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MANCHESTER, NOVEMBER 2.
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Oxford-r a
-Eastern
tern Counties, York Exten-
sion, p.-Ditto, No. 2 (late Liverpool,
STOCK Expan.c_llllNi
gingham
Birmingham, rr h e
sOirmskirk, and Preston), 3% p.- Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 dis.-
Goole, Boston,.toafioyir
Stamford,
G le Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 5-16 dis.-Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Extension, 1% dis.-Iluddersfield and Manchester Railway
.--East Lancashire,
3% p. _Ditto, Extension, IA p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 274
dis.-Ditto, New, 2% dis.-Leede, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 5%
and Birmingham, 76 c.-Ditto, Quarters
a_nLdoCndaonna,l,
Matlock, I c 3
Manchester, Buxton, and
.. C. _
p.- lanehester
(C). 'l4; P.-, -North British, Extension, 15-16
and Leeds, Extension, 1 p.
011 h in Birkenhead, &e., 188. Gd.
p.-
North Staffordshire, 2 1-16 p.- ( a .
Ditto, Halves (A), 4 3-16 p.-Ditto,
Manchester.
dis.-Preston and Wyre,
ditto (B), % c. P•- d's -West Riding Union, 1 7-16
Union Railway and Canal, 5-16 C. i •y
dis.
Sheffield and Lincoln, I C. dis.-Shropshire
Whandale (late North-Eastern), 4
P.- LEEDS, NOVEMBER 2.
• • otam nd Oxford
Lancashire,June-
-414 p.Ditto, Blackburn end Pres-
tion, 5% P.-East
_ii
-Ditto, ditto, No. 2 (late Liver-
pool,ton, 4 p.-Dlito, No. 1, New,3
Eilistpand West Yorkshire, 30s. dis.-
Huddersfield EXCIIINGE.-The sales are-Birm. iff, a
Ormskirk, &c.), 4P.
p Leeds and Bradford, 43% p.-
Leeds-Huddersfield and Sheffield,•%Dit.to Branches, 3% p. s.-Ditto,
and Dewsbury, 6% c.
nd Thirsk, 3% dis.-Ditto, New, 2%
Huddersfield and Manchester,33% p.-Ditto, Extensions, 225. 6d. p.
Extensions, 2s. Gd. dis - Leeds a
dis.-:Manchester tl
-blidland, New, 1() p.-Newcas e
ton, Matlock, and Midland, 1 P.
li uarter Shares (late Carlisle
and Berwick, 13 p. -North Britis , Q
),
and Leeds, Extensions, 21s. p.-Manchester, Bux-
18s. 6d. p.-North
Branch), G3s. c. n. p.-Ditto, Extensnicotnon
i , (scrip% dis.-York and New-
Staffordshire, Midland, Preference, 7 p.-
castle New, 12% p. -York and North Staffordshire, 2% p.
Amber ate, Nottingham, and
Ditto (East and West Riding), 14 p.
g-G1 ow and Bum-
Boston, ss. p.-Direct
Northern, 175. 6d. dis. asg
-Wilearfdale
,Ju
York, 10s. dis. s.-
Wakefield, and Midland, 16s. dis.-London and
Western, Gd.
Alaltcri and Driffield Jurptlan, 10s. p.-North
Dum-
fries, 20s. dis.--Great Eastern and Western, 33g. 6d. dis.-Leeds,
dis.-
Oxiord, Witney, and Cheltenham,
195. 6d. dis.-Shropshire Union,
% dis.-West Riding Union, 3% dis.
HULL, NOVEMBER 2.
STOCK EXCIIANGE..-To-day our market has been very brisk, and
of
dm
all our quotations are consequently higher. Strong buyers of North
British stocks at prices marked, were active up to tie close
busi-
ness. North Staffords, Ambergates, and North Westenis close arek:
The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, &c., 2/. 18s.-B1
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 20s. dis.-East Lincolnshire, 225. 6d.
-d
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, Branches, 2% p.-Leicester an
Bedford, 165.-Lo don and York, 2-Manchester, Buxton, and Mat-
lock, 16s. 6d. p.-North British, Quarters, 735. ex n.-Ditto, New
Quarters, scrip, 20s. 9.1.-North Staffordshire, 40s. p.-North West-
ern, 225.-Shropshire Union, 4s. Gd. dis.--West Riding Union, 31.93.
YORK, NOVEMBER 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-London and York, V. 13Q ex
div.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 2% -Newcastle
and Berwick, 33 ex div.-North British, Half Shares, 104-Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 3/. 175.-Ditto, Extension, I/. 145.-North Stafford-
shire, 4/. 25.-West Riding Union, 3/. 95.-York and Carlisle, %-
York and Newcastle, New, 171. I Is. 3d.-Ditto, Preference, 31. 18s.
9d. p. -York and North Midland (East and West Riding Exten-
sion), 19 -Ditto, Preference, 7% p.
EDINBURGH, OCTOBER 31.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 17-Caledonian,
23% -Ditto, New, 445. 6d.-Direct Northern, 345.-Dundee and Perth,
New, 8 % -East Indian Railway, 15s. 3d.-East of Fife, 245.-Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, lialves,l9-Edinburgh and Northern, 14-Ditto,
Newport, 655.-Great North of Scotland, 7-Great Southern, Ma-
dras, Gs.-Madras, Nellore, and Arcot, 35.-North British, 36% -
Ditto, Quarters, ex new, 725. Gel.-Ditto, New Quarters (scrip), 31s.
Gd.-Scottish Central, 20 % -Scot ti sh Midland, 12 -Stirlieg and
Dunfermline, 215.-Strathern Junction, 565. 6d.
GLASGOW, OCTOBER 31.
STOCK Excuswor.-The sales are-Airdrie and Bathgate, 873. 6d.
-Caledonian, New, 445.-Cornwall and Devon Central, 3Gs. 6(1.
-Dundee and Perth, New, 575. Gd. p.-East Indian Railway, 15s.
9d.-Edinburgh and Northern, 14-Ditto, Newport, 645.-Glasgow,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 681.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan,
toll.la, d2ra2:,. Nellore,6d._No ratnild
British,
,383.63,1.--13)
28s. 6d.- Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland Junction, 315.-Great
Neloiersttleirof
aSicidotlasioili,tils.-p
Halves, 161.-Ditto, New Quarters, scrip, 30s. 6d.-Scottish Central,
11
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20%-Stirlingshire and Midland J unction, 54. 6d.--strAtilOarn June-
-1 Wu, 575.64.

common candour, who roads the dispatch, can regard
this as anything but an improper use of the word
pretext " for just " ground," or some such equivalent
expression. Ido not believe that any one of the persons
who have harped upon,this expression really thought Sir
Charles Napier used it in the sense they have tried to
affix to it. I cannot ask you to i epriat the whole dis-
patch ; I can only beg of you, or any persons who may
be willing to enter on the subject, to read the document
itself, in p. 361, No. 379, of the Parliamentary Blue
Book, and you will find the whole context opposed to
the criminal sentiment Mr. Sullivan and others have
tried to establish from this incorrect expression. Sir
Charles had not maintained that he only wanted "a
pretext," for he does not use the word in any previous
part of the dispatch. This apparent inconsistency in
his own letter would suggest to any candid person a re-
ference to the previous passages and the general context
for the true interpretation of the word "pretext." In
them he rests our right to enforce or alter the treaties,
on the ground of the breach of them by the Ameers; he
further points out the benefits his proposed policy would
confer on them and their subjects, while he thought the
rigid observance, on our part, of the existing treaties
would be impossible, under the state of insecurity that
the hostile disposition and the vicious government of the
Ameers, together with their repeated breaches of treaty,
had produced. Throughout the dispatch he places the
right and the justice of coercive measures upon the re-
peated violations of the treaty by the Ameers ; and the
policy of such measures upon the benefits that would in
time accrue to all parties, and upon the moral certainty,
as he believed, that these measures would finally become
inevitable, after much intermediate evil. He repeatedly
calls Lord Ellenborough's attention to the question,
whether the measures proposed were "just," "honest,"
" humane," " dishonourable," " harsh." He speaks of a
"fair pretext," and, however inaccurate these terms may
be, a "fair pretext" certainly cannot be intended to
mean afoul one. Sir Charles Napier showed the dis-
patch to Colonel Outran], who " concurred in all he had
said in the foregoing paragraphs," and gave him fuller
local information, in consequence of which he goes more
fully into various points. Colonel Outram also made
written remarks (p. 368, Blue Book) on the dispatch,
and the whole were sent to Lord Ellenborough. Neither
by spoken nor written words does Colonel Outram ap-
pear to have objected to this ill-chosen term, or to have
suspected that it could be perverted as it has been. It'
there were any shadow of foundation for that interpre-
tation, Colonel Outram is as guilty as Sir Charles
Napier. Further, Sir Charles's folly must have been as
daring as his immorality. He knew Lord Ellenborough
only as Governor-General (be has not to this day seen
him), yet he scrupled not, according to the interpreta-
tion of Mr. Sullivan and others, at once to declare to
him that he was only seeking for a pretext to commit
injustice. He broadly proclaims his own iniquitous de-
signs to all the authorities he was serving under—to the
Governor-General, to the East India Directors, and the
Ministers of the Crown—and he confidently addresses
Lord Ellenborough, as if sure of his ready acquiescence
and participation in the iniquity. Such are the absurdi-
ties into which the headlong malice of his traducers
have led them. Their interpretation is incompatible
with the whole context of the dispatch, with the suppo-
sition that Sir Charles Napier had common sense,
or caution, or regard for his character, or any belief that
Lopdeorscdees,El
s sufficient
object to becoming accomplices in his infamous
plans. In this instance (as in several others) Sir Charles
Napier made a mistake in composition, and it has been
caught at, not for criticism or ridicule, but to be used as
a false witness against his humanity, justice, and honour.
If he erred in language, they have sinned in morals; but
it is better to break Priscian's head than the ninth com-
mandment.
Mr. Sullivan, according to the reports in The Sun and
the Morning Herald, says that Sir Charles Napier "had
acted diametrically opposite to the orders received from
the Governor-General, but prize-money to the amount
of e
were fearful incentives to a monstrous ' "
In the Times the words are, ~his proceedings were in
instances many
• tances in direct opposition to the Governor-
General's instructions, and the catastrophe was brought
about by his abuse of plenary instructions. Prize-money
to the extent of 50,000/., a governorship of 10,000/. a year,
i600y,0 00f0/
n ~ a governorship of 10,0001. a year, the colo-
a regiment, the insignia of the Bath, and a
peerage, iniquity.
regiment, the insignia of the Bath, the thanks a
and of Parliament, and a •
Company peerage in prospect,
these were fearful temptations to hold out to a man in
such circumstances."
Whatever were the actual words used by Mr. Sulli-
van, there can be no doubt that the above reports do,
in substance, and unequivocally, impute most wick, d
and detestable motives to Sir Charles Napier. Mr.
Sullivan, in the Times of the 6th instant, in reply to
Captain Henry Napier, says he did not attribute
•
motives to Sir Charles Napier. Now, I attach little

The Bombay Times does not perceive that Sir Charles
Napier could hardly make the contractors buy grain from
him at an excessive, when they could get it at a moderate,
price in the open market; nor, if the prices were the same,
that what the contractors paid could not be excessive; nor,
further, if it i%eacemtenruet,ththaet tghaeincotno thetrac intosrspdaeidrelan,eneuxe beingcessi
excessive
price, and got it back from the commissariat, that there is
I:itpaly d°ublecounterbalancedpayment,
by the increased cost of the commis
sariat. It must surely be the precipitancy of passion that
has betrayed into such absurd assertions the intellect that
Dr. Buist tells us himself superintended the magnetical,
meteorological, and astronomical establishments at Bombay
t The Court of Din ctors published another Blue Book,
taditTenertiently paged. I always refer to that laid before Parlia-

" For two years have our columns contained exposures
of the dishonesty, recklessness of truth, injustice, and
cruelty indulged in by the General who effected the con-
quest of SinclE." " Colonel Outram has at length Come be-
fore the world, and made an exposure of profligacy and po-
litical incapacity on the part of Sir Charles Napier
which far surpasses aught that has appeared in our co-
lumns." " Our limits will not permit us to trace all the
acts of violence, all the infringements of ratified treaties,
all the flagrant breaches of most solemn promises, all the
falsehoods, quibbles, and evasions in which Sir Charles
Napier indulged, but we implore such of our readers as
have not already perused Colonel Outram's work to do
so with the utmost care." . . "Its (truth's) beams will in
due course of time dissipate the mists which now screen
this great bad man from the contempt and indignation
of his countrymen." . . . " The Horse Guards may
continue to caress the General whom the humblest private
serving under him can taunt with falsehoods; Ministers
may throw over him the mantle of their protection; and
the nobles of England may deem it no derogation of
their honour to associate and acknowledge their con-
nexion with a man convicted of every disqualification
for a British officer save cowardice and military unskil
fulness; but the moral sense of Britain will, we fetid con-
fident, ere long, assert its claims, and express itself with
an energy which will cover with confusion the criminal
and his abettors. Melancholy as are the revelations
made by Colonel Outrun in the first part of his com-
mentary, they are trivial in comparison with those which
the continuation of his book will place before the public.
Hitherto the reader has but known Sir Charles Napier
as a violent and tyrannical oppressor of the weak and un-
resisting, and as the reckless promulgator of fictions it
remains for Colonel Outram to exhibit him, and we trust
he will not shrink from the duty, as the falsifier of dates
in support of charges which he knew to be unfounded'.
And yet we shall be told that he is an honourable man,
chivalric, and a hero! a fit associate of England's aris-
tocracy, a credit to the knighthood, worthy of the
Duke's regards, and far from a disgrace to that army
whose soul is honour, an army that would ignominiously
expel from its ranks any humbler man convicted of one
of Sir Charles Napier's many deliberate departures from
truth."

How am I to reply to such accusations conveyed in
such language ? If I should say that the inventors,
writers, and propagators of them are some of the foulest,
falsest, and most calumnious of scoundrels, though it
would be a mere dry exposition of a fact, in barely
adequate language, yet my own self-respect—that which
is due to you, to your readers, and to the good taste and
feeling of society—must forbid such forms of contro-
versy, though just indignation might authorise them.
But oven if such respects were overborne by the strong
impulses of contumelious wrong, and although few among
the just and generous would blame me severely, yet
mere prudence would compel me to abstain from a mode
of contest in which I must be finally defeated by those
who can draw their facts and their language from that
" pure well of English undefiled," the Bombay Times.
Under these denunciations I must leave leave Sir
Charles Napier to such consolation as he may find in
the support of the Horse Guards and the Duke of Wel-
lington, the protection of the Ministry, and the counte-
nance and society of the aristocracy of England. When
the troops under him, and his countrymen at home, re-
cognising the Bombay Times as the exposition of their
sentiments and opinions, shall declare their " contempt
and indignation" at this " great bad man," it will be time
enough to defend him from this " wide mouth"—
" That speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke, and bounce."
The confidence the troops under Sir Charles Napier
must have in the truth and opinions of that paper will
he apparent from the following statement. In tLe
Bombay Times of 6th May, 1843, an article appeared
headed " The Ladies of the Ameers' Zenanas ;" and
concludes thus, " where are they now ? They, who
threw months since were sharers of a palace, and in the
enjoyment of the honours of royalty, are the degraded
Lemans of the Feringliee ! So it is, the harem has been
defiled ; the last drop of bitterness has been mingled
with the cup of misery we have given the Ameers to
drink, the heaviest of insults Mahomedans can endure
has been heaped upon their grey, discrowned heads."
And so it proceeds in the same strain, explicitly saying
" the most attractive of the ladies of the Zenana now
share the tents of British officers."
The officers appealed to Sir Charles Napier f.r pro-
tection to their characters, and for permission to answer
the charge. He not only consented to this, but addressed
the officers in writing, confirming every word of their
denial, while he indignantly exposed the utter falsehood
of this slanderous fabrication. The whole transaction is
fully stated in pp. 514-19 of General Wm. Napier's
" Conquest of Sinde." The appeal to Sir Charles Napier
was signed by above 100 English officers, of all ranks,
whose names are there given. The rottenness which Sir
Charles Napier then laid bare has since never ceased to
exhale its pestilential odour.
Sir Charles Napier's military conduct is declared by
Messrs. Sullivan and Thompson, on the authority of
Colonel Outram, to have been in many instances insane.
I cannot pretend to give any opinion on such matters,

* Published by Ridgway.

f On 15th February, it was not a " camp," but Colone.
Outram's residence as agent. The error is of no moment, ex.
cept as allowing Mr. Sullivan's inaccuracy.

with the exception of Meer Shadad, to be entirely
guiltless of all participation direct or indirect in that
attack, but, I know further, that to their protection I
owed my life." Let me here appeal to the common
sense of your readers, to ask, if any man is entitled
to declare, in this unqualified manner, that none
but Shaded took any part " direct or indirect" in
that attack ? How could Col. Outram know this? Would
the declaration of the parties themselves be conclusive
in his, or anybody's judgment? Yet on such evidence
he acquits them, and condemns Sir C. Napier. More-
over, Colonel Outram left Sinde on the sixth day after
this attack. Three of those days were spent in actual
warfare, and I take leave to doubt whether, between the
18th of February, the day on which the Ameers sur-
rendered, and the 21st of February, when Colonel Outram
left Sinde, he had many opportunities of investigating
this matter, or availed himself of them. .But if he relies
on the evidence of the Beloochees (and what other can
he have?), is similar evidence to be wholly omitted or
rejected when it directly contradicts his assertions? At
the end of the supplementary Blue Book, pp. 136, &c., it
is stated that Meer Nusseer, of Khyrpore, and many
chiefs of lesser note, were there—Meer Mahomed Khan,
a cousin of Shadad, was wounded at the attack on the
Residency (p. 510 Blue Book). Meer Nusseer of Hy-
derabad is said to have ordered the attack the night be-
fore; Meer Sobdar is also said .to have desired Meer
Gholam Shah, who was in his service, to join in the at-
tack. This evidence (with the exception of that relating
to Meer Mahomed being wounded) is given by Meer
Gholam Shah, his brother, Meer Fuzzil Ali, nephew of
the chief Ameer Mahomed, and by Meer Bijjur, the
brother-in-law of Shaded. Why is Colonel Outram's
alleged knowledge of the perfect innocence of
all the Ameers except Shadad to outweigh the ex-
press evidence of these men, as to specific acts ? Are
these questions to be decided by Colonel Outram's broad
and absolute assertions of his knowledge of the Ameers'
innocence, and that in the teeth of opposite evidence ?
Really his mode of proving his case resembles that of
the counsel, who said, " My Lord and gentlemen of the
jury, Sarah Huggins is indicted for stealing Mary
Thompson's cap. She did steal it, did'nt she, Mary ?
Yes, sir.' rhat's my case, my Lord."
In the same page (5), Colonel Outram says,
"a
waad
of my own, the youthful Ameer Hoossam Ali, entrusted_
to ma by a dying father, and that father a staunch friend
of the British nation," Ise. Here is another daring
the
asser-
tion totally opposed to evidence in heeßluL chiefo
Book,
passim. This father was Noor ho
Ameer
throughout
eansryo
uProbt P
iottinger's time,
os and
sedvees
rcici be, danbyd
I give a few, anp d but a fewg , ex
unprincipled
•
tracts from Sir Henry Pottinger's opinion of Noor. In
eerin
Sir
enemy.
p. 32, Blue Book, he says, " Noor Mahomed has conti-
nued to evince the same suspicious, unfriendly, and des•
picable conduct." P. 35, " The great difficulty I have
in arriving at any positive conclusion as to what Noor
Mahomed Khan will do springs from his utter and
abandoned want of either truth or shame." P. 38, "It
seems to me very evident that Noor Mahomed's object
and hope were to gain a declaration from me, that we
would support him against his relations, and then to have
turned them against us." P. 39, " His perverseness, no
doubt, partly proce ,ds from his innate suspicious and
treacherous disposition." "It is impossible to trust his

* Supplementary Blue
fills memorandum is the very dispatch of the 17th of
October, 1842, in which the misuse of the word " pretext"
occurs; and he enlarges upon several points in it in conse-
quence of the opinion then given by Colonel °arm

At the time he arrived in England a rumour also came
that a second battle had been fought and that Sir Charles
Napier was killed. I tried to see Colonel Outram, who
had brought letters from him to myself and several more
of his family. By mere acc'dent I did not see him then,
or at all, but I wrote a note to ask if he could give any
information respecting this painful rumour, and I ad-
dressed him as what I then supposed he was—the true
and warm friend of my brother. I now copy his answer,
which I then kept as the words of a friend. I can still
draw some friendly services from them.
"E'en drops are welcome from a scanty spring.'
Let it be remembered that all the events had taken
place when this letter was written. Colonel Outram and
Sir Charles Napier had parted, and have never since
met. The wicked policy and its deadly issues were
known to him who foresaw its crimes, and denounced its
iniquity, but bad worked with the author of them, and
who was now about to unfold this dark volume before
the eyes of the Government, and not to keep it alto-
gether closed from the public.
" Dear Sir,—l only received your note late last night
on my return home, and regret much you should have
been so long in suspense regarding your noble brother,
who is, I confidently trust and believe, in good health,
and doubtless victorious. The only information we re-
ceived in Bombay up to our departure on the night of
the Ist of April was that brought by a native cossid to
Corachie, alluded to in the Times. The addition of his
death originated God knows where, but certainly not
from the only source it could have arisen from, had it
been true, for I saw the dispatches from the authorities
at Corachie, containing all the information they bad
received, and, with the exception of the cossid alluded
to, whose information they reported, no other commu-
nication had been obtained.
" However Sir Charles and I differ on Indian politics,
he is, I consider, the dearest personal friend I have ;
and I should mourn his loss almost as much as any
member of his family. But I have no fears on the score
of the reports you allude to, although I certainly fear
that the worry and exposure he will be subjected to, in
the conduct of his most arduous task, in such a climate
as Sinde, must severely try his health.
" I am, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) ".1. OUTRAM.
" 10, Maddox-stfeet, Tuesday morning."
How are such words to be reconciled with his con.
duct ? Was Sir Charles Napier " his dearest personal
friend ?" Did Colonel Outram really think him my
" noble brother ;" and would he indeed " have mourned
his loss almost as much as any member of his family ?"
Or was he, as Colonel Outram's " revelations to the
home authorities" (then made and now avowed and ex-
panded in his work) would imply, the author and per-
patrator of a policy wrought out by insult, fraud, and
murder, to its unrighteous ends of conquest and spa&
tion ? Do such words as " however Sir Charles and I
differ on Indian politics," suggest that there was any
such gulf between them as that which divides violence
and fraud from humanity and truth—oppression and
war from protection and peace ? Did Talleyrand utter
a jesting scoff or a bitter truth when he said that "len-
, guage was given to us to conceal our thoughts ?"
I am, Sir, &c.,
Dolgelli, North Wales, Oct. 26. RICHARD NAPIER.

_
RAILROAD CIFLAPLcr ---,The Rev. Yate Fos-
brook, .
committee appointed at the
general
month to consider the best
means of providing
religious instruction to the labourers
smecereetitarrlgy.
e
employed on the lines of railway passing through the
that in answer to the careful inquiries
called
h last
t
county, reported,
it was evident that there were quite sufficient labourers
employed on the two lines in connexion with St. Ives to
warrant the immediate engagement of a chaplain. The
present amount of subscriptions was 75/., but many per-
sons known to be friendly to the object had withheld
their subscriptions from an understanding that the nuns
ber of labourers employed was too small to require the
services of a chaplain at present. The committee were
consequently authorised to proceed immediately to the
appointment of a duly qualified chaplain, and to engage
with him for his services during such a period as shall
appear to them advisable. They were also requested to
solicit the pecuniary assistance of the several landowners
through whose property the projected lines were about
to pass. The services required of the chaplain, in ad-
dition to the usual Sunday services, were understood to
consist in visiting the sick and disabled, and in instruct-
ing the labourers generally, in such ways and at such
opportunities as should 1:oe found practicable, especially
during the long winter evenings.—Cambridge Chronicle.
METROPOLITAN AND SUBURBAN BENEFIT BUILDING
SOCIETY.— A numerous and respectable meeting took
place on Monday evening at the London Coffee-house for
the purpose of carrying out a project formed by several in
fluential gentlemen in the City for instituting a society
of the above description upon terms more equitable than
those usually afforded to the members. The chair was
taken by W. Lake, Esq., of Fleet-street, and the secre-
tary, surveyor, and directors having been duly elected.
the meeting proposed to apportion the shares,. which
the number of several hundred were at once dut...

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