The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-30 00:00:00

NEWMARKET AND CHESTER-
FORD RAILWAY.
The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway,
was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr.
C. S. Mortimer, deputy-chairman of the board of di-
rectors, in the chair.
The following was the report of the directors :
" Immediately after the adoption of the report made
by your committee of investigation, a new board of di-
reetors was formed consisting of the following gentle-
men :—Lord George Manners, Mr. Ball, Mr. Fane, Mr.
Hunt, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Shelley, and Mr. James
Wheeler.
"Upon reviewing the different subjects which pre-
sented themselves for consideration, it was obvious that
nothing could be immediately done on the subject of the
relations of the Newmarket Company with either of the
larger companies, by which its interests and prosperity
must be mainly affected. Your directors, therefore,
turned their attention first to the ascertaining and
settling those liabilities as to which the committee of
investigation had expressed an opinion, that they would
admit of considerable reduction,' and they are happy
to state that they have made satisfactory progress in the
adjustment of some of the heaviest of them.
" The unsettled state of the Eastern Counties' Rail-
way Company has prevented your directors from at-
tempting any negotiation with that company, or seeking
any better arrangement as to the working of your line.
Your directors deemed it necessary to oppose the pro-
posed amalgamation between the Eastern Counties' and
Norfolk Companies, an amalgamation which must ob-
viously have been highly injurious to all smaller compa-
nies working in the eastern district, and they congratu-
late their proprietors on the defeat of that measure.
" Your directors, in their last report, expressed their
great dissatisfaction at the result of the working of their
line by the Eastern Counties Railway Company. That
dissatisfaction has increased rather than diminished, and
it is the intention of your directors to resume the work-
ing of their own line at an early period, unless some ar-
rangement should be arrived at which may ensure more
satisfactory results.
" Your directors attach the greatest importance to the
completion of the Cambridge
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indispensable to develop the traffic, the undertaking
will become remunerative. Your engineer has made an
estimate, by which it appears that the necessary accom-
modation on the main line may be completed for a sum
not exceeding 2,5001. The works on the branch have
been delayed until it is ascertained at what point the
Great Northern Railway will ultimately enter the town
of Cambridge.
" In accordance with the suggestion in the report of
the committee of investigation, your directors waive all
claim to remuneration. They have not, however, thought
it necessary to appoint a managing director whilst the
working of the line is entrusted to the Eastern Counties
Railway Company.
" C. S. Mortimer, Esq., having been appointed one of
your directors, it will be necessary to appoint an auditor
to act in his place.
" A resolution will this day be submitted to you, fur
confirming the declaration of forfeiture made by the
directors of 315 shares, of which notice; as required by
the Act of Parliament, have been given to the respective
proprietors, who are reminded that the fact of forfeiting
their shares does not release them from their legal liability'
in respect of all calls made previously to this date. the
directors take this opportunity of reminding those
shareholders whose calls are in arrear of the necessity
of their being immediately paid, otherwise they will be
compelled, in justice to those who have been punctual,
and thereby supplied the necessary funds for liquidating
the company's liabilities, to take legal steps to enforce
their payment."
The revenue accounts represented the receipts of the
halr'-year to amount to 3,441/ ss. 4d., and the expendi-
ture to 3,4681. 9s. 6d., exhibiting a loss.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, regretted the absence of their Noble Chairman,
but assured the meeting that he still took a great in-
terest in the success of the undertaking. He was
happy to say many of their liabilities and outstanding
debts had been satisfactorily disposed of. He, how-
ever, could not congratulate them upon the successful
operations of the line. The meeting was aware that
it was worked by the Eastern Counties Company,
who did not feel it for their interest to do much to
develop the traffic, while their charges for working
were most exorbitant. For instance, they were charged
ls.. sd. per mile for locomotive power. On the
Southampton line the same power cost only
6d. or 7d. In addition, however, to the working
charges, the Eastern Counties Company had imposed
upon, them a further incumbrance of 6001. for what
they called " management," hut it ought rather to be
for " mismanagement."—(Laughter.)
In answer to questions,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the board had it in con-
sideration to let the working of the line on contract
to independent parties, and it was anticipated a large
saving in the expenditure would be effected—indeed,
an offer had been made to work the line for Bd. a

" A subscription had been opened here for a funeral
of
ceremony to be celebrated to the memory
the late Charles Albert, and pertnig.=•on had
been ppl;eil for to Government for the pip-,,0,fc..
'
The permission was delayed some time, but
take place in
the Church of Santa Croce, Half w-,s granted
at last, and the ceremony was to
the inhabitants of
Florence intended to be preser.i, notwithstanding the
ceremony was to be restricted 'clthing the limits of the
greatest simplicity. There was to be a simple in-
scription over the door as follows:—' To Charles Albert
the Magnanimous,' then the arms of Savoy over the
cenotaph, nothing else. General d'Aspre even published
an order of the day to his troops inviting the
Austrian officers to assist at the ceremony. It so hap-
pened, however, that the Sardinian Ambassador, Villa-
marina, neglected an• invitation to a grand festival
given by General d,A.spra in honour of the anniver-
sary of the Emperor of Austria's accession to the
throne. General d'Aspre took offence at this, hastened
to the Ministers, and insisted on the funeral ceremony for
Charles Albert being suspended, which was accordingly
done at the eleventh hour. Villamarina, it is said, in-
censed at such an insult, has written to his Government
for authorisation to celebrate a funeral ceremony in the
name of the Sardinian Embassy. The Tuscan Govern-
ment has extended its prohibition to Pisa, Lucca, and all,
other principal towns.
In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin
of the 23d the Minister of Grace and Justice pre-
sented a Bill on several reforms to be introduced in
different articles of the Civil Code, in order to make
them harmonise with the Constitution. The Minister
of Finance also presented a report on the situation of
the public treasury, and the ways and means to meet
the present financial difficulties.
The Milan Gazette of the 23d gives an official
account of the disturbances that took place at Milan
on the 18th on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday.
It further states that 20 of the persons arrested have
been condemned to the bastinado, and 14 to several
months' imprisonment.

our own
add. • .. In order that prices may rise to our level,
.itional supplies must, for a time, be sparingly sent
oat. After all, ho v, ever, w have to report considerable
steadiness in the prices of spinning, for exportation. In
goods, the makes suitable for the east have continued
as dull as they were last week; indeed, almost all
fabrics have been neglected, except printing cloths,
which, in some widths and qualities, have been in
good demand, at full rates. The Greeks are pur-
chasing rather more freely than of late, in conse-
quence of somewhat improved advices from Constan-
tinople and from Persia, particularly in regard to
printed calicoes.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The market has been un-
commonly brisk again to, day, especially for low•
priced flannels ; but, on account of the past, being the
wakes week, there was a more limited number of
pieces in the market. The wool market continues
slack, and prices steady.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—SiIk throwing being
a slow process, it does not so suddenly show de-
pression or improvement as other staple trades. A
few bales of silk, of tedious winding, require a month
or two ere they can be passed through the machinery,
and hence we have to report a continued steadiness
of employment in this department. Probably
the steady employment of the hands in this
department may in some measure be accounted
for by the higher rates at which thrown silk is now
selling (prices having advanced considerably) and also
by the manufacturers in Manchester and elsewhere,
having been large buyers of raw silk, which they are
giving out to throwsters here and in Congleton, to work
for hire. We are surprised to hear of the continued
slackness in the manufacturing department, as we un-
derstand the dyers are well employed, which is generally
considered a fair criterion of the state of trade.
This must be owing to the very large quantities of
weaving sent from here to the rural districts of
Cheshire and Lancashire, in consequence of the low
prices at which weaving is done there. The import
of foreign silk goods appears to go on increasing ;
but this may probably be accounted for by the
large quantities re-exported to America and other
markets.

THE COMMON SENSE OF THE
HUNGARIAN QUESTION.
It is a gallant and noble thing to trample upon a
fallen nation. We may expect that the reverses of
the Hungarian arms will be followed up by attacks
upon the Hungarian character. Already this has been
begun by the writer of an article in Thursday's
Times, headed as above. The writer professes to have
resided on various occasions in Hungary, and to have
carefully studied Hungarian history and political
geography. If this is the case, he has done so to
little purpose.
He says, " the ultra Magyars wished to drive the
Croats and Tschechs by force into a foreign na-
tionality ;" and proceeds to assert, that " the unjusti-
fiably violent methods used by them are indisputable.
The flogging of peasantry that refused the change of
language in public worship ; the innumerable cases
of forcible interference between parent and child, in
the matter of education ; the refusal of the Magyar
censors to allow the Tschechs any newspaper what-
ever, in their mother tongue ; are all too incontest-
able to be effaced from the page of history."
Now it happens that there are no Tschechs in Hun-
gary. The writer, doubtless, means the Slovacks,
who belong to the same great Slavic branch as the
Tschechs of Bohemia. But letting this pass, we may
ask why, instead of vague charges, he does not pro-
duce at least one single fact bearing upon these
charges. Such similar accusations as have been made
in German papers have been invariably refuted. As
for Magyar censorship, the notion of such a thing is
most ridiculous. The censorship in Hungary was in
the hands of the Government, and consequently anti-
Magyar ; and it was always the policy of that Govern-
ment to fan the jealousies which existed in Hungary,
as they do every where else, between races speaking a
different language.
It is false to date the occupation of the greater part
of Hungary by the Turks from the battle of Mohacs.
After that battle, Solyman withdrew without occupy-
ing a single village of the realm. Whatever he and
his successors acquired was gained from Sovereigns of
the House of Hapsburg. After Austria had been
saved by Sobieski, the Austrian arms made progress
in Hungary, and gradually the Hungarian kingdom
was re-extended to its present limits ; but Hungary
could never, according to any maxim of national law,
have been considered a conquered province by the
House of Hapsburg. The election of each Hapsburg
Sovereign was accompanied by a solemn oath on his
part to respect the liberties and independence of the
realm; and when, in 1687, the crown was rendered
hereditary in that family (consequently after the time
from which the writer of the letter dates the com-
mencement of the Constitutionin Hungary), an
equally solemn oath was taken to the same effect by
the heir Joseph 1., who was crowned in the lifetime
of his father Leopold ; and has been repeated by
every one of the hereditary Sovereigns since that time,
with the exception of Joseph 11.--who is therefore
always counted an usurper.
But it seems that Austria " rendered Hungary e
jure an independent kingdom, but de facto married to
Austria, by the imperial and royal armies forming one
corps under the War-office of Vienna." This the
writer of the article asserts ; and does not perceive
that by so doing he shows, in its strongest colours,
the perfidy of the House of Hapsburg. For 165
years, according to this calculation, the House of
Hapsburg admitted by solemn oaths the de jure inde-
pendence of Hungary, while she was doing all in her
power de facto to render that independence a nullity.
Of course, as long as the House of Hapsburg could
send Hungarian regiments to Italy, and garrison
Hungary with Bohemian and Italian troops, her inde-
pendence was in a most precarious condition. The
Hungarians were fully justified in demanding a sepa-
rate Ministry of War, without which there could be
no permanent security for their liberties. Such was
the opinion of that great man, Count Szechenyi,
whose name has been pressed into the service of ab-
solutism in a way that he would be the first to repu-
diate if Providence should be pleased to restore his
faculties, and who himself took office, by the side of
Kossuth, in a Constitutional Ministry formed upon
those principles.
The curious ascending scale of civilisation in rural
Hungary, according to this writer's views, is one
that will hardly bear the test of inquiry. It must be
indeed a very strange taste that would prefer
the condition of the military frontier to that
of any part of civil Hungary. In most parts of
the Banat there are local advantages which will ac-
count for its flourishing condition, without seeking
any such cause as that of its having been longest
under imperial civil admininistration. But vil-
lages, could be pointed out in the Banat as wretched
as any that are to be found in any other part of
Hungary ; and villages could also be named in other
parts of Hungary that would do credit to the Banat.
%Vali regard to passable roads and bridges, smiling
villages and neat cottages, the best-informed travellers
have been able to discover them in Hungary without
ascending the Save, Drave, or Danube, into Styria,
Austria, and the Tyrol.
If the Hungarian Reform Bills were passed only
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union did exist, and had existed for eight centuries,
between Hungary and Croatia, which the House of
Hapsburg attempted by the most perfidious means to
dissolve.
As for the supposition that Austria will introduce
any system but that of absolutism, it is too childish
to be worth answering. The essence of the Austrian
system of government is to govern by a complicated
mechanism of salaried officials. The charter of Count
Stadion makes no provision for any real self-govern-
ment, and can only be forced upon the various peoples
that inhabit the Austrian territories at the point of
the bayonet.
The fruits of the great crime of the annihilation of
Hungarian Independence will be reaped by Russia.
The Austrian Emperor is henceforth the vassal of the
Czar, dependent upon Russian bayonets for protection
against his subjects. Russia will bide her time. She
will wait till the fruit is ripe, and the provinces fall
first under her influence, and then under her domi-
nion. The last barrier is swept away between Russia
and Turkey. —Examiner.

HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—The goods at all
adapted for the season exhibited in the Cloth-hall met
with purchasers as early as ten o'clock this morning.
In the warehouses there is still considerable activity.
HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—No large amount of goods
has changed hands in our Piece Hall to. day, but there
is a good deal doing to order, and in the warehouses.
in prices there is no variation. Yarns continue to be
in good demand at former quotations, and there is a
moderate inquiry for wool, at late rates.
LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Not much doing to day at the
halls, but there have been considerable deliveries of
goods made to order direct from the clothiers. Prices
are steady and stocks lower than usual. A very brisk
business is doing in the warehouses, both for home
and foreign trade.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
The consignee of a large quantity of beef, which
had just arrived from Sidney, having represented to
the Lord Mayor on Friday that it was unfit for con-
sumption, and that his Lordship's interference would
be necessary in order to relieve him from the respon-
sibility which would attach to him if he destroyed it
without the authority of a magistrate, and having also
stated that the exposure of the tainted meat might be
prejudicial to the public health, an order was issued
to the collector of Newgate-market to inspect the
cargo.

Yesterday Mr. Pocklington waited upon the Lord
Mayor, and reported to his Lordship that the meat
was in a horrible state of putrefaction; and his Lord.
ship then directed that the necessary form of exposing
for sale should be adopted at the wharf where the
cargo lay, and that the beef should the❑ and there be
condemned.

mile.
The report was then adopted, and its recommenda-
tions agreed to.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
STATE OF TRADE.
11, .MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The Cambria's reports
of injury to the growing cotton from excessive rain,
followed by the anomaly of a quiet market in Liver-
pool, have added not a little to-day to the perplexi-
ties of our market. The commonness of such
reports
of season, causes them to be now received
at this period of the year, in every kind
with much suspicion ; and yet it is felt that
statements made by all parties engaged in the busi-
ness, even the most cautious and trustworthy, cannot
be without some foundation. Still, the favourable
fact is looked at, that the rains had ceased, and finer
weather commenced, just before the dates of these
advices. The effect of all this has been a good deal
ofirregularity in yarns. Many sppinners of such
numbers and qualities as are suitable for home manu-
facture, have either raised their quotations or shown
an indisposition to enter into fresh engagements;
whi▪ le there are others who have been a little
more inclined to accept orders; and on the part of
consumers,
again, conflicting views and courses have
been observable, with a preponderance, however,
on the side of resistance to a further advance.
The India merchants may be said to be out
of the market—they are waiting for the mail,
whi▪
ch may be looked for towards the end of the
week. The buyers for the continent and markets
of the Mediterranean have operated with much
wariness and hesitation, and altogether on a very
restricted scale. The limited business now doing on
forei▪
gn account is the direct consequence of a lower
range of prices in almost every other market than in

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING
L AUGUST 30, 1849.

Mr. Lyons said he did not mean to impute any
improper conduct to the churchwardenq: hut h,
ti-ut if a,phalte were laid upon tie withile of
the bwrial grourd, it would sUisty the, public, and, to
a considerable degree, prevent the offensive exhala-
tions which, were so very injurious to health.
Mr. HENRY doubted if such a step would be met
with a friendly feeling, particularly as several families
possessed a positive freehold in many burial-grounds;
besides, it would be attended with an expense which
the churchwardens had not the power to meet from
the church-rates, nor from the poor-rates, both being
beyond their control for such purposes.
Several householders then came forward, and upon
their repeating the grievance of the complainant,
The MAGISTRATE told them them that they ought
to petition the Board of Health, which might lead to
an alteration of the law upon the subject.
Mr. Irwin, a house decorator, said that in rainy
weather, when the water percolates through the walls
of the surrounding houses, the bodies could be felt by
a person thrusting a stick through the walls, not to
mention the number of rats abounding in the vicinity
of the burial-ground.
The applicants, who seemed very anxious on the,
subject, then withdrew.
MARYLEBONE.

DEFRAUDING THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday a smartly-dressed
young woman, who gave her name Elizabeth James,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, on the
charge of having defrauded the London and North-
Western Railway Company of 155., the amount of
her fare, second-class, from Birmingham to London.
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous
afternoon, at three o'clock, upon the arrival of a train
at the Camden station, the prisoner was, amongst
others, asked by Mr. Cold well, the collector, for her
ticket, when she alleged that she had lost it at Co-
ventry, at which place a friend of hers alighted. The
sum above alluded to was demanded of her, in accord-
ance with the regulations of the company under such
circumstances, but she had no more than a few shil-
lings in her possession. She was then taken by In-
spector Sibsey to Mr. Basher, the superintendent of
the police, at the Euston station, who ascertained
beyond a doubt, through the medium of telegraphic
communication, that the prisoner could not have taken
a ticket at Birmingham, as the same number issued
there to second-class passengers agreed exactly with
those collected at Camden-town.
The prisoner repeated her story that she had taken
the ticket at Coventry, her object in coming to Lon-
don was that of seeking for a situation.
Mr. BROUGHTON, who considered the fraud to have
been fully proved, gave the prisoner to understand that
she had rendered herself liable to a penalty of 40s. or
two months ; he should:not however golo that extent,
but order her to pay 10s., in default of which she
would go to prison for a fortnight. She was then
locked up.
UTTERING COUNTERFEIT COIN.—An elderly man,
named Richard Macdonald, was charged with uttering
a counterfeit crown.
The evidence went to show that on the same after-
noon the prisoner went to the Euston station of the
London and North-Western Railway Company, and
asked Mr. Whiffen, the booking clerk, for a ticket
for Willesden, at the same time laying down the re-
semblance of a crown piece. It was immediately
discovered to be a spurious coin, and the prisoner was
consequently given into custody; the piece bore the
date 1819, and was remarkably well executed. Mr.
Whiffen further said that he bad recently taken two
other bad crowns at the station, and the prisoner,
whose face was quite familiar to him, had in all pro-
bability uttered them. The three counterfeits were
produced and handed to the magistrate. They were
evidently cast in the same mould. When taken into
custody by Inspector Sibsey, of the railway com-
pany's police, prisoner said he knew the Mint solicitor
well, and that nothing could be done with him, as
there was no proof against him except as to one of
the crowns only.
The prisoner was remanded.
ROBBERY OF PLATE AND CASIL—Just before the
closing of the court a respectably-dressed young man,
who gave his name Henry Brailsforth, was brought
up in the custody of City policeman Dolohunly, 367,
and placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged
with a robbery of plate and cash to the amount of
somewhere about 501., the property of Mr. Thomas
Barrs, 61, Exmouth-street, Clerkenwell.
The evidence stated that prosecutor had, up to
three weeks ago, occupied apartments at the house of
Mr. Goodman, 8, Euston-mews, Euston-square, and
that upon obtaining a situation in Exmouth-street, he
left behind him, for safe custody, a box, which con-
tained upwards of 251. in gold, and a considerable
quantity of silver plate, the whole of which he saw
was safe on Sunday last. On the previous night
(Tuesday), in consequence of information which he
received, he repaired to Mr. Goodman's, and upon
opening his box, he found that his property had been
abstracted. Mrs. Goodman had been in the habit of
washing for the prisoner, who consequently frequented
the house ; she missed two silver spoons of her own,
and hence arose her suspicion that the prisoner was
in both cases the thief. Information of the affair was
promptly given to the police, and the prisoner was
captured by 367 (City) in Johnson's-court, Fleet.
street. He had in his possession nearly 161. in gold
silver, and copper monies, as also a gold ring, watch.
guard, and shirt studs.
The prisoner, who did not attempt in any to ac-
count for the property found upon him, and said that
he had no answer to make to the charge, was re-
manded till Monday next.
WESTMINSTER.

GROSS MISCONDUCT Or AN OMNIBUS CONDUCTOR.
—Thomas Taylor, the conductor of an omnibus, was
charged with the following gross misconduct and
assault, at the entrance of Cremorne Gardens.
The complainant, Thomas Strain, a rival conductor,
stated that he was about to hand a lady and gentle-
man into his carriage, at the entrance to Cremorne
Gardens, immediately after the conclusion of the
tertainment on Saturday night week, when the de-
fendant dragged the lady towards his omnibus, which
was behind complainant's ; and upon the latter
remonstrating with him he immediately knocked him
down and then gave him a violent kick on the leg.
The above having been satisfactorily confirmed by
other testimony,
Defendant admitted the assault, but alleged as an
excuse that complainant had applied a disgusting
epithet to him.

This was positively denied by the complainant, and
a witness, who was recalled and questioned by the
Magistrate upon that point.
Mr. BRODERIP observed that it was very fortunate
for the defendant that he was not charged before him
for his gross misconduct to the lady, as he would have
marked his sense of his behaviour by a punishment
that would have deterred others from the commission
of a similar offence, and which would have protected
the public against such violence. As it was he had
only to deal with the case before him, and should fine
defendant 31., and in default of payment commit him
for six weeks. He was sent to prison.