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The plaintiff's attorney said that his principal witness Was absent, but ho would endeavour to make out his case. The SECONDARY said, if any doubt existed it would be better to withdraw , the writ. This the attorney declined, but on proceeding failed to prove the delivery of the goods, or any admission of the amount due. He then said he would withdraw the writ. The SEcOmaisiticlit was 1;;;v too late—the case hating been opened. The ATTORNEY then said he should elect to be non suited. The Learned SECONDARY said he could not be non • suited, as the defendant, by not pleading, had admitted the plaintiff's right to sue. As the case stood, the plaintiff could only take a verdict for Is., to save costs ; but, perhaps, on application to a Judge, an order might be obtained for a new writ. A verdict was then entered for Is. COURT OF COMPENSATION. (THIS DAY.) (Before the RECORDER and a Special Jury.) CATON V. THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON. This was an inquiry to assess compensation for the lease, goodwill, and fixtures of a house situate at the corner of the churchyard of St. Thomas the Apostle, required for the now street from Cheapside to Southwark bridge. The Attorney-General and Mr. Ryland appeared for the Corporation, and Mr. Sergeant Channing and Mr. Locke for the claimant, and a verdict was taken by con sent for 2281. MARLBRO' STREET—(THIS DAY.) James Elliott, a man residing at 21 Hart-street, Covent-garden, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, ii custody of Sergeant Gray, C division, charged on sus picion w i t h stealing forty-four sovereigns, and a quantity of plate and jewellery, the property of Mr. Wilson, cheesemonger, No. 11, Vigo-street, Regent-street. Mr. Robert Wilson stated that he was a cheese monger, and resided at No. 11, Vigo-street. The pri- L o s uer h a d b een his porter. On Friday morning t be was awok e b y hi s f ema l e servant , and in going down stairs he found that the shop door had been broken open, and likewise the doors of hi s counting-house and iron ' chest. On exa mining the latter, he found that forty-four sovereigns, forty spoons, and other articles of plate, as well as jewellery to th e amount of 100/., had been stolen there from. Th e p r i soner came to work about half-past seven the _ same mo rn i ng, and did his regular work as usual till breakfast time, when he left the house, and never re turned until last night, when his brothers brought him back. On seeing him, witness asked him where he had been. He replied that he had met with two friends, and that he had got drunk, and was ashamed to come back. Witness then took him to the station and gave him in charge. Sergeant Gray was sent for to Mr. Wilson's on Friday last, and found that an entry had been effected into the premises by unfastening a bolt from an upright post in the door. He also found that the door of the counting house had been forced open, as well as a desk in the same, by the instruments produced. He also found that a strong cheffonier had been broken open, and from the style in which tLe " work" was effected he should say it Was not done by a regular housebreaker. Witness saw tailing of the prisoner till last night, when he was brought to the station. The prisoner said he bad come to surrender himself to answer any charge that might be preferred against him. In reply to witness, the prisoner said he had been to Gravesend, Chatham, and other blaces. Witnes s searc h e d hi m , b u t f oun d no thi ng upon iro, The prisoner then denied all knowledge of the rob bery, and said he had drank too much liquor on the Friday morning, and did not like to return to his work; that was the reason he absented himself. Sergeant Gray said, directly the robbery was disco vered he was sent for. He had ample opportunity of observing the prisoner on Friday morning, and should have known by prisoner's appearance whether ha was in liquor or not. The prisoner was perfeetly sober, as far as he could see. Mr. Wilson, in reply to Mr. Leadly, the chief cleric, said the prisoner was a weekly servant, and if he had stopped till the Saturday he would have received his regular weeks wages. The prisoner was remanded to Wednesday next. WORSHIP-STREET. —(THIS DAY.) George Taylor, Joseph Slater, and Henry Sackmore, ►ere charged with stealing a piece of Orleans cloth from the shop of Messrs. White, Prospect-place, Kingsland road. It appeared, from the evidence, that the prisoner Taylor was espied by Mr. White jun., crawling into the shop upon " all-fours." Having gained the emir& and made his selection of the piece of cloth alluded to, he dashed with it out of the shop, followed, however, by Mr. White. In his flight the other prisoners accom •panied him, but were speedily taken into custody by the police, to whom they were well known. The prisoners were fully committed. ilata•rust.—ln our hurried allusion to the election of Mr. Macaulay to the Lord Rectorship of the Uni versity of Glasgow, we inadvertently mentioned him a 3 the Paymaster of her Majesty's Forces. It is scarcely necessary for us to remind our readers that Macaulay was come time since replaced in that office by Lord Granville, who was subsequently ap pointed Vi ce - President of the Board of Trade on the re signation n o f the Right llon. Thomas Milner Gibson. The Nobl e L or d now labours in both departments of the public service. n It tI LWAY COLLISION.—SUNDERLAND, Nov. 14. ' 4l Tuesday evening last a collision took place at Brocklywhins station, four miles from Sunderland, be tween the nine o' c lock up train from shields and a special train conveying the London passengers from that station to Sunderland. Several of the passengers were injured. One gentleman, Mr. Atkin, of Sunderland, had his shoulder dislocated. Marshall, the guard of the Shields train, and also the engineman, were injured, the latter being severely bruised. Several other passengers were also more or less injured. Every attention that the cir cumstances permitted was paid to the sufferers by the station-master, .who provided means to convey them to their destinations. The engines were also considerably injured. An eagle, caught on board the Alexander, of Dun dee, in April !ast, on her passage from Calcutta, was labelled and released. Strange to say, the bird was afterwards caught by an American whaler, 2,200 Miles off. Amongst the fanciful tenures by which landed estates have been held, that of the Staffords of Eyam, in Derbyshire. is not the least singular. It is that they shall keep a lamp perpetually burning on the altar of St. Helen's, ix Eyain parish church.—Stafford Mercury. CHLOROFORM IN CHOLERA.—The credit of having been the first to cure cholera by the use of chloroform is, we believe, due to Dr. James Moffatt, of the Roy a l Edinburgh sylum. In the month of January last he publicly announced the fact that chloroform had cured cholera. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER —On Wed nesday evening, between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock, the whole of the immense pile of buildings known by the name of the Gaythorn Cotton Works, the pro perty of Mr. James Fernley, and situate in Albion-street, Manchester, were destroyed by fire. It cannot at pre sent be ascertained as to the cause of the fire. The fire originated in No. 5 card room. situate in the centre of the pile, hence there were no means of saving it. Up wards of 800 hands will be thrown out of employ. Mr. Rose, the energetic superintendent of the Manchester fire-brigade, was immediately on the spot with twelve engines and a large body of men • but in consequence of the rapidity of the flames no efforts could stay its pro gress. The loss is variously reported at from 30,000 L to 50,0001., but the precise amount cannot be definitely stated at present. We are informed that the property was insured for not more than 22,0001. LIBRARY OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON.--This college for female education, so named by her Majesty's permission, and now guarded by a royal charter, is pur suing its course with great success. Upwards of forty lectures are given every wet.k to full classes, and Broad wood and Stoddard have each contributed a grand piano to the instrumental music department. The professors are now endeavouring to form a library of standard works, and also a library of music. They have set apart a room for the purpose, and the same lady who gave 1001. towards the college apparatus has given a large set of hocks as a commencement. COMMISSION DE LUNATICO INQuIRENDo.--Yester day, a commission in lunacy was opened at the King's Arme, Kensington, before Mr. Winslow and a common jury, relative to the state of mind of George Charles Sutherland, Esq. The alleged lunatic, who is at present residing at the Kensington Lunatic Asylum, under the care of Dr. Philp, is in his forty-fifth year, and possessed of large estates, freehold and leasehold, besides 3,0001. per annum under the will of his mother. Evidence of his state of mind having been given, the jury, after a short consultation, dated his insanity from the 16th of Novem ber, 1840, the day of his admission into the asylum. CORN EXCRANGE.—A considerable number of non resident c orn -factors corn -factors and millers, finding it inconvenient Lb() present at Newark corn market on any day except Wednesday not to a (the regular market day), have determined attend any lair that is not held on a Wednesday; and they have lately forwarded to the directors of the Corn Exchange Company a requisition as in other towns anot to Open their Exchange on any day except Wednes days. In compliance with the request, the directors have issued a notice that in future the Corn Exchange will not be opened for the sale end purchase of corn on any other day.—Stemford Mercury. GOVERNE SS &' BEN EVOLENT INSTITUTION.—The half -yearly general meetingof the members and subscribers of this institution was held yesterday, at the Hanover- Square Rooms, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge in the chair. The meeting was well and fashion ably attended, a large majority of the company assem. bled being ladies. After a few introductory remarks from the chairman, the secretary read the minutes of the last half -yearly meeting, which were confirmed. Sm.• tineers were then appointed to conduct the ballot, and the, meeting proceeded t o th e e l ect i on o f annu i tan t s There were ninety-five candidates on the list, of ages :eurying frcm 50 to 75 years, and many of them bad been some years on the books as candidates for el ection. From this number four were chosen, three as annuitants on the funds of the society, and one as an inmate of the aged asylum. The meeting then adjourned. TEOPIIIES OF THE LATE INDIAN WAR. A package of swords and scabbards, consigned to Lnrd larclinge, has arrived by the vessel Cresida from Cal cutta. These swords, &c.. frcm India, belong to the Cal officers (4' the late Governor-General's staff, having been left behind at the time of his arrival in this country, in aonsequence of their not reaching Calcutta at the time of embarkation. THE S UN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER LITERATURE. ESSAY ON ENGLISH POETRY. By Thomas Campbell. Several months have elo.psed since we had occasion to notice the piogress made by Mr. Murray in the publication of his Home and Colonial Library. Since then several serial works of a some what similar character have issued from the establishments of others of the leading publishers of the age. On recurring to the mere cata logue of th© volumes already comprised in the Home and Colonial Library, which has emanated from the distinguished house in Albemarle-street, we are reminded very forcibly of the critical adroitness with which the different productions have been selected, and of the felicitous contrasts produced by the mere sequence of their publication. In each of the various departments of literary excellence we have obtained specimens worthy of preservation upon the bookshelves of the most fastidious bibliographers —effusions which, in numerous instances, may be regarded as masterpieces. Biographies, travels, and essays, vicissitudes of battle, and sports on the heather, adventures among the wilds of nature, and; among the haunts of meek and beau tiful barbarians, stories for the fireside, and narratives amongst the parterres and quincunxes of science have severally and in succession fallen to the lot of the subscribers—leading them an agreeable pilgrimage over the surface of both hemispheres, without requiring them to withdraw their wadded slippers from the ottoman, or to move their head from the cushions of the fauteuil. One while we have followed Heber to the Indies, at another Mal colm into Persia; we have been with Lewis among the Western Islands, with Hay in Morrocco, with Borrow in Spain. with Head in the Pampas, with Ford in Andalusia, with Acland in Hindostan, with Alelville in the Marquesas, with Ruxton in Mexico, with Carnarvon in Galicia ; and elsewhere with Steffens and Irby, and Mangles, touching alternately on the shores of the Baltic, or on those of Australia, pene trating the deserts of Algeria and the umbrageous wilds of Paraguay, roving through the streets of Madras or floating on the waters of the Amazon. We have pored with the greediest curiosity over the imaginative :narratives of the "Amber Witch," of " Bracebridge Hall," of the "Tales of a Traveller," and of those of the " Livonians." We have listened to the anecdotes of glory and horror associated with the siege of Gibraltar, or the battle of Waterloo, or the Turkish bombardment of Vienna. We have gone on the voyage of the Naturalist with Darwin, and devoured the enthralling " Memoirs of Father Ripe." Lord Mahon has recounted to us the life of the Great Conde, and Gleig, the history of the Great Clive. We have perused also with pro portionate interest the allusions made elsewhere to the existence and the characters of Drake, of Bunyan, and of Cromwell. Beyond this, it must be borne in recollection, that amongst the herd of writers who flood the reading public with the torrent of their lucu brations, the Home and Colonial Library of Mr. Murray has given to the world two authors of peculiar originality, who, writing in their different ways, are altogether inimitable. We allude to Herman Melville, the American sailor, an to Lieutenant George Frederick Ruxton, the late lamented traveller through the Prairies and Savannahs of the " Far 'West." From the pen of the latter young and enterprising Englishman, Mr. Murray has presented to his sub scribers the admirable chapters called "Adven tures in Mexico" chapters fraught with enter tainment from the fresh and exhilarating manner with which every syllable is indited. From the hand of the former have emanated those two remarkable books " Typee " and " Omoo " pearls of description ravished • from the un known depths of the Southern Ocean. Than " Typee" there is scarcely a work of more exquisite fascination in the whole range of travels written since the days of Marco Polo. It is one of those bewitching volumes which, once read, haunt the imagination throughout life, like the recollection of Robinson Crusoe on the island of Juan Fernandez, or of Paul and Virginia on that of the Mauritius. Another volume has just been added to the thirty already published by Mr. Murray in his Home and Colonial Library. The work is a reprint from " Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets " the specimens being omitted, so as to condense within the compass of 436 pages the biographical notices and preliminary essays given in that voluminous and standard publication. The notion of such a conden sation is, to say the very least of it, felicitous, con veying, as the volume does, in one comprehensive glance, a complete conception of the rise, the ad vance, and the fluctuations of English poetry since the days of Gower and Chaucer down to the com mencement of the present century, and the appearance of the contemporaries of the essayist. To quote the punning adaptation of a well-known line, the retro spect of Campbell turns alternately " From Gray to Gay, from Little to Shakapere." Occasionally, it is true, the remarks of the illustrious poet are singularly superficial, though, when the extraordinary scope of his undertaking is taken into account, such an incidental result is by no means suprising. For this delightful volume we are again indebted to the critical niceness of selection which has hitherto characterised Murray's Home and Colonial Library; and which is a substantial guarantee for the worth and excellence of its continuation. for he kept up a friendly feeling with all around ; whereas, had he taken on him the bearing of a great man, ss many do, he might have lorded it over the world, but he would have missed what was dearer to him than this—the love of his fellow•men. He was thankful for everything, and therefore kindly to every one. As he did not look for much, or stand upon his rights, he was seldom wronged, and always happy." YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAIL WAY. A general desire having been expressed by share• holders in railway undertakings for an explicit ac count of their financial position, the directors of the York and North Midland Railway, in compliance with that desire, beg to submit th e f o llorling state ment of the affairs of the comp an y, an d the extent of its liabilities in respect of the works now in progress, and the comphtion of such as are at present in con templation. The share capital of the company on which divi dend is payable out of the revenue derived from the lines, comprising the whole of the consolidated stock, and the East and West Riding shares, on which the full amount is now called up, is 3,147,5001. Of this amount, howevQr, 250:0001., being Si. per share on the East and West Riding capital, will not be entitled to dividend until next half-yebr. The loan capital of the company is at present 1,023,931/. The amount expended on the lines which have been constructed or purchased up to the prevent time (in cluding the sums advanced to the Hull and Selby Company to complete the lines under lease from them), is 4,290,415/. Bs. 4d. These works being now very nearly completed, the amount to which the company w ill b e liable in respect of them can be accurately s t a t e d ; an d estimates have been prepared of the work s requ i re d f o r the extension from Burton-Salmon to KnoAingley, and for that which will connect the Market Weighton line with the Hull and . Bridlington line near Beverley. The directors compute the amount which will be required for all these purposes (after deducting the value of the surplus land) at 330,000/., making the gross expen diture of the company about 4,620,0001. The whole, when complete, "will give t o th e c ompany a total mileage of 211 miles (ex c l us i ve o f the Hull and Selby lines under lease), at an average cost per mile (after deducting the sums advanced to the Hull and Selby Company as above-mentioned) of 20,0001. per mile. The directors having no present intention of con structing the other lines for which powers have been obtained, the arrears of calls, together with the sum which the company has yet power to raise on deben tures, will amply supply the amount required for meeting the expenditure above-mentioned. The directors estimate that the traffic to be derived from these lines and the lines under lease will pro duce a gross annual revenue of 520,0001., being at the rate of 10,0001. per week, and that the working expenses will amount to 137,000/. The interest on debentures, including the sum which will have yet to be provided for the works before mentioned, will be 66,2811. per annum ; and the annual rent of the Hull and Selby and Bridlington lines, together with the interest on debentures on those lines, is 76,5721. After deducting these charges, a net income of upwards of 240,0001. will remain applicable to divi dends, being more than seven and a half per cent. on the amount of the share capital. The rate of interest at present paid on the debentures of the company is at an average of nearly five per cent. ; but the direc tors cannot anticipate that in future years it will amount to that per tentage. It may fairly be hoped that in times of crdinary prosperity the loans will be replaced as they fall due at a rate of interest not ex ceeding four per cent. _ _ The directors feel the greater confidence in their estimate of the produce of the traffic when they com pare it with the receipts of the last twelve months, during which the traffic on the lines of this company has suffered not only from the commercial distress which has generally prevailed, but also from their peculiar character, a considerable portion being in a great measure used as pleasure lines to Scarborough, Harrogate, Bridlington, &c. The directors have much pleasure in stating that they hare made an arrangement with the Great Northern Railway Company, by which the two com panies will have mutual advantage in working the traffic of that line between York and Doncaster when the intended Knottingley Extension shall be completed ; and the directors think they are not too sanguine in expecting that a very considerable amount of new traffic, both in passengers and minerals, will be thereby secured to this company, as the traffic from the districts through which the Great Northern Line passes will thus be brought to York over 21 miles of the main line of this company, and a con siderable portion distributed on the branch lines. Part of the traffic of the York and North Midland line, which was temporarily diverted to the lines on the western coast previously to the opening of the bridges across the Tyne and Tweed, may now be expected to be regained. A large source of _traffic has also been recently opened by the arrangement for the supply of coals from the north at Hull, and for its shipment at that port. The directors have still a confident hope that it will not be long before the undertaking resumes its former position with regard to remuneration to the shareholders. They would remark that an average increase of 7001. per week in the receipts, which would not necessarily involve any material increase of expenditure, would yield 11. per cent. additional on the share capital, and it affords them great satis faction to know that the new lines, some of which were forced upon them by the competition of other parties, have placed this company beyond the possibi lity of sustaining injury by their traffic being di verted, as they are not aware that any line can pos sibly be constructed which will riot tend rather to in crease than diminish the business on their own lines. The directors have subscribed 40,0001. to the Mal ton and Driffield line, but they have entered into no engAgement with any other company. The directors having regard to the general inte rests arid wishes of the shareholders, do not at present propose making any cans on the Hull and Selby purchase (preference) shares. The shareholders will have observed that the sum of 300,0001. appears in the last two half-yearly statements of account as having been appropriated to the general construc tion account, on loan from that stock. The directors are of opinion that the interest on this sum ought not at present to be paid out of the revenue of the company, inasmuch as a l arge proport i on o f i t has been applied in providing rails and other materials for the extensions about to be made, and the re mainder in the construction of lines which are not company, and they are con yet productiv e to firmed in this t he opinion when th e y consider that the whole amount of interest with which the capital ac count of this comp an y has hitherto been charged is no more than 6,0851. By Order, WM. GRAY, jun., Secretary. York, Nov. 14, 1848. RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY .--THE GREAT TUBULAR BRIDGES.-The final operation of lowering the second tubular bridge at Conway, for the return line to London on the Che ster and Holyhead Railwa y , and the placing it on its perm anent bed was accomplished on Wednesday. The ponderous mass of 1,300 tons was suspended on chains, hanging and swinging two feet above its permanent bed, over an area o f estuary of 400 feet, and twenty feet abo ve the straits, for a period of t e n days, during which the en g ineers and p ilots wer e en gaged in adjusting the bed plates and rollers a n d masonry for its support. The tube was likewise lengthened twelve feet by the addition of six feet of similar tube to each end of the mass so raised, this addi tional length alone weighing upwards of sixty tons. Under the direction of Mr. Stephenson, Captain Claxton, and Mr. Edwin Clark, the whole bridge with its perma nent way for the passage of the trains, complete and ready for use, was then gradually lowered by means of the hydraulic presses which raised it. on the bed of red and white lead, spread over the creosoted timber, which equalised the weight on the cast-iron bed-plates and rollers, to allow for the constantly varying length of the tube from charges of temperature. The tube is now in use for the transit of the trains. SOUTE DEVON RAILWAY.-The traffic for the week ending the 10th of November was :-Number of pas sengers, 8,077 ; amount, 1,681/. 17s. Id.; Great Western Railway, 6601. 7s. lid.; passengers by the South Devon Railway, 1,0211. 9s. 2d.; goods, 1914 13s. 2d.; total, South Devon, 1,213/. 2s. 4d. LONDON AND fiLacs,wsm..--Arnount of revenue for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 12 : Passengers, 31,464 ; amount, 5591. 15s. 7d. ; goods, 34/. 25.; total, 5931. 17s. 7d. -Corresponding week of la st year :-Pas sengers' 45,236 ; amount, 7511 . 13s . 2 d. N.B. Single line only during alterations. S HREWSBUR Y AND CHESTER RAILWAY.--Traffio f or the week ending Nov. 12 :-Passengers, Ist class, 1091. 1 ls. 9d.; 2d class, 2821 . 18 5. 1 d.; 3 d class, 81/.115.7d. ; total, 4741. Is. sd. Parcels , horses , Ike., 32/. 6 s . 9d. • merc h a ndise, minerals, and live stock, 778/ 12s. 2d.; total, 1,2851. 08.4 d. Corresponding week of last year- Passengers, parcels, Bce., 227/. 3s. Id.; merchandise and live stock, 324/. 10&. Bd.; total, 5511. 13s. 9d. Increase, 733/. 6s. 7d. GREAT 09vviklui AND WESTERN RAILWAY, IRE. LAND (-pen to Carlow and Limerick Junction, 1301 miles).—Return of weekly traffic for the week ending Saturday, 11th of November, 1848:—Passenger traffic, parcels, and mails, . 2,570/. 7s. ; merchandi.z) and cattle, 6621.55. 3.d.; total, 3,232/. 12s. 3d. MIDLAND GREAT WESTIRN OF IRELAND AND ROYAL CANAL COMPANY.—Revenue for the week ending 1211 of Novemb(-r, 1848, for goods and passengers (exclusive of mails), to Mullingar, 50 miles, 1,235/. 2s. 6d. DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending 14th of November, 1849:—Daily passen gers, 651/. Bs. 10,3.• subscriptions, 501. 7s. 4d. ; total amount 7011. 16s. 2d. Corresponding week of 1847: Daily passengers, 614/. ss. 7d.; subscriptions, 77/. 14s 10d.; total amount, 692/. Os. sd. RAILWA It SHARE 'MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market continues inactive. Great Western, Quartere, were done at 3 3 / 4 dis. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16. STOCK Excitertoß.—There has been but a limited busi ness done to-day. The market was flat, and closed with dullness. Prices were a point lower. The sales are—Cale donian, Preference, % dis.—Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 4—Lancashire and Vo7l.shire, Fifths, c. dis. —London and North ; Western, 117—Ditto, Fifths, Vi P.- -Ditto, New Quartm, p.—Manclicster, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, IW. Neference, 97 ---Aiidland Stock, 132- Ditto, New halves, 9% dis.—North Staffbrdshire, 6 1 ,4 die.— North Union (A), 20 . 2—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, c. dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), c. dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Wes are—Caledonian, Pre 'Cr ence, a dis.—Grimsby Docks, 15 3-16 n. dis.—West Riding Union, 5% c. dis.—London and North-Western, New Quar ters, % n. p.—North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Lecds, Prefer ence, 5-16 n. p.—Ditto, Fifths, 4% dis.—London and North- Western, 117—New Berwick, % dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 11-16. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—North British, Thirds, c.—Great Northern, Half Shares (A), 4—North Stafford shire, 6% dis.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 71. Bs. 9d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, ls. 3d. p.—Shropshire Union, 645. 6d. dis.—Great Luxembourg, 6% die. "PUNCH" ON RAILWAYS. Our humorous Contemporary Mr. Punch has, with the aid of his arch-artist John Leech, had a vigorous thrust at the great scheme of Railvt ay Amalgamation. Those who are not habitual disciples of our modern Democritus, drinking in from week to week his lessons of facetious wisdom, will yet have seen this cut at the directors in the shop-windows of those good-natured tradesmen who thereby enable the very gamins of London to become familiar with the English Charivari. The engraving represents " Mac-Bull and the Railway Witches"— the witches being, of course, the Great Western, the North-Western, and the South- Western. One is dropping into the cauldron of their conspiracy a bit of garbage labelled " Higher Fares ;" another is immersing a tid bit upon which are traced the characters—" No Return Tickets." The embellish ment is accompanied by a capital parody on Shak spere—revealing some of the deplorable consequences which we ourselves have already pointed out as in evitable in the event of a successful amalgamation. The hit tells admirably, and the drollery of Punch cannot fail to enforce the m o re sob e r arguments contained in our own columns and in those of his other distinguished contemporaries. GEORGE STEPHENSON. The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal is now publishing a life of the late George Stephens o n, from the pen of Mr. Hyde Cl ar k e , w hi c h h as been oticed for its philosophical bearing. The aim of the writer very evidently is to show the moral and social influ ences which affect a working man in his endeavours to make his way through life, and the career of Stephenson is eventful enough to afford many inter esting illustrations. The great engineer is taken from his cradle, and the incidents of his life pour trayed, the difficulties with which he had to struggle, his want of education, and his preparations for emi gration to America. He is then traced as an indus trious and ingenious workman, employing his spare time in mending clocks and watches to get his son an education, until we have, in his own words, his invention of the safety lamp, and his contest with Davy, who was then a great man with a great name, and overshadowed the colliery engineman. A further step is the improvement of the locomotive engine, and here it is noticed that Stephenson had no means to take out a patent, and had his machine been perfect he would have been deprived of all reward. It so happened, however, that it was imperfect, and therefore, having got some one to help him, he was able to obtain a patent afterwards for an improved engine. The ways in which friends and patrons gradually grew up around him, how from small things he gained confidence for greater works, and one connexion led to another, are very closely fol lowed, so that we can watch him, step by step, emerging from poverty and obscurity to wealth and distinction. The opportunity of doing this is not commonly afforded to us, and very rarely in a lead ing man of our own time. His character is very freely illustrated throughout; his manliness, his in tegrity, his perseverance, and his enterprise, and par ticularly in contrast with many of his leading con temporaries. It is shown that Stephenson had no more " luck " than they had; that he was just as dependent on external influences, but much more in dependent in himself. The part at present published brings him to the turning point of his fortunes. The author says, " We have followed Stephenson so far until he is upon the eve of starting in a new path, and we find him in a new walk of life, and much better off. We have seen his beginning from his father's cot, his struggles as a workman, his care as a father, and the spreading of his name after making the locomotive and the safety lamp. He had begun to reap some reward from his toil, and instead of being poor and penniless, he had had eleven hundred guineas given to him beyond what he had earned. From being the man he had become the master; from being the learner he was to be henceforth a teacher. Ile had a share in two patents, and there was a call for his work ; for, besides his old masters at Killingworth, the neigh bouring coal owners were now among his friends. As his rise had been quick, and he was brought at once into the fellowship of the northern gentry, his honours came blushing thick upon him. He did not so fully Feel his own weight, but having been kept down so long, he hailed willingly the h a nds w hi ch were stretched forth towards him, taking everything as a kindness held out to him, instead of looking upon it as a right. It was better, perhaps, that it was so, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, and the illustrious party assembled at the Priory, Stantnore, honoured Harrow school with a visit yes terday morning, returning to the Priory to luncheon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the after noon, in the pleasure-grounds surrounding the Priory. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived in to% n yesterday. The Royal Duke went to the Hanover- square Rooms in the forenoon. The General Board of Health held a meeting yes terday, at Gwydyr House, and received a deputation from Wolverhampton, consisting of the Rev. 11. S. Fletcher, Incumbent of Bilston ; the Rev. J. B. Owen, Incumbent of St. Mary's, Bilston, and Chair man of the Wolverhampton Board of Guardians, and Mr. Edward, Best, surgeon, Bilston. Lord Monteagle visited Lord John Russell, yester day, at Pembroke Lodge, Regent's Park. Sir George Grey visited the Noble Lord on Wednesday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday,t e at their office, in White hall-place. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies. THE ROYAL VISIT TO HARROW SCHOOL. Yesterday forenoon her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the whole of the illustrious party at present assembled at the Priory, honoured Harrow School, with a ♦isit. The intention of her Majesty to pay a visit to Harrow while partaking the hospitality of the Queen Dowager at the Priory became known to the denizens of that village two or three days since, and the interval has been worthily and actively employed in preparing to give a due welcome to the Sovereign. A triumphal arch of evergreens, surmounted by the royal standard, was thrown up across the road leading into the town from Stanmore, and such other decorations as could be hastily got together were freely distributed in the various parts of the ♦illage through which the royal cortege would have to pass. At a few minutes before one o'clock her Majesty's approach was observed from the hill. This was the signal for the church bells to strike up a merry peal, and every inhabitant was speedily on the qui vive to give the illustrious party a hearty welcome. The Queen, accompanied by her Serene Highness the Princess Louisa of Hohenlohe Schillingsfurst, and attended by the Marchioness of Douro, rode in an open pony phaeton. The Prince Consort, with his Serene Highness Prince Edward, the Earl Howe, and a large party of gentlemen, were on horseback. The other ladies of the party followed in two of the Queen Dowager's carriages. On the royal carriage arriving at the triumphal arch, the crowd assembled gave three hearty cheers, which the Queen and Prince graciously acknow ledged. At the school gates her Majesty , was received by the Head Master, the Rev. Dr. J. C. Vaughan ; the Lower Master, the Rev. W. Oxenham, M.A., and the Assistant Masters. The Queen and the Prince Consort were at once conducted to the Speech Room. The presence of the Sovereign and her Illustrious Consort was hailed by the boys (350 in number) with warm acclamations, which lasted for some minutes. The Head Master having pointed out the several prize boards, giving the names of the munificent benefactors to that foun dation' " the bill" was called over i n th e p resence o f the Queen by each Master, and her Majesty was graciously pleased to signify to Dr. Vaughan her desire that an extra week's holidays should be given to the boys. _ _ _ The Queen and Prince and the noble party then proceeded to the old school, on the walls of which the names of many celebrated men, formerly scholars on this foundation, are rudely carved. From the old school the royal party proceeded to the library, where her Majesty and the Prince inscribed their names in the " Speech Book," having previously inspected it, and observed, with evident interest, the signature of Byron attached to the speech delivered by himself when a pupil at Harrow. The Queen and Prince Albert having expressed a desire to visit the church, which is undergoing re pair, the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, the churchwardens, vestry clerk, and parochial authorities were soon in attendance to receive the royal party. The chief ob ject of the royal pilgrimage to this "poetic spot" was to see what is now generally called " Byron's Tomb," which was pointed out to the royal party by the Re verend Vicar. _ The royal party were nearly two hours in Harrow, and on leaving her Majesty passed through the village, and proceeded by the way of the London road, round the foot of the hill, to Bentley Priory. In every direction where the populace could collect the Queen and Prince were very cordially received. In the evening there was a very large attendance of the principal inhabitants at the King's Head Inn, at a public dinner, to celebrate the visit of her Majesty. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The opera, or more properly speaking vaudeville, of Love in a Village, was revived at this theatre last evening, in order to give Miss Harland an opportu nity of appearing in the character of Rosetta. Miss Harland was evidently very nervous at first, but notwithstanding her nervousness she went through the part very creditably, and when she becomes more used to the stage she will be able to do better things than Rosetta. Mr. Charles Braham was :the Haw thorn, and reminded us very much of his father in that part. He sang " There was a jolly miller once," and "My dog and my gun" admirably, and was encored in both songs. The other characters were well sup ported. The entertainments concluded with Midas, with Miss Poole as Apollo. She is the best Apollo that has appeared since the days of Miss Love. In " Pray Goody" she was three times encored, and was rapturously applauded in all her other songs. Miss Poole's Apollo has created quite a furore. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—The following mem bers of Gaut ton visited this theatre last evening :—His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, his Se rene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, Count de Monte moliu, Duke of Devonshire, Duke of Leeds, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess of Harring ton, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, Earl Fitzhardinge • Lords Mountcbarles, Ernest B ruce, William Lennox ; ' Earl of Wilton ' Earl of Besborough , Dowager Countess of Essex, Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord tiuffield, Count Kielmansegge, Miss Burdett Coutts, Sir Charles Shakerly, Bart., Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Andrew Barnard, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir G. Armitage, Lady Bulteel, Lady W. Powlett, Lord Gar diner, Baron and Baroness Rehausen, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord A. Fitzelarence, Marquis of Donegal, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Sir George Walker, Major Gage, Captain Bentinck, Colonel Knex, Hon. Henry CEl‘ri ß 3luad a rt r rwshz i . n aoesr g :dt , s.as C in, riil u ceH l ay l ad i e, n pyn g tiariyioN S nom m e. cw i ei t mpui h ioxt , rro,s ; C : a q o , Hon. Mr. Bosville, Hon. Hon. n e n nd r: Spencer Cavendish, nn Gore,c s d et i ru s r ,t CaptainSi Hon. Cowper,n Henry sit d e r. James Flower, Hon. Mr. St. John. THE LATE MR. M'Derf ouG H.—Deceased was a native of Portumna, in the county of Galway, where he at ene period of his life farmed a large quantity of land, but having had property bequeathed to him by a relative in England, he came over to this country, where he lived as a private gentleman, and for many years kept a racing stud at Melton. Ile was well known as what is termed in sporting circles " a gentleman rider," and was brother to Mr. Allen M‘Donough, who is celebrated as even a more bold and intrepid horseman than the uufortunate deceased. Both were for many years members of the Turf Club in Ireland, and were highly esteemed for their courage and straightforward conduct. Deceased was in the habit of riding at Howth Park, Heaton Park, and Croxton Park. His forte, however, was steeple-chase riding; and he won the Leamington Steeple Chase in 1839, on Lord Macdonald's celebrated mare the Nun. The last race in which he rode was about two years ago, for Mr. Merry, at Glasgow. He was a person of sober and regular habits, and spent very much of his time at home.— Cork Reporter. IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING A SSOCIATION.— Yesterday morning the forty-fifth half-yearly meeting of the proprietors in this undertaking, was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street ; Mr. Joshua Walker in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read, and the minutes of the last meeting read and confirmed. The Chairman having addressed the meeting on the improved prospects of the society. Mr. G. Thomas, the acting director, then read the re port, from which it appeared that 1421b5. 9oz. of gold valued at about 6,5001., has already been raised at Banana', a mine which was in good work ing order. The quantity of gold raised from the Gongo mine, during the half year endin g 30th June last, was 891bs. 60z., which, with some palladium already sold, would realise 3,3921. 13s. sd. The expen diture at Congo and Banana'. had been 11,5391. Cs. 2d. ; but the Gongo mine had itself yielded a profit of be tween 1,2001. and 1,5001. in the course of the half year. The association at present employed 644 persons in Brazil, who were all happy and contented. From the financial statement it appeared that the expenditure during the half year, including 6,138 i Is. 9d., paid on account of the lease of new mines and properties at Banana', Btc., amounted to 23,490/. 15,. 6d., and the re ceipts to 11,3181. Is. Ild., showing an excess of expendi ture over income of 12,172/. 13s. 7d. The present assets of the company amounted to about 31,117/. Bs. 7d. in the Three and-a• Quarter per Cents. The report and s aternent of accounts were received and carried unani mously. The traffic on the Great Northern and East Lin , olnahiro lines increases YORI, Nov. 15. STOCK ExcHAwGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Eastern Union, Class B (late I. and B.), 5 1 -4 North British, Quarters, 31. Bs. 9d. c.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), WA—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), Ph. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Nov. 16. . STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Car lisle, 97—NorthBriti$h (Extension), 5 5-16 dis. GLASGOW, Nov. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ference, 90s.—Edinburgh and Glasgow (Stirling Midland Junction ), 5 per cent. guarani., 111i—Glasgow General Ter minus, 9—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, 51s. 6d.—Ditto, Halves, No. 2, 53s.—gorth British, Thirds, al.—Scottish Central, 25 , 4—Scottish Midland Junction, 14. RAILWAY SHARES. TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE &FUN. SIR,—On the 6th inst. I wrote a few lines to you on the subject of " bearing" shares, since which the state of business has proved what I said to be correct. It has been said over and over again that there was no stock to be got, as the sellers were all Bears; but now that the account day has come, it is proved that there is quite as much stock forthcoming as is wanted, which is shown by prices having given way in Lon don on the buying•in day, and the very small number of shares bought in in the country exchanges ; and those purchases have been done much lower than they were at the last account, a fortnight ago. Till the condition of the country is improved, shares cannot maintain any advance.—l remain, yours, A CONSTANT READER. Leeds, Nov. 16, 1848. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The day of sailing of Sir Charles Napier's squadron is postponed until Wednesday next, to allow time for the vessels recently commissioned to complete their outfit and join. Captain F. P. Blackwood superseded Captain Charles Eden as Flag-Captain to Sir Bladen Capel, the Com mander-in-Chief, on board the Victory, this morning. On Captain Eden quitting the ship the rigging was manned by the crew, and three hearty cheers given him, the band at the same time appropriately striking up "Auld Lang Syne." Captain Eden is highly respected both afloat and ashore at this port, and now leans for the Admiralty as Private Secretary to the First Lord. The Black Eagle Admiralty steam-yacht, Master- Commander Cook, which has been in attendance upon the Committee of Dockyard Revision at the various ports, arrived here on her way to Woolwich to-day. The Myrtle steam-vessel, Master-Commander Ballis ton, which sr as dispatched yesterday week for Jersey, with Dr. Bradford, of the Blenheim, to render assistance to ihe crew of the Seaflower cutter, reported attacked with cholera, returned here to-day, the report having proved happily erroneous. The Rifleman and Sharpshooter'a experimental trial, under Captain Austin, is to continue a week, if that officer deems it necessary. Wind N.N.W., light breezes and dark hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 11.—Her Majesty's steamer Medics, from Portsmouth, arriver here on Tuesday, and went up harbour to coal. She leaves to-morrow with the mails fur the Mediterranean. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Hermes sailed yesterday for Portsmouth and Woolwich. Wind northerly; light breeze. TIIE ENTERPRISE AND INVES- TIGATOR DISCOVERY SHIPS. The latest intelligence of these vessels, which sailed from the Thames about the middle of May last in search of Sir John Franklin, was communicated in our last, being a dispatch contained in a cask dropped from the Investigator on the 28th August, and picked up by the Prince of %Vales, Hull whaler, on 2d October. The Prince of Wales is commanded by Captain Lee, an ad venturous ♦eteran, nearly eighty years of age, who, we understand, has this season made some discovery him self, which will be duly forwarded to the Admiralty. The only chance of any further information this season will be by the Resolution and Traveller, two whalers, which, as Sir John Ross mentioned in London last week, were supposed to have sailed up Lancaster Sound in August, and have not as yet reached England. But the accounts are exceedingly favourable' so far as they have gone, giving the best hopes that the Enterprise and Investigator have got far northward before the close of the season. We believe the last Brstish vessel which communicated with the Enterprise and Investigator was the Regalia of Kirkaldy, commanded by Captain Robb. On the Bth July, in lat. 72. 55. long. 55. west, Captain Robb, alter a long pull in VW of his boats, came up with Sir James Ross and Captain Bird, being anxious to give them a last opportunity of communicating with England. He found all well and in high spirits, a party of the Investi gator's officers having just returned from a shooting ex peuition with a large quantity of ducks and sea fowl, which, as one of the officers writes, " will be a season able addition to their provisions"—an important con sideration in their circumstances. Captain Robb had a long interview with Sir James Ross, the leader of the expedition, who, as well as his gallant followers, were sanguine as to success, having that generous confidence in their own energy which best sustains men in an ar duous enterprise of this nature. About sixty letters from the expedition were brought home by Captain Robb, who arrived at Kirkaldy a few days since.—Cule denian Mercury. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT'TERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. A great desire was shown to lay against Red Lancer for the Newport Pagnell Steeplechase, but not a blow was struck on that or any other event. NEWPORT PAGNELL HURDLE RACES. THURSDAY. Free Handicap Hurdle Stakes of 50 sovs. each, and 50 added; second to save his stake. Two miles. (9 Subs.) Mr. Shirley's Novelist, lOst 41b (White) 1 Mr. Tilbury's Khondooz, I Ist 21b ... 2 Mr. Magnum's Farnham, 10At The following started:—Mr. Hawkin's Teresa, list-- Mr. Reed's Draco, lOst 61b—Mr. Edwards' Amazon, lost 41b, and Mr. Cowley's The Ilscaney, lOst 41b. Betting-2 to 1 agst Khondooz, 7to 2 agst Farnham, 5 to'l agst Novelist, and Bto 1 agst Teresa. Won in a canter by four lengths. Hurdle Match, 50 sovs. Two miles. Mr. Walter's Cavendish, list (Scott), beat Mr. Hunt's Pedlar, lOst 81b, by three parts of a length. The Selling Hurdle Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 10 added. Heats, one mile and a halt. (4 Subs.) Mr. T. Ed wards' Sovereign, lOst 71b (Knowles) 2 1 1 Mr. Price's eh mby Sir Hercules, 10st 71b ... 0 2 dr Mr. Caffill's Belladonna, 105 t... 1 0 2 Mr. Jarvis's Moonlight, lOst 0 dr Each heat won easy. ASHDOWN PARK CLUB COURSING MEETING. WEDNESDAY. The Cup (continued). Mr. Bowles's Broadguage beat Mr. Brooke's Bapta. Mr. Gordon's Cockfighter beat Mr. Etwall's Macduff. Mr. Goddard's Gretna beat Mr. Lawrence's Racket. First Ties. Jubilee beat Cockfighter—Gretna beat Broadguage— Canuon• ball beat Tom Bowling—Magician beat Elf. The Derby—(First Dacian beat Elastic Jem—Old Harry beat Orlando— Landgravine beat Sam —Cockaigne ran a bye (Oscar dray n) —Blazing Billy beat Bryan O'Lynn—Look-out ran a bye. The Oaks—(First Ties). Passion Flower beat Fair Toes—Light of other Days beat The Rose—Blue Stockings beat Be Nimble—Fairy Ring beat The Lily—Roulette beat Brilliant—Wowski beat Midnight—Landgravina beat Queen Ilab—Erin beat Moonlight (dr). The St. Leger Stakes. Mr. Osbaldeston's Old England beat Mr. Etwall's Royal George. Mr. Le Brewer's Babylon beat Sir St. George Gore's Olympia. THE WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—On Tuesday a meeting of the committee of management of the above hospital was held iu the board- room of the institution, in the Broad Sanctury, Westminster. The report for the past year stated that there had been admitted 1,-57 in, and 10,172 out-patients; c f the latter, including ac c idents and urgent cases, admitted without letters of re commendation, 6,400:; making a total since the esta blishment of 347,277 persons who have participated in its benefits. For want of funds, four wards, capable of containing 64 beds, are closed. Her Majesty is the patron of the institution, and an annual subscriber of 521. 10s. NEEDLES FOR THE MILLION.— One evening last wee k a porter, employed by a needle manufacturer at Redditch,,was attacked by a footpad and robbed of a box cvntsaning 116,000,000 needlva.—Bristol Journal; 7, _ 180: THE POLISH BALL. The civic authorities having, with prescriptive liberality, granted the use of the Guildhall for the purposes o.t the Polish ball, the event took place last night. This festival is always one of great interest, the visitors who attend it beingnumerous in the extreme-r-,more than sufficient to fill the Spacious hall and the adjoining chambers, while . 4lie amusements that are provided are not confined to dancing alone, but are varied with a well-selected and attractive concert. the old features of brilliancy distinguished it last evening. There were vast numbers present, including the Lord and Lady Mayoress, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir George Carroll, Sir Felix Booth, Bart., the French and Sardinian Ambassadors, John Wil liams, Esq., M.P., 11Iorgan J. O'Connell, Esq., M.P., Mr. Anstey„ M.P., the Hen. Mrs. Maberley, the lion. Mrs.. Erskine,, Lady George Stuart, and others who take.an interest in the cause and are disposed to aid its objects with their countenance and support. The decorations were bright and splendid. Nething had btea removed since the banquet of the 9th of November, and.the profusion of gas jets thickly dis posed along the mouldings of the panels shed an exhilarating lustre over the scene, the glittering star and trophies at the west end of the hall flaming a nucleus towards which the eye turned with intense gratification . The concert took place in - the Council Chamber. The•vocalists consisted entirely of English artists, all, with characteristic generosity, - giving their services gratuitously. We did not , hear the performances under any circumstances of'comfort, owing to the pressure that prevailed at the entrances, but the voices of Miss Dolby, the Misses Williams, Miss Ransford, Miss Bassano, .Mrs.. Weiss, Miss Messeut, Miss Miram, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Bodda, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Harrison,- and Mr. Weiss, reached us from the distance, and we can bear testimony to the pleasure which the efforts of these able singers occasioned. Between the parts M. Chopin played a series of etudes upon .the pianoforte, with all his graceful skill and exquisite refinement of style. We should, however , have listened to trim with more sa- tisfaction in the retirement of the drawing-room than amid such a disturbed and unreflecting multitude as this. The dualities which give him his special ctiarin are too delicate and intellectual b challenge the favour of a crowd bent chiefly on physical enjoy ment. We do not know the precise 'number of guests who supported the undertaking with their presence, but there did not seem to be any diminution of that patronage which has for so many years been be stowed upon this charitable reunion. Sundry efforts have lately been made to invalidate the claims of these suffering foreigners, and to check the current of 'sympathy in their behalf; but whether the arguments which have been advanced are worthy of considera tion or not, there can be no question of the philan thropic honesty of the prom6ters of the ball, and of the sincerity of their wish to succour the unfortunate and distressed. It is, therefore, gratifying to find that the original spirit of benevolence which sugges ted the establishment of the Association of the Friends of Poland is still existent, and that those destitute exiles, whose only crime is patriotism, have yet bene factors in this country who can appreciate the degra dation of their position, and feel for their un happy necessities in a foreign .land. Lord Dudley Stuart, whose zeal in the cause has scarcely a parallel in the records of humanity, has published a strong appeal in favour of the Association, and therein taken occasion to defend its objects from the cold and selfish criticisms of a powerful contemporary. In reverting to the " facts of the case," he states that " some few years ago there were about 700 Poles receiving a weekly allowance from the treasury, and about 60 or 70 whose cases did not come within the rules of the treasury, and who formed a sort of supplemen tary body, and received weekly relief from the Asso ciation of the Friends of Poland. Thi number of the former is now reduced to about 350, and that of the latter to about 30. The weekly allowances are, however, very small, for no man, let his rank in the army or in society be what it may (and some of them are of high rank), receives more than 15s. per week, while captains and subalterns receive but 10s. a week, and privates only ss. 3d. * * * 41 j: The money collected at the ball is em ployed by. the Association—first, in these small al lowances to those not on the Government list, and, next, in furnishing extra assistance to all Poles of good conduct who may be overtaken by sickness, accident, or any casualty. These, surely, are proper objects ; and those who employ in this manner funds collected at an entertainment which affords amusement to a large number of persons, and occasion a good deal of money to be circulated, seem rather to deserve encou ragement than censure." In another place his. Lordship observes with earnest eloquence, "The Poles, therefore, who are here do not reside here, as some seem to suppose, because they find it an eligible country, but because they cannot do otherwise ; for, let it be recollected, Prussia and Austria, while they admit Poles who belong to that part of Poland which is subject to them, do not admit belonging to that part subject to Russia. France supports a large number of Pole 3 ; but, not choosing to augment the number, does not admit Poles coming from England- .at.d some who have this sum• mer attempted to go there have been sent back. Shall we not assist those foreigners, thus compelled to re main among us, to a bit of bread? Shall we not care for :them in their nakedness, their infirmity, their sickness, their old age ? It is for men in such condi tion that our exertions are made, that our funds are expended, and not for the encouragement of revolu tion or disorder. Some are indisposed to assist the Poles on account of their conduct on the Continent. Those who allege such a reason are bound, I think, to state what they believe the Poles to have done wrong ; else they will ,be open to the charge of vague preju dice. Ido not mean to say that every Pole is imma culate. But I really do not know that anything can be laid to their charge as a body. They have been grossly calumniated with regard to their conduct in Prussia ; but I believe that the press of this country, which last summer repeated stories about them invented by their German enemies, was grossly deceived on the subject ; and all those who have taken pains to inquire into the matter are now convinced that they were guiltless of the atrocities laid to their charge, and at all events much more sinned against than sinning. I knOw they are considered by many as turbulent, unquiet spirits. For my part, I own, I think it is surprising they are not much more so. If you maltreat people, enslave, oppress, and studiously de moralise them, deprive them of their country, perse cute their religion, proscribe their language, and take from them every motive and incitement to be good citizens, or suffer those things to be done, you must not be surprised if those people are restless, unquiet, disaffected, or reckless ; if they are filled with resent ment and ready for any change. We ought not to withhold sympathy from the many for the faults of the few, or punish the unoffending for the misdeeds of the guilty. Shall the Poles , in England, whose con duct has been exemplary, be denied assistance be cause some other Poles in some other places are alleged to have done something worthy of reprobation?" ST. CLEMENT DANES.—Last night a vestry meet ing was held to receive the report of the committee ap pointed on the 2d instant, respecting the office of vestry clerk, and to consider and decide what should be done relative thereto, Mr. Churchwarden.. R. Jaquet in the chair. Mr. Edwards read the report of the com mittee. It spoke in terms highly eulogistic of the late vestry clerk, Mr. Steele, and expressed sincere regret that ill-health had deprived the parish of his valuable services—services al ways characterized by integrity, zeal, and honour. The report then detailed the duties of the vestry clerk, and recommended that in future the salary should be 901. a year, instead of 100 guineas as hitherto. After some discussion it was, however, de cided by a large majority that the salary should be 100 guineas as heretofore. The vestry then proceeded to elect a vestry clerk, and on the votes being taken there appeared—For Mr. Score, 90; Mr. Isaac-son, 49; Mr. Murrough, 38; and Mr. Bisgood, 8. A poll was then demanded on behalf of those who were lowest on the list, which it was agreed should be taken on Monday, Tuesday, and We dnesday next.. CAL/JDONIAN SOCIETY.--The anniversary dinner of this society took place yesterday evening 'at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. Captain Lamont, 'R. N., presided, and was support e d b y M a j or Adair Cap tain Smith, R.N., Mr. Hepb urn , an d ot h er friends o f the in stitution. The objects of the society are to support and educate, and eventually to apprentice, the children o f poor Scotch parents r es id e n t in L ondon, in order to Fe vent their becoming burdensome to the parishes. It was stated in the course of the proceedings that a fund had been opened iii connexion with the society, with the ob ject of apprenticing children who were educated in the institution, and the Vice-President expressed an earnest hope that this' project would be supported by the Scotch residents in the metropolis. The proceedings of the evening were en li vene d b y the singing of the Misses Birch, and by the performance of several national and popular airs - by the juvenile pipers and band of the Asylum, headed by Mr. A. Mackay, the Queen's piper. Mr. Iligga officiated as toastmaster. Evidence is being taken by a solicitor with respect to the bribery practised at the recent municipal elections; and we are assured that there is no doubt that actions can be successfully sustained, not simply against parties hired to take the responsibility of dangerous acts, but against persons who have furnished the means for buy ing " free and independent electors." Of the details of the cases we know nothing; but that bribery is carried on to an enormous extent is as notorious as that Lincoln Cathedral stands on the top of the hill; and it is well known that there is no road tor any person to the Council table except by purchase. The usual shield adopted is payment fur lois of the voter's time; but in many cases the sum of 108. or 12s. is given for a vote. Houses too are let upon the condition that the landlord shall hive the disposal of the votes.—Stamford Mercury. DEATH OF JOHN RiNliT, M.D.—This venerable gentleman, the oldest memter of the medical depart ment of the British army, died a few days since, at his residence, Royal Hospital, Kilmainhain, Dublin, at the advanced age of 92, and alter a service of man) years; he having, indeed, been connected with $llO medical de , pat talent of ihti army from kojlictetl, BURIN IN G _ _ Ii -- ----- k4l6e' This day (Wednescliy)litelf-1 Vet:,;,, . broke out in the Adelplii...lhe'it're _es. eli,., 3e..te • market-street, and in alew raiiiiit . ? 1,4 . .tiklf,:A.,4 9 ld ef the immense building, .ihat . t l e.pree4o , fo_ 'thirty 0 minutes it was entir:ly destroyed. •144lisel fil.A44-.. present how the tire origineicel, bleu; : ; -titats.t, ~ ,,,,t half-past one o'clock , the..:pas•s`eiigerT' wivpittifi were alarmed by the Ariel.; - ef .)mo wonien in - eta neighbourhood, who pointed to the, top of the ;Alentre as if s o m ething - extraoriliraitylieuVca Ug ht their attention, and on looking to the roof of the wuoucu front a vohnsia of clear white smoke was perceived issuing therefrom, which was immediately sueceeded by a flash of ire, and • in. less than :five Minutes the entire top of the building was in ablaze,. An alarm, of c, ur.qe was quickly conveyed to the different pace c fees, but ,before the .....piival: cif - _the fire engiries ad prospect of saving • any part of the pre: perry was hop, - less ; theXest, in fact, wag - serieteris•_ , , that the men eon netted with the teigado- could not steed itearer lb twenty or thirty feet troen the Li,. rang Fife. we reed scarcely say, was fes . vully grand and ini i . the flames Lici m! forth as if irule a furnace, , mounted in volumes far above all the surrounding buil. i roc's. In, a few minutes ,after the occurrence, thous:tele of spectators speedily thronged - aroend the spot, whose ±'faces, from the intensity of die heat, were scorched, as if subjected to the rays of'a summer sun. Even t:s far back from the building vs the gaoh, fully 100 ysrde, the i ! crowd of L oulookers were at une,:tirne unable to bear the ! heat, but had to betake Jinni:elves to greater distances. To add to the appallingappearance of the I scene, the wooden buildings used - as stores and theatri cal boothsalong part of Green -street, opposite the Add phi, took. fire, and requited the utmost rffors-ef the t'fire brigade to prevent them communicating with the rEnglish Chapel, and the other valuable stone edi- I fices ut the foot of the Saltmarket-street. At the hour I we write, part of the ruins of the theatre are still burn i ' ing and the firemen are busily engaged in extinguishing 1 the flames in the wooden stores. No such conflagration I has occurred iu Glasgow, for extent, rapidity, and. strik iing effect, since the destruction of the City Theatre, which was burned on the Green, near the same place. ‘ The theatre, we understand, was not insured, the fire insurance offices having refused to have anything to do with it since the burning of Coeke's and Anderson's j wooden buildings on the Grcea. The principal losers, I therefore, will be the parties who had shares in the 3 building, and Mr. Calvert, the lessee, along with his corps drdmotique who, by this unfortunate ca s ualty, have lost a quantity of their little propenies. The building, although composed entirely of wood, must have been worth several thousand pounds, as a great many important additional alterations were' lately made upon it along with the fitting- up of the new scenery, &c. During the time the blaze lasted, which would be about twenty-five minutes, the shop• keepers and others at the foot of Salt:market-street were fearful for their premises being ignited, but fortunately the weather was calm, and there being little or no wind, the flames shot almost directly upwards. Had it been otherwise, the consequences would have been dreadful, or had it accidentally happened at night, when the per formances were going on, hundreds of lives must have been sacrificed. As it is, we rejoice that no person has been injured, although at the time, or shortly previous, the actors were at rehearsal. It is rather an odd cir cumstance, in connexion with the burning of the theatre, that a piece illustrative of " the burning of the Ocean Monarch," was announced as in preparation, and to be brought out at the Adelphi with thrilling effects. The cause of the fire has not been ascertained. Some allege that it arose from an escape of gas, but be this as it may, there can be no doubt that it originated in the front, and commenced apparently immediately above the portico.—Third Edition of the Glasgow Chronicle. ii.o vd,t, SPILSBY.—SALE or A WIFE. —One of these dis graceful proceedings, happily now of rare occurrence, took place in the public market here on Monday last. A. person named Charles Mays, of Bratoft, brought his wife in a halter decorated with pink ribbon, and cold her for two shillings to William Bailey, a sweep, from Sleaford. The bargain, however, had been no sooner completed than Mr. Chambers, police-officer, from Burgh, who bad watched the proceedings, apprehended the whole party, and immediately proceeded with them to the magistrates' office, where both buyer and seller were committed for trial at the sessions. The woman was discharged. DEATH OF A MISER.--Last evening an inquest was held on the body of David Thomas, aged 75, formerly a solicitor but lately a money lender. The witnesses stated, that although possessed of immense wealth, his habits were most penurious, and that his favourite din ner was half of a red. herring. On being taken ill, he peremptorily refused to incur tho expense of medical advice. Mr. Charles Croft, surgeon, proved that the deceased died from exhaustion, consequent upon bron chitis and the want of proper food. Verdict—" Died from natural causes." WONDERFUL ESCAPR.-- L ast week, a clog, belonging to Mr. Charles Clarke, of Boston, was walking on the East Lincolnshire line, near the town, when a down -train came up and frightened him, The dog started forward at full Speed, and was presently met by an up-train; he now turned round, but the up-train soon overtook him, and he cowed down between the rails, whilst the train rapidly passed over him, and the poor animal escaped uninjured. , ' JUVENILE REFUGE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY, MANCHESTER.-1 he supporters of this institution, which has now been established for two years, held a public meeting in the Town Hall yesterday morning, the Bishop of Manchester in the chair. The attendance was numerous and respectable. Lord Mahon ' the Mayor, the Rev. Hugh Stow e ll, th e R ev . Cenon Clifton, and several other gentlemen addressed the meeting. Much good has already attended the labours of this society, and it is intended to increase their number in the city. It is said that Jenny Lind and her partners, Messrs. Lumley and Knowles, netted 10,0001. in a fort night, in poor distressed Ireland There are already eight manufactories of woollen cloths, to eeds, and Iganketings, in New South Wales and Port Philip. ._ _ Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Earle have appointed the sth day of December next, at Chester Castle, to hold the winter assizes fur the county of Chester. A winter assize is also to be held at Liver pool and York. The Glasgow Skating Club meets every day while the frost continues, on Hogganfield Loch, each day at two o'clock. The ice is strong and in good condition. SELLING HORSES WE WEIGHT.—On Thursday last Mr. Fickling, dealer, of Brandon, who attends that market, offered two young colts for sale, for 121., but finding no person willing to purchase at that price, he either offered, or was offered, ss. per stone for them, which he accepted. The colts were taken to Lakenheath next day, when the weight was found to be 65 stone, winch, at ss. per stone, amounted to 161. 55., thus real ising a good profit to the seller, and not making so cheap a bargain to the buyers as was expected by the contract ing parties.—Bury and Suffolk Herald. On Thursday afternoon, a very sudden death oc curred at Greenock. Captain Hugh M'Gregor and his wife were on their way to visit the grave of a lately deceased daughter, wl o is interred in the cemetery, when, in passing along Roxburgh. street, Mr. M'Gregor felt his lady mate, as he thought, a false step, and on on looking on her she was falling to the ground. He took hold of her, but after a sigh or two she expired. Medical aid was got, but was of no avail.—Glasgow Constitutional. Admiral Sir C. :Ogle ' Bart., the late commander in-chief at Portsmouth, has presented to Mr. Eames, the secretary of the Royal Naval School, an elegant silver teapot, on which the following inscription is engraved:— " Presented by Sir C. Ogle, Bart., to A. J. S. Eames, Esq., on his marriage, as a tt ken of regard for his able and indefatigable exertions during a service of seventeen years, and the excellent judgment he showed, on several trying occasions, while Sir C. Ogle was the president of the institution." RETURN OF THB DUKE OF WELLINGTON FROM WALIJER CASTLE.—Last evening the Noble Duke ar rived in town by the 5, 45, P.M. train, at the London bridge terminus of the South-Eastern Railway from Warmer Castle. His Grace appeared in excellent spi rits, and was loudly cheered on leaving the station. Mdlle. Jenny Lind is about to honour /filanehester with another visit. Having offered her distinguis hed aid for the benefit of th e R oya l Inf i rmary, two grand concerts are to be h e ld — t h e f i rst on the 19th of in the ,Contert-h a ll ( w hi c h h as been offered for D ec.,th occaiion), and the second on some day not yet decided on, in the Free Trade-hall (which has also been offered gratuitously). Arrangements are being made' on an extensive scale to secure the most efficient and talented performers for the occasions. OPENING OP A NEW RAGGED SCHOOL.—Last night a public Meeting to celebrate the opening of the ragged school under the Royal Infirmary for the Dis eases of Children in the Waterloo-road, was held at the York-road Chapel, Lambeth; Mr. Benjamim Hawes, in the chair. The Chairman said, the great friend of ragged schools was and is Lord Ashley. To his Lordship were entirely owing the measures which bad been taken to reward those scholars who showed the best conduct and greatest diligence, by fitting them to gain ~ an honest livelihood - in the distant colonial pos. sessions of this empire. — (Hea r, hear.) This tact, when fully ,known and appreciated, would materially facilitate the exertions of the teachers. It was com monly supposed that the scholars in the ragged schools would be utterly unmanag , able; but experience proved that these children of misery and vice were open to the best impressions: instruction, when accompanied by' disinterested kindness, is sure to reach the heart.— (Cheere.) The secretary stated that the school would bo opened ou Sunday, and on evenings during the week. In the. course of a few. weeks it will be opened as a regular day school. After having been addressed by several clergymen and. - gentlemen, the meeting sepa rated. EMIGRATION.—PLTMOUTti, Nov. 15. The Pa kenham emigrant ship, Boyce commander, arrived here yesterday, from Liverpool, bound for Adelaide. The Osprey, Honeymoon, and Britannia, Robson, both from London, to - embark emigrants for Port Philip, arrived here to-day, atn4 will take in their passengers forthwith. ROXBURGHSHIRB Nov. 13.—The weather is fa vourable for back-end ploughing and other agricultural operations. We have mild frosts, which is admitting of an entire clearance of .'dho ,outstanding beans and peas, which have been so much exposed. The glass is rising, and it looks like a set-in of that fine sort of weather which we frequently enjoy in the month of October. HAMPSTEAD.SACRED CHORAL INSTITIITION.--TES society held its tenth open meeting on Tuesday evening last, in the Boys' National School-room. The perform ance consisted chiefly of selections from Handel, and evidently gavel the greatest satisfaction to a numerous and i h i g hly- r espectable audience. The president, the Rev. T A irtger; rector •of the parish, sppka in th e hi g h est terms Of the iustitution. _ 1