The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-10 00:00:00

EVE IVO EDITION'. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY .—Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and Viscountess Barrington and the Hon. bliss Mitchell, the Lady and Maid of Honour in Wait ing on her 111ajesty, attended Divine service this morn ing in the Chapel Royal of St. George. At half-past one o'clock, her Majesty the Queen Dowage r took her departure from the Castle. Lord and Lady Barrington were in attendance upon her Ma jesty. The Royal party paid a visit to her Royal High ness the Princess Augusta at Frogmorc, where they Partook of an elegant luncheon. The Queen Dowager and suite proceeded from Frogmore to Bushy Park shortly after four o'clock. This afternoon her Majesty, attended by the Coun tess of Sandwich and the Hon. Miss Paget, promenaded en the Terrace, and afterwards walked through the Slope s to Adelaide Lodge. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, walked this afternoon in the grounds attached to the Castle. The Earl of Sandwich, the Hon. Berkeley Paget, and the Hon. Wm. Cowper, took their departure from the Castl e this morning. The following will join the Royal dinner circle this evening :---Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Countess of Sandwich, Lads' Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Co c k s , H on . M rs. C amp b e ll, H on . Mi ss P aget, Vtscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Falkland, Earl of Surrey, Lord Alfred Prget, Hon. George Byng, Sir W. Lumley, and Baroness Lehzen. We are sorry to announce the sudden demise of Jas. Judd, Esq., who expired at eight o'clock last evening. Mr. Judd was one of her Majesty's pages of the pre senef'. Within an hour previously to his death he was in excellent spirits and health. He was a gentleman highly respected and esteemed thro ug h ou t h er M a j es ty' s household. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese• beck, returned to his residence at Kew, on Tuesday evening. Mr. A. Stewart, Member of the Legislative Council the Pr ov i nce o f Nova Scotia, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, in Down ing -street. Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadoes, had an interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Lord Advocate of Scotland and the Hon. Fox araul e h ad an interview yesterday, with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. , General Alava, the Spanish Minister, transacted hu gincss• yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Dr. Bowring, Mr. Turnbull, and William Allen, had interviews with Lord John Russell, at the Colonial office, yesterday. Mr. James Freshfield had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN CE. ARRIVALS. Major and Mrs. Gwynne Halford, in York-place. from Berlin ; Lord Ellenborough, from Southam Park ; Lord Grenville, at Devonshire House, from Chatsworth ; Earl and Countess Brownlow, from Richmond Hill ; Mr. Weld, flora Lulworth Castle: Lady Anne Montagu Scott, from Leamington Spa ; the Hon. E. J. Stanley, M. P from the north ; Lord William Thynne, from Caw dor Castle; Sir John Osborne, Bart. ; Lady Elizabeth Whitbread at Kensington-gore; Mr. Fulke Groville ; Vice- Admiral White, in Park-square ; the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul ; Earl Cadogan ; Sir Richard Glyn, Bart. ; Mrs. Denison ; Sir Alexander Grant; Mr. Ed ward Drummond; Lord Folkestone and the Hon. Edward 13ouverie, in Gloucester-street ; Hon. Major-General Ly E -, on and family, from Worcestershire ; Colonel Sib thorp, M. P., from Lincolnshire; Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, M. P., jun., from Littleton House, near Staines; the Countess of Surrey and Lady Mary Howard, at the Rookery, Dorking ; the Earl and Countess of Clancarty, at Garbally Park ; the t:on. Henry Manners, at Cam bridge ; Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., at Melford Hall, Suf folk ; the Hon. and Rev. F. Grey, at Buxton; the Earl and Countess of Durham, at Lambton Castle ; Lord and Lady Barrington, at Bushy Park ; Sir John and Lady Gera,-d, at New Hall, Warrington ; Lord Stanley and th e Hon. Capt. Stanley, at Knowsley Park ; the Earl of Stradbmke, at Henham Hall ; M. le Prince and Princess Anglona, family, and suite, at the Brunswick Hotel, Jer myn•strect, from Paris ; M. le Prince Beauvau. M. le Baron W. de Knyff, and M. le Comte Adolphe Hama!, at ditto, from Brussels ; the Hon. John Ponsonby, at Bes burough House. DEPARTURES. The Earl and Countess of Essex, from Patterson's (late Scaife's) Hotel, Brook -street, for Cashiobury ; Mr. and N irs. liibbert, from ditto, for Cheshire ; Lord Norbury, from ditto, for Brighton ; General Grosvenor, from Gros venor -street, for Upper Hare Park, near Newmarket ; Mr. John Stewart, M. P., from the Albany, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Basil Cochrane, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, f rom Portman-square, for Paris ; Lady Charles Fitzroy, from Burlington House, for Worthing ; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, for St. Leonard's-on- Sea ; Count - I PAglie, on a tour ; the Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's, fr Piccadilly, for Nottingham; Vice-Admiral Praed, for Bognor Rocks ; Sir William Burnett, on a tour of nisi.ection of the naval hospitals; the Right lion. Sir Char lea Grey, from the Clarendon Hotel, for Tynemouth ; Nly, and Lady Anna Maria Tollemache, for Dorsetshire ; Su- John Hall, Bart., Lady Hall, and family, from the unswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for the north ; John Ca "Pbell, Esq., from ditto, for Islay. CHANGES. Talbot Patterson, Esq., from Bushey, Herts, for Meri onethshire, North \Vales; Lord and Lady De Saumarez, °rl a visit to Mrs. Lechmere, at her seat, near Malvern ; the Hon. Edward Massey, at Cheltenham ; Lord and Lady Manvers, from Throesby Hall, on a visit to Lord Skel tersdale, at Latham House, Ormskirk ; Col. Vandelcur, l oth Hussars, at Winchester, from Weymouth ; Lord and L ady C or k, from Leamington, for Cheltenham ; Lord and r i tlY How-den, at Paris, from Dieppe ; the Earl of Ran • ur iY, at ditto, from ditto; the Duke of Grafton, and Lady , aura Fitzroy, at Euston Hall, from Clevedon, Somerset ; S l ‘ i ce- Admiral Sir Graham Hamond, from Cowes, for Wi,lehester ; the Dowager Lady Glentworth, at Clifton Plot Wells ; the Lord Chancellor, at his villa, Copse-hill, „Wirnt, ledon ; Viscount Ebrington, at Liverpool. from zkingstvwn ; Sir Frederick Dundas, from the Duutie Irivernesc• The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have given up their inteuded visit to Paris this winter. His Grace having quite recovered from the debilitating effects of his severe attack of gout in the summer, is desirous to be in this country at the commencement of the hunt ing season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury are on the eve of leaving Tottenham Park for Paris, where they will winter, and meet Earl and Countess Bruce, on their return from Baden-Baden. Earl Cadogan left his residence in Piccadilly, y es terday afternoon, to join the Countess and Ladies Cad, , gan, at the Earl and Countess of Jersey's, Mid dleton Park, near Bicester. _ The Earl and Countess of Eldon have returned to Shirley, their seat near Croydon, from a visit to Lord P eversham, at Duncon:he Park, Yorkshire. Lord Leveson, M.P., has arrived on a visit to t he Xarl and Countess of Lichfield, at Shugborough ,ark, near Lichfield, from Chatsworth, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. Lord Alvanle y left Ital y a few da y s since for a tour in Egypt. His Lordship was to arrive at Alex hasria i n t h e ensu i ng week. There i s a rumour that Lordship will return to this country early in the ap broaching spring. Lord Desart and party have been on an excur sion to the mountains of Grenada, having landed from t h,e Owen Gl en d o wer yacht, at Mal a g a , on the 20th The Noble Earl and friends afterwards embarked • board the yacht, to visit the islands in the Mediter ranean. The yrouthful Lord Dalkeith, and his brothers , the t ord - s ,Scott, have derived so much benefit from the • Bats at Broadstairs, that the idea of revisit ' Contie , ent is, we believe, given up. a Hi s Excellency Baron Brunow will have an adie nee of h er Niaiesty, in the course of the week, guem l via as to his Excel:ency taking his departure to as is diplomatic functions at Stutgard. Stu Nesselrode has left Mivart's Hotel, for Bard, where he is about to be Principal Secretary •0 tne Russian Legation. :Baron Meyendorff arrived in town early in the 7,eelk . • fro m a tour i n t h e manu f ac t ur i ng prov i nces. T he l oi t aron le aves ear l y i n the ensuin g wee k, to j o i n t h e I, ar onesa*. when they in company will proce e d t o St. et ershuiv„. Lord and Lady Holland entertained a select party sli nner, o n Tciesday evening , at Holland House. His leel leney the E marriage announced of Granville was among the guests. Ea h e d between Henry Tayl or , of Green -street, ond the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, trig'h of Lord Montongle, ter will be solemnised a t a r i : ngs, early i n th e ens uing week. I' NvE ItARY CASTLE. —The Duke of A rgy l l is er Of -e r in g a family c i rc le, and there has been a succession he . sit e " to congratulate his Grace on his return to his et t.e ` tita rY domains. The Noble Duke is expected to . ur n to th e S out h a b ou t the middle of December, to e li na ills duties at Court as Lord Steward. e trtcstita;trlsc'N MANOR.—Sir Robert Peel has been °n ;• —fl i n g a party with the sport of pheasant shooting, ''s well-stocked preserves, during the last ten days. s i n ''rul Sir George Murray, Captain A'Court, M.P., S ir • Ak l eXa d B Mr. Bonham, the h ner Cray Grant, art., wer t 'lon, Yates Peel, and Mr. Edward Drummond, butch' tjle party. The birds are young and plentiful, in fC s a many preserves have postponed shoot ]) the Ist of November. 'ound it i n tjaY "LA The note of preparation" is Ra ged g this t, t .eatre. The workmen arc busily en : °rti a ln laying the new stage, and in repainting and chi t. tenting every p a rt of the house. In one thing I, heatre will nght e d present a unique attraction ;it will be Pri nc i ple :all the cel e b rate d B u d e li g ht upon a new will b • V e L'N.r.-UARDEN.—The opera of Artaxerxes bt ren t rought out at this theatre with all the operatic Pr o d aof the Company, an d to ju dge from the effect „ ueed at rehearsal, 3" successful r ev i ve ,„ it will be the most k is which has been witnessed for some years. Austin, the Mandane, is a pupil of Mr. Welsh. SPAIN. PROJECT OF LAW UPON THE AMNESTY, The following circular has been sent to all the poli tical chiefs by the Minister of the Interior, and enclos ing the Amnesty Bill : " "The results of the memorable treaty of Bergara are incalculable, and the more to be prized as they must lead to the pacification of the e n ti re monarc h y . O w i ng to this fortunate treaty, w hi c h h as b een a su bj ect o f sur prise not only to th e i n h a bi tants b ut to the f ore i gn na tion, two armies, heretofore only meeting in hostile csn tact, now join hands with fraternal amity, and for the future will acknowledge no other banner but that of my august daughter, the Queen Donna Isabella. From the rainbow of peace which has appeared at Bergara it may be confid en tly augure d t h at t h e ent i re h or i zon will soon resume its wonted serenity and sunny aspect. The 14th September will for ever be a memorable day, as marking the flight of a disloyal Prince and the return of peace and repose to Navarre ; the national armies, covered with glory, may henceforth be employed in the pacification of those parts of Aragon, Valencia, and Catalonia which have been desolated by the iron yoke of sanguinary monsters, who, by acts of brutality and violence, have forced a portion of the population to rise against the fundamental laws of the country, and the legitimate throne of my august daughter. The troops of the Basque provinces return to their homes to enjoy once more the blessings of tranquillity. Spaniards of all ranks and conditions flock back to their native country, which they had abandoned on various grounds, and are now well convinced that they can find happiness nowhere but in Spain. lf, on the one part, my heart is ready to d e f en d an d conc ili ate Spaniards, and to give a fresh, voluntary, and spontane ous proof of my wish to bury past misfortunes in total oblivion ; on the other, it is my duty, as Queen Regent, to satisfy the hopes and fulfil the promises held out by that invincible general, the Duke of Vittoria. Vested with full powers from my Government, he has restored to the country an immense number of Spaniards, who, harassed by so many pai n s and p r i va ti ons , ar d ent l y de sired the return of peace and tranquillity. " It is therefore, with the firm conviction, that the work of reconciliation will proceed in as frank and ge nerous a manner in other parts of the monarchy, as it has done in the Basque provinces, and being con vinced that all those who return to their homes are desirous or tranquillity, and that they will be received with prudence and tolerance by those who have suf . - fered to an equal degree by the vicissitudes of war. For the above reasons, as Regent, and in the name of my august daughter, and at the unanimous wish of the Council of Ministers, I decree as follows : " That all the political chiefs, and authorities be longing to your administration, shall use their utmost efforts, with prudence and cordiality, to promote recon ciliation amongst all, by causing several wrongs to be forgiven, by restoring harmony amongst all Spaniards, and by encouraging those who did not quit their homes to receive in a hospitable and friendly manner those who, on their return, may recollect events which might expose them to persecutions and regret. " 2. The same authorities will render every assist and legal protection to those who, after recognising the Constitutional Government of my august daughter, shall resume the enjoyment of social rights, which gua rantee personal liberty and security, which every Spaniard ought to enjoy. " S. Though it will be the duty of the authorities to watch attentively the conduct of all persons, who, from their previous acts, may excite a suspicion of their renewing disaffection or disturbances, attacking the con stitutional system, or attempting anything against the throne of my august daughter, still this surveillance will be adopt e d w i t h out vexat i ous or i ncons id erate pro ceedings, unless plausible motives should require a con trary mode of acting. 4. If, on the one hand, I wish that the persons alluded to in the foregoing articles should enjoy every protection ; on the other, I direct that a proper severity, and if' necessary, an exemplary rigour, shall be put in force against those who, deaf to the voice of their country and of their Queen, offering them reconcilia tion, despise the boon, and commit excesses which will plunge them in the misfortunes of a period which should be fur ever forgotten. "' 5. The same measures shall be put in force against those who, under any pretext whatever, shall attempt to disturb public tranquillity, particularly at those critical moments in which an imprudent act may retard the work so happily begun, and obstruct the march of general pacification. Nothing can excuse the negligence or weakness of the authorities who are invested with neces sary powers. " 6. In order to insure the prompt and full execu tion of these intentions, which are the echo of our ma ternal love and devotedness to the welfare of this great and energetic nation, you will communicate them to all the administrations, so that the authorities, civil, eccle siastical, and military, may combine their efforts to perfect a work of reconciliation which will confer hap piness upon the entire nation. (Signed) "' The QUEEN.' " By her Majesty's order I send you the above communication so that you may take cognisance thereof, and cause it to be duly executed. (Countersigned) " CAHAMOLINO. " Madrid, Sept. 24, 1839." TO THE POLITICAL CHIEFS. The following is the act of amnesty above refer red to : " Art. 1. A general and complete amnesty is granted for all political offences committed during the present struggle, and according to the following conditions : " 2. The proceedings pending with respect to this class of offences shall be suppressed at whatever stage they may exist at the promulgation of the present law, and the accused persons shall be forthwith set at liberty. Those already condemned upon similar grounds shall also be liberated, and allowed to return to their homes, the same permission small be given to all individuals ar rested, imprisoned or taken from their homes by order of the authorities, and as a measure of precaution. " 3. Those who, for political reasons, have take taken up their residence in foreign countries, will be at li berty to return freely to this kingdom, without being obstructed by any authority, or prosecuted for the above motives. "4. In case the Government should consider it prejudicial to the safety of the State, or hazardous to public tranquillity, that certain individuals, comprised in former paragraphs, should reside in particular parts of the kingdom, it will have the power of forbidding them to abide there during a given period, not exceeding three years. "5. The embargo and sequestration decreed for political causes are removed ; the property subjected to embargo or sequestration will be given back to the original owners, in the state in which it may be at the promulgation of the present law. " 6. Persons comprised in the present amnesty shall be reinstated in their political and civil rights, and without the slightest prejudice. They shall resume the rank, honours, and decorations which they previously held from the State ; and those who formerly were en gaged in civil employments shall be restored to them, or their services made available in some other situations, according to their merit and circumstances. " 7. No action can be brought, nor any tribunal ad mit a complaint for injury, damage ; or loss arising out of the civil war, or from causes of a purely political nature. " 8. All administrators of public money will be held accountable for the property sequestered or seized dur ing the present struggle, and to render an account thereof, in conformity with the laws upon this subject. " 9. Should circumstances prevent the present law from being applied simultaneously to all the provinces, the Government is authorized to apply it immediately to those whose state will permit, and to fix the inter val to be allowed to others for participating in similar advantages. " 10. This amnesty is to be understood without pre. judice to the stipulations of the treaty of Bergara, and of the other treaties which may be concluded, with the previous authority of the Government, the clauses and conditions of which shall be religiously observed. " 11. The present amnesty shall extend, in its full sense, to the provinces and colonies abroad. The cap tains•general are required to apply it according to the wants, and for the security of the said provinces, and they are to render an account to the Government of' their proceedings in this respect. " 12. As the state of the nation may permit, the Government will propose, at a fitting moment, to the Cortes, those means which it may think most convenient for remedying, as much as possible, the damage arising from the civil war, so that all traces of the calamity may be expunged. " 13. To be entitled to the advantages of the pre sent amnesty, it is indispensable that the individuals comprised therein shall make their submission to the legitimate Government of her Majesty Queen Isabella 11., and th a t th ose w h o r eside in the Peninsula, and the adjacent islands, shall take the oath to the Consti tution of 1837. " 14. Those who shall relapse into disobedience shall be responsible for their acts, as if they had not been amnestied." MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—The statements put forth by the Tory agents, and published it: the_ Tory papers, are party documents, of which truth and accuracy are not the most prominent features. A Con temporary, who h as t a k en the trouble to notice the fabri cations, states that a care f u l analysis of the whole re vision, showing the numbers and description of the per sons actually struck off the register by the Tories, how man y were dead, registered more than once, and under every different class is now i n preparation by the Reform Registration Soci e ty, anti will b e p u bli s h e d a s t Gou as the revision is completed. Let the fionserva tive Aasoziaion do the same if they d are a l ., trut h will then be Ltd= the public, and u n til th at pe , i , d they can form no trot opinion. .Up to thi s d ay not one true statement has bats published by the Tories ; it is believed that they are tlicinekies ashamed of the acts of their subalterns ; they did not expe9t that the imposture would be exposed. THE! SUN LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1839 Flora was not pregnant. But that charge, if charge it be, applies with equal three to Sir Charles Clarke, the friend of the Hastings family ; for, so suspicious did the case appear to him, that, before proceeding to the extremity of a medical examination, he urgently en treated Lady Flora to confess that she was pregnant, if such were the fact. But it is no reflection on the profes sional skill of either Sir James Clark or Sir Chas. Clarke, that they were unable, before resorting to a medical exa mination, to pronounce Lady Flora to be non-pregnant, for every person knows, that there is no class of medi nal cases which so frequently set the greatest profes sional skill at defiance, as those which relate to preg nancy. Who does not remember, that some of the most distinguished physicians of whom the metropolis could at the time boast, gave it as their decided con viction—and that, too, after the strictest examination-- that the celebrated Johanna Southcote was pregnant at the time she represented herself as about to give birth to a second Shiloh, and we-e only induced to admit their error after a post-mortem examination of her body had taken place. But we will not, by any further observations of ours, weaken the impression which cannot fail to be produced on the mind of every one who reads Sir James Clark's statement. It is, we repeat a document which is at once temperate and most triumphant. Our only regret is, that w i t h t h e means o f so complete a vindication in his possession, he should have submitted in silence to the calumnies which have been so profusely heaped upon him. However, he will now have the satisfaction of knowing that ho stands as clear, in the estimation of the public, of the charge of any improper conduct, in the case of Lady Flora Hastings, as he has all along done in his own conscience. The only wonder is that, in the very peculiar and difficult position in which he was placed, by circumstances over which he had no con troul, he should have acted with so much judgment and delicacy throughout the whole of the affair. We envy not the feelings of his traducers, if they be not lost to all feeling, when they shall have read his statement. A report has been abroad for several days past—but by whom set afloat we know not—that the Marquis of Lansdowne, who, it will be remembered, recently set out upon a journey to the Continent, for the benefit of his health, had been recalled by a special messenger ; and that a Cabinet Council was to be held immediately upon his return. Not pledging ourselves in the slightest degree for the truth of this report, it may nevertheless be very fairly surmised, both from the position of our foreign relations, and the changes which have recently taken place in the Queen's Councillors, that a Cabinet Council must speedily be held, and that its discussions must involve the most important results, both at home and abroad. Without for one moment countenancing the idea so eagerly propagated by our Tory Contempo raries, that our Indian empire is in danger, either from the ambitious schemes of Russia, the foolish enterprises of Persia, or the hostile feelings said to be entertained against us by several native chiefs, there is neverthe less so much cause for apprehension as to render the utmost vigilance, the most careful deliberation, and the most prompt decision necessary ; while with regard to the relations, or rather the no relations, which subsist between the Sovereign of Turkey and the Pacha of Egypt, they have been so complicated by domestic treachery and foreign designs, as to render them an object of much anxiety, not to England only, but to every power in Europe. Still, as no very essen tial change has taken place within the last few weeks in our relations with either of these Powers, and the policy of our Cabinet regarding them been long fixed beyond recall, it is fairly to be presumed that the ap proaching Council has fur its object the settlement of questions of domestic importance, rather than of those which are interwoven with our foreign relations. What questions are these ? it will be asked. Why, there are first of all, the questions, the solution of which is calcu lated to place our fellow-subjects in Ireland upon a footing of equality with their brethren in England and Scotland, or to leave them in the same anomalous and dissatisfied condition in which they at present are—then there is the question of a general Education of the people—there are the questions of the Ballot—of tri ennial Parliaments—of a more extended suffrage—and, last of all, of the Corn-laws—questions respecting which the public will no longer be held in suspense, and upon which the Government will do well to decide with the least possible delay ; for, be it remembered, that it is not complained of so much by its friends, supporters, and well-wishers, on account of the absence of a well judged and extended liberality in its views, as on ac count of its slowness in evolving them, and the feeble ness with which it supports them when brought forward. These two capital defects must, therefore, be removed, before it either regain the popularity which attended its first formation, or be successful in carrying its views into effect. railway that had been adverted to, certain tolls should be collected, and placed in a common fund, each Com pany deriving benefit from those tolls, according to the portion they contributed. - A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the Brighton and South Eastern Companies were disposed to co operate with that Company —making the lines that had been adverted to. The CHAIRMAN said that the Directors bad not yet had an opportunity of negotiating upon that subject, but it was their intention to do so shortly. The CHAIRMAN trusted if there was any sum to be placed at the disposal of the Directors for their remu neration, it would be carried back to the time of the old Directors. A PROPRIETOR thought a distinct motion ought to be made on that subject. Mr. COOPER considered that such a motion ought not to Le made in so thin a meeting. Captain PAGE then gave notice of his intention at the next meeting to move that a sum of 500/. should be placed at the disposal of the Directors for the remunera tioia of their valuable services to the Company. A PROPRIETOR also gave notice of a motion for the next meeting, that 50/. should be placed at the disposal of the Auditors as some remuneration for their services. Mr. GOLDSWORTH, as one of the Auditors, declined accepting any remuneration. The Report was then agreed to, and ordered to be adopted. THE REPORTS AS TO SHUTTING UP THE RAILWAY. The CHAIRMAN said that several reports had got abroad that it was the intention of the Directors, after the fair at Croydon, and during the winter, to shut ule the Railway ; nothing could be more erroneous ; ill fact, the adoption of such a step would be suicidal in the extreme, and he thought in that observation the Proprietors would join with him when he stated that the average receipts were 104/. 7s. a day, not including the fair.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. N. - SmiTir, one of the gentlemen who had been elected to the Direction, after observing upon the arduous duties they had to perform, stated that he returned yesterday from traversing the whole of the Brighton Line, and he was happy to say it was pro gressing most satisfactorily, and he did not despair of seeing it opened as f'ar as Merstham early in the next year. That no doubt would contribute greatly to the benefit of the present undertaking. A vote of thanks was then proposed and carried to Mr. Cape!, and the Committee of Inspection, and also to the Directors, and the meeting separated. THE DORCHESTER LABOURERS' FAREWELL BENEFIT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. S 12,—The Committee took the Victoria Theatre for one night only, and got up the benefit (on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1839). The house was crammed, the applause tumultuous, and wreaths were thrown upon the stage for the heroes. Scarcely had they began to speak than the curtain descended with great swiftness, to the utter astonishment of both parties. Will any of the haters of deserving men explain their motives publicly. Should they not, I shall consider them base, cowardly creatures, who are malicious enough to attack, though not brave enough to answer the just charges brought against them. [We have taken some liberties with our. Cor respondent's letter, as we have no right to insect attacks on an individual on anonymous authority.] SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS (PROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) (From the Morning Advertiser.) We invite the special attention of our readers to a statement by Sir James Clark, which will be found in this day's paper, respecting the case of the late Lady Flora Hastings. We hold it impossible for any unprejudiced person to read this calm and candid docu ment, without coming to the conclusion that Sir James has made out a most triumphant case, both for himself and for the ladies whose names have been so much mixed up with the unpleasant and unfortunate matter to which it relates. It has been most pertinaciously asserted. by certain persons, and by the journals in their employ, that the rumours respecting the alleged pregnancy of Lady Flora Hastings were the fruits of a conspiracy in the Palace against her Ladyship. The assertion was for a time believed ; but the correspondence on the subject, recently published by the Marquis of Hastings, has proved with clearness of demonstration, its utter groundlessness. There is not an individual in the country who now believes that there was aught of unkindly feeling towards Lady Flora, far less of con spiracy against her, in the minds of any of those whose names have been mentioned in connection with the recent unhappy events. Even the very persons who still persist in repeating the charge of conspiracy know it to be utterly unfounded. Where, then, shall we find language sufficiently strong to denounce, as it ought to be de nounced, the conduct of those who, to gratify private enmities and to promote political purposes, can thus con tinue, day after day, to make assertions which are alto gether contrary to their own convictions. We need hardly say—for the remark has occurred to every one's mind who has ever thought on the subject—that had any hostile feeling been entertained by the ladies of the Palace towards Lady Flora Hastings, or any conspiracy been entered into against her, those feelings would have been manifested in a very different way, and that conspiracy would have assumed a very different form ; for the allegation of pregnancy, if it had been invented, was sure to be disproved in a few months at farthest, and consequently, while Lady Flora's triumph would have been complete, the discomfiture and disgrace of those inventing or circulating the calumny against her would have been no less signal. In short, it is now uni versally known and believed, that the suspicion of preg nancy entertained for a time against Lady Flora was the result of appearances of such a nature as to render it, impossible for any one, in daily intercourse with her, to resist the impression that she was enceinte. It is now proved not only to have been a mistake, but a mistake which, under the circumstances, was unavoid able at, the time. It will be seen from Sir James Clark's statement, that so strongly did the symptoms of Lady Flora's case resemble pregnancy, that even Sir Charles Clarke, who stands at the head of the profession in that class of diseases peculiar to married females, could not, after he had seen and in one sense examined Lady Flora, give a certificate to the effect that she was not pregnant, until he had recourse to the extreme ex pedient known by the phrase " medical examination." The suspicions of pregnancy in the case of Lady Flora being thus not only natural but unavoidable, it was a duty which the Ladies of the Palace owed to (From the Times.) The reader's attention will be well repaid by the pe rusal of a letter signed " Benbow," in this day's Times. No man who is conversant with passing circumstances, or alive to the spirit and temper which now possess the officers of the British navy, with reference to recent facts in which they arc all deeply interested, will be at loss to conjecture the subject of a communication bear ing such a signature. We will venture to say that there is one name, the name of an individual moreover, who wears the uniform once distinguished as that of Horatio Nelson, which within the last eight days has been pro nounced more frequently than that of Nelson, and has suspended all outward demonstrations of the idolatrous reverence due to his honoured memory. Does the name thus dwelt upon belong to any Eng lishman who by glorious deeds of arms has eclipsed the reputation of that mighty chief? Is it by a rival of the hero of Trafalgar, or a worthy suc cessor of that immortal hero, that his admirers and worshippers are confounded and struck dumb ? Is it for the sake, or in the presence, of one by whose man date every British sailor has been reminded of his duty, and by whose example he has been warmed to _ . the . discharge of it, that the whole navy of England has within this week been electrified into an uncon sciousness that Nelson ever existed, or that the road to distinction for a British officer is to conquer the enemies of his country ? The person who has thus astonished the maritime community of Great Britain, and drawn universal notice upon himself, at the very moment of his first emerging from the most profound obscurity, is he who in the Navy List bears the designation of " the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming, Admiral of the Blue,"—and there it ends. We have looked in vain for a single work of professional honour set against the name of this same Admiral of the " Blue " more appropriately Admiral of the " Yellow ;" not a medal, nor an order of Knighthood, nor a state ment of service—not one. We have looked in vain for any warlike document where any single achievement was ascribed to him. The Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming has been all his life a man unknown upon the quarter-deck. He has been unknown everywhere but on the hustings or in a mob assemblage, where he, who never saw an enemy's fleet in his life, had the modesty and the manhood to describe the formidable fleet of Russia in the Baltic as a fleet of " paste board." Here, indeed, is one service—the only one he ever yet performed—for which the Gallant Ad miral—and we are not base enough to insinuate that lie may not be in substance as he is in sound— a " gallant" Admiral,—we only affirm that he has not had, or taken, an opportunity of showing it. The " gallant" Admiral has in the instance which gave rise to our present observations obtained the first profes sional distinction of his life, in his case a distinction without honour, one which he has humbled himself by filching from the veteran and respected hands to which right and justice and public opinion had awarded it—hands by which the prize would have been ennobled, not tarnished, as it is, and must be, when bestowed on those who have done nothing to deserve it. Let the public just glance over the list of veteran officers whom our correspondent " Benbow" has presented to the nation as eligible and unquestioned candidates for the Governorship of Greenwich Hospi tal—a list which might fairly be enlarged—and then sa y whether the act of passing over such a race of men in favour of so very common-place and, pro fessionally speaking, so insignificant a personage as the " Hon." Charles Elphinstone Fleming, is anything less than an insult and outrage to the marine of England. Where there are among the competitors for this time honoured prize Moore, and Martin, and Trollope, and Hotham, and Rowley, and Sidney Smith, and Stopford, and Cockburne, Hargood, Durham, Bayntum, Codring,- ton, Digby, Bullen, and all passed by, that Mr. Elphin stone Fleming may profit to their disparagement, can anybody wonder at old " Benbow" for exclaiming " Now this is too bad ?" if party services are to be rewarded, let it be by some recompense within the legitimate means and patrimony of party. To divert the pay of warriors to the encouragement of partisans, is of all modes of public robbery the vilest and most shameful. It is pilfering the sanctuary of our glorious marine, and sacrilege by hired menials within the walls of the holy edifice. It is proclaiming to a midshipman on his entrance on board ship, that the path to favour and promotion is not that of active service, of con spicuous bravery, or of generous zeal and devotion ; but that, however he shirks and skulks and lies by—how ever little he is noticed on the quarter deck, or seen by the enemy, or pelted by the storm—if he only contrives to canvass successfully at elections, to browbeat adver saries, or to bludgeon them, to cringe before patrons, to puff the Admiralty, to misrepresent and malign all who are not its creatures, to prove himself a zealous and thorough-going tool of faction—if he can only execute all this, no matter how much he neglects and abandons his profession—though he has never had sufficient of real fighting to teach him even the hoarse hiss of a cannon-shot as it rushes—let him but gather votes, in con tempt of laurels, and be will be sure to win the race from those who arc idiots enough to stake their professional for tunes on a barren self-sacrifice for the honour of King and country. Was it the design of instituting such offices as that of Governor to Greenwich Hospital, that it should be filled by any but men who had shed honour on the British navy, and distinguished themselves against the public enemy, and set examples of glory to their brother officers and seamen ? Was it ever meditated by the founders of that noble charity that its advanta ges should be squandered upon men who bad not served, their Sovereign, to the Court, and to the country— aye, and to Lady Flora herself, too—to take the neces sary steps to have the question set at rest. If nothing had been done in the matter, and the result had turned out to be what was in the first instance believed, not only by two or three, but by all the married ladies in the Palace—if, in other words, the event had proved that Lady Flora was pregnant, would not, we ask, a loud outcry have been raised against the Ladies in wait ing and against her Majesty's physician, for not sooner discovering and bringing to light a circumstance which would have brought so much dishonour on the Court of a virgin Queen ? As regards Sir James Clarke himself, nothing could be more triumphant than his vindication of his conduct in this most unpleasant business. It will be seen that he was no party to the origin of the reports in the Palace respecting the alleged pregnancy of Lady Flora. Not a word, not even a whisper, escaped his lips on the subject until the matter was brought formally before him by Lord Melbourne, his Lordship's own attention having been specially called to it by the Marchioness of Tavistock ; and even then, it will be observed, Sir James Clark ex pressed no decided opinion on the point, but merely admitted that the appearance of Lady Flora was cal culated to give rise to the impression that she was privately married. So far from being actuated by any unkindly feeling towards Lady Flora, or acting precipitately, he suggested that no steps should at that time be taken in the matter. The reluctance which Sir James felt to do anything which could cause :the slightest uneasiness to Lady Flora, and his readiness, when evidence to that effect was brought before him, to believe that she was not pregnant, are more strikingly evinced in the fact of his declining to make any medical examination himself, after Sir Charles Clarke had done so, and stated that no pregnancy existed. It was only at the urgent solicita tion of Sir Charles Clarke that Sir James was induced to make an examination. His friendly feeling towards Lady Flora was farther shown by his earnestly en treating her Ladyship, as soon as the examination was over, to appear that day, as usual, at the Royal dinner table. The charges which have been made against Sir James, of unnecessary indelicacy or abruptness in his intercourse with Lady Flora, are disproved by the two notes which she wrote to him soon after he had made the unpleasant communication which it had been deter mined by others should be made to her, respecting the impressions entertained by the Ladies of the Palace in referen c e to her condition. It is utterly impossible, had there b ee n anything a pproaching t o a b ruptness in his conduct, that she could have written to him in the courteous, and even friendly terms that she there does. We could almost have wished that Sir James had not taken any notice of the charge of coarseness or indeli cacy. If such a charge ever proeeeded from Lady Flora's own pen, it could only have been at the insti gation of another party who had a purpose to serve by it. Sir .Tames might safely have left his character, in this respect, in the hands of the thousands of all classes, who have been his patients, or who have had inter course with him. Every one who knows him, knows that to be coarse or unfeeling is contrary to his very nature. A more honourable minded man, wheth e r regarded in his professional capacity or private charac ter, does not exist. In one word, there remains not the shadow of a charge against Sir James Clark in this unfortunate affair, excepting this, that he was unable, previous to an examination, to ascertain that Lady or who had not rendered eminent service ? If it was, then why not admit as pensioners to the hospital candi dates who brought no other testimonial but those given them by election agents ? We know not why a Thames waterman, ay, or a Thames mudlark, havinga vote, might not be placed upon the house list of in-pensioners, to the exclusion of deserving seamen, by the same rule by vir tue of which Mr. Fleming has been hoisted in as Go vernor, to the detriment of so many of his superiors, and, above all, of the public service. It is gross and barefaced corruption. It is an odious and disgracefu I job. It is a fatal discouragement to all officer-like zeal and en t er p r i se . Admira Fleming, if he were a man of the least feelimr b or delicacy, would reject the plund er o f t h e b rave and great, and blush for the offer made to him. It is ten times more execrable than the Rice job, or the Shiel job, or the More O'Ferrall job —More O'Ferrall, who is as fit to command an attack upon Mehemet Ali's fleet as to discharge the func tions of Secretary to the Admiralty. This whole ca talogue of jobs is frightful, and they are the work of men who disclaimed with indignation the crime of go verning by patronage. These jobs are the work of men who are everlastingly getting up clamours against the fair and disinterested government of the army, on strictly military principles, from the time of the Duke of York down to that of Lord Hill, and urging the expediency of a transfer of power from professional military hands to those of a responsible Minister, like him who jobs and disgusts the navy. We have never heard that military patronage was confined to Torie s . W e h ave never heard that Caven dishes, Foxes, Molyneuxes, Greys, or Russells, were postponed to the highest Tory families in the land—wit. nets the rapid promotion of so many gentlemen apper. taming to those favoured houses. Yet Admiral Flem ing:B usurpation is avowedly defended by the Ministerial newspapers on the ground that "he is a Whig." Shame! Shame ! will the navy of England stand it ? ADMIRAL THE HON. CHARLES FLEMING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. S:r,—The most atrocious appointment of Admiral Fleming to the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital fills the thinking part of the navy with perfect disgust; for no Admiral in the service ever saw so little fighting or did less for his country than the lion. and Gallant Admiral Charles Fleming. But he is indeed a fortunate youth. He has had every good appointment in the service !or having done nothing. He once saw a partial action, having commanded the Es} ptian, 60-gun frigate, in Sir Robert Calder's af fair off Ferrol. Now, this is the whole of his fighting ser vice. He never had the honour of being gazetted for one exploit during the two long wars. If the Admirals of England had one spark of proper feeling left they would go in a body end present a memorial to her Majesty against this unjust appointment, made by Lord Minto from merely political motives. But these are the Reformers! the just, the equitable, the no. patronage Government, with whom merit in all cases was to be the sole recommendation to fill the public offices I But how the Reform world, particularly the Ministry, are given to lying, slandering, and deceit I To conclude,l send you a list of officers who ought, in common justice to have had Greenwich Hospital in pre ference to this busy partisan, viz. : Admiral Sir H. %%lashed, G.C.B. A medal for Lord St. Vincent's battle. Admiral Sir G. Martin, G.C.B. Ditto for ditto. Admiral Sir Graham Moore, G. C. B , G. C.M. G. Admiral Sir H. Trollope, G.C.B Medal for Camperdown Admiral Sir John Wells, G.C.B. Ditto. Admiral Sir W. Hotham, K.C.B Ditto. Admiral Sir J. Rowley, K.C.B , G. C. M. G. Admiral Sir D. Gould, G.C.B. Medal for the 'Nile. Admiral Sir W. S. Smith, G.C.B The man who first de feated Bonaparte and his Invincibles at the memorable seige of Acre. Admiral the Hon. Sir B. Stopford Medal for St. Domingo. Admiral Sir G. Cockburn, G. C. 13 Services in America, &c. Admiral Sir W. Hargood, G.C.B Trafalgar. Admiral Durham, G. C. B. Ditto. Admiral Bay ntun, G. C. 13. Admiral Codrington, G.C.13.... Admiral Digby, K.C.B. Admiral Bullen, K.C.B Admiral the Hon. C. Fleming (got Greenwich Hospital) litics. Now, this is too bad. We have nothing to say against Fleming otherwise. He is a friendly man and very courteous ; but when the Reformers set themselves up as the perfection of justice, it staggers one. Your moat obedient servant, BENBOW. It is a fact that Fleming's sole claim, and upon which he founded his demand for the Governorship of Greenwich Hospital, was his having, he says, " spent some money and supported Ministers in returning Members in Scotland and elsewhere." (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Tories are determined to ride without mercy every society with which they are connected. All occasions are seized upon for party politics. Even a ploughing match or a cattle show cannot terminate without harangues on the inestimable advantages of carrying the principle of intolerance into full effect. At the anniversary dinner of the North Essex Agri cultural Association, Mr. Round, the chairman, in proposing " The Bishop and Clergy of the diocese," took occasion to allude to the alliance between Church and State, which he contended was the set tled policy of this country ; and, among other obser vations, he declared that "as a matter of policy alone it was inconvenient for the highest function aries of the State to be of more than one form of religion. If they were to be of more than one, they might profess one hundred different forms." The Chair man conceives that all who do not profess the opinions of the Church of England arc entitled to these (pinions, but to nothing more ; and that the treaty of union with Scotland, the repeal of the Test and Corporation laws, and the Catholic Emancipation Act, ought to be dead letters in what regards eligibility to office. The Pres byterian in his Confession of Faith, considers Epis copacy a pestilent heresy ; but he has no objection to live under the same Government with an Episcopa lian, and to fight in the same ranks with him for their common country ; but he has an objection to be treated as a hewer of wood and drawer of water, and excluded from any of the functions of State. Lord Melville and Mr. Pitt were opposed to each other in creeds, but agreed in their views respecting the policy to be pursued by the State ; and the Duke of Welling ton never found that the religious opinions of Lord Aberdeen and Sir George Murray unfitted them for the business of their respective offices. Mr. Round would be more consistent were he to propose the repeal of the Union with Scotland, and of the Test and Cor poration Acts, and th e re - enactment o f the penal laws THE against the Catholics ; for if the State allow a diversity SURGEONS OF MIDDLYSEX HOSPITAL—At an inquest • of religions, and religion be not made a ground of dis- held on Tuesday morning, at the Middlesex Hospit,A, qualification for office, it will be found a somewhat diffi- Mr. Wakley asked Mr. Tomes, the house-surp,on, cult task to prevent the professors of the different reli- whether he had entered the treatment deceased had re gions opinions f r o m exerc i s i ng an i nf l uence on the State ceived in a case -b oo k ? M r. 'F otnes— " No. 1 was in the ratio of their numbers and property. But the not authorized to do so by Mr. Tuson, the surgeon, grand theme at this, as a t a ll agr i cu l tura l meet i ngs, who se p a ti en t d ecease d was. " Mr. Wakley—" Mr. was the blessing we derive from the Corn-laws. Herbert Mayo has promised that I should have a case (From the Morning Post.) book, detailing the treatment of his patients, and if 1 The parasites of the Papist Administration, which cannot compel Mr. Tuson to do so likewise I shall sub is paid for ruling this cou n t r y, are extreme l y angry scribe to thi s in s tit u ti on , an d b ecome a G overnor of it ; with us for what we hav e sa id upon t h e l ate l y-pu b - and if in that cap ac ity I h ave not t h e power to enforce fished " rules" of the Educ a ti on C omm i ttee o f t h e the keeping and production of case-b oo k s I s h a ll try w Privy Council. This we canno t h e l p ; b ut we really what an Act of P ar li ament w ill d o. F or the future, t wish that these irat e Mi n i s t er i a li s t s h a d a li tt l e more though Ido not c om pl a i n o f h ouse - surgeons, I shall not, wit in th e i r anger , so as t o ma k e i t rat h er more in- in cases of the deaths of M r ..T uson ' s pat i ents, b e satis- I terestin g t o us an d t o t h e pu bli c. Wh y w i ll they not tied with th e i r (th e h ouse - surgeons ' ) ev i dence, but shall be so cond escen di ng as to exp l a i n, or try to explain, summon himself to att en d an d appear as a w i tness. " a rule ma d e b y t h e C omm i ttee, with an exception The Coroner then made severa l remar k s on t h e neces sity of havin g case -h oo k s , an d h ow useful the entries in which is an equ i ; - a l ent to the reversal of the rule ? We want t o k now w h at they mean by saying that them would b e t o me di ca l stu d ents. The students ' ln the room did n o t seem t o set great store b y the Coro in ever y app li cat i on for aid to the erection of a ner's observations, for as s oon as h e b egan to clAirer an schoolh ouse i n E ng l an d and Wales, it must be stated wheth er t h e sc h oo l i s i n connection with the National opinion as to what he considered would te n d to their Society or B r i t i s h an d Fore i gn School Society ; and, benefit they left th e room . if the said S c h oo l b e not i n connection with either FALLOW DEER.-The spotte d f a ll ow deer were of those societies, the Committee will not entertain the originally brought into this country from the Eastern parts of the w or ld ; t wo varieties ..,,re found i n E ng l an d , case, except it b e th a case o f a school i n England or Wales which is not in connection with either of those the spotted and the deep brown, which seem to have Societies. Surely there is some want of explanation formed a conjunction, as both the one and the other here. And would it not be much better for the para- may be generally seen in the same herd, as well as indi sites (if they can) to show where the hidden sense lies vidual specimens which indicate the physiological uni on in this appar e nt nonsense , t h an to b oast i n their furious ill question. Th e d eep b rown ki n d were introduced into zeal that everything in this education matter has been this country from Norway, by James I. This m , o i n e a d rc t l i: done in order to exhibit defiance of the Tories? Cannot so celebrated for his aversion to tobacco anii;etlrinilirsol‘n,rnien.,toehrri, her Majesty's Privy Council exhibit defiance of the derous treatment of Sir Walter Raleigh, had pro,,, red Tories (if that be their principal object) without brown fallow deer from Norway become he swa sceptre of this country ; he r. had eccome awar;.• of th e i r publishing contradictory nonsense under the style and title of " rules and regulations?" The para linfothretshtsis, capability of enduring ee antshueemeniFeeordros theot h these English sites think it a fine thing to allege in pompous and therefore w d h e e r n ab i l w . for deer, phrase that in every step which Ministers brought a considerable , ivided . themd amongstsetrein-ir„a\l,as la e are rd ebted to James have taken in this matter of public education they have of:f t :ido l award him the country, an acted in utter disregard and defiance of the Tory party. chases, • &c. We take leave to suggest that it is not quite seemly to tureen of f h l a io v r i s n e riamcinrgok,,eadndouwebrmeeady merit t e o d kind o g ri in P ated from beneath the almost scorch- make such a question the ground upon which to fight a jugßengal,we re ors of our frigid and frequently severe winters, and in been one of political party, and they are well aware r consequence i the utmost attention of the keeper was re uisitc, durir , such periods, to prevent them falling vie them opposition to the Government plan, by many very _t q uns to a. climateb directly opposed to their constitutions. earnest and serious persons who do not agree with Tile , S , portsinan. them in questions of party politics. The Tories have treated the education question as one in which impor tant points of religious principle were at stake ; and It 1 vALs.--The . Presbytery of Glasgow met y y man men who moved strenuously in the business against on Wednesda After the u s t rA i business had been the Government—the A rc hbi s h o p o f C a nterbury for finished, a private meeting was held, at which certain one—acted as they did because they felt themselve s extravagancies and improprieties of language lately bound in conscience so to do. used at rev i va l meetings were discussed. Though no (From the Morning Herald.) individ ua l names were mentioned, it is understood that A case decided y es terday at Marlborough•street has the Rev. Messrs. Burns and Sommerville were the ger, brought into o p era tion, an other of the extraordinary tlemen alluded to. All the members who spr,ke, provisions of the New Police Act. By one of the strongly condemned everything like eccentricity or ex sections of that e nactment,police Magistrates are invested travagance on the part of those taking part iv the re with the power of deciding summarily on all c l a i ms, v i va l s, and expressed the great necessity that existed (amounting to less than 151 .) for work - done by trades- for the display of more than ordinary prudence. The men, who hold in their possession the property on late hours to which meetings hay e recently extended which their skill and labour have been expended, alation g i ven, were disapproved of, and a r .ec ommer Hitherto in such cases , tradesmen have exerc i sed a t h at i n future . ..'id be delivered only ev er y, sermons shoi right of retention over the property. Now the police alternate evening, and f:,le other evenings devoted to Magistrates are entitled to decide on the claim. W e convo - satie,t; with sui:a persons as might choose to come are little disposed to call in question the impartiality for , Nual.—G las' ozv Chronicle. and m ust be allowed of our police Magistrates; but we CAUSE AND EFFECT.—NO One c an h ave to observe, that the ncr. Hower with flil , .observe of late years the increased splendourt, which they have been clothed, iq 9' : er * ' arkable ' and ' p palaces, and the result is ' o na: character. The pow 4 4, to tact!' e4y orerm -_ srle tl r :e Y melancholy facts that two wings r t o o .tof gin utterlyr, ek rsed to found in the spirit nf the i;nglish Constifution, file t , onstitu- m ospltal, ar,d two tion does not lately been added to Bethlehe H • recogitise in iln,; highest judges of the land, others upon a larger scale to the Lunatic L'asVlutn, at , that peremptory power of deciding pecuniary disputes, I Hanwell. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY. A Meeting of the Proprietors of this railway was held, at the London Tavern, at twelve o'clock yesterday. W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., in the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said he was sorry to see so thin an attendance of Proprietors, but he believed generally Directors attributed a scarce attendance to the su perior confidence on the part of the Proprietors in the management and integrity of their Directors. The half-yearly general meeting of Proprietors, had been adjourned till that day, for the purpose of taking a ballot for four Directors, i n t h e room o f t h ose who haesigned. As four gentlemen only had been nominated, and as there were only four vacancies, it became unnecessary to take the vote of the Proprietors, and, therefore, they would be elected to the office forthwith. There had been already two Reports laid before the Proprietors, at their half-yearly meeting, but the Directors had thought it necessary to trouble them with another. The SECRETARY then read the Report, which stated that the Directors had had an interview with Mr. Cu bitt, and had made arrangements with him for an loves tigation into the accounts, to be furnished from the engineer's office, but which were not yet completed. They had also allowed Mr. Gibbs's engagement with the Company to terminate on the 29th September, and had requested Mr. Cubitt to view the line and report upon its present state. The extraordinary traffic occasioned by the fair at Croydon had been con ducted with every convenience to the public, and with out accident. On the second day of the fair, 11,209 passengers were conveyed along the liner the trains were run on that line every 20 minutes, from eight in the morning till two on the following morning, and during part of the day every ten minutes ; and the Greenwich trains were run as usual every quarter of an hour, making ten trains each way, or twenty trains in the whole, passing and repassing each other on those lines within the hour. And the Directors could not help thinking that if the Parliamentary Committee on Railways could have witnessed the facility and utter ab sence of confusion with which all that was managed, tl.ey would not have expressed so strong an opinion as they had done of the insufficiency of the present manage ments for the traffic of the four Companies having a common terminus at London Bridge. The Directors intended to seek an interview with the Directors of the Greenwich Railway, for the purpose of discussing any alteration of the respective termini of the two lines which the late report of the Committee might have rendered it advisable to effect. The re port further stated, that if the interests of the Brighton and Croydon Railways were alone to be con sulted, the most obvious course would be an immediate application to Parliament for a Bill to enable them to take the spare ground of the Greenwich Railway, for the purpose of completing an independent line, in order to meet the objections of the Parliamentary Committee, the outlay for which line would be abundantly met by the tolls at present levied by the Greenwich Company, but they believed that the Proprietors of the first named Companies would not desire to take any course which would be detrimental to the Proprietors of the Greenwich Railway, provided the Directors of the latter Company should be disposed to obviate the pre sent difficulties by an enlargement of their own line. To be prepared for every contingency they had directed their Solicitor to give the necessary Parliamentary notices for effecting the desired object, without reference to any particular existing interests. The report then stated that 14,740/. of the first instalment upon the new shares had been subscribed, and they wore proceeding to distribute the amount in equal pro portions amongst the claimants upon the Com pany. For the liquidation of all just claims they would be obliged to raise 53,000/. on mortgage, for which they had not received the vote of the Proprietary. On this point they regretted to state that in the accounts deli vered in to the Proprietors, most of the sums which were entered by the engineer as " estimated, or part es timated," to be due had been found, accordimg to custom, to have been erroneously estimated, and it was therefore to be apprehended that the whole reserve, which it was hoped had been provided for con tingencies, might be swallowed up, and the Di- rectors would be left without any fund upon which to draw in case of accident. Under those circumstances, although they felt they could not call upon the Proprietors for any further supplies at pre sent, they thought it right to warn them that, if any event should occur rendering necessary, however small an outlay of capital, resort must be immediately had to that disagreeable process. The ofiAlltMAN said that their Deputy Chairman (Mr. Roberts) had proposed a plan, which he would pre sently state to the Proprietors, and which was a very feasible one, for vesting the management of the four com panies in one Board. That would probably go a great way towards removing the objections of the Parlia mentary uommittee to a common terminus. The SECRETARY then read Mr. Cubitt's report of the present state of the line. The object of Mr. Cu bitt's inspection was to observe arAl report the state of the line on its being given up by Mr. Gibbs into the charge of Mr. Richardson, the new Superintendent Re sident Engineer. _ The CizatamAN said that with respect to the build ing at New Cross, to which M r . C u bit t h a d a ll u d e d in his report, by adopting the suggestion of that gentle man, they should only be following the example set by the Dublin and Kingstown Railway ; and with respect to the other part, as to not removing the earth at For rest-hill, the suggestion of Mr. Cubitt was in ac cordance with the opinion of their present engineer.— (Hear, hear.) It was necessary now for the present meeting to pass a resolution relative to the sni of 53,000/., which it had been determined should be bor- rowed on mortgage. That sum had been agreed on at the former meeting, and it was only necessary now to put the formal resolution, if any Proprietor would be good enough to do so. Mr. CAM. then moved a resolution to the effect, that the monies received, not being sufficient for the purposes of the Railway, a sum of 53,000/. should be borrowed at interest, in one or more sums, as the Direc- tors should think fit, and that the Directors be em- powered to mortgage the property of the Company for that purpose. Captain PAGE seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. A PROPMETOR wished to know whether the creation of 6,000/. shares would be sufficient to meet every exi- geney ? The CHAIRMAN hoped that it would, and leave a surplus. _ _ _ A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the Di rectors had taken any steps to examine the receipts as well as the expenditure of the Com mittee He wished to know whether all the sums due from the Shareholders had been paid up. In one instance a gentleman had been credited with 5001., which he had never paid. The SECRETARY said that that money had been paid. A PROPRIETOR—But have not other errors taken place ? The SECRETARY observed that the error that had been alluded to had been occasioned by a Banker's clerk coming and filling up an order to register those shares, by mistake, and they were accordingly registered. Those shares belonged to a gentleman in the country, and ho had paid the amount on them. He believed no error had arisen since. The PROPRIETOR only wished to call the attention of the Directors to the fact, in order that it might be avoided in future. The CHAIRMAN said that the next business of the meeting would be to elect four gentlemen to the direc tion, in the room of those who had resigned. The names proposed were Robert Holland, Esq., M.P ; Ben jamin Baines, Esq. ; John Lewis Ricardo, Esq. ; ard Newman Smith, Esq. _ . Mr. COOPER believed that two of the gentlemen who had been mentioned as Directors, were members of the Stock Exchange, and if they were elected they would then have in the Direction of the Company no less than four persons belonging to the Stock-Exchange. Now, he considered, with every respect for those gentlemen _ . who belonged to the Stock Exchange, that it was not to the interest of the Company to have a moiety of their Direction members of that body. He thought it would be much more desirable to have some of that number merchants. Mr. ItoBERTs said that they were pledged to elect those individuals, and he did not see how they could deviate from it. Mr. CoorEn would not propose any resolution upon the subject, but he thought the Direction ought to be differently constituted. Capt. PAGE said that it was mainly by the members of the Stock Exchange that the Company were indebted for the excellent position in which they had been placed. It was his intention to move that a sum of 500/. should, be placed at the disposal of the Directors, in order to remunerate them for the excellent manner in which they had discharged their duties. Mr. CAPEL thought if they were men of business, and inclined to do their duty, it mattered not whether they came from the Stock Exchange, or were merchants in the City. The CHAIRMAN said that the duty of the Directors was to perform the pledge they had given, by sub mitting the four gentlemen who had been named to the Proprietors to act as Directors. A PROPRIETOR considered that, bearing in mind the 84. taro: to which members of the Stock Exchange were Proprietcas, 4 was not at all unreasonable that a moiety of the Direction sliGuld be composed of members of that body. The four gentlemen proposed were then declared to b 8 dented Directors. A PRoPitiEToa said that as reference had been made with respect to carrying cattle on the railroad, perhaps the Directors would forgive him for suggesting that the station should be between the Grand Surrey Canal and the Greenwich Viaduct, as it would be necessary to 7c ;amp quiet place for that purpose. ,-, l;g gestipn i n pr i vate that Pro- The c ii • A pp.l% . l said the Directo rs wou ld b e mos t Pro prietors to re rsmigh e t ei m v6 ake a , n b Y ut he did not consider the present moment as fitted for that purpose. Mr. ROGERS suggested, in case of the junction of the 44:_wri,NrrN-G I with which our Whig Ministers have invested their I stipendiaries. The Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench, for instance, "is clogged" (as " Lberal" Journ a l s wou ld style it) in his decisions by they inter vention of a Jury ; but Stipendiary Magistrates are, henceforward, in a large class of cases, to be elevated far above dependence on the opinions of jurymen. This provision in the New Police Act is, in short, an embodi ment, to a certain extent, of that spirit of hostility towards the institution of trial by jury, by which all Whigs and " Liberals" are animated. This provision abolishes jury trial in certain civil cases, as our present rulers desired, very recently, to abolish jury trial in all those criminal cases which police Magistrates may be called on to decide. It may be urged, indeed, that the ends of justice may be more effectually attained, in vir tue of the operation of that power with which police Magistrates are now invested. Our answer to such an argument is—that even if the assumption involved in it were correct, still such a mode of attaining the ends cf justice is foreign to the genius of English law. (FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OT YESTERDAY.) (From the Courier.) There is no country perhaps, in the world, less fitted at the present time, than France for an extension of' the elective franchise. The French people, with out the exception even of the greater part of the elective portion, are almost entirely ignorant of the true nature of a Constitutional Government. Their present electoral privileges are not the result of time and circumsta nces , grown u p w ith th e generalin crease of the wealth and the constitutional knowledge of the nation. The French passed per saltum from . the most slavish condition o f d espo ti c monarc h y , to free dom. They are neither accustomed by habit to the forms and working of a representative Government, nor by time and reason to the characteristics of a constitu tional Monarchy. They still seek to (feet reforms by the pike and musket, instead of trusting to the agency of a system of Parliamentary representation. What are franchises, what is a political code, to a people who have not yet learned their true meaning ? It cannot but be considered a great misfortune to France that the peo ple are hurried on from one political change to another before they have acquired any habits of order or of submission to the laws. Even as it is, there is sufficient excitement and turbulen ce in the Chamber of De puties, ;n which . there are already a sufficient num ber of political quacks without talent or for tune. In what condition would the Represen tative Chamber of France be, were the adoption of the Electoral system of the Radical Reform party to array numbers against intelligence and to admit as a member any man without education, without property, without, in short, any qualification but that of being an elector ? It is a good while since that one of the first statesmen in France, M. Guizot, observed that the tr',.ie progress of a nation, " C'koit lorsqu'il etoit sort: de I'ordre, d'y rentrer." We quite agree with M. Guizot in this maxim, which is quite as applicable to 1 :- , ngland as to France. It is religious education, and good habits that the French people want, and not an elective reform. (From the Globe.) The Corporation of London, like the House of Commons, possesses within itself the power of reform ing itself by amending the system of representation by which Members are returned to its Common Council. When the citizens obtained the privilege of electing their Representatives the numbers of the Common Councilmen were regulated by the number of inhabitants and the amount of property in the several Wards. 'Various cir cumstances have in the course of time materially changed the condition of the wards ; and the dispropor tion thus occasioned between the numbers of the inhalji tants and the members they return, has produced cars - derable dissatisfaction in the citizens, and has been, found to present serious obstacles to the reform of the Lumerous abuses which, in common with all the old corporations, have been found to exist in that of the City of London. Leave was obtained to bring in a Bill for the removal of these inequalities in the representation of the citizens in their corporate chamber ; that all the forms might be observed, the Bill was prepared under the direction of the civic legal authorities, and provided that the following should be the number of representatives to be elected in future, the number of representatives being proportioned to the number of electors ; viz., Aldersgate, 8 ; Aldgate S ; Basshishaw, 4 ; Billingsgate, 6 ; I3ishopsgate, 14 ; Bread-street, 6 ; Bridge, 6 ; Broad street, 8 ; Candlewick, 6 ; Castle Baynard, 8 ; Cheap, 8 ; Coleman-street, 6 ; Cordwainers, 6 ; Cornhill, 6 ; Cripplegate-within, 8 ; Cripplegate-without, 8 ; Dow_ gate, 6 ; Farringdon-within, 12 ; Farringd on - w i t l- .out, 16 ; Langbourne, ; Lime-street, 4 ; Portsoi7,en, 8 ; Queenhithe, 6 ; Tower, 8 ; Wintry, 6 ; We.Ylbrook, 6, The measure cam e on f or discussion yesterday, and was introduced in a pl ain matter - o f -fact speech by Mr. Wheeler. The opposition to the measure from the Anti-Reformers was as determined a.od unreasonable as was manifested by the Tories to the Reform Bill ; in deed it was a Lilliputian edition of the Brobdignag re sistance to reform in the national representation. (From the Standard.) Time was when meetings, having for their object the protection of the Protestant religion from the jesuitic a l artifices of its Popish assailants, were considered not only strictly justifiable, but even laudable. In those days it wi.s neither tkertons" nor disloyal to express a hope that contract entered into to maintain the Protestant As,, en _ dency by the monarchs of Great Britain on their accession to its throne, will never be violated. The times, Lowever, have strangely altered since then ; and if we go on in the same track much longer, we may expect that every public declaration of opinion on the part of a Protestant will in due time become a statutable offence. Protestants are now, according to the Morning Chronicle," fanatics," and Protestant Associations, instituted to protect the re formed religion of the land from Popish encroachment, " perambulating firebrand societies." The late Ince:, ings at Manchester and Liverpool, comprising three_ fourths of the wealth and respectability of those impor tant districts, were, we are assured by the Ministerial organs, mere assemblages of " bigot agitators." The Protestant f a i t h i s, to b e sure, still the national reli gion ; but a Popish ban is already upon Protestants, if they are no longer allowed to meet together for the purpose of devising measures for their mutual security, without bein g proscribed as " theological savages," whoso sole object is to " coquet with the fiend of persecu tion," and to " reduce the great mass of the Irish people to " a degradation less tolerable than that of negro slavery."