The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-09 00:00:00

F ELTWELL SECOND DISTRICT DRAINAGE. NOTICE is hereby given, that Application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring in a Bill to alter, amend, and enlarge the Powers and Provisions of an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Third, entitled " An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds lying in the South Level, part of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly called Bedford Level,' between certain old Rivers or Drains Stoke River and Brandon River,' and a cer tain Level or District, called' Feltwell New District,' and the Hard Lands of Woodhall in Helgay, and Helgay, in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk ;" so far as such Powers and Provisions relate to the Fen Lands and Low Grounds lying within the Second District or Divi sion described in the said Act. And also of an :set passed in the Forty-second Year of the Reign of his said Majesty, itetituled, " An Act for amending and rendering more effectual so much of an Act passed In, the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of his present Ma jesty," intittifed, " An Act for draining and preserving certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds, lying in the South Level, Part of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly called Bedford Level,' between cer ta;injold Rivers or Drains, called ' Stoke River and Brandon River,' arfd, a certain Level or D•striet, called Feltwell New District,' and'the Hard Lands of Woodhall in Helgay, and Ileigay, in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, as relates to the Fen and Low Grounds lying within the Second District Division described in the said Act ;" or to repeal the whole or some of the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts, and to grant other Powers and Provi sions instead thereof. And Notice is further given, that it is In tended to take Powers in the said Bill for assessing and raising further Taxes on the'Land within the said Second District or Division, called ' Feltwell - Second District,' hitherto taxed under the Provisions of ' the said Acts, as also for assessing and raising Taxes on the Com mons, Commonable, and Waste Lands, in Feltwell Saint Mary, and Feitwell Saint Nicholas, f innerly called North Fen,' and any Lands or Grounds within the said District or Division vested in the Churchwarden. and Overseers of the Paor, or in any other Per son or Persons, for the Use anti Benefit of the I'oor of the several Parishes within the said Second District or Division, or any of them, and on any other Land situate within the Boundary of the said District or Division described in the said first-mentioned Act, and for levying each Taxes on the Owners and Occupiers of all such Land and Commons ; and to raise by Mortgage of the said Taxes, a Sum of Money for the purpose of carrying into Exe cution the Powers and Provisions of the said Acts, and of the said 11111. And Notice is also given, that it is intended to repeal so Much of an Act passed in the Forty-sixth Tear of the Reign of his said Majesty King George the Third for more effectually draining and preserving certain Fen Lands lying in the South Level, Part of the Great .Level of the Fens, called Bedford Level,' between Bran don River and Sams's Cut Drain, as relates to or authorises the draining and preserving any Commons, Commonable, or other Lands. *Ratite in Feltwell Saint Mary and Feltwell Saint Nicholas aforesaid, or either of them, and bounded by Sams Cnt Drain on the North, a Lode called ' Stake Common Lode,' on the East and South, and the Cross Bank of the District called 'New Fen or Feltwell First Dis trict,' on the West, and to make Provision for excluding the same Commons, Commonable, or other Lands, and also all other Lands Within the Second District or Division aforesaid, from the Boundary described in the said last-mentioned Act of the Land taxable and Intended to be drained under the Provisions thereof. Dated this First Day of November, 1848. ROG KR NiICKLEFIELD,3 Solicitors. THOMAS ARCHER, MIDLAND RAILWAY. 11.1. Newby Park, Oct. 24, 1848. Sir,—On behalf of t'le Directors of the Midland Railway Corn patty, I am requested to acknowledge the receipt of an Address from a number of Shareholders resident in Liverpool and the neighbour hood which you have transmitted to them. The Directors would have been content merely to acknowledge the receipt of the Address, had it not contained an imputation upon them, which they cannot pass over in silence. The Shareholders commence their address by ascribing the depression of their pro perty to " the want of public confidence in the integrity of the ma nagement." The Directors, therefore, desire that you will immedi ately furnish them with a list of the specific charges involved in this statement, in order that they may convene a Special Meeting of the Company, and have the opportunity of refuting the accusation thus brought against the integrity of a body of gentlemen who feel that they stand as high in the estimation of the public at large as the in , dividuals who have appended their names to this calumnious docu- Ment„which comes with a peculiarly bad grace from a body of Share holders who, prior to the appointment of the present Directors, were only receiving a two-and-a-halt per cent. dividend. Since that time the dividends have been increased to six and seven per cent. • In the meantime I may be allowed to offer to you, as one of the Shareholders who have signed the address, a few remarks upon the Several suggestions contained in it. I. Tote call upon the Directors to close the capital account. No person is more fully aware than yourself that the shareholders have had the power of passing a vote to that effect at any half-yearly Meeting. But supposing the development of a new traffic, producing a revenue of 20,0001. or 30,000/. per annum, should require an out lay of 60,0001., how absurd it would be to say that such outlay ought to be taken oat of income. S. You call upon the Directors to examine and pay all outstanding accounts of the solicitors. These accounts are now undergoing a strict examination, and as soon as the solicitors are satisfied to accept the amount the-Directors think due to them, their bills will be paid. But surely this is a matter which must be left to the discretion of the Directors ; had they given way to the pressure of the Pro prietors when they were urged to settle the demands of the contrac tors, they might have sacrificed a very large sum for the sake of an immediate settlement. They succeeded in making great reductions, and so much was saved to the Company. The claims of the con tractors amounted to 89,577!., and were finally liquidated for 17,7231. lbs. 7d. Tour objection to any further Parliamentary ex penses being incurred, without the sanction of the Shareholders, is futre ; it Is clear that no Parliamentary expenses of any importance ean be incurred without such sanction. 3. You call for a reduction of the salaries of our engineers. We have only one engineer employed upon the lines, and, considering the abilities of that gentleman, the Directors do not think him over- ROL 4. You regain that stations shall not be enlarged. Should traffic increase, how is it to he conducted without increased accommoda tion? If the Shareholders think the Directors incompetent to decide Ilion matters of this kind, they ha .l much better remove them, and appoint others in whom they have greater confidence. $. The Directors are called upon to enter lute no further contracts. It mist have escaped your recollection that at the last half-yearly 'meeting I gave an assurance that the Directors did not intend to engage in any further contracts. 6. You allude to traffic which you do not consider remunerative to the Company. The Directors are entitled to ask you to be more explicit, and to state specifically what traffic is meant. 7. You think the number of trains ought to he reduced. This is a question which must be left to the judgment of the Directors ; for nothing can be more difficult than to determine. front time to time, what trains ought to be ran. I consider it would be an unwise and Impolitic measure to take off the express train, which you suggest should bo done. S. The alteration you propose in the mode of appointing Directors Would require a new Act of Parliament. 9. Yon ask the Directors to purchase all stores by public contract. I have no doubt you are aware that this is generally done, but it not Infrequently happens that the Directors can purchase articles in the market much below the contract price, and when they can do so they often avail themselves of the opportunity. I have now answered or commented upon every point of the ad dress, except that which relates to the depreciation of the value of shares, with which the Directors feel that they have little or nothing to do. Their duty is to obtain all the traffic they can, and to pay the Shareholders good dividends. The address you have sent is signed by seventy Shareholders, this is a small proportion of the en'ire number, which exceeds 8,000. You are a holler of capital stunk in the company to the amount of WI., and you describe yourself in the address as a broker. From Your experience in that business, I have no doubt you are well a' - de to inform the public how the old railway stock of this company has become so much depreciated. In my position as Chairman of several railway companies, I have received numerous complaining letters, all, I am bound to say. Couched In a courteous and respectful manner; and I have answered them by assuring the parties of the soundness and stability of the concerns over which I preside. The acknowledgments I have re ceived in reply have been pmeraily satisfactory; many of the parties stating that they were holders of stock in a variety of foreign and other new lines, and that they were compelled to sell the stock of Old lines to pay fir the new. When the supply exceeds the demand, and when a regular combination exists to depress railway property, I believe any course whim Directors may pursue will be of little "all. -Yet, after all, the amount of stock transferred in the corn- Valdes over which I preside has been less than usual, which shows that many of the quotations of sales arc merely nominal. I hare zto fear of not seeing railway property again placed in a better 'Position in the market, thou,th no;: at the extravagant price it has oretorore arrived at, and then its proper and true value 1.111 be maintained in a manner that will he more mat's factory to all parties. Consols have been at 47, they are now at 44 %, and have been at 100. If you or your friends car., by any effort, advance them to 92 or 93, I have no doubt you will see a seat advance in railway property. The Bank Stock has paid 10 Per cent., and Is now only paying seven, and the price has fallen con siderably ; but no one ever doubted the integrity of the management of the Bank. The surprise to me is, that in the excitements and eu ntmotions which havo prevailed, railway traffic has been so well su pported. Even the pres en t amoun t o f t ra ffi c j us tifi es th e anticipa or' that the rate of dividends will no t un d ergo an y ma ' e rial t ; and this remark applies to all the lines over which I have t honour to preside. I wish I could call the serious and grays a ttention of the chairman eeof the London Stock Exchange to a pub bcatt° Which is issued wkly, professing to be under the sanction Of th at ,to , ly. I am aware that tne statements which appear in that F ic De i f are stated not to be published under the authority of the Stock duce an on " but I cannot close my eyes to the e ff ec t th a t th e y pro:. have the mlnd of the public, who naturally consider that they that sanction. If these statements were correct and true, no l ' er " liv iould have a right to complain —but when they are almost in every instance incorrect, and their general ten 4ency is to depreciate railway property, it would be well , that the Stock E Which is ca l cu l ated to do disavow a publication I should do so much mischief. I must, in con elusion request that that there Ina} eat you will call the Requisitionists together, and be no delay in sending a list of the charges ins- PUgning the integrity of the Directors, who are anxious to meet and repel the calumnious imputations that have been made against tie. Nothing but a se n s e o f d uty t o t h e l arge b o d y o f Share holders who have hitherto given their confidence induces the Dl rectors t ret a i n their scat at the Board ; and as soon as that con ndence is withdrawn they will meet readily and gladly resign their trust into ether hands by whom the affairs of the Company may be more ably conducted, • I perhaps might observe, before I conclude my letter, without pledging myself to the statement, but merely giving it as my own Individual opinion, that I believe another 51. call upon the 501. Shares, with the arrears of calls now owing, will complete all the Works in course of construction, and the remaining 251, per Share Vrjll remain applicable to the liquidation of the debt. The liabilities of the Company ar e under the cons id e ration of the Directors, in order to enable them to lay a statement before the Proprietors, w °lck it is anticipated will be done within a very early period. 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ALARMING MORTALITY AT MONTROSIL—Making all due allowance for the increase of our population, we are safe in saying that the mortality during the last month has been greater than it has bean for the last thirty or forty years. Typhus fever, smallpox, measles, cholera and many other diseases, have visited u 3 in the above mentioned period, but none of these disorders have proved nearly so fatal in so short a space of time as the scarlet fiver which now rages in the town with great virulence. In a population of less than 16,000, there have been more than 100 deaths during the past month, which is one out of every 160 of the inhabitants, and fully four times our average mortality. We do not say that all these have died of scarlet fever, but the great majority of the deaths have been from this disease, which has been dreadfully fatal among children, more especially such as had weakly constitutions. Many families have lost one, and in some cases two of the same family have been carried to the churchyard together and laid in the same grave. The places of the town that have suffered most have been Clerkholm and Union street, which are two of the cleanest parts of the town, and, from their airy situation, might be supposed to be the most healthy. Such, however, is net the case, for, in Reform-street alone, which is only a portion of Clerk holm, there have been no fewer than fifteen or sixteen' deaths within the last five or six weeks, almost all chil dren under eight or ten years of age.—Dundee Adertiser. STTRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—Our forefathers certainly were in error when they said the age of iron had come. What they saw was only a feeble anticipation of the Rail way Millennium. They never knew that dashing disregard for veracities, consistencies, decencies, moralities, and such pious relics of antiquity, which -team alone can inspire. It is our misfortune that we cannot keep pace with the age, and are accord ingly placed in unwelcome antagonism with its gods. At one time all mankind are darting forwards into space, and we find ourselves far in the rear, under a shower of missiles from our enterprising competitors. By and by we pass the debris of a terrific collision, and then perceive that our safer destinies have ren dered us more hateful than ever. Nothing will abash or subdue the effrontery of these little Titans, who are equally furious on exactly opposite grounds, tied who, at the present moment, are labouring to bury us under mountains of abuse because we seem blind to the extent of their former infatua tion. Rather more than three years since England, Ireland, and Scotland were railway mad. Every man was to make his fortune by buying scrip cheap and selling it dear. But to conduct this attractive and honourable commerce it was necessary to be lieve, or at least to inculcate, that this country could make railroads at the rate of 100,000,000/. or there abouts a year. The majority of our contemporaries gave in to this pleasing illusion, and saw no bounds to the national capability. We dissented tote ccelo, and totis vitibus also, from the insane calculation. On various data, collected and analized with all the care we could bestow, we estimated that even an ex penditure of 30,000,0001. on railways alone might prove an injurious drain on our resources, and in the event of war or bad harvests most certainly would. This we said before there was any expectation of a famine; and as a contemporary has lately thought fit to assert that we only turned with the tide towards the close of the year, we beg to say that we began our warnings on the Ist of July, and repeated them at intervals with increasing emphasis, till, when the tide did turn in October, we had for several weeks been incessantly denouncing the dishonest and ruinous character of the movement. In that very month an ingenious contemporary found nothing better to say of us than that the continued buoyancy of the share market showed how little people cared for the Times. We maintained that but a small portion of the rail ways projected, even by responsible parties, could be executed. At the beginning of the session in 1846, we implored Sir Robert Peel to adopt some effectual check on railway legislation ; and when at the close of that session it transpired that Acts had been passed authorising calls and loans to the amount of 128,986,7141., in addition to 61,357,373/. authorized in the previous session, we said that nothing like that quantity of railway could be made within the time, and warned the public that the mere attempt would produce the greatest disasters. Notwithstanding, however, a considerable foretaste of these disasters the public still persevered, or were so hampered that they could not recede, and in the session of 1847 fur ther Bills were pa sse d to the amount of 38,007,233/. Thus in those three fatal years 1845, 1846, and 1847, Railways Bills were passed which, on the face of Par liamentary returns, authorised an expenditure of 228,351,3201. In hose three ;years certain of our contemporaries, one in particular, still maintained that there had been no excess of railway legislation. Their first and palmary argument was founded on the enor mous sums raised by taxes and loans in 1813, 1814, and 1815, and spent in war. It was argued, that if all this expenditure for unproductive purposes, so far from draining this country, contributed, as these rea soners alleged, to its prosperity, much more would an equal expenditure in productive railroads. It was for gotten, or slurred over, that immediately upon those three years there followed just such a terrible col. lapse of credit and failure of resources as we have lately witnessed. It was also argued that any ex penditure in the country was no loss of means ; that the money only circulated; that the wages only fed those who would be fed at all events; that the material was all our own, and that trade was all the better for brisk employment. We replied earnestly, eincerely, and consistently, and can only regret that our arguments were not as well received as they have been fulfilled. But for our incredulity as to the power of spending 228,000,0001. in railroads within three or four years, we subjected ourselves to a CM tinued fire of invectives. It was repeatedly and most charitably surmised that as our contracted es timate of the national powers could not possibly have y foundation in fact or in belief, it must have been assumed for the purpose of damaging the railway in terest, beating down the price of shares, and other such gratuitous devilry. Will our readers have the good ne,s just to bear in mind the one topic of incessant abuse lavished upon us in 1245, 6,7, and then make what reflection they please on the following incident ? We will premise that a mouth ago we inserted, in a letter from a well- known correspondent, a summary of rail way legislation from 1826 to 1847. It only pro fessed, of course, to be a compilation of Parliamentary returns, but the little merit or originality which as such it could possess, was immediately claimed by Mr. James Bigg, jun., of 53, Parliament-street, for a publication entitled, "Special Railway Acts passed in 1847." According to this table the amount of money authorised to be raised by the Railway Acts passed from 1826 to 1847 inclusive, was 326,643, 9 17/., of which the amount nomi na ll y raised or called - up to the end of 1847 was 166,938,241/ the amount of calls for this year t o the end ' of September 28.378,865/., making the total raised and called 195,317,1061. Deducting this suns from the larger sum, it appeared that there were liabilities still resting on the public, in respect of railway pro jects not completed, amounting to 13 1 32 . 6 111/. In an article which appeared thefollowing ,, day inviting directors to set the public anxiety at rest, and dispel misrepresentations, by detailed official statements, we called the public attention to these figures, chi e fly as indicatinga the enormous value of the property actually sunk affected by the fluc tuations of the market. We so referred to the document, and purp os ely abstained l Y f . rarn committing ourselves to its authority, though as a mere abstract of Parliamentary returns it of av a e l some sort of truth. The extreme uncertaintyylod d l railway sta tistics suggested this caution. , we have ob served that even up to this day there Indeed not appeared of at all an extensive immediatelyor one single railway statement, detailed character, which has not been contradicted or considerably q ual ified, if bnobod else, at least by its own authors. For our y part we y are of opinion that railway statements are at best only approximations to the truth. No soonor had we quoted this summary of railway legislation than our candid and benevolent co ntemporaries assailed us from a new corner of the heavens. Their accusation now was that we had concocted an ex travagant statement as to the liabilities still resting on the public ; whereas we had made no state ment at all, but only referred to a summary of railway legislation published in our columns with the signature of a well-known correspondent. The charge, however, has passed from mouth to mouth, and on every side it is averred that we have tr e bl e d the amount of railway work still to be done, and so forth. Now, how does the simp le reader imagine the Parliamentary figures are got rid of? We thl.e n o doubt whatever, and never did d Parlia mentary are not exempt from the doubt, which has befallen all railway statistics ; bu t accidental dupli cates and over-reckonings woul d go little Way to reduce the figures we quoted. So now, in the co o l est manner imaginable the railway gentlemen are turning round upon us with the exclamation—“ How come you to think all those railways are ever lik e l y to be made ? Why, 40,00 0 , 0001. worth of them have been given up." Here we have it in the Leeds Ictelligencer, a paper evidently deep in the interests, the politics, and the morals of railway society :-- " On reading the Parliamentary returns, we find that many branches connected with old lines are included, which will not be, and never were intended to be made. These branches were merely brought out either to defeat li . d rival projects, or to prevent the formation of ground, n o e u com panies, by their apparently occupying t thus offering to supply the imagined wants of th e public. The London and North-Western directors ha ve just stated that they: will abandon branches amounting to 3,800,000/. The York and North Midland Company, it is well known, do net intend to make the new line to Leeds, for which they got powers ; and we believe that nearly every old company intend quietly to abandon the branches for which they were compelled thus to appl y. Many of the lines passed in 1846 have not yet ma d e a call ; and, as most of these are worthless sche mes, very few men of property are amongst the original sub scribers. Those likely to be injured ;by calls have mostly transferred their shares to men of straw, who would feel flattered by having a writ served upon them. This mode of evading liabilities has been practi se d to a large extent, railway companies having no po wer to refuse transfers to such parties. Calls made under these circumstances would be wholly unproductive. The editor of the Economist objects to our statement, b ecause it does not include the amount to be raised to make branch lines. We think there is no truth in this objec tion. The branch lines were principally originated in 1845; and if the editor will refer to the various railway meetings, when the consent of the shareholders was ob tained to apply for those branches, he will find in almost every case that new shares were created to represent them, in many cases when the directors had no inten tion of making the branches. Such was the greediness of OsT24ol4ere for . mew shares caused by the great pre- DEFERRED ANNUITIES. 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Open daily front Eleven to Five , and in the Evenings (inclad's"' 'aturday) from Seven till Half-past Tea. Admlisten, la.—Schools, lial - f-price.—The New Catalogue, Is. LONG EVENINGS MADE SHORT. MECHI'S FAMOUS BAGATELLE TA BLES, manufactured upon the premises, 4, Leadenhall-street, London, make long evenings appear short, and combine calculation with amusement. Price 31. 10s., 41. 10s., 51. 10s., up to 121. Sold also by his agents, Splers and Son, Oxford ; Powell, and Lounge, Leeds ; Eastee, Liverpool ; Woolfleld, Glasgow ; Pratt, Bradford ; Thompson, Nottingham ; Stephenson, Hull; Squlers, Dover ; Stool and Rix, Norwich. None are genuine without Mechi's name, S Ny NOVEMBER 9, _ B4B, miu ms to be got for th em , t h at any other course would have given general dissatisfaction." Is not this delightful ? The facts are stated so naively and confidently that we will not venture to dispute them, and certainly have no wish to do so. But this is not all. With most engaging candour our informant goes on to describe va rious cases in which calls have been dispensed with, and which, therefore, need not be reckoned, because their place has been supplied by loans. The loans altogether amount to 46,457,3371., no trifling item in the liabilities still resting on the public. Our knowing contemporary runs over the share lists, and picks out here and there a line that is " likely to make a call." On five lines, amounting to more than 3,000,0001., a different opinion has been expressed. Somebody thinks they are not quite dead. So our authority says the shareholders and public generally consider these, with only one exception, de funct schemes ; and he intimates that the engineers and solicitors would reward any one who could tell them how money could be extorted from the present shareholders. He then trips lightly over the giant carcases of deceased lines with passing obituary re marks,—" The deposit only paid." "It is very im probable this scheme will he proceeded with." "The deposit only has been paid." And he winds up with lamenting the amount of calls that have been made already, the number of contracts inconsiderately let, and the supineness exhibited by shareholders in suffering directors to proceed with their undertakings. For this year at least it is evident that railway specu lation has sounded the bottom of our national resources. The Gazette informs us that 125 applica tions for extension of time have been received and considered, and yet we have complaints and remon strances addressed to those who have failed to apply. Now, this we call hitting us on the right cheek and on the left also. We were abused two years, night and day, for maintaining that thellines of 1845.46-47 could not and would not be done. We are now derided, not for supposing that they will ever be done, but for so much as reckoning them among the liabilities still resting on the public. Gentlemen behind the scenes rush forward and exclaim, "Oh, they were never intended to be made. They were got up, like Hodge's razors, for sale, and not for use. The shareholders wanted premium, so the directors made sham lines to satisfy the general cupidity. De pend upon it, the lines can't be made, and won't be made, and you are a simpleton for imagining that they will be ever attempted, or that they are at all burden some to the consciences of the directors." There is so much substantial comfort in the rebuke that we cannot but receive it with all meekness. We are truly glad to hear, on undeniable authority, that 40,000,0001. worth of lines, on which deposit has been paid, and which the Legislature enacted after months of quarrelling and spending, are mere hoaxes and nothing else. It was not, perhaps, very respectful to Queen, Lords, and Commons, nor yet to the public— hut we will let that a l one; a ll parties will be so happy to hear the railway gentlemen confess themselves beaten. HERALD.—The TinteaThas somewhat moderated the tone of its exacting suggestions to the State, as to the mode in which the property of the London and North-Western, Great 'Western, an d S out h-W estern proprietors shall be treated when the Amalgamation Bill comes under legislative discussion. It is, how ever, the tone only that has been moderated—the spirit of the aggressive suggestions is plainly dis cernible under less " open " though equally "advised" language. Our contemporary, with a singular for getfulness, lays down the principle that, " It is ac cording to all precedent, to all principle, to all ana logy, and to the plainest common sense, that the State should take care that the means of communica tion are available, cheap, and good," and it is readily admitted that the State is bound to fulfil all such en gagements as it could properly contract, and to re ward within reasonable limits the genius and spirit of private adventure." But has the State "taken care" to do this ? It is perfectly true that the State has fre quently " taken care" to render the means of railway communication " available," and also " cheap and good," but not by comprehensive interference—not by any initiatory encouragement—not by any na tional grant. But the State has, also, by acts of omission and commission, thrown a thousand obstacles in the way of the cheap construction of railways, and having committed this great error, " according to all precedent, to all principle, to all analogy, and to the plainest common sense," it has sought to render railway communication " cheap and good" at the expense, and frequently to the manifest Injury of those to whom the country is altogether indebted for it. It is precisely within these " rea sonable limits" that our contemporary would reward the " genius and spirit of private adventure." On Saturday the Times would not listen to the applica tion to Parliament, by the three great rail way com panies, for a Bill permitting them to put an end to their ruinous contests in and out of Parliament, un less those corporations would consent to allow the State to " claim a p iwer of dictating new branches, new trains, new accommodations, and lower fares ; " that is, unless the three companies would, for the mere legislative sanction to an Act to enable them to save the probable outlay of another million ster ling in Parliamentary struggles, permit the State to dictate conditions utterly subversive of the rights and destructive to the interests of private property. The Times now requires that if the three companies " present themselves to Parliament for a further in crease and consolidation of their existing power and monopoly, the gain shall not be wholly on one side. There shall be a quid pro quo. There shall be gua rantees against the abuse of absolute power, or rather against the possibility of having to arrest its en croachments." But this moderated suggestion is coupled with a disbelief that it is the interest of rail way companies to afford ample accommodation to the public at moderate rates of fares. Our contemporary doubts " that lower fares will frequently leave the net profit undiminished. He cannot trust such visionary hopes. The public will not have the utmost possible use of the railway." Our contemporary's quid for legislative permission to these three companies to settle their differences and economise their expenditure is still, therefore, clearly "low fares," that will diminish net profits, or, in other words, the " utmost possible use of the railway" for the public. This "utmost possible use" may, and perhaps will, be a very popular doctrine. But at whose cost is it to be realised? What is the quid that the shareholders are to have secured to them ? The Times does not appear to he very clear in the notions it entertains about rail way traffic. "The utmost possible use ?" Does our Contemporary mean that the Post-office principle, of which it seemed enamoured on Saturday, should be applied ? The " utmost possible use of a railway by the public," would vary with a dozen varying circumstances. It would, consistent always with a fair dividend to the shareholder, be twenty-four or forty-eight trains per day on this, and six or four trains per day on that, line of railway. Does it think that if the passenger fares of the London and North-Western Company were reduced one-half, the public would " have the utmost possible use" of that railway ? To yield the present net revenue, if the company were to make this diminution of charge, the passenger traffic must be quadrupled ; whereas all those practically ac quainted with the traffic of the company in question know that the reduction would not even ap proach such an increase. Perhaps the Times would desire to have the passenger fares reduced to one fourth their present amount. In that case it would, we think, find the task of developing a paying amount of traffic somewhat difficult, as well as the duty of working it, rather an onerous one. The Times is very emphatic in its demand for " guarantees against the use of absolute power " by the three companies. Railway corporations could not, beneficially to themselves, use such a power in the way our Contemporary infers or insinuates they would. We have previously ex plained the fact that all our great railway companies have a direct interest in affording ample accommoda tion at moderately low fares; but it is not their in terest, indeed it would be spoliation and nothing else, to allow the public to " have the utmost possible use of their railways." If such an accommodation be desirable, let the State afford it the same way that cheap postage has been given to the community—at the national cost, with the aid of an augmented income tax, and not through a confiscating intermeddling ,, with A claim for " guarantees against private property. the exercise of " absolute power" on the part of the three companies comes with a very bad grace from one who urges the State to demand " a power of dic tating new branches, new trains, new accommoda tions, and lower fares," considering that all those cor porations have too many trains already, that the fares of the London and North-Western are very low, and that those of the Great Western will soon be very considerably reduced by Act of Parliament. If the aggressive recommendations of the Times were adopted by the Legislature and consented to by the companies, the "gain" would indeed be "wholly on one side." Our contemporary admits that, "on the whole, the present fares and accommodation are as good as may be expected under the existing traffic ;" but then it urges—" If, however, the present compe tition is to be set at rest, and the iron rule of a giant monopoly to take its place, we demand i n th at case that the right of the ;people shall be guarded by the State." 'Yes, and a little more is demanded by our con temporary. "On the whole the present fares and ac commodation ,are as good as may be expected ;" but it is not the continuance of " present fares and accommodation" that the Times claims,—it must have a power vested in the state to claim a power of dictating new branches, new trains, new accommoda tion, and lower fares," and the "public are to have the utmost possible u3e of railways." The plain meaning of all this is the reduction of dividends to the " lowest possible" rate-7, 6,6, 4,3, 2, or 1 per cent., or whatever the "new branches, &c.," may leave the " absolute monopolising" shareholders. And the " guarantee" which the shareholders are to re ceive in return is—the permission to put an end to law and parliamentary contests, and to economise their working expenses. The Times charges all the unnecessary expenditure which has been incurred in the cost of railways to "chance and passion." We are assured "the railway world had the option of referring the whole laying out of the country to a railway board," and that " the railway world has to thank itself for the many millions a b so l ute l y waste d i n t h e prelimi naries of Bills passed, rejected, or now laid aside by the two successful promoters." The Times will scarcely assert that railway companies encouraged landholders' exorbitant claims, their vexatious opposi tion, and all the enormous consequent expense ; or that the old companies originated or encouraged direct and competing lines, and the wasteful and almost ruinous outlay which such lines occasioned. That some, not all, railway functionaries, as our con temporary asserts, " preferred the open fight in Com mittee, the private canvass of the Commons, the trans action with the noble landowner, the distribution of scrip, the profitable amalgamations of lines as yet without existence, and all the accidents and opportu nities of a hazardous and complicated game to the dull certainty of a national scheme, done without battle, heat, or risk," may be very true, but to charge the difficulties and obstacles which have presented them selves to a cheap construction of railways in this country to these causes, is not to make a mistake ; it is to mis-state the most notorious of facts. The Times thinks that the sanction of the Legislature to the proposed Amalgamation Bill will necessarily lead to other, and almost as extensive consolida tions of railway interests. No doubt it will, but it does not as necessarily follow that the amalgamated boards would, -as our contemporary suggests, be able "to work the monopoly to the utmost advantage " of themselves. With a watch ful and just Parliament, these amalgamations may be rendered both profitable to the shareholder and advantageous to the public ; but we must protest against the doctrine of legislative interference pro. mulgated by our contemporary, the more particularly , as this doctrine is associated with his emphatic asser tion, that railways are not private property. Cheap and expeditious travelling is most ;desirable in this great commercial country, but the " utmost possible" cheapness can be realised only by the State taking railway property into its own keeping. If the State desire to have " new branches, new trains, &c.," let the State provide them, or offer the guarantee of a fair minimum dividend in return for the " dictation" of these matters, as suggested by the Times. Railway passengers are not " to travel for nothing, and have a dinner into the bargain," at the expense of railway shareholders—not even to please the Times. WEST INDIA MAIL. Our usual file of Jamaica papers have come to hand, but there is little of interest or importance to communicate, with the exception of the wretched condition of a large portion of the inhabitants of the colony. Families of the highest distinction are now beginning to feel the destruction that awaits them. By this mail we have letters from Lima to the 13th of September, from Valparaiso to the 28th of August, and from Quito (Equador) to the 11th of September. From Lima the accounts show the old determination on the part of the Peruvian Government to tire out their creditors in this country by endless shuffles. It will be remembered that about the year 1845 the bondholders, at the suggestion of the Peruvian Go vernment, commissioned Messrs. Maclean, Rowe, and Co., of Lima, to act as agents for their claims ; that upon this the Peruvian Government, to get rid of any direct negotiation, referred the matter back to their Minister in London, Senor Yturregui ; that Senor Yturregui then instructed the bondholders that they must send a special representative to Lima; that upon compliance being refused, this Minister, at a subse quent period, entered into an arrangement for a pro. vision for the creditors out of the Government guano contracts; and, finally, that so soon as this was settled it was repudiated in Peru on the ground that he had acted without authority. The next step of the foiled bondholders was to instruct M'Lean, Rowe, and Co. to renew negotiations, and this eli cited a proposition which for effrontery was almost without precedent, and which was rejected summarily in July last at a meeting of the creditors at the London Tavern. Ai - this stage it was understood that Mr. Pitt Adams, the 1!...0.;j 1 i5h Minister at Lima, would receive instructions to za.sist upon the claims of the bondholders being adjusted without further prevarication, and we have now the newts of the re ception of the strong resolutions of the creditors by the Peruvian Government, and of the course they have taken in consequence. Finding that plain terms only" will now be listened to, and that it would be difficult to escape the necessity of a definite answer to Mr. Adams, they have again intimated that instead of going into the matter on the spot, they intend sending by their new Minister, about to depart for London, full instructions for its settlement. That this fresh evasion will only terminate in a new reference to Lima, and again from Lima to London, and so on for ever, may plainly be seen, unless the Home Government shall deem it fit to send, or shall have already sent, such simple instructions to Mr. Pitt Adams as will pre vent all possibility of escape. It was strongly be lieved at the meeting in July that such instructions had been dispatched, and it would now seem de sirable for the bondholders that some statement should be obtained regarding the intentions of the Foreign-office in their behalf. At Valparaiso it is said business in imports was brisk, and the merchants were without sufficient goods to supply the demand. The exchange on London at 90 days was 43 d. Freight for copper ores to Swansea was 41. 12s. 6d. and 5 per cent., and to Liverpool 41. ss. and 5 per cent.; light goods, 6/. 10s. and 5 per cent. The Railway Bill has passed the Chamber of Deputies, and a proposal was under discussion to apply 50,000 dolls. to the purposes of immigration. The last news from Otaheite was, that intelligence had been received there of the establish ment of the French Republic, and had created great excitement, strong hopes being entertained that the islands would be given up. REVIEW OF MARKETS. (From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer.) After our last issue the dulness which we have had to deplore for some time past continues to exist, but within the last two days some little activity has been manifested in the market for bread stuffs. We are justified in re porting that there is at present a slightly upward ten dency in business generally. This is attributable to various causes. In the first place the reappearance of the destructive aphides in the potatoes at home has given a little impetus to speculation, and the next fortnight is expected to be comparatively lively in Port Royal street. Another cause of this leoked for change is the fact that few persons having laid in larger stock than would suffice for immediate demand, they now find them selves wanting supplies, and are coming forward to pur chase. We beg that shippers will fully understand that by the above paragraph we du not mean to advise the send ing on of any large shipments. The very trifling ten dency to improvement which we notice is nothing more than a temporary activity caused as we have stated above. It is extremely trifling, and we fear will soon subside. The seasons have been excellent this year, for although we have not yet had the regular October rains, occa sional showers h ave v i s i ted all parts of the island, and have been of great benefit. Flour—The stock of flour is ample, but prices have an upward tendency, owing to the re - appearance of the potato disease at home. Rum is at 3s. 8d to 3s. 9d.:for proof 21, equal to 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d. for exportation. Sugar—There is a decline in the value of this article. Our last Intedigencer named its limits at ss. 6d. to 20s. We now quote 15s. to 19s. per 100 lbs. Freights are very dull as under:—Sugar, 3/. to 31. 10s. per ton. Rum, 4d. per gallon. EXCHANGES ON LO NDON. — Colonial Bank-90 days, 1 per cant. pm.; 60 days, 11 per cent. pm.; 30 days, 2 per cent. pm. Jamaica Bank-90 days, 1 pm. [ AD VERTISEMENT.]—The most obstinate Bowel Complaints are speedily cured by Worsdell's Vegetable Restorative Pills, prepared by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near Huddersfield. Mr. Thomas Hughes, builder, residing at Rug, near Come; says, "I was troubled for upwards of four years and a half with a very weakening bowel complaint. The advice of several emi nent medical men, and the remedies they recommended, all proved unavailing. I determined to give your Pills a fair trial, and to my great joy they effected a perfect cure. I am now as healthy as ever I was in my life." Similar testimonies have been borne by hundreds. See that John Kaye's coat of arms, and a fac-simile of his signature, are printed on the directions for use wrapped round each box. Price Is. 14d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. per box; to be had of all respectable Chemists and Medicine Venders. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yes terday, from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. All WA. S ! RAILWAYS ! THE THR GREAT RAILWAYS I RS WILL NEVER CEASE ! (FRoSZ A CORRESPONDENT.) Who can view the aspect of affairs between the North-Western, Great Western, and South-Western. Companies, a n d no t seem startled, not feel alarmed, and cry aloud, " Wonderful!" What! after the two monster companies, the Great Western and North- Western, have been quarrelling so long and differing over the bone (the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway) who should possess it, who should have the mastery and direction of it, at a cost so outrageous, frightful, and distressing to themselves, and ruinous to their mutual interests,—do they now seek to shake hands and join, even soliciting the South-Western Company to become a party and fall in the same rank to amalgamate with them, become united, three created in one ? And what is to become of the public throughout the compass of this vast portion of the empire ? suppose even one-half of England will be under the thumb, at the will of one man, one direction 1 Will honest John Bull sit down quietly and con tent, be reconciled and satisfied with such an awful domination ? No, no ! it cannot, must not, will not be! Think for a moment of the horrible abuse that has already taken place. What did the company seek by projecting the Birmingham and Oxford Junction line, in introducing their Bill to the notice of Parlia ment? I was present before the Committees on the Bill, both in the Commons and Lords in 1845, and the Bill was distinctly understood as a competing line with the London and Birmingham line, and as such the Act passed, and was considered right and neces sary for the good of the public. Who then will pre tend, or dare to say, that it was for the good of the public that the said line should forthwith be sold to the Great Western, and now proposed to be united or amalgamated with the Nbrth-Western P—a line by which the Act was granted to be in competition (or opposition) with, as a matter of public right and just principle. Surely, then, it becomes startling, fright ful, nay, alarming, to think of these things. And, further, what will be the end thereof ? I look upon it that every disinterested person will cry aloud and petition against the proposed amalga mation —a great scheme (as I think) of the most shameful, unjust, and diabolical character and intent, fraught with nothing but base injustice and imposition upon the public. No doubt the people of the south division of Eng land will, in due time (and no matter how soon) cry aloud in disgust against the most infamous grasp, and at the same time say, "It is enough ! We have seen, we have seen! Railways might be a blessing to the land—ought ; but abused by misconduct, and enor mous amount of money thrown away, owners seek to saddle the ,public with th e l oss , an d they become pestilential. - Let the people therefore pray the Legislature next session to take every line of railway into holy keeping, in the management and direction of Government, as national property, at a fair and just market price, for the eyes of all must now be opened. Why have we already had so much of amalgamation and purchase of canals, &c.? Horrible, horrible, most horrible I A WARWICKSHIRE LAD. Nov. 7, 1848. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Myrtle steam vessel, Master-Commander Alfred Balliston, left to-day for St. Helier's, Jersey, taking Dr. Bradford, surgeon to the Blenheim, to render additional assistance to the crew of the Seaflower cutter, Commander Dumaresq, on board which it is reported Asiatic cholera has made its appearance. Mr. Balliston had his steam up, and was ready to start in less than an hour after ordered—a most praiseworthy exhibition of alacrity on the part of that offieer. The Plumper steam-vessel, to which Commander Nol loth was appointed on Monday, had not hoisted the pen dant up to this time-4 P.m. Captain Austin, C. 8., commanding the reserve steam squadron at this port, is ordered to superintend the forthcoming trial between the Sharpshooter (iron) and Rifleman (wood) screw-vessels, the former of 202 and the latter of 100 horse power. Sir Charles Napier wished i to have had this trial under his immediate orders, but it appears the Admiralty have willed it otherwise. The Ajax screw block-ship is ordered for trial on Fri day. She is to leave the harbour at half-past eight A.m., and will remain at Spithead until Saturday. A nume rous party of scientific officers, including some members of the Admiralty, are expected to be m on board during the trials. The Blenheim screw block-ship, Captain Horatio Austin, C. 8., was visited to-day by Captain the Hon. M. F. F. Berkely, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, Captain Chads, C. 8., of the Excellent, and Colonel Col quhoun, of Woolwich, to decide on the alterations for the benefit of that ship proposed by Captain Chads., The Harlequin, 12, Commander Moore, sailed from Malta for Messina on the 22d ult. The Diligence, naval transport, sailed this morning for Ply mou h . THE MASTER'S RANK AND SENIORITY.—A memorial is now being handed round at Portsmouth for signature, from the masters of the royal navy, addressed to the L irds Commissioners, praying to be placed on the same equality in rank and command with the lieutenants of the navy, according to the dates of their several commis sions. Should their prayer be granted the masters in nearly all the large: class of ships of war would take command after the commanders, and before the senior and other lieutenants, should the date of their commis sion give them the seniority, which in must cases it would do. IVind, N. by W., moderate breezes, and fine weather. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 7.—Her Majesty's sloop Heroine. 8, Commander Charles Edmunds, arrived in the Sound last night from the coast of Africa; left Sr. Paul de Loando on the 2d, and Ascension on the 14th of September; an chored at Sierra Ltone on the 21st, and sailed on tho 24th; arrived at Isle St. Vincent (Cape Verd) on the 3d, and left on the 18th of October. Ocr. 2.—Spoke an American barque, which reported having been four dap; in company, and parted on the Ist of October, with the Sydney packet Alert, outward bound, partially dismasted in a hurricane two degrees north of Cape Verd islands. The Heroine at the time was in the vicinity of the hurricane, which is unusual in tha t quarter. She only experienced a tremendous swelL —Nov. 3. lat. 47 deg. 28 mm. N.. long. 12 deg. 5 min. W., bluwihj hard from the North-east—exchanged colours with ;he ship Jemi ina , ou t war d b oun d , and exhib ting the tn:t distinguishing pennant over No. 6.024. The Heroine has been three years and one month absent from England; her officers and men are all healthy. She has taken seven prizes and two halves, making eight. prizes in all. The slave trade is becoming more active than ever; it is carried on chiefly by the Brazilians. but the Spaniards have latterly taken a share in the traffic. The Commodore was at anchor at St. Paul de Loando when the Heroine left on the 2d of September. The Pantaloon sloop, 8, Commander L. T. Provost, wes at Sierra Leone on the 24th of September, bound to the Gallinas. The Alert sloop, 8, Commander Hugh Dunlop; vie Bonetta brigantine, 3, Lieutenant-Com mander F. E. Forbes; and the Sealark sloop, 8, Com mander W. B. Monypenny, were at the Gallinas. The Amphitrite, 24, Captain T. R. Eden; and the Firefly steam-vessel, 3, Commander John Tudor, th e Bight at Bight of Benin, all very healthy. The Punjaub left for Enzland the day before the departure of the Heroine. The Bonetta has made eight prizes. The Sealark 's fourth prize, a large brig, capable of holding 1,000 slaves, was at Sierra Leone; and the A mphitrite's third prize, a brigantine of 300 slaves, arrived 'here on the 22d of September. Her Majesty's sloop Ranger, 8, Commander Charles Ti. Newland, which got ashore at St. Vincent (Cape de Verd) on the 22d of July, was sunk on the Bth of September, in being hove down b,y the Pantaloon, but was afloat when the Heroine arrived there. The James Town, American Commodore, had rendered considerable assistance to the Ranger. All the Ranger's keel, fore foot, and butt ends are gon e , an d several of her timbers are showing; it is doubtful if she can belrepaired suffi ciently to enable her to come home. The only vessels at Ascension were her Majesty's war sloop Tortoise, 12, Captain Frederick Hutton, and her Majesty's s l oop W anderer, 12, Commander F. B. Mon tresor, re-fitting. Her Majesty's brig Nautilus, 6, tender, came into harbour yesterday ; her crew, consisting of seamen and naval apprentices, will be transferred to her Majesty's ship San Josef, 110, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland. The Nautilus will have a new crew, consisting of seamen only.. The Admiralty Finance Committee yesterday, in com pany with Admiral Superinterdent Sir John Louis, Mr. Stigant, storekeeper, and other dockyard officers, visited the store-house No. 1, and inspected the copper sheath ing, bolts, block shivers, canvas and fearnoughta; the cordage in No. 2; iron boilers and hemp cables in N 0.3; and the blocks, o a k um , an d var i ou s st o res in Nos. 4. 5, and 6. Their Lordships subsequently examined other departments in the yard. Wind N.W., fresh breeze, dry. THE WEATHER.—Since our last, we have had changeable weather, with a downward tendency in the thermometer. Saturday morning the frost was keen, with a cold N.W. wind, and the lowest temperature of the day was 26 degrees Fahrenheit. In the evening,. and during the night, it continued frosty; and early on Sunday morning the temperature was no higher than 27 degrees; but the weather had changed, and rain fell during the forenoon and the rest of the day. On Mon day the temperature was higher, but the day was cloudy. and rain fell in the afternoon. Yesterday was fine and clear for the most part, and altogether an iinproveraens on tiie weather of the last two or three days.—Masa diester Guardian. MALEY AND GILL—For a correct report of this good pugilistic contest see Belts Life in London of Sa turday, Nov. 11. The sale of Belts Life exceeds 27,000, arid is regularly published in time fur all the Saturday mid-day railways. How TO ENLARGE VEGETABLES.—A vast increase of food may be obtained by managing judiciously, and systematically carrying out the principles of increase. Taki , , for instance, a pea. Plant it in very rich ground; allow it to bear the first year, say a half-dozen pods only; remove all others save the largest single pea of these. Sow it the next year, and retain of the produce three pods only; sow the largest the following year, and retain one pod; again select the largest, and the next year the sort will by this time have trebled its size and weight. Ever afterwards sow the largest, and by these m eans you will get peas, or anything else, of a bulk of which we at present have no conception.—Boston Cultivator (U. /~ [PRICE SD. ~~ z'~`r // 1 ~.i '~