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return 94 per cent. upon the capital required.—(Hear,
heer.) Their object was, of course, to secure the whole
trail! of Flanl< rs. and if the shareholders would do him
the favour to follow hint upon the map, they would find
that this line effected that in a perfectly satisfactory
manner. But to effect this more thoroughly they pro-
posed to extend a communication to Bossuyt-on-the-
Scheldt, which, communicating with Courtrai-on-the-
Lys, would extend in the one direction to Po-
peringhe, and to Bruges on the other ; thus, in
fact, rofoinanding the whole of the country of West
Flanders.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the mineral
traffic, he might state that coal at present came from
Mons to Ghent by the canal, which tell into the Scheldt.
This was comparatively easy, for it was down the stream,
but they were then transmitted up the Lys to Courtrai,
a total distance of 180 miles, subjected to the impedi-
ments of river navigation, and only averaging four
voyages in the year (two voyages either way).
Now, if they got this railway, as it was
more than likely they would, the distance from Mons
would be considerably diminished, for the land carriage
from Courtrai to Bossuyt was only nine miles, and the
water carriage would, consequently, be avoided. They
could in the same easy way transmit lime and building-
stone, both of which were much wanted in West Flan-I
ders. The quantity of coal which would come in this
way had been estimated at 200,000 tons, but they
might have taken the minimum at 150,000 tons,
and that alone would constitute a paying traffic.— (Hear,
hear.) With respect to the expenses of constructing the
line, the estimated original cost was stated at 840,0001.,
but from the agreement entered into with the contractor
on a part of the line between Bruges and Thermonde,
the Directors thought themselves justified in saying that
the extension to Bossuyt could be made without call
ing upon the shareholders for any further payment.
Jt was a matte of considerable difficulty in an exposé of
that kind to place matters in other than a favourable
light before the proprietors, but in this case he thought
he had kept within due limits. He was not aware that
he had any further observations to make, but he would
add, in the words ef the last paragraph of the report,
" The Directors are enabled to confirm, in all respects,
the opinions which they have .put forth as to the value
of this undertaking. They believe that it will prove a
sound and highly remunerative work, and that it wil.
bring a return at a period much earlier than is usual in
lines of a similar length." He had now to move the
adoption of the report and its circulation among the
Proprietary.
To questions from Mr. LINDO,
The CHAIRMAN replied, that with reference to the
third instalment, some gentlemen were anxious to have
that call made, because they had money which they wished
invested. With reference to the 87,0001 of a balance,
he said that in consequence of the exchanges being in the
Company's favour, it advantaged them more than if the
money had been laid out upon uncertain security. The
commission to thefondateitrswas guaranteedby the original
deed, and they could not, therefore, alter it in any way.
But the shareholders would observe that the dividends.
after allowing 5 per cent. to them, would be di-
vided into twentieths-16 20ths :of which would be given
to the shareholders, and 4-20ths (deducting 5 per cent.)
to the fondateurs.
A PROPRIETOR asked when the whole line would be
finished ?
The CHAIRMAN said they would be obliged to Ir,ve
all works concluded within two years and a half from
that time.
The report was then adopted unanimously.
A PROPRIETOR asked a question relative to the Calais
and Dunkirk Railway, which the Chairman declined
answering.
The meeting then adjourned.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 12, 1846.

Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold Levees,
at St. James's Palace, on the following days, at two
o'clock :—Wednesday, 11th February next ; Wednesday,
18th February next.
REG ULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S LEVEES, AT

ST. JAMES'S PALACE.
The Noblemen and Gentlemen, who propose to attend her
Majesty's Levees at St. James's Palace, are requested to
bring with them two cards, with their names thereon written,
one to be be left with the Queen's Page in Attendance in
the presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the
Lord in Waiting, who will announce the name to her
Majesty.
Those Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby in-
formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the
name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to present
them (not the Lord in Waiting), should be sent to the Lord
Chamberlain's-office, before twelve o'clock, on the Mon-
day previous to each Levee, in order that that they may
be sulmitted for the Queen's approbation, it being
her Majesty's command that no presentation shall here-
after be made at the Levees, but in conformity with the
above regulations. It is particularly requested that
Gentlemen, who are to be presented at the Levees, will
have their names distinctly written upon the card to
be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, in order that
there may be no mistake in announcing them to the Queen.
The state apartments will not be open for the reception of
company coming to Court until half-past one o'clock.
Notice is hereby given, that all persons, having petitions
or addresses to present to her Majesty at the Levees, are to
write on two cards with their names a statement of the object
of such petition or addresses, and the names of tb e persons from
whom they come ; one card to be delivered to the Page in
the ante room, and the other to the Lord in Waiting, who
will read its contents, at the time of presentation, to her
Majesty ; and, on these occasions, no other statement is to
be addressed to her Majesty. A deputation to present an
address is not to exceed four persons.
LORD CHAMBE RLAIN'S-OFFICE, JAN. 12.
Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Draw-
ing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the 26th of
February next, at two o'clock.
REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S DRAWING.

ROOM.
The Ladies who purpose attending her Majesty's Drawing
Room are requested to bring with them two cards, with their
names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's
Page in attendance in the presence. chamber, and the other
to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the
name to her Majesty.
And those Ladies, who are to be presented, are hereby in-
formed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, together
with the names of the Ladies who are to present them, should
be sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's. office,before twelve o'clock
on Tuesday, the 24th of February next, in order that
they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation, it being
her Majesty's command that no presentation shall take place
unless the name of the Lady presenting, together with that
of the Lady to be presented, shall appear on the card to be
delivered, corresponding with the names sent in to the Lord
Chamberlain's-office.

Commissions signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of Perth.
The Right Hon. Willham David Earl of Mansfield to be
Deputy Lieutenant; the Right Hon. George Augustus Frede-
rick John Murray Lord Glenlyon to be ditto; Sir R. Menzies,
Bart., to be ditto; Sir W. K. Murray, Bart., to be ditto;
Sir W. D. Stewart, Bart . to be ditto ; Sir T. Moncreiffe,
Bart., to be ditto; W. Stirling, Esq., the younger, to be ditto;
J. M. Drummond, Esq, the younger, to be ditto; J. John-
stone, Esq., to be ditto, Jan. 6.
Royal Perthshire Militia—Major Sir T. Moncrieffe, Bart.,
to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir W. K. Murray, Bart., re-
signed, Jan. 6.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Alleyne
Lord Burghley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W.Cartwright.
rosigned. Jan. 7.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of 1 uckinghamshi re.
Second Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry—D.
P. King, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Garrard, promoted, Dec. 5,
1845. _ _

WHITEHALL, DEC. 24, 1845.
The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal,
Knt., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common
Pleas, has appointed Joseph Arrowsmith, of Thirsk, in the
county of York, Gent. ; Alfred Cox, of Chipping
Sodbl:ry, in the county of Gloucester, Gent.; Hugh
Bruce Campbell, of the town of Nottingham, Gent. ;
James Eldridge, of Carisbrooke, in the Isle of Wight, Gent.,
and William Marshall, of Plymouth, in the county of Devon,
Gent., to be Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgements of deeds to be executed by married women, under
the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and
for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Lewis, tobacconist, York.
BANKRUPTS.

Charles Bartlett, merchant, Southampton, to surrender
Jan. 23, at half-past one, and Feb. 24, at one, at the Court
of B nkruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Tilson and
Squance, Coleman-street, City; Randall, Southampton.
Henry Muggeridge, wire-drawer, St. John-street, Smith-
rißealndk,
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Mary Guy and Henry Smith, linen-drapers, Ludgate-hill,
Jan. 22, at one, and March 7, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. F‘Alctt, afieial assignee; Reed and Langford,
Friday-street, Cheapside.
John Stevens, builder, Clement's Inn, Jan. 27, and Feb.
20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official
assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Ashurst, Cheapside.
Moira Maclean, cloth factor, Basinghall-street, Jan. 27, at
half-past twelve, and Feb. 20, at • twelve, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom-
bard-street; Valiance and Beioley, Old Jewry-chambers ;
Croom and Harrris, Strand.
Thomas Edwards, surgeon, Llansaintfraid, on Jan. 23, and
Feb. 13. at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Caze-
nove, official assignee, Liverpool; Dean and Sons, Essex-
street, Strand; Minshall, Salop; Evans, Liverpool.
James Reid, ship-broker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan.
29, at twelve, and March 11, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-
Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Plumptre, Temple ; Cram, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne.
Henry Levy, tobacconist, Plymonth, Jan. 28, and Feb. 19,
at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter; Lockyer and Bulteel, Plymouth; Moore,
Exeter; Surr and Gribble. Lombard. street, City.
James Gilbert Gore, innkeeper, Cheltenham, Jan. 26, and
March 2, at one. at the Bristol District iourt. Miller,
official assignee, Bristol; Hill, Cheltenham.
Thomas Carey Willard Pierce and Gilson Homan, mer-
chants, Manchester, Jan. 23, and Feb. 13, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man-
chester; Abbott, Charlotte-street, Bedford -square ; Atkin-
sonli and Saunders, Manchester.
John Wilkinson, builder, Hasngden, Lancashire, Jam. 23,
and Feb. 13, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Hob-
son, official assignee, Manchester; Humphrys, Keightley, and
Parkin, Chancery-lace; Hetherington and Woodburn, Li-

verpool.
Thomas Wilder's, common brewer, Burton-upon-Trent,
Staffordshire, Jan. 27, and Feb. 24, at twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Everes and Co., Ilatton-garden.
(Dividends, &c., in our next.)

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WINDSOR, MONDAY EVENlNG.—lnstructions wt re
received at the Castle this morning for the private apart-
ments to be prepared for the reception of her Majesty to-
morrow, it having been arranged for the Court to leave
Claremont for Windsor immediately after an earlylancheon.
Her Majesty will remain at the Castle until Tuesday, the
20th instant, on which day the Court will take its departure
for Buckingham Palace.
DREADFUL DEATH BY FIRE.—Yesterday, at
half-past ten o'clock, a fine child, named Hannah Cavendish,
eight years of age, expired in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, in
consequence of injuries she sustained last evening, at the re-
sidence of her parents, in Moore-lane, Fore-street, City. The
poor child, it appears, whilst snuffing the candle in the ab-
sence of her mother, set herself on fire, and before assistance
had arrived, she was most horribly burnt. The little sufferer
was rolled up in a blanket, and at once -conveyed to Ile
hospital, where death terminated her sufferings thtsmorning.

expunged from the fourth rule of the Society, viz And
that the Society shall on no account interfere in any
election for a Member to serve in Parliament.' "
The announcement of this resolution was received
with loud cheers.

The resolution having been seconded by Mr. B. SMITH,
was then put and agreed to.
Mr. BALL, in a long and energetic address, directed
the attention of the meeting to the comparison of thirty
years of corn-law rule with the thirty years immediately
preceding it. He contended that no person could rise
from the investigation without a strong conviction that
the fluctuations under the corn-laws were immeasurably
less than thcse which prevailed in the absence of any
corn-laws. After alluding to the alarming influence ex-
el-wed by the press and League with the view of anni-
hilating those laws, he moved the following resolu-
tion :

" That the society is most anxious to impress upon
the local protection societies the necessity of supporting,
in the event of an election, only those candidates who
will steadily maintain the present amount of protection,
without political bias or party feeling."
Mr. EVERARD seconded the resolution, which was then
put and agreed to.
Mr. NEWDEGATE, M.P., said he was glad to see so
many men of all parties supporting the Central Protec-
tion Society. The reproach was cast upon a nation of
antiquity, that they never went to market but for the
purpose of cheating one another. Now, the agricul-
turists of England, ho trusted, would never act upon
such a principle. He believed that the people of Eng-
land, in a mass, were incapable of being influenced by
such habits of thought and feeling; and our ancient law-
givers, deeply impressed as they were with the fraudu-
lent tendencies of human nature, had laid the founda-
tions of a system of jurisprudence calculated to check
those tendencies in en extraordinary degree. Upon
these foundations a superstructure of property law
was erected, which far surpassed in depth and com-
plexity the criminal law of this country. It was a
system so vast that none but the mightiest intel-
lect could master it. The operation, however, of that
system upon the national character had not been
without its beneficial effects, and in the name of the
people of England he might repudiate the charge that
they never consulted any interest but their own. Let
the aristocracy look well to every step they took ; if
they once conceded a repeal of the corn-laws, then the
farmers would be thrown into the ranks of the free
traders. Notwithstanding these disheartening circum-
stances, he ventured to persuade himself that the cause
would ultimately triumph. A right and true cause was
one from which they should derive hope, no matter
what talent might be opposed to them, and so long as
they had leaders like the Noble Duke in the chair, they
might confidently go forth and encounter their oppo-
nents ; but to do this with effect, they must organise
their forces, and invite the coolest heads to their
counsels. He should now move the following resolu-
tion :—" That the General Committee of this Society
be instructed to appoint a Sub-Committee, to take into
consideration those measures which the excision of the
latter pert of the 4th rule may render necessary."
Mr. HINDITCH rose to second the motion. He said
that their opponents would find that their union was
strong and indissoluble. Let them remember what they
had lost ; and let them beware how they incurred fur-
ther loss. They had been bound by the new ropes of
the cattle tariff—the green withes of the Canada Corn
Bill had fettered their limbs—but let them beware how
they laid their heads in the lap of the modern Delilah
of the House of Commons, for, so surely as they yielded
to so soft a dalliance, the Philistines of free trade would
be up and upon them.—(Laughter.)
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
_ _

Mr. WODETIOUSE, M.P., rose to inove the thanks of
the meeting to his Grace the Duke of Richmond for his
readiness in taking the chair, and for the ability with
which he had conducted the business of the meeting.
Mr. ST tFFORD 0'13111v( seconded the vote of thanks
to the Noble Dake.

In acknowledging the vote, which was carried with
cheer upon cheer,
The Duke of RICHMOND said it was to him always a
gratification to serve them ; but it was not in his power
to do as much as younger men, who had not had a
musket ball through their lungs.—(Cheers.) He was
requested by the Duke of Buckingham to say that he
was obliged to leave that meeting at an early hour
through important business calling him to the country,
but that he cordially acquiesced in every one of the
resolutions, and was determined to stand to the last by
the flag of " protection"—(Cheers) ; the Duke of
Buckingham had desired this to be mentioned, but was
there a farmer in England who would not have felt cer-
tain that the Duke of Buckingham would not abandon
his position ?—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ball had asked
what the aristocracy would do in the present crisis ? he
(the Duke of Richmond) could not answer for the aris-
tocracy, but he hoped and trusted they would never fail
to remember the lines of one of our poets :
" Constant still in danger's hour,
Princes own'd our fathers' aid;
Wealth and power
Well their loyalty repaid.
" Perish wealth, and power, and pride,
Mortal boons by mortals given;
But let constancy abide,
For constancy's the gift of Heaven."
He believed it was necessary that this country should
have an aristocracy —(Cheers)—and he felt that it was
their duty to come forward and support men whom they
knew to be in the right, fearless of all consequences. If
the aristocracy do not do so, he should not be surprised
if the middle classes despised them, and, in that case,
these had too much English blood flowing through their
veins to follow the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) He consi-
dered protection to agriculture absolutely necessary.
He agreed with all that had been stated there that day.
He believed that the home manufacturer for the home
market was deeply interested in protection. If the
farmer's interest was destroyed, what would become
of that class of our manufacturing population—the
most respectable manufacturers, those engaged for the
home market? Why they would fall in the same ruin
with themselves (the agriculturists). This was no class
or party question, but a question whether England chose
to be degraded into the lowest scale of nations, and to be
laughed at by foreigners, who were much wiser than
ourselves, because they took care to protect their native
industry by their laws.—(Cheers.) He must entreat
them not to slumber when they returned to their
counties. True, the battle was to be fought in the House
of Commons ; and he hoped—but it was impossible in
these days to know to whom they could trust—(Cheers)
—that they were sure of victory ; but let them be pre-
pared what to do in case of defeat. Let an appeal,
however, be made to the people of England, and he
would answer for it the corn-laws would never be
destroyed.—(Great cheering.)
The meeting then broke up, after giving cheers for
Lord Beaumont and Mr. Gladstone.

FIRE.—PRAISEWORTRY CONDUCT.—On Sunday
evening, shortly after dark, an alarm of fire occurred ht
Drury-lane, near Drury-court, and smoke was seen coming
from a shop occupied as a picture-frame-maker's, directly
over a carpenter's shop, in which there was a vast quantity
of shavings and wood, belonging to Mr. Macey, an extensive
builder. The whole neighbourhood was in an uproar, some,
running for the engines, and others for the tradesmen who
have stabling underneath, and in a short time horses, carts,
vans, harness, and everything was being removed. By this
time the parish engine arrived, but was some time before it
could be got to work. Upon the first alarm Molloy, the
well-known chimney sweep, of Drury-court, was immedi-
ately on the spot, and tried all he could with pails of water,
assisted by the neighbours, who handed them one from the
other, to extinguish the fire. Molloy, at the risk of his life,
crawled into the workshop on his hands and knees, and laid
hold of a long-Ipiece of wood and kept knocking off the part to
prevent it extending. At this moment a window which
overlooks the roof of another house was broken in, and the
smoke came out in clou,is ; when it left the workshop a little
clear, Molloy could be plainly seen in the smoke cutting the
fire from a corner of the room. At this critical moment he
run back for the branch of the parish engine, which was now
got to play, when part of the flooring gave way and took the
fire into the carpenter's shop underneath. Molloy then held
the branch and conducted the water through the opening
and put it out; he then left quite exhausted. This is not the
first time he has rendered his neighbours a service of this
kind.

OUTRAGE ON THE GREAT WESTERNRAILWAY.-
On Friday evening, a most fiendish act was committed by
some ruffian on the Great Western Railway. Shortly after
the express train left Swindon, a huge stone was thrown at
one of the first-class carriages. It dashed into pieces the
window, and struck with fearful violence against the back of
one of the centre seats. Fortunately, no one was sitting there.
A reward for the apprehension of the perpetrator of this foul
deed is offered.

NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday evening last,
as Mr. Milne, of Market-street, Cambridge, was crossing the
river t,n Mr. Searle's new ferry-bridge, he fell into the river
up to his neck. It seems the ferry does not reach the bank
on the Chesterton side, but that a small bank is made in the
water at the side of it for persons to step upon. Not being
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yard of the staff,
aware of this, and too dark for him to see, he stepped forward
into the water.— Cambridge Chronicle.
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A CHELSEA PENSIONER'S FUNERAL.-011 Sunday,
non-commissioned officers, and twenty-four privates, in uni-
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form, but without a firing party, as the corps was not out
upon duty at the time of the pensioner's death. A portion of
the expense of the funeral is defrayed by Government, and
the body was carried to the grave on the shoulders of the
comrades of the deceased.
J. H. Campbell, Esq., M.P., for Salisbury, has
kindly given to the Mayor of that city 100/. to be distributed
to the poor of the town. This gentleman, by the death of
his mother, now takes the name and arms of " Wyndham,"
with the estates of his late uncle, Wadham Wyndham, Esq.,
who for many years represented that city.
EXTRACTION OF NEEDLES FROM THE FLESII.--A
striking illustration of one of this class of cases has occurred
in Sheffield in the course of this week. The subject, in this
instance, is a female servant, in the family of Mrs. Heppen-
stall, of Upperthorpe, and about twenty-one or twenty-two
years of age. It seems the young woman was recently under
the care of a medical man, whose treatment produced salt.
vation, subsequently to which she fancied that needles
were slowly progressing from her left shoulder to the arm,
at some depth in the muscular substance. On Monday the
pain became excruciating, and presently one, and soon after-
wards three small needles were extracted from the fleshy
part of the arm ; and on the following morning two more,
with part of a third! They made their appearance partly
above and partly below the elbow, and seem perfectly bright
and uncorroded. Mr. John Heppenstall, who himself drew
out the latter portion of the needles, says that they did not
by any means easily come away; and tliat no blood followed
from the puncture. Next in interest to the curious fact of
the undoubted extraction of so many needles under the cir-
cumstances, is the question, as to how they got into the
young woman's flesh? Of this she can give no account,
having no recollection of ever having either swallowed them
or received them into her body from any external accident;
but she says that sometimes she has felt the pricking of
needles in her chest, while their progress down her arm
was quite perceptible. She states also, that seven years
since, or when about thirteen years of age, she recollects not
fewer than fifty similar needles, and pieces of needles, being
extracted from one of her fingers in the course of a fortnight:
—Sheffield Mercury.

OCCASIONAL SKETCHES-HERE

• AND THERE.
No. VII.
SOME PUBLIC (HOUSE) PORTRAITS "HERE.'
One damp, dull, drizzling, dreary day (there's allitera-
tion for those who are fond of it), in the early part of
last November. I landed near Liverpool, after an absence
of two years from this country. It was a thoroughly
English day, and from the " wet-blaaket" looking sky
large rain drops came down with a dull heavy plash
upon the sloppy ground. The wind and tide had pre-
vented the vessel from getting nearer than ten miles, or
thereabouts, to Liverpool, and so, rather than lie in the
river, almost within sight of port, for a dczen hours,
myself and 'the captain landed in a boat at Formby
Point, and after having tramped wearily over the long
barren sands, on reaching the little inn found, to our
mortification, that the omnibus had left for Liverpool
Just three minutes before.
After having been so long from home, old accustomed
things looked rather strange. Whilst we were waiting
for a cab to be got ready, I sat down in the small parlour
of the small inn. There was no mistaking the Engash-
ness of everything pertaining to it and about it. A por-
trait of the, Queen, so unlike, that I knew directly who
it was meant for, hung on the wall, which was covered
with flaring red paper of a zigzag pattern, which it made
one giddy to look at. A very gaudy ship, on a very
brilliant blue sea, with an inflammatory mountain in an
alarming state of eruption in the background, decorated
the chimney-piece ; and portraits of "jolly sailors,"
in wild ecstasies, jumping out of boats, and " capering
ashore," with purses filled at both ends in their hands,
and bundles. slung upon sticks, which they jauntily
threw over their left shoulders ; and of despairing and
departing mariners, with the forefingers of their right
hands
left
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encircling pointing t o shipst the
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weeping
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p ihe ng sitvaensc eo, their
hei
sen-
sitive sweethearts, were displayed on all sides of the
apartment. Then there were stuffed birds and dried
snake skins ; and pieces of dingy coral, and branches of
sea-weed, like the bottoms of old sieves, disposed weep-
ing-willow fashion over the frames of these pictures, to-
gether with walking-sticks, some of glass, and others,
curiously contrived out of the back bones of voracious
fishes ; and all these " curiosities " had cheerful and
comfortable associates in the shapes of rosy-faced, pot-
bellied gentlemen in the prime of life, who were repre-
sented as in the act of blowing the froth from off the
edges of gigantic pots of porter ; or of smoking with in-
finite relish 's Dutch-cut, from pipes a yard long at
the least.

An omnibus cad was the sole occupant of the parlour
when we entered that tobacco and Burton-flavoured
locality. This gentleman was busily engaged in teasing
a wiry snappjsh little terrier, by sportively flinging at
him a crumpled copy of Bell's Life, and the making
the cur unwillingly bring it back. Occasionally he re-
laxed in his attentions to the dog, and diverted himself
by plunging his nose very deeply into the recesses
of a pot of half-and-half, the traces of whose
travels were to be seen on the cross-legged table,
in the shape of half-dried, sticky rings of partially-
evaporated infusion of malt and hops. The frequent
visits of his lips and nose to the pewter tankard were
alternated by tremendous attacks on a plateful of what
the landlady termed " sandwidges," and which appeared
to be an ingenious compound of dirt, bread, butter, mus-
tard, and meat. Such a " cad" could have been met with
nowhere else than in England. As for his person and
dress, just iniagine a lump of expressionless flesh,
wrapped carelessly in a suit of dingy fustian, with a
sealskin cap at one end, and a pair of " high-lows" at
the other, and you have a description as near as I can
give it.
But the landlady I—decorated with the smartest of
smart caps, with showy ribbons fluttering like streamers
as she moved -briskly about—her trim figure attired
in a remarkably gay mousseline•de-laine dress—and
her clear, sharp voice, ringing like a bell through
the house, and never stopping its clapper for a mi-
nute —she teas a sight, after having stared
at nothing but the stewardess and salt water for the
last twenty days. How she curtseyed as we entered
the hostelry ; and how, when she learned that Captain
C— had just arrived, did she narrate wonderful sto-
ries, quite as strange, or stranger than fictions, of ship-
wrecks which had occurred on the sands right before
her own doors.' Then she was on intimate and familiar
terms with all the captains who came to Liverpool—she
was ; for they came down to " Waterloo" in the sum-
mer-time with their wives, and " used" her house.
Such nice gentlemen, they was, too. Very voluble was
she respecting the cheerful and snug dinners she had
cooked for little parties, and could cook again, if needs
be. " For her own part," she said, " she liked captins
—they was such gentlemanly men —'specially 'Merican
captins ; and 'the mates (she looked interrogatively at
me) they were so genteel." On she went, never stopping;
so to give my ears a little rest, I ordered a bottle of
lemonade, and by the time I had disposed of it the cab
drove to the door.

"Ah ! gentlemen," said the landlady, slyly, " you
should have been here an hour ago, and gone up with
some ladies' maids as left this morning. Wouldn't they
have liked tour company ? The women (a sigh) is so
fond of sailors, somehow. My poor man was a sailor—
but— "

" He's better off, ma'am, I hope," said I, as the car-
riage drove off—the brisk widow, at the instant of our
departure, having thrust a huge Lngravk d card into my
hands, with a hope that we should call again.
We soon entered Liverpool. There it was, just as I
had left it two years before—dark and dirty (they say
it always rains in, Liverpool). As we drove along, lofty
stone warehouses, many stories high, frowned on us
from grated windows and double-barred iron doors.
Ponderous carriages, with broad wheels, drawn
by gigantic horses, and driven by mighty dray-
men, threatened every instant to crush our frail
vehicle. From the main street through which we
were driving, long narrow thoroughfares diverged on the
right and left hands, at every corner of which was a
flaunting gin palace, an gazing down the dim avenues
was to be seen a long perspective of pawnbrokers' balls.
Passing the docks, the captain quitted me for the pur-
pose of going to his agents, and I drove to the Waterloo
Hotel.

I experienced a strange, undefinable sensation, at
once more being in England, for I had never before been
away from it longer than a month. It aas not, I fear,
a particularly patriotic feeling, nor a comfortable hugging
of the idea that England was the only place in the world
to be happy in. A residence in another country had for
me, at least, exploded the popular fallacy that comfort
had any particular local habitation, and was to be found
nowhere Else. I suspect that the blandness which came
over me arose from a gradual sliding into the naturalness
of old familiar things. As I stood before the bright
blazing fire in the coffee-room, before which heaps of
plates were warming up, looked on the sleek, snug
waiters, heard the short, sharp, ready " Yes, Sir," gazed
on the brilliant barmaid, and beheld " Boots," and more
than all, when The Sun of that very morning was placed
in my hand, it appeared to me as if I had just awoke
from a night's sleep, and that the beautiful country I
had so recently quitted—the lakes, the falls, the rivers,
the forests, the sparkling houses, and the pretty women,
had never in reality existed, but had only been seen by
me in some pleasant dream. Let me touch off the waiter
who is just now amazingly busy in moving things out of
their places for the sake of replacing them. He is a
young man belonging to the " nice" genus, of some three
or four and twenty years of age ; and if you did
not see a snow-white napkin under his arm, you
would take him for the probationary pastor of
a genteel country-town Dissenting congregation. He
has a very serious cast of countenance, and his hair is
brushed and combed into the most approved pious pro-
priety. Round his neck is a faultlessly-tied white cravat,
and so tight is it, that when he has to turn his head, the
latter rotates not do the second curvical vertebra, but his
whole body serni4tevolves on the heels of his highly
polished pumps, between which and the edge of his
pantaloons silken hose are displayed. His half-open
vest displays a shirt-front of amazing fineness, and a
small black brooch, most probably the souvenir of some
lady's maid. His movements are rapid and noiseless,
and his voice low *and gentle. Sometimes, in his over-
anxiety to serve you, he gently slides to your table, and
asks, " Did you call, Sir ?" but if you do call. he seldom
hears your summons. He has little respect for common
waiters at common inns, and regards those at mere eat-
ing-houses as beyond the verge of civilisation. For the
barmaid he entertains respect—perhaps esteem. With
the chambermaid he has a distant, very distant, acquaint.
ance ; but for boots, he owns to sentiments of the pro-
foundest contempt. As for the porter, he is a yahoo.
Such is the coffee-room waiter. And now, as a com-
panion sketch, let me try the barmaid.
Ah ! I ought to depict her lineaments with a lady's
golden pen, on embossed and perfumed paper. Reader !
just step with me into her sunctunt sandorunt—the " Bar."
It is a large apartment, glazed on all sides, garnished
with decanters, tumblers, wine-glasses, sugar-tongs, tea-
spoons by the dozen in rummers, squeezers, nutmeg-,
graters, spices, and lemons. In the centre of the room
is a table, on which lies the barmaid's needlework ; her
thimble and scissors are idle now, for No. 56 has rung
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and so, many a gentleman brings her, every morning,
bouquets, which you may see all about the room. Unlike
the genteel waiter, the barmaid is very courteous, though
somewhat distant, to all the under-servants, who address
her as " Miss ;" yet she exacts respect ; and no one—
no, not even the flashy gentleman who goes so far as to
call her by her Christian name—would dare to take a
liberty with her. She is unkissable.. The very master
of the -house, who has a snug chair for himself in the
bar, looks at her with deference. And there she is all
day long, smiling .and simpering, from early in the
morning until late at night, working and coquetting,
tripping hither and thither, always doing something,
and never for a mi'nixte idle, with the pleasant look and
the civil word for everybody—and that is the barmaid.
The chambermaid is come to " show the gentleman
into 49." As we follow her up stairs, we will look out
of both corners of our eyes at her, and sketch her on
some future occasionQ'j -- • • • WHIZ.

The Mercers Company sent on M nday a donation 0.
101. to the poor-box of blarylebone-Police-court.

THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCI-
DENT IN THE ISLE OF THANET.

On Saturday last an inquest was held before T. T.
Lesaux, Esq., Coroner for the eastern division of the
county of Kent, at the Five Bells public•house, in the
village of Minster, Isle of Thanet, on the body of James
liollands, a young man who met with his death on the
works of the Ramsgate, Canterbury, and London Railway.
The Coroner and jury proceeded together to view the
place where the accident occurred. It is near the ut-
most point to which the works have proceeded, and
where the ballast waggons are turned over and the con-
tents thrown out to make the base upon which the rails
are to be laid.

John blonckton, labourer, was the first witness
called. He deposed that on Thursday last he was on a
ballast waggon with deceased, near the tip end of the
line. By the " tip end," witness meant the point
where the waggons were tipped over and the con-
tents thrown out. This was on the extension line
of the South-Eastern Railway, between the villages
of Sarre and Minster. These were eight waggons,
all laden with ballast and propelled by a steam-
engine. They were under the management of a person
named James Armstrong. On arriving at the tip end
the two first waggons turned over the end of the line.
Witness jumped oft; but deceased was thrown to the
ground. The contents of one of the waggons fell over
him, and buried him. Witness, with others, endeavoured
to extricate deceased as soon as possible, but he was
quite dead. Two other men were also partially buried
with him. It was the duty of Armstrong to let off the
steam at the crossing, and of another person to put on
the break on the tender and waggons. There was no
alarm given that he (witness) heard.
Thomas Leach, of Minster, labourer, deposed that he
was working on the line about seven o'clock in the
morning of the day in question. There was a steam-
engine attached to the line of ballast waggons, and he
saw them between Minster and Sheriff's Court. The
engine one, under the management of a driver named
Armstrong. Another man, by the name of Matthew
Gomershall, had charge of the break in the tender.
Witness did not know whether any person on the wag-
gons had charge of the breaks. There ought to have
been some one. The morning was very foggy and dark,
so that witness could not see any person on the seventh
or eighth waggon.
By the CORONER—Did you, when you saw the engine
approaching the crossing at Sheriff's-court, do all you
could to make the driver sensible of the fact ? Witness
—I did, by calling to him, and I am sure he heard me,
for he did all he could to stop the carriages, and so did
the breaksman. There was a decline of about one in
one hundred. The morning was frosty, and the wheels
passed more rapidly than usual over the rails.
By a juror—Deceased was completely buried beneath
the ballast. Witness did not know where they were
until they reached the crossing.
George Low, of Minster, stated that he was at work
at Fuller's-marsh, and from thence he saw the engine
Proceeding at the usual speed. The steam was turned
off by the driver about 200 yards from the " tip." One
hundred yards from the tip the decline commences. It
is a declivity of one in one hundred. Witness gave an
alarm to the men in the waggon, advising them to get off,
which several of them did. The caution would not have
been necessary if it had been an incline instead of a
decline.

Armstrong, the driver, said that the morning was so
foggy that he could not sce ; and until he was upon the
crossing he was not aware of being so near the " tip."
He then shut off the steam, and Gomershall applied the
break to the wheel of the tender.

This being the whole of the evidence,
The CORONER summed up. From the foggyness of
the atmosphere, and the facts that the rails were wet
with frost and thus rendered slippery, and the decline
commencing there, the accident had undoubtedly occurred
from purely accidental causes.
Verdict accordingly. Deodand on the engine 11.