The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-15 00:00:00

GREAT L EAGUE MEETING IN COVENT -GARDEN THEATRE. The AGGREGATE MEETING of the LEAGUE, in the THEATRE ROYAL, GOVENT.G ARDEN, will be held on 'WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 19th inst. GEOR GE WILSON, E sq., will take the Chair at Seven s'clock precisely. The Meeting will be addressed by James Wilson, Esq., Ge Ti orge ck Tho mpson, Esq. ; an d J ohn Bright, Esq., M.P. ets of admission to all parts of the House m a y b e h a d, as usual, at 6 7, Fleet -street. Seats will In fUture be reserved for all Farmers who may make iedapplication at the Offices of the League, up to the hour of meeting, thei r attendance, whether favourable or opposed to Free Trade, especially requested. G LORGETANI7) A;Giii-- M , coMERCIAL INN, STAMFORD. C L. LASEGUE has the honour to thank the hou .iii , • Com mercial Gentl emen w h o have so liberally patronised ink them , e, and begs to g sollcit a continuance of their favour, assur. :, ,,e g tnem that nothin shall be wanting to promote their comfort, W ines and S t dir ec t fr om the Docks. Home-brewed Ak a. Loose Boxe p s In .s PARIS and SAINT QTTENTIN RAILWAY COMPANY. C4 Pltail. it junction o n the Great Northern Railway, at CREII,. .4,000,000 francs, or 1,400,000/. ; in 70,000 Shares of 500 cranes, or 20/. each. Deposit, 50 francs, or 2/. per share. 'l:l xi. PRO VISIONAL COII3IITTEE. r ".ons • J. Cordier, 'Member of the Chamber of Deputies. a 1 I Le M arquis Henry De Dion, Landed Proprietor (Pro• e 1 prietaire). t. RYsaeus, jun. Ba n k er, P ar i s. C. w A , . H. Neville, Civil Engi neer , Paris. a L • Gr aham, Esq., 3lerehaat, London. lio n , r . "• ` l ttslas, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire)• air ,j wii )e B eattPuy, Landed Proprietor (Proprietairc?. ---4 ,, a ‘ V4 linsleY, Director of the Chester and Birkenhead , _aailway, &c. 11114 in jacks " , Esq , Chairman of the Chester and Birken head Railway . , Sze. tui. 1fe,,,„ ~ , , and Co., BANKERS. '. f t3saens, j Nineer--t • Paris; Smith, Payne, and Co., London ; Bank of Liverpool, Liverpool. " • -31. Reticle], Esq., F.R., Vice President of the Institute aollcitor " of Civil Engineers. Pr ~,,_,-----"'• Borradaile Esq., 20, Kin-'s Arms-yard, London. filiarae;';`,sea and forms ' on Which to ' make the application for ji llg's „itne,n"' re ady, at the temporary offices of the Company, 20, .s_,--8-Yard, London. Abov,,nr) aPPlications for Shares will he attended to except on the ntioned forms. 1 11 ll t I S AND LY 0 N it AIL W A Y • "Pital No me (GNNERON'S LINE). 8,r,,,,,fr0tr, i ... ll _ , ,,,,,.' ° r oun fr t ai r ;es ) , li o i r sl 6 i n,o o o f %, o (ne x;c h s a , l o f r to 2o be . e s a urribed .. f rancs, or 2/. per Share ; to be returned N . Vi c l e hout deduction l io 0, should this Company liot obtain the lAA . - 't4reholder liable beyond the amount of Ins subscription. 4 4113 t v PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. , -T....Lieut enant-General le Comte Baudrand, Pair de France, t .. '"l4 ienr A. Gouverneur du Comte de Paris. -m.,_ Lie u , -,, uelPhe Ilarrot Counsel General de Franco -40)44,11-:eatal le Visconite . Borrelli, Pair de trance b. 84.1thr.ott.elle, Membre de Pathambre des Deputes. Maim do ,on,ieur-7 .. rr ondisement i is kelasieur c'delphe. de .hilly, Proprietaire, a , Paris , 0,, -:efere, Associ de la Matson Ganmron et Compagnie, 1 4 ''' 11 ar a rnjr i r 7 , a Paris °N ietir ''iere, Rroprietaire, 3c' , bu n , seossin, Negoetant,A:so L cie n cl g e M. Carcz, President du Tri- Itenr,,, •,',(15 Commerce a Paris Fred• .ixtbricige, Esq., Banker, London ,. Il ! , z elt l'ratt Barlow, Esq., Director Great Western Railway ll'illt i e rn LYall ' 1 : 81 4., ALP. for the City of London 11,4- Little, Esq., Bishopsgate-street, London -"cis Mowrtt, Esq., ' Vice-Chairman of the London and York 1,1. Railway ",,,,fs Parker, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Bristol and 1,,.2 4 eter Railway Isrick Ricketts, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter, and ei, b irector of the G reat Westeni RailwayS - "vt. Sir James Stirling, R.N. With power to add to their number. BANKERS. Mess M. M. 11. Ganneron et Comp agn i e, a Paris rs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, London COUNTRY BANKERS. Leeds -The Leeds Banking Company vtiverpool-The Manchester and Liverpool District Bank_ Ahchester-The 3 lanchester and Liverpool District Bank. thi. ,-ee :::::3E:Ss-William Cubitt, Esq., F.R.S., &e. Joseph Cubitt, Esq. -.. Cor a , w given, that no further applications for Shares in vans ill be received after Thursday, the 20th inst. By order of the Committee, 7 ~, WILLIAM VILLESBOISNET, Secretaries, -...' 'eketa, EDWARD FILDER, 3 pro tern. 4 ......_ ense-yard, London, Feb. 15, 1845. G .--- . " -- -, .GENERAL ACCOUNT of the RECEIPTS tNklbAkttix"P.A.YmENTsof the CORPORATION for RELIEF of . 4^1... , the MERCANTS' SERVICE, their WIDOWS and la tt...-,, for the yearn 844. kl 4ll RECEIVED. '' fromlBl3 -Cash ............ X 234 19 7 Iii";I:I t ai ; t471 81:::°!: L o i ju n a g. t (-: z:::;,:rttt:fis',oe' but , Ont-ports' accounts 1,165 7 0 1 ) ,, e, 1 ,, r poration, 1843 . qII . c't t he co • 5,210 10 10 515 8 9 er I. B l" e e e i s i s t s e e d i s., .o oL . f u . o . t p np o . do . r or i nt s . 8. . , 11:n i . 8 i . i 4 e: 3 1 : . : t . : it: . ::. .n...1..a.. ..,. 'el .21:10150 13 6 0 7 8 15 7 1.973 11 4 'e oWhers • - N *********** forfeitures ••• •: . • • • • ''''' . 01 5 • e se,„,, , 11 45 ii%B en. ''''' •.•••• • • • • .. .£3 9 7 C•0t1, 40 ,, 44ulce Company ........ 40 0 24: 1 , atm '. kw Th ree Der Cent. Bank Annuities, for 4t 57% Per cent— • • • • 7 9 7 1,952 10 0 D 1 4 °T, % to t on PAID. l i c i r t ii i i,o t r ° 4r o utu r l t , ° , , l_Pen s l oners Ei,..,!' , iitt, 411 0 f atP..Titoners, 1843 ........... . ( . ;:aere s "f i at o ttt.po L ndon . .......... ....... • • • t Neil , ° liii,u , r t:, 1843 .. , Pins, 1843.... . 869 19 3 bitt t t. tikc 'knag ' ,,, °el " 3. ••• • • 394 3 8 , at ou 4 .!ies 8„, -- ent at London, including rent, 1,614 16 9 }la!, .. . ...... .............. . 676 13 2 £22,076 5 1 - -Ce„c hc 1 .."•• • £ l5O 7 8 -4t'Ports' accounta.. :: 957 12 11 £23,184 5 8 1,108 0 7 11 , t t ei , !r elit :ll4 rd. gea X 23,18.1 5 8 . ane, L oo rn ,,' o 's - oflice, W. WATSON, Secretary. 411. 4 , , ' io n. Jau. 28, 1845. i i i t ‘JYA ‘ , 4t1,42,1,4:01'are area '-'' T.— Persons having a little tune o r , l - eel, 4,cooritrytP,rised that Agents continue to be appointed in Tl e 4-, ,, 'II, t ,heir eei n '`als, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANI, etii i e ar e • , Greate.?rated teas. ltri, , adthPaelreg in s H elen's-churchyard, I,lishopsgate-strtet. ~I he lit i.ntl ble,b e Price n Thowy leaden canisters, from one ounce a ' 1 1er: 1 1 . / akr , °te a ; and weight marked OR each packet, and but ' l' irlet, 4n Y (11 2 419 i : 41 bY the sale. The license is only . I ls. per 1 ,. - Dlill ea T i q by t r h - ;': t he last nineteen years have realised con- V t ,_ - " Q n to j i - ,,` a gency without one shilling let or loss. 4 ILT \s, - rn ‘de (If by letter post-paid) as above. ''tirk LL COMPOSITE CANDLES, paireON Q E , (I , ' S P.A . T r .. B s. 60. per doz. t 'th ' It; '-'-‘l‘ C I.NDLE' 108 6d. per doz. 11 1 , 'NEW .ree 4 i - ' - S , • ..),,,., It l ~, ON ~, r,"X CANDLES 28s per doz. iptt.-k.geee's'l,,atebut the a - are all - ' pre ' ci . sely alike in their barn h`iee eetrikiint, and tuahall Composites are rather s , ofter than th ri t te , 4 ed a, hence the difference in price. Even those 'flo e t Co,, o n 't Di p , tttdy economy alone, should burn them in pre. Iv. " , Ste 4 , I 'llt f,, '4, 4-, 4R . , ' n, l l Oil, warranted equal in every respect to rteitl r N galion. 1, 253, Regent-circus, Oxford-street. pltie, ~,.„,t,, L 0,„,, and e_ I4) FFIC E.--CAUT lON . tl e t lie ll'rice4rd-street"„"` Perfumers to her Aln jes ty, 28, t h , ql sit hst,: fß and co ,ktate Price and Gosnell's, and formerly Patey, r e 44 .--,,Yf i c" r e, b eg ' t 6), ,bY the recommendation of the Secretary fr: B etl ie le e "iso ) , i,,°,, impress upon their Correspondents the t,,4 , l , 4l, 4 exi q t i t , nd c o ,',' L‘tte address of all letters intended thatfi. ; hi s t e co oo,i 'l e l f B3l ) a kin t a h not " l'i ice and Gos i ne , l , l- .tflfsf f i f i i n , 'Llie 'k e ,,, .alietr,led rorn k lndisvidu ls oi v ,ll L m t e a a k u e s h o l t a g n u d al r e e l t n aTii letters and li "'wlyri;i'lliell,,, well and Co , by illegally assuming the firm of ii , e ,lte , c!,hat firm knowing that they never were in any way I N, r' al 1 1 Qo 11 „ 11 : 1 1,, , ,. ~, Ir,i i t, elha i 4 . - ert‘,, o r•- lEAN AS SERVANTS. st.ttj,4,senity: that t _ Y is so superior to any other, and . in such to it t le w i tea a ,, , SktriellanY shopkeepers are basely deceiving . the 1, 4) k re , th eet od G erm us imitations. Price and Co. respectfully i,il.4it, hehi,,,the Drot e e ,, n n when they purchase not to take any kkl:- , e 41 'treei',;Iflix ed - ,, , eal label, from a desipi by Sir William ktitl Zho t 'l (.'," ill r ed i ';' it,. it, with the signature of ", Price . and Co., qr ae 'ao ti „, a, mere th e .land.'f " 28" conspicuously in its centre. , 401 4 'Ylo r , el l e,,, .hsale Agents for DELCROI X . SI ' , '.,lsi 4 aj e ;.me c„._"sinetic, surpassing all others for preserving th, , ol4 4 ,eoo tein Ly th e \'',t,lPlexion, prepared for the use. of her most lc, ' hOix.;`,lslo, ah',..fgetl, and her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by 10est y '!ds of ' „NI Ac4.lLO tected by letters patent. Price 4s. 6d. tte44 also Tr e . AR OIL, Imported under the sanction of L ess I; ia;:, I s '°Yalll9rY''' for the use of her most Gracious x . ri o -1 1 Drot, et ,Iglinesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess ~) . „'l..qt „ ' All;:ed ro ed „ ( i it i l bY two elegantly executed, correct Ipte q (!;N::)l.)c,krt. price 2 11 8, of her Majesty and his Royal High llq re o , [ t eh e ;" 2 . 1)0x,i, 0 08 .6d. , ,eh „vel oitb elcni x , B •:, - We do not hesitate to recommend 'ili ti ' T b sfei c, ,_ ie toea__ ydonto, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, t eq of th e a hi,r l Of purifying, preserving, and embellishing to y , a, 4 e s ei Qltet Duke offered to the public."-Court Gazette. 4 4 1 , boo r ' it h, n, 184 4 . e h ip f York is the last new fashionable per ' tos e, lntts i . i ; 1 1 ) ily ee',.,,,1t though the last, is not the least in per- I tll th e :,"' l nes the preceding excellence of all the Le 'Llicate and delicious fragrance of the white t id r , r , 4, Atit,sta4wdsh°,,,,iso_a true -born gentleman, i . o ,„,1,, hr a nds upon the honour of his birth, t ri ll,fr!,ri s , . 4 .' s to 0t1iy,,,,,, that I have pleaded truth flit..)titfft.iti,u, telliejoix`nalusahroar Pluck a white rose with me. °li e „, o ri f } and t , l r. last h o ', 15 8, New Bond-street, have pleasure 1 4 , 1k a l i ee qt le ev uei r i, a ._ uquet of the season, and beg to Inform t r 'N , ,,?; boil' eoo7au' , of',.rGnasathat, during the recess, all orders for sitio, , e l ei , o e of oilin g tti u, ?ouegeffonf taming the siz royal bouquets for t. 4 t4 e,, 41 h , li t erf ao, pa k, p r i n ' e l e ' sa,,,, c s . de la Beine, d Albert . , I'rincc o iji'''or 'tl , l, t eltla r t 't Of th, ~.' U °3 ale, and Princesse Alice, will be tt t t 14 ,1 stre et, . r atte htion ` -o untry, carriage paid. To insure the kllti i t : eotl, lt 2 4 nd o , h is required in observing that No. 158, ,N I alrdres`rrelts]profit, and every bottle, , It. e t: sers it ; , or the sake of are sold by drug -410 k r arid co , gjiZnand country. 14. 41' "tiltali he'4„.tin,t ,ityPoili-iAGOt N l Tu X rp i a 'n ss Y es . soap ever 1 , - ?l e ' v, ltieT n loyed`'"e trial will r, rt NI; ' rend only bY th every of _ Prove that the luxury a good Ni k tr, t aikl extra ~,,. . ose who use l'rice and Co.'s Rypo lit,Z,l)4 ii, price a nd Co o,' , I ' 'lit "Y bel ~ 28, Lombard-street (late Price and tr x. k. sd end, Croix and' Co., 158, New Bond-street, and 4„'' , ltCr. p r .. and 2, i 'l' l lee 33. 60. per pot, Is. per square, in cakes l iti lo a sl u ic e Will ; 6cl • I:, Ilrt e tm 04ft thet7tP3..t_ne,.sure in presenting any brother travel -4 teLk It,ne%Tetirafioonusirrantultously, who may do hint A t i c„ . rioN p p ----- -- e L , Lombard-street. THE:O U A 111)I kNS OF BRENT, tt he f P., 'Q „ DEVON . '' th 'Ai o ‘ 3 th ei,,,t , ,,, i M r u,, sU R t T ,C OBBIT T I C DROPS. k k lvdr e ,!a o f I",ase ha e , eic u. RE FOR Ft AD LEqS. At ; JF: t ,. 0 ther!ht, D sv c a l , te d,!c. much interest, that the Guardians ~ :I,e ,r d,,, i t_ nve considerstheir duty to sign I,,l e ig, a l), ..1" a llr h ar S a o.ed, ~,if_LT!,,rnportant declarat,on :- ~, r ~.illeo 4wra:f-ite;at1it,_,,,,,,,,70,1,4_d714,te that before Thomas Ro ,,Tiethn ledargeakfiung, Hal.se's them v t :to: r h4t. h ad h il tt .:at a Y ti : °, ered , k il n,o til dt e e co f t iti s tl ll , 7l ti- r ie l r t a r t lig b . , t have laid hi. ti7t ‘ in ot g l em s (' that to. g l'i a .!ett s .a. l . 1 1, wi n g t to°rttle he tune, he improvement, wi t ~ 1 14 ,..0 h.,,,,er _. some tune, he got completely w i t Y t ei ; .. rit',l eerye?; ‘ i ! else had failed. He had tried ..,,oi.._ wire got , lis f ro _ , - , ...e takin.-. •I 6 Halse's Scorbutic Drops,,' p ‘ i f :iaaz7 7erivtor;"! Most celeated physicians in tis ; , - 1 1! i . ;ilk, i I‘l,i , 4 4 ; t i l r ,.. e3o a nth e i,,,,, ti , psi c : . , ,,, ll o t r e a.uicf,t y l,aetteri ysi , : _ ; ; :n . n i ng : rui ‘ : y i n, t a benefit ud his.n , ~ w . enabled ale's recommend our narisFrom other cures S t o cu! attend b tic 4 ,the Ort, 11 ,1:11j ott "e PUbli e d " Halse's Scorbutic i t ,.',k!ab o l l '4'.3' 'enry ? i se n.. Lord of , i h „ se., oo t t man the Manor, John Manning tOttth - 1 o" of "'eriti .Arthur Langworthy. i, 1 hil vit 'rltu.' c h " 'd Thorn I). Vl 'llo 'n 'd o v oUrid ateve r as Rolins was quite incap , ble of doing ose r I ue it s Were efore he co mmenced taking a t ho I)rops. si t tb, ind eo chin g a „ . ,so large that tet „ r Il e ' both ...,', the "' Pain Of the i vats most awful to look at 4, e_ , Vra,, e gay a „_, Poor teii,,_ could WOunds generally were moit lip ti%,,r4r4toe,"lutnight, fo,`'swe.a be heard screeching by , I tiqli o ,,,t , th..,, e v., ere ski, :X i z iori entirely out of the yues continued to to ' It xis l' . OPR e Xtra4 rety hroatilligt;raoldhaily % t he ,real i IHE a : rn the " Nottin h " ;er,5lY death . V "t a l ' t ed 7 4 'to • RAD I) THE CAUSE OF SCURVY, ~, e y ' ' lik, fa et '. seu ry s mat Bo t cs many persons should be content 'NI) 41 4 . 'no th at . F ' WoUnd Ni 4 Ve"I a tv befor H ase's s: th .e legs, Scc when it is well_ t1vi1,41,11,4cierte44,4 o r n i ,ed beein e e th a e , stuati. N?oric.'lleZispbentt,thpees;"tmnakbkleedthl: ju c a i d ia ge al: f I„,rh,v_es hu t s r eo „ . ,art itie. ,its effects on the people )),_tioelth,tve h',,friend i t a :nd as vendors of thisumeCl)r '4 , ti ttiott ; IS iZll h eave rid eztutr?ur..friends, for there 'ics.nscea‘rvceeleyana 4, 1,.. , 4 4 5t1y" ° :_,5 , ti ece . ,„ ho hyv*:;.,r_.ary. accounts of it ; indeed, ~,,V)!i el ' l. by 'i rri b rate t i. i t .i 'd Yet ot7 re T ne r advertised medicines O t t. 't • 4ale a...,,, a i s ,,., or ?fling to this preparation 6 c• w e a l :c5, say, Drops,' the disease has Itlgii'i.'`Lst''l'str.ants fo r 1 ay, " Try Halse's Scorbutic k - qi, 4 et.'" , i, Ili Lon,' ti, .4 ' Johnttontiolbar%;:prroaurtelaj and Son, Farringdoo. Strand , Sanger, 150 ttl44 L o Otlt e ' 68s COrnhill bi 4 P• * King, 'Napier-street, to t tle to 4), ! - a 9 nd' 11 / 4 . atlfl ill f.i, 6 ? r Rai' .. t BOttless, ' ScorbUtic Drops." Price ' e°llt4 tning Ilearlif ciic 2s.l)d. . , -...........10 ,„, i t went. :upied their [ 4 a to -day, an )at stood ota in the Part le Court the Light before f DeCeabe 'eh. 14. I the wh °ll d petition& 14 , ecisl7l' met the de' cowl A In8"1 I sho d .nce to " t 6. ted. .13 0 zdjudicittio Fe!• I4' hi. 94 "" If in . e the Pu' hilt the Court :7 y o f bill 4 7 luntinfP we b ; j. It inal litigation en: co psy coo n h ands. venue CetO 113 Went ," hi, ,earne d olvent's ba ed to ci"iei ha d rosr r t of ' eve otal lg uDr. " - ,i C a . it:, hel d ca. _ i n solven t due , hot the!h ef• itrat ford,t a ll ter Oi l" netitiOn. S S the , t he • etitton t 0 .6 11 pected dd be re tl i 4 of the fsc::. he neg at ! ani d en tertai n itot file this er, , .110 times in 's 4 0 01 1 ., ' c i e ljs" o ;. the ostoi, ;y it W: . lls s ,ctielit t rau. ct i wt. - 111 r. th e • al I . 40 ,ncip 6 0 p mere e l o t." 31,4 fir, sup plie- 6cl. ,f 26/. ° 6. 1 01 ' tbs° or i t be if he r I°tter. tbs t t oe her, e es in tb af te e , o ntbs tb. wov be i nu seeco°t'elliei the d c throug h foOt to b e is ib to oolluetefet • A, r ight 7 1 00 0 : 4 trAP d iet" ed A ler 4 A ‘ 7 W 14,0 • 4 t ; ) vbes e go n .4 ,0 by e the ,bo ort o4 o In fi ne bi j e r it o a nd t ley ,04 i j yea ° eb e T'east /r 1" fleti is. S 2 ;60 )70 ,i 0 sa le inloe ery 91° 1 to 0 as ' w DaD dee s llPP l tit i slow'Plit o if! e rat her ed , I' 0 suPP °t oo sold be to 6 1 0 4 ditto 3 F 4 4 [ditto 4 9 abet/4 woo l 1 6 A e •••••4 1 4 ib is o .••• 1 4 . No. 16,38 L FEBRUARY 15, 18 45, LO N DON, SATURDAY 4- V , P • S TAT NI " Who runs may read." PRICE sd, FOREIGN. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIRE o,c2ocE, in Time for the EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY ; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is PUbliBited ink Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINN and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS i n LONDON u p t o th a t lour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. C LERICAL, MEDICAL, an d GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 78, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the Office of the SOCiety, on THURSDAY, the 6th day of March next, at One o'clock precisely, at which meeting Two Tnistees, Four Directors, and One Auditor (on the part of the Proprietors) will be elected. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. ' REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON THE KENTISII AND SOVTII-EASTERN RAILWAY SCHEMES. [Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed Feb. 13, 1845.] Railway Department, Board of Trade, Whitehall, Feb. 13, 1845. The Board constituted by minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for the transaction of railway busi. ness, having had under consideration the different schemes depo. sited with the Railway Department for extending railway commu nication in Kent, and the South-Eastern district, have determined on submitting the following report thereon for the consideration of Parliament. The list of schemes in this district shows that on the one hand a very extensive and comprehensive system for the accommodation of the whole Kentish and South-Eastern district is proposed by the South-Eastern Company, in connexion with their existing lines; white, on the other hand, the same, or nearly the same, objects are proposed to be attained by a number of new and independent schemes, This renders it necessary that we should begin by an explicit statement of the principles which have guided us, in this and simi lar cases, in forming an opinion whether a preference ought or ought not to be given, and if given, under what conditions and to what extent, to lines for completing the accommodation of parti cular districts, which lines are in connexion with existing railways in those districts. In this, as in every other case, we have endeavoured to keep steadily in view the attainment of the greatest amount of public advantage. We have not recognised the existence of anything like a vested right in existing Companies to be protected from the same description of competition which they have themselves in. flicted on canals and other existing modes of communication. Beyond, perhaps, a bare preference, in cases of absolute equality, doe to the intereste of Shareholders, who themselves constitute a portion of the public, we have not considered that an existing rail way Company could claim any preference over other parties pro. posing to effect the same objects, beyond that which might result from an identification of interest with the public. Considering the subject in this point of view, it appears to us that, as a general rule, the most important point for the interests of the public, is to secure the best permanent lines of railway cont. rnunication for the country at large and for the wants of the dis trict. To sanction an inferior or unnecessarily circuitous line, proposed by an existing Company, or to reject one of decided public and local advantage, proposed by a new Company, for the sake of any terms that could be offered by an existing Company, would, in our opinion, be, except under peculiar circumstances, unfair to wards the local interests thus sacrificed, and unwise as regards the general and permanent interests of the public. We have, therefore, as a general rule, considered it as an essen tial preliminary requisite, before entering upon the question of giving protection to existing Companies by allowing them to com plete the railway communications of particular districts, that the lines proposed by them shall be, in all substantial respects, sound in themselves, and not inferior to those proposed by any other parties. Parliament could compel an insolvent concern to carry at as low rates and afford as ample accommodation as a prosperous under taking might be able to do. A moderate offer from an established Company, who can be relied on to fulfil their engagements, is therefore preferable to one apparently more advantageous from a new Company. For these, among other reasons, we conclude that the policy in. cheated by the Committee of last session, of giving a preference to the schemes of existing Railway Companies for supplying their own districts, when such schemes are as gOod or better than those of any other parties, where no special reasons exist which should induce us to look for advantage from competition, and where the old Company voluntarily offers such guarantees as may reasonably be required to protect the public against the possible abuses of mo nopoly, or such conditions as at once place the public in a better position than they could hope to obtain from competition, is that from which the greatest amount of permanent public advantage is likely to be derived. We by no means intend these principles to be considered as rules of universal application, being satisfied that no abstract nr invari able rule can be safely laid down by which to decide cases of such complexity, and varying so greatly In detail; but we have thought it desirable to state thus generally the views which have guided us in cases like this of the South-Eastern district, and upon which the soundness of the conclusions at which we base arrived must mainly depend. Having thus stated the general principles by which we have ' been guided in cases involving a question of preference between ex. isting and new Companies, we proceed to investigate the different schemes submitted to us in the Kentish and South-Eastern dis. trict, with a view to their application. The following is a list of the projected railways in the district in question, deposited with the Railway Department of the Board of Trade:— Central Kent Kentish Coast London and Croydon ; Orpington Branch .. London and Maidstone London and Ashford London, Chatham, and Chilham London and Gravesend, via North Woolwich London, Chatham, and Gravesend 145 London, Chatham, and North Kent 195 Rye, Tenterden, and Headcorn line, abc ost uninterruptedly from the Thames to the Land's End. The on'i.y important link in this chain which was not likely to be undert 'ken as an independent commercial enterprise, was the con. nexion between Hastings and the South. Eastern line in the direc tion of Dover, for the completion of which we have now the guaran tee of a Company who have ample means to fulfil their en gagem.erst, and who are alone in a position to work such line, if constructed, with efficiency and with a fair prospect of success. The 'effect of sanctioning the schemes of the South-Eastern Compa ay, in connexion with the schemes already sanctioned or propos eel by other parties, will be to place the metropolis, the dockyards and arsenals of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheer ness, l'e , rtsmouth, and Plymouth, the Downs, Dover, Hastings, Bright an, Southampton, Portland, Weymouth, and all the prin cipal ipo its of the southern coast as far as Falmouth and Pen zance, in direct railway communication with one another, so as to admit of the transmission of intelligence in a few minutes by the eledtrical telegraph, and of troops, stores, and ammunition, in a few hours from any one point to any other of this extensive line. Bel the proposed extensions to Hungerford-bridge there is also ev ez y prospect that Woolwich, Chatharn, and the other im portant. places above specified, will be placed in uninterrupted rail. way corn munication, through the metropolis, with other parts of the king, loin. The 13 ther advantages offered by the South-Eastern Company are sufficiemely obvious. We have already referred to the Reports of the Select Committee of last session . , to show the importance at tached b•y them to the obtaining from existing Companies, volun. tarily and without incurring any suspicion of breach of faith on the part of rarliament, securities for the future in the shape of an op. tion of nevi-ion and purchase, resembling in their general effect those u•ihich the Legislature, after very full consideration, has thought it advisable to adopt with regard to new railways. It wiZ I be observed that in the case of the South-Eastern Corn. pang, n o t only are these guarantees offered, but also a present limi. tation oaf charge, and amount of accommodation to the poorer class of pass. edgers, which will ensure the working of the whole of the South. Eastern system upo❑ terms more favourable for the public, both as regards fares and accommodation, than are usual upon .other vafilways. As regards the North Kent portion of the system, indeed, uve regard any legislative maximum as of comparatively little i c portance, since the charges of the railway must always be kept ,down at an exceedingly low point by water competition ; but as "e gards the great line of continental communication and the internal local traffic of a great part of the district, it is unquestion ably h'igThly desirable to obtain a specific guarantee against the adoption of a system of high fares, which, under the present Acts of the .611uth-Eastern Company, might be at any moment resorted to if thre. Directors thought it expedient for their interests to adopt the course which has frequently been pursued by other Companies. The conclusion, therefore, at which we arrive, in regard to the schemes; proposed In the North Kent district is, that to the best of our jud gment a very decided preponderance of public reasons exists in favorer of the South-Eastern scheme, No. 222, Hungerford. bridge to Chilhain, in preference to any of the competing schemes. The game reasons induce us to express a similar opinion, that as regards ;the South-Eastern Company's scheme, No. 213, Extension to Deal,, and No. 205, Maidstone to Rochester, which are portions evident ,y required to complete the system of Kentish railway cora municalinin, and the South. Eastern Company's scheme, No. 215, Ashford to Hastings, which is an important link in the coast line of communication, we are aware of no public grounds why they should no t receive the sanction of the Legislature. The on ly remaining schemes are those proposed for forming new railways- from Tunbridge and fle4dcorn to Hastings. With regard to these,, it seems sufficient to say, that the question having been contested at great length before Committees of both Houses last session, Tato rejected the Headcorn line, on the ground that it was inconsis to .nt with the coast line to Brighton, which was calculated to afford at the same time a greater amount of local and national advantage; and no new circumstances having transpired to affect the grounds of that decision, but on the contrary, the:proposal of a line fro tri Hastings to Ashford affording an additional outlet, not then co ntemplated, for traffic ftom Hastings and its neighbourhood towards Dover and Canterbury; we are aware of no sufficient public grounds. to justify a reversal of that decision, by the sanction of lines wltoich, under present circumstances, would go far to render the line sanctioned last year incapable of sustaining itself as a sol. vent undertaking. one line of railway for the accommodation of North Kent will be sanctioned. The population of the district to be accommodated (exclusive of London and Greenwich) exceeds 850,001, and from its proxi. mity to the me ropelis, the amount of intercourse is extremely large. More than half a million of passengers have been conveyed by steam-boats in a single month between London and Gravesend ; and the amount of traffic, passing both by land and water, to Rochester, Chatham, Maidstone, Canterbury, Ramsgate, Margate, &c., is also very great, and likely to increase largely with the ex tension of facilities- What proportion of this traffic may be ob. tamed by a railway in competition with steam-boats and other cheap conveyances, is of course to a certain extent speculative. There !appears, however, to be sufficient data to warrant us in as. suming that any of the schemes proposed for making a railway to accommodate Nod) Kent, may be considered as a fair and legiti mate commercial speculation ; and that the question is therefore reduced to a choice among the different competing schemes, of that which offers on the whole the greatest amount of public ad. vantage. The question is further narrowed by the exclusion of the line proposed by the Croydon Company, London, Chatham, and Chilham, No. 142, which, from the nature of its gradients, is incapable of sustaining a serious competition with either of the other schemes, even if equal to them in other respects; while, from its direction, it is manifestly no less inferior in point of local accommodation and national advantage. The gradients are more severe than have ever been proposed for a locomotive line; 28 planes, extending over more than 15 miles of the first 30, being at an inclination of one in 50. It may be proper to state, that the Croydon Company ob. tained, in the last session of Parliament, an Act, under which they are proceeding to convert their existing locomotive line of railway from London to Croydon into an atmospheric line, in connexion with another Company, also sanctioned in the last ses. sion, and which continues the line on that principle, from Croydon to Epsom. In their subsequent projects, which are now under consideration, the Croydon Company equally adopt the atmospheric system of propulsion. If that system had already been applied successfully upon any long line of railway, the severity of the gradients in these projected lines would not have been considered so objectionable. It is clearly, however, impossible for us to assume the success of a system, as to which much dif f erence of opinion exists among railway engineers, and which has not hitherto afforded such proof of its merits as could warrant us in giving the pre ference to projected undertakings, the success of which must de. pend upon :results, as yet uncertain, while other projects are offered, to which no such uncertainty applies. The course of the line, pursuing the Croydon line inland for six and a half miles to Sydenhana, and thus avoiding Woolwich and the population along the North Kent-road, and giving Gravesend only a circuitous route to Lcnden by a branch, ap pears too manifestly inferior to that of the other North Kent lines, for national and local purposes, to require comment. The comparison, therefore, lies between the South •Eastern Company's scheme, No. 222, and the London, Chatham, and North Kent, No. 148. In their general features and objects, these two schemes are nearly identical. They both pursue the general direction of the Old North Kent.road by Woolwich, Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham, and thence to the same point, Chilhain, on the South-Eastern Company's line, from Ashford to Canterbury, which affords the nearest practicable route to Canterbury. They both throw off a branch to Sheerness, and accomplish, more or less per. fectly, the great national object of placing the naval and military establishments of Sheerness, Chatham, and Woolwich, in direct railway communication with one another, and with the metropolis. In the most difficult and important features of the lines, such as the passage of the Medway at Rochester, and of the Lines at Chat. ham, they are substantially the same. The President of the Board, having communicated with the Master-General of the Ordnance, has ascertained that, while in some points of detail each scheme is considered objectionable, and may require modification, there is no such substantial objection to either as to require its rejection, or to give any decided preference in a comparison of the two. The chief points of difference between the two schemes in other respects appear to be 1. In the mode of passing Woolwich, and the course pursued thence to Gravesend. The North Kent line keeps above the town of Woolwich,:cross. ing the Artillery-ground, and thence skirting Shooter's Hill, and keeping inland by Crayford and Dartford. Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a Candidate for the office of Trustee, Director, or Auditor, must send the Name of such Candidate to the Secretary, at least fourteen days before the day of meeting. Tl - 1, - Ballot will commence at Eleven, and close at Two o'clock. The Election of an Auditor on the part of the Assured, will also take pl ce on Wednesday, the sth day of March, between the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock.—All Persons assured for the whole term of life, and (mantled to vote, are hereby referred to the conditions endorsed on their policies, for information respecting the Candidate to be proposed. . . GEO. 11. I'INCKARD, Resident Secretary. Feb. 15, 1545. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. THE ROYAL NAVAL. MILITARY, EAST INDIAN, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK SMITH, E.H., R.E., Chairman. Colonel Sir WILLIAM GOSSETT, C. 8., E.C.11., ILE., Deputy- Chairman. Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.8., M.P., Lord of tho Admiralty Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart., G.C.H. Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Bart., K.C.8., G.C.11. General Sir Thomas Bradford, G.C.8., G.C.H. Major-General Sir P. Ross, G.C.M.G., K.C.H. Lieutenant-General Sir F. W. Muleaster, R.C.H. Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner, K.C.B. Major-General Sir Hew D. Ross, K.C.8., R.A. Major-General Sir J. Bryant, C. 8.. E.I.C.S. Major-General Taylor, CB., E.I.C.S. Major-General Edward Wynyard, C.B. Major-General Arnold, Ell., R.E. Major-General Clellaud, E.LC.S. Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Hamner, K. 11., late R.ILG Lieuten lit-Colonel Purchas, E.I.C.S. Maj Captaino A cphu r Shades itti),ai Melville e (t: G. Agent Captain William Lancey, R.E. William Chard, Esq., Navy Agent James Nugent Daniell, Esq. Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator. Assurances are granted upon the lives of persons in every station of life, and for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable terms • South - Eastern; Maidstone to Rochester South-Eastern ; Tunbridge to Hastings, Eye, and St. Leonard's S mth.Eastern ; Branches to Deal and Walmer, and Exten sion and Deviation at Margate Persons assured in this office may change from one country to ano ther without forfeiting their policies. A Bonus, amounting to thirty per cent. on the actual value of the policies, was apportioned to the assured at the recent first Septennia Meeting. South-Eastern; Ashford to Hastings .1215 i:l7 South-Easttrn ; He a d corn t o Rye JOSEPH C. BRETTELL, Secretary. South-E.istern ; Hungerford-bridge to Tunbridge and Pad. dock Wood ..... South-Eastern; North Kent, Hungerford-bridge to Chilham 222 Of the above, the scheme London and Maidstone, 135, may be considered as included in London and Ashford, 140; also the London and Croydon, Orpington Branch, 131, and London, Chatham, and Gravesend, 144, in London, Chatham, and Chilham, 142 ; and South. Eastern, Headcorn to Rye, 217, in Rye, Ten. terden, and Headcorn, 197; being duplicate plans for the same or portions of the same scheme. Kentish Coast London and Gravesend, via North Woolwich 143 not having been brought before us by the promoters as substantive schemes, in a position to apply to Pali:Meta in the present ses sion, at the same time as the other schemes in the district, and being for detached objects, are not included in this report. This reduces the list of substantive schemes which we have had to consider to the following:— South-Eastern Company's schemes: Hungerford Bridge to Chilham (North Kent) 'so. 222 Hungerford Bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood ...... 221 Maidstone to Rochester Branch to Deal and Walmer Tunbridge to Hastings Ashford to Hastings Croydon Company's Schemes : London, Chatham, and Chilham 142 London and Ashford New and Independent Companies : London, Chatham, and North Kent l4B Central Kent Rye, Tcnderden, and Headcorn These schemes may be classed according to the objects which they have in view. I.—The South Eastern Company's scheme, Hungerford Bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock Wood, No. 222 ; the Croydon Corn. pang's scheme, London to Ashford, No. 125 ; have for their prin cipal object the shortening and improving the present line of com munication to Dover and the Continent, by cutting off the angle of the South-Eastern line at Reigate; and the Central Kent, No. 34, has partly the same object in v.ew, combined with that of local accommodation, and extension to Canterbury and Deal. ll.—The South-Eastern Company's scheme, Hungerford Bridge to Chilham, No. 225 ; the Croydon Company's scheme, London to Chatham and Chilham, No. 144 ; the London, Chatham, and North Kent, No. 148; and to a cer,:ain extent, the Central Kent, No. 34, have in view the accommodation of North Kent, including the districts along the Thames as far as Canterbury. The South. Eastern scheme, Branch to Deal and Walmer, No. 213, and a portion of the Central Kent scheme, are for extending this communication beyond Canterbury to the Downs; and the South-Eastern scheme, Maidstone to Rochester, No. 205, is for completing a link in the North Kent system, by uniting it to the existing line to Maidstone. Hl.—The South-Eastern Company's scheme, Tunbridge to Hastings, No. 211, and the Rye, Tenterden, and Hastings scheme, No. 195, are for extending new lines from the interior of Kent to Hastings ; and the South-Eastern Company's scheme, Ashford to Hastings, No. 215, is for completing the coast line of communica tion, sanctioned by Parliament last year, from Brighton to Hastings A reference to the map, which is deposited to accompany this report, will make the different lines referred to more easily under. stood. Assuming this to be the case, the question is at once raised whether the public are likely to derive most benefit from compe. tition, or from arrangements with the existing Company. With regard to thegeneral principles which regulate competition in the case of railways, we have little to add to the reports of the Select Committee on Railways of last sesiion, by whom the subject was fully investigated. The Committee state, in their Fifth Re port : " With regard to the check of competition by railways among themselves, the Committee cannot, in all cases, repose implicit faith in it." " When the lines are very short, the probability is that unless charges be moderate, road traffic will revive, and in such cases the public have a great degree of security. Again, as respects the carriage of goods, it is found in practice that by other channels of conveyance, such as canals, an effective control may, under certain circumstances, be placed upon railway charges. But in consider ing the case of passenger charges, and in all classes of lines, except 215 those which are so short as lobe effectually checked by the ordi- nary road, the Committee think that little can be permanently ex. petted from the mere multiplication of railways in the way of security for moderation of charge. There may be, indeed, indi. rect and accidental competition between railways, which may cause cheapness, and there may even be direct and brisk competition, with great reductions of fare for short periods ; but in such cases of competition, somewhat modified, as have hitherto occurred, the result has generally been increase of charge by mutual arrangement or positive amalgamation of the competing Companies. The expe rience of the past is, however, limited, and might not, if taken alone, warrant any conclusive opinion ; but in looking to the na ture of the question itself, the Committee feel this difficulty, that they cannot, in case of railways, anticipate any such facilities in the introduction of new competitors as to check the proceedings of the Companies actually in possession of the traffic ; that in fact there is no district in which the traffic will support any considerable number of railways ; that there is no case in which they imagine a likelihood of more than two or, at very m e s u e t s i o t s u t a , t t e h d r e a e s linent o e° re o p f e t r e a wit a h y e c n o e m m a n u e n t i h c e a r t o a n n , dw they ' pact executive boards, and secu r e a ga ins t th e entrance of any other ecthaoneunldotb con ceive that two bodies, or even three, acting by com. party into the field, will fail to combine together. It is, therefore, their apprehension, that in such cases, either the different railways will continue to be worked, and then that extreme measures will be taken in concert for the purpose of paying very moderate dividends, and it may be found that several capitals have been expended for performing the business which could have been equally well, or perhaps even better performed by one ; or a closer combination will take place among the Companies : they will choose the line upon which they can most profitably carry the traffic, and will leave the rival line or lines unoccupied." This argumerct appears decisive against the Headoorn line, which is ident;:ical with that rejected last year ; and, as regards the South-nastern Company's line from Tunbridge, although it would effect s osne shortening of the distance between Hastings and London,, this does not appear to us a sufficient object to admit of a different conclusion. The South-Eastern Company's line passes through Woolwich, close past the gates of the Dockyard and Arsenal, and thence along the marshes by Erith to Gravesend, accommodating the populous inland district by a second line diverging from the Tunbridge line, No. 211, at Eltham, and thence passing by Bexley to join the first or North Kent line, near Dartford. Wit:k the exception, therefore, of the small portion of this latter line which connects Tunbridge Wells with the South_ Eastern. Railway, and which will be an useful branch for the accomreodation of that town, we have to report, that there appear to us t.) exist public reasons which ought to be decisive against the ach ernes, No. 195, Rye, Tenterden, and Headcorn, and No. 211, South-Faistern Company's Tunbridge to Hastings. In conclusion, we beg to draw attention to the passage of the Fifth Report of the Select Committee of last year, in which it is stated, irs recommending that reports should be made to Parlia ment by this department upon railway schemes, " That uo such report should be held to prejudice the claims of private persons, the ex:unination of which should be altogether reserved to the Houses of the Legislature." The arrangement proposed by the South-Eastern Company ap pears decidedly preferable, in point of public advantage and local accommodation, as passing close to the Arsenal And Dockyard at Woolwich, as giving superior facilities for the conduct of the public service, on the one hand, and for the uninterrupted passage offrequent trains, calculated to meet the wants of a dense population, on the other, by the alternative line, and as serving more places anti a arger population by the two lines than could be served by one. This arrangement, however, will involve greater expense and greater interference with house property; but this latter conside ration we are precluded from entertaining. 2. After passing Chatham, the two lines slightly diverge, the South-Eastern Company's line keeping more to the north, on the low ground, and thereby shortening the length of the Sheerness Branch, and the distance to Sheerness, and increasing that to Canterbury about 1 miles. 3. The comparative distances by the two lines are— North Kent Line, London to Chilham, 55i miles from the pro posed terminus at the Bricklayers' Arms. In submitting to Parliament, in conformity with the recommen dations of that Committee, the results at which we have arrived, with a view to the information and assistance of Parliament in forming a judgment upon the schemes in question, in so far as our report may be available for that purpose, we are anxious that it should be distinctly understool that we have arrived at these re. sults solely upon public grounds, and to the exclusion of all consi. derations how far such results might require to be modified by a due regard for private rights and interests. The principle here stated, that competition loses more or less of its value as a security for the public, when from the nature of the case it is limited to two or three parties, who are con , tantly urged by mutual interest to combine, has received abundant corroboration from the experience of what has already taken place in the history of railways. South. Eastern Line, London to Chilham, 55i miles from the Bricklayers' Arms, or 57} miles from the proposed terminus at Hungerford-bridge. On the whole, therefore, there appears no such difference be tween the two schemes as to give any very decided preponderance to either ; and we have, therefore, had recourse to the other con siderations stated in the beginning of this report, in order to de. term* between them. DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. D. O'BRIEN. G. R. POR tER. S. LAING. We may, at the outset, state our belief, that the two principal objects first enumerated, viz., the formation of an improved line of communication with Dover and the Continent, and the accommo dation of North Kent, must be kept distinct. A North Kent line can only be rendered useful or profitable by running very frequent ained facility upon for a dispatching line encu e x ni i trains, with numerous s t o p pages ; while for the Dover and conti. whichn en t al could o traffic, ulds e s v i:e r e speed,y attained e satipunctuality,Bfactorii and press trains at short notice are highly important,—conditions beret with the short traffic of such places as Chatham and Rochester, Gravesend, Woolwich, and Greenwich. Even if the distance, therefore, between London and Dover could have been somewhat reduced by a North Kent line, we should have been of opinion that the pre sent South-Eastern line, improved by cutting off the angle at Rei gate, would have afforded a prefer. able continental communication; and when we find that by such improved line the distance may be reduced to 75} miles, which is actually shorter than by any line that has been projected in con- Ke c flexion with a North Kent line, it appears to us too clear to admit of doubt that some scheme for the purpose of effecting such im provement, must be admitted in pr e f erence to a North Kent line, as a basis of a system of railway communication calculated to afford the best practicable outlet fo r continental traffic. The only scheme which professes to unite the different objects of accommodationfor e l n oc tr a a l l tr K a Ti c it , , w N it o h . i 3 m 4 p . r i o n s u 'ed s. continental the communication, N r th via, t n the and traces the impracticability of such a n union. As a North Kent scheme, it signally fails in accomplishing the principal objects of such a line, and which are attained by the other schemes. It does not go to Woolwich or to Sheerness, and p y asses at such a distance from Chatham that it would by compa rativel .. of little use as a con nexion between that arsenal and other points ; it avoids the mass of population lying along the River and Old North Kent Road at Woolwich, Crayford, Dartford, Erith, on this side of Gravesend, and gives no accommodation to Faversham, Milton, and the district between Chatham and Canterbury. It likewise passes at such an inconvenient distance from the principal towns which it professes to serve, such as Gravesend, Rochester, Stroud, Chatham, and Maidstone, as compared to other projected Lnes, that it would afford very insufficient local accommodation, and would compete, at a very great disadvantage, with steam-boats. and other modes of communication. The delay, inconvenience, and expense that results from placing important towns upon short branches, or giving them stations too distant for ready access, are matters of univer,al complaint wherever they have been experi. enced, and a large proportion of the Railway Bills of the present session result from thee fforts of such towns to place themselves upon through lines of communication. In one remarkable instance, the Birmingham and Gloucester Company now propose to abandon several miles of their existing line in order to remedy, at a heavy expense, the error formerly committed in leaving Worcester and Droitwich at a short distance from the railway. On the other hand, considered as a Dover line, it would involve the construction of about 52 miles of new railway of an extremely difficult and expensive character, in order to shorten the distance to Dover by an amount not greater than is attained by the South- Eastern Company's scheme, No. 221, by the construction of 331, miles only of new railway. Independently, therefore, of the other objections to this line, arisinsr from the character of its works, which are of an exces sively difficult and expensive character, the want of any pro vision for an independent access to the metropolis, and the cer. tainty that under these circumstances it could not maintain: he character in which it claims support, of an independent line, enough appears in its general character to induce us to report our unhesitating opinion, that in this case there are public reasons which, to the best of our judgment, appear conclusive against the scheme. With regard to the Croydon Company's s cheme, London to Ashford, No. 140, the same objection app l ies as compared with that of the South-Eastern Company, via., that by the construc. tion of 48 miles of new railway from SYdenhana to -Ashford, it would only reduce the distance to Dover by the same amount as the South-Eastern Company's scheme, by the construction of 33i miles of new railway. In this case, however, a mere corn parasols of distances does not show the full force of the objection to the Croydon Company's scheme, since the Se uth-Eastern Corn. pany's Branch is a good locomotive line, with gradients generally moderate, and in one case only as steep as 1 in 102; while the Croydon Company's line, although involving heavier works, and longer tunnels, has nearly one-third of its distance at 1 in 50. A reduction of the actual lengths to equivalent distances, according to the established formulm, would show a great advantage to the South-Eastern scheme over that of its competitor. The intrinsic superiority of the South-Eastern scheme (No. 211), as a means of effecting the most approved c ommunication with Dover and the Continent, appea rs, therefore, so evident, that we feel bound to state our opinion that, on public grounds, it merits a preference over any of those which have been proposed in corn. petition with it. Even if the merits of the competing schemes had been more equally balanced, we should have been disposed to think that the Soath.Eastern Company, having already ex. pended such a large capital in carrying out a great national work, had a fair claim to be allowed a preference in executing an im portant improvement of that work, more especially when offering such guarantees as are hereafter mentioned ; but we repeat, that the intrinsic superiority of the South-Eastern scheme in this quarter appears to us so decided as not to require the aid of such con siderations. By adopting this line the public will obtain a saving of 19 miles in distance, or of at least half an hour in time, as compared with the existing route to Dover and Folkstone, and will secure as short and good a line of communication with the Continent as the nature of the country will admit of. We next come to the consideration of the schemes—London, Chatham, and Chilham (No. 142) ; London, Chatham, and North Kent (No. 148) ; and South .Eastern, North Kent, Hungerford Bridge to Chilham (No. ;222) —proposed for extending railway communication in North Kent. The importance and population of the district thus proposed to be accommodated, the immense amount of traffic already existing by other modes of conveyance, and the fact of several schemes being in the field, promoted by substantial parties, each anxious to un dertake the enterprise, appear to justify us in assuming that some The fonowing instances mas be mentioned where railway Com panies, in a situation to compete, have, after a short time, either amalgamated or combined together, so as to put an end to com petition : The Leeds and Selby with the York and North Midland ; in this case the former line being virtually for several years shut up. RAILWAY COMPANIES. The public advantages which the alternative of giving the line to the South-Eastern Company appears to present, are the following : I. The security afforded by an existing Company, which has already expended upwards of three millions and a half, and is in the receipt of a great income, with the prospect of a large increase when the French lines are opened, which they offer to pledge for the completion, within a reasonable time, of all the works they un dertake, is greatly superior to anything that can be afforded by a new Company, however respectable. 2. The connexion of this portion of the Kentish Railway system with the Company to which the greater part of such system has been already intrusted, and which is now proposing other unop. posed links in a comprehensive scheme of communication, will greatly facilitate the convenient and economical working of the whole. A RETur,N, by Name, of each RA ILAvAv COMPANY subject thereto which has complied with, the Sixth Clause of the Act of last Session for the Reglalation of Railways, which came into operation on the Ist November, specifying the Hours of Starting of the Trains running in compliance therewith, and the Speed of such Trains; with the Date of such Compliance, as respect the Carriages having seats, and being protected from theweather. same of Railways. Hours of Departure from n. M. Great Western 30 a.m....Bristol. Bristol and Exeter 2 0 p.m....Exeter. Cheltenham and Great 'Western The Birmingham and Derby with the Midland Counties. The Chester and Crewe with the Grand Junction. The Manchester and Birmingham with the Grand Junction. The Bolton and Preston with the North Union. The Northern and Eastern with the Eastern Counties. On the other hand, we are not aware of a single instance which can be pointed out, in which the public are now deriving any be. nefit from direct competition between two railways. In addition to the instances of combination between directly competing Companies, recent experience has furnished numerous instances of the tendency of smaller lines, originally sanctioned as independent undertakings, to resign their independence into the the hands of powerful neighbours. We may mention, among other instances of this tendency, the amalgamation or lease of the Sheffield and Manchester to the Midland anti Manchester and Bir. mingham. _ _ . 3. The same concentration of interest will enable the South- Eastern Company at once to afford a greatly superior metropolitan terminus to any that is proposed by the North Kent Company, or that could be afforded by any independent Company; an advantage which is the more important when it is considered that from the amount of traffic that must necessarily flow over the Greenwich and Bricklayers' Arms lines and the proposed flungerford Exten sion, and from the limited space available for statio❑ roo.n, the traffic could scarcely be conducted with safety, and certainly net without extreme inconvenience, unless under one control and management. On the other hand, the effect of giving this line to the South- Eastern Company will unquestionably be to place in their hands a monopoly of the railway communications of a very large and im portant district, which would be to a certain extent obviated by giving the line to an independent Company. The general question of the prospect of advantage from railway competition has been already discussed. In the present instance there are several reasons which appear on the one hand to render tpp b eco e rrsTbs u i eueh r rs g r:syc e i we,o d naao against g btrw a ya i oei n tfllhw s l te: as m ysgsoo o , uoonmdtfohupt: independent the existence of any permanent competition peculiarly problema. tical, and OR the other to obviate many of the objections that may e y d ao . s e pot p eet e rrh n ane d t re e c n mco t omomsptma nsmetropolitanutyrnooicof mmunications tih iy oe nto tines sbotfra bring station, n ey ' o a e a o d n u d n C t t t a i h n : hl e - 5 district, are circumstances which, according to all previous ex amalgamation. Oxford Branch l2 15 p.m....Ci rences t er . 12 12 p.m....Didcot. 1 35 Birmingham and D er b y 12 15 p.m....Derby. . p.m....Oxford Midland ...Bir Railway North Midland •• ..... .• •• 3 45 p.m.6 50 a.m....Le naingham. eds. Company. 6 • p.m....Derby. Midland Counties 2 40 p.m....R ug by. North Union 6 0 a.m....Preston. ) Amalgamated 6 0 p.m....Pr es t on . 7 30 a.m....Parkside. 7 30 p.m. . Parkside. Bolton and Preston 8 5 a.m....Preston. Ot the Bristol and Exeter, and Cheltenham and Great Western, with the Great Western. Ot the Hull and Selby, and Manchester and Bolton, with the Manchester and Leeds. Of the North Union with the Liverpool and Mancheater and Graved Junction. Of the Greenwich with the South-Eastern. Of the Sheffield and Rotherham with the Midland. Of the Chester and Birkenhead with the Chester and Holyhead. Of the Bristol and Gloucester with the Birmingham and 8 45 a.m....801t0n. Eastern Counties, Col- 7 45 a.m....London. chester Line ....•• 3 0 p.m....Colchester. Amalgamated Northern and Eastern. 9 0 a.m....London. or Cambridge Line 5 40 p.m.— Stortfiard. Bristol and Gloucester 9 15 a m.... Gloucester. 4 30 .... Edinburgh and Glasgow m....Edinb ßristol. urgh. 1 30 p.m....Gl asgow. Grand Junction 6 30 a.m....Liverpool. Lancaster and Preston Gloucester. Besides others that might be quoted. The same principle has received further elucidation from the inquiries of Parliamentary Committees on former occasions as well as from the great body of evidence collected by the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Sanatory Condition of Large Towns, in regard to the operation of the principle of competition as compared to that of well.regulated monopoly in the analogous cases of water and gas companies. Indeed it is too evident, as a general propo sition, to be disputed, although great caution may be required in its application, and in discriminating those cases where the corn. petition is of a pure and simple nature, such as must eventually lead to a compromise, from those where a certain degree of indirect and incidental competition may exist, from which the public may ex pect to derive lasting benefit, either in the shape of reduction of charge or of extension of accommodation. 9 0 a.m....Preston. London and Birmingham ... ...... ... 7 0 a.m....London. The pressure of steam.boat competition is also another eircum stance which would naturally tend to make the railway interests of the district combine for mutual defence. This latter citcumstance also affords the best possible guarantee against the existence of any injurious monopoly against the public. With steamboats carrying passengers from London to Gravesend for Is., and even 6d., the fares upon any line of railway in North Kant must always be very much lower than the point to which they could be reduced f a a continuance by any practicable legis lative enactment, or by any conceivable railway competition. The existence of the Thames as a free water.highway, must also always keep the railway charges on goods at a very low limit; and in fact render anything like monopoly, in the proper sense of the word, impossible, unless all the steamers, vessels, and barges in the river, as well as the North Kent Railway, could be amalgamated with the South-Eastern Company. 0 30 p.m....Birminghatn. London and Croydon t all the trains. London and South-Western 7 15 a.m....Gosport. A 0 a.m....Southampton. London and Brighton, and Shorebam 6 30 a.m....London. When an existing Railway Company proposes schemes which, although only partially sufficient for the full accommodation of the district, may yet be sufficient to prevent other parties from enter. ing the field with further or improved ',rejects in that district, the arguments against the creation of a monopoly acquire additional strength. The simpler case is, when, as in the present instance, the existing Company comes forward with a complete and compre hensive scheme, and the question is reduced to this : whether the existing Company is able and willing to offer guarantees for the public advantage superior to any that can be afforded by a new Corn. pany. _ _ 6 35 p.m....Brighton. Manchester and Birmingham 7 30 a.m....Manchester. 3 30 p.m....Birmingham. Manchester and Leeds 6 45 a.m....Manchester. 5 40 a.m....Leeds. Newcastle and Darlington _ _ _ 11 30 a.m....Darlington. Sheffield and Manchester 0 45 a.m....Manchester. Of the ability of an old Company to offer such guarantees there can, generally speaking, be little doubt. lolly. An established Company, which has a valuable property and large available income independent of the new scheme, can, of course, offer a guarantee for the fulfilment of all that it under. takes to accomplish greatly superior to that of any new Company, however respectable. This consideration derives great weight from the experience which has been already afforded of the failure of many new Corn. panics to accomplish the objects for which they were incorporated. We need only refer to the instances of the Eastern Counties Corn. pany, which was incorporated as a line from London to Norwich, and has never yet been carried beyond Colchester ; of the Northern and Eastern, which for many years stopped short of Cambridge; and of the Great North of England, which abandoned the portion of its line between Darlington and Newcastle. 2dly. The traffic of d system of lines connected with one another can always be worked more economically and conveniently under one uniform management than by independent Companies. The Company which works the main trunk line, and possesses the prin. 11 25 a.m. —Woodhead South-Eastern 5 0 p.m.—Dover. Yarmouth and Norwich ... The question would stand thus on general considerations, inde pendently of any specific guarantees or advantages offered by the South-Eastern Company, as securities against the apprehended effects of monopoly, and as inducements to the Legislature to give their schemes a preference. The South. Eastern Company have, however, voluntarily offered the following guarantees and ad. advantage, to be secured by clauses in their respective Acts :- 1. They offer to complete the coast line of communication from Hastings to Ashford; an undertaking which, left to itself as an unassisted commercial speculation, might remain long uncompleted. Q. They offer to complete the communication to Deal, in con nev.ion with their line already sanctioned from Canterbury to Ramsgate and Margate, which the North Kent Company are not at present prepared to undertake. 3. They offer to extend their Bricklayers' Arms line to Hunger. ford-bridge, and to render their station there available for the purposes of a common central metropolitan terminus, should it here after appear to be practicable and desirable. 4. They offer to pledge the whole revenue of their existing line for the completion of all the lines undertaken by them, within a reasonable period_ 5. They offer to lay down the electrical telegraph along their line, whenever it may be required for the public service. 6. They offer to place their whole system, including the old as well as the new lines, under the operation of the option of revision and purchase contained in the General Railway Act of last year. 7. They offer to except instead of their present maximum of aid. per passenger per mile on the present distance of 88 miles to Dover, a revised tariff, fixing a maximum of 3d. per mile on first class passengers, and 2d. per mile on second-class passengers, in carriages protected from the weather, to be calculated on the shortest possible railway distance between London and Dover, or 74 miles. 12 0 noon...Yarmouth. York and North Midland 7 40 a.m....York. 7 30 a.m....Leeds. 7 50 a.m....Selby. 7 35 a.m....Normanton. SPEED.—An average rate of not less than twelve miles an hour for the whole distance on the railway, including stoppages. DESCRIPTION Ow CARRIAGES.—Seated, and provided with the means of being entirely closed, so as to exclude the weather, with provision for the admission of light and air. DATE OF COMPLIANCE, as respects running Carriages provided with Seats, Roofs, and closed at the sides. —lst of November, 1844; subject to medifications in certain cases as to the description of carriages, with respect to protection from the weather, that would be considered satisfactory by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade. cipal terminal stations, can run more frequent trains, and make T 1 railway following i e a s e etfth e e dates t e o s p e f c n o d m e p h l e i a e nc with o f t t h h e e B u n e d a t e d r m e e f ri T t i r o a n d e d rai e as regards the whole of the said conditions : Midland Counties Eastern Counties November 23. Bristol and Gloucester Grand Junction London and South-Western December 18. Manchester and Birmingham December 5. Newcastle and Darlington Sheffield and Manchester South-Eastern ......... D ece mber 1. And in the case of the following railways the correspondence has not been yet closed . , Ed as wi rf ih g :h a rnig h h : c e aenrt n d ol inG co linas m ign p oo l w i r ed with the 6th clause Railway companies of the said Act—Nil. Steps taken to recover penalties provided by the said Act—Nil. D. O'BRIEN. Railway Department, Board of Trade, Feb. 10, 1845. York and North Midland. better arrangements for forwarding the traffic of the cross lines, than it could afford to do if two or three separate establishments ' • " ' bad to be maintained, and the harmony of arrangements depended on two or three independent authorities. Under such circumstances a conflict of feeling and interest has almost invariably grown up, from which the public has suffered the most serious inconvenience. When the traffic is large, this conflict has frequently led not only to increased inconvenience, but to increased danger; and where the _ . terminus or a portion of the rails of one Company have been com mon to the other, these results have been greatly aggravated. 3dly. An established Company can always, if so disposed, offer guarantees and advantages for a greater extent of railway than the new Company, viz., for the existing as well as the projected lines. When the existing Company is already in possession of the principal trunk of the district, the advantage of securing such gua. rantees for the whole system, rather than for only a small portion of it, is rendered more apparent. 8. They offer to run over their whole system of railways two cheap trains each way daily, at I d. a mile, provided with seats and protected from the weather, under the conditions of the Act of last session, instead of one train only as require. by the Act. It appears to us that these conditions voluntarily offered by an existing Company, capable of carrying them into effect, in the event of their being allowed to execute a line for the accommodation of North Kent, which is, to say the least, fully equal for purposes of local and national advantage to any other proposed scheme, throws such a decided preponderance din their favour as to leave no doubt that the interests of the public will be best consulted by giving the preference to their projected line. The advantages, in a national point of view, of completing a chain of coast communication, have been already adverted to by Parliamentary Committees, and are manifestly of great public im portance. It is, therefore, with great satisfaction that we find, that among the schemes which will be submitted to Parliament for its sanction as commercial enterprises, and as combining at the same time the greatest amount of local accommodation, are lines which will have the effect of completing this coast line, of which the foundation was laid last year by the sanction given by parllii. wen t to we Brighton And Hasting*, and Brighton and Chichester The Select Committee of last session, for reasons which are fully stated in their report, attach great importance to the obtain ing of guarantees from existing Companies, by voluntary arrange ments similar to those which they recommended, and which Parliament subsequently adopted in the case of new railways, and express a strong hope, " that among the existing Companies there may be those which will be disposed to accede to arrangements, resembling, in their general principle and effect, those which are now proposed for new railways." 4thly. Whatever guarantees may be thus offered by existing Companies possess the double advantage, as compared with similar offers from new Companies, of coming into immediate operation, and of being more certainly rendered effectual. An offer from a new Company to bind itself to charge fares consider. ably lower than those usual upon other lines, rn,glit readily be made, in the hope of thereby securing their Bill; but the fulfil ment or it would depend almost entirely upon the eventual success [A D vcarisEmENT.]—A CERTAIN CURB FOR SCRO FULA, on KING'S EVIL, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT.—A FRIGHTFUL CASE !—A young man na med Bowman, a shoemaker, living in James-street, Manchester, had been afflicted from childhood with the most malignant kind of scrofulous ulcers, covering various parts of his body; besides other sufferings, they had deprived him of the use of his left kg. Yet, extra ordinary to relate, this poor fellow has net only had all the ulcers soundly healed, but has likewise regained the complete use of his limb by means of these two wonderful medicines. Sold at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the 011'44%1 world. of the line, and ite ability to perform lie engagements. No Act of * The figures refer to the number in the alphabetical list of railway projects lodged with the Board of Trade. ;_____ ...- r--, - ---..—.....--.. AA i ••••.1t.t.z.c.?, , - - -•`--- - --.. .... , ._____________ . • . ", f 23 „......,1, • "IL . 21( _ _ ....,-.., . • ELI k„ . , ,:zerP', ,`\., %C O - * - , - ' 4, 4°1" T 4 4 41;64-- : 9 ;:i ' 1 1.7: - --: --- - - 11 1'''' A ,... - &. V,. r "•,-° ..--_,4' --*,,-. q :4 , . . . . 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''''- AND Vubitt Opt Won. The Spanish mail, of the 7th Inst., has not arrived, owing to the great fall of snow on the Pyrenees, and in the South of France. 1 At Paris the cold continued very severe. Fahrenheit's therm. meter, at six o'clock on Wednesday, marked 11, being 21, below freezing. At Brussels the cold was still more intense, the titer. mometer having fallen to 7. The Count de Ratti-Menton, Consul at Canton. is about to be oppointed Consul-Genera/ for France at Manilla, In the room of M. Barrot. The fallowing appears in the Afrique :—" We learn that soca* members of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies have formed a pro. jest for founding agricultural:establishments in Algeria. It appears, also from our correspondent at Philippeville, that M. Ferdinand Rarrot has acquired within the immediate territories of that town from 1,090 to 1,200 hectares (2,500 to 3,000 acres) of land, which he intends to divi,:e into about 40 farms, and to settle families upon them. It is added, that the Minister or War has shown himself to be very favourable to the realisation of this great undertaking." It appears from an official return of the commerce of Guada loupe during the second quarter of 1844, that the imports amounted to 6,937,504 f, of which 4,805,521 f. was for French merchan dise from France, 669,915 f. for French merchandise from the French colonies and fisheries, and 4,465,065 f. for foreign trier. chandise. A letter from Algeciras of the 29th ult. states that the Spanish war.steamer Gironde, in passing under the batteries of Gibraltar, had been fired upon. The circumstance was mentioned in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies, when the Minister of Marine said, the Gironda at the time had in tow a coast-guard vessel which had been disabled by :the weather, and the officer of one of the batte ries, imagining that the vessel in tow was one that had been cap tured by the steamer within the waters of Gibraltar, and therefore in violation of the laws of neutrality, had fired upon the Gironda. This assurance had been given by the Governor of Gibraltar, and he had not only dismissed the officer in command from the post that he held, but had also given orders that in future no Spanish • • vesselfir fired upon. passing by Gibraltar should, under any circumst ances, b e A Berlin letter of the 7th inst., gives th e f o ll ow i ng s t a t ement —" The day before yesterday an old chorus - singer of the Grand Opera, named Bredersck, went to one of the magistrates, and spon taneously confessed that he was the sole incendiary of the Opera. house, burnt down in the night of the 18th of August, 1843—that he did it in revenge for a severe reproof given him by the leader of the chorus, and effected it by scattering lighted tinder in the wardrobe and other parts of the theatre. He was committed to prison, but the stateof extreme destitution which he was in led at first to a belief that he bad accused himself merely to gain food and lodgings. The minute details, however, which he has since given, corroborated by other information obtained by the police, appear to indicate that he has told the truth." It is reported that the Prussian and Danish Governments have agreed to refer their differences about the Sound dues to the media. tion of France. During the last month, the consumption of meat in Paris was 7,409 oxen, 1,378 cows, 6,939 calves, and 41,631 sheep, being 572 oxen, 74 cows, 1,142 calves, and 2,319 sheep more than in January, 1844. This consumption has never been so great in the same month of the year since 1825. We are authorised to state (says Galignani) that the Committee efthe Franco.Eeglish Railway Company (Jacques Lefebvre) from Tours to Nantes is composed as follows :--The Hon. George Daw son, M.P., and Member of the Privy Council; Mathew Boulton Rennie, Esq. Director of the London and Westminster Bank ; John Anderson, Esq., merchant ; George Hankey, Esq., Director of the Dover or South-Eastern Railway. An accident happened during tine performance of Robert it in the evening of Sunday last, at the Valenciennes Theatre, which might have had the same fatal effects as that which destreyed the life of Miss Clara Webster in London. While the actress who was performing Isabella was, in the second act, reading the letter front Robert, the long veil hanging behind her, suspended from her co. ronet, caught fare from a gas-light, and in a moment was in one entire blaze. Fortunately, it was seen by the foreman of the firemen, who instantly came on to the stage, tore off the veil, and extinguished the dames. The actress fainted from the fright, but in ;very short time she recovered, and resumed her part. MAW AND POLICIII. The case of Mr. C. J. Mathews, the comedian, came on in the Court of Bankruptcy. It appeared that under the agreement en tered Into some time since, 6501. had been paid into Court by the insolvent, and was now in the hands of the assignees, towards the payment of a dividend, The insolvent underwent a long swami. nation, but nothing of any importance was elicited, and events,. ally Mr. Commissioner Shepherd adjourned the examination to Wednesday. Anne Wilson was committed from Marylebone, for attempting to drown her own child. At Guildhall, William Hatch, who was lately employed as a traveller, by Messrs. Sutton and Shepherd, stational', Sta. tioners'.court, Ludgate-hill, was charged with embezzling various sums received from customers in various parts of the country, to the extent of 1251. The prisoner, who denied the charge, and defied the prosecutors to prove it, was remanded, on an understanding that he should be admitted to bail. At Clerkenwell, Elizabeth Peach, alias Fraser, was finally exa. mined, charged by Mr. Henry Shakspeare, of No. 25, Mitchell street, St. Luke's, with stealing a Si. Bank of England note, and 71. in gold and silver, a shawl, and other articles, and fully corn. mitted for trial. C URT-1•11.15 HIONABLZ. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal i• shortly expected in town from a visit to the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court. The Marquis of Breadalbane, who came to town on Wednesday, left Park-lane on the same day, to join the Marchioness at Brighton, The Earl of Errol, who, we regret to say, continues very unwell at his mansion in Clarges-street, was considered rather better on Thursday. The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam have gone on a •isit to Earl and Countess Bruce, at Savenalse Lodge, near Marlborough. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke returned to Wilton House on Wednesday, from a visit to Earl and Countess Bruce, at• 3 a. venahe Lodge. MISCELLANEOUS. Two women, named Chandler and Puddy, have been committed by the Coroner for Somersetshire, to take their trials for the mur der of the child of the prisoner Chandler. Both the prisoners had been inmates of the Axbridge Union Workhouse, and on their leaving the union they poisoned the child with laudanum. At the Guildhall, Plymouth, on Wednesday, a woman, the wifC of a seaman named Johnson, who was charged with assaulting a girl and robbing her other purse, hung herself in her cell during the night. The policeman on opening her cell the next morning thought she was standing against the wall underneath the barred window of the cell. Finding she did not stir, he approached her, and then discovered that she was hanging from the bars off the ground. Lite had been extinct some time before she was dis covered. The terms upon which the proprietors of the Torpoint Steam Ferry have agreed to cede the ferry to the Plymouth and Falmouth Railway Company are said to be, that the entire capital sunk from the commencement is to be repaid with interest at the rate of 4i per cent. The tolls arising from the ferry were let on Tuesday, by Mr. Hainselin, for one year, for i,4701., being nearly 3001. above the amount paid last year. On Thursday night a meeting of the parishioners of St. James, Cler. kenwell, was held at the Red Lion, Rosamond-street, for the purpose of taking measures to: obtain a repeal of the window-tax, when the chair having been taken, several of the inhabitants addressed the meeting, and a series of resolutions were moved and agreed to in support of the object, after which the meeting separated. Marylebone Parish Church was broken into on Wednesday night by some thieves, whose object appears to have been the comsat!. nion plate, &c., which is very valuable; fortunately, however, the door of the strong room in which it was deposited resisted all the attempts made upon it, and the only booty the thieves found con. sisted of 30s. in cash, taken from the desk of theparish clerk, and five brass candlesticks, found in an ante-room, the door of which was forced to get at the strong room. The covering of the pulpit had been removed by the depredators, in search, it is supposed, of the gold lace which usually ornaments it, but that had been re moved, and securely locked up, as is the custom during Lent. Re mains of Weiler matches were left in the vestry, and a candle bad been lighted. We regret to state that the last accounts from Sidney, New South Wales, announce the death of Sir James Dowling, the Chief Justice of that colony. He died on the 25th of September. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Q VEEN. SQUARE. On Thursday, shortly before the closing of the Court, Ifens'y Peacock Grog, of Caroliue.street, Coleshill-street, Pimlico, horse dealer, was brought up before Mr. Burrell, in custody of a City officer, on charge of obtaining by false pretences ftom Thomas Reynolds, of Enfield, corn-chandler, two horses, twenty quarters of oats, and two quarters of beans, with intent to cheat him of the same. Mr. Steele, of Lin coln's Inn-fields, and Mr. Lucena, of Gray's Inn, appeared as so licitors for the prosecution, and Mr. Depree, of Lawrence-lane, for the prisoner. The prosecutor stated, that on the 9th of Jannary last, prisoner, whom he had previously known, in consequence of dealings with his father, Mr. William Gray, of 180, Oxford-street, called upon prosecutor at Enfield, in company with a lame gentleman, whom he introduced as ,his brother-ha-law, but whom prosecutor afterwards ascertained to be Rarman Milton ; that prisoner did net mention this person's name, if he had done so, prosecutor would have been upon his guard immediately, and he believed prisoner was aware thereof, and expressly concealed the name. That prisoner requested to know whether prosecutor had got any horses he could sell him, adding, that he had married and gone into business on his own ac count for some time past ; that his godfather, Mr. Peacock, of Wel wyn, Herts, had advanced him a cheque for 2,000/., and he was to apply for more, as he found his business required it ; that h e had purchased 40 horses, and paid for them all, and had already placed several pairs of them on excellent jobs, with noblemen and gentle men, and that Sir Sebastian Smith had four splendid horses of his,n for paying 90 guineas per pa • them ; and that he, prisoner, was then enjoying a first-rate business. Prosecutor ftJher stated, that prisoner's brother-in-law verified most of the assertions of prisoner. and congratulated prosecntor that prisoner had come down, for that much good business might be done between them. Prosecutor, on these representations, agreed to sell prisoner two horses, 20 quarters of oats, and two quarters of beans, and on the next day, by prisoner's directions, sent the horses to prisoner's stables, in a mews, situate in Caroline-street, Eaton-square, where they were taken in by prisoner and Ilarman Milton, and that some few days afterwards the oats and beans 'were delivered at the same pities 1 .. . th shortly afterwards prosecutor discovered the lame nims,_ 'a a _ prisoner had introduced as his brother-in-law, to b be , 0, / i l e 3fr a . Milton, who had been charged at this office stables, Kinkead, with fraud and conspiracy . , practisehd prisoner's l a V t illiam Milton, his and indicted for the offence, the brother, and a person calling himself Sir made E nirther inquiries about hearing these particulars, prosecutor • (Tray) ; also at the stables in prisoner of his step-mother (Mrs. at i n i t. , ood from which prosecutor be lieved Caroline-street, and in the neighbour and Harman Milton were representations of prisoner that upon that the a tissue of falsehoods, and thatt sh t ort p rosecutor watched the premises, in prisoner were r emanded fora at this Court, for advice, who the magistrate together with CU P. ;07 e then c such p it a andto awttasendanthiser. i to n s t u o b l e e n u m s ex t l d a n m e : i . i , ned ; that prose plied to Mr. Burrell, . of two constables ; and, under Mr. phriissoor wdeacsianroattiotnhe,r,,e,,ithoroutto the ee infotuerlnd.endtjuourinogf any horses thatprisoner I ' the him ; was n hopes of apprehending Tuesday's Gazette Burrell's advice, they wen , t to prisoner's stablea, and got the two n formerl'tr.period Steele e denounced eelfetheand r.ee the ds bankruptcy t h athat a s prose cutor took a constable with him, and prisoner making his appears learnt wards examined by prisoner's solicitor before the Commissioner In prisoner's presence—the examination being conducted in a Myatt , room with closed doors, and no creditor being p allowed to be present. Dupree each addressed the magistrate, and the purpose of intimidating the prosecutor, in con.seqttence exa mination under it as a hole-and-corner meeting, got up by the pri soner of the fraud, and the ma- that prosecutor was in search of him on a criminal charge. Mr. Burrell remanded the prisoner for a week, and issued summonses for the attendance of witnesses to prove the false hood of the prisoner's statement to the prosecutor. Ultimately, by the consent of Mr. Steele, prisoner was liberated on his father, Mr. William Gray, becoming bail in 2001. for the prisoner's appearance next Thursday, s,"ofg,npcea morning 'r..rie,creditor,s fpopori bankrupt arriooe'sb et'asre. laet icl i f 3c elu d o - a , rtiNttoe,b.olioirilurinazt Commissioner a simmediately sl prosecutor st ancge gave s a . ed Shepherdh beenl SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.-A very excellent shooting-match at penny pieces (thrown into the air by a person specially appointed), took place on Monday last, at Tewkesbury. 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