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I for In abrO a- , Ol d thje tgoruc;,3oeccoal: aj:c 11°‘er J p grel " 1 i goo. . re ltie ~ho t)o t stat e I erl )3118bt°''' S Mfi 4,4 4n ‘,t h-L,F rib d AND it)t4Wit *pinion. " Who runs may read." 1101=1SM% On Sunday evening their Majesties the King and Queen cf the French received the Minister of Marbe, the Charge d'Affaires of Shah, Marsh a l D u k e of Isly, the Princede Beauveau, Generals 'aequeminot and Duval de Dampierre, and Messrs. Vatout and Martineau des Chenez. te .01‘Ienoothve Chamber of Deputies, o n M on d a y, M a rshal Soult stated at, in c onsequence of the earnest request of M. Villemain (which Government regretted), the King had ordered them to with draw er e d the m. H the object of whi c h was t o g le e thon. Gentleman a strikin g mark of the esteem in which his eminent services were coasid lhy the country. The Noble Marshal handad in a Royal ordinance, withdrawing a bill presented Jan. 9, according a pen of 1 5,000 francs to M. Villemain. _ The Conslitutionn e l sa3s, "The Duke de Broglie will leave Paris for London towards the end of the week. The Duke and have • Lushington w ill i mmediately commence their labours. We e . be en assured that time question of the right of search will not e only one examined by the Plenipotentiaries, and that two Othr questions will occupy muc h more the i r attent i on, namely-- the e pat . mauetion of the slaves in the French colonies, and the an. vexation of Texas." Afeve days ago a libellous work, by M. Mai chel, entitled, " La atutile d'Orleans " was seized by the police, and en Sunday the autho r, printer, and publisher, were interrogated by an examining itln 'Bl ' tr ate. They are charged with au attack upon the King, the t:r m Y t l he Fa for"' and the R oya l di gn i ty, and w i th an attempt to °vet . t mof governmatt as by law established. „„,_ tr . r t Monday t h ere was a heavy fall of snow at Paris, and the cold "1.1 In tense. At six in the morning Fahrenheit's thermometer stood at 19. mtniDeltua, condemned to death for the murder of an old woman, the edwidl3eJorge and her ser vent, and Grasset, who bad assassinated uw Hue, at Longvilliers, were executed on Monday at Deitun, on ascending the steps, declared that he n ' e rtted his fate, and in a few seconds had ceased to live. Grasset Was v , o ut "ew sent for. He came wrapped up in a blanket to keep place-[ cold. He was nearly insensible when he reached the h al execution. The executioner's assistants ere obliged o abh in t uP the steps, and as they tied him on the w plank, the on. o n ',7 r uao, happening to cast his eyes on the fatal knife, fainted leer. Instant. Almost at the same second the fatal blow de vkiko letter from Hanover, of the Ist, states that the Prince Royal, h at rec 'ad been for some time suffering from an attack of the eyes, on Overed sufficiently to be able to appear in public. Who, the 4th lest., a member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, represents Seville, and is said to be a man of considerable pro "rtY, was expelled from the Chamber on a charge of having stolen certain artic:es of value at a ball given by General Narvaez. LAW AND In the Court of Bankruptcy, J. Argent, late of the Rainbow :Cavern, Fleet -street, passed his final Examination. Several cases of larceny were disposed of at the Middlesex dons. At Marlborough-street, Thomas Burns was charged with having Committed an assault on a young married female, named Catharine White. The complainant had beer. attacked by the prisoner in Oxford-street, who seized her, threw her down, and indecently assaulted her. The ruffian was fined 5/. or two mouths' im- Prisonment. At Worship-street on Wednesday James Featherstone, James Peters, and a masculine.looking woman named Hannah Carroll all of whom were stated to be convicted thieves, were finally *Unlined, charged with having been concerned with others in Violently assaulting police-constable Ball, N 365, who has been in tapacitated for duty in consequence of the serious injuries he had ecti "d. Mr. Broughton committed the two men for one Alf/nth to the House of Correction, without the imposition of a fine; 4nd w ith regard t o te e woman, he ordered her to pay the full l'enaitY of Si., or undergo two months' imprisonment. William Casey was re-examined, charged with having, by ' r s gne an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 65/, obtained the .7 10 sum from Mr. Patterson , formerly a confectioner in Oxford- Z r e t 7 . t n , but now holding the situation of messmaster to the Royal l u 'erY at Woolwich. The prisoner was committed for trial rotn Mary lc Lone. th ,A complai nt was made to Mr. Broderip, at the Thames-office, of ' cotidUCL of a p o li ceman of the H division, who had taken ~ ten l ee . from an old man who had fallen down in a fit, ander pre t"ine care of it, and who refused to return it to the r. The Magistrate directed the inspector to make inquiries. T he If C. OT Ja i rFASIZNABLE. arelnWesism,of Hastings left town on """iaineton p ark . Monday last for 144 d Stanle y rect we are glad to learn, is recovered from the Issae, card k of the gou t under which he has been suffer i ng, has taty _r for a grand ent er t a i nment on Saturday next. --ee .Yndhurst has iss ue d cards for her f i rst soiree to t h e corps b,_mioannque fur T uesday next, at the Noble and Learned Lord's at Oeor ge-street, Hanover-squ a r e . Visit rem nastin es Doyle h as returne d to G ra f ton street, f rom a t gt): a I: The r• Cashel], a t hi s seat, Thorne's House, near Wakefield. et ena lien • C. A. Murr a y arr i ve d at the Pav i l i on, at Br i g h ton, teridav '" e Wit ti, Es " r ning fo n r visit to her Majesty, and left again yes. town, Albion h and the Dowager Countess of Walde. t he .Ladies' Horatia and Ida Waldegrave , left the "ere ""el. Bright on, on Friday last, for their seat in Herts, leY arrived on Monday. 1-414 Caroline Kerris on , h ave arri v ed at Farratice's p i:grave.street. 114°C hE e ste r eel ", attache to the French Embassy, has arrived a; Rouse, from Paris. We are VIESCZ_ILLANEOITS. 'ent has been to state that her Royal Highness the Duchess of li z the k c u 'ell pleased to send a donation of 25/. in aid of the fund ei Y for the Protection and Employment of Distressed + -Men. = tne _ mg. a . milers of the Geological Society dined together last he c ia even sir In Ch er i es rendon Hotel, when Mr. Warburton presided, and core,,,,'"einotl, Baronet, was among the members present. `eUence of the agitated state of the medical profession, ..e! l anter n i c : l Of tile College of Surgeons have declined to deliver the iin eve • oration" for this year. Dr. Lynch, a member of the b_age, ha s }, -en appointed to deliver the oration for the y ear 1545, eter'hall, in the ensuing month, I- N PAR- y BUSINES S ENT. 1 45, LIAM Eu. 12, . 8 , ed to wEDNEsDAY, F petitions for the followin Ra Nat)? Bills weßills:- 7 lesea Devi tiql.,,n Cour,ties Railway v(a Ely an d's% Ill a tt n _ Biggies. ta t ect Committee on P g etit c i i o a n m s t r r id l g ' e riv a a n t d e . atio„),..._;,tetern Counties R?A Ivade r.,,•-i.stern Counties Railway Brandling June ti -'140)--IsTewcastle and Darlington ( Huntingdon ell ) haa OFFICE. way, BILL (Hertford d IV' I.9ES GIVEN AT THE it tee Vi• Yeesdale Junction Railway, Railway, Committee °,l 44su op p • .aY, Feb. 2 G—Scottish Central 9 7 Eastern Counties u PRIVATE trietthon, Thursday, Feb. Committee on . Committee on Petition, p(titien, Ala n ,, t and Huntingdon) Railway, 4),,,:'443', Feb. 2— Eastern Counties c'F•!: Petition,Monday, Feb. Extension) ti,,,Ttktl) Railway, Committee on_ ,l___,...wade Extejles B lfast INii :astern Counties (Hertford and_ls gr a Feb. 24 ;t ad 1'143, Colurnittee on Petition, 31" n -Petition, and Whi e ttlesea Monday, /',l).444ll3traena Railway, Committee WaY, COtnntitt Petition, Wednesday, 444 ...---Islewcastle and Darlington e (Bra d n a d y l , in ee on INTELLIGENCE. Junction) Ti kl OllNG : Feb.eb 26. 1,41,t,,, (DECEIVED THIS DY ) vs each, Iso • t, the ft jimg,its for the Handicap Swee 'ej4lllool, GhAND.NATIONAstIa.kS:sIoEfE2OPLE CHASE() 11tH ,°111 3 7 if declared on or before .... ard, 11 age_, . lb NI) ---thscount, aged, 12st 121b7,voescin aged, 12st pi,e ....,10,--eltobin Adair, aged, 12st 71b—nel 1 12st 211:—Pete l r Si i , an %londay n e l : :11221s: agel, 1 t'll; 12t 71b—Cheroot, g , a aet(Wonder), '11,_,..t 121b—Croesus (late Gre __,. e Page, a a g g e e d d , I Ist 101 b ...-'l,4ot' Itetarried, aged, list I Ilb—Tn N ed, us, aged, 1 let 81 b—Charley, list 7 7 1 1 1 3— b list .• list ?lb—Brenda, aged. list 51b—Cu v• tioed_, list 611,—,Care -all ' age d's.,,t IlsP:Lllst 41b— Boxkeeper, 41b—The 11:: 03 ac i a c d e ~ , l ate i ,,, , i Matthew, 6 yrs, list 3 -- - j C l e l l a s 71b—Clansman, l s I T st ae — nr: Wilt o Exquisite,b— -.t.,t li,,_ 4 , 11 tr Bt--TheDuenna, aged, list—The t h ll rloughbo — Scavenger, 5 yrs, 1 is rs 'rt "' 1 Ist 21b--ewel, list—Chance, aged, te,---ell) toderederoo, aged, list—The lo,t i;>indr, list -Consul, aged, lOst 121b—Agriculture, Stranger, 1 0 3 t 1 pet Swift, aged, lOst 121b—The aged,san•yed,, Oat Rt )---Pickwick, aged, lOst 101 b—T aged, lOst 81b—Spt ; Sr % 4 --":111e Tilly, lOst 81b—Ninirod, lost ed, pitttuTree,mpl.t, 'Want, aged , 4 ss- Th n ' s-. 0 Il'e Rornp, aged, 10st 41b—Bri lOst 21b—BabY 1 , 81b—Tiny, aged, lOst 81b—The Artisti,osstY.!i'.9b 44.1 00-, lOst 21b—Toin Tu.', aged, . „ _ i . , out of Gift, %, t , 4 b--Ileslington a ed 10X—gr gby Alga 121 L -Preis. • ' g ' t - lb. ...naz, aged, s 4 1.1.011, , „ rats DAY. ) fitoN,.I.J'S SHIPPING. —(THIS ,3141 i; -"-`; PEn. 33,-40 P.M., Wind N.W., Eno., , DE breeze and Cloudy. Sld 11th, Irth'it' En. 12 10 v Wind N.W., Jig ht.— ' .4 e, u._ . .-- P..L.ilight. Noon — e --trbm„„. Rot ;tB,rtu. 12.—The Brothers, frOw ,i, _ame off without appt,,c,_,4l.N If le on the 9th instant, b c' , lo.r, ' uatnage. „cid, An bq'hio 11113(n-, FEB. 14.—Wind S.E., Whitstable to Goole: moderate.- e 7 n ...ara mitrk-ania ; Victori Rio ; Mary Marsden, D 1. ( '_• • an j -,;:t Queen, Ant.gua' Rio ; Mary Marsden, Dern'ara 1 a 1c Aohig Cal donia Brander, r 1.,, Latlai ha -111ra-'lB' Xew Orleai • ,,a • ; II anneal' Klerr,. a;;;lorriet, Calcutt'a ; ' Prin a cess Royal, Afril"eau the Ita,, ,„I.etoria and President, went ashore yesterday off, and kvii9.lv hart; in endeavouring to get the Valparaiso is putting taeila... The Bolivar, Penwick, hence to Bomba.y,,, Africa. on the in cr, iit _ I t % all loss of foremast, bowsprit, B'c" jillvinintn• (ZDZIUDI a Sbili, mast, the Duke of I% e g k•r „. , i io 1, - , FE a. 10Arrd. Hazard, Ichaboe. th -Low, uIY ; Lord Stanley, Biggles, Honduras. i sun _ off l and - l-r4}'P., Ftri, 12.—The Etnerald, Harrisoi , k guano d. 1.4-I\7 * "'and, has gone to pieces es; al 50 tons 11. Athol, A eo i , .lieth-LIC 4,11. rrd. Maraboo, Pickering, ,111t17„4, Kennedy, Popac (Africa), 150 puncheons Indian Chol •qteh, '",11 overboard to stop a leak ; Betsy Hall, ... Th111)0'; Am Nip. borningo. Off, Mary Ann Henderson,dltethoabut, i and '4,11e(1 fn e „ (l ., for Peterhead ; Wellington, Blanker, 9 ~.1, etterliel;ttverpool ; ~ The cl Spruce, Clark, ditto ; Pring, ditto, to mail -Italn ,d,""neral Steam Navigation Company's kitii.,,-IP Ocean Captain J. C. Hest, landed the Dutch 4frilort-'ll,,,,lae.liwall earHy this morning, after an unprecedented lf hours th e ,. .' uerelin 13 ay. %I 'l7'ag of only nineteen and The frost et d in tits n ever at Rotterdam, and the captain set ac_ :041p/it:l' Nl:Prit tao discharge his outward cargo, ettlileYresterday ita;riiing which he l in a on ha S . aturd day, '4l 11. 10 1 ; i 1t e la time to 1 • Rotterdam for Schereling eau 11 . Y -4 Y time to and whence she left with the mails iht id,e'ihat intended to 1131 ° 1 for wLondon.immediatelyheaf-EternitehrealOdeeasn, , , illiderstand the office of counsel to the Irish r. ,11'1171%vacart for eight months, since the death . of M 'risizitilb-21, 4as been conferred on Mr. John E. Batty, of the TU ". I t VI? weather 'erd 'l' RATHER.---TIIE PARRS. —The the k att. ha/ Wax intensely cold, the wind blowing 'Keenly illetti Nay the streets of the metropolis had the a S ), ;r 4ine t he night the frost was most severe, and atfbrreraemoacke of , of ice ate{, fei, ..the pavement being extremely Nit feet 1 toeing the first two days of the week lies in some places slippery. The snow k l ' h ioli at ;11!ell• This is the case on the Lammas lands at Fulbam,.ing hose 'A tides are theyusuall under water. At the Recent lo ; 41 ii r:sterds.' •B 0 2 ..1 'orenoon, eury, at ten o'cl sck: w" "The -4486 -rqa--the lowest point it ha; reached this winter. s alitp,otted 4lth t day caused the arks to be thronged, and thousand *44 ~- "leMselves upon thePiee• In the Itegent's.park the ice od Cli wu-letllent condition. The number of persons who ventured '44 or'twaM3 of 4 000. Several dqckings took P la ce in the Dee, despite of this,' thine le llaV, but no on of an y moment. In St. James's_perk 4 t. d e '941 ' '' ,. l , u tsafe e Thisis always the case in this park i roul ve,obut 1/416,Zake several tinuas there was a good number of skaters. The and although many were immersed, i2 44 4 gt at 4rious occurred: II ion ti". Serpentine the ice was e in the middle ofl')the day . the skaters were very n"albc; of sl:ltterri ::::::.peoe:rirye.ds.ot Ici:utl:tnsington.gardeila ;he nu e % .. the ya... (Inring the day was Upwards of 1,000. The medmebep in"::, tlis :7_'-"ig Club were there 4 eyeral of them went knee S 2 1 ,4 ",/ 19 0 54 I 'o 15a ,17 9 ' tj 1 . 4 -I '7 i N.. 1 ONCE LONDON AND i ;NUN a cerres:sonding addition will be resisised in the sum to be divided on the profits oldie next elisaing half-years. Thus, if the present position of railway interests were not of itself a powerful inducement for reserve in the division of profits, the circumstance to which the Directors have adverted would afford a sufficient motive. With reference to the pro posed reduction of rates, the Directors are engaged in carrying out arrangements with the several lines in con nexion with the London and Birmingham, for the division of their respective rates, on an cqiial mileage principle. Re ferring to the various lines in progress, or projected, which the Compaany are interested in ; namely :—Acts obtained 1. "Warwick and Leamington ; 2. Northampton and Peter. borough ; 3. Lancaster and Carlisle; 4. Chester and Holy head. Acts to be applied for-5. Tring, Worcester and Dudley, and Rugby and Oxford ; 6. Trent Valley ; 7. Bed ford and Bletchley ; 8. Dunstable and Leighton ; the Directors are enabled to report that the Warwick and Leamington line was opened on the 9th of December, and thas the traffic, short as the experience of the working of the line has been, more than equals their expectation. The advanced state of the works upon the Northampton and _Peterborough line, bids fair to justify the anticipations of the Directors that it will be opened in the spring, six months before the period assigned fbr its completion by the engineer; and it will be satisfactory to the Proprietors to learn that, whilst the cost has fallen short of the estimate, there is no reason to doubt but that the traffic will be found to equal it. The reports of the progress making in the Lancaster and Carlisle line, and its prospects, continue to be in every respect satisfactory. The negotiations connected with the Chester and Holyhead line, which were pending at the date of the last meeting. terminated in the acceptance of an offer from the Treasury to pay 30,0001 per annum for the performance of the Post-office service, and official information has been received that the works of the Holy head harbour will be immediately commenced. The Board of Trade have announced their intention to report in favour of the Tring, Worcester, and Dudley, and Rugby and Oxford line, and against the rival projects. Thus sanctioned by the Government Board, and strongly advo cated by parties representing the great manufacturing and mineral interests of the district, who decidedly prefer the lines promoted by this Company, the Bill will be presented to Parliament under the most favourable auspices. The Directors having agreed to lease in perpetuity a line from Dunstable to Leighton Buzzard, at an annual rent of 4/. per cent. per annum on the capital of 50,000/., and an equal division of profits, the sanction of the Proprietors to the arrangement will be required. With the view of obtain ing the most direct line between London and Manchester, overtures have been made simultaneously to this Company by the Directors of the Manchester and Birmingham, the Trent Valley, and the Churnet Valley Companies, for such an amalgamation of the interests of all parties as might best effect this object, and, at the same time, most completely secure the uninterupted and economical working of the traffic between Manchester and London. The Directors of this Company felt themselves bound to give their most careful consideration to proposals of so important a nature, and being satisfied of the great public benefit to be derived from their adoption, and persuaded also that it is the interest of this Company to give every possible facilityfor the accom dation of so great a traffic, they accepted (subject to the sanc tion of the Board of Trade) the proposals of the three Com panies before-named, which in effect are as follows : I. Manchester and Birmingliam.—That at the end of three years, the Manchester and Birmingham Company shall be amalgamated with the London and Birmingham Company at the relative values of the stock of each Com pany on a given day, 6th February instant, antecedent to the proposals, the London an d Bi rm i ng h am C ompany guaranteeing to the Manchester and Birmingham Company a dividend of 5 per cent. (with half the surplus profits) for three years from the present time_ 2. Churnet Valley.—That this line, at the end of five 3-ears from its opening (or sooner after its opening if the promoters require it) shall be amalgamated with the London and Birmingham Company, on fair and equitable terms, regard being had to the respec tive capitals of the two Companies, and their relative divi dends. 3. Trent Valley.—That this line, when made, shall be taken on a lease in perpetuity by the London and Bir mingham Company, who shall guarantee to the Trent Valley Company a rent equivalent, pro rata, to the divi dend that the London and Birmingham Company shall pay to their own Proprietors. It is proposed that any ques tion as to the details of these arrangements, and the mode of carrying them into effect, shall be left to the Board of Trade, or to arbitrators to be Appointed by them. In con sidering the large extension of the present undertaking, and with a view of obviating objections which have been raised, the Directors have come under arrangements with the Board of Trade, which, if carried into effect with the liberal spirit which may be reasonably expected, will prove as effective for the protection and consolidating the true interests of the Company, as for the advantage of the public. The Directors, having ,thus stated the terms of the pro posals, feel it their duty to recommend their adoption by the Proprietors. After maturely considering the practicability of carrying minerals and goods in large quantities and at low rates, the Directors are satisfied that it can be done without detriment to the Company, mid to the great advantage of the community, especially in the districts through which the new lines will pass. In this view they hsve or dered a supply of powerful engines, adequate to the perform ance of the work, and an increased stock of waggons. They have also contracted, in furtherance of their objet t, for the purchase, of the West London Branch Railway, which they propose to extend to the Thames, and to afford th ere by in creased facilities in water carriage, for produce conveyed by railway. The purchase money is 60,0001., and a further out lay of . 65,0001. will be required to effect a communication with the river. For this purchase the sanction of the meeting will their irec c t o o l r i s ea l g it u ivz report Jones,tll retirement, and ll l n o .'e f ella lk .i l t r b . l: R io'fe obert Benson, tun., to fill the vacancy. e f b r i e ci el i c r ti l e mi g eo i lIAIRMAN then proposed, seconded by Mr. Ledsam, the Deputy-Chairman, that a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum be declared, which was put and carried unanimously. This was followed up by a resolution authorising the amal gamation of the Manchester and Birmingham, the Trent Valley, and the Churnet Valley Companies, with the London and Birmingham, on the conditions specified in the report. Mr. CASSON, of Liverpool, in a speech of considerable length, urged the postponement of the resolution. A sub ject of such importance, involving the interests of nearly fifteen millions of capital, should not be precipitately dealt with. Time and the necessary data should be given. The Churnet Valley scheme was at present unappreciable. Nots withstanding the flattering statements that had been made by the Chairman, with the exception of the more harmo nious and economical working that would result from the amalgamation of the various lines, he doubted, in the absence of further information, the policy of the proposed arrangement, and moved an amendment to the effect that the consideration of the subject be postponed for a fortnight. Mr. HovEs, though unwilling to second a resolution ap parently hostile to the Directors, concurred with the pre vious speaker in thinking that full explanation should be given. Yesterday the twenty-third half-yearly meeting of the Pro prietors of this Company was held at the Euston Station. Mr. George Carr Glyn, Chairman of the Board of Directors, presided. Amongst the Directors present were :—Mr. Led sam, Deputy-Chairman ; Captain Moorsom, R.N., Manag ing Director of the Chester and Holyhead ; Mr. Ross Mangles, M.P. ; Mr. Boothby, Director of the South 'Western -; Mr. Cropper, of Liverpool ; Mr. Hodgson' ; Mr. Rathbone, Chairman of the Nerth Union ; Messrs. Cooke, Walker, Prevost, Young, Smith, an d Saltmarshe ; Mr. Robert Stephenson, engineer ; M r . Bidd er , engineer ; Mr. Bruyere, superintendent. The attendance of Proprietars was very numerous Mr. CREED, the Secretary, having read the notice con vening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN rose and said, that the last half-year, as would be seen by the account, had presented very favourable features. Ile would net analyse that state ment, nor stop to consider the position of the Company as regarded the lines at present before the public, he meant the projected railways to York. As re garded these, he would rather leave them in the state in which they at present stood, never having seen any answer to the statement put forward by his hon. friend, Mr. Hudson, respecting those lines at the last meeting of the Midland Counties Railway. He left that unanswered statement to occupy the attention of the Proprietors. All that he would say was, that if by any chance any cue of those lines should eventually be carried, the Directors bad the power of assur ing„ the Proprietors that the very small quantity of traffic that would be abstracted front the Birmingham line would be amply compensated by the new source of traffic that would be developed in connexion with the Birmingham line. —(Applause.) Since the last meeting several important-al terations had been made in their internal system and work ing. It had been the object of his colleagues and himself to carry out whenever they should have fixed the dividend upon a proper basis—namely, that of 10 per cent. return—to look forward to their being enabled to make a reduction in their various rates and charges. They had already, as regarded the passenger traffic, carried out some reductions, but he should be very sorry were it thought that those were the only reductions that they were to make on that head, though at the same time they were not disposed to carry eut their operations too rapidly or too prema turely on that point. They now contemplated making a considerable reduction and alteration in the rates on their goods traffic, and had already an nounced publicly that they were ready to carry coals upon the line at a reduced charge of one penny per ton per mile. They had also announced to the iron toasters that they were ready to carry their material for a penny farthing per ton per mile, the Company finding waggons for their use. In other branches of the goods traffic they had likewise already made considerable reductions; but they contemplated a still more important step, that of carrying out, with the concur rence of the other companies with whom they worked in concert,' a mileage system rate. He meant by that, a fixed rate between particular places between London and any other portion of the country, the cost per mile to be divided equally between the different companies. He was sure there was not a single Proprietor present who would not rejoice in this, if the sacrifice they were called on to make should, particularly in the case of the Grand Junction, be the means of an amicable settlement with them. They had already considerably extended the buildings for the use of the car riers at Camden-town, but did not think that file accom modation was at all sufficient for the mass of traffic which they hoped ere long to bring upon the line, and they thought that a favourable opportunity was afforded for relieving themselves from that mass of traffic by accepting the proposal made to them by the West London Rail way Company, by means of which they would get a ready access to the river Thames, a point of very great importance, as connected with that heavy traffic in minerals and iron, besides giving increased accommodation to the general business of the carriers. He said nothing about the pas senger traffic on the line; he was afraid of doing it. They had already had recerded in the facetious pages of one of the periodicals of the day such an account of that traffic, as would render it superfluous on his part to make any observations on it. He hoped that when s it passed into other hands the line would beinore successful than it had been in the hands of their predecessors. 'When they reflected on the population to which the line led, which was, in point of fact, larger than the population of many a town, for which many a Bill in Parliament had been applied for, he thought that with pro per management they would be able to make something out of it, though he would• not promise a great deal under the head "passenger traffic." They had also taken measures in consequence of this to increase their locomotive power. Since they last met, the Board of Trade had commenced its very important functions in connection with the railway interests, and as far as the Directors could at present discern from the nature of the decisions given, they could not complain that existing interests, whenever they had shown the same dis position to accommodate the country as new projects, had not been duly secured.—(Applause.) It was probable that the parties in whose hands these decisions rested, might, in consequence c.f these inquiries, have arrived at the conviction that although competition was a very plausible theory when carried out in some cases, yet that .it did not quite apply to the system of railway arrangements. They, therefore, fancied that when there was only one traffic to be found, if it would not quite answer the public purpose to have that traffic competed for by two com panies, and by two separate capitals, either competition must go to the extent of causing great deterioration in the work ing of the companies, or they must arrive at the other con clusion of keeping up a very high rate of toll and fare on both lines. The Directors had, therefore, consilered that, situated as railways were in this country, the best course that could be chalked out for the public and the Proprietors was, a well-regulated monopoly. He was inclined to think that after some time the opinion which the Directors had tended to in conducting the proceedings of that court for some years past might become more acceptable to other rail way companies than hitherto it had been=namely, that it is the interest of railway companies themselves, and to the interest of their Proprietors, to place themselves under the control, superintendence, and revision of a public Board, responsible to Government, the Parliament, and the public.—(Loud ap plause.) That was the feeling entertained by the Directors ; upon that they had acted, and upon that they thought would be based the future interests of the Company.—(Renewed applause.) The lines which more immediately concerned the Company, with reference to the decisions of the Board of Trade, were those of the London and Worcester and South Straffurdshire Railway, the Churnet Valley, the Trent Val ley, and the Shrewsbury, though not directly interested in it.. The first line they called by its new name; but it was, in point of fact, the line to which the Proprietors had given their sanction at the last special meeting, under the title of the Tring, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line. It had, as they were aware, received the sanction of the Board of Trail... Rival lines to those which they now proposed were supported and advocated by the Great Western Rail way Company, and it became a question, in point of fact, between the two gauge-, between the broad gauge and the narrow guage, as to which the country should be supplied with. He would not enter into the merits of that particular question, but the consideration which has created a great deal of interest in the north of England was, as to which Company should take possession of the district. They felt, and justly felt,.that if the wide guage was brought up to Wolverhampton and Rugby, a very serious and detri mental influence would be exercised on their traffic ; and without pretending to go into the reasons of the Board of Trade for the decision they had given, setting aside the idea the Directors entertained that the line they offered to the public was superior in many respects as regarded the mining interests of those districts, and su perior to that which their rivals offered, they arrived at the conclusion that, from the wording of the decision, the narrow gauge was preferred to the broad gauge. But they made no remarks on the extraordinary circumstance of the Great Western Company trying to establish them selves in South Staffordshire, since it seemed to the Directors of the London and Birmingham to be a little out of their legitimate district, according to the common tracings of the map.—(Applause.) The Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Dudley, and Birmingham line was entirely out of their hands ; now, as far as any immediate connexion of gua rantee went. The other lines to which he should allude were the Churnet Valley and Trent Valley lines, which had just received the sanction of the Board of Trade. At the last meeting they had given the strongest possible deci sion in favour of the former line.—(Applause.) But the Di rectors, in the interval, thought it their duty, considering the interests of the Birmingham Company, to pause and wait the decision of the Board of Trade ; and now, that it had been given, the Directors considered that the time for action with regard to the Chumet Valley had arrived. The ground upon which that line appeared' to be advocated at the last meeting was, the fact of it being a direct line of communication between Manchester and London. The Directors had ventnrcd to enter on a more extended field of action, thinking the time had come when it was advisable that Manchester and London should be put in direct relation with each other. There had been proposals made to them by the Manchester and Birmingham Railway, and after a little consideration they had connected these proposals with those that had been made to them by the Trent and Churnet Companies; and resolutions would be proposed for the amalgamation of two of those lines, and the perpetual leasing of the other. The terms had been settled between the three parties on good and fair understanding, and he hoped the arrangement would have a tendency of placing the property of the London and Birmingham and the three other undertakings on the firmest possible footing. Instead of there being four lines, under separate Boards, the management would be conducted by one i l?nrd of Directors. He would not go into details, though he h a d before him, but would rather put it to the vote on of its being a fair bargain between the par the broad gro::!ttl ties, and as ealcuirlted to consolidate the position, and in crease the influence of the lines between Manchester and London, by placing the great manufacturing capital of Great Britain in connexion, by means of a continuous line, with the The CHAIRMAN did so. The terms as stated in the report were clear and succinct. The Rae, at the end of five years from its opening, was to be amalgamated with the London and Birmingham, on fair and equitable terms, regard being had to the respective capitals of the two Companies, and their relative dividends. An agreement had been drawn up by the Churnet Valley Company, entering into details, but with out the sanction of that Company, he thought he would not be justified in having it read. Mr. BASSET thought it would be injudicious to enter into details, and looked upon the agreement as salutary and satis factory. The Proprietors should repose continued confidence in the Directors, in so far as this matter was concerned, and with that view he concluded by seconding the original motion. Mr. WILLIAMS thought it was useless to prolong discus sion connected with the details of the measure, after the satisfactory statement made by the Chairman. It would be imprudent to divulge the specific agreement. There should be no hesitation in passing the resolution, when it was consi dered, that not only the Grand Junction, but other great Companies, had entered into similar amalgamations. The CHAIRMAN, after stating that the Directors had no shares in the Churnet Valley line, proposed the next resolu tion, approving of the arrangement for leasing the West London line, which was carried. The next resolution was for the construction of a branch line from Dunstable to the London and Birmingham, at Leighton Buzzard. It was offered to them to rent at four per 'cent., with an equal division of surplus profits. The traffic case was a satisfactory one, and the line six miles in length, and the capital 50,0001. It would confer on the district the greatest possible advantage, more particularly with respect to the price of coal, which was inordinately high. It was then moved by Mr. WILLIAMS, seconded by Mr. PARSONS, and carried unanimously, "That the Directors of the London and Birmingham be allowed to become mem• bers of the Provisional Committee of the Churnet Valley, so that the working expenses and other matters might be fairly ascertained." The retiring Directors, Messrs. Boothby, Cooke, Garnett, Saltmarshe, and. Walker, were then re-elected. Mr. Urcnovr proposed that a petition be presented to the Legislature for a remission of the rates on railways as con nected with the poor's-rate. The Great Western and other Companies had come to a resolution to do so in the present session of Parliament; and he thought the success of the measure would be in a great degree advanced by the co-ope ration of the London and Birmingham. . _ • The CHAIRMAN seconded this, intimated the desire of the Directors to co-operate with the other Companies, al though the exaction alluded to did not fall oppressively on the Birmingham as on other lines. lie believed that the subject had been under the consideration of the Board of Trade, but that no definite measure had been adopted. Colonel ALcocx congratulated the Proprietors on the un interrupted prosperity of the Company's affairs, and eulogised the conduct of the Chairman and Directors for having pro moted the great establishment at Wolverton for the officers and servants connected with the Company, and which com bined everything that was necessary for their moral, social, metropolis of the empire. Mr. CREED, the Secretary, then read the Directors' report, which stated that the revenue for the half-year ending on the 31st of December last, amounts, according to the state ments laid before the Proprietors, to 456,447/., of which 450,479/. is derived from the ordinary traffic, and 5,9681. from interests on the employment of cash balances, and from rents. The charges amount to 182,5431., of which 96,413/. is the portion which immediately attaches to the working of the traffic, and 86,130/. is for parish rates, Government duty, fund for depreciation of stock, rent of the Aylesbury line, and interest on loans. The ordinary traffic exceeds the amount in the corresponding half-year of 1843 by 18,122/. The charge for working it is less by 2731., making the com parative rate of half yearly charge to receipt as 21/. Bs. Id. per cent. in 1844, to 221. 7s. 3d. in 1843. The net proceeds, 273,904/., added to the surplus of the preceding half-year, 15,937/., leave a clear profit of 289,841/., and on this amount the Directors recommend that a dividend of 5/. be again de clared on every 100/. of the Company's capital stock, leav ing a rest of 47,093/. to the credit of the current half year. Although this excess might, under ordinary circumstances, have justified an increase of dividend, the Directors will briefly state the motives which determine them not to re commend it on the present occasion, and they have no doubt that the Proprietors will concur in their views. The receipts in the second half of every year being invariably more than in the first half, a proportionate allowance must be made for the difference. Reductions were made in the Company's rates on the Ist of October last, as the Pro prietors are aware, which, for the passenger traffic only, were equal to 114 per cent. on the receipts, and a large increase of business (as apparent from the statements appended to the account) was the result. Now, although the extent to which this increased traffic may compensate decreased rates, must for a time be problematical, the Directors, judg ing by what they had already ascertained, will probably be induced to make further reductions, for the two- fold object of securing the existing traffic, and of giving that extension to it which charges, modified with a consistent regard to public requirements and railway resources, are calculated to pro mote. But as the necessary tendency of every change of this nature is to diminish, in the outset, the amount of earnings, the Directors feel that without a sufficient reserve of profits to compensate a possible defalcation of income, they might in cur the risk of lowering the present rate of dividend. and of thereby depreciating the credit o f their stock. The y may also observe, that loans whlp ycere raised on the security of the 32/. shares, to the amount of 576,0004 will fall due in July and January next, and must be provided for by calls of 8/., and 6/., at corresponding periods,—and that, as the Corn. pang will then cease to deduct interest at 5 per cent. from dividends :an the portion of the shares thus to be called for, and religious welfare. A church had been erected there capable of containing 900 persons, of which the Rev. George Weight was the pastor. The Proprietors had contributed towards its erection the munificent sum of 2,500/. The establishment could not be better described than in thewords authorising and empowering the Directors to adopt mea sures in refere.:nce thereto, by the creation of new shares or otherwise ; for considering the expediency of and deter mining upon a junction with the contemplated Colchester Port and Junction Railway, in the parish of Ardleigh, in the county of Essex; and for authorising and empowering the Directors to subscribe towards its formation." The report stated that nothing has occurred to induce the Directors to doubt the full completion of the line within the time specified. On the contrary, the highly respectable con tractors have promised very great vigour the moment the season opens for more active operations. It then proceeded as follows :—" The land in all parts of the line, where the works are heaviest, is in possession of the Company. You were promised, on this occasion, the statement of accounts should embrace the final settlement of all the costs of your act, but, in this one respect, your Directors, although great progress has been made in settling them, require further time. They have some small payments yet unadjusted, but the ag gregate of the whole will not exceed the sum named in De cember last. Mr. Robert Garrod, and Mr. James Allen Ran some, who were named by you in December last, are re eligible. It was a subject of great congratulation to your Board, and must have been so among yourselves, that the lines to Norwich a n d t o B ury St. Edmund's, intended to join yours at Ipswich, should alone, of all thoso projected in Suffolk or East Norfolk, have obtained the approval of the Board of Trade. A traffic, already ascertained to be amply remunerative, must by these extensions be greatly increased ; and it may be confidently predicted that few lines in Great Britain can command greater advantages than the Eastern Union Line, both as possessed of present resources, and pro tected against future interference." The total receipts by calls, &c. had amounted to 37,850/., the total payments to 1 6,287/., leaving a balance in hand of 21,543/. The report was received and adopted, and the retiring Di rectors re-elected. Resolutions were also passed empower ing the Directors to proceed in conformity with the proposi tions contained in the report. of their Chairman, Mr. Glyn, which were to the following effect :—"We were obliged by various circumstances to col lect at Wolverton a population from nearly every part of the kingdom, who of course settled there, without any local at tachments, but who are now, I believe, as orderly a set of inhabitants as can be pointed out. Their attendance at the places of worship and the schools is most satisfactory; the in habitants themselves have established a reading-room, and they have their benefit societies, and their clubs, and we have a lending library there, which supplies, not only Wol verton, but several other stations on the road, with instruc tive and useful information." The Gallant Colonel concluded by moving that Mr. Glyn should sit for his portrait, to be placed in some conspicuous part of the establishment, as a testimonial of the esteem and respect entertained towards him by the Proprietors. Colonel NoacLIFFE seconded this, and suggested the adop tion of a less perishable testimonial in the shape of a bust or statue. The suggestion was unanimously adopted, and a subscrip tion list immediately opened. The CHAtitmax expressed his acknowledgments, and inti mated that the deed of the London, 'Worcester, and South Staffordshire line .was ready for signature. In reply to a letter he had received from a Proprietor at Bath, he would take that opportunity of stating that no resolution whatever had passed the court with reference to the creation of stock in the Chester and Holyhead, Lancaster and Carlisle, and Trent VallPy Companies. It was in contemplation at a future period to increase the number of the Directors, which would not be beyond 24. Mr. PARSONS adverted to the new arrangement, which ho considered would be highly advantageous, not only to the Proprietors, but to the public, of carrying coals on the Bir mingham line at a penny per ton per mile. It would be found that the coals from Leicester and Derby were equal, if not superior, to the Newcastle coal. Thanks wkre then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,_ FEBRUARY -13, • now be bought. Some overtures have been exchanged be tween the Great North of England Company and the Leeds and Thirsk Company, with a view to effect an amicable arrangement ; but the engineering difficulties of the Leeds and Thirsk projected Railway presented so great an obstacle, that your Directors did not deem it consistent with the interests of the Shareholders of the Great North of England Company to identify them with works of so ex traordinaryace to Leeds could haracter,moreesp b e e cia m ll a y de as by th a y n ex b t e e l a ie s v io e n d thata better line of their proposed branches from Knaresborough, in the di rection of Spoffiirth and Wetherby ; and they are happy to announce to the Shareholders that their engineer has surveyed a line, shorter in distance, much less expensive in construction, and capable of completion in less time than that selected by the Leeds and Thirsk Company. Your Directors have, in connexion with the Stockton and Dar lington Railway Company, proposed to enter into a joint guarantee of five per cent. on the capital required for the construction of about eight miles of railway, from Middles borough to the favourite sea-bathing place of Redcar. The amount of capital required is 36,000/., and the terms of the guarantee are for twenty-one years. The CHAIRMAN, in his address, which was principally a paraphrase of the report, stated that the value of the Com • pany's property in the stock market gave the best indica tion of the efficiency with which their affairs had been con ducted. Whilst declaring an enlarged dividend, the Di rectors were enabled to make a considerable increase to the amount of the reserved fund, to meet contingencies, though he hoped he might not be understood to mean any diminution in future returns, but on the contrary that, looking to the probable increase of traffic, especially in coal and lime, and the reduction in the rate of interest, there was no reason for supposing that there would hereafter be any defalcation. There had been a great increase in the tonnage of coal upon the line. The cost of the proposed branch to Redcar would be 36,000/., and the line would secure a large traffic in coal, passengers, and goods. After dwelling on the history of what had taken place with respect to the proposed branch to Leeds, surveys for which had been made by Mr. Joseph Stephenson, who stated that a sum of 600,000/. might be saved by the construction of a branch vid Spofforth and Wetherby, which he recommended in preference to the outlay upon the line proposed by th e L ee d s an d T h i rsk Com• pany, the Chairman stated that the Directors had come to the conclusion to ask for powers to construct the line. The lines northward were identical with the interests of the Great North of England, because they joined part of the main trunk which was to connect the metropolis with Scot land, whereas the lines south of York had interests totally distinct. As soon as the Churnet Valley line, by which 23 miles would be saved between Manchester and London, was made, and as soon as the Caledonian line was completed, it would be a very near race, indeed, in point of distance be tween their rivals on the western part of the island and that side of the country which would be the nearest line to Scot land. Unless one of the direct lines from London to York was made, it would be found that the western side would have the whip-hand of them, and they would no longer have a full development of the resources of their property by rea son of the other being the immediate route to Scotland. The Chairman concluded amidst applause, by moving that the report be adopted. The Hon. J. C. DUNDAS took a retrospective view of the past circumstances of the Company, and argued that the Shareholders might confidently look forward to their under taking increasing in a still greater ratio. Mr. SHIELDS proposed an amendment, to the effect that it would be for the interest of the Great North of England either to amalgamate with the Newcastle and Darlington on terms of perfect equality, or to lease the Great North of England to some Company of undoubted stability, at 10 per cent. This was seconded by Mr. Hewson. A long discussion, in which Mr. Sams, Mr. Oxley, Mr. Plews, Mr. Shields, Mr. Hewson, Mr. Oldfield, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Eddowes, and others joined, ensued on this subject. Ul timately the Chairman put the amendment, when only nine hands were held up in favour of it. Several other resolutions were then proposed and carried, declaring a dividend of six per cent. per annum, clear of in come-tax, and authorising Directors to take the necessary steps for obtaining the sanction of Parliament to their pro jected branches. Powers were also granted to raise an ad ditional capital of 500,0004, by the creation of 15,000 new shares, of 331. 6s. Bd. each, to meet the expenses of the new lines, and the Directors were empowered to enter into a joint guarantee with the Stockt on an d D ar li ngton Railway Com pany, and the Middleborough and Redcar Company. On the motion of Colonel ARDEN a vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, after which the meeting separated. FACTORY CONVICTIONS AT KENDAL.—At the Town Hall, Kendal, on Saturday last, Messrs. Whitwell and Co., woollen manufacturers of that town, appeared be fore the magistrates, to answer the charge of Mr. Ewings, for an infringement of the Factories Regulation Act, in employing in their mill six children, without ob taining the certificate of school attendance required by the Act. Three of the children, it appeared, had occa sionally attended the school of a female who could not write, but who got her son to make out a paper for her, purporting to be a certificate of attendance. For another of the children, no certificate whatever had been obtained, and two others had not attended school for the full time required by the Act. After going fully into the eircum • stances of the case, the magistrates decided to inflict a penalty of thirty shillings and costs for each of the six children illegally employed. Mr. Wilson, on behalf of the bench, stated that there had been, to say the least of it, gross neglect on the part of Messrs. Whitwell and Co. in not observing, with greater attention, the provi sions of the law. George Long, foreman in the employ of Messrs. John Ireland and Co., woollen manufacturers, of Low Mills, near this town, was also summoned by Mr. Ewings, for employing a child contrary to the strict orders of his employers, without obtaining the necessary certificate of attendance at school, as required by the Act. He was fined 11 and costs.—Manchester Guardian. Ma. COBDEN'S MOTION FOR A COMMITTER.—Mr. Cobden has intimate i his intention of moving for a Select Committee to inquire into the alleged distress of the farmers and the farm-labourers, should he not be antici pated by those gentlemen who designate themselves re presentatives of the agricultural interest. All our readers may not understand the nature of a Select Committee; it usually consists of ten or twelve gentlemen, who assemble to examine witnesses during the day, when the house is not sitting, so that their special labours do not interfere with the progress of public business. Indeed, a Select ,Committee is rarely refused to any parties who can make out a plausible case of griev ance or distress. A Select Committee was granted to those who complained that their spaniels and lapdogs were stolen ; to those who were aggrieved by smoky chimneys ; to the gamblers on the turf ; and to the writers of dramatic pieces. Nothing could be more reasonable than to ask, on the part of the farmers and farm-labourers, that their alleged distress, which has formed the staple of so many lugubrious orations at the Protection Societies, should be thoroughly in vestigated by a Select Committee, so as to ascertain its nature and extent, the causes in which it has originated, and the remedies proper to be applied. Mr. Stafford O'Brien, the Chair man of the Publication Committee of the Protection Society—rather indiscreetly—as suggested by Sir Robert Peel—at once assented to the propriety of the measure; but the more wary members of his party cautiously held back. Mr. Cobden has done good service by applying such a decisive test to the professions of sympathy for the alleged distress of the farmers and farm-labourers, so liberally made by the Dukes of Richmond and Buck ingham, and their nominees and associates in the Com mons House of Parliament. If these gentlemen be lieved what they said, they must eagerly embrace the opportunity of establishing their case before a Par liamentary Committee; but, if they oppose inquiry, and refuse all investigation, no man can resist the inference that they have no confidence in their own statements, but feel conscious of practising a delusion on the credulity of the country, and especially on those classes for whose interests they affect to be most deeply concerned.— The League. [ADVERTISEMENT.] ASTHMA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, COUGHS AND COLDS.—A TRULY SURPRISIN3 CASE!—The Rev. David Williams, the resident Wes leyan Minister at Beaumaris, in the Island of Anglesey, states in a letter, dated the 14th January, 1845, that " he recommended Holloway's Pills to a poor man of the name of Hugh Davies, who, at the time, was almost unable to walk for want of breath ; that he had only taken them a few days when he appeared quite another man, his breath was easy and natural, and he was in creasng daily in strength." These wonderful pills will cure any cough, cold, or asthma. Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable ven dors of medicine throug!kout the civilised world THE STRIKES AT BURY.—The factory operatives at Messrs. Calrow and Co.'s mill, who turned out last week, resumed their work on Monday morning. The power-loom weavers at Somerset Mill, Elton, who turned out about six weeks ago, still remain out. The power-loom fustian weavers at Messrs. Walker and Lomax's mill, Bury, are also still out. The millwrights, moulders, machine-makers, &c., at Messrs. Simpson, Bland, and Co.'s, and also at Messrs. Walker and Co.'s, continue out, nor does there appear any likelihood of an arrangment being made at present.—Manchester Guardian. FACTORY CONVICTIONS AT BACUP. —On Friday last, at Bacup, before James Whittaker and George °rancid, Escp., Mr. James Ashworth, of Acre Mill, was convicted in a penalty of 21, with costs, for not having proper registers of his workers, according to the Fac tories' Act. Mr. Edward Lord, of Lee Mill, was also fined 21. and costs for the like offence, with 1/. and costs, for not having proper school vouchers. Mr. James Lord, of Meadows Mill, was fined 2/. and costs, for not send ing a notice of an accident which happened in his mill to the certifying surgeon.—Manchester Guardian. THE LAW OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.—The ope ration of the new Act (passed in the last session of Parlia ment) that originated with Lord Brougham, is thus described in a letter addressed to the Inspector of Prisons for the northern and eastern district, from Liverpool, and which letter is included in the Ninth Report on Prisons, just pre sented to Parliament by her Majesty's command. The writer says, speaking of information given him by some prisoners in the borough gaol—" These are people who must, from their situations, have extensive knowledge of the habits of the working classes, and I have every reason to think they have given a very fair account of what they knew. Ido not think the system of giving credit for provisions has ever been so general as it has been assumed to be by some, and that credit has scarcely ever been given, except to a trifling ex tent, to parties who were not housekeepers and possessed of goods. From further inquiries which I have made in the ton, b v I believe that assignments or othe r modes of settlement e; tween debtors and their creditors, without going to law , have become much more general than formerly amongstthemildiedle class of traders. Upon the whole, I conscientiously believe that t that though the new Act will doubtless lead to a sin a c ta i e t, gree of caution, on the part of shopkeepers , when it is giving ecessary and it will not d pr t e h v a e t n i t t c w re i d ll it w b o e r i k ng a given when good in checking the proper, an improvident habits ( which a weagt,oheamruoiunatofofmmaniyaerhn; andthi imprisonment this town), and in preventing moral contamination incident toin a debtors, gaol.ll a ma's, keepers of spunging-houses, and other in terested persons will, of course, endeavour to excite opposi tion, and to create an impression that the new Act will be injurious to the working man and small dealer, but I am satisfied this notion is altogether fallacious." Such are some of the more striking passages from this letter, showing the results of the new Act abolishing imprisonment in for sums under 20/, TM?! U 4414. MortwiNGT(ric—We regret to state this venerable nobleman is daily growing weaker, and little or no hope is now entertained of has recovery. EASTERN UNION. IPSWICH, WEDNESDAY —To-day the half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the Company's offices, Brook • street, Ipswich, Mr. J. C. Cobbold, Chairman of the Direc tors, presiding. The meeting was also made special for the following purpose;i:—_" For cpngtfjerinr the expediency of raising capital for making a branch line to' Haruleh, from a point ofjunetion with the Eastern Union Railway near to Man ningtree, together with a pier or jetty at Harwich, and for WEST RIDING AND WEST YORKSHIRE BRADFORD, TUESD AY .— A very numerous and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Bradford and its neighbourhood was held here yesterday, f or t h e purpose o f taking into consideration the merit s o f the schemes of railway com munication for the district now before Parliament, and ex pressing their sentiments on the public advantages re spectively offered by them. The meeting was called (in compliance with a requisition bearing the signatures of about 140 of the manufacturers, merchants, and other respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood) by Geo. Oxley, Esq., and John Rams den, Esq., constables of the Borough of Bradford. The theatre of the Mechanics' Institute, capable of holding 1,200 persons, was crowded. On the motion of W. RAND, Esq., seconded by HENRY FORBES, Esq., George Oxley, Esq., was called to the chair. Amongst the gentlemen present were the following:— W. Rand, Esq., H. W. Wickham, Esq., L. W. Wickham, Esq., Henry Forbes, Esq., J. Lupton, Esq., E. C. L. Kaye, Esq., S. Schuster, Esq., W. Walker, Esq., R. Milligan, Esq., E. Ripley, Esq., H. Ripley, Esq., Dr. Macturk, W. Cheese brough, Esq., Isaac Milnes, Esq., John Mann, jun., Esq., W. Martin, Esq., C. Ackroyd, Esq., Thomas Ackroyd, Esq., R. S. Ackroyd, Esq., N. Bentley, Esq., David Ramsden, Esq., John Steele, Esq., Joseph Lofthouse, Esq., B. B. Popplewell, Esq., George Anderton, Esq., Samuel Lumby, Esq., G. T. Lister, Esq., Thomas Clayton, Esq., Josh. Briggs, Esq., Robert Barr, Esq., Wm. Horsfall, Esq., Win. Weare, Esq., J. Bottrill, Esq., Wm. Firth, Esq., Wm. Wagstaff, Esq., J. R. Wagstaff; Esq., J. Hawkshaw, Esq., George Brown, Esq., James Wade, Esq., John Wade, Esq., John Wade, jun , Esq., Thomas Thwaites, Esq., Robinson Thwaites, Esq., M. Brown, Esq., Geo. Alderson, Esq., &c., &c. The Institution being found insufficient to accommodate the numbers assembled, the meeting was adjourned to the Court-house. Mr. WAi.RaND first addressed the meeting, and called at tention to the proposed accommodation of the district. The first point of importance was that any railway laid down in the West Yorkshire district should unite itself with those in the adjacent district. The next, that the stations should be in a position presenting the utmost facilities for public access ; and the third point was the character of the line as regarded the nature of its gradients. He endeavoured to show that the scheme proposed by the West Riding Junction was in want of these advantages. Every person who was acquainted with Bradford knew that in the valley of the Aire there were numerous towns and villages, employing a large and busy population in manufactures, and almost the whole of them drew their supply of raw material from places in a direction for which the \Vest Riding Junction made no provision at all. They drew their supply of coal front that direction, but when it got to Br a df or d i t h a d t o make a full stop. hy such a scheme was not onlyan insult to Bradford, but to Ai: edale also —not only an insult, but a positive injury. The West Yorkshire made an ample provision, whilst •the Vest Riding Junction made no provision at all. He thought, therefore, as far as that matter was concerned, the West Yorkshire was entitled to the approbation of the men of Bradford, and the West Riding Junction deserved their just and emphatic disappro - bation. He would not go into the minute parts of the gra dients genera.ly, but simply speak of them as affecting Brad ford and neighbourhood, and lie could fearlessly say that he believed that no project had ever been brought before a Parliamentary Committee with such infamous gradients as the West Riding Junction Railway. Mr. Rand concluded by proposing the following resolution :—" That in order to entitle any railway projected for the accommodation of this d:strict to the support of the inhabitants of Bradford, it is essential that it should unite itself with the Leeds and Bradford Railway, now in progress of construction, as well as with the Leeds and Manchester Railway; that the gra dients should be as favourable as the difficult nature of the country will admit ; and that the position of the stations should be such as to afford to the public the utmost facili ties of access." Mr. H. W. RIPLEY seconded the motion. Mr. WALKER, in a speech of considerable length, moved an amendment in favour of the West Riding Junction. lie contended that the vast mass of local support incontroverti bly showed that a strong and decided preference in favour of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Company reigned in the minds of a large proportion of the mercantile and manufac turing and trading population of the district. The decision of the Board of Trade in favour of the Junction Company confirmed and justified all its expectations. Before any other Company appeared in opposition to them, the under takings and plans of the Junction Company were publicly announced, and it was not until the complete organization of the Leeds and West Riding Junction Company, with every prospect of success, that a rival company was announced, under the title of " The West Yorkshire," whose main pre tension was a refusal to act with the Manchester and Leeds Company, into whose line their schemes must necessarily run in every direction. Mr. L. W. Wicictum seconded the amendment. Mr. HAwicsizam, engineer to the West Riding Junction, then addressed the meeting, and stated that the West Riding Junction entered Bradford in as efficient a manner, with as good gradients, and could be worked as perfectly as the lines into Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow. He described the gradients, and gave a variety of reasons for preferring the gradients of the West Riding Junction to those of the West Yorkshire for the local traffic of the district. Mr. CARTER, in the absence of ?tin Buck, the engineer of the West Yorkshire line, replied to Mr. Hawkshaw, contend ing that the conclusions of that gentleman were erroneous with reference to the gradients of the two lines. Mr. HENRY FormEs said that Mr. Robert Stephenson, one of the most eminent engineers of the present day, had made a careful comparison between the plans of the West Yorkshire and the West Riding Junction, and had in a most emphatic manner given a decided preference to everything connected, in an engineering point of view, with the West Yorkshire scheme. The motion was then put, and both parties claiming the majority, The CHAIRMAN' called for a second show of hands, on which he said, that to the best of his judgment, considering the darkness of the night, he believed that the West Riding Junction had carried the day. A memorial to Parliament in favour of the West Riding Junction was adopted. HALIFAX, TlnisnAY.—Y es t er d ay a mos t i m portant and highly influential meeting of the inhabitants of this town was held in the Odd Fellows' H a ll , f or th e purpose of taking into consideration the merits of the respective railways for this district now before Parliament. The spacious saloon and gallery were crowded, and upon the platform we noticed the following, among other gentlemen :—Jonathan Akroyd, Esq., William Haigh, Esq., George T. Pollard, Esq., J. Emmett, Esq., Captain Stansfeld, J. Baldwin, Esq., E. Akroyd, Esq., J. S. Brown, Esq., H. Ambler, Esq., Haigh, Esq., G. Beaumont, Esq., Ely Bates, Esq., J. Hoatson, Esq., Dr. W. Alexander, A. G. Suter, Esq., J. Thorpe, Esq., J. Turney, Esq., F. Crossley, Esq., W. Heap, Esq., J. Apple yard, Esq., T. Hodgson, Esq., J. whitwortn, Esq. The meeting was called in pursuance of a requisitimn of the gentry and merchants, manufacturers and tradesmen, mnum tier about 200. It was moved by Mr. JONATHAN AKROYD, and seconded by Mr. W. MORRIS :—" That a careful comparison of the respective merits of the two railway schemes has left the strongest conviction on the minds of those present, that in the superiority of its gradients and curves, the convenience of its stations, its points of juncture with adjacent lines, and its connexion with a continuous line of water communica tion to Liverpool, the West Yorkshire is entitled to the most strenuous support of the town and neighbourhood." Mr. Ti!o19.?: proposed, and Mr......8EAU310NT seconded— , • That a denial of the claim of the West Riding to construct and manage its own means of communication, cannot be viewed in any other light than a virtual assertion of its in capacity. That this meeting indignantly repudiates the re proach, and pledges itself to exert every means in its power to rouse the West Riding to a raulute assertion of its in alienable rights." Other resolutions, after a discuision of considerable length, but upon topics chiefly of a locally interesting nature, ensued, in which Messrs. Brown, Crossley, Suter, Gregory, Ambler, and Whitworth took part, expressing the views which the meeting entertained of the possibility of the Leeds and Man chester Company monopolizing the control of the com munication of the district, and conshiering the West York shire scheme as calculated to secure the benefits of free com petition. A petition, embodying the sentiments of the meeting on the subject, was unanimously agreed upon, to be presented to the House of Commons. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND. DARLINGTON, TUESDAY.—Today the half-yearly general meeting of the Proprietors was held at the Company's Offices, Mr. H. Wilkinson, the Chairman of the Directors, presiding. The Directors' report announced that the gross receipts for the half year ending December 31, 1844, amount to 54,048/. 65., which, compared with the corresponding half year, shows an increase of 15,481/. 75. Bd., of which the pas senger traffic has given 8,051/. 65., the merchandise 1,167/. 6s. 10d.,ithe mails 983/. Os. I Id., and the c0a1512,8291. 14s. 4d., &c. The balance, after defraying the expenses, amounts to 31,783/. 6s. Bd., out of which the Directors recommend that a dividend be declared, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum (that is, for the half-year, 3/. on every 100/. share, and 10s.lon every 401. share), clear of income-tax, and be made payable on the 4th of March. This will amount to 23,820/., leaving a reserve fund of 7,964/. 6s. Bd. The object which the Directors had in view in leasing their coal dues for three years (of which the first year expired on the 30th of No vember last), namely, to promote the permanent extension of that trade, seems likely to be fully realised ; the number of tons of coal and coke carried up the line during the half year, being 82,469, against 41,097 tons in the correspond ing period of the year before, and with every prospect of a still further increase. The Proprietors are already aware that the Great North of England Directors entered into an arrangement with the Newcastle and Darlington Junction Company to work the li ne of the latter Company—the Great North of England Company finding locomotive power, carriages, waggons, & c ., the necessary surveys of the proposed branch lines to Har rogate, linaresborough, Ripen; awl linrenghbridge, as well as to Richmond, have been made, and all the necessary steps taken, in compliance with the standing orders of both Houses of Parliament. The lines are not of an extensive character, and, from the great accommodation they offer to the public, at well as from their being legitimate branches of an existing railway, the Directors confidently anticipate a favourable report from the Board of Trade. Acting on this imprp§',sion, the Directors have thonaht iY .444414 to enter into a contract 5,000 tons of ° iron rails, at $L . l5s. per ton, a price considerably below that at which they could 1 B*s. LITERATURE. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW—No. IV This new Review, whi c h h as a l rea d y acqu i red a justcelebrity among those who have read its able articles, fully maintains its character in the present number, and as a pro o f o f t h e var i ed fertility and historical knowledg e o f th e contributions, though it contains not less than five articles, all relating more or less to the Christian religion, they are entirely exempt from monotony and repetitions. These are " The Scottish Monks," " Life and Writings of Dr. Arnold," " Palestine," " Essays on Christian Union," and " The Jesuits in France." The first is founded on several publications which, within the last few years, have appeared at Edinburgh, edited by Mr. Casino Innes, and extracted from manuscripts which had been mouldering for ages in the Advocates' Library. The wild hatred of Popery which all at once blazed up in the north about the time of Knox, the destruction of the magnificent cathedrals which adorned the coun!ry, and the almost savage treatment N;liich the Queen of Scots and the bigoted adherents of the old religion experienced at the hands of the Reformers, have appeared to many incomprehensible on any other imaginable grounds than that the people were reduced to the lowest degree of barbarism, that their uncultivated nfture wax taken advantage of by designing Churchmen and greedy nobles, and that a sprk thrown among such dangerous materials was only necessary to light up the conflagration which destroyed e ve ry vest i ge o f th e es t a bli s h e d religion. The abominable conduct of the clergy, and especially the bishops, abbots, and monks, however, fully ex plains the phenomenon. They were not only men of immoral lives in private, but they harassed and oppressed the people. The Church laid its iron grasp upon everything suited to its purpose, terrified the dying to force from them bequests, spent their days in hunting and fishing and other carnal amusements, and their nights in revelling and debauchery. The following picture makes the wonder cease:— " The abbots and monks were wholly given up to luxury and idleness ; and thc, unmarried state of both the seculars and regulars, gave infinite scandal to the world ; for it appeared, that the restraining them from having wives of their own, made them conclude, that they had a right to all other men's. But their own re. corded evidence of their guilt, will go farther to settle the sad truth of the charge. In one of the last Provin cial Councils held in Scotland, the canons it promul gated, bear the humiliating confession, of the corruption and profane lewdness of the clergy of almost every de gree, at the same time that their gross ignorance of literature and science is candidly admitted:—' Ornniunt fere graduum, morum corruptela, ac vita; prgfana obsce nibs, tam bonorum literatum, altiumque omnium, crassa iynoraatiu.' The Popes, too, beheld with dismay, the tottering condition of their ostentatious dominion ; and one of the Innocents directed to three English Bishops a Bull, preserved in the cartulary of Moray, by which they were enjoined to redress, by all the terrors of the ecclesiastical and civil powers, the atrocious evils that reigned unpunished among the Scottish clergy. They marry, he says, in defiance of all ecclesiastical rule, they resign the clerical character, when necessary for their interests, or the gratification of their passions ; and re sume it again at will, in order to enjoy, under priestly privilege, immunity from their crimes, (No. 260.) They disobeyed, too, the commands of their superiors, and the thunders of the Vatican in vain called upon them to re turn to the strict discipline of their Church. (Glasgow, No. 22.) This is the condition to which the Puseyite would bring the Reformed Church, and here we cannot help extracting from the article on " Palestine" some just strictures on the principles of Newman and Pusey, and the other mischievous innovators in the English Church, premising at the same time that " sincerity in their professed faith as Christians," is, we fear, a very rare quality among them. The writer thus de scribes them : " But, in starting to enter upon this ground, we can not refrain from an expression of the mingled feeling of grief and shame—of perplexity and alarm, that has at ten led our perusal of some of the volumes before us. English literature,—and especially so much as is biblical and topographic, is seen and read in Germany ' • and, moreover, books of this c l ass , em b o d y i ng as they do facts and narratives,bnportant or entertaining, are heard of, and sometimes read by many of that now large class of cultured persons, at home and abroad, who, choosing to turn away from that mass of direct and irrefragable evidence which sustains the Gospel history, dwell with malign pleasure upon the dark history of the Church ;' while at the same time they are catching at the indiscretions and follies of their Christian contempo raries, as affording to themselves reason enough for their unbelief. In this view then, mortifying and distressing it is to think that men, occupying responsible positions in the Church,—men who, if one may judge by the alphabetic honours which float at the rear of their names, are well informed persons, and therefore are precluded from the apology of ignorance, should exhibit them selves before the world as the credulous and unscrupu lous swallowers of the monkish nonsense of the East ; and as the dupes of the most flimsy sort of enthusiasm which a man can be moved by, and which is only just pardonable in ladies under eighteen ;' and that these persons—clergy and laity—while they seem, and we doubt not are, sincere in their professed faith as Chris tians, yet employ their energies, and show themselves all alive. not in defence of their evangelic history, such as inspired men have left it, but of the old wives' fables of the most debauched periods of clich history !" The history and character of the Jesuits are full of interest, and lay bare the unsupportable despotism which the modern reformers would establish in these days of freedom. The vast authority p3ssessed by the General of that dangerous sect, would not be at all unwelcome to certain of the bishops in our own church, if we may judge from recent exhibitions. "In order," says tho writer, "that an opinion may be formed of the enormous uncontrolled power of the General, we shall now enumerate some of the principal acts he can perform. He admits whom he pleases, when he pleases, and on the terms he pleases, into the Society; he can order any member of the Society to perform any duty in any part of the world, without a moment's notice; he may recal from any part of the world any Jesuit sent thither even by the Pope's orders, and transfer him to any other country or duty ; he may dismiss from the So ciety, at will, any of its members ; he may direct a num ber of coadjutors to be sent to a general congregation, and may name the two persons who are to act as dele gates from any province, together with the Provincial, either by directing them to be elected by the provincial congregation, or electing them himself without farther trouble ; he alone can summon a congregation ; he ap points and dismisses at pleasure all the officers and dig nitaries of the Society, of whatever rank they be, to whom he grants more or less of his own power as he deems expedient, recalling it at pleasure, no one having any power whatever but as his delegate, and he having the power of annulling any act which may have .been performed even in virtue of his own authority by any of his subordinates ; finally, he can inflict what penances and punishments he thinks just, or freely pardon any misconduct or misbehaviour." Besides these articles there are others which will be found interesting to the general reader, among which are Dana's System of Mineralogy, Thornton's British Empire in India, and Travels in Kashmir and the Punjaub. CHARGE OF ASSAULT AND CRIM. CON. On Thursday last, a journeyman carver and gilder, named Patrick Murdock, preferred a charge of assault before the magistrates, against John Ringham, of Ips wich. The defendant, it appeared, kept an eating-house in the parish of St. Margaret, and the complainant was in the habit of taking an occasional meal there. Ile lodged at Mr. Franklin's (the librarian of the Mechanics' Institution), in Coyte's-gardens, and on Wednesday morning, about a quarter before eight o'clock, the defen dant, llitigham, called at th e h ouse an d as k e d to see the complainant. The complainant was not down, but he replied, "Show the gentleman up." When the defendant got into the room, he seized complainant by the hair of his head, tried to choke him, kicked him, and eventually beat him with a stick in a very violent manner.—The de fendant said in his defence, that he had full conviction the complainant and his (defendant's) wife had spent a great deal of time improperly together. He had spoken to his wife upon the subject, but she had denied that any thing wrong had taken place between them. Last Tues day his wife left the house to go to her father's, on the Woodbridge -road. Ile said to her, " Don't go, there is much work t o d o , an d I wou ld rat h er you did uot." His wife said she would go, but would not be long. Sus pecting something wrong, however, he went to the house, and there found his wife and the complainant to gether. After this (continued the defendant) I had ra` course a great deal of unpleasantness. I spoke to my wife about it, and she abused me. Last Sumlaay evening I saw something I did not like. Whispering took place between the parties. I did not approve of this, and I said so, and then my wife blackguarded me. Turning to the complainant, the defendant then said, "Do you know anything of these letters ?" Complainant—. Yes, I do. Mr. Mayor, I am only a third party here 'I hese letters, though in my hand-writing, are, in oint Of fact, written for another person. There is no harm in them whatever. (To the defendant.) I told you I would bring you to the party for whom they were written, and lam willing to do so now. Defendant—Were they not written to my wife by you 2 Complainant —That perhaps is right, but not for myself. The Mayor—Stay a minute. The charge here is, that a violent assault has been com mitted on some person. Defendant—There is enough in those letters to agitate anybody, and make any man com mit an assault. The Mayor—Are these letters in the hand-writing ofthe complainant? Defendant —He admits' they are, and I have a witness to prove his hand-writing. Complainant—l adwit they were written by ase. I said yesterday, that if a proper investigation were mad e , there would be n o thi ng found to implicate me in what the defendant would now charge me. The Mayor— Does the defendant wish _th_esea_rlrtters read in his de fence? The defendant—l do, Sir. Mr.. Lawrance then read six or seven letters, which contained a mass of endearing language. The ' following are passages :—" I ION • e you ; by God, I love you, and should like to run away with you, but that would not be right. . . . . You call me dear friend,' but I should call you dear Anne.' I read your note with pleasure I do not think I have said any wrong. The feelings of the heart can't be controlled, and for what you have said to me I think none the worse of you, but indeed the bett,r. I would have said more, Lan can't on paper. • . . I write this note to you —What to say I can't tell. There is a bar between us which no man can break. Though you are another's, I do not see the sin of feolina an affection." The Mayor (to the complainant)—Vroy, alter the reading of these etters, do you wish to press your complaint ? De fendant—Yes, I do. Other expressions of the com plainant's feelings were then read ; such as, " You said you loved me ; God knows I do the same by you . . . . Nothing would please me better if one you know w , .;uld die." These Zillet-doux were directed "A. E. L.—To Ann Last, otherwise A. R." The de fendant—Gentlemen, these letters fell into my hands ; was not this enough to drive a man to do what I did ? Are not these provocations ? I wish to say no more . , but leave the case in your hands. The Mayor—When were you made acquainted with the existence of these letters? Defendant—On Tuf aday night. The Mayor (to the complainant)—What can you say to these letters? The complainant—These letters are not written upon my account, but for a young man whose name is not known, but which I will make known, if necessary. There is no criminality between us. The Mayor—Why did you not bring this young man here ? The Com plainant—l sent for a witness (looking through the window). I dare say he will be here directly. The Mayor—What you have to do is to rebut these lettcrs. The defendant has committed an assault upon you; in other words, he has given you a hearty drubbing. You have been moralising, in your peculiar way, with the man's wife. Complainant—No, I have not. The Mayor— I say yes. These letters show you have been on terms with the woman —terms which inevitably would produce a want of confidence between her and her husband, and yet you say you have written these letters on the repre sentations and for the feelings of a third party? Corn. plainant—Yes. The I:layor—Yeu have made your complaint and shown your case, and the defendant has shown his justification—the letters; and I must say no sound drubbing was ever more soundly deserved than that he has given you. We dismiss the complaint. (Applause in the court.) Defendant—Sir. The Mayor —No, not a word. We say that under the circumstances you were provoked, but you are not to repeat this drubbing, or excite one party or the other.—Sufiat ChroAick. THE HORRIBLE MURDER AT LAMMONBY. - On Thursday and Friday, the 30th and 31st ult., at the lonely village of Lammonby, near Grey-stoke, and about eight miles and-a-half north-west of Penrith, in the county of Cumberland, a respectable jury was impannelled on the inquest held before Mr. W. Carrick, of Brampton, one of the coroners for Cumberland, to investigate the circumstances attending the cruel murder of Sarah Ann Crosby, a fine little girl, aged about seven years and a half, who was burnt to death by her own mother, Jane, the wife of William Crosby, an industrious husbandman, and keeper of, the small public-house known by the sign of the Blue Miller, in the village of Lammonby. The investigation commenced a little after noon on the 30th ult., and was continued till midnight on Friday, when it was adjourned till Monday last, the 10th instant. From the evidence produced on the first and adjourned meetings of the inquest the following facts are deduced : William Crosby, the father of the murdered child, is a labourer in husbandry, and is only at home on the Saturday evenings and Sundays. Ile has a wife named Jane, and two daughters, namely, Mary and Sarah Ann, aged respectively about twelve and seven years, the only issue of his marriage with his wife. Mrs. Crosby is a woman of most dissolute character, passionate, and greatly addicted to drinking spirituous liquors, and taking laudanum in large quantities. The mur dered child was the greater favourite of the father (the mother having poisoned the mind of the elder with indulgences and threatenings), and was in the habit of telling him on Saturday nights what her mother had done during the week; and on that account the mother, from time to time, manifested a most inveterate and inhuman dislike 'and hatred to her younger child. She frequently most cruelly beat her, and turned the poor child out of doors at bed tim and kept her out all night, and on several occasions threatened to put an end to the child's existence. In order to carry this barbarous and unnatural resolve into effect, on Tuesday evening, the 28th ult., she made up a large fire in the kitchen of her own house, with the determination of sacrificing her child in the flames prepared by her own bands. For reasons only known to this wretched woman herself, she stripped off all the child's clothes and hid them in a hole behind the inner door and in the ash-midden, and having done so took the child by its legs and arms and literally roasted it to death. One side of the face was much burnt and the eye nearly out, and its breast and neck and back were most shockingly burnt. It appears that the child on being held over the tire had turned its head on one side and thrust it forward, and by doing so one side of the face was more burnt than the other, and that she had thrust ber;breast against the red-hot bar, which accounts for the severe burn on that part of the body. The wretched woman then took the child off the fire, and held her on her knee b 7 the fire side till life was nearly e xtin c t, th e littl e innocent faintly ask ing her other sister for a drink of water. Oa calling in the neighbours, she said that Sarah Ann (the deceased) had set herself on tire while she (the mother) was absent at a farmhouse about two miles oft; and made other incredible excuses. A person was sent to the farm-house to inquire if Jane Crosby had been there that day or evening, when it was aseertmeed that the tale was a fabrication. Mr. Car rick, the surgeon, was sent for, but on his arrival he found the child in a state beyond the reach of medical aid, and the poor child died about two o'clock next morn ing. On examining the child's shift it was found to be burnt about the neck and back, but the burnt places had been made with a red-hot poker, and the other articles of dress not being visible, suspicion became stronger, especially when the prisoner's former bad conduct was taken into consideration. Richard Weston, one of the witnesses, searched the house, and found the clothes hidden in a hole of the wall behind the inner door. On the first investigation of this horrid murder, the elder girl 'seenid reluctant to give her evidence freely, alleging that, if she told the truth, she was afraid of her mother, who would ill use her. At the adjourned inquest, she gave her testimony more frankly. Fourteen witnesses were examined: and, the voluminous evidence having been gone through, the Coroner in a lengthened address, explained to the jury the nature of their duty on such a distressing case. The jury then retired, and shortly afterwards returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder." The wretched woman was committed to Carlisle Gaol, to take her trial at the next assizes, which commence on the 22d inst. This shocking tragedy has given rise to the greatest excitement at Lammonby and the surrounding neighbour. hood, and, indeed, throughout the whole of Cumberland. HORSE-FLESH SAUSAGES. Mr. Atcherler, a horse-slaughterer in Sharp's-alley, Cow , cross, attended before Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall, to hear a complaint that was about to be made respecting his esta , blishment by Mr. Lamplough, a chemist, at No. 88, Snow bill, and one of the guardians of the West London Union. Mr. Lamplough had, it appeared, written to Sir Peter on the subject, but the Alderman was unable to interfere, as his ro tation of duty at this office for a week had passed, and would nut return for upwards of twenty weeks. Mr. Lamplough, however, finding Sir Peter Laurie was now sitting for Sir Claudius Hunter, repeated his application in person, and Sir • Peter requested the attendance of Mr. Atcherler. Mr. Lamplough said that a short time since, perceiving a very oflensive smell in the New Farringdon-street, curiosity induced him to endeavour to trace the cause of it, and be dis covered it proceeded from the knacker's yard in Sharp's -alley. lie found several horses there, some waiting to be slaugh tered, and some dead. As he was leaving the yard a sight presented itself; which excited his disgust, from a suspicion which might or might not be well founded. He saw a quantity of sausage meat brought from Mr. Atcherler's dwelling-house, and remembered that while he was in the yard he heard the click of a sausage-making mill. On Friday last he and his friend again paid a visit to the knacker's yard, and on leaving it they saw two baskets full of sausages going from the same dwelling-house. They followed the man and saw him deliver them at the White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane, where he booked the baskets to go to Brighton. If the horrid suspicion that entered his mind that those sausages were partly made of horse-flesh were well founded, it would partly account for some of the peen liar diseases that had recently developed themselves in the human frame, and which the faculty had a difficulty in ac counting for otherwise. Sir Peter Laurie asked Mr. Atcherler if it was true that, being a slaughterer of horses, he had a chopping mill for the conversion of horse-flesh iutu sausages? Mr. Atcherler said he had not. Sir Peter asked if he had a mill? Mr.:Atcherler said he had not. This was a very serious attack upon his character. His house was at the top of the yard, and the dwelling house mentioned did not belong to him, but to Mr. Lans downe. He certainly had a mill, and carried on the busi ness of a maker of saveloys and polonies. With regard to the smell from his premises, he: had the yard scalded out once a week, and it was kept in as good order as any place of the kind in the metropolis. The stench was as likely to coma from the premises of some of his neighbours. Sir Peter asked how long Mr. Lansdowne had been his next door neighbour? Mr. Atcherler replied about four years. He did not make sausages, and it was plain, there fore, that Mr. Lamplough did not know the difference be tween a saveloy and a sausage. Sir Peter asked if he ever sold any meat to Mr. Lands downe? Mr. Atcherler said he never did. liis neighbour went to market for himself. Their premises and trades were perfectly distinct. Sir Peter supposed they were not unfriendly? Mr. At cherler said they were nut. He recollected Mr. Lamplough coming to his yard and talking familiarly with him, but he had no idea that Mr. Lamplough was coming to snake a charge against him. He seemed to be ready to swear to anything. Sir Peter observed that Mr. Lamplough had not sworn to anything. He had made a statement, which he supposed to be of grave importance to the public. lie had stated it as a matter of suspicion only, and it appeared he was under a mistake io the occupier of the dwelling-house. He had reason io know other persons were labouring under the sa7; i e mistake, and that an article on the subject would have appeared in print if he had not given Mr. Atcherler this oppor t u nity of explaining. It was rather remarkable that a saveloy-maker should choose premises next to a horse ' slaughterer. In a recent great distillery case they had heard of a convenient connecting pipe with other premises. He did not suppose there was any such connecting pipe here. Mr. Atcherler replied it was suspliise.eio o guardiansn and unfortunate n fo o r c b o o n t i h i e c o t f i n t g h e p m i p , e t . h a i t i t e h e h y o p eshould the aid m as ex m e w uc as h attention to the victuals of the poor as that sent to the folks at Brighton. Mr. Lamplough said the stench from the premises was such as in warm weather to endanger the health of the neighbourhood. Mr. Atcherler, who is a portly, robust man, replied hie trade was very wholesome and particularly healthy. When the cholera was so " enraged" a few years ago, nobody hardly died of it i n th e wor kh ouse ad j oining his yard ;,.and, in fact, people with no appetite came down to his yard in the morning and went home and ate a good breakfast. lie ab horred the idea of feeding people on horseflesh. Sir Peter asked if his neighbour's mill was going every day? Mr. Atcherler said it was, but it did not work at night too. It was a horse- mill. Sir Peter was glad he bad afforded him the opportunity of explaining that he had no connexion with the sausage maker; and wished hint good morning. THE LAIIOURERS.--At the great assembling of landholders last week, there was an attempt made to make the labourers believe that these landholders are their "friends." The Buckingham clique have avowed that, brown bread and Bs. a week wages is plenty for a labourer wife and family, and yet would have them believe that they are their friends! How far will landholders' impudence carry them? The landlords now plainly see that the corn-laws cannot continue much longer, and they aro making displays to frighten Sir Robert, in order to stave off repeal as long as they can. It is come to this at last . —From a Correspondent. DEFRAUDING A RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Friday, George Rigden staptey was charged before the int(gistrates at Dover, e gt p iceo ai rss d t N t ,N o .ea l rn ) e( o l i e ai l l yt , iiwn b t u I t at s t u o p fti p i is:d i,na et h . i by the railway authorities, with comibg by their trains front Tun bridge to Dover, having only paid for a ticket to raildock Wood sta tion. The defendant stated aisn that he time. .0 e , i .a y s ro f n u g led tick m e s t„ , committed tar a week. lie had not a tispeni IA his pocket awl seemed in a very poor couaition.