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London, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

LONDON, 'TUESDAY

iosameness with an unequal representation in the first
united board, considering it their duty to retain the pr)-
visions of the eighth resolution, as essential to the
scheme and vital to all the interests affected by it, y
must for the same reason refuse to assume the respoa
sibility of rendering its adoption contingent upon any
future reference.

They feel sure that the London and North-Western
Company must be equally desirous of imparting to the
public that confidence in the intentions of all parties to
an amalgamation which may remove every obstacle to its
success ; and they trust, upon duly weighing these con-
siderations, that they will give their approval to the re-
solutions as they were framed by the deputations of the
respective companies.
But as time presses, to communicate them by circular
to the shareholders, and to afford any necessary expla-
nations respecting them, I have to request the favour of
your giving to my directors the means of doing so with
the least possible delay.
I remain, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully,

Mr. J. Swift, Liverpool.
(F.)

CHARLES A. SAUNDERS,
Secretary.

4, Old Palace-yard, Nov. 18.
My dear Sir,—l had no opportunity before yesterday
of placing your letter of the 11th inst. before the South-
Western board.
I was instructed to state that the South-Western
directors cannot recommend their shareholders to con-
sent to less than an equal representation in number in
the united board, and I ought to add that this decision
Was come to very positively and without hesitation.
May I ask a reply to my note of the 15th ?
I am, my dear Sir, truly yours,
FRANCIS T. BIacHAM.
Mr. J. Swift, Liverpool.
(G.)
London and North-Western Railway-office,
Euston station, Nov. 25.
Dear Sir,—Having received from Mr. Swift, and laid
before the board your letter dated the 17th inst., I am
instructed to state, in reply, that the board learn with
regret the rejection of the proposal made in Mr. Swift's
letter dated the 11th inst.
With reference to the mode in which you, in your
letter of the 17th inst., allude to the fact of our depu-
tation having reserved for the consideration of this board
the particular point now in question, I am desired to say
it was because, at the very outset, that claim was dis-
tinctly made; at no subsequent time was it waived; at
the close it was expressly reiterated, and the particular
mode adopted by the deputations, of signing the resolu-
tions, " subject to the approval of the respective boards,"
Was suggested by you, on behalf of your deputation, as a
means of obviating the difficulty felt by the London and
North-Western deputation on this point.
T.
The reasons which you assign for not conceding the
point in question seem to call for some notice from this
board. In the first place, this board never demanded
any. greater control than was proportionate to the
capital represented, nor, indeed, any more than a com-
mittee on the Bill, or other arbitrators, should con-
sider just with reference to the public and private in-
terests involved.
Of course the London and North-Western board ad-
mit, and for themselves would insist upon, the justice
lind propriety of the fulfilment of all existing obligations
to third parties, and accordingly the resolutions on
which the Bill is based are so framed as to secure this
important object.
Precedent, too, in a variety of similar cases (including
the amalgamation of the London and North-Western
Company) accords with the view taken by this board,
not to mention the Parliamentary constitution of all
railway companies, by which the proprietors at large
have the power in the election of their directors, based
on the capital which they severally hold in the concern
—a principle which would be directly impugned by the
proposed nominal equality of representation in the amal-
gamated board of the three companies.
As, under these circumstances, there appears to be
no probability of a definite agreement between the three
boards, the necessity no longer exists for holding the
special meeting of the proprietors on the 13th proximo.
I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
CHARLES E. STEWART. Secretary.
Mr. Charles A. Saunders.
(H-)
London and North-Western Railway-office,
Euston station, Nov. 25.
Dear Sir,—Having received from Mr. Swift and laid
before the board Mr. Bircham's letter, dated the 18th
inst., I am instructed to state in reply, that this board
learn with regret the rejection of the proposal made in
Mr. Swift's letter, dated the 11th inst.
As, under these circumstances, there appears to be no
probability of a definite agreement between the three
boards, the necessity no longer exists for holding the
special meeting of the proprietors on the 13th proximo.
I remain, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
CHARLES E. STEWART, Secretary.
Mr. Wyndham Harding.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Nor. 27.—The provincial papers received
yesterday afford no room to hope that the condition of
affairs is likely to improve. Extermination on the one
hand, and emigration on the other, will soon leave consi•
derable portions of the southern and western counties
barren wildernesses.

There is no political intelligence of the least interest.
The emigration mania still continues. A gentleman
who rode through a barony of Kerry last week, states
that he did not see a single plough at work in any field
he passed. In Limerick, Clare, and Waterford, whole
townlands are tenantless, and, of course, entirely uncul-
tivated. The tenantry are emigrating from Lord Clif-
den's Kilkenny estates in hundreds.
A correspondent of the Limerick Examiner says--
"The entire country from the above old town on to
Knoekierry, Newcastle, and Rathkeale, is in a most
wretched and sterile condition; no appearance of the
least activity or inclination to put in any seed, or pro-
pose fir it either by gentle or simple. In this range of
35 miles I saw only two fields tilled."
All the voters registered under the Reform Bill have
been disqualified since October, in consequence of lapse
of time—eight years being the period during which the
right remains in force—upwards of 400 voters have lost
the qualification in the county Limerick.
It is said that the port of Waterford is to be reduced
in class, and Limerick raised. The mail-packet station
between Waterford and Milford Haven is to be abo-
lished.

The condition of the Kilrush Union may be imagined,
when it is remembered that upwards of 2,090 houses
have been pulled down, and the inmates turned out to
beg., durinz the last twelve months.
laxsEss op T. B. M'MANus.—On Saturday night
Mr. M`Manus was attacked with a violent fit of retching
and other symptoms indicative of cholera. He continued
very ill all night, and at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing, Mr. Marquess, Governor of Richmond Bridewell,
dispatched a messenger for the medical attendant of the
priF,on (Dr. Harty), who was promptly in attendance.
M'Manus had, in the mean time, got relief, and
'under the care of Dr. }Tarty, he was yesterday evening
much improved, and going on quite favourably. The
attack was not (as at first apprehended) one of cholera,
but was caused, as we have heard, by a bilious ainc-
tion. The patient, although weak, was pronounced out
of danger yesterday evening.—Freeman of this morning.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION 9.-Th e Conservatives
have gained two votes in the Town Council by the elec-
tions which took place on Saturday. Mr. Lambert has
displaced the Lord Mayor in St. Andrew's Ward, and a
Mr. Carew has been elected in Merion Ward, in the room
of Mr. Creagh, resigned.

COURT CIE C ULAR.
OSBORNE, MONDAY.
Her Majesty and his Royal highness the Prince
Albert took walking exercise in the grounds at Os-
borne.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the
)rincess Royal, and the younger branches of the
Roya' -Family, went out on ponies and on foot.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his
residence in Downing-street yesterday evening, from
his seat, llickleton Hall, Yorkshire.
ViscJonnt Palmerston arrived at his residence in
Carltou- gardens yesterday, from Brocket Hall, Herts.
The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere arrived in
tov, n yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of New South Wales South
,
Australia, and the Cape j Good
Hope.
•

GENE-
AL BEM.
TO THE EDITOR OV TAE
on Sou, in to cor-
Siz—Forgive my intruding
yjgniart:Tiurnal, through
ree',; an error which has crept into
We medium of a " Paris letter," re
ton 'performed on General Bent. The asthaer
totperae-t
—ln the early part of the year 1847 the General
admitted into University College Hospital, labouring
under great inconvenience from a bullet lodged in the
great trochanter of the femur. The operation for its
removal (although it had been essayed fifteen years
previously, without success, by the late Baron Dupuy-
tren) was successfully performed by the late Mr. Liston.
Now, Sir, as one of his dressers, and standingimme-
diately beside the patient, I can safely declare that no
alarm was manifested by the operator or re-assurance
given by the General. I feel it to be only justice to the
memory of the lamented deceased to make this correc-
tion, although the profession well know that fear was
never du-played by that celebrated surgeon.
Your obedient srirvant,
EDWARD JAMES FRANKLYN.
E'aole de Medicine, Paris, Nov. 23.

WEST RIDING ELECTION.—The deputation ap-
'pointml at the meeting at Normanton on Saturday last,
an account of the proceedings at which appeared in our
paper of yesterday, reported to a large meeting of leading
Conservatives and Whigs held at Leeds on Monday that
Mr.. Denison had given his consent to be put in nomina-
tie.n as a candidate for the representation of the riding.
Scarlett, one of the deputation, said that as a consti-
.tutionel Whig and a free trader ho felt satisfied that
Der'son's opinions would meet with the approval of
moderate men, Whigs as well as Conservatives. From
the experience of Mr. Denison's past Parliamentary con-
duct, his intelligence and business habits, it was the
trJanimous opinion of the meeting that they ought not
'co require any pledge from him, having no doubt that
he would fully and usefully represent the great and va-
ried interests of the riding in Parliament. Mr. Denisou's
address is hourly expected to be published.
CASE or MALIGNANT CHOLERA ON BOARD A
cattorZlcT SHIP.—We regret to state that a death from
occurred on Thursday last, on board the Cadet,
convict-ship, ip, now lying in the Sound. The Cadet ar-
rived here, on her voyage down channel from Wool-
wich to Hobart Town, on Monday last. She had on
board 180 convicts, of whom 150 were women, and 30
girls.--Devonport Independent.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1848.

Rome has recently been the scene of several extra-
ordinary and lamentable occurrences. So extra-
ordinary and so lamentable, indeed, have been the
events of November in the Eternal City that the
latest intelligence received from the Italian peninsula
is of the most astounding and contradictory cha-
racter. According to one medium of information the
capital was entirely in the hands of the populace;
according to another the President of the newly
elected Democratic Government was nominated by the
Sovereign PONTIFF, as a man devoted to his Holiness
both by his orthodoxy as a Catholic and his predilec-
tions as a statesman. Letters received from Sardinia
assert that the representatives in the Roman
Chamber of Deputies were panic-stricken and
scattered ; while dispatches received by electric
telegraph announce that PIO NONO had been driven
from the chief city of his dominions by the victorious
democrats. Through the whole of these conflicting
assertions, it is manifest that the Romans have acted
in a manner unworthy of themselves, and insulting
to the benevolence of their paternal and illustrious
Sovereign. They have revealed to Europe a spec-
tacle of ingratitude, the like of which has never been
witnessed either in modern times or in the ages of anti-
, quity. They have proved themselves altogether un-
fitted for the
• estimating the
shownexercise of the rights of free citizens.
, They have
that they are incapable of
nomp advantagesteot t ofo p
participate
tLi
oiibpeartael
n t h
the
a Constitution,bou labours
regeneration ' that they are i
, and that the boons of free-
of their own regen •
them by a Re-
.
free-
forming n g
Prince spontaneous)tays
oenhl oy„,
beenered upon
repaid by the assassi-
nationririfid of another
of one of his friends with a da
faithful
taecei with
with a pistol, by the maltreatment of
hiiss ewl
adherents, and by the storming
cannon-balls and musketry. To demonsptraa
brief but significant sentence the monstrous ingnroatnie
tude and anomalous criminality of the Romans kill
be by no means difficult. They crouched down at the
feet of a despotic ruler like GREGORY XVI., While
they have only treated with insolence, with cruelty,
and with the most detestable outrages, a Father and
a Patriot like Pius IX. They have one, while gro.
yelled like slaves under the iron rule of LAMBRUS••
i
CHIN' ; and at another time they have risen n rebellion
against the olive rod of his constitutional successors.
When invested with the tiara, Cardinal CAPELLARI
struck the Romans into obedience with the mailed
hands of his soldiery, and those Romans remained
loyal as subjects and tractable as sycophants. 'When
Cardinal FERRETTI has resigned the purple for the
embroidered robes of the Pontificate, scarcely two years
have elapsed before his beneficent administration is
recompensed with the insults and crimes of a
sanguinary and degraded rabble. In Austria
the Viennese have been fighting against an inhuman

Despot ; in Prussia the Berliners have been struggling
against an ambitious Charlatan ; in Rome the Itllians
have been railing the red hand of murder Against a
Benefactor whose name is blessed, and Wlose v;rtue3
are reverenced throughout the length and breadth of
Christendom.

From the accounts published both yesterday and
this evening in our Foreign Correspondence, it will
be perceived that the November Insurrection in the
Eternal City commenced with the assassination of the
Prime Minister, and terminated with the bombard-
ment and capture of the Quirinal. From the unpo-
pularity of Count Itossr it was dreaded lest his life
might be attempted on the occasion of his next at-
tendance at the Chamber of Deputies. The antici-
pation was unhappily but too speedily fulfilled; for,
on the 15th instant, the statesman who had been
principally instrumental, as French Ambassador, in
securing the election of Jour; MASTAI, Cardinal
FERETTI, to the Pontifical Chair towards the middle of
1846, was stabbed in the lower part of the neck by a
stiletto while walking from his carriage up the grand
staircase of the Palazzo del Cancellaris. Having
stained their cause with blood, the people became
reckless in their proceedings, and early on the
morning of the 16th of November assembled
in a vast multitude upon the Piazza del Popolo
—the populace fraternizing with the Civic
Guard, the troops of the line, and the carabineers.
Here they appear to have matured their revolutionary
projects, resolving to demand from the PoNTirr the
following concessions :
I. The recognition of Italian nationality.
IL The Convocation of a Constituent Assembly, and
the deliberation of a Federal Pact.
lIL That the deliberations of the Council of the De-
puties on the war of independence should be carried
into effect.
IV. That the programme of Mamiani (June 5) should
be followed out or realised.
V. That a Democratic Ministry should be at once
appointed.

After proceeding to the Chamber of Deputies, and
placing the national representatives at their head, the
mob marched in solemn procession to the palace of
the Quirinal. Our Roman correspondent has already
explained how the deputations were received by the
SOVEREIGN ; how his HOLINESS replied through
Cardinal SOOLIA that he would take the popular de-
mands into consideration, although resolved to con-
cede nothing on compulsion ; how, on the second
application, the POPE announced his inflexible deter-
mination not to yield anything to violence; and how the
fighting ultimately commenced between the Swiss or
Papal Guards and the insurgent multitude. It was
not until the firing had lasted for three hours ; when
the palace was surrounded on all sides by overwhelm-
ing numbers ; when the principal entrance was
burst open by discharges of cannon ; when the
sharpshooters, firing their rifles from behind
the equestrian statues of Castor and Pollux,
had shot Monsignor PALMA, ene of the POPE'S
Cameriere Segreto, through the forehead; when
the belfry of St. Carlino, overlooking the walls of the
Quirinal, had been seized ; and when the ultimatum of
the assailants had been dispatched to the Sovereign
PONTIFF, informing him that, in case of a continued
refusal, at the expiration of one hour, the palace
would be stormed, and every soul in it, with the
exception of himself, destroyed—it was not until
then, we say, that ho NoNo at last, to save
the lives of his brave defenders, granted the demands
of his criminal and ungrateful subjects. Cardinal
LAMBRUSCHINI had scarcely escaped in the disguise
of a dragoon when the following Administration was
proclaimed :

ROSMINx
nister of Public Instruction.
MAMIANI

GALLETTI.. Home and Police.
LIINATI ... Finance.
CAMBELLO .... War.
STERBINI Commerce and Public Works.

Other offices being reserved for the rest of the fa-
vourites of the democratic party, including SALICETI,
Fuscom, Swum, HERBINI, and the Prince DE
CANINO, the hairbrained nephew of the Emperor
NAPOLEON. To the stenographic dispatch received
by electric telegraph at Paris, and printed in
the columns of the Univers, to the effect
that the PONTIFF had been expelled from Rome,
we attach no credence whatever ; though it were
well perhaps for Pio Norco should such ultimately be
the case, seeing that the Romans have proved them-
selves unworthy of that great man, whose misfortune
is the circumstance of his being three centuries in
advance of his age, and whose only crimes are the
liberality of his patriotism and the excess of his
benevolence.

The negotiations that had been carried on for the
proposed amalgamation between the three great
companies have been brought to a premature con-
clusion. The contemplated arrangements have com-
pletely fallen to the ground. As we had anticipated
from the moment, that the project was first an-
nounced, difficulties and impediments arose which
could not possibly be surmounted. The represen-
tatives of the contracting parties differed on the first
point of any real importance that was brought for-
ward. It was manifest that a superior board
should be constructed to adjudicate upon
all doubtful questions, and the constitution
of that board formed the immediate subject of dis-
pute. The directors of the Great Western and South-
Western Companies insisted that the contracting
parties should be equally represented in that board,
a demand against which the North-Western directors
most strenuously protested, declaring "that the larger
paid-up capital of their company as compared with
the capital paid up of the other companies, and the
amount required to complete their engagements re-
spectively, rendered the principle not in accord-
ance with the practice adopted in similar cases,
nor reasonable in itself; " but, at the same
time, they expressed their willingness "to allow
the number of directors to be settled by the
committee on the Bill, or by reference, after the
passing of the Act, subject to the approbation of the
proprietors." This reasonable suggestion was, how-
ever, peremptorily rejected. The other boards con-
sidered their claim to equal representation to he an
indispensable condition, in which no alteration could
be sanctioned, and the North-Western directors have
in consequence issued circulars to their shareholders,
stating " that there is no longer any necessity for
their attendance, either personally or by proxy, at the
intended meeting of the 13th December."
Although the immediate cause of the dispute was
that above set forth, the elements of future strife
were painfully apparent in other matters brought
under the consideration of the delegates from the
different companies. The South-Western Company
asserted their right to push on their line to Windsor,
and to establish a separate station in that town, with-
out submitting the question to the decision of the
joint board. This determination was strongly cp.
posed by the Great Western, who viewed the exten-
sion with the utmost jealousy, considering that if the
amalgamation should not finally take place, it would
prove highly prejudicial to their own interests topermit
a rival to obtain a footing in their territory, and that
if the arrangement was carried into execution, a great
and unnecessary expense would be occasioned thereby.
The Southerns were, however, resolved not to lose
the golden opportunity, or to abandon a position so
advantageous. They therefore caused the notices of
their intended application for the proposed extension
to be published—a proceeding which the Great
Western decided on opposing, so that we should
have witnessed a fierce Parliamentary contest actu-
ally waging during the existence of the united
board," a conflict to the expenses of which the North-
Western shareholders, to whom it was a matter of
the most perfect indifference, would contribute
largely.

The Great Western had also its "reserved points."
It refused to permit the question of the gauges
to remain open, but made it a sine qua non that
" the broad gauge should be laid and maintained over
the lines for which it has been authorised by Parlia-
ment, or over any lines in substitution, whenever such
railways might be constructed, and that no steps
should be taken, by application to Parliament or
otherwise, for relinquishing or abandoning the use of
the said gauge as respects those lines." The break of
gauge would therefore be perpetuated, and however
objectionable it might prove, and injurioUs to the
interests of the " united company," no steps could be
taken to provide an adequate remedy. Another sti-
pulation also was introduced on their behalf—viz., that
the other conianies should not be permitted to amal-

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