassador, Major-General Brown, Colonel Grant, Colonel Home, Colonel Rowan, Major Shadwell Clark, Sir Henry Webster, and Captain Lord Frederick Paulet. The body was then carried back to the vault, where it was finally deposited. COLONEL GURWOOD.—We have received the follow ing communication :—" On the point of quitting Paris to pay the last sad duties to my lamented half-brother, Colonel Gurwood, I read in the Messenger the re port of the Coroner's inquest, in which no notice is taken of a serious wound he received in the head in the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, in which he led the forlorn hope. How much this has from time to time affected him is known to some of his friends, and particularly to Sir Robert Chermside, late surgeon of the 10th Hussars, in which my brother served for many years. On account of his wound, he was obliged to abstain from wine for many years, and to the last he had a habit of throwing back his head, and the expression of his features showed that he was some times in great pain.—l remain, &c., C. °KEY.— Galignani. Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Mayor of Limerick, in which he states that he declines to attend the repeal dinner in that city, fixed for the 21st instant, in con sequence of his determination to attend in his place in the House of Commons on the opening of the session, in order to give his support to a repeal of the corn-law. The members of the Princess's orchestra have pre sented to Mr. F. Eames, the leader, a valuable snuff-box, whereon the following testimonial is inscribed :—" Presented to Frank Eames, Esq., by the gentlemen of the orchestra of the Princess's Theatre, as a mark of their esteem. January 1, 1846."—Dramatic and Musical Review. AN ARTFUL ROBBERY.—On Saturday information was given that on Friday evening, between seven and eight, a large quantity of hosiery, a number of merino dresses, shirts, ribands, and other property, belonging to Messrs. Neville and Co., of Gresham-street, City, was stolen. Their porter was carrying the goods in a large canvas bag, when a matt who was driving a country-looking cart offered to give him a lift with his load, which appeared to be a rather heavy one, and he, availing himself of the offer, placed his bag in the cart. In the Strand, however, when near Wellington street, he went into a public-house to procure some drink, and while he was so occupied the accommodating carter dis appeared with the horse and cart, and with them Messrs. Neville and Co.'s bag of goods. The carter is described as about forty years of age, rather stout, and of middling height, with sandy hair and whiskers, and wearing a velveteen jacket. An incendiary fire broke out at Needingworth, Hunts, on Wednesday evening last, about five o'clock, on the premises of a person named Cave, jun. The destructive element raged with considerable fury, and destroyed two barns, &c., the property of Mr. Frank, postmaster, St. Ives. s last Strong suspicion rests upon the tenant Cave, and we under stand tr ja i ._ h c e a mb has n b .dg e apprehended,e e n chronicle. ELECTIONEERING ON DIT.—We are assured b and committed to take hi s w that our county will be contested, on the first vacancy, .y either the Hon. H. A. Cole or Lord Henry Loftus.—Ennis killen Reporter. murdered another by cutting his throat with a r azor. The murderer was surprised in the fact, and arrested immediately. The motive of this crime is not know n . month he the eurch theatre of D .f e i- a Gi rol dreadfula m i n c i, ri a m t e. Naples, ne ecclesiastica A letter from Venice of the 26th ult. states that im mediately paid a visit to the Duchess de Berry, at the Van the Emperor of Russia arrived thither on the 24th., and im dramini Palace. HARWICIL—The Liberal elector s o f t hi s borough aroused by the late events , appear to be casting their eyes about them, and preparing fur another eloction. A meeting of electors was held at the Three Cups T avern, on the 22d ult., for the purpose of considering a requ i s i t i on to John Bagshaw, Esq., the High St ewar d of the borough, to offer himself as a candidate, in the event of a vacancy in the re presentation. Mr. L. Cottingham took the chair, and urged that it was a matter of pa ramount importance with' the elec tors to use their most strenuous exertions to bring about a more healthy state of things, and not to miss so favourable an opportunity of showing that they had honesty and patriotism sufficient to r e d eem th e cre di t o f the borough by returning to Parliament a gentleman who had an important stake in the town, and its interests at heart. Mr. Alderman Johnson and W. C. Randfield, Esq., took part in the proceed ings, and it was resolved that the requisition to Mr. Bagshaw should be signed by those present, and a committee was ap pointed to wait upon the electors with it.—Ckel maford Chronicle. Amy'. to sea has now become a _ . great highway, to 11)(4 traversed with a certainty and c• lerity which greatly increases our exposure to inva sion, as well as multiplies the chances of success which may attend the attempt of an Enterprising enemy. lied Napoleon, when he congregated his great army of invasion at Boulogne, had the same certainty which might now be calculated upon of effecting a sudden descent upon our coast, of which the first notice might be the landing of one hundred thousand men upon some point where we were unprepared t meet them ' we may depend upon it that hi s vas t army, would not have resembled the old cat in the a d age , and that an attempt would be made to bring the war into our own country, from which very disastrous consequences might be apprehended." Altogether, this month's number of the Dublin University possesses much that is entertaining and much that is instructive. HOOD'S MAGAZINE. Out of the ten articles, which constitute the prin cipal portion of Hood's Magazine this month, there are no less than seven " continuations," a fault of the most intolerable description and incessant recurrence in periodical literature ; yet, in spite of this, some very pleasant morsels might be culled from the pre sent number. Charles Rowcroft, the accomplished editor, " leads off" with three additional chapters to his "Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land:" one of them descriptive of a fight with the natives, is fraught with all possible spirit, and fills the imagination of the reader with the clicking of muskets, the confusion, the shrieks, and the stormy cries of the combatants. So inimitably picturesque and natural is the little sketch of drowsiness with which the succeeding chap ter finishes, that we cannot resist giving it to the reader entire : " He sat gazing at the fire, and listening to catch the slightest sound ; but all was still, and the vast bush seemed buried in universal repose. The stars above his head, and the moon which gradually rose, sued their quiet light over the tranquil scene ; but there was no stir of any living thing. The corporal gazed at the sky, and the kangaroo's leg which was roasting, alternately. He looked at the fire and thought of his night bivouacs in former campaigns, and of his old comrades whom disease or the shot of the enemy had long since sent to their last homes. At last his eyes began to blink—and wink—at the fire ;—and the light of the moon—and the twinkling of the stars—faded from his sight ;—he thought he was still awake—but even as he determined not . . . to . . . give way . . . to the drowsy . . . oppression . . . which . . . mastered him • . . his eyes closed—and the wearied soldier slept." A ludicrous account of an examination before an alderman is introduced in this, the thirteenth part, of " The Chronicles of the Fleet ;" and " The Bar of England," which follows, proceeds with its usual dis play of book-worming. More interest is introduced into the second of the °' The Three Letters," wh . h ives one an inkling of the probable denouement. Ele anor Darby's lyric of " The Two Ministers" lacks neither sense nor prettyness, though some of her thoughts are somewhat over-trite; for example, when she ob serves that the furrows implanted by Care ar e wo rse than the wrinkles drawn by Time. " A State Se cret" is tolerable, but rather diffuse ; and " A Visit to Greystone Hall" affords us an agreeable ramble away from the atmosphere of London, without the trouble of discarding our slippers for our Welling tons. Those who love half an hour's raking amidst the flue and cobwebs of our language, will find some assistance to their researches in " English Etymo logy," a short paper crammed full of information. " Currency and Corn," a straightforward, sensible, and meritorious article from the portfolio of the editor, forms an excellent con?lusion to a very good budget of contributions. DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. This, the monthly organ of the English Roman Catholics, has now been in existence for a year, and the editor states, in his ad iress to his readers, that al though at first difficulties beset his career, yet the circulation has increased from month to month, and henceforward the character of the magazine is secured " as the only monthly organ of English Catholicism." And well may English Catholicism be proud of such an organ. Without abating one iota from what they conceive to be the truth, the conductors of this magazine have enforced their opinions without bitterness, without dogmatism, and have, thereby, set a rare example of moderation to Christian po lemics; an example which, we fear, will be more ad mired than followed. The novel of the " Countess Clemence" is continued ; and we have, as usual, many papers on subjects connected with the progress of Roman Catholicism. Perhaps the most interest ing article in the number is the one entitled " Anec dotes of Louis XV111.," chiefly compiled, as the author says, from the memoirs of that monarch, written by himself. From this article we extract the following anecdote of an adventure, which places the chivalrous honour of King Joachim (Murat) in a very favourable light : " When, in 1793, the Comte de Provence journeyed incognito with d'Avaray from Hamm to Turin, he had a carious rencontre in a Swiss inn, which be thus de scribes : DARING ROBBERY.—In the night of Tuesday, the 23d ult., a most daring robbery was committed on the pre mises of Mr. Samuel Hardy, farmer and maltster, Eckington. Admittance was gained to the malthouse by picking the lock ; and about three cwt. of hops, which had been put up in sacks ready to be sent off the next day, were abstracted therefrom. It is supposed that the hops must be concealed somewhere in the vicinity, as, from their great bulk, they could not be carried far. We understand that Mr. Hardy has offered a handsome reward for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty parties. —Derby Repot ter. ALARMING DISAPPEARANCE.—We perceive that Mr. T. D. Townsend, of Pond Hall, Felsted, whose alarming disappearance from home was noticed in our paper of the 19th ult., has not yet been heard of by his friends, who have (.ffered a reward of 501. for information respecting him.— Ewe. Standard. " We fell in here with two Frenchmen. One of them was attached to the embassy of the Republic, the other was a free and easy youth, whose arrogant demeanour attracted my attention. He wore a captain's epaulettes, and I took a fancy to enter into conversation with him. My companions withdrew, and left us togethe r . I was passing myself for an Englishman, on his road to Italy. Monsieur,' said I, as I approached the stranger, Is it long since you left France?' " Ile started, examined me from top to toe with an 989 16 4 35,907 16 3 35,000 0 0 22,473 13 5 E. E. £102,949 17 6 " BERESFORD, Chairman. " C. LOCOCK WEBB, Secretary. Grealiam Rooms, Basinghall-street, London, sth January, 1845." The CHAIRMAN then said, that if any gentleman had a question to ask that was the moment to do so, and if not then, he (the Chairman) should move the adoption of the report, and its circulation among the shareholders both in town and country. Mr. COLLETT, M.P., rose to second its adoption, when Mr. CARLISLE said, that he would ask the chairman one question. The amount placed to account of pr-- liminary expenses was exceedingly small, as compared with other companies of an equal extent—(Hear, hear) —that amount being. little more than 9,000/. Might he be allowed to ask if the balance yet due was very large? The CHArrimAN —No, certainly not. The meeting would perceive that 6,0001. was placed to the account of Sir John Rennie, their engineer. That gentleman had, however, before the terms of the amalgamation were agreed on, sent in by desire of the Committee his account, which amounted to some 12,800 and odd pounds. He (the Chairman) and the Board considered this charge un warrantable, and demurred to pay it. Sir John Rennie then wrote a, letter—he (the Chairman) had it then in his possession)--desiring to be informed of the solicitor to the Company's name, that he might commence pro ceedings thereon. The Directors were determined to defend the action, and he was sure that the shareholders would not flinch from supporting them.—(Cheers.) The advertising expenses had been but trifling, and in that department there were but f.tw accounts remaininc , due. The law expenses we re p u t d own at 5701.," that being the amount advanced for making up the registry-books, in accordance with the standing orders. They had, since the terms of amalgamation had been agreed on, stopped the serving of notices, which would considerably abridge the expenses. The other parties would serve them, and that Company would share the ex penses with them. The traffic tables might be thought to cost a high price, but they had employed the eminent traffic-taker, Mr. Humphrey Brown, and his services, however high they might seem charged, were worth the money.—(Hear, hear.) The traffic to be realised was, he was informed by Mr. Brown, most satisfactory.— (Ikar, hear.) The rent, salaries, &c., had all been paid up to the latest moment, and they were aware, from the financial statement, in what position the Com pany stood with regard to Exchequer-bills. Mr. CARLISLE was exceedingly glad to hear the ex planation given by the Chairman. It might have ap peared to others as extraordinary as it did to himself, that the expenses should have been so extremely mode rate, and, like himself, too, some members might have suspected that the answer would have been far from satisfactory. He was glad that it was not so ; he was doubly glad that he bad put the question, for now the meeting knew the exact position in which they stood. Mr. BOYD (as we understood) asked what was the position of the amalgamating Company ? The CHAIRMAN had gone down last week into York shire to confer with the Board of Directors of the other Company, and a more agreeable set of persons he had not often met with.—(Hear.) Himself and five gentle men had gone down, and they had formed a joint board for the first time, and at that board he had the honour of being chosen chairman. He es teemed it not only an honour to himself to be so chosen, but he considered it an honour also to the shareholders of the Leeds and Carlisle Railway. -- (Cheers.) At that meeting he asked several questions, which were as readily answered. He found that their expenses were ex tremely small when it was considered what they had done; indeed, he was of opinion that 10.0001. wou ld cover all.— (Hear, hear.) They were supported by a large and ex tensive proprietary, many of whom were in the direc tory. He might mention Mr. Wyvil, of Constable Burton ; Mr. Paulett, nephew of Lord Paulett, of Bolton hall ; Mr. Anderson, also a great proprietor in the line, and many gentlemen of smaller properties, who would be equally affected. Then they had upon the provisional committee Lord Beaumont, through whose lands the line passed to the extent of a mile and a half ; Lord Wharecliffe, lately Mr. Stewart Wortley, whose property was affected to the extent of six miles. He (the Chairman) .vas ver?: he well acquainted with t h e l ocal advantages 1 40 in Yorkshire, and he did not hesitate to say that t li he e Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway Company was in a mo - t prosperous condition, and the joint influ ence of th- commercial interest of London and the landed interest of Yorkshire stood so strong before the country as to defy all opposition.—(Cheers.) Mr. BOYD asked what was the amount of deposit paid up? The CHAIRMAN said that they had paid up on 14,000 fifty-pound shares, which was about equal to 40,000 shares of the Leeds and Carlisle. A SHAREHOLDER wished to know what number of shares they had issued in all? The CHAIRMAN did not know how many. A SHAREHOLDER—Had they paid enough to bring their scheme before Parliament? The CHAIRMAN—Yes, quite enough. The fact was, that the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union had registered previous to the 10 per cent. being required by the standing orders; and the consequence was, that they only paid 5 per cent. on their capital; coasequently, when they amalgamated, the Leeds and Carlisle would only pay half of the amount which otherwise they would be required to do, while the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union paid the other half, or all that they had lodged. Again, when they would require to go before the House of Lords, the Leerls and Carlisle had their deposits ready, and the other Company would lodge an additional 5 per cent., which they were quite ready to do.—(Hear, hear.) That was the reason why the scrip of the Leeds and Carlisle was stamped. The report was then unanimously adopted. Mr. W. J. HARRISON moved a resolution of confi dence in the Directors, which being seconded by Mr. GIDEON COLQUHOUN, was carried. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks, and promised that the exertions of the Directors should not be slack ened until the Company was completely successful. Thanks were then, on the motion of Mr. HANNING, seconded by Mr. UNDERWOOD, given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. METROPOLITAN JUNCTIONS RAIL WAY COMPANY. An adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of the Metropolitan Junctions Railway Company was`held yes terday, at the offices of the Company, in Clement's-lane, for the purpose of considering the result of the negotia tions for an amalgamation with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company, and to determine what steps ought to be adopted in the present position and state of the affairs of the Company. The meeting was called for one, and shortly after that hour Major CROFT, the Chairm an o f th e B oar d o f Ma nagement, took the chair. He said the business of the meeting had better be commenced by the Secretary read ing a resolution passed at the last meeting, directing a letter to be written to every member of the Provisional Committee, calling upon them to pay up their deposits upon the shares they had applied for and had h a d a ll otte d t., them, and then the answers which had been received to such applications. ... --- 9_,1 air of invidious scrutiny, and reddening as he spoke, replied : " There are no longer any messieurs in Franc e , b u t only citizens.' " Well then, pardon me, citizen, if I have gi ven you offence.' " You are not a Frenchman,' he resumed, with an embarrassed sir, and cann o t, th ere f ore, be aware of our new usages.' "6 If peace be established, I shall certainly visit France.' " You, sir?' he rejoined with warmth, never shall set foot there, so long at least as I live " Do Sou mean personally to designate me, or my countrymen in general ?' " The young officer, fixing upon me a pair of hand some, but fierce eyes, rejoined:— " Sir, my name is Murat, and I have served in the constitutional guard of the ty— last king.' " Then, with a less lofty manner, and lowered tone, he continued : " I know who you are, sir, and l am ver y sorry t h at I have met y ou .' '" You are a soldier and a man of honour,' I replied, and I can have nothing to fear from you.' " Country before all,' answered Murat, ' yes, before all ! Such at It est ought to be my maxim. Monsieur, I advise you not to sleep here.' " With these words he bowed, and quickly with drew. I reflected upon the course which I ought to pursue, and prudence suggested the impolicy of trusting to the dubious generosity of a hotheaded republican. I consulted d'Avaray, who became alarmed for my safety, and would not be satisfied till we had resumed our journey. " When fortune, at a later period, had raised Joachim Murat to the throne of Naples, I recognised in him the young French officer who had driven me so abruptly from my sleeping quarters. I could not be certain whe ther he had betrayed or kept the secret of my birth, end in this dilemma, felt in his regard. some sort 'of grateful feeling. When, therefore, I retur ne d t o F rance a second time, an d heard that he was an unfortunate fugitive, I gave express orders that, if arrested in my dominions, his life should be spared." The writer of this article is evidently strongly pre judiced in favour of the elder branch of the Bour bons, and as strongly prejudiced against the Orleans dynasty; but he is an honest recorder of facts, and those facts prove that the elder race were, to a man, weak, grovelling, superstitious, ignorant —nay, even incapable of education. They were firm believers in astrology, prognostics, dreams, ghosts— " IZ,lack spirits and white, Red spirits and grey." Witness the solemn relations of the prophecy found by the Comte de Provence on his table, on the day of the birth of the Dauphin, of the horoscope of the three Princes, drawn up by the Count de St. Germain ; of the mysterious appearances preceding the death of Catharine of Russia, and of the dream of the Sa cristan previous to the execution of Louis XVI. Nothing could exceed the folly of the friends of that unfortunate monarch at this period. Just as his trial was about to take place, the Comte de Provence, then an exile, addressed a letter to the Duke of Orleans, couched in the most haughty and arrogant terms, commanding, rather than request ing, that he should not interfere in the trial. Among many absurdities, we give the following as a speci men :—" The king" (at the time a prisoner in the Temple, and about to be tried on a capital charge) " is disposed to indulgence, and indeed oblivion of the past would be for all of us the wisest course." If anything could exceed the mad folly of pen ning such a missive, it would be the manner in which it was presented to the Duke of Orleans by Boissy d'Anglas, the secret agent of the Comte de Provence in Paris. He himself, in a letter to the Comte de Provence, thus describes his reception at the Palais Egalite : " Your cousin, _Monseigneur, by the graciousness of his reception, made amends to me for the insolence of his officious attendants. He is always the pink of polite.. ness, and begged me to sit down, which I refused to do, perhaps from a mischievous wish of reminding him that he is still a prince." Why, if the Comte de Provence and his agent had de sired to prevent the Duke from exercising his influ ence in the King's behalf—if they had desired to goad him on to the King's destruction—could they have done so in any manner more effectually ? Can any thing prove more completely the utter heartlessness both of the Count and of his agent, than the compla cent manner in which the one relates, and the other records, his reason for refusing to set down " a mis chievous wish of reminding him that he is still a prince ?" What nature that was not utterly frivo lous, utterly incapable of forming a good or a noble aspiration, could have imagined such an espieglerie at such a time? The whole history of the Revolution goes to prove that poor Louis XVI fell a victim to the unprincipled, uncalculating, heartless, frivolous, incural ly vicious folly of his soi-disant friends, ra ther than to the malice of his enemies ; and if any thing could excuse the excesses of the Reign of Terror towards " the Aristo ',rats," it would be the revelations which these aristocrats ever and anon make of them selves. The more we study the history of this Revolution, the greater is our admiration of the cha racter of the present King of the French. Louis Philippe is the most statesmanlike king that France has ever possessed—the wisest, and, perchance, the greatest man that France has ever produced. That his sons inherit his great talents, his manly cou rage , his energy, his activity, th e y have already given abundant proofs. Let us hope, for the sake of France, of Europe, and of the world, that they also possess his prudent firmness, his wise caution, his unerring tact, and his sound judgment. LOWE'S EDIA B C GH MAGAZINE. This is a new work, to be devoted chiefly to theological subjects and general literature and science, with intelligence in regard to public events, political as well as religious. We believe it is brought out under the patronage of what is called the Free Church party in Scotland, and if this is the fact we rejoice at the principles which it professes, for they are of a truly Christian character. To give intensity and ex pression to " longings" after true Christian unity, says the editor, " shall be one of our c hi e f o bj ec t s ; and we can only do so by maintaining a truly Catholic position, endeavouring, with the eye of brotherly love, to trace in each individual Church the linea ments of our common parentage, and the pledge of eur common inheritance—to discover, amid much diversity in the details of organisation, of govern ment, formulas, and rituals, the recognition of One Lord, One Faith s One Baptism.' On this point we have only farther to remark, that while it will not be possible that each article in our pages, taken singly, cart fully exhibit this Catholic impress, our hope is that the whole, taken together, shall do so ; and that all of them shall be pervaded by the calm and _genial spirit of Christian love." The theological articles in the present number are on " The Liverpool as an pool Confer enceln- on Christian Union," and " psey terpreter of Nature," which are well t s h u e itr , d st tfcoortish the object in view. There is ano ther, on hero, Wallace," which will cause disappointment-- because such a notice leads the reader to expect some thing new and interesting respecting this wonderful character, while his deeds are hardly mentioned, and the greater part of the article is devoted to a sort of genealogical history of the Saxon and Celtic races, Theand accountsreeder cares a o r e f sthveerdye wohfetthheer little sceilt ances torssallaces Scotch O her W o' were Normans, or An I Sg o- axons, or Danes, or Dutch —he was a native of Scotland—he gloried in defending her liberties—he was a Scotsman of the 13th century—and that is quite enough for the pur pose. The paper is left unfinished, with a notice that the subject will be resumed in another paper. This, we may tell the editor, is bad policy, for it is infinitely preferable to make an interesting article rather dis proportionally long than to give part in one month, which will be forgotten when the next comes. NEW LONDON MAGAZINE. Although this magazine has only reached its fifth number, it has already acquired for itself a character peculiarly and exclusively its own, namely, that of a very delightful conversational, chatty, generous spirited periodical. Its tone is genial, its style is popular, its articles are all entertaining, and after the perusal of a number the reader will feel on better terms with himself and everybody else than when he commenced. Among the many able contributors to its pages, we may mention the familiar names of Albert Smith, Shelton Mackenzie, E. L. Blanchard, and J. H. Stocqueler, in themselves a guarantee of amusement. The most characteristic papers in the present number, are those entitled " A New Year," "A Dv's Sunshine in Winter," and "Twelfth- Night Retrospections " all of which are redolent of genuine mirth and kind-heartedness, besides being as seasonable as skating and frost-bitten noses. These, with a clever leaf "From the Note-book of a Coro ner, " a shrewd narrative of h ow " Zedekiah Wish well" was "always in a fix," and a simple story about a miller's daughter, by Zachary e miscellany. GobbletoP make up a very charming and r eadable On entering a railway carriage foranehuxocurr osiorv‘ excursion, or occupying an easy chair for a loung e, an of profit and Leasure m ight he obtained f rom one p shilling expended in the New London Magazine. THE THEOLOGIAA. No. I. In external appearance, in its general arrangements, and in the healthiness of its literary tone, The Theo logian bears a very considerable resemblance to the average body of quarterlies, and does credit at the same tune to its editor, its publisher, and its contri butors. As an e x p onent of a certain class of religious opinions, it possesses much candour and independence, while it opposes doctrines of a contrary tendency with a liberality and a gentlemanly bearing which, in these somewhat stormy times of controversy, are very de lightful to encounter. The present number, which is the commencement of a new series, contains matter of peculiar interest just now, embracing some sen sible articles on "Mr. Newman," "The Ronge Movement," and especially one headed " The Church's Course in her Present Trials." Besides this, a host of searching and elaborate reviews altogether make up a number that augurs well for the future prosperity of the nublication. - 41i '0 ~~ 1~ ~~ ~, ..0.. .0 0 ..- 213i of 414 ....- 14 ...... 8 1$ 15 -- 9 4 13; ....- , 4 1 ,‘ •-• 124 24 34 0 ii,4