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LA W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13. ALEXANDER V. NEWMAN. The respondent in this case holds a tenement by right of which ho claims a vote for the West Riding of Yorkshire. The appAlapt objects that this tenement is but a part of a larger eltate, which has been divided amongst thirty-six prsens Rr the purpose of multiplying a vote. By several statutes which Were cited on the part of the appellant, it is enacted that if any tenement shall be split, or divided amongst several persons for the purpose of multiplying a vote, that the conveyance by which such splitting or division is effected shall be null and void. It was urged that such was the case in this instance, and that the Revising Bar rister was wrong in deciding that the respondent, Newman, should be placed on the list of voters. On the part of the respondent it was represented that the Acts kn_question only referred to cases in which the splitting was etil 7 cted by a fraudulent conveyance, i. e., one in which the tenement is given over without any actual purchase of the same by payment. In this case ilso their Lordships took time to consider. Their Lordships rose at half-past three o'clock. The Court will sit to-morrow in Banco at Westminster, and at Nisi Prins in London. The hearing of the appeals will be resumed on Monday next, the 17th. COURT OF EXCISE. Nov. 13. (Berore the Hon. CaptOn„PERCY, J. HARRISON, Esq., and C. J. lIERRIE.s, Esq.) Jelin Powell, keeper of a beer-shop, known by the sign of the Cart and Horses, Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, was charged with adulterating his beer with gentian, sugar, salts of tartar, and various other ingredients unknown ; and also with having adulterating articles in his possession. There wore eight counts in the information varying the offence Charged jgaint him. Mr. Hughes, in officer of Excise, stated that having received information, he proceeded with another offleer to the house, and on seeing the defendant they told him that' they were Excise officers, and had come to exa mine his beer. His son got a light, and with them pro ceeded to the cellar. Upon the head of a cask they found a large stone bottle, which the defendant's son was about to take away, but was prevented by his brother officer. They examined its contents, and found it a solution of foots sugar, sail of tartar, and gentian root. He then examined a pun chfon of beer that was on draught, which was very poor. The son said that he mixed the beer with 4lbs. of sugar, six gallons of water, and one quart of the colouring matter, which was his usual practice. Examined a barrel of beer that had been fined down the day before, and to this he was told had been added 21bs. of sugar, four quarts of water, a liAgc salt, and one pint of the colouring matter. Defendant said he had been obliged to do so to give the beer a little flavour. Witness took samples of the whole and brought them ewer. The defendant said he did not know anything whatever of the nature of the preparation put into the beer by his son. Was told by his son that he had been recommended by a person to put it in. Had he been aware that he was doing wrong, he was the last person in the world to have done so. The COLILT, in giving judgment, inflicted a penalty of 251., and said that the defendant might petition the Board. POLIC E INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-BOUSS. Yesterday a Mr. Horne, who stated that he had been em ployed as a clerk to the Provisional Committees of two pro j-cted railroads, the principal managing Directors of which ago gentlemen of unquestionable character, applied to the Lord Mayor to be informed whether his Lordship could render assistance in the endeavour to obtain from them the amount of wages due to him for performing the very labo rious duties arising from the engagement he had formed with them. The amount of wages due at the present moment by one of the Provisional Committees was 41. 165., and he was solicitbd to take half that sum, but he bad refused the offer. The LORD MAYOR said that he could not interfere in such a case, and that the applicant might state his case at the Court of Requests, and perhaps the authorities there would grant him a summons. The applicant said he should appeal to the Court of Re quests. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Curtis Pinkus — appeared before Mr. Maltby, to answer a charge of violent assault last Sunday evening, in the Qua.. drant, preferred against him by Mr. James Clark Pray. Some rather curious disclosures were expected, as it was generally known that an actress of some reputation was inti mately mixed up with the affair. It was, however, mutu ally agreed between ?he parties to confine the proceedings as closely as possible to the charge of assault. Mr. Bagley appeared for the complainant; and Mr. Pren dergast Cur the defendant. Mr. James Clark Pray examined.—Had known Mr. Curtis Pinkus, the defendant, for about two years. On Sunday last was at an hotel in St. Martin's-street, where Mr. Pinkus also was. Mr. Pinkus walked past complainant once or twice, but did not say anything. Complainant left the hotel in a phaeton, and the defendant also quitted at the acme time in a cab. When in the Quadrant an accident ocqprred to the complainantS vehicle, and he stopped to 100 into the matter. The defendant, who bad at that time nailing, in his hand. went into the house No. 70, Quadrant, and came out armed with a club or heavy walking-stick. The defendant came up to a friend who was in complainant's company, and asked him for his card. The party thus ac costed, replied jocularly, and the defendant then came to wards hinc(complainant), and almost immediately after wards complainant felt a blow on his back. Complainant took the whip to defend himself, but he was unable to do so eftectuall► in consequence of the severity of the blows in flicted by the defendant with his stick. One of the blows fell nu his head, cut it severely, and rendered him nearly insensible. In cons nuence of the injuries received from the defendant, complainant was unable to attend to make a complaint on the following day. Complainant's head had been dressed by a surgeon. The injury was severe; it was inflicted on the crown of the head. One reason why com plainant could not defend himself against the defendant was, because he had been thrown out of a gig a few days pre viously, and had injured his hand. Mr. Pinkus had threat ened complainant: on a former occasion. Complainant would swear that he had nothing in his hand when he re ceived the the first blow. Cross-eximined by Mr. Prendergast—Was an author. The anther of iwo or perhaps three hundred octavo volumes. Had written in `favour of the atmospheric railway. The - de fendant considered he had some claim del Messrs. Clegg and S:nnuda, but complainant did not think 'those claims well founded, though that was a question for a jury to decide. Complainant refused to call certain parties swindlers and scoundrels, and in consequence of this refusal a quarrel en sued, and complainant would not write a word in favour of the atmospheric system afterward. His reason for believing that the defendant's claim on Messrs. Clegg and Samuda was not well founded was partly because he did not think Mr. Pinkus was a scientific man. He conceived that a scientific man ought to know something of logarithms, the rule of three, and other of the higher branches of mathematics. Mr, Prendergast—Now about these two or three hundred Bvo. volumes. Do you still live on them? Complainant—l ne,ver ate an Bvo. volume in my life. Mr. Prendergast—You know what I mean; people in this town live in a variety of ways. Pray how do you get your li*g? Compiainant—l write for my bread. I write for the lipoksAers. I write for the principal magazines. I have edited ik e Monthly Review; I have written article for Black wood, MN on one occasion my article was the , only article corgplimented by the editor. On Sunday last I went to the hotTl in St. Martin's-street to dine, and I did dine there. There was a lady in the cab belonging to Mr. Pinkus. The ladftlid not tell me to quit the room, and not to insult her. The lady only told me not to interfere. When I left the hotel, I was not certain that the defendant lived is the Qua drant, though I knew that he did live at one time in the Quadrant. _ _ _ _ . . Alr. Prendergast--Have yon a wife and children living at Amherst in America? Complainant—l have no wife or children. in America. I have heard of a report to the effect that I ha 4 a wife in America, but I intend to have the matter sifted. II is immaterial to me whether the matter is sifted here or elsewhere. Mr. Prendergast—Be careful what you say on that head. Mr. Bagley—Have you been married more than once? Complainant—l have been advised to say that I have not been married more than once. David Taylor said he was secretary to a gentleman. He was present during the affair in the Quadrant. Saw the de ffm(l.ipt strike the complainant with a stick, and afterwards SAW the blows repeated. On cross-examination, this witness said he went to the er,mplainant's 141ging,s to assist him in writing. In addition to this, was advertising agent to a newspaper. Did not fol low the cab in which Mr. Pinkus and the lady were when he left the hotel in the phaeton with the complainant. The lady in question went by the name of Pray. Witness had seen the lady in question in the character of the complainant's wife. Sutcliffe, one of the constables doing duty in the Quadrant, said he saw the defendant striking the complainant over the Lead with a stick. lie went forward and interfered to keep the peace. Mr. Prendergast then addreesing the Bench, said it would be obvious there was something in the case which both patties were desirous, and perhops discreetly so, of keeping There was a lady in the case, whose name it wascon sidered advisable to keep from the public, and the wiole truth way, that the conduct of the complainant towards this lady eventually led to the assault. The lady was interfered wish by the complainant. The defendant left in a cab with this lady, and the complainant and his witness followed in a phaeton for the purpose of further annoyance. An assault had oeeerredln consequence of this proceeding on the part of the ownplainant, andalthough blows were given by the defendant wit Ii his stick, they were repaid by the complainant with a wldp. He should be in a condition also to prove by evidence that the complainant committed the first assault, and that he ,1 ha. on more than one occasion resorted to the use of threats er.Chst the defendant. Inight, cabdriver, said he was a stranger to all (parties. Arf he knew was, that he drove the defendant and a lowly to \o. 70, Quadrant When witness set down his fare, the gentleman made a remark to the effect that some persons , were following and annoying him. The defendant went up to the phaeton and after saying a few words was struck re peatt dly by the complainant with a whip. The defendant 1 , ./h ell he got out. of the cab had a stick with him. Mr. Bagley said, he was sorry to cast doubt on the truth of the tie ence set up, but he was bound to do so in order to make his instructions consistent with the case presented be fore the Court. lie could not help saying that the evidence had shown that an unprovoked, severe, and, he was sorry to all, dastardly, assault had been committed on the com plainant. The defence set up, that the phaeton had followed the cab, was disproved by the witnesses. From their evi deuce, instead of the complainant having purposely followed the defendant to annoy him, it was clear that the stoppage in else Quadrant arose out of the accident referred to, and that_ the complainant, instead of having sought to annoy the de feedafff, had been himself attacked without previous provoca tism. He also begged, in conclusion, to say, that the charge wale against the complainant, that he had previously n«ved the defendant, was wholly unfounded and unsupported. Mr. Macree decided on holding the defendant. to bail to meet rimy charge that might be preferred against him at the tgeri,ins. 50177 II WARK. ;Tipha JohAs m alias Isaac Rowe, the fashionably-dressed man, sharged in with being concerned with others not in cus trtily, stealing a cash-box containing 60 sovereigns and tonv! documents, the property of Mr. Skelton, of the Fleece public-house, in George-street, Bermondsey, was Brought up fpr re-examination on the charge. Mr. Atkinson, a solicitor, attended on the part of the prisoner. The evidence adduced against the prisoner on the present oocasion, as connecting him with the man and woman, who were in the compl a inant' s b ar -pa r lo u r at the time of the rubbery of the cash-box and contents, was briefly as Liza Rhymer stated that she was the complainant's niece, and that she was in the house at the time the strange man and woman entered, and requested to be permitted to write a letter in the bar-parlour ; that while they were en gaged in writing the parlour-bell rang, and she left the bar parlour, and went there and received an order of the pri soner, who endeavoured to engage her attention by asking le • whether she went to school, and other questions of that nattire': She then left the room, and went back to the bar plrlour, at which time she saw the man and woman still writing at the table. She, however, had not been many minutes there, when the parlour-bell was again ' rung, and on her proceeding to answer it, she was requested by an elderly-looking strange man to take the chill off his pint of ale by warming it at the fire. Having done this, she was in the act of quitting the room, when the prisoner tried to prevent her by catching hold of her frock, at the same time saying that he wanted to ask her some questions about the school to which her little cousin went. She then left the room, and went to the bar-parleur, where the same parties were still writing at the table, but the man she found had moved from the place where he was previously sitting to that part of the table near the drawer which con tained the cash-box and money. The woman was seated nearly opposite to him, and witness noticed that she looked at her and seemed to be watching her very closely, until at length the tormer requested that he might be furnished with a wafer to seal the letter, which he said was nearly finished. At this period witness desired her cousin, a little girl who had just come in from school, to go up stairs and bring down the wafer-box. The little girl, however, staying longer than was expected, witness left the bar-parlour to see after her, and by the time she came down, both the man and the woman were gone, and the letter they had been writing was left on the table. The letter was here produced for the Ma gistrate's inspection, and :contained a number of unintelli gible sentences, the writing of which by the parties was evi dently done for the purpose of throwing the landlord off his guard, with the view of stealing his cash-box and, its con tents. The witness then proceeded to describe the dress worn by the woman, and said that, from the notice she took of them both, she had no doubt but she should know them again. In reply to Mr. Cottingham, the witness said that the pri soner entered the house after the man and woman, but they did not appear to be acquainted ; that when the parlour door was open any person sitting there could see into the bar-par lour, where the man and woman were writing. That during the whole of the time the complainant was busily engaged in attending to the customers before the bar. Witness was certain that when the alarm of the cash-box being stolen was given, the prisoner and the elderly man hastily left the parlour together and went out of the house, so that if the former said he had stopped at the bar and taken a glass of ale, the assertion was without foundation. The prioner's solicitor contended that there was nothing in the evidence adduced to connect the prisoner with the parties in the bar-parlour, who were supposed to have committed the robbery. That he was not seen to speak to either of them, and, in fact, was in a distinct part of the house at the time ; that with respect to the circumstance of his asking the little girl a few questions about her schooling, there was nothing in that fact, and it did not bear upon the case against him. After some further evidence, Mr. Atkinson urged that the evidence still was not of a nature to justify the prisoner's detention in gaol ; that if the officers had reasonable grounds for supposing they could con nect him in any way with the robbery, he was willing to come forward on any future occasion. Mr. CorrrscHAN said that the prisoner's conduct in the house during the time the robbery was effected, his subse quent assertion that he remained there some some time after the offence was committed, and his other acts, were altogether so pregnant with suspicion that he was concerned with the parties who actually committed the robbery, that he would not part with him, and should, therefore, remand him for 'urther examination. TRIBUNAL CORRECTIONAL. (From the Boulogne Gazette.) On Wednesday there were a great many causes before the Court, among the others two for attacks upon an adversary with a knife, one was to a certain extent accidental; but the other was a base attempt at assassination, in which two Englishmen from Calais were seriously wounded. It ap peared that the parties had been in an estaminet on the port and had there quarrelled: on the Englishmen leaving they were followed by the other parties and a row was the conse quence, during which Bouloy, one of the assailants, used his knife, which was produced in Court stained with blood, a formidable weapon, laid open the cheek of one man to the extent of three inches, inflicted three wounds on the top of his head, another upon his ear cutting down the neck and laying bare the carotid artery, which the knife just escaped, and other wounds upon the body to the number of nine; the other Englishman was stabbed in the back. Fortunately the parties had, as an adversary, a man of a forgiving dispo sition, who made slight of his wounds. and would not remain in bed so long as to send the parties before the criminal as sizes, although, when he left his bed, it was with considerable danger to his safety. On the trial the facts were proved, and the assailant, who had been already in prison for five weeks, was further condemned to 40 days' imprisonment, damages, and fine. ROBERTSON v. Scorn—This was an action by Dr. Ro bertson against Dr. Scott for injurious language against him in the street, capable of wounding his honour and reputation. The facts, as stated in the Court, were these. The Medical Society of Boulogne called together its members and those English gentlemen, authorised by ordonnance, practising in Boulogne. At this meeting Drs. Scott, Robertson, and Camp bell attended. An adjournment took place, at which Dr. Scott attended, but the other two were not present. It reached Dr. Scott that the absentees gave as their reason for not at tending that they would not meet the Society if he attended, because he had no right to be there, not having a regular ordonnance (it appeared, on the trial, because it was not re gistered). Dr. Scott was much annoyed at such a report, calculated to lower him in the opinion of the French medical profession, as a man asserting what was not fact, and thrusting himself, upon that assertion, into a society where he had no right to be, and he made such inquiries as led him to believe that the whole calumny emanated from Dr. Robertson. At once he resolved to see him, show him the ordonnance under which be practised in France, and re quest that he would contradict his former assertions. The first place where they met was in the shop of Mr. Abraham, the chemist, where Dr. Robertson was sitting 'down. Dr. Scott took a chair and sat opposite to him, saying, " I have been looking after you, Dr. Robertson, all the morning, hav ing understood that you have stated that I have no ordon nance to practise in France, will you oblige me by reading this ?" handing to him the ordonnance. Dr. Robertson im mediately replied, rising at the same time, " I shall not read it, I don't wish to have any communication or anything to do with you," and he made towards the doorway, in which Dr. Scott placed himself, saying, " but I wish to have something to say to you." Dr. Robertson then pushed violently past him ; shoulder met shoulder and Dr. Scott was nearly upset into the street. General Willis was passing at the time and he was called upon to depose as to what he saw and heard. From his deposition we gathered that Dr. Scott said, " you have stated, Sir, that I have got no ordonnance."—" And I say so still."—" Then, Sir, you state a falsehood."—" I will go and lay the whole affair before the Procnreur du Roi."— " And I will accompany you," replied Dr. Scott, " that he may at the same time hear both aides of thequestion." Such, so far as we could gather them, were the facts of the case. The lawyers pleaded for one hour and a half on Thursday morning, pour et contre each doctor, and the Substitut called upon the Court to condemn Dr. Scott to a fine of 25 francs and the ex pences,for having stated in public that Dr. Robertson had uttered a gross falsel ood ; falsehood is a hateful vice, reproved by morals and religion, and the accusing any man of it in the public streets was calculated to injure his reputation, particu larly that of the honourable profession of. medicine. It mat tered not whether true or false. No man has a right to pro claim in the streets the misdeeds of another, if he did the law punishes him. He therefore called on the Court for the pe nalty, &c., against Dr. Scott. M. Marteau was proceeding to defend his client, when the Court interrupted him, stating it was unnecessary. The judges then retired, and, after a quarter of an hour, returned into Court, when the President read the judgment, which stated that the provocation received by Dr. Scott was a suf ficient excuse for him for the words he used, they therefore acquitted him of tke charge, and condemned Dr. Robertson to pay the expenses. SEDUCTION anti MANSLAUGHTER. (From the Liverpool Courier of Wednesday.) Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before the borough Coroner, on view of the body of John Ratcliffe, of Union place, Howorth-street, Everton, who met his death under the following circumstances : Mary Charnock, a young and respectably attired woman, who sobbed bitterly during the whole time she was in Court, deposed that she was unmarried, and the daughter of William Cbarnock. She resides with her parents at Upholland, and was well acquainted with the deceased. She had had a child, of which he was the father. Seven weeks last Sunday, at about the hour of four in the afternoon, he came to her father's house very much in liquor. She was sitting by the fire, and her father was lying upon the bed in one of the upper rooms. She desired the deceased to leave, as she had reason to know that her father was very indignant with her seducer, and that if they happened to meet together some evil consequences might possibly ensue. The deceased. however, not only refused to do as he was de sired, but said he would go up stairs and see the old man. At this moment the father came down stairs, and told the de ceased several times to quit the house. The deceased still refused, declared positively that he was determined not to stir, and said the old man was unable to put him out. The father then took hold of the poker from the fireside, and the witness, fearing that fatal results might follow, stepped be tween them with the illegitimate child in her arms. They pushed her aside, however, and in her agitation she was un able to say which of them struck. She did not see her father strike with the poker, but they had a scuffle, the deceased fell, and the floor was sprinkled with blood. This was the substance of her evidence. The deceased was subsequently conveyed to Liverpool in a whitechapel, and on the 22d ultimo he was admitted into the Northern Hospital. He then had a large abscess, occu pying nearly the lower half of the right thigh, and two small abscesses below the knee; and after lingering in great agony until Sunday last, he died. Upon a post mortem examination by Mr. John Thomas Jackson, the house-surgeon, it was found that he had a frac ture of the ninth rib on the left side, a large abscess on the plura, another abscess on the outside of the chest, and another on the lower third of the right thigh, communicating with the knee joint. Mr. Jackson was of opinion that the abscess on the chest must have been the result of external violence, and that that, and the abscess on the knee, produced the death. Mr. Superintendent Brown took the dying declaration of the deceased on Thursday last He then said that Charnock came down stairs on the Sunday in question, with a bar of iron, or poker, in his hand, that he first pushed him, and then struck him with the poker below the right knee, and that, when down, he kicked him three or four times on the right side and leg. He added that his reason for calling at the house was, to get a watch and 12s. which Mary Char nock had, belonging to him. The CORONER, in summing up the evidence, said the cir cumstanzo the case showed that the father had received great grisvBfation—first, in the fact that his daughter had been seduced, and secondly, by the deceased refusing to leave the house. But great as the provocation might have been, it did not warrant the use of personal violence; and the question for the jury was, whether there was evidence of malice prepense, thereby making the crime one of murder, or whether they thought it might be reduced to man slaughter or justifiable homicide. The jury, after a few minutes' delibration, returned a ver dict of "Manslaughter;" and William Charnock, who is at present an inmate of Kirkdale gaol, will be tried on the charge at the approaching winter assizes. THE PREMIER AND THE MAYOR OF MANCHESTER. —The Mayor of Manchester, in his first week of office, has received an invitation from Sir Robert Peel to dine with him at Drayton Manor to-day (Thursday). His worship was also invited to dine with Edmund Peel, Esq., yesterday, Of course both dinners are in connexion with the occasion of the Right Hon. Baronet putting the first spade into the soil and cutting the first sod on the Trent Valley Railway line, in the neighbourhood of Tamworth, this day. W. B. Wat kins, Esq., the mayor, we believe, proceeded on Wednes day to Tamworth, to fulfil his acceptance of both invita tions.—Manchester Guardian. DROUGHT IN INDIA.—We have seen a letter just received by a party in this town, from a clergyman at Ban galore, in which the writer says, "I am sorry to say we have had no rain vet. Everything is becoming dear. The wells are drying up, and no likelihood of any crops. It is said such a season has not occurred the last sixtyzears. I fear there is every prospect of great distress, especial:) , amongst the poorer classes."—Liverpool Courier. SITIsi, LONDON, PRIDAV SOIREE IN THE BELFAST DIS- TRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM. (From the Northern Whig.) On Thursday evening last the annual soirée was given to the patients in the Lunatic Asylum, by Dr. Stewart, whose humane and effective system of management entitles him to all praise. On entering the apartments where the entertain ment was given, and which were tastefully ornamented with evergreens, and brilliantly lit, we were greatly struck with the appearance which their inmates presented. There was none of that violent or outrageous conduct which we are apt to associate with our ideas of madness—on the contrary, there was among all the patients, with but a single excep tion, a prevailing quietness of demeanour; and, but for the occasional wildness of their glance, and the incoherency of their expressions and conversation, one would never ima gine, for a moment, that they were other than sane men and women. In one of the apartments appropriated to their use, on the evening in question, at the end of which there was a plat form erected for the visitors, a considerable portion of whom were ladies, there was a pianoforte and a violin; the latter instrument was played, in an astonishingly correct and ani mated manner, by one of the patients, while a number of others, male and female, joined in one of the most extraor dinary dances it was ever our lot to witness. It would be impossible to conceive anything more fantastic or outre than their movements. One girl, with a pair of shoulders like a Hercules, performed a most remarkable summersault, to the infinite amusement of the whole company. They all seemed to enjoy the exercise, and kept up the dance with great spirit for a considerable time, relieving each other by turns. In passing through the room adjoining that in which the dancing was going on, we fell into conversation with ono of the patients, a keen-eye, middle-aged man, who was pos sessed with a wonderful idea of his own dignity and majestic pretensions—" Do you know," said he, " what's all this about ?—I cannot, for the life of me, conceive what all those ladies and gentlemen are doing in there; but perhaps they're fond of amusement, and they have come to see the dancing— that's just it. Maybe they are the Royal Family—ah ! if they are, I'll speak to them. Do you know what it is—l have been shamefully treated—l have been made a prisoner of wrongfully, by men who compassed my defeat, knowing, that if they thus secured me, my claims to the throne would be forgotten and neglected. lam heir not only to the throne of England, but to the thrones of France and Scot land. If I have said anything offensive to you, I hope you will forgive me; but you know it is an exciting subject to converse upon—to be heir, as I am, to the thrones of Eng land, Scotland, and France, is a matter of some importance both to myself and the nation at large ; and I certainly do think, that if the public considered my case with the atten tion and respect due to such a proceeding of the State as has involved me in ruin, and by which, as you see, I have been made a prisoner, that immediate steps would be taken by the Lord Chancellor, if he have any honesty in his soul, to restore me to that position in society which I once oc cupied. Ah ! here comes the Queen " Just at this moment a very beautiful girl, leaning on the arm of a gentleman, approached. "Ah, your Majesty!" cried the patient, " won't I have your Majesty's gracious pardon ? Are not you the Queen of England P " Not exactly," replied the lady. " Oh ! well, then, if you're not the Queen of England, you must be the Queen of Spain. You laugh—there con be no doubt of it—you are the Queen of the British Isles—your Majesty, I kneel before you (kneeling down), I again entreat your Majesty's smiles—l hope you won't forget the'pre ferment though. The Prime Minister, as your Majesty very well knows, is under deep obligations to me : and I don't think I would be expecting too much, if I asked you to make me an Admiral. Such an appointment lam fully entitled to ; it would only be commensurate with the ser vices I have done to the State, leaving my pretensions to the throne out of the question altogether. And your Majesty, perhaps you may not be aware of the fact, but I can inform you, that I have fought and bled in the cause of truth, and in support of those principles which placed your Majesty, and your royal ancestors, upon the throne of these realms. Why, I should like to know, am I to be kept here—it is a very wearying kind of life, and my faithful subjects—God knows what is to become f them in my absence! The Le gislature are imperatively called upon to investigate the mat ter, and that with the slightest possible delay." At this particular place, the heir to the throne became very incoherent ; and, his attention having been caught by some object, he rambled away from the group. In a retired corner of the dancing-room, surrounded by a number of the visitors, was an intelligent-looking man, who had been for some time an inmate of the Asylum, reciting an extraordinary piece of composition. This man was a poet, and the verses were his own. He dwelt upon those passages which he himself admired, with great emphasis; and was evidently highly gratified with the applause of his auditory. Opposite the poet, in another corner of the room, was a patient, who, we were informed, had been a graduate in Trinity College, Dublin. He wasa man of quiet demeanour, and, judging from his conversation, which was plentifully interlarded with quotations from the Greek and Latin Fa thers, a scholar of no mean pretensions. He gave some long passages from the " First Book of the .Eneid," but could not commence with the words of the poet, till he had gone over the four lines of doubtful parentage which precede that exquisite production. He afterwards recited some of the most striking passages from IHomer's Iliad," dwelling, with rapt and solemn air, upon the sonorous and grand sounding syllables of the magnificent Greek. He said he delighted in the Greek tragedies above all other writings—there were a loftiness of sentiment, and a dignity to be found in them, for which, in other compositions, we looked in vain. The Latin playwright Teremce was the only one who at all ap proached those inimitable writers in spirit, and grandeur of conception. Leaving the classical enthusiast, we came upon an old Armagh choir man, who was seated at the piano, thundering away, with the most exemplary perseverance, at " God save the Queen." He afterwards played some snatches from the antique Cathedral services of the seventeenth century ; and a minor chant of Dr. Woodward's. He had quite the organ style and touch, and had, evidently, been accustomed to that instrument. It seemed to us, that he imagined he was seated at the organ, from the peculiar way in which he shifted, in the fingering, and the sustaining effect he gave the music, by his manner of grasping the chords. One of the visitors afterwards played for him the College Chant, and Dr. Battishill's in E. "Ah," said the patient to him, when he had done, "you're not so good a player new as when you were organist of St. Patrick's!' The dancing and amusements were kept up till ten o'clock, the utmost harmony_ and good humour Prevailing among the patients ; and the visitors shortly afterwards depaited, pleased with, and astonished at, the entertainment they had been spectators of. We cannot conclude without expressing our warm admi ration of the benevolent and excellent system which has been adopted by Dr. Stewart towards his patients, with such signal success. The harshness and cruelty of the old mode of treat ment are, in this valuable institution, entirely . done away with ; and the freedom from personal restraint enjoyed by the patients, so far from being an evil, has been attended by the most beneficial results. The following composition was taken down, from the dic tation of the poet mentioned in the foregoing sketch, and sung by him before several of the faculty, who were present on the occasion : SONG. THE VILLAGE BARBER TURNED QUACK DOCTOR. A village barber born and bred, (I trimmed them in a minufe), Made something of t'outside the head, Though there was nothing in it; I learned to bleed, and stumps to draw; But ne'er lock jawed the Proctor; So up to London went, 0 la! And set up for a Doctor ! SPOKEN—But I couldn't forget my old trade of periwig making, so I depended all upon puff—cured patients that I never saw, and killed all that I did see; so, to prevent ac cidents, I invented a new medicine, that would neither kill nor cure—got a patent for it—cured their purses of a ple thora, and my own of a galloping consumption I But the main chance was my maxim and motto, so I drove along in the capacity of a Quack, quack, fol-de-rol diddle-lal-de-daddi 0 ! Quack, quack, &c. My patient knew as well as I ; And, so the way I nicked them, Was let them live or let them die, I'd never contradict them; Whate'er they fancied, that I tried— ' If cured, my skill was shown, Sir ; But if, as oft it proved, they died, The fault was all their own, Sir, SPOKEN. —Patient—Doctor, I'm very ill. Doctor—Let me feel your pulse—put out your tongue; ah I your complaint's a polyphosbia, as we say—vulgarly, a diascordium of the biliary duct. Patient—Duck, Doctor? I believe it was a wild duck did me all the mischief. Doctor—Well, well; we'll soon tame the wild duck—you shall have a narcotic, a cathartic, a sporific, and a sudorific. Patient—Soap and suds, Doctor? I'll never be able to swallow them. Doctor— Well, then, you shall have an anodyne. Patient-0 yes ; I should like to dine—pray, Doctor, what may I eat? Doctor —Well, what do you like best? Patient—l likes goose and gravy soup, Sir. Doctor—have them, by all means—no thing's so good for the bile as goose and gravy soup; but avoid a wild duck as you would a Quack, quack, fol-de-rol, &c. At last I published, through the town, My patent, simple sirrup, My name got up, and then went down, And made a pretty stir-up. I said, in all complaints 'twas sure The worst of ills to smother, And so it was, for it would cure One just as well as t'other. SroKEN.—Oh, it was a charming composition : sugar, vinegar, mustard, and magnesia —sweet, sour, hot, and cold. If that was not calculated for all cures, I don't know what was. However, the medicine took whilst they took the me dicine ; and I took the money, so somebody was the better for it. The patent proved its utility, and the stamp duty service to the State. The physicians fretted, the surgeons were in a stew, and the apothecaries in a big passion. But a fig for the faculty, say I ; while in the stream of popularity, I drove on a swimming trade, which is very natural for Ducks that swim over the water ! Chorus—Quack, quack, fol-de-rol, &c. THE MANDARIN AND THE ENGLISH LADY.—The degraded position of females in China is well known. No thing astonishes the Chinamen who visit our merchants at Hong-Kong so much as the deference which is paid by our countrymen to their ladies, and the position which the latter are permitted to bold in society. The very servants express their disgust at seeing our ladies permitted to sit at table with their lords, and wonder how men can so far forget their dignity. A young English merchant recently took his youth ful wife with him to Hong-Kong, where the couple were visited by a wealthy mandarin. The latter regarded the lady at tentively, and seemed to dwell with delight on her move ments. When she at length left the apartment, he said to the husband, in his imperfect English, " What you give for that wifey wife yours?" " Oh," replied the husband, laugh ing at the singular error of his visitor, "2,000 dollars" This our merchant thought would appear to the Chinese rather a high figure, but he was mistaken. " Well," said the mandarin, taking out his book with an air of business, " 'spose you give her to me, I give you 5,000 dollars." It is difficult to say whether the young merchant was more amazed or amused, but the grave air of the Chinaman con vinced him that he was in earnest, and he was compelled, therefore, to refuse the offer with as much placidity as he could assume. The mandarin was, however, pressing, and went as high as 7,000 dollars. The merchant, who had no previous notion of the value of the commodity which he had taken out with him, was compelled at length to declare that Englishmen never sold their wives after they once came into their possession, an assertion which the Chinaman was slow to believe. The merchant afterwards had a hearty laugh with his young wife, when he told her that he had just dis. covered her full value, as the mandarin had offered him 7,000 dollars for her.—Liverpool Albion. The expenses of conducting the municipal election of four councillors for Richmond, Yorkshire, are estimated at 3,000/. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SOUTH DEVON. Pevatotertr, TUESDAY.—An extraordinary general meet ing of the shareholders of the South Devon Railway, pur suant to the Act of Incorporation, was held at the Royal Hotel. The meeting was fully attended. Mr. Thomas Gill, M.P., the Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. The Secretary, Mr. Carr, having read the advertisement calling the meeting, which said that the object of the meeting was to consider and determine on the expediency of contributing funds towards the construction of an intended railway from Exmouth towards Exeter, to join the South Devon Railway at or near the Countess Wear-bridge ; to consider and deter mine on the expediency of agreeing to such alterations and extensions of the intended railway from Launceston to Tavistock, as may be adopted by the Launceston and South Devon Company, in consequence of the projected formation of the North Devon Railway, and of a branch in extension of the Cornwall Railway to Launceston ; and to consider and determine the expediency of increasing the amount of sub scription to the Launceston and South Devon Railway; to empower the directors fully to carry out the several objects aforesaid, and to raise an additional capital for the above purposes ; and also to authorise the directors to borrow the amount authorised by the Act of Incorporation, to be har rowed by the company on mortgage or bond, as the same - shall be required from tune to time for the purposes of the company, in the manner prescribed by the said Act. The OHAIMIAN then said, when the directors last had the pleasure of meeting the shareholders, several plans had been announced to them, which the directors had recommended to their attention and approval, and which they bad been pleased to approve of, and to pass resolutions with a view of carrying the schemes out. It was hardly necessary for him to refer to these plans specifically ; but he would state that the first was in reference to the Cornwall line, with a view of extending and improving which a sum not exceeding 200,0001. was voted in aid of the undertaking. For the North Devon Railway, the directors were authorised to contribute 375,0001. The Torbay plan had been then, as it was now, not sufficiently advanced to put the meeting in possession of the actual estimate the directors had been authorised to carry out : and as regarded the Ashburton and Newton Railway, the shareholders had been pleased to empower the directors to expend such a sum as, in their opinion, they might think expedient. To carry out this last-named scheme, the di rectors had thought it their duty to contribute 20,000/. There were other schemes in contemplation, but the di rectors were not in a position to bring them forward. This had led to the calling of the present special meeting. The first proposition of the directors was to ask the approval of the meeting in order to enable them to contribute a sum of money for the construction of a railway from Exmouth to Exeter, which would go over three or four miles of the South Devon line. It would join the South Devon Rail way at or near the Countess Wear-bridge, and then take the course from Topsham to Exeter. It had been the opinion of the directors that they would be consulting the interests of the proprietors in assisting in the formation of this line to the extent of 15,000/. The second scheme was that of the Launceston and South Devon; the necessity to adopt certain alterations and extensions having arisen in consequence of the projected formation of the North Devon Railway, to which they had already contributed 375,000/. It was in tended to take the course from Okehampton to Launceston. It had been thought expedient on the part of the engineer, and that opinion had been confirmed by the directors, that the line originally to have been carried from Tavistock to Launceston should take a different direction, to meet the views of the North Devon Railway, thereby effecting a direct and central line. The new arrangement would have the effect of lengthening the line some three or four miles, which would of course be attended with increased expense, but there were corresponding advantages, inasmuch as the traffic would be brought from the northern and central parts of Cornwall, and the northern and central parts of Devon as well. This ex tension of the line would cause the necessity for an increase in the amount of contribution, and therefore the directors, though not in a position to state the actual amount the line would require, believed that a sum of money varying from 150,000/. to 200,0001. would be requisite to carry it out. At least at the present moment they cons idered it expedient to ask the meeting to sanction the directors contributing a sum not exceeding two-thirds of the estimate. For the purpose of putting the meeting more fully in possession of the whole of the object for which the present meeting had been convened, he would state that there was one other circumstance in refer ence to the schemes brought before them —namely, the direc tors called upon the proprietors to sanction the directors borrowing an amount of money necessary to pay the required deposits. In the present state of their affairs it seemed to the directors by far the more prudent and legitimate course to borrow the money, as they were empowered to do by Act of Parliament with their approval, than to have recourse to the issue of whole or half-shares—a circumstance which he be lieved, even if it were not deprecated at the present moment, would be deeply regretted hereafter, because, strictly speak ing, they were not in a position to issue shares until they obtained their Act of Incorporation, and the object of bor rowing money was to be enabled to pay the deposits neces sary before going to Parliament. The proposition which the directors submitted was, to enable them to borrow, if they felt it expedient to do so, money to the extent permitted by the Act of Parliament—namely, 366,500/. They had been prevented doing this before, because the amount of money to be raised by calls had not reached the limit which the Act prescribed to enable them to borrow money on deben tures, or mortgages, or bonds. This limit involved the raising of one-half the capital, and the last call made put them in that position. This proposition, if agreed to by the shareholders, would have the effect of protecting them from calls for some time to come. He thought this plan of very great advantage, both upon the ground of the terms upon which the money could be obtained, and the more prudent and legitimate plan which it presented for paying the requi site deposits in respect of the new schemes which the share holders had sanctioned. The first resolution which the direc tors recommended the meeting to adopt, authorised the direc tors to contribute 15,000/. towards the construction of an intended railway from Exmouth towards Exeter, to join the South Devon Railway, at or near the Countess ear-bridge. Mr. T. W. Fox strongly recommended that new shares should be issued to meet these new schemes. That course had been adopted in a great many other lines with which he was connected, and he thought it a very proper and judicious one. This suggestion led to considerable discussion, the CHAIR MAN remarking that it would almost amount to dishonesty to issue half-shares till the Acts of Parliament had been ob tained for the making of those lines which alone rendered it necessary that they should borrow at all. Mr. S. DERSIC saw no difference between their issuing new half-shares, and new companies requiring . payment of deposits before their Acts were obtained ; but, in reply, It was stated that there was a great difference, because people, it was said, would buy into the South Devon Com pany, and pay larger premiums on the half-shares, thinking, at the same time, that they would enjoy all the advantages that they would be entitled to if they had been original shareholders. The feeling of the meeting was clearly against the plan of issuing half-shares for the present, and the reso lution proposed by the Chairman was carried unanimously. The next resolution relative to the Launceston and South Devon line was then proposed from the Chair, upon which a discussion arose, in which Messrs. Fripp, Whiteford, Wool combe, and others joined, as to the advantage of the altera tions now proposed, by which the line will be carried round three or four miles further, by way of Lydford, instead of through Milton Abbot, and thence to Tavistock, as was at first intended. This is done in order to connect it with the North Devon line, and with the Cornwall line, by which a central course will be given, via Crediton, on from Exeter through Cornwall, on the broad gauge. The resolution having passed, the directors were next empowered to borrow the sums required for the purposes now agreed to. Some questions were then asked of the Chairman as to the progress of the works on the coast, and that gentleman stated that they were most satisfactory, and that there were no engineering difficulties, nor any other difficulties but what would be got over in regular course of working. The state ments about difficulties had been got up by interested parties who were opposed to them. There were now about eight wiles' length of pipe ready, and seven miles of permanent way. The only difficulty was that they could no t g et the pipe cast fast enough, - although they had three foundries regularly at work, and would employ more if they could get them. In reply to questions from Mr. PRANCE, The CHAIRMAN stated that there was no truth in the state ment that lately went the round of the papers, relative to an improved and more direct line being also constructed by this company. The Hon. Gentleman declined, however, to state when any part of the line would, in his opinion, be ready for opening. BRISTOL AND EXETER. Yesterday a meeting of proprietors in the above company was held at Bristol, for the purpose of considering what mea sures should be adopted in consequence of the recent decision at the late general meeting not to sell the line to the Great Western Company, in accordance with the provisional agree ment of the Directors of both companies. Mr. Stone, of Bath, having been called to the chair, Mr. J. S. TRIPP rose, and in a long and eloquent speech described the merits of the Bristol and Exeter line, and showed how entirely inadequate to its value was the sum of 6 per cent., offered by the Great Western Company for the purchase of the line. The period had arrived when they must either sell their line or work it independently, and it was said that they could not do the latter ; but there could not be a greater mistake, except that which led some people to believe that they were entirely dependent upon the Great Western, as if their whole traffic depended upon their connexion with London. But it should be recollected that if they acted independently, they would not only en sure the friendship of their Great Northern neighbours, but also of the intelligent South-Western Company, who would act with the Bristol and Exeter Company if the Bristol and Exeter would act with them, but who were too intelligent to lend themselves to the advancement of Great Western interests. They were then told that if they did not assent to the terms offered by the Great Western they would have a direct line. He could assure them, however, that so far from being opposed to a direct line they would ad vocate one properly formed, and which would not be preju dicial to their interests. There was another consideration, which was, whether they should lease their line—he thought if they did so they were lost for ever. As an instance of this he would cite the case of the Hull and Selby, the property in which had never increased in value since the lease, nor had the shares gone up ; but it bad been said that 5 per cent. was a good return for their money. They should, however, recollect that persons did not embark their capital in railways for the sake of 5 per cent., but for an increasing revenue to meet increasing expenses. If a man went into Consols he knew that he only would receive a certain per tentage for his money; his revenue would never increase, while his ca pital might ; but in railways such was the development of traffic that both his revenue and his capital might increase, so that in the end, instead of leaving his children 20,0001., he might be able to leave them 40,0001. Though he thought it would be highly impolitic to lease their line, an amalgama tion would be another question ; but then they should take care with whom they amalgamated, and that they were not in a worse position than themselves. They should not be deluded by an apparent dividend. People in London were too wise to be deluded by the mere show of a dividend, for a man might say, if you will lend me 1001. I will pay you 50 per cent., but the party to whom the offer was made mould naturally say, show me the position of my 1001. Allusion had frequently been made to the cheapness by which their line had been constructed, but no allusion had hitherto been made to the political influence of the Bristol and Exeter Com pany. They were all aware that in the south-west of Eng land the greatest opposition was felt by numerous companies to the Great Western projects, and that in the next session of Parliament that Comp an y ould meet with much greater opposition than they expected. New it should be recollected that the Bristol and Exeter Company held the key of the south-west. After some further observations Mr. Tripp moved the following resolution : That, reviewing the history of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and the proceedings of its directorate; looking at the fact that the Great Western Railway Company has been gradually extending its branches to the prejudice of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and taking possession of ground which ought to have been occupied by the latter Company, and this without opposition on the part of the Di rectors of that Company, and without any extension by them of breaches from their railway; looking also at the oppressive terms of the lease of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, granted to the great Western Railway Company; EVE NJ NG, NOVEMBER' rl4. 1845. calling to mind, too. the fact that in the draught of the Act of Parliament, submitted to the Proprietors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, at their meeting in last, a clause bad been introduced, the effect of which was to give a right of pre-emption to the Great Western Rail way . Company, and looking, lastly, at the terms of the late provisional agreement, so justly rejected by the almost unani mous vote of a verylarge and influential meetingof the share holders of the Bristol and Exeter Railway on the 7th inst., this meeting cannot but consider the close connexion which has hitherto existed between the Directors of the two Com panic:. and the employment-by . the Bristol and Exeter Rail way dompany of the same engineer and other officers as the Great Western Railway Company, to have given an unclip influence on the side, and in favour of the latter Company, and to have been highly detrimental to the interests of the former ; and that this meeting now contemplating the pre sent situation of the two companies, and deeming it to be ab solutely essential, whether it be ultimately determined by tilt Bristol and Exeter Company to sell or to work on its owr account its railway, in order that the interests of the Share holders in that railway may be freely and justly considered and dealt with, that their Directors should be in a positio: as unconnected with and free from the control, counsels, and influence of the Directors of the Great Western Company, and their officers as possible, and should hay* a separate staff of officers of their own, do most respect fully request the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railwa:‘ Company forthwith to dismiss from their councils all officer in any way connected with, or interested in, or under the in fluence of, the Great Western Railway Company, and to cal in as the engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany, either Mr. Stephenson or Mr. Locke, or some other disinterested eminent engineer, and to request such engineer immediately to survey their railway, and to report as earl:, as possible to a general, or special general meeting of the Shareholders, upon its present condition and traffic, and fu turn prospects, and whether any, and what steps should be taken by the Directors for the advancement or protection of the interests of the Company, either by forming branches or opposing the projects of other companies in Parliament ; or otherwise, as he may deem expedient.—That a deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen, viz., Mr. Stone, Mr. Daniel, Mr. Buckley, and Mr. Lucas, be requested to wait upon the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Com pany, and lay before them the foregoing resolution." The resolution having been seconded, the meeting wac addressed by several gentlemen. In the course of the dis cussion, Mr. Bedon, who bad been a Director, observed that he knew that the Directors of the Bristol and Exeter Com pany were acting under Great Western influence. When he was on the Directory be had opposed the lease, and had done so honestly, but because he had done so it had been intimated to him that he must retire from the Directory. He was in ill health when he received this intimatior from the secretary. Still his blood boiled, and if he had published the facts then in his possession he felt assured that their Directors must have gone out passive as they were.— (Hear, hear.) He had been down the line yesterday. with a view of ascertaining the state of their traffic, and had asked the officials if the traffic was increasing, and the uni form answer he had received was, that it was increasing amazingly—indeed, so fast Was it increasing that they were not able to transact the business, and that the Great Wes tern Company did not give them trucks enough. or they could at this moment do half as much business again. The resolution was then put, and carried with two dis sentients ; as also were resolutions appointing a committee for general purposes and to act with local committees, &c., and to obtain subscriptions. Thanks were then given to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—British and Irish Union, 3 1 4—Chester and Birkenhead, Half Shares, 24 1 4 — Derby and Crewe, s%—Edinburgh and Perth, s—Grand Junction, Quarter Shares, 47—London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 42—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, I37—South-Eastern and Dover, 36. MANCHESTER, Nov. 13. STocK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Exten sion, 3%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 81s. 6d.—Dudley , Iron Bridge, and Shrewsbury, 2 3 / 4 —Eastern Counties, 20 1 4 —East Lancashire, No. 1, 18%—Glasgow and Dumfries, 2':; 8 —Goole. Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 378—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 8 3 4 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 13—Lei cester and Bedford, 1 15-16—London and Manchester (Rem.). 2%—London and York, 4%—Manchester and Birmingham 70—Manchester and Southampton, 3 1 4—North Staffordshire, s%—North Western, 3 3 %—Nottingham and Boston, 27i Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 3%—Oxford, Worces ter, and Wolverhampton, 17—Sheffield and Lincoln Junc tion, 3%—Sheffield and Manchester Quarters, No. 3, 6 Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6—South-Eastern and Dover, 35—Trent Valley, 15%. SHEFFIELD, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 35—London and York, 4/. 113.—Man chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 51. 14s.—Notting: ham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 3—North Staffordshire, 5'4 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire, WA—Wakefield and Ham gate, 2IA - BRISTOL, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 7%—Midland, New, 18%—Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham, 3—Wilt s , Somerset, and Weymouth, 444. _ LEEDS, Nov. 13. - STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Croydon. 20—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10% p.—Midland, New, 1914—Leeds and Bradford, 42—Ditto, Extensions, 384 —Leeds and Dewsbu r y, 18 c . n .—N or th British, New, 4% —Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 38—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 4 1 A—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, W s West Riding Union, 7—Grand Union, 7s. p.—Lanceshireand North Yorkshire, 4s. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.—Leeds and York, par—Leicester and Birmingham, 10s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. p.—Manchester, Buxton. Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.—North-Western, 3%—Notting ham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 3—South Midlands, 3% p.— Waliefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.—York and Carlisle, 31. 4s. HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and York, 4%—Grand Union, I%—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad ford Union, 8/. 17s. 6d.—Hull and Holyhead, Bs.--Leicester and Birmingham, Bs. 6d. p.—North and South Junction. 2 6d.—Nottingham and Boston, 12s. 6d. p.—North Western, 3%—Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, i%. HULL, Nov. 13. &oar EXCHANGE.—The sales are—London and Brigh ton, GOA—Aberdeen 7—Great Grimsby and She ffi eld, 14— North British, Half Shares, 3/. 18s. 6d.—Ditto, Dalkeith, 57—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 1/. 16s. 9d.—Derby and Gainsborough, 1,4 —Hull and Barnsl7 i Junetion, 275. 6d.— London and Birmingham Extension, 1 —London and York, 4%—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grant am, 2%. YORK, Nov. 13. STOCK EZCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 20— Ditto, New, 6% p.—Newcastle and Darlington, 56—Ditto (Brandling), 45%—York and North Midland, Ex tension, 2:, l ,( x —Newcastle and Berwick, 12 3 / 4 —North Bri tish New Carlisle Branch, 3—London and York, 4% — Cambridge and Lincoln, 4—Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir mingham and Leicester, VA—Derby and Gainsborough, 1 3 / 4 —Grand Union, 1 3 / 4 Great Grimsby, Louth, &c., 3s. Leicester and Bedford, I%—Welsh Midland, 2 1 %. GLASGOW, Nov. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate, 60s.—Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 525. 6d.—British and Irish Union, 73s.—Caledonian, 91,x—Caledonian Extension, 34—Caledonian and Direct Northern, 55s.—East Lothian Central, 60s.—East Indian Railway, 475. 6d.—Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 22s.—Forth and Clyde Junction, 575. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 12—Glasgow and Greenock, 20 1 ,x—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 41.95. —Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 575. 6d.—Glasgow, Partick, and Dumbarton, VA—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 655. Lanark and Lothians, 3%—Perth and Inverness, 465. Perth and Crieff, 60s.—Scottish Central, 15'4—Scottish Southern, 50s.—Scottish South Midland Juncton, 475. 6d. —Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction 445. 6d.—Sla mannan and Bo'ness, s—Stirling and Dunfermline, 535.6 d.— Strathern Junction, 655. EDINBURGH, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 71.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 2/. 65.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 3/.105.-Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/. -Armagh and Portrush, 21. 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21. Oa-Ayr and Galloway, 2/.. 10s.-Banffshire, 2/. 15s.- Belfast and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union, 3/. IN.-Caledonian, 14/. 155.-Caledonian Extension, 3/. 2s. 60.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31. 95.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 3/. Os. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 5/. 75. Gd.-Carnwarth and West Linton, 21.-Chelmstord and Bury, 1/. 17s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 201.-Cornwall and Devon, 2/. 10s.-Deeside Railway, 6/. 2s. 6d.-Direct North ern, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Dublin and Enniskillen, SL-Dundee and Arbroath, 36/.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Perth, 8/. U.-East of Fife, 2/. 10s.-East Coast of Scotland, 25.- East Lothian Central, 3L-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 41. ss. -Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex new, 70/.-Ditto, Half Shares, 17L-Ditto, Quarters, 181.-Ditto, Ditto, New, 131.- Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 11.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 2/. la-Edinburgh and Leith Atmos pheric Direct, 2/. 3s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 24/. IN.-Ditto, Preference, 19/.-Edinburgh and Northern, 4/. 2s. 6d.-Ditto, Newport, 1/. 55.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1/. 155.-Edinburgh and Peebles, ex new, 21. 103.-Edinburgh and Perth, 5. 55.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 21. Os. 6d.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 2/. 17s. W.-Glas- Qow and Ayrshire, 72/.-Ditto, New Stock, 231.-Ditto, uarter Shares, 21/.125. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 3/. 4s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 31.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2/. 10s. ad -Glasgow and Garnkirk, 45/.-Glasgow and Greenock, 22/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 10/. 15s. -Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 3/. h.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 41. 10s.-Gran ton Junction, 2/. 3s. 6d.-Great County Down, 31.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 10s.-Great North and South Wales, 155.-Inverness and Elgin, 2/.-Lanark and Lothians, 3 1 . 12s. 6d.-Larne and Ballymena, 2/. 25.-London and Houn slow, 2/.-London and Manchester (Rem.), 3/. 55.-Lon don and Manchester (Rastrick), 51. IN.-London and Wind sor, 11-London and York, 5/.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 21. 17s. 6d.-Morayshire, 1/.-Newry and Lon donderry, 21. 10s.-North British, ex new, 221-Ditto, Halves, ex new, 51.-Ditto, Fifths, 5/. 105.-Ditto, Car • lisles, 2/. 17s. 6d.-North Wales Mineral, New, 5/. 10s.- Perth and Crieff, 2/. 10s.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 9s - Scottish Central, 15/. 10s.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 2/. 155.-Scottish Midland, 4/. IN.-Scottish North Western, 2/. 145.-Scottish South Midland, 2/. 9s. 6d.- Scottish Western, 2/. 125.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 7s. -Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 61.-South Midland, 6/. 155.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 2/. Ils.-Stirling anal Midland, 30s. p.-Strathem Junction, 3/.105.-Surrey Grand Junction, 11. 2s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 21.-Tyne Valley, 31.-Wishaw and Coltness, 57/. DUBLIN, Nov. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Belfast and Bally mena, 6%-Cork and Youghal, 1 3 A-Dublin and Drogheda, 81-Great Southern and Western, 20 1 / 4 -Great Southern, Clonmel to Thurles, 2-Midland G r e a t Western, Extension to Sligo, 2-Irish Great Western, Dublin to Galway, 3 3 4- Irish North Midland, %-Killarney Junctions, 114-Water • ford and Limerick, 7%=-Waterford and Kilkenny, 3-Ditto, Extension to Carlow,"%-Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 1%-Wexford, Waterford, and Valeutia, 1%. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BACHELORS OF• MEDICINE.--1845. FIRST DIVISION.—Matthew Bains, King's:College ; Frede rick James Brown, University College; David Peter Evans, King's College; Frederick John Hensley, King's College; Alfred Jackson, University College; John Ody, King's Col lege; Thomas Palmer, Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland; Charles Bland Radcliffe, Leeds School of Medicine; Samuel Hop kins Steel, King's College; William Phillimore Stiff, Uni versity College; Robert - Bowie Walcott, St. Thomas's Hos pital ; Charles Matthew Wayte, Guy's Hospital ; Ewing Whittle, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. SECOND DIVISION.—Thomas Herbert Barker, University College; James Duncan, King's College; Archibald Red foord Ridgway, London Hospital. BACHELORS OF LAW& FIRST DIVISION.—Edward Mulhallen Marum, Carlow Col lege; Phillip Anstie Smith, University College. A small . Dutch cutter has been seized at Hull having on board upwards of 7,0001 b. of smuggled tobacco. The captain and crew are all in custody. SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. TANIWORTIL THURSDAY NIGIIT.—The ceremony of " turn ing the first sod" of this important railway—which, as our readers are doubtless aware, is intended to shorten the present ine of communication between the metropolis and the manu facturing districts of the north by a direct line from Rugby to Stafford—took place yesterday on a plot of ground in the vicinity of Tamworth. Sir Robert Peel having consented to perform this, the first mezhanical operation in connexion with the undertak ing, a great deal of interest has been excited in the locality during the past fortnight, and a very considerable influx of visitors arrived in the town during yesterday and this morn ing, for the purpose of being present on the interesting oc casion. The Right Hon. Baronet has also taken the opportunity to issmable at Drayton Manor a circle of gentlemen, several of vhose names are well known in connexion with the prin aipal railways in the kingdom. These include the lion. Colonel Anson, M.P., tha Hon. Captain Carnegie, M.P., Mr. George Hudson, M.P., Mr. J. L. Ricardo, M.P., Captain .'Court. M.P., Mr. Edward Tootal, Deputy-Chairman of the ['rent Valley Railway, the Mayor of Manchester (Mr. W. B. Watkins), Mr. R. Creed, Secretary of the London and Bir mingham Railway, &c., &c. This morning was ushered in by a merry peal from the hells of the church steeple, and as the day advanced, the in tabitants of the surrounding districts poured into the town n large numbers. Three o'clock in the afternoon had been 'le hour appointed for the ceremony to take place, but long tefore that hour the open space in front of the Town-hall, where it had been arrang-d the procession should form, was densely crowded with spectators. At one o'clock the Mayor and Corporation sat down to a rery handsome &fruiter, provided by the Directors, in the roWn-hall, at which Mr. Edward Tootal (in the absence of 4r. Edmund Peel) presided. Ample justice having been lone to the creature comforts, "The health of her Majesty" was drunk with every mark of loyalty and respect. After which The CHAIRMAN gave "The health of the Mayor an,i Cor )oration of Tamworth," eulogising that body for the uniform assistance and support they had given to thepromoters of the f rent Valley Railway. The Mayor of TAMWORTH returned thanks, and proposed The health of Mr. Edward Tootal," which was responded o with great enthusiasm. Mr. TOOTAL returned thanks, and next gave the healths if the Vice-Presidents of the day, Mr. Booth, of Liverpool, and Mr. Smith, of London. The toasts having been duly responded to, and appro priately acknowledged, The CHAIRMAN next gave "The health of Sir Robert Peel," r•:marking that the Right Hon. Baronet had the destinies of cations in his hands, and that coming from a commercial listrict as he (the Chairman) did, he did not hesitate to say that Sir Robert Peel possessed to an unlimited extent the confidence of that class of her Majesty's subjects. The nation ,vere looking to the Right Hon. Baronet with the utmost confidence, and he (the Chairman) trusted that the measures which he would propound in due season would have for their tbject the benefit of the great mass of the inhabitants of this country. The toast was drank with enthusiasm, and at this period , he Chairman retired to join his co-Director: , who were pre .oaring to receive Sir Robert on his arrival from Drayton Manor. After some delay Sir Robert's open landau drew up at the entrance to the hall. Here the Right Honourable Baronet was received by the Directors of the railway and the members .f the Corporation. Sir Robert was accompanied by Lady Peal and Miss Peel, the Hon. Colonel Anson, and the Mayor of Manchester. Captain A'Court, M.P., rode on the box of the same carriage. Five or six other carriages followed, containing the guests at present enjoying the hospitality of the Right Honourable Baronet. The procession was now marshalled, and moved through the principal streets of the town in the following order : Officers to clear the way. Labourers bearing implements. The Mayor of Tamworth (Mr. F. Hunter), Succeeded by the following members of the borough corpora tion : Mr. Buckerfield, Mr. Nevill, Mr. Hall, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Bramall, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Browne, Mr. Hamel, Mr. F. Hamel, Mr. Woodcock, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Platts, Mr. Gray, 4nd Mr. Willington, Town Clerk. Band of Music. Banners. The Carriaga of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, followed by other Carriages. The Directors of the Railway. The Engineers and Contractors for the Work. Operative Smiths, Carpenters, Excavators, &c. The procession, after making the circuit of the hall, and proceeding down the principal street, passed into the Lich field-road, and thence to a plot of ground, about half a mile listant from the town, adjoining Staffordshire-moor, where the line of railway had been marked out and inclosed for a considerable distance. As the procession moved along the Right Hon. Baronet was loudly cheered by the spectators, and on reaching the ground it was with the greatest difficulty that a sufficient space could be cleared for him to perform the required opera tion. At length, an opening of about three yards square having been secured, Mr. E. PEEL then addressed the Right Hon. Baronet as follows :—Sir Robert Peel, it devolves upon me, as chairman of the Trent Valley Railway Company, to address you upon this interesting occasion; and although I regret exceedingly, and I do not hesitate to express my regret, that that duty has net fallen into abler hands, and upon some person more conversant than myself with railway matters, and more capable of giving expression to the feelings of those Hon. Gentlemen who are connected with me, yet I shall ever feel proud that my name has been connected with the proceedings of this day; for I am confident that we are assembled here on this occasion to witness the commencement of a great na tional undertaking, and one calculated to confer lasting bene fits on the inhabitants of those districts through which it will pass,—(Cheers.) Sir, I am deputed to offer to you our sincere and united thanks fur the kind manner in which you have com plied with our wishes ; that you should commence the first mechanical operation of this undertaking ; and it will ever be an important event in the annals of this railway that the "first turf was turned" by the Prime Minister of this empire. —(Cheers.) We know, Sir, that you supported the mea sure, but we are sensible that on no occasion have you unduly exercised on our behalf that influence which you possess from the position you hold in the councils of the country.—(Hear, hear.) We know that you supported our measure, from the connexion you have with the town of Tamworth. You felt that you were accomplishing your duty when you did all you could to assist us in passing our Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, we have been several years endeavouring to arrive at the position we have now the pride and happiness to have at tained, and upon all occasions when we have been struggling with a powerful opposition—an opposition now happily united with us—we have always received your most steady and strenuous support.—(Cheers.) Sir, the object of this railway is to connect the great manufacturing districts of the country with the metropolis, and to facilitate the inter course between Ireland and London.—(Hear, hear.) You were aware of the advantages which this line was calculated to afford, and I may safely assert, that no part of your duty is ever more agreeable to you than when you lend your aid and assistance to promote a work of public advantage and utility.—(Hear, hear.) I should be ashamed of my self if I did not participate in those feelings which I know are entertained by those whom I have the honour to address, for I am sure that this railway will con fer upon Tamworth the greatest possible advantages.— (Hear, hear.) I believe there is little doubt that Tamworth will be the great centre of England, and I have reason to be lieve that a central post-office will be placed in this town.— (Cheers.) Such being the advantages which we can all duly estimate, and considering my long family connexion with this town—considering also that the borough has long been represented by members of my family—l repeat, I should be ashamed if I did not participate in those feelings which I know are entertainel by every inhabitant.—(Hear, hear.) I shall not detain you longer. It only remains for me to place the implement in your hands—an implement which I trust you will ever retain as a memento of an undertaking which you have so conscientiously and consistently sup ported—(Cheers)--and I have every reason to hope that this work, which has been so auspiciously commenced, will be completed in a manner not only satisfactory to those more immediately connected with the railway, but to the public in general.—(Hear, hear.) I beg now to propose " Prosperity to the Trent Valley Railway. , ' The sentiment with which Mr. Peel concluded his address was responded to by the spectators with great enthusiasm, and the spade —or, to speak more correctly, " navigator's tool," above referred to—having been handed to the Right Hon. Baronet, a momentary pause ensued, after which Sir R. PEEL,' resting on the handle 'of the implement, spoke as follows :—Mr. Edward Peel, Mr. Mayor of Tam worth, and gentlemen, I have great satisfaction, in my capa city as one of the Members for this borough, in being present upon this occasion. I have always attempted to reconcile the performance of those public duties which official station impose upon me with the duties which I owe to my constituents—the inhabitants of this borough ; and I set no occasion whatever why that official station should prevent me from being present at a ceremony interesting to my constituents and to the inhabitants of this district. —( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in that capacity, as a represen tative of this borough, I have given a cordial support to this undertaking. I gave it that support from a sin cere belief that it was calculated to be beneficial to this district in the interests of which I naturally take a warm concern ; but I supported it also from a conviction that the success of such an undertaking would be conducive to the public welfare.—(Cheers.) I thought the public welfare would be promoted by the estab lishment of a more direct and more immediate communica tion between the metropolis, on the one hand, and Dublia and a great part of Ireland, on the other—between the metropolis and the west of Scotland—between the metroplis and that great commercial and manufacturing district of which Liverpool and Manchester are the capitais.(Hear.) It is probable that, on the completion of this railway, Dublin will be brought in point of time within 14 or 15 hours of London—that a letter posted in London on the evening of this day may be answered from Dublin on the morning of the day but one afterwards ; that is to say, that Dublin, in re spect of Post-office communication, will be in exactly the same position that this town occupies at present.—(Cheers.) I have every reason to believe that Manchester will be brought within 'six or seven hours of London. I said on a former occasion that Manchester might be brought within eight hours of London, and the statement was received with incredulity; but I am sure I am not guilty of exaggeration, when I state that Manchester and Liverpool will soon be brought within six or seven hours of London.—[The ex press trains already regularly perform the distance be tween London and Liverpool in six hours. The Premier, however, doubtless referred to the general traffic.] It was, therefore, from a conviction on my part that a great public benefit would result from the establishment of this line of railway that I was induced to give it a warm and unremit ting support.—(Cheers.) I gave it my support on account of my connexions with this borough, in the belief that it was impossible that a town could be placed on the immediate line of communication between the metropolis and the mast im portant portions of Great Britain—in point of wealth—in point of population—and in point o f commerc i a l enterprise— without deriving great advantage therefrom.—(Cheers.) I know it has been said that the passage of a railway confers no advantage upon a town—indeed, that it may be produc tive of considerable personal disadvantage. All must admit that it may be productive of individual and partial disadvan• tages—that some innkeepers may complain of a diminution of traffic, and that some retail dealers may complain of a dimu union oft heir profits. It is impossible to deny this—it is impos sib!e not to regret it. But what is this but saying:that for the great body of the community you have substituted a cheaper and a better mode of communication, and given them access to a wider market ?—(Loud cheers.) So far as the great body of the people goes, there is no question but that to be placed on a direct line of communication between the metropolis and Manchester and Liverpool and Dublin and Glasgow can be other than an advantage.—(Hear, hear.) There is another reason why I rejoice at being pre sent here, I am about to commence an undertaking which connects that locality, which is the seat of my property, and the plaCe of my residence—a place upon which I look with those feelings of affection natural to us all—l am about to connect this town with that great manufacturing district of •••••••......mrammanima. which Manchester is the capital, and which is so WOr l te i . represented on the present occasion by the Mayor of chester.—(Cheers.) And now, gentlemen, as I hav e *A ail portunity of addressing this company, I will take advantagl of it to give some advice to the directors of this railwayi assure them there are mau persons in this neig hbou who have made sacrifices of private feeling in consent / i f / s w , give up their land for the purposes of this railway.- -- k thi s hear.) They have given that consentfrom the conviction ..4 this undertaking was one conducive to the public be the that considerations of private interest should not obetn.'"___ public good ; and also from the knowledge that th e y wi re giving it to one of those ephemeral schemes proposed eitP7or for gambling speculations. They have given their, t his sent in the confidence and belief that the directors railway are men influenced by the honourable " ambit'itbei conferring a public benefit on the districts with Nvhicucb are themselves immediately connected, looking not 0 Rol to any pecuniary gain they may derive, as to the gra vies , acknowledgments of their fellow-citizens for public 5e.1, 0 0 rendered.—(Cheers.) Now the_promoters of this Si " . n o. will be exposed to formidablelnifficulties, and grea t f,'Pibei sition from other railways proposing to pass throng 10 same district ; and if this is not the best railway betw _ London and Manchester—if this is not the most direct in/ munication with Manchester, I fairly say, in the face low constituents, that no consideration of local benefit or tage would p revent me from suorting another hn (Hear, hear.) But the way in which the Directors Ire, establish their claim to a continuance of the privilor possess, is by being enabled to show that they combo:l_o_ld greatest degree of velocity with a correspoading degybst safety to the traveller.—(Cheers.) They n.ust show, o r they have neglected no precaution that can have a toe! . of to diminish the risk of accidents—the frequent occurreMd. which shakes the public confidence in railway traveof,7, They must make the sacrifice of pecuniary gain for thet pose of taking those precautions—they must show the tot, have consulted the comfort of all 'classes of railway Poe poor as well as rich—they must be better P oe vided with comfort and accommodation for all classes ; by third as well as the first; and if they are wise , they wnge moderate fares and comfortable accommodatioN eneen-sot that spirit of locomotion on which, after all, the petll'os i prosperity of railways must depend.—(Cheers.) Noir them to take this course from a comprehensive v iew and s od own permanent interest as well as for the public go 7 , 0 ,6 if they do that, then I shall, in " turning the first 5 ,,,.,0eh this day, not only be commencing a line of railway ti' - ' O O the Trent Valley, but I shall be laying the foundatio!l,, s permanent and prosperous company, claim Parliamentary support more powerful thsucas. union of great companies—more powerful than th e s op- vassing of Members of Parliament—a claim topubll;iiege which can esta u fibe port, which will be founded en the proof that a Pr l a blio conferred on a company has been exercised for the Po/ advantage. I will now proceed to that part of t e _.,..ki/ 'eg. which consists in " turning the first sod" of this underrdog The Right Hon. Baronet was loudly cheered on con his address. filled di° The Right Hon. Baronet here dexterously es re' wheelbarrow with sods, and after wheeling it a few , turned to the position he had previously occupied , re sente d, Mr. WATIUN, the Secretary to the Company , p him with the following address TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, not % pot " The Directors of the Trent Valley Railway hav e 0 50 the pleasure of commencing those mechanical operatiostuds means of which the;r lengthened struggle will speed il l fst the its consummation, and they sincerely thank you :. thro e, readiness with which you have consented to aid , -- ngsr isll their crowning labours. They derive the happiest e ; ,. o hee from the fact that the Prime Minister of the emP4O l9 , found it not inconsistent with his position, while " IA of duties press upon him, to share with them the tri ui nr ,Ad this important day—but they dwell with greater P ri de iS more peculiar pleasure on the fact that one whose naoders identified identified with the most momentous improvements of4,'"vli times should have selected this undertaking as 'worthy especial support and consideration. one °' " To the inhabitants of Tamworth the occasion isogsb• unusual interest. They cannot fail to see in the aoce l tit ment of this undertaking the seeds of great advance le dr or their town, restoring as it will to this locality the t s tages which have been withdrawn from it, opening ta, of resources of the Valley of the Trent, and achieving, ne for them as for the empire, the nib e extended Prriou bringing into closer communion the metropolis of leg' s and the metropolis of commerce and manufactures. ee is " The Directore fervently hope that the advantaie which the county of Stafford is now about to Par i ti ro c will, in due time and with befitting care, be extenden, remotest districts, and that ene whose enlightened pe l f,iinl given new energy to the commerce of England, will Ott. his care and support to those great undertakings whic the commonwealth more closely together." 0 41- Mr. TOOTAL here proposed three cheers for the TO ley Railway, which were given with great e nthusisall or t he Mr. Yams PEEL suggested the same complimen t ~..eao ladies who had favoured the proceedings with theirrogdoil and having been cheerfully responded to, the p terminated. Rightf / t 441. The spade, originally intended for the use of the -r„ for Baronet on this occasion, was manufactured expres e y he coO L A purpose in Sheffield, but upon being examined by ',"so mittee appointed to attend to the arra_tagements. it " 0 s 9 appropriate, and at a very late period, Messrs. Elkingo„, 0 Co., of Birmingham, were instructed to make 1 1 1, electro silver plate, which they succeeded in finis h oilea time. The metallic part of the spade is in electric. a, oil and shaped somewhat in the form of an heraldic sbiej of preserving the characteristic of a spade, On th e engraved the arms, crest, and motto of the Right 04,040 ronet, and underneath the following inscription : `l'' of the Trent Valley Railway, from Stafford to RueNt Bich commenced on the 13th day of November, 1845_, 0 1 0 0 occasion the first sod was turned by the Right Te d Sir Robert Peel, Bart., upon lands in the parish revs worth and county of Stafford." And upon the the official seal of the Trent Valley Railway Com Paine gether with the names of the Chairman, Edmund r i. e e. ' o loP; the directors, engineers, solicitor, secretary, &c. e le; or " tree," is formed of a piece of old English oak, if:icb,'; part divided into two branches, forming the handle , " A ' h iglyi appropriately carved with oak leaves, acorns, &c., 101 10 01; polished. The wheelbarrow was of the finest SOO; o f PI hogany, richly carved and ornamented with the 2 0 ' 04 001 a Right Hon. baronet. Sir Robert, on leaving the fr o IP' carried off the spade, exhibiting it from his carriag e spectators who crowded around. esr l° I The directors give a dinner this evening to th e g ot employees of the company, at the King's Arms tav-goder which Mr. J. Stephenson, one of the contractors, ha s taken to preside. The whole of the arrangements of the day have hr:j o nZ admirably carried out, under the direction of Mr. " A ' r who superintends the construction of the line, n e "" contractors. The dinner party at the manor this evening , h 'e rl o lll4 l the Right Hon. the Earl of Talbot, the Hon.„. , gr. Anson, M.P., the Hon. Captain Carnegie, M.P. Je d "' Ricardo, M.P., Captain A'Court, M P „wil . Mr. Ar o M.P., Mr. Houldsworth, chairman of the board of yer"', of the Manchester and Leeds Railway ; Mr. W. I re 7best er g the Mayor of Manchester; Mr. T. Hilton, of MaTiloso ° ' Captain Cleather, Mr. Richard Creed, and the '")." t members of the board of the Trent 'Valley RailWaf n or parry:—Mr. E. Peel, chairman; Mr. E. Toots ], e, e pire r A chairman ; Mr. T. Smith, of London ; Mr. T. Booth,,aLr 10" pool; Mr. J. Horuby, Mr. J. P. Westhead, Me. Bea. ;o° 4 : Mr. T. L. Gooch, the engineer, as well as the followogg4 bers of the late board :—Mr. J. Ridgway, Mr. W . ' Mr. E. Tootal, Mr. T. H. W an kly n , kr. J. Whe, e ' e solicitor, and Mr. Watkin, the secretary to the conalw ; Mr. Brassey, contractor to the line. en ter The same party, with one or two exceptions, wer e , i sees tamed last evening by Mr. Edmund Peel, at Bonehn "best Among the toasts proposed during the evening was th h e t 1 -1 1„; of Mr. Hudson, by Sir Robert Peel. The 1 4 0 ", - teP o " Baronet complimented the Hon. Member in very . - „ r e t terms upon his successful career, so much so that wa., 1 , - .0 formed Mr. Hudson was completely overpowered 7- rose to return thanks. 91° FATHER MATHEW.—We have much pleas- - fir e( 5 n ot the Cork Reporter) in presenting the following lette r boi' readers. It comes from that distinguished IndL in c eliii Dwarkanauth Tagore, whose munificence and P s te we have already had occasion to record, during llA is o to this country. We are delighted that this lo w to /of has confided the execution of the work to a fello li- yelp man, for, we are proud to say, that Mr. Edward V' is a Cork man, and takes his position with MaclisP t o 'k r and Hogan, in maintaining the high reputation of.„ 9 0 1 ,0 for native talent and genius. We h o pe h e will rei n4l- to Op: ciently long amongst us to enable his fellow-citi 2er q 9l 3B o advantage of this, his first visit for many years to 11/ : city r si "My dear Father Mathew,—The bearer of this, .1 1 ° p r. is ccmmissioned by me to undertake the painting, o b it portrait, which you have read so kind as to promise; f e el ! fi g j . Mr. Leahy is I believe, alylknown to you, an. .. (12 le 191 j,' sured that he will, under the circumstances, fulfil nil a ire J i 'l task in a manner that will do justice to his subject. I birifi c eti ()l o l endeavoured to express the high honour and ST gott felt at snaking your personal acquaintance, an , ; r e doubly anxious that my countrymen should behold,„ pi it the walls of my house, the portrait of the man vo,bieD deemed his contry from the national stigma under ' of was held so long. ent "Believe me, my dear Father Mathew, with 5er,01,,, the highest esteem, toremain Eve- your attached 'L.ZOV " DWARKANAUTII T" - ,p , " SL George Hotel, Nov. 1, 1843." h e ta b e DEATH OF LADY MARY COOTE.—We - alt d e e, cord the demise of Lady Mary Coote, who egy h ir : v el i -I t ibl early part of the week, at her residence in CUE' r 6 6 ' Grosvenor-square. Her Ladyship was the datle - inte hut Earl of Bellarnont. Her mortal remains will b e i rt4 in South Audley-street Chap e l. " GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUT. . , - „; , - j , terday a special general meeting of the patron s o fiOlt e lir porters of this excellent Institut:on, and an eleetil l . Cab oa tantFZtook place:a :the Hanover square Rooms, 13 ' ,ero°, Esq., treasurer, in the ch a ir. Th e .•e was a very a nd influential attendance of the patrois, patron s oto scribers. The receipts to the last audit ro n t es, 11 11,939/. 18 r, and the expabelitu-e, including an l l l ls s ' 0 0 Mends, and investments, &c., left a balance of I,o7'i mo ilse,,ot The provident fund figured 15,000/. The B%neral,," lo A ir the meeting having concluded the annuitants t r° sixty candidates were elected. to 1.7 1 0 t Mr. Buck, M.P. for Dcvon, we are glad t a le o og recovering from the effects of an accident the ft l i n g ti. ° 4 met with while walking a few days since. awing state of the roads his foot Flip :)ed into a wheel ;taw was found on examination that the bone was fr above the ancle. 0 1111 BIRTHS OA . ' A 0 On the 11th inst., at Walth a msto w , Essex, Atm ' P ot a daughter. f the R ef ' On the 1 Ith inst , at Greenwich, R en t, the wife ° vrel , Snueman Masters, of a son. f On the 11 th inst., at W e lls, S omerse t, the w if e.- le e ° E., of a hte. On e 12th (lau i g nst., r at Clapton-square, Hackney, Mrs. ArmedlBl sq thsle -, ' Smith t , of a son. On h e 12th inst., at St. John's, Southwark, Mrs. E117 4 >" . of a daughter. of oe MARRIED. ' On the llth inst., at St. Pancras Church, Edward , J,4,4ten „vie- - the late John West, Esq., of Park-village East, to ,110' daughter of John James, Esq., Secondary of London , 0 ' square. DIED. . , r 00 )44 02 the Ist inst., at Amersham, M rs . C. Judge, aged 73 , On the 7th inst., in Philadelphia-place, Hackner''' Carlen, Esq., aged 62. R. /' r On the Bth inst., at Horton Lodge, Buckinghamsh ire, Esq., aged G 2. On the 11th inst., at Camberwell Mr. Thomas On the 9th inst., Charles Badham, M.D , F.R.S. „ On the 10th inst., at Torquay, Hambly . Knapp ,ms " t l3 " f ee street, Grosvenor-square. master ° On the 'POI inst., the Rey. Joseph Proctor, D •D" rine Hall, Cambridge, aged 84. On the 10th inst., at Glanrafor, near Moll. Potts, Esq., of Chester, aged 68. On the 10th inst., at Whitechapel, Martha, eldest surg'../ ter of the late Mr. J. Asperne. On the 11th inst., at Hampstead, Mr. W. Strachan, 1 1° 0 e l rt: o6‘ ..ef London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN . , A In Strand, Printer, at The .Sten °face, No. 112, Strand , of the Saw, to the County of Middlesex, Sae. ill M~ 14, 1845. 1 itl.l, li t 6k04, ~~