The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-08 00:00:00

SICILY.

Letters from Naples of the 27th ult. state that
Sicily is to have a separate administration distinct from
Naples, a Consult or Chamber chosen by the muni-
cipalities, and that the Prince de Casaro is to be ap-
pointed Viceroy.

Two distressing cases of cholera occurred in West
Allington, Bridport, during this week. A child of a car-
penter, who was just recovering from the small-pox,
was seized and carried off by it very rapidly. The
mother lifted up her arms suddenly, and cried out "Now
I am taken." She was smitten on Friday evening, and
was a corpse during the night. Bridport has had much
diarrhcsa, but only a few cases of cholera. The present
cases are peculiarly distressing. To add to the calamity,
the husband was absent from home, at Lyme, and was
only sent for this morning at six o'clock, after his wife's
death, so that on his return, he finds his wife and child
corpses.
A CLERICAL MATORe—APPLEBY.—The Reverend
Thomas Bellas, Vicar of Bongate, has been elected
mayor of this borough for the enauing year.— Westmore.
land Gazette.

MINING INTELLIGENCE
(From the Mining Journal.)

The transactions during the week have been con-
siderable, and a much larger amount of business
might have been transacted, if sellers could have
been found ; negotiations, however, are still going on
for shares in most of our dividend-paying mines,
which appear to be in demand for investment.
Treviskey and Barrier, Tincroft, Stray Park, and
Trelawny, have been sought for at advanced prices,
and in some of these mines a large number of shares
have changed hands.
East Wheal Rose, South Frances, South Basset,
North Pool, and Great Consols are also inquired for.
East Pool is represented as looking very well, and
North Pool continues to improve in the bottom level,
which is worth from 601. to 701. per fm., and the late
discovery in the 24 fm. level is producing five tons
per fm.
Shares in the following mines have been sold dur-
ing the week :—East Wheal Rose, South Basset,
Tincroft, Trehane, Trelawny, Mary Ann, Treviskey
and Barrier, Mendip Hills, Lewis, Bedford United,
Stray Park Camborne Consols, West CAradon,
Birch Tor and Vitifer, Devon and Courtenay, and
West Providence.

In foreign mines there has been a fair proportion
of business done, and the following have changed
hands, with buyers still in the market :—United
Mexican, Copiapo, St. John del Rey, National
Brazilian, Alten, Imperial Brazilian, Australian, Gua-
dalcanal, Ike. .

By private letters we learn that some important
discovery has been made at Bon Accord (adjoining
Burra Burra Mine, in South Australia), one-third
part of which belongs to the North British Australa-
sian Company; and a demand, in consequence, has
taken place for shares at an advance on former quota-
tions. Official reports are daily expected from the
mine.

THE ARMY AND NAVY.
(From the United Service Gazette)
SHIPS COMMISSIONED.—Our anticipations have been
in some measure realised with reference to the com-
missioning of more ships; but the news from Turkey
should have obliged the Admiralty to have brought, at
least, five line-of-battle ships forward. The following
ships have had captains appointed to them during the
last few days:—
Sailing Vessels—Leander, 50, Captain nacres, Ports-
mouth; Serpent, 12, Commander Barker, Portsmouth.
Steamers—Firebrand, 8, Captain Knox, Woolwich;
Spiteful, 6, Commander Carmichael, Devonport; Con-
flict (schooner), 14, Commander Drake, Devoeport.
In addition to these, the Ganges, 84, arrived at De-
vonport from Cork, has been ordered to fill up her com-
plement from 500 to 750. The Superb, 80, at Spithead,
has not yet received instructions to complete her full
ship's company. For the above ships 1,370 officers,
seamen, and marines will be required. About 200 blue
jackets are and speedily will be available, who have re-
' turned, or are returning, from leave; and we are in-
formed that, on inquiry at Liverpool, there are about
350 seamen in the Sailors' Home, and that the number
of unemployed is increasing as the timber ships arrive.
THE CAPTAINS' GOOD SERVICE PENSION.—We are
now enabled to announce that the Captains' Good Ser-
vice Pension, vacant by the promotion of Rear-Ad-
miral Sir Gordon Bremer, has beau conferred on the
Gallant Officer named by us a fortnight kince-Com-
modore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., who is about re-
turning to England from three years' service as Com-
mander-in- Chief of the Brazils Station.
THE LIEUTENANT'S OUT-PENSION OF GREENWICH.
—The vacant Lieutenant's Out-Pension of Greenwich
Hospital has been conferred upon Lieutenant Edward
Cole (1806), a most gallant old officer, who was pressed
into the service in 1798, as Captain of the maintop of
the Inflexible, 64, and was rated a midshipman of the
Iptedoubt, 50, the folloveing year.
THE NEW STEAM-VESSELS FOR THE RESERVE
SQUADRON.—Fresh orders have been issued with respect
to the Megaara, screw-frigate, Desperate, Magician, and
Buzzard, screw-sloops, in the Thames. They are to
have their guns and carriages, and fittings, in all re-
spects, ready before they are navigated to Sherness.
Captain Philip King, R.N. (1830), is about to emi-
grate to New South Wales, having received a grant of
land from the Colonial-office.
THE SHELL JACKET NUISANCE.—A rumour is Cur-
rent that her Majesty has signified her wish that this
most unpopular innovation upon decency should be set
aside, and a blue frock coat be again substituted.
This must be cheering news, now that the cold weather
is coming on.
FUEL FOR BARRACKS.—The Board of Ordnance have
notified to barrack masters that the summer allowance
of coals to the troops in barracks will comnaence on the
Ist May, instead of Ist April, and the winter allowance
on the Ist Nov., instead of Ist Oct., in every year.
The Enrolled Pensioners will not be called out again
for exercise during the present year.
PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—The 4th, 77th, and the Ist
battalion of the gist Regiment, with a Company of
Sappers and Miners, and a small-arm battalion of the
Royal Marine Artillery, were brigaded on Southsee
Common on Thursday, for drill, by Major-General
Lord Frederick Fitzektrence, G.C.11., commanding the
District.

SCENE IN A REVISING BAR
RISTER'S COURT.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
MORPETII, FRIDAY, OCT. 5.—A scene of a very
amusing character occurred in the Revising Barris-
ter's Court in this town on Wednesday, which had
well nigh resulted in a violent assault being inflicted
upon the presiding judge, Mr. Thomas Jefferson llogg,
by Mr. Woodtnan, a respectable solicitor, and Town-
clerk of this borough. The matter has given riL,e to
a very considerable degree of gossip among the in-
habitants, and deserves a brief chronicle.

Mr. Jefferson Hogg, the Revising Barrister, has for
many years past revised the list of voters fur this
borough, and also for the county of Northumberland,
in which it is situate. It will be remembered that he
was one of the Commissioners appointed to examine
into the municipal corporations preparatory to the
passing of the Municipal Corporation Reform
Bill, and that he was strongly biassed in favour
of the old corporate system in some, if not all, of the
towns which he visited and reported upon, so much
so indeed, that, if my memory does not fail me, he
not only refused to sign the general report of the
Commissioners to the House of Commons, but drew
up and presented a protest against that report. He it
was' likewise who, some two years ago, wrote a some-
what indiscreet and intemperate letter to Sir Robert
Peel on the subject of his (the writer's) share in that
commission, which went the round of the newspapers.
With considerable urbanity and courtesy of manner,
and with a temper admirably cool, Mr. Hogg, never-
theless, can, and does, occasionally use language to
persons transacting business in his court, under which
they absolutely wince, such is its severity. It was whilst
administering a reproof of this kind to an overseer

that the circumstances arose which I shall presently
relate. Mr. Woodman, to whom I have referred, in
his capacy of Town•clerk, and also as an agent of the
Liberal interest in this county, has been brought fre-
quently in contact with Mr. Hogg, and it would seem
that some angry feelingexisted between them ; for it is
said, that whilst the other gentlemen in attendance
on the court on Wednesday rose to receive the Bar-
rister on his entering the court, Mr. Woodman did not
join in that customary mark of courtesy. The princi-
pals being thus brought before the reader, I shall now
relate what transpired, so far as I have been able to
collect it from the lips of the bystanders. Besides
Mr. Woodman, I ought to mention that Mr. Fenwick,
the agent of Lord Carlisle, and Mr. Anthony
Charlton, a respectable attorney in the town, were
among the principal persons present in the court, and
also a son of Mr. Woodman, now under articles to his
father.

A man named Dobson, who has for many years
been the permanent overseer of Bedlington, part of
this borough, presented the list of claimants in his
parish to the Revising Barrister for revision, in the
ordinary way, whereupon
The Barrister took occasion to administer a very
severe rebuke to the overseer on the filthy state in
which his list was, remarking that it was disgraceful
to him, and that he was wholly unfit for the situation
which he held, and applying several offensive epithets
to him. He then called upon the overseer to produce
his rate-book, which being done, he (the Barrister)
animadverted in equally if not more offensive terms
upon the condition of that document.
Mr. Woodman, with some little warmth of manner,
rose and said he begged the Barrister's pardon for
interrupting him for a moment, but he (Mr. Wood-
man) could not sit still and hear Mr. Dobson's (the
overseer) feelings, wounded in that way by the Bar.
raster. Mr. Dobson he (Mr. Woodman) knew to be a
respectable man, and well esteemed among his neigh-
bours and townsmen, and, as a proof that they deemed
him worthy to fill the situation, he might say that
Mr. Dobson had discharged its duties for several
years. He, therefore, begged that the Barrister
would discontinue the use of language so opprobrious
as that which he had applied to Mr. Dobson.
The Barrister—What I am I to be dictated to
by a pettifogging attorney ?
Mr. Woodman (with still more warmth)—Whether
or no ho was a pettifogging attorney, he begged to
tell the Learned Gentleman that he was not a briefless
barrister ; and he would have him also remember that
he (the Revising Barrister) was not now abusing Sir
like that to Robert Peel
Here the Barrister,
motioned Mr. Woodman
Mr. Woodman,
moment, replied that
Bar-
rister as well as for him,
vehe-
mence (and clutching, while imanv.ditthhaitmhpeun. shouldity. not apply language
with the greatet coolness,
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which Mr. Fenwick, who stood close
hand) " I'll horsewhip you, sir."
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Mr. Fen wick, however, happily for Mr. Hogg,
re-
tained firm hold of his stick. But for that an assault
of a most violent and degrading description must, in
all probability, have been inflicted upon the presiding
Barrister, and it is not difficult to imagine what the
consequences would have been to Mr. Woodman,
himself a lawyer, for striking a Judge in his own
court. )311,6 the matter did not end here. Mr. Wood-

man being foiled in his attempt to obtain Mr. Fen-
wick's stick, rushed out of the room in an agitated
mariner to his own house, and was returning with a
stick to inflict personal chastisement, it is believed,
on the Barrister, when he was met by Mr. Fenwick
and Mr. Charlton, who succeeded in dissuading
him from carrying the matter further.
" I wonder you have not a sane man for your
Town-clerk," said the Barrister to Messrs. Fen wick
and Charlton, after Mr. Woodman had gone; but those
gentlemen made no reply, and instantly left the
court, leaving Mr. Woodman's son and the Barrister
to transact the business between them.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
IRISH MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN.

An extraordinary meeting of the above company
was held on Wednesday at the Broadstone terminus,
Dublin. Mr. BOYD, deputy chairman, presided, who
on opening the business, said that the directors had
called that meeting in order to submit a resolution to
the shareholders in compliance with the Act of the
10th and 11 th of Victoria, c. 62, by which it was
provided that in consideration of a Government loan
of 500,0001. for the purpose of constructing the exten-
sion of the Midland Great Western Railway from
Mullingar to Galway, the directors should be au-
thorized to mortgage the line to the Crown.
The resolution, baling been seconded by Mr. J.
BOYCE, was unanimously adopted.
Mr. TAYLOR said it was the interest of the share-
holders that the resolution which had just been
adopted should be carried unanimously, and although
he was aware that no body of gentlemen could be actu-
ated by a higher sense of honour than those who com-
posed the board of directors, he would implore them
to take warning by the past, and exercise the utmost
of their ability in economising the funds committed
to their trust. He had been nearly a quarter of a
century in the exercise of his profession, and in that
course of time he had a great deal to do in the ma-
nagement of estates, and from his long experience,
and from what he had lately seen in the provinces, he
could tell the directors that this country, with respect
to property in general, was in a most deplorable con-
dition. He, was desirous to see the works of the
railway construced in a durable manner, but he would
implore the directors to pause before they would con-
sent to the building of Italian edifices and. Grecian
colonnades on the line from Mullingar to Galway.
The CHAIRMAN said, the board fully concurred in
the observations which ILA just fallen from the last
speaker. They (the directors) had not hitherto spent
money lavishly, and they would in future be still
more particular with regard to economy, than they
had been even for the time past.—(Hear.)
The meeting then separated.

TOURNAY TO JURBISE AND LANDEN TO
HASSELT.

A meeting of the shareholders in this company was
held on Thursday at the office, Upper Thames-street,
to consider the promised report of the directors to be
presented to the general meeting of the company, at
Brussels, on the sth of next month. Mr. Kennard
took the chair.
The Ceteermaie, in opening the proceedings, stated
that they were merely of a formal character, as no
business could be legally transacted by them except
at Brussels. They were called toe-ather at the earliest
possible period, to be informed of the state of their
affairs and to receive the report of the directors.
The reason they were delayed so long after the 30th
of June was, that the Belgian Government re-
turns for June were not communicated to them until
the middle of August ; and the directors had been in
Paris nicking arrangements for direct trains from
Calais to Brussels which would pass over their line.
On the 10th of September the arrangements were
concluded, by which it was expected considerable
benefit would arise to the company. Having
adverted to the difficulties which the direc-
tors had to encounter in the construction of
the line, he proceeded to state that the result of
the traffic at the end of the six months' working was
greatly below the expectations which they had pre-
viously formed of it. Looking to the grounds on
which their anticipations were based, he had no doubt
the railway would ultimately realize them. In Bel-
gium the traffic moved very slowly. They found the
carriers continued the old mode of conveyance, al-
though the railway could carry for one-third less. He
congratulated the proprietors on having completed
47 miles of railway without any assistance from
the Government, notwithstanding the difficulties they
had met with in the financial crisis—the bankruptcy
of their banker, who had 1,000,0001. (40,0001.) in his
hands at the time cf his failure, the famine, the revo-
lution of a neighbouring state, cholera, and nothing
but trouble and difficulties on all sides. In a few
weeks they would deliver up the line to the Govern-
ment completed.
The SECRETARY then read the report, which
was of considerable length. It stated that the con-
cession of the lines was sanctioned by royal ordi-
nance on the 21st of July, 1845. By the sta-
tutes, the founders of the company were personally
bound to the Belgian Government for the execu-
tion of the works of the two lines ; and, by a fixed
contract with the Government, they undertook to
construct at their own cost and risk the whole of the
works, and to defray the expenses of the company
(luring construction, on condition of receiving the
produce of 25,000 shares (500,0001.) After describing
the difficulties and delays in obtaining the sanction of
the Government to the plans and sections of the lines,
the possession of land, and progress of the works, it
stated the section of the line from Jurbise to Maffies,
about nine miles, was opened for traffic in September
1847. The last call was made in August, 1848, but
arrears ware due to a considerable amount. The
president obtained a loan of 30,0001. for the company
from the bank of Belgium; and on the 30th of Oc-
tober, 1848, the whole of the Tourney and Jurbise
line was opened for traffic with a single line of
rails ; and on the 10th of January, 1849, was defi-
nitively received by the Government, on whom
henceforth the maintenance of it devolves. The se-
cond line of rails are now on the eve of completion.
For the nominal capital of 500,0001. the company is
in pOssession of two lines of railway (in all about 47
miles in length), constructed at an average cost of
10,6381. per mile, including all expenses during the
period of construction. The construction of the
state railways in Belgurn had cost 19,2401. per mile,
not including the interest of capital. The Govern-

anent is bound to maintain and work the two lines
with its own stock and staff. They received 50 per
cent. of the gross receipts for working them by con-
tract, extending over the entire term of the concession
(90 years). The remaining 50 per cent. is paid
monthly to the company. The recent convention
entered into between the Belgian Government and the
direction of the Northern of France lines places the

Tournay and Jurbise railway in the same rank as the
Government lines, and promises the speedy organiza-
tion of direct trains without change of carriage from
Calais and Lille to Brussels by Tournay. The line from
Manlge to Mons, which will bring the coal to the
Tournay line, with an economy of about 20 per cent.
in the transport, was not opened throughout to Mons
till the present month. Assuming that the line from
Tournay to Jurbise (10 leagues) might be con-
sidered an average line for traffic, and that of Has3elt
(51 leagues) one-half this average, and taking the
average of the general receipts of the Belgian lines
for the last four years, the share accruing to the com-
pany would amount to 62,000 f. per month, or 6 per
cent. on the capital expended. These were the anti-
cipatory calculation's of the directors, but the results
come greatly below them, which they attribute to the
state of trade, the slow development of the traffic, and of

the reluctance of the Belgians to remove it from the
common road to the railway. The Lands n and Hasselt
line was opened the entire distance of 17 miles on the
Bth of December, 1847. Interest at the rate of 4 per
cent. was paid to the shareholders during the con-
struction of the lines. The gross receipts of both
lines for the half-year ending the 30th of June last
amounted to 267,038 f., of which 37,183 f. was received
in January ; 36,513 f. in February ; 40,695 f. in
March ; 49,681 f. in April ; 53,209 f. in May ; and
49,756 f. in June. Fifty per cent. of the gross receipts
paid over to the company amounted to 5,2361., from
which the expenses of management, 3391. in England
and 6051. in Belgium, together 9441. is deducted,
leaving 4,2921.; which, divided over 25,000 shares,
gives a dividend of 3z. sd. per share for the half-year
on the 201. share.

The CHAIRMAN. on moving the adoption of the
report and accounts, stated that the arrears on the
shares amounted to 150,000/. ; they were in the hands
of the contractors, and the shareholders could have
them by paying up what was due on them. The
traffic on their lines in July amounted to 54,274

francs, and in August to about-60,000 francs, which
was not far from the anticipated average amount—viz.,
62,000 francs. He then adverted to the conduct of the
Belgian officials in denying the existence of the line,
and the consequent shortening of the distance between
Calais and Brussels, because they were interested in
sending passengers by the other route. The company
had a resident director in Belgium at 6001. a year, a
secretary at 3001. a year, and an accountant at 1601.
a year. He thought the company ought to spend
more money in advertising than they did. He be-
lieved that when the route by their line from Calais
to Brussels was known, passengers from England
would not go to Ostend, because they would save five
or six hours sea voyage and 1/. in money.
Mr. PATERSON seconded the motion.
A discussion ensued on the cost of management
being 9441. for the half-year, while the total receipts
of the company were only 5,2361. It was explained
that no reduction could be made in the expenditure
at present, nor for two years to come..
Mr. CAZENOVE highly approved of the report, and
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thought they should not think of reducing the salaries
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The Cuamax alludedan to the handsome way in
which the Belgian
workmen behaved to the company
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In working foi them, when the latter had no means