The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-12 00:00:00

O t .4• o n ••' bat 11 TEILI GEN CE. I ("letriaS, ANT , HASTINGS. ' ,!' *eetitg of the proprietors was held at the A l tte t 4 2 , for the purpose of confirming a resoluti= • hof JuT.‘ • last, relative to the sale of t -- "wo and Brighton Company. Rowf,.. the chairman of the Company, pre sided, and said that the meeting, which was a matter of form, was for the purpose of confirming a resolution passed some time ago, with reference to the Act for etendins the line to Ashford, and also for th e purpose of c onfirming a reso lution, transferring the rights of the Brighton m , Lewes, and Hastings line to the Brighton Company. Ile oved— " That the Keymer branch, and also the Hastings and Ashford line be made over by the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings R ailway Company to the London and Brighton Railway Company, if (and when) Acts shall be oainednged for making the same or either of them ; it having been arra that the London and Brighton Railway Company are to re pay to the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Cotn pany all expenses incurred by them in relation to the said Reymer branch and the Hastings and Ashford, whether such Acts shall pas 4 or not, beand are hereby confirmed. And that the corporate seal of the Company be affixed to the transfer, and the London and Brighton Railway Coman have all the powers granted to th e Brighton, Lewes,pany d Hastings Railway Company by the Act passed in the and H last session ing of P ar liament, enabling the Brighton, Lewes, asts Railway Company to m ake a branch railway from South over, Lewes, to join the London and Brighton Railway at Kevmer ; and also the powers of another Act, also passed in the last session of Parliament, to enable the said Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company to make a railway from Balverbrittle, in the county of Sussex, to Ashford, in Kent, so far , as the same relate to such portions of the rail way authorised by the said last-mentioned Act as has not been ,transferred to the South-Eastern Railway Company, pursuant to the provisions in the said Act contained; toge ther with all the rights and privileges of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, in or over so much and such parts of the said railway and works authorised by the said last-mentioned Act, and the stations and conve niences connected therewith ,as have been transferred to the aid South Eastern Railway Company, in pursuance of the provisions of the said Act." Mr. CROWLEY, the deputy-chairman, having seconded the confirmation of the resolution, it was put and unanimously agreed to. • HULL AND HOLYHEAD DIRECT. A meeting of the committee of management in this under taking was held on Saturday, at the offices of the Company, 2, Winchester-buildings, Winchester-street, Lord Viscount Ingestre, M.P., presiding. His Lordship having briefly introduced the proceedings, the report of Mr. W. 11. Smith, the engineer, was laid before the meeting, and read by Mr. William Tyler, the secretary to the Company. It commenced by stating that it became his (Mr. Smith's) duty to report to the Committee on the practicability of the Hull and Holyhead Direct Railway, from the surveys which had already been made, the state of forwardness of those surveys at the present moment, and generally upon the probability of remuneration to the shareholders here after. From the rumours which had prevailed as to the practicability of the line, he felt called upon to spare no pains or detail, and he wished to be able to prove that it would not only, commercially speaking, be highly ad vantageous, but in an engineering point of view, of an extremely satisfactory character. The formation of the line, in tunnels, gradients, or curves, and cost of construction, would be much more favourable than he at first anticipated, and much under his original estimate. There would be no curves so quick, or gradients so severe, as on railways at present in existence; and, strange as it might appear, there would not_ be so great a total length of tunnelling, or any one, so long, as those upon an equal distance either of the London and Birmingham or of the Great Western Railways, while on the projected line there existed the advantage of passing throughout a fine building-stone of the best pos sible quality for tunnelling. There were many reasons, based upon the result of local inquiry and information, which were amply sufficient to warrant the construction of this line. 1. Taking as termini the towns of Chester and Northwich, Northwich and Knntsford, Altringham and Manchester, Manchester and Holyhead, Northwic h and Sheffield, Sheffield and Macclesfield, they were in themselves of sufficient importance to demand direct lines ; this line embracing the whole of these important towns amongst its other enumerated advantages. 2.• Railways, being proved to be 'the cheapest of all communication, the great agricultural produce of Ireland would be conveyed by the Holyhead line to Chelter, and by the Hull and Holyhead direct to the port of Hull, and other gr eat eastern outlets of the kingdom , bringing in return the produce and manufactures of those districts, the manufactures of Sheffield and Manchester, and the large trade in rock salt from Northwich to the northern ports of Europe. 3. For the vast mineral wealth of Derby shire and Yorkshire, including some of the oldest mines in the kingdom of iron, coal, and lead, and the finest stone and lime stone, increased facilities of transit would thus be afforded. 4. The great accession of traffic arising from the numerous feeders, consisting of the Sheffield and Great Grimsby and numerous other lines, as likewise the branches already pro posed from Castleton to Buxton, and the potteries on the south, and to Stockport and Manchester on the north. Mr. Smith proceeded to say that he had considered the relative merits of the atmospheric system, against which he thought an undue amount of prejudice existed. He had adopted curves and gradients, and also a line generally applicable with advantage to either. The Hull and Holyhead line would form the shortest from the new American packet station, Galway, Dublin, &c., to Hull, the Baltic, and the northern parts of Europe, and would have for its feeders numerous existing and projected great lines of railway, running north and south, from Sheffield, Chester, Macclesfield, &c. It would likewise facilitate the shipment of manufactures, which are at present conveyed to Chester, and thence, by a circuitous route, to the interior, and ultimately to the port of Hull, at great loss of time and expense, the latter amount ing in itself almost to a prohibition. The surveys would be complete in time for deposit for going before Parliament in the approaching session. The CuAntMAN remarked that but one opinion could pre vail as to the satisfactory character of the report, the adop tion of which he would move. The motion was put and carried nem. dis. Mr. TYLER announced that the notice of the intended ap plication to Parliament, in the ensuing session, would appear in the Gazette of Friday next. A vote of thanks to the Chairman, which his Lordship briefly acknowledged, concluded the business of the meeting. GREAT WESTERN AND FALMOUTH JUNCTION. EXETEE, MONDAY ASTEENOON.—A meeting of the Great Western and Falmouth Junction Company was held to-day at the Old London Hotel, in this city, for the purpose of receiving the engineer's report of the survey of the line, and other business. At eleven o'clock the attendance was both numerous and respectable. Mr. JA3IES GOLDSWORTHY, having been unanimously called to the chair, commenced the procedings by at once calling on the engineer of the Company, Mr. George Han son Julian, to read his report, which he did as follows: " Having been directed to make a survey for a line of rail way from Crediton to Falmouth, keeping as near the princi pal towns on the route as may be practicable, I have the sa tisfaction to report that a line has been laid down, which for gradients and general engineering qualities cannot be sur passed. The Committee will remember that what is called the central line was long since surveyed, and it was my intention to have adopted it, with such variations only as .might be found necessary to obviate the formidable objections which had been made by the Board of Trade. In proceeding to do so I discovered a very superior line was obtainable, in a direction which appears to have been hitherfo entirely overlooked. The line I have adopted leaves the station of the Crediton and Exeter Railway at Crediton, thence _pro ceeds by the valley of the Yeo to Colebroke, thence by Bow and North Tawton to the lowest point of the ridge at Sam pford Moor, thence along the valleys of the Lew and Carey rivers to . Launceston. Arriving at Launceston in the manner :le6cribed, the line passes along the valley, close to the west side of the town, and the station will be within 'a few chains of the market-place and the principal hotel near the centre of the town. Upon making exploring snr veys between Launceston and Bodmin, it became obvious to me that the lowest attainable summit between those towns was at Doz Mare ; I therefore decided on taking a survey of the country in that direction. From Launceston the line runs by South Petherwin and Trebartha to the summit of the Doz Mare, from which it immediately de rcends to Warleggan, along the Cardenham valley to the and dose to the county town of Bodmin. The chief dithctilties and heavy works of the late central line, which were so strongly condemned by the Board of Trade, were t.ncounteito ,l in the district of country betweenLaunceston and 'Botnia , I can safely assert that through this district the . line I have described will be constructed at much less ex pense, with far better gradients, and across a summit.of 130 feet lower than the old central line. From Bodmin the line continues near to the Tretoil and Lanivet Consols Mine, and the town of Lostwithiel, to the valley of the Luxulian waters, along which it passes for three miles to the centre of the large village of Roche. Crossing the lowest part of the ridge at Roche, with a gradient of about 1 in 200, the line emerges into the valley of the river Fal, along which it .runs within a short distance of the towns of Grampound, • Tregony, Probus, diverging therefrom to Ladock on to T ru r ' , where there would be a station adjoining the town. From Truro the line will pass near Killion, acnss the Carnon stream, along the valley to Burnt House, close to the borough town of Penryn, and terminating near Killegrow-street, Fahruntth, with a branch fur heavy traffic to the water's edge, near Green Bank. The whole of the line thus de scribed has been most carefully and thoroughly surveyed, and will be about four miles shorter than any line yet pro jected from. Exeter direct to Falmouth, and about twenty- ' fors miles shorter tnan the late coast line. Our active sur veyors, a large and efficient staff of whom have been employed fur six weeks past in making the surveys, have engaged to complete their work before the 20th instant, and from the forward .state of their survey and plans, I have no doubt they will be able easily to fulfil their undertaking, thus ensuring to the company the ability to comply with the t3tanding Orders of Parliament. "I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, "G. 11. JULIAN." Mr. JOHN STOODEN wished to ask the engineer in what direction this line would proceed, taking it in reference to the late central line, and showing the difference of the summits , gradients, Sic. The ENGINEER replied, that the late line passed from Launceston, and in its progress towards Bodmin crossed the range of hills proceeding west from Launceston. It had a tunnel at Piper's Pool, with the heavy gradient of one in eighty, which began to rise at that place; this gradient extend'; for several miles. Here it was proposed to have a tunnel of 700 yards in length, and there is a sort of table land extending for about four miles, the descent from which would be by a gradient of one in eighty towards Bodmin, passing the turnpike-road at Ponsconcer. The summit level, however, which he (Mr. Julian) had taken, was at Doz Mare Pool, where he - rose to the summit and imme diately fell. He had no table-land to contend with, because be got into the leading valleys which took him with the ea4e-d possible gradients which streams of the character he ha. l alluded to could do in a direct line towards Bodmin; .- 1( tile stream from Tretoil, which he had taken to arrive at his minimit level, was also a leading stream. Here he got a level along the valley for three miles in extent, with out-any cutting, ar,d in which it was only requisite to turn up the land for the purpose of laying down the rails. It was eft this point that they had to overcome what had hitherto been considered the most difficult part of the country, viz., the cutting through the Bodmin moors. Mr. HARVET.--YOU are speaking of the difficulties of the old Cornwall and Central Devon scheme. The ENGINEER said he was so, and he felt satisfied that he had chosen the lowest possible summit, and that the line which he had laid down would cross the moors in the best possible manner.—(Cheers.) It would be found that he had taken the lowest practicable summits, and the easiest gra dients that could be had. All the streams rose in the mi4uile of the moors, flowing thence in every direction , and the lime 'le had chosen led exactly • from one into the other, in the direct line of their raHway. After some co►iversational discussion, Mr. HARVEY then rose and said he wished to offer a few obwrations upon the report which they had heard real, and upon some other Ratters connected with the present undertaking. He had been exceedingly gratified by the report Which their engineer had•been able to present to theta cuE SUN, LONDON, WDDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1845. that day. The character of the line was so ably delineated in that report, that it was entirely unnecessary for him to (tHheeasru.)bjeTcthtehacnwlttorasext gratifiedpbreestsweheonwitand h me tropolis and Exeter with t he western parts of Devon and wmotasyherwmliinhreeitwo.—nhich had yet been projected for connecting the -4Cheers.) Mr. Julian C orn wall was most strongly marked. had shown that the Great Western and Falmouth Junction dieostsatncoe--f etohnasttrutheetrioenwoovuledr Railwayi t 3 at an O r f n n th o i ldse o fr eedc C ut e n eat t i r so a an l V iilnnigntethineand that better gradients would be obtained throughout.—(Hear, hear.) Time would thereby be saved as well as money, and time, as they knew, was money in railroad affairs. The line now under their consideration was one which connected the existing and pro jected broad gauge lines from Exeter, westward, throughout the whole of the dis,rict of Devon and Cornwall, and it in no way competed with any line, existing or projected, u at pre insde ent before the public.-4 Cheers.) Instead of taking pan pendent position at Exeter, and running down in competi tion with the line which was authorised by the last session of Parliament to be constructed between Exeter and Crediton, and, instead of also competing with another projection from the same great commanding and influential body, the Great Western Company, and the other parties who projected the North Devon line, with an arm to Crediton, this line proposed to connect itself only with the western point of that junction somewhere near Hatherleigh, and to pass on to Falmouth, without competing with any line projected from ,Truro to Penzance.—(Hear.) It had been considered necessary, in the absence of any defined plan for a connection between the North Devon and Crediton lines, to survey the whole country up to Crediton, so as to be in a condition to deposit their plans for an entire line from Cre diton to Falmouth, showing on the plan a complete connec tion, which they could not do if they assumed the course of the line from a point on the North Devon line. There had been a line projected last session for the accommodation of the whole of Cornwall—the coast line—and which ran from Falmouth by the coast to Plymouth, and then proposed to be united with the South Devon line. That bill had been on its own demerits rejected by the House of Lords, and in: an amended shape it bad not yet made its appearance before the public. A prospectus had been issued by that company, which stated that Mr. Brunel had been autho rised, in compliance with the recommendation of the com mittee of the House of Lords, to complete a new survey of the whole district of country between Plymouth and Fal- Mouth, and he had also been instructed to survey the dis trict between the coast line and the proposed north Devon line, with the view of effecting a j u nction between those lines, and so to perfect something like a direct communi cation between Falmouth and Exeter. Hitherto no project hed appealed of the sort, and the only line which met the necessities of the country, and which united instead of con flicting with existing interests, was the Great Western and Falmouth Junction line, now under discussien.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Another line had been projected to pass from Exeter over a similar district of country to Fal mouth and Penzance ; but the line was what was com monly known :as a narrow gauge line, and being in connection with the existing interests of the narrow gauge, viz„ with the South Western Company, as far as Basingstoke, and with other narrow gauge projects to Salisbury and Exeter, it could scarcely be consi dered as entering into competition with a broad gauge line, which Was simply an extension of the existing Bristol and Exeter line from Exeter westward. The Great Western Company had lately published some statements, and had declared their intentions to be to construct a direct line from London to Exeter, by the extension of certain lines autho rised to be made by them to Hungerford, and by a new line from Exeter to YeoviL That line would of course be a broad gauge line, and the whole district of country below Exeter, being clearly occupied by broad gauge projects and broad gauge lines, it appeared reasonable to suppose that no narrow gauge independent line could be carried down from Salisbury and Yeovil and Exeter westward, to compete with existing and projected broad gauge lines, when it was known that the great object& of Parliament were first to see that proper railway accommodation should be secured to every district requiring it, and in the next place, that that communication should be carried out, if possible, by existing interests. And assuming that to be probable, he regarded the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil project, the Yeovil and. Exeter, and the Cornwall and Devon central line, as standing no chance whatever of succeeding in obtaining any Parliamentary authority for their schemes. It was very clear that to one or, the other of the existing broad gauge schemes the present project must be a matter of con siderable interest.—(Hear, hear.) There had lately been, as they were aware, a disagreement—a very considerable disa greement—between the Bristol and Exeter, and the Great Western Companies, as to the terms on which the one should cede, and the other obtain the entire possession of the former railway. The Bristol and Exeter Proprietors deter mined that the terms upon which the Great Western Com pany desired to purchase the line were not such terms as they either could or ought to accept.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him (Mr. Harvey) that if the Bristol Exeter Railway was at present worth to the Great Western Railway Company six per cent., which was the sum offered by them at the expiration of the lease—if it was worth six per cent. to them, with the full knowledge which they had of the traffic passing over it = information which he believed they had not thought fit to disclose to the Shareholders of the Bristol and Exeter Company—he said, if they were willing to give this per tentage, with a full knowledge of the amount of the traffic over the Bristol and Exeter line, and notwithstanding their determination to carry out a direct line of railway by Hungerford, the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth line, and Yeovil, why then there could not be a doubt that if the Bristol and Exeter Company main tained an independent course, and assisted in promoting the legitimate extension of their own line, they might reasonably ask 10 per cent. They might thereby secure the whole of the traffic now carried from Cornwall by water, but which they now lost. He believed that the Bristol and Exeter line, even if a direct line should be carried out between Exeter and London, would ultimately realise a greater traffic than the Great Western Railway itself— seeing that the Bristol and Exeter Railway was the key stone to the great highway of traffic to the north, to the great manufacturing districts, and to Scotland. There was another important point to be remarked upon here—that was the proposed extension of the line from the Bristol and Exeter Railway to the extreme north and north-west parts of Devon and the northern districts of Cornwall.—(Hear). A very large portion of traffic also would find its way by Taunton to London, even if the Great Western Company should con struct a direct line from Yeovil by the way of Exeter.— (Hear.) One very singular circumstance in connexion with the railway amalgamation of the districts in the west of England was worth mentioning. He (Mr. Harvey) found that the London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Company, the Yeovil and Exeter, and the Cornwall and Devon Central Company, had become identified in interest to some extent with another company having a directly ad verse interest—he meant the Manchester and South ampton Company.—(Hear, hear.) This was the most ex traordinary amalgamation of interests he had ever sesn— (Hear, hear)—for the Manchester and Southampton Com pany had been projected, not insidiously, but with the avowed purpose of taking a certain amount of traffic away from the western part of England; indeed, for the express purpose of diverting the whole of the West and East India and China trade into the channel of Southampton. — (Hear, hear.) He said that their stated purpose was to take the trade, the export trade of the north, to South ampton, and prevent any of it going by the way of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and by the direct line to Fal mouth, the best port in the English Channel.—(Hear, hear.) He took it to be an extraordinary exhibition of weakness, when they saw men joining with their opponents, and pre tending to have a community of interests, when they really had the most adverse interests to promote. He might, before he sat down, advert to the traffic carried on from Hayle to Bristol. It was very considerable, and would never belong to the Great Western Railway. It was the legitimate traffic of the Bristol and Exeter line.—(Hear, hear.) There were now three steamers from Hayle to Bristol twice a week, carrying on the average ninety passengers each, in ad dition to large quantities of goods, vegetables, &c. Con siderable time was occupied in making the voyage from Hayle to Bristol, compared with the rapidity of railway transit. Time saved was money gained, and although it would cost more money to travel from the western part of Cornwall by railway to Bristol than it would by steam-vessels z still the saving of time would more than com pensate any man whose time was of any value what ever to him. He assumed, therefore, that a great portion of the traffic now carried by steamers would be taken by railway from Cornwall over the Bristol and Exeter line. It seemed 'to him that the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company need not trouble themselves by entering into an arrangement three years before the ex piration of their lease, for it must be obvious that those who sought to propitiate them by promises on the one hand, and to intimidate them by threats on the other, must have in view an object which they had reasons for not disclosing, but which the Bristol and Exeter Shareholders would do well to look to.—(Hear, and cheers.) The Bristol and Exeter had a right to ask complete amalgamation, or to determine that they would be altoe•ether independent of the Great Western Company.—( Hear ' ) The drift of these observations was just this—that at present it was the interest of the Bris tol and Exeter Company to promote the extension of an in dependent line from Exeter through Devon and Cornwall. If a complete amalgamation should take place between the Bristt 1 and Exeter and Great Western Railway s, then the interests of those parties would be to promote the best line between the metropolis and Falmouth. It seemed to him, on a review of the whole subject, that no narrow-gauge line stood any chance of success. He took it, then, that the best, the shortest, and the least expensive broad-gauge line would be the one most likely to meet with Parliamentary support. No competing line with the Great Western and - Falmouth Junction had yet been put before the public, and therefore they had a right to expect, from the position they held with respect to their surveys of the line, and other necessary arrangements, that they should be enabled to go to Parlia ment with every reasonable prospect of success.—(Cheers.) The meetingwas also addressed by several other gentlemen. Mr. W. HILL then moved "That the report of the engi neer be adopted and published, and circulated among the pro moters of the undertaking." Mr. RtcnArtns having seconded the resolution, it was put and carried unanimously. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who briefly ac knowledged the compliment. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—British and Irish Union, 4—Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 27—Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 20 1 A—Ditto, Half Shares, 10—Grand Junction, 230—Ditto, Eighth Shares, 20 3 4—Great Western, 150—Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 9—Leicester and Bed ford, 176 —Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle Junction, 44 —Liverpool Ormskirk, and ' Preston, 44—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 54—Midland, 140—Ditto, Half Shares, 204—Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 108—North Western, 3:34 —Sheffield and Manchester, Quar ter Shares, No. 2, 124—South Midland, -s%—Welsh Mid land, 2%. MANCHESTER, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lan cashire, and! Cheshire, 7 1 4—Boston, Newark, and Shef• field, 3%—Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 1-16—Eastern Comi ties (Perpetual), No. 2, 3—Fleetwood, Preston, and. West Riding Junction, 234—Halifax, Huddersfield, and Bradford, 74—Leeds and Thirsk, . 13—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 4—Liverpool, Warrirgton, Manchester, and Stock port, 2%—London and York, 4%—Manchester and Bury Atmospheric, 1 5-16—North Staffordshire, 54—Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 17—Preston and Wyre Extension, 2—Sheffield and Manchester Quarters, No. 3, 6—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 64—South-Eastern and Dover, Halves, 3%—Watert'ord, Wexford, and Valen- tia, 2%, EXETER, Nov.. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are- , -Exeter and Credi ton, - 54—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % p.—North Devon, p.- Central Cornwall and Devon, 4 p.—Bristol and Exeter, New, B—South Wales, 5. BRISTOL, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and South Wales Junction, 2% —Great Western. Quarter Shares.] 6 -- Maneheker and Southampton, 3 1 / 4—Puri bury Vil-r and Rail way, 2 Liti—Vale of NeaLli, 3%. SHEFFIELD, Nov. 11. S ExCHWIGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Man -0404ter, meter ages ? 55 —Derby and Giti4s- Forough, I%—East Lincolnshire, 2 3 / 4 —Liverpool and Leeds irect, 2 3 4--Maachester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, ' 3 4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3 IA —Sb effield, Buxton, Leek, Portsmouth. and Crewe, IL Bs. 6d.—Wakefield and Harro gate, 2 1 4—Welsh. - - LEEDS, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Midland, New, 19% — Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 12%—Ditto, Quarter Shares, 3%—Huddersfield and Manchester, 13%—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 21%—Leeds and Bradford, 43—Ditto, Extension, 38 1 4—Leeds and Dewsbury, 19 c. n.—Leeds and Thirsk, 13 3 4—Newcastle and Berwick, 13—North British, New Carlisle Branch, 394—Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 45 London and York, 4 %—Sheffield and Lincoln, 3%—Direct Northern, 2—West Riding Union, 8 1 4—East Lincolnshire, 276—Grand Union, 7s. 6d. p.—Lancasbire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 2s. 6d. p.—Leeds and Liverpool Direct, 2s. 6d. dis.—Leeds and York, par—Leicester and Bedford, 10s. p,—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 3 p.— Manchester and Southampton, 3%—North Western, 3% — Nottingham and Boston, 12s. p.—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 21. 165.—South Midlands, 3% p.—Wakefield and Bradford, 6s. p.—Wakefield and Harrogate, 16s. p.— Welsh Midlands, 2%—_-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 2s. 6d.p. COURT OF EXCISE-YESTERDAY (Before the lion. Captain PERCY, T. lanntsoN, Esq., and C. J. HERRIES, EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF ADULTERATED TOBACCO. — George Crofton and Abraham Crofton, of No. 61, Bartholo mew-cloSe, Smithfield, tobacco manufacturers, were charged, upon information, with manufacturing, and having in their possession, tobacco adulterated with alkaline salts, contrary to the late Act for the regulation of tobacco manufacturers, which provides that nothing but pure water shall be used in the manufacture of tobacco. More than half a ton of the tobacco had been seized, and the case was looked forward to with considerable interest. The defendants had given notice that they would defend the case by counsel, and it was believed Mr. Clarkson had been retained by them, but on the case being called on this day neither counsel, solicitors, nor defendants appeared. The usual notices having been proved, the following evidence was taken. _ _ Mr. Austin, surveying examiner general of Excise, said he visited the manufactory of the defendants on the 9th of August last, accompanied by Messrs. Smith and Phillips, also officers of Excise. He examined the whole of the pre mises. In a small room he found several wo men s t r i pp i ng tobacco. A large quantity of the leaf was lying on the floor, and some of it was quite wet. He was induced t o t as t e it , and found it exceedingly salt, with a solution also of lime. He also found in the room two pails full of a liquid solu tion, and, upon tasting it, pronounced it to b e th a t o f common salt. Upon seeing the foreman he questioned him as to whether he was the person who sup er i n t en d e d the business of that establishment, And was answered in the affirmative. Witness then asked him whether the tobacco he saw damped down was to be sold for tobacco or snuff, and was told for tho best returns. Wit ness then asked him to taste the solution in the pails, which he did, and said that he did not taste anything the matter with it. Upon inquiring for the proprietors, the foreman said he would send for them ;and, upon Mr. G eorge C ro ft on coming in, witness directed his attention to the tobacco on the floor and to the conten ts of the pails, and asked him whether he considered that the contents of the latter were salt? " Salt !" said Mr. Crofton, "no ; if it is salt it must have come from the pimp so. He tasted the water from the pump, and found it perfectly pure. Beside th e pump , i n a pail, he found a solution like brine, and asked M r . C ro ft on what it was for? Mr. Crofton replied, "It was for the tobacco ; it was useless saying it was for snuff, as they must know it was for tobacco." He then seized the stock of tobacco, and conveyed it to the chief office of the Excise department. The following day he submitted four samples to Mr. George Phillips, practical chemist to the Board of Excise, for analysation. Mr. George Phillips, professor of chemistry, said that he received four samples of tobacco from the last witness, which he had submitted to various tests of analysation. One of the samples of the damped leaf he found adulterated to the extent of 13.67 per cent. with common salt ; a sample, No. 2, of leaf, 5.41 of salt; the first pail of solution contained 3.75, and the pail No. 2, 19.80 per cent. of adulteration. The other tobacco found on the premises was of a very pure character. Mr. Davis proved that the defendants were entered manu facturers of tobacco, and were so on the 9th of August last. An entry to that effect was made in his survey-book. The COURT ordered the whole of the seizure to be con demned, which is equal to a penalty of nearly 2001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Peter Battie, a foreigner, was brought up for further exa mination on the charge of having violated three little girls under twelve years of age, at his lodgings in Newman-street, Oxford-street. He was defended by Mr. O'Brien, who cross-examined the witnesses at great length, in order to show that there were some grounds for the suspicion that the parents of the children had offered tohush the matter up for a consideration. The prisoner had written a letter to one of the parties, re lating to the charge, which was considerably strengthened by its production by the officer, Pocock. He was fully committed for trial. A cab-driver, named George Hull, was brought up by war rant (having failed to attend upon a summons), to answer the charge of having behaved in an irsolent manner to Mr. Albany Fonblanque, of 48, Connaught-square. The complainant stated that he had occasion to call upon Mr.' Pavey, of 47, Holywell-street, Strand, on the Ist of November, and while standing before the door (being him self on horseback) the defendant drove up behind him. The narrowness of that part of the street prevented his passing, and deponent consequently asked him to wait a moment until he had addressed a few words to Mr. Pavey, with whom he was "anxious to make an appointment for another day. The defendant, however, abused him in impertinent language, and, although no one was in his cab, persisted in driving forward. Mr. Fonblanque was compelled to submit, in order to prevent an accident either to his horse or to himself, and was accordingly driven to the end of the street in front of the defendant's cab. Mr. Pavey corroborated this evidence. The defendant expressed his contrition for the offence, at the same time urging that he used no offensive language to Mr. Fonblanque, whom he thought was intending to proceed forward. He appealed to the constables of the division to testify to the respectability of his character. Mr. JARDINE thought that the conduct of the defendant was clearly such as to render him amenable to the Act, his apparent contrition being the only circumstance in his favour. His Worship fined him 10s., or ten days imprisonment, in default of non-payment. WORSHIP-STREET. A Jew, named Hyam Abrahams, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with having, by the following artful scheme, obtained the sum of 31. ss. from Mr. Simon Lazarus, a general dealer at Mile-end : The prosecutor stated that about a month ago the pri soner, with whom he had had some previous business trans actions, called at his house and stated that he was acquainted with a tradesman who had for sale a large quantity of gold washings from picture-frames, for which he demanded only 31. 55., and that if witness would advance that amount they would divide between them the profits, which he knew to be considerable, as he had had numerous transactions of a si milar kind before, and they had always turned out excellent speculations. Witness reluctantly acceded to the proposi tion, and the prisoner conducted him to the house of a pic ture-frame maker, named Moseley, in Leonard-street, Shore ditch, from whom he received a jar containing the supposed gold washings, for which he paid the 31. ss. ' at the request of the prisoner , and took it away with him. On the following day he sent the jar to Mr. Cyrill, a gold refiner in Barhican, to have its contents melted, and on call ing afterwards for his golden deposit, be wars Informed by the refiner that it was a mere compound bf worthless rub bish, and that there was not a particle of gold in the whole mass. He immediately went in search of the prisoner, who, upon being apprised of the result, expressed great astonish ment and indignation at the imposition which had been practised upon them, and at once proceeded with him Co the house of Moseley, to whom he abruptly intimated that unless he produced the person from whom he had received the spurious article they should expect their money to be returned. Moseley appeared completely astounded at such an announcement, but Promised to see the prisoner further upon the subject, and they accordingly went away; but all his subsequent efforts to meet with the prisoner having been unsuccessful, the witness went alone to the shop of Moseley, and was then informed, to his great surprise, that the prisoner himself was the person who had left the jar of spurious gold under the care of Moseley, with directions to deliver it to the witness, and to receive the money for him which the witness paid for it, and which money he had subsequently paid to the prisoner. On being apprised of these facts witness gave immediate information of them to the police, and the prisoner was ultimately taken into custody. In cross-examination by Mr. Vann, who appeared for the defence, the witness admitted that he had received from Moseley a written engagement to refund the amount, but said that 111oeeley had since, under the advice of his solicitor, re fused to fulfil its conditions. Mr. Moseley proved that the jar and its contents had been left with him by the prisoner under the circumstances de scribed, and that the latter had afterwards called on him, and received the mom , the prosecutor h a d pa id f or t h em. The witness nisavowci l :111 Lnowledge or participation in 'the fraudulent part of the transaction, and declared that he had only been induced to give the undertaking referred to from an apprehension that he might be himself involved in the charge. Mr. Vann contended that the prosecutor's acceptance of Moselev's promise of indemnification amounted to a condo nation of the alleged fraud, and effectually precluded any criminal proceedings. Mr. Heritage, on the other side, submitted that no ar rangement the prosecutor might have made with third par ties could shield the prisoner from the results of his own fraudulent conduct, which had been more than sufficiently proved to justify a commitment. Mr. BINGIIAM was clearly of opinion that a primci fade case of fraud had been established against the prisoner, and therefore called upon him to find substantial bail to appear on a future day, that the requisite formal evidence might be produced for the completion of the case. LAMB E TH. Mr. Keene, the Governor of Horsemonger lane Prison, waited upon Mr. Narton, to inform him of the suicide, during the preceding night, of Thomas M'Namara, a prisoner under his care, who had been sent there on the evening before by the Hon. Magistrate. It will be recollected that M'Namara, who had been in custody since the lit inst., had been re-examined on Monday, on a charge of inflicting as many as twelve or thirteen wounds upon the person of his wife. The wife attended and gave her evidence upon the occasion, and upon her own showing, it was evident she was a person of the most profligate habits, having left her husband three different times to live with different men. The accused, notwithstanding her scandalous conduct, was much attached to her, and sent a friend to bring her back from Tunbridge. wells, were she was living in adultery with the last person she left home with. On the night after her return, she declared her intention to rejoin ber paramour, and her husband in his rage and jealousy, and being also much intoxicated at the time, inflicted twelve or thirteen wounds with a sharp instrument upon different parts of her person. The offence, notwithstanding the strong pro vocation, was of so serious a character, that Mr. Norton felt it to be his duty to send the prisoner for trial, and the evidence of all the witnesses in attendance being taken, the prisoner was remanded until Friday next, and was sent off by the van to Horsemonger-lane Gaol. Mr. Keene said the prisoner had been removed from this Court with the second batch of prisoners, and was conveyed to his cell. He was subsequently supplied with bread and gruel for his supper, and there being nothing in his demeas nouror manner to excite the least suspicion, lie was locked up in his cell at eight o'clock, agreeable to the gaol regulation. Yesterday morning, on the turnkey unlocking the cell door , he found the unfortun a t e man sus p en ded by his handkerchief from one of the bars of th e ce ll w i n dow. Medical assistance was promptly in attendance, but it was found that the body was quite cold, and that life had been extinctfor several hours. Mr. Keene added that the unfortunate man had drunk the gruel and eat a portion of the bread, but had not gone to bed. Mr. NORTON, who appeared evidently affected at the fate of the wretched man, remarked that he did not observe any thing whatever in the manner of the poisoner, when before him, to lead to the slightest suspicion or apprehension that lie meditated the act of seltldestruction. Mr. Keene said, the Prison Act required him, in all cases of suicide in his prison, to communicate the fact personal l y to the nearest relation of th e decease d , w h er e it was practicable, and as the wife was in th e present case th e nearest relative, he requested her address, th at he m i g h t see an d communicate to her the fate of her unfortunate husband. The address of the Keene, and he left the Court for the purpose he bad stated. Cook, the gaoler atta c h ed to t h e C our t, informed the Ma gistrate that though profligate wife was supplied to Mr. M'camara was somewhat affected while his wife was giving her evidence against him, he (Cook) felt quite certain he did not intend to commit suicide when leav ing for Horsemonger-lane Gaol on Monday. His (Cook's) reason for being so certain WYS this, that he requested to bo permitted to take with hits to prison a loaf of bread to last witls his allowance, until he was brought up again °-- EIS lay. • • M - -. 42 that this was a chct - Linst,:inQe -:..:• 1 - - ,_ _ rr "I the, c o l lin:Ions he lutd draw.-., ild -.:,,noiv fa - ...- •• - - - - • ' . . , Jet - that the act , of cell-destruction had not been premeditated. THAMES. About halt-fast twelve o'clock yesterday, Mr. ClA'6on, the barrister, entered the Court, and, apologising for the imperfect statement which he was about to make, said he. was . anxious as early as possible to ap prise the sitting magistrate (Mr. broderip) of some facts of which he (Mr. Clarkson) was just informed, and which perhaps before the close of the day would be brought under the cognizance of this Court :—The im portance of the case would, he was sure, excuse the abrupt manner in which it was introduced. The facts were simply these :—The crew of the Tory, while on her homeward voyage from Hong-Kong, rose on the captain, and in a pira tical manner attempted to seize and carry off the vessel, but though the attempt was frustrated, more than one murder had been the result, and the present application was to have officers in attendance to take the prisoners into custodyim medidtely on the arrival of the Tory in the river. Mr. BuonEmr—Then I am to understand that there is no person yet in custody on this most serious charge ? - Mr. Clarkson—No, Sir. I have not made myself clear. Some of the parties are in irons on board the vessel, which is now on its way from Deal, and hourly expected in the river. As lam informed, she is a vessel of 608 tons, com manded by a Captain Johnstone, and having a crew of 30 men. The act of piracy was attempted whilst she was off Ascension Island, when the crew, headed by the mate, rose upon the captain, threatening to take his life and possess themselves of the ship. The mutiny had extended to such a degree, and the project was so far ripened, that only two or three of the hands stuck by the captain, and the determination of the mutineers was so great that it was found impossible to foil their intent without several serious acts of violence. When it was repressed, the mate, anticipating the consequences of his attempt, seized the first opportunity which offered, and jumped overboard. A man, named Mars, who had been one of the first to join in the mutiny, repented of his conduct, and exposed the whole plot to the captain, on which the other muti neers brutally murdered him. Another man, named Rea sons, who had also given ,information to the captain, died suddenly, and, as it was supposed from the symptoms, by having poison administered to him. On arriving at Deal, the captain applied to the authorities there, and assistance was afforded to put the refractory parties in irons. Apolo gising again for his hasty andimperfect statement, the Learned Gentleman repeated his request that some officers should be directed to look out for the arrival of the vessel, as she was hourly expected, and it was highly probable that the master, together with the owner, Mr. Duncan Gibb, of Liverpool, would be in attendance, and enter into fuller de tails of the events which had taken place: Mr. BRODERIP said the Learned Gentleman had stated the dreadful circumstances with sufficient clearness to awaken the utmost attention. He (Mr. Broderip) had not the di rection of the police force, but he was sure that on the slightest intimation to the river police the most active steps would be taken, and every facility afforded. Mr. Clarkson then read the following letter, addressed H. H. Lindsay, Esq., East Indi a Ch am b ers , Leadenhall-street, London : " Deal, Nov. 9. "Sir,—You will have heard by this time of the horrid and un precedented mutiny on board the ship Tory, belonging to Mr. Duncan Gibbs, of Liverpool, on her voyage from Hong-Kong to London, in which three lives have been sacrificed—viz , the first and second mate, and one seaman. We now write to you by desire of Captain Johnstone to say that the ship has arrived in the Downs, with three of her crew in irons, ai.d a strong guard of a revenue cutter on board, the other portion of the crew being still in a mutinous state. We have consulted with the Com mander of the Coast Guard here, as well as with the magistrates, and it has been thought the better course to place the remainder of the crew (seven ir: number) under arrest, the whole of them being more or less connected with the mutiny, to keep guard over them on board, and to hire men to work the ship up to London, taking the first opportunity of engaging a steamer. We thought this course better than landing the men here and having them taken before the magistrates, which would necessarily cause a detention of the captain and probably the ship. We hope the Tory will pro ceed early to-morrow for the River. Captain Johnstone has, under our advice, noted his protest, and we trust you will consider we have taken the best and most prompt measures under the unfortu nate circumstances of this case. We write you hurriedly to save post.—We are, Sir, your most obedient, " GODWIN, CURLING, and Co., " Agents to the Liverpool Association of Underwriters." _ _ _ Mr. BRODE - RIP said he had no doubt that it the case had been taken bdore the Magistrates at Deal they would have given it the consideration which its importance deserved. With that, however, he had nothing to do ; but if it were brought within his jurisdiction it would command the utmost attention. Mr. Clarkson was quite satisfied on that point, and he was happy to think that a case of such importance would be heard at a tribunal so peculiarly competent to take it into consideration. The Learned Gentleman then left, with the understanding that if the Tory arrived in the river in the interval the per sons charged would be brought up for primary examination this day. The excitement occasioned by the application was most in tense, and the result of the inquiry is looked forward to with the deepest interest. When a judicial investigation is se close at hand, it would be highly injudicious to give publicity to the vague and contradictory rumours which are afloat upon the oubj ect. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. ,TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 114 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 57k, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh, the price of gold is 430/ per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 84 ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 9/, it follows that gold is 0.35 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. One of the leading features of railway enterprise, which is manifesting itself at this moment with an extraordinary de gree of activity, is the employment of the vast numbers of persons who have any pretension to be called members of the surveying and engineering professions in the preparations for the 30th instant, when the plans, sections, and books of reference must be ready for deposit with the clerk of the peace. All of them receive the most liberal or extravagant pay, and the merest novices receive engage ments, for which they throw up, with or without the consent of their principals, their regular employment, and nearly all ordinary and routine business is at a stand. Of the extent of occupation which has devolved upon these professions in con sequence of the prevailing excitement, some idea may be ob tained from the useful statistical tables published in the Railway Almanack for 1846 ; and, as really eminent men are not numerous in those departments of professional skill, it necessarily follows that the whole work is in comparatively few hands. From these tables it appears that one engineer is engaged on 11 of the new lines, another on 14, a third on 16, a fourth on 17, and a fifth on 21 lines. The same may be, and no doubt are, engaged on other lines ; for many of those on the list have no en gineer's name attached to them, and it may be safely assumed that the execution in a proper manner of such a quantity of work is beyond human power. This is not labour, it should be observed, which will admit of careless or imperfect execution. The fate of the Cambridge and Lincoln line last session, the Bill for which was lost in consequence of a mere clerical error connected with the surveys, shows how important it is to the success of a new line that they should be made with the utmost care and accuracy. Men of honour will, doubtless, in many cases throw up their engagements, under such a total impossi bility of execution, and this to many of the new companies will furnish at the same time a decent excuse for withdraw ing altogether ' when they could not otherwise have devised one. Letters from the northern counties, received in the City this morning,:describe the activity and excitement as universal, with regard to the engineering and mapping move ment; and notice is especially taken of the class of persons who are so employed, one letter remarking that " lads who have only just left school are permitted to take particulars which require experience in some of the nicest questions of real property." It may easily be antici pated what a figure some of them will make when the time for the great ordeal arrives. The death of Mr. Irving is an event which belongs to the history of the commerce of Lon don, and it has formed to-day one of the principal topics on 'Change. For honourable conduct, strict fidelity to his engagements under the most adverse circumstances, and • for a kind disposition to those who have had their way to make in the world, he has had few equals in mercantile life. The importance of the house of which he has been so many years a partner is well known. Their transactions have extended to all parts of the world, though they have lain more par ticularly in the West Indies. Mr. Irving was a stanch sup porter of the colonial interests, and took the lead in forming the Colonial Bank and Royal Steam-packet Companies. More than once he received the thanks of the inhabitants of Mauritius for his attention to their welfare. For nearly forty years he was a Member of the House of Commons, where he sat for the last two Parliaments as representative of the county of Antrim. In politics he was a steady and consistent Conservative. His loss is as much regretted by his private friends as it is by those who, during a long course of years, have had business to transact with him. HERALD.—The approach of the period for the with. drawal of the fractional notes for 255. and 305., now in cir• culation in Ireland, is likely to be attended with some unto ward consequences, which could not have been anticipated by the framers of the measure to abolish notes of these de nominations. The circumstances strikingly illustrate the state of society in many parts of that benighted county. The poorer class of occupiers, who are the principal holders of the fractional notes, have become alarmed, under the im pression that they will be of no value after the 6th of De cember next, when the new banking law comes into opera tion. In the south and west of the kingdom these frac tional notes have been presented at the banks for payment in considerable quanties, and a smart run has been felt, principally for silver, and even the bank of the great Agi tator has not escaped the effect of the popular delusion on the subject. All persons acquainted with the character of the Irish peasantry are aware how easily they are misled in matters connected with the paper circula tion, and will readily comprehend how they have come under the influence of a panic without any just ground. From what we have learned, the Irish press has been negligent in not setting the people right on the subject without a moment's delay, and the more especially at a time like the present, when the reports about the potato disease will have rendered the people more than usually susceptible to bad impressions. The commercial letters received by the West India mail were dalivered this morning, but they contain few details of much interest in addition to the extracts which appeared in the Herald this morning. All parties writing to their con signees dwell chiefly on the subject of railways, and no doubt seemed to be entertained, even by the most sceptical, but that, if judiciously constructed, they will afford a remune rating return on the capital invested, as well as be of incal culable benefit to the colonies by promoting improvement. The merchants connected with Mexico are at length gra tified with the account og the settlement of the tariff, which they consider will give no inconsiderable stimulus to trade, if the executive Government has sufficient strength and energy to carry it out in good faith. Much, however, re quires to be...done to check the oppressions and peculation of the subordinate officers of the Customs, who were thoroughly corrupted under Santa Anna's regime. The official account of the Committee of South American bondholders states that the receipts by the packet, on account of the Mexican dividend, amount to 80,895 dollars. The in tentions of the present Government are undoubtedly honour able, and all that appears requisite is that they be supported by the country. There are, however. still latent fears that thepartisans of Santa Anna are intriguing to excite dis turbance. HEALTU OF ToWNs.—A preliminary meeting was held at the Committe-room of the Town-hall on Thursday, for the purpose of considering the expediency of forming a Company, to be called "The Devonport Water and Sewer age Company," for carrying out, in connexion with Lord Francis Egerton's " Water Supply, Drainage. and Towns' Improvement Company," the chief recommendations of her Majesty's Commissioners of Inquiry on the means of ifri 7crinfr the health of largo tovap, by securing an improved 41 , pr economical supply- of water; an efficient street aid ;Km. drainage; the removal of all refuse, and its appli cation to the increase of agricultural production. A variety of useful information on the subject was afforded the meeting by the town clerk, and eventually a res oluti on passed autho rising the formation of a provisional committee..-Deponporr Independent. OPENING TILE PORTS. NEWCASTLE TOWN COUNCIL. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, Moxrar.—The Town Council of this borough met this day, according to the provisioris of the Municipal Reform Act, to elect, the Mayor and the Sheriff for the ensuing year, when there was a full attendance of members. Mr. Alderman HODGSON having nominated Dr. Headlam as a fit and suitable person for Mayor, the motion was se conded by Mr. Alderman T. Dimx, and carried with accla mation ; and the new Mayor was duly invested with the in signia of office, and installed accordingly. Mr. M. R. Bigge, a managing director of the District Bank ing Company, was elected Sheriff by a majmity of votes, Mr. M. L. Jobling, a solicitor of the town, having also been put in nomination. Sir J. FIFE then moved the suspension of the standing orders of the Council, in order to introduce a memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury in favour of opening the ports for the free importation of foreign corn. Mr. Alderman Crawhall, Mr. Preston, and Mr. Armstrong opposed the motion, which, after a short discussion, was put and carried by a large majority. Sir J. FIFE then moved the adoption of a memorial in favour of opening the ports, and expressed his opinion that such a measure was absolutely necessary. lie concluded by reading the memorial as follows : " TO THE HON. THE LORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL. " The Memorial of the Town Council of the Borough of New castle-upon-Tyne, " Showeth,—That with the prospect of distress among the humble classes of society in the United Kingdom, and more especially in Ireland, from the result of the late harvest, your memorialists are convinced of the expediency of opening the ports of the United Kingdom for the free importation of grain. And your memorialists therefore respectfully entreat your Lordships to adopt those measures which the Legis lature has prescribed for that purpose." Mr: L. HARLE, in seconding the motion, observed that after the opinions expressed by Lord Ashley, Mr. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Escott, he might say the fate of the corn laws was sealed; and the highest authority to which he could appeal, the most influential organ of public opinion in modern times—the Times newspaper, representing as it did the 'great commercial interests of the country, had said that to hold by the corn-laws a day longer might be injurious to the country. He hoped and trusted that memorials from such bodies as this was would convince the Ministry that the ports must be opened. He was convinced the corn-laws; sooner or later, must go, and he believed Sir R. Peel was himself of that opinion. Mr. PRESTON deprecated the introduction of political ques tio-ns into meetings of the council, as they were calculated to make their discussions degenerate into the mere squabbles of a debating club. Mr. ARMSTRONG saw no advantage to be derived from the opening of the ports, and should, therefore, oppose the motion. The duties were nearly at the lowest. On oats the duty was ss. a quarter, and in a few weeks it would be as low as 2s. or 3s. a quarter, so that there was no necessity to interfere in respect to that article. The duty on barley was coming down every week, and would unquestionably be as low as 3s. or 4s. very shortly. Then in respect to the great article of consumption, wheat, he Would say that the only effect of re moving the duty on wheat would be to cause our merchants to pay an advanced price of the same amount for it abroad. The very agitation of the question had already caused an ad vance in the Baltic market of 2s. 6d. a quarter. The price there was higher than it was in England at this moment. Unless they could show that we would get more wheat by opening the ports, he could not see the slightest advantage that would arise from the proposed measure ; and, therefore, though an opponent of the corn-laws, and though by voting against the present motion he voted against his own interest, he should give it his decided opposition. Mr. CHARLES RAYNE thought the arguments of the pre ceding speaker supported quite a different view of the subject from that which he had taken, and instead of proving that the ports should not be opened, showed the absolute necessity there was for such a measure. What was the cause of the present high price of corn, and the consequent low duty, but the anticipation in the public mind of a deficiency in the produce of the present year? No one supposed or dreaded the approach of famine during the next two or three months, though a scarcity might be created thus early by holders of corn keeping their produce back, in the hope of a better market ; but they could not shut their eyes to the fact, that before the next harvest came round a serious deficiency of bread-stuffs would be experienced ; and was it not the most prudent course to provide against the evil now, when all the information they had obtained showed it to be inevita ble? This was a question that came home to every mem ber of that body, and it was therefore unnecessary for him to enlarge upon it. He quite concurred in the propriety of the proposed course, though he considered it was not act ing justly to our neighbours on the continent. We made laws, and other countries, calculating on the permanency of those laws, entered into arrangements accordingly; and the sudden abrogation of those laws could not but be attended with inconvenience, by introducing us as competitors in a general scramble. Though he admitted the opening of the ports to be an act of injustice to other countries, it was yet our duty to look at home, and he considered self-interest ought to sway us iu the present instance. Mr. A. G. GRAY supported the motion, which was opposed by Mr. CRAWHALL, who thought there was no necessity for such a measure; and, besides, as the subject was under the consideration of the Cabinet, who were in possession of the best information on the subject, and had shown themselves prepared for the emergency, it would be best to leave the subject entirely in their hands. Sir JOHN FIFE replied ; after which the motion was put and carried by a considerable majority, the Council having first negatived " the previous question, which was moved as an amendment by Mr. Preston. The memorial was thereupon engrossed, and the Corpora. tion seal affixed thereto, preparatory to its being forwarded to London for presentation to the Privy Council. GATESHEAD AND THE CORN-LAWS. Some years ago when Mr. Alderman Brockett brought before the Town Council of Gateshead a motion for the repeal of the corn-laws, it was negatived by that body. On Mon day last, at the annual meeting, the standing orders were sus pended, that the same gentleman 'might move, without pre vious notice, a memorial to Sir Robert Peel for the opening of the ports, and the following memorial was unanimously adopted : " TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., FIRST LORD OF HER MAJESTY'S TREASURY. " The Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermea, and Councillors of the Borough of Gateshead, in Council assembled, " Showeth,—That your memorialists have every reason to believe that the corn harvest throughout the United King dom has been most unfavourable, both as to quantity and quality ; and that the potato crop, particularly in Ireland, has been a deplorable failure. " That the consequences to be apprehended from such sad circumstances are fearful in the extreme, and can only be averted, in the opinion of your memorialists, by an immediate sanction from the Queen in Council of an unrestricted impor tation of foreign corn. " That the admission of foreign corn, duty free, into the United Kingdom, would not only materially relieve the pre sent wants of the country, but would tend to render perma nent the employment, and consequently the contentment, of the people. "Your memorialists therefore earnestly entreat that you will advise her Majesty in Council to order the immediate opening of British and Irish ports to the free admission of foreign corn ; and that you will recommend the Parliament, on its re-assembling, to abolish every duty and restriction to which the importation of food is at present exposed. "And your memorialists, &c." This memorial was not only adopted nem. con.,but the show of hands in its favour was general, and not a whisper of dissent was heard. A similar memorial has also been adopted by the Newcastle Council, but not unanimously. NEW FRESCO BY RApHAEL.—The Academie des Beaux-Arts at its last sitting, had an interesting piece of in telligence communicated to it by M. Raoul-Rochette, its perpetual secretary, and received by him from Jesi, the celebrated engineer. It was that an immense fresco by Raphael, in admirable preservation, has been discovered at Florence, in the refectory of a convent, suppressed at the close of the last century. This work, which represents the " Last Supper," was generally attributed to Perrugino, but, on its being lately cleaned, Raphael's name was found on the robe of one cf the apostles, with the date of 1514, when the great painter was in the 21st year of his age. This is the period of his life of which Vasari and other writers on art seem to know least, and this discovery fills up the chasm which has hitherto been felt in Raphael's careen—Galignani. CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—In consequence of the new improvements taking place in the City, the parish church of St. Benettink, at the eastern corner of Threadneedle -street, in the rear of the Royal Exchange, and which was built in 1675, is to be forthwith pulled down, and the parish will b e united to the adjoining one of St. Peter-le-Poore ; some of the families interred in the family vaults have already been removed. Those whose remains lie under the body of the church, will, it is said, be placed in the churchyard. The site of the church when taken down (together with old houses at the back), it is contemplated, will be formed into an orna mental piece of ground, surrounded with iron palisading. When the whole is completed the Royal Exchange will, both in front and rear, be free from impediments to a full view. THE PILCIIARD FISHERY.—We have great plea sure in stating that since our last publication large quantities of pilchards have visited our coasts, and that several thousand hogsheads had been taken in the seins On Sunday afternoon, seven seins were shot at Newquay, but in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, only three of them could bring their nets together; and of these, two only secured fish—viz., " The Rose," 400 hhds., and " The Speculation," about 500 hlids. The quantity of fish that passed Newquay during Sunday after noon and Monday morning exceeded anything of the kind be fore witnessed. At St. Ives, on Monday morning, several shoals of fish were observed passing to the westward, but too deep for the seins to approach them. About one o'clock, how ever, other shoals made their appearance, and between that time and the evening nine seins were shot : of these, we regret to say that four missed the fish, and the other five in closed as follows :—Tremearne and Co. (2), 1,700 hogsheads; Wearne and Co., 500 hogsheads; Hocking and Co., 700 hogsheads; Victoria Company, 100 hogsheads; total, 3,000. Yesterday, at the same place (St. Ives), several shoals of pilchards again presented themselves, and although many passed in the morning in deep water, about midday Messrs. Wearne and Co. shot one of their seins, and inclosed about 500 hogsheads, and in the evening one sein belonging to the Messrs. Bolitho, inclosed a very large shoal, but what quan tity is not yet accurately known—report, however, says nearly 1,000 hogsheads. On the same day,' a sein was shot at Pendean Cove, -and inclosed a large shoal of pilchards, but we are sorry to hear that,from some cause, they escaped. A sein was shot at Sennen yesterday, but the quantity of fish taken we cannot ascertain. Last night (Tuesday) there was a fire on the hills at Mullion, and it is therefore conjec tured that the fishermen there have also fallen in with pil chards.—Penzance Gazette. CHINESE GINGER.—A novel description of article was introduced last season from Canton, to a small extent, in the shape of ginger, candied or preserved With sugar, both in a dry and moist state, and it having been found to answer the purpose and expectations of the importers very well, and eagerly sought after, the article has recently been brought in much larger quanities, and will no doubt be come a staple article of importation and be of very consi derable importance to persons engaged in the Chinese trade. Having tasted some which has just been imported, we can recommend it strongly as being most excellent, both in its qualities and properties, and a capital stomachic, without possessing the biting qualities of raw ginger, or the excessive richness of that usually brought from the East and West Indies in a preserved state, and it will no doubt, when its excellence becomes sufficiently known, become an article of very general consumption. MURDER.—The following announcement appeared in the Government Police Gazette, of Monday :—" A man named Patrick M'lntyre, on the morning of the 9th instant, committed an atrocious and wilful murder - upon the body of his wife at Hull, Yorkshire, and had succeeded in effecting his escape. He is de scribed as being a bricklayer, a native of Ireland, from thirty to thirty-five years of age, about five feet five inches high, fairish complexion, hair inclined to be sandy and curly, face slightly freckled, dark eyes, small sandy whiskers, and round made, dressed in a round . firnaan Picket, supposed fustian vest and trots. Pi% •and cloth cap. lIULL, Nov. 11. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The business passing is very limited, but the market presents rather a more encouraging tone, buyers being more predominant than lately, although at low rates. The sales are-Hull and Selby (10 per cent. gua ranteed), Half Shares, 19M-North British, Half Shares, 31. 18s. 6d.-Ditto, Carlisle, 3-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4- Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 2-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 155.-Nottingham, rewash, &c., 23A-South Union, 2/. 33. --Staines and Richmond, 2-Wakefield, and Bradford, 2%. YORK, Nov. 11. STocK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Eastern Counties, 21 -Newcastle and Darlington, 55-Ditto (Brandling), 45- York and North Midland, Selby, 74-Ditto, Extension, 27 -Newcastle and Berwick, 13 1 /-North British, New Car lisle Branch, 3%-London and York, 4 3 %-Cambridge and Lincoln, 4-Axholme, 3-Coventry, Nuneaton, Birming ham, and Leicester, 1% -Derby and Gainsborough, 1 %- Grand Union, 11. 18s.--Leicester and Bedford, 2-Welsh - Midland, 21. 18s. 9d. GLASGOW, Nov. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bathgate, 625. 6d.-Airdrie and Coatbridge, 8t,4-Ayr and Galloway, 51s. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 705.-Caledonian, 9%- Caledonian Extension, 665.-Caledonian and Direct Northern, 605.-Chelmsford and Bury, 305.-Clydesdale Junction, 1 9- East of Fife, 455.-East Indian Railway, 355.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 235.-Edinburgh and Perth, 5- Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 555.-Glasgow General Terminus, 11%, -Glasgow and Belfast Union, 505.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 43-Glasgow and Greenock, 21-Glasgow, Kil marnock, and Ardrossan, 4 3 4-Glasgow and Dundee Junc tion, 575. 6d.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 60s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 705.-Great Eastern and Western, 545. -Kilmarnock and Aye Direct, 705.-Lanark and Lothians, 3 3 /-Scottish Central, 15%-Scottish South Midland Junc tion, 515.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 40s. DUBLIN,' Nov. 10. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bandon and' Bantry, 1 1 4 —Cork and Waterford, IX—Enniskillen and Sligo, 136 —Great Southern and Western, 20—Great Southern, Clon mel to Thurles, 2—Midland Great Western, Eater sion to Sligo, 2—lrish Great Western, Dublin to Galway, 35%—Kil larney Junctions, 13%—Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Junc tions, 3%—Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, I%—Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 1%. NEW RAILWAY SCHEMES. - • • ------ The London Gazette of last night contains notices of appli cations to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for Bills authorising the construction of the following Rail ways : Junction between the Lynn and Ely and the Peterborough and Northampton Branch of the London and Birmingham lines, with a branch. Whitby, Pickering, Thirsk, and Great North of England, with two branches. Junction between the Newcastle and Carlisle and the Lan caster and Carlisle lines, with five branches, and various powers of purchase and lease. Norfolk Extensions, with branches. Nottingham and Gainsborough, with one branch. Junction between the London and Birmingham at Rugby, and the Syston Peterborough branch of the Midland at South Luffenham. Line from Swansea to the Liverpool and Manchester at Huy ton, with a branch from Killybebill to Warrington. Leeds and Bradford—to amend the Act. Midland Extensions—Swinton to Lincoln, with branches. Leeds and Bradford—another application for power to make a junction between the Leeds and Bradford at Shipley, with the Leeds and Thirsk at Arthington ; also a line from Men stone to Addingham, with branches. East Lincolnshire. _ Eastern Union (Cambridge and Bury). To amend the Colchester and Ipswich and the Eastern Union Companies Acts—line from the Eastern Union to Harwich. Line from the Norfolk at Thetford to Newmarket. Staines and Henley. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction—to amend Act. Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction with six branches. Caledonian—Clydesdale Junction Amalgamation, &c. Caledonian—Dumfries and Langholm Branches and Car lisle Deviation. Caledonian—Glasgow termini, and Dundyvan and Castle cary Junctions, &c. Caledonian—branches to Granton, Leith and Queensferry, and Junction with the Edinburgh and Glasgow, &c. Edinburgh and Perth, with four branches. Line from Ashburton to the South Devon at Newton Abbot. Epsom and .Dorking Leeds and Wetherby. Reading and Reigate, with three branches. Swansea Vale—extension and branches. Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth. Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester. Caledonian—purchase of the Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coat bridge, and junctions with Castlecary Branch, and with Air drie, &c. Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction. Line from the London and South-Western at Guildford to Horsham. Manchester and Bury Atmospheric. Midland—extensions ; Clay. cross to Newark, with two branches. Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junc tion, with branches. Direct London and Manchester, with a branch. Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick Direct. Eastern Union—Norwich Extension. Swansea and Loughor. Wilts and Gloucester Junction. Shropshire Mineral. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. LIVERPOOL. The election of a chief magistrate to preside over this great commercial community is this year of more than ordi nary interest. Two gentlemen have been nominated for the honour, and both are belonging to the Conservative party ; one, however, though nominated and seconded by Conserva tive members of the council, has had but a few members of the party to support his present claim to the honour of pre aiding over the council, his great reliance being on the Ra dical section, all of whom supported him. Itis with the greatest pleasure we announce that the election has fallen on David Hodgson, Esq , a gentleman. in every way calculated to do honour to the chair. At the present time the result of this election is important, as an evidence of the feeling ex isting amongst the leading Conservatives of the town, who in placing Mr. Hodgson at the head of the council, have shown an approval of his straightforviard and consistent con duct on many questions having speciArreference to the Esta. blished Church. In common with all other good and true men, he is cordially hated by the local Radical press—no small recommendation to all men of right feeling. The council assembled at twelve o'clock on Mtindav and at one proceeded to the business of electing their chief ma gistrate. F. SintiktD, Esq., in nominating Mr. Hodgson, thus ad dressed the council :—Mr. Mayor, the first business will be the election of a chief magistrate of this borough in succes sion to yourself; and while we see you about to retire, carry ing with you the approbation of this council and of the town at large, it of course makes us more anxious that we should select a gentleman who will occupy that seat in the able manner that you already have dune. I .therefore beg to propose Alderman David Hodgson, as a gentleman well qualified to r:, - !eive that trust which you, sir, have so ably fultilled—a gehitletnan who in various engagements has shown that he knows the business of the town well; and I believe that no man is more desirous of protecting its in terests—a gentleman who will bring to that object the highest integrity of purpose and the spirit of an energetic and intelligent mind.—(Hear.) I make no political allu sions upon this occasion, because, although I can assert that he has done the state some service, I know that, on entering that chair, he will leave all politics behind; and I am quite sure he will, with the same spirit that has animated him in presiding over another body of this council, be able to fulfil, wsth independence, courtesy, and impartiality, the duties entrusted to him.—(Hear, hear.) With these observations I beg to propose that Alderman David Hodgson be mayor fur the ensuing year.—(Cheers.) Mr. BRA3ILEY MOORE rose to second the proposition of Mr. Shand, in whose observations he fully concurred.' He would not trespass upon the time of the council by adding to what had been so ably expressed by his friend.—(Applause.) Mr. G. H. Lawrence was proposed by Sir Thos. Brancker, and seconded by Ambrose Lace, Esq. ; and on a division of the council the numbers were, for David Hodgson, Esq., 35; G. H. Lawrence, Esq., 25; thus securing Mr. Hodgson's election by a majority of 10. __ With a few exceptions the Conservative party supported ➢lr. Hodgson, all the Radicals voting against him. Imme diately on the division the newly-elected Mayor was intro duced into the room by his proposer and seconder, and took the oaths, and was invested with the seals of office. BIRMINGHAM. On Monday a meeting of the Town Council was held in the Committee-room of the Towa Hall, for the _purpose of electing a Mayor in the room of Thomas Phillips, Esq., whose year of office terminated this day. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. Councillor RODWAY proposed the re-election of Mr. Phillips in a highly complimentary speech, in the course of which he observed that he firmly believed nine•tentbs of the burgesses were decidedly favourable to the re-election of the present Mayor.—( Hear. ) Mr. Councillor MATCIIELL seconded the nomination. Mr. Councillor Lucy proposed Mr. Henry Smith as a fit and proper person to fill the office of Mayor, and took occa sion to advert to the well-known business habits of that gen tleman, and his general qualifications for the discharge of the onerous duties which devolved upon the Chief Magistrate of so important a borough as that of Birmingham. Mr. Councillor PEMBERTON seconded the nomination of Mr. Smith. — The Council was, then addrtssed by several members of the body, when it became evident that Mr. Phillips would be re-elected. That gentleman, however, on putting the pro position to the meeting, said, he regretted that circum stances had recently occurred which would prevent him from filling the office, and if re-elected, he should be obliged to avail himielf of the privilege of the Municipal Act, and de cline the honour. Upon this announcement the Council unanimously elected Mr. Smith. SHOCKING SUlClDE.—Another proof of the direful results which the preaching of such fanatics as Dealtry and Burgess, who recently honoured this town with their pre sence, is calculated to produce upon the minds of the ere.- dulous and ignorant, has, we regret to state, been afforded in the suicide, at an early hour on Friday morning, of a woman named. Netherton, the wife of an. ostler residing in Gibbons • lane, in this borough. The, poor woman, it appeared, at tended the lectures of the worthies above•named, and fright ened at their declaration of the near approach of: the day of judgment, she has ever since hen •in a state of mental de rangement, and thus it was, that being, left alone tor z. sh9rt-- riday morning, si u e. j ot a perin,l to her etistsst^h . • - , . n1 , ..t ' % • - . ,, ririi - 1 .I„ , r ' , 3??l ' d fro:, : ; ' •":•—! ' ~, '' i .. Lor4 (*llford has given up tue master nip ui we fox-hounds with which his Lordship hunted some .seasons past, and they are WAY to be a glibgalption pack t .....s7udlionie igurna.li —..- . WORKING of the SLIDING-SCALE (From the Scotsman.) The following letter relates to the mode of strikin' the s, averages, and shows some of the evils that attend it. S: alludes also to the difference in quality of the wheat sold al Mark-lane, but this topic may perhaps be better illustrat e s. . ark by a reference to our own markets. In Haddington (the most important in Scotland), on the 31st of Pctober, we have the following very striking variety of prices - Old Wheat. New IVlll4' First quality 7d O lld a . Second ditto . Third ditto44s. Od. 645.0: ...... 575. Thus, between the best old wheat in the market, and d best new, there is a difference of 11r. ,• between the seeld qualities `the difference is 14s. 8d; and between the thillat or lowest qualities the difference is no less than 20s. 166 is called the second quality is the mean or average °A whole sales, and may be taken to represent the comp s h a t shatvalue of the last And the present crop. Mark, then , follows :- that If the quality of the present crop had been equal to , d of the last, the average at Haddington on the 31 st ult. Wswo., have been 725. 7d. And as the Haddington o° l o 'l o for the week merely exceeds by one penny that for kingdom, the difference on the six weeks' average, reg_ll; lating importation, may be assumed as nearly the str c i namely, 14s. Bd. Now, the six weeks' average, was 56e. 2d., would thus be raised to 70s. 10d., and for,: 30. .7,, wheat should at this moment have been admissibl e at stead of I6s. But prices have not yet reached their and let it be observed, that a further rise of 2 s. 2d., "Iced will bring down the duty only to 135., would ha ve open the ports, if the grain had not been of inferior quality. che ats Thus the sliding-scale cheats the consumers, as it es the farmers, by promising each a protection which it not give. It promised the farmer 565., and for the last 1 .. , years it has given about 465. A year of real scarcity sZ come, and now it cheats the consumer, by . making the.. 79. mission of foreign corn dependent on a fictitious average.l abTheove the real re ay. difference in erage price between the best and the We r3 in t quality in Haddington-market was no less than s , 4°s h loot the corresponding week of 1844 it was only 225. - is price which so large a portion of the present crop hrill,g!or owing to deficiency of yield, quite as much as t o deft of quality. A given quantity of the inferior grain will Y„ l air thirty to thirty-five per cent. less flour than the same much tity of i the superior. The result - is, that the real r ise s ni tba t greater than the apparent, and while the Gazette tells sla„00. the price of wheat is 565., we are paying at the rate of for our bread. es of In the Edinburgh market on Wednesday the e xtreM _ n d price were still greater. Wheat ranged from 34 5. to 865., in weight from 52 pounds the bushel to 66. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SCOTSMAN. , so ot Sir,-In the present state of the country, it may i n s he some of your general readers who have never looked m ann er D er existing corn-law, to give a short explanation of the Inl a y in which the corn averages are struck, and the import is regulated. Under the former system, when the pressure of scar'ee, city began to bear hard upon the country, corn sPhics lators had a method of " working the averages" hi w the they irregularly accelerated the rise of the fall of the duty, so as to quicken the period when the 1 ,3 0 : t portation became practically free. In proposing th e , P s so corn-law of 1842, Sir Robert Peel intimated that tiu g As! an unfair practice in itself, and that he had provided oPien--ef means for repressing it, and working the IsYs te of averages fairly. He then enlarged the number 0, places from which returns of corn sales wer e „,i s ed auired, until they amount to very nearly three 11 "%iso English towns. The duty of making returns Wa s f 31 1 largely devolved on the officers, of excise. Returns, ° I to sales by corn dealers, &c., in these towns were reqsat prise and be made, and upon a comparison of the \suppos, f; a s t quantity of corn sold in one week, with the prices there ° j e st average weekly price is made up for the kingdom. T he se of six of these weekly prices are then taken, and an acer e e to them is struck, which last average is the price according which the rate of duty on the sliding-scale is ascestained•_A In striking the weekly average, the prices ef ss ,gr. hes bad, and' indifferent wheat are all massed t° 6 '709.• While all good wheat, therefore, may be fetching h at it may happen, when a bad harvest has generalif the quality of the wheat, that inferior wheats (Le se just as dear, in reference to their quality) may be turned at prices so much lower as to produce, on th e It a low weekly average, and consequently a high cle s t neao is reported that some good Wheats were sold in 3 13 , 1 , - 59g. last week at 745., yet the weekly average was salu ss 0 -0 sd. At the same time the average of the last Six sve e ,"•dist; only 565. 2d., which fixes the rate of duty on the 5 " scale as high as 16s. 0 Under the sliding-scale, the duty will remain as r 5 1,6.. 10s. so long as the average of six weeks' sales isl lo "`' to At present there is not yet one week with an average, 'lO 605.; and, from the large bulk of inferior wheat o o country, it would seem difficult enough to say when We o 63' d will fall as low as even 10s. It will not fall lowe r so long as the average of the six weeks is under 695. 4. . oat In the meantime it is stated in the public prin"-;,isbot bonded corn is leaving the country, to be sold at a 17stls rate in other countries which are threatened with If, but in which no duty is imposed on its importation. ••• On Sunday night 100,000 herrings were takenitce Gatwater, and on Monday night 200,000. The lessee fishery is said to have netted 150/. by these unusua l draw, of herrings.—Penzance Gazette. „I Pill: , A DRUNKARD'S END.—A woman, name— • cm the wife of a market-gardener, at Kingsholm, near thls -• the (Gloucester), and who was in the habit of atten„, l l s o vegetable market, was found dead in a chair, or , i u be for° morning, under the following circumstances, detaile,"whit e Mr. Joseph Lovegrove, coroner, and a jury :---- , ganna lt to the —I am the wife of Charles White, and live next door 1 .0 Bull Inn. I have known the deceased for the last t ive j c iol years. She came to my house between seven and eight 'r.silt on Monday night ; I noticed that she was quite in licill°,:oftle could hardly walk across the kitchen. She had ¢ fit with her about half full of rum, and she drank eutieeell' several times between that time and about half-past e ll , Of At this time I left her and went to bed, together wlitt sir sister-in-law, and got up this (Tuesday) morning ,chey, o'clock, and found deceased sitting in the chair in the l""0- just as she now is. [The body was exhibited to the ar t the same position as it was found ; the deceased had t t r, pearance of being agleep.] I called up my sister-in-hi t s t ' e be? we thought she was dead. I went to my father, andhe l e de cd' Mr. Clark, surgeon, who pronounced her to be qu ite t The deceased was much given to liquor; she is about tll years of age. Sophia Jones—l live with the last Witull o for the last three months have been in attendance ar Olt; John Simms, the husband of deceased, at Kingsholin.c-oe,s Simms had been severely injured by a bull.] The de r was unwell from the bile for some time, but it was to 1 4,, led buted to the quantity of Spirits she usually took. „ef, home on Monday morning to look after the cart wl,t` t „t tables, and was in her usual health. She returned au t ° „'"hta; f o'clock of the same morning quite tipsy, and went,,,;,,ifi t, :i she arose again about four o'clock, and partook of , chocolate. I left about six o'clock, and I saw her as de ~s - eeri t by the last witness between seven and eight ; she ior' t noisy and abusive. After we left the kitchen. ,t3lle P ' very quiet ; I afterwards found her in the 'chair qui: - 0 0 When at home, she usually slept on a chair or on ta e r ol The deceased was a drunken woman, and usually eL tr i o a bottle of spirits with her. About twelve- had oeu' l l o iee l l i. come down stairs and she appeared to be in a 50na," . „0 .. ,r The jury returned ' a verdict to the effect that "the a'; s /fir' died from the effects of intoxication." Glouceste Chronicle. • t THE ATTRACTIVE MAN (the title of the la s t , lle, novel from the pen of Mrs. Trollope) appears likelY„ o - f O r come the most popular of all the author's verY writ e works . ; but in the present production of this clever off there is evidently something that renders the wog= (ilierl° attractive with the title. Notwithstanding the disc iall o f tb" , the preface, there can be little doubt that her portraitstioo hero is taken from an original, and a vast deal of sPec. u v ijea l l ; has been occasioned in certain circles, where every h lll l O stir handsome enough or agreeable enough to lay claigt honours, has been named as " The Attractive Man. tie FALMOUTH HARBOUR.—We adverted a short ar.,s ago to the defenceless state of Falmouth port of first-rate importance to our •Mercantile 3 ,1 ' ba ing interest. We subsequently stated that sr, o i p o n°, ll reason to believe that our remarks had excited ayee,'; to the subject in an influential quarter. At 311 e buoys are now being laid down in Carrick Roads, as d i late war, to mark the deep channel for frigates fr o m of-battle ships ; and we have been informed , p r :ll official source, that two ships of large burt l , Bll ,„,.' bably ships of the line, equipped as block buy O s shortly ride at anchor in Falmouth Harbour. On s„ 0 „ 1 0 0 } thority we may state that the fortifications at r, 3-- o f Castle are, as we recommended, to be put into a scat r e tlu w " ficiency, and mounted with guns of much larger caw"' any hitherto'placed there.—Penzance Gazette. r r g 1 ,1 4 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ANASPASIA IN TIIK p t MENT OP CONSUMPTION.—The Dispensary for the Tr e t,l4 o 2; ' Consumption, Asthma, and ether Affections of the Ches t (w pasia), is removed from 113, Strand, to 14, Leicester-Pl'iciravoe Cronin, physician to the Institution, has removed fronl 6, r o street, Strand, to 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-square. /3 01 g, [ADVERTISEMENT.J—BOTANIC WATER A1 41: ',0% GREASE.—When the hair is becomi ng thin, and fl u , ' t hen the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the bead , ' s P" of the two above-named articles, appli e d alternatell-- t u ts ce tanie water to cleanse the roots from scurf and as a l and the bear's grease as a nourisher. If any further e.: g ej : .was required of the virtues of bear's grease for renela t . / 0 , preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account of the te,,. t h i Au l '; and the length of hair obtained by some of the c ro r `d 5 ,11 ,; rican Indians, would be a su ffi cient answer. Ross ' l l 00 1 1, 119, and 120, Bishopsgate-street, who fi rst introduc e " he 3 10 of bear's grease in this country, and who fat and kill t .t 0,/ mals, recommend the public to purchase none otber bu oi s t ril their names and address'printed on the pot, or the e h° 10 their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable Dili SP P the hair are worse than useless. C CI I4 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—AN EXTRA ORDINA I t - 0 , 001 OF A DISORDERED LIVER AND STOMACH MY 14C ' LL ,I, ° at PILLS.—"To Professor Holloway.—Sir, —Seeing • j` Earl of Aldborough wa s c u r ed o f a li ver and store ° 5 P,, I plaint by means of your Pills, I was induced to try th eel e'e c e ;; have the satisfaction to inform you that your Pills ha stta il ej , tainly, in a very short time, done wonders for me in, 3 4 0, 1 or complaint, when calomel and ether medicine e t ad :j r - rl i ! to give me any relief. send you my name and would rather that you did not make them public." --$. A t et i f f re st f communication is from a counsellor or barrister, e. to nence, of the Inner Temple, whose letter would be siltVot respectable person. Sold (also Holloway's Ointefer il l fessor Holloway'! Establishment, 244, Strand, 1112-- venders of medicine. BIRTHS l a d „ On the 7th inst., at Diptford Rectory, near Totnella me.° p th e of' the Rev. W. C. Johnsen, of a daughter. Oeu er. On the 7th inst., at Cheltenham, the lady •of Major - of Tickell, C.R., Bengal Engineers, of a son. 51.' a On the Bth inst., at Bath, the lady of Henry J. 3 18 .—' f: 4 " a daughter. „W I i° On the 9th inst., at Bromley, Middlesex, Maria, the Jennings, Esq., of a son. „ A i ng - On the 9th inst., at Wimpole-street, the lady of J. 01 4 ' Esq., of a son. yle c h On the 9th inst., at Esse x - s t ree t, M rs . Edmtuf...A 13 IV' C. of a son. eit On the 9th inst., at Morden Rectory, the wife of the WU°. Raffles Flint, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., the wife of John Charles Parrott, common, of a daughter. MARRIED - - Of 130 g On the Bth inst., at Twickenham, Williamßlake. Esq" ' Fr° to Mrs. Ann Downes, of Ailsa-p a rk- v ill as , TwickenhaT 7 • lll o , .15' rick Baring, On the Bth inst., at the British Embassy in Paris. r 1 00, t" . Esq., to Emily, eldest daughter of Sir R. 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