The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

No. 16,659• LONDON. TUESDAY EV E N NG Ny JANUARY 6, 1846,

CIIRISTMA S HOLIDAYS.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
Lectures for this period of the year, by Dr. Ryan and
Professor BachOfTner in CIIEMIBTRY and NATURAL PHILO-
SOPHY will be illus•rated by Interesting and brilliant experiments.
A Lecture on the PREVALENT DISEASE POTATOES will be
slivered by Dr. Ryan, and also on the ATMOSPHERIC RAIL-
WAY, by Professor Bachoffner, a Working Model of which, car-
ryi,g several persons, is exhibited daily. The additions to the
OPAQUE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING VIEWS, and CHROMA-
TROPE are very effective. The PHYSIOSCOPE. Submarine Ex-
periments by means of the DIVER and DIVING BELL. Among
the various additions to the Working Models is Coleman's NEW
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, for aePending and de-
scending Inclined Planes. A magnificent Collection of TROPICAL
FRUITS. Mi". Downe, the celebrated Flats Player, will take part
in the Music, conducted by Dr. Wallis. Open from Eleven to Half-
past Five, ani from Seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening.
Admission, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price.

HOTEL and TAVERN-KEEPERS' PROVI-
DENT INST,TITTION.
The SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY DINNER of this INSTITU-
TION will be held at the London Coffee-House, Ludgate-hill, on
WEDNESDAY, the 14th instant,
The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR in the Chair.
Tickets 21s. each, to be had of the Stewards ; at the bar of the
London Coffee-hkuse ; and at the Crown Hotel, Craven-street, Strand.
Dinner on table at Five o'clock precisely.
STEPN. EDWD. TAP-STEIL Hon. Sec.
Craven Hotel, 2d January, 184 G.

KING'S HEAD INN, COVENTRY.
Conducted by JAMES WILLIAMSON.

TO COMMERCIAL GENTLEMEN.
•J. W. takes the present opportunity of thanking his numerous
Commercial Friends for their liberal support for the last five years,
and trusts, by strict attention to their comforts, he shall receive a
continuance of their favours. _

To Commercial Gentlemen generally, J. W. begs most respectfully
to observe, he has made arrangements to receive an increased number
of commercial guests, assuring them his best endeavours shall not b•
wanting to render their visit to the King's Head at all times de-
sirable.

Large Rooms convenient for the exhibition of stock:

Post-horses, Flys; and Gigs, always ready. at moderate charges.
Agent to the London and Birmingham Railway.
N ATIONALLOAN FUNI) LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.

26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital A 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offars important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The ass ired has, on all occasions, the power to borr3w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
•f if interests to meet other conveniances or necessity. Assurances
fer terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFIT:.
- -

The SI Access and increasing pros?arity of tae Society kas enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3u to 75 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Profit scale.

EXAMPLES.

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licl
Egg
P2.3p,.

Eh-
04g.
I,J '
Q o . e. 2 5.-.
;)-4g
• si".

0,-31 E Premium.

gi Bonus Benas in
added. Cub.

I 1837 £l9l 13
681 di.
1538 168 13O 74 3 4
1839 138 13
1840 89 0

iIXB7 13 51X13 17 1
• 74 13 10 11 8 6
6 61 14 3 9 210
0, 41 13 4 6 • •

1£395 Il 1
346 2 3
296 13 4
247 4 5

Tae dWision of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
26, Cornhill, London, December 29, 1845.
Notice is hereby given that the half-yearly interest, at the rate of
five per cent per annum on the capital stock of this Society, due on
the 31st instant, will become payable on the 10th day of January
next, and Proprietors may receive the same at this office on that or
any subsequent day between the hours of eleven and three o'clock.
By order of the Court of Directors,
F. FERGUSON- CAMROUX, secretary.

THE AUSTRALASIAN, COLONIAL, and
GENERAL LIFE ♦SSURANCE and ANNUITY COM-
PANY", 125, Bishopsgate-street, corner of Cornhill.
Capital, 200,0001., in 2,000 Shares.
DIRECTORS.
Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. Gideon Colquhoun, Esq.
Robert Brooks, Esq. C. E. Mangles, Esq.
henry Buckle, Esq. Richard Onslow, Esq.
John henry Capper, Esq. William Walker, Esq.
TRUSTEES—Edward Barnard, Esq., F.R.S. ; J. H. Capper, Esq.;
Edward Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS—James Easton, Esq., and C. Richardson, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Maples, Pearse, Stevens, and Maples.
BANKERs—The Union Bank of London.

COLONIAL BANKERS—The Bank of Australasia (incorporated by

Royal Charter, 1815), 8, Austin-friars, London.
rnrsiciAN—Dr. Fraser, 62, Guildford-street, Russell-square.
ACTUARY AND SECRETARY—Edward Ryley, Esq.
The following are the specimens of the rates of premium charged
by this Company for the Assurance of 1001.:

WITH PROFITS. WITHOUT PROFITS.
Age. Annual Premium. Age. Annual Premium.
20 £1 17 1 20 £1 10 3
25 2 2 1 25 1 14 11
30 2 8 2 30 2 0 7
35 2 15 2 35 2 7 0
40 3 4 0 40 2 15 3
45 3 15 6 45 3 6 6
50 4 11 8 50 4 1 8
55 5 9 7 55 5 0 5

No extra Premium is charged for residence
North American Colonies, or at the Cape of G

in the Australasian or
and Hope.
urance of the lives of
[tlles.
in Australasia and the

Peculiar facilities are afforded for the ass
persons proceeding to or residing in the East 1
Premiums may be paid, and claims settled,
East Indies, by indorsement of the policy.
Immediate and Deferred Annuities are granted by the Company
on very favouraliia terms. smi it a neenlisr feature in Its ennstitii-
Unit that Annuitants participate in the profits.
The following are specimens of the rates of annuities granted for
every 1001. sunk :

Male Female Male Female
Lives. I Lives. Age. Lives. Lives.
£7 1 5 £6 13 5 65 £l2 12 0 £lO 19 0
718 1 7 4 9 75 I 18 9 2 16 3 5
9 13 0 8 8 9 80 25 8 9 20 2 7

Prospectuses, with Tables, Forms of Proposal for the purchase of
an Annuity or for making an Assurance, and every Information,
may be obtained by application at the Office of the Company.
E. RYLEY, Actuary and Secretary.

UNIVE ftSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.
PRELI3IINART ANNOUNCEMENT.

CRIPPLEGATE WARD WITHIN.
At a Meeting of the Inhabitants, holden" at the George Hall,
Aldermanbury, pursuant to a resolution passed at the WardmOte,
held on the 24th o, December last,
THOMAS CHALLIS, Esq., Alderman of the Ward, in the Chair ;
It was moved by Mr. CASH; seconded by Mr. BENNocu ; and re-

solved,

That this meeting views with deep concern the unsettled state of
the country, arising chiefly (as it believes), from the pernicious ope-
ration of the present corn-law, which holds out delusive hopes to the
agriculturist, cripples commercial enterprise, introduces a system of
gambling into the ordinary business of life, which is alike destruc-
tive to morals and legitimate. trade, induces a precarious supply, en-
hances the price of food, and is not only oppressive to the poor, but
also subversive of the best interests of the vast majority of the popu-
lation.

It was moved by Mr. DEWAR ; seconded by Mr. STRODE, jun. ; and

carried unanimously,
That the direful effects of the present corn-law, set forth in the
foregoing resolution, render its immediate and unconditional repeal
essential to the prosperity of the people and the peace and safety of
the kingdom. _ .

It was rnooyed by Mr. IfooLE ; seconded by Mr. Lila ; and carried

unanimously,
That petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons be prepared,
founded on the foregoing resolutions. That Lord Radnor be re-
quested to present the petition to the Lords, and Lord J. Russell that
to the Commons; and that the other representatives of the city of
London be desired to support the prayer of the petition.
It was moved by Mr. B. BROWN ; seconded by Mr. BERNARD ; and

carried unanimously,
That the thanks of this meeting be given to Mr. James Crocker, for
generously granting the use of the George Hall free of expense.
It was moved by Mr. SAMUEL MORLEY ; seconded by Mr. Deputy

METROPOLITAN JUNCTIONS.
An adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of the
Metropolitan Junctions Railway Company was:held yes-
terday, at the offices of the Company, in Clement's-lane,
for the purpose of considerinethe result of the negotia-
tions for an amalgamation with the Northern and
Southern Connecting Company, and to determine what
steps ought to be adopted in the present position and
state of the affairs of the Company.
-The, nieeting was called for one, and
,slaertly after that
hour Major CROFT; the Chairtnatrotihe'lloitq of Ma
nagement, took the chair. He said the biainess of the
meeting had better be commenced by the Secretary read-
ing a resolution passed at the last meeting, directing a
letter to be written to every member of the Provisional
Committee, calling upon them to pay up their deposits
upon the shares they had applied for and had had allotted
to them, and then the answers which had been received
to such applications.
Mr. GEO. JONES suggested that as there were only
twelve gentlemen present to represent a Company whose
capital exceeded two millions, they had better wait a
short while longer to allow of other shareholders
attending.
The CHAIRMAN said, at the breaking up of the last
meeting, several Shareholders requested tLat the ad-
journed meeting might be held punctually at one, be-
cause it was a great inconvenience for men of business
to attend at that hour, and then to be kept waiting for
a considerable time.
Mr. JONES asked if the vote of the gentlemen present
was to be taken as final ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that all he could say was that
if the Shareholders would not attend, it was not the
fault of the Directors, but it placed them in an unplea-
sant position.
Mr. SMIRKS said he never heard of the last meeting
till after it had taken place, and then it was by accident
that he saw it reported in the papers. The Directors
ought to do more than advertise these meetings. They
ought to forward notices of them to every Shareholder.
He had never seen their Company mentioned in a news-
paper, except in Spilleman's list in the Times.
Ultimately it was agreed that the business should be
delayed for half an hour. At the expiration of that
time the attendance of Shareholders had become more
numerous, and the Chairman requested the Secretary to
read the answers to the applications he had previously
alluded to.
The first was from Mr. Thomas Lawrance, of Saint
Mary Axe, who denied ever having applied for shares
in the Company, and declared that his name had been
placed on the Provisional Committee without his know-
ledge or consent.
The next was from Mr. Brown, of Windsor, who said
he had paid the deposits on his shares, amounting to
5251., and requesting to know when he could sign the
contract deed.
The next was from Mr. Humfreys, of 68, Old Broad-
street, who requested to have his name immediately
withdrawn from the Provisional Committee.
Mr. JONES asked who this gentleman was ?
The SECRETARY replied that Mr. Humfreys was the
father of their former solicitor, and he was allotted 200
shares at the request of his son.
The next was from Lieutenant White, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Ocean, who expressed his inability to pay
the deposits at present.
The next was from Mr. William Harding, of Croydon,
who said he was unable to accept more than ten shares,
and he was ready and willing to pay upon that number.
The next was from Mr. Charles Butler, who declared
that he had long ceased to be a committeeman, and had
never accepted any shares.
The SECRETARY said it was true Mr. Butler was not
one of the Managing Committee, but he had never with-
drawn his no-- .t.- ommittee. Mr.
butler, moreover, had attended some of n
the preliminary
meetings of the Managing Committee.
Several How. PROPRIETORS deprecated the system of
allowing Provisional Committeemen to act at these meet-
ings who had formally accepted shares.
The last letter was from Mr. Butler, solicitor, of
Furnival's Inn, who stated that Mr. Horne,
Mr. Bowyer, and Mr. Phillips, were willing to pay
upon their shares if the undertaking were carried out,
or to bear their share of the expenses if it were not.
The SECRETARY said these were the only replies he
had received to 128 applications.
Mr. C. GREEN wished to know how many of the
Provisional Committee had paid the deposits upon their
shares ?

TEN LECTURES ON THE CHRONO-
THERMAL SYSTEM of MEDICINE. By Dr. DICKSON.
Price 2s. 64.
Lecture I. The Nature of Disease and its Causes ; Chrono-Thermal
Medicines.—Lecture 11. Ague, Fever, Spasm, Palsy, Epilepsy.—Lec-
ture 111. Apoplexy, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of the
Joints and Glands.—Lecture IV. Inflammation, Blood-letting, Absti-
nence.—Leeture V. Gout, Gravel, Rheumatism, Skin Disease,
Dropsy.—Lecture VI. Dyspepsia, Insanity, Convulsions—Lecture
VII. Diseases of Women, Cancer, 3liscarriage.—lecture VIII. Ani-
mal Magnetism, Hydropatity, Homoeopathy, &c.—Lecture IX. and
X. Chrono-Thermal Method of Curing all Diseases.
Simpkin and Marshall, Stationer's-court; J. 011ivier, Pall-mall.
Thirteen copies for twelvc.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
ALLOTMENT OF NEW SHIRES.
In compliance with the wishes of Shareholders who have not been
able to go to the places named in the Letters of Allotment, the Com-
pany's hankers are authorised to receive depots till the 10th inst.
inclusive, and the Deeds will Lie for Signatu•e at the Company's
offices, 122, Princes-street, Edinburgh, and 124, St. Vincent-street,
Glasgow, on the 7th, Bth, 9th, and 10th instant ; and 28, Par-
liament-street, London, on the 9th, 10th, 12:h, and 13th instant,
from Eleven, A.M., till Four, P.M.
Parties sending powers of attorney will please to remember to have
a thirty-shilling stamp for each person; when sent to Edinburgh they
may name, as their attorney, David Rankine, the secretary ; when
sent to London, Robert Weems, Parliamentary agent.
By order,

D. RANKINE, Secretary,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Smivn ; and carried unanimously,
That the best thanks of this meeting are eminently due, and are
hereby given, to our worthy Alderman, for his ready acquiescence in,
and quick response to, the wishes of the inhabitants of the ward in
cal ing this meeting, and for his able and impartial conduct in the
chair.

And it was moved by Mr. PATERSON ; seconded by Mr. HUTCHIN-
SON ; and carried unanimously,
That these resolutions be advertised in the Times, Chronicle, Ad-
vertiser, Sun, Globe, and Standard newspapers.
Jan. 5, 1846. JAMES A. TEAGUE, Ward Clerk.

QT. AIARYLEBONE, JANUARY A 1846.
L TO BRICKMAKERS, &c: •

T3REEZE.—Whereas Mr. James Sinnott, ef Ilolywell-lane, Shore-
ditch, having withdrawn his accepted Tender for contracting for the
Breeze and Ashes of four of the live districts of this Parish, in con-
sequence (as alleged by him) of one of his proposed sureties having
declined that responsibility, the Vestrymen of this parish hereby give
notice, that they will meet again in the Vestry-room of the Court-
house of the said parish on SATURQAY, 24th January inst., at Eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, to receive Tenders from persons willing to
Contract for the Breeze and Ashes of the said Parish (excepting the
division of Christ Church, which is already contracted for) for one
year, from the 31st day of January instant. Payment of one quarter
of tke year's Contract-money must be made to the said Vestrymen
at the signing of the Contract, and good security given that the re-
mainder be continued to be paid one quarter in advance throughout
the Contract.

The parish is divided into five divisions for the purpese of Contract-
ing for the Breeze, p 'rticulars of which, with the form of the Con-
tract and printed Tender, may be had of the Surveyor, Mr. Robert
Scace, at the Court-kouse, from Twelve till One o'clock daily.
Tenders to be sealed, aad no Tender will be received except on the
printed form, er after Eleven o'clock on the said 24th clay of January
instant. By order of the Vestry,
C. FLOOD, Vestry Clerk.
Contractor to pay Six Guineas as expenses of Contract and Bond.

PURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
COURT of CHANCF:RY, made in a cause of LYNE against
LYNE, the Creditors of PHILIP LYNE, late of Westbourne, in the
county of Sussex, Esquire (who died in the month of November,
1840), are, on or before the 12th day of February next, to come in
and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN WusoN, one of the Masters
of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chan-
cery-lane, London, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily
excluded the benefit of the :said Decree.
W. and E. DYNE, GI, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.

ipIURSUANT to a DECREE of the HIGH
A. COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause of HAMMER
against HAMMER, the Creditors of GEORGE HAMMER, formerly
of Jubilee-street, Mile-end-road, in the county of Middlesex, and late
of Bethnal-green, in the same county, master mariner, of the ship
Sussex, trading to the South Seas, and who died at Mile-end afore-
said in the month of May, 1844, are, on or before the 12th day of
February next, to come in and prove their debts before Sir GIFFIN
WILSON, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in
Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or in default thereof
they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
LOFTY, POTTER, and SON, Plaintiff's Solicitors,
36, King-street, Cheapside.
sth January, 1846.

TILE ART UNION.

PIANOFORTES GIVEN AWAY, VALUE
FIFTY GUINEAS EACH.

The PROPRIETORS of the " RAILWAY TELEGRAPH AND
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an Established Maker, to every Three Hundredth Subscriber.
The " Railway Telegraph and Merchant's Advocate " is a first-rate
Railway, Commercial, and General Newspaper.
Prospectuses and particulars to be had at the Office, 2, Catherine-
street, Strand, London.

Magnificent Drawing-Room Table or Gift-Book.
Just PubliEhed,

POEMS AND PICTURES; a Collection of
BALLADS, SONGS, and other POEMS, illustrated by Eng-
lish Artists. The work is splendidly printed in square Bvo., on toned
-paper prepared for the purpose. Price in crimson cloth gilt,
2 guineas; or in morocco elegant, 2 guineas and a half. It com-
prises One Hundred Engravings on Wood in the highest style of the
art, designed by Messrs. Horsley, Cope, Dyce, Creswick, Redgrave,
Tnnntwt 1-111 no n Dodgson, &C. &C. &C., be-
sides border ornaments round each page.
A specimen of the letter-press and several of the engravings,
with a synopsis of the contents, will be sent by post on receipt of
four postage stamps, and booksellers will be supplied with the same
through their agents.
" Gents of poesy set and linked together with designs full of grace-
ful and tender feeling."—Spectator.
" The engravings are masterpieces. As a work of art—and our
readers know that we do not use the word unadvisedly -it deserves
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" The most perfect specimen of book embellishment which has
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" One of the most beautiful books it has ever been our fortune to
see."—English Review.
" The triumph of wood engraving ; we find it impossible by any
description to do justice to its excellence."—English Churchman.

Capital 100,0001., in 5,000 Shares of 201. per Share.
Deposit IN. per 1001. Shares, in accordance with the Act.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Under the Management of a Provisional Committee.

" Far taste and invention this new candidate for artistic honours
is among the foremost."—Literary Gazette.

CONSULTING CHEMIST —l'rofe._nor Ryan, M.D., LL.D., Royal Col-
lege, Portsmouth, and Royal Polytechnic Institution.
ENGINEER—Henry Francis, Esq., Patentee, 40, Elizabeth-street,

" It is nearly impossible to believe that these designs are wood ;
we unhesitatingly declare that nothing has appeared equal to them.
This splendid effort we do not hesitate to pronounce the Book of the
Season."—Bent's Register.
" We cannot help pronouncing this the most attractive gift-book
of the season." —Court Journal.

Eaton-square.
Baxiczas—Sir Claude Scott, Bart., and Co.
SOLICITOR—J. F. W. Fesenmeyer, Esq., 23, Bedford-row.
SECRETARY—Mr. Willißm Nicholson.

" One of the most beautiful volumes that ever greeted the new
year ; and which suggests most forcibly the consideration, To whom
shall I offer so charming a present ? It exhibits not only the most
delicate specimen imaginable of engraving on wood, bat also designs
which do infinite credit to the taste and skill of the artists employed."
—Gentleman's Magazine.
" Mr. Burns has done real and we hope permanent service to
English art by this noble publication—it seems lowering to consider
it merely as a gift -book—which exceeds in pictorial value the illus-
trated editions of Moore, Lockhart, &c., just as its contents are
more healthy and genial."—ltemembrancer.
" The cuts aro really executed in the most finished style, and equal
if they do not excel the finest specimens hitherto produced. It may
be conceived how riche treat Mr. Bunts has provided for his readers."
—Morning Herald.

Offices of the Company and Working Factories, 159, Drury-lane.
The Company is formed for the purpose of carrying out, more ef-
fectually working, and bringing into general use, an invention se-
cured by letters patent for an improved manufacture of gas.
The apparatus is so portable it can be fitted up on any descrip-
tion of building, even at a kitchen range, 'without affecting the do-
mestic arrangements, and the tire used in ordinary in generating the
gas will be ample to produce steam for warming the most extensive
premises.
The most eminent engineers and chemists unite in opinion that
the invention is not only practicable and free from smell or annoy-
ance, but by this valuable patent is secured the manufacture of a
pure and superior gas, not only on new, but sound, scientific, chemical,
and mechanical principles, which have been hitherto overlooked in
the common modes of manufacture ; besides, this gas possesses more
of the illuminating power, and will burn longer, than that now in use,
in the proportion of 40 per cent. in favour of the invention.

" Full of choice poetry, both of the pencil and the pen, finely
printed on tinted paper, and handsomely bound —this volume is the
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especially small towns, villages, lighthouses, colleges, churches, dock-
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minufactories, printing-offices, madhouses, hospitals, and schools,
&c., and warming the buildings, without extra expense.

London : James Burns, 17, Portman-street ; and by order of all
Booksellers.

The CHAIRMAN replied that out of 130 only 16 had
paid. This, however, was exclusive of the Managing
Committee. The next business to be brought before
them was the minutes of the proceedings which the Sub-
Committee had taken for negotiating an amalgamation
with the Northern and Southern Connecting Company,
which, with their permission, the secretary would read.
From these minutes it appeared that the negotiation
had resulted in an offer from the Northern and Southern
Connecting Company to amalgamate, provided it was
effected upon toe basis that three Metropolitan Junction
shares, upon which a call of Its. per share should be
made, were equal to one share in the other Company.
The CHAIRMAN said the Managing Directors had re-
turned no answer to this offer, preferring rather to
leave it to be done by that meeting. He might state,
however, that about an hour ago a member of the Pro-
visional Committee of the Northern and Southern Con-
necting Company assured him that the Company was
not in such a position as to induce him to recommend
them to amalgamate with it.
Mr. KEMP, one of the Directors, said the opposite
Company had represented that they bad 30,000/., but
their plans were not lodged till Monday, the Ist of De-
cember, while they had duly lodged their plans on the
29th of November, but had only 10,0001. left to go on
with. Now, if the promoters of the Northern and South-
ern Company had been deceiving them in the negotia-
tion, no language could be used sufficiently strong to
denounce such duplicity. They ought to ascertain who
the Shareholders of the Company were, and get them to
unite in obtaining that which they could not do if sepa-
rated. Their line was a good one, the plans were most
perfect, and if the Northern and Southern Company
would "aid them with 30,000/., it would be the best scheme
that could be brought before Parliament. If, however,
the Northern and Southern Company failed them, there
was the South-Eastern and the Northern and Eastern
Companies, who he had not the slightest doubt would be
most ready to assist them.
Mr. VETCHER, of Exeter, submitted to the meeting
whether it would not be better to break up the Company
at once than spend the little they had left. The South-
Eastern Company would have enough to do next ses-
sion to get out of their own difficulties, without taking
up those of any other Company ; and if he was not
mistaken, the Northern and Eastern was in the same
position. At the last meeting it was stated that the
receipts were 28,0001. and the expenditure 17,0001., and
he for one thought, if this were a true state of the ac-
counts, they were most unsatisfactory.
Mr. KEMP said the sums stated at the previous meet-
ing were erroneous. The receipts it had been ascer-
tained were 17,0001., and the expenditure only 10,000/.
Now, was it worth their while to sacrifice the valuable
property they had purchased for this 10,0001., because
they were not in a position to carry out a whim of the
House of Commons ?
Mr. VETCHER said the Directors appeared to be in
doubt altogether about the accounts; and how any set of
men—how any secretary or solicitor—could carry on a
concern of that magnitude, and not know the exact
amount of their liabilities, he was at a loss to understand.
He could not trust them any longer, and he should move
that the Company be dissolved.
Mr. CHARLES GREENE seconded the motion, and said
he was induced to do so from a thorough distrust of the
parties into whose hands their affairs had fallen. Was
it not the fact that some of the funds had been appro-
priated to buying up the allotment letters and scrip of
their own line ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that such certainly was the
case, but at the time it was done it was a very common
thing, and the course was applauded. lie had since
ascertained that it was a bad system, and he would never
give his consent to it again. The shares were bought
with a view of benefiting the Company, and the Directors
could derive no interest from the purchase.
Mr. GEO. JONES moved an amendment, to the effect
that a Committee of Shareholders should be appointed
to negotiate with the shm eholders in the Northern and
Southern Connecting Corupan),, and see if an amalga-
mation favourable to both parties could not be brought
about.
Mr. PAYNE seconded the amendment, and it was
ultimately carried by a very large majority.
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of the Company.
Mr. GREENE wished to know what they intended to
do with the defaulting Directors were they to be
freed from all liabilities ?

The CHAIRMAN was as anxious as any one that the
Provisional Committee should pay up! but he wanted to

I
Mr.. GREENE said there was no help for them but by
exposing the defaulters. Some of them bad the reputation
of being respectable men, but he did not think they
would keep it long.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting broke up, after a very protracted sitting.
Martyr,thr o uSouthwark,gh
their
surveyor,
SOUTH-EASTERN AND NORTH KENT.
the Last night a meeting of the rate-payers of St. George
w
ashsehldouilnd
atshseencth, udriscshenut,poonr
parish business, when the subject as to whether the
parish,
remain neutral, relative to the proposed lines, was
brought forward.
Mr. Churchwarden HOOLE took the chair.
Mr. ANDERSON, the surveyor, said, that as the subject
Iwas one of the greatest importance to the parish, taking,
as the two lines would, so great a portion of it, he felt
bound to take the opinion of the inhabitants. He had
seen a great number of the inhabitants whose property
would be affected by the proposed extension of the South
Eastern line ; and they were unanimousty opposed to it.
What did the Company propose ? why to carry an arch
across from the present terminus to the other side, which
would have the effect of driving all the respectable in-
habitants from that part of the parish. With regard to
the other lines, it was alleged that the objections would
he got rid of—but at what expense ? why, by carrying
a viaduct in an oblique direction from Layton-buildings
to Red Cross-street ; the arch or viaduct was to be 29
feet high, but from its position the inhabitants would
have but a dead wall to look at. Trade was already bad
in the High-street, and the proposed plan would com-
pletely rain it.
Mr. PICKFORD, of the Old Kent-road, said that he had
considerable property in the Borough, and as long as it
was in his power he should offer every opposition to the
North Kent line ; for he was fully satisfied that where-
ever a railway came it depreciated property.
-, Mr. HOWARD thought that the best course to adopt
would be to appoint a committee -to oppose the intended
extensions, and to report as occasion required.
Mr. MARTIN, of the Old Kent-road, said he had been
for a considerable length of time a member of a commit-
tee appointed to oppose the further extension of the
South-Eastern. It was said that when the terminus
came to the Brieklayer's Arms, that it would increase
the trade, but the reverse was the case ; as far as the
inhabitants were locally concerned, they were deter-
mined to oppose the measure.
Mr. KNIGHTON said he had heard a great deal said
against the extension of railways, but no one spoke in
favour of them. Now he considered they were of the
utmost advantage to the public. They created trade.—
(Cries of " No, no.") Was any person present who
was prepared to say that, wherever there was a terminus,
that trade did not exist?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") He
was certain they were a benefit, and that they would
beautify the parish.—(" Oh, oh.")
It was agreed to, with but one dissentient, that the
surveyor, on the part of the parish, should return to the
application a dissent.

know how they could reach a provisional committee-
man ? They could only proceed against him by filing
a bill in equity, but that could not be dknie without the
consent of every shareholder.

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noo-f, ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
NanmAairn AofFrthEeaNnoamoNe.—ofTwro-odoadyw,
aartd,t waeljvoeinoe'rc
(Icreksidat-
ing at Wellow in the north of this county (Nottingham-
shire), was brought in the custody of the police to the
county gaol, charged with having attempted to murder
a female, of the name of Hind, a widow, with whom he
had been cohabiting. Wellow is a village about ten
miles from Worksop, end the same distance from the
towns of Newark and Southwell, and it appears that for
a length of time past the prisoner has been separate from
his wife, and has resided with his unfortunate victim.
The horrible deed was evidently a premeditated act,
from the circumstance of his taking with him, on going
to bed on Monday night last, a knife, which he placed
under his pillow. At half-past six o'clock in the
morning the man and woman quarrelled, when, the
wretch took the knife and inflicted upon the poor woman
a dreadful wound in her throat, which extended several
inches from right to left. She instantly jumped out of
bed, and ran duwn stairs screaming'` Murder," the blood
at the same time flowing profusely from the wound.
The wretch ran away half undressed, and without any
stockings on his legs. The villagers being alarmed, a
surgeon was sent for, who sewed up the wound, and a
pursuit of the murderer ensued, but for some time with-
out success. On Friday morning, however, he was dis-
covered crawling from under a hay-stack, in his own
parish, almost famished. He was immediately appre-
hended, and conveyed before the Rev. E. Dawkins, a
magistrate of the county. The woman being alive, but
without hope of recovery, the man has been committed
to the county gaol for further examination: To elude
detection by his footsteps being traced, it has since been
found that the artful villain had walked backwards into
the stack yard, so that the marks of his feet upon the
soft soil did not betray his hiding place. Since his
apprehension, he has admitted that he went into Willow
Wood, and lay there a day and a night, with a view of
attacking a farmer, whom he knew to be in the habit of
passing through it, and his intention was to rob and
murder him; the farmer, however, having heard of the
attempt to murder, and knowing that Woodward was a
bad character, having fears lest he should meet in the
wood, actually went a long way round, instead of going
through the wood, and thereby, no doubt, saved himself
from a brutal attack.

APPREHENSION OF SUSPECTED BURGLARS AT
WoOLWICII.—During the past week, various acts of burglary
have taken place at Woolwich, and hitherto the police have
been unable to obtain any clue to the thieves. Sunday
evening, between six and seven o'clock, police-constable
Gladwin, an active officer of the R division, on duty in plain
clothes, observed two suspicious looking men near the shop
of Mr. Dixon, a furniture broker, in Powis- street. The better
to observe, their movements, and without being himself per-
ceived, Gladwin concealed himself behind -the,Allar of a
shop door oprsite, and observed the prisoners trying to Three - -
the door. The prisoners, however, had a fellow with them
who acted as " touter" or scout, and this man, on observing
the constable, gave an alarm, and the thieves immediately
desisted from their attempts on the house. Gladwin, how-
ever, perceiving that it was useless to watch the thieves
farther, immediately darted from his hiding place, and seizing
two of them by the collar, took them into custody. The
third ran oft'. Gladwin having lodged his prisoners safely in
the station-house, proceeded in search of the third, whom he
succeeded in capturing. The prisoners gave the names of
Tapper, Reed, and Mumford. On their persons were found
a number of skeleton keys of various sizes, calculated to pick
any of the common locks. A small crowbar was also found
upon one of them. There is great reason to believe they
form part of a gang which has carried on very extensive de-
predations in that neighbourhood.
WIGTOWNSHIRE POLITICS.—A correspondent in
Wigtownshire says, "An active canvass has been carried on
in this county by Mr. Robert Stewart, eldest son of Stair
Stewart, Esq., of Glasserton, for the representation of the
shire' on the Conservative interest: This has induced our
present Member, Cap'. Dalrymple, to issue an address to his
constituents, in which he declares for the tt tal and imme-
diate repeal of the corn laws. He has also been making per-
sonal calls. As Sir Robert Peel's return to power will, in all
probability, lengthen the existence of the present Parliament,
this premature canvassing will doubtless cease. We hear
that it is the intention of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., of Loch-
naw, to oppose Sir John M'Taggart, M.P., at the next elec-
tion for the Wigt own district of burghs ; but we do not
know whether the rumour be correct or not.—Dumfries
Courier.
IMPROVEMENTS AT ROSENEATIL—Sir James J. R.
Mackenzie had this year laid down 30,000 yards of drains
with stones, and the number is daily increasing. The new
garden, which is in an excellent situation, and has a good
exposure, together with the pleasure-grounds, which are
tastefully laid out, will, when completed, make Roseneath
one of the most delightful seats in the north.—lnvesi ness
Courier.

THE FULHAM WATERMEN.—Yesterday the Bishop
of London gave his annual dinner to the watermen of Ful-
ham. At one o'clock in the afternoon they sat down to a
repast of good old English fare, consisting of roast and boiled
beef, mutton, and plum-pudding, together with a plentiful
supply of excellent ale. The entertainment was set out in the
hall of the Bishop's residence at Fulham, and his Lordship
honoured his guests by saying " grace." The custom is said
to have originate) from a former Bishop's son having been
saved from drowning on this day.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—THREE LIVES LOST.
—lt is with much regret we state that of two market-boats
which left Falmouth on Saturday afternoon last, on their re-
turn tr Porthalla, St. Reverse, one of them unfortunately
went down in a squall, and the three men in it were
drowned. The accident happened in Falmouth Bay, no great
distance from Bendennis. The deceased were named Sampson
Hill, and William and John Tripeony, brothers. Hill was
about to be married. John Tripcony was unmarried, but his
brother has left a widow and two children to bewail his loss.
When the boat missed its companion, it was immediately put
about, but nothing of the lost boat could be seen but a loose
-. tee. ;” +he beet which weathered
the squall, who became so alarmed that they were landed at
Crab Quay, on Pendinnis, and they walked home. This me-
iencholy accident has ,aat eloomm e..rgav +ha neighbourhood
in which the deceased resided, where they were greatly re-
spected. Efforts have been made to raise the boat and find
the bodies, but hitherto without success.—Falmouth Packet
RAILWAYS AND COASTEKS.—The South Western
Railway was for the first time made use of yesterday for the
conveyance of an entire ship's cargo from Southampton to
London. It consisted of the first portion of a freight of 1,100
boxes of oranges, brought by the Eleanor, from Fayal, and
consigned to Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, in Monument-yard,
By this means not only has the fruit been obtained in a state
more suitable to the market, but a great saving in the outlay
of conveyance has been effected; and having discharged her
cargo, the Eleanor will return for a fresh freight on Friday,
instead of being detained for a fortnight or three weeks, as
would have been the case had she come round to the port of
London. It has been estimated that the expenses of nearly
601. are incurred on the voyage to and from Southampton
and London for a vessel of 100 tons burthen, which may be
avoided by discharging her cargo at the former port. By
the contract the cases will be delivered at one charge from
Southampton and the terminus at Vauxhall to Monument-
yard, and altogether the saving by this mode of conveyance
will average less by thirty shillings
.per ton than:the general
charge of London freight. The majority of vessels bringing
fruit to the London market arrive at seasons the most de-
structive to shipping, and the records of Lloyd's show no
less than 1,375 casualties to have occurred in the navigation
between the Isle of Wight and the river Thames in the
seven years from 1837 to 1843, of which 499 lost anchors and
cables, 560 got aground but were recovered, 260 were en-
tirely wrecked, the crews and passengers being saved, whilst
56 vessels were totally lost with all or several of the crews
and passengers.

BURGLARIES AT WlNDSOR.—Between Saturday
night and early on Sunday morning, three houses were
broken into in the town of Windsor, and various property
carried away by the burglars from each. There is very little
doubt, from the back premises of the house being contiguous,
divided only by brick walls, that the three robberies were
committed by the same parties, who were evidently well ac-
quainted with the localities. The house of Mr. Alderman
Tebbott, in Sheet-street, which was entered by forcing open
the shutters of the kitchen window, was plundered of a
variety of articles, consisting of silver table, salt, and tea-
spoons, silver tops from off dinner castors, gold
darindotleveenr
the house,
moneys, &c. There is no doubt if the thieves had
a vast quan-
tity up and opened the window to call the Po
disturbedandboythlielrrsp.ro'eebrbtyo t.; t,a
nwdh
also
1,
hearing in
was icne'the drawing-
room
house of iosfe
of valuable articles of plate which
The house of Mrs g-
room would have been carried oft: •Seeker,
residing in Park•street, was plundered of a
a widow lady,
tsotrheeat,veadb adjoining icnogm
committed
trefde bbbyo t‘tv. sin
sTheor
thieves.r bberi es are
Miss Haines,
supposewatchd
t
THE RECENT FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE AT PAD-
DINGTON. —Last evening, at a late hour. Mr. Wakley,
held an inquest at the Lord Hill, North-wharf-road near
the terminus of the Great Western Railway, '
on the bodies of
John Wain, bricklayer's carter,
er, aged 24 years, and Mary
Ann, his wife, aged 21, who unhappily perished in the recent
calamitous fire in Cambridge-place, Junction-read, Pad-
dington. It appears that deceased was carter to Messrs.
Chas. Bell and Co., brickmakers, South-wbarf, Paddington.
The jury having been duly sworn, proceeded to view the
bodies, which lay at the bone-house adjoining Paddington
Church, situated on the green in the Darrow-road. They
presented a sad spectacle, the extremities being consumed,
and the whole of the tissue of their frame being materially
injured by the action of the tire. Upon the return of
the jury, the first witness called was Mrs. Eliza-
beth Pryer, laundrywoman, 23, Cambridge-place, Grand
Junction-road, who deposed that she went to bed shortly
after eleven o'clock, on the night of Friday last, and that
at that hour she left a few lucifers upon the top of the
stove, and a quantity of clothes in the room. Soon after one
o'clock she was alarmed by cries of " Fire," and instantly she
got out of bed and called as loud as she was able to the other
persons on the premises. She thought this had the effect of
arousing them, and, upon inquiry, it was considered all were
out of the building, which, in a short time was on fire from
the bottom to the top. She screamed out, and this brought
several neighbours to her aid, and through them the furniture
and effects in the lower part of the premises were removed to
places of safety. It was some time after the fire was at its
height that witness ascertained any of her lodgers were
burned to death. Three of tha firemen belonging to the
London Fire engine Establishment having deposed to the
finding of the bodies, which appeared to have fallen from one
of the upper floors, the jury unanimously declared their
opinion that no further evidence was necessary, and, conse-
quently, a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned.

CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.A circumstance, very
suspicious-looking at first, but which afterwards turned out
a most curious affair, happened in a very respectable inn fq,
Perth on Saturday night. The landlord, on entering one
back,
the rooms, heard a noise proceeding from the chimney,gasn ;f,
on examining to discover the cause, staggered
thunderstruck, at observing the legs of a inandal2selci
on
vgeoriNn-egr
the grate, in which, however, there was no re.
and,R
seizing the
from his astonishment, he rushed forward,
legs, desperately pulled at them until bresoln ragoteig,loitnly down
wasthe he
corpue of a very respectable-looking pc
accountco ver covered
of with
himself,soo
wa
t. The
the police, as sus •
petted of having intended to rob,
that
oTfh et
hsurprisel
landlord, when
the Court
one m
ofay
hheani odterdude overr nott
givingo
a very good
and was on Monday
bberoiumgahgtinteod, thea s barwi
i foras trial.
his female servants appeared, and intimated that the prisoner
was her lawfully-married husband—they having been mar-
ried only a short time previous—who had come to pay her a
visit from Dundee, where he was at present located. The
husband was immediately dismissed, and left the Court arm
and arm with his sprightly better half.—Editiburgli Advertiser.
The Marquis of Westminster, and the leading
nobility and gentry connected with the county of Chester,
have unanimously come forward to provide an institution for
the refuge of juvenile offenders, with a view to their reforma-
tion. This praiseworthy object is to be obtained by the con-
tributions of the aristocracy, and most of them are annual
subscribers, so that the prospective establishment may be
maintained in its efficiency.

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