The Sun. — London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

MORN LNG- SUN BRIGHTON AND CROYDON RAILROAD. -------- --- - (From the Brighton Herald.) 4 The hue between Croydon and London is still blocked hY a considerable distance near New Cross, by a great *4 14 Of earth which slipped down owing to the vast ( 1 4 ,,i ntit Yof rain that has fallen this autumn, and causes 1 1 , 11 '', to the trains of from twenty minutes to half an are re the passengers and the whole of the luggage of eaoved ; the former have to walk about half a quarter h ee tt mile from one train to another ; but as planking has th e ° carefully put down, and an awning erected to protect ` n 11 '061 . 16 rain, it is attended with little inconvenience pad we the delay. The luggage is conveyed in trucks, p a ,,,,, iv e must •do the superintendents, and others en p-wt in the service, the justice to say, that they bestow t ? e treatest attention and care in the transit of Th e kasengers, and in the conveyance of the goods. f a t: l ine from New Cross to Brighton is perfectly AM it is impossible for men to be more careful to; and 'present engineers. They are cautious almost for at dines teroceed more slowl than 4 1 24 seem 'there is an h y y oc p casion for. Still th y is is 6Z 113 1% if error it be, on the right side The Brighton i t 445 11 of the road is decidedly the best, the Croydon tkij ° , ll next, and the Greenwich the worst. This is Ar. Recounted for : the rails on the Brighton portion much heavier than anywhere else, and this makes the tr avelling b o th sa f er arid easier ; so much so, that (I,,,P a sseuger can immediately discover, in coming up or when he is on the Croydon or on the Brighton The ) the f ac ility o f th e motion. , The ) works at the London Terminus are now in a state kreat forwardness. The parapet is nearly complete p er , l he arches, we believe, are built ; the road in most tre ` 4 ,is ready for the rails ; and in some places the rails tr a i, l a ' r eady laid down. In a short time, we imagine, the will not go on the Greenwich line at all. ti o , t l Public of Brighton are, however, getting impa tile or a bett er roa d t o th e t erm i nu s at this end. All w e ( toads leadi ng t o it are now i n a wretched state, and ito ° hope th a t b e f ore l ong something will be done to Pro ve the en t rance f rom t h e t erm i nus into the town. tsatlireetors of the Brighton line have been derisively wi nt ; w,hy they do not shut up the line during the They who ask the question are no oto w i d ' 4 to Brighton. If the road were closed, it of during the winter cause the' loss of thousands Ma t o th e ponds to the town; to say nothing of the loss to Pt, r °Prietors of the line. At .this inclement season 4 43 would not. come to Brighton by coach, but by !Ir eti l lie; though attended with:some inconvenience, hun ,3) Of Persons do come who would otherwise remain id e ,, ec lou or at their homes elsewhere. As a winter re tliotiele, there is no place like Brighton.... Whilscalmost r ap° er towns . are surroun d e d by water and unwholesome tap o , 4B, Brighton is dry, and free of •all miasmatic 4 ,t1 t%; r h S o destructive to human life in other localities. Al e ' s are the t Directors to shut up the line for ? Peo se 'righton portion, by the great labour and ex- Pos t ib i e° nVtantly incurred in keeping it in the best state . ' e , , is 'firm and safe, whilst it is the Croydon line 4tiii„" v nich has been formed for some years, that has been t he k `, re d—not unsafe—but impassible at one spot, because trt„u, owing to incessant rains, has slid down upon it. 4 46:,LI„Rigliton line is to be closed because there are some l ittitt "es with the earthworks, nearly every line in the d•l tl i ought to be closed for the same reason; for simi the bl.uleulties are attendant upon them all. Instead of. th oy Ire etors being attacked for keeping the line open, '44 4r e entitled to the thanks of the people of Brighton, ( It . th e hs public generally. They have done all that °lley, or skill, could do, to make the line efficient, Stt e ,,' 4 accOmplished their object in spite of pne of the seasons—,sO injurious to earth-works, especially, l i to tic ,;es, in th e memory o f man . As far as the mere ques- Itr - ' ee unomy is concerned,it is' probable that they would weep l a ved money if they had closed the line to the Ro w ', Injury of the town ; but the Directors, to their e l., have studied, more the- interest of the, town and tr ot e f Public generally, than their own pockets, or those entitlthe Shareholders, and are, therefore, we repeat, !)er, 4 e w to the thanks of the public for their untiring ,blcletueraneethose who would cover them with ,140,V fur not closing it, prove themselves by so doing N e e, lue enemies of the to and the malignant to the Brighton Railroa wn d. A r , COURT OF ALDERMEN. 1 4,, -Gen was held on Friday, at which some interest kit "'4tters were discussed. 4'°EaTolis's ATTACK UPON THE COURT OF AL DERMEN. WOODTHORPE, the Clerk of the Court of • Council, had read the official account of the Aleings of that Court nthZ„ ln an COPELAND rose ' to call the attention of his 4• ;", t° the statement represented to have been made 4 A• l t f 41 Iderton relative to the application by the Court predt,r,Ten of some of the Corporation funds. It ap- Art he said, that Mr. Anderton had accused etmhe tre:,.„lsl Aldermen of having voted to distressed In d. :,` their body and the widows and children of is- Ntts;',Aldermen a sum of money very far exceeding 4 c4, 411 ieh was specified in the printed account, which litieatelY detailed the various items granted and theh hlerks for which they were granted. Instead of 3 ' d n o i o l., which that gentleman declared had been _ ,I,:eql,t: te-4 st year, thewhole amount did not exceed e, t 'tle at 4 , 4,1 the claims had been most deliberately in t-41,$:etu:Tistrrtd::. tat wa? added other grants made I s o uni were worn out in the service of , 414 , 4 4 14 , 1 cs of L( s md ' on, and whose claims no one pos t ‘,,k 1 0, ' l . Particle of feeling could for a moment deny. The total amount of the grants made, ,tir i k a s nut exceed 9,489/. 16s. After some further : 6 144 1 , 4 ° concluded b - y moving that the resolution the Court of Common Council on the subject -, '4f t _brktets of 'money voted by the Court.of Alder men Al er red to a Co mmittee. h"errnan wn.soN soccmded th e It appeared Vo lt. ' l b that the Court of Common Volition was endea -410 to get all the power vested; in the Court of into their own hands, fu a i l l th s ough the t l h a e t, o r r p tn o e s r - W k 7Z the authority over the t before (Hear, hear.) He c i tlk' te ll t hrl ti ‘ t ll rat t h n er p9 to ss O s b s ad an tlia a t the members,of the Court men : 11 ,. 1111 (1.CoM3cil should accuse the -Court of Alder '4ol r exercising an undoubted right, particularly as k s .eauti on and economy h a d, been . _ exhibited in dis ttapix' g the charities, under which: head ranked all the '4: v oted by the Court of Aldermen. motion was unanimously agreed to. `sir r , DEATH or SERGEANT ARABIN. ,7. 1 4 1 ,'• S. HUNTER suggested the propriety of adopting Commission th,, - , t 're for supplying the vacancy . Central Criminal Court, occasio i n n e t d he b the death tii r i ea nt Arabin. In consequence of the . vast increase N'a-j`ness sari the Central Criminal Court, inconv e e d nie s n e c r e_ '• re adj sen froni the illness of the Learn the "li 3t ;',, arid it became necessary, not only to eii supply e . ndge q'tlin deficiency there, but to fill up the o, ce J 4 th: oheriffs' Court. The former particularly pressed, 4 kl tlext Session commenced on the 3d of January, t4 et ti e therefore was of oinion that the Court ought , to Nev tneil d to Government the nomination of the , sen e i n or hl . C ri °f: the City to sit as a Commissioner in the C iL AId r rn inal Court. v e-t P az i PA THER said, that he had taken the t 1 , 11 1 4 tl i ,:` speaking IiEB II to ° two of the Judges on the . subje r'tle,,,"" Lordships were' of opinion that the senior City t„ Af t ,; () oat to be put in the Conimissi . on. 1"1:oe:ttt lengthened discussion, in which Alderman T. eet ie the Recordet, e , and ()tilers Spoke, • , • • 'ln was negatived. THE NEW POOR LAW. I, l• Pri t e ; ril 'i an FAREBROTHER rose to complain of a breach Aid ,iege °I, in opinion, no ordinary kind. He , o up o his rk ). form er day received -a notification from the e, to Parringdon Without Ward,' that a petition 4 1 vise l'l3resented against him, in consequence of the_ ford he i ch had thought proper to adopt in adjudi het. a t t he Justice-room et - Guildhall in the ease of ( )ki ll : ' 3 who had-been brought before him for miscon -041.3' 44 union workhouse. He had -been given , to the same authority, that a copy of the •et 1 heen forwarded to Sir James Graham, the oc ) the r i °I State for the Home Department,. and that tite r f°lV had been transmitted to the Commissioners h C e‘V ~-,thar-law. These petitions contained,: he was `4ll,,e,o4`thLtiforrned the opinions of the Guardians of the th un ion; and he hoped that Sir James Duke, Pre%:l,,P‘edged himself to present them, would not let "*J - A `, l4 ° PPortunity pass.—(Hear, hear.) . h r Ze -4 d Es puke said, that the petition had been wit _- tio tk -- to ' 0 4 ,1 °f course the matter wa . s completely . at an end. 414 T ue l , al of conversation followed, which . led t . c. . subject dropped, and the Court adjourneu. WOOLLEN TRADE. 1, 4 (From the Leeds Mercury.) a t : _4, 4 1 8 t u present . has been a flat week in la. a ti or Wool Market ; as is usually the case at tii . tne Year. Prices mai be quoted the same, as , Il ti 'Week 'We t t. has not at all improved in Leeds Cloth Halls t Nay „' • the quantity of goods sold both on Sa h-I**6 -44-1 Tuesda) was exceedingly small, and price . S u b si y . I ,lls t,.,‘ Pet nunera . tive. The same dull state pfb . n 7. 4 4% -stB _,in the warehouses. The recent failures na l - 41 in Glasgow have considerably damped e scarce] ever knew so little doing . b7the °P a tne y re desponding tone entertained by p a — RVEL:C -r ted i, in the Woollen Trade than at the present 4Oeiiit, ' ' lo Most cautious and best-informed are almost •4 11# 4 at the failures which are taking place, not Lo foresee when the present state of things } it. 4 „ e to an end. roi4 li at ; P°ll b; vEC. 16.—The demand for pieces to-day and the amount of business done is very li- P itea applies a lik e to f ancy as we ll as p l a i n f a b r i cs. "'tit totaat without change. We have no improve vNiti4u Lotice in Yarn since our last report. Spinners IV I tS 4„ tt) run their machinery short . hours,. which pre- J ,, ae etiniulation of stocks: in prices no variation. .ule last week a less amount of business has b?en 'butStitt 14 Wool, even in coarse and middle c . onabing 101a„prices are the higher qualities are eet(4ll)° ses, is very A- Colonial muchd Wool, epressed. both for worsted and e -‘v . . 1 ,„ . 4.. 01 „,, t0 ... , - q a ,t Cp l !l AND . BRIGHTON RAILWAY AND 1. 1, 4 a i-I LQ--In . consequence of the late . heavy I ce li n 4l „ --11 Y timid persons are fearful of travelling b y - , 1 thp; ; °II which account the demand for inside places :Nel l , s - coaches .bas increased so much, that 2 t s h s e tkeh, roprietors have raised the fares to . P l ilthe c a ll ; 10 s. above the charge for first-class car riag es V e es i n a Y• Even at this high charge all the rside . tv tl . t as ihetne coaches are booked full a week in advanc e , lth Y bet few outsides, and frequently come down 111 '°Fit ( ;b rI l ) :. ` oo e .or two passengers, they cannot be very 1,,,e ,concerns. fitarl:a uPderstand that S. C. ligrry, E s q., has . ° lc;- " 43 a can V I t to fill the •vacancy in the wanner i t t a a e 1' y. 1 1 4 )4 (,- ~ ,I)..Qatlers, which is likely to arise by the eleva ip,aliirlr. Ryland to the Bench, a uccessor of the 4 t i ld '-'ergeaut Arabin, whose death s was announced aY's Sun. ACCIDENT ON _THE CROYDON RAILWAY. One of those alarming accidents took place last , Friday evening, on the Croydon Railway, at the Syden , ham station, by which, though no lives were lost, we , regret to say that eight or • nine persons were injured, some very severely. The following may be relied on as a correct statement of the facts of the case :—The down-train from London to Croydon, consisting of seven carriages and the en gine, started at half-past five o'clock on Friday evening, and after passing the land-slip on the line near the New Cross station (where the passengers are obliged to walk for about a quarter of a mile), it proceeded in safety as far as the Sydenham station. The Sydenham passengers having alighted there, the train was about to start again, when another engine, without a train, which had been employed on the line for the removal of the fallen earth, ran into the back of the train, breaking the two last carriages, and a truck which was attached to the train. The crash was dreadful, and was heard distinctly at a distance of several hundred yards from the place where the collision took placb ; this, with the screams of the affrighted female passengers, eaused a general belief that many snore had been injured than proved to be the case. Upon extricating the people from the 'shattered carriages, it was found that four or five passengers, as well as three or four railway labourers who were returning home after their day's work, had been bruised or wounded. The princtipal sufferers were a Mrs. Jackson, of Croy don, who had her face severely cut and some of her • teeth knocked out by being violently dashed against the back of a seat in the carriage ; a man named Best, who it is said has had three of his ribs broken, and had received some internal contusions, and a Mr. Coulson, who was cut very severely upon the temple. The engine ' which caused this serious accident was one which had been lent by the Brighton Railway Company, and the driver of it, whose name is Goldsmith, is the man who drove one of the engines at the time of the melancholly collison of the trains on the Brighton Railway last summer, by which several lives were lost. It may be remembered that Goldsmith on that occasion was found lying under the tender, covered with sand and water, and that his evidence was obliged to be taken while lying in his bed, suffering under the severe injuries he had received. On Friday night it was asserted that the accident waacaused by his being drunk at the time ; he was, therefore; instantly taken into custody by the Railway police; and kept at Sydenham until the follow ing morning, , when he was removed 'to Croydon, and brought before the sitting magistrates there. It was then found that Sydenham, where the accident occur red, being in the parish of Lewisham, the case should be sent to the Greenwich magistrates ; accord ingly the prisoner was removed there, and brought before Mr. Grove, at the police-office, charged by Mr. Rallett, the superintendent of the London and Brighton Railway, with being drunk, and for wilfully running into the carriage train. This witness deposed that he was on the engine of the Croydon train at the time when it stopped at Sydenham station; that he felt a sudden concussion, and got down to discover what had caused it, when he saw that another engine , without arty person on it, had run into the last carriages of the train. In a few seconds, the prisoner, who was the driver of the engine that had done the damage, came up; in witness's, opinion he was drunk. James Davenport, the railway constable who took the prisoner into custody, was questioned as to the prisoner's being drunk, but he could not say positively that he was so. The prisoner in his defence denied that he was drunk, and • asserted that he could not. see the red light in the back of the last carriage, in consequence of a man named Adams, who was standing up in the truck ; attached to the carriage, and whose person interposed between him and the light. Adams, a labourer on the line, who had heen sent with the truck from the Dartmouth Arms station, swore that he was sitting and not standing when the collision took place, and that the red lamp was three feet at least above his head. Mr. Seaman, the Superintendent at the Dartmouth station, deposed that he attached the truck to the passen ger train at that place. Ho directed Adams to go with the truck, for the purpose of detaching it speedily at an intermediate station. At the time the train started from the Dartmouth Arms station, Adams was sitting in the truck, and the red signal light was quite correct, and per fectly visible. As soon as deponent heard of the accident he proceeded to Sydenham, and had the disabled engine and carriages removed from the line. Mr. Gregory, the engineer of the Croydon Railway, stated the number of persons who had been hurt by the accident. The Company, he added, had given every assistance in their power to the sufferers. Mr. GROVE, at the conclusion of the evidence, said, that in justice to all parties he would give no decision on the case until Thursday, in order to obtain further evi dence respecting the signal light, as it was upon the fact of the light being visible or not to the prisorer that the case principally turned ; in the meantime, he. would admit him to bail. The prisoner was then held to bail, himself in 201., and two sureties in 101. each, to appear before the Ma gistrates on next Thursday. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazin,e the sums received on the principal Railways of, Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed, to each. The return includes the money received, for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and Ina chandize Week Miles Total. Name of Railway. ended Ope n e d ... £. s. d. _ • ._ _ _ . . Dec.ll Birmingham & Derby Janet. 381 1,000 310 10 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,324 15 9 5 Brandling Junction 25 • 795 3 3 11 Chester and Birkenhead .. 12 Dundee and Arbroath 12 Eastern Counties 11 .Glasgow and • Ayr .. 11. GlasgowiTaisley, & Greenoek 22/ 61)2 9 1 4 Grand Jhneti, Chester &Crevre 1031 6,589 17 4 13 Great .North of England 45 1,147 13 9 12 Great Western 11 Hull and Selby 11 Lancaster & Preston Junction 207 399 19 6 10 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 3,869 11 6 11 London and Birmingham...— ll2/ 13,410 19 9 16 London and Blackwell ...... 11 London and Brighton 11 Ditto Shoreham Branch ...••• 5 i 107 1 9 14 London and Croydon 16 Lnndon and Greenwich 3l 733 11 0 11 London and South Western 9 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 568 10 11 13 Manchester & Birmingham 11 Manchester and Leeds 11 Midland Counties . 11 Newcastle and Carlisle 604 1,406 0 1 12 Northern and Eastern ' 11 North Midland 10 North Union 11 Preston and Wyre l9l 19d 17 9 ... Sheffield and Manchester.-- 7 No returns 12 Ulster 13 York and North Midland 23 1,372 8 9 DEATH OF MR. CHARLES SCOTT, SON OF THE LATE SIR WALTER. We have received a letter from our Constantinople Correspondent, dated the 27th ult., of which we regret to communicate the following extract : " CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.—8 y a Tatar, bringing despdtches from Persia, intelligence has been received of the death, at Teheran, of Mr. Charles Scott, son of the late Sir Walter, and one of the clerks in the Foreign office, attached to Sir J. M`Neil's embassy. The fatigues of a long and irksome land journey, combined with pre vious indisposition, brought on a fever, which terminated fatally soon after the arrival of the mission at Teheran. This melancholy event, and the indisposition of the Elchi, had retarded the public reception of Sir John M'Neil. Major Farrant is on his road back from Persia, and Mr. Todd was residing awhile at Tabriz, in order to recover from the slight wound received in his encoun ter with a band of Kurdish robbers. General Dukamel, whose conduct towards the British' Government during the absence of the Ambassador, and the interruption of direct relations with the Court of Persia, has been equally honourable and frank, is about to leave Persia, where he will be replaced by Count Medem, late Russian Consul- General at - Alexandria. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE: CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 18.—An arrangement has this week been made with Mr. Baily, B. A., fir a statue of the late very Rev. James Wood, D.D., formerly Master of St. John's College, to be placed in the chapel of that Society. The figure, which will be in a sitting posture, will be of white marble and larger than life. We under stand that the sum of one thousand guineas ,has been agreed upon as the price, and that this sum will be raised by voluntary subscription among the members of the College. The Bishop of Ely's Fellowship at St. John's College, to which, it will be remembered, his Lordship resigned his right to nominate, leaving it open to public competi tion, has . been conferred upon A. M. Hopper, of'.Trinity College, (B. A. 1839 ,) now a tutor of Eton. There were six candidates. The Rev. Philip Anderson, 8.A., of Corpus Christi College, Curate of St. Peter's Church, Ashton-under- Lyne, has been appointed to be a Chaplain to the East India Company .at Bombay. • - The Rev. John Hollier Stephenson, M.A., formerly of Trinity College, has been presented to the Rectory of Corringham, Essex, void by the resignation of the Rev. Octavius Brock ; patron the heir of the late Rev. W. R. Stephenson. The Rev. Joseph W. Harden, M.A., formerly of St. John's College, has been presented to the Vicarage of Condover, Salop ; patron, E. W. S. Owen, Esq. • The Rev. A. G. Edouart, 8.A., formerly of St. John's College, in this -University rch , has Blackbur been n es— presented to the benefice of St. Paul's Chu, -patron, the Vicar of Blackburn. • Henry Mildred Birch, Scholar of King's College, has been elected a Fellow of that Society. The Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre, Speaker of the House of Commons, has recently been on a visit at Trinity Lodge. The Right Honourable Gentl his B.A. eman is a member of Trinity College, having taken degree in 1815. .................—...----- ____ TIVERTON MARKET, DEC. 14.—Corn much the same as last week.—Pannier —Turkeys, 4s to 6s each ; Geese, 3s Gd to 5s do ; Ducks, 3s to 4s per cou ple ; Fowls, 2s ad to 3s do ; Eggs, 14d p er dozen ; Butter, lld to is per lb ; Potatoes, 16 lb for Gd, 3s 6d to 4s Gd per bag of 8 score—supply good, demand moderate.—Shambles—Beef, sid to 7d per lb ; Mutton, 5d to 6d do ; Veal, Gd to 8d d o ; P or k, 51d to bid d o ; Dry Bacon, 8d do— su ppl y - good, and of very su p erior quality, demand good.—Cattle—This being our great market, and the one before Christmas, there was a full and very superior show of stock, indeed we may notice that it has not been surpassed fo'r a very long period , nor do we believe it will be equ a ll e d f or some time to come.— Western Times. .. PItICES OF CANAL,DOCK, ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY,. DEC. 17. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. Per ibares. Annum. Paid. Share t,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average 97l . lB s. ch. 101% 1,482 41. Ashby-de-la-Zouch ..... ATerage 1131.5 h. 72 4160 1,01,5 si!. Brecknock and Abergavenny lsol.sh. 92 P,OOO I-16th. 101 Birmingham, 1-16th share ...,Bfl. & 711. 200 I,l'oo ..... . .. Ditto 8, Li ve rpool Junct.l°ol. sh. 100 p 4 21 600 31.. Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. sh. all pi 400 51. Chelmer and Blackwater lOOl. eh . 105 500 321. Coventry 1601.5 h. SOO Croydon.• kverage3ll.2B.lod. sh . 2, 60 51. Os. Dudley 1001 . sh. 94 600 131. Derby lool.sh . 120 20,0‘;0 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd 36 3,5751 4 , Ellesmore and Chester Avrizge 139.'.51a. 75 231 621 Erewasn , ....1003.50. 735 ,21Y7 351. Forth Laid Clyde....Averagc 49o /. 16 s. b. 6 ; 0 11600 7s. Grand Junction 1001.50 111 2,:49j 255, 9rand Union 1001• sh 26 • ,400 •.... ..... Grand Surrey • 1001. sh. 15 1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. '6 Grand Western 600 131.12*. 9,1. GLinnrganibire, Aver. cost 172/. 133. O. 'l5O 749 lit. Gran:brit. lsol.sh. 9ao 6 138 2/. Os. Huddersfilld ....Average Oil. 6s. 6d. sh. 26 100 25.328 1/.los. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391. 18s. 10d. sh 22 11,6991 1/. 75. Lancaster Average 471. Cs. 8d 23 2,897; 301. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh 710 5451 111. Leicester 140/. st 150 ,897 5/.lls. Leicester & Nort'Aampton Aver S-31.10! 71% 2,109 101. Monmouthshire lOOl.Bl 200 958 101. Melton Mowbray ...... ..... ....... leash. 157 500 954 Mersey and Irwell ....... ........ lool.sh. 550 3,000 21. 10s. Macclestleld lOOl. sh. all pd 93 24.7 171. Neath IOO /.61.. 324 2.400 51. Peak Forest Avciuge about 781. sh. 72 I 418 S. ~ Regent's (or London) Av. 33/.165.8d. sh. 9 1,609 61. Rochdale Average 261.4 h. 65 500 81. Shropshire /251. sh. 137 800 101.08. Somerset Coal 3,600/. 41 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sb. 11 14 700 NV. Stafford and Worcester 1401.5 h. a& 530 151 Shrewsbury.... 1251. sh. 280 300 91. 3taurbridge.....-. is. 1451.5 h. 396 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon A ver....791. 9s. bd. sh. 35 539 1211 Swansea lool.sh. 265 3,762 21. 128. Severn and Wyc &Railway Av. 26/ 9s. sh. 45 2,6001 sh . 22/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, f share lOOl. sh. 501) 8.149 1 ,00 eh.] 161. Warwick and Birmingham ......1001.sh 250 980 13r. Warwick and Name,' 1001. sh. 117.. 7,000 41. Worcesicr & Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 55' 5,1100 36r. Wilts and Barks Average 671. 108.8 d. sb. 284 800 6s. Wy thy and Essington 1251. sh '74 26 W:socacn . ..... ....• : 05 11 Wey and Arun__ 1101. sn. 20 9 --- DOCKS. '2,600 & i 1,96565 h. p 3 .c. Commerc al ........ 1.001.5 h. 61 5 per cent. East and West India ,............. Stock 1023! 3,238,310!1. 3/. p. ct. London Stock 72) 2 Ditto Bonds 2,209 3/. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 14" i. 9s. sh • 75 68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB 352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 92 59C,0 0 9 4/ per cent. Ditto Bonds ... .. . 100% 109.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years ... Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 20/. pd 10 BRIDGES. 1,600 11. Hammersmiti. 501.5 h. 2134 1,231 Southwark, Old Av. 63!. 2s. Bd. sh. 35 2 1,700 1/. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7a per cent., 501.5 h. 15% e,OOO ... 5,000 225. OS, Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 601. pit 21 - 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. ... 4O/. pd IS 60,000/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Bonds go g 5,848 27s Vauxhall ........Average 701. 108. 3d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/10s Albion 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 72 50. m _.iu 1 6 Per cent./ . 1 .. and 1 5s. a nan ceßritish&Foreignlool.sll.lll. pd 13% 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 51. pd 4% 21,000 1/. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14 I,2ooish. 51. Birmingham k ire.. 250/. sh. 551. pd 10734 20,000 4/. percent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 5O/. ak. 51. pd 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Life, ICOL'sh.2llos pd , sli 4,000 310 s County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd IC 9,000 . 55. Eagle ~,, r 5 per centa 50/. sh. Si. pd 4% "'" /and 30/ bs.3 1000/. sh. 250/. pd 406 2,271 225. per cent. European Lin: 20/. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s, ' Ditto, New Economic Life `KIL sh. 2/. pd 1%, 1,000,000!. Cf. per ct Globe Stock 115 20,000 51. Guardian 30,000 4s. 01 Hope 50/.0. 51. pd 5% 2,400 51. 123. 6d. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 133 7,500 Its. Imperial Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd .11 13,459 5/. par cent. Indemnity Marine lOO/. sh. 8/. pd 29 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s. Law Life lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 31% 5,000 Ills. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 108. pd 18% 3,900 10s. London, Ship "5/. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18% 1.00 0 .00 0 /. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 25,000 5/. per cent. National Loan Fund...lo/. sh 2/. 104. pd 2% 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Life 5O/. sh. 21. pd 216 s 50,000 5/. per cent. Protector I,' f. "01. sh. 2/. pd 38s Od 1(1,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters .... IGO/. 5h.,51. pd 5 34 2,500 1/. Provident Lne 100/. sh. 10/. pd 20 200,660 4s. Od. Rock Life 89,220/ 51. per csnt. Royal Exchange Stock 110 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 8% 10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 734 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 A gric. andCian. of Ireland2sl. sh. 10/. pd 15,000 8 per cent. Australasia 'Ol. sh. 40/. pd 52% 10,008 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 50/. sh. 10/. pd 13 1.0,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 101. pd 13% 31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001 sh. 20/. pd 21% 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 501. sh. 10/. pd 12% .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster IOU sh. 20/. pd 30 25,000 10 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 124!. pd 18 34 50,000 7i percent Manchester and Liver ] .....ow.. sn . 151 pd 10) 2 pool District . 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOOl. sh. 101. pd 4% 20,000 8 pe: eent. Provincial Bank eflrelantllool. sh. 25/. psi 41 10,000 6i er cent National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 1741. pd 17% 10,000 6 per cent National Pray ~,cial Eng.loo/. sh. 351. pd 34% 10,000 Ditto New 104. sh. 101. pd 10 10,000 Gloucestershire 501. sh. 10/. pd 32 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O!. sh. M. pet 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 16s Od Bath 20!. sh. 161. pd 22 5,000 British AO/. sh. 161. pd 18 5/ Percent 5,000 I'. '1 Ditto Provincial 2Ol. sh. 191. pd 2434 and Bs. 6s. 929 51 lOs Birmingham 50!. sh. 96 1,250 210 s Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36 1,250 3/ 103 Brighton 2O/. sh. 13% 750 3/ 108 Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 18/. pd 9 1371 44 per cent. Brighton General 2Ol. sh. all pd 954 4,000 71. Ids. Continental Consolidated ....751. 621/.pd 110 1,000 101. City 01 London ~..100/. sh. all pd 195 1,000 ft. Ditto, New OU/. sh. 75/. pd 150 4,000 3/. Os. Equita ble 5Ol. pd 20 10,600 3/. per cent. Imperial 561. sh. 59 800 5/, per cent. Isle ni Thatiet 25/. sh. '2Ol. pd 1836 2,350 CL per cent. 1 ndependent 30/. sh. all r... 56 9,000 .4.l.:per Mt.'Phoenix 5Ol. eh. 391. pd 32 1,00(1 4/.,pgr cent.. Batclifl, lOOl. sh. 80/. pd 63 4,000 - South Metropolitan 5111. sh. - i3)6 1 . pd 18 9,000 5/.petisint: United General - 501. sh. 47/. pd 27 240 5!. per cent,. Warwick .......ksi.i.. . . ....-.......501. sh. 50 400 61. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3!. Westminster Chartered ..... sol.sh. 58 6,000 12s. - Ditto New 760 3 per cent. Yarmouth .......... ........... 20/. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 31s. Birmingham 25' sh. 25/. pd 21 4,433 71. East London 1001. sh. 102 5,500 21 15s. Grand Junction Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 55 2,000 2/. Kent 1001. sh. 51% 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3:25 1,500 2110 s New liver London Bridge Water Ann... 60 6,486 2/ 10s Manchester and Salford lOW. sh. 54 1,000 5 per cent. South Londoil . 1001. sh. 98 8,294 44/. West Middlesex Average 631. 1 12.. 9d. sh. 90 1,360 lil4. York Building Go. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 2/. Os. Birmingham and Derby .... ..... 100/ pd 47 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 'CO/. pd 65 15,00 11. 4s. Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 60 pd 28 7,500 ... ...... Cheltenham ,& G.Western 1001. sh. 72 x 4 2 .36 3,000 ......... Clarence 100!. sh. 1001 pd 20 8.000 Dublin and Drogheda 100/. sit. Si. pd 50.1106 Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231. pd 8% 10,000 Great North of England 100!. sh. 901. pd 66 10,918 13 percent. Grand Junction lOOl. eh. all pd 190 25, 00 3 per cent. Great Western 1001. sh. 651. pd 85 - 25,600 Ditto New 501. sh. LO/. pd 6014 6,000 5 per cent Gosport Junction.. 5Ol. sh. LOl. pd 55% 2.000 6 per cent. Hartlepool lea sh. 1001. pd 145% 8,000 Hull and Selby ...... ........501. sh. 501. pd 3834 2,100 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 6514 5,1110 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(.1.5h. 10040 199 N 7,9C.8 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 504 pd 90 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares '251. pd 45 36,000 London and Brighton SO/. sh. 501 pd 3936 94,000 10,000 9 per cent. London and Greenwich ...9.W. sk . 201. pd 614 25,000 8-1 per cent. London & Birmingham 100 1 . sh. 901 . pd 164 25,000 21. Os Ditto Quarter Shares -.254 sh. Si. pd 2331 31,250 Dit o New Shares .324 sh. 321. pd 55 36,000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381,175. 9d. 5734 93,60 0 New Scrip.... 11 13,000 5; per cent, Manchester and Lee 5...1004 sh. 704 pd 6514 0,000 ..• Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. '251. pd 27% 10,000 M a nchester and Birmingham 701.5 h. 40!. 29% Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2N 10,000 24 It s. Midland Counties 'OO4 sh. 1001. pd 85 15,000 N. 09. North Midland ......... 1.01. sh. 1001 pd 72 11.103, Ditto New 40/. pd 3114 10, .2:6 ..... .... Northern and Eastern.... 50/. sh 35/. pd 23% ',600 Preston and Wyre .... ..... 504 sh 30/. pd 36 38000 ......... south Eastern and Rover ...... ... 38 /. pd 20 j7 O OO 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IOIV. sh. 265 9 :000 ..... .... Thames Haven 501. eh 61. Pd 6.000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501. pd 90 MINES. 8,000 ... .. ... Albion Copper 51. e h. 21/. p 4 12 4,060 11. ss. Alton l5l. sh 12/. it apd 10 10,000 ... Anglo Mcxican,iss. 51. pm.lool. eh. al 'pd 1 34 Ditto Subscription 251 mi 1% 2,060 101 . Bolanos , 1 5 0 1. sh all m 1 35 10000 IL 1,03 Brazilianlmp. isg. 5/. pm 35/.5h.20/. pd 5 6,000 11,0 00 Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 141. pd lai 10000 ... 10,00..»•»» Ditto Scrip lOl. sh. 10/. pd .2 ' .. 20 , 000 ......... British Iron ... ...... . . .:.....1001. sh. 601 pd 0.03 ..«••••• British Copper ....... 5/. sh. 4il. pd 11)f, - ........ CAI Branca 6ll. pd 6% Candonga ... 1 t ( 4 0 0 7 ... li Columbian, E C g P i ia 2.350 31. .. .....14/. a. pd 2 20,00 0 ......... Genoral MiningAssociatcon2oi.sh.lB/. pd .114 6,155 ..... .... Mexican Company lOW. sh. 61,1 pd SAN . • ....... Polberou Consols . lOl. sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered 2 Ditto Loan Notes 150/. pd 160 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm. 401. eh. all pd Dam Scrip l% Ditto New Scrip 41 p 4 3 ' . West Cork ..... ••••••••••• ..... 501. sh 50/• pd 3d LITERARY 1 NSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,5410 London University ...... ...1001.sh. all p 4 7 .00 King' College lOOl. 19)4 MISCELLANEOUS. 10, VI 151. Australian Agricultural.loo/. sh. 28/. pd 99 6,300 1. per cent. British American Land Company 351/. pd 9 10,000' 61. per cent. Canada Company... ..... ,1001. sh. 321/. pd 28 10,060 51, per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 par cent lOO 20,000 11. Os. GeneralSteiun Navigation 151., h. 141. pd 24U 10/.per cant. Hudson's Bay Stock 'OOB u, London Corn. Sale Rooms ....Av. 751. sh 19% 000 ......... Caoutchoue Company ant. pd 12% New Brunswick Land Cornp.tAy...sol. pd 1 4 2 2,154 51. per cent. Re versionar y Int. 50c ... 100 /. A. 1001. pd 92% 2,03:1 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100 t. pd 107 4.0041 Thames Tunnel ..,501. sh. all pd 10 10,060 6e. Van Die.nen's Land.... 100/. sh. 141. pd 734 LIST (11 SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES DEC. 11, 1841. BANKS. 1„000,000t Bhp. Ct. Bank ot Scotland...B3/. be. Bd. s h, a ll p d 156 8,000,00(, et. p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 15134 500.000(, 81. p. ct. British Linen Com p an y... loo /4h. 411 pd 210 500,000/. 61 p. et. Commercial .3001.1h.1001. pd 165 500,0604 Iw, ct. National lOO/. sh. 101. pd 14 500,0001. 81. p. ct. Glasgow Union ........... sh. 50/. pd 84 1 000 ) 0601 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 40/. pd 71 . • ' INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250,0005 h. alp. ct. Scottish Union ...............201. sh. 11. pd 255.0 d. 7,500 10 p. et. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 13 100000 10 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .10/. h. all lid 9U 50,000 10 p. ct. North British 2001. ad. 101. pd 17% 1,000 10 p. ct. Caledonian ....... lOO4 sh. 104 pd 20 moo 10 p. ct. Edinburgh Life , sh. 104 pet 15 100,000 p. ct. West of Scotland:. ........ 104 d • id ISC ELLAN.E O U . P 4 818 Edt and lilac , . UTl4..c.Fralsll/;sh. all pd lo Dft WAllobAted 961. sh. all p d 46 425,40( f 4 per cen't'.gdi to: JOint St oeU o Vater 44/. p 3 , I.ooosh 24 per cent . Shati4r4n 0unacrv......501.1h 48/ pd 40 0,000, zeta. Ecliutauqh 4 Leith G lass.2ol. eh. 16/. pd 3% 4,500 10 per cent. Edinhurgh Coal Gas ...... —25/. sh. all pd 44 4,450 10 pm tight. 6-fasgow' Otto ..... . . eh. all pd 52 750 7h per cent-14)14h Coal G4e all 21 1,144 Edi n burgh ann I)alkeith tlailway 501.th 14 30 WOOD PAVEMENTB.—The severe frost now set in, has .rendered the roads in the metropolis and neighbourhood, , exceedingly dangerous. This danger is naturally increased in proportion to the uniformity of surface ; so that on the best Macadamised roads, and the most perfect of the stone-paved streets, the greater number of accidents occur. We observe that the wood parings laid in various parts of London, by the Metro politan Company, are strewed with sand, a provisi on which appears to be peculiar to their system, and worthy of TIM SUN LONDON, 1VIONI)At, f Eli, . ro, 1841 LONDON CYMREIGYDDIO N SOVIET Y. The forty-sixth anniversary of the London CytnreigYd inst., at Dolly's Chophouse,; dion (Welsh Literary S oc i ety ) was ce l e b ra t e don the 16th Mr. John Williams, of the firm of Williams and. Hatton, Regent Circus, in the chair, supported by upw ar d s o f one h undre d A nc i en t Briton s . The objects of the Society being to perpetuate the An cient British tongue, arid the customs of Wales; the pecu liar mode of singing called "Pennillion," appeared ;to af ford great entertainment to the company; and im promptus of one of the bards (Sam o Von) after each toast reminded one stror.gly of the effects stated to have been produced in days of yore by the effusiods of :‘the minstrels, when their countrymen congregate 4 to con tend for hearth and home. Had the' Baid:and Harper been greybeards, instead of being in the ptime.of life, the picture would have been perfect, and welnight.have fan cied ourselves spectators of scenes enacted a thousand years since. _ _ After her Majesty's-health had been drunk with all the honours, the CHAIRMAN observed, that as that was the first meeting of Welshmen in the Metropolis since the creation of the Prince of Wales, he had great pleasure in proposing his health with nine times nine, but he (the Chairman) could not help reiiarking that his education would not be complete until he had kerne(' the language of the place whence he derived his title. The sound of it, at all events, he should hear, as, according to prece dent, when he arrives at a proper age, the address that will be presented will be in that language, and the Chairman hoped that there would be no necessity fOr. an interpreter. In proposing the health of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Kent, and the rest of the Royal Family, the Chairman observed, that if the same care were taken in the bringing up of the Heir Apparent as there had been in the case of hor Majesty, we should have every reason to be proud of our Prince. Mr. HUGH WILLIAMS was 'Called:mon to,PF9pose the .by ,- next toast, which was , " O ea v i'r OYmraeg," the age of the world t o th e W e l s h language. ,The sentiment he had to propose, he would give inost .r eprdially. The Man who possessed no national feelings' was, in his opinion, unworthy th e name. Coniquete ad4l4lA gene rally.inerged into those of the: conquerors, .and at the present day could not pronounce whether the Eng lish owed' most of their charaeteristici to. their British, Belgic, Saxon, Danish, or N orn i an 'iineesiors . ; bitt the Welsh have retained their language and habits amongst their fastnesses, and it would be a hopeless task to, at tempt to eradicate the former, when it has now a press enlisted in its aid, and a nation of literary rustics to support it. Injuries have been, endured patiently, but their countrymen now well knew their rights, and they would assert them; more particularly when they were sup ported by such assemblages as he then saw before him: Their countrymen would soon ha 4 an opportunity'of worshipping God according to the forms of the Esta blished Church, in the accents first enunciated by them. Mr. 0. W. THOMAS, in proposing the healths of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland and the patrons of the Society, stated, that though the Duke was not a Welshman, yet. 'he was nearly allied to some of the best families in Wales, and this Society was much in debted to him for his liberal support of their exertions in promoting the literature of their country. The en thusiasm of the ordinary'Membera solely could not enable them to carry out their intentions into full effect, one means being the offering pecuniary rewards forthe best literary productions -in the language of their forefathers, and the publication of useful works, which was often at tended with considerable loss to the Society. Their ef forts were directed to the promotion of the best interests of 'at least seven hundred thousand of her Majesty's .sub jects, who wert, , unable to avail themselves of the stores 'of knowledge contained in the English language, and to excith the genius of their countrymen by emulation, and to diffuse the means of enlightenment generally. They had been seconded in-particular by Dr.. Lewis, the , Rev. Mr. Llewelyn, Mr. T. Edwards, and Mr. William Morgan, the latter of whom was seldom absent from their meetings ; and he regretted much that family affliction had caused an exception- that night. The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Hon. E. M. GI. Mostyn (who, as usual, . had furnished a liber a l supply of venison for the occasion), and the Gentry of Wales. The VICE-CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Ladies Hall and Guest, and the Patronesses of the cus toms and literature of \Vales. Mr. Wri. THOMAS, the Secretary, then observed that it was with some degree of regret that he rose to inter rupt the hilarity of their proceedings, but the duty that then devolved upon him had seldom if ever been ne glected in that Society. At their last, their forty-fifth anniversary, their venerable founder was amongst them, whom he often with a sigh designated his undutiful children, but now his seat was vacant, and he was gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns, and he (the Secretary) could do no • less than add his name to those whose memories they had been in the habit of paying a mark of their respect to on former, oc casions. He would notdetain them by dilating upon the ob ligations laid upon Welshmen by those whom lie would presently name. 'Suffice it for him to say, that as long as their aspirations for ‘. Oes y byd i'r. Gyinraeg i " were not disappointed (if he might be allowed the expression), so long would the fame of Owen Jones (Myfyr), Dr. W. 0. Pughe, J. H. Parry, and, as the founder of, that Society and contributor to Welsh literature, might be added the name of: poor Thomas Roberts, of Llwynrhy dol, last. Even were the language itself dx . .tinct, the monuments raised by the. abours of those named would be referred 'to `and admired so long as true learning ex isted in England.—(Drunk in solemn silence.) _ . 1)r. LEwts, in proposing the health of the Bishop of St. David's and the Welsh - clergy, observed, That they had certainly ,been indebted to the dignitaries of the Church for ,a translation of the Bible, but they were, natives, and since that time he was sorry to observe his countrymen had been laid under but few obligations to the Established Church, and had been under the neces sityof providing %Church for themselves. A brighter prospect, however, at the present time appeared before them.. The Bishop of St. David's had enrolled himself a member of that Society upwar d s of a twelvemonth since, and it was admitted by all that he spoke their lan guage as well as Any native. They cared not where a man was born, so long as he was competent to discharge the duties of bis oliiice. Eternal rewards and punishment had been, iii*lxed to his poor countrymen in a language of which they understood not a single word, and though there had been seldom occasion, some had been sen tenced to death by Judges who could not utter an ex preSsion that was intelligible to the criminal. The in defatigable exertions of that Society were producing a better state of things, and they were anxious to do honour to those who deserved it. , , Mr. G. THOMAS then P;Posed the health of the Rev. Wm. Morgan, of*olyhea,thfand the Honorary Member, in a highly cornplifilePßra' speech. Other toasts were drank, amongst which w ffff at of the Chairman, most enthusiastically, for his MNcalPut conduct in the chair, as well as for his desire on 7. 11 - ~:eaccasions to promote the in terests of his fellow-country without regard to per sonal sacrifices. WOOLWICH, DEC. 17. ROYAL ARTILLERY. Lieut.-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B. and G.C.IL, has joined from leave, and assumed the command of the garrison. Upwards of forty non - commissioned officers and men deemed unfit for further service, were brought before a medical board, at the Ordnance Hospital, on Wednesday, for examination relative to their state of health. The Regiment still continues much below the esta blishment, notwithstanding that a considerable number of recruits have joined during the \ present month. Captain Cuppage's company, 9th battalion, relieved the detachments at the Tower, on Thursday. Capt. Bing ham, and Lieut. Graham, accompanied the detachment. Major Rayne's company, 2d battalion, and Major Vaughan's company, 6th battalion, were inspected at the Hospital, preparatory to being completed for' field battery service. The inspection of the former "took place on Tuesday, and the latter on Wednesday last.„.`': Lieutenant-Colonels Sinclair and Stopford, it is said, contemplate retiring on full pay. ThiS will lead to the vacancy of another Adjutancy, that .of the 3d battalion, and it is expected Captain Mitchell will succeed to this appointment. , • • - Several proofs of ordnance have taken ,placp in the Royal Arsenal during the week. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE: Captain Phipps Hornby, C. 8., Superintendent of het Majesty's Dock-yard, Wo o l w i c h, h as been appointed Surveyor-General of the Coast Guard, vice Bowles, pro=, motod to be a flag officer. The Acheron steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander A. Kennedy, recently returned from the Mediterranean, will lie paid off at Woolwich on Thursday next. The Devastation steam-frigate.—Commander Hastings Reginald Henry has been completely restored to health, and proceeded this morning for town, from whence he will in a few days take his departure to join his vessel on the Mediterranean station. _ The Growler steam-frigate is still at Limehouse, and the following officers have been appointed to her:—Lieu tenant W. S. Sanders ; Mr. John Tucker, Master ; Mr. J. Milner, Purser ; Mr. John Rose, Acting Gunner ; Mr. J. Gouldsworthy, Acting Boatswain ; Mr. J. Tucker, Acting Carpenter, The Mastiff', 6, surveying vessel.—Assistant-Surgeon J. Macbean has been promoted to be Surgeon, and re • appointed to the Mastiff. The Lightning steam-vessel, Mr. G. 11. T. Bower has been appointed Second Mate, vice Tucker, promoted. Ll4O Y D'S SHIPPING DEC. 18.—Wind this day at noon westerly. Arrd. from the River, Antigua South bear. Eliza and Lydford, Gre 141')Ee, 17.—Wind W. to N.W.—Arrd. Kitty, Egbert, Mont seßenson,rpLretNA. Dl'Sid. packet,for Barbadoes; Charles, Tobago; nada. Remain Belle Creole, and the rest of the outward bound, • ~,, ,„ , OFF MARCA.TE, DEC. 17.—Mary, for London. Thomas Hughes, Compton; LIVERPOOLi DEC: 17.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Warringsford, Digbp, , Monte • Video, sailed September 1 Portland, and Clyde, 27; Alice, Brooks,' Buenos Ayres, sailed Oct. 8; Alice Joe, Jackson, Laguna; Alham o b r r k. , Quebec. Ski. been ashore on the Neweomb Calcutta. Put back, Pursuit, Spence, New Orleans. leans; Mary yßAirintrie,lap;uan,tsexprac;rwta York. W Ar ii r s doff, Ne S w ant O On r- , DOVER, DEC. 17.—Arrd. the Crab, ShiMs for Gal ehAvs;in-for the West Indies. Gal way, i ve .A ry n ' n le a, ak s y h ,i SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 17—Arrd. the Oriental steamer, Alexandria. Sld. the Forth steamer, for Havannah. .• . COWES, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Mountaineer,. Quebec; Yes; pasian, Batavia ; Mario, Hamburgh, for Port-au-Prince. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—Wind W.N.W,---Arrd. 4,lex andria, Shields, for Constantinople. Tc-'94T.IppROTF, DEc. Ill. — Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.- Sid, 'her Majesty's ship Belvidere, Medit erran kiiih e Alma, from Hamburgh for Batavia, ha s eo i tA d3iiii6 e harbour with mainmast sprung. . . :, q ,-,; L ,_ . ~~: . ~.~~ ARBROATH -DEFEAT OF THE NON-INTRUSIONISTS. (Abridged from the Arbroath Journal.) On Wednesday evening last, the good citizens of Arbroath evinced their respect for order and the laws of the land, by giving the coup de grace to what is termed the Non-Intrusion principle. A meeting, in order to form what they call " A Church-Defence As sociation," had been previously announced ; and as it was understood that Mr. Cunningham and Mr. M. Crichton %sere to figure on the occasion, the house presented the appearance of what, in theatrical lan guage, is termed " a bumper." Mr. Charles Wilson, merchant, of this place, having been called to the Chair, the proceedings commenced by a psalm being sung, and an impressive prayer offered up by the Rev. Mr. Kirk, of Arbirlot. The Rev. Mr. Wilson, of Carmylie, in a brief speech, then moved the first re solution. No sooner had Mr. Wilson finished, than up rose a working man of the name of Thomson, who informed the audience that be had an amendment to propose • at the same time insisting upon his ri g ht t o b e heard. It was at this period of the proceedings that the storm commenced, which continued less or more during the entire evening. During the noisy agitation atten dant on the question " Hear him, or not bear him," a till good-looking gentleman, with a pleasant expres sion of countenance, and a bountiful supply of whiskers, appeared on the scene. He sported a blue coat, with some sort of uniform button, and the general impression appeared to be thut he was some officer of the Coast Guard employed on the Church-defence service. It turned out, however, to be that far-famed agitator, Mr. Makgill Chrichton, the most important link in the tail of the Rev. Mr. Cunningham ; and to this tall 'un, we may add, were the audience indebted for the principal portion of the entertainment during the rest of the evening. Mr. M. C. (who, in reply to the question, " Who are you ?" told us he was one of the greatest agitators in Scotland) stated that, according to the plan laid down, each one ought to be heard in his turn, and that, as soon as the parties who had been fixed on first to address the meeting Lad concluded, it was his earnest wish that these who had counter-motions should be heard also. As for himself (Mr. M. C.) all he wished was for a fair field and no favour." 'These re marks did not appear to be relished by Thomson's supporters, who now set up a terrific hooting and hissing ; indeed, such was the uproar, that bad not Thomson himself entreated his friends to desist, we questiciti"it another speech would have been deli vered,Ataring the evening. A temporary calm having taken plane, the principal performer, the Rev. Mr. Cunningbarre on whom, to all appearance, the heavy business of the evening had devolved, now showed his portly person upon the platform. Yells, cheers, hisses, and applause, were immediately renewed, with a vehemence we believe never before wit nessed in the Old Kirk. Occasionally a lull in the storm was to be remarked, but in consequence of the uproar that prevailed, the somewhat subdued tone of voice in which the Rev. Gentleman spoke, and, above all, the unconnected nature of his speech, which he as suredly could not have prepared, we found it utterly im possible to come at the drift of his arguments. On Mr. Chrichton coming forward, a tremendous howling, roaring, and whistling commenced. In vain he at tempted to speak—bellow after bellow drowned his voice—and for a time the people appeared as deaf to his eloquence as if, instead of them, it had been the steeple he was addressing. After a few ineffectual at tempts to make himself heard, Mr. James Gibson, tan ner, of this place, stepped forward, *and stated that, though decidedly opposed to Mr. Chrichton on the Church question, he trusted that the audience would give the gentleman a fair hearing, all parties being ens titled to state their case, and defend it if they could AIN G.'s observations partially appeared the audience : but, during the whole time Mr. Crichton spoke, and which he did at great length, there was much interrup tion. Mr. Thomson, the Chartist, than advanced to the platform, and, after prefacing his amendment by a few observation., proposed it, and gave way to Mr. John Duncan, the well-known advocate of what is called the People's Charter. Mr. D. who seemed evidently to be in great favour with his party, made a long speech, in which he combated the arguments brought forward by Messrs. Cunningham and Crichton, and endeavoured to show that the Non-Intrusion for which they strug gled was founded upon erroneous principles, and that so long as they were a State clergy and a law Church, they had no right to agitate the question in the way they were doing. Mr. D. proposed also an amend ment on the resolutions, to the effect, " that there being neither honour nor honesty among the Non-Intrusion leaders, this meeting do not consider the cause they ad vocate worthy of support, it being unjust to make peo ple pay for churches they never enter, and ministers they never Lear." Mr. Duncan was succeeded by Mr. Ross, the Chartist preacher of this place, whose arguments and sentiments were nearly similar to those of Mr. D. He also proposed an amendment. Mr. R. was loudly cheered by his friends, who seemed to have mustered in considerable numbers. There being three amendments, it was agreed that Mr. Ross and Mr. Thomson should with draw theirs, which having been done, a show of hands was taken for the resolutions and the amendment, when the latter was carried by an overwhelming majority! Thanks were afterwards proposed by Mr. Duncan to the Chairman for his impartial conduct in the'chair, which having been seconded by Mr. M. M. Crichton, was unanimously agreed to. We never beheld a man so completely dum-foun dered as Mr. Cunningham and his party. The defeat was so thorough, so annihilating, and, we may say, to them so unexpected, that for a time they could hardly believe the evidence of• their own senses. For a few minutes they sat in silence after their discomfiture, but surely by no means personifications of " Patience smil ing at grief." Mr. Crichton observed, by way of com fort to the afflicted, that had the ladies but held up their hands his party would have had a decided vic tory. Let us tell Mr. C. that he knows as little of the sentiments of the majority of the Arbroath ladies as he does of those of Cochin China. The remark was an exceedingly unfortunate one, and called for peals of laughter. THE SCOTCH HERD LADDIE ; OR, THE UNJUST STEWARD. (WRITTEN EXPRESSLY FOR " CLEAVE'S GAZETTE," BY DAVID WRIGHT, ABERDEEN.) FOUNDED ON FACT. It was a fine summer morning, about the middle of July, 1790, that Jock, the Herd, took the road to a certain castle in the north of Scotland. When Jock set out he was in high spirits, for he bad received a good " whang o' butter and bread" from his mis-. tress, or, as Jock called her, the good wife ; his calf likewise jogged on before him at a goad pace, the birds whistled around him, and all seemed to go right. But, towards the end of the journey, the calf became obstinate, and would scarcely move a single foot, and at last it stopped, and, in spite of Jock's coaxing, his threats, and blows, it refused to move an inch. In this dilemma Jock stood gazing about in search of assistance, and at last he espied a plainly dressed man coming slowly towards him, at a good distance off ; but Jock was not to be de feated by the distance, so he took off his bonnet and waved it over his head, and cried, at the top of his voice, till at length he succeeded in attracting the attention of the stranger, who, thinking that something serious had happened, came running at the top of his speed. But judge his surprise, on arriving at the spot, when he only beheld Jock and the calf. The stranger, however, kept his humour, and very good-naturedly asked Jock what he wanted with him. " Well," said Jock, "ye see this beast winna gang a single step, an' I maun be at the castle afore nine o'clock, an' I'se waren it's na far fae't, an' sae if ye wid help me to the gate wi't, I'se gie ye half o' fat I get frae the laird ; an' your expeckin' something worth the gai'n for." To this the stranger at once agreed ; and, having appointed the place where they were to meet and share the spoil, the stranger took up the calf in his oxter (as Jock said when relating the story at home), and pro ceeded to the castle gate, and there deposited it. While Jock went to inform the inmates, the stranger proceeded to the appointed place of meeting. In a few minutes Jock came running to the plac e " gladness in his l oo k s ," an d some thi ng b e tt er in his bonnet. " See man ! see man I" said Jock, " I've come better on than I expeckit ; see fat I've gotten."—(Here Jock held out his bonnet, well filled with pieces of bread, beef, and cheese, and a shilling in his hand.) " But (continued Jock), as I made the bar gain ye, I'll gie ye half o' " Oh 1 you little rogue," said the stranger, "is that all you got ? I doubt you are playing a trick on me, for I was thinking to get five or six shillings for my share.' " Faith," said Jock, " I think its nae that ill ; how ever, I didna see the laird himser, or may be I might ha' gotten mair." "I don't believe a word of what you have said," said the stranger, " and therefore I insist that you must come back to the house and satisfy me on the subject. ' " Na ! na!" said Jock, " that will be our greedy like ; ye ken my mister pays me my wages, an' I've naething a dee rvi' mair ; but ye can gang an' speer at the stewart yoursel' if you dinna believe me." To this the stranger agreed, upon condition that Jock would accompany him. This Jock at first re fused to do; but at last he consented ; so i n th ey both went. The steward was immediately called, who ap. proached the stranger with a low bow, f or th e stranger now turned out to be the laird himself. " Steward," said the laird w .. i ith a frow n , " gave you a guinea for this lad ; how is t • you only gave hi m a shilling ?" Aye, but he gid .me . a' this b rea d , an ' beef, an' cheese," said Jock, presentmg his bonnet. The steward, however, made no reply, but hung down his bead in silence. " Steward," said the laird, drawing his purse, " there is your wages ; pack up y our clothes ; leave this castle immediately, and learn elsewhere to become an honest sans" It appears that when the laird left Jock be entered his own room by a private doer, gave the steward the guinea, and proceeded to the waiting place. After this the laird took Jock under his protection, sent him to school, treated him as a friend, and when he died, left Jock full heir to his lands and castle, in which Jock lived loved by the poor and respected by the rich. It was on a cold, stormy, winter's evening, a few years after Jock became laird of the castle, that a poor old man was brought to the castle almost smothered by the snow, and unable to speak or move. Jock, the laird, immediately ordered him to be taken proper care of, which the servants did, and soon restored him so much that he was able to speak, and to sit up before the fire ; bat he was apparently faint, and about to die. The old man, as soon as be could speak, desired to see the laird ; and when he was brought before him, he told him that be had wronged him at a former period, that he came to ask his forgiveness before he died ; and he revealed himself as the steward who had lived with the former master, who had given him the shil ling instead of the guinea. The laird assured him that he had pardoned him with heart and soul, and ordered him to be provided with a bed for the night, to which he was soon shown, and it was the very bed where he had so often slept as steward to the former master. In the morning the servant; were ordered to pay atten tion to the old man ; but, what was their astonish ment when, on entering his room, they discovered that he was dead. The laird ordered preparations to be made for his funeral, and he was buried beside the grave of his late master. Jock still lives as the laird of the castle, and he is still known to the surrounding peasantry by the name of the Herd Laddie. Aberdeen, Dec. 2, 1841. CHURCH-RATE DEFEATED, (From the Leeds Times of Dec. 18.) The Vicar had a very large congregation yesterday. He then saw something in the Cloth Hall-yard, which he never saw before in Leeds. There were about 10,000 individuals there, belonging to his " cure of souls," who came expressly on purpose to hold up their hands against a Church-rate. Probably the Vicar never saw one-tenth part of this congregation since he first commenced his ministrations among us ; and probably there were very many there also who never saw the Apostle whom the State and the Pious Use trustees had seen meet to place over this portion of the ecclesisstical vineyard. To do the Vicar justice, he conducted the proceedings in a fair, honest, and upright manner ; and, to do the 10,000 con gregation justice, they also did their duty in a manner beyond all praise —they refused with one unanimous voice the Established Church-rate. The results of this meeting, probably one of the largest ever held in England on any similar subject, ought for ever to put an end to the imposition of Church-rates in Leeds. There was every appearance of settled deter mination on the part of that ♦ast multitude to resist the imposts of the Church, under whatever form they are attempted to be imposed. And what has the Church done for the people, that they should pay it the 17,000 L tribute that was proposed ? Has it ever been on the side of popular rights and privileges ; has it educated, fed, and attended to the interests of the poor ? Has it not, on the other hand, been an abettor of slavery, political, social, and religious, since ever it was established ? Op posed to education, opposed to enfranchisement, op posed to liberty of opinion, opposed to peace, opposed to the progress of human freedom ? The people owe no thing to the Church ; it has done nothing for them, but every thing it could against them. No wonder that ten thousand rate-payers, belonging to the industrious classes of Lee 6, should hold up their hands against an Esta blished Church-rate ! The behaviour of the meeting was most orderly throughout ; and to this, the Vicar himself bore his cor dial testimony. Excepting a few cries which we now and then heard, while the Vicar was speaking, of " Hear the Church," and " What salary do'st thou get, lad," &c., there was the utmost deference and respect paid to him. The only thing to be regretted in the course of the proceedings was, that the meeting would not listen to one word that Mr. Edward Baines had got to say to them. As the " organ of the Dissenters," the meet ing should have listened to Mr. Baines ; probably he was about to prove to them the necessity of doing some thing or other; and not unlikely he would have attempted to show that Dissenters could have no conscientious objec tions to granting an additional freehold to the Established Church. As it was, the "organ of the Dissenters," re mained unheard. And now that this attempt to impose a Church-rate has been so summarily defeated, we trust that the inha bitants of Leeds will lose no time in taking the proper steps to provide a public burying-ground in Leeds, which is so unquestionably needed for the accommodation of the dead. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH• TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln your Paper, The Sun, November 30, you favour us with a letter from a venerable clergyman in his eightieth year. He names the manner in which he spent the twelve first years of his ministry in studies connected with prepa rations for the pulpit. He adds, that in the middle periods of his course he had somewhat remitted those studies; but latterly, on giving a calm revision of his former compositions, he had made a discovery--yea, a discovery when full of wisdom, full of days, and mature in experience, that the observation of a Christian Sabbath forms no part of the Christian Scriptures 111 This letter may, perhaps, strike use more than another, because I am of the same age with that venerable man, and have been from youth en gaged in the same ministry, and, being favoured with health, have known no remission of inces sant labours. Neither have I changed my eredenda. I think St. Paul, having laid down the Christian faith in the first chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, cautions them against any such change, because the Lord never changes; Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to day, and for ever. He glories to say, in hoary age, " I have kept the faith." As to the Christian Sabbath, I am very much astonished that so venerable a man should not be able to find it in the New Testament. On the day of the Saviour's resurrection, we read, John xx, 19, " At evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst." So Luke xxiv. The two disciples returning from Emmaus, found the Apostles assembled " with others :" a congregation assembled for devotion. " After eight days, again his disciples were with in, and Thomas was with them ; then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst." John xx, 26. The phrase " after eight days" emphatically designates the Sabbath. Again : " On the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them." Acts xx., 7. Here is the Christian Sabbath connected with the regular worship of the Lord. It is the same Lord who directed his disciples " to pray, that their flight (from the Roman armies) might not be in the winter; neither on the Sabbath day." It is the same Paul that says, " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." What more can we ask of the certainty of a Christian Sabbath in the New Testament ? As to the manner in which the Christian Sab bath was observed, we have brief testimonials in the first age. St. Ignatius, in his Epistle to the Magnesians, says—ihr i xEri ay craCg'oc-qcuu , EY id 32 ixwc, &c. , &c. ; Nc igitur amplius sabba urn ugernus Judaice, &c.; he adds, that the Christians spent their Sabbath spiritually, in reading, meditation, and rejoicing—for those who love Christ love the day of his resurrection ; they love it as the Queen and Princess of all other days—in which Christ, who is our life, arose victoriously from the dead, Other testi monies follow in Justin Martyr's Dialogues with Trypho, the Jew. Edit. Rob.' - p Steph., . 38, 39. They were, like St. John, "In the Spirit on the Lord's Day." . ~ Our aged clergyman, as it would seem, quotes Paul against Paul, Col. ii., 16, 17 i$ " Let no m an, therefore, judge you in meat or n drink, or ih respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or o f the Sabbath day, which are a shadow of thing i has super se d e d to come." Christ having spoiled Prineipartl •-8 les the Cross Croisirstian is no l onger under the ce remonialanclPowecrO n d s o e. The l beggarly elements, many of which were " a ,, pended to the .Sabbath of which i abbath of the Lord, P is said, Thou shalt do no manner of t The controversy about the Sabbath work.:' renewed by a certain clas s o f m Day, e ver or secretly deny the Son of Dian who o p en l y of the Sabbath," have all beenlan to be Lord their subtleties and re finements,answered in all conclusive manne r; instead of and in the most of weeping over our of that present desecrations hol awful contrast w i t h the y day, forming an Christians, i n all e manners of the primitive Sabbath they the pr o fli gacy o f a L on don philosophy which leaves apparently exult in that kind of the human-kind in all the miseries of the Fall. Th e h o ly Propliets,•fore g glory of the Christian Sabbath, have . put their seal to hallowed d the verity and sanctity of that ay. The moral law of the Sabbath can no more be b a rogated than the precept " Thou shalt d o no murder." The Lord promises the Eunuch that takes hold of his covenant to keep his Sabbaths, a name better than that of sons and daughters. Chap : lvi. This promise comprises eternal life. Again : "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath not doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shall honour him, not doing thy own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor speaking thy own words, then thou shalt delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of J a cob thy father." Chap. lviii., 3. "Ad it shall come to pass—from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh," the Gentile world, " come and worship before me." Heb. vi., 17. " For there remaineth a rest (a Sabbath) for the people of God." Heb. iv., 9. ' Mons. Neckar, the late financier of France, on the importance of religious opinions" remarks ' justly, that it is impolicy in the poor to work on MORNING SUN the Sabbath day, for they have always been op pressed; and if it should 'happen that the Sab bath should be lost, they would then have to work as hard seven days in the week as they now work six, and still remain in the same abject state of Poverty and depression. By conse quence, the amen that work on the Sabbath day are as much the enemies of other labourers as those that work for under wages. Bayswater, Dec. 13. J. S. THE DERBY.—Mr. Maher has sold Bailin keel° to Mr. Dixon, of Knightsbridge, for 2,000 guineas; Policy and The Golden Rule, late Honest John, have been sold to Mr. Forth for some time. The Duke de Nemours has returned to Paris, after a tour of six weeks, during which his Roy a l High ness has inspe c t e d th e four new regiments of Hussars, at Verdun, Fontainebleau, Versailles, and Vendome. The Independent of Brussels mentions that Captain Pirson, formerly Attache of the Relgian Lega tion at Constantinople, has set out for Texas on a diplo matic mission. LARGE POTATO.—A potato of the Orange species was raised this season by Mr. Eben Earl, of Mohan Ridge, Cairo, New York, weighing 3lbs. 140 z., plump.; _ CORN-LAws.--Mr. Richard Taylor, of the City, desirous, at a time when a crusade against the Corn-laws is general, of contributing hi s part towards the statements which exhibit their gross fallacy and stretched effects, has published a letter, which he has just received from a correspondent, engaged in extensive business at one of the principal sea-ports of France, and addressed it to the inhabitant householders of the Ward of Farringdon Without, for the purpose of pressing an additional proof upon their notice of the devastation they occasion at the time when the annual election of their representatives in Common Council occurs. The subsequent paragraph, which we extract from it, exhi bits the operation of the monopoly laws in a strong light :—" From this port we have been sending you an enormous quantity of wheat, but how stupidly you go to market ! When you could buy it advantageously, you cannot import it. Then all on a sudden you come into, the market, and, buying one against the other, like mad men, raise the price to double what you might have hail it for. Ido not exaggerate, for the price has been thus advanced within a short time from 18 francs tea 4 4 :0 francs per charge. And this is not the whole of the folly. You want all this mass conveyed in the shortest possible time, to accomplish which ships are engaged at any price, and you have paid 8 francs per quarter freight instead of 31 to 4 francs. You give yourselves no chance of our taking iron, coals, copper, tin, or manufactured goods in payment ; for we arc not disposed to buy like madmen, because you do. You must therefore pay in cash. This will cripple you, and do more harm to those suffering from want of employ than our corn will do them good ; for after all it will be dear bread which you have bought for them, when you might with less trouble have had cheap bread, and orders for goods instead of orders for cash to pay for it." The Municipal Council of Troyes has voted from the funds of the town 500,000 f. towards whichever of the two lines of railroad, Paris and Strasbourg, or Paris and Lyons, shall traverse its district. The Council General of the Department (the Aube) had previously voted 1,000,000 f. for the same purpose. The Minister of Finance has sent a reply to some representations made to him by the Chamber of Commerce of Strasbourg, on the subject of the railroad between Paris and that town, in which, he says, that he ardently wishes to see the rine commenced without loss of time, and that the tbwn of Strasbourg may rely on his eagerly seconding its views. THE FOG o SATURDAY. 011 Saturday forenoon, about a quarter-past ten o'clock, three persons, of the names of William Miller, John Elliott, and John Fraser, were accompanying a person of the name of Jonathan Fordham, who resides in Palmer's Village, Brewer's-green, Westminster, to Battersea, in order to fetch some willows used for the purpose of making baskets; they had scarcely cleared Westminster-bridge, when. owing to the •darliness of the day, the boat in which they were came in contact with a large barge, and all four were , precipitated into the water. Fordhain, with great presence of mind, laid hold of the side of the barge, and thus saved himself. lie then managed, after some trouble, to rescue were drowned. Elliott, • bUt Miller and Fraser SUDDEN DEATH.. --_041 Saturday night last the family of Mr. Goater, the extensive fishmonger to the Royal Family, of Hungerford Market, and who resided at No. 8, Buckingham -street, Strand, were alarmed by the sudden illness of that gentleman, who, in attempting to walk across the drawing-room, dropped down appa rently in a fit, Medical assistance was instantly pro cured by the family, but, on their arrival, life was found to be quite .extinct. The deceased was a very early riser, and invariably went to Billingsgate Market with his cart as early as t h e b us i ness of that' place commenced. The body awaits a Coroner's inquest. The, deceased was universally respected by all who knew him. The following letter has been received at the various police courts of the metropolis :—" Metropolitan Police-office, Great Scotland-yard, December 18, 1841. I beg to inform you that the Receiver has received in structions from the Secretary of State that one news paper only for the future is 'to be allowed at each of the police courts. I have; therefor, to request that in future you will have the goodness to attend to these instruc tions.—l am, Sir; your obedient servant, "To the Chief Clerk?' • "TIIOS. Goumns-G. BOW -STREET.—Onthe Magistrate, Mr. Twy ford, taking his place on the bench on Saturday, he an nounced that the sum of 101. had been sent by the Corn pany of Goldsmiths to be distributed amongst the poor. He had also received 41. anonymously for the same purpose. The Globe on Monday, the 13th, inserted the plan of amending the Corn-law, which it said had " re ceived the sanction of the leaders of the agricultural party." We believe we are acquainted with the source of this information, and can undertake to say that at pre sent the plan has neither been adopted by the Govern ment nor received the sanction of the leaders of the agri cultural party. It is to be regarded as nothing more than the description of a plan, which, among a hundred other plans, has been submitted to the Government. The Government will adopt their own, and time will tell which of the hundred comes nearest to it.—Circular to Bankers. NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.— Arrange tcfroiari traffic s t theeirnfi N pu l .dh r :1 1 t t s ii e so Arrange ments have be en ma d e w ith t h e Duke of Devonshire h 6 , , r fteo a additionalupon t el a e n ir d na cl sr c c o t ah n se t e i r g .e contiguous ag rn t o do u t t the e d e e attached to the Eckington station will be enlarged by taking a strip from Sir George we iCt • 11' L s park, on a portion of which will be erected a dwelling for the clerk. Mr. Frost, at present in the Leeds establishment, succeeds Mr. Patteson as Secretary. Plate is ordered in Shef field, to present to the latter gentleman upon his re ti rem en t.—Nottingliant Review. THE NORTH UNION AND LANCASTER RAIL WAY COMPANIES.—We are concerned to observe, by the statements which have recently appeared in the public prints, that the proprietors of the Lancaster Rail way Company, have determined to abandon the use of the North Union Railway Company's Station at Preston. That an arrangement which has hitherto worked so well for the public, and contributed so largely to the convenience of travellers an d t h e despatc of business should have been abandoned, is greatly to be regretted. The new regulation is intended to be carried into operation on New Year's Day. The junction of the two railways w as effected by the North Union Railway, at an expense of th o ugh the distance between them is only 20,0001., y 200 yards. Hitherto the proprietors of the Lancaster line have, by a friendly arrangement, paid the North Union a moderate sum per annum for the use of this of the and thus, whil e so expensive portion , a warded to thelatter, the pudic haveinemeasure of justice is been greatly bene fited. This; new move of the Lancaster directors will, in addition to what in our humble judgment seems to be unjust to the North L" 1 104 Company, put the public to great inconvenience, by causing considerable delay. The injustice to the proprietors of the North Union, may, in some measure, the latter rge sufficient to Companyreimbiirse laying on for an in the s um ext w ril ithdra a wn. It will then be necessary for the.taneaster Company to reduce their fares to a corresponding extent, otherwise it is plain the public will be the sufferers. But even sup pose the matter should be thus adjusted, we do not see how the public is to be indemnified for -the delay which will necessarily arise from the alteration.— Gore's Ad vertiser. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —We understand that the Directors of this Railway Com pany have adopted the plan of having side lamps fixed to the carriages as near as possible to the centre of the whole train. These new lamps give a red light, and are, in addition to the two white and red lamps heretofore and still used, the one in : front of the engine, and the other at the back of the last carriage. The advantage of this p lan is said to consist in t he rea d ine s s with which a train following another may, when the preceding ono is on a curve, distinguish the line of rails which it is tra,- • versing, a nd thus the possibility of a collision undersuch circumstances is rendered more remote. The new lamps ' give out a most intense red light, and are upon an ir e _ proved construction. The new plan was first adopt e d on Friday, and it is hoped that all the advantageous re sults anticipated will be fully realised. THE VACANT GARTER.—The Duke of Buckingham and Lord Wharncliffe are both named a s likely to succeed to the distinguished honour of being c reated a Knight of the Garter, a vacancy havin g oc curred in that noble order by the demise of the venerable Earl of Westmorland, T to the testi hpea p C e r a s r , l h t oal‘e given b , th e a c s c u o m rd i o n! 4, t 0 0 001 some, of the monial to Colonel Bruen, " the exterm in ator" of the Roman Catholic tenantry of the county Carlo w . Irish SOUTH HACKNEY. , -.-.A. meeting of this parish was held on Friday, to levy a Church -rate ; the Rev. 11. Norris, the rector, took the chair. A rate of 4d. in the pound was proposed by Mr. Haddon, church warden, and met by an amendment, m oved by George Offer, Esq., a magistrate, and seconded by John Mor ley, Esq., of Well-street. The amendment was nega tived by 65 to 85, and the vote for the rate was then put and carried by ,80 'to 62. A poll was demanded. The scene was a stormy one, the police beingin attend ance, and all but parishioners excluded. The Commissioners of Custom s 'directed, not long since, that stock should be taken in all the bonded warehouses in the port of London, and we are sorry now to learn, that in the warehouses in the immediate vicinity of the Custom house, and attached to what are called the " Legal Quays," deficiences to the amount of many thousand pounds have been found to exist by reason of the removal of bonded goods without the pay; ment of duty. This applies only to the " Legal Quays, and not to the large Companies' docks, the warehouses of which have not been examined.—Observer.