The Sun. — London, England, 1842-01-21 00:00:00

the. i ssis,ns ire': the iJ for :33 rec t thev ow 0 th 6 :1 be`sl a j or, J 4 ;ticb•' heir; ',II therAL the, 10 ;Ilea IVIOR,NING SUN pusEyism. Yo THE EDiTuii QF THE SG: j 'IR.--,Being a daily reader of your -tit: ~ ourual, I n - rt - , that it is with tile grea i d ea. . it s say ..., 1 -u*e I read the various articles on Puseyism, and - . . disc your holding it up to the light before , a i n , "'ling public. I have sent you the follow v 'extracts o f - a l etter , wr i tten b y t h e - R ev. 1 19Lis.T. Hall, to the Lord Bishop of Oxford : t n l'aY.Lordi beg• leave to bring under your l e "„ r .§. l llp's n otice the following passages from a sl i ‘• L V .la te l 3' published by a deacon in your Lord- I PA diocese, theißep. Win. Palmer, and at the me tim e t o quote the sentiments and words of v ii 4r iol4B- Bishops, the greater part of them still i h vl tlg';. and then, when your Lordship shall (~'" perused these quotations, together with the ftx,trnets of Mr. Palmer's letter,'l would respect -11!!1Y ask whether a deacon in the Church is per 4"tied to anathematize his superiors in dignity 1)(1 station." let he follo w i ng are t h e passages i n M r . P a l mer ' s t er alluded t o : ei , In 'con c l us i on , I say s ana th ema t o the.prin tP'e of Protest an ti s m,- which I regard as iden foleal with the principle of Dissent, and to all its r l A lls, sects, and denominations" i n ;gain--" Likewise to all persons who know do q . and willi ng ly, an d understanding w h a t th ey Bkshall assert, either for themselves or for the „ 111 'ch of England, the principle of Protes i:tisto, Or maintain th e Ch urc h o f E ng l an d to an -I 'e one and the same common religion with t e Y (ir all of the various forms and sects of Pre enstantism, or go about to establish any inter idlniutiicui between ,our Church and them—to "It I say, ana th ema ." ti _ 'lt will n o d ou bt b e i n your Lordship's recollec el that t h e present Archbishop of Canterbury th e ' u some years ago, express an earnest wish f or of ton of the. Church of England with the t h h e r Protestant Ch urc hes on the C on ti nen t, an d i;: s t he did ; e i t h er i n express terms or b y di rect , f l) , l jeatiori s , manifest his opinion that the Church - "gland-is a Protestant Church." 4 , The Bishop of Calcutta, in his Charge deli y • feed in 1838, speaks of our Protestant Re -9°olChurch Churches." si t glie Bishop of Chester, in his Charge of 1838, t ,.., ... t 0 ' 1 " 4 ; Pnd,er the specious pretence of deference Ch a tilkitY, the fbundations of our Protestant v,l', . esyare undermined by men who dwell 1 0 , 111. her v% ails.'." en :. -Li_lle.Bishop of Chichester (deceased), in a work. t er `,. l !`ti `Not Tradition but.Scripture,' uses the s ound `pure Protestantism,' as synonymous with l'ind Christianity." Chi The Bishop of Winchester,. in his recent j ns ,''ge, mentions ' - the Protestant doctrine of t'fication' • s one of the distinctive principles nf u ._ a, • u r ,l* Church." ' I : T i lese remarks might be greatly multiplied, 14.,;.'$- need not redilud.your • Lordship . that the preui at her coronation, swore to maintain the ta ,o rai t is e i s i t e a d p . t „ R elbrined Religion, as by law es -11-, . I;,these are the extracts to which I would call rilt attention, and knowing how widely circu lited i . • „ your Paper is, I would ask your numerous iiepers respectfully,' Whether they will bestir Netoselves,. and follow the noble example . of the t heir of Cheltenham, or will they sit and have thriiats cut iii peace ? fur matters are now w . , fn oo e' i ng to a crisis, and though she only now ask 13 : .•, 4 Poetry chair, yet hereafter she will want a 414 1 - 3 . 0 .., 0prie, and concession will increase the de- Ivi ,`,luonly remedy is to put it down, or it i .eventually put us down. t o 'Yir. Palmer cannot go mnch farther; if any ; braie has cursed the Queen, the Primate, the 4 s hops, the Parliament, great part o f th e c l erg y, 14 Za great number of the people of. Great Bri tt,. And will they submit to be c urse d,. or wi ll ,nYnot makethe table of the Archbishop of Can. bury bend under the wei g ht o f th e i r petitions ? 4 e strug g le i s f or freedom, arid if we lose, . or rianism, as well as Puseyism, will triumph. j '. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, k 1.1.4, 1842. A HATER OF SCHISM. th jthe biaro of Seville says that the students of "tun ity in that town have determined on adopting `"t 6 - larz e 'c o rs dBpanish hat, called the sombrero, of tfte " P 11., with a feather, as a means of g iving them -81 . ves a singular appearance. i A mechanician of Nenburg, named Macdinger, stated by the Augsburgh Gazette to have invented a I thicl e ring on three wheels, and propelled by in 7 t o 7°,al e in ch ° aniim, without the use of *Wain, by:means • f o which it will transport three, passengers at the rate of , • Leagues an hour. The force of the mechanism is equivalent to one-horsepower. 1 . ,12 5 hE • IMPUDENT BRIDE.—Not long since i n ha,f;,;, " 1 , as a couple - were going to be married, and tlein at ,'.,ded as far as the church-yard gate, the gen nn, - t 7,,,Pl'ed his fair comrade with the following httr e address :---" Mary, during our courtship rain& You most of my - mind, but not all my three when we are married I shall insist on A, to..tSfind " What are they 2" asked the lte 41011 ; . lady. "In the first place," says he, "I shall find , secondly, I shall eat alone; and lastly, .I th ele c i nt when there is no occasion—can you submit to bti t4 c ,o,bditio ns ?" " 0 yes, Sir, very `easily," she re jl for if you lie alone, shall not ;if you al°oci e, t is_ m eatfirst ; and as to your finding fault without tar e un, that, I think, may be prevented, , for I will i take 4, Thl t a hot you shall never want occasion.' —Anecdo es of ence. I NDOO RELIGION.—The Hindoo religion sp re , tv,i a t' 0 . ver the whole earth. There are signs of it in \v„);_ n orthern country, and in almost every system of den ti n -8 11i 1 ) . In England it is obvious ; Stone-henge is evi y as t i r one of the temples of Boodh ; and the arithmetic, sta -11( any, astrology, the holidays, games, names otthe 41% 1.3 and figures of the constellations, and the ancient te ht li tnents, laws, and coins, the languages of the diftb - -` b r i, n ations, bear the strongest mar k s o f th e same tli4'; ll4l . The Brahmins, of th e sec t o f B ra h ma , we r e fotiloe authors of the Ptolemaic system ; the Boodhists, tei t rers of Budha, the authors of the Copernican sys a s well as the doctrine of attraction. ..t 11 . „RIOlis FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY. te s tr " sing less in August than in other months. La facts 'ha tter less in February. The former ofthese curious the „ I ,r l natural history has some mystery about it—but eir e ,;„,'Y and wh er ef ore o f the latter may be found in the th e c,stance that—February is the shortest month in mentioned some time ago that a challenge ,o.y Vt a duel had been given to General Levasseur Nt,'"` ; • Arrighi, a chef de bataillon on the retired to the'lleensequence of . soM . e offence from the former kiN l atter. The _principals had arrived at Mar- VOT the purpose of fighting the duel, but it ap -1'4:"°1 a letter in the Semaphore, signed by Messrs. the - ,,,, c4 zea, • Falcon, and Bernard, - who' were to act as ' 4 th s e — Pnda of General Levasseur, that the conditions 4 t0, - d utlel have been refused by that gentleman and his ter M. Casabianca. The seconds of General 'Levas qm 'Late that, when they *posed - to those gentlemen a N i with pistols, at a distance of thirty paces, they re %ill ;hat they would not: consent to n greater distance . ,t l ri et ' 4 l -1 1 11 six to ten paces. In consequence of this con- L" seconds of General Levasseur have desired that 11 130 °Il l(' renounce the idea of a duel, and'throw himself ;Public opinion. tb n Friday l ast we were s hown a n o te f or 5/., Ni' qi.?,barlk of Messrs. Clarke, Mitchell, Phillips, and With an en d orsemen t somewhat unusual in bills 4 t . kind. It -was to this effect : e t l a 'ewell my note—and wheresoe'er you wend 1- 0 1 :e gaudy scenes, and be the poor man's friend ; A b li a 've left a poor one—go to one as poor, ** - -.47 drive despair and hunger from his door. It l` ceB ter Journal. v ." Z b ilote du Calvados states that Colonel tt:,",; 11, commandant of the depot of horses at Caen for biro ti n ting the cavalry, has received - orders from the the --,ster of War to go to Syria to purchase stallions for tk l , l7° llitary s t u d s , an d th a t Colonel Descarrieres, at rEl to the same depot, is going to England for the PArpose. Diario di Roma gives an account of the of the evening schools for the instruction of : 1 11 : 1 7 . men in the pontifical capital, the rules for kii tt l lrre laid down by the vicar-general, Cardinal orta, last June. These schools have greatly t ath 'Plied in Rome, and the Government is urging Bret t of families and masters to send to them their chil tioehl- a nd aPprentices. The clergy also lend their exer i, t, the promotion of this branch of education. li ee .„ ll ENGLISH OAK.—Even when it has iatout down and stripped of what Cowper called 'its eibi„ ll " of boughs," the oak still carries with it a prin- III: of life : it may almost be said to last as long e1 4 ; 11 it is d ea d as when it is al i ve. I n anc i ent Le ant and h a ll s we frequently not i ce t h e won d er f u l th e l ! t Y and freshness of its appearance. The doors of c i a. intlee ch ape l s of Westminster Abbey are 1,200 years t i o s' il The oa k table in Winchester Castle, which tradi, lasteaAgsociates with th e hi s t or y o f Arthur, has probably u a thousand years. Se c j ik a fe w days ag o a gran d ce r e mony to o k pl ace at pers ona °n occasion o f t rans f err i ng th e re mains of seve r a l fo rmer of th e P r i nce l y H ouse o f S e d an f rom their to, the Place of sep u lt ure i n w h a t i s now an h os pice perse Protestant church in that town. Among these Nd a li ages was Henri de Latour d'Auvergne, Prince of st,4,,and Maria Elizabeth of Orange, his consort, with ao t h 4l . l nembe rs of their family. All the civil and military x i _ untie s of the department . the representatives of the d e ,n_g of 11olland as head of the House of Orange, the o 't'gates of the ancient Duchy of Bouillon, and nume tegetteerrsonages of note, were present on this occasion, ( .„ I. _ s with detachments of the troops in garrison. The ke ,n e were removed with much pomp, amidst an im 'lT crowd of spectators. lata D l‘tr. 'CATCHING SPIDERS I—According to que to ll 'eaY, of Elizabeth Bay, near Sidney, he ha fre -4,,e6._.t'Y seen birds caught by, and suspended in, sp i ders' eh. „!• When thus entangled, the bird is eaten by . the-e Trnous spiders, who commence by sucking its juices. 4.7esrpid!r belongs to the same section as the European &47dtademas, andth e bird thus curiously ensnared and °Yed was the Zostcrops dorsalis of Vigors and Hors- C hina was first made in England at Chelsea in 1 , 4 ,) 4 2 , and at I3ow in 1758 •; but the manufactories have cli ; .continued for several years past The Chelsea " 111 4 uow . ,se . lls . a . t_ . a big li price, ~_ T ck- L s yde ro - 4-1 gf- -ifg nds ous I PROJECTED ADDRESS 1 ' THE I ANTI-CORN-LA W TO THE EDITOT? OF THE SUN. SlR,—The leading Ministerial organ protests t was not he; it was " the matronly." It i s hard to settle such differences; the probability being, there was a little of both. - One thing is clear; that jealousies are , felt in one or more portions of the Tory camp, at the visit of the King of Prussia. And a • single word in the protest alluded to, is decisive-of the reasons why. An error is dreaded somewhere, which is to consist in taking certain ev en t s or thi ngs to "imply a political predilection for Prussian opi nions on matters of commerce and administration." And as n9body supposes- the danger of anti-libe ral .opinions on commerce to be the subject of alarm, it must needs be the danger of liberal. Suppose then the Anti-Corn-law League or a delegation from them, were to present themselves to the King of Prussia and to say— " Persuaded that your Majesty will lose no opportunity of becoming acquainted with the pro gress of opinion in the country which you visit, the representatives of a considerable portion of the commercial classes in Great Britain, present themselves as the advocates of principles which your Majesty will assuredly not hear from the administrators of the government." " Seeing in your Majesty the sovereign of a foreign state, they are conscious that as citizens ofa state which is foreign in respect of your Ma jesty's dominionSi - they are bound to advance An arg,umentsbut those in which they believe the in terests of all- independent countries to be equally concerned,". " What . therwould announce as the belief of the commercial classes of Great Britain, or such portions of , them as they represent, is that no commodity is ever created in one country, when it might havebeen obtained at a cheaper rate from another country through the intervention of foreign commerce, without incurring a na tional or aggregate loss equal to the difference of price concerned." " They know how far they are from the pro bability of seeing a government in their own country, by which this arithmetical truth shall be admitted. Butthey do not despair of gaining supporters in other - countries, where the frame and organization of the government have been less expressly directed to the suppression of the principle." " The ground on which therenionstrants rest their conviction of the fallacy which now go verns nations,: is, that there has been an 'over- looking of .one of the parties.c.oncerned. Every consumer who gives three shillings to . a home fabrie, for what he might have of tamed through foreign trade - for - two, takes the third shilling from the custom of sonieh6tieei trader, to whom_it would_have been precisely as beneficial as .to the dishonest. This honest trader, is the man who ,has been overlooked- And, setting off his loss against the other trader's gain the final result is that the consumer gets nothing forhis shilling, instead of what he might have had for it from the honest trader. It mat- - ters not within what circle, national, colonial, or federative; the folly takes its range; he who re jects a cheaper road by tbreign commerce, courts aggregate loss to his. community, and not gain.' " The French government has invented a term fcr the. prosecution of this national loss. It styles it 'conquest.' The remonstrants believe, that it is such conquest as a cultivator would make out of his.fen or his sand, by expending his resources on them with %the consequence of leaving uncultivated some portions of his better soil." " Resisting the adinisSion, that a trade on which there is a loss at every turn, is gainful to a nation, the remcinStrants .equally resist the de lusion which has been attempted on them under the` nerve of Reciprocity." "They:l66W that if a foreign government would remove theLirupediments to the introduc tion of Brititi)- t riuodities, at the same time that.the:..Tioni 4 e government would remove the impedlihents to foreign .produce, the adiran tage4k, the inhabitants, of their own and of that E Arei t t i rn country, would on . each. side berdtw.o., instead of one. And they are well :aware that two governments actu ated by zeal for the interests of their respec tivenations, might employ the contemporaneous removal -of restrictions on the two sides, as 'pow, erftil machine for diminishing the opposition on both. But they absolutely and totally deny, that the inability to obtain the gain which would arise from the removal - of foreign restrictions, is any reason for preserving the loss which results from continuing those at home. They know the mockery this may meet. from . the interested but they look into- their-ledgers,- -and they fib that it is true." - "In all countries, there are proverbial ex pressions, for that species of revenge a man takes for his sufferings, where the consequences of his anger fall on his own proper person. The remonstrants believe, that when a government shall he found sufficiently intelligent to disavow this proverbial impolicy in the matter called of Reciprocity,' it will take the lead among the commercial states of Europe, and justly claim the pre-eminence, which a man with one eye is said to have among the blind." "The certainty that your Majesty will not hear anything ofd this nature from the govern ment appointed to watch their interests, is the reason of the'remonstrants taking the liberty to intrdduce it in the present form. If they shall have succeeded in their desire to involve no prin? ciple which is not common in its operation to independent states, they will rejoice in having discharged a courtesy, which the position of your Majesty as their nation's guest, appeared to call for at Weir hands." I should like to know, whether something of this kind, would not be very germane to the occasion, and be a fitting use to make, of what the Tory vessels have permitted to leak out. Yours very sincerely, _ T. PERRONEI"THOMPSON. Blackheath, Jan. 20, 1842. THE STRAW BEGINS TO MOVE SIR ROBERT PEEL SOLICITING DEPUTATIONS OF THE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS. NOTTINGHAM, at length the Corm-law men and their Prime Minister are coming to their senses, and are inclined to pay some attention to the cries of woe and misery that echo through the land. The Midland Counties' great meeting of merchants and manu facturers, inserted in The Sun .at great length, has excited the fears of Sir Robert Peel. The talcs of distress related there, and the tremen dous blows aimed at the sliding scale by . Mr. Crippsjan American manufacturer now resident in Nottingham), have made too great an impres sion, to be disregarded by the Premier and his supporters. Some statistical detailsgiVen by Mr. Cripps to Mr. Mitchell, the High Sheriff of Lei cestershire, have been forwarded by that gentle man to the Duke of Rutland, who, as Lord Lieutenant of the county, has transmitted them to Sir Robert Peel. Sir Robert Peel has sent for Mr. Mitchell, John Head, Esq., of Notting ham, and Chairman of the Derby meeting, Mr. Biggs, of Leicester, and Mr. Cripps. The Depu tation saw Sir Robert on Wednesday, and de clared to him the evil workings of the Corn - laws. He heard them patiently, but made no pro ! misc. The triumph is, however, great. Sir Robert sees he can no longer trifle with the dis tress, and therefore he calls in the manufacturers to consult them. The deputation were to wait on the town Members on Wednesday night, as well as many Anti-Corn-law Members of Par liament. The agitation works well. Thousands are becoming converts to repeal. The Mayor of Derby has convened a meeting for Monday, to petition for a total repeal. Mr. Curtis, the Ame rican lecturer, is lecturing in Nottingham, to crowded audiences, against the Corn-laws. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Extract of a letter from Corfu, '2Bth ult., in the Aus trian Observer : "- The missionary who has caused the disturbance here is an American, not an Englishmen, as was at first stated. The Governor sent him off to_ Athens. One British soldier has been killed, and twelve have been more or less severely wounded. An inhabitant of the town has been killed, and several wounded. Numerous arrests have been effected, and six of the police have been injured. Some of the Greeks threw projectiles from the tops of the houses on the soldiers, and the latter, in return, made reprisals on them. The persons who penetrated into the missionary's house and sacked it have been liberated. The following circular has just been issued : "'The events of last night having come to the know ledge of the Lord High Commissioner, his Excellency has resolved on immediately adopting measures for put .ting an end to disorders of this kind. The undersigned is, therefore, directed to inform the inhabitants that all the soldiers,. except those on duty, have received the most positive orders to leave the town at nightfall, and to return to their quarters. The inhabitants are requested to keep within their houses after sunset, and they are forbidden to form crowds in the streets. The coffee, houses, and all public places of resort where liquors are sold, taverns, public-houses, &c., are to be shut at four in the afternoon, and are not to be opened till seven in the morning. The owners of shops will do well to Shut them at six in the evening. The undersigned is directed to recommend the inhabitants to abstain from all further disturbances,- hi order to spare the overnment from the pain of suspending the civil, and toloroclaim martial law. ' • By Order of his Excellency, 66 J. FRASER Secretary.'" test THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1842. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. Wednesday an inquest was held by Mr. Payne, at the Commercial Tavern, Sherborne-lane, on view of the body of an infant only one month old, whose mother had brought it to the above inn on Sunday hist. From the evidence of Eleanor Colstock, servant at the Commercial Tavern, it appeared that the'poor woman was brought to the inn on Sunday laSt about two o'clock, by 'a porter, with the intention of staying only one night, and of proceeding to YOrkShire by, the steam-packet the following day. She said that she had just arrived, from . BriStol, and that her child, which Was Well in the, morning, was then ill. She warmed the: infant by the fire. It appeared convulsed, and witness advised her to take it to a doctor, but she bathed it with some warm water, and did not go for medical assistance until the: evening. Mr. Hugh Fuller, surgeon, of 53, King William-street, was examined, and said that the child was brought to him by the mother between six and seven o'clock on Sun day evening , wlen he thought that the inf a nt was dead ; however, h put it into a warm bath, and reaction took place. The mother told him she had arrived front Bris tol that afternoon ; and exposure to the cold was quite sufficient to cause the death of a child so young. There did not appear any thing suspicious about. the death of the child. The CORONER, here ordered the summoning officer to call the mother of the child. He found her in an adjoining room, apparently faint in.., and having communicated the fact to the Coroner, Mr. Fuller was requested to go to her, which he did, and in about five minutes returned to the Inquest-room, and informed the Coroner and Jury that the poor woman had just expired. The circumstance, _as may be supposed, produced a great sensation in the room, particularly when it was stated that only a few minutes before she had appeared in perfect health. Mr. Fuller said that when he went to the poOr woman he found another medical gentleman attending her, and endeavouring to get her to swallow a little brandy, in which he assisted ; but she Was unable to do so, and ex pired without having spoken since she was first taken. The CORONER said that this was certainly one of the most melancholy cases he ever knew, and he thought that under the circumstances they. had better adjourn the inquiry, in order that some of the poor woman's ye lations might be sent for. They had had no satisfactory evidence as to the cause of the child's death, and now that the mother was dead it could not be obtained by any other means than through her friends.' Mr. William Handy, landlord of the Commercial Inn, said that he saw the poor woman a few minutes before her death, and she appeared then quite well, and walked up stairs with a brisk step. She had every attention while there. The inquiry was then adjourned till Monday next. THE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE RIVER. On Wednesday the adjourned inquiry, occupying above nine hours, took place before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and a most respectable Jury at the Royal Mason, Sephia=street., Poplar, on the body of John Cattin, aged -42, a butcher in the employ of Mr. Lambert, of the West India-road, who, together with his son, was drowned, w114114i in a' skiff with several other persons, in conse quence of Wing struck by the Orwell, Ipswich steamer, on the afternoon of the . 2d ultiino. It will be remembered that the inquiry was adjourned from Saturday last, in order to give . the Steam-boat Com pany, or some One in their behalf, an opportunity to be preSent. - From the evidence of those on hoard the skiff it apt peared that there were eight persons in it beside the de ceased and his child. About five in the afternoon, on the day in question, they were crossing the river, from Limehouse to Notherhithe. They were nearly a third across the river when', although dark at the time, the Orwell steamer was observed ;teeth* her course towards the north shore -; they, - however, immediately after changed their tack to the south shore, at which time she was within 100 yards of the skiff. ° They called out to her, but the steamer still carte on, between the skiff and the south shore. They again' called out, and in a minute after the skiff was struck by 'the starboard paddle and upset, and much brOkeh: They were all precipitated into ' the Water, and, . With the ex ception of deceased and his 'Son, eight years of age, all saved, in which the captain and crew of the steam-boat assisted. At the time the collision the river, at this part, was quite free of craft. Six out of the eight survivors had brought actions against the Company fur the injury they bad sustained. The witnesses all underwent severe cross-examination, but their statements varied but slightly, On, the part of the "Steam-boat Company, Captain Wing and several' of the crew of the Orwell were exa mined. Their evidence went to show that so far from the river being clear, they ran to the south shore to avoid .the numerous craft which covered it at the time. The Captain was on the paddle-box, and the pilot on the look out at the time. The persons rowing the skiff were endea vouring to cross the bovi;of the steamer as she was coming up, instead of doing which they ou g ht t o h ave h e ld on and dropped_ astern. They called out to those in the boat to - do so, but they paid no attention. The Captain ordered the engines to be stopped and the boat to be turned astern, which: was carried into effect with all possible speed. • • The COronei then, at some length, remarked upon the nature of the case, and eulogised the plan adopted by Sir John Hall for keeping the pool clear, and which was manifested by the fact that it was now two years since he (the Coroner) had held an, inquest in consequence of a, steam-boat accident. The Jury, at six o'clock, retired, and after an hour's absence returned a verdict of—" Accidental death, with a deodand of 201. on the Orwell steamer, and they felt th2t the conduct of the captain and the crew was highly censurable in not keeping a proper look out." SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S PARK.---WCd nesday an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, at the Marylebone Infirmary, on the body of Thomas Davis, aged 28, who committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in the Regent's-park, under the following painful and melancholy circumstances :—Garret Percy, police serjeant, D 3, said that on - Monday morning, about eleven o'clock, he was on duty in the Regent's-park, near the Zoological-gardens, when a man came running to him, and stated that there was a -man hanging on a tree. He went with the man in the direction he had pointed out, and on arriving near. North-gate he dis covered the deceased suspended by a silk handkerchief from the branch of a tree in the shrubbery. lie could reach the branch from the ground, and with the assist ance of the man alluded to, he untied the handkerchief, and got the body down. He was quite dead. On searching his body he 'found a silver watch, two gold seals, a purse containing 7s. 64d., a bunch of keys, - four handkerchiefs (two silk and two cotton), a letter, and a memorandum book. The contents of the letter were not permitted by the Coroner to transpire, but it is said to have been addressed to a young _woman to whom the deceased was paying his addresses. Mr. Bransden stated that the deceased was groom to Mr. Dowbiggen, the upholsterer, of Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. He saw him last alive on Monday, shortly before ten o'clock, when he came home with the horse and gig, having driven his Master into the City. He was a sober, industrious man. Verdict—" Temporary Insanity." Yesterday was the anniversary of one of I'4 most important events that occurred during the last century—the acknowledgment of the independence of America, in 1783. It was also the anniversary of the death of Garrick in 1779, and of John Howard, the dis tinguished philanthropist, in 1790. FLEET DITCH.—When the late improvements on Blackfriars-bridge were commenced, an attempt was made at the same time to abate the nuisance in Chatham place, and indeed in the whole region from Printing house-square to the Temple, caused by the effluvia issuing from that noxious stream the Fleet river. The bed of the stream, from the termination of this cloaca maxima of the metropolis towards the riper was deepened and covered over at great expense for the escape of the water coming from the filthiest part of London, and in order to render the neighbourhood more salubrious. The attempt, however, has completely failed. At low water now the effluvia is absolutely insufferable, and if something is not done to correct the bad effects caused by the stagnation, the place will be unfit for the habitation of human beings. Property in that quarter cannot fail to be deteriorated to a great extent, if the nuisance continues. The City autho rities, who have the management of the property, would do well to remove the floodgate, as well as the covered way, and allow the water free course as formerly. BIRMINGHAM AND GLOUCESTER RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—THE GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY !—A Court of Compensation was held last week, to assess the damage done by this Company to the lands of a gentleman a namel . Guest, It should be coursebyinterferi p n r g em w i i s th ed th th e at of a Mr. Guest .had been offered 115/. by the Company, but, estimating the damage at 6501., he determined to submit it to a Jury, and having obtained the services of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, with a retaining fee of eighty guineas, and the assistance of a host of witnesses, the Court was accordingly held at Northfield, before W. Taunton, Esq., Under-Sheriff of Worcestershire, and a respectable Jury, when, after an inquiry of about twelve hours, long speeches on both sides, and the examination of witnesses without number, the Jury assessed the damages at lOW., or 15/. less than Mr. Guest had been offered by the Company in the first instance. The Company's ex penses in witnesses, counsel, &c., were considerable ; those of Mr. Guest were upwards of 250/. ; so true it is, that it is " better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of." • ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Wednesday, between seven and eight o'clock, a desperate attempt at suicide was committed by an unfortunate gentleman residing in Elvin's-place, St. John's-wood, a maniac, who also attempted to murder his keeper. It appears that the unfortunate gentleman had by some means se cretly procured a razor, and during the day he appeared to be particularly tranquil, which threw the keeper off his guard. At seven o'clock, his usual hour for retiring to his bed, he proceeded to undress, but suddenly springing from his chaii, proceeded to the place where he had concealed the razor, and instantly inflicted a desperate wound on his throat, before the keeper could possibly reach him. Tie then seized the keeper, and en deavoured to cut his throat, but he being a very powerful m an, succeeded, after a desperate struggle, in dispossess ing him of the deadly weapon, but not before he was se verely wounded on his face, arms, and hands. Assist ance having been procured, the unfortunate maniac was properly secured, and a surgeon having been called in, the wound in his throat was sewed up, but, though severe, it is not considered dangerous. The keeper's wounds were also properly attended to. We are requested to caution the public against receiving sovereigns defaced by plugging, great numbers of which are said to be in circulation. The plugs are made of copper, and inserted iii atuall holes .pierced in the gold, giving to them the appearance of being punch marked..-Binningham Gazette. a considerable fixed expenditure ; but the traffic, of this line, and of the wharf, is increasing ; and, by the con templated extension of the wharf, there can 'be no doubt there will be a material increase of traffic, without a cor responding increase of expenditure, particularly when' the conveyance of merchandise is commenced on the main line. By a Minute of 19th Nov., 1840, the Directors de clared 4,409 . Shares to 'be forfeited on account of the Bth call remaining unpaid, and, on the 6th May, 1841, the Directors declared 3,883 shares to be forfeited on account of the 9th call remaining unpaid, since which periods the Bth call has been paid on shares, and the 9th call has been paid on shares, leaving shares on which the Bth and 9th calls remain unpaid, and shares, on which the 9th call only remains unpaid, the forfeiture of which shares the Directors will submit to the meeting for confirmation. These are exclusive of forty-five shares against the holder of which the Company have recovered the amount of the calls by an action, and an arrangement has been entered into, by which these calls are to be paid in June next. At the last General Meeting it was stated that the total outlay for completing and opening the line through out, with a suitable establishment, would be 2,289,081/. By the accounts made up to the 31st December last, the cross expenditure was 2,269,359/. Os. I Id. ; the lia bilities under the seal of the Company were 184,377/. -15 s. 2d. ; the outstanding debts 61,4061. 10s. 7d. ; the 10 per cent. retained from the contractors 50,000/. ; the amount requisite to complete the line 59,068 L 4s. ; the land for temporary purposes 15,000/..; making together 2,639,211/. 10s. Bd. To meet this, there was cash on the 31st December 8,2221. 14s. 7d. • due on calls 5,3851. ; shares at par 39,950/. ; re-sale of land 60,000/. ; and loan to Joint Station 50,254/. 2s. Id. ; amounting in the whole to 163,811/. 16s. Bd. ; thus leaving a balance to be provided for over the last half-year's estimate of 186,318/. In addition to the sum of 186,318/. required for the present purposes of the railway, the engineer reports that it will ultimately be necessary to erect workshops, carriage- houses, and wharfs, &c., and which he estimates at 100,0001., but a considerable portion of this outlay may be avoided if the Company contract for the repair of their carriages and engines. The Directors, however, strongly recommend the Proprietors to empower them to provide for these to sums, amounting together to 286,3181. The next subject to which the Directors beg to draw the attention of the Shareholders is the station at Lon don-bridge, and to which they so fully adverted at the last general meeting, and the mode of raising the money for erecting it. By the last Croydon Act this Company was empowered to become a joint owner thereof, with the Croydon and South Eastern Railways, and to raise 120,0001. for purchasing the necessary land, and erecting the station by the issue of new shares, and the mortgage of the station and of this undertaking. The Committee of Management have encountered considerable difficulty in obtaining possession of the various properties required for the • extension of this station ; they have, howeVer, at length arranged with the various owners, and plans for thy erection of the new station are nearly completed; and as soon as the weather permits, it will be commenced Upon. The cost, altogether, to each Company , will not exceed 85,0001. - - So that altogether we have to raise for the Railway 4186,318 For extra Workshops, Wharfs, &c 100,000 - For London-bridge Station £371,318 To take a safe Margin, say . ...... 28,682 £400,000 The manner in which this amount is to be raised has had the gravest consideration of your Directors, and they recommend that Loan Notes be isssued, pay able at the end of five years, at 5/. per cent. interest, with an option to the holders of such notes (at the ex piration of three years) to convert them into quarter Shares of this Company at 101. per Quarter Share, under the power of an Act to be obtained for that purpose, for which application will be made to Parliament at the earliest possible period. The present Shareholders to have the preference of tendering for such loan notes, and such tenders to be made on or before tie Ist of Fe bruary next, when the allotment will take place ; 51. upon each Quarter Share, -to be then paid, a further sum of 2/. 10s. per Quarter Share, on or before the 15th of April, and the remaining sum of 2/. 10s. per Quarter Share, on or before the 15th of July next, and interest to commence from the time of the respective payments. The Directors of the South Eastern Company have given notice to this Company of their intention to pur chase the moiety of the line, to `ti ich they are entitled under their Act of Parliament. From this source your Directors expect to derive a sum sufficient to cover the amount requisite to be raised; but, as, there is an uncertainty when this money will be paid, they consider it necessary to look to other means to meet their present exigencies. Five Directors go out of office by rotation ; viz.— Messrs. Parker, Gould, Gibson, Smith, and Entwisle, who, being eligible for re-election, offer themselves to the Proprietors accordingly. Since the last General Meeting, two vacancies have occurred in the direction by the death of Henry Moreton Dyer, Esq., and by the resignation of Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid, Bart., which have been filled up by the appointment of 'John Cox and Ed ward Watson, Esqrs. - Your Directors cannot conclude this Report, without again adverting to the many trials with which they have been surrounded during the last ' half-year.' They bad no sooner removed the obstructions on their own line, when a considerable slip of earth at New Cross blocked up the line on the Croydon Railway, and has: continued ever since to be a great interruption to the Brighton , traffic. It has prevented this Company from carrying any .goods ormerchandise, and had a great influence in d t gthe public from availing themselves of the Brighton Railway ; but, looking to the great increase which took place in the traffic upon the opening of the line throughout, and the many applications that have been made for various kinds of goods and merchandise to be conveyed over the line, the Directors still retain the' same opinion they have always expressed, that the traffic will ultimately realise their most sanguine expectations. The SECRETARY then read a statement of the ac counts, from which it appeared that the receipts for the year 1841 were 2,277,5811. 15s. 6d., and the expendi ture 2,269,359/. Os. 41d., showing a balance of cash in hand of 8,222/. 14s. 7d. The increase of the receipts during the last half-year, over the previous one, was upwards of 60,0001. The CHAIRMAN said, that if they compared the Re port then read with that which was submitted to them in August last, he was willing to confess that it must give rise to bitter feelings of disappointment. Their Directors bad had to encounter those feelings day by day and week by week, and they found themselves finally in a position they never anticipated, but they came there that day prepared to show them that they had done nothing but that which they were compelled to do. In the Report read to them, they (the Direc-, tors) stated that the amount required for the•purposes of the Railway - was 186,5181. The amount which they had been obliged 'to expend on the works of the line above what was originally contemplated, in Consequence of the extremely wet season, had been 97,5651., and it arose in this way : On the first district of the line there had been expended during the last half-year 15,9974 158.8 d.: on the second district," 40,807/..15. 4d. ; on the third, 29,2911. 3s. ; and on their tunnels, 16,121/. Ib. 6d., making a total of 102,497/. lls. 7d. In their last . Report, they estimated the expenses ne cessary to complete the line at 64,0001.; there fore they had shown an increase in the expenses up to the present time of 38,4971. 1 ls. 7d. As by the estimates read to them 27,8511. 4s. was required to complete works then on hand. Now, when they (the Directors) met them on a former occasion, they felt fully satisfied they might commence their traffic, and up to the time of. the bad season setting in, they found their traffic so increasing that they found, it necessary to order a greater supply of carriages, engines, &c. They ordered, twelve extra engines, thirteen addi tional first class carriages, six extra horse4iaies, two carriage trunks, six large vans, and ninety eight wages gons, which amounted to a very large sum of money ;, engines to nearly 24,060/., first class carriages/C.5204; horse-boxes. 160/. Therefore they were enabled to ac count op toa very small sum for the amount which they then asked of the Proprietors the power to raise. He would ask them what would have been their position if they had not adopted the course they had taken ? They (the Directors) had on . alt occasions relied upon that confidence the Proprietors had ever reposed in the Directors, and they felt that in making those engage meats he had referred to, their confidence was still extended towards them, and they had ' no doubt but that the Proprietors would ratify those engagements. In the course of their accounts they would see that on the 81st of December their liabilities amounted to 184,3771. 15s. 2d. ; of this amount 33,454/: 9s. Bd. was applied to the contract for works ; 14,3971. 6s. 3d. to their stations; 5,0001. to the London joint station; 12,4481. ,3s. Bd. to railway chairs and pins ; 13,2171.185.6 d. to engines and tenders ; 15,9641.175. 6d. to carriages, waggons, trucks, horse-boxes, ; 4,7631. to sundries; loan 71,0001. • and interest on debentures 14,1321.19340 d. He ha d thus much into detail be cause he was sure there was every disposition on the part of the Directors to furnish the Proprietors with every possible information with respect to their undertaking. On the same day (December 31) the outstanding ac count was 61,4061. 10s. 7d. The contracts at the works amounted to 5 7861. 3s. ; the stations 9,2991. 12s. 2d. ; for engines 12,935/. 19s. 9d. ; for carriages 10,8411. 13s. 2d. ; for sleepers, chairs, &c. 3,1491. 4s. 7d. ; to law charges 5,6641. 1 is. 4d. ; to account of land, engineering,:and surveying 5,592/.45.7d.; advertising, printing, &C. 2,132/. 6s. ; sundries 563/. The sundries were the toll on the Croydon Railway, commission to banks and agents, &c. These were ibe accounts, and this was the way in which they had arisen, and he should be most happy to give any further infor mation that any gen t!eman might require. P er h a p s h e , might be permittea to auvert to another portion of the ,expenditure Which the engineer had recommended to be made, and that recommendation they bad thought fit to submit to the meeting, viz. that of building extra workshops and wharfs, which together he estimated would amount to about 100,0001. He had his (the engineer's) estimate, and he would read it to them. ( The - Honourable Gentleman then read a list of the various buildings to be erected on the line I* the way proposed.) The Hon. Gentleman 606044 —the total made the sum of 95,9601., for - put down, in 'round numberr, the sum erlbt,o l / 4 10/. .itiOtiffe* weir never once cow! LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAIL -1 WAY COMPANY, The half-yearly general meeting of this Company was held yesterday at the London Tavern, for the pur pose of receiving a statement of the accounts for the half-year from the Secretary, and the Directors' Report from the Solicitor to the Company. The meeting was called for one o'clock, but before that hour the large room in the Tavern was crowded by Proprietors. JOHN HARMAN, Esq., took the chair, and in doing so said, ljtat as they h a d on t h at occas i on matter o f ve ry considera le importance to bring before them, he would not trespass upon their time by many introductory re marks, but he would rather at once call their attention to the Report of the Directors, reserving to himself the opportunity, when that Report was read, of entering into such explanations as they required ; therefore without any further delay he would call on the Solicitor to the Company to read the Report. The Solicitor then read the Report, which was as follows : In the various lieports which have, from time to time, been submitted to the General Meetings, it has ever been the study,of the Directors to afford the most correct in formation on every subject connected with this under taking, and when they had the honour.to meet the Pro prietors in August last, there was every reasonable ex pectation that the present position of the Company would have been such as they then anticipated. At that,time, the Railway. had. been opened for some weeks as far as Hayward's Heath, the traffic had been conducted to the satisfaction of the public, the income was gradually increasing, and the works on the remainder of the line were so , near completion, that the Railway was opened throughout to Brighton on the 21st of Sep tember following. Thus far every thing progressed in the most propitious manner, so much so, that the traffic amounted in the second week after the entire opening, to 3,6991 lis. Bd. Little did your Directors then expect that their pro spects were to be blighted by the unfortunate calamity which so immediately followed, and by the extraordi, nary wet season, producing a succession of difficulties unprecedented, arising from causes over which they had no control. These circumstances, and the consequences occasioned by them, being so fully adverted to in the Report of the Engineer,, the Directors, contrary to their usual custom, beg here to introduce it.. REPORT OF MR. RASTRICK. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY COMPANY. Gentlemen,—When I had the honour to furnish you with my last Half-yearly Report, the Railway had been opened as far as Hayward's Heath, and the remainder of the line was in so forward a state, that I promised it should be opened throughout to Brighton, in the follow ing month. This I accomplished, and I then fully calcu lated that the works would all have been finished in the course of a short period ; and I had every, reason to be lieve that the estimates you laid before the Proprietors were adequate for that purpose. The line, however, was scarcely opened, when the-most extraordinary wet sea son I ever remember set in, and has continued almost to the present time. The whole country, as it were, be came inundated ; and such has been the effects upon the heavy embankments, that it has only been by the most strenuous exertions and constant labour that have been . enabled to keep them in a fit state for the transit of our traffic. The Railway, I believe, was worked to the sad-- faction of every one, up to the period of that most un fortunate accident, which has been the occasion of so much anxiety and regret to - every one connected with" this undertaking. • I think it right _to allude to the interruptions at the. Pateham Tunnel, and at the Merstham Cutting. The former was occasioned by the continued wet, having choked up the drains behind the front walls of .the Tun nel, and had nothing whatever to do with the Tunnel itself, which is perfectly sound, and is, I believe, as good a piece of brickwork its any in the kingdom ;. the latter, in the deep cutting near the . Merstham Tunnel, did not occur from any defect in the stratification of the chalk, but from the accidental circumstance of there being at that particular spot, near the outside of the cutting, what is called " a funnel-shaped pot-hole," filled with pebbles, gravel, • and soil, and which, becoming charged and saturated with water, forced out the side of the cut- - ting, the chalk beingso thin in front of it, could not re sist the pressure from within. I still retain the same opinion I have so often ex pressed, " that upright cuttings in chalk, similar to that of the formation fotind on this line, will stand much better than cuttings with any , considerable slope ; " and I am fully confirmed in this, by the manner in whch all our upright cuttings in chalk have stood during this wet season. Ido not deny, that after a frost, a small quan tity will effloresce from off the surface ; but I maintain, that that quantity will be much less than that from off a flatter slope. My attention was called to the earth4lopes at the top of the chalk cuttings ' • and "found the wet had so affected , , them, that I have had them made much flatter, and taken down to a greater depth, fearing that the mate rials might have slipped ; they are now all perfectly secure ; but this has caused an expenditure, upon which I had made no previous caletiliition. The embankment at Earawood-common, and those adjoining it, have caused a considerable extra outlay;. but, by perseverance, we have now both, lines of .rails open, there has been no recent settlement upon them, and I may reasonably expect no further expense than that usually attendant Upon works of their description. The same remarks will apply to the embankment at Kemps' Farm. The embankment at Kepner has suf fered in a greater degree from the continued wet sea son ; for a short distance there is only one line of rails over it,' but no interruption to the traffic is experienced, as, by the crossings which I have had put down, the. trains pass very readily from the one line of rails to the other. The road throughout, lam happy to say, is now in good working order, and the embankments and slopes of the cuttings appear to be getting into a permanent state, and I have every reason to believe we have expe rienced the worst of our difficulties, as all the works stand well, and show no unfavourable symptoms, and surely, if they remain firm and secure_ 'after the severe trial of the late season, we need be under no apprehen sion for the future. The untoward and vexatious cir cumstances we have had to contend with, no human pru dence or foresight could have anticipated or averted; and it cannot. be a surprise to any one that they have en tailed up9P. the. Company a very much larger expendi ture than was dyer contemplated; and much, as I lament it, lam sure, I have not incurred a, single expense un necessarily, and had this been the only line which had suffered from the same causes, you.might have had great reason to,complain. I have, I believe, called your atten tion to the chief causes of extra expenditure appertain ing to my. department ; but in addition to these, you must remember it was deemed necessary to increase our stock of engines, carriages, : waggons, &c., to a consider 7 able extent. Annexed is a statement of the amount, re quired to finish the works, and what I consider necessary for the Convenience of the traffic : Required to finish the contract works now in hand £27,951 (Exclusive of the 10 per cent. held back from the con tractors, in the • hands of the Company.) There will also be required for several extra. works, part of which were omitted to be estimated in last half year's account, some Of which are • now in hand, others not 'yet began. upon, but which will be required, in cluding also an allowance for any ac-- cidental extras, that may be found . necessary 31,217 £59,068 Before long there will be required building's, ma chinery, engines, lathes. &c., for the repairs - of the loco motive engines, carriages, waggons, &c., as the Com pany will find it much to their interest to do all this work themselves. The traders upon the line will also require warehouses, both at thenrighton and Shoreham stations, and you are well aware that there is not accommodation at Shoreham Harbour for one quarter of the shippin g at, our present wharf, and that we are losing our teaffic daily from this cause, and, consequently, there must be a more extensive wharf built and all the necessary appendages; and as it has been determined to make ; nearly the whole of the coke at Shoreham. anaddition ; 'pest be.made. to that es tablishment, and the ovens; &c, xnast„ be roofed, in. All of these works will, howeiier, pay, end secure a revenue independent of that derived from the Railway. The sums required for all these works will amount to about 100,0001. I have, also, to remind you, that I have, . jointly with the Engineers of the South Eastern -and Croydon Rail ways, been engaged, on the Plans of the Joint Station; at London-bridge, the specifications of which will be ready in three weeks, and we have calculated that the money required for our share of the expense of the engineering, works, and buildings, now to be done, about3O,ooo/. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) •J. C. RASTRICK. London, 17th January, 1824. Before submitting to the Proprietors the particulars of the liabilities of the Company, and . the amount requi site to .complete the line, and the _manner in which it is proposed to provide the necessary funds, the Directors beg to call the attention of the Meeting to the annexed statement of the receipts and paYments to the 31st De cember last; together with accounts of the traffic:— • • Thestatement of traffic on the main line, which is in cluded in these accounts, shows the receipts, exclusive of payments for coaching during the partial opening, to be 34,182/. Os. 2d., and the expenditure 24,4001. 3s. 4d., leaving a net surplus of 9,781 l 16s. 10d. This repre sents the result of sca rcely more than th ree mon th s ' traffic, the earnings during the partial opening having been, as your Directors anticipated in their last Report, barely more than equal to the expenditure. Deducting from the whole amou nt of expenditure, as above the toll, which amounts to 4,57 4 L 16 5., and which would not be incurred wore the whole line the property of this . Company, the-working expenses in respect of this traffic have been 19,825/: 7s. 4d. • • It Must be borne in Mind that a considerable portion of this expenditure is of a fixed nature, arising from an esta,blishnient adequate to carry on a very extensive traffic., on which your Directors fully reckoned, and which would, no doubt, have been secured, but for the unfor tunate occurrences on the Brighton Railway already ad verted to, and latterly the serious inconvenience to which passengers are subjected by the Protracted stoppage on the Croydon Railway. On the increase of traffic, which may be confidently anticipated as the season Advances, the ratio of the expenditure to the receipts w ill, no doubt, be considerably diminished. Your Directors have considered it of the first-import ince to insure the public safety by the utmost care and vigilance of a large police establishment on their works during the present trying season, and they are satisfied that, by ye-assuring the•Pillilie mind in this respeet,even at -a tensporaxy increa: e of expenditure; they aie Iket consulting the real interests of the - Prprigtars.--ile-med The receipts on the Shoreham line ar e 4 1 4 , wbjeeiptit,6 ORNING SUN- templated in the estimates laid before them, and it was for Them to determine, first, whether it was necessary to erect these buildings at all, and, if so, what amount of money should be expended upon them. It was pos sible they might not have to commence them immedi ately—that would be a matter of consideration. With respect to the London-bridge station expenses, they bad power, by the Act of Parliament obtained by the Croydon Company, to raise the sum of 120,000/. ; but they would not require for these expenses more than 85,0001., therefore they would want, altogether, 371,318/. He was willing to admit this sum was a very large amount, but they must bear in mind that 186,318/. was for the railway itself. Now, one word as to the manner in which they proposed to raise this money. They recommended that loan notes shoud be issued, payable, at the end of five years. at 5 per cent. interest, with an option to the holders of such notes, at the expiration of three years, to convert them into quarter shares of that Company, at 10/. per quarter share, under the power of an Act to be obtained for that purpose, for which application would be made to Parliament at the earliest possible period, the present Shareholders to have the preference of tendering for such loan notes, and such tenders to be made on or before the Ist of February, 1842, when the said allotment would take place ; 51. upon each remaining sum of 2/. 10s. per quarter share, on or before 15th July next, and interest to commence from the time of the respective payments. This subject had had a :g►eat deal of discussion and consideration, and it appeared to them (the Directors) to be the best mode of raising the money ; he would, at the same time, say that if they (the Proprietors) could suggest any other or more reasonable mode, they (the Directors) would gladly follow it, but they must bear in mind, that although the Directors were asking for a sum of nearly 400,0001., yet they had to expect nearly that amount from the South Eastern Railway Company. The Directors had bean in communication with these gentlemen, and they had given notice of their intention to purchase a moiety of the line, and they were anxious about it, so that if this were completed, it would destroy the effect of the present grant. He did not know if there was any other point he could particularly allude to, unless he mentioned the recent Chancery suit be tween the Company and Sir 1. L. Goldsmid. Sir Isaac had amended his bill, and he (the Chairman) had seen it ; and he was prepared to say that the Company had nothing to fear from it. The only other point he had to remark upon was the fact of their Secretary having ab sconded. They were certainly taken very much by sur prise on the morning of discovery, when, on going to the office they found a letter from the Secretary, which stated that from various circumstances he was obliged to leave the place. They (the Proprietors) might naturally ex pect that they would be at considerable loss, but they Would not be great sufferers from it, for he was exceed- ingly happy to say the whole amount of his delinquen cies would not exceed 566/. 14s. 10d. They had arisen in this way. He was entrusted with a cheque for 274/. 12s. Id. to pay the Government duty ; this he ap propriated to himself. A cheque for Si. Os. Bd. for the office ; another cheque for 491. Us. 6d. for the office of the agent at Liverpool ; and several other cheques given for the payment of bills, all of which had come in against them, and which amounted to the sum of 566/. 14s. 10d., which he had appropriated to himself. They had no reason to believe there was anything else against him, except that he took with him a cheque for 195/., but of this he paid himself his quarter's salary, leaving a balance behind him of 171.—(Loud laughter.) He (the Chairman) was quite sure that if the business brought before them that day led to discussion, their interest would teach them to conduct that discussion with calmness and temper, as the only way they could expect to arrive at a good and honourable end.— (Hear, hear.) He begged to conclude with a motion, in order that the question might come fairly before them, which was, .4 that the Report and accounts now read be received and adopted, and entered upon the mi nutes, and a copy sent to each Proprietor." A PROPRIETOR wished to know the amount the Di rectors expected to receive for the portion of the line, from the South Eastern Railway Company ? The CHAIRMAN said they could not say exactly, but it would be between 350,000/, and 400,000/. A PROPRIETOR—When arc they bound to pay that money ? The CHAIRMAN said that, fortunately for them, they had given notice to take the line, and be should sup pose they would require but a reasonable time, because if they did not act upon the notice, he thought that any Court would give the amount. But he was safe in saying that tho South Eastern Railway Company was using and making every exertion, and were exceedingly anxious to pay the amount. A PROPRIETOR said he thought it a rather promo :ure proceeding, on the part of the Directors, to call for this money, especially as they so soon expected it from the South Eastern Company, and having been told by their Chairman that the works and buildings would be delayed. If they found that the money was not forthcoming from the South Eastern Company, then they could call a special meeting for the purpose of raising it, if the money was necessary. He was ex tremely sorry that they had come forward to ask for this money, when in their last Report they expressed such sanguine expectations, and which Report was in such unequivocal words. In .that Report the Directors said that no more money would be required, and it gave him severe regret to see them come forward then for such a sum of money as 400,000/. Mr. HENDERSON objected to the shortness of time between that meeting and the allotment of the Loan notes. That time was only twelve days. Mr. PARSONS said that if it was a convenient time to bring forward a motion he would do so. It was an amendment to the motion made by the Chairman. He had taken the liberty of sending a letter to the Di rectors, suggesting to them the propriety of sending the Report to each Proprietor a week previous to the meeting ; and he had done so because he found it in convenient to examine the accounts at their General Meeting. In fact they could pass no opinion upon them at all without a previous examination.—(Hear, hear.) If it was thought that they could not do so, as the meeting was too close at hand, then they might have postponed it to enable them to do so. He was therefore under the disagreeable necessity of proposing that the consideration of the Report be adjourned to a future day. No man could have fairly examined it, and that was his only object in moving the amendment. A PROPRIETOR rose to second the amendment, and did so because he thought the Report itself was of so important a nature that it would be unwise to give an opinion upon it at. once. The CHAIRMAN said that before the motion was put he felt it his duty to make a few observations ; and in doing so he felt the great weight of the observations of the gentleman who bad addressed them.—(Hear, hear.) He thought they were entitled to every information they required, but in the present instance, they had taken quite a different view of the position in which the Directors were placed from the reality. They seemed to feel that they (the Directors) bad not any immediate want for money ; and the fact was, they had immediate want of it. Then they (the Proprietors) would say, So much to your shame ; if you knew that these expenses were coming, you ought to have provided for them. He would ask any one of them whether, situated as they had lately been, hoping for weeks that circumstances would change, whether it was necessary to call a meeting at an earlier period, to state what ? To state that, in consequence of the extraordinary season, certain damage had been done. But they were in hopes, as they all were, that the season would not be more productive of damage to their railway than others. In consequence of the con tinued bad season, they had incurred a responsibility of 184,379/. He did not think that any one in that room would go out of it. leaving the Directors this responsi b,lity upon themselves, without taking_ some means such as they suggested to them to do. The other amount alluded to of 100,0001., as he had said before, if they were anxious that it should be submitted to another general meeting, they could have no objectiou. They must recollect, that, if they raised the money, as they were empowered to do by law, it must be by 5/. shares, and this would have the effect of depreciating the value of the shares, which would be, 'by this course of proceeding, brought down to 30 or 35.--(Hear.) Now it did appear to him that by the course they were pursuing in moving an adjournment, they were damnifying the undertaking, and it would appear to all the world, something like a stigma upon the Direc tors, that they (the Proprietors) wanted confidence in them. This sum was all required for the purposes of the Railway.—(Hear, hear.) If the Directors found any difficulty in raising this sum, they wore empowered to make 5/. calls, and they must recollect that if they (the Proprietors) took such steps as would place the Directors in a responsibilty of 185,000/. that they the D:rectors) must adopt that course. Unfortunate cit.- cumstanees over which they had no control had occurred, and he did think that no set of Directors had incurred such great responsibility ; and if they (the Proprietors) meant now to turn round upon the Directors for having done their duty on the part of the Company, he should advise the Di rectors, although he had as yet said nothing on the subject, to make a 51. call and relieve themselves from responsibility.—( Disapprobation.) Ho was aware he was propounding that which was unpalatable to their cars. The Directors had had care, trouble, and anxiety come upon them from week to week ; and now, when they came for money to clear their liabilities, they were told to adjourn that meeting, for there had not been time i, look into the accounts ; and thus they (the Pro prietors) would leave the Directors with responsibi lities to the amount of 184,000/., to provide for them in the best way they could.—( Hear.) He did not make this obviclatio,n in a bad spirit, or anything like it ; he merely toM fht:m truths not to be contravened. position—they had these The Directors were in this liabilities to pay, and if ‘ the Proprietors did not provide for them the Directors st. He was not saying that nrt: in any shape or way offens i. z ..ely—he would be exceed ingly sorry to do so ; but sal: it was exceedingly painful ' to see the Proprietors expresth,"l a want of confidence tit wrong to raise the in th lairpegma If they thoug:: 100 000iii*t A let that be adjourap -4 ; he had no ob , : ~, jection ; and leaving out this amount it would leave the sum required 271,000/. One word in answer to what had fallen with respect to the power the Directors had for making that call. He believed that every gentle man in that room would agree with him, that the plan they proposed had been adopted on almost all railway?, and he did not know that in any one instance the least difficulty had arisen relative to the Act of Parliament. He was quite prepared to say that the time was short, and he was quite prepared, on the part of the Direc tors, to state that there was no objection to lengthen that period. But he would wish to impress upon them the position in which they (the Directors) were placed, not by any mismanagement or fault of theirs, but placed in that situation by circumstances over which they had no control. If he had ex ' pressed anything offensive to any gentleman he was sorry for it ; it was his duty to go into the matter as fully as he had done, that no one might leave the room with a false impression. He would tell them that parties who had assisted them were looking to this meeting, and the issue of that meeting would decide whether they went on with their traffic or not ; and if they (the Proprietors) came to the resolution of refusing to adopt the Report, the consequence would be, the works must stop. If he had taken a wrong view of the case, he should he most proud to be set right ; but he did hope, that before they left that room, they would empower the Direction to raise 160,0001. to 185,000/. He would not lay further stress on the matter, but if they refused this, it would be the means of damnifying the Company ; and it only required them to held together to be successful in the undertaking. If he had taken a wrong view of the case, still the course proposed by the Directors was a safe one ; and he had no doubt on earth that when the time came for their again assembling, they would say to him—Mr. Harman, the advice you gave us was good, and although we then took a different view of it, yet we are now convinced it. was the best you could give.—(Cheers.) A PROPRIETOR said he thought there was no reason to adopt a different course to that suggested by the Direction, and he saw no reason to adjourn the meeting. He thought the meeting would support the executive in their report, and he thought the amendment would not be supported by a dozen Proprietors. The mode proposed for raising the money was reasonable enough, and most probable. And with respect to the Ad of Parliament, there could not be a doubt but that that would be obtained without any difficulty at once. The CHAIRMAN was quite sure that the gentleman who had moved the adjournment did it from no want of courtesy to the Directors. That gentleman had written to the Directors about getting out their Report, but what, lie would ask, would be the result of such a step ? Why, others got nut their Report a week before the meeting ; gentlemen who were contented would not at tend, and those who were not would ; and the result might be the greate. t inconvenience. All that the Di rectors were desirous of was, that their accounts should be fully gone into, and they would be happy to give any and every' Proprietor who would call at their offices the fullest information. Sir Isaac L. GOLDSMID had abstained hitherto most carefully from entering into this question. He had been now a Director of two other Companies—one for 32 and the other for 39 Sears—and he must confess . Abitt during all that time he had never heard such an extraordinary threat as had come from the Chairman that day. He had told them that unless the Proprie tors waited for the accounts of the Directors, he would put in force the power he held by the Act of Parlia ment, and would call upon the Company for the pay ment of the 51. Shares to pay expenses which had been incurred by the Directors without the authority of the Company.—(Hear, hear.) It certainly was his inten tion to support the motion for the adjournment. He had 200 shares in the Company, and bad never sold one, and such being the case, he thought he might con fidently say that be had a greater interest at stake in the Company than any other Proprietor present.— (Hear, hear.) He had entered the Direction upon the faith that the line was to be completed for 1,200,000/. Now, what was asked by the Dir 7 ectors that day ? Why, that the Company should agree to their raising 300,000/. or 400,0001., without inquiring into the causes that had already increased the outlay to 2,800,000/. The Chairman had complained, and threatened, and used most extraordinary language ; he had stated that the Directors could not foresee things. He did not blame him for what he had done that day, but he did blame him for carrying them on step by step to in crease the charges.—(Hear, hear.) In defiance of all the assertions of the Chairman, the gentleman who had moved the adjournment asked for delay in order to in vestigate the accounts of the Directors, and the Chair man upon that had told them, as if in defiance, that if they adopted such a course, he would call upon them for the 5/. shares. This was a threat which he (Sir i. L. Goldsmid) thought ought not to have come from a - person situated as the Chairman was.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to what had been stated about not giving giving notice of proposing the adjournment, the Act said that fourteen days should be allowed to parties who wished to see the accounts; and, if be understood the gentleman rightly, he had applied at the office tor the accounts. With the little knowledge he had of accounts, he would defy any one present to look at those now produced, and say that they could place confidence in the Directors. .With respect to himself, he mutt be allowed to say one word. It bad been said by the Chairman that I,e had filed an amended bill. Now what was the real fact ? Why, he had already offered rs reler the question as to whether he was entitled to have the clause he contended for in the agreement to two uninterested gentlemen ; and that if they were of opinion he was not, that he would abide by their deci sion. It was said that he might take the land away. Now, he could assure the Proprietors he had no such.; intention. He would ask, then, was it fair to give an improper impression with respect to the conduct of a man who was willing to place his cause in the hands of any two honourable gentlemen ? He had, as he had said before, a large interest in the Company. He had a largo sum of money to receive from them for land ; and he had, therefore, strong tempta tions to go into the Direction, which he did, but which he resigned, because he saw that what had occurred that day must take place. He applied to the Chairman as a man of honour to allow the accounts to be investigated, in order that it might be seen whether or not all that had been hid out had been properly expended.— (Hoar, hear.) If he agreed to this, he should have his support, but if he refused inquiry, he would oppose him to his latest breath.— ( Hear, hear.) If the engineer in the est;rnate of the expenses had been mistaken, well and good, but if not he ought to be dismissed.—(Hear, hear.) In conclu sion, he called upon the Chairman to recal what he had said, and assist them in investigating the whole :le i counts of the Company. The CHAIRMAN WdS exceedingly sorry again to oc cupy a moment of the time of the meeting, but after the vindictive address of Sir Isaac L. Goldsmid— (Cries of " No, no.") He said yes ;he had had to fight the battle of the Company with him—(Cheers) — and he was not to he put down ; and he was sure the meeting would not be led away by any vindictive speech.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.") Sir Isaac Goldsmid had said that he (the Chairman) had .hreatenect to make the 5/. call now ; he had done no such thing.—(Cries of "_Yes, yes.") Well, if be had, ho did not mean it.—(Hear, hear.) Sir Isaac Goldsmid knew the law with respect to the Company, as well as he did ; and that law was, that any creditor of the Company, who had not had his claims provided for at the general meeting, might obtain a mandamus from the Court of Queen's Bench, to compel payment. H• was sorry that Sir Isaac Goldsmid should have made statements that he was obliged to give a direct . negative," to, but the Directors had given way to him, till they could give way no more.—( Hear, hear.) He would not say more upon this subject, as another tribunal would determine who was correct and who in error. Ile admitted that he held a responsible situation, and he did not shrink from that responsibility—(Hear, hear) — and he would say boldly that he had never, in any in. stance, made use of the power given him as Chairman, to further the views of any friend.—( Hear, hear.) Was such the course pursued by Sir I. Goldsmid, when he was a Director ? Had he not made it a sine qua non that he was to make his son Standing Counsel ? ( Hear, hear.) Had the Directors visited their spleen upon him for that ? No, they believed Sir Isaac's son to be an " honourable man," and he was nose the Stand ing Counsel of the Company.—(Hear, hear.) As to adjourning the meeting, that was entirely out of the question, because if they did so they would prevent the Directors from raising the capital they required, and put them in this position, that the creditors of the Corn parry might, tomorrow morning, serve them with a man compeling the Directors to enforce the Si. call. He trusted the meeting would not separate without making provision for the two sums he had referred to, if not for the 300,000/. Since he had been a Director of the Company, he had never lost sight of its interests. He had never done any act of which he was ashamed, and, as he had said before, if any gentleman wished further inquiry, he wished them to attend at the Company's offices, and if they were net satisfied with the course he had pursued, he would at once resign the trust reposed in him into the hands of the Proprietors, as nothing would afford him greater pleasure than to see that trust in the hands of those who were better qualified than himself to carry it fully out.—(Cheers.) Mr. L. Mortl.Er, of Liverpool, had attended the meeting for the purpose of hearing the Report read. He came there from the Proprietors of Shar es, in Ll.e cashire, who were anxious to know what was the cause of the.grcat expenditure that had taken p4 , t cc e - - ..1 ( Hear, hear.) As to the personal altercations b eta the the Directors and Sir 1. L. Goldsmid, thouo } less of law they had the better. II e t hought, that if the could not agree, the better way would be m atter . in dispute should be settled tleough the medium o some hear , disinterested gentlemen. — ht ( election of Directors, be he thoug ' hear.) As to the e the Board, in cas e o f t power of filling up as a vacancy, ought to ay. app oustmett should be subject to e P void, but that tha t the approbation of the next general meeting,--(Heat, bear.) As to t h e deficiences of their lat e S ecretar y, b e thought if proper c are -had- been taken in calling upon • the ess, ince left I of )out Istis, the for be the; the J ora ops unto': our • big ef I, °f:; ~,:$ 0 1941 Id oll ,ter trig Au' of ing •ect the rive mill Loa ing for re. 1(1Y N' }u , ich Lt „r -en -