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GO3IEBY, Esq., and carried unanimously:—

That this meeting having had submitted to it the arrangement for
the amalgamation of the Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle-
upon-Tyne Junction Railway, and the Lancashire and North York-
shire
.Rail way Companies, does approve thereof, considering the same
to be conducive to the interests of the shareholders in this Company,
and in acco: dance with the powers vested in the Directors.
THOMAg ROBERT WILSON FFRANCE; Chairman.
It was moved by ALEXANDER GEORGE GRAY, Esq., seconded by
JOHN MONTGOMERY Esq., and carried unanimously:—

That a vote of thanks be given to the Chairman for his able con-
duct in the chair.

22, Parliament-street, Westminster, May 22, 1846.

LANCASHIRE AND NORTH YORKSHIRE
RAILWAY.

At a meeting of the scripholders in the above Company, held at
the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, on Thursday, May 21st instant,
duly convened, and constituted in pursuance of the Sessional Orders
of the Houses of Lords and Commons ;
JOSEPH ST. JOUN YATES, Esq., in the Chair;

It was moved. by JOSEPH ST. JOAN YATES, Esq., and seconded by

JA)IEs .Aunis,Esq., and resolved :=

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That this meeting of holders of scrip, and bankers' receipts
representing scrip, in the original Lancashire and . North
Yorkshire Railway Company, convened and constituted ac-
cording to the Sessional Orders of the Houses of Lords
and Commons, having had submitted to it a copy of the Bill now be-
fore Parliament, for constructing a railway from the Leeds and Brad-
ford Extension Railway to the Richmond branch of the Great North
of England Railway, and for incorporating the shareholders in the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle. upon-Tyne Junction Rail-
way Company, and the shareholders in the Lancashire and North
Yorkshire Railway Company into one one Company for carry-
ing out such undertaking, does approve thereof, and does
authorise and request the Directors to prosecute the same
in the present session, and to introduce or submit to the
introduction therein of such alterations, modifications, and addi-
tional provisions as they may deem expedient or conducive to the
success of the undertaking, and to the interest of the shareholders.
For further proceeding ........ 29,318 shares
1 Against it ....... ...... ....... 300 „
It was moved by WILLIAM Gums, Esq., seconded by B. RAND, Esq..
and carried unanimously :
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That the Chairman of this meeting and the solicitors of the Com-
pany be authorised and requested to affix their respective signatures
to the said Bill, and to any certificate of the holding of this meeting
which the forms of Parliament may require.

1 It was moved by JOSEPH ST. JOHN YATES, Esq., seconded by W.
BEVAN, Esq., and carried unanimously :
That this meeting having had submitted to it the arrangement
for the Amalgamation of the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-
upon-Tyne Junction Railway, and the Lancashire and North York-
shire Railway Companies, does approve thereof, considering the same
to be conducive to the Interest of the shareholders in this Com-
pany, and in accordance with the powers vested in the Directors.
It was moved by CHRISTOPHER CROFT, Esq., seconded by Timatas

Tonn, Esq., both of Richmond, and carried unanimously

That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Committee of Ma-
nagement for their valuable services.

JOSEPH ST. JOHN YATES, Chairman.
31, Princess-street, Manchester,
May 22, 1846.

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, and NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION, and LANCASHIRE
and NORTH YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANIES.
At a Meeting of the Scripholders of the above Companies, held at
the Palatine Hotel, Manchester, on Thursday, the 21st of May inst.,
(Italy convened and constituted in pursuance of the Sessional Orders of
the Houses of Lords and Commons ;
HENRY HOULDSAVORTH, Esq., in the chair;
It was moved ,by HENRY HOULDSWORTU, Esq., seconded by JOSEPH
ST. JOHN YATES, Esq., and carried unanimously :
That this meeting of holders of scrip and' bankers' receipts, re-
presenting scrip, in the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne Junction Railway, and the Lancashire and North Yorkshire
Railway Companies, convened and constituted conformably to the
sessional orders of the Houses of Lords and Commons, having
had submitted to it a copy of a Bill now before Par-
liament, for constructing a railway from the Leeds and Bradford
Extension Railway to the Richmond Branch of the Great North
of England Railway, and for incorporating the shareholders of the
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway
Company, and the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Railway Com-
pany, into one Company for carrying out such undertaking, does
approve thereof, and does authorise and request the Directors to pro-
secute the same in the present session, and to introduce or submit to
the introduction therein, of such alterations, modifications, and ad-
ditional provisions as they may deem expedient or conducive to the
iRCCCSS of the undertaking, and to the interest of the shareholders.
It was moved by Thomas It. WILSON IFRANCE, Esq., seconded by

THOMAS BROADBENT, Esq., and carried unanimously :
That the Chairman of this meeting and the solicitors of the Corn-
lany be authorised and requested to affix their respective signatures
to the said Pall, and to any certificate of the holding of this meeting
which the forms of Parliament may require.

H. 116CILDSWORTH, Chairman.
The Chairman having vacated the chair, and the same having
been taken by Christian Alihusen, Esq.,
It was moved by J. ST. Joari YATES, Esq., and seconded by Tuostas
itormaz WILSON FFasatcu, Esq., and carried unanimously :
That a vote of thanks be given to Henry llouldsworth, Esq., for
his able and impartial conduct in the chair.

CHRISTIAN ALLHUSEN, Chairman.
Parliamentry Offices, 22, Parliament-street, Westminster,
May 22, 1846.

RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE.

NIELASmSRoNS;;,
RaiLlwAuldsoh NDAu,ctionSeeMrs,AbeLgEt:
thank their
Friends and the Public for their continued support and patronage,
and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c.,
take place every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at One o'clock, at the
Hall of Comlueree, Threadneedle-street, London, to which place
favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully
requested to be addressed.
All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa-
mination et least one day previously to their being offered ; and
advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale,
an t the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions.
Offices, Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London.

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corn-laws under whatever circumstances might arise. From
these facts, then, we say that Sir R. PEEL'S early majorities
in the present Parliament were not constituted upon the ex-
clusive principle, as is now, for party purples, alleged by
the protectionists. Again, we do not see that Sir R. PEEL
should have appealed to the country last November any
more than he should now. The Parliament once elected, is,
by the Constitution, considered competent to decide, free and
unfettered by the electoral body at large, upon all matters
affecting Church and State, except when the Crown, of its
own especial prerogative—which is generally exercised
under the advice of its Ministers—chooses to remit the
Members to their several constituencies by a dissolution.
Such is the theory of the Constitution. To depart from
it would be to convert the 1-14 use of Commons flan being a
eliberative assembly into a cha:aber of mere delega,es.
The present House of Commons wa:: not convened ut t .e in-
stance of Sir ROBERT FEEL Looking to th-, disruption of
political ties of some standing certain to follow the i..tro
ducti n f tra measures which, in November, he had decided
to be imperatively called for by the exigencies of ti4e empire
—to the storm of invective with which his former agricul-
tural adherent; threatened to assail him—w e can readily
imagine that, if the stf,te of public affairs had not been im-
minent, and personal feeli gs h.d alone been consulted,
the Minister would not hwe been loath to have re-
commended a dissolution towards the close t f the pas!
year. But as this wc.s not done, as the P. rliament
was not his own, we cannot conceive a greater triumph of
reaso4 than that, under such circumstances, the House of
Commons should have passed his measures by an over-
whelming majority.

The argument of no appeal having been made to the
country comes with a very bad grace from the landed mo-
nopolists. Between the resignation and re-instatement in
office of Sir R. PEEL the protectionists had the opportunity
of forming a Government. They declined the responsibility.
Had they embraced the opportunity they would have had
the power in their own hands of effecting a dissolution. The
truth is, they little expected that Lord JOHN RussELL
and his party would give the honourable support they
have to the Government. We consider, therefore,
the argument for a dissolution cannot come with
any force from the agriculturists—they are, in fact, out of
court. Should the House of Peers by their vote unhappily
precipitate an appeal to the country, the Government will
assuredly accept the challenge, and will do so with every
advantage derivable from the masterly expositiim that has
been given in Parliament to the principles they have advo-
cated, advantages which they would not have possessed.
had the advice of the Duke of RICHMOND been adopted in
November. But we believe the House of Lords will hold
discretion to be the better part of valour, and that this ses-
sion will yield to us the incalculable benefits of commerce,
liberated from the shackles which have so long impeded its
healthy action.

Yesterday, at the second anniversary of the Society for the
Improvement of the Condition of the Labouring Classes, the
Noble Chairman, Lord AsithEv, characterised the filthiness,
the dilapidation, and the confinement of the dwelling-houses
inhabited by the poor as " the great and crying monster
evil of the day." Within the limits of that brief sentence
are comprised, according to our thinking, the woful degra-
dation, both physical and moral, of many thousands amongst
our countrymen. Viewing the matter in its simplest light, let
us ask ourselves,whether the bodily abasement of the poverty-
stricken does not constitute in itself an almost irresistible in-
citement to a proportionate degeneracy of their more elevated
and spiritualised attributes as men? "Whether squalor, and
nakedness, and habitual hunger, are not generative of the
most demoralizing impulses? Whether a human being so
far steeped in wretchedness as to lead a life of sullen de-
spondency must not, in due course of time, im-
bibe from those very feelings of despondency a
spirit of reckless depravity? Our answer is in the
rags and drunkenness, the nauseous odours, and the blas-
phemous ribaldry which are common to so many dens in our
metropolis, at the very moment these words are being
scanned. Born in these loathsome scenes, nurtured in them
from a sickly childhood to an emasculated maturity (though
this too literal epithet looks like a paradox), the population of
these districts become naturalised as it were in
vice. They have sucked in the germs of immorality
almost with the maternal milk, they are ever sur-
rounded—not from the cradle to the grave—but from
their first squalid covering to the workhouse death-pit, by
contamination of the most depraved and insidious character.
These are literally the unfortunate race mentioned by the
romancer as

" Sodden in steaming courts,
And drunken, hungry dens!"

Never breathing the pure atmosphere of nature, never in-
haling the hopeful and elevating truths of religion, without
the warnings of good precept or the allurements of good
example, it becomes no matter of astonishment that
criminality should become, so to speak, the actuating
principles of their existence. A hereafter, is, if ever
dreamed of amongst them, merely a theme for deri-
sion; a hope of better times, seeing that they have
never experienced anything but want and misery, ap-
pears to them an impossibility; even the GODHEAD is a
name to swear by—nothing else! These are facts
which may be proved any day for the trouble of
a walk; they are the dark truisms of London life,
the fillers of our police-courts, the visitors of our peniten-
tiaries. Now it requires no very extraordinary capacity to
demonstrate from all circumstances that these effects, though
flowing undoubtedly from divers causes, are mainly attri-
butable to ONE; and that predominant cause is no less an
one than the nature of the scene in which these vile
spectacles are evolved. Houses crowded together in
dense numbers, and with little regard either to order
or ventilation ; rooms scarcely twelve feet square, and
yet harbouring sometimes nineteen persons, men, women, and
children, huddled together without any care for decency or
any distaste for dirt :—thess are the description of dwellings
is which the poor lose every natural feeling of
self-respect. Good and evil, right and wrong, are here
tither confused with each other, or actually inverted;
and the necessary consequences of this diseased state of
society are that the progess from petty larceny to more
heinous offences is rapid beyond conception—almost as rapid
as the spread of fever and other contagious maladies among
them. The statistics of these parishes are of them-
selves incontrovertible arguments as to the' accu-
racy of our conclusion ; as from them it appears
that where 202 square yards may be calculated as the area
appropriated to each individual, the annual mortality is one
in forty-nine, whereas, in quarters of the metropolis, where
thirty-two square yards can he alone estimated for each inha-
bitant, the mortality is absolutely one in thirty-six. It is,
however, needless to resort to Arabic figures for
an enforcement of our argument, since the most
ordinary intellect must be conscious on reflection that
no elevation of thought, no purity of principle,
nothing immaculate and nothing peculiarly exalted in
the shape of moral excellence, can be looked for by
any rational man amidst incessant privation, indolence,
intoxication, sic, and uncleanliness. Such an ex-
pectation would be in defiance of all possibility—it
would be contrary to the assurances of experience. Be-
holding these things, and knowing their actuality, it be-
comes a solemn duty, imperative upon every citizen,
to strive individually and collectively for their cor-
By encouraging such institutions as the one
ever which Lord ASHLEY yesterday presided, and
by divulging the real fountain from which all
these abominations flow, the evil may be purged away, and
a wholesome system substituted. Asphalte pavements,
wooden pavements, shop-fronts, and statuary, are not the
only improvements desirable in London : a moral sewerage
is, if possible, more requisite than an actual sewerage.

rection.

Accounts from Lisbon have been received to the 10th
instant. The Government were in the greatest alarm. For
three days the soldiers of the garrison had been under arms.
Several arrests had taken place—among those arrested
are Baron DE VILLARNOVA DE FoscoA, late Minis-
ter of Finances, and M. LEONZI. TAVARNs, ex-
Deputy and editor of the Patriot. Orders had
been given for the arrest of Viscount SA DA BAN-.
DEIRA and of Count LAvnAnio, but they had timely
notice, and were enabled to effect their escape. The latest
date from Oporto is the sth. On the preceding day the in-
surgents entered the town, and disarmed the guard at the
Library, but were driven back after an engagement, in
which several were killed. A new battalion of the Muni-
cipal Guard, formed by CABRAL, refused on the sth to march
—they would not give up their arms—they were at-
tacked, and when the mail came off there had been fighting
for two hours. There is every probability that by the next
packet we shall receive accounts of the pronunciamiento of
Oporto.

The directors of the Bank of Oporto having declined ad-
vancing 10 contos (60,000 f.) to the Dictator Curran, he
cast them into prison, and took by force 80 contos (480,0000
and deposited them in the Savings' Bank (caisse economique).
All the telegraphs of the north, as far as Coimbra, are de-
stroyed.

Lieutenant-Colonel TABOADA, who caused the inoffensive
inhabitants of Villa do Conde, as well as the prisoners, to be
murdered, has paid dearly for his sanguinary acts. A party
of the insurgents has entrapped him and his column into an
ambuscade, and shot them every one.

Madrid papers of the 15th have arrived.
The Herald() declares that General NARVAEZ, has at the
urgent request of the QUEEN', accepted the Embassy to
Naples.

The papers announce the appointment of Senor ANTONIO
GIL DE ZURATE to the office of Director-General of Public
Instruction.

The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 15th.

--ms.
We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
The Chamber of Deputies were engaged during the whole
of the sitting of Wednesday in the discussion of the Budget.
The Courrier Francais says :—" ACouncil of l‘linisters was
held yesterday. It sat fora long time, and was exclusively
engaged in the consideration arising out of the application
made by Marshal 13noxAun and which was introduced by
General AIAGNAN. No final decision was come to, and the
Council adjourned
till the 25th, by which time important
dispatches from the Duke D'AumALE are expected to arrive."
It was supposed that the trial of LECOMTE would com-
mence about the 26th of this month.
According to the Constitutionnel, the Emperor of MOROCCO
is anxious to discipline his infantry and artillery after the
European manner, and that he has applied to the Govern-

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1846.