The Sun. — London, England, 1849-10-19 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesdayn.) eighth Amount, pursuant to the Act se Amount t of Bank enth a Victoria, cap. 32, of t h e Average Amoun 1\: .tes of the several B anks of Issue in England and i n Circulation during the Week ending Satur -I;ay, the 6th day of October, 1849:- Average PRI VATE BANKS. Amount,. Andover Bank, And over -Heath and Co. .....••• 13,353 AAhford Bank, Ashford-Jemitt and Pofret 15,450 1,702 Avls'na,n bank, Aylaham-R. and G Cop eman Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford .-trot hunt ................... 33 853 , Wildock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswad 3 Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 23,429 Bat n itapie Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 10,045 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke - Seymour, Lamb, and Co .... . ............ 15,508 Bedford Bank, Bedford-I'. Barnard ............. 32,137 Bedford and Bedfordshire Bans, Bedford- Halfhead, and Co. ..................... C 0......................... Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and 12,403 (;rune Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and Co. •••• Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Att srocds, 25,480 Spooner, and Co .............................. . . Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming hAtli -J. L. Moilliett , an d Sons ............. .• ll.lBB 955 Bl a ndford Bank, Blandfor d-Bastard ana Oak 7, Bo , ;ton Bank, I3oston - Ga rfit and Co ...... . ....... 56,326 Boston Rank, Boston - Gee a nd Co ............... 12.946 Bridg water Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Seale,- 5.899 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 3 ,1,200 13roscley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 18,533 Bac%ingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett , Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 67,510 Bari ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 26,934 Ban'oary Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 30.160 Bat:. City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son . e (Fur dshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard--Bassett and Grant 30,247 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and 33,091 Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. awl W. M. Harris a nd Co 11,925 Brecon 01(1 Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 61 , -6 12 Bridport Bank , Bridp ort-S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West and Borrer Burlington and I)riffteld Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co ........ 10,000 Bury St. Edmunds Ba nk, Bur y St. Edmunds- Worlledge and Co. Broupgrove Bank ancl,§tourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsdrov`e-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 11,277 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and • (lo Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and 13,747 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex. Bank, and Pladleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 33,320 34 Cornish Bank, Truro - Twee d y and Co -. ,399 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter - Milford a nd Co 15,766 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbeeks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, 6,183 1,954 and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, ehepstow—Bromage , Snead , a nd Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Mensrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby (ma Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and C 0..., 24,667 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes. Locke, and Co Di Bank, Diss —Oakes, Fincham, and Co Don easter Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew. 65 6,114 10,794 10,447 and Co. Deneaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, &Co 68,907 Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor -11,373 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, D o rchester —Williams and Co . East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford —Sparrow, and Co. 44,955 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 27,158 Fal:onhqm Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Faringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley 5,840 FArnliam Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 9.547 Faveriham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 4,456 Go:l:timing Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 95,059 5,37 Been Grintharn Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildrord Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 10,089 Grantham Bank, Grantham—hardy and C 0.... 26,160 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kinc.xston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Holitingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc 4,801 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Rotator_ Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfor ishire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharpies amid Co. ereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and A rchenfieLl Bank, Hereford—Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 18,916 fvvich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Iladleigh Bank, Manuingtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J Davies and Co K il lgliton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank Knftresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. 23,85 13.278 13,744 30,346 19,306 36,978 Kettering Bank, Kettering-0 ota and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C liarv4 and Son Leeds Bank. Leeds—Beckett and Co 54,552 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Lei...ester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 21,470 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 29.452 r,icheld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 21,766 Lincoln Bank. Lincoln—Smith and Co 76,420 Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe 21,573 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and C 0.... Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co 13,275 5,350 anningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and II un gerforcl Bank, Marlborough —Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank Marlborough—Ward , Merriman, and Hillier Slerionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .. • Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergayenny—Baaleys and Co Monmouth Old Bt.nk, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead • Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S leaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury —Bunny and Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond. and Son ......... Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson .. Norwich Crown Bank, Nor wieh—Harvey s and If udsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—G ur . neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 7,996 Nuueaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 14,550 7.513 6.830 12,820 26,760 11,352 8,178 20,236 42,160 21,278 18,579 3,278 41,478 67,44 Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—llarris, Mudge, and Co. New &Turn Bank, Sarum Everett, and Co LlcAtingtiam Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 27,179 Osweetry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weFtly-- Croxon and Co 12.030 Oxford - bank, Oxford —J. and R. Morrell 7,910 Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. . Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and Sods.. , Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witn e y—Cli no h and Co ... . 10,221 23,376 7,458 _~ _ TILE SON, LONDON. Average Amount. Pease 3 Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull— Pease and Co ' 37,733 Penzance Bank, Penzance , —Batten and. C 0... 11,137 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Banit, Peter borough—Moms. Yoe'. ke Peterborough Bank, Pe terborough—Simpson and White Pe:norokeshire Bank, H.Tverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, :Salmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance— -Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Snnonas and Co ....... 27,440 Reading Bank, Reading—Steohens,Blandy, and 28,964 4 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond —Maxwell and C 0... ,708 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood , Ledgar 8,261 and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Roy ds and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,633 Royston Bank, Royston — Fo rdham and Sons 11,467 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,675 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and C o, Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and 8,903 Co Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd , and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and 20,231 Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South- 73 ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank , Salisbury —Messrs. Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie • and King ............ ....... ................................ Southampton and 'Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall . 3,952 Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,740 Stourbridge. Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co ...... 9,470 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 13,026 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayl,,y, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins 18,040 Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank,' Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 9,883 5,303 __ 4,445 2,626 son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badco ck 21,048 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, 8,176 7,045 8,204 11,640 12,368 7,274 8,52 16,084 6,980 20,34 8,830 6,727 3,53 36,467 12,42 3,539 4,714 375,65 11,602 21,418 4,555 15,610 28,823 44,135 7,241 13,124 8,940 and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 66,683 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster —Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. 1,714 Wolverhampton Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney. Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and C 0... 10,90. Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten ... York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co—.. 39,306 Bank, 13,385 Wolverhampton— 40,28 18,968 3,345 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of 'Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,926 Bilaton District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,397 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 19,862 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 21,095 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 15 ; 400 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 131,682 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 16,725 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 37,360 Hull Banking Company, Hull 21,686 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,587 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 16,738 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 20,582 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,597 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 43,712 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow ll,llO Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 28,944 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 361,684 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 44,718 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 65,919 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,811 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester .. Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,600 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,650 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 56,439 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 643 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Biinking Com shire Banking Company, 53,540 S andt Ou T i c! I d , g a m e S h P e a ffi n e Y l d' 1,675 Sheffield • ... Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield Wolverhampton a 0.1 Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 34,707 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,020 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and L elou i i _ g t on B an king Company, 21,943 , West of E Warwick and South Wales District 30'336 W i3 il a ts nk an -B d t b st L i set Banking Company, Salisbu; 73 4 66,999 2,3 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud. dersfield 30,915 Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester . . .... ...... 4 , 309 York Union Banking Com p an y , York ............ York City and Cou n ty Bankin g Company,York 86,255 Yorkshire Banking Company,. Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset Home, Oct, 13, 1849. 51,0G6 --- WEST LONDON RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the shareholders of this company took place yesterday at the London Tavern, for the purpose of determining upon the course to be pursued, with a view to obtain a per formance of the covenants contained in the lease granted to the London and North-Western Railway Company. Mr. STEPHEN BIRD, in consequence of the lamented death of the late chairman, H. H. Grounds, Esq., from cholera, shortly after the last meeting, took the chair at one o'clock, and in doing so, after passing a high eulogium on their late chairman, stated that they had met for the purpose of considering what was best to be done in consequence of the London and North-Western Railway Company not fulfilling their contract. The directors were unanimously of opinion that something should be done to make the London and North- Western Company fulfil their engagements. Since the last meeting in that place a meeting had taken place at Manchester, and the directors and principal proprietors there had come to the following reso lutions : " That this meeting having received the report of what took place at the recent interview between their direc tors and a deputation from the London and North- Western Board, is of opinion that it is the duty of the directors of this company to forthwith institute and prosecute such proceedings at law, or in equity, as their counsel may advise, for the purpose of compelling the performance by the London and North-Western Railway Company of the engagements they have entered into with this company; and that the shareholders present will support a resolution to this effect, at the ensuing special general meeting. That this meeting regrets the loss the company has sustained in the death of its late chairman, and recom mends that the consequent vacancy be filled up by the appointment of a Lancashire shareholder. " That the thanks o f this meetin g be g iven to Mr. Richardson for his impartial conduct in the chair, and for the interest he has taken in the affairs of this com pany." Mr. AINSWORTH then moved the following resolu tion :—" That the directors be authorised to take such proceedings at law or in equity to enforce per formance of the covenants in the lease granted to the London and North-Western Company, and to obtain compensation for the non-performances that has already taken place, as counsel may advise." He had no doubt that the resolution would be unanimously adopted, and it was evidently the interest of the proprietors to accede to it. He could assure the proprietors that the directors had had such opinisns and advice as warranted them in the course they were about to pursue. Mr. RICHARDSON seconded the adoption of the resolution. Mr. CAMPUS, in supporting the resolution, said that he was happy to be present on that occa sion. The course that had been pursued by the proprietors at Manchester afforded - him the highest satisfaction. When they considered the low terms on which the London and North-Western had pur chased the lease, he thought 'no one could doubt that they ought to be made to perform their bargain. Having law and common sense on their side nothing was left them but to follow up parties who had so basely treated them.—(Cheers.) If they had even offered them common interest, that might have been sufficient; but as the London and North- Western had adopted the course they had, no step was left them but to enforce their claims.—(Hear.) Mr. RIGBY also cordially supported the resolution. He concurred with Mr. Camplin, that the course pursued by the London and North-Western Railway was base and disgraceful.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He believed there had been a foul conspi racy between the Great Western Railway and the London and North-Western Railway Company. The Hon. and Learned Proprietor, after going at consider able length into the details of the trasactions that had taken place between the company and the London and North-Western, and the course the latter had pursued with respect to obtaining Acts of Parliament to extend the line, observed that there could be no doubt that the Great Western and London and North- Western Companies had joined together for the purpose of defeating their line.—(Cheers.) The truth was that it was the interest of the carriers, who made most enormous profits, that had caused the London and North-Western Company to pur sue the course they had. There could be no doubt that the West London Railway would have been of the greatest importance to the London and North-Western Railway by judicious management; but that company, instead of giving the West London Company every facility, had placed every obstacle in their way, and had ultimately declared their repu diation of all that had taken place. He considered that the West London proprietors had been treated basely, perfidiously, and unjustly by the London and North- Western Company ; and he therefore cordially as sented to the resolution, and expressed a hope that no objection would be made to it, but that it would be carried unanimously. Mr. GUNTEU also concurred with the course that had been adopted at Manchester, and thought that the proprietors could adopt no better course then to leave it to the directors and their legal adviser to de termine what steps should be taken.--(Hear, hear.) There could be no doubt that the course that had been adopted by the London and North-Western Company had been pursued in ordsr to delude the proprietors of the West London Company.—(Cheers.) lie believed if the railway was honestly and fairly worked the shareholders would get a fair remunera tion for their money.—(Cheers.) His opinion was that the London and North-Western Company were inclined to put the screw on, in order to see how far the proprietors of the West London Company would bear it.—(Hear, hear.) He cordially supported the resolution. The SECRETARY, in answer to the question of a proprietor, stated that the course pursued by the London and North-Western Company with respect to the carriage of goods occasioned a loss of no less than 2s. 6d. a ton to their shareholders, for they had to pay now 6s. when they would only pay 3s. 6d. if the goods were conveyed by means of the West London Railway, instead of carriers. • Mr. BURGE, though he supported the resolution, thought they had better try persuasion before they resorted to force. Mr. CAMPUS said that he had usually found his friend Mr. Burge in the wrong box—(Laughter)— and he now appeared anxious to put them into it also. —(lncreased laughter.) He thought no better course could be pnrsued than to adopt the resolution. Mr. BURGE, by way of retort, observed that Mr. Camplin would recommend the directors to spend their money, but he would answer for it that he would take good care not to furnish a single farthing. The CHAIRMAN believed that it was of r.o use to make any further applications to the London and North-Western Company. That company had tram pled quite enough on the directors of the West London Company, and it now became their duty to act and not to propose.—(Cheers.) He could assure the pro prietors that the directors were prepared and deter mined to act most energetically—(Cheers)—and not to give up one iota until they had brought the directors of the London and North-Western Company to their senses, and obtained from them the fulfilment of the agreement they had entered into with the West London Company.—(Cheers.) After some further discussion, The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, and declared it to be carried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated, THE PIMLICO TRAGEDY. The adjourned inquisition, touching the cause of the deaths of the five unfortunate individuals who perished in the foul sewer in Kenilworth-street, Pim lico, was resumed yesterday, before Mr. Bedford, the Coroner for Westminster, at the Clarendon Tavern, Pimlico. Mr. J. Phillips, of No. 9, Priory-road, Wands worth-road, and chief surveyor to the Metro politan Commissioners of Sewers, was the first witness called to-day. He stated that the sewer was built by Mr. Thomas Cubitt in January, 1848. Directions had been previously given by the Commis sioners as to the mode in which it should be built, but he did not see it at the time. There were printed regulations supplied to Mr. Cubitt as to the form and size of the sewers always re quired to be built by the Commissioners. These printed regulations, together with the petition of Mr. Thomas Cubitt for leave to build the sewer, were read by Mr. Phillips. The sewer was built under the inspection of the officer in charge of the district, and so far as the works had gone, the printed regulations had been complied with ; but as yet the sewer was incomplete as it was originally de signed or intended. He had, within the last few days, inspected the sewer in which this calamity took place. It was a brick sewer, 418 feet in length, nine inches thick, four feet high, and two feet six inches in width. The sewer had scarcely any fall, but if it had any it was into the Warwick• street sewer. It. was bricked up at the end of it, to prevent mischievous boys from getting into Kenil worth-street. There were six houses in the street, three only of which were inhabited, and one of those mas the house in which they we re then assembled.. The sewer was flat, and perhaps that was the cause of the accumulation of matter in it. There were two gullyholes into the sewer close to Warwick-street, but they were about 300 yards from the wall which locked up the Kenilworth sewer. There were no means of ventilating the sewer; but it should be borne in mind that the sewer was not yet completed. These causes would not produce an accumulation of gases, because the foul refuse carried away from the three houses he had already mentioned consisted of sand or earthy matter, which could not by any possibility generate gas likely to prove destructive to animal life. He, therefore, attributed the existence of the gases which had killed these men to the fact that aboiit five feet FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19 1849. above the sewer a layer of gas lime, which had been used for purifying gas, had been placed over the sewer, through which the surface rain-water had penetrated, and produced the by Ira= en gases which prevailed in the sewer. le concluded his evidence by stating that he had repeatedly been in metropolitan sewers similarly con structed and sealed up from the air like this one, and containing a much larger amount of refuse, but he had never experienced gases like that which existed in this sewer, or that were at all dangerous to life. The CORONER — What lamp did you take with you on these occasions ? Witness—A Davy lamp. The CORONER—Why did you take that description of lamp? Witness—To prevent explosion. The common gas sometimes escapes into the sewers, and if we bad not the lamp it would explode. The CORONER — WiII not the other gases produced by the sewerage deposit ignite too? Witness—No, they will not. The CORONER—Ought not some precaution to be taken to destroy these gases before sewers are entered? Witness—Precautions are taken for that purpose, but my experience leads me to believe that there is not a sewer in London which, without some extraordinary circumstances, as in this case, to produce it, that contains gas detrimental to health, or dangerous to life. (The witness, then read the report, which was submitted on Wednesday to the Court of Sewers. It stated that the sewer con tained a quantity of sand or earthy matter I covered with a dark green fluid, emitting the tame odour that was found to prevail in the lime refuse with which the sewer was covered.) By the Jury—The Warwick-street sewer was reported to be in a very bad state in 1848, and it was possible that some of the gases and deposit in it might have escaped into the Kenilworth sewer. In his opinion, the sewerage fluids of large towns ought to be conveyed away in pipes. It, however, could only be done under a general system, but that system could easily be carried out. It would altogether de stroy the bad gases which were so injurious to health in large towns. The sewerage, immediately that it was produced in a house, ought to be at once carried off through the medium of pipes, as he had already described. He had entertained that notion about five years, and he had frequently recommended l in public the adoption of invulnerable drains and pipes in large towns, for the purpose of carrying off the sewage matter produced in every dwelling-house. The witness was examined by Mr. Hopgood, a solicitor, on behalf of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and admitted that this sewer was well and efficiently constructed. He believed the fall of the sewer was into Warwick-street sewer, but he had some recollection that it was originally intended to make the fall towards the Thames. The fall was about 1 in 3,500, almost a dead level. He found none of the gas refuse in the sewer, but he felt quite cer tain that rain water had perforated the sewer. That belief was not absolutely induced by the similarity between the smell of the water and that of the gas lime. He was quite certain that none of the refuse could be found in the sewer, but the accumulated matter in the sewer had been a good deal trampled upon. The lime refuse was tound lying over the spot where the men fell and died. The sewer had been formed about two years, but during that time the Commissioners had done nothing to cleanse it. By the Jury—The flushing system had not been applied to this locality. By Mr. T. Cubitt—These sewers, if properly constructed, ought to carry off the refuse, and he believed they were so in every respect. Mr. T. Cubitt—And yet it appears that there is a foot of refuse in the sewer, which is a very considerable accumulation indeed. Now these sewers are under the superintendence of the Metropolitan Commissioners, and they ought to clean them out. Formerly if an accumulation took place notice was given to the Commission and they had it carted away, but now the Commission resort to flushing, and the consequence is the refuse of one district is carried to another. Now, if this sewer was properly constructed, ought it not to have been perfectly dry at the bottom ? W itness— I think so, but then the sewer is almost on a dead level. Mr. T. Cubitt—The fact is the Commissioners have neglected to have the sewer cleansed. Andrew Ure, of 24, Bloomsbury-square, a doctor of medicine, but now chiefly employed as an analy tical chemist, was next called in and examined. He stated that a bottle of the water found in the sewer had been handed to him by the last witness, which he now produced, as also a piece of the gas lime which had been found over the sewer, and another piece which be had picked up out of the shelving of the sewer found in the trench which bad been opened in Kenilworth-street. The earthy matter which he produced was a refuse of lime of gasworks impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen, certain prussic acid compounds, and little ammonia of hydro-sulphate, which were all exceedingly noxious to life, and were liable to be liberated by the action of the carbonic acid of the :atmosphere, to "be washed out by the rains, and to percolate down through the crevices and joints of the arched roof of the sewer. The water in the sewer contained the same poisons, and it was these which had produced the death of the victims. The inquiry was ultimately adjourned till Monday next, at eleven o'clock. ITALY. M. Mercier left Rome for Naplle3 on the Bth. The Italia del Popoto contains a leading article by Mfazzini on the subject of the trial now going on at Versailles, from which we glean the following pass;:iges " Phis trial will be regarded as an Italian fact, ser viceable to our cause through the instrumentality of those who, by injustice, hatred, and criminal resistance, threw obstacles in the way of the infallible arrival of a period when the sister nations will go hand in hand. These men are our brethren, their hearts throbbed with enthusiasm when Italy returned to life at Rome, as ours throbbed with joy when France awoke in 1848. And now they are accused for the same cause for which we are proscribed. We do not know whether in France judges will be found to condemn men who had attempted to save the victim when the sacrifice was over. But we know that to justify themselves before impartial France and Europe, they need only lay one hand on the Consti tution and the other on the Papal nootu proprio of the 12th of September. The question is decided—' France shall never employ her forces against the liberty of any nation.' Rome lived under a republican govern ment., issued from an assembly elected by universal suffrage. The republic has been overthrown by French arms, i❑ order to substitute—whet? A government issued from the will of the people, once more consu ted? No; a motu proprio of the fallen Pope. And does this motu proprio at least establish some guaran tees, a legal system of any description ? No ; the part it all.ms to some persons chosen or approved by the Pope is merely consultative.. The Pope may effect his will; the Roman people can do nothing. Has the French Government violated Art. 5 of the Constitu tion ? Let the sentence of the judges be what it may, all Europe will answer—Yes ! the. Article has been violated. We repeat it; the 12th of September has decided the question. And whatever be the sentence of the judges, let the accused console themselves; sooner or later they will leave their prison greeted with the grate ful applause of France." The Piedmontese Gazette of the 13th, the only Turin papar it seems that appeared on that day, in consequence of the funeral ceremony of the 12th, has the following on the subject :—" Yesterday was for the city of Turin a day which will leave a per manent impre3sion in the heart of every one. Dating from that day, a new destiny, as it were, will commence in our fatherland. The august remains of him, who was more a father than a king, whom we saw eight months ago abandon his palace to fight for the sacred eause of the nation, were brought into the capital in the midst of an innumerable multitude. The ashes of that great Prince will be the palladium of those liber ties which he so generously conferred upon his people." The same journal then, atter noticing that the enthusiasm of the people was by no means diminished by the rain that began at noon and did not end till halt. past two, and that every window in the streets through which the procession passed had been carefully adorned with black hangings, promises to give a detailed account of the mournful pageantry in a future number. It mentions, how ever, the inscriptions which adorn a magnificent pavilion and triumphal arch erected before the gates of the city. These inscriptions were to the following purport : " Alas! how didst thou leave Albert, to increase the sorrow of our days of grief, and how dolt thou re turn! Thou art the sigh, the symbol, and the banner of Italy, and on thy sacred ashes is written our hope!" "The star of Italy cannot set. The mind sees, the heart feels, and the world honours it. Let there be praise and not tears for Charles Albert!" "Italy has awarded thee, tho vanquished in a most noble cause, the palm of victory. Wuat can force effect against noble feelings? King Charles Albert, thine is the moral triumph !" MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. (From Punch.) THURSDAY, OCT. 11, 1849.—T0 the Docks to meet Mr. Soker, and go over the Wine Vaults with a Tasting Order, and taste the Wine there before it had undergone any Roguery for the Market. Found there Salter, and Mr. Wagstaffe, and S wilby, and Swype, and 5 or 6 more, and with them Mr. Good fellowe, who had gotten Soker the Order. First to the Quay, heaped with Barrels of Wine, close as Pebbles on a Beach, and one huge Barrel, they did tell me, holding 625 Gallons, and I wondering how it could have been hoisted ashore, Mr. Wagstaffe did say, by an Adjutant, or Gigantic Crane. Then, through all Manner of Casks and Tubs, and Bales of Merchandise, to St. Katherine's Dock, and down to the Vault, where a Cooper forthwith did wait on us with a Couple of Glasses, and gave each Man a flat Stick with a Lamp at the farther End, to see our Way, and we looked Goblins with Torches in a' Pantomime. The Vault almost quite dark, only lighted by Sconces from the Roof, and the farthest Sconce looking Half- a•Mile off, and all this Space full of Barrels of %Vine ! The Roof supported by Rows of Columns; and the. Vault altogether like the Crypt of a Cathedral, but 20 times as big, and more than 20 sweeter; the Air smelling of Wine very strong, which alone did make me feel giddy. Strange to see the Mildew hanging in all sorts of Forms from the Roof, which many do mistake for Cobwebs, but some call Fungus, and Dr. Lim beck, the Chymist, do tell me is mostly Nitrate of Lime. The Cooper did lead us to the \Vine we were to taste, and pretty to see him tap the barrel by boring a Hole in it with a Gimlet. We did drink, all round, a good Ale glass each of excellent Sherry, all except Mr. Goodfellowe ; and I did wonder to see him taste the Wine and call it rare good Stuff, and yet spit it out, but found by and by that he was wise. Next, to the London Dock; and Mr. Goodfellowe did give us Biscuit, and recommend us to eat, and I did take his advice, and glad I did. Here, more curiosities in Mildew, hanging from the roof: and one a festoon as big as the great Sausage in the Pork shop at the corner of Bow-street. A good story from the Cooper, of a Visiter that would needs take a Specimen of the Mildew away, and put it in his Hat, and with the Moisture of his Head, it melted and blackened his Face, and served him right, that—like more than enough Sight-seers—could not keep his Hands from Picking. To several Vaults, and tasted Wine in each ; all very vast, but the East Vault the biggest, and do contain more thousand Pipes, and cover more Acres than I duubt, by Reason of the Wine I drunk, I can remember. After tasting so much, our Party very jolly and noisy, and did begin to dance and sing, and flourish their Lamps like Playhouse Devils ; and methought I did see the Meaning of the Notice outside, that Ladies could not be admitted after one o'clock. Coining into the open Air, our Company could scarcely stand; and Mr. Goodfellowe did see them into two Cabs, and I home on foot—l fear not very straight—and my Wife wondering at the Redness of my Nose. Good Lack, to see the Quantity of Goods and Wine in the Docks; and to think what a great and mighty Na tion we are, and what Oceans of Liquor we do swill and guzzle ! SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF MEDICAL MEN.—The half-yearly general meeting of the Society fer the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men it London and its vicinity, was held on Wednesday at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, Mr. Martin Ware in the chair. Mr. Walsh, the secretary of the society, read an abstract of the treasurer's account for the half-year ending 20th of May last, from which it appeared, that the income for the half-year amounted to 1,6931. 143. 5d., including a balance from the previous year of 2261. ls. Hid., a sum of 5001. Bs. 4d. withdrawn from the Funds, an two legacies amounting to 5551. From the account of the disbursements, the number of recipients during the six months appeared to have been 48, who received the following sums, being half-yearly fixed amounts:—Thirty-two widows, 171. 103. each, 5601.; one, 12/. 103.; four orphans, 12/. los each, 501.; eleven children, 6/. each, 661.; one widow, 101., a donation; salaries and incidental expenses amounted to 551. 16s. 10d.; sum placed in the Funds, 5501. ; and the balance remaining at the bankers' was 3891. 7s. 7d. The members proceeded to fill up, by ballot, the vacancies in the direction, the result of which was, that Mr. T. C. Stone was declared one of the vice pre+idents, Mr. R. Blagden one of the treasurers; Dr. Nairne, Dr. Jeafferson, Mr. C. Hawkins, Mr. 11. Han cock, Mr. W. T. Duff and Mr. J. Ansel!, directors. Since the close of the half-year, on the 20th May last, several new recipients_ hate been placed on the funds of the society, and to one of them, the widow of a distin guished medical gentleman, who has been left with six children, the court of directors voted an annual pension of 1071., to continue till her children reach the age of lourteen; yet her husband had only contributed 14/. 14s. in all to the society's funds. The institution reckons nearly 400 members, but it was observed that if, as it is supposed, there are 3,000 medical men in London and the vicinity, the nutnber who support this deserving charity is comparatively small. SUICIDE AT TUB SURREY LUNATIC ASYLUM.— Oa Wednesday, Mr. W. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, held an inquest at the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, Garratt-lane, Wandsworth, upon the body of Eliza Griffiths, aged 46, the wife of a policeman, at Rother hithe, who had committed suicide by hanging herself. Mr. Stephen Bridgeland, the steward, proved that the deceased (a suicidal case) was admitted into the Asylum for a second time, on the 221 of June last, and prior to her first admission she had been an inmate of Bethlem. Elizabeth Jenkins deposed she was a nurse employed in the institution. The deceased being unwell for some days, had been allowed to remain in LA, and her meals sere taken to her. Witness saw the deceased between 11 and 12 on Saturday, when she had her dinner. Wit ness did not see deceased again until between 4 and 5 o'clock, when she found her suspended by a cord fi one the wire grating of the window ; her feet did not touch the floor. She was instantly cut down. Deceased had previously attempted suicide by thrusting her scissors into her side. Mr. Snape, the medical officer on the female side, having proved that the deceased bad be(n dead for two hours Shen he was called to her, and stated that he had no doubt the death was her own act, the Jury retureed a verdict " That the deceased destroyed her life by hanging herself, being insane." We understand that Lord and Lady Blantyre have taken taken a residence in Edinburgh , where they the Duchess of Sutherland, and sistuns, th remain for some time and that the noble lady 'lntend :ileTestsheor; Argyle and Lady Cons t a nc e Gower, are ex pected in a day or two to vis a noble relative.— w Edinburgh Advertiser. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The combination of parties which has hitherto preserved the majority in the National As sembly of France, and has presented a successful resistance to the violence of the revolutionary faction, obviously possesses no bond of union but its common fears. It acknowledges no man as its responsible leader—it obeys no definite system of policy—it aims in secret at different and incompatible objects—and it is united by no principle but dread of the revolution and aversion to the form of government which a series of startling accidents and _impostures have inflicted on the French nation. To say the truth, it is not the mere form of Republican Government which is the cause of all the calamities of France. The world has in all ages beheld Republics, from those of antiquity to that of the United States, pos sessing all the qualities of a free, vigorous, and pros perous Government; under that form very absolute powers have been exercised, and few such common wealths have ever enjoyed the same degree of liberty which flourishes under the happy shelter of the British Monarchy. The question in France is not one of form, and it has been argued with some show of reason that in that coun try the privileges of hereditary sovereignty and the trappings of a Court are rather injurious than profitable to the permanent interests of authority, be cause they excite in a lively manner that envious and discontented spirit which is the bane of democratic society. Be the form, then, what it may, the same evils and the same difficulties subsist. The same passionate pursuit of the prizes and distinctions con ferred by the State, which inflame the cupidity and ambition of all classes—the same eager desire to make the State minister to every want and accomplish every duty, even at the cost of that independence which is the root of genuine freedom—the same odious distrust of the motives and character of those by whom the affairs of the nation are carried on—the same desire to lower whatever is exalted, and to change whatever is established—the same endless divisions arising from all these causes, where personal interest or vanity are too often substituted for patriotism, and where the only political party which finds it convenient to avow its real principles is that which is at this moment upon its trial before the High Court of Versailles. In such a state of things a slight cause may suffice to occasion a serious misunderstanding between the va rious elements of the majority ; and the consequences which have already resulted from M. Tliiers' report on the Roman expedition establish the existence of important differences between the existing Govern ment and that party by which it has hitherto been upheld. It is possible that on the present occasion these differences may be made up, or at least con cealed, though even that is doubtful ; but they are, by their nature, so deeply seated and so real, that they cannot fail to lead eventually to far more serious consequences. M. Thiers has, after considerable hesitation, taken up his position at the head of the most reactionary party in the Assembly. He is aware that this party, which is in itself the strongest section of the Legislature, only requires a leader to go all lengths in its resistance to the revolution both in France and abroad. His facile elocution and his practical talents are calculated to produce the greatest effect on the numerous class of timid and inex perienced politicians whom the agitation of these times has thrown together, and who are eagerly watching for the orator who will satisfy their perplexed understandings, and the statesman who will promise some short cut to the rescue of the country. To these may be added, though with greater reserve, that portion of the Legitimists whom M. Thiers has conciliated by his recent devotion to the interests cf the Church ; and with such support it is not unlikely that the ex• leader of the Liberal Opposition to the Monarchy may recruit an ultra-Conservative majority in the Assembly of the Republic. We say at once, that if this is to be the fate of the great party which the French nation requires for the restoration of order and peace, nothing could be more fatal to its true interests and its eventual success. For such duties the first conditions are high principles and undaunted resolution—it has been the deplorable fate of M. Thiers to compromise the loftiest positions and to plunge those who have trusted him headlong into ruin, because he wanted such principles, and because in great emergencies such resolution forsakes him. The failure of 1836 and the failure of 1840 may be forgotten, but history will not acquit the Minister who ordered the troops to withdraw, and subsequently made an ignoble retreat from the Chamber of Depu- ties on the 24th February, 1848. Such, however, is the man who not only aspires to lead the majority of the Assembly, but who has commenced a more active campaign by throwing down a challenge to the policy of the President. It was by no oversight that M. Thiers omitted all allusion in his report to the cele • brated letter of Louis Napoleon to Col. Ney ; on the contrary, the whole spirit of the report is in contradic tion to the more liberal views and conditions on which the Government and the President had professed to act. They had made the amnesty, the secularization of the Papal Government, and the introduction of reformed laws essential conditions ; M. Thiers ex pressed, on behalf of the committee, a readiness to accept the last consequences of a Papal restoration, bound by no serious engagements, odious to the Roman people, and derogatory to France. This contest led to a crisis. The existence of the Ministry seemed to be threatened, but the cha racter and policy of the President were as much at stake as those of his Government. Explanations ensued which are said to have averted the danger, but in the course of these transactions it has become apparent that the real command of the majority is not in the hands of the Ministers, but of M. Thiers; that under his guidance and inspiration the majority is more reactionary than the Ministry ; and that it entertains so little respect for the President, as to place him between an humiliating surrender of his own opinions, when they are obviously dictated by a generous and enlightened policy, or an open rupture. Some such conflict is the inevitable result of the provisions of the French Constitution, which has created and opposed to one other, two co equal, permanent, and rival powers ; and it is aggravated by the character and position of the men who wield those powers respectively. So that the one and the other exist under the threat or the temptation of the coup d'etat which will one day cut the insoluble problem. If circumstances have occurred to alienate from Louis Napoleon those parties who at first rallied round him and accepted his election ; if the Legiti mists are prepared to risk their cause by any open manifestation of the indiscreet policy of their leaders and the crude fanaticism of their adherents, contrary to the wishes of the Count de Chambord himself; if M. Thiers imagines that the moment is come when he can assume the direction, or at least the irrespon sible control of affairs, by the aid of the bourgeoisie, the Orleanists, and the alarmists ; if the Republican minority still pursues its frantic chimeras ; the party of Louis Napoleon himself would find itself reduced to very limited numbers in the Assembly, and out of the Assembly his firmest hold would be in the army. There undoubtedly his popularity has not diminished, and his conduct to the troops, both at home and in Italy, has been judicious and effective. But to attempt the solution of such difficulties by a blow is evidently in the highest de gree perilous ; and though such expedients may long sppear possible, if not pr o bable, in France, it is the interest of all men, and above all it is the interest of the nation, to avoid any sudden catastrophe, which would give the signal for an eruption of all the fac tions, the divisions, and the political bands which in fest the country both above and below its surface. These things cannot last. The edifice is built without solidity of material or solidity of structure, and all the elements which have successively over turned the mightiest Governments of the past century are already warring against it. Yet again we say, it is not so much by the fault of this Govern ment, either in its form or in its measures, as by the present unhappy constitution of society itself, that the French nation is hourly menaced with increasing ruin. Democracy has literally devoured and swept away the columns and bulwarks of the State, until nothing remains to be destroyed but property in its primitive form; and even that is attacked. The moral state of the nation is even worse, since all faith, contentment, and trust in the laws and insti tutions of the land are shaken, not to be restored. Destruction has itself become a faith with the wilder and more impatient sort of minds; and even at the moment when some progress had been made in the recovery of industry and ease, that authority which can alone save the country totters on the brink of perdition, alternately attacked by its open enemies, or torn asunder by the more implacable passions and more insatiable intrigues of those who call themselves its counsellors and its friAnds. POST.—Our advices from Vienna speak again of executions. The official Gazette of Pesth announces, it will be seen, the sentence passed by the court martial of Arad o thirteen of the late Hungarian leaders. Of these, Colonel Kiss alone was condemned. to be shot—the rest were doomed to a moreig co n n °- - minious death. Haynau, the General-in. _ _ firmed the decision of the Court, but . afterwards commuted the sentence in favour of Captain Desevvlfy and Lieutenant Lazar. These, with Colonel Kiss, were shot ; the remaining ten were hanged on the 6th inst., the anniversary of the murder of Count Latour, and of the revolution at Vienna. It was on the same day, as our readers are aware, that Count Louis Batthyany suffered death at Pesth. The pro perty of the condemned, whether moveable or im moveable, and in whatsoever place to be found, was ordered to be confiscated. By this decree the widows and families of the chiefs are left destitute; and punishment even in respect of worldly means is extended to innocent perions, the cup of whose sorrow might alr ea dy h ave been deemed full. Had the Hungarian insurrection been without any particle of justification, and had the unaided power of Austria been able to put it down, these proceedings would have been characterised by the untempered severity of justice. Even then the absence of mercy must have required explanation, and could only have been defended by considerations, not one of which can be pretended in the present case. The Hungarian movement was not, as we have often had occasion to show, without a cause. It was stimulated by a gross violation of the imperial faith, and by a determination to maintain an ancient, an honourable, and a guaran teed national independence, invaded by means which, though they might be sustained by real policy or by imagined power, were without the sanction of law or justice. Men who rose in such a cause, though misled into dangerous extravagances in its assertion, cannot be regarded as meriting the death of felons; and if there were amongst them any who deserved so bad a pre-eminence over their fello c nothing is more certain than that their guilt she i I have been made manifest by due process of criminal law. And besides the general principle which has thus been violated in the face of the world, some rsspect was due to the urgent appeal which the Emperor of Russia made, in the hour of a victory not due to Austrian arms, but to the mercy of the Sovereign whose unbought generosity had saved his empire. The amnesty sought by the Czar was without exceptions. If Batthyany or any of his colleagues in the insurrection had been concerned in the infamous murder of Latour, they were responsible to justice, and might have been punished with the approbation of Europe for that fact. But it would seem that these executions have become atrocities, revolting to the sense of common humanity, by the absence of any attempt to prove that they are inflicted for aught beyond the act of having borne arms in a cause which might have been, and probably was, in the estimation of the victims, none other than that of their country and her most sacred rights. Of the value of Austria to Europe we are fully sensible, and it has been our duty not seldom to define its extent and explain its importance. But we cannot deceive ourselves into the belief that one such act as that now under notice is not more perilous - to the stability of Austrian power than many such in surrections even as that which has required the aid of nearly 200,000 foreign troops to subdue. The Cabinet of Vienna must justify these proceedings fully and promptly, or it must confess itself a more dangerous enemy to the Emperor of Austria, and to the lasting peace of Europe, than any combinations, armed or otherwise, which Magyar disaffection could ever form We cannot doubt that these sentiments, which are universal throughout England, will hold their due place in the correspondence between the Courts of London and Vienna. It must sicken every loyal heart to see, the councillors and representatives of legitimacy lending themselves to the most degrading practices of disorder and revolution. FRAN CE. M. Buchez, ex-President of the National Assembly, has addressed a letter to the journals in defence of his conduct on the 15th May. After entering into some details of what had occurred during the early part of that day at the Chamber, and protesting that he had taken every caution in his power to protect the Assembly, he proceeds as follows : " Persons who have seen and studied popular emo tions have remarked that assemblages never disperse until the solution they call for has been obtained, In the circumstances in question the solution could only be an act of violence towards the representatives. That is what I saw on the point of happening every moment. It was evident that the ringleaders of the affair were no longer masters of those under them. Huber a Imitted that fact at Versailles. Raspall used all his influence, but in vain, to induce the people'whom he had led there to withdraw. Every one feared a terrible deka/cm:A.l at was at this moment that I saw Huber near me, and addressed to him those , words which have been so wrongly interpreted- 4 Make the people retire, or have me turned out. Cer tainly I never thought, I never wished that it should have been done by any public declaration, or by such words as Huber made use of half an hour after wards—the idea of such an enormity was the farthest from my mind —but I called down on myself, as I said at Versailles, some act of violence which should drive me from the bureau, and which would have been the solution which the people appeared to wait for. Every ono who saw me can attest that I was at the time per f ec tly cool and collected. I had calculated the danger which I incurred, and it was perhaps less serious than it appeared. I had also another idea: I said to myself, that if I want through the storm as I had done up to that time, I should derive great honour from it; but that if through any fault of mine any misfortune should happen to any one of my col leagues, I should be most culpable in my own eyes. More interested for the glory of the Republic than for my own, I wished above all things to avoid a sanguinary collision. That was my first duty, which I considered it better to fulfil at the risk of iticurring blame. I saw but one means of gaining time, and that was to write those orders not to beat the rappel, for which I have been so much reproached. I only wrote five, three of which were placed in hands which de stroyed them. They were, besides, written in such a manner, on little scraps of paper, without address or date, that no one would have considered them as having the character of a real order, and as I have before explained from the, tribune, would rather have led to the arrest of any one who should have the auda city to make use of them. Besides, of what use could they have been ? Twelve picquets, of 1,000 men each, had been assembled at ten o'clock in the morn ing, and the order to beat the general rappel in Paris had been given by the Minister of the Interior at one o'clock. It was then four o'clock, and I was aware that all the legions were under arms. It has been said that I tremblsd when I wrote the orders alluded to. Let any one, ,however, look at the writing if the two which are preserved, and they will see from the firmness of it whether I was alarmed. I signed them with more cool ness than I write the present letter. It is well known how I was expelled after a declaration which was a constitutional absurdity. What did I then do ? I told M. Degouss 63, the questor, to assemble the Deputies at the Presidency ; to retake the Chamber, if possible, and, if not, to send the deputies to the Luxembourg, where I ahonld convoke the As sembly. I myself went to the Luxembourg to centralize the forces on that point, in order to act against an emeute which I considered to be more formidable and more compact. When I arrived at the Luxembourg, I signed the convocation of the Assembly at that place. That measure was, however, useless; the rioters had evacuated the National Assembly, and the members were able again to assemble there." PRUSSIA. The news of the execution of Count Louis Batthy any, by order of Haynau, had provoked an universal feeling of grief and indignation in Berlin ; for the Hungarian documents recently published at Frank fort indicate an agreement with the Archduke Pala tine, whereby Barthyany's offence—" the transgres sion of the administrative arrangements of Hungary-, as laid down by the laws of March, and the tampering with the union secured by the Pragmatic Sanction" —was at least excused ; the Palatine, at all events, being exhibited in the light of a particeps crirninis, or, if not, a party equally gu►lty. ANNIVEREARY OF TliE BIRTII-DAY OF TUE EARL OF FlFE.—Saturday, the 6th inst., bang the anniversary of the birth-day of the Right Hoc. the Esrl of Fife, great rejoicings took place on that and the previous evening throughout his Lordship's extensive estates,and in the towns adjoining them, its honour of the event.— Edinburg/4 Advertiser. The DESERTERS at NOTTINGHAM. At five o'clock on Monday evening, fifteen out of the twenty-seven that escaped on Sunday night from the barracks remained uncaptured. At that hour the deserters met in a body on the London-road. A dis patch was immediately sent to head-quarters, and a body of about fifty soldiers were ordered in pursuit. At six o'clock the deserters were at a village about a mile from Nottingham, accompanied by an immense mob of the lower orders, by whom they were loudly cheered. Indeed, throughout the whole of this disgraceful affair, the mob has taken part with the deserters, and thrown every possible obstacle in the way of the parties sent to apprehend them. At half-past six o'clock the proper authorities passed through the village in rapid pursuit; and not coming up with the objects of their search, the troop was disbanded into small parties, and scoured the country for two or three miles round. The deserters were at length discovered near the Nottingham meadows, and, after a smart skirmish, eight of the refractories were taken, and instantly conveyed to the barracks. It is but justice to say that the parties engaged in the capture of the insurgents have acted in the most forbearing manner, and that they have only used stringent means when all others failed. We under stand the whole affair arose out of the late holiday (Nottingham fair). About sixty of the regiment spent too much of their time at the fair, and neg lected to attend properly to their horses ; and Colonel Arthur, a gentleman highly esteemed, not only by his men, but also in the town, as a punishment, re solved to confine the delinquents to the barracks. On Sunday the whole sixty had agreed to leave the barracks by force, but when the time arrived only twenty-seven appeared at the call of the leader. The barrack-yard postern was smashed to atoms, and other disgraceful acts committed ere the deserters got clear away. TUESDAY EVENING, EIGHT O'CLOCK.—Up to this hour five of the insurgents connected with the riot on Sunday night remain uncaptured. The picquet were engaged in an active pursuit all last night, and about eleven o'clock succeeded in capturing one of the ring leaders, about a mile south of the town ; another has been taken to day, so that five only now remain at large. The one that was captured on Monday bad taken refuge in a public-house, in one of the low parts of the town. He was discovered in bed, dressed in female attire. Reports are very current in the town that there has been for some time an indifferent feeling subsisting between some of the -officers and the men, and that the approaching court-martial will bring to light the reasons for such ill-feeling; and, it is to be hoped, settle all differences. N9TTINGHAM, THURSDAY.—The excitement occa sioned in this town by the misconduct of the Sd Dragoon Guards has somewhat subsided, giving way to gossip respecting the future punishment of the delinquents, all of whom, except two, who made their escape on Tuesday morning, have been apprehended by picquets which scoured the town and neighbour hood. Many of the refractory men had but recently enlisted, and as such have been summarily dealt with. The others, who are suspected of having taken leading parts in the insubordination, will be tried by martial law; and yesterday the colonel of the regiment, the Earl Cathcart, arrived in Nottingham, by special orders, from Glasgow, for the purpose of forming $ court, which is to be opened as soon as the neces sary evidence has been collected against the offenders. RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS. BRISTOL, OCT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a fair amount of business transacted to-day, and prices improved as the day advanced. The sales are— Great Western, Quarters, 12% dia.—Mid.. land (Bristol and Gloucester, 5 0 4 Shares ), 8% (371. ss. Shares), Oh p. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 18. STOCK EXCHANGIC.—We had an animated share market to•day. The business done was to a large extent, at higher prices. The sales are—Caledonian, Preference, 7 5 ,i---Great Northern, 5 per cent. Preference, 2 7 / k dis.-- Lancashire and Yorkshire. Consol. (io—Ditto, Fifths, O. 18s. 9d. dig. Ditto, (West Riding Union), 7 dis.—London and North- Western, 107 1 A—Ditto, New Quarters, 14 dia.—Ditto, Fiftha• p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln (Great Grimsby and Sheffield), 10—Midland, 45—Ditto, Halves, 224 dis South-Eastern and Dover, 17—Ditto (No. 4), 5 5 i i—Yor 1 ‘: Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. jai 1850, 5% dis. ________ MANCEIESTER, Our. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were 3 0 fellow :—Shropshire Union, 3% dis.—Caledonian, Preference , 7 3 / 4 —Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 1 4 1 3 . - r a Sheffield, Preference, 10%—North S ta ff ordsh i re, 8 11'1' dis —Manchester and Leeds Fifths, 7 1 / , ‘ Cs.—West Riding Union, 7 dis.—Dover (No. 2), 17 1 ,4 2 —Ditto (No. 3), 16 1 / 4 ' Ditto ( so. 4), Registered, 5% —London and North-Wester n, 107—Chester and Holyhead, Preference, 11 —York and North Midland, 19 3 4. There has been a decided improvement in the market to-day, and prices hAve been firmer. YORK, Our. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were e follow :—Ea,tern Union, B (late I and B), —Great Northern, 6/. 13s. 9d.—York and North All"' land, 19%. GLASGOW, OM 17. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were ie follow:—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. I)P 6% —North British, 101 18s. 3d. Compare your griefs with other men's, and 04 will seem less.—Eliza Cook's Journal. BIRTIIB. On the 13th inst., in Cavendish-square, the lady of Mons' Jules Avigdor, of Nice, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Reading, the lady of Captain Janie° A. Murray, R.N., of a son. On the 15th inst., at Brighton, the wife of E. Willi Robertson, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 15th inst., at Woolwich, the lady of C a ptaill Freese, Royal Artillery, of a daughter. Oa the 16th inst., at Marine-parade, Brighton, the wife or Major M'Qiieen, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Hurworth-grange, near Darlington' the wife of Mark Ord, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., at Stratford-grove, Mrs. Manley 11° P er kins, of a daughter. MARRIED. at* On the 20 th ult., at St. P aul's Collegiate Church, oa l a l oe, Li e utenant-Colonel Ferryman, Bth R eg i men t, to o f youngest daughter of the late William Sinclair, Esq'' Freswiek, Coil hnesshire, N.B. On the 13th inst., at St. Mary's, Peckham, tr Hoghton, Esq ,of Somerset -street, Portman.square, to le, youngest daughter of J. W. Ellis, Esq., of Rye-terra Peckham-rye. On the 16th inst., at Grately, Hants, Henry i tter Esq , of Winch es t er, solicitor, to Emily Jane, eldest dat i P of William H enr y Gale, Esq., of Grately. Mrs. Eliza Robins, relict D o l i E t p he late Mr. Ebenezer of Brigh , on, aged 53. P O, At Margate, on the 2d inst., Miss Francis Jolly, ag e l i On the Bth inst., a t h er residence, Golden-square' —be deen, Miss Jane Kinloch, aged 72. tts On the 11th inst., at Coggeshall, Essex, Thom as "- mi Es On the 12th inst., at Mahmore-place, Park-road , Pec je Emily, wife of Mr. John Henry Morris, and niece of tl? , : e , e , Rev. Henry Martyn, 8.D., Fellow of St. John's C pits Cambridge, and Chaplain to the Hon. the East Co mpany. V ist ' On the 14th inst., at York-square, Commercial -road Margaret relict of Mr. John Humble, a : , ed 67- John On the , 16th inst., at Claremont-place, North Brixtoend 74. 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