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THE ;SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, AUG CST 6, 1846.

FISHERIES (IRELAND) BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill, and
after a brief discussion, in which Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr.
Pigott, Lord Lincoln, Mr. Labouchere, and Captain Jones
took part)
Sir G. GREY said, hat as there were several other orders
of the day yet to be disposed of, and on which he believed
there would be no discussion, lie hoped his Right Hon.
Friend (Mr. Pigott) would consent to the postponement of
this measure till some other day.
Sir ROBERT FERGUSON—You should have finished
the other orders of the day before you entered upon this.
The discussion on the clauses was awn renewed, and the
whole of them having been agreed to, The 11011F0 resumed,
and the report was ordered to be brought up on Friday.
DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL.
The Committee on this Bill was postponed until Friday.

WRECK AND SALVAGE BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
SUPPLY.
The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up
and agreed to.
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES BILL (IRELAND).

This Bill was read a third time.
The dropped orders of yesterday were then taken.
COURT OF COAMON PLEAS BILL:
The report was brought up and received.
COPY HOLD COMMISSION BILL.
This Bill went through Committee, and the report was
ordered to be received to- morrow.
TUE:SPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL.
This Bill went through Committee, and the report was
watered to be received to-morrow.
The Stock Exchange Bill, the Highway Rates Bill, and
the Loan Societies Bill, went severally through Committee,
and were ordered to be reported to-morrow.
SUGAR DUTIES (No. 3) BILL.
Sir GEORGE GREY moved the second reading of this

Bill.
Mr. P. M. STEWART expressed a hope that the measures
for compensation, which were intended to be a complement
to this Bill, which could only be considered as part of the
great measure respecting sugar, and which "effected property
in the colonies to a great extent, would be brought forward
as soon as possible next session.
Mr. HUME wished to know if there would be any objec-
t;.on to the production of the Orders in Council regulating
the supply of labour for the West Indies?
Sir G. GREY said there would not.
The Bill was then read.a second time.

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DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR.
Viscount MORPETH moved for leave to bring in a Bill
to empower the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, &c.,
to sell, on certain conditions, sites for dwellings for the Poor
out of the hereditary estates of the Crown.
The Earl of LINCOLN said he would not offer any
opinion on the merits of the Bill till it was regularly before
the,House, only he hoped full opportunity would be given
him for an examination of their details prior to being
called on for an opinion. He would not yield
to the Noble Lord, in any degree, who sought
leave to introduce the Bills in a sincere desire to improve
the condition of the working classes, but he did not think the
course proposed would realise the end sought. The Noble
Lord (Lord Morpeth) was placed in his position
as a trustee on behalf of the Crown, and if
the Commissioners applied the property of the Woods
and Forests in that way, it would not end there, but there
would be numerous applications from other quarters for
similar applications of the property in question. He
thought they ought to adhere rigidly to the provi-_
siona of 10 George IV., as to the use of the property
placed in the hands of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests. With these observations he would reserve himself
till the time when the Bill was regularly before the House.

Mr. HUME briefly supported the objects of the Bill.
Sir ROBERT li. INGLIS was disposed to take
a similar view of the Bill to that expressed by the Noble
Lord the late Secretary for Ireland. He thought it might
lead to considerable abuse.
After a few words from Mr. HENLEY to the same effect,
leave was given to bring in the Bill.
Lord MORPETH obtained leave to introduce the following
Bills :—A Bill to empower the Commissioners of her Majes-
ty's Woods, &c., to sell, on certain conditions, sites for dwel-
lings of the poor out of lands vested in them under Acts for
the improvement of the metropolis; and a Bill to enable the
Privy Council to make regulations for the prevention of con-
tagious disorders, and for the more speedy removal of
nuisances.
Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to introduce the
following Bills :—A Bill to continue an Act of the sixth and
seventh years of her present Majesty, intituled, "An
Act to amend and continue for two years, and to the
end of the then next session of Parliament, the laws:in
Ireland relating to the registering of arms, and
the importation, manufacture, and sale of arms,
gunpowder and ammunition ;" a Bill to continue certain
Acts for regulating turnpike roads in Ireland; a Bill to
continue an Act of the fifth and sixth years of her present
Majesty, for amending the Law relating to private lunatic
asylums in Ireland.
The above Bills were brought in, severally read a first
time, and ordered to be printed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Six o'clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

( I ESTERDAY)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Room A.
HERTFORD AND HATFIELD RAILWAY.
The Chairman (the Marquis of Winchester), and the other Mem-
bers of the Committee en this Bill, met to-day at ten o'clock, and the
evidence in support of the Bill was resumed.
Mr. Webb (farmer and butcher) was examined with respect to the
price of coal at Hatfield, which he stated was at present 188. 6d. a ton.
This witness was cross-examined by Mr. TALBoT on the part of
the petitioners.
Mr. Rigby stated that the price of the best coal at Hertford was
325. a ton. .

Cross-examined by Mr. HILDTARD, Q.C.—The proposed railway
had, in his opinion, the effect of reducing the price of coal at Hatfield.
He made no allowance for detriment to the coal by transhipment,
&c., which, he believed, could be effected without any injury to the
coat.
Mr. George Wedd, corn-factor, stated that 12,000 tons of barley
went annually to London from Hertford, which would be conveyed
by the proposed line if it should be established, and that he was satis-
fied with the correctness of the trade-tables of this line. He also
stated that a large saving would be effected in the transit of barley,
linseed-cake, &c., along the line.
Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—The granaries were all along the
river-side, but he considered the course of traffic would be diverted
in the direction of that railway. One of the crushing-mills at Hert-
ford was on the river-side. 11,000 tons of corn would come from
Luton and Dunstable, though the Bill for that railway had been
thrown out. Had assumed in his calculation the traffic going to
Ware.
Re-examined—Had seen the inconvenience of the terminus at
Shoreditch. There was not the least apprehension of the corn from
London stopping short of Hatfield and not reaching Ware. It was
very desirable to mix foreign corn with their own corn, and the
millers along the line would consequently have no objection to
closer proximity to the corn coming from the Baltic, which would be
afforded by the proposed railway.
Mr. Osbaldiston (Coroner for Hertfordshire) deposed as to the im-
portance of the town of Hertford, and the advantages that would re-
sult to the town and county of Hertford from the establishment of
the line before the• Committee. _

Mr. Pitman, traffic-taker—The traffic calculation with respect to
foot passengers and cattle was derived from observation on the road.
The traffic would give 41/2 per cent. on the 130,0001.
This witness was cross-examined by Mr. HILMARD, with the
view of impugning the accuracy of his calculations.
After hearing some further evidence, the Committee decided, with-
out hearing counsel for the opposition, that the preamble of the Bill
was not proved.

Room B.

WEST ILIMI.NG UNION (No. IX.) 72.11ILWAY,

Mr. Sergeant WEANGIIIM opened the case for the opposition to this
Bill, and at con.iderable length urged upon the Committee the ne-
cessity of rejecting that portion of the system included in the Bills of
the promoters for constructing the Elland and Brighouse branches,
upon the grounds of their not affording the means of a sufficiently
direct communication between Bradford and Manchester, via Hud-
dersfield, and also calculated to prevent any future extension of the
Manchester and Huddersfield line, which would afford that necessary
accommodation. '

Mr. Gee, the engineer to the Manchester and Huddersfield Railway,
was then examined with reference to the engineering features of the
line, and also to some alteration in the gradients which had been in.
troduced in the present Bill since last session.
Several other witnesses were examined, who stated that the ac-
commodation proposed by the present line would not be sufficient
to supply the wants of those districts between Bradford and Man-
chester.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons,

TUESDAY, AUG 4.
STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.

The following resolution was reported from the above Com-
mittee :
That, in the case of the Cork and Waterford Railway Bill,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with: —That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill, on amending the section by re-
ferring the datum horizontal line to the soffite of the keystone of the
centre arch of Patrick's Bridge, and on obtaining the consent of the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to their crossing the ellanmire
Channel ; and that the Committee on the Bill do examine, in the
first place, how far such order has been complied with, and do report
the same to the House on the report of the Bill."
Resolution agreed to.
DUBLIN AND SANDYMOUNT RAILWAY BILL.

Sir George Clerk reported from the Select Committee on Group 70
of Railway Bills, to whom several petitions against the Bills com-
prised in the said group were referred, that, in the case of the Dublin
and Sandymount Railway Bill, they had heard counsel in support of
the petition, and had also heard counsel in favour of the Bill, and
had examined the allegations contained in the preambel of the Bill,
but the same had not been proved to their satisfaction.

POSTAGE STAMPS, &c.—From a return just issued by
order of Parliament, it appears that the total cost of producing post-
age stamped envelopes since 1841, has been as follows : —ln 1841,
4,2681.; 1842, 5,530/. ; 1843, 5,290/. ; 1844, 6,190/. ; 1845, 6,9481. ;
and in the first quarter of 1846, 1,8461. Total, 30,0721. Re-
paid by the consumers, in addition to the retailers' profit, 31,0681.,
leaving a profit to Government during the above years of 9921. 18s. 7d.
The number of stamps issued during the above period is 83,694,240,
The cost per million of the envelopes is 3591. 6s. 11d. ; repaid by the
consumers, per million, 3711. 4s. 26., leaving a profit of 111. 17s. 3d.
per million upon the whole number issued, while the profit per million
at the present time is 211. 16s. Id. The total cost per million of post-
age labels is 791. Os. 7d.
THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 4.—The Gibraltar
mail-packet Paella, Captain Burney, arrived here at five o'clock P.M.
this day, and landed the Peninsular and other mails, which will be
forwarded to London by one o'clock A.m. to morrow train. Her
dates are—Gibraltar, July 26 ; Cadiz, July 27 ; Lisbon, July 30 ;
Oporto, July 31 ; 'Vigo and Coruna, Aug. 1 ; she has a full cargo
and 30 passengers.
ALLEGED MURDER AT AINTREE RACES.—On Tues-
day the adjourned investigation into the alleged murder of Eliza
Bateson at the late Aintree Races, was resumed at the county-office,
in Leigh-street, before Mr. Richard Edwards. The particulars of
this melancholy case were briefly detailed in the Liverpool Times of
this day week. The deceased was a dancer, singer, and semptress
in the show-box of a man named Shaw. Her alleged murderer,
Robert Farmer, was a flute-player in another show-box belonging to
a man named Powell. Both these boxes were at Aintree; and on
the last night of the races the prisoner, who was sober, was in com-
pany with the deceased, who was very drunk. They were seen to
leave a tent together about ten o'clock, and on the following day her
body was discovered in a pit not far from the course. His state-
ments, prior to the finding of the body, as to where he had left her,
and what had become of her, were so strange and false, with also
the discoloration of the body, that they caused him to be appre-
hended at Croxteth on the capital charge. Yesterday the following
additional evidence was given by Mr. Thomas William
Christie, surgeon, of Knotty Ash :—He stated, that in
consequence of information he received, he went yesterday
week to the Septon churchyard, and made a post-mortem
examination of the body of the deceased, which had been
exhumed for the purpose. Decomposition having set in, he
felt himself satisfied with a superficial view. The head, face,
chest, and shoulders, were swollen and livid, particularly the head
and face. Oa the side of the neck and left side there were four or
five marts, similar to the imprint of a thumb and fingers, and these
parts were distinctly different from those surrounding them. The
cuticle was rubbed off one of the marks. The abdomen was con-
siderably swollen, but not so much discoloured as the chest. It was
raised in blisters in places whi,:.ll contained bloody water underneath
the cuticle, but very different from the marks above, which were
situated on the shin. The low er extremities were less decomposed
than any other part. Ile was of opinion that there must have been
a struggle before death, and that the marks were produced by pres-
sure before death. The investigation was here adjourned until Mon-
day next, when, we believe, the prisoner will be fully committed on
capital charge to take his trial at the approaching assizes. Ile is
an elderly man, apparently not less than 60 years of age ; and the
only imaginable reason that he could have for committing the deed
is, that lie wanted to accomplish an unlawful purpose, and that the
woman, who is described as middle-aged and extremely welblookitig,
resisted him. According to the medical evidence it would appear
that a fierce struggle took place between ttarat but that win:dually
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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAIL-
WAY COMPANY.

The half-yearly meeting of this Company was held at the
Company's offices, No. 61, Moor;ate-street, yesterday, at one
o'e 0 W.,R. Collet, &q., M.P., to ,k the chair.
The SECRETARY read the advertisement convening the
meeting, and afterwards the minutes of the last half-yearly
meeting, and two other special meetings of the shareholders,
which were ordered to be confirmed by the votes of those
present.
The CITAIRMAN then said, before calling on the secretary
to read the report, which detailed most fully and particu-
larly everything connected with the affairs of the Company,
whether past, present, or future, he would claim the indul-
gence of the meeting for a very short time indeed. He
said he never appeared before the shareholders with such
satisfaction as he did on that occasion. The directors,
indeed, had always expressed great confidence as to the
prospects, and ultimate success of the Company ; still there.
remained doubts on the minds of the public relative to their
experiment, and more particularly in reference to the Menai-
bridge. It gratified him now, however, to state that, during
the past six months, they had overcome every one of those
difficulties whickseemed to be great obstacles in their way, as
would appear by the directors' report and the report drawn up by
Mr. Robert Stephenson. The directors had entered into
engagements for the construction of the Menai and Conway-
bridge, which would very soon be in the course •of com-
pletion, and when he told the meeting that three-fifths of the
entire line had been executed; that of 4,421,876 yards of
earthwork, 2,627,188 yards had been done already,
be thought be proved to the shareholders that they had not
been idle during the six months past. At present there were
12,338 men and 861 horses employed on the line, and they
were proceeding with the works with more speed, perhaps,
than was displayed on any other line. The
.two miles of
the line out of Chester, forming a connecting link
between the existing Chester lines and the North Wales
Mineral Railway to Wrexham and Ruabon, would be completed
and opened in October next, simultaneously with the latter

line. He said the directors had entered into arrangements
with the North Wales Mineral Railway Company, by which
they had agreed to give them the use of this portion of the
line for the following six months, in consideration of 2,0001.,
or 2,500 L, in case the combined traffic of the two companies
amounted, during that period, to 31,206/. He was happy to
inform the meeting that since the last half-yearly
meeting the Government had agreed to expend 150,000/. on
the works of the new .packet and refuge harbour at Holy-
head during the present year, of which sum the Company
was to provide 37,0001. Mr. Rendell, the Government en-
gineer, had completed the plans and specifications for deep-
ening the old harbour, and the works would soon be
advertised for contract ; and the resident engineer
was proceeding with the necessary surveys and
examinations preparatory to the works on the new harbour.
The directors had also turned their attention to the means of
connexion between Holyhead and Kingstown, and were in
hope that the mails would he conveyed by the Company in
August next. The Irish trade would thus be opened up to that
part of the country by means of the Company's line. He said
the Shropshire Union Railway and Canal Company, in which
this Company had an interest, had obtained the sanction of
the Legislature to three of their lines, the Cheater and Wol-
verhampton, the Shrewsbury and Stafford, and the Newton
and Crewe. He was gratified to find that the directors had
met with the ready and cordial support of the shareholders.
He said that of the calls which had been made to the
amount of 1,155,0001., only 49,0001. were due.
During the past six months the Company's expen-
diture had been at the rate of 90,0001. a-month, and
for the rest of the year would be about 100,000/. The Chair-
man concluded by calling on
The SECRETARY, who read the report, the main details of
which appear in the Chairman's speech.
A report was also laid before the meeting from Mr.
Robert Stephenson, on the Meuai-bridge, and the suc-
cess of the experiments made, with a view to testing the
proposed tubular construction of the bridge, by Mr. Hodg-
kinson and Mr. Fairbairn, in conjunction with him-
self. In his report Mr. Stephenson says,—" Mr. Fair-
bairn has, with your sanction, constructed a model
tube one-sixth; of the actual span, having all the dimensions
in due proportion. In such a model we should of course
expect to have a very accurate exhibition of the merits or
demerits of the tubular system. It will be in your recollec-
tion, that the preliminary experiments led to the conclusion
that great care would be required to, prevent the upper side
of the tube from crushing, that, in short, the main object to be
aimed at was to give the top of the tube the requisite stiffness.
In this respect the results obtained from the model tube
have been highly satisfactory, and being upon so large a
scale, may be deemed perfectly conclusive upon several very
important points. When progressively loaded, the mean
deflection was about one-tenth of an inch per ton, and with
a load of thirty-five tons suspended in the middle, it gave
way on the under side ; the upper part not having ex-
hibited the least sign of failure up to the moment of
fracture. Hence, therefore, we have arrived at a most in-
teresting result, viz. :—that the liability of the plates on the
upper side to crush, has been completely removed by the
construction in compartments."
A statement of the accounts since the formation of the
Company up to the 30th June last was also laid before the
meeting, showing :
Receipts from deposits, calls, and calls paid in
advance
Premium and interests and transfer fees 12,830 0 0

£944,007 0 0

Expenditure, attending formation of the
Company, &c. -
Parliamentary expenses, 1845
Parliamentary expenses and surveys of
branch lines, 1846
Land, works, rails, and engineering 738,214 11 9
Law charges .... 3,10 13 1
Miscellaneous _ 9,291 17 3
Interest on Calls ... 26,471 11 2

20,000 15 10
4,497 16 8

£805,724 8 10

Deposit on shares on the Shropshire Union
Railway and Canal Compzny 31,500 0 0
Loan at interest, cash at the bankers, &c 106,783 5 3

£944,007 14 1
The CamßstAN said that since the accounts had been made
up, on the 30th June, 218,238/. had been paid on calls.
The C=AIRN moved that the report, the engineer's re-
port, and the accounts read should be adopted, printed,
and circulated. . .

Mr. G. C. GLYN seconded the motion, which was carried
nem. con. _ _ _

The CHAIRMAN moved that the directors should be autho-
rised to make arrangements for borrowing 700,0001., in pur-
suance of the Company's Act.
Mr. CROPPER seconded the motion, which passed nem. con.
The CHAIRMAN then intimated that tenders for one-half
the amount had already been received.
Mr. FINLAYSON called the attention of the directors to the
communication between Holyhead and Kingstown, and the
importance of the Company opening it up with the largest
facilities, by means of steamers of good size and horse-
power, for the Irish trade. He said he
called their attention to the necessity of making large and
efficient provision for that trade if they meddled with it at
all, from his own experience, which extended over fourteen
years, and he wished to know whether any preparation had
yet been made?
The CSAIRMAN said the meeting must be aware that
during last year the directors were afraid of going too fast;
and, besides, they were then uncertain what amount, if any
at all, might be granted by the Government for the harbour
at Holyhead; but now the board was favourable to establish-
ing their own line of steam-packets, and hoped to be able
before long to call a meeting of the shareholders, with a
view of obtaining their sanction on this point.
Mr. SKILBECK wished to know whether the Company
would not have to go to Parliament for power to establish
steam-packets.
The CHAIRMAN said they must go to Parliament next ses-
sion for ground for the new harbour, and for a station there,
and the directors of course would be happy to be authorised
to include this other point in their Bill. But there
was time before them for a meeting to consider that spe-
cially.
Mr. SKILBECK referred to the fate of the South-Western
and the South Eastern Companies, in applying to Parliament
for new powers, and added that it would require their great-
est care.

A PROPRIETOR thought the Company ought to remain ex-
clusively a railway company, and have nothing to do with
the steam-packets.
Mr. FINLATSON said another company could be got up
among the shareholders of this, and the two companies might
be kept distinct ; but he assured them there was nothing to
fear, and much to hope for, if the project was entered into.
The CIAIRMALE said no more cans would be made during
the present year.
The thanks of the meeting were then accorded to the
Chairman, and the meeting adjourned.

YORKSHIRE AND GLASGOW
UNION RAILWAY COMPANY.
A meeting of this Company took place yesterday, for the
purpose of determining whether the shareholders should take
advantage of the powers of an Act lately passed, entitled,
" The Railways Dissolution Act." Major Beresford in the
chair.
A very stormy and irregular discussion then took place,
whether scrutineers should be appointed first, and whether they
should proceed to ascertain the number of shares present be-
fore a resolution was put from the chair.
Several shareholders objected to such a course as illegal ;
others considered that it was the course required by the Act
of Parliament.
After some time it was moved that the Company should
dissolve, and that such dissolution should not be taken as an
act of bankruptcy. The votes were then taken. It was an-
nounced that the return made would be 1/. 2s. 6d.
A large majority decided in favour of proceeding with the

line.
The CHAIRMAN said that, though he consented to preside
that day, lie was of opinion that the meeting was wholly
illegal. and that they had no power to dissolve the Com-
pany, even should they wish it.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT WATERLOO-BRIDOE.—On Tue -
day an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, Coroner for the Duchy
of Lancaster, at the Savoy Palace, Savoy-street, Strand, on the body
of Charles Lanton, aged 12-years. On Friday evening last, the de-
ceased and some other boys were bathing in the river, at the bottom
of the steps, on the western side of Waterloo-bridge; the deceased
was very headstrong, and fancied he could swim, but he had not
proceeded many yards when he was knocked backwards by the Swell
of a passing steamer, and he sank immediately. Fleming, a water-
man at the adjoining stairs, hearing the alarm, ran to the spot, and
by moans of a hitcher, recovered the body in a few minutes. It
was removed to No. 1, Lancaster-place, where every means was
adopted by a surgeon to restore life, but ineffectually, life behig quite
extinct. Verdict—Accidental Death.
• THE STORM OF SATURDAY LAST.—The cloisters and
other portions of the new Douses of Parliament present a melancholy
scene of broken window sashes and panes ; and it appears that from
some defect in the joining of the iron roofing of the new Houses, the
gildings and other ornamental work which had been commenced, is
so injured that the damage is estimated at 2,000/. During the violence
of the storm the .111111 and rain demolished the skylights of Mr.
Walker's furniture warehouse, in the York-road, and caused serious
loss to the proprietor, the wet having destroyed several pier-glasses,
beds, &c. In this case there appeased to be mittgled with the hail,
or rather encased in it, large lumps of a substance like sand, some of
which was shown to our informant soon after the storm.

MURDER OF A CHILD BY ITS FATHER.—On Satun
day evening last, about six o'clock, an act of cold-blooded and deli-
berate murder is alleged to have been committed in one of the most
public parts of the city, the victim a child about two and a half
years of age, and the person who deprived it of life his own father.
The unnatural, and in this part of the country rare crime, was
perpetrated under the blowing circumstances :—At the time men-
tioned, it appears, a man, named Francis Sweenie, in police
phraseology, an " old offender," was observed walking along
Glasgow-bridge, from south to north, wills two of his children,
carrying the youngest, named ratrick Sweenie, in his arms, leading
the other by the halal. When he reached the Glasgow side of
the bridge, lie stoppcd and placed the child in his arms upon the
parapet, at first appa:ustly wills the object of taking a rest, but after
looking cautiatna; round as si to see that he was not observed, he
pushed hint over Use wall, Winn to fell with all the force a descent
from such a bright was capable of imparting, not into the river, but
upon the stair betwe,as the brkle,e and the steam•boat quay. The
child was imasealate.y lifted and went to the Royal Infirmary, where
he expired at el veil o'elor.k the same night, and the father was taken
into custody, and M—iwarls lu,lgett in the police-office. Sweenie
has been for a long time a must incorrigible street beggar about
Glasgow, and has been frequently sent to Ireland by the authorities,
from which lie had only arrived for the lust tilde on Friday.—
Cfigig9W

RAILWAY SII/IE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, AUGUST 4.
STOCX EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter, NOW, 1014
—Bristol and South Wales Junction, Gs. 3d.—Bristol and Glouces-
tor, 52!2—Caledonian, 15%—Ditto, New, 1% —Manchester and
Leeds Extension, 3% p.—North Staffordshire, 4►% p.- Taff Vale,
New, 114. . .

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MANCHESTER, AUGUST 4.
STOCK ExerrAnnx.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, &c.,
41 P.—Bideford and Tavistock, 1 dis. —Birmingham and Oxford
Junction, 6% p.—Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 1 p.—Ditto, New,
par—Blackburn and Preston, 10% p. —Boston, Stamford, and Bir-
mingham, 10s. dis.—Buckingham and Bletclaley, % p.—Caledonian,
4 dis.—Clitheroe Junction, 34 ells.— Direct Northern, 4 dis.—Dublin
and Drogheda, Thirds, % p.—Eastern Counties, York Extension,
2c. p.—East Lancashire, 11 p.—East Lincolnshire, dis.—Exete
and Exmouth, 9s. 6d. dia.—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, 1U dis.
—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, % dis.—Glasgow-and Dum-
fries, y, dis.—Grand Union, 3-16 dis.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield,
par—Ditto, Quarter Shares, par—Great Grimsby and Dock Exten-
sion, par—Huddersfield, Halifax, and Bradford, 3% p. Hudders-
field and Manchester Railway and Canal, 4)¢ p.—Ditto, Extension,
p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, % dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury,
and Manchester, -11 p.—Ditto, New Branches, 43% p.—Leicester and
Bedford, Ye dis.—Leicester and Birmingham, 19s. 6cl.lis.—Leicester,
Bin-ningham, and Trent Valley Junction, % dis.—Liverpool and
Bury, New, 2% p.— Liverpool, Manchester, rial Newcastle, % dis.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 11-16' p.—London and Bir-
mingham, 235% London and York, % p. —Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock, 1% p.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (A), 113
p.—Manchester and Leeds, 39 p.—Ditto, Extension, 3 13-16 p.—
Manchester and Southampton, 3-16 dis.—Borth British, Halves, S
p.—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 33¢ p. —North Eastern, 1 dis.—North
Staffordshire, 4% p.—North Western, 1 p.—Oldham Districts, 15-16
dis.— Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., 1.16 dis.—Preston and Wyre,
Halves (B), % p.—Sheffield an Lincolnshire Junction, 7.16 p.—
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No 3, 34 p.—Shrewsbury and
Birmingham, %.p.—Shropshire Union, % dis_--South-Eastern and

Dover, Halves, No. 4, 1 ifi p.—Sopth Midland, p.—South Stafford-
shire Junction, dis.—West Lancashire Coast, 17s. dis.—West
Riding Union, 3 15-16

,
LEEDS AUGUST 4,
...

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tensions, 425. p.—East Lancashire, 1014 p.—Great Grimsby and
Sheffield, ss. p.—llndderafield stud Manchester, 4 p.—Ditto, Exten-
sions, % p.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 9 p.—Leeds and Dews-
bury, 7% p.—Ditto, Branches, 4 p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 1 dis.
Ditto, New, I dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifth Shares, 10 p.—
Ditto, Extensions, 3% p.—Newcastle and Berwick, 14% p.—New-
castle and Darlington Junction Extensions, 11 p.—North British,
Carlisle Branch, 3% p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
No. 3., 15s. p.—York arid North Midland, East and West Riding,
13 p.—Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, 2s. 6d. dis.—Boston,
Stamford, and Birmingham, I Is. 6d. dis.—Buckinghamshire, par.—
Direct Northern, 7s. 6d. dis.—East Lincolnshire, 2s. 6d. dis.—Grand
Union, ss. dis. —Great Eastern and Western, 30s. dis.—Lancashire
and North Yorkshire, 16s. dis.—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North
Eastern, 345. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 15s. dis.—Leices-
ter and Bedford, 10s. Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% p.

—London and York, % p.—Ditto, Half Shares, ss. dis.—holidOn
and Portsmouth, Ix, p.—London and Manchester (Rem.), 465. dis.
—Mallon and Drift:od Junction, 74 p.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 31s. 6d. p.—North Staffordshire, 41. 7s. p.—
North Western, 74 p. —Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, % dis.—
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 1 p.— South Midland, 15s. p.—Welsh
Midlands, 28s. dis.—West Riding Union, 51.9s.—York and ,Carlisle,
dis,

SHEFFIELD, AUGUST 4.
STOCK Excustroz.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
:enslou, 2y,—London and Brighton, G 6 —Grimsby and She Meld, 14
p.—Ditto, Exension, par—Ditto, Railway and Dock, 4 dies.—North
British, Carlisle Extension, 3U p.—East Lincolnshire, par—Man..
chester and Lincoln Union and Canal, 1 is. dis.—North Western, 30s.
p.—Sheftleld and Lincolnshire. 10s. p.—Ditto, Extension, ss. dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TY/,E, AUGUST 3.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—TiIe sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 31s. 9d. p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 20s. dis.—
London and York, 16s. dis.—Newcastle and Carlisle, 105—North-
umberland and Lancashire, 14% p.
HULL, AUGUST 4.
Swat EXCRANGE.—The sales are— Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 254 —Hull and Selby, 1054—Ditto, half Shares, 39—North
British, 4134—Ditto, Half Shares, 16—Ditto, Carlisle Branch, 4/.
Os. —York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 14%—Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, Si. 10s. 6d.—Huddersfield and Sheffield
Junction, 2354—Leeds and Dewsbury, 2754—North Wales, 11/4
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, &c., 385..-Armagh, Cole-
raine, and Portrush, 15s.—Buckinghamshire, 41s —Direct Northern,
2%—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 105.—Glasgow, Dum-
fries, and Carlisle, 2—Grand Union, 1 % —Leicester and Bedford, 1 ls.
6d.—Leicester and Tamworth, 355. Gd.—Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction, 2%—Liverpool, Ormakirk, and Preston, 6X'—
London and York, 2%—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland,
Si. 1 ls. 6d.—North Western, 21s. p.—North Staffordshire, 61. 12s.—
South Midland, 17s. 6d. p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3%—
West Riding Union, 5 ya .
YORK, AUGUST 4.
Bvoca Exemiarcm.—The sales are—Ambergate, Nottingham, Bed
Bostcn, 2%—Eastern Counties, 'fork Extension,—ran 3Gd Union
- . .

(Nottingham and Lynn), 1/. 2s.—lpswich and Bury (Cambridge and
Ely), I%—Leicester and Bedford, 12s.—London and York, 2
Mahon and Driffield Junction, 2/. 13s.—Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland, 3/. 17s.—Newcastle and Berwick, 29%—New-
castle and Darlington, New, 12%—North British, 411,x —Ditto, Half
Shares, 15%—Ditto, Carlisle Extension, 4/. 12s.—Ditto, Dalkeith,
B—North Staffordshire. 6X —North Western, 21. South Midland, 21.
16s.—York and Carlisle, 11,4—York and North Midland, East and
West Riding Extension, 141.
GLASGOW, AUGUST 3.

STOCK Eamon:la.—The sales are—Caledonian, 14%—Ditto, New,
20s. 6d.—Direct Northern, 37s.—East Indian Railway, 14s. 6d.—
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 74%—Edinburgh and Northern, 101A—
Ditto, Newport, 225. 6d.—Glasgow General Terminus, 7% —Glasgow
and Belfast Union, 4bs.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr. New,
32%—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 395. 6d.—Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 30s.—Great North of India, ss.—lnverness and
Elgin, 2114—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 35s.—Larne, Belfast, and
Ballymena, 10s.—Manchester and Southampton, 295. 6d.—North
British, Extension to Carlisle, 85s.—Perth and Inverness, 325.
Scottish Central, 191.—Scottish Central and Caledonian Junction, 335.
—South-Eastern and Dover, New (issued at 151.), No. 4, 75s.—South
Midland, 575. 6d.—South and Midland Junction, 245.

FORE EON LETTERS•

The use of postage stamps of a higher denomination for
foreign letters appears to be so generally advocated that,
notwithstanding the objections made to their introduction,
which seem to be chiefly of official origin, there are fair
grounds for hoping that they will ultimately be made to give
way to public convenience. These objections are—the very
complicated and varying tariffs of charges for foreign letters,
which few persons could understand, and consequent liability
to employ a wrong stamp—the accounts kept with foreign
countries under different postal treaties, leading to constant
fractions, and scarcely to be represented by any variety of
stamps—and, lastly, the great danger of forgery. We do
not see much force in any of these objections. The employ-
ment of stamps will always be optional and chiefly for the
convenience of men in business, who must be conversant with
the charges made ; and as all postage is now regulated by
weight, they, would seldom expose themselves to the risk of
having a letter kept back by the use of a stamp too
low in value. The second objection, resolving itself
into a mere matter of account, must surely be susceptible
of an easy remedy, if persons are in earnest about it ; and
though the risk of forgery must be allowed to be a formidable
one, it would be an affront to those who have to manage the
business to pretend that it cannot be surmounted. To have
an idea of the inconvenience produced under the present
system, one mast be a spectator in Lombard-street, or at the
chief Mice in St. Martin's-le-Grand, during the last half-
hour in which foreign letters are receivable. It is generally
a scene of violent confusion and uproar; each striving to be
first at the wicket, and many fearing to be too late, for one
merchant's clerk who has a large number may occupy the
receiver for some minutes in settling the amount he will
have to pay. It is not unusual to have coats torn and hats
lost in the struggle, and a more odious and harassing service
to the mercantile " subs" who have to undergo it can hardly
be conceived. The severest nights are Tuesdays and
Fridays, as well as those on which is dispatched the
Indian mail ; and something of the kind must un-
doubtedly occur in the large provincial towns, as well as
in London. All the arguments so happily used for the in-
troduction of Rowland Hill's system, of preventing frauds,
and robberies, and losses, apply still more strongly to
the case of the foreign letters. Stamps are already used,
in fact, for newspapers sent abroad, which seldom bear
a higher rate than 3d., and a similar stamp, but of a dis-
tinct colour, would do for the sixpences and shillings. It
would show a want of deference to the general wish of com-
mercial men not at least to make this experiment. Like all
things of the kind, it would take time to come into general
use. The clerks of the Post-office have almost an equal in-
terest with those of the merchants and tradersin the improve.
ment of the present system, and their principals will, there-
fore, it is to be assumed, readily lend themselves to the de-
sired reform. An old correspondent, " Qui Hi," writing on
the subject, justly ridicules the notion, stamps being once in-
troduced for letters, of confining ourselves to those for ld.
and 2d., which he compares to that of having only one or
two money coins in connexion wiih a metallic circulation.
India and other foreign letters might have (he suggests)
stamps of distinct colours to assist the clerks in sorting. Let
the Post-office once manifest the disposition to adopt this re-
form, and grapple fairly with its difficulties, there would be
no want of suggestions to assist them. To the trading inte-
rest, who want it most, it would be an immediate relief • and
whether the rest of the community followed quickly or
otherwise in their train would be of no moment whatever.—
Timm.

THE MAGAZINES.

THE UNION.

"A Transatlantic Editor" is the title of a most hu-
morous Yankee sketch in the present number of the
Union. Mr. Washingtun Wolfe Lick is the publisher,
proprietor, and editor of the " Citizen of the West "
newspaper, published in an uncertain town in the uncer•
tain territory between Louisiana and Texas. Mr Lick,
in his journal, has libelled a certain Mr. Abel Wright
and a Mr. Herman, who determine to inflict corporal
punishment on their traducer, but who are personally
unacquainted with him, and with each other. The re-
mainder of the story is so good that we must give it in
the very.words of the narrator:—
Mr. Lick was seated at his desk, engaged in skimming
over the contents of a number of newspapers, or rather
culling choice morceanx for the next Citizen. A loud knock
was heard at the street door. Lick started at the sound and
then listened attentively. The door was opened. He heard
a gruff voice growling out something, but could not distin-
guish what ; and immediately heavy and hasty steps were
heard ascending the stairs.
" Aha 1 here comes the freeman !" exclaimed the editor,
and darting to the fire-place, seized the poker and shovel
(tongs there were none) which be deposited—oh sacrilege
in the editorial desk; then seating himself on the high
stool, he plied his pen intently. The steps grew louder; the
stranger would be in the room in another instant.
" He's coming," quoth Lick ; " and there's only one lucky
thing, he don't know me.
The heavy and hasty gentleman, who was no other than
Mr. Abel Wright, put his foot upon the topmost stair, and
without knocking, rushed into the room, armed with a beau-
tiful " cowhide,' and roared out, " Hullo here! is your name
Lick?" _ _ _ _

The editor slowly raised his eyes from the paper, and sur-
veyed the enemy with a bland look. "If you wish to see
Mr. Lick, sir,"—he deliberately commenced.
" Slice me into sandwiches and smash me into sosengers !
if you don't answer plain and spry, I'll bring this here to
bear upon you ;" and he flourished the cowhide before the
wily Lick.
" You wish to see the editor, sir 2" said Lick, coming
down from his seat and going towards the door.
" Yes, sir; call him up. Say a gentleman has called to
pay a bill."
" Yes, sir," answered Lick, "glad to escape in any manner
from within range of the formidable weapon. He stood out-
side the door for an instant, hesitating whether he should
turn the key upon Mr. Wright and lock him in, or seek
safety in flight, when lo ! he was startled by another loud
knock at the street-door. It was opened. Some one entered
hastily, and again was Mr. Lick inquired after. The idea
instantly flashed across his mind that this must be Mr. An-
drew Herman. Here was a dangerous situation. To go back
was madness—to go forward was like rushing into the lion's
jaws. It was, however, necessary to decide quickly, for the
enemy was now as ending the stairs. In another moment
they were face to face. Instead of a cowhide, this second as-
sailant rejoiced in the possession of an enormous cudgel. As
the editor imagined, it was Mr. Herman; and if ever a man
testified his intention by his look, it was plain that the said
Mr. Herman was bent upon committing assault and battery
upon some person or other. He seized the luckless Lick
roughly by the collar, and, without uttering a word, had
already raised his cudgel high up in the air, in order that it
might descend with the utmost violence on the person of
that worthy, when the latter, with a forgiving and good-
natured smile, said, I presume you wish to see the editor of
the Citizen ; if so, please to go to the room above."
"Oh ! beg pardon. Slight mistake of mine. Up stairs, I
see." With a chuckle of infinite glee, Lick straightway pro-
ceeded to the coffee-room on the opposite side of the road, to
wait the issue of his stratagem.
Meanwhile, Mr. Abel Wright prepared himself for the re-
ception of the editor, and hearing some one ascending the
stairs just after Lick's departure, he, naturally enough, sup-
posed it was that gentleman coming. Placing himself close
behind the door, and twisting the thong tightly round his
hand, he stood prepared to deal a " clencher ' the mo •
ment his fancied libeller should enter. Mr. Herman
presently bolted into the room, and was saluted, on the
instant, with a tremendous whack across the shoul-
ders, and in the next Mr. Wright was favoured with
a smart tap on the head from the other's cudgeL
As may be imagined, a tremendous contest ensued, and the
hide and cudgel were plied stoutly. No words passed for
some time, but the epithets of " infernal scamp, rascal,scoun-
drel, villain," &c; presently, however Mr Wright beginning
to get the upper, hand, exclaimed, " You blighted scoun-
drel, I'llteach you to abuse honest men ;" to which Mr. Her-
man replied, " Put anything in your humbugging paper
abcut me, and skin me alive 1 if I don't break every bone in
your body." On hearing this, the former gentleman began
to think there must be some mistake in the matter, and
prompted by a sudden thought, he exclaimed, "Is your name

Lick 1" -
Thinking this a fresh and most deliberate insult, Herman
recommenced using his cudgel, and another desperate en-
counter ensued. Everything in the room was overturned—
editor's desk, stool, fender, files ; ink spilled, bottle broken,
&c. ; at last, having thoroughly exhausted themselves, the
combatants stood panting, and glaring savagely at each
other.
" Hear me," gasped Herman; " you skin-flint lightning-
driver, every time you put my name in your paper, you
shall fare like this.'
As may be supposed, the extraordinary circumstance of
each accusing the other of the same offence at last induced
an explanation, and, when the mystery was cleared up,
great was the wrath and mortification of these amiable gen-
tlemen, on finding that the object of their vengeance bad
escaped scot•free, while they each had received a sound
thrashing. Great, on the contrary, was the glee of Mr.
Washington Wolfe Lick, as he saw, from the window of the
coffee-room, his fiery visitors emerge from the house, flushed
and heated' by their exertions; their hats broken, necker-
chiefs untied, dresses disordered and countenances expressive
of the direst exasperation and chagrin.
Two days after this occurrence, Messrs. Wright and Her-
man were summoned to the Back-street police-office, at the
instance of Washington Wolfe Lick, editor and proprietor of
the Citizen of the West newspaper, charged with having en-
tered the house of the latter in his absence, and created an
uproar and disturbance therein ; and also with having broken,
damaged, and spoilt a desk, stool, and sundry other of the
property of the said Lick. Fined twenty dollars each, and
costs..
The illustration to this story, by Mason, is almost as
good as the tale itself. The point of time chosen is that
Just before the first meeting of Wright and Herman,
when the latter is in the act of opening the door of the
editor's room. The interesting adventures of the " Deal
Boatman " are continued, as are " The Sketches of Bri-
tish Landladies," and " The History of the Jesuits."
We have the commencement of the " Adventures of a
British Serjeant in the Auxiliary Legion in Spain,from
1835 to 1840," which promise well ; and a variety of
other amusing articles. This is a good number of the
Union.

that wonderful production is made the subject of a most
severe, but, at the same time, just critique. The com-
position, however, of the commission, does not entitle its
report to much authority, as the writer of this article
justly observes.
"A schoolmaster is a very bad man of business, and perhaps
a soldier is a worse, though it is really impossible to institute
an accurate comparison; but a combination of the two pro •
fessions, in the masters of the engineering school at Chatham,
might c't priori be conceived to constitute the height of unfit-
ness, if even experience had not proved it to us. We are
satisfied no merchant, we know no banker, would entrust
Major General Pasley or Lieut. Col. Sir Frederick Smith
even with his ledger, much less with any matter of business;
yet to these gentlemen is the whole subject of railway
management from time to time handed over for experiment,
in despite of their professional unfitness, and the confirmed
experience they have afforded of it. They are thus placed in
a difficult and invidious position, having a glimmering of
their ignorance, and ashamed and afraid to confess it. Con-
fused with theoretical imaginations, and mystified occasionally
by some of the more daring of the rival railway men, they
are agitated by their theories, their prepossessions, their fears,
and their desire of popularity; and bring forth these reports
which are rejected by the contending parties, mat: by the
public end then forgotten, and made the laughing !jock of
railway men. The Government do not appoint majors-
general and colonels to be commissioners for the reductiG.Tl
of the national debt, but they appoint merchants and bank-
ers ; and if they must appoint officers to look after railway
traffic, the least they can do is to name men of business.
who have some knowledge of their duties, and not parties
who know nothing of business, never can know, and only do
mischief by being allowed to meddle in what they do not
understand."

It is to be hoped that in the present instance, as has
happened in so many others, the superior authorities will
modify, if not altogether disregard, the recommendations
of the Commissioners, and that the City of London will
not be deprived of the Central Railway Terminus some-
where in the neighbourhood of Farringdon-atreet, with-
out which its commerce will eventually—slowly, perhaps,
but most surely—leave it for the suburban towns now
springing up in the vicinity of the differont nietropoli! an
railway termini. Mr. Hyde Clarke, the editor, furnishes
some valuable contributions to railway statistics, and
we have a very able paper explaining the adoption of the
barometrical system of atmospheric railway traction, in
addition to an accurate register of all the railway events
of the month, and a retrospective review of bygone rail-
way projects.