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ders. These lines were the right and left arms of the
Eastern Counties Company, and it was, therefore, their
utmost desire to promote a good understanding between
each other.
The toast was received with acclamation.
Mr. TILL returned thanks on behalf of the Norfolk
Company, and thanked the officers of the Company for
honouring him with an invitation to the entertainment.
On behalf of the officers of the company which he repre-
sented, he could assure them that they would do all in
their power to promote the interests of the Eastern
Counties Company.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SAUNDERS briefly responded to the toast.
Mr. SMALL responded to the toast of the directors of
the Eastern Counties, and Northern and Eastern boards.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of Mr.
Roney, and the officers of the company," including suc-
cess to the engineering, the locomotive, the coaching and
goods departments. It was impossible to have a secre-
tary who could carry out the directions of the board
better than Mr. Roney.—(Cheers.) Mr. Davis, the ac-
countant., Mr. Moseley, the goods superintendent, Mr.
Scott, of the locomotive department, Mr. Hunter,
the locomotive superintendent, " Mr. Samuels," the
resident engineer, and other gentlemen in connexion
with the company, deserved favourable mention, and he
begged to propose their healths. Each toast was well
received, and they respectively returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The men employed in the
several departments of the company." He said the
affairs of the company must be carried on 'by them,
whether for weal or for woe; and that the company were
most anxious to encourage those who attended steadily
to their duties •, and, in appointing men, they looked not
to patronage, but to the ability of the men they em-
ployed, and to the patronage of the public.— (Loud
cheers.) The men and the company had been
blamed, and not only blamed but blackguarded
on account of the want of the necessary plant, but their
means had been increased, and they intended to apply
to Parliament for powers to enlarge their station at
Shoreditch.
Mr. RONEY briefly returned thanks. Ile said he
had spent many proud and happy days, but he had never
experienced more pleasure than he did on that occasion,
because he never saw a prouder or happier sight than
he did on that occasion, namely, to behold :such a large
number enjoying themselves through the liberality of
the directors of the company.—(Loud cheers.) It was
gratifying to know they had as intelligent a body of men
as any other railway in the kingdom; and with their united
endeavours, and with the blessing of God, they would
make the Eastern Counties line as successful as any
other.—(Loud cheers.) For the personal manifestation
of respect they had evinced he begged to tender them
his most heartfelt thanks. He resumed his seat amidst
loud cheers.

Mr. PETO and Mr. DUNCAN addressed the assembly
on behalf of the ladies in very gallant terms, and the
company separated.
The, tables were then cleared away, and dancing was
commenced and kept up until an early hour this
morning.

Some-idea of the extent and nature of the festival may
be inferred from the fact that upwards of 1,600 were
present, and partook of the good cheer provided by the
liberality of the company.

•
RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVEOOL, ICEMBB 31, 1846.
STOCK EXC
Ga.HANTheD sales areR
—Ambergate and East-
ern Junction, IA p.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Junction, 14 p.—Birmingham and Dudley, 614
Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction, 9% p.—Boston, Stamford,
and Birmingham, 1% p.—Chestqr and Birkenhead, 201.
Shares, p.—East Lancashire, New, 1% p.---Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 78—Glasgow and Ayr, New Halves, 7 p.
Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 2% dis.—Ditto, Quarters,
dis.—Ditto, Docks, P; dis.—Great Wegtern, 17/. Shares,
p.-... Lancaster and Carlisle, Thirds, 5% p.—Leeds and Thirsk,
dis.—Ditto,lNew, par—Ditto, Prefbrence, 1/. Bs. 9d. p.
—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 11. 16s. 3d.—London
and North-Wostern, 196—London and York, 4 p.—Man-
chaster and Leeds Extension, 1% p.---Manchester, Bolton,
and Bury Extension, IL Bs. 9d. n.—Manchester, Matlock,
and Midland, 1143-p. ^npton, par—
Midland Stock, 40/. ferential, 129
—North Staffordshire. 'B), 155—St.
Helen's and Rune( i 5 —Sheffield,
Rotherham, and Dr Oswesty, and
Chester, 1 dis.—Sh. 3), 13, Is. 3d.
p.—West Riding t k and New-
castle (late N. and'• . a and North
Midland, Preference renpoint 2% p.
MA
,
STOCK EXCHAXG lite, Notting-
ham, and Boston, icashire, and
Cheshire, 1 5-16 F. aton, &c.,
rn
p.—Blackbu, C itl aian, Halves,
1-16 p.—East Lane, Anshire, 1%
p.—Fleetwood, Pre: par—Glasgow
and Dumfries, 1% l de London and
York, IA p.-,-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and
Canal, Thirds, 1 7-16 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, Preferentials,
1 5-16 p.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport (West Lanca-
shire), 1% p.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junc-
tion, 1-16 p.—London and South-Western (scrip), % p
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 14 p.—Man-
cheater and Southampton, dia.—North Staffordshire, 4 1-16
p.--Oldham Alliance. 44 p.—Sheffield and 'Manchester. Quar-
ters, No. 1, p.—Ditto, No. 2, 24 j4—South-Eastern and
Dover, No. 4, % p.—West Riding Union, 2 3-16 p.
LEEDS, DECEMBER 3L
STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have had but three clear busi-
ness-days this week and one meeting this morning, and as
operations have not. been very extensive, it is difficult to
estimate the probabilities of future movements. Upon the
whole, however, appearances favour expectations of im-
provement, and in seine instances better prices are realised.
No doubt this feeling would have extended, but for the en-
hanced price of corn, and the heavy calls for money now
making to carry on the railway works in progress. Great
Westerns are decidedly better, and inquired for, and Manches-
ter and Leeds stock is in demand, but Midland, Dovers, and
Brightons do not rally. Dewsburvs are higher, and Had-
dersfield and Manchesters firm at a small advance. West
Riding Unions tolerably good at about four guineas per
share. Melton and Driffields improve steadily, and East and
West Yorkshires are gaining favour, but Sheffield, Rother-
ham, and Gooles are rather lower. The sales are—Amber-
gate, Nottingham, and Boston, ss. n. p.—East Lancashire,
New, 3 9.16 p.—Ditto, New, Scrip, 134 p.—Great Northern,
Extension, 2a. 6d. dis.—Hudderstield and Manchester, 41,,3
c. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 451 p.—Leeds and Dewsbury,
11 p. c. n.—Ditto, Branches (blue), 3 p.—Leeds and Thirsk,
14 dis.—Ditto, New, 28s. c. p. c. n.—Ditto, Preference,
295. p.—Malton and Driflield Junction, 1 p.—Manchester,
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 14 p.—North British, Ex-
tension (scrip), 19s. p.—North Staffordshire, 41. Is. 3d. n.
p.—North-Western, 14s. c. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Goole, 15s. p.—York and Newcastle, Preference, 5/. 11s. 3d.
p.—York and North Midland, Preference, 12 p.—Leeds,
Wakefield, and Midland, 9s. dis.—West Riding Union, 4/.
35.6 d.

HULL, DECEMBER 31.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-Our business still continues limited
in amount, although more is doing to-day than yesterday.
Our quotations remain almost unaltered. The sales are—
North British, Quarters, 725. 6d.—Ditto, Extension (scrip),
183. 6d. p.—Ambvgate, Nottingham, and Boston, V. 16s. 6d,
—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 14s dis.—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Extensions, 114 dis.—North-Western, 13s. p.--
North Staffordshire, 4/. 4s.—Northern Counties Union, 245.
West Riding Union, 4/. 3s.

EDINBURGH, DECEMBER 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, 3014-
Ditto, New, 595.-Direct Northern, 525. 6d.-Dundee and
Perth, New, 1414-East of Fife, 565.-East Lothian Cen-
tral, 635. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 605.-Edinburgh
and Northern, New, 51.-Ditto, Newport, 6% ex new-
Edinburgh and Perth, 593.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 6%-Great North of Scotland, 605.-Midland, Halves,
nu-North British, 36 .;1-Ditto, Thirds, 78s. 6d.-Ditto,
Quarters, 71s. 6d.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 31s. 6d.-
Scottish Grand Junction, 205.-Great Southern of Madras, 6s.
GLASGOW, DECEMBER 30. •
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-Tlae sales are-Aberdeen 25N- Ayr
and Galloway, 365.-Caledonian, 301.-Ditto, 'New, 5-ts.-
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 445. 6d.-Direct Bombay
and'Madras, 55.-Dundee and Arbroath, New, No. 1, 33/.
-Ditto, No. 2, 141.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 75e.
-East of Fife, !Bs.-East Indian Railway, I.ls. 9d.-East
Lothian Central, 615.-Edinburgh and Northern, 1534-
Edinburgh and Perth, 605.-Glasgow General Terminus,
12,i-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, 91/ti-Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 51. ls.-Glasgow. Airdrie.
and Monkland Junction, 725.-Great Southern of Madras,
63.-Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 525.-Manchester and
Southampton, 395. 6d.-Midland, Halves, 71. 65.-New-
castle and Berwick, 351.-Paisley, Barrhead, and llurlet, 60s.
-Scottish Central, 2154-Scottish Grand Junction, 205.-
South- Eastern and Dover, New, No. 4, 635. 6d.-Stirling and
Dunfermline, 765.-Stirlingshire and Midland Junction, 535.
-Strathern Junction, 855.-Wishaw and Coltness, 501.-
York and Newcastle, Preference, 7N.

FISHING AT THE CAPE.—By no means the least
singular circumstance in connexion with Cape Town is
the apparently inexhaustible supply of fish which its har-
bour furnishes. There are a great variety of species, all
different from European; but though several of these are
wholesome and fine flavoured, they are not worthy to be
ranked with English sorts. The two most abundant
kinds seem to be Cape salmon, a heavy fish, in also
and in external aspect somewhat resembling ; a
British namesake; and the snook, a most ferocious
marine pike. Boats, after an excursion of a few hours,
often return laden with these fish, which though
rarely below fire or six pounds weight, generally sell
for less than a penny a piece, and despite the great
cheapness of butchers' meat, constitute the principal
market to which this commodity is exported. The mar
gin of the bay is strewn in all directions with the heads,
tails, and refuse of fish. In lack of other amusements,
a fishing excursion will be found no bad way of passing
away the time here. Snook are the most ravenous,
and rarely fail to give good sport. They may be caught
either while the boat is in motion, by trailing a laden
hcok astern, with some white streamers of rag on it,
or when at anchor, by alternately casting the bait to a
distance, and drawing it quickly back through the water.
They will almost spring icto the boat in pursuit of the
hook, and in the clear water are of a beautiful
purple hue, and may be seen with their back fins
erected rushing to destruction, like furies. Their teeth
are very formidable and they know how to use them,
which renders the awkward process of knocking them on
the head with batons, before introducing them on board,
an indispensable step. Much splashing attends this feat,
which appears highly exhilirating to the fishermen if not
the fish. Penguins, Cape hens, and albatrosses, with
some kinds of seagull, surround the boat on those occa-
sions so closely, that it is barbarous to shoot them, and
an unjustifiable breach of confidence. Gannets and cor-
morants also fly around in great numbers.—Methuen'a
Wanderings in South Africa;

IRELAND.
RECLAMATION OF WASTE LANDS.
DUBLIN, DEC. 30, 1846. The precedent for an appli-
cation of the Government loan to be applied to the re-
clamation of bog and waste land has been set by Lord
De Freyne, who has applied for a sum of 24,1641., to be
laid out in the improvement of 10,944 acres upon his
extensive estates in the county of Roscommon. As his
Lordship is a strict tenant for life, it is only by availing
himself of the extraordinary powers proffered by the
Treasury minute of the Ist of December that he could
be enabled to make this spirited exec tion.
THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION.
The Evening Mail states that Mr. John Young, the
Member for Cavan, "in his capacity ofex-Secretary of
the Treasury, had addressed to the followers of Sir
Robert Peel (be the same more or less) the ordinary
circular, requesting their attendance on the first night
of the session, as it is probable that business of import-
ance,' and so forth, in the usual terms of such docu-
ments."

PROPOSAL FOR AN INCOME-TAX.
A committee of landlords of .the county of Cork has
been sitting in deliberation for the last week ; and, on
Monday last, the following resolution was, after some
discussion, unanimously agreed to. The opponents of
the preposition here put forward will, no doubt, urge the
absence of all machinery, such as exists in England, as a
leading objection to the feasibility of an income-tax for
Ireland ; nevertheless, among the countless projects
which the present crisis has suggested, there have been
some less rational than the remedy proposed by the Cork
proprietors:—
" That the experience we have had of the effects of
the Labour-rate Act on all classes of the community
induces us to express our conviction that it is totally in-
adequate to provide for the necessities of the labouring
population of Ireland ; that, while giving a limited em-
ployment in one direction, it withdraws labour from
another ; and that while the process of public works
under it leads to the most useless ends and objects, it
removes from the natural market of the country—the
cultivation of its soil—that labour upon which our future
supply of food depends.
" That we approve of a compulsory taxation for the
support of the labouring poor ; but we deny the justice
of charging it exclusively on'the land, and we implore
the county deputies, who shall meet in Dublin or London,
to take into their calm and deliberate consideration the
measures which may best conduce to combine the largest
amount of relief with a necessary but moderate taxation.
That this taxation shall apply as well to income—indus-
trial, professional, and arising from invested capital, as
from land alone—that its distribution shall be released
from all the expensive machinery new employed in its
disbursement, and that a system of relief, under divi-
sional or district managemenpind control, be substituted
for the wasteful practice ncerprevailing under the boards
of work and boards of g rdians. In short, that the
deputies so assembled ah -devise the legislative means
whereby the largest pos le proportion of the taxes to
be raised upon the ancy, property, and income of
Ireland may be app to the useful employment of
healthful labour, and e support of the aged and infirm
destitute of the country.
" That, if a principal- of taxation such as we herein
have sketched be adopted, we seek no special application
of its expenditure; but if it shall be continued as a
charge ;on tap land of the country, we consider the
special charaEter of the levy to entitle the landowners
and occupiers to the benefit of its expenditure in labour;
and we respectfully submit to the intended meeting that
this principle be borne in mind, and contended for in the
preparation of any legislative enactment for the relief
of Ireland in the ensuing session of Parliament."
The Corh Constitution thus comments upon the reso-
lutions:—
" It seems to us so fair in all its parts ,that we kn
not what objection can reasonably be urged against
We are aware that in many quarters the taxing o
come is disapproved of, but we have never been abl to
recognise the soundness of the plea on which the disap-
proval rests, and so we repeatedly stated during the
discussions on Sir Robert Peel's proposition. The ar-
gument derived • from its fluctuating nature applies
equally to any species of property whose returns are not
definite and fixed. There is no more hardship in re-
quiring the fundholder or the physician, the shopkeeper
or the lawyer, to contribute to the support of the poor
of the community by which he lives, or to bear a pro-
portion of the expenses of extraordinary' measures for
employing them either in non-productive labour, or in
labour directed to the benefit of the general public, than
in requiring the landlord or the farmer. If the income
of the one is uncertain, so is the income of the other."
Some idea of the state of the county of Cork may be
learned from the fact that, in one barony (EAU Mus-
kerry), there are 8,900 persons returned as destitute by
the relief committees, and of another (the barony of
Bere) the Constitution thus reports :
"For every one man employed there are five left rov-
ing in destitution about the country, and those who are
on the lists of the overseers have, in many instances, to
walk five miles to the road, and, if not there at the ap-
pointed hour, a quarter or half-day's wages is stopped.
So that persons leaving their huts at four o'clock in the
morning cannot regain them before seven or eight o'clock
at night, then to lie down on damp ground, their only
covering being the wet garments in which they shivered
while they toiled all day. But those who suffered on
the works were content and were grateful, while those
who were not employed crowded round the houses of the
few resident gentlemen in the neighbourhood, crying
from hunger, and imploring to have their lives saved by
getting a little food or employment to enable them to
purchase it. Thus matters proceeded until Monday,
when a large body of the Dursey Islanders and the
labourers of the three parishes surrounding Castletown,
walked into the town and declared their determi-
nation to move into Macroom and make a
prisoner of Captain Gordon, whom they declared
they would take back into the mountains, and
there subject him to the same privations which
they were enduring until he alleviated their dis-
tress. So determined did they appear in their purpose
that the Rev. Thomas O'Grady, the rector, and Mr.
O'Sullivan, two gentlemen of great influence in the
county, could only prevail on them to postpone their
march for a few days, by stating that they themselves
would that night set off and endeavour to procure em-
ployment for them, as remonstrance by letter was disre-
garded. These gentlemen accordingly did so, but the
result of their mission is not yet disclosed."
DEATHS BY STARVATION IN MAYO,
The Mayo Constitution publishes another fearful ca-
talogue of deaths by famine within the last ten days.
Here is the supplementary " black list":—
" On Monday, the 21st instant, Mr. Atkinson, coroner,
held an inquest on the body of Pat M'Donnell, at
Springhill. The deceased was found dead in a field.
Some witnesses, and Dr. Neilson, were examined, and
the following verdict was returned—' Died from starva-
tion.'
"On the same day the same coroner held an in-
quest on the body of Owen Cane, who died at Glane-
dagh. Verdict—' Death from starvation.'
" On the same day the same coroner held an inquest
on the body of Bridget Joyce, a widow with four chil-
dren, who died in a small sheep-house, in a field at
Glanedagh. It appeared in evidence that the deceased
and her family were in the utmost state of destitution,
and one of the children had nothing to wet the lips of
its dying parent but a drop of water or a little snow.
The body lay for eight days before a few boards could
be procured to make a coffin, in such a state of
destitution was the locality. Verdict—' Death from
starvation.'

" On the 22d, the same coroner held an inquest on the
body of James M'Andrew, at Cloonman, whose death
was very sudden. Verdict—'Died from the vititation of
God.'
" On the 23d, the same coroner held an inquest on the
body of Edmond M'Hale, a boy, at Caracirable, in At-
tymass, one of a numerous family. The evidence of the
mother as to their destitution was truly melancholy.
The last words of the dying child to his famishing
parent were, Mother, give me three grains of corn.' A
woman, who was present at the melancholy scene,
searched the pocket of his jacket, and found three grains
of corn. Verdict—. Died from starvation.'
" On the 24th, the same coroner held an inquest on
the body of William Barrett, at Acres, Killala. Verdict
—' Died from starvation.'

" On the same day, the same coroner held an inquest
on the body of Bridget Walsh, at Rathtrom. Verdict—
Died from starvation.' "

NOVEL MODE OF SMUGGLING SPIRITS INTO A
WORRHOUSE.—On Tuesday, at the meeting of the di-
rectors and guardians of the poor at St. Pancras, a
charge was preferred by Mr. Cooper, the workhouse sur-
geon, against a nurse of one of the sick wards, named
Lloyd, that she was in the habit of getting intoxicated,
and that on Wednesday last she was so much so, as to be
incapable of performing her duties. Lloyd admitted the
" soft impeachment," but expressed her entire ignorance
of how she obtained the " three half quarterns" within
the walls of the workhouse. Mr. Chadborn, the super
intendent, was called, and, in answer to questions, said
he knew the inmates of the workhouse got gin somehow,
but how they got it was a perfect mystery, unless it was
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managed to smuggle large quantities of spirits in the
coffin. The porters were ordered by the Board for the
future to search coffins on their arrival, and to send all
females coming in to the matron for a similar purpose.
CHEAP RE-PUBLICATION OF IMPORTANT WORKS.
—Mr. Colburn has this day published Part I. of the
cheap re-issue of " The Nelson Letters and Dispatches,"
to be completed in fourteen monthly parts, price only
ss. each. The " Nelson Letters," (observes the Globe)
will hereafter be the manual of the sailor, as the sister.
service has found a guide in the Dispatches of the Duke
of Wellington. The first part of the reissue of
Burke's " History of the Landed Gentry," to be com-
pleted in ten monthly parts, price 53., is also now ready.
This is a work in which every gentleman will find a
domestic interest, as it contains the fullest account of
nearly every known family in the United Kingdom.
AMBELGATE RAILWAY.—The Duke of Rutland
will cut the first sod on this line early in the ensuing
week,
.1 ai Bothesfield, near Nottingham.

p.—Manchester and Southar
01. Shares, B% p.—Ditto, Pre
hire, 414,,p
..--Nert.lu Union
corn Gap, Ualyes,'-.110, dis.,
nicaster, I%p,,,r4hren-sburv,
Irawsbury'antlXirmingham(l
triicin, 21. Is. M. p.--Tor
'D.), Preferenco, p.—Tort
e,11:!:3 p.--Newrvsand \Varre:
;CHESTER, Daclolnzn 31.
GE. —The sales are—Ambergi
, 3-16 p.—Birkenhead, Lan
Birmingham, Wolverhamp
theme, sa, 743 dis.—Caledor
icashire, 3% p.—East Lincc
estop, and West Riding, p 1
3 p.—Great Northern (late