The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

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* JANUARY 26, 1849•

GRAVESEND via OLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and PLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway arpl Boat Included lu one Payment.
Fares, to or from don.
Pore Cabin and Second Class RailwaLony, ONE SHILLING;
saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING and SIXPENCE.
To or from Blackwall -or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin......... 9d. Saloon-.......
No other I'ackets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
FROM. TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
Week Days, at 8, 814*, 9'y. 23(, and
Sundays. at 81;, 1114, I, 214; and 5.
PROM BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKW ILL.
Week Days, at 914, 11, 12, 1:.4, 3,4, and 5.
Sundays, at 914, 11, 114, and 5.
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
Passages marked * are run direct., the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Plers.or fbr Boats.
Omnibuses trout Fenchurch-street Station to all parts of London
,very quarter of an hour,
BOAT TlCKET:s.—Twelve Months, 4/. 4s. ;- Six Months, 2Z. 153.;
Three Months, H. 155.; to be had of the Collectors on board the
oackets; Mr. Monk, Terrace l'ier, Gravesend; or of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall.
Passengers' Luggage conveyed to and from the Packets and Rail-
way, at the Brunswick-wharf, without any charge. The charge for
Porterage at Fenchurch-street is Id. for small parcels, and 2d. for
large parcels.
November 7. 1848.

U R K'S HEAD HOTEL,
NEWCA.STLEATPON-T YNE.
• JOHN BRODIE (late of the King's Head Inn, Darlingtonr, re-
turns his most grateful thanks to the Nobility and Gentry, and to his
'iturnerons Commercial and other Friends for the extensive patronage
'bestowed noon him during the las' fifteen years in Darlington, and
pegs respectfully to intimate that he has taken a lease of the above
urge and well-known Establishment, upon which he intends to enter
on the 2d of February next, and trusts to be favoure,, in this new
undertaking, with the patronage which will be his study to deserve.
The Tnrk's Head will shortly undergo a complete! internal re-
novation.
i• Darlington, January 16, 1849.
TN consequence of the great rush of Visitors to see
BANVARD'S GRAND MOVING PAINTING of the MIS-
SISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, at the EGYP ['IAN HALL,
Piccadilly, the Proprietor respectfully announces Two Exhibitions
every day during the holidays. This immense Painting is the
Largest in the World, and exhibits more than 3,000 miles of Ameri-
can scenery.—The Day exhibition will commence every Afternoon,
at Half-past Two, and the Evening at Half-past Seven o'clock ;
oors open half an h•ur before commenc,ng. Admission, lower
seats, 2s. ; gallery, Is.

TIC DOLOREUX CURAULE.—TOOTHACHE.
JAMES' CELEBRATED ASTILIAN TINC-
TURE FOR THE TIC DOLOREUX,
will prove an invaluable medicine to those suffering from this most
excruciating and hitherto-considered incurable complaint. A know-
ledge of its surprising efficacy has induced the proprietors to bring it
more extensively before the Public than has hitherto been done, and
thus confer a blessing upon thousands now labouring under that
distressiog malady; the first appLcation not only easing the patient
of all pain, but effecting in almost every case, a lasting cure.
As a remedy for Toothache, the proprietors can confidently recom-
mend it as one that cannot be surpassed.
This medicine is also a certain specific for Spasms, however violent,
especially in the stomach or bowels, and from its perfect freedom
from anything of a deleterious character, may be administered under
any circumstances with entire safety.
Prepared by CARSON and Co., Liverpool, sole Proprietors, and
sold wholesale, for them by Barclay and Sons, Edwar Is, Sutton,
and Co., Butler and Harding, I. Sanger, Dletrichsen and Hannay.
London; Southall Brothers, Birmingham; I. and It. Raines and
Co., Edinburgh; Bolton, Illanshard, and Co., Fork; Clay and Har-
vey, and E. S. Rogers, Liverpool ; and retail by the following
Chemists:—Collins, 54, Piccadilly; Woolridge, Bath-place, New-
road ; Fisher, Crawford street ; Holmes, Spring street, Sussex-
gardens; Emery, Notting-hill; or any re,pecteble Patent Medicine
Vendor throughout the kingdom.
Price 2s. 9d., 4s 6d., and in Family Bottles, I Is. each.

A R R I A G E.
One half the world are desolately single, and the other
Npposang them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
,nse of right determine the former, and miscalculateol hopes em-
• `ter the latter. The solitary one may shield hirn,elf under the plea
caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
arnprosing hurry; but the troth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
cad broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
.nd social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
lement. Honour and justice demand that health shmuld form an item
n the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. !flighted hopes er
-eglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
.liese surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVERWELL'S little
r. OtES "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is.
pch (by [Jost, in stamps, is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
,etined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
micinterpretatier, of their supposed contents, from obtaining
`,em. They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
er the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
,-ey are offered as antagonistic to the empyricai trash put forth on
'he above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
::gether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
,itie publications claim your attention (same price Is. each,
)5, post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
.Avoid," and " How to be Nappy." They are not merely
I,:nphlets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
:nere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
Ife, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob.
:crvance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unte—te live after nature's laws—and to keep always
the " sunny side of the way." The above work: may be bad of
:horwood, 23, Paterncster-row ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet street • Mann,
15, Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
:,se) from the author (who may he conferred win personally,
marrungs and evenings), IC. Argyll-plaee Regentaitreet; and all
cultyAnnr,

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AIL WAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 25.
STOCK ExcHANGIL—The market to-day has been active,
and prices are again higher, with a large business doing.
The sales are—Aberdeen, 23—Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe,
and West Yorkshire, No. 1, 618—Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley, 554 p.—Caledonian, Preference, 114
p.—East Lancashire, 2C4—Ditto, 2.5/. Shares, 5 dis.
Great Northern (B Shares). 6 per cunt., 114 dis.— Lancashire
and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), 19 di,,
—Ditto, Fifths, 274 dis. Ditto, Halves (late Liverpool and
Bury), 13 dis.— Ditto (Extension), 2018—Ditto (late West
Riding Union), Fifths, 414 dis.—London and North- Western,
13-1 Ditto, %"ew Quarters, 514 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C),
p.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester), 26—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 10/. Preference, 11,/.2—Ditto
(late Sheffield and Lincoln), 1214 dis.—Midland Stock, 95-
I)itto, New Halves, 41,.; dis.—North Staffordshire, dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, 8 per cent. guaran•
teed for ten years, 9'l—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
Chester), 4 die. Ditto, 10/. Preference, guaranteed 8 per
cent., 147/4—Shropshire Union, 21t) dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, 26 Ditto, No. 2, 914 dis.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7744
ex int.—Ditto, No. 4 (Reg.), 75/B—York, Newcastle, and
fierwick (Extension, No. 1), 114 p.—Ditto (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 114 p.— 17,,rk and North Midland, Preference, gua-
ranteed 6 per cent. till 1850, 1 p.
MANCHESTER, Jaw. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Manchester and
Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 9-16—Ditto, Quarters (A and
13), 314—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 (Scrip), 7.3i—
Ditto (Registered), 71,4—North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—
West Riding Union, dis.—Leeds, Fifths, 3 dis.—Old
Sheffield, 51—Pleetwoods, 5 dis. —East Lancashire, Pre-
ference, 7 %, —Leeds, Preference, I% p.--Grimsby, 201. Shares,
1014 dis.
BIRMINGHAM. JAN. 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE. The following are the day's quota-
tions:—Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley,
1034 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 514 dis.—Ditto
(13), 3/. Ils. 3d. dis.—Ditto, Preference, 265. 3d. p.—Shrop-
shire Union, 535. Od dis.

YORK, JAN. 24.
STOOK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was
as follows :—Great Northern, 834 ex int.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Berwick), 28—Ditto
(G. N. E. Purchase), 854—York and North Midland (East
and West Riding Extension), 27!4.
GLASGOW, JAN. 24.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 8/. I ls.—Dundee and Perth, Quarters, 29s.—Edinburgh
and Northern, 11/. 165.—EAnburgh and Newport, 714—
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 1, s[4—Great
Northern, 81. 19s.

To-day being the day for posting letters by the
next British packet for America, it may be desirable to
mention that, although the new postal treaty with the
United States is now definitively completed on both
sides, the regulations connected with it cannot come
into operation without further notice, some little delay
being requisite for the necessary official arrangements.
Meanwhile the public will be aware the Post-office here
has ceased to charge the extra postage on the letters
brought by the United States steamers, and it is pre-
sumed that in like manner the United States Govern-
ment have ceased to charge the extra rate on letters
conveyed by our packets.
[ADVERTISEMENT].—The most effectual Cure for
Gout and Rheumatism is Holloway's Ointment and
Pills.—A frequent cause of these complaints is the in-
flammatory state of the blood, as they are generally
attended with bad digestion, lassitude, and great debility,
showing the want of a proper circulation of the fluids, and
that impurity of the blood greatly aggravates these pain-
ful disorders. HolloWay's Pills are of so purifying a
nature that a few doses taken in time is an effectual pre-
ventative against the Gout and Rheumatism; but any
one that has an attack of either should use Holloway's
Ointment also, the powerful properties of which, combined
with the effect of the Pills, ensures a certain cure,—Sold
by all druggists and at Professor Holloway's estab-
lishment, 244, Strand, London.
SOCIETY or ARTS.—At the meeting of this so-
ciety last evening, Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., Vice-
President, in the chair, an interesting parer on the
origin and progress of steam navigation was read by
Professor B. Woodcroft, illustrated by various beautiful
models and drawing. While speaking of this society.
we may mention that it is now open daily with an ex-
hibition of models of machinery, &c., Highton's
printing telegraph, and a beautiful [model of the Conway
tubular bridge, on the Chester
.and Holyhead Railway,
forming the objects of attraction to the numerous visitors.
The committee appointed to examine the question
of a suitable chamber for the sittings of the A-senibly,
has had its report drawn up by M. Bureaux de Puzy.
The committee proposes to make use of the old Chamber
of Deputies, with some changes calculated to give more
room. The number of places thus afforded will, it is
estimated, be 762. The cost of the alterations will be
765.160f.—Galignani.

The Public Baths and Wash•hou3es, St. Martin's-
in-the-fields, were opened yesterday for public use.
ADVERTISEMENT.]--DEAFNESS, NEW DISCOVERY.-
39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex-
traordinary powerful small newly-invented instrument, for deafness,
entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that
has been, or probably ever can be produced , it is modelled to the
ear, so that it rests within without projecting, which can be inserted
in the ears and removed in company unobserved ; and, being of the
same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. The powers of this
valuable new invention are so great as to bring very defective hear-
ing, of long standing, to its perfect and natural state, and to enable
deal persons to enjoy general conversation, to hear distinctly at
church. on the bench, at the bar, and at public assemblies ; the un-
pleasant sensation of singing noises In the ears are entirely removed,
and it affords to individuals affected with this dreadful malady allthe
assistance that possibly could be desired. Also 'improved Hearing
Trumpets of every description. The newly-Invented Spectacles,
Immediately they are placed before extremely imperfect vision,that
mist and dulness which appear before the eyes is at onceremoved,
every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged; de-:
fectivo sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youth-
ful, natural, and original state. Also
Achromatic Telescopes, Opera
Glasses, Microscopes, &c. Caution —Thy Messrs. S. and 11. Solomons,
Opticians and Aurlsts, are not connected with a person putting up
the same name in their immediate neighb,urhood. To prev..nt tots
takes he cautious, and Observe—To be had at 39, Albemarle-street,
riamaill7 (wows the *York liot01).• •

RAILWAY IN TELL I GEN CE.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.
The sixth ordinary meeting of the Ltaidon, Brighton.
and South Coast Railway Company was held yesterday
in the Bridge-house Hotel, Southwark ; Mr. Laing,
chairman of the company presided. There was a nu:
tnerous attendance rf shareholders.
The SeceeTafte read the report of the directors for
the half.) ear ending Dec. 31, 1848, from which it ap-
peared that the actual amount of capital raised up to that
date wag 6,950,0401., which amount, v.ith the exceprion
of 110,4921 expended on the Thames Junction. Hail-
sham, and Eastbourne branches, will receive dividend
out o' rev, nue. The sr,•rlis in progress being so near
completion as to br ready fur opening in the course of
next spring, the directors repeat with increased confi-
denco the assurar,c, given at a former meeting, that the
capital account may be closed at a figure not exceeding
7,200,000/., unless an alteration in circumstances such as
a large increase of traffic should render profitable an
additional outlay for objects not at present con-
templated. The report also announced that notice
hail been served by the South Eastern Railway Corn
pany requiting the partition of the existing London
Bridge station to be made on July 31, 1850, in pursuance
of the Act of Parliament, and the directors express their
opinion that an outlay for this purpose of 150.0001., in-
cluded in the estimate of 7,200 0004, and distributed over
the next two or three years, will not be exceeded. From
the revenue account embodied in the report, it appeared
that the gross earnings of the half-year amount to
258 603/., showing an increase over the corresponding
half year in 1847 of 21,1811., which was stated to I,e
principally due to the development of traffic on the main
and coast lilies. The total expenses of the half-year
amounted to 96,8611., exhibiting a reduction of more
than 17,0001. as compared with the half-year ending in
December, 1847. This saving was effected principally
under the head of locomotive power, and in the reduced
consumption of coke and its diminished cost. The re-
port next stated that a considerable saving would for
the future be effected under the head of office charges
and law charges, by arrangements which had been car-
ried out in both departments. Taking the results of
the whole year, the total receipts were 453,4081, and
the total expenditure 187.0561., being 414 per cent. of
the receipts. Ater recommending a dividend of
2/. 6s. per cent. on the ordinary capital out of the sur-
plus available for that purpose, the report next
refers to the taxation expanses of the com-
pany, amounting to 21,180/. and the directors ex-
press their hope that the exertions now making by
the united railway interest to obtain relief from the
excessive and unjust burden of local rates, will not be
without effect. As regards the proprietors of the
Brighton Company, the result of this system of taxation
is shortly this—that having expended a capital of
7,000,0001. in a commercial enterprise, by which (al-
though very inadequately remun, rative to themselves)
the value of other rateable property in the districts tra-
versed by the railway has been ,greatly enhanced, and
without throwing any additional burden on the rates,
but, on the contrary, giving employment, at high weekly
wages, to more than 1,000 persons within those districts,
they are mulcted in a sum of upwards of 22,0001. a year
(equivalent to 121 per cent. on the net sum applicable
for dividend, and to a consequent depreciation of
500.0001. in the market value of their capital), for the
benefit of the local ratepayers, who to that extent obtain
an advantage over other ratepayers not fortunate enough
to be able to shift their burdens upon a railway coin•
pany. This state of things is obviously unjust; and the
directors hope, therefore, that the amount deducted
from the earnings of the railway for taxation will
be in future materially diminished. The attention
of the proprietors was next drawn to the sub-
ject of the establishment of a "rest," or reserved
und, to meet the increase of expenditure which
must take place in renewals of the permanent way
and rolling stock, when the principle of closing the ca-
pital account is carried out ; and the directors, in con-
clusion, expressed their confidence that the more closely,
examination was directed to the position and pros-
pects of the property entrusted to their charge,
the more clearly would it appear to stand on
a sound basis, and be of an improving nature.
The chairman, in proposing the adoption of the
report, said that it altogether superseded the neces-
sity of his making any remarks regarding the position
in which the company then stood, the state of their
affairs being fully disclosed by it. However flattering
might be the anticipations which it was possible to draw
from the present condition of the company as compared
with that of the past year, he felt that the proper course
for him to pursue was to abstain from them altogether,
because if they should happen to ba falsified by events,
public confidence would be shaken in himself and those
with is hom he was associated, and the conclusion might
be drawn that all other statements put forward !rem the
same quarter were t quelly fallacicu He thus entered
upon a minute and ngthened explanation of the
various items of expenditure embraced by,
the accounts stating, the of jects which the di-
rectors had in View, and the reasons by which
they were influenced in incurring them. With respect
to the item of 21,000/. expended on the Croydon At-
oa!,,pheric Line and Epsom Branch, he stated that no
more then 8001. was laid out on the Croydon line during
that half year, the remainder of the whole amount being
applied to the settlement of the accounts of the con-
tractors for the Epsom branch. In reference to the
question of the propriety of providing a reserve fund to
meet the depreciation to which the permanent way and
rolling, stock was subjected, he thought that the directors
had acted wisely iu throwing out some observations cal-
culated to call the attention of the meeting to a subject
of so much importance, but which was at the same time
involved in much doubt and difficulty. Thu enormous
items under the head of taxation could not fail to com-
mand the attention of every proprietor. He had him-
self a strong feeling us to the impropriety of the heavy
taxation placed upon that most important of all inven-
tions—a railway, and he trusted that all persons inte-
rested would exert themselves to obtain relief from a
burden which pressed so heavily. In concluding his
remarks on the report, which were received with evident
satisfaction by the meeting, he stated that he was ready
to answer any questions which might be put to him, with
the view of obtaining any further elucidation of the affairs
of the company.
Captain KELLY said that he did not.observe in the
balance-sheet any account of the surplus land belong-
ing to the company, and said to be worth between 40,000/.
arid 50,000/.
The CHAIRMAN said that arrangements were making
by which it would be brought into the market in the
ensuing spring and summer; but it was not at present
introduced into the accounts because not immediately
available.
Several other questions proposed by the same gentle-
man having been satisfactorily replied to by the chair-
man, a brief discussion took place respecting the advi-
sability of establishing a depreciation fund. Much di-
versity of opinion existed on the subject, but the conver-
sation was brought to a close by the announcement that
the question was not regularly before the meeting, the
report not having been adopted.
The report having been adopted, a resolution was
passed declaring a dividend of 2/. 6s. per cent., payable
on the sth of February. Resolutions were also adopted
for converting into stock such of the eighth shares (D)
iu respect of which the whole of the calls having been
paid, and also into a six per cent. stock of such cf the six
per cent. shares (G) on which all calls are paid up.
Mr. Wsexisisosi drew the attention of the meeting to
the affairs of the Brighton and Continental Steam-packet
Company, who were set down in the balance-sheet as
debtors to the Brighton Railway Company to the amount
of 15,188/. He contended that the steam-packet com-
pany had large and just claims upon them, and he pro-
posed a resolution to the effect that these claims should
be referred to the consideration of persons competent to
decide upon them.
A long conversation ensued on this topic, which was
brought to a close by the adoption of an amendment to
the effect that the steam packet company should not be
pressed for their debt till meeting, when the subject
could be again brought forward, and in the meantime a
statement, informing the proprietors of the exact posi-
tion of affairs between the two companies should be cir-
culated.
Messrs. S. Laing, C. S. Crowley, and J. Wisbaw, the
three directors who go out of office by rotation, having
been re-elected, the customary vote of thanks to the
Chairman was passed, and the meeting dissolved.
MALTr

_'ON AND DRIFFIELD JUNCTION.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
Monday at Malton; the Earl of Carlisle in the chair.
The report stated that the York and Newcastle Company
had further postpcned• the construction of the Thirsk
and Mahon branch, upon the completion of which the
success of the Mahon and Driffield line must depend.
Mr. Hudson had assured the direci3mtoomsr_scy,datihradatets
payment,
nt lwenasgtihn"
tended ultimately to construct that branch. In conse-
quence of the postponement alluded to, the directors
i
suspended the works of the tunnel on the main line antic
the end of next March, by which time they hope that
tters
present improving appearance of commercial
would be confirmed. It was intendedheastu:ne:ine
possible to open the line from Driffield tot
local traffic, under an arrangement already The arrears
the York and North Midland Companyi. 0
b pressure in
of calls due amount t•i 16,000/. Duringsu nude Boon as
with
spenchd legal pro
the money market, the dirc•ctotrsof calls, but now that
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received
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the balance due by the com.
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cember last showed that
110,2581. expended, leaving a balance due to the banker
of
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After
short conversation, the reports were adopted,
and the retiring directors and auditors were re-elected.
A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, asd the
meeting separated.

RAILWAY ACROSS TIM, ISTBMUs OF SITEZ.—So great
is the traffic Lwcorning between this country and her
Indian empire, China, and Australia, by the facility
afforded by the late Viceroy Ibrahim Pacha, and his
father, across the Isthmus, from Alsxsadria to Sues,

We learn that a general meeting of the members
of the new Military and County Service Club was held
on Wednesday last, in St. James's street, Lieutenant-
General Sir Charles Napier in the chair, supported by
the Earl of Cardigan (11th Hussars), Lieut.-General Sir
Augustus De Butts, K.C.H., General Sutherland, Major
Sir Wyndham Anstruther, Bart., Lieut.-Colonel Brand-
ling, Sir Matthew Wyatt, and other officers. The re-
port of the managing committee was read, by which it
appears above 400 members have already enrolled, em-
hi acing the names of officers in the cavalry and infantry
in the Queen's and Company's army. The selection of
a site for the new club-house was carried unanimously in
favour of Crockford'a Club-house, in St. James's-street,
which has accordingly been taken on a long lease. The
house will be at once decorated and furnished in the
most complete manner, and be ready for the occupation
of the members early in March. It was proposed -by the
Earl of Cardigan, If ud seconded by Lieutenant- General
Sir Charles Napier, that the officers of the Royal Navy
and the Hon. Company's Navy be also •admissible Ili
members. This was carried unanimously.
Our mercantile advices from Vienna to the ISth
inst. mentions an announcement upon authority that
the contract for the new loan of 8,000,000/. sterling .
will be deferred till March. In consequence of this
resolution the funds had experienced an advance of be- '
tween one and two per cent., and the Five per Cents.
were quoted 851-. In Bank Shares also there had been
a very considerable rise. The foreign exchanges, how-
ever, were still unfavourable, the rate on London'being
as high as 11.23, although the Bank was understood
to hive discontinued purchasing. The feeling of general
confidence with respect to trade was steadily increasing,
but the condition of the various manufacturing interests
is yet complained of. the recent improvement being great
only when compared with the terrible state of things
during the past year. It is estimated that in the cotton
manufactories (except as regards yarn, in which branch
there is NH activity) the present employment is not
more th,n two-thirds of its ordinary amount; that in
those for wool and linen it is not more than one-half,
and in those for silk scarcely more than a third.
TnE NEW MAGISTRATES FOR MIDDLESEX...—.
following is a correct list of the gentlemen who have just
b. en added to the commission f.r Middlestx:—David
Salomoes, Esq., alderman of London, 91, Great Cumber- land place; Richard Edward Arden, Esq., 4, Bedford..
square; George C,00p,...r, Esq , Brenttord; Edward Harris
Dunneshurne, Esq., Twickenham ; James Mentgery,
Esq., Brentfurd; John Laurie, Esq., Thomas Turner,
Esq., Hampstead; John Samuel Tanqueray, Esq., Hen-
don; Thomas Henry Allen Poynder, Esq., Harley-street;
Daniel Hai rison, E-q., Chaseside, Enfield ; Henry
Lang, Esq., Montagu-square; George Charles Bing-
ham, Earl of Lucan, 20, Hanover-square; Edward Smith
Bigg, 45, Tavistock-place; John Walter, Esq., M.P.,
68, Russell-square; Gerard Noel Hoare, Esq., Niill• hill,
Hendon ; John Frederick Stanford, Langham-place ;
Edward Henry Nixon, Esq., Bladen-hill, Old Bromp-
ton; William Henry Hawkins, Esq., Mile-end-road,
south ; John George Hammack, Esq., Mile-,end-
road, north ; Nathanield Gould, Esq., 4, Taiistock-
square; John Savery Brooking, Esq., Tavistock-square;
Thomas John Hamilton, Earl of Orkney, Taplow-court;
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Harriott, Tviickette
ham; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., M.P., 45, Portland.; place; Richard Stovin Maw, Esq., Ashford-house,
Chertsey; Henry Wilson, Esq., Highbury-hill; Franois
Henry Newland Glossop. Esq., Isleworth; FranCis `
Lloyd, Eq., Beaufort-lodge, Chelsea; William Glad-
stone, Esq., Highgate; William Williams, Esq:;-Park- '
lane; Henry Granville Fitzallen Howard, Earl of Arun-
del and Surrey, Carlton House-terrace; Edmund Edward
Artribus, Esq., Bath-house, Chelsea; Francis 'Henry
Deane; Esq., Eastcote-house, Ruislip; William Purton,
Esq., Tottenham-park; Edward Hanson Denison, Esq.,
Thurlow-park, Brompton; Robert Jacob Hunsler, Esq.,
Holland-park-terrace; William Cubitt, Esq., Gray's Inn-
lane (late sheriff of London); Charles Hill, Esq., 25,
Hyde-park-square (ditto); Lord Portman; Thomas
Metcalfe Fluckton, Esq., Crawford-street; and John
Beake Kirby, Esq., 9, Devonshire-street, Portland-place,
and 5, Elm-court, Temple; Charles Woodward, Est.,
Compton-terrace.
COLLIERY EXPLOSION.--REPORTED LOSB OP FIFTY '
LIVES.—About twelve o'clock on Wednesday, a dread- .
ful explosion took place at Darley Main Colliery, which
is situated about two miles south of Barnsley. From
' inquiries made on the spot, it spears that there were
employed in the mine forty-four getters of coal, who; • • along with their hurriers, will amount to about sixty-
six , •
persons. There are also horse-drivers, trappers, and,
others, who will amount to six or ten persons, making in
the whole between seventy and eighty persons who were
in the pit at the time the explosion took place. At half-
past five o'clock twenty-ono persons bad been got out,
.., .
sixteen alive, most of whom are severely burnt, and fire
dead; four of the latter are married persons, Some with
aa
nn prisoner,
dd
flung j u
r n hime y
m downn t
when hits
very large families. Their names are John Parsons, the
elder, and John Parsons, the yeanger, father and sop;
Amos Harper, who has left a pregnant wife and sir.
children; Francis Wilson, and a single man named in
kinson. Every means are being tried to extricate th
others who are yet in the mine.
MURDEROUS OUTRAGE.—M. H.
wounding
Worship street, yesterday, with cutting. and
to-
do hins •-• .
printer in Abbey-street, Bethnal-green, was charged at , t
Lewis Randon, a broker's man. with
in intent
im" was
some grievous bodily harm. Thentcost
Ping defendant's
Fox, a
,masjetr
em-
ployed to levy a distress for rent
but had no sooner
house on the previous afternoon,
room than the prisoner
soner
established himself' in an p
to quit place. He was at th
apartment, but was followed b
landing, as soon as he recovered himself he
poker and mdtshas : '
who dragged *
of the
bso
arymd
meer
aeidn himforce
moment instantly
to_
seizteedy
furious
took
fourrmsies faooutnfgt eneterh.ki newuashpt olgooi uhrw.serbi seizedma p
holdatheuntilrt m 3 thhoe,
el weapon Was wresteyd ,' ~
.. A,
himhis bwusiinhessa for cutting wits
which w'as also I
from him by his wifeul
he
forced out o.
r his hand. The prisoner then seized a lon •-. -'
knife,
blow at his head, but it was .
fortunately caught by the leather -.: peak of his cap,
from which it glanced off and laid open the upper pats
. whine
h i
sa
csubshseaeei
aced
assailed
an d
oTha e
made repeated blows
at him with the knife, and in ward them
his efforts to .
off, his hand was •
cut in several places. He was tau-
mater driven into
the street, when he obtained the as-
sistance of
a Policeman who returned with him to the
house and tookthe • ' into custody. T
prisoner
the charge, the prisoner declared that upon entering his
house the complainant failed to produce any warrant or
vpiroisleonnterthen
paper,.
other authority for the seizure, and he, therefore, consi-
dered himself justified in exerting his best efforts to eject
him, but denied having taken up a knife or any other
weapon upon the occasion.—The prisoner's journeyman,
however, who was sent for by the magistrate, and gays
his evidence with manifest reluctance, completely con-
firmed the complainant's account of the transaction,
and admitted ;hat the contest was of a protracted and
desperate description, and that the broker's assistant'
was bleeding profusely from the wounds he had sus-
tained.—Mr. Ilammill considered the case of far too se-
rious a nature to be summarily dealt with, and ordered
the prisoner to be committed for trial.
ACCIDENT WIT); FIER.ARMS.—An accident which
terminated fatally occurred on the 24th inst., at Bicester,
to Masser Elliott, aged 17, son of Sir Charles Elliott,
Bart. The unfortunate youth, who was a pupil under
the Rev. J. W. Watts, at the Vicarage, was oat in the ._.
fields near the town shooting, in company with Master
Edward Watts. On firing at a blackbird the gun burst,
and the breach struck him on the eye, entered the head, . .
and scattered his brains oa and sheaf kis olothwe