The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-15 00:00:00

TitE SUS, LONDON, MONDAY' EVEM

bright and splendid. More so in my oyes if it had been a
display in a nobler cause. But so goes the work. Might
makes right. I only drop you these few lines to let you
know lam well, and to say I have not heard from you. Ex-
cuse brevity; am in haste. Had one from R With best
love to you all, I am, your affectionate son, ever,

" JOHN."

Mr. John S. Clarke, an actor, brother-in-law of
Booth, has been arrested, on what grounds bas not
been stated.

The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes a report of
the murder of Corbett, the man who shot Booth,
but the statement appears to be untrue.
A plot to burn Philadelphia has been discovered.
The Washington Star says
"The circumstances under which the plot to burn
Philadelphia was discovered here are about as fol-
lows :—On Friday evening last Sergeant A. P.
M'Kenny, at the Sixth-street wharf, discovered two
suspicious-looking individuals lurking about in the
dark, who, upon seeing they were watched, made
off. On Saturday evening these two men again
made their appearance at the wharf, when Sergeant
M'Kenny informed his commanding officer of the
fact, who instructed him to watch them closely. The
sergeant, seeing the two men in conversation, got
close enough to hear one of them inquiring of the
other, 'Do you think they will meet to-night ?"
The reply was not heard, and the men again started
off, but were followed by Sergeant M'Kenny, who
overtook them on a vacant lot on Four-and-a-Half-
street, when one of the men, seeing that they were
followed, drew a pistol and fired at the sergeant, the
ball taking effect in his right breast near the nipple.
Fortunately Sergeant M'Kenny had at the time a
package of letters in his pocket, through which the
ball passed, thus deadening the force of the ball and
preventing its making a serious wound. The ser-
geant being alone concluded to lie still, although not
dangerously wounded, and the fellows believing that
they had killed him immediately ran off and made
their escape. Sergeant M'Kenny upon regaining
his feet discovered a letter upon the ground, which
the man who fired the shot pulled out of his pocket
with the weapon. Upon returning to his quarters
Sergeant M'Kenny discovered that this letter was of
some importance, and it was accordingly sent to
Col. Ingraham. The letter revealed the fact that
there was a deliberately planned plot on foot to burn
Philadelphia, in which a large number of conspira-
tors were to take part, and contained a request
urging, certain parties, supposed to be the two men
alluded to above, to be in Philadelphia on the 10th
of April, as an attempt to destroy the city would
be made on the Ist day of May, when the final blow
would be struck, and the torch not lowered until
the city was in ashes, and their pockets filled with
treasure. Col. Ingraham, after reading the letter,
immediately despatched officers to the railroad sta-
tion, when it was ascertained that two men answer-
ing the description of those who had assaulted the
sergeant had taken passage on the train which left
the depot a few minutes before. Information of
the discovery of the plot was then telegraphed to
Gen. Cadwallader at Philadelphia, and early on
Sunday evening, Capt. Potts, chief of the military
detectives, and the patrols attached to Col. Ingra-
ham's office, were despatched to Philadelphia with
such details of the plot as had come to the know-
ledge of the authorities here. Facts are within
knowledge of the authorities here which go to show
that there are some 800 conspirators banded together
for the purpose of burning Philadelphia and other
Northern cities. The affair is now undergoing in-
vestigation."
The Washington Republican, in alluding to the
search which has been and is now being made in the
capital, has the following :—" The investigation in
this city has developed facts of the most astounding
character. The official record will eventually show
this. These developments, resulting from a partial
search only, show what would be brought to light by
unroofing and unearthing, if necessary, every house
in the district of Columbia. Seek for double parti-
tions, false walls, secret apartments, under-cellars
where the great State prisoners were to be kept se-
creted in chains after being kidnapped. That it is in
evidence that President Lincoln, Vice-President
Hamlin, the members of the Cabinet, Gen. Grant,
Chief Justice Chase, and Speaker Colfax were
marked as the victims of certain rebel conspirators
and assassins, there is little doubt ; that the plot
originated with the chief political rebels in Rich-
mond, was planned in detail in Canada, and was to
be executed in this city, there is no doubt; that
secret meetings were held at the residences of Seces-
sionists in this city to further the execution of this
fiendish plot is well known."
The President has issued the following order,
removing restrictions on trade in the Southern
States :

" Executive Chamber, Washington, April 29.

t' Executive Order.—Being desirous to relieve all loyal
citizens and well-disposed persons residing in the insurrec-
tionary States from unnecessary commercial restrictions,
and to encourage them to return to peaceful pursuits, it is
hereby ordered-Ist. That all restrictions upon internal,
domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse be discon-
tinued in such part of the States of Tennessee, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala-
bama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of
the Mississippi River as shall be embraced within the lines
of the national military occupation, excepting only such
restrictions as are imposed by the late Acts of Congress
and regulations in pursuance thereof prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President,
and excepting also from the effect of this order the follow-
ing articles contraband of war—to wit, arms, ammunition,
and all articles from which ammunition is manufactured,
grey uniforms and cloth, locomotives, cars, railroad iron
and machinery for operating railroads, telegraph wires,
insulators and instruments for operating telegraphic lines.
2d. All existing military and naval orders in any manner
restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial
intercourse and trade with or in the localities above-named
be and the same are hereby revoked, and that no military
or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with
the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged
therein under proper authority pursuant to the regulations
of the Secretary of the Treasury.

" ANDREW JOHNSON."
A Washington letter of the 2d inst. contains the
following
General Bragg's Military. Commission is now engaged
in the examination of a case which, as the decision will
furnish a precedent to be followed in the treatment of
many neutral friends of the country, is regarded with con-
siderable interest. It appears that in the autumn of 1862
seven Scotchmen, lithographic printers by trade, were en-
gaged by an agent of the Confederate Government to print
Confederate notes and bonds. They entered Wilmington
late in 1862 and proceeded to Columbia, South Carolina,
where they engaged in their trade. When Gen. Sherman
approached Columbia the men in question left that city and
proceeded to Richmond, where they worked at their trade
until the Ist of March. Finding that the Confederate cause
was sinking they determined to leave the South, and ac-
cordingly came to Maryland, crossing the Potomac near
Port Tobacco. About the middle of March they started from
Port Tobacco for the purpose of coming to this city. While
en route they were arrested by the mounted patrol and
-brought here. On Saturday they were arraigned before the
above military court for violation of the laws and customs
of war, in having run the blockade, engaged in the service
of the Government, and again running the blockade by
entering the Federal lines without permission. Their coun-
sel claimed for•them the benefit of an order from the late
President, of date March 14, requiring all persons who have
been engaged in blockade running to leave the country
within 12 days from its publication. The prisoners were
arrested before the 12 days had expired. The decision of
the court will not be announced for several days."

Nothing certain appears to be known regarding
Mr. Davis. The New Orleans Delta of the 18th ult.
quotes a report which states :--
"That Jeff. Davis, accompanied by a bodyguard com-
posed of Texas cavalry, crossed the Mississippi river in
launches at Tunica Bend on last Sunday night, and moved
rapidly forward towards the Atchefalaya river, having en-
tirely escaped the observation of our naval forces. As Davis
loft Richmond on the evening of the 2d he has had plenty
of time to reach the point indicated. Should this report
prove well founded the question of what to do with him,'
had he fallen into the hands of our Government, will be
happily got rid of."

The Richmond Whig of the 28th ult says :

" The telegram from New Orleans on the 16th mentioned
by us yesterday, that Davis had reached the Mississippi
River at Tunica Bend, and crossed without attracting the
observation of the United States' navy, meets with more
credit at the North than it deserves. Davis certainly was
not near the Mississippi on the 16th inst. He, as we have
before stated upon positive authority, set out from Greens-
borough on the 14th inst., but in what exact direction we
have been unable to learn. Some of his followers declared
their route to be to the trans-Mississippi, and this would
i seem to be the only one promising him a chance of escape,
unless by previous agreement he had a blockade-runner
waiting for him somewhere on the Atlantic coast. If he set
out for the trans-Mississippi ho probably went direct to
Abbeville, South Carolina, and thence struck out for the
Mississippi river, through the northern portions of Georgia,

Alabama, and Mississippi. By adopting this line of march
he might hope to avoid Chen. Wilson's forces, now resting
on their arms at Macon, Georgia, though he could not with-
out relays of horses, which the exhausted country is not
likely to afford, hope to reach the Mississippi in less than
three weeks. Were we to hazard a guess as to his where-
abouts, we should sayhe was somewhere in North-Western
Georgia, though of course it would be the merest guess,
based upon the solitary fact that he was at Greensborougb.
on the 14th, and that his people said they were going to
Texas."

Referring to the reports that Jefferson Davis has
converted the specie of the Richmond banks to his
personal use the New York Daily News says :
_

" It is a very un-American meanness to insult a fallen
foe. Mrs. Davis was obliged to sell her household plate in
order to raise the sum necessary to defray the expenses of
her family on their departure from Richmond. We know
this to be a fact ; we have it from the lips of a gentleman
whose truth we will vouch for, who knew the purchaser
and saw the purchase money paid. Whatever may bo the
political errors of Mr. Davis it is contemptible to impeach
his honesty in pecuniary matters."

The surrender of General Dick Taylor was ex-
pected. General Kirby Smith is also stated to have
proposed surrender. The Confederate ram Webb,
said to be the last in America, has been destroyed
after passing New Orleans. The following details
are given :--

" At 9 o'clock this evening the famous rebel ram Webb
ran out of the Red River, passing all our gunboats and iron-
clads here, and descended the Mississippi with lightning
speed. When first discovered she had no light, emitted no
smoke, and looked like a huge mass moving on the water.
She was fired on by the Manhattan, when she immediately
showed signs of life and shot past the Manhattan, who
signalled to the fleet. The La Fayette then started in
pursuit of her. The officers of the Manhattan estimate the
speed of the Webb at 25 miles an hour when passing them.
The steamer Saratoga, from New Orleans, met the Webb
at Tunica Bend at 945 o'clock. She then attempted
to run down the Saratoga, but was unsuccessful. The
steamer Dolphin met her 50 miles above New Orleans, at
half-past 6 o'clock on the morning of the 24th ult. She was
then going along without doing any damage to boats of any
kind. The Webb passed New Orleans at broad day at a
rapid rate, displaying the stars and stripes, but after passing
hoisted the rebel flag; when a few miles above Fort St.
Philip, her condensers got out of order, and she was de-
serted and blown up. As far as known she had inflicted
no damage, saving cutting the telegraph line. A portion
of her crew arrived in New Orleans. The remainder left
for parts unknown."

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer gives
the following estimate of the Confederate sick and
wounded in the Richmond hospitals for a space of
25 months :

" From files of the Confederate States' Medical and Surgi-
cal Journal, published here, some few statistics can be
gathered, andas they were in every instance collated in the
Surgeon-General's office, the information is official as far as
it goes, the only drawback being that it is neither very re-
cent nor very new to the North. First is a paragraph
covering the whole area of the rebellion for the years 1861
and 1862. The whole number of cases exhibited in the field
reports during 1861 and 1862 was 848,555; of which 16,220
died and 90,455 were discharged from service. There were
admitted in hospitals for the same period 447,689 cases ; of
which 19,359 died and 6,485 were discharged. The brunt of
the war having always been in Virginia, official informa-
tion of the rebel armies operating in the State is not only
interesting but invaluable. It makes but little difference
that the subjoined statistics cover a period so far back
as from September, 1862, to December, 1863. We
have not had in the North accurate information on
on any of these points. It is proper to remark that these
statistics cover all hospital cases as well as from disease
as wounds, and do not include casualties fatal on the field.
Synopsis of the consolidated reports of the hospitals in
the Department of Virginia from September, 1862, to
December, 1863, inclusive, by Surgeon W. A. Canington,
medical director :—Total number admitted, 293,163 ; total
number transferred, 127,530; total number returned to
duty, 98,340 (from the total returned to duty must be de-
ducted 2,465 prisonerti returned to quarters, leaving 95,875) ;
total number furloughed, 39,665 ; total number discharged,
4,441; total number deserted, 4,416 (from the total dis-
charged the service must be deducted 1,364 prisoners dis-
charged and sent home on parole, leaving 2,807) ; total
number died, 10,248 ; total number in hospital January 1,
1864, 8,495. Adding up the number accounted for (re-
turned to duty, furloughed, died, deserted, discharged, and
on hand), and adding 9,134, the number transferred to
hospitals out of the state, we have the true number of cases
treated in the Virginia hospitals from September 1862, to
December, 1863 inclusive, 174,767, giving the grand ratio
of mortality 5.36 per centum. The largest number under
treatment at any one time was in January, 1863, 18,876.
The smallest population occurred in October, 1863, 7,841."

The Memphis Bulletin gives the following par-
ticulars of the loss of the Sultana :--
"The steamer Sultana, Captain Mason, arrived from Now
Orleans last night, the 26th, with about 2,200 people on
board, 1,961 of whom wore exchanged Federal prisoners
from Vicksburg, the balance being refugee and regular
passengers from various points along the river, proceeding
toward St. Louis. Sho left the coal pile about 1 o'clock
this morning, and had made some eight or ten miles, when
an explosion of ono of her boilers occurred. The boat, with
its mass of living freight, took fire in the vicinity of the
engines, and in a short time she was burned to the water,
and now lies on a sandbank near Fogleman's Landing,
nothing visible but her charred remains and jacketaff
standing erect. The scene following the explosion was
heartrending and terrible in the extreme. Hundreds of
people were blown into the air, and descending into the
water, some dead, some with broken limbs, some scalded,
were borne under by the resistless current of the great river
never to rise again. The survivors represent the screams
as agonising beyond precedent. Some clung to frail pieces
of the wreck, as drowning men cling to straws, and sustained
themselves for a few moments, but finally became exhausted
and sunk. Only the best swimmers, aided by fragments of
the wreck, were enabled to reach the woods, and there take
refuge, until rescued by boats sent from the landing here to
their assistance. There were about 15 women and children
aboard, and as near as can bo ascertained not more than two
or three had been found at the hour when this account was
written. Some of the wretched people were borne by the
current as far down as the levee at this city, and this was
the first intimation the officers of the boats in port received
of the terrible disaster. A yawl was immediately sent out
from the Marble City, and in a few minutes several persons
were picked out of the water and brought ashore. Two
were afterwards found clinging to the wheel, and they were
also saved. Upon being brought to a realisation of the
calamity, the officers of the boats in port, under notification
of Capt. Senior, of the River Guard, steamed up, and in a
short time were at the burning steamer, where hundreds of
people were picked up and brought to this landing, arriving
about daylight. They were met by a number of citizens
and ladies, who supplied them with abundance of dry
clothing from the Quartermaster's Department, and from
various stores. At this time it is impossible to give a cor-
rect statement of the cause of the accident and number or
names of the lost and saved. Everything is in the greatest
confusion. Mr. Rawberry, the first mate, was on the watch
and standing in the pilot-house with Capt. Geo. Cayton,
who was at the wheel at the time of the explosion. He only
remembers the shock, that he was blown into the air, and
was afterwards taken from the water. He saw the lower
deck in flames, and knows no more. He can give no idea
of the cause of the accident, and says the boat was going at
ordinary speed, and all seemed well at the moment the ex-
plosion occurred; that the second engineer, a sober, reliable
man named Clemens, was at the engines, and that nothing
more than common was in progress. Capt. Cayton was also
hurled into the wreck among the broken boilers and rub-
bish, sustaining slight injuries. He immediately jumped
overboard with a door, by which he was enabled to reach
the Arkansas shore, three miles below, whore, striking a
sapling, he seized and clung to it until saved. Clemens, the
engineer, was badly burnt and scalded, and can hardly re-
cover. Mr. John Fogleman, residing on the Arkansas side,
on being aroused by the noise, and seeing the burning
steamer, hastily constructed a rude raft, and in this way
was the means of saving 100 lives. In the woods, among
the drift of the wreck, the officers of the Rose Hambledon
found a family Bible, containing the records of a family
named Spike, of Assumption parish, Louisiana. The names
recorded are Samuel D. Spike and Elethia Spike, married
October 31, 1837. The record shows there were 12 in the
family. It was subsequently learned that the father, mother,
three daughters, two brothers, and a niece were lost. This
family had $17,000 in gold, all of which was lost. The
steamer Bostona, No. 2, Capt. Watson, was coming down
stream from Cincinnati when the explosion occurred, and
rendered valuable assistance, savingmanylives. The Poca-
hontas, Silver Spray, Marble City, the gunboat Essex, Rose
Hambleton, and others, also rendered much service. At the
time of the explosion Capt. Mason had retired from watch
and was in bed. Ho was afterwards seen throwing shutters
and doors to the assistance of people in the water, and here
all traces of him vanished. Clerks Gamble and Stratton
are also missing."

The following statement from Senator Snowe, of
Arkansas, a passenger in the Sultana, has been pub-
lished :

" On the morning of the 27th, about 3 o'clock, I was
awakened by a sensible tremor or shudder. Not anticipat-
ing such terrible consequences, I arose and deliberately
dressed. Just before finishing dressing I became aware of a
large volume of steam driven through the cabin by the wind.
I opened the door of my stateroom, and in an instant realised
the horror of the fact that the boiler had exploded, killing
and scalding many ; that the pilot-house and at least one-
third of the cabin roof had fallen to the boiler deck, and
the boat was on fire, with a fresh breeze carrying the
flames with lightning-like rapidity through the balance of
the cabin toward the ladies' saloon. I stepped back to avoid
the heat, and denuded myself of my dress, except my vest
and pants, and rushed to the rear of the boat, which was in
the channel, and much nearer the Tennessee than the Ar-
kansas side. I looked over toward the Tennessee side with
the view of leaping, but found it a sea of heads so close to-
gether that it wax impossible to leap without killing one or j

mere. I determined to try the Arkansas shore, which was
about three-quarters of a mile distant. I passed over se-
veral bodies of dead men, killed and trampled in the mad
rush which must have occurred some time prior to sly ad-
vent on that part of the boat. I found the same sea of
heads on this side ; but found that the fidmes had driven
them from the vicinity of the wheel-house. Prior to my
leap I saw several husbands fasten life-preservers to their
wives and children, and throw them overboard into the
struggling mass below. I struck out for the Arkansas shore,
and reached a log lodged in 15 feet of water, among over-
flowed cotton wood lands, at 3.30 o'clock by my watch, which
had not ceased to run. After four hours of exposure, I was
rescued by the steamer Silver Spray. The boat contained
1,175 souls. The density with which they were packed
had awakened my curiosity, and I looked over, with the
clerk, his certificates and books, before retiring. This num-
ber included 85 hands employed on the boat. There were
some females, besides a few children. The bulk of the pas-
sengers were returned prisoners from Andersonville, which
place they left on the 7th Feb. A.mong them were the
remnant at that point oi,prisoners captured at Chicamauga
and Gettysburg. They numbered altogether 1,960 men and
36 officers. A large number of horses wore on the boat,
which providentially fell unresisting victims to the flames.
Had they broken loose the fate of the swimmers would
have been determined. As near as can be ascertained with-
out other data than observation, between two and three
hundred reached the bank, while about an equal number
floated down the stream on doors and furniture. A dense
mass, estimated at about 500, took refuge on the bow of
the boat, while the flames were driven aft by the wind. A
moments afterwards the wheel-houses, loosened by con-
cussion and flames, fell off outward, and the boat turned
up-stream, reversing the flames. The largest part of the
number then must have perished, as they had no material
at hand to throw over to sustain themselves, except a few
bales of hay, which were immediately seized on the turn-
ing of the boat. Gang-planks were thrown overboard, but
sunk at once under their living freight, and rose too far
out of reach. A yawl-boat was landed bottom up from the
hurricane deck upon the heads of those below, and afforded
support for a few in that condition. Ehe whole time before
the boat was an entire sheet of flame could not have ex-
ceeded 20 minutes. I was not more than one-third of the
distance to shore when I observed the fast. The prisoners
represented nearly every State in the Union, even Texas,
and the calamity will be as widely felt as a battle of no in-
considerable proportions."

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT INDIAN PENINSULA.

The report of the directors states that in the
course of the past year 32i miles of the Nagpoor line
from Mulkapoor to Sheagaum was opened Tor traffic.
The Thull Ghat incline, 9k miles, was also completed
before the close of the half-year, the goods traffic
having beenworked overit from the27th of Decem-
ber. The company's lines now extend continuously
across the Syhadree range from Bombay, in a north-
easterly direction, via the Thull Ghat to Sheagaum,
in the Nagpoor territory, and in a south-easterly
direction via the Bhore Ghat to Sholapoor. The
average number of miles worked over was 565, as
compared with 542 in the corresponding half of
1863, being an increase of 23 miles. The total re-
ceipts
amounted to £313,175 for the past half-year,
against £207,871 for the corresponding half of 1863,
showing an increase of £105,304, of which £71,130
was for goods, and £31,939 for passengers. The
receipts not brought into the revenue statement
applied to meet cartage charges at the Ghats and in
Bombay amounted to £39,913, against £36,648,
showing an increase of £3,265. While the length
of the line worked over was in last half-year ex-
tended only 4.18 per cent., the increase in the
receipts was equal to 44.40 per cent. of those for the
corresponding half of the previous year. Of the total
receipts 10.41 per cent. arose from the carriage of
the company's own materials, against 7.15 per cent.
in the corresponding half of 1863. The Bombay Go-
vernment had authorised the rates for passengers to.
be increased as follows, as from the Ist of December, ,
1864, viz. :—The first-class from 12 to 15 pies per
mile, the second-class from 6 to 8 pies per mile, and
the third-class from 2to 3 pies per mile. The ad-
vanced rates were not, however, to be regarded as a
settlement of this question, which would be dealt
with as further experience might dictate. The work-
ing expenses amounted to £229,462, against £149,173
for the corresponding half of 1863, showing an in-
crease of £80,288. But including the cartage charges
at
,the Ghats and in Bombay the total expenses
amounted to £269,375, or 73.26 per cent., against
£185,821, or 7116 per cent., showing an increase
of £83,554. The working expenses of the half-year
were materially enhanced by the continued rise in
the price of labour in Bombay, by the high price of
fuel, and by the issue for maintenance of the line of
31,835 teak sleepers, at a cost of £12,685, chiefly
required to replace those of jungle woods, which
had been used in construction. The directors look
forward with confidence to a diminution in the ratio
of expenses to receipts in future half years. The
net profit of the half-year carried to the credit of
the company's interest account with the Govern-
ment was £83,713, against £58,697 in the corre-
sponding half of the previous year. Considerable
progress had been made upon the several contracts.
Upon the Nagpoor line it was expected that the
whole of the main line works would be completed
for laying the permanent way within six months
from the date of the report ; upon the Jubbulpoor
line, that the 78 miles from Rhosawul to Kundwah,
would be ready by the end of the year ; that the
next contract in the same direction, " Hurdah to
Sohagpoor," would require for completion till May,
1867. Of the south-east line the construction of
the first section, beyond Sholapoor to Kulbargah,
701 miles, had been just let to Messrs. Adamson and
Clowder, who conducted the works on the Bhore
Ghat. The remaining section from Kulburgah to
the junction with the Madras Railway, at Raichoor,
would be let without any delay so soon as the plans
were completed. It had been determined with the
sanction of the Secretary of State for India to pro-
, ceed at once to lay down the second line of rails be-
tween Celli= and Kussarah, at the foot of the Thull
Ghat, 411 miles, the line having been constructed as
a double line upon the Ghat, and from Bombay to
Callan. When this further portion was doubled, the
railway would be a double line for 84k miles from
Bombay to Egutpoorah at the top of the Thull
Ghat incline. The capital account to the 31st of
December last showed that £12,249,384, had been
received, and £11,489,846 expended, leaving a ba-
lance of £759,538. The' interest account showed
that £3,163,283 had been paid and payable by the
Government to the 31st of December last ; and that
£793,167, had been repaid out of net revenue,
leaving £2,370,111 chargeable against half-surplus
profits over 5 per cent.

WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION.

A special meeting of this company was held at
Whitehaven on Thursday ; Mr W. Furness presided.

The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution, ap-
proving a bill to enable the company to make
branches and other works, and to extend their rail-
way from Millom to join the Furness Railway at
Dalton, and to raise•additional capital to the amount
of £130,000. Powers were also taken to enter into
traffic arrangements with the Whitehaven, Cleator,
and Egremont Company.
Mr. CAMERON seconded the motion, which -was
unanimously agreed to, and the proceedings termi-
nated.

WHITEHAVEN, CLEATOR, AND EGRE.

MONT.

A special meeting of this company was held at
Whitehaven on Thursday, Mr. A. B. Steward inthe
chair, for the purpose of considering a bill now
before Parliament to empower the company to make
branches and other works, to extend their lino to
Bigrigg Moor, and to raise additional capital.
The CHAIRMAN pointed out the desirability of
making the proposed line to accommodate the traffic
from the iron ore pits now at work in the neigh-
bourhood. A considerable quantity of .ore was now
being raised, and more was expected to be raised.
Mr. H. JEFFERSON seconded the motio n approving
the bill, and it was agreed to.