The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY'rEVENING, JANITA'R-1 31. 1846.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at half•
past two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham
Palace.

At the Court, Count de St. Aulaire, the French
Ambassador; Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister;
and Baron de Hugel, the Wurtemberg Minister, had
audiences of the Queen on their return from the Con-
tinent.

Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by
the Earl of Aberdeen, Kt., her Majesty's principal Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and were conducted
by Sir Robert Chester, • Master of the Ceremonies.
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy
Seal, the Commander-in-Chief, the First Lord of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and
Foreign Departments, the President of the Board of
C ,ntrol, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the
Secretary at War, the Postmaster-General, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the
Horse.

Her Majesty pricked the Roll of Sheriffs nominated
on the morrow of St. Martin in the present year.
The Honourable Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in waiting.
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, had an audience of the Queen, when her
Majesty appointed the Sheriff for the county of Lan-
cast,r for the present year.
Sir H. Peel had an audience of her Majesty.
The Earl of Morton, and Major-General Sir Frederic
Stovin were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Court was attended by the the Marquis of Angle-
sey, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Vice-Chamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Householti, and the Comptroller of the
Household. _ _

Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday. Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice were taken airings yesterday, in the
royal gardens.
On Monday the young Australian boys, with Mr.
Eyre, the Australian traveller, who brought them to this
country, were introduced to the Qu9en and Prince
Albert, at Buckingham Palace, by the Right Hon. \V. E.
Gladstone, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Co-
lonies. Her Majesty received her Australian subjects
very graciously, and both her Majesty and Prince Albert
seemed much pleased with their general appearance and
manners.

,The Royal dinner party yesterday evening included
his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Lord Chancel-
lor, the Earl and Countess of Haddington, the Earl and
Countess St. Germans, Lord and Lady Ashley, and the
Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance at the Palace during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, ac-
companied by the Princess Mary, visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Glou-
cester House.

The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, transacted
business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland had an interview with
Sir James Graham yesterday at the Home-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
committee yesterday. There were present the Bishops
of London, Ely, and Exeter, the Earl of Bessborough,
the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon.
John Nichol'. _ _ _

Sir James Duke had an interview with Sir George
Clerk yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison left town yesterday fur
Brighton.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Mr. Lumley having addressed to several papers
a copy of a letter he has addressed to me, on the subject
of my retiring from her Majesty's Theatre, may I re-
quest from you the insertion of the following answer to
his statements:—

Mr. Lumley asserts-
1. That I abandoned him at the eleventh hour.
2. That I insisted on the production of my operas as
the condition of my engagements.
3. That I asked for an increase of salary.
4. That I had, unknown to him, accepted the post of
conductor of another " establishment," meaning the
Philharmonic Society.
As to the charge that I had abandoned Mr. Lumley
at the last moment ; at the close of the last season I
was not re-engaged, and there was a notice in the hall,
that 411 persons not having a written engagement for the
ensuing season, should consider themselves as not en-
gaged. On the 15th instant I received from Mr. Lum-
ley the first communication that he had returned from
the Continent and would be glad to see me as soon as
possible. From the fall of the curtain last August, till
the 15th of January, I heard nothing from Mr. Lumley
in any way.
I never insisted upon the production of my own operas,
but Mr. Lumley having required that I should abandon
composition altogether, I resisted such a monstrous ex-
ercise of power. No question was raised by me as to
the performance of any works of mine during the ensu-
ing season. In fact 1 have not an opera or ballet in
manuscript at• this moment. The position of conductor,
does not, however, constitute an incompetency to pro-
duce operas, as Mr. Lumley supposes, and Meyerbeer,
Lindpaitter, Marschner, Spontini, &c., have been and
are before the public in the triple capacity of director of
music, conductor, and composer.
As to an increase of salary, Mr. Lumley well knows
that the 2001., given as an increase last year, did not
compensate me for my extra services.
Lastly, as to my acceptance of the honourable post of
Philharmonic conductor (which only require; the super-
intendence of eight concerts), Mr. Lumley is well aware
that at the commencement of the last season I distinctly
stated to him my intention of accepting the office, if it
should be again proposed to me, though I had been in-
duced by him twice before to decline it. I was therefore
fully warranted, and there was no surprise or want of
courtesy. I would never have consented to have con-
ducted concerts which I considered prejudicial to the
opera interests.
Having gone through Mr. Lumley's assertions, I will
not enter into a discussion as to his opinions; it would
be as egotistical on my part to speak of Don Carlos, as
I conceive it to be indelicate for a manager to criticise
the productions of the professor who has for years been
named by him in his own announcements and bills,
" Director of Music, Composer, and Conductor.
For the first time, on the 15th of January, Mr. Lum
ley imposes conditions that he knew I could not, as a
man of honour, accept; on the 20th, as I understand, he
makes an engagement with another conductor ; on the
23d he informs me of the fact; and, on the 28th, he
brings my name before the public, by publishing, with-
out first consulting me, a private communication.
I have the honour to he, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
N. COSTA.

71, Albany-street.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The letter I was compelled to publish to refute
a public attack has produced an answer, in which,
although Mr. Costa has resorted to extraordinary con-
irailictions of some of the details, more than sufficient is
admitted by himself to prove that, whilst I implicitly
relied upon his sincerity, to my most serious inconveni-
ence, at the very eve of the season, he left me no other
resource than the course adopted.
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his excuse of having concealed from me the fact
of his new engagement, whilst it certainly included
the artisans of the theatre, not only could not
possib y be considered by any heads of departments
as applicable to them, but that the notice was actually
suggested to me by Mr. Costa himself, in consequence
on
which
of some difficulties Which had arisen in departments
under him ; and on application to Mr. Robinson, the
treasurer, I discover that on the last night of last
season Mr. Costa had the notice in question prepared
under his (Mr. Costa's) own direction, he himself intro-
ducing an alteration, having in view his own direction
of the department under his charge during the now
present season. And again, could it be imagined from
that gentleman's letter that if any delay occurred in
his engagement it was through his own omission, as
he he himself always prepared his own engagements
and sent them to me to be signed ? Could it be
imagined that none of these engagcnwnts were signed
in past years before the month of January, when he
complained that he received the first intimation of my
intention by my sending for him on my arrival in
England to settle upon various arrangements for the
opening of the season ?
The exact dates of his engagements are :-1842, Jan.
6 ; 1843, Feb. 20 ; 1844, Feb. 14 ; 1845, Jan. 25.
Mr. Costa should not have forgotten the oral and
written evidence the management possesses.
Then with these circumstances couple the fact that
from the hour I wrote the letter addressed to him to the
moment when I was compelled to publish it, he never for
a moment questioned the least particle of the facts it con-
tained.

I beg most positively to a'sert that Mr. Costa insisted
upon the production of operas of his composition, and
made it at the eleventh hour the sine qua nor: of his en-
gagement.
In answer to my objections that Don Carlos had not
responded to our wishes, he said that it arose from its
being an opera seria, and that this style of opera was un-
palatable to the public, whilst the one he was preparing
was an opera buffs.
I had no desire to criticise Mr. Costa's compositions.- I
stated not my opinion, but that of the public, whose
award he questioned, urging the repetition of the opera
in the past season, when its failure bad been proved, to
my serious cost, and I was compelled to refer to its un-
popularity as a reason for my not acceding to his de-
mand ; and being obliged to publish my letter, I was
bound to suppress nothing.
Mr. Costa does not deny that the rule, as to orchestral
conductors not producing operas in the theatres in which
they are engaged, preyails in France and in Italy he
invokes, however, for the sake of comparison, the ex-
ample in Germany of such illustrious composers as M.
Meyerbeer—a man whose character is essentially that of
a composer, and not of a conductor—a man in a supreme
position, and whose office is attached more to the Court
than dependent on the theatre.
As regards Mr. Costa's statement, that the 2001.
extra did not pay him for extra services, the 2001. in-
crease was just the whole amount of salary he originally
received from the theatre for his six months' s'r' ices'
and that had bean gradually increased
to t3OO/. The
position ha occupied secured him toi,;etlier probably
double the sum. •
As to Mr. Costa's aseertioPp that I wished to prevent

him composing at all, and thus, I suppose, deprive him
of another source of profit, he must recollect that there
were six months in each year to which his engagement
with me could not possibly apply, and during which he
was free to compose. I had not the last objection to
his producing his operas at any theatß' in Europe ex-
cept her Majesty's Theatre.
As regards that admirable institution, the Philhar-
monic, it is true the concerts are but eight in number,
but they are of that important character as to demand
constant attention, and take place during the opera
season ; there are, besides, as many rehearsals, having,
to a certain extent, the character of a representation, in-
dependent of ordinary practice.
But Mr. Costa has omitted to say how he could re-
concile his complains "of having too much to do" at
one establishment with his acceptance of onerous duties
at another.
Mr. Costa says, that at the commencement of last sea-
son he distinctly stated to me his intention of accepting
the office f it should be proposed to him.
This I deny most positively, and without asking that
any extra weight should be given to my assertion, were
the circurnst4nce in the least material (which it is not),
is it likely that at that moment when I had increased his
salary for the purpose of securing is whole services to
the theatre, that I should have tamely listened to such a
suggestion?
This, however, is not material, for he does not pre-
tend that he ever subsequently gave me notice that the
situation had been offered to him, much loss does he pre-
tend that he gave me any notice of his having accepted
the engagement until the middle of the present month.
Be leaves admitted that the engagement was signed
within fourteen days after my leaving London, and,
therefore, it must have been contemplated whilst actually
employed in my service, and before the close of last
season.

That he ought, as a mere matter of common courtesy,
not to have left me ignorant of the fact, is obvious.
I have, however, stated more than enough to show
how unavoidably I was driven to adopt the only alter-
native compatible with the duties of my position and the
interests of her Majesty's Theatre.—l have the ho-
nour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
Jan. 30, 1846. B. LUMLEY.

LETTER FROM MR. COBDEN TO

THE TENANT FARMERS OF ENGLAND.

TO THE FARMING TENANTRY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Gentlemen,—The question for you now to determine
is, shall the repeal of the corn-law be gradual or im-
mediate ? Deny it who may, this is the only question
that deserves a moment's consideration at your hands.
Public opinion has decreed that protection to both agri-
cu ture and manufactures shall be abolished ; and minis-
ters and statesmen have at last reluctantly bowed to a
power from which there is no appeal. Let no de-
signing or obtuse politicians delude you with the cry
that the House of Lords, or a dissolution of Parliament,
can prevent the repeal of the corn-law. All men of
average sagacity are now agreed that free trade in corn
and manufactures is inevitable. How, then, shall we ap-
ply this new principle ?—timidly and gradually, like
children ; or boldly and at once, as becomes men and
Englishmen ? Upon this point, I wish to submit to
your consideration a few remarks, which I believe to be
of the utmost importance to your interests ; they are
offered in good faith by one who has sprung from your
own ranks, and who, although deemed by some to be
your enemy, will, I hope, live to be regarded as a pro-
moter of the independence and prosperity of the farming
tenantry of the kingdom.
The Government measure proposes to abolish the corn-
law in February, 1849, putting on for the three interven-
ing years, a new scale of duties, sliding from 10s. to 4s.
The moment this law is passed, the duty will drop from
15s. to 4s. Here will be change the first, fright the first,
and with many, I fear, panic the first. But there will
be no settlement. You will not be able to foretel
whether the duty during the years 1847 and 1848
will be 4s. or 10s. It is quite probable that, in Febru
ary, 1849, the duty will be 10s.; if so, on the Ist of that
month, it will drop again suddenly, from 103. to is.
Here will be change the second, fright the second, and,
possibly, panic the s cond. The fall of duty in these
two changes would have amounted to, first, from 15s.
to 45.; next, from 10s. to ls.; making, together, 205.;
but, mark, if the duty were immediately reduced, from
15s. to ls., the fall would be only 14s. So that by this
clumsy contrivance, you are not only to be kept for
three years in a state of suspense and embarrassment,
and exposed to double panics, but are liable to a drop of
205., instead of 145., duty; you are actually subjects d
to the shock of the withdrawal of 6s. more of protection!
But this is only a small part of the danger to which
you will be exposed by the delay. From the moment
that the new corn-law is passed foreigners and corn im-
porters will begin to make preparations for the day of
its extinction ; they dread a sliding-scale in any shape,
owing to former losses, and will keep their eyes steadily
fixed upon the Ist of February, 1849.
What a precious policy is this, which advertise for
three years to all the landowners and speculators of the
entire world, offering them a premium to bold back
their supplies, and then to pour upon our markets, in
one day, a quantity of corn which, but for this contriv-
ance, might have been spread over twelve or eighteen
months ! And what may your fate be under these pro-
bable circumstances ? Supposing the crop of 1848 to
be abundant in this country, you will be liable, in
the spring of 1849, to the sudden and unnatural influx
of the corn accumulated by foreigners for this market,
which must be sold here, having no other market ; thus
beating down prices artificially, to the loss of all parties,
but more especially of the British farmer.
How different would be the operations of an immedi-
ate repeal of the corn-law. There would then be no
stock of foreign corn waiting for the opening of our
ports. Nobody expected last year in Poland or America
that the English corn-law would be repealed—nobody
prepared for it ; not a bushel of grain was raised upon
the chance of such an unlooked-for contingency. Is
there an intelligent farmer in the kingdom that will not
at once exclaim, " If we are to have a repeal of the
corn-law, give us it this spring, when the farmer is un-
prepared for it, and when not a single quarter of corn
sown after the news reaches him can be brought to this
market in less than eighteen months."
But the present is, beyond all comparison, the most
favourable moment ever known for abolishing the corn-
law. If ever it could be repealed without even tempo-
rary inconvenience to the farmer, this is the time.
There is a scarcity at present over nearly all the conti-
nent. One half of Europe is competing for the scanty
surplus stock of grain in America. Millions of our
countrymen are deprived of their ordinary sub-
sistence by the disease of the potato, and
they must be sustained at the public ex-
pense upon a superior food. Do what we will, we
cannot, during the present year, secure low prices.
Abolish the corn-law to-morrow, and still wheat must
rise during the spring and summer. If the farmers had
the power of ordering time and circumstances, they
could not contrive a juncture more favourable to them
than the present for the total and immediate repeal of
the corn-law. Nay, I believe that if the corn-law could
be abolished by a secret edict to-morrow, the farmers
would never make the discovery of open ports by any
injurious effect produced upon their interests.
I cannot believe that Sir Robert Peel is favourable
to the gradual repeal ; he supported it by no other
argument in his speech than the fear of panic
amongst the farmers ; but he has told us again and
again, in proposing his former alterations in the
tariff, that he believes all such changes are le,s in-
jurious, if suddenly made, than when spread over a
series of years. I have the strongest conviction,
derived from his own past changes in the tariff, that
he is right. Why then should you, in deference to
unfounded fears, be deprived of the benefits of ex-
perience ? If you speak out in favour of an immediate
settlement, who will oppose your wishes ?—Not the
Government ; they are anxious, so far as public opi-
nion and the exigencies of the moment will allow, to
conciliate your favour. Not the great landed proprie-
tors, whose interests and yours are in this respect iden-
tical, who desire also, on political grounds, to put a
period to an agitation, the prolonged duration of which
they believe to be injurious, and who would willingly
take any step which shall at once consult your interests
and dissolve the League.
Let me entreat you to take this subject into your
instant and earnest consideration. Do me the justice
to believe that I have no other object in view in writing
this letter but to serve your interests. If you should be
induced to concur in its views, you will avoid the only
danger to which, in my opinion, the farmers were ever
exposed from the repeal of the corn-law—that of the
transition state. From the first I have always enter•
tallied and expressed the conviction that free trade,
far from permanently injuring the farmers, would
ultimatelyprosperityy s e ir;
however, , and
de-
pen nee Ite
doisgu
•71-t be exposed in the
temporary evils to which they.mit, . t
change. But let us unite in seizing the present oppor u
nevernd t their
from m
pity, and the triumph of sound principles may be
achieved without the bitter ingredient of one particle of
injury to any class or individual From the most exalted
personage in the realm down to the humblest peasant, all
may witness, with unalloyed pleasure, one of the
greatest victories ever achieved over past prejudice
and ignorance, whilst each class may derive pecu-
liar gratification at the close of our long domestic
struggle. The Sovereign may glory that her reign
was reserved for the era of a commercial reforma-
tion, more pregnant in its beneficial consequences to the
destinies of mankind than all the wars of her illustrious
ancestors ; the landed aristocracy will ace ill the con-
summation of our labours, an opening for the resumption
of their social Influence based upon the only sure founda-
tion—the respect and confidence of the people ; whilst to
the middle and industrious classes will be pregnted
constantly widening field for the employment of their
peaceful energies, together With greater means and more
leisure for that moral amelioration which, I trust, will
accompany their improved physical condition.,--4 have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
RICHARD COBDEN.
London, 30th Jan., 1846.

INCENDIARY FIRE AT OFFTON. On Saturday
evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, an alarm was
given at Bildeston that a fire was to be seen in the distance.
Superintendent Trickerand the fire brigade were soon on the
alert ; but no order came for the engine, and the light be-
ginning
to disappear, it was generally thought the fire was
not of any great extent, or that it was at a great distance.
It ultimately proved to be a detached barn, belonging to,
or in the occupation of, Mr. Barber, farmer, of Offton, about
three miles distant from Bildeston. There was but a small
quantity of straw in the barn at the time; but this, with a
dressing-machine, corn-drill, and long ladder, were consumed
in a very short time.—Bury Herald.
We have received a gommunication from Earl
De Grey, in which he states that EF neither Mr. Gladstone, nor
any friend on his behalf, had made any apOlfcation to him,
or as far as he knows to any elector of the borough of
ijipon," and, therefoio, it is not correct that he hal.
refuse-II to ailow him to sit for that place. The terms in
which Earl De they has thought proper to convey this
intimation are such that we e4nßot giye P121340tY to his
letter,—Chronick.

IPSWICH and BURY ST. EDMUND'S

RAILWAY COMPANY.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)
Pursuant to notice the stated half-yearly meeting of
this Company was held yesterday, at:the offices, Brook-
steeet, Ipswich, " for the general purposes of business,
and for the special purpose of considering the terms and
conditions under which the Company should take a lease
of the Stowmarket Navigation ; and for agreeing to, and
confirming such terms and conditions ; and for investing
the directors of the Company with the necessary powers
to carry the same into effect ; and also for the special
purpose of authorising the directors, if they should
think fit, to appeal to Parliament in the present session
for an Act or Acts of Parliament, enabling the Com-
pany to construct a railway from the line of this Com-
pany at, or near Stowmarket, to Lavenham, and to exe-
cute such Parliamentary deeds, issue such scrip, and
adopt such measures, enter into such agreements, and
take such further proceedings in reference thereto as the
directors might consider necessary or expedient.
JOHN CHEVALLIER COBISOLD, Esq., chairman of the
board of directors, took the chair, and opened the pro-
ceedings by calling on the secrt tary to read the reports
of the directors and the engineers.
The CHAIRMAN said, in reply to a question from a
Shareholder, that tl'e estimate had been made for a
double line, and not for one with single rails.
The motion for the adoption of the report having
been proposed and seconded, was carried.
The general business of the meeting being concluded,
the proceedings of a special nature were taken into con-
sideration.

The SECRETARY read an epitome of an agreement
entered into between the trustees of the Stowmarket
Navigation and the board of directors of this Company
for the lease of the canal, upon the terms mentioned in
the report. The agreement was confirmed.
The CHAIRMAN observed that the next object was to
obtain an authority from the shareholders of the Board
of Directors, enabling this Company to apply to Parlia-
ment in the present session for powers to construct a rail-
way at or near Stowmarket to Lavenham. He would
shortly state the motives which had induced the directors
to advise the construction of this line. Another com-
pany' was proposing to establish itself as a portion of a
trunk line between Norwich and London, and as that
company was preparing to deposit plans for the same
line, it was thought expedient by the Secretary of the
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Company, to prepare
and deposit plans for a line between Stowmarket and
Sudbury, that their Company might be in a position to
contest the opposing line if necessary. The resolution
he had to propose was, that the directors be authorised
to apply to Parliament in the present session for leave to
construct sach railway to be continued to Sudbury if
thought necessary.
In answer to a gentleman, who said he felt a deep
interest in the prosperity of the undertaking, which
promised to prcve exceedingly advantageous and remu-
nei•ative to the shareholders,
The CHAIRMAN observed that the distance from Sud-
bury to Lavenham was eleven miles, and to Stowmarket
16 miles, and that the proposed junction would be at
Stowmarket.

The resolution was then agreed to, as was also one
formally investing the directors with the necessary
powers.
The CHAIRMAN said, that as their business had now
concluded, he felt much pleasure in congratulating the
shareholders on the present position of the Company.
For himself he would say, not only was his confidence in
the undertaking undiminished, but it had confidently
increased. The investment was an Inproving one, and
the public were in proportion additionally accommo-
dated.

A SHAREHOLDER inquired whether the inconvenience
which would be felt by the proposed line for Stowmar-
ket crossing the turnpike road on the level could not be
obviated by throwing a bridge over the road.
The CHAIRMAN replied that that point had been much
discussed before the plans were deposited, but it was
thought that as there was a station near the spot, the
crossing on the le,vel would not be found inconvenient.
Mr. BRUFF, the engineer, explained that the objection
had been fully canvassed by Lord Shaftesbury, and that
the Noble Lord had considered that the contiguity of
the station would prevent any inconvenience arising.
Mr. GREYbTONE, of York, in proposing a vote of
thanks to the chairman, and in bearing testimony to the
confidence which wa3 felt in his wisdom and
integrity, took occasion to remark upon the
advantage which the county of Suffolk held
out to the promoters of railway undertakings. A
railway in that county appeared to him to be one of
the best investments of the day.—(Hear, hear.) Ile
would for one moment direct their attention to
the census of Suffolk, for upon the amount of population
of different localities depended the success of railway
communication. Suffolk contained 1,015 square miles,
and a population of 315,375 persons, an amount of po-
pulation in the greater proportion to the superficial ex-
tent of the county than was to be found in Essex, Nor-
folk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, the
county of Durham, or Northumberland.—(Hear, hear.)
The present line would be a cheap one ; the gradients
ri ere good, and there was not a curve to be found. Con-
sidering, also the population of Norwich, Diss, and Stow-
market, it would be fed by Yarmouth, Lowestoff,
Beccles, and Bungay.—(Hear.) He might also be al-
lowed to touch upon a subject not irrelevant to that
under consideration. The agriculturists of this
country were about to undergo a very great
change in their circumstances, and if one thing more
than another could relieve them, it would be the posses-
sion of the means of cheap and expeditious transit for
their goods.—(Hear, hear.) The present line had two
advantages—the first, that it was a coast line ; and the
second, that it filled up a gap which had hitherto existed
in the country. Plans had been lodged by the Norfolk
Company, for a line from Stowmarket to Diss, on to
Wyndham and Nettleborough, which showed that the
people had required, and the Government had sanc-
tiot ed, plans for the:very route which this Company had
adopted. The increased importance of Harwich and
Ipswich was also worthy of note. Those ports should
be cherished, as it was evident that the alterations but
so recently introduced into the tariff, would render it
imperatively necessary to pay greater attention to the
development of inland traffic.—(Hear, hear.) With re-
gard to the present line, the plans had been lodged, and
the standing orders complied with. In conclusion, he
again begged most cordially to move a vote of thanks to
their worthy Chairman.—(Cheers.)
Mr. A. A. 11. BECKWITH, of Norwick, seconded the
resolution, remarking that there was a feeling, on the
part of the people of Norwich, in favour of the com-
pletion of the Company's line.
The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the compliment, and
expre.sed a hope that when the line was completed,
traversing as it did so rich a district, there would be
sufficient traffic both for the Norfolk Company, and for
that of whose board he had the honour to be the Chair-
man.—(Hear, hear.)
The meeting then separated.

,A
Week Last a 74 ~,*
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. ~.
' 2°-
t to
.''') ..9
_ -
x £
Jan. - Arbroath and Forfar ............... - 177
- Bristol and Birmingham . • ........... - -
23 Chester and Birkenhead. • ........... 505 421
22 Dublin and Drogheda.. •• • .... ..... .. 593 514
27 Dublin and Kingstown •• • ......... • • 703 673
25 Dundee and Arbroath ..• • ...... ... - 225 219
24 Durham and Sunderland ............. 572 651
24 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • . ........ 2,257 1,934
25 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 6,329 3,946
24 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 1,870 1,367
24 Glasgow and Greenock.• • • ..... .... , 728 713
-- Grand Junction • • • ....... - -
24 Gravesend and Rochester.• • ......... 104 -
- Great North of England •••••• • • •• .. - -
25 Great Western .
26 Hartlepool .... • -
24 London and Birmingham, &c.
26 London and Blackwel1....
24 London and Brighton ............... 3,313 3,111
27 London and Croydon . . . . 1,054 871
- London and Greenwich ......... • . • . -
24 London and South We5tern......... 5,071 4,935
28 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 648 835
23 Manchester and Birmingham........ 3,924 3,096
24 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 5,129 5,207
24 Midland Counties ............• •. •. •• 13,762 11.800
24 Newcastle and Darlington •• •• •• • ... 2,455 • 2,262
24 Newcastle and Carlisle ........ 1,641 1,498
24 Newcastle and North Shields• •• • • ... 395 359
25 Norfolk •• • •
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - 1,391
26 I'aris, Corbeil, and Orleans •• • 4,67 G 3,866
2G I'aris and ltouen .•••• • • • • • •••• • • • • 4,597 4,214
41:465321564
3,652364
24 Preston and Wyre. •
866 889
- Ulster. •••• • . "'• • •• • •
222444 SsTolalueirttlhivelutdilaseat.ne.drn..3:l:a..n..c:h:e:s:te:r........
...............:
•- 592
- Yarmouth and Norwich •••• • • •
.-
24 York and North Midland .••••• • • • • • 40 77 -

e r
and
RAILWAY SHARE MAR:a,PiE,h-ITs..tievsre,.po
MUSTOi„ JAS. 30,
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and South Wales June-
tion, 2y2 —Midland, New, 28% —Dutch Rhenish, 7a,
MANCHESTER, JAN. 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales aro -Bideford and T4vistock, „, ...!
—Dickerilleftti, I din 91,0111.01 alit CIIP4NIP APlOlPri, iii,i4 acu 4
Crowe, 2ii p.— Eastntll CPlPitles, P 41108411 xh. 2, __Exeter altild
Exmouth, 11 dis.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, li cu.._Grand
ni
or pri)koFil,kE Preston,xtn Extension,
Uniiiddoiliiu3rys., p3isTen,G,Lre3aLtopnGdrcoialinishsb::lidaAivilde,
-4lichester and lair_
sp4thpnl, .; r! - 4.iz --- 4401 WQ4irn 1a& ' • '
ininliii;7l,--I>dthi NW' ' "'k P. 41/4 •0 I 1d ' 7 P'i('111141,
Birkenhead, &c., 1,4 dis.—ShropShire u on, A IL_Sutith Eastern
and Dover, Halves, 1 p. c.—Wakefield, Pontefract, and
tension, 8 p.—West Lancashire Coast, 14 die. Goole Ex-
lIPM?S ilIF! et
STOCK Exclimicis.—Tpe let ire—fotko 4114
-, Pill Mk-14114,
Extension (East and West Riding), 8:t p.-
0 P.--eccls, Waiefl4eld,
relit Grimsby ankglief
field, 91A —Ditto, Extensions, 9s. p.—Leeds and Bradford, 52 cash—
Leeds and Dewsbury, 16 cash—Ditto, New Shares, 23,
A P.—Leeds and
Plifsiii 10—Wpridi liril34ll, Nov (*pop Brtpcb, 21, IN.-1400H
and rurtsmouth, 4};—L.grtdpil ftni.l YOilit 49. 4•—She#leld aii4
Lincoln, 3 t —Direct -Northern, 1% —LlYertlhPli CiriT4itk aiid we. s„
West 4orkshire, P. 6d. p,—Grand ton, 4 —West Riding Cnion, 6 T 2 )fr'---t.'.ast i-ci.
Clitherop J 141144417
and midpoid, ss. dd. 4io,—North litolP1(1rQ, 3%
wegm, Y 4-44.03, 434 P.—North
Illintihg4oll, PO, We. South Midland,
2/. 2s. p IJUIOP,

lILTE4L, JAN. 30.
olt h Wales_Leicester
STOCK EKCOANGE.—The sties are —Led
anti
Thip4k,
_North
zuld Portrush, 1
a
eweastle Junction,
lit.l4:ti eCme'l°sl:lt 41i
sB4.sdi Union,
1-1 A
ir)3dll43.gair ll' —Great
sCII 'e Jr 'to"cr tt final :33 88.
and Tainworth, :3 —.North Staffordshire, 51. 7s•—Sottth Midland, 4/,
45.0, Shropshire VtflOff, 44. 014,
.TAN.
STOCK ExcuANGE.—The sales are 'north Midland Ex-
tension, 361/,', —Ditto, New (East and yr ding),
and Berwick, 205,i —North 13000) MI rii6101.,,T!v,,b,
London and Vo4k, 44—(44114 Putoft, • Newcastle
ford, 1/. Se. 9d.—Liverpool, manehoster,
id
314 —Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and 3 tal, 3,
78—Welsh Mid-
land, 2. _ttindia

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN, 30.
Sri inc kalo ur,PTYA "
1(144nu, k4l-,vg 401. Shares
16 1?: —so.ll4' nr011; iff4e.l (04.01e)' ns;
wick, 11 p.

EDINBURGH, JAN. 28.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are —British and /ea, /Tom,
68s. 6a.—Caledonian, 143¢ —Ditto, New, 7k• Cornwall and
Devon, 40s.—Direq •f4rthepi, 448.,-Dundee and kinross Extension,
520. . Othlscn Central; 435. 6d.-Edinburgh and Glasgow,
_ ,

Half Shares, 16k—Edinburgh and Northern, 745. M.—Ditto, New-
port, 245. Gd.—Ditto, Lochgelly, 30s.—Edinburgh and Perth, 775. 6d.
--Glasgow and Ayr, New stock, 26—Glasgow and Lesinahagow,
595. Gd.--Great North of Scotland, 64s.—Great North and South
Wales, Ss. 6d.—North British, Extension to Carlisle, 60s.—Scottish
Central, 15—Scottish North Western, 355. Gd.

GLASGOW, JAN. 29.
STOCK EXcHANoK.—The sales are—British and Irish Union, 655.
—Caledonian Extension, 54s.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire
Junction, 455. 6d.—Dundee and Arbroath, 40—Ditto, New, 21%
East Indian Railway, 245. 6cl. Glasgow General Terminus, 11%
Glasgow and Belfast Union, 425. 6d.—Glasgow and Greenock, 19M
—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 52s.—Great North and
South Wales, Bs. 6cl.—lnverness and Elgin, 29s.—Lanark and Lo-
thians, 455. 6d.— Lesmahagow, 535. 6d.—Scottish Southern, 365.
Scottish North Western, 365.--Slamanuan, 26—South Midland, 31. Bs.
—Wishaw and Coltness, 51.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 30.
THE NEW ZEALAND COMPANY U. HEALY AND CURLING.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES appeared this morning in this
cause, which was a motion made by Mr. Sergeant
Wilde on a previous day for two rules—one for the
issuing of a commission to examine witnesses in New
Zealand respecting a dispute between Mr. Healy, the
present defendant, and the New Zealand Company, about
the purchase of land; and the other rule was to set aside
the proceedings hitherto taken in the cause by the defen-
dant's attorney, Mr. Curling, on the ground of irregularity,
and that the costs incurred be allowed the plaintiffs.
The Learned Gentleman went at length into the history
of the case, which was purely of a technical character,
and did not develop the particulars of the original cause
of dispute between the Company and Mr. Healy, and
concluded by maintaining that every step taken by Mr.
Healy and his attorney had been perfectly straight-
fore ard and regular, and that the motions, therefore,
should be discharged.
Mr. Sergeant WILKINS followed, and briefly addressed
the Court on the same side.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE followed, in support of the
rules, and also went into a detail of the case. He said
that the original case of legal proceedings was Mr.
Healy bringing an action against Mr. Young, the repre-
sentative of the Isit•w Zealand Company, to recover
damages for breach of contract. The Learned Sergeant
said the pleas of the then plaintiff had been net by
answers from the defendants, that notice had been given
that against a certain time when the surveys were made
Mr. Healy would be at liberty to select his 100 acres of
land, the amouet contracted for, but that the plaintiff
neglected to make his selection in time, and that even
after he had an opportunity of making a further selec-
tion in another section of land, which he refused. The
Learned Gentleman then went through all the legal steps
taken by the then plaintiff to enforce his suit, contending
that the whole course had been irregular ; that the de-
fendants had been taken by surprise ; and that diffi-
culties had been thrown in the way of issuing a com-
mission, requested by the Company, to examine wit-
nesses in New Zealand that were calculated to serve
their case. The irregularity of these proceedings, which
had ended in no result, had induced the defendants now
to become plaintiffs, and to make the present motions.
On these grounds he submitted that the rules be made
absolute.
The COURT decided that under such circumstances
the defendant was entitled to the commission ; but they
did not consider that there was sufficient ground for
calling upon the plaintiff, or his attorney, to pay the
costs of the defendant's attendance at Bristol. On the
atter point, therefore, the rule was discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Webster Flockton, of Bermondsey, was summoned before
the Lord Mayor, by Henry Kirby, a free waterman, under the
24th section of the rules and bye-laws for the regulation of the
watermen and lightermen of the river Thames, which enacts
that no freeman shall lay or cause to be laid any boat, wherry,
barge, lighter, or craft before any of the public stairs, or any
plying place or causeway, so as to obstruct, hinder, or prevent
the due and orderly passing of any boat, wherry, barge,
lighter, or craft, under a penalty not exceeding 205., nor less
than ss.

The case arose out of the contest between the Corporatioa
and the Watermen's Steam-boat Company.
The complainant stated that on Sunday last, between nine
and ten o'clock, he saw a barge with .‘ W. Flockton" upon it,
lying along the causeway at Paul's-wharf, which he (and he
had been a waterman for a great number of years) always
believed to be the property of the Corporation of London.
The Loma MAYOR—Does it obstruct the navigation of the
river? The complainant—Certainly it does; and it lies
there still.

—.—
The LORD MAYOR Have you ascertained who placed it
there? The Complainant—No, my Lord; but the bye-
law says if the offender should not be known, the owner of
the barge or boat which constituted the obstruction shall pay
the penalty.
Mr. Flockton said, he wished the complainant to prove
satisfactorily that he was a free waterman, and he also
wished to be informed how it happened that Mr. Kirby
sustained any damage by the position of the barge at the
stairs. _ _

The complainant said, that although he had not owned
a wherry for eight years, his claim to the character was un-
questionable.
The LORD MAYOR said, it mattered nothing whether the
complaint was made by a waterman or any other person, as
the Act determined that anybody who saw the obstruction
might give evidence on the subject.
Mr. Flockton said, he did not entertain any idea of getting
clear of the matter by making objections of a frivolous
nature. He then contended that the barge was not in
an improper position at the wharf, that it was not cal-
culated to obstruct the navigation of the river, and that
he certainly had a right to place and keep it there.
The complainant said, th e truth was the barge was so
deposited in order to be made a pier for the Watermen's
Steam-packet Company, for the landing and embarkation of
the public.

Flockton—This complaint has no reference whatever
to personal injury ; it arises entirely from a rival company,
which is allowed the use of the Blackfriars-bridge pier, from
which the Watermen's Steam-boat Company is excluded.
New, the object of establishing a pier at Paul's-wharf is to do
away with the conflict about Blackfriars-bridge pier, and
remedy the inconvenience occasioned by the exclusion.
The complainant said the free passage was obstructed, and
the poor watermen who plied et the stairs had serious ground
for complaint against such impediments, which were calcu-
lated to aggravate the general diitress arising from the appli-
cation of steam on the Thames. _ _

The LORD 111Avort—The Corporation are either right or
wrong in the view they are taking of this question. lam
determined to give the most complete opportunity of trying
the merits of the question. I consider that the river is the
Queen's highway as well as the public streets, and that to
obstruct the navigation in the public plying-place for craft is
a violation of the statute. The case is satisfactorily proved,
and I adjudge the defendant to pay the fine of 20s.
Mr. Flockton—Am entitled to appeal against your Lord-
ship's decision ?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly.
The defendant then entered into recognizances to appeal.
The complainant then said the barge remained in the same
place still, and he applied for a summons calling upon Mr.
Flockton to answer for the repetition of what the Lord Mayor
considered to be an offence. He at the same time said, that
he would not press for the summons if the defendant would
promise to remove his barge forthwith.
Mr. Flockton—No, I shall make no promise of the kind.
The object of making Paul's-wharf a place for steamers to
touch at for the public accommodation is to end this dis-
agreeable dispute about Blackfriars-pier.
The LORD MAYOR—I can say nothing about Blackfriars-
pier, as the subject is not before me.
The complainant declared that the body to which he be-
longed had never violated the City regulations in any way,
and that they had appealed by petition in the year 1844 to
the Navigation Committee upon the subject of the serious
damage they had sustained.

The second summons was then granted, and it appeared to
be the intention of the complainant to proceed by summons
daily against the defendant, who is a gentleman of un-
questionable respectability and a personal friend of the Lord
Mayor.
F. Tyler Russell, assistant to Mr. Saner, surgeon and apo-
thecary, of No. 36, Finsbury-square, was brought up in
the custody of John Forrester for final examination, upon
the charge of having committed a forgery upon his em-
ployer.
A gentleman from the firm of Messrs. Freshfiekl, soli-
citors to the Bank of England, attended for the prosecution.
Mr. Saner deposed, that the prisoner had been employed
by him about 11 months as an assistant, and had frequently
seen him write his name. On Tuesday last, on arriving from
his country residence at the surgery, he found that the pri-
soner had gone away without leave or notice, and he also
found that his desk had been broken open, and that four
blank cheques had been taken from his cheque-book. He
then hastened to the Bank of England, where he kept cash,
and there he found that a cheque for 551., purporting to be
-drawn by him, had been cashed. He immediately pro-
nounced the instrument to be a forgery. The hanc,writing
was so like his own that he could hardly distinguish the
difference. Since that time he had received a letter from
the prisoner. He had never authorised the prisoner, or any-
body else, to sign his name upon any occasion ; but the pri-
soner might often have received accounts for the house and
given receipts in his own name.
The prisoner's letter was in a very supplicatory tone. It
called upon the complainant in the name of Heaven to for-
give him; intimated that good would spring out of evil, and
that the pardon for which he sought would have the eflbct
of preventing him from making and' attempt upon his life,
as well as turn away the mind of his wife from the contem-
plation of a similar act. It stated that poverty was his
crime, that he had merely used the cash he had taken up
as a loan, and would expiate the offence without fail, and
it concluded by invoking blessings on the bead of his bene-
factor.

Mr. Puzey, clerk In the Bank of England, stated that he
had paid the cheque for 551. produced, and signed with Mr,
Saner's name, to a person whom he believed to be the pri.
soner. The cheque had been paid in sovereigns,
John Forrester, the offioer, stated that the Bank authori-
ties having 41-Plied far a warrant against the prisoner, he
went, accompani©d by his brother Daniel, in search of Bus.
sell, and found him in a room at No. 9, Upper East Smith-
field, on Wednesday. Witness asked him where the money
was, and the prisoner opened a drawer and handed him a
purse containing $44 10s, in gold. The prisoner then put on
his clothes and accompanied witness.
The prisoner said he did not to wish to sa7 anything, and
was committed for trial.
BC) ST I? 7'.

Op Friday a buildr, named Macey, occupybg business pre-
mises in Drury-lane, appeared before Mr. Jardine to solicit
his Worship's protection against the future violme of poor
old woman of unsound mind; who, he alleged, had recently,
04 two or three separate occasions, set fire to his workshops
omen was placed in the prisoners' duel( and was
undoubtedly insane.
anTdhtehfi w adjoining buildings.
The complainant made a statement relative to the recent
fjres In pr laws, the repeated occurrence of which induced
dill tp apply the coroner to institute an inquiry into their
probable origin. No satisfactory result was arrived at, and ,
the inquest was consequently adjourned. Qo the pfevious
night (Thursday), whilst engaged in his counting-house, at
about eight o'clock, he again discovered 'that his premises
were in 'dames, and it was only by extraordinary efforts from
the firemen that they were prevented extending to a vast
range of buildings on either side. Having heard that the
woman at the bay Wofton threatened to destroy his work-
ahops, near which she resided with her husband, he felt it
his duty to take her before a magistrate, in the hope that his
Worship would hear evidence respectirkgUrt and' tbc..a, take
steps to insure his futnN WO! Ir. Macey stAtnd that he
tonk tlle rent a:
ymil Ni She Divand had
knomllo -7:44 her husband for many yt.ats..
;lad earned a respectable i .Y4t 14'
years ago, in cprisequenco 9f evident
authorities were applied to 0
'care of' heijj, the parish did so
for a few days, and ten informed the husband that he would
be required to go into the Volon also if she remained any
longer. This he dr@c.r,lineci., 1A6,1 a 4
jell as he could earn his

independence, and the woman was consequently sent back
to him, since which time she had been under no other con-
trol than that which he was now and then enabled to ex-
ercise over her.

The woman, during and subsequent to this statement, in-
dulged in a variety of wild exclamations, declaring that
Macey harboured witches, sorcerers, and evil-doers in his
house, had murdered all her relations, and had set his own
premises on fire because, like all wicked people, he liked to
be in flames. She said also that he had plenty of money to
build them up again.