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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10. 1.853..

owners which sometimes occurred after an Act had been
obtained, might be avoided. The estimate for the docks
was given by a gentleman of high standing, and of such
reputation for exactness, that contractors deemed him
always a safe man to follow. It might be said, if they
had got such a good thing to offer, why did they come
so far from home ? He would reply that the people of
Carlisle were chiefly young men engaged in business,
and therefore requiring their capital ; but they had al-
ready raised 30,0001., a great sum for a place like Car-
lisle. (Hear, hear.) They came to ask their friends
in London—gentlemen connected with Cumberland
and the South of Scotland—to take an interest in this
matter. They showed them how feasible a seheme it
was, and they asked them to recommend it to their
friends. Those who would not assist directly, might do
so by indirect means, The deputation had thought it
better to call this meeting than to wait on each of
them separately, men of business as they were,
and whose time was valuable. (Hear.) If he had not
made the matter quite clear, he should be happy to
give any further information any gentleman might re-
quire. And he would add, before sitting down, that
they had a striking instance only last week of the ad-
vantage of a harbour with thirteen feet of water over
the bar at low water springtide. A vessel, a collier,
put into Maryport harbour, a dry harbour, accessible
only at high water, about ten days ago ; and though
empty, she lay there neaped—there was only eight feet
of water. All that time, they had had nineteen feet at
low water over the bar f Silloth Bay. Captain Robin-
son, of the Admiralty, had made a survey at their re-
quest, which confirmed the soundings he took some
years ago. In his report to the committee he said
they had a clay bottom, and ships were never known
to drag their anchors ; and the bar, acting as a break-
water, vessels might lie there in the roughest weather.
It had three feet more water than at Liverpool, four or
five feet more than at the Tyne ; and it was altogether
a place of great capabilities for shipping.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Carruthers) observed that the
engineer, Mr. Bluth, remarked that the whole line
would be one of light earthwork; they would require
only two bridges, nor those of any difficulty ; and the
steepest gradient was 1 in 200. Another important
circumstance was, that trade with Belfast and other parts
of Ireland went round the island, at heavy cost for
freight and insurance ; whereas it could pass on their line
to Newcastle, and thence to Rotterdam, Hamburg, and
St. Petersburg. A great portion of Lho American trade
was also carried on through Newcastle. They had the
very cordial support in this undertaking of the New-
castle and Carlisle Railway Company ; indeed, he
believed it would be worked by them, making a great
saving in the expense. There was a very large quantity
of cotton carried to St. Petersburg, a good deal of which
they might expect to take this route.
W. ARMSTRONG, Esq., of Aldermanbury, .was invited
by the Chairman, as acquainted with Hawick and the
4arrounding country, to give an opinion on the subject.
He confirmed Mr. Irving's representation of the import-
ance of that district, both for agriculture and manufac-
tures, and pronounced the projected line to be an excel-
lent one, and likely to be peculiarly useful to Hawick
and its vicinity. They wanted very much a communi-
cation with Liverpool and Ireland. They had them-
selves projected a railway from Hawick to Carlisle ; as
the trade of Roxburghshire—including a considerable
quantity of woollen goods—had to fetch its material
from Lancashire and Ireland. Besides that, they grew
a great quantity of wheat, some of which was consumed
in Carlisle, only fifty miles distant, but bad to go
150 miles round by Edinburgh. He thought the scheme
one likely to pay a good interest.
Mr. IRVING rose again, and said be bad an interview
with Mr. Wood, chairman of the Newcastle and Car-
lisle Railway, and managing director of a Newcastle
Bank, who was prepared to confirm the statements
they bad made, and had given them a letter to a gen-
tleman of standing and influence in the City, but who
was unfortunately from home. They had likewise had
an interview with Mr. Clayton, town clerk of New-
castle, who was fully impressed with the advantage
likely to accrue from this scheme. Another gentleman
with whom he had an interview along with the mayor
of Carlisle, who was chairman of the provisional com-
mittee, said that he would allow 30,0001. more than they
estimated for the works, and yet recommend the invest-
ment to his friends as one likely to pay 10 per cent.
That gentleman was not a rash mar, and would not
make such an observation without good grounds. They
would also, as had been stated, effect a considerable
saving in the working of the line, always in much
larger proportion on short than on long lines. The
Newcastle company could work it at a very reasonable
rate, as they could run coals, coke, and other traffic,
right on to their own line.
W. EDGAR, jun., Esq. (of Piccadilly), said, he knew
nothing of this scheme till the previous day ; but the
statements he had heard, his knowledge of the gentle-
man from whom they came, and the faces he saw in the
room, convinced him he should only be expressing the
sound and general conviction of the meeting in moving
that this meeting deemed the statement now made
highly satisfactory, and considered the scheme worthy
the support of capitalists.
W. ARMSTRONG, Esq., seconded the resolution, which
was then put and carried unanimously.
After a vote of thanks to the chairman, moved by
W. Story, Esq. (of Crutched-friars,) seconded by W.
Irving, Esq. (of St. Paul's-churchyard,) the secretary
invited the names of intending shareholders, and a con-
siderable number of shares were subscribed before the
meeting separated.

work well without any mechanical pumping, as steam
power could be added, if found necessary, for discharg-
ing the sewage matter into the Thames at high water.
Comparisons were drawn between Captain Veitch's
plan, and that now proposed to be carried out by the
Commissioners of Sewers. It was urged that Captain
Veitch's " long covered tank, reaching far into the dis-
trict to be drained," retained some of the most objec-
tiOhable features of the present system, and that the
coti►missionerslan of flushing from the Thames, being
dependent for its success on the steam engine pumping
out the water as fast as it was let in from the Thames,
was undesirable, and liable to be entirely frustrated by
accident.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE

Y ESTERDAY.!

OSBORNE-HOUSE, DEC. 5.

This day had an auuience of her Majesty :—The Count
de Lavradio, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo-
tentiary from the King of Portugal and the Algarves, to
deliver a letter from the King Frdinand, Regent of the
Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves during the minority
of his Son the King Don Pedro V. notifying the death of
her Majesty Queen Donna Maria 11., and renewing the
credentials of the Count de Lavradio ; and Brigadier-
Gen' ral Francisco Solano Lopez, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of Para-
guay, on a temporary mission, to deliver his letter of re-
call ; to which audiences they were respectfully introduced
by the Earl. of Clarendon, K.G., her Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 16.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James
Hannan, Esq., to be Agent on the part of Great Britain
in the Mixed Commission established under the Conven-
tion concluded at London, February 8, 1853, between her
Majesty and the United. States of America, for the settle-
ment of outstanding claims.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the
Hon. Henry George Howard, now Secretary to her Ma-
jesty's Legation at Vienna, to be secretary to her Majesty's
Embassy at Paris.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Jose
Joaquin de Mora as Consul-General in the United King-
dom, for her Majesty the Queen of Spain.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 8.

The Queen ha; been graciously pleased to appoint Ro-
bert Campbell, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Dun-
kirk, to be her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes, and the other
Turkish Islands in the Archipelago.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Niven Kerr, Esq,, now her Majesty's Consul at Rhodes, to
be her Majesty's Consul at Dunkirk.
DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 9.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of Major-General Henry Godwin, C. 8.,
Brigadier-General Scudamore Winde Steel, C. 8., of the
Madras Army, and Commodore George Robert Lambert,
of the Royal Navy, to be Ordinary Members of the Mili-
tary Division of the Second Class, or Knights Command-
ers of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Alan Holdich, of the 80th
Regiment of Foot, and Captains John Walter Tarleton
and Charles Frederick Shadwell, of the Royal Navy, to
be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third-
Class or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order.
Her Majesty bas also boon graciously pleased to make
and ordain a special Statute of the said Most Honourable
Order, for the purpose of authorising the admission into
the Military Division of the Third Class of the sai, I Most
Honourable Order of the undermentioned Officers in the
Servi .e of the East India Company—and to give order for
appointing them to be extra members of the Military Divi-
sion of the Third Class, or Companions of the s lid Most
Honourable Order, viz.:—

Lieutenant-Colonel James Colley Tudor, of the Bengal
Fusiliers; Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fraser, of the Bengal
Engineers, and Captain Henry Blosse Lynch, of the Indian
Navy.

dividend of Sid, in the pound, payable at 11, Eldon-cham-
bers, South John-street, Liverpool, on any Thursday.
George Smith, of Liverpool, tailor, second dividend of is.
in the pound, payable at 11, Eldon-chambers, South John
street, Liverpool, on any Thursday.
William Marshall, of Shields, Durham, shipowner, first
dividend of 2s. Gd. in the pound, payable at 21, Royal
Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on December 17, or an
following Saturday. y

INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.
Thomas Howse, of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire,
porter—Joseph Hopkinson Holgate, Cross-hills, Yorkshire,
out of business—William Stanford, of Nateley Scures and
Worthing, Southamptom, farmer and farm bailiff—Abra-
ham Hartley, of Halifax, Yorkshire, provision dealer—
John Russell, of Sidmouth, Devonshire, baker—John
Rushy, of Hebblebridge, Yorkshire, bookseller—Samuel
Dean, of Burnley, Lancashire, tap room keeper—James
Bubb, of Lady Wooten's-green, Kent, gentleman—John
Pritchard, of Cheltenham, brewer—George Ellis, of Chel-
tenham, painter.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
George Philo and Edward Bresse, Robinson, of High-
street, Poplar, machine sawyers James Ric:lcett and
Alfred Rust, of 32, High-street, Islingtor„ hosiers—
William Wilkin and John Turner. of Hove, Sussex, linen
prapers—James Richardson, John Cross Richardson,
William Richardson, and Edward Richardson, of Whit-
field and Manchester, fancy drill manufacturbrs (so far
as regards Edward Richardson) John Gordon and
Samuel Brown, surgeons—Henry Freeman and William
Davies, of 34, St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell, embossers
—William Maude and Nathaniel Maude, of Stayley
Cheshire, woollen manufacturers—J. E. Shearman—John
Edw. Buller, David Brandon, and Fras. Slater, of Ponty
Pridd, of Machen, Monmouth and Glamorganshire, col-
liers—B. Lambert and J. Clark, of Collyhurst, Lancashire,
painters—Thomas Lamb and Arthur Magraw, of Liverpool,
joiners —John Woodhead, Robert Smith, Sarah Co )per,
and Thomas Smith, of Manchester, ironmongers—David
Shaw and Joshua Shaw, of Golcar, Yorkshire, woollen
manufacturers—John Boorman, Thomas Blake, John
Holmes, and Thomas T. Blake, of Dymchurch, Kent,
farmers (so far as regards John Holmes and Thomas T.
Blake)—Adolphe Frankan and S. Frankan, of 25,Clement's-
lane, Lombard-street, City, importers of foreign and fancy
goods Joseph Lewis Chadwick and William Watkins
Chadwick, of 22, Bowling-gre n-lane, Clerkenwell, watch
jewellers—Moses Price and Bold Aldred, of Rumworth,
Lancashire, coal merchants—Thomas Littlewood and Jas.
Littlewood, of Chow oent, Lancashire, wire drawers—
Ti,om is Crampton and John Moore, of Sheffield, t.abinet
makers—Frank Charles Saunders and William Gollop, of
Southampton, ironmongers—John Brown and Edward
Ruekell, of 137, Oxford street, drapers—William Kaye and
Henry Thornly Simister, of Manchester, commission
agents—Thomas Faulconer and John Faulconer, of Herst-
monceux, farmers.
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SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James Cowan, of Glasgow, cabinet maker, December 16,
at one, of the Claremont Hotel, Glasgow.
James Baillie ]'ender, of Lochmill, Linlithgow, paper-
maker, December 19, at two, at the Star and Garter Hotel,
Linlithgow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pur.uant to the Art 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 72, for
the Week ending on Saturday the 3d day of December, 1e53