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~" üBDJ S WO l'iLehunii* baen 51j# Al. vesSeil resse 11110 0 chat 44 to 81 ' Fused 0 ite i re e s n o e s e rod ber ettr Y l ' re Y 0 ?d 01 0 ° 0 'or e fa de eeo t hl to j n e h eld _ bo g 00 - 00 0 go to . 1.00 ; wen*" c i; d ,finis t -116 to ~hic) to tio) 9 , e ... ° v s 3 he 'W thing: l e ci pro s rx 0 6°13 led fr. ber 96 :4, f'cu ite g °4ltl e *fore ,1" re 16 ste S 11/ ,Meat ta i :ifereCi 8 4( ;' , fr t in cC ia Eng" 0 ssarl' o f vincn,io ' Woo' the F ' e' r the t i l e isle , •rvaa" rfair4s. ItAILWAY LITIGATION. At a preli m i nary meet i ng of persons i n t eres ted, held the 3Q " 4 3 7 of December, 1845, D. W. HARVEY, Esq., in the Chair ; I t Was resolved,—Tbat proceedings at law having been threatened la var ious railway matt ers , it i s ver y d es i r able that, with a 'flew to e equitable arrangement of just demands, and the resistance of obviously made under the impression that the dread of leggy liabilities law charges will induc e com pli a nce, as also to - ascertain the of committee-men, shareholders, and applicants far and further to elicit te actual cirumstances of various railway t iai P. oJects (matt ers f ar tool weighty and c important for iitdi vl of Pie ...rtsPonsibillty), a confidential meeting bs speedily convened who ate interested in these objects. a• t was further resol ve d,—Th a t M essrs . A m or* Sewell, and Moores, ograo rton-street, be appointed solicitors, to whom persons in tofa co-operate a re i nv it e d t o sen d th e ir names and addresses, ^ 4 c will be apprised of the proposed meeting. AL POL YTECHN IC INSTITUTION, bad tlae Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE in POTATOES , D e leans of extracting the Starch as an Article of Food, will d elivered by Dr. Ryan daily, at Half-past Three, and ott the o' d e ,„„ nl , lo of Mondays, an, and Fridays, at Nine Professor Rachoffner's varied Lectures, with expe cents, in one of which lie eloarly explains the principle of ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, a model of which is at work Daily. gi aar i d il lan it, te t , he celebrated Flutist, accompanied by Dr. Wallis on will perform a DUET CONCEP.TANTE, and after a favourite FANTASIA, at Three o'Clock on Tuesdays, There- Saturdays. c'.oleman's NEW AMERICAN LOCO- L' ENGINE, for as,ending and descending Inclined Planes. 14aglitaceet COLLEC PION of MODELS of TROPICAL FRUITS. oppv and LNSy var beantithl series of DISSOLYINS VIEWS. New sad C AL TRUNIENT , 4 &sc. Experiments with the NITER 161 YINCt BELL, Sce One Shilling. Schools, Nalf-price. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCZ SOCINITY, 36, coloranx, LONDON'. Capital 2500,00 4 2. Tbis Znipewered by Act of Parliamext. offers important and substantial alvan iies"'nptaliesPect both t. Life Assurances and Deferred Annaities. bas, en all occasions, the power to bernw, without ex -414 ta:Cerfeitere of the Polley, two-thirds ef the premium paid, I this Om the option of selecting benefits, and the ()conversion le b ir .,7 o3 til to meet ether conveniences or necessity. Assaranoes sf Years are granted en the lowest possible rates. ijihe Nit _ DIVISION or PROFIT:. b„,"` ,15 wad Increasing pros - parity of the Society has salable& 'ftsi, — ;Z r r i t ; w at the last annual investigation, tip declare a third task fromp t er cen t. on the premiums pa l l en --"7 " eialit to 7 ePre s ll ' EXAMPLBS. . v g APR Nam ;•. 4 4.4 . &Vcig Q;cl 4 ''' Bonus added. Benin in Cash. iva7 Al9l 13 5 1836' 165 13 0 1839: 138 13 6 11140' 85 0 0 £l7 13 SI 74 13 10 61 14 3 41 13 4, £395 Il 1 346 2 3 296 13 4 247 4 5 I bl~ I I 13 17 1 It $ 6 9 2 10 6 0 0 +O n ".• I , No. 16,635. LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING SUN, DECEMBER 9, 1845. E AST AND WEST JUNCTION RAILWAY c OM PANT. The Committee of the above line have great pleasure in informing the Subscribers that all the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference of this line have been duly deposited at the offices of the Board of Trade, and of the several Clerks of the Feace, in compliance with the standing orders of the houses of Parliament. By order, . 0. D. MATIIIAS, Secretary. • 38, Moorgate-street, Dec. 3, 1845 BRANDY AND CAPSULES.-Mr. BETTS (the late firm of J. T. BETTS and CO.), Patent Brandy Distiller, 7, Smithfield Bars, feels it due to himself and the public to state, that the Manufacture of the PATENT BRANDY was not, and never has been known to any person except to himself and ens of his sons. And that he was succeeded in the business of the Dis tillery, 7, Smithfield Bars, by his eons, J. T. BETTS, jun., and CO., on his retiring therefrom, in 1541. Mr. BETTS further states, that he is the sole Patentee, reanufao turer, and 'vendor of the Metallic Capsule, (or solid metal covering for the wouthe of bottles), that no other Brandy in England, except BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, is thereby protected; the Patent Metallic Capsule if, therefore, applied to any other Brandy, must have been surreptitiously obtained. Metallic Capsule Manufactory, 1, Wharf-road, City-road. T HE OXFORD AND SALISBURY DIRECT RAILWAY. CHAIRMAN—Thomas Dowglasse, Esq. lENGINEER-IN-CHlEF—Samuel Charles Drees, Nsq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Elmslie and Preston, 47, Moorgate-street. SECRETART—Z. Hubbersty, Esq. The Committee of Management have the satisfaction to announce that the proper Notices have been published in the " London Ga zette" and Provincial Newspapers, and that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference, have been deposited in the Parliamentary Offices and with the Clerks of the Peace for the several Counties through which the Line is proposed to pass. The Committee are further desirous to state that Testimonials in favour of the Line have been most numerously signed by the landowners, tradesmen, farmers, and inhabitants of every town throughout the country proposed to be traversed ; and that the Engineer of the Company assures them that the construction of the intended railway will be completed at very much less expense than he originally contemplated. By order of the Board, Z. HUBBERSIT, Secretary. Moor:ate Chambers, Moorgate-street, Dee. 1, 1845. _ _ BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY, certified by the Faculty of England is be the purest spirit, and guaranteed by the Paterit Metallic Capsules, embossed " Betts's Patent B randy, 7, Smithfield-bars," is sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most respectable dealers, lists of whom may be obtalusd at the Distillery, where quautities of uo,l leas than two gallons, In balk or bottles, are supplied. Address, 7, Smithfield-bars. JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH LO ZENGES, the best remedy ever discovered. Persons afflicted With cough, asthma, difficulty of breathing, consumption, or other liseasee or derangement of the respiratory organs, will experience immediate relief, and derive permanent benefit, by the use of JONES'S DEMULCENT COUGH LOZENGES, which are so effica • clous, that they will cut short the most violent paroxysm of cough ing, and are so agreeable to the palate that they may be eaten as a confection. Sold by the proprietor, Peter Jones, operative chemist, 11, Norton folgate, Blshopsgate-street, London, in boxes Is. 1%d., and in tins at 2s. 91:1. each, duty Included ; and by most chemists and patent medi— cine vendors in town and coentry. IDLAND UNION and BURTON-UPON TRENT, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, and LEICESTER RAILWAY, with a diverging Line to Trent Valley Railway at Atherstone (Provisionally Registered, ltSth.May, 1845.) The Committee of Management have the pleasure of announcing ,o the Shareholders in this important undertaking, that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference have been duly deposited with the several Clerks of the Peace, and at the Board of Trade, in compli ance with the standing orders of Parliameht. By order, WILLIAM K.v..".SIGHT, Secretary IS, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dec. I, 1845. pI LULLS VEGETALES, TONIQUES APERITIVES D'EIIDE, I l'usage des Familles.—EUDE'S VEGETABLE TONIC APERIENT FAMILY FILLS, one trial will prove to be the most valuable medicine of modern times. Their extraordinary efficacy has been fully tested in affections of the head, liver, and stomach, in rheumatism, gout, cough, with pain and ightness at the chest, tic, constipation, piles, Obstructions, Ike. In consumption it is the most valuable tonic-aperient known, not con fining the bowels afterwards, as every other aperient does. Depot, 73, Great Titchfield-street, London, aid 23, Place Vendome, Paris. Price Is. 114 d. and 29. 9d. per box. The poor will be supplied with a portion of the medicine gratis, at the depot, 73, Great Titch field-street every Saturday morning, at Ten.—Forwarded to any part of the thre kingdoms (free on receipt of Is. and two penny stamps. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, DEC. 6. STOCK EXVIIANGE.-The sales are-Bristol and Exeter, Ditto, New, 5 3 / 4 -Midland, New, 18 1 4-Vale of Neath, 31. 13s. 9d. SHEFFIELD, Dm. 6. Sroca EXCITANGE.-The sales are-Grand Union, 1 3 4- Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, VA-Wakefield and Harrogate, 2 1 / 1-Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares No. 3., 5% 4 -Sheffield and Manchester, 119-South Wales, 3%. EDINBURGH, DEC. 5. STOCK EXCHAYGE.-The sales are -Aberdeen, 4 1 . 10s.- Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21.-Airdrie and 'Bathgate, 21. 55.-Arbroath and Forfar, 2 51 .-Ditto , Half 'Shares, 15/.- Armagh and Portrush, 1/. 155.-Ayr and Dumfries 21. 155.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/. 55.-Banffshire, 2/. 55.-Belfast and County Down, 31.-British and Irish Union, 8/. 84.- Caledonian, 121.-Caledonian Extension, 31.- Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 3/. Os. 6d. -Cambridge and Lincoln, 41. 55.-Carnwarth and West Lin ton, 1/. 145.-Chelmsford and Bury, 11. 12s. 6d.-Clydesdale Junction, 19/.-Cornwall and Devon, 2/. 88.-Deeside Rail • way, Si. 10s.-Direct Northern, 2/.-Dublin and Enniskillen, 41. 7s. 6d.-Dundee and Arbroath, 35/. 10s.-Ditto, New, 171.-Dundee and Perth, 6/. 17s. 6d.-East of Fife, 2/.- East Coast of Scotland, 2/. 135.-East Lothian Central, 21. 35.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 31.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex new, 651.-Ditto, Half Shares, 15/. 10s.-Ditto, Quar ters, 151. 10s.-Ditto, ditto, New, 121. IN.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton,lBs.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmos pheric, 2/. 55.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric Direct, 11. 155.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 21/. 10s.-Ditto, Preference, 18/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 41.75.-Ditto, Newport, 1/. Bs.-Ditto, Lochqelly, 1/. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, ex new, 2/. 25.-Edinburgh and Perth, 4/. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh, Portobello, and Musselburgh, 1/. 10e.- Forth and Clyde Junction, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 701.-Ditto, New Stock, 231.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 21/. I 2s. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 2/. ls.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Dundee Junc tion, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 451.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New, 10/. 155.-Ditto, Preference, 21. 55.-Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction, 2/. 10s.-Glasgow Harbour Mineral, 2/. 195.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ar drossan, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Glasgow, Strathaven, and Lesmahagow, 3/.-Granton Junction, 2/. IN.-Great County Down, 2/. 12s. 6d.-Great North of Scotland, 21. 155.-Great North and South Wales, 12s. 6d.-Inverness and Elgin, 11.155.-Lanark and Galloway, 2/. 10s.-Lanark and Lothians, V. 17s. 6d. -Larne and Ballymena, 2/. 25.-London and Hounslow, 2/. -London and Manchester (Rem.), 31. 55.-London and Man chester (Rastrick), 51. IN.-London and Windsor, 11.- London and York, 4/. 55.-Midland and Eastern Counties, 2/. 78. 6d.-Morayshire, 1/.-Newcastle and Berwick, 111 . -Newry and 'Londonderry, 2/. 10s.-North British, ex new, 221. 10s.-Ditto, Halves, ex new, 5/. 10s.-Ditto, Ex tension tolCarlisles, 2/. 95.-Ditto, Extension to Dalkeith, 6/. 55.-North Wales Mineral, New, 41. 75.-Perth and Crieff Direct, 21. 25.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 195.-Scottish Cen tral, 14/.-Scottish Central and .Caledonian Junction, 2/.- Scottish Midland, 31.-Scottish North Western, 1/. 155.- Scottish South Midland, 2/. 45.-Scottish Southern, 2/. ss. -Scottish Western, 21. 10s.-Shrewsbury and Hereford, 17s. 6d.-Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 6/.-South Midland, 6/. 7s. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline. 21. 10s.- Stirling and Midland, 2/. 175.-Strathern Junction, 37. 55.- Surrey Grand Junction, 1/. 2s. 6d.-Tean and Dove Valley, U 1 53 - -Tvne Valley, 11. 18s -Wishaw and Coltness,s2/. 10s. GLASGOW, DEC. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 5-Aber deen, Banff, and Elgin, 385.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 555.- British and Irish Union, 705.-Caledonian Extension, 60a.- Caledonian and Ayrshire. Junction, 385.-Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction, 455.-Clydesdale Junction, 18/.- Dundee and Forfar Junction, Os. 6d.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 435,--Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 18/.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 635.-Lanark and Lothians, 575. &1.-Scottish Central, 131.-Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 365.-South Midland, 5/.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 451.-Strathearn Junction, 50s. HULL, DEC. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.--The sales are-London and Croydon, 18% -Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 1%-Grand Union, 28s. 9d.-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 425.-London and Birmingham Extension, 1 1 4 -London and York, 3% -Not. tingham, Erewash, &c., 2A -Nottingham, Belvoir, and Gran tham, 2 1 %-North Western, 31. ls.-North Staffordshire, 5/. 4s. 6d. CITY of TORONTO and LAKE HURON RAILWAY COMPANY. DIRECTORS. Charles Franks, Esq., Chairman. 11. H. Berens, Esq. Francis Lloyd, Esq. Pierce S. Butler, Esq., M.P. F. H. Mitchell, Esq. John Esthope, Esq. Edward Scard, Esq. Frederick C. Gaussen, Esq. Alexander Stuart, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Charles Head Willin Wilson, Esq. The shareholders in the above Company are informed that the Deed of Settlement having been approved by the registrar, they will be shortly required to sign the same, of which due notice will be given. In the meanwhile the Directors have the pleasure of acquainting the share holders that a very satisfactory arrangement has been made with the City of Toronto and Lake Huron Railway Company, incorporated by the Canadian Legislature, by which all the powers of the Act of Incorporation passed in Canada have been made available to this Company, which is thereby enabled to proceed immediately with the undertaking. By order of the Board, W. T. SMITH, Secretary. YORK, DEC. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, New, 18% —Newcastle and Darlington, Brandling, 44 1 / 2 —York and North Midland Extension, 25.—Newcastle and Berwick, 9% —Ditto, New, 6—London and York, 31. 18s. 9d.—Grand Union, 1 5 / s —Leicester and Bedford, I%—North Stafford shire, s—Welsh Midland, 21. ls. THE CORN-LAWS. (From the Times.) If any doubt existed as to the emergency of the case which has forced upon the Cabinet the inevitable, but not ungracious, capitulation which we announced on Thursday last, its solution would be found in the number of public meetings which it has collected together throughout the country. Edinburgh, Leeds, Stroud, Southwark, Bath, and Bristol swell the cry which other great towns first raised. And this unanimity of feeling is rendered more remarkable by the exceptional differ ences of opinion. Although the speakers did not all precisely agree in their estimation of the existing law, or of the benefits to be derived from its repeal, yet the harmony of their resolutions, and the general tone of their expression, leave no room for doubting that the condemnation of the corn-laws is as strongly urged by the country as by the Government. In this case, then, the Government has acted as the exponent, or rather enforcer of the public will. It has anticipated the fulfilment, in echoing the sentiments, of a popular demand. It takes those whom it is intended to gratify by surprise • those whom it disappoints or dis p leases still more so. it is a great coup d'tiiat, subject, like other bold or unexpected manoeuvres, to much criticism and dissection. If it succeed, the wisdom and statesmanship evinced in its adoption will draw heavily on the pane gyrical powers of the most Ministerial parasites. It will be pronounced the greatest, wisest, noblest, boldest mea sure ever submitted to the deliberation of a Legislature or the approbation of a people. If it fail, what terms will be strong enough to express the dissatisfaction of one, or the disgust of another portion of the community? Like a deviation from some established rule of military tactics, it will be praised or censured, not according to the vigour of conception or energy of decision exhibited in its design, but simply according to its success. And that success must be immediate, apparent, and general. mlsf,eue The isrltlseteees n,vtdi distant,i tef o nrrx l ieoi e paeTur n lent c hedrti e teoamsal, o oiwtpti p f tyaohhpinw ipeoocashf party spirit and the eagerness of po pulare ibottpl hil impalpable others; opposition Ministerialoe b tnfa e satisfied esu fiotn hmt tsse some o country oTuul triumphant yir.tsuorwjmywsei support p h lthl pan i on n b ar et o gentlemen, yt etnobheefero sub mitted. ui par tial , trsehbeos all these the Ministry will meet without surprise and without dismay. But, perhaps, neither they nor the nation itself are prepared to meet what—we do not, and would not, predict will be—hut what may be the disap apoirtment of the latter. No great political act as yet consummated ever satisfied the wishes or the expecta tions of the people. We need not go far back to test this historical common-place. Instances will occur to the minds of all our readers. Who has forgotten the vaticinations and auguries which ushered in the Catholic Relief and the Reform Bills? Who will say that either of them has answered the wishes, or justified the pro mises of its friends? Yet the Catholic Relief Act was a necessary one. The Reform Bill finally became so. The repeal of the corn-law bears nearly the same relation to times and events that each of these did. We say nearly," becouse whatever may be the feeling of the country as to the present law, there has been no universal expression of opinion on the various modifi cations which lie between it and the annihilation of all corn-laws. Nor do we think that this exception is of much importance. There seems no likelihood of any public man coming forward to interpose any intermediate state previous to their abolition. The letter of Lord John Russell and the speech of Mr. Macaulay forbid us to expect that such a proposition will be made by the Whigs. The repeated declarations of leading Conser vatives preclude the supposition that they will abandon their devotion to the sliding-scale. From the League the utmost that can be expected is the patient submis sion to a delay of a few weeks. We are therefore con strained to suppose that no effort—at least no effort con taining any element of success—will be made to retain a corn-law, even of a different character from the present. And thus, then, absolute repeal may be ranked ins the same category as the Reform Bill—viz., as a meaure which is made necessary by the long-continued rejection of qualified concessions. And it will be the duty of the people to remember this feature in its character. This is necessary in order to prevent their own disappoint ment, no less than to ao wow to the Ministers who troduce it. The exaggerations which all popular questions naturally provoke have been so multiplied by the de claimers of the League, and men's minds have I been so mystified by th e h aze w hi c h vu l gar i gnorance veld vulgar credulity have thrown around the subject, as to lose sight entirely of its real proportiona There is nothing of which teen entertain such vague and flatter ing notions as the power of the Legislature to confer great and extensive benefits. They forget that it is oftener the province of Senates and Governments to correct the influences than to direct the course of events —to mitigate actual evil than to affect a capacity of open ing new sources of prosperity, or of introducing new means of happiness. In the present instance men's minds have been distracted with extravagant hopes and extravagant fears, according to their position and in terests. We have already alluded to the groundless ap prehensions of the agriculturists, who shrink back with horror from the vision of redundant importations and un remunerative prices. Another party looks forward, with hopes equally unreasonable, to a golden age of constant employment and costless wheat. We believe that both will be equally disappointed. A slight derangement may trouble the markets at first ; but there is no thing in the measure itself—nothing in the aspect of events—to justify us in supposing that the price of bread will be long or sensibly affected on the one hand, or that on the other the advantages to trade will be so general and so vast as they have been represented. There ar.e certain known laws which govern both the produc lion of corn and the relations of trade, which are not only independent of, but superior to, all legislative enactments. The real and permanent good derivable from the repeal of the corn-law will be twofold—first, it will remove a potential cause of embarrassment from the operations of commerce: secondly, it will liberate the landholders from the painful and often unjust reproach of selfish and hard-hearted monopoly. We agree with Dr. Chalmers in believing that this moral effect will be the chief benefit attainable by so .sweeping a measure ; and we should conceive it is one to which the landholders cannot be indifferent. But every great political achieve ment involves a loss or a sacrifice. Here there will be a loss and a sacrifice. We speak not of classes or cliques, but of the country. And the country, whatever it may hereafter gain in other respects, will lose altogether and for ever in point of revenue. Nor are we justi fied in expecting that this loss will be solely in the article of corn. Mr. Cobden very recently informed a French journal that the League confined its attacks to the monopoly of corn because its members knew that this being abolished the aristocracy would unite to sup press all others. This means, that if the tildes on corn are once removed, all other customs' duties will follow. Is the country prepared for this? Are the national revenues such as to enable us to dispense with customs' duties altogether ? Can we afford to lose twelve or fourteen millions a-year at once? If we do, how are we to replace it? By direct taxation?. Do the people of England then seriously prefer direct to indi rect taxation? If so, we should like to ascertain from w penchant tmeamy he dated. All th ese con siderations selves on the m i n d s b o th o f het time this must usptenfeohrce themselves the public and their rulers. That which we prophesied may soon take place ; a concentrated attack will be made on all customs' duties. We trust the resources of the natioa may prove sufficient to excuse their abroga tion ; but for our own parts, we confess that we look back with something of regret to the time when a more '" qualified concession" than a total repeal of the corn law would have at least delayed the assault, and have en riched the national treasury. mer's pamphlet again. Meantime we recommend it to the perusal of those who have any misgivings as to the effect of a repeal of the corn-laws upon the," agricul tural interest" of this country. For our own part, we feel assured that " protection " is the " bane" of every thing towards which its influence is extended. A pro tected country is always weak, a protected class is al ways oppressed, and a protected trade never flourishes. Agriculture forms no exception to other occupations, and we trust that when the landlords themselves see the full effect of their protective legislation, on the classes whom they profess to befriend, that they will no longer oppose the abolition of a system which, whilst it is im mediately and severely injurious to others, can produce no lasting benefit to themselves. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The Manchester and Leeds and Leeds and Bradford Companies have amalgamated, and the conse quenee is that Leeds and Bradford, and Leeds and Brad ford Extension shares are to become Manchester and Leeds stock to the extent of their share of the capital —viz., 900,000/. The Leeds and Bradford Proprietors are also to have 75 per cent. additional on the 900,0001., which per tentage is\ to be issued as follows, viz.:- 300,0001. in 201. shares, which will realise, when paid up, the amount authorised to be borrowed by the Leeds and Bradford. The remainder of the 75 per cent., viz., 375,0001., will subsequently be issued to the Share holders, .subject to a call at the time of 2L per share, in addition to the calls of 51. on the original shares, and 10/. on the Extension shares now due, which will make 20/. paid up on each; it is intended to call for a further sum of 21/. per share in the course of next year, which will then make the paid-up capital 411. per share. But the old and the new shares are to remain unproductive till the opening of the railway, when they will begin to receive dividends in proportion to the extent and cost of the lines that'shall be in operation. The Brighton and Croydon Railway Companies, it appears, have quarrelled with respect to their prelimi naries of amalgamation. The Croydon proprietors have held a meeting on the subject, at which the shareholders deprecated the course of conduct pursued by the Direc tors. The Brighton shareholders are about to hold a meeting on the same subject, when there will be an op portunity of hearing both sides of the question. A. breach also seems to have occurred between the South- Western and Great Western Companies respecting the Exeter projects of these lines, which is not likely to be settled before the matter is brought before the Board of Trade. An arrangement is stated to have just been effected between the Directors of the Dublin and Kings town Railway and the provisional committee of the Dub lin, Wicklow, Wexford, and Waterford Company, the latter having agreed to take a lease of the former at a fixed rent of 34,0001. per annum, and one-half of the gross receipts of the company over 55,0001. per annum, which has been the assumed gross rental for the next year, and on which all the calculations have been founded. Having stated the case of the bankers against the lawyers in the matter of subpcana, we give that of the lawyers against the bankers, from a letter written by a member of the profession. At the same time we can hardly consider it as an answer to the complaint from the other side:— " May I be permitted to question the justice of some re marks which appear in your City article of this morning re lative to the attendance of bankers and their establishments in courts of law as witnesses? " I cannot think an attorney would desire to subpoena every individual connected with a bank if it were net abso lutely necessary for him to do so, and I know from my own practice, that bankers, like most other persons, are very anxious not to attend themselves, or to allow their clerks to attend as witnesses, if it can possibly be avoided. Hence impediments are thrown in the attorney's way, aid being un able to learn with certainty who the party is that he re quires, he is driven to the unpleasant resource of summoning the whole establishment. lam not aware that this has ever occurred in practice, I•ut it is no doubt often held out as a threat in order to obtain information. " Plaintiffs are frequently nonsuited in actions which re late to cheques and bills of exchange, in consequence of bankers sending wrong persons to prove facts connected with these documents. " Lord Abinger, Baron Gurney, and other Judges, have recommended from the bench, that parties should summon every person connected with a bank when the bankers refuse t o give such information as would insure the selection of the right individual." THE TRUE MEANING OF " PROTECTION." (From the Derby Reporter.) The word " protection" has its two-fold meaning— its literal, and its historical sense. It may bear a kindly and a magnanimous import in the dictionary, but it has a very different meaning when read in the past or present doings of mankind. To defend or succour, may be its lexicographical—to oppress and injure, is its veri table definition. Our predecessors, the ancient Britons, were protected" by the Saxons; and the consequence was, that they were despoiled of their patrimony, and the badge of their protection was seen in the brass collars that were fastened round their necks by those who pro tected them. Ireland has for centuries been " protected" by this country; and the benefit of that protection is whole ol j e us y t e o ar one rout . d remove on m s r f o r o o t. displayed -in our relieving them of their cattle, eggs, poultr y,actual st a a r n v d a i pork, onto , leaving feastthe th India—that land of gems and spices, the very name of which is associated with all that is fertile and magnifi cent—has been " protected" by Great Britain; and the fruit of that relation has been exhibited in those mon strous extortions and monopolies which have produced famines and pestilences that have swept millions from the face of that luxuriant land. Otaheite and Algeria are now "protected" by France ; hence the confiscations and cruela.s endured by the na tives in the former place, and the extirpation of whole tribes by fire and sword in the hitter. Unfortunately, the true nature of " protection" is exhibited nearer home. We have the same principle, but under another form. The military form of protection would be un suited to the condition of things in this country in the present age ; therefore, in order to meet the genius of the times, " protection" assumes the legislative shape. To brand the bodies of the cultivators of the soil with a mark to indicate their villeinage, would be unsuited to the present state of things. The badge of their servi tude now is stamped in the statute-book ; and if not bound as of yore by galling rings of brass, they are al most equally fettered by Acts of Parliament. British farmers and farm labourers are professedly a " pro tected" class, and the evidences of protection are manifest in their condition. The worst paid, and the most miserable race of men in this country, are the be friended cultivators of the soil ; and the only set of capitalists that are not prosperous, are the tenants who recline under the shade of lordly patronage and protection. Mr. Cobden, in his celebrated speech in Parliament during the last session, declared " protec tion" to be a system of mutual plander, under which the growers of the different descriptions of agricultural produce rob one another. This system has undergone a very rigid examination at the hands of Mr. John and the result Morton and Mr. John Trimmer, of their elaborate and • conclusive calculations is given to the world in the form of a pamphlet. They estimate on one hand the extent to which the farmers' receipts are increased by protection; and on the other, to what ex tent his disbursements , are augmentedfrom the same cause. As an instance, they take the case of a farmer holding 400 acres of light land in Norfolk. They esti mate that the price of wheat in the Channel Islands, where importation is free, is a criterion of what the price would be in this country if the corn-laws were re pealed. "By a Parliamentary return, it appears that the price of wheat in Jersey during the ten years from 1832 to 1841 averaged 48s. 4d. the quarter; the average price in England for the same period was 565. Bd.; being a difference of Bs. 4d. the quarter. But it will at once be conceded by all who are acquainted with the subject, that a constant demand from England under a free trade would have raised the level of foreign grain at the very least 2s. to 3s. the quarter, and thus bring the price up to within ss. ori6s. of our average, which corro borates our estimate of the protection at ss. 6d the quar ter." The amount of protection on barley is estimated at 4s. Bd. the quarter, and the gross amount received in consequence of protection duties by a Norfolk farmer holding to the extent already assumed, would be on his entire produce, 2261. 13s. 4d. Against this is to be set— first, the increased value of all agricultural produce con sumed upon the farm, for the farmer being a consumer as well as a produ cer , h e only receives the benefit of the increased price on the produce which he actually brings into the market, after feeding his horses, reserving for seed; &c. Another item to be deducted is the enhanced wages to be paid to his labourers, as an equivalent for the provisions they purchase for the consumption of them selves and their families. To this item there possibly tray at first sight be some objection. It is certain, how ever, that either the labourer has returned to him, in the shape of enhanced wages, the amount of protecting duty he pays on what he consumes, or to that extent the system robs him. Another item to the debit of the farmer's account is the increased charge on tradesman's bills. The blacksmith, wheelwright, and others, have to pay a protected price for the agricultural produce they buy, and they must charge the amount of protective DEATII DT FIRE or AN AGED LADY.—On duty they pay back upon the farmer, or they too are day morning an inquest was held before William Carter, robbed of that sum. Again, the amount of protective q ti , le a h t o t d he residence o of Mr. Rogers, of Woodside, Croydon, duties on the bread, butter, cheese, &c. &c., consumed on s body of Woodside, was Bashford, aged 96. Mrs. Mary by the tenant, his wife, children, household servants and Carpenter, was sworn, and deposed that the guests, must be taken into the calculation. Further, in deceased lady was her mother. On the afternoon of Wednes consequence of protection, the farmer has to pay an in- day week, between the hours of two and three, they were creased rent. Rents are calculated on the su pp osition sittin g to g ether b y the side of the fire in the parlour, when that an average price of 565. can be obtained for wheat, witness, happening to turn her head towards the deceased, whereas the average does not range above 505. ; discovered that the whole of her dress was in flames. She the difference must be included in the outgoings screamed for assistance, and Mrs. Richards, who was in the on the score of protection. Now, when these house, came, and as quickly as they could they tore the various items are c arefull y estimated and summed clothes off, but this occupied some time, as the fire was burning very fiercely. The deceased was much burnt about up, they are found to exceed the amount received by the the head and face, neck, arms, and chest. As well as they farmer as the proceeds of protective laws to the extent of were ta able they . dressed the wounds with linseed oil and po -761. 18s. 11d. And this is not the whole loss. On such ,untwdhothtzeanrrtioso,akl theof Mr. dece Bo e t d tomley, the surgeon of a farm as the proposed one now under consideration, Croydon, t7s deceased th u e nde e r ri h o i d s 0 7 h n er ch d a ea rf i e l , Messrs. Morton and Trimmer calculate that 2001. has and in attendance upon her u to be expended in artificial manures —such as rape cake, which took place on Tuesday. 11fr. Carter l asked the witness bones, and guano. " If, by the removal of restrictions on j if she could form any opinion of the manner in which the the importation of corn, he (the Norfolk farmer) were unfortunate lady's clothes had caught fire. Mrs. Carpenter enabled to purchase oats weighing forty pounds the said that a short time before the deceased missed her hand bushel for fifteen shillings the quarter, the 2001. now kerchief, which was lying inside the fender, and she (wit ness) supposed that while there a spark had fallen on it, and expended on artificial manures would buy 266 quarters that by putting it in her pocket it had smouldered until it of oats, which would enable the green crops to fatten 70 i burst into flames. The Coroner and jury expressed their sheep and 17 beasts more than the far m carries at pre- surprise and regret at the melancholy occurrence, and a ver sent. The manure produced by them would be more I diet of "Accidental death" was returned. beneficial than the bones, rape cake, or guano, which could i H ONOURS TO GEOLOGY. — The Emperor of Russia be bought for 2001. If we suppose only the moderate has appointed Mr. Murchison, an effective member of the profit of three shill in g s each on 170 sheep, and thirty Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg, with the privileges, imperial pertainingtothat office, shillings each on the 17 beasts to be made above their rank, &c., in the service, prime cost and the cost of their corn, it would and has conferred on him the Grand Cross of Stanislaus, as a amount to 511., which, added to the 2361. 18s. recompense for his geological labours in the empire, and the 11d. of the las t p ara g ra p h, w ill give 2871. 18s publication of his o pew work, "Russia in Europ e, and the Ural " 11d., or fourteen shillin g s and fourpence per acre fountains. AituusEmENT •] —ICINGS EVIL OR SCROFULA Such would be th e g ain which the cultivator of 400 EFAWUALLY CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINT. acres of light land in East Norfolk would derive from atrwr.—Very lately svomeeeonf made by most t s t i l i e rpri o s w ing n u l r v e rt i o n e t e h o is f the repeal of protecting duties on agricultural produce ; and such would be the gain under similar circumstances ttehrereiebleunciovmerpelelinint If space would admit, the par upon a farm of the same size, upon similar soils in titulars of some few cases might be cited, which would no Sussex, Surrey, Berks, Wilts, Rants, and Dorset, and doubt astonish our greatest medical men. Suffice it to say, every county in the country wher e t urn ip s are con- that many who had been cripples for years have been restored sumed upon the ground , . if the hkter sys t em were to the us e of their limbs, their wounds being completely healed; adopted of drawing a port i o n of them to be consum ed while p erfect health, by means of these pills, has been the b by portion or blessing of a l l who have been so fortunate as to tise these admirable medicines. Sold by all druggists, and at Pro- We may probably return to Messrs. Morton. and Trim- these Holloway a Establishment, 244, Strand, London. RUN ON THE WESTERN BANK. Yesterday morning the public of this city were startled by hearing that a run for gold was making on the Western Bank. Nobody possessed of the slightest knowledge and judgment hesitated instantly to ascribe the occurrence to soma monstrous folly or still more monstrous wickedness, yet throughout the entire day the bank was besieged by persons hurrying to it with notes for which they demanded payment in specie. These de mands were promptly complied with, and in the course et the day somewhere about 9,0001. was paid in sove • reigns. So far as we have heard, however, not a single individual of the least mercantile standing in the city partook in, or gave the slightest countenance to the run. We hoard of one gentleman, indeed, who, being a• com parative stranger in Glasgow, seems to have been affected with the vulgar alarm, and was extremely anxious to withdraw a deposit of several hundred pounds he had in the hands of the bank. But the expostulations and expla nations of his friends re-assured him, and he allowed his money to remain where it was. All other demands, we be lieve, were for sums of trifling amount, showing that the panic existed only among persons who were incapable of judging of the propriety or impropriety of what they were doing. The smallness of the amount of gold with drawn, too, compared with the circulation of the bank, which exceeds 300,0001., is an additional evidence that the alarm was confined to ignorant and insignificant parties. The original cause of the panic, however, is a different question. Amidst the universal feeling of con fidence in our banks which so justly prevails in Scotland, and looking also at the known strength and prosperity of the Western Bank, it is difficult to conceive of any accidental circumstance which could avail to produce it. We are, therefore, naturally led to suspect malicious in tent ; and some circumstances have been mentioned to us which present indications of plan and design. We have also heard rumours of a person who had been dis appointed of certain discounting accommodation he had expected from the bank, having been very busy selling its pound notes at 17s. We cannot say what truth there may be in this. There is no doubt, however, that notes were selling here and there throughout the suburban parts of the town at a considerable discount—the parties receiving them probably knowing very well that they were making a capital bargain. We heard of au ingenious grocer, who took some pains to let his neighbours know that he would take Western Bank notes in payment of goods, and who, in conse quence, had, for a night and day, the best stroke of business he ever did in his life. From whatever cause the alarm may have originated, the run, if run there was to be, could not have happened at a better time. To-morrow the regulations relating to Scotch banks, enacted by Sir Robert Peel's Bill, come into ope ration, and as a matter of course, every bank whose stock of gold was previously under the amount required by the Bill must have been making up its deficiency. Sup posing, therefore, that the run had hem one of a serious, instead of being, as it has been, of a trifling character, circumstances could not have been more favourable for successfully meeting it. Had the demand outrun the specie of the Western Bank, the other banks would have been abundantly able as they would have been very willing to give it aid. In the actual circumstances, however, aid was neither needed nor given. If the run has arisen from the concerted effort of any evil inten tioned persons, we sincerely trust they will be discovered and visited with the reproach and punishment which their wickedness deserves. In the mean time we would suggest to our intelligent readers the propriety of dis countenancing among their less informed neighbours and dependents all such needless alarms as that which we have above described. Various circumstances have recently occurred to weaken the general feeling of con fidence in connexion with monetary affairs, but there are undoubtedly no causes fitted to produce such an effect connected with the circumstances of any of our Scotch banks.—G lasgow Chronicle. HARBOURS OF REFUGE. (From the Times.) Some attention has been excited, not only in France but in our own country, by a paper recently read before the French Institute on the report of the British Com missioners appointed to consider the formation of Har bours of Refuge on the South-eastera Coast. We frankly acknowledge that we wish the picture drawn by M. Charles Dupin of the unremitting activity of the English Government in the promotion of this great national object, was more correct than it is ; but the learned gentleman has, we are sorry to say, mistaken projects for facts, and the opinions of a board of special commissioners for the resolutions of her Majesty's Government. This report was presented to the Lords of the Treasury on the 7th of August, 1844. The sub iect had already been fully considered by a former com mission, which arrived at similar conclusions in 1849. In short, the question has been fully investigated with the exception of a doubt as to the movement of shingle on the coast at Dover. Yet in the course of the last session of Parliament, with an overflowing revenue in the Treasury, the Government took no steps for appro priating the necessary funds to any one of these great public works, except a small vote for Harwich, which was absolutely necessary to preserve that purt from de struction. We deserve, therefore, to be blamed fur our sluggishness, rather than applauded for an excessive zeal in providing for our national defences ; and we can only hope that M. Dupin's observations will remind the Government that the eyes of other nations are fixed upon it in a matter so intimately affecting the security of this island. It is desirable, however, that these works should not be misconstrued by the rest of Europe ; and the tendency of M. Dupin's paper is to give a very erroneous impression of the relative importance of the several purposes which we have in view in recommending the speedy adoption of the Commissioners' report. At the French Institute these harbours are described and regarded as so many " centres of aggression, capable of containing five naval armies," at all times ready to pounce upon the French coast in less than seven hours, perhaps in an hour and a half. But it is needless to ob- . . serve that the actual investigations of the Commissioners were directed to very different objects, and governed by totally opposite considerations ; for it is obvious that in the preparation of naval armaments for the purpose of attack, the only important positions must be those in which secure ports are combined with exten sive arsenals, and that Portsmouth and Deronport are amply sufficient for these purposes. Probably M. Dupin thought that he displayed his penetration by treating as comparatively unworthy of notice the primary object of these harbours • for he barely condescended to inform the learned body he was addressing that they are es sentially needed as harbours of refuge. The Treasury minute which appointed this commission and defined the objects to which its attention was to be directed ex pressly pointed out, in the first place, the formation of ports of refuge for the safety and convenience of vessels navigating the British Channel; and recommended, se condly, that these should be calculated to become, in the event of hostilities, the stations for ships of war. Without at all underrating the importance of the second of these objects, under peculiar circumstances, such as the threat of an invasion, or the great efforts of naval war fare, the English people will not be apt to lose sight of the first and most constant service which such ports would render to the shipping of the country, and it is as harbours of refuge that they most imperatively claim a share of the public money. Between Ports mouth and the Thames there are none but tidal harbours along the coast, and none at all accessible to large steamers; and when we consider the immense amount of the shipping from our own northern ports alone and from London which passes the straits of Dover in sailing down Channel, it is inconceivable that the south-eastern coast should so long have remained without a place of secure shelter for so great a ' distance. The roadstead at Dungeness, which is re markable for its good holding ground, is the best natural shelter of the kind, and there the majority of the Commissioners propose no artificial works. At Sea ford they recommend a breakwater one mile in ex tent in seven fathoms water, which would shelter an area of 300 acres; but it is preposterous to compare such a work as this, for which the estimate is 1.250,0001., with the colossal structure at Cherbourg, which has been going on for half a century, and has cost nearly ten times that sum. The work proposed at Portland would have more of a military, and less of a mercantile character, from its position on the coast, and from the natural advantages for defence of that spot; but this undertaking stands last in the order of those the Commissioners have recommended. In the event of war, all these points would doubtless contribute to the effectual protection of the towns upon the coast, and they are especially important as forming part of a system of national defence. But to a country whose fleets are accustomed and expected always to keep the sea, and to preserve their own communications with every part of the coast, without fear of the enemy, it does not appear that a multitude of minor fortified harbours would bring any considerable increase of aggressive power. Nor do we believe the matter has ever been viewed in that light by the ablest officers who have considered it. Thirty years of peace, preceded by ten years of undisputed naval superiority during the last war, have engendered in this country not only an excessive confidence in our own re sources, without much knowledge of what they now really consist of, but also an unwise contempt of the power of our rivals and the chances of fortune. Since Caesar landed on the shores of Britain we believe that so ~_ i _~-~- -,-._. t _e•)\ DEC. IRE 'AND. Lieutenant and magistrates of Westmeatitation of their Tipperary brethren, have published their memorial to Government, praying for the application of coercion as a means of putting down " the in surrectionary spirit" which pervades that county. In reply to the memorial, the following answer from his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was received yesterday "Dublin Castle, Dec. 3, 1845. " My Lned,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 26th ult., forwarding an address to the Lord Lieutenant, from the Lieutenant and forty seven magistrates of the county of Westmeath, and beg to inform your Lordship that your letter and accompanying address have been laid before his Excellency. "The Lord Lieutenant has heard with much regret of the late atrocious attack on Sir F. Hopkins, and of the increase of outrage in the county of Westmeath, and that your Lord ship and the magistrates are of opinion that the measures taken by the Government for the suppression of agrarian outrage are inadequate for the protection of life: his Excel lency will give every aid and support that the law affords to the exertions of the magistrates to preserve the peace, pro tect the well-disposed, and make amenable to justice those persons who have engaged in crime, and outrage the laws of their country; and will bring under the notice of her Majesty's Government your address, representing the in sufficiency of the existing laws for the preservation of life and property. " The acting Crown-Solicitor of the circuit has been sent to Mullingar, to inquire into the several cases at present fur trial in the county gaol, and the probability of convictions in them, in order that he may make such reports upon them as may enable his Excellency to decide whether it be advise able that a Special Commission be issued for the trial of these prisoners at present in gaol, as suggested by the ma gistrates. I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord ship's most obedient servant, " RICHARD PENNEFATHER. The Marquis of Westmeath, &c. &c. Lieutenant, county of 'Westmeath." REPRESENTATION OF ANTRIM. The Antrim election, which was fixed for Thursday at Carrickfergus, has not " come off." At twelve o'clock, the hour specified for holding the election, the reporters from the press were in attendance at the County Court-house, but neither sheriff, candidate, proposer, seconder, or elector were to be seen. little attention has never been paid to the military force of this country at home as from 1815 to the present time. The whole ancient system of defence has crumbled away, and, as we are called upon to re place it, we have the benefit of all the improvements that modern science can suggest, by steam, magnetic electricity, and the prodigious amelioration of projectiles. Great exertions have of late been made to repair this weakness. All the other nations of Europe have been spending the last quarter of a century under the burden of standing armies and military works, scarcely inferior to what were required at no very distant period by a state of war. The public money of England has been little wasted in this wise ; but we have allowed our selves to rely on our ocean barriers to a degree which would amount to excessive hardihood if we persisted in it. On the other hand, the effort which may be required to put the country in an ordinary state of defence, to restore even the framework of our local forces, and to adapt them to the improved system of locomotion which happily exists in the country, will no doubt excite some surprise and occasion some misapprehension amongst our neighbours. It is perfectly true that when a large army is likely to be engaged in active operations in India, and when an adequate detachment is required to protect the frontier of British North America from the chance of aggression at a time of hostile excitement in the United States, a considerable addition to the army may be ur gently required. On the North American lakes it may also be wise to have in preparation at least the mate rials of a sufficient armament, for the lesson of 1812 must not be lost in that quarter. At home the application of the screw-propeller to a considerable squadron of line-of-battle ships will, ere long, have provided us with efficient floating batteries, able to take up their own positions under any circum stances, and on any part of the coast. And we trust that not many weeks of the approaching session will be allowed to pass without decided steps being taken for the execution of some portion at least of the scheme for the harbours of refuge which has called forth these remarks. At the same time, we can not too earnestly repeat that these are all precautions of defence, which this country cannot postpone without a culpable neglect of its first interests, but which have no connexion whatever with any hostile or aggressive de signs against our neighbours in any part of the world. Even when these measures are completed, we shall still have a smaller force on foot—that is, a smaller number of men ready for active service by land and sea in pro portion to the wealth and extent of this empire, than any other state in Europe. No part of the military or naval establishment of England is large except her stores ; and it is a wise and dignified policy to be well prepared for an emergency rather than to make a con tinual parade of strength. But the harbours of refuge anti defence, which require the labour of years, cannot be deferred ; and they will be fortunately even more serviceable to our merchantmen in peace than to our navy in war. THE WONDER OF WONDERB.----AIR enormous bear fed upon bread for the last twelve months, challenges com parison with any of the prizes at the Bazaar. This animal will be exhibited dead and dressed, so as to show the depth of fat, during Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the four days of the cattle-show, in front of Mr. Ray's pre mises, No. 8, King-street, Baker-street, two doors only from the Bazaar, and was fattened by those celebrated perrequieirs, perfumers, hair-cutters, and hair-dyers, Messrs. Ross and Sons, 119, Bishopsgate-street, London, of whom on l y can the genuine bear's-grease be obtained. Nothing could be better devised than Nicoll's Re gistered Paletot to suit the ever-varied nature.ze of our climate, non of the forming, as it now does, not only the s 7 q at railway traveller, but is equally so adapted i for any gentleman taking out-door exercise. It may be said distinctly to mark the costume of the nineteenth centur y , if that is rightly called marked which is only consp icuous for an unpretending and graceful bearer, the wear er feeling so much at case. i Certainly as an over-coat it s pa tronised highly, and is also a general public favourite, being so peculiarly English, and avoiding all foreign extravagance of style. It must be ac knowledged as a vast improvement over the old great coat, associated in our remembrance with an uncomfortable sensa tion of tight buttoning-s, which, from its very clum s i ness, defeated its object, the warmth of the person, as interfering with the proper circulation of the blood. The principal hues are black, blue, brown, and olive • also the clerical mi x t ure ca lled Oxford, and can be had Of the patentees, or only of the most respectable clothiers out of London. Every winter paletot is three guineas, and is stampted in the lining with the words, " Registered 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. H. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, Regent-street, London. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE SID NEY BERNARD.—The Admiralty, to mark their sense of the services this gentleman so nobly and self-devotedly rendered to suffering humanity on board the fever-stricken Eclair, took the first opportunity, after the report of Mr. Bernard of the state of th e vessel, to promote him to the rank of sur geon ; but, alas ; these honours were lost on the " dull cold car of death," for this gallant officer was numbered with the last victims". Anxious to pay some tribute to such departed worth, the Admiralty, in the only way they had to confer it, have promoted to the rank of surgeon Mr. Robert 13erFard, assistant-surgeon of the Pique, 36, in the West Indies, a brother of the d'eceased.-11-ampshire Telegraph. PUBLICATIONS. l ' rt „'W CAS DIRE C T- P 0 N-T J U N TI EDIN " andGLASGOW CTION RAlL ,iith a Branch by the North Tyne to Hexham. Capital, 1,500,000/., in 75,000 Shares of 201. each. (I`ea.". 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Hill. house, Sunderland zm a ael Brown, merchant, Sunderland r °, Esq. manufacturer, Sunderland i ki • ,revi 'aa 4 ' , Esq. alkali manufactory, South Shields Greene, merchant, Gateshead gir T alb - l lYMers, Esq. J.P. Gateshead '• 0 '9 0 41 Dick Lauder, Bart., Grange and Fountain-hall valthl,leie ie Hackett, Esq. Lawhill aker Lauder, Esq. jun. Grange and Fountain-hall Vi"ilkie, Esq. one of the magistrates of Edinburgh tlebert ,C 4 Pdwood, Esq. magistrate of Leith w ola t Esq. merchant, Leith J shq - ditd s eraion, Esq. jun., merchant, Edinburgh •101111 14 „,°n, Esq. provost of Lanark "Townne Esq. Convener Trades-house, Glasgow au' , „loe % sulkier, Esq. provost of Calton, Glasgow ~T i lltez . "„olfe Murray, Esq. St. Andrew's, Fife "1111 , i 3iverley Trevelyan, Esq., Wallington, Northumberland pf liver Rutherford, Esq., of Edgerton, sheriff of the county "oxhae g h 110 11 (With power to add to their number). RANKERS. 4 ew ~ sh doe—l f essrs. (nyrt and Co. Et, ,e„41130n-Tyne—Northumberland and Durham District Bank. x?,.,,,'"a1t-iai-Cniee—John Miller, Esq., C.E., Edinburgh. " , AI, ENGINEERS—Messrs. John and Benjamin Green. ,r„z otv.. SOLICITORS. ‘Vi...."Threwn, and Messrs. Laws and Glynn, Neweasle-upon-Tyne. "" Prichard and Collette, 57, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. LOCAL AGENTS. 1, • C. R. Sinclair, S.S.C., 11, South -brid g e, Edinburgh assrs.j, and R. Gibson, Hexham Teasrs. Strang, Yuile, and roanses Glasgow Itr• William Blackwood, Bank olicitor, Peebles Simon Scott, writer, Jedburgh ZT. George Oliver, writer, Hawick 'sessrs. Curls and Erskine, writers, Melrose. PARLIAMENTARY AGENTS. ' 3 Pottiswoode and Robertson, Groat George-street, London. SECRETARY—Mr. James Potts. the Company, 11, Eldon-square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. t it:4.l )llo4 4lons for prospectuses and shares to be made to the seli- Cql to the following brokers :—Messrs. Warburton and Co., „tlek e "; Ala - change, M a rket-street, Newcastle-upon - Tyne; Mess rs. L'sq,, _ arnett, and Ellis, 11. Birchin-lane, London ; Robert AAllan.;Nit ,`"srls. Pillans and Home, and Anthony Shiels , Esq., Edin fhiej,24eisrs. M`Ewin and A uld, Glasgow; Messrs. William and Sons, and Messrs. D. and J. B. Neilson, sAa' P 0.11; Meson. Alsop and Son, Hull ; M essrs. Beaumont kes e , Illamson Leeds ; Messrs. Robertson and Bates, and t rrni t „ i Thomas Cardwell and Sons, Manchester ; Mr. J. R. Lane, tt i Nes . `, ° M ; Messrs. Walmsley, Woodhead, and Co.. Bradford ; — 0 44,.... 1 . 0 w and Tunstal, Bristol; Messrs. Win. Moore and Co., "eneld ; ae r J. N. Balms, Gloucester ; Mr. W. Pollard, Lin- Wa.rburton and Crossland, Sheffield ; Messrs. Helli lll and Halifax ; Mr. T. C. Maynard, Durham ; Messrs. ilvis c ; wwl Allason, and Sir. W. I. Barker, Sunderland; Mr. Wn t. ota h Alnwick ; Mr. T. Glo v e r, South Shields ; Mr. John Hurst, ' Mr. .P ert h ; J Nlson, Settle • Mr. John Sturrock, Dundee ; , n It •ss, and Mr. Walker Thompson, Berwick. '0 the FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. Provisiona llateg Committee of the Newcas tle-u p on-T y ne, Edin hie and Direct Glasgow Junction Railway, with a Branch by 1,„4t0n1%,"11 Tyne to Hexhans. 1 4 , - •rea :,-en,—l request that you will allot to me es _w T tle "'„• . , 20 /. each in this Company, and I undertake to accept the '1, 4 ,"" to pay the deposit thereon, or upon any less number that -e tixtit allotted to me ; and I also undertake to execute the Par r,' Contract and Subscribers' Agreement when required. Name in full ••• • • • ........ ..... ..... • • Residence.." Trade or Profession (if any) .. •• • • .. • • • • Place of Business • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Address of Referee •• • • •••••••• • • • • • • • Date of Application • .... ...... .••• • • • • '4l ALLOCATION OF SHARES. • o 0 e lni —ontittes of Management have now the satisfaction to in the eak s e subscribers and the public that the Plans, Sections, and tsit e d" . .lteferences of this undertaking have been completed, and de arliar", compliance with the standing orders of the two Houses of Wee e nT• which will enable them to apply for an Act in the en (le 4 ssio ring n , and as none of the other lines projected to Hawick 114 W' the London and Edinburgh Direct and Darlington and le lsh e :'o Ju nction Railway) have lodged their Plans and Sections ta i l; ra ity with the Standing Orders, this Company is, therefore, ale c " in a position to apply to Parliament in the ensuing Ses airßhfo r Powers to make a Railway by the mi dland route to Edin thZtr,, Wel Glasgow. ‘ - ' ° Taniittee have much pleasure in stating' that the result of hav e surreys is such as completely to answer the objections which Zati thv ,_, Made to their line in various quarters, and that . they are 01, 14 7 In the opinion which they at first held, that the line would hpt Q2Y I.o nriation, and that the tunnel through the Carter would Deice-Z 1 one mile and a quarter in length. hereby give notice, that no Alication for Shares will made as after the 15th of December, and that the allotment will as soon after that date as possible. By order, CHARLES ATTICUS MONCK, Chairman. Oea r „. JAMES POTTS, Secretary. er -, of the Comp an y, 11, Eldon-square, At —"veastl e-upon -Tyne, Dec. 3, 1845. X 41 ., MEETING of LANDOWNERS, held Novem ber 10, 1945, at ,ZCastle Inn, the following resolution was adopted : P,roe ftedt ne untleraipted, landowners on and near the line of railway t, r ? b e made by a Company calling itself the Newcastle-on ,..4leehatnutriburgh, and Direct Glasgow Railway, with a branch to '7, o ltek, t ",.. h aving considered the proposed line, and explained with Mr. vot a „__ ne Chairman of the Managing Committee of the said Railway Or lir ' l 7Y, are of opinion that the proposed line of railway, bath in Or e° win line and in its branch, will be beneficial both to the line tr m i n " g tr t r t through which it will pass, and to our own estates, in af c.tutos___ e shortest and easiest communication between Glasgow, li the "91b, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and in opening out to use the lit hdi r• . oa.%;ther minerals which may be now lying unwrought in our lin are of opinion, therefore, that the projectors of the pro -srva ° Ought to have our consent and support, subject to such re slice ''es M regard to all private and personal interests as Is us ual in PC (S in Inn, Nov. 10, 1845. 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Pamphlets of Prices, illustrated with sketches of the various arti clesA , g3ratis, and forwarded, postage free, to any part of the kingdom. . 1. Savory and Sons, 14, Cornhill, London. o pposite the Bank of England. A CROS FIC addresed to MR. GRIMSTONE, ON HIS INCOMPARABLE EYE SNUFF. ifted of men, who by thy wondrous art, enowned in every clime, through every part, I n Europe's wide and civilised domain; M Mat Asia's contless millions, and again, 5 tretchin,g from Afric's broad and scorching shores T o whcre the mighty Niagara roars : O h ! here accept this tributary lay, N or deem that I can ever well repay, - E xcept in gratitude sincere, profound, 'S uch wondrous benefits I so long have found. E 'en from the moment I was led to try Y cur marv'llous SNUFF, the SAVIOUR OF THE Era! E ass, health, and comfort, now attend my day. afe from the lamp's bewild'ring dazzling blaze, N or dreading e'en the Sun's TOO burning rays. U Wit, in former days, for much employ, F eeling, not seeing: now, indeed, my joy, F ree and unbounded, thrives without alloy 1 S e pt., 1845. J. M. S. Observe —The gigantic balance of all, the Public Press ! eulogise this excellent compound of British Herbs. The reader will remem ber that this celebrated Eye Snuff has been before the Public up wards of thirty-three years, advancing in the favour of all who use it. This odoriferous Snuff is sold loose at Gd. per ounce, or in canis ters bearing the above Royal Authority, and the sanction of her Majesty's Lords of the Treasury on each canister, at Bd., Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., So., and 15s. Gd. each, by all Tobacconists, Merchants, and others. This Eye Snuff is exported in white stone canisters to all quarters of the globe. A liberal discount allowed to Merchants, Shippers, Agents, and others, on taking large quantities. Look well to the Signature of the Inventor, W. GRIMSTONE, 434, OXFORD STREET, and 24, KING STREET, LONG ACRE, LONDON. *,,* For the convenience of Tobacconists, Grocers, and others who sell this Iderbaceous Eye Snuff loose, and wish to have it in large quantities, they can be now supplied with canisters containing ten pounds, or upwards, if required. By sending a Post Office Order for 3s , a 2s. 4d. canister w in ill be re turned, with full particulars, postage included, and so on like proportion. _ Pr Gaduaid 1 I. • 74 3 d4.i on of profits is animal, and the next will Ye made in De *present year. F. FERGUSON CAMROITX, Sae, tO.--.• G XtO . 5 11 LIFE ASURANCE SOCIETY, .EW BR C IDGE-STREET S , BLACKFRIARS, LONDON. Established 1893. trnpowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV. "I r . 1 (41, h7 -- The Right Hon. THOMAS FRANKLAND . CustaistAN—HENRY FREDERICK STEPHEN SO N , Ea cb Lo• w e °ll "ring are among the advantages offered by this Society : ell e Rates of Premium than those of any other office, which en 4,,"anred to participate in the profits, and considerably lower .2to those of any other Mutual Assurance Society. " u ltek .‘.' n etarY participate in the profits, the whole being divisible Thgzie Assured. Tli:r_trionus, in 1834, averaged 16 /. per cent on the Premiu m s p aid. The t T,' 4.1,1 ditto 1839, ditto 311. ditto since the Ist division. 1.,„„ aird ditto 1844, ditto 36/. ditto snce the 2d division. -"'D ec tuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary. JOSTON STAMFORD,and BIRMING 1-ilbsaar RAILWAY (Leicester, by Stam ford, to Boston and „N, (Provisionally Registered, 17tk April, 184 5 .) •10 nunittes of Management have the pleasure of announcing to tlo~ 'reholders in this important undertaking, that the plans, see ci:ind books of reference have besn duly deposited with the save ttla t i f ka of the Pea ce , an d at the Board of Trade, is compliance • staading orders of Parliament. Is , .&1i By order, ED R WAD DANIRL, Secretary. n gdon-street, Westminster, Dee. I, 1845. E ICESTER and BIRMINGHAM RAIL WAY (BAITER'S LINE). The (Provisionally Registered, 10th April, 1845.) Ib. e n linittee of Maaagemeat have the pleasure of announcing k elt ; .nartholders in this important undertaking, that the . Plans, 4 ter n '' looks of Reference have 13,1.. en duly deposited with the Ivi th Vierke of the Peace and at the Board of Trade, in compliance "` • standing orders of Parliament. t ht BY order, EDWARD DANIEL, Secretary. — street,-atreet, Westminster, Dee. 1645. krICT IVES, WISBECH, AND CAM BIDGE JUNCTION RAILWAY. POr own. an ß d half the profits to be secured by lease to the Eastern Counties Company.) , L 44 e ll io e ns Bll nreholders are respectfully informed that the Plans, ;?rriyin.,_ Books of Reference relating to this line of Railway, c a ,7,o2Fh to Saint Ives, with a branch, forming a junction with Zito of Tare and Huntingdon line, have been all deposited at the the„the Board of Trade, and at the offices of the several Clerks he, peace for the respective counties through which the line will .., s 4 t4 in ,..l.sharelkolders are also respectfully informed that the dep0'044,,Z,91, '044,,Z , 9 1 , and the money ready to be deposited with the Court of in accordance with the standing orders. JOIN FRYER, Chairman of the Managing Committee. CROWDER and MAYNARD,/ Solicitors. GEO. GAME DAY, D ee ~......_,..:4, 1845. f'• . '';'''''''''',-":;. 1.: 7' 1 . s ' . .!;. 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We re,r,ret to find that as the Lara, of Dumfries, laden with coal for this port, was between seven and eight o'clock, on Saturday evening, during a strong gale, making the harbour, she kept too close to Mutton Island, where the lighthouse is erected, and was driven high and dry upon land—where she still continues, it is feared, with every chance of her being greatly damaged, if not totally wrecked. We bear that no pilot was taken on board to direct her course to the roads, eke this casualty could not have occurred. The principal portion of the sails and running rigging have been landed under the superintendence of Messrs. Evans and Sons.— Galway Vindicator. IMPORTANT COLLEGE VISITATION. On Thursday next the theatre cf our University will be enlivened by a novel and interesting scene—viz., the archi episcopal visitation to decide on the claim of Mr. Heron to a scholarship of the house. It will be recollected that the Court of Queen's Bench, last Trinity Term, after solemn argument, allowed a mandamus to issue, calling on their Graces the Lord Primate and the Archbishop of Dublin to entertain the questioa of a Roman Catholic's eligibility to the scholarship. Accordingly the visitors are now constrained to exercise a function for which they had before seen no occasion, and their decision is looked for with anxious interest. Mr. Pigot, Q.C., will open the appellant's'case against the decision of the Board, and will be followed by Mr. O'Hagan, Mr. M'Donnell, and Mr. Flanagan. Messrs. Moore, Q.C., and Dr. Longfield, Q.C., are to reply for the Board against the appellant's admission, and will be supported by Dr. Butt, Q.C., and Mr. M'Duall, the reply being left to Mr. O'Hagan. The visitors are to sit at ten o'clock, and have requested the assistance of the Master of the Rolls (as their assessor); whose long and distinguished connexion with the Univer-• sity peculiarly qualify him for the office. The burden of proof lies on the appellant's counsel, owing'as well to his re jection by the Board as to the adverse decisions of the noble visitors before the mandamus issued against them. The last time a similar session of visitors took place was during the provostship of Dr. Hutchinson, so graphically re corded by Dr. Duigenam. Preparations are making for quite as interesting an exhibition, and a crowded Court is likely to be the consequence.—Evening Packet. THE AGRARIAN SYSTEM. The farm held by the late murdered Sheppards remains since the fell deed was committed a wild common for the cattle of the surrounding district, their surviving brother being afraid to occupy it, though offered at the nominal rent of one shilling per annum by the landlord, the Rev. Ralph Coote, for the whole farm-house, &c. (nearly thirty acres of prime land). Nor would a stranger look at it, where he to get it on the same condition. The only revenue the farm now pays is the taxes, which are clubbed by the tres passers. The Evening lfiail says :—" Since we addressed our readers last, John French, Esq., son of the Dean of Elphin, and nephew to Lord De Freyne, was tired at, at his own gate, at Cloonquin, in the county of Roscommon. Mr. French was not engaged in a quarrel of any sort with the people ; his alleged crime, we understand, was, that he had spoken dis respectfully of the Molly Maguires. The following letter shows that the insurrection is active in another part of the country : " Bloneygall, Dec. 4. "' I am very sorry so soon again to have to furnish you with the report of another outrage, much more offensive than the pulling down a part of a caretaker's house, an account of which so lately appeared in your journal. 44 4 On Tuesday night, the 2d inst., a notice was posted on the hall-door of Bushertown Castle, the residence of Mr. llinchin ' threatening him with immediate death if he did not forthwith quite change his system of managing his property. "'That system has been to give constant employment to fifty persons during the scarcity and dearness of the summer months, and to pay them weekly in cash—to divide amongst them (at this season) sixteen acres of potato ground, for one of which he has not yet been paid, and for several of which it is most probable he never will—to give amongst them every Chriitmas a good fat- cow gratis, as Mr. Minchin has done since he came into possession of the property—go - be a principal subscriber to a Dorcas Dispensary Institution for their relief and benefit—and, besides, to be ever ready to attend and supply the little wants of the neighbouring poor who came to ask it.' " MURDER OF PATRICK CLARKE, ESQ.—We understand that six persons have been arrested and lodged in Nenagh gaol, charged with being concerned in the above barbarous murder ; and one of them, named Hill, is son to a caretaker that was in Mr. Clarke's employment ; another is the noted llogan, who was charged with being implicated in the Finnoe tragedy.—King's County Chronicle. ATTACKING DWELLINGS BY NIGHT BY ARMED Max.—The dwelling of a man named Martin Hassett, situate in a moun tain district near Birdhill, 'was forcibly entered by four armed men, who beat Hassett, his son, and daughter severely, and commanded him to settle quietly and fairly with a tenant of his, with whom he had a dispute. A party of three men armed, in the same neighbourhood, broke into a house belonging to one Kennedy, and beat him severely. In the district of Lateragh, fertile in the production of out rages and murders, the house of a man named Daniel Hogan, was attacked by a party of ten men, armed with pistols and bludgeons, who beat him in a savage manner, broke all his furniture, and struck his daughter a violent blow on the head. Hogan had been employed as a bailiff, which is the only reason that can be given for such an attack upon him. The noise of horsemen on the road made the fellows fly in every direction, but before they decamped they burned a quantity of flax which lay upon the floor. In our last number we noticed the robbery of several farmers' houses of large sums of money, by an armed party of ten or twelve men, with their faces blackened. A party similar in number has been seen in the same neighbourhood a couple 'of nights afterwards, who went to the house of a widow, they calculated upon having mosey—but who had, fortunately, laid it out in the morning in the purchase of pigs. On finding this to be the case the fellows went away. I —Nenagh Guardian. DARING OUTRAGE. On Sunday morning last, at eight o'clock, a party of six or eight men, some of whom were armed, attacked the house of Charles Headivan, of Painstown, in the barony , of Rathconrath. Four of them entered the house, and de manded Headivan's gun, which he stoutly refused, and in defence snapped it at the party, but it missed fire ; they wrenched the gun from him, and gave both him and his wife a severe beating. There are three severe cuts in Headi van's head, and he lies dangerously ill; the wife has also two cuts and a fractured scull. Before leaving the house the party set fire to a parcel of flax, for the purpose, as they stated, of burning the house. It was, fortunately, quenched, before much damage was done. The police of hathconrath heard of the outrage at ten o'clock, and Constable Palmer and his party lost no time in scouring the country and apprehend ing three persons, two of whom were fully identified by both Headivan and his wife as being of the party, and they are fully committed for trial.— Westmeath Guardian. Sir Francis Hopkins is nearly convalescent. The second of the assassins has not yet been apprehended; Keens, the person in custody last week, on further examination on Sa turday, was liberated.—lbid A. requisition has been addressed to the Mayor of Plymouth, signed by one thousand and ten persons, request in' him to convene a meeting to consider the present state of the country. His worship has appointed the meeting to be held on Friday next.—Deronport Telegraph. ALLEGED NEGLECT AT THE MANCHESTER LYING• IN HOSPITAL.—The adjourned inquest in this case was held on Friday, and, after hearing additional evidence, the jury unanimously agreed to a verdict of "Misadventure," and consequently Mr. Runcorn and Mr. Whitehead (both of whom were present) would be acquitted. At the same time they could not but express their opinion, that to have such a person as Mr. Cobain in the situation which he filled was highly improper, and that there ought to be person thoroughly acquainted with all the properties of the different ingredients to compound the medicine. They also recom mend to the institution, through Mr. Hunt, one of the sur geons, that a day-book, or name-book, should be kept in the hospital, in which should be entered the name of every per son who received medicine from the surgery, these names having a reference to a general index of the residence of [the patients, in order that if any mistake should occur, it might be instantly rectified. The jury further recommended that, in such an institution, anti especially with reference to such strong and dangerous remedies, no contractions should be used, but that the words should be written at full length. ORIGIN OF NEWSPAPERS.—Mankind are indebted to the wisdom of Queen Elizabeth:and the prudence of Bur leigh for the first printed newspaper. It was entitled the English Mercuric, and was, by authority, " imprinted at London by her Highness's printer, 1588." The earliest number, preserved in the British Museum library, dated July 23, in that year, contains the usual intelligence, given after the fashion of the London Gazette of the present day. In these 3Lercuries we meet with advertisements of books, and they differ not very much from the announcements of our 44 a t own time. During the civil wars, periodipal Jeer the champions of the two parties, became more g enerall y c rethle. lated, and were edited by writers of ability; among . principal we may name Marchamont Needhamß,esStiorraJtniohnn Birkenhead, and Sir Roger L'Est v ra e n re g the proceedings of parliament s e inte A rd t ic t t h e e d -to be pub: lished, unless by authority, and t t i h tl e e fi of rs t t h d e a c t p n a g p e e i r n a tea fte i r_ ' the Revolution took the popular gencer. In the reign of Queen lA r n st ne r t o h v o i r o e ei wa j s o b u u rn t alonedaily paper, the Dailyantrant. b A u r( t )ru: , :c a h ie ht'aol first p rovincial ed re i f n us l ed 7o . 6 ” , a t Theth know n in England was the the price of a penny, earliest Scottish newsp a p er made its ap p earance under the auspices of Cromwell, in 1652. The Patrician. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.--We have fair supplies of wheat and barley, and moderate of other grain. There was a very limited business done in wheat to. day, and to effect sales a decline of Is. to 21. per quarter wad submitted to. Fine barley fully as Ow, other sorts IS. pet quarter cheaper. Beans in slow request, and prices of new must be quoted is. per quarter less than last week.. Oats sold at a reduction of id. per stone, and shelling 6d. sr lead Malt firm, at late rates. - _ _ <. ,..44, - - _ ___:-_ FDINBURGH AND PERTH RAILW AY.- The Committee of Management beg to inform the Shareholders that the Plans, Sections, and Books of Reference of this Railway, have been duly deposited, in terms of the standing orders of Par liament. The London Shareholders, are at the same time informed that the new Scrip will be ready for delivery on the 16th current, and will be obtained on their forwarding to Messrs. Spottiswoode and Robirtson, 27, Great George-street, Westminster, their banker's re ceipts, and receipts granted for the original scrip. Any parties who have not yet paid the additional deposit of 11. 10s.- may still do so at Messrs. Coutts and Co., or the other bankers of the Company. Edinburgh, Dec. 5, 1845. _ ►rep UV w ood , PA' 1 35 ; but t *" chard 01 04 eel °. a:041.