The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-08 00:00:00

. ~.,..ei. i ; , ..1e • J0e..,,e,`,..1 ,__,, 7 ttA.;;.0.4 , i •,' ,••••• ...," .' ''' -,,,- --77; ....4 ft .' ' - r4 , 4-• (~ la -Ai THE STTN, LONDON I? ' 1 AP ite c s. "Th I-a I • ~, ' , RAILWAYS AND THEIR hundred and fifty, and requested him to make the first pay- and Fecamp will be quoted at the parquet. In a few days le meet of a fifth of the amount within eight days. This order they will be at London and Liverpool. RESULTS. did not, however, appear to be very strict , for on the 15th &NILE-SWIG AND HALSTEIN.-On the 18th of September ' (--,-,. Ra:sr :lil ' s may be regarded as a new form of landed pro - o f th e f o ll ow ing July the Company, by a circular, requested (just one year after the opening of the Baltic Sea Railway) AN 1. • ,the shareholders have a direct interest in the soil, are the most dependent for the remuneration of their the shareholders to effect their payments as soon as the Rendsburg and Neumunster Railway was opened to the possible, without fixing any decided time. The Pepin public with great ceremony and show. This line has been outlay on the general prosperity of the community. The yLehalleur Company had not, in fact, any necessity for these completed in an incredibly short sp ace of time, viz., five have prepared lines of traffic such as could not have been funds until the publication of the royal ordonnance. On months, and with the exception of the terminus at Rends imagined until they were fast being realised. Pope has the 2d of August the royal ordonnance appeared, and allowed bur e s, which is not yet finished, it is found to answer per ridiculed Dryden for the extravagant wish uttered by one of the several companies competing for the execution of the fectly. The zeal of the directors and engineers has effected his ranting heroes :- northern line until the 25th of August to deposit the this great result. It is now fully shown that the line ope "Ye gods, annihilate both time and space, " caution money," amounting to 30,000,000 for the principal rates most advantageously for the traffic of west and south And make two lovers happy ;" line of the north, and 6,000,000 for the branch from Film- Sehlesein, and its construction having cost no more than but merchants have obtained what was denied to lovers; poux to Razebrouck. The subscribers, then, who had not 43,7501., there can be no doubt of the returns being very steam has " annihilated time and space," but the happiness paid, hastened to pay their instalments ; but on Saturday, great. to be conferred depends upon the use to be made of the ad the 9th of August, the crowd was so great at the place where BAMBERG AND LICHTENFELS.-The Royal North Railway vantage, the money was received, that all who presented themselves from Bamberg to Lichtenfels will be opened on the 15th inst., We are not of those who view the progress of railway specu could not be attended to. Several of them took their money and the journey may then be performed in three hours. It lations with unmixed alarm, " though the cry is still, they on Monde the 11th, but the officers then refused to receive is a distance of fifty miles. reme ;'' their advent appears to us auspicious of advantage to . it-at . least for the present. At that time . negotiations were MOEDLLNG AND LUXEMBURG.-This line was opened on all classes; they bring producers and consumers into imme pending between the Company and that of Rothschild for the Ist of October with all the usual ceremonies. diate contact ; they dispel that mystery which ignorance of the operations of each other threw over the relations by uniting, and as soon as the fusion was effected, the refusal to TELEGRAPHS IN AUSTRIA.-Several engineers have left which they are united ; they enable labour to circulate; receive the first instalment became definitive. By the treaty Vienna for Trieste, commissioned by the Austrian Govern. and they create new varieties of employment for an in- between the Companies, Rothschild accorded to Pepin Lehal- anent to commence a telegraphic communication between creasing population. Their continued extension must hasten leur 30,000 shares, representing in value 15,000,000 francs, Trieste and Venice. With respect to the great projected line the downfal of monopoly, for persons will not long upon the 300,000 shares representing 150,000,000 francs for of telegraphs, it is to be commenced on the line between endure that the value of an immense amount of pro- the sole line of the north. If M. Pepin Lehalleur had dis Vienna and Milan. perty should be made to depend on the most variable tributed the 30,000 shares between all the subscribers, they SWITZERLAND.-Conferences of engineers and statesmen of climate.s and the most uncertain of chances. Pm- would have had a right to one share for every twelve; but are being held in Turin, for the'purpose of constructing a rail prietors will not endure that the price of shares should be in consequence of the omission of their names, those retained way between Turin, through Bunden to the Bodensee. determined by the fluctuations of the barometer. Just at this on the list had one share for nine. He (the Learned moment, while the ardour for obtaining investments so ab- Counsel) maintained that neither M. Barreau nor many sorbs attention as to prevent men from looking forward to the other subscribers, having no propor notice of payment of the LATEST PRICES OF SHARES mean:, of securing sure returns, the question of the perpetua- first fifth, had as much right to be admitted upon the list of IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM tion of traffic may to som e ex t en t escape no ti ce ; b u t it mus t shareholders as those retained upon it, and concluded that come at no distant date, and th en th e ra il wa y aristocracy the Court would declare valid the offers t ey had made. The PANIES' STOCK. - will find that their only safety is in perfect freedom of trade: execution of such a division would be simple, for the Pepin --•esse-- Without adoptina the golden dreams of a recent writer in Lehalleur Com p an y would only have to give them one share From tie Official List, the Westw:nster Review at least to their . i full extent-we out of every twelve. M. Moulin next pleaded the case of M. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVF.NING have a coatid en t b e li e f t h at rai l ways will originate great m- Lagondeix, another of the subscribers. By a letter of the _ern e _ P m vement in agriculture; they supply to the farmer the great 7th of August, addressed to the Pepin Lehalleur Company, incentire of markets for his produce,; and as soon as the M. La g ondeix subscribed for 2,000 shares of 500 francs each, LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7. fernier, distinctly perceive what they are now beginning to amounting to a sum of 1,000,000 francs. A lettre d'avis, JOINT-STOCK nAzirss. lea n, that their prosperity depends upon the prosperity of calling for the first instalment of 200,000 francs within eight their customers, they will identify their interests with those of days, was dated Ist of August, but bore the post-mark of the for the half-past eight o'clock evening N , - ame of Company. Dividend Amount t ) Oe manufacturers, and see that they are themselves in 9th of that month, per of Paid. Price reality manufacturers, and dependent upon the economic laws delivery. The period of eight days, then, as regards M. La- Annum. Share. which render trade prosperous or otherwise. gondeix, would not consequently expire until the 16th. He The progress of railways has shown that each successive presented himself to pay his instalment of 200,000 francs £ a. d. £ s. d. crisis of distress, which has produced much misery and on the 11th of August, and on the following Monday, but Australasia ...... .... 61. p er cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 ritsh North American 4/ per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47% confusion in the commercial world, must be attributed they refused to receive it. As a question of right, M. La- Commercial not to want of capital, but to want of facilities for gondeix differed essentially from that of the other sub- il of London 5/ . . per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 Colonial ... ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 151 its in - vestment in the remunerative employment of scribers, since he did not receive the lettre d'avis until Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 26% labouee Had our commerce been unshackled twenty years so long after date. 111. Chaim d'F.st-Ange then addressed London Joint-Stock... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 the Court for M. Pepin Lehalleur and the Directors - 25 0 0 710 0 ago, capital would not have been sunk in distant mines I==i; .i . ~la. . 81 of the Company. He said he was sure the Court would New..!. a ....... et: -ieerr cent. too 0 0 iii g 0 2801/2 or wasted in foreign loans. It was sent abroad because Ditto, ' confirm the previous decision. The act of the Society passed it could not be profitably employed at ho me. Our National of Ireland -5/. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 20% restrictive laws fixed a limit to production, and tyrannically before M. Casimir Noel, notary, recognised as shareholders Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 3 7 said to every industrial pursuit, "Thus far shalt thou go, and only those who had, according to article 7, effected the Ditto , New.• •• • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 no further." Monopoly aped the attributes of the Divinity, and payment of the first fifth on subscribing, and required the Un ion of ion of Aust ondon. ralia .. • • 51. per cent. 5 .... - 20 0 0 5 0 0 25 0 0 0 13% 25 arrogantly set itself up in the place of Providence. English other payments to be made at a p eriod subsequently indi- Un L 10 0 capital, to escape from its thraldom, sought refuge in adven- cated by publication in a judicial Journal ; but for the first DOCKS. tures that bordered on insanity. Since that time monopoly instalment this publication was not necessary. It was even has slightly relaxed its grasp; the bird of prey, indeed, still at the moment of subscribing that the first instalment Dividend ' Amount clutches us, but the talons no longer rankle in our sides. A should be paid. Subscribers presented themselves in crowds, Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. means of home investment has been opened to us, and its it was true, but very few of them were eager to comply with Annum. ' , Share. onward course must sweep away everything that impedes the conditions of the act of the Societ y . So true was this, that - domestic investment, and its necessary consequence, the free M. Pepin Lehalleur. bound to pay the " caution money o f I £ s. d. £ s. d. development of British industry.-The League. 3C ,eOO,OOO francs," for the two lines on the 25th of August, Jommercial - was not able to obtain from the subscription in both England Jest and West India 5%1. pr cent.l Stock. - 139 - RAILWAY EXACTIONS. art France more than 15,000,000 francs for the Northern L.oanstdoCnountry• . .. 11. per sh. 'lOO 0 0 - 143 e l. pr cent. Stock. 21 - 118% li:,, and 3,000,000 for the branch, so that he had not more St Katharine ........ 5 per cent. , Stock. - 110 (From the First Number of the North British Railway ti... , 1 half the capital necessary. In such a position as this Southampton • • ...... , 41. per cent. , 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 and Shipping Journal, a new Railway Paper, published ho should listen to the proposition of the Rothschild Company. in Glasgow.) Was this fusion contrary to the law? Certainly not. INSURANCE COMPANIES. There is a great desire on the part of every one con- In the discussion in the two Chambers, all the Dividend Amount 'reeled with the management of public conveyance?, sp -titers, and the Ministers, agreed that two or more Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. ',,ilr!in'r these be carried on by means of coaches or ceei p anies mi g ht legally unite. -The subscribers who had Annum. Share, be aso slow to fulfil their engagements chan g ed their minds eenele, by steam-boats or railways, to screw and exact - 'I n they heard of the fusion announced by the newspapers. •£ s. d. £ a. d. front the public the very last farthing that the latter can t ft , tr,l. ‘ l ' : was then that they awoke from their apathy, and came Albion ..... ..... .... 3/. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 fo - ward to claim their saares. It was attempted to prove an Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 The only ca l culation on the part of these individuals, e:•:ception in the case of M. Lagondeix. So, there was a Ditto Marine... .... 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% f , aii to be, not how they can make their trades profit - dl , l*erence. M. Lagondeix produced the circular bearing the Atlas . 138.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16% ( B , ritish Commercial - 7s.per share 50 0 0 50 0 7 i , 1,.., by mi.etirg the demand on fair and equitable terms, postmark of the 9th of August, when everybody knows it was leriel,Metl.&Gen.Life Si. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% 1, ' how, in fact, they can give inferior accommodation, nit the post stamp which made the date certain. 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 r:9s. and } f.: 1 . al. ~;, charges, not altogether amounting to actual N 'thing would be easier, after receiving a letter 40 0 0 5 0 0 - 1 , o',i .iii •re upon travelling. 1 y a messenger or porter of a commercial house, c ' , ounty ............ „ r i 6 5 1 pe .5s r . c b t s . . 1 loin to put it in the post some days after- Ea-1e • • • Lk the ens:: of steam-boats and coaches, however, 1000 0 0 250 0 0 v•ards, in order to give it a false date. He did not say that Economic Life flo r.i is a remedy: the high s( as and the public roads I‘l. Lagondeix had employed this ruse, but lie referred to Eng. & Scot. Law Life l5 /8 4. p 3 e 9 r s et s n . t. 50 0 0 20 0 3 r, re not patois to them, as plant belonging to the medium Cie date i o t f th i e h l t et i t j er, which limited the period to eight days, in, or iip in w hich, they move ; and consequently, steam- though European Life •••• - • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 possiblee that fur certain reasons it was 'abbe •• •••• • • • • 51.. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 I, , .I!.< can oppose steam-boats, and coaches, coaches. re sent to him until the last day but one, to let him know -li ' be 61 Per cent. Stock. 142% 3:tit ',isle railways, as yet, it is a very different matter- Guardian .••••• • • . • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 - 10 0 51 Imperial Fire .. ..... • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235 that he had not more than one day to make his payment in. the ieteoet has the monopoly all to itself, and the con- The letter alluded to was, however, dated August 1, anti the terialLi m fe. a . ;in . e . .. .. : .. ~, ,il;znc , is, us we have remarked above, that the last real offers were not made until the 17th, more than fifteen Indemnity l le sh.& lis bs. 11g0° 0 0 115) 0 0 16% f iz - t"..rig i,t xae.ted, and the least possible aecommo lation days afterwards. They (the Company) had besides good Law Life ............ 11. ss. lOO 0 0 10 13 1 1 ) 51 29 1 l Lif Legal and General Ai .-. , 11, to that simple and suffering body-the public. reason to think that M. Lagondeix was not their real ad- - 50 0 0 20 0 6% Now, it is with no ill-will whatever towards railways versary-that another pleaded in his name. It appeared t i .o u n i l o oi n i Fire ••••• • • • • 10s. 25 0012 10 0 16 C.,tt we !eke up the pen to denounce this error-for that he had sold what interest he might have had in the e ' larine - • ill ••••••• • • : 51. 10s. per cent. 1 00 0 0 12 10 0 16 Company. But with respect to the lettre d'avis, it was 50 0 0 15 0 0 1g" e! ror we must call it- on the part of proprietors or di-Med. Invlid.B4.G..e.n...Life evident that it could not have been written before the 9th, National Loan Fund• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% recto-a; hi,t, on the contrary, it is with the most friendly for the application of M. Lagondeix for shares was only National L i fe ... • fi.eli.:gt towards them and their purses that we do so, t wo d a ys before. M. Fernaux, the Advocate-General, Pailadittul Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s. - for we I, (.1 convinced, that unjust as the system is to- next addressed the Court- The action was of consider- ['theme ..... ..... ...• 3/. p.ct. & bs. 210 - Protector Life 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 1 - 0 0 1/.25. war:l; the public, it is so, in as great a degree, towards able importance. Independently of private interest, Provident Life ll. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 titeni3: . ls - vs and their constituents. the public interest was in some measure concerned in it. Rock Life 4s. 50 0 010 0 4% . 2.'110 number of railways in Scotland, as yet, is small; Justice should not come to the aid of jobbing and specula - Ro y al Exch ange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 156 Find it iins been customary when the charges by these tion. The decision of the Chamber of Commerce appeared Suit Fire - - Itavit been complained of, as being excessive, to point to to be founded equally upon equity and law. It was not Ditto Life . 11.65. __ - is Universal Life - 615 0 18 1.11 , - stillhigher rates imposed in England ; but that, we for those who, neglecting the fulfilment of their engage ments, had perhaps forced the Pepin Lehalleur Company to LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES ceitecise, is no argument at all : we wish to view Scot unite with a company more powerful than itself, to complain fib's: railways as pertaining to the country in which of the fusion which their faithlessness had rendered neces they exist, and therefore the system laid down Dividend Amount mare. The subscribers were sufficiently warned of the time for their management should accommodate itself of "payment by the act of the Society, and by the subse- Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. to the feelings, habits, and means of the Scottish people. Trent circular. This cause was governed not only by the The F ngiish are a richer people than the latter ; that is, article 1,176, but also by the article 1,696 of the code civile X s. cl. £ s. d there are more individuals amon - 2:st them who can afford under the head of La ente. The Court, after a delibera- tiaak of Scotland to travel by first and second-class carriages, and, there- thin of half an hour, confirmed the decision of the Tribunal i l o r rat Bank of Scotland 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 168 6 Coin tis m h e i r . c i i n a e l nComp . a . ny 8P per cent. - 100 0 0 230 fore, it may be said that the railways are mainly sup- of Commerce, and levied the cost of the proceedings upon Bank - 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 171 the appellants. The distribution of the shares will there- National Bank ported by these elesses,-the working people being, in 6/. per cent. - 10 o - A Itit, far•t, ( ntirely prohibited (excepting in a few cases) from fore immediately take place. Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. -- 50 0 0 9814 traveling at all. But in Scotland it is different : there The works OR the atmospheric railway intended to ex- Z o eseerni o n t iL i . liiii. .. i, 6 5 1.. per cent. - 50 o 0 85% t o e n nd . to the St. Germain Railway are . now carried ru 1 ar;• not, in that country, enough of first and second-class Clydesdale 'Bank.. •• • • 611. per l c c e e l n lt t". l - 1 5 0 O C O Ilk actively. It is known that the atmospheric tube was to Eastern Bank - 15 0 0 11% I ass ngers to support railways ; and consequently, if lie laid down from Nanterre to the Place du Chatea de St. Caledonian Bank - 2.10 0 4% the En fish system w e re ado p ted, similar to that exer- Germain. From Nanterre to the pare of Picq, it will make seene.&oiaseew Bane Gi. per cent. - 50 0 7% ei: Pi on the Birmingham and London, the South Western, use of one of the other roads, thus describing a curve to the Oity of Glasgow Bank. 5/. per cent. - 815 0 153; steti he Grand Jun:gion, our establishments might shut right of the old road, and crossing the roads of Chalon and Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1 1 4 si s'. op iihogether. . Montessan, in theward of Vezinet, by means of two bridges licreides Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 liner. Co. of Scothid.• 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 Pie system arrived af, therefore, in Scotland seems already finished, it will proceed towards the Seine, near the N or th It r itfsh Incur.-. 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% to consist in giving accommod ation, an d ch arg in g f a res, bridge of Picq. A viaduct of twenty arches will follow these Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% two bridges, sow in a very advanced state, and afterwards a KAlMbi s i , rl Life Incur. 6/. percent. cent . 1 5 00 1: 1: 0 0 0 50 10 0 0 0 0 9 1 0 9% as nearly as possibly can be, approaching to the English st, in, but only niodiged to such extent as will admit tfiun9sTeldtwoLehmidredthemetres tunnel,in length. cutting is is nearly E ! mit., I: i as: l . ,a lt r a e l s lway 5 5/ . .r er cent a deep is made in the ' 0 All paid. 21% eta ase,rosined quantity that will submit to travel ,- and Edin., Leith & Grantn - 20 0020 0 0 25 filasgw & A3 '- rshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 73 forest of St. Leaving the and another tunnel not so long as tbe Iron that quantity to draw as much money as will pay first is constructed opposite to the avenue of Loges. utasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22 the orupi it. tors a divijend. The railway named La Ceinture submitted now to in- Glsgw&Garnidrk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 ' What is the conssqu mce ? People grumble and (wiry, and the plans which lie at the Prefecture of the "undee& Arbroth Rail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 17 1 blame the d re.:tors, which, of course, the latter don't Seine, will be 12,459 metres length at the part already standard Life Assurnce.l Si per cent. 150001 2 10 0 8 A car. a straw allow ; but these grumblings, in the course under consideration, and will be constructed for the purpose WATER-WORKS _ of time, groc into such a respectable form, as we shall of communicating between the St. Germain, Rouen, the ti et they rsaele the Legislature, and there it is that North Lyons, and Orleans Railways. The expense of the Dividend Amount se ', ..line is estimated at 8,500,000 f. The starting point will be Name of Company. , per of Paid. Price. the railway propri , ters find out their mistake at last, but Annum. Share. Batignolles The road will pass behind Montmartre and Clig- . - pet haps when it i 5 too late.' naucourt to the extreme north of La Chapelle, of Ll Vilette, Z s, d. It is a very fine thing, to be sure, for a set of di - an d of La Petite Vilette ; will pass under Belleville by mean . East L0nd0n.......... 8/. 100 0 0 - 23 0 rectos, to sit in a splendid board•room, with courteous of a tunnel opening above Charonne, afterwards crossing St. Grand Junction .. •• • • 3/. 46 1i 4 - 92 oteiceers and civil secretaries tti their sides, and upon Maude, the plain, and arriving at the extremity of Birey, it Kent .............: .. ' 21. 10s. 100 0 0 - < z „ . , Vauxhall ............ 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - 61 smooth soft leather chairs, to 101 l while they hear plans will cross the Seine on a bridge to reach the station of the West Middlesex . ... - 41. 165. pr ct. 63 12 9 - 130 developed for their own especial behoof ; but there are Orleans line. 6 Dividend such thinf.s as committees of the House of Commons, RouEx AND HAvRE.-A question of considerable import- CANALS. and thank God there is a House of Lords ; and as ante to Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey, the contractors upon , I eeeeeely any railway now exists but what may improve the above line, has just been brought before the Court of Cas- Names of g Dividend ) Price. Names of ~., its truffle by an extension here, or protect its interests cation. It was an application to annul previous judgment Companies. 4 per Companies. d P er • Price. obtained by the administration of imposts of the city of a s 2 Annum. co Aunum. -visit a branch there ; it happens so that the gentlemen Rouen, condemning . Messrs. Mackenzie and Brassey to pay -- - x - - or the leather-bottomed chairs may find themselves duty or import upon some materiel, stones, &c., dug from 1 £ stendiles at the bar of a Parliamentary Committee, andthsh 100 91. 160 one part of the ground through which the railway passes, Ashby - O la hl -z e 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmou rubbing .hould , rs with humble witneeses, while the fate 113 4/. 70 3lntgomrysh 100, 6!. 98 to be used at another. The circumstances of the of these branches; lies in the dictum of five discreet case were, that during the excavations a considerable quan- riaasTsnelesUe... Aso 12 - -1. 180 . ? sT :t e a a c t e i l i reld : 1 1 0 0 g I - 15 3e1.1' 's, who have a far greater sympathy and respect for tity of flint and various kinds of stone were found, and used Brkitk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham. 150 % )1 1. • 2 3 ‘ 6 30 5 • third.class passengers, than for Lords of the board at whatever part of the works it was required; and upon this Cromford.... 100 181. 1 50 Peak Forest. 78 31. 4c, TOOII I . Then it is that the poor third classer at last find the administration of imposts claimed the usual sum per load. P"' lle Y lOO 41. - Regent's .... 33 ii,, 2534 103 out, that he i 4 somethinr, better than a horse or an ox, This claim was resisted on the ground that the materiel - !:', r SS l Eas b ilre . a,C . h . ; 1 1( 3 3 1i 41. 8• I s thd . a t l d e re .. ... 12585 41. 54 r.nil that he has a " locus standi," more dignified than was all mixed together just as it had been found, an integral P ...TCNVIISh 'l 00 321. - 300 Somrset Coal . 150 71. 8 1 1 114 123 - part of the soil; but the administration refused to allow the C.:.,t. of a mere be- cindered, be-frozin, be-rained upon, Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. c.. 11 objection, and in thirteen months the amount of impost Grammunctit 100 71. 100 Stffrd&Worc 140 ; 2 0 84 . . 2 4 3 4 0 0 Ve ony-a milzir. . reached the sum of 108,006 E 70c• The Court, adopting the Grand union too It. los. -- Shrewsbury. 125 ' 11,,w very Baking, under these circumstances, must it Glain.rgnsh.l72 13%1. 210 Stourbridge... 145 gu argument of M. Moreau for Mess . rs Mackenzie . andß_ar ssey, Le vt these dignified directors,. to find that their nicely-Glstr& tinkly 00 - - Strtfrdon Av 79 it, It s . - et , range d plans for extending their sway and monopoly of the ' Cm annulled ar- the previous decreeir Royale of Rouen. Jrantham - being knocked up the head, and the The question will, however, come before another Court of Huddersfield. 57 - 20 Wye Itail.j 26 11. Bs. 50 301. - on - ;, re in dangi r o f Appeal. Kennt & Avo 39 7s. 6d. 14 Trnt St Mr-1 committee turned against ' them, by the PARIS AND STRASBURG. -- T he Commerce says it is , now Lancaster. l countryman, ' wh 0 era t ehcally re- almost certain that the adjudication of this line will take, f., ling of the Leeds& Lien, 100 1. 52 , 5 Thams&Med 19 - 10 vide!'" 0f come semi Ito e and the rest of h'i . Jafec, t ee for years,compeers place early in November, and that the ordonnance would Worcstr 1 78 41. 49 Birming. Loughborogli 1421 70/. 1 -- Wilts& Biks 67 U. 4s. 11 obliged to. submit to heavy exactions and appear very soon. Ife i t c c . s e t s r te ;Rtii 1 8 49 31 1 41 1 2 ' 0 have bn was the amount of traffic on the above rail oays during - RECEIPTS OF THE BELGIAN RAILWAYS. The following August last :- Ilonfortlesi journey.a, in order to be carried in open ear. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. riages • to only within four or five miles of their village. Francs. Cents. Passengers 'non it ii that the poor girl's bornbaszetntdeagohwant,, wwiitthh 792,456 74 (From the London New Price Current of Oct. 7.) li re hole burned in it ; the labourer's 0 , 3' ... haired Baggage and the good wife s well Merchandise Extraordinary sources flie damaged nap ; tish Plantation Sugar market, still a good demand existed; _._ ...1 ...t.i, she. indelible. stain-not to mention the sin- several sales were made for Bristol, and the rates paid were Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. a. d. s. d. Australasia ...... 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 32 Britsh North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47% Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 Colonial ... •• • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15% Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 26% London Joint-Stock .• . 61. per cant. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 metropolitan ..... 25 0 0 710 0 rrovincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 48% Ditto, New. ••• • • 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 20 National of Ireland 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 20% Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37 Ditto, New.•• .• . ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia•... 25 0 0 25 0 0 25 Union of London... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% DOCKS. ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. — Z s. d. X s. d. Jommercial •• • • last and West India 551. pr cent. Stock. 139 East Country London ...... St Katharine •• • • .... 5 per cent. Stock. 110 Southampton •••. • • • . 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 30 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X S. d. £ s. d. Albion ..... ..... 3/. lOs 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 Ditto Marine... • . . • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6% Atlas . 138.66. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16% British Commercial 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7 Cleriel,Metl.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 10 1 6% County ...• • • • • • • • • • • 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 Crown • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ?. ''9s :. ul. a and s. bs. 4O 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle • 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5% Economic Life 55 per ct., 1000 0 0 250 0 0 &30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 European Life • • • • - • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' ..• • • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 142% Guardian • • • • • • • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 51 Imperial Fire • • • • • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235 Imperial Life. • • ..... • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine.. • • it. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 13 1 29 1 Law Life ............ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 51 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 6% London Fire • • • • • • • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Luidon Ship .. • • • • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Marine ...• ... • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10% Med. Invlid& Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 2% National Life • Palladittut Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s. Phu mix .. .. . ..... .. . • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - 210 Protector Life.- - • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 2s. Provident Life-- • • • • 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 156 Sun Fire . - - Ditto Life 11. 6s. - - 18 Universal Life ne number of railways in Scotland,. as yet, is small; awl ir. lets been customary when the charges by these leave been complained of, as being excessive, to point to the still higher rates imposed in England ; but that, we eat:et:ivy, is no argument at all : we wish to view Scot tish railways as pertaining to the country in which they exist, and therefore the system laid down for their management should accommodate itself to the feelings, habits, and means of the Scottish people. The Fngiish are a richer people than the latter ; that is, there are more individuals amons:st them who can afford to travel by first and second-class carriages, and, there fore, it may be said that the railways are mainly sup ported by these elssses,—the working people being, in feet, a nrirely prohibited (excepting in a few cases) from travelling at all. But in Scotland it is different : there ara not, in that country, enough of first. and second-class I ass. ngers to support railways ; and consequently, if the Et Aiish system were adopted, similar to that exer ed on the Birmingham and London, the South Western, and the Grand Junction, our establishments might shut s'..op altogether. Pie system arrived at, therefore, in Scotland seems to consist in giving accommodation, and charging fares, as nearly as possibly can be, approaching to the English system, but only niodiged to such extent as will admit sin ascerteined quantdy that will submit to travel ; and from that quantity to draw as much money as will pay the erapi i, tors a divklend. What is the cons-quince? People grumble and blame the d - reAors, which, of course, the latter don't care a straw allow; but these grumblings, in the course of time, groe into such a respectable form, as we shall •.r-, that thy reach the Legislature, and there it is that the railway propri , tars find out their mistake at last, but perhaps when it is too late.' It is a very fine thing, to be sure, for a set of di recto-s, to sit in a splendid board-room, with courteous engineers and civil secretaries et their sides, and upon entoot`i soft leather chairs, to 101 l while they hear plans iese loped for their own especial behoof ; but there are melt thines as committees of the House of Commons, I thank God there is a House of Lords ; and as 5 ,..,,; rely any railway now exists but what may improve its truffle by an extension here, or protect its interests evith a branch there ; it happens so that the gentlemen of the leather-bottomed chairs may find themselves :-ltinditeT. at the bar of a Parliamentary Committee, and ea hhiug shoulders with humble witnesses, while the fate eic these branehes lies in the dictum of five discreet "s, alio lave a far greater sympathy and respect for .hird.class passengers, than for Lords of the board room. Then it is that the poor third classer at last find out that he ia something better than a horse or an ox, e nd that he has a " locus standi," more dignified than o r a mere be-cindered, be-frozen, be-rained upon, pt na y-a• 11„w very galling, under thesa circumstances, must it L e 0 these dignified directors, to find that their nicely pjranued plans for extending their sway an d monopo l y re i ti p d an gt r of being knocked upon the head, and the itegs of the committee turned against them, by the . elerice of some simple countryman, a ho graphcally re- Jafes, that f o r years, he and the rest of his compeers have been oblige (l to submit to heavy exactions and elenfortlees jeurneya, in order t o be . l carried in their villwith age. Then it is that the poor girl's bomb. azette gown, ii i " hula burned in it ; the labourer's Sunday hat, with tl:e damaeed nnp ; and the goodvife's well-hauled Pil,tlCl, with the indelible stain—not to mention the cin cier-burned eyes, the coughs and colds, the consunip tions and deaths—all memorials of the railway system, appear as incontrovertible facts in grave array, against the shaine•faeed and detected directors. Let us indulge in what may be considered by those vibe have tripped it to St. Stephen's, as being too fa miliar a narrative fur such a grave subject; but which tt e Leg to as- are the reader, is a true picture of what aloes take place. The Centtreittee breaks up for the day—the pro moters of the different Bills retire to their temporary eteartments to consult—a half hour's quietude ensues; and then may be seen pursy fat gentlemen throwing themselv.-s into cabs, or met 'twixt Charing-cross and Temple-har, puffing, blowing, and sweating, in the midst -of ade pairing canvass;—there is no white-bait dinner for them that day. After their fatigues—instead of re tiring to indulge in " port and a pleasing security"—they Innse meet in consultation with wigless counsel, energetic eneineers, and sanguine solicitors, there to consider wht ther, through the re-examination of some ply able witnesses, Mr. Queen's Council Poss'em, or Mr. Sergeant Wring'enacati tedeem their shattered case. It is something like a consultation of doctors over a a iyi e g patient, with this diff rence, that the fees are in a SKr greater degree higher. Well, then, they meet again next day, and the learned g ml.mnen exhaust their powers of eloquence and per suasion. Never was there such a case before—such hits made—smelt thrusts sent home. The Committee sit like ateretes,—raient,—imperturbable,—dignified. They rester.—die bell rings—all rush on again with breathless expectation—an awful silence pervades—the chairman, avidi his hat agee, reads the fir ding of the Committee as to the preamble—all is up with the Curcaddock and s. Cross-my-loof Junction Branches—the Drumbungo direct h carried the day. Out rush the latter, not unlike alt 411 b ,y s whooping and hallooing, on the aunt uncement of a beli v, • white the former stand l gap4lg, aail wondering, and thinking, and, in fact, Joel:ire! very like cet era; that have just got the last sen et.te::• die law pas se d upon t h em hie is one o f t h • ways by means of which railway . e. ions are pnuishaVe. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d ;lank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168 hi British Linen Company 81• per cent. 100 0 0 230 Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 171 National Bank 6/. per cent. 10 0 --* 10% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. -- 50 0 0 98% Western Bank 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 85% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. j 5 0 0 13% Clydesdale Lank.. •• • • 61. per cent. 10 0 0 153. Eastern Bank Caledonian Bank - 10 0 4% Ed! n b.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. 5 0 0 7% Oity of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. 815 0 15% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 114 llfrcules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 15 Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North Britfsh Insur /. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28% Caledonian Fire Insur lO/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% Edinburgh Life Insur 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% Ellin. & laasg. Itallway 5/. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 90 Ditto, y Shares sl.percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 21% Win., Leith, Si Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 25 Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 73 Glasgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22% Gisgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 "under & Arbroth Bail. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 k ttandard LifeAssurnce.l Si per cent. 50 0 0 I 2 10 0 8 WATER-WORKS Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a, d. East London.... .. •• • . 8/. 100 0 0 230 Grand Junction .•• • • • 31 . 46 13 4 92 Kent Vauxhall West Middlesex (From the London New Price Current of Oct. 7.) Swim—To-day there was not much activity in the Bri tish Plantation Sugar market, still a good demand existed; several sales were made for Bristol, and the rates paid were generally equal to those of Friday for all qualities. IZEFINED.—To-day the home trade purchased refined goods with less freedom, and prices are not so firm, brown melting lumps selling at 638 Gd to 645, brown grocery 655, and sten dard lumps 66s to 66s Gd. For bonded Crushed Sugar there are very few buyers, and 38s to 39s is the value of first quality. EAST INDl.t.—This afternoon yellow Bengal was in excel lent request, and 1,701 bags at auction sold at. steady prices. Javasc2,sicompetition pa ei is ai t washed a t n t s le i et wanted, dhs:s3osr ptse per cwt. re an m, d t . 3 7 3 8 7 ts 9 o, baskets, duty paid, were bought Sugar, in, amounting fine dry t h o r 4 i 4 ll o t 7 ye ba llo g w at 55s 6d, good 544 6d, low 111 Au RITI US. princip d portion consisted, _This afternoon tw w ; esre p p a es r ru c bc e mw ls ti" o to f efdw M tho a i u cp r hu it bt i lh t i t ce s of 1 1,s oi t t o t.i 2 G s s p ._ er lion, and there are sellers o n w sis H ted ay . went at a decline on former rates business transacted has beenatn p n o a ne l xi ratherht r a e s n l met I l ye lower limitedv e with rter little m bs ,y stilla t t atten tion, privatei e treat treaty. White isof dullsale There has been little business trans h there 1 .2 u 6 e ? o u f acted in any kind of Brazil, .alth4li i to 255, but very little has been done. e are sellers privately upon further reduced terms. ba Po Plu o sco ßi v c a o d i o s h 23 a: met with a dull demand at None of any de scription has at present been submitted. to public competi tion, but some parcels will be shortly announced. Mol.a.s.sEs.—An extensiv e demand existed for and the rates given were fully equal West India, to those previously quoted. COCOA. —The purchases made in West India ratherby private t rea ty have been limited this we e k, and lower rates are taken. The stock has been further increased, and I be offered at public sale arge parcels willshortly. Foreign is still wanted, and fetched fully late rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon the market was more liberally 0 lon Coffee; two parcels supplied with —ey . , amounting to offered at auction. Plantation 1,288 bags were sorts met with little attention, and a part only sold at a decline of Is to 2s. Native sort, however, was purchased more freely, and the whole offered found buyers at.full prices. Mocha met with little attention. Of Rio 285 barrels 4 bagi were chiefly sold at the former value. TEA. —Public sales are declared for Tuesday next—the quantity at present advertised is 18,000 packages, but there is every prospect of its being increased. There have been further arrivals. There has been a good demand for Congou of all descriptions, but no further advance can be quoted; prices are, however, firm. Of Pouchong several parcels have been disposed of at very full rates. '1 wankay has Leen in excellent request, and stiffer rates are given. Prices do not advance for Hvson, but they are firm, and many parcels have been sold. Young *son is wanted. In Guupowder several sales have been made. Imperial has been sold to a fair extent. Scented Orange Pekoe is in fair request, and prices are firm. llicE.—To-day Bengal Rice met with less attention privately, and GOO bags at public sale went is per cwt cheaper—good mid white selling at 20s, sea damaged Ist class 18s 6d, 2d class 16s 6d to 17a, 3d class 13s to 15s, and 4th class lls per cwt. SPICES.—To-day Black Pepper met with little attention, and 628 bags of Malabar at auction were only partly sold, but full rates were obtainel For Mace the market is quiet, and 6 casks at public sale were taken in at 4s per lb for low middling quality, being the former worth. llors.—There has been mo r e a c ti v ity i n th e mar k e t s i nce our last report ; a good business has been transacted—Sussex pockets at Cl I2 s to 71 ; Weald of Kent 61 16s to 7155, and Corresponding month of 1844... •..... 1 1, 3 2 6 0 5 5: 3 1 9 6 3 6 8 50 2 The In lependenee of Brussels sates the results of the working of the line during the month of August to be most satisfactory. The increase in the income is evident; and, in fact, exceeds all expectation. In August last the increase and from mercha • passengers over the corresponding month of 1844 was from 80,000 f, ; from baggage, 7 , 000 E • 73,0001. The difference between f the produce of , Jul B 7 oo lse r : of which proceed from travellers , August is 140,000 f. favour of th m e ,ooo latt c er fr m om on t t h h e b lo: g a a n ge d weight of the at er. n u) t e tion in the quantity and and 18,000 f. from merchandise, though there lt was j a j s i l min h u r m ar li w ta a ry y pas sengers 6B exclusive 2 ( 5 , f ,l3 t the e r l in ve A y u ed gu 3s st 3,2 th s6 at cird nu in m a b rY e r more, and that in a month of bad we ather, and unfavourable for travelling. This month is that during which foreigners travel most, and that which our own touristsveiling. As these two kinds of travellers usuall y take the choose for tra velling. carriages of the first and second class, we see the distribu tion of these travellers amongst the different classes modified singularly: thus, while in some the proportion of the num ber of travellers en diligence to the total number was 11 per cent., it rose in July to 12 3 %, and in August to 14 3 / 4 per cent ; the proportion of the number who took their places in the chars-h•bancs rose from 244 in June, to 274 in July, and to 30i in August, and consequently the proportion of places taken in the carriages of the railway descended to 644 per cent. to 5911, and to 544. It is probable, besides, that the continuance of the rain induced a portion of the travel lers usually going by the railway carriages to go by the chars-k-bancs, and in sending others from the latter to the diligence. The traffic of foreign travellers, and the watering season, caused also an increase in the mean product of each traveller. For the diligences it was in the months of June, July, and August, 4f. 30c., 4f. 58c., and 4f. 82c.; for the chars-k-bancs 2f 35c., 2f. 51c., and 4f. 61c. ; but for the common carriages the product was lf. 09c., lf. 08c., and lf. 15c. The general mean product upon all the passengers rose from lf. 76c. in June to lf. 92c. in July, and to 2f. 13c. in August. During the first eight months of 1844 the total income was 7,235,674 f. 35c , and within the same period of the present year 8,074,001 f. 4c. It is supposed that the re ceipts, which in the whole of 1844 were 11.230,000 f., will reach the sum of 12,500,000 f. by the end of this year. ORLEANS AND JOIGNY.—The Minister of Public Works has determined that this railway shall immediately be un dertaken, and that, for greater dispatch, the operations shall be divided into two stations, one at the river Loing and the other between the Loing and Joigny. HAVRE, DIEPPE, AND FECAMP.—Mr. Newman, principal engineer of the Havre-road, is (says the Journal des Che mins de Fir) appointed engineer-in-chief of the roads of ft ivre and of F ecam p. The works will commence under his theof t direction in a few d a y s . To hasten their execution the whole two b oline truesehnasstd beene to d a divided into engineerntothreese . Itction is sections . each which that both these lines will be opened by the Ist of May, 1847. treaty concluded betweenfirst the lla vre C ompany an d t h at principal t l t be working of two ne w common the "doubl e treaty is This Ha% to branch upon th e pr a.ivantageous to both companies.PaltwrWlk. cin Boys „ and the chances of a cc id ent on the , m i has the advantage of proportioning the expenses trunk, w eking to the activity of the traffic—that is, to the amount of l of the receipts. As soon as a second instalment is effected, ..ieh will not be long hence, the shares of the roads of Dieppe CONTINENTAL RAILWAYS. PF,PIN LEHALLEUR COMPANY AND ITS SUBSCRI BERS. 'he appeal against the decision of the Chamber o , _f a Co rn: Tame by several of the subscribers for sharesin tie b C omp any, was brought before the Cour Royal of Paris olre ',Vednesday-. The apportionment of the 30 , 000 shares granted n the :o the Compa n y by th e 'Rothschild Company after fusion was suspended until the result of the appeal was known. On the Ist of September the Chamber of Com merce divided against the claims of several subscribers for ~hares in the Pepin Lehalleur Company, which the direc ors had declared void in consequence of the non-payment of the first fifth within a period of eight days presented by a ciircular. M. Da, counsel for M. Barreau, opened the case before the Cour Royal. Ife said that his client, a gentleman of wealth, applied in the month of Jung for two hundred And fifty shares, but the Dir,ctors accorded him only one THE STTN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1845 mid Kent 71 10s to 9! per cwt. The duty for the kingdom is estimated at 165,0001. SPIRITS.—AiI descriptions of Jamaica Rum have been purchased extensively, principally by the home trade, and the rates paid exhibits an advance of Id to 2d per gallon. For Calcutta there has been much inquiry, and stiffer rates are offered, but the supply is not ample for the demand. Brandy has met with more attention ; several parcels have been sold at firm rates. . Geneva is wanted, and prices rule high ; export sort selling at 2s 4d to 2s sd, and fine fit for duty at 2s 7d to 2s 10d. The value of British Corn Spirits is 10s 2d per gallon, nett cash. INDIGO.—The quarterly sale of East India commenced to day—the quantity declared was very large, and amounted to 17,126 chests. A large proportion was actually sold at the following rates as compared with the July sale:—Ordinary and middling consuming qualities 3d. advance, middling to good shipping qualities 4d ditto, a few perfect lots 6d ditto. 971 chests all Bengals have passed the sales, of which 350 are returned as bought in. Ou.s.—A considerable increase has taken place in the demand for Linseed Oil, and an advance in the value of Is to Is 6d per cwt occurred. Rape Oil has been in excellent request, and bring stiffer rates. In Palm several purchases 3ave been made,and prices are on the advance ; Cocoa Nut is wanted, and the parcels disposed of privately were upon fully former terms ; Olive Oil has beeen in extensive re quest ; holders show much firmness. Seal Oil has met with more attention, and purchases to a fair extent have been made, but not at better prices. Prices rule firm for Sperm, and a good demand has been experienced by private contract TA - mow—Prices have ruled firm for Russian on the spot since last Tuesday, and the town and country trade pur chased extensively. The demand has been good for Town Tallow at 41s to 4ls 6d per cwt nett cash. Of other descriptions several parcels have been disposed of pri vately at firm rates. The trade for the most part are in clined to get well stocked with Tallow, in consequence of the large consumption there is going on. S TUESDAY VACANCY N IT WARWICKSHIRE.HT' GAZETTE. In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in he twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 111., intituled " A n Act to repeal so much of two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteent h years of the reign of his present Majesty, as authorises the Speak er o f th e H ouse of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown t i r k v t e i h n e deathPur this of Sir John Mor- present I u for making out. writs for the election of Members to serve in Parliament, in the manner t herein mentioned, and for substi s t d u a tia nd g to, o ßh .. h ae ri e et r b. , provisions i v s ae i o notice,n Member for t l t t h e sae l g Parlia ment for the southern division of the county of Warwick, hath been certified to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament; and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the said county, at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. Given under my hand the 6th day of October, 1845. CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Winston, merchant, Copthall-buildings, City, to surrender Oct. 16, at half-past one, and Nov. 20, at two. Belcher, official assignee; Cox, Size-lane. Joseph Middleton, hay salesman, Aveley, Essex, Oct. 13, at balf-past eleven, and Nov. 20, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Green. official assignee, Aldermanbury ; G. and E. Hilleary, Fenchurch-street. John Mortimer, bookseller, Adelaide-street, West Strand, Oct. 13, at two, and Nov. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basing hall-street ; Donne, New Broad-street, City. Samuel Laurence, dealer in watches, Bedford-street, Covent garden, Oct. 14, at half-past eleven, and Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, London ; Strutt, Buckingham-street, Strand. William Garrett Thackway, tailor, Union-place, New-road, Marylebone, Oct. 16, at one, and Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Justice, Berners-street, Oxford-street. Joshua Swallow, sharebroker, Manchester, Oc.. 18, and Nov. 7, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hob son, official assignee, Manchester; Reed, Friday-street, Cheapside ; Sale, Worthinghton, and Shipman, Manchester. William Lawton Hall, victualler, Liverpool, Oct. 17, and Nov. 11, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Mor 'gan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Gregory and Company, Bedford-row, London ; Green, Liverpool. DIVIDEND DECLARED. S. Askham, commission agent, Bradford—first div. of 11d. in the pound, Oct. 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fearne, Leeds. DIVIDEND. In the Country. J. Knight, butcher, Wigan, Oct. 30, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. M. Wrake, jun., bricklayer, Canterbury, Oct. 28-13. Ling, timber dialer, Fore•street, Limehouse, Oct. 28—J. Kirkham, butcher, Lapus-street, Pimlico, Oct. 30—J. Mitchell, livery stableke,eper, Montaguz-street, Montague-square, Oct. 30— J. T. Taylor and T. P. Wilkinson, plumbers, York-terrace, Regent's-park, Oct. 30—A. Hindes and J. Thompson, stock brokers, Leeds, Oct. 29—W. 11. Watts, chemist, Bath, Oct. 28—J. C:dogan, jun., hat warehouseman, Brecon, Oct. 30— D. Dames, paper stainer, Liverpool, Oct. 30—J. Banning, stationer, Liverpool, Oct. 30—T. Powell, brick maker, Aller ton Bywater, Yorkshire, Oct. 28—J. Robinson, spirit mer chant, Beverley, Oct. 28—J. M. Leader, coach maker, Ox ford-street, Oct. 28—W. Butterill, grocer, Sheffield, Oct. 28 —W. R. Carscaden, hosier, Leeds, Oct. 28—W. Matthews, pianoforte maker, Lisson-grov4 North, Oct. 28—J. Reece, ironmonger, Axminster, Oct. 28. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. and R. Rees, stationers, Abergavennv—J. Grover and 11. Saxby, chemists. Lewes, Sussex—G. Parker and G. Wardlaw. cotton spinners, Glossop, Derbyshire—J. Lamb and A. Sym, Roman-cement makers, Winchester-buildings, Great Winchester-street—J. Anderson. J. Lamb, and A. Sym, East India agents, Lothbury (so far as regards A. Sym)—E. Moore and J. Brodie, blacksmiths, High-street, Wapping— J. and F. Hall, small ware manufacturers, Salford—F. Dimes and G. Elam, artists' colourmen, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury—T. G. Shaw, W. W. Heap, W. J. Maxwell, and J. 13. Hinde, wine merchants, Manchester (so far as re gards W. W. Heap)—H. Bran=combe and C. Cummins, cur riers, Bristol—F. A. Fynney and J. W. Adams, stockbrokers, Manchester—F. Kingwell and S. G. Wicks, wheelwrights, Phoenix-street, Soho—W. Sankey and J. C. Ottaway, sur geons, Dover—W, VV ilding and J. G. Saunders, hatters, Shrewsbury—J. and J. Oke, mercers, Bodmin—J. D. Smith and J. Clay, printers, East Harding-street, Gough-square— E. Shepley and J. Swain, fire-brick makers, Higher-hill, Lan cashire--41. Blaker, B. Valiance, and H. M. Blaker, surgeons, Brighton (so fir as regards H. Blaker)—W. Dutton and 11. Williams, skinners, - Leftwich, Cheshire. act. 11 and Nov. 8, SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. merchant, William t ili n ia -e m lve A , i a t t ke t n he p Revan awl Arnott, tea merchants , Glasgow, Oct. 13 and premises of ofGm l r sg . Rutherford, ' O Glasgow. 31, at twelve, at the Chambers of Mr. Monteith, Glasgow. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. These sessions were held yesterday before the Learned A-ssistant Jtv'ge and the usual bench of magistrates. -The calendar contains a list of sixty prisoners for trial, fifty-six 'of whom are charged with felony, the remainder with assaults, misdemeanours, &c. DARII4G ROBBERY IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—Charles Mason was indicted for stealing a Victorine (tippet) from the person of Lucy Curtis. The prosecutrix, a lady residing in the neighbourhood of the Regent's-park, stated, that on the afternoon of the 23d ult. she Was walking on one of the bridgesover the Regent's canal, near St. John's-wood , accompanied by two of her daughters, when the prisoner suddenly rushed upon her from behind, and, after seizing her suddenly, snatched the Vic torine off her neck and immediately ran away. She was greatly alarmed at this sudden attack, and called for assist ance, but no one came, and she saw no more of the prisoner until he was taken into custody on another charge, when she at once identified him as the person by whom she had been attacked. The daughters of the prosecutrix confirmed her testimony, and also identified the prisoner. The prisoner was found guilty. lie was next indicted for stealing some carpenter's tools, to which he pleaded guilty. The COURT sentenced him to six months' imprisonment in the House of Correction for each offenee ; there to be kept to hard labour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILMIALI. John Williams, a young man who stated himself to be a law clerk, was brought before Mr. Alderman Humphery, charged with being in the building, 1, Fig Tree-court, Tem ple, with intent to commit felony. Mr. Hans Busk, a barrister, residing in chambers at the above-mentioned building, stated that about noon yesterday, white he was sitting at his table he heard a key working in the lock of the door, he walked towards the door, and beard two other keys tried. Witness then suddenly opened the door, and found the prisoner. Witness said to him, "This accounts for all the doors being picked here." The prisoner clasped his hands together, and exclaimed, "Have mercy on me." Witness took him down stairs to give him into cus tody, and at the door the prisoner started off. Witness pur sued him through two or three courts, and 'gave him into custody . on a staircase in New-court. • The Officer produced four keys he found in the prisoner's possession. Mr. Alderman HUMPIIERY called upon the prisoner to state who he was, and where he lived. The prisoner said he lived with his mother at 8, Lombard-street, in the Mint. The keys found on him belonged to his master's door. He was a law clerk. _ . Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY asked with whom he lived ? The prisoner declined saying, as it would disgrace his master. Mr. Alderman HumPuEnir asked him why he entered these chambers? The prisoner said he was inqu►ring for his cousin, to whom he had lent 10s., and who had promised to repay him that day. The prisoner again refused to state by whom he was em ployed, and the Alderman remanded him till Friday, that the officer might make inquiries about him. BOW-STREET. A tobacconist, of the name of Bush, residing in High Hol born, was charged with having 81b. 4oz. of smugg led g ood s (tobacco and cigars) in his possession. Mr. Potbury, from the office of the Solicitor to the Cus toms, called several Excise officers to prove that they went to the defendant's house on the 18th ult., in consequence of suspicions entertained by them, and under the authority of a warrant granted by the Police Magistrate at Lambeth, and proceeded to search the house, having pre viously read the warrant to the defendant. The defendant's wife ran up-stairs into a bed-room, but was followed by one of the officers, who saw her take a parcel of American Cavendish tobacco out of a drawer. A box of cheroots was subsequently found in the room. The defendant addressed the officers in a tone of de fiance, dec:aring that the Commissioners might do what they pleased with him ; in consequence of which, Mr. Potbury stated, the authorities had instructed him to press for the severer penalty, instead of that usually inflicted in such uses,where th e o ff ence was a first one, and-thedefendant expressed his contrition for the same. The defendant said he had not much experience in the trade, having been only a year and a half in business as a tobacconist. He was led to purc h ase the goods by the arts of a F renc h man , b u t had kept them out of the way at the sugz,estlon of a friend. Mr. ' rWYFORD, after examining the Act , ob served that the extreme penalty was lOU, but the magistrate had the power to mitigate the penalty to one fourth of the amount. Mr. Potbury did not desire to press for the full penalty, the quantity of goods found being very sma ll ' Mr. TwyFO RD th en or d ere d hi m t o pay 25i. with the costs. The defendant immediately paid the sum, and was dis charged. Caroline Evans, a servant maid in the employ of her Ma jesty, was brought up from Windsor Castle, on suspicion of stealing a coat from a fellow-servant, named Hall, at Buck ingham Palace. The case was only very shortly taken, to admit of the re mand of the prisoner for a week. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. CONVIGTION - W - A - 14 - 0 - TO - RIOUS BEGGING-LETTER IMPOS- TOR.—Yesterday William Smith, a grey-haired man, of re gnectable appearance, who has been known to the Mendicity giiciety for the last thirteen years as one of the most succes fill begging•letter writers in Lt ndon, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with having attempted to impose on several noblemen and gent', men by means of petitions, statements of distress, arid also with having obtained money. under similar fraudulent pretences from a gentleman named Olive, residing at No. 4, York-terrace, Regent's-park. One of the society's visitors, named Fergusson, produced an enormous bundle of petitions to persons of distinction, which Lai been forwarded for investigation to the societA Amongst parties who had been imposed upon were the Bishop of Norwich, the Earl of Eldon, Earl Jermyn, Lord Bexley, and Lady Shaw Stewart. The visitor stated that Lord Bexley, on being applied to, had sent a sovereign to the society for the applicant; the Bishop of Norwich had also acquainted the society with the fact of having been ap plied to. As the petitioner was perfectly well known as an impostor, Horsford, one of the constables, was instructed to take steps to insure his apprehension. The constable, after considerable trouble, got upon his track, mid on Friday last he succeeded in meeting with him in Kensington, and taking him into custody. Mr. Olive stated that the prisoner some time ago made application to him for assistance, and received half-a-sove reign. Shortly afterwards the prisoner made a second appli cation, and was then told he could not be relieved unless he brought a recommendation. The prisoner went away, and returned with a letter of recommendation, purporting to be written by Mr. Mackenzie, of Cornwall-crescent, a friend of his (Mr. Olive's), and it was on the strength of this letter that the prisoner obtained a sovereign. A few days ago the prisoner paid a third visit, and, in order to escape detection, he assumed all the feebleness of age and infirmity. The prisoner brought the following letter : " Sept. 29. "My Christian Sir,—l hope you will be pleased to feel for an old servant of the Religious Reformation Society, who, through long affliction, is brought to the greatest of distress with a family of five motherless children ; and, as my health is ruined, the doctors of St. George's Hospital wish me to go to my native place, as that will only restore me to health. My native home is Scotland (the prisoner is an Irishman), but through my long illness I have not the means to go there without the assistance of a few Christian friends. You by doing this act of charity will be rewarded by God. I beg to enclose the certificate of the Secretary of the Society, and I pray to God that he will send me a friend in you to help me in this distress. " WILLIAM SMITH, who begs to wait your kind answer." Having previously ascertained frem Mr. Mackenzie that the letter of recommendation was a forgery, he (➢ir. Olive) had requested his footman to look out for the prisoner. When the prisoner had delivered his letter he went to him, and accused him of being an impostor, telling him to_ bare the house, and to think himself fortunate in not being given into custody. The prisoner, who while in the house appeared hardly able to crawl, no sooner found the door open than he scudded off with surprising agility. The letters were sent to the Society, and it was then ascertained that the signature of Mr. Finch, secretary to the Reformation Society, was a forgery. Mr. Pergusson stated that the cases of the Bishop of Nor wich and Lord Bexley could not be brought forward, as their Lordships were at present not in town. The prisoner had no defence to make. Mr. HARDWICK inflicted the full punishment the law per mitted—three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. CLEBKEN WELL. A middle-aged woman, named Charlotte Perry, a pauper, in Islington Workhouse, was charged by Mrs. Laman, the matron of that establishment, with refractory conduct- Mrs. Laman deposed that on Monday afternoon she found the steps of the hall-door sprinkled and discoloured with ink, and on inquiry she ascertained that the prisoner had caused it by throwing an inkstand containing ink out of the window of one of the wards whilst in a passion. In the course of the evening the prisoner quarrelled with another pauper, saying she was drunk, and her conduct was so violent and refrac tory whilst parties were in the supper-ward at supper, that she gave her into custody for the peace of the inmates. Her conduct was generally refractory. Mary Bexworth, an elderly pauper, was called, but she would not give any positive evidence. The prisoner, in her defence, said that Mrs. Laman was out when another woman, named Godson, was about to set down her name to report her, and she admitted having thrown the inkstand from the window. At supper-time she had another quarrel with Godson, and on the arrival of Mrs. Laman, she said I was more fit for a hovel in Saint Giles's than any other place. I said, I was more fit for gentleman's service. She denied being refractory. Mr. CoaniE—Why is such a person as this kept in the workhouse at all? Mrs. Leman —She is burdened with a child, your Worship. Mr. CoarßE—She seems able enough to support herself and child; is anything the matter with her? Mrs. Laman— No, Sir; but she is always ill after these fits of passion. The prisoner said, she had been three years in the house; she was unwell. and she wished to go out of the workhouse. Mr. Co3lBE—They will soon let you go if you wish to go. You are committed for seven days to the House of Correction. A female voice in Court—Never mind, Charlotte. This person was brought forward, and said she was the prisoner's friend. Mr. CO3IBE cautioned her. She seemed to think nothing of seven days' imprisonment, but if she was brought there she would get more unless she conducted herself properly. John Fletcher, a beer-shop-keeper, 31, Goswell-street, St. Luke's, was charged by Mr. Lewis Jones, of the Coach and Horses public-house, Fann-street, in the Liberty of Glass house-yard, with representing himself to be a metropolitan police-constable, for the purpose of obtaining admission into his house, contrary to the Police Act, which subjected him to a penalty of 10/. The prosecutor deposed that on Monday night last, at eleven o'clock, the prisoner came to his house in company of another man, and wished to go up stairs, where a Phi lanthropic Society were holding their meetin g . He said lie came there to look after a person named Evans, who had robbed the man then with him. Witness informed him that no person of that name was in the room, but he described himself as being an officer, 39 K division, and produced a truncheon. Witness suspected him, and refused to admit him unless he brought some officer in uniform to identify him. A boy present told witness that the prisoner kept a beer-shop in Goswell-street, and witness, as the Chairman of the Licensed Vietuallere Protection Society, deemed it his duty to give the prisoner into custody. Mr. COMBE—Can you form a notion as to his object in wishing to obtain admission ? Witness—l cannot ; but I suspect with no good one. The prisoner, in his defence, denied any bad intention. The person who was with him (a Mr. Banner) called on him and said that a person namel Evans had robbed him, and lie accompanied him to search after the thief. They went to two or three public-houses before they went to Mr. Jones's. He formerly was a licensed victualler, and kept the Albion gin-palace, Ratcliff-highway. He was sworn in as a special constable two years ago at the Thames Police-court. He answered other questions in an unsatisfactory manner. Mr. CO3fBE did not believe a word he said, and thought he was an impostor. Sergeant Cole, G, said the prisoner had left No. 31, Gos • well-street, and was living in lodgings in Ormond's-buildings. The prisoner said he was about to the business. Mr. CO MBE told him he should convict him in the full pe nalty of 10/., unless he could produce satisfactory evidence as to his respectability; and he gave him until three o'clock that day to do so. The prisoner then left the bar, and accompanied the officer who took him into charge on the previous night, for the pur pose of bringing forward some friends to confirm his state ments; but up to the hour of closing the Court neither the prisoner nor the officer made their appearance, and the im pression was that the prisoner had made his escape. After the closing of the Court the officer returned, and said the pri soner had escaped from him. Q UEEN-SQ UA RE. Rebecca Larkman was charged with defrauding a great number of tradesmen of goods of various descriptions. The prisoner lived in the service of Mrs. Coward, a lady residing in Sloane-street, up to the end of June last, when, in consequence of repeated acts of dishonesty, she was dis charged. Since that time she has visited the shops of the various tradesmen in the neighbourhood who supplied the family, and representing that she was sent by Mrs. Coward and a lady who was staying with her on a visit, obtained property to a considerable amount. Evidence having been given to prove - that the prisoner obtained a tea-urn, value 4/. 10s., and a handsome set of fire-irons, from Mr. G. Gregory, an ironmonger in Sloane street, by pretending that she had been sent by Mrs. Coward, The police stated that there were no less than seven other cases against the accused. with and the iv a isnecessaryh was eh `witnesses rg ed u Mr. BOND remanded the prisoner, who made no defence, for a week, in order that search might be made for the pro p e rt y,procured. insltin Michael g Mr. G. Maffin, a gentleman residing in College-row, Brompton. About two years ago Mr. Maffin unfortunately left his cab in the care of the defendant, who took the liberty of driving it away for an hour, and bringing the horse back in a very harassed condition. Since that period he has had the im pudence to arrest the gentleman in the streets, and ask him for money for taking are of his horse and cab on the occa sion alluded to. On Monday afternoon he came up to Mr. Maffin ' in Tattersall's yard, in a drunken state, threatened to knock his head off, put his fist in his face, and otherwise grossly misconducted himself. The fellow said he was very sorry, and begged the gentle man's pardon. Mr. BeND fined him ten shillings. _ _ He was committed for ten daysin default. SOITIHWARK. Bridget Smith, a middle-aged woman, and who has been twice remanded on a charge of sending a parcel containing sugar, amongst which it had been ascertained was a quantity of oxalic acid, to a Mr. Patrick John Smith, residing at Peace's Cooperage, Cornwall-road, and delivering it to a little boy of the name of Hyatt, with a request that he would take it to the prosecutor's house, and say that she was com ing to tea, and requested it might be made soon ; promising, on the boy's return, to give him a penny for his trouble, was placed at the bar. After the boy had delivered the parcel, on his return to where he had left the prisoner, she was gone. At the former examinations the boy swore that the pri soner was the person who had delivered the parcel to him, and evidence was adduced that she had been beard to use threats against the prosecutor, and that s h e would poison him. A good deal of recriminatory statements were made on both sides, and from which it appeared, that the prisoner had bee n engage d t o attend the former wife of the prose. cutor up to the time of her death, in February last, and that there had been some familiarities between the prose cutor and the prisoner. At the last examination a copy of a certificate of a marriage between the prisoner and a Patrick Henry Smith, of St. John's, Paddington, on the 12th o f M a y last, Whit-Monday, and which the prisoner alleged was with the prosecutor, was produced. The prosecutor denied positively that he was the man, although her marriage was not denied with a man of that name. The priso ner a l so stated, that she could procure evidence to show that she was not in the neighbourhood - of the Cornwall road on the alleged day the parcel was delivered, and that the boy Hyatt wa s wholly mistaken in her identity, and she was remanded for further evidence. (The previous examination appeared in The Sun.) On the prisoner being placed at th e b ar, Mr. Games, a solicitor, said he appeared on the part of the prosecutor, but as be had not been before concerned in the case, he could only learn its exact position from the viva v. ce evidence contained in the report of the proceedings in the newspapers, and which, he und ers t ao d, was a most correct report. He believed the only point was the assertion of the prisoner that she was married to the prosecutor. Mr. CorriNGßast said, that was not the only point; the question of the marriage arose incidentally in the case, and must be taken to be a collateral issue, the prisoner having asserted that she was married to the prosecutor; the truth or falsehood of that assertion must be proved. There was also another point of evidence : it was stated that an alebi would be produced, as thelprisoner had denied that she was near the Cornwall-road on the day in question. Mr. Games said he was in a situation to prove the story of the marriage was a gross fabrication. Mr. Cormarram—The evidence ought not to come from you, the prisoner must substantiate the fact. Mr. Hardman, the prisoner's solicitor, stated he had no evidence at present of the marriage, as lie understood the beadle and pew-opener of St. John's, Paddington, where the marriage took place, had been summoned to attend by the prosecution. Mr. Games said there was no doubt of the prisoner's mar riage with a Patrick Henry Smith, but the prosecutor was V ~~..~~1 t ---.~-~ not the man ; the beadle and p( w-opener were present, and he was reedy to call them. He then called Joseph Drake, who deposed Vaal he was beadle of St.. John's, Paddington, and prodi ce t the registers of marriages on the 13th of May, Whit-Mon lay, at St. John's. The re gister was kept by the curets, and there was an entry in witnzss's handwriting of a n a:riage of Bridget Smith with Patrick Henry Smith, on that day. There were five marriages that morning, and the last persons who were married lie re collected, from the circumstance that the man was very dirty, and had the appearance of a bricklayer's labourer, who had just left his work; he wore a sort of flannel or fustian coat, he was a tall stout man, but as he kept his head down he did not notice him much; the woman also looked dirty; the man asked the witness and the pew-opener to be wit nesses, but not liking their appearance he declined ; the man then went out after two witnesses who had attended a pre vious marriage and returned with them, when they were married ; the prisoner was the woman, but he could not speak as to the man ; who wrote the names of the witnesses he could not say, but thought it was the clerk's writing ; it appeared they were marksmen : the prisoner's name appeared to be written by the clerk. Mr. Cottingham minut e ly examined the entries in the re gister, and asked if the prosecutor had any objection then to write his name? Mr. Games said the prosecutor would have no objection to Lo anything the Bench wished, as he was anxious for a full nvestigation. _ The prosecutor then wrote down his name in full on a piece of paper, which was handed to the magistrate. The pew-opener stated that she recollected the marriages taking place on Whit-Monday ? 'the last marriage was be tween a man and woman, both of whom were very dii ty, and that she never saw a dirtier couple, the man appeared as if he just came from work, he wore a cap but held down his held. _ _ Mr. Games said he would call witnesses to show the prose cutor could not have been near the church. After a tedious examination of witnesses, Mr. CorriscatAm determined that as the charge was one of a very serious nature, he should decline to take bail, and would remand the case till Saturday. The prisoner was then remanded, and will be brought up again on Saturday. On leaving the dock she requested to see her son, which was immediately granted. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of public business. TIIE LORD MAYOR AND. THE GOVERNORS OF CHRIST-1 HOSPITAL. Alderman WILSON brought up the report of the Committee upon the report of the Lord Mayor on the proceedings at Christ's Hospital on St. Matthew's-day last, in which the president and treasurer of the Hospital refused to recognise the claim of the Lord Mayor to be head of the institution. It stated that the Committee had proceeded duly to consider the subject, and was attended by a deputation of the Royal Hospitals' Com mittee of the Corporation, and it appearing that the lists which were delivered to the Lord Mayor on St. Matthew's•day last were inaccurate in point of form, and not according to the 'Ancient practice, they were of opinion that the said lists should be returned to the rresidents of the several Hospitals, and that they should be requested to correct and amend the same in proper form ; and they recommended the Court to give direc tions accordingly, and that the Lord Mayor be requested to hold a General Court fur all the Hospitals at Christ's Hospital, fur the purpose of receiving and confirming the corrected lists of governors. Alderman WILSON having moved that the report be agreed to, . . Alderman WOOD said the Governors of Christ's Hospital had, in denying the right of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation to be at the head of thatinsti tution, quite mistaken the extent of their own authority, and by their proceedings on the day the Queen visited the Hospital jeopardise the privileges which they exer cise. If the matter was a question of precedence alone it would not be deserving of notice, but it had become necessary, from what had taken place, to insist upon the long-established existence of the right. It formed an essential ingredient in the constitution of the Roy al Hospitals, that the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons should form part of each of the Courts. In fact, without the presence of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, a legal Court could not be formed; go that, for the sake of a paltry dis tinction of rank, those who had made the experiment called in question the whole of the privileges of which they claimed the absolute possession. The Alderman having referred to the authority of all the charters in support of the power of the Corporation, and spoke at some length in favour of the resolute legal assertion of the rights of the body, concluded by seconding the mo• tion, with the addition that copies of it and of toe re port of the Lord Mayor relative to the proceedings on St. Matthew's-day, should be sent to the governors. Sir PETER LAURIE suggested the propriety of hold ing a conference with the governors, which he con sidered to be a course more likely to lead to a satisfactory issue than a charge against them could be supposed cal culated to effect. He was sure that the misunderstand ing could be explained away. Alderman WOOD thought a conference between a committee of the Corporation and parties who had de liberately slighted and insulted the head of that Cor poration would be exceedingly humiliating to the Court of Aldermen.—(Hear, hear.), There had been expressed nit a word of regret or acknowledgment of error by the governors, who had denied the authority claimed ; on the contrary, they had passed resolutions and made statements of a very different tendency in confirmation of their avowed belief in the superiority of their own powers. The only place in which the question could be settled was a court of law, and there was very little doubt as to the manner in which it would be settled before such an ordeal.—(Hear, hear.) Alderman WILSON was surprised to hear Sir Peter Laurie, who had shown so excelient an example himself in promptly acknowledging the superior authority of the Lord Mayor in the Hospital over which he presided, allude in such terms to the conduct pursued at Christ's Hospital. It was quite evident that the intention of the governors was to show, in a way not to be mistaken, that they wholly repudiated the claims of the Cor poration ; and he was happy to find that the Lord Mayor had acted so resolutely in defence of their privileges. There was no occasion for a conference. If the go vernors happened to be amicably inclined, they bad had plenty of opportunities of evincing the change in their sentiments. Sir PETER LAURIE said that he preferred an ami cable arrangement to an appeal to the law, by which an enormous expense might be incurred, such as had been incurred in the matter of the Irish Society. Indeed, he looked upon it as merely fighting for a straw, and he considered a victory purchased in such a case for the sum of 50,000/. not very well worth such an expendi ture. Ile believed the governors of all the Hospitals were disposed to pay every proper respect to the ma gistracy of the City. Alderman LUCAS approved of the report, and of the spirited manner in which the privileges of the Corpora tion had been supported. The report was then agreed to, and the Lord Mayor's report was ordered to be printed, and copies of it were directed to be sent to the governors. Upon the motion of Alderman WILSON, seconded by Mr. Alderman WOOD, the thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to the Lord Mayor, for the modera tion and firmness with which his Lordship had acted at Christ's Hospital, in asserting the rights of the Cor poration. The LORD MAIon, in returning thanks, declared that he had merely performed his duty, as he believed he had done since he had had the honour of filling the office of magistrate of the City of London.—(Hear, hear.) STATE OF GILTSPUR•STREET PRISON. Alderman SIDNEY, after a speech in which he de scribed Giltspur-street Prison to be excessively crowded, and the prisoners to be in a scandalous state of insubor dination, in consequence, he alleged, of the negligence or incapacity of the City magistracy, moved that the pre sent overcrowded state of the house of correction in Giltspur-street—the want of classification and proper separation of the prisoners—be taken into consideration, with the view of applying an early remedy. Alderman WxLsox repelled the charge against the City magistrates, and said that Alderman Sidney could not be aware of the very excellent improvements in pro gress in Giltspur-street Prison when he spoke of the miserable arrangements. lie also contended that, with the exception of a few profligate persons, the whole of the inmates were in a complete state of subordination. Alderman WOOD and Alderman LUCAS also denied that blame lay at the doors of the magistrates, and that there were any evidences of insubordination except in three or four instances, which were by no means to be wondered at, as there were collected in the prison mul titudes of the most abandoned characters to be found in the metropolis. _ _ There was no opposition at all made to the motion o Alderman Sidney.—The Court then adjourned. FLOODS IN THE NORTH. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATIIIIDAY.—A great quan tity of rain has fallen in this district within the last tew days, which has swollen the rivers, and done considerable damage to property in their margins. On Thursday the rain descended in torrents all day, and yesterday the Tyne, at high water in the afternoon overflowed its banks for several miles, covering all the low grounds near Hexham and Newburn, carrying away the corn produce of several fields in stock, and doing serious injury to the potatoe and turnip crops. The quay at Newcastle was covered with water, and the cellars in the neighbourhood completely inundated. During the ebb tide the current was so strong as to carry away several vessels from their moorings, and the damage done among the shipping in the harbour was very extensive. The Ocean brig was driven on the Herd Sands, and the sea is breaking over her in such a manner that it is feared sbe will become a total wreck. The David, of Yarmouth, had her mainmast carried away, and the Dover steamer lost her foremast. The mate of the Atlantic, of Shields, was killed by the breaking of a warp, and the Blossom steamer was driven against the Brig John with such violence as to stave in her quarter, and she was only kept from sinking with the greatest difficulty, her funnel being also carried away. It is impossible at present to enumerate the casualties that have occurred, as the ex sent of damage is not yet fully ascertained. The har bour was a complete scene of confusion from the vessels adrift ; several wherries were sunk, and indeed it was impossible for a small boat "to live." The ',ace boat had a narrow escape, having just got out between two vessels, when thfy were driven to , ether with great vio lence. A great number of bowsprits have been broken, and an immense pile of broken warps has been collected in Young's dockyard by the police, who are protecting it till claimed by the owners. The ebb-tide to-day has brought down large quanti ties of hay and corn, a cow, several sheep, and a horse, and from these indications, it is apprehended the da mage done in the west, of which only very partial accounts have been received here, is very great. The Blaydon station of the New castle and Carlisle Railway was knee-deep in water ; and the line for several miles was covert d. The garden grounds about Hexham are still under water, and it is feared that the entire potato crop in those places will be destroyed. DEATH ()F A FLAG OFFICER Admiral Benjamin W. Page, the junior Admiral of d the Blue, died at Ipswich on Friday evening last, at a old age. He entered the navy in November, 1778, with Rear- Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K.C.8., a personal fi iend of his faller, and was a midshipman on board the Superb in the ac tions with Monsieur de Suffrein in the East Indies, in which he was twice wounded by the side of his patron. He was appointed acting lieutenant, in December, 1782, to the Exe ter, 64, at Bombay, and came to England with the admiral, and was paid off in 1783. Lord Howe confirmed him a lieu tenant November 20, 1784, and appointed him to the Astrea, 32, Captain Raimer, for the Jamaica station ; returned in 1790, and were, all hands and officers, appointed to the Monarch, 74. In December, Lieut. Page was sent in the Minerva, 38, with Captain R. M. Sutton, to India, and on joining Commodore Cornwallis, the flag-ship, the Crown, 64, paid off at Portsmouth in 1792; and in January, 1793, appointed first lieutenant of the Suffolk, 74, at the request of Captain Raimer. On the 7th of June, having been on a cruise off Cherbourg and the French coast, the Suffolk was safely taken through the Needles' Passage to Spithead, being the first seventy.four ever taken through the Needles; and she continued - a fa vourite ship with Lord Howe till the latter part of May' 1794, when Commodore Raimer was sent with her and others to escort a large convoy to India; and as acting cap tain, Lieutenant Page was paid the batta, and after the ear Lure of Negapatam and Trincomalee was confirmed by the Admiralty as a Commander to the Hobart, of 18 guns, Sep tember 12, 1795; and having conveyed the Bombay . Chins ships to their home from China, was made Post Captain into the Orpheus, 32, 1796, on Captain Henry Newcomb's demise, and received 500 guineas for care of convoy, through the Admiral, officially. 1798 and 1799 Captain Page was com pelled, by had health, to return to England. January, 1800, Earl Spencer appointed him to the Inflexible, 64, armed en flute, and sent him with sealed orders, and 14 more such ships, to take General Pigot and 5,000 troops to Gibraltar and Minorca, which they did safely and ra pidly, and joined at the blockade and capture of General- Massena, at Genoa; and the Inflexible carried about 600 French troops from thence to Antibes, and a convoy from Minorca, Gibraltar, and Lisbon, to England. Earl Spencer again sent Captain Page with sealed orders to Admiral Lor d Keith, who put part of the 42d Highlanders on board the - flexible, whence they were landed in Egypt by her boats,with March 8, 1801 ; and that ship was sent to Rhodes , &e., f dispatches for England, and returned to the block ade 0 Alexandria with Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton and_the squadron. On the surrender of Cairo Captain. Page was sent to take the 13,556 French troops and followeJs from Egypt to France. He embarked nearly 600 French artillerymen, and 12 of their guns, ammunition, Sce. , en t board the Inflexible, and all the others in ships P,,.° under his orders, for Marseilles, and landed them there. lie returned to Malta, and thence took General Coote and the 3d Guards to Gibraltar and Spithead, and was paid off in March, 1802. He was soon after appointed to the Caroline, 36, for the Irish station from Cork; he was sent with sealed orders in May, 1803, for the East Indies, and arrived there 104 days, taking some French and Duteh vessels, and send' ing the latter to apprise the Governor of St. Helena of the renewal of the war in Europe, which enabled him to keep our ships there for convoy, and to detain some Dutch s'e'", sell. Admiral Raimer, having gone in quest of Adm.irat Lanois and the French squadron, which had recently. sailed from Pondicherry, and Captain Bathurst, in the Terpslc h°r „ e f with a few small ships, being left to protect the Bay "t Bengal and that side of India, Captain Page assume d tlq iii i command, escorted the Company's ships for Europe safety, and luckily captured the General de Caen, of guns and 200 men, and Les Tres Unis, cf 18 guns aini 140 men, privateers, from Bordeaux, before they had doll any mischief ; he then took a large convoy of liombaY '11! European ships to China, and back to India, in safety, 1.3 1804. The merchants of Bengal and of Madras each gel Captain Page 500 guineas for his exertions and success, ai' the Admiral appointed him to his flag-ship, the Trident , al ! I d he brought the present Duke of Wellington to England March, 1805, they took a convoy to St. Helena, leaving A.„ miral Sir Edward Pellew in command of the squadron 1" India, which Admiral Raimer had held eleven years. Frolll St. Helena the convoy was 44 sail, the same number a s taken out in 1794, and having seen them all safe into the Downs, September, 1805, paid off the Trident at Chatl ourt , and received 500 guineas, with official thanks, from the C of Directors, through the Admiral, fur the care of convoy's._ Lord Mulgrave appoiuted Captain Page to the Sea Fe ncibles at Harwich ; and on their being disbanded, Lord Melville ar pointed Captain Page to the Puissant, 74, at Spithead, vib e !! he had, with other duties of the port, to sit upon 167 &Ari': martial, to go weekly to superintend invaliding men froul Hasler Hospital, examine candidates for lieutenancies, 811:. proper management of the prison-ships in Porchester , &c. October, 1815, the Puissant was paid off, and in Captain Page was promoteno flag-rank, and made a Vice- Admiral in July, 1830, and Admiral, November 23, 1841. THE BRUTAL LASH. FIFO NOBLE SENTIMENTS IN REFERENCE THERE OF LORD METCALF. (From the Indian News.) It gives us great pain to observe from the Indian nals that the opinion of many " practical men" is i u your of the re-introduction of the lash into the native anTO be 3 This, should it take place, will, in our judgments fatal error. The doctrine that the lash has become nio cessary is founded on a misconception which ought n° t e , i i,„ exist among persons making any pretensions to int gence ; for the late instances of discontent and insuhnL dination have been much less important, and can be nr; clearly traced to improper treatment of the arm'' , t by those which occurred before flogging was a bolished Lord William Bentinck. This opinion of the pract% man referred to is worth no more than the opin t w bo of other practical men, that the Indians, who make bravest soldiers in the world, are cowards by that the Indians who overthrew the Mogul despotism, .0)", who have repeatedly beat off the British with equal 0 1 . 11 .. hers, are incapable of organising. of themselves, eved cleat military force; and that the Indians, who in Ol i o mas-es are gallant, faithful, and honourable, are in ' so life a race of liars, thieves, and scoundrels. Thes e ,. ancient prejudices which are fast vanishing before the of modern knowledge, and which, in all probability. the naturei d have no existence at &1 in the next generation ; but , i ll 3 meantime, unfortunately, in the question of the lash , I n at the opinion of the veterans, with the Duke of Welling p° their head, which will be taken. This painful subject has been suggested to us hY t he f° 1 1 :1 lowing paragraph in a letter to a private friend from L c ' I 3lttalf, a practicaldeplore man of another stamp : " exceed the contemplate dre -i n t r oduet-°, „. flogging into the Indian Native Army, and have alwaP".:t-ij garded Lord William Bentinck's abolition of that 1. ! . ` punishment as reflecting high honour on his administratioiv, If I had the power , I would abolish it in the British 311_%., notwithstanding th high authority in favour of its coati" ante." a b o li In the British army it unhappily exists, and i ts te r tion, if no adequate substitute could be found, might,- ought we know, occasion some disorder among the se the ir dividuals whose minds have been brutified a' backs scored by the whip ; but the Indians are joir sent restrained by military honour—by " fidelity to re salt"—and this cannot co-exist with the lash. The be lotis ventive of insubordination among them is just and jud_A. treatment by the local government and officers in colonlant It is but fair to add, that private accounts mention,!:oTo the contemplated brutalisation of a body of men to England owes a debt that ought to be requited oth' r than by the lash, had been suspended or given up. - - - _ — Ball, FATAL ACCIDENT AT WooLWlCll.—Henri viss a drummer attached to the band of the Roy-al Marin es, n ier, was drowned on Saturday evening, near Charlton ro,e Woolwich ; and the body was first observed by on e Sara convicts employed at the west end of Woolwich doe ~oe'S yesterday forenoon, and taken charge of, that a '-" )— d lea inquest might be held upon it. It appears the boy _V I the his residence, in Frances-street, Woolwich, to procee'' ° ibis last boat up the river from Charlton pier, to join som e d tlie companions; and he was observed in the fore part :joie' vessel, by a female passenger, playing with a roPek over" diately after leaving the pier, and while doing so oestiae balanced himself, and fell into the river. The female :stile" diately acquainted the Captain of the Niobe WoOs,eol steam packet of the circumstance, and he backed the. a's; and remained near the spot for about ten or fift een Unfit or but the body did not rise to the surface, which render s mile r bable that the deceased had been stunned in passing the paddle-wheels. s t e ame r ' AMSTERDAM, OCT. 3.—The English 5 gar lingen and London, was towed back to the Held Rapid, which recently commenced running betwe eli on the dery f wa ter 29th ult., in a damaged condition, and with six feet ! ) ,. ti 01 in the hold. It had on board 75 cows, 15 of wil:' e Te.xe drowned or otherwise killed. The last arrivals at h e clots were the Thomas and Joseph, from Newcastle; t e , (rot e Dorothea, the Paragon, the Shencliffe, and the Is i r The Sunderland; and the Jantina Hendrika, from IlenaptiP number of passengers on the so-called Dutch receipts - for the month of September, was 67,264. Theannoonce o f th i s amounted to 69,411 florins. The Hague p a p ers s the sudden death of Herr C. de Border, COrania nd e t T io gig' order of the Dutch Lion, and Attorney-General in Council of the Netherlands. r hel d • r was BRAINTREE FAlR.—This important fair u np , Y of . on Thursday and Friday last, and as respects the s t V e se stock of most descriptions, and the busines s don t able ehr counts that have reached us are of the most f°a tlle suPP ; ratter. The number of sheep and lambs exceede d t here ' v i b e of any forer average nearly 20,000 being yenneo;. , fa t o, also a fair number of bullocks in the falrA t . ho r? ... . there was a full supply, including whole were in very excellent condition. ,_`-:, tt ornu,: than usual of very superior cart colts. The e 3 oc i a llv ' it , a larbe t i teo dan% too, of respectable buyers was numerous, c e le P at ' 1 , 1 3 c /i Thursday, and large purchases were ma i ,_ con t he indeed at considerably advanu.d rates, wh . °O )ao io otl b il e , favourably with the low prices produced by the 1 40 , 00 111_ 0, tariff in 1842. Friday morning was wet and L" o f btl e j, and consequently there was a smaller attendainointao4,o but still the rates of the previous day were e , sa cted• f. ir, and a considerable deal of business was tr e- a t this than ,apply of hops, generally an important featureeinager.telvg was, owing to the backwarkness of the seaso4 , llo . not ~,° a rt. was ever seen there before; in fact, the Pic h _ d q o this t au over very few could be bagged in time W se4 T.,et . ewt - fo pi- For those that were pitched, from 8/. Ss. m any ' 'being ° of asked, bat few sales were effected at this rate, fr ou sot i S es e nion, notwithstanding the unfavourable report that that. bola the large hop- growing districts of the kingrst f a ir rig o f prices will not be maintained. This was the d the l' al'' ther e since the alterations at the Hyde Farm, an i.nt s tate 9 t t he the new arrangements ; and a correspoeut" were complaints amongst some of the l a rge . d s e_a l „ e o r b s ttO1103inlio; space purchased and fenced in for the stock i o T t ' la s do_ n e le d, fined, for should the fair increase at the Jr 2 11 v ere„,,or the last twenty years, it will soon be I te w l' as " t auca re ' o ed The space allotted to the horses, he saY s ,', e is °l o re 4 plained of as insufficient; and he adds, a ' e P ti - re basel!,dtogg• that the new proprietors of the manor writ P,,, i by ball .„ a te the ground for the purpose before it is oceel"n o tr far '- which would render the enlargement of to' •% l A ' r r ec il in A e T sra; .l _ ll . s c. F' - I :Es' ,„, v ioiog difficult and expensive.—Essex Herald. j a the Y l ' ar ic., wh e 1•• • _ or B th a i v sb a o L r E ou r g ß h o to rt o o k u p G la a ce ß o a n G for hall, before J. Wharton, Esq., the barr_i..atg.. s ilvest s i oa :... , very ably supported the Liberals, and l li. t . a the r es i ' hoil,e the Tories. The following is the resu ~. Libera i i,..--• Liberal freemen struck off, 3, • Tory ditto_ . ; ,e l rei gal holders struck off, 4; Tory 'ditto, 10.- 441 f til ° ult ° Hull Advertiser. --The re s - e lti i t- .0 NORTH CHESHIRE REVISION. 1 , rnec iesh id lit county revision in Macclesfield is, that. J . : ~-- 7 0 1, 1 , '6l,„ o '"' l , t o ec t e l clev the League has established 105 claims , n ' i i obi ' .fie Bollin-fee 12. The Conservatives made o .___2l/, county voters in the borough, and sustained ' ar e Far tif Courier. __Both P, ;, sir es „ , REPRESENTATION OF WIGAN. ...,„; 01 1, • t o but stio' - • g b to tto still actively canvassing the electors, the boroug h rese r lo known of the state of political iiifeeling , __ sso , t , pa e rtY_ e d, _„ it almost certain, that unless Mr. Thi .1, 1 1 1 ,e _. be r ti . oo o elec tor . ' enormous bribery, Captain Lindsayhaitm' e s orne 0. b e g w ill :P: seems to be generally understood, t. a that b thing ` °• are hanging back in the expectatia 0 ~,,. a o o , bl o offered, as if any man in his sEnses say b fool enoilg-- to ett: iniquity of such a course) would bekt,sui ~ More .A• self into a Parliament that has little live.—Nanchester Courier. tp S