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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 5. Sittings in Banco. cliefore Lord Campbell and Justices Coleridge, Wight man, and Erie.) LEFEVRE V. LANCASTER.-DISQUALIFICATION FOR THE OFFICE OF MAYOR., This was an action brought by a burgess of South ampton against the mayor of that borough, to recover 501. penalty which he was said to have incurred under the Municipal Corporations Act, the sth and 6th Wil liam IV., c. 76, by holding the office of mayor while he was disqualified by having an interest in a contract with the town council. On the trial before Mr. Justice Tal fourd at the last Hampshire assizes, the verdict was en tered for the plaintiff. Mr. Serjeant Singlake, pursuant to leave reserved, now moved for a rule to enter a nonsuit. The ground upon which the action was brought was that Mr. Lan caster had in 1840, with some other town councillors, become the assignee of a contract originally made with a Mr. Collier, for the supply of Southampton with water. In 1846 the contract was transferred to the water commissioners of the borough, who were to pay 4,0001. on the surrender of the works, and 8501. when a certain quantity of water should have been supplied to the town in 24 hours. The interest of the commis sioners was subsequently transferred to the local board of health, the town council, of which the defendant was a member. He contended that this was not a contract within the meaning of the Municipal Corporations Act so as to disqualify Mr. Lancaster from acting as mayor. The court granted a rule nisi. POSTER 'V. THE MENTO INSURANCE COMPANT.-INSUR ANCE ON COUNT D'ORSAY'S LIFE. This was an action brought by the representative of the Britannia Mutual Insurance Company against the defendants to recover 1,5001. the amount of a policy of insurance effected by them upon the life of the late Count D'Orsay. On the trial before Lord Campbell at Guild hall the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. The Attorney-General now moved for a rule nisi to enter a nonsuit on the ground of misdirection. It, ap peared that in 1844 the Britannia Company effected an insurance upon the life of Count D'Orsay for 4,5001. The company subsequently came to a resolution not to insure any one life for a larger amount than 3,0001., and endeavoured to transfer five insurances which they had already effected exceeding that sum to other offices • one of them was upon the life of the Duke of Beaufort, and as his grace was then considered a bad life they had same difficulty in getting rid of it. The defendant's company ultimately agreed to take the ex cess beyond 3,0001. upon all the five lives, and among the papers which were transferred to them by the Bri tannia Company was the declaration made by Count D'Orsay, when the original insurance was effected, that he was not at that time suffering under any disease likely to cause death. Upon the death of Count D'Orsay it appeared that at the time of the transfer to th e 'de fendants he was suffering under a disease of that descrip tion. He (the Attorney-General) now submitted that his lordship ought to have nonsuited the plaintiff, the declaration ought t o b e cons id ered as having been as made by the Britannia Company at the time of the transfer. It was not denied that they were at that time ignorant of the change in Count D'Orsay's health. The court granted a rule nisi. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—Nov. 5. (Sittings in Banco.) ARNOLD V. HAMEL.-THE ALLEGED DOCK MAIMS. This case came on for trial before the Chief Baron at the last sittings in London, when that learned judge directed a verdict for the defendant. Mr. E. James now moved for a new trial on the ground of misdirection. It was an action of trespass, and there was a count for work and labour and attendance to give evidence as a witness. It appeared that the plaintiff had been 'arrested and placed in Whitecross-street Pri son for penalties amounting to 7,5001. for buying the dock sweepings ; and having been there three or four months, application was made to him by some person connected with the Customs to know whether he would give evidence as to the part he had taken in certain transactions at the London Docks. Having consented to do so, he was discharged from Whitecross- s t ree t Pri son by the defendant, and was taken down to a frigate lyingiin Dagenham-creek, where he was kept for eleven months, and he was then brought to Westminster Hall as a witness, but was not examined. After the case had been opened on the part of the plaintiff, Sir F. Thesiger objected to the reception of any evidence, quoting the 117th sec. of the Bth and 9th Vic. cap. 87, which enacted th a t no wr i t s h ould be sued out against any officer of the army, navy, customs, excise, &c., " for anything done in the execution of, and by reason of, his office," until a month's notice had been given to him in writing. In the present case no such notice had been given. The facts having been ad mitted, the learned judge directed a verdict for the de fendant, without hearing the evidence. The learned counsel now contended that it could not be held that the solicitor of the customs was entitled to the protection of the statute for any illegal act which he might have done • and it should have been left to th e jury to say whether they believed the defendant was act ing bona fide in the discharge of his duty. The Court were of opinion that the Chief Baron was right in the course which he had adopted ; but, never theless, it was an important question, and ought to be discussed. Rule nisi. BAIL COURT.—Nov. 5. (Sittings at Nisi hius, before Mr. Justice Coleridge and Common Juries.) CANE AND ANOTHER V. HEATON AND ANOTHER.- EJECTMENT. Mr. Watson and Mr. Hindmarsh appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Willes and Mr. Field for the de fendants. This was an action for ejectment to recover possession of some property in the manor of Ealing, the custom in that manor being Borough-English, the youngest son and youngest brother succeeding to property in prefer ence to other sons and daughters. One Thomas Cane died intestate on the 25th of March, 1846. He had ac cumulated considerable property in this manor, but no person appearing as his heir, some part of the property was seized by the Crown, and some part by the Bishop of London. The plaintiffs claimed as daughters of the youngest uncle of the deceased. They had already re covered that part of the property which had been seized by the Crown, and this action was brought to recover that seized by the Bishop. After the case had proceeded some way, it was ar ranged that a verdict should be taken for the plain tiffs, without costs. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. IN RE ARTI QUES. — IMPORTANT QUESTION ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PENAL CLAUSES. This was the certificate meeting in the case of Jules Artiques, general merchant and'commission agent, of Mark-lane. The report of Mr. Pennell, the official assignee, stated that the bankrupt was a Frenchma n and lB came to Lon don on his father's busi ness i n Ju l after commenced business on hi s July, own 49c2 but shortly m l nt. v The balance sheet began on the Ist January,a capital of 831. He now owed to creditors 15,L52I iith of a which MR 8,8431. arose on transactions withhi w s a f: s ttr, who was also a bankrupt at Bordeaux. He liable on the acceptances of other parties to the amount of, 3,5981. The profits, from merchandise, commi ss i on, charter parties, and other sources, had been 2,149/. ; but against this was the sum of 2,279/., paid as f re i g h t and insurance, which converted the profit into a loss. The assets, in good debts and property, were estimated at 475/. ; doubtful debts 4,4041. The property held by creditors amounted to 1,2631., and the claims upon it to 537/. ; but there was little or no surplus owing to th e heavy loss on the sale of the ship Iris, which cost about 1,1001., and sold for about 4001. The bankrupt's furni ture, which cost 3501., was settled on his wife's trustees at his marriage, Ist arch, 1852. The losses by bad debts were 3,759/. ; trade expenses, 1,480/. ; interest, discount, and commission, 1,753/. ; interest on father's debt, 1,321/. ; law expenses, 2501. ; travelling ditto, 8031. The books were kept by double entry, but they had never been balanced since the bankrupt commenced business. The bankrupt had been very assiduous in assisting the alisignees to realise this very complicated estate. The adjudication was made in December last, on the petition of Mr. George Corsi, banker, of the Rue Haute vine, Paris, a creditor for 8141. The case was last before the court on the 24th of June, when the bankrupt applied for his certificate, but ie application was ad journed si,ie die, in order that the bankrupt might bring his father before the court for examination touching his debts, or give proof of his inability to produce him. In the interval the father had been examined. From an account of the official assignee, made up to the 28th ult., it appeared that the whole of the assets realised amounted to 1 62/., of which, deducting the expenses, 921. remained in hand. The follows Commissioner on Saturday gave judgment as : 11 -- a Th vii i i s case did not come before him for the first time. case in all its f a had a full opportunity of considering the once give hi s oni en gs, he thought it right he should at and the creditors should upon it, rather than the bankrupt Wa. ould be inconvenienced by attending again. The case one of considerable importance, and deserved an attentive truly stated that the l) acn°lntsideration. It had been very I nput was a foreigner, and also that, not being advanced personn y t. 0 e r:(,) allowance ought ou ght to be made for him. to have allowances made when the Court was bound to take care that thesirelli: c i t i Fnsiderations did not justice and common sense. lead it . beyond the bounds of that a man 26 years of The Court was not to assum e eared very Con . age, and who, though a foreigner, and our commercial code, was to, from the ob servance with our language which an individual who ought to be exempted servance of all the rules which ought must govern those engaged in trade. "Witlai'anrseecet to this gentleman's position, his history, so far comm i s sioner) could collect, appeared to b e this. (tilet seemed that his father,' having been engag e d i n b usiness in France, sent this young man to London in order to manage his commercial transactions t with this country. In July, 1 849 , the ban,krupt, happening o be in this country on his fathers business, himself embarked in trade, thinking that thereby he would promote not only his own but his father's views. He had no capital of his own—nothing at least to be compared with the great magnitude of his dealings in trade—his capital was only 801. 11s. 11d. ; that was the whole amount of capital with which he credited himself. He (the commissioner) knew of no law that should exempt him, though a foreigner, from taking into account that when he began business with nothing, as an advent urer, he ought to be particularly careful and cautious before he em barked in speculations to a very large amount. Before he rushed, hand over head as it were, into dealings involving in amount a very considerable sum, 50,000/. or 60,0001., in the first year, ought he not to have asked himself this question, "Am I, bringing nothing into the concern, gambling with counters against ready money, to permit myself to embark in all those large and extensive deal ings ? &m I not to consider how, by so doing, I may affect the interests of other 3 ?" The Court must say it was the bounden duty of every honest man, independ ently of every other consideration, to say to himself, "I ought not to embark in those commercial transactions unless I am quite sure that in so doing those who deal with me are protected from loss." But it did not seem that he had done so. He embarked in trade to a large extent, he received a large. amount on consignment, and he went to work as a merchant in the most reckless pos sible way, not considering for one moment how his con duct would bear on others with whom he had dealings. He could not but be struck with the startling fact that when he called his creditors together, there were only owing to him in good debts 1021. Bs. Bd., whilst the bad debts were 3,7591. Os. lid., and the doubtful 4,4041. Here was nearly a sum of 9,0001. owing to the bankrupt —debts hopelessly lost, debts for which it was not worth the trouble of pressing, for which nobody would take the trouble to press, because it would be a waste of time and money to do so. In short, all the official assignee had was 101/. That was all he had to pay this large amount of debts. Let them look at the other side of the account. There would be found an enormous amount of expenditure, even with respect to the domestic ex penditure. Whatever might be thought upon the sub ject, the Court must observe that this bankrupt, who bad begun with nothing, and involved others to a large amount, had no right, at all events, to take any great credit for spending only 4001. a year out of the pockets of his creditors, seeing that he began with nothing. After alluding to other features in the case the commis sioner proceeded. The bankrupt had sworn that he did not contemplate or intend fraud when ordering the goods. Looking at these circumstances, and having regard to decided cases, rather than to his own opinion, he th ou ght he should err were he to hold that th e evidence was sufficient to satisfy him that- the bankrupt had con tracted these debts fraudulently and with intent to cheat. The evidence in this case was infinitely weaker than in that of Manico, or even in that of H. Martin. At all events, it left his mind so much in doubt, that he would give the accused the benefit of that doubt, and absolve him from the fraud imputed to him in making the contract. He took this course the more readily as L it did not at all tie up the hands of the court in its judg ment as to the future protection of the bankrupt from arrest. If the bankrupt were found guilty upon the fraudulent contract, the court would be bound to refuse him protection, and could not grant it at any time or under any circumstances ; but by dealing with the case on its general discretion, the court had still power to withhold protection for such period as might satisfy the justice of the case. There were one or two pOints that were favourable to the bankrupt. Mr. Pennell reported that he had been very assiduous in assisting his assignees in their attempts to make the most of his very compli cated estate ; and the whole of his transactions were entered in his books, so that the creditors had indeed been enabled to make their charges against him from those books. Those circumstances induced the court to stop short of what was asked—the total refusal of the certificate—an extreme to which they ought only to go in a case that admitted of scarcely any mitigation. He thought' the justice of the case might be met by sus pending the certificate for a period of two years from the date of the adjudication ; when granted the certifi cate to be of the third class ; and the bankrupt to remain without protection from arrest for six months from that date. Mr. Cooke—Will your Honour allow the costs of the opposition ? - The Commissioner—Oh, certainly. It is a most proper opposition. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—Nov. 5, ASSAULT AND FALSE IMPRISONMENT.-IN RE CHARLES SEEAR, ALIAS JAMES THOMPSON. This insolvent, who was heard before the vacation, appeared for judgment on a complaint of an assault and false imprisonment. The insolvent was a grocer in Cal thorpe-place, Gray's-inn-lane, and it will be recollected that he gave a Mrs. Burrows into custody about a pic ture of the Virgin, which was represented to be of great value. The matter was before the magistrates, and ap peared before the public. An action was brought by Mr. Burrows and his wife in the Court of Common Pleas. The damages were 101., and the costs 521., for which the insolvent was in custody. It appeared that the insolvent, whose name was .Seear, but who had traded as "Thompson," had converted a private house in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, into a shop, which he opened as a grocer's. It was now closed, and Mr. Dowse appeared for the landlord, Mr. Henry, and claimed possession, as he was a creditor before the adju dication was pronounced. The judgment was, eleven weeks from the vesting order, which will prolong the insolvent's imprisonment a short time. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 6. Rear-Admiral cf the White Sir Edmunds Lyons, G.C.8., the newly appointed Second in Command of the Mediterranean fleet, arrived at this port on Friday, and was the guest of the Commander-in-Chief at the Ad miralty-house. Yesterday the Fire Queen steam-yacht, Master-Commander Paul, embarked Sir Edmund from the King's-stairs and took him to Spithead, where he embarked on board the Terrible, 21, paddle-frigate, Captain M'Cleverty, which immediately hoisted his flag, and exchanged salutes with the Port-Admiral. This morning the Terrible left Spithead for. Malta, touching at Plymouth for a boat, &c. The London, 90, Captain Eden, sailed from Spithead yesterday afternoon for the Mediterranean. The Medea, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander J. C. Bailey, arrived at Spithead from the West India station. She left Bermuda on the 26th of September, and Halifax on the 19th, at which date the Cumberland, 70, Vice-Ad miral Sir George Seymour, and the Calypso, 20, Cap tain Forbes, were at the latter station. She has sailed home, except during the last three days, which will account for the length of the passage. Her colonial news has, of course, been anticipated by the mail packets. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, Count of Flanders, and suites, will arrive in this borough to-morrow, and put np at the George Hotel. Her Majesty has ordered her yacht, the Fairy, to be in readiness at 11 a.m., to embark their Highnesses, and carry them out to inspect the fleet, Osborne, &c. The Fearless steam-vessel shipped the baggage, &c., of Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons from the dockyard yesterday evening, and transferred it to the Terrible, a Spithead. WOOLWICH, Nov. 5. APPOINTMENTS. Master Charles Pope (1829), at present Assistant- Master-Attendant at Sheerness Dockyard, and in charge of the Cyclops steam-frigate, employed in the conveyance of stores to and from the various home dockyards, is appointed Master-Attendant at Chatham Dockyard, vice Thomas Laen, promoted to be a retired commander. Master John Jackson (1835), to be Assistant-Master- Attendant at Sheerness, vice Charles Pope, appointed to Chatham Dockyard. Surgeon Joseph Caldwell (1842), to be Surgeon-Super intendent of the Sea Park convict ship. Second Masters—Robert Coon (1853), from the St. George, 120, guardship of ordinary at Devonport, to the Dasher steam-vessel, employed surveying the Channel Islands ; Charles C. Mitchell (1844), from the -Fisgard, flagship at Woolwich, to the St. George, vice Coon♦ Clerk's Assistant W. W. Hyde, to the Princess Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 7,185 a PROMOTIONS. Masters—George Parsons (1825), and Thos. Laen (1812), Master-Attendant at Chatham Dockyard since May 15, 1849, have been promoted to be retired com manders under her Majesty's Order in Council of May 19, 1846. Thos. Sampson, joiner at Woolwich Dockyard, is promoted to be modeller at the same yard. It is the general impression here that Commodore Henry Eden will remain as Superintendent of Wool wich Dockyard until the Fisgard, his flag-ship, is paid off on the 30th inst. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master Commander H. W. Allen, has been fitted with feathering paddle-wheels, s Kfilprogress ar ma service -ev t r h ev s e i sc fay ee l t t ao Bermuda,trpr for ese t n h t e m ot no . t a S a n h k d e e ias theno e r p d w l e a r s c e h e d a o t t f to the e bi i n that part of the West India station. The Banshee, re cently paid off by Command er H os k en, at this port, ' is to take the place of the Lightning here, and will be commissioned by Master Commander Allen, and have the other officers and crew of the Lightning turned over to her. The Jasper paddle-wheel steam-vessel, of 100-horse power, was taken out of dock yesterday and into the basin to-day, to be completed for service as a tug at one of the eastern ports. The Prospero paddlewheel steam-vessel, of 1 44-horse power, bad her steam up in the basin to-day to tr . st her engines, which have been refitted for the purpose of her being employed as a tug steam-vessel. The Cyclops steam-frigate, in charge of Mr. Charles Pope, now Master-Attendant at Ch atham Dock y ard, arrived at Woolwich yesterday, an d left a g ain to da y for Sheerness. havingan t us steam The eß ß il em a la dam ,taken on s t o b r o e a - r v d e s a s e l l a , rgMeap n Master-Com mander t o e r r t - i C o o m- ma of the machinery of the Nile, 90, at Devonport, left Wool wich this afternoon for that destination. The African steam-vessel, in consequence of her boilers having become defective, is ordered to be sent from Sheerness to Woolwich to have them taken out and re paired, on the return of the Myrtle steam-vessel to Sheerness to take her duty. The Prometheus paddle-wheel steam-sloop is ordered to have her boilers and machinery repaired, and to have her funnel fitted with a hinge. Their Lordships having, by an order dated the 9th ult., directed that all screw steam-ships are to be fitted with a pipe to convey steam from the boilers to the dis tilling condensers, the officers are to fit such pipes as opportunity offers, adhering as closely as possible to the plan adopted in fitting the pipe to the condenser of the uke of W e lli ngton. The R oya l G eorge , 120, an d Cressy,Bo_, both at S heerness, have b een or d ere d t o h ave the . pipes f ro m their b o il ers fi tte d t o th e i r con d ensers as early as possible. NEW m ANOBS.—TIie following gentlemen, having been elected mayors of the towns to which their names are attached, will enter upon their duties on Wednes day next, the 9th inst.:—Manchester, Mr. Benjamin Nicholl ; Salford, Mr. William Ross ;Live . rp Liverpool, Mr. John Buck Lloyd ; Doncaster, IVr. Carlton oo ; Lei cester, Mr. C. S. ' How ; Chester, Mr. John Smith , Carlisle, Mr. P. J. Dixon ; Bath, Mr. Gill ;Ya outh; Mr. James Cherry Southampton, Mr. Tucker ; West bury, Rev. 11. H. Duke, M.A., vicar of Westbury. RAILWAYS IN CANADA-THE GRAND' CANADIAN TRUNK RAILWAY. We extract from the Quebec Morning Chronicle of the Bth ult., the following abledocument, from Sir C, Roney, the general manager of the above line, in answer to the recent report issued by the directors (in Canada) of the Great Western in reference to the policy of the executive of the Grand Trunk Company : " The report recently addressed by the directors of the Great Western Railway Company of Canada to their proprietors in England, on the position of that company and its relations with the Grand Trunk Railway, is of such an extraordinary character, that it may require the correction of certain mis-statements, even if its general tone preclude the board of the latter company from entering upon any other defence of its members or its action. In this view the following statement is laid before the London board of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, to be used in such a manner as the members of it may deem fit. "The directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada purpose to notice, first, the grounds alleged by the Great Western board for the report in question, and afterwards to consider the statement itself. "On the former point, a reference to the report will show that, in the first place, its publication is justified by the comments of a Toronto newspaper—the Daily Leader; secondly, by the reports and rumours of a variety of descriptions attributed to this company as evidence of its designs affecting the Great Western ; and lastly, by a reference to a meeting with the board of the Grand Trunk Railway Compa n y o f Canada, at which itis distinctly charged with 'having informed the Great West ern Board that the arrangement in question had never been under the consideration of the Grand Trunk direc- tion, while the tone adopted by the latter practically amounts to an entire repudiation of the whole arrange ment. On the first point it will be sufficient at once to state that the newspaper referred to is in no respect under the influence of the Grand Trunk Railway Com pany of Canada, and that it has never, in any one in stance; been authorised to declare its sentiments. The directors of the Grand Trunk Railway Company, neither collectively nor individually, are in the slightest degree responsible for the statements of any newspaper in the province. In saying this, however, the directors may add, that they have examined the articles referred to, and they find nothing in them beyond a reply to the statements of the Hamilton Spectator, for which they •do not desire to hold the board of the Great Western responsible. " On the second point, it is impossible for this board to attempt a refutation of charges made on the autho rity of garbled reports and rumours. They conceive it perfectly irreconcileable with the ordinary usages of society for a public company to found accusations upon such evidence without even an attempt to ascertain their correctness by reference to the parties implicated. It is the fact that the whole of these very serious charges of injustice, rivalry, menace, cajolery, and in fluence (if not something worse),' have been made by the Great Western, without the slightest attempt to verify them, and without even asking the individuals. referred to whether they were correctly reported. The Grand Trunk directors have now made this investiga- tion, and although under no circumstances would they have considered themselves responsible for the acts or deeds of individuals, still they are gratified in being able again to state, that neither collectively nor individually have they done aught in violation of their good faith to the Great Western, while it is specifically a misstate ment that any instructions have been sent home to offer an amalgamation of the two stocks at a, consider able premium on the Great Western shares.' KLastly, the Grand Trunk is charged with being re sponsible for the breach of agreement by the Great Western in their present action. This board has never met the Great Western board or its representatives. Committees of the two boards were appointed to arrange details of agreements between the two companies, ren dered necessary by certain modifications which the Great Western board desired, and of which this company has not yet been informed, but even these committees have never met. On inquiry, the only ground for this most serious charge is in the circumstance that two members of this board, when lately in Toronto with Mr. Stephen son, had an informal conversation with three members of the Great Western board, with whom they unfortu nately differed as regarded the effect of the proceedings of the latter company in devoting its funds to steam-boat speculations on Lake Ontario. At the meeting in ques tion, the members of the Great Western Railway Com pany's board were expressly informed that the conversa tion was altogether unofficial, and yet this is the sole instance where any personal intercourse has taken place. The only communication from the Great Western, con taining complaint against this company, bearing date the 3rd of September, was received on the Bth, and was first brought under the notice of this board on the 28th. The Great Western have to this letter not even had the courtesy to await a reply, but have at once denounced the Grand Trunk Railway Company and the Government of Canada, and—it is with deep regret this board feel called on to state—have done so in London, without even an intimation to the company, with which they were under agreements of amity—a course, it is believed, without precedent in any undertaking managed by ho nourable men. "On this subject it may be stated that the agreement between the two companies names as a referee, in case of dispute, Robert Stephenson Esq., M.P., who, being in Canada, was readily accessible ; and to him the Great Western Company were bound to make an appeal before taking any other course. No such desire has been ex pressed to this company, and the Great Western thus rejected the arbitration of the party mutually agreed upon and best qualified to settle all the points of which they complain. "Believing from the foregoing statement that no ground can justly be shown for the course adopted by the Great Western Company, this board will now pro ceed to notice the statement of fact as alleged in the re port in question. " The Great Western directors, in the early part of the report, assume the claim to all the beneficial rail way legislation of Canada. They claim the original idea of a trunk line of railway through the province ; they affirm that they secured the Railway Guarantee Bill of 1849, and that they were the influential pro moters of the Grand Trunk scheme ; in brief, that the Government of Canada have until now been entirely guided by their advice ; and that, without the influential promoters of the Great Western Company, Canada would have had no railway whatever. So far from these assumptions belng correct, it is notorious in Canada that the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway, now part of the Grand Trunk Railway, was the con stant and ultimately successful applicant for the Gua rantee Bill ; that this company had 30 miles of rail in operation, before the Great Western had in reality done anything ; and that its claim for the guarantee was ad mitted by the Government, 12 months before the Great Western had fairly commenced work. Subsequently, sug gestions made by Messrs. Baring and Glyn, during, .a negotiation carried on by the president and vice-president of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic railroad, for the sale of the guaranteed railway bonds, induced the Government to limit the guarantee to one main line through the pro vince, the scheme being discussed and arranged between the Hon. Mr. Rinks. (Inspector General) and the gen tleman referred to, and, on the written application of the latter, brought before the Executive Council and decided to be recommended to Parliament, the Great Western having nothing whatever to do with the plan until it was laid before the house. So far from the Great Western being, as claimed, the pioneer of rail ways in Canada, it hits invariably followed the steps of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, and bene fitted by the exertion of the promoters of that road, while the Government of Canada has certainly shown by its acts that it needed not the stimulus of private interests properly to promote railway enterprise in the colony. "By the act defining the main line of railway to which provincial aid should be given, the Great Wes tern Railway undoubtedly became entitled to and has received provincial aid, bat in no other respect had it any claim on the Government, because the very act under which it claims to have been commenced and partly constructed' was the general act, pledging the provincial aid to all railways above 75 miles in length. So far as the Great Western is concerned, it would in reality be no breach of faith had the Government given the guarantee to other lines than the Main Trunk, be cause the former line was commenced and partly con structed' under a law giving the guarantee without dis tinction to all and every railway chartered. Its repeal, On the suggestion of Messrs. Baring and Glyn, can cer tainly give no rights to the Great Western, whose line is confined to that from the Niagara river to the Detroit river, expressly debarring that company from any claim on behalf of its proposed branch to Sarnia, which was left precisely in the position of other lines not being part of the Main Trunk. However, the complaint of the Great Western on the subject of the Provisional Government and Legislature aiding a rival line, might be excused, if such aid had been given ; but it will scarcely be believed supplyrwhole Legislature and GovernmentG fGovernment andspirit that the G reat W es t ern k new th a t no provincial aid whatever has b een ex t en d e d t o an y li ne west of Toronto, except itself ; an d t h at, so f ar f rom any b rea ch of faith, the the very receiving real a a only i c tr r scrupulously Tp acts,ourloo Toronto, the l o y observedGanhd e Trunk the h required . beyond whi c h po i nt to Sarnia, e t aid have o e nt hl the company themselves T West ern is, simply, th at t h e Legislature dee med two lines through the w es t par t o f the provin ce the necessary Great ;A-Va'enscit: etletterlus ne dos. eornmm,n o a f v despite its opposition chartered a line from Toronto to Sarnia, which line being incorporated with no less than six others in the general system of Canadian ,railways under the name of the Grand Trunk, a name adopted by a mere private company, as expressive of what it really is, and which is most disingenuously endeavoured to be confounded by the Great Western report with the Main Trunk line, by which name the Legislature, three years past, designated that line to which provincial aid should be restricted, and of which the Great Western formed part. The Main Trunk comprehended the Quebec and Richmond, St Lawrence and Atlantic, Grand Trunk, and Great Western Railways ; the three former united under the name of Grand Trunk, and the Great West ern might have done so also had its proprietors chosen. " A brief history of these transactions is rendered necessary by the statements of the report. " The whole Main Trunk line was chartered prior to 1851, except the section betw een Montreal and Toronto, which in that year was prop osed to be undertaken by the Government, and failing s uch action, was placed in the hands of two private comp anies in 1852. Subse quently the entire line between Montreal and Toronto was conceded in 1852 to a new company, styled the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada,' and the • provincial aid granted to the amoun t of 3,0001. p er mile. "The transactions connected with the repeal of the _ previous charters have no real bearing on the Great Western case, and they appear only brought in for the purpose of most injurious insinuation against parties now connected with the Grand Trunk. They must, however, be airwered. f‘ Tlie coupeAken by Messrs. H o lton and Galt in oliposing the epeAl of the charter of the Montreal and Kingston Railroad was, and is, fully before the public. They were never interested in the construction of any part of the then proposed Grand Trunk line, but acted simply as the custodiers of a charter which they believed they could carry out advantageously. The reasons for the withdrawal of their opposition were, and are, per fectly patent to the public, and their names were added to the official direction under the new bill as an acknow ledgement of their position, and a pledge that the points they had contended for would be fairly recognised. " These gentlemen were at the time in no way con nected with the Toronto and Guelph Railway, for which they only became contractors—not by the award of the Grand Trunk in London, as insinuated by the Great Western report, but after fair and public competition in Toronto, with .above 40 opp onen t s , thi s con t rac t was given them on the 26th November, and the extension to Sarnia a few days after, while the arrangement for the withdrawal of their opposition took place at the end of October, a week after Mr. Jackson had left Canada for England. No communication, therefore, was or could be had with that gentleman, nor was his assent in any way sought or required. "There was not at that time the slightest idea of amalgamating the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line with the Grand Trunk, as is best shown by the fact, that the first amalgamation bill, passed in consequence of the arrangements for the repeal of the charters, made no provision for such amalgamati on , nor was it made possible until the amended bill passed in March last. " The insinuation in the report that the withdrawal of opposition bj' Mossrs. Holton and Galt was conditioned in such amalgamation, is therefore entirely unjustifiable. Equally so is the statement as to the course of the Go vernment in relation to the extension of the Toronto and Guelph line to Sarnia. The Government took no pro ceeding in the matter whatever, its members voted as in every other open question,' the bill passed through its ordinary stages, and, notwithstanding the adverse report of the committee on railroads (at which the chairman of the finance committee of the Great Western presided), was passed - by the house as being imperatively required by the populous and extensive region it traverses. "The truth of the statement put into Mr. Jackson's mouth relatiVe, to the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line, may be judged of from the simple fact, that that gentle man had left Canada before the extension to Sarnia had an existence at all. " His statement was in substance simply that as a con• tractor, he would undertake no work west of Toronto. The Great Western report, page 13, speaks of the To ronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line as running through a comparative wilderness and as wanting the co-operation of the local municipalities' --a statement sufficiently an swered by the simple rejoinder, that the only section of that line from Toronto to Guelph (50 miles) which there had been time to proceed with before the amalgamation, runs through as well-peopled and fertile a country as any in Canada ; and this section alone had received no less municipal aid than 170,0001., or actually a larger sum than the entire amount of si - nilar aid given to the Great Western itself. 'The result of the whole Parliamentary proceedings of the first part of last session, stripped of the c comments of the Great Western report, is, that Parliament and the Government granted a charter under the name of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada to certain parties to which in accordance with previous acts, provincial aid of 3,000/. per mile was given, and by which it was pro vided that, to protect the provincial interests in advanc ing so large a sum, the Government should nominate a certain portion of the directors. Parliament also passed au act permitting the amalgamation of the several char tered companies included in the Main Trunk line, and which were to receive, or had received, provincial aid, including the Quebec and Richmond, St. Lawrence and Atlantic, and Great Western Railway Companies, but not including.the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line. "Parliament also granted an extension of the Toronto and Guelph Company's Charter to Sarnia, without any provincial aid or privilege whatever. "Apart from the parliamentary proceedings, it may suffice briefly to repeat, that Mr. Jackson left Canada before any of these acts were passed, and that not the slightest attempt or proposal had been made for the amalgamation of the Toronto and Guelph Company with the Grand Trunk. "Shortly after the passage of the Amalgamation Bil the St. Lacirence and Atlantic Railroad Company deputed their president, Mr. Galt, to proceed to England to negotiate for that company becoming united to the Grand Trunk. That gentleman was also authorised to treat on behalf of the American section of the same road, from the province line to Portland, for the same pur pose, the object being to form a line through the pro vince, and, by the power of a united company, to secure the constructiod of a bridge over the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, an object rightly judged as of pre-eminent importance. "It was also then thought probable that the Great Western would have proposed to enter into such alliance, especially as it had obtained provincial aid, on the ground of its being a link of the Canadian Government system. " Mr. Galt was further charged—in connection with Mr. Alexander Gillespie, of London—to act as agent of the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line, in en d eavour i ng to raise funds for the extension of that line, for which that company had the promisJ of powerful aid in Lon don, including that of the Canada Company. , "He arrived in London in January ; and if evidence be required to show that even then no idea existed of amalgamating with the Grand Trunk, it may be found in Mr. Gillespie and in Mr. Franks, the respected chair man of the Canada Company, who are both aware that, for some time after Mr. Galt's arrival, his views were eetirely directed to raising funds from sources quite inde pendent of any amalgamation. "The whole statement.of the Great 'Western report, relative to these transactions, is therefore shown to be quite unfounded • and the charges brought against the Government ipf Canada and its Legislature are really so unsupported that it is difficult to conceive how they could be offered to the British public. "The causes that led to the amalgamation of the To ronto, Guelph, and Sarnia lines, are very apparent to any one who looks dispassionately at the position of the Grand Trunk as a mere private company. The promo ters of that company received no intimation whatever of any desire for an alliance with the Great Western, al though ample time was afforded for it ; on the contrary, they had reason to fear that much of their difficulties was traceable to parties connected with that company ; and they had, perhaps, no just reason to expect any cor dial alliance from the Great Western, because they knew that - the American railroads in northern New York (rival lines, be it remembered, to the Grand Trunk), con trolled 800,000 dollars of their stock, and were repre sented by several directors at that board. "Under these circumstances, it need not cause sur prise, if the Grand Trunk, extending over no less than 942 miles east of Toronto, and anxious to secure a fair share of the western trade of the American States west of Lake Huron, should feel distrust at the attitude as sumed by the Great Western, which, from December to April (when the Grand Trunk prospectus was published), was one of at least doubtful friendship ; and receiving no encouragement to hope for cordial co-operation from this source, that the friends of the Grand Trunk Rail way Company should view with favour the construction of a line which, leading direct from Toronto to Sarnia, would secure them this most important object ; a line that, it should be borne in mind, did not compete with the Great Western line proper, but only interfered with a branch from that line to Sarnia, a branch which the Great Western had power to make for nearly 14 years, but had done nothing, and was then actually under agreement with the American companies not to make. " Under these circumstances, and without any idea of interfering with the Great Western line, the Grand Trunk Railway Company received overtures from the agents of the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line for its amalgamation, and the negotiation was finally com pleted, subject to the necessary legal power being ob tained. This arrangement was not only beneficial to the Grand Trunk, as a means of securing an important feeder, but also greatly aided it in undertaking the large outlay for the St. Lawrence=bridge, which had thus an additional mileage of 170 miles to support its costs and yield it revenue. " The promoters of the Grand Trunk Company, as originally chartered, emphatically declare that they had no connection with the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia Company until they saw there was no probability of an alliance with the Great Western ; that since that time they have never regarded the Sarnia line as a competi- , for to the Great Western proper, because although for ' about 50 miles it may run within about 20 to 25 miles, it strikes a point no less than 70 miles from the termi nus of the Great Western at Detroit, and opens an en tifely new line for American traffic ; and while they admit the Sarnia line is a competitor with the Great Western branch from London to Sarnia (50 miles), they consider that this ground was perfectly open to them, as having been unoccupied by the Great Western for 14 years, and thereafter deliberately granted by the Legis• lature to the Toronto and Guelph Company. "The board of the Grand Trunk Railway cannot pass from the subject of the Great Western branch to Sarnia without stating some further facts relating to it. The Great Western Company being precluded by their Ame rican agreement from constructing the branch for a time, though their friends applied (subsequently to the passing of the Toronto and Guelph Company's Extension Act) for a charter for an independent company from London- to Sarnia, unmistakably to compete with the Toronto and Guelph Company. This act passed in April, 1853 —five months after the Toronto and Guelph Act—and its exe cution was intrusted to parties connected with the Great Western Company ; its operation was postponed by them from its first legal meeting in June to theist August,' then for four months later. But on the sth August a majority of these parties advertise all their proceedings as irregular and void ; direct stock-books to be immediately opened ; subscribe for a majority of the stock ; call a meeting for the 2d Sept. ; then elect legal directors ; organise the company ; and, as is now understood, on the same day merge the whole affair in the Great Western Com pany ; while the day following (the 3d Sept.), the Great Western directors write their first and last letter of com plaint to this company. How can that company ap proach the subject of competition and fair dealing with clean hands after such a course ? Is not the Grand Trunk Board now warranted in saying that the attempt made by the Great Western Company to bring forward their Sarnia branch, when the Grand Trunk is before the public, in reality leaves the charge of reckless corn. petition on the Great Western Company only ? "In proof of the perfect fairness with which the Grand Trunk has throughout acted, it will be seen that in the prospectus the most friendly notice is taken of the Great Western, and its claims to the Detroit traffic fairly con ceded. While in no respect is the Sarnia line held up as a rival for their trade, the only ground for complaint is the prospectus arising from the map attached to it, which by a trivial error coloured the Great Western as an American line, although a moment's inspection of the map would have shown the mistake. " Dismissing the allegations of the Great Western report, prior to the amalgamation of the Toronto, Guelph, and Sarnia line with the Grand Trunk, it is now necessary to advert to the subsequent proceedings which are introduced in the report, with a repetition of allega tions against the Government of Canada, couched in the most objectionable terms, and which have been shown to be utterly without foundation. "On the appearance of the Grand Trunk Railway prospectus in London, in April last, for the first time the Great Western put themselves in communication with the friends of the former, and, as further evidence of the good disposition of the Grand Trunk Company, an agree ment was made with the Great Western by which it will be seen how much was conceded to that company to remove all feeling of irritation. "Since that date, the board of the Grand Trunk Com pany have neither in word nor deed sought to depart from that agreement, and it is with feelings of the most painful astonishment that the Grand Trunk board see the statements contained in the 16th and 17th, and 18th pages of the• Great Western Report, which are made on authority adopted without even an attempt at investiga tion. " Nor is this all. The Great Western. Directors, within a few weeks after the execution of the agreement in London, and with all their professions of honourably acting upon it, actually devoted a large amount of their funds to the construction and maintenance of a line of steam-boats from Hamilton to Oswego on the American side of Lake Ontario—a distance of no less than 180 miles ; whereby, in breach of their agreement, they en deavour to divert traffic that otherwise would pass on the Grand Trunk Railway line. If this be the first overt act of the Great Western, and if it be followed, as it now is, by a report of snch a nature as that published, what may the Grand Trunk expect if its entire western trade depend upon the good-will of such a company? " There is but one solution to the course taken by the Great Western, and it is to be found in the predomi nant American influence in that company, wielded by directors at their board nominated by American railway corporations, who no doubt fear that the Grand TrUnk will attract much of their traffic. This influence re garding the Great Western as a link in their chain, thee tompanies may be supposed to dread the effect of the London agreement being honourably carried out, and they may have now influenced the Great Western Com pany at all hazards to break it, casting, as far as language will permit, the blame on th a t company which has throughout been acting in good faith. " The object may be still deeper : they know the effect their assertions, ,if believed, will have on -the publie mind in England, and they no doubt even hope, because the money market is in a critical state, that they may succeed in throwing such embarrassments in the way of the Grand Trunk Railway as may seriously retard it, " But they have not considered that their violence may re-act on themselves, and that it will not be vain, if the present discussion should elicit the fact, that the Grand Trunk is really that great connected system which must and will receive the traffic of the entire pro vince, as well as form one of the main links of the com merce; between the Eastern and Western States of the Amirican " The policy of the Grand Trunk is one that needs no concealment ; it is that of promotin g the welfare Of the most important dep en d ancy o f the British Crown ; of consolidating its internal relations ; of devolving the resources of a vast region, and making it a home for thousands now struggling for existence in Britain. In these great objects they are proud to have the aid and support of the Canadian government, and they know that in attaining this they offer to British capital an in vestment second to no railway yet constructed. "In conclusion, the directors of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada may state, that it is for the British stockholders in the Great Western Company to decide whether they will adopt the hostile attitude of their American board, or whether they will prefer to carry out such an understanding with the Grand Trunk Com pany as will permit of friendly co-operation. But what ever may be their decision, the Grand Trunk Company will continue to take that course dictated by the in terests of its proprietors, and to study in so doi ng t o meet the intentions of the Legislature and of the people of Canada to. secure Canadian traffic to Canadian railways. "By order, "Quebec, Sept. 29, 1853. " C. P. RONEY." T_HE CHOLERA. (From the General Board of Health.) DUNDEE. Nov. 3.—Cholera (deaths) The total number of cases already reported as having occurred in the town and parish of Dundee has been' 76 (including 16 new cases on the 3d inst.). and the tota deaths have amounted to 32. to the same date. BERWICK-UPON-TWEED (CASTLEGATE). Nov. 4.—Cholera (death) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE Nov. 3.—Cholera (death) ROCHFORD (GREAT WAKERING). Nov. 3.—Cholera (death) DARLINGTON. Nov. 4.—Diarrbcea (death) STRATFORD (WEST HAM UNION) Oct. 30 to Nov. 3.—Cholera (deaths) BYE. • 1 .... I .... 3 In reference to the death from cholera in this place, previously reported, it is stated by the local medical authorities that the locality in which the case occurred is surrounded by an open ditch, into which is poured the refuse of several neighbouring houses. BOUM (HOLLINGBOURN UNION). Nov. 4.—Two fatal cases of cholera have occurred here during the last week. Both persons died very suddenly after attack. THORNE UNION. With respect to the three deaths from cholera lately reported from this union, the medical officer states that they occurred in a low and damp locality. He likewise records a death from diarrhcea, in the same locality, and states that the disease prevails there more decidedly than usual. There is, he adds, " a public drain through the town, as well as a stagnant pond, both of which might and ought to be remedied, as I believe miasma are given off from them, which have a tendency to give rise, at all events to keep up, fever or o th er epidemics." There are several very dirty and unwholesome cottages and yards, which are invariable th e sea t s o f any epidemics which may be prevailing. METROPOLIS. From returns made by the superintendents of the D, G, H, and M divisions of police to the metropolitan commissioners, it appears that between the 30th Octo ber and 3d instant, there have occurred in those districts nine cases of cholera, three of which terminated fatally. One of the cases is the second in the same house within the last three days. In this house there are a man and a wife, and four children, on the ground floor. A man, wife, four children, and two single men, on the first floor ; a man, his wife, and three children, in the top floor, or garret, making a total of 19 in one small house. It is added that "the smell from so many persons is very noxious and oppressive. The privy and drain are also close to the back door, with two other privies ad joining, all connected with one cesspool, which is full, and overflows into a small yard, out of repair, and the stench is most abominable." The place to which the above remarks refer (Magdalen court, Tooley-street) was pointed out in the autumn of last year at the head of the list of " localities chiefly affected" in the St. Olave Union, when Dr.' SutherlAnd visited and reported on the sanitary condition of the epi demic districts of that union. The deaths from cholera in 1832 from the combined districts of St. Saviour and Olave were 1 in 114 of the population, while in 1849 the deaths, from the same cause, amounted to 349, or in the extraordinary proportion of 1 in 55' of the population— a proportional mortality about double that caused by the epidemic of 1832. There were, moreover, 49 deaths from diarrhcea in the same district. Of the 38 metro politan districts, St. Olave suffered the most severely, with the single exception of Rotherhithe. During last week four additional fatal cases of cholera have occurred in that notorious plague spot in Old Brentford, known by the name of " Poppett's Parlour." The guardians of the union have given notice to the owner of this wretched property, that legal proceedings will be immediately taken against him if the houses are again inhabited, as they are utterly unfit for human dwellings. Besides the above deaths from cholera, a child has died recently from choleraic diarrhoea, near the _gas. works in the same town. THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY. The Earl of Eglinton and Winton is not to be al lowed to retain possession of the rectorial chair in our university without a struggle on the part of the Liberal Association of Students to oust him before the expiration of the usual term of office. On Wednesday placards were issued by the committee, announcing that Alfred Tenny son, the Poet Laureate, has been selected as their candidate for the Lord Rectorship, and soliciting the support of the liberal section of the college in his favour. This is some what unusual, the lease of the rectorial honours invari ably extending over two years, when the noble earl has only served since November last. The liberal asso ' ciation, among many reasons for this departure from established custom, eontend, in the first place, that per mission to hold office for two years is a mere courtesy ; and, in the second place, that Lord Eglinton was only elected last year by a majority of one nation and the casting vote of the venerable principal. An insi nuation is also thrown out that his lordship owed his victory over the Duke of Argyll by a cow,.? d'etat of the Conservative Association. How the In tter body may act in the novel position in which they now find themselves placed we cannot pretend, in the absence of any authoritative information, to say ; but the probability is they will contest the election with the Liberals by attempting to re-elect the present occupant of - the chair. It is rumoured that they may nominate Job n Inglis, Esq., Dean of Faculty, a distinguished alumnus of the university, but this is exceedingly dubious.—A6rth Bri tish Mail. STREET PAVING.—A specimen of the meta lic com pound paving, which appears to have give► so much satisfaction in the United States, on account of its being free from mud, dust, noise, or danger to horse s, is now being laid down in Threadneedle-street, a trial t having., we understand, been already made at a coal m erchant's wharf at Greenwich, where it has been exposed to heavy traffic during the last summer, and where the re putation it acquired in America has been fully sustained. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING. PROGRAMME. TUESDAY—THE SEFTON HANDICAP. CROXTETH WELTER CUP (in specie) of 50 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. Penalties for winners. Gentlemen riders, professionals Sibs extra. One mile and a half. (22 subs.) Age st lb Russborough 6 11. 7 The *Red Lion 4 11 7 1 Titterstone (h b) 5 11 4 Alonzo 6 11 2 Sir Robert 6 10 12 Chaseaway ..... 5 10 12 Maidstone ..... 4 10 12 Warwick 6 10 10 Risk (h b) Lerrywbeut Surveyor 4 10 8 Age st lb .Montague alo 6 Milcote 6 10 6 Orpheus 4 10 6 Allegro Massa Mungo 5 10 2 The Bit of Blue 4 10 2 RemuP.erator 6 9 19 Collier 4 9 10 Defiance 3 9 10 Tower 5 9 6 Cassio 3 9 0 SEFTON AUTUMN HANDICAP Of 5 sovs. each, with 200 added. Penalties for winners ; the second to receive 25 sows., and the third 10 sovs. out of the stakes. One mile and three quarters. (55 subs.) Age st lb Goldfinder Red Lion 4 8 2 Haricot 6 7 6 Little Fawn Lough Bawn 5 7 6 Maidstone 4 7 6 Indian Warrior 4 7 6 Lerry wheut 4 7 4 Goorkah Calot Maid ' Age st lb Audubon Sir Philip 6 6 4 Missive 4 6 4 Whalebone 3 6 4 Solyman 4 6 2 Radcliffe Hero 3 6 10 Waterfall Tower 5 5 12 Ann Eliza 3 5 12 Mr. Sykes 3 5 12 The Hatchet Battery 3 5 10 April Fool 3 5 10 Pastrycook 3. •5 8 Madeline 4 5 8 Rachete 4 5 8 Alexia Rosalba Pride F by St. Leon— ........ of Team Valley a 6 12 Sphynx Grapeshot Merry Bird 4 6 10 Allegro F by Ganieboy— Maid of Monton 3 6 10 Speed the Plough 3 6 8 Crusader 3 6 8 The General 3 6 8 Candlewick .... ... 6 6 6 St. Michael 4 6 6 Bit of Blue 4 6 6 Jan ey 3 6 6 Captain Cornish 3 6 6 Annie Sutherland 3 6 6 Guicowar ...... 3 6 6 Defiance 3 6 6 Ballinasloe 3 6 6 TYRO HANDICAP of 5 sovs. each, with 40 added, for two yr-olds. Winners of any race after the publication o_ the weights, 51b extra. The second to receive 10 sovs., and the third to save his stake. One mile. (22 subs.) Thalia 3 5 . 6 Paddy Carey 3 5 6 Miss Peddie ...... 3 5 6 , G by Ugly Buck —Hdena Cassio 3 5 4 C by Fiizaller— .lVlissßurns'dam 3 5 4 Angelo Minerva 3 4 12 st lb Barrel The Queen's Own Brown Brandy 8 0 Bridesmaid Adelaide • 7 12 Commodore Charley 7 12 Merry Monk 7 12 Robin Hood .... 7 10 The Jealous One 7 10 Kennyside Hero 7 10 Jonathan Martin 7 10 st lb Boddicot 7 8 Diligent . 7 8 Monimia . 7 8 Andromache , 7 4 Ariel Professor Buck 7 2 The Gem Harmony 7 0 Blame 7 0 Czarina 6 12 Juliet SELLING RACE of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. added, for all ages. T.Y.C. To close and name at 7 o'clock this day (Monday.) WEDNESDAY-LIVERPOOL AUTUMN HANDICAP, OPTIONAL SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. added. One mile.—To close and name at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. AINTREE PLATE (Handicap) of 70 sovs, for all ages. A winner of any handicap after the publication of the weights, 51b extra. Any number of horses, the pro perty of the same owner or his confederate, may run for this plate. One mile. (49 subs.) Age st lb The Red Lion 4 8 7 Alonzo Lough Bawn 5 7 8 Titterstone 5 7 8 The Little Fawn 5 7 6 Lerrywheut Goorkah 3 7 6 Calot Warwick Br f by Gameboy, out of Maid of Mouton ..... 3 6 12 May-day a 6 12 Gay-lad The Surveyor 4 6 10 Orpheus 4 6 10 The General Risk (h b) The Bit of Blue - 6 8 Jan ey • 3 6 8 Annie Sutherland 3 6 8 Gauntlet 6 6 4 Jupiter Nancy Martinson 4 6 4 The Hatchet Timotheus Solyman 4 6 0 LIVERPOOL AUTUMN HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE Of 100 sovs., added to a sweepstake of 5 soya, each. A win ner of any steeplechase after the publication of the weights of the clear value of 100 sovs., 51b ; of 200 sous. or more, 81b extra, but not to be accumulative, The second to receive 20 soya, out of the stakes About three miles. (36 subs.) Age. at. lb. Bourton a 11 6 Oscar a 11 3 Vainhope a 11 3 British Yeoman a 10 12 Miss Mowbray a 10 10 Need wood ,...a 10 10 Abd-el-Kader ...a 10 5 The General a 10 4 Simple Peter a 10 0 Daphne 6 10 0 RingleadeT. 5 10 0 Thirkleby 5 10 0 Tomboy a 910 Victress a 9 10 The Premier a 910 Sir Philip 6 910 Maria Day a 9 8 Maid of the West a 9 6 Viscount a 9 6 Age st lb Collier 3 6 0 Killarney Romeo Maid of Golborne 3 5 12 Twig Georgy Alexia 3 5 10 Maria Bell Madeline 4 5 8 Br g by the Ugly Buck Miss Peddie Guy 3 5 8 Game Tommy 3 5 8 Pastrycook 3 5 8 Br f by St. Leon, out Of Thalia 3 5 Effie Deans 3 5 Cassio Cabin Boy Fleda Margaret of Anjou 3 5 Minerva Diligent Gabriel Adelaide 2 4 Age. st. lb. Gulnare a 9 6 Now or Never a 9 6 The Farmer a 9 5 Dearest Mae a 9 5 Dolly's Brae 6 9 5 Topsy 6 9 5 Spring 5 9 5 Gr gby Rubens a 9 4 Luke the Labo bourer a 9 4 Kate 6 9 4 Royal Blue a 9 2 Little Charley a 9 0 Hooton . a 9 0 Miss Purdon 4 9 0 Crabbs a 8 10 The Dwarf 6 8 10 Labyrinth 5 810 SELLING STAKES of 5 sous. each, with 30 added. T.Y.C. To close and name at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. SCURRY HANDICAP of 3 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all ages. Half a mile. To close and name at seven o'clock on Tuesday evening. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, Nov. 5. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Palmyra, Stranger, William Watson, Sarah, Margaret, Rio, Die Ernte, Janet Zat, from Cronstadt ; Karenkerstone, Odense ; Caroline, Svend borg ; Sarpan, Sannesund ; ' Julia, Gefle ; Opersingen, Arendal, Mundel, and Hoofrnen, Sundswall ; Little Edwin, Kallenborg • Fanny von Schack, and Anna, Riga ; Anna, Rostock ; Marie Janetta, Theodore, and Margaret, Konigs berg ; Daphne, Gefle ; Victoria, Rostock ; Pheenicean, Sydney ; Ranger, Stettin ; Elvino, St. Petersburgh ; Lena, Memel ; Drie Gebrueder, do. ; Ellida J o h anna , Landskrona • Evertadies, Riga; George, St. M a l o ; Bar lington, Quebec ; Tido, Rostock ; Navigateuren, Dantzic ; • Boyn, Stettin ; lelena, Gothenburg ; Hannah, Memel ; Blossom, Stettin ; Preciosa, Archangel • Sabina, Memel ; Hannah, Rotterdam • Howie, Trieste ; inigheden, Brevig ; Ellen and Astrea, Aalborg ; Argus, Pillau ; reat Britain, Saguenay ; Alerte, Gravelines ; Frederika, Gothenburg ; Felix, Hernosand; Nancy, limea ; Herman, Emden; Minerva, Dantzic • David, and Lady Ann, Stettin ; Frankea, and Adale, Dantzic • Belle, and Eros, Memel ; Martha, Savansund ; Maria, Wolbeck; Margaret, Konigs berg • Farmers, Grand Canary ; Mateone, Sitaborg ; Het Verbrouvan, and Oberon, Petersburgh ; Otto Sodskende, Dantzic ; Depherous, Leghorn. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The British Tsles, for Demerara ; Frederick and Dora, and Lasette, Ham burgh ; Wm. Charitman, Bombay ; Elizabeth, Antigua ; Countess of Zetland, Cape of Good Hope ; Gena, Sydney ; Elizabeth, St. Vincent's and St. Lucia. CLEARED. OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Holland, for Sydney; George Anson, Malta, &c. ; Delia Chapen, New Orleans ; West Cothian, Algoa Bay ; Orion, River Gam bia ; Happy Return, Ferol ; Apecarus, Cape Coast Castle; .Prince, Algoa Bay ; Henrietta Elizabeth, and Susannah, Adelaide ; Cornelia, Melbourne; Gladiator, Sydney ; Eden, Bombay. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Patrician (ship), steering S.W. by W., with large black ball on her fore-topsail, Oct. 27, lat. 41, long. 10 W. The Louisa Munro, from Liverpool to Halifax, lat. 46 N., long. 23 W. _ ... The Toronto, from London to Hobart Town, and Mary, 27th, lat. 5 N., long. 21 W. The Chester, from London to Mauritius, June 25, lat. 39 S. long. 32 E. The Superb, from London to Melbourne, 97 days out, lat. 40 S., long. 80 E. The Sheridan, from Liverpool to Melbourne, 70 days out, lat. 36 S., long. 6 W. The Lord John Russell (barque), from Liverpool to Per nambuco, Oct. 26, lat. 50 N., long. 10 W. The Star of the East (barque). of Sunderland, standing to N.W., Oct. 26, lat. 52 N., long. 17 W. The Bantam (Dutch brig), from Newcastle to Singapore, Sept. 29, lat. 15 N., long. 26 W. The Aflame (barque, from Lisbon to Australia, Aug. 13, lat. 18 S., long. 22 E. The Isabella (barque), from Liverpool, 22d, lat. 15 N., long. 26 W. The James Alexander (ship), from London to Calcutta, Oct. 36, lat. 50 N., long. 11 W. , h av i ng lost fore-topmast and maintop-gallant-mast in a S. W. gale in the Channel. The New World, from Liverpool to New York, Nov. 1, lat. 50 N., long. 10 W., under close-reefed topsails and topmast stay-sails, blowing a gale from S.S.W. The Victoria, outward bound, Oct. 25, lat. 40 N., long. 10 W. The Hope, from London to Melbourne, Oct. 18, steering S. W., lat. 40 N., long. 11 W. The Bantam, from Newcastle to Singapore, Sept. 26, lat. 12 N., long. 26 W. The Grecian, from Liverpool to Baltimore, Oct. 24, lat. 49 N., long. 18 W., with foretop-mast gone, and loss of two men. The Laurel (ship), of Liverpool, Sept. 1, lat. 7 N., long. 20 W. Tho Edward Erinstead (barque), from Calcutta to Lon don, Sept. 8, lat. 13 N., long. 23 W. The Caroline Agnes, of Greenack, from Batavia to I►ot tordam, Oct. 7, lat. 33 N., long. 38 W. The Onward (ship), of New York, from Liverpool to New Orleans, Oct. 29, lat. 49 N., long 9. W. The Charles Walton (barque), Oct. 30, lat. 49 N., long. 9 W. The Credenda, from Liverpool to Australia, Sept. 11, let. 17 S., long. 24 W. The Clenmanna, from Liverpool to New York, Oct. 27, lat. 40 N., long. 19 W. The Rokeby (barque), for Cape of Good Hope, Oct. 29, lat. 47 N., long. 8 W. The Hamilton Campbell Thidson, from Bombay to Li verpool, Sept. 9, lat. 23 S., lo ng . 23 E. The Octavius, from La Rica, Oct. 6, lat. 12 N., long. 27 W. A large clipper-built ship, probably the Lady Ebrington, from Ceylon to London, Oct. 1. The City of Cork, Oct, 29, lat. 49 N., long. 10 W. COUNTRY MARKETS. 31ADDINGTI The following are the pri to-day : I N—Nov. 4. • es of grain at our market WICSAT. BARLEY. OATS. urAiffl • m First B 7s Od 43 s 6d 32s 6d. — 8 " Second B3s 2d 41s 2d 29s 7d " --8 ° a Third Bos Od 28s Od 26s Od —9 04 _, Total quantity of wheat in market, 301 qrs ., 295 soli' If ~ barley „ 2, ~ oats f f ~ ~ beans 2, Average of wheat Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats Ditto of Beans 0 0 0 0-12ths DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—Nov. 3. Qrs• Best. 175 Wheat 84s Od. 924 Oats 32s 0d... 1193 Barley 43s 0d... 56 Peas & beans 60s 0d... Current. 74.-s Oct... 25s 4d ... 37s 6d .. 57s Od —ii ": l3 B fBs s eri°4ool3ci 545 0 Average of wheat, 3/. 14s 11d. ABERDEEN—Nov. 4. The prices of grain. are—Old oats, 25s Od to 26s ° 3 :. 401bs per bushel; new oat s , 26 s Od. to 26s 6d, 401bs bushel ; bere, 37s Od t o 38 s Od, 531b s per b us h e l ; bar to 37s Od. to 383 Od, 531bs per b us h e l ; w h ea t, re d, 58s 0 0 5 , 63s Od, 621b3 p er b u sh e l ; w h ea t, w hit e, 00 s Od t o OOs • 621bs per bushel ; oatmeal, 20s 6d to 21s 6d per boll, flour, 58s Od to 60s Od p er sac k. P rov i s i ons —Bee t; per l i b: 6d to 8d ; mutton , ditto, 6d to Sit ; veal, ditto, 6d to 8 " pork, per-lb, Os sdto Os 7d ; salmon, per lb, Os Od to Os oa ; rabbits, each, Od to Od ; tallow, per stone, 5s 9d to 6sll potatoes, per peck, 8d t o 9d ; b u tt er, per l b , 10d to I; eggs, per doz, Os 10d to Os 12d ; hens, per pair, 2s 8 d 61 3s Od. • chickens, ditto, is 3d to 2s 011 ; ducks , ditto, ls to 2s ' Cl;ducklings, ditto, 2s 6d to Os ; turkeSe! each, 33 O'd to 4s ; geese, ditto, 3s Qd to 4s Od • butt r ; for e.xoortatien (present cure), per cwt, 76s to bos (?(,, ditto (summer cured), 00s to 00s Od ; eggs, wholesale 1 311 ),: per dozen, Oct to 64d ; 41b loaf, 9d ; 21b loaf, &id • Pe r i fine small, Os Od to Os Od ; pork, large, Os Od to' Os o<o' lamb, per lb., Os 6d to 8d ; cheese, per imperial st °De ' 5s 6d. to 7s. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share m ar k e t opened gatif and at lower prices, but, afterwards became active 3 ,, buoyant, and a large busine s s was d one a t •the full c."i e rency of yesterday. Caledonia n , 264 ; Eastern Contu .,,, 124 ; East Lancashire, 16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire. 64 5 ; Lancaster and Carlisle (new third shares) 114Pii London and North-Western, 1034.; Midland, 61 ; 14 .„ 3 .0. British, 7; South Eastern and Dov er , 184 ; Caled°'" (101. shares), 9 ; Dutch Rhenish, 24d. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—This mar k e t was more ac tive to liv day, and there was more i nqu i ry after stock gener%no prices advanced a p o i n t upon t h ose of. Frid a y. Lol l - 0 and North-Westerns closed at.lO2A EN, and Midlan 60 714. LEEDS, Nov. 5. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We had on the whole a IC- 0 market to-day than yesterday, though no material cW I ". in prices is quoted. Midl an d s h ave b een at 6 1 ; La l3 f . • shire and Yorkshires a t 641 • E as t ern U n i ons at lvj' and Eastern Union (B and C) at 7h. SEABORNE MAILS. fllea (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Fos' o by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] Day when made nu From what W ine COUNTRIES. in General tost- Port - Office, London.* Dispatched. Engl3 3011, Annerica(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ... Eac h America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N Nov. 15.......... Liverpool Nov 8 America (by U States packet) ..........N Nov. 9 ... Southampton Nov. 2. Australia (via South-, 4 ampton) M Nov. 4 • • .... Southamton De e. Ditto (via Marseilles) N Nov 8 .. Dover . ...... Dec. Ditto (via Cape of Good, Hope) ............N Dec. 4 Africa ( West Coast)..N ~ 3 d o f the moWth . 1 1 :4141, T eari: 2 Alexandria.......... N 8,9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover Nov 4 Alexandria .... ....M 4th & 20th o f mon. SouthamptontNe• 6 Bahamas AT 17th of th e mon th Southampton Nov. • Belgium .......... ()any. .... ••• • .. Dover paili Brazil AT 9th of the month.. sonthampton Nov. Buenos Ayres M 9th of the month.. Southampton Nov. 'g Cape of Good Hone ..N ; 14th of the month Plymouth .. Cape of Good Hope ..Nll4th of the month. Southampton re o in Cape de Verds ......N 9th of the month.. Plyinouth Ceylon (see India) 4 i 6 „t Ceylon-- . • ......N 14th o f th e month Plymouth .. NO n"" Channel Isles ........N M on ~W e d. ,&F.rld. Southampton ra . 2 - 0 Chili ..... ..... • .....M 2d & 17th of month Southampton No v ' China (see India) 10 Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,24,&27 o f m. D0ver...... No" 20 Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th o f mon. S out h ampton N0V.09 .. Cont. of Europe M& N Twice d a il y .... Dover ...... . Egypt (see India) France ........ & N Twice dai1y...... D over .. •• •• Twic e i a o • Gibraltar M 4, 7,17, 20, 27 of in. Southampton Nev . Greece (see India) 1 6 Greytown ..........M 2nd & 17th of mon . S ou th amp t on NO. s o,. Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday London Toe s ' i Havannah ..........M 2nd of the month Southampton Dec l o Holland ...... Honduras .......... M 17th of the month. Sou t h am pt on NO* 2 1 India (viaSouttrampt.)M 4th & 20. th of mon. Southampton Nov. 19 India (via Marseilles)llll3th& 24th of month Dover No v ' 19 . , lonian Isles (see India)!7; 17, &27 o f mon Dover.... N°ll'4ll9l Ireland ........M & NiTrvice daily Holyhead Twie 1 6 Lisbon.... M 7,9, 17, & 28 of m . S ou th amp t on No. , 6 Madeira ............M 9th of the month Southampton Nov. ; Madeira ............N 23d of month .... Plymouth .. Nov Malta (see Irul'a) Malts 7,17,19,28, 30 of m. D over Nov 21 Mauritius (see l udia) 06 Mauritius ..........N 14th of th e mon th Plymouth Nov. I Mexico ... .M 2nd of the month.. Southampton De e ' 12 Naples ..N; s thlstll2sthofmon. Dover Noy. roils New Granada .. • ... Ml2d & 17 t h of month Southampton NO' ro il; New Zealand— .... —ll3y private ship .. Vari ous orts trac e 1 2 Papal States ..... ...W s thl s th2sthofinon. Dover . Peninsula ..........111 1 7thlith28tbofmo n . Southampton No v* 16 Peru . . 7d & 27th . of mon. Southampton Nov' 26 Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month Plymouth .. NO T ,' 19 Slay sthlsth2sthormon, Dover ..... • _.,, 11.° L . 12 Tuscany ..N 5015th25thofmon. Dover 16 Venezuela 2d& 17th of month Southa m pt o n Nov Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) 16 West Indies .2d & 14th 01 month Southampton ' 1 * When any of these dates lad ou a sun dispatched on the following day. with the ex Southampton), and the Malta. both of whici day preceding. j " - 00 adaY, the rivals ' lll O O :eeption of the India to h will be: dlspatclieJ INCREASE IN CIDER.—A vast increase h a s Of ; be years taken place in the quantity of cider made in West of England. Particular attention has been P. - ta , to it in Devonshire, and its quality has been flinch I nr e proved. Th e crop o f apples this year has been" Ito than an average, in fact in some parts they have ue i e r exceedingly abund an t. In t h e neighbourhood of10:1.613 and in the south of Devon the trees in many o rch are almost broken down with them. Cider, there is expected to be very cheap. A brisk trade has spe l o p up of late with the London market, and the a pple e r ce , in Devonshire is looked upon as one of great i m portan. o . During the l as t f ew wee k s some cargoes have been 11, ported at Exet er from Franco, and h ave b een so ld per hogshead. —Plymouth Journal. 1..0 1 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills, an Effe e ' f Remedy for Gout and Rheumatism.—Extract °- , 1 • letter from Mr. W. Moon, at Messrs. Godwin's, r 3 „ e t tioneers, Winchester, dated April 8, 1852. To Prn' e ' 4 -° f Holloway.—Sir, —I beg to inform you that for 3 7 e 3 r 1 id was a sufferer from chronic rheumatism, and often uy for weeks t oge th er , una bl e to move. I was a tteT fl o by the most eminent surgeons here, but obtaine"o, relief ; and was iuduced to go into our county hosll. l v o The medical treat men t th ere , h owever, b e i ng avail, I left, and commenced using your pills, whi e ';: r e, am happy to say,- in a short time e ff ec t e d a p er fect c ill and enabled me to resume my employment.— Sold hY; i t, druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish° 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. OF A BON. f • ° ' On the 4th inst., at Bethl e h em Hospital, the wif e Dr. W. Charles Hood. in At Green-street, Gro svenor - square, on the 401 Madame Le Cocq. OP A DAUGHTXII. goo' At Wilton-hall, Norfolk, on the 28th tat, th e Mrs. Edward Thor n t on Wodehoise- i f, O f On the 3d inst at West-end, Hampste a d , the Nl' nampstean, the Rev. R. C. W. Collins, of Clifton Keynes, MARRIED. On the Bth ult., a t St. M a tth e W' s Ch urch, .•.., the Rev. Mr. Ander, Joseph- Palmer, Esq., of rilf o l/ 0 ' way. road, Canonbury, to Marriett Kerr, of Tenell-Pr' the On the 3d inst., at St. Anne's, Westminster , Yobell Rev. Nugent Wad e , M.A., rector, Adolpbu o „ eo oli° Venables, Esq., of New man - s t ree t, to Elizabetli,;lBobo, daughter of the late Mr. W a k e li ng , o f Gerard-gtree oolf On the 3d inst., at St. M ary ' s , Lambeth, Tiotnes,-.;nottui son of the late Charles Fo x , Esq., of the Grange, o f soy, to Mary Ann, only child of William Merritt , the York , road, Lambeth. DIED. At Madras, East Indies, on th e 4th o f Septbc,'ll; or ier lotte Amelia, wife of Capt a i n Ch ar l es Arthur Mli ia lie - N. V. 8., and daughter of th e l a t e W i lliam OliYer speearLomA Esq.lioMadras Civil Service.• of t be k, in January, 1851, George, thirl sen On the 26th ult., Mr. James 'Wells, late R. Rouse, Esq., of Fulham aged 16. e ar, c 1 Coleman-street, Camberwell. or" Bet' On the 2d inst., at Little Kimble Bucks, Ge . F . C. nard Spencer, Esq., second son of' the late Rev- Spencer, rector of Wheatfield, Oxon, aged 24. , v . ,john in his 71th y On the 3d inst., at Ninfield, Sussex, the ' a • Phillips, vicar of that parish, in his 64th year L.... Y0 UNG,"...77---------------- rrRDO LONDON : Printed and Published by M- No . - t of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun O ffice, f 9 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, hi the Middlesex, Monday, NAYMIJOZ 7, A 853. ties Abu case at o, latr; bell( cluri That care sew 1853 gar 18 - 1 lei an, COT dec givi visi w. i PM, Is ;lc of pl rc Cep. tad time tai Qthe - -L, this; coal plali be E, less )1 111C ern e libel