The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

,heste r ' 4 the vith vol Du ctil e C°P. ab r -gal ~0 ; P fro° ~, Sr fro- wig the Ice fr°° . tb 1"11 ife r ,e t ero lige ° to be , Oil Pere co# 1 00 0 Jtes 'id °liCe) , n Oil 0 (45 tot 10 6 IIV *„ 01, 1 11 `ore then gee' fll l 0 01 e grv ti lesi ° il° re°,o o o. • 4, A , ",,,„/ ,f _.- , ti LA TRE. 11 bitURY-LANE T -ee i) . of D ., bk a Quat ., was pro . - l i ke , .eury v;,rsion Le ii "tr.taci u oere last evening, and Mr. Bunn has ve e .Y_ pksa.l.): reatored to it its old English title of Th r D j evil to f' f , Every p h plot ef s ar ee, and there is a great deal in knowing . htygoer knows the plot of that t excellent e tpsetePlpet beforehand, in not having the attenticiinnediins: at tnee ' 'Nal the dancin g by the endeavour, in 4tori. 3 x u , t of ten, the fruitless endeavour, had 11. , " 1- anY an unsuccessful ballet might haverecau tis,",_Puo, if the management had had the tietie,soeireulate a progiarnme of the to unra n vel the itti,ar%ti is that all ballets founded known splendid 0 n lot beforehand. P stories are sep si ,,,! Y su.ceessful. This is by far the most. , en pro _ a useti l of this very popular ballet that has :;et b. ble in elszeta,le this cuntry, and it will be long memors to an Eno il'reAhle annals for having introduced . who, if k * , e 8 :Vierlee Mademoiselle Flora Fabbrt, e r the e d _ ...,,041ttitttrszek e.,,et,, is destined. to i, h . o t ld h n e ot un t u it a il id e -. the - f a in her profession, uti, • e Her figure i s it it under of a new school of dancing- Ilid 1,,,,: )(1 , 9 , for a sculptor, her features are reFuLar , 1)1,04'40t, net with the mere beauty of_ form, hi nei t li,; ' , that beauty which is so rarely foundo_ ewx, Pressina'th,bregularity of features, the be au ty t the lc i; these gifts of nature have bc 'guest abandon or the styi Perfection by art; to the joyous Ill s g ,,,e ,„ef Cerito the adds the neatness eerition, en brought to , of ex ' l' ler. Sh e ;'''„ end force the - arti - tical finish of Fanny E , vaskS,;lstained the charecter of Mazourka, the . Ba s sk n e „ t the 44 wife, an , was her dancing _.l 1 int,it u not only Nee, i' ll ,e't order of chcerogrephic could e 14 her acting Was delightful. I\liet x h e i e n i g tite se e t eeed the rich humour of her pat/sanne grande stleh.4 the second et 14 she awake: and fin ds__. lithe 'eotiotess, Her' opening pas, ton, with . IV. H ! l e Rhba rts v erY fine but he triumph of the everangwaa atetin-rPal de deux ' ith e econd act, with Monsieur . r,detneW engagelbleint the first-rate dsnce. Her pe .s eet , y_ th y -Ito.- ce_i_g.thii pas . were perfectl marvellous; but et 'Ped bir te wt. done with such exquisite that it was , 1 7 on . all o artistically classical, lished itt the eonsiderin what had been accomp grace, such the tlht 4 sPectatorgCould b me aware of .1 tkit po wN , .wh. PCO lat theqtl,::ind Of 111:h must have a bheyenwhino "bgq,,'ettioli of thae t °ns oTer rn td been coneeti ehc lr et t hs li se _ a T fr t h ey e e t Rl ' v otes", °ll , tof Flora F P abbri will turn out one of h litikir,o4.:i,ls the She was t Mr. Bunn has yet made. 4.lli!lle', n 0.% 'NPported by M d oiselle Julie Dabas (also tLeettrittol..e i t), _ve.r; pretty em sisit,eiletiat',4_4oanied Petit Stephan, l u a -h d o to ac s t e ced ag th a c in p r a e r! 14 . ! A the "%, an whom we are g izis hr lil : 4 ; : f iy l. n a e n a of ‘ v . 11 er ii. former Payne, v.Thee b. , thi, „awls shrew " scene was admirablyasglivtihene ho of d ` 1 4, v, was excessively humoe..c. e , Is 1 4 ght et Os .the dancing. master, !tne t P k erbl y I, Y ~his exceeding quaintness. li I T t g h n n e rg r p e n iie r s e s , kat -' seen: UP, the costumes The Ilitkeeeonerllery i s . exceedingly g ! ollpl e esPecially, is a mirac b le e t beat L. hg of tb thktit744tifill t needless to say lie P 8 dally, in this scene . was one of the meadie pisse 24caua• ever seen. With he Pre-eminently suc l c t es is sful. aid t‘crewde, t Most rapturous applause h lipiturtirr, agton?.o.ites ever assembled 1114 The,,gelit!l destined to a long and Pthue by tNtioaleipal dancers were honoured the lasting wi t p h o was preceded 144414,8 1 0 4 the fall of the curtain. titi, a 7 ,, in Ittte ra of Maritana which seemsinc to re s a u s ff in o g . theitrorti the le n. The house was crowded orttii,lidise,lr c _ onirn encenient of the performances, and be heard 4, 1 op,rai 7,.n105t attentive to the delighf t u vr l music 111 v ° Perl w a 'eh should certainly ~,,, Y aPpreeitited 14 t11. ----------;—__________ nuEEN" To 6,11,11C1A1113-11.M.5. c 'L/th,_ (Proh,(4 RUSSIAN OFFICERS. td j a m ; seldon7ktne Devonp•rt Independent.) a more y ,,.11 0) , —, "ten in our power to record a . „, m ovfe ts of ween the %Cit. ' e ' l llg bet officers belonging that witnessed ' i nOt lt s . " the e A t wo great nations than last, at a to f t r h e ; thp, ' Rio s l, Xaee "en Thursday evening hi p to 4(4 th 6 e - ie'l then Ward Room OffiCers of r t h h e a r t e. s , us Z l ' cloth tit3ian Men-or -War at anchor Ik ea t he *l 4 / 14 laid in the Admiral's cabin lek,,kodatioe breadth of the capacious deck, On enter- Of 4 l i e 0 64 4 4 for upward s of forty persons.exaffteonrddiinngg with flags °f ill ilatietised it to be handsomely decorated IlitioN wk,'tielorig the foremost and most conspicuous each side a thsp 4 ' 44 e 11113814 a Ensign, having el' rah e aat of the port or left end n th, a. °F E on nit Op . Iththe En neatly drawn in colors d underneath. tittZte, 0a W ,74 " Welcome," charactere of the table was Nt ish rtes of line starboard side, to g bed n . R ussia the reflection of w th r e e 1,... - Nit .. - -eon ple • tie light theght behindlm pe leo te It ol ex • e3 Mg effect.i tieqtentlitit ereeltteles were on attne,,,,bleee;n,, tsd ali t t ~ senior of the , -en 4 , t he oth °ltchier opposite him as of their kt es s tort kaaser officers of the ship between each ~ coin . . as - President, 04' 1 it s - ,t 18,.. None tat mute for whenV 1 c d e m P u r e r s r id e a n n t d , esetit°l4ol,C good things began to disappear, Ot th 4 g bier, rqueed, the festivity s o r c r casioned e t ate.i le ver ;tl e liett e4 e• Much mutual mirth was names of the and jocularity of the ktof t krtiel, wdeav ours to interpret the exe , ange °e;::44.ll44.B°tarZillnich they partook, l a . e _ u t h ,7 11 sist ea t elotb be g and kindly feeling was the con 'Nei - 4 °fp - 'ng removed, and dessert ths s,tl l , itatl°Os choice fruits, and among teN lkiriatils repaltivater Light Huse, ranspa loijoilies. or, England and Russia; several imitation laid the w rs h — ieh a *liieZ.,lte.)t!etased in one, was an ornamented o t with Queen," T h was h 'eatenant Crooke proposed " The e e artil of the tentest), t oei tt te Y drank by the Ceinnu.'yi erial Ma te tto,,ast was " The health of his q'esitlgtEe 4; . ' 4 ' of Russia," which t le ene, eers and one cheer more by h kt it, "tt ,,,^4lt et was rmesptpoendvecileteo s h. 14 4 he n„ROOR,E rose and proposed the t y hir t d o N I its in Old Duke Constantine, and happy %ikti4ottellttbartlyd etegelir.d," which was drank with three • n officers ttlimtkieettstrePer being requested, the Russia being * hti' s 't I t he.p - aY,„etnod and cheered lustily ; p o r r e d t e a r tionof (th e b % ~,. 'SIbENT called for an Inter kamissitte-7 about to say, to the effect, that they Zterli tat 4 l i , to.neers, their guests) had ratheraboaunttictio .„, bin , t s he (Lieutenant Crooke) was at 1:4 "°wever, they would not be done— ne he n f n el d t thet h:ti*ouiZer7 in making their acquaintance, Ossi a ,!'h of ~ A ~4stinge Ile concluded applause 'ti sh: kNt k ,,, „ ‘mitniral Lutz and the Officers of the 0 "NW"' which was drank with much , t p n roposing A 'der b e o kid al • NA lee ree times three. Iri,eltie,)etit and'tnesecall a ti which proposed the health o Russian officer, left o f f ,, th A e d V nl i i c r e a - 1 tliOteesat vas drank with three cheers. leave to its i h " the om, aankt rose and said —" I beg done Aktiat".Prop,sie'ers present for the honour they have N it 'vl, and the health of our worthy and respected to '44 thw,l' hisl behalf, and on behalf of my mess, l ',,eitl : Vlce . 1.1 ‘utittt;pefthe,,t.ritstnENT next rose . and proposed the ~ ,t , olul her fnpress of Russia, and may the Grand kis t ar e , t , la health when he arrives as Palermo." id e ' l " 0. '4le3 thre•e d el h ~, an one_ shout , tie ead pi th y taeutenant KENNEUDY7lawtethfersttahre eit ,ut.ce e tabl e , ttissiaalttt_called for a bumper, at the request of (I fth ° 't th e ° .'''t, the Commander of the Ingerman- In, th e q ii right, who rose and proposed the health_ ° lie ll ' e Ite s e j , " "f Britain," which on being interpreted is It c o htl t, :‘an Offic er left of the President, was that 14,1,3'843, nuY Lieutenant Crooke, to the effect, Selltis,,!ti teh, ever returned salutes it was impossible.for Ndess, hetil himself to do .;() • but, on behalf of . 4 !Is th e .gß'ed to thank them' for the honour they ..e, N r a Iti drinking e next t the health of their beloved tet, eerraareast was proposed by the Commander of fee,:4;tben ani, who drunk the health of " The Of - e Queen'„ and returned thrinks for the kind Pkt4, s t lls 4 1 Q . (the Russian officers) had met with on m 'il•th„""Y i n 0,4e,e11," which would be retained most Li 4 eli k their memory, even when in their more the t ea ., ate. n t „ oill qlit e a ' , le t , eel , % kooitt said in reply—" I rise to thank e,, 11 on () (2',,1'al done us the honour to propose that 4, ~_-• of will. "Lough it be, we are always happy the ~,n' tijac„e'taver nation they are, and I can only re liNt th ‘rs be on behalf of my messmates for to meet LatiNteit it has be en ~ ' i_i s ont Null Propi,syd. . ~ The -•,soitoOf.iiiiss. pilEa Vice-President, gave 1 4, 'ke lt ~,;nt, respondtd to by the " English e‘tte Napan''ven, which was drunk with all honours. t4t tairth continued until twelve o'clock in . the littil ` B ll mitt end joviality, when they left in their own thsit,tlee by thee" the dark water s to their vessel in the ‘blebWay they rePeated blue lights, and cheered on ti•lttf i t they h ",leY rowed frona t ship on board litt:tyththe.,,sat.e.4o cheerfully partook of all that could tleirtlllit 4t h W as in abundance but not only did the t h ilitt Y 3' l3 l , ti t tt/i-fie gallant officers extend to their Russia e n , de it, away feloats crews, consisting of upwards i i 4 l,tte s ottad 1.4,!°%v0, who were feasted with fresh beef, me its a th e ,19, Mad were displaying their nationa . . It 4 of 5..."44t0 deck among our own seamen until out ; Paragon t 1 , 1 W eeifi, 4ustia. to ooe. place• a ' r4ll ellt bon ' ad d that the entire direction of this , 441 h co t , 4 quet was confid.d to Mr. Richard LynP, rtt tit' tett elsnlata of Confided Q L i .m ost efficiently le et,s3; aat the Wishes 'nee" and donor of the li Y Parti cular. of the gallant doi a %To t , W‘ ti tlit i tkst, Nvh:,,voB.--Municipal Corporations are to Y't ilifre ( 1; 0. 7' ,a fevr years ago it would have been tot:4,4N ' ) rile !'„,:`,).oave attempted. They find that rail• t;;TN4,„,,, t ;) tu rn ,ZT_I. their locality and they are taking th:Aty ;,, rillcib,'"l.l_s„_lo, account. The Corporation of Bos etl-,?!riDaii'le:Ll,N.a, that " in consequence of several . iii,,to,sl;:eir ststia4ving given notic e of their intention tsooi‘ • ',_.thl, , Ivhereb,, ,/lizi shipping. quays for Boston . out o l a :wen as.,„lne trade would be seriously inconve -41, Ohi t .„,, ab le i t,,ue property in the town greatly depre !l'Oi,!, t 17 4 .4 Its itii(!? Council feels called upon to protect the e. 76re, reso l' ivas possible against such injuries ; and 14014)vre04' shall deted t.O oppose in Parliament all such 44 nastti-...rh, etti e rmin e on having their stations out of ttiluf th 4 ' (its ter ri 3 ;• enotPany which will actually run to ~‘ittir,e towno is pus being at Doughty Quay, in the .41.1i41Cillitie8 Jonent Bosten, Grantham, Leicester, and ti„ 1 41 „ t n ext „.,_ .ion Railway Company, which goes I,, stt e , to 0,„ ,x,..7ssion. 404°Ilettr,ituweek ;Abe-- Trade is again a little %t'lie 4 11 v ie tra t i, i 311 1! and wools remain the same. The Pliia, ,t r i 9_ aebir..._ growing to a close for the season. r 41,' cotton ''.;„!ive putting th,iir hands on half-work, t 'tetrlll.4ool:aezn'te‘.efear .there will be a diminished de zsichin s h o ow s i n th -' ar, if there should be no alterations selter4,!ll(l Sc, .y it meantime, and if the price of pro titi,:ittltarilliee ai-e,,e..yt must do from present appearances.— kit)le. %ur, 11t, Isloe., 2 0 v 4014 0 chi i were h od ~,e ,, • --The adjourned scions for 4 41; a nd ft ,tercloY before Sir Thomas Aubrey, kikt,ikb..,* t•oality.t°'3lt the oathut.,n.,c,h,of magistrte Baron Meyer ilii 't the Ili - "It . th eae seez'..ia qualified sass,. magistrate for 44, Mahon of de..,1"; 9renwille Pigott, Esq., re -7,14,440i4t. _v y-chaarman, in eonaequence of his 'flt Ilti Qi her jd4estty's Nr-lair Gm- NORTHERN LUNATIC ASYLUM: RAILWAY SH ARE MARKETS. EDINBURGH, Nov. 21. STOCK ExciLINGE.-The sales ani-- -, Abcrdeen, 61. -Aber deen, Banff, and Elgin, 2/. 95.-Airdrie and Batligate, 3/. ss. -Arbroath and Forfar, 251.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15i.- Armagh and Portrush, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Ayr and Dumfries, 2/. 155.-..kyr and Galloway, 2/. Bs.-Banffshire, 2/. 55.-Bel fast and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union, 3/. 10s. -Caledonian, 16/.-Caledonian Extension, 31. IN.-Caledo nian and Dumbarton, 3/. 55.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 3/. Os. 6d.-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4/. 55.-Carn warth and West Linton, 11. 165.-Chelmsford and Bury, 11. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 191.-Cornwall and Devon, 2/. 81.-Deeside Railway, 5/. 55.-Direct Northern, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 51.-Dundee and Arbroath, 36/. -Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Perth, 91.-East of Fife, 21. 7s. &J.-East Coast of Scotland, N. 135.-East Lothian Central, 21. 55.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3/. 105.-Edin burgh and Glasgow, ex new, 721.-Ditto, Half Shares, 17/. -Ditto, Quarters, 181.-Ditto, Ditto, New, 13/.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. ).s.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 2/. 55.-Edinburgh and L e ith Atmospheric Direct, 2/.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 241.-Ditto, Preference, 19/.-Edinburgh and Northern, 4/. 11s.-Ditto, Newport, 1/. 9s. 6d.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 11. 175.-Edinburgh and Peebles, ex new, 2/. 55.-Edinburgh and Perth, 6/. 2s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 11. 103. -Forth and Clyde Junction. 2/. 14s. 6d.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 70 1 .-Ditto, New Stock, 231.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21/. 12s. W.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 21. 10s.- Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 2/. 95.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 451.-Glas gow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New,lo/. 155.-Ditto, Prefer • once, 21. 55.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 2/. 10s.- Glasgow harbour Mineral, 2/. 195.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, Si. 155.-Granton Junction, 2/. 35.- Great County Down, 3/.-Great North of Scotland, 3/. 6s. -Great North and South Wales, 12s. 6d.-Inverness and 2/.-Lanark and Lothians, 3/. 75.-Larne and Bal lymena, 2/. 25.-London and Hounslow, 2/.-London and Manchester (Rem.), Si. 55.-London and Manchester (Ras trick), 51. 10s.-London and Windsor, IL-London and York, 4/. 155.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 21. 75. 6d.-Moray shire, 11.-Newcastle and Berwick, 14/. 10s.-Newry and Londonderry, 21. 10s.-North British, ex new, 221-Ditto, Halves, ex new, 71. Is.-Ditto, Fifths, 6/. 55.-Ditto, Car lisles, 3/. 35.-North Wales Mineral, New, 5/.-Perth and Crieff, 2/. 7s. 6d.-Perth and Inverness, 2/.-Scottish Cen tral, 15/. 12s. 6d.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junc tion, 2/.-Scottish Midland, V.-Scottish North Western, 2/. 55.-Scottish South Alidland, 2/. 55.-Scottish 'Western, 2/. 10s.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 1/. 65.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6/. 7s. 6d.-South Midland, 6/. 155.- Stirling and Dunfermline. 2/. 12s. 6d.-Stirling and Mid land, 295. p.-Strathern Junction, 3/. 55.-Surrey Grand Junction, 1/. 2s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, 2/.-Tyne Val ley, 21. 2s -Wishaw and Coltnes,s, 52/. 10S. GLASGOW, Nov. 21. STocx EXCIUNGE.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bath gate, 675. -Airdrie and Coatbridge, 7 1 -Ayr and Galloway, 475. 6d-British and Irish Union, 705.-Caledonian Exten sion, 655.-Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 445.-Caledo nian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 585.-Chelmsford and Bury, 305.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 701.-Ditto, New, 12 p. -Edindburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 223.-Edinburgh and Perth, 6-Forth and Clyde Junction, 48-Glasgow General Terminus, 10 1 / 2 -Glasgow and Belfast Union, 505.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 4 1 4 -Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 60s. 6d.-Great North and South Wales, 155.-Lanark and Lothians, 675. 6d.-Lesmahagow, 705.- London, Bristol, and South Wales, 375.-Perth and Inver ness, 455.-Scottish Central, 154-Scottish Western, 535. 60. -South Unions and Potteries, 405.-Streathern Junction, 60s. that supported by the powerful influence of the Midland Company, with King Hudson at its head. It appeared that a large portion of the deposits for the intended Nottingham and Gainsborough were from the inhabit ants-of this town, and he felt that if they were repaid, minus the expenses, a larf.,,e circle of individuals would be relieved, and trade would be benefitted. Mr. GEORGE SPARROW seconded the motion. Mr. E. P. Cox rose and said, that he should oppose the resolution just read, which was to memorialise the Board of Directors of the Nottingham and Gains borough to abandon their line. On looking around he saw a number of gentlemen who were shareholders, and others who would derive a considerable advantage by this line being abandoned, and would also be the means of getting up other lines to a premium in which they were interested. He had paid great attention to the varions lines projected from this town, and had come to the conclusion that the Nottingham and Gainsborough was the most important and hest. He considered it was better than the Ambergate, Nottingham and Boston, the Erewash Valley, the Nottingham and Lincoln, or the Nottingham and Manfield Railway put together, and they were now called upon to abandon this line, as it was not conceived to be a legitimate scheme. The de posits had been better paid up than any other line in England. Mr. Taylor talked about two lines being in progress, one of which was stated to the town to have been abandoned. He perceived. from the report of the board of directors, that the Nottingham and Gains borough line was in an advanced stage, and would be en abled to apply to Parliament with a view of obtaining it. The allotments in the rival line had not been paid up, and he was sure the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham Raigvay was bound to fall to the ground. It could not be prepared for Parliament, and he believed the projectors of it had abandoned it. Their wishing to amalgamate with the Nottingham and Gainsborough was for the purpose of abandoning their line, and he was of opinion that the Nottingham and Gainsborough line was a legitimate one. There were a great number who had embarked their capital in this line for the pur pose of making something by it, but which investment had unfortunately turned out a bad speculation, but they must make the best of it by selling out, and let it take its own course. He would say, if they acted honestly towards the shareholders, they would recommend that the board of directors be requested to call a meeting of the shareholders at large, and present to them a full report of the position in which they now stand. If that report was not considered satisfactory to the whole body of shareholders, or three-fourths of them, then a resolu tion may be passed this evening for the directors to abandon the line, which he should have no objection of supporting. He had several friends who had embarked their capital in it (the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway), and who were anxious it should be carried. bet us go to Parliament with a determination of wish ing to carry it out. He moved " that a deputation from this meeting wait on the directors of the Notting ham and Gainsborough Railway, for the purpose of advising them as early as possible to call a meeting of all the shareholders, for the purpose of placing before them a full report as they possibly can, as to how they stand with regard to the Nottingham and Gainsborough Line." Mr. W. TAYLOR said he thought the object of the meeting would be attained by Mr. Cox's amendment, and therefore he would withdraw his motion. Mr. Joule HILL, Lenten, seconded Mr. Cox's amend ment. (From the Inverness Courier.) A meeting of the subscribers to this Institution was held in the Castle on Friday last., for the purpose of organising and adopting the necessary measures for carrying cut that important scheme. Amongst those present were—the Mackintosh, Raigmore, Culloden, Ballindalloch, yr.; Sheriff Tytler, Mr. Grant, of Bught ; Mr. Gollan, of Gollanfield ; Provost Sutherland, Rev. Mr. Clark, Rev. Mr. Thorburn, Rev. Mr. Fraser, Kirk hill ; Mr. Colqiihoun, Mr. Mackenzie, banker ; Mr. Waterston, ditito ; Dr. Nicol, Dr. Hugh Fraser, Mr. Forbes, chemist ; Major Macpherson, Drummond ; Mr. Ross, iierbice Cottage ; Mr. Burnett, Kinchyle ; Bailie Rose, ; Mr. Mitchell, C.E. ; Mr. A. H. Rennie, mer chant ; Mr. D. Fraser, ditto ; air. W. Simpson, ditto ; Mr. Ferguson, wine merchant ; Mr. C. Stewart, soli citor ; Mr. J. Fraser, ditto ; Mr. A. Campbell, ditto. Sheriff Tytler having been unanimously called to the chair, Air. CeLounoux, convener of the Committee, read the following report of tie , it proceedings : The increasing prevalence of lunacy through the county of Inverness, and the obligation upon the local authorities to confine, at the expense of the parish of domicile, all persons thus dangerously afflicted, com pelled this project as a matter of ordinary prudence, and apart from all consideration of general philanthropy. Accordingly, at the annual county meeting of the 30th April, 1843. the project was submitted to the public. It was resolved to endeavour to afford the benefit of the institution to all the northern counties, standing, as they did, under circumstances of equal necessity ; and a com mittee was appointed to solicit subscriptions on this en larged and general forting. They commenced their duties ; but circumstances for some time were adverse ; and they had the deep misfortune to lose, almost at the outset of their labours, one of their most influential, zealous, and valued members, by the sudden death of Mr. Fraser, ef Newton. Keenly alive to the true be nevolence of the undertaking, he was lending it the liberal assistance of his exaniple.and of his energies up to the period of I,is death; and that melancholy event naturally aff cted, for a time, the exertions of those as sociated with him in the Committee. Thus the project remained in temporary abeyance. But it seemed soon evident that unless active measures were again resorted to, there could he no reasonable anticipation of a secces ful issue. A public meeting of the heritors, magistrates, and clergy, was called accordingly, upon the 10th day of December, 1844, and the necessity of an immediate canvass was admitted, and pressed upon the Acting Committee. They undertook the task. The funds at that date amounted to 1,5001., and to-day they stand on the list as 4,700/. This sum is almost entirely the re sult of private contribution; for only one parish, that of Dornoch, in Sutherland, has entered a subsription, and only one public bode, the Caledonian Bank of Inverness, has given a contribution;—the parish of Dornoeh has taken one share of 211.; the Caledonian Bank has given a subscription of one hundred guineas. Apart, indeed, from these two sums, the contributions have been entirely from the hand of private benevolence. The town and neighbourhood of Inverness have given most liberally, and many of the districts of the county with an equal hand Under very trifling exceptions, the Committee have, as yet, been prevented from prosecuting their solicitations throughout the northern counties. Several, however, of the most influential proprietors of the north are amongst the contributors ; and this circumstance warrants the hope that the canvass which is to be imme diately commenced may be successful. The Committee, through two of their number, have applied for subscrip tions in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, and London, confining, unless in one or two instances, thtir applicatioe to those connected by birth, or pro fession, or trade, with the northern counties. They regret to say that they failed in many quarters where they had the best reason to anticipate success ; but, again, there were instances where the claim of enlarged bene volence, apart from local feeling, was willingly admitted. There were individuals who appeared to consider it a privilege to have an opportunity of contributing to an object tending so obviously to alleviate the miseries of the poor. " Such, then, is the amount of the realised funds, and such is the source from which they have been, to a very considerable degree, derived. The committee have no hesitation in stating to the subscribers their belief, that the subscription will be soon considerably augmented. An important addition may be reasonably anticipated from the northern counties,. and the result of an influen tial communication with India may be looked for with confidence. In closing this part or the subject, the com mittee have to mention, that, whilst in London, they had the advantage of communicating with the Lord Ad vocate upon the proposed scheme—that his Lordship became himself a subscriber, and that he obtained for the institution the benefit of the royal patronage. It is hoped that such royal countenance may be the means of assisting the subscription in directions where otherwise it might not have renetrated. In any event, it invests the undertaking with an additional interest and import ance, and guarantees to the public an efficient constitu tion and management—requiring as it does that that constitution shall receive the approval of the high officers of the Crown. " The committee have made it their endeavour to ob tain the best advice as to the site of the proposed insti tution. They have requested the assistance of Dr. Mal colm, of Perth, a gentleman eminent in the treatment of the insane, and whose opinions were matured during an extensive continental tour amongst similar institutions, preparatory to the erection of Murray's Asylum, in the neighbourhood of Perth, with which he has been from its erection, and still is, intimately connected. He selected four sites as eligible—one on the pro perty of Mr. Baillie, the proprietor of Culduthel ; another on that of Mr. Mackintosh, of Raigmore ; a third at the llut of Health, on the estate of Inshes ; and a fourth on the lands of Charleston, the property of Mr. Baillie, of Dochfour. With the first of these proprietors, Mr. Baillie, of Culduthel, the Committee have been in communication, but the terms of feu demanded of him are quite impracticable, and therefore the site upon his property adjoining the Quarry, and close to the march with the Raigmore lands, is out of the question. The Committee have also com municated with Mr. Mackintosh, but without any result —that gentleman requiring to know from them the amount of feu that will be given, and the Committee naturally enough begging to be informed what is to be asked, and here the negotiation stands with Mr. Mackin tosh. Of course it will be the duty of the subscribers immediately to open a communication with Mr. Robert son of Inshes, and Mr. Baillie of Dochfour, and there after to select from those equally eligible sites that which may be obtained upon the most eligible terms. " In these circumstances of realised funds and antici pated increase, the cout.ty committee have considered themselves required to delay no longer the commence ment of the institution. The necessity for its erection is every day forcing itself upon their attention. The number of lunatics confined at the expense of the several parishes is every day increasing, and the operation of the New Poor-law Bill must necessarily add to the num ber. That Bill directs a course by which reluctant parishes may be compelled to the humanity of providing sufficient accommodation for their lunatic poor ; but it affords no assistance towards securing such accommoda tion. The more stringent the obligation upon parishes, the more important to them should be the erection of a local and inexpensive institution, such as that proposed. This is obvious, and will undoubtedly force itself upon the understanding of all such burdened parishes. "The Committee, impressed with these important considerations, submit their proceedings to the general subscribers, and suggest that, without any delay, the necessary steps should be taken for the organization of the Asylum. " They cannot close the accout of their proceedings without expressing the obligation under which the insti tution is placed to several gentlemen in the south con nected with this part of the country. In Glasgow, Mr. Leith, formerly inspector of the Caledonian Banking Company, most efficiently resisted the canvass ; and in London the same beneficial office was with equal libe rality discharged by Mr. Macgregor of Cheapstde. To Mr. Young of The Sun newspaper the cause is eminently indebted. for the liberality with which he uniformly ad mitted the necessary advertisements in a free and pro minent access to the columns of his important journal." This report was ordered to be printed and circulated amongst the subscribers. A letter from Dr. Malcolm, of Perth, containing a report as to a site for the institu tioiyand the extent of the buildinzs, was then read, and the meeting adopted resolutions, which will be found in our advertising columns. HULL, Nov. 22. STOCK ExcuANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Ber wick, 1214 —Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% —Derby and Gains borough, 1% —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 414. SIIEEFIELD, Nor. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Great North of England, 101 1 /,—Caledonian Extension, 3M—Great Grimsby, Potteries, and Grand Junction, 2% London and Windsor, 17s. 6d.—North British, 24%-_--Wakefield and Harrogate, 2. Mr. Cox said it was generally known that he was in timately acquainted with one of the solicitors of the Not tingham and Gainsborough Railway, and through him he had collected a few facts, which were publicly stated, as to the terms upon which the amalgamation was offered. He would relate the terms as near as he pos sibly could. The Gainsborough, Newark, and Notting ham Company, had expended from 1,2001. to 1,5001., and they would abandon this line in consideration of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway paying their expenses. The Board of Directors of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway very properly rejected their proposition. In the memorial he found the names of two or three who were not share-holders, and who had not signed the Parliamentary contract, and one was a shareholder of the Derby and Grant ham line. He could also state that only three of the Mansfield gentlemen who signed the memorial had shares allotted to them, and therefore the others might have considered it as a gambling speculation, in which they had thought proper to embark. Mr. Cox proceeded to assert that the Nottingham and Gainsborough line was the best that had been projected, and that when Mr. Bateman, the eminent engineer, first learnt that the capi tal proposed was 800,0001., he said that it was too small, and that it ought to have been 900,0001., but now that he had been over the line (and he was at present in Notting ham) he said that the land was so barren that it might be purchased f0r.,,50 low a price as to reduce the capital to 700,0001. He (Mr. Cox) must say that he blamed the Directors for their apathy and want of energy. When he heard of this meeting to abandon the line, he was anxious for an amalgamation, and had hoped that Mr. Danks, Mr. Bradley and other gentlemen would have pushed on the Nottingham and Gainsborough line. He was satisfied that it would be the best line. Hull had increased two-fold within the last two years, and they were laying out fifteen acres in making new docks. There could not be a more decisive proof of the importance of that port, with which the line they wished to give up would have another line in direct communication. It was quite clear that this was a far better route than the other. After observations from Mr. Felkin and Mr. Wake field, Mr. SHIPMAN observed that the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham Company said they had no thing to beg or propose. He would give them a short history of No. 2 line. He did not know anything of No. 2 line until he met Mr. Bean, who said, "my plan (meaning the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham) has floored yours ;" but Mr. Bean did not see the great leviathan behind him ; he did not see The great man called Hudson, and the Midland Company, which must be with them, cut and run. Their proposition was, "will you (the Nottingham and Gainshorough) un.• dertake to pay our expenses, which will be 1,5001., or— that fatal word or,' about 2,0001., and we will abandon our line." This is a brief history of No. 2 line, who had nothing to propose nor anything to offer. They would like to put their hands in our pockets, and take 2,0001. if they could catch hold of it. Mr. WAKEFIELD resumed, and after a few more obser vations, concluded by moving the resolution originally proposed by Mr. Taylor, which was seconded by Mr. Steegmann ; but that resolution having been withdrawn, Mr. Cox's amendment became the original resolution. The CHAIRMAN put the amendment, when nearly the whole of the meeting voted for it. On Mr. Cox's resolution being put, only twelve held up their hands for it. The following gentleman were afterwards appointed a Deputation to wait upon the Directors at the next meet ing, viz., the Chairman, Messrs. Felkin, Shipman, Stceg mann, and BA'. REPLY OF THE DIRECTORS TO THE DEPUTATION. In compliance with the arrangement made last night at the meeting, the gentlemen forming the deputation waited upon the Directors of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Railway Company, who received them courteously, and after deliberation verbally stated that they had unanimously resolved as follows :—" That the board will furnish the deputation with a list of the Shareholders, and act on the decision of a majority whether to carry on or break it up, if they legally have power to do so." A written answer was requested, but in the absence of their solicitor declined. _ _ YORK, Nor. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 68 3 4—York and North Midland Extension, 2314 — Ipswich and Bury. s—Newcastle and Berwick, I 1 y s —Ditto, Dalkeith, s%—Ditto, New, OA—Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, SC Ms.—London and York, '4 —Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir mingham and Leicester,ll. Bs. 9d.—Great Grimsby, Louth, Scc v 2s. 6d. p.—Leicester and Bedford, 114—Welsh Midland, 2%. I have received a letter from Mr. Wells, solicitor, since the meeting last night, stating that the Gainsborough, Newark, and Nottingham line is not abandoned, nor in tended to be, and that everything connected with the surveys and level.; is going on, that plans may be depo sited with the clerk of the peace. NOTTING HAM MINERAL. NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.—A public meeting of the acting Committee and Shareholders in the Nottingham Mineral was held in the Exchange-room, on Thursday evening last, and was attended by many of the gentlemen and principal manufacturers in the town, amongst whom were Messrs. A. Wells, Sewell, S. Parsons, G. Sparrow, J. Walker, Cowen, Duelos, Nunn, Felkin, W. Taylor, Plant, Dr. Watts, Cort, Cripps, &c. Mr. T. HERBERT, mayor, took the chair, and stated that the object of the project was the establishment of a mineral line from Nottingham to the coal country at some miles distant. The Nottingham. Mineral was a plan fraught with as much importance as a water or a gas company, and would be found to confer an equal benefit both upon the Shareholders and the town. From the lowest computation that had been made, there was no doubt that coals would be brought to Nottingham at such a rate as would make them two shillings per ton cheaper to the consumer, and the profits derived would be such as would enable the Company to pay 10 per cent. interest to the Shareholders upon the capital in vested ; thus a benefit would be derived by individuals, and a general benefit would be conferred upon the com munity. Mr. FELKIN. merchant, said they were now on the eve of laying before Parliament the plans they had prepared ; and before any great expense was incurred, it was right tl.ey should show the plans to the various supporters of the undertaking. The line commenced at Burton Leys, and passed under a portion of the Fo rest Hill by a tunnel. From the crossing at Hyson Green-road there would be two short branches, one leading to within a hundred and fifty yards of the Ce metry, at New Radford, up which carriages would be drawn by a stationary engine and a rope—this would supply New Radford, Old Radford, Old Lenton, and the neighbourhood of the park and that elevated part of the town, with coal and other minerals and the other would pass on the south of, and within a short dis tance of the race ground and under Mansfield-road, so as to allow of the road itself being untouched. They would go to Parliament with a mile of railway and its furthermost station already in their posses-ion, having arranged for its purchase with Messrs. North, Wakefield, and Company, agreeing to pay t he m so much per mileage for whatever coals they would have to take along it to their present terminus near the canal at Old Radford. At or near their station at Cinder-hill, they would come into contact with their line from Mansfield, which, or some other equally eligible for the purpose of the Mineral Company. would no doubt be constructed. Thus a source of supply of other kinds of coal from all the coal fields up the Leen Valley up to the neighbourhood of Mansfield, would be opened, and these coals would be received at Cinder-hill Junction from such railway along the Mineral railway. In the first place, it was intended that Nottingham should profit by an increased supply of coal ; this railway would come across other means of communication, and thus would draw supplies from various quarters. They would by this railway be enabled to obtain coal of all descriptions (which now they could not do without making a transit of, in some cases, as much as twenty miles), which could be brought to Nottingham, and to be delivered by them at a price per ton of two 1401 1 0. WO than is now paid, (01041 One of the most singular and unheard of scenes perhaps ever witnessed in a Quaker meeting-house, took place at Baltimore. Shortly atter the hour for meeting to commence, whilst the brethren and sisters were silently communing with their own minds, one of the delegates to the assemblage from Pennsylvania, quietly, and without being observed, stripped himself, and appear ing before them in a perfect state of nudity, insisted on being allowed to speak. He was immediately seized by his friends, and the partition to the female side of the meeting closed, and it required almost main force to compel him to put on his clothing. He afterwards explained the matter in the following manner :—He had a dream on the previous night, and thought that the spirit of the Lord had appeared before him, and commanded him to humble himself before the meeting on the next day, by appearing in their midst with his person exposed, and to address them in that situation with respect to certain matters,which would then and there be revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. It was in the fulfilment of this imaginary command, and whilst filled with a holy zeal and enthusiasm that he thus acted. He was finally conveyed home, and appears since to be almost entirely deranged on the subject of religion. These facts may be relied on as correct, singularly as they may sound, as they are well known throughout the city.—American paper. WARWICK.—SRRIOUS AFFRAY WITEI POACHERS. On Saturday night last, about ten o'clock, as the gamekeepers and watchers in the preserves of the Earl of Warwick. were on the watch in the castle grounds, they heard the report of a gun in that part called " the Lilacs," when they immediately hastened to the spot. The first that arrived was an assistant, named John Miles, who was attacked by the poachers (of whom three were seen), and very severely beaten, being left on the ground in a state of insensibility, when his companions came up. Two of the poachers, one named John Stanley, and the other William Judd, were within sight, and in the act of making their es cape. They were instantly pursued by two of the keepers, the former by Harwood and the latter by Mumford, each of whom succeeded in taking his man. They were secured in the lock-up, in this town, until Monday morning, when they were brought before E. Dodd, Esq., the Mayor, and P. \V. Newsam, Esq. In the evidence against them it was stated by "young Harwood" (a slim stripling, compared with the tall and robust prisoner he had taken, Stanley), that he had found a gun on the spot where he had caught and apprehended Stanley, which was in a broken state, the stock and barrel being separated. It was, however, loaded, as was proved by the fact of the charge (composed of powder, shot, and wadding), being drawn by Harwood from the barrel, in presence. of the Magistrates. Miles (who had been seriously injured about the head and face, appeared as a witness. The case was one of unusual interest, and the Court was crowded at the hearing. Both of the prisoners who had nothing to say in their defence, were cotunaitted for tr i al et the aext 561 imes. Warwick Acivertistr. THE SUN, LONDOS, TVESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 25, 1845 the price at the mouth of the pit were not lowered one farthing,. Other details there were which could not be fully gone into, or be made here the subject of discus sion. The public would be protected from monopoly, and low prices would invariably be secured to them, be cause its construction would materially increase the supplies, and the Company being vendors, and bound not to pay themselves more than 10 per cent. on their outlay, the difference in cost would be clear gain to the consumers. The capital for constructing the line, in cluding the branches and all working expenses, would not be more than 50,0001. or 60,000/. The original capital of the Company, it was proposed, should consist of 40,0001.. in 4,000 shares of 101. each. Mr. WoonuousE, their engineer, had stated that the engineering would be found to be light compared to what he anticipated, as those who knew what Nottingham rock was were aware that they would be enabled to construct it without difficulty. Mr. W. TAYOR said, though the plan was feasible and useful in relation to Nottingham, he felt that unless it included the large manufacturing suburbs (Radford, Basford, and Carrington), that it would be incomplete ; and, therefore, it was now proposed to accommodate, by branches and depots, those districts. The mere cir cumstance that at Cinder-hill was a large supply of coal, lying more proximate than any other equal supply, re quiring less than two miles of rails to bring it to a depOt from whence it might be cheaply carted to the doors and furnaces of consumers, and further that, as such line would, in all probability be intersected by the Mansfield, Ambergate, or other proposed railway, in the valley of the Lean, had induced them to terminate the Mineral Railway at Cinder-Hill. Mr. H. M. WOOD entered into a lengthened descrip tion of the route of the line, its gradients, and the esti mated cost of its construction. The plan was looked at with considerable interest, and appeared to be generary approved. In answer to Mr. Felkin, Mr. WOOD said, the reason the line passed on the Nottingham side of the race course was, because it would not then involve the de struction of any buildings, and would thus avoid oppo sition and expressions of unkind feeling on the part of those whose property would otherwise be injured. The line, as delineated cn the plan, does not cut through any house ; it does not affect a single brick. The height of the viaduct necessary would be 40 feet ; this would be so constructed as to pass free of the Alfreton road. The line would be a single one all the way. He (Mr. Wood) had discussed the probable expense with Mr. Woodhouse. and he had agreed with him that the estimates were within the amount to be required. Mr. HARRISON, representing Messrs. Barber and Walker, said they would send their coal to Nottingham for 2s. per ton less than at the price proposed, if the line were carried forward to Watnall, and providing the com pany would reconsider their plans, and consent to post pone the scheme to another session of Parliament, so that some means might be proposed to bring Messrs. Barber and Walker's coal to Nottingham. A lengthened discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Harrison and Brentnall. agents of Messrs. Barber and Walker. and Messrs. Cripps, Booth Eddison, George Parkin, Felkin, Taylor, Plant, Gee, and others took part, which ended in the meeting being adjourned, to give Messrs. Barber and Walker, and other coal owners (if desirous) an opportunity of conferring with the acting Committee as to the propriety of extending the line to Watnall or other districts, in the event of other compa nies not gaining Parliamentary sanction to those projects which would render such extension unnecessary. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES. —The Washington Union of the 31st of Dctober publishes a declaration on the subject of the Oregon territory, which is regarded in the United States as a precursor of the President's message, and a distinct intimation of the course which the American Cabinet are prepared to follow. We shall not, however, deal with this reckless and injurious production as if it were a state paper. The pen from which it emanates is evi dently alike unconscious of the restraint of public duty and the decoru u of political life, and Mr. Polk will soon answer for himself, without being made to share the disgrace of such anonymous incendiaries as these. We perceive, however, with satisfaction, that the language of the most influential journals of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia continues to be quite as temperate, and quite as averse to war for so miserable an object, as the sincerest friends of peace can desire. In spite of the efforts which have been made in the United States to dis seminate and accredit an exaggerated and one-sided view of the American claims beyond the Rocky Mountains, the pretensions of the Government are not unanimously upheld by the convictions of the most enlightened classes, especially of the Whig party; and the politicians of New York are not so infatuated as to overlook the disastrous consequences of a war with Great Britain, for the purpose of making acquisitions upon the coasts of the Pacific which must at least be indifferent or injurious to themselves. They argue that the value of the whole Oregon territory is infinitesimally small compared with the interests that would be sacrificed by a war, and that a question which has admitted of half a century of dis cussion cannot be of vital interest to the honour of the United States. In these views, it is needless to say, we cordially concur, and we only wish they were as general as they are sound and sensible. It cannot be too often repeated that the question has been brought into its pre sent embarrassing and threatening condition by the United States' Government, and not by Great Britain. It would have been easy for the negotiators aud Minis ters of this country at former periods to have put forward a case for the establishment of the exclusive sovereignty of England over the whole country, founded on discovery and occupation, and at least equal to any claim which American statesman could maintain. But nothing of the kind has been done by us. Throwing aside all the superior and earlier grounds of sovereignty which we might have urged, and disclaiming that very sovereignty which we might have asserted, we have taken our stand upon the treaty of 1790, and from first to last we have demanded and exercised no more than the right of joint occupancy which that treaty secured to ourselves in common with the Spaniards. The Ame ricans, who have now succeeded by the treaty of 1819 to this right of Spain, endeavour to make more out of it than Spain herself could ever have made. They seek, by dint of introducing fresh, irrelevant, and contestable evidence, to weld an original claim of their own to exclusive sovereignty over the country upon this acknowledged right of joint occupancy between Eng land and Spain; and the first use they make of this juggle of rights is to contend for our absolute expulsion from a country we have held, with one exception, for fifty years, and which we only seek to continue to hold on the same terms. Such attempts, especially when they are encouraged by vehement declarations on the part of the President of the Republic, amount to a positive inva sion of our existing territorial right. Their object is to deprive us of something we actually possess and have long possessed ; and thus far the whole character of the transaction is offensive on the part of the United States, and defensive on that of England. We can scarcely regret the extreme moderation of the conduct of former British Governments in this negotiation (though we hold it to have been below what the facts of the case would have justified), when we see the strength it must give our position in the eyes of the world. If we are driven Co war itself, the world will comprehend and acknow ledge that we are not sacrificing the peace of the globe to the acquisition of a sterile territory—that we are not even denying the right of the Americans to form settle ments in that territory, since we admit their joint occu pancy,—but that we are defending the great and funda mental right of occupation by British subjects under the faith of a treaty and the protection of the Crown ; and that such a right is in every part of the globe equally inviolable. The American case is in every , respect the opposite of our own ; it is a pure aggression ; it ac knowledges no concurrent right in its rival; it seeks only to drive out the men who have held the country for half a century ; and, as if an arrogant presumption could supply the place of real confidence, it refuses to eribmit these claims to the test of arbitration. We are not much surprised at the pertir.acity with which this last proposal has been rejected, for a slight degree of investigation would satisfy any impartial judge that in the course of the last thirty years the whole question has been shifted, until it has assumed a shape never dreamed of in 1814. At Ghent, in that year, and in the subsequent negotiations of 1818, 1824, and 1826, the northern boundary of the United States was considered by the American plenipotentiaries to run along the 49th degree parallel of latitude. The ques tion then pending between Great Britain and the United States, as is repeatedly stated on both sides in the course of those transactions, re lated to the territory south of that parallel, that is, between latitude 49 deg. and latitude 42 deg.; the Ame ricans claimed the whole of it, the English proposed to c.ivide it. But as to the northern tract of the same re gion, extending from lat. 49 deg. to latitude 50 deg. 40 min., no discussion whatever took place; and until very recently no one called in question the exclusive right of Great Britain to that region, to which certainly no Spanish settlers or navigators laid any claim whatever. This claim, therefore, extending from the frontier of Ilexico to that of Russia, and excluding us from the coast of the Pacific altogether and from the Straits of Fuca, is a novelty. It was probably originally put for ward to facilitate the acquisition of the portion which the Cabinet of Washington did claim ; but recent pub lications have confounded the whole tract together, and we are now gravely told by the organ of the Ame rican Government that Mr. Polk is prepared to declare in the most unequivocal terms the absolute right of the United States to the whole Oregon territory down to the Russian line. It is natural that these exorbitant pretensions should meet with little encouragement in New England and New York ; but the moderate party which utterly railed in preventing the annexation of Texas, will have still less chance of success in arresting the policy of the President on this occasion. On the contrary, Texas herself will immediately send representatives to the Lower House and to the Senate, who will promote the cause of the party by which they have been them selves absorbed. The rapid and enormous increase of population to the South and West must warn any American statesman ambitious of democratic support that the real elements of power in such a community are in growth there, and are come paratively stationary in the older parts of the coun try. The New England states will ere long be to the Union no more than the Welsh counties are to Great Britain. They are already quite outnum bered in the House of Representatives ; and the party of which they are the nucleus will now be outvoted in the Senate. To form therefore a correct estimate of the policy of such a politician as Mr. Polk we must look not to the reason and experience of her eastern states, but to the turbulence and numerical strength of the West. There the country runs no risk of invasion. The adventurous habits of a new people are ever disposed to warfare. Even the burden of taxation would fall on the mercantile class; and in the west there is a vague presentiment that another generation will cross the Rooky Mountains, and launch its fleets on the Pacific. Such motives and tendencies as these a wise and firm Government would seek only to correct and restrain. But we question whether Mr. Polk has the intention or the power to do either one or the other; and we are fully prepared to learn that he is exciting what he dares not attempt to control. Meanwhile, it must be assumed from the language of the American official papers, that the nego tiation is virtually at an end—that is to say, not that it has been violently broken off, but that the proposals le on both sides have been respectively rejected and th a t no . further proposals are now pending between the unless the plan of arbitration be re two GovernnZ uts ' elieve to be the true state of the case. suined. Such we e l ' f our Contemporaries, that Mr. The assertion of some s? the question should remain Pakeaham had proposed than ,q the inhabitants of in abeyance for twenty years, ant: political rela- Oregon should then determine their . owl . ! is e . . we are con tions to Great Britain or to the union, to a winced, wholly unfounded, for it would am,' , disguised surrender of all the rights of the Ilt...l unt_ sor?,! Bay Company. The proba bilit y is, that Congress vr.2l give notice that the provisional treaty now in force shall expire in twelve months ; and we shall then discover whether the American Government is prepared to act upon the views it professes to entertain. As for our selves, the effectual defence of our own positions in the country and on the Columbia is all we have at present to provide for ; but if the provisional treaty be termi nated by either party, the principle of joint occupation will cease, and our original rights to the country will be revived to their full extent. CHRONICLE.—The most serious and important war that can rage in the United States, is now that between Anglo-American and Spaniard, or between Anglo- American and English, although these two make all the noise, and attract all attention. The real strife is that which is carried on the in United States itself, between in telligence and humanity on the on e hand, physical fotrcee and slavery on the other. It is t he strug&le betwrethenanhd commercial, and manufacturing , and religious north, the race of planters which lord it over the south. The battle was long fought, and is sti ll in some de . gree main tained, o between two aristocraciesn—dth th e e landed rac aristo f manufactures, money, and trade, ()racy in the south. Between these two parties there existed, and does exist in the United States, a third, which ought and might have held the h balance between the two aristocracies, and corrected t e arrogance of both. This third party is enuine democracy of the country—the people, the . earners, the moderately rich, those interested in individual independence and popular freedom. It would have been much more natural for this, the real democra tic p art y of the Union, to have allied with the Whig;, as the American Conservatives are called, than with the slave-holding aristocracy of the south. But in America, even more than elsewhere, the aristocracy of moneyed wealth and intelligence has ex cited the jealousy, and thereby the hatred, of the people. From this cause there has arisen, in the north eastern s t a tes, a democratic party, opposed to the Whigs, and allied with what we should call the ruffianly politicians of the south-west. We are sorry to use so hard a word as " ruffianly ;" but really there is no other so true or so expressive of the Jacksonian school, as exemplified in its treatment of Florida and Texas, and of the moneyed and banking class at home. The political dissenters of the north, as the democrats of New York may be called, have allied with the Jacksonians from the common hatred which both *bear to the monied aristocracy. But this is merely social hatred on the part of the democrats, for in interest they cannot help being bound up with that protective or prohibitive sys tem of duties on which depends the prosperity of the northern states. But the democrats of this region have BRISTOL, Noi. 22. STOCK EXCITANCE.— The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, New, 7 1 / 4 —Bristol and South Wales Junction, Extension to Monmouth, I%—Midland, New, 19 1 / 2 —North Devon, 2 V 5 . DUBLIN, Nov. 22. - STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Bandon and Bantry, 3 4—Cork and Youghal, 2—Dublin and Drogheda, Thirds, 10 1 ,6—Great Southern and Western, 21—Irish North Mid land, % —Killarney Junctions, I%—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 1 5 / 4 —Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 1%. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. THE LANCASHIRE LINES. MANCHESTER, SATUNDAY.—TIse surveys for the following lines have now been completed, and the necessary plans are about to be deposited with the clerks of the peace for the Several counties through which the lines are intended to run. The lines contained in the following list, altogether thirty in number, are chiefly feeders to the great trunks already in existence. 1. Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Junction—This line will commence at Great Leven, with a junction from the Manchester and Bolton line, making a connexion with the South Union line to Deanrow in Cheshire, also a branch from Warrington to Birmingham, joining the Grand Junction Railway in Staffordshire. 2. Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction— This is an extension from the Sheffield and Manchester Rail way, at or near Ashton-under-Lyne, to the Midland line, in the chapelry of Wortley, also to Bole in the county -of Nottingham. 3. Liverpool and Derby—This is a line from the parish of Little Chester, in Derby, through Congleton, and various other townships in the county of Chester, to the Grand Junction Railway at Preston-on-the-Hill, in the parish of Runcorn. 4. Manchester and Rugby Direct, via Macclesfield, through Cheshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and War wichehire to Rugby. 5. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation, and Welsh Junction—This is a line from the Manchester and Birming ham line at Crewe. in the county of Chester, to Aberystwith in the county of Cardigan. 6. Manchester and Bury Atmospheric—This is a line from Manchester to the town of Bury, also in Lancashire, in opposition to the Manchester and Rossendale (East Lanca shire) line. 7. CHOI( ro Junction—This is an extension from the East Lancashire line to the township of Clithero, with a branch to Giggleswich, in Yorkshire. 8. Bolton and Speke—This is a new line from Bolton to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. 9. Huddersfield and Midland—This is a line from Hud dersfield to the Midland Railway, at Billingley, in the West Riding of York. 10. Liverpool, Preston and North Union—This is a line with extensions from the North Union, near Preston, to Blackburn, Southport, and Wigan. 11. East Lancashire—A Bill to make certain alterations in the present East Lancashire line, including branches to Bactip ' near Rochdale; an extension to Whalley. 12. East Lancashire and Blackburn—An Act for an amal gamation of the Blackburn and Preston with the East Lan cashire line. 13. Huddersfield and Liverpool Direct—A line from Hud dersfield, in the West Riding of York, to join the Manchester and Leeds line at Rochdale. 14. Huddersfield and Liverpool—A line from Hudders field, to join the Liverpool and Bury line at Bury. 15. Great Grimsby, Sheffield, Potteries, and Grand June tion—A line from the Sheffield line, as Ashton, to the town ship of Steko-upon-Trent, there to join the Grand Junction Railway. 16. Macclesfield and Manchester—This is another line proposed from one town to the other, passing through Chorl ton-on- Medlock to Salford. 17. Chester and Manchester Direct—A line from Chester to Manchester, with various branches. 18. Lancashire and Yorkshire North Eastern Railway— An extension from the Leeds and Bradford line at Shipton to the city of York. 19. Manchester and Leeds —Extensions from Rochdale to Newchurch, from Middleton to Cliadaerton, from Ossett to Briestwhistle, from Shuttington to Whitley Upper, from Hurbury to Sandal Magna, and from Heywood to Bury. 20. Preston Wyre Extension--From Fleetwood to Hogh ton, with branches. 21. West Riding Union—Nine branches from the Man chester and Leeds Line to places in the county of York. 22. Oldham District—A series of railways from the town ship of Oldham to Ashton, Andenshaw, Mumps, Morton, Manchester, Royton, Prestwich, and Qeich, in the county of York. 23. Manchester and Bolton—An extension from the pre sent station in Salford to Victoria Bridge. 24. Manchester and Southampton—A line between the two towns. 25. Manchester and Southampton—Branches to the Trent Midland line. 26. Manchester, Buxton, and Midland—Several branches from. 27. North Staffordshire —A main line to the Potteries. 28. North Staffordshire—A line to the Churnet Valley. 29. North Staffordshire—An extension towards Liverpool. 30. Manchester and Hyde—An independent line between these two places. NOT FING AM AND GAINSBOROUGH. NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY.—Last evening (Friday) a public meeting of the shareholders in the above line was bed at No. 30, Exchange Rooms, to take into con sideration the reply of the directors of the Nottingham and Gainsborough Company to a memorial presented to them by upwards of 120 of the shareholders in that line on the Saturday previous. Amongst those present we noticed Mr. Alderman Shipman, Messrs. Fowler, Steeg mann, Taylor, Felkin, W.. Page, Pfungst, Sparrow, Parker, Williams, Coope, J. Hall, Fothergill, Pearce, Truetran, R. Peet, J. Wilde, Dr. Lightfoot, Davison, Wilson, Burt, Furniss, and se.veral other gentlemen. On the motion of Mr. Alderman SHIPMAN, seconded by Mr. G. SPARROW, Mr. Smith Fowler took the chair, who recapitulated the circumstances respecting the pre sentation of a memorial to the directors to dissolve the company, and called upon Mr. Eyre to read the memorial and answer. The CHAIRMAN then observed that many of the gen tlemen now present were not called upon to sign the memorial, solely because the individuals who prepared it had not a list of the shareholders. Since that meeting several of the directors, who were opposed to the me morial, were now in favour of it. They were Mr. North, Mr. Cullen, and Mr. Munek ; there was a fourth director, but he had no aut4nity to mention his name. Mr. W. TAYLOR proposed a resolution to the effect — that in reference to the above project it would not be ex pedient to carry out the views originally entertained with respect to it, especially in the depreesed state of the money market, and the marketable value of the scrip in the said company, and that the amount of 40,000/. and upwards in this town having been drawn out of its natural channel, causing a complete paraly. is of business, especially as that amount is, as it were, lying dead, and no part of it likely to be returned, except at ruinous loss, it is respectfully, yet earnestly requested that the committee of management do take the above matter into their serious consideration, to this effect, viz., that the money now left in their hands be returned to the shareholders, as soon as arrangements can be made to that effect, minus the expenses already incurred. In consequence of the general panic, and the change in monetary affairs, it was now deemed the wisest course to abandon the line, and for the money advanced to be repaid minus the expenses, because, although at one time this line was considered to be a very favourable one, it was not thought so now ; the fact was, that two other lines had been projected subsequently to starting the Nottingham and Gainsborough line, viz., the Gains ' borough, Newark., and kfottingharn, or Trent lino, and A CONTRAST. The following " contrast," which we copy from the Times, is so just, so eloquent in its facts, and so beauti ful in its simple expression of them, that it does not need a word of introduction : " Not many weeks since the Eclair steamer anchored in Funchal-roads. The dread yellow flag drooped from her mast-head. A strange and deadly sickness had swept off two-thirds of her officers and men. Her captain and both her sur geons had perished. The wan, worn survivors sought relief from the inhabitants of Madeira. " The Governor of the island deemed it his painful duty to forbid any intercourse between the plauge-ship and the shore. He sternly commanded them to weigh their anchor and depart. " The scanty crew of the steamer, already insufficient to carry on the duty of the vessel, were daily becoming scantier under the attacks of the fever. The equinox at hand. In this pitiable plight, without medical they were on the point of being compelled to put to and cross the Bay of Biscay. -- There chanced, however, to be at Madeira, Sidney Bernard, an English surgeon. This man and seven seamen, volunteers from English merchantmen, came forward and offered their services in taking the Eclair home. " It is needless to waste words in praising their noble conduct--a more signal act of cool disinterested devo tion is not on record. " The Eclair reached the Motherbank ; the fever still raged between her decks. Many had died on the passage from Madeira; the pilot who boarded her in the Channel died, and the heroic Sidney Bernard, hav ing accomplished the humane task he had assigned him self, died also. was aid, sea, " A merchant at York speculated boldly and success fully in railroads. He bought in as low as he could, he sold out as high as he could, and when he made a per manent investment he took the best care he could that the concern in which he had placed his capital should be well managed. "He was a clear-headed, energetic man. His gains were enormous. He is now an M.P., a large landed proprietor, and as for his possessions in railway shares, he and the income tax commissioners can alone guess at their amount. His name is George Hudson. " Many people have closely watched his operations in the share-market, and have imitated them. Many people have sought his advice and followed it, and many people by so doing havo made much money, and hope to mak.. more by the same means. "So in order to evince their gratitude for past and future favours, the British public have got up a subscrip tion to offer a testimonial to the most successful specula tor of the day. In the list are to be seen the names of the noblest, the wisest, the fairest in the land. 20,0001. have already been collected for the Hudson testimonial, and money still pours in. " Alas for Sidney Bernard and the gallant volunteers of the Eclair ! Alas fur their widows and orphans! "No testimonial is proposed to record their daring humanity ; no subscripion is raised to provide for the families of the dead, and to reward the unselfish courage of the survivors. " Our nobility and gentry crowd forward in hundreds to do homage in purse and person to the railway king, but not a single individual has appeared desirous of re warding, or even noticing, the high deserts and melan choly fate of Sidney Bernard and his companions in danger and death. " M. I. H. " 105, Piccadilly." - - THE DANGER OF LEAVING COAL•CELLAR FLAPS IrisetcnaE.—On Sunday afternoon a serious accident occurred to Edgar Weyvill, Esq., a gentleman residing at Hamp stead, who, in passing through Seymour;street, Somers-town, was thrown to the ground by stepping on the iron flap of a coal-cellar that was not properly secured, and he fractured the right leg. On Friday morning, at half -past nine o'clock, the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master Commander S. B. Cook, having on board their Royal Highnesses Prince Fer dinand of Saxe Coburg and Prince Leopold, left Devonport for Lisbon. Royal salutes were fired from the Port Admiral's flag-ship, the Queen, 110, in the Sound, and from the citadel, as the beautiful vessel weiJ out of Hamolze. A report has been for :Pme days current of an intention on the part of her Majesty ': tiovemment, not to rely so fully as it has hitherto done upon Lhe Chelsea Pen :but to call sioners in case of any occasion for their servic es, • out the Militia for a short period of training. It is mh. l that the expediency of forming a better school of recruits for the army will be put forward as the ground for this measure. STATE OF TRADE.—Trade continues in a flourish ing condition, nearly every manufactory being in full work. Although this briskness is pretty general, yet a slight de pression has taken place in some branches, particularly in the button and fancy glass line, where some of the people are put on short time. The building trade has not been so good for several years ; journeymen can scarcely be obtained. —Birmingham Pilot. BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A LADY BY HER HUSBAND AND Sox.—At the Petty Sessions at Carrick fergus on Wednesday, Mr. Richard Battersby and the Rev. John C. Battersby were called upon to answer the charge of Mrs. Battersby, for having committed a series of assaults upon her during six years past. The complainant was wife of the former, and mother of the latter of the defendants. Mr. Davison appeared on behalf of Mrs. Battersby, and' from his statement of the case, it appeared that his client had been subjected to numerous indignities, and though she had brought her husband a fortune of 4,0001., she was al lowed little more than the necessaries, and few of the com forts of life. The round of her ordinary duties was, for a long p-riod, more those of a domestic servant than of his wife; besides which, she had sustained, several times, severe bodily injury from assaults made upon her by her son, with the connivance of her husband. Witnesses were called to substantiate these allegations. Mr. Jackson appeared for the defendants, and after he had called witnesses, the case was left for the decision of the bench, which was given as follows :—Mr. Richard Battersby, and the Rev. John Bat tersby, to be fined 5/. each, or, in default, imprisoned for two months, and to give security, themselves in 5001. each, and two sureties in 2501., to be of the peace towards Mrs. Batterby.—Banner of Ulster. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.—A gang of four or five fellows are now going through the country dressed in the garb of sailors, offering for sale a set of apparently handsome decanters. They pretend to have come from a foregn port— generally Hamburgh, and that the decanters were for a friend or relative ; but running short of money, they are re luctantly compelled to part with them. They have duped several ?almouth folks during the past week; for, upon ex amination, the articles were found to be worthless trash, neither of the set being perfect, and all the refusal of the re gular trade. They are not licensed, and they decamped from Falmouth in a hurry, having ascertained that the police were on the look out for them , and are by t his time, probably offering their deceptive wares in some other town in the county.— West Brdon. • AN UNPRONOUNCEABLE NAME.—A Scotchman, named Alexander Finney, drowned himself in Coneyocketies Creek, near Buffalo, on the 12th inst., while in a state of in sanity. If he had tried to pronounce the name of the creek it would have answered his purpose quite as well, by choking him.—Boston Bee. SERVING THE PEOPLE.--All who serve the people are poorly paid. To be very use full y employed is to be de graded. • A shoemaker is a snob; a tailor a snip, and the ninth part of a man; a weaver is some smthing mere bell worse than a tailor; a ploughman is a bumpkin a ith, a ows blower ; a carpenter is chips ; a sailor (for whom, nevertheless, there prevails a kind of affectionate feeling, ob as if he were a helpless child,) is Jack Tar; a soldier is a lster, or Johnny Raw ; and a servant, if lie be very useful, is a flunkey. The services of all these classes are indispensable. We could neither be waited upon, defended, lodged, nor clothed, with out them; yet they are all poorly paid and harshly treated. Magistrates pounce upon them for every indiscretion, and stringent laws hold them to their duty. The harder the occupation in general, the worse it is paid.—Douglas Jerrolcis Xagaxine. sacrificed their interest to their feelings, at least so they find. Notwithstanding the care they took in the con ventions, which preceded the last presidential election, to stipulate for the interests of the north, still they con sented to elect a personal friend o f J ac k son , a nd one of nis school, however moderate and obscure. Mr. Polk promised at first to act impartially and fairly to the two democratic sections which united in elevating him. He even leaned at first towards the northern democrats, got rid of Calhoun, and appointed Buchanan. But success has rendered him arrogant; for he now boldly avows his determination to follow the pure Jacksonian policy, to run the risk, in his defiance of Great Britain, even of annexing regions from which slave states may be made, to lower the tariff, and deny the New England states their present rate of protection. The Van Burenites are furious, and cry treason, whilst the Whigs point at the dupes and mock them. This would be a serious matter for Polk, were he to be re-elected. But he has three years of rule be fore him, and he seems resolved to pursue his policy, and signalize his reign by triumphs in his own sphere of views. In these he may persist, in these succeed; but the result inevitably must be a falling off of the northern democrats from the men of Tennessee, and a better un derstanding with the Whigs. This will unite the north against the south, and thus resuscitate that serious strife, within the bowels of the Union, from which the Ameri cans have more to fear, and to which they had much better look, than to English hostility, or European in terference. It is a startling fact, and not a welcome one, to find that as the United States advance in power and population, the Government, and political influence in general, seem more and more to desert its intellectual re gions, and to centre in States where the energy of uncivi lised passions reigns uncontrolled. The ruling partyof the Union is no longer to be found in New York or Philadel phia, but in Tennessee. The qualities of an orator or a statesman at once and forever exclude an American from becoming-the president of his republic. In these days, to be a successful candidate, one must be a rude planter of the west, a slave dealer, a wielder of the bowie-knife, a denizen of the back woods. Some Americans proposed to stipulate that the President of Texas should become President of the United States, provided he would carry annexation. The choice was not unnatural. The wilder the candidate, the nearer to the extreme verge of civi lisation, in character as well as in abode, the fitter does a man seem to win the admiration and respect and at tachment of parties in the United States. They seem unwittingly to adopt the old paradox of Rosseau, that a man in the savage state only is virtuous and wise. It will be a deplorable and singular effect of this ascendancy of the backwoodsmen over the men of knowledge and the men of wealth, if the former should provoke a war with England, of which the latter must necessarily bear all the blows. The men of the west are invulnerable end untaxable. They may go forth to join in, and enjoy, the sport of war which they have set on foot. But they can en dure neither the disasters nor expenses of it. Having worked a most groundless jealousy and fear of British power and ambition, through the thick-headed stupidity I of the northern democratic party, who swallowed such nonsense and re-bellowed it forth, the cunning south westers have made use of it to annex Texas, and lay thereon the foundation of an electoral majority which it is beyond the power of the northerns ever effectually to resist. Having made use of the northern cat's-paw to get the nut out of the fire, they would now thrust the same paw to grope in hot cinders for the Oregon, that blindest of nuts even if acquired. To hear er read New York journalists spurring and befooling their ignorant townspeople, by dinning into their ears that England wants California, and is about to pur chase it ; that she was in the market for Texas the other day; and that her whole efforts are strained, in order to do some little spite to the United States of America—that, therefore, it is just and wise to defy England, and that America can with impunity defy England, because Liverpool and Manchester could not exist without American cotton—to near people, pre tending to reason and knowledge, uttering such non sense as this, which would not impose upon an ape, and getting men even worse than apes, to believe them, does really present such an example of self-complacent yet malignant idiotism, that we are led to doubt altogether the once proverbial keenness of the Yankee, and to be lieve, that in seeing high political influence transferred from New York to Tennessee, and from the Northern to Southern races, and purely to serve Southern purposes —that this is merely the natural transfer of power from the stupid to the crafty, and from ignorant and self sacrificing spite to sharp-witted and calculating cunning. As to the Whigs—the John Adamses, the Henry Clays, the Daniel Websters they seem des tined to disappear like the other lost species of Ame rican life, to have their skeletons turned up at some future day by some historic antiquary. In the provincial elections, even of the north, the Whig influence has dwindled to nothing. At a Whig meeting the other day, more than one-half were for marching to the Oregon, which does not surprise us. If they could discover a new hemisphere they should emigrate to it, for the poli tical deluge has overwhelmed them in America. But those who remain—by divesting themselves of the name of Whig, by disavowing talent, concealing wealth, ab juring oratory and statesmanship, and thus permitting themselves to be absorbed by the more vulgar Demo crats—may survive as a part of them, and may in this manner resuscitate that struggle of North against South, of intellect against barbarism, and of freedom against slavery, in which once lived and reposed the hopes and prospects of the New World. THE NEW BISHOP OF OXFORD.—Dr. Wilberforce, the Dent of Westminster, and recently elected Bishop of Oxford, in the room of Dr. Bagot, translated to the see of Bath and Wells, will be formally confirmed in his election on Wednesday next, at Bow Church, Cheapside, with the usual forties. His Lordship will be consecrated on the follow !n ft - day, in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace. The Duke of Cambridge left Cambridge House thi s morning for Hampshire. His Royal Highness proceeds first to Paultons, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Ger trude Sloane Stanley, and subsequently to Cadlands, the seat of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drummond. The Duke of Rut land accompanies his Royal Highness through the tour. Tun COURT.—Arrangements have been made for the departure of the Court from Windsor for Osborne House to-day. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. who, it is expected, will be accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe- C ,, bourg, will leave the Castle in the morning, proceeding to the Farnborough station on the line of the Southampton Railway, where the state:carriage of the Company will be in waiting, and thence to Gosport. Only a portion of the infant royal family will accompany her Majesty and the Prince Consort to the Isle of Wight, where the Court is ex pected to remain about ten days or a fortnight. Several- of the royal domestics left Windsor for Osborne House early this morning for the purpose of making the necessary . arrangements for the reception of her Majesty. It is stated their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Cobourg will embark off the island in the course of this week on their return to the continent. The funeral of the late Earl of Verulam is fixed or to-day. The remains of the lamented Nobleman will be interred in the family vault at Gorhambury. The mem bers of the family circle will alone attend the mournful ceremony. The will of the late Earl Grey was proved in the Consistory Court of Durham on the 18th instant, b 7 the present Earl, the sole executor. The personal effects in the diocese of Durham were sworn under 30,0001.—Newcastle Chronicle. We understand that the late Lady Holland has left an annuity of 2,000/. to Lord John Russell, as an expression of the high respect which her Ladyship entertained for the Noble Lord. On his Lordship's death, the annuity will be equally divided among the children of her late Ladyship's daughter.— Observer. THE LATE EARL SPENCER.--A meeting was held on Saturday last, at the George Hotel, Northampton, to initiate proceedings for the erection of some testimonial to the memory of the late lamented Earl Spencer. The meet ing confined itself to the simple affirmation of the desirable ness of a memorial of some sort, and left the determining what the memorial should be to the body of subscribers hereafter. After the business had closed, however, two or three sugges tions were thrown out. One gentleman was for an obelisk on the spot were the Farming and Grazing Society used to hold its show, at Chapel Brampton; another was for a *due in the centre of the fine market-place of the county town; a third suggested an asylum for decayed farmers as most con sonant with tha benevolent nature of the late Lord, and took the opportunity of stating that since his death he had heard of instances of his unostentatious generosity for which every body must love and revere him. The meeting was suggested and attended by farmers only. No county gentleman was present. A subscription was entered into upon the spot. Lord and Lady Brougham are passing the season at his Lordship's chateau, in the south of France. Mr. and Mrs. William Brougham are at present on a visit to the Noble L o zd and her Ladyship. Lord Brougham is expected in town ~;!iortly before the opening of Parliament, but Lady Brougham is nut expected to return to this country until May next. the accounts received by Sir Robert and Su nda , Earl and VISCOUNTESS VILLIERS.---We Feglretdtothestate that a are notso ri fa o v us o e u , ra b b y le d . ir D ec r : d mummy afternoon t r h . e F n e r t u a - t Cfrooumotuespstoonf H J o e u r s s e e , y Nvoilinv eaktsu_hridrae,fy Uptonh Dr. Ferguson, who Ladyship. dwe O l n ea S t . n an t da h a y t direc tion of f u s r i lreßft Robert t n poe n el, S t a o tu eo rd n a s y ult o r wit son returne was in attendance dtn th n o in n e h t e r r o p lis, an gentleman left Upton the Viscountess was no worse, but it could not be said that all danger was over. It was judged that her Ladyship was going on favourably, for such was the written statement handed to those of the nobility inquiring at the Earl of Jersey's. The Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester, and most of the nobility in town, called yesterday to make inquiries after her Ladyship's health. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.--The second per formance of " Israel in Egypt" will take place at Exeter Hall, on Wednesday. The number of subscribers to the Society has this year greatly increased. The Duke and Duchess of Hamilton intend to re tain their splendid mansion in Lansdowne-crescent, Bath, formerly belonging to the late Mr. Beckford, and to dispose only of the Lansdowne Tower and its curiosities. Mohan Lal has returned to tbis country from his continental trip. At Berlin, the King and Queen of Prussia treated him with marked distinction and kindness, and during his sojourn in that capital be was invited to dinner by his Majesty. The Austrian Ambassador and Countess Dietrich • stein and suite, who have been staying some weeks in Upper Harley-street, remove in a few days to ChandosHouse, winch is nearly complete in its embellishments. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are ISTlT rounded by a select party at Bretby Park, Derbysabtire.w.oe: Thursday next the lox hounds are to meet at thlp_ . l 4 the Noble Earl will display the customary horlmtahtY comers. t fortnight a large DEVON. —During the las to all rain and hail, ab nit eleven A.M., a violent stort_nli lightning and loud peals of quantity of rain has fallen in this coenumntye.ncOend,Thursday last, accompanied by vivid flas t h f L thunder. On Saturday . the woindgveered to N.W. and a sharp frost set in , • • the lulls on the mountainous regions of F RENCH POTATOES.— A cargo of potatoes, eon.. the forest of Dartm oor are covered with snow. signed to Messrs. Treeb y and Co., arrived here on Monday last, from Pont l'Abbe, in France. It is rather a novelty ' in the commercial world, to see potatoes imported frdm ) abroad. A duty of 3s. 4d. is payable on potatoes, the • produce of a foreign country, under the plausdale _pretence o f affording " protection to the Agriculturist,"—.P4traoutt Journal. the left this o the lesse e Wan" g , at arms earl,' tone d the en for i a y 011 artY ° Mes s gerd'Y