The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-27 00:00:00

fn~A tb. ad , o et )th e i ° ofd a te ott,- t chOgiv; 11,. ) co la 0 1 DO OBl iDO lf ; °‘ ert; ,-. NORTHERN AND EASTERN Th e • RAILWAY. ad ea.... Meeting of the Proprietors of this Company, %V from the 12th, was held yesterday, at the i S ti t o a n tion, for siti l 7 ll h,.at 12 o'clock, to consider the . proos thet F the interests of the two companies submit,d to s od ii,'Y the Eastern Counties Company. R. W. aKe.n:n -presired'.lle the chairman of the previous meeting, gat rett\le advertisement calling the meetin; having bean Proprietors. llelile eitliasisie proceeded to address the ProPrie the katZgretted that Mr. Paterson, the Chairman of _ illtin of Did that Was again unable to attend through Ai Psition, being still confined a prisoner to his house. mss 4114 present was an adjourned meeting it would t ers e e c e i essil rY for him to aliat s oli th e go over the ground he had traa last occasion. lie would first correct liki tt°erstanding into which some of the Proprietors _lle Proposed knell about dealing with the divisible fund. be slight`-"Pesad dealing with that fund did not int te,,,4st degree affect the guarantees made by the Ens- Cov er to-gtiatintis Company. It had nothing whatever r eale with those guarantees, but they w Since the , PreciselY as they were before. leolt'Tiees meeting a full recount of what then tad ait'!_e had been sent to every Proprietor to ; all th ' the birectors had given the fullest attentiot! j it d ,e objections which were urged on that occasion. to ON so te , stow they h had found great difficulty arise as ran k „"eY should deal with those who had invested . k °l`ter„:br t Zeeln h ill the concern, and the time intervening i a lloyed in devising a remedy. Happily, an y ~., been obtained from the Eastern Counties 14/ th P e a ire ll• 'l' 4 would be found in the resolution that had ill toe,,Lated among the Proprietors as they came into 1 , 4 9. fhalil_ti Which would be submitted to them that fit; pre..lesolutin gave them all that was necessary. .. — 've an increase of six per cent. from five per Ii ' ll at present guaranteed, as an took g ul aP the divisible fund. Whether, however, they Equivalent for Ill,lld,.or"Pe per cent , and their chance of the divisible tbe i lk t o X Per cent. without, they would still possess "414 hate new shares allotted them in proportion for 4 4 44 a I A pftt..kiow held. They would also possess the right to '7 of all profits that might accrue, after ou th n e . :tii.Zokr guaranteed the Northern and East n e d rn C to that lithatlaY, with a similar rate of d b ivi e d n e paid—that e n itter'il.st!ln Counties Company had CPer ra nk Eastern Counties Company theirl-••‘• on their" and the Northern . and the 0 capital, had received h to per centage as 40 `5 would edivided pro rata. I, 4t l ltli th „ . b equally per resolution, ~. v advanta es on these terms at pre '''zilhei:rtoeta-`„...e._o3.lisirderakife, in the event of the com :747e greatZ caching York,.benefits would be oZedlsib:gth‘tet:;:libAle:tsporfeseunllt ttbheeirrivsablaryreos,foatpdoskienpgtlintbees si;,, 4 eor is i d l_ Eastern Counties at 191, .though that was advance upon their original cost. t hi likent.uaY Were successful in their application then ßu to t, would klid ttettiu,lM obtained their Bill, the London to k ,,itorh , ' t il l at present paid on So far thi i evtio t lir. e Cambridge and their stock. and other tte ek * . otild mh'fs, merge into the. les t . Th e l 'i.e' them the benefit of taking s up the new f etat llig ee esolution that would be submitted . to the hi.er prapntetaii,n.ed another agreeable alteration from the . hate„,,,t)btaieed o"en• . It provided that, whether tb th e e g ß u i a l! thetiet ere _s . not, the agreement respecting lob e siaturest.hould stand good. Whether an Act of AewalNietm.,,..was got or otherwise, the . agreement was hich he It ti - ii refet,-, There was another point to ff s l! all : regarding the capital stock. w . This stock fooll ,;aaesPeicts. to be considered partnership stock 46,," la th...°°tained. Another alteration tb w a rld be in the tiZtor th e t section of the resolution l 4 141 io th eir astern Counties Company being unsuc- No T , Pc4 4 _its w ou i li d 'Pli l catio n to Parliament, money Eas a t l e l rn :itt ., ( 3 ; t ook _ on returned. The Countiespaid (sr! eat, ~,",_P themselves to th e .._ APT secretary would all n ow read responsibility tb e re soon aiitt; folloyZetlng. 5 i . ;: .., -1 is the resolution which was then sub toirsp,hlti, at th I L...s . s e ' l t tht i,ll , 4 a l li s ti n t a i t l i emiista j gr u e ly em b e e n x t t, be b t e we e e h l e t g h ve e d two Pl sje; et esp o i t ' el t s he net Profits shall be divided rateabl_ to o t v h e e r , of net Companies, subject, however, p er : The new - guarantees after mentioned. . itill...4n.ath iti,ciapital of 4 ,500,00, / . to receive 4 I p .n e e r s ce a n r t e . ~,,•"AeZestrii„`.ee usual manner, while the new '4" 'uelle?°e; and when the same have opened i a fo re r took lofiii.--Pttal Shall commence taking its rateable s i bt iv ltte qtt riet °rs of North i and Eastern shares agTeeiPi! to 404 4al letth en , s 'ale al of A ent of two new shares of 201. each in th N'th 'l4 hal 1'600,000/. to be raised by the said Ea f st t e h rn e 13,lliit-s,g. s odl ye olnpany, for each share of 50/. o h e t i th l iini., extern capital, shall have the same allotted i tleY) h I,l",oare capital of the Northern and Eastern b nr ,,es' st. to r: el ' iv u3 e • ae ,Prpopriettorsthleairstprmeseeinittiongenda,rans teed 5 tlititik 1144 1 ferpetui y shares de r,'Acla to tatterelirietors of Northern and Eastern Pelh t he :N• the eald allotment of two new shares co o u f e 2 ti O e l s . L "ortV t eY brie,f,yr Extension capital of the Eastern 501. of ' 1 )1 111 aNlV"'°°ol., about to be created, for each ot N. eceive6,astern the d capital, shal as from pinedq all) after all the remaining shall have t '•ad a h Per cent. per annum l ass guarantee l i s n t te j r u e l s y t ~" t:et.„lqt.;:nt, be entitled to share rateably the capital 4 11 0 1 3' 4 s k pt l , a - ft .\'2orratilh additionalere in sur anteed interest, shall, 14 0 , 't ih,,,,m ann um as a guar sr with v eot ,„„ and Eastern Shareholders, receiving__ . 'Air the aiv. astern-e Counties Shareholders, be entitled to liN 'Mattenew " '(l4t lue all extension shares to be created 411 fir 44 i ° the event of Acts of Parliam th e e nt N f e o w r t E lce t e e x e t s e ie n n - With 4 oft s "R obt a Out• 00 ' 0 01 t ried, the deposits or? I'4 Iraere;-;ol. shall be returned without deduction, but 'Ahih NAlllt. 11 to N eir e lie .hair, t 4 li sisid he had another h re r m e ar w k or t e o st m i eke IN in k Ile rgotn. a Lth,tolpired ,cent,;ri andwhen the term s provided for Ivei-r ! :. 11 . : e , Si x p er cent. would be still gocks'rei C'e nolders of the quarter-shares tho w new ~4 1A li tt the; ' u tile their election respecting '", b ,illoeith,-,,a111e time as the other Proprietors. paid d ou e l n d 4414,1 ,71che44e-04teitelewditsoliesdixto know if the shares . referred percent. in perpetuity ? bt,Th/ili.teste4Aleli--es, if hey make a t r h e e s i . r election y to .4 t , - eaol ut • • hlieu of the new kr' , and 1 ` ) " :was then formally moved by Mr.toit4-' Let, 'eeonded bv Mr 13 - x Lev. shares to the llort'hhferene:ltid the third s . ectioa of the resolution * het, ar i d , c Tly to the allotment of the T h soese sew'c44Stertl Company • wished to know et„ he ee, s h lie - ` l ,,eti t o liki ttsta. aFes would be allotted ? slr 1 the och e intimated at the same time as the Neord."`"Xvi then COMpanies interested. i i i,efg , read the first section, and aaid shares k ls ;" . 1 ha,,:u that condition, the new and that, h e rti C a to be Clotted to the Northern.l 4/ es., lio a i est the to at the rate of - . Sup stiiill the alto were were at present 181. 'tieltlic,,Zire• Were to go discount, er 19 1. would they A 1,, Isa ittm their deposits bark? 14 at tl l'it -•4 ---"Yes, but without interest. of dreersit Itt:ouldl3'taTc'e wished to know the amount k„: W A 4 ,3 :equired to be paid on the new sha r tel tti knrilbt in he believed 21. 10s. , 4. °11 ()tit, quired if the third section of the re : go wi 's WAttJhaPplied to the present proposed extension to If t h ext e - ti 'Y'swered, only to that. It had nothing o y :* LEv t , stles hereafter. 14 *it" °I . I th"gh he considered terms an im lt th eta T.e previous ones, was not prepared to fall etettiil4,,ideralsre had sem , t i me ago bought 100 shares cat, i .", - - te te ,e. Premium. On these shares, taking that er - Am . mtiii ~ -,e.eount, he was not receiving five per fa to yt th e eh"al'as desirous of remaining as he was. , t ataiit% and not r ee as an investment for the benefit of his m4 lif ! (41 th e " a speculation. He had consulted W11,1.'411(4 r4Prsent question, and they did not seem , 1 1. 1i le t 'Y i g un tili s le g a tilt with the London and York 'llso c " °I r ivalry' • q % race up "13°si ts They were not dispos l e e d us t o o m ru r n . I.Th:tr, with that Company to p 15t h e t e .. le e li t A is 11 .9`,'‘ .- -It is not to please Mr. Hudson. The still `1 I,t l7 ,''' oe with the Eastern Counties Company., h ae 4 said he did not wish to be personal, IN could ~411% could , net avoid it on that occasion. They \joint ever netted of this extension project till tti hero. A I earne into the Eastern Counties p ett oef orq °Z . was it that that Company had not hit . t ip t Y, and whentsts only wish was to protect their pro L ett ° the,„i Norfolk and Suffolk were fully openeda far toketkosTtanna,had no doubt they would be in _. ki Ile h, than running to York to suit Mr. lind obi intve7 Invested in the Company that his family Al l % h e e,.,' ,everionary interest in it, and therefore, lit-kr.ltitobullld not consent to the resolution. tb k k• l s ly t o E tt , said that he wished to say a few te,:ell as 12 the last speaker. He had purchased 450 words test 4 t hete Pr Z t ,i, re, and he still retained a large por kearehh. 4 t pre s ,_ ll4 , rt his opinion the arrangement . sulgu y, iBA,ut.erould not entirely meet his views. n pr e ,..as ter,„ -6, it was proposed to extend the Northern be t•t: _olaties Railway to Newport, and it was tbe 1444 return shareholders to take shares at a et t l ei rnie e ,l i w ., , 1 " five per cent. The calls were to th make ''' e lY, as the Directors were supposed to 40 ti;taarltt, Afterwards, in consequence of a rise :4;11 iiatilltath,...s;44:habreirse, c a t o n rds as sai t d be t y hat they would make . 151 1) , ii.".. 44 7 of the shureholdershadsubffeeernedbseenvgehretlayt, Z!,,_be e tt z t ae In the country. r W slit th e m o/ Said, that in that case the Directors did , b are s 14 I'd r e ll"e Y , and they did not make a call on the ~t !e h_ er that it might be an inducement for taking el de e e e ll could only be made when the bonds be scte,, , end 1 ,„ to t o thekaar, Would say that the Directors had con liee)o4o,4de:rs, that matter so as to cause a benefit oratiA..trebta snanid,that, as they did not want the money, ' l ve;i m r ,"g to th l e Ale with - •Alairman's statement, what would they ca_paeQ4,__ it if the calls had been made ? -Ilieet:4:lastoi said that they would have had to con hoZt to eatniPl°Y it k otia era i t thia e d that i whopeared to bins that the Share %lett' "%Id ktr!ilway took two new letters of allot trao'le th e „ r ',,' five r cent• guaranteed to them, and a t rity ln l t . t t t l i t Profits ropese they returned more than that the % Ne e in the had no Protection against any vx- L t eorki, r. _ the working line. The amount of pziastix bkeztpenses w ag to be thirty-si cent. T Mtll l.ll eount9rs lane body of ei ghteenDirectr s :nth Nor twatt lea , bein • "qthe.- Q, and i _ . rig one third. Six to cope N,. ' O, and and t g e ase of any Separation of the et ,t -'% : te e et i l i ta : : ,s or e x r a y frotn the Eastern Counties, what 4 4 '4 treat ,„,' th ey that he lin would not be worked 44 'P e4 s , 11. the ,Eastern Counties, who had eotili e kkta st it ? pe r _ not eon 41-1 said that the working of the line to _ ollt. IN_ More than the sues mentioned, viz., 36 to.Posaihte, question did not appl . and it would be tits high, as they cent, no severe )g,radients, to get it tie' Ae tt % .1 " ter . thti trrnkt%e°,anties e a d if the expense did not on the . 1 . Mount to more than 36 per cent. on 11 11 ° el t4l •th n litk,i • e expelises w s o a ia lti ci Lh at tithe first starting of any " grill consequence of the TH difficulty of organising a large staff of servants, but when they were properly organised the expense would not be more than 36 per cent. A SHAREHOLDER, whose name we did not hear, rose and said, that the proposition was one that the Shareholders ought not to agree to. The Eastern Counties shares were now at a premium, and it was not to be supposed but that if four and a half millions of money were to be raised on new shares, that quantity of shares would send those now at premium down to a discount. Besides, in his opinion, the amount of money that they would require to raise on new shares would be nearly 9,000,0001. instead of 4,500,000/. Mr. %% ILLIAMS said that their receipts were at present nearly 7,0001. per week, which would give a dividend of five per cent. on the capital. They might assume that if the working expenses of the line did not exceed 36 per cent. which would give about one-fifth of the receipts f o r working, that if they received 1,2501., the profit would amount to 1,0001. They had every reason to expect an increase in their traffic, and he looked forward confi dently to the time when they should receive 10 per cent. There was every reason to believe that, in a short time, the dividend would be six and two-thirds, and why should they give that up for a guarantee of 6 per cent., having a prospect of 10 per cent., independently of their York traffic? The least offer that could have been made was a guarantee of 7i per cent. The CHAIRMAN said, that if such an offer were made, they could not have any chance of participation in their future profits. The question was, however, one of mere speculation, and those who chose to be content with what they had already could do so, while those who chose to take the chance of more had an opportunity of doing so. Mr. GURDEN said that he did not see how they had any right to bind absent Proprietors by their proceedings of to-day. They were an adjourned meeting in order to consider the resolution that was laid before them at their . last meeting ; but as the resolution brought forward to-day was to tally different, he could not see how they ought to be binding on persons who were absent. He should like to know the effect of the proposition on the quarter-share holders if it were carried. If they declined taking any part in it, they would receive nothing for four years, as 6 per cent. was already guaranteed fur that time. He bad great respect for Mr. Hudson, but if he were with him sitting at that table, he had no doubt he should be able to point out to him some better way of protecting their railway right and increasing their profits. Under all the circumstances, he for one gave it as his opinion that the plan was one that it would not be wise to adopt. Mr. WARD said that the point mooted by Mr. Gurden, whether the absent proprietors shall be bound by what ever is finally determined on in this meeting is decided by the words of the Act of Parliament, which bind all absent Proprietors by whatever is done by the majority in any duly announced meeting. At the same time he must add, he was sure there was nothing in the meeting adverse to the interests of the Eastern Counties Proprietors; they had met them (the Eastern Counties Shareholders) a fortnight ago; propositions were laid before them, and their objections had been met in all fairness. It was said the Eastern Coun ties Company must have an alternative; the Directors went accordingly to the North Eastern Company's Board, had got an alternative, and now brought it before them, yet it is said to-day the Directors have given no notice of the meeting. They certainly wish no advantage over the Eastern Counties. Gentlemen knowing the meeting had been adjourned ought assuredly to have been present. He would not go into the details about the working expenses, as they have been introduced to the meeting. He did not see what advantage the two Companies could derive from going into a scrutiny here of each other's expenses, and cutting them down to the lowest sum. Mr. Hudson's name bad been mentioned, and with that good feeling and respect-which it deserves. That gentleman, it ought to be remembered, had gained his name for his economy ; he has in every case reduced expenditure, and been thereby able to return a very large dividend to the Shareholders. One word as to the amount of receipts. The Eastern Counties Shareholders will have 6 per cent. up to 1847, during the construction of the Norfolk line ; that line, when made, will throw the whole traffic along the main line, and they will come in for their share of the profits on the whole traffic. Mr. Gurden had prophesied often, but falsely, in that room. Mr. Gurden had said the shares of this Company would fall ; the market gives the answer. He said he would oppose the amalgamation ; if he had done so successfully, it would have been the ruin of the two Companies, for in making the arrangements they had not only been liberal to others, but also to them selves—they saw that the amalgamation would be for the mutual good of both. He thought a very valuable pro position had been laid before them. Those who chose, the 6 per cent., who are unwilling to speculate, will re ceive the 6 per cent., and afterwards share in the profits. On the other hand, those who are willing to speculate may have two shares, and iu case of failure have their de posit paid back to them. Unless amalgamation of the two lines be accomplished they will be a great bar to each other's interests. Competing lines will certainly start. The calculations of a gentleman who had already spoken, giving an issue of 7,8, 9, and even 10 per cent., can only be realised by shutting out competing lines; and the means to that is amalgamation, and nothing else. Mr. HuxLEe had supported the proposition made at the last meeting with great pleasure, much more than at the present, when the relation of the North-Eastern to the Eastern Counties is as one-third to two-thirds, one third more instead of one-fourth as proposed last meeting. Mr. RHODES (of Leeds) was certain that the Eastern Counties Shareholders would agree, that if the Bill in Parliament be obtained they have obtained a great good. Messrs. Levi and Luck will sustain no loss,- they run no risk—this is all borne by another Company. Mr. HASTIE, M.P., spoke shortly, in commendation of the proposition. The CHAIRMAN now put the resolution to the meeting, when 35 voted in favour, and 4 against it. Thanks were moved to the Chairman and the Directors. As the meeting was about to dissolve, The CHAIRMAN reminded them that Mr. Hudson at Cambridge had again suggested an amalgamation be tween them and the London and York. Mr. Pyne had kindly offered to carry the suggestion before his coad jutors, but nothing had reached him from that Com pany. He thought that the position of the London and York Company was now different from what it was, and such as to lead the Proprietors to see that their interest lay in amalgamation. All railways start with these objects, return for capital, to meet the in terest of the landowners, or that of the merchants; they started with the first object before them, the last had assuredly left them. The cut made by the North Eastern Counties up to Hitchin saves much; there is but one mile of difference between this line and the London and York, but the London and York line up to that point is carried through one-fifth of the way by tunnels. He had no doubt that the London and York would ulti mately unite with them, and they would certainly re ceive them with all liberality. SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held yes terday at the London Tavern, at one o'clock. The CHAIRMAN (Y. P. Richards, Esq.) said that, seeing so many present, he thought they had better pro ceed to business. The SECRETARY then read the notice convening the meeting, after which he read the report, from which it appeared that since tke meeting of the 11th of March, the Directors had been engaged in carrying out the views of the Proprietors, and that a deputation from the Board of Directors had proceeded to Bel gium, and made the necessary arrangements for constituting the Company a soriite anonyme, and that with respect to clauses conferring on them all the advantages and privileges of a public company, their interests had become carefully attended to. They had also been permitted to deviate from the line laid down in the convention, and fresh surveys had been made in con formity with the same. It also stated that there would be no increase of capital required for the present, and that the French and Belgian Governments had declared themselves most friendly to their undertaking. The CHAIRMAN said he did not consider it necessary to trouble the meeting with the cash account, as it had been printed and distributed among the Proprietors ; besides, it had been prepared merely for the satisfaction of the Board of Directors. There was one thing, however, with which they should be made ac quainted, and which was far from being unim portant. He alluded to the report of their engineer.—(Hear.) He had, however, to state, with respect to that report. that it had been made some time since ; and that as Mr. Henderson had only arrived last night, it was impossible for him to pre pare a perfect report of their position at the present moment. But there was one circumstance which he would put the meeting in possession of— namely, that that report contained many facts to show that they were in a prosperous condition. He attached much importance to the opinion of their engineer, Mr. Henderson, with respect to the mineral features of the country through which their line was to pass, from that gentleman's long experience of the mines in South Wales. He would not detain them any longer from hearing that report. The SECRETARY here read the engineer's report, which stated that he (Mr. Henderson) had made a careful survey of the line from Charleroi to Walcourt over the first section of which he had passed, and was confirmed in the opinion he had previously expressed as to its ex cellence, and in fact, that it was the best line that could possibly be adopted. He also felt bound to bear testi mony to the richness of the mineral districts of Laniffe and Moriolme, and that no engineering difficulties were to be encountered in that portion of the line which extended from Marembourg to Vireux. The coal districts of Charleroi would be also worked to a considerable extent, were only a quicker mode of transit afforded, and this the proposed railway would yield. The report then went on to speak of the other portions of the line, in their mineral and engineer ing attributes, and awarded a very high degree of ex cellence to them in these as well as other points. The CHAIRMAN said that, reverting to the report they had just heard, it would be evident to them iha, the greatest difficulties with which they had to contenk had been surmounted ; and they also had a sufficient sum to carry on the work, without any further decuani He had to acknowledge, on the part of the Directors, the willingness and alacrity with which the Proprietors had responded to the calls that had been made on them. The instances to the con trary wore very few, and these were cases which were owing to the absence of the parties from this country. They were now in a flattering condition. Their liabili ties were limited to the sum which they had subscribed, and the statutes by which this most desirable point had been guaranteed were drawn up with a just con sideration of the interests of all the parties con cerned.—(Hear, hear.) There was one point of these statutes to which he wished to direct their attention, namely, with respect to the qualification necessary for those attending them. The Bel ' Rion government was very firm hi restricting SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEIyING, NOVEMBER 27, 1845. the right to interfere in the proceedings to those who were registered Proprietors. But they were not inclined to adhere to this regulation. The delay that had oc curred was amply compensated for by the opportunities it had afforded them of improving their line of railway. At first their line had reference almost entirely to the mineral traffic, and consequently there would be necessarily induced a slower rate of speed than that which would be achieved by the passenger trains. He had no doubt that there would be before long a company established for the purpose of making a railway from Charleroi to Paris, and the French and Belgian Governments were both anxious that this should take place; and, should such be established, it must be obvious that the greatest benefits would accrue to them. He had also to allude to a circumstance that was extremely cheering—that was, that an increase had taken place in the district through which their line was to pass ; and this, from inquiry, was found to be no less than 80,000 tons of iron. Their railway would effect a diminu tion in the cost of this most essential commodity, and therefore generate an increase in the quantity which would be conveyed along the line. They would com plete their line from Morioline and Walcourt in a short time ; and from what he had just stated with respect to the traffic, they were determined to make a double railway for the first sixteen miles of their line. He had himself been frequently in Belgium for the purpose of inspecting the roads, and they were certainly very good. However, that which led from Belgium to Charleroi was not by any means suf ficiently convenient, notwithstanding that a considerable traffic in iron was carried on, which, as in the other cases to which he alluded, would no doubt be greatly increased by the proposed railway. Having gone through the ' principal features, he would conclude by proposing that the report now read be received, adopted, printed, and circulated under the direction of the committee, premising that he was ready to answer any questions that might be put to him, and that a meeting would have to be held at the seat of the Company in Brussels, which should be duly announced in the Belgian papers. A PROPRIETOR here inquired as to what had occurred in the interval between the drawing up of the report and the present period. The CHAIRMAN said the only thing that had taken place was the sanctioning of their line as far as Walcourt. The resolution having been seconded, was carried unanimously. The thanks of the meeting were given to the Chair man and the Board of Directors, and acknowledged by the Chairman. The meeting then separated. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 18 1 A—Grand Junction, New Quarter Shares, 31 p.—Ditto, Eighth Shares, 14:% p.—Ditto, 40!. Shares (L. M.), 48—Great Western, Quarter Shares, 12 1 A p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, % p.—London and Birmingham, 208—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 9 1 / 2 p.—North Staffordshire, 50s. 6d. p.—Dublin and Armagh, % dis.—Ja maica, 29 p.—Jamaica and South Midland, 1 p. MANCHESTER, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 2,i—Caledonian, 71,4 —Glasgow and Dumfries, 2 Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, Si. 175.—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 17 1 /, c.—Leicester and Tamworth, 42 —Manchester and Birmingham, 65—Manchester, South ampton, and Pool, 3%—Preston and Wyre Extension, 1 1 ,4 —Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 2 1 A—Sheffield, Ro therham, and Goole, 54—Seuth Midland, 4L 12s.—West Riding Union, 51. 12s. LEEDS, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, 100 —London and Croydon, 18 1 A—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 9 1 4 p.—Sheffield and Rotherham, 33—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 14—Leeds and Bradford Extensions, 37 cash —Leeds and Dewsbury, 16 1 4 c. n. cash—Leeds and Thirsk, 10X—Newcastle and Berwick, 9—North British, New Car lisle Branch, 2 1 A—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 15—London and York, par—Direct Northern, 1 3 / 4 —Liverpool, Orrnskirk, and Preston, 3—West Riding Union, 4%—Buck inghamshire (late Rugby), ss. dis—Grand Union, par—Lan cashire and North Yorkshire, par—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 7s. 6d. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, par— Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 295. p.—North Staffordshire, 355. p.—North Festern, 2—South Midlands, p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, par. IIULL, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The settlement for the Hull and Barnsleys, which has been looked to with no inconsiderable degree of anxiety, has passed off very satisfactorily. A de termination has been come to on the part of the brokers to insist upon the fulfilment by their clients of the contracts entered into by them, and which, with very few exceptions, they doubt not will be generally honourably fulfilled. This settlement, which has retarded business for some time in this market, is expected will relieve the members of the Exchange from the doubts that have lately existed, and prevented the business being caried on with that confidence which was formerly felt. The sales are—Hull and Selby, 10 per cent. guaranteed, 100—Grand Union, 1% —Hull and Barnsley Junction, 2s. 6d. ex n.—Nottingham and Boston, 1%. — South Midland, 4/. 2s. _ _ YORK, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.-Th• sales are—York and North Mid land Extension, 184—Newcastle and Berwick, 83/4—Lon don and York, VA—Cambridge and Lincoln, 2 3 / 4 —Grand Union, 1/. Bs.—North Staffordshire, 4 1 —Welsh Midland, VA. OCCASIONAL SKETCHES-HERE AND THERE. A PENCILLING OF PRESIDENT POLK. At a time when American men and matters attract so much attention as they do at the present period, a few sketchy notices of each may not be altogether unin teresting. During a recent protracted tour through the United States the wrier has had frequent opportunities of acquiring information and of observing character ; and from his sketch-book he now proposes copying a few outlines. The reader who may look for finished pic tures will assuredly be disa . ppointed, but, at the same time, the seeker after facts will have no reason to complain. During the last presidential election, when Henry Clay, of Lexington, Kentucky, or as his friends delighted to call him, " Harry of the West," and James K. Polk, of Nashville, Tennessee, were the rival candidates, the sneering question put by the opponents of the Demo cratic candidate was. " Who is James K. Polk?" This query was a rather difficult one to answer, for, compared with the great Whig candidate, Mr. Polk was an un known man. Ile had never done anything which could by possibility have rendered him sufficiently distin guished to entitle him to aspire to the Presidency, whereas Clay enjoyed not only an American, but an European reputation for brilliant and substantial acquire ments. It was almost as if a candidate had arisen out of the earth at a moment's notice, for, in the early stages of the election, Mr. Polk was considered even by his own party to be a nobody, and merely put forward to ha rass and annoy the Whigs. But as the time of election drew nearer and nearer monstrous letters on monstrous flags proclaimed the fact that there was such a person as James K. Polk. Newspapers of all sizes, and with amazing names, started suddenly into existence, over the leaders of every one of which a valiant cock was represented in the act of crowing, whilst above the rooster's head floated triumphantly the " star-spangled banner." Occasionally the columns of these election journals would be adorned with likenesses of a stern looking gentleman, one of whose hands rested affectionately on the head of an eagle, and beneath whose effigy was written in double caps, " Young Hickory ;" to explain which appellative, I should remark, that General Jackson, Mr. Polles patron, had for many years been styled " Old Hickory," from his tough, stubborn, unbending nature, which bore some supposed resem blance to a branch of the hickory tree. Indeed, hickory wood became quite the rage. In the shops, or rather stores, nothing but hickory walking-canes were for sale. Before almost every other house was a hickory pole, on the lofty summit of which hung a " cap of liberty," and from whence floated the stars and stripes, or a banner on which was depicted a cock, crowing valiantly over a deceased animal called a " coon." ------- American politicians are desperately fond of elec tioneering emblems. When General Harrison was elected, loghouses, in which hard cyder was freely dis- penned, were erected in every street, because once upon a time General Harrison had lodged in a loghouse and drank hard cyder ! The Clay emblem was a coon ; but I could never satisfactorily ascertain why the Whigs adopted it : suffice it to say, that this 'cute-looking animal was to be seen almost everywhere : sometimes he was represented seated on a rail " taking a sight" at the cock : in many localities he was to be seen perched on an ash polo in a very victorious attitude ; but, as if in mockery of him, the loco-foco party would frequently hang a dead coon opposite him, and little boy republi cans would sing with amazing glee a song, the burden of which was— " Oh, poor Cooney Clay, Oh, poor Cooney Clay, You never will be President, I heard the people say." With all these flags and emblems it may well be sup posed that the city of Philadelphia seemed to be quite startled from its demure propriety. There was scarcely a house to be seen without its flag or emblem, so that . . the political opinions of its inhabitants could be pretty well "guessed" at a glance. Where, however, no party feeling was indicated, an American flag was sure to glitter in the sunshine ; for every building, from the State-house downward to the poorest frame hut was decorated in this way. The stars and stripes floated in the air wherever a pole could be erected or a rope stretched ; and these flags were of all sizes too, some big enough to carpet Exeter-hall, and others of conve nient pocket handkerchief dimensions—in fact, thou sands of little boys dishonoured the national flag by blowing their noses in it. Standing at the end of Ches nut-street, and looking downwards towards the river, one gazed through a bannered vista—from either side white stars gleamed from blue fields, and so many hundred stripes fluttered and dazzled, that to look at them was almost like putting one's eyes upon a red-hot gridiron. But the National Eagle seemed to take, also, a very conspicuous part in these electioneering proceedings : for that King—l beg his pardon—President of Birds was to be witnessed everywhere, and in every imaginable position. Sometimes he was drawn so mild, that had it not been for the striped shield which served him as a breast-plate, he might have been mistaken for a sitting tailor-bird. In another place he was represented as a screaming, ferocious monster, with widely expanded wings, grasping half-a-dozen olive branches in one claw, and a bunch of newly-forged thunderbolts in the other ; and having something like a long surgeon's bandage, with directions for application written on it, in his beak —occasionally he appeared to be busily engaged in waving a banner, or in the act of dropping a wreath from his talons on the head of General Washington or the Democratic candidate—in short he was to be seen in every imaginable position excepting that of repose. This universal eagle never winked his fierce eye, or folded his majestic wings, as common every-day eagles do. No he was a wide-awake, go-a-head sort of bird ; and these were his characteristic qualities and appearances of whatever colour he might be, or to which ever party he seemed to belong—indeed, some of them seemed to be savagely disposed to both Whigs and De mocrats, for under one savage-looking bird was written— " The eagle shall swoop from his perch on the rock, And his grasp shall be death to the coon and the cock." This was a " native American" eagle ; but it would be needless to farther particularise, for their propen sities seemed to be as various as the tints of their painted feathers, and there were many differences in this par ticular, for there were visible eagles with plumage vary ing from the " golden" down to any remarkable shade of colour which the artist, not being, by any means, so particular as Audubon, might conceive. If I were writing a ook, instead of a mere newspaper article,l might fill page after page with sketches of Ame rican electioneering scenes. But space forbids my pen, although it is much inclined, to travel through oyster cellars, and bar-rooms, and committee head-quarters, and public meeting places, picking up here and there little " bits" of character, which might be rendered vastly amusing. Nor must I catalogue the valiant pro ceedings of the " Young Hickory Clubs," nor tell how " the Democrats were summoned to rally,'" nor de scribe the ceremonials attending the raising of a hickory pole, nor even hint at the torch-light out-of-door mass meetings, nor the noisy in-door assemblies. I must pass over all these matters for the purpose of introducing the reader to the individual, who by his blustering about Oregon, has gained a notoriety which he never would have known but for a chance combination of circum stances. Some men are born great, many achieve great ness, and others have greatness thrust upon them—to the latter class belongs James K. Polk, President of the United States. Accompany us, reader, by a flight of fancy to Wash ington—the city of magnificent distances, as some one has called it. It is a sprawling, scattered, uncomfortable city, with streets unfinished, and, excepting in the time of the session, houses uninhabited. It is full enough, however, to-day, for it is the 4th of March, and Mr. Polk, to the astonishment and even dismay of many of his friends, has been elected, an d i s a b ou t to bo inaugu rated. All the world and his wife are thronging to the capitol to see the new President, and from north, south, east, and west, flow in living streams of curiosity hunters, office-seekers, and sight-seers of all descriptions. Surely never was seen before such a motley sight, nor heard such a Babel of discordant sounds. Every window and piazza is crammed with genteelly dressed men and women. At a single glance, you may see the classically pretty little lasses of New York, the intelligent-looking women of Boston, the luxurious daughters of the Caro linas, and the belles of the union, the beauties of Balti more. Music is sounding, canons are booming, and loud buzzes every now and then proclaim the appearance of some popular personage. Let us escape from the dense crowd, and watch the procession as it passes by. There is a faint and rather a melancholy cheer given as a carriage approaches, in which is seated three or four gentlemen, one of whom has such strongly marked features that from the pictures we have seen of the late President we at once recognise John Tyler, whose un expected elevation to the chair of the Chief Magistrate, owing to the death of General Harrison, earned for him the title of " His Accidency." He is a tall thin man, with a head half bald, badly set on his shoulders, a low unintellectual forehead, furtively glancing eyes, and a nose of enormous prominency. In the expression of John Tyler's face there is something amazingly little and mean • it is not insignificant, but ridiculously sense less. Whilst gazing on such a face one mi g ht feel cer tain that its owner could not by possibility be guilty of doing any great action. As he passes on, some laugh outright, many jeer, and no or.e regards him with ap parent respect. From obscurity he emerged—to ob scurity he is returning. Let him pass on, for by the hubbub that is making behind him, there comes, it should seem, " metal more attractive." Sitting bolt upright, in a close carriage, and evidently making an effort to be dignified ) sits a man with a stern aspect, coldly responding to the cheering of the multi tude, who bellow out the name of " Polk " with asto nishing perseverance and power of lungs. The new Pre sident, for it is he, bows ungracefully to the ladies who wave their handkerchiefs to him—hie face is of an ashy paleness; in his hand he grasps nervously a roll of paper, his inauguration speech: on he goes, let us follow him tQ the Capitol. Passing over the preliminary proceedings, and Without noticing the minor incidents of the otcasidp, let us,nbOs confine our attention to the Intiti of ttib day—and lo I whilst the air is relit with acclamations, the gentlemanwe saw in the carriage comes forth in front of the building, and now we can observe him more narrowly. He is short in stature, thin and bony in frame ) and somewhat awkward in his carriage. His iron grey, wiry hair is brushed back from his temples, and on the summit of his forehead bristles up stiffly. His brow is high, but narrow, and beneath it are two deeply-set greyish eyes ; the nose is short and thick, and the mouth thin lipped and compressed ; he is dressed in plain black, and looks like a stern, obstinate man. There is no dignity, no suavity about him. He appears as if it would be painful for him to look pleasant, and as he reads his speech his voice sounds harsh and husky, and his manner is awkward and ungraceful. Such is James K. Polk, who, in appearance does not belie his character. He keeps himself wrapped up in a garment of self-suffi ciency, which he loosens not, though advised to do so by his best friends. He relies on no one, and distrusts every body. His own breast is the sole depository of his secrets, and his Cabinet possesses not a key with which to unlock it. Cautious to an extreme, he suspects where no ground fur suspicion exists ; and possessing only fifth-rate talents, he refuses to avail himself of the counsels of better and more able men than himself. It will be well if his obstinacy about Oregon does not result in mis chief. Yet, with nothing but disaster before his eyes, he is not a man to forsake a course which he has once determined to adopt. He will proceed in a wrong course because he will. Having been unexpectedly made Pre sident, he seems determined to have his own way in everything, and as he is not considered to be very far sighted, his own friends tremble for the results. Mark that striking looking man near him, with an abundance of snow-white hair floating over his fine fore head, and half hiding his coat collar, and whose dark, piercing, lustrous eyes are bright with the fire of in tellect. His face is highly coloured in consequence of some cuticular disease, and his frame is very spare, but he walks the marble floor with the dignity and grace of a monarch. What a contrast does his tall, commanding form present to the little pinched up figure of Mr. Polk. That is George M. Dallas, one of the soundest scholars and ablest lawyers of the United States, of which he has just been chosen Vice-President. Mr. Dallas has long been one of the leading members of the party to 'which he belongs, and enjoys the esteem and respect of even his political opponents. He has long been engaged in public life, and although holding so high an office in his native land, he still practises as counsellor-at-law in the United States Courts. Ile is a beautiful speaker, and very effective in his addresses—in short, he is in all respects, with the exception of his political opinions, the very opposite of Mr. Polk. " Here is the inaug-ration speech of President Poke, which he spoke at the capitol," shouts a newsboy, within five minutes after the speech has been delivered. The crowd begins to break up, and as it is raining as if a second deluge were about to drown the collected iniquity at Washington, let us be off to Coleman's, and there brush up our recollections of a greater than Polk— Daniel Webster. WHIZ. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Through the medium of your widely-circulated paper, I beg to complain of what I call a grievous impo sition. lam a poor man, and have lately had a house left me worth 2501., and I felt desirous to:insure it for 2001. On applying to an office, I was informed that it would be done for 35., with which I was satisfied; but, judge of my surprise when the clerk told me that there was an additional 6s. Government duty, and Is. 6d. for the stamp, making 10s. 6d. Now if this is not a heavy tax on property, Ido not know what is. Surely Sir R. Peel never thought of this when he put on the new property-tax in another shape. There is room for some of your judicious remarks on this subject. THE JAN US STEAM-SHIP. APPREHENDED IRISH FAMINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—My attention has been called to a paragraph which appeared first, I believe, in the Standard, and has since found its way into various other papers. stating that I had pur chased 2,0001. worth of rice for my Irish tenants. This statement is grossly incorrect, as all those who are acquainted with the actual position of the Devon estates must be fully aware, but I should not have thought it worth ,while to give it a formal contradiction if I had not wished to take the opportunity of making a few observations upon the painful subject which has given rise to that statement; more over, I am unwilling to take credit for an act of liberality which I have not performed, or, as others may probably view the matter, to be supposed guilty of a large and inconside rate expenditure ill-suited to the means at my disposal. But whilst I repudiate the praise, or the blame, which may be bestowed upon this supposed expenditure, I am fully aware of the obligation that rests upon all persons connected with land in Ireland to make all necessary exertions, including the requisite pecuniary sacrifices, cheerfully and promptly to assist in averting the evils of scarcity, with which the coun try is threatened. _ _ - I know that the trustees in whom the property of the late Earl of Devon is vested, as well as many other very excel lent friends of mine in Ireland, are prepared to do this, and are only anxious that the measures which they adopt shall be rendered as extensively useful as possible. The purchase of a stock of food to supply, when necessary, the scarcity of potatoes, is of course one of the essential points to be attended to ; but as I presume that no man conceives the idea of feeding, gratuitously, the whole agri cultural population of Ireland, the next point, hardly se cond in importanee, is to consider in what manner the people may obtain the means of purchasing the food so pro cured. _ I see no advantage in county or public meetings, in re solutions or in speeches. It is not necessary to proclaim the evil. This will make itself felt soon enough. Our busi ness is to act, not to talk; and the more quietly we act the better. Every landowner, large or small, may have the means, and assuredly ought to feel the duty, of contributing his quota of usefulness at the present crisis. There is scarcely a square mile of land in Ireland which does not call for some improvement of a nature to increase its permanent value to both landlord and tenant, and at the same time to add to the stock of human food. What a field does this offer for the employment of the people? Let each landowner only consider what improvementsrnay be effected upon his own estate, and let him proceed to carry these out by such means as are within his reach. If he has capital, he cannot employ it better than to protect from want the people from whose labour his future income is to be de rived, and at the same time to improve permanently the sources of his wealth. If his estate is heavily burdened with debts, or from other causes he has no command of capital, he has a right upon an emergency like the present to look for that assistaace from the State of which the Legislature established the prin ciple many years ago, by the statute 1 and 2 William IV. c. 33. Other Acts have since passed in the same spirit, and all founded upon the acknowledged truth " that greatly to im prove the resources of any part of the empire, tends to the welfare of the whole." The Legislature, in the Act referred to, proceeded with re ference only to the constant and ordinary pressure arising from want of employment. With how much more force may they now be called upon to give aid towards removing the extraordinary pressure that is now impending, and to arrest the fatal consequences of as actual want of food? It will be the duty of the Government to propose, and of the Parliament to decide, the extent to which assistance ought now to be given, and the terms upon which it shall be granted : sure I am that terms may be arranged, advantageous alike to the landowner and to the State ! The proprietor who cannot advance the 1,0001. or the 5,0001. which the circumstances of the time call for, may be well able and contented to pay interest and an annual instal ment ; and even the mortgagee or annuitant may find it to be consistent with their truest interest to make a small annual sacrifice to uphold and improve the security upon which they depend. The Government have also to look to other modes of giving assistance at the present moment. Some public works may be usefully undertaken at the public cost. Many others, such as extensive drainage for example, may be carried on under Government superintendence, psrtly at public, partly at private cost. I will not assume that Government are neglectful of this duty because they make no extraordinary stir ; on the contrary, from the constitution of the commission which they have appointed, I augur that. their object is to take a wide and comprehensive view of the whole subject, and to be prepared with such measures as the actual state of the country, after inquiry and examination, shall appear to call for. But whilst we look to Government and to Parliament for aid upon the present occasion, let us not overlook the duties and responsibilities that attach to each of us as individuals. Some circumstances at the present time are favourable to the success of the work that is now before us. The works upon railroads which are already in progress in Ireland are very generally performed by the labourers of the neighbourhood ; and although the work is heavier than that to which they have been accustomed, and they were at first hardly willing to undertake it, yet, by judicious management, they have, in various quarters, been led to apply themselves manfully to their new task, and, by taking piece -work, are enabled greatly to increase their earnings and generally to improve their condition. Much praise is due to Sir John Macneill for the judgment and perseverance displayed by him in dealing with his countrymen at their first introduction to this new kind of work. His example has been followed by others; and the same course may be adopted most usefully both in public and private works; and I am sanguine enough to believe that if Paddy is fairly put into the right way. he will bo both ready and willing to earn more money, and to get better food for himself and family, by a more energetic exertion of his bodily powers than circumstances have hitherto called upon him to make. This visitation of Providence may teach us all some useful lessons ; if we profit by them rightly, good may arise oat of the present evil ; and I indulge the hope that the result of the next year's exertions in Ireland may be a great and last ing improvement in that country, and a large amount of con sequent advantage to the empire at large.—l remain your obedient servant, Nov. 26. DEVON. SUSPENSION BRIDGES.—Mr. Dredge has just com pleted two bridges in Ireland—one across the river Bann, county Down, the other over the Blackwater, county Tyrone. This last is for the Earl of Caledon, and is the second built across the same river, which Mr. Dredge has built for his Lordship within the last year, and the fourth he has erected within the last four months. Two of them are county bridges, and all of them are calculated to contain a heavier load than can possibly come upon them.—Mechanics' Magazine. THE TURKOMAUN'S POWER OF SMELLING.—An extraordinary power of smelling in a Turkomaun was indi cated to me:—" I smell a caravan of Usbecks," said Khan Saat, drawing up his nostrils; and in a few hours a caravan from Organtsh arrived, full of them. It is remarkable how the Turkomaun's know, by the footsteps in the desert, the person who has been there; nay, the very tribe of Turko inauns or Calmucks see people talking from a distance. I frequently heard them say, "Let us draw our ears." They then lie down on the ground, and hear from a distance what even two persons whisper together, and relate the exact con versation.—Dr. Wojf's Mission. STATE OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER....-..The depres sion which has characterised this market for some weeks past continues without much alteration. Goods are generally offered at lower prices than last week ; and some business has been done at the reduction. There is littlemore demand for qualities of yarn suitable for the Indian markets; and a fair amount of business has been done in them at full prices of last week. Other sorts, however, continue much depressed. —Manchester Guardian of yesterday. • DEATH OF A MILITARY KNIGHT OF WINDSOR. — We regret to state that Captain 111‘Lachlan, one of the Mili tary Knights of Windsor, who left that town for London, a few days since for the purpose of taking leave of his two daughters, who were about to proceed to Ceylon, expired at his apartments in Northumberland-court, Strand, on Satur day. The late Captain M'Lachlan, who was in the sixty eighth year of his age, bad enjoyed excellent health until within a very few days of his disease. The Misses M'Lachlan sailed on Monday, from Gravesend, in the Tigris. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS. —On Wednesday morning an accident of a very serious character happened at the works of the new Houses of Par liament. In the :early part of the morning, as two men named Patrick Mal y n and Henry Lott were at work on some scaffolding at the Victoria Tower, nearly forty feet high, some part of it gave way, and they fell to the ground. Several of their fellow-workmen went to their assistance, and both the men were found in a nearly insensible state. Without loss of time they were conveyed to the Westmin ster Hospital. Malyn is suffering from a severe concussion of the brain. Lott has one of his shoulders dislocated, and is otherwise much shaken. Notwithstanqing the magnitude of the works at the new Houses of Parliament, an accident of this character has not lately happened. PEEL'S GAMES.—We understand that the Premier is shortly about to publish a new edition of Hoyle, embracing all the new games and tricks of which, by a skilful know ledge of how to play his cards, Sir Robert Peel has become master. He intends devoting an entire chapter to shuffling, which is an art of itself, and one which the Premier has ear lied to the utmost perfection. There will be a few pages de voted to hints on cutting, with remarks on the proper time to cut, and a few general observations on the treatment of the peek, so as to make a good hand of it. Tricks will oc cupy a very large space in the Premier's work, but the games will be the chief feature. Cribbage, as played at the expense of the Whigs, will be elaborately explained; and a chapter on revokes will explain how it is that there is nothing irre vocable in the games of the Premier. The work will be em blazoned with a splendid portrait of Sir Robert Peel as the Knave of Spades, in which character he appeared the other day, at t'e:s. commencement of the works on the Trent Valley Railway.—Porten. Wednesday Mr. Wakley, FATAL ACCIDENT.- n., ... i Tead Inn, in the village M.P., held an inquest at the King's of Acton, on the body of George Graham, aged 18 years. Deceased was the son of Mr. Graham, a carrier, :!t* Acton. On the sth instant, in the evening, the deceased was a cart with a younger brother, nine years of age, and they were returning home from town, when, at Shepherd's B ush y his brother discharged a cracker, by which the horse was so frightened that he started off at full speed, and the deceaseht in his endeavours to stop him, was 'thrown out of itm cart, the wheel of which passed over his body. H con _ mediately picked up by policeman Dale , T 213, who every veyed him in his cart to his father's residence, where proper surgical assistance was rendered him; at he expired on but the internal b injuries he had feceived were so severe Sunday last. Verdict—" Accidental death through the in cautious discharge of a firework." SAPIENT POLICY OF THE ENGLISH CUSTOMS.—One day last week the Mary Ann Purdy, Cook master, came into this pert (Vetmouth), and discharged a cargo of seventy tons of nutmegs, w hi c h being the produce of Dutch colonies, cannot be admitted here for home consumption, although such is their ultimat destination. These are consigned to the care of Messrs. Shelly and Co., and were placed under the surveillance of the Customs in the bonding warehouse of Mr.- ' William Saunders, whence they are to be shipped to the Cape of Good Hope, there to be reshipped back again, to be sold here as the produce of British colonies.— Cambridge Advertiser. ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY, AND ESCAPE OF THE TIIINVES. — This morning, a few minutes after one o'clock, police-constable 24 F, discovered the shop-door of Mr. Day, the poulterer, of 73, Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane, open, and, from the appearance of the shop, it was evident that the• place had been forcibly entered. An alarm being given, Mn Day, with taw officers, went over the house, but the thieves had made their escape. The next house is under going repairs in consequence of a recent fire, and it is sup posed the fellows had effected their escape that way. Some suspicious characters, a short time previous, were noticed near Mr. Day's. No fewer than seven children in Lancaster and its neighbourhood have died within the last few days from the effects of burning, in consequence of their clothes having caught fse during the absence of the persons who had the charge of them.—Cumberland racquet. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL AND THE CORPORATION OF LONDON. We are given to understand that a very full meeting of the Governors of Christ's Hospital was held on Tuesday, and that a discussion took place, which ter minated in a resolution, in effect condemnatory of the whole of the proceedings of the late Lord Mayor and the Corporation of the City of London, in the much agitated question of the right of the Chief Magistrate to take precedence of all other persons, with the exception of the Sovereign, within the walls of the City. Alderman Thompson, the President of Christ's Hos pital, took the chair, which was powerfully supported by the benefaction Governors, who formed the great bulk of the meeting, and seemed determined to carry everything their own way. There appeared to be a disposition upon the part of the majority to adopt a resolution expressive of the in tention of the Governors to resist every attempt upon the part of the Corporation to interfere with the privi leges of the body without discussion ; but Sir P. LAURIE rose, and said that he came down to the Court of Governors with the view, and in the hope, of preventing any collision, which could not be service able to either party, from taking place. It would, in fact, tend very much to cast ridicule upon all concerned if a difference of opinion on so important a subject were maintained by either in such a manner as to become matter of adjudication in a court of justice ; and be be lieved that those who were capable of calmly taking the question into consideration, would agree with him that the more advisable course would be to come to such an understanding as would prevent the ridicule which was so greatly to be apprehended. He was most decidedly of opinion that the late Lord Mayor had betrayed a want of judgment in making the parade of going in state, with his official attendants, to demand admission to Christ's Hospital, when it was dif ficult to suppose that his Lordship could have been igno rant that an opposition to his entrance would surely take place. The demand was made and rejected, and the late Lord Mayor returned without accomplishing any object. Now, it was no credit to the station of Lord Mayor to be involved in such a predicament. It was not agreeable in such a case to hear a bark without seeing a bite; and he could not help expressing his dis approval of the course which had been taken upon that memorable occasion. He also could not help declaring his objection to the principle upon which the late Lord Mayor acted in summoning the Governors to assemble at Guild hall, to supply him with corrected lists. That such a power existed as that which had been assumed had never been shown. He at the same time must declare, that the plan upon which the Governors had acted for so many years with respect to the lists, in placing the name of the Lord Mayor before that of the President, ought not to have been violated, and he hoped that the form would be restored without an appeal, which must end in the discomfiture of the intellectual character of each party. Alderman Lucas, as Governor of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was understood to say that he considered the Lord Mayor for the time ,being to be ex glficio at the head of all the royal hospitals. When he (Alderman Lucas) was Lord Mayor, his late Majesty, William the Fourth, when Duke of Clarence, acted upon that under standing in refusing to take precedence of him. In fact, the Chief Magistrate had been, time immemorial, looked upon as the principal person at every assemblage of in dividuals in the City. Alderman Lucas, at the same time that he acknowledged th e p r i v il ege , hoped that an amicable adjustment would take place between the com petitors for the dignity of precedence. Sir P. LAURIE said that he did not consider the power of the Lord Mayor to comprehend the right to go to the royal hospitals, and take upon himself to preside in matters of business necessarily arising from the duties of the Governors. The Lord Mayor could no more be justified in taking the chair on such an occasion than he should be justified in going to any wardmote but his own and pushing the particular Alderman of the ward from his stool. Alderman THOMPSON (the President of Christ's Hos pital) altogether differed in opinion from those gentle men who had advocated the line of conduct pursued by the late Lord Mayor and the Governors who acted with his Lordship. He insisted that the Chief Magistrate was not sanctioned by established practice, or by any one principle of reason or justice, in adopting such a course; and he declared that if the orporation of London were disposed to try the question in a court of law, they should be most resolutely met by the authorities of the hospital, who were determined not to submit for a moment to an usurpation. He defended every atom of the correspondence which had taken place on the part A the Governors of Christ's Hospital, as regarded the visit of the Queen and the refusal to admit the Lord Mayor into the hall, and repeated, that if the Corporation enter tained the fancy to appeal to the courts of judicature, they should certainly not be disappointed in their wishes to try the experiment. The Governors generally approved of the tone of de fiance in which the President spoke of the Corporation, and the energy with which he expressed the determina tion of the authorities of the hospital to resist any future attempt upon the part of a Lord Mayor to enter the hall, and occupy the seat to which he was appointed as the presiding officer of the institution. Resolutions were then passed, to the effect that the conduct of Alderman Thompson, the president, and Mr. Pidgeon, the treasurer, in the whole course of the pro , ceedings on the question, were eminently entitled to the thanks of the Governors of Christ's Hospital. We understand that a meeting of the Royal Hospitals Committee was subsequently held at Guildhall, at which an account of what had taken place at Christ's Hospitai was detailed, and that the members came unanimously to the resolution to assert the right of the Lord Mayor to take precedence. The proceedings of Monday and Tuesday have placed it beyond all question that the matter will be immediately handed over to the lawyers. HUDDERSFIELD, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 16 3 4—London and York, 3/. Bs.—Grand Union, 1/. 11s. 6d.—North and South Junction, 2/. 2s.—Not tingham and Boston, 2/.85. BRISTOL, Nov. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 79:14—Ditto, New, s%—Caledonian, 8 1 / s —London and York, 2, - 0 ., 5 —Midland, New, 15%. —Vale of Neath, 27g —Dutch Rhe nish, 6V, SHEFFIELD, Nov. 26. Srocx EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 9—Hull and Selby, Quarter Shares, 20—East Lincolnshire, 2 1 4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 2%. ARMY DISCIPLINE. The general order of the Commander-in-Chief, which was the subject of some observati •ns in our paper of yesterday, has called attention to the important fact that the army is not in that state of discipline in which it ought always to be maintained. Whatever may be the cause, the Duke of Wel lington has testified to the existence of a laxity and want of subordination which must greatly mar the efficiency of those regiments that are not kept under proper control. he Com mander-in-Chief, somewhat strangely attributes the admitted evil to the use among the officers of cheroots and cigars. We can see so necessary connexion between the practice of smoking and the habit of disobeying a superior rank; nor do we think that an occasional indulgence in gymnastic ex ercises at proper seasons would incapacitate any one from fulfilling the duties of a soldier either in 'peace or war. We regard as utterly frivolous the recommendations contained in the general order of the Duke of Wellington, who has avowed his knowledge of the existence of a great evil, and has followed up his avowal by a few trivial remarks on the impropriety of boxing and the intoxicating influence of smoke. It would have been more worthy of his illustrious name to have endeavoured, by the wisdom which age and experience should have brought, to suggest some method of remedying the defects of a service to which he has brought so much lustre and renown. Mess- room quarrels, ending oc casionally in a court-martial, and petty persecutions on the part of a colonel towards the officers under his command, are simply disreputable in regiments remaining in barracks at home, but such occurrences among troops on actual service abroad would be dangerous to our national interests. We have unfortunately had too many instances of the evils arising from the bad understanding between officers who should have been acting together for the benefit of the cause in which they were mutually employed. Dis graceful and disastrous defeats have frequently been the con sequence of a disunion, which the tact of an able commander would have either prevented or healed. It is painful as well as humiliating to recur to the too celebrated retreat from Caubul, but it is notorious that those in command of the Bri tish forces were so incompetent to the high trust reposed in them, that there was no unity among the officers, whose efforts, until the final calamity occurred, were paralyzed by internal disputes. The long continuance of the peace of Europe has doubtless had its effect in allowing men of ordi nary, or of no talent, to purchase their way up to a station they are unfit to hold. During the war the chances of battle gave opportunities for the display of merit which it was impossible not to recognise and reward. The military pro fession was not then adopted in the same spirit which it has been since entered by many, who, we believe, without intending any reflection on their courage, would avoid very active service as a " bore" which they would not be disposed to tolerate. No one would think of disputing the general bravery of the British officers, but that quality is not guaranteed by their having the money to purchase their rank, and even if it were, it is obvious that bravery alone is not the only requisite for command. Courage without dis cretion, tact, and experience, may be sometimes a disadvan tage to a military chief, and cause him to expose his troops to dangers which must in prudence have been avoided, if they had been foreseen. The intelligence that has recently arrived of the disasters which have happened to the British troops in New Zealand, under the command of Colonel Des pard, shows but too clearly the fatal result of a want of foresight and tact on the part of a leader whose courage it is not possible to dispute. He had a sufficient number of troops to have achieved a victory if he had only been able to decide on the best means of employing them, and, by overlooking, until too late, the advantages of a position from which he ought to have made his attack, he suffered an ignoble defeat, attended with a fright ful loss. We do not instance Colonel Despard as a person peculiarly unfit for the important post he occupies, for we fear that under the present system of military promotion, there are many holding the rank of colonel, who would not have succeeded better than himself in the discharge of the duty that devolved upon him. Our objection is to the practice which places our armies, our national interests, our honour, at the mercy of those who may, by their incompetency, turn all the elements for brilliant success into actual disaster and disgrace. The system of purchase has been defended on the ground that it introduces into the army men of rank and wealth, and prevents the service from being sought after with merce nary views—an argument that would hold good if com manders, like poets, were born, not made, or if a certrin amount of wealth would invest its possessor with the quali ties of a military leader. It is true that the price of a com mission is settled by regulation, and wealth is therefore only the standard of merit up to a certain sum; which every purchaser is compelled solemnly to declare that he has not exceeded in buying his commission. It is, however, noto rious, that nearly twice the stipulated value is usually paid, but the pledge is exacted all the same. Th e s y s t em o f pro motion by purchase is thus about as conducive to the honours as it .is calculated to secure the efficiency of the officers of the army. They enter upon ii..false position by a false oath, and, commencing by an act discreditable to themselves, too frequently end by involving the service in a disgrace, which is felt to be reflected on the whole body when any portion of it is subjected to an inglorious reverse. — Tinies. id DRURY-LANE TIIEATRE.—The effect produced by the splendid dancing of Mademoiselle Flora Fabbri, in the new ballet of The Devil to Pay, begins to be felt in all theatricals, and also in all fashionable cireles. Nothing at all to be compared to her has been for a long time produced in this country ; and her wonderful performance, added to the delightful opera of Maritatia, by Mr. Wallace, was the means of again filling this house up to the very ceiling last evening. SHAREBRoKERs' ASSOCIATION. — We understand that there were upwards of two hundred applicants for the situation of secretary to the Liverpool Stock Exchange which has just been filled up. The successful candidate is, we believe, Mr. Scriviner, the manager of the British Iron Works at- Ruabon, and author of a valuable statistical work con nected with the iron trade. The salary is 8001. per finnan —Liverpool Courier. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The various short paragraphs respecting the Janus and her engines, which have found their way to the public through your widely-circulated paper, having appeared to me to proceed from uninformed persons, I have abstained from troubling you to correct errors; but perceiving that nearly half a column has this day been devoted to the sub ject, and that an insidious misrepresentation has been trans mitted to you, which may impose on the public, I claim of your justice a space sufficient to rectify erroneous assertions, and to place the forbearance of the Admiralty, wisely shown towards the development of a machine (peculiarly adapted to actuate the screw propeller) free from exposure to derange ment by shot, which is of the highest importance to the naval service.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, 8, Chesterfield-street, Nov. 26. DUNDONALD. • Memoranda, being Facts relative to the Progress and Per formance of the Revolving Engine on the Principle of those in her Majesty's Sloop Janus. The Earl of Minto, when First Lord of the Admiralty, having learned from his brother, Rear-Admiral Elliott, that rotatory engines had been successfully used (in two small steam-boats), and that their compactness, levity, and celerity of motion rendered that kind of engine peculiarly suited to the naval service, ordered a trial to be made of the power of a condensing engine on that principle by pumping water from a well in Portsmouth Dockyard. This engine had been at work for full twelve months when the present Admiralty made their first official visit to that yard, and their Lordships had an opportunity of witnessing the energy and power it then displayed, which, by constant work, has now increased to such a degree, that not one of the thirteen engines in the yard (most of which are :on Watt's principle) has produced a better vacuum, or required less re pair, as is testified by Mr. Taplin, the chief engineer and mechanist of that yard. This result was not, however, obtained without great anxiety and trouble. Thirty times at least, within eighteen months of its erection, was this engine taken to pieces, and at times parts of it were sent to London to be altered, under the impression that some defect or other prevented its efficient performance. Such, indeed, was the prejudice originally existing, augmented by repeated failures to work the engine, that it was on the point of being finally rejected by the authorities, when it occurred that, perhaps, the cold water pipe leading to the condenser might be choked. Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, Rear-Admiral Bouverie, Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, Mr. Taplin, and Mr. Blake, the master shipbuilder, were present to witness the result of, perhaps, the last trial; and they and others saw the injection-pipe cut, and a plug of wood withdrawn, which blocked the pas sage, so that not one-fourth of the water required could enter the condenser; indeed, after the pipe was rejoined on the fol lowing day, the engine could scarcely work two of the three pumps it was destined to put into motion ; it was, therefore, again pulled to pieces, and also the air-pump (which had never before been suspected as a cause of obstruction); never theless it was found that the delivery valve was not only open, but was retained open by its cover being screwed down upon it, thereby effectually preventing the formation of a vacuum, even by the most free introduction of injection water, and the most complete condensation. It may here be noticed that a ball of rope-yarn and a hank of strands were subsequently extracted from the injection pipe ; and that within the last two months, on examining the lower valve water-pumps at the bottom of the well, in the middle suction-pipe a plug of solid elm wood was found, which completely blocked up that pump, and consequently during five years and a half defeated the trial of the engine by the pumping of water. In confirmation of this Mr. Tap lin says, in a note dated the 18th of September—" The plug must have been there from the time the pumps were first put in motion. As a proof of this we never had such a supply of water as at present." It need, therefore, be no matter of surprise if the large engines of the Janus have been delayed in the performance of their duty, or that numerous trials failed to produce a satisfactory result. On Saturday, the 15th, however, the engines started well, and were accelerating, when the wedges of the clutches of the paddle-wheels (being slackly driven) slipped, and the engine flew round and broke the chain of the air-pump, which being repaired on Monday, the Janus proceeded down the Medway purposely at a moderate rate, in order to ascertain if any damage had been done to the engines themselves by the accident of Saturday. There being no visible indication of derangement, the vessel proceeded, and was anchored near the Mouse Light at dusk, on account of the difficulty of passing through the shoals at night. On the following morning, on setting the engines to work, no vacuum could be formed in one engine, which having thrown the whole labour on the other, it soon became mani fest that some partial derangement had taken place therein ; and a search having been made, it was discovered that one of the snift valves had been misplaced since the preceding even ing; consequently, the atmospheric air had thereby free ac cess to the condenser. This impediment having been de tected and removed, it was further discovered that the end plate of the air-pump (lately withdrawn for inspection) had been improperly jointed, so as to suspend its useful action. Every person conversant with the mechanism of engines will fully understand how totally independent these impediments are of the principle of the engine, yet how fatal to its ope ration, which I have no doubt, like the Portsmouth engine, will bo rendered perfectly efficient. Indeed, the brief spe cimen exhibited on Saturday confirms this opinion, having accelerated from 18 to upwards of 20 revolutions before the accident. With regard to the boilers of the Janus, it is hereby fear lessly asserted, that having been first tested by authority of the Admiralty, under the immediate inspection of the officers of Chatham yards, and the greatly superior evapo rative power s having been doubted, an application was made to the Admiralty to direct the engineer department of Woolwich Dockyard to test the boilers. The result was that their power amounted to 314 cubic feet of water eva porated per hour, at the economical rate of 12.9 pounds, by each pound of Llangenneck coal—a result testified by the engineer's official report of the trial, now in the records of the Admiralty, dated the 19th of last November ; the im portance of which result, in a maritime point of view, every person acquainted with steam navigation is competent: to appreciate. Lastly, in regard to the temperature of the "stoke-hole," although the furnaces are opposite, it may truly be asserted, that the temperature is less than at the same distance from any tubular boilers In her Majesty's ser vice. DUXDONALD. COCRT UIRC WAR. _ The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, arrived at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, at two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, from Windsor Castle. The royal suite consisted of Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting ; Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting ; Colonel Bowles, Master of the Household ' • and Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. There was no addition to the royal dinner party in the evening. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Con sort walked in the pleasure-grounds of Osborne House. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir dames Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, Lord Gran ville Somerset, the Earl of Lincoln, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The Council sat three hours. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at the office in Whitehall place. There were present the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Oxford, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and the Earl of Devon. Dispatches from the Governors of Hong• Kong and the Mauritius were recaived yesterday at the Colotiial office. Dispatches were sent oft last tvenni; from the Colo nial-attice fot the Udvethor Gibraltm cONORMATION OF, TI NNW NRW Bisitot or OXFORD. —Yesterday inoknik Right Riit eattinei Wilberforce, D.D. (now Bishop of Oxford), late Dean of Welittnineter, and previously Archdeacon of Surrey, attended at the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, for the purpose of being con firmed on his appointmefit to the see of Oxford. The chan cellar, rtgisLrats, proctors; etc. ; of the di oces es of Canterbury and Oxford attended, and the imposing formed in the usual form, the bishop.repeating the oaths imposed in a firm and impressive style, in the presence of a more than usually full COngregation for such an occasion, amongst what,. Were Mr. Alderman Wilson, and several of the Common Council of the City of London. Previous to ceremony was per the ceremony divine service was performed by the Rev. A. Trollope, curate of Bow Church. The bells, both at the commencement and conclusion, rang merry peals. As a caution to persons committing the common offence of stealing a turnip or two, when passing through fields, we have to state that four or five parties have lately been taken into custody in this neighbourhood ; and two of them, George Howlett and William Brown, sentenced to four teen days' imprisonment in St. Augustine's.—ranterbury Journal. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, Nov. 24.—The Chamber of Representatives has concluded the long debate on the address to the King, in answer to his Majesty's speech on opening the session. The cause of the great length of this discussion was a speech of M. Van de Weyer, the Minister of the Interior, who at the beginning of the debate made a long speech, in which he disapproved of the last paragraph of the proposed address, and moved the substitution of an amendment in the name of the Government. In the debate on the several articles, when the Chamber came to the last of them, the amendment was read. The President declared that this amendment was to be voted by appel nominal. Eighty-eight Members replied to the call of their names, and the amendment being put to the vote, was carried by a majority of 59 to 25 ; 4 Members declined to vote. The vote on the whole Address followed. Eighty-nine Members were present ; it was carried by 65 to 23 ; only one declined voting. The Company constructing the railway from Louvain to the Sambre has chosen Mr. Watson, an English engineer, to make the plans, and conduct the operations. Mr. Watson is the same who directed the construction of the tunnel on the branch from Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells. Mr. Watson arrived at Louvain on the 22d, and will there fix his offices. The working-class is impatient for the be ginning of the works, which will give them employment during the winter. A letter from Vienna, of the 17th, says—" The Hereditary Prince of Lucca and his young bride arrived the da y before yesterday from Frohsdorf, at the palace of the Duke of Lucca, at 'Vienna. They dined on the same day with the Emperor. They will stay here a week, and will then go to Lucca. The Duchess Angouleme has resolved to leave Frohsdorf, to pass the winter at Vienna, where she will occupy a part of the hotel of the Countess Esterhazy, her dearest friend and foster sister, who was brought up with her at Versailles. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnursszys, Nev. 25. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent .. Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • .. Loan of Thirty 3llllions, Four per Cent •• • • Ditto Three per Cent Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • Ditto, ditto, 1840 . ••.• •• •• Ditto, ditto,lB42 • Ditto, 1844. • . Ditto, 1✓636.. ••..•• Ditto, 1638 • • Ditto of the City, 1832 .• • • . • • • •••• • • • • 101 Ditto, 1643 ••••• • • • • • • • • • •••• • • 100% Bank ofßolgium• ••• • • •••••• • .• •• •• • • 763 —Brussels Papers. Nov. 25. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—SIENNA, Nay. 19. 5 per Cent. Metalliques ••••••• • • • • • • • 111% 4 per Cent. ditt0.. 3 per Cent. ditto•• • • • • Loan, 1534 .. • • .... • ...... ••• • • •••• • • • • 16 0 Ditto, 1839 .•....... Bank Shares . ..... ......... • ••• • • • 1660 Esterhazy's Loan .. THE JESUITS.—There are at this moment in Italy 150 houses of the order of the Jesuits, containing nearly 4,000 persons, of whom 1,800 are priests. In France there are 56, containing 872 Jesuits, of whom 862 are priests. In Germany there are 88, of which 14 are situate in Bavaria, 21 in Austria, 3 in Wurternburg, 7 in Baden, 2 in the twc Hesses, 2in Nassau, sin the pr ovince of Rhenish Prussia. 3 in Westphalia, 6 in S ilesia, 3 in Saxony, 1 in Anhalt-Kii• then, and sin Hanover and the Free Cities. In the Grand Duchy of Posen there are 7 ; in East and West Prussia, 5 ; in Pomerania, 2; in Brandenburgh, 2; in the province of Saxony, 1. The total number of the Jesuits living in th ese houses is 1,000, of whom 400 are priests. In Spain there are 87 houses, containing 536 Jesuits, of whom 220 are priests; and in Portugal 8, containing 160 Jesuits, of whom 75 are b p o r u i e lr s ve t n s o . LT F H r t r a , n e * O f . Fm o r p t P IMITATION.--On oz,iy o rr s o t fA a s m Tii t r s oßN Z . B Williams in; d a lthe la ullasketle y, Bart., M.P., were i nformed that their wages would be increased is. 6d. a week.—Cay ziarison Herald. FORGERY IN LIVERPOOL.—PIacards have been posted on the walls, offering a reward of 1001. for such in formation as would lead to the apprehension of Mr. Wm. Hope Lyon, late of Liverpool, cotton-broker, who stands charged with forgery and obtaining money under false pre tences. He is supposed to be travelling under the assumed name of Murray. The description states that he is from twenty-eight to thirty years of age, and that when last seen he was dressed in a black surtout, and had with him a six• barrelled pistol, and four boxes of caps to tit.—Liver'pan Courier. A NEST OF WEASELS IN A DWELLING-11011SE.—•• An unusual circumstance occurred in the house of Mr. ' James Marris, grocer, &c., of Grimsby. As Mrs. Mania was corning down stairs she slipped off the steps upon the floor, when one of the bricks gave way, under which, it sr pears, a pair of weasels had taken up their abode. The con tinued squealing for deliverance alarmed Mrs. Harris, who immediately called in a pers.,n passing by, when, to their great surprise, they discovered t en y oung bloodsuc kers,l to l" more, to all appearance, than a da y old, quietly snud ged f .1 - g ether in a nest. The parent s of this numerous ami y quickly made their escape through an of t a h p o e s r e tu w re ho i , n ou t r h r e ead wall, leaving; their offspring to the merc y will jriage, speedily determined that they should never agait be placed under the protection of such fugitives.—Lincola shire Chronicle. ROEHAMPTON.—HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION.+ On Saturday evening last a sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Biber, at Trinity church, Roehampton, on behalf of the funds of this charity, which is at present situated oppo site the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, but will very shortly be removed to the new and extensive building now erecting at Brompton. The reverend gentleman expatiated very warmly on the benefits afforded by so truly a national charity, and the collection was highly satisfactory. h a d bt ourAbl• 4 bee°