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Aid-man JONES, to make their proceedings regular, would • move that the station should he ou this side of the aver, and • as near to the t/roin as possible. Mr. DA.wsox, al seconding this motion, expressed his re : gret and disappointment that the promoters of the line had submitted its details to them in such a loose and unsatisfac tory manner. lie thooght it would be bitter to adjourn this meeting. in order to allow the engineers to prepare and lay before them such plans as would enable them to judge of tile line.—(Hear, hear.) _ _ Mr. KENT said it was incumbent upon the meeting first to decide the general question, whether or not they should have a line from Uxbridge to Epsom, through Kingston. He had no hesitation in saying that that was indispensable, and he believed the meeting was unanimous on that point. He ther fore Moved, in substance, that this railway would be of gre:tt beoelit to Kingston, and materially tend to increase its trade and prosperity. This was without reference to Mr. Jones's motion about the station, which would be decided afterwards. Mr. JONES wculd not allow his motion to be put aside in that way. Alderman FRICKER moved another amendment, that the interests both of the town and the railway would be most effectually served by the railway forming as near the centre of the town as possible, and by having a station in the town, and that on the Company producing such plans, the meeting would give the line their most cordial support. Mr. RANYARD seconded the amendment. Mr. Guy rose to move an4her resolution, that the meet ing approved of the line of railway, but reserved a full con sideration of where the station was to be; and that the meeting would adjourn to that clay week, when they would consider the alternative plans which the Company might propose. Mr. Moss seconded the resolution. Mr : NIGHTINGALE moved simply that the meeting adjourn, A lo:tg and angry squabbli4g - followed the prt'ipos'ing of these resolutions, each contending that their resolution should be put; It was at last suggested that the movers and seconders of the different moti'ms should retire to another room, and agree in one resolution. This was agreed to by all the parties except Alderman Fricker and his seconder, Mr. Ranyard, who insisted that their amendment should be put to the meeting. With much persuasion they were re luctantly induced to comply; but after being absent for some time, the parties returned to the room and announced that all were agreed in one general resolution except the two gen tlemen who had from the first opposed the retiring. The general resolution was substantially an approbation of the line, with a request that the Company would make the station at Kingston, if practicable. This last clause gave sorni! dissatisfaction ; it was altered so as to seen' that the meeting approved of the line, on the understanding that the Company pledged themselves to make the station at King ston, if practicable. Still, this did not meet the views of the alderman and his recorder, who again insisted that their amendment should be put to the vote. The other party agreed to adopt their amendment, with the exception of the last clause, which was to the effect that, so soon as the Com pany laid bef ire them plans fer a station at Kingston, they would give the line their cordial support. This omission, however, did not satisfy the worthy alderman ; and, after many angry retorts upon each other, several ineffectual at tempts to effect an agreement, and two or three failures in putting the question to the vote, it was at last agreed to vote on this question, whether the general resolution should be adopted with the clause referred to, or without it. Oo a show of hat:ds being taken, 36 voted for the omission of the clause and 35 for its iroertion. The resolution iu support of the line was, therefore, declared to be carried. Thanks were then prop.sed to the Mayor and Mr. Kent, seconded by Mr. Guy, and unanimously agreed to; after which the meeting, which lasted nearly four hours, separated. SOUTHAMPTON, PETERSFIELD, AND LONDON DIRECT. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.—This afternoon a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Southampton, con vened by requisition to the Mayor, was held in the Town hall, for the purpose of securi .14 to the inhabitants a more direct communication with London than they at present enjoyed. Thomas Griffiths, Esq., the Mayor, took the chair, and among the ge;ttlemen present were Alderman Lobb, Dr. Hunt, Thomas Bradley, Esq., Alderman Towner, Alderman Steere, W. J. Le Feuvre, Esq, George Borrett, Esq., and Messrs. Woolridge, 11-gers, F. Cooper, and Abraham, mem bers of the town council, and a large number of the most in fluential inhabitants. The requisition, signed by upwards of 400 of the most in fluential residents of the town, having been read by Mr. Pearce, the Town-Clerk, _ _ . Alderman Lonn said that, as Deputy-Chairman of the Provisional Committee, the duty had been imposed upon him of bringing the project before the meeting. Ds main object was to unite the important bor 'ugh of Petersfield with the town of Southampton, bringing into communica tion with both a large and valuable agricultural district, sur rounded by towns, although not termed great, of consider able importance, which would be embraced by the railway communicating with the port of Southampton. The line had been surveyed by the engineers, who had sent in their report, which the Committee considered as most satisfactory. The line as proposed from that town would commence as near the centre as possible, and, passing over the Itchin, proceed on to Durley, from Durley to Bishop's Waltham, Corehampton, and East and West ,Neon, passing over Win chester-hill. Here a tunnel would be required of about a quarter of a mile in length, Which could be constructed without risk. or danger. The soil, too, was most favourable, ' being ;hard and consistent chalk. As the crow would fly, the distance from Southampton to Petersfield was twenty two miles and a half— (Hear) —making only half a mile dif ference. The gradients, too, were most favourable;. the greatest in any part of the line was I in 150, and in general it was 1 in - 200. With the exception of a small curve at Corehampton, it is a direct and straight line to Petersfield. Having pointed out the course of the line, be might say that with regard to the stations they must remain untouched upon at present, but he could assure the meeting that the sole views of the Company were the interest and prosperity of the town of Southampton and the borough of Petersfield, and that the whole of the surveys would be made in suffi cient time to enable them to go to Parliament in the next session. With regard to the route the proposed line was to take,* he begged to say that. the proprietors of the land be tween that town and Petersfield had not offered any opposi tion to the line, nor did he think there would be any.— (Hear.) In addition to bringing Petersfield into immediate contact with Southampton, there was another and more im portant point to be gained. It would bring them in a more direct, cheaper, and better communication with the City of London and its docks—(Hear)—by means of a direct Ports mouth 1i..e,0r any other that might be successful, which must pass through Petersfield. Then, again, there would be a communication with Brighton and Cheltenham,Brighton and Dover, and other parts, which must materially benefit and increase the trade of the port of Southampton. They might he asked, did they, the promoters of the scheme, expect op ' position from other companies? He did not know of any; but if there was, the answer would be, that they neither feared it or dreaded it, as they were an independent. line. He had received a letter from the chairman of an influential company, stating that no opposition to the undertaking would be given on their patt.—(Hear.) - Mr. J. H. STEBBING moved the first resolution —" That in the «pinion of this meeting it is of great importance that a line of railway should be formed between this town and the borough of Petersfield, and that the line proposed by the Southampton, P-Ttsmouth, and London Direct Railway Company is eminently calculated to promote the interests of the town and port of Southampton, as well as the rich agri cultural district through which it will pass." Mr. P. BORRETT seconded the resole ion, feeling convinced that the proposed line would be of the greatest importance 1 and benefit to the town, and much to the interest of its pro- 4 4 ln 6 6 . leetlle ii -bLES'EX AND SURREY JUNCTION. ll' "S eli.,'' of the inhabitants of Kingston. upon-Thames was Cilliii.eetnesnaes in the Guildhall there, convened by the lOitalt ti p the Mayor, to consider the propriety of support ' t'qdlesex and Surrey Junction Railway, which is I le ' T e e, ° ,cotinect Uxbridge, Southall, Brentford, Houns . 'le -e 'enham, Kingston-upon-Thames, Croydon, and t ti i'll:l4 e em l : z . —ow, Esq., Mayor of the town, stated that . it S e m t te : ' i ts Pleasure as well as his duty to call the inhabi- W, L ether to consider this line e, as it passed 4 S, r l u e Parish, and all of them were interested in it di eilltS4allindirectly, he thought it but fair to give the inha tet, att e PPoitunity to express their sentiments upon the Vr eae 0 at th e same ti me t o b r i ng f orwar d th ose w h o k t sated with the line, that they might be ready to Fled th , Planation or answer any question, not only as re tlettie,style of architecture and design, but also as to VS. q slar direction of the railway. O k tnt e Ar eswonriey stated that this railway was proposed l'l)f t i e t n •ce at Uxbridge, and proceed to the Southall sta. t N ) !Great Western Railway; it would then proceed to Il t , lie e , / ‘ , where it would connect itself with one or other of Oil e r", red lines from London to Hounslow. Leaving th` t %l4,, , She lin e would pass through Whitton, Twicken- Ve titt 'Pgton, and Hampton, to Kingston, and crossing Seta /,',. would join the Kingston station of the So.uth ell ,„411,ailway, whence it would proceed to and terminate li', ll , s e_et i t , As regarded the interests of Kingston, it would 11 (i h „' e re er, ro both with the Great Western and . South- V 4 1 0,,,, a llways, and some of the proposed new lines to l4 4 srth' and it w ou ld g i ve them di re ct c om mu n ication to i ri Eel ~,. But the mode in which the Company proposed kk i Niltlth the station at Kingston was perhaps the most It i el eeti Point to which be would direct his attention at tii, e'l„ha4 :R.,. The engineer and the surveyor, he might th e the eaeK.sn very great. trouble in endeavouring to ascer toiii4stietZegs of the inhabitants, so that they might place ,!ieh a , . such a way as would give most accommodation sil t thultants of Kingston without damaging the pro ,thre?leti e.town. The steam was intended to be made at Se ot Tli th' e v ' i .,ek and the line of the railway would be brought kt ll It Queen's Meadow, up near to the new town, but 1 4 t Of h' that it might not affect the property. The ob- I le ' l r th e 'eg the st a ti on a t H am pt on - w i c k was t o b r i ng i . t rse,, t , cse e. e Fentre of Kingston as possible without daroaging Se4e tt `o one could doubt thet a railway communication tusks sill towns he had mentioned, containing on the ag• le ' e aSe t e'l a numerous population, would be of general ad t''''qeetLa the e mnte The uestion was, how it was to kliZ t tn - 7 s Wi e th s al -- ; least disadvantage to Kingston ? From kk 1 ' %bat there Was no opposition to the line, and that the %l e ' -tho t s e u PPortetl by many ef the inhabitants. If a ma- S I a te ,„ ent otherwise, and that the station should be Ri ch that tci h ' e tPlY and directly within the town, he would . tt ' l a th e Committee were most desirous to meet their i§ip I ,; k i , at respect. W e 'at t i e Ess. asked if there was no feeler thrown out to i; i t aile: r ` ili eghain Railway, so that there mght be a com- Nee' 1it., 4 , 3 ' "intnunication north and south? l ic„`, l lt, e w ..°lrrsier said there were at present many lines ,se to uxbridge and so on to the north, sn that it was li ai l lorti t p.Y which ' would be chosen ; but that there would St e ver l •ne through Uxbridge there could be no doubt e ,li r , l l : t e , , d ‘ _t_liis Company would get the benefit of it. 'ley a i „,`,") asked whether there was any plan proposed 114 . 'la ve 'way from Epsom to R ii-.. , eite. so that they sei,,_ t g ALs.v co mmunication with the Dover line? s iti sk e , i ,. % oitTRY said the country between Epsom and Itliattosee,.ented considerable difficillties, so that no line I 'N a Ye e jV Proposed ; but he did not doubt the increasing . bl i ," 0e en Justify the making of a line, and then this line IN ISe;nected with the South -Eastern Railway. 11:11 el 't to whatthough they ought to confine thetro , elves at llci e i:;tai it would benefit the town of Kingston, as the 4 ' 6 t ,' °f Uxbridge had confined themselves to what I tit e , r. 1 1 e 'nt • them . e t cE n. •* • I lk 4 , ti c , „ it said he had been at the Uxbridge meeting N i ,•Wel ee ';'Fre there was a great deal of confusion, no fewer I,,lllttiee,rbetitowZuesidhahvaivneg been presented to them for their lei d th ey " , but at last one gentleman got up and moVed a line direct from London to Ux 11.N, :IN b r e e ti n the Great Western and Birmingham lines, me te ed th e e qes—the one to run from Uxbridge to Ox- I t e eill, skyiesbother from Uxbtidge to Aylesbury. Now, the 11 71 wliile the would join the Birmingham line near that t o l ook e d e other would terminate at Oxford. Now, if Ile f l its oi , at the map they would see that this Uxbridge ' h ead 4 / 1 1 /),,i, tail waY was in a direct line leading parallel with Iv -eeain t .etesi amass 0 Aylesbury, while they would also have (S e be „ f of the other branch to Oxford, both of which Seieseese anlazing benefit to this art of the country. 4 lit.`k er the line would take . away p a small corner of the — 6G3I.OITES AND GARN VALESTANDPORTOr" CARDIFF UNION. 1. ,' 1 / 4 1 " Ri te t Inj t r /3 1 , u shY Park, without, however, doing the -1 wen hi . , and he was ha pto sa that Lord Lincoln Wednesday an adjourned general meeting of the provincial directors of this proposed line of railway was held at the Ile ow e 8 eonsept to the me p asu y re, as y it was proposed to lfor a Pri v Roi ate station within the roval demesne. From London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to confirm certain reso • s 'o 14 lutions agreed to at the previous meeting, which took place kl w a i 1 statement be thou ht would see that this th t 4 3's • 1 mu 1 g they on the 18th ult. ; and to fill up the list of members for the Ilel, s e . in / 7, lan Y connect them with the five principal managing committee. had vv BP irmingham, the Great Western, The Hon. theisticVcount Ingestre, M.P., occupied the chair. lentl4 e o 1 ehtern, the Brighton and the South-Eastern. " 41 v to Besides ble Lord, there were present ee:The Hon. te e eelee, of say further, that ' at the Uxbridge meeting W m . Gore, Sir George Prescott, Bart., the Rev. H. R. t. sil re ' a t tp fe Bur heat nfluence in that neighbourhood, Mr. Fowler, the . Rev. Thomas Groner, Major Moorse Cooper, se r ldi n from ti- b declared positively that there should be a qtey g all ti, iir o , ll that w il 3g,.e tic , w Capt. Hewitt, Thchard Hartley Kennedy,. Esq., James , I%lor est Drayton, his property ex- risen, Esq., F. Meymott. E 9., Evan Pnteliard, Esq., Wm. ow, if they looked at the plan, leJ /e nd ent see that how, was a scheme altogether icicle- Richard Lewis Reece, Esq., Archibald Spens, I) es t b r , of their Esq., Philip Vaughan,Esq., , Spotter, . Esq., to .eCompany, J. t E I Richards Es Barrister t ,",„ r kie'''' t en, fro_st_which would go from Uxbridge to v Solicitor':ti- ' q '& e t l -Nes e ' and s e ci i ,','Yvest Drayton to Staines, to Woking, to a t - I. L h a e w k o W lie ß die j e a i m ax e lel —s o ci Pe ' ned the business . by stating that te' e nti, ' the ," ' 0 the South -Eastern li n e. There was, they were met to confirm the resolutions come to at the eth nls ex eote to for them to use their most es other r ertions to • meeting held a . t Mr. .James's offices on the 18th, respecting i 0,,,,, le would obtain this line for if they did not, the construction of lines of railway to connect the vales . of ;l i e 7 0 t ale nitiry t b e tladopted, which ;Yould ultimately prove ogrnore. Fawr and Ogur Faah with the port of Cardiff. as h e ' be inor letn• With respect to the stair, no Mr. James would be able more explicitly to place the matter 4 ilot ee euici if .e anxious for it on this side of the river before them, and he, therefore, called on him to read the Ald "a thB t 141 („nanth'etpwrls 'Fred station for their advantage ; but' he minutes of the previous meeting. d 4t PaicKe. station would injure them. Mr. deems said that, after what had taken place at their e „e li n cons ent 11, as an old inhabitant , f Kingston, , little would remain for him to say respecting ' 4 ' th e wee s „ , to the station b • If lmerits of the proposed soheine. Founded on the resolu- It:tat: t own, i aeter e a as to make telling oiq of the town. 1 the then agreed to, he had embodied the advantages of the 4 e a aa r t porti,„ i n e " o . t , ( ln i ld support it ; centreareataemnwnaseasratthisefiecifhe t tines first meeting, l oplited in the firm of ll a proapectus, the reading t ' kl 't et ki' fie 'l that t o i inhabitants would do the same. He iof which would be sufficieutle•i _ r u o s i t u rative of o merits of o o f f. him. Th e tpa ne st „ n, w have the station at Hamton-wick and l the oect, without an address f Ale:Y to the ii‘,eB enntran'to the ititerests of the town, and I , t x pr c.ha tt e ozi erests of the line. 1, vuy • .s wa s 0 the main line would be 18 miles, a ,the 1 three valleys 16, making in all about r d branches up g the b 34 miles to e con st tills i'le B ' lo the • f the same opinion. strutted. The branches would , . commence at Blaengwr in . k, th e e rh , r Inhabitants mnehtthe of o , rwr Faa'r ; from Blaenges r, in 1 the Valley of IteliZste e 't , e, but as it ev 1 , prefer station . on . the Vale ,•••F h • in vale of the Ogwr +an , th eetei hie. , en j Cot o . woo d destroy the • ncient town ii s at m Th e P their market-o,m. the thing was . -1 ei nt ., io n b ei. ... Cot who to r et i o.s ii, en this 5 ,,, were so much in reveler of . tit s * you ght "; Ineth e e „ f c ' a iue the river ought to point out , eneloe nearer s'io w sota . rrYlnee, their wishes into effect. N` bi s ster se ia .,, sto e prActicable means of placing the , krh `'Fendseth on ti;',, o th e gst en a the stati n without injuring the town. He Other side of the river did not care ' the Gawr ; and from 13Iaengwr, an. the three would co centrate a y whence the main line would pass . South Wales Railway near the port tßr -14 Centhin from by Llanharran, an join through which the lines passed was of kind ; there where no heavy cuttings,d the of Cardiff. The country the most fAvourable expensive very embankments required ; the gradients were likewise sf e so that the line would be executed at the cheapest c. ~ e _ er e t ough t to cnl was placed; but t.e inhabitants of l Tasefatl' h' tl n the spot abundance of tone y t i.. obe consul remember that there ' . • atate t Is, re was o 4444'Pb-in_ .t e e u . t•e were the interests of ' aed other material for the efficient construction of the work a s. i _ ht,ls, i am f ,. , ‘ est was about' es their own. The popnlation The project. was supported by powerful local interest, .and 1 "el tie°ll c' le DePulatio . 1 ,600 ; that. a Hampton about the lendlerds who had been consulted had given in their sanc tett ent a I , isie eraht n 0i • other places in their neigh- tion and approval. Twenty miles of the line would pass litt e til ee 4 valued coedlowexeeed the pepulation of their through property abounding with coal, iron, lime, black or it _ t au t satio n 1 Kingeten.—(A laugh.) If -- . band, and limestone, all of which products had not at o , tii to the ln such a position as to be of ' present the means of transit to any market whatever. The Middlesex side of the river, -• • rising and important town of Br idgeud would be greatly I moters.—The resoluticn was carried. Mr. F COOPER moved the second resolution—" That in addition to the great advantage- resulting to this town from a communication with the large market-town of Petersfield, the proposed railway will evert ually form the best and most direct line of communication between the port of Southamp ton and the d.,cks of the City of London, thus affording to the mercantile and trading interest a better and more direct .means of transit." Mr. J. LULL seconded the resolution, which was carried. ...-.. - In answer to a question from a gentleman in the body of the meeting, Aldern an Loma said the Company was not pledged to any line at Petersfield to run to London, but that the Committee would adopt the shortest and most direct. Mr. SrooxEn proposed the next resolution—" That a pe tition to both Houses of Parliament be presented, embody- ing the principles of the projected scheme, and praying the Legislature to ag. ee theretor." This was seconded by Mr. H. WOOLRIDGE, and carried. Dr. CLARKE moved, and Mr. JOLLIFFE seconded, the fourth resolution—" That the Members for the town and county be respectfully requested to support the prayer of the petition by their votes and influence in Parliament. On the suggestion of Mr. ANDREWS, it wiv agreed that the terminus for the proposed line should be in the Oundle or Hogland, near the centre of the town, as the most convenient spot to be obtained. A gentleman who was present on the part of the South- Western Company said it was the intention of that Cm party, as soon as possible, to carry the terminus of their rail way into the City.—The meeting then broke up. benefited by the scheme, and it was intended to join a junc tion near that town with the South \Vales Railway. He moved that the minutes of the previous meeting, which con sisted of a decision to organise a committee for the for mation of the company in question, be confirmed. The motion was seconded, and unanimously agreed to. Several gentlemen were then named on the managing com mittee, after which _ _ Mr. RICHARDS, counsel of the Company, said he had seen several most influential parties who had been in Wales, and who gave the most flattering accounts of the manner in which the schemes had been received. Amongst others Lord Duncannon's steward declared that not only his Lordship, but all the leading gentry of the district, were in its favour. The meeting shortly afterwards a,ljourned. FOREST OF DEAN COMPETIN - G RAILWAY. THE SPEECH HOUSE, WEDNESDAY.—The Speech House, the place of assembly for the foresters, when public questions have to undergo discussion, was well filled to-day by the proprietors of mines and minerals, and other influential persons called together, "to take . into consideration the merits of the various railway projects affecting the forest, proposed to be brought before Parliament in the ensuing session, with the view of obtaining the most comprehensive and perfect railway communication with the different ports on the Severn and Wye, and the trunk railways of the dis trict. Thomas Rosser, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. PHELPS said the line with which he was connected proposed to afford the necessary communication with the Severn to the forest, and that it was then to meet the South Wales line at Chepstow The, immediate object of the project was to connect the forest with Monmouthshire and Glamorgawhire, and surveys were in progress for connecting the line with Pontypool and the Taff Vale. The advantage to arise from connecting the forest with the counties he had mentioned were somewhat novel, because there an imme-se consumption existed of what was called red iron ore which was brought from Lancashire and other counties, and some small portion from the forest. The opinion, however, was that the forest was of itself able to supply all that was wanted, if the means of transporting it by means of a railway existed. It was one grand feature of the scheme he repre sented, that it would open a direct communication with con•• suming districts, and not only so as regarded the minerals, but the produce also of their farmers. The port of Chepstow, the only legitimate one to which the forest was entitled, would also be opened up, and that also was a prominent fea ture in the scheme. Mr. NICHOLSON fully coincided in the resolution which they had passed last week, that the wants of the forest could be best supplied by the South Wales, under the sanction and patronage of the Great Western Company, in connexion with the South Wales and Monmouth, and Hereford and Gloucester, and Dean forest lines. He thought that it was exceedingly desirable that an arrangenient should be made with the Severn and Wye proprietlrs ; but if all amicable overtures should fail, he did not think it possible that Par liament.would allow that company to continue to lock up the produce of the forest.—(Chsers.) Mr. JACKSON read a letter from Mr. Brunel, stating that both the Great WeMtern and the South Wales Companies were anxious to afford more comprehensive accommodation to the forest than was contemplated last session, that mea• sures were in progress for establishing additional ports on the Severn, and doing other things for the benefit of that district of country. Mr. ORD (one of the deputation) then addressed the meet ing, expressing a hope that, as he had become connected with the forest as a proprietor of property, he would have frequent opportunities of meeting them. With respect to the Rochnar project, with which he was connected, he could assure the meeting that bis only object was to assist in carrying into eifi ct the best possible means of accommodation ; but time could only show which was best. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Phelps and to Mr. Rosser, after which the meeting separated. BRISTOL AND EXETER. MEETING TO OPPOSE THE DIRECTORS' AGREEMENT. A 'netting of shareholders in this Company, was held on Monday, at Bristol, for the purpose of consideri-g the pro priety of oppesing the provisional agreement entered into be tween the Directors of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railway Companies, for the sale f the works of the latter to the former Company. The chair was taken by W. Crosse. Esq., a large proprietor. H. Biarrix, Esq., insisted that the proposed sale to the Great Western Company would be ruinous to the interests of the Bristol and Exeter proprietary, and recommended that no time should be lost in organising an opiosition to it. SIMCOE denounced the agreement as most unjust and derogatory to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and proposed that Mr. Badham, secretary to the Company, should be requested to attend, in order to explain to the meeting the motives by which the Directors had been influenced in con senting to the agreement. The resolution was opposed by Mr. TRIPP, who strongly denounced the agreement as being ruinous and unjust, and such as it was an insult to the understanding of the pro prietors to advise them to accede to. If the Directors had been in a position in which they could not help themselves, their assenting to such terms might have been under stood, but, under the present circumstances of the Company. they bad betrayed an amount of ignorance which would henceforward lose them all confidence as railroad directors. He strongly opposed holding any conference with the Di rectors or their Secretary until the day of the public meeting. _ _ _ _ Mr. HALL also condemned the agreement as an improper one, and recommended attention to the country shareholders in order that the directors might not- carry their point by obtaining their proxies in favour of the agreement. The motion to receive Mr. Badham was put, and it was resolved to oppose the agreement, for which purpose a Com mittee was appointed. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION FOR NOTTINGHAM— I SPECIAL MEETING OF THE NOTTINGHAM TOWN COUNCIL. Norrracatax, WEDNESDAY.—To-day a special meeting of the council was held in the Guildhall, commencing at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The meeting had been specially convened by the Mayor, on account of a requisition, for the purpose of taking into , consideration the most advantageous railway communication for the town of Nottingham, and also for the sale of land on Burton Leys. Mr. Alderman CuLLEs said the requisition had been handed to him to sign, and he had put his name to it with degree of feeling upon the important situation in which. Nottingham is placed, with regard to railway communi cation from all parts of the United Kingdom, which he supposed was a fact well known to all the gentle men present. Greater facilities being required than it now possessed, it became important to consider which way this important object should be acquired. If travellers go to the north, they have a long round to travel and if they go to the south by the present railways, they have to suffer great inconvenience by changing carriages, and to endure tiresome delays. In short, whether going, north, south, east, or west, every species of inconvenience is experienced, or a total want of conveN a' by railway is felt. Whether the council would do anything to counteract these evils, he, of course, could not say. but being one of the requisitionists, he had felt it his duty to bring the subject forward, to give an opportunity to gentlemen to express their opinions. Looking at Notting ham as a commercial town he was bound to say it ought to be placed on a better footing than it now is, and that a de finite course as to railways should be adopted, to place the town in its right position, He wished, before any motion was made, to hear ether opinions on the subject. Mr. TAYLOR thought that a commitee should be appointed. Mr. T. WAKEFIELD said he believed there was only one opinion that Nottingham, from its importance and central position, does not possess that railroad communication to which it is entitled, and which it ought to obtain. He should he sorry in any respect to render himself liable to the imputation of having cast any reflection upon any existing railroad, or any newly projected onP, and in his remarks he wished to call attention only to those points calculated to enable the town, through the medium of the Council, to secure the best line of communication, as he thought, out of the com petition which had arisen and capital being expended, they had the opportunity of doing. If travellers go direct to Lon don from Nottingham by railroad, the charge is 30s. by first class ; but if a ticket be taken to Leicester the fare is 6s. 6d., and from thence to London 225., making 11. Bs. 6d., or ls. 6d. less for the short distance than the long. Why the inhabitants of Nottingham should pay more than the inhabitants of Leicester, he could not say. In communicating from Not tingham to other towns, perhaps it might be said the inha bitants had no right to complain, but the change of carriages and delays were felt to be of great inconvenience. If he wanted to gn to Sheffield, he should have to travel thirty or forty miles further than he ought to have to go, and the same with regard to Manchester and other parts of the north. This he considered was not a position in which Nottingham ought to remain. He thought they ought not to forget the central and advantageous position of Not tingham, and the necessity of a direct line from London through Nottingham to the North. A direct line from Nottingham to Mansfield, continued as proposed by the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield Railroad, to Manchester and Sheffield, would shorten the distance to these places, and to all parts of the North, at least thirty-five or thirty six miles. He was happy to say, as far as Nottingham is concerned with the north, that arrangements have been entered into that will secure the important object of shorten- , ing distances, as an arrangement had been entered into on the previous day between the-Sheffield and Manchester Com panies that will effect it, and that the junction between Great Grimsby and Sheffield had also been taken on a lease, with a guarantee of 5 per cent., and a participation in the profits arising from the union. This circumstance will give to Nottingham an opportunity of securing a direct communi cation with the north of England, and also the eastern parts of the country. He believed that a direct line was wanted from London through Bedford and Kettering, to Nottingham and Manchester, but of course it was a subject for consideration hereafter, as to whether it would be do.. sirable to avail themselves of an opening on this line or not, or whether any other line offered greater advantages. As a preliminary step, he would move, " That Nottingham does not at present possess that direct communication by railroad to which, from its importance and central position, it is entitled." Mr. BEAN . seconded the proposition with very great plea sure. . . After a brief discussion, the motion was carried unani mously. Mr. WAKEFIELD then moved—" That a committee be appointed for the purpose of securing, as far as possible, to the town of Nottingham the most direct railroad communi cations, and that whilst the committee will he expected to report what routes of railway will be most advantageous to the town, it shall be no part of the province of such com mittee to report upon the comparative merits of rival schemes." Mr. BEAN seconded the proposition.—Carried unanimously. Tile following were then appointed as the committee:— Mr. Heard, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Thomas Herbert, Mr. Bean, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Taylor, Mr. Vickers, Mr. Wakefield, Mr. H. Leaver. The Council then broke up. SOUTHta WoodstockN MIDLAND-JUNCTION. L A N D and - J Ui its CT vicinityl ON . . of the inhabi On Tuesday afternoon a numerous and influential meetingat the Town-hall, Mr. J. T. Palmer,Mayor, in the chair, amongst whom we noticed B. Holloway, • , E sq., , Esq., W. H un t, E., q., E. Cole,_sq _o a w t a . ,., W. Turrter, El, H. North. Esq., and \Pessr.s' Captain Gnll3''e"B'l4. Smith, T. liggins, G. Shuffery, W. Morris, H. iv ir o b ri 3 : ;, W Norris, Eder, &c., for the purpose of receiving a deputation' fro m W. London Committee of the South and Midlands Junct t io h n Railway Company, and to consider the effect which railways were calculated to have upon the tOwn and its interests. The deputation consisted of the Mayor of Buckingham, Captain Dewes, W. C. Turner, Esq:, B. Holloway, Esq., E. C le, Eq., M`? . llnrdp, Esq., and W. B. James, Esq. r • Mr. SHQFFF.RY said that he considered that the proposed line, the South and Midlands Junction, was calculated to be of the greatest advantage to Woodstock, and therefore he moat cordially should propose this resolution— , " That it is highly desirable that a railway communication should be brought to Woodstock, and thit it shall be 2,s direct as the nature of the country will admit of." Mr. KIRBY had great satisfaction in the proposed line, and in secondieg the resolution. The resolution was unanimously passed. The MAYOR of Buckingham observed, that in every case where a railway was projected it was the duty of the pro motors of the particular line to go down to every town through or near which the rail would run, and consult the inhabitants upon it. This company had adopted this course of proceeding; and the deputation from the committee was now before the inhabitants of Woodstock, with the hope ofr6- ceiving their approval and support of the scheme.—(Hear). The surveys of the line were so forward as to make it a matter of certainty that all the plans and all the maps would be deposited long prior to the period marked out by the standing orders—(Hear, hear, hear). They would' then be in a position to go to Parliament in the ensuing session —(Hear, hear) —with every prospect of suc cess. It had beet' intended that they should have had a meeting at Bicester yesterday, but to meet the wishes of the inhabitants the Company had consented to postpone it until after the 30th of November, the day upon which all the plans and all the maps, and all the sections must be deposited in the Parliamentary office. With respect to the course which it was proposed that this line should run, he would briefly state that it will originate at Bicester, by a junction with the Oxford and Cambridge line, through Wolverton, in connexion with the Eastern Counties, and would thus afford facility of intercoarse with the metro polis, in one direction, with Stafford, the Potterie., Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester, in the other. Near or at Woodstock, close where the line will come, the Oxford and Rugby, and Worcester rail way will cross, presenting thus opportunities of entering the two great arteries of the kingdom—the Great Western and the London and Birmingham, the former oat Didcot the other at Rugby.—(Hear, hear). The line will-t4en pro ceed to the manufacturing town of Whitney, where a -horn munication will be opened to the Stroudwater district, by ' means of the Oxford and Cheltenham line; thence it would tend directly S.E., leaving Bampton to the east, until it reached Lechlade, where a considerable entrepot for merchandise had been established. The line would thence proceed onward till it fell into the Great 'Western at Swinden. It would thus open a continuous railway communication with London eastward, and with Bristol, Batb, Exeter, Gloucester, Cheltenham, and Stroud, west ward, and thence, by means of the Gloucester and Aberyst with projected line with the whole of north and south Wales. —(Hear, hear, hear). There was, however, one feature peca liar to the line, that it would have the effect of continuing the narrow gauge lines of the north with those of the south, for it would cross the broad -gauge at Swindon, without the least inconvenience or impediment to the general traffic of the Great Western.— (Hear, hear). Individually, he felt great interest in this line, for it would be in connexion with , two others with which he was associated, the Cambridge and Oxford, and that which would join the Bedford and Bletchley lines.--(Hear, hear). He was confident the inha bitants would already have seen the advantages which had been derived by other towns from railway communication, and that they must be anxious to enjoy equal benefits themselves.—(Hear, hear). Mr. H. Mourns proposed a resolution of support. Mr. SHUFFERY seconded the resolution, which was put, and unanimously agreed to. Captain DEWES then moved the third resolution, which ran thus—" That petitions be presented to both Houses of Parliament, in favour of the South and Midlands Junction Railway, and that the peers connected with this district of the county, and the representatives of the borough, be re quested to snpport the same."—(Cheers.) No. 16 t ,128 E t Prope r t y of Mr. James Van Somer, of Upper Clapton, T' to the Stock xchange. kw '''. Nan Somer stated that some time back the prisoner te application to him to become tenant of a furnished t a r at Upper Cl a pt en , f orming p frt. of the estate of a sone L, of whi c h h e was trustee, an d t h e re f erences t h e pri -10,..r brave appearing to be in every respect satisfactory, he 1 .r . ,.. , (1 to let him the house at a rental of 50 guineas per the prisoner paying one half-year's rent in advance. ife t c . 'sse „ s sin was taken of the these premise and nothing whatever anal about to cast a doubt upon prisoner's respectability about a fortnight ago, when witness eceived informs- L i : r lhat the house bad been deserted and shut up; and on afti ee `'''''ring possession of it he found that a large quantity e furniture and effects which had been let with it, con :t fact,of almost everything that could be II re ed without exdting suspicier ,had been carried off. He, ih,c'llsequence, gave immediate iniornenion to the police of ki4 )b er3', aid im the preceding evening he had been ap pw. that the prisoner was in custody. tufre r ,, H9e "eonStable 94 N, stated that he . had been engaged in ,i t i tlog exertions to trace the prisoner's retreat ‘.i e ever eve rii „' e 9th iestant, but unsuccessfully until the preceding ; when, while passing down Newgate-street, he ac lei!) t tlY met with .him and took him into custody. On Ne g unf ormed o f the charge against him, the prisoner at ackn ow l edged that the property h a d b een un l aw f u ll y tioti r se , f d . ef, and handed him 18 duplicates relating toa por- Is lt, whi c h h a d b een pledg e d at the shops of different f. kers. ftieuswer to the charge, the prisoner disclaimed any 4, 1 , 1 7 eat intention in the conversion of the property, and *4bat his motive for absconding was to avoid an arrest 4 ! he having been apprised that two sheriff's officers ItiOng in wait for him in an adjoining house,the servants k r leh were conniving at their proceedings. ,, IlaouGirrox considered that a prima fade case of sii: 4 ,u,ad been e s tablished against the prisoner, on which ; N1, 111 11 '3 duty to comm it him to prison, but as some formal story testimony was requisite to complete the charge, FnSt be brought u p a gain on that day week for its being p th tin rifid, a boy only 12 years of age, was then placed N ¢ bar , charged with having stolen a quantity of jewellery Aii,ulerous other articles, the property of Us father, a li: ll ,, a n in Gloucester-street, Hoxton. f ather, who was much affected, said that the prisoner :e a h`4iibited a most unaccountable propensity to thieve n umber of years past, and that although every effort ,": e r. used to reclaim him, it had been entirely e 3 ;Cfoh. About a week ago it was discovered that,he l• i tl e ' h ' e njm absconded from home, and it being surmised ,ae w .au - most probably taken something with him, the ~- 4t ta i . 7 , examined, when it was found that he had forced open and hhurawers and stolen a number of seals, rings, brooches, i, 5• 11 -111er°113 arlicles of wearing apparel, altogether form " w 4 p r ge bundle, with which he had decamped. Inforina forwarded to the police, and a search was kept up i h i ta, for four days, bat lie had contrived to elude pur 131)1i't't the preceeding evening, when he was taken by „kil ee „ lll ,, an, who found upon him the remainder of the ekh,7laerty consisting of two bracelets, three 'old 'I No ear ' drops, five books, and five silk hander t<ali't then appeared that the little rascal had been decreasiug his Aock of plunder by disposing of a t , the articles each day and supporting himself on the w "-€(1 n a h te lunaker named King, in the Kingsland-road. pro tfi-el,(1 the stolen brooches, which he had purchased th i): l B9ner on such an artfully concocted story as to wittness of all suspicion. i t 44 ,oti N It tithairrox 1-elingly impressed upon the prisoner the k m ' hiNfisequences of the course he had pursued, and pt!t, -'ache whether it was his intentien to pn.secute his ather said, that the incorrigible depravity of the boy I..tkiNlost broken his mother's heart, and although it was ), 4 04 1) ' Painful to his own feelings, he felt compelled to in the prosecution, as it was evident the prisoner °l !ghly hardened and irreclaimable. '`lll,ettsoner, who declined saying am - thing in . answer charge, was then ordered to be committed to prison. ' k °4l BOWTIME r. bt Charles, a boy of about 17 years of age, in sailor's Calr,;? %find shirr. and red handkerchief, was charged the relieving officer, with stealing from the he in Cleveland-street. t i, tl tll 4 % , lit h Was an iemate, and on Monday last was seen in and five o'elock in the morning, but by six ti,,,.*.1)1 4 i,"ud absconded over the wall, carrying off a stock N'Te, oclonging to the watchman. It appears he bas been ),,,,iktt l ',;sed out for sea at the expense of the workhouse— *ffftills:rne about nine months ago—and returned after- I N , lt ti ii 4 ga• He has been before the Magistrate already ‘ l ,'' ll ' charge, when he was sent to prison for twenty He was sent to prison for two months. ktk v 'IL WA le INTELLIGEN CE. :7 4". ' •• is e 0 =1:N • ki; • , *.•!, • •" * W . ' 1.111 LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1845. SCOTTISH LINES. SCOTTISH DIRECT NORTHEN JUNCTION .—The promoters of this scheme state that, by adopting their line of railway, the communication from England northwards will be very materially lessened The line proposed to effect this is stated to be six or seven miles in length. Joining the North British at Linton, it proceeds to North Berwick, where the passengers have to cross a well-organised ferry to Elie; a branch of one mile in length then brings them upon the east of Fife line, thus forming a most important communication between England and the North of Scotland, at a saving of at least 23 miles. SCOTTISH MMLAND EXTENSION RAILWAY.—The usual statutory notices for this railway were yesterday given on the church doors of Brechin and other parishes through which the line is proposed to run. The Scottish Midland Extension unites with the Scottish Midland at Forfar, from whence it runs by the thriving manufacturing town of Brechin direct to - Laurencekirk, where it unites with the Aberdeen line—thus filling up the link of 24 miles or thereby that was wanting to give the most direct communi cation between Perth and Aberdeen. SCOTTISH SOUTH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—This contemplated undertaking has excited a most extraordinary interest. The number of applications for shares in it has been quite unprecedented. In the form of application the applicant was directed to state whether he was a holder of scrip in the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway, and to what extent. It was from this imagined that the simple repre sentation of the applicant that he held so many of such scrip would give right of preference. Accordingly the quantity of scrip professed to be held by applicants for shares was far greater than the amount issued for the original under taking. Directions were given to the holders of scrip in that railway to exhibit it to the amount represented to be held. The disappointment or perplexity of some gentlemen at this intimation makes us rather suspect that in the form of appli cation the greatest candour has not been exercised. STRATATAY AND BREADALBANE EXTENSION RAILWAY.— This line has been brought out under very promising auspices. Its object is to afford accommodation to the highly-culti% ated district of Strathtay. It is to join the Perth and Inverness line at Dalguise, and extending along the river, will have its western terminus at Aberfeldy. The promoters of the line being, for the most part, the landed proprietors of the district, no Parliamentary opposition is anticipated. The whole length of the line is eight miles, and the prospectus states that the ground is highly favourable, and the promoters promise a handsome return for the capital to be employed, viz., 120,0001. TYNE VALLEY JUNCTION AND EAST LOTHIAN RAILWAYS. —We understand that the Tyne Valley Junction and East Lothian Central Railways have amalgamated, and come to an arrangement with the North British, which must prove of the highest advantage to the district of the country pro posed to be accommodated by these lines. In consequence of these arrangements, and the terms on which they have been brought about,7we understand that the issue of the stock of the Tyne Valley has necessarily been extremely limited. FOREIGN LINES, BF:GOIAS AND CONTINENTAL DIRECT TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY.—A line to commence at Termode, on the Scheldt, communicating northwards with Terneuse, and proceeding southwards to Assche, Hal, Nivelles, Gosselles, and Gilley, and joining the State Railway, about half-way between Montigny and Chatelet, and terminating at Vireux, the frontier town of France. The length of the line is 84 bench leagues, and it is designed as the first of a series of railways direct to the mouth of the Adriatic Sea. Capital, 1,200,0001., in 60,000 shares of 20/. each ; deposit, 2/. ss. a share. PARIS AND LYONS.—The Minister of Public Works went to Fourvierva, whence he could view all the various proposed sites for the terminus of this important line. He afterwards proceeded to Perrache and examined, with the utmost at tention, the nature of the place and the space proposed by one of the projects for this purpose. The Minister next made a similar examination at Brotteaux ; after which M. Dumon followed the line of quays on the right bank of the Saone, where he tested the state of the important works (en gineering) there being carried on chiefly under his own di rect ion. PARIS AND ScE.wx.—The announcement that the works of art on this line would shortl be begun is erroneous. The state of the works of art and earthworks is such that the Committee, conformably to the Cahier den Charges, which authorises it to withdraw its deposit according to their pro gress, has demanded the reimbursement of four-fifths of their caution money. Without the hindrances opposed to conti nuous wet weather, we may safely say that these works, be gun in May last, would now be terminated. TOURS AND NANTES —lt seems that the different opinions expressed by the press and the municipal council on the inquiry on the various sites proposed for the terminus of this line, has made the Minister of Public Works compre hend that this question, which bore at first an appearance of but local interest, has now become one affecting the in terests of the country at large. We are assured that, to the purely theoretical inquiry, a practical inquiry will succeed on the spot by the special engineer of roads and bridges, who will be charged not only with examining the various proposed sites, hut also with inquiry into the relation of each to the wants of commerce and to the industry of all France. Convinced that the Tours line —or, more properly speaking, the Paris and Nantes—has not been projected solely in the interest of the city of Nantes—convinced that this railway is but part of the immense net which will eventually cover France, and which cannot be considered isolatedly, M. Dumon wishes to investigate thoroughly the question of the terminus, which will not be the terminus of the Nantes line alone, but which must be the terminus of all railways centring in Paris from the south and west, such as the Orleans, Tours, Bordeaux, Angiers, &c. ; while Nantes, it should not be forgotten, is one of the principal ports of the kingdom, not only by its present position, but by its future prospects. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD. The following notices have been issued "In the Convocation to be holden on Thursday next, the 23d instant, at ten o'clock, the names of the following gentle men, who have been nominated Select Preachers, in the place of Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., of Oriel College, and of Augustus Page Saunders, D.D., of Christ Church, who have resigned that office, will be submitted to the House. "The Rev. Francis Baring, M.A., Christ Church. "The Rev. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, M.A., Fellow of Uni versity College. "B. P. SYMONS, Vice-Chancellor. " Wadh am College, Oct. 21, 1845." " The Senior Proctor will receive the names of candidates for examination this term, either from themselves or their tutors, on " Saturday, the 25th inst., from one to two o'clock. " Monday, the 27th inst., from two to four o'clock. " Tuesday, the 28th inst., from twelve to three o'clock. " Each candidate must give in a list, signed with his name, of the subjects and books in which he offers himself to be examined, together with certificates of his having re sponded and having sat in the schools. " N. B.—The matriculation paper is also required. " Magdalen College, Oct. 22, 1_845." " The ProTeSsor of Hebrew proposes to resume his lectures on the Psalms on Thursday, November 6, at two o'clock. "The two elementary classes will commence on Monday, the 27th, and Tuesday, the 28th instant.. Of these, the one is intended for those who are just commencing the language; the other for such as, being acquainted with the rudiments, require instruction in the higher parts of Hebrew Grammer. " Those under the degree of M.A. who, not having yet attended the elementary lectures, are desirous of so doing, and any who wish to have certificates of attendance on the lectures, are requested to call at the Professor's house on Saturday, the 25th instant, between the hours of two and four. " Any members of the university who need private in struction in addition to that given in the public classes, are recommended by the Regius Professor to apply to the Rev. J. B. Morris, - M.A., Exeter College. "Christ Church. Oct. 21, 1845." The Directors of the Aberdeen Railway !have contracted for the rails and sleepers of the entiro line, and are about to do so for the earth-works. COMING EVENTS, &c.—As many Rs 17,000 news papers have been found in the General Post-office with their covers burst. The reason for the newspapers bursting is ac counted for by the fact that they contain so many railway bubbles. —Punol/4 BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes. of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 11th day of October, 1845 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Knapp and C 0.., 25,915 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 17,125 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 12,819 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,614 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Bickford and Hunt Bahlotk BAnk and Baldock and Biggleswade vric, - ;tahlock—Wells, Ilogg, and Lindsell Barn itai.ie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Co. Re.iford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard liociford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— 'Prapr, Halfhcad, and Co. Be ‘N (Hoy Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and 47,942 31,660 16,371 24,019 32,424 8,969 Cm); Bic9stei and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming harn---Lewis, Moilliett, and Co B:andtatd Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co Bridg - s-..:ter Bank, Bridgwater—E. & J. Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. Broscley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and l3roseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 13aul:hi: 1 11am Bank, Buckingham —Bartlett, Parrett, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co Bahtury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney Billibury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb Bat; - . City Bank, Bath—Molter and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton 15,622 22,755 24,441 15,978 8,547 70,003 14,373 9,952 40,048 23,772 29,900 80,709 37,345 46,754 3,551 36,405 Buzzard—Bassett and Grant Birtningham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 58,480 Brillport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry 25,561 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hail, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— j:Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Briggs, and Co. ambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and 33,180 3,070 15,927 Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and 19,851 48,200 Co - Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 34,505 Sons Chcrtsoy Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, 21,471 2,899 and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co - Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 23,666 41,425 7,717 21,288 76,366 and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, 2,240 6,903 Locke, and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Donca.ster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co I)evonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 8,449 12,209 46,595 25,589 18,210 10,534 11,359 63,968 9,378 58,351 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow' Walford, and Co 52,420 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co -- Eakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk bock, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far- 10,073 48,270 110,744 49,474 ringdon—Barn es and Medley 8,485 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 13,643 Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 6,326 G odal ming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King 17,105 Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Hay - don 15,255 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co 28,403 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. 31,324 Hereterd City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— s. Adams and Co. hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey I larwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall 20,573 Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. l lertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. 37,379 Iler!ford Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Aschenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins 26,610 frizmich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. H A t i t e d x l e a i t g d h e r Bank , sani 23,284 Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, C 0 7annin Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— gtree and Mistley Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kingtou and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co 9,359 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co 21,768 Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and C'). Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons 9,855 Lampeterßank,Lam peter— Jones,Evans, andCo -- Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C 19,295 18,463 18,857 53,763 5,220 ... 83,297 llarv;37 and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co 5014 f A - T(ls Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 3,758 Leutester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 30,899 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 44,626 f4ioh field Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 21,555 Lineuin Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 86,739 I:l.mlovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando vczy—David Jones and Co. outithborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t. 'cis and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 44,797 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co 7,353 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co 11,786 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co 6,377 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 16,365 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 11,520 Merionetlashire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 18,202 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 30,160 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons. 8,430 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 27,785 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 35,29 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and I)yson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—llarveys and 49,178 Iludsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur -77,831 net's end Co Notlintrham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co 11,543 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddcock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and Co 26,547 New Serum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and (o . 13,579 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co,, 30,050 24,053 3,628 4,885 Average Amount. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford '3ldßan k, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge We Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge WeilF and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— fleeching and Sons Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading-4imonds and Co . Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 16,717 12,861 26,495 9,033 11,276 47,966 11,540 11,409 13,066 12,130 31,526 36,815 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and C 0... Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey —Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... Rugby Bank, Rugby—autlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, f3Carborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Marko,Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, shrowsbury—•Rocke, Eytc.ns, and Co 38,883 5,636 10,227 4,625 10,328 3,560 15,049 13,224 27,003 14,400 4,140 34,919 11,835 Sittingbourne aria Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Vallance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddiron and Son ... Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and - King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stony—W. Moore Stourbridge Barak , Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Fltafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Caylev, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bud:, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Sturt Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Taviaock—Gill, Rundle. and 24,661 9,772 42,754 4,324 Co Thornburg Bank, Thorn bury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S. Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Holston—Vivian and 16,418 14,450 2,903 21,425 8,594 Co. 5,518 6,864 16,679 11,616 34,782 16,300 24;266 2,350 29,274 12,575 9,412 12.806 12,486 12,967 9,742 16,613 22,978 9,407 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford-Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank; Wakefield- Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, WincliPster -Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Elliott and Pearce Wirkezwor:h and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth-Arkwright and Co. ... 34,377 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurney and Co. Wiveliscumbe Bank, Wiveliscornbe-P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good rieke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,021 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 87,486 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil kinson - Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and 18,871 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham-J. and S. Kenrick 2,213 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 9,008 Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 4,6059 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 50,211 Elston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Utt6xeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield .. 10,765 Cumberland *Union Banking Company, Work ington • CheMenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Co ventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 13,005 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham 122,625 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle 24,983 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,085 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 33,094 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,765 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 24,102 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 155,670 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 18,750 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,237 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,015 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,365 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking C?mpany,llelston 25,940 5,91 S ... 14,071 6,616 61,530 6,950 13,937 11,288 49,744 33,670 44,653 1,456 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,042 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,102 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,202 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,631 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,596 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 17,216 Leeds Commercial Banking Company,' Leeds 13,694 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,936 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 71,879 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London NOrth Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 61,690 Northamptmshire Union Bank, Northampton 88,491 Northamptonabire Banking Co m p an y , North ‘ampton .................. , ....... .... . North and South AWales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leic:!st, rshire Banking Company, Lei c . 52,80$ ester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 1,5 m Sheffield Bankii:7, Company, Sheffield 30,545 Stamford, SPaleiag, and Boston Banking Corn pany, Stamfoiii . 56,225 Stuckey's Bank;rig• Company, Bristol Somerset \ shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 3 Shropshire Banl,ir,g Company, Shiff na ll ... Stourbridge an'l kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbi id ; . ; e Sheffield and 11 . 11114mshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... 21,080 Sheffield and R)thi rham Joint-Stock Banking Compavl, Shollioid 30,827 27,143 54,433 - 00. gGo- GRATIS. Average Arnmait . Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond ....... Stockton and Toietam County Banking Com pany, Stockt,•- Storey and 'll, , •roas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury . 8,231 Sheffield and Rcttord Bank, Sheffield ... Suffolk Bankint:, Company, Ipswich Wolverhampton avid Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 34.:500 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 14,425 Whitehaven Joint Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven . Warwick and Le;.init.gtou Banking Company, Leamington West of Englangl South Wales District Bank, Bristol. Wilts and I)orset Banking Compan), Salisbury 76,211 West Riding Union Banking Company, - Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch P. DEANS, Registrar e f Bank Returns Stamps and TaxQs. Oct.. 18, 1845. 31,431 33,:14 33,419 THE POTATO MURRAIN. (From the Medical Times.) " Quid quisque vitet, nungnam thulium eat in horas."—HORACE, -" I,atet anguii in berba '-VIRGIL, We make no doubt that our readers will readily hear ul;af we have to say upon a matter very important at this ti both to the public and the profession—the present " dise3st amongst potatoes. It concerns us to inquire into the sui,ect, as well from an interest which we feel in the fate of the 1 . :00-, who will be the chief sufferers by the calamity, as from a de sire we have to aid the wise working of an efficient system of hygiene, by stating the bad effects which we have known t,i follow the use of this depraved food. The "potato murrain,." as it has been ridiculously calkl, 14 said to be comparatively new in this country, but has been known in America for many years past. During the prescilt season it has visited us to so serious an extent as to cans considerable anxiety for the physical welfare of that class of people who are in a great measure sustained by potato-f.'s!. The "disease" has prevailed more or less extensivt-ly throughout the land; the salubrious atmosphere and ktnd'v soil of Ireland have not exempted that country from the visitation, and it has swept with various severity through the continent, but purticularly in Belgium, Germany, and As the matter interests everybody, so we find that almost everybody has got an opinion upon it. In the midst of Cos mass of speculation, it is not to be wondered at that a po.itt deal of folly as well as falsehood shold be let loose upon one's credulity and wonderment. There are a certain class a people yclept philosophers, and we fear we must include in that very large class another scarcely less capacious, we mean the soi-disant sect of chemists, who are able to see and real to swear anything. Give them a subject with a crotchet in it, and they will have an explanation ready in no time. The one will prove, by a series of reasoning as difficult to refute as to comprehend, that such and such causes are at work, and, ergo, that such and such consequences must follow; the other will prove the precise opposite, and confirm the truth of his theory by chemical analysis, carried out with such de cimal minuteness, that, like the Tote tree in Mahomet's seventh heaven, there is no going beyond it. The one silences you with an awful profundity that neither himself nor anybody else can fathom; the other knocks you down, or rather tries to do, with ultimate analysis and the talismanic name of Liebig. There are some people with whom this system ef illustrious humbug operates like mesmerism, but we old fashioned folks don't belong to the class of greedy gullit,iss, and we feel little inclined to trust either the words or the figures of one-half of the Giessen-bitten boys of the present day, without something more than their own proof,per se, of the integrity of what they utter. To return to our subject, as one upon which microscopic, and chemical speculation are magnificently rife just now, we find all sorts of theories propounded to account for the mysterious phenomenon. The wise saws, who ;ore great in the magic of the marvellous, consider the poteta disease as in some sort a sign that the world is nearly as 01.1 as it ever will be, and that the present crop of tubers, thonelt a bad one, is the last reaping we shall have. What n‘4..es sary connexion there is between the end of the world and the , potato epidemic, or whether this said calamity is any proof t hat the aforesaid globe is nearly worn out, we arc not able to say, nor on this point do the mystery-mongers inform us. The phssii cal philosophers say electricity is at the bottom of jt all, or ilc se that it is not at the bottom; in other words, that the potatoes had not been electrified enough. Without telling us to whose measurement, calculation, or instinctive sagacity they are indebted for the fact, they gravely give us to r stand (if we had sufficient sagacity of belief for the fiat that in those parts of the island and continent, not forgets he America, in which the electricity above has behaved batter to the territories below, and, to use a monied phrase, "has come dosin handsomely," that in those said spots tins potatoes are in their usual health and strength, and lookies. " very much like themselves." If we were in the wood for joking, as unfortunately we are not, we should say . that this sublime enunciation " looks very much like :a whale." Taking advantage of the experience of that stupid. old man who tried to pelt a lad nut of an apple-tree Is - it 4 tufts of grass, they suggest (the philosophers we mean) char. we should compel the electricity, whether it chose or not, I enhie dosrrr to the dust and-to - do its work as -Oink as unto - , instead of idling away its time in visiting anionest t :}FR di - Lis, and doing no good at all. Some propose to d:s.erh and displace the said fluid by the erection of multitielss iron rods, well spiked, bristling like bayonets, and seenlitc; to say that they don't mean to be trifled with ; others gest that it shall be invited to sundry iron pots, made at tractive by being permanently electrified; and others pro pose to traverse the earth with metallic culverts fog thA electricity to. run up and down in. "In the name if tha prophet—figs.' These sublime ingenuitics, these vast erc:,- tions of fancy, these mighty minds in travail with migl.ty projects, which • . Seem as 'twere An ocean in labour an ocean to bear, all tend to the solemn secret of growing potatoes ! Wont that as much talent were brought to bear upon the nue a hidden and important. secret of cooking them ! The physical philosophers aver, and they may safely do so for any practie- , I disproof they are likely to meet with, that if only means 1,3 employed which any one of them proposes, we may always - eulate upon an immunity from potato disease. El doubt it for a moment; we feel as certain of it as of catch' • s sparrows by throwing salt upon their tails Less sublime and speculative than the physical phil'isn. pliers, but far more practical and minute, come the micro scopists to settle the question of the potato epidemic. Thaw see deeply into the depths of things, and of course are ex - pected to draw therefrom much valuable matter that to,- aided optics must always be strangers to. In fact, man with a microscope may see anything ; and, Il i " seeing is believing," we see no just - cause why 1 , 3 should be expected to doubt anything. We antici pate, consequently, that the time is not very far distant when credulity, properly so called, will be regularly defunct, awl such people as our forefathers would have called " easy ct belief," will be bond fide matter of fact men under the iirc sistable persuasion and proof of the microscope. This instill ment, as we have said, has been brought to bear, with artil lery-like precision, though with less point, upon the " plat murrain,' and wonderful have been the discoveries in con,- quence! Fungi of all sorts, sizes, and shapes, and colour- , ,, have been found fattening themselves, cormorant like, nvot the poor potato; sporules, granules, cells, and dust that de served no better name, all have been found upon the patat , ; and many a discoverer has been obliged to rub up his Grad% to ftirnish technicals for the unknown objects that have two. bled in the way of his observation. Talk of special trabr i , they go nothing so fast as discovery has lately gone along line of damaged potatoes! Next come the chemists, with their prodigal paraphernalia of apparatus and tests, to acquaint us with the malady (41113 potato. They find alkalies where acids ought to be, and Oa converse; they state, to a shadow of a shade, the partial!: blush of blue which iodine gives the sickly potato, in cc trast with what it gives the potato that is sound; they us, precisely, what the former has lost in mealiness and pt.- , in waxiness—what is due to the condition of the starch, • _ „. mucilage, and other such things—that good potatoes Lisr per cent. by drying at a gentle heat, whilst the bad ones 1 77 !—and, finally, the man with a chafing dish, glass ' oxide of copper, caustic potash, and other like simples, Asa' his wand, and, le! an ultimate analysis settles the point once, by proving that some delicate decimal is wanting k make up the due amount of a certain constituent which t, been most rascally robbed of ” its fair proportions" by allot', . certain one! "So much for Buckingham!" After this amount of detail, to say nothing of the ammo of trouble we have had in practically getting it ready, may perhaps claim a hearing for ourselves. We, " the pinr nominative singular," in our triumph of tripod, feel that t' our right to state both what we know, and what we think.' upon the matter at issue. We have, looked at the electricity with "our mind's eye, and, like Mathews in the play, can "see nothing at all i; it." We have looked through the microscope, and have seeit ten thousand curious sights in the morbid potatoe, but nos thing equal to what we have seen in a pinch of musty Itor , e manure. We have tortured the re or potatoe in retorts, er ,;- cibles, and tubes of glass, but products and educts have us nothing more than we knew aforetime. Amidst tide Babel of investigation and discowery, it occurred to us tc think that there might be something " rotten in the statt of"—the potatoe! And after wiping front our eyes thr films created by philosophy and fancy, we saw a cleat evidence of a simple decomposition in this said tuber! what is there that philosophers cannot find worthy to to about, microscopists to stare at, and chemists to annlyse,.ie rottenness! NI , e have always thought it a wonderful lick. for minute investigation, and such it has proved to be, s the present condition of the potatoe crops can testify. To close this part of our subject, for we shall take occasio•-. to complete it finally in another article, we give it as our de cided opinion that "potato disease" and "potato inurriiiii" are merely idle terms that bear 110 relation whatever t existent things. There is no "disease," no "murrain,' properly so called ; the potatoes aro just rotten, and tha is the long and the short of it. The discolouration, (-our mencing in this spot, and extending to that, the rofs , ness, the waxiness, the fetor, all these things, and menf• more such like, we have seen a score time 4s potatoes that have spontaneously rotted in a damp dar, cellar. We can confirm what the microscopists and ilia mists say about appearances and reactions, and tell then plenty of untold truths besides; but not potatoes only, an' vegetable of similar composition will give like results wh in a state of decay. These acids, alkalies, atoin!c defe, sporules, granules, ruptured cells, dust, dirt, &c., are in t sequence of the potato mischief, and not a cause of it. T1:o“-.. simple observe. is nothing new in the circumstance; we have been faufill , r t and of et taking e no i t n ic a e n t . han ourselves a It is no novelty in this country, any more than I - 1 who with a it re ti order ch il i t id tte x a l e sew tern it attracts attention because of the almost universality of its' prevalence. And has not the cause been as universal .? CAT water is_the fountain head! Take our word for it, tll( , r, no mystery in the affair; cloudy skies and drenching raip have done-it all !• - _ [ADVERTISEMENT.] -GENERAL JOSE GONZ ALI'RS CURED OF A BAD LEG BY HOLLOwAY's PILLS ANA o.lNer . RENT.—Thee General some time ago received a gun otot wound in the leg, which, from neglect and fatigue, assumed sip alarming appearance, there being a sudden outburst of .ey,ral, ulcers, and, for a time, mortification was seriously appreb,nd dr jail* alarming state the amputation of the limb was 4eerne• as absolutely necessary. The General, however, win illing ti sacrifice his leg, dismissed his doctors, and set about u.'o, nothing else but Holloway's Ointment and Pills, and it these celebrated remedies be perfectly cured himself i,. is weeks, and was able to leave London last week for the C. 4 tumult. To be had of every medicine vendor, and at tt. 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