The Sun. — London, England, 1852-10-29 00:00:00

urth Ifs" SUN ©F FICE, Six o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZ ET lE. (1: Ens EVENING.) WINDSOR CASTLE, OCT. 26. This day had audience of Her Majesty :—Marshal the Duki , of Terceira, on a special mission from the Queen of Portugal and the A'garves, to attend the fune ral of the Duke of Wellington on the part of the Portu guese army to deliver his credentials ; to which he was introduced by the Earl of Malmeabury, Her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Afflire, WAR OFFICE, OCT. 29. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoome—Lieutenent George eadaley Whittinestall, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Curtin, who retires, Oct. 29. later Grenadier Fuot Guards.—Captain Sir R. Lyd ston Newman, Bart, from the 71st Foot, to be Lieu tenant and Captain, vice Herbert Lowther Wilson, who ticehangcs, Oct. 29. 7th Foot.—Lieutenant Henry Dixon to be Paymaster, Tale Gilley, who has retired upon half pay, as a Lieu tenant, Oct. 20. 25th Foot.—Ensign William Robert Goodall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice P4ttonson, promoted, by purchase, to an Unattached Company, Oct 29 29th Foot.—Dentenant Henry Evans Quin, from the 7Sd Foot, to b° Lieutenant, vice Norris, appointed to 73d Foet, Oct. 29. 114th Foot.—Lteutenant Joseph Jordan to b 3 Captain, by purchase, vice Oxley. who retire s ; Ensi A g nAbel Woodroffe Boyce to be Lieutenant , b y p urchase, vice Jordan, Oct. 29. 45th Foot.—Lieutenant Robert Miller to be Captain, by purchase, vice Morris, who retires ; Ensign William Hodnett Rowland to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Oot. 29. 57th Foot. —Ensign Alexander Lester Copland to be Lietenant, by purchase, vice Earle, whose promotion, by purchase, on Oct. 12, has been cancelled, Oct. 12. 69th Foot. —Ensign William Tracey to b e Li eu t en a n t, without purchase, vice Strickland, deceased. Sept. 17. Winniett Lockhart Melville, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tracey. Oct. 29. 71st Foot.—Lieutenant and Captain Herbert Lowther W i l son , :from the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Captain, vice Sir R. Lydeton Newman, Bart. who exchanges. 74d Foot.—Lieutenant Henry Albert Norris, from the 26th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Quin, appointed to the 29th Foot. Oct. 29. 74th Foot.—Lieutenant Henry Wellington Palmer to be Captain, without purchase, vice Berton, deceased. Aug. 17. 85th boot.—Lieutenant George Thompson to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Mushet, who retires; Ensign .Fgancis ,Lynch Nesse to be Lieutenant, by purchase, rice Thompson; Lieutenant Henry Godolphin Rooper to be Adjutant, vice Thompson, promoted. Oct 29. 91st Foot.—Ensign Walter Rice Olivey to be Lien beaant, by purchase, vice Whitle, who retires, Oct. 29. 94th Foot.—Lieutenant Richard Raphael Meade to be Adjutant, vice Maclean, promoted, Oct. 29. 3d West India Regiment.—Ensign John Francis De Carteret to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Cole, deceased ; Ensign Thibert Beckles Hunte to be Lieu tenant, by purchille, 'vide Hartigan, who retires, Oct 29. Brtuvrt:Caiitain Charles Grant Becher, of the s th Regiment M 'llene& Cavalry, to have the'r.snk of Major la the.Eatit Indies, Oct. 29. ADMIRALTY, OCT. 26. Corps of Royal Marines.—Second-Lieutenant Henry Colton Mudge to be First-Lieutenant, vice Charles Thomas Forest Onslow, deceased. Commission signed by the Queen. Royal Westmorland Light Infantry Corps of Militia. —Henry Thwaytes, Esq., late Captain 17th Regiment of Foot, to be Adjutant, with the rank of Captain, vice Captain E. H. Smith, appointed to the Dorset Militia. Sept. 27. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cumberlandahire. Robert Brio°, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. Oct. 12. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Northampton , shire. Sir Charles Edmund Isham, Bart., to be Deputy Lieu tenant. Oct. 20. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. The Right Hon. St. Andrew Beauchamp, Lord St. John, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Richard William Astell, Esq., Colonel Grenadier Guards, to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 16 ; John Harvey Astell, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 19 ; John Gibbard, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Henry Hanmer, late Lieut.- Colonel Royal Horse Guards, Knight of Hanover, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Henry Littledale, Esq., to b 3 De puty Lieutenant, Oct. 16 ; Charles Moore, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 19 ; Sir Charles illies Payne, Bart., to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Frederick Charles Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 16 ; God frey Thornton, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant Oct. 19 ; Ifrancis John Thynne, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; Samuel Charles Whitbread, Esq., to be Deputy Lieu tenant, Oct. 16 ; Samuel Whitbread, Esq., M.P., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 21. e;ommissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Westmorland. Royal Westmorland Light Infantry Corps of Militia. —James Thomas Bell, Esq. to be Captain, vice F. J. Wilson, resigned; Robert Wilson, jun, Gent. to be Basign, Oct. 19. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire Regiment of Militia.—John Vise Kelly, Gent. to be First-Lieutenant, Oct. 25. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Hereford. Hertfordebire Militia.—Thomas Rogers, E.A. to be Lieutenant, Oct. 26, Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—MajorVere Poulet, cotamooly called Viscount Hinton, to be Colonel, vice John Earl Poulet, resigned; Richard Leckonby Phipps, E.g., to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Joliffe, resigned, Oct. 18; George Frederick William Miles, E.q., to be Major, vice Vere Poulett, commonly called Viscount Hinton, promoted; Lilac Elton, Esq., to be Captain,vice Beadon, resigned; Ensign John Wright, to be Lieuten ant, vice Eaton, who retires with his allowance, Oct. 19; ;Ensign Henry Adney, to be Lieutenant, vice Gatehouse, *ho retires with his allowance, Oct. 20; Ensign Stephen Ryder Dampier, to be Lieutenant, vice Rooke, who re tires with his allowance, Oat. 21 ; Ensign Henry Grippe Wright, to be Lieutenant, vice Palmer, who retires with his allowance, Oct. 22 ; John Churchill Landon, Gentleman, to be Lieutenant, vice Chivers, who retires with his allowance, Oct. 23 ; Gan sell Gent, to be Lieutenant, vice Norman, re signed, 25 Oct.; John Leech, Gent to be Lieutenant, vice Bishop, deceased, 26 Oct.; Arthur Allen, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Powell, who retires with his allowance, 19 Oct.; Edward Clarke, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Steel, who retires with his allowance, 20 Oct.; Alexander William Adair, Gent. to be Ensign, vice John Wright promoted, 21 Oct.; John Stevens Cousen Stevens, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Adney, promoted, 22 Oat.; Hen ry , Allen, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Dampier, promoted, 23 Out.; Francis Foster, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Henry Cripps Wright, promoted, 23 Oct. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Chestershire. The Earl of Chester's Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—Lieutenant Henry Potts to be Captain, vice Leigh, retired, Oct. 20. Royal Cheshire Malitia.—Adjudant Charles Henry White to terre with the rank of Captain. Oct. 12; William Henry Bellot, Gent. to be Surgeon, Oct. 5. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Norkolksbire. 2nd or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militis.—John Maroon, Esq. late Captain 12th Foot, to be Captain, -deo Sir Jacob Preston, resigned, Oct. 18 ; Edward Henry Cormick, late Captain 17th Foot, to be Captain, vies St. John, deceased, Oct. 19. aiichard Hall, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, deceased, Oct. 20; William Robert Freeman, Gent., to he Lieutenant, vice Boulton, deceased; Henry Thomas Xnapman, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Larson, re signed, Oct. 22; William Denby Palmer, jun., G ent ., to be Lieutenant, vice Boardman, who retired, Oct. 23. [The following Article is substituted for the one which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, Oct. B.] Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Brecknockshire. Royal Brecknockshire Militia Rifle Corps—Lawrence Henry Peel, E: q., to be Captain; Arthur Vaughan Do nithorne Harris, E. q , to be Cal tarn, vice David Watkins Lloyd resigned. Eno following article is substituted for the one which appeared in the Gazette of Friday, the 22d October.] Commission by her Majesty's Commissioners of Lieu tenancy for the City of London. Royal London Regiment of Militia—Frederick Graves Moon, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Sussex Charles Milford, resigned, Gor e 7. WHITEHALL, OCT. 20, 1852. The Right H onourable Sir John Jervis, Kot. Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, e; Westminster, has county John Vinali Selby, of Si•tingbourne in the ndY of Kent, Gentleman, to be oLO of the ' Perpetual C ommiss ioners for takiag the acknowledgments of dpeseis:ti no for b eecuted by married wetnen, under the Ant the a b o lition of fines and recoveries, and ;for the substitution of more simple Jatades of assurance, in and foe the county of Kent. WHITEHALL, OCT. ri me Lnrd Chancellor has appointed David Mustard, Gl ?Jistley and MenninFttee, in the eeu "X of Essex, Gont. to be a Master Extraotdinery in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED. Henry Jackson, buildrader, , Shored itch, William P ro saer, per BANKRUPTS. James Keeley and Edwin Williams, tailor, Fleet- 3 WO'. Edmund Hindle, manufacturer. Bradford. Altrei Newbold and Edward Newbold, drapers, 13ir zni-agham. : Joseph Nanson, shipbroker, Durham. Thomas Jones, coal agent, Upper Ground-street, lambeth. Thomas Woodward, butcher, Liverpool. Edward Nicholls, licensed victualler, Oldawinford, Worcester. John Spencer and J ose ph Panto, toy Brad makeri, Lard. ) 'l . PRICE OF SUGAR. Aci The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn' puted from returns made in the week ending October 26, Jtiratd..7 PROVINCIAL CEMETERIES - INTEN TIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT. Correspondence between H. J. Davie, Esq., Mayor of Newport, and the General Board of Health:— "TO THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH. " Newport, Monmouthshire, Oct. 11, 1852. " Gentlemen,—l take the liberty of calling your at tention to the following. In this town there is but one burial-ground connected with the Church of England, which is full to overflowing, so much so that the remains of the dead are often disturbed before they are wholly decomposed. In Mr. Clarke's report to your honourable board, dated 24th October, 1849, pages 35, 36, Sac., your attention was called to this matter, as also to the crowded state of several burial-grounds attached to dissenting places of worship; the local board of health soon after sought a convenient spot for a cemetry, arranged with the owner for the purchase, and applied to you for ad vice as to the management and regulation thereof, when you informed them that the law officers of the Crown bad advised that the Health of Towns Act did not give local boards sufficient powers to purchase and make cemeteries, but you hoped that a Bill would be brought into Parliament for the purpose. Last session passed away, and no Act to meet the difficulty was passed; the consequence is, that the local board has not yet com pleted the purchase of the ground. The churchyard, which in 1849 was so overcrowded that Mr. Clarke re ported " the sooner it is closed the better," is still the only consecrated ground for burial whilst the population is increaskg most rapidly. In 1851, it was 7,000 ; in 1841, 13,000, and in 1851, nearly 20,000. The locomotive department of the South Wales Railway is to be at Newport, which alone will probably add 1,000 souls' to us next year. And yet with all this, and the rapid approach of the cholera, we know not what to do for a burial-place. Tne local board of health is not only ready, but anxious to pro vide one. Fourteen acres of land in a most eligible place are offered for the purpose. The price is agreed upon, but the board's hands are tied. "In this emergency I apply to you, on behalf of my self and fellow-townsmen, and beg and entreat of you to in a Bill in the coming session which shall enable boards of health to purchase land from cematries partly consecrated and partly unconsecrated, deal with vested and other rigbts, clo3e all burial-grounds which v are full, and arrange the terms, fees, &C., connected therewith. " Trusting that my appeal will meet with a ready response from you, I am, &c., " H. J. DAVIS, Mayor of Newport." " T 3 It J. DAVIS, MAYOR OF NEWPORT. " Sir,—l am directed by the General Board of Health to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th inst.' pressing upon the board the importance of providing in the ensuing session a legislative remedy fur the evils arising from the inability of Iccal boards of health to close noxious burial-places, and to establish new public cemetries ; and iu reply I am to inform you that the board are authorised to state that her Majesty's Government entertain a hope of being able to introduce into Parliament during the approaching session a measur e t o f ac ilit a te the creation of provincial cemeteries.—l am, &c., "C. MACAULAY, Secretary. " The General Board of Health, Whitehall, Oct. 20, 1852." TB]; COLONIAL MAIL.—The Panama Star of the 7th instant contains a notice to the effect that the mails by the British steamers will in future be landed at As pinwall, Navy Bay, instead of Chagres, the gov ernment f or of New Grenada havin g transferred the post-office latter to th e former place. By this change re British mails will be received in Panama within two days after the arrival of th e steamer at Aspinwall, instead of five or six days as formerly. It is also stated that the British steamers in the Atlantic will receive and disem bark their passengers at Navy Bay in future instead of Chqgres. LONDON INsTITUTION.—A special general meeting of the proprietors of this institution was held last evening at the house of the institution, in Finsbury-square, and the attendance, in consequence of the interest taken in the questions to be debated, was exceedingly numerous. The business of the meeting was t 3 corsider the repo r t of the Board of Managers on several suggestions referred to them Iby the general meeting in April, the princip al of the suggestions being th a t the price of the annual subscriptions should be reduced, and that a certain pot lion of the librar y (which n ow d,srations involved rep al The e tains 40,000 volumes) should be rendered circulating. proprietors to make no enters elaborately into the consi concludes by recommending the amendment was moved e tc: nt h change in either of these respects. On the inetion that this r be received and adopted, an inquiry be appointed ,to te effect that a committee of noisy, investiga te confused , and further these questions, this uneourteous discussion, and after a ii ya amendment was rejected, which endured three hours, and in consequence the report _ttdopted. The Rev. IL were Mr. W. Russell presided; and the sp eakers prixtricri.pseh Smith, Mr. Gos- Mr. Hatwick. Tite, who is hon. secretary ; sett, ' Alr. Scott, Dlr. McCann , Mr. Birnieg,eand TIT S N, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENUNT G, OCTOBER 29, 1S 5 211 RAILWAY AMALGAMATIONS. CENTRAL CRIAI A TNA I, CO URT.—Oct. 28. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. --~--. (Frorr the Daily It 7 ezvs.) NotwUstanding the strong expree,ilons of public nvitioa against such combinations, proposals for great railway an a'gernations go on, ai if there were no interests in itio matter worth consideration bat those of the particular co:npcfnies concerned. On the Zed of November three important northern companies— the York and North Midland, the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, and the Leeds ar.d Northern—meet to consider the terms on which their directories pro• pose to unite ; and next day tl:e London and North Western and the Midland proprietaries assemble to resolve (if they follow the advice given them by their Boards) on effecting—what the motion to be proposed modestly calls—"a permanent union of interests." In the one case, the amalgamation of capital and loan stock will involve some twenty-four millions, and 664 miles of locomotion ; and in the other, no less a sum than fifty millions sterling, and more than 1,000 cni:e3. It is not s light matter, therefore, that is in hand, but one affecting the public interest and conve- OLD COURT. ytI~NSION- OUS Gievan!ii: Maraschovi, an rwarnen, charwil by 7.he Consul Ander ;2,11 Act of Palliamcnt jut e.:;rne into opei stion, which enables her Majt)sty t: carry into effect arrangc xneut3 with foreign bowels for the rpproher icn z , f sea men who desert from their ships when in British ports. The conduct of the defendant excited some as!onLh nient. I.3Jore the Lard Chief Baron Mr. Justie jam Lewis, 19, who as convlcted on 'Wednesday of the cztzte inanslate e ;h , ,er, was placed nt thelbar to re ceive., jurlgnent. Ttn. Chief BaTor, in passing sentence, said that the jury had taken a very meteiful view of the prisoner's case, and they lisd acquitted him of the chal•ge of murder, which was the one originally preferred against aim; and they had also recommended him to mercy, on lu:count of his geed character, and the provocation he had received. To a certain extent he coteurred in the view. th.e jury had taken of the matter. There was no doubt that, originally, he had no intention to destroy life, but that having been continually subjected to insult and annoy arce from the deceased and his fellow-workmen in the shop, ho had committed the act under the influence of sudden excitement; and if he had only made use of his fists, or any other weapon of offence with which nature had furnished him, and death had been the result, he should have considered the case one which called for little more than nominal punishment. The prisoner, however, had made use of a knife, a most dangerous weapon; and in every case where such an instrument was resorted to, it was impossible that the Court, having re gard to the safety and security of human lie, could allow such a case to he passed over without some severity of punishment. The learned Judge then sentenced the prisoner to be confined in the gaol of Nowgate for nine months. Vinciczo Sapnich, mate of an Austrian vessel called the Rosa Maria, now lying in the London Docks, said, through the medium of so interpreter, the defendant signed the ship's articles, by which he engaged to navi gate the vessel from Constantinople to Venice, in the course of which voyage she was to touch at certain ports. Arrived at London he left the ship without con sent either of the captEln or the mat?, and refused to re turn, by which conduct he subjected the vessel to great inconvenience. The defendant, with fierce gesticulations, swore that he was determined not to return to the vess , l, what ever might happen to him. no could accommodate himself more to his own taste in some other ship, and no one should attempt to compel him, if he had any regard for hi 3 life. nience and economy quite as much, though ❑ot quite as immediately, as it does those of shareholders; and though on former occasions the public and its concerns have been a good deal overlooked in legislation on these subjects, it will be the public's own fault if they are similarly treated now that a new opportunity serves. The Lord Mayor (to the interpreter)—Tell him that sort of language earl have no effect hero, and that we are bound by the law between this country and Austria to give him up as a &stater. The defendant said he did not earn about any rr,gula tiers ; that he was determined to make the most &s -p+ rate opposition to any person who should attempt to force him on board ; and that he' nniCier cared about his own life nor about the lives of others. The general welfare in this question of railways is not, however, concerned in low rates of profits and poor dividends. On the contrary, setting aside the public in its capacity of railway proprietaries, and regarding it only in the light of railway travellers and customers, the public wi 1, the chances are, be much better provided for when railway profits shall increase, and dividends be more substantial, than they now are. The public has, consequently, far more real and permanent interest in the prosperity than in the adversity of railway companies; and to legiti mate and reasonable plans for restoring prosperity it ought to give every encouragement. No doubt these proposed amalgations aim at the restoration of such prosperity ; but the objections to them are two : first, that the amalgamations are an alternative resorted to because of the unreasonable and absurd competition into which it has pleased railway boards and officials to fall—and which it must be far better to correct; and second, that their tendency is to deprive the public of such competition as the legislature intended should exist for the public benefit. Take the case of this Northern Amalgamation. The Leeds and Northern Railway is clearly and ob viously a line which Parliament intended should— and which in point of fact did—compete with the York, Newcastle, and Berwick. Had the official people of these two lines conducted their rivalry on sound principles the country through which they ran would have been permanently benefited, and the two companies would, in all probability, have been fairly , remunerative. But, instead of reasonable competi tion—competition in moderation of fares, sufficiency of rolling stock, punctuality of trains, cleanliness of carriages, civility of attendants, and safety of locomo tion—instead of indulging the public in this proper description of rivalry, they choose to lower their rates to points which would hardly defray grease to the wheels of their engines and carriages. And, be cause neither party would first give way and come to terms as to fares and rates, they both determine that this sort of ruinous rivalry is unavoidable except by amalgamation, and proceed to " effect a permanent union of interests." Now, this sort of rivalry is a mere abuse of power by the officials who work railways; an unreasonable, absurd, discreditable indulgence in their passions and prejudices ; carried on, first at the shareholders' ex pense, and now to be remedied at the public cost. A test of good management of any railway in these matters is the amity of its relations with competing lines. Where all is wrangling and disputes, conten tion and litigation, scheming and planning, allaying and leasing, there may be a great deal (perhaps far too much) of cleverness in the managers concerned ; but there is very little good administration. And the great practical truth our railway administrators have not yet realised is the worth and value of sim plicity in their external relations, and of good faith and honour in their own bargains. It may be that the present generation of railway officials are too far gone in the present system of management to be cured, but if so, than the time has come for pro prietaries to consider whether the very best thing to be done is not to make a clean sweep of the principal offenders. FORGERY. Lewis James Coleman, who was brought to this court by habeas from the Queen's Bench prison, Joseph Gur ney, 60, described as a merchant, and Henry Birch, who surrendered to take his trial, three respectable looking persons, were indicted for feloniously forging and utter ing a bill of exchange for 1871. 18s. 93., with intent to defraud. Mr. Clarkson, in opening the case, said that the pri sont rs were charged with forging a foreign bill of change, purporting to have been drawn by a firm passing under the name of Francis Bottin and Co., at Nicaragua, in South America, and accepted by the firm of Coleman and Bottin, of Mark-lane. Upon looking at the depo sitions, however, ho and his learned friend were of opinion that the charge could not be made out against Birch, but that he appeared merely to have been made a tool of by the other prisoners. Under these circum stances, he should offer no evidence against Birch, but would at once consent to a verdict of not guilty as re garded him, and he should then call him as a witness for the prosecution. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty with respect to Birch, and he was then removed from the dock. Mr. Elias Isaacs, an attorney, residing in Jeffrey square, St. Mary-axe, deposed that on the 26th of July Birch brought him the bill in question, and asked him to discount it. The bill purported to be endorsed by Gurney and Co,, of St. Mary-at-Hill, and he requested Birch to get a written communication from Gurney and Co. respecting the bill, and he brought him a letter written by the prisoner Gurney, offering to take 100/. for the bill. He had bis suspicions respecting the in strument, and while he was making inquiries respecting it he pat Birch off from time to time, and made different excuses for not discounting the bill. He at length received a letter from Gurney, in which he stated that the bill had been fraudulently obtained, and demanded its restitution ; and be then said he would not give it up unless Mr. Gurney came to his office, and gave him a receipt for the bill. On the 30th of July, accordingly, Gurney and Birch came to his office, and after the former had written a receipt and acknowledged his con nexion with the transaction, an officer was called in snd he gave them both into custody, and at the same time gave instructions for the apprehension of the other pri soner, Coleman. The witness added that his daughter had unfortunately married the brother of Coleman, and this was all the connexion between them. Mr. Parry cross-examined the witness with a good deal of severity, and endeavoured to show that he had been connected with some transaction of a disreputable character. Mr. Issaes, however, denied most positively that there was the slightest foundation for any of the insinuations that were made against his character. He also denied that he was a bill discounter, or that be had ever had in his possession any bills that had been stolen from Prince Louis Napoleon. He said ho was aware that some years ago a charge of bill stealing was preferred in that court by Louis Napoleon, but he was not in any way concerned in it, except by assisting the Prince in the prosecution, and he was paid fur so doing. He did on one occasion, he said, discount a bill for 500/. for Prince Louis Napoleon, and it was paid in duo course. Mr. Shotter, clerk to Messrs. Nis , eu and Parker, en gravers, in Alark-lane, proved that the prisoner Gurney ordered ' the plate to be engraved from which the printed portion of the forged instrument had been taken. He also said that Coleman called for a proof :rom the plate, and he was represented to be Mr. Coleman, of the firm of Coleman and Bottin, of Mark-lane. Evidence was then given that Coleman had himself hired the counting-house, and that no such person as Bottin was ever seen there ; and a Spanish merchant, well acquainted with the state of Nicaragua, named Antonio Math 6, was called to prove that !here was no such Arm as Francis Bottin and Co., carrying on busi ness in that state. _ The Lord May.,r then directed the officers to put handcuffs on the defendant it they found he was (1 inger• ously inclined, and to place him as soon as possible under the authority of his captain. Giuseppe Losiah, a seaman on board the same vessel, was charged with having committed a violent assault upon the mate on the high seas. The complainant was anxious that the defendant should be detained, but as the vesiel was to sail next morning, the necessary evidence could not be produced. It was stated that Giuseppe Losiah was ton times more formidable than the former defendant, and that the rest of the crew were actually in constant dread of his violence. The defendant said no power on earth should prevail upon him to return to the mad ho had left. He was determined to attack all who opposed him. The Lord Mayor said that as he was prevented from going into the case from the absence of necessary evi dence, he should treat the defendant as a deserter, and deliver him to the captain to be dealt with according to the merchant seaman law of Austria. The defendant was then conveyed on board. GUILDHALL.—SamueI "'Eaullis, of 131, Banbill row, and Jacob Hyams, of 130, Petticoat-lane, general dealers, were charged. the former with robbing Mr. Baumann, of 25, London-wall, cap manufacturer, of property to a very large amount, consisting of cloth, velvet, and cap trimmings, and the latter with receiving the said property knowing it to have been stolen. John Mark gull, one of the City detective police, said that in consequence of information he received a fort night ago from Mr. Baumann, in whose employ the prisoner Michallis was as cutter and foreman, he watched him in company with another officer, and on Wednesday night, a little past eight o'clock, he saw him leave his employer's and proceed across Fore-street to Milton-street, where he met the prisoner Hyams. Before they entered into con versation they both looked cautiously around several times. In a few minutes they parted, and Michallis went to 131, Bunhill-row, where ho lived, Hyams fol lowing him. When Hyams got to Bunhill-row, he walked to and fro in front of the house for ten minutes, when the officers lost sight of him suddenly. Soon after they saw him coo out of Miohallis's house with a car pet-bag, which was now produced. He went up Chis well-street to Finsbury-square at a rapid pace, when he was overtaken by the officers, who asked him what he had in his bag; to which at first he made no answer, but on being told that they were detective officers, after some hesitation he said it contained cloth. On being asked from whom he received it, ho again hesitated, but said, if the officers would go back with him to ganhill-row, he would show them; that his name was Hyams, and that he lived in Middlesex street, At the station he told the inspector that he received the bag from Michallis, but that ho did not know for whom ha worked, but he believed he was in the cap lino ; that he did not know whathe was to pay for the goods, as he was to meet Mi challis later in the evening. tie gave up the key of the bag to witness, who found it to contain two pieces of cloth, four pieces of velvet, two pieces of glazed calico, six pieces of leather, two pieces of dark ribbon, and a piece of tape. Ho was subsequently asked, in the presence of Michallis, it ho was the man who gave him the bag, and be said " Yes, he was." In crois-exarnination by Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prisoner, Hyams, the witness said that llyams' an swers were found to be correct, and that the house in Bun hill-row was a respectable om , . Mr. Loomis said ho could not resist a remand in this case, but he would apply for Elyaws to be admitted to bail. It is obvious, on the very surface of things, that railway amalgamations, as at present proposed, are mere devices by railway managers to enable them creditably to retreat from positions dangerous to their constituencies into which they have rushed ; to cover their past bad policy, and to save themselves the trouble of reforming and amending it on sound prin ciples. And at whose cost is this to be done ? Why, at that of the public, to be sure. The Leeds and Nor thern, and the York, Newcastle, and Berwick amal gamated, there is, of course, an end of all competition —either in fares, rates, speed, punctuality, cleanliness, civility, or safety—in that district. And when these two united lines north of York are joined to the York and North Midland, then there will be a great and powerful northern confederacy, prepared to operate adversely to the public interests on the lines competing for the southern traffic. As at Normanton, this northern amalgamation— representing 24 millions sterling—will meet the southern amalgamation of the North Western and Midland, —representing 50 millions—why should these in their turn not unite, and so overpower and destroy all competition for the traffic between London and York, as they will previously have done between Leeds and Newcastle-on-Tyne ? If the proposed amalgamation be sanctioned by the legislature, there is no possible reason why Parliament should not next session go further and consign the whole traffic from London to Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, the York shire and Lancashire towns, York, Newcastle, and Edinburgh, to one huge, cumbrous, lumbersome cor poration :—all to avoid irrational rivalry and to save railway managers the trouble of finding out a system of civilised competition. Nay more ; when once Parliament has sanctioned this principle of railway amalgamation the difficulty will be to show cause why it should not be fully carried out, and all the railways of the kingdom placed under one control. Aud if so, the whole tendency of these schemes is obviously to place the entire railway property of the empire in the hands of the executive government ; when either the shareholders would have to be content with smaller dividends than they even now get, or the public would have to consent to make up better dividends out of the general taxation of the country. In the proposed Amalgamation Bills there is a great public principle involved, and it must be discussed and be settled by the legislature on public grounds. It is impossible therefore that these measures can be permitted to go through Parliament merely as private bills. The general question of their policy should be considered by a select committee composed of the most eminent men of all parties unconnected with railways, and committees of shareholders must be pre pared to act vigorously on their own behalf for the salvation of their property and the reformation of their officials. Without some such examination of the great ques tion involved, neitner shareholders nor the public can be safe. Shareholders : because in assenting to the amalgamation they are advis d and urged on by those very cfficials whose former recommendations have only led their constituents and their companies into deeper and deeper disasters. The public : because in the very face of these schemes of unions, it is intended to remedy those disasters at the expense of the general community. In the long run, the interests of rail. ay companies and the public must be identical ; and the leading vice of the propositions now made is, that they involve diversity and variety of interests. This— shareholders may rely upon—is not the way to right railway property, and the sooner they teach their Directors that they must find out some other plan of remedying their own past mismanagement, the sooner will higher dividends be realised. Rail way shareholders must take the matter in their own hands, and see that their officials do not ruin their property. We want railway competition — we must have no close monopoly of the iron highways— but the competition we want is one of sefety, punc• tuality, comfort, cleanliness of carriages and moderate fares. It is no wholesome competition that brings danger and often death to the railway passenger a n d ruin to the railway shareholder. Sir It. W. Carden said—Nothing you can say, Mr. Lewis, will indvce me to accept bail; for this is one of those cases that the magistrates are ever anxious to en tertain when brought under their notice, and for my own part I would very willingly let off the thieves it I could make sure of convicting the receivers. The prisoners were then remanded till Wednesday next. This was the case for the prosecution. ➢dr. Parry addressed the jury on behalf of his client, Cc.leman, and he contended that there was not a tittie of evidence in the ease to show any intention to defraud on his part. Mr. Dearsley also addressed the jury for the other prisoner, and, Mr. Justice Cresswell having summed up, the jury retired to deliberate, and, after being absent nearly an hour ; they returned into court and gave a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners. Sentence was deferred. From a statement subsequently made by the officer Packmln, it appeared that the property found in liyams' house formed a much larger stock than was required in that business, and consisted of large quanti ties of ribbons, buttons, leather, coloured and plain, black leather for hat-linings, waterproof canvas, sorges, and sewing silk, three-fourths of which ho believed to have been stolen, us ho found some concealed behind a knife-board in the cellar or kitchen, and other portions crammed into every hole and corner in the house. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) William Martin, 19, clerk, and Edward Graves, 20, turner, was indicted, Martin for forging an order or re quest for the delivery of seven pairs of bracelets, valued at 81., with intent to defraud Charles Wild, and Graves with uttering the same order. The circumstances, the investigation of which occupied the Court nearly all the day, were these :—The prose cator is a jeweller in Hatton-garden, and the prisoner, Martin, had been a clerk in his employ, but had for some time previously left his service. On the 28th of September a man brought an order, purporting to be from a :Mr. Troup, a jeweller, also living in Hatton garden, requesting that the bracelets might be sent on approval, which was done. Within a few minutes of the same time, the same man went to another jeweller In Hatton-garden with a similar order, who did not give him the goods, and he went away. The gentleman to whom the second order was given, going out shortly afterwards, called on Mr. Troup, and then found that he had not sent the order in question. lie then made a call on the prosecutors, and he found that he had been imposed upon, and upon looking at the handwriting he recognised it as the handwriting of the prisoner Martin. Information was then given to the police, and they knowing him to be the associate of Graves, took him in custody, and, being seen ineompany with other prisoners, was at once identified as the same man who had pre sented the order, and received the bracelets. The hand writing of Martin and the identity of Graves were clearly proved by a number of witnesses. The jury found them Guilty. Martin was ordered to be imprisoned for 12 months, and Graves, being well known to the police, was transported for seven years. The Court sat considerably beyond the usual time of rising. CLERKENWELL.—James Phair, a ruffianly-look ing fellow, 27 years of age, was charged with having violently assaulted his wife, by which her life is in dan ger. Several witnesses deposed that yesterday afternoon the neighbourhood of Dean-street, Holborn, was alarmed by the loud screams of the complainant, when the in jured woman made her appearance at the flrst.l)or window of No. 14. Dean street, bleeding profusely, whilst the prisoner was beating her over the head with a heavy bludgeon. Police-constable Selby, 137 F, and several other persons entered the house, when the prisoner seized a poker, and made a ferocious attack on the officer, and, after a desperate resistance, was se cured. He was taken to the station-house and his wife to the hospital insensible. Her life was pronounced to be in danger. The prisoner said nothing in his defence. Mr. Ty r whitt remanded him for a week until the fate of his wife should be made known. THIRD COURT. (B fore the Common Sergeant.) George Holyhead, 39, firework•maker, was indicted upon the Coroner's warrant for feloniously slaying and killing John Howes and Cornelius Crowley, on the 4th of October. Mr. Carleen having stated the case, called _ Solomon Pigott, a toy dealer, of Little Norris-street, Whitmore-road, Iloxton, who stet( d that being himself a (haler in fireworks, he went on Sunday, the 3d of October, to the prisoner's house, 30, liose and Crown court, Eldon street, Little Moorfields, to purchase some fireworks. He got there a little before eight in the evening. Holyhead was then in the back parlour. When witness went in he left the room two or three times. Witness heard a noise in the room overhead. When Holyhead came batik, witness made some remark about the lads being at work, knowing that be had one at work there whom they called Jack. Mrs. Holyhead alid they had not left off yet. Witness said twat no good ever came of Sunday work. Holyhead made no reply, but went upstairs, and when he came down, ho said the boys might as well leave off for the night. His wife said it would be as well, for it was then half-past eight. She then went up stairs, and, coming down again, said they had only a few to finish, and Jack would stop to finish them. In about ten minutes after that they heard a terrific explosion in the room overhead. Prisoner, his wife, and two young girls all ran out into the court, and witness was so alarmed that he ran round into the back street. In about five minutes he came back, and, looking through the win dows into the shop, saw something on the floor burning, and Holyhead standing by the side of it. Mrs. Holyhead then came out with dome burning but exploded fire. works in her apron, and witness helped to get the rest of the fireworks out of the shop. They then got the two deceased boys, who were dreadfully burned, on to a shutter, and conveyed them to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. When they got back they examined the room, and found the window frames entirely blown out, and the partition of the walls blown down and burnt. There were a quantity of empty cases lying about the room. The prisoner was dreadfully agitated, and said the shop was lighted with a flat candlestick and a glass globe over the light. Holyhead said this matter would bo his ruin. The boys were too much hurt to give any account of how it took place. George William Callender, house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said the two boys were brought in about nine o'clock on the Sunday evening ; their in juries were such as to preclude the chance of recovery, and both died the next day. Their bodies were burnt all over in a most fearful manner. Mr. Sleigh, in a most able address, contended that there was no evidence to show that the prisoner had been guilty of wilful neglect. The Common Serjeant having summed up, explaining the law to the jury, Tbey, ftpr a abort deliberation, returned a verdict of Not FLIGHT OF A SWEEPSTAKE HOLDER.—At The Man chester Borough Court on Tuesday morning, a licensed victualler, named David Duckworth, was called upon to answer a summons charging him with permitting nßegam blingDaetrionrthh did ishonuoset, stphpeeaMr,ahnocwheesvteerr, Arms and , Mr n. B wk, chief superintendent of police , s t a ted that he had left the ic M town, that he was a man that had dealt largely with racing "sweeps," and had gone off with some hundreds of pounds. He had in his possession the proceeds of a sweep for the Cambridgeshire Stakes, to be run at Newmarket that day—a sweep to which the members had paid half a-crown each. He was reported to have gone to Aus• tralia. A FEMALE RAILWAY PICKPOCKET. --A very stylishly dressed female, of ladylike manners, was brought up in custody at the Leeds Court-house on Tuesday last, charged with robbing the lady of the Rev. John Ward, rector of Wath, near Ripon. On the previous day Mrs Ward arrived in Leeds by the express train of the Great Northern Railway, and at the station in feeds was mot by her husband. A cab was engaged for her, and just as she was entering it her husband observed the prisoner in the act of withdrawing her hand from his wife's pocket. Mr. Ward at once seized both arms of the de linquent, and she then dropped the purse just abstracted from Mrs. Ward's pocket upon the pavement. She was given into custody, and, after a full examination before the justices, she was committed for trial at the next ses sions. A Bunn or TALENT I—A Yankee, being asked to describe his wire, said, 0 Why, sir, she'd make a re gular fast, go a. head steamer, my wife would—she bas such a wonderful talent for blowing up." --Punch, In% exclusive cf Cuctorns I)uti3s pia or payable therooo on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 233. 94d. per evil From the Mauritius 23;3. „ From the East Indies —18 s. Oil. 4vorago price of the three oregoing de. scriptions of 3Lear, jointly, computed as above ; lad ex , :!usiv d•aty 2t. 30. By authority of Parliardant. iIL. - NItY BICKNELL. Clerk of the Grocers' Company. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32 fo the Week ending on Saturday, the 16th day of Octoloer, 1852. ltlrE DEPAILTX.ENT. £. Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities •• 2,984,960 Gold coin and bullion 20,717,076 Silver bullion • • • • • • 19,154 votes 155ued........ 34,736,730 134:136, 230 X 3-1,736,21) J. R. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. t 852. iETA.B.IMEN T. Dated the 29th day of October. St 414 KIN. D. Proprietorecapital • • 1i,f;3,00 0 [teat • • • • ... • • • • 3,0 98 , 897 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav tugs-banks, and Di vidend accoan,s) • • 4,443 4G Other deposits • • • 13,670,230 Seven day and other Bills • • .... •....... 1,142,560 Government securi ties (including Dead Weight Annuity)•• 13,950 375 Other securities .... 11.179,558 Notes .• •• •• •• 11,576,015 Gold and silver coin •• 508,085 X 37,2 l 4,033 £37,214,033 J. R. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. 1852. Dated the 28th day of October, COURSE OF EXCI Amsterdam •• •• •• •• •• 1I 18% Ditto, three months .. 11 19% Rotterdam .......... 12 0 Antwerp•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 45 lirtissels•• •• •• .• •• •• 25 45 ilamburgh 13 8 Altona•• •• •• •• •••• • • Paris, 3 dayesight .... 26 20 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 42% sfarseilles 25 4234 Beardeaux• • FrankfortonMaine... • 120% B irlin • . Vienna, effee. 11 49 Trieste, ditto • • .... 11 50 I'etersbnrgh .......... 38 Madrid .... . • ...... 49% Cadiz •• •• ••.. •• •• ••.• 40%a Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• •• Seville.. •• •• •• •• •• •• ANGE—Tnis DAY. G l3 raltar . .............. Leghorn ........•..... 30 65 4eaos.••••••••••••••• 2 5 57% Milan • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• Venice •• •• •• •• •• •• •• gaples ... •• •• •• •• 41 1 4, 1233. Messina •••• •• •• •• •• •• 12344 Li5b0n................ 5334 Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres _ ...! ••• New Yori,6odays'slglit Philadelphia .... • • .... PRICES OP BULLION, PEA OZ. Foreign Geld inbars .• AS 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 ApanishDonbloolui .. 0 0 0 Now Dollars 0 0 0 :Inver in bars ........ 0 5 Oh MARKET INTELLIGENCE. From the London Neu. Price Current of Oct 29. SUGAR.—To-day there was a larger demand for West India Sugar from home deelers, and the rates obtained were fully equal to Friday last. Operations are 665 hhds &c., including at auction 215 hhds 8 trs., and 110 brls St. Lucia, which went for very fine low to fine brown at 29s to 32s 6d, common to mid yellow 33s to 35s 6d, good 36s to 36s 6d ; and 180 hhds Barbadoes ord to good yellow 35s 6d to 38s 6(1, mid to fine grainy 37s to 433, and low at 35s to 36s 6d per cwt. The total pur chases for the week are 1,957 hhds and trcs. REFINED.—To-day home dealers were anxious to operate in Refined Sugar, and rates closed firmly—brown lumps at 455, low to fine grocery at 45s 6d to 48. The market for Crushed Sugar a firm aspect. Memarrros.—This atternoon full rates were obtainad for Mauritius Sugar at the public sales of 2,200 bags Fine and good yellow went at 35a 6d to 37s 6d, low to good mid 33s to 355, good to fine brown 31s to 32s 6d,, low to mid 26s 6d to 303 6d, and very dark 25s to 265 per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with ready buyers, and previous terms are easily paid. At auction 3,900 bags sold; low to mid white Benares 37s to 38s 6d, good to fine like Mauritius 363 to 38s, low and raid grainy brown 31s to 32s 6d, mid to fine grainy yel low 38s to 425, fair to good white ditto 42a 6d to 43s 6d. Madras is wanted, and 3200 bags realised full terms; soft brown 25s 6,1 to 275, yellow 27s 6cl to 315, and fine ditto 31s 6d to 325. _ _ . Cocos.—Operations in West India have been upon a large scale at very full rates; indeed best sorts realizsd Is per cwt. advance. At auction 902 bags Trinidad were disposed of. Fine red 42s to 465, good 38s to 40s, mid 36; 6d to 37a 6d, low 35s to 365, grey from 323 to 353. 252 bags Grenada. Low 28s 6d to 30s 6d, and better sorts 31a to 35s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day some parcels of foreign Sugar were taken for shipping and home consumption at very full rates. None was submitted to public sale. COFFEE,—This afternoon holders of Coffee displayed firmness, and none was submitted to public sale. There n as a large business concluded privately in Plan tion Ceylon at an advance of is per cwt. Native is still dealt in with reluctance, and 46s to 46s 6d is the value of good ord. RICE.—To-day East India Rice was enquired after bat stiffer rates being required operated against busi ness. At auction 2700 bags Bengal nearly all taken in at 12s per cwt. for good mid white. Of Sago 940 chts were disposed of at 245. 6d to 33s for mid to very fine large white grain, and medium 19s to 22s 6d per cwt. SPICES.—To-day at auction 8 pkgs Nutmegs were sold at is 10d to 2s 10d for wild, without the shell. TEA.—To-day large purchases were made in Tea, and rates closed firmly at 9fd to 10d for low to good sound common Congou. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon the parcels of Cochineal offered at auction were nearly all taken in above the value ; Honduras Silvers at 3s 7d to 3s 10d, dead grain 3s 3i to 3s 6d. black 4s 10d to 55 2d ; Teneriffe 4s to 4s 2d, and black Mexican at 4s 6d per lb. OILS.---Prices are barely sustained for Sperm; at auc tion to-day 70 tons selling at 851. to 861., low 754 to 80/. ss; Headmatter 85/. 153 to 87/. ss; and 150 hhds East India Ground Nut 341. Linseed 011 brisk at 28s 9d to 293 on the spot. A DANCING SALOON IN EGYPT. It was proposed to us, and with some hesitation act< r mined, that we should invite ourselves to join the party. The application was received with politeness, and the taster of the house himself came out to introduce us. Presently, therefor!, we were comfortably installed in a large room, dimly lighted with oil lamps, upon divans, with pipe and fingan in hand, in company with as strange a set as it has ever been my lot to associate with. The Buuluk himself was a genteel sort of ruffian enough. Ile was treating another Bouluk, just arrived from Esneh— a great burley, drunken, roaring villain, who was rolling about in a place of honour at the upper end of the room. About half-a-dozen other Arnaouts, all of cut-throat physiognotey; a few handsome, quiet men, said to be Circassian arlemlocks: the Sheikh- el-Beled, and other magnates of the village, sat around; and near the door was a crowd of inferior people, Arnaouts and others. There were seven or eight dancing girls, all more or less agreeable. 'Flit principal one, Ifesneh herself; was really a tall, elegantly-shaped, beautiful woman, and would have attracted admit-at on and applause in any European ball-room. Her eyes, which, as the custom, she generally kept half-closed in dancing, the lashes sometimes even resting on the cheeks, seemed, whe❑ they opened and beamed around the room, to fill it with redoubled light; her nose, her mouth, her chin—her every feature—was exquisitely moulded, and nothing could exceed the beauty of her arms and hands. In this instance, fame had fallen short of the truth. I will not describe the performance of this Egyptian Aphrodite--as superior to Kutchuk as a pine apple to a potato—because I should have in a great measure to re p,,at what has been said in another place. Hesneh, how ever, but slightly overpassed the bounds of delicacy, and gave real pleasure by the supple elegance of her move ments. Both herself and her companions seemed under the mark in animal spirits, and went through their task with very little enthusiasm. refusing even to drink the arraki that was offered. It is probable, therefore, that what we were told was true—namely, that their services were forced and gratuitous. It is the custom to make' presents at the end of every applauded dance, or at any rate, towards the close of the evening; but not a para made its appearance. We asked the Sheikh-el-Beled, in a whisper, whether we should give the girls something; but be said by no means, as the Arnaouts would be of fended. If we were in a generous mood, however, we might make a present to the servants at the door!" Social Life in Egypt. NOTE CIRCULATION OF THE BANS OF ENGLAND. —A return of the note circulation of the Bank of Eng 'snit, for the four weeks ending the 11th, 18th, and 25th September, and the 2nd instant, shows a decreso of 539,0941. in the note circnlation of England Wales, and a decrease of 63,2261. in the circulation of the United Kingdom when compared with the returns for the previous four weeks, endin g the 4th of Septemb e r. The note circulation of the private and joint stock banks of England and Wales was 1,638,9641. below the amount authorized to be issued ;and that, inclusive of S c otl an d and Ireland, the circulation was ou balance, 2,761,9001. below the fixed amount. The average amount of coin and bullion held by the Bank of England in both depart ments during the four weeks ending the 2nd inst. was 21,781,236 1 , showing a decrease on the previous month's return of 110,0691. The average stock of specie held by the It ish banks during th e same per i o d was 1,102,5561., being a decrease on the return for the pre vious four weeks of 49,1001. The average of speilia held by the Scotch banks during the game term was pq7,04; deoresqe on this previous month, 4,6101 In the item of specie there i s a d ecrease o f 163 , 7791. Compared with the correspondi ng p er i o d o f 1851, these figures show an increase of 3,232,0261. i 0 the cute eir ppl4tiop of gnglugl tlnd Wll . 3ii, and an increase of 4,167,9831, in the circulation of the United Kingdom. RAILWAY INT ELLI6;ENCE. PROPr,SED AMALGADIATIT,N OF THE LEEDS NORTHERN I WITH TUL YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK, AND THE YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND ItAILWAYS.—LIVER POOL, lIIURSDAY.—This day a meeting of the I_4ver pool t.hareholders in thy? Lads and Northern Railway unfavourable to the proposed amalgamation with the York, Newcastle, and Ilervvick, anti the York ond North Midland Railway, without a large equivalent, was held in the Clarendon Rooms, Charles Holland, Esq., was called to the chair. The Chairman having brit fly ad dressed the meeting, Mr. Edwin Ward Jackson, ot Nor ton, Stockton-upon-Tees, who attended as a deputation from a, large body of shareholders opposed to the amal gamation, then came forward, and in an exceedingly lengthy address proceeded to point out the present posi tion of the Leeds and Northern Railway. Several other shareholders addrez.sed the meeting in opposition to the proposed amalgamation, and the following resolution was adopted : " That the shareholders of the Leeds and Northern Railway, assembled this day, desire to express do it cordial thanks to Edwin Ward Jaek3on, Dq., of Norton, Stoektoreop,-Tees, tor his kindness in at'ending this meeting, and for the Ale and lucid state:Lent he has made to them relative to the present position and future prospects of that ralway, and that he he requ,qtted to defend their interests at the ensui,g general meeting to be held at Leeds on the 2nd of November.' Toe pro ceedings then closed. SUNDERLAND AND LEEDS NORTHERN JUNCTION RAILWAY.—It 1 . 5 sta:(d, iu I'O'CITTICO to this 901,1210, that the proposed amalgamation of the Leeds Northern with the York and 13erWiek and North Midland rail ways is looked upon with great distrust in the large towns in the north of England, and, if brought before Parliament for ratification, that it will meet with strenuous oppesltion, nasmuch as such am dgamaiion will prevent ail prosper t of a competing line of railway from these towns to the metropolis and manufacturing districts. At the present molient passengers by the Leeds Nor horn (which ex tends from Stockton, by the Clarence Railway, to Ferry hill. a small colliery village in South Durham) are obliged to travel the remainder of the journey to Sunder land, Newcastle, Shields, Durham, and the towns north of those places, by means of the York and Berwick Rail way. That company has a station at Ferry hill, and every obstacle has hitherto been thrown in the way of the Leeds Northern forwarding their traffic north. The opening out of this competing line to the manu facturing districts is considered a matter of grave con• sideration to the shippers in the Tyne and Wear; and with that view the above line from Sunderlanu, to form a junction with the Leeds Northern, has been devised, and plans and sections prepared to go to Parliament in the ensuing session. The proposed new line, to start from Coxhoe, the terminus i of the Leech:Northern, passes below Quarrington-hill to Cassop-moor, thence to Sher burn-house Colliery, Pittington, Houghton-le-Spring, Herrington, Bainbridge, Holm, &c., terminating in Sun derland, the railway running the whole distance through an extensive coal field. Mr. George Hudson, M.P., is understood to be one of the principal promoters of the line; Mr. Young, of Leeds, engineer; and Messrs. Wright, of Sunderland, solicitors. The railway can be further extended to Newcastle and Shields by a high level bridge across the Wear. Since the northern coal trade has been subject to competition in the London market by coal brought from the inland collieries a very great anxiety has been felt in the northern counties to facilitate the shipment of coal for this market. A branch line, connecting Sunderland with the trunk of the York and Berwick Railway at Polisher, is nearly completed. STAINES AND WOKINGHAM AND WOKING RAIL WAY.—A company is now being formed for the purpose of obtaining an Act of Parliament for the construction of a line of railway, commencing by a junction with the Windsor branch of the South-Western Railway at Staines, and passing through or near Egham, Englefield green, Virginia -water, Sunning-hill, Bagshot, Ascot heath, Bracknell, Binfield, and Warfield, in addition to other places, and joining the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway at •Wokingham. A branch line is also contemplated, which will leave the main line near Long cross, and passing near Chohham, join the London and South-Western Railway at Woking. The estimate for construction, based upon a conditional contract, has already been taken at the rate of 13,0001. per mile for a double line, including the cost of land and expenses. The main line will accommodate a rich and populous district, and open one of the most delightful neighbour hoods in the vicinity, which only requires to be accessible to become a favourite and popular resort. The propose d line, with the branch, will also complete the connecting lines from the north and north-east with Southampton and other ports on the south coast; and the Woking branch would appear necessary to carry out the plan of the North-Western Company in promoting a line from Willesden to Brantford, to comph to the communication from their line by the South-Western to Southampton. The immediate neighbourhood through which the con templated line passes is as yet uusupplied with railway communication. TUE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The directors of the North British Railway have denied, in the most positive manner, that the slightest toleration or coun tenance has been given by them to the recent attempt to bring about a repudiation of the 51. guaranteed shares of that undertaking. They state that in suspending the dividend, after notice that its payment would be at their own personal risk, they acted on the legal advice which is usually given on such oeett-ions, but that, so far from participating in the conduct of the party by whom they had been placed in this position, they resolved to apply to Parliament for a bill to prevent the possibility of the rights of the shareholders being successfully disturbed on the present or on any future occasion. With this feeling on their part, it may be hord that the matter will be speedily settled. At the same time it must be added, that to ordinary minds there appears little occa sion for any new appeal to Parliament, since nothing could seem more explicit than the legal position of these shares as they now stand. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. Scorrisu CENTRAL ItAir.wAr.—Trafrie for the Week ending Oct. 24, 1852: Passengers (11,0 A), parcels, horses, and carriages ... ... £1,061 13 01 Goods, cattle, &c. ... 1,029 12 9 Total .. .. 2.094 5 94 Corresponding week in last year...; 1,731 10 24 Perth, Oct. 27, 1852. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-office by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] When made up le Frem what wh . r , rLAcze. General Post-( fil ri port dis- London: patched. due.- America (by Brit. pkt.)NOet 29 .. Liverpool Nov. 1 America (by U.S. pkt.) NINov. 2 .. Liverpool Nov. 12 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Nov. 9 eouthampt. Nov. 4 Australia (via South ampton) • 111 20th ofeaeh month Southampt. Nov. 24 Ditto (via Marseilles) N 24th of month IDover .. Nov. 17 *Ditto, viaC.of G.HopeN 2d of December Plymouth.. Nov. 30 Africa (West coast).. N 1236 of the month Plymouth Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th et mo.lDover .. Oct. 29 Belgium • . N Daily Dover .. Daily Brazil 9th of the month Southampt. Nov. 16 Buenos Ayres 31 1 9th of the month Southampt. Nov. 16 Californla(viaCharres)ll Ftdf 17th of month Aouthani pt. Nov. 1 tJape of Good Hope Nil4th of the month Plymouth.. Oct. 26 Cape do Verds i4lll of the month Plymouth .. Oct. 26 Constantinople* .... Nl7th I lth27th of mo Dover .. Oct. 33 Central America .. M'26 & 17th ot mon. Southampt. Nov. 1 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. Th.Sa Chill 2,1 & 17th of muth Sonthampt. Nov. 1 France .. M NlTwice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedsily Greece* •• . N, 7th 17th27th of rno Dover Nov. 2 tlamburgh N I Tuesday & Friday London Tues. Sat. I,lolland .• 11, Wednes. Ps Satur. London .. Sun. There Honduras .. Nl7th of the month Southampt. Nov. 16 Ireland .. NI Twice daily Holyhead.. Twicedal y India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month Southanapt. Nov. 21 India (via Marseilles)iithlz 24th efrnonth Dover • • Arrived India, viaC. of G. Hope N' l ll th of month Plymouth.. Nov. 26 Mauritius 14th of month Plymouth.. Nov. 26 Mediterranean (via Solitharrpron) M 20th of the month Southampi. Nov 24 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) .. N sith&24th ofmonth Dover .. Arrived m ox i co Ai 12d of the month.. ziouthampt. Ist ea. me. Madeira M 9th & 23d of moth Southampt. Nov, 16 7th,l7th,l9th,Y7th Malta* •• •• & 30th of month 1 Dover Pct. 29 Naples* .. N sth 15th 25th ofmoiDover .. Nov. 2 Papal States* N 5.1115 th 25th of moj Dover .. Nov. 2 Peninsula 7''ll7th 27th et moiSouthampt. Nov. 5 Peru • . 151 1d & 17th o: mnth I Southampt. Nov. 1 Tuscany* .. N sth f sth 25th of mo Dover • • 'Nov. 2 West Indies 14 2d & 17th of ninth Southampt. INov. 1 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia). • * The mails for Australia via the Cape of Gcod Hope are made up on the second of every alternate mouth. Those made up on the 20th arid 24th of each month via Southampton and Marseilles aro sent by sailing vessels at present from Singapore, but next year they will he sent in steamers. Mails are also made up on the 2d of every alternate month for the Cape of Good Hope. * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French packst to Marseilles. NEW GERMAN RAILWAY.—The Harnburgh jour nals mention that In gotiations are in progress with a projected English comp iny for the construction of a railway to Bremen, Oldenburg, Groningen, Leuwarden, and Harlingen, with a view to connect Hamburgh by the shortest possible route with Holland. From Gron ingen it is contemplated to lay down a branch lino to Utrecht, to join the Dutch Rhenish Railway. This new line will be of great importance, as it will effect a diver sion to a considerable extent of the immense traffic of this part of Europe. Several influential Dutch capita lists are understood to be engaged in the undertaking, which has the approbation of the authorities in Holland, Oldenburg, and Bremen. Negotiations aro also pending for the sanction of the Hanoverian Government. BEET-ROOT SUGAR.—From the return just pub lished of the movement in the beet-root sugar manufac tory, from the Ist of September to the end of that month, it appeared that thirty-four manufactories only had re sumed work, which is, however, one more than last year at the same date. The quantity produced was 185,490 kilogrammes, or 103,832 kilos. more than last year. The quantity delivered to consumption from manufactories and from entrepots shows a tot al of 3,249,139 kilos., being a decrease of 163.771 kilos. from the former, and an increase of 677,324 kilos. from the latter. These re mained in the manufactories 7,574,479 kilos., and in en. trepot 947,549 kilos., being an kilos. increase of 2,804,018 kilos. for manufactories , and of 194,418 for the entrepots on the results of the corresponding periods of the preceding season.- 1 rltz; 2 s }.curer. EISCUMBEREV, NSTATES COMMlSSlONo—althOligh the c 9 11 4 -t Las been re opened , the active business of the commission will not recommence until next week. Sf s ., m , ex t en sive estates are to be sold d uring -Nirrofner and December, and it appears to ho the t'',lieral impression that the high rates of purehat.:-, t h at prevailed previous to the recess will be frtny maintained. At the recent sales, by order of thu conlluksioners, in Armagh, Belfast, C:ocmel, and other towns, high prices were obtained, especially for small Gad well-circumstanced lots. COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL, OCT. ?6.—We have had rather iarge ar rivals of foreign wheat this week, viz.: 31,532, and 7,412 quarters of beans, principally Egyptian—This we o i'ti import of flour is nearly balanced by the export to Ireland and Coastwise, tho former atm:ding at 21,182 barrels and 6,476 sacks, and the latter at 18,916 barrels and 1,173 sacks ; the other exports are 4,008 quarters wheat, and 509 quarters of Indian corn. The trade throughout the week has been steady, and prices gene rally well maintained, the principal demand coming from Ireland—Our own millers and dealers have been cautious operators—Tne Corn Exchange this morning was tolerably well attended by home and distant buyers —A fair business was transacted in wheat, at strong prices generally, and in a few instances the lower quali ties, and some fine white, rather exceeded the rates of last:Tuesday—Choice American flour is acarco, and com mands full prices —Oats and oatmeal both brought ex treme rates—lndian corn was 6,1 to Is per quarter higher—Beans were also 6d to is per quarter dearer-- thrley and peas fully supported late quotations. 3. d . 3. d F. d. I• d Wheat, per 701 b : English, white 6 0 to 6 6 Harley, English, pr imperial quarter 00 0 —OO Irish, Scotch, and Nianx,per6olb.. 3 6 3 Foreign, grinding 3 4 3 gye, per 501 b .. 4 0 4 leans, English, pr imperial quartr 36 0 —3B 0 Irish and Scotch, per 4801 b .. 34 0 —34 6 Dutch .. 00 0 —5O 0 Egyptian .. 00 0 —OO Peas, English, per imperial quartr 36 0 —3B 0 Foreign .. 33 0 —36 Oats, per 451 b English, Scotch, and Welsh, old Irish, new, rest meal-lug .. .. 2 0 2 Do., feeding .. 0 8 0 0 Do., foreign .• 9 6 2 • )atmeal, English, & Scotch, pr 2401 b 24 0 —2 6 6 Irish, new 22 0 —22 Do., pinhead .. 24 0 26 0 33 0 —34 ~11c.lt per imp. qr. 54 0 —BB u Do. red .. r 10 6 2 Trish 5 4 5 10 ganx, red and wh. 5 9 6 2 Dautsic, high mixed 7 4 7 G Do., mixed • • .. 6 6 6 9 American & t white 6 3 6 6 f;atiadian, red 6 4 6 6 Rostock, &e • . 0 0 0 0 Hainburgh, &c. .. 0 0— 0 0 Rhenish 0 0 0 0 French .. 3 6 6 Danish. & HoLtem 0 0 0 0 Odessa, Polish .. 0 0— 0 0 Do., common .. 0 0— 0 0 Do, hard .. • • 0 0— 0 0 Egyptian •• .. 25 6 —27 0 Flour, English & Irish, per 2solb 32 0 —34 0 Do., extra fine 35 0 —37 0 French, fancy .. 38 0 —OO L Do., superfine . 35 0 —37 Richmond, choice 00 0 —OO Philadelphia, &c. 22 6 —22 Canadian .. 00 0 —OO 0 Indian corn, per 4801 b, white .. 31 6 —32 0 Indian Corn Meal, 2 4 - 2 5 per 196 a 16 0 —l7 C DERBY SMITILFIELD MARKET, OCT. 26.—The num• ber of fat beasts to-day was huge, but the quality of the animals generally was only of the inferior sort, and many left unsold. The supply of sheep was about the average. There were but few fat calves offered for sale* and high prices asked. The number of pigs not larger at late prices. Beef, 41d to 5d ; mutton, 54- to 6d ; lamb, 64d ; veal, 54d to 6d per lb.; pigs, 7s 9d to 8s Od per score. NEWARK, OCT. 27.—At the Corn exchange today we had a good supply of grain. Wheat met a brislc sale, at an advance of 6d to is per qr. In other articles we note no alteration.—Wheat, old white, 47a to 49; new, 43s to 46a ; old red. 40s to 438 ; new, 38s to 41s; barley, grinding, 27s to 28s ; malting, 31s to 34 ; oats, old, 22s to 26s ; new, 18s to 20 ; beans, 38s to 410; peas, 32s to 34s ; tares, 40s to 44s ; malt, 568 to 600 per qr. BOSTON, OCT. 27.—At to day's market there was 6 good supply of wheat, and tho best samples realised a!, imprort merit of Is per qr. Barley w as i n reques t, the turn dearer. In oats no alteration. Beans and peas were in demand, and 6d to is higher.—Wheat, old red, 38s to 42s ; white, 4ts to 445; extra, 465; new red, 33s 39s ; white, 384 to 41s ; extra, 43s ; barley, 235 to 29s ; oats, 14-s to 19 ; beans, 293 to 38s ; peas, 275 to 32s per qr. DENBIGH, OCT. 27.—The prices of grain to-day were pretty nearly on a par with last week's. Wheat, 13a 66 to 14s ; barley, 9s 61 to 10s ; oats, now. 50 6d per bobbet. Butter in tubs barely reached 8d per lb; frail ditto, 100 to lld per lb. RHYL, OCT. 27.—The rain coming down so beaViii, to-day, we had a v e ry thi n a t ten d ance, b ut w h at was sole' averaged our last week's prices. Wheat, 14s ; barley , 9s 63 to 10a ; oats, 5s to 6s ; beans, 14s. EDINBURGH GRAIN, OCT. 27,—We had a large supply o 1 grain iu to-day's market ; sales brisk and prices up' Wheat on the tup the same, and the average 6d doWe• Barley on the top the same, and the average 2a up' Oats on the top 41, and the average is 3d up. Beans the top is up, and the average 3d down. Top of Wheat ... 65ilb. 50. „ Barley .. 56 lb. 31s „ Oats ... 44#1b. 22. ~ Beans 6.5i1b. 37s ••• ..• CORK, OCT. 27. Barrels. Owenby. 35 White wheat 246 9d to 26s Od 00$ Od-20 OW 119 Red wheat 2ls Od to 23. Od 104 Ditto 23s Od to 231 6(1 23. Od-20 do 50 Ditto .23. 6d to 241 Od 146 Barley 12$ 8d to 13s Od 793 Ditto l3s Od to 13. 4d} 131 41-.00 d o 133 Ditto 00 Bere... ..,.....00s Od to 001 Od Os Od 470 Oats 9l Od to 9s 4d 547 Ditto .... 580 Ditto 9 Pigs 231 Od to 36s Od ON Od per °Pit Quantity sold at the Highest Prices: 4 barrels white,wheat ; 4 red; 49 barley; 0 bore; 26 oats; 2 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last wsek t-- Wheat. 1,b73. Barley, 4,301. Be r e, 0. O ats , 1b,2 6 7 . Pi gs , 318' PRICES OF BUTTER. CAWT. CURRINCY• First quality Second quality Third quality ... 70s Third quality 6ll Fourth quality ...... bBs Fifth quality Sixth quality 46s Sixth quality .. •••• 370 Return of Cattle sold for week ending Oct. 23. Pigs, 662. Sheep, 260. Cows, 119. CORE.—FIour—First 14s Od to 15. Od; extra 15 1 seeconds, 12110dto 13s 611; households, 108 Od to 111 Od ; third" 81 to 103 per cwt; Meal—lndian meal, 7s 9d to fia Od: Oatmeal, 100 6d to 00s Od; wheat meal, 10s to lOs 6d Pe r cwt. Indian corn, 71 lOs Od to 71 15. 6d per ton. Bran, 4/ 15 9 to 51 . 0 s per ton. llay—Farmers, 21s Od to 301 Od; averEf " 26s ;de 10s Od to . - s*; average oto per ton. Straw--Fa" mar. , 1 to 22s Od ; average, 18s : dealers, 001 to 003 Od Os Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten, loaf 6d to Od , househou. 5d to Od per 41b. F res h butter, 9d W 10d per lb. Eggs-5s 3d to 5s 4d per hundred. Cold"' Newport 161 Od ; Lydney 16s; Landore 001; Cul° , 12s 6d per ton. Tallow 45 s Od to 001 per C Whisky, 25 0. P., 61 Od p er imperial gallon. Mt —Bcef 4id to7d; mutto n 5d to 6 4d ; vea l 4d to 7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages bd per lb. tie , r 7110 s to 010. per ow 2. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 3/ Os per W l ' . Bark, red 71to 8/ lOs per ton. Fleece wool 161 to 00s per stem% Hemp 291 to 341 per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 16s to 001 i ditto, 248 to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 11l P' ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; red pine, 31 bs ; ditto, 3/ 15s per ton; deals, 15/ to 18/ per 100. Bides."' Market 22s to 28s; salted 24s to 30s per owt ; calf al° 3 rAd to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 9d to 10d ; lid to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 101 10s to 111 per ton. Tar''' Archangel, 191 per barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Oar. 2. - - --- STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market to-day bas beg° firm and good, and prices have all improved. The following are the transactions :—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Chasid! . (late Chester and Birkenhead), 22: Blackburn (late Vac' . burn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire), 7 1 / 8 ; Caledonig l i 27 1 / s ; Chester and Holyhead, 23% ; Eastern Co en. ties, 12 7-16 ; East Lancashire, 20 , A 1 / s ; Great WesteiTh 96%; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88 1 / 2 ; ditto, Fifth shar es ' 3 dis. ; ditto, 161. F. shares, V s dis.; ditto, West Ridinf Union, 2y s 11 A dis.; Leeds Northern (late Leed s an d Thirs.lo 171 c. ; ditto, 6 per cent. No. 1, par; ditto, 6 per cent. N o ' 2, par; Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 19% • Land/ and North Western, t21 3 / 1 22 ; Manchester, She ffield, Lincolnshire, 33; ditto, tit. new Pref., 11-16 p ; Midlsnw 78% 9 ; ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 454 ; North British, 93A ; North Staffordshire, O s dis; Scottie: Central, 21%; ditto, Pret. Thirds, p.; South E as tern an, Dover, 24% ; Yolk and North Midland, 27; NeWrJ and Warrenpoint, ktANCIIESTER, Our. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market tolcia; has been ceedmgly strong and buoyant, a larger business being d 0137 than for many months past. The business was of a g eneral character, but especially l arge i n D overs ,Midl an d s, L on d o n North Western. The closing sales included London and North Western, 122 ( belug an advance of 505.); Birkenhead, 2l Eastern Counties, 12 1 / ; East Lancashire, 20; Leeds, 8 8 1 6 ' Midland, 79 ; Dover, 24% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow. 3 pg Leeds Northern, 16% ; Caledonian, 27%; Anglo-Californi o ' p. ; Sheffield, 32%. BIRKINGHA fir, Oar. 28. r TSTOCK EXCHANL G—This market was brisker to-day, s lllh 7, appearances of a general rise in the value of stock. 14 r 8 " Norrherns were done at 82E4 ; Shrewsbury and Bi rm ingbara Preference at 11 9-16; South &affords at 13s 9d and :34 dlB 3 and Worcester and Birmingham Canals at 46. LEEDS, OCT. 28. STOCK ExcHANGE.—Again the business done this mornili has been wholly of a speculative character for the account : d the middle of November. Midlands have further advs" 10s, having t c l os ed at 78 1 A ; Leeds N or th erns are still 16%; and Leeds Northern Quarters have been done at 170 pm. ; East Lancashire, 20; Caledonians, 27. BRISTOL, Ocr. 28. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market to-day was active, a n t prices firm. Bristol and Exeter were d one at 102%; ''rrll4 Western at 96; Great Weste rn 41 , 4 per cent. Pref . „ per cent. prem. ; Taff Vale at 170 ; Vale of Neath, 1374' BIRTHS. OF A 8011. a l 14 On the 27th inst., a t N o. 2, Sussex-terrace, 11.11"'.`„ Mrs. W. C. Judd. s ok, On the 27th inst., at 71, Gloucester -terrace, ilydel .jor the wife of R. W. M oore, E sq , Lincoln's-inn, barrister -at Or' • DAUGHTER .11 I ) On the 25th i ns t . , at Paris, the lady of the Hon' Ward, On the 28th i nst., at 27. South-street, Grosvenor -aq r Mrs. B. Wilson. MARRIED. On the 27th i ns t., at Chilh am Ch urc h . W . A. Me"' J. of Throley- house, Kent, to Marianne, eldest daughter 0 B. Wildman, Erg., of Chilham Castle. ate of At the same time, the R e v. W. Hamilton, n Brenchley, to Ellen third daughter of Mr. Wildrnan. DIED. at Tollington.park, at Mary An troP--_, On the 26th inst., widow of the late Captain J. Hayman, an elder broth.' the Trinity-house, aged 69. „ t s oar* On the 28th inst , John Stevenson, of 38, Bege - and 3, king's-road, I3edfbrd-row, solicitor, aged 39 ' v nig,Net Condon: Printed and Published by BarliD9, ••• - 14 0 , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Ornr. , — ti nfr Strand, in the Precinct of the Savor, is We "'— October 29, 1852. Middlesex, Friday, ►•E. -,~ - s~ ~sj V~ a, 1 ,`c . _--- $~. , 3 r :• ~, In