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the cotinty of Chester, on the plans of the said railway referred
to in the.saidAet, and the termination of the said main line, in the
township of Mahan Norris, in the parish of Manchester, in the
county of Lancaster, and also to abandon the formation
of the branch railway authorised by the said Act, commencing in
the township of Altrineham and parish of Bowden, and terminating
by a junction with the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham
Railway, in the township of Titnperley and parish of Bowden, all
in the said county of Chester, being the railway in the said Act of
the 9th and 10th of Victoria, secondly described ; and also to aban-
don the formation of the brand' railway authorised by the said Act,
commencing in the towir of Warrington, and terminating by a junc-
tion with the Grand Junction Bailway, in the township and parish
of Warrington, all in the county of Lancaster, being the railway In
the said Act of the 9:h and 10th of Victoria lastly described.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the
said Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Com-
pany to make a Railway to commence by a Junction with the said
main line of their Rail way in the said field, numbered 115, in the
said township of Norton and parish of Runcorn, and thence passing
from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial places of Kekewick, Norton, and Runcorn, and to
terminate by a junction with the line of the London and North-
Western Railway at or near Kekewick, in the township of Keke-
wick and parish of Runcorn, all in the said county of Chester.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to enable the said
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway Company to
alter the levels of so much of the Chester branch of the said railway
as authorised by the said Act of the 10th and 11th Victoria, chapter
223, as lies between a field numbered 73 in the township of lloole,
and parish of St. John the Baptist, on the plans of the said branch
referred to In the said last-mentioned Act, and a field numbered 43
in the township of Helsby, and parish of
.Frodsham, on the said

QCOTTISH HOSPITAL.
kJ ST. ANDREW'S DAY, tho 30th of November, 1848.
The 183 d ANNIVERSARY DINNER, at the London Tavern.
The Right Hon. Sir JAMES DUKE, M P., the Lord Mayor,
in the Chair.
The CHISHOLM, of Chishohn, Treasurer, Vice-Chahinan.
STEWARDS.

frO the ELECTORS of the WEST RIDING
of YORKSHIRE.
Upper Brook-street, Nov. 23, 1848.
Gentlemen,—An invitation, as unexpected as it is gratifying, has
just been conveyed.to me from a numerous body of electors, to allow
myself to be'put in nomination to represent your Riding.
:3ly first and overwhelming impression, on receiving such a com-
' inunication, has been one of personal unworthiness of such an
Honour. Whatever bearing such an admission may have, it is right
to confess that, as a man whose property lies out of your county,
though for a short time he represented one of your boroughs, and
who is unknown by sight to a large proportion of Yorkshirernen.
such an offer is calculated to produce feelings, in which gratitude is
strongly blended with a disposition to decline the task.
Allow me, however, to state to you the circumstances which have
counteracted these first impressions. The grounds on which I have
come to the decisi9n to comply with the request to become a candi-
date are, is brier, those which have induced a large body of 'your-
selves to forget that my property is south and not north of the
Humber.
I have been asked to stand, and now consent to do so, because,
while there are three or four subjects on which I entertain strong
opinions, there is another on which my views are so long cherished,
and so rmly held, that I hope there is scarcely any sacrifice which
I should not feel it my duty to make in order to secure their triumph.
The principle of entire freedom of commerce I desire to see carried
out
laws to its fullest development, including a change in our navigation-

REPRESENTATION OF THE

WEST RIDING.

NOMINATION OF MR. DENISON.

• Tho Earl of Auckland, G.C.B.
The Earl of Fife, K.T.
The Earl of Zetland, K.T.
Lord Campbell
The Hon. E. T. L. Melville
Sir Charles Forbes, Bare.
W. T. Copeland, Esq , Alderman
31. P.
James Quested Flings, Esq., Al•
derman and Sheriff
Benj. Bond Cabbell, Esq. M.P.
J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., E.I.D
Alexander Raphael, Esq., M.P.
Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm
Sir William Burnett, R.N., K.II,
General Delsmotte, C.D.
Samuel Wilson, Esq., Alderman
J. E. Goodhart, Esq., Sheriff
M. Foster, Esq., 31. P.
George Moffatt, Esq., M.P.
M. T. Smith, Esq., M.P., E.I.D.
le. Warden, Esq., E.I.D.
Deputy Bedford
„ Dixon
„ Evans
„ Hayward
„ Obbarcl
„ Peacock
.T. A nderton; Esq.
J. M. Barnard, Esq.
R. C. Bucknell, Esq. r
D. Dewar, Esq.
J. Duncan, Esq.
T. IL Fox, Esq.
J. H. Gibson, Esq.
N. J. Isherwood, Esq.
D. Laurie, Esq.
G. W. Lees, Esq.
J. J. Millard, Esq. "
J. T. Norris, Esq.
S. R'dley, Esq.
Richard Taylor, Esq., F.R.S
F.S.A.
Thomas Turner, Esq.
G. Virtue, Esq.
D. W. Wire, Esq.
T. Young, Esq.
John Aird, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Archer
J. A. L. Barnrd, Esq.
W. Beattie, Esq., M.D.
James Boyd, Esq.
Mark Boyd, Esq.
Major G. Campbell
P. Campbell, Esq.
W. Carllle, Esq.
J. Cavan, Esq.
R. Christie, Esq.
J. N.Collyer, Esq.
Capt. W. Cook
James Crichton, Esq.
W. Dallas, Esq.
Capt. W. C. Dalyell,
Alex. Davidson, Esq.
Professor Donaldson
J. Don, Esq., M.D.
J. Duckworth, Esq.
Duncan Dunbar, Esq.
George Dunlop, Esq.
T. R. Edridge, Esq.
Peter Ewart, Esq.
Rcv. Dr. Fletcher
Charles Forbes, Esq.
George Forbes, Esq.
The Annual Gener.

J. Stewart Forbes, Eeq.
I. A. Galloway, Esq., C.E.
Alex. Gillespie, Esq.
Wm. Gladstone, Esq.
Capt. Percy Grace, R.N.
Robert Grant, Esq. •
Alex. Grant, Esq., of Aberleur
fohn Gray, Esq.
Arthur Hall, Esq.
i.e. H4ll, Esq.
Josiah ,Harvey, Esq.
Daniel Henry, Esq.
C. Hepburn, Esq.
Tohn Hill, Esq. •
A. K. Hutchison, Esq.
Jabez Jackson, Esq.
John Jaffrey, Esq.
Indrow Jardine, Esq.
Daniel Keith, Esq.
Jelin Kennedy, Esq.
%Villiam Kirk, Esq.
Captain Lamont. R.N.
John Laurie, Esq.
Lieut.-Colonel Lawrie
[I. 11. Lindsay, Esq.
W. S. Lindsay, Esq.
-John Macgregor, Esq.
Thomas Macgregor, Esq.
Alex. Macintosh, Esq.
Rev. C. Macintosh, M.A.
John Mackenzie, Esq.
John Maelaren. Esq.
James Meek, Esq., R.N.
Duncan Menzies, Esq.
'Robert More, Esq.
Alex. Morrison, Esq.
Capt. P. Morrison, 11.A.C.
W. Morrison,jun., Esq.
games Muir, Esq.
..Tohn Murray, Esq.
Thomas Murray, Rag.
Robert Muller, Esq.
Thomas Napier. Esq.
William Noble, Esq.
James Parker, Esq.
G. S. Pedler, Esq.
David Ritchie, Esq.
P. F. Robertson, Esq.
'M. Prendergast, Esq.
Williun Rodger, Esq.
Elector Rose, Esq.
Daniel Ross, Esq.
Edward Scard, Esq.
IT. G. Shaw,Esq."
A. Freer Smith, Esq.
George Smith, Esq.
Rev. Dr. Stebbing
R. Stephenson. Esq.
Richard Stevens, Esq.
C. J. Stewart, Esq.
W. Forbes Stewart, Esq.
George Taylor, Esq.
Laurence Thompson, Esq.
George Train, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq., F.R.S.
John Underwood, Esq.
J. Walker, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., L

Yesterday an influential meeting of Conservative and
Whig electors of the West Riding of Yorkshire wio
held at the Royal Hotel in Leeds, to consider whit tours,
should be taken with respect to the election now impend.
ing. H. Hall, Esq., of Leeds, was called to the chair.
and amongst the gentlemen present were the Hon. A
Lascelles, the Hon. J. W. Scarlett, Col. Tempest, Col.
Markham, John Rand, Esq.; 11. W. Wickham, Esq.;
L. W. Wickham, E,q.; W. W. Brown, Esq.; Thomas
Benyon, Esq ; Charles Hardy, Esq ; H. Wormald, Esq ;
John Gott, E-q.; John Sykes, Esq.; George Noble,
Esq.; John Haigh, Esq.; Ralph Marlland, Esq.; J. R.
Atkinson, Esq.; J. H. Hill, Esq.; T. J. Dibb, E.cq.; H.
P. Hope, Esq.; J. G. Uppleby, Esq.; Samuel Smith,
Esq.; T. E. Upton, E.q.; Rev. Dr. Holmes, Rev. Geo.
Lewthwaite, Rev. William Sinclair, C. Kemplay, Eiq.;
George Young, Esq.; John Wilson, Esq.; J. W. Ten-
nant, Esq.-, Richard Church, Esq., &c.
After a few brief introductory remarks by the CHAIR-
MAN on the circumstances which had taken place with
regard to the representation of the Riding during the
last few days,

Economy in the public finances I desire to see effected, not so
much brpetty reductions in subordinate offices, as by a bold and
manly review of the whole principle and details of our present expen-
diture. The charge on the Exchequer is greater now under a WIVg
Government than it was when the Duke of Wellington was in office.
I will not presume, in such a hasty address, to say in what exact
particulars of our military, naval, and civil services reductions ought
to be effected; but of this I am certain, that a searching investiga-
tion of the whole of these departments is a duty which the distressed
condition of the country demands from your representatives.
With regard to our representative system, I am grateful for the
Reform Aet as far as it goes, and if it had gone as far in practice as
its supporters anticipated in theory, I should be reluctant to dis-
turb a settlement arrived at after severe contests. But I desire to
see the principle of the Reform Bill carried out. I wish to see elec-
tions the real expression of honest public opinion; and I have
witnessed so much of corruption and intimidation that I feel per-
suaded that we shall never have real representation without the
Ballot. To the success of the Ballot I believe large constituencies to
be essential ; independently of which reason for extending the suf-
frage, I have a strong conviction that the wider can be made the
basis on which our franchise is founded, consistently with the due.
qualification of the voter: the safer-WM tirlitMliorstrifeturn of our.
Constitution, and the better will it be able to resist th6sB-atOrms
which arc threatening the old despotisms and novel constitutions of
the Continent.
To these economies and reforms peace is essential. It is scarcely
needful to say that both as a politician and as a Christian, I ardently
desire, and should strenuously labour for its maintenance.
But the point of all others on which I feel it to be my duty to ad-
dress you, is the subject of further religious endowments by
the State. This is the question which alone induces me to re-
linquish a life of comparative privacy, and to submit to the
labours, respmsibilities, and (I may add) privations, of a Par-
liamentary life. Here I feel that my direct duty to God as
a Christian coincides with my lower duty as a politician and as
an Englishman. Putting aside for the moment the abstract
question of existing religious establigiments, I protest against all
new religious endowments; involving as they do the putting of
truth and error on the same level, and the establishment of a pro-
vision for Romanist priests—the offspring of an insidious and un-
worthy expediency— side by side with Protestant institutions,which,
whatever may be their abstract propriety or the contrary, are at all
events based upon an acknowledgment of divine truth. To any
provision of any sort or kind for the Romish priests, to any transfer
of the property of the Irish establishment under any plea,
however plausible, to the adherents of Rome, I am conscien-
tiously, firmly, irrevocably opposed.
But while I thus object to the endowment of the religion of my
Romanist fellow-countrymen, ,I am bound to add that I also object
to the further endowment of Protestantism ; desiring as I do that
the civil and religious rights of one class of religionists in the State
should be as tenderly
cherished and as firmly maintained as those of
another.

plans, which portion of rillway will pass 'from, in, through, or into
the several parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places of St.
John the Baptist, Hoole, St. Oswald, Great Boughton, Plemstell,
otherwise Plemondstall, Gladden Sutton, Mickle Trafford, Barrow',
Bridge Trafford, Thornton, otherwise Thornton-in-the-Moors, Dun-
ham-on-the-Hill, Hapsfoid, Frodsham, and Helsb,y, all in the said
county of Chester.
And it also proposed by the said intended Act te 010 the said
Company to alter the mode of carrying the railw,.,Kithorised by
the said Act of the Cth and 9th Victoria, chapter 99, across a certain
road In the extra-parochial chapeiry or township of Birkenhead, in
"the said county of Chester, known as the Corporation-road or Can-
ning-street, so as to carry the said road across the said railway upon
the level thereof instead of by means of a bridge, and for such pur-
pose to alter the existing level of the said road, within the said extra-
parochial chapeiry or township of Birkenhead.
And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to extend the
time granted by the said Act of the ninth-and tenth of Victoria, for
the compulsory purchase of lands and houses within the several
. .

• Col. TEDieisr roso, and suggested the desirableness
of the representation of so important a constituency
being vested in the charge of a gentleman who had some
standing in the county, and who had some acquaintance
with its local interests. He, therefore, begged to suggest
that Mr. Denison, the late Member for the riding, was
an eligible candidate to put in nomination in the present
emergency.

STIES begged to inquire what were Mr. Denison's
views with regard to free trade, as upon that would de.
pend whether or not he could give him his support.
Col. TEMPEST said, that although he had no authority
to auswerfor Mr. Denison, he believed.thatle regarded
that matter as a settled question, and that he was disposed
to give the now system a fair trial.
Mr. SYKES intimated that he was satisfied. Some
discussion took place upon incidental matters, which
resulted in the moving of the following resolution by Col.
Tempest:—
" That under present circumstances, as respects the
representation of the West Riding, it is desirable that
some candidate should be selected who will unite the
votes of moderate men of all parties, and that for this
purpose this meeting thinks Mr. Denison a fit person to
be brought forward on this occasion."

parishes;town;hips, and extra-parochial places of East:iatn, Chil-
der Thornton, Little Sutton, Overpool, Whitby, Stoke, Great Stan-
ney, Stanlow, Ince, Thornton-in-the-Moors otherwise Thornton,
Elton, Hapsford, Frotisham, Helsby, and lordship of Fredshain,
In the said county of Chester, and for the completion of the works
therein.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to reduce the
capital of the said Company, and to to make regulations as regards
the division thereof into shares, and the payment of dividends or in-

terest thereon.

And it is also proposed by the said intended Act to take power to
stop up, alter, or divert, whether temporarily or permanently, all
such turnpike and other roads and highways, railways, tramways,
aqueducts, canals, streams, and rivers, within the aforesaid pa-
rishes, townships, and extra-parochial or other places, or any of
them, as it may be necessary to stop up, alter, or divert, by rea-
son of the construction of the said railway and works, or any or
either of them.

The Lion. J. W. SCARLETT seconded the motion, and
t was carried without a single dissentient.
It was then resolved:—

And it is also intended by the said Act to take powers for the pur-
chase, by compulsion or otherwise, of lands and houses for the pur-
poses of the said intended railway and works, and to alter, vary, or
extinguish all existing rights af:id privileges connected with such
. . .

" That the foregoing resolution be immediately ad-
vertised and circulated, and that this meeting adjourn to
the Normanton Station Hotel to-morrow (Saturday), at
one o'clock, to take proper steps to carry the same iuto
effect; and that the attendance of all gentlemen favour-
able to that resolution be earnestly requested."
Some other routino arrangements having been made,
the meeting terminated.
_ _

lands and houses, or which would in any manner impede or inter-
fere with the construction, maintenance, and use of the said in-
tended railway and works, or any or either of them, and to confer
other rights and privileges ; and also to levy tolls, rates, and duties,
for or in respect of the use of the said intended railway and works,
and to alter the tolls, rates, and duties, at present leviable upon the
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and to
confer such exemptions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and
duties, or any of them, a. may be thought expedient.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections
of the said intended railway and works, and of the lands and houses
proposed to be taken for the purposes thereof, and also amended
sections of the Chester branch, showing the levels thereof as pro-
posed to be altered, together with a book of reference to such plans
containing the names of the owners, lessees, and occupiers of such
lands and houses, and describing such lards aid houses respectively,
and a copy of this notice as published in the " London Gazette," will
be deposited on or before the 3)th day of November, in the present
year, with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of Chester, at his
office in Chester, and that a copy of so much of the said plans and
sections and book of reference, as relates to the several parishes in

. _
and E.
James Watson, Esq.
'George Webster, Esq.
I)r. George Webster
E. A. Wilde, Esq.
'Thomas Young, jun., Esq,

a Court at One P.M.

The deputation who have waited upon me are this instant leav-
ing London, and I must abruptly close this communication. I hope to
follow them to-morrow to Leeds, and speedily to have the honour of
addressing the electors in some of the chief towns of the West Riding.
In the meantime, I have the honour to be, gentlemen,

During the afternoon the friends of Sir Culling E.
Eardley, Bart., met at the Reform Registration Rooms,
to make arrangements for promoting the lion. Baronet's
return, and for giving him a suitable reception to-day
(Saturday).

Your faithful and obedient servant,'
CULLING EARDLEY EARDLEy.

Mr. Edmund Denison, who has been in London during
he early part of this week, left town by the four o'clock
,rain yesterday afternoon, for Yorkshire.

or through which the intended railway and works and alterations of
section are proposed to be made, and also a copy of this notice, as
published in the "London Gazette." will, on or before the 30th day
of November, be deposited with the parish clerks of those parishes at
their respective places of abode (and as regards the extra-parochial
place ofßirkenheal,with the clerk of the parish of Bidston, in the
said county .1 Chester, immediately adjoining to such extra-par&
chial place).

SPANISH' AMERICAN . BOND,
HOLDERS.

The Committee of Spanish American bondholders
have received the following letters from Mexico:—
" FROM MESSRS. MANNINO AND MACKINTOSH.

JOHN B. LLOYD, solicitor for tbo Bill
Dated the 4th day of November, 1848.

" Mexico, Oct. 13, 1848.
" Sir—The annexed is a copy of our last respects,
dated 12th ult.,. since when we are favoured with yours
of the lit of ugust, and Ist ult., the contents of which
have been attentively noted; and in respect to the 20
per cent. of the customs duties of Vera Cruz and Tam-
pico, you will have found by our last that remittances
had already gone forward on account of them; and we
trust that in due time the other portions of the revenue
assigned to the bondholders will be brought into effec-
ual operation. According to advises from Vera Cruz,'
there are import duties owing by the merchants there
the 20 per cent. of which anaounts to about 80,000 dolls.,
but not being due, are not yet recoverable.
" A good deal of excitement has been caused here by
the extraordinary announcement of Senor Mora, pub-
lished in the English newspapers; aad the subject was
to-day taken up in Congress, when the Minister of Fo-
re' ffairs was called upon to produce the communi-
ca bearing on the subject. The result of the dis-
c we are unable to state by this opportunity. The
pl..
coof your letter to Senor Mora is being translated,
and will be laid before the Mexican Government, and
every exertion in oar power will be used to uphold the
rights of the bondholders in this particular.
" We observe that it was contemplated to accept the
offer of Mr. W. P. Robertson to proceed to this country,
for the purpose of acting in conjunction with us in the
representation of the bondholders; and we beg to assure
you of our zealous co-operation, and that in the mean
time our exertjons will not be spared to uphold the inte-
rests of the bondholders.—We remain, ace.,
(Signed) " MANNING AND MACICINTOSLi.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq."
FROM MESSRS. MANNING._ MACKINTOSH, AND CO.

NEW STREET from OXFORD-STREET to
or near SAINT MARTIN'S-PLACE.
Notice is hereby given, that Application is intended to bo made to
Parliament in the next session for an ACT to authorise the making
of a New Street, commencing at or near the East-end of Oxford-
street, where the same is joined by the Tottenham-court-
road and New Oxford-street, in the parishes of St. Giles's-
in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlesex, St. Anne, and St.
Martin's-in-the-Fields, both within the liberty of Westminster
or the city and liberty of Westminster, or some qr one of the said
parishes, and terminating at or near the East end of Hemming's-
row, near St. Martin's-place, in the said parish of St. Martin's-111.
the-Fields, which said new street will pass from, through, in or into
the said several parishes or some of them.
Arid it is also intended by the said proposed Act to appoint Com-
missioners for carrying the purposes thereof into execution, and to
authorise such Commissioners to purchase lands and houses lby
compulsion or agreement, within the limits of deviation, defined on
the plan hereinafter referred to, and to clear land and sell building
materials, and to hold, pull down, remove, build, sell, or let lands,
houses, and buildings, and to raise money for the purposes of the
said Act.
And it also intended by the said proposed Act to take powers for
diverting, altering, or stopping up, or otherwise interfering with tem-
porarily, or permanently, all such streets, lanes, courts, alleys, yards,
markets, highways, thoroughfares, and places, sewers, and water-
courses in the several parishes and pine. s aforesaid, as it may bo
necessary s• to divert, alter, stop up, or interfere with for the par-
poses aforesaid.
And it is also intended by the said proposed Act, to vary or extin-
guish all existing rights and privileges in any manner connected with
the lands and houses proposed to be taken or purchased as aforesaid,
or which would in any manner impede or interfere with the objects
aforesaid, and to confer other rights and privileges.
And it is also intended by the said proposed fAct to subject the
said new street, when made, to the control of the Commissioners, or
other persons having the control of the public streets in the district
or districts within which such new street will be situate, and to pro-
vide for the future maintenance and repair of such new street in
like manlier as other public streets within the district or districts
aforesaid are maintained and repaired, and, for such purpose, to alter
or vary, so tar as may be necessary, the rates or taxes authorised to
be levied for the purposes of such maintenance and repair, and to
confer, vary, and extinguish exemptions from payment of such rates
or taxes.

" Vera Cruz, Oct. 16, 1848.
" Gentlemen,—We inclose duplicate of our last re-
spects, and have now merely to inform you of having,
at the last moment, succeeded in collecting, and having
shipped by this opportunity, 5,064 dolls. 92e. on account
of the bondholders.

And notice is hereby fether given that plans and sections of the
said proposed new street, showing the line and levels thereof,
together with books of reference to such plans, containing the
names of the actual or reputed owners or lessees, and of the occu-
piers of the lands and ht uses proposed to be taken for tk e pur-
poses aforesa d, and a copy of this notice, as published in the
"London Gazette," will be deposited for public inspection, on
or before the 30th day of November in the present year,
with the Clerk of the Peace for the city and liberties of Westmin-
ster, at his Mike at Clerkenwell Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, and
with the Clerk of the Peace for the county of :Middlesex, at his
otllce, also at the Clerkenwell Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, and that
a copy of so much of the said plans, sections, and books of reference,
as relates to the several parishes through which the said new street is
intended to be made, together with a copy of this notice, as pub-
lished in the " London Gazette," will be deposited on or before the
said 30th day of November, with the Parish Clerks of such parishes,
at their respective residences.
Dated the 16th day of November, 1848.
TIODG:iON, CONCANEN, and NOYES, Solicitors for the Bill,
5, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

"By an approximate calculation, the duties upon vessels
entered in September amount to 150,000. dolls.—We
are, &c., " MANNING, MACKINTOSH, AND CO.
Mr. Glass, under date Tampico, Oct. 12, advises
the shipment at that port, of 22,226 d 0112., which has
duly arrived."
The committee have also received the following from
Mr. Price a partner in the house of Messrs. Manning
and Mackintosh:—

" London, Nov. 24; 1848.
" Sir,----Being at this moment in London, and learning
that some :surprise has been expressed that a sum of
money which my house in Mexico had received from
the Mexican Government (being the proportion of the
produce of duties received by the Mexican Government
from the Government of the United States) had not been
remitted to England, I think it right to state, for the
information of the committee of bondholders, that, no
conducta having left the city of Mexico since this money
was received by my home, it could not possibly have
been remitted except in bills of exchange, which would
have been attended with a loss of 10 per cent.
" The money, being Government funds, will be shipped
free of export duty. Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh
would by no means have been justified, under such
circumstance, in remitting bills of exchange.
" I remain, &0.,
• (Signed) " DANIEL PRICE.
" G. R. Robinson, Esq., M.P., Chairman, &c."

DEATH OF SCHWANTHALER, THE Scum•Ton.---We
regret to announce the death of the eminent sculptor,
Ludwig von Schwanthaler, who expired on the 14th
inst., at Munich, in his 47th year. He was buried with
great pomp on the 17th inst., thousands attending his
funeral. His remains were deposited in the tomb of
General Heidegger, where they will remain until the
tomb is finished which King Ludwig was causing to be
built for him and his friend, the late director Gartner.—
Schwanthaler showed at an early age a love for the arts.
He was first destined to the study of the sciences, and
applied himself, when a boy, to the deepest study of
Homer and the Greek tragedians. The death of his
father obliged him to take to the business of statuary, a
profession which had existed in the family for genera-
tions, and was that of his father and uncle. In the
Academy of Arts, at Munich, Schwanthater did not
find that support which he deserved. The di-
rector, Langer, a pedantic man, considered him
too free and independent in his notions • and it was
in opposition to that person's opinions ;hat Schwan-
thaler followed the lectures on archwology at the
Lyceum of Thiersch. The quickness with which he
became a proficient in drawing from the antique, and
the talent he possessed for composition, are shown by
the first great work which he undertook. It was King
Maximilian I. who commissioned him to execute a large
silver epergne in the midst of a plate or table, with a
border of upright figures. This was to be upwards of
100 feet in length, and the figures to be six inches in
height. Tho composition of this border was to repre-
sent the procession of the Gods of Olympus to the pa-
lace of Jupiter. Schwanthaler began it, but before it was
near being completed King Maximilian died. That por-
tion of it, however, which was finished is described as
being very beautiful. King Ludwig and the Duke Max.
now extended their patronage to Schwanthaler, who
executed for the latter the myth of Bacchus in a series
of
,relief compositions for the freize of a room in his pa-
lace. King Ludwig, however, was his greatest patron,
and he executed for the King the statues of painters in
the Pinakothek, the protectors of plastic art in the
niches of the Glyptothek, the dramatic poets on the
staircase of the theatre at Munich, and the compositions
for the pediments of the Glyptothek, the ludustre ge-
baude, and the Walhalla, besides many other relief
pieces also at the Glyptothek and in the royal palace.
He also modelled many figures which were afterwards
reproduced by foundry. A series of statues of Czech
heroes and heroines, which he had been commissioned
from Bohemia to execute, has been interrupted by his
death.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.--The following nobility
and gentry have honoured this favourite theatre with
their presence during the week to witness the Merry
Wives of Windsor:—The Duke of Rutland, Lord
Ward, Earl of Munster, Dowager Countess of Essex
and Miss Johnson, Lord William Paulett, Lady Baring,
Sir John and Lady Domville, Lord. Brooke, Lady
Frances Gordon, Lady Augusta Baring, Lady Webster,
Lord and Lady Duncan, Hon. Captain Somerset and the
Ladies Somerset, Lady E. Ponsonhy, Lady Bateman,
Marquis of Douro, Sir Charles Shakerloy, Lord G.
Manners, Earl of Chesterfield, Lady Macdonald Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Phipps, Sir W. Barlow°, 'Sir P.
Ackland, Bart., Colonel Udney, Mr. Hubert de Burgh,
Captain Peel, Captain de Bathe, Captain Ibbetson, E.
Delsfield, Esq.; So.; &o.

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We have received the Paris papers of yesterday'.
At the close of the sitting of the National Asse

"J. DUFAIIRE."
M. MARIE and M. LAMARTINE have both arrived
n Paris.

At Toulouse the Monarchists endeavoured to get
p an emeute when the Constitution was proclaimed,
ut failed in their endeavours.

The ci-devant Vicomte ARLINCOURT, an old
Legitimist, and well-known writer of puerile senti-
mentalities was tried on Thursday for having endea-
voured to excite discord among citizens and hatred
to the Republic by the publication of a Legitimatist
pamphlet entitlo4 Dieu le Yeut, Tle w gcquittect

he attitude assumed by the clubs occasions, it
said, considerable alarm. They are rapidly reorga•
nizing, they bold meetings every night, which are
numerously attended, and the members are well sup-
plied with arm.
At the sitting of the Chamber yesterday, M. JIIIIS
FAYRE made his promised attack on the Ministry, for
undue interference in the elections, and never was
there a more complete discovery of a " mare's nest."
Not one fact or circumstance did he bring forward
tending to inculpate any one of the Ministers. He
was replied to with great eloquence by M. Duntunt
and by General LAMORICILEE, after which the sitting
y- suspended.

Negotiations are going on to induce both LEDRU
R(lr Old M. RAsrAIL to resign their pretensions
totifejN
i, re:idency of the Republic in favour of the
Abbe LAIOEN'NAISI
FRIDAY, NOYENDER 24.
BOHR 0E- —PAnrs,
THREE O'CLOCR
a.—The Funds have remained pretty
firm to-day, with t
sil;qht tendency to a rise. It seems
determined that they ih,lllnot go down, and the " Bears"
arc consequently frighteed. The consequence is,
0
that the Three per (hints. closed higher for
cash than for the end •Pf the month. The
system of discounting continues:, Yesterday 70,000 f.
Relates Five per Cent. were discounted, and to-day an
equal sum. This system of bolstering the market may do
for a time, but ultimately it must fail. The object at
present is evidently to keep up the prices till after the
payment of the instalment on the Loan. Fur the Ac-
count, the French Three per Cents. have advanced 5c.;
the Five per Cents. have declined 50.; the Loan re-
mains at the same price as yesterday. For Money, the
Three per Cents. have risen 50c.; the Five per Cents.
15c.; and the Loan, 15c.; Bons du Tresor not quoted;
Bank of France Shares have advanced sf. ; Bel-
gian Bank Shares not quoted ; ditto Five per
Cents. have advanced per cent.; Spanish Active not
quoted; ditto !Three per Cents. are unchanged; ditto
Passive not quoted; Roman are the same as yesterday;
Rothschild's Receipts not quoted. Exchange on Lon-
don (30 days), 25 50; ditto (90 days), 25 37k. Railway
Shares have also improved ; Orleans have risen 7f. 50c.;
Havres, 5f.; Vierzons, 2f. 50c.- Northerns, lf. 25c.;
Marseilles have fallen 2f. 50c.,• Rowena, Strasburgs, and
Nantes remain at the prices, of yesterday.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RArLWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 24.
The only sale was.--Luxembourg (101.), 14.

1)1y on Thursday, M. Juees FAVRE ascended the tri
tune to give notice of his intention to address certa'
euestions to the Ministers on the subject of a rumor
which had prevailed that certain electoral circulars i
favour of General CAVAIGNAC had been sent into '
provinces under Ministerial covers. The time s c'''s
aptly chosen, as no Minister was present but ' "•;1 I]
Nlinister of Public Instruction, and M. JULES FA' se.
consequently calculated on a circulation for tine '
lays at least (as Saturday was to be taken up wit 1
ether matters), of his notice, without the pots
sibility of contradiction or explanation. 111
reckoned, however, without his host. Th, t
Nlinister of Public Instruction declared tha
the Government was quite ready to meet tilt
accusation when it might be brought forward, an( 1
the next day was fixed (greatly to the chagrin of tin
enemies of General CAVAIGNAC) as the day for tilt 3
interpellations to be addressed to the Minister.
A new journal, the Credit, publishes the followir e 3
very important correspondence, which has taken plaes e
between M. ODIER, a rich banker of Paris, and s
Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce, and it. Du-
mune, the Minister of the Interior, on the subject of '
the candidature of General CATAIGNAc :
"TO M. DUFAIIRE, MINISTER OF TIRE INTERIOR.-
" Paris, Nov. 17, 1848.
" Sir,—ln the decisive circumstances in which e UI
unfortunate country is placed, after what it has at tf-
fered, and in the sad perspective of the agitations wi ph
which it is menaced, all the friends of order and pea tit
interested in the return of confidence and the resumpti, iri
of labour, which alone can put an end to the publ i c
misery, should neglect nothing which may resto.r, a
to the moderate party its unity and its influent e .
rho policy of General Cavaignac is known ; bii i SPAIN.
official acts have given pledges to order by the energetic : Madrid journals of the 19th have been received.
repression of the insurrection of June, and guarantees The Gaceta publishes the decree convoking the
of good and honest government by the last compositic O. Cortes for the 15th December.
of his Cabinet. But his personal character is not know L', It also publishes the following mockery of a decree
and his intentions are suspected. Indecision and cons - of amnesty :
cealed motives are attributed to him, and in this respe.:',l ; " Desiring to exercise my royal clemency on all those
it is important that all persons who have been in relatii )t` criminals whose offences, from their little gravity, easily
with him, and been connected with hies in business a 1 1a afford room for repentance and amendment; attending
friendship, should declare themselves frankly aild openlJ% to the reasons exposed to me by my Minister of Grace
You are now, sir, the chief and the guide of the most in:- • and Justice, in conformity with the report of my Coun-
fluential portion of the Moderate party—of that pa:ty cif of Ministers, I hereby decree as follows:
which would not allow France again to be plunged DA " Art. 1. I grant a general pardon to all criminals
conspiracies and revolutions—of the party which accept's% where the trials are over or pending, whose offences may
freely the regular government which we have sue - I not have merited, or do not merit, more than one year of
1 ceeded in establishing at the price of so many seed- presidia arrest, imprisonment, or confinement, for com-
fives, and which sincerely desires an honest. axon offences, or two for political causes.
Republic—a Republic founded on respect for en- ,c Art. 2. From this pardon are excepted—
'
eagements and the maintenance of order, realise- " se, Those who had already suffered another condeme
ing progressively the institutions promised by the. . nation for any kind of offence.
Constitution. It is as the personification of the Mode-. ~ 2. Those who have repeated their offence, though
rate party of the Government, and as being by your-, though they should not have yet been tried for ft.'
character, your experience of mankind, and your well- "3. Those who, having their trials pending, or already
known caution, the person whose judgment has the over, should have fled from prison or presidio.
highest authority, that I entreat you, in the name of the, "4. Those condemned for rebellion.
most sacred interests of the country, to reply to the foie "5. Those whose trials being over, have any other
lowing questions, and authorise me to make your reply , process or processes pending.
public. Is General Cavaignac really, as lam persuaded "6. Those who may be subject to the decision of the
he is, a straightforward, honest man, a man of good tribunals for two or more causes pending.
sense and good heart, in whose intentions France may "7. Those who, being in prison or presidio, should
place trust ? Do you think that, if made President of have given motive for greater chastisement than simple
the Republic, his policy will be, as now, a policy of order reprehension.
and progress, opposed to all convulsion, all rash move- 1 'B. The cases of forgery and others excluded from
ments, in the sense of extreme parties ? Do you be- the other general amnesties."
lieve, from the bottom of your heart, that you are This decree will benefit certain minor criminals;
both in accord for a long time to come, that there does but the exceptions are so numerous, that, as regards
not exist between you any difference, any arri4r penate, persons accused of criminal offences, it will b
and that you personally—you, M. Dufaure—vejll be mere nullity.
called upon to give to the President of the Republic the The Duke and Duchess of MONTPENSIEE have ar-
same co-operation that you give to the President of the
rived at Cadiz.
Council!? This step, which is entirely personal, is
quite out of the modest habits of my life. The step tiegt
you will take, if you reply, will also be out of the habits '
of your life. But since we are destined to live in Repub-
fie, let us, in the first instance, endeavour to have the
virtue of republicanism. Let all who have merited public
respect by an irreproachable life have the courage of
their convictions. Moral influence is the most important
of all influence. And what man has now a right to. as-
sume the initiative, if he be not the man in whom this
initiative becomes the most sacred of duties from his own
conscience, and the esteem which all entertain for him.
" J. ODIER,
"Banker, and Judge of the Tribune of Com-
merce of the Seine."
" TO M. J. ODIER.
" Paris, Nov. 22, 1848.
" Sir,—You are right when you say that the declara-
tion which you require from me is contrary to all my
habits. My official position may, unknown to you, dimi-
nish the confidence which you are disposed to place in
me. You press me, however, to give an answer. My
silence would authorise suspicions which would be far
from the truth. It would of itself be a reply to your
questions, but a very incorrect and faithless one. Ac-
cording to you, the policy of General Cavaignac is
known. He has given pledges of his love of order,
and guarantees of a good and honest government.
But some doubt still exists as to his character and
his intention. You desire to know how I appre-
ciate them. I will tell you plainly in few words,
and with perfect sincerity. I had directed my atten-
tion for a long time, in my Parliamentary studies, to
those young officers who, on the soil of Atrica, so glo-
riously sustained the honour of our flag ; pupated by
a severe education, tried by the fatigues and varied
chances of the military life, I saw them, strangers to our
constitutional conflicts, resolutely pursuing the line
traced out to them by their duty, and laboriously gains
ing, at the price of their blood, all their grades on the
field of battle. I felt that they formed the strongest and
most serious part of our generation, and I respected
them from the bottom of my heart before I saw them,
and without divining that society in France would one
day owe to them a debt of gratitude for the repression
of ,the most criminal disorders in the terrible days of
June. 1 have been for two months in intimate and con-
tinual relation with one of these officers of Africa, now
become chief of the Executive Power. The opinion
which I had conceived is now more firm and more
fixed. lam not new in the study of men in the direc-
tion of public affairs, I have been able to see closely,
1 have observed at leisure, for four years past, ell
the statesmen of these times; I have known none
whose language was more sincere, whose heart was more
correct and more disinterested, whose mind was more
just and more clear than those of General Cavaignac.
I consider him to be the true republican of our times, a
republican of wisdom, firmness, and conviction. He has
a very decided opinion that the Republic can be founded
in France only in the midst of peace. He fears that a
war would expose us either to internal convulsions or the
domination of victorious generals. Hence his efforts to
maintain peace; and he is assisted in this noble enter-
prise by the confidence which he has been able already
to inspire in all the Governments of Europe. Gene-
ral Cavaignac knows as well as you and me that a
Republican Government, like any other, would be
impossible in France, unless it should make it an ab
solute duty to protect all liberties and energetically
maintain public order. He has not, in any respect, or
in any degree, those despotic or anarchical ideas
which by different modes would alike lead the coun-
try to ruin. Ho combats both with equal resolution.
I am really astonished that his intentions should appear
doubtful to those who have seen for five months how he
has maintained order under the most difficult circum-
stance, amid the warm emotions which followed the days
of June, and the ardent anxieties which precede the elec-
tion of the 10th of December. I could not conceive the
shadow of a doubt in those who can read at the bottom of
his heart. As for me, sir, as you speak of my personal
feelings, I am sensible how delicate and difficult would
be the position of a Minister under the form of govern-
ment organized by the constitution. Nevertheless, lam
ready to accept it with General Cavaignac, convinced
that we should have the same views, and seek to realise
them by the same means. lam quite sure that we
should neither of us have any other ambition than
that of solidly establishing the first founda-
tions of the French Republic by an honest, regular, and
enlightened Administration; and I venture to believe
that we should succeed if the National Assembly should
give to us its sovereign support. It is said, I know,
that the day after his election General Cavaignac would
choose other Ministers than those of the 13th of October
last. You will comprehend that Ido not demand from
him any engagement on this subject. What I can
affirm to you very positively is, that the fears propa-
gated on this head appear to me unreasonable, and that
General Cavaignac will certainly accept, without hesita-
tion, the Ministers who may be indicated by the majority
of the National Assembly. Whoever they may be, they
will only have a sure and honourable part to perform.,
Placed between those who find our new constitution
too democratic, and those who reproach it with not
being sufficiently socialist, they will only have to govern
in the spirit and according to the dictates of the con-
stitution. They will leave to others the deplorable
courage of dreaming already of overturning it, and of
attempting another revolution in an unfortunate country
which desires the repose which would render it so
fruitful and prosperous. This, sir, is my reply. If
it leaves still some doubt on your mind, I am ready
to give you all the explanations that you may desire.
In such grave circumstances, and in a question on which
the future fate of our country is so strongly engaged,
I am resolved to exercise, although a Minister, the
right possessed by every citizen to express his opinion
freely.

There was no Bolsa.

FEW WORDS ON THE YORK,
.NEWCASTLE, AND 13ERWICK RAILWAY
STATEMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

, numerous are the statements of railway.
• companies, and the avidity shown to usher them be-
fore the public, that it cannot be much matter of
surprise that they are viewed with some degree of
jealousy, emanating as they do from those whose
tenure of office, from the difficulty attendant in the
, choice of new directors, may be considered as a fixity.
Besides, more ample statements of accounts 'have long
been asked for by both shareholders /and the press,
and not until the managers of railway properly found
it depreciated, so as to threaten ifs wry ex-
istence, have they thought it requisite to give
the public any comprehensible statement of
their affairs. It is not my intention to
occupy much of your valuable columns, but some
part of the York, Newcastle, &c., statemeut
has struck me as containing assumptions not verifies
by previous facts, that if you have space you will
bblige me by inserting my observations. The earn-
ings of the line now open is stated to be 720,0001: per
annum ; and supposing the same ration to be upheld
when the whole line—say 330 miles—is being worked,
it will amount to 880,0001. per annum. The com-
pany take it at 1,040,0001, or 160,000/. more than
%%hey are now proportionately earning. This is a very
heavy increase when the competition by the western
lines is considered. Next, Sir, the working expeoces.
I find the expenditure for the last four half years of
tbe Newcastle and Berwick, and under its other
cojnomen since its connexion with the Great North
of England, has been about 255,0001., upon an
earning of less than 645,0001., making about
9 per cent. for expenses—some deductions
from this may probably be made, but to the extent
assuni,,-sd by the company is almost impossible, and it
is somoyhat remarkable that although so enormous a
reduction ; n working expenses is taken credit for, no
explanation is afforded to the wondering public.
Notwithsta
mlling the unassailablenes.s of their pro-
rs think it highly expedient to
perty the directo
possess a further interest in railways, as they
acknowledge they have competing companies for the
far north traffic at least.

Perhaps the Leeds and Thirsk Railway may be
too trifling au undertaking to be considered as inter-
fering with the York and Newcastle lines, but there
are men in Leeds who think it will do AO a little.

I am, yours, truly,
B. E.

Nov. 24, 1848.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIE,—Now that the directors of the above railway
have issued their financial statement, the public are
placed in a position to judge accurately of each de-
scription of shares.
But several of my friends are still under misap-
prehension as to the relative value of the preference
shares and the extensions ; and as some of your
readers may also be in this position, 1 shall be obliged
by your inserting these few lines.
The preference shares are guaranteed 6 per cent.
till 1850, when they rate for dividend the ssnie as the
old stock, whether it be 7, or 8, or 9 per cent. ; the
extension shares now take dividend on the entire
amount paid precisely the same as the old stock; so
the latter are of greater value than the preference,
tthheousgbharme alinsytsof
prove.th 1,0
epublicoo.b
are not aware
in extensions
oefxthi:ass
receives exactly the same dividend as 1,0001. laid out
in stock.

Amidst the wreck of too many railway properties,
it will be satisfactory to the shareholders in this line
to know that the directors, even in these bad times;
show their capability of paying 7 per cent., and hav-
ing an annual surplus of 76,0001.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Liverpool, Nov. 23, 1848. Z.

DEATH OF THE DUCHESS OF MANCHESTEE....-We
regret to announce the death of the Duchess of Man-
chester, who expired on Tuesday last at Kimbolton
Castle, the ancestral seat in Huntingdonshire, after a.
lingering illness. The Duke and his family, consisting
of Viscount Mandeville, Lords Robert and Frederick
Montague and Lady Olivia, and the venerable mother
of the deceased Duchess, the Lady Olivia Bernard Spar-
row, were present at the dissolution of the Duchess, an
event which had for some weeks past been looked for-
ward to. The late Duchess was born in 1798, and mar-
ried Bth Oct., 1822, the Duke of Manchester (then Vis-
count Mandeville), by whom she leaves issue three sons
and a daughter.

DEATH- OF GENERAL P. HERON.—We ' have to
record the decease of the above veteran field °Seer,
which took place a few days since, at his residence at
Moor, near Warrington, in the 78th year of his age,
The gallant deceased, who had seen a msiderable service,
entered the army as far back as 1790, and was, conse-
quently, one of the senior generals on the list. His com-
missions bore date as follows :—Lieutenant, Sept. 2, 1793;
Captain, Feb. 13, 1794; Major, Aug. 12, 1694; Lieu-
tenant• Colonel, Sept. 28, 1794; Colonel, Jan. 1, 1800;
Major-General, April 25, 1808; Lieutenant-General,
June, 1, 1813; and General, July 22, 1830.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last evening, about five
o'clock, as a fine boy, named John M'Mullen, six years
of age, whose parents reside at No. 8, Willow-gardens,
Tabernacle-square, was crossing the road in Tabernacle-
row, Finsbury, he suddenly stooped down to pick up a
piece of stick, and whilst in the act of doing so the wheels
of a cart, belonging to a Mr. George Bothwell, passed
over him, and so crushed the unfortunate little sufferer's
head, that the blood issued in torrents out of his mouth,
nose, ears, &c., and on his being conveyed to the shop of
Mr. Morgan, druggist, 48, Old-street-road, life was
found to be extinct. It does not appear that any blame
is t 9 be attached to the driTer,

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FALLonx, a ' wards of 600 Members of the Na
i/7.,Z tional Asse y, have declared in favour of the can
------- didateshiptheß e of General CAVAIGNAC for the Presidency
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