The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

OVS' lull• Price 9 1 i n tl but th previl re obe kcco uct. to 4P. ree -81 '" . 0 Tyree reporte d yen 561 ; to ii i aifSve;r Le scrip rßief;Logi'Gs 1. ' 2054 96% 97. v 9734 9,1 0 13-1, 11 11 1-1° 107 1 4 97 a. 41 29 a t . 3 ,. / 9 81 ~,,i0 , s s s. tolc 14 b 124 5 8q 794 11 156 i1l 25 41 1 5 % 1 4 1 4 21 X 1423 3 11 5 29; 0' ) ; 7 5 a b ) ty 1 0 lik COURT CIRCULAR. YvlNDson, TUESDAY.—The Queen walked for some time " 13 morning in the leasure-ounds around the Castle. Prince Albert, the p gr Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Ilardwicke, Caihtain the Hon. Nelson Hood, and Colonel Bouverie, left the Caste at ten o'clock on a shooting excursion. The royal party returned about two o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester took an ai ring in a pony landau and four, accompanied by the Duch ess of Bedford. The Royal Family we re a ll taken for their usual exercise this forenoon. ler Mejeaty rode oat in a pony phaeton, his Royal landau and d four, in which were the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess Delawarr, and Lady Peel. A second pony landau contained Lady Caroline Murray and the Honourable Misses Stanley and Dawson. The Earl of Hardwicke, the licliourable Colonel Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, attended the royalYal Party on horseback. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the D uchess o f Gloucester this afternoon at the Castle. Whey left Castle The Earl y and eatl Countess of the Clarendon to-da are y. expected this evening on a visit to her Majesty. 1, The royal di nner c i rc l e this evening will include her Maria Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Colonel Sir George Fee the Very Rev. the Dean of Chester, the Rev. deri c k and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in at tendance during dinner. caster. Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the „ Frederi c k D. D anve rs had an interview with the 91a ncellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi cewe in Downing -street. t Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada, and also 2° ll l the Governor of the other North American provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. HAYMARKET THEATRE. farce on a song (and a very excellent farce it is, l'uninded on a very beautiful song) was produced here t evening , entitled, Who's the Composer ? The h er 'e • • laid in one of the petty dukedoms of Italy, and l e principal characters are the prosy, fussy, old th: 4 l, ll 's di Pompolo (Mr. Tilbury), Minister of rand Duke ; the Marquis's daughter Doro ea `I (Miss Fortescue), who is affianced to Count k leS° ( Mr. H. Holl). Cafarini (Buckstone), 4 4111 , pedantic Buckstony sort of musical composer. ° i 8 in love with the lively, chattering, soubrette i k l ti h n a (Mis s J ulia 2' , "ed at, but who is devotedly attached to his pupil. C u , lively, vivacious, mercurial Filippo (Mr. 4 - : 8°11 ), who sings the song, "Love's sere d On which the whole plot turns most • ghtfully This said serenade, originally written Y I ri i esco, and intended for Dorothea, has been sto leor."Y the Marquis, who has the audacity to make to to the Grand Duchess, being by him entrusted lit„, a rarini to compose, and afterwards actually ad bkiCd, to the Grand Duchess herself. The Grand Ilene is outrageous. Who is the composer ? res t c ommences the imbroglio. Count Fiesco is ar ia r --Filippo is denounccd—Cafarini's handwriting ori.,?eopised in the score—and Cafarini produces the Pol7f nal serenade in the handwriting of the Marquis. s ze ' I I/lately the Grand Duke knows nothing of all this, betlib :t the arrest of Fiesco, whom he orders to be set at and as the tag of the farce runs, if all have 11 0 : a mused, it matters not who is the composer. As, w e f el Tr, the seren ade is a very beautiful composition, Do s i h eei bound in justice to state, even at the risk of ex the ;:g him to the displeasure of the Grand Duke, that oer "IPoser is Mr. T. German Reed. The farce was well acte d . H u d son was p e rf e ctly effervescent as fult i/313° . He was in excellent voi.e, and sung delight- N4and his manner of conducting the concert in the nuke's gardens, in the last act, was worthy of and en himself. Buckstone was very quaint as Cafarini, Th e t he other characters were admirably supported. the ' vi se en scene was perfect, and, if we mistake not, bi t i t l i t i‘stion Who's the Composer, ? will be aske t at the , Haymarket for many weeks to come.d every Gil t The AT CITY IMPROVEMENTS. to t ,: following report, which was presented at the last the v i O f Common Council by Mr. Harrison, the Chairman of all l a nce Committee, is considered as a strong additional , lf, . Y the citizens that the Corporation are determined to N . l i their power to promote public improvements in the 1 04 1 ,, The report was agreed to unanimously, and sent back 41Z `Joinruitt ee t , be carried into execution. a the Right H on . the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corn moes of the City of London, in Common Council 1 / 4 Iv assembled. I ht e e, Whose n ames are hereunto subscribed , do c ertif y that Nt. °t ut having agreed to our recommen dation on the 25th I,k; obtained in a report then presented by U 3 u p on t h e snb ,k4Ll?,,f applying a sum of 20,000 1 . annua ll y towards e ffecting ek, Purposes and improvements within the Cit y , and , ~ it ar araberlain having prepared and laid before us the 1 i , 0 4.,, quarterly statements of the a ctual and probable ` 4r " and expenditure and surplus of the City cash for , 1 1 4 8 t and the current quarters ending sth of Jan. 1846, h tl /0/`„I said Statements showing an actual balance at this a ft T,`,. 1 , 3,5 00/., and a probable surplus by the sth of Jan. liiii,'` 19 ,479 i , we thought proper to direct at once the „ ct ,derj r , 4ti °a of the sum of 13,5001. above referred to, by ;' th o - 'l4' the Chamberlain to place the sums to the account ~- .4t h..0 - i ‘f and created by the resolution of the Court of the 1 ,41 0 - ,.., the same to be considered as an account of the ,"Ilt L 2 0,000/ payable to that fund in respect of the cur rsargr, ending on the 25th September, 1846, at the dis ; c't th e Court or such Committee as may be empowered loPond o r apply the same; that we therefore proceeded 01 col isider whether it was desirable to make any suggestion kii,„ . 11 ancial character to the C ourt, p reviousl y to the I fl ._' s ` loo of the time within which noti ces should be g iven kicl - "' of application to Parliament in the ensuing session; 11 1 , el occurring to your Committee that the Corporation ,kt l i b een for some time past in a position to borrow money oili t ! . Per cent. per annum, and contemplating the possi kee,...9f such a state of things lasting, or at any rate again kibiL,lng, our attention was directed, while considering the Mi' r ! - ,generally, to the moneys charged by Parliament upon 444g:te-dh"Be estates,for the purpos. a of rebuilding London ttt.nded 1, . i - e l rlair ing Blackfriars-bridge ; and having been t i n f ornie I Ir. Scott, principal elerk to the Chamberlain, v 4 the of s ue l a e s at that the original charge upon the surplus 1 82 e c "s° l id tge to 830 inataetdes was the sum of 431,0001., advanced out fund, in various sums, during the years tiak i l 't were imo elasive, and in respect of which the Govern , teat, rea a isa t r the rate of 4/. per cent. interest ; that the 1 0 .1 with rentsthe had been subsequently charged by Parlia -41., and sanction of . the Court, with a further . sum Z i w d at at 4-i pe . ~ . -bridge, part of which was „ 4 L e above -in eth io l ned, th 4„ temains unnarß7l37kfilars r cent and of which there m of a s k o4 , oo 7 . gether with the a loo toal 18. aat your 1 : 5 ° 1 1sly of Committee, considering that it would be ob the Igreat advantage to the Corporation, as trustees lio tar said estate, to effect the reduction of interest upon ilo t he a sum o f money, and as the Corporation by tr ee , reduction would be placed in a position to p ahi l• further charges up on t h ose estatesfor other ithi e ) ., objects, if thought desirable, and deeming it to be 1 1 1 4a .', our province, as a Finance Committee , to suggest any 10,',.°Y which the funds under the cont I fth Court k ena ,:: to be in any way economised or improv i ed u b . e t a t ve to t fivel liell d that it should be referred to a Committee +l4 lO ‘4e necessary notices previously to the meetinglofele'aro kqetat, in order that powers may be obtained under the 1 4 1 3 ,4:° , 11 of Government for reducing the interest upon, or Nt, tt ,„: , Off, the said moneys so charged in the Bridge-house 4 011 Q so that the Court may be empowered to effect the t tlg ei . lan suggested, should the value of money at any time atioll a step practicable. " Edward Harrison. Wm. Lister. R. N. Pead, Jas. Anderton. Thos. Challis. Samuel Wilson. Thomas Watkins. Thos. Hall. Wm. Hunter. Thos. Lott. S. Poland. J. C. Prior. James Lake. Thomas Tagg." T ti E GRAND SURREY CANAL A COMPANY. . p a ng general meeting of the Propn es e , tors of this Cora 2, White Lion. r , w as held rsterday, at their offic a ' a ; ruhill, tosaintion the sale of the canal, docks, .44Jr.lit,t`wa,- company, the name of which did not transpire l e ti le Progress of the business. -41,e,„--r&ek Heish, Esq., the Chairman of the Board of Direc- Th.-resided on the occasion. t 4 l. ltk r e tt liee - ti ng was opened by the usual formalities; and, ng 4 14 e Secretary had read the advertisement convening T h .eetin g . , it !' Thee ttA inNrA x called on him to read the following report :- 1,1' g % (14,, /re rY important question which the Proprietors are '.',.ert.i.',,Pecially convened to consider being stated in the ,Irea-Inent that has been just read, your Committee would trAatC'r°efore entering into details, their earnest desire that ° Pert, ( o such moment as the disposak . by . sale, of the en ir 't :'% 44 c 1 vested rights of the GranusurreyCanal, may S.lrioilS consideration of every proprietor. te;;!b e :_the annual meeting in April last, various projects t:brought before you . r Committee, and in giving at let 3', th e such as held out any pramise of benefit to the Com have not permitted the considerition. of them to si T"h re with their attention to your general interests. to e_ i le c 9tr er which is the , reason of your being called g lvl . l ;l s s i c ° . l. t he entirepurchase of your property at . 250 0001., liquidationin full of the loan-note capital, ! svould e P roprietors of the stock a return of 601. per share, ti gl Ottb "g a surplus for contingencies of about 8,7, and " e C uoimittee unanimously recommend for your adop , t e Yver " (4 it be approved, it will be necessary at once to ein ttilet2g ttl '' ' e li T tl e te olit . rnittee to carry the same into effect; and it_ qt 10r intention of the parties treating to apply to Parlia 47! hild ti ,_ Act in the ensuingt_soensssidornlw3n.onurp. L and which lit lee r eady fo 7 agreem . ent and conditions i a td execution, the purchasers being all in attend- P r ePared, on their part, to pay the deposit of one fat ot_hteer4.lsos agreed upon." of agreement were then read, which set for . th / ,000/!ishoeuld be paid in the following manner— p be paid the agreement being sealed ; 9,0001. in tem u arY. the °n Canal Company having the power oex 14 0, th e / to July, shoald it be deemed necessary; months aft the Railway Company had t ob : 00,3 7 " Act s • attar being then given to the latter er thes4l3; a t i w ,,, e _ lv e ' _,t - n o o ss n e th s s ion after possession was obtained; and t 50 ,0001. two years after such possession, taw g allowed at the rate of four per cent. on the paid „hesr The AIRMAN having called on the Proprietors to express krePinions on the proposed sale, derma nrBl4ls°ll expressed' himself against the sale on the i tn i % l ,l l e‘t.'i n o l : sed • He considered that 1,000/.. down H o3 the y of the agreement was not sufficient. t ea4 A ,the:VmwilaenreY reallyproposed earnest. /., he would have con y in ea b Prop osition it.sor thought ' otherwise. lie considered tPorte accepted Ilas t l k i fair and adv il _a_n e ta i g ve e mitt" reeeiveiaml rp e t tm l g ai . id referred back to the Com rids l e i li m e ;e an t d ha e t ug th h e t T h. , to be by them a u ( t in e( execution. It hie ti 7, Motion being p seconded, Mr. SIAISON moved san ittaenent, that the sum aid down, on the seal_ being Th iijd to the agreement be 10,0001. instead of 1,000/. _ pr kla 0211andrnent, with some ' difficulty, obtained a . seconl le , tri t e being put was negatived by a large majority. 1 1 mot on was then carded almost unanimously. , broke a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting Up, , -N D ........„__,____._.....---.... Duffy -J4IN, Oc.r. 27. —he case of Thomas Connel l Dublin 'vlli4; 44q., Oar ; 27• of Henry -street Police-office, t t boat :vas 2p2cially fixed fur this day (Monday ), ended 'lad b a quarter before six P.M. by his being acquitted. . He 41,a bee tri at the la 4 commission for the rui . l e .e, 1141 4 . e jury did not then agree, although lock e d up same fo e r th SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGIIT. ENTRIES FOR TUESDAY. Handicap Plate of 100 soya., for three yrs old and up wards. D. I. Alice Hawthorn, aged, 9st 91b—Trueboy, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b Intrepid, 4 yrs, Bst—Naworth, aged, 7st 111b—Subduer, 5 yrs, 7st 1 11b—I-am not-aware, aged, 7st 91b—Plantagenet, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Lord Saultoun, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Boarding school-Miss, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Bourra Tomacha, 5 yrs, 7st 21b— Bliss Burns, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Ruff, 3 yrs, Est 91b—Fair Rosa mond, 4 yrs, Est 91b—Milden, 3 yrs, Est 21b—Longitude, 3 yrs, 6st—Queen Pomare, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Kesheng, 3 yrs, sst 121 b—Seven's-the-Main, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Sister to Ma Mie, sst 61b—Petit Morceau, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Deodara, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b. Fifty Pounds ; for two yrs old, ; three, 7st 51b ; four, Bst 9ib ; five, 9st 31b; six and aged, 9st 71b. The winner, with his engagements, to be sold for 300 gs. Last three miles of B.C. Misdeal, 6 yrs—Pipoe, 4 yrs—Clumsy, 3 yrs—Metal, yrs —Alexa, 2 yrs—b c, out of Pet, 2 yrs—Pretender, 2 yrs—ch c, out of Sister to Drayton, 2 yrs—Flash of Lightning, 2 yrs —Little Vulgar Boy, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 Boys. each ; for three yrs old, 7st 101 b ; four, Bst 41b; five and upwards, Bst 81b. The winner to be sold for 801. Last half of Ab. M. Caen, 5 yrs—Sally Brown, 3 yrs—Richard Cricket, 3 yrs— Kiss-me-Quick, 3 yrs, and Prairie, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two yrs old, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 200 soya. D.M. C by Montreal, dam by Syntax, out of Problem—Pawn broker—Titbit—Sharpshooter. TIIE CRITERION. Betting-6 to 4on Sting. The fallowing are scratched :—Arkwright, Grimston, Brother to Sir Henry, Draco , Marine, Villeda, Regina, Mr. Herbert's two, Buttress, Pawnbroker, Lord Orford's colt, Touch-me-not, Balance filly, Mr. Wreford's two, all Lord G. Bentick's except Ennui, all Lord Exeter's, Lord Glasgow's colt, Eliza, Leeds colt, mazon, Trebonius, Cuckoo, Shelford, Corcelius. Black Cat and Blanchie pay forfeit in their matches to morrow. New match (to-morrow)—Physalis, Bst 71b, against Stoker, 7st 111 b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. FRlDAY.—Prologue, Bst 71b, against Grimston, 6st 71b. A.F. 100, h ft. (RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.) NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. TUESDAY EVENING.—The settling for the Cambridgeshire was apparently pretty easy, but far otherwise in reality, cue rather heavy losing account having stood over altogether, and two or three others having been only partially adjusted. Alarm, notwithstanding, was a haimless horse for the ring, very few having won to any amount except Mr. Greville and two other gentlemen, who are stated to have netted 2,000/. each. We shall not be able to speak decidedly of the settle ment until we see what is done at Tattersall's on Monday next. The racing this afternoon, preceded by a sale of blood stock, at which nothing of any importance was disposed (4*, commenced at one o'clock with a capital list and brilliant weather, and was attended by his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, and a large and fashionable company. We subjoin the usual returns : Fifty Pounds, for two year olds, carrying a feather; three, 51b ; four, Bst 91b ; five, 9st 31b ; six and aged, 9st 71b. The winner, with his engagements, to be sold for 300 guineas, if demanded. Last three miles of B.C. Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy (W. Abdale) I Lord Albermarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, 2 yrs Mr. Herbert's b c by Venison, out of Pet, 2 yrs Mr. R. J. Shafto's Metal, 3 yrs The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Death's Misdeal, 6 yrs; Mr. A. Well's Tiptoe, 4 yrs; Mr. W. Sadler's Pretender, 2 yrs; Mr. J. Osborne's c by the Hydra, 2 yrs ; and Lord Chesterfield's Flash of Lightning, 2 yrs. Betting-5 to 2 agst Metal, 3to 1 agst The Hydra dolt, 5 to 1 agst Clumsy, 6 to 1 agst Misdeal, and 6 to 1 agst Flash of Lightning. The Hydra colt bolted before starting, ran nearly two miles, and threw his jockey, was caught, brought back to the post, and went off' with a tremendous lead, which he maintained till near the new ground, when he bolted out of the course to the right, was again brought into it at the T.Y.C. winning-post, and went in advance to the Red House; Flash of Lightning then went in front, and with The Little Vulgar Boy and the Pet colt at her heels, made play to the Duke's Stand, where she was beaten, and her two followers went on with the running, Clumsy lying up. They ran thus to the distance, where Clumsy Passed his horses, and won very easily by a length, the Pet colt third, and Metal a bad fourth. Sweepstakes of 10 soya, each ; for two yra old colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b._ The winner to be sold for 200 Boys. if de- mantled, &c. D.M. - --- Lord W. Powlett's cby Montreal, dam by Dr. Syntax 1 Mr. Shelly's Tit-bit Mr. Mostvn's Sharpshooter 3 Mr. Coape's Pawnbroker.. . bolted Betting-5 to 4 agst the Montreal colt, and 7to 4 agst Tit-bit. The Montreal colt made running all the way, and after a fine race half-way up the cords, won by a head, Tit bit never having got up ; Sharpshooter a good third. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; for three vrs old, 78 10Ib ; four, Bst 41b ; five and upwards, Bst 81b. 'the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. La s t h a lf of Ab. M. Col. Peel's ch g C ae n, 5 yrs (Nat) 1 Mr. Parry's b f S a lly Brown, 3 vrs Mr. G. C. Gill' s b g Ri c hard Cricket, 3 yrs ••• 3 Lord Sandwich's Prairie, 3 yrs Mr. Dawson's Kiss-me-Quick, 3 yrs Betting-6 to 4on Caen.—Caen made all the running, and won in a canter by two lengths, and was claimed. Match, 50, h ft, 7st 51b each. Yearling Course—Duke of Bedford's Black Cat (Whitehouse) beat Sir W. W. Wynn's Anna Bullen (Mann).-5 to 4on Anna Bullen. Won by a length. _ _ Match, 100, h ft. First half of Ab. M.—Lord G. Ben tinck's Terrier, 2 yrs, Bst 61b (Nat), beat Lord Glasgow's f by Velocipede, out of Miss Whip, 2 yrs, 7st 51b (Mann). -4 to 1 on Terrier. Won by three lengths. Match, 100, h ft. T.Y.C.—Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst 71b (Holmes), beat Sir W. W. Wynn's Stoker, 7st 111 b (Mann).-4 to lon Physalis. Won by a neck. Handicap Plate of 1001., for three yrs old and upwards. DI. Lord Stradbroke's Boarding-School Miss, 4 yrs, 7st 21b 1 Mr. Whitelock's Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs, 6st 91b 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid, 4 yrs, Bst—Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, aged, 7st 111b—Colonel Peel's I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 91b —Lord Sandwich's Plantagenet, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Mr. J. Thompson's Lord Saltoun, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Mr. Forth's Bourra Tomacha, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. W. H. Johnson's Mid den, 3 yrs, Fst 21b—Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Queen Pomare, 3 yrs, sst 12113—Mr. Wigram's Kesheng, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Mr. J. King's Sevens-the-Main, 4 yrs, sst 91b—Mr. Newton's Sister to Ma Mie, 3 yrs, s st 6!b—Mr. Osbaldeston's Petit Morceau, sst 21b—and Mr. Carr's Deodara, 3 yrs, 4st 131 b. Betting-3 to 1 agst Boarding-School Miss (taken), sto 1 agst I-am-not-aware, 5 to 1 agst Fair Rosamond, and 8 to 1 agst Queen Pomare.-13ourra Tomacha took the lead, fol lowed by Deodara, Kesheng, Queen Pomare, and Milden, the heavy weights and the favourite lying off. These posi tions were maintained at a good pace to the turn of the lands, where Deodara took up the running, Bourra Tomacha died away, and Naworth, Fair Rosamond, and I-am-not aware moved towards the front, Boarding-School Miss still lying away. At the distance Fair Rosamond and the fa vourite joined the front rank, headed them at the cords, and finished the race, the favourite having the lead, and winning easy by a length ; Naworth a good third, beating Queen Pomare by . a neck. The Criterion Stakes of 30 sows. each ; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; the second to save his stake. From the turn of the Lands-in. (45 Subs.) Mr. Forth's br c Sting, by Slane (71bs extra) ...(EL Bell) 1 Lord Lonsdale's Joy (21bs extra) The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord G. Bentinck's br L 'f Ennui (21b extra)—Mr. Bouverie's br f Science (21b extra)—Mr. Isaac Day's The Crown Prince — Lord Orford's br c Footstool—Mr. Hook's Buttress—Mr. Marson's c by Dulcimer, out of Milliner—Mr. Osbaldeston's fby Stockport, out of the Mountain Sylph's dam—Mr. W. Scutt's br c Malt (21b extra). Betting-6 to 4on Sting; 7to 2 agst Joy. Joy, Malt, and the Stockport filly, went off together, and jointly made running t o th e D u k e ' s St an d, F oo t s t oo l and Sting being, till then, about fourth and fifth, with all the others laid up, but wide, except Buttress and the Dulcimer colt, who were beaten early. Joy now took a decided lead, Sting following him with the race in hand; at the cords he galloped past him, and won in a canter, by two lengths. Malt was not beaten more than half a length for second; Footstool a moderate fourth. The pace was excellent. Match, 50, h ft, Bst 41b each. Last half of Ab. M.—Mr. Greville's Motitla receives forfeit from Duke of Bedford's Black Cat. _ _ _ Match, 100, h ft, Bst 41b each. T.Y.C.—SirW. W. Wynn's Anna Bullen receives forfeit from Mr. Shelley's Blanchie. AmtivALs.—Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke of Rut land, Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Waterford, Earl of Strad broke, Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Earl of Milltoun, Earl of Orford, Lord Godol phin, Lord Sidney Osborne, Lord Edward Russel, Lord Chas Manners, Lord George Manners, Lord Maidstone, Lord W. Powlett, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord H. Lennox, Lord Glamis, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lord James Fitzroy, Lord Brownlow Cecil, Count Bathyany, Sir Joseph Hawley, Sir Henry Mildmay, Sir Minto Farquharson, Sir St. Vincent Cotton, Sir Watkin Wynn, General Grosvenor, Col. Peel, Hon. Captain and Mrs. Rous, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, Hon. Henry Forrester, Hon. Horace Pitt, Hon. Capt Keppel, Hon. Fraser Villiers, Hon. Spencer Littleton, Messrs. Bastard, Pettat, Shelly, Jacques, Greville, Waller, J. Bayly, Newton, King, Palmer, Rush, M. Campbell , Balfour , Clifton , W. H. Johnstone, Meiklam, G. H. Moore, Magennis, Peyton, Wombwell, Payne, Neville, Meyrick, Fitzroy, Cockerill, Bat. son, Sloane, Stanley, Brook, &c. THE BARON. The following was posted in the Subscription-room yes terday morning : " At a meeting of the Jockey Club, held on Monday in the Houghton Meeting, 1845, for the purpose of taking into consideration the circumstances attending the sale of The Baroli, and the betting against that horse for the Cam bridgeshire StakeS;—it was resolved, that no evidence had been laid before the meeting to induce them to proceed fur ther in the matter, or to attribute improper conduct to any parties." (Signed) G. BENTINCK. EXETER. The subject, we understand, was brought before the Club by one of the Stewards, at the request of a gentleman whose conduct had been impugned, and, as his betting-book proved, without the slightest possible foundation. CLOSE OF THE HARVEST.—Another week of fine seasonable weather has enabled the farmers in the late distr:c s of the north of England to gather in the re• sidue of ti eir crops of grain in tolerable condition, and to prepare for the sowing of their winter seed. Considering the protracted state of the harvest, there has been l;ttle actual loss . of either straw or grain. Some of the bean crops remain in the fields, but many of them have been already secured, and that in fair condition. The second crop of clover in Yorkshire, and in the north of England generally, has been unproductive, and in most ' cases the cost of mowing and haymaking has been at least equal to the value of the produce. The potatoes arc now principally gathered, or are in a train fur being so, in this and the neighbouring county of Lancaster, and there are certainly more decayed roots than usual in these counties; but if the other parts of the country, and particularly if Ireland had been equall3 fortunate, there would have been no potato-panic. The turnips—particularly the Swedes and the yellow bullocks— have still a very flourishing apwarance, and will cer tainly exceed an average crop. The hay proves generally good in quality, as well as abundant in quantity ; and on a comprehensive prospect of the harvest of 1815 iu this country, neither the farmers (considering the advanced price of wheat) nor the consumers of farm produce will have nearly so great reason for complaint as was apprehended i the month of August and the latter part of September. — Leeds Mercury. Such has been the failure of the corn crop in the upper districts of South Carolina, that conventions have been held, and resolutions adopted to apply to the Legislature of the State for aid in purchasing food.-:-New York Journal of Commerce. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING OCTOBER 29, 1845. RELATIVE CLC RA IL WA PRINCIPAL CITIES A,) SCOTLAND, NAMES or RAILWAYS, Aberdeen ..•..- ....... Airdrie and Coatbridge • • Arbroath and Forfar Ditto Half Shares .... Armagh, Colr., & Portrush Bandon and Bantry . -- Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down Birknlid.Lan.&Ches.Jne. Birmingham and Olo'ster Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.) Ditto Half Shares .... Binninghm&Oxllll.June. Illekbunt, and Preston.. Blekburn, Darwn,& Boltu Bolton, NV igan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stanifrd and Ilinn rigliton, Lewes, & ilast, Uistol and Exeter • • • • • • Ditto New ..• • • • • • • • • • Iristol and Gloucester •• ;ristol and S. Wales Junc, British and Irish Union.. Calesion. and Ayrsh. June Caledon. & Dumbar. June Caledonian . • . • . • . • • • • • • Ditto Extension • • Cambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares .. • • Ditto Half Shares ••• Chester and Holyhead • • Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley ..... 1 theroe Junction • ... Clydesdale Junction • • • • Cork, Blackrek & Passage Cork and Bandon .• . • • • • Cork and Killarney .• . • • Cork and Waterford • • Cork and Youghal • • • • • • Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Cornwall .. • • • • • • • • • Derby and Crewe . • • • • • - Direct Lon. and Manchstr Is% lteccles, & Yarmoth irectMan.(Remington's) Ireet Northern .• •• • • Direct Norwich .. • • • • . • • Dublin and Belfast June Dublin, Belfast, & Colrne Dublin and Drogheda• • • - Dublin and Galway Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath . Dundee and Perth • • • • Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto (No. 2) ... • • • • Eastern Counties . • • .. • • Do. New . • • • • • • • • • • • • Do. Perp. 5 pr Ct., No • 1 Do. do. N 0.2 East I)ereham & Norwich East Union ... • • • • • • • • . • Ditto Extension • • • • • • Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam. Edinburgh and Glasgow Do. Quarter Shares • • - Do. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Granton Do. I'ref. 5 per Cent Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Huntingdon • Enniskillen and Sligo Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Ellwood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Garnkirk and Glasgow Glasgow and Ayr Do. Quarter Shares Glasgow and Greenock Ditto New. • .• • • • • • • Ditto Preference • • • • • Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car. I llsgw, Kilmamck, & Ard. Glasgow and Belfast Un. Goole and Doncaster Grand Junction I)itto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto New Quarters Ditto Eighths .. Grand Union . • • • • • • • • • • Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens. Gt Grimsby and Sheffield tit Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) Ditto Extension .. • • • • Great Monster.. • • .... • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares .. Do. New 301. Shares .. Great Western • . • • • • .. • • Ditto Half Shares •, Ditto Fifths .... • . Guilltd, Farehm, & Ports. arwlch .••• • • • .• • • • & Man. R. & Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield Hull and Gainsborough . . Hull and Selby • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Half Shares • • Inverness and Elgin • • • • Isle of Jersey . • • • • • .. • • Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray .... Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Carlisle .. Lancaster and Preston .. Leeds and Bradford Ditto Extension .. • • .. Leeds and Dewsbury • • •. Leeds and Thirsk • . •• • • . Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford itnrck, Ennis, & KU. Jnc. incoln, York, and Leeds ft. Min. & Gft N. of Eng, ccrpool and Manchester J HU° Half Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares.. LiverrLtirmskrk,& Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Thirds...... Ditto Quarters . •• • • •• London and Blagitwall Lndn. Oxfd. & Chituham. London and Brignton • .. Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon .. • • Ditto New. •• •• • • Do. (I uarant. 5 per Cnt. London and Greenwich - Do. Pref. or Privilege.. London and South Westrn Do. New Cons. Eighths 2016 7,p Du. New, 501. Shares.. 1)o. New, 401. Shares • . London and York .• • • . • • Ditto (Bawtry) • • London and Windsor.... Lomita, Salsbury, & Yeovl LondoiLlerry 8y Coleraine Londonderry & Enniskilin Lynn mid Ely • ••. Lynn and Dereham •• • • • Manchester and Leeds • • Ditto ;fall Shares • • • • Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Sixteenths • • • • • • Mend's' r and Birkenhead Mane! ies ter & Birminglun Ditto ..)uarter Shares.. Ditto New Quarters ... Du. Con. & Welsh June. Mat tehestr, Boltn, & Bury Mnelastr, Buxtn, &Meta Ilan. Shef. and Mid. June. Manehestr & Southamptn Mid land . •••• Ditto Fifths Dit 4 o New .• • • • • • • • • • Do. Con. Binn. & Derby Midln,t Ut Westrn (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newestl & Daringtn June . Do. New (Brandling) Newcastle and l3erwick • • Newcastle and Carlisle • • Nwestle. Durham, & Lan. Newport & Abergavemay Newry and Enniskillen.. Newark and Sheffield • • North British • • • • • • • • • • Ditto New Shares • • Northern and Eastern • • Du. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares • • North Devon .• • • • .. • • • • North Kent • • • North Staffordshire •• • • North Eastern ••• • • • •• . North Union (A) .. • • Ditto (B) • • • • • • • • North Wales Mineral.... Ditto New Shares . • • • Not tia Western • ...... North Wales ••••• • • • • • Norwich and Brandon .• Ditto New • • • • • • • • • • • • Not., Belvoir, & Qranthm Nottingham and Boston. • Nutt., Et wsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge .. Perth and Inverness • • • • Portsmouth Direct. • • • • Preston and Wyre • • • • •• Ditto Half Shares •• • • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref.s Per Ct. & div. - p 1 _ 1% 1:. Preston & Wyrs Extens. Richmond & W. End June Rugby and lluntingdon... Scottish Central • • •• • • Scottish Midland ••• • • • Shefibid and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto ditto (No. 2).. Ditto ditto (No. 3).. :Sheffield and Lincoln.. • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry& Grand June. Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe S I irws ~Wolv., Dudl, & Bir ghrwsbry & Trut Val. Ua. Slims, I lerefd,& N. Wales Slamannan ..... • • • • South Devon . • • • • • • • • • • South Midland •••• South Eastern and Dover De. New (i 55,321.) No. ' • Do. (155.33/.68.3d.)„ 2 Do. (iss. 3014 „3 Staines and Richmond .. • Staffordsh ire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline 44p 2%p - 5 p I S i 4 . .ti ~, ,14, al 0 44 I> 0 A.. A .1. 8 1 14 Q iontli Wales. __ Tean and Dove Valley .. Trent Valley Do. and Holyhead Junc. Vale of Neath .. .•• • • , West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coun. Wexford and Carlow • ... Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfd,lVxfd,W l ck & Dub Wakefield and Bradford • • Wakfid, Pentaret, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and London . West Lancashire. Worcester and Tring • - • • Whitehaven and Furness Do. New Half Shares.. Welsh West Cornwall West Yorkshire Wllsontwn, M. & Coltness Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth Wilts, Somrst, & Southern Yarmouth and Norwich.. Ditto New. • • York and Carlisle .• • •••• York and North Midland Ditto Half Shares .. Ditto Smrbro' Branch Ditto Selby • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Extension Yorkslttieliallsgow than, IClos'd! 334 p 122a6p 1 438 p 1 1 EXETER, Ocr. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Exeter aim 6—Exeter, Dorchestch % 10.-13;d4r, S OF gGLAND, l Crediton, Topshauls SING P] SHAR I) TOWNS r AND TRELAN I and - Exmouth (Heali's line), % p.—North Devons, 27. 10s. Central Cornwall, p.—Taw A r ale Extension, p.—Bris tol and Exeter, New, 10. HULL, Om 27. The flatness of Saturday's London market had its effect here this morning. At the afternoon meeting the tone of the market was somewhat improved ; and, whilst there were plenty of buyers at the morning's rates, there were but few sellers. The sales were—London and Blackwall, 04—Lon don and Croydon, 201!,—Midland Railway Consuls (40/. Shares), 23 1 / 2 —York and North Midland Extension, 21— Chester and Holyhead, 17 1 / 2 —Leeds and Titirsk, 15—Leeds and Dewsbury, 27—North British (Dalkeiths, 6—Ar magh, Coleraine, and Portrush, I%—Axhohne, 455. p.—Dudley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 13s. 9d. p. —East Lincolnshire, 3—Grand Unior, 2% —Great North and South Wales and Worcester, and Barns ley Junction, 265, p.—Lincoln and Waintleet, 10s. p.—Lon don and York, s—London and Norwich Direct, 7s. 6d.— North Staffordshire, Si. 2s.—Portsmouth Direct, 4 , 4 —Rugby and Huntingdon, 2A—South Midland, 4/. 17s.—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 3. YORK, Ocr. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 21 —Newcas:le and Darlington, New (Brandling), 47 1 / 2 —North British (Carliales), 3 1 / 2 —York and North Midland Extension, 22 1 / 2 —Ax holme, s—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham , and Leicester, 2—Grand Union, 246—Leeds and York, 04—New castle and Berwick, 14 1 / 2 —Nottingham and Boston, 3 1 / 2 — North Staffordshire, 51. 4s.—Welsh Midlands, 3. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. AND BIRKENHEAD WOLVERIIAMPTON, CHESTER, JUNCTION RAILWAY. MARKET DRAYTON, MONDAY NIGHT, TEN O'CLOCK.—An im portant meeting of the landowners, occupiers of land, and trades men of Market Drayton, was held this afternoon at the Phoenix Hotel, in that town, for the purpose of considering the proposal of the Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction Railway Company, to construct from Wolverhampton to Chester—by way of Market Drayton, and effecting a junction with the Chester and Birkenhead Railway —a direct line from London to Birkenhead and Holyhead. The chair was taken at two o'clock by Loxdale Warren, Esq., and among the gentlemen present were Mr. Sergeant Allen, one of the Provisional Committee; R. Wrightson, Esq., T. Harris, Esq., H. Mayhew, Esq., T. Swinnerton, Esq., Thomas Harris, Esq., W. Warren, Esq., W. Goodwin, Esq., J. Bird, Esq , Sand well, Esq , and many other of the most respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood. Mr. J. Smith, solicitor to the Com pany, was also in attendance. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, said he was fully aware of th e b enefits to be derived from railway com munication to and from their own town; if he needed an illustra tion of that advantage, he had but to mention a fact that came within his own experience a few days ago. He travelled from Lon. don to Stafford, a distance of 135 miles, in less than four hours, for 1/. 125. 6d., but it took him upwards of three hours to get from Stafford to Market Drayton, and cost him 1/. 175 ficl.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that was enough to show the necessity of a more direct communication between Market Drayton and London, or Liverpool, and other places. After some further observations, the Chairman concluded by calling upon Mr. Sergeant Allen, as one of the Directors, to explain to the meeting the objects of the Com pany, and the route they intended to pursue. Mr. Sergeant ALLEN then addressed the meeting at great length. He said he knew of no more valuable testimony that he could ad duce, than the remarks just made by the Chairman, to show the advantages of railway accommodation, and he was confident that Market Drayton must at no distant period be allowesi to partici pate in the benefits to be thus obtained. After explaining the route of the proposed line, the Learned Sergeant said that he looked upon it as forming a direct communication, not only between Mar ket Drayton and the rising town of Birkenhead, but also tending to form a direct line of railway from Holyhead to London, of which parties travelling to or from Ireland would be sure to avail themselves, indeed it would effect a considerable saving in the distance, and, while saving time, would lessen the expense of the journey. From Holyhead a line was about to be made to Chester, and parties coating thence would pass along the line whose claims they were about to lay before the meeting. In addition tl this, from Market Drayton a branch line would be thrown out to Stafford, where it would join the Trent Valley line, so that passengers would be conveyed on that railway direct to Rugby, and from thence the line to London, as is well known, was as direct as it could well be made. After having alluded to a rival project, which, however, would carry passengers a considerable distance out of their direct course, the Learned Gentleman adverted to the proposition of the Wolver hampton and Ellesmere Canal Company to convert their canal into a railway, and contended that, as they had no power to effect such an alteration, so neither would any Act of Parliament sanction it. That proposition was one of the most immodest he (Mr. Allen) ever knew to emanate from a publiccompany. It must be recollected that at the time the Canal Company obtained their powers for the purchase of the neeessary land, with or without the owners' consent, for the construction of the canal, it was obligatory on their part to keep up a water communication, and indeed that provision had induced other parties to cut intersecting and branch canals to a very large extent; and he (Mr. Allen) should like to know how they were to be disposed of if the main canal was done away with. Were this to be allowed, the branch would be of no further service than to remain as peels for the feeding of pike and perch. Another reason why the canal scheme could not be supposed to answer the ends of the projects was, the great addition which it would make in the distance between Wolverhampton and Chester, and con. sequently in the fares of the passengers. The expense of tra velling was not all, for, as the meeting were aware, the charge by railway was so much per ton per mile upon merchandise; and if the Wolverhampton, Chester, and Birkenhead Junction would effect, as it was intended, a saving of twenty-five miles between the termini--the usual charge was 2d. per ton per mile on iron from South Staffordshire or Shropshire —a saving of 41. 2d. per ton on iron would be effected in the present price at Liverpool. The ironmasters of the district through which the line passed would thus be enabled to compete with the Scotch markets.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) After some other observations, the Learned Sergeant concluded by moving the first resolution, which was—" That a direct railway communication between Wolverhampton and Birken head, by way of Chester, was essentially requisite." R. WRICHTsoN, Esq., seconded the resolution in a long and able speech, after which The CHAIRMAN submitted the motion to the meeting, and it was carried unanimously, SWINNERTON, Esq., of Market Drayton, moved the second resolution, to the effect that the proposed Birkenhead, Chester, and Wolverhampton Junction Railway offered the greatest advan tages as a direct line between the respective towns, and pledging the meeting to support it, W. GoDWIN, Esq., of Market Drayton, having seconded the resolution, it wasput to the meeting, and carried by acclamation. SANDWELL, Esq., of Market Drayton, proposed that a local committee be formed for supporting the views of the projectors of the line.—( Cheers.) H. Matenew, Esq., seconded the resolution in an able speech. He Contended that the policy of the nation was progressive, and that con tinued improvements were requisite for the benefit of the population. of the county. One of those improvements was railway accommo dation. With reference to the recent panic in the money mar ket, he maintained that it was both groundless and futile, and had originated with parties who were actuated by interested views. It had been stated that 40,000,0001. was required for the purpose cf bringing forward the various railway projects of the present day, and that it could not be accomplished without bringing the coun try to the eve of bankruptcy. At that announcement he was aware some parties gazed in stupid ignorance, but the fact was, such people were not acquainted with the vast resources of the country. In the time of the late war that sum, and more than it, was raised every year for the carrying on of the conflict, and in later years it was found that 20,000,0001. could readily be paid for the emancipation of the poor slaves.—(Loud cheers.) It must be recollected, too, that the sum now required was not for the purpose of being sent out of the country, but would be the means of pro viding a vast amount of employment, and of conferring a lasting benefit upon the country. After deprecating the conduct of the Bank of England in raising the amount of discount. Mr. Mayhew concluded by seconding the resolution, which was passed unani. mously. A vote of thanks to the Chairman having been passed, the meet ing soon afterwards separated. The whole of the resolutions were passed unanimously, and the best feeling pervaded the meeting. GREAT WESTERN AND BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAYS, It will be seen from the following notice, which was issued on Friday evening, that the Great Western Board have re solved upon seeking Parliamentary powers for completing a direct line of railway from Hungerford to Yeovil, and then to Exeter. Our readers will recollect that the Great Western have an Act empowering them to 'carry a line to Hunger ford : "Great Western Railway. "The Directors give notice, that they have entered into the arrangement (recently published) for the permanent possession of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, subject to a fixed rent-charge, for the express purpose of promoting, with perfect fairness to that Company and a dne regard to the in terests of all parties, the very best direct line of railway, on a continuous broad gauge, from the south-western ports of Cornwall and Devonshire, through the city of Exeter, to the metropolis, thereby affordit g also a comprehensive scheme of railway communication in the district between Yeovil, Bridport, arid Exeter. " 'the public importance and even necessity of such a line has been recognised by Parliament. " The Directors will, therefore, recommend to the pro prietors, at a special general meeting, to be held on the 7th of November, to undertake the extension of their own line from Hungerford, through the Pewsey Valley, to Westbury, with a branch to Marlborough. By a short change in the direction of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, between Westbury and Frome, the main western traffic, direct from London, will reach Yeovil within a distance of 126 miles, of which 91 miles of rail way have been either constructed or already sanctioned by Parliament. "Authority will be sought by the Directors at the same time to form a new Company, for making a railway in the district through Yeovil, Bridport, and Exeter, upon the same principle as adopted in the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Company, of associating the landowners and influential resi dents of the country with some of the Directors in the ad ministration of the affairs, upon similiar conditions, of gua rantee and prospective increase of dividend, for a permanent lease of the railway, to be worked in continuity with the other Great Western lines. " The surveys and plans are already in great forwardness, and notices will be given in order that application may be made to Parliament in the approaching session. By order of the Direc "CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Sec. "Paddington Station, Oct. 24, 1845." We understand that a length of railway, which it will be necessary to construct to complete the direct course west ward, from Hungerford to Yeovil, will be thirty-three miles only, and that it will bring the latter place some half mile or so nearer London than any of the projected lines via Salisbury. This determination of the Great Western Company must have an important bearing upon the interests of the various narrow gauge schemes for supplying portions of the West of England with railway accommodation; and there cannot be a doubt that it will have its due weight with the shareholders of the Bristol and Exeter Company, at their meeting on the 7th of November. It is not our intention, neither is it our inclination, to touch upon any mere personal or party matters than may be as sociated with the new pending question of leasing the Bris tol and Exeter line to the Great Western Company. Such topics can tend only to embarrass a subject which requires to be treated with great calmness and discretion. The question is not one merely between the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter Companies ; it is one which involves a considera tion of the wants of the public, of the favour shown to direct lines by the Legislature, and of the movements of opposing parties; and therefore it is that we regret so much personal and hostile feeling should have been exhibited at the meeting of Bristol and Exeter shareholders, held at some solicitors office in the former city a few days since. We really calm( 11 see that abusing Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Great Western, whose only fault, by the way, appears to be a most able and unwearied devotion to the duties of his office, or ridiculing a man like Mr. Brunel, can in any way tend to bring about such a state of feeling as should exist among a proprietary when they meat to discuss a question seriously affecting their own pecuniary interests. We doubt whether the relations between the Great Western and Bristol, and Exeter are properly undei st iod. When tbeßris tol and Exeter people were in ditliculti.s, the Great Western Company stepped in and efficiently relieved them. The ques tion of a direct line between Exeter and London has (we understand) been the subject of frequent communication be- Wen the two boards, and it is stated that the Great Western directors have never hesitated to express their conviction that the wants of the public and the views of the legislature would, inevitably, sooner or later induce the construction of such a railway. Whether such conviction mixed itself up in the negociations which led to the leasing of the Exeter line by the Great Western Company, we shall not presume to discuss; but that the necessity of a direct railway commu nication between London and Exeter ought to, and, indeed, must. form a material ingredient in the debate to take place on the 7th of November next, not even the holders of the Bristol and Exeter " thirds," with 10 or 12 premium upon V. paid up will, we are sure, attempt to dispute. If a direct line be carried between Exeter and London, the through traffic will necessarily be lost to the Bristol and Exeter line. IVhat proportion that traffic bears to the whole traffic upon the railway we know not; it is, however, considerable, and its abstraction would, we hesitate not to say, leave the Bristol and Exeter Proprietors a dividend by several per cent., less than that which the speakers at the meeting held in the solicitor's residence, at Bristol, seemed to think might be realised by repudiating the bargain made between the two companies, and handing the concern over to Mr. Hudson, whose purchase of lines are not, if we are to credit the writer of a clever letter in yesterday's Times, likely to pro dnce the great results it was promised would flow from them. That such a view of the question has been taken by the Di rectors of the Bristol and Exeter line is evident from the fol lowing circular addressed by them to their shareholders:— " BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY. "Bristol, 30, Broad-street, Oct. 15, 1845. " Sir,—l am desired by the Directors of this Company to transmit to you the inclosed copy of the additional agree ment entered into with the Great Western Company, for the sale to that Company of the Bristol,and Exeter Railway, and to inform you that a special general meeting of the Pro prietors will be held on Friday, the 7th of November, at the White Lion Hotel, in this city, at one o'clock precisely, when the agreement will be submitted for their consideration, " In concluding this provisional agreement with the Great 'Western Company, the Directors have endeavoured to take a comprehensive view of the position of the undertaking com mitted to their management, and they cordially recommend to the shareholders to confirm the agreement, as placing their property on a permanently advantageous footing. " Feeling the responsibility that attaches to them in con ducting a negotiation of this nature, the Direction have taken the earliest possible moment, after the confirmation of the agreement by the respec ive boards, to lay it before you. "I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " J. B. BADHAM, Secretary." We perceive that, at the solicitor? meeting already re ferred to, the voluntary increase by the Great Western Di rectors, of from four to five per cent. to the Bristol and Exeter Company, for the remainder of the lease—namely, till 1849 and a further increase to six per cent. at the expiration of the lease, is treated with derision. The increase will give the Bristol and Exeter Proprietors an additional 20,000/. per annum ; and we are inclined to believe that, with a com peting direct line from Exeter to the metropolis, the Bristol and Exeter Company would not find this an insignificant portion of their gross annual traffic. With respect to the line now projected by the Great Western Company, between Hungerford and Yeovil, no one can doubt that it will meet with the most favourable consideration from the Legislature. The Company already have Parliamentary powers for con structing lines which will complete the system of railway communication between the manufacturing districts of the north and the south-west of England. This, in connexion with the other branches 'already thrown out or promoted by them, for accommodating various of the populous districts not served by the present trunk line between London and Exeter, and with the lines now projected, leave unqccommo dated, between London and Exeter, but a small amount of population indeed. A glance at the map of country will show that the purposed line from Hungeiford through the valley of the Pewsey, and by a deviation of the Wilts and Somerset line to Yeovil, will accommodate several densely populated districts. True it is that its construc tion may endanger the success of a direct line be tween London and Exeter, by Salisbury, and thence through a comparatively barren and thinly populated country, to Yeovil. Whether a railway be made through such a line of country, and whether it would, in competition with that projected by the Great Western Company, pay its working expenses, are questions which we leave to the wisdom of the Legislature to decide.— Railway Standard. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM. The following, gathered from official sources, shows the comparative mileage of passenger traffic on the London and Birmingham, for the half -3 ears from the 30th June, 1839, to 30th June, 1845, with the half-yearly receipts from all kinds of traffic. For the half-year ending Passengers. Miles Travelled. Receipts. June otlt, 1839 December 31st, 1839 341,420 22,284,830 243,910 June 30th, 1840 December 31st, 1840 394,688 25,931,163 495,040 June 30th, 1841 December 31st, 1841 413,272 27,156,212 429,023 June 30th, 1842 December 31st, 1842 407,840 26,563,216 420,958 June 30th, 1843 December 31st, 1843 419,963 26,983,482 432,357 June 30th, 1844 December 31st, 1844 480,637 31,122,185 450,478 June 30th, 1845 From the above statement it appears that since June, 1839, up to the present period, the receipts of the London and Birmingham have been nearly doubled. On Tuesday last the firet sod was lifted on the Caledonian Line, between Gretna and Ecelefechan, by Mr. John Bell, farmer. The promoters of the-omersetsbire Midland propose, it is presumed, as a precedent for other projects, to lodge the amount of their deposits forthwith in the hands of the Ac countant-General. Last evening the Directors and officers of the amalgamated Manchester lines dined together at the Albion Hotel, to cele brate the union of the two lines, and on the occasion of the Directors having yesterday, out of the Company's deposits, amounting to 460,000/., in% ested 200,000/. in the Three per Cent. Consols. WELSH MIDLAND.—On Friday a general assembly of the Proprietors of the Brecon and Abergaverny Canal was held at the Shire-hall, Brecon, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the terms offered by t he Welsh Midland Railwa Company for the purchase of the canal, when the bargain made by the Committee of Direction was fully confirmed without a dissentient voice, on the motion of John Powell, Esq., chie partner in Clydach Ironworks, seconded by G. J. Lloyd, Esq., of Dinas, two of the largest freighters on the canal. After the business had been concluded, the Canal Company enter tertained the deputation of Directors of the Welsh Midland at dinner, at the Castle Hotel, where Joseph Baily, Esq., M.P. for Worcester, and principal proprietor of Nantyglo and Beau fort Iron Works, presided; and in the course of the everting expressed his strong approval of the plans of the Welsh Mid land Company, and announced his intention of supporting the project with all the influence he possessed, both in the House of Commons and out of it. Other gentlemen of in fluence in South Wales expressed the most decided opinions in favour of this line and its branches. BIRMINGHAM AND WORCESTER DinEcr.—The first meeting of the Provisional Committee was held at the Waterloo rooms, Birmingham, on Thursday ; Mr. Richard Spooner, M.P., in the chair. The arrangements of the promoters were approved and confirmed, and a Managing Committee ap pointed, with full powers to carry into effect the undertaking. A meeting of the Proprietors of the Worcester and Birming ham Canal will shortly be held, at which the terms of an arrangement between the Railway and Canal Companies will be submitted. STAFFORDSHIRE AND NORTH MIDLAND JUNCTION.—On Thursday a meeting was held at Ashbourne, the Hon. and Rev. A. Duncombe in the chair. The names of several land owners residing in the vicinity of the projected line were added to the Provisional Committee. The secretary stated that he had received applications for upwards of 130,000 shares, and since computing that number, a letter had come to hand intimating that an influential company had offered to take a considerable portion of their capital, if the committee thought proper to allot the same. DIRECT BIRMINGHAM AND LEICESTER.—A meeting of the Provisional Committee was held on Friday, at their offices in Birmingham. Mr. G. F. Muntz presided. From the report of Mr. W. H. Purdon, engineer to the company, it appears that the whole of the surveys have been com pleted, and that the plans and sections are now being en graved. Although an opposition was at first offered by some of the influential landowners of the district through which the line passes, it appears that it has been entirely withdrawn. It was announced that the whole of the de posits had been paid into the hands of the bankers, and no doubt existed that the whole of the standing orders would be complied with. SHEFFIELD, BUXTON, AND LEEDS, AND GREAT GIIIMSBY, POTTERIES, AND GRAND JUNCTION.—A meeting of the Proprietors of these undertakings was held on Fri day, Mr. T. Carr in the chair, when it was resolved that the Great Grimsby, Sheffield, the Potteries, and Grand Junction Railway, having expressed a desire to consolidate with the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe Company, the Provisional Directors of the latter appointed a deputation to confer with the deputation from the former, when, after the most mature deliberation, the Provisional Directors of the Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, although anxious to avoid an unnecessary Parlia mentary contest, were convinced it would be injurious to the interests of their subscribers, and without any public advantage, to identify themselves with a rival line from Sheffield to the Staffordshire Potteries, in opposition to those which have been so long before the public for supplying railway communication between Sheffield and Buxton, viz., l i the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, and Man. chester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railways. They therefore felt that their only course, consistent with a due regard to the interests named, was to preserve the integrity of their project from Buxton to Stoke-upon-Trent and Con gleton, uniting at those places with the North Staffordshire line. BIRMINGHAM—ShouId the various railways now projected for the Midland Counties be carried into effect, Birmingham will become the centre of three-and-twenty lines. Some of those in the immediate vicinity are, however, in progress of amalgamation, which will reduce the number of projects very considerably; but, after all, it is now certain that this town is about to realise the great advantages which its central post. tion naturally commands. DIRECT LONDON AND MANCHESTER.—On Saturday the arrangements for the union and amalgamation of the London and Manchester lines were signed by Mr. John Dillon, the Chairman of the Direct London and Manchester, and Col. Leicester Stanhope, the Chairman of the Direct Independent line. The arrangement recites that the two Companies shall be united into one when the Bill shall have passed. That the Direct London and Manchester shall alone apply to Parliament for the Act. That the two Companies shall have an equal number of Directors. That the Chairman of the Direct Company, Mr. Dillon, shall be the Chairman of the twenty-four Directors; and that Mr. Andrew Caldecott and the Iron. Colonel Leicester Stanhope shall be the De puty Chairman. That the object of the agreement, and the panics to it, shall be the making a direct line from London to :Nlancliester as economically as p ,, ssible, to carry goods and passengers at the cheapest remunerating tariff; the greate:.t possible expedition consistently with safety ; and that the interests of the trade between London and Man chester, and the promises made to the public by each Com pany, shall be the guiding principles of the Directors. That Messrs. Ashurst and Son ; Messrs. Sudlow, Sons, and Toor ; and Mr. John Owens, shall be the solicitors. That Mr. Rastrick and Mr. Geo. Remington shall be the joint en gineers. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—Mr. Brunel visited Carmarthen on Monday lest, and after minutely inspecting the plane, de cided that in lieu of the numerous cuttings and tunnels which must inevitably be constructed if the line be brought direct from Kidwelly through the parishes of Llangtudefrne and Llandefeilog, its course should be throught the Ferry Side; but it will still cross the Towy at the spot first in tended. An inportant Parliamentary document was printed on Saturilay : in respect to railways. Under the Joint-stock Companies Act, which came into force in November last, various returns are annually ordered to be presented to the liotwe of Commons, which returns, now furnishe I for the first time, are of a lengthened description, whence it appears that, from the Ist of November to the 7th of June last, 355 joint-stock companies were provisionally re gistered, of which no fewer than 252 were railway compa.- Wes and in au appendix it is stated that between the 9th and 30th June, as many as fifty-seven railways were pro visionally registered, on all of which registrations a sum of Si. was paid. In the month of l‘lny last about 80 rail ways were registered, and 17 frdni the Ist to the 7th of the following month. One railway company was com pletely registered, and four of the same class have no tified their intention to abandon their plans. It seams that of companies that had existed, out of 965, only 105 were railways; and, as already ment:oned, of provisionally registered companies, out of 355 there were 352 railways. The fees received from November to June amounted to 2,1641. in England. In two months after the operation of the Act the registration fees were 590/. ; in the next three month., 310/. ; and in the following two months and seven days, as much as 785/. ; making a total for registration of 1,6901. CONTINENTAL LINES. AMIENS TO BOULOGNE.—The following are the accounts presented in the report read at the late general meeting:— Receipts. f. c. 1. Culls 2. Interest on money not paid in at the appointed time 127,502 79 3. Exchange on money sent from London 4,689 90 Total 12,706,952 69 Expenses. 1. Preliminary expenses in forming the Company, surveys. &c. 2. General expenses of administration and furniture 3. Engineers 4. Rails, &c. Total Which taken from the receipts leaves a balance of This balance is thus employed Caution money And sums disposable in bonds and bills 7,650,000 00 Balance at bankers' The interest of 4 per cent. granted by the statutes during the period the works are going on, counted from the date of each call, will be paid to the shareholders on and after November, for the year ending October 23, 1845, at Paris, at MM. Laffitte and Co.'s; at Boulogne, at M. A. Adam and Co.'s; and at London, at Messrs. Masterman and Co.'s. Each share is entitled to a sum of 4f. 809,163 18 AMIENS TO BOULOGNE.—Tho municipal council of the latter town :have approved by a great majority of the ter minus of this line being placed at Capecure on the exercise ground. The Chamber of Commerce has :Aso approved of that locality. It is presumable, therefore, that the plans presented by the company will not meet with any serious opposition. NEVERS TO CLERMONT.—A company has jast been formed at Paris to send in proposals for this railway, as well as for that from Moulins to Roanne, the Marquis de Raigeanot, peer of France, being president. The preliminary surveys are being urged on actively. CHATILLON AND TROYES. —Both these towns are to have branch lines on the Lyons Railroad. The necessary surveys are completed, PARIS To LYONS.—Three new companies have lately been formed for this line —one, that of the maitres de poste; the second, the Compagnie de Commerce, which, however, does not give the names.of its board of Directors; and the third, that of the receivers-general. Of these three companies, the first would have no difficulty in making up its capital, had it entered the lists earlier; the second requires a capital of 505 millions, which it will be almost an impossibility to find at this late hour; the third, the receivers-general, are so strong in local interest, that they will be sure to obtain their funds, if the Government permits them to stand for the line, which is not yet certain. PARIS TO STRASBURG.—A new company has opened a subscription for this line, under the presidentship of General Anthouard. The name is an unlucky one, as the Anthouard company for the Orleans and Bordeaux line was, it may be remembered, rejected by Government. PARIS TO STRASBURG.--It may not be uninteresting just at the moment The day for the adjudication of this line is announced, to state what are the names of the Companies now formed for the line. They are nine in number, viz. Hainguerlot, Ganneron, Aymard (better known in France by the name of the banker Gentilet Fol), Bechet, Caumont- Laforce, Doudeauville, De Hell, Arno . ux and Anthouard. The three last have not, it is thought, made up their capital, nor will they be able to do so. A fusion is talked of between the other six. NORTHERN OF FRANCE.—The double woy is completed as far as Pontoise, and a single one to Clermont, a distance of 40 English miles. An experimental trip was made this week as far as Creil, by M. Oofroy de Breville, head engineer of ponts et chaussh, who directed the works on the first section of the Northern line ; 31. Petiet, another engineer, and M. J. Pereire. THE SONG OF STEAM. The following beautiful and powerful stanzas, by C. W Cutter, are copied from an American paper, called the. Loc king Valley Register : Harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein ; For I scorn the power of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain. How I laughed, as I lay concealed frum sight For many a countless hour, At the childish boast of human might, And the pride of humah power. When I saw an army upon the land, A navy upon the seas, Creeping along, a snail-like band, Or waiting the wayward breeze; When I marked the peasant faintly reel With the toil which he daily bore, As he feebly turned at the tardy wheel, Or tugged at the weary oar. When I measured the panting courser's speed, The flight of the carrier dove, As they bore the law a king decreed, Or the lines of impatient love ; I could not but think how the world would feel, As these were outstripped afar, When I should be bound to the rushing keel, Or chained to the flying car. Ha! ha! ha! they found me at last, They invited me fl.rth at length, And I rushed to my throne with thunder blast, And laughed in my iron strength. Oh then ye saw a wondrous change On the earth and ocean wide, Where now my fiery armies range, Nor wait for wind or tide. Hurrah ! hurrah! the waters o'er, The mountains steep decline, Time—space—have yielded to my pow. A— . world! the world is mine! The rivers the sun bath earliest blest, Or those where his beams decline ; The giant streams of the queenly West, Or the orient floods divine. The ocean pales where'er I sweep, To hear my strength rejoice, And the monsters of the briny deep Cower, trembling at my voice. I carry the wealth and the lord of earth, The thoughts of the god-like mind ; The wind lags after my flying forth, The lightning is left behind. In the darksome depths of the fathomless mine My tiresome ann doth play, Where the rocks never saw the sun decline, Or the dawn of the glorious day. I bring earth's glittering jewels up • From the hidden cave below, And I make the fountain's granite cup With a crystal gush overflow. I blow the bellows, I forge the steel In all the shops of trade; I hammer the ore and turn the wheel Where my arms of strength are made; I manage the furnace, the mill, the mint, I carry, I spin, I weave ; And all my doings I put into print, On every Saturday eve. I've no muscle to weary, no breast to decay, No bones to be " laid on the shelf," And soon I intend you may " go and play," While I manage the world by myself. But harness me down with your iron bands, Be sure of your curb and rein, For I scorn the strength of your puny hands As the tempest scorns a chain. OPENING OF LINCOLN'S-INN lIALL BY HER MA JESTY.—On Thursday next Lincoln's-inn will be closed by order of the benchers to all persons, except to such as have professional busi ness to transact within the inn. FORTIFYING LIER MAJESTY'S DOCK-YARD AT WOOL WICII.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have at length determined that Woolwich Dock-yard, the first naval and most ancient port in Europe, shall be immediately placed in a state of fortification. A large number of guns will be mounted facing the river, and it is stated to be their lordships' intention to erect en the Essex side of the Thames a similar battery of guns. The Rev. John Peel, brother of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Canon of Canterbury, it is understood has accepted the Deanery of Canterbury, vacant by the relinquishment of the Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Begot, now Bishop of Bath and Wells. Sir Robert Peel will "raise the first sod" of the Trent Valley Railway on his own estate during the present week. The Newcastle Journal states that Mr. George Hudson, M.P., has been honoured with an invitation to spend a few days with Sir Robert at Drayton Manor. Mr. L. J. Papineau arrived in Montreal on the evening of the 9th October. ~;,,We regret to learn that Sir George Murray has been suffering lately from very delicate health. THE CHURCH.—OXFORD, OCT. 25.—The Rey. C. 11. Collyns, M.A., Student of Christ Church, and late Curate of St. Mary Magdalen Church, in this city, has resigned his Student ship, and entered the Roman Catholic Church at Prior Park, Bath. The Rev. F. Oakeley, M.A., has resigned the Senior Fellowship of Balliol College, in consequence of the late decision of the Cotat of Arches, which precludes hint from performing its duties. Mr. Oakeley has, onsimilar grounds, resigned his stall 14 Lichfield Cathe dral. THE FAST DAY IN GLAsgow.—Thursday was the Sacramental Fast-day here, and it was observed mach in the usual way that it has been of late years. The weather s‘ 'as dry, and nu merous parties went abroad in steamboats and by railway, and all other sorts of conveyances. The churches were tA ell attended, not withstanding, by the serious and thinking portion 4,f the community. We observed many more people employed at their daily labour than used to be long ago, and even the servants of the Clyde Trust were engaged as on ordinary days, in deepening and embanking the river. Glasgow Constitutional. ACCIDENT ON THE EDINBURGH AND DALKEITH RAILWAY.—About ten o'clock on Thursday evening, an accident of a serious description occurred on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. It appears that a carriage from Dalhousie Mains came into contact with one from Dalkeith, at a point near Sheriff-hall, where the lines meet, and so violent was the collision that both carriages were upset upon the rails. The greatest alarm prevailed fur several minutes, and fears were entertained that the consequences were even more serious than they subsequently tu , ned out to be. The driver of the carriage from Dalkeith, whose name is Duncan M'Donald, bad both his legs broken; and Mr. Scott, the manager of the railway, who was in one of the carriages, received a severe wound on the lid of the knee. With the exception of some slight contusions in oae or two instances, the rest of the passengers escaped unhurt. We understand that the driver of the carriage from Dalkeith was more than once called on to pull up; but he either did not hear, or could net atop in sufficient time An investigation has been ordered by the anthcrit!as.—Scotsman. A JoKE SPOILED.—An unfortunate misprint in the report of the proceedings at the Manchester Athenaeum soiree has completely spoiled an excellent joke of Sam Lover's. He is re presented as saying that he was.nearly in the same predicament as Mr. Dickens (who was unable to attend en account of the delicate state of his wife's health), as he had been detained at Beddicomt.e. Now Mr. Lover had been making a profess;aaal tour in Devonshire, and what he said was, that he had been detained at Babbicombe. The five-pound notes of the Dudley and West Bromwich Bank have the words .‘ Five Pounds" ainied upon each of them no fewer than one thousand nine hundred and five times, and the whole is clear and distinct, and may be read with the naked eye. FIRE AT CHELSEA. — On Monday morning, between one and two o'clock, the premises of Mr. Groves, grocer, oil man, and chessemongei, of Keppel-street, Chelsea, were dis covered to be on fire. The family were asleep in their beds when alarmed, and they with some difficulty effected their escape in their night-dresses. A mounted express was dis patched to the engine station, and by the great exertions of the firemen they succeeded in extinguishing the flames, but not until the entire stock was destroyed, and extensive damage done to the furniture and premisi.s. In what man ner the fire originated is unknown. THE " TIMES" and the RAILWAY SYSTEM. (From the Sentinel,. October 25.) 7. We may well question the purity of that public virtue which aids and abets the very enterprise it unceasingly con demns, and are justified in doubting that consistency which daii—takes sums of money to a large amount fur circulating what it pronounces delusive and fraudulent, Such, however, is the conduct of the Times, which publishes double supple ments of railway advertisements, and t hen declares to the world that its columns are the me di u m by which swindlers may plun der the unwary. It certainly does not express itself in, these very terms, but the spirit and tendency of its writings justly bear this unstrained interpretation ; fur, if nine-tenths of the schemes which the Times advertises are designedly con cocted to extract the deposits, without any intention, on the part of the projectors, to go before Parliament, on what moral principle can the Times justify itself in giving pub licity to such schemes? Why does it not virtuously refuse the advertisements? Will its numerous readers be deterred from speculating, when they hear that the Times is receiv ing, perhaps, a thousand pounds a day from the funds of organised cheats? Would not the impression on the public be far Stronger, were the Times to drop its supplements, and avow its resolution no longer to circulate advertisements of a dishonest character? This is the test by which we would try the mercantile morality of the Leading Journal. The Times asks, " Can any one deliberately expect that the thirty millions will be really forthcoming? Is it pos sible that the hundreds of thousands of shareholders can really pay ten per cent. on each of the many millions of shares now in the market ?" These questions are not fairly put. It is assumed that three hundred millions of capital are about to be invested simultaneously in railways, and we are asked, whence the ten per cent. on that sum, or thirty millions, are to be found ? The assumption is erroneous, and the reason ing built upon it falls to the ground. In the first place, the competing lines will coalesce after a trial of strength ; secondly, many lines will be abandoned; thirdly, some years must elapse before the schemes which will ultimately succeed, can, by possibility, receive the sanction of Parliament. Therefore instead of three hundred millions, one-third of that sum will be sufficient for all the lines, and many years will elapse be &re the state of the works will require its advance. This capital will not be invested simultaneously, but gradually, and at intervals, so that, in whatever view we consider the subject, there appears to be net the slightest cause for panic or apprehension. The general argument of the Times proceeds on the pi in ciple, that no public work is to be undertaken in any country unless it has heaped up in some cellar or store a certain gnat:- tity of gold and silver. The intelligence of the people is not to contrive, the physical strength is not to execute, any un dertaking, unless the precious metals are within their reach. Their presence alone is to give activity to the brain and the musch s. Nay, more, however necessary any new works may be, even the reclaiming of waste land for the supply of defi cient food, they must not be commenced unless a certain de posit cf some ounces of gold or silver is lodged in the hands of a public functionary. It amounts to this, that none but rich people or rich nations are to make any progress in civili sation. The absurdity of this argument will be obvious, if we merely consider, that man did emerge from barbarism and arrive at a very improved social state long before geld er silver mines were discovered. Now, had the law, as it exists in England, always existed among all nations, it is very clear that man never could have emerged from barbarism ; this reasening is fundamental, and at one blow destroys all the quackery of the bullionists. If it were contended, that the supply of iron being railways, into whose construction it enters, must also be limited, we should admit the force of the argument, since it is physically impossible for man to increase the quantity t f iron. He can only extract what is deposited in the bowels m f the earth. But the case of money is widely different. Money is purely conventional: it may be multiplied indefinitely. Just as population increases and industrial operations arc expanded, so may money be expanded. Money is the servant of labour, not its master. It is the instrument or tool IN ith which labour works, and the visible, tangible, convertible produce of labour becomes the substance and reality of which money is the sign or symbol. Hence it follows, that the only real limitation to money is the limitation to pro duction, for wherever there is property, there the holder of such property ought to be entitled to create its representative in money. Under such a system civilisation would proceed rapidly and safely, since nothing more would be required in a state than industry, heads to contrive and hands to execute. The Birmingham Railway, for instance, is a visible and tangible . property. It is as much so as a gold mine, and its revenue is as certain as the revenue of the Customs or Excise. On what principle, then, can it be contended, that the pro prietors of the Birmingham Railway ought not to be per mitted to circulate representatives of their property in the shape of money, say Birmingham Railway notes? Is there any tradesman in London who would refuse to take such notes, were they in circulation? Now let us suppese that this Birmingham Company desired to extend their line, and that the estimated cost of such extension were computed at half a million. Why should they not have the power of issuing notes to that amount, and thus, on the security of the exiting line, create the extension line? Would the con tractors refuse such notes, or the labourers, or the tradesmen who supply the labourers? These notes would be money in the sense in which we undentand that word. Now let us look at the monetary system under which we live. We have made the commodity gold a privileged metal ; we have fixed its price by Act of Parliament, and made it the standard measure of all other commodities. It is the master, not the servant, cf British industry. Heaped up in the Bank cellars, it lies there in sheer 'uselessness ; other metals are constantly performing some industrial func tion, but this aristocratic metal reposes in true lordly idleness. Merchants, with feverish anxiety, look at the Bank weekly returns, to ascertain how many ounces are added to or substracted from the heaps; and when it is moved away to the Continent, the intelligence of the wise and the labour of the industrious are absolutely prostrated. Yet our brains are not disordered nor our sinews unstrung ; our productive power, our capability to direct the plough or the loom, are just in the same condition; but the wisdom Parliament has said, " People of Britain, unless gold abounds in the Bank ceEars, you shall not eat your bread in the sweat of your brow; we will aggravate the primeval curse, and sentence you to beggary and want, unless the graven images of the precious metals are brought back to their subterranean temple in Threadneedle- street." W hen, then, we are told by the Times, that we have net MONEY enough to execute the projected railways, we ask— What does the Times mean by money? If, by the term, it understands bits of bullion in the shape of sovereigns, we agree that we have no sufficiency of that metal ; but, we deny that bits of bullion are MONEY ; they are commodities, not money ; and then the question arises, Are public works in the immediate execu tion of which millions of operatives are employed, and whose completion adds, through reproduction, to the permanent weal h of the empire, to be suspended or abandoned, because one particular metal may be wanting? Is that to be the condition on which alone industry and intelligence are to be PERMITTED to exercise their active and self-sustaining use-. fulness? 'We admire the Times for its noble denunciation of the poor-law ; but when it upholds a monetary system, which is the true parent of union workhouses, and now at tempts, through panic-mongering, to throw the labouring classes out of employment, we blush for the ignorance or dis honesty of the Leading Journal. We will proceed a step further. The social destiny of man is progression through labour. The more that labour is em ployed under the direction of science, which it se lf i s on l y skilled labour, the greater will that progression be. I n as enlightened country labour can only be checked by the crime, of war or the folly of legislation. The brain is ever ready to contrive and the hand to execute, and accumulations of property are the exponents of their combined work ing. Since the desires of man are insatiable, there is no natural limit to consumption ; and hence, under natural views, by which we mean the constitution of humanity, there never can be over-production. But, he who consumes, must produce an equivalent, and that he will do under the stimulus of the desire of consumption. Nothing more, then, is wanted than a proper distributive agent, by which produc tions may be interchanged. That agent is money. If you limit it, you limit both consumption and production, and you do limit it, when you enact that gold, at a fixed price, shall be the sole distributive agent. When the gold quits the country, the country is then in the state of a street, along which the thoroughfare is impeded, by repairing the sewers. In both cases, distribution ceases. Adam Smith has compared money to a road. We widen and multi ply our roads as trade and population increase; but, most inconsistently, we narrow and diminish our money. Our accumulated property, visible and tangible, swells from year to year, yet we will not allow that property to augment the number of its symbols or re presentatives. Thus we make every description of property , subservient to that particular property called gold, and there fore the holders of the gold are the masters, the absolute and despotic masters, of all the skilled and unskilled labour in the country. More than that; if the gold is exported, the fo reigner does in effect become the temporary master of British property, for large quantities of that property must be given to the foreigner to get back the metal. Our conclusion that if railway proprietors are wise, they will unite together for a repeal of the money laws, and insist on issuing their own notes on the guarantee of their respective lines. THE LATE STORM. (From the John o' Groat Journal of the I ith instant.) The wind on Wednesday week blew from an easterly direction, and raised in our bay a swell greater than any of our oldest citizens ever remember. To look from any direc tion, the sea presented a scene of wildness and terrific fury, which no pai can adequately pourtray. The mountain billows, as they dashed against the shore, drove every. thing before them, and covered the 'ground to an incre dible distance with spray, so much so, that a number of corn fields are entirely destroyed, and at several sta tions along the coast, boats which were supposed to have been drawn up far beyond the reach of the sea are much injured. During the continuance of this fear ful gale, a great number of vessels passed our shores, some of them bearing signals of distress, and it is much feared that many a sad and heartrending tale of woe will have to be told as the result of the storm. So far as we have learned, no great injury has been done in or to the harbours or creeks along: our coasts. At Pultneytown harbour, it was once feared some disasters might occur amongst the shipping lying there, as the sea was snaking a clean breach over the South Quay, and even the inner harbour, hitherto considered secure, was in a state of considerable commotion with the swell. Providentially, however, no injury was done, save the break ing of a few ropes, every precaution being taken by all con cerned to prevent the occurrence of any catastrophe. " Dnring the gale, a Russian brig, name unknown, since put into £onghope, had the mate and one of the seamen washed overboard. The cook had three of his ribs broken, and others of the crew were more or less injured. At the same time, stancheons and rails were carried away, and the cabin skylight broken. A vessel from North America was also driven ashore at Longhope, but it is expected she may be got off without much damage. It is much to be dreaded that, when the whole news of the gale shall have been added together, it will present a catalogue of loss, both by sea and land, of the most deplorable character. In the interior of the countr, the storm raged with unabated violence, and a good deal of injury has been done to the crops. Such was the tremendous surf along the coast, that, between Pulteney town and Scarlet, several dead ling and skate were Could lying in the fields.:at a considerable distance from the' high water mark. On Sabbath, the gale moderated, and we were favoured with a lovely but most delusive day; for, on Monday, the stonn egain broke out with great violence, and the sea raged with extreme fury. On Tuesday, the weather became once more traeuil, and we would lain hope that we will now be visited with more genial and agreeable times, for at least a few weeks, until the precious fruits of the earth shall have been wholly taken in in safety. e lllSl.eeacsi received ;IN:7:d given.a , n ts d tNN S: o t r lN o v ; s a v , ' iL e is a en c e o l ia f i led Kirkwall at the teei wrecks It ,eems there is much loss of shipping in the Orkney d nut e a tr i t l l e e r! 3 ja r i i s l ionth t a l as : () s u l f a i t! the full Pa a the S s t t r c e A n i s n a e ; and left. three j‘ce also informed that a large vessel, • supposed to be from the Baltic with emh- r . , was also lost, with all on board off one of the Zetland island s ." , The Right lion. George Dawson and Captain 11. P. Dawson have left Sir Robert reel's, Drayton Manor, for Cast!. Dawson, Inland. Mrs. Dawson is visiting her brother, Mr. Lawrence Paz!, at Kemp-town, Brighton. Gls3d ;~ 3% 4% 259 ii . ip! 19g p 20s p 21s p