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r into 'a ce' l ' ement " m a , ' l 2 oppor t u nity comprebensil has been at prlaciP_ ho le ' " public will - - f the cheers 0 in the face , °I were all Preg: rt. we c onc, ald be r idieu. )bert re e l: ho prOk-- however, ill be fully d i o i )t yet despairic t ex ts by wh .. closed, to In°4° paid such y _ w ith confitlen,S! th sugar and t formerly Pre tu d e for the e$ - majoritY estive, either ," o wn In r t of his satpippproorb a t oau of Lord John N I i e t , et's ProP ° ,,ltbe able rar t " go into th e" Is to sit agaw [led to giVe °aid of the fical , ?„ us income-in heard upon tai_. ,un;Y and to [se Wi ° I :Z ji L a j a otl eefi . b pl e ;j i : be S t oes " s 00 1 Alde r of a ci dal 5 0 ' rrO e° ate 0 ,0 , 0 th e 'o o ' tha t or s i; )fpa ss to ti ding at be se so k i te d ,„A lo be a pe tbo ,re o de. e olc, of a P ersit itb e uenc dote! s pc- anjoi% o n y 0 18 ' t he P 3 O llO ll all Doileto, ( , P sc t o b e 1,.00 ob°l ss age d oloe JAI the I in o bter s the t o°l ut c ' tl 13 $1g1 a la P e ea ° be P e i$ 3e, o ies9 oia 0 f the 6 0 0 e OW t wo eh s o be r e 'der toi l b. ✓ s o ter $ g r the ur "' the tig ains 11 1 A $s ,ter $ gre ort , nor PI on nalti 14) , and '3 efu ocClir len' a P e " _ Cr lat° raleCes3 o p o osea d bf s t-. St' wine' goosi , 04 , , g , 1 0 or rge in. clal ; ',,alf ce etow o i is eve _ r oe' has r 'l as r ic o! , Nobly iy riv er Derew— t b e late Arlon , Dfr, 15°11c o f ) 1 - I nl l 5o• 0011131 GREAT LEAGUE MEETING IN COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. The AGGREGATE MEETING of the LEAGUE, in the THEATRE ROYAL, GOVENT-GARDEN, will be held on WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT, the 19th inst. GEORGE WILSON, Esq will take the Chair at Seven o'clock precisely. The Me e ti ng will be addressed by James Wilson, Esq., G e°*ge Thompson, Esq. ; and John Bright, Esq., M.P. usuTial, ck a e t 57, tsofFleet-street. adrni;s:on to all parts of th e H ouse ma y b e h a d, as Seats will in future be reserved for all Partners who may make aPPlication at the Otlices of the League, up to the hour of meeting, Zlsptheceliarlly attendance,reques td. e whether favourable or opposed to Free Trade, C".E AND ANGEL COMMERCIAL INN, STAMFORD. o L. LASEGUE has the honour to thank the his hotispComraercial Gentlemen who have so liberally patronised and begs to solicit a continuance of their favour, assur 4.,nern that nothin g s h a ll b e wanting to promote the i r com f or t , Al_ W ines and S p i r i ts direct horn the Docks. Home-brewed Loose litoxes. , s, _________ . l ik alS and SAINT QUENTIN .RAILWAY Rm.!, i. COMPANY, car,4 4 ~f'junction on the Great Northern Railway, at CREIL. > .0,0 00 ,000 francs, or 1,400,000 t. ; in 70,000 Shares of 500 frands, or 201. each. Deposit, 50 francs, or 21. per share. ... PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. i?... 11 ° , 18. J . • Cordier, Member of the Chamber of Deputies. Le Marquis.Benry De Dion, Lauded Proprietor (Pro-- 0 1 prietaire). 0 X3'ssetta, jun. Banker, Paris. ,C:W . ' S " H. Neville, Civil Engineqr, Paris. . c rahrun, Esq., Merchant, London. Mona jos ' h l i u m a i: ai , L: sie d y e , d Proprietor (Proprietaire). Sir lie Beaupuy, Landed Proprietor (Proprietaire). Railway, Bi,e• Director of the Chester and Birkenhead Willi ana Jackson, Esq., Chairman of the Chester and Birken . head Railway, Ike' ctsrs. Kr.. BANKERS. ' us,ittri., and Co., Paris ; Smith, Payne, and Co., London ; Nin r___,- znik of Liverpool-Liverpool. ''' -,, • M. Re del, Esq., F.R.S. , Vice President of the Institute B°ll eitor .•.- of Civil Engineers. Pr 0 5,,,,. • Borradalle, Esq., 20, King's Arms-yard, London. _Share., s'usee and forats' on which to make the application f e cf , kirag.s.s_t,,,,i_entn,uo.3:a: drrde;ad o a d a o t n th . e temporary offices of the Company , .2 " o a•• .. riboye, rn - e .I)l)ht.ations for Shares will be attended to 'except on . the til-----.D T _ _ __. ...,_ --. " 1 AND LYONS RAIL:IVAY :.—sso francse,oournPANNEßON'S LINE). for b,, 1441 , I t ( i )° a Cl , °" }i °°° fr ( a G ues, Or 6,400,0001., (one-half to be subscribed p ') e , r ia h S a h r a e r I.z o ~ should this Company not obtain the Lease. rto of be sW ret fl urn .an ed cs, N o V r it 2 ll o o l U . t each. deduction ,attreholder liable beyond the amount of his subscription. hts zDt PROVISIONALCOMMTIA-E. 'Bl. `"Lieutenant-Gener a l le Comte Baudrand, Pair de rranee,, limo. Gouverneur du Comte de Paris. Le 14;44" Adolphe Barret Counsul General de France kons;it:-C"eneral le Viaco'mte Borrelli, Pair de France si,„ e, .emre a 'Sr Cotell II b de la Chambre des Deputes, Maim du lionsi'"vlrie Arrondisement Paris k o our Adolphe de \filly, Proprietaire, a Parts "'leer Lefevre As - socie de la Maison Ganneron et Compagnie, Ila n • , • . L e it Ni a Paris lin iron iviere Proprictaire, a Lyons "asieur Vacossin' , Negociant, Associe de M. Carey, President du Tri ll_ Hour de Commerce a Paris }JurY Bainbridge, Esq., Banker, London cLederick Pratt Barlow, Esq., Director of the Great Western Railway 17,age ' , Yell, Esq., M.P. for the City of London i:enam Little, Esq., Bishopsgate-street, London 'rands 3 lowatt, Esq., Yice-Chairman of the London and York ~ Railway 'rands Parker, Esq., of Manchester, Director of the Bristol and 1. Exeter Railway kderick Ricketts, Esq., Chairman of the Bristol and Exeter, and civtDirector of the Great Western Railways Cap . Sir James Stirling, R.N. With Power to add to their number. _BANKERS. M. M. R . Ganneron et Compagnie, a Paris Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, London COUNTRY RANKERS. . .LW Leeds —The Leeds Banking Company I t erPool—The Manchester and Liverpool Bank. anci tster —The Manchester and Liverpool District ' • '' NGlNE sasWilliam Cubltt, District Bank Esq., F.R.S., &C. voceh i. • Joseph Cubitt, Esq. .4 — hereby given, that no further applications for Shares in a 'PalY will be received after Thursday, BY order o f the Committee,the 20th inst. ~, . , T o i pro tern. WILLIAM VILLESBOISNET, 1 Secretaries, EDWARD FILDER, "•• ........64110Use-Yard, Leaden, Feb. 15, 1845. CA. Ga,NERAL ACCOUNT of the RECEIPTS klip:, - ,'. I "AYMEN TS of the CORPORATION for RELIEF of ILtitt-txm, for e MERCILA.NTS' SERVICE, their WIDOWS and 4141 tho year 1844. RECEIVED. 1843 --Cash . 234 19 7 .......... Out-poris' accounts 1, 1 6 5 7 linty , bitto:11?oln London vesseLs • •'• • • • ********* • hPaßetne:4 fit- ports ' ves se l s of ports under the ma t en's of , the Corporation, 1843 •••••• • • • • • bitto ages forfeited London. •• • "•• • • nter alit , Outports, 1843. •• • 1,11:1011N NiZ. h, o _ w hers of the Norfolk forfeitures 14,_,1h the s eamen. ••• • • •• • lastirfulee Company • - C0r0114., for 2 ,000, q!"°11 Three per Cent. Bank Annuities, sold at 97% per cent• ••• • • • •• • ******* -- £1,400 6 7 .. 12,115 13 0 5,210 10 10 515 8 9 S 15 7 1,973 11 4 £3 9 7 ... 4 0 0 7 9 7 1,952 10 0 Di tto:PAID. London r o s . , 18 4 3 . . • • . • . . t r i: ae Do t :r d r t:: r , e l i nsio ners ut- Ports, 1843 arg, 4 r RD,ital Society •• • • •• • • •• ** • Lit4ttoXt!.,B46.,rnii"B:lB,agernent at Loncloll ** .... .1,661746 1 1 6 3 9 2 °4t-P0rt5, e 1 • 84 . 3 .. • • £23,184 5 8 ••• .. • £12,517 15 0 4,441 17 9 1,360 19 6 869 19 3 594 3 8 ce—Cash ....... °u t - Ports' account.; £22,076 5 1 £l5O 7 8 . 957 12 11 t Reaften's. mike, _radon, Jan' 28 1845 • 7 1,108 0 '7 £23,184 5 8 IV. WATSON, Sezretary. /4)6_ 11 ,,,,,,._._____ i to 4 15 1 -ENT. p ns having a little time b Nov t 44 re a re ers ° to b e appointed in r th e ; sild e etuit LAPrised that Agents continue °4 1 .41° 'l7 owns, by the EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, The."' 1i.... 9 eir c elebrated teas. 0 , 1 ,) , a re ;4, Gre.at St. Helen's-churchyard. hopsgate-striket. ‘ 1 t ' l re l" . l .' the k p eci r i_ l4 packet, and hut showy leaden eachcan d ist o e u rs,Vo s m one ounce to 11 4 , 1 44 / 1 1, : i o is o ce Z ic r e d d w b eight in sale. ke The license is only I Is. per tt4b S ie 14 k rb anY dur io. th y e t i h a e st years have realised con 'DDl?estieolibtoY t ,,ii_esgency - without one shilling let or loss. uo Enade (if by letter post-paid) as above. - `'L COMPOSITE CANDLES, , Bs. 6d. per doz. i 'LEtivi lip r-a•TENT CANDLES, 10s. 6d. per doz. ti‘ I llia.),CF'a go WAX CANDLES, 28s. per doz. a w,„ but Candles are all precisely alike in their burn *ll2 art .. ' Pato— the Vauxhall Copiposites are rather softer than toto r , e „nt, and thence the difference in price. Even those peace'r "adto -teo t , allo w „, study economy alone, should burn them hi pre 'll4 Coco D,o et 8 ICUt L N, Nrrn , L amp Oil, warranted equal in every respect to liA lt g,„• Per gallon. `,IANT, 253, Regent-circns,Dxford-strect. C LERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL dJ LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 78, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY. The ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the Office of the Society, on Tutrasrav, the Gth day of March next, at One o'clock precisely, at which meeting Two Trustees, Four Directors, and One Auditor (on the part - of the Proprietors) will be elected. 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. The 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 place 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 qualified to vote, are hereby referred to the conditions endorsed on their policies, for information respecting the Candidate to be proposed Feb. 15, 1845 GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resident Secretary. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN. 7 HE .ROYAL NAVAL. MILITARY, EAST 1. INDIAN, and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 13, WATERLOO-PLACE, LONDON. DIRECTORS. Lieut.-Colonel Sir FREDERICK SMITH, K.H., R.E., Chairman. ,ColOnel -Sir• WILLIAM GOSSETT, - C. 8., K.C.H., R.E., Deputy- Chairman, Admiral the Right Hon. Sir G. Cocsharn, G.C.8., M.P., Lord of the ' Admiralty Major-General Sir J. Cockburn, Bart.,.G.C.H. Admiral Sif.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,31.G., K.C.H. Lieutenant-General Sir F. W. Muleaster, K.C.H. 'Lieutenant-General Sir John flardiner, 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, C. 8., EXC.& Major-General Edward Wynyard, Major-General Arnold, R.E. • • Major-Geueral Cle - E.I.C.S. , Lieutenant-Colonel IL Hanmer, K. 11., late R.II:G. • , Lieuten mt-Colonel Parches, E.I.C.S. Major Shadweß Clerke, F.R.S. chibald Hair, Esq., M.D., laN, R.H.G. • Captain Mel Ville Grindlay, E.I. Army Agent Captain William Laacey, R.E. William Chard, Esq., Navy Agent Jamei Nugent Daniell, Esq. AcTusex—John Finlaison, Esq., the Government Calculator. Assurancei are granted upon the lives of persons in every station of life, and for every part of the world, upon particularly favourable terms., Persons assured in this office may change from one comitry 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 Septennial Meeting. JOSEPII C. BRETTELL, Secretary EIREAT c-BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE AS -104 . Ai - . ~- ',4 SURANCE, 14, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL, LONDON. THE CHISHOLM, Chairman. WILLIAM MORLEY, Esq., Deputy-Chairman. .John Brightman, Esq. James John Kinloch, Esq. Franeis Brcdigan, Esq. Henry Lawson, Esq. James William Deacon, Esq. Henry Penny, Esq. Alex. Robert Irvine, Esq. Robert Power, Esq. John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. The Rev. F. W. J. Vickery, A.M. GREAT ADVANTAGES OFFERED TO POLICY-HOLDERS BY THIS INSTITUTION. Pnorrrs.—The whole of the profits divided annually among the MEMBERS, after payment of five annual premiums. An ample guaranteed Capital, in addition to the fund continually accumulating from Premiums, fully sufficient to afford complete security. CitEDlT.—Credit given to MEMBERS for half the amount of the first five annual premiums, without security. Credit allowed to MEMBERS for the whole of the first five annual premiums, on satisfactory security being given for their payment. Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed, except with the sanction, in each case, of a General Meeting of the Members. An extremely low rate of Premium, without participation in the Profits, but with the option, at any time within five years, of paying the difference between the Reduced Rates and the Mutual Assur ance Rates ; and thus becoming Members of the Society, and entitled to a full participation in the Profits. Extract from the Reduced Scale of Rates, for an Assurance of 1001., for one year, seven years, and the whole term of life. Annual Premium. IP ' I One Year. I Seven Years. !Whole Life. Xs. d. £ s. d. X s. d. 1 0 9 1 1 6 1 13 11 12913 3 2 2 1 1 5 6 1 7 6 2 16 4 1 15 9 2 1 6. 4 1 11 3 3 5 317 0 6 8.3 Full particulars are detailed in the Prospectus. A. R. IRVINE, Managing Director. T-- EA. -WHOLESALE PRICES. CASH.-- s. d. e. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. e. d. s, d. 81ack.... 2 8 3 0 3 4 38..4 0 .. 4 4 and 5 0 Green.... 3 4 .- 3 8 .. 4 0 .. 5 0 .. 6 0 .. 7 0 Coffee•• 0 9..010 .. 1 0.• 12.1416a0(11 S One pound free to any part of town ; six pounds and upwards free to any part of England. MANSELL and Co., 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. tbl, -------------..;_________ liaets OST•OFFICE.—CAUtToIOhNe.r het,. Leto;','Lltncl Co., Perfumers ta°, Priee"‘rd-street (late Price and Gosnel 8, , of the Secretary hee e - : Post anel toy" by the recommendation rrespondents the t hie: 4 Y of,"' r e , beg l' and M form aje e s r t ly y P , a 2 te B y, e ek -, ..' l'rie e ' reei alen In the address of all intendedlettere C N s '', to eabit Co" (and not " Price and Gosnell—that mg ainst the er,14. 41 e [net B 3l), as the only means 01 gud"retain letters and _ f o r t h e firmm , " p,..1 int e ndect of individuals who take in i ' -,- ti -le e for Price and Co., by illegally a as i , su w m e in re g l'tet ti ‘.tognes," well knowing that they never With that II in th a e n fl y rm wa o y f Re l'i l iltr e a. six co°,I.IIRWISE THAN AS r S t E o R a V n AN y d in such l'uhil,4 deuie4ci. rerfumery is so suPer 0 are ~........, deceiving the_ a silei t hY se11 1 „; t hat many shopkeepers ce ""''''' Co . and respectfully tklotteLl„.o4lthieso,atila c'PeUnritkOmUSeninliwtiaiteinOn4Bk. they purchase not by tosirtalkveaanmy ot T h S er . , an . Lear,tee, h e ,' the Protection label, from a isii7cl.stie‘,,nfs,?.l.llxed to it, with the"naturesig in its centre. / 41,Aand 6 0. .s _in red ink, and ‘‘ 28 conspicuously Agents for DELCROIX'S kid b e Olt, n o 1 all 'others for preserving t ~ p r i ce and Co., grae,_atitityv,_ Fench cosmetic, surpassing elps,iisiklaat.lh he o mplexion, prepared t the Queen Dowager, by . biLl ee„:_`, Quee and her Majes patent. Price 45. 6d. _ 4 1e SAO.i:.id, and pro teeted by letters leak ris 7,,.,-11A-CAS`4AIt OIL, imported under the sanction of for the use of her most her most Gracious t 0y:Y.414 1 7, Lhe Treasury, " for the use ikii-vs, ine,-,,iso Protected by two elegantly bess..7'%e i;, e "" RoYal highnesses the Prince o o f f Wales, .the al High- - P7 s , P , _litie-.-",ssed medallions, of her Majesty and his y . 1 frota'tCltent7,rt• Price 3s. 6d. t hesitate to recommend executed, correct iath '',Deriene" OD ONTO.—" We do no thePn l eess ike-; -in and embellishing th e „ i,..,e, Deleraix'e Odonto, or the Queen's own Dentifrice, „nesta,e,lable ITleans of p ur ifyi ng , peesers li a -:,_court Gazette. Ne i : Th e g o uns, hitherto offered to the pub 0.., tr Z i T t a i l ( -cn ) b o r' tuall,°:::i t , ..a2'l:, ::11 1 : in per ot the least n, 1844 ; b u t though the hot, i‘'s not of all the uke of York is the last new fashionable per combines the preceditif - %Se. ''''' w ith the delicate and delicious fragrance Let him Wh o i s a true..horn gentleman, 4 f nd stands upon the honour of his birth, e ' of the white k I! he stiPPose that I have pleaded truth-7_ _ _. el 0 - -set ,1 &ern off this briar pluck a white rose with In' I.ll,l,zfrlOg thi„-" eilieroix and Co., 158, New Bond-street, beg to inform th eir 04iity ni'icittiellerirlapo.borou,:r te:otof during B the on ;ecess, all o u rd o e e rs th I,i.e Quill:1104e eadeau" of ' a case containing the '3ll !.oy be al r b° t for P q rinceof have pleasure to,4lta, JiZ'„e°,lllarising the bouquets de la Relne, d Al ..: oe win be iie - a - A, riled to ' °I. York, Princesse Royale, and Princess° T A-f u , in. ' li re the le:a Lt ie, an 'tnY Part of the country, carriage paid. as ttotee st eidar a ttention is required in obserYi . ,g bottle, gisZ n rthle ss „,..e"t, London, be upon each case an " y sold by drug kid hi:",nnterfeits, for the sake of Profit, are priecveeraynd C0.,8 uypo iritressers in town and country. ..t v h e a r t y N . o. 158, Ve!J ti et km „ SIIA.VING. A LUXURY. th 4 , -, cl for ~F : `,,'.% RYPOPHAGON surpasses kh,' e ca r , F , - -v'ng• One trial will prove that the Itlxosoryapoi:e-vae_rgLieti -114„%ti, I;e l .' lleh en r i° ) .° . 4 only by those who use pre:easiit audeneeers shaving (hitherto disagreeable and often pain. 41, tit:lr. Price New Bond-street, and S,e ,7 l'l4r er, n ,, t ',, 7 _P;c'eY and Co., 28, Lombard-street (late Price and . a t - Z e QS . ", r,, ° „9 1, 1_ by Deleroix and Co., 158, • -s ea ig. 6 3: 4140120 n, Pnce 35. 6d. per pot, Is. per square, in cakes 04 h oia.s_ it atonar, cfiltishioa:lveyppoletlsoleoingrporteletontlntgy.anwyhboronithayerdtroavel _____eall at :Montpellier House, 28, Lombard-street. -hr.. him kl'AttATH—j-i-.40E-----iii-F-CN RDIANS OF ENT, I.IIALStS SDIZ E MiiiT I C D R 0 P S. i'L t /'' e e DE.°,l,l9'ir'R, astllliaEseCxlietcl.oFOßu I?iAntDereLstGli S al the Guardians w r 'ame: b i `-'• "tent, Devon, hav m e c c dere eit their duty to sign gin the ae,ompanying important declaration : b n ae of "Ngne,l, solemnly declare that before ThomaS fi,n: e ,,5,,, ~_ our parishioners, cominenced taking " Halse's Scorbutic a n 're he Orge that a person ini t have laid hi , b',;her il i " 0 ", was literally covered with large running wounds r e ,_ that bad finished the first g bottle he noticed an improvement,. .4eted to continuing them Inc some time, he got comPletFZ a n pes s on. , ealth, after everything else had tailed. lie had tri s . fist in them); that so4i t iaci v ; et Medicines before taking " Halse's Scorbetic Drops, br e , h i,', wiieFBier,Ptions from the most celebrated physicians in tn te es, ' h ay out deriving the Last benefit " Halse's Scorbutic 11,,," labo h : en 'Pietely cured him, and he is now enabled to attend 'es '. 41 thig 1)." rn sd. '' ' 5 w ell as any man in' eur narish... From other cures Si to th e o . Part, we strongly recommend Halse \VIP, ed. h, j...,itice of the public. I,n'are ,n,ril.Elltott,,sen., Lord of the Manor, John Manning 114:Z10. fie r c e, lienry GoAlmaii, Arthur Langworthy. 's Scorbutic ttoZiltind otf"nen'iond Thornat Ilohns was quite incapable of doing th e of hric whatever before he commenced taking those Drops. rL_ t4l; i.,.....,1tch,,,.. Z . ~I , 4.:_ol.inde were so large that i... was most awful to look at and pain of the wounds generally were me , ti,s7tiby, C i tk ed, the poor fellow could he heard screeching by bet _ He see,"daY and night, for sleep was entirely out of the cuet o o'itaker .edUCe 1 to mere skin and bone. and daily continued Ot rail th e , '.,nat there was every nrob hility of his speedy death. NtPuitiVlowin... v „ g extra, fro the "'Nottingham Review";— ' It 1 lo n he ° Y e ally ast - `- , P THE BtLOOD 'File CAUSE OF SCURVY, LEGS, & skertapteted withabishing that so many p ersona should be content hhi b I !'€ 4 4 fact ,scu'vY, wounds in the legs,drc., when it is a well tha:sthe ° lik e in that ' Halse's Scorb-atia Drops' make the disease lue , f ow before the sun No one is better enabled to judge of ds;'eon,_e yeudnra medicine as to Its effects on the bulk of the people ~'lnb o ush, 7 . th e article i and as vendors of this medicine we can tv e i,'assea b ut - -ecortimend it to our friends, for there is scarcely a a ii ,,, °aye hno_we hear some extraordinary accounts of it ; indeed, bethe"hLt the le a " , parties who have tried other advertised medicines rldj: itesti3,Bc` F °nc eess, and yet on resorting to this preparaon o as i t h.: l e ir l , n'ate e l , has Halse's Scorbutic Drops,' the disease X% I N strt et , _esale A ...' a g i e. We again say, " Try Halse's Scorbutic Cosfoi,,, t tallet t g?nts.for London : Barclay and Son, Farringdoe- I _on. , onston, ee, hex - s '' i reet • 1 . t T. High Holborn; Prout, 220, Strand ; Sanger, 150, to ask for 54 - ticl lie tare Cornhill ; and King, Napier-street, bettii:fi " Halse's Scorbutic Drops." Price mottleHs, 4k4 ib Pint Bot tles,:eontaining nearly six 2s, Ski, MRS. ➢iARCET'S NEW SPELLING ROOK. Just published, 12m0., with Woodcuts, is. 6d., THE MOTHER'S FIRST BOOK; 1_ containing Reading made Easy; and the Spelling Book, in Two Parts. By MN. MARCET, Author of " Mary's Grammar," &c. &o. Also, just ready, by the same Author, 18mo., 2s. 6d., WILLY'S GRAMMAR, for Young Boys. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. M'CULLOCH'S GEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Just published, Two thick Volu•ces Bvo., illustrated with Six large important Maps, 4L cloth, ADICTIONAR Y. GEOGRAPHICAL, _ STATISTICAL, and HISTORICAL, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the WORLD. By J. It. M'CULLOCH, Esq. By the same Author, an entirely New Edition, Bvo. 50s. cloth, and 555. strongly half-bound in russla, with flexible back, A DICTIONARY, PRAG. ICAL, THEORETICAL, and HIS TORICAL, of COMMERCE and COMMERCIAL NAVIGATION. Illustrated with Maps and Plans. Also, just published, Bvo. 15s. • A TREATISE on the PRINCIPLES and PRAATICAL IN FLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON THE KENTISH AND SOUTH-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 Privi Council for Trade, for the transaction of , r ailwa y busi ness, having had under consideration the different schemes depo sited with the Railway Department for extending rail Way commu nication in Kent , an d the South-Eastern district, ha ve determined on submitting the Wowing report thereon for the coneideration of Pailiament. 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; while, 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 skill. tar caste r 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 te be protected from the same description of competition which they have themselves in. flicted on canals and other existing modes of communicatfon. Beyond, perhaps, a bare preference, in• cases of absolute equality, cbie to the interest! of Shareholders, who themselves constitute a portion of the pubiigtiyp6 have nut considered that an existing way Company could claim any preference over other parties pro posing to effect the fame objects, beyond that which might resttlt 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 permantnt lines of railway cora munication 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. Assuming this to be the case, the question is at once raised whether the public are likely to derive most benefit from compe. titian, 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 t o 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 tulles, charges be moderate, road traf f ic will revive, and in such cases the public have a great degree of security. Again, as respects she 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 those which are se short as to be effectually checked by the ordi nary road, the Committee think that little can be permanently ex. pected from the mere multiplication of railways in the way of security, for moderation of charge. There may be, indeed, indl. rect and accidental competition between railways, which may cause cheapness, and there may oven 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, th e g not , T h i t f e h or it r eo n p n o ce e s , i t wo i f v a e r rt haaemn pasta als. anyta m cs a o, t n i h o ce n l uw o sei f : t ee r h 0 c pl i o i mn m i d t n but un C td o i m m p i lg a o o n h i tk e n . o result has generally been increase of char ge by mut ua l arrangement e te a x k p ne e : - titre of the question itself, the Committee feel this difficulty, that they cannot, in case of railways, anticipate any such facilities in the introductipn 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 the very utmost, three lines of railway communication, which could be so situated as to compete with one another, and they cannot conceive that two bodies, or even three, acting by core. paCt executive boards, and secure against the entrance of any other 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." 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 constantly urged by mutual interest to combine, has received abundant corroboration from the experience of what has already taken place in the history of railways. The following 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. 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 and Manchester and Bir. mingbam. Of 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 Manchester and Grand 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 Gloucester. Besides others that might be quoted. _ . Parliament could compel an insolvent concern to carry at as low rates and afCord as ample accommodation as a prosperous under taking might be able to do. A moderate offer from an established Company, who can be relief 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. dicated by the Committee of last setes i on, of g i v i ng a pr e ference to the schemes of existing Railway C ompan i es f or su pplying 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 Cempany voluntarily offers su c h g uarantees as may reasona bly be required to protect the public a ga i n s t the poss ibl e a b uses o f mo nopoly, or such conditions as at pnce 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 ;is 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 have arrived must mainly end. aving thus stated the general principles by which we have n 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 o 1 tbe 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 Brach London and Maldstow ..... 135 London and Ashfoia i London, Chatham, and Chilham London and Gravesend, via North Woolwiels London, Chatham, and Gravesend London, Chatham, and North Kent Rye, Tenterden, and Headeorn South-Eastern ; Maidstone to Rochester South-Eastern ; Tunbridge to Hastings, Rye, and St. Leonard's South. Eastern ; Branches to Deal and Walmer, and Exton • sion and Deviation at Margate s.. 213 South-Eastern; Ashford to Hastings 215 South.EastErni Headcorbto Rye 217 South. Eastern; nungerford.bridge to Tunbridge and Pad dock Wood South. Eastern; North Kent, Hungerford.bridge to Chilham 222 c - Of the above, the scheme London and Maidstone, 135, may be 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 Seuth.Eastern, Headcorb to Rye, 217, in Rye, Ten. • terden, and Headcorn, )97; being - duplicate plans for the same or portions of the same scheme. Kentish Coast No. 114 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 Parliament 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 tlie list of substantive schemes which we have had to consider to the follOwisig - South-Eastern Company's schemes: Hungerford Bridge to Chilham (North Kent) ..„ No. 222 Hungerford Bridge to Tunbridge and Paddock_Wood ...... 221 Maidstone to Rochester Branch to Deal and Walmer • 213 Tunbridge to Hastings Ashford to Hastings 215 Croydon Company's Schemes : Louden, Chatham, and Chilbam 142 London and Ashford New and Independent Companies : London, Chatham, and North Kent The same principle has received further elucidation from the inquiries of Parliamentary Committees on former .eccasions as well as from the great body of evidenie 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 148 Central Kent Rye, Tenderden, and Headeorn 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; 'tbe Croydon Com. pany's scheme, Landon 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 MT 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. 222; the Croydon Company's scheme, London to Chatham .and Chilbam, No. 144'; . - the London, Chatham, and North Keat, No. 148; and to a certain 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 Weimer, 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. 111.—The 'South.Eastern Company's scheme, Tunbridge to Hastings, No. 211, and the Rye, Tenterden, and Hastings scheme, t h l i i c o h es is r No. 195, are for (attending new lines ' , ora 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 lion, sanctioned by Parliament last year, from Brighton to Hastings reptzefwertielnmceaktoo the ee different ited to m to ot a o cc o o m m l p y an u yj .r hi_s stood. de;P°serred 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 350,000, and from its proxi mity to the me ropolis, 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, dec., is also very great, and likely to increase largely with the ex tension of facilities. What proportion of this traffic may be ob tained 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 N'orh 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 otters 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; 2S 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 sea. 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 s . ;stem 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 difference 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 7results, 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 Sy denham, and thus avoiding Woolwich and the population along the North Kent-road, . and giving Gravesend only a circuitous route to London 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, Chilham, on the Soutb-Easterri Company's line, from Ashford to Canterbury, which affords the nearest practicable route to Canterbury. They both throvi oft' a branch to Sheerness, and accomplish, more or less per. fectly, the great national objectpf placing the naval and military - establishments of Sheerness, Chatham, and Wonlwich, 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.snode 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. 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. 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 of frequent trains, calculated to meet the wants of a dense population, on the other, by the alternative line, and as serving more places and 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 arc 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 j miles. 3. The comparative distances by the two lines are— North Kent Line, London to Chilham, 35i miles from the pro posed terminus at the Bricklayers' Arms. South-Eastern Line, London to Chilham, 551 miles from the Bricklayers' Arms, or 57i 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 sid e e i r t a h t e i r ol i ts an ti t d a t w e e d h i o ave th , e th h e e r g e i r t o io re in , g ha o d f t rec hi: ou re rs p e or t t o . i t n h e e o r t d h e e r r co o tr de termine between them. 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 trains, with numerous stoppages; while for the Dover and conti_ nental traffic, speed, punctuality, and facility for dispatching ex press trains at short notice are highly important,—conditions which could never be satisfactorily attained upon a line encum bered 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 prevent South-Eastern line, improved by cutting off the angle at Reigate, would have afforded a prefer. able continental communication; and when we find that by such improved line the distance may be reduced to 75i miles, which is actually shorter than by any line that has been projected in con. nexion 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 preference to a North Kent line, as a basis of a system of railway communication calculated to afford the best practicable outlet for continental traffic. The only scheme which professes to unite the different objects of accommodation for the North Kent and local traffic, with improved continental communication, viz, the Central Kent, No. 34, illus. trates the impracticability of such an union. As a North Kent scheme, it signally fails in a ccomplishing 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 passes at such a distance from Chatham that it world be comparatively 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, Eritb, ac., 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 1 nes, that it would afford very insufficient local accommodation, and would compete, at a very great disadvantage, with steam-boats. and other modes of emmnunication. 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 ffurts of such towns to place themselves upon through lines of communication. In one remarkable instance, the to abandon Birmingham and Gloucester Company now p ro p ose 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 33i miles only of new railway. Independently, therefore, of the other objections to this line, arising 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 err. 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 scheme, London to Ashford, No. 140, the same objection applies as compared with that of the South. Eastern Company, viz., that by tee construc tion of 48 miles of new railway from Sydenham 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 prison of distances does not show the full force of the objection to ra. the Croydon Company's sincesc heme, the South - E as te r n Co pany's Branch is a good locomotive li ne, with gra di ents generally moderate, and in one case only as steep as 1 in 102; while the Croydon Company 's line, alth oug h involving h eav i er 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 formulae, would show a great advantage to the South-Eastern scheme over that of its competitor. The intrinsic superiority of the South-Eastern scheme (No. 21' The public advantages which the alternative of giving the line to the South-Eastern Company appear. eo present, are the following :- 1. 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. 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 Hungerford Exten sion, and from the limited space available for station 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 the existence of any permanent competition peculiarly problema tical, and on the other to obviate many of the objections that may 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. • 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 projects 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 Com. pany. Of the ability of an old Company to offer such guarantees there cani,stglye.neAranlleystsapbelaikshinedg, Cboemliptatlney,h wdoubt.ich 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 Com. panies to accomplish the objects for which they were incorporated. We need only refer to the instances of the Eastern Counties Com. 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 ofa 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. cipal terminal stations, can run more frequent trains, and make 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. 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Just published, Fortieth Edition, a a Sealed Envelope, price 28. f3d., and sent free, on receiving, a Post-office order for Three Shillings. THE .7EGIS of LIFE ; a Comprehensive and Physiol )gie.al Treatise on a peculiar and delicate class 3f Nervous Complaints, arising from the decline of Manly Strength.- I.restrai ned gaiety—excess —tropic 3 I climate—late hour 5--tntemper nce—dehility or infection. Addressed to the YOUTH and MATURITY of all Classes. By GOSS and COM eANY, Consulting Surgeons, 7, Lancaster place, Strand meat* Waterloo -bridge, London). HYGEIANA ; or the Physiology of Woman; price 2s. 6d., by post, 3s. be urged against monopoly. The want of a good independent metropolitan station, and the possession by the South. Eastern Company of the lines beyond Can. terbury, as well as of the other communications of the Kentish district, are circumstances which, according to all previous ex. perience of railways, must operate most strongly to bring about an amalgamation. The pressure of steam-boat competition is also another circum. stance which would naturally tend to make the railway interests of the district combine for mutual defence. This latter cif cumstance also affords the best possible guarantee against the existence of any injurious monopoly against the public. V:ith steam-boats carrying passengers from London to Gravesend for Is., and even 6d., the fares upon any line of railway in North Kent must always be very much lower than the point to which they could be reduced f 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. 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. 2. They offer to complete the communication to Deal, in con nexion 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 -1). 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 31d. 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. T STIMONIALS. "These works can be safely recommended, as well for the moral truths contained, as for the extensive and successful result of the author's experience."---London Morning Journal. " We agree with the Editor o f the London Morning Journal, and recommend Mr. (boss's publication for gene r a l perusal."—Edinburgh Weekly Paper. " The precepts contained in these works are interesting and usefuL"—Edinburgh Paper. " This publication, while it neither spares the aged voluptuary, nor the youthful prodigal, offers to both the roost important advan tages."—Glasgow Patriot. 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London. • • e The work will be forwarded by post, on receiving a Post office order for Three Shillings, or postage stamps to that amount. At the Middlesex sessions, Michael Donovan, mAster of the Roman Catholic charity F chool at Somers-town, was indicted for assaulting Thomas Cavanagh, a pupil in the above school, on the 21a of:January. The jury found - him Not Guilty on the ground that he was justified in Chat.lllllg the boy to a Moderate extent, wlidch was oU twi dons as a means of effecting the most approved communication with Dover and the Continent, appears, 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 SOtlth-Eastern Company, h av i ng a l rea dy e x. 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 especi a ll y 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 12 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. :2 , 22) —proposed for extending railway communication in North Kent. The importance and population of the district thus proposed to be accDmmodated, 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 appeir to justify us in assum i ng that some dertake the enterprise, * The figures refer to the number in the alphabetical list of railway projects lodged with the Board of Trade. it. They offer to run over their whole system of railways two cheap trains each way daily, at Id. a mile, provided with seats and protected from the weather, under tne conditions of the Act of last session, instead of one train only as requircu 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 their favour as to leave vinoth t that the interests of the public will be best consulted by gg 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 it s sanction as com mercial enterprises, and as combining at the same time the greate st amount of local accommodation, are lines w hi c h will have the effec t of com p letin g this coast line, of which t h e foundation was laid last year by the sanction given by Parlia ment to Ijie Brighton and Hastings, apd Drighton and Chicheater - . • . .. ‘ - Z - • • ...„. . -.. • . I ~? $. , ~." . „................_-__.............., , • _ , ,'.,,, l' .o. L. - 4 ' * ~ „,.:', , ..., . ~. _ ..,... . ._......,...,___, ~.,,,..._........... . . , ~. ~ , . t.. , 1 ) , • ,:, - '', 4.- -- - •,;-\ -, • • ' / ~.. ._ . , ~' • If \r-ailit : 1 .-i. ~ , : r: • •'- - , t;:•.-. •.. 4 , 4 ,40 . , : . .......,1; j , . falll • • - • • -- • - ---;• — FS I -:_r-i 1 , • 9t - ''''' - ' *, f , ,t l r.- 'N. * 2tr `te - :. e . 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' ' '' ~` ay W .7k. --" ' .4z` ., -"1"t. • ' .ccl... ~r«!, ,- i• ' At'''' ..„ ~ ' ' ,''' •.' —.... c- -- ::,. : 7:.,: r'' FEBRUARY 15, 1845. S V Ny No •16 3813 LONDON - SATURDAY ' 2 - 4 '. N , a PRIOR sd. 'HE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, in Time 'or the EARLY TRAINS and .TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is P u blished in Time ror the AFTERNOON TRAIN,' wad a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK , fo r P OST,- conta ining PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that flour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED tu ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning N oon, - and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CIIA.IIO.E. line, almost uninterTup.tedly from the Thames to the Land's End. The only important liktk in this chain which was not likely to be undertaken as an bride -pendent commercial enterprise, was the con. nexion between Haiti ngs and the South-Eastern line in the direc tion of Dover, for the completion of which we have now the guarantee of a Corn pa ny who have ample means to fulfil their en gagement, and whoa :are alone in a position to work such line, If constructed, with e ffic iency and with a fair prospect of success. The effect of s ane.tioning the schemes of the South-Eastern Company, in corm ex'ion with the schemes already sanctioned or proposed by other parties, will be to place the metropolis, the dockyards and ar ;mall of Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheer ness, Portsmouth, avid Plymouth, the Downs, Dover, Hastings, Brighton, Southar api.on, Portland, Weymouth, and all the prin cipal ports of the southern coast as far as Falmouth and Pen zance, in direct r ails ray, communication with one «pother, so as to admit of the transmission of intelligence in a few minutes by the electrical tele graph, and of troops, stores, and ammunition, in a few hours froi n :any one point to any other of this extensive line. By the prop oa xl extensions to Hungerford-bridge there is also every prospect: that Woolwich, Chatham, and the other im. portant places abo•re specified, will be placed in uninterrupted rail. way communication,, through the metropolis, with other parts of the kingdom. The other advai ttaj ;es offered by the South-Eastern Company are sufficiently obvious. We have already referred to the Reports of the Select Committ ee of last session, to show the importance at. tached by them to tlhe obtaining from existing Companies, volun. tarily and without i incurring any suspicion of breach of faith on the part of Parliament, securities fir the future in the shape of an op. tion of revi- ion ant purchase, resembling in their general effect those which the Luxislature, after very full consideration, has thought it advisabl a te. adopt with regard to new railways. • . It will be obsery 'ea that in the case of the South-Eastern Corn. pany, not only are t:he se guarantees offered, but also a present limi tation of charge, aunt amount of accommodation to the poorer class of passengers, which will ensure the working of the whole of the South-Eastern syste4 Upon terms more favourable for the public, both as regard■ far sa and accommodation, than are usual upon other railways. As ;regards the North Kent portion of the system, indeed, we regard r is y legislative maximum as of comparatively little importance, si to ca the charges of the railway must always be kept down at an .exceedingly low point by water competition ; but as regards the g it line of continental communication and the internal local traffic of a great part of the district, It is unquestion ably highly desiraliele to obtain a specific guarantee against the adoption of a system, •of high fares, which, under the present Acts of the South-Easterni • Company, might be at any moment resorted to if the Directors tieo ught it expedient for their interests to adopt the course which has: / 'requently been pursued by other Companies. The conclusion, 0 erefore, at which we arrive, in regard to the schemes proposed in the North Kent district is, that to the best of our judgment a very I ecided preponderance of public reasons exists in favour of the Scat th-Eastern scheme, No. 222, Hungerford. bridge to Chilhatn, ito preference to any of the competing schemes. The same reasons It nduce us to express a similar opinion, that as regards the South.rat tern Company's scheme, No. 213, Extension to Deal, and No. 2415 , Maidstone to Rochester, which are portions evidently reqnired to.tr complete the system of Kentish railway com munication, and the., South. Eastern Company's scheme, No.' 215, Ashford to Hastings,, i which is an important link in the coast line of communication, • A *a are aware of no public grounds why they should net receive the sanction of the Legislature. The only remainir, tg schemes are those proposed for forming new railways from Tunbi is ige and Headcorn to Hastings. With regard to these, it seems suilii icient to say, that the question having been contested at great 1 es gth before Committees of both Houses last session, Who rejected I the Headcorn line, on the ground that it was inconsistent with the-, coast line to Brighton, which was calculated to aford at the same , time a greater amount of local and national advantage; and non e w circumstances having transpired to affect the grounds of that d ecision, but on the contrary, theproposal of a line from Hastings tts Ashford affording an additional outlet, not then contemplated, fbt 'traffic from Hastings and its neighbourhood towards Dover and C.„h; qterbury; we are aware of no sufficient public grounds to justify all !venial of that decision, by the sanction of lines which, under rat esent circumstances, would go far to render _the line sanctioned la e year incapable of sustaining itself as a sol vent undertaking. This argument apt w ars decisive against the Headcom line, which is identical with th d t rejected last year ; and, as regards the South. Eastern Comp u sy's line from Tunbridge, although it would effect some shorten . is ig of the distance between Hastings and London, this does no't appear to us a sufficient object to admit of a different conclusion. With the excepti an, therefore, of the small portion of this latter line which co nnects Tunbridge Wells with the South. Eastern Railway, an 1 which will be an useful branch for the accommodation of tth to it town, we have to report, that there appear to us to exist public reasons which ought to be decisive against the schemes, Ne. 19 5 , Rye, Tentcrden, and licadcorn, and No. 211, South-Eastern Corn' ,ny'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, in recommen 8 ing that reports should be made to Parlia. ment by this depart a tent upon railway schemes, " That no such report should be held to prejudice the claims of private persons, the examination of a hich should be altogether reserved to the Ilouses of the Legisl ture. In submitting to Parliament, in conformity with the recommen. dations of that Corn to ittec, 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 avail able for that purpose, we are anxious that it should be distinctly ti nderstood that we have arrived at these re. sults solely upon purl is grounds, and to the exclusion of all consi. derations bow far surki results might require to be modified by a due regard for private rights and interests. DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLICT. D. O'BRIEN. G. R. PORTER. S. LAING. RAILWAY COMPANIES. A RETURN, by name, of each RAILWAY CompArry subject thereto which bats complied with the Sixth Clause of the Act of last Seschm for the Regulation of Railways, which came iota gyration on the Ist November, specifying the Hours of Startling - of - therirrains running in compliance therewith, and the Speed of such Trains; with Date of such Compliance, as respects the Carriages having seats, and being protected from the weather. Name of Railways. Hours of Departure from R. M. • Great Western 30 a.m....Bristol. Bristol and Exeter .... 7 0 a.m....Bristol. 2 0 p.m....Exeter. Cbeltenham and Great Western ...... 3 17 p.nt....Swindon. 12 15 p.m....arencester. Oxford Branch 1 35 p.m....Oxford. Birmingham and Derby 12 15 p.m....Derby. Midland 3 45 p.m....Blrminghim. Railway North Midland ..... 650 a.m....Leeds. Company. 6 0 p.m....Derby. Midland Counties 40 p.m....Rugby. North Union 6 0 a.m....Preston. 6 0 p.m....Preston. Amalgamated 7 30 a.m....Parkside. 7 30 p.m. . Parkside. Bolton and Preston 8 5 a.m....Preston. 8 45 a.m....801t0n. Eastern Counties, Col- 7 45 a.m....London. Amalgamated cheater Line ....• • 5 0 p. m.... C o l chester. Northern and Eastern, 9 0 a.m....London. or Cambridge Line 5 40 p.m....Stortford. Bristol and Gloucester 9 15 a m.... Gloucester. 4 30 p.m....Bristol. Edinburgh and Glasgow 1 30 p.m....Gl asgow . Grand Junction 6 30 a.m....Liverpool. Lancaster and Preston 9 0 A.M.... Preston. London and Birmingham ... ...... ... 7 0 a.m....London. 2 30 p.m....Birmingham. London and Croydon all the trains. London and South-Western ... 8 0 a.m....London. 7 15 a.m....Gosport. 8 0 a.m....Southampton. London and Brighton, and Shoreham 6 30 a.m....London. 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. 4 0 p.m._ Newcastle. Newcastle and Darlington 11 30 am.... Darlington. Sheffield and Manchester 11 95 a.m. ..Woodhead South. Eastern 5 0 p.m....Dover. Yarmouth and Norwich 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....Norroariton. SPEED.—An average rate of not less than twelve miles an hour for the whole distance on the railway, including stoppages. DESCRIPTION OF CARRIAGES.—Seated, and provided with the means of being entirely closed, so as to exciudo 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, 1544; subject to modifications 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 Frivy Council for Trade. The following are the dates of compliance of the undermentioned railway companies, after correspondence with the Board of Trade, as regards the whole of the said conditions : Midland Counties Eastern Counties November 93. Bristol and Gloucester Grand Junction 4. London and South. Western December 16. Manchester and Birmingham December 5. Newcastle and Darlington nuar .2 8 0 . Sheffield and Manche ster Ja December 1. South. Eastern .................. And in the case of the following railways the correspondence ha.l not been yet closed, as regards certain minor details : Edinburgh and Glasgow. York and North Midland. Railway companies which have not complied with the 6th clause 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, 1045. 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The Spanish mail, of the 7th inst., has not attired, owing to the great fall of snow on the Pyrenees, and In the South of France. At Paris the cold continued very severe. Fahrenheit's therms). meter, at six o'clock on Wednesday, marked IL being 41, below freezing. At Brussels the cold was still more intense, the titer• mometer having fallen to 7. The Count de Rattl.Menton, Consul at Canton, is about to be oppointed Consul-Genera) for France at Manilla, in the room of M. Barrot. The following appears in the Affiqur :—" We learn that soma members of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies have formed a pro. iect for founding agriculturarestablishments in Algeria. It appears, also from our correspondent at Philippeville, that M. Ferdinand Barrot ha 3 acquired within the immediate territories of that town from 1,000 to 1,200 hectares (2,500 to 3,000 acres) of land, which he intends to divLe into about 40 farms, and to settle families upon them. It is added, that the Minister of War has shown himself to be very favourable to the realisation of this great undertaking." It appears from an official return et the commerce of Guada loupe during the second quarter of 1844, that the imports amounted to 6,937,5041., of which 4,805,521 E was for French merchan dise from France, 669,915 f. for French merchandise from the French colonies and fisheries, and 4,465,068 f. for foreign mer chandise. A letter from Algeciras of the 29th ult. states that the Spanish war.steamer Gironda, 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 vessel passing by Gibraltar should, under any circumstances, be fired upon. A Berlin letter of the 7th inst., gives the following statement : 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 had accused himself merely to gain food and lodgings. The minute details, however, which he has since g iven, 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 tier; 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, i:P n g 572 oxen, 74 cows, 1,142 calves, and 2,319 sheep more than in Jan..' ar Y• 1844. This consumption has never been so great in the stirs: month of the year since 1825. We are authorised to state (says Galignani) that the Committee. ofthe Franco.Ecglish Railway Company (Jacques Lefebvre) from , Tours to Nantes is composed as follows :—The lion. George Daw- . son, M.P., and Member of the Privy Council; Mathew Boultort 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 happ ene d during the performance of Robert le Diable, in the evening of Sund a y l ast , at t h e Valenciennes Theatre, which might have had the same f ata l e ff ects as that which destroyed the life of Miss Clara Webster in London. While the actress who was performing Isabella was, in the second act, reading the •letter from Robert, the long veil hanging behind her, suspended from her co ronet, caught fwe 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 flames. The actress fainted from the fright, bus in ;very short time she recovered, and resumed her part. 3LAW AND POLXO3II. 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, 650/. 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 exami nation, but nothing of any importance was elicited, and eventu. 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, stationers, Sta. tioners'.court, Ludgate-hill, was charged with embezzling various sums received from customers in various parts of the country, to the extent of 125/. The prisoner, who denied the charge, and detled the prosecutors to prove it, was remanded, on an understanding that he should be admitted to bail, At Clerkenwell, Elizabeth Peach, alias Frazer, was finally exa mined, charged by Mr. Henry Shakspeare, of No. 25, Mitchell street, St. Luke's, with stealing a 51. Bank of England note, and 71. in gold and silver, a shawl, and other articles, and fully com mitted for trial. C 0 TIRT-PASIIMOICA.73I.M. His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal to 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 unveß at his mansion in Clarges.street, was considered rather better on Thursday. The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliani have gone on a visit to Earl and Countess Bruce, at Savenahe Lodge, near Marlborough. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke returned to Wilton House on Wednesday, from a visit to Earl and Countess Bruce, at Sa. venahe Lodge. MISCELLANEOUS. Two women, named Chandler and ruddy, 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 wife of a seaman named Johnson, who was charged with assaulting a girl and robbing her of her 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 ste was hanging from the bars off the ground. Life 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 2,4701., 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,itosamond-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 ha 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 commu. 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 recurely locked up, as is the custom during Lent. Re. mains of Weiler matches were left In the vestry, and a candle had been lighted. We regret to state that the last accounts from Sidney, New South Wales, announce the death at Sir James Dowling, the Chief Justice of that colony. He died on the :25th of September. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN- SQUARE•. On Thursday, shortly before the closing of the Court, Henry Peacoa Gray. of Caroline.street, Colcsliill-street, Pimlico, horse dealer, was brought up before Mr. Burrell, in custody of a City officer, on charge of obtaining by false pretences from Thomas Reynolds, of Enfield. corn-chandler, two horses, twenty quarters of oats, and two quarters of beans, with intent to cheat hint of the seine. Mr. Steels, of Lin coln's Inn-fields, and Mr. Lucena, Of Gray's Inn, appeared as so licitors for tlw prosecution, and Mr. Dupree, of Lawrence-lane, foe the prisoner. Ihe prosecutor stated, that on the 9th of Januau 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-is-law, but whom prosecutor afterwarcbs ascertained to be Harman Milton ; that prisoner did not 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 reqviested to know whether prosecutor bad got any horses he could sell him, adding, that he had married and gone into business on hLs oosfv iv el n ac count for some time past ; that his godfather, Mr. Peacock, yru to wyn, Herts, had advanced him a cheque for 2,000 L, and he apply for more, as hefound his business required ft ; that he had purchased 40 horses, and paid for i t o li b ez several pairs of them on excellent and tl gen e ' men, and that Sir Sebastian Smith had four splendid horses of his, n ai l l ilt ai n A oh h le ad me a n iready paying 90 guineas per pair for them ; and that he, prisoner, was then enjoying a first-rate business. Prosecutor ftiXther stated, tat prisoner's brother-in-law verified most of the assertions of prisoner, and congratulated prosecutor 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 quartenS 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, altuabto in Caroline-street, Eaton-square, where they were taken in afterwardsy prisoner and Harman Milton, and that some few day s the oats and beans were delivered at the same place ; wh l' oin a. prisoner h prosecutor discovered io. t t h a e w l , prisoner had introduced as his brothertb- Milton, who had been charged oireeto bybe onllearmmars. W at il p u ri * so m ne js c i s lto s n ta , bles, bis K ni i i i d tke it a i d die Ns te a d th ro fr r au t d be an . d ife c o o c n , s , p irae brother, and a person caning himself made Inrther inquiries about together Lty p r actisedsl a r t E7 t h ar d Barry ; that upon hearing these particulars, r Pr s. Wm. G r ay); also at the stables in prisoner of his step mother neighbourhood, from which prosecutor be- Caroline-street, and d s in representations of prisoner and Harman Milton were and that the prosecutor could prove sneer If a lie t t i V ue ti o la f t fa t i l s w eb a prisoner were remanded Ib a r . as r l;o te rt atitmteb;isthcaotort, f prosecutororadlte: wholap. plied - • to Mr• B u rrell, the m st ga ve prosecutor the assistance of two constablea ; and, go u t n t d h er e t M w r o . Burrell's advice, they went to prisoner's stables, and horses away, but prisoner was not there, or to bo found daring the period of the three days that prosecutor watched the premises, in the hopes of apprehendin ro g o,:ne h e im uate( i ira t r h ha a mt t iou p bt r , is we o n n it e hs r mo sv unt a rntb s o e n in e intervention u t es a a y ten o any thGazette creditor, i b to tt y n , kru am pt ti o l n at his p is morning before Commissioner Shepherd to be examined , that prose cutor took a constable with him, an d prisoner making. his appear g,es, prosecutor immediately gave hini into Custody, and was after wards examined by priso ner ' s sol i citor before the Commissioner oirsi.onsnt,cee,f in I s l e t p a c r i co d s s e e l n d: r d e . o r— D o t r t h i s p , e r fu e e e x i and a n a c o l 11 ' aatdi creditorocfrn beinges seaddressed being c o a n l d l o u , c t y d e d t o in b e a p p r ri e s v e n a t t e the magistrate, and the former denounced the bankruptcy as part of the fraud, and the exa mination tinder it as a hole-and-corner meeting, got np by the pri soner for the purpose of intimidating the prosecutor, in consequence of prisoner having learnt 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 bad in 2001. for the prisoner's appearance next Thursday. SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—A very exeollent shooting-match at penny pieces (thrown into the air by a person specially appointed), took place on Monday last, at Tewkesbury. The match was for St. a side, between two Tewkesburians, and two residents of Cheltenham, each individual having twenty-five shots- Mr. Davison and Mr. Davy shot for Tewkesbury, and Messrs. Gower and Combos were the representatives of Cheltenham:: Mr. Davison_ hit his twenty-five pieces admirably, and Mr. Davy wits alike success ful, except in his twenty-third shot, which, being thrown awkwardl_l. up, prevented a discharge of his gun unle ss : b y: risking co able danger, whereby ho lost one out of .his twenty-fire•_ Cheltenham cracks then followed ; both succeeded in hittin go thei r atiget,ir, - pieces, and consequently were.awa.twled-the...,. 01- : n four sports. thus beating the Tewkesburiana by one 0161 ' d Atter this match.. men hitting ninety-nine pieces out of a at pig 504 e good stiootinz several sweepstakes were contended t r; o g es p gpe ; and several gentleMerg was displayed, few birds were allowed su.orbscester i equentl xr y n d a irl at Mr. Jjoall'a the Sun Inn, TewiteStku7. - Ti .3 '~~__