The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOND9N, MONDAY IN G. MARCH 046.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCI-
E 11IFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.
A patent denier. in aid of the ituiloting fund of the
City of Westminster Literary, Scientifie, and Mucha-
nes" Institution, took place on Wednesday evening, at
the Freemasons' Tavel n, Great Qeeen-street. By the
report, which was circulated amengst. the company, it
appe ;red that, although the institution had beet. most
prosperous in its operations. and the amount of
donations most liberal, there was still a debt ot
1,2331. remaining on the building in Smith-street. The
probability of the " short-hour" system being speedily
adopted in the metropolis seems to have suggested to the
active anti intelligent committees the necessity of mak-
ing an effort to liquidate the debt referred to, with the
view of providing ler the increased demand which it is
to be hopei will hereafter be made by the industrious
classes tor the means of instruction and amusement which
mechanics' institutions are so well adapted to impart. 4
The chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, at half-past six o'clock, and amongst the numer-
ous and highly respectable company assembled we 4313-
serv. d Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Dean of West-
minster, the Rev. U. Milman (Rector of St. Margaret's),
Rev. J. Jennings (Rector of :St. John's), Sir Roderick
Murchison, Sir De La3y Evans, M.P., C. Hindley, Esq.,
M. P., Messrs. Broadwood, Major- General Evans, Sir
J. C. Wood, and Mr. W. Johnson.
The usual loyal and patriotic toasts having beta
drunk with all the honours,
The LORD NiAYOft rose, and called up in the compafet
to drink a bumper to the " Army and Navy," to which
Sir DE LACY EVANS responded, and in doing so took
occasion to eulogise institutions like that which they
were met to support. He observed that they sprung
m the people, arid were peculiar to the couetry and
the times in which we live. They had tended greatly
to promote the intelligence which characterised the
people of England, and insured the further intellectual
dteehtpmen. o' all ranks of societv.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR then Rave "The Health of Charles
Shaw Lerevre, F. Speaker of the House of Commons,
and Pre:Peet of the Westminster Institution," which
was drunk with warm applause.
The CIIAIRMAN next gave, "The Vice-Prcsidents and
ether officers ot the Institution."
The Rev, H. MILMAN, in retuning thanks, passed a
high eutngium on the Westminster Mechanics' Institte
mon, and at some I, ngth expatiated on the benefits it had
eonferted on the district in which it was situated, and
the a ivanerges to be derived from such institutions by
the c enneinty at large. Institutions of this kind might
be made a very great element of peace in a state of so-
ciety where there were at least sufficient subjects tending
to an opposite direction.
The LORD MAYOR gave, " The Dean and Chapter of
Westminster."
Dr. BIICELAND (Doan of Westminster) returned
thanks, aid co .grsouiated the meeting en the great
extent to which information had of late years spread
arming the industrious classes, which he attritaved very
much to the spread of institutions of a kindred character
to that which they were now ce ebratiug. The Rev.
Gentleman cercluded by proposing " Lord Robert
Grosvenor, Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. C. Hindley, and
the other Members of the House of Commons."
Lord R. GRosvENoR acknowledged the compliment
in a bum fetus speech, in which he drew an amusine
contrast between the Hense of Comeiorts and its nightly
debstes, and the Westminster Literary Institution mid
its weekly lectures.
The Secretary, M. W. H. TRAICE. here read a list of
the subscriptions at the table, which amounted together to
nearly 5001, and included 211 each from the Lord Mayor,
Lord R. Grosvenor, and Messrs. Broadwood ; 31/. lOs
from the Messrs. Jackson, and several donations of 10/.
and sums of a smaller amount. The secretary also an-
itounc d that Mr. Ilindley, M.P., would join thirty other
gentlemen it paying the residue of the debt. (This an-
nouncement was rfceived with every mark of applause,
and immediately eleven gentlemen followed Mr. Hind-
ley's example.)
The Lord Mayor's health having been drunk with
great enthusiasm, and the other toasts disposed of, the
company separa•ed at an early hour, highly pleased with
the evening's entertainment.

HAMBURGH MAIL.
CRACOW, MARCH 9.—Perfect tranquillity—that i what
is called :ranquiility—now prevails in our city. All possible
measures are taken, on the part of the Allied Powers, to re-
, press any idea of resistance to their ordinances. In the city
' couedry det laments (S militaiy go about and take away
wha' aims they find. The clergy are deeply implicated in
ail thee affairs. This evening seven waggons, with p iso-
ners, were brought in under a military escort. In the city
itself, 172 pet sons were to-day ilesignated as to be arrested.
On the whole 150 have been hitherto arrested. Negotia-
Gins respecting Cracow are going on very actively. Co-
lonel Van Hohe, of the 10th Regiment, is appointed Com-
missioner on the part of Russia.
Many Polish women, whose husbands have been killed,
or have fled, are gone out of their minds—Silesian Gazette.
CRACOW, NiAttCli 11.—The city is for an indefinite time in
a stite of siege. The Senate is dissolved, and a council of
administration appointed instead; which, however, chiefly
consists of the members of the Senate. Carriages with
prisoners are brought in early; the prisoners think them-
selves fortunate when the escort is composed of Prussians,
by whom they are well treated. The Russians and Austrians
are more disliked. Business is at a a stand still, and every-
thing is very dear. The insurrection of the peasants in
Gallicia is said to be spreading. Troops continue to be sent
from this city to that country. Travellers affirm that some
parts of the province are like a desert; from the frontiers of
Cracow to Lemburgh scarcely a nobleman's residence has
been spared —Bremen Gazette.
WARSAW, MARCH I.—The Warsaw Courier of to-day
says, " public tranquillity has not been interrupted in the
slightest degree, and the accounts from the provinces states,
that they, too, enjoy undisturbed tranquillity."
BERLIN, MARCH is said that remonstrances have
been made by the Austian Legation on account of the state-
ment lately published in the Univ. rsctl Russian Gazette that
Austrian magistrates in the Polish provinces had induced the
peasants, by reward, in money, to take prisoners, or to kill
the Polish landowners. People here wondered :,t the very first
how the generally cautious editors of the Utz :versa/ Prussian
Gazette could admit such accounts into its columns. The
Unirersal Prussian Gazette has, we know, published such
accounts.

I .12±,e Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gen-
the,.en of the Court, and the d ,estic In at-
tended Diviee service, yesterday tn,rning, in the private
chapel, Buckingham Palace. The sermon was preached
by the H shop of Norwich. Prayer; were rend by the
H .te and Rev. C. L stir. eourtenay.•
Her ':iajesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday.
The H yal Family were taken airings yesterday in the
garden o' the Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen, on Saturday, and remained to luncheon with her
Majesty and Prince Albert.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, -aid the Princess Alice, were taken their accus-
tomed ex,rcise in the royal gardens, en Saturday.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked on Saturday
irenoott in the gardens of the Palace. The Prince
afterwards rode out on horseback, attended by Major
General Sir Edward Bowater.
Tne royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Se;
tarday included Mrs. M'Lane, the Lady of the American
Minister, th. Duke of Wellington, the 1)u ke of Devon-
shire, the Right Hon Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Marquis and
:Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Earl and Countess Spen-
cer, the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Ge irge Lena ,x. the
lion. and Rev. C. Leslie Giurtenity, and C ptatn*Francis
Seymour.
Th. Coldstream Bend was in attendance during din-
ner, and perfbrmed the following pieces :
Overture, " Le Celporteur" On slow.
'" The British Navy"
S, lee. ion from the Cr ,sailers
Va se, " Fleur de Marv."

Vend.

111 ,••}i and Chorus, " Nabutio"
.ika. " Jenny Lind's Favourite."
Hut. Alnkisty's private band afterwards attended in the
Palac, and performed the remainder of the ev,ning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albers honoured the
Marquis of Northampton with his company on Satur
day evening at his Lorils,p's residence in Piecalihy.
His R ,yal Highness was atti-nded by I. ,rd George
Lennox, Captain Francis S,yinour, and Sir Edward
Bow;ter. His R flightless the Duke of Cainbrido,
attended hy Major Stephens, also 1i,41,-aited the Marquis
Northampton with his company on Satur•lay evening.

V lENNA.—His Highness Prince Metternich had addressed
the following circular, dated the 7th of March, to the re-
presentatives of Austria at the several. German Courts.

"TnelatestArienna journals bring the account. of the occu-
pation of Cracow by our and the Imperial Russian troops, and
of the ignominous end of the insurrection in all parts of the
republic. It we look back on the events which have been
crowded together in the short space of a few days. causing
extensive convulsicns, and occasioning unspeakable calamities
we know not whether to be must astounded at the wicked.
;Russ of those who formed the plan, or at the foolhardiness of
those who executed it, in total ignorance of the amount
f means that they could command, and voluntarily made
hemselves the victims of hopeless undertakings. The
preliminaries of the project were certainly ably contrived.
An extensive conspiracy spread over the Austrian and Rus-
ian frontier of ancient Poland was formed, and the republic
of Cracow was chosen as a staple place at the command of
'he Revolution. Numberless emissaries, sent out by, the
chiefs of the emigration, who remained in safety, covered
,hese countries, and their insinuations and seductions were
listened to by these countrymen, these officers and clients,
who are more numerous in the former Polish countries than
ulsewhere. In the territory of Cracow defective adminis-
uistrations, and an unsettled agitated state of society, in-
creased the success of their endeavours. Communist doctrines
'.vere propagated among the people wi!h indefatigable activity
rnd in every direction; and the leaders of the movement
(who certainly cared little fur their own persons about the
application of the communist doctrines) indulged the absurd
hope of making the masses ready instruments of their
revolutionary plan, by holding out the prospect of freeing
the peasant from taxes arid contributions, the Government
should be overthrown, and the utophia of a Polish kingdom
should be realised—fancied they should be able to lead 'the
raging waves into the channel which should appear to them
he most convenient. But the insanity and utter worth-
lessness of such plots app; ared in the cleare4 light in Ga-
-1 icia. This country has been for nearly eighty years under
the Austrian Government, and at the time wh al it became
subject to Austria was in the most wretched old relish
,undition. The Austrian laws, especially our admirable
Urbarial, were introduced there. Their efforts are nianifest.
['hey have inspired the peasantry, the mass of the popula-
tion with the feeling that the Throne is the power which is
the protection of their whole existence. This is what the
leading Polish emigrants have overlooked and forgotten—
they ascribed their own spirit to the population, in which
they were happily mistaken—the Galician peasant cannot
understand communist phrases, and Polish nation.
ality is odious to him, because it reminds him
of his misery. The majority of the preachers
at home, and among these peas'aultry, are their
oppressors. When they called on them to rise—when the in-
surgents, in places where they had assembled in great num-
bers, attempted to compel the peasants by violence—the move-
ment they thought to excite turned upon the instigators
themselves. many of whom fell victims to the anger of the
people, and the others were given up by the peasants to
their natural protectors, the authorities of this province.
The movement is now subsiding in all Galicia, which cer-
tainly cannot be called a revolution, but rather an anti-reve-
Mtion. Now that the focus of the revolution in Cracow--
where, though no where else, it certainly had the upper
hand—is quenched.and the mass of the insurgents in Galicia,
where they have failed in their attempts, is put down,
;t is not probable that the public tranquillity will be
mrther disturbed. It is evident, that after such con.
vulsions, moral tranquillity cannot be so soon restored to
people's minds, and that the task of the Government is not
easy. It, however, directs its first attention to this objr.ct,
and has the more confidence ofsuccess as it rests on the broad
oasis of the Government at Galicia, viz., the faithful
attachment of the sound part of the population.
I wish you to make use of the present dispatch, in
•,ommunieation with the cabinet, which we decree to make
ou acquainted with the real state of affairs, and as accurately
is possible.—Vienna, 7th March."
COPENHAGEN, 13th March.—Some Members of the Fadre-
'an and of the Copenhagen Post, have been seized for in,
:erting the Polish Insurrection, which unprivileged papers are
est allowei: to do, thouirh it has often happened.—Hamburg
Papers, 17th March.

Her Majesty the Qty-e,) Dlas.ag'er 1-ft W hilley Court,
,reesturshire, for the Dr•.itwieh ,tation,qt hall past nin,.

'clock on Saturday morning, Avend,-(1 the Earl and

rottntois of Sh. (eld, thee—EArl and G:4iiit.-ss Howe.
Rim. William and Mrs. AThley, Colonel a!,(1 Mr& Corn-
,all, Hon. S,.phia Wheatley, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir
I)avid Davif,s, and Mr. Belford. Her Majesty an i snit.

lcfr the station by a sp ci,l train, and travelled via Bit.
rningbam and GiAteester, and London and Birmingham
:{ail..vay4 to th- E,i,ton-scint,re terminus, and from
thence proceeded in carriages to Marlborough-hou,e,
,vo,.te her Atticsty arrrived at five o'cloek.
Yest Tday her Mjesty fie Queen Dowager and her
Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine
. .

servie,e in the Chapel Ito% al, tit. Jame4's. The sermon
was preached by the Bishop of Hereford, who took his
text from St. John, Chao. iii., verse 16 The prayers
were read by the lt,tv. J. Haden, and the lessons by the

tev. J. V. Povah. The anthem "Fleai my
rayer" (Stroud). Alr. Turk preAded at the organ.
The Queen Dowager vva, attended by the Conntes-
f Sheffield Hon. Sophia Wheatley, and Earl Howe.

The Duchess of Keni was attended by Lady Fanny
10-ward, Among the nobility present were the'Duke of
lipaufort, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of
Anglesey, Lords I)elawarr, Cawdor, Sheffield, St. Gt.r-
,nans, Cantalupe, Canterbury, Foley, Ernest Bruce, and
Inaestre ; Ladies Nt Germans, Delawarr, and Ernest

lir lee. The Duke (%f Wellington, Lord G. Paulet, and
r Frederick Trench attended the e4riy service yest,r-
-: The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the
-ertnon.

The Dean of York will preach on Friday next in the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, and the Bishop of Ripon will
preach on Sunday next.
ller R iyal Ilighnesa the Duchess of Kent visited the
Quell' Dowager yesterday at Marlb Trough House.

- The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes-
lerday in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street.
%14.j0r Sephens was in waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her R iyal Hi_ mes.; the Ducle.ss of Kent, attended
by Lady !earthy Howard, Sir George Couper, and Cap-
tain the Hon. James P. Murray, honoured the Italian
Opera with her prei.ence on Saturday evening. Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge also honoured
.he performance with her presence.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afterloon at
;he Foreign office. The Ministers prevent were—Sir
Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Buke of Bun-
leuch, the. Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen,
James Graham, Mr. Secretary Gladstone, the Chan-
.ellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Eilenborough, the
Marl of Ripon, Lord Granville Somerstt, the Earl of
)41hoesie. the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, and Lhe
Eart Sr. (1,1-mans. The Council sat two hours.

' FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
E. Meredith, linen (raper, Liverpool—first div. of le. in the
pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan,

Liverpool.
J. Hulme, paper dealer, Manchester—first div. of Id. in the
pound. on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Man-
chester.
W. Whiting, landing waiter in her Majestys Customs.
Egremont, Chester—second div. of ls. 2d. in the pound, on
any Thursday, at the oilier. of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool.
W. Haskayne, ship chandler, Liverpool—final div. of 30.
in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Caze-
nove, Liverpool.
H. Lacey, bookseller, Liverpool—first div. cf Is. in the
pound. -on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove,
Liverpool,
J. H. Shanklin, landing waiter in her Majesty's Customs.
Liscard. Chester—second div. of Rd. in the pound, on any
Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove Liverpool.
J. 0 llarvey, gr .cer, Newark, Nottinghamshire—first div.
of 3s. 9d. in the pound. on any Friday, at the office of Mr.
Whitmore, Birmingham.

A deputation respecting cope. r. including Mr. Vi-
v:an, VIP., Mr. Maw& M.P.. Viscount &nion, M.P..
.wrl Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., had al interview with
•;,ir Robert Peel on Satnrday, at his official residence in
O. wning-Etreet.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. James 111• Queen, Dr.
3 iwring, Mr. Nathaniel Gould. Captain R. Cogan (In-
dian Navy), It.-Colon.l W. Henderson, and Mr. Blunt,
(1 an interview with the. Earl of Dalhousie on Satur-
lay, at the offitte of the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commisioners t'or Enzland had a
.jotninittee meeting on Saturday. There were pre,:eukt
-he Bishops of Bangor, Chest-r, Ely. Her..ford, and
Oxford, the Earl of 13esaborough, the Right Hon. H.
tiobhou.e, and the Right Hon. S.r George

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
C. J. Banister, linendraper, Derby, April 11, at one.
In the Country.
D. Smith, ironmaster. Kings Swinfard. Staffordshire.
April 16, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court—J. Vaile,
wine merchant, Cheltenham. April 23, at twelve, at tht
Bristol District Court—S. Woodroffe, wine merchant, Chep-
stow, Monmouthshire, April 23, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court—T. Todd. cotton dealer, Manchester, April 14,
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—M. I. Jacobs,
tailor, A-liten-under-Lune, April 15, at twelve, at the Man-
chester District Court—R. Briggs,cotton spinner, Ulverstone,
Lancashire, April 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
E. Clayton, licensed victualler, Edgeware-road. April 11—
D. Hutson, agent, St. Albans. April 11—T. Ellis, boot-
maker, Wisbech. St. Peter's, Cambridgeshire, April 11—D.
Wynne, innkeeper, Colwyn, Carnarvoushire April 14—J.
Mann, grocer, Warwick, April 10—C. J. Blunt, civil engi-
neer, Great rmond •street, Queen-square, April 10—G. By-
ford, wholesale grocer, Liverpool. April 10—J. H. Rand,
dealer in glass, Westminster-bridge-road, April 10-11. J.
Andrews, apothecary, Pl 3 mouth, April 10—F. W. E. Ba.
raodon, merchant, Philpot •lane, April 10—R. Tate, silver.
smith, Regent-street Arai! 10.
PARTN E RS 11 IPS DISSOLVED.
J. Lavers and J. Ackland, pt inters, Bristol—G. Roper, C.
Roper, and W. Roper, carp niers, Rath—J. B. Terry and S.
Turner, osier dealers, Springfield, Essex—R. Dodsworth and
G. Alderson, stock-b'-okers, York—G. Jordan and J. Webb,
straw- hat manufacturers, Luton—E. Wilcock and F W.
Norton, shawl manufacturers, Bolton• le-3loors—R. and 11.
Banks, butchers, Liverpool—J. Young, H. Weston, J. Hay-
ward, and M. Drayson, linendrapers, King's-cross—C. an,
F. A Magnay, paper-makers, Mill-end-mills, Hertfordshire
—J. Younghtishand and P. R. Bull, wholesale fancy sta-
tioners, Previ,lenc.t-row, Finsbury—J. Harrison, C. Lange.
T. Carr, and T. Martens, shipbiokers, Stockton (so far as
rega'ds T. Carr and T. Marten)--J. Harrison, C. Lange. and
T. Carr, shopbrekers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (so far as re-
gards T. Carr)—T. J. Bedbwrough end G. Jenner, builders.
New Windsor—T. K. and G. H. Pulley, porkmen, Lowe;
Marsh, Lambeth—G. Golding and J. B. Smith, joiners.
Liverpod—J and W. Chater, painters, Sunderland—W.
\Vatts and T. Standby, iron-stone cane ware manufacturers,
Swadlincote Pottery, Derbyshire—G. W. Green, S. Mill at".
T. Wells, carriage-spring makers, Darlaston, Staffordshir.•
—B. Haigh and J. Hilton, engineers, Newton-wood, Cheshir,
- W. Richard, J. Bell, and J. Findlay, shipwrights. Liver-
pool—R. Debenham and J. Lanham, linendrapers, Edward-
street, Portman-square.—W. 31‘Naught, R. Pinningtort, C.
Newsome, J. Deafden and J. Griffiths, cotton:spinners, Roch-
dale—W. Simpson and T. R. Hills, stock-brokers, Leeds—S.
Rhodes and T. Mountain, joiners, Wakefield—J. Hall, J.
Hall, and W. D. Hall, paper manufacturers. Saddleworth.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Thomas Falrbairn, M.D., banker, Edinburgh. March 26,
and April 16, at two, at the chambers of Mr. Burnes-,
Edinburgh.
William Davison, smith, Glasgow, March 24, and April
14, at two, at the chambers of Messrs. Ferguson and Hall,
Glasgow.
Sharp and Thompson, calico printers, Meadowside, Lanark-
shire, March 25, and April 15, at one, at the chambers of
Messrs. Murray and Galloway, Glasgow.
John Croingie, baker, ,;lasgow, 41arch 26, and April 16,
at one, at the chambers of Messrs. Reid and Towers, Glasgow.

PARLIAMENTAttY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the HOuse of Commons.)
SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
TUFSDAY, MARCH 24.
Aforecombe Harbour and Railway.
,healeld, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company's
Amalgamation.

_ .
A d,pntation resp,etilig soap, including Mr. Hawes.
'LP. ; Mr. Masternaan, M.P. ; Mr. mall, M.P. ; Mr.
Pattison, M.P. ; Sir De Lacy Evans, M P. ; Viscount
S•in ion, M P. ; Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Viscount
b.lbrington, M.P., and Mr. Crawford, had an, interview on
iturday, with Sir Robert Peel.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

iMPOR CANT RAILWAY MOVEMENT IN

SCOTLAND.

An important movement is now being mart), origi-
-lated by the member, of the Stock Exehaege in Glasgow,
for vie purpose of putting a stoit to the :treat majority—
upwards of thirty—of the Scottish Railway schemes now
b for Parliament. The nature of the movement is thus
described in the Scottish journal. :
-6 At a meeting of the scripholders representing a large
amount of scrip in the numerous Scottish railway com-
uanies, called into existence by the recent mania, it was
considered prudent and advisable, undrr the altered eir-
eumstances of the country, to a7lopt measures to put a
.top to further expensive proceedings going on in Lon-
don, and to have many of the scheme, which do not ap-
pear to be at present required, wound up. From the un-
saleable state of the various scrip, and the already em-
barrassed condition of the money market, as well as tile
unfortunate position in which the country would he
placed from the extreme difficulty, if net inability, to
net the unprecv&nted demand for capital which would
immediately and m cessarily arise were any considerable
,umb•T of the numerous new schemes now before Par-
onent to obtain Acts, it must be apparent that the steps

~mns,,d to b. taken will not only• b. attf.nded with tin.
.cateit advantage to all concerned, but to Sc..tland

generally.
" Those who approve 'of such a course are requested
mmediately to call at NO. 45, George-street, Edin!,ourgh,
where they will find petitions for signature to the various
oommitteei of the railways which it is proposed should
..e wound up. For similar purposes in Glasgow—at the
*ruing chamb,rs of William Steele, jun., 6, South
Hanover-street.

" N.R. Partbs residing at a distance may concur in
:he above measures by forwarding to vi'her of the places
&hove mentioned an authority in the following or similar
terms :

"Sir,—Please subscribe on my behalf, as a holder of
shares of the stock of -- Railway, a requisition
o the directors for winding up the Company.

"I am. Sw."
The following is the list of the railways 'to which the

'•,:
aly,ve wive
B.nff, and Elgin ; Ayr and Galloway ;
Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir ; Rinffshire ; Caledonian
N,rthern Direct ; :.'aledoniart Extension ; Carliwath
!aid West Linton ; Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction ;
lieesid, Railway ; Dumfdane. Donne. and Callender ;
Dundee and Forfar Junction ; East of Fife ; Edinburgh
And Leith Atmospheric ; Edinburgh and Hamilton Di-
rect ; Edinburgh and Peebles ; Forth and Clyde Junc-
tion ;
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Munkland Junction; Glas-
gow and Belfast Uttion; Glasgow and Dundee Juticti.m,
Glasgow, Sttathaven, and Lesmahsgow ; Itivernt ss and
Elgin ; Kilmarn.mck and Ayr Direct ; Lanark and Lo-
thisns ; Morayshire ; Perth and Crieff Direct ; Perti)
and Inverness ; Scottish Central ::nd Caledonian Jug c•
tion; Scottish Southern ; Stirling and Midland ; Stir-
ling. and Dunfermline.

THE POTATO DI-EASE
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,— 18 I know Lhat my authority has been exten-
sively circulated in favour of quiek lime as a proti ction
against the cons-quences of the disease which has pre-
vailed in the potato crop, and I heard yesterday from
the Duke of Rotlaod that his experiments have not been
equ 411 y successful I feel it a duty to society to prevent.
persons from being by the general terms in which
have circulated the result of the experiments conducted
here.
It is quite true that the lime used here has been in-
variably succ:.ssful. But it, is the tnagnesian lime, which
abounds in this neighbourhood. In its caustic state it.
is fatal to vegetation.
Barren spots are to he seen in many places on the
forest, where lime heaps were placed more than thirty
years ago. It is, therefore, easy to account for the
effect of this lime in stopping the propagation of this
disease.

The lime used by the Duke of Rutland I understand
to have been the crich lime, which is very pure lime, and
has no such destructive qualities.
It is, therefore, only necessary to state the distinction
to account for the difference ; charcoal is quite as effec-
tual as the rnagm.sian lime.
Welheok, Mar(cBhigliBe. d1)846. SCOTT PORTLAND.

We regret to announce the death of Vent... General
Foveaux, which occurred yesterday. The deceased General's
services were of a very useful description, and highly appre-
ciated. From 1789 to 1810 he belonged to the New South
Wales Corps (afterwards the 102 d Regiment); and from
1811 to 1814 he was Inspecting Field °Meer at Cork and
Waterford, and subsequently Lieutenant-Governor of Norfolk
Island and Acting-Governor of New South Wales. His com-
missions bear the following dates :—Ensign, 26th May, 1789;
Lieutenant, sth June, 1789 ; Captain, 6th April, 1791 ;
Major, 10th June, 1796; Lieutenant-Colonel, 29th April.
1802; Colonel, 4Th June 1811; Major-General, 4th Jun..
1814; and Lieutenant-General, 22d July, 1430.—United
lonics Gazette.