The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

MARC II 19, 1846.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY
COMPANY.

The usual half-yearlimeetiniof.the proprieto ra of this
Company was held on Wednesday afternoon at the offices of
the Company, at London-bridge
James 11‘Gregor, Esq., Chairman of the Directors, pre-
sided. • .
-The SECRETARY (G. S, Herbert, Esq.),_having, read the
advertisement convening the meeting, read the report of the
directors, from which we extract the following paragraphs :
" The accounts of the South-Eastern Railwav- Company
for the half-year ending on the 31st January, 1646, show that
the gross receipts upon the South -Eastern Railway and
Greenwich Branch have, during that period, amounted to
174,490/. 12s ; that the working expenses have been
54,058/ 55.; that the rent of the Greenwich Railway, the
rates, Government duty, and toll to the Croydon Company,
amount to 42 8241..105. 11d., making the g oss ,xpenditui-e
on the revenue :account 96,882/. 158. 11d. ; and the balance
carried to the profit and loss account. 77,607/. 16s. Id.
"On the Ist September the directors carried into effect a
great reduction of fares, and adopted the system of granting
day tickets, and the (lit cetera have much sati-th,tion in
stating that these measures have had the effect. which they •
anticipated; there has been a very great i .crease in the num.-
ber passen,!•etS, great benefits have beiur nferred tn the
districts serve-CI by the South-Eastern Railway, alai general
satisfaction is expressed.
" A comparison of the passenger traffic for the half-years
ending on .the 31st January, 1845; and the 31st January,
1146, shows that the number of passengers has increased from
392,768' in the formT,
.to 531,558 in the latter half-year,
and the amount of receipts from 10-4749/. 17s. 6d. to
104,906/. 10s. 4d.
"The amount at the disposal of the proprietors is
/8,048/. 7a. Id. The directors recommend that a dividend be
declared for the half-year of 17s. -6d. per share, upon the
paid up shares, and of the proportionate amounts of 6s. 71
on the No. I shires, and 3s. 9d. upon the No. 2 shares, less
the income-tax.
"This will amount to 66,0911. I3s. 4d., and will leave
reserved fund of 11 956/. 13s. 9d. to be carried forward to the
next half-vear'; account.
, •
"The directors have made arrangements to secure to the
South-Eastern Company the sole use of the Locomotive
Buildings at -New Cross for one year: at the expiration of
which the directors expect the Sduth-Eastern Company's own
Locomotive Establishment at Ashford will be ready for use,
and their intsrest in the New Cross property will then be
ceded to the Brighton and Croydon Companies. The station
at Ashford was chosen as the site of the South Eastern
Locomotive establishment, because it is the place at which
'several of the South-Eastern Lines of Railway centre; and
'the direztors are glad to report that they have purchased the
land requisite for these purposes on advantageous terms,
and in the situation where they wished to have it.
"Several of the new engines, built according to Mr.
Robert Stephenson's patent, have been received and are
giving satisfaction.
" The conversion of the Maidstone Branch Railway into a
double line of rails is nearly completed, and this branch will
open as a double line by the end of this month.
" The Tunbridge Wells Branch was opened for passenger
traffic to a temporary station at Jackwood's Spring on the
20th of September. The extension of this branch into the
town is proceeding rapidly; when completed, the directors
expect a considerable increase will take place in the traffic to
that place.

" 'the South-Eastern Ashford, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and
Margate Branch Railway was opened to the City of Canter-
bury on the 6th of February. One line of railway is already
laid from Canterbury to Ramsgate with the exception of
about a hundred yards, and the second line of railway is laid
excepting about three miles ; the completion of this branch
to Ramsgate by Easter may be safely reckoned on.
"The Ashford, Hastings and Stint Leonards branch is
staked out from Saint Leonards to Rye, and preparations are
making for letting the works.
4- The Directors let the works of the branch to Deal to
Messrs. Grissell and Peto. The iron bridge over the river
Stour is the only important work on this branch; it has been
in hand some time, and will not occasion any delay in the
opening. The other works are in progress.
" The directors found that the traffic on the Canterbury and
Whitstable Branch Railway could be worked much more
economically and efficiently with locomotive than with sta-
tionary engines, and they have made arrangements accord-
ingly. It has been necessary to relay this line with heavier
rails, and that work is just finished.
" The electric telegraph is now erected over the whole of
the South-Eastern Railway and branches.
" The directors had the satisfaction to arrange with the
gentlemen promoting the Central County Kent Railway to
give up that project and join the South-Eastern Company;.
and they had the pleasure to elect Alexander Randall, Esq.,
of Maidstone. and Robert Tassel], Esq., of East Melling, to
be directors of this company.
" The directors, whose term in office now expires, are the
Right Honourable Viscount Torrington, Benjamin Harding,
Esq., and Captain C. W. Tyndale, who offer themselves for
re• election.

The CHAIRMAN congratulated the Company on the state
of their affairs. The reduction in the fares, he was happy to
say, had been attended with the most beneficial results. He
reminded the shareholders that but one of their branches was
at present in full operation.- This was impertant for them to
consider The Maidstone line would be opened as a double
line almost immediately. He need scarcely say that he anti-
cipat• d a favourable decision on the South-Eastern schemes
by the House of Commons, as the directors . believed
that these scheme were ' the best to acc,munodate
the district. It was particularly desirable that
this meeting should be as brief as possible, as the officers of
the Company were required at IVestminster. He would,
therefore, at once move that the report be received and
adopted.

Mr. Hannrico seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously, no observation having been made by any pro-
prietor.

The dividend was then declared, and the retiring
[Erectors re-elected.
This terminated the business of tie general meeting.
SPECIAL MEETING.

The meeting was than made special, to consider the follow-
ing Bills which are now before Parliament, namely
" A Bill to ,enable the.South-Eastern Railway Company to
make a railway from the south-west side of the Waterloo-
road, near to the Ymk-road, in the parish of Lambeth, to the
London and Greenwich Railway.
" A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make a railway from the London and Greenwich Railway, to
Rin the South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate
ailway, in the parish of Chilham, in the 'county of Kent,
with a diverging line to DarttOrd, and with branches to
Sheerness and Faversham-creek.

" A Bill to enable the South Eastern Railway Company to
make a railway from the London and Greenwich Railway to
the South-Eagern Railway, in the parish of Great Chart, in
the county of Kent, with branches to Tonbridge and River-
head, in the parish of Sevenoaks.

•
" A Bill to authorise the South Eastern Railway Company
to make a railway from Tunbridge Wells, to join the Rye and
Ashford Extension of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings
Railway, near Hastings.
".A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make and maintain a railway from the South-Eastern Rail-
war, near Reigate, to Dorking, in the county of Surrey.
"A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make a railway from Maidstone, to join the Gravesend and
Rochester Railway and Canal near Stroud and Rochester,
and to alter the levels of part of the Maidstone branch of the
South-Eastern Railway.
" A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make a railway from the South-Eastern, Canterbury, Rams-
ate, and Margate Railway, near Canterbury, to Dover.
" A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make and maintain a railway from the South-Eastern, Can-
terbury, Ramsgate, aid Margate Railway, at Chislet, to
Margate.
" A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
make and maintain a railway front the line of the South-
Eastern Railway, mar Tandridge-lane, in the parish of Tan-
dridge, to East. Grinstead.
"A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Ralway Company to
make and maintain a railway from the town of Rye to the
mouth of Rye Harbour.
"A Bill to enable the South-Eastern Railway Company to
construct an additional station at Ashford, iu the county of
Kent, and for other purposes.
"And a Bill to authorise the purchase of the Grave end
and Rochester Railway and Canal by the South- Eastern
Rrilway Company."
These were all agreed to, and the meeting separated.
SPECIAL PUBLIC NOTICE.—At precisely ten o'clock
on Tuesday morning, March 24, 1846, the entire range of
E. Moses and Sees' new preinises—Mibories anti Aldgate,
City—will open for the transaction of business —l,l Moses
and Sons, tailors, drapers, clothiers, hosiers, hatters, and
general outfitters, March 16, 1846.
THE LATE MURDER IN ST. LUILE'S.—OR Tuesday
Mr. W. Baker held an inquest at the Cumberland's Head, City-road,
en the body of Mary Murray, who died from the effects of injaries
received at the hands of a labourer named Martin Jennings, now in
custody on the charge of murder. A great number Of Witnesses
were examined, but as their evidence applied only to facts which
have already appeared, it is unnecessary to repeat it. The following
additional facts Nsere elicited at the inquest:—Sarah Angelina
Hewett, of George-yard, said that she heard on the morning hi
question a loud cry of " Martin, Martin, don't murder me." That
occurred whilst witness was in bed. She heard something like a tall
under her window. Seine time after she heard a person say, " The
police arc coining, the woman is dead." About fifteen minutes
elapsed from the commencement to the end of the affray.
John Waldron said that he saw Jennings take hold of de-
ceased by the hair of the head, and then strike her with
his fist or hand on the face. Witness then laid hold of the collar *t
Jennings, and pulled him from the deceased. Mr. John Courtney,
surgeon, of 5, Finsbury-terrace, said that he had made a post mortem
examilattion of the body of deceased. On removing the covering of
the skull a small bruise presented itself on the frontal bone, over the
right eye. The vessels Of the brain were gorged with blood. At
least two ounces of blood were effused into the base of the brain,
and extended down the spinal cord. The substance of the brain was
healthy, except that it was rather more vascular than ordinary. By
the Coro:ter-1 believe that the deceased died from the effusion 01
blood on the brain. The effusion was so general, that I could not
trace it to any particular vessel having been ruptured. By a
.luror-
I think that the blows described ey the witnesses, and 111, state of
excitement consequent thereon, together with the
sensed the iiitg,saptriole-
duce3 that effusion. Mete excitement
jilt:gilt ,)3e
mischief; but as there were blows adm 11 ste, e, it is quite likely that
they pro,'ucA it. The. jury returned a verdict 1
of "Manslaughter
against Martin Jennings."
WOOLIVICH.—CoNvICTS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES.—
The Lord Auckland, Government transport, for the conve:, twee it
male convicts to New south Wales, is now lying of the Arsenal at
w,,,Awleh. A convict guard of her Majesty's 65th Regiment of Foot,
under the C011,111:11111 of Lieutenant Gordon, will embark front the
Royal Arsenal on board the same vessel, tor a passage out to New
South Wales, where the regiment is ordered to do duty.

-6C;NVICT W IJKS. —INT hat appear to he the rea.
sons for doubting the sanity of Wicks ? There is ground to believe
that in infancy his brain was injuriously affected by disease. A
distortion of the eyes, accompanied with great weakness of the optic
nerves, Is known to have attended him from early childhood. More
lately he suffered from a concussion of the brain, which, even after
recovery from its immediate effects, exhibited permanent results in
strange eccentricity of conduct. Ever since his apprenticeship he
seems to have cherished the notion that his master had taken him
for the sake of the ten pounds premium paid when he was inden-
tured. For this supposition no real ground existed ; and yet, so com-
pletely tad it got possession of the youth's imagination, that ht Sep-
tember, 1843, under its influence, he ;attempted to lid' limas& by
swalowing laudanum. Frustrated in this design, he still brooded
over his Imaginary wrongs, and, while he was in this state of mind,
the deduction by his master of eleven shillings from his wages, to
make up fbr an equal amount of money belonging to the master
which the apprentice had either lost (as he. himself alleged) or cur
hezzled (as the other suspected), brought Wicks' resentment to that
pitch under the impulse of which he devised and accomplished the
assassinatim of his fancied oppressor. To all this may be added this
utter apathy that characterised the miserab'e convict throughout the
trial. Neither the apPearance of his mother hi the witneso-box, nor
the summing tip of the presiding judge, nor tiio period of snspense
drirlng the consultation of the Airy, it 'r the announcement of their
ads erse verdict, nor even -the pronouncing hylhe-judge or the SATIIII
sentk.nce of the law, moved him in the least ; but, from tirsi to lent,
he maintained the some stolid, and, NI 1,1re.T., tniab;u4to
ense.—Tic Patrif(?

UNIFORMITY OF GAUGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF. THE. SU.IV.
Sit,—As a resident in the Wert of England, whieh
owes its escape from the isolated mid inactive state in
•which it furS hitherto existed to the establisnwentlrta•
railway system, I do'hopeithat as sotai as the pnblie in-
terest has been exhausted in reference to Itnlon con -
quests, American amk,bition, Pe..11:11 Tcvohitt.nt', P.-`1 p.
teetiouist struggles, you will find a :tittle tine :.n . - ! ~ i-
to devote to -the Gauge C,..trinu,:slettlits! rtlY l'• "I''''..
involves a
.questitn•• of 110 Slllfi.ll, illii:OrOLp: 1., ,I i • k --
employ railways..a. a inestts or Itit2sisiete,e, ,no ::.•-,
merely fur pleasui e.
'l'ne Gauge COM inis..i•-ti have li' , ' i';, C a 'eV': • '. • : .
gericral purposes to it king-et:in i :• pqr. -.- g :e.
is decidedly sup r:,,r 1.. M-. '1..11 .- ', 1,,,,..•; :_.:01 e.
Tins recommendation len:, not 10, ( ; r., : T ‘'...-.
people very angry, and tle v h -I, , vi.-- f d t ~,-:, •;.t: -.2, r
:ititiel-aitc:i:
tkv,sc::‘,llai.lajii:iftiojeif:'l6g:e'rli:tc;i:dt:filit.:i:l:ii..ii:lip:'ar- tit.Laii,k.i:ii...ll::sieth;
i11'i,':1.1'P.,...,:•..'5'‘:.,..,.‘;.•1.i':'1.-11:1.':''1,':.''''',s,'.it-;'':'.,•1.1,,,i:f.,:.,
public. I wish to sh,,w. fr,:lo in- •sv,, ro: i --:--- '''''ll
saving of time and rii:_;.iey, in i-. •-'s,-, • , ' - '•
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c.oieltii:etin:sft.4;duluaiillea.regenieytimusenSese:uvit:trtiltudEtic'eeti.ttitaildsoublit
sic: .I.aoilijid'r're.git'lliCen:sht;;e.e:Ml..slBtalur a',ril.;,Stle,a;isl4ix:liicil'e,ie:,:.lj'
~:ttf,p'ehr.t; 48.4',Istier': aili I.i. 4%,..': t.,.,;illt'i-n,,.3',7'(,"
V,i,!;,*,,, iitea7rCe‘ii .;-=iil;:-E
titpiiieerseieesrbasrariyitiireloaxzb,dt(t)ssau. extraordinary iiinu:shrtyezeipuQii:talt.,,Vii:l4.:isl,),riiknel:koaztFi.qp7c.t:itoes tit!i,ai:‘,,ig,
how you will, must always fall ON the c.,f.be.wer.
The bruad-gauge railway, which at present only irieltitle-
the Great IVestern and lis branches, does cost a gres,t
deal more money to intake and maintain in corking ord r,
and does require a larger army of porb•rs than a narrow
gauge line, even when it does not come -in contact with
one.
The question then very naturally arises, what r.•-turn
is there for all this expense? On 1,900 mdes of rail.
way, running through all kinds of country, steep de-
clivities, sharp curves, and other engineering difficuliies,
the locomotive business of the country is done with
oiastantly increasing ecoaomy, swiftness, and punc-
tuality.
On 270 miles of broad gauge we have a c-auge „huh
will bring to a dead stop any narrow gauge that may.
run into it, indifferent acconsmodsdon to third-class
passengers (until public indignation was aroussit),
wretched accommodation for veond-class passengers,
the highest charges in tne kingdom f_T both passengers
and merchandise, and, as a comp-nsation, two express
trains a day, at an unlimited speed.
By turning back to the journals of the year; 18:15-36,
when Mr. Brunal's project for a seven-feet gauge cams
uefore the public, I find that he then - believed
that the country
owausouilrdbrnoe divided into railway districts.
ce aalci itly°. f which
ere,wld adopt
d pitnearal gauge suitable
Ml° alit; i t
shasl;
cures were inevitable, there a narrow gauge would be
adopted; where, as on the road between London and
Bristol, the curves were unusualt3 flat, a broad gauge:
tie anticipated no difficulty or injury to commerce from
the diversity of gauge. Oa the Great Western HRH-
way he expected, hy the size ef his locomotives. to ob-
tain extraordinary size and power, and to supply the
wants of the public by one or two monster trains daily.
With the exception of extraordinary speed, all these
anticipations have been falsified. Up to fifty miles an
hour, the 4 feet 8i inches, and the 7 f. et gauge, are
undisputedly equai ; ( 'weeding that rate of speed, the
Great Western, on account. of its favourable gradients
one party contends, and another contends on account of
its gauge, has an advantage. But so far from the
public being content with one or two monster trairr
a day, the . Great Western Company are compelled to
send heavy passenger-trains half empty;. and, es each
broad-gauge first-class carriage weighs about nine tons.
while a narrow-gauge only weighs about four tens, every
carriage, not half tilled, involves an unprofitable weight
of at least four tons. The average number of
passengers carried by the Great Western Railway is 47
and a traction, and thesaverake weight of the train is 67
vas, comprising seen carriage& Seven narrow-gaugs,
carriages, of the best construction, would convey 126
tons.
passengers with their luggage, and only weigh about 46

You will see, therefore, that., as a commercial reSi,leni
in the west'of England, I have good reason to
tisfied, when travelling upon the only CollllllUtliCi,tloll
with London and the manufacturing counties, at fiudiat.
that I am paying not only the cost of my conveyanct
rtud the profit on that convevanee, fairly due to the rail•
way propiie:ors, but Aso a 47th prat of tlw cost of con.
=eying ti,lrty to forty tons of dead weight empty car
riages.

with respect to the trucks or the :yoo-is'
the case is even wor.e. They weigh about nine i.otis
~.ach, and are so latg: t!‘ar it is impossible to till thew
ithout waiting too long tier tie- patience of customers,
so that they are sent on half 0.,1 even a quarter filled
of course the carriage of the heavy truck mils: tr added
to the charge for the goods. And all this is a sacrifice
we western folks are constantly called upon to make
to the mageificent genius of Brunel.
Really there ens a good deal of truth in the obser-
vation of the traveller, " That the farther he wet
c.he west, the more conviaeed he became teat the Wise
Men came out of the east."
Then, again, although the great geugeites assure us
that a contact between the aide gauge and the narrow
gauge is no sort of inconvenience, they seem anxious to
obtain tmirormity wherever they can ; for, abandoning
the idea of fitting gauges to districts, the road
to Gloucester, with sharp curves, is fitted with
the broad gauge ; and they propose to adopt the same
gauge in all the Great Western projects, so that the
thinly peopled districts of South Wales, North Wilts,
Somerset, North Devon, and Cornwall, are to be sup-
plied with the monster carriages and goods-trucks, which
are found twice too large even for the large traffic be-
tween London and Bristol. The question of curves is
avoided as much as possible in the Cornwall and South
Wales lines by closely hugging the coast !
It ;vould be cheaper to vote the Queen a million for a
new palace, and present Prince Albert with an ad-
ditional regiment to practice army tailoring upon. than
to permit the Great Westernites to pursue their costly
schemes for drawing empty carriages at the expense of
the travelling public.
However, in spite of this forced extension of the
broad gauge, in order to produce uniformity, if hell the
contemplated eailwaynills are carried out, the two
gauges will meet in mere than twenty places.
I need not theorise upon the result of such a playing
,it cross purposes. Unfortunately for ill-fated, indolent,
apathetic Bristol, which when not asleep seems always to
awake to execute some gigantic folly, a broad gauge
railway, or a Great Britain steamer—unfortunately I
ay for Bristol, a break of gauge occurs at Gloucester,
creating a dead halt in the transit between the Northern
and Midland manufactories, and what ought to be their
port. It is in vain that a large army of porters is kept
up. and all sorts of ingenious and costly cranes and con-
trivances established, (all maintained at the cost of the
goods' carrier), delay is inevitable. Let any one, as I
have done, take his stand at. the Gloucester sta-
tion, and see the precess of unloading and re-
eading a goods' train, consisting of horses, fat cattle,
pigs and sheep, tin-plates, iron and timber, b=askets
of fish and poultry, and miscell :nexus small parcels.
ile will see the smallipareels moved by hand, the heavy
goods by mechanical means. and the live stock by a
union of every sort of means that can be imagined.
The change in.
a train of. ordinary size cannot be effect-
ed under from four ,to twelve hours. It will sometimes
take two hours..to move one restive ox.
Under such circumstances, is it extraordinary that so
little communication exists betweea Bristol and Leeds,
Manchester, Birmingham, the Potteries, and all those
districts to which it might, and advantageously, trade ?
Neither 60 nor 76 miles an
_hour can compensate for
such a tali, and such an interruption Co' trade as the
break of gauge.
I think I have said enough to-show that- this gauge
question is well worth the serious attention of the mer-
cantile community.
Free trade is now all the fashion. If the home trade, of
England is to enjoy the same advantages as the foreign
trade, we must have no more crochetty breaks of broad
gauge, which is as severe a tax on our internal con
'tierce as any
French or American tariff on our foreign
exports. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
A WESTERN MAN.

DEPARTURE of FOREIGN MAILS.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.
On Tuesday the following notice relative to tho departure
of the next foreign mails was posted at the chief office, St.
Martin's-le-Grand:—

Peninsular Mails.—The next mails for Vigo, Oporto, Cadiz,
Lisbon, Gibraltar, Spain, and Portugal, will be dispatched
on the morning of the 27th instant.
Mails for India and China.—The next Mails for Gibraltar,
Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, India, and China,
rid Southampton, will be dispatched on the morning of the
20th instant.
The Achilles, for the Mediterranean, India, (line, &Q.,
mails of the morning of the 20th instant. -
Mails for India and China rid Marseilles.—The next mails
fn. the NI editerranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China,. will
be dispatched on the evening of the 24th in,stant.
Wet.
Indies, &c.—The, next mails for the British and
zu
forela sieigrnd'Aladolvsei in the West Indies (except Bermuda) Vene•
ra;
Sydn—ey and `.1.4W South Wales.—The neat mails will be
dispatched on the evening of the 31st.
America.—The Caledonia thr the mails of the evening of
the 3d of April.
Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres,—The next mails will
be dispatched on the evening of the 7th of April ; from
August to January the packet touches at Pernambuco
the
other and
e
Bahia on her outward passage to Riq dc Janeiro, and
other six months on her homeward.: •• • -
Valparaiso.—A mail will be made np•for Valparaiso, to he
forwarded by her Majesty's shin Calypso ; all letters in-
tended to he forwarded must be addressed Be H.M.S. Ca-
lypso," and w ill be liable to the packet rate of postage of Is,
not exceeding half an ounce; newspapers will be liable to a
rate of 2d,

B 5 mix. MARCH 10.-Sir Moses and Lady Montifiore
have arrived in this city on their way to St. Petersburgb,
whither they are proceeding in order Co supplicate the Ern.
item. of Russia to niitivte the severe laws against the Jews
in his dominions. Sir Moses and his lady have met with the.
UloBt ilattenn& reception here,

THE'POLIS,
,URRECTION.
Nothlng is known pred!elv ef the insurgents who left. Cra-
cow on the appr ,teb of the- hussians and Austrians, and took,
refuge in the Carpathian ntountains, between Gallicia- anti
Htivary. The intercourse with that part of the country
is entirely cnt off, so that
.direct communication is impossible,
Ithe Prussians-and Austrians having established a double line
of troops along the whole of the frontiers. It is the orinion
of those who know the country well, that in these moun•
tains, which are full of difficult nasses and defiles, the incur-
' g‘ nits may hold out f.r an slino4 iv,i,fidre period, „
nd
may give serious aunoyauce to their enemies by carrying on
a tpeclea ofgc..crill..._ warfare cimilar to that which has ren-
dered tb.o civil w in the north of Spain so intern..nab:.e..
The forces of the insuri,-,cn tit who have escaped are calculated,
according to theGovernnrnt authorities, at about 3,000; but,
according to the general belief, they amount to upwards of
double that number. -
On the approach of the Russians about 700 of the rt.
fegees frovn C.Neow took in the Prtissian territor:cs,
where they stirrend,red prisoner,.k. They. have
been sent pri,,,,er, twort to the forirrss of Kos(.l.
On the 7th o,' Varcil th,e.,,:it Gidwitz, a town
situ red 17; ol ;h ut. fr,tri...s of ',kw:Pink
th, Sympathy for
1,,t-:r Incv

i'•-. i t:t• ••: 1 ..• -','"it'..,•rs .ct the Vrovisionsi t l overrun:ld -r,
5,.
~, •,,- i,,,,,; -. t ..uov-it. (>s.ly one memberhas taken rcir....r,‘
in i' •:: -i ~ the renorinder-are ,oppr.sed-to-himt folid•wetrf f,,,
a hi, ~ „• 1, . ';tiatj mountains. l'ite cotrunintientiowl
I bet ‘v, ~ l',i, - t the t''holiiilie ni Crleow ;aro now re--
e jab i ... .- •.•r- . l f:: • t.,..nib .t.. ~,' I it.. old (;•tvert,ment,
hnd .07,!t• 7' :7 : '7- 7' h i. r, N..t. B. tin, on the ex-
, ~
, • • ...:, t tin -,.ii-. are-fl as :__,• 1. 7
trenefo ~n. ifSI '... f I; t'• cos.E.
v,.., ~, ... .. t . ..,i•.. ~ :11out.11 it was true N%itltr,,t
/n 77.•• c•' 7'7,• 7 • !4. ~. •.: • -:,,-!•• sprcar.l- Plrrtitter nr,,l
la- t . I . ... a 1
"' . • - • ' .1.;..., t".....1_11_y_i1ietf,,,,,, ".1 .; :: " ;.• 1.. .. ts,., t: • ~ trttilieta. The peasr:ill ry-
,
• • • ns - • i s N,-e`", e7-111.1111dlleCliii 111.
1, .., ... ,„,, i, ~ „,[•.ii,,t , t,, e'r,c,',, 1,, c should 11711'r
a ~! .;, .' ~,,,, 0,1 1;,, ..... i - !lositinn of the
pp:.•:1 7 r.N i. , sr e-' '!1'..17!y of doing away
5% o - till, =1 .t. ' j 0,011 (t. .1 t', r.%) which was exac'ed
widt gr, at ...-ta its ~.- 1, ts t!, ,st been the custom amorig
, the '-chiN ttniat,. in -he i irole of rumor the peasantry
are exceedingiy irritated :.;,. slut the insurgt tits, but it
is hoped that onler s ill soon tte restorett. 'I Ile peasantry
have taken the castle of Canizki by assault, and have put
eleven persons to dead:, ~nn•ng Whom was the Neair rf
IVadowitz. The wile of Conn. Imbrowski, who was re-
cently arrested, has arrived on the fro tier, on her way to
Vienna. The Countess Poloslia has 'teen arrested, just as
she was about to take refuge in Gillicia."
The. Agg,1,179 (;azette or the sante date, in a letter from
the frontiers of Gallicis, dated the 4,ft instant, says that it
is supposed there that. the con,titution of Cracow will be
abolished by the protecting Pow,s, and a military govern-
ment established. Between thirty arid forty priests hare
been arrested and sent into Aloravia. About six priests
were killed in the engageme. ts.
F

ORE IGN CA TTLE AND PRO-
VISIONS.
The importation of cattle from Holland during the past ten
days, have been of but a very limited nature compared with
what was the case prior to the intimation of the Government
of the total repeal of the duty being intended, and still more
so with respect to what may be expected will be the case
it th, repeal of the duty tdke place; that is, if the accounts
which are received from that country of the quantities of
cattle in a state of preparation and readiness to be imported
at the very shortest notice, and so sc on as t'.ey are declared
to be entirely free of duty upon impor ation into this
country, may be accredited to it• full extent. It may be
remarked that scarcely any, if even one, of the numerous
small Dutch sailing vi sstis which have been empleyed for
several months paw., and even throughout the whole of the
winter in bringing cargoes, to a small extent each, of live
cattle of the- seYeral'descriptions from the Dutch ports. now
usually concerned in the shipment and exportation cf such
produce, have made a voyage within the period nailer notice;
and even some of the large steam ships of the General Steam
Navigation Company, which have been in the habit of bring-
ing large cargoes of cattle for a considerable space of time,
have almost, and in some instances entirely, arrived without a
live animal on board, leaving the conveyance of those
have been brouglif over, to the t wood, an d otli er steam
ships specially devoted to the purpose. These are evident
sighs of the trade for the present being held in a certain
tiegree in abeyance, a hufficient number only being intro-
duced to meet. pressing and immediate demands and en-
gagements, and to keep a position in the markets. If our
space permitted an enumeration if the list of the principal
and most prominent importations of provisions which have
taken place within the time from Rotterdam, tiamburgh,•
Havre, Boulogne, Calais, Ostend, Antwerp, and the other
continental ports and places usually known to supply such
articles, it would be.seen that they have-been of an unusually
important and extensive nature, and in several instances of
a novel character, and the importations of corn and provi-
sions generally which have arrived in the time. at the ports
of London and Liverpool from New York, " New Orleans,
Plihadelphia, and other ports-of the United States, and
which present a feature of peculiar interest at the present
time, have been of a most important and extensive character,
thus evincing the magnitude and importance of the sup-
plies of such articles from America for consumption in titre
country. The length to which the enumeration of the dif-
ferent articles of general consumption which have arrived
.up to the present time would extend, and which prevents
their particularisation, precludes the necessity of -entering at.
present into any further particular remarks on their several
degrees' of importance, otherwise than- as we bare be-
fore stated, the • importations of cattle from the
Continent,'' and especially Holland, the great em-
porium for their supply, is to a certain extent,
in advance" for the prent. It may be generally
however, that the supplies of provisions of every
.description, and also torus of the various kinds, principally
that known by the name of maize or Indian turn, frow tie
Uni ed States -of Atnet;ea; have been of a marl,ed mud
rc ire nature, and as the whole of the ships, both Brifish
aml American, return to ;II • Slate. more or less indef., with
tie productions and tires • t Great Britain, it na.:3.
be .peuially remarked. unit p.O ticol a Iy so at the present time,
that no greater proof liecci be adduced of the immense ha-
) ,ortalice and asistance, in a eonnnercial point of view and
o:ltemise, which the two great ants powerful countrie, of
Great Britain and the United States of America are tnutu-
ally to each other.

CURIOSITIES OF A PRISON
PEI OlrV.
The formidable appearance pi esented by a blue book does
not render it a very inviting volume to the lovers of light
reading; vet, amidst the deplorable revelations contained in
the " Tenth Report. of the Inspectors of Prisons," which has
recently reached u, there are a few traits which art curiosi-
ties in their ways. Front the ji,urnal of the keeper of Lan-
caster Castle we extract the following ingenious specimen of
conveyancing:—
Received a parcel addressed to my care for misdemeanant
T. T., containing a letter ostensibly from his mother, and a
copy of Lindley Murray's Grammar (large edition). The
appearance of the Wok excited some suspicion on the part
of the deputy-keeper. I consulted the chaplain, who, not
knowing the suspicion entertained, sermeii disposed to let T.
have the book. I sent for T., and, in his presence, had the
backs of the book cut open, wken 10s. 41. (20 sixpences and
a fourpenny piece) were found within them."
A melancholy entry closely succeeds. A more complete.
romance of real life• was never perhaps conveyed in fewer
words:—

" Debtor 11. S. departed this life at 7ii p.m. This gentle-
man was a makOstrate kir two Irish counties. He got him.
self arrested, and sent hither on friendly process, merely to
be with his nephew, Mr. O. S., whom I hold fur a large NUM
ot money."
past life:--' 1 was born in
"A poor fellow named Joset:;11 F., committed for begging,
and about to be disch,:rged. in a few days, gave me the fel-
rotilTnds,iantlidulbarrou°:htitku'ep aofmlitswright. At 15 years old I
entered the 82d foot, in which regiment I served' 11 years.
the St.
former Sebastian.
pl
a eQ,utawtrieceßorvaesr,ainlLicaetdWhinaitseerllfooi.n
oAurt
I was in Spain and Portugal, at Salamanca, and the siege of
celthweagllautk
square. I received two slit wounds at Quartre Bras, and
two more, also slight, at Waterloo. I went to Paris with
my regiment, and got my discharge in 1816. A Polish
general engaged me (through Slr John Rennie) as a mill..
wright to go to ' Rozoaka,' (Rosienna ?) in Lithuania. I
_ _- -

_ • _
made 150 Ca year wages tOr four veers, find saved 10:74. a
year. I then came to Warsaw, and learned to bre'r; from a
coup t rym 8 n,
wli Ui 0 n
and a fl
1 commenced the trade of A brewer in 1821,
in ,
jegOilitn
concern,
et
with two 'other
1., also,ruillerseselism;el,itte
l hadtim ea
after,
Dr. APAII, the missionary, e:ene to Warsaw, and I engaged
myself to him as interi,retcr, being able to speak Russian,
German, ani Polist. 1 went with Dr. SPAN to St. Peters-
burgh, Mosc-,- Astracan, Tobolsk, Archangel, Vienna,
' Rome (wlter4 Dr. 3PAII dined twice with the Pope), Na-
ples, (4610 a, Sicily, then through Austria into Hungary,
Peitth, Brodof (Brod 'or Brad?) where there are a great
many Jews, Crscow, and Warsaw.. This occupied abOut
two years and three months. During the ten years we were
in business, the firm to which I belonged realised about
30,0001., my share being 11,0001. Then came the bontbard-
meat of Warsaw: in 1830. A. child and two of my wx,rk-
men were killed, and all my property was destroyed. 1 was
reduced to nothing. In 1833, the I:mperor Nicholas came,
and I sent a petition to him He granted me. an interview,
and ordered me 2001.(in_duCats)._ I afterwards engag.ed as
manager to a brewery, but the principals failed. 1 then
engaged with another establishauent,undtaiade a mere living
of it; everything_ having been ruined by the revelit-
tim,, 1 left waKaw in 1842, and came to London, where
I Apetit a short time with Dr: INPAII. Lord Dudley Stuart
was kind to me, and gave me 1.04 -to earry me into the
north. • I was on my way from Scotland to seek tome friends
in Liverpool, when, my money being all gone, I was taken
up for begging.' This singular story was given in answer to
numerous questions. F. does not seem aware that his life has
been.more eventful than that of other men."
S' 'E or -

j'FITE OF THE 61 AS AUINs.--There are hundreds of
service pipes that are completely decayed, and from which
more gas escapes than is used in the houses they supply, and.
which, working its way into the sewers, finds vent at the
gratings, and produces the annoying smell so common 14
the streets of London, whilst no trace of It is discovered
(until the ground be opened) where it actually escapes.
The joints of the cast- iron pipes are generally defective, and
instances have been known of the ends of the pipe and out-
lets being left open....i.lawspondent of the Builder.
FITa WILLIAM MUSEU3I.—Mr. Cocker:4lllas submitted
drawings for the completion of the hall. and staboases of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, for which parts of the building Mr.
Basevi had not left designs in a settled form. Theiti;h.tr
Syndi-
cate have expressed their entire concurrence
Cockerell'a viewk as to the mode of
Museum i ;gad have recommended that he he Aing
with
pre”,are working drawings and estimates
beingeoneBinde tr. the
his designs, with a view to a contractte
execution of the work. ' designs b isrspwsuretstoof.
tail
tment.of the public library,.
williain compar l'ime fi''"li
si'agfrdtillel itnhsepQelttolli:
The Universal German Gazette
b r on the 26th ult.,
had been issued at Leal e g
of the members of the senate.—
who should
77aeB
mentionsuilr. that a pro-
damnationbowqki, or Pr.pkvwski, and I heophili
deliver up Edouard Dem..
people tp
offering a reward of 1,000 florins to ail person,,
11,etv' i‘z.int.ro wski, charged A ith baring excited the

• - • •
~
at Mivart's hotel from their seat, Sandhill-park, r,emorsetslairti,
Sir Thomas, Lady, and Miss Lethbridge have arrayed
zi:vit,i
beenoi a
ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH- W EST ERN RAIL'w• AT._
half an hour
accidentiliUst
folurreedsuolitisthisltlhaiv,e,yll:B,elmatigthhet
beiere the three o'clock last train was due. About 'three miles from
).
aattendedftf:nwith a I
tli
olio O'clock dowu goods train len the station at Wolktp-s,
Woking the goods train was unable to proceed, nr,ing to the strong
wind that was blowing ; indeed the guards. toe
•,,, e,. blew a perfect bur-
rb•Aue, which entirely impeded the progre,sp 'of the train, vast as was
its weight and bulk. Toe conductor of the, engine of the fast train
observing no signal given by the conductor ot the goods train, ran
into it, although it was broad dayl,l,gbt, quite disabled the engine.
rendering it unfit for further serviest. UousiderAble 'ilium was ex-
eited amongst the passengers, many of whom, by the vioience of the
collision, Were thrown from their seats, and received some severe in-
juries, Fortunately no lives 'were lost, which was rather wonderful,
considering the serious nature of the accident. Tha stokers and
drivers of both engine% escaped unhurt. A pilot engine was dis-
patched front 'Woking to remove the disabled engine to that station.
Dud after a delay of Upwards of an hour, the pas-onger train pro-
ceeded on its journey, 101 the palming.= being very tivaklul for Melt.
providential escape.