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quantitl putsebooo tack u n° the Poli ce : ain , t in Co urt ' ‘te that A ref the ely terl'e° a lodging' rter'a. b ut :able-rnats. Deptford• with hilt' cciking egion and motor at is roaster) These, be 10th of 'ate rn ark _! a 4 6 e : cw 1, ed by 31`' E WS' BEN., *erc abund ant lone Wan o. a te % .11i , FOL fi e c rap [5: ,ted ro - Pr!.eroll. a t" Th , eoi ce i t t ; l" 6 6 of pig all 3r° „„ . therdlite' h on a from °° l 9. halle nr-; Ia the ,illy 11, ed 37% ' , has re' .oved tr les. fci LOGI C " 98 x 14, 1611-i r LLoyivs: SHIPPING—(T J - )A.Y.) LoNnox, OCT. 30.—Wind this day at noon \V., light airs, and .hazy. LEAs, Ocr. 29.—Wind S.W.—Artd. Dutesbite, Calcutta. Trd from the river, Lvdford, St ayner, Bombay ; London, Har rison, Aden ; Mona, Savers. Algoa liar; Agnt:s, Fox, Trial ditd ; D e lph a r,Curris,ew Orleans. Xrrd. trona the river and Hermes, banning, Rio Janeiro; Hercules, Idman, Rio Janeiro. Sid. Sir Charles Napier; St. Andrews, N.B. OCT. 29.—S1d. Nautilus, Keffin, Rio Janeiro. Off port, Dochesse d'Orleans, New York, for Havre ; Baroness, Halt, New York, for Hamburgh ; London Packet, Terceira ; Hatjinsea, Storey, Cape of Good Hope. :i\ir wrOßT.—sid. Thomas Crowell, New York. LivaßPool, Ocr. 29.—Wind S.S.E., moderate.— Arrd. Rachael, S co tt, B om b ay ; R o y a l Bride, Watts, Augra Pequina ; Washington Irving, Boston ; Lawsens, Montreal ; Tatnerline, Quebec; Washington, Wilkie, Quebec. Sailed Laurener, Salmon, . Singapore ; Duke of York, Proudfoot, Calcutta; Texican, Alleyne, Lima; Abbots Reading, At -1-:,lnsod. Arica; Sultana, Longman, Monte Video ; Frances, 'awn, Edington, ditto ; Rob Rov, Drybu rgb, Rio Janeiro; Ex- k.r."B, Cubbon, Maranham ; Themis, Murray, Rio Grande ; lolet, Holmes, Africa ; and the rest of the outward bound ready for sea. Off port, Rkchel, Bombay. BELFAST, OCT. 27.—S1d. Roberto Parker, Savannah. C.°Riit Ocr. 27.—Arri. Isabella Wood, Naylor, Honduras. 'ff NI, Hop e , S a ld an h a `B a y ; R ac ha e l, H a m mo nd, Savanilla and eafoundland. 1 x!. l , Ocr. 26.—Tne Dapper arrived off here from Jersey, was to contact with a vessel (supposed bound to Rouen, and put Into Penzance) 22d inst., entrance of the Channel, and lust bowsprit, shroud, &c. SYbNEy, JUNE 17.—The Shamrock schooner, from I,:aunceston to Hobart Town, has been. wrecked in Storm J 'aY; crew supposed to be drowned. CORN AVERAGES.' tor 4ENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN Week ended Oct. 25,1845, made up from the Returns of ti • "'Peetors Per in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales Quarter. Pti et , WIIEAT. ISAILET.1 248 1 343 OATS. AYE. 145 sI 45s BEANS. 1443I 443 PEAS. L 33sArii • • 593 5d Od Id 5d 5d Id ••• 16s Cd 7s Od 5s Cd 93 6d Is Od Is 6d MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 8 MAR T'. sittlirrne siut.o.—Meadow Hay, from 31 lOs to 51; Clover,. aver 4/ lOs to 61; Straw, 11 16s to 2/ per load. A fair c u a ge supply, and a steady demand. dit tn m P,HLAND.—Meadow Han 3/ 12s to 5/ 5s ; Clover, doll, •ti sis to 6/ ; Straw, 1/ 17s to 21 per load. Trade rather at the above quotations. 14ttricelIAPHL.—Aleadow Hay, 31 lOs to 51; Clover, ditto, ha,' to 6/ 6s ; Straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ per load. Supply mode ' Pod, and trade tolerably firm. So IYINAT !CARNETS. Were/7414U, Oar. 0 9.—Although the supp lies of fat stock .. 4 newhat on the increase, the demand was firm, and an upward tendency. Beef from 2s 8d to 4s 2d ; 4, 11P - 4 4 ,' 3 3 8d to ss; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to Sibs to sink the offal. u n B kll -\ ' l4) , Ocr. 29.—Each kind of prime stock sold was a " . T rather more money, while the value of other kinds !4 is ss; Beef from 2s 8d to 4s 2d; Mutton, usekli ; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 5s per Sibs. to 2 1 ; 11 g Calves, 18s to 30s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 17s 19 1 e a ' ; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 16/ to A. lLu e L s h. „„2 1 -irst, Ocr. 28.—We had a very steady trade here to altutZu3Prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d; to 4 so ld to 5s 2d ; Veal, 3 s 8 d to 4 s 8 d ; and Por k, 3s 4d Blbs. 5 3. 4"1 - * -1 , Ocr.2B.—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 4s to ' Veal k o d e _ ,4sto 4s 10d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s Bcl per Blbs. A c .lat suply, and a steady trade. C HESTER, Ocr. 29.—Prime stock sold at higher rates. i s other kinds a fair business was doing. Beef, from 3s 2d to 33 4,; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4.s 8d ; and Pork, W ri d to 4s 8d per Blbs. Milching Calves, 18s to 20s ; er-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Mulch Cows, with •mvu small calf, 16/ to 19/ each. NEUTGATE AND LEADENNAX4I.. 01 ~le.a bad only a moderate supply of each kind of Me a tprices were , generally speaking, the demand was firm, _u_ld .. l o : l 2 , 3s 6, 1 t ,, Ns , ell supported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; 131 tt Ed " 8 d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 3s lOd u to 53 '' er B lbs by the carcase. FLANDERS AN L) DUTCH MAIL. 4P, SELs, OCT. 27.—M. Van de Wey er, the Minister of the l4 terior, has returned to Brussels from his short visit to London. i 4n e Governo r o f the province of Namur has .addressed a cir etk4r , t° the'chiet m a gistrates of the comm unes, in which he says: I ,,+fthe reports which I have received are correct it seems to be to ,:' II Y believed in the country t hat the Government will be able pr ocure a supply o f potatoes necessary for pla ntin g far the year 046 Now, this is a thing absolute l y impossible; and it is of h , w t itraost importance to warn farmers against such a notion, to t , 'night have the effect of inducing them to part with, for ~,surnption, the produce o f this year. Cll therefore request you to 14 te the inhabitants of your district, by all the means in your 11 :!r, to preserve with care the p otatoes which they have for slant ing next year." h. 4 e have a letter from Ostend , of the 2Stb, which says, " As I / e written to you, the Herne ha s j ust entered our port, to take the b Ove r l an d I n di a m ail. It is th ou g ht that a courier ma y arriv e ( - ) n Tuesday next ; in that case he will have gained three it 'Ye in his ordinary journey. This service is not definitely settled; is only by way of trial." 1' he E ng li s h sc hooner, Ann Mitchel, arrived at Antwer p on the 13t,s from rerth, in Scotland, with a cargo of potatoes. OPENING 01 , "fHE NEW HALL, LINCOLN'S' INN, BY HER MAJESTY. (THIS DAY.) We shall give an Account of the Ceremony of the Open to-dav, of the New Hall, Lincoln's Inn, by her Majesty person, in our Third Edition. s G L ASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, OCT. 28.—T0-day 1 4rerpool, accounts state the market a little firmer ; few sellers at 'h. 6d., but freely obtained at 85s. Here there has also been a ces 4ftlon of sales at 80s. ; such parcels being immediately taken up. 1 j,, ,, ti to-day, however, cannot be sold to speculators or founders at ". cal., and we quote the price as 80s. per cwt.—Glasgow National. rtt: bus STRIKE OF THE NAILORS.—The nailors have ts• 2 r o , ) " ( lto their work, the masters having acceded to their demand Ihtlinittita und, or 'the full list price, as agreed upon on May announce tha t E or ,rue c,,,,, Alitre Chronicle. ---______ THOMAS LaiaN.—We are happy to with - 7,,P00r Thomas Lakin. whose case has caused so rrffick 14 .,. 1 ',"5ter ,''"e humane portion of the public, was discharged from - " e `... 40 , aiii,,„" ' 4l the 1 lth instant, the poor-rate of which he was the iliz tr - muling so se. 4d., havingheen paid. 1 lug of w h ine ' OF NAILMASTERS.—The adjourned meet t wa „ not haters took place at the Dudley Arms Hotel, on Tuesday. being p es „ ' y en/ numerously attended, only ten or twelve masters " ( Prssi r w , ' l it ; but several letters were read from other employers, raisi n , 4 ,` of tlieir willing ness to agree to the arrangement for Leen the wages of their workmen 10 per cent. The advance has liei r ` nor . k IVolverham allY acted upon plon Chronicle, o Oct. 29. , and most f the men have returned to ~., 01/te h tox IDE OF THE FOREMAN AT HER MAJESTY'S the hn :,:l - Yesterday an inquiry took place before Mr. Bedford, at I s ts4 fe7t "d Crown, Park-lane, as to the death of Mr. John 11•Cabe, ak ar Y'llvs, foreman at her Majesty's forge, iu Park-lane. It ed from the testimony of several witnesses that the deceased 1,7 for some time been in very low Whits, and on Friday morning filer, into the medicine department of Mr. Henderson, the Quee ts sti ,, , where he took sufficient eroton-oil, according to the surgeon 's stegr . bY, to kill 50 people. By excellent medical skill he was bald be at the same time the surgeon directed that every means isi,!',. be taken away which could destroy life. He got consider- It; better, and went on Monday morning to attend some horses. 1,; afterwards returned home to dinner, and at nine o'clock went to ha At about five on Tuesday morning his wife missed him from eiwand upon raising an alarm, his son went into the cellar, where h e i lisceased was found suspended by a cotton sc arf to the beam. IN' s put his trousers on, and over his shoulde rs his travelling I N 's his feet being close to the ground. Verdi ct, " Tem p orary 110 y .,, SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. BARNEBY, M.P.—On li,, a r,day last, Mr. Barneby, who had bcen at this city, staying at tri'v!star Hotel, was returning home in a gig which he himslf was 16 "li;.', and accompanied by his servant, when near to a place called ~., a ndoits, near to Crow's-nest, a o h n o d ut three miles from this city, ti l ':!, ,, fion was standing in hthekro_ad.no ant a m bo nl y,inattem m ptl ß ng to turn b ' l , rse out of the way, ac ed t became a g ain s t - r ' arne Y's tr4the horse of which thereupon , so much startled, that r r eh , g enie plunging he threw , the Hon. Geatleman out on the road, A i. , NC him on his shoulder. Is o disloca.tien took place, but Mr Barneb h i , 'lllicit shaken and bruised. He nas immediately driven . back t Y o Sta on I N/ r. and the assistance of Mr. Sheppard. surgeon, called in ; and lit to c,aday, we were glad to hear, Mr , . Barneby, was so far recovered '"e enabled to re turn home. --;li orcestershire Chronicle. V e 14 bi are enabled to announce, on the most unde -1 marriage of the Queen of ii iiuni u authority, that the question 1an...! ” also that of her sister, is aetflati:tedelinitively settled, to the r k , n 'action, we must presume, of t he British and French Govern ,,f 1„ ' 4 ,: Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg is to be the Royal Consort I n (auella U., and the Duke de Montpensier the t husband of the event having h ula Luisa. All the arrangements for this g Nv e a blade through the instrumentality of the Cabinet of the la Tai f le s r ai les e . t a r c forth r enabled to announce that Prince Leopo o •bu-.. c so ~,,<„ accompanied by his father, was hourihlyt exp e ected at St. Cloud eilliirr,daY, on a visit to his Majesty Louis 1 li _previous to their lvi i , n . sr for Lisbon, and from . thence to London". ' The source from ki k , '.'' We have derived this important information enables us e o S ERIOUS its authenticity. -40 vertis er. s ?Enlous ILLNESS Or LORD MONTAGU.—We regret 1 11,1, 4 ,te that there remains not the slightest hope for the recovery of si a , oighlv respected Nobleman. Since the commencement of his lacOl t ' , " - attack his Lordship has rapidly sunk, and from Sunday e s "c ' Noble Lord has been deprived of the power of speech, and oxen(4l3' morning, we lament to hear, he became unconscious of the 0.,,e of the several members of his family, who have been suns sii"l, to town by his dangerous illness. At eight o'clock last even- P -.:',, noble sufferer was still living, but his dissolution was anti 4a.s'" ever • hour. The Duke of Buceleuch had been with his 11, 1 s. Y th e i l ' I P from tell o'clock in the morning, and the Earl of Home and Flo on. G. Hope are with Lady Montaguin Hamilton-place. Lady '''' %a has been unremitting in her attendance on his Lordship es„., . Cout his illness. 1 /ir?tloN TO RAILWAY GUARDS.—The B oard of w eek t oi l!' .of the Eastern Counties Railway have with in the last '"Yre s 'charged two of their guards, of the names of La w rence and name' ~.It will be recollected that about twelve days e a n g r o,. n alady varni;„Nembell, who entered one of the second-cif a s nces t . i a g u es o a n t arri v i„'''lge, was subjected to some very gross ann ) for protection, a ,but i„ - . 11 ., at the Royston station she appealed to Ayres the 1 - ,''`ead of atfoeding it, he pushed the applicant. As soon as VII . „ . 'f's were laid before Mr. Dowling, the superintendent, Ayres of ij:' ,, tnended, and upon the matter being brought before the In the nthe ire e ._ r i ft, he was dismissed from the Company ' s service. I Si n , - •bstance upon one of the up trains arriving at the terminus at s ini Teditet i , nn ' engine under the direction of Lawrence ran Into . the inj o n; ,abd although the collision was not attended with - any serious aro s e oeYOMI a few bruises to two or three of the passengers, which a ligh t ac cording to LaWrenee's account, from the train not exhbiting in gt at the front carriage, it was considered advisable to send a t report eli gen ai ,„ °r- General Pasley, who considered that a grea t d e g re e of ne nue '',,,,` e ehtsiedion the part of Lawrence. The Directors, in accord ttoodt wi th that opinion, discharged him. An intimation, it Is . under the ben agent to ' every person connected with the line that ~, most stri orders will be carried out for the future, and in I,`?*3' instance where any complaint is made by the passengers, es. si u , c ' a llY from females, of any impropriety of conduct towards them, allow the is to afford every protection, and also to take care not to G REAT the o ff ender to depart. ' 4 "EAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The increase o f Lrait sear amounts for the last week over that of the corresponding week of last icjt " i ' l . amounts to 2,9861. The receipts for the week ending October portion ,1844 9 were 17 151/ , and those of last week 20,1371. A large o , of the increase ' is . in the goods traffic. The returns last week a Lt account of this traffic amounted to 4,M 01., while for the corre 4VP4 week of last year they were 3,4761. only; the weekly in re • b eing, therefore, 1,024/. on the goods traffic alone. It is to be c ollecte.el that this increase has taken place upon a considerable , re. ',action in the rates of . carriage. We perceive that the Great B est "' Coni train. pally announce their intention to run all a dditional goods H oRIiCASTLE FAlR. — This large horse fair com - „., eneed on F , uesday last with one of the fi ne st shows of horses of all descri ptions ever offered for sale. This f air has acquired the greatest f a 'be for hors blood and carriage horses, and is considered the principal tit,-rm,arket in the county. The fair was numerously attended by inus ` t le men connected with the turf and field, and nearly all the job and horse dealers in London. Blood stock of good pedigree bred br ood quickly at prices varying from 120 guineas to 2001. ; thorough rood mares, stinted to good horses, made from 60 to 80 guineas; .n,Endings front 30 to 80 guineas ; hunters of reputation made prices fit for F fro m 100 guineas to 200 and 250 guineas each ; aged hunters, fro m ..`,! av Y country and hounds, 40 to 80 guineas ; mares (in foal), ~,„,,, ; uo ( . to 501. There was an admirable show of five-year-old car sh7.,.eorsts obtained which were bought up rapidly, and destined for London ; pairs hors P e r s el f sold w e w ell - matched were from 40 guineas to 60 guineas ; and several - matched horses made as high as 160 guineas ; unbroke Young oa,_ at 30 and 40 guineas ; and colts from 251. to 35/. ; prime lot extenlrses made from 16 to 24 guineas. The sheep-pens did wide but business was transacted at good prices ; Lin coins i . lambing), l fro leers) making 4s. Ad. re - : stone ; and ewes (early 32a. to 38s. a head ; and good lambs made one guinea. riere de l' Sunda sumo an as 3 e r , about four in the afternoon, M. Margat imAerabl beau tifully Eto ent with his balloon from the Hippodrome, at the Bar ile. It rose vertically and with great rapidity to a con y r ,l l:l , ght, when, after remaining for a considerable time beau broeeedi7„:l'_n_i UP by the rays of the setting sun, it passed over Paris, uti La an eastern direction, and was soon lost to sight, THE EASTR EN COUNTIES RAILWAY CONIPANY.—(TIII6 DAY.) MEETING OF PROPRIETORS. A special general meeting of the Shaieholders of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, WAA held this day at ono o'clock, at the Lamlon Tavern, Bishopsgate-sueet, G. Hudson, Esq , M.P., in the chair. As this was the first meeting of the Company since Mr. Hudson has joined the Directory, and as it was also Mr- Hudson's first public appearance in London, great curiosity was excited, and long before the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings the large room in the London Tavern was crowded in every part. Precisely at one o'clock the Chair►nan, accompanied by the officers of the Company, entered the room, and was, Ire ceived with the most vociferous cheering. On taking the chair, he called upon the Secretary to read the advertise ment calling the meeting, which having been done, The CHAIRMAN said, that on this the first occa sion of his presenting himself before them, he would commence by offering them his grateful thanks for the confidence which they had been pleased to repose in him by presenting to him a requisition, signed by a large number of shareholders, requesting him to join their Com pany.—(Cheers.) He begged leave also to thank his col leagues, by whom he was surrounded, for the kind and hand some manner in which they had received him— (Cheers)—and be felt it • his duty to do them this justice, to assure the Proprietors that he was convinced that their only anxiety was to develop the resources of the line so as to add to the dividends of th• shareholders.—(Loud cheers.) He was now sufficiently acquainted with the position of the Company to be able to assure them that there was no line in the kingdom which before long would yield a better dividend than the Eastern Counties' Railway.—(Loud cheers.) They only had to exercise proper energy and exertion, by giving to the public those proper conveniences and facilities which every railway company ought to give—(Loud cheers)—and traffic would flock to the line in such a manner, as to prove that it would be one of the best railway investments in the coun try.—(Cheers.) He would say for himself, and for those gentlemen who acted with him, that no exertions should be wanting on their part to give the public all those con veniences to which they were justly entitled, and all those facilities which they had every right to expect from railway companies in return for those great privileges which had been granted to them by Parliament, and by doing this they would be not only supplying the wants of the public, but be benefiting the Shareholders likewise.—(Cheers.) They had assembled there to-day thus early for the purpose of having an opportunity of developing . their plans for the extension of the line to York, and he hoped before he left that his plans would be honoured with their approba tion, that he should lay before the public such a scheme as they ought to adopt, and at the same time offer such terms to the London and York Company as would induce them to join in the plan.—(Cheers.) He was sure no person would wish to see money expended in public works without it yielding a return, and he was satisfied, after care ful reflection, that if the London and York were constructed to-morrow, it would be a most severe infliction on the share holders; and if they would accept the terms which he would that day offer to them (and he hoped the shareholders would take it up if the directors did not)—if they would do that, so as to enable them to go to Parliament as a united body, they would obtain the means of submitting to Parliament the best and easiest means of opening a communication be tween London and York. He would first have the resolutions read which he was about to submit ; after this - he would offer some observations on the subject, and after that en deavour to explain his scheme for uniting with the London and York for the construction of the best line between Cam bridge and York. He called upon Mr. Duncan to read the resolution. Mr. DUNCAN then read the resolution, which was to the effect that application should be made to Parliament to au thorise the Eastern Counties' Company to make an extension line from Lincoln to York, and also from Tottenham to Far ringdon-street, with such branches as might be necessary;' that the capital should be 4,500,000/, to be called Eastern .Counties York Extension shares, to be raised in shares of 20b each, a deposit of 2/. each to be paid on the 10th of January; such capital to be apportioned in the proportion of 944,240 shares to the Northern and Eastern Company, 1,500,000 to the Cam bridge and Lincoln, 200,000 to the York and North Mid land, 1,120,420 to the Eastern Counties' Company, and the remainder to the landowners, and capitalists, andothers along the line, reserving to the directors authority to make any alterations, or to enter into such arrangements as they may deem expedient. _ Mr. HUDSON again rose and said—Now, Gentlemen, if you will allow me, I will make some few observations upon the reesolution which has just been read to you by Mr. Duncan, and first, with respect to the Northern and Eastern Counties' Rail way Company. It was quite clear that we could not go to Parliament with the extension of this scheme with such an agreement as had formerly existed with the rival company. I therefore submitted the plan which is now contained in this resolution to the Directors of that Company, and they in the most handsome manner recommended its adoption to the shareholders on the terms now proposed. They are to receive two 20/. shares for each 50/. share in the Northern and Eastern. These gentlemen have been waiting, for some time to come into this nice snug third, and they have never yet been able to obtain it. It was stated that the Eastern Counties gentlemen had been receiving, by the issue of new shares, a large premium on the original stock. That - 15a - n - g — trar - casK• - "ft - Was necessary to give cation for the abandonment of that agreement. It was most important that that agreement should be abrogated, because you may remember that it was one of the greatest objections last session, that this tract of country was not under one mangement. But we can go to Parliament with the Northern and Eastern as an entire and uncontrolled scheme from London to York. That is the reason why I wished to conclude terms with the London and York, and I must say that I was met in the most handsome and liberal spirit by those gentlemen.— (Cheers.) It was in contemplation by the York and North Midland Company to make a line from Doncaster to Lincoln at a valuation of about 200,0001. We, gave that up to you, but still we have a right to claim in return the amount of stock. There was another Company that we thought had some claim upon us—l refer to the Midland Counties; but on further examination we find that they have no claim, as we do not engross any part of their line.—(Cheers.) To this measure I think Parliament, after a careful and unprejudiced consi deration, cannot object. lam aware that the London and York have got a step in advance of us, but we all know that the Committee which decided in the House was a divided one, and the value of their opinion may be estimated when we hear the reason assigned by one gentleman in his place in the House of Commons for his vote was, that one indivi. dual was in possession of 600 miles of country.—(Great laughter). Was this a proper reason for any man to assign ? If there ever was a futile reason this was one. I hope to see some sound principle laid down by the Legislature for the guidance of members of Committees. When we consider that they are to adjudge upon millions of property, millions invested at great hazard, property which contributes to the good of the country, as well as of the individual shareholder—is it right, I say, that this property is to be trifled with and wasted because one individual is entrusted by others with the management of so many miles of railway. But Gentlemen, what does the country get by the passing of this measure? It involves only an outlay of four millions of money, and gives larger accommodation than the London and York. By the passing of our Bill, however, you protect four millions and a half already expended, and you save the expenditure of six mil lions, besides hundreds of persons from ruin, who might be silly enough to invest their capital in the London and York. They would thus secure all that was valuable in the district, between York and London. It will secure the traffic north and south of a most important town, Cambridge. On the other hand the London and York line passes through many little towns. I will not call them little towns, but they are, at all events, towns that are already well supplied with inde pendent branch lines. The traffic of such towns as Newark, which the London and York proposed to accommodate, is very small, north and south. This traffic is with the west, which are the great consuming districts. I have now explained my views on that part of the resolution just read, relating to this branch of our present meeting. Never theless, though such a proposition may be considered an ar rangement as should not be agreed to by an old established company like:the Eastern Counties, yet it is one which, in my opinion, will best serve your interests, and secure to you future advantages. It is a proposition that should be taken up by you with the best spirit. It is one which I commend to the adoption of the Directors of the London and York Railway Company. It was received in evidence that that line will require at least si millions for its construe tion—(Hear, hear)—and taking the present price of work and material, I am quite sure it will require at least 10i mil lions. The Directors have had their Subscription Deed signed for five millions, which was only equal to half the completion of the line. What I propose is, that the 501. shares shall be reduced to 20/. shares, and the shareholders be allowed to come and take 201. shares in the extension. If the Directors are so pledged to press forward their scheme, then your next course is to look to the shareholders themselves—(Hear, hear)—to those who have embarked capital without the least chance of its realis ing them any benefit. Offer to them the olive branch—the boon—and leave them to act for themselves. As far as the Directors are concerned, it may not be so easy to arrange with them, as some one of them may be desirous they should take the line through Bedford, while another may want them to go by Doncaster. Let the shareholders of the London and York ponder well over the arrangement I propose, and not attempt to carry out an un dertaking which was not backed with with a single esta blished line in the kingdom, and the directory of which did not contain a single gentleman of experience in railway affairs. I would not have proposed those terms did I not think it would be for your benefit as shareholders, and also for that of the country at large. You must take the proposition on the broad principle, and though you are shareholders of an old established line, you must consider that on the alliance and terms pro you will be su re to get as much divide po nd as the circumstances of the country will allow.—(llear, bear.) By taking a liberal and wise view of the question you will do that which will realise your permament interests as pro a - prietors. Though y ou ma y not get 10 per cent. of dividend, you may at least secure a fair return for the investments you have made.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") T iis prop ,sit;on would meet this inequality. aid your stock being: rated at 14/. 165., when the line is completed; ley pay ing 1/. 45., ysit will be reckoned at 20/. per sharp in the united, companles. Thus it is evident tliet your stock will advance while the London and York line will be in a poatim to de rive great benefit. The company is better w•ithout this line. Our scheme is a little longer. It takes in Lincolnshire and Doncaster. It is, I repeat, a little longer than its competitor; but we must measure railways by time, and not by Ctiwance. If you take the line between Grantham and London—and it is evident that we must dwell on the time which it will take to construct, as a matter of far greater importance—for it was a position which no sophistry could subvert, that the line which took the least time to form must be the preferable line. The line we propose to construct has no tunnelling, with the exception of three-quarters of a mile. The London and York has long gauges of one in a hundred. If gentlemen will sit down calmly and consider the question, there can be no doubt, at least I entertain the hope that there will be no difference of opinion on the matter we 'are now discussing. Ws must then perceive how deeply our interests are affected, when there has already been expended no less than 4,000,000/. of money, and this might,] if matters were not wisely transacted, lead to a considerable further outlay in a most unfortunate speculation. I hope the London and York Company will feel that this is the wisest course, namely, to acquiesce in the view he had taken, and that nothing but ruin can result from the continuance of the contest iu which unfortunately we have already been engaged. They will have another line from London to York, entirely divested of the difficulties that encumber the present line, and affording the advantages that were required, and which, they must be satisfied their own line did not offer. It will cause the remodelling of the whole of this scheme. According to my proposition, considerable advan tages will be conferred on the people of Cambridge and Lincoln, and that is, that a million, instead of a million and a half, should be appropriated to that line, or, in other words, that they should have two shares in the new creation for every three in the existing company. By this arrangement the proportion which the Eastern Counties' Railway would receive would be less, but in the course of time we shall get as fair a proportion as any other company. Another benefit that will result from this will be, that we shall put our stock in a position that will render us unassailable, for we shall be enabled to obtain a com munication with the north of England. The public will thusbe considerably benefited. I have now brought before you the whole of the scheme which, as the organ of your Directory, it devolved upon me' to submit to your consideration. In doing so we have been actuated by a desire to discharge, to the utmost, our duty, and to render ourselves, in the position which we occupy, as acceptable as possible to you and the public.—(Hear, hear,) No person could have witnessed the state in which railway property was placed, subject to all the unfortunate circumstances with which they were familiar, without the deepest anxiety. When they recollected the variety of schemes, the multitude of projects that were brought forward, in which figured the names of persons who hitherto had never been associated with railways, all who were really honest in their speculations must be glad that a period had arrived when these rash undertakings had experienced a check. I, for one, am rejoiced to see this, no matter whether it results from the agency of the press generally, from the admonitions of the Ti nzes, or from any cause whatever.—(Hear, hear.) No, gentlemen, I am surprised, deeply surprised, how people could subscribe to them. You see the names of Right Hon. Gentlemen and Aldermen—(Hear, and laughter)—lending their names to schemes with which they have no earthly connexion, and in which they can have no personal interest. No, they have really no connexion with the district through which the line is intended to pass. Nor were they in fact known personally to any; of the local authorities, or to any of the landholders who may be supposed to have some immediate interest in the scheme—(Hear)--and yet you see their names blazing forth in advertisements relating to schemes running through various localities, and proposed for accommodating, forsooth, various interests, and various dis tricts, and sometimes half a dozen in one day.—( Hear, and a laugh.) No, gentlemen, I do not know what these gentlemen can be thinking of, for it can neither reflect honour on their names, nor credit on their judgments; and I for one, Gentlemen, shall ever strenuously and stoutly de nounce the system as pernicious and unjust.— (Hear, hear.) I will never lend my name to a scheme, or schemes, -- which I have not fairly and legitimately inquired into, or which I believe will not eventually prove a public advantage and of public utility, and which will not in the end fairly and adequately benefit the shareholders, who may be disposed to embark their capital in promoting the the scheme or schemes.—(Hear, hear.) I hold in the highest contempt all who lend their names to these fictitious projects ; for by lending their names to them they induced men of standing and respectability to apply for shares; and what is the result? Why, ruin follows. It is gambling in its worst possible shape. It may be that it can not affect the monetary system of this country, because the money is merely passing from one hand to another, but you must remember that it will ruin the little, and in all pro bability exalt the great. I say, therefore, those who are playing at this game of railway scheming ought to be cautious—the public ought to be cautious. It is perfectly marvellous the letters which I have received from all parts of the country allotting me shares, or applying for shares; but I make it an invariable practice of putting them one and all in the fire.—(Hear, hear.) And at the same time I am spustautlyland_continuallyreceiviagimplications, asking me to lend my name to suchunlaikings as those I have just denounced. Yes, the number is perfectly astonishing to me even, and I sometimes say to some of them " You must think me mad to fancy I would lend you my name for such a purpose."—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have now brought before you everything which appears to me likely to effect your interest, and having made these few observations, allow me again to repeat that your undertaking bids fair to become a sound railway property, and I am sure it will sooner or later become a sure and safe medium for in vestment And here let me remark, what a great advantage to the country it is that property of this description should exist s in which parties can with safety invest their money, and be content with receiving some three or four per cent. upon their capital.—(Applause.) Well, then, is it not of„national impor tance that such property should be protected by the Legislature from the hands of unjust and worthless invaders ?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Be fore I sit down, give me leave to mention that I had the pleasure of going down your line, and I hope to have the pleasure of spending another day or two upon it. The result of this inspection justifies my stating, that on the com pletion of the change we are making, we shall be enabled to work the traffic as well as any line in England.—(Applause.) It only wants a little resolution to enable us to accomplish this. That resolution we are prepared to give, and I confidently hope you will ere a few days are passed, be enabled yourselves to perceive a change.— (Hear, hear.) I am fortunate inhaving obtained the assistance and co-operation of such gentlemen as my friend Mr. Wadding ton, for it enables me more properly and more effectually to work the line ; and I am also under the greatest possible obliga tions to the whole of your Directors for the friendly and kind manner in which they have received the proposition which I have the honour 'now to submit to you. It has, I may add, their entire and cordial approbation. Gentlemen, the resolution having been read to you, it is now before the meeting; but before it is put,"l shall have great pleasure in answering any questions or given any information which any shareholder may require, and be most happy to hear any ob servations which any gentleman may think proper to address to the meeting. The matter is now in your own hands. An Hox. PROPRIETOR—WiII you allow me, Mr. Chair man, to ask what proportion of the new capital will be at the disposal of the Eastern Counties proprietory. The CnAutrunii—Certainly. 1,120,4201. 600,0001. is reserved for various purposes. 200,000/. will be at the disposal of the York and North Midland, 1,500,0001. of the Cambridge and Lincoln, and 944,2441- of the Northern and Eastern. I may as well mention that there are extensions of the Eastern Counties which will have to be brought before you at a future meeting. Mr. SHAW participated, he believed, in what must be the general and unanimous approbation of the meeting, of the large and liberal schemes which the Chairman had laid before them. He was quite sure, whether they looked at the national importance of the schemes, or involving the public interest and convenience, or the benefit they were likely to confer upon the shareholders in the Eastern Counties Railway, that they must meet with general and universal support. The propositions which the Chairman had laid before the meeting were of so clear and distinct a character as hardly to require explanation ; but there was one question in connexion with them which he should be happy to have ennounced, and which he was certain the meeting would be glad to hear. It was with regard to the proportion of shares which would be distributed amongst the Eastern Counties Company. The Chairman had mentioned the number of shares they were to have, supposing the London and York Company did participate in the scheme. Now supposing they did not, which he hardly thought would be the case, what was the proportion they would be entitled to? The Cm:ulnas—Perhaps the simplest way to put it, will be to say 10s. for every 201. capital.—(Cries of " No, no," from three or four of the Directors.) Well, then, the capital of the Eastern Counties Company is 2,820,0001. ; you have 1,400,0001. to divide amongst 2,820,0001. In reply to several gentlemen, shareholders in the London and York Line, the CHAIRMAN remarked that this is a great and important question. You receive, he said, 201. stock by paying 11.45. If you get 301. instead of 201. shares, it will surely be better than taking new 20/. shares.—(Cheers.) The amended resolution says that so many shares shall be divided so and so. If the shareholders ot the London and York are not satisfied they may revert to the old resolution which is that 420,000 shares be divided amongst them. The Bill cannot be in Parliament before February, and no money will required to be paid till January. D. W. HARVEY, Esq., rose in the body of the meeting, and said, that as he had on more than one occasion taken what might appear to many an inconvenient part against the old government, he seized this occasion to ex press his admiration of the new dynasty, and in the warmest terms to approve of the judicious manner in which the Chairman had formed the new Cabinet. That he would merely throw out one word as to the enor mous power he had wielded in harmonizing an immense mass, a compound of materials which had always been to him an object of reverer.ce. He would just call the new coalition the government of all SUN LONDON, THURSDA'Y ETENINa, OCTOBER so, 1845. the talents. Nov, as to what our case might have wele • at an advanced stage of :the dis-' ease—fir gone in a Lifeline. At the eleventh _. . • hlur we ;lied in a a judicious physician; on ex-mining th.! patient he had found him char4eable with wide and !wise habits, and that to these was to he traced the foundation of the disease, but that the medical gm- tleman is convinced the patient may yet recover himself. He must describe to them the position of their Chairman. He stands with a flag of peace in the one hand and a bag of we.ilth in the other. lie is prepared, judiciously prepared, before tering into the contest for fighting over again the war of the House of York. He has seen the ground, and is con vinced, before entering on it, that it will yield him a certain advantage. Such harmony has he now procured, that we have one common object., a common stock, and a common interest. It matters little what shares be given, because, if we receive no advance, wel have an enormous return of wealth. Now, along the North-Eastern Company's Grand Trunk line the whole traffic will pass. If he might say any thing in his position, their own Directors have not been forgetful of their interests, and their position will be better in the Houze of Commons. If the Loudon and York agree, then there will be a division of 4,000,000!. in shares. The Cambridge and Lincoln Company are interested in this corsideration. He might possibly have proceeded to show how their own Directors had appreciated their own interest, and understood when the occasion made for them - selves.—(The Chairman remarked here, that they had not known anything of the scheme, till it had been developed by himself at the Board.) Mr. Harvey proceeded to say that that only confirmed what he said that when anything good was laid before them they were too wise' to refuse. (Mr. Hudson here said they had at first objected to the scheme.) Mr. Harvey proceeded to congratulate the directors and the meeting on the very favourable position in which they were now likely to be placed. He had formerly been a. grumbler, but he had now great pleasure in tendering his cordial allegiance to the new autho rity.— (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN announced that there was no other busi ness before the meeting, but he would make an observation in reference to something which had fallen from Mr. Har vey, on the subject of the Northern and Eastern shares. Now, he thought it was a most unfortunate thing that they should knew anything about Northern and Eastern. He wanted to see the Companies one, and with one Directory. — (Cheers.) He hoped he should never more hear of Northern and Eastern interests as distinct from those of the Company generally. They were an unitedicompany • The effect of the proposed arrangement would be to make them part and parcel of the Eastern Counties' Company. — (Cheers) There would be no more division of interests. He would state, that when he first made his proposition, they had strongly contested the principles he had laid down, but, for the sake of peace, and to promote the general interests of the Company, they had given their consent to his scheme. — [Here Mr. Ward, 31.1 ) , made some communication to the Hon. Chairman, who, after a pause of a few seconds, conti nued ]—His Hon. Friend, Mr. Ward, had reminded him that the Northern and Eastern had 5 per cent. guaranteed to them. He was quite aware of that ; but whenever they paid more the Northern and Eastern would participate with them as a matter of course ; and so sure was he that they would pay more, that he did not look upon this guarantee cif 5 per cent. as a matter of any great consequence. — (Cheers.) He was sure they would pay a great deal more than that.—(Cheers.) Mr. Scorn said, that as he had taken a prominent and active part in those proceedings of the Com pany which had led to the invitation to Mr. Hudson, he felt hound now to call upon theta to express their thanks to that gentleman.—(Cheers.) Nothing could have given them greater satisfaction than to see the chair occupied as it had been that day.—(Cheers.) When times were dark with them and they had little peospect of benefiting them selves, they had appealed to Mr. Hudson, and he had satisfactorily responded to their call, and nothing had afforded the Company so much satisfaction as to see their prospects represented and their interests protected by Mr. Hudson. — (Loud cheers.) He was the pilot under whose guidance they were to weather the storm. He it was who opened to them a brilliant prospect for the future by his manner of reconciling conflicting interests under his able manage ment, and they would be enabled to pay a satisfactory divi dend, and to emerge from their difficulties.—(Cheers). The best guarantee they could have fur this was, the expe rience which they had had of Mr. Hudson's success on other railways. (Cheers.) He was certain that Mr. Hudson would do all that man could do. They could desire no man to do more ; and he was sure they would receive no less.—(Cheers.) The railway public had reposed the most unbounded confidence in Mr. Hudson, and that confidence had never been disappointed. - When Mr. Hud son bad been first asked to join the Eastern Counties' Company, he had declined, but when he saw the requisi tion of the shareholders, and was aware of the num ber of names attached to it, and of the large amount of property represented by those names, he at once responded to the appeal, and in doing so he had agreed to forego every personal consideration.—(Loud cheers.) For this they ought to thank him.—(Cries of " We do thank him.") He would not detain them stroed, but that the water way should be preserved, and a railway alsornade. Mr, Walker's ideas on this subject will be best under stood by the following extract from his report, viz. :—' In saying that the width of your property is sufficient for two lines of rail way, I have not had reference to the continuing of the canal navi. gatioa ; but I ought to add, that if it be thought on the whole ex pedient to continue the navigation, you have, by rough walling the sides of the canal, sufficitnt width generally for two lines of broad gauge, and a better canal than the present. inasmuch as there is less friction in a waited canal than with sloping sides. 1 cannot help considering that your coming before the public with the canal and railway is very important, both in ob viating objections that may be made to the conversion of your canal into a railway by other canal companies, or by canal carriers, or by the owners of warehouses and other property, and by being practically useful afterwards ; for canals may not always remain st their present discount, and there must be a reluctance at resolving to destroy the substantial locks, aqueducts, and other works, which within forty years have cost a million of money.' " The Select Sub.Committce have carefully considered the res. sons given by the consulting engineer, and have, after much consi deration, unanimously come to the decision of recommending you to adopt his suggestions as to the preservation of the canal, the ex pense of which, Mr. Walker assures us, will not exceed the sum of 800,0001., authorised to be raised by the former meeting of Pro prietors. " Your Committee have ascertained that, without any very large additional expense, the curves and gradients incident to pursuing strictly the line of the canal may be improved, and have instructed the engineer so to amend the line that the sharpest curve shall not be less than thirty chains, ner the steepest gradient more than one in eighty, whilst the distance between the termini will be also shortened. . . . " The Select Sub-Committee beg further to report, that through out the line the undertaking has been well received, and that at a very large meeting of the inhabitants of Devizes, held on the 9th instant, a resolution was passed to the eff,ct, that the project of this company would be highly beneficial to that important town. " Your Select Sub-Committee beg further to state that they have had propositions from several new companies for an amalgamation of iaterests, or for the conditional purchase of the canal, but it has not appeared to your Committee desirable to make such arrange ments. " Your Committee deem it right to mention that;as precautionary measures, Instructions have been given for the surveys of lines of railway for eastern and western extension. " Your Committee have the pleasure to inform you that the sur veys are in such a satisfactory state of forwardness, and such an amount of deposits, already in the hands of the bankers, as will en able your Committee to comply with the standing orders of Parlia ment. " Your Committee cannot conclude this report without congratu lating the proprietors on the position of their undertaking." Resolutions were then moved and carried for the adoption of the recommendations of the report, and themeeting broke up. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 9 3 / 4 —Bideford and Tavistock, 1 Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 32—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, s—Caledonian, 1214—Ditto Extension, 41,4—Cam bridge and Lincoln, 4& —Ditto Extension, 434--Chester and Birkenhead, 53—Ditto New, 201. Shares, 9d4 —Derby and Crewe, 4% —Eastern Counties, 224—llitto New Shares, 13—East Lancashire, No. 1., 18 3 4 —Edinburgh and Northern, PA—Ditto, 151. Shares, 2—Glasgow and Dumfries, 575. Grand Union, 24—Great North of Scotland, 4% l .—Great Western (Half Shares), 90—Goole and Doncaster, 44—Hud dersfield Canal and Railway, 16%—Leicester and Tamworth, 3 1 4 —Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 4—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, s—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 6 3 / 4 —London, Oxford, and Cheltenham, 1 1 ,6—London and Windsor, 21s.—London and York, s%—Leeds and Brad ford (New 501. Shares), 43—Leeds and Thirsk, 16—Man chester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, 4—Manchester and Southampton,4%—Midland (40/. Shares), 26—North British (Half Shares), 4 3 4—North Staffordshire, 6 1 4—North Wales Mineral (New Shares), 54—Notingham and Boston, 3% — Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 4%—Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton, 9 1 4—Preston and Wyre, 40— Rugby and Huntingdon, 2% —Shrewsbury and Hereford , 1%— . Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire, 4—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6—Shrewsbury, Worcester, and Crewe, 2—Somersetshire and Midland, 3 South Eastern and Dover, 37%—South Midland, 64 —South Staffordshire Junction, 6—Staffordshire and Shropshire Junc tion, 3 1 4—'Tan and Dove Valley, 2—Ulverstone and Liver pool and Carlisle Junction, 2%—Welsh Midland, 3 1 4 Whitehaven and Furness, 8 1 1. MANCHESTER, Ocr. 29. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 9%—Cambridge and Lincoln, s—Dudley and Iron Bridge, 3 1 4—East Lancashire, No. 1, 19—Ditto, No. 2, 13%—Essex and Suffolk, I%—Grand Union, 2% — Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 17—Great Grimsby and Dock Extension, 9%—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 15 1 4 cum all—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 5 —Leeds and Thirsk, 15 3 4—Leeds and York, 4—Leicester and Bedford, 2X—Leicester and Tamworth, 2% —Liverpool and Bury, 32% —Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 3N —Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, WA —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 6%—London and Manchester (Rem. ), 3%—Ditto (Rastrick), 54—London and York, s%—Manchester and Birmingham and Welsh Junction, 2%—Manchester and Leeds (Fifths), 12— Manchester and Southampton, 4% Manchester, Wigan, and Southport, 2 3 4—North Stafford shire, 6 1 4—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 8 3 4 — Sheffield and Manchester (No. 3), 9—Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 1 3 /—South Staffordshire Junction, 6—South Wales. s%—Tean and Dove Valley, 1 3 %—Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction, 4 1 4—Welsh Midland, 3 1 4 — West Lancashire Coast, 3—Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 2%. BRISTOL, OCT. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 85—Ditto New, 9 1 / 2 —Bristol and South Wales Junction (Ex tension to Monmouth), 1) 7 8-3Ianchester and Southampton, 2►,4—'_North Devon, 2/. 6s. 3d.—Portbury Pier and Railway Company, * B —Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin, 2. EXETER, Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCUANGE.—The sales are—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester. p.—Exeter and Crediton, 54—North Devon, p.—Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth (paw's line), 4 , p. —Ditto (Head's), p.—Central Cornwall and Devon p. —Taw Vale Extension, p.—Bristol, New, 1016—Dart mouth, Torbay, and Exeter Junction, M p. SHEFFIELD, Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grimsby and Shef field, 17—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4—Sheffield and Lincoln and- liarro.a±e._ _ HULL, Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 2—Axhohne, 4 . 3 g —Derby and Gainsborough, Madelev, and Iron Bridge, 3%—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 3 1 / 2 —Grand Union, 2 3 / 4 - , —Great North and South Wales and Worcester, I—Great North of Scotland, 4 - A —Hull and Barnsley Junction, 58s. p.—Leices ter and Bedford, 2%—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 31. is. 6d.— Liverpool and Leeds, 4 1 / 2 —London and York, 5 1 4 3 —London aid Norwich Direct, 9s.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cam bridge, 9s. p.—North Western, 41A—North Staffordshire, 6 1 A —Rugby and Huntingdon, 2 1 4—South Midland, 6/. 9s. 6d. —Sheffield and Macclesfield, 2s. 6d. dis.—Shrewsbury, and Trent Union, 2—Tean and Dove Valley, 11. Bs.—Wakefield and Bradford, 41/2. LEEDS, Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, New, 13/. ls.—London and Brighton, 65—Manchester and Leeds (Fifths), 10%—Midland, 156—Ditto, New, 25—Hud dersfield and Manchester, 16—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 24;4—Leeds and Bradford, 49—Ditto, Extensions, 42 1 4 — Leeds and Thirsk, 16—Oxferd, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton, 18—Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 5 1 ,4—London and York, 514 —Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 3 4—Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 6 5 4—Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 3s. 6d. p.—Chelmsford and Bury, 2s Gd. p.—Clitheroe Junc tion, 4%—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 3%—Great Eastern and Western, 6s. p.—Leeds, York, and Midland, par —Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 275. 6d. p.—Leeds and York, 20s. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 31s. p.—Liverpool, Manches ter, and Newcastle Junction, 534—Manchester and Birming ham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2—North Stafford shire, 6% —North Western, 47/ B —South Midlands, % p.— South and Midland Junction, par—Wakefield and Brad ford, 1% p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 3 p.—Welsh Mid lands, 3%. _ YORK, Oar. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington. New (Brandling), 47—North British, New, 4 1 4 Ditto, Carlisles, 3%—York and North Midland Extension, 25—Axholme, s—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 2 1 A—Grand Union, 2%—Leicester and Bedford,2% —London and York, s—Newcastle and Berwick, 15—Welsh Midlands, Wt. - GLASGOW, Ocr. 29. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 4%-Aber deen, Banff, and Elgin, 505.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 855.- Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 2/. 155.-Caledonian, 10-Ditto, Extension, 3/. 155.-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 565. -Cornwall and Devon Central, 21. 188.-Dundee and Perth, 9-East Indian Railway, 605.-Edinburgb, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 275. 6d.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 30$. p.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 37 -Glasgow and Belfast Union, 705.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 70-Ditto,New, 23-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 585.-Glasgow and Greenock (Preference), 405.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ar drossan, 5%-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 625. 6d.-Lon don, Bristol, and South Wales, 445.-Perth and Inverness, 605.-Perth and Crieff, 625. 6d.-Sanquhar and Muirkirk Junction, 15s. p.-Scottish Central, 12- Scottish Southern, 585.-Scottish Western, 525.-Scottish South Midland Junc tion, 34-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 585.- South and Midland Junction, 2/. 25.-Stirling and Dunferm line, 655.-Strathern Junction, 603.-Surrey Grand Junc tion, 30s. DUBLIN, Om 28. SToca EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bandon and Bantry, .%—Cork and Youghal, 2M—Dublin and Kingstown, 200— Dublin, Dundrum, and Enniskillen, 2 1 4—The Midland Great Western and Railway Canal (Extension to Sligo), 2%—Kil larney Junctions, 2 3 j i —Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena, 296 — Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, I%—Waterford and Tra more, VA—Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 2%. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar rived at Berlin on the 23d inst., from New Strelitz. An extract of a letter from Rome, of the 18th inst., states that, at a congress of the Cardinals, under the presidency of Monseigneur Lanibruschini, Secretary of State, it has resolved that a new loan shall be raised to pay two more Swiss regiments, which proceeding would augment that foreign force to 10,000 men. The Swiss were to replace the native troops in all the chief towns of the Roman states. Earl de Grey has sold his valuable estate of Brace well, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, together with the advowson, &c., and comprising from 1,200 to 1,300 acres, to Mr. Robert Hop wood, jun., of Blackburn, Lord and Lady Portman arrived in town last even ing from Bryanstone. Her Ladyship resumes her duty as one of the Ladies in Waiting on her Majesty on Tuesday next. A Berne journal, Oct. 23, has the following from Lucerne :—" The Director of Police, M. Siegwart, published a few days since a confidential circular to the public functionaries, of which the following is the tenor:—' The examination into the affair of the murder of M. Leu proves that the most eminent men in the liberal party will be implicated, and that their arrest will speedily take place. But as it is to be feared that these arrests may cause some disturbances in the city everything should be .prepared for as sembling the Laudsturrn ; if the signal is given by a tire or by the tocsin, this levy, en masse, should hasten into the city. " PUBLIC NUlSANCES.—Yesterday a Court Leet was held at the Mitre, Broadwall, kept by Mr. Gamble, before Lethbridge, Esq., the steward of the manor, and the accustomed authorities. After the jury had been duly empannelled, they peram bulated the boundaries of the manor, and on their return, presented the boundary ditch, situate in the Boundary-row, Blackfriars-road, and Marlborough-street, New-cut, as being not only in a most deplo rable and unprotected state, the fence being wholly insufficient tor the proper prevention of accidents ; and the jury further presented, that the ditch referred to is one of a most disgusting and obnoxious character, and injurious to the health of the inhabitants, from the constant stench arising from the frequent deposit of putrid animals of all descriptions, and that they were unanimously of opi nion that it ott3lit immediately to be covered up to prevent con tnion. The jury also stated, that a place called 3larygold passage, in Upper Ground-street, formerly used as a plying place, and known as Marygold-stairs, from its disuse had become a nuisance, from its bciag resorted to by thieves and other profligate persons, and a petition had been presented to then, by several of the inhabitants to abate the nuisance. The steward stated the question of the removal of the abuse complained of rested with the police, and Mr. Meek, the foreman of the jury, undertook to forward the petition to the Commissioners of Police. The steward intimated the representations of the jury would receive attention, and, after the general minor business of the Court had been disposed of, it was dissOlTed. 1 longer, but would at once move that the thanks of the meeting be presented to George Hudson, Esq., M.P., their chairman .—(Cheers.) Mr. RUFF seconded the motion. The Shareholders ought to feel grateful for the readiness :wlth which' Mr. Mason had undertaken the arduousduty imposed upon him. Foor himself he could only say that he was highly gratified at the result. Mr. CROSBY put the resolution, which was carried amid enthusiastic cheering. A gentleman in the gallery rose to move an amendment, but was put down by the cries of " too late," &c., from an parts of the room. Mr. HUDSON then rose, amid renewed cheering, and said— Gentlemen, I am sorry that I am so unworthy of the kind expressions used towards me by Mr. Scott, and so feelingly responded to by the unanimous voice of the meet ing.—(Great cheering.) I can assure you that I am deeply sensible of the compliment you have paid me. It is quite true that when first re quested to act with this Company, I did hesitate, for I felt that I was about to undertake an important task; and I knew that my time was very limited already, that I was nearly ' overwhelmed with busi ness; but then. I felt, also, that I had no right, after the expression of your wishes delivered to me through Mr. Scott and his colleagues, to hesitate any longer. I felt that I had no right to consult my own ease, when the inter ests of so many persons were at stake, and when they thought that I could render them assistance.—(Cheers.) We may now flatter ourselves that we are going on smootly, but it is necessary that we all exert ourselves in carrying out this great measure ; and if we are successful, as we ought to be, for by this time the delirium that was at first felt by some of the Legislature is nearly exploded, and I have no doubt that we shall re ceive full justice from that portion of the Legislature, which induced a certain Noble Lord to say, " Thank God that we have a House of Peers."—(Laughter.) I say I have no doubt that we shall carry our Bill, and that by the House of Lords the London and York will be rejected.—(Cheers.) It has been said by some Hon. Members, and the principle has in a few cases been acted upon, that it is no matter whether a line of railway pays its promoters or not, if it is required by the district which it is intended to benefit. I say that this is a fallacy ; there can exist no doubt that it would be a great national evil to have a line existing which would not benefit its shareholders. I have already said that there was no fixed principle to guide the Parliamen tary Committees .in the last session, so that this opinion was acted on in some cases, but we are progressing I hope towards improvement.—(Cheers.) But if they still act on the same principle, then I say let them give us our Bill, and will soon make it a productive one.—(Great cheering.) I again thank you, and I hope that we may meet again with the same feelings of unani mity, and it shall be my study, as it is my duty, on all occasions to look after your interests, as by so doing I am also forwarding the public good. Mr. Hudson sat down amid loud cheering. The meeting then separated. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, NEWBURY, AND BATH DIRECT (KENNET AND AVON COMPANY). SWINDON, TuasDAY.—A meeting of the proprietors of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company and projected London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway, took place this afternoon, at the Queen's Hotel, Swindon station of the Great Western Railway, pursuant to requisition, for the purpose of receiving, considering, and deter mining the course to be taken with regard to a report intended to be laid before them as to the propriety of adopting the suggestion of Mr. Walker, the engineer, to construct the proposed London, Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway, so . as to maintain the naviga tion, and to take such. steps with regard to the present position of the undertaking as should seem desirable. T. R. WARD, Esq., in the absence of Admiral Dundas, the Chairman of the Company, was called onto preside. He said the subject they had met t• consider was one of the greatest interest to the western counties, and he sincerely regretted the absence of their excellent Chairman, Admiral Dundas, who was compelled to leave England for the Continent, owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Dundas. The purposes for which they had assembled were 'to consider the report of a committee on the suggestion of Mr. Walker, the engineer, with reference to the construction of the London. Newbury, and Bath Direct Railway, and at the same time to preserve the navigation of the Kennet and Avon Canal. As the report contained the principal topics which would have to be discussed, it would be unnecessary for him to offer any comments upon the subject. Mr. MERRIMAN then read the following report : " The Select Sub-Committee appointed by the Committee of Ma nagement of the affairs and business of the Company of Proprie tors of the Kennet and Avon Canal Navigation, at the meeting at Marlborough, on the 15th of July last, beg to report to the pro. proprietors at large— " That since the special meeting of the proprietors, which was held at Reading, on the 9.6 th of August last, your Committee have been making arrangements to apply to Parliament in the en. suing session for powers to carry into effect the instructions of that meeting. With this view, the Committee have offered to the pro prietors of shares in the Kennet and Avon Canal two new shares of 154 each in respect of every old share, and the Committee have the gratification of stating that this option has in almost all cases been accepted. Your Committee have also by the issue of such shares as were declined by the proprietary, and by means of the small number which remained at the disposal of your Committee, after allowing two shares for each one old Kennet and Avon share, raised a capital sufficient for the purposes contemplated. ' " Your Committee beg further to report that Mr. James Walker, the consulting engineer of the Company, has made a report, in which he recommends that the line et the canal should not be de- COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert took their customary early morning walk in the plea:ure grounds and the Home Park. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, followed by a puny landau and four, in which were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess of Claren don, and the Countess Delawarr. Another carriage and four contaiced Lady Mary Sackville West. Lady Caroline Murray, and the Maids of Honour. The Hon. Colonel Grey and Colonel Bouverie, the Equerries in Waiting, attended on horse back. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester rode out in a garden chair through the grounds of the Home Park, ac companied by Prince Albert, walking. The Royal Family were all taken their usual morning airings, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken a drive in a pony phaeton in the afternoon. , The Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, and Sir Robert and Lady Peel, took their departure from the Castle to-day. The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Colonel Sir George Ceuper, Mr. George E. Anson, and Major-General Weinyss. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance dur ing dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the Castle. Mr. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their residence in Whitehall-gardens yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. Dispatches for the Governor of the Mauritius were sent off' yesterday evening f om the Colonial-office. Dispatches from the Gov,rnors of New South Wales and New Zealand were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 501., for three yrs old and upwards. A.F. SirJ. Hawley's Alamode, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (lllarden) 1 Mr. Wigram's Kesheng, 3 yrs, Est 91b (carried 6st 111 b)... 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. G. Ongley's Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Mr. W. S. Standish's Little Hampton, 4 yrs, Bst—Colonel Peel's I-am not-aware, aged, 7st 101b—Mr. utcliffe's Alice (h b), 4 yrs, ist 31b—Mr. John King's Sister to John o'Gaunt, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Count Bathyany's Pergularia, • 4 yrs, 7st—Lord G. Bentinck's Longitude, 3 yrs, Est 91h—Mr. Clifton's Little John, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Lord Exeter's Jet, 3 yrs, sst 71b. Betting-5 to 2 agst Little Hampton, 13 to 2 agst I-am not. aware, 7 to 1 agst Kesheng (taken), 7 to I agst Longitude, 8 to 1 agst Little John (taken), 8 to 1 agst Pergularia.—Jet made play at a steady pace, followed by the Rockingham filly, I-am-not-aware, Alamode, Queen of the Gipsies, Little Hampton, with several others lying up. The front rank underwent but little change until the top of the hill ; here Jet and the Rockingham filly gave way, and Little Hampton took up the running, Alamode waiting on him; at the cords the latter went up, headed Little Hampton in a few strides, and won cleverly by a length; Queen of the Gipsies a good third, and Little Hampton fourth. Match, 100, h ft. T. Y. C.—Mr. Payne's Collingwood, Bst 71b (Nat), beat Lord G. Bentinck's Astern, 7st 101 b (W. Abdale).-11 to 10 on Collingwood. Won by a length. Subscription Plate of 501.; for two yrs old, Est 71b ; three, Bst 101 b. T.Y.C. Mr. Shelley's Blackbird, 2 yrs (J. Prince) 1 Lord G. Bentinck's Terrier, 2 yrs Mr. Clifton's Miss Love, 2 yrs .. .. ... 3 The following were not placed :—Mr. Coape's Energy, 3 yrs—Count Bathyany's Master Stepney, 3 yrs—Lord Albemarle's Nell Cook, 2 yrs—and Mr. Beresford's Miranda, 2 yrs. Betting-10 to 6 agst Miranda, 5 to 2 agst Terrier, 4 to 1 agst Blackbird, and 6 - to 1 agst Miss Love.—Blackbird and Terrier jumped off together, and ran almost head and head to the ropes, where Blackbird obtained a decided had, im proved it, and won by a length; Nell Cook a bad third. The winner was claimed. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; for three yrs old, 7st 71b ; four, Bst 21b ; five and upwards, Bst 71b. The winner to be sold for 150 sovs., if demanded, &c. T.Y.C. (9 Subs.) Mr. Phillimore's Skeleton, 4 yrs (Sly) 1 Lord Miltown's Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs 2 Mr. Howe's Khorassan, 5 yrs ... • 3 Mr. E. Dyson's Devil-to-P, 4 yrs The following were not paced:—Sir C. Monck's My Old Hack, aged—Lord Exeter's Dr. Hill, 4 yrs—Mr. Ford's The Attorney, 3 yrs—Mr. Langridge's Jessie Hammond, 3 yrs. Betting-6 to 4 agst Khorassan, sto 2 agst Skeleton, and 6 to 1 agst any other.—Khorassan went off with a slight lead, attended by Devil-to-Pay and The Attorney, Colleen Bawn next, and in the rear (over -paced) Skeleton. The Attorney failed at the new ground, and Colleen Bawn moving to the front, carried the running on to the ropes; here Skeleton caught the leading horses, ran with them half-way up, and won cleverly by a length. The Devil-to-Pay and Khorassan were well up at the finish. Match, 300, h ft. Cambridgeshire Course—Lord Strad broke's Ides, Bst 61b (Nat), beat Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland, Bst (H. Bell). Betting-3 to lon Idas. Won cleverly by three parts of a length. Match, 150,h ft. T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Prologue, 7st 81b, received forfeit from Mr. Carr's The Altered One, Bst 51b. The weather was again favourable, and the attendance fashionable, but not so numerous as on Tuesday. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, who is on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, was present, and took great interest in the sport. The following brood mares and foals, the property of Mr. Webber, were sold this morning : Aquatic, covered by Erymus 34 Guineas Manacle, covered by Sir Francis 5l ~ Red Tape, covered by Erymus 7O ~ Bay colt foal, by Euclid, out of Red Tape 7l Che c foal, by Redshank, out of Patronymic 4O ~ Che f foal, by The Colonel, out of Ruse Chas f foal, by Euclid, out of Parade 42 „ TIIE DERBY. • 700 to 100 agt S. E. Russel's Sting—tak. and aft. offered. No other betting 4 Acceptances for the Nursery Stakes of 25 sovs. each, for two yrs old, &c. : Polka, Bst 61b The Free Lance, Bst 31b „Vui tire. Rst JA__ Chamois, Bst Green-pea, Bst Tugnet, Bst Dexterous, 7st 121 b Curiosity, 7st 101 b Benevolence, 7st 91b Collingwood, 7st 91b NEW MATCHES. Tell, 7st 91b Regalia, ist 91b Morocco- Tat Sib Mecca colt, 7st 61b Cerberus, ist 21b Gusman, 7st 21b Sis. to Fickle Wild Rose, 7st F. by Retriever, out of Emilia, 6st 121 b. THURSDAY.—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9st 71b, against Mr. G. H. Moore's Wolf-dog, 7st 71b. A.F. 200, h ft. FLIDAY.—Duke of Bedford's Prologue, Bst 71b, against Mr. Meiklam's Grimston, Gst 71b. A.F. 100, h Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, Bst 71b, against Lord Glas gow's Miss Whip filly, 7st 71b. T.Y.C. 50. Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst, against Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 7st 101 b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. SATURDAY.—Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst 51b, agst Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, Bst. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Lord Exeter's c, by Colwick, out of Mecca, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's f, by Retriever, out of Emilia, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Either horse running in the Nursery Stakes allowed 3lbs. (RECEIVED NEWMAI THIS DAY.) ,KET, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. NURSERY STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Tugnet 10 to 1 agst Curiosity 10 to 1 agst Guzman 10 to 1 agst Cerberus 12 to 1 agst Morocco (t) DERBY. 7to 1 agst Sting 130 to 1 apt lago to 1 agst Brocardo 40 to 1 agst Humdrum (t) 25 to 1 agst Spithead 50 to 1 agst Smuggler Bill (t ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. BETIING ON THE 10 to 40 the field agst two (t) 6to 1 agst Collingwood (t) 6to 1 agst Green Pea 7to 1 agst Tell 10 to 1 agst Fugitive Glasgow Stakes.—The following scratched :—Borghese, Shelford, Spanish Jack, Ignis Fatuus, Mount Pleasant, Ox berry, Spur, Cambaule's Cara colt, Thorum-pogue, c out of Martingale's dam, Sombrero, Wooden Wall, and Retriever colt. Handicap Plate of 501., D.l.—Alice Hawthorn, aged, Bst 121b—Naworth, aged, Est 91b—Baron, 3 yrs, Bst 21b—Sub duer, 5 yrs, Est 121b—Little Hampton, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Col leen Bawn, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Milden, 3 yrs, sst 41b. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for two and three yrs old; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs.—Filly by Elis, out of Te sane, 2 yrs—c by Bently, out of Emma, 3 yrs—Sally Brown, 3 yrs—Deer Chase, 2 yrs—Lady Anna, 3 yrs—Killykrankie, 2 yrs—c by Montreal, dam by Wrangler, 2 yrs—Foremast, 3 yrs—Sharpshooter, 2 yrs—Ohio, 2 yrs—Chandelier, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; the winner to be sold for 250 sow. A.F.—Alamode, 4yrs—Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs—Wel beck, 4 yrs—Espoir, 4 yrs—Beaumont, 4 yrs—Metal, 3 yrs— Croton Oil, 4 yrs—Scarlet Runner, 3 yrs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each. D.M.—Terrier, Bst 101b—Tit-bit, Bst 71b—Miranda, Bst lib—Chandelier, 7st 131b—Alexa, Bst 71b—Flash of Lightning, 7st 81b—Dex terous (h b), Bst 101b—Pet colt, Bst 31b. Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each ; for two yrs old colts, 3st 71b ; the winner to be sold for 40 soya. Last half of Ab. M.— Anna Bullen—Aster c, by Camel, dam by Exile—Science. ENTRIES FOR THE AUDLEY-END STAKES.—FRIDAY. Sorella, 4 yrs—Wolf-dog, 3 yrs—Alice Hawthorn, aged— Yardley, 5 yrs--Trueboy, 5 yrs—Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs—Jet, 3 yrs—Alarm, 3 yrs NEW MATCHES. FRlDAY.—Leopard, Bst 101 b, against the Amaryllis filly, Bst.-50, h ft. A.F. SarannAy.--Stoker, 7st 101 b, against Jessie Hammond, 7st. T.Y.C.-50, h ft. Paultons, Bst 81b, against Due an Durras, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. —lOO, h it. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Extract of a letter received airo s jdciToin Monte Video : " Bearings of a rock, not visible, but seen breaking at in tervals only, by her Majesty's ship Comus, in August, 1845 on which the French brig Sophie and British brig Jonathan were wrecked, marked in the Admiralty chart, as seen by her Majesty's ship Ranger, in 1827, in lat. 34 30 S., lon. 53 3 W., bears N.N.E. from the Great Castillos Rock five miles off the shore. Mark—To avoid it is by keeping the Great Castillos Rock, which appears like a ship under sail, open to the eastward of the smaller and southernmost one. " EXTENSIVE SALE OF PRINCE ALBERT'S LIVE Sxocs.—WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The annual sale of Prince Albert's live stock, fatted upon the Norfolk and Flemish farms, in the occu pation of his Royal Highness, and Windsor Home Park, took place yesterday afternoon at Norfolk Farm, where a good substantial luncheon was provided, by command of the Prince, for those who attended the sale, which was superintended by Mr. Tebbot, if Wind sor. From the deservedly high character of the Prince's stock, the whole of which (comprising Southdown ewes, short-horned heifers, Shetland and Highland oxen, fat hogs, fke.) were in beautiful condition, upwards of one hundred and fifty of the neigh bouring graziers and butchers, and several from London, attended the sale. The average prices at which the respective lots (of which there were upwards of 100) were knocked down, were as follow :- 133 Southdown ewes, from 355. to 375. each; 16 superior ewes, 475. per head ; 31 splendid six-tooth wethers, 495. per head ; 36 excel lent two-tooth wethers, 435. per bead ; 63 superior two-tooth maiden ewes, 425. per head; 100 prime wether sheep, 395. per bead; and four Southdown rams realised 365. each. Forty tat short-honied heifers brought from 91. to 241. per head; 14 small fat Shetland oxen were knocked down at from 101. to 131. per head ; and the average of 10/. per head was obtained for 10 pairs of Highland oxen. The pro ceeds of the sale amounted to upwards of 1,6501. At the Prince Consort's annual sale last year the stock realised 1,4061. odd. EAST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 29. The Oriental Company's steam-ship Great Liverpool, Captain M'Leod, arrived at the Motherbank at 1(1 A.M. this day, with East India and China mails, which were landed at t 2 o'clock, and im. mediately forwarded to London by a special train. She left Alexandria on the 13th instant, Malta the ISth, and Gibraltar the 2401. She has a full cargo and 50 passengers, who ate ex. petted to be released front quarantine on Friday. Several men. of-war belonging to his Highness Mehemet Ali were lying at Alexandria. Her Majesty's brig Fantotne and the American frigate Plymouth were at Malta. FLEET..STREET.--The thoroughfare of Fleet- street and Temple-bar will be opened about WeLluo,day next, after being closed for a period of nearly Ave weeks. ENGLAND AND AMERICA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Pray publish in your influential journal a communi cation you will see in the Times of this• day, dated Paris, October 24, and signed by a " States"- m an, - headed " Eng land and America." The Times in London. and the New York Herald in New York, are doing everything in their power to create a hostile spirit between the English and Americans, and they are succeeding much better than every true Christian and well-wisher to both countries can desire. The most perfect harmony and brotherly love ought to exist between these two kindred nations ; but I am grieved to say that the breachbctween them is widening every month, principally owing to the unprincipled, and unscrupulous, and. mendacious writings of the New York Herald and the Lon don Times. Who knows that these two worthies are not in league with one aeother? When Bennet, the Scotch rene gade, the contemptible editor of the New :York Herald, was in London some time ago, he was very intimate with the editors and proprietors of the Times; and I see the most fre quent quotations in the Times from the New York Herald, whilst the respectable and well-conducted Ameri can papers, such as the Boston Daily Advertiser, the New York Commercial, the Philadelphia United States Ga zette, or Philadelphia North - American, or the Baltimore Patriot, or the Washington National Inielligencer, ate en tirely neglected, and never referred to or quoted from. As well look for the genuine and respectable public opinion of the United States in the New York Herald, as search for the respectable public opinion of England in the London Age and London Satirist. I hope, Mr. Editor, you will publish the Paris article I refer to, because it shows, in a temperate and enlightened manner, the evils and inconveniences likely fo arise between England and America principally owing to tl.e unwise and unpatriotic writings of a portion of the press on both sides of the Atlantic. Most sincerely do I hope the most amicable relations may always exist 'between our two countries, and that the only strife shall be, which shall be foremost in promoting the blessings of peace and the art& most calculated to civilise and benefit mankind. Your constant reader,A'. City, October 28, 1845. AMERICAN. EDITOR TOTHEOF THE TIMES. Sir,—ln order that you may not refuse to insert in s . our columns the following remark, whose purport is peace, on an article in your number of the 22d inst., wh6h has just met my eye, I will make them as short as posrible. I might send them to another journal, and through the hands of a distin guished man, whose name alone would procure them pub licity, but I prefer to address them directly to you, and trust to your magnanimity. It is a matter of observation among the English that the inhabitants of the United States "hate them'," and wouht, on the slightest provocation, or with no provccation at a ll, be glad to rush into a senseless war. This is not true, but it is so generally believed by them, that a very short time since I was requested to write a letter, demonstrating the contrary, to be put into the hands of one of the leading men in your country. We do not hate you, but all the actual wrongs you could heap upon us would hardly stir up such bitter blood as the venomous outpourings of the Quarterly Reeiew and other periodicals have done. Don't misunderstand me; we are, I allow, a tbin-skinned. —a very thin-skinned people. Raison de plus that our friends—those who desire our welfare—who prefer, through interest or affection, our love to our hate—should, in setting forth our faults, do it with as much regard to our weakness as possible. And who, let me ask, should those be who should be our friends and well-wishers if not the English, the ancestors of nine-tenths of us, but who, I am sorry to say, have in instances neither few nor far between, as if in the mere wantonness of sport, rode roughshod over our most tender susceptibilities? lam not, however, going to appeal to your compassion. I would rather address the interests than the passions, the reason than the feelings, in demanding, if it can be believed, that, unless provoked by insulting words (and after all it is words oftener than deeds which are the cause of bloodshed), we would prefer . . to meet in deadly strife those of our omit kith and kin, or others who in language, blood, and reli- gion, are aliens to us and ours? Then, why should you try to irritate us by your sneers, and be never weary of drawing conclusions to our disadvantage from facts not well established, but assumed on the authority of a newspap. r notorious even in Europe for being the most infamous in America? We have sins enough to answer for; why seek for more than belong to us in the New York Herald? The Herald is, I admit, conducted with great industry and some talent, but it is not a source to which you should look for facts, much less public opinion, unless supported by good concurrent testimony. It is a journal, although the London. papers are so fond of quoting from it, that, like son's scurrilous and unprincipled prints with you, is refused ad mittance into many respectable families, and left unread by many persons who refuse to gratify curiosity at the expense of truth and honesty. Its editor, moreover, is not an Ame rican, but a Scot—a radical, grasping, foulmouthed Scot-- , the same that O'Connell, on a public occasion, turned his back towards, abused, and almost spit upon, to the thorough and well-merited mortification of the thick -skinned slanderer and reckless betrayer of a country's interests where he earns his bread in so loathsome and disreputable a manner. Then in dealing forth your wholesome denunciations, it should be borne in mind that the press with us is not a fair criterion whereby to judge of the sentiments of the better part of the community, not even of the mass, as it is in. Eng land and France, where editors are, for the most mat, men of education and some degree of refinement, instead of being, as they are too often in America, b ro k en d own lawyeia, physicians,' and politicians; in some instances beggarly self seeking foreigners, who would cater to the father of lies hint. self so that by so doing they could fill their pockets or a place. Should you not rather seek for good than for evil in those of your own blood, and have you not much more to lose than to gain by exciting our evil passions, and by keeping us jut at that point of irritation where you yourselves ought to be answerable for any mad act on our part which should even. tuate in war? lam a man of peace, as is becoming in one whose hair is long since gray, and I cannot but think th the responsibility of those who strive to set brethren at strife is awful in the extreme. Besides, do you not see that by unmeasured censure yon defeat your own object, whether that object be the benevolent one of correcting our errors—the errors of a young and san guine people of Saxon blood —or, whether it be to mortify and lower us in our own esteem ? Even a boy, if he have any spirit, revolts at excess of punishment, and goes on sinning, and instead of bowing beneath the rebuke administered in charity, will harden himself into the conviction that wrong is right. "Do not think I flatter" when I saw, what you well know,, that a oingle vrord from an Englisli journal carries more weight with us than a thousand directed by—l was going to say—a foreign hand, so habituated are we to regard you as of the same family with ourselves. But Ido say, if per chance my poor persuasion can induce you or others to pat less gall into your anathemas against my country, if not for our sakes and our children's sake, then for the sake of human happiness and civilisation, endeavour to preserve that peace which God loves and man should not despise. Tell us, if you will, all our faults, though their na me b e l egion, but do not paint them so that in their disguise our wounded vanity deny their reality, and the perverseness of human nature re fuse to rectify them.—Yours, very respectfully, Paris, Oct. 24. A « STATES"-BIAN. - The Duchess of Sutherland, and the Ladies Leve son Gower, after making a brief stay at Trentham, will join the Noble Dake and the Marquis of Stafford at Dunrobin Castle, frost whence they proceed, in company with the latter, to Bosencath, 011 a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lern. His Grace the Duke of Cleveland has given 101. for the forthcoming dinner in aid of the funds of the Metropo litan Benefit Societies' Asylum, and his Grace has consented to hem come vice-patron. AN HOTEL OUT OF JOINT.--A gentleman who had been stopping at an hotel within a hundred miles of Birkenhead, where, during the ten days of his sojourn, the invariable reply to " John, what can I have for dinner ?" was "very nice chops and steaks, sir," at length sent for his landlord, and quietly told him that " his was the stiffest hotel he had ever stopped at." " Indeed, sir 1 the stiffest, sir—how so,:sir ?" " Why, I have been here for ten days, aid can bear witness that there's never a joint in it." The landlord vs nished.—Liverpool Courier. - - - -- • ADMISSION or INDIAN CORN—The Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce, Liverpool, has received a latter from Lord Sandon, expressing his Lordship's approval of the Vakano rial to the Privy Council in favour of admitting Indian cons. Mls Lordship thinks that such a course on the part of our Govisznment would greatly strengthen in America the bands of those wlio &Ivo cate the relaxation of the tariff. A SCHOOL FOR MAG;STRATES.—Mr. Hardwick, of Marlborough-street, has been the first magistrate with sufficient jki tice and moral courage on his side to commit " a gentleman" to tbo House of Correction, for a brutal assault on a policeman and others , — very much, as it appeared, to the astonishment of the aforesaid gen tleman, whom we can now fancy seated on the same ground with vulgar, penniless misdemeanour, manipulating his oakum, hardly ot reconciled to the fact that the force of money has, for once, tailed him. We understand that Sir James Graham intends to institute an evening school for magistrates, that they may be the better in structed. Mr. Hardwick will be appointed schoolmaster. It is to be hoped that Twyford, Greenwood, and other old boys we could name, will attend regularly, and profit by the lessons of their mu tier. —Punch. ..... DEATH ACCELERATED BY FOUL AlR.—Last niEbt Mr. lledferd held an adjourned inquest at the King's Head, Crown street, Soho, on the body of Daniel Harrington, aged fifty-four, mason's labourer, who inhabited one of the miserable cellars in :Fel conbridge-court, Crown-street. It appeared front the evidence that about a week since the deceased fell down a flight of stairs in a state of intoxication, and was confined to his bed. He never rallied, and died rather suddenly on Sunday morning last, Dr. Henry said, from disease of the lungs, no doubt consequent upon the mephitic tames. phere. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. EXTRAORDINARY CAB ACClDENT.—Yesterday, be• tween one and two o'clock, James Forbes, six years of age, residing in Great Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, was playing with another boy in High HOlborn, fronting the cab-stand. Forbes, to get away from his companion, attempted to run ander the stomach of a cab horse on the stand, in doing which his foot slipped, and he fell against the legs of the horse. The animal became alarmed, and kicked and plunged violently, and trampled in a dreadful manner on the chest and stomach of the unfortunate lad. Several cabmen and others ran to his assistance, and dragged him from under the horse. He was immediately conveyed to Mr. l'owell, a surgeon, in High Holborn. who found the breast bone and several ribs fracture& The boy was removed to King's College Hospital, where he lies in a precarious state. BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES.—Yesterday the bah-yearly general meeting of the above society took place at the London Tavern, for the purpose of balloting for pensioners, to re ceive the report of the directors, and for the dispatch of general business. Joseph Beioley, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents, was unanimously called to the chair. From a list of candidates, consist ing of four males and four females, the eldest of whom was seventy seven, and the youngest sixty-seven years of age, one was selected. The report, which was unanimously approved and adopted, showed that the affairs of the society had considerably improved during the past year, and the general business having been gone through, thanks were awarded to the chairman and other officers, and the meeting broke up. PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES.—The large number of Parliamentary notices requiring to be.posted up on the church doors throughout the county, is giving profitable employment to several gentlemen. Such an array of documents and preparation in attach ing them to the doors of the village church on the Sabbath is creating quite a sensation among sonic of our rural population, whose retired localities have seldom been invaded by those professionals.—Apr Observer. SOUTH WARWICKSHIRE ELECTION.—We are now enabled to announce that the writ for the election of a repre sentative, as successor of the late lamented Sir John Nor ' daunt, arrived at the office of the Sheriff yesterday after noon. Of course, therefore, the usual proclamation will be •• • - . made, and the nomination of a candidate or candidates will follow in a few days. Up to the present hour there is not a whisper of any other candidate than Lord Brooke, and we confidently expect that not the slightest attempt will be made to oppose that justly respected young nobleman, who will consequently be returned without the least symptom of public excitement. Ilis'Lordsbip has not yet returned.from his foreign excursion.— if Advertiser of Saturday. ACCIDENT IN A COAL-PIT.—On Thursday last, a young lady, who with a party of friends had been down the shaft, visiting the coal mmes of the Duke of Buccleuch, was caught by one of the chains, while in the act of ascending the pit, by which several bones of one of her arms were broken, she narrowly escaping with her life. Dr. Jefferi&s, having reduced the fractured bones, the lady was enabled to proceed to Edinburgh that night.—Caledonian Mercury, The plan of attaching a " lady's carriage " to every train bas been adopted on the London and Brighton Railway, as it is, we believe, on most others. We would suggest that a " smokers' carriage" should likewise be pro vided, for it is impossible to prevent the practice, and it. would be better to give way a little to it, than to have the majority of passengers, as at present, subjected to annoyanck and danger by those who choose to indulge their love 0,!, smoking, in spite of all risks: and that the number is Lot few, anybody who travels by the railway must kucor Brighton Bird& Off. 30 1 ,4 S iss. ...0 ;p , , 94 5 ~ 5 15 5 ,-- 54 0-!z; d 0 J #~ `'s I