The Sun. — London, England, 1845-09-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The LORD MAYOR—Where was the tobacco found? Officer—ln his hat and stockings. The prisoner—l never had a bit of tobacco before, my Lord, and I never thought there was the least harm in carry ing a bit that I got lawfully at the other side of the water. The LORD MAYOR (to the officer)—Do you know thisman to be a person engaged in this sort of business? The officer —No, my Lord. The prisoner—l do assure you, my Lord, I never did any thing of the kind before; and I never, s'elp me Lord, sus pected there was any harm in it. The Loin) MAYOR—HoId your tongue. If you thought there was no harm in it why did you stow it in your stock ings ?—(Laughter.) You are fined 205., and take care . how you are brought before me again as a defendant in this line. MAR YLEBONE. Yesterday Ellen Meadows, Henry Alderson, and John Grow, were placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having been concerned, with another person not in cus tody, in assaulting and robbing Mr. Robert Jones, who de scribes himself as an independent gentleman, residing at No. 17, Wakefield-street, Regent-square. Prosecutor stated, that on the preceding night, about ten o'clock, as ho was proceeding along Drummond-street, Euston-square, adjacent to the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, he was accosted by the female pri soner, who requested that he would accompany her to her home ; he refused to do so, and was making his way on when M'Graw suddenly darted from a lamp-post, and pressed closely against him, at the same moment the pri soner Alderson struck him a violent blow, and the woman, not yet in charge, pulled his left hand behind him, where she held it forcibly, while Meadows took from his trousers pocket a silk purse containing 111. 14s. in gold and silver, and from his fob a watch, the guard of which was, by the strength of the " tug," broken ; he also lost from the pocket just named a halfpenny. The purse was handed by Meadows to Alderson, and the whole of the party made off in different directions. He (prosecutor) pursued Meadows, and on coming up with her gave her into custody. It appeared, however, that the prosecutor, when at the station-house, had stated the else differently, and that he bad alleged that Alderson, and not M'Graw, was the man who ran against him ; the prisoners were therefore dis charged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. DESTITUTION.—A few days ago a young girl, covered with 111th and rags, was brought into Court, having been found without any other place of abode or shelter than the parks afforded. Mr. HARDWICK requested Lacy, one of the officers of St. George, Ilanover-square, to obtain temporary admission for the girl into the workhouse, and to cause inquiry to be.made into the cause of her dreadful destitution. Yesterday Lacy brought the girl to this Court to report the result of the investigation. A wonderful change had been effected in the girl's appear ance. She was clothed decently and comfortably, and had a look of extreme propriety, which caused some little prepos session in her favour. She was a very well grown girl, about 18 years of age. Lacy said he had ascertained that the father of the girl, who had been dead about fifteen years, was boatswain of the Boadicea. The girl, whose name is Elizabeth Reading, had been apprenticed from Greenwich School, as house-servant to a respectable tradesman at Waltham Cross. After her time had expired she had gone into service at Camberwell, to better herself, but her master had gone away in debt, and she was thrown out of a situation. A married sister in Drury-lane had supported her for some time, but, about a fortnight ago, had been obliged to leave on account of debt, and from that time until found in the park she had been wan dering about penniless and homeless. Lacy reported that the girl was in such a filthy state from vermin when brought into the house, that her clothes were obliged to be burnt. The doctor had reported favourably of her moral rectitude under all her distress. Mr. HARDWICK, after giving the girl a suitable admoni tion, ordered 10s. to be supplied to her, to enable her to reae] her friends at Waltham. LAMBETH. IMPORTANT TO PARISH OFFicEns.—Yesterday three of the overseers of the parish of Lambeth attended before Mr. Henry, in consequence of an intimation given to them of the intention of two respectable inhabitants of the parish to be present to put in bail to prosecute an indictment against the keeper of a house of ill-fame, which has been recently opened to the great annoyance of the respectable inhabitants in the neighbourhood. As the law at present stands the overseers of the parish are bound, upon notice being served upon them. to prosecute the keepers of houses of ill-fame, or in the event of their not doing so to pay the sum of 101. each, and the expenses, to the parties prosecuting. In the present instance two respectable inhabitants of the parish, whose families were annoyed and their property depreciated in value, had given the usual notice to the constable of the parish of their intention to enter into the required sureties to prosecute a bill of indictment at the session in the event of his (the constable) not taking up the matter on behalf of the overseers. Mr. Humphreys, who attended on behalf of the aggrieved party, said his clients had no wish whatever to proceed with the matter, provided the pariah authorities took it up and abated the nuisance. _ _ _ Mr. HENRY recommended the overseers to proceed in the matter themselves, as by doing so they would save the parish a considerable sum. The Overseers observed that they were placed in an awk ward dilemma in the matter, as, in the first place, they had no funds available to such purposes; and if they of them selves proceeded to prosecute the parties, and did not succeed in such prosecution, the auditor under the poor-law would not pass such an item of expense. Mr. HENRY admitted that the overseers were placed in an awkward position, but still, as a matter of justice to the rate payers, the most economical course should be adopted by their officers. In the present instance the overseers should, If pressed to do so, have to pay a reward of 20/. to the parties prosecuting, besides the whole of their costs for prosecuting; whereas, by taking the matter into their own hands, the ex pense might be very trifling indeed. He should recommend the overseers to consult the officers of the parishes of St. George's-in-the-East and Marylebone, and those of the liberty of the Rolls, on the matter ; and he felt perfectly sa tisfied they would best serve the interests of the parish by ad2pting the course he had recommended. The overseers requested a few days to consider the matter, and consult with the parish board. Mr. Humphreys said he had no wish to press the parties, but hoped, at the same time, that no more than necessary delay should take place It was ultimately arranged that the matter should stand over until Monday next, when the parties will again attend. SOUTHWARK. Several of the parochial officers of Christchurch waited on the Magistrate to complain of a nuisance which had lately eprung up in that parish, and which the inhabitants were moat desirous to abate. That Blackfriars-road, formerly a turnpike-road, had within the last twelve months (since the partial abolition ofeibunipikes) been under the control of the parochial officers of Christchurch. Since then the road in question has been inundated to a great degree with itinerant venders of fruit and other miscellaneous articles, which were conveyed in barrows with immense large( rays on the top, con taining the articlee they expose for sale. That a th a ose a b l a th rr o o u s g v h s were the d complete obstruction to the passengers, police h ave b een appr i sed of i t, still they w ill not interfere to remove the nuisance. That they (the applicants) ware at_ a loss h ow to remedy the evil ; that they meant to proceed by summons against the parties as their names were not on their barrows. That the collection of such a number of per sona of the above description in the thoroughfare named, had the effect of congregating thieves to the spot, and as an in stance of the robberies that were so prevalent there one of the applicants said that a few nights since both he and his wife had their pockets picked. That they (the applicants) bad not the power vested in them of engaging a street-keeper, which was formerly the case when it was a turnpike-road ; and that since then they had every reason to believe the itinerant vendors of fruit and other articles were driven out of Lambeth and had entered Christchurch. Mr. TRAIL advised the applicants to make known their complaint to the Commissioners of Police, especially that part of it which related to the alleged frequency of robberies in Blackfriars-road. THAMES. EMBEZZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY SERVANT. —Frank F ow l er A young man, aged 24, who is respectably connected, wag brought before Mr. Ballantine, charged with embezzling the sum of 25/. 135., the moneys of the London and Blackwall Railway Company. The prisoner, who is a well-educated young man, has been lately reduced to a state of great distress, the consequence of his dishonesty, and for several weeks past has been vending penny bottles of ink about the metropolis. Mr. Arthur Wightman, the superintendent of the Black wall Railway, stated that the prisoner was money-taker at the Cannon-street station on Sunday, the 20th of July last. It was the custom of the money-takers to remit all the cash taken in the course of the day to the office atßlackwall, at five o'clock in the evening. The prisoner did not comply rsigith this regulation on the 20th of July, and witness re ceived ieannation that he had left his post before the trains ceased rizaziing, and taken all the money with him. W. BALANTINE said he should remand the prisoner for the productiv of the necessary evidence till next Tuesday. Mr. William Blocksaman, a share-jobber, was brought be fore the Lord Mayor, charged with having caused an ob struction in Bartholomew-lane, near the Stock Exchange. George White, policeman No. 24, stated that, on Thursday week, the defendant, who was in the habit of jobbing about the Stock Exchange, and using language, in the time of ex citement, of a very objectionable kind, exhibited a specimen of more than ordinary powers of language in his favourite line. The witness had had occasion to reprove the gentle man more than once for having uttered language calculated to make any other gentleman shun him, but so far did he ex ceed his former efforts in the present instance, that it was quite impossible to let the matter pass without an appeal to a magistrate for the sake of common decency. It was in vain the witness remonstrated with the defendant, who was evidently intoxicated, and who, upon being requested to ab stain from the use of particular words, only known in the vocabulary of vagabonds, became worse and worse, and pulling out a purse of sovereigns, shook it, saying it contained the little which talked all languages, and asked witness to take share of a bottle of wine. The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether he ad mitted that he was guilty of having used the language attri buted to him, and of having caused the obstruction ? The defendant—The fact is, I was at Vauxhall the night before, and the punch there got rather about me. The LORD MAYOR (to the policeman)—Did the defendant positively cause an obstruction in the place ? The police man—Certainly he did, my Lord. He is in the habit of getting drunk, and then hislanguage is most awful, and his extraordinary conduct collects a crowd, greatly to the impe diment of public business. In fact, it is frequently very difficult for the members of the Stock Exchange to get in or out of the building in consequence of the crowds of jobbers, so that anything out of the common way caused quite an obstruction. The defendant--I am not aware of having acted impro perly. It is true I had taken more than 1 ought to have taken, but I think the officer would have been better em ployed in removing the thieves which flock into the alley and rob all round, than in annoying respectable men. I have lost a fortune in the Stack Exchange, and now I get my living In the alley, and can refer you to first-rate men for my cha racter. The LORD MAYOR regretted that, within the last few days, three cases had been brought befor him which were not at all creditable to the parties concerned. He hoped he should have no other cases of the description to adjudicate upon, and he fined the defendant 10a. for the obstruction, observing that with respect to the language, which no doubt more strongly operated upon the respectable feelings of the policeman than the violation of the laws, he should leave it to the cool re flection of the defendant to apply so bitter a corrective to the moral offence which had been committed. The defendant, upon whom the hint had apparently some effect, paid the fine, bowed, and retired. A sailor, named John Williams, who belonged to one of the foreign steam-vessels, was charged with having in his pos session a quantity of tobacco upon which the duty had not been paid. A Custom-house officer proved that the defendant had been seen getting away cautiously from an Ostend steam vessel, and cutting along as if he feared that every stone tinder him would " tell the tale," and that upon tieing ques tioned he seemed not to understand what en earth smuggling was. N~ /_ - 1 SUPPLEMENT TO THE EVENING SUN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1845. Mr. Wightman—Will you be so good as to remand him till Wednesday. I have to attend the Board of Directors on Tuesday. Mr. BALLAN'TINE—Let it be Wednesday then. DOES RAILWAY TRAVELLING INDUCE APOPLEXY ? (From the Medical Times.) in our leader of last week, we adverted, in general terms, to the subject of apoplexy induced by railway travelling. We now proceed to treat the matter more in detail, and to offer some further and concluding observations. And we do this the more willingly, because of the interest which the public and the profession naturally feel in this important topic, and because, as there is truth to be arrived at, it is desirable that such truth should be elucidated and made ge nerally known. It is fitting that we should take occasion, a priori, to state, that the notion of railway travelling having a ten dency to produce apoplexy in persons predisposed to that ailment, is not the offspring of any idle speculation or con ceit, but is indebted for its origin and promulgation to certain matters of fact. These consist of curious and seemingly in explicable instances of apoplexy, occurring to apparently healthy individuals, during, or shortly after, railway travel ling. Almost without an exception, the sufferers were in to lerable health before commencing their journeys, or at least neither complained of nor exhibited any symptoms of cerebral disturbance. This fact, coupled with another of equal importance, namely, that of the sudden deaths (not arising from external injury) of railway tra vellers, the ascertained cause has almost invariably been apoplexy, will remove the anticipated objec tions, that, what would appear to be consequences are merely coincidences—that the individuals might have died at the same time, and of the same disease, had they been placed under other circumstances—and that apoplexy only shares, with other pathological conditions, as an agent of death in the instances in question. The removal of the last objection is a matter of much importance, and, indeed, essential to the whole weight and bearing of the arguments about to be offered. Sudden death, from various causes, we know to be one of the common heritages of humanity, and the wonder of its occurrence ceases with advancing pathological know ledge. Apart from relative considerations, it is not more singular that people should suddenly die in railway carriages than in other places, and did the instances of death so hap pening present a variety, instead of preserving a uniformity of cause, they would be no matter of surprise, but would be con sidered as belonging to the common category of calamity " that flesh is heir to." But when, on the contrary, indi viduals, seemingly healthy, are observed to die under parti cular circumstances, and almost constantly of a particular disease, we naturally enough connect these things together in the relation of cause and consequence. It is not necessary to our purpose that we should give a history of the apoplectic deaths that have occurred during railway travelling—most of our readers, we presume, are fa miliar with the chief of them ; but to such as may not be, we may observe, that one of the earliest of these melancholy events is memorable from Sir Henry Halford, in his delicacy of etiquette, leaving his friend at a lonely station to be bled by any chance surgeon, rather than delay a dinner-party an hour, by himself staying to render the extreme services of humanity and professional skill. More recently, Viscount Canterbury and Lord Bateman have died under these pecu liar circumstances, and to their names might be added many of people in more humble life, who have suffered in like man ner from a like cause. Before proceeding with a further explanation of these things, we must remind our readers that, in treating this subject last week, we premised the probability of a predis position to apoplexy on the part of those who had fallen vic tims to it on railroads. It is only upon people so constituted that we can suppose trifling moral or physical causes to ope rate with any degree of force in the production of this ail ment. Now, we know that in such people, whether owing their peculiarity of condition to birth, to accident, or to dis ease, the slightest deviations from their ordinary habits and modes of life suffice to place them in jeopardy. Examples of these deviations we shall find, abundantly enough, in railway travelling. For convenience sake we will divide them into moral and physical. We should say that fear deserves a.prominent place in the first division. It is not necessary that we should quote from the many cases on record which prove the influence of this emotion upon the functions of the human organism. We know it to be capable of arresting the heart's action in fatal fainting, or of terminating life more slowly, but as surely, by an impression upon the brain. Nor do we think it impro bable, that amongst the cases of apoplexy which have hap pened upon the railroad, some may have been due to this condition of the mind. It has occurred to us, on many occasions, to witness an agonising fear on the part of travellers who have coupled a terrific pace of the engine, or a passage through a tunnel, with a reflection upon the destiny to which either event might tend. Nor should we be inclined to pay a compliment to the sensibility of any man whose mind would be unaffected by a journey in an express train, or by a transit through one of those awful excavations which typify to one's fancy the vestibules of the grave. It was only the other day that we were travelling in the same carriage with a lady, who, whenever we approached a tunnel, buried her face, in an unutterable agony of apprehension, in her husband's lap, and could scarcely be roused from her silent dread until long after the object of her terror had been passed. Who can say that such an amount of fear, in a system less able to resist it, might not have been productive of nervous apoplexy There are some people, again, in whom the mind is strongly affected by certain external objects or circum stances operating through the senses. Some cannot listen to a continued murmur, or noise, without experiencing a painful headache ; others cannot look upon a dazzling, rapidly-passing, or revolving object, without a sensation of giddiness ; and others cannot travel with any degree of velocity but some head trouble or other will be the consequence. What are these various states of the brain but so many advances to a condition that may be fatal ? Increase any one of them to a certain extent, and even the strongest will become the victim of apoplexy. And is it any wonder that this should sometimes be the issue of railway travelling in cases of individuals peculiarly susceptible in temperament ? Take, for instance, a man whose head is easily made to ache by monotonous or dis agreeable sounds, and subject him to this annoyance on a railroad for five or six hours in succession, with the addi tional troubles which of necessity await him there, such as absence of diversion, exercise, and uniform ventilation, and it will be no matter of astonishment if he shall suffer from a serious, or even a fatal impression upon his brain. Take another whose head soon becomes disturbed by the sight of objects in rapid motion, and see, after he shall have gazed for hours at the banks and hedges apparently flitting past his carriage, whether lie will not be the worse for the experiment. Take a third, who is both morally and physically incapacitated for swift travelling, and depend upon ita ride of one hundred miles in an express train wiil make an onslaught upon his nervous stamina. We have never seen a complete case of apoplexy consequent upon railway travelling, but we have met with individuals, of the peculiar temperament just men tioned, who have suffered so seriously from this form of loco motion, as to lead to some apprehension of their safety. And we know plenty more, amongst whom, indeed, we may class ourselves, who can never travel by rail without headache, giddiness, or sickness, more or less severe, and entirely owing to the disturbance which the mind suffers through the af fected senses. This disturbance is not sufficient to be alarm ing, but, via foram- ritium, it requires no stretch of imagina tion for the belief, that in persons of greater susceptibility and less vigour, the effects might be fatal. The mischievous influence which railway travelling may exert physically, is perhaps chiefly due to irregular or im perfect ventilation, and to a consequent impediment to the proper performance of the respiratory function. If this be of any continuance, congestion of the brain will of course result, and apoplexy will be the issue of this singly, or of one of the consequences to which congestion tends, viz., extravasation, or effusion. And here, again, we must premise, that though people the most hale and heallhy might probably suffer in some measure from the irregular respiration caused by railway travelling, yet only in people of particular states and constitutions could it be expected to threaten fatally. These would be chiefly such as were sufferers from organic disease of the heart, or its vessels, giving rise to interrupted return of blood from the head—from disease of the lungs, limiting their extent of surface, and their efficiency for the purposes of complete respiration—from any mechanical impediments to the due action of the heart and lungs, such as tumours, or fatty accumulations in the chest, empyema, hydrothorax, or ascites—from laxity of the bloodvessels, favouring rupture of, or transudation through, their coats—from tendency to deter mination of blood to the brain, &c. These affections we know to be common enough, and we also know that those who suffer from them are amongst the multitude who are exposed to the vicissitudes and liabilities of railway travelling. The irregular ventilation we have spoken of affects, though in different ways, travellers who face the engine, as well as those who ride with their backs to it. The former, from the pressure of air against them, the latter, from the rush of air from them. We all know what are the effects of facing a very high wind. Inferior animals instinctively turn their backs upon it, and we ourselves observe a similar precaution by a partial inclination of the head. To breathe in direct opposition to it is next to impossible, from the spasmodic closure of the glottis, which almost invariabl y accompanies the attempt. And it has be en f ound, that if a strong current of air be continuously directed in an animal's face he becomes asphyxiated in a few minutes. This is from spasmodic closure of the glottis, as we have said. If the current be of less intensity, so that the respiration of the animal shall be irregular and interrupted, but without be coming actually suspended, then he slowly falls asleep, and bi continuing the experiment he may be rendered apoplectic purse-maids are in the habit of quieting (soporising, we should say,) cross children by blowing in their faces. Now, the draught of air which meets you in a railway carriage, when your face is to the engine and the window is down, will of course vary with the velocity of transit : in many instances the rate is such that you cannot respire, without extreme dif ficulty, under the impetus of air, and in most instances the respiratory function meets with a perceptible impediment. We are now speaking of the effects produced upon healthy indivi duals ; and surely, upon those who suffer from the organic diseases we have before alluded to, these effects must be pro portionally severe. If a man, who, from idosyncrasy or local ailment, may be unable to mount a flight of stairs, or climb a hill, or face a moderate wind, without a feeling of suffoca cation and a throbbing head-ache, shall travel for several hours by rail with the transit current in his face, can it be any wonder if apoplexy be the consequence ? Independently of direct proof of the fact, we should say that analogical evi dence was very conclusively in its favour. People who ride with their backs to a railway engine, of course have the current of air f rom th em , and this in pro portion to the rate of travel. Under these circumstances respiration is far from natural, and some voluntary effort is required to draw as much air into the lungs as shall suffice for the proper oxygenation of the blood. After a time this effort ceases to be made—it may be from fatigue, it may be from diverted attention, or from diminished sensibility— whatever may be the cause, the effect will he the same, viz., the imperfect decarbonisation of the blood will be followed by sleepiness or stupor. In a healthy individual it may simply be the former; but in one liable to congestion of the brain, the latter would not be an unlikely occurrence. THUNDER-STORM.--RoctIESTER, SEPT. 22.—0 n Thursday evening, between six and seven o'clock, this neighbour. hood was visited by a fearful storm, which fortunately was but of short duration The vivid flashes of lightning were followed by thunder.elaps loud and deep, and accompanied by a heavy shower of hail and rain, during which a young man named Catt, a brick maker, about twenty years of age, lost his life. He left Strood at about the commencement of the storm, on his way home to Cuxtotue, a village on the bank of the Medway, about three miles above Ro chester-brldge, and before he had proceeded one-thin! o the distanee lost his life. The corpse was found early this morn ing by a labouring man in the employ of Mr. William 141anclark, otmnearrn r en t oceHa s i de fi whose aid o f appearst f armhe face h oe e bh eai,n.g smt melancholy ruucchu tbhcatastrophe unfortunate and occurred.his manh at oann The elec. t o o pen z a , saitozd INTELLIGENCE. shoes torn trihoocrpnEsiLtotThsehhrbeedigth; winds and cold a d h s w ics e l b; ht t e eh hl e ae ee d ft r ; have s wept away from 30,0001. to 50,0001. of the duty. have been prostrated, and hops scattered all over theardeonss Many of those remaining on the bine have likewise been. greatly depreciated in quality. Picking has been carried on generally, and all accounts concur in the hops being not only bad in quality, but very light. General reports state that great havoc has been made among the hops—that they are rapidly going off, and the duty is as rapidly falling.— Kentish Obserrer. RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. a 4. Ai j NAMES or RAILWAYS. 4 aid f 1 A :4 q P 4 • g • i 3 i 4 a. 4 Sept. Sept. 'Sept. Se] 26. 25. 2i. 21 4% Sept.lSept.faept, 26. 25. 125. Aberdeen • ..... Airdrie and Coatbridge • • Arbroath and Forfar • Ditto Half Shares •• • • - Armagh, Colr., & Portrush - Bandon and Bantry ... • • - Belfast and Ballymena • • - Belfast and County Down - Birknhd,Lan.&Ches.Jnc. - Birmingham and Glo'ster 128 - Do. New (iss.at 7 dls.) - - Ditto Half Shares •• • • - - Ilirminghm &Oxfrd.Junc. 6% - Blckburn, and Preston.. - Blckburn, Darwn,& Beltn - Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl. - Boston, Stamfrd and Birm - Brighton, Lewes, & Hast. - Bristol and Exeter....... Ditto New ••••• • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester • • Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. - Caledon. and Ayrsh. June - Caledon. & Dumbar. June - Caledonian .• • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto Extension • • • • • Cambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares .... Ditto Half Shares • Chester and Holyhead .. Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. - Churnet Valley . • ... •• • . - Clitheroe Junction • ....• - Clydesdale Junction ..... - Cork, Blackrck & Passage - Cork and Bandon ... ... • Cork and Killarney • • • • Cork and Waterford • • . Cork and Youghal .. • • • Canterbury and Dover. • Coventry and Leicester • Cornwall • • • • • • • • •• Derby and Crewe .. • Direct Lon. and Manchstr - Dies, Beccles, & Yarmoth - - - DirectMan.(Remington's) 4% 4% 4% Direct Northern •••• • • • • 3% 596 3 Direct Norwich.•. - - Dublin and Belfast Janc. - - Dublin, Belfast, & Colrne - Dublin and Drogheda.... Dublin and Galway ..... Dundalk and Enniskillen - Dundee and Arbroath ... - Dundee and Perth •• • • - Durham and Sunderland - East Lancashire (No. 1) - Ditto (No. 2) .. - Eastern Counties ..... 21% - Do. New .•••••• • • • • • • 7p - Do. Perp. spr Ct., No. 1 - p - Do. do. N 0.2 % p - East Dereham & Norwich - - East Union .•••••• • • • • .. - - - Ditto Extension ••• • .. 4% - - Edinbgh, Gies., and Dnm. -1% - Edinburgh and Glasgow.. 76 78 - Do. Quarter Shares . - - • Do. New Quarter Shares 19 - Edinb. Leith, and Granton -- - Do. Pref. S per Cent •• - - Edinburgh and Northern - - Edinburgh and Peebles.. - Edinburgh and Perth.... Ely and Huntingdon .... - Enniskillen and Sligo • - - - Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr -3% Fit wood, Prstn, &W. Rid. -3% 3% Garnkirk and Glasgow - - - Glasgow and Ayr .••• • • • - - - Do. Quarter Shares •• • • - - - Glasgow and Greenock - 22 - Ditto New.- • • - - - Ditto Preference ••• • • • - - - Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car. - - Gisgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard. - - - Glasgow and Belfast Un. - - - Goole and Doncaster -6% 6% Grand Junction 240 - Ditto Half Shares •• .• - - - Ditto Quarter Shares .. - - - Ditto New Quarters .. - - - Ditto Eighths - - Grand Union Great Eastern & Western -3% Gt Grimsby &Dk Extens. - - Gt Grimsby and Sheffield - Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (Wild) 25 Ditto Extension • • • - Great Munster.. • • - Gt Northern of Scotland - Grt Northern of England 214 Do. New 401. Shares .. 50 Do. New 301. Shares .. - Great Western •• • •• • • 161 Ditto Half Shares •• • • - Ditto Fifths - Guilfrd, Farehm, & Ports. 4 Marwieh .•... • • •• • • - Iludrsfld & Man. R. & Canl - Huddersfield and Sheffield - Hull and Gainsborough • . - Hull and Selby •• •• ••• • • • 104% - Ditto Quarter Shares.. - - Ditto Half Shares .... - - Inverness and Elgin •..• - Isle of Jersey ••••• • .. • - - Kendal and Windermere - - Kingstown and Bray - - Killarney Junctions - - - Lancaster and Carlisle .. -t 53 - Lancaster and Preston .. - 60 - Leeds and Bradford - - - Ditto Extension ...... - - Leeds and Dewsbury.... - - - Leeds and Thirsk - 18% 17 Leeds &W. Riding June. - 24859 12% Leicester & Birmingham - 2 % Leicester and Bedford ... 3% p 7889 d 4% Limerick and Waterford - - - Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jne. - - - Lincoln, York, and Leeds - - Liv. Man. &GtN. of Eng. - - Liverpool and Manchester - - Ditto Half Shares - - Ditto Quarter Shares.. - Li verpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn - London and Birmingham 221 Ditto Thirds .• •••• • • • • - - Ditto Quarters .. •• •• •• - - London and Blackvrall • • 9 - - Lndn. Oxfd. & Chltnham - 2 1 4 21 ,4 London and Brighton •• • • 74 1 4 -- - Ditto Consolid. Eighths 55 - - London and Croydon •• • • 24 - Ditto New . ........ - - Do. Guarant. 5 per Cut. - - London and Greenwich.. - - Do. Prof. or Privilege .. - London and South Westrn 79 Do. New Cons. Eighths - Do. New, 501. Shares.. Do. New, 401. Shares. London and York ..... Ditto (Bawtry) .• • .. • • London and Windsor.. •. Londn, Salsbury, & Yeovl - Londonderry & Coleraine 5% Londonderry & Enniskilla - Lynn and Ely • • • ... - - Lynn and Dereham . • • - - Manchester and Leeds • • 214 - Ditto Half Shares .... - Ditto Quarter Shares • • 41 - Ditto Sixteenths • • - - Manchstr and Birkenhead -5656 d - Manchester & Birminghm 88 87 88 Ditto Quarter Shares.. 15% 15% lb% Ditto New Quarters 1414 13% 13% Do. Con. & Welsh Junc. - 3 X 2% If anehestr, Boltn, & Bury - - - Mnchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk 8p - Man. Shef. and Mid. Junc. - Manchestr & Southamptu Midland.... .• •• • • • • Ditto Fifths .. • Ditto New ... • •• • • • • Do. Con. Birm. & Derby Midlnd Gt Westni (Irish) 4. 4 Do. Extension to Sligo - - Newesti & DarlngtnJune. 60% 64% Do. New (Brandling) • • 50 52% Newcastle and Berwick • . 20 1 4 - Newcastle and Carlisle.. - Nwestie, Durham, & Lan. - Newport & Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen.. Newark and Sheffield . North British .... Ditto New Shares • • • Northern and Eastern Do. Scrip (ise. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares North Devon . ...... • . • North Kent • . • • .. North Staffordshire North Eastern • • • North Union (A) • • • • • • •• Ditto (B) • • • • • • • • North Wales Mineral-.. Ditto New Shares North Western • North Wales Norwich and Brandon • • Ditto New • • .• • • Not., Belvoir, & Granthm -6% - Nottingham and Boston • • 4% 4% 41% Neat., Erwsh. Val. & Man. 6% 6% 6% Nottingham & Mansfield - - - Oxford and Birming. June Oxford and Worcester • • Oxford and Cambridge • Perth and Inverness •••• Portsmouth Direct...... Preston and Wyre ••• • • • - Ditto Half Shares Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar - - Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & die. - Preston & Wyre Extens. - Richmond &W. End June - Rugby, Worcestr, & Tring - Scottish Central et; - Scottish Mid1and........ Sheffield and Manchester - 138 - Ditto Quarter Shares.. - 18 18% Ditto ditto (N 0.2).. 16 16:v Ditto ditto (No. 3).. - 91 „I Sheffield and Lincoln.... _ 8 0 7 , Sheffield and Rotherham - Shrewsbry& Grand June. - 7% - Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe 4% 4% 4% Shrws.,Wolv.,Dudl,& fir 9 8 , BL , Shrwsbry & Trnt Val. Un• 2%p 3;', 314 Shrws, Herefd,& N. Wales - Siamannan .•••••• • • • • • • - South Devon .••.•• • • • • • _ _ South Midland ••••• • • . • • 6%p - South Eastern and Dover 43 1 /. 43% De. New (iss. 321.) No. 1 - - Do. (155.331.68.8 d.) „ 2 - - Do. (is.s. 301.) „3 - Staines and Richmond . • • Staffordshire & Shropshire s S o ti u r t li h ng W a a n le d s r . m . . line . Teen and Dove Valley • • Trent Valley • • • ...... • • Do. and HolyheadJane. Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • • West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Coon. Wexford a, d Carlow .. Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfil,Wxfd,Wick & Dub Wakefield and Bradford • . Wakfld, Pon tefrct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate • Warwick and London ... - West Lancashire . ... - Worcester and Tring.... - Whitehaven and Furness - Do. New Half Shares.. - Welsh Midland....... West Cornwall .•••• • • • • • - West Yorkshire • - Wilsontwn, M. & Coltnees - Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth 4% Yarmouth and Norwich • • - Ditto New . ..... - York and Carlisle . • ... • • 5% York and North Midland 115 Ditto Half Shares .. • • 57 Ditto Scarbre' Branch - Ditto Selby • • • • Ditto Extension . •• • Yorkshire & Glasgow' Un. 234 _ - 13 1 ,41 12 11% 42% 2% 1 56e3d 10%1 - 3% - I -- 1314 14% 14 - 3Fi 4 - - 4% 4% 5M - I 25% 20% 20% 5%1 541- 7 % 1 - 3U - - I "I 3% 4 - 3% 5 s x l -: 7% - - i - 22% 23M loy, 3 34 3 % VA 4% - 20%1 20 3%1 - --- 24%1 23 I 33 32 - -7 %1 64i 63ii 61,i 2 1 28s .69 1168% 4.5%1 25% 5 I 6%1 - 3% - - 4 1 4 - - - 4%p 11 6% - - - 218 - 6NI -7 ,4%1 14%1 14%1 - _ 18% 3 I 341 3 5 %1 -4- 83i1 8;4 441 441 44 14 j 14 'Ai- 775 595 5% 210 s ass - 13703 1 58. p 20 p - 61 pl -: 1 2 - 5 4 I P 1167% - 2%1 - 61,41 - 16136p1 - 6 - 6%pl 77i [64s p] 4 1 Ap 4% 6256 p EXETER, SEPT. 26. STocic EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Exeter and Craditon, E'34—Exeter, Yeovil. aid DorchesterEl p..—North Deyon, 2 p. —Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth (Daw's line), p.— Ditto (Head's), 3 / 4 p.—Newark, Sheffield, and Boston, W s — Eastern Counties, 21%. SHEFFIELD, SErr. 26. STOCK EXCTIANGE.—The safes are—Derby and Gains borough, 4% —East Lincolnshire, 6%—Goole and Doncaster, 6 3 / 4 —Grimsby and Sheffield, 22—Ditto, Quarter Share, 51. 18s. 6d.—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 1034 — Grand Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 4%—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 34 1 / 2 —Leeds and Bradford, 60—Liverpool and Leeds Direct, 634—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, s%—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 5%. HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 26. STOCK EXCIIANG E.—The sales are—Clithcroe Junction, 5% —Grand Union, 44M anc h es t er , —Huddersfield and 244— Leicester and Birmingham, 21. 15s.—Mancheste r and Bi rken head Continuation, 21. 12s.—North Western, 6Th—York shire and Glasgow, 54. HULL, SErr. 26. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, 2034—Hu1l and Selby, Quarter Shares, 22—York and North Midland Extension, 2934—North British (Carlisle), 5% Axholme, 403.—Cambridge and Lincoln, s —Ditto, New, 4', —Chelmsford and Bury, 2 3 %—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 4 Derby and Gainsborough, 545.--Derby, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction, 1 Vs—Direct Northern, 3—East Lincolnshire, 6%—East Coast, 3/. 2s.—Fleetwood, Pres ton, and West Riding, 3/. 16s. 3d.—Goole, Doncaster, Shef field, &c., 6%—Grand Union, 4%—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, Ils.—Leicester and Bedford, 4 1 / 8 — Liverpool and Leeds, 3%—London and Birmingham Exten sion, 214 —London and Manchester (Rem.), 45/B—Nor wich Direct, 12s. 6d.—South Midland, 71.195. 6d.—Wakefield and Bradford, 6M—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 51.35. 9d. railway, they left them in the lurch. Be cautious, therefore, gen tlemen, of relying upon promises. The proprietors of houses and the tradesmen of Hounslow found it necessary that they should partake of some of the advantages of steam. What had they done ? Why set on foot a direct line.—(Cheers.) Some time since I was solicited by the people of Hounslow, and the property of my family being close by, I accepted a Directorship. I will 13014 state to you an extraordinary fact : since the railway to Hounslow has been projected the town has begun to revive, and it now becoming in a prosperou:. state. The houses are rising in value. I appeal to any gentleman here, whether I could illustrate anythingbetter than by referring to the sister-town of Hounslow to show the depreciation of property in consequence of the railway having passed by it : it is a remarkable fact. Now, I lately have had occasion for a friend of mine, in fact, a relation, to look out for a house with about fifty acres of land. For this purpose I visited most of the house-agents in London, and I found that houses might be obtained cheap where there was no communication with railways, and that houses in the neighbourhood of railways increased in value ; one in particular, the terms demanded were reasonable for the first three years, but if taken for a term, the rent increased to an immoderate degree. Upon Sir, a a s r k a i i n l w g a tyh is e a r e n a t c o i n p , a t t h e d e ? h °Nuys We ha v e -a g n t t r h e e p p l replied, e D o o f n a 't r y a o i l u w k a n y w s 0 , that in letting houses for a term of seven years, we expect an increase in rent for the last four years. Now, gentlemen, what kind of persons are likely to benefit the town of Barnet? It is not the man who is about to take land, or cultivate landed property ; but it is the man who requires a comfortable house with a little garden attached, the tradesman, the lawyer, the barrister, who, after he has realised a certain sum of money, is only too delighted to pass his time in some secluded part of the country; but you will find they will not do this unless they have some facility for travelling to London and back by railway. If the carriages leave two or three times a day, thus affording easy communication, clerks can visit their employers if need requires their immediate attention, and men of business can come to town and return without diffi. culty. If you have a terminus in your town, houses which are at present vacant would soon become tenanted, property will rise in value, trade will flourish, and the dreadful pauperism which now prevails will no longer continue. I may say, without exagge ration, that the London and York Railway cannot be finished within three years; the present railway will be finished in one year and a half. In offering this to your consideration do we ask you for anything ? No, not even a subscription. We simply offer it to you for your benefit, and if it suits you, you may avail yourselves of the railway, as a means of conveyance. One more remark I would make before concluding, and as it appears to me to be a very important one as regards this town, I would tell you that in offering you this railway, we shall be enabled to do away with a complaint which, I understand, is very prevalent here, viz., that fuel is so dear. Now, as you will perceive by reference to the plan of the proposed line, we shall be in direct communication with the Thames, and enable you to obtain this important article at a much cheaper rate than at present. I think it would be need less to dwell longer on this point, because it must be obvious to all that the benefits it would confer on the inhabitants of the town of Barnet and its vicinity, and particularly to the poorer classes, must be considerable. In conclusion, gentlemen, I must beg to return you my sincere thanks for the patient and attentive hearing you have given me upon the present occasion. (The Hon. Member sat down amidst long and continued cheering.) WILLIAM A. HILL, Esq., Deputy-Chairman, after having con. gratulated the meeting upon the eloquent address of the Honour able Member for Bristol, said, he would ask them in what posi tion the town of Barnet now stood, and where was her brilliant display of wares in the shops that formerly were exhibited ? When he looked around him, he was sure that some great change had been wrought by the gigantic arm of steam. The Hon. Gentleman who preceded him stated that, that which had brought misfortune and difficulties upon the town must be looked to for succour, and with this he perfectly coincided. He wished it not to be supposed that he and hi 3 friends had come there as a band of adventurers. If they looked at the pros pectus, headed as it was by so respectable names, he was certain they could not entertain such a thought. It had already been stated, they asked not for money, •r that the meeting should pledge themselves to incur any liability. All that was required was, that they should be permitted to come into the town of Barnet, and carry out the project. He would only ask them to say, after a careful consideration of the matter, whether the railway would be advantageous or not to the town of Barnet ? He was anxious to cause it to rise like a phoenix from its ashes, and to become a more important town even than it was before. He begged to refer gentlemen present to the map of the proposed line. They would perceive, that it would afford direct communi. cation with the River Thames, east and west, and also several of the principal lines of railway in the kingdom. He had no doubt many present were feeders of cattle; if, then, they wanted to ship their beasts they could do so without that injury which fre. quently occurs if driven to any distance. Here (reference being made to the plane) they would have a direct conveyance to the docks and all parts of the river. Again, they would find, on the other side it would be connected with the London and Bir. mingharn, and Great Western lines of Railway continued by the West London Junction, at which place it is contemplated to carry the line over the river by a bridge at Battersea, to con. nect the latter line with the Southampton Railway. Every re flective mind must see the advantages a railway would afford to the town of Barnet. The traffic has now fallen to decay ; if this be carried out, thousands of persons who never visited the town will do so. He regretted, on entering the town, to see so many houses vacant, which he alone attributed to the want of an easy conveyance. Before concluding, he would say one word upon another railway—he alluded to the London and York. He would caution the meeting not be deluded by promises. He under stood there was some sort of promise to give them a branch from the main line. He would ask the gentlemen present, if such were the case, if the people of Barnet would give their succour to the proposed company, which he represented would restore them to their former glories ? Why ; if a main line were made, it would not come within a mile and a half of the town. He would tell them that no reliance was to be placed on such pro. mises. The Gloucester and Birmingham Railway Company en tered into an arrangement with the people of Worcester to give them a branch railway if they did not oppose their line; they did not oppose it—they confided in the promise —but no branch branch was ever made to Worcester, and that once flourishing place was reduced in the scale of cities. In consequence of this, what has taken place? Why, the people of Worcester said they would have a railway of their own, and it has now become the focus of railways. He would pledge himself to bring the proposed line of railway into the town of Barnet. His honourable friend, the member for Bristol, had stated one advantage to be derived from it, and which appeared to him to be of vast im portance, viz., the eonveyance of fuel. He would un dertake to say that the Clay Cross coals might be delivered at a cost of 18s. to 20s. per ton in Barnet—being a saving of at least 12s. or 14s. on the present price. In conclusion, he must beg to thank the meeting for the attention they had displayed. and at the same time he would take this opportunity of acknow ledging the great warmth and, he might almost add, the affection with which he and his friends had been received by the people of Barnet and all other places they had visited on the proposed line.— (Cheers.) HENRY HAMMOND, Esq. of Wentworth Lodge, Finchley, said, that residing in the parish of Finchley, through which the proposed railway was intended to pass, he had been requested to solicit the inhabitants of Finchley to give their support to the present under. taking, which he readily acquiesced in, feeling confident it would be the means of conferring great benefits upon the place and its vicinity; and he was happy to say that during the three evenings he had been enabled to devote to the matter in going through Finchley, the population of which is scattered over a large extent, he had procured the names of 32 of the most respectable inhabi tants who were all extremely anxious for its completion ; that out of all those he had been able to see there was but one dissentient. He had no hesitation in saying that had he an opportunity of call. ing on every parishioner, 17 or I S out of every 20 would have consented to have given it their support. He could only say, that, as an inhabitant of Finchley, he would do all in his power to pro. mote the undertaking.—(Cheers.) FRANCIS Wrsuaw, Esq., of Hendon, consulting engineer, said that in the absence of the gentleman who had surveyed the pro posed line, and who, from press of business was unable to attend that day, and at the solicitation of the Committe, he attended before the meeting to afford information to any question they might think proper to put. He was a freeholder on the proposed line, and so impressed was lie with the importance of railways that he thought that if the people of Hendon had been aware of the meeting they would have put off all other engagements for the purpose of being present. He had called on many of the most influential and re spectable residents in the neighbourhood of Hendon, who all said if the intended railway did not cut through their ornamental pro. party, they would give their consent and support. It had been asked why so circuitous a route had been taken ? He would an. sorer that by stating it was their object to avoid Hampstead, which is 400 feet above the level of London. This it was that precluded their making a more direct line; but he thought that could not make much difference, for distance was calculated by time in rail. way travelling. The whole distance between Barnet and the intended terminus in London might be performed in half an hour. He thought it was not certain that the present projected London and York line would be carried out, on account of the engineering difficulties. He was employed to lay out a direct line between London and York some years ago. The line then chosen was through Cambridge, thence to Peterborough, Lincoln, to York. This was a beautiful line, and presented no difficulties. This line, as gentlemen were aware, as far as Cambridge, was already com plete, and iso doubt existed in his mind but that it would be carried on to York. If the projected line to Barnet is not carried out, the people of Barnet cannot say for certain that they ever will have a direct line to Barnet. If the other Company should succeed in obtaining their bill they will say, "Two miles is near enough." It seemed to him, therefore, that if any other Company would promise a line its writing the people of Barnet should not reject this; for if they obtained the other, the people of Barnet would have a twofold advantage. He begged they would mark the con. venience in having a terminus direct into Barnet. The people of Barnet would then be enabled to go from their doors and get direct into London in half an hour. With regard to the engineering, he thought great merit was due to the gentleman who laid out the proposed line. It might, perhaps, be said, on looking at the plan—why not take a more direct line ? But he considered that the present was a - more judicious selection, for many reasons, which, if time permitted, he could fully explain. Communication can be had with all trains on the London and Birmingham Railway; besides this, they will have direct commu nication with the Northern and Eastern line near the Seven Sisters; also the Northern and Eastern Counties Railway, and all the main lines diverging from the before-mentioned railways. He was happy to say there were no engineering difficulties throughout. In conclusion, he begged to add that he should be happy to give - any answer respecting the engineering questions that might be put to him. As a freeholder in the vicinity, he hailed the present • " • undertaking as one that would confer great adv a nta g es . on the town of Barnet and the adjacent villages through which it was in . tended to pass.—(Clacers.) WM. H. HALPIN, Esq., said, that the meeting having heard the facts connected with the railway so fully and ably put before them, he was sorry to trespass on the time of the meeting, but was in duced, from the great interest taken in the projected lime by the presence of the numerous and highly respectable body assembled, to offer a few remarks. The present projectors did not come as mere speculators. With the means and friends they possessed, it would have been easy to select any other spot for speculation; but it arose from a desire to connect the town of Barnet with the metropolis, in order that it might keep pace with other towns of the same importance. He supposed, if the promise were kept to make a line within two miles of Barnet, the other Company would not pay the cost of making a branch to it, they would expect the people of Barnet to pay for a feeder to their line, and deprive them of the advantage of visiting their friends at Hendon and Finchley. If Icft to the branch promised there would be but one straight line to London, and no intermediate stopping places. The projected line is intended to open a direct communication, as will be seen by the plan annexed to the prospectus (reference was here made to the various places mentioned in the prospectus through which the intended line would pals) to a great number of important places hitherto neglected.—(Mr. Halpin then read a long extract from the work of Mr. NVishaw, C.E , where it was stated, on good authority, that in certain parts of Scotland, where formerly there had been scarcely any communication, since a railway bad been established the number of persons who travelled by the line was almost incredible, showing that, although traffic may not take place between isolated spots, it does not arise from the non.desire of communicatiop, but the want of a cheap and easy mode of con . veyance. The CHAIRMAN said, that having heard the statements of those gentlemen who formed the deputation of the Barnet and North Metropolitan Railway, now was the time, if any gentleman present wished to put any questions, to do so. After same questions had been put by various gentlemen, and answered to their satisfaction, The CHAIRMAN put the following resolutions, which were carried. Moved by J. SPENCER, Esq., seconded by the Rev. J. D. TROMP. 50N, and carried unanimously, That it is the opinion of this meeting, that a direct railway communication between the northern districts of the Metropolis and the town of Barnet, is of vital importance to its prosperity, and is now imperatively called for. _ _ 2. It was proposed by BENJAMIN SMITH, Esq., and seconded by Mr. JOHN HOPWELL, and resolved unanimously, That 014 meeting having duly toniiidered the prospectus and map of the line of the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway, and on comparing the same with the other projected lines does most unhesitatingly declare, that the proposed Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway will afford to the town greater advantages than any line of railway hitherto pro posed to come in the vicinity of Barnet, it being the only one which will afford to the residents of the town the advantage of a sta , ion; and that it deserves the support of the inhabitants and all others having an interest in Barnet and its vicinity : and that a petition be presented in favour of the line immediately upon the assembling of the Houses of Parliament ; and the meeting pledges itself to further the views of the Company, and resolves that a Committee be appointed to promote the object, and secure the in terest of the Town of Barnet. That the Committee consist of— Benjamin Smith, Esq. Mr. John Hopewell Mr. George Bower Mr. James Hill Mr. James Cooper Mr. Brunt Mr. Spencer Rev. Alexander Stuart Rev. John Dawson 1 liciro.)son (With power to add to link number.) 3. It was proposed by the Rev. ALEXANDER STUART, and se. conded by J. SPENCER, Esq., and resolved unanimously, That the thanks of the meeting be tendered to the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, the Chairman and the Deputy-Chairman, and the other members of the deputation from the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Railway Company, for the able manner in which they have laid before the meeting the project of the Company. 4. It was proposed by WILLIAM HILL, Esq., and seconded by W. W. HALPIN, Esq., and carried unanimously, That a vote of thanks be tendered to John Hey Puget, Esq., for his impartial and able conduct in the chair. - - - NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE EXPERIMENTAL FLEET AT DEVONPORT."-The expe rimental fleet is fast prcgressing in its refit in Plymouth South. Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.8., the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief, has taken up his quarters on board his flag-ship, the St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley, but still continues his superintendentAiip of the dockyard, which duties he will not relinquish until the fleet sails. The Port• Admiral, Sir John West, K.C.8., went off in his barge to pay a visit to Sir Samuel Pym, on Wednesday. The court-martial on Lieutenant Frederick Leigh, of the Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Fisher, was commenced yesterday. Mr. Thorn, the experienced Paymaster and Purser of the Superb, SO, Captain Corry, will assist the pri soner in his defence. THE COMMAND IN CHIEF AT PORTSMOUTH.—AdmiraI Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., will hoist his flag as Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth on the Ist of October. The Conway, 26, Captain Kelly, arrived at the Mauritius, July 17, from Bourbon. The Vulture, steam frigate, Captain Macdougal, arrived at Rio Janeiro, on the 23d of July, from Devonport. The Porcupine, steam surveying vessel, Captain Bullock, left Boulogne on the 23d inst., to commence a survey of the French coast. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Prettyman, left Devonport, on Wednesday, for Portsmouth. The Bloodhound steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander Phillips, drew charts for the Mediterranean, at Devonport, on Wed nesday, was paid advance yesterday, and was then to have sailed. The Dee troop transport, Master Commander Driver.:with a portion of the 49th Regiment on board, started again from Devonport for Kingstown on Wednesday morning. The Daring, 12, Commander Matson, arrived at Ports mouth, from Plymouth, on Wednesday. When in the offing she saluted the flag of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker. The Victory returned the salute, and telegraphed the Daring to keep under weigh (the order for her being docked at this port having been cancelled). After lying to at Spithead for a short time, she received orders to proceed back again to Plymouth, and made sail through the Needles for that place. Two French steamers, the Caiman, Captain Du Tonne, and the Pluton, Captain La Morche, arrived at Sheerness on Tuesday, from Treport. Having taken on board a sup ply of coals and water, the Caiman left on Wednesday to return to Treport. The Pluton was to have left yesterday. A sapient " Observer," of Sheerness, asks the editor of a morning contemporary the reason why no salute was re turned by the Britisn Admiral to that fired by the French steamers? One would suppose that, being on the spot, this close " observer" would have known that the flag-ship, the Trafalgar, 120, is with the experimental squadron ; that the ordinary guard-ship, the Ocean, 80, Captain Arthur, C. 8., is in dock, with her guns out ; the June, 26, in commission by Captain Blake, but fitting out, with no powder on board; and the Snake, 16, Commander Devereux, with her powder and stores, returned to the dock yard. NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL. (From the Devonport Independent.) A court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Caledonia, 120, Captain Manly Hall Dixon, on Thursday, for the trial of Lieutenant F. G. Leigh, second of the Stromboli, steam-frigate, upon charges preferred by John Ryan, stoker of the Stromboli. It will be recollected this court-martial was ordered while the Experimental Squadron lay at Cork, but through the illness of Admiral Parker, it was postponed. The Admiralty instructions were now issued to Rear-Admiral Sir S. Pym, who has assumed command of the Squadron, and that Gallant Officer officiated as President of the Court. The Court sat at ten o'clock, at which hour a gun was fired, and the proceedings almost immediately commenced. The following officers composed the Court :—Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Pym, K.C.B, President ; Captain C. Rowley, H.M.S. St. Vincent, 120 ; Captain Sir B. Walker, H.M.S. Queen, 110 ; Captain E. ollier, H.M.S. Rodney, 92 ; Cap. taro N. Lockyer, C.B. H.M.S. Albion, 90 ; Captain F. Moresby, C.B. H.M.S., Canopus, 84 ; G. Eastlake, Esq., Plymouth, Deputy Judge-Advocate. The prisoner was assisted in his defence by G. Thorn, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, of her Majesty's ship Superb, and J Elworthy, Esq., solicitor, Plymouth. The charge, setting forth that John Ryan, a stoker of the Stromboli, complained that on the 3d of September, Lieut. Leigh applied to him a variety of opprobrious epithets, and struck him two severe blows; that he further ordered him to go fourteen times over the mast-head, and to be placed on the black list for fourteen days, having been read, the evi dence was proceeded with. John Ryan sworn—l am a stoker on board her Majesty's steamer Stromboli. On. Wednesday morning, the 3d inst., while washing the deck of the Stromboli, at Tarbert, I was ordered by the prisoner to move a tub, and at the same time he called me ab— son of a b—h. I said to him, I am not a son of a b—h ; he then told me to hold my tongue and go and stand in the gangway; I did so, and while there he struck me under the ear, from the effect of which I stag gered. He then ordered William Hooper to throw a bucket of water over me ; the water was thrown, but I escaped it. Mr. Leigh then called the master-at-arms and ordered him to cane me; h e did so, and I then said I would acquaint the Captain with it. He said, " I'll Captain you." I was then ordered to go over the mast-head fourteen times, the prisoner saying at the same time " D—n vour eyes, I'll work the engine oil off your b—y liver." your went over the mast-head seven times, but was unable to go more from illness. He then ordered the master-at-arms to put me in the engine -room hatch, and, put me 14 days on the black list, and in the Ist watch. By the COURT-It was to keep the Ist watch that I was ordered. The letter which I forwarded to Com mander Fisher, was written by one of my watch-mates ; the letter was written between eight and nine in the morning of the day on which the prisoner struck me ; the letter now pro duced is a correct copy of that letter. I believe it was the custom to write letters to the captain, rather than to complain to him on deck. I can write myself but not well. Robert Penderblan wrote the letter, but he never wrote a letter for me before. I believe it was between six and seven bells in the morning that I was struck. I did not see the captain on deck between that time and the time of writing the letter. I have not known of any other letter respecting complaints having been written to the captain, but on other matters letters have been writen. I have no knowledge of Penderblan having written letters for others of the ships' company. William Brunsden, private of Royal Marines, sworn: On the 3d Sept. I was on the deck of the Stromboli, and I heard the prisoner order John Ryan to move the tub, which he did. He ordered him to move it a second time, which he did. He then called him a d—d son of a ; Ryan said, no sir. I'm no son of a b—b. I then saw Mr. Leigh strike him with his fist in the neck twice, and then he ordered the boatswain's mate to heave a bucket of water over him. The boatswain's mate threw the water, but it did not go over the man. The remainder of this witness's evidence was in corroboration of the prosecutor's testimony. By the COURT—I cannot say whether, if provocation be given, it is right for men to reply to their officers when abused : I have always been accustomed to do what I've been told to do, but I cannot answer for other people. Ryan had come out of the doctor's list a few days previously. I have stated all that I heard pass between Ryan and the prisoner. I saw no gesture or manner in Ryan which was calculated to provoke Mr. Leigh. I did'nt know of any letter having been written to Captain Fisher, until I was called on 'deck in the evening by Captain Fisher. By the prisoner —There has not been a complaint against me for violence to Lieut. Leigh. William Hooper, boatswain's mate, sworn. He corrobo rated the testimony of the previous witnesses. He was the man who was ordered to throw the water over Ryan, but did not do it. By the Court—My reason for disobeying the order given me was, because I did not like to heave it over the man. All I heard Ryan say was that he would report Mr. Leigh to the captain. Ido not think Ryan moved as quick as he ought to have done, but I did not see anything further than this which was an aggravation on the part of Ryan. To my knowledge no complaint was ever made by a man against an officer on the quarter-deck. William Taylor, master-at-arms, sworn. This witness cor roborated the testimony of the preceding witnesses, and, in answer to a question from the Court, he said he had never before been ordered by . the prisoner to cane a man. Saw nothing contemptuous in Ryan's conduct towards Mr. Leigh. William Thompson, able seaman, also gave evidence in corroboration. By the prisoner—l never said to a man named Thomas, servant of the prisoner, that he, the prisoner, was a severe officer, and a bad fellow, and that I and others would do all we could to get him not only out of the Stromboli, but out of the service. This was the case fur the prosecution, and the prisoner having solicited time to prepare his defence, an hour was granted, and the Court ordered to be cleared. DEFENCE. Upon the Court re-assembling, a short defence was read by Mr. Thorn, in which, after an expression of regret that the Court should have been called upon to inquire into the charge then under investigation, an appeal was made to the mercy as well as to the justice of the Court if after hearing the whole of the evidence which would be laid before them, they should be of opinion that the errors of which he had been guilty (if he had erred at all) were errors of judgment rather than otherwise —errors occasioned by the contemptuous and insolent manner of the witness Ryan, whose previous bad conduct had no less than seven times subjected him to punish ment, his offences being respectively fighting, the use of bad language, neglect of duty, quarrelling, fighting, and upon two occasions, insolence to superior officers. The circum stance which gave rise to the charge, which was the subject of the present investigation, was, as had been already proved in evidence, the removal of a tub, by Ryan, in obedience to his (prisoner's) order; but this was done so slowly that he was obliged to repeat the order before it was complied with. Attention was also directed to one or two trifling discrepan cies in the testimony of the several witnesses, and it was denied that he had ever acted tyrannically, or even severely, towards those placed under his command. He also stated, that when he ordered Ryan to be caned, he was not aware that he was a stoker, but judging by his youthful appearance, believed him to be a boy; and no sooner was he made ac quainted with the fact that Ryan had been recently suffering from ill health than he remitted the punishment which he had imposed, and which would, he believed, have been more severe had he made a report of Ryan's conduct to his superior officer. Allusion was also made to the unusual course adopted by Ryan, of writing to the commanding officer instead of making a verbal complaint, and in reference •to the alleged breach of the Admiralty printed instructions, a hope was expressed that if it should appear to the Court that he had not attended to those instruc tions, they would discriminate between wilful disobedience, !BGs6dl YORK, SErr. 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex tension, s—Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New (Brandling), 54--North British (Carlisles), 54—York and North Midland, 116—Ditto, Extension, 304—Coven try, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 3%—Direct Northern, 4—Grand Union, 4 %—Leicester and Bedford, 4i4 —London and York, 6 y—Manchester, Buxton, &c., 104 — Newcastle and Berwick, 20%—Welsh Midlands, 41/2. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. WAKEFIELD, PON'I'EFRACT, AND GOOLE. On Wednesday last, great interest and rejoicings were ex cited in the borough of Pontefract, in consequence of the pro ceedings connected with the firstgeneral meeting of the Share holders of the above Company, whirls was held at the New Elephant Hotel, Dr. Buchanan, the Chairman of the Company, presiding. A brief notice of this meeting appeared in The Sun of yesterday. Amongst the Directors and Shareholders present were--Captain Laws, James Andes, Esq., of Headingley ; William Moxon, Esq., of Pontefract; J. B. Faviell, Esq., of Featherstone Hall ; Edward Harper, Esq., of York ; Henry Houldsworth, Esq., Chairman of the Manchester and Leeds Railway Company; Ralph Creyke, Esq., of Rawcliffe Hall; Captain Binstead, of Wakefield; G. Leeman, Esq., and W. F. Clark, Esq., solicitors to the Company; Captain Bentham, Richard Lee, Esq., of Grove Hall ; James Meek, jun., Esq., of York ; Dr. Rawdon, of York; W. S. Gibson, Esq., of York ; Winn, Esq., of York ; William Smith, jun., Esq., of York ; Mr. James Walker, of York ; air. Chap man, of York ; Mr. Glaisby, of York ; ; also Richard Lee, Esq., of Grove Hall ; John Lister, Esq., of Goole ; Daniel Cass, Esq., of Goole ; John Wilson, Esq., of Goole ; Michael Mitton, Esq., of Pontefract ; Robert Farrar, Esq., of Stillington ; Matthias Whitehead, Esq., of Selby ; Wake, Esq., of Goole ; W. Oldtield, Esq., of York ; J. Old field, Esq., of York, &c. The CHAIRMAN having briefly opened the proceedings, GEORGE LEEMAN, Esq., read an elaborate report from the Directors. They said they had great pleasure, after a long and very arduous conflict, in now meeting the Pro prietors, and laying before them the Act of Parliament for the construction of this important railway. After adverting to different subjects of minor importance, they proceeded to say : la4sGd, " Your Directors have given instructions for applying inthe next session for the branch line from Methley to Pontefract, as directed by Parliament, and they have also determined to recommend to this Company to continue such branch from Knottingley to join the London and York Railway at or near Askern, which will thus make the shortest line from London to Leeds. The project is most favourably received by the landowners along that branch, and will not only form a very valuable adjunct to this Company's main line of rail way, but will be of great local benefit to the owners of the lime fields which it will traverse. In addition to this branch, your Directors also propose to form a short branch to join the Midland Railways at the south side of the Oakenshaw station, and . which is necessary for giving a complete commu nication from Wakefield to the Midland Railway. For the purpose of making these extensions, your Directors propose to issue new shares to the holders of stock in this Company, in the proportion of one new 251. share for every original share. The Directors have entered into an arrangement with the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway Company for extending this line of railway from the point of junction with the London to York line at Askeni to Brigg, in Lincolnshire, there to join the Great Grimsby and Sheffield Railway. The capital for this extension is to be provided by the two Com panies, in the proportion of two-thirds by the Grimsby and Sheffield, and one-third by this Company. The - scrip for this extension will be issued immediately, and will be provided amongst the proprietors in this Company in the proportion of one 201. share for every original share in this Company." After the report was read, the CHAIRMAN proposed the fol -lowing resolution, viz. :—" That the report of the Directors now read be adopted and approved, and also printed and cir culated among the Shareholders." "Without entering into a minute detail of account, he might say that the report gave a general idea of the distribution of their money, and what they might expect from their product. They were aware that the capital of this Company amounted to 365,000/., in 7,300 shares of 50/. each. Their Alethley and Askern branches would cost 200,0001., and 7,300 shares of 251. each would amount to 182,5001., ;leaving 700 shares, or 17,5001., for landowners and other expenses. The Grimsby Exten sion would cost 640,0001.; one-sixth, or 100,0001., they pro posed to give landowners; one-third to the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Company ; and the other portion to the Sheffield and Grimsby Extension ; thus affording a 20/. extension share to each original, and making 45/. new stock to every original 501. share. They were not in a position to give a correct financial statement, in consequence of some of the bills remaining unpaid ; but with some few exceptions all the bills have been paid. Mr. OGLE seconded the motion, which was carried. Captain BENTHAM then moved the following resolution : "'That the able and satisfactory manner in which the Pro visional Committee have conducted the affairs of this Com pany to a successful termination in Parliament, entitles them to the best thanks of this meeting, and that 150 of the new extension shares be appropriate. - to the Provisional Committee, as some return for their arduous services." Mr. WAKE, of Goole, seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. - RAI.I-7i6ttEvi:E;Esq. , in a complimentary speech, moved a vote of thanks to the chairman. which was seconded by J. Aunus, Esq., and carried. The CHAIRMAN then returned thanks, and the meeting separated. REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE BARNET AND NORTH METROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY. 5 % On Wednesday last, t h e 17•11 inst. a meeting of th e p ar tie s inte rested in the proposeil B arn et and North Metropolitan Junction Railway was held at the Victoria Hall, Barnet. t a t T i ohe, m e eting was convened for the p urpose of rece i v i ng a depu. nconsisting of the Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley,',M.P. for Bristol, W. A Hill, Esq., R. H. Mackenzie, Esq., M.D , William H. Halpin, Esq., and others of the Directors of the Company. Ed. ward Elkins, Esq., solicitor, Francis Wishaw, Esq., consulting engineer, for the purpose of explaining the objects of the under. taking. The deputation met a party of gentlemen residents in the vicinity of the proposed line at the Green Man, and afterwards pro - ceeded to the Victoria Hall. Amongst those present were John Hey Puget. Esq., Benjamin Smith, Esq., the Rev. Stuart, the Rev. John D. Thompson. with numerous gentlemen and trades - men from Barnet, Finch le y , an d the surrounding districts. Jaen .HEEYLPitioNose:r,DEqs.q,., at t f T t o h t a t er request d ge of the Chairman, read, having been called to the chair, l I — 4 , i the requisition, signed by a numerous and respectabie - body of gentle - men in the town of Barnet and its vicinity, convening the meeting, After which the CHAIRMAN addressed the meeting as follows : "Gentlemen, it is quite unnecessary that I should detain you with many observations, as the meeting will be addressed by several other gentlemen who will enter more fully into the details. I have taken the chair with a desire that the proposition contained in the requisition which you have heard read should have a fair hearing. We have had several projects fer railways coning near Barnet, but none of them contemplated making a terminus in the town of Barnet. This project seems to have a greater claim upon our sup. port than any other. Barnet has been well nigh ruined by rail ways : as it is by railways that we have been injured, it is by railways we must endeavour to recover ourselves. (Cries of " Hear, hear.")—As you will be addressed by those gentlemen who have come here from London, t hey will put you in possession of the merits of the undertaking far better than lean, it will not be neces sary therefore for me to occupy your time longer.—(Cheers.) The Hon. F. H. F. BERKELEY, M.P., rose and said—Gentlemen, I appear before you in the character of Chairman of the Provisional Committee of the Barnet and North Metropolitan Junction Rail. way, who have the intention of constructing a line of railway between this place and London; it has already received consider able support and encouragement from a numerous and highly _ respectable body of gentlemen in Barnet, and the vicinity through which it is intended to pass. lam directed to state to you, that we have a desire that you should have adirect and immediate communi - cation with London. lam not aware that of all the numerous projects set on foot for forming railways, any one has been proposed which will give to the town of Barnet this advantage. The only line - which bears upon Barnet is the London and York, and that does not come within two miles of the town; in addition to which, at present it has met with very considerable opposition. Even if the Bill pastes, it will be three years at least before it can possibly be completed, and then they will not grant you a terminus in the - town of Barnet. Now, gentlemen, permit me to point out to you why this line will be of considerable advantage to you all. It must be of the utmost importance to the town of • Barnet to have a terminus, and ultimately be the means of resuscitating it and the whole neighbourhood. The once flourishing and important town of Barnet, the outlet to the north, is now neglected, and well nigh ruined by that powerful agent, steam ; the prospect of many an honest man blighted, the tradesman and innkeeper, who once was in a prosperous state is brought low and his profits decreased; in fact, Barnet presents to me the ideal of that beautiful picture so ably described by Gold smith as " The Deserted Village." All that celebrity, for which - it was famed, is now no more, and why, gentlemen is this ? It possesses within its neighbourhood in regard to scenery, what few spots can beast of,—then if you have a railway, the good peo - pie of London can enjoy those beauties, and at the same time be the means of increasing your trade. You will find - that in a short period pauperism will decrease, and the poor man will again hold up his head, and become prosperous and happy. I have been in the habit of travelling by this read fee. - quently—this, the first stage on the great northern road out of London—where, I may say, hundreds of coaches formerly passed daily, there is now scarcely one, owing to what, gentlemen? - Why, I need not tell you that it is owing to the march of that great power steam, which has made such rapid strides within the last few years. This has caused many a broken fortune and aching heart. No doubt, unpopular as it may be to some, for the good people of 3 - Barnet to oppose the power of steam, is useless. As steam , then , - has been the ruin of Barnet, by steam it must be revived. Gen. 3% tlemen, look at the effect of steam conveyance on the town 2 • which may be called the sister town of Barnet. I allude, gen tlemen to Hounslow, once the outlet to the Great Western road, but now almost deserted. The Great Western Railway, as you are aware, runs within two and a half miles of Hounslow, but notwithstanding that the people found the loss and inconvenience so great that they determined themselves to have a railway direct to Hounslow, and one is now actually projecting, and doubtless will he carried out, this will prove to you, gentlemen, that very little, if any, advantage is to be gained from a main line running within a short distance of a town. Let us look to facts, gentlemen. Before the Great Western Railway had been in operation six weeks, more than 600 horses were dis charged from Hounslow. The ruin that fell on . the coach proprietors, to say nothing of the different tradesmen, and the sufferings of the poor was beyond credit. It is true the Great Western have a station within two miles and a half of Hounslow. Has that been an advantage to Hounslow ? Certainly not. The Great Western Railway Company were profuse in their promises as to what they would do for the towns in the neighbourhood of their line ; branches were to be constructed in connection with the main line, so as to afford benefit to the contiguous towns, but what did they do gentlemen ? Why, nothing at all : the moment they suceeded lee quieting the people by promises, and procured their line of , • and that, which as in his case, was simply an imperfect la • terpretation. The defence concluded with a remark upon the the long absence of an important witness upon his be half ' arrest to which he had been already subjected, and his one.: viction that his case would meet full justice at the hands I the honourable gentlemen who constituted the Court. le The prisoner then proceeded to call Thomas Maccogh, atoll seamen, who stated that he was on the deck of the Strom unavoidable on the morning of the 3d St t. He heard the prisop charge John Ryan with negligence, and with not cubbui,g the deck to his satisfaction. Ryan said something in tell which witness did not hear, but which provoked the prig ne ., who thereupon gave him a shove. Ryan's manner W AS to , ' temptuous. By the CounT—Heard the prisoner call Rvan a son of 11 _ b— or something to that effect. He heara nothing prom. though he was standing close by. Had any unusual or e es , ordinary epithet been appliedto Ryan, witness must have h e ,7 0 ' He considered Ryan's manner contemptuou hecans ... ' l ,, looked haughtily at the prisoner, and appeared to be no" tering something. and Commander Fisher and Lieut. Henileigh, the fir, 1f ,,,,, second officers on board the Stromboli were called es e viu " r f h - s to character. The former said that during tree l ees mon he had been in command of the Stromboli, he had hn d 4 complaint against the prisoner until the present elnl r g,„ o o preferred. Lieut. Hensleigh observed that he hat' knot preferred. thattotabout The he was always anxious zealously assist the shiP?" bo iit The COURT was then again cleared, half an hour, when the prisoner being brought in n i t ,` afge s witnesses being in attendance, the'particulars of the c.- - w here' were read over, and declared to have been proved , _ Ae d, upon t the prisoner was adjudged to be severely reprino:t of 9 be dismissed the Stromboli, and to be put at the boll Too the Lieutenants in her Majesty's navy, and to remain ' for the space of two years. 441. This terminated the proceedings of the court -011" f" the space ot,ai the - THE EXPERIMENTAL FLERT. still DEvoxronT, SErr. 26.—The Experimental Fleet ?I ase lying in the Sound. Sir Samuel Pym has hoisted _l 3 , fr t 5 on board the St. Vincent as Commander-in-Chie6 s'!"crui3e. w e fid s en tly stated that they will sail to-morrow on quadron consists of the following ships: -.-0 ' 1. 1 1 C (I P Queen, Vanguard, Trafalgar, Rodney, suPe r Albion, and the Stromboli steamer. attriVilacent, ------------'--------------- • ' gribiP FOREIGN CATTLE AND FRUIT. ---The Ste° char' Atwood, from Rotterdam, which had been specially_ ~w., tered by the importers of Dutch cattle for the e% pes se l' ep ; pose, bas brought 92 head of horned cattle and 160 of the the whole of which, notwithstanding the rougbnel Black weather at the time, arrived at the 13runswickWilat'!.., ser e wall, in perfect safety and excellent condition, an The landed and delivered immediately to their destinatior,Ll bar Caledonian, from Hambur h, brought 31 oxen arid, If ''„ f r oal kets of different descriptions g of fruit. 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Only one persons' to effect a permanent cure. Vit ; ON DEBILITY AND DISEAS'; jided,t it P i t, Price 2s. 6d., in an envelope, and post tree 33. 6d. P 05 1, 10 T" MENTOR of of on the Causes of Physical Decay, Loss o de ns D , 0 00, ing from excess or imprudence, with plain dtre c .ejott • difel a ck those suffering, for their perfect and speed,' resto' oer tairt ore t, , Also, Observations on Marriage, an 1 treatmet , itt e nne - act' &c. By J. S. TISSOT and Co., t, urgeonS, 0 . ford-square. ~a s d ent' Published by the Authors, and sold :bv Go_ u f",; c er.r" - r,1 1• , 1 0 01 row ; Muffle, 161, Fleet-street ; Noble, 114, u0,„,„,'" kess, 60, Compton-street, Soh.): Lovelace, 3 5 , l'lfessto* CM" —. • 1, , Itt street ; Russell, 43, Store street, Bedford-sclut-,:hoorl• riled , 16, and 29, Church-streer, Liverpool ; Messrs. 10 ' raw° .1 0 side-street. 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