The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

COURT CiIiCULAR,

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Queen's natal
day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, arrived
early at Buckingham Palace, and remained to breakfast
with her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Queen
also received visits of congratulation, in the course of
the day, from her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Prince George.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domes-
tic household, attended Divine service yesterday morn-
ing, in the private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The
Hon. and Rev. C Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
their usual airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing on Satur-
day in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert ac-
companied her Majesty on horseback, and the Equerries
in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gor-
dor, were in attendance on horseback.
Prince Alfred took an airing in the pleasure grounds
of the Palace on Saturday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess
of Dalhousie, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
the Right Hon. the Speaker, and Sir Heary Wheatley.
The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following pieces:—
March—Zulchner
Potpourri, "Linda di Chamouni,"—Donizetti
Walter—Carol us—Player
Selection from the Ballet of "Alma"—Costa
Polka, Almacks—Labitzk,y
Cori—La Carita—Rossini
Cavatina—Lombardi—Verdi.

Her Majesty the Cueen"Dowager attended Divine
service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard,
Sub-dean of Lincoln, who took his text from the Acts,
chap. 1, verse 9. The prayers were read by the Rev.
J. V. Povah, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and
the Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The
anthem was, " Ascribe unto the Lord" (Travers).—Mr.
Tune presided at the organ.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness
of Ormonde and Earl Howe. Among the nobility pre-
sent were the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Win-
chester, Salisbury, Northampton, and Ormonde; Ladies
De La Warr, Wilton, St. Germans, Somerset, and Pal-
merston ; Lords Bessborough, Cawdor, St. Germans,
Zetland, Cantalupe, and Palmerston.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, Lord
G. Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service
yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard.

- Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence
House, St. James's. Her Majesty also visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager
on Saturday ; and the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Majesty yesterday, at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Kent left town on Saturday morning,
for her residence, Fro; ®ore House, Windsor. Her
Royal Highness returned to Clarence House, St. James's,
in the afternoon.

The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes
terday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley.
street. Baron Knesebeck was in waiting on his Royal
Highness.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre-
sence on Saturday evening.
A deputation from the Scotch Banks had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday. The Ministers were accom-
panied by the Lord Advocate of Scotland,
Mr. Divett, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secre-
tary Gladstone on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
_

The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The
Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief had also
an interview with the Right Honourable Gentleman.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a
Committee Meeting on Saturday. There were present
the Bishops of Winchester, Hereford, Ripon, and Wor-
cester, the Earl of Devon, the Right Hon. H. Hobbonse,
and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey.
Mr. llume, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Gladstone on Saturday. Mr. Hampton had also an in-
terview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel had a dinner party on
Saturday, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens.
Lady Peel had afterwards an evening party.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius.

NEWS FOR THE AMERICANS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Siß,—The late accounts from America give us the pleasing
prospect of a speedy settlement of all differences with the
United States on fair and honourable terms. This is devoutly
to be wished by every person who wishes well to both coun-
tries ; but it will still be prudent for us to be prepared for a
different result, in the event of the faction who now rule the
destinies of America being resolved on war, and exposing
their own country and ours to all its calamities.
I trust I shall be able to show that in this case we possess
the means of meeting them with an overwhelming force, and
that we far surpass them in power and resources, and this
from a quarter from which they never expected to be
assailed.

As by our treaty of peace with the Seikhs we obliged them
to disband their army and give up all their guns that were
opened against us, and as a great proportion of their army
have brothers and relations in our Bengal army, we have
now an excellent opportunity of taking a large number of
them into our service and of having them disciplined and
commanded by British officers, on the express condition of
their agreeing to proceed along with our Sepoys to North
America, should the Government require their services in
that quarter.
The pay of these troops is moderate and they are easily
fed, and they are proverbially brave, disciplined by French
officers, and will attack their opponents hand to hand. Their
artillery is also of the first order, and their gunners excellent
marksmen, and in our late battles stood defending their
guns until bayoneted by our troops.
A force of 20,000 men of these troops, with an equal force
of Sepoys, and a proportionate number of British troops,
would be sufficiently powerful to retain possession of the
south-eastern slave states of America, until such time as the
British authorities should proclaim liberty to the slaves in
those states ; binding them strictly, on granting them their
liberty, to remain as servants for five years, on fair and
equitable wages, with such of their former masters as should
remain peaceably on their estates after the country had been
taken military possession of by our army, and guaranteeing
to the negroes the full liberty of serving in the British army
as soldiers, to be raised for service in America and the West
Indies during this period, if they should prefer it, to serving
their former masters.

These corps could be organised and commanded by officers
from the half-pay list of the British army, and might con-
sist of a major-commandant, a second in command, and five
lieutenants and five ensigns for the ten battalion companies.
The filling up the superior ranks would give a fine opening
for promoting and placing upon full pay meritorious officers,
who are now wearing out their lives in listless inactivity, and
the forming of the junior ranks of lieutenants and ensigns
would give a noble opportunity to the Commander-in-Chief
of promoting deserving sergeants to the rank of commissioned
officers, who, when called upon service, would, it may con-
fidently be expected, prove themselves worthy of the new
rank conferred on them. This promotion of 'so many ser-
geants would also prove highly beneficial to the service
generally, and would induce numbers of men of the very best
description,to enter into our battalions; and the emancipated
slaves themselves would prove a much more formidable
force than might at first be imagined, as they would see the
necessity of acting with determined resolution as soldiers
under their new masters, well knowing the fate that would
await them if again brought under the American yoke.
At the same time that we were granting liberty to the
slave we could form a treaty with the yet free State of
Mexico, by which we would engage to send British officers to
organise their troops, who make excellent soldiers,dccaunmdvleaend-
them against the Americans, who, by fraud
an
encroachmentsti circumven-
tion, deprixu-epdontheimheoirf Texas
territory.and makingAarnedalong this
with
we could semi a force of Europeans and Sepoys from India,
who would chase the American squatters from the Oregon
and place it entirely under British rule ; and our forces in
Canada could make a demonstration, and attack the Ame-
rican frontier in that quarter, whilst the whole sea coast of
the Atlantic would be placed under a strict blockade, which
would prevent all commercial intercourse between the United
States and other nations, while the southern states, under
British protection, would have free intercourse with every
part of the world.
These are the consequences -which the Americans would
quickly feel if they should plunge into a war with Great
Britain. Without commerce, and unable to raise a dollar
on credit in Europe on account of their having forfeited all
claim to character by their having repudiated their own
bonds, they would be unable under the heaviest taxations to
pay one-half of their national expenditure, and with a daily
increasing debt they would be under the necessity of resort-
ing to a paper currency, which would be immediately depre-
ciated within their own territories and of no value whatever
beyond it.
I observe that the question of peace or war is left by the
American Government to the discretion of Mr. Polk. When
settling this momentous question which will decide the
destiny of millions of the human race, it is to be hoped that he
will seriously consider the heavy responsibility attached to
his conduct before hel, publishes his ultimatum. If it be for
peace the two Governments, of a kindred race, might easily
now conclude a treaty of amity which would ensure to each
country the advantages of a free and unrestricted commerce
on the principle of perfect reciprocity. As he has deter-
mined on war, I will take the liberty of telling him that his
decision may shake the institutions of his country to their
foundation. - A " SPAHI SIRDAR."

DISSECTION IN THE EAST.—The Grand Seignior has
Just promulgated an eider that the bodies of female slaves who die in
the markets shall be given up by the owners to the students in medi-
cine for dissection.

JOSEPH MASON.—The following letter has been re-
ceived from Lord Morpeth, by Mr. Isaac Wood, brother-in-
law to Joseph Mason, who has lately returned from Norfolk
Island, to which place he had been unjustly trap sported :
" London, May 16th, 1846.
" Sir,—Sir James -Graham informs me that he cannot
direct any commission to be instituted in the matter com-
plained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason. The
complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting
justices of York Castle; but now that Mason has been re-
turned to his home with his character completely cleared and
acknowledged, I cannot advise any proceedings which now
might bear the appearance of a vindictive character.
" Sir James, at the same time, authorised myth state that
he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason,
as a small token of the unfortunate misapprehension under
which he suffered. I cannot help thinking that Mason
would do well to avail himself of Mr. Hudson's offer.
"Your humble servant,
" Mr. Isaac Wood." " MORPETFI.
We understand that Mason is now employed at the York
Railway station, a situation having been provided for him
there, through the kindness of G. Hudson, Esq., M r
Leeds Merocrst,

Total... ........... Millions 43, Miles 1,600
Few can look on this.
enormous sum we should think,
without wonder and astonishment; and 'strong indeed must
i
be the nerves of that shareholder who can contemplate t
without shuddering. It is not a question whether our cor-
respondent's figures are right to a million or two, or to half-
a-dozen millions, nor to half-a-dozen hundred miles, for the
liabilities are of that vast extent, and the number of miles
so great, as to make a sum equal to the entire cost of such
a line as the London and Birmingham, or the much-abused
London and York, and a distance from Liverpool to London
and then to F....4inimirght an insignificant fraction--a mere
drop in the huge bth...'
ket of Great Western speculation and
risk. Heaven forbid ti,.:!' we should do or say ought to
damage the true interests of the Great Western Railway;
but can any one look on this mighty mass of liability with-
out being appalled at its magnitude? We will venture to
pledge our word that there is not one Li
the Company—cer-
tainly none of the shareholders—aware of the extent of Ha.
bilities to which his property stands pledged an: is sought to
be further pledged.
The original capital of the Great Western Company i
been swelled under their engineer, with the addition of twel
branches of 11/4 millions, from 214 to 914 millions, which has
materially reduced their legitimate dividends far below the
expected amount, and to less than one-fourth of what they
would fairly have been. So great are the liabilities and en-
gagements, that if trade received a check we are unable
to understand how and where the Great Western
could find funds to meet the demands on them for rent, in-
terest, &c., &c., without calling on their shareholders for
contributions. Some of the lines, it is morally certain, never
can pay, and the consequence will be a constant drain on
the parent line. Very kindly to the Great Western the Par-
liament last week threw the wet blanket over five of the
projects, and it would be fortunate indeed if most of the rest
could share the same fate. •
In this mass of engagements it should not be overlooked
that, of the si expended, only 41 are actually paid
up ; the remaining 4 millions are 2i millions in debenture&
and lin loan notes. So that the actual paid-up capital to
meet and bear the brunt of the engagements, and proposed
engagements, of nearly 43 millions, are really only 4- mil-
lions, or not a tenth of the amount. Some of the debentures
also bear an interest of 5 per cent.
The summary that we have given by no means shows the
probable state of affairs. Most of the lines proposed to be
leased and amalgardated are not yet made, but are to be
made under the Great Western engineer, the same gentleman
who estimated the Great Western at 21i millions, and. has
already contrived to spend upwards of seven or eight. Now
we believe, there are at least 25 millions of these proposed
liabilities not yet begun. Supposing, therefore, instead of
nearly quadrupling the estimates, he is fortunate enough this
time only to about double them, the Great Western liabilities
will then amount to 70 millions !
We have long complained of the very great and perilouz.
engagements of the Great Western Company; but, we can-
didly confess, until the facts were brought before us in detail,.
we never dreamt of their fearful extent. We did not ima-
gine that at the utmost they exceeded a half of the amount
they reach. We Lad, indeed, heard talk of near 30 millions,
but the probability that the directors and shareholders should
have committed themselves to this extent, appeared to us to
be so small, that we regarded it rather as a wild guess than.
an approximation to facts. We looked upon it to be some.
thing like Mr. Brunel's bridge over the Severn—a creation
of the imagination never to be clothed with reality ; or like
his South-Devon Atmospheric Railway, a thing to excite our
wonder by the greatness of its absurdity.
It is but an act of justice to say, that we strongly doubt
whether any of the managers of the Great Western have
been aware of the monstrous large liabilities they have been
incurring. Far too much engaged to compute the " sum
tottle of the whole," as Mr. Joseph Hume would call it, they
have gone on step by step, adding item to item, without once
looking back on the insufficiency of the fulcrum to bear so
mighty a load. Like many men in their worldly affairs, they
have been dealing in those dangerous little items, called " 'tis
buts," without counting their number, or regarding their ac-
cumulated weight; and, we have no doubt, when we now
call their attention to the fact, they will be as much surprised
at the amount as we were when it was laid before us.
In our next, we shall give the details of the foregoing
street, with probably a few more observations.

DEATH AT THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY STATION.—OiI Thursday evening, a little before nine
o'clock, a man, who, was sitting on a form in the second-class waiting-
rcom of the Victoria Railway station, Hunt's Bank, was found dead:
and a surgeon, having been promptly called thither, was unable to
restore animation. The deceased had been sitting there a short time
previously, without exhibiting any signs of indisposition. He was
apparently about sixty-live years of age, respectably attired in black..
He wore a pla n neckcloth, white stockings, shoes with four button
holes, and a cap upon his head. He had not paid for his fare for any
place, and no money except Is. 3d. was found upon him.—Manchester
Guardian.
THE RIFLE BRIGADE. On Saturday evening the
officers at present connected with the Rifle Brigade, and several whc
formerly held commissions in that distinguished corps, held their an-
nual festival at Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street. Sir Andrew Bar,
nerd, G.C.8., Colonel-Commandant, presided. The list of attendants
compriied—Major-General Sir Alexander Cameron, G.C.8., Major-
General Brown, Deputy-Adjutant-General Sir T. Monro, Viscount
Jocelyn, M.P., Colonel Peel, Captains Groves, Walpole, &c. Upwards
of 25 sat down.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—Two LivE9
LOST.—On Sunday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a num-
ber of persons hired a boat at Blackfriars-bridge for the purposeof
proceeding up the river. When they had got nearly facing the new
Houses of Parliament, a young woman named Ellen Morney, whc
resided in Fulwood's-rents, Holborn, by a sudden jerk of the boot
was thrown from her seat into the river. A young man named
Beagley instantly jumped in after the female, but he was unable tG
save her, and up to ten o'clock last night the body had not been re-
covered. The same afternoon as the Matrimony iron steam-boat
was proceeding up the river to Chelsea, with a cargo of passengers.
the foremost mate, a young man, named Charles Pusey, was stand-
ing on the paddle-box, when he was accosted by a friend, and whilst
shaking hands with his acquaintance he overbalanced himself asiC
fell into the river. The bd'at was stopped as quickly as possible, a
waterman put off from the shore, and rowed to the spot, and every
endeavour was made to save the young man's life but without suc-
cess. It is supposed that the deceased must have been washed on:
some distance by the swell caused by the passage pf the steamer.
As in the previous case the body had not been found at ten o'clock
last night. •
The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady
have issued cards to the foreign Ambassadors and their ladies,
the
ittl
with them on Friday, th
great number of the nobility, to dine •
Egyptian-
of June. It is supposed that about 160 will sit down in thee Mayoress
of Cambr'dge, and I
Egyptian-
hall, and their RoyaclllnicgehtLese,s,resgetiatereD
Man-
sion-house on the occasion with their presence.
THE STEAM-SHIP CAMBRIA.—By letters received per
`j:tpefcCeedamtobrhiodngon' trhtelale)uehesS
,hwere
oleuatrnT.trldlaptaublicigset.eam-ship Cambria had met w
arrived safely on the Ist •
...Great Wdeensttern

insinnt at Timm. ; but half•an-hour before midnight on Saturday,
the 2d instant, while en the passage from Halifax to Boston, she rar
on shore in Truro, Cape Cod. The weather at the time was foggy,
and the boat running at halt-speed. The engines were reversed, and
an anchor and stern-cable carried out. At the time she Went ashore
it was about half tide ; as the tide rose her stein swung round ; and
at high water (about four o'clock on the Sunday morning) she lay
broadside on. On the follow ing day her coal and supplies of water
having been discharged, she was got off by the aid of a steamer, and on Tuesday morning leached Boston in perfect safety, not having suit.
tained the slightest dalna•.;e from her mishap. She would leave Boa-,
ton on her return on tie 16th instant, and may therefore be expected
t 3 arrive here about nree o'clock on Thursday montirg next.
ELOPEMENT.—The clandestine flight of Miss Fanny
Wilkinson, of Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, with Mr. Joshua Barton.
jun.' on Monday night last, has been a subject upon which a great
deal has been said and conjectured in Leeds and the neighbourhood
during the last few days. The young lady is highly respectable,
being the daughter of John Wilkinson, Eaq., one of our most exten-
sive and opulent flax spinners. The connexions of Mr. Burten arc
also of a very high standing, his father being a wool merchant doing
a large business, and a bank director. They travelled rapidly to
York, where they arrived sufficiently in time to proceed northwards
by a train to Newcastle, which leaves the York station about five
o'clock in the morning. On the same day they were married at
Gretna-green.—Leeds latelliOneer.
ADDRESSES FROM SCOTLAND TO MR. WILLIAM SMITH
011ares.—Last Saturday addresses front such of the inhabitants Of
Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Aberdeen, and Dundee as are favour-
ably disposed towards the agitation of the Irish repealer., a aited on
Mr. William Swint O'Brien in the prison of the House of Commons,
and presented him with addresses of sympathy and unqualified
approval. •
PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday Harris, who last week
lost his snatch: in undertaking to cover the five bridges in ene hour.
made another attempt, and succeeded in accomplishing the feat. His
wager was for 101., and the time occupied was fifty-nine minutes.
RE .OPENING OF NEW OXFORD-STREET.—This itripOr•
tant thoroughfare, from Oxford-street to Holborn, near Little Queen-
street, has been re-opened, with the exception of a very small por-
tion, avoided by going round Hart-street, Illoomsbnry.
THE FOREIGN MAILS.—P. OST
following notice relative is the foreign ma
h3eledncieteorn-
to the chief office, St. Martin's-le•Grand :—Tire Peninsular-°lllFFwarCsEonNsOptTurdEay atlixed
Mails—
The neat
and China,
wilibnetal 'due on the 26th inst.
the morning of the 27th inst. The next
1,
Indian Mails:--The
mnai,plst, flbiirdlia.'igo, Oporto, Lisbon,
dCa,phit,zGhodibralfrotarm,
eniusular mails on
the morning of the
Mediterranean, Egypt, India, and China, via Mar-
seilles,amipliteonowi,eirtihant,iie
next mails tor t
ariridalaje,&tch..,
The Queen will sail 11,2...Th8174h
I be dispatched from hence this evening, the 2htb inst.
kilt
Southampton:—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta,
Inao.nian Islands, Egypt, Ind a, China, Ike., via SoUthaMp-
ton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 3d ofJune.
West Indies, Ste.:—The next mails 14 the British Colonies in the
west Indies (except Honduras and Bermuda), the foreign colonies
in the West Indies, Mexico, Venezuela, and Madeira, will be dis-
patched from hence on the morning of the 2d of June. The Alton,
with the mails from the above, due ou the 7th of June. Sydney,
New South Wales : —The next mail from Sydney, New South Wales.
will be dispatched from home on the evening of the' 31st inst., and
will be conveyed by the Trafalgar. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos
Ayres :—The next mails will be dispatched from hence on the even-
ing of the 2d of June. From August to July inclusive the packet
touches at Pernambuco and Bahia on her outward osssage to Rio
Janeiro, and the other six months on her homeward. Her Majesty's
brig Penguin due with the above mails oh the 29th lust. America:.

—The next mails for orth Amerlce, Bermuda. and United
States, will he dispatched from hence on the evening of the 3d June.
The Caledonian, with the above mails, due on the 29th inst. net-
terdarn :—A mail bag will be made up to be forwarded by the Ba-
tavia on Saturday next, the 30th inst., and every succeeding Satur-
day during the season.
A WOMAN CHOKED Di 7 A PIECE OF BREAD.--On
Saturday an inquest was add at the William the Fourth, Wands-
worth-road, before Mr. Carter, on the body of Mary Anne Cooke, the
wife of a sweep, living in Howard-street. A few days Previously
the deceased was at tea, when a piec4 of crust of bread lodged in the
larynx, and before a surgeon could be rTOctged, he WOE yer,
diet, "Died troll suroca,ttez!

FINANCIAL POSITION AND LIA-
N
BLLITIES OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL- ItTi 44,
WAY COMPANY.
(From Herapath's Journal.)
The discussion on the gauge question, and the presentPar---'.
liamentary contest between the Great Western Cod!pany and the South Western, have brought the former so prominently 3--
before the public as to cause any information respecting it to `,
be of more than ordinary interest.
So numerous and extensive are the engagementWithikaSAajd
Great Western Company, that it has long been a source of
anxiety to know what are their actual position and liabili-
ties. It has been said, they are so multifarious that it is
doubtful whether anyone member of the Company—director,
shareholder, or officer—could state them, if called on to do so.
Certain it is, that none of our usual portfolios of railway in-
formation are competent to furnish all the cases of their pur-
chases, leases, and amalgamations, made and proposed.
The defect of this information oacksioned a gentleman to
undertake the very laborious and difficult task of collecting
the facts connected with the Great Western engagements..
Whether he has embraced all the schemes taken and pro-
posed to be taken under the wing of the Great Western, or
whether there may be any trifling oversights, it is next to
impossible, in such a mass of projects, to decide. If, how-
ever, there should be a few slips, there is scope enough for
them in this mountain range of projects.
In this Andrean, or rather Himalayan group of under-
takings, the Great Western Railway, which was originally
designed to be simply a railway to Bristol of 11314 miles
long, and 2% millions capital, has swelled its own capital
proper to above 914 millions (including two branches), of
which 814 have actually been spent. Its effected and pro-
posed amalgamations exceed 11 millions more, and it has
under lease above 64 millions, which, with different matters,
make a grand total of 43 millions sterling!
If we regard the mileage, it stands thus :—The 118(
miles of original line have got annexed to them 170% miles
by amalgamation, and 2951,4 miles by lease, to which it is
proposed to add 329 miles more by amalgamation, and another
686 N miles by lease, making in all 1,600 miles of railway!!
or nearly as much as all the railways at this time in opera-
tion in the United Kingdom.
The following is the abstract :
Capital and Shares. Length.
Millions. miles.
Great Western proper, including
half, &c., shares
Amalgamations
Proposed ditto g 329
Leased
Proposed to be leased

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