The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

gave, as though he had been an ogre, hawking little
children, summer recollections were so strong upon Miss
Tox, that she shook her head, and murmured she would
be comparatively old before she knew it—which seemed
likely.'

Enter, nevertheless, Mrs. Chick, suffering from a
peculiar kind of monosyllabic cough; "a sort of pri;-,
mer, or easy introduction to the art of coughing.
The dialogue that ensues is ludicrously true to
nature. Mrs. Chick announces Dombey's approach-
ing nuptails with Edith Granger, and Miss Tox
swoons in the arms of the wretched native who has
just entered the room with a polite message from the
Major over the way. Mrs. Chick's eyes are
opened, a pair of scales—in her estimation some-
thing like those used in grocer's shops—falling
from them, and she parts in wrath from poor
Lucretia Tox. The next chapter is a most
touching and powerful fragment of pathetic
narrative ; it depicts the growing love of Florence
for her second mother, and the anguish of that second
mother the night before the marriage.
" Slowly and thoughtfully did Edith wander alone
through the mansion of which she was so soon to be the
lady : and little heed took she of ull the elegance and
splendour it began to display. The same indomitable
haughtiness of soul, the same proud scorn, expressed in
eye and lip, the same fierce beauty, only. tamed by a
sense of its own little worth, and of the little worth of
everything around it, went through the grand saloons
and halls, and had got loose among the shady trees, and
raged and rent themselves. The mimic roses on the
walls and floors were set round with sharp thorns, that
tore her breast ; in every scrap of gold so dazzling to
the eye, she saw some hateful atom of her purchase-mo-
ney ; the broad high mirrors showed her, at full length,
a woman with a noble quality yet dwelling in her nature,
who was too false to her better self, and too debased and
lost to save herself. She believed that all this was so
plain more or less, to all
eyes, that she had no resource
or power of self-assertion but in pride ; and with this
pride, which tortured her own heart night and day, she
fought her fate out, braved it, and defied it.
" Was this the woman whom Florence—an innocent
girl, strong onlyin her earnestness and simple truth—
could so impress and quell, that by her side she was
another creature, with her tempest of passion hushed,
and her very pride itself subdued ? Was this the wo-
man who now sat beside her in a carriage, with their
arms entwined, and who, when she courted and entreated
her to love and trust her, drew her fair head to nestle
on her breast, and would have laid down her life to
shield it from wrong or harm?
" Oh, Edith ! It were well to die, indeed, at such a
time ! Better and happier far, perhaps, to die so, Edith,
than to live on to the end !"

Yet she is calm, and proud, and self-possessed in the
presence of every one. The abysses of her agony and
remorse at her own degradation are unseen. She
taunts her mother, and objects to Florence
remaining under the protection of Mrs. Skew-
ton. That decoyed Cleopatra, robed in her
greasy flannel gown, with her ashes lying
round her on the table and sofa, asks, is she not fit
company for a girl ! " What are you, pray ? What
are you ?" "I have put the question to myself," says
Edith, ashy pale, and pointing to the window, "more
than once, when I have been sitting there, and some-
thing in the faded likeness of my sex has wandered
past outside; and God knows I have met with my
reply." In the privacy of her own chamber she is
yet more affected by her situation.
" To and fro, and to and fro, and to and fro again,
five hundred times, among the splendid preparations for
her adornment on the morrow ; with her dark hair
shaken down, her dark eyes flashing with a raging
light, her broad white bosom red with the cruel grasp of
the relentless hand with which she spurned it from her,
pacing up and down with an averted head, as if she
would avoid the sight of her own fair person, and di-
vorce herself from its companionship. Thus, in the dead
time of the night before her bridal, Edith Granger
wrestled with her unquiet spirit, tearless, friendless,
silent, proud, and uncomplaining."
Peeping in at the door of Florence's room, she finds
the young girl sleeping soundly, and feels herself
irresistibly drawn on towards the couch.
"Drawn nearer, nearer, nearer yet ; at last, drawn so
near, that stooping down, she pressed her lips to the
gentle hand that lay outside the bed, and put it softly
to her neck. Its touch was like the prophet's rod of
old, upon the rock. Her tears sprung forth beneath it,
as she sunk upon her knees, and laid her aching head
and streaming hair upon the pillow by its side.
" Thus Edith Granger passed the night before her
bridal. Thus the sun found her on her bridal morning."
Then comes the wedding, preceded by the following
beautiful passages :
" Dawn, with its passionless blank face, steals shiver-
ing to the church beneath which lies the dust of little
Paul and his mother, and looks in at the windows. It
is cold and dark. Night crouches yet, upon the pave-
ment, and broods, sombre and heavy, in nooks and cor-
ners of the building. The steeple-clock, perched up
above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the
countless ripples in the tide of time that regularly roll
and break on the eternal shore, is greyly visible, like a
stone beacon, recording how the sea flows on ; but within
doors, dawn, at first, can only peep at night, and see that
it is there.

" Hovering feebly round the church, and looking in,
dawn moans and weeps for its short reign, and its tears
trickle on the window-glass, and the trees against the
church wall, bow their heads, and wring their many
hands in sympathy. Night, growing pale before it, gra-
dually fades out of the church, but lingers in the vaults
below, and sits upon the coffins. And now comes bright
day, burnishing the steeple clock, and reddening the
spire, and drying up the tears of dawn, and stifling its
complaining ; and the scared dawn, following the night,
and chasing it from its last refuge, shrinks into the
vaults itself and hides, with a frightened face, among the
dead, until night returns, refreshed, to drive it out.
" And now, the mice, who have been busier with the

prayer-books than their proper owners, and with the
hassocks, more worn by their little teeth than by human
knees, hide their bright eyes in their holes, and gather
close together in affright at the resounding clashing of
the church door. For the beadle, that man of power,
comes early this morning with the sexton ; and Mrs.
Miff, the wheezy little pew opener—a .might; dry old
lady, sparely dressed, with not an inch of fulness any-
where about her—is also here, and has been waiting at
the church gate half.an•hour, as her place is, for the
beadle."

Miss Miff comes out wonderfully; so does Mr.
Sownds the beadle, who looks upon the bride as " a
spanker ;" so does Mr. Toots ; so does his familiar,
the Game Chicken, who has been dipping his beak
into a tankard of strong beer, and picking up two
pounds of beefsteak ; so does Captain Cuttle ; so does
Mrs. Perch, who appears " (but that she always
is)" in an interesting situation ; so does Towlinson ;
so does Major Bagstock, of whose hand his Royal
Highness the late Duke of York did him the honour
to observe, Sir, to his Royal Highness the late Duke of
Kent, that it was the hand of Josh, a rough and
tough, and possibly an up to-muff old vagabond;
so does Cousin Feenix—Lord Feenix. The speech
of the Noble Lord at the wedding breakfast is a
capital bit of social reporting. Indeed the entire
chapter about the festivities is an elaborate piece of
" drawing from the life" which Charles Dickens
could alone have written.

NEWS FOR THE GEOLOGISTS.—The Journal des
Debats publishes the following letter, dated Odessa, the
4th instant:—" The Counsellor of State, Erdmann, Pro-
fessor of Geology at the Imperial
University of Dorpat,
who at this moment is travelling in the south of Russia,
has discovered in a property situated to the north of
Odessa several skeletons of fossil animals of enormous
dimensions. The skeletons are 83 in number, viz.,
6 elephants, 1 rhinoceros, 2 oxen, 4 stags, 1 antelope,
61 bears, 2 hyenas, 2 dogs, 3 cats, and a ruminating
animal, species unknown. Those skeletons, together
with the bones, were found under a thick layer of cal-
careous earth. The discovery made by M. Erdmann is
the more remarkable, as hitherto there never has been
any remains of the antediluvian animal reign discovered
in Russia."

SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday a branch
of this railway, about nine miles in length, and extend-
ing from Minster to Deal, was opened by the Chairman
and Directors of the company with the usual ceremo-
nies. The stations along the new line were handsomely
decorated. The whole population of the neighbourhood
assembled to celebrate the event ; huge flags were seen
fluttering in every direction ; shops were shut and busi-
ness suspended ; and, in fact, it was a complete holiday.
At half-past four o'clock a public dinner took place in
the Town-hall of Deal, every corner of which was occu-
pied. In the absence of the Mayor, who was prevented
by illness from being present, his deputy filled the chair,
and was supported by Mr. M'Gregor, chairman of the
company, Lord Clinton, Mr. B. Harding, Captain Tyn-
dal, Mr. Maclise, R.A., Mr. C. Dickens, Mr. J. Stuart,
Mr. Herbert, secretary to the company, Mr. C. Emer-
son, the Honourable S. Lushington, Mr. Browne, and
Mr. Walter, superintendent of the company. An ex-
cellent dinner was provided on the occasion by
the landlord of the Royal Hotel, and the company
having done ample justice thereto, proceeded by a suc-
cession of appropriate toasts to celebrate the event of
the day.
Many
Ilk ly
speeches were
.made in the course of
the evening upon the benefits toreaccrue to Deal
from railway communication, and all p sent appeared
sanguine in their expectation that thei▪ r ancient port was
awakening to a new existence. Mr. M'Gregor, in ac-
knowledging the kind manner in which he and his col-
leagues had been received, shortly revi▪
ewed the position
in which the company now stands with respect to its
projects befoie Parliament and the question of direct
communication in Kent. His observations drew forth
the warmest approbation. It was past eight o'clock
before the directors and their friends left Deal by
special train on their way back to London, but their de-
parture did not close the festivities of the evening. The
rapidity and ease with which the new line was passed
over, both going and coming, furnished satisfactory
evidences of the solidity with which it has been con-
structed. _ _

CAMBRIDGE.—The Vice-Chancellor has appointed
the Rev. Edward Thompson, Incepting Doctor in Divinity
and incumbent of All Saints, St. John's Wood, to preach
the University sermon next Sunday morning, and the
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Melbourne in the after-
noon.

R. COBDEN, ESQ., M.P.—We understand, from
authority on which we can rely, that the Danford pro-
perty near Midhurst, where the Honournble Member
for Stockport was born, and indeed which may be con-
sidered as his patrimonial estate, has been purchased
either by, or for th;t gentleman.—Sussex Advertiser.

E a
T eiN
L Wri 0 I‘ls THURSDAY

expenditure, will in a few years be almost entirely super-
seded by railways constructed in their immediate
vicinity. Now railways are in completion in every
part of the country, and a few years will suffice
to complete many of the lines now in an un-
finished state. The capital stocks of most have been
filled up by subscriptions from the middle classes.
New York capitalists are very shy, and touch all
works of internal improvement cautiously; and rich men
are unwilling to part with their money, unless immediate
returns in the shape of dividends are guaranteed. In
consequence of. this principle prevailing so generally, the
system of paying interest upon all instalments paid in
upon subscriptions to railroads has been adopted. The
journals condemn this system, as it is not more or less
than paying back to subscribers, in the shape of interest,
part of the principal, the deficiency produced by these
payments having to he made up by an increase of capital
stock. On the Boston line there has been a general
increa:e of trade. In fact, the increase of business on
the railroads already in operation has put all previous
calculations far in the back-ground. Estimates,
originally deemed to be highly exaggerated, have proved
to be far below the actual results. The annexed table
exhibits the gross receipts of the following- railroads
leading from Boston, iii four years ending Deeember 1,
1846: 1843. 1846.
Boston and Worcester $383,367 $554,712
Western
Boston and Lowell
Fitchburg
Boston and Maine
Eastern
Boston and Providence 233,388 360,375

Total 81,918,734 53,260,725
Aggregate increase on all the roads is 57 per cent.
Fares were generally reduced in 1845.
POPULATION PER MILE ON THE MASSACHUSETTS
LINES.—From calculations recently made, it has been
ascertained that the population of the towns immediately
adjoining some of the railroads of Massachusetts was as
follows :—viz., of the Old Colony Railroad, not including
Dorchester, 25,976, giving an average of 702 per mile, that
of the Providence road, not including Roxbury, 39,977,
or 978 per mile ; of the Worcester road, 27,159, or 603
per mile ; of the Fitchbury road, 27,353, or 547 per
mile ; of the Lowel road, 28,664, or 1,102 per mile ; of
the Boston and Maine road, terminating at the line of
the state of New Hampshire, 19,865, or 567 per mile ;
and on the Eastern road, terminating also at the border
of the state, 51,967, or 1,310 per mile.
The Boston Traveller states a remarkable fact, if it be
one, or rather makes Mr. Gilmore, president of the
Western Railroad, state a remarkable fact, in his testi-
mony before the railroad committee of the Massachusetts
Legislature, viz., " That the present through travel be-
tween Albany and Boston on the Western Railroad, only
averages 120 to 150 per month." This would be only
five or six for each working day.

MAMMOTH ENGINE.—A monster engine on Stephen-
son's principle has just been completed by Messrs.
Foster and Co., of Liverpool. It is intended for passenger
trains. It has four driving wheels (each six feet in
diameter) connected, boiler sixteen feet long, and its im-
mense weight may be estimated by the fact that thirteen
horses were employed to draw it through the metro-
polis. Its destination is said to be the South-Eastern
Railway.
THE Two RAILWAY MISCARRIAGES THROUGH
FRIGHT.—The following is from a correspondent:—
" Hope disappointed maketh the heart sick of the
railway commissionership. The Government ought
better to have calculated its own strength, and either
not have created such a mere fiction of commis-
sionership for any public good, or, having created
it, ought to have given it vigorous and decided
support. As the matter, however, now stands, Mr.
Strutt's office is null, and the power of the Whigs against
the railways nugatory. The public are, therefore, anx-
iously inquiring when this expensive, and, as it has
proved, perfectly useless commissionship is to be broken
up? Mr. Strutt having said good bye to his fundamental
Bill, the country (pitying his weakened condition under
two such awful miscarriages from fright), are now
equally desirous of saying good bye to Mr. Strutt and
his whole staff. The puffed-up railway men have, it
appears (like Mr. Borthwick) triumphed over the Whigs;
but let them beware that the now universally spreading
murmurs do not speedily break into a storm of public in-
dignation, which will lead, if not to the total abolition
of the companies, to measures infinitely more restrictive
upon them than those contemplated in Mr. Strutt's Bill."
THE LATE COLLISION ON THE SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.
—Since this occurrence the passing of goods across the
two lines of rails (which was the occasion of the acci-
dent) has been discontinued ; a proper signal post has
been erected, and an additional porter has been placed
at the Gorton station. We understand these changes
are what were required, and they will no doubt be ac-
cepted by the public as an earnest of the directors' care
and watchfulness.—Blanchester Examiner.
TOURNAY AND JURBISE, AND LANDEN AND HASSELT.
—An experimental trip on the Landers and Hasselt line
took place on the 24th instant, when the work of every
portion of the line underwent a strict examination by
the Government engineers, and the official opening is
fixed for the I2th of July next.
EAST LANCASHIRE.—There was a grand ceremony on.
Thursday at He/mshore, near Haslingden, on the occa-
sion of laying the foundation stone of the viaduct there
on the main line of this railway. This important work
is a continuous double viaduct, separated by retaining
walls in the middle, skirting the side of the hills, near
lielmshore. There are 15 arches in the whole, of about
30 feet span each, and the total length of the viaduct is
400 yards. The height of the principal arches is about
50 feet, and they are erected on a curve of about three-
quarters of a mile radius. The works on a considerable
portion of this part of the line (for some length of which
the Act was only obtained in the present session of Par-
liament), and of this viaduct, notwithstanding the fact of
the foundation stone having been postponed till the pre-
sent time, are in a very forward state, one of the arches
of the viaduct, and many of those on other parts of the
line, being already up to the springing point.—Manches-
ter Times.

OPENING OF THE BOROUGHDRIDGE BRANCH OF
THE YORK AND NEWCASTLE. This branch was
opened on Thursday. Its length is 54 miles, and it forms
a junction with the Great North of England Railway on
Pill Moor, south of the Sessay station. Leaving the
parent line it takes a westerly direction across Pill Moor,
an extensive waste, the junction being on a curve of
forty chains radius, the line runs nearly on a level, and
then proceeds on a straight line on towards Brafferton,
where there is an ample station in course of erection.
Passing this station a cutting is entered, in length about
one-third of a mile, through a loose sand and gravel
strata, the extreme depth being 36 feet. The high road
from Brafferton to Thornton Bridge is carried over the
railway in the cutting by a handsome viaduct of three
arches. On emerging from the cutting a very beautiful
country opens out to the view, the line immedately
approaching and crossing the river Swale, over which
it is carried is a noble stone bridge of three
arches, each of fifty feet span. This is a skew bridge at
an angle of 20i degrees. The village and beautiful
church of Brafferton present, from this point, a beautiful
view in the rear of the traveller. After the Swale has
been passed, the line again takes the level, and proceed-
ing perfectly straight, it traverses a beautiful and lux-
uriant country. After crossing the highway from Kirby
Hill to Myton, the line then takes a curve, of three quar-
ters of a mile radius to the south, and then proceeds
straight for about 400 yards, passing Milby on the right,
with the truly historical town of Aldborough on the left,
then taking a curve of three .fourths of a mile radius to
the north. it terminates in a straight run of about 300
yards to Boroughbridge station. Excepting the Braf-
ferton cutting and the works at and in connexion with
the Swale bridge, the entire line is nearly on the level,
and has been of most easy construction. It opens
outs a connexion with a very important agri-
cultural district, of which the • ancient town of
Boroughbridge, the residence of Andrew Lawson, Esq.,
M.P., is in the centre. The station is situate within 200
yards of the magnificent bridge, being on the north side
of the town, in the township of Langthrope, on Earl de
Grey's estate. It is 159 feet long, and designed by G.
T. Andrews, Esq., of York. It is in the Grecian style
of architecture, with an elegant arcade in front. The
fabric, is of brickwork, with stone dressings, and it
comprises first and second class waiting rooms, booking
offices, station-master's apartments, and other conve-
niences. There are also immediately adjacent an engine-
house, merchandise warehouse, cattle dock, carriage
landings, &c., the whole establishment comprising an
area of about seven acres. The works at the stations
have been executed by Messrs. Burton, of London. The
contractor of the line was Mr. Richard Cail, of New-
castle. The resident engineer was Mr. Joseph Stephen-
son. The opening day was one of great moment to the
inhabitants of Boroughbride, and the town band attended
each train to the junction.

THE HARVEST—POTATO CROP.—AII the reports
of the grain crops are most favourable, and nine out of
ten of the accounts of the potato are of the same gratify-
ing character, especially those which have reached us
just now. In the county of Carlow, for instance, we are
assured that potato fields that had been considered
affected, three weeks ago, appear quite flourishing, and
a notion begins to prevail that there had been no real
ground for alarm—in fact, that the blight of the two past
years has not yet made its appearance at all. We must,
however, mention, that a communication has been re-
ceived from one of the most experienced farmers, and
certainly the most extensive potato cultivator in the
midland counties, expressing fears for the safety of the
general crop, and stating that signs of disease have
appeared in the roots and stalks in his fields.—Dublin
Evening Post.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.-Mr. C. R. Wold, a
connexion of Sir J. Franklin, states that all the alarm
which has been created respecting the Arctic adventurers
is groundless. " Sir John," he says," was provisioned
for the summer of 1848, and when he sailed no one con-
templated hearing from him earlier than October or No-
vember, 1847, unless some unforeseen accident should
compel his earlier return. If he succeeds in passing
Behring's Straits at the end of August, or in September
or October, 1847, we shall not learn his success earlier
than January or February, 1848. There is,
therefore,
the
second
Ills
es
present
no cause as yet for flying to his rescue. absence
has not yet equalled that of SairfaEc.t,Teaxrira3t,
a on t
voyage; and there does not, i
moment more reason for apprehension than there was
when the expedition sailed. The not having heard from
Sir John is to be looked upon as more an earnest of
(MOMS than of failure."
REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF BRElD.—Tuesday
there was a general reduction of one halfpenny in the
price of the 41b. loaf throughout the different metropo-
litan districts, the high-priced bakers charging lid.,
second quality 91d., household 9d. and Sid. the 41b. loaf;
rye bread is 7d. the loaf, and Indian corn 2d. the lb.
To be sold, without reserve, the Protectionists at
the approaching election.—Punch.

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
The second adjourned special general meeting of the
shareholders of this company, for the purpose of tilting
into consideration the conduct and proceedings of the
directors with regard to the proposed sale of the line to
the Great Western Company, was held yesterday after-
noon at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. It is needless
to say that the refusal of the House of Lords on Friday
night to suspend the standing orders in favour of the
promoters of the Amalgamation Bill has very consider-
ably altered the respective position of the contending
parties. Mr. P. H. Muntz occupied the chair, and, as
usual, Mr. Russell, M.P. (chairman), Mr. Saunders
(secretary), and other officials of the Great Western,
were in attendance.
The first question propounded by Mr. Mozley, the
leader of the dissentient shareholders, was as to whether
or not the directors were prepared to submit any terms
of arrangement to the proprietary. As far as he
(Mr. Mozley) was concerned, he would state that he
had thrown no obstacle in the way of an amicable
settlement of all differences. He believed that the
contention, if continued, would he injurious and disris-
trolls,
not only to the directors, but to all others inte-
rested in the property of which they (the directors) were
the trustees. He (Mr. Mozley) had to complain that,
although an appointed director,he had no means of be
coming acquainted excepting almost by force, with the
business of the board of directors. Against the
chairman, however, he had no personal complaint to
make. On the other hand, he believed that if all the
members of that body had taken the stun, course as their
Hon. Chairman had done, the present position of the
company would have been very different. He (Mr.
Mozley), as director, was ignorant of the stated time of
the meetings of that board, and he was ate loss to km )vy
how it was that a mere section of the directors could
legally carry on the affairs of the company. Every
member was assuredly entitled to be made acquainted
with every particular of the business transacted.
The CHAIRMAN observed that no meetings of the
board of directors had been held.
Mr. MOZLEY—A vast amount of business had been
transacted. He should like to know how it had been
done, and by whom?
The CHAIRMAN—The directors were called together
when a meeting was necessary, and in the mean time
a committee—the appointed executive—transacted the
business.

Mr. Momxv.—There had been a large outlay of
money. Who gave the cheques?
THE CHAIRMAN—The finance committee.
Mr. MozLEy—Was he to understand that the finance
committee, without the supervision of the board of
directors, transacted the money affairs of the company ?
The CHAIRMAN—The finance committee was appoint.
ed by the board of directors.
Mr. MOZLEY—He had been informed that recently a
gentleman occupying a high position in society had
proposed certain terms of arrangement between parties.
He wished to ask the chairman whether he was aware of
that fact ?
The CHAIRMAN replied, that he had not the slightest
knowledge of the circumstance to which the Hon. Pro-
prietor alluded.
Mr. MOZLEY—AII he could say was that he believed
their chairman ; but he (Mr. Mozley) had heard such a
statement from authority. Before proceeding to the
immediate business of the day he wished to remark,
that he had heard that before the time at which the sale
to the Great Western was proposed, other agreements,
although not laid before the shareholders, existed t • and
he and those with whom he acted thought that all such
agreements, being bond fido, should be maintained and
acted upon in good faith. He, therefore, with the hope
and the expressed intention of assisting the directors
in the accomplishment of such objects, begged leave,
preparatory to other business, to propose the following
resolution :
That this meeting, considering the main objects of
the Bill now before Parliament to enable the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Company to make
certain alterations in the line of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway, and to purchase the Stratford-
on-Avon canal navigation, and for other purposes, to
be consistent with the interests of the shareholders, de..
sires to express its concurrence in the provisions of such
Bill, excepting those which confer power on the Great
Western Company to subscribe for, or to purchase and
hold shares in this company under the alleged agree-
ment, to the terms of which the shareholders in this
company object, and which enable the Great Western
Railway Company to raise capital for that purpose, and
to vote in respect thereof; of which provisions in the
present state of the matter this meeting cannot approve;
and this meeting, understanding that certain share-
holders have petitioned the House of Lords against such
Bill on standing orders, respectfully request those share-
holders not to proceed further with such petition pro-
vided the objectionable provisions before referred to are
withdrawn ; and doth hereby express the desire of the
shareholders that, subject to the withdrawal of such
provisions, the said Bill should be allowed to proceed
without further opposition in Parliament."
Mr. C. EL JONES seconded the resolution.
The CHAIRMAN said he did not see any objection to
the resolution, but Mr. Mosley must be aware that no no-
tice had appeared of any resolution to that effect being
brought forward at that meeting. He believed, too, that
such a resolution was altogether unnecessary, even for
the purposes contemplated by its proposers. The Rouse
of Lords would require the standing orders to be com-
plied with; but if unopposed, or if the opposition was
withdrawn, it was possible the Bill in question, having
for its object the purchase of the Stratford canal, might
be allowed to go forward.
Mr. Mozi.Ev observed, that the Chairman must exer-
cise his own discretion. If the resolution was wrong it
would be ineffective; if it was right it would assist, as it
was intended, the directors.
The CHAIRMAN was sure Mr. Mozley would see that
the resolution did not come within the objects contem-
plated or named in the advertisement calling the present
meeting.

Mr. MOZLEY, after some further conversation, with-
drew the resolution, stating that he should bring it for-
ward at the close of the meeting, when Mr. Muntz had
left the chair.
The Chairman then, at the request of Mr. Mozley,
handed back his resolution.
The CHAIRMAN intimated that Mr. Mozley could
adopt any course he chose.
Mr. MOZLEY again expressed his deep regret that the
dissensions which prevailed between the directors and
the shareholders had not been brought to a close. A
fearful responsibility rested upon those by whom it
was continued. He believed that as regarded the con-
struction of this line and its management, an expenditure
had been incurred unparalleled in railway history. He
had again to complain that as a director he had been re-
fused the inspection of certain deeds in the possession of
the board of directors, as trustees of the company—
deeds for which he, as a director, was responsible. He
was bound in justice to state that the Hon. Proprietor
whom he saw opposite (Mr. Russell, the chairman of the
Great Western) had fully admitted the principle for
which he contended, and said that he was fully entitled
to the inspection of the deeds in question. The only
way to keep directors under control was to be able to
subject them continuously to the power of general meet-
ings. After some further observations, the Hon. Gen-
tleman concluded by stating that he should move another
adjournment; they had now a meeting, and he was
anxious that it should not be concluded without giving
the directors an opportunity of submitting the proposi-
tion of some arrangement to the shareholders. He
begged leave to move the following resolution :
" That this meeting be and the same is hereby ad-
journed until Monday, the 12th day of July next, at
one o'clock in the afternoon, at Dee s Royal Hotel, in
Birmingham, when the consideration of all and singular
the matters mentioned and referred to in the requisition
of the 29th day of April last, under which this meeting
is held, will be resumed, if necessary."
Mr. TURNER seconded the motion.
Mr. STEVENS and the CHAIRMAN mutually explained
respecting the refusal to allow Mr. Mozley the inspection
of some deeds executed before that gentleman became a
director. The existence of these " subsidiary agree-
ments," it appeared, came out before the Standing Orders
Committee of the House of Lords, and Mr. Mozley, as
a director, demanding an inspection of them, he was
refused, unless upon a motion he obtained an order from
the Board of Directors.
Mr. MOZLEY declared this proceeding to be monstrous,
and contrary to all precedent; he had conversed with
many railway directors and they declared that they had
never before heard such a dictum laid down. The Hon.
Proprietor next complained of the directors making a
call upon the shareholders. All other companies, when
101. per share was paid up, had the power, as they had,
to borrow, and that power they exercised; but, in this
company, a further call was made for the purpose of
oppressing the shareholders.
The CHAIRMAN distinctly repudiated any wish to
oppress the shareholders.
Mr. W. MATHEWS then, at considerable length, de-
fended the conduct of the directors, and said, that no
gentleman would rejoice more than himself if an ar-
rangement, consistently with the honour and inteitY
and the
the
of the present directors, could be effected, and all
boiders
differ-
ences between that body and the present
won there
for ever put an end to. Brushing away allw
onw:sever, to have
was no question that the contest:vahs
London and North-Western Company ", Great
He thought the pro-
positionWestern.—(Cries of " No, no.")
p°rueg:se-n-ce of lawyers would
his friends.
of an arrangement
come from Mr. Mozley and
Mr. MozLEY thought that four gentlemen thrown
into
All the shareholders
ttahr:rruaintegeet ba.itheelly.tcould get for their wsaoaronontoemdc owtmowageesertetthoh
deereasb‘ni se:
best
that other companies beside the
pro-
perty; they had no irsish to injure the Great Western,
they
yVestern should have the right to run upon the
Great
teatht
line.
Mr.
puoni tnzt etdh etno vsnancnaeteedd
nthirne c,htnaierfi;rsaturdesnMiurt.i,Tmuprnrner.r
pboeisnegd by Mr. Mozley was again proposed by that gen-
tleman, seconded, and carried unanimously.
The meeting then adjourned to the 12th of July.

THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—We are grati-
fied to learn that the Noble and Gallant ➢Marquis is re-
covering from the effects of his serious accident on Sunday
last.

THE BRITISH LADIES' CLOTHING ASSOCIATION FOR
SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.—HER MAJESTY'S BENEVO-
LENCE.—The committee of the above association, which
numbers among its members many ladies connected with
the higher circles of society, in consequence of the low
state of their funds, have recently received a munificent
donation of 5001. from her Majesty, which greatly
assisted in forwarding the objects of the association.
Lord and Lady Stanley leave town on Saturday
next for Knowsley-park, the Earl of Derby's seat in
Lancashire, where the Noble Lord and Lady are to re-
ceive a visit from his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke
Constantine of Russia on Tuesday next.