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Dec. , 1840.
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RD and RUGBY RAILWAY.-
1,17 ATITEPSTONF,—At a PUBLIC METING of the
tntiahitants of Atherstotte, in the county df iirdrwick, held at
the Town Hall on Monday; the lath day of January, 1841,
called by the Constable, pursuant to a numerously and respec-
tably signed ketidisitibh,
CHARLtis ttotin tlltAtlBßlttpilt, tsq, in the Chair,
it Was proposed by JOSEPH WILLDAY, Esq., seconded by Alt,

WILLIAM BOultfiv, and
Resolved,-- That, tiewing With much satisfaction the re.
to‘wett attempt to constrUct a Raillkay dire-Ugh this town by
the same parties, although under a different name, who, during
the Session of 1839, maintained such an arduous contest fur
that purpo3e, and it appearing that the proposed alteration in
the line at its north- vtestern terminus, will be highly advanta-
geous, inasmuch as, in addition to affording a desirable accoss
to London, Manchester, and the manufacturing districts, it will
also oren a direct and economical coTmunication with Liver-
pool, Chester, North Wales, find Ireland, this Meeting regards
the Stafford and 11,,gby Hallway as an object of the meat vital
importance to the prosperity of the town and trade of Atherstone,
and of great aci.ommodat ion to the surrounding neighbourhood,
atid thereby placing this ton n And neighbour:mod upon an
equality with other towns enjoying the like advantage; and
that, should the Railway Company consent to make a first
class station at Atherstone, they will be entitled to, and shall
receive, the utmost support of the inhabitants.
Proposed by Jos VINRACE, Esq., seconded by Mr. JOHN

PEASE, and
Resolved,—That a Committee, consisting of the following
inhabitants of Atherstone, namely, Messrs. Bracebridge, Will-
day, Vinrace, Sale, sen., Neale, Corbett, Power, Bourne,
sen., and Collis, be appointed to watch the interests of this
town and neighbourhood, and to further the objects of the un-
dertaking.
Proposed by the Rev. Epw mu) POWER ; seconded by Mr.

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(From the Commerce.)
The question whether Paris can be destroyed by a bom-
bardment depends entirely on its distance from the de-
tached forts, and the actual distance projectiles can be
thrown from them. We quote first M. Arago's calcula-
tidnd oN to the impulsion of artillery as drawn up in 1833,
when M. Thiets, then Minister of Commerce ; M. Guizot,
Minister of Public Instruction; and Marshal Soult, Pre-
sident of the Council, proceeded by an ordonnance to
execute General Bernard's system of the erection of 15
detached forts or bastiles to burn Paris. The Committee
f the Chamber of Deputies at that time, in its report,
declared that the forts being at 2,000 metres from the
octroi wall, the capital was safe. M. Arago combatted
that opinion by the followirg, figures:—
In 1740, projectiles could be thrown 4,500 metres. In
1771, Betont, with 24-pounders, reached 4,442 metres (a
metre is about three feet three and a half-inches.) In
1811, at Antwerp, 4,950 metres were attained.
M. Arago adds, that the range is considerably increased
in proportion to the height of the hills or elevated spats
whole the batteries are placed.
The range of 4,000 metres is obtained with every de-
scription of metal attached to an army, with 8-inch Spanish
howitzers, and with Russian licornes.

In 1810 Seville was fired upon, and, in 1811, Cadiz,
from a battery placed at 6 000 metres from the city.
The English Congreve rockets, called carcass rockets,
which carry 171bs. of combustible materials, may ba thrown
at 3,400 metres.
General Tirlet adds that there are war-rockets of a
range of 4,000 metres, and which may be thrown from any
point without any other instrument than a trevit.
But cannon used for bombarding has a considerably
greater range. Official experiments have been made on
this subject. M. Arago has published a statement, which
is as follows:
EXPERIMENTAL RANGE FROM GREAT ANGLES.

Calibre. Weight.
Antwerp...lBll 48-inch -
Brest ......1811 36-inch -

Range.
5,144 metres.
5,350 metres.

1,1-inch 1751b5. 5,574 metres.
Seville —.lBlO )10-inch I 1601bs. More than 6,000 metres.
La Feu —.lBll 11-inch 1751b5. 6,000 metres.
Indret 1612 11-inch 1801bs. 5,900 metres.

The Viloutrey mortars range from 6,000 to 6,600 metres.
We must observe that the latest experiment was made
twenty-eight years ago, and that since that period great
discoveries and important improvements have taken place
in the artillery branch of the service. Therefore we arc
within the most moderate bounds in stating that, since
those experiments, the range has not increased, and in
stopping at 6,000 metres. Let us add, however, that, in
military circles, a new process is much spoken of, which
throw projectiles at much greater distances.
Those points being mathematically established, there
remains but one simple thing to be done, and which is
not above the comprehension of a child ; it is to take a corn-
pass, in short the plan which has been distributed to the
Chamber, And to measure the distances which separate the
different forts from the outskirts (faubourga) of the city,
and then from its very centre.
According to the plan which we have just alluded to,
the following is an account of the fortresses to be built:—
To the north, St. Denis and the Eastern Fort ; to the
south, on all the line from the south-east to the south-
west, the forts of Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, Vanves, and
Issy ; to the east, on the line from the north-east to the
south-east, the forts of R mainville, Noisy, Rosny, No-
gent, Vincennes, and Charenton ; to the west, Mount
Valerien. Total, fourteen fortresses.
The fort of Romainville is at 1,500 metres from
the enceinte continue (or union line of defence), at 3,700
metres from the city walls, and at 4,900 from the in-
terior Boulevards, (in the quarters of St. Denis and
Bt. Martin. )
The fort of Vincennes is at 1,200 metres from the en-
ceinte continue. (It has since been brought closer by
several hundred metres.) It is at 2,000 metres from the
city walls, and at 4,500 metres from the Place de la
Bastille.
The fort of Cbarenton is at 3,500 metres from the en-
ceinte continue, at 3,000 from the city walls, and at 5,300
from the wine market.
The fort of Ivry is at 2,500 metres from the enceinte
continue, at 3 900 from the city walls, and at 0,300 from
the wine market.
The fort of Bicetre is at 1,200 metres from the enceinte
continue, at 2 500 from the city walls, at 5,100 from the
Cathedral of Notre Dame, at 4,400 from the Pantheon, and
at 4,500 from the wine market, and from storehouses in
abundance.
The fort of Montrouge is at 1,600 metres from the en-
ceinte continue, at 3,000 from the city walls, at 4,300 from
the Luxemburg, and at 5,590 from the Pont Neuf.
The fort of Vanves is at 1,900 metres from the enceinte
continue, at 3 500 from the city walls, and at 5,800 from
the Hotel des Invalides.
Mount Valerien is at 3,800 metres from the enceinte
continue, at 4,600 from Passy, at 5,700 from the city walls,
and at less than 6,000 metres from the Paubourg du Roule.
The eastern fort is at 5,400 metres from the City walls.

From this summary, which we guarantee to be correct,
for it has been carefully drawn out and verified on the
Ministerial plan, it results that only three fortresses out
of the fourteen that are to be erected do not threaten
some point or other point of the capital. Eleven of the
forts can bombard it. Amongst them eight are at 4,000
metres, or even at much less, from the faubourgs of the
capital ; they are—Romainville Vincennes,. Charenten,
Ivry, Bicetre, Montrouge, Vanves, and Issy All that
will be requisite for them is the usual range of heavy
metal. For the three others, the greatest range alluded
to by M. Arago, and of which he has made several ex-
periments, will admit also of havoc being committed
within tire very walls of the city: But if it be recol-
lected that the greatest range at which projectiles aro
thrown exceeds 6,000 metres and more ; that Bicetre
is but at 5,100 metres from Notre Dame, and at
4,400 from the Pantheon ; that Montrouge is at 4,300
metres from the Luxemburg, and at 6,600 from the Pont
Neuf, is it not evident that those forts Can spread death
and conflagration in the very heart of the capital ? That
Vincennes, at 4 500 metres from the Bastile, can send Its
shot to the very bottom of the Rue Saint Antoine, and
that Romainville, not being far from it, at 4,900 metres
from the Portes Saint Denis and Saint Martin, can extend
its devastation even beyond those very populous quarters ?
Therefore the southern forts, Bieetre, Montrouge, Van-
yes, and Issy, command and can set fire to the whole of the
left bank of the Seine, and even shower red-hot shot into
the very heart of the city. They keep the Faubourg
Saint Marceau within their grasp, whilst Vincennes has
also all that of Saint Antoine, and uniting with Ivry to the
left, and Romainville to the right, commands all that im-
mense population of inhabitants from the Faubourg Saint
Denis to the Pont d'Austerlitz, and from the city walls to
the interior of the rues Saint Denis, Saint Antoine, and
of the Temple.
But this is not all. If from the fort of Vanves at the
south-west to the fort of Romainville, at the north-east, a
straight line is drawn across the whole breadth of Paris,
and, taken in the direction of the Pont Neuf, an extent of
12,500 metres will be found in that line comprised between
those opposite forts. Whence it results, that from the
greatest range of the two forts, combined one with the
other, amounting to 12,000 metres, Paris can be entirely
bombarded on all sides, with the exception of an interme-
diate space of only 500 metres. But if mortars a la
Viloutrey were planted on the two forts, which, according
to M. Arago's calculation, can ensure a range of 6,500
metres, it would result therefrom that the bombs would
cover the whole breadth of the city, and that their shot
would cross each other ie the very centre of the capital.
Let us add, however, t'; It from the fort of Romainville to
the fort of Montrouge, which is but at 2,000 metres from
Vairves, that said 1 ire in all its length has but 11,500
metres in extent.
We have yet many observations, but we must limit our
space. We think we have said enough to prove that M.
Thiers's plans, in 1841, are concocted in the same view, and
i~pl,y the same danger as M. Thiers's plans in 1633
The detached forts of the man of the Ist of March will
cannonade and burn the Parisians with not less certainty
end efficacy than the detached forts of the man of the 11th
of October. M. Thiers then denied that the forts could
reach Paris. He now admits that he was deceiving the
country. M. Thiers, in 1841, renews the same protesta-
tions. We have just proved that he wishes again to de-
ceive it.

THE FLOODS IN WORCESTERSHIRE.—The
influx of water into the Severn, from the melting of the
snow in Wales, has now overflowed its banks. Nor is
the Severn the only river in our locality thus affected, the
Avon being so swollen that the road between Pershore
and Evesham is impassable, the Sovereign coach and the
Oxford mail, on Monday night and yesterday being obliged
to go round by the upper road, through Fladbury and
Wyre Piddle to Perstiore, thus losing a good, deal of time.
The Ludlow mail has also been delayed in consequence of
the height of the Teme, at Igewnham Bridge, being many
feet above its ordinary level The London mail to this
city, by " railway " through Birmingham, and the Oxford
mail by road, did not reach our post-office until consider-
ably af.of time ci; F. itlay morning, namely, the former at
halt. past eight instead of twcnt) minutes before seven, and
the latter at half-past one o'clock P.M., instead of eight
AM. The delay was in both instances the same, viz., the
interruption of snow which the train-bringing the Lon-
don mail encountered at Rugby, and the Oxford mail
at Woodstock; The latter mail was brought on in a post-
chase and four by the guard, who states that he left the
coach behind him embedded in snow to the depth of nine
feet ; he also states that he met the guard of the up-mail
on Thursday night between Woodstock and °hipping Nor-
ton, on horseback, laden with the bags, which he had
brought on from Chipping Norton, beyond which the coach
could not advance, from the blockaded state of the roads.
On Saturday the Oxford mail succeeded in coming the
whole way, but did not arrive here till two o'clock in the
afternoon, while the London mail was an hour and a half
beyond its time. The following day the rapid thaw had
cleared the roads of snow, and the mails arrived as usual.
In some parts of Wales the floods have been much more
, serious than in our locality. At Newtown, early on Sun-
day morning, the inhahitants were aroused from their
slumbers, and were compelled to make the most strenuous
exertions to preserve their property from damage, the
lower part of their dwellings being under water, and
some streets being completely flooded.— Worcestershire
Chronicle.

A deputation from the Bank of Asia, consisting
of Mr. Jardine, E. S. Cayley, M. P., and Mr. Mot:it-
gomery Martin, had an interview, by appointment, with
the Chairman and Deputy. Chairman of the East India
Company on Tnesday.—colonial Gazette.