The Sun. — London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

RUSSIAN RAILWAYS. A " Hertfordshire Incumbent," in writing to the Tirrtes, says : "In a letter which you did me the honour to insert a few days back I called attention to the fact that the construction of railroads in Russia would, having regard merely to the amount of iron required, bo altogether incompatible with the ex isting tariff of that country. "It seems that the Russian authorities have opened their eyes to this circumstance, and w' are told that not only rails, but all other articles of iron bearing directly or indirectly on the great en terprise, are to be admitted free of duty. This is a result upon which the English ironmaAer and the Russian labourer are equally to be felicitated, as indeed every one else is who has no vested interest in the amount of the Custom-house duties on im ported iron, for that these will rapidly become an evanescent quantity under the proposed relaxation is almost too obvious to remark. " Nevertheless, although one obstacle to the con struction of these lines has been removed, many others still exist. However, as we are informed by .Le Nord that a strong Government at the head of 70,000,000 of subjects having decided on the neces sity of them they will certainly be constructed, without any need of resorting to either the experi ence' the capital, or the iron mines of England, it maybe as well to let the " strong Government" find out at its leisure what these are. In the meantime the following table may serve to console the British public for their exclusion from the tempting pro ject. The first column gives the Russian govern ments through which the intended lines will pass, the second the number of inhabitants which they respectively contain to a German square mile, and the third and fourth the corresponding num ber in the Eoglish (or rather Scotch and Welsh) county which comes the nearest in density of popu lation. The Russian and the English numbers are both taken from the official re urns of the census of 1851, so that there can be no reasonable doubt of their authenticity. " The first and second lines, from St. Petersburg to Warsaw, with a branch from Kowno to the Prussian frontier, will pass through the— Ci.ntaining Cos,taining to the English Counties to the Governments. German of German square mile— nearest density. square mile - Inh a bitants o Inhabitants. .., - ---- -- --- ec --- St. Petersburg .. 1,180 9, Caithness ...... 1,144 Pskov .• ••..• • • • 832 'g Selkirkshire .... 783 Vitebsk ........ 908 ,g Kirkcudbright .. 953 Courland •• •• .. 1,00 r, I Perthshire ...••• 1,038 Wi1e5.......... 1,066 ' Ditto 1,038 ~ Grodno ........ 1,255 f . , I Radnorshire .... 1,228 Kingdom of Po I Cardiganshire .. __ 2,160 land . ..... 2,111 --- Average .... 1,203 L Average .... 1,192 . The third rod, passes e Moscow [Me, from Moscow to Nishni Novgo rough the Governments 2,591 A ) Cumberland ... 2,648 Vladimir 1,35i Niahni Novgorod I Merionethshire ... 1,377 Ditto ... Do. - 1 Average ... 1,76% 3 ) ) Average ...... 1,801 ~ The fourth, from Moscow, to Theodosia Mafia), passes through the Governments Mono vr - . 2,531 0 Tonla ... Orel Konrsk 2,112' 41 Kharkoff 1,202 EkaterinosLff . S2l i' a . Taurida Average And the fifth line, froi Libau, through the Govel Kaarsk 2,112.1-; Tschernigoff Mohileff Minsk ......... Wilna Courland 1,003 t Av;.lraga Cumberland Cardiganshire Westmoreland Cardiganshire 2,160 Radnorshire Orkney anst Shetland 847 Argyleshire 572 Average In Maio Arehangelsk to rninents Cardiganshire Merionethshire Kirkcudbright Peebles Perthshire ... Ditto . . I,lro 8 3 Average ... 1,200 " It will be seen that only two English counties have been used in the comparison—viz., Cumber land and Westmoreland, the two i❑ which popula tion is the least dense ; and of these two it is only the latter which is exceeded by the most populous of all the governments of the Russian empire— Moscow. The county of Kent, which, if it did not lie between London and' Dover, would scarcely be regarded as a favourable field for railway enterprise, contains a population standing three times as thick as in that government which is in the heart of Russian commercial enterprise. _ _ " A strong Government at the head of 70,000,000 of subjects may do a great deal of mischie', if not Of good • 5 and if the Czar has set his heart upon thes e railroads he may probably contrive to obtain them. Most men, whether Emperors or not, can carry out a favourable plan, if only they are determined to snare no cost. An eminent agriculturiAt, at one of the society's meetings a few years ago, declared that he would grow a turnip on a deal table, and he was Is good as his word. But what Mr. Huxtable did not attempt, and what the i strongest of govern ments will never succeed in, s to induce men who have not been deceived by false representations to undertake a similar task as a desirable investment. There is no royal road to commercial development any more than to mathematics, and if theprojected Russian hued . are to be, profitable I will no t sa y, but even self-supporting, it is useless to set them on foot until at least a generation has passed away in the enjoyment of a liberal tariff, in the accumula tion of capital, and the ventilation of enlightened commercial ideas. At present, if they could be made, they would subserve only one purpose—to menace Western Europe by the facilities they would offer for moving armies, and thus to revive that oppressive sense of indefinite dread which has re cently been dissipated through the happy co-opera- ' tion of this country and France." (From the Times.) Besides the many powers ascribed to us, there are some which we possess in spite of ourselves. We can not help having shadows, and as little can we help giving opportunity to those who con t ra di ct for contradieti. sake. There are those who are su re t o t a k e one opinion 8 if we take another, who would be right enough, per haps, if they could be right first, and would rath er lee wrong than seem to play second fiddle. Suppose that we had wasted a column or two in exposing a projectei railway from Archangel to Tobolsk, with a branch to Nova Zembla, before the end of the week we shouid fi e d ourselves aceesed of all manner of ignorance, geographi• cal, commercial, political, and social. We should have imposing statistics, lists of Russian houses, financial returns, ukases, and Heaven know- what not, all ar ranged in overwhelming gravity against us. Had not the Czar expressly undertaken to provide free iron, free forges and foundries, free blacksmiths, masons, carpen ters, anti navvies, at every station on the line ? What if there were no poeu!ation now ? Railways make popu lation. They make also their own traffic. The cutting through the Ural Mountains would pay itself in gold ; and it the passenger traffic to Toholek fell off the Czar would only have to exile to Siberia fifty-thousand first-class passenge rs per annum , giving them return tickets avail a bl e a f ter one, two or ten years. Then as to the branch to Nova Zembla, if the strait is not always trezea over, perhaps neve e no doubt we could have an. Imperial the future, Thi s pleage that it s h a ll b e f or notv seem rather a n ex t ra v a gai i t illustration, bnt it is much inure en thanthe 'Cbt'Me which has actually found favou r with a jealous contem porary. Before ri,mo the dreary termini and the we willitu,,fn j ,a at premi se teat th e ra il wa y awful distance,, connecting the two capitols, even with the as sistance of the war and az schemeonation bee not ee t c l eare d leper cent. Well, the Peteretrrg to W arsaw, wiih Co mprises, first, a line 670 miles from St. er a branch of 60 miles to E...,nigtb, It would he juet possible to make a line of thislengthin Great B r i ta i n by m aking the Land's - end and Joh;ao'Groat's house the two termini , and if the provinces through which the R u ssian line passed were all 48 Dopoi)us as the n or th of Scotland and the heart of Wale s , n y e t reached by a railway , the St. Petersburg and War tber of th em saw would, iu one respect, though only °", sta n d comparison with the Caithness and Cornwall. Th e second item of the scheme is a line of 280 miles, thro country Most of which is about as pernio,,_ as M ugh a • e . rionetbshire, from M oscow to NishniNovgor o d . the latter place is ordinarily a.city of no grist RIZ4I and only exists for tr affic•durin g its two mouths' fair , whi••h rair is fast declining, and will declin e a ll faster thin ugh the operation of rail rays, tibia is a ;ins "from the ace of spades to next Michaelmas," f or every condition is fleeting and temporary. Then c oo(o a line of 840 miles, from Moecow to Balsa ; oveo World of steppes and through the Ciimea, but avoid. proviece.s of Podolia a n l ing the comparatively rich the Ukraine, as well as the commercial prrt of Odeioa. Tne average popnlownese of the country traveo , e I appears to he about that of Weetmere'arri. Tht, last is a line of 750 milee, from Little Archangel, soath of Moscow, to Libau, passing through a population about as, thick as that of Cardigenehire. For these comparisons we are indebted to the "Hertfordshire Inounitient," whose letter will be. fount/. in another Curare, It might have been supposed, after our own railway follies, an d t h e commercial disasters so fres h in 6heo7. wry of th e nat i on, that the merest patrioti<m W ot 2 have. prevented.any public writer from assisting the. Czar to pass off his bad railways. Thu love of contradiction, no. doubt, drives men to extreinev, but it ought to have its units like any other mental disorder. It is an assist ance to the Czar when oeo particular of the cormns , i ,- )ii is fixed upon, without whin:., indeed, it wou'd be sirni , lY ridiculous, but which goes very iitt!e way to rNieein s certain fa lure. • iron is the first condition of a Cheap railway, for iron i s required not only for the engines, permanent rail 4, tetnni.rary rails, bridges, au•• tools of a ri kind, but .-dso for all that w‘irk wi,sch fir railway contractors find already dens for theri when they enter a country. The exceptional importation aad traniqiiission of duty-free iron in all for for 2,600 rtive,, of ymuch of it ii.to„ Interims7o-0 or BCO srilzs fro the po , :t, ?P4 e 4 ..k , L Fate ow; Britibb epo-ienc_e or . eaun , ,t but hello ve our THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1856 correspondent, who writes from St. Petersburg with a I thorough knowledge of Russia, that, if this pledge be duly observed, it must be fatal to the present protection of the Russian iron trade. For our part, however, we would rather not embark in an undertakicg which I.rought us idto collision with any wealthy Russian class. We are reminded, indeed, that the iron lords of Russia —the Dernidoffi and the rest—are only a civil or lower nobility. But it is not moral prestige that is in question. This is not a conflict of opinion with opinion, or an in• terchange of ideas from soul to soul. It is that which pssses from palm to palm that isnow in qu , :sti9. Thera are in Russia many men whose wealth and position de. pend on a high price of iron. There are also, even round the very person of the Czar, many ill paid, or at least needy functionaries. Even the late Czar c.iuld not help much that he deplored and could not always de 'ect, and the present Czar is comparatively young. 1 Nobody shall persuade us but what there were Ru•isians who knew what they were about when the improvident nargain was made with the American Company for the maintenance of the Moscow Railway, and that they found their account in that transaction. So, though we are told that every pound of iron and other material r - spired for the railway shall come in duty free, yet the very promise, and the state of things which it indicates, contributes to our feeling that the contractor for these railways has his head in a lion's mouth. He is at the mercy of the beast, and that beast not one, but many. He may be let off. Supposing the thing to answer, the railways to be made cheap, and the traffic to be produc ive, then most probably pr os p er ity would leave no occasion for font play. But what if the whole should be a vast disaster ? It will then be a distribution of losses, in which case woe to the man who is at the mercy of another. At home we all know too well how slowly railways have fulfilled the sweet promise of making their own traffic, and how far some of the principal companies are even now from the desired result. In these Russian lines, in the first place, the whole country is such as has been described—as thinly peopled as our own most re mote and mountainous districts ; then, all the in.titu- 2,160 1,377 95'3 635 1.038 Do. tions of the country, and all its industrial arrangements —particularly the attempt of every proprietor to be complete within the borders of his own estate—are op posed to regular traffic. Further, the lines are laid out, not for passenger traffic or for commerce, but for mili tary purposes. In fact, the Western States are invited to make for Russia a military road from 'he Baltic to the Euxine, and military roads from St. Petersburg and Moscow to Warsaw and Konigsberg, enabling eer to lay armies at a few days' notice on the frontier of Prus sia and Austria. The rejection of Riga and Odessa in favour of Libau and Raffa is a significant commentary on the announcement that Russia intended henceforth to devote herself to the' works ot peace and social ices provement. There is no reason, however,—at there will be no objection felt, tee assist in the formati en of military roads it they will become great channels of trade, and if, by so doing, they will pay a good divi dend. But the interests of trade are utterly set at nought, as well as the interests of the shareholders, by railways which leave Odessa out of the question, and in the north, propose to encounter the competition of the railway from Riga up the valley 3f the Dwina. With regard to the cost of construction, the burn to which the guarantee of 5 per cent. extends is considerably less than the average coat of British railways, and it rests with the touters in the interest of the concessi to to show that the lines can be done for at least that ,su n. Our Russian correspondent is no mean authority, and he says that they cannot ; on the contrary, that much of the country—for instance, that on the line from Little Archangel to Libau, traver-ing the head-wat:rs of many considerable rivers and the intervening ridges —is quite as difficult and costly ae our own. Of ceurie, all the expenditure above 16,000/ per mile will be at the risk of the company, and the interest of that sae .es must be deducted from the 5 per cent, to be received. Should the lines, then, involve a total expenditure of 24,0001. a mile, and the revenue not exceed the gua rautee, the difference due to the shareholder will be only .24 per cent. When he has received this nuageificlut interest for his money for 20 years, the Rassian Govern ment will have, it appears. the right of purchasing the railway at a valuation based on the net profits of the 14. t five years. We very much suspect that even 20 years hence the profits will be nil, and that, by the terms of the concession, the Czar will be able to walk into the 2,600 miles of railway with no other payment or formality than a civil speech to the unfortunate pro prietors. With this dismal prospect we are resigned to see this magnificent cencession pass into other hands. There are tradesmen, indeed, so devoted to their bueinese, and so proud ot fashionable customers, that they are glad to supply a Lord for nothing, or, what comes to the same thing, at ruinous credit. Our contemporary would be glad to supply so grand a personage as the Emperor of All the Russian with rails, chairs, and locomotives on almost any terms. We are old fashioned enough to estimate a customer by the intrinsic value of his custom, end the intrinsic value I of the custom in this instance we believe to b e a ver y minus quantity. left resting on her stealthy advance by the Oxus—at liberty to carry on those intrigues with Persia of which we are just now getting a small foretaste at Herat, whilst at the same time she is covering Ole Black Sea with a fleet of steam frigates in disguise, and about to f-rm a fresh Sebastopol in the spacious harbour of 11%ffa, with ten fathoms of water close inshore. A. good war harbour, which we shonld have t , ) call quarantine for some years, on the coast of Mingrelia, is the only thing wanted to make her dispositions perfect in respee, to her future designs upon Turkey through her Eastern provinces, and her arrangements for ap• p oactiing India, which she will do vicariously through Persia and Affghanistan ; and it really does her Minis. ters the greatest credit that they have been able, within little more than six months of a disastrous war and an enforced peace, to present their country to the world in so creditable and imposing a position. LA IV INTEL LIGENCE.—Nov. 24. COURT OF CHANCERY. ;Before the Lord Chancellor, the Lords Justices, and Mr. Justice Cresswell.) EX PARTE THE OFFICIAL MANAGER IN RE WINDING-EP ACTS AND THE ROYAL BANK OF AUSTRALIA. This appeal from an order of Vice-Chancellor Stuart, assisted by Mr. Jwtice Erie, was argued at Westminster before the full Court of Appeal, with Mr. Justice Cres well and Mr. Baron Martin, a short time before the long vacation. The point, which is one of considerable impor • tance, was whether a call made by the Master under the Winding-up Acts was a specialty debt, or only a simple contract one? It appeared that a Mr. R ibinson took 120 shares in the abovementioned bank, and signed the deed of settlement. Robinson died, and his executors paid a llay a considerable portion of his assets in liqui dating the simple ce:itract debts of their testator; and the quesi ion raised by this motion was whether they were to be allowed those payments as against the call if 1001. per share wade by the Master upon the 120 shares held by Robinson ? The Master decided that the call under the Winding-up Act was a specialty debt ; but Vice-Chancellor Stuart said Mr. Justice Erie, reversing that decision, held that it was only a simple contract one. The case was placed in the paper this morning for judgment. Mr. Justice Cresswell read the opinion come to by himself and Mr. Baron Martin, which, after analysing the deed and the Winding-up Acts, was in effect the same as that come to by the Court below—viz., that the call was only a simple contract debt. The Lord Chancellor said the Celia would deliver its judgnient on Thursday week. (Before the Lords Jeetices of Appeal.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK—AITCHISON V. LEE. Mr. Glas, , e (with Mr. D. Lewis) applied, soon aftEr their Lordships had returned from the Lord Chancellor's Court, for leave to give short notice of motion of appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, pro• nounced about ten minutes before, in order that their lordships might, if kind enough to accede to the applica tion, hear the case which, in consequence of its great importance, all parties were most desirous should be heard and ear , y disposed of. Mr. Roit sa d that the parties whom he represented were equllly anxious that the matter should be soon dis posed of. He was, however, himself engaged at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ou Wednesday next. Lord Justice Knight Bruce—Of course, the case can not be heard with anything like such celerity, for to• morrow is the last day of rerm. The best plan will be t i take leave to give short notice of motion for to•mor row morning (this day), and, although we cannot hear it at once, some period for the hearing can then be arranged. Isaac Moses, the two persons who were with the last witness when the offensive words were used. The defendant said he did not deny that he did offer them a piece of pork, but it did tr.)t belong to him, but to a ventleman on the top of the omnibus. Sir J. Duke (sharply to defendant)—Then I fine you 20s. and costs, or in default 14 days' imprissument. It is not to be tolerated that respectable citizens of Lon don arc to be insulted as they walk along the streets, merely because they are Hebrews. In the course of the day the fins was paid, and Mr. Levy requested the costs might be put into the po. r box. Sir Peter La•irie drew the attention of Sir James Duke to the awful increme of crime by foreigners in this country of late. He held in his hand a return which he had received from Mr. Jones, the clerk of the papers at Newgate, from which it appeared that during the year no less than 64 foreigners had been Committed for trial. The monthly committals were as follows : January, 6 ; February, 5 ; March, 3; April, 5 ; May, 10 ; June, 4 ; July, 6 ; Anguet, 2; Septem ber, S ; Oetober, 3 ; and to the 20th of November, no le , s than 10. Sir James Duke said these facts would no doutt attract the attention of Sir George Grey, and some course would no doubt soon be adopted to remedy the evil. LAMBETH.—Patrick Mackler, at one time an ex pert rider at Astley's, Vauxhall Gardens, and other places, was charged with committing a savage assault on the person of Mrs. Julia Farrill, his mother-in-law. The complainant, whose nose was covered with ad hesive plaister, and of a prodigious size, said that on Saturday night last she was at the house of her daughter, in Vauxhall-square, when the prisoner came borne the worse for liquor, and began to abuse his wife about not having his supper ready, and on her (witness) saying something kind to pacify him, he snatched up the candlestick, and with the sharp edge of the bottom struck her a desperate blow on the bridge of the nose, which cut it through, so that her nose hung quite down, and at f-Irst she thought it was cut right from ber face. She was taken to the house of a surgeon, who strapped up the wound and placed her nose in a proper form again, but she felt quite sure she should carry the disfigurement to her grave. The constable who apprehended the prisoner pro duced the candlestick with which the wound had been inflicted, and which was covered with blood. The prisoner, in reply to the charge, said that his mother-in law, the complainant, was a complete pest to him, that he could not keep her out of his place, and it was not many weeks since she charged him at this court With stealing a sovereign belonging to her. Mr. Elliott told him he bad been guilty of a most savage assault, and sentenced him to six mouths' bard ,abour in Wandsworth House of Correction. SOUTHWARK—CharIes Bond, Sarah, Jane Bond, his wife, Alfred Fennell, and Jemima Fennell were placed in the dock for re-examination, charged with plundering trarle4men in different parts of the metropolis of property, comisting of furniture, glass, watches, weari g apparel, be- r, wine, and provisions, to the extent of more than 1,000/. Owing to the publicity given Lo the last examination in the newspapers, the court was crowded by tradespeople from alt parts of London and the suburbs who had been victimised by the prisoners. It will be recollected that the prisoners were charged with victimising two tradesmen residing in the vicinity of Portman-square. Witnesses were also in attendance from the following firms, who were patronised with orders by Mrs. Bond, alias Bone :—The French Muslin Company, li, Oxford-street, who sent a Paisley and merino shawl for approval ; T. Holt, bedstead-maker, 315, Oxford-street, two mattresses and a bedstead ; Drnce and Company, 58, Baker-street, three rolls of car peting ; Mr. Green, 168, Oxford-street, a valuable tea caddy, workbox, dres-ing-case, and ebony inkstand ; Draper and Co., brewers, Oxford-street, two casks of beer ; Marshfield, John's-weod, two dozen of ale and two dozen of stout ; E. Wellington, High-street, Port land -town, a greatcoat, pair of trousers, and vest; Hol loway and Co., Minories, an American clock ; Robins, oil and colourman, Boston-street, Dorset-square, i-oap, soda, oil, &c. ; Ames and Co., cheesemongers, St. John's wood, two hams, butter, and pig's head ; Good, St. John's wood, fruit ; Powell, Paddington, a trunk ; J. Harsh, 69, High-street, St. John's-wood, boots and slippers; Collar i and Co., pastry ; Rush and Co., and Borrall and Co , ladies' and gentlemen's boots ; Sharpus, 49, Oxturd-street, glass ; Harris Watson, 19, Wilson street, Finsbury, fenders, &o. ; Dyson and Co., Portland-town, groceries ; Seale, St. John's-wood, books and newspapers ; Lodge, butcher, Queen's terrace, meat ; Adam, corn.—The whole of this property was delivered on Saturday, the 15th, and Monday, the 17th, and was discovered by Inspector Mackenzie and Police-constable Bell, at 3, Alfred-place, Old Kent-road. Mr Combe said that he should commit the prisoners for trial on the evidence of the witnesses who had been examined. The solicitor for the prosecution could indict them for the other cases if he thought proper, but he con sidered sufficient had been taken for a jury. Mr. Thomson said that under those circumstances he should reserve his defence, but he asked his worship to admit Mr. and Mrs. Bond to bail. Mr. Dod objected to that. If they required bail the way would be to apply to a judge at Chambers. Mr. Combe said that he should certainly not admit either to bail, as a most extensive system of swindling and fraud appeared to have been carried on by them. They must all be committed to norsemonger-lane gaol for trial. I £A ►aA DUBLIN, MONDAY, THE MURDER OP MR. LITTLE. Very little has transpired since Friday in the shape of facts calculated to throw any fresh light upon the mystery of the Broadstone murder. Rumours there are to no end of the discovery of ;paw links in the evidence connecting some person or another with a knowledge of the crime ; but people have ceased to place any faith in these re ports, which, for the most part, are contradicted wits the same rapidity as they are circulated. The private investigation before Mr. Kemmis continues from day to day without scarcely an hour's inter mission, awl was proceeding yesterday at an ad ♦anced hour in the afternoon. The only reliable information obtainable from an authorised source is to the effect that but little doubt is entertained of a speedy arrest, and that many days, perhaps hours, will not elapse without the efforts of the police being crowned with complete success. Th• following items of intelligence are taken from this morning's papers : " The investigation of the circumstances connected with this murder continued nearly all Friday night, and was resumed by Mr. Kemmis early on Saturday morn ing. From 7 o'clock on Friday evening up to several hours past midnight 20 of the detective police were working with the most praiseworthy zeal to try and ob tain every particle of available information, and at one period on Saturday night a very slight link of evidence appeared only wanting to justify the arrest on suspicion of one of the company's servants. Anonymous commu nications are pouring in, some giving hints, and others all but naming the assassin ; and one thing is certain, that the circle round the guilty party or parties is every hour becoming more circumscribed, and not a particle of doubt rests on the minds of the investigators at the present moment of the murderer being a per son employed on the railway. The proceedings at the investigation on Saturday were even more strictly pri• vate than on Friday. The police have received instruc tions to keep all persons off the premises who have not actual business to transact connected with the rail way or those who are called on to give evidence at the investigation. Rumours of all kinds relative to this murder were in circulation through the city yesterday, but not one of them had the slightest foundation in fact. Up to the present no arrest has taken place. Saturday evening, at 4 o'clock, Mr. Horstnan, M.P., Chief Se cretary for Ireland, accompanied by Colonel Browne, visited the terminus, and was conducted through the building by Alderman Boyce. He examined minutely every part of the room where the murder was committed, and expressed himself most anxious for the discovery of the murderer. The investigation, which was resumed by Mr. Kemmis on Saturday, continued during the day, and did not terminate until nearly 5 o'clock yester day morning. The Crown Solicitor, Mr. Superintendent Guy, and the detective police under their direction, are unceasing in their efforts, and, notwithstanding the ad vanced hour at which the investigation concluded yes terday morning, it was again resumed in the course of the day, when several new witnesses were examined, and others re-examined. So strictly private is the manner in which the proceedings are carried on it is utterly impossible to obtain any information that can he well relied upon. The police appear to be over anxious to keep from the public any facts which have come to their knowledge, which may be given without any fear of compromising the ends of justice. On the contrary, it is generally believed if there was publicity given to sorne matters with which tiny are acquainted they would de rive a vast amount of information and many usefal sug gestions. Up to a late hour last night the police were sent in every direction to make inquiries and glean in formation that could be brought to bear on the parties suspected of the murder. Field, the London detective, was expected in town on Saturday evening, but has n t arrived up to the present. The investigation will be resumed this day. " Surprise has given place to indignation at the fact that no reward has yet been offered by Government for the detection of the murderer. The railway company, though tardily, offered 2001., and two relatives of the deceased have promised a sum almost equal in amount, and have at their own expense engaged a celebrated Eng lish official to investigate the circumstances. Our own detectives are astute, practised men, and surely, bad they been adequately support. d while the trail was, so to speak, warm, results might have been achieved that are now at least doubtful. As a p r oof that the transac tion originated in c i rcumstances conn ected with the esta blishment, it is now mentioned that during the first three months of Mr. Little's connection with the company, is cashier, a sum o f f rom 501. to 801 . wa s taken from him. The medical g en tl emen by whom th e post-ntortem, exa mination was made are now o f o pinion, from the result of the experiment s w i t h t h e recov ered instrument s, that the first blow w as i n fli cte d from the side, and not b y a person standing i n f ront as was at fir-t supposed. Search has been dilig en tl y made i n ever y quarter by the p 'li c e , in which it was considered pos sible that trace s suggee tive of particip a ti on i n t h e c rime might be discovered, but without anythi ng b e i n g o btained that would brisig home guilt to any party—a circumstance that ceases to be surprising when it is remembered that the murdersf bad fully two days at his di , posal for the purposes or concr;a!ment, indep.ndent of the interval which since • apsed." Poor Mr. Little has left an aged mother and two sisters to deplore his tragic fate. The former is 'not expected to recover the shock which her sys tem received on hearing of the murder, and she continued for several hours in fainting fits, which threatened a fatal result. The family resided in a fashionable locality in the southern suburbs of the city, and fully two miles from the offices of the Midland Railway. The deceased was a native of Wexford, and his relatives there hold a highly re spectable position in society. BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the- Week ending Satur day, the Bth day of November, 1856 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford-3emmitt and Pomfret 13,277 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G-. and T. Copeman -- Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 33,829 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co 33,631 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 10,514 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke -- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons 32,511 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co ..... , ................. 11,546 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-11. M. and G. Tubb ......... 14,983 BirmiAgham Bank, Birmingham —Aiptwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford. Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co 6,094 Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co 14,892 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-L-Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds — Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son 28,226 Bath City Bank, Bath Moger and Son - Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co 86,194 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and - Lloyds 29,799 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co. 12,123 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 63,011 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington — Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co. 14,948 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Cb . Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coste and Son 2,545 Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green 17,9Q5 Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Gornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Cardiff Bank; Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, 'Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow--Bromage, Snead, and Co Derby Bulk, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and C 0... Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter, and Co East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight .. Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and 7,545 38,823 12,59 49,772 28,604 Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon Grantham Bank, Grantham—lardy and Co Hastings Old Bank, Hastings — Smith, Hilde r, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich rank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchin' Bank, Hitchin Sharples, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington--- Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton —g-Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson and Co. ... Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank; Leeds—Beckett and Co. • Leeds Union Bank, Leedz—W. Brown and Co. ....... . Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield —Palmer and Greene Lin coln Bank, Lincoln —Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Lla,ndovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—M(l43- ton and Cradock ........ Lymnton Bank, Lymington—St. Barbe and . .... ... C 0................................. Lynn Fegis a nd Ba, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvisand Co ..................................... Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehur; 36,410 47,146 7,618 21,342 71,25: 9,383 10,00 . 3 40,828 27,201 9,735 10,330 and Co. ... . .......................................... . Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. ............................ Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old' Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough —Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son ; Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham- Mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons... Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Oid Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge_Wella_Old Bank, Tonbriftge and gTon bridge Wells and Seveneec oa inks Bank, Ton ' bridge—T. H. and S. Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank Hull—Pease and Co and Beverley Bank , Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter- Penzance Bank, Penzance --Batten and Co. bo r ough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. an d W. Walters ..... .. Reading Bank, R e ading—Simonds and Co , Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Richmond Bank, C0................nd—R0per and Co. Rochdale B an k, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. . . Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Lay and Nicholson Royston—Fordham and Sons Royston Bank , R u by Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Potcfrvt, & Co Rosa Old ' Bank, Heredi rdshire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal s a ffron Walden and North Essex Earl, Saf fron Walden—Gibsona and Co 73,0 84,999 9,315 47,966 5,25 31,885 24,384 21,497 67,04 17,559 25,956 21,459 45,366 8,839 I 5,259 52,435 36,6 31,028 28,988 98,223 7,273 3,599 40,894 13,330 14,92 2,905 9,710 17,764 28,112 16,929 26,398 51,293 19,404 22,227 48,200 96,996 9,953 3,284 19,003 9,159 32,305 11,419 32 ; 680 11,916 16,360 47,879 10,836 10,580 12,399 32,190 29.G62 6,595 4,403 7,61 14,490 8,133 15,868 3,259 29,073 (Front the Morning Post.) It does not appear that the Russian railway scheme can be made to float in its present form, but we may rest assured 'that it will not be abandoned. It is too promising ; and the deadly tenacity with which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg clings to its plans allows no retreat. The mistake was made at first of not offering a sufficient rate of interest; that mistake can easily be rectified, and will be so directly or indirectly. A. six per cent. Imperial guarantee would certainly add 100,0001. a year to the expenditure of Russia itself— about forty millions sterling when all was done ; but the railways will not be altogether dead loss ; and though not, perhaps, the most advantageous that could be devised for external commerce, still will no doubt add materially to the tax-paying power of the people. In . deed the omission of Odessa almost looks as it it was not intended that they should encourage foreign trade too much,- that being the very point where Russia is moat vulnerable. As long as the principal revenue of Rus sian nobles is derived from the export of their produce to foreign countries—which an effective blockade almost an nihilates, ass the cultivation of their soil depends upon ad vances from theircust onaers, which are stopped by the war, and on the number of their efficient serfs, whose number and not the area of land is the true measure of landed property in Russia, and who are taken away by the war —so long will a Russian war with this country run its regular course, through the impoverishment of the land owners, to discontent, to conspiracy—sooner or later to the assassination of the Emperor or a revolution. Paul neglected the warning, and perished ; Alexander saw the advance of the grim spectre in 1811, and preferred even the terrible scourge of the French invasion to the piti e less ruin of the English blockade. Nicholas confronted it in an evil hour of overweening pride, saw the wr. ck his obstinacy had made, felt that he could no longer brave it, and sunk, broken-hearted, at the prospect. We may therefore look to every effort being made by Russia to increase her consuming power at home, and the ac tivity of her domestic traffic, and render her in that respect independent of foreign cations; and certainly the obtaining possession of forty millions of foreieu capital to invest in works facilitating her interior com munications, though not leading to important seaports, is not a had beginning. We believe the exact sum pro• posed is 43,200,0001.—the odd three millions being, and appears to be, paid down forthwith to the Russian Government for that portion of the St. Petersburg and Warsaw Railway which it has - already executed; and there is likewise talk of a further sum to be paid fete some large works for the construction of machi nery belonging to a member of the Imperial family. Altogether, we may assume that from fifty to sixty millions will be expended in the dominions of the Czar ; for, it he will only offer sufficient interest, he will get the money. In the course of the next ten or twelve years therefore the pear will be ripe for further operations, and as that will about have brought round the cycle of Russian outbreak, it may not be amiss to consider what will then be our mutual position. Three great facts in favour of the encroaching policy of Russia have come to light from the war that has just ended. Firstly, that Cronstadt is now, whatever it may have been three years ago, impregnable, and St. Peters burg, consequently, secure from insult; seconaly, that the tranquil possession of Finland is not. to be meddled with, and balf-Russianised as it is, will be left undis turbed until the Russianisation is complete—an operation which will be facilitated by the circumstance of the pre sent Czer having been brought up in Poland—to say nothing of the disputed boundary at the Warangee Fiord, of which we shall probably hear more before long; thirdly, that the Polish question is disposed ot. There is no more a Poland in Poland. A few wandering exiles cherish the memory of Kosciusko, but the guns of the citadel of Warsaw will never open to fulfil Ni cholas' threats. The nationality is gone, the country. is Russiarased ; and so fu ly is that felt, that it is well known that the Russian army in those provinces never was so weak as it is now. Of course the completion of the railway to Warsaw will strengthen Russia in that quarter ; but upon the whole we may assume that the empire is now perfectly at ease and unembarrassed in her European relations. She is liable to no aggres sions from the West ; the time is not favourable tor ag gressions on her part in Europe; ,and we may safely con clude that the whole activity of her never -slumbering p ;flay wilt be turned upon Asia. Through two portals she debauches on the East—Kaffa and Nijni Novo ral—the first leading to Constantinople and I-palian, and supporting en echelon the advance of the latter "Pan Delhi and Calcutta. It sounds wild to task of a Russian cept ti take n ta , u ki ntry so recently and so hopelessly defeated under !.he.Bßssearataan ng pinch enterprises, but it must be remembered that breath for never varies and ne w ve e r m h a a y lts t , hi e n ic x frontiera r newec rectified—which, a d spring. — w ich, by-the-bye it 1. not yet—and the Turkishquestion settled for hail ' ~ r 1 a century to come • ' , ,_ but the Russiau Cabinet . sees a 1 second SUWarrovv same laconic n _ der aafora Ismael, who will receive the judge from th.; to send back C h ' that, however, i s in Asie are going 0, Probablyrepiy beard the summons to re,ist The brazen head has uttered' absorption of Circas4a is nose and somewhat advanced detail, ex. the first did, though it may not, t ante reply of Silietria, be in his power of blasphemous doggrel. distant; tae operations unw• Like Poland, Circassia sace, alai heeded it riot. its third , entenc , aed the trely a matter of detail, theby Vladi Caucasus ; a communication, no longer beriousl shores of the Caspian, through DerbeYndmaenaced, by the undisputed pessession of Georgia • _, the pr ,nveddßaku ; the and corruptibility of the high Turkish , ffi., ja h . m . aliacity m ania S a position at Gutnri which we inn , I t - sea s in Ai' forth to call Alaxandropol, which eo any likelyriihpnce be c' lected in the efface pssbalics of Asia er to mor could look . at, atid which all but c , mmands, or at all events a not very difficuit advance from whichvsenia arm ' . :nand the roads n. Erzerouxu, Aleppo, and Damascus I:az i',... Ruz.iaith her force deple-aed to the south of the Caucasus, her right flank sufficiently secured, her COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Banco.—Michaelmas Term.—Before L-rd Chief Justice Cockburn, arid Justices Cresswell, Crow der, and Williams.) MATHER V. LORD MAIDSTONE. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 1,0001., to which the defendant pleaded that it was drawn for the accommodation of the 11 , ,u. F. Villiers, and ac cepted by the defendant, of which the plaintiff had no tice ; that it was given to renew another similar bill for 1,0001. for three months which was due and payable, and the defendant; believing that the bill so renewed was one of two bills for a similar amount accepted by bins, paid interest for the renewal and received no other consideration ; and that the bill of exchange so renewed was Tint either of the two bills before mentioned, but was a f rged bill, and was not accepted by the del, nd ant. The Chief Baron told the jury that the action was brought on a genuine acceptance of Lord Maidstone, and the defence was that it had been given to take up a forged bill, aad, although that would have been a good defeat: on the forged bill, it was no defence on the bill for whin , ' the action was or•ught if the plaintiff were a bona fide holder for value, and to make that out he must make out that he was a bona fide holder of the forged bili for value. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Ballantine, and Mr. Holt were heard on Saturday to show cause against a rule for a new trial, obtained on the ground of miadi• rection, and that the verdict was against evidence ; and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Lush were partly heard i❑ support of the rule. To-day Mr. Lush finished his argument. The Chief Justice said ne was of opinion that this rule should be discharged. In the first place, he , was of opinion that there was no misdirection on the part of the learned judge. The plaintiff brought hie action on a bill of exchange which the defend ant adruitted was accepted by him, but said there was no consideration for it, but that it was given to renew a bill which was a forgery. The plain tiff, admitting that this state of facts would entitle the defendant to the judgment of the Court if he could not answer them, said that be was a bona fide holder of the forged bill, and that the defendant, instead of declining to pay it on the ground of it being forged, gave a fresh acceptance in lieu of it, whereby the plain tiff was deprived of his remedy by the delay caused thereby, against the indorser of the forged .bill to him, and he looked upon this as consideration giVen fur the second bill, The plaintiff had raised the question whe• ther he was a bona fide holder of the first bill, and that question had been left to the jury. But it was said that the onus of proving that the plaintiff was a bona fide holder of the first bill ought to have been thrown on the plaintiff, and not on the defendant. If it was shown that an acceptance was tainted by illegality or fraud a presumption that consideration was given for it no longer arose ; and the learned judge was therefore right in holding that the onus of proving consideration was thrown from the defendant on to the plaintiff, and that it was incumbent on him to prove that he was a bona fide holder. He could not say also that the jury were not perfectly warranted in the verdict they had found. A man who is told that the acceptance on witch he sues is a false one ought to come forward to give the most complete explanation of the circumstances under which he became possessed of it ; and if be left his ex planation incomplete or unsatisfactory, it was strong presumpt on against him that he was not a bona fide holder of the bill. Then, it was said that the plaintiff was surprised is the evidence. There was no affidavit of that. The application for a new trial was simply on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. The application was not brought before the Court in such a fotru that it could grant a new trial on the ground of surprise, or on the ground of fresh evidence having bee❑ found. Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Crowder en tirely concurred in this opinion. Rule enlarged. IM THE MATTER OF THE MIDLAND AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. On the application of tiir F. Kelly, it being found im possible to hear mule shown against this rule to-day, as the question was one of great importance, involving the construction of the railway and Canal Traffic Act, the rule was enlarged till the second day of next term. Rule discharged. ROLLS COURT. IN RE TEE DEPOSIT AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. In this case an order had been applied for to wind t.p the company, but the case was allowed to stand over to give the cltrtcL. rs an opportunity of winding up, as far as th, y could, without an order. This the directors had done, and in a manner very creditable to themselves. A consent order was now applied for to carry out what re mained to be done. Mr. W. W. Cooper for the petition. Mr. Louis objected to the jurisdiction to send the case to chambers. It ought to go to the Master. The Master of the Rolls d.d not think so, and made the order. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. The effect of the Vice-Chancellor's decision yesterday was to produce an unusual excitement amongst the offi cers of this court. They were prepared to retake pos session of the property of the bank ; but it has bees determined that no further steps shall be taken until the hearing of the appeal before the Lords Justices, which, it is thought, may take place next week. In the meantime there is nothing to prevent the assignees from proceeding to realise the assets, and to declare a dividend, which they wilt do at the earliest possible period. A petition by a shareholder to annul the bankruptcy is appointed for hearing before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd on Thurs day next, but this is merely to lay the ground for an appeal. IN RE REDPATM. nns afternoon the petition before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn in this case waa proceeded with, and after aurae delay an adjudication was made in due form, and the ordinary warrants were placed in the hands of Mr. flanaber fur takin,gspossession of the property belonging to lihe bankrupt. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov. 24. 'GUILDHALL —Thomas Perkins, the conductor of on e of the omnibuses belonging to the General Omnibus C( mipany, was summoned before Sir James Duke for ut ing abusive and insulting language to complainant. Mark Levy said—On Saturday week I was walking nil Ludgate-street, towards the Bank, with two friends, w hen the defendant passel, and perceiving we were He hr ews, he hailed us, in a derisive manner, saying, • Whitechapel, Wbitechapel." We told him we did not ride on Saturday, and then he mounted to the top of the -om❑ibus, took up a piece of pork and held it towards us, at the same time saying, " Yon Jew, will you have a bit of this !" It made no difference to me, as I would has e eaten it if I had beau bungry and fancied it was mutton. (Lazghter.) eviciqute was eorroborated by Lewis Levy and 94,863 54,090 46,158 27,552 7,637 12,479 5,805 4,603 13,260 29,743 30,919 18,841 20,131 53,842 RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. :EASTERN COUNTIES. The followi ig appeared in our late edition of last night : A special general meeting of the shareholders in the Eastern Counties Railway was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, 81-4hopsgate-street for the purpose of electing a gentleman to fill the vacanoy at the board of direction occasioned by the election of Mr. Walters to the office of chairman, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Waddington and his retirement from the active direction of the affairs of the company. Tnere was a very large attendance of shareholders of the company present. The chair was taken by Mr. Walters, the new chair man of the Board of Directors, who, in opening the pro ceedings, briefly stated the objects for which they were assem-led, namely, the electing of a gentleman to fil the office of director, occasioned by the retirement of Mr. Waddington. He trusted that the meeting would give a fair and quiet hearing to each gentleman, and after again urging the necessity of conducting the business of the day in a fair and proper manner, and with these few observations he should call upon the meeting to com mence the business of the day. There were six candidates for the seat at the board, viz., Mr. Malins, Mr. Orr, Mr. Morrison, Mr. blamer, Mr. Welsh, and Mr. Love. On the name of the first gentleman being proposed, Mr. VANCE rose and addressed the meeting at great length relative to the management of the,cornpaay_ for some years past. He characterised the actions of seve ral directors as highly improper, and mentioned parti cularly Messrs. Anderson, Patterson, and Fane. He concluded by submitting a motion for the adoption of the meeting, calling upon the whole of the directors to retire iu a body, or else to allow time to the three gen tlemea he had named, whose conduct had been viewed with great displeasure by the majority of the sharehol. ders, to retire. The CRAIRMAN said he could not put the resolution to the, meeting for its adoption. It was open to the hon. shareholder to move the adjournment of the meeting, but the resolution he had" submitted was clearly out of order. _ . A long discussion ensued on the point as to whether the act of Parliament did not prevent the chairman putting the res ilution by the tact of the directors having been elected for three years. Mr. NORRIS, in the midst of the discussion, said that in order that the proceedings might be gone thi (igh regularly and properly, he should propose the name of Mr. I ratio Love to fill the vacancy at the board. The discussion upon the resolution of Mr Vance was again resumed. Mr. MILLS sa'd the act of Parliament did not grant that the directors should be elected for three years. (Hear, hear.) It merely stated that the directors shou!cl retire by rotation every three years. A SHAREHOLDER moved that the present meeting be adjourned for a fortnight. . The motion having been submitted to the meeting, was negatived by a large tnaj Mr. NORRIS then, at some length, referred to the services that Mr. Horatio Love had rendered the com pany, and the exertions he had made in the late com mittee of investigation to place the affairs of the com pany in a healthy and prosperous position. He thought that Mr. Matins would consult the interest of the Eastern Counties Railway if he retired in favour of Mr. Love. This was the first time the shareholders had had it in their power to reward the exertions of Mr. Love for his inestimable services to the committee he had before referred to. He had the pleasure of an intimate acquaintance with Mr. Love, and from his personal knowledge of that gentleman he could assure them that a better man it was not possible to find, and if Mr. Love was elected he was sure that all his efforts would be directed to the keeping his own honour unsullied, and the furthering of the interests of the com pany. What the mee'‘ing wanted was the Eastern Counties Railway for the Eastern Counties shareholders, and one of the first steps to the attainment of that object would be the election of Mr. Love. If the meeting wiAtod for font new directors, then Mr. Love would be the best quarter. In addition to the other qualifications of Mr. Love, he was an accountant of the greatest abi lity, and the eulogiutns that had been posed upon his conduct at the unmasking of the great Hudson and hurl ing him from his tinsel throne ought to be a great in ducement to the shareholders to decide in favour of Mr. Love. He had no doubt that Mr. Matins might be able to do some good if elected ; but the vacancy, to fill which they had met that day, ought to be filled up by the ap pointment of Mr. Love. (Cheers.) A SHAREHOLDER said he had great pleasure in second ing the nomination of Mr. Love. He thought the share ho'ders owed a debt of gratitude to Mr. Love, and they ought to repay it by electing him to the vacant seat. Mr. LOVE begged to put a question to Mr. Malins. He wished to know, in the event of Mr. Matins being elected a director of this company, whether he intended to retain the chairmanship of the Railway Reform Association. Mr. MALINS declined to answer that question. Mr. LOVE said that from the circumstance of Mr. Matins refusing to answer the question, he had • a right to assume that he intended to retain it. Now, he wished to know what would be the consequence of the election of that gentleman. There was quite sufficient at the board of the Eastern Counties Railway to occupy the time of any one man. A SHAREHOLDER said he thought that a person who was unable to manage his. own affairs was irtshalo3to not heyres.a likely to to m be r a . m u e A r L s i o N n s fi s t i t d o i m t,, a . n n a s g q. e u t i h t quite a true he was unable to ?met his own affairs, but it bad been his constant aim ever since to arrange and settle them. Various other speakers addressed the meeting, urging the election of Mr. Love to the vacant seat. Mr. MALINS then rose, and entered into an explana tion relative to certain share transactions in the Metro politan Railway, to the satisfaction of the meeting, and said that, if elected that day, his best exertions would be used to place the affairs of the Eastern Counties Rail way in a prosperous condition. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the chairmanship of the Railway Reform Association, he thought there yet remained some impor talat alterations in railway affairs to be effected before he vacated that office. Mr. LOVE then addressed the meeting, and said the shareholders were perfec ly aware of his capabilities, and if they thought that be could serve them be would be only too happy to do so. It was his wish, his desire to serve them ; and if elected to the board his only anxiety would be how best to promote their interests. (Loud cheers.) Mr. AOLAND said the circumstance of two champions both fighting for railway reform seemed to him to be occasioned by a mistake on the part of Mr. Malins, who laboured under the delusion that he was the better man. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) The person who ought to be elected to the vacant seat at the board ought to be a man of experience, judgment, and tact ; but such a man was not Mr. Malice. (Laughter.) The speaker went .on to allude to certain transactions in the Metropolitan Railway in which Mr. Matins was concerned, ;.and said it became the shareholders of that company to be sure that they selected the best man to fill the vacant seat —one who stood well in the city of London fact, they ought to choose a man fo r the office such as they would select to be their own executor. (Hear.) He repeated what he had before s tated, that if Mr. Malins was elected it would be by a mistake, and he was prepared to prove by hundreds of letters that if Mr. Malins was elected he would be so elected by proxies, which had been obtained from the shareholders from being chairman of the Railway Reform ASBO. elation, and under the belief that they were to be used for other parties, and not fol. himself. (Uproar.) The speaker continued his remarks amidst the greatest confusion, during which he resumed his seat. After a short discussion relative to the reception of proxies, The CHAIRMAN seid,he had nothing to do with the re ception of proxies. His duty was simply to take a show of hands on the question of wbo should be elected to fill the vacant seat at the direction. The name of Mr. Matins was then submitted to the meeting, when 39 hands were held up. t du The name of Mr. Love was then p ut from t he Chair, to an d nearly the whole of the p ersons p reseut— upwards of 300--held up their ha nds. The Chair's an then , a milst loud cheers, d eclared that Mr. Love had been elected to the vacant seat . A poll was deman ded en behalf of Mr. Malins. The CPIAIRMAN then announced that the p o ll wou ld he opened immediately, ngto-ciy the proce edings. and Wednesday , and on Frida y at o ne o'clock the 4 r esult of the poll w ould be officially declared. 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A liberal supply of wheat, I posed to purchase very freely the best wheat barely inainta ferior qualities were is to 2s 1 , barleys is cheaper. All other Wheat, white, old , per s. s. qr.4o 75 new 43 74 old 38 66 new 38 66 Barley 33 42 Chevalier 3 50 Grinding 32 42 Malt 72 76 Chevalier 74 78 ant merchants not being dis little business was done, and fined last week's prices ; in ower. Beaus and second rate • articles unaltered. Oats, Peas, per qr. Parrtridge White a. 8. .25 31 ~44 46 .42 49 red, Boiling 43 Dun 33 Beans, Tisk 37 Harrow tiolre4l Mangan 38 Ditto, new 37 Statementofficial of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received in the port of London, from the following ports, from Nov. 17 to Nov. 22, both inclusive. ;t4 g g - - - Colchester Harwich 351 211 4 530 /2 . 19 786 Leigh llaldon'll63 i r 454 295 1 234 520 COLCHESTER— Nov. 22, A short supply of wheat ; fine white maintained last week's prices, whilst inferior samples of red were 2s per qr. cheaper. Fine malting barley made very ton quota tions ; other sorts 2s lower. New tick beans declined is per qr. Peas mv.de last Saturday's prices. Prices to-day were as follow :—Virbeat, white, 66.4 to 80s; red, 62s to 70s; barley, 44s to 50s ; oats, 26s to 32s ; beans, liazagan, 40s to 423 ; middle and small, 42s to 46s ; peas, white, 41s to 48s ; grey, 40s to 445. COAL &LARK Prices of Ooarper ton at ET.—Nov. 24. the close of the mutat a. d. Bates's West Hartley ..,16 Davison's West Hartley 16 3 Earsdon's Hartley l6 6 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 16. 3 Canfield Moor l5 3 Canfield Moor Butes 15 3 Walker Primrose . ..... l5 01 Wa►lleand, &o. S. 3 gotten l9 0 fCepier Grainge lB 6 Plummer Russell's Hetton lB 9 6 South Hetton 18 Cassop 18 0 Hartlepool lB 6 fiengb Hall jg 0 Hunwiek l7 0 South Kelloe. , 18 6 Tees l9 0 . South Durham A .18 0 1 South Hartlepool 18 0 I Haswell to 9 I Sold Wallsend, Are, Eden Oosiorth l7 0 Barton KillingworthEast 16 0 Riddell l7 0 Bell's Primrose l5 0 Alnps s,t market...loJ LOOAL SHARE MARKET& LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24. 6TOME EXCHANGE. —The Stock Exchange to•day . W 5 steady, and prices were at an advance on the currencies of Saturday. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 174 - "" Midland, 80A 1i I—London end North Western, 104 i. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 34 s—Lamas/U r° and Yorkshire, 95i—South Eastern, 21 B—East 'Lanes shire, 204—Great Western of Canada, 24} —Ditto, DOW' 2.8.9. prem.—Dutch Rhenish, 1.1.3. p.—North Rasta: l3 e ' Berwick, 201—Ditto, G. N.E. Purchase, 3 dis.—Grest Western, 68—North British, 91—Eastern Counties, ' BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 24. • 310011 EXORANGII.—This market was steady 4. 0418/. Great Westerns were done at 66f 4—Midlands, 804 South Staffords, 3j dis.—London and North.Westerng° 104 5. SfANCHESTER, NOV. 24. STOOK EXORANGE.—The market was improved to4.°l' but prices lad a downward tendency at the 41°°13' Midland Railway Consols, 8 1 80 i — North Western, 7f Midland Eastern and Dover, 211—Manchester, Shefaa's and Lincoln, 34i i—East Lancashire, 20i—Ditto. qrs., 81—Londons, 10 1 —Leeds, 95 a--Great Nor ia4v*— A, 9fi. EIRABORNB MAILS. (II signilea that the inau. arj.uu, trona the General POOV by the night—and M by the morning—Despatch.) when n Ade up From wha t In Genera. Post- jro. Oitce, London.* Dispatobe Frery Friday Liverpool . . Every Tuesday .. Elouthanipton I s tveipoOt Dow tea • 1 4th and lath .. • • Liverpoo gr 1 Wheat, • due 11) ' E n gbul-• weed/ 001.7.ti - T8.1«% ktnorica(by.iirit.pack traorica (by . Uni ' packet) : '... kmerica (by U. 4tat s oackot) I..pstralia (.1a Liver-, (Weekly ~' Twice: pool) ...... Ditto (via ifarseilles) • i Ditto (via Cape of Good' 116 P 0 ) Africa (Wez t Coast:). • 1 ' exandri a .• • • 7 " •• • ° •• Behanias ......... Belgium •• •• •"' 1 1 Brazil •• •'" • • 1 , - * Bnonos Ayres •••• •• •• , Cape of (lood , Lippe ~. Cape of Good Hope . Case do Verde .... Ceylon (see India) • --, • Once (UAW 6th 01 mo Id v.: 19th 49c11 16th* loth. .......... 23d of the month toth 8: 26th Of a O. 4tii 5,:.• 20th of mol.. 17th Of the month Dal ly • •••• • • • • 9th of tho mouth.. Dover rO.l OA •• Soachan - 4. 80atha.m. Cr. Dover .. •• .. Soutnampto;. SuathAnl?ton bih of the month) Uncertain I 1 1 7Jo a t ' it t r i .rn P-°r ! ij 10th and 26th.... 4th and 20th . • 1 , • n 't.l7th of month 4th and 10th , Oth and 26th.... 4th 8020th of •nnn., Twico daily Cliannel Isles .... China • Opnatantinople Constantinople . Cont. of Europe P.l - N Egypt (see India) SOU 011023. SOllthar” Poi go' IDover Fiifice „ Gibraltar 4,7,17,20,27 ef in. D o ve: •• r••• , BoutiVro.,-. to Greece (g , P, India) Greytewn .......... iii flamburgh ilavannnil ilondaras M kadia(vieSontliampt.)Y India (via Marseilles)M lonian Wes (gee rn , ii.) Ireland „ .......... Madeira .......... Andeirn Nfatta (sea India) w 2nd &Pith of mon.l Daily . ......... 2n.1 of the moot;, Daily.... • • ••_•• • • 17tH of tile 41 00 th. qt i nth of 00. 10th &26th of raot`l !SouthaatPtu .. l , London 81) , Lthstri Dover .. .••• ,Sottiliami)tol Dover • • Dover . • • • • DoVner.... Twtce wIY • • • " 2d 0 r ° **** * )ti! of ~-mirt • • 224 or month • • • 'Southan - , Sou e» LivBrp6o' 4, 10, 20, and 2G.. Dover Malts Ntanritlns (see Ir(anritiva Floxlco ...... -"` Peru lq P 4 s eo n wv ji) Papalil n l4 4 13 :a . u rt aa . 3 : d : rr Port Natal welly • •• . Tuscany Vonozuele V ........ bi Van Dienletost,.nd Australia) 4 I West 120 tn 9r the nton •.Boutriau,•. Daily•• • • •• • • •• • • :Dover 44 !0 .7th of month i goutharrip', 4th and 19th Innth'Various Daily •.. ••••• • • Dover ~.• • - iSouthaml', 17th r., , f mon. Southam::c. sth of month ..•• Various poor Every Saturday.. 'Dover .. •r• D .. • • IDover 2d & 17th ofruon,hlSontivtrAn IJr:Aen 1601 n' IS 79th • 4th It 2 16 l.r4flt And 16 A nd 29 2 and 7 and 2 7 rwicedali, Tvrice dAl l ISt and 16 dallY Ist of fffo Daily 16th 4 and'2 l T T ' • 16 & 29 T 6 Dec: 1 6 1 6 and 16 4.1 6 4th L! 1 9 ISt 'let snd 1. 4 'wea l)? 1 1 st . 0 661 Wectlf; ,6tll 4th and 18th of mi imon:111Y de . Whenttny of these dat es f a ll on a Sunday, the T u l lis .veil ,i t e ( ( is spatched on the follo w i ng d ay, with the exception of the Trlt' , : ti tite 4011 thamPton), and the NistßA,, both of which will be deso etc " preceding day, fie lt m O e Y n AL ha C v O in li g riGE - ge , SURGEONS.—The followia for the ' diploma, were undergoneadm theadm it ted necessary .h e meeting of the court of ex ec a me m s at th I , B t :—Messrs. William Darling, New York L 1 4. 11 T0, I c on Bennett, Birmingham ; Samuel Atkinson Iti cu tta ; Camberwell ; Edward Ambrose Fitzgerald, Calcu-.01, members of s O e f lf o i t a h l e t i h n ne s l 2 l: l o l :7 6 Thomas Wise, Beaumont-street; Portland-place Th(ieh.- Williams Haelehurst, ClaverleY , Shropshire ; West Berry, Waringstown, County Down • Ref., l " „• 0 1 Thomas Pearce , Clifton, near Bristol ; and Peter ma_f r t. Anthonisz, Ceylon. At the same meeting of the Z e it Messrs. Samuel Clift and George Bernie Hill paggieci examinations for naval surgeons. 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