The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-14 00:00:00

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THE FREE-TRADE PREMIERS.--It is a remarkable
fact that two vessels, christened respeatively with the
names of 'the late and present Premier, have been placed.
on the station between London and Holland for the pure
pose of bringing supplies of cattle, provisions of various
kinds; and fruits from that most. productive country, out
of compliment, it'may be inferred; to those personages.
One, the Lord John RusSell, on her passage from Leer
to London a day or two since, brought 88 casks of
butter, 198 hams, 99
.oxen and coves,.apd. 40, sheep ; and
the other, the'Sir.Robert Peal (her first voyage, we. be-
lieve, under that' appellation), the large number of
12,862 cheeses, 27 casks of butter, 683 bags of lard, 49
cows, six oxen, and 244 sheep, with various other arti-
cles, the production of Holland. .
CRUELTY TO AN INSANE PAUPER.-4.11 adjourned
Coroner's 'inquest was held on Monda\ at Havenhill,
Suffolk, before Mr. Wayman, on the body of John Webb,
an old imbecile inmate 'of the Risborough.Union Work-
house who had died in the infirmary, and it was alleged
that his: death had been accelerated by cruelties practised
on him by Abraham Slatsr,vvho attended him in the in-
irmary. The inquiry excited a great sensation, bat the
result proved, that though the deceased had been treated
with great cruelly, he had died from natural causes. It
appeared that Slater is an old pauper aged seventy4ix,
and that he was employed in the infirmary as nurse. with-
out receiving any remuneration or gratuity for attending
the patients' when, living, but that he had a shilling for
" doing" every dead man. The Coroner summed up at
great length. The jury expressed a wish to retire, and
having been absent about half an hour, they returned
into Court, when the foreman declared the following to
be their verdict:—" The verdict of the jury is Natural
death,' but they cannot consider they have discharged
their duty without wishing to record their horror: and
detestation of the cruel and inhuman treatment which it
has been proved the deceased received from the nurse
Slater ; that gross negligence has been exhibited by the
late Master in allowing such treatment to pass unnoticed
and unreported to the board."
ACCIDENTS ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Since the serious collision on the Cambridge line of
the Eastern Counties Railway, noticed in this journal of
Monday, two accidents of a more serious character,
happening to a passenger and a truck train, occurred on
Monday and yesterday, near the Broxbourne Junction
of the Cambridge with the Hertford line. On Monday
'the quarter-past two up train, which should arrive in
Lpronnpdeorntianvt.t,hbg
iretiyn--five minutes past three, started at its
driven by engine No. 68getting On
near the Broxbourne Junction, which has a sharp cut ve
into the mans line, the driver of the engine felt that the
engine had gone off thel line, .and immediately, with. the
break, in which was the engine,
down the embankmtheentfeaii
stoker, jumped off. tender, and a carriage-
iguitoar,ad,
pttiortinde,d.t.hoeverg,uaarndd relied
snapped when. the
slightly injured in
.lortunately, the coupling-
irons
shake,
gainnde
thew en te
carriages
line,con containing
nitnhge
sudthedennesspassengers of the'
providentiallyanntiveere left standing on the
ter engine was sent down
line. After some delay
from Stratford station, by
geers were forwarded
means of the electric commu-
nication to that place, and the a
Aiancbcident to London. With regard to fliessoctili
precebded the
yester-
day, it appears that a ballast-engine,
quarter-past two train from Hertford, on arriving
Wire and .St. Margaret's, ran into four trucks,e NV 'Zicehrt-
were standing on the line, and which had been.used for
carrying materials for double rails, about to be laid; dow
between Hertford and .Broxbourne. The
Thetrucks mere
n
dheowst re(vi)e' d, andere
the
forwardedline b
bc
yc
meansed up
of flies to Brox-
.
bourne, and by a Cambridge train, which arrived oppor-
tunely, to •their Oestinations. On Monday Colonel
Pasley proceeded to Bishop Stortford, and; entered into
an. investigation of the came of the collision near that
place on ,Saturday morning, which was satisfactorily
proved to be entirely accidental.
FIRE THIS MORNING.—Shortly after four o'clock
this morning, the • neighbourhood of Drury-lane was
thrown into a state of consternation through an alarm-
ing fire, Which broke out on the premises of Mr. Pigott,
known as the Red 'Lion public-house, in Great 44 ild-
street; but by the speedy arrival of the engines, together
with a plentiful supply of water,
the flames were princi-
pally confined to the premises in which the fire occurred.
The flames at one time reached an alarming height, and
threatened destruction to the surrounding crowded neigh-
bourhood.
DEATH OF VISCOUNT ALLEN.—WC have to an-
nounce the densise of the above Nobleman, who expired
on the 21st ult., at Gibraltar, in the sixty-fourth year of
his age. The deceased was the sixth Viscount, and
having died without issue, we believe 'die title is extinct;
His Lordship's only surviving sister is married to the
Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, Dean of Manchester, and
Rector of p1:44411 in Yorkshire.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIt; JOURNALS.

FROM THE N.I)P,NT-G PAPEES OF THIS DAY.
TIMES.—How did it commence? Not on the 29th
of August, but on the 29th of June—not with the courier
who sped from Madrid to Neuilly, but with the mes-
senger who started from Osborne House to Wilton-
crescent. The system of Europe is shaken, Spain in-
sulted, and France and England estranged, not because
of M. BressOn's midnight coup de mOin, but because of
Lord Palmerston's accession to office. So says the Presse.
Our clever French contemporary has promulgated a new
and striking theory, deriving the present course of
events, not- precisely from the original antagonism
of mind and matter after M. Michelet's famous doctrine,
but from the hereditary policies of the two great Eng-
lish parties as developed under William and Anne, and
perpetuated to this very day. That of the Tories was
to relinquish the Spanish throne to a Bourboa cadet,
providing only against the union of the two crowns—
that of the Whigs was to exclude the,House of France
altogether from the Peninsula. The former poliey
triumphed at Utrecht, and has since remained the inter-
national law:of Europe ; the latter, though momentarily
expressed at the Hague in 1709, was finally demolished
and proscribed in 1713, and is now anachronistically re-,
produced by Lord 'Palmerston, who forgets that this
policy, which he is thus shown to have inherited from •
GodolPhin by a faithful and unbroken tradition, is not
only Obsolete, but actually condemned by that very treaty
which he is now unwittingly quoting to support it. Who
now will say that our party principles have changed, and
that the names of Whia; and Tory are antiquated and
useless Y Our contemporary knows better-
- " Et reditum Diemedis ab interitn Melcagri,
Et gemino helium Trojanuta erditur ab ovo."
It is bold to argue against the historical lore and political
experienee which looms in reserve behind the columns
of our gallant adversary; nevertheless, we presume to
state our conviction that. this is an inaccurate chapter of
the "'fours d'Histoire Moderne." If the scene lay in •
1760 instead of 1713, we might have a little'morc hesi•
tatibn in giving such a venturous contradiction, for a
good French historian used to assert that lie alone was
in' possesSiOn of documents to show how the Treaty of
Paris was extorted from Great Britain. We believe,
however, that with regard to the Treaty of Utrecht and
its times, the " DepOt des Affaires Etrangares" does not
contain much intelligence that is not known in England;
and it is, therefore, without any great apprehension of
being refuted, that we assert the non-existence of any
two such leading policies, characteristic of their respec-
tive parties, as our contemporary has laid down. There
was during queen Anne's reign a Whig party and a
Tory party, it is true; and it is also true that the great
point of the war of the alliance furnished each with dis-
tinctive' 'sentiments. But it is altogether incorrect to
state that the admission or negation of the French claims
to the ;Spanish crown formed the characteristic fea-
ture of-the foreign policy of either. The Whigs from
first to last advocated the war, from a variety of concur-
rent motives irrespective of their views concerning
French aggrandizement; and the Tories, from opposite
motives of a corresponding nature, advocated peace.
The leading question with all English parties was the
successien; nor was their foreign policy very deeply
cared fur excepting with reference to this. William, in
forming the Grand Alliance, well knew that he was
taleing the only effectual measure to prevent the restora-
tion of the Stuarts—his 'object from personal and poli-
tical motives was the humiliation and depression of Louis
XIV. The Spanish question chiefly affected Austria;
and the barrier question the Dutch. As the war pro-
ceeded, and the-genius of -Marlborough placed the allies
in a position beyond any that they could either have
hoped or expected, their demands increased in a corre-
sponding proportion. We have before recorded our
conviction that the -principle on which the treaty
of Utrecht was at last concluded, viz., that the two
crowns should never be united,. was the real prin-
ciple of • the original alliance, in contradistinction to
that introduced by the cupidity of Austria as the
war. so. wonderfully prospered that the entire
Spanish•Monarohy should-be restored to the House of
Hapsburg ; and that Bolingbroke was fully warranted
in reverting to it, had he done so in an honest spirit.
But the truth is, that for the most part of the time the
Whigs Would. have 'prosecuted, and the Tories would
ha se concluded, the war on almost any terms whatever.
As long as France would make the least show of stand-
ing up to be _struck at, Marlborough and Godolphin
would have persevered in a course which secured them
honour, and glory among the people, aided that new
class of fuudholders who especially supported them, and
strengthened the Protestant States of Holland against
'the aggressive bigotry of France. And thusat the pre-'
liminary negotiations at the. Hague in 1709, .as well as
in their resumption at Gertruydenberg in -1710, they
willingly enforced the uttermost demands of Austria, and
exacted from Louis something even beyond the aban-
donment of Spain. To this much—to the withdrawal
of all assistance and countenance from his grandson
—he assented ; be demurred only to a condition
which seemed inserted in order to be insuperable,
viz., that he should actually use his own arms to expel
his protege. This extreme policy, however, suggested
by Austria, cannot, even by adoption, be correctly called
the policy of the Whigs. The Whigs, truly so called,
were at this time represented, -not by the, leaders of the
Ministry, Marlborough and Godolphin, who, by the aid
of the Duchess, managed the. Queen, but by Sunderland
and the Junta;- who bad been gradually struggling into
the Cabinet. And though these noblemen did undoubt-
edly share the abstract predilection pf their party, for
the war, yet the real .war faction—the .men who backed
Aastria in everything, and checked the peaceful aspi•
rations • of the Dutch, were . the Lord Treasurer and
:the Comniander-in. Chief. It was the resolution of

Marlborough and Godolphin, not the policy of the
English 11, higs, which found a " momentary
.ex-
pression!! in, 1709. and t.s lar as the political genius
of these:tsvo -Could be inferred from original desCent

and early company, they were rather moderate Tories
than true Whigs, excepting only that . they did most
infl-xibly adhere to the war polio) which gave them
power and,place. , But, if the pedigree, of the English
'Whigs has really preserved its continuity, through the
coup delat of Bute,. it is- certainly rather to be traced
from Sunderland and Somers than from these two some-
what inconsistent politicians. In fact, during the con-
temporary negotiations at the Hague for the Barrier
Treaty, the real Whig portion of the Cabinet were
willing that this compact should be concluded without
exacting from the Dutch a stipulation that they would
adhere to this entire exclusion of the Bourbons from
Spain as a sine qua non of future peace, though Marl-
bdrough repeatedly wrote home to insist uppn it, de-
claring that the Dutch, if left thus unfettered, would,
as soon as they had got their barrier, leave Louis to do
what he pleased at Madrid. So. far was this demand
from being peculiarly characteristic of the Whig policy
during the.reign of Queen Anne.
CHRONICLE.—To pull down, in order to build up
again from the foundation, is not the. English method of
effecting social improvements.. We alter, enlarge, adapt;
but we rarely think of overthrowing what has long ex.
isted for the sake of novelty, no matter bow complete
and symmetrical. Paley's image of the old irregular
mansion of different dates and styles is the type of our
practical reforms; and. if we miss in this way many of
the advantages of a broader and more comprehensive
methddawe at least avoid the great danger of creating
discord between the institutions and the habits of the
nation. There.cannot be a doubt that this principle of
adapting the improvements, which the wants of society
require to the ideas. and, feelings which existing modes
of action show to be prevalent,' must be observed by
English statesmen in educational as in other reforms.
No one, for example, will, be so absurd as to pro-
pO;ie the sweeping away all existing popUlar schools, in
order to substitute others of a hew and uniform pat-
tern.. Such a revolution may be imagined, and even
its details planned, by a solitary speculator here
and there, or the notion may inflame the dialectic
ardour of controversialists like Mr. Baines,' of
Leeds,. who love the excitement of slaying their
aesea giants ; but statesmen, and especially statesmen
Possessing the practical sagacity of Lord John Russell,
will not involve themselves in the interminable ember•
rassments of attempting to legislate for education with-
out reference to what private zeal and public aid have
already accomplished. There are numerous and ins-
portant districts in England unprovided even with the
,school-buildings. in which those of age to receive instruc-
tion could be aCcommodated. The number of localities
is still greater in which, though schools nominally exist,
the education or instruction given in them is worth no-
thing ; and the general character of popular schools in
England, if they are tried by any reasonable standard of
what they ,ought to effect, Is great and grievous ineffi-
ciency ; but still sit is evident that with respect to the
bulk of these schools, the aim of the reformer must be
not to destroy but to improve. National schools, British
sehooli, Wesleyan schools, Congregational schools,
Scotch schools, -Irish schools, have all been so long
in Operation as to have - become established,
and their active and attached supporters include
nearly all the zealous friends of education of all
creeds and parties in the empire. Important me-
difications tending to greater union may be obtained in
these schools, 'and wherever the opening exists, new
schools upon a superior model maybe established ; but
in the main we must expect that schools now existing
will continue, and the great and immediate object of the
Legislature should be to promote their improvement by
making pro Vision fur, en adequate supply of efficient
teachers. Effective means for the training of teachers,
and such a provision for their support as will induce a
suffieient number cf qualified persons to embrace the
profesSiOn, constitute, as it appears to us, the great prac-
tical reform whiCh is at present required. Inspection,
to prevent abuse and stimulate improvement, is of
course essential, but does not involve any serious
difficulty. If, however, we are to regard , the educa-
tional agencies now. at work as so far established
that Parliament will rather think of prescribing new
conditions to them, andsupplying their deficiencies, than
of setting them wholly aside, a movement like that of
the National Society to provide education in Wales, to
which we alluded a week ago, becomes of great import-
ance; and those who ei,h. to see education an. instru-
ment of good to the whole people, and a means of bind-
ing and. cementing the different classes together, are
bound to examine closely the character of such a move-
meat before they lend it their assistance. It is of course
the wish of the Welsh Education Committee to obtain
as large and general a support as possible. In order to
succeed amidst the divided population of Wales, they
exclusion,• a system
ho of
ye vaeirey
env needless.
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lelmy
an
wt
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offfe ntchee andaid
require
the uire all the aid which they can obtain by divesting
ovt‘tieelohtt.raiunepdonatuhdia weolilo-ptaiwdo tenaecohdernsotwdilwl
eblie.
They have not, however, put
to be derived' from holding out the expectation that a
sthuepilr)l'lfirstf
exemption
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orhegiladrrdened
from
forwardp
is a similarly distinct
assurance that the rights of Dissenting minorities in
religiousin plied
6t
thWe seh
observances to which their parents mim
may conscientiousl
object: Upon this paint no doubt shOuld'be suffered toy
exist. The course which is intended to be taken should
be plainly stated. If it be not intended, as we trust it is
not, that new Welsh wheels should be simply insult.

ments for propagating the doctrines of the Church of
England amongst the Dissenters of the Principality, nor
that children, of that cla.zs who require the means of
education should be excluded, there should be no diffi-
culty or hesitation iii laying 'down a rule by which these
results may be,. as far as possible, avoided. It is well
ItnoWn that in districts where Dissent is noWerful, varia-
tions from the regular system of the National Schools
with'respect to religious instruction and observances are
permitted ; and if upon the broad ground of affording
education to a portion of the country where it is greatly
wanted the public is now called upon for lib€ral sub-
scriptions, certainly the originators of the movement
ought to show that they are prepared to act upon a plan
at least as comprehensive as any'that they have recog-
nised or even connived at elsewhere. _

ADVERTISER.—We little thought when, ten or
twelve days ago, we began to urge on Lord John Russell
the immediate opening of the ports to the admission of
untaxed foreign corn, that our views would be so soon
brought under the consideration' of his Lordship bithe
fesolutions adopted "at great public meetings. Yet it is
even so. Already has Dundee, one of the greatest com-
mercial towns in Scotland, memorialised the Russell
Administration in favour of the free admission of
foreign corn into our ports; and the example thus set by
the shrewd and far-seeing people of Dundee has
promptly been followed by the great metropolis of
manu.actures. Last night a great demonstration was to
be made by the most influential men of Manchester in
favour of the immediate and entire extinction of the
duties on corn. The commercial opinion of Lancashire
has raised its voice against any further attempt, in the
present state of Irelaridi to enforce the imposts en the ad-
mission of foreign coin into our ports. Similar meetings
are about to be held in the other pOpulOus towns of Eng-
land and Scotland. Right glad are we thus to field that we
do not stand alone in our views on this point. There can no
longer be any doubt, of the success of the movement
"now making to unlock the ports of Great Britain to the
admission o untaxed foreign corn. Between the cries
for bread of the starving peasantry of Ireland, and the
repreSentations and entreaties of she most influential
men in our large and most populous towns, it is iinpos-
sible that Lord Russell can'much longer persist in
shutting our ports against the duty-free admission of
corn from abroad. He is greatly to blame for having so
long refused to adopt a course which was pointed out to •
him and pressed on his adoption both by humanity and
sound policy. Bad he caused an order in Council,
thro*ing open the ports, to be published four or five
weeks ago, we should not have heard of those alarming
acts of violence, terminating in bloodshed and the loss of
life, which hare lately created so much dismay. We .
are unwilling to believe that, having hitherto re-
fused to open the ports, Lord John Russell can be
fully alive to the extent of the evils under which Ire-
land is now groaning. Can the Noble Premier be aware
that many have already died, literally died, in Ireland,
solely from want of food ? Does he know that myriads
of the poor peasantry are Wasted to mere skeletons, and
crawl about the streets and high roads under circum-
stances which cause them to bear a closer resemblance to
death than to life ? Or, if hitherto ignorant of the state
of matters in Ireland, will he receive instructions now ?
What says the Archbishop of Tuam ? That Right Rev.
Prelate opens a letter, which he has just addressed to
Lord John on this very subject in these words :
" Short and rapid as is now the medium of communica-
tion, yet ere this brief letter shall meet your Lordship's
eye, hundreds, I fear. of the suffering people of this dis-
trict will have fallen victims to the horrors of famine..
This will assuredly be their melancholy fate, if not pro-
vided with employment and with food." In another part
of the Archbishop's brief letter he gives a painfully vivid
description of the condition of the peasantry." The ques- •
tion—the pressing, the imperative question,' says he, "is
about saving thel ives of famishing thousands. All the other
speculations are unreasonable, nay, cruel, as long as the
people are eagerly stretching out their hands, and in the
name of humanity and of religion, crying out to be
snatched from instant death. The existing famine baffles
description, and menaces the uprooting ofall social order."
Can representations like these, coming from such a
quarter, be lost on the Premier? Will he, in the face
of this frightful state of things, persist in his unwise and
inhuman policy of keeping the ports shut against all fo-
reign corn on which, a certain amount of taxation is not
paid? Does the. Noble Lord know what he is about?
Has the awful truth never flashed on his mind, that, by
keeping up the imposts on the importation of foreign
corn, he is actually making a merchandise of the lives of
the Irish peasantry? Perish the Minister, and destruc-
tion to the Ministry, that have no ears to hear the
groans of a starving people—no bowels of coinpas-
sion for those who are dying before their eyes.
If public belief be well-grounded, Lord 'Jan
Russell urges as the reason why he' does not at once
order the ports to be thrown open, that the- corn-law
question was understood to be finally settled last session.
Finally settled ! Who said so ? Not the author of the
measure. When Sir Robert Peel introduced hiS Corn- •
law Repeal Bill, proposing that the imposts on huinan
food should cease in three years, and that a certain
Modified sliding-scale should continue in operation in
the interval, he based the measure on the assumption
that the three intervening harvests would be average
harvests. The ex-Premier had no idea at the time,
neither had any one else, that we should, within three
months after the passing of his measure, have a deficient
corn•harvest, and that • the calamity of an almost total
destruction of the potatoe crop should bee Ireland.
Had Sir Robert foreseen this, he would have made his
measure one of total and immedate repeal—in which
case the •piercing cries of the Irish peasantry would
not have been wafted across the Channel, nor would
we have had to witness the appalling spectacle of hu-
man beings dying in scores for want of the means of
subsistence.

-COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, TITESDAY.'—The Queen and Prince Albert
took their accustomed early morning walk.
The Royal Family'. took their usual exercise this
morning on ponies-- on the terrace and grounds of the
Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hesse visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent this morning at
Frogmore House.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Majesty' the Queen Dowager, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal
Highness the Princess of Hesse, his Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Lady in Waiting
on the Queen Dowager, the Ladyin, Waiting on the
Ducheis of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Princess
of Hesse (La Baroness de Scheel), the Baroness de
Speth; their Excellencies- Mons. and Madame Van de
Weyer, Earl Howe, Viscount and Viscountess Palmer-
ston, Lord and Lady Cowley, the Gentleman in Wait-
ing on the Princess of Hesse (Le Baron Meysenbuch).
The band of the First Regiment of Life Guards attend
during dinner Her Majesty's private band afterwards
attend in the Castle the remainder of the evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess. of
Cambridge' and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Meeklenburg-Strelitz, and his Serene High-
ness Prince Frederick of Hesse, honoured Mrs. de.
Rothschild with their company at dinner on Monday.
Mr. Thomas Wyse had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday.
Dispatches. were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Malta.

The approach of the accounts at the Stock Exchange
causes some dulness in business. Already the dealers
in the English market are preparing for their six weeks'
settlement, and will be occupied with the payment of
" differences" the next day or so. The foreign stock
and share settlements follow on the 16th inst. ; so that
the three arrangements will give the parties interested a
good deal to, do in the course of the week. No appre-
hension of a scarcity of money during the progress of
these events is anticipated by the jobbers, who have now
for, the last month. or two found abundance of accommo-
dation,, at rates more than usually convenient to their
necessities. ,
HARTLEPOOL BRANCH OF THE GREAT NORTH OF
ENGLAND.—On Monday last General Pasley, the 'Go-
vernment Inspector of Railways, accompanied by James
Allport, Esq., and other gentlemen connected with the
York and Newcastle and Hartlepool Railways, proceeded
to examine the new branch of railway that has recently
been constructed, extending from Thinford lane, which
is about a mile and a quarter north of the Ferryhill sta
tion, on to, the Hartlepool Railway, which has recently
been purchased by the York and Newcastle Railway
Company, and will henceforth be called a branch of the
last-mentioned railway. The branch will be opened for
general traffic in a few days.
THE AFFRAY ON THE NEWCASTLE AND BER•
WICK Ranway.—The coroner's inquest on the bodyof
. Daniel Hives, who was stabbed rear Benton Park, on
the line of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, under
circumstances already published in 7he Suit, was held
'on Monday last, at Long Benton, before Mr. Reed,
coroner, when several witnesses were examined, but,
their evidence disclosed no .additional facts. Captain
Potts was the only person present besides the two psis
soners, when the deceased ens stabbed, and his identifi-
cation was perfectly clear and satisfactory. There was
no evidence of a previous quarrel between the deceased
and the prisoners, but there had been frequent disputes
between the English and Irish labourers employed on
the line, and there seems little doubt this transaction
was the result of them. The jury returned a verdict
against George Matthews and John Hughes, the former
as principal, and the latter as aiding and assisting.
paid in pursuance of
oiise of Parliament, by
RAILWAYS, &C., DEPOSITS.—The Act of Parlia-
ment to amend the 1 and 2 Victoria, cap. 117, providing
tt aei
either
her moneysll
subscribers to works or undertakings to be effi cted under
theor tsltiea.nednisntgo doyr
doefr cseor
the authority of Parliament, took effect on the 18th of ,
June last, when it received the royal assent. In repeal-
ing the Act mentioned, it is specially provided that, all
sums paid under its provisions should be dealt within
all respects as if the present Act had not been passed.
By the second clause authority is given to deposit, and'
by the next the manner of payment is stated ; and by
the fourth deposits are to be invested. At the termina-
tion of the session of Parliament application, by petition,
to the Court in the name of whose accountant-general
the money was deposited, is to be pr.ssented, and the
money paid out on the certificate of the Chairman or
speaker of either House that the petition or Bill was
not allowed, or that the Act was passed.
A DtsGustoG TRICK.--Yesterday we were in-
formed by the superintendent of the Eastern Union line.
that some fellow had amused himself by writing with a
diamond obscene language upon the windows of several
first class carriages travelling between Ipswich and Lou•
don. It has been found necessary to remove several of
the panes of glass, which are very expensive. The
company have offered a reward of 20/. to any person
whO will giveinformation of the party or parties impli-
cated. We earnestly. trust that we rosy have the,opper-2
tunity of publishing the name of the unmanly scoundrel
that could be guilty of so disgraceful au act.—lpswich
Express.

C."!e7
rt 71,41 n) I 41D tt-
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CAMERON'S COALBROOK STEAM
COAL MINE; AND SWANSEA AND LOUGHOR
RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)

The first general meeting of the shareholders in this
railway was held at twelve o'clock to-day, at the offices
of the Company, 2, Moorgate-street, for the purposes:
expressed .in the several Acts of Parliament incerpo-
rating the company. Very few shareholders were pre.
sent, but upwards of 13,000 only of the 20,000 shares of
the company were represented. Jacob Montefiore,
Esq , occupied the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, after explaining the object' of the
meeting, called upon the secretary (Mr. Howl en), to read
the report, which stated r---
" That the directors had the satisfaction to annonnce
that the Act of Parliament incorporating this company,
and authorising the construction of the railway, passed in
the last session. The increasing supply of coal which
the manager is new enabled to give, and the extension
of the company'S works,- calls upon the directors to give-
their best attention to the expediency of immediately
constructing the railway, being only 405 miles in length,
and being for the present to be limited to one line
of rail, they have every reason to believe it can
be constructed at a cost considerably under the
estimate. The director's . have to. assure the
shareholders that their operations in this respect will
Iba conducted upon the strictest principles of economy in
the expenditure, anti at the' baMe time with due regard
to the interests of the shareholders. In order that the
future yer,rly and half-yearly --meetings of the share-
holders, as prescribed by the Act of Parliament, may be
in unison with the deed of settlement of the company,
the directors suggest that- their meetings shall be held in
January and July, yearly, and that the directors of the
Coal Company and of the Railway Company shall he
the same, and elected in conformity with the provisions.
of the deed of settlement."

The report having been received,
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders on the
'success which had crowned their efforts to obtain the
sanction of -Parliament to the'construetion of the rail-
way. They had had to encounter the most formidable
opposition at• every step, but,' owing to the great exer-
tions of their Parliamentary agents, their solicitor, and
the directors themselves, the Bill was passed.
Mr. ELDERTON, the solicitor, detailed 'the difficulties
against which they had to contend in seeking the sanc-
tion of Parliament to their Bill. But through the great
exertions of Colonel Cameron, who exerted his influ-
ence with the Members of the Legislature to the utmost,
they had succeeded—in fact, without his aid it would
not have been passed. He then explained some incon-
gruities in their several Acts of Parliament, and recom-
mended, to obviate inconvenience, that the directors of
the Railway and Mine ishould continue in office until
next July.
The directors and auditors were-then elected, and the
seallof the company was affiXed to the registry of
proprietors. •
The CHAIRMAN said the works were now in full
operation, but in a few 'weeks they would be, materially
extended, and the:quantity of coal therefore materially
increased; but as the meeting had. more to do with the
railway than the mine they had not thought it adrisable
to request the attendance of the manager of the works in
town ; but, in -a letter (which was read) he stated that
the quantity raised was 2,000 tons a week, but when the
works were completed that there would scarcely be any
limit to the quantity to be worked,- or which could be
sold'at Swansea. •

VV
Mr. SMALLBONE congratulated the shareholders on
the value of the mine, and on the certainty of its becom-
ing a lucrative source of investment. He represented
the sentiments of a great number of shareholders, many
of whdm, after visiting the mine, had invested a greater
amount of capital in it. It. could rot be considered a
speculation in which persons might take shares one day
and sell them at a small premium the next, but an
eligible source of investment, which would ultimately
realise a fortune to those who had embarked their
capital in it.
The SECRETARY said the Admiralty had expressed a
wish to test a sample of the company's coal. It was
supplied, and on Monday last it was tested by several
chemical gentlemen, and in the presence of several of
the directors, at Woolwich. The result was that it
came up to the " mark;" and that it was a most superior
coal for steam and other purposes. He expected to
hear the opinion of the Admiralty in the course of a.
day or two.
Mr. SMALLBONE apprehended when the works were
in efficient order that there would be no difficulty in
raising 10,000 tons of coal per week.
• A vote of thanks having been voted to the chairman,
the meeting separated.

BLACKHEATII CATTLE AND riG FAIR. —On
Monday, being Old Michaelmas Day, according to
Ir
usual custom the autumnal cattle and pig fair was held
on Blackheath, at the rear of the grounds adjoining the
Green Man Hotel. We never recollect seeing so many
fine pigs penned as on the present occasion. In the
horse portion of the fair there were several fine young
draught animals and a few good nags, but horseflesh ap •.
peared to be a complete drug, few being sold, but those
few at a good figure, the, former, fetching from 30/. to
35/., and the latter about 311.
Timms CLAitx'sort.—The memoirs of this remark-
able man published by our contemporaries, omit to men-
tin.' that he was a clergyman of the'Established Church.
Such neverthelt.Ss is the fact.. He was made deacon in
early life, but his exertions in the cause of emancipation
brought him into connexicn with many estimable
Quakers, whose views he imbibed to a very considerable
extent. The consequence was, that he dropped the title
of reverend, and ceased to officiate as a clergyman.--
'Cambridge Advertiser.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current *if October 13.)

SUOAR,—Today there was a large business transacted in
West India-Muscovado Sugar for the scale and pan, but
merchants sfe're compelled to accept former rates by private
contract, even for the • better kinds of yellow, as the supply is
on the increase of all qualities ; at auction 125 hhds Barba-
does sold at the full value.
REFINED.—To-darßefined goods were sold to a fair ex-
tent for home consumption, brown lumps according to qua-
lity at 61s fo 635, and standard lumps at 63s 6d to 64s per
cwt, but at these rates the refiners are desirous to sell.
Crushed sugar for exportation is little wanted, and 33s is the
value of first quality.
MAURITIUS.—For bright grocery descriptions a good de•
mand has been experienced, and the parcels disposed of pri-
vately were at previous rates, but inferior.grev and brown
kinds have been sparingly 'dealt in, although there are
sellers upon previous reduced terms, and of these the supply
yet chiefly consists. This afternoon at public sale 563 bags
Mauritius were sold at the full worth.
FOREIGN.—This afternoon at public sale 7 chests of white
Bahia, duty paid, sold at 49s for middling, and 5 chests of
brown at 40s 6d for low quality.
EAST IsinrA.—This afternoon the public sales of Bengal
Sugar consisted of 2,900 bags white Bewares; the whole
sold at the former value, but not above. Of Madras 6,585
bags were offered—brown and yellow sorts sold at rather
lower rates. but strong yellow kinds fetched the full worth.
CoFFEE.—This afternoon, of Native Ceylon, 1,208 bags
were offered at public sale ; there was more desire manifested
to operate, and the whole sold at rather better prices—good
ordinary yellowish bringing 33s to 38s 6d, very good ordinary.
395, sea damaged first class 37s to 37s 6d, second.class 35s to
35s 6d, and third class 33s 6d to 345. 798 bags of Planta-
tion sold at stiffer rates, fine middling eoloury long bean
mountain fetching 87s 6d to 89s 6d, fine ordinary greyish
Demerara sort 51s Gd to 525, fine fine ordinary ditto 54s to
54s Gd, ordinary 46s Gd, pea berry 85s, inferior 65s 6d, da-
maged in the country 80s, sea damaged 47s 6d to 555, triage
sound 32s to 36s 6d, and sea damaged 265. 25 bags of Afri-
can sold at 31s for ragged brownish, and one lot 37s 6d
per cwt. •
MOLASSES.—For West India there has been an extensive
deinand, and the market has been nearly cleared of all sorts
at rather higher rates. The quantity sold has been 1,200
puns at 21s to 26s for low to fine quality. Bengal Treacle
is wanted, but little is to be had; the value of Bally Khal
is 22s to 22s 6d.
TEA.—For black previous rates are asked, but the trade
operate With caution, especially in the better qualities, and
many parcels are offering for sale. The value of common
Congou cash is 8d to 81/2d. good common 9d to 91,4 d, and
Pouchong low to fine 4d to9d per lb ; even at these rates, and
which are under the cost of importation, the trade only
taking suflicient for their immediate wants; several parties
are surprised at this, as the consumption is going on as large
as' ever. Green has met with mare attention, and large
parcels chiefly of the late arrivals have been sold in con-
sequence of merchants submitting to further reduced rates,
and coming to the determination to sustain a losi by the
itil-
portation, especially on the lower scuts under ls per lb. The
quantity of, Tea upon which duty was paid at this port
during the past week amounted to 508,7191b5. None at Fre-
sent is declared for auctior, but large parcels are expected.
The Monarch has ar...w:d -:som China with 357,8191bs Con-
gou, 76,1491bS Souchong, 20,2111bs Orange Pekoe, 400 Hyson
Skin,' 7,389 Hyson, 5,148 Young Dyson, 116,104 Twankay,
28,376 Imperial, and 67,423 Gunpowder, making the total
quantity 679,01911 r.
Sriners.—There has been a brisk demand for Leeward
Island Rum, and prices have risen pa per gallon ; the
quantity sold since this day week has been 600 puns, and
the latest rates paid have been 2s 4d to 2s 5d proof strength.
Calcutta has been in excellent request, and pi ices are still
rising, several parcels having been sold at 2s to 2s Id probf.
To-day Rum was in excellent r7quest and prices ire • still
rising ; proof Leeward selling at 2s 6d, and Calcutta at 2s•to
2s 2a. A parcel of Jamaica of smokey quality brought 3s 3d
per gallon. The market has a brisk appearance for all kinds
of Rum.

COCOA.—West India has been purchased with more free-
dom, but no improvement in prices•has taken place. At
public sale 162 bags of Trinidad were sold, middling red at
39a 6d to 435, and low 365. 64 bags of. Grenada, fine red
465, middling 38s 6tl, and sea damaged 31s 6cl .to 36s per
cwt. For Foreign previous-Yates are ac-d, but few buyers;
are to be met With.
RI6E.-ToAtiy the market for East India Rice presented
a dull appearance, and the sound of 2,327 bags of -11engal at
public sale was taken in at further reduced rates, viz.: good
white 19s, middling 18s to 18s 6d, and common at 17e, but
the sea damaged sold at 16s to 17s 6d for first class, 15s 6d
for second class, 14s Gd to 155 for third and fourth class, and
other kinds of damaged at 15s per cwt.
INnicio.—To-day during the progress cf the sale 1,331
chests IT ere withdrawn. 929 chests have passed the hammer.
The biddings continue to kge as languid as they were last
week, and prices remain the same as quoted, ranging from the
last sale's rates to 3d advence for Bengals, and a shade above
the average of the July sale for Madras and Kurpah.
CocitlNE.Ar..—This afternoon all kinds of Cochineal were
in much better request, and 337 bags Honduras silvers at
auction were nearly all sold at 4s 8d to 5s 8d for low to fine,
which is Id to 2d per lb higher; three bags fetched 6s 6tl for
good quality.
FIWIT.--I"rices are firm for New Currants, but the demand
has not been so active; the value of Patras is 565; and Zantc
5-is per cwt; the quality is not so good as it was last year.
Of Old Currants scarcely any remain unsold. Valencia
Raisins have been much in 'demand, -and the market has
been again cleared at 458 to 4.6 s per cwt. Muscatels have
been in extensive demand at fr2n4 PS to 70s, 44 very hue
haa fetched 80s to 90s per cwt. ,

SALTrontE.—Rough has been more sought after, but
business of moment was prevented privately by stiffer rates
being asked, and 1,106 bags at public sale of Calcutta were
taken in at 25s 6d for common.grey small chrystal, 104 to
71A per cent. refraction, being fully 6d above the value. For
English Refined the demand has been active, and prices are
firm at 2Ps 6d to 30s. Nitrate of Soda is little wanted, and
can be obtained at 16s to 16s 6d per cwt.
FALLOW.—The home trade are still eager purchasers of
RUsiiati on the spot, and in consequence of arrivals keeping
small, the stock being much less than it was at this time
last year,. the deliveries being on the increase, and the quan-
.tity between here and St. I'etersburgh only 8,000 casks,
Y.
further advance in the value'has taken place, fine new P. Y.
Candle bringing 47s to 47s 6d per cwt. For forward delivery
the operations have been' upon a large scale, and at stiffer
rates. For hotne made prices may be considered as mode-
rate;" the supply is less than it was. All other kinds have
been much in request, and prices are still rising.
Otrs.—The market for Seal Oil has an improving appear-
ance; large purchases have been made, and further ad-
vanced rates are paid. None has been offered at auction.
Holders o: Cod accepting 261 10s, occasioned a good
business to be transacted privately, but the supply is on
the increase. Southern has been purchased with increased
freedom, and the parcels sold privately were at rather
higher rates. Sperm has been taken with more
freedom, and prices have improved 103 to 20s per tun •, se-
veral parcels 'were- disposed of privately. The arrivals of
Oils have not been of much consequence since last Tuesday,
but a further increase has taken place in the deliveries for
home consuinptin. CoCoa Nut is much wanted, and the
parcels sold by private contract were at stiff rates. Palm
has been largely dealt in privately. In Rapeseed Oil.a good
deal has been done. Olive has been in excellent 'request,
and prices are very firm. •