The Sun. — London, England, 1836-09-26 00:00:00

rect arrivals rom 7""' Madrid will prove all that relates to the s t ate of the capital in this official communication to be a pure fiction. The great Anarchists, of which the French Government has such a horror, are the Constituti on a n d M ENDIZABAL. France—or rat h er 1 4 _. °ut s PHlLlPP E —h av i ng reso l ve d upon a dissolu tion of the quadruple alliance, we may henceforth pre pare ourselves for receiving no official news from Paris favour a bl e parties to the C ons ti tut i ona l cause . Of th e Liberal in Spain and Portugal no Member will hence forth, escape the censure o f t h e F renc h Mi n i s t er i a l i rem but the two Queens, CHRISTINA and MARIA. which the obviousness of the mot i ve induced the French Government to give dis patches so unfavourable to the QUEEN in the official colu mns of the Moniteur, it is right that we should mention that the report of General ALAN, which by . I mplicati on proves the first despatch to be a fabrica tion, appea rs i n anot h er part o f t h e same num b er o f th e Moniteur. According to the despatch, GomEz entered Requena on the 11th. Now, General ALAIX, wr iting from the same neighbourhood at a late hour on the 14th, pledges himself that up to the moment at W hich he wrote t h e C ar li sts h a d not attac k e d t h e to wn, nor in fact had they approached it sufficiently near to menace it with any danger to the inhabitants ! The Journal des Debats of Friday has an article 111 which it congr a t u l a t es Fr a nce on the prosperity of i udu strY, and the absence of all idle and extravagant e i ec ulation, th roug h out t h e country . Th ere i s not hi ng t I°lv--nothina factitious in the impulse given to trade The Merchants and Manufacturers are said ot to b e at all apprehensive of evils against which the y have en d eavoure d to prov id e ; t h e B an k i s amp l y su pp l ied with co i n ; an d t h ere i s no excess i n th e p a p er Issues of the nation. The Debats admits that every e v em mercial s h oc k f e l t i n E ng l an d must exten d to ran ee ; but it expresses a belief that the passing tem pest which threatens this country now, will pass over 'rance without injury to its trade or commercial re lations in any shape. °4 Th urs d ay IsTurtrz, the late Spanish Premier, ha d an audi ence o f t h e K ING . H e was presente d b y Gener all A . ALA VA , w h o s till rema i ns i n P a ris. The i' ar gnia de M IR A FLO RE S is also a sojourner in the rel ich capital. Shortly after the presentation of . 8117 RIZ) SENOR DE CAMPUZANO, the new Spanish 4 b inb assador, arrived in Paris. CORDOVA is at 15 ordea ux. Th a e Journ a l d u C ommerce o f Friday last contains very sensible article, by way of commentary, upon 7 .se rvations w hi c h a pp eare d i n the leading columns of 4 e Sun of last week, with respect to the Spanish r i estio n . O ur Parisian Contemporary comp l a i ns, an d e th some justice we confess, that we do not suffi 2ently bear in mind that the Press of France is gagged, .ind . theref ore canno t s p ea k w h a t it thinks. Th e ;der the n goes on to o b serve t h at h e qu it e agrees with us in a ll we h ave sa id res p ec ting the F renc h g.,t ev ernment, but that the law of the 11th of etober, prevents the Journal du Commerce from Sher expressing its own opinions or quoting ours. e sympathise deeply with the Liberal Press of France, and sorry should we be to attribute their e nmpuls ory silence, under such circumstances, to a sla vish devotion to the will of the Government. But w hen the Journal du Commerce was convinced of the rectitude of the opinions put forth in The Sun—when lt was prepared to admit that the French Government Wa s in the very act of betraying the liberties of Spain— was it well to attack us for denouncing the treason, and Petuting out the traitor ? , etters and Papers from Madrid to the 17th inst. ghe been received. The QUEEN REGENT has pub ;leveral decrees since the formation of the Cabinet, : ri le of whi c h are very i mportant , th oug h qu it e unne s'ary to be given a t f u ll l eng th. By one of these the karquis of RO D I L i s or d ere d to re p a i r immedi atelY to the Army of th e C en t re to re - organ i ze it, i n no tz fortnity with the necessities of the country. His eellency is also to trace out a plan of the campaign 41)0 14 t o b e commenced, which the Generals will be ° lliged to follow. He is also to prescribe to the Gene talt 'ie-Chief all measures which he may thi n k necessar y 'rush the spirit of rebellion in Valencia and Arra '''3ll' He is next to proceed to the army of the North, tl d there exercise a precisely similar authority. For Purpose the QUEEN invests him with the unli :rite(' power which the Constitution places at the dis r:4 of th e Crown in all cases of like emergency. An 6"er decree provides for the free election of the e ° , ll " in accordance with the provisions of the Con ini'lltien of 1812 ; a third provides for the re tiistalment of individuals in certain offices which e y held prev i ous to t h e a b o liti on o f the Con wttition by F ERDINAND VII.; and a fourth or dersi that the p roper ty o f all persons who have clan stirhely left Sp a i n s i nce the 15th of August last, f 4ll be confiscated to the Crown for the benefit t i t he Stat e . Th e l ast i s a b o ld me asure, and will C °11) t-liess occasion many individuals to join Don I N T 4lt tos who otherwise would have remained neutral. tieevertleless, the recent flights of whole families clan 18ctillely from M a d r id l e f t Ministers no other alter- Ir et , e ; and even yet they offer to cancel the decree as t v „, t ' , 4l.d s perscns who will return to their own coun li aad put themselves under the protection of the r e v s ' The d ecree i s n ot definit e , b u t su bj ec t to the th e of the Cortes, who alone are to decide upon R fiat, its of the claims of the refugees. General ob i _ e ven . was to leave Madrid for the army on the inst. Thr thif ß iiss question is likely to involve France in e l r e j ul tift from which she will be sorely perplexed to the ' h eat e 'he ' rself with honour. The absurd menace of ex pr : ll . " de MONTEBELLO has been followed by the . B Pan o f sentiments in the Diet which have d ti, e t l the ve.nity of Louis PHILIPPE. The Ci .eo bl ltlt r - t r; l4 G has therefore, it is reported, accredited the th e e- s°gDUKE to demand satisfaction of the Diet for la no t1 )1e e3uage employed by it—under a renewal of the pl, at ... a • `" block a de in good earnest. To add to the per mit Y Ol the Directory, the Emperor of RUSSIA has -res se ,i -• a note to the Imperial Envoy at Berne, ex -sun support given by him to th, g satisfaction at the - e e j natl ds mad e by the French Ambassador. This of 't t , h as been placed in the hands of the Executive . Fed eral Government, so that another sitting of ti 01e Diet is rendered imperative. It is, we think, high 4 1 e t f f England to interfere with a view to put 4 l e -11'4 to this farce. The conduct of France from e‘ i nt "in meneeme n t was to the very last degree . em ptible ; nor can we wonder at t h e s t ro ng m att gnat '" expressed by the Swiss Representatives, n b iwto essing the miserable perfidy to which the to , a ssodor o f a great nation resorted, in orde r ~ Pin de hi s , himseir.oaysaiMaster with an opportunity of The g unarateful as he is tyrannical. rettii bas e intrigues of the French Government are growinghi i nsufferable. Of course we lay no L am : the p eop l e : they are as honest as they are L 7 0 ,; The K m , is the so l e au thor of the crooked y which we thus repudiate. Ge man r f t . 0 _ and Brussels• papers have been received, which extracts will be found in another column. tlk g ret to state th at the cholera rages in B o h em i a, -th e tyro], and t h rough the whole of Upper Italy. A lc : ll°w i"6" extract is n ot g i ven e l sew h ere : u official account has now been taken of the damage done by the earthquake of :the 12th June in the district of the Cesola, in the province of Treviso, where it was the most violent. Of 1,943 buildings in the parishes of that district, 100 are entirely thrown down, and 692 more or less damaged." A letter will be found in another column of our pa per of this day, addressed by Mr. BAINES to Mr. O'CONNELL, in reply to some allusions which the latter Gentleman made to the former a few days since, in a communication to the Editor of the Carlisle Journal. In this letter the Member for Leeds repeats the expression of his dislike to entertaining the ques tion of Peerage Reform, because " justice to Ireland and the firm establishment of free institutions in Eng land, may be effected" without it. Now, however we may be inclined to agree with Mr. BAINES on 'other points, we differ with him entirely on this. Free institutions—free at least in the sense in which the Reform Bill has taught us to interpret the word free dom—will never be gained either by England or Ireland, until the Lords, like the two other branches of the State, are made directly responsible to the people for the exercise of their legislative trusts. This is no ran dom assertion—no abstract theory on our part—but an inference warranted by premises ; a settled conviction resulting from an attentive consideration of the conduct of the Upper House during the last two or three Sessions. What tendency to liberality have their Lordships shown during this eventful period ? What sympathy with the interests of the many, in pre ference to those of the few—what capacity for appreciating the character of the times in which they live ? Has the beneficent and enlightened spirit of the Reform Bill yet penetrated their councils, and exerted a salutary influence on their votes ? Has it taught them the valuable lesson that the age of King WILLIAM is not that of King GEORGE ; that the mass who were once ignorant are now enlightened; and that as times change, they must change too ? Not a bit of it. The same prejudices—the same fancy for an intolerant system of legislation which the Lords possessed years ago, they possess still. From such men, therefore, too old to learn, too proud to heed a warning, we feel convinced—in direct contradiction to Mr. BAINES'S hypothesis—that " free institu tions" are not to be expected. What then remains for us to do ? Why this—either to remove the stumbling block that obstructs the progress of Reform, or else to allow Reform itself to become a bye-word—a mockery —a thing to praise in theory, but repudiate in prac- tice. One or other of these alterations we must de cide upon, and that shortly too, for it is impossible for us to go, on as we have done during the last Session, with a Constitution balanced trimly enough in fiction, but wholly off its equilibrium in fact. But Mr. BAINES is of opinion that the great obstacle to Reform is to be found in the construction of the present House of Commons. " Let the constituencies (says he), in England, Ireland, and Scotland, at the next general election, return to the House of Commons, what they are perfectly competent to do, 400 Reform Members out of the 658, and the Irish Church Bill with its ap propriation clause—the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill—the English Registration Bill—the Municipal Trustees Charities Bill—the Bill for the Abolition of Church -rates, and all the other Bills that are ne cessary for good Government, whether national or local, in England, Ireland, and Scotland will pass in due time, without any organic change in the constitution of Parliament, and without any revo lution in our system of mixed Government." Surely Mr. BAINES must be aware that this experi ment has already been tried and failed ! It was tried during Lord GREY'S Government, when the House of Commons was almost wholly Ministerial ; and yet even then, the Lords rejected many of the most popular measures sent up to them from the other House. The truth is, they are incorrigible, and Mr. BAINES'S attempt to white-wash them, is as hopeless as it is pre posterous. The Report of the Directors of the Eastern Coun ties Railway, which was read at the General Meeting of the Shareholders of that Company, held to day at the London Tavern, and which will be found in our account of the proceedings of the meet ing, is an important document. Without any of that tone of exaggeration and of self applause which the Managers of such undertakings are too fre quently in the habit of assuming, the Directors of this Comp any, feeling that their cause wants no bolstering up, leave a few plain facts to speak for them, merely contenting themselves with placing these facts, in their proper order, before the share holders and the public. And certainly no facts ever spoke more eloquently. Every paragraph—we might almost say, every sentence of the report—bears testi mony to the sound and far-reaching views of those with whom this great undertaking originated, and to the talent, the enterprise, the consummate skill, with which the working out of the details—if we may so express ourselves—has been conducted, through no ordinary difficulties, to a successful termination. We congratulate the shareholders on their good fortune, in having the management of their affairs con signed to such able hands, and also on the confident expectation announced by the Directors that they will ultimately be rewarded by a dividend of 22 per cent. on their capital, which happiest of all practical results we see no reason to doubt. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S. ) DEAL, SEPT. 24.—Wind W. S. W. ; 25, W. S.W.—Ar rived the Eleanor, Pockley, from the South Seas ; Calypso, —, New Phoenix, Barton, Isabella, Langshire, and Vere, Ro berts, from Africa ; Hammond, —, from St. Vincent's ; Planter, Ridge, and Las. Ray, —, from Jamaica ; Ocean, Kinderwall, from St. Kitt's ; Sappho, Forbes, from Hondu ras ; James, Allaid, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick ; Flora, —, from Trieste ; Charles, —, from Bayonne. Ar rived from the river and procqeded, the Gradius, Page, for New Orleans ; Nautilus, Luckie, for Demerara; Coquette, Henry, for St. Lucia; Malcolm Brown, Wells, for Cadiz; and Guinean, Brewer, for Cape Coast. Put back and re main, the Nautilus, —, for Demerara; Gradius, for New Orleans; and Jas. Cruickshank, Young, for Demerara. STANGATE CREEK, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the St. Lawrence, Huggup, from Odessa ; Joseph Fewbon, Henderson, from Leghorn ; and Conception, —, from Barcelona. MARGATE, SEPT. 25.—Arrived off port the Vansittart, Marquis, from China; and William, Hadnett, St. Vincent's. COWES, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Neptune, Ward, from Bahia; and Cimba, Schmidt, from Boston. TORBAY, SEPT. 25. —Arrived the Matilda, Moore, from Galipoli. TElGNmourit, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Sarah, Ley, from Miramichi. DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Arrived off port, the Helen, —, from Jamaica; Campbell, James, from Tobago ; and Veso, M`Neil, from Cuba. Ina OP WWII; SEPT. 25.—Arrival off, the Barbara, Wood, from Sierra Leone. MILFORD, SEPT. 24.—Arrived the Merarida, Colgin, flout Alexandria. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 24.—Wind W. N. W. ; 25, W.._. Arrived off port the Baldwin, Baynes, and his Majesty's ship Firebrand, —, from Halifax—came from London; Jordeson, Jordeson, from Demerara; Yselmo, Capraico, from Teneriffe. Sailed the Dart, Ormston, for Madeira; and his Majesty's ship Athol, for Guernsey. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind W. S. W.—No arrivals nor sailings. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 23.--Wind W. S. W. ; 24, W. N. W.—. Arrived the Tyrian Packet, —, from Lisbon ; sailed 12th inst. ; p a lmyra, Loader, from C ey l on. S a il e d t h e Ph oe nix Steamer, We understand that Sir William Molesworth is travelling in Germany, and that he is now probably at Prague. His Excellency Baron Bulow, the Prussian Mi nister, with the Baroness, family and suite, the Countess Zakreuski and family, Mr. Hartley, &C., were among the nu merous passengers to Hamburg .i on , Saturday morn i ng , by the General Steam Navigation Company s new river-built splendid and powerful steam-ship the John Bull. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT. 24.—We have had a good demand for cotton to-day, the sales fully 5,000 bags (including 2,000 common Americans, at Bd. to 8;1(1.) at an advance generally of per lb. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26. 1836 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Wm. Withers was indicted for unlawfully having in his pos session seventeen gilt sixpences, with intent to pass thou as half sovereigns. Man= The prisoner was a tradesman residing at Wycombe. On the 13th of September he was proceeding up Great Surrey - street, when he met with two prostitutes whom he accompanied home. He there showed a quantity of what appeared to be half sovereigns, throwing them from one hand to another. He gave them one a piece and then went off suddenly. They sus pected the money was not good, and one was sent out to follow him. She saw him a few doors off and challenged him with passing bad money, at the same time showing the two pieces in her hand. He made a snatch at them and got hold of one. She called a policeman and gave him into custody, when she observed him throw away a brown paper parcel. It was picked up by a policeman and found to contain seventeen sixpences so gilt as to resemble half sovereigns. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, but strongly recom mended him to mercy, on account of his feeble state of health and his previous good character. The COURT sentenced him to six months' imprisonment, without hard labour. All the other cases tried this morning were Mint cases, and were possessed of no public interest. NEW COURT. John Jackson, 26, was indicted for stealing a shawl, value 55., from the shop of Ann Worms, linen draper, of 164, White chapel-road. The prisoner was obliged to be supported to the bar, and appeared to be labouring under severe indisposition. The case was fully proved, and the Learned Sergeant, in conside ration of his state of health, ordered him to be discharged, for the purpose of being sent to the hospital. James Campbell was indicted for attempting to commit a capital assault upon Sarah Eardley. The prosecutrix was called upon her recognizances, but did not appear, and the prisoner was of course acquitted. Dunstan Corner was indicted for assaulting Thomas Ken nedy upon the high seas, within the jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty. The prisoner is the mate of a vessel trading to the West Indies, and the prosecutor was the carpenter. On the 28th December last the vessel was lying in Morant Bay, Jamaica, and a dispute having taken place between the prisoner and prosecutor, the latter struck him several blows, knocked him down, and his right arm having got entangled between an iron stancheon and the galley, the prisoner pulled him up forcibly, and broke his arm. He was seven weeks lying very ill, from the severe treatment he received. The prisoner was drunk all the time the vessel was lying in Morant Bay. Mr. PAYNE addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and called three or four witnesses, who gave him a good character. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned SERGEANT, after remarking upon the enormity of the assault, sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 1001. to the King, and to be imprisoned until the fine was paid. He regretted that the defendant had not taken the advice that had been offered him to settle the matter with the prosecutor, and if a memorial addressed to the Lords of the Treasury was pre pared, he would himself present it, and endeavour to get for the prosecutor some portion, if not the whole of the fine. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) UNION-HALL. An overgrown Irishman bearing the appropriate cognomen of Siitren, was this morning brought before Mr. WEDGEWOOD, charged with assaulting a diminutive nymph of the pave, named Phcabe Webb. Miss Webb, whose dexter hand was plentifully bedizened with rings, stated that on Sunday morning, about half-past one o'clock, she was in Blackman-street, when the prisoner, who was rather amorously inclined, came up to her, put his hands round her waist, and otherwise treated her very impro perly. She told him he was a great Irish brute, and desired him to go about his business. This he would not do, and witness then told him if he did not she would give him in charge. He then struck her a violent blow in the face, which broke one of her teeth, and she gave him in charge. The prisoner, who said he was sorry for what he had done, was fined 405., and in default of payment, ordered to be com mitted to Brixton for three weeks. John White was charged with assaulting a policeman in the execution of his duty. Willey, a Policeman 170 M, stated that he was on duty in Kent-street at an early hour this morning, when the prisoner's brother, half-naked, came up and asked him, for God's sake, to come to his father's house immediately, or his brother would kill his father. Witness went, and took the prisoner, who was most boisterous, into custody. As they were going to the station-house the prisoner by some means managed to get hold of witness's staff, with which he struck him on the head, and injured him very much. Mr. WEDGEWOOD ordered the prisoner to be fined M., and, in default, to be committed to the House of Correction and hard labour for three months. TOWN-HALL. William Hamilton, an ill-looking fellow, was this day brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLES, charged by Edward Thomas, whose face bore evident marks of the punishment he had received, with having stolen four bird (*ages and four linnets, and with having dreadfully ill-used him when he at tempted to take him for the offdnce. Edward Thomas stated that on Saturday be met the pri soner, and knowing him to be out of work, he took him to the Adam and Eve public house, in the Borough, and gave him a pint of porter. They afterwards went to the Dog and Bear, in Crucifix-lane, where he treated him with some more beer in the tap-room. Having occasion to go backwards, h e left in the care of the prisoner four bird cages and four linnets which were tied up in the silk pocket-handkerchief; on re turning he found the prisoner, the pocket-handkerchief, the bird-cages, and the birds all flown. On speaking to the land lady she told him that the prisoner bad gone out with them. Witness did not discover the prisoner till last night, when he had the greatest difficulty to secure him. Mrs. Udell, the landlady of the Dog and Bear, and her daughter, positively swore to the prisoner as the person who took the property. Thomas had hardly turned his back before the prisoner went off, but as they bad both come in together she had no suspicion that be had gone off with the property improperly. The handkerchief in which the cages were tied was a most remarkable one, and excited Mrs. Udell's cu riosity, it was painted so as to represent sovereigns, Bank notes, and other things. Mr. Alderman VENABLES committed the prisoner for trial. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) The First General Meeting of the Directors and Share holders of the Eastern Counties Railway took place this day, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, H. BOSANQUET, Esq., Chairman of the Court of Directors, in the Chair. The advertisement calling the meeting having been read, Mr. J. C. COBBOLD, of Ipswich, moved, as the first official act of the Company, that the Corporate Seal of the Company be affixed to the Register of Proprietors, now produced. He felt great pleasure at congratulating the Company upon the progress that had been already made by the Company. He had no doubt that it would be most beneficial to the Shareholders and to the public generally. Most of those present were aware that the Company were breaking new ground where neither railways nor steam engines had ever before been introduced, and they would not therefore be surprised to find that the shares were not so extensively taken in that part of the country as in the west. Another cause of the backwardness of the Eastern Counties was the dis tressed state of the agricultural interests throughout the country ; but he would add that there was no doubt of the ul timate success of the undertaking. The motion being seconded by Mr. COLBOURNE, was agreed to unanimously, and the Corporate Seal having been affixed, 1 The CHAIRMAN now felt it his duty to make a few observa- . . _ tions to the meeting, and he would remark that ho fully agreed with the first Speaker, as to the importance of the undertak ing which they were embarked in, and he had no doubt that it would be eventually most beneficial to the country, and to those who had their capital invested in it. The great object of the present undertaking was to secure, in the general competition that was now going forward, to the large districts through which it was intended to run, the large traffic with London, which had for ages been running in these channels. It would tend, he was fully convinced, to effect these objects, and to promote the commerce, trade, and agriculture of the great towns through which it passed. He would in conclusion ob serve, that there was every probability of the eventual success of the undertaking, and of its being an ample source of re muneration to the proprietors, because it was founded upon the broad and stable basis of national utility.—( Cheers.) He would now call upon the Secretary to read the Report to the Meeting. The Chairman then read the following Report : " The Act for the incorporation of this Company, received the Royal Assent on the 4th of July last, and by one of its provisions the first general meeting of the shareholders is appointed to be held within six months after the passing of the Act; but the directors, feeling persuaded that the sooner they could make officially known to the proprietory and the public the actual state and prospects of the understaking, the sooner it would attain that high place which it is entitled to hold in public estimation, have called this meeting within less than three months from the date of the Act—on the earliest day in fact that the time unavoidably occupied in organizing the esta blishment of the Company, and in auditing the expenses in curred in its formation, could possibly allow. " Nearly three years have now elapsed since the design of the Eastern Counties Railway was first given to the public, and several preliminary surveys made, but it is not more than ten months since it can be said to have taken any considerable hold on the public mind. The month of October last was far advanced before a provisional committee of sufficient weight was formed for the prosecution of the undertaking, and there then remained but six weeks within which to make all the neces sary preparations previous to going to Parliament in the ensuing session. Within this brief space, the whole line of a hundred and twenty-six miles, the longest that is yet in progress in any part of the kingdom had to be surveyed, and the maps and sections required by the forms of Parliament prepared—the whole of the owners and occupiers too, for a breadth of half a mile, had to be can vassed for their assents, that extreme breadth being taken in order to allow ample scope for such alterations as circumstances might afterwards render expedient. Even when the requisite plans, sections, and books of reference had by extraordinary exertions on the part of the engineers and their assistants-- exertions which the directors honestly believe to be without a parallel in the history of such undertakings—been deposited in due time, there yet remained much to be done, in order to obtain for the undertaking an adequate share of public confidence. Early in November the Chairman and two other Members of the Provisional Committee had made a pro gress through Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, for the purpose of personally representing to the leading gentlemen of these counties, the claims which the undertaking had to their coun tenance and support ; and also of calling public meetings of the inhabitants to investigate and decide on its merits, and the demonstrations of local approbation which this deputation were the means of eliciting, were so numerous and decisive, as to leave the Committee in no doubt that they had the hearty con currence of the counties in their endeavours to carry out the plan to a successful conclusion. But though the good-will of the counties had certainly been conciliated, the confidence of the monied interests of the country, from whom alone could be ex pected the bulk of the large capital required for its execution (the largest subscribed during the past year for any Railway project) had still to be gained. The various steps taken to this end, the Directors need not stop to detail ; it may suffice to state that by the choice of active and judicious agents, and without having recourse to any adventitious aids to stimulate the spirit of adventure, by simply making known, far and wide, the sterling merits of the undertaking, the greater part of the capital was subscribed before the second reading of tile Bill. In point of numbers, the shareholders residing in or connected with the counties themselves, bore a fair proportion to those having no local interest in the line, but the amount of capital subscribed for by them was little more than one-twelfth of the whole. Without the powerful assistance, therefore, derived from other and distant parts—from Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Bath, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin—and, above all, from Liverpool, the opulent and intelligent citizens of which, ever foremost in the encouragement of great enterprises, at once subscribed for upwards of 12,000 shares of this Com pany's stock, it may with perfect truth be said that the under taking must have fallen (for the present at least) to the ground. " Notwithstanding the success which had so far crowned their exertions, the Directors were still but in the midst of their difficulties. A Parliamentary opposition had yet to be encountered—an opposition, as it happened, of a more than usually obstinate character. There were two rival lines in the field, both of more recent suggestion than the Eastern Coun ties Railway—neither of them well suited to the wants of these counties—but both, nevertheless, very respectably sup ported. There was also a formidable array of dissenting owners and occupiers, headed by gentlemen of great Parlia mentary influence, and to all appearance irreconcileably op posed to the undertaking. It was, under these circumstances, with no ordinary anxiety that the Directors proceeded be fore Parliament, and by no ordinary exertions that they were enabled to maintain their ground there, against the serious opposition with which they were met. The second reading of the Bill in the House of Commons was not carried without a division, and on the Committee to which it was referred were several of the most active Members of that minority who voted for throwing it out. So strong, however, was the case proved in evidence for the Bill, and in so con ciliatory spirit were the opposing parties met and arranged with out of doors, that in a short time all opposition was at an end, and the Committee unanimously agreed to a report to the House in favour of the measure, which concludes in the fol lowing highly recommendatory terms :—' Your Committee think it right to add, that according to the evidence adduced, the Eastern Counties Railway between the termini would tra verse the most populous and most cultivated parts of the counties through which it is intended to be carried, and that great benefit would be given to trade and agriculture by its adoption.' " After the Bill had passed the Commons, several new and powerful opponents sprung up, but the Directors, by meeting the parties with the same promptness and in the same fair spirit which had carried them successfully through their pre vious negotiations, effected amicable arrangements with them also, and the Bill was finally passed by the House of Lords as one which was now on all hands allowed to have for its object the accomplishment of a measure of great public utility. The Directors, in giving this brief history of the undertak ing, would have been disposed to dwell less on the difficulties they have had to encounter and have overcome, could they by a more reserved course have equally well justified to their constituency the price at which success has been purchased. " The Shareholders will see, in the speed with which the Parliamentary Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference were undertaken—in the more than usual breadth of country which was surveyed—in the great number of persons that it was requisite to employ for that purpose at a time when hands for employment of this description were scarce, and their terms of remuneration proportionably high— in the numerous agencies which had to be put in motion in order to raise so large an amount of capital—in the many op ponents who had to be negotiated and arranged with—and in the very short period within which nearly the whole of these things were transacted—the Shareholders will see in all this reason- sufficient for anticipating a much larger amount of ex penditure than would under less extraordinary circumstances have certainly sufficed. " As it is, however, the Directors believe that, compared with other Railway contests, this will not be found to have been more costly than usual ; and instead of having occasion to bespeak your patience for an exhausted exchequer, they are happy to announce that great as their expenditure has been, they have still on hand a large and unencumbered balance. " From the balance sheet annexed, it will be seen that the total receipts of the Company up to the present date, amount to 61,8451. 2s. 9d. The claims brought against the Com pany have, by a careful revision, and allowances conceded for prompt payment, been reduced by 2,3831., making the nett amount of the expenditure 36,.`,61/. 19s. 2d., deducting which from the monies received (61,8451. 2s. 9d.) the balance re maining in hand is 25,8451. 2s. 9d. " When the Directors look to the magnitude of the object which th e sum t h us expen d e d h as been the means of achieving, they think they may fairly congratulate the Shareholders upon the general result. In a single Ses sion, with no more d e l ay t h an t h e f orms o f P ar liament rendered unavo id a bl e, t hi s C ompany h as o b ta i ne d of Incorporat . h for whichothe r have bad lon—t at to struggle through several sessions, and to pay to ice and secures thrice as much,—an Act of Incorporation, too, whic h to diem the perpetual proprietorship of one of the best lines of railway in the whole Kingdom, with all the great profits le gitimately derivable from it. " The Eastern Counties is not only the longest integral line of Railway which has yet obtained the sanction of Par liament, but traverses a larger e xtent of cultivated and highly productive country than any other—those districts from which its Act the immense pop u l at i on ..of the metropolis derives its chief sup plies of agricult ura l an d m arine produce. " From the p en i nsu l a r character, too, of this portion of England, washed as it is on three sides by the German Ocean and the Thames, it is obvious that a main trunk line which follows as this does the ancient and long established course of traffic, and touches at nearly all the places of greatest busi ness, must draw and keep to itself the great bulk of the car rying trade of the district. Other railways may be interfered with, but this never can. As a great main -line, it must al ways stand alone, dividing with no other railway, though re ceiving the tributary contributions of many. " Another novel and important feature of the Eastern Counties line, is that, notwithstanding its great length, there will not from beginning to end be a single tunnel. " If at one or two points it goes wider off considerable towns than could be wished, this has arisen from no indifference to the wants of those places, but from the necessity of consulting the general interests of the whole line, and of the majority of those who are to use it, in preference to all minor conside rations. " The Eastern Counties Railway will have completely ful filled the purpose for which it was designed if it serve as the great trunk line of this part of the kingdom, from which branches may radiate into as many of the outlaying districts on both sides as possess traffic enough to pay for the superior means of communication. " Already not less than six Railways branching from the Eastern Counties have been projected with apparently fair prospects of success, all of which, when executed, must con tribute more or less to swell the profits of this Company with out involving the necessity of any addition whatever to its capital. " The Directors desire particularly to call attention to the Thames Haven Railway, for which an Act of Parliament was obtained in the last Session of Parliament, and which is to branch off from the Eastern Counties at Romford. The ca pabilities of this line are undeniably great. Were it to do no more than introduce into the heart of Essex a more abundant supply of coal, it would confer an incalculable advantage on that county, and pay the adventurers well ; but should it also become, as its projectors confidently anticipate, the Great Channel for the conveyance of an article of such universal consumption as coal to the Metropolis, it would be difficult to assign a limit to its value in a financial point of view. " The point chosen for its seaward termination offers also such facilities as a steam packet station, that there seems strong reason to hope for a large accession of passenger-traf fic to both Railways from this source. " Next in local order follow the Maldon, Witham, and Braintree, the Harwich, the Ipswich and Bury, the Beccles, Bungay and Harleston, and the Norwich and Leicester branches, which embrace among them nearly all the principal towns of the three counties, which were necessarily left at a distance in the setting out of the main trunk line, but will be now brought by these branches into immediate and productive connection with it. " To these branches there is yet another to be added, which, though not projected with a view to the wants of any part of the districts immediately intersected by the Eastern Counties Railway, will in all probability prove one of its most valuable tributaries. The Directors allude to the recently projected line of Railway from London to Rochester and Chatham, through Essex, the communication between the opposite sides of the Thames being effected by a short steam ferry at Til bury and Gravesend. By taking advantage of the Eastern Counties and Thames Haven lines for about seventeen miles of the entire distance, tis Railway will be executed for one fifth of the cost of any line that can be executed along the Kentish side of the River. Although this line takes what may at first sight seem a circuitous course, it will, in fact, be little longer than a straight line between the two termini, and exceed by one mile only the distance by the present high road. The number of passengers to and from those parts of Kent, to which this Railway will present the shortest possible communi cation with the Metropolis exceeds at present one million, and in assuming that one-fourth only of this immense passenger traffic will fall to the share of this Railway, this will add 25,0001. per annum to the revenue of the Eastern Counties Railway, from a source never thought of or taken into account in the original calculations of its promoters. According to the estimates which were produced in evi dence before the Committee of the House of Commons, and reported by that Committee to be verified to their satisfaction, the traffic of the Eastern Counties Railway will yield a return of 22 per cent. on the capital required for its formation. The Directors have since tested this result in a variety of ways, but so far from seeing any reason to doubt its accuracy, they incline to think that the real facts of the case would have fully justified even a higher estimate. No credit what ever was taken in the Eastern Counties Railway Estimates for any of the passenger traffic from transmarine sources, as that traffic was at best of a contingent character. But unless the Directors are' greatly mistaken, the traffic from these sources alone will suffice to pay the entire expense of working the line leaving all the revenue derivable from the home traffic to count as so much clear gain. The counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk stand in such a geographical position as regards the Northern Continent of Europe and the Eastern coast of Scotland, as to offer the nearest route by railway from all these parts to the British Metropolis; steam vessels from any continental port north of the Texel, or from any port on the east of Scotland, by put ting into Yarmouth, which they can now do with the greatest facility at all times of the tide, and landing their passengers there, will enable them to reach London by the Eastern Coun ties Railway from 15 to 24 hours sooner than they can now do by water, and on occasions of contrary weather even two days sooner. To the steam packets again from the more southern ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Ostend, and Dunkirk, the Port of Harwich will present an equally accessible harbour from which the passengers may with a proportionate saving of time, proceed to London by the Harwich branch of the Eastern Counties line. Yarmouth and Harwich were, it is well known, formerly the principal packet stations on the Eastern Coast of England, but lost that traffic through the introduction of steam navigation. It was then found that by dispatching the Hamburgh and other North of Europe mails by steam vessels direct from the Thames, even though these vessels should not leave the river for 8 or 9 hours after the mails were made up, the land journey to the outports was saved, and the mails conveyed to their destination in less time and with more certainty than could be done by steam vessels from any other part of the coast. But as soon as a Railway communication is established with Harwich and Yarmouth, all this advantage will be lost to the Thames. The damage which steam has done to these ports as packet stations, the same mighty power will yet be the means of amply repairing. For by sending off the mails by the Railway to Harwich and Yarmouth as soon as made up, which is not later than twelve o'clock at night, they will reach these ports by the same hour of the morning at which they now leave the Thames. One half the voyage will be saved, and an entire day and often much more gained in the course of post. And thus, in the same way that the modern steam vessels supplanted the old sailing packets, may we surely reckon on seeing the steam carriages of the Eastern Counties Railway restoring to its former course the passenger-traffic and commercial corre spondence between the British metropolis and the whole of the North of Europe. " The Directors beg in conclusion to assure the Share holders that the same spirit of determination which has enabled them to overcome the numerous difficulties which stood in the way of their obtaining the Act for the incor poration of the Company will continue in full vigour till every obstacle to the execution of the trust reposed in them has been also overcome. Immediately on the Act being ob tained, they directed all the necessary measures to be taken for enabling the engineer to commence operations with the least possible delay, at both ends of the line, in order that the two portions of it likely to be the most productive, namely, the London and Romford and the Norwich and Yarmouth, might be the soonest completed and opened; and negotiations for the purchase of the houses and lands required, are already in an advanced state. The expenditure on these parts of the line will be heavier than on any other ; but, in consequence of the considerable balance of the deposits left in hand, it has not been found necessary to make in the first instance a larger call than 11. per share ; which the Directors have no doubt will be responded to with cordial unanimity. The works will be in full progress before any further call is made on the shareholders. " Since the Act was passed, two vacancies have occurred in the list of gentlemen therein nominated, to constitute, for a limited time, the first Board of Directors—one by the la mented death of Mr. Crawford, and the other by the resignation of Mr. The, who has since, with much advan tage to the interests of the Company, been appointed its surveyor. The Liverpool shareholders, who now hold one third of the entire stock of the Company, having, at a public meeting held there, expressed a strong desire that they should be represented in the Board by two or more of their number, the Directors considering this desire to be no more than just and reasonable, have in virtue of the power given them by the Act elected two of the largest shareholders in Liverpool, viz., Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., and Richard Hall, E s q., to succeed Mr. Crawford and Mr. Tite. In thus obeying the voice of are f the large and respectable portion of their constituency, who resident in Liverpool, the Directors are happy to state that they have, at the same time, added to their . body two gentle men, whose assiduous habits of business and intimate acquaint ance with Railway matters, are likely to rendteor ttheeLaecrceesstssio of con sidering a to the direction of the greatest advantage the Company. Act of .e Parliamentetors eac t h he ce p rt i i i ficate of se_ " It may be proper to add, that by the certain fee is authorised to be taken on gistry and each transfer of shares, bfuete that ould im is es Particularly that the levying of such i a n the first sta r lios an unne cessary tax on the shareholders of the undertaking—have ordered that it shall not be enforced. the signed on behalf of tl Directors. " 18, Austin Friars, Sept. 26, 1836." ks E TE,IIN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY. BALANCE SHEEP , JULY 4, 1836. ' ' k .................. 1:61,676 0 0 Deposits received 61.676 Shares Interest ••. ............ . ... ~ ............................. 169 2 9 remaining to be disposed, of at the discretion Share,ohe Directors for the benefit of the Com pany--2,324. Cr. £61,845 2 9 By expended. For Surveying and valuing 126 i miles, and 15 miles of variati on li nes .. £4,826 12 1 Engineering ....................................... 6,408 15 4 Books o Canvassingf Owners and Occupiers, preparing Reference, and proving the se before b ot h Houses of Parliament-93 jait nessos Survey of Traffic. Travelling Expenses of Provisional Committee 525 13 3 and Officers ••• Engravi ng an d P r i nt i ng 1,250 16 11 Advertising an d N ewspapers ....... 168 1 1 Maps, Statio ner y, an d C opy i ng ......—. Solicitors' Bill s f or p re li minar y proceedings expenses of obtaining the Act 5,796 15 3 and Expenses of Witnesses to Traffic, v alue of Land, &c., and generally in favour of the Bill Parliamentary Agent . 364 3 5 1,523 8 7 Fees of Act of Parliament SMITHFIEL] The supply to this day's marke dull, at the following PRICES PER STONE OF BLI S. d. to s. d. interior Beasts 2 0 2 4 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 6 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 C Prime small ditto 4 2 4 8 Slckling Calves each l6 u 35 0 I MARKET. was moderate, and the trade was 1. TO SINK TliN OFFAL% s. d. to s A. Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6 Second qual►ty ditto 2 8 3 0 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 310 Southdown Wethers Large Hogs 3 6 310 Small l'orkers 4 0 4 6 Quarter old Pigs ' each) 12 0 20 0 SUPPLY, AS PER. CLENI, S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep Calves. I Pigs. 94 3,743 I 700 I 115 510 About 2340 of the Beasts came up the St. Alban's road; about 1000 up the other northern reads; annul VSO (including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 150 from Norfolk, Su fthlk, Essex, an d Cam bridgeshire ; about 40 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of jhe remainder from the marshes. &c. in the neighbourhood of London. - NENVGATE AND LtA At per stone, I s. d. tos d s. *l. to s. d. 2 2 2 4 Mutton., inferior ......... 2 4 2 ' ___---- i m )r l i d m d e ling ........ 3 0 2 2 Beef, inferior '3 4 3 S 3 El 3 4 Perk, large 1 6 310 prime mall 310 4 4 --small 4 4 4 8 _ p in ri i i cl n d e l i 1 n a g r? .......... 3 2 0 6 10 . Veal Lamb 3s `2.d. to 3s. Sd. .DENHALL MARKETS. by the Carcass. ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET. This day's supply consisted of 138 Beasts, 2519 Sheep and Lambs, and I Calves. The. trade was dull throughout at the following prices per stone of Sib, sinking the offals : Beef :ls. 2d. to 4s. Od. I Veal Os. Od. to 45. 4d. Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pork 0 0 0 0 ainh . ............ 4s. Od. to 4s. at Ihe Uhair at the Liverpool dinner to Lords Mel hcouuArrrnirieo,.R eaindsq.J. Russell will be tak en b y t h e M ayor , W a llace —E LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Mr. Col burn, who has removed Vs business to 13, Great Marlborough street, announces for speedy appearance the following most interestin g Work;:-1. Memoirs of the Court of George IV., by a Deceased. Nobleman, 2 vols.-2. Posthumous Memoirs of a Pecre3s, edited by the Lady Charlotte Burv, 3 vols.- 3. Love ; a Novel, by the same distinguished Lady, 3 vols.- 4. A New Work, by Henry Lytton Bulwer, Esc', M. P. , 2 vols.-5. Fielding, or Society, by the author of " Tre main," and " De Vere," 3 vols.-6. A New Work, by the author of " Vivian Grey," 3 vols.-7. The Secret History of Spanish America, by H. G. Ward, Esq., M. P., 2 vols.- 8. Woman and Her Master, by Lady Morgon, 3 vols.-9. Uncle Horace, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, 3 vols.-10. A Story of the Reign of George 11., by Miss Landon, 3 vols.-11. The Autobiography of William Godwin, author of " Caleb Wil liams," 2 vols.-12. A New Novel, by the author of " B ram .. bletye House," 3 vols.-13. Flitting% of Fancy, by Robert Sulivan, Esq., 2 vols.—And 14. A Revised Edition of the Correspondence of Horace Walpole with George Montague, E sq . ; __a Companion to his Correspondence with Horace Mann, 3 vols. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Compasses, Vauxhall, on the body of William Streeter, aged 29, who was scalded to death on Wednesday last at the distillery of Mr. Burnett, of Vauxhall, by falling into a vat of boiling liquor. V e rdict—Accidental death. Drury-lane Theatre will not be opened as soon as was originally announced ; the first night of the season will be Monday next. The orchestra is to be increased to 100 per formers, by taking three seats from the pit. The Marquis of Chandos is entertaining a select party of friends at his seat, Wooton, Bucks. His Grace the Duke of Buckingham, who has perfectly recovered from his late illness, joined the party on Saturday. Sandbeck Park, the scat of the Earl of Scarbo rough, has been visited by a distinguished party during the Doncaster Races. Amongst the assembled guests were 'the Dowager Countess of Scarborough, Lord Portarlington, Lord William Powlett, Count Bathayny, Sir Sandford and. Lady Graham, Hon. Capt. Vyner, Capt. Kaye, &c. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are two French, the Ostend, Dutch and Hamburg, mails ; and ship-letters from St. Kitt's ' Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Barbadoes ; from China, St. He lena, Demerara, Charleston ,Sierra Leone; and Calcutta, of March 22, Ceylon, May 3, and Mauritius, June 1. The Journal du Commerce of Antwerp, received this morn in,g, of yesterday's date, gives the price of the Dutch funds : Amsterdam, Sept. 23, Two-and- Half per Cents., 511; Five per Cents., 99/; Ardoin's Spanish, 231. No political news by the above papers. THE FUNDS. On the panic, which prevailed during last week in our Fo reign Market, having reached Paris, it had the same effect in the French Market. The fall at the Paris Bourse was also assisted by the news of Gen. Gomez and Cabrera having joined their forces, and were about marching on Madrid. These events had the effect to cause Spanish Active to recede to 171; but the last quotation from Paris is 19. The French Rentes experienced also a considerable depression—Five per Cents., 104 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 40c. The Market was again a state of agitation this morning, owing to the considerable fall in the French Market ; Spanish Active, which closed on Saturday at 22, opened at 201 to 21 ; Passive, 71; Deferred, 9} ; Portuguese closed at 501, went down to 48 ; at present may be quoted 48} 49-; Three per Cents, 301 311; Columbian, 22 23 ; Dutch Two-and-a hall, 50k k. Consols continue steady at 88 for the Account. and 87k for money ; Exchequer Bills par, 2 ; India Bonds, 2 4 ; Bank Stock, 206} 2071 ; India Stock, 254, 1 i 2551. LATEST PRICES.—Since the opening - of the Market Con sols have improved to 88i 1; Spanish to 211 -; Portuguese, 50 to 51 ; Three per Cents, 32 to 33. 11 ALE.PAST ONE. We have seen private letters from Lisbon, which state the probability of fresh disturbances taking place in that capital. All the Foreign Ministers at the Court of Donna Maria, with the exception of the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, had protested against the late changes, and suspended their relations with the Queen's Government. Symptoms of mutiny appeared in the barracks of the Cazadores. M. de Campos was spoken of as likely to be placed at the head of a Treasury Commis sion, which was to supersede the old Tribunal del Tesors. Other letters state that if Carvalho had continued firm for one hour longer, and not gone on board the British ship Malabar, the revolution would not have taken place. We hear that a great number of the Government people are on board the British ships in the Tagus. Since the early part of the morning, when the British and an improveme n t h as taken place. are at pre sen t 88} f or th e Account ; Foreig Consols, n F whichun ds were were heavy, vy , for Money, 88ki Exchequer Bills, 2 prem. ; India Bonds, 4 2 4 Prem. ; Bank Stock, 208. In the Foreign Market, Spanish, which was 201, may be quoted at 211 ; Portuguese improved from 47. to 50 ; Three per Cents., which were 30k, are at present 33 ; Co lombian, 221 224 ; Mexican, 23 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., which were 494, are now 511. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 88a. H ORTICULTUR AL GIANTS.—I n th e gar d en of J. H. Calcraft, Esq., M. P., at Rempstone, near Wareham, there have been grown this season, a cucumber 23:} inches long; an onion 16 inches in circumference, and which weighed 18} ounces in its dry state ; and apples 124- inches in circumference.—Dorset Chronicle. The absconding of a factor in hardware a we e k ago, who left behind him a deficit of 2,000,000 francs, has caused numerous failures in the trade, four having lately been declared. There is also a difficulty in the watch and clock trade, one house, well known, having declared a deficit of 400,000 f.-- Paris Paper. SHOOTING PARSONS.—In the published list of game certificates for the county of Derby we observe 22 names with Reverend attached to them ; and in the Yorkshire list there are 91 great Northern Railway Committee, per Mr. Gibbs Other opponents' expcnces 3.36 5 10 Country Agencies .. 3,872 7 6 Office Rent and Expenses, from Sept. 1834 to July 1836 458 15 6 Officers' and Clerks' Salaries for the same period 1,632 6 6 Miscellaneous Expences 2lO 12 2 Balance in hand £61,845 2 9 A PROPRIETOR begged to ask the engineer whether it was intended to make any alteration in the estimates for the making of the viaduct at the commencement of the work? Air. BRAIDTHW4IT replied, that the only alteration he had made in them was a reduction in the amount of the estimates. Mr. THOMAS PRENTICE, of Stowmarket, moved the adop tion of the report. At the same time, he would take the liberty of suggesting, on behalf of proprietors resident in his neighbourhood, the good policy of making an alteration in the line, so that it should pass through Needham Market and Stowmarket. This would give:the line a most commanding and central position, and he was most anxious to see it adopted. Mr. THOMAS EVANS seconded the resolution. He had wit nessed the Parliamentary history of the measure with great anxiety, and he could not allow so valuable and important a report to pass without offering a few remarks. He had witnessed the great efforts of those gentlemen who had the conduct of the Bill, and he was well aware of the difficulties which such an undertaking bad to contend with.—( Hear.) They had discharged their duty most ably and efficiently. The Directors had that day stated what they had done, what they hoped to do, and what they could do ; and if their calculations were erroneous, then it was impossible that any human anticipations could be relied upon. —( Applause.) He felt it his duty to say so ,much from the deep interest he felt in the success of the concern.—( Cheers.) The question was then put, and carried unanimously. Mr. RUGBY could not allow the present meeting to break up without saying a few words, for looking at the promising si tuation in which the undertaking was placed, he felt bound to express his thanks to the Provincial Committee for their great exertions, which had brought' the undertaking to the promising state in which it at present was. He there fore rose for the purpose of not only giving an expression of his own gratitude for those services, but for the purpose of placing on record the sense of the Proprietors.—( Cheers.) He differed most materially on two observations that had fallen from the Chair—one was, that undertakings of this kind could not be impeded or injured even by the want of talent in the Chairman, and the other the disavowal of the Chairman of his talents to fill the Chair.—( Cheers.) It would be supererogation in him to at all descant on the advantages of this great work, because they had been most ably alluded to by the gentlemen who had preceded him. One gentleman in particular, who had shown himself a philosopher of the highest class, had said that the concern would not only be a great pub lic benefit, but highly profitable to the individuals concerned. The report that had been read represented ad vantages that had never before been contemplated—six other branches would pour their traffic into this line.—(Cheers.) Liverpool having supported this line, told, in his opinion ten thousand times more in its favour, as it showed that it was a speculation founded on the basis of great national good and individual profit. The Hon. and Learned Proprietor concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the Provi sional Committee for their great exertions, which was declared to be carried unanimously by the Chairman. Mr. WILLIAM HEATH proposed that the sum of 1,5001. should be given to the late Provisional Committee for their services. The question was put by the Chairman, and also declared by him to be carried unanimously. Mr. WILLIAM HEATII, after paying a high compliment to the Board of Directors, not one of whom he was personally acquainted with, proposed that an annual sum of 2,0001. should be allowed to them as a remuneration for their services. The question was carried amid much acclamation. The CHAIRMAN, on behalf of his brother Directors and him self, returned thanks. Mr. WELLS would not allow the meeting to separate with out proposing a vote of thanks to the engineers and officers of the Company, to whose unwearied diligence and assiduity he could bear the most ample testimony.--( Loud cheers.) It was absolutely necessary when railways wore in progress all over the Continent and in America, that they should en deavour to compete with them, if they vi hished England to remain the mistress of the seas, and the greatest empire in the world.—( Cheers. ) The thanks of the Meeting were then unanimously voted to the Secretary, Engineers, and other Officers of the Company. MI. BRAITIIWAITE, the Engineer of the Company, returned thanks on behalf of himself, the Secretary (Mr. Robertson), and the other officers, and entered into some interesting details relative to the progress of the works, which we have not at present room for. The thanks of the meeting were then given to the Chair man, for his able and efficient conduct in the Chair, and the meeting, which was extremely crowded, broke up. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. There was a large arrival of Wheat last week, but mode rate of other grain. Of Flour the quantity was good. The trade was not brisk during the week, but most sorts of Spring Corn were dearer, having little at market. This morning there is again a considerable supply of Wheat ; of Barley, Beans, and Peas, the quantities have also increased, but Oats still come to hand sparingly. The Wheat trade has been heavy to-day, and only superfine samples have supported last Monday's terms; other qualities are is. to 2s. per quarter lower. Barley has sold with less freedom than last week, and has declined 2s. per quarter. Old Beans are wanted, and are I s. per quarter higher, but the new come tender, and are very difficult to sell. Barley and Grey Peas are each Is. per qr. dearer. Oats are not plentiful, and they have again advanced Is. per quarter since this day sc'nnight, but the sale is slack. The Flour trade is not brisk, and last quotations are unaltered. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) 425. 523 Beans, Small (new) -White (old) 465. 58s. ...- Bed 1836) 4oi. 445. - Tick (new) 313 335. -- Fine 445. 46; --- Superfine 475. 50s. ------ Harrow new) 135.353. -White (1836) 425. 448. ••-.....-......-.... ( old) 383.405. -- Fins 465. 48s. Brank 305.345. -- Superfine 50s. 545. Oats, Feed 213.215. -Foreign free Rye Vs. 345. Poland 231.26 s Barley .6s 28s. New 2211.255. - Grinding 29s 30s. - Potatoe 26. 30s. -- Malting 345. 40s. Malt 465. 525. - Seotch 2os. 30s. - Fine New 545. 655. - Irish 0 0s. 235.263. Pease, Grey, New 325. 345. Flour Town (per sack) 443.483. - Maple New 355. 38s - `•lecond. 383.401. -- White 325. 34.. - North Country 34s 365. - Boilers 365. 42s Bran B, 9, ARRIVALS OF ' 'N LO' - ' V G LAST __ GRAIN Li L, Wheat. English Irish . Foreign 3,158 /NDON DURING LAST WEEK, Carley. Oats. I Flour. 509 qrs. 4,957 qrs. 7,103 sacks 100 3,159 -- - '294 -