The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-11 00:00:00

Speeli

thin; id tile Wit that-boa nits yet tt.:llll.tet
• f 0
•' The hour of.Meettov., of the litre,. friends, at the .sign
Tin' 1-I,•se and Sacks,' hcci now, amved. It Wit, an inoeltt'
anent Deeernb,r narking, with a low ',marring- wind, a 11. ts.Yn
at aod bea,y fan ot snow. 'lie strec is were more t'la,
co
by
ordtuaril,, dcs‘•lted. soch weather, no man,
any po,sibilit av,nd it, woulii chose to be out of (loots : 0-1
very liackiley-coachni,,n, for 'mine in their lives, had talt.o
pity ore thi it p-or rints,s, and driven them borne to
ie
Ihe watchmen kept!: chose within their boxes "
Irish portion or them cheiisitip, themselves by :inlUkii.g "U".
dbudeens, • wondering when the snow would lave .If,
It
'whether tiny wouldn't be froze to death afore mornin.'
sa,4 a season of all others fitted t:or di:eds of violence,.
•' St. Giles's' Church had just sounded two o'clock, abed
Bobson approached the place of rexiezvous, and ktioc-
gently at Leary Davis's • looking cautiously and susr
ciousty around him. Not a human bcorg vitae in sight,
could any body hove lately traversed the wr,•tcheu street 'll
w loch Ti-e Hors- and hacks' "'sees ed, ilotstnuch as
the exception of Bobs •or's font-1 ri6ts, the snow on the 14";
mel=t scented to be levc I, ei lip, and :-.11i,e; for so fr.,,tezttig
tva
the air, th tt (veil ire that I ut it tii, the fiaks.tti a, ti.);‘•:.
toil mainta.‘oed muchthew dazzling purity, as see!, a""e"
the occasional gleam of the lamps. ne
" • It's infernally cold,' muttered Bobson to himself, a
waited itrq.atieittly at the door. Wiest tile devil's Davis ah°l-A4
not to let a fellow in?'
" Bobson tapped at be door a fecond time ; and at length
it
was opened, and Davis iwpeared. rubbing his eyes. ,a it
6,--ted sald Jock, • afro let nu- In. I'm seragg
little
one bast o' me isn't ice aire,d,„ You ~night n' been a'
brisker, air. Leary; and not kept a body so ftmg io theao°
Come. gut! something short.'
" • Rom or gin, Jack ?' -
" :it stays orig,. st by a rran. I didn't meat, to drink
nothing till the j done ; but I've no warmth left' in tee.
Tice worn',. coil
• All the better tar the business,' remarked Leal.
People slps soundest in frosty weather.'
• ' Are the covcs conic.?' itgutted Bobson, after be 116 a
swallowed two goes of t urn. A ill
Nu, Bill an't here ; but Lusby Dick's up stairs a-heTiot
regard as he was drunk last night a'ter ye all went sway..;-er
right enough by this tittle, and ready for aarvuF, ane-
for it ; ut licker he would have, whether or no.' - Hiss! •
" That fellow's love o'aiax 'll be the ruin on him.
there's a sound at the door. It's 131ack-muzzle, and , L'"`i,
the t'other chap with hint. I'll shove hick the bolt. UP -
you, and get Dick on his pins '
"Mr. Perkins was soon admitted, but he came alone. AD
" • Wh• re's that ragged cove as volunteered the oilts
watch?'
flow should I know,' r, plird Bill. It's so Pfecieveerj
cold that I made for the ken as quick as I could. 111:i-a
looked ,for no the. Where's Davis? I'm blest if ,te
work 'shout a raw chow (a di am). Why it frecits at the I-
of ten miles an hour.
"' lie e he is,' said Davis, descending the stairs.
Wbo?'
" • Why, Lushy, to be sure,' was the reply ; aqd in a Inir),.°: -
the latter gent !email stood in presence of his friends, Yaw
and looking half asleep. for VCr
You're a pretty chap, an't you? Call this ready u; s •
work?' said Babson, eyeing Dick contemptuously, 37 efertb
disgrace to the trade—a drunken cracksrnan's never w

a--
•" No more drunk nor yers If,' retorted the
with the one eye ; • but a feller an't goin' to starve this
p:ert it.g weather.' And Lushy followed his obervatio
ir' by
tt hispering oi the tar of the landloid. 100
•• • That's no go,' exclaimed Bobson ; 'don't let him
1,0 Leery. When the job's jobbed, be may be drunk ye
a month o' Sundays' if he likes ; but he sha'n't—sha'n't ba
no (lOW.'
" • That tin't no reason agen my having a dram,' said Blank.
muzzle : •• out with yer rum bottle, Leary; and d'ye hear".
don't be such a dawdling beggar. What I wants, I wants nos'
not next week—so stir yer stumps, Davis.'
''• That t'other chap,' continued Bill, after he had made hielibati cowed geotle.aiwar:
un, ' yet, and I'm blest if I thinks be's coming
at ail.'
was
Not much matter neither,' returned Babson ; 't
more for charity nor any thing else, as I made him the fri
offer. His teggery, too, a'n't fit for such a morn' as this; th 'lll
shoes of doesn'tn do in the snow.'
dot",shHe,e
jack know where the crib is as we're going to crank,
" ' In course not; do you know ? Not -ou—leaveJack alohastir
to that—/ never tells no one till the time comes. Now,o
the fire, and sit down while we understands one another hard
both o' ye got yer pops?'
"1 All right,' was the reply.the
e—the saw—the centre-bit—the Eke
" The tit
dark Lute:lts—the mailers (crape for the face)--,1"41
jemmy' (short crow-Lar)? les
"1 Here,' said Dick, producing those interesting aerie
from the cavernous pockets of his long great coat. A I'll
That do,' quietly observed Bobson. Nov, P—s—Ut
just tell ye where we shall find the swag, for I got it all
f?ear_.l
the skullery maid as was left to keep the house when the
sad
was out o' town. Women are tender hearted creinrs ; 01
go a long way to sarve a fell w., if he can only conic Ewe Tha
letor
with a soft word or two—l knows that—no fellow better d
e.
plate's all k• pt in the house-keeper's room ; tiro' 011 way
there was never none of it there when the family was
from home.' Dick.
" • What s the gen'leman's name ?' inquired LushY
"4 What matter ? I doesn't know myself—l never
ere she
I got acquainted with the girl at the public-bouse eosd
came to fetch her beer ; and she soon blabbed that a (DO
quantity of new silver things was ordered to be sent 1101nr 05-
konday. 'I hen as to the rhino, )e know, she says as l'ehs, she
ter always has lots in his bed sewn—locked up in b".
calls a i.ort.ble desk.'
" Paper, or coin, Jack ?' in sired Black-muzzle bjow
" I never touches a Newland—the number always
the gaff.'
be did
•• • Now this here desk, you know, seems to t_o 4.,
part o' the play as require the most delic:de ha"dll6oc.
" Whereabout's the crack to be made?' asked LusliYus, cat
' • Why, at the airy door,' red Babsonaid then
through tie two b.3lts—theie's never no bar within---san_ per's
we the skeleton, we can walk clesn into the bouseoiek, •
room. " While I'm bagging the plate, you, Bill, and.„ • The
must mount up stairs into the front room on the two pla::11 help
master and misses sleeps there—don't wake 'em, if ye", ocir
it—people, you know, don't like to be disturbed out
sleep. The chink in the desk stands on a chest 0 cloll then
(so says the girl)—clap the desk under yer arm, an
fine tae below.'
" Well, I'm scragg'd, if that ere an't a queer start eticu"
a'ter last night's row 1' cxelai:ued Black-muzzle.
" • What d'ye Mean ?' inquired Babson. half ti;°
swag
t\olf hy.Yo,t:
rsre,ijiolniend
regard ll,' yaos uysoaui u
wire t
oVibaes to age,
st
7; to
mount the stairs ; and tow Dick and me is to be the men.
"' Well—an't two on ye enough for one man an' 4if i,elovr;
in' both ',bed? If I doesn't mind bein' left by mYsttackie,
wi' the chance o' having a couple o' he footmen t°. the use
should think you've nothing to find fault with—what 6,0 00.--."
of heirs' so precious part,e'rar? Come—its time we
follow me, my boys, we shall soon be there.'
The three
" Leary Davis held the door cautiously a-jar• and, half.
ruffians slunk out of the house one after the other;L ot o
e by the thick falling snow, proceeded 10 the c
tion of their project."

mm....... M...•
':-.- i tiler°us
LINEN-DRAPERS' ASSISTANTS.--This In` its
class of young nien, amounting t
in the metropolis ft' ',.i Mu-
env-irons environs alone to 18,000, are in course of forniih if 'attain.
,I close,
tual Protection Society, having for its object
ment of one uniform hour at which business °liiiithert°
so as to aff,rd them that frcin which they baveA rePc'sc'
beet, precluded—a short time between labour an.'
..rce of
The early and lattr hours have been a lung o%i, in
general complaint, in many Chops extending frOrn It ill
the morning till eleven and even twelve at night..t
oven
proposed to sub,nit to their emplOyers,. to close
object of
the propoyel Society is to provide a
in winter, and nine in summer. An°t}wrot ofujod f°rr
support in sickness, and which, if founded on a " A li-
scientific calculation, will be of extensive benefit.ch the)''
inutui.- basis o.
brary and reading-room is also projected, by n''' have a
who are bound by so many common ties, wil. able to
place at which, frequently •
hold intercourse on subjects get:erally n rt
meernig, they
,:.:ill 17 We
'sting.
ct so far
understand their employers are favourable to the 01T- that the
arrangement is about immedi..tety to be acted
as the closing their shops at the.hours spe jlied, and A pre-
upon. i,,br,
limioary meeting of the youni, men was held on 2rloni 111,:eet-
and a committee t-a
„ uther t- ~
ing is to be held 1, I '
s,.opt.y in ...rck t, r 11311, or stint-.
i, the pro
eious sad central place, for the purpose of /0,"'"1°
jecti-el institutien. last' ab()t)
COACH ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday „oily
noon, as the Eclipse Manchester and Hull coach, verYto" flu"'
laden, was passing through Dewsbury, on its route.
coach.
the fore-axle broke very near the middle, and threw
.t,ne Hahn.
man and passengers upon the paven,ent, by which itill,k f3ii,„g
shay; ildd tits l, g dreatifull , hi ok, 0 by a heavy tr..: r, ti.er 4
frOtll the top ~f the coach upon Hai ; be now lies linli ~.,j,
a °floc
precarious state. Tutee other person., who were " J
'The coachman a
jured, proceeded on their journey. 1 240.
painnegers were Itni4ured,--Afancheeter Guerra+
genera
wa.

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THE SUN LONDON,THURSDAY,IURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1838.
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• .
Vh11d............1M11AiMbi.dka1MM.11iaa....•••..........11
...........................*, C() UR T CIRCULAR. MONEY AND CI 1 Y NiI:WS. 'A: Li E REVENUE FOI-1 THE YEAR AND .qtTA.RTEI-1 ENDING ()CT. 10, 183_'.
wisps. R 'V
-........---
14 . , sEsDnv.-Tiiis afternoon, at three o'clock, 'mom THU MORNING l'APEitli or TN's DAV.)
her"AleitY ac - d Highness (purchases rstock b
companie by her Itial the Duchess TIM E S.-The Gov ernman t o are
ent, left.-No. 1.-An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 10th of October, 1837, and 10th of October, 1838, chewing the Increase or
Decrease on each head thereof.
lowne. • the Castle for 41 airing in the Park. The fol- been resumed at the Stock Exchange, in the usual form, . . ,
personages attended her i‘Nv*ty:-Viseount Mel- and by the broker ale :ally employed in such opera- -
QUARTERS ENDED YEAR QUAITTERS ENDED YEAR
biQn..lier.l4nt_, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Baroness Lehzeo, Miss lions. The origin of them, linwn.er3 is neither the money of
4.4
al isn, Ly,ady 'Jan. 5, I April 5, - ..--""MT, "--".-.."-""----• ended ~... --... „ ended
5, Oct. 10, Oct 10, Jan. 5, April 5, July 5, Oct. 10, s Oct. 10, ,--....,------------..„.!
' Increase. Decrease. t Increase. Decrease.
C. Copley, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Ad- the savings-banks, nor any surplus of revenue over ex- 1837 I 1837 1537 18:57 1837 18N 183 i IS3 i 1838 1832
Lady 1r
"- Otraav, and the Hon. C. A. Murray. pcnditure, a Wt.! of the public account to which the
IferßAolyaa? Stop-ford followed in li pony phaeton. Customs.-Consolidated Duties 3,297,765 3,2t:7,029 3,121,120 3 931 (82 - 3,60,705 3,153,,:07 3,453,052 3,090,000 I - Tar ended Oct 10. I Quater ended 0, t. la
-
/ Treasury has long b-en a stt angel , but the Raids derived from
-
Highness the Duchess of Glouceeter paid a the purchase of annuities from the Government, which annul- sulaidaartpeduFtywa,dpoicabk to cons°. -
273,010
1i30,3,2:1) ' *
- 303,268 1,310,349- _
tn,,,c,,,rn. iiirl,g, , visit, and lunched with her Mmjtsty. Her Royal tics would appear, as wes stated a few days since, to have be- Str 5/C1 (iO5 395 1 4i3 2,1
- - • - - -
-,,,h. ,as afterwards visitsd the Prince's Augusta at Frogrnore. come a favourite investment of late. Some of the public Sugar Duty applicable to Supplies 772,173 9”6,466 -- ),505:LH34 1 --- t ~ . , - , ~......i - i
33,15$
Total Customs 4,0,39,938 4,436,!:;C5 454",3t5 5,135,116 16,37';'41 I 4,523,,78 4,061;70 4,769,400 5,46,i,271 118,•• 2.5,619 1 Total Customs 4r,675
172,450 388,192
and
,h day, Lord John .D.usse,l. the Marquis of Lansdowne, companies, as well as individuals, and also the Batt India Excise
and
The following
and Duchess of Sutherland took their departure. Company, have resorted to this mode of employing capital, stamps 1,573,529 1,618,402 1,647,039 1,611,,.,5. 1 6,46 ',,82 ' 1,544,4‘ 0 1,64'4,194 1,692,134 1,51,476 6,635,204 ,Stamps. . .
46,223 129, :4
19,953
the
Taxes. 43594006600
361:00019 1,3360,734079
43018,a:0006..2 q :34,293130:74.30 1,579,028 130,576 1,, 09,.08 328,045 3,647,157 !Taxes
8006
owing will be included in the Royal dineer party rather then trust, in the present state of politics, to Post O, cc 45,:57
65,003
tLhaispern.ing :-Her Roved Highness the Duchess of Kent, maintenance of the price of the Government securi- Crown Lands 37'''" 7Z; s''''''' 4615°,C°10 j'513036,0°°00' itot°riftends. . 130,000
rooB)9_"tietoo, Lady Mary Stopford, Lady C. Copley, Ba- ties. Some limit to this is necessarily fixed, for it is Miscellaneous 9,873 26,334 ' Ktj27 2,701 44,637/ ,1 174 25,841 I 0,ft90 8,376 44,781 IMiscellaneous.... 146 5,875
------
ye _ ,
.83. L elmen ; the f-lon, the Misses Paget, Lester, and Ca- obvious, that so large a portion of the public funds
0;7_1
vh; Viscount Melbourne, Lord Uxbridge, Sir Robert might be offered at the same time for conversion into Total Ordinary Revenue.. 11,400,764 8,463,963 10,712,561 11,19'2,634 42,070;2.2 i , 11,613,744 8,006,134 10,89:1,544 12,126,127 42,645,549 1
Imprest arm other Moneys, includ-
lmprest other
Re-payments of Advances
f.'.2,417
".1,1- a the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon, C. A. annuities as .to create an additional perplexity at the 983,134 ' Moneys 165,718
+l.lr .
IbnrgPublic Works..
ra.t • Treasury how they are to be provided for to the ways and 187,995
______]N,l7l___L____7o,7l9
________,2oo,s3l 817,416 1 188,189
.....I!______3,sBo 448,418 ' 227,94•S
96,,718 2'25,673 663,916 5,006
tvTatetTurkish, Russian, French, and Greek Ambassadors means of the year. The Government only devote to this Total Income 11,58,4,759 8,622,134 10,983,5% 11,693,165 S 42,5557,638 II 11,101,932 8, I 2f,714 11,347,962 12,349,075 I 43,628.,' 83
--- -------...-__ --- Deduct De.
purpose a sum of 500,000/. in each quarter, and there is little rhe Amount applied to the Con-
crease.
4310,r sd business
,yesterday at the Foreig-n Department. 1 If 67 '34 132 011 9,7 I 1
, doubt, from the transactions which have become known, that solidated Fund 8,423,535 5,780,326 7,251,669 8,112,69., , 29,396,049 I 9,011,342 6,481,319 0,829,102 . 9,, ~ •' . , -
i Dcdu ct Decrease; 225,673 1 8,006
por'_'. business
Vir.iers transacted business yesterday at tne
this limit must have been reached of late. When stock is
_I- - 1
- - - - -
711!tt_
iDi apartrwant. e
Lzelt,anged in a direct manner for annuities, no process of pun; Ditto, to pay off Exchequer Bills
act ed businessr‘ litary Secretary to the Commander-in Chief trans- charged OD Sugar D
Dtto, as part ol* the Ways and -
I Increase on ci,asing for redemptlon is of course, required ; but as the pur.. Means of the Year
r,,,1, H . . t
3,165,924 2,841,8ra 3,731,911 2 980 473 l3 191 cF9 ', 2 '790 590 1,645,365 4,518,1460 2,541,941 i 1 ',1'30,756
Count,, .!esterelay at the Horse Guards. -____.
.i'ne option of. paying for them in money salsa- •
chasers havg,
Total
44 th,„,:, PO di odi Borg°, the Russian Ambassador •; Don 1.,.„A .. . 1 _ 11,*8,759 8,6A134 10.983.un 7i ~,, ... 1 A., ow, .na 'it Rill on 9 1 9 too 714 111 Rd 7 Orq I 1,-, mio_o7s ;-------43.628.W increase on the,-.7-11.7---4. I .
... theattrlalroter

urkish, Russian, French, and Greek Ambassadors
tll32..s.ateted business
,yesterday at the Foreign Department.
r:Sir George Vir.iers transacted business yesterday at the
° eign Departmk• t
• The -1' •
act ed --I.ltarY Secretary to the Commander-in Chief trans-
- business Festerday at the Horse Guards.
Count Poe;L; di Borges the Russian Ambcssador; Don
ntl'i de A,
;Ittibllo de cuilar, the Spanish :Minister ; and the Chevalier
(Larcen), Portuguese Charge d'Affaires, transacted
ine"
Yrthe
Ater ay at Foreign-office.
raj,. yesPe:rehes were forwarded yesterday from Downixe-street
b"")rd Melbourne at Windsor.
the e-•!4P'•te'nes, dated May 10, were received yesterday from
.6-"ernor of the Mauritius.
tches, dated July 16, were received yesterday in
-15 fir 'g-street from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.
1),,,•-1 patches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign
*e` lftment for the British Charge d'Affaires at Teheran, at
'C'ourt of Persia, and fur the British Charge d'Affaires at
Ptersburgh.
the"' ''spatehe,, dated the 4th inst., were received yesterday at
tern Ftn`d'reign Department from the British Minister in Swit-
-13.1da '"P
rtntches were forward:A yesterday from the Foreign
ment for tandhe BR,ritisli, Mini,ters resident at the Courts of
4!Ples, Greece,
onie.

SHIOY.ABLE INTELLIGENCE.

\-kr ARRIVALS.
evkv.:1111(1 Fitzjames Watt, at the Carlton. Hotel, from
of 11,""uanIA, near Chester ; Monsieur Vtce- President
Crnamber of Representatives, and Monsieur du Jardin,
lir tart' to the Minister of Finance of Belgium, Madame Fe-
sien"'Failon, and Madame and Mdlle. Du Jardia, and Mon-
tarin, at ditto, from Brussels ; the Hon. Captain and
illary Hood, at the Marquis of Downshire's res.tdence, in
11"er-square, from a visit to the Dowager Vlscountess
‘l3;:(ll4:l7rombi'leY Abbey, near Coventry; the Hon. Edward
Brighton ; Sir Charles Scudamare, M D., in
Pole- street, from Buxton.
DEPARTURES.
attectB;l:rajr°:lih oriti;Strwitrt Fo:bts and Lidy liarriet Forbes, from
'dote], for Paris; Monsieur and Madame Lupin
Stie Y. from ditto, for ditto ; Br,runs de Boos:ellen and de
fror'", from ditto, for SAitzetiand ; the Earl of Thanet,
141gids9c,nnaugln-square, for his seat, HAhfivld place, tear
tri ; Lord Say, and from Grosvenor• street, for
Cliet-blenfib; Sir Augustus &Este, from Cohn tught-square, for

CHANGES.
EarlandZountos of Cork, at thAr seat. Marston
Johr, e,nrar Fror.ne, Somerset, from Leamington ; Sir
ale,, aatildi Lady Anne Beckett, on a visit to the Earl of Lons-
14ted,. Castle, Westmorland, from their seat near
;it st, i-or':1 and Lady Hanarden and the Hon. Miss Mamie,
a fit, B. iron) a visit to Lo, c 1 and Lady Worsley. at their
his sreltlesby, Linc it
; Sir Chas. M iigan, Bart., at
at be;i'L.L. T,edegar, front Cheltenham • Lord Eded Thynne,
fto,lith Palace, on h visit to the 'Duchess ButTleneh,
at I;: lair Atholl, Perthshire; Sir Frederick Bathurst. Bart.,
bo 18 seat, Clarendon Park, near Detizes, from a visit to the
l)•Wger Countess of Pembroke, at Wilt,4l neAr Sa-
-133,4111,1'../; Colonel Peicivul, M P., at his seat, Temple House,
at-,,,"Ymote from a visit to Viscount and Vi,eountess Lorton,
veliockinham, Boyle; I,rd Somerville, at his seat in War.
tlykshire, from town ; Sir 1.1,1)ry and Lady Durant, at their
dry Seotton Hal, Norfolk, from Bo,:not ; Sir Graham and
,itty Moore, at Portsmouth, from Brighten; V;scoubt Maid-
.M. P., at Eastwell Park, the at 41. of the Earl of Win-
I'sea, in Kent, from Northamptonshire; Viscount and Vis-
t('n4lteB4 Rodney, at Tredegar, on a visit to Sir Charles Mar-
-11 , from Gloucestershire; Sir W Brook and Lady
t
b."
at Hastings, from their seat in Kent ; Sir Edward
-,e a
Nrbbnil,seat, Mershon) Hatch, Kent,
iSit to the Earl of Winchilsea, at Eastvrell Park.

(FROM THU MORNING PAPERS or TMIS DAV.)
TIMES.—The Government purchases of stock have
been resumed at the Stock Exchange, in the usual form,
and by the broker oitlic;ally employed in such opera-
tions. The origin of them, linwever3 is neither the money of
the savings-banks, nor any surplus of revenue over ex-
penditure, a st ;to of the public account to which the
Treasury has long been a sti angel , but the ftilids derived from
the purchase of annuities from the Government, which annui-
ties would appear, as was stated a few days since, to have be-
come a favourite investment of late. Some of the public
companies, as well as individuals, and also the East India
Company, have resorted to this mode of employing capital,
rather than Oust, in the present state of politics, to the
maintenance of the price of the Government securi-
ties. Some limit to this is necessarily fixed, for it is
obvious, that so large a portion of the public funds
might be offered at the same time for conversion into
annuities as to create an additional perplexity at the
Treasury how they are to be provided for id the ways and
means of the year. The Government only devote to this
purpose a sum of 500,000/. in each quarter, and there is little
doubt, from the transactions which have become known, that
this limit must have been reached of late. When stock is
exchanged in a direct manner for annuities, no process of pur-
chasing for redemption is, of course, required ; but as the pur-
chasers have ',tie option of paying for them in money calcu-
lated n; the average price of the stock on the day before, and
ending commission or brokerage, the stock is in that case
purchased by the Commissioners for the redemption of the
debt, and immediately cancelled, which latter operation has
just commenced. The extent to which it is to be carried can
only be known to the Commissioners themselves. On the
whole these purchases tend to give a support to the market
which, in the present state of money, comes very seasonably.
During the greater part of the day the funds remained at
the closing quotations of yesterday, with little doing, but a
short time previous to the close of business a slight decline
took place iii Consols, which left off at 94 to f for Money and
Account; Bank Stock was 207 k to si; India Stock, 261 to 2.
Exchequer-bills, 69a. to 71e, premium.
The Foreign Maeket was heavy. Spanish Active with the
May Coupons, l 8 to ; Portuguese, 5 per Cents., 334 to 44 ;
the 3 per Cents., 21-1 to 24; Brazilian, 79f to 80; Mexican,
23 to f ; Colombian, 24+ to Dutch per Cents., 53f to
4; the 5 per Cents., Noe to 4.
In the Railnay Share Marfiet there was little animation.
Great Western clt chin dto 12f to 13} premium. London and
13irminehem were 82 to 4; I‘l,nehester and Birmingham, e
to it; North Midland, 2 to 3 ; Southampton (New), 21 to 2
premium ; Southampton Old, 4 to 3 ; Brighton, 2i to I;
Bl,ckwall, 2& to 1f di-count.
An arrival fiom Halifax, Nova Scotia, brings dates to the
4th of September. The papas are occupied with details of
the new ConstitutiLin, by c+ hick the British American provinces
are to be united in -one confederation.

. .
RONICL E.—Affairs at the Stock Exchange generally
remain much in the same state, and do not furnish matter for
any particular comment.
The Corn Market at Mark-lane was to-day again op-
pressed with the fernier num, roux samples of new English and
Irish wheat. The iliferiority of the quality has had -the
eff.ct of preventing c,pitalists from taking it on speculation,
unless at a reduction in price, which brings the article to a
rate which des not repay the hurry ng of the corn to market,
and wh'eli will probably slacken the over supply on the suc-
ceeding market days. Adverting to the manlier in which the
averages a. e lowered by the inferior quality of the grain, there
is enether view of that branch of the operation of the Corn-
laws, respyetlior which a great deal of calculation is going for-
ward at. Mark-lane. fly the new Corn-law of 1826, the man-
ner of taking the average, was entirely enanged; for under the
old'system the prices were taken from only eleven principal
market towns in England, excluding altogether the prices of
Irish core ; but by the new system the averages are taken
from one hundred and fifty places, many of them in Ire-
land. where wheat is at all times 25 per cent. lower than in
England, by reeson of the in;eriur quality of the article, and
the necessity of selling it at a rate which will repay the
charges, freight, insurance, and other expenses to England.
In this manner the influence of Irish corn is very extensive on
the get:erel averacts, as the operation is doubled by selling
the wheat in the first instai ce at the lower price, which is ob-
tained in Ireland, and by including it again in the returns
from the English market, where it is ultimately sold for con-
sumption, and brings a less price by full 10 per cent., in con-
sequence of its interiority to the English corn, with which it
has then to compete. By some of the calculations at Mark-
lane, it is argued that by the present system of averages the
real price of wheat is always kept down in appearance full ss.
per quarter below the price which the English landholder re-
ceives, and these gentlemen assert that but for the inferior
quality, and consequently inferior price of the Irish wheat,
the ports would have many times been, in all probability,
opened within the last seven years. This view of the subject is
considered to la, highly important, however little it may hitherto
have been noticed by the writers and debaters on the question of
the Corn-laes ; for it exhibits the oppressive, selfish, and deceit-
ful nature of the K hole contrivance, as much more favourable to
the English landholders than has generally been supposed. In
fuming Ile Corn-law of 1826, it was pretended that the new
system would be a more lenient one to the manufacturing in-
terests ; w hereas, by the changes in the mode of arranging the
Averages, there is now full five shillings per quarter more for
the landholder than the law pretends to assume; and the diffi-
culty of getting the ports opened has unquestionably been
much increased since the passing of the Corn-laws. Owing
to the inferior quality of both English and Irish wheat 'of the
growth of the present year, an opinion is very prevalent that
in any future alteration of' the Corn-duty, if the fluctuating
system be retained, some method should be discovered of
striking the averages at an ad valorem rate, though there is in
reality no person at Mark• lane who is not thoroughly satisfied
that a free trade will at an early time be most imperatively re-
quired by the wants of the population ; and that there ought
to be no impedirneet to the free importation of food, other than
a reasonable fixed duty, to be levied, not with the intention of
protecting the landholders, but for the purposes of revenue
alone.

POST.--The public securities have again been but very
littlo dealt in to. day in either of the markets, and prices of
almost all descript,oes of Stock closed this evening as they
did yesterday. An improvement in the Treasury returns for
the financial quarter ending this day was once more talked of
among the moneyed men and jobbers, but we have no esti-
mate given of the probable excess they may be expected to
exhibit, as compared with the public accounts for the same
peried I,st year, which, however, were most unfavourable;
nor had the assurances given of a considerable increase in the
present instance the effect of producing any additional specu-
lation in the Funds. This would hardly have been the case,
we should suppose, were the atnotv,t really likely to be at all
large. after taking away the special item of duty lately re-
ceived at the Custom.howe on foreign grain. It is, however,
needl'sa to dwell up .n the matter as the facts will now be so
very shortly in the hands of the public.
There have been some few transactions in S%.ares sir ce yes-
terday. but they tended, as far as reuld b.• ascertained, rather
to show a willingness to realize than the contrary.
HE R A La—The continued ahsene, of arrivals from our
East India i.ossessions and the United Stites lvis exposed
both classes of merchants to considerable incorivenience, which,
however, has in some measure been obviated by the fact, that
houses of credit could easily obtain advances, although latterly
they have been compelled to pay higher rates of interest.
Amongst other causes for the pressure of sinewy, it is untier-
stood that the late sudden irnourtations of corn have been a
very important item, which, however, a few weeks may entirely
dissipate. The value of money has not materially altered,
although on Exelieqtva. Bills it might have Leen obtained
from day to day at 321 per cent. in the Foreign Market ; it
continues to range at about four per cent.

Total

11,5E8,759 I 8,622,134 110, 5401 r 9) 165 ;4.) 887,63'4 11,801,033 8,129,714 111,347,062 112,349,075 :43,628,W1' • Year

-----
No. IL—lncome and Charge of the Consolidated Fund, in the Qtiarters ended the 10th October, 1837, and the 10th October, 1838.
.. Quarters ended Oct 10.
Quarters ended Oct. 10. •
„.----...-----..---,
INCOME. 18P---37--- 1[ 38 CHARGE. 1837 1831
----.
Customs.—Consolidated Duties 3,931,082 3,990,050 Permanent Deb' 3,401,8"3 3,116,521
Sugar applicable to the 1,386,v65 ; 1,391,897
. Terminable-Annuities
Consolidated Fund 211,5c,'5 :?3,869
Interest on Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund
Sinking Fund 3O 4381
Total Customs 3,931,02 3,990,b50 The Civil List
Excise
Stamps
Taxes
Post 011 ice .. 418,006 410,000 Total Charge
Crown Lands 65,003 The Surplul
Miscellaneous 203,232 :134'124
10,408,676 10,891,f52
10,188,111 10,591,652
To Cash brought to this Account to The Amount of Exchequer Bills issued to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ended July 5, 183% and paid
replace the like sum issued, or to 7,6C0,946
off out of the growing produce of that Fund for the Quarter ended Oct. to, 1•38
be issued, out of the Consolidated The Amount issued in the Quarter ended Oct. 10, 18.3, in part of the sums granted by Parliament out of the Consolidated Fund
"'
Fund in Ireland, for Supply and 2,581,941
for Supply Services
; The Surplus of the Consolidated Fund Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1838 —
other Services
1
10,4. ~i 76 1 10,591.52 H The probable amount of Exchequer Bills required to meet the charge on the Consolidated Fund, Quarter ended Oct. 10, 1538 4,778,038

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY
MEETING AT BRISTOL.

(BY EXPRESS.)

A meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the Great

Western Railway Company took place yesterday, pursuant
to adjournment, at the Merchants' Hall, King-street, Bris-
tol, for the purpose of confirming the Report of the Direc-
tors, presented at the General Half yearly Meeting, on the
15th. August last, when, it will be in the recollection of our
readers, the Report was, after considerable discussion, pcst-
poned, to afford the Shareholders an opportunity of inves-
tigating the accounts. The meeting of yesterday was at-
tended by a large number of Shareholders from London,
Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and the north of

ing, two assistant engineers have been appointed, who have
recently finished works cn the London and Birmingham
Railway. Information has been received this day, that
the eastern arch of Maidenhead-bridge is perfectly free,
the centerings having been eased, and there being no per-
ceptible subsidence. The state of this work cannot fail,
therefore, to be satisfactory to the Proprietors. In the last
report it was stated that the Directors had applied to Mr.
Woad to undertake a course of experiments upon the Rail-
way for the purpose of assisting the Directors in their fu-
ture plans for this Railway. Shortly after the meeting a
suggestion was made to the Directors to nominate Mr.
Hawkshawe, the engineer of the Manchester and Bolton
Railway, to a similar duty, with which the Directors in-
stantly complied. The proposal was made to them by an
influential Shareholder of Liverpool, Mr. Crosthwaite.
From Mr. Wood the Directors have received a letter,
stating that from the nature and extent of the experiments
through which he is going for the purpose of arriving at a
sound practical conclusion, he has been prevented from
drawing any conclusion from these experiments to the pre-
sent time, and he says that it will still require some weeks to
complete them. From Mr. Hawkshawe a full report had been
rec
is nit
e
e
coming
justifiede t rarilnev,oweut
irlornttai catbghhnl
tsse phot
present
ceot
hshDet
conclusion—on
lea:ten, oltstureesns
:ono.
theya—Nfv
hrao.annn
v%oee%trn.Wood's
rd entire hesitation
hitherto
alterationi
an osayingteod
Ththe plans, and the Directors cannot admit that they would
be y
consequences. As, however, the of jest of
think that it would be attended with the most mischievous
'estotefi,
ext rpDaerrii):,e
Directors
oletrsys,
throughout is to arrive at the complete truth, they propose
to call a Special Meeting of the Proprietors as soon as
they shall have received Mr. Wood's final report, in order
to lay the subject before them in all its bearings, furnishing
such information as the engineer is able to give, when it is
hoped that some practical conclusion will be arrived at. I
may ,just allude to the Clause in the Act which precludes
the introduction or discussion of extraneous topics, and I be-
lieve that Mr. Heyward' is now in possession of the

England ; arid long before the hour for taking-the Chair
had arrived, the laige room was completely filled, as ware
the two adjoining rooms at a later period of the day.
At one o'clock the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and
Directors, accompanied by the Solicitor of the Company,
the Engineer, Mr. Brunel, and the Secretaries, Messrs.
Saunders and Oster, entered the room, and the chair was
immediately taken by W. U. Sims, Esq., Chairman of the
Board of Directors.
The CHAIRMAN said, Gentlemen, the consideration of
the Report was defined as embracing so much matter for
deliberation, and the Directors not hesitating to give the
time that *was asked, think the proper period is now arrived
for discussing it, and knowing the sentiments of the meet-
ing as to the conduct pursued by the executive authorities
of the Company. If it had been supposed that the Di-
rectors had formed some premature resolution on the
merits of that Report, for the purp‘se of assuming
an unqualified approbation of every plan and prin-
ciple adopted in this line, they beg distinctly to
disclaim any such motive. On the contrary, a very
slight glance at the Report, itself would betray a candid
admission by the Board that some faults had been com-
mitted ; that defects in the execution of parts of the work-
manship did exist ; and that the minds of the Directors
were not then made up to the best course to be pursued in
respect of laying the rails. These circumstances I merely
advert to in order to show the fallacy of an argument that
has been insisted on, that a decision upon the past must
involve a committal' of opinion for the future. The two
points seem to us quite distinct, and some opinion, some
decision must this day be pronounced upon that Report.
It is demanded by a sense of justice to the Directors—it
is required by an urgent claim on behalf of the general in-
terests of the proprietary—it is not exacted as a means of
committing the Company to any specific plan for the future.
These plans may with propriety, nay, almost of neces-
sity, must become the subject of distinct and future deli-
beration. The Directors abstain from laying before
this meeting any full Report which might have a
tendency to provoke controversy or discussion, and
if not lead to some further adjournment of the ques-
tion, upon the same reasoning as was given at the last
meeting, for time to consider, it might nevertheless divert
the attention of the Proprietors from the actual business of
the day—namely, the consideration of the half-yearly Re-
port, presented on the 15th of August. Two or three
points, however, bear so closely on the contents of this
d --

Meeting.
Mr. CROSTHWAITE thought it would be most satisfac-
factory to the Proprietors if the Directors would allow
the report of Mr. Hawkshawe to -be read. He did not
wish to suggest any course that would lead to embarrassment.
The CHAIRMAN—'Fhe Directors were of opinion that
such a course would be productive of much embarrassment
and inconvenience.

CURRENCY AND EXCHANGES.—It is no wonder
that currency and exchanges have, during the last fifty years,
been in a state of contusion, for the history of most banks has
been little more than a history of deviations from correct bank-
tisav-!s. In all, or nearly all countries, banks are, to a
greater or less extent, fiscal machines. and every Government
makes them such wh, n it receives bank notes io the pa} mont
of the public revenue.. The greater port of the paper-issuing
banks on the Continent of Europe ere, in a strict sense, Go-
ye+ nment banks. So also is the Bank of England. Its chief
business is that of exchanging Exchequer Bills for Bank-notes.
In some years the whole of its advances to merchants have not
exceeded 1.000,000/. or 2,000,0001. sterling, while those of a
private firm have amounted to as much as 20,000,0001. ster-
ling.—Commercial Gazette.
The inquiry to which we adverted some weeks since
as having been .committed to Mr. Barry, Mr. De la Beche,
and others, in reference to the stone to be employed in the
erection of the new Houses of Parliament, is at length com-
pleted, specimens having been collected, and contributions
having been received, from quarries io nearly every part of the
1 kingdom. Some time, however, trust elapse before the making
of the report, as the qualities of each sp,cimen are to form the
I subject of very careful examination and enulysis in London.—

Mr. CROSTRWAITE—We understood that report would
be forthcoming at the present meeting, and we were re-
quested to withhold our opinions until it was laid before us.

preveht any hasty decision being come to on what wds a
very important question.—(Hear, and cheers.)
Mr. HEYWORTH thought the circumstance of alai," sci-
entific men taking so long a time to investigate the work-
ing of the system, was in itself conclusive, and condemned
the report unseen and unheard.—(oll!) Whatever the
report was let it come out.
The CHAIRMAN-It shall come oat as soon as we have
received it. _ _

Mr. lIEYWoRTH—But in the mean time the delay is
operating in the most disadvantageous manner. I see
nothing to result from it but a procrastination of the ;
evil.—( Hear.)
The CHAIRMAN—I deprecate the delay as much as any
one possibly can ; but it was not of our seeking.—(Hear.)
It was called for by the meeting, and the delay cannot be
charged upon us.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HoyEs said the Directors themselves had called.
upon Mr. Wood, Mr. Stevenson, and Mr. Walker for
reports. It did not ema:late from the Proprietors but the
Directors. They called upon the meeting to place confi-
dence in their engineer, but they themselves appeared to
place no confidence in him.—(Loud cries of " No, no.")
He protested against. the Shareholders being held respon-
sible fur the proceedings that had been adopted.
Mr. FRIPP said atter the works had got. to a certain
stage some defects of construction were discovered, and
rumours of all kinds were abroad. That had led a great
many Shareholders in the North of England to wish for
an examination of the line by some other engineer, and it
was from that. quarter that the request had emanated. It
was not from a distrust of their own plans, or a distrust of
the competency of their engineer to carry out those plans,
that the Directors had assented to the examination of the
line.—(Cheers.) Under those circumstances be put it to
the meeting whether the appointment of Mr. Wood could
be considered the act of the Directors. It was not an
act of compulsion on Their part, but in deference to the
expressed wish of a large portion of their constituents.
With respect to the delay, Mr. Wood had been applied to
in the beginning of August to survey the line, but it was
not until the 7th of September that his numerous engage.
ments permitted him to commence his experiments. He
had recorded these experiments, and had left assistants,
with proper directions, to follow them' up ; but sufficient
time had not yet elapsed to receive his report. He appealed
to all those who knew Mr. Wood whether the whole course
of his conduct as a practical man, did not justify the Di-
rectors in placing reliance upon his investigation.—(Hear,
hear.) Eight or nine years ago Mr. Wood had been em-
ployed on the Manchester and Liverpool line to ascertain
the performance of locomotive engines, and he was then
engaged with Mr. Peter Barlow on the London and Bir-
mingham line, and everything that had emanated from him
showed that implicit reliance might be placed on his opi-
nion. It was not opinion alone they would have from him,
but calculations derived from actual experiments. If they
now proceeded to decide upon the most itnportant:points
regarding the line, without hearing Mr. Wood's opinion,
they would be acting in the most suicidal and rash man-
ner.—(Loud cheering.)

(t)
they
eTAtylilltraee.d
oCpcpluotrceAmNdipAaasimnußAye; Directorsed inly hate
unfair c
Aeirto
Wtheocdo,ni-f
elusion that it would be highly prejudicial to the intere-ts
come
.t
was unfair to pres.s sucho a
question upon the Chairman ; under any circumstances.
the report must be a one-sided report. If they received
the one without the other it would create an impression
which, on the receipt of Mr. Wood's, might be found to be
quite erroneous, and as their worthy Chairman had stated
that a special meeting would be called to consider these
reports; he hoped the meeting would not press him to read
one, until both were before it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.
Hawkshawe had never, he believed, been mentioned
to the Proprietors, and it appeared that the Direc-
tors, whether right or wrong he would not stop to inquire,
had, at the instance of a private Shareholder appointed
him to survey the line. The authority given by the meet-
ing was to Mr. Wood ; and he thought they ought to abide
t—ahanoTcel h:gueleisrt:e;
his report before they entered upon the subject.---:(Loud
cheers.)
Mr. CROSTIIWAITHE said if there had been no report
from Mr. Wood, be agreed with the last speaker, that they
ought not to enter on the subject, but as there was a report
from him, it was the property of the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN could not characterise Mr. Wood's let-
ter as a report ; it merely stated the course of experiments
be was pursuing.—(Cries of " Read, read," and " No, no.)
Mr. CROSTHWAITE—The meeting will be able to judge
of its value when it is read.
Mr. MORTIMER thought it would be unfair to Mr.
Wood if the other report was read without. his.
Mr. SWIFT was of opinion that they ought to have both
reports produced, or neither.
Mr. A. HOYES contended that Mr. Hawkshawe had
just the same authority to report as Mr. Wood.
Mr CaosTuwArrE believed the name of Mr. Hawkshawe
as the able and intelligent engineer of thl Bolton and Bury
line, had been mentioned by Mr. Fripp, one of the
Directors.
Mr. FRIPP denied that .he bad used the epithets whi.4l
tsi luTa :.
bad been ascribed to him in the newspaper report, as he
en praise or dispraise of Mr. Hawk-
simply Mr. Hawkshawe had been selected
sin
was not aware of any peculiar railway experience Possessed
by that gentleman. He knew of nothing which could in-
duce
onic
oles phealikev ieurrence with the suggestion of Mr. Cros-
thwrite.
Some further discussion took place, in the cours3 of
Hawkshawe
observed„pewasc ofrusitihwyaoteughlduealn believedot to hthala,
et the
of t
theirexperiencehhe l
d
own of
Ai rc
en-
gineer ; and thatif his (Mr. Hawkshawe's) report had been
favourable,
from
the meeting.

ocunient, that I cannot forbear to mention them inciden-
tally, either in corroboration of statements there made, or
in explanation of the views then expressed by the Board.
First, with respect to the traffic, I may mention, that
every hope of increasing business has been fully sustained
in the interval since the last meeting. The total receipts,
from the 4th of June to the 7th of October, a period of 18
weeks, has been 29,694/. ss. 11d.—(Cheers.) Taking the
traffic on the whole, it gives an average of 1,6491. 13s. per
week from the opening ; whereas the average, at the time
of the last meeting, was only 1,5971. per week.—(Cheers.)
Taking the receipts in each succeeding month, it will be
found that

June produced £6,459 16 2
Jul)
August
September
—(Great cheering.) I may dismiss the subject of receipts
with the simple serviition, that I believe no one can he
disappointed in that branch of the business.—( Hear, hear.)
Of the expense. incidental to the traffic, I hope a short
statement wilt serve to dispel some of those most unfounded
reports and rumours which have been industriously pro-
mulgated. A very full and correct account has been
taken of every charge en the receipts of traffic up to the
30th September, which shows that 10,925/. 12s. Id. covers
every expense (except that of maintenance of way) upon a
receipt of 28,1731. I6s. 11d.—(Much cheering.) The
last Report stated fully the reasons why the cost of
maintenance of way could not then be fully ascertained,
and suggested how the same should be determined for an
allowance under that head. The Directors have now
let; by tender and contract, the repairs and maintenance
of 14 miles of their Railway, and have received offers for the
remainder at the cost of 61. per mile per week, during the
six winter months. This, in ltd.., establishes the proper
scale of allowance for that service, and, being added to the
expense, will constitute a total charge of H 3,271/. 12f. Id.,
or at the rate of 47i per cent., on the coaching receipts of
the Company to the 30th Sept.—(Hear, and cheers.)
ltt-
stead of spending 3001. per day to secure 2001., as was
more ingeniously than correctly asserted, it will be seen that
the proportion of expenses to receipts is smaller than that
CM other lines, where the accounts have been distinctly
stated. With regard to the cost of laying the rails, and
longitudinal timbers, alto dwelt upon in the last Report,the
Directors have been very anxious, for more reasons than
one, to get the most certain information to lay before the
Proprietors. For this purpose, after having a specification
drawn up, to embrace a heavier rail of 601bs. to
the yard, and a thicker scantling of timber, adopt-
ing the simplest method of laying them, without
piles or any support from transoms, they procured
tenders for every branch of that work, and they can be
now let by contract under 7,0001. per mile, including every
expense.—(Hear, hear.) This may be relied upon, as an
actual offer has been received from a responsible party
willing to undertake the distance between Maidenhead and
'Fwyford, which must be the next portion of the line to be
laid with rails. The Directors think that no other course
could furnish so good a test of future expense, and refer to
it with confidence, in corroboration of their estimate taken
at 8,0001. per mile to be on the safe side. With respect
to the works, I have to state that the Reading contract,
taken nut of the hands of Mr. Ranger, has been let to
three sub-contractors under an engagement to finish it in
seven months. The opening of the Railway to Rus-
combe and thence to Reading 'is fully appreciated
by the Directors, who would lament that any sus-
pension of their duties should seem to cast delay
andupp pl
aioreneel
Director in
laying
nthet
lfinale rails p d l ea
et
consequencei eenr moot
fhfi naAoatiutriro. n o
district.
f The
appointmentcompleting t h
, in
e
cHn
toe/ kt
ns n
.11 asa snt or
ot
n g yet a
pt
ianki
oe nn
that it would be placing any gentleman in a state of un-
merited distrust who should now be associated with the
Directors, until they themselves could feel warranted in
exercising the prerogative of choice by a vote of confidence
from the Proprietors.—(Hear, hear.) After the very long
and unusual delay which has taken place in confirming their
Report, they beg that you will no longer hold that subject
.n doubt. or suspense, but proceed to the consideration of it
once, w,,tit a calm aod unprejudiced disposition, to do what
seems.just to the _Board of Management and consistent
with the interests of the Company. Since the last meet-

Mr. HOYES wished 'to know how the Shareholders were
to get the opinion of their engineer. So far as he had oc-
casion to apply to the Directors, he must say that they had
never made the slightest concession to him.
Dr. CARPENTER believed that application had been
made simultaneously, in the month of August last, to three
engineers, in consequence of the public obloquy thrown
upon the undertaking. and the various reports that had
gone abroad, in consequence of what was declared to be a
failure of their system. lie objected to the reception of
one report until that of Mr. Wood was produced, because
it was his which the meeting had sanctioned. TO entertain
the question without that report, would be most absurd.
When he saw the wise and cautious proceeding of the gen-
tlemen on the other side of the table, he entertained no
doubt that they would withdraw further opposition, when
they saw the sense of the meeting was against them. He
could not but believe that gentlemen who had acted so
honourably throughout would at once waive their claim
to have a one-sided report read, and proceed
to the business really before the meeting. They were
placed in a difficult position. They were called together,
after an adjournment of six weeks, during which time the
energies of the Directors had been paralyzed ; and if there
was now no motion before the meeting, it appeared to him

that it was time to bring the matter to some conclusion.
For himself, he would say, that since the last meeting he
had cautiously avoided any public or private communica-
tion with the Directors, and he knew nothing of their pro-
ceedings or opinions except what was before the public.
Having in that interval made himself acquainted with the
progeess and working of the Railway, he now waited with
same solicitude to see what course the gentlemen from the
North, with whom the postponement had originated, would
pursue. If they were not prepared to make any proposition
to the meeting, it would then become his (Dr. C.'s) duty to
do something of the kind.
After some further desultory discussion,
Mr. Pititiwin rose to order. He begged to ask the
Chairman what question was before the meeting?
Mr. HOYES was not at all desirous to throw obloquy on
the Directors. One of the wisest steps they had ever
taken, was to apply to these three engineers; and
he and.
his friends certainly held the opinion, that the calling in of
these three gentlemen, showed that the Directors had no
confidence whatever in the plans of their engineer.—(Loud
cries of-" No, no.")
The CHAIRMAN denied emphatically that such was the

The CHAIRMAN—I think that imputation uncalled for
and unjust. We utterly disclaim any wish to keep back
the report merely because it is unfavourable.—(Cheering.)
Mr. GIBBS, one of the Directors, said they were wil-
ling
principle
same to
aacitlitpomire ii
tty
of t
as a thatirm 'Srl.r. . H
Wood.awk s h arrwhree
They
dida s actingnot w
aunntd
teor the
same authority as Mr. Wood. They did not want to de-
the value of Mr. Hawkshawe's report, but on
the
play to have both produced together.
The CHAIRMAN--The instructions to both gentlemen
were verbatim, and the proceedings in reference to their
reports should he pari passu. He regretted the delay,
and admitted that it would enhance the value of Mr.
Wood's report if it had been received in time.
Mr. HEYWORTH begged to ask when it was likely they
would have Mr. Wood's report ?
The CHAIRMAN—In his letter be states that the course
of experiments be is engaged in will take him about three
weeks to complete, without making comparative experi-
ments on other lines. The comparative experiments would
perhaps take about three weeks more.
Mr. HovEs—lt appears we are engaged in a course of
operations in which it, requires one of the first engineers in
the country two or • three weeks to make up his mind, al-
though we were told that any man of intelligence would
find the advantages out at once.
Mr. SWIFT would ask whether the Directors, in the
face of the adverse report they now held, were deter-
mined to go on with the same system ? It would be better
to read the two reports as far as they went, and then the
meeting might be able to come to some conclusion.
The CHAIRMAN said if there were two reports, hewould I
be happy to produce them ; but the meeting could not
surely mean tordecide upon the opinion of one party only.
Mr. HoYEs inquired what course the Directors proposed
to adopt in reference to these reports? Would they print
and circulate them among the Shareholders before they
called the special meeting ? It would be desirable to do so,
in order that the shareholders should be in possession of
the information they contained, and obviate the necessity
of further adjournment.
The Climax:A N was ready to take the sense of the
meeting on that •suldeet. The Directors had no objection
to the reports being printed and circulated, say a week or
ten days before the special meeting was called. This would

Observer.
The inhabitants of Chelmsford have, at a meeting
held for that purpose, determined upon presenting Mr. Bea-
con with a piece of plate in gratitude for his public spirit, in
laying informations against the 42 bakers of that town who
sold their bread under weight. Mr. Beacon is a gentleman
of consid.trable fortune. —Essex Standard.
TRANSPORTATION.—It appears from the Report
of the Committee that the condition of the convicts in the
chain gangs is one of great privation and unhappiness. They
are locked up from sunset to sunrise in the caravan or boxes
used for this description of persons, which hold from 20 to 28,
but in which the whole number can neither stand upright nor
sit down at the same time (except with their legs at right
angles to their bodies), and which in some instances do not
allow more than 18 inches in width for each individual to
lie down upon the bare boirds; they are kept to work under
a strict guard during the day, and subject to flagellation, &c.
The work appointed for the convicts at Norfolk Island and Port
Arthur, is of the most incessant and galling description, and
anv disobedience of orders is instantaneously punished with the
las.h. So horrible are these penal settlements that men corn-
mit crimes which they know will subject them to be hanged
in order to be sent to the paradise of Sydney. They pre-
ferred death and would rather go to Sydney to be hanged
than suffer the torments of Norfolk Island. Men cut the
heads of their fellow•prisoners with a hoe while at work with a
certainty of being executed for it, in order to escape the hoe-
rs f the penal settlements of the pans! colony. Men placed
i
such
a horrid situai ion have mad several iten.lierate attempt,,
t mutiny, and 20 were shot or executed in. 1834. Judo;
Burton said, "te see these convicts herding together without
as chance of improvement was painful in the extreme."

Case.
Mr. HEYWORTH fully approved of the course pur-
sued by the Directors, and he believed that the call-
ing it: -of the three engineers was not so much from
any want of confidence in their engineer, but from the
noise without.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Calumniating,
as they would say, but as he and many others believed,
stating what was the truth. He gave the Directors credit
for the course they had adopted. There was nothing
inimical on the part of the Shareholders towards them.
All the Shareholders wished was, that they should possess
all the information they possibly could, so as to lead ulti-
mately to a profitable result to themselves and the advan-
tage of the community.
Mr. CROSTHWAITE admitte'd that a portion of the
Shareholders from the North of England did apply for an
adjournment, in order to get these reports, and therefore
they now came there in expectation that those reports
would be submitted to them. They had no desire to perplex
or injure the interests of the concern.
The CIIAIRMAN said, the Directors did not at the time
know that both reports might not have been ready'for their
inspection.

Dr. CARPENTER said, it appeared to him that they were
now come to that point at which they had left off at the last
meeting. Although he had voted against the adjournment,
be cordially thanked the gentlemen from whom it had
emanated, because they were now met with more poWer to
come to a satisfactory conclusion, even without these reports.
The Directors had stated that a special meeting would be
held as soon as possible after the receipt of Mr. Wood's
report, and he had seen such perfect openness in all their
conduct, that he was satisfied whatever the report was it
would be submitted to the Proprietors for their decision.
He was not anxious to have the other report read, be-
cause it wtls of a nature to put an end to to the system
which they had already adopted ; and after they
.bad gone
so far as to construct viaducts and tunnels and budges to a
considerable extent, on the principle of the broad .
only trthted that no circumstances would induce tbe
Pro-
prietors or Directors to deviate front, that principle.