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• COMIQUES, or CARPET BAG and SKETCH-BOOK.
CROWDED HOUSES AND TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS 1
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, at the THEATRE ROYAL,
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IN TWO COMIC SECTIONS.
PART FIRST COMPRISES
A Vocal Illustration, " Ueginiiings."—Full-length Portrait, Martha
Afivins.—lllustration. Carpet Bag.—Half-length Portrait, Major
Bluster. Vocal Illustration, "A Visit to the Great Metropolis.'
Full-length Portrait, Sir Benjamin Bungle.—Half-length Po: trait
Mr. Sampson Itusty.—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Oliver Oldstyle
(with a Vocal Illustration of " Bygone Days ").—Full-length Por-
trait; Ben Binnacle —Miniature Portrait, Mrs. Muddles (from
Manchester.) _ _

PART SECOND.
rpli•length Portrait, Sandie M`Whittle.—Full-length Portrait, A
Well-known Personage.—lllustration, Carpet Bag.—FuP-length
Portrait, A Yankee clipper.—Vocal Illustration, " Metropolitan
Melodies."—Full-length Portrait, Mr. Cavil.—lllustration, Carpet
Bag.—Full-length Portraits, Mr. and Mrs. Lapsus Linger.—Vocal
Illustration, " Pleasures of a Pic-nic Party."—lllustration, Sketch-
book (Daylight and Moonlight).—Finale, " The Lions of London."
With several Pictorial Illustrations, furnished by " The Sketch-
book."

ha the course of the Evening Mr. C. CQLMAR will perform a variety
of grand Piano Solos. .

Admission, Is.; Reserved Seats, 25.; Dress Stalls, 35.; Private Boxes

One Guinea.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.

A special general meeting of this company, convened
in consequence of a most influentially signed requisition,
was held, at Shrewsbury yesterday, for the purpose of
explaining the objects of the Great Western. and North-
Western bills in connection with this undertaking now
before Parliament, and with the view, if possible of ter-
minating the differences which exist between the various
sections of the proprietors. The Hon. R. H. Clive,
M.P., occupied the chair, and there was a very large at-
tendance of proprietors.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, congratulated
the meeting upon the temperate and friendly tone in
which the subject was brought forward by the re-
quisitionists. He hoped that the conciliatory tone
would be continued, and that ultimately and speedily
they should come to an amicable settleraent of all their
differences. He proceeded to explain the exact position
in which the company was placed. There was a party
who asked that the agreement with the Great Western
should be confirmed, and another, supposing that the
Great Western would modify the 32d section of their
Amalgamation Act, who were desirous that both the
Great Western and North-Western Bills should be sub-
mitted to a committee of the House of Commons, and
all parties bound by its decision, and give no opposition
to its passing the standing orders in the House of Lords.
It was unnecessary for him to repeat the arguments by
which the bills on both sides were supported by their
several advocates—they were well known to them.
The directors were most anxious to put an end to all
differences, more especially after what occured last ses-
sion, but still he was sure that they would agree with
him that it was the duty of the board to fulfil faithfully
the agreements into which they had entered. (Hear.)
After some further observations, and stating the little
difference which in his opinion existed between the offers
of the Great Western and the London and North-Western
Companies, he concluded by moving the adoption of
resolutions in favour of the Great Western bills now
before Parliament.

Mr. H. HILL seconded the motion.
Mr. It. SCOTT, on the part of the requisitionists, moved
as an amendment the following resolution :
" 1. That in the opinion of the meeting the conditions
which by the provision of the .32d section of the Great
Western Amalgamation Bill and the resolutions of the di-
rectors of that company the shareholders are required to
comply with, before they can entitle themselves to exer-
cise the option of accepting in lieu of the proposed terms
of amalgamation a fixed dividend of 31., 3i per cent., and
half profits, aro impracticable and unjust, and that this
meeting requires that such 32d section of the said

gamatiOn 13111 be altered so as to entitle all the sharehold-
ers of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company uncon-
ditionally and without distinction to exercise such option
within two months after the passing of the act. 2. That
the Traffic Arrangements Bill being in the opinion of this
meeting calculated only to embarrass the real questions at
issue between the two sections of the proprietary, the same
ought to be withdrawn by this company. 3. That if the
32d section of the Amalgamated Bill be altered so as to
comply with the first resolution, it is the opinion of this
meeting that the question of a. Great Western or a Lon-
don and North-Western alliance with the Shrewsbury and.
Birmingham and the . Shrewsbury and' Chester Compa-
nies will be best decided by the committee of Parlia-
ment to which the several bills promoted by these com-
panies will be referred, and that it will be the interest of
the shareholders to obtain such. a decision upon the merits
of the bills in the present session, and with that object to
promote when required a compliance with the Wharncliffe
Standing Order of the House of Lords in favour of such
bills as shall pass the House of Commons. 4. That in the
event of a decision of the committee of the House of Com-
mons upon the merits of the two classes of bills in the
present session, this meeting pledges itself to support, by
voting at the Wharncliffe meeting, or otherwise, and to
abstain from opposing in the ZFlouse of Lords such a class
of bills as shall have been adopted by the said committee,
upon the following conditions:-1. That the 32d section of
the Great Western Amalgamation Bill be altered in con-
formity with the first resolution. 2. That the Traffic
Arrangements Bill be abandoned, and the bill to confer on
the Great Western Company power to run over and lay I
down additional rails on the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
line be opposed unless incorporated with or proceeded
with in its various stages after the Amalgamation Bill. 3.
That the bills of the London and North-Western Company
are passed by the committee, so as to secure absolutely and
permanently to the shareholders of the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Company the terms set forth in their
bill, viz.: - a fixed dividend of 4 per cent., with the option
to the London and North-Western Company to purchase
the stock of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Company at
par. And, 4: That the directors of the Shrewsbury and
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been entered into with the Great Western or London and
North-Western Companies."
Now, in his (Mr. Scott's) opinion, the Traffic Arrange-
ments Bill, and the bill to confer on the Great Western
the power to lay down on the Shrewsbury line
additional rails, ought to be withdrawn, and the only
question submitted to Parliament the measures of
amalgamation proposed by the two great companies.
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thrown entirely upon the Shrewsbury Company, and
that now they had
not revenue sufficient to pay for the
coke they consumed. (Hear )
Mr. c:congratulated '
-.EACH
fair and honourable the shareholders upon the
brought the requisitionraLfionrewhich the directors had
theh proprietors. (Hear,
hear.) He confessed that he always advocated a
London and North-Western alliance,
to fulfil his engagements with thteoamndpanlie was be
ound
bound
con-
tended that the offer of 3 and 31 per cent.y. the
Western could not be pr • actically carried out, and
he warned them not to come to i
that company except upon the any agreement with
principle of a fixed
guarantee. (Hear, , hear.) Let them recollect that
if they formed an alliance with the G

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there must always be a competition, but if they
worked in friendly alliance with the London and North-
Western there would be an end to it. The honourable
gentlemen explained that although a fixed dividend of 4
per cent. was not named in the North-Western bill now
before Parliament, he had received and now read a let-
ter from Mr. Stewart, the secretary to the board of di-
rectors, in which that gentleman said that the North-
Western Company were fully prepared to carry out the
terms which they proposed on the 18th of September.
In conclusion he (Mr. Geach) expressed a hope that the
board of directors would not enter into any fresh agree-
ment without first obtaining the sanction of the share-
holders. He (Mr. Geach) st•od there as an indepen-
dent shareholder, and he could assure them that in the
litigation in which he and they had been engaged on
former occasions, he had discharged a painful duty. He
seconded the resolutions moved by Mr. Scott.
In answer to questions by Mr. Norris, the CHAIRMAN
stated that the directors had not received officially
any offers from the London and North-Western Com-
pany ; whereupon Mr. Norris 'said they were then
discussing a shadow, and contended that, whatever
might be their decision that day, they would not,
in the slightest degree, change their legal engage-
ments with the Great Western Company. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. SCOTT, in allusion to what had fallen from Mr.
Geach, begged to express his firm conviction that, under
the presidency of Mr. Clive, no further arrangement would
be made with the Great Western, the North-Western,
or any other company, without the kinnsent and sanc-
tion of the shareholders. (Cheers.)
The CiLunmeN said, although generally concurring in
what Mr Scott had said, he must be allowed to say that
there were occasions when, under peculiar circumstances,
chairman and directors were bound in duty to adopt
a course which on other occasions they might disapprove
of. (Hear.)
Mr. KNOX explained that the directors were about to
renew an agreement with the Duke of Bridgewater's
trustees, but it would not interfere with any other ar-
rangement, supposing they should be thrown overboard
by the Great Western.

After a further short conversation, the Chairman put
the original motion and amendment to a show of hands,
when the latter was carried by a large majority.
The directors declined to demand a poll ; but, upon
an application from Mr. Geach, the following was stated
to be the result of the proxies received :
Value. Votes.
For Mr. Scott's amendment X625,664 10,435
For the Chairman's original resolution 110,028 2,433

£735,692 12,868
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the
meeting broke up.

NEW YORK ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC.

A bill for the incorporation of the New York
Atlantic and Pacific Railway Company is before the
State Legislature. The company proposes to construct
a railroad from the Mississippi Valley or from the Gulf
of Mexico to San Francisco, or some other available
point on the Pacific Ocean, reserving also to the com-
pany the right of a branch to Oregon. After making
the necessary provisions for the survey of the route,
the bill provides that the company shall finish a
single line to the Pacific in five years, and for a
line also of magnetic telegraph. The capital stock
is fixed at $100,000,000, in shares of $l,OOO each.
Tho maximum charge for passengers is limited,
to 4c. per mile, and to 4c. for 2,000 pounds, or
one ton per mile for freight, other than metals, or
live stock, or animals. These, omitting the details of
organisation, are the prominent features of the bill. It
would be a work of supererogation to recapitulate
the advantages which would accrue to the country
and the Government from a rail across the breast of
the continent to the Pacific. These advantages are
manifest. It would bind the Atlantic and Pacific
slopes of the Union firmly together ; it would settle
and develope the resources of those vast uninhabited
wastes between the] Mississippi and the Pacific ; it
would reduce the cost of the trip to San Francisco
from $5OO to $lOO, or less ; it would indemnify the Go-
vernment for any outlay, and it would ultimately pay
the cost of construction in the article of gold alone ; it
would bring, with steam lines to China and Australia,
the illimitable riches of Asia and its monstrous cordon of
golden islands, via San Francisco, to New York ; it
would reduce the trip from Canton to New York to 30
days. The European route to China would be by this
port, and by the Pacific Railroad and the Pacific Ocean.
It would make New York and. San Fraeisco -(as they
must ultimately be) the queen cities of the earth. In-
deed, though we may annex all Mexico and Central
America, and open all their lines of oceanic inter-com-
munication, the necessities and advantages of the Pacific
Railroad will be scarcely diminished.

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION IN IRELAND.—The Dublin
Freeman's Journal contains the following :—" Negotia-
tions having been going on for some time past, and are
now, we believe, practically brought to a result, for a
transfer of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway to Mr.
Dargan, and Messrs. M'Cormick, Brassy, and Peto, on
behalf of the Dublin and Bray, and Dublin and Wick-
low Railways, in both which the first-named gentleman,
who has taken the chief part in the matter, has a para-
mount interest."

RAILWAY CALLS.—The total amount called in the first
two months of 1853 is 1,785,400/. acrainst 1,131,789/.
in the same period last year, and 1,115,1471. in 1851.
This increased demand on the market, however, is more
apparent than real, as a very large proportion of the
calls is on foreign lines, in:, many of which the English
interest is but small.

RAILWAY DlVlDENDS.—Sunarnarising the railway
dividends of the week, the Railway Times mentions that
the East Lancashire is to pay 3 per cent. per annum,
reserving, however, only 8701. to next account. The
North Staffordshire distributes 3s. per share (171. 10s.),
retaining on hand 2,415/. The Cockermouth and Work-
kington is in a position to pay 4s. per share (201.), but
leaving only 381. 6s. 4d. in reserve. The Dublin and
Belfast Junction is to pay 1/. per share (451. paid), equal
to 41 per cent. within a fraction (41. 95.), the balance
being also remarkably good—viz., 4,000/.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY. -Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 29, 1853 £12,841 8 2
Corresponding week last year 10,823 19 11

Increase in 1853 £2,017 8 3
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Jan. 29,
1853 ............ . £9,128 11 4
Corresponding week last year 7,728 9 10
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853. 44,993 8 5
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 38,762 2 4

CAUTION TO ENGINE _MMES.—Yesterday, at the
West Riding Police-court, at Doncaster, Edward Mann,
an engine-driver employed on the Great Northern Rail-
way was brought before Mr. J. W. Sturges and Mr.
G. J. Jarratt, for being drunk and neglecting his duty,
whereby an engine under his charge had been driven
off the rails into a lime pit at Knottingley. Mr.
Dudley Baxter, of the firm of Baxter and Co., soli-
citors to the Great Northern Company, appeared to
support the charge on their behalf. Re pointed out.
that, by the 3d and 4th Vict. cap. 97, the defendant
was liable to a penalty of 10/., or a term of imprison-
ment not exceeding two calendar months, with hard
labour. From the examination of Mr. James Johnson,
superintendent of the locomotive department at Don-
caster, George Murray, stoker to the defendant, and
Andrew Wright, an engine driver, it appeared that it
was the duty of the defendant to take charge of the
Leeds portion of the train leaving Doncaster at 7.5 a.m.
On Friday last the defendant had charge of an engine
at Knottingley station, and was to await the arrival of
his train at that junction. He contrived to get a four-
gallon barrel of ale on the engine, from which he freely
drank until he became intoxicated. About half-past
two o'clock the defendant drove from the Knottingley
enginewas driven,
bothunhurt. Wright,
junction to a temporary siding in the vicinity of some
lime
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escapingch the
Child, and Murray, servants of the Great Northern
Company, assisted, but it was found impossible to extri-
cate the engine. The fireman to the defendant warned
thequarries, driver
him of the danger of driving upon a temporary siding
newly constructed, but he took no heed. The defendant
said he was going to see the stoker who was hurt at the
late accident at Womersley, and that the barrel of ale
had been given to him to convey there. We understand
the ale was sold to the defendant, but unfortunately the
landlord died on Sunday, so that he could not be called.
Mr. Sturges said the bench were quite satisfied that the
defendant had most grossly misconducted himself, and it
was fortunate that no lives had been sacrificed ; it was
equally fortunate that the engine bad not been totally
destroyed. He considered the defendant quite unfit to
have the care of passengers, and for this offence he
should order him to be imprisoned in the Wakefield
House of Correction for two calendar months, with hard
labour.

aslai Chantrey.
MONUMENT TO CHANTRET.—The vicar of Norton, in
Derbyshire, is raising a subscription for the purpose
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Norton was the birth-place of Chantrey, and in the
churchyard he was buried in a grave of his own mak-
ing. A prettier village than Norton is hardly to be
seen in the whole of Derbyshire. Chantrey was proud
of his native place, and proud as well of his humble
origin. His grave is marked by two enormous flat
is of opinion that some-
stones, surrounded by an iron railing, and in the
church
is a tablet to his memory, with a medallion portrait by
Weekes, after Smith, erected at the expense of Lady
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THE NEW BILLINGSGATE MARKET.---The façade of
the new building facing Thames-street having been
completed, the whole of the scaffolding has now been
removed, and the improvements show to good advan-
tage. The market will now be well lighted with gas,
and there is a central avenue with passages leadinc, in
various directions for the greater convenience of trade,
and altogether the improvements effected will be fully
in keeping with the requirements of this celebrated fish

market_