The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-15 00:00:00

SPORTING IN TELLIG ENCE.

MANCHESER—FaIDAT EVENING.
The weather having changed into a thaw, we may ex-
pect a little more business, as parties will, no doubt, be
full of executing their commissions from the various
training stables. The horses will be in full work, and
some screws, no doubt, be found loose from the walking
exercise of the Fast ten days. Bloomsbury cannot be
quo.cd beyond 6 to 1; plenty open to take a point more.
There appears a strong desire to execute business on
Gibraltar, and the Dean would be backed freely at 20 to 1.
The following were, as near as we could collect, the prices
of the forenoon. The attendance lacked some of our
leading characters: --
TIIE ,CHESTER CUP, e. p.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
11 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—taken
14 to 1 agst Major Hay's Retriever—offered
16 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee
o
18 to I agst Mr. Price's Tuley—take 20 to 1
16 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's The D2an—t. 20 to 1 freely
It.o r n bYt
ns C'
c Thepa,yrn i 0 Pagne—offered
11ung- nu—offered
takers
22,050
tttooo
asst
ggg
sss
ttt
Lord Egl
Paul'sin
25 to 1 asst Colonel Peel's Gibraltar—t., 20 aft. off.
25 to 1 apt Mr. Price's Prince Albert—off.
25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Lam-not.aware— off.
200 to 8 agst Mr. T. Walter's Sir George—off.
200 to 6 6g,t Mr. Goodman's Bedford—taken
30 to I agst Mr— Whittle's Humming Bird
30 to I agst Sir T. Stanley's Cowboy
33 to 1 Pgst Mr. Mostyn's Trustee—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Tubalcain—off.
100 to 6 egst Colonel Peel's two—wanted
50 to 1 agst Lord :Vlilltown'a Wirrestrew—off.
THE DERBY.--Offers to take 18 to 1 on Rosalie, or 12
to 1 on Rosalie and Knight of the Whistle, or 11. to 1 on
Paltemon and Soult ; 200 to 9 taken on Soak, offers after-
wards to take 23 to 1; 25 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistle
(no layers); 300 to 12 Prince Caradoc (taken); 33 to 1
agst the Duke of Wellington 30 "bid."

THE BILLS OF LORDS STANLEY AND MOR-
PETH.—We may state that arrangements are in progress
to convene meetings of every county—of every town—
nay, of every parish in three of the provinces in Ireland—
and in part of the fourth, against Lord Stanley's Bill, and
in Lvour of Lord Morpei h's. At these meetings all
ranks, elutes, and sections of Liberals may heartily eoa-
lesce.—Mblin Evening Post.

And be it enacted, that the provisions of the said re-
cited Act and of this Act shall be construed together
as one Act, except so far as the provisions of the said
recited Act are hereby repealed, or shall be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act.
And whereas by the said recited Act it is enacted
that after two months from the passing of the said re-
cited Act, no railway, or portion of any railway, shall
be opened for the public conveyance of passengers or
goods until one calendar month after notice, in writing,
of the intention of opening the same shall have been
given by the company to whom such railway shall be-
long to the Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's
Privy Council appointed for Trade and Foreign Planta-
tions ; and whereas by_, the said recited Act it is also
enacted, that if any railway, or portion of any railway,
shall be opened without due notice as aforesaid, the
company to whom such railway shall belong shall for-
feit to her lthjesty the sum of twenty pounds for every
day during which the same shall continue open, until
the expiration of one calendar month after the com-
pany shall have given the like notice as is hereinbefore
required before the opening of the railway ; and an;?
such penalty may be recovered in any of her Majesty's
Courts of Record ; be it enacted, that the said recited
provisions of the said Act shall be and they are hereby
repealed.
And be it enacted, that no railway, or portion of any
railway, shall be opened for the public conveyance of
passengers until one calendar month after notice in
writing of the intention of opening the same shall have
been given by the company to whom such railway shall
belong to the Lords of the Committee of her Majesty's
Privy Council appointed for trade and foreign planta-
tions, and until ten days after notice in writing shall
have been given by the said company to the Lords of
the said Committee that the said railway, or portion of
railway, is sufficiently completed for the safe conveyance
of passengers, and ready for inspection.
And be it enacted, that if any railway, or portion of
any railway, shall be opened without such notice as
aforesaid, the company to whom such railway shall be
long shall forfeit to her Majesty the sum of twenty
pounds for every day during which the same shall con-
tinue open until the said notices shall have been duly
given and shall have expired ; and every such penalty
may be recovered in any of her Majesty's Courts of
Record.

And be it enacted, that if the Lords of the said Con:-
mittee shall be of opinion that the opening of any rail•
way, or portion of a railway, would be attended with
danger to the public, it. shall be lawful for the Lords of
the said Committee, from time to time, to order and
direct the company to whom such railway shall belong
to postpone such opening for any period not exceeding
one calendar month at one time, until it shall appear to
the Lords of the said Committee that such opening may
take place without danger to the public ; and it an;
such railway' or any portion thereof shall be opened con-
trary to any such order and direction of the Lords of
the said Committee, the company to whom such railway
shall belong shall forfeit to her Majesty the earn of
twenty pounds for every day during which the same
shall continue open contrary to such order and direction,
and such penalty may be recovered in any of her Ma-
jesty's Courts of Record.
And be it enacted, that the Lords of the said com-
mittee may order and direct any railway company to
make up and deliver to them such returns of accidents
occurring in the course of the public traffic upon the
raii,vay belonging to such company, and also such re-
turns of the arrangements for conducting the public
traffic thereon, as the Lords of the said Committee shall
deem necessary for their information with a view to the
public safety ; and if any returns herein mentioned
shall nor be so delivered within seven days after the
same shall have been required, every such company
shall forfeit to her Majesty the sum of twenty pounds
for eve:y day during which the said company shall ne-
glect to deliver the same; and every such penalty may
be recovered in any of her Majesty's Courts of Record.
And whereas by the said recited Act it is enacted,
that every officer of any company who shall wilfully
make any false return to the Lords of the said Commit-
tee, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ; and
whereas it is expedient to extend the said provision ; be
it enacted, that the said provision shall be and is hereby
repealed.
And be it enacted, that every officer of any company
who shall wilfully give or make any false notice or re-
turn, or certificate, or other instrument or document,
which shall be required to be given or made for the
purposes of this and the said recited Act, to or for the
use of the Lords of the said Committee, shall be deemed
guilty of e misdemeanor.
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Lords of the said Committee to issue from time to time
such regulations as they shall deem necessary for the
prevention of accidents upon railways. Provided al-
ways, that such regulations shall not prescribe anything
of an expel imental nature, nor interfere with the num-
ber of trains, nor with the times of starting trains, nor
with the speed of travelling on any railway further than
is necessary for the purpose of preserving an interval of
not more than fifteen minutes between succeeding trains.
Provided also, that no such regulation as aforeeail shall
be binding upon any railway company unless the Lords
of the said Committee shall have given to such company
twenty-one days' notice of their intention to issue the
same.

And be it enacted, that if any company shall fail to
observe any such regulation of the Lords of the said
Committee, such company shall forfeit to her Majesty
the sum of 20/. for every day during which such com-
pany shall so fail to observe any such regulation ; and
every such penalty may be recovered in any of her Ma-
jesty's Courts of Records.

And be it enacted, that whenever the Lords of the
said Committee shall order the postponement of the
opening of any railway, or portion of a railway, or shall
issue any regulation for the prevention of accidents, in
pursuance of the provisions in that behalf in this Act
contained, they shall make a minute specifying the
grounds of such order or regulation ; and copies of
every such minute shall be laid before both Houses of
Parliament within one month after such minute shall be
made, if Parliament be therm sitting, and, if Parliament
be not sitting, then within one month after the com-
mencement of the next Session of Parliament.

And whereas by the said recited Act, the Lords of
the said Committee arc empowered to disallow all by-
laws, orders, rules, or regulations made by railway
companies, which shall impose penalties for the enforce-
ment thereof upon persons other than the servants of
of such companies, and for that purpose all such by-
laws, orders, rules, or regulations are thereby required
to be laid before the Lords of the said Committee ; and
hereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of the
said Act to all such by-laws, orders, rules, or regulations
as are of a public nature, and that without regard to
the penalties tiler. by imposed ; be it enacted, that all
by-laws, orders, rules, or regulations made, or to be
hereafter made, by any railway company, which are of a
public nature, and which relate to or affect other per-
sons than the proprietors, officers, and servants of such
company, shall be returned to the Lords of the said
Committee, and shall be subject to the powers and pro-
visions in the said Act contained in regard to the by-
laws, orders, rules and regulations therein mentioned.
And be it enacted, that on and after the next
after the passing of this Act, no person shall be em-
ployed on any railway as an engine-driver in the course
of the public traffic, unless he shall hare been licensed
in pum;ance of the provisions of this Act in that behalf ;
and if any person shall be so employed on any railway
without having first deposited his license with the com-
pany to which such railway shall belong, such company
shall forfeit to her Mjesty the sum of five pounds for
every day during which such person shall be so em-
ployed ; and every such penalty may be recovered in
any of her Majesty's Courts of Record.
Provided always, and bc it further enacted, that in
cases of emergency it shall be lawful for any railway
company to employ any competent person, whether
duly licensed or not, to act as engine-driver in the
course of the public traffic, for any period not exceed-
ing seven days, or such further period as shall be
sanctioned on each occasion by the Lords of the said
Committee ; provided always, that whenever an un-
licensed person shall be employed, the company shall
give to the Lords of the said Committee, within forty-
eight hours after such employment, notice thereof, toge-
ther with a statement of the reasons thereof.

And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Lords of the said Committee to cause to be examined
any person nominated by any railway company for
the purpose of being licensed to act as engine-driver,
and to license any such person as shall appear to tile
Lords of the said Committee to be duly qualified for
that purpose, and, when they see fit, to revoke or sue-
pend the license of any such person.

And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Lords of the said Committee to appoint, from time to
time, two or more persons, one of whom shall be the
engineer of the company, or some engineer selected by
the company, by whom the candidates to be examined
shall have been nominated, to examine the candidates
for licenses to act as engine-drivers, and the said ex-
aminers shall examine such candidates at such times
and in such manner as the Lords of the said Committee
shall appoint.
And be it enacted, that there shall be kept in the
office of the Committee of Privy Council for trade and
foreign plantation a register of licenses, in which shall
be entered the partitulars of every license granted in
pursuance of this Act ; and in all Courts, and before
any justice of the peace, and upon all occasions what-
soever, certified copies of the entries made or contained
in such register shall be received as evidence, and be
deemed sufficient proof of all matters and things therein
registered or contained, without requiring the produc-
tion of any such register or of any license or other do.
cument upon which such entries shall be founded, and
without any further proof than the production of such
certified copies, and every person shall Ise at liberty to
inspect any such register at all seasonable times without
payment of any fee or reward:
And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the
Lords of the said Committee to provide badges to be
worn by licensed engine. drivers, and every engine-driver
to whom such badge shall have been given shall at all
times during his employment upon any railway, in the
course of the public traffic thereon, and when he shall
be required to appear before any justice of the peace,
wear such badge conspicuously upon his breast, in such
manner that the number thereon shall be distinctly vi-
sible and legible.
And be it enacted, that if any person shall act as an
engine-driver upon any railway in the course of the public
traffic thereon without having a license, or if any licensed
person shall transfer or lend his license or badge, or
shall act as an engine-driver in the course of the public
traffic, or attend when required before any justice of the
peace, without wearing such badge in manner hereinbe-
fore required, he shall forfeit to her Majesty for every
such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds.
And be it enacted, that if any person shall forge or
counterfeit, or shall cause or procure to be forged, coun-
terfeitcd, or resembled, any license or badge to be pro-
vided under this Act for an engine-driver, or if any per-
son shall sell or exchange, or expose to sale, or utter any
such forged or counterfeited license or badge, or if any
person shall knowingly and without lawful cause (the
proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) have or
be possessed di such forged or counterfeited license or
badge, every person so offending, and every person
knowingly and wilfully aiding, abetting, or assisting any
perm in committing any such offence as aforesaid, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.

Ana be it enacted, that every railway company shall
retain in their custody the license of every engine-driver
employed by them, so long as such engine-driver shall
be in their employment ; and in case such engine-driver
shall leave or be dismissed from or shlll die in their ser-
vice, such company shall forthwith give notice thereof
in writing to the Lords of the said Committee, and
shall retain the license of such engine-driver until they
shall have received directions from the Lords of the said
committee as to the disposal of such license ; and if
such company shall not give such notice as aforesaid, or
shall dispose of such license without or contrary to the
directions of the Lords of the said committee, every
such company shall forfeit to her Majesty for each
offence the sum of twenty pounds ; and every such
penalty may be recovered in any of her Majesty's
Courts of Record.

And be it enacted, that every penalty not exceeding
the sum of five pounds for any offence against the pro-
visions of this Act, for the enforcement of which no
proceeding is hereby expressly provided, shall be en•
forceable summarily before any Justice of the Peace
having jurisdiction within the place wherein such offence
shall have been committed ; and in default of payment,
upon conviction, of aoy such penalty, the offender shall
be immediately committed to prison for any period not
exceeding one calendar month, unless such penalty shall
be sooaer paid ; and every such penalty shall be re-
turned to the next ensuing Court of Quarter Sessions
in the usual manner.

And be it enacted, that all notices, returns, and other
documents required by this Act, or by the said recited
Act, to be given to or laid before the Lords of the said
Committee, shall be delivered at or senily vein) the
office of the Lords of the said Committee ; and all
notices, requisitions, orders, regulations, appointments,
certificates, certified copies, licenses, and other docu-
ments in writing, signed by one of the secretaries of the
said committee, or by some officer appointed for that
pui pose by the Lords of the said Committee, and pur-
porting to be made by the Lords of the said Committee,
shall for the purposes of this and of the said recited
Act be deemed to have been made by the Lords of the
said Committee's; and service of the same upon any one
or more of the directors of any railway company, or on
the secretary or clerk of the said company, or by leaving
the same with the clerk or officer at one of the stations
be!oaging to the said company, shall be deemed good
service upon the said company.
And be it enacted that wherever the word " railway"
is used in this cr in the said recited Act, it shall be con-
strued to apply to all railways usA or intended to be
used for the conveyance of passengers in or upon car-
riages drawn or impelled by the power of steam or by
any other mechanical power ; and wherever the weld
" company" is used in this or in the said recited Act,
it shall be construed to extend to and include the pro-
prietors for the time being of any such railway, whether
a body corporate or individuals, and their lessees, exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, unless the subject or
context be repugnant to such construction.
And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or
repealed b; any Act to be passed in the present Session
of Parliament.

THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON•

(From Galignani's Messenger).
The removal of the cola of the Emperor Napoleon
from the dome of the Invalides into the side chapel or
Saint Jerome, was effected on Saturday, in the presence
of Marshal Moncey, the Governor of the Invalides ;
General Petit, the Commandant of the Staff of the
Hotel ; the division of officers, and the thirteen divi-
sions of the pensioners. Gen. Gourgaud, M. Las Cases,
jun., M. Marchand, and some few of the other members
of the Commission sent to Sc. Helena, were the only
persons, besides those connected with the Hospital, who
were admitted. A mass was performed by the Cure of
the Invalides and his clergy. Marshal Moncey, although
so infirm as to require being supported by both arms,
remained till the end of the ceremony. The pall was borne
by four superior officers of the Invalides. After the mass
the coffin, decorated as it was on the 13th of Decem-
ber, and surmounted towards the head by the Imperial
Crown, and having on the foot the sword and hat, was
placed, by means of an inclined plane of woodwork, in
the chapel. This frame was taken down and carried
away with great expedition, and the coffin was at once
to be seen in the position in which it will remain until
its final tomb is ready to receive it. The Marshal and
the other persons in attendance were then admitted
into the chapel, where a " Dc Profundis" was chanted
by the clergy, accompanied by the band of the Hotel.
Holy water was again sprinkled on the collie, and all re-
tired in deep silence. The chapel, which, as we have
already stated, is ornamented i❑ a magnificent but
chaste style, is worthy its temporary destination.
It is hung with violet-coloured velvet, relieved with
gold, between columns with gilt capitals, and
the frieze is draped i❑ like manner, enriched
with a deep gold fringe ; the pavement is covered
with a carpet of the same colour. At the end of the
chapel, facing the entrance, is the coffin, covered with
its imperial pall, and raised upon an estrade six fe t
high, likewise covered with violet velvet. Behind is a
trophy, composed of forty-eight standards taken from
the enemy, before which appears an imperial eagle in
gold. Between the wall and the trophy is a large
silver cross, wrought on black velvet. In the four inter-
columniations are antique trophies formed of arms and
palm branches, with shields in the centres, on which are
inscribed the four celebrated names of Marengo, Atte-
terhtz, \V*gram, and Jena. A guard of honour, com-
posed of Invalides who have been decorated, will con-
stantly watch over the chapel.
Ti,e King has conferred the decoration of the Legion
of Honour on M. Marchand, formerly valet to Napo-
leon, and who accompanied the expedition for bringing
back the body.

A PROTESTANT BISHOP FOR MALTA.—We
have much pleasure in announcing to the Protestants in
the Mediterranean that it has been determined to proceed
without further delay with the plan proposed in the
Bishop of London's Letter to the Archbishop of Can_
terbury for providing a fund for the endowment of
bisliopris in the British colonies and folre,oigono.lpo,satesh-e
SociGetoys_pfeoir.
sions. Iler Majesty the Queen Dowager has announced
her intention ref contributing the munificent turn of
2,0001 ; the Archbishop of Canterbury,
iin)roFo'reign
the
Christion Knowledge has voted a grantai osfolcol,..,„OtyoOhlmasridtnleige.
Bishop of London, 1,000/, ;
'liberally to the
Society for the Propagation of the
cPlaarretsd, si,toiooi/,;t;entthioen ColifurcchonNtrlii,sasuitoinng
same object, and the Colonial Church Society has sub-
scribed 4001. We have reason to belideve that the first ob-
ixil.liibleettihiebraecnedot:e-
j:,e, ce tnst
,to o
rwphai
rcthetnhdeo fwuritilale
nwill t
in Malta and in
New Z2aland. The Ss!Cootef bbiaseihlft)poPlricneicesrw
whole of the British Possessions in the Mediterranean,
viz ,Gibraltar, Malta, GOL .
0) and the lonian Islands.—
Malta Chronicle.

" The per centage of the locomotive and other charges,
as compared with the receipts, is, in every case, less ; and
the gross charge on the traffic (including the mileage duty
to Government and parish rates) will be found in the last
half-year to be as 30/. ss. 7d. per cent, to the cross re-
ceipt, instead of 341. 165. per cent., which it was in the
preceding half-year.
" Deductin,g from the net profit of 186,689/. I ls.
the sum of 20,8221. 14s. Ild., which was taken from the
reserved fund, pursuant to the resolution of the last gene-
ral meeting, there remains a disposable balance of 165,8661.
165. 91., on which the Directors recommend that a divi
dend be declared of 41. per 100/. share ; 11. per 251.
shave ; and 195. 21. 2-sths on 241 ; called before the
31st of December, and paid on each 321. share ; leaving
a sum a lo 4661. 16e. 9d. to be carried to the credit -of
nexraccounte

" In referring to the progressively-increasing traffic of
the railway, as evinced by the half-yearly Repotts, the
Directors may. bo allowed to notice the gratifying fact,
that out of 1,483,123 passengers, conveyed on an overage
sixty-Eve miles and a quarter each from the 17ta'of Sep-
tember, 1833, to the 31st of December last, according to
the Stamp-office returns, not one accident attended wits►
lass of lafe or limb to a passenger has occurred, although
during the whole of this period the works were under-
going those extensive repairs which are inseparable from
great excavations and embankments, and requiring the
frequent passage alone the line of trains heavily laden
with materials. If, thou, under these circumstances of
disadvantage, the Directors arc enabled to exhibit results
which in the infancy of the undertaking could only have
been attained by regulations well considered, and, with
few exceptions, carefully observed, it must be admitted
that railways afford ample assurance for the safety of tra-
velling, and that the London and Birmingham •line pos-
sesses resources adequate to any ex tent of traffic.

. _
" The Directors, having carried the proceedings of the
Harrow inquest before a higher tribunal, purposely ab-
stain from any comment on the extraordinary verdict of
the Jory.
" Reverting to the statements of accounts which are be-
fire the meeting, the Directors have to rematk that the
expenditure on the stock or capital account (C) has been,
with few exceptions, for the objects to which they called
attention in their laa Repoi t, namely, extensions of stations,
and the additions to the Company's carrying stock, which
an increasing traffic requires.
" The recommendation of the Directors to create new
shares, under the powers of the Company's Acts, for the
redemption of the mortgage debt of 1,375,0001., having
been acceded to by the Proprietors individually, a resolu-
tion of approval by the present meeting will be required to
give effect to th 4 measure.
" The Directors have to 'announce the resignation of
Mr. Edward Wilson, and their election of Mr. Christopher
Hird Jones to supply his place. They have also to report
the limented death of one of the original Directors of the
Company, John Sturge, Esq , and that they do not p7o-
pose to fill up the vacancy.
" The following Directors go out of fiffice at the pre-
sent meeting. and arc re-eligible :—E lward Cropper,
Esq , Robert Garnet, Esq., George Clrr Glyn,
David Hodgson, Esq., Tnoinas Tooke., Esq., and Joseph
Walker, Esq.

A resolu ion was then passed, declaring a dividend at
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum out of the profit 3 of the
undertaking.

Another—resolut;on was passed, authorising the conver-
sion of the mortliate debts of the Company into new
sh:res of 32/. each.

A discussion of considerable interest, arising out of !ha
following circumstances, then ensued :__The principal
workshops of the Company for the repairs of engior a,
&e., have been erected at \Volverton, a station about
midway between the two termini of the railway. So ex-
tensive is the establishment at that place that a consider.
able pillage, composed of the men in the Company's ser-
vice and their families, has sprung up where formerly there
was act a single habitation. The Coinpaey has erected -
hour-es fur the men, and allotted gardens to them, awl
seine time since voted a grant of money for the erection of
schools for the infant and adult population, but still there
was no means of supplying them v: ith religious instruction.
The truetece of the Ratcliffe estate, through which this
part of the railway is made, thereupon offered to build
and endow a church, and to provide a fund for
future repairs, if the Railway Company would contribute
1,0001 tawards this desirable object. Accordingly, at the
last meeting a propesal that such contribution be made
was brought forward by a gentleman named Jones, who,
it is teorthy of notice, is himself a Dissenter, and was car-
ried with but one dissentient voice. In the interim be-
tween that meeting and the present some twenty-eight or
thirty of the Proprietors, almost all of whom are members
of the Society of Friends, objected to the grant, and me-
morialized the Directors on the subject. They also took
the opinion of the Attorney. General upon the legality of
any such grant when made by a Railway Company, which
opinion was against the grant. The matter now came on
for eiiicusE-Ln. The Quakers contended that, however de-
sirous they might be of promoting the moral and religious
instruction of the Company's servants, it was not right
that they should be compelled to contribute to the sup-
port of the Church of England, frosu which they con-
scientiously d ffered. They proposed, therefcre, that the
resolution of the previous meeting should be rescinded,
and that the amount required should be raised by volun-
tary subscription. To this it was moved as an amendment
that tlaeir proportion of the 1,0001. (about 4A. per share)
should be returned to all who dissented from its appropria-
tion to the purpose proposed, and after a very long discus-
sion, which was conducted on both sides with much good
feeling, a vote was taken, when there appeared for the
amendment 25, against it 17, thus confirming by a
majority of eight the original grant of 1,000/. subject to
any deduction which may be made in respect of the dissen-
tients' shares, As, however, it was understood throughout
that it was not the amount of money but the principle in-
volved, which formed the subject of dispute, it is not
likely that the grant will be seriously diminished from this
cause, but, if so, it was understood that the full amount
would be nude up by voluntary subscriptions on the part
of the proprietors.
The Directors named in the concluding paragraph of
the report having been re-elected and other business trans-
acted, a special vote of thanks to the chairman and Direc-
tors for their able and arduous exertions on behalf of the
Company, was carried by acclamation, and the meeting
separat.A.

THE RAILWAYS.

Sir Frederick Smith has been actively engaged since
the new year in inspecting the western lines projected
into Scotland. When the inspection is completed, he
will then have before him the whole four lines, the
merits of each of which are strongly advocated by their
respective supporters :-1. The cast line, from Edin-
burgh, by Dunbar and Berwick, to Newcastle, which
its supporters hold as the best line between the two
capitals---I,ondon and Edinburgh. 2. The east mid-
land line, front Edinburgh, by Galashiels, through Rex-
burghs:tire and the North Tyne. joining the Nev.-castle
and Carlisle Rtilway at Ilcxhain, about forty miles
from Carlisle This is held out as giving Edinburgh
the advantage of communication both
ito
eLorionc
Car.
ry
N_weastle, and to LiyerpOol and
f:"linnc Cleasrtlirsle ?;yt Bee-
line. 3. The west niidloid
two diverging lines of thirty noiet,s
on_
tock, through Ciydcsdale, to
the Clyde above
tan, in this county, Edinburgh and ipuifdrottn3 lassgyorawi,nbgy..
M Edinburgh and Glasgow
Lanark.
nearest communication both from
of England, with the ad-
vantage London, as well as
hthe
',IL this for the greatest part of
This is strongly PaT'lneßted, as giving the
vantage of aceonVi's
the way by only one on .
st This lineline is
reported as the
I)and
beenbt
by this
line,w worthy
alsod o f f remarkrom a
that ~ Oppears to
point of divergence, that the Roman armies marched
and west of Scotland ; and
from
the same Roman station diverges the great par-
iiamentary road, executed by the I,.te Mr. Telford, under
sfrionlmik Erngland to both the east
Mr.
Lcchkacve;
the G.ivernment Commissioners for improving the commu-
nication between England and Stirling, or the north of
Scotland. 4. The westmost line, from Carlisle by Dum-
fries, Su:Taller, and Ayrshire, to Glasgow. This is held
cut to be the best communication from Glasgow to all
England by the report of Mr. Miller, engineer. The
line to Edinburgh fruit Symington, runntig on the north
of the Pentland range, is con,idered a much easier line,
and through a much more productive district, than the one
previously surveyed to Edinburgh by Linfon, on the south
of the Pentlands ; but the point of divergence, we believe,
eNntnauds bolt sides of that range, as well"' as both sides of
the Clyde. Sir Frederick, we have also reason to under-
stand, was satisfied with the field plans submitted to hint
by the gentlemen harvested in the eaqern line, and was
surprised, after the long period elapsing
since his appoint-
rnent, that neither of the Nitlisdaie nor the Annandale
and Clydesdale lines had been sufficiently mapped or de-
lineated, and this circumstance may, perhaps,account for
Paper .
the rumoured Leisinn in favour of the cast line. —Bersc ick

BANKS OF issuE.—Committee on Banks of
Issue re-.ippointed :—Mr. Chancellor of thelExellenuer,
Sir R:,bert Peel, Mr. flume, Mr. Labouehere, Mr. Goul-
r.Gsrottreu,tt,
burn, Mr. Mark PL,illips, Mr. O'Connell, Sir James Gra-
m, Charles Wood, Mr. Rickford, Mr. Warbur-
ton, Mr. Clay, Mr. Gisborne, Sir J ,ho Rae Reid, Mr.
t°0,..,78A1.i1r; Paulson, Mr. IL:rrics, Nlr. Ellice, :lr. Sercuant
Sir Thomas Fremantle,
A!rb.-elliScenti°itrl'l,Ml\l Mr. Matthias Wood,
rn d Mr. Morison. Po ,:•••• er to send for persons, papers Fend
,
records ; fiv,.; to be the q.loruin.
tier Majesty the Queen
Dowager has remitted
;g.ksjoonii,n
the bLndsome donation of 1001. to the Lichfield Diocesan
Society fur the building f h '''' u c ulci,,,s.