The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-14 00:00:00

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THE SU'N', LON,DON, FRIDAY EYEN'ING, AUGUST 14, 1144 e.:

11ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
THE SEASON 1846.
On Friday next this immense establishment, for six months
the scene of unceasing exertion and toil, will be deserted—
the many hundreds of persons, English as well as foreign,
mentally or mecifanically engaged, will disperse to all quar-
ters of the globe—more than one of the great artists being
destined singly to draw crowded houses in other less privi-
leged capitals than ours.
Lablache goes until the Sth of October to Naples.
Grisi, Mario, and Corelli, after their tour in the provinces,
to Paris.
Casten/in goes to Italy. She is 'offered engagements in
Russia, which she has refused, and another at Milan. She
ppreviouslf goes to enact operas at Dublin and elsewhere, with
Fornasari, Marras, &c.
Sanchiuli is engaged at Palermo.
Fornasari intends, after his provincial tour, to visit
Vermin.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
The directors and proprietors held their usual half-yearly
meeting yesterday, in the boardroom of the Bristol ter-
minus, Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., chairman of the board, in
the chair.

The CHAIRMAN said—lt has now been my duty for a great
number of years to lay before you, in the month of February
in each year, a statement of the progress we have made in
Parliament with the affairs of this company, and in the
month of August in•esch year to report the result of those
proceedings; and upon the present occasion I trust that the
report we have to lay before you will prove most satisfactory,
notwithstanding that our progress through Parliament, in
what I may now call the late session, was carried on under
circumstances of great difficulty and disappointment; and
you will bear in mind that it was the commencement of this
session that the repdrt of the Gauge Commissioners was first
laid upon the table of the House of Commons ; and lithe recom-
mendation contained in that report had been carried out and
adopted by the Legislature, I need scarcely tell you that the
result would have proved deeply injurious to the broad gauge
generally, and particularly so to the interests of this com-
pany.— (Hear.) The Government and the Legislature how-
ever, have not seen fit to adopt that recommendation, for they
did not think it would be wise, or just, or fair to interfere so de-
trimentally as that recommendation, if adopted, would unques-
tionably elo, with rights and property which had been called
into existence and had grown up under the sanction of an
Act of Parliament. .The adoption of that recommendation
would not only have that effect upon the Great Western
Company, but it would in fact operate as a discouragement
to all enterprise and improvement in railways.—(Hear.)
But we must admit that the question was one of great diffi-
culty and embarrassment, fir the Government, in dealing
with it, had to compare and to reconcile a great many con-
flicting interests and adverse statements, and I believe their
intentions were honest, and that they had no desire but to
act fairly by all parties and by the public.—(Hear.) But I
think that the resolutions of the Gauge Commissioners were
premature, for, in recommending the Legislature and the
Government to determine what should be the future gauge
for all railways in this country, due regard should have been
had to existing railways. Of course the intention was to
diminish and do away with the inconvenience attendant
upon two gauges, and though that inconvenience has been
greatly exaggerated, still it must be admitted that great
evils would result from a break of gauge.—(Hear hear.)
But notwithstanding that, the Government and the Parlia-
ment did not deem it of sufficient moment 'to warrant them
in adopting a course which involved a question of such
moment to the future regulation of this important branch of
science, and one of such deep interest not only to this com-
pany but to the country at large.—(Hear, hear.) At the
commencement of our labours in this session we met
with some obstacles and difficulties, but I am happy to
be able to state that these have been more than
counterbalanced by the success which has since
crowned our efforts.—(Hear, hear.) And if you will but for
a moment consider the position we were in at the commence-
ment of the session in February last, and compare it with the
position in which we now stand, I do think you will find
ample ground for satisfaction and congratulation.—(Hear,
hear.) It may, however, be desirable that I should give you
a short outline or summary of those proceedings, which I will
endeavour to do ; and if you will accompany me while I do so
down the Great Western line, you will find that the broad
gauge has been deemed to be the most safe, easy, and rapid
railway that can be constructed, and you will say you have
had every reason to be pleased at the results of our labours.—
(Hear, hear.) Suppose, then, we start from Paddington, the
first opponent we had on our line was the line proposed to
be made called the Direct Oxford line. That project under-
went a most clear and patient investigation by the committee,
and the result was that it wasfound to be a project so full of
engineering difficulties, and the gradients were so steep that
the route by Didcot, though it was admitted to be somewhat
more circuitous, yet it was in fact deemed to be shorter, and
was preferred, and therefore the Committee rejected that
project, and the district through which the line was to pass
is now proposed to be accommodated by a short branch from
our line.—(Hear.) Well, then, in the southern district, and
proceeding westward, we had no fewer than four opponents,
amongst whom were the Richmond and Staines, the
London, Staines, and Windsor, and the Atmospheric,
which was a line proposed to be run from Lon-
don to the west, and on to Newbury, and which
was therefore a rival or competing line to the Great Western,
and every one of those, I have the satisfaction to inform you,
were rejected by the Committees of the House of Commons.
—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, further on the line, we found a
project brought forward for affording a railway communica-
tion between Oxford and Cheltenham. That was one of the
first projects about which we felt anxious, and we felt a deep
regret at its failure; but owing to the vast amount of railway
business which came before Parliament this session, it was
found impossible to go on with it, or to hope that it could be
passed. The gentlemen of Cheltenham felt this, and they
placed the utmost reliance on our good faith, and the result
is, that another company will be formed for the prosecution
of this project, to whom the delay will be advantageous, in-
asmuch as it will afford time for the consideration of a better
plan, and the Cheltenham people will have a line suggested
which will be more in accordance with their wishes.—

Botelli is engaged at Lisbon.
Corbari and Brambilla follow Castellan, and then go to
Milan.
Taglioni returns to her beautiful residence at Como after
a tour in the provinces.
Gratin is engaged at Rome till next season, and has, be-
sides, offers innumerable.
Cerito and St Leon go to Pesth and Berlin, but previou3ly
they will dance at the principal theatres in our great com-
mercial towns.
L. Taglioni goes back to Naples, where she is engaged, but
on her way will dance three times at the Academie de
Musique in Paris.
Perrot, the poet of the ballets, goes to Milan, to produce
some of his successful works.
Mdlles. Honore, Demelisse, and Cassan, to Brighton, and
thence to Paris to study.
Mdlles. Juliano and L'Amoureux remain in England, to
pursue their studies under M. Gosselie, the professor of
choregraphy in the school maintained throughout the year
by her Majesty's Theatre.
Miss James Is engaged at Madrid.
The Rightly lists published, which are always incomplete,
and which can in no other respect deceive the public, will
prove by comparison that up to the present moment the at-
tendance at the Opera this year has been greater than in any
previous season. This is the more remarkable, as the diffi-
culties to be surmounted have been this year great beyond
precedent. The crisis of political affairs, so intense and pro-
longed, absorbed society, and the over-speculation of all
classes in railroads impoverished the affluent, whilst her
gracious Majesty's necessary retirement for two months
naturally threw a gloom over all pursuits of pleasure, and
kept numbers of the most exalted personages in the country.
Illness, on the one hand, and on the other breach of faith,
produced by thirst of lucre, deprived the establishment
of the presence of certain talents expected, and it became
suddenly necessary to substitute new attractions, not only
as great, but, greater. To another adverse circumstance with
which the management has had to combat, we attribute little
importance—we allude to personal enmity and to that
malice which follows, like shirks do men-ol•war, all great
establishments the more prosperous they are, seek-
ing what they can devour. As the greatest light produces
the most numerous, the most eccentric, and the darkest
shadows, so does an institution like the Opera, when it
shines with unwonted eclat, awaken the most intense
and fantastic malignity. The public, however, soon
perceive the cause; fbr fair criticism deals not in abuse and
venom, and mendacious contrast and supposition is a well-
known form of compliment. The headlong inventions,
incalculable in variety and number, such as the soi-disant
rival companies, the stupid assertion so oft repeated, that an
august personage had condescended to take part in a question
of theatrical discipline; that one great artist engaged was
dead and buried; that another still greater, if possible, was
about to marry and retire; that other virtuosi had resolved
not to come, &c. &c.—all these barefaced inventions for a
moment might make one or two of the subscribers hesitate
at the beginning of the season ; but, ultimately, the more
virulent the attacks, the greater was the success. No
artists, and no performances generally achieved such sur-
passing triumphs as those who were the objects of the most
unsparing abuse. We have heard a story of the parents of a
celebrated performer hiring persons to hiss, when they
thought the applause was becoming lukewarm from ex-
haustion, which immediately awakened unbounded enthu-
siasm. We would submit to the attention of managers, after

the example we have had before us, whether under similar
circumstances they should not purchase an enemy to keep
attention alive. .

The Opera, as an assemblage of the most exalted art, and
the rendezvous of the highest fashion, has always been a
source of great interest to our readers. We have conse-
quently endeavoured this year to extend the information re-
garding its progress. In every department of theatrical
art our columns bear witness to our wish to second honest
effort. As regards her Majesty's Theatre, we have felt that,
whether we looked to the past or to the present, to the im-
mense difficulties vanquished, or to the splendour achieved,
our warmest encouragement was due to a management
which has rolled back the adverse tide which for halt a cen-
tury overwhelmed this magnificent institution, and made it,
in a commercial as well as in an artistic point of view, a
disgrace to the country.
Let us now pass in review the events of the season.
The performances during the season 1846, up to Thursday,
August 13, have been:—
Subscription nights...,
Benefits • •••
Extra nights

—(Hear, hear.) I shall now, having disposed of these, take
you to the west, where we bad not the good fortune to carry
the Hungerford Extension and other lines by which to afford
a more direct communication with Exeter and the west; but
in reference to that I have only to say, if it was thrown out,
there were several other projects which shared the same fate
—(
Hear)—and the question is still left an open question,
which may be decided in the next session.—(Hear, hear.)
I feel great confidence in our project for that district being
deemed the most useful to the public, for the object is to
make a shorter line, and I have no doubt it will be passed
in the next session, when a Bill will be also introduced to
amalgamate the lines. We will come before the Legislature
next session with those advantages in our favour—(Hear.)
Well, then, with regard to the Cornwall and West Cornwall
lines they are certainly of great importance in regard to the
relation which they bear to us. The West Cornwall line pro-
poses to pass through a district of country, the most popu-
lous and industrious that exists in that direction, and it will
open up resources of traffic which have hitherto not only not
been developed, but which, in fact, are not yet known.—
(Hear, hear.) It will not only be a means of affording ac-
commodation to West and East Cornwall, but it will also be
ofd rest benefit to the west of Cornwall, as the packet station
, and will be the means of bringinggreat additio'nal traffic upon
our line.—(Hear, hear.) It will be of importance to us, not
only in relation to the immense accession of traffic which it
will bring to us, but nt wilt also be made upon the broad
gauge, which it is now admitted is the gauge which must pre-
vail throughout the whole of the west of England.—(Hear,
hear.) And I cannot quit this part of the subject without
expressing my regret that the Company which was formed
for making a line for the north of Devon have failed before
the Committee of the House of Commons, for that was a
scheme which was calculated to afford ample accommodation
to the whole of the north of Cornwall, and the Taw Vale was
passed, the effect of which will be to throw impediments in
the way of the formation, of more useful and comprehensive
schemes. However, it is impossible that the line can be done
without, for the north of Devon must have the accommo-
dation it requires; and I feel confident that the Great
Western Company will get that line into their hands if you
will only come forward and aid the undertaking with that
zeal and determination to carry it out which have always
marked your proceedings.—(Hear, hear.) I now turn from
the western districts in order to congratulate you upon the
success which has attended, on our efforts in the late most
arduous contest we had with the Oxford Company.—(Hear,
hear.) That contest was not sought for by us in any spirit
of aggression upon our part; it was forced upon us by cir-
cumstances over which we had no control; however our Bill
has passed the Legislature ; it has received the sanction of the
Crown, and it will accomplish all the great and useful pur-
poses for which it was intended.—(Hear, hear.) Well, now,
having disposed of those subjects which occupied our atten-
tion during the past session, I will next take up those mea-
sures which we propose to bring on in the next session, and I
will divide them into three classes : the first of them will be
the short branches, which we propose to make from our own
main line ; the second will be those various lines of railway
by which we propose to connect Exeter and the western dis-
tricts (and here I may mention that this is a subject which
has undergone our most serious and deliberate consideration) ;
and thethird class has reference to the main line from Oxford

45

9
- 10

Total
The following are the opera
performed, and the number of
OPE'
Times.]

s, ballets, and divertissements
times each has been enacted :
RAS.

Anna Bolena
BeHenri°
Barbiere

Times.
Matrimonio Segreto 4
Nino
Norma
Don Pasquale 4
Pirata 1
Puritani
Semiramide , 2
Sonnambula (3 times
only partly)
La Prova
L'Elisire d'Amore 1

Ernaui
Don Giovanni
Don Gregorio
Gazza Ladra ..: .. 1
Lucia di Lammermoor

(partly or wholly) 6
Lucrezia Borgia
_ _

Lombardi
Linda di Chamouni 4

BALLETS AND Di

Alma... 5
L'Aurore
Bacchante
Catarina
Le lire d'un Peiutre 4
Eoline
Gitana
Lalla Rookh l5

to Cheltenham, which is a line of great importance,
inasmuch as it proposes to afford a through means
of communication, by Oxford and the south of Wales,
to London ; and I cannot mention the south of Wales
without remarking upon the great importance which that line
will be to the Great Western Company, in fact, it would be
impossible to overrate the importance of it to our line, not
only in regard to the traffic it will bring to us, but also as a
means of communication with the whole of the south of Ire-
land ; and, therefore, it is of great importance that we should
advance that project by every means in our power; and we
have also the satisfaction of knowing that while we partici-
pate in the advantages which may follow the formation of
that line, the company who propose to undertake the for-
mation, will also undertake all the risk and liability.—
(Hear, hear.) We therefore propose to enter into a negoti-
ation with that company,.the details of which will be laid
before you at a special meeting to be called for that purpose,
before the terms shall be carried into effect.—(Hear, hear.)
Having directed the attention of the meeting to the table of
the income and expenditure of the company for the last half
year as compared with that of 1845, and adverted to the fact
of the company having reduced their fares, he went on to
say that, notwithstanding the reduction of fares, there would
still remain a balance of 189,9561. at the disposal of the share-
holders ; and he would beg of them, at the same time, to
bear in mind the fact that those favourable results arose from
a line which was yet unfinished and undeveloped, and was as
yet reef-lying no tribute from the south of Wales. This
company were now, for the first time, about to get lines of
communication with the coast and the west of England, and
also from Staffordshire and the north, and when these ad-
ditions were taken into consideration he felt assured
that the proprietors would not say he had been
over sanguine in saying that the property would
pay eight per cent, and that in a very short time
they might look still higher.—(Hear, hear.) Now, in
order to meet the expenses to be incurred by the works on
the new lines, it would be necessary to raise a sum of money,
which the directors proposed to' do by means of an issue of
new shares. By the Act of 1844 a line was proposed to
Oxford and Cheltenham as an amalgamation line, the ca-
pital for which would amount to 8,160,0001., and the amount
of shares issued for that line 6,975,0001., leaving about
1,800,0001. to be provided, and which it was proposed should
be provided by the issue of the 171. shares.—(Hear, hear.)
He now came to the consideration of the question of the
liabilities of the Great Western Company. He did not
think it would be necesary for him to dwell upon that sub-
ject
ast at any length ; but the reason he alluded to it at all
because some statements had appeared in black and
white in reference to these liabilities, these " enormous lia-
bilities," as they bad been called. These statements, he
understood, first appeared in a railway paper. Now it might
be considered a matter of bad taste in him, or might be
deemed a dereliction of duty on his part
w
part; but be it what it
might, he should certainly plead guilty to the charge of attention
having •, Bnt his attention
having been called to e statements set forth in that paper
in reference to the liabilities of this Company, he would just
say this : that at the commencement of lastsession the Great
which would make a total of over
having read that pailhr.—(Lau hter
Western Company were to have made the Cheltenham and
Oxford line, for which they were to raise 9,710,0001., and
they were to borrow one-third of that sum, namely,
and that was to constitute the whole of the
liabilities of the Great Western Company.—( Laughter)
—and in that sum was to have been included the branches
he had already mentioned namely, the South Devon
which was to cost 150,000/.
Branch,
aboutu:oo ,030,2031.7,,0001,
; the South Wales
Branch, 560,000/. ; the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth,
500,000/. ; the Cornwall, 75,000/. ; the Gloucester and Forest
of Dean, '25,000/. ; and the West London, 30,000/. ; making
0001. would be more than sufficient for all these e total o 1,340,6001, which would make about 14,000,0001.
Herapath's paper, in which it was set
altogether, though he had good reason for knowing that
12,000,
tilleisliira.bility of the Great Western Company
pur-
poses; and now, he would ask, what was to become of the
the enormous sum of 43,000,0001, sterling?—
(Laughter.)e had been informed that the had
statementsfmrtohuthatted H
secretary
received a letter from a proprietor of the company, in which
the writer stated that he had it " upon authority" that the
....and that he was therefore deterred from making
liabilities of the company amounted to 70,000,000/.
such reports.—(Laughter.) Now,
(Laughter)-and
inveltmento
by

it was impossible for the directors to deal with such shadows
as those reports; but the best answer that could be given
them was to lay before the proprietors the actual state of
the accounts of the company, which accounts were pre-
pared by the executive officers of the company with a de-
gree of care and exactness which, when compared at the
end of every month, did not vary to the amount of even
one farthing; and he trusted that it would not be neces-
sary for him here to say anything in vindication of the
directors of the company.—(Hear, bear.) The directors
were not bound to take any step in vindication of themselves
in respect to any such reports, beyond answering any questions
which might be put to them, but be did think it necessary
to say this much iii vindication of them from such malignant
statements, and to clear themselves from such false and scan-
dalous aspersions as that the Great Western Company had
incurred such monstrous liabilities.---(Hear, hear.) But he
believed the best course to adopt would be, to use no harsher
term than to say that they would treat such statements in
future with silence.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. CHARLES SA UNDERS, the secretary, read the report,
the substance of which was to the following effect :
" The traffic of the Company has continued to increase very
satisfactorily during the last half-year, as compared with the
same period of last year; the comparative earnings having
been 496,428/. 12s. ld., in 1846, against 433,2961. 16s. 2d.,
in 1845. The former sum embraces the receipt from about
twenty-five miles of additional railway, .worked for nearly
four months and a half longer in 18-16 than in 1845. The
expenses on traffic have been heavier than usual, arising
from the necessity of augmenting the establishments of the
company, to carry on the increasing business of merchan-
dise, and especially for the more efficient inspection and re-
pair of the carriages, waggons, &c., having due regard to the
public requirements and the importance of that service. The
result of the half-year, as will appear from the appended
statements, leaves, after providing for all interest on loans
and rents, the net sum of 189,9564 Bs. 7d. disposable
by the proprietors, from which a dividend on the
total sum called, viz., on 4,670,6564 at the rate of four
per cent. for the half-year, will abstract 186,8261. 4s. 9d.,
and leave 3,130/. 3s. 10d. to be carried forward in
the usual manner. An Act has been now obtained for
amalgamating the Oxford and Rugby, Berks and Hants, and
Monmouthshire and Hereford Railways, with the Great
Western Railway, as authorised by a previous general
meeting of this company. The amount required for the con-
struction of those lines may hereafter be created as Great
Western stock, in addition to that which was previously
sanctioned as the capital of the company for the Great
Western Railway, comprising the Cheltenham and Oxford
Railways. As more than one-half of the whole capital has
been paid up since the recent call on the quarter shares, a
formal resolution will be submitted at this meeting to autho-
rise the directors to borrow on mortgage upon the security of
all the amalgamated lines, the remaining sum to complete
the amount of 3,236,6661., which may be raised by such
mortgage debentures. The out-standing calls on shares
already created still exceed the amount required to pay off
those debentures and loan notes which were issued in antici-
pation of calls; but the directors think it expedient upon
this occasion, in order to provide for the construction of the
other lines sanctioned by Parliament, to issue new shares to
make up the capital from 6,975,000/. to 8,160,000/., which
latter sum was the aggregate authorised to be raised in
Great Western shares before the recent Amalgamation Act
passed. To carry this intention into effect, the proprietors
will be entitled to receive a new share of 171. in proportion
for every 1004 of existing shares held by them. The number
of such new shares, in order to bring them within the
Parliamentary sum, must be 69,700, instead of 69,750, to
which may be added five extra shares of 204 each,
to adjust the small fractional difference arising from the
subdivision in their nominal value—which can be easily ar-
ranged in the final appointment of them. It is recommended
that these shares shall be offered to proprietors who may be
registered on the sth of September, and a deposit of 21. per
share be made payable on the 7th of October. The dividend
will be made payable on all calls on the 171. shares, pro rata
with the calls made on any other shares of the company, and
the future calls will be made as the money may be required
for the construction of works. The share capital will then
consist of 25,000 shares, 1061. each, 2,500,0001. ; 28,000 shares,
501. each, 1,400,000/. ; 93,000 shares, 251. each, 2,325,0001.;
37.505 shares, 20/. each, 750,100/. ; 69,700 shares, 171. each,
1,184,9001. Total, 8,160,0001. The broad gauge extension
lines from Plymouth to Falmouth and Penzance, have been
santioned by the Legislature, after a very protracted opposi-
tion, and the construction of them to the most westerly ports
in the Channel, must bring considerable traffic to this line.
The Birmingham and Oxford, and the Birmingham,Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley Companies have already determined,
and given orders to proceed with their works with the ut-
most dispatch, in order to have this second independent line
for a portion of the London traffic opened at the earliest mo-
ment. These important extensions, in addition to those
sanctioned in 1845, cannot fail to insure, in due time, to the
shareholders of this company, a valuable increase upon the
present rate of dividend. In the next session, it is proposed
to apply to Parliament for a short branch line to connect
Windsor with Slough, besides renewing applications for such
of the rails ays already approved by the proprietors, as
may still seem to be required for public accommodation
with benefit to this company.
" C. RUSSELL, Chairman."

YORK, AuGun 13.

STOCK Excluteoz.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Exten-
sion, 24 —Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn), 15s.—Ipswich and
Bury, 9—London and York, 24 —Ditto, Half Shares, 11. 18s.—Man-
chester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 34—Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 28%—Newcastle and Darlington, New, 11%—North British,
39—Ditto, Half Shares, 14%—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 3% —North
Western, 11. Bs.—West Riding Union, s%—York and Carlisle, %.
GLASGOW, ArcusT 12.
STOCK Excusleom. —The sales are—Airdrie and Bathgate, 80s.—
Caledonian, New, 275. 6d.—Caledonian Extension, 325. 6d.— Cale -
donian and Dumbartonshire Extension, 22s.—Clydesdale Junction,
231.—Direct Northern, 335. 6d.—East Indian Railway, 16s.—Edin-
burgh and Northern, 9% —Glasgow General Terminus. 84—Glas-
gow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, New, 381.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle, 36s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 29s.—Great
Indian Peninsular, Gs. 9d.—Great North of India, 6s.—Manchester
and Southampton. 32s.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 70s.—
Scottish Central, 18%—Ditto, New, 8% —Shrewsbury and Hereford-
shire, 7s. 6d.—South Midland, 36s.—Strathern Junction, 395.
Wisliaw and Coltness, 47y,.

THE SUGAR DUTIES.
• HOUSE OF LORDS, AUG. 13.
LIST OF THE MAJORITY ON THE SECOND READING.
Lord Chancellor EARLS. BISUOP.
DUKES. Clarendon
Norfolk Kingston
Bedford Wicklow
MARQUISES. Grey
Lansdowne Morley
Clanricarde St. Germans
Normanby Dude
EARLS. Auckland

ENGINEER'S REPORT.
" Of the three lines of railway sanctioned by Act of Par-
liament last year, and undertaken by the Great Western
Railway Company, namely the Berks and Hants, the Ox-
ford and Rugby, and the Monmouth and Hereford—the two
first requiring no alteration and amendment, have been im-
mediately proceeded with; the works on each of these lines
were let in one contract, and have been undertaken by con-
tractors of experience and responsibility, who have brought
a very large and ample supply of plant upon the ground,
and have shown both judgment and activity in the distri-
bution of that plant, and in the mode of setting out the work
for execution. Difficulties have in many cases occurred in
obtaining possession of land—difficulties which have been
much aggravated by the provisions of the new Acts, which
have so much complicated the proceedings necessary for
obtaining possession when parties are desirous of throwing
difficulties in the way, and creating vexations delays; but
whenever possession has been obtained, the works have been
immediately and actively proceeded with. Upon the Berks
and Hants -Railway, extending from Reading to Hungerford,
and from Reading to Basingstoke, a total length of forty
miles, although some of the land was obtained so early as
last December, which allowed of a commencement of the
works, other portions, and some of the most important, have
not been in our possession for two months. During this pe-
riod, and principally during the last six months, considerable
progress has been made, about one-half of the total quantity,
of earthwork, about 1,250,000 cubic yards, have been exca-
vated, and from the good arrangement of the work, and the
quality and position of the principal cuttings, every facility is
now afforded for the rapid execution of the remainder. The
brickwork and building generally of the various bridges and
works are also well advanced. About seven miles of the line
are ballasted and ready to receive the permanent way. The
timber for this is in course of preparation and carriage to the
spot, and the rails have been already delivered on the ground.
Two locomotive engines are employed on the works in carry-
ing on the earth-work when the lead is considerable, and
every exertion is making to expedite the completion. Upon
the Oxford and Rugby line, of the length of about fifty-
two miles, from many unavoidable circumstances, the
works could not be commenced so early. The necessary
preliminaries were completed, and the contract entered into
last autumn ; but it was some time before sufficient land
was obtained to allow of any real progress. The contractors
have, however, taken possession, and entered ripen the
works whenever they have been able; and I have no
reason to complain of their want of activity or of their ex-
ertions. The works are now proceeding over nearly the whole
extent for 35 miles, and at upwards of twenty seperate cut-
tings nearly 300,000 yards of earth-work have been exca-
vated, and a considerable amount of brick-work and masonry
executed. Bricks are being made at such parts of the line
as afford good materials, and the ballast is being prepared
and set aside at all convenient points. The rails for this
permanent way are in course of delivery, and the timber and
other stores are being prepared at Bristol. Upon the Mon-
mouth and Hereford Railway the same progress has not
been made; at either extremity a considerable portion of the
railway depended upon a Bill for amendment, and also for the
junction or extension into Gloucester, applied for this session;
this last has now passed, and arrangements have been made
which determine the course of the line near Hereford. In the
mean time the works have been set out and all the necessary
preparations made for proceeding, so that nearly the whole
of the line may now be let by contract. The works upon
the two other principal railways, in which the Great Western
Railway Company are most directly interested as lessees of
the line, namely, the Oxford, :Worcester and Wolverhamp-
ton, and the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railways, are
proceeding with satisfaction.

Durham

Suffolk
Scarborough VISCOTINT.
Radnor Hawardeu
Fortescue

LORDS.
Camoya
Beaumont
Calthorpe
Carrington
Lilford
Dinorben
Strafford
Campbell

ALLEGED ERROR IN THE CORN

BILL.
The Lord Mayor having observed what had been said'by
Mr. Villiers, in Parliament, respecting an error in the Corn
Bill, which was likely to occassion injury to persons whom
it was not at all intended to injure, sent to the Corn-market
for information on the subject. One of the principal persons
connected with the trade immediately waited upon his Lord-
ship, and stated, after some conversation on the subject, that,
as Wednesday was market day, the interested parties would
then confer, and decide upon the kind of statement which it
might be most advisable to, lay before his Lordship.
Yesterday a deputation from the Corn Exchange waited,
by appointment, upon his Lordship, and handed to him a
paper of which the following is a copy :
" To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the
City of London,
" We, the undersigned, of the Corn Exchange of this City,
tender to your Lordship our best thanks for the trouble your
Lordship has taken to ascertain the opinion of the trade upon
the manner in which the duties are levied on foreign rye,
peas and, beans, under the Corn Act (9 and .10 Vic. cap. 22.)
"We humbly submit to your Lordship that the measure'
aforesaid is an error, and will work so inconsistently as to
prove a grievance to us and a hindrance to trade.
"The 4th section of the new Act enacts that the averages
of all British corn shall be taken in the same manner as
under the old Act, which manner was, that the rye averages
regulated the rye duties, the pea averages regulated the pea
duties, and the bean averages regulated the bean duties; but
in the schedule to the new Act, it is ordered that the duty on
rye, peas, and beans, shall be, for every quarter, a duty equal
in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of barley, thus
totally neglecting the average prices of rye, peas, and beans,
respectively in contradiction to the said 4th section.
"Now we humbly submit that the intention of the Act was
that the same scale should apply to rye, peas, and beans,
ai to barley, but not that the duty on these articles should
be levied by the average of barley; and to prove the latter
we submit that further down in the Schedule it is ordered
that the duty on barley-meal shall be regulated by that on
barley ; but the duty on rye-meal by that on peas ; and the
duty on peas-meal by that on beans, thus clearly showing,
we submit, that different rates of duty were contemplated
agreeable to their respective averages.
This opinion was signed by the following corn-factors of
the highest respectability
Alexander Ball L. Alexander and Co.

Coventry and Shepperd
Giles, Son, and Co.
Frederick Kerchwall

}faster and Hutchison
Thomas Ruston and Son
.1. and E. Ward

liobt. Wright
W. and J. Woodley
Bolling and Watson
Gillies and Home

King. DSelvil, and Co.
W. W. Landell
Kingsford and Lay
lonides and Co,

Benjamin Bovill T. C. Eliding and Sons
Ashlin and Sons John James and Sons
Robt. and John Hewitson R. and J.Wilson
Dan. and Jno. Birkett and Co. Wm. Fothergill
_ _

Beglin and Young
Robt. Farrand

John Hayes-
T. an4,.1:. C. Woolner

Robinson and Goulding J. K. Brown and Co.
S. H. Lucas John Neill and Co.

Bardgett H. Skipper
Thos. Osborne and Son T. Nixon and Co.
Richard Harris and Sons D. Anderson
William Hill D. Smart and Co.
Henry Dunkin C. J. Heath
C. Douglas and Son C. Francis and Sons
H. Chittendon Wm. Maidlaw

J. G. Foster T. Bax
Smith, Finer and Smith Charles Lester and Co.
Goulding and Ledger B. Rathbone
Wm. Wells H. and E. Muggridge

Philip Browne
B. Smith and Son

S. Plimpton
S. Judkins and Co.

Vogar and Son John Edwards
Ambridge and Andrews G. D. Mitchell and Co.
Hopkinson and Co. T. Palmer
W. Itathbone G. and A. Anderson

West, Green and Sedgw•ick T. Gill
lioffey and Bowyer Wm. Muggridge
M. and T. Love Win. Sholt
H. and E. Downs John Gill
T. Wright John Cowell
James King G. W. Andrews
A. B. Callandar James Boyd, jun.
Randell and Co.

The deputation said that the Act, as construed by the
Board of Customs, would work in a manner directly contrary
to the intentions of the Legislature in framing the sliding
scale, for at the time of the year when the average price of
beans and peas were at the lowest, and the country had the
least need of foreign supplies, the rate of duty would be at
its lowest; and at the time of year when the average prices
were at the highest, the rate of duty would also be at its
highest, and for this reason :—From the month of May to the
month of October, there was no fine barley required for malt-
ing ; consequently the farmers would have threshed out all or
nearly all of their fine barley during the malting season, and
during the months above alluded to, nothing but inferior
descriptions of barley appeared for sale, which reduced the
averages, and raised the duty ; and during those very months
it would be invariably found that the price of bears was much
higher than during the winter months; consequently there
would be a low duty on beans in the winter months, when
the averages of barley were high, and a high rate of duty in
the summer months, when the averages of barley were low.
There would, therefore, be a low duty on beans when
there was the meat abundant supply, and a high duty
when there was the shortest supply ; for, during the winter
months, which were the season for malting, fine barley came
freely to market, and, being sold for high prices, raised the
averages, and during the same months the farmer sent beans
and peas freely to Market ; consequently there would not
only be our own grown produce but a foreign supply at the
same time, to the injury of the agriculturist.
The Deputation exhibited to his Lordship the corn returns
of the day, published by Mr. Joyce, from which it appeared
that the following were the averages of barley, beans, and
peas :

" I. K. BRUNEL."
NUMBER OF SHARES ENTITLED TO A DIVIDEND TO 30TH
alma, 1846.

Capital Amount,
25,000 shares 1001. each, 851. paid......... £2,125,000
28,000 half-shares 501. each, 501. paid... 1,400,000
93,000 quartershares 251. each, Si. paid... 465,000

Fifth Shares, viz. :-
2,118 4/. paid, and both calls deferred
4,432 124 paid, and one call deferred
30,950 20/. paid

8,472
53,184
619,000

Capital called £4,670,856
Four per cent. dividend is £186,826 4 9
GRBEB,AL ABSTRACT OF EXPENDITURE - HALF-YEARLY

Barley. Beans. Peas.
s. d. s. d. s. d.
Six weeks' average ... 27 4 ...... 38 9 35 10
Duty 4 0
The LORD MAYOR said the inconsistency of the regula-
tions, with respect to rye, beans, and peas, appeared to him
to be undeniable, as these articles, instead of being reduced
33 per cent. on the duty, suffered an additional duty of 100
per cent. Such a thing never could have been contemplated
by those who had brought in the Bill.
The Deputation said the Customs read the Act in such a
manner, as to compel the payment of the increased duty. At
Liverpool the duties were paid under protest. They were con-
vinced that the passers of the Act would, upon an interview
with any of the trade, be convinced of their error. Tht
construction put upon the Act by the Customs was in direct
opposition to its spirit.
The Loaf) MAYOR said he would undertake to make in-
quiry, i❑ influential quarters, upon the subject, and enter-
tained no doubt that some means would be adopted, although
the session was almost at its close, to remedy the evil.
The gentlemen of the deputation thanked his Lordship for
the prompt and candid manner in which he had inquired into
the nature of their complaint, which they repeated they were
convinced originated in a mistake.

Yesterday, at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Cadogan-
terrace, was solemnised the marriage of Henry, eldest son of
henry Petre, Esq., of Dunkenhalgh, Lancashire, to Miss
Power, daughter of the late E. Power, Esq., of Gurteen,lre-
land, and step-daughter of the Right Hon. R. Lalor Sheil,
Master of the Mint. The ceremony was performed by the
Right Rev. Dr. Griffiths, Roman Catholic bishop of the
London district.

We learn from the Madrid journals that ineendiarism
is very frequent in Spain. Amongst the recent fires were
several in the environs of Jerez de los Caballeros, where pro-
perty to a very large amount has been destroyed.
THE PENNY-A-MILE SYSTE3l.—Amongst the new
projects of the day is one for an omnibus company to compete
with the penny boats, &c., on the river. It is proposed to
raise 10,000 shares of 2/. each; the deposits to be 2id. per
share ; 100 omnibuses to be put on the roads. The company
has been duly registered, and amongst the startling statistics
of the road it is stated that the net profit on one omnibus is,
if half full, 1751. 38. 6d ; two-thirds full, 3571, 3s, 6d.; full,
7211. sp, 6t1., per cent. per Annum.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS 1 T
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AMER CAN TARIFF'.
MANCHESTER, AUGUST 13. The American news contained in our columns yesterday is
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Nottingham. &a., of considerable importance. The battle of protection has
1 dis.-Direct Northern, N dis.-Eastern Counties, York Eaten- been lost simultaneously in the eastern and the western
sion, 1 13-16 p.-East Lancashire, 8 p.-Fleetwood, Preston, and
While. the last wail over a departed corn-law
Westltiding, 34 dis.-Glasgow and Dumfries, % dis.-Great Grimsby hemispheres.
and Sheffield, 2 dis.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and was resounding in our House of Peers, the accordant elegy
Canal, 1 7-16 p.-Ditto, Extension, %...c. dis.-Kendal and Winder- over a defeated tariff was chanted in the American Senate.
mere. 5/ dis.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, N dis.-Leeds and Whilst here Lord Stanley was making a decorous show of
Thirsk, 4% dia.-Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, ex int., 4 p.- resistance in a hopeless cause, bets were laid with difficulty
Leicester, Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction, % dis.-Liver- in New York as to the division in the Senate. There the
pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and
Southport,
cause of protection was more obstinately defended, and more
h dis.-London and York, % dis.-Manchester, Buxton,
and Matlock, 1-16 p.-Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares hopefully wagered on. There no illustrious General brought
(A), 1014 c. p.-Ditto, ditto (C), 9% p.-Manchester and Leeds, the influence of a time-honoured name And highly-valued
Fifths, b% p.-Ditto, Sixteenth, 83f -Manchester and Southampton, services, to cow the expression of private fooling or thwart
% dis -North British, Carlisle Branch, 2% p.-North Staffordshire,
3 13-16 p.-North Western, 11.95. p.-Nottingham and Mansfield, the advocacy of particular interests. Therefore the senators
spoke and voted according to their consciences or their li P.-Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 1 dis.-Sheffield and Manchester,
in-
Quarters, No. I, 4 p.-Ditto, No. 3, 5-16 p.-Shrewsbury and Bir- terests. And so equally balanced were the chazioit of free
mingham, % p.-Shropshire Union, 15s. Gd. dig. -South-Eastern and trade and protection, that even after the votes ou 'distinct
Dover, Halves, No. 4, % p.-South Midland, 11-16 p.-West Lan- divisions were known, the final result could not be- .safely
cashire Coast, 16s. dis.-West Riding Union, 3 1-16 p. prophesied. A majority of 28 to 27 eventually decided st
LEEDS, AVGLTST 13. measure of consummate importance to all engaged in COI3I-
- Exciustoz.-1 he sales are-Eastern Counties,-York Ex-
tension, 13f p. -East Lancashire, 8% c. p.-Huddersfield arid Man- mercial transactions with America, which means to ev.try
cheater, 1% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 42% c. p.-Leeds and Dews- nation of Europe. Henceforth the principle of duties OF
bury, 414 p.-Ditto, Extensions, ss. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 3% c. protection must be considered as abandoned in the United
dis. - Manchester and Leeds, Extensions, 2/. 16s. Gd. p.-Newcastle States. The duties which remain, insuWent to compass
and Berwick, 12% c. r.-Newcastle and Darlington Junction Ex- the objects of protection, are quite itigh enough to insure a
tensions, 10/. Bs. Gd. p.- Norfolk, No. 1, 204-North British, Carlisle
West revenue to the State, ranging as they do from 20 to 40 perBranch, 51s. Gd. s. p.-York and North Midland, East and
Riding, 12/. Is. 6d. p.- Ambcrgate, Nottingham, and Boston, 17s. 6d. cent. on their value. The alteration in the American twin
dis.-Buckinghamshire, ss. dis.-Direct Northern, 14s. 6d. die.- cannot but be regarded as a great triumph gained by the
Grand Union, 12s. dis.-Leeds, York, and Midland, 335. 6d. die.- principles of free trade. A new country presents fewer ma-
Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 10s. dis.-Lancashire, Yorkshire, terials for civil dissensions than an old one. Classes are less
and North-Eastern, 28s. dis.- Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland. 16s.
Gd. dis.--Leicester and Birmingham, 18s. Gd. dis.-Leicester and distinctly marked ; caste has fewer external symbols, what-
Bedford, 1 Is. 6d. dis.-London and York, 9s. dis.-Malton and Drif- ever may be its esoteric signs, in a republic like the States.
field Junction, 9s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, But, besides this, every new State inherits the commercial
20s. 6d. p.-North Staffordshire, 31. 12s. p.-North Western, 7s. p.- doctrines of the older kingdoms of Europe. They all have
South Midland, 15s. p.-South and Midland Junction, 17s. 6d. dis. irherited some portion or another of the "commercial
-West =Mg Union, Si. 35.-Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 38s. dis. system" which Spain first employed and after wards im-
HULL, Aucusx 13. ' parted to England and France. This hereditary prejudice is
STOCK Excitant-E.-The sales are-North British, Half Shares,
14'4-Ditto, Carlisle, 775. 6d.-Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos- confirmed by a spontaneous impulse. A false knowledge is
ton, 355.-Buckinghamshire, 2s. dis.-Guildford, Fareham, &c., 5% pressed into the service of a natural ambition. Each new
-Leicester and Bedford, 10s. fid.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres- State desires to produce everything independently of all
ton, 3% p.-Malton and Driffield Junction, 12s. p.-North Western, other nations. It wishes to anticipate the fruits of many
ss. Gd. p.-North Staffordshire, 3% p.-Welsh Midland, 18s.-West generations. It in the first place induces many to transfer
Riding Union, 514 -Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 12s. 6d.
NEWCASTLE-UPON -TY l's E, AnotisT 13. their industry and their capital from natural and obvious
SToCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Caledonian, New, 13y dis...- sources of wealth, and then it forces the others to remunerate
Eastern Counties, New, 7% p.-Leicester and Tamworth, 11s. dis. an unnatural employment by an unnatural sacrifice. It im-
-Lancaster and Carlisle, 34 dia.-London and York, 6s. dis. -Man- poses a tax upon every consumer in the State on purpose to
chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 20s. p.-North Staffordshire, 31. Bs. 9d. repay the cost of an artificial production. With the hope of
p.-Newcastle and Berwick, 12% .p.-Yorkshire and Glasgow encouraging industry, it fosters monopoly; and professing to
Union, 41s. dis.
extend commerce, it strikes it with a fatal blow. An error of
this kind must, sooner or later, be found out. The benefit of
a few will not conceal or palliate the loss and the injury of
the many. There has long been in the United States a
party anxious to realise the doctrines of free trade.
Their efforts have been resisted by the indifference of one
class and the selfishness of another. But when the first
commercial people in the world flung away the tethers of an
obsolete prejudice, and courted the competition of rival in-
dustry, then the friends of free trade in every quarter of the
globe gained confidence and hope. A new movement began;
its first fruit is the modification of the American tariff. The
principle which most peculiarly marks the new Act is a good
one. Whilst it reduces the duties on articles of necessity, it
in some instances raises, and in others leaves untouched,
those on luxuries. It thus gives to the poor man the oppor-
tunity of exchanging his labour on the best terms to him-
self; while it compels the rich man to purchase on terms
most profitable to the State. It destroys a mis-called pro-
tection ; it continues a productive impost.-Times.

COMMISSION or LllNACY.—Yesterday a commission
de lunatic() inquirendo was opened at the White Hart Inn,
W itham, Essex, before F. Barlow, Esq., Commissioner jlt
Lunacy, and twenty-one special jurors, to inquire into the
state of mind of Elizabeth Perry, aged 55, a maiden lady
daughter of the late celebrated Thomas Perry, Esq., of Stret-
hall, Essex, and niece of T. Wilford, Esq., of Elmsden, Essex,
from both of which she has derived large landed estates in the
county, as well as considerable personal property. The com-
mission, which was unopposed, was taken out by the next of
kin, and in its support appeared Mr. Aspinall, of the Chancery
bar; and Mr. Burdett, of Saffron Walden, as solicitor. It
appeared that the unfortunate lady first manifested this de-
fection of her mind in Dec., 1843, by wandering from home
and talking very incoherently, and frequently obscene, to
persons she met, and to whom she was unknown. She WAS
subsequently removed to Mr. Timpkins's, the prbprietor of
a Lunatic Asylum at Witham, where she had sittcaremained,
and throughout had laboured under the delmlicmg that inr-
sons were continually talking to her and of her, though no
one was present. Miss Perry was introduced at the corn
mencement of the inquiry, and paid considerable attention to -
the evidence. Her answers to the Learned Commissioner's
questions fully bore out the evidence, and the jury returned
a verdict, dating the unsoundness of mind from the 20th of

January, 1844.
THE LATE STORM.—At a meeting of the inhabitant
householders of the liberty of Saffron-hill, held last night,
to take into consideration the loss of property by the poor of
that neighbourhood, in the late storm, it was resolved to

raise a subscription to compensate their losses. The good
work was immediately set about, and a committee appointed
to collect subscriptions. Mr. Buckle, jun., stated at the
meeting that his list already amounted to 1001., which will
go one-third of the way to replace the 3001. which the poor
of that neighbourhood are said to have lost.

THE ROYAL ASYLII3I OF THE ,ST. ANN'S SOCIETY.
=Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, a half yearly general court
was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to receive
the report from the committee, and to elect, by ballot, five
girls and seven boys from a list of thirty-one girls and sixty-
seven boys. Mr. Bright in the chair. The secretary read
the report, which stated that the society was now incorpo-
rated, and in it the especial thanks of the committee were
expressed to the Duke of Cambridge, who presided at the
late festival; and to his Highness the Pacha of Egypt, for
his liberal donation of 50/. The report was received and
adopted, and the election took place.

SIB CHARLES WETHERELL.—The accounts received
last night of the condition of Sir Charles Wetherell, by Sir
B. Brodie, who returned to town, are favourable. He has
recovered his senses, and, though still in a dangerous state, is
expected to recover. _

. •
THE BENEFIT OF AN EXAMPLE.—A few days ago,
Justice Erie, at Bodmin, thus addressed an unhappy girl, who,
under frightful circumstances, had been indicted for infanti.••
_ .

cide, but-was acquitted of the charge, and found guilty of the
concealment only. The judge said—" Not to add reproach
to you, but to hold you up as an example to others, I feel
bound to pass upon you a severe sentence." And the
sentence was two years' imprisonment. Now, in the name
ofjustice, if.the girl, for the crime committed by herself, did
not deserve so severe a visitation, why, we ask, should she
suffer as an' example" to others ? To miler for, a crime
committed is justice, but to suffer only that others may be
deterred from evil, is to be a martyr, and not a culprit,—
Punch.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER. - Yesterday her Majesty
the Queen Dowager completed her fifty-fourth year, having
been born on the 13th of August, 1792. Her Majestyiii
tradesmen illuminated as usual.

MILITARY FLOGGING. -- A numerous meeting of
the inhabitants of Hammersmith Was held last night, at
which a petition to the Houses of Parliament against flog-
ging in the army and navy was unanimously agreed to. The
petitioners also called attention to the present mode of en-
listment, and prayed the House that some means should be
taken to secure a fair compact between the soldier and the
Government.

RICHMOND RAILWAY AND THE INHABITANTS op
MOIITLAYE.—At a meeting of the inhabitants of Mortlake,
held in the vestry-room yesterday, Lord Fitzroy in the chair,
it was resolved to take counsel's opinion as to the obstruction
of the carriage-way caused by the Richmond Railway, and
to act on that.

A COLLEGIAN REGULARLY CLEANED OUT.—Yester•
day's Government Police Gazette contains the particulas of
the robbery from the person of the Rev. Edward Brumell, of
St. John's College, Cambridge, of a silver watch with a black
ribbon, and a small gold ring attached ; a brass key fitting
the watch, a mourning ring, with the words, " In memory
of" on the outside, and inside, " Richard Brown," with the
date of his death; a solid fine gold filed out key seal, with
blood stone, beautifully engraved with a head of Socrates:
a green silk purse with steel rings and tassels, containing
four half-crowns and two shillings, a steel ring, to which
were attached seven or more small keys, two latch keys
rivetted together, from which the handle 'ring had been
taken off; a card case containing four or five cards with the
name and address of the Rev. loser; a volume, " Laneton.
Parsonage," and a pair of black kid gloves. It is not
known by whom the robbery was committed.
THE HOUNSLOW FLOGGING CASE.—MEETING AT THE
NATIONAL HALL —Last night a public meeting for the
purpose of expressing an opinion on the recent affair at
Hounslow, was held in the National Hall, High Holborn.
Mr. J. Watson in the chair. He was averse, he said, to
flogging of all kinds, and in fact to soldiers of all kinds, and
lie hoped to see the day when no soldiers would be needed.
in any part of the globe. Mr. Moore moved a resolutioza
expressing abhorrence and indignation at the late flogOrk
and calling for energetic exertions to put down the punish-
ment. Mr. henry Charles Wright, an American, and a
zealous member of the American Anti-Slavery
and said spoke strongly against the practice of Ilogging,
of
name auk
his own country, that he would repudiate. the
United States
oSsttatf::osuhroari
a slave auction, where 'a humaft creature is, tx,
wave over
Y, and the jury.
posed for sale. Mr. g
American so long aswtrhi
received. Mr. Parry proposed a resolution, applauding the
ehfit'asgaddress of th e
The resolution was seconded by Mr. .7S eesom, and carried
conduct of the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, T. Wakle
with vehement cheers. The third resolution, proposed by
Mr. Holyoak, and seconded by Mr. Brook, was to the effect,
that the military powers possessed by the aristocracy of this,
country, for the purpose of maintaining their own unjust:
privileges and monopolies, are highly injurious to society at
large. The resolution was carried with great applause, and
the meeting, which throughout had been very orderkis,
broke up.
ROBBERIES IN THE METROPOLIS.—The ft:Moran
robberies have been reported to the metropolitan polleA since
Monday last :—From the residence of the Earl of C:farendon,
Grosvenor crescent, Belgrave-square, a gold engine-turned
double-cased watch, initials LG., the preperty of the
Countess of Clarendon, by a man who stated that he was
sent to repair the injuries in the skylight, caused by the late
storm. From the Ship public-house, IValcot-place, an oil
painting of her Majesty, '24 by 14, which was cut out of the
frame hanging on the wall. From the shop of Messrs. Mun-
ster, Snow-hill, pawnbrokers, six engine-turned gold watches,
" Binns," maker. From the Ship public-house, Chandosft
street, Covent-garden, a quantity of plate. From the house
of Mr. Gwilt, architect, Union -street, between 500 and 600
Roman coins, and a silver snuff-box, presented to Mr. Gwilt,
in admiration of his able restoration of the beautiful specimen
of early English architect:a-re, the Ladye Chapel, St. Saviour's,
Southwark. Frain the house of Mr. Muddeman, Davies..
street, Berkeley-square, a valuable gold watch. From the
residence of Mr. St. Leon, Rathbone-place, several dresses.
From the shop of Mr. Wyatt, Ebury-street, several gold
watches, the whole of Geneva manufacture. From the pro-
mises of Mr. Weston, Hyde-park-gate, a quantity of wear-
ing apparel. From the house of Mr. Mason, Adelaide-place,
various articles of silver plate. From the house of Mr.
Long, Old Gravel-lane, wearing apparel. From the house
of Mrs. Melton, New Peter-street, four 101. and four 51. Bank
of England notes. From the shop of Mr. Larand, watch-
maker, New Bridge-street, Vauxhall, ten silver watches.
From the Park Chapel, Chelsea, the entire fittings of the
communion table. From the Antelope, public-house, Ship..
street, Shoreditch, a cash-box, containing 34/. in gold and
silver. From the shop of Mr. Rubens, hosier, Oxford-street,
several dozens of silk handkerchiefs. Besides numerous
other robberies of a minor description.
FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN 'AGED
FEMALE.—On Tuesday afternoon, between one and two
o'clock, an accident of a most frightful character, and
which has been attended with fatal consequences, occurred
to an elderly female, named Rebecca Foster, living in the
neighbourhood of Smithfield, under the following distressing
circumstances :—lt appears that the unfortunate creature,
who was in her seventieth year, was, at the time in ques-
tion, proceeding along Goswell-street, and in the act of
crossing over to the opposite pavement, when a carrier's cart
came up at a smart pace, and before the old woman had tt;
to escape she was knocked down, the wheels passing o
tanco
her. The driver stopped immediately, and
as
up and re-
having come forward, the- deceased was picked
tic/ where she
Bartholomew How
► moved directly to St. Bar
ours
after her admistuoll.
expired in dreadful agony a few hx
end 6,0001 in the ha.
m
It has been determined to
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