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

RAILIVAY INTELLIGENCE. %yes; tepdaltECT LONDON AND EXETER. afternoon a meeting of the shareholders of onti4: Lae Was held in the Crown and Anchor Ta f ve t. e , ,I 7 , convened by Mr. Healy, late a membero h of Management, and several other shareholders,commit- 1..0 were dissatisfied with the proceedings of the ctnamiet i: the management Three o clock was the hour 0 : 11e chair to be taken, but it was nearly four before the business commenced. r.7,),..alleeutisetnonesnidpetrt,istat,manifestations of impatience . by t i t 7T II O and several otherM Mr, Healy, litheearl3e- qu a i e s e io e n rn i p st a s n , l e e a d m b e y i D nt r o . T ae e .. et, when Dr. Lane was called to the chair. It liet7lo!,r,equisiion all the meeting was wotitirtll that the provisional committee and shareholderst import me,. °ale sUbmitted to them matters of grea 4..... Another document was next read, which com elivtatererwarded to the members of the managing with had t hele e ,:o cel lini,' on them to attend, and to bringdoen. tsea,,,"" the totesmin and account-books, and other relating the company's affairs. ~, d as the toliei,_elni.l.lxosivoitTn stated that he attenue , bi t ,: tif the Company, on behalf of the Provisional 94.thorst: Be might inform the shareholders present, astl et if ) behalf, that previous tto the advertisement being present Setie, Y t tir• Beal .Previous his friends, calling the l i ttl eiair " e bireetors had stated by advertisement that :alder aetel/after the 30th they would convene the A s At the retell; - , r ,' fullY explain all matters to them. the ‘ ,o oap ui "ens every one officially connected I ttithi e Y getngaged, body and soul, night with and of day, otffihe. kite tc' every thing ready against the end h ti l l s of rite Directors, therefore, deprecated /I°ldei..t;.°!eonaPany preparing documents for the e share : t t . gt Crtiewter?.. !very mon.ient of their time was required . Tlf: I°. tharattiv few Parliament. The 30th was on Sun . wstibitoreetors eeeynsvridoeurtedd onlyrtheaellyhad est e r (10 than to come there ers arising t h e ir a , They moreto the 2. importantu..tn. are of opinion,' much have th,„ Mho I, 4 ,ln . t_lne or quarrel. 3 to discuss mat! opinion it ttr etos, CIE otrespect.to the shareholders er th t a o t, a u tt n e d n e d r . e,, _4seneeo,',!lces,. they did not think prop Z it ttd '2le Directors had been signified a b m y e th in e t n o ot t i h c e e 4,7>ithiamong the gentlemen as they came the is eh was to the following effect:— hat P tiTtitt.e„'s aagew,as 'without their sanction, and that OR the d sines„' aid be convened by authority, he had no peebte,, re Wait till after the 30th, and At 4114'14th:; necessary explanation would be given. Let the matters. tat„ t i, l l4 l. ; t e!: not prepared to thesego h i e n e t a o any advertise ,tst+.4setti , a tiled that there had I 1 by 1 .93' the Board of Management of the kind - vim. oir, Rp• him . to at i t. 0 angsworth, and challenged 'tiled ~,, 4 , it advertisement had be signed, pr e ,„ e rl bad been sent into the country to executed tieesthreetosleg that after it returned and was e appeared, x s p t l a a t l in: th Na t h r2 w°llid give a fair and satisfactofry_eevem company y be o r f i,!' Il e ( II :6 was said about the 30th o Th7rity ,t,\07.,r; tlealy) mentioned that te,„litad had have issued such an l e 0 ,. for t h, s'4,Pienty of time to prepare . the whole k it ugh t 41;it holders but by their conduct they had h tl i e ra 104 44 to such pass that now a n ° announcement. c proper - a in a very intempe 411 h its u . t. ( 11?..editpr the noampan)., s little better than a . tti,„Ttio, a ee ,, eEt y w as proceedmg lathe -iseives, nd of sending an attorney ral 4 'a the,„ '','lng' the Directors with being ash to ara re e p d r t e o . otetkssiota4, whreo..hea wasstoppehy a l t oud and gaemnidst length, litteceatiftwooult'eaPprobation, and 4 v i O 4 PPlied id tett e -1.4 4 kt .0 Mr. Hollingsworth.) uproar, retracted the offensive ex -1:to the wished to know if Mr. Healy • of " let him itlii) eelePany.—(Uproar, and cries ti ' tit was a sub oti 0 . Aty ~,,,, that th e , the ~, ,,st'aite at some further length in depreca ,),ldtel.tiire,.'eeedings of the Directors, contending ,ttoal.p,tioceotcwhich they bad puh h h o sh cl h e ad Op hie bt, kid th.B.!_irth, was not such as given it a distorted referred to t,'.ntetie,,, B",_thtat gentleman hadte.r It at r e ti e tl e irra t , t. u o el, 0 . make it tell in h i favour, esented as he . ;lee k ,. ofthose wished to address themeetthinegi; aetiCes ie the wished in impeaching From the tim o e_ I ke Qttshe ietet-esomfmittee of m a a n n y agement with neg repre t eP p ttl e n , he, I „Y was first announced, up up till the middle f tterttic'e eelk"e advance had been made by them e in a P d a y s e h r : at e. tiny forward beyond issuing . seon,t.it.. ; no gi,e „table," offices were secured in the skdtaten to too,!lklit,. to ;no practical t tot e ig , e le th e / (I'o the C o red They were sitting in in a thi l • naieetiViadant, when they should have been At t„ Jtair.,._ •en With th introduced Netsto -.tir e of . e great interests of the City. , I,h___ aleir alTairs a gentleman was . thseXiati .:.:1.,e Position and abilities, joine to d wgiirteh the th,l'ltay „""a the. press, were calculated btepetei, til,tletete,at impetus. Offices, etearetitleeB Oitr. Healy's) conn i e n xi of all pro ilse giw e , e , 1 . 11 the City ; regular minutes of a regular Itt eti ef litisia"Pl ; everything c on e sewqi u t l e i n t c h e em of , was put intowhich t o akin hatless. Yet mark the treatment tf th e 'l7 et at their hands. With l • stage p ke ' "e (Dr. Costello) had that in an earl o y could • h respect redderid eiteieeedingS been considered one his 7 b e i ng a h t ea t , csi iiit services to the line, from c elf he let, Jie was promised that f he A he t/111 Y a , il la have a place on the board.. lettlinseaed agile w as but at last the al the e at of th It Was to take place immediately texfierrstteidt ki2'oatt, o f shares, when meetings a perto h d oenl f, d ) a r l t o h n i g s would be been -ro ,_ttott7', sad th the line. Though he had thus F 14 C 91 1 4 Y , th., °ll o he had exerted himself much n fe r r m t e h d e . 110 44, -t eti a t ii aPPointment had never been h h ad ' Who had hitnself, but when he saw anoeothearhgoeinty h..,letlee .ea Used exertion and great . e N, 1.,_ use in their great aelfi t im (b r. e favour, treated in themanne h r im h . 1,_41,N re h favour, could not avoid expressing Zeta I ,th th lt 4 e t ... l . le h a d e a ties bad 'km `roduee vroceedings, two or tnre done, especially when,_ C had never been a et of b e s= to the directory who ha th e ,. ade 1,4 , and one of them, r 4 1 0r .coinci who had influence in the tieheill eXertion, or used any local been done:easequielliaced in the chair. And what a baronet, had a. an _ dole of ace of that appointment ? The n sus liikke-. eire,Thtue eßtensiouto Falmouth— ilee kestl--"3tatlee, When it was considered thaat opposing (th e er,,111 was connected with the opr a i y). 1,1114 hHettlylewall and Devon Central Railway). and ge -N et had opposed that proceeding,arties. 4 1) (tir. rsttelted the ill feeli ng of certain p 4 ''"te ll ) did 414 %oti 0 not accuse I? 1 'seed th ° es, he d cruelly mis L l ' taa h „ . e li n • Only said they had xtension to the Directo . rs . 'Nj„,:ql, tht,„et: They had given up the e that .. at ex %hip". te. 1%4;1 to a d a Permitted the rival line to htihillttot(),,4,lliioll 'with referred, Railway - I 411 % . 1 11 e had ndi",,li line ",',,al" that they Would theSouth-Westernld have a direct corahe 114. sid e, the +Zit whole we e , to the Land's-End. On o t m. der ta bail hey had allowed the Great Western e c t op e e l la nte to . eP its opposition without taking the least Ittthge,tilleet`tsures whatever• Th ese were pol It fr o the ,) "ciders tie.; line to I°t o ‘4t h llg4i net the C ommittee ; and the question would they allow the me, sol et , , 3' the infusion to 41 ab k3 "r, b • • of fresh blood, save „lose•t the ruin ? He would, therefore, take leave sir follnwinn. be telltdttted'vturnstances of the Company, the Directors . 6. resolution :—" That under the tilt of Sao/cki the following entlmen to the Co_rn r (.o,°°te, ltegetnent :—The Hen• Cecil Lawless, M ' ),:, Dr. e H. Fisher, The . Paul, W. A. Hill, ~ Dr. ', , ,,r. It. i_e!telle Rich a,/, , JAichard Power, and A. Abraham." r it eti ' esk K EN seconded the motion. !, t , his iltety th en pond carried with four dissentients. ;theNatLeeanexiouenoceeded to give a long explanationin yin t-a of h it ,. ll With the board of management, ta :listaee..sielf. and in inculpation of the Directors. vin es h.. . rso eel t cs, his address, which was in many when he t , ,,740,1, 1 _ ° admit of re orting was, that , th • xit„ 'ed to the b ti p -, managed in a t ,sfb-salar oar- matters were kio t ., i manner. Re Was instrumental parts in putting It At k II "' proper • getting regular ta t t , epf, Il e had order, and in t/ tlt i t . ° ' 40 ~ 4i,. had previously opposed point the Of th 04, inettpartles an SeC retftry to the cancompy—, __ lit e e Provi ItleitY, and the other from being a menwer le be The% monttl Director and medical man in prac knteltitto4lnhttratters had ocaeasionead antagonistic feelings 'ed hlr''e,,,, "Y Many of the Directors He attri ette„ !rea,o„. , the recent treatment he had met with,t_e W t'lOti lineal' from the board, to his opposition to the to j, t ette ? t4 l'ainlouth, which, through the influence to ee e teei,"l get been abandoned. Seeing, therefore, e ton t 4thlie the no no redress from them, he determined t atil ie kt to": Present meeting, and call upon the D tip i kilis i t ll4 t ° qki 'itki %et°, meet him on the charges he had l to kkitl) dtkt -- It is 11 had meet a a private p _ . l'h 4 etlii • °Merl") He maintained it was so, tehte Me eti eg to do with the shareholders. pique,—(" Chair ! illival4 id Reatieg Was here thrown into great uproar by i,tottihtlceoseleitieenrahatieteidnigein to speak at once, and it t,' the Chairman succeeded ltithe tb,'Nni.e4t4nrative oroterY. This done, Nt4Chtttetateatilloetvued a resolution—" T . hat after hearing il 4 th e .Ir. H e a ly, this meeting feels bound . to De a, ,, that conduct the Managing Committee to -44d 4,e,4tlettan.--(Loud cries of " No, no," "Yes, t? /4 i Cee,`"aair, ehair.,i) liert;tl:a4,(l4;?...tiecond.ed the resolution. v,,,° that th worteu the motion at some length, de matter. I,ittria,ene tbeeetase cif the motion was a private t ma_ K. te , tt and the concerned the Shareholders most ena, il ted i t , Y o ught to take it up. There were mat- Pittit., hlvhieht-weee.niunpetiou with the Chairman of the Coro t-mei 14:;_(kr, i',, e 0 1 the greatest importance. For his il l thi • h 4ell had F, arr Y) did not think that gentleman's ~ y , •rs th - . o en of any advantage to them. Aove tta e I to th ‘' Director t o t , Ot b oth . a ought to have been present that - 211 Ae t 4 . fl bot h sides could have been heard. In jus ,tie„ Ne or ee l, he would support the resolution, ritv ha p lON COnfUSiOn efisued, in which the reso b4tkit kitth, 4tl end declared by the Chairman to be car lkeit. sad r., gentlenien protested against the decision as tol v ' tslte, "correct, and wished the show of hands to be ed „ I, but the C • 11!41e teotiog hairman refused, andabruptly dis ttr"-ITTf\ii., -------__________ ibli,`TiNeo(AZllsAlll AND GAINSBOROU,G.H. a l h i Me et ,, , SA 7i evenin g (I riday) . a '4l 'll 'g Of th h thecatr ay st No e s areholders in the above line 11 th e • 3 0, li:xcange Rooms, to take into eon ra t'hores r „ e Ply of the directors of the Nottingham oh th I 0p,‘,117.gh Company to a memorial presented to IP‘ellbtle„%.tumay" 01 120 of the shareholders in that line ti iii.l". AldePrreviNs• Amongst those present we „,ltrke ayi„r Jean Shipnian Messrs. Fowler, Steec,- „4Nehr, Wiii,•: 'elitin, IV. Pi'we, Plungst, Sparrow. wils-,,ltte. 4=410' t e°o P__,o J. 11all, Pother , ill, Pearce, hbtin;',lrt,l%er'll'isJa-, Wild:, Dr. Lightfoot, Davison, l_lr. 41.oti et , of ~,,,. r.tu?teverother g"tleinelled ge•;i? ree„piN.Aaanw7;,. Alderman. , niratax, sec h . i..r. Smith Fowler took the c air, 4i tulated "- re oo ~,. the circumstances respecting thveeptr.ee sktP4e,;.tl reeMorial to the directors to issol . h . I,llttlt,feg. a called upon Mr. Eyre to read the memorial tlete 44, tail NZ:low rir:ollent,hen observed that many of the gen ad o , sole, I. were not called upon to sign the e tve,„ e t t a li s ' 4 btekeau,se the individuals who prepared it taoriel e t r_ the direucetOrhsarwehholders. Since that meeting were dew • , o were opposed to the me -14 favour of it. They were Mr. ppr ietoll a ll " plaintig 0 9411. ferred to bad bee ll Went of dmoition de o f The i°ll f) 9- de e n d d e ti er of e• • 00 1, 10 , s.eri,oo • r e,,, ter by'd lei d P v oi r 111 '0 15 ...d ,be D o ch 00 ! ere eg °C 0 9 if 1 0r 00- 099 40 1 . micopble ,0 1 t d Pc° THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1845 North, Mr. Cullen, and Mr. Munck ; there was a fourth director, but he had no authority 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 depressed state of the money market, and the marketable value of the scrip in the said company, and that the amount of 40,0001. and upwards in this town having been drawn out of its natural channel, causing a complete paralysis 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 Nottingham, or Trent line, and 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 large 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 best. He conaidered 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 Railway 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. Let 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 bow 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. JOHN HILL, Lenton, seconded Mr. Cox's amend ment. 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 800,000/., he said that it was too small, and that it ought to have been 900,000 L, 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 for so low a price as to reduce the capital to 700,000/. 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 Gainsborough) un dertake to pay our expenses, which will be 1,500 L, or— that fatal word or,' about 2,000!., 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 2,0004 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.,` .he Chairman, Messrs. Felkin, Shipman, Steeg mann, and Bell. 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. 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. 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 possession, having arranged for its purchase with Messrs. North, Wakefield, and Company, agreeing to pay them 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 shillings lees than is now paid, although 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 50,000/. 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. WOODHOUSE, 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, Ambeigate, 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 generally 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 on 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. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS, LIVERPOOL, Nov. 24. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire, 6M—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 21—Caledonian, 9 1 4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 3—Derby and Crewe,.4 l A 7 cirand Junction, 227—Ditto, 40/. Shares M.), 52A-Leicester and Birmingham, I%—London and Birmingham, 213—London and York, 358—Direct Northern, 134—Manchester, Sheffield and Midland, Fifth Shares, 11 1 4 —Midland, 139—Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19—North Union (A), 204—Ditto (B), 142—North Staffordshire, 4 3 / 4 —Nottingham and Boston, 2 1 4—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 13—Trent Valley, 16—Dutch Rhenish, 7 1 j 8. MANCHESTER, Nov. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bideford and Tavi stock, 17s. 6d.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junc tion, 7—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3—Ely and Hun tingdon, 5 1 4 c.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 2 11-16 Glasgow and Dumfries, 2 1 4—Leeds and Thirsk, 111/—Lei cester and Birmingham, 215.—Leicester and Tamworth, 475. —Lynn anti Dereham, 6 1 4—North Staffordshire, 51.35. 3d. —North Western, 62s.—Nottinghan and Mansfield, 2'A c.— Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 2 3 4 c.— Oxford, Worcester, and Welverbampton, 15 1 / 2 —Shropshire Mineral, 475. c.—South Midland, 61. 2s. c. BRISTOL, Nor. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, 80—Ditto, New, 6 3 / 4 —Bristol and South Wales Junction, Ex tension to Monmouth, 1 14—Manchester and Southampton, 2 3 / 4 —Midland, New 18%—Vale of Neath, SHEFFIELD, NOT. 24. STOCK ExcnANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Man chester, Quarter Shares, No. 3., 6/. Is. 6d.—Goole and Don caster, 2 3 4 —Grimsby and Sheffield, 10—Sheffield and Lin colnshire, 3/. I Is. 6d.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 2%. LEEDS, Nov. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The tales are—York and North Mid land, Scarborough Branch, 504—Huddersfield and Manches ter, 7 1 / 2 —Huddersfield and Sheffield, 17—Leeds and Brad ford, 42% ,cash—Ditto, Extensions, 381 / 2 cash—Leeds and Dewsbury, 13 cash—Leeds and Thirsk, 10 3 4 cash—New castle and Berwick, 103 4—Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton, 15 cash—Wakefield Pontefract, and Goole, 30 c. n.—London and York, 3/. 7s.—Sheffield and Lincoln, 3% —Direct Northern, 1 3 / 4 . —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preettin - , 3 3 / 4—West Riding Union, 6 % s —Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, &c., 12s. 6d. dis.—Grand Union, 3s. 6d. p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 7s. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 10s. dis.—Leicester and Bedford, 6s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—North Western, 21. 19s.— Wakefield and Bradford, 2s. 6d. dig.—Wakefield and Harro gate, 7s. 6d. p.—Welsh Midlands, 2%. HULL, Nov. 24. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE. — The sales are—Aberdeen, 6 1 4-- Leeds and Thirsk, 12 3 / 4 —Cambridge and Lincoln, 3A — Grand Union, 1 1 4. YORK, NOT. 24. STOCK EXCAMME.—The sales are—Newcastle and Ber wick, 9% —North British, New Carlisle BrErich, 2i. 14s.—Lon - don and York, 3S(—Grand Union, 14 9s. 6d.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% p.—welsh Midland, 2%. CHINESE POLICY. It is to be hoped that the importance of our relations with the Chinese empire will not be estimated by the amount of intelligence which generally reaches this country by the overland mail. Little correct and ex plicit information on this subject appears to find its way to the Indian journals. A few hasty private letters, communications dictated by the overflowing bile of some officer living in a sort of exile at Hong-Kong, and the highly-coloured statements of merchants, whether pros perous or unprosperous, added to the meagre articles of a half-starved press, constitute the sole basis on which they erect their speculations. There is, conse quently, little reason to be surprised at the narrowness of their views and the general indecision of their lan guage ; and still less cause have we to wonder at the vague, shifting, contradictory notions of such of our Contemporaries here at home as live in helpless depend ence on such guides, in all that relates to the policy of the further east. To do the Indian press justice, however, we must admit that it has recently put forward correcter views, respecting China:and the. Chinese, thanks habitual copyists in England, who, affecting to be for once inde pendent of their teachers, have fallen into the grossest errors. When we argued some time back that it would be impolitic to restore Chusan to the Chinese under pre sent circumstances, the fickle oracle of Printing House square, with tolerably well-feigned indignation, de nounced our suggestions as highly profligate. With a sort of Malay energy, which so frequently urges that journal into the practice of running a-muck, it flung itself into an offensive attitude, and prepared to make a surrender of reason to its destructive propensities. But happening to be more familiar with the facts of the case, we were enabled, by a very few plain words, to still the rage of our Contemporary, and may hereafter, perhaps, enjoy the advantage—if advantage it be—of having it as our coadjutor in this matter. We repeat, theretbre ' that Chusan ought not to be evacuated. Not because it would most likely, in that case, fall into the hands of the French—though that, we are prepared to maintain, ought to be an additional in ducement for us to do justice to ourselves—but because the Mantchoo Government of China has not fulfilled its engagements with us. The most factious and prejudiced journalist will probably admit that there are more ways than one of breaking a treaty, and that the most cun ning and subtle infraction is as much a breach of com pact as a gross and clumsy infringement. This truth, which, out of deference to common sense, must be recog nised, will supply us with sufficient reasons for insisting on the retention of Chusan. We formerly rested our arguments chiefly on what has taken place at Canton ever since the peace ; but facts are coming forward singly, and invested with no pomp or iappearance of in terest, which ought to be regarded as still more signi ficant and conclusive. In reality, the Chinese authorities carry on the war against us still. They have only changed the phenomena of hostilities, and for material imple ments substituted others, fashioned in ethical and poli tical forges, which they trust will prove far more effec tual. In plain English, the Mandarins at all the con sular ports, acting of course under instructions from Pekin, are labouring to undermine the foundations of our commerce, and, by instigating the multitude to put in practice a perpetual system of annoyance and auda cious insolence, to drive us from those much coveted markets in disgust or despair. They who understand the civil polity of China will be able to perceive bow this may be done, though the Chinese people be gene rally well disposed towards us. Mobs under such a despotism as that of the Mantchoos are swayed by two impulses—the one natural, which they would obey if they could; the other communicated to them by autho rity, which, as a rule, they must obey. When engaged in persecuting an Englishman under the eye of the Mandarins, they overact their part in order to ward off from themselves the suspicion of favouring the outside barbarians. It signifies little to their victim, therefore, that in their hearts they are sorry for what they do, and prefer their commercial visitors from the sea to the ruthless tyrants from Mantchooria, to whom their own want of courage has given an irre sistible ascendency over them. But, however this part of the question may really stand, every communication we receive from China may be said to lay before us fresh proofs that the Tartar authorities are resolved to render the treaty with Great Britain as nugatory as possible. Our exclusion from the trade of the north-east coast be yond the thirty-second degree of latitude, may be matter of regret, because it was in that part of the empire that we might have found the best market for our woollens; but the fault was our own, and arose out of that hasty and pedantic diplomacy which has so frequently marred our prospects in the east. The Chinese had a perfect right to overreach us if they could. They were not bound to consult our interest. All they had to do was to watch over their own. Accordingly, nothing can be further from our intention than to blame them for what must be regarded as our own blunder. But that system of petty vexations—that constant obstruction of our trade—that fanatical and ferocious persecution which has been unremittingly carried on against our countrymen at Canton—and those clandestine hostilities which have been incessantly pursued against natives of all ranks who either favoured us while we were in force in the country, or are suspected of having a leaning to wards us now—these things, taken collectively, consti tute a good ground for entering into fresh negotiations with the Government, and demanding other conditions, which, from its character, it may be more likely to fulfil. Meanwhile we may, without the least shadow of injustice, retain possession of Chusan, where an im mense trade with the Chinese could be carried on with little chance of unpleasant collisions between us and them. As has been repeatedly shown in time of war moreover—and wars will one day or another unquestionably arise—the possession of this island must prove of the highest importance, commanding as it does the entrance to the Yang-tze-Kiang, which has justly been denominated the great artery of the empire. But it is as a means of preserving peace that we are chiefly disposed to value it. Under present circumstances the renewal of hostilities may, in our opinion, be con stantly looked for, considering the evil disposition of the Mandarins, and the kind services which the emissaries of certain friendly Powers are so actively engaged in per forming for us in China. To prevent the evil conse quences of these and other causes of misunderstanding, we have no representative at the Court of Pekin or on the coast, for Sir John Davis is little better than a cypher. All his energies evaporate in squabbles with the British merchants at Hong-Kong ; and if this were not the case he is obviously quite incapable of coping with the subtle diplomatists of China. A new mission to Pekin, there fore, might be very prudently undertaken just now, and the ambassador who should conduct it would find suffi cient employment for his abilities, however keen or brilliant they might be. He might remove much misunderstanding, and postpone conside rably the period of inevitable collision between the two countries. We say inevitable collision, because it would, in our our opinion, be wholly impossi ble to pruerve for any great length of time purely pa cific relations with such a Government .s that of China. Despotisms are like children, easily forgetting past dis asters and chastisements, end prone to proc,nke fresh ones by acts of petulant caprice. In the actual p,: , sture of affairs, however, an able English statesman at Peittl might possibly check the tendency of the Mantchoo Court to insolence and injustice, and thus preserve it for a while from those humiliations which it seems at present to be courting ; for great prepararations, we are told, are making for resistance or aggression, new im provements being attempted in military discipline, in the fabrication of arms, in the science of tactics, and in the erection of fortifications. They discern clearly enough what is about to happen, partly from knowing their own designs, and partly from observing the inevitable course of events. It remains to be seen whether they will find us prepared for the struggle or not ; but there will cer tainly be considerable danger should our interests in that part of the world be confided to no abler hands than those of Sir John Davis.—Chronicle. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON BOARD A BLACKWALL STEAMER.—Yesterday, at about a quarter to one o'clock, as the Railway steamer was passing Erith, on her way to Gravesend, the after-deck passengers were alarmed by the report of a pistol from one of the deck cabins, the door of which was fastened inside. On forcing it open, a young man was found with his head and arms resting on the table, ,and a pistol, just discharged, in one hand. He at first appeared to be dead, but on being raised he looked around him, a nd said that he had committed the act himself ; that he had come on board prepared and determined to put an end to his exist ence, and expressed a hope he had succeeded in giving him self a fatal wound ; that his friends had driven him to it ; and that he did not want any of them to know anything about what he had done. Immediately on being landed at the Terrace Pier, Gravesend, Mr. Hodges, the master of the workhouse, was sent for, and, at the desire of the unfor tunate young man he had him removed there, and at once attended by Mr. Saunders, surgeon to the establish ment. After a lengthened examination of the wound, during which the patient, with great self possession, directed the operators where to search for the ball, which he said he felt in the back of his neck, the gentlemen declared it to be their opinion that the ball, which penetrated at the upper part of the bridge of the nose, pretty nearly as high as be tween the eyes, had either lodged in the neck or spinal bone, or striking upon that bone, and being repelled by it, had fallen into the oesophagus, and had been swallowed as it passed into the stomach. With the probe, after various trials by both gentlemen, the lodgment of the ball could not be discovered ; and, the external wound having been dressed, the patient was put to bed in the sick ward, after repeatedly refusing - to give his name, or state who is friends were. On his shirt was marked the name of " H. J. Colebrooke," and the same name within the leather lining in pencilling on his hat. He is about twenty-two . years of age, in person slight, and about five feet five inches in height. In his coat-pocket was found a pistol, powder-horn half-full of powder, and in his waistcoat-pockets some percussion-caps and a silver pen cil-case and metal pocket-comb. In his pantaloon pocket there were ls. 6d. in silver. 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 gale 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 Falmouth 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 this time, probably offering their deceptive wares in some other town in the county.— West Briton. THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY= 'Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe-Co burg, left the Bricklayers' Arms station of the South-Eastern Railway at a quarter-past eleven yesterday morning for Folkestone, .where they embarked on board the South- Eastern and Continental foraSteamcket Company's steam • ship the Queen of the Be Boulogne. The chairman of the South-Eastern Railway and Viscount Torrington and Mr. Brown, directors, were in attendance on their Royal Highnesses, who were accompanied by the Count de Jarnac and Colone Wyld. THE NEW DEAN OF CANTERBURY.—It is said that Sir Robert Peel has bestowed the vacant deanery at Canterbury on the Rev. Wm. Rowe Lyall, Archdeacon of Maidstone, and brother, we believe, of the_Member for the 1 City of London. NOTTINGHAM 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, Duclos, 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 sh:llings 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 they 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 Lepton, and the neighbourhood of the park and that elevated part or the town, with coal and other minerals and the other DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The Drury version of Le Diable a Quat►e was pro duced here last evening, and Mr. Bunn has very judici ously restored to it its old English title of The Devil to Pay. Every playgoer knows the plot of that excellent old farce, and there is a great deal in knowing the plot of a ballet beforehand, in not having the attention dis tracted from the dancing by the endeavour, in nine in stances out of ten, the fruitless endeavour, to unravel the story. Many an unsuccessful ballet might have had a long run, if the management had had the precau tion to circulate a programme of the plot beforehand. Hence it is that all ballets founded on known stories are invariably successful. This is by far the most splendid version of this very popular ballet that has yet been pro duced in this country, and it will be long memorable in chmrographic annals for having introduced to an English audience Mademoiselle Flora Fabbri, who, if we mistake not, is destined to hold not only the highest rank in her profession, but to be considered as the founder of a new school of dancing. Her figure is a model for a sculptor, her features are regular and beautiful, not with the mere beauty of form, but with that beauty which is so rarely found com bined with regularity of features, the beauty of ex pression. These gifts of nature have been brought to the highest perfection by art; to the joyous abandon of the style of Cerito she adds the neatness of execution, the graceful force, the artistical finish of Fanny Ellsler. She sustained the character of Mazourka, the Basket maker's wife, and not only was her dancing of the highest order of cheerographic excel lence, but her acting was delightful. Nothing could exceed the rich humour of her paysanne grande dame in the second act, when she awakes and finds herself a countess. Her opening pas, too, with W. H. Payne, was very fine, but the triumph of the evening was the graad pas de deux in the second act, with Monsieur Bretin (a new engagement and first-rate dancer). Her tours de force in this pas were perfectly marvellous; but everything was done with such exquisite grace, such refined taste, all was so artistically classical, that it was only on considering what had been accomplished that the spectator could become aware of the great power which must have been necessarily excited, and of the consummate art by which the fact of the exertion of that power had been concealed. The engagement of Flora Fabbri will turn out one of the greatest hits that Mr. Bunn has yet made. She was admirably supported by Mademoiselle Julie Dabas (also a new engagement), a very pretty girl and an exquisite dancer, and Madame Petit Stephan, who acted the part of the Countess, and whom we are glad to see again re visiting the scene of her former triumphs. The " taming of the shrew " scene was admirably given by this lady and W. H. Payne, who, as the basket-maker, was excessively humourous. Wie land, who was the dancing. master, elicited roars of laughter by his exceeding quaintness. The piece is superbly got up, the costumes are gorgeous, and the scenery is exceedingly beautiful. The last scene, more especially, is a miracle of splendour. The grouping of the sylphides in this scene was one of the most beautiful tableaux ever seen. It is needless to say that the piece was pre-eminently successful. It was re ceived with the most rapturous applause by one of the most crowded houses ever assembled within the walls of old Drury, and itis destined to a long and lasting popu larity. The principal dancers were honoured with the usual ovation at the fall of the curtain. It was preceded by Wallace's opera of Maritana, which seems increasing nightly in attaction. The house was crowded to suffo cation from the commencement of the performances, and the audience was most attentive to the delighful music of this opera, which should certainly be heard twice to be properly appreciated. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS. A pleasant one act drollery, it might almost be called a monopolylogue, was produced here last evening, un der the title of Le Serment de College, of which Lafont in the hero. Le Serment de College is an oath taken by two German collegians to share their fortunes together for the future, but, on leaving the college, the youths are, of course, separated by the world. One of them (M. Lafont) turns out a th oroug h mauvais sujet, and, after various disgraces, turns strolling player, and s trolls over the w or ld, mee ti ng with various piquant adventures in the course of his wanderings. Having returned from Batavia to Germany sans six sous mais aussi sans sougi, he offers his services to a German Prince to manage the Court Theatre. Judge of his sur prise on recognising in the Prime Minister of that Prince his old college friend —the man of the oath. To the utter dismay of the Premier, who is the very beau ideal of a Premier, as far as decency and decorum are concerned, our scape-grace demands the fulfilment of the oath, and requires a share in the premiership, or, at all events, a seat in the Cabinet. Now the German Premier does not exactly say "that there are three courses open to him," although it is evident that there are, and that he may either banish him from the dominions of the Prince by force, or endeavour to induce him to leave by a bribe, or, lastly, give him what he desires, a seat in the Cabinet. The Premier would fain take time to deliberate, but the man of action gives him no time. It is of importance to the interests of the Premier's Sovereign to obtain a treaty from Baden. This the Baden ambassador refuses to sign. The actor-diplomatist recognises in the wife of the Baden Minister an old playfellow—has an interview with her, and it is only when she puts the treaty signed by her husband into his hands that this prince of managers and manager of princes consents to remember to forget her. There can be no objection to take so skilful a diplomatist into the Ministry, and ac cordingly he is hailed by his college friend as " his right honourable colleague." The acting of Lafont was admirable. Nothing could exceed the perfect gentle manly ease of his impudence and the coolness of his as surance. Le Sermer4 was preceded by Catherine au la. Croixd'Or,in which Lafont appeared in his old character of the sergeant, a fine piece of rough and truthful acting. He was most efficiently supported by the pretty Made moiselle St. Marc, who as Catherine was most interest ing. The house was well and fashionably attended. SBRIOUS ROBBERY.—During the hours of church service on Sunday evening last, the house of the widow Wrightson, who carries on the watch and clockmaking busi ness, at Walham-green, Fulham, was broken open and robbed of the following valuable articles :—A silver hunting watch, maker's name, "Geo. Allen, London, No. 2,990 ;" silver ditto, "Bird, London;" ditto, "Wm. King, London, No. 99,398 ;" ditto, "Geo. Grayden, Dublin, No. 12,598 ;" ditto, " J. Morland, London, No. 121 ;" silver double-bottom watch, without name or number ; ditto, No. 122, maker's name un known, "I. C." engraved on the inside case ; metal watch, the name unknown, but it is supposed to have been made in Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square; silver watch, name un known—" George Moore" engraved on the outside case ; three empty silver watch cases, and an empty hunting-case, with glass in the centre ; and a pair of silver spectacles. A young man named Yates, who resides in the neighbourhood, and who was observed loitering about the house at the moment Mrs. Wrightson quitted the premises on her way to church, has been apprehended, and held in custody until Friday,when he will be examined before the magistrates at Hammersmith. WILL OF LADY HOLLAND. — The statement which first appeared in the Obserecr, and was from thence copied into several other newspapers relative to Lady Holland's be quest to Lord John Russell, is incorrect. The facts are these :—Her Ladyship has left her Brixton property (the value of which is estimated at about 1,500/. a-year to Lord John Russell for his life. At his death 5001. per annum out of the same property is to be paid to his Lordship's children, the remainder reverting to the offspiing of her Ladyship's daughter, the present Lady Lilford. We understand that her Ladyship's other children and grand children are very slightly remembered, if at all. Her page comes in for an an nuity of 150/. a-year, in addition to 50/. per annum left by the late Lord Holland to the same individual, and all the mem hers of her Ladyship's establishment are more or less pro vided for. Mr. Metcalfe Babington, her Ladyship's medical attendant, receives a legacy of 1,500/. and an annuity of 501. To Mr. Macaulay her Ladyship bequeaths a legacy of 100/.; to Mr. Luttrell, one of 300/. ; and smaller sums to many of her personal friends. A picture in Holland House is left to the Queen, " if her Majesty will deign to accept it ;" and the Hon. W. Cowper receives her Ladyship's collection of " 11. B." caricatures.—Post. SIR CHARLES NAPIER.—The Town Council of Edinburgh, at. their weekly meeting on Tuesday last, on the motion of the Lord Provost, unanimously voted the freedom of the city to Sir Charles Napier, who, it seems, is at pre sent on a visit to the Scottish metropolis,— Scotch Reformers' Gazette. INFRINGEMENT AND ABUSE OF TIIE INTERNATIONAL LAW. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Although not personally known to you, and feeling that my present address may excite a prejudice against me and my cause, yet such is my opinion of the generosity that actuates the minds of the guardians of the English press, that I am iuduced to entreat of you to lay before your readers the gross injustice with which I consider myself treated, and the flagrant violation of civil, social, and natural rights that I think have been perpetrated in my person on an American in this country. In the spring of 1841 I arrived in this kingdom with a capital of upwards 10,0001., a large portion of which I invested in saw-mills, machinery, &c., at Hull, but from subsequent vexatious, illegal, and unjust proceedings, I was compelled to relinquish my business, and to sacrifice, in a great measure, my property. In June, 1843, having in my possession some Treasury notes on the United States of America, I was, at the in stance of Messrs. Bush and Mullins (solicitors), arrested, and by them charged before the magistrates at Guild hall with having committed a forgery on parties in the United States. On the representation of said solicitors, who prayed for a remand to enable them to procure evi dence from the United States to support the charge against me, I was subjected to remands from time to time for the period of four months, during which time I was confined in the Compter prison. On the sth of October, 1843, I was taken to Guildhall for the, purpose of obtaining my discharge from the city magistrates. The prosecuting solicitors, anticipating that I should be discharged, as they had not been able to procure evidence to substantiate the charge, they had obtained a warrant from her Majesty's Secretary of State, and on it had me removed before the Bow-street magistracy, assuming that the city magistrates were not competent to adjudicate the charge against me. After a patient investigation before Mr. Jardine I was discharged: The charge at different examinations had assumed different forms and features to suit the purposes of my prosecutors. My funds in London, to the amount of between three and four thousand pounds, had been attached ; my papers, accounts, and even my most private correspondence, were in the course of proceedings seized and examined, and the prosecution then assumed a civil form. Messrs. Bush and Muffins, on the ground that I was in debted to J. Little and Co., of New York, had me thrown into the debtors' prison. In order to obtain my release I was compelled to leave my money under at tachment as security, whilst I consented to a commission being sent to the United States, that the prosecution might if possible rake up evidence against me. Two years expire, and that commission is not fulfilled, and I have been subjected to the vexatious proceedings of a bill of discovery. In the meantime I instituted suits for damages to my person and property, and for the reco very of my money held under attachment. The Re corder appointed the 7th of October for a hearing of the case ; but the prosecutors aforesaid defeated my object and the arrangement of the Learned Recorder, by having me arrested on the sth inst. I was sick : I had for weeks been confined to my bed I had just risen from it. I was taken upon a warrant obtained through the medium of his Excellency the United States' Minister. I was confined in a cold cell at the Bow street police station, and on the next day brought before Mr. Hall, who, upon ex park statements and the deposi tions upon which he granted the warrant, and without affording me an opportunity to rebut those statements, committed me for transmission to New York for trial. The old charge of forgery is renewed against me : and in an article of this kind I cannot trace its ramifications, but I solemnly say the charge is false, the prosecution unfounded, and the evidence adduced to sustain it con tradictory and paradoxical in the extreme. But were I guilty, which I again emphatically declare I am not—l contend that my arrest is illegal. I have been arrested and committed under the International Treaty, which was not ratified until August, 1842, whilst the crime with which I am charged is alleged to have been com mitted in April, 1841. The Constitution of the United States of America expressly states that no " Bill of attainder or ex post . facto law shall bo passed." Hence my arrest and imprisonment is quite at variance with the Constitution of my native country, and every prin ciple of English law and justice. I have applied for and obtained a habeas corpus to have my case disposed of by high legal authority in this country, before I am forced out of it a prisoner to New York. lam convinced that Englishmen, who are proverbially lovers of fair play and equal justice, will denounce as tyrannically illegal, un just, and oppressive, the treatment I have received, and am still subjected to, in their land of freedom. Apologising to you, Mr. Editor, for thus trespassing upon your time and valuable columns, and hoping that the persecution and suffering I endure will be deemed an excuse for this otherwise unwarrantable intrusion, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. C. CLINTON. Westminster Bridewell, Oct. 22. THE NEW BISHOP-DOING HOMAGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—As the new Bishop, after his consecration, will be required to do homage to her Majesty, before he will be entitled to enter upon the temporalities of the see, perhaps the following extract, explaining the grounds upon which the Crown claims the right to ecclesiastical property, and also the form of homage required to be performed, may not be uninteresting to many of your readers. Extract from the preamble of Act of Ist James I. c. 3. " Whereas all the Archbishoprics and Bishoprics within this realm, were in ancient times founded by his Majesty's most noble progenitors, Kings of this realm, and in respect thereof, his Majesty is lawful and rightful patron of all and every of the same," &c. &c. BISHOP'S OATH ON DOING HOMAGE. " I - Bishop of - will be faithful and true, and faith and truth will lead unto you, our Sovereign Lady, and your Heirs, Kings of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and I will do, and fully acknowledge the services of the lands which I now claim to hold of you, as in right of the Church. So help me God." I am, Sir, yours &c., WITNESS. Ilfracombe, Nov. 12, 1845. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In yonr paper of Saturday last I observe a letter from Sherborne terming the report of the railway meet ing :held at Weymouth on the 17th instant, a part of which appeared in your journal the following day, as in complete and inaccurate, inasmuch as Sir John Audrey is named as a Director of the Great Western Company instead of the Weymouth, Somerset, and Wilts Company, and that Mr. Eliot is described as taking the opportunity of informing the gentlemen of the Great Western Com pany of the dissatisfaction, &c., instead of the gentlemen of the Weymouth, Somerset, and Wilts Railway Com pany ; and further, Mr. Brunel is made to say that the engagements of the Great Western are very numerous. So they are, I doubt not ; but Mr. Brunel did not tell the meeting so. And Mr. Hopkins said nothing about the Great Western monopolising the whole of the south coast, nor is it evident how they can monopolise the coast at all by an internal line. In reply, allow me to ob s,...rve that it is immaterial whether in the delay of the consLruction of the works at Weymouth the complaint is directed to the Great Western Company, or the Wilts, Somerset, anti Weymouth Company, as, virtually, they are one and ase same company. The Great Western Company having o,?en the originators of the line, car ried it through ParliaraLs.rit, and have since leased it to themselves in perpetuity. 2.4 r. Brunel did tell the meet ing that the engagements of Great Western were numerous, and that those engagements would not cease until after the 30th November, and vvorls to that effect are attributed to him in the report of the mepting which ap peared in the Dorset County Chronicle (a edt)) , of which I forward you). And, lastly, as regards Mr. Hopkins, I copy an extract from his speech as reported in the before-mentioned paper, where, in speaking of the two competing lines, Weymouth to Exeter coastwise, and Bridport to Exeter, with branches to the coast, he says, " Was it to be endured that the Great Western should have the monopoly of the country, and that ro indepen dent Company should carry out a line however its supe rior merits might recommend it ?" I admit that my report is incomplete, as, had I sent a verbatim one, it would have occupied an entire page of 1 The Sun. It is though substantially correct. I should have been at a loss to understand why your correspondent had so trifled with: the columns of your caper had I not good reason to believe that he had an eng;tgement from a morning paper, and was annoyed at being fvrestalled by the report first appearing in The Sun.—l an, Sir, your obedient servant, YOUR REPORTER. Weymouth, IN - ; v. 24, 1845. -- -- ACCIDENT AT THE OPENING OF THE BRIGHTON AND CHICHESTER RAILWAY,—The Brighton and Chichester Railway was opened yesterday (Monday) as far as Worthing, General Pasley having certified that the line, although only one set of rails is as yet laid dos-'n between Shoreham and Worthing, is fit for traffic. Ile first three trains from Brighton, and the first two from Worthing, went through, carrying a considerable number pf passengers ; but the third train from Worthing, which starts fifty: five minutes after twelve o'clock, on arriving at within a short distance of the residence of the latstThomas Lloyd, Bart., met with an accident which s ut _ ri Lan s ieq r , inter rupted the traffic for the rest of the day. At th u e_ p a d ,. question two horses veers drawing a cm the waggons on a temporary line of rails, or rather halfx mile in permanent rails which are laid down for about ubaetve c e . ;1 pre this locality; and the driver neglecting t ta bridle, the al; imal caution of holding the leading horses trails train f e started off into the permanent line_ t h ii vras i in advance of th,:' just as the engine was coming up, and the tender, which was capsized off the rails , engine, knocked downtbeardrstaelwrudgruavnerovthere iiito.rseTwhehteennbdeer over, but remained on one of the rails tzgeiennetwheasfurolsuntttrduirhuind is heels, killed it on the spet. The • so as to obstruct the p assage. Fortunately, the pace of the train being slow, n one of the passengers were injured ; but in consequence of the accident they were detained for two hours, when they were removed to another train and proceeded to Brighton. All subsequent trains were more or. less delayed, the whole of the afternoon being employed in an endeavour to get the engine and tender righted. The driver of the horses was taken into custody and handcuffed. NEW ZEALAND.—lntelligence from Cook's Straits, to the 17th May, came to hand yesterday. There had been no outbreak, but it is clear there will be one as soon as the Government attempt to remove the natives from the valley of the Hutt, which has been three times paid for. Raupahara, one of the chiefs concerned in the Wairau massacre, and to whom the money was paid for this land lay Governor Fitz roy, had been to the Hutt to endeavour to persuade the na tives to leave, but they treated him with perfect contempt. The Government must either give up New Zealand or force the natives from this land, which has beets so dearly paid for ; and whenever they attempt to give the settlers posses sion, then will the scenes of the north be re-enacted in the south.—Svdstey Morning Herald, June 19. Earl Ducie has consented to take the chair at the Anti. Corn-law meeting, to be held in the public rooms, Broadmead, Bristol, on Friday, • the sth of December. Messrs. Cobden, Bright, and Milner Gibson, M.Fls., will be present on the occasion. Mr. C. Villiers, M.P., is also ex pected,—Bath Journal. RECEIPT STAMPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. am induced to solicit the indulgence of a corner in your extensively circulated journal, in refer ence to stamp receipts. Having resided some years in the metropolis, my avo cation has afforded me ample opportunities of witness ing the wholesale manner in which an important branch of the revenue is defeated and evaded, by the almost universal practice of traders and merchants in the City giving mere simple acknowledgments, (frequently in a book kept generally for the purpose by commercial houses) thus avoiding stamps and, indeed, receipt stamps are rarely considered necessary by a very large number of houses of business. The Government cannot be aware of the immense ex tent of this illegal practice, if so, the official authorities connected with this particular department of the revenue (who, I believe are pretty well paid by the country for their services) must treat the matter with impunity. If other branches in their public capacity, as the Customs for instance in cases of smuggling, are so exact in re quiring, under heavy penalties, the strict letter of the law, ought not this lucrative department to be equally vigilant ? I would humbly submit for the consideration of the Legislature, that a uniform penny receipt stamp be made compellable, and the only legal discharge for all amounts above a certain fixed sum ; and I firmly believe such an enactment would prove of equal advantage to the revenue, as I am quite confident that under the pre sent system many hundreds of thousands, yea, millions of pounds sterling, are annually paid without a stamp ; whereas, by a uniform compulsory Act, as suggested, no one would think of paying or receiving money with out the stamp, and books of such stamps would then be universally kept by every house of business, and be also in general request at private houses. In connexion with this interesting subject, I beg leave to name the heavy duties on fire insurance policies, so detrimental, by preventing many, who would otherwise avail themselves of the advantages of these provident institutions. I suggest these brief considerations during the Parlia mentary recess, and if deemed worthy of publicity, I hope the nation will thereby derive relief and advantage from the next Ministerial Budget. Trusting you will excuse the length of my remarks, allow me to remain, Mr. Editor, very respectfullyours, A COMMERCIAL MAN. Brighton, Nov. '24th, 1845. PROJECTED RAILWAYS. Notices that application is intended to be made to Parlia ment, in the ensuing session, on behalf of the undermen tioned schemes, appeared in the Gazette of last night : Norfolk Railway—Thetford and Newmarket branch. Staines and Henley. Leeds and Bradford (amendment). Swansea and Loughor. Wilts and Gloucester Junction. Grand Junction Extension. Shropshire Union Railway and Canal—Shrewsbury to Stafford (Canal line). Eastern Counties, Barking, and Thames Junction Railway, and Coal and Coasting Dock. • Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company (Newtown to Crewe). Louth and Gainsborough Direct. Midland Railway—Erewask Valley branehes. Nottingham and Erewash Valley. London and Blackwall—Extension branches. South Midland branches. East Dereham and Norwich. Harwich and Eastern Counties Junction. North of Norfolk. Great Kent Atmospheric. Oxford and West Drayton (Great Western Junction). Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Oldham, &c., branches). Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Cooper bridge branch and Huddersfield Diversion). Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford Junction. Manchester (or Ardwick) and Saddleworth, with branches. Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halsted. Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company—Shrews bury and Stafford. West Bromwich and Shrewsbury, and branches. Poole and Great Canford (Southampton and Dorchester junction). Cornwall Railways. North Staffordshire Railway—Liverpool Extension. North Staffordshire Railway—Main line through the Pottery District. North Staffordshire Railway—Churnet Valley Line. London and South-Western—Wootton, Sutton, Bingham, and Yeovil branches. Bristol and English Channels Connexion. Welsh Midland Continuation from Carmarthen to Car digan. London and York (Great Northern) Railway—Stamford and Spalding Branch. Rugby and Huntingdon Junction. London and York (Great Northern) Railway—Wakefield and Leeds Branch. Welsh Midland Extension Railway—Kidderminster to Birmingham. Welsh Midland Extension Railway—Leominster to Stour port and Kidderminster. Shrewsbury and Herefordshire. Leicester and Bedford. Gloucester and Hereford Canal and Worcester Railway (in connexion with the Welsh Midland.) Radnorshire, Aberystwith, and Welsh Midland Junction. Welsh Midland. Brecon and Merthyr Junction (in connexion with the Welsh Midland.) Avon and Severn Valley Railway. London and Croydon (amendment). Leeds and Bradford (amendment). Shropshire Mineral Railway. Eastern Union—Norwich Extension. St. Albans, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction. Truro and St. Agnes. Manchester and Hyde. Wakefield, Ossett, and Dewsbury, Direct and Atmo spheric. Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (amendment . ). Leeds and Bradford Extension. Midland Railway Extensions—Swinton to Lincoln. London and York—(notice to re-introduce the Bill). Boston, Grantham, Leicester, and Midland Counties Junc tion. Wisbech and Fletton. Whitby, Pickering, Thirsk, and Great North of England Junction. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction (amendment). Norfolk Railway Extensions: Nottingham and Gainsborough. Syston and Peterborough—Branch to Rugby. East Lincolnshire. Great North of England Railway (purchase). Midland and Leeds and Bradford Railway's. Lancaster and Carlisle—Orton and Newcastle-on-Tyne branch. Northamcton, Banbury, and Cheltenham. Great Bolton and Garston (Lancashire). Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction. Bristol and South Wales Junction. Lancashire, Cheshire, and Staffordshire Junction. Leeds, Fleetwood, and Liverpool. BOSTON RAILWAYS.—•MUDiCipaI Corporations are doing, at last, what a few years ago it would have been thought infra dig. to have attempted. They find that rail. ways will come within their locality, and they are taking measures to turn this to account. The Corporation of Bos ton have formally resolved, that " in consequence of several Railway Companies having given notice of their intention to have their stations and shipping quays for Boston out of the town, whereby the trade would be seriously inconve nienced, as well as the property in the town greatly depre ciated in value ; this Council feels called upon to protect the inhabitants as much a s p ossible a g ai nst such injuries; and are, therefore, resolved to oppose in Parliament all such Companies as shall determine on haying their stations out of the town."—The only Company which will actually run into Boston, (its terminus being at Doughty Quay, in the heart of the town,) is the Boston, Grantham, Leicester, and Me land Counties Junction Railway Company, which goes to Parliament next session. THE BOOTY TAKEN IN SINDE.—We understand that a grant has been made to the captors of the booty taken in Sinde by the troops under Major-General Sir Charles Na pier in February and March, 1843. The amount of bullion and treasure is stated at upwards of 400,000/.,—what the value of jewels, &c., may be is not known, but they will pro bably realise MAU, so that not less than half a million sterling will fall to be divided among the captors. To the troops who were stationed in Sinde at the time of the battles of Meanee and Hyderabad, but who were not actually pre sent at those battles, a specific portion (we believe one-sixth) is allotted. The residue is given to the forces engaged in the battles, after deducting what they have already received under the head of extra batta on this account. The stamp duty paid into the Bank of England on account of the bul lion and treasure amounts to upwards of 21,0001.—Allen's Indian Mail. _ _ AN UNPRONOUNCEABLE NAME.—A Shotchnaan, named Alexander Finney, drowned himself in Coneyocketies Creek, near Buffalo, on the ]2th 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,-Bostert .bee. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg left the Castle at twenty minutes past nine o'clock this morning, en route per Great Western Railway to the Bricklayers' Arms station, via South Eastern Railway, to Folkestone for Boulogne. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Madame Angelet and Baron de Wan genheim. Her Majesty and Prince Albert accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, took leave of their illustrious visitors at the door of the principal entrance. There were also present, Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss Devereux, Maids of Honour, Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting, Captain the Hon. A. Duncombe, Groom in Waiting, Lord Char___ "Yel leley, Clerk Marshal, Colonel Bowles, Master of the Household, and Colonel Sir George Couper, Equerry in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent. Lieutenant-Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting, at tended the Prince and Princess to the Bricklayers' Arms station of the South-Eastern Railway. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family were all taken their accustomed airings in the forenoon; and the Prince of 'Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken for riding and walking exercise in the afternoon. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle to•day on a- visit. Lord Portman took his departure this morning. There was no addition to the royal dinner party at the Castle this evening. The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Sunday. Yesterday morning the Royal Duke, attended by Baron Knese beck, left town for Paultons, to honour Mr. Sloane Stanley with a visit. A deputation, consisting of the Mayor of Manchester, Mr. Mark Philips, M.P., Mr. Joseph Brotherton, M.P. Mr. Alderman Kay, Mr. Robert Hyde Grey, and the Town Clerk of Manchester, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. Lord Granville Somerset (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) arrived in town yesterday from the Con tinent. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England bad a Committee-meeting yesterday. There were present the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Ely, and the Earl of Devon. Lord Stanley arrived in town yesterday evening, from Knowesley Hall, Lancashire. Lord Wharncliffe has returned to town from St Leonard's. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial•otfiice for the Governor of Hong Kong. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office from the Governors of New South Wales, and South Aus tralia. A HEAVY BLOW AND SORE DISCOURAGEMENT. When Dr. Chalmers and his now so-called " Free" adherents ruled the roast in Glasgow some ten or fifteen years ago, nothing would satisfy them but to build no fewer than twenty additional churches in this city and neighbourhood, ostensibly "to excavate the heathen," so they said, but in reality to smother the Voluntaries, then denominated " the vermin." Their love for the Church of Scotland in those days knew no bounds. It never en tered into their noddles that they would play any reel of Bogie against her in any Canonmills-hall, far less that they would dash any of her " wee bit endoomenties" away from them for ever. No such " Disruption" was ever contemplated by them at the period we speak of. And so they testified, affirmed, and declared in the most solemn manner, both verbally and in writing, both in pulpit and in hall; both in civil and ecclesiastical courts and records, that those twenty churches were to be built and to remain in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland, absolutely and unconditionally, in all time coming. " Retract ! no—not a hair's-breadth !" Very well. The " Disruption" came. The " reel of Bogie;" sure enough, was played out, in a state of feverish ex citement to many, and to the grief and regret and dis may of others. led into the free vortex without rhyme or reason, and occasioning sobs and tears yet unknown amongst other innocent parties, ruined or victimised thereby, all through the instrumentality of a few stab.. born, vain-glorious ecclesiastics, who wished to become little Popes in this kingdom, above the sovereignty of the law, which rules all other denominations of man kind. And when these parties, after all their cantrips, saw that they could not sweep the establishment (in which they themselves had so long nestled) from the face of the earth, they then tried, by process of law—yes, by process of law—which they formerly contemned, as witness their own conduct in the ever memorable Auch terardy case, they tried—and we cannot ton often repeat, because it signally exposes their own folly and most glaring inconsistency ; they tried, by process of law, in other words, by a good, thumping Court of Session law plea, to sever the connection between these twenty churches and the Establishment, to roup them, yes, to sell them, and to divide the free residue or proceeds thereof amongst themselves. This was certainly a new process for " excavating the heathen," on their own professed original principles. But the law of the land keeps people Lo their own engagements, voluntarily and solemnly undertaken by them ; and it is well that it is so, otherwise this would be a miserable world for schis matics of various kinds. The law of the land preserves social rule, esi,,blished order, and constituted rights ; and, acting on these principles, it has just turned the " free," and we presume we must call them the very pious, pursuers out of court. It has told them that they cannot sell these churches and divide the proceeds amongst themselves. It has told them that they can not subvert their own declarations, or deface, or alter, or destroy the title deeds to which they became willing parties when in their sound and sober senses ; but thP7 must abide by these through good and evil times, at at hands and against all mortals as law will. The . Court of Session, therefore, per Lord Robertson (ordinary), has just dismissed the process of these " free a nd-easy" pursuers, and found them liable to their Emu= oppo that they man of sense and n r i e g n h t s t p i r n i p l leexwpiellnsrees.joiceAlladt this, say have just been served right. But what a noise we shall hear about it in the " free organs ! They will tr y to bamboozle their free ad herents, or to mystify the matter with the usual cant about the headship, and the Erastian thraldom, or other t hings of that sort , so rife of late in this " free," be. nighted land. But common sense and calm reflection should tell them that they have fought and discomfited with their own weapons ; and so, here we quietly leave them for the present.—Scotch Reformer's Gazette. 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 pl ace i n 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 yea rs ; j ourne y men ca n sc arc e ly be obtained. —Birmingham Pilot. BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF A LADY BY HER lUSBAND AND SON.—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. Ba,:tersby, for having committed a series of assaults upon her (bring 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 statenWnt of the case, it appeared that his client had been subjecte4 to numerous indignities, and though she had brought her husband a fortune of 4,0004 she was all lowed little more than the necessaries, and„*. of the com forts of life. The roue of her ordinarfl - Firies was, for a long period, more those of a domest ic serf-ant than of his wife; besides which, she had sus tained, several times, severe bioiedielyoninnijvuarlyieferoonfilaiessraiiiiusltsbamnlade upon herb . y we h r e e r so cal n ied wit to h t substantiate these allegatio ns. Mr. Jackson appeared for the defendants , an d after he had called witnesses , the .and case Witnessest Rev. n follows :—Mr. Rich ard Battersby, was left for the decision of the bench, which was Joh given Bats tersby, to be fined 51. each, or, in default, imprisoned for t w o months, and to g ive security, themselves in 500/. each, and two sureties in 2501., to be of the peace t owar d s M rs . Batterby.—Banner of Ulster. T H E POTATO DISEASE.—A comrnunication from the Poor-law Commission ers was laid before the Hertford Board of Guardians at their last sitting, authorising them to employ the poor in the workhouse in extracting the flour or starch from diseased potatoes, free of expense to any poor person who should send them to the house for that po i)(8 • —Chelmsford Chronicle. ,Y.) -.4